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Art / Technology / Theater & Dance
Broadway's 'The Lion King' pushes into virtual reality
Posted on 11/18/15 by malveaux777
This image released by Disney Theatrical Productions shows Jelany Remy as Simba in the Broadway musical "The Lion King. The Disney stage blockbuster on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, released 360-degree footage of its opening song "Circle of Life" that lets users look left, right, up, backstage and at the audience even when sitting on a couch. (Joan Marcus/ Disney Theatrical Productions via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Lion King" on Broadway is offering fans a view of the musical that even the very best seat in the theater can't rival.
The Disney stage blockbuster on Wednesday released 360-degree footage of its opening song "Circle of Life" that lets users look left, right, up, backstage and at the audience, even when sitting on a couch.
"It seemed like a really perfect marriage: A universally known song like 'Circle of Life' being distributed and displayed through a completely new technology that we hope will open up 'The Lion King' to a new generation of theater-goers," said Andrew Flatt, the senior vice president for marketing at Disney Theatrical Group.
The footage was shot on the afternoon of Oct. 30 at the Minskoff Theatre, the home of "The Lion King." It took five takes of the song with all 31 cast members onstage to capture all the footage as several hundred volunteers and fans cheered in the orchestra seats.
During the filming, the audience members were politely asked not to wave at the cameras, resist the urge to clap at the beginning and keep their energy levels up for all five takes.
To create the virtual reality world, some half-dozen GoPro cameras were mounted on a stand and placed in the center of the stage as the actors swirled around in their Julie Taymor-created costumes and masks.
The stand also telescoped 20 feet into the air to capture the view as Pride Rock rises up and baby Simba is introduced. Software stitched together the various videos into a seamless, 360-degree view — a circle of life.
Viewers can follow one performer, or look out into the aisles to see elephants arriving, see the conductor and audience faces, or peer backstage to find out what's coming next. It is a thrilling, heady experience.
"I keep turning in different directions and discovering new things," said Flatt. "I hope that the video inspires memories and perhaps brings back to the theater people who've seen the show. But, in the same token, I hope it opens up the eyes of people who never thought 'The Lion King' would be for them."
The footage can be seen free on laptops and desktops on Wednesday via YouTube and Facebook (using cursors to move around the virtual world) or smartphones and tablets (where the screen tracks movement) or special immersive headsets like Samsung's Gear VR and Google Cardboard.
It's part of a wave of immersive videos that are taking the Internet by storm. So far, such videos have been made of a "Star Wars" planet, the "Saturday Night Live" set, a Bill Clinton tour of East Africa and a LeBron James workout, among others.
The addition of "The Lion King" is noteworthy because, at 18, it is one of the oldest shows on Broadway but has embraced technology that's truly cutting edge. It's the first such video ever done in a Broadway theater. Another such video was done for the new musical "School of Rock," but that was shot in classroom.
"Nothing will replace the actual theatrical experience. We're well aware of that. But I think the way that consumers are trending at the moment is they want to know more. They want to go beyond the surface of something, and that includes the Broadway experience," Flatt said. "That's why the virtual reality platform is groundbreaking."
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Bid for joint trial of Rosmah's money laundering, graft cases to be heard on May 24
KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): The High Court has today fixed May 24 to hear the prosecution's application for a joint trial of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's money laundering and RM1.5 million solar project bribery cases with her former aide Datuk Rizal Mansor's solar project graft case.
Rosmah is facing 17 charges under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (AMLA).
High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan set the hearing date when these three cases were called up for mention today. The Attorney General's Chambers had previously made an oral application for a joint trial of the three cases.
Lawyers Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader and Manjeet Singh Dhillon, who acted for Rosmah, raised concerns on the prosecution's application for a joint trial as the defence thinks the High Court should have waited for Rosmah's second solar project bribery case to be brought before Justice Zaini first.
Akberdin and Dhillon raised the concerns after the prosecution indicated to the court that they wanted a joint trial involving Rosmah's first and second solar bribery and money laundering cases with Rizal's solar project graft case.
The defence lawyers said the prosecution should make the joint trial application after High Court Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali decides on the application filed by the prosecution to have Rosmah's second solar bribery case transferred from the Sessions Court to the High Court, and after the case is heard before Justice Zaini.
Akberdin said Justice Nazlan fixed May 28 to hear the prosecution's application to transfer Rosmah's second solar project bribery case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.
Akberdin also told the High Court that the defence team has filed an appeal against High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah's decision which allowed the prosecution's application to transfer Rosmah's first solar bribery case from Sessions Court to the High Court.
Akberdin said the Court of Appeal had set May 31 for the hearing of the appeal.
According to Akberdin, the defence also filed another appeal yesterday against Justice Sequerah's decision which allowed the prosecution to transfer the same case to Justice Zaini's court. However, no hearing date has been fixed yet, Akberdin said.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar told the High Court that the prosecution does not intend to hide anything or make things difficult for other parties.
After hearing the prosecution's and defence's arguments, Justice Zaini ruled that he would like to proceed with the hearing of the joint trial application.
"On my part, I'm quite prepared to hear it twice. I'd like this to move on," he said.
On Nov 15 last year, Rosmah pleaded not guilty to two counts of receiving bribes, totalling RM1.5 million, in the implementation of the solar project, which involved the supply and installation of solar energy at 369 rural schools in Sarawak two years ago.
On the same day, Rizal, 46, pleaded not guilty to four counts of soliciting and accepting bribes for himself and Rosmah, amounting to RM5.5 million, involving the supply of equipment and installation of the solar hybrid system for rural schools in Sarawak.
They were charged under Section 16(a)(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009. They face imprisonment for up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the amount of the gratification or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.
On April 10, 2019, Rosmah was again charged in the Sessions Court for receiving a RM5 million bribe in connection with the same project.
On the money laundering case, Rosmah pleaded not guilty to the 17 charges over some RM7.1 million allegedly transferred into her personal bank account between 2013 and 2017.
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In Phantom Traveler (1x04), Sam wears the long-sleeved T when researching and trying to save the airplane.
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"Your mother is a man" reads the chalk graffitto at the wood stairs to the teachers lounge. Bullying or surrealism, another great surprise when touring the Alexandre Herculano were these moderne stairs with their massive wood rails and newels, at the same time perfectly executed and graceful. The super tall vertical window adds another element of modernity, but as before it is articulated and detailed enough to resonate with the rest of the structure.


Last weekend we enjoyed a trip down memory lane as we went to see the Historic Grand Prix. Tudor, being official timekeeper and one of the sponsors, invited us to join them for this event at the circuit in Zandvoort (Netherlands) last weekend.
When we asked Tudor about the link with this event, they explained their fabulous history, linking the brand to motor sports for over half a century. As they also highly value their own history in watchmaking and high-end engineering they feel right at home as official timekeeper and sponsor of the Historic Grand Prix. That being said it wasn't a surprise to see them bringing various historic timepieces to the exhibition in the paddock club. Here Tudor showcased some iconic watches and current models.
During the event, Gassan Diamonds (co-sponsor) auctioned one Tudor Heritage Chronograph for Lymph&Co. This Dutch charity raises funds for awareness and research on the treatment of Lymph cancer. They were surprised with a 10K euro check.
Big thanks goes out to Tudor for the invitation and their great hospitality at the Historic Grand Prix in Zandvoort. We had the possibility to try the newly introduced blue Pelagos with it's new Tudor in-house movement (which we reviewed earlier here) during the day. As expected it didn't disappoint during regular use at the track!


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Q: Writing a windows driver for an emulated input device My application needs to behave as a virtual joystick (imagine dragging a square with the mouse and translating that to the output of an analog joystick) and send some keystrokes over the network to another computer where the driver would receive that input.
I only need to support XP, Vista and Win7.
Maybe it can be done without writing a driver. I tried sending keystrokes with SendKey() which seemed to work but don't know how to emulate an analog joystick.
I've downloaded the VDK and been reading everything I can find on the subject but there are lots of things I still don't understand. Can you please point me in the right direction?

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*Should I build a kernel-mode or user-mode driver?

*Can my driver act as a server for an app on the network?

*Do you know good tutorials / books / samples that can help me with this.

Thanks

A: First of all you will have to have some kind of interface between your computer (or the network) and the joystick device that is being controlled.
If it involves making custom hardware to control the analog joystick (like it controls pneumatics or hydraulics or something, not just a pc game joystick type thing), then yes, you will almost certainly need a driver to allow a network app to move (the robot arm, or whatever) will move that joystick.
If you are able to remove the physical joystick from the equation, maybe you can write software that emulates the input of wherever the joystick used to plug into (a joystick/serial port?), or emulates it completely (a reasonably simple driver could do this). You could do it completely without writing a driver if the joystick used a standard communication interface (like RS232) because libraries exist that will handle all that and you can set up virtual COM ports that will be indistinguishable to whatever you are trying to communicate with.
The best book you can buy on driver development at the moment is Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation
Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel is another great book, but doesn't cover a lot of the newer WDF stuff. It has more of a security focus but has a few awesome chapters on device drivers with fully spoonfed examples, breaking it down in a really accessible way.

A: If it is only over the network, probably simple socket programming should be enough.

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Q: Timestamp in XML Schema I'm creating an XML schema, where some of the elements should have the timestamp format from sql. There is no type in XML schema that completely correlates, so how can I best achieve this? XML has dateTime, but it's not in the same format.

A: There is an option to let SQL Server create the schema for you. Just try:
CREATE TABLE #tempTbl(ID INT,SomeDate DATETIME, TheTS TIMESTAMP)

INSERT INTO #tempTbl(ID,SomeDate) VALUES(1,GETDATE()),(2,GETDATE());

SELECT * FROM #tempTbl FOR XML AUTO,XMLSCHEMA

DROP TABLE #tempTbl;

The relevant part of the schema should be this:
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  <xsd:attribute name="ID" type="sqltypes:int" />
  <xsd:attribute name="SomeDate" type="sqltypes:datetime" />
  <xsd:attribute name="TheTS" type="sqltypes:timestamp" use="required" />
</xsd:complexType>

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'Dark Knight Legacy' Fan Film Goes Beyond Nolan's Trilogy (Video)
Fan video -- and Indie GoGo project -- "The Dark Knight Legacy" explores a Gotham after both Bruce Wayne and Christopher Nolan have moved on.
By Graeme McMillan
More Stories by Graeme
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The announcement that Ben Affleck would be taking over as Batman for 2015's Man of Steel sequel brought disappointment for all those who had hoped to see more of Joseph Gordon Levitt's "John Blake" as the Dark Knight following the end of 2012's The Dark Knight Rises. Just because Warner Bros. is finished with Blake, however, that doesn't mean everyone is — as The Dark Knight Legacy, a new fan-produced project, demonstrates.
Premiering via the Machinima YouTube channel Monday, Legacy allows Bruce Wayne's Batman to rest in peace by showing Blake taking on an entirely different costumed guise — and he's not the only one to have taken on a costumed identity familiar to comic book fans (Spoiler: Things seem to be headed for a Robin vs. Robin showdown, even if neither one goes by the name Robin anymore).
RELATED: 'Dark Knight Rises' Meets 'The Notebook' in Mashup (Video)
The short is a tease for a potential web series that is currently seeking funding via IndieGoGo. According to writers and Legacy creators Woody Tondorf and Chris Landa, if the campaign doesn't meet its $30,000 by the Oct. 16 deadline, they'll abandon plans to shoot the movie and instead "shoot another short film based on a DC Comics character" — one that will be decided by fan vote. Isn't that pretty much making the case for not funding the project?
What's Batman Driving? The Flashy Supercar of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Promotion of Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' Continues at Comic-Con
'The Dark Knight Rises' Crosses $100 Million Box Office Milestone on Imax Screens
Christopher Nolan on 'Extreme Places' in the Making of 'The Dark Knight Rises'


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While we naturally produce Q10, it's also synthetically manufactured with sugar cane, fermented beets and specific kinds of yeast. Millions of people use Q10 for treating cancerous illnesses, and blood pressure and heart problems. Because it's a substance that many of our organs need to work properly, it energizes cells, acting as a powerful antioxidant.
But even that is just the tip of the iceberg.
It prevents lipids (or fats) and proteins from oxidizing while energizing the oxygen flow of other cells and fellow antioxidants, like vitamin e. This means that it stops free radicals (those nasty little things that can cause cancer) from ever forming in the first place.
If you think that's incredible, you'll be stunned to learn that the same antioxidant effects that impede the above-mentioned diseases also revitalize your skin. Q10 even helps to smooth out wrinkled skin to make you look younger.
How is Q10 Related to Age?
As we age, we slow down our natural production of Q10, even though we still require the amounts we did when we were young (don't freak out, but this can start happening as early as 21). And, because this important coenzyme stimulates your skin cells' oxygen while blocking free radicals, it's super important to have enough of it if you want to stay looking as young as you feel.
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The market has changed immensely over the decades and what was old practice has been replaced with a modern way of buying and selling real estate. In a market like our current, where prices are pushing the envelope and records are being set week in week out, generally the quicker the sale the better the price.
Whenever an offer comes within days of going to market it always brings up the question on whether there is a possibility of getting more. It's only natural to want more, after all you're trying to get the best price you possibly can. But the way in which the market has changed is people are putting there best foot forward in the beginning because even though you've just come to market with your property, they've been in the market for months trying to secure a property and from week to week leaving auctions unsuccessful.
There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when you are in this dilemma. Mostly you need to be guided by your agent. As each property is individual and have different circumstances surrounding the campaign, it's hard to list everything you need to bear in mind. Though some of the basics are as follows.
Don't be greedy. This is the number one reason sellers lose thousands or tens of thousands of dollars by the time they sell. In most cases, if someone makes an offer in the beginning and you reject it, by the time you come to the end, they've moved on. If they were your emotional buyer and were offering you a higher than market value offer, the likely hood of another offering the same is at a very low percentage.
Is the offer unconditional? This is important because you don't want to take your property off the market for weeks waiting for the buyer to do their due diligence. If the offer comes with conditions, demand that the buyer get everything in place and bring you an unconditional offer. In this time, you have the opportunity to search the market for a few more days to make sure you've completely exhausted the market place.
If you've only received one offer on your property, drag out the process as much as possible to see if you can get a contested offer. Even if the offer is above your expectations, it doesn't hurt to try to get yourself a few more days to find another buyer to make an offer, just for some piece of mind. A single offer, uncontested, is hard to accept. There's always a possibility someone will pay more. By getting at least one other offer, it can bring some piece of mind to the situation. Whichever it is, higher or lower, you'll have a little more data to help with your decision making.
Hopefully this helps a little bit if you receive an offer days into your campaign. As mentioned, everything is circumstantial and many factors come into play. Either way, if you've hit your mark or beyond, then be happy, you're already ahead and one step closer to a bright future.
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Q: Why is my matrix showing the wrong output? I am trying to find the permutations of the array [1,2,3] using recursion. Everything is working fine if I directly print out the permutations in the base case but I want to store all the permutations in a separate array. I am doing that by pushing the arrays into the matrix but it shows the wrong output that is all the arrays being pushed are the same. I can't find out what the bug is. Please help.
let arr = [1, 2, 3];
let matrix = [];
let index = 0;

function perm(arr, index) {
    if (index === arr.length) {
        console.log('arr:', arr);
        matrix.push(arr);
        return;
    }

    for (let i = index; i < arr.length; i++) {
        [arr[i], arr[index]] = [arr[index], arr[i]];
        perm(arr, index + 1);
        [arr[i], arr[index]] = [arr[index], arr[i]];
    }
}

perm(arr, index);
console.log(matrix);

This is the output that I am getting:
arr: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
arr: [ 1, 3, 2 ]
arr: [ 2, 1, 3 ]
arr: [ 2, 3, 1 ]
arr: [ 3, 2, 1 ]
arr: [ 3, 1, 2 ]
[
  [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  [ 1, 2, 3 ]
]

A: you are pushing the same array arr multiple time into matrix, so when you update it later, it update all the lines in matrix since they are the same reference to the same array.
Try duplicating the array arr before:
matrix.push(arr.slice());


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Home Runs At The K
By Brian Henry
A lot has been made of Kauffman Stadium and its home run sapping abilities. The biggest deal was last year's hitting coach, Jack Maloof, being fired after blaming problems hitting homers on the home field, and Eric Hosmer talked about it with Soren Petro on the radio Wednesday. Why don't we look at just how good The K is at keeping the ball in the yard.
Using baseball-reference game team game logs I went and pulled 2013 home data for the Royal pitchers. They gave up home runs on 2.47% of ABs at home last year and on the road they gave up homers at a 3.22% rate. The pitching staff seemed to benefit quite a lot from the dimensions of Kauffman.
To see how the teams that faced the Royals in Kansas City typically fared, I calculated a weighted average composite HR rate for them (Detroit played 9 games in KC so they get a weight of 9/81 or 11.11% of the average) and found it was 2.96%. That means that all of the teams combined had their rate drop about half a percent from their typical home run production. In other words, it is not just the Royals who can't hit it out in KC. Just for reference all of baseball last year hit homers at a 2.81% clip just slightly below what the Royals faced at home.
At this point you might be feeling a little bad for Jack Maloof being canned after his comments last year, hold on just a bit. The Royals are probably not hitting a lot of home runs at home because of the field, but they don't really hit out on the road either.
Last year the Royals hit 112 home runs at a rate of 2.02% of ABs. At home they hit basically the same at 2.05%, so they were actually worse at hitting home runs on the road by a tiny margin. You could chalk it up to being comfortable with home cooking, but if that's the case they need to get much better at home and hope it carries over to the road too.
So there you have it, Kauffman is hard on road teams who have their home run rate drop by almost 17% of their average when they come to KC. It is a tough homer park. Eric Hosmer said something along the lines of there is no where in The K to get a cheap home run.


Photos of Moreska – sword dance performance, Sveti Todor 2007. The town of Korcula is well known for MORESKA – a traditional sword dance and drama that was common through the Mediterranean in 12th and 13th century, reaching Korcula in 16th century from Italy and Dubrovnik. The dance originated in Spain and is associated to the conflict between Moors and Christians. In Dalmatia its popularity was almost certainly linked with the struggles against Ottoman Empire, above all with the victory over a Battle of Lepanto, the first major Ottoman defeat by the Christian powers, which ended the myth of Ottoman naval invincibility. Through the centuries Moreska vanished from the Mediterranean and now days is only to be find in Korcula, where it is performed for over 400 yrs.


Two Monroe County sheriff's deputies came upon the Key deer while on patrol last Saturday and noticed that its entire head was stuck in a Doritos bag.
The deer, which is the smallest of the Virginia white-tailed deer subspecies, reportedly allowed Deputy Joshua Gordon to remove the bag without incident after he snapped a cellphone pic.
Key deer normally eat a diet of local plants such as red and black mangroves and thatch palm berries, but this one had a taste for something much saltier.
"It must have wanted that last chip in the bottom of the bag," said sheriff's spokesperson Becky Herrin.
Yeah, we've embarrassed ourselves for the last chip too, but thankfully no one was around to see it.


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Q: Converting JQuery code to Vanilla JavaScript I've the below JQuery code, that make coloring for the SQL statement entered in the editable html text:

// SQL keywords
    var keywords = ["SELECT","FROM","WHERE","LIKE","BETWEEN", "UNION",
    "FALSE","NULL","FROM","TRUE","NOT", "ORDER", "GROUP", "BY", "NOT", "IN"];
    // Keyup event
    $("#editor").on("keyup", function(e){
    // Space key pressed
    if (e.keyCode == 32){
        var newHTML = "";
        // Loop through words
        $(this).text().replace(/[\s]+/g, " ").trim().split(" ").forEach(function(val){
        // If word is statement
        if (keywords.indexOf(val.trim().toUpperCase()) > -1)
            newHTML += "" + val + " ";
        else
            newHTML += "" + val + " ";
        });
        $(this).html(newHTML);

        // Set cursor postion to end of text
        var child = $(this).children();
        var range = document.createRange();
        var sel = window.getSelection();
        range.setStart(child[child.length-1], 1);
        range.collapse(true);
        sel.removeAllRanges();
        sel.addRange(range);
        this.focus();
        }
    });
        #editor {
            width: 400px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 10px;
            background-color: #444;
            color: white;
            font-size: 14px;
            font-family: monospace;
        }
        .statement {
            color: orange;
        }

I tried to make it as below: but it failed:

    // SQL keywords
    var keywords = ["SELECT","FROM","WHERE","LIKE","BETWEEN", "UNION",
    "FALSE","NULL","FROM","TRUE","NOT", "ORDER", "GROUP", "BY", "NOT", "IN"];
    // Keyup event
    document.querySelector('#editor').addEventListener('keyup', e => {
    // Space key pressed
    if (e.keyCode == 32){
        var newHTML = "";
        // Loop through words
        str = e.target.innerHTML
        str.replace(/[\s]+/g, " ").trim().split(" ").forEach(val => {
        // If word is statement
        if (keywords.indexOf(val.trim().toUpperCase()) > -1)
            newHTML += "" + val + " ";
        else
            newHTML += "" + val + " ";
        });
        e.target.innerHTML = newHTML;

        // Set cursor postion to end of text

        var el =  e.target;
        el.focus()
        if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number") {
            el.selectionStart = el.selectionEnd = el.value.length;
        } else if (typeof el.createTextRange != "undefined") {
            var range = el.createTextRange();
            range.collapse(false);
            range.select();
        }
    }
    });
       #editor {
            width: 400px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 10px;
            background-color: #444;
            color: white;
            font-size: 14px;
            font-family: monospace;
        }
        .statement {
            color: orange;
        }

I think my mistake is in returning the cursor to the end of the text field though I tried to implement this

A: Here is my answer.

// SQL keywords
var keywords = ["SELECT", "FROM", "WHERE", "LIKE", "BETWEEN", "UNION", "FALSE", "NULL", "FROM", "TRUE", "NOT", "ORDER", "GROUP", "BY", "NOT", "IN"];
// Keyup event
document.querySelector('#editor').addEventListener('keyup', e => {
    // Space key pressed
    if (e.keyCode == 32) {
        var newHTML = "";
        // Loop through words
        str = e.target.innerText;
        str.replace(/[\s]+/g, " ").trim().split(" ").forEach(val => {
            // If word is statement
            if (keywords.indexOf(val.trim().toUpperCase()) > -1)
                newHTML += "" + val + " ";
            else
                newHTML += "" + val + " ";
        });
        console.log(newHTML);
        e.target.innerHTML = newHTML;

        // Set cursor postion to end of text
        //    document.querySelector('#editor').focus()
        var child = e.target.children;
        var range = document.createRange();
        var sel = window.getSelection();
        range.setStart(child[child.length - 1], 1);
        range.collapse(true);
        sel.removeAllRanges();
        sel.addRange(range);
        this.focus();

    }
});
#editor {
    width: 400px;
    height: 100px;
    padding: 10px;
    background-color: #444;
    color: white;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-family: monospace;
}
.statement {
    color: orange;
}

I've used
var child = e.target.children;
var range = document.createRange();
var sel = window.getSelection();
range.setStart(child[child.length - 1], 1);
range.collapse(true);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
this.focus();

instead of
var el = e.target;
el.focus()
if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number") {
    el.selectionStart = el.selectionEnd = el.value.length;
} else if (typeof el.createTextRange != "undefined") {
    var range = el.createTextRange();
    range.collapse(false);
    range.select();
}

A: Building on both answers, the accepted one, and the deleted one from @Yevgen, I preferred the below code, @Yevgen functional approach handle "group by" in a good way, while the other approach is not:

    // SQL keywords
    var keywords = ["SELECT", "FROM", "WHERE", "LIKE", "BETWEEN", "UNION", "FALSE", "NULL", "FROM", "TRUE", "NOT", "ORDER", "GROUP BY", "NOT", "IN"];
    // Keyup event
    document.querySelector('#editor').addEventListener('keyup', e => {
    // Space key pressed
    if (e.keyCode == 32) {
        var newHTML = "";
        // Loop through words
        str = e.target.innerText;
        chunks = str
          .split(RegExp(keywords.map(w => `(${w})`).join('|'), 'i'))
          .filter(Boolean)
        markup = chunks.reduce((acc, chunk) => {
          acc += keywords.includes(chunk.toUpperCase()) ?
          `<span class="statement">${chunk}</span>` :
          `<span class='other'>${chunk}</span>`
          return acc
        }, '')
        e.target.innerHTML = markup;

        // Set cursor postion to end of text
        var child = e.target.children;
// Create the new range object.
        var range = document.createRange();
// Here 'sel' is created object for window
        var sel = window.getSelection();
// Setting start position of a Range
        range.setStart(child[child.length - 1], 1);
// Collapses the Range to one of its
        range.collapse(true);
// Remove all old range
        sel.removeAllRanges();
// Add new range
        sel.addRange(range);
// Focus the element
        this.focus();

        }
    });
        #editor {
            width: 400px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 10px;
            background-color: #444;
            color: white;
            font-size: 14px;
            font-family: monospace;
        }
        .statement {
            color: orange;
        }


Notice Mallory tried to tie Bailey's tie this morning (and he actually let her try) but since none of us had EVER tied a tie we had to learn on YOUTUBE...now that is funny!!! Whatever works? huh...and there are more pics of other friends from church...enjoy!


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The village of Eckwersheim is a small french village located north east of France. The town of Eckwersheim is located in the department of Bas-Rhin of the french region Alsace.	The town of Eckwersheim is located in the township of Brumath part of the district of Strasbourg-Campagne. The area code for Eckwersheim is 67119 (also known as code INSEE), and the Eckwersheim zip code is 67550.
The altitude of the city hall of Eckwersheim is approximately 148 meters. The Eckwersheim surface is 7.46 km ². The latitude and longitude of Eckwersheim are 48.68 degrees North and 7.696 degrees East. Nearby cities and towns of Eckwersheim are : Vendenheim (67550) at 1.50 km, Olwisheim (67170) at 2.34 km, Berstett (67370) at 2.78 km, Lampertheim (67450) at 3.29 km, Mittelschaeffolsheim (67170) at 3.74 km, Bilwisheim (67170) at 4.13 km, Pfettisheim (67370) at 4.32 km, Pfulgriesheim (67370) at 4.46 km.
The population of Eckwersheim was 1 265 in 1999, 1 425 in 2006 and 1 424 in 2007. The population density of Eckwersheim is 190.88 inhabitants per km². The number of housing of Eckwersheim was 544 in 2007. These homes of Eckwersheim consist of 507 main residences, 8 second or occasional homes and 29 vacant homes.
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The most important thing for her is that her songs "reach people and their hearts"
"It feels great that I have already sung for Deepika (Padhukone), Anushka Sharma), Aishwarya, Kajol, Katrina (Kaif) and many more. But I would love to lend my voice for Tabu," Shilpa told IANS.
As of now, the "Gustakh dil" hitmaker is thrilled about having a song in a film helmed by an Oscar winner. Talking about the song "Jashn-E-Tanhai, she said: "It's a huge honour and all thanks to (composer) Pritam who made me part of this project ('Tigers'). I don't think I would have worked with the amazing (director) Danis Tanovic had it not been for Pritam."
Is her aim to have her song featured in a Hollywood film? "We never know what our next song is going to be. The only thing we do is keep ourselves prepared to sing a song," she said.
The most important thing for her is that her songs "reach people and their hearts". The soundtracks of Bollywood films like "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil", "Bang Bang!" and "Bachna Ae Haseeno" have songs sung by her, but her first love is ghazals.
"Ghazals have been my first love. As a child, I listened to a lot of ghazals. I have trained myself to read and write in Urdu because it helps me to have a better pronunciation and diction while singing.
"For the past one year, I have been able to sing for really big audiences... young people and those who are veterans.... The best part is that the youth is able to connect with ghazals," she said.
Apart from singing, she loves to collaborate with a lot of artistes. "Be it with Parikrama, Agnee or Noori, I have been doing that (collaborating) throughout my life. For many of the collaborations, you have to compose with your collaborator. It's a huge amount of fun that you have while working with them," she said.


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NHS Citizen and what it tells us about designing democratic innovations as deliberative systems
Rikki Dean, John Boswell and Graham Smith analyse an attempt to design a systems-oriented democratic innovation: the NHS Citizen initiative. They write that, while the initiative pioneered some cutting-edge participatory design, it failed to resolve well-known obstacles to institutionalisation. They argue that similar projects must evolve strategies to meet such challenges.
Overview of NHS Citizen design (provided by authors)
After more than 20 years of experimentation, practical innovations rooted in classic deliberative theory are suddenly making headway in mainstream ideas about how we do democracy. Citizens' Assemblies are particularly in vogue following the success of the Irish Constitutional Convention. In Britain, there have been calls from across the political spectrum for a Citizens' Assembly on Brexit. Even social movements are calling for Citizens' Assemblies – they are one of Extinction Rebellion's three core demands for tackling the climate crisis.
The irony of this newfound popularity is that it has come at a moment when the academic field of deliberative democracy has shifted its focus away from discrete institutional innovations – like Citizens' Assemblies – to focus more on the deliberative quality of the whole democratic system. This shift was a result of a three broad criticisms of deliberative assemblies both from within and outwith deliberative democracy.
One criticism is that they are not an authentic tool for deepening democracy but a tool used by public authorities to control debate. They are only a democratic veneer. The second criticism is that they are authentic but their format (short-term, one-off) means they are too disconnected from everyday politics, both in terms of government and civil society. Therefore, they have limited impact. The third criticism is that a small body of randomly selected citizens can only ever have limited legitimation capacity. Why should anyone be bound to follow their recommendations?
All of these problems have been at play in the debate over whether to hold a Citizens' Assembly on Brexit. Rory Stewart, for instance, could not answer Jon Snow's question of what he would do if a hypothetical Brexit Citizens' Assembly recommended leaving without a deal or remaining in the EU, giving the strong impression it would be ignored. The implicit message being that a Citizens' Assembly is fine if it recommends what we want it to recommend. The disconnection issue is demonstrated by the fact that many of the politicians calling for a Brexit Citizens' Assembly were unaware that one had already taken place in 2017. Finally, there was no appraisal, beyond some magical thinking, of how the Assembly would have the legitimation capacity to alter the parliamentary arithmetic nor the force of the original referendum, especially given the one conducted in 2017 hadn't.
To try to address these issues, Citizens' Assemblies and other deliberative initiatives are increasingly augmented by what we call a systems-oriented approach to designing democratic innovations. We argue that there are two core propositions to this approach: first, democratic innovations should be designed so that they are embedded into the political cycle and connect across existing networks; second, designs should be divided into components that fulfil different functional labours. A systems-oriented design approach has received little attention in the academic literature, but practitioners are sensitive to these questions, experimenting with more complex, multi-phase designs that try:
to open up the agenda-setting process to outside influence (as in the G1000 in Belgium or the Bürgerrat in Germany);
to connect to politics by rooting the Assembly in the political cycle (Ostbelgien), or inviting politicians to take part (as in the Irish case and the Bürgerrat);
to increase legitimation capacity by integrating the Assembly with an authorisation mechanism such as a referendum (as in the Irish Case and British Columbia).
In our recent paper in Political Studies, we take a pioneering case of such a systems-oriented approach to democratic innovation – the NHS Citizen initiative – and explore how it played out in practice. Did this approach mitigate the aforementioned perennial problems of institutionalisation? And did it create new problems?
NHS Citizen was a participatory initiative launched by the appointed Executive Board of NHS England. At the time, NHS England was itself a newly created body, following the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. The Board needed to respond to its statutory requirement to engage the public, and assuage its own concerns that its decisions lacked public accountability. Initial plans for a standalone Citizens' Assembly to inform the Board's decision-making slowly morphed into a hugely ambitious design, which bore strong affinities with, and was at least in part inspired by, the new systems' thinking.
Echoing the systemic emphasis on the distribution of functions across settings, the eventual design consisted of several interacting parts categorised into three broad stages – called Discover, Gather and Assembly – each of which had its own function. The NHS has a lively civil society, with a range of NGOs and patients groups advocating for certain policy positions, as well as a range of other avenues for public and service user participation. Discover aimed to connect to these existing conversations in private and public spaces, and ensure they fed into the Assembly. Gather provided a forum where anyone could raise an issue, either to be worked out in the forum, or as a potential topic for the agenda of the Assembly. Discover and Gather thus together provided an open agenda-setting process that was intended to embed NHS Citizen in the relevant civil society and institutional networks, as well as ensure that the agenda for the Assembly was constructed from public concerns not simply the concerns of the NHS England Board.
There was initial enthusiasm both from participants and from the Board for this exciting new form of innovation. However, over time, a series of obstacles emerged, and the initiative for all intents and purposes shut down less than three years into its run. The way the process developed over the period demonstrated the ever-present difficulty for participatory organisations to connect both with public space and empowered space.
For the first Assembly, the agenda-setting process was not fully operational, meaning the Assembly dealt with issues that largely reflected the Board's concerns. The Board were very positive about this first Assembly. Once Gather was better established, it genuinely did shift the agenda so that is was more reflective of civil society concerns. However, this culminated in the Board losing faith in NHS Citizen and choking off funding for the process. In addition, an unanticipated effect of the separation into different parts was that some of the participants in the earlier stages were unhappy about being prevented from taking part in the Assembly, which planned to use random selection. Their rebellion in the end forced a change to the selection mechanism for the Assembly. NHS Citizen thus pioneered some promising practices for better connecting deliberative assemblies to civil society, but this was at the cost of institutionalising some irresolvable tensions.
The successes and failures of NHS Citizen as a systems-oriented democratic innovation can help to inform other similar future initiatives that attempt to realise complex, multi-phase designs, connected to both the public and political decision-makers. The recent spate of Assemblies on climate change by local authorities in Britain are an example, where we may find similar tensions between the civil society actors whose demands inspired the Assembly and the local authority that organises and funds it. This is not the only lesson. In our paper we also draw out the issues of financing systems designs, of designing the participatory process with its users, and where to draw the boundary for systemic innovation.
Note: the above draws on the authors' published work in Political Studies.
This article gives the views of the authors, and not the position of Democratic Audit. It was first published by the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.
Rikki Dean (@Rikki_Dean) is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Goethe University Frankfurt.
John Boswell (@Boswell_JC) is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Southampton.
Graham Smith (@Smith1966G) is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, UK.
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Following 9/11, she helped develop workplace policy, doctrine and protocol within the United States Intelligence Community, for deploying a primarily civilian workforce in support of the War on Terror. This included the process for reintegration and the development of an employee family support infrastructure.
Ms. Cross served with the U.S. Army as an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer. She currently resides in Southern Maryland with her two children.


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Le  est la principale rivière du massif de la Bregenzerwald, dans le land du Vorarlberg à l'ouest de l'Autriche. Elle est un affluent du Rhin par l'intermédiaire du lac de Constance qu'elle rejoint dans sa partie principale, l'Obersee.

Parcours
Le Bregenzer Ach prend sa source dans le massif de Lechquellen. Il atteint les contreforts sud-ouest des Alpes d'Allgäu à Schröcken. Il ne longe pas en permanence le massif : entre Au et le débouché du Subersach, il coule à travers le massif du Bregenzerwald. Il apparaît le caractère problématique inhérent à la division des Alpes en massifs distincts, avant tout orienté aux besoins des touristes et des alpinistes. Le relief montagneux situé sur la rive droite du Bregenzer Ache comme le Winterstaude ou le Hirschberg n'appartiennent de ce fait pas aux Alpes d'Allgäu. Ainsi le massif fait exception indirectement ici au Bregenzerwald au principe le plus souvent appliqué que les vallées profondes doivent former leurs limites.

Le premier affluent rencontré par le Bregenzer Ache provenant des Alpes d'Allgäu est le Subersach. Il prend sa source dans le Hochgerach, le plateau à proximité du Hoher Ifen. Dès Schönenbach et jusqu'à son débouché, il forme la frontière entre les deux massifs. Il s'enfonce dans des gorges en forme de canyon absentes de toute route et voiture. À Sibratsgfäll se jette le Ru qui s'écoule dans la vallée au nord du Hoher Ifen et des parois du Gottesacker.

L'affluent de rive droite suivant est le Weissach. Il prend sa source dans la zone des molasses des Alpes d'Allgäu, dans la vallée entre le chaînon de Nagelfluh et les crêtes de Prodel, coule à la station de Hochgratbahn et s'enfonce alors dans la roche. À Steibis se trouvent les cascades Buchenegg qui forment des chutes d'eau ravissantes. En aval d'Oberstaufen, le ruisseau forme les chutes d'Eibel.

Le Weissach a un affluent important, le Bolgenach. Il coule depuis l'est du col du Riedberg en passant par Balderschwang avant de quitter la Bavière pour le Vorarlberg. Il est considéré dans cette région d'Allemagne comme un des ruisseaux les plus naturels dans des roches à base de flysch et de craie. Il s'enfonce également dans son cours inférieur dans une forme de canyon avant de se jeter dans le Weissach.

Le dernier affluent considérable se jetant dans le Bregenzer Ache et le Rotach. Il prend sa source dans la région entre Sulzberg-Höhenrücken au sud et le Pfänderrücken au nord.

Voir aussi

 La liste des cours d'eau de l'Autriche
 Obersee
 le Rhin
 Brégence

Notes et références

Cours d'eau au Vorarlberg
1Bregenzer Ach

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This restaurant has been in business since 1904! So, they must be doing something right if they have been opened this long and still VERY busy despite everything.
What do I come here for? PEKA! Veal peka to be precise. Even though I am not a "veal person", what these guys serve here is just out of this world good! Succulent, soft, tender, melting-in-your-mouth extravaganza of tastes. I have been there several times and it was always superb! Lamb, you can go wrong with if coming in the season when the fresh lamb is not available but in the right season…just another superb culinary experience. And that is it! You can go there for meat on the grill, soups, lamb on a spit is fabulous…as they have a full menu but their peka simply cannot be beat (and I have tired some really spectacular pekas!) and that is something you should go here for.
Recently Badel winery in Benkovac started producing some really serious wines and "Šopot" is proud to offer them. My client and I – Mrs. Kasic Helen – were enjoying a lovely Couvee although I prefer some other wines like Benkovac merlot.
The restaurant also has a fabulous selection of home made brandies. Treasure in glasses!
And, for dessert, what better than fritule?
Well, actually there is… Prisnac is a local dessert unique to this region. It is very simple as it is done with only water, flour, cottage cheese and some other stuff ( I am the worst culinary blogger there is…) and I promised to go to Sopot to make a movie on how it's done.
Before I come back with video materials, visit "Šopot" – it is bellow a scenic little place on a hilltop and just across the street from an ancient spring that is known to be the place where even old Croatian dukes used to come and drink water from. My recommendation is peka, in case you haven't read what I wrote, but lamb on a spit as equally popular! Also, instead of having lunch on gas stations and other restaurants that are no match for "Šopot", take a small culinary detour (it is less than 5 minutes off the highway) and enjoy some real food!
Will definitely visit this summer when in the neighbourhood! I assume you need to order the peka in advance?
@ DLCS – Actually, no need for ordering if coming around lunch time. Their regulars are peka affectionados so they have at least a few ready every day.


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In the last decade, environmental concerns and technological advancement have led to a transition from centralised fossil fuel-based generation towards distributed energy resources (DER), such as rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems. This transition, however, has resulted in new technical challenges, such as the over-voltage problem. Traditionally, the distribution system operators (DSOs) periodically manage slow-acting regulating devices such as on-load tap changers or suggest a grid...[Show more] reinforcement plan to keep the networks secure. However, such approaches may no longer be reliable, as they are either too costly or were designed to control fluctuations caused by slow changes in demand. Fortunately, the utilisation of PV smart inverters presents an alternative solution to the voltage rise problem. An important question arises: how to coordinate voltage control devices in PV-rich distribution systems to guarantee a safe and economical operation for both the networks and consumers? This thesis explores innovative technical solutions to answer this question. The first step towards finding a solution is to establish whether the DSOs can rely on existing communication-less control devices, or there is an urgent need to invest in building a communication infrastructure in the PV-rich distribution systems. Our analysis of various available standards and innovative control schemes confirms the inadequacy of existing communication-less schemes to deal with the voltage rise problem. Hence, with the uptake of PV systems in the distribution systems, it is highly suggested that the DSOs invest in a communication infrastructure to coordinate the inverters with other existing voltage control devices. Assuming that a communication infrastructure exists in distribution systems, we study how to realise a control algorithm that coordinates thousands of residential inverters. We propose two approaches based on the application of affinely adjustable robust counterpart (AARC) methodology that respond to changes in local real power (AARBP) and voltage magnitude (AARBV), respectively. Through numerical simulations, we show that our proposed approaches can keep the voltages inside the accepted limits for a wider range of scenarios compared to alternative approaches in the literature while significantly decreasing the reactive power usage, real power loss, and line congestion. Next, we build upon our approach by extending its modelling in three main ways. Firstly, it extends the modelling to three-phase unbalanced distribution systems. Secondly, it allows to fully control both real and reactive power output of the PV inverters. Finally, it incorporates the probability distribution function of uncertain parameters to improve the performance of our approach in scenarios away from the worst-case realisation of the uncertainty. Our simulations confirm that our approach is robust against parameter uncertainty while decreasing the real power curtailment up to 60\% compared to the conventional AARC approach. Finally, we further extend our approach to incorporate soft constraints. We propose an adjustable scenario optimisation-based solution approach that maximises the usage of DER generation within the operation horizon while providing the required level of network security. Our modelling i) guarantees hard constraints satisfaction, ii) allows fast-acting devices, e.g., inverters, to adjust in response to live realisations, and iii) enables the operators to maintain the soft constraints with a pre-determined probability using a joint chance-constrained (JCC) program. We show that our approach outperforms the conventional scenario optimisation and adjustable robust approaches, respectively, by 88% and 86% in our experiments.
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Palpung Sherbling Monastery is 6 km from Bir Paragliding landing area. Route to monastery is through pine forest and Oak forest. Route is metalled and tarr road. Distance to Momastery is 6 km one way with up and downs. trail is considered easy to moderate. One can do whole cycling session in 3-4 hrs considered as half day cycling.
Monastery route connect other way to Baijnath which in 6 km from there and route is total down hill.
Palpung Sherabling monastery has two parts, old and new one. Both have students study centre for Buddhists. Old has small monks to study and new one for younger monks along with hostel with them. Both the parts of monastery has a prayer hall with 2 storied Budha statue in that. Old monastery has indoor open area to prayer and kids to play in that in bad weather conditions.
Monastery has a guest house provide rooms INR 600-1000/- to only those who came here for teaching or preaching purpose to Monastery. New temple built with amazing idols statues in the middle of the forest.
Monastery has stupa's in middle with 108 in number if you count smaller and bigger one. One area in forest is full of prayer flags and near to road.
There is a restaurant near monastery named Stupa restaurant and have guest house. Restaurant serves both veg and non veg food.


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First Look: Kerry Washington in the Broadway Show That Will "Spark a Curiosity"
The actress returns to Broadway for the first time in nine years in American Son.
By Hilary Weaver
Steven Pasquale and Kerry Washington star in American Son.Photo courtesy of Sophy Holland.
When Kerry Washington first read the script for her upcoming Broadway play, American Son, she was still filming the final season of Scandal. The actress, who is returning to the Broadway stage for the first time since 2009's Race, had a busy day of work as Olivia Pope ahead of her, but spent a late night devouring every single page of the play.
"I couldn't put it down," she said on a recent phone call. "I started it late at night when I had a very early call time, and I thought, 'Well, I'll just read 10 pages, and I'll finish it in between setups when I can, or at lunch tomorrow.' I just couldn't put it down."
Playwright Christopher Demos-Brown is making his Broadway debut with this show, a story of inter-racial American parents who are trying to piece together the disappearance of their son at a Florida police station. Washington stars alongside Steven Pasquale.
"I think what's really important about the play is that it takes these big ideas and themes that we're grappling with as a culture, as a nation, but really the world right now," Washington said. "And it actually puts them in the body of these human beings who are grappling with them on a very personal level."
The play, which begins previews October 6 and is stacked with Broadway stardom like Jeremy Jordan (Newsies the Musical, Parade) and Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County, Junk), is helmed by Kenny Leon, who won a Tony for his direction of A Raisin in the Sun in 2014. Washington, who worked with Leon on the monologue series Swimming Upstream at his theater company, True Colors Theatre, in 2008, says she is excited to "play in the sandbox" with this cast, with Leon leading the charge.
She hopes, too, that with the heavy social issues the play tackles, audiences will be chatting about it long after they leave the theater.
"I'm excited to have houses full of all different kinds of people, because I really think it's going to be something that resonates," she said. "The themes of the play are going to spark a curiosity for a lot of different kinds of people."
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Boise State Public Radio Wins 3 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
By Staff • Apr 24, 2019
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Boise State Public Radio News has won three regional 2019 Edward R. Murrow Awards.
The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), which oversees the awards, announced winners of the regional contest Tuesday.
Named after the famed 20th century journalist, Edward R. Murrow, the awards recognize the best in journalism – radio, television and online – among both commercial and non-commercial media. Boise State Public Radio's entries were judged alongside submissions from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
"It's an honor for our News Department to be recognized by a national body of its peers," said Tom Michael, general manager. "We compete in Region 1, which is a huge area encompassing five Western states. The recognition shows that our team of reporters don't just have impact here in Idaho, but across the public radio system."
The winning entries are…
Feature Reporting: Our Changing Idaho: With Few Protections In Place, Farmland Is Gobbled Up By Subdivisions
Reporter: Amanda Peacher
Excellence in Sound: The Argyros Performing Arts Center In Ketchum Races To The Starting Line
Reporter: Tom Michael
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Each of these regional award winners will move on to compete against other regional winners in a national competition. The RTDNA will announce national Murrow Award winners in June.


Cars are very important when it comes to transportation. To gain access to your vehicle, however, you will need to have the key to your vehicle. You should seek the services of a car locksmith when your car keys get damages or lost. One of the main reasons you should consider hiring a locksmith is that he will replace your car keys. If you don't have spare keys, losing your car keys can be a significant problem. If you don't know where or who took your cars, you will have a problem when it comes to moving your car. With the help of a car locksmith, you can have your keys replaced any time. The good thing about car locksmiths is that they can come to your area. You will get a replacement for your car keys within an hour or so.
Another reason you should consider hiring a car locksmith is that he will offer you any services that are related to ignition. Your car keys might break off the ignition. You may fail even if you try to get the broken parts out. You can be stuck in your car for long if you don't have spare ignition keys. Car locksmiths have been trained to gently remove the key part that is stuck in the ignition. He will do this without damaging any parts of your car. A car locksmith can change the entire system of your ignition and replace it with a new one.
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Incredibly manic 3-on-3 fighting game with huge low-res sprites and sprite effects over 3D backgrounds. Unlike Capcom's "Street Fighter" series, you've only got two punch and two kick buttons here, instead of three; that's because the other two buttons are reserved for calling in assist attacks or group super moves from your two other characters who are waiting offscreen while your active character takes punishment. So, if you're good at the game (I know this because I've seen others do it, and the CPU does it), you'll have your three characters whizzing back and forth faster than the eye can follow, launching massive attacks that literally overflow the screen with flashing colors and, hopefully, wear down the opposing three characters while yours are still standing.
There are a total of 56 characters, something of a record for a fighting game, I think. Each has three types of assist modes, selected at the start of the game, at least one super, and various special moves, in addition to the standard kicks and punches. Each team of three has three levels of super moves, or something like that. Supers are all powered by a single meter, which charges as you fight, so you can fight with one character, build up multiple meter charges, then switch to another character and burn them on that character's super multiple times, or mash the two assist buttons to blast off three super meter charges in a single eye-dazzling group display.
The 56 characters are split about evenly between the Capcom and Marvel stables, and there are some pretty odd ones in the lineup, like a dinky sort of Lego-ish robot from Capcom (eh Serve-Bot or something from Megaman, I think), and a tentacled green blob alien from Marvel. A few of the Capcom sprites, such as Morrigan, are from older games, and look a little lumpy, but most of them are drawn in a fresh, crisp sort of anime style that looks good even in fairly low resolution, and gives each character a great deal of personality. The premise of the game is itself goofy, so Capcom did the whole thing up in a very colorful, very animated, very over-the-top style that's just infectiously fun.
They didn't waste time on story, which is just as well; you pick your team of three and there assist types, and off you go against other groups of three. There's a massive final boss of some sort in single-player mode, but the real fun is watching and maybe trying to manage the bajillions of combinations of character matchups. It seems that some characters are generally more effective than others--a balance issue or three in a game with 56 characters is hardly surprising--and to play as an amateur against someone good at the game will inevitably lead to a very un-fun, very rapid death in many colors. Also, because you can see most of the supers coming a long way off, and because they do decent "tick" damage even when blocked, matches I've seen between people who are decent at the game often come down to alternating sprays of blocked super blasts, gradually wearing down the six characters. However, if you're just in there to goof around with spritey fighting action, the game has a lot to offer--more than any other game, in that respect.
Many of the 56 characters are "locked" at the start of the DC version, and you have to "buy" the in a sort of shop thing with "points" you gain while playing. This is kind of lame, but fortunately you can sort of get around it by leaving the game running overnight in training mode, which earns you points automatically; I think I did that for three nights or so, which got me enough points to get everything.
If you don't have any similarly scrubby players around to bash away with, and you've grown tired of struggling against the CPU in 3-on-3 battles of escalating difficulty, you'll probably put the game back on the shelf for a while. There's a "Score Attack" mode, which seems a little odd; you play a three-on-three match for score, I guess, and try to get more score the next time. I suppose it's different than Arcade mode, which also tracks your score, because in Arcade mode you can continue and keep the same score. Anyway it isn't a very interesting extra mode as far as I could tell. It would've been nifty to see them go nuts with single-player modes in this port, like oh say a 1-on-5 mode, or a 1-on-1 elimination mode where you have to beat all of the other 55 characters one at a time.
MvC2 isn't a great game if you want to sit down and learn a single character really well, because you've always got all these other characters along for the ride; besides, individual characters here aren't quite as in-depth as they are in other rather more standard fighting games. On the other hand, if you want the maximum action you can possibly get all at once in a fighting game, I don't think there's any doubt that this game is still the reigning champ.


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Utah, where 60 percent of the population belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), is considering the decriminalization of polygamy. The GOP-controlled Utah state Senate recently passed such a bill, unanimously. Is America ready for this? Polygamy, illegal in all 50 states, is practiced in the U.S. by fundamentalist LDS sects (FLDS), primarily in isolated pockets of Utah and Arizona. Contrary to the impression created by the reality TV show Sister Wives, polygamous households in the U.S. are very uncommon, comprising approximately 10,000 people in FLDS and related groups. (Despite the popular connection to the Mormon faith, a far greater number of Muslims — as many as 50,000 to 100,000 — live in polygamous households in the United States.) Only 17 percent of the American public approves of polygamy — up from just 7 percent in 2003.
The overwhelming level of disapproval is consistent with historical attitudes. Polygamy — usually referring to a marriage between a man and multiple wives — has never been tolerated in America. When Joseph Smith introduced the practice in the Mormon enclave of Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early 1840s, it was met with outraged opposition by the non-Mormons in the community. Indeed, some historians believe that Smith's promotion of "plural marriage" — a religious doctrine that Smith claimed was inspired by a divine revelation — was one of the main sources of the non-Mormons' hostility to Smith and his followers. Smith, who had dozens of wives, was murdered by an angry mob in 1844, and his followers were driven out of Illinois two years later.
In 1846–47, Smith's successor, Brigham Young, led thousands of Latter-Day Saints to what is now Utah, where the practice of polygamy continued — and increased — under the auspices of the Mormon church, until it was disavowed in 1890. Utah became a U.S. territory in 1850, and Young — president of the LDS Church — was named the first governor. The bellicose Young, who took as many as 55 wives (sources vary), was a controversial leader. He resisted federal control over the Utah Territory, and in 1857–58 threatened military action when the U.S. moved to replace him as governor. Relations with the U.S. were strained further when some of Young's followers were implicated in the 1857 massacre of non-Mormon settlers passing through southern Utah in a wagon train headed to California. At least 120 men, women, and children were slain by attackers posing as Indians near Cedar City, Utah. Americans were incensed by the so-called Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Polygamy, which at the time was practiced by approximately one-quarter of Mormon households in Utah, was repugnant to the rest of the country, which viewed it as an abomination. During the presidential election of 1856, a key plank of the newly formed Republican Party's platform was a pledge "to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery." In 1862, federal law banned the practice of polygamy (the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act), although enforcement was postponed until 1887. The Edmunds Act (1882) and the Edmunds–Tucker Act (1887) strengthened the proscription. Utah had long sought statehood (originally as the "State of Deseret" in 1849). Statehood petitions were also submitted in 1856, 1862, 1867, 1872, and 1882. Even following Young's death in 1877, however, American opposition to polygamy stymied Utah's statehood. Sally Denton, author of American Massacre, writes that "Mountain Meadows and polygamy had threatened Utah's statehood for decades."
In 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on polygamy, which went so far as to disincorporate the LDS Church and authorize the federal government to seize all of the church's assets. In The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, the Court denounced polygamy as "abhorrent to the sentiments and feelings of the civilized world," a "barbarous practice," a "nefarious doctrine," and "a blot on our civilization." The Court stated,
The organization of a community for the spread and practice of polygamy is, in a measure, a return to barbarism. It is contrary to the spirit of Christianity, and of the civilization which Christianity has produced in the western world. The question, therefore, is whether the promotion of such a nefarious system and practice, so repugnant to our laws and to the principles of our civilization, is to be allowed to continue by the sanction of the government itself, and whether the funds accumulated for that purpose shall be restored to the same unlawful uses as heretofore, to the detriment of the true interests of civil society. (Emphasis added.)
(None of that Obergefell New Age philosophizing here!) The Court gave equally short shrift to the church's argument that the practice of polygamy is protected as a form of religious expression:
This is altogether a sophistical plea. No doubt the Thugs of India imagined that their belief in the right of assassination was a religious belief, but their thinking so did not make it so. The practice of suttee by the Hindu widows may have sprung from a supposed religious conviction. The offering of human sacrifices by our own ancestors in Britain was no doubt sanctioned by an equally conscientious impulse. But no one, on that account, would hesitate to brand these practices now as crimes against society and obnoxious to condemnation and punishment by the civil authority.
The state has a perfect right to prohibit polygamy and all other open offenses against the enlightened sentiment of mankind notwithstanding the pretense of religious conviction by which they may be advocated and practiced. (Emphasis added.)
The three dissenting justices agreed that the practice of polygamy could be banned, but disagreed regarding the forfeiture of property:
Congress has the power to extirpate polygamy in any of the territories by the enactment of a criminal code directed to that end, but it is not authorized, under the cover of that power, to seize and confiscate the property of persons, individuals, or corporations, without office found, because they may have been guilty of criminal practices.
The Court's condemnation of polygamy itself was unanimous.
Only after the LDS Church repudiated the future practice of polygamy in 1890 (via the Woodruff Manifesto, named after church president Wilford Woodruff, who issued it following the unfavorable Supreme Court decision), and the prospective state adopted a ban on polygamy in its constitution was Utah finally admitted into the union in 1896. Even though it shunned the practice 130 years ago, the LDS church has long battled with the public perception that it condones polygamy. FLDS is a splinter group, and likely an embarrassment to most Mormons anxious to forget the controversial origins of the Beehive State. Utah is often viewed negatively as the epicenter of the renegade FLDS and its bizarre practices. Jon Krakauer's 2003 bestseller, Under the Banner of Heaven, portrayed the FLDS culture in a very unfavorable light. Warren Jeffs is the ultimate symbol for the abuses of polygamy.
Intact, two-parent families — the bedrock of Western culture — face unprecedented challenges, such as a high (and rising) illegitimate birth rate, couples getting married later in life, and a declining fertility rate. Our disintegrating culture recently witnessed a scandal involving a bisexual member of Congress from California engaged in what is politely referred to as "polyamory." The term "throuple" was officially introduced into mainstream public discourse. None of this bodes well for the future.
It is ironic, therefore, that in 2020 family-friendly Utah legislators would seek to decriminalize polygamy — reducing it from a felony to an infraction, like a traffic ticket. The sponsor of the bill, Republican state Sen. Deidre Henderson, explained that her motivation is "to give some certainty to otherwise law-abiding consenting adults who practice polygamy while also allowing for enhanced penalties for those who commit other serious crimes." In light of the Mormons' complicated history and the historical association with a sordid practice still reviled by most Americans, the solicitude for "otherwise law-abiding" polygamists in Utah is puzzling indeed.
Mark Pulliam is a contributing editor to Law & Liberty who writes for a variety of publications. He blogs at Misrule of Law.
It all reminds me of July 1, 1987 when President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for an opening on the Supreme Court. He had it made in the shade, said my complacent conservative friends. The result was brutal. But we do not have to look back 32 years to see how unruly the leftwing mob can be. Recall the recent fate of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Only his courage and unscotchable determinate saved him. The simple fact is that the conservatives are often slow on the draw against the American left. Only the Wall Street Journal and the intrepid New York Sun have come out swinging for Moore. It is time for the conservatives to rally around him. He can probably win with the President on his side. He apparently has the votes. Yet the coming battle would be a lot less bloody if the conservative movement were to take the field on Moore's behalf — and make it clear that from now on they are going to wage war for the President's nominees. Print
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Ben McGarry is the Founder of Totus Capital.
The Latin word for Totus means absolute. It's a fitting name because Ben is now one of Australia's leading hedge fund managers, having been thrust into the spotlight following a number of high profile sell-offs and collapses, such as ABC Learning.
Upon graduating from UQ with a commerce degree, Ben went to work at a large accounting firm to master his technical skills before moving to London to start investing.
In this episode, Ben talks about the experiences that shaped his investment philosophy before going into detail on the key things he looks for when short-selling Aussie companies.
Ben and I talk at length about business, big economic issues, some infamous corporate events and the success of Totus to date.
Given the nature of our conversation, if you're new to the world of hedge funds or need to brush up on some lessons please visit this page, where we've created a free short video course addressing some of the concepts discussed in this and other episodes. Putting aside a few minutes to understand the key terms will mean you get a lot more from this and future episodes.
This is a rare chance to learn from one of the sharpest thinkers in the game, so I trust you'll enjoy this conversation with Ben McGarry of Totus Capital.
2:00 – What got Ben excited in finance and investing?
14:00 – Why start Totus and go out on his own? He wanted to be a portfolio manager.
15:00 – Ben suffers through a year's worth of compliance and legal stuff to start a fund with just $300,000.
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44:00 – Where will Totus be in 3-5 years?