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Alisa Bosconovitch (en japonés: アリサ・ボスコノビッチ) (en ruso: Алиса Босконович) es un
Personaje Androide Rusa Ficticia de la saga de videojuegos Tekken. Hace su primera aparición en el juego Tekken 6, ejerciendo de co-protagonista junto al personaje de Lars Alexandersson, y regresa al Tekken 7 como personaje clave en la Saga Mishima

Alisa fue una creación del Doctor Bosconovitch, un científico experto en cíbertecnología que trabajaba para la Mishima Zaibatsu. Recreada para tener una apariencia de 17 a 18 años, goza además de diversos instrumentos, como unas sierras eléctricas que salen de sus muñecas, unas alas propulsadas en la espalda y en los gemelos que le otorgan la capacidad de volar.

Diseño

Su primer equipo se compone de zapatos blancos, medias negras, un vestido morado y rosa que termina en una falda, guantes blancos que cubren sus manos y largos guantes púrpura que cubren la mayor parte de sus brazos, también tiene dos flores incrustadas en el pelo a su lado derecho. Su segundo conjunto se compone de zapatos rojos, calcetines blancos, un vestido jumper rojo con dos franjas, una de oro y otra blanca, en la parte inferior, una de manga corta debajo de la blusa blanca, y pulseras blancas alrededor de sus manos.

Su estilo de lucha parece incorporar la danza en algunas de sus movimientos, similar al estilo de lucha de Lili. Katsuhiro Harada, creador y productor de Tekken, la describe como «un robot creado en la imagen de la hija del Dr. Bosconovitch». Se indica que puede poseer datos de sentimientos humanos, por lo que se aprecia en sus diarios del Modo Campaña de Tekken 6.

Alisa es una persona muy bondadosa, habla de una manera amable y es sensible a los sentimientos de los demás. También posee valores familiares, así, como lo demuestra cuando le dice a Lars a no apuntar una pistola a su padre Heihachi. Ella no quería pelear y herir a sus enemigos. Obviamente, ella es muy inteligente, a menudo hablando en términos técnicos. En algunas situaciones, cuando la gente llama Alisa un robot, ella lo niega e insiste en que ella es un ser humano. Cuando ella estaba al mando de Jin, que no reconoce Lars, ella realiza sus órdenes a pleno rendimiento, y lleva a cabo las habilidades mortales. A pesar de que esto podría haber sido causado porque en un momento en el comando, Jin le dice Alisa para desactivar el modo seguro y luego reiniciar el sistema. Esto podría ser la razón por Alisa no respondería Lars súplicas de no luchar contra ella. Al final de la batalla, Lars sale ganador y Alisa muere. Cuando Jin Kazama la menosprecia debido a que ésta no pudo cumplir su propósito que era protegerlo, Lars entra en cólera, pues al parecer estaba enamorado de ella.

Tras la batalla contra Jin, Lars la lleva a los laboratorios de Lee Chaolan prometiendo que le devolvería a la vida, cosa que consigue un tiempo después. Alisa desaparece poco después de activarse, pero recuerda los buenos momentos que paso junto con Lars.

Historia

Tekken 6

En lo más profundo de un bosque, unos soldados de las Fuerzas Tekken, liderados por Lars Alexandersson, asaltan unos laboratorios, encontrando una extraña cápsula donde dentro duerme una joven: Alisa Bosconovitch. Se produce una refriega entre los hombres de Lars y soldados de la Corporación G. Una explosión devasta el lugar y elimina a la mayoría de los hombres que se hallaban dentro, exceptuando a Lars, que no parece acordarse de nada de lo sucedido. En ese momento, la cápsula se abre y Alisa se despierta, revelándole a Lars su nombre y su origen; Alisa es un robot ginoide creada por el Dr. Bosconovitch, y ella se hallaba esperándole.

Lars y Alisa viajan juntos, y Lars comienza a recuperar gradualmente la memoria. El comportamiento de Alisa sigue resultándole extraño a Lars. Wang Jinrei le dice a Lars que quizá pueda ser peligrosa. Tras visitar a Heihachi Mishima, Lars recupera la memoria, revelándose que Lars es hijo ilegítimo de Heihachi y líder de las fuerzas rebeldes de las Fuerzas Tekken. Por el camino se topan también con Lee Chaolan, hijo adoptivo de Heihachi, quien les solicita ayuda contra la Corporación G y su líder, Kazuya Mishima. También identifica a Alisa como una «extraordinaria creación», lo que Alisa no entiende del todo.

Tras llegar a la base de la Mishima Zaibatsu, Lars y Alisa confrontan a Jin Kazama. Éste ordena a Alisa que reinicie, lo que resulta en que Alisa ataque a Lars de improviso. Jin revela que Alisa fue diseñada para protegerle y servirle, y que ha estado al tanto de todos sus movimientos gracias a ella. Lars se ve obligado a derrotarla, y Alisa tiene que marcharse volando.

Alisa reaparece en el templo de Azazel, cuando Jin la convoca para que se vuelva a enfrentar a Lars. Alisa y Lars vuelven a combatir, y Alisa es de nuevo derrotada. Alisa cae al suelo inmóvil, y parece recuperar su antiguo «yo» por unos momentos; afirma que no quería enfrentarse a él, pero que no podía desobedecer a Jin. Confiesa que ojalá sus viajes hubieran durado un poco más, y cuando intentaba agarrarle la mano, se desconecta. Jin, que observó todo con pasividad, insulta a Alisa por su ineficacia a la hora de protegerle, lo que causa la furia de Lars; Jin ironiza sobre el hecho de que Lars se halla enamorado de un «robot».

Tras la batalla en el templo, Lars lleva el cuerpo inerte de Alisa junto a Lee Chaolan, pidiéndole que restaure sus funciones, lo que Lee promete que hará.

Tekken 7

Un androide creado por el Dr. Bosconovitch como guardaespaldas de Jin Kazama. Su diseño en sí está inspirado en la propia hija perdida de Bosconovitch. Sus capacidades de lucha son extremadamente altas. Puede realizar ataques con gran movilidad utilizando propulsores y misiles montados en el brazo.

Al despertar, Alisa se vuelve muy hostil con Lee y pelea con él. Después de ser derrotada, Alisa recuerda de repente quién es Lee, pero pregunta por qué está en Violet Systems y qué ha sucedido. Con la ayuda de la tecnología de Violet Systems, Alisa recupera sus recuerdos y desea volver a ver a Lars. De repente, son atacados por Tekken Force . Juntos, Alisa y Lee envían a los soldados y escapan.

Al llegar a otra de las instalaciones de Lee, Alisa se reencuentra felizmente con Lars, saltando sobre él y expresando su deseo de volver a verlo. Después de encontrar a Jin en coma, Alisa detecta el acercamiento de la Fuerza Tekken. Alisa ayuda a Lars a contener a los soldados antes de que él le ordene proteger a Jin. Sin embargo, Alisa es detenida por Nina Williams , quien la detiene el tiempo suficiente para capturar a Jin. Pero, para alivio de Alisa y Lars, Lee está pilotando el helicóptero que lleva a Jin. Mientras Lee destruye las instalaciones de forma remota, Alisa se apresura a volar con Lars.

Después de la muerte de Heihachi , se ve a Alisa con Lars y Lee en los tejados de una ciudad destruida, indicando que varias naciones se enfrentan a la invasión de Kazuya. Luego ven como Jin se prepara para encontrar y matar a su padre.

Curiosidades

 Alisa posee semejanzas a personajes de otros videojuegos o animes; Penny Polendina, de la serie RWBY; Elphelt Valentine, de la serie Guilty Gear Xrd; Alice Gehabich, de la serie Bakugan o Pyyrha Alexandra de la saga de juegos de lucha Soulcalibur.

 Si bien en el Modo Campaña de Tekken 6, Alisa siempre niega que sea un robot, en la película no-canónica Tekken: Blood Vengeance lo admite a su amiga Ling Xiaoyu.

 En la versión coreana del juego, las motosierras de Alisa se transforman en rayos de energía que recuerdan a sables de luz, y no se puede quitar la cabeza.

 Katsuhiro Harada confirmó que el uso de motosierras por parte de Alisa se inspiró en Ashley Williams, personaje de la película Evil Dead.

 Al pulsar todos los botones durante la poses de victoria de Alisa hará que sus motosierras salgan de sus brazos (al igual que sus alas).

 Al igual que con los ataques de sable de Yoshimitsu, las motosierras de Alisa se pueden bloquear y pueden perderse tras ser atacado.

 Pese a tener nacionalidad rusa, Alisa nunca hablo en Ruso siempre interactúa en japonés, haciéndolo uno de los pocos personajes que no habla en su idioma nativo.

 Alisa se puede personalizar para parecerse a KOS-MOS v.3 de Xenosaga.

Referencias

Personajes de Tekken
Personajes femeninos en videojuegos
Robots de ficción
Rusos ficticios

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Home » BYOD » The cyber security challenges facing emerging fintech startups
The cyber security challenges facing emerging fintech startups
by Nick Ismail 17 April 2018
In 2017, 13 fintech startups were valued at $1 billion or more, an achievement so rare that Silicon Valley classifies it as unicorn status.
A growing industry, their success lies in offering alternatives to conventional financial solutions through cryptocurrencies, online loans, and robo-advisors. Though it's a rich tapestry of services that make up the fintech world, they're united by one challenge: cyber security. Its unfettered growth on online platforms makes this industry uniquely vulnerable to security breaches.
Regulations can't keep up with advancements.
The innovations of the fintech world are happening at lightspeed and few competitors can keep up — including regulating bodies. Part of the fintech platform's success relies on this rapid pace.Unlike their slow and laborious counterpart in the country's biggest banks, startups can adapt and change on a dime to evolve alongside its users' needs and expectations.
>See also: Cyber security: the biggest barrier to financial innovation
They're quick and flexible partly because they aren't subject to the same regulatory rules as traditional financial services. The household brands of Chase and Bank of America are subject to the Basel Accord, a supervisory mandate that ensures sustainable growth for conventional institutions. There are no such regulations controlling the way startups conduct their business.
Good governance is profitable for most startups. Security that protects customers from breaches is a selling point — one that appeals to security-minded individuals worried how their personal banking information will be handled by relatively new and unknown companies. Proof that they're taking the appropriate steps to defend its customers is just as important as the other features that set fintech startups apart from their traditional counterparts.
But as the gap between startups and financial regulations widen, there grows a risk for careless entrepreneurs to sidestep security altogether. As of yet, no official legislature is stopping them. These companies could prioritise getting to market as fast as possible, even if that means they have to sacrifice cyber security in order to do so.
Some fintechs follow a self-regulatory framework
While many champions of fintech believe strict regulations would stifle the innovation powering the industry, others are already employing a self-regulatory framework to their platforms, so they can ensure risk-management and data privacy.
>See also: How can banks fight cybercrime?
In collecting and storing personal information, client-facing fintech companies have to protect its customers first and foremost.The challenge then is the way they protect this data. Though they're disrupting traditional financial channels, many of them have adopted bank-level security measures and fine-tuned them for their digital platforms.
State-licensed lenders, like MoneyKey for example, use industry standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption and Verified Site Certificates to encrypt any information transmitted between customers and their servers. Acorns, a fintech company that automates savings, is protected by SIPC insurance and 256- bit SSL encryption. Meanwhile, Chime, a FIDC-insured online banking service, uses 128-bit AES encryption similar to the security used by the US' biggest banks.
Perhaps not for altruistic reasons
Failure to offer these security measures promises imminent failure for careless fintech companies. The very nature of their convenient, online platforms makes it easy for its customers to leave. And don't forget these companies service a plugged-in population who, with a few taps of their fingers, can leave an online review. Enough bad reviews can tarnish the company's reputation.
Potential customers shopping for mobile banks or direct lenders won't click on a company if reviews warn them not to. When public trust in a startup wanes, it directly affects its bottom line.
Though they may not be held to the same regulations as traditional banks, they must follow privacy laws. If they don't, they can suffer costly legal issues. Last year, some of the biggest US companies were hacked. Yahoo, Uber, and Equifax were separately targeted by cybercriminals in acts that exposed billions of customers' personal information.
While Uber and Equifax are stilling settling in court, Yahoo had to pay $350 million in damages for its breach. Nearly a third of a billion dollars is a big incentive for companies to see to their security policies. The legal consequences of a lax security policy — plus the potential loss of business — should inspire startups to invest some of that venture capital money into their security. And as the industry grows, so will their defence against breaches.
Tagged: Cyber Security, FinTech
Fraud rings scaling attacks around the clock — Onfido research

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Q: jq - select entry if any of several keys is NOT present I have the JSON file as shown below. What I want - using jq select and display as a new array all the individual Entries where db[].name
is missing any of "Business Overview", "Load Test" or "Performance Monitoring". In other words, any Entry where all three of them are present in db.[] should be dropped and left only these where any of them is missing.
So, the result of applying such a filter would be displaying the very last Entry with "Tenant": "UT-S1835", where db[].name is missing "Load Test".
I can't seem to make it work. You probably know better, would be glad to know how.
Thanks
[
  {
    "Entry": {
      "Tenant": "CA-T4932",
      "Stage": "prd"
    },
    "db": [
      {
        "id": "xxxxx0001-0a0a-0b0b-0c0c-765434",
        "name": "Business Overview",
      },
      {
        "id": "bbbb0001-0a0a-0b0b-0c0c-6b68706",
        "name": "Performance Monitoring"
      },
      {
        "id": "bbbb0001-0a0a-0b0b-0c0c-f616465",
        "name": "Load Test"
      }
      ]
  },
  {
    "Entry": {
      "Tenant": "NV-R2133",
      "Stage": "dev"
    },
    "db": [
      {
        "id": "ccccc0006-0a0a-0707-0c0c-765434",
        "name": "Business Overview",
      },
      {
        "id": "rrrrr0007-0f0f-0803-0c0c-5e18331",
        "name": "Performance Monitoring"
      },
      {
        "id": "bbbb0001-0a0a-0b0b-0d0d-d439575",
        "name": "Load Test"
      },
      {
        "id": "zzzz0004-0e0e-0ddd-0a0e-ee83005",
        "name": "Home"
      }
      ]
   },
     {
    "Entry": {
      "Tenant": "UT-S1835",
      "Stage": "stg"
     },
    "db": [
      {
        "id": "bcbcb0032-0ccc-4040-1d1d-326923",
        "name": "Business Overview",
      },
      {
        "id": "rrrrr0007-a3b4-1230-0c0c-0e12044",
        "name": "Performance Monitoring"
      },
      {
        "id": "abab0043-0c0f-0dca-0a0e-ee31705",
        "name": "Home"
      }
      ]
   }
]

A: You can use this filter to achieve the result
[ "Business Overview", "Load Test", "Performance Monitoring" ] as $bl |
map( select( [ [.db[].name] | unique[] | IN( $bl[] ) ] |
  map( select( . == true ) ) |
    length == ($bl|length) | not )
  )

jqplay - Online demo
The filter works by selecting number of times, unique instances of .name field of the object matches one of the entries in the blacklist array. If the count matches the  number of items in blacklist, we exclude that from being printed.
You can also customize the blacklist from the command line by including the array in the --argjson field as below and exclude the first line in the above pipeline.
--argjson bl '["Business Overview", "Load Test", "Performance Monitoring"]'

A: Here are two solutions which avoid contains (which has complex semantics, as noted elsewhere on this page) and index/1 (which currently is not implemented as efficiently as one would hope).  In both cases, it is assumed that
$required has somehow been set to the list of required values, e.g. by:
["Business Overview", "Load Test", "Performance Monitoring"] as $required

Simple
map(select( $required - [.db[].name] != []))

Efficient
map(select( .db as $db
            | all( $required[]; . as $req | any($db[].name; . == $req) )
            | not))

A: Here is an approach that uses index and any/2 (the two argument form of any) along with map and select in a manner similar to the other answers given here.
  [ "Performance Monitoring", "Business Overview", "Load Test" ] as $required
| map( select( [.db[].name] | any(index($required[]); . == null) ) )

Try it online!

A: The contains filter seems suited for your task.

The filter contains(b) will produce true if b is completely contained within the input. … An array B is contained in an array A if all elements in B are contained in any element in A. (jq 1.6 manual)

My solution puts the values of "name" in each object into an array. It uses contains to see if the array of the values you listed are all in that array.
jq 'map( select( [.db[].name]
   | contains( ["Business Overview", "Performance Monitoring", "Load Test"] )
   | not ) )'

Note
Inian points out that contains can be tricky. For example, this returns "true."
jq 'contains(["A"])' <<< '["A B"]'

That could lead to the wrong result if the value of "name" is "Business Overview B" and so on.

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El Cuarteto Kodály es un cuarteto de cuerda  fundado en 1965 en Budapest, Hungría, originalmente como Sebestyén Quartet. En 1969, con la aprobación del Ministerio de Asuntos Culturales de la República Húngara, el cuarteto asumió su nombre presente en honor del compositor húngaro Zoltán Kodály.

El conjunto hace giras internacionales y ha grabado los ciclos completos de Haydn, Beethoven y Schubert para el sello Naxos. Su discografía supera los sesenta registros, principalmente para Naxos.

Miembros
Los miembros presentes del cuarteto son:
 Attila Falvay  1r. violín
 Ferenc Bangó  2º. violín
 János Fejérvári  viola
 György Éder  violonchelo

Premios
 Ferenc Liszt Award (1970)
 Artist of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (1990)
 Bartók-Pasztory Award (1996)
 Classic CD Magazine's Best Chamber Music Release (1993)

Enlaces externos
 Kodaly Cuarteto de cuerda homepage
 Facebook: Kodály Cuarteto de Cuerda

Grupos de música formados en 1965
Cuartetos de cuerda


Just saw V For Vendetta. Excellent movie. A bit heavy handed at times, but it is saved by the superlative acting of Hugo Weaving, who deserves multiple awards for this performance, and by the dialogue, which is remarkably mature and compelling. Bring on Alan Moore's true masterpiece, Watchmen!
In other news, the Guyanese government has asked Canada to assist in the investigation of this weekend's murders. Guyanese are good about putting their egos aside to learn from those who have more experience. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, to see whether this was in fact a political assassination and not a simple home invasion.
The first link to the victims has been made known to me. The woman killed while hiding under the bed was the mother of a friend of a friend. I suspect closer relationships will manifest as the days progress….
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Q: How to get checkbox value from database using jquery in mvc value show in Is Cancelled = true but checkbox is not check .
Can any one tell how to get write code when true then checkbox checked if false then unchecked. This code is not working .
function POGetby(PO_ID) {

            $.ajax({
                url: "/Home/POMain_Select",
                type: "GET",
                contentType: "application/json;charset=UTF-8",
                data: { 'PO_ID': PO_ID },
                dataType: "json",
                success: function (result) {

                    if (!$("#IsUCancelled").is(":checked")) {
                        $('#IsUCancelled').val(result.IsCancelled);
                    }

                    $('#UpdateModel').modal('show');
                    $('#UpdatePO').show();
                },
                error: function (errormessage) {
                    alert(errormessage.responseText);
                }
            });
            return false;
        }

A: $('#IsUCancelled').prop('checked', result.IsCancelled);


This page includes options in the West Michigan area where baseball and softball players can improve their skills. The Zeeland East and Zeeland West Varsity Programs work with Zeeland Little League to tailor clinics for players in our league. Many other programs exist in the area that also provide quality baseball instruction. ZLL encourages those that are interested in learning more about the game and improving their skills to find a program suitable for your needs.
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Found this funny photo from my office's iMac while I'm backing up my stuffs today. "Flipping hair" is always my signature pose when I'm talking to my close buddies haha. I used to be a girl who cares a lot about what people say and feel about me and now I know, What I feel is a priority.
Feeling complicated recently as ... I'm leaving my company soon. I know it's such a big and shocked news as I've been with Apple for more than four years, Yeah FOUR years. I still remember how panic I am when I first stepped into my company at my age of 22. Appreciate this precious chance to join a big company like this and I truly have learnt a lot. I still love Apple so so much and I know it's time for me to leave my comfort zone for new challenges. Thanks to everyone who love me and care about me all this long.
Hehe... I think this is what people curious the most!


Ensure that we do not have a computer object with the Alias name. For example: If the server name is SERVER01 and its alias is SV1, make sure we do not have a computer object in the Active directory with name SV1.
Note: Ensure you change the value of -Value parameter in the above powershell command.


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Singapore move top with victory over Malaysia at Asian qualifier for ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Hosts Singapore moved top of the standings at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's T20 World Cup Asian Regional Finals Qualifier with victory over Malaysia.
Singapore bowled Malaysia out for just 92 to take control of the match at Indian Association Ground.
The home side made light work of the run chase, reaching their target after just 13.2 overs to record a comfortable win.
Surendran Chandramohan led the way for Singapore with an unbeaten 50, while Manpreet Singh scored 26.
Singapore are ahead of Malaysia in the standings at the five-team tournament on net run rate.
Malaysia missed the chance to cement their place at the summit as they were beaten by Nepal, the best-ranked side at the tournament.
Despite a forgettable loss in 1st match, now #Nepal is just two 'straight win' far from @T20WorldCup Qualifier!
Win for Kuwait and Singapore today means the straight win against these two in next couple of days will confirm Nepal's spot for T20 World Cup Qualifiers.#nepalcricket
— Shishir Bhattarai (@sbhattarai12) July 26, 2019
Nepal boosted their qualification hopes with a seven-wicket win as they restricted Malaysia to 83-7 from their 20 overs.
They had little difficulty in chasing down the total as captain Gyanendra Malla hit 51 to guide his side to victory after eight overs.
In the other match played today, Kuwait beat Qatar by 10 runs in a high-scoring encounter.
Kuwait batted first after losing the toss but made a considerable score of 197-7.
Qatar seemed on course to reach their target but fell short on 187-5.
The side which tops the round-robin table will book their spot at the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates in October and November.
That event will in turn offer six places at the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup in Australia.
July 2019: Nepal bounce back with first win at Asian qualifier for ICC Men's T20 World Cup
July 2019: Qatar off the mark at Asian qualifier for ICC Men's T20 World Cup
July 2019: Hosts Singapore make winning start to ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asian Regional Finals Qualifier
July 2019: Five sides look to move step closer to ICC T20 World Cup at Asia qualifier
June 2019: Jersey secure place at ICC T20 World Cup qualifier despite last-day defeat at Europe regional finals
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Q: AngularJS directive can't find required controller The gist of this is that, in the code below, I need 'modalDirective' to access the list of elements to create, which lives inside 'modalController'. I also need 'modalDirective' to create an HTML element that uses ng-model to bind to a scoped variable inside 'modalController', so if there is another way to do either of these things I'm totally open to it.
I open a modal using the following parameters:
var modalOptions = {
    templateUrl: 'targetUrl/modalPage.html',
    controller: 'modalController'
}
ModalDialogFactory.openModal(modalOptions);

ModalDialogFactory really just opens the modal:
angular.module('myApp')
.factory('ModalDialogFactory', ['$modal', '$rootScope', function ($modal, $rootScope) {
    var modalDialogDefaults = {
        backdrop: 'static',
        keyboard: false,
        scope: $rootScope.$new()
    };
    var modalInstance;
    return {
        showModal: function (modalOptions) {
            var modalConfig = {};
            angular.extend(modalConfig, modalDialogDefaults, modalOptions);
            modalInstance = $modal.open(modalConfig);
            return modalInstance.result;
        },
        closeModal: function (selectedObjs) {
            if (modalInstance != null) {
                modalInstance.close(selectedObjs);
            }
        }
    };

}]);

The modal opens, and the controller works fine. So far so good. Now, in the target page I want to use a directive:
angular.module('myApp').directive('modalDirective', function ($q, $http, $compile) {
return {
    restrict: 'EAC',
    compile: function(element, attr) {
              return function(scope, element, attr) {
              // Dynamically create new HTML elements
    }
};
});

And then in modalPage.html, I reference the modal directive:
<div modal-directive></div>

This works too, the directive creates the dynamic HTML elements as expected. The problem crops up when I want to bind one of those elements to a scoped variable inside 'modalController'. The directive doesn't seem to have access to the controller, which I figured to be some kind of scoping issue but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I tried adding this line to the 'modalDirective':
require: '^^modalController',

But when I try and require the controller I get an error:
Error: [$compile:ctreq] Controller 'modalController', required by directive 'modalDirective', can't be found!

Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?

A: (Assumption, using uibModal, or another $modal that allows for resolve)
I know this is late to the party, but came across this while browsing through some older tasks.  The issue with your require is that the $modal service adds the modal entry to the HTML outside of the scope of the controller (unless the controller is the full page, which seems unlikely).
Instead of expecting the scope to be passed, you'll probably want to take advantage of the resolve attribute of $modal configuration.  So you'd do something like:

*

*Create the modal options passing in the properties to the resolve attribute

*Do your modal stuff

*Return any updates through the $modalInstance.close() which you're already doing

It'll end up something like:
ModalDialogFactory.showModal({
    resolve: {
        listOfStuff: function() { return $scope.list; }
    }
});

Which will give you scope.listOfStuff available to work with in your directive.


A few years ago, a friend drew my attention to a really sad story. Her neighbour had gone to an orphange, adopted a young girl (about 9 years old) with the promise to love her and treat her as one of her own and then brought her home to act as an unpaid housemaid.
This woman had about 6 grown children who had moved out of the house. Most were married and had their own children. It was thought that the reason why she adopted was not only to have company in her old age, but also to help a child in need. She enrolled the girl into a public school (her children had attended expensive private schools) near her house and then set her to work as a cleaner, dishwasher and laundress. Naturally, her duties extended to cleaning up and taking care of any visiting grandchildren. After a short while, she stopped attending school and started facing her tasks at home fully. According to my friend, this went on for about 18months and then she suddenly stopped seeing the young girl in the area. She believes that she went back to the orphanage but is not sure.
My friend's greatest regret is that she stood by and watched things unfold and did nothing. She feels that at the very least she could have approached this woman and threatened to report the situation. According to her, it was her lack of belief that the Nigerian Police would do anything constructive that stopped her.
I watched the CNN Freedom Project documentaries the other day and couldn't help but think that a lot of the people that make a difference are ordinary folks like you and I.
A lot of housemaids in Nigeria are little more than slaves and forced to work under inhuman conditions. Some are even raped by several members of the family they work for. If you know anyone that is maltreating a housemaid or someone in their care, please report it to NAPTIP or to the police. If you are doing maltreating anyone please stop.
Let us stop modern day slavery in Nigeria. You and I know that it happens.
🙁 this is sad. We have to change the mindset in our country, the fact that people depend on us to provide the basic necessities of life doesn't make them our slaves.
You are right on point. Like I said before, I do not believe that people should be maltreated simply because of their prevailing circumstance. With everyone we meet, we should apply the "Love your neighbour as yourself" principle.
So sad, and yes it does happen.
It does happen! I have always expressed my disapproval about such inhuman treatment(s).
The orphanage that released the child should be notified of the wicked act of that woman! Ordinarily, should the orphanages do impromptu visits to ensure that the child is in good hands.
It is a big pity. I am not sure how it works with Nigerian orphanages but there should be a policy that ensures that the children are checked up on. I am just not optimistic enough to think that it is carried out.
This is sad. The fact that the child was taken out of an orphanage and treated like this. I think adopted children should be followed up until they are at least 16, due to the sometimes oppressive climate that allows the most dreadful child abuse in Nigeria. I suspect that the child in this case could well be dead or sold on and that is why she is no longer seen. What a sad story.
Thanks for this post, it is very sad. I must add this though,aside from someone going to an orphanage, I see a lot of young children employed as house boys and girls, as young as 12 – 15 year olds. I believe we can only turn the situation around if each and everyone of us does NOT encourage it, I mean you would not let your own child be a house boy or girl but you are ok with hiring someone else's child?
I know of a young boy, who was brought to a house of a friend by an agent, who by the way collected his salary, and mind you this boy has never seen the inside of a classroom, he worked for a year and he was taken away,no idea where his next household will be or the conditions he will find. It is indeed very sad, it starts with each one of us.
really sad. she should have left the girl in the orphanage. nobody begged her..
It would indeed have been better if she had left her there. No-one should treat anyone like they are second class citizens simply because of their prevailing circumstances.
This is definitely a serious issue. Thanks for sharing. The team at http://livethenoise.com/ has been doing good work on this as well.
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Na wa ! so sad! The adoption agencies really have to follow up.
However, lets even say she wanted a help why cant people treat help well? I have watched with horror as some friends of mine have treated their helps like slaves and | wonder why?
I have been accused of spoiling my helps..just because I treat them well, but guess what the ingrates and silly ones among them misbehave and leave but the ones that appreciate stay on and treat my children so well. Infact the help with me now has been with me for 5 years and keeps on saying "mummy we need a new baby in the house".
I was raised in a home where everyone was treated well, helps were educated given job opportunities (3 of our former helps have govt jobs and 1 lives with her hubby in Asia) growing up in such a home we were made that housework was not the sole repsonsibility of the helps. Thats why even today though they have all moved on..whenever the family needs them they rush to help. I thank God my folks could afford to look after me if not I may have been a help in someones home.
You are right about the adoption agencies doing more follow-up work but judging by the ones that I have gone to, they are usually not set up to do that. Please keep your friends accountable.
i support. but how can a human being sure a thing to her fellow one which is bad.


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Analytic tradecraft: "The way analysts think, research, evaluate evidence, write, and communicate--must be strengthened..."Conversely, policymakers must be prepared to accept uncertainties and qualifications in intelligence judgments and not expect greater precision than the evaluated data permits." The Commission found a widespread drop of technical knowledge about weapons systems, and, in areas such as biotechnology, the IC is well behind industry.
The Soviets were such great enemies: Those were not the words of the Commission, but they observed that there is no equivalent body of expertise on Islamic extremism as developed for the Cold War threats. "In some cases, the security clearance process limits the Intelligence Community's ability to recruit analysts with contacts among relevant groups and with experience living overseas. Similarly, some security rules limit the ways in which analysts can develop substantive expertise."
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Overemphasis on and underperformance in daily intelligence products. As problematic as the October 2002 NIE was, it was not the Community's biggest analytic failure on Iraq." The Commission did emphasize that they addressed a problem endemic for details: the daily reports given to top policymakers, such as the President's Daily Brief (PDB) and in its more widely distributed companion, the Senior Executive Intelligence Brief (SEIB), which are written to be "attention-grabbing". The repeated headlines led executives to more certainty than the more nuanced, but less studied, NIEs would have suggested... "And in other instances, intelligence suggesting the existence of weapons programs was conveyed to senior policymakers, but later information casting doubt upon the validity of that intelligence was not. In ways both subtle and not so subtle, the daily reports seemed to be "selling" intelligence--in order to keep its customers, or at least the First Customer, interested."
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Poor human intelligence: When the October 2002 NIE was written the United States had little human intelligence on Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs and virtually no human intelligence on leadership intentions...The CIA deserves credit for its efforts to discover and penetrate the A.Q. Khan network, and it needs to put more emphasis on other innovative human intelligence methods. Worse than having no human sources is being seduced by a human source, who is telling lies. In fact, the Community's position on Iraq's biological weapons program was largely determined by sources who were telling lies--most notably a source provided by a foreign intelligence service through the Defense Intelligence Agency (CURVEBALL). Why DIA and the rest of the Community didn't find out that the source was lying is a story of poor asset validation practices and the problems inherent in relying on semi-cooperative liaison services. That the NIE (and other reporting) didn't make clear to policymakers how heavily it relied on a single source that no American intelligence officer had ever met, and about whose reliability several intelligence professionals had expressed serious concern, is a damning comment on the Intelligence Community's practices."
The challenge to traditional signals intelligence: Signals intelligence--the interception of radio, telephone, and computer communications--has historically been a primary source of good intelligence." The commission said it could not elaborate in an unclassified way.
Measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) is not sufficiently developed. ...In Iraq, MASINT played a negligible role.
An absence of strong leadership. "For over a year, despite unambiguous presidential direction, a turf battle raged between CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC) and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (now NCTC). ... The best hope for filling this gap is an empowered Director of National Intelligence."
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For a few years, nobody I rode with could beat me on the back of Fifth Street, the short and steep side, the one with the hairpin that will scatter a group of cyclists like they are tiny black ants getting flicked up and down and off the crook of an elbow.
Nobody's beating me today, either. I'm alone. The slight and steady resistance of the pedals is pleasant and somehow reassuring, like stirring thick scratch waffle batter. I'm at home here on Fifth. I live just about halfway down the other side. This is the hill I have probably climbed more than any other in my entire life. There is something for me about the ascent that cannot be expressed in length and grade.
I pass the road sign that reminds me that the speed limit is 40. A group of cyclists going by a marker like this on a stretch like this is pretty much obligated to repeat some stale joke about staying under the posted speed, a remark that is more of a ritual than a witticism but will anyway elicit groans or ripostes, which themselves long ago have became fundamental elements of the climb. Our group never mentions this sign. There are better jokes up ahead, like the sign I'm going by now that warns me not to pass anyone, and the painted admonition on the pavement a little farther on that will let me know, as it has for more than 20 years, that no matter how fast I ever thought I was, from the viewpoint of a mountain road I have always been and have remained: SLOW.
The hairpin looms. Back when I was the best on this climb, I would every once in a while come into the turn deliberately overgeared to show off, sometimes even in the big ring, struggling already on the mild opening slope to not crumple under the gear but then able somehow to resurrect myself and swing wide and pounce right into the throat of the beast of the turn and tear away at it with my legs and great swings of my arms, and once I had gnawed through it I would stand furious and free and snorting and flying all the way to the next turn then across the tricky little dip where anyone who slowed could be caught, and just as I knew I had to quit at last I would sprint to the summit. I remember realizing one day, circling at the top, that I was showing off for myself. Nobody much cared but me. But I cared a lot. I gave the mountain everything I had, every time I could.
When I started getting beat on Fifth, at first it wasn't because I was any slower or tried any less. It was because I began to ride with better cyclists, the way you're supposed to. Then those riders did what they always do, which was to make the whole group a little better, and some of my friends who'd been there all along started beating me, too. Whether I gave everything or almost nothing, I almost always finished right in the middle of the pack in those seasons, so I started saving more of my effort for our other hills, other moments. Then for a few years I really did get slower, and some days it took everything I had simply to not be the last rider up the hill. In the season that just ended, here and there I was about as fast as I'd ever been in my life, and I won a few times again but mostly not, dependent less on my form than on who happened to show up that day. But the best climbs weren't the ones I won. They were the ascents when I made it hard for the riders who were fitter than me and also those with more class, when I hurt them in the hairpin maybe, or made them punch at their gears in surprise that I might actually get away, or forced them to have to roll around at the top taking secretly deep breaths without talking for a few seconds while we waited for the stragglers. My best rides up Fifth were the ones when there was not even a chance I could show off, when there was no possibility at all I could win nor any heroic need to save myself from being last, and what mattered to me was not what I might get but how much I could give.
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"What?" It had sounded ominous the first time. This time, it had all the gravitas of a sullen teenager, and a distinct resort-town accent.
She couldn't stop staring. An atrocious diamond stud had been glued to the side of his skull where the ear would have been. "Did I?" She trailed off. "Are you Death?" This was not how she'd pictured the afterlife.
The flames in the eye sockets rolled. "You said the incantation wrong. I'm the Death of Civilization." It twirled a universal remote control in one hand.
"Well. I suppose I should have known that," she said, mostly to herself.
"Uh, yeah. If you could just stand in the center of the circle –" She hurriedly performed the dismissal, and the apparition vanished. She stood there for a moment, staring, before turning to blow out the candles.
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lmao this was great xD He could have had a cellphone too, and answered it in the middle of the conversation. I hate it when customers at my job do that!!
Death of Civilization indeed!! Very clever.
Death of civilization – Love it. Love the spray tan, too.
Loved the spray tan, glued on stud, his attitude AND the humor of this. Very, very clever. I was laughing the whole way through especially with the last line. Death of civilization, for sure. Fantastic!!!
Great post! I really enjoyed this.
Had me laughing so hard. Totally unexpected appearance. Brilliant stuff.
Ha, there have been some great takes on the prompt this week and this is up there with the best of 'em. Sullen teenager death, spray tan and all. Nice job!
*hahaha* I love how casual all these conversations with Death have turned out to be! This cracked me up: "…it had all the gravitas of a sullen teenager, and a distinct resort-town accent." I'm still giggling.
Lol! I love the premise. And the dialogue is perfect. Who knew the Death of Civilization would be pseudo gangsta?
So funny! As others have said, nice touch with Death of civilization. I love the gravitas of a sullen teenager and a resort town accent.
that was excellent! spray tanned sullen 'gangsta' teenage death of civilization. I have no idea where you came up with that, but it's brilliant. I bet he watches a lot of Jersey Shore.
This was hilarious. It conjured an image of the cast of Jersey Shore. I think the end of civilization is their domain, right?
I love the attitude in the flames rolling in their sockets. Great response. Thanks for linking up!
that was great! Good job lady.
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CLEVELAND, OH - OCTOBER 1: Quarterback Dan Pastorini #7 of the Houston Oilers drops back to pass against the Cleveland Browns during an NFL football game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium October 1, 1978 in Clevlend, Ohio. Pastorini played for the Oilers from 1971-79. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
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2of66Former Houston Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorini gets interviewed on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
4of66HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 08: George Foreman arrives at the Houston Sports Awards on February 8, 2018 in Houston, Texas.Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Houston SportsShow MoreShow Less
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06/06/1976 - race car driver A.J. Foyt waits in the pit at the Texas 500 stock car race at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. Foyt came in first after leading 158 laps in the 250-lap (500 miles) race.
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8of66Earl Campbell on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
10of66Former Houston Rocket Hakeem Olajuwonon the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
11of66Nolan Ryan on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
13of66Houston Astros outfielder George Springer the blue carpet with his wie, Charlise, before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
14of66Calvin Murphy waves to fans on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
16of66Hall of Famer and former Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell and his wife, Rachel, on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Baseball Hall of Famer and former Astros star Craig Biggio at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
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19of66Debbie Clemens takes a photo of her husband Roger Clemens being interviewed on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
20of66Dikembe Mutombo on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
22of66George Forman poses on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
23of66Vince Young on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
25of66Craig Swaisgood carries the Commissioner's Trophy on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
26of66Former Rockets GM Carroll Dawson on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
28of66Former Houston Astros manager Art Howe shakes hands with Roger Clemens on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
29of66Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch and his wife, Erin, on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
31of66Raul Marquez on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
32of66Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni with his wife, Laurel, on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
34of66Geoff and Kory Blum on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
35of66Charli Collier, of Barbers Hill High School, center, on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
37of66Houston Rockets' Clutch gets his photo taken with women on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
40of66Houston Texans Chris Covington on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
41of66Former Houston Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorini gets interviewed on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
43of66Toro poses with Chester Pitts and his son, Chester Pitts III, on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
44of66Steven Lopez with his brother Jean Lopez on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
46of66Nolan and Ruth Ryan on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
47of66Houston Dash head coach Vera Pauw on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Former Houston Rockets guard Robert Reid at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
Former Houston Astros pitcher and manager Larry Dierker at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
Houston Texans linebacker Rodney McCray at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
Former Houston Rockets forward Rodney McCray at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
55of66Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch draws a raffle ticket for a fan to attend the dinner while on the blue carpet with Robert Boudwin before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Houston Dynamo coach Wilmer Cabrera at the Houston Sports Awards on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018 at the Hilton of the Americas.
58of66R. L. Bell gets photo bombed by Patti Smith on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
59of66Clutch the bear runs down the line high-fiving fans along the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
61of66Fans wait for athletes to walk down the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
62of66Students with Cy Falls High School holler as they see their coach Richard Flores walk on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
64of66Herman Eagleton, an Astros and Texans fan waits for athletes to walk down the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
65of66Fans watch athletes walk on the blue carpet before the start of the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Masters champion Jackie Burke Jr., four-time Indianapolis 500 champion A.J. Foyt, two-time world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman and former Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorini will comprise the second class of inductees into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame, event organizers said Tuesday.
The four longtime Houston area residents will be honored Feb. 6 at the Hilton Americas during the second annual Houston Sports Awards presentation. They will join Earl Campbell, Hakeem Olajuwon and Nolan Ryan, last year's inaugural honorees.
Burke, 95, won his first professional event in 1949 and won the Masters and the PGA Championship in 1956. He and the late Jimmy Demaret founded Champions Golf Club in 1957, and he was inducted in 2000 into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Foyt, 83, was selected by the Associated Press along with Mario Andretti as drivers of the century and is the only driver to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, 24 Hours of Daytona and 24 Hours of LeMans. He remains active in the Indycar Series as owner of the two-car A.J., Foyt Racing team.
Foreman, 69, won the 1968 heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics and after turning professional won the world championship in 1973 against Joe Frazier and in 1994 at age 45 against Michael Moorer. He also was the promoter of the George Foreman Grill, which has sold more than 100 million units since its introduction in 1994.
Pastorini, 69, played for the Oilers from 1971 through 1979 during the team's "Luv Ya Blue" era and played for three other NFL teams before retiring in 1983. He owns a food service company in Houston.
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David Barron reported on sports media, college football and Olympic sports for the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in January 2021. He joined the Houston Chronicle in 1990 after stints at the Dallas bureau of United Press International (1984-90), the Waco Tribune-Herald (1978-84) and the Tyler Morning Telegraph (1975-78). He has been a contributor to Dave Campbell's Texas Football since 1980, serving as high school editor from 1984 through 2000 and as Managing Editor from 1990 through 2004. A native of Tyler, he is a graduate of John Tyler High School, Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin.


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Q: How to open base64 PDF in Chrome app? I have a simple Chrome application. There is a base64 string. In it, I store a PDF file and I want to open this PDF file on new window or iframe.
I tried to create an iframe with src="data:application/pdf;base64,..".
After that, I get this error:

Refused to load plugin data from
  'data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjQKJcOkw7zDtsOfCjIgMCBvYmoKPDwvTGVuZ3R…Q4RUU5MzdDRDQyM0RFNEI4MTkzNDU3MzIzMTM2OQo+PgpzdGFydHhyZWYKMjA0NTQKJSVFT0YK'
  because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive:
  "default-src 'self' chrome-extension-resource:". Note that
  'object-src' was not explicitly set, so 'default-src' is used as a
  fallback.

A: As Xan mentioned, try loading it as a new tab.
In a web page, you can do either
window.open('data:application/pdf;base64,DATA', '_blank')

or (to load on same window)
window.location.href="data:application/pdf;base64,DATA"

Hope this helps. :/


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package quarks.test.providers.direct.metrics;

import quarks.test.metrics.MetricsOnTest;
import quarks.test.providers.direct.DirectTestSetup;

public class DirectMetricsOnTest extends MetricsOnTest implements DirectTestSetup {
}

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A new petition by animal rights activists last week was targeting a Toronto restaurant Kū-kŭm Kitchen for serving seal meat on its menu raising ire from Indigenous people and industry stakeholders who say their traditional foods and sealmeat in general is being unfairly targeted.
The cowardly ill-informed petition by the activists also targeted the restaurants Facebook page with one star ratings. We find this act to be one of bullying in that none of them actually went to the restaurant to engage with the owner to get the facts on the sealing industry throughout Canada. Supporters of the restaurant and cause hit back with five-star ratings and heaps of admiration for chef Joseph Shawana . This counter-petition gathered nearly 4,000 signatures by Thursday morning.
The UK's Guardian online covered the story November 1.


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Q: Lazily importing from submodules within __init__.py in a way static code analysis tools can understand So, let's imagine I've got a python package of library code with 20 logically-separated modules, and I want to select 1 or 2 classes from each of them for the package's public api. Rather than forcing users to import these classes from the modules directly, I want to make them available directly from the package's namespace, within __init__.py.
But I don't want everything to be loaded eagerly every time, since loading all 20 modules whenever someone tries to access just one class from a single one is a huge waste (some of them contain their own expensive imports), so I implement a module-level __getattr__() as per https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0562/ and use importlib within it to load the module of a given class whenever someone tries to import that class.
This is a relatively clean solution, but the part that makes it a nightmare is that this absolutely kills static code analysis tools like Jedi or PyCharm. Autocompletion and on-cursor-hover docstrings are a huge deal to me, since they massively increase productivity, so I don't want to write library code that IDEs cannot understand.
I could write typing stubs, but that would add more burden of maintenance, when really I already have all my code type-annotated and with docstrings inline. It's not a great solution.
Does anyone have an idea how else I could go about this? I'm hoping there's some clever way around this that I just haven't thought about.

A: This is an old question, but incase anyone else comes across this the solution I have that works with VSCode + Sublime static analysis is as follows:
import importlib
import pathlib

# this is used instead of typing.TYPE_CHECKING as it avoids needing to import
# the typing module at all
_typing = False
if _typing:
    import sub_package
del _typing

def __getattr__(name: str):
    current_file = pathlib.Path(__file__)
    current_directory = current_file.parent
    for path in current_directory.iterdir():
        if path.stem != name:
            continue

        return importlib.import_module(f"{__package__}.{name}")

    raise AttributeError(f"{__package__} has no attribute named: {name}")

__all__ = ("sub_package",)

I think what was missing from OP was exposing the __all__ variable


Maziyar Gilaninejhad of the Union of the Metalworkers and Mechanics of Iran (UMMI) talks about the challenges and struggles of Iranian workers, and the likely effects of the nuclear deal on the economy.
Q: The economic situation in Iran is dire: the rate of unemployment and inflation is high, and the high price of basic food and rent is breaking people's backs. From the point of view of the union, what is the cause of this situation?
MG: Since Iran's economic approach turned to unrestrained financial capitalism, prices and unemployment have increased rapidly. Under President Rafsanjani, executing the directives of the World Bank and the IMF became a major factor in government policy. Recently, the economy has opened even further to finance capital.
Twenty-five years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, our largest key industries, like steel mills, power generation, water, petrochemicals and so on are in crisis, and the uncontrolled imports have plunged domestic industries into stagnation. We now import products that we once exported.
Today more than 40 per cent of the labour force is either unemployed or works in precarious pseudo-jobs. At least three million people are living on unemployment insurance. While we previously had plants that were unparalleled in the Middle East, these industries are in crisis today.
Steel making plants like Zagros and Saaveh have closed down. More than five tyre manufacturing plants have shut. The production from smelting and casting foundries has plummeted to less than 40 per cent. Our car manufacturing companies are known for their poor-quality products.
Finance capital has infiltrated government, promoting large scale asset stripping. Manufacturing plants are driven to bankruptcy and privatized at below market value. Undoubtedly, these are IMF prescriptions that have been implemented in our country at the behest of global capital. The policy prescribed by IMF for countries like ours is to produce oil and nothing else. We have to import everything else.
Our proposal is to reopen, refurbish and modernize the manufacturing industries; to systematically increase the taxes on the rich and their income; and to close the doors to the import of goods that are or could be produced in Iran.
Q: How do workers deal with these issues?
MG: When working people see that the industries they work in cannot sell their products and cannot pay their wages – and see that their purchasing power decrease daily – they raise their voice and protest. They write letters to the authorities, stage protests and eventually, to have their voices heard, have no choice but to walk out and stop production. Finance capital cannot stand protest action. Article 27 of the Constitution allows workers to protest, but the police and security forces obstruct any protest action.
Over the past years, ILO Conventions 98 and 87 have been completely ignored and trade unions are under severe restrictions. For four months now, the office of the Justice Department in the province of Khuzestan has threatened any labour protest with judicial action.
Currently, several labour activists and teachers are in prison. Davoud Razavi, a member, and Ebrahim Madadi, president of the executive committee of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Trade Union (Sherkat-e Vahed) have been summoned to the Revolutionary Court instead of the civil court. This is used to try cases of sedition.
Workers' representatives from the Chadormaloo Iron Ore mines have also been taken to the Revolutionary Court. Several workers of Polyacryl in Isfahan have been sentenced. Twenty-eight worker representatives from the Khatoon-Abad copper mines were arrested. They have all subsequently been released on bail, amidst an outcry from unions and IndustriALL Global Union.
Q: After negotiations about Iran's nuclear programme, the country signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Many hope that the lifting of sanctions will improve the economic situation. What is your opinion?
MG: There is no doubt that the lifting of sanctions is a positive accomplishment. However, what are we going to do with it? Keep importing and shutting down industries? No worker in the world beats the drums of war, ever. There is no doubt that working people are happy with the lifting of the sanctions. But as long as the economic policy of the government stays the same, nothing will change.
The JCPOA will result in foreign investment. No one opposes the import of useful technology. Bringing in suitable industries, with proper planning, will lead to development and progress and improve the technical knowledge of workers; it will also increase the number of jobs, which is good for the unions, and our membership and our bargaining power will increase. Industrial development will help with economic growth and in creating good jobs and higher wages.
However there are those in powerful circles who see no benefit for themselves in developing the nation.
Q: Can we expect that the relations between Iran and the West, and the US and EU in particular, will enter a phase of friendly relations after the JCPOA? Would this be a long-term situation?
MG: Currently the neighbouring countries of Iran on three sides are engaged in wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Turkey, which has got involved in the war in Syria. There have been attempts for a long time to pull Iran into another war. Extremists in Iran wouldn't mind a clash with the US, and elements of global capital are trying to pull Iran into a war in order to change the geopolitical map of the region and do the same thing to Iran as they did to Libya and Iraq.
We need to counteract this ploy rationally. The working people of Iran oppose and object to the increase of tensions in foreign policy. This is one side of the matter.
However, the other is that we should be able not only to maintain our nation in peace, but also to keep other parties away from war. We should not have let our relations with Saudi Arabia sour. If we are allies of China and Russia in the region, we should learn self-restraint from Russia's dealing with Turkey.
Signing an agreement is one thing, and carrying out that agreement is another. We have to elegantly force the other party of the agreement to fulfill its obligations, whatever they are. Contracts with the oil companies must be transparent. When Peugeot became the first Western country to sign a contract with Iran after the lifting of sanctions, there were rumours that the contract was humiliating and against the national interest. Rather than blaming France or the US, this has to do with our own negotiating strategy. We should not find ourselves forced into colonial deals, like the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay, which saw Iran cede much control to Russia.
Finance capital supports war and chaos and strives towards it, because it can use chaos to seize national assets. In my opinion, our mafia-like capitalism cooperates and collaborates with foreign capital, which does not care for our sovereignty and prosperity.
Q: There are rumors that after the JCPOA agreement, Iran's government will get back tens of billions of dollars of its seized assets and this money will save the economy. Is it UMMI's expectation that production plants that have been in trouble in the recent years will begin production and therefore the situation of workers will improve?
MG: Mr Rouhani, the President, has stated that addressing the situation of key industries is a priority. We hope that the government will invest this money in manufacturing and production plants in order to boost the economy, and to improve the livelihood of the workers.
We outlined our plan for exiting the current crisis in a statement that we issued a few months ago. We have to utilize our full power to restore and re-launch our industries and employ up-to-date technologies in them.
Petro-dollars should be used to import technology. We have to prevent the import of goods and products that are produced in Iran. We have to revitalize industries, like the Haft-Tappeh sugar cane plant, that can supply the needs of the entire region and the Middle East. Today, Russia badly needs the products of this plant. More than fifty thousand people can be hired directly, and more than a hundred thousand people would be employed indirectly as a result.
In steel, we can reach self-sufficiency and take over markets like Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, and the Arab countries. Iran is located in a strategic region at the crossroad between Asia and Europe, and with investments in rail and road transit, we can provide an excellent transit line for international transportation. We can expand petrochemical industries and make the world depend on our petrochemical derivatives and products. The same goes without saying for oil and gas.
Q: What do the trade unions, and particularly the UMMI, think about the influx of foreign investors in Iran?
MG: If the government keeps conceding to finance capital, we will not benefit from foreign investment. The IMF wants Iran to provide cheap and deregulated labour for foreign investors. Since the presidency of Mr. Khatami in 1997, Iran's government has done this, and created special trade and commerce zones that are excluded them from coverage by the Labour Law.
The government aims to remove any legal restrictions for wages, retirement, health and unemployment benefits in its sixth development plan. This is akin to saying to Mr Foreign Investor, "come in and do whatever you like with our workers".
Will the influx of foreign investment lead to the import of modern technology into the country, or we would continue fastening nuts and bolts only? We see Brazil and China as examples. Utilizing foreign investments in their countries, they were able to create jobs and reduce unemployment, and achieve the development and growth that they planned for. Will this happen here? We have to wait and see.
Q: Next year's minimum wage is the most important issue for workers. What do you think about the increase, and how the employers and the authorities are dealing with it?
MG: My friend! According to the Constitution and Labour Law, the minimum wage is the amount which a working family in Iran needs to live comfortably. Article 43 of the Constitution and Article 41 of the Labour Law are clear on this. Currently, the wages of workers are a quarter of the poverty level. Is this what is in the Constitution? Furthermore, sly employers base the wages for the next year on this year's inflation rate only, which is a clear robbery.
According to economists such as Professor Raghfar, the poverty level is at three million tomans [about US$1,000] per month. If we want to follow the Constitution, the criteria for the minimum wage must be above this amount. Can the small shops afford to pay this much to their workers? In bargaining, you normally take into account what the other party can afford to pay, and also its capability, before you present your proposal.
Since Mr Rouhani took office and promised to follow the law and rules in dealing with workers, particularly on the matter of wages, nothing has been done. You mentioned the released dollars. Shouldn't some of these dollars be spent on the wages of the workers?
The minimum wage was miscalculated by 12 per cent in the first year of his Presidency, and last year the increase in minimum wage was 17% less than expected and workers were also threatened. The 40,000 tomans [about US$13/mo] housing support that was approved last year was ignored and not ratified for pay.
This year they said that the inflation rate is 12 per cent and next year it will be 10 or 9 per cent. They better calculate this amount and pay the workers accordingly so that they are not labeled liars. They should increase the minimum wage by 60 per cent.
If workers' representative go to the negotiating table and communicate the process of the negotiations to the workers, you can be sure that the government will agree – more or less – to this increase out of fear of the workers' and public opinion.
If they remove restrictions on trade unions and act according to the letter of the Constitution and Article 26, as well as the ILO Conventions about the freedom of unions, the bargaining power of workers will undoubtedly increase and the wage issue will be resolved.
With union involvement, wages will be set at real values, the issue of child labour will be resolved, and by providing a safe working environment, the death of workers at workplaces could be stopped. Trade unions do not think only about their own interests, but they consider the interests of all the people and the national interests.
The government must admit that if it wants to exit the current crisis, it has no other way but to get help from civil society. Through a change from a capitalist approach to a popular approach, and with a national effort, the problems can be overcome. To reach political and economic security, the help of the people and particularly the independent labour unions is needed.
Q: What do you want to say about the solidarity which IndustriALL Global Union provides to you so far? Please tell us your expectations and wishes for the future.
MG: First I have to thank IndustriALL and the global trade union movement for their solidarity with Iranian workers and working people in the current difficult years. We believe that an active, prompt, and effective show of solidarity based on the demands of the struggling workers is one of the most important shows of international solidarity of workers.
Sending letters and messages from IndustriALL and other union organizations to the Iranian President and his ministers about the pressures on the trade union activists, or about the violation of the ILO Conventions and the charter of the human rights by the official state bodies, are practical and effective ways to seek justice on behalf of the Iranian workers. Indeed support from IndustriALL was instrumental in the release of the Khatoon-Abad copper miners.
Our union brothers and sisters can send letters to Iran's President about the specific cases of arrests, mistreatments, human rights abuses, and the detention of trade union activists, and ask him as the head of the executive branch to intervene in these cases. National and international union organizations can arrange meetings with the President and his ministers during their foreign visits and on behalf of the Iranian workers demand justice and rights for the workers.
They can mobilize public opinion in support of our struggle by publishing our news and views about the labour developments in our country. International union organizations can directly ask the Iranian Minister of Labour to treat us, Iranian workers, according to the ILO Conventions, and protest the detention and illegal firing of trade union activists. They can defend us either by direct support or by filing our complaints with ILO.
I would like to ask the trade unions that they don't think of us only in times of trouble, but keep in touch regularly and exchange experiences and learn from each other and be aware of each other's problems. We would like to hear about them and know about their challenges.
Finally, on behalf of the Union of the Metalworkers and Mechanics of Iran, I greet all labour activists around the world and along with them I say: May the solidarity of workers around the world be broader!


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Game Abyss The King of Fighters 2000
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The final King of Fighters game released by SNK in its original state, The King of Fighters 2000 expands on the story and gameplay presented in The King of Fighters '99. This year's tournament is sponsored by the Ikari Warriors in an attempt to discover more about the NESTS organization, and to derail the plans of potential NESTS agents K' and Maxima. Not everything is as straight-forward as it usually is, however, and even the Ikari Warriors themselves are at risk of being betrayed from within by the end of the tournament. The King of Fighters 2000 features a roster of 34 fighters plus 2 unlockable boss characters. The four-man teams and the striker system introduced during the previous year return in this year's tournament, with the striker system itself receiving significant improvement. One change in particular is the "alternate" striker system, where every fighter in the game now has another character linked to him or her that may be chosen instead of the normal character for striking purposes. For example, one may elect to use Iori Yagami's alternate striker instead of using Iori himself; in his case, the player could elect to choose and use his old teammates Mature and Vice for striker duty instead. Some characters also have hidden "maniac" striker with strange (but potentially useful) abilities.
Publisher: SNK
Developer: SNK
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Genres: Action Fighting
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Equifax CEO Richard Smith has retired effective immediately, the company announced today. He'll be replaced by interim CEO Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr. while board member Mark Feidler will serve as Non-Executive Chairman.
The move follows the September 7 revelation that the credit bureau had suffered a massive data breach earlier this year, in which 143 million consumers' credit files were compromised.
The files contained full names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other information that would make it easy to steal identities.
"The Board remains deeply concerned about, and totally focused on the cybersecurity incident," Feidler said in a statement. "We are working intensely to support consumers and make the necessary changes to minimize the risk that something like this happens again."
Feidler said the Equifax board has formed a special committee to investigate issues arising from the incident and to ensure all appropriate actions are taken. The company is providing free credit monitoring for a year to all those consumers who may have been affected, though some consumers reported difficulty enrolling, due to the huge volume of those affected.
In a statement, Smith said he was dedicated to rectifying the issues surrounding the data breach, but he concluded that the company needed new leadership at this point.