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package io.bit3.jsass.adapter;

import io.bit3.jsass.context.ImportStack;
import io.bit3.jsass.importer.Import;
import io.bit3.jsass.importer.ImportException;
import io.bit3.jsass.importer.Importer;
import io.bit3.jsass.importer.JsassCustomHeaderImporter;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

class NativeImporterWrapper {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NativeImporterWrapper.class);

  private final ImportStack importStack;
  private final Importer importer;

  public NativeImporterWrapper(ImportStack importStack, Importer importer) {
    this.importStack = importStack;
    this.importer = importer;
  }

  public Collection<NativeImport> apply(String url, NativeImport previousNative) {
    try {
      Import previous = new Import(
          // importPath and absolutePath are possibly file paths and not valid URIs
          pathToUri(previousNative.importPath),
          pathToUri(previousNative.absolutePath),
          previousNative.contents,
          previousNative.sourceMap
      );

      boolean isNotJsassCustomImporter = !(importer instanceof JsassCustomHeaderImporter);
      Collection<Import> imports = this.importer.apply(url, previous);

      if (null == imports) {
        return null;
      }

      Collection<NativeImport> nativeImports = new LinkedList<>();

      for (Import importObject : imports) {
        if (isNotJsassCustomImporter) {
          NativeImport preImport = createPreImport(importObject);
          nativeImports.add(preImport);
        }

        nativeImports.add(new NativeImport(importObject));

        if (isNotJsassCustomImporter) {
          NativeImport postImport = createPostImport(importObject);
          nativeImports.add(postImport);
        }
      }

      return nativeImports;
    } catch (Throwable throwable) {
      LOG.warn(throwable.getMessage(), throwable);
      NativeImport nativeImport = new NativeImport(throwable);
      return Collections.singletonList(nativeImport);
    }
  }

  private static URI pathToUri(String path) throws URISyntaxException {
    File file = new File(path);
    if (file.exists()) {
      return file.toURI();
    } else {
      return new URI(path);
    }
  }

  private NativeImport createPreImport(Import importSource) {
    int id = importStack.register(importSource);

    StringBuilder preSource = new StringBuilder();

    // $jsass-void: jsass_import_stack_push(<id>) !global;
    preSource.append(
        String.format(
            "$jsass-void: jsass_import_stack_push(%d) !global;%n",
            id
        )
    );

    try {
      return new NativeImport(
          new Import(
              new URI(importSource.getAbsoluteUri() + "/JSASS_PRE_IMPORT.scss"),
              new URI(importSource.getAbsoluteUri() + "/JSASS_PRE_IMPORT.scss"),
              preSource.toString()
          )
      );
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
      throw new ImportException(e);
    }
  }

  private static NativeImport createPostImport(Import importSource) {
    StringBuilder postSource = new StringBuilder();

    // $jsass-void: jsass_import_stack_pop() !global;
    postSource
        .append("$jsass-void: jsass_import_stack_pop() !global;")
        .append(System.lineSeparator());

    try {
      return new NativeImport(
          new Import(
              new URI(importSource.getAbsoluteUri() + "/JSASS_POST_IMPORT.scss"),
              new URI(importSource.getAbsoluteUri() + "/JSASS_POST_IMPORT.scss"),
              postSource.toString()
          )
      );
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
      throw new ImportException(e);
    }
  }
}

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i8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Ragnar Kjartansson, exploring the most basic concepts of every true romantic, youth, love and death.
The video installation, Song (2011), is based on Kjartansson's 2011 three-week performance, Song, in the Carnegie Museum of Art's Hall of Sculpture. The work features Kjartansson's three nieces, Ragnheidur Harpa Leifsdóttir, Rakel Mjöll Leifsdóttir, and Íris María Leifsdóttir, performing a gentle folk song written by Kjartansson, for six continuous hours. The slowly circling camera adds to the hypnotic and eerie repetition of the singers.
For Song, Kjartansson was strongly influenced by the Carnegie Museum's industrial age spirit and the Hall of Sculpture itself – a replication of the interior of the Greek Parthenon. Having previously devised the song from misremembered words of Allen Ginsberg's poem Song, Kjartansson envisioned his nieces in this space, enacting this delicate hymn to love. Directly following more overtly "masculine" works such as The End (2009), Kjartansson was interested in the perceived softness and "femininity" of this imagined tableau. Empty and filled with changing natural light filtered through the skylights as day turned to night, the Hall would register a strange conflation of timelessness and the fleeting nature of experience with the girls' voices echoing as they sang the central lyric: "The weight of the world is love".
The video was shot over the course of the six-hour performance in one constant track-shot, using a technique invented by Ragnar's cinematic collaborator Tómas Örn Tómasson. The camera movement can be felt through the visible frame rate, adding to the physical connection to the space. As the viewer watches, the spotlight turns into the moon; the artifice of production giving way to a hypnotic paean to beauty and love. With Song, Kjartansson continues to experiment with durational performance as seen in his Venice Biennial six-month studio performance, The End – Venice (2009); The Great Unrest (2005); Schumann Machine (2008); and most recently Bliss (2011), a 12-hour staging of The Marriage of Figaro's finale at Performa 11.
From the Valley of World-Weariness in British Columbia (2011), is a group of watercolours made during a two-day hiking trip in a dramatic Canadian landscape of burnt pine trees. The setting had a visceral impact on the artist who notes that, "the valley was just like walking in a enormous symbolist installation and the paintings are souvenirs of that unreal place". As in most of Kjartansson's work, there is a performative element to the paintings, having been made 'en plein air', but perhaps more pronounced in them is the sense of isolation, as if they were created "under the burden of solitude".


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Depreciable items The Block winning rooms host
By: BMT team
Tags: depreciation deductions, Property Investment, the block
The countdown to the final episode of The Block, which will air the results of the 12th of November auction, has arrived.
As we wait to see which pair will take home the title of the best renovators, we took a look at some of the winning rooms delivered by the contestants throughout the season and point out some of the depreciable items which could entice investor buyers to place their bids as the auction hammer falls.
Julia and Sasha's master ensuite
At the start of the season Julia and Sasha set the pace early, revealing a stunning master ensuite in which they spent a whopping $65,000.
The girls chose the theme of 'Hollywood glamour' throughout their apartment and this was demonstrated in their bathroom which Darren Palmer described as the "perfect blend between contemporary, classic and classy, with a touch of deco here and there."
Shaynna Blaze loved the dark vanity cabinet and the black edging on the tiled inlets, but it was the $4,000 brass tapware and shower head which caught our eye.
Much of a bathroom contains fixed items which can be claimed as capital works deductions should an investor buyer choose to rent the apartment.
In addition to the tapware, capital works deductions can be claimed for the sink and cabinets in the vanity, the mirror, bath and tiles. Bathroom accessories used to style the apartment can also be depreciated by investors.
Original image source – www.9now.com.au
Andy and Ben's guest bedroom
During week four Andy and Ben revealed a second guest bedroom which surprised the judges with an additional secret ensuite.
The bedroom featuring neutral greys in the linen, rug and carpet was also a hit with the judges. On the wall, a giant feature was installed which showed a map plan of Port Melbourne from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works.
Any of the beds and linen used throughout each of the contestants apartments will allow investors to claim plant and equipment depreciation, as would the rugs and carpets.
The black cupboards which give the room a hint of art deco that the judges hoped to see during the renovation of the historical building would allow investors to claim capital works deductions.
Dan and Carlene's living room
A wonderful choice of flooring, carefully selected rugs and the varied sofa and armchairs featured in Dan and Carlene's apartment were enough to get a nod from the judges during week five.
While the win shocked Dan and Carlene after they had troubles earlier in the week with preparations to lay their tiles, Neale Whitaker said the couple took "the art deco theme and turned up the dial."
Many of the furnishings in the lounge room including the leather arm chairs, the sofa, the curtains, lamp, rug and television will result in plant and equipment depreciation for an investor buyer of the apartment.
While capital works deductions can be claimed for the floor tiles installed, deductions would have been higher if the couple had managed to install the underfloor heating initially planned.
The judges criticised the couple for not following through with the heating with Darren Palmer saying "if you're going to put tiles down, especially somewhere as cold as here, heat them."
Original image source: www.9now.com.au
Will and Karlie's kitchen
They say that kitchens help sell properties and without a doubt this season of The Block delivered some stunning examples.
While two teams received high scores from the judges, Will and Karlie's kitchen was the one which caught our eye with the slick black tiles and polished concrete floors.
The tiles, tapware and polished concrete would entitle investors to capital works deductions, while plant and equipment assets such as the curtains, rangehood, stools, ducted air conditioning, oven and light fittings can also be claimed.
For those bidding on auction day this kitchen offers a lot for investors to consider. While Shaynna summed it up by saying "I don't know where to look, the floor first, or do I look at the kitchen," our suggestion for investors is to consider the fact that kitchens are often the room within an investment property that will offer the most substantial depreciation deductions.
Chris and Kim's alfresco area
While Will and Karlie won the best kitchen, Chris and Kim's penthouse apartment almost offers up two with the amazing BBQ, rangehood and bar fridge included in their outdoor alfresco area.
As with indoor items, outdoor areas offer a significant number of deductions for property investors.
In addition to rangehood, bar fridge and BBQ stove top, investors would be eligible to claim plant and equipment depreciation for the furniture and the inbuilt sprinkling system which waters the hanging plants.
Capital works deductions can be claimed for fixed items in the alfresco area such as the tiles, bench and cabinets.
Although Chris and Kim struggled with mixed feedback from the judges throughout the season, Neale said the pair saved "the best for last," describing the alfresco as "absolutely sensational."
BMT's depreciation estimate suggests that Chris and Kim's penthouse has the highest depreciation deductions available of all of the contestants for this season, with a first year deduction estimated to be $84,470 and a total deduction estimated to be at $2,448,042 which can be claimed by the new owners should they rent the property.
While each property offers up both positive and negative aspects in terms of styling and design, all five contestants have created apartments which provide additional value for investor buyers.
It will be interesting to see how many of the apartments are purchased by these buyers compared with owner occupiers on auction day.
Blog feature image source: www.facebook.com/TheBlock/
BMT is a Quantity Surveying company who specialise in tax depreciation with a personalised approach to every tax depreciation schedule prepared for investment, commercial and rental properties.

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The Black Alliance for Peace Calls on Congressional Black Caucus and Leadership of Poor People's Campaign to Demand the Dismantling U.S. African Command (AFRICOM)
On May 25, African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) called on the United States government to dismantle the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) and withdraw all U.S. forces from the African continent. This demand is in line with the main objective of the newly formed Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases—of which BAP is a founding member—which was formally launched in January. The coalition demands the closure of 800-plus U.S. military bases in other countries, which would save more than $150 billion that could then be re-allocated to realize the economic human rights of the working class and poor in this country.
In our statement on African Liberation Day we called on the members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to publicly oppose the aggressive militarization of the African continent, ramped up by the Obama administration and being continued by the Trump administration.
During the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) actions to end the War Economy, Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence that began this week, BAP is calling on the campaign to take an unequivocal stance in opposition to AFRICOM. Just as we called on the CBC to take a public position against the aggressive expansion of U.S. militarism in Africa, we are also asking the PPC leadership and all activists supporting this week of actions to join us in demanding the United States pull out of Africa and close all U.S. military bases on foreign soil.
For BAP, it is clear the U.S war on "terrorism" in Africa was and remains a subterfuge to expand U.S. influence and its physical presence there. The destruction of Libya, the ongoing war in Somalia, the dismemberment of Sudan, the millions of lives lost in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the widespread political instability throughout the continent is the concrete result of U.S. policies and not some internal or externally motivated "terrorism" and therefore must be opposed by all who claim to represent the interests of Black people.
The PPC states "[t]he truth is that instead of waging a War on Poverty, we have been waging a War on the Poor, at home and abroad, for the financial benefit of a few." There certainly has been a war. However, it is not "we" who are waging this war but them, the racist capitalist oligarchy that has been operating against the interests of the majority of the people in the United States and throughout the world.
BAP sees a clear connection between the war being waged against Black and poor people domestically through the Obama and Trump administrations' Department of Defense 1033 program, which has resulted in the obscene militarization of the police, and the U.S. commitment to "full spectrum dominance" that translates into a permanent war against colonized people of color globally. That is why we agree with the PPC's focus on gun violence, but we say the focus must be even more explicit.
Netfa Freeman, organizer with Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and a member of the BAP Coordinating Committee, points to both the internal and external on issues of militarism and gun violence: "The double standards and dirty-trick twists and turns of the U.S.'s industrial-police-military-intelligence complex has operated on two complementary and parallel tracks when it comes to war, repression, and militarism in Africa and in Black communities within U.S. borders," he says. "Those tracks are militarized domestic repression in the form of over-policing, police murders and mass incarceration, and in Africa the phony war on terrorism."
The PPC's clear demand for "demilitarization of our communities" including "ending federal programs that send military equipment into local and state communities" is in sharp contrast to the support of repressive federal policies by a majority of Black lawmakers at the national level.
In July 2014, two months before the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 80 percent of the CBC voted against ending the 1033 program; last July, a majority voted in favor of the obscene increase in the military budget that exceeded the $54 billion increase demanded by Trump; and just a week or so ago, a majority of the caucus voted in favor of a right-wing federal "Blue Lives Matter" bill, making "assaults" on police officers a federal hate crime!
The Democratic Party that vehemently opposed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he finally broke with the Johnson administration and the party establishment to oppose the Vietnam War, and which gave political cover to and justifications for the murderous assault against the Black Liberation Movement, is the same party that today supports the war agenda of the corporate and financial oligarchy. It is the same party that under Obama accelerated the 1033 program and prosecuted only one of the dozens of killer-cops that executed black, Latinx and Native people across the country.
BAP is not fooled by the diversionary politics of the Democratic Party. We are clear that opposition to war, militarism and all forms of gun violence requires taking on both parties representing the two wings of the ruling class. A bill providing a blank check to the Trump administration to wage war across the planet in the form of the new "authorization to use military force" is an example of the bi-partisan commitment to permanent war and repression as U.S. policy.
Moral stances also require explicit political positions. Opposition to war and gun violence requires that real political connections are made and concrete positions taken against policies that perpetuate the moral offenses that we oppose.
It also means that those who claim to represent the oppressed must be held to account. The members of the Congressional Black Caucus have failed to represent the interests of their Black constituents who have consistently opposed war and domestic militarism.
BAP applauds the effort by the PPC to recapture the moral ground lost to the right-wing counter-revolution of the 1970s and '80s as well as to the moral bankruptcy of the Obama presidency. However, we believe that in this era of right-wing ascendency represented by Trump and the liberal authoritarianism of the Democratic Party, it is important the interests and politics of the working class and poor are clearly delineated from those of the capitalist oligarchy. This means that our politics must be clear and our rhetoric devoid of liberal ambiguities in order to expose the nature and interests of the oppressive system and state.
Our task today is even more pressing than it was 51 years ago when Dr. King called on the oppressed and their allies to defeat "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism."
That is why during this week of action called for by the PPC, BAP is making a clear call for the U.S. to leave Africa and for the people to control the police in their communities. Nothing short of this would reflect the morality and politics of the original Poor People's Campaign and the revolution of values advocated by Dr. King.
For media inquiries, email info@blackallianceforpeace.com
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Out of Africa!
No U.S. bases in Africa, shut down U.S. African Command (AFRICOM)
African Liberation Day (ALD) grew out of the attempts to establish the continental unity of Africa and all African people 55 years ago and is now celebrated every May 25th around the world.
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), a project that centers a radical approach to the fight for collective people(s)-centered human rights that centers self-determination, the right for revolutionary change and anti-imperialism is commemorating ALD by demanding without equivocation that the United States close all U.S. bases and withdraws its forces from the African continent.
Why this Demand?
The African continent will never be free to develop its enormous potential as a revolutionary force for the advancement of all African people and all of humanity as long as U.S. imperialism is allowed to operate without restraint.
Today the U.S. is involved in an aggressive military re-conquest of Africa though its United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, formed in 2008 with the goal of enhancing U.S. influence throughout the African continent. AFRICOM has made African nations vassal states following the dictates of U.S. foreign policies, which are antithetical to the needs of African people.
According to Maurice Carney, executive director of "Friends of the Congo" and BAP member, "Due to the US and Europe's inability to compete with China economically on the African continent, the U.S. launched AFRICOM to protect its strategic interests. Although AFRICOM representatives present a benign, humanitarian facade of building wells and training soldiers in human rights practices, its ever-expanding presence (estimated 2000 percent increase since its inception in 2008) has been devastating for the oppressed masses on the continent."
Blocking the military expansion of the U.S. settler-colonial state must be seen by all serious revolutionary Pan-Africanists as a primary objective. However, BAP members understand that it also means that the internal contradiction represented in the collaboration of the comprador, neo-colonial criminals that run so many of the micro-states on the continent must also be targeted.
It means as well that we must call out the members of the Black elite in the U.S. who collaborate with imperialist power.
Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report and member of the BAP Coordinating Committee points out that "Congressional Black Caucus members were once known as "the conscience of the Congress." Unfortunately, most of them voted for the Trump administration's $80 billion increase to the defense budget in 2017. Those funds will not only deprive the people of the U.S. the numerous governmental programs which provide for their well-being but will also be used to continue wars in Somalia, Congo, Kenya and Niger and result in death and destruction for millions of people."
Therefore, we demand that as the 10th anniversary of AFRICOM approaches, the Congressional Black Caucus take a public stand in opposition to AFRICOM and cease its support of U.S. militarism and warmongering in Africa but also in the streets of the U.S.
So, on this African Liberation Day, join us in demanding that AFRICOM be dismantled and this country's predatory actions against millions of Africans end immediately.
For media inquiries, email info@blackallianceforpeace.com.
Photo credit: Paul Schmick. Courtesy of the DC Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post
Black anti-war activists call on members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the leadership of the Poor People's Campaign to publicly condemn Israeli violence
MAY 15, 2018—While a delegation from the Trump administration and leaders from various parts of the world gathered in Jerusalem to witness the illegal and immoral move of the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to the beleaguered and contested city, Israeli soldiers slaughtered unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. The latest count reports more than 50 dead and 2,700 wounded.
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) demands the United States condemn Israeli state violence and the use of U.S.-supplied weapons to murder unarmed Palestinians, a violation of U.S. law. Guidelines for the sale and transfer of military equipment stipulates U.S.-supplied arms cannot be used to violate human rights.
However, BAP is clear responsibility for the barbarity the world is witnessing does not only rest with the Israeli colonial state. The systematic violence of ethnic cleansing, house demolitions, exile, assassinations, land thefts, bombings, and the denial of water and other vital services that provide basic dignity could not have occurred without ongoing support from the United States, as well as both major political parties in the United States, the corporate press and every major institution of U.S. society, including many churches.
Support for Israeli settler-colonialism has been the stated policy of both dominant U.S. political parties, along with a firm commitment to ensure the Israeli government has the military means to not only sustain the occupation but impose its military will on its neighbors in the region. The two-state solution was always a subterfuge to delay the eradication of illegal Israeli settlements, while military containment policies represented most dramatically in the apartheid walls that crisscross Palestinian territories on the so-called West Bank actually created new realities on the ground, making a two-state solution impossible.
In accordance with the principles and values reflected in the platform of the Poor People's Campaign and the stated support for that campaign by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, BAP is calling on both to condemn the attacks and join BAP in calling for an intervention by the international community.
We believe this public stance is important because the recent decisions to sabotage the Iran agreement and give Israel a green light to escalate military aggressions in the sovereign state of Syria, coupled with the brutal violence unleashed against unarmed protesters in Gaza, provide unassailable evidence both the United States and Israel have opted to operate outside the rule of law as rogue criminal states.
Therefore, BAP calls on the international community to use all means at its disposal to force the United States and Israel to comport themselves in line with acceptable international norms. It is quite obvious to us that absent pressure from the international community in the form of arms embargos, economic sanctions and universal moral condemnation, both states will continue to be global threats to peace and international outlaws in relation to human rights.
Media contact: Ajamu Baraka, info@blackallianceforpeace.com
Photo credit: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa


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Tony Tata, the state transportation secretary, said his staff is studying various options on how North Carolina can come up with new revenue for road construction, reports the News & Observer.
The state faces a $1.7 billion decline in highway revenue over the next decade, because cars are more efficient bringing in less fuel tax revenue. At the same time, the state is projected to grow by 1.3 million people during the next decade.
"How do you make up for that infrastructure gap?" Tata asked in a meeting with reporters.
His staff is looking at what other states have done including being more aggressive in borrowing money, more public-private partnerships such as in the building of the Triangle Expressway toll road, and various sorts of adjustments in taxes.
Tata said the Triangle Expressway has surpassed ridership and revenue projections, suggesting that people are willing to pay to avoid congestion. He also noted that Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell recently pushed through an $880 million road plan that cut the gas tax but raised other taxes such as taxes on Internet sales.
"There is no hard plan right now," Tata said. "It's all in draft. It's professionals sitting around a table coming up with ideas and looking at how we are going to pay for the infrastructure that this state needs in the future." Read More.
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Invest NI supports development of "greener" engine
Invest Northern Ireland today announced its support for a £6 million project, being taken forward by Bombardier, to help develop the next generation of aircraft engine which will have less impact on the environment than current aircraft engines.
The project is part of the UK-wide Environmentally Friendly Engines (EFE) initiative, a £95 million industrial research programme led by Rolls-Royce in collaboration with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and economic development agencies around the UK.
Invest NI has offered over £1 million towards a total investment of over £6 million in the particular element of the scheme which Bombardier is taking forward.
Bombardier is developing the nacelle, or engine cowling, which will be lighter, quieter and more aerodynamic than those utilising current technology. This will help to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, as well as engine noise. The company is working closely with Queen's University Belfast in developing some of the technologies that will be used in the project.
Over the next five years, the EFE programme will bring together research technologies being developed around the UK and test them to ensure effectiveness before they are incorporated in the development of new aircraft engines. The scheme will help deliver the long term environmental and technological goals set by the National Aerospace Technology Strategy.
Tracy Meharg, Invest Northern Ireland's Managing Director of Innovation and Capability Development, highlighted Bombardier's commitment to innovation as a key factor in its participation in the EFE programme: "Northern Ireland has a buoyant aerospace sector and companies such as Bombardier play a major role in driving the industry's global competitiveness by focussing on innovation and investing in new technologies. The company's involvement in this strategic national programme will encourage knowledge transfer and collaboration throughout the local sector. This can only strengthen its position as the industry responds to the challenge of developing more environmentally friendly solutions."
Michael Ryan, Vice President and General Manager of Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast, said: "Engine nacelle technology will play a key role in helping to ensure future aircraft are quieter, lighter, and more efficient. This important research project provides an excellent opportunity to further develop our expertise and technologies in this area of aircraft engine nacelle design, manufacture and maintenance where we have become an international centre of excellence."


This beautifully maintained condo offers everything you would want in a condo, detached, highly sought after FIRST FLOOR MASTER SUITE w/walk in closet, and maintenance free living. Open floor plan with 2 story foyer that enters to a spacious kitchen with beautiful wood floors island with loads of cabinets, a dream for entertaining. The great room with 17' ceilings with stunning large windows that welcomes the natural light. The breakfast nook doorwall opens to a tranquil lovely paver patio to enjoy with family, friends or just sitting quietly. The upstairs boost a huge loft 2 additional bedrooms one with a w/in closet and a full bath. Basement is large and a blank slate ready to finish and make it your own. Garage is attached oversized 2 car with plenty of storage. HOA is very well run and involved in the continued improvement of the community. New roofs to begin fall with no assessment proposed, all homes have been repainted 2018. Seller is offering home warranty not to exceed 500.


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Faith Healing Parents in Albany Convicted for Their Daughter's Death
Submitted by debapriya on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 17:47
Travis Rossiter and his wife Wenona, a faith-healing couple in Albany, were recently convicted of manslaughter in the death of their daughter, even though they went on to claim in court that religion did not influence their actions.
A study by Pew Research Center reveals that parents in such cases are often excused from culpability because of the faith-healing exemptions provided by American law. However, in recent years, these exemptions have been revoked frequently and criminals have been brought to justice. That is probably why the Rossiters insisted their faith had nothing to do with their inability to take their ill daughter to a doctor. However, as far as facts are concerned, both parents are members of the General Assembly of the Church of First-Born, an institution that notoriously shuns medical care, ostentatious attires and military service.
Reportedly, the couple failed to take their sick child to a doctor because they thought she had a flu only and not because of their religious belief in faith healing. Wenona also made it a point to mention she had once taken her husband Travis to the emergency room, while explaining she was unaware of her daughter's type one diabetic condition. Travis, on the other hand, has maintained that seeking a doctor's help is considered sin.
As noted by an organization that works towards protecting children's right to healthcare, Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD), Wenona's parents too were charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence in 1996, with her father being convicted and mother being acquitted eventually. This case revolved around the death of Wenona's younger brother, who suffered from lymphocytic leukemia, a condition that had been left untreated for months before it finally turned fatal. Apparently, Wenona's grandparents were also taken to court in 1981 for preventing her then infant aunt from seeking medical help for hydrocephalus. According to CHILD's records, at least 89 children of members of the General Assembly of the Church of First-Born have died in the last 39 years due to medical negligence.
The Rossiter's conviction however, is not based on their faith-healing practice but on the fact that they failed to provide their child with necessary medical help, regardless of reason. Both parents will be sentenced on December 19.
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50 Best Critically Acclaimed Movies on Netflix Spain
Looking for what to watch on Netflix? If you follow critic ratings more than others, here's a list of 50 best critically acclaimed movies on Netflix Spain streaming right now.
Director(s): George Lucas
On the night before two of them leave for college, four high school pals cruise around town finding love and mischief in this coming-of-age classic.
Actor(s): Beau Gentry, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Deby Celiz, Harrison Ford, Jana Bellan, Jim Bohan, Mackenzie Phillips, Manuel Padilla Jr., Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Suzanne Somers, Wolfman Jack
Mean Streets
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
In director Martin Scorsese's look at New York City's Little Italy, a small-time hood aspires to work his way up the ranks of a local mob.
Actor(s): Amy Robinson, Cesare Danova, David Proval, George Memmoli, Harvey Keitel, Richard Romanus, Robert De Niro, Victor Argo
Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
Helmed by Kathryn Bigelow, this gripping dramatization chronicles the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Actor(s): Callan Mulvey, Chris Pratt, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, James Gandolfini, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Strong, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong, Reda Kateb, Scott Adkins
Director(s): David Fincher
Director David Fincher's biographical drama chronicles the meteoric rise of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard sophomore to Internet superstar.
Actor(s): Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Brenda Song, Bryan Barter, David Selby, Denise Grayson, Douglas Urbanski, Jesse Eisenberg, John Getz, Josh Pence, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Director(s): Peter Jackson
Actor(s): Ali Astin, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Cate Blanchett, Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen
Schindler's List
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
Actor(s): Andrzej Seweryn, Beatrice Macola, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Friedrich von Thun, Jonathan Sagall, Liam Neeson, Malgoscha Gebel, Mark Ivanir, Ralph Fiennes, Shmulik Levy
Director(s): Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
The Monty Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail.
Actor(s): Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Neil Innes, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Genre: Drama, War
Eight U.S. Army Rangers penetrate German-held territory during World War II to find and bring home a soldier whose three brothers have been killed.
Actor(s): Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Dennis Farina, Dylan Bruno, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Max Martini, Paul Giamatti, Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel


So I have a surprise for you, want to know what it is? I worked today, and then, and then, I put on an outfit that wasn't black! Crazy, right? I know. I'm a little baffled myself, don't worry, the shock will wear off in a few moments. (You know I'm kidding, right? It's all about good humored sarcasm over on this little corner of the internet.) Mostly I can hardly believe I had time to throw on something different. In fact, I'm still dressed! Normally I would be in my leggings or yoga pants and one of my giant oversized sweatshirts (with pockets!) from Pink, however, I still have to go back into town because I forgot peanut butter while I was running around today. I guess I could get the peanut butter in my lounge clothes...but I probably won't.
Wow. I just got way off track. The title of this post is the name of the MAC lipstick I'm wearing. If you've been reading this blog for any amount of time at all, then you know that I love me some lipstick, especially the colors that aren't typical. When I saw this gorgeous orange hue at my local store, I knew it had to be mine! I'd like to think that I can pull off any shade of lipstick, and so far that thinking hasn't done me in, but that's part of it too, isn't it? With the right outlook you can really rock anything! So here's what I threw on after work that didn't clash with my orange lips and flower. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it. I've only worn this little jumper-whatever-thing once before, and while my mom wasn't impressed with it's photo when I found it on eBay, I think I was right that it looks much better in person and on. In her defense though, it is still a very odd piece of clothing, but once again, that's what I'm all about anyway.
This last picture is all for you. It's pretty much completely ridiculous, but if you've made it to the end of this post (I'm just really scatter-brained tonight y'all!) then you deserve a little reward.
I hope you're all getting out and enjoying the lovely weather while it lasts.


Babies are curious and as you must have gathered like to put things straight into their mouths. Every Parent always wants to keep their baby safe and although there are many measures you must take to protect your child from injury or accident in the house. We have listed 7 basic safety tips that will help keep your child out of harm's way in the home.
1. When placing your baby's crib ensure you keep the crib away from electric cords, drapes and curtain cords, or better still tie up the cords properly so that it is out of your baby's reach. Mobiles and hanging crib toys should also be kept out of your baby's reach. Remove strings on crib toys and pacifiers.
2. Babies and children can drown in as little as 5cm of water; this isn't to make you scared but to emphasize the importance of being vigilant when your child is playing near water. To keep your child safe: Always stay with your baby or child when they are in the bath. Also, remember to empty the bath as soon as you are finished with it. Don't leave the room until all of the water has drained away.
3. If you have a staircase in your home, always make sure that it is always tidy and you don't have items lying on the stairs that can cause you or your child to trip. Get a carpenter or welder to put safety gates with locking handles at the top and bottom of the stairs, this way you are sure your child can't open the gates with their little fingers.
4. Pillows, blankets, stuffed animals and other accessories may look cute, fluffy and makes your baby's crib looks warm and comfy, but they can easily roll on top of babies and make breathing difficult. Instead of all these, use a firm mattress covered with a tight-fitting crib sheet and you can be sure your baby is having a safe and sound sleep.
5. The most common dangers in the kitchen are scalds from hot water, burns from cookers and poisoning from cleaning products. To help prevent any of these accidents it's a good idea to use a safety gate so that your child can't get into the kitchen without your knowledge. Also keep all household chemicals and cleaning materials out of reach, as they may be poisonous. Fix safety catches to all low-level cupboards, drawers, the fridge and freezer and washing machine to keep your child out of them.
6. It's important to make sure that the environment where your baby plays is risk-free and that all toys are suitable. Give your baby toys that are suitable for his age and check the toys regularly for sharp or broken bits that could hurt your baby.
7. Seek out solid seating, as your toddler struggles to sit still, it's a good idea to choose seating that cannot easily be tilted over. Consider using a bench along one wall to create a long, solid surface. Push any chairs right in against the table when not in use to discourage climbing. When decorating the table, position any decorative pieces right in the centre. If you want to spread a cloth, make sure it doesn't dangle over the edges.
Just remember that no matter how much you childproof your home, there's no substitute for your eagle-eyed supervision. So always keep your child in sight, and be extra alert in the kitchen and bathrooms. While you don't need to hover at all times, staying close by and being observant gives you the chance to teach your baby that some items are off-limits. When you can, use words like "hot!" ensure your baby knows to reinforce your safety lessons. Eventually, your child will start to catch on.


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Public repository for improvements to the EXTRABACON exploit, a remote code execution for Cisco ASA written by the Equation Group (NSA) and leaked by the Shadow Brokers.

There is improved shellcode, a LINA offset finder script, a Metasploit module, and extrabacon-2.0.

We are adding patches for most versions of 8.x and 9.x in the near future after we test all versions on real hardware.

This is using improved shellcode, has less stages than the Equation Group version making it more reliable. This makes the SNMP payload packet ~150 less bytes. Also, the leaked version only supports 8.x, we have it working on 9.x versions.

### Supported Versions (so far)

Using the Lina offset finder script, it should be trivial to support all vulnerable x86 versions. We are working on doing just that. NOTE: x64 (9.6+?) introduces DEP and ASLR. The offset finder and generic payload will not work. It should still be possible to easily dos these versions though.

Open an issue if you would like us to support a specific version. It will move to the front of the line.

8.x
- 8.0(2)
- 8.0(3)
- 8.0(3)6
- 8.0(4)
- 8.0(4)32
- 8.0(5)
- 8.2(1)
- 8.2(2)
- 8.2(3)
- 8.2(4)
- 8.2(5)
- 8.2(5)33 `*`
- 8.2(5)41 `*`
- 8.2(5)55 `*`
- 8.3(1)
- 8.3(2)
- 8.3(2)39 `*`
- 8.3(2)40 `*`
- 8.3(2)-npe `*` `**`
- 8.4(1)
- 8.4(2)
- 8.4(3)
- 8.4(4)
- 8.4(4)1 `*`
- 8.4(4)3 `*`
- 8.4(4)5 `*`
- 8.4(4)9 `*`
- 8.4(6)5 `*`
- 8.4(7) `*`

9.x
- 9.0(1) `*`
- 9.1(1)4 `*`
- 9.2(1) `*`
- 9.2(2)8 `*`
- 9.2(3) `*`
- 9.2(4) `*`
- 9.2(4)13 `*`

`*` new version support not part of the original Shadow Brokers leak

`**` We currently can't distinguish between normal and NPE versions from the SNMP strings. We've commented out the NPE offsets, as NPE is very rare (it is for exporting to places where encryption is crappy), but in the future, we'd like to incorporate these versions. Perhaps as a bool option?

### Metasploit

`use auxiliary/admin/cisco/cisco_asa_extrabacon`

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/7359

Our initial pull request was merged into Metasploit master branch. We will still be contributing more offsets, which may be available here sooner depending on latency of future pull requests.

### Contributing
If you can test ASA versions, consider forking this project and generating payloads. We could mass-generate the payloads, but we want to test to make sure every payload exits cleanly.

You can add new payloads to the `extrabacon-2.0/improved/` folder after using `lina-offsets.py` to generate the file. Modules are named `shellcode_verstring.py`, where verstring is the version string returned by the ASA, with periods . replaced with underscores _

Also submit pull requests stripping any unnecessary Python from the ExtraBacon 2.0 code.

### Lina offset finder
`python2 ./lina-offsets.py asa_lina_XXX.elf`

Will automatically generate necessary offsets to port the exploit to other versions of ASA.

Right now, it takes us longer to load a version of ASA firmware and test it, than it does to generate offsets for a specific version.

The only thing the script doesn't calculate is FIX_EBP, which is usually 0x48 (72) or 0x58 (88). It seems like 8.4(1) and greater use 0x48.

You can extract Lina like this:

`binwalk -e asaXXX-k8.bin`
`cd _asaXXX-extracted`
`cpio -idv < rootfs.img`
`cp asa/bin/lina /tmp/linaXXX`

### Licenses

- ExtraBacon 2.0 Python code is GPLv2 (as it uses Scapy)
- Metasploit module is MSF license (3-clause BSD)
- Everything else is MIT

### References
- http://zerosum0x0.blogspot.com/2016/09/reverse-engineering-cisco-asa-for.html
- https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2016/08/25/bake-your-own-extrabacon/
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160817-asa-snmp


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Q: Attaching javascript events to form widgets I have a form with a drop down menu and I want to do a javascript action whenever the user changes the selection.  I imagine it is possible find the input later, using javascript, and attach an event to to it; but it seems like it would be easier if there was some sort of attribute or option that could be defined in form->configure(): e.g.
$this->widgetSchema['menu'] = new sfWidgetFormChoice(array(
  ...
  'onclick' => javascript function
));

obviously this doesn't work, and it probably wouldn't be an onclick method either, but my question is how do you attach a javascript event to a input/widget?

A: Every element that a form object creates should have an autogenerated id, which is usually in the form:

form_name_field_name

So how I do this, using jQuery as an example:
$('#form_name_field_name').change(function(){
  alert('do some cool stuff with '+this.val());
});

A: You can see it : How to use javascript in forms

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This week, New Girl began its abbreviated 8-episode final season. I've been a fan of New Girl nearly since it began back in 2011, and over the course of its seven seasons, I've found the series to be an incredibly funny series with some top-notch characters that will certainly go down as one of the primest examples of the early '10s hangout comedy. What began as a Zooey Deschanel star vehicle quickly evolved into a quirky, strange little series about a truly weird group of friends navigating into adulthood. As it begins its final season with a time jump and a revelation that the main characters have moved on from the lost, I've been feeling a little nostalgic about the good times I've had with the show over the years, and how in many ways it already feels like a throwback to a time of sitcoms past, even before it's left the air.
The television industry and sitcoms themselves have transformed so much over the seven years of New Girl's run. When the show began, broadcast sitcoms were still the dominant form of television comedy - sure, cable comedies existed, but this was a world before streaming and before the full extent of cable. This was also a time when there were still multiple broadcast sitcoms bringing in tens of millions of viewers every week. So when the series began, it was a high-profile, hyped up Zooey Deschanel star vehicle, which premiered to huge ratings but mixed reviews. And yet, over the course of the first season, the series gradually toned down Zooey's Jess and expanded the characters of her male roommates, examining their quirks one-by-one until it felt like a real, complete ensemble series. As the show evolved, it became less a star vehicle and more an analysis of this world of hilarious, strange characters and the loft they inhabited. For the most part, the show remained incredibly consistent, as well - other than a slight dip in the third season stemming from too many character changes too fast, the series remained an enjoyable delight by digging deeply into its characters - both for comedy and drama.
So as the series heads into its final season, three years into the future, it feels like the end of an era - both for the series and for television in general. With the current splintering of comedy between cable, network and streaming, it's possible a series like New Girl wouldn't even exist in today's TV climate - most likely, it would be a cable or streaming series, given its young audience and niche sense of humor - but I'm glad it did. New Girl is a show I'll always remember and enjoy watching in reruns and streaming, and I'm ready to savor these final seven episodes.
Toplined by Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, NBC's Trial & Error: Lady, Killer will return to East Peck when the second season debuts Thursday, July 19 at 9 and 9:30 p.m. Last season the 9 p.m. telecast of Trial & Error averaged a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.5 million viewers overall in "live plus seven day" ratings from Nielsen Media Research and the 9:30 episode averaged a 1.1 in 18-49 and 4.4 million viewers. The first season of Trial & Error is now available exclusively on the NBC App and Video on Demand.
In the spirit of true crime documentaries, the second season of this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy centers on bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto), still relatively a newcomer in a tiny southern town, who is sturdily posed for his next big case there. His mission? To defend the eccentric first lady of East Peck, Lavinia Peck-Foster (Kristin Chenoweth), known for her flamboyant outfits, large hats and hairless cat, and who suddenly finds herself accused of the bizarre murder of her beloved husband. As Josh continues to settle into his makeshift office behind a taxidermy shop while working with his quirky team of local misfits, he suspects that winning his second big case this time should be easy (especially when his client is the town favorite), but is it? The cast also includes Jayma Mays, Sherri Shepherd, Steven Boyer and Amanda Payton.


As his autumn tour draws to a close, Getintothis' Edward Feery catches the Liverpool new-wave stalwart's triumphal homecoming show.
Josie Jones, artist, writer and performer in Big Hard Fish has died, Getintothis' Amelia Ward reports.
On an emotional night at the Justice Tonight concert at The Picket Getintothis' Brian Roberts captured the action.


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The name Malik is a very special and unique name with great power, as my name is Malik too.
The name carries a very great power through its meaning and nature. The English name for Malik is MASTER not 'king'. The meaning 'king' is just for the Muslims in their own beliefs but it originally meant MASTER.
Names people bear really affect the lives of the individual bearing it so that's why parents should be very careful on what they name their children.
I'm also called Malik and it's really helping me live a very positive and fair life. Malik is a great heavenly name.
― Malik 9/18/2019
Malik Carr, the Yuuzhan Vong warrior from Star Wars.
― Caedus 8/3/2018
Malik Saidullaev (1964-) is a Chechen businessman and one of the wealthiest Chechens in Moscow. He ran for President of Chechnya following the death of Akhmad Kadyrov, but he lost the position to Alu Alkhanov.
― lezginkas 12/31/2017
Malik is the last name of the female terrorist, Tashfeen Malik, who, along with her husband, Sayeed Farook, killed 14 people and injured 22 in San Bernardino, California.
― breakofday 10/17/2016
I find that Malik is a pretty name is of Arab origin.
― Malik.Grimaldi 3.3 9/16/2015
Actually the name "Malik" means MASTER not king. There is certainly a difference as a Master is greater than a mere king. According to the rules of Arabic, when "Malik" is used in a lower form, as a mere word, its intensity or power is greatly diminished making it mean king, which again is less than a Master.
― JustMarie 5/17/2015
Malik Al-Sayf is a character in the video games "Assassin's Creed" and "Assassin's Creed: Revelations".
― jjulia 11/1/2014
The Turkish and Armenian form of this name is Melik. [noted -ed]
― Shibbeh 10/6/2014
Zayn Malik, a member of the British boy band One Direction.
― Anonymous User 8/7/2014
In the 2003 film "Malibu's Most Wanted", character Shondra (played by Regina Hall), comes into a room where Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman (played by Jamie Kennedy) is in the middle of activity with two females. She yells, "This no-good, deadbeat, weak---- white boy won't take care of little Malik." The other two girls respond by leaving the room.
― KristinaX 6/8/2012
Malik is also used in Chechnya (a traditionally Islamic country) as a first name for men. A known Chechen bearer of this name is Malik Saidullaev.
― Lucille 4/10/2011
Malik is considered a correct Romanization of 3 different Arabic words. These include:
* (ملك) Malik (also Malek or Melik), an Arabic word and title, meaning "king", "monarch", and "sovereign". Notably not used as a given first name, but rather as a title.
* (مالك) Mālik (also Maalik), an Arabic word and name, meaning "owner", "proprietor", "proprietary", "possessor", and "holder". It is the the most common among the three to be used as a first name for a person, and its use as a name dates back to ancient times.
* (مليك) Malīk (also Maleek), can mean either of the two words above. Although mostly not used as a given first name.
For this reason, the meaning of "owner, possessor" is more correct as the name's meaning.
― keepitreal 1/16/2011
How I do believe this is typically an Arabic name, I believe that it can also be used as a European name, it has a very strong sound to it, like many Germanic names for example. The name Malakai is said to be English, then how is Malik Arabic? I think it sounds like a strong name for a strong person in my opinion.
― Deathclaw151 5/29/2010
Popular with African Americans, too.
― Aureliano 5/27/2010
In the anime, Yu-Gi-Oh, there is a character named Malik Ishtar/Ishtal.
Malik is NOT the name of the Yu-Gi-Oh character - his name is MARIK Ishtar.
It only sounds like "Malik" because of the Japanese accent.
Malik was popularized as a first name in the United States by Malik El Haj Shabaz (nee Malcolm X).
― malikilam 7/6/2006
Greenlandic (Inuit) means "little wave".
― mbirkved 3/2/2005
Malik is also a widely used masculine name in Greenland meaning "little wave".
― malikm 3/27/2008
Malik means "wave" in Greenlandic. And not "little wave" or else it would say Maliaraq or Malinnguaq.
― Anonymous User 7/20/2005
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Doc Bowman here with a very special message!
Tomorrow is Halloween, which my owners — the flame-haired one and the nice one — says is the greatest time of the year! It's the time when kids get candy, horror movies are on TV, and my owners get to play dress up!
But it's also a time when sick and stupid people do bad things. I'm a black cat so both the flame-haired and the nice-one say that I'm not going to be allowed go outside at all tomorrow. They say it doesn't matter how much I beg, I'm staying inside. I know they're doing the right thing but I'm still going to beg and knock things off of tables and counters because I'm a cat and that's what I do.
Tomorrow night, please make sure that all your pets are safely inside. It may sound like a silly concern but not everyone out there is as nice and wonderful as my owners and the people who read this site!
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Thanks for the Public Service Announcement, Doc!
Thanks for your wise advice, Doc!


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The Sheshan Basilica, officially the National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan and also known as Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians is a prominent Roman Catholic church in Shanghai. Its common name comes from its location on the western peak of Sheshan Hill, located in Songjiang District, to the west of Shanghai's metropolitan area.
It was previously romanized as Zosè Basilica, using the Shanghainese pronunciation of "佘山". Inside the shrine, the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Mary Help of Christians is venerated as the patroness of the basilica, along with the recently reconstructed icon of Our Mother of Sheshan, both venerated by Chinese Catholics.
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The 2000 America East Conference baseball tournament was held from May 18 through 20 at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware. The top four regular season finishers of the league's eight teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Delaware defeated fourth-seeded Northeastern, 4-2, to win its third consecutive and fifth overall tournament championship. As a result, Delaware received the America East's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament.

Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and four seeds were matched up in one game, while the two and three seeds were matched up in the other.

Results

All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Most Outstanding Player
Delaware outfielder Vince Vukovich was named Most Outstanding Player.

Notes

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Match, originally Color Browser, is a digital adaptation of a game that I made for my physical computing and alternate interfaces class. The objective of the game was to match the RGB values of one color. The arduino version just keeps generating random colors and goes forever.
This adaptation would have a lot more features, and will be playable with friends. The game falls within the casual puzzle genre. The game is currently under development for computer browsers and will be optimized for mobile devices with touch controls. It is being done in pure JavaScript and Canvas. The hardest work I did for this game was programming and creating all the UI elements from scratch. I made my own sliders, and I made my own buttons, allowing for different variants.
The game was originally planned to have a random mode where the player will be able to just constantly guess colors, in spirit of the original game. That has been since changed to practice mode, the first fully finished mode of Match.
The play mode is a mode that is nearly finished at the moment. A list of levels is loaded in play mode and the player can see how many levels they can beat. Currently there are only three levels. However with the way it is set up to load levels in, new levels can be generated quickly. Additional modes would be VS modes where friends can make colors up for the player to guess, and a speed mode where the player can see how many guesses they can get before time is up. This game has limited images used, and will be a majority of canvas drawing.
Programming the Sliders, one of the several UI elements made from scratch by me
Original physical prototype for the game
As I stated before, all the sliders and buttons were programmed from scratch right at the start. I knew that this game would be UI heavy, and being the person that is interested in UI, I decided to tackle it myself. I could have simply used HTML buttons over the canvas, but I wanted to program the logic myself. It was a great learning experience for JavaScript programming, Canvas drawing, and UI logic. This project really helped improve my debugging skills as well. JavaScript is a tough language to debug, however Google Chrome has a fantastic console debugger that allows you to follow every part of your code easily.
A semester later, I ended up writing a level editor for this game, as well as leaderboards and redeploying the game as a Node.js web application.


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De Grand Prix Formule 1 van Canada 1999 werd gehouden op 13 juni 1999 in Montreal.

Verslag

Michael Schumacher pakte Pole-position voor Mika Häkkinen  en de Duitser verzilverde deze bij de start.
Voor de eerste bocht verloor Jarno Trulli de controle over zijn Prost en spinde en botste vervolgens met Jean Alesi en Rubens Barrichello.  De safety-car moest voor de eerste keer deze race uitkomen zodat de baan weer schoongemaakt kon worden. Tijdens de race zou deze safety-car nog drie keer de baan op moeten vanwege diverse ongelukken.  Michael Schumacher leidde de race tot de dertigste ronde toen hij een fout maakte en in de muur bij het uitkomen van de laatste bocht eindigde. Dankzij de crashes van Schumacher en twee andere (oud-)wereldkampioen (Damon Hill en Jacques Villeneuve)  kreeg deze muur na deze race de bijnaam "wall of champions".  Mika Häkkinen was de enige wereldkampioen die uit de muur bleef en ook de race wist te winnen.  De race eindigde geneutraliseerd na een zware crash van Heinz-Harald Frentzen  enkele ronden voor de finish.

Uitslag

Wetenswaardigheden
 Drie starts in twee Grand prix' van Canada en even zo vaak eindigden Jean Alesi en Jarno Trulli na een ongeluk samen in de eerste bocht.
 De safety car moest vier keer op het circuit komen, een record tot de editie van 2011, waar de safety car vijfmaal op het circuit verscheen.

Statistieken

Canada
Sportevenement in Montreal
1999


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The additional state dollars, announced Thursday, will add 27 schools and new routes for 93 schools that currently have adult monitors along designated routes to school. The new funds come on top of the $1 million in additional dollars allocated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel last month to include 13 more schools in the anti-violence program.
That means altogether 40 schools will be added this school year to the list of those getting manned Safe Passage routes.
The Safe Passage program expanded under Emanuel as a way to address safety concerns after nearly 50 schools closed last year. Parents had worried that students transferred to different schools would encounter problems as they traveled along new routes.
Last month as the Emanuel administration announced the additional $1 million for Safe Passage, it also released statistics showing that fewer CPS students were victims of homicide during the 2013-14 school year – 24, compared to 36 in the previous school year.
CPS officials said the 27 new routes coming from Thursday's announcement will not be staffed for the first day of school Tuesday. The Board of Education still needs to vote on the new contracts to staff the 27 new passages in late September, but officials hope to have the monitors in place by the fall. The program is expected to then serve 69,000 students.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel brought in Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday to help make the case that Chicago Public Schools students were safer during the recent academic year than they were before Emanuel made the controversial decision to close dozens of schools.
The new state funding will add 600 new Safe Passage workers, for a total of 1,900. The added funding is expected to be welcome news in predominantly African-American parts of Chicago where Gov. Pat Quinn is hoping for a big turnout in his re-election bid in November and where Emanuel has shown slippage in support as he approaches his own re-election effort in February.
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Mario Kart 8 is best described as one huge discrepancy. I know what the game's appeal is supposed to be (or at least I can guess based on its marketing, its brand, the fan discourse surrounding it, etc.), but I don't see any of that reflected in the game itself. What I see is a soulless shell of a game; something ready to lop off even the slightest hint of personality that it might better fit the mold of a theoretically perfect game. Moreover, it asks something very similar from its players, telling them that they can find the perfection they seek by abandoning themselves to the digital experience. The fact that Mario Kart 8 was able to pass as an obviously good game for a lot of people says more about the culture that video games have created than it says about this specific game's merits and faults.
I feel it best to begin not with the game itself, but with the history that precedes it, IE the history of kart racing games and the larger world of racing/driving games. It's a history that stretches back almost to the beginning of video games, which makes sense if you think about it. All you need to create a racing game are two cars on the screen (one for each player), a goal for them to move toward, and basic surroundings to communicate movement. But beginning with Pole Position in 1982, developers realized they could simplify this blueprint even further by cutting down to one player and focusing on the act of driving itself.
This is a more significant development than it may sound. Racing games (now driving games) were no longer just competitive experiences one played to fill up their free time. They became aesthetic statements; objects that uncovered some fact about the player's relationship with the world. Mach Rider forces the player to navigate a Darwinian hellscape. Here, driving is a desperate struggle for survival without an ounce of dignity behind it. Rad Racer, meanwhile, is paradoxically intense and relaxing at the same time. It gives players an experience where they can forget the world even as it pushes in on them. And OutRun, perhaps the most focused and most enduring game of these three, sees driving as a liberating force one pursues as an end in itself.
Kart racers carried the torch even further by exploring possibilities that driving games never touched on. That may surprise some of you, but historically speaking, the genre is much more diverse than people are willing to give it credit for. Sonic R foreshadows the abstract world design of the Adventure games by applying that logic to its own race track layouts. Mega Man: Battle & Chase sees the genre as an opportunity to translate Wacky Races style zaniness into video game form. Gekitotsu Toma L'arc upends our ideas about good design practices by exploring the possibility that maliciously unfair play can be fun too.
First released in 2014 (and re-released this year), Mario Kart 8 ignores the history it pretends to invoke. In some ways, it's obligated to ignore that history. How can it do anything else when it rejects the necessary terms for engaging with that history? It's a very safe game; one so unwilling to violate the player's expectations of what it should be that it irons out even the smallest hint of self expression. Instead of developing a visual style that tries to say anything about the world, the game opts for a generic cute, soft look that touches on pure nothingness. Likewise, the vehicles serve to divorce the player from the world so that smoothly proceeding through it becomes an option. Slick tires on sandy surfaces, heavy tires on soft surfaces, wooden tires on anything; none of these scenarios presents even the least bit of resistance.
Beyond being frustrating, the sad irony of all this is that in its desperate attempt to appeal to everyone, Mario Kart 8 isn't built to appeal to anyone. Even at its (supposedly) most exciting, the action is a dull procession from start to finish. At no point during the race will anything surprise you or disrupt the order of things. Drift around that curve; hit that boost pad; avoid that banana peel; follow the clearly marked shortcut; feather your brakes (if you're playing on 200CC); turn off your brain; become a process of responses to on-screen stimuli. In theory, the technological muscle powering the game's visuals should prevent me from noticing this, but in practice, I didn't have any trouble noticing. Maybe it was the aforementioned "process of responses" point focusing my attention away from the visuals and onto the action, or maybe it was the attentive way I play games. Whatever the case, I was very aware of what the game was trying to do.
The only additions the game makes, the only identity it tries to make for itself, are aesthetic throwaways that don't affect the fundamental relationship between myself and the game. Zero gravity may let the tracks bend every which way, but the camera angles conform so well to these changes that I might as well have never left flat ground. The Crazy Eight is just a beefed up, less strategic version of Double Dash's item switching mechanic. At best, these changes only give the game the illusion of imagination and fantasy, an illusion that never strays far from the boring formula. At worst, all they add is the pretense of an identity. To be fair, the gravity changing makes a little more sense when applied to older courses, since they force the developers to reinterpret those old designs according to this game's new mechanics. But as Royal Raceway (and the new gates around Peach's castle) demonstrates, this approach doesn't take us far from the game's problems.
Were I just reviewing the game, I feel I could end things here. Yet this is just surface analysis. Several important questions, like why Mario Kart 8 is the way it is or why the video game buying public accepted this without a second thought, remain unanswered. It's also not enough to say that the game's success comes down to how well it conforms to a recognized brand. After all, games like Duke Nukem Forever have been criticized for sticking to a brand in the past, and more recent games like Final Fantasy XV and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have been praised for abandoning (what people attach to) their respective brands. Where does this leave us?
I've noticed that many of the tracks' designs shared key similarities with how theme parks are laid out, so it might help to start there. Starting in early 2017, it's become more common (or at least more conspicuous) for writers to compliment a game by comparing it to a theme park/roller coast. Prominent examples of this include Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and this piece being shared in relation to Breath of the Wild and possibly Final Fantasy XV. The basic comparison likely stretches as far back as early rail shooters and light gun games, but as far as I can tell, this specific line of thought begins with Tevis Thompson's criticism of BioShock Infinite in late 2013. But in the intervening years, an odd sort of transformation has transpired. What was once given as an insult meant to expose how shallow a game's view of reality (its realism) was has now become a compliment for world design that offers minimal guidance while allowing players to do as they please within its bounds.
One could interpret this as a sign that hyperrealism in games is no longer valued to the extent it once was. If this is true, then what we're seeing isn't so much a shift in thinking as much as it is an obsolescence of hyperrealism. It's no longer necessary to believe that games are 100% real; we can admit that it's all a fantasy so long as that fantasy does what we ask of it. Theme parks, then, serve the same purpose that hyperrealism once did: normalizing our dominion over the world and any ideas we may employ to achieve that end. (I believe I developed these ideas before in my Nier blog.) Returning to the open world example from before, these games have not only preserved the idea that the player's desires be centered, not only advanced how designers go about centering them, but have made the act itself more transparent. All that's gone is the pretense that these worlds must be like our own.
What happens when you apply this to a more strictly controlled experience like Mario Kart 8? Broadly speaking, I see the game as acting from a place of pure affirmation. By this I mean the game sees its role as affirming a set of values that have already been given to us. It's a very common attitude in video games, permeating many of the games we play and the writing see around them. For an example of the latter, consider how a blockbuster game's significance, regardless of its artistic merit, is decided well before it's ever released. Writing this in late March, I can tell you there will be dozens of articles probing (as a random example) Sonic Mania's successes and failures, numerous podcasts dedicated to the same, and a place (if not a full award) reserved for the game at GOTY discussions – all of it assuming an importance nobody bothered to demonstrate in the first place.
You can probably guess why I see this as such a problem: it's an inherently anti-critical stance. The values have been decided for us in advance, and the affirmation of them is all that matters. Questioning them, trying to understand them further; this is not allowed. The creation of new values (especially those not entirely compatible with the current set) must be strictly controlled if not outright forbidden. No considering games that weren't given a chance their first time around. No accidentally finding shortcuts or creating your own paths in Mario Kart 8. The former has yet to fully abandon consumerist terms of discussion, and the latter must admit nothing of its imperfections, only ever passing itself off as polish.
Given how widely that polish applies to the game, the affirmative attitude manifests throughout a lot of Mario Kart 8's design. To offer a minor example, by concentrating on the refinement of formulae already known to player and developer alike, the game precludes any sort of learning on either party's part.
To offer a clearer and more substantial example, consider how the tracks are designed. Here there can be no doubt that the theme park approach applies to this game. Beyond the gravity-defying curves being more evocative of roller coasters than of actual race tracks, Mario Kart 8 employs a Las Vegas approach to world design. Like the theme park approach, this carries with it a subtle argument that games are nothing more than objects for us to exert power over. But in this particular context, that argument is expanded: I'm a tourist in these spaces, and the world only exists for me to consume what it offers.
There's a contradiction inherent in this model. I enter this space as an outsider, one whose presence isn't necessary and who may not even belong here. But to know this would disrupt any feeling of comfort and negate this space's purpose as a tourist attraction. To prevent this from ever happening, the world must open itself up to the player and give up whatever independent existence it might otherwise have, requiring their presence to complete if if anything is going to make sense.
Achieving this requires a lot of denial. Signifiers are lifted from their original locations but stripped of any meaning, forced to lead a hollow existence that begins and ends with their aesthetic value. It's not so much histories erased as it is histories that were never given a chance to be in the first place. What business transpires when there aren't races scheduled in the Super Bell Subway or at Sunshine Airport? What kinds of lives do people lead in Neo Bowser City or Toad Harbor? Why have these people come out to cheer us on as we race through their home towns? As far as the game is concerned, these stories aren't worth acknowledging. After all, they're just props for our entertainment; don't look too much into it.
At least at the game level, this approach is justifiable, albeit not without important problems. But when we move outside those bounds – when we engage with material from other games with histories of their own – then that approach becomes harder to justify. Before going any further, I feel I should revise a previous statement: Mario Kart 8 isn't reinterpreting what these previous games were doing (at least not consciously), because that would require quite a bit from the game. It would require that it confront what it is that players value from these older games, what it is the developers themselves value, and whether or not we'd value what those older games are today. I just can't see Mario Kart 8 committing itself enough to these questions for reinterpretation to be a possibility.
Nor can these tracks exist as faithful recreations of the past. Mario Kart 8 is a heavily audience-oriented video game, and this situation requires that it speak to two desires at once: conform to the current standards of what video games should be while also telling us that yes, our judgments of these older games were right the first time around and they deserve to be revered today. This excludes faithful recreations, since positing these older values may not have obsolesced would be antithetical to the game's goals.
So instead, the game does what many HD retro remakes do: it affirms the value of the nostalgic object by translating it into a modern context. Of course, this means it has to invent reasons for why we value older games, contradicting the very history it's trying to affirm, but this isn't a problem. The audience doesn't value the actual history as much as they do they idea of it. (We can know this because "what happened the first time around" may be a historical fabrication.) In addition, we remove the human element from the game by reducing artistic expression to what technology is capable of; something you see all the time when an old game is translated into a modern engine. The unsurprising result is similar to the tourism scenario from before: hollow imitations incapable of inciting genuine elation. The two F-Zero tracks provide some good examples of this: despite giving Mario Kart 8 the most to work with, any hints of danger, speed, imagination, celebration, the things that give F-Zero its spirit, are stripped out so the tracks can better fit the Mario Kart mold.
Lest you think affirmation is only a problem with how these worlds are presented to us, rest assured knowing it's also a problem with how we interact with those worlds in the first place. Mario Kart 8 doesn't stray far from the basic kart racing formula established for it two decades prior: you race through fantasy worlds in go-karts/bumper cars, collecting items along the way either to help you get to the front or ensure those behind you can't do the same.
On its face, this format makes little sense. Ignoring all the holes the argument presents on its own, many of the game's items (the blue shell, the lightning, the mechanism for choosing items in the first place) nakedly invoke luck rather than skill. Yet just like the nostalgia point from before, the argument itself isn't as important as what it enables. On a basic level, Mario Kart 8 is affirming the player's value unconditionally while presenting that affirmation through a false conditional (IE through a condition the player is incapable of violating). Breaking that down further, we can tease out a few of this strategy's effects. Most of them rely on distraction. For example, the affirmation becomes that much more valuable not only by hiding its unconditional nature, but by presenting it through a condition that further enhances the player's worth and the worth of what they're being offered. And by pulling attention away from the fact that this space was designed specifically to elicit these feelings, the game effectively naturalizes the ideology it uses to give the player their worth, rendering both impervious to scrutiny.


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Great stuff! I'd been looking into QR codes recently, thinking about the various ways they bind the physical and online worlds through personal data devices. As ever with online information, one of the chief challenges will be "feeding the monster" with updated and interesting content.
I'm particularly interested in how QR codes might be used to drive users to just-in-time learning resources during an emergency. Publishing QR-coded links to safety and recovery information on signs, fliers and so on might have considerable leverage.
Also, as with the QR sign on the pumping station in the Manor paper, these codes can be used to attach extended and constantly updatable documentation to things large and small… another version of JIT learning.
Honestly, confession here, I'd never heard of QR codes before today, but their application to emergency communications or response operations seems like it might be a natural progression. You can get a lot more information into the hands of the public if you direct them to a website that you can update vs. having to reprint signs. Signs are limiting anyway because of he number of characters you can print on them before it becomes unreadable.
Interesting stuff is happening, indeed.
So what happened to these initiatives? A click on many of the links shows they are either non-existent or no longer working. QR Code initiative in particular. Did it not work for the City of Manor?
Thanks for your comment–sorry it took me a while to get back to you. Honestly, I'm not sure what happened. I'm guessing that the champion of technology probably left the organization.


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Kansas returns to No. 1 spot in USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll
The upper echelon of the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll had been fairly stable for the past few weeks. That isn't the case this time, following a week in which three of the top four teams and half the top 10 lost at least one game.
Kansas reclaims the No. 1 spot it occupied for just one week earlier this season. The Jayhawks avenged their earlier loss to Baylor, ending the Bears' four-week stint at the top. Kansas received 30 of 32 first-place votes with Baylor, which slipped only to No. 2 overall, retaining the other two. There is a high likelihood those two will meet again in the Big 12 tournament finale, and both remain in excellent position for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament with Selection Sunday now less than three weeks away.
Dayton managed to avoid the upset bug and moves up to No. 3, continuing to surpass its own high watermark in the history of the coaches poll. Gonzaga falls two spots to No. 4 after losing at BYU, and San Diego State drops just one position to No. 5 after dropping its first game of the season to UNLV. With that loss by the Aztecs, no undefeated teams remain in Division I.
TOP 25: Complete USA TODAY men's basketball coaches poll
The ACC holds three of the next five positions. Florida State leads the group at No. 6, followed by No. 7 Duke and No. 10 Louisville. Big Ten leader Maryland slides only one spot to No. 8 after a loss at Ohio State, and Kentucky moves up a notch to No. 9.
The Big East holds the next three slots. No. 11 Creighton now leads the trio, vaulting ahead of No. 12 Villanova and No. 13 Seton Hall. But a pair of other league squads, Butler and Marquette, were dropped out of the rankings this week.
BYU enters the poll at No. 18 after its big win against Gonzaga. It is the first appearance in the coaches poll for the Cougars this season. No. 21 Texas Tech and No. 22 Michigan also return. Houston is the third team to fall out this week.


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