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Santorum, Republicans in Congress want to replay Cold War in Latin America
by Juan Blanco Prada
Rick Santorum's recent electoral victories aren't welcome news in most of Latin America. Nor is the increasingly hostile rhetoric coming out of Republicans in Congress.
Santorum is one of the most hawkish candidates in the Republican presidential field. He has referred to Cuba in terms that could have been used on the bitterest days of the Cold War, calling Havana "the heart of the cancer that is in Central and South America."
And he has criticized President Obama for having "a consistent policy of "siding with the leftists, siding with the Marxists" in the Western Hemisphere. That would surprise anyone in Honduras, since the Obama administration was quick to recognize the right-wing government that came to power in disputed elections following a 2009 military coup.
Santorum has also been trumpeting a threat from a supposed Iranian-Latin American connection. Here, he has taken the lead from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who recently held a hearing on the subject.
The main witness at the hearing was Norman Bailey of the American Foreign Policy Council, a conservative think tank. According to Bailey, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent tour of Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba had the purpose of establishing or reinforcing existing networks of terrorist cells and training camps connected to Hezbollah and local drug cartels.
Bailey stated that Iran has established Hezbollah-manned training camps in Venezuela to train Venezuelans to attack American targets. He went so far as to mention "unconfirmed" reports that Venezuela also hosts Iranian missile bases from which Iran could reach American territory. Despite his alarming tone, neither Bailey nor any of the other witnesses were able to present any hard evidence or intelligence reports to back their statements.
Most of what they claimed as supporting evidence referred to the alleged (and dubious) Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador with Mexican drug traffickers as hired guns, and to an alleged (and dubious) Venezuelan plot to conduct cyber-attacks on American targets using Mexican students.
Ros-Lehtinen has seized on these unproven allegations to successfully push for the expulsion of the Venezuelan consul in Miami. Now she is asking for the designation of Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, which would open the door for hostile measures such as trade barriers, sanctions and penalties for other countries that cooperate with Venezuela.
What Ros-Lehtinen and Santorum fail to realize is that Latin Americans have long ago grown weary of U.S. interventions and are now resolving most regional issues with the intentional exclusion of the United States, a choice preferred even by some of Washington's staunchest allies. A return to Cold War rhetoric and policies in Latin America would only serve to alienate them further.
Juan Blanco Prada, currently based in Brazil, analyzes Latin American issues. He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
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Louis Weiss (December 21, 1890 – December 14, 1963, Los Angeles) was an American independent producer of low-budget comedies, westerns, serials, and exploitation films.

Early life
Louis Weiss was born in New York City and left school after third grade (elementary school), according to the 1940 US Census. In 1907 he established a nickelodeon theater, launching a lifelong enthusiasm for motion pictures. In the 1920s he joined with his brothers Adolph and Max to form the Weiss Brothers production company, with money earned from a New York lamp-and-fixture store, phonograph sales, and ownership of a theater that developed into a small chain.

Silent films

Most of the Weiss productions were never reviewed or copyrighted, apparently deliberately avoiding press attention. The only record of their existence is found in an occasional release chart, a few advertisements and surviving prints. Though most Poverty Row producers averaged a six-reel length, or about 60 minutes, Weiss continually tried to pare that down to five reels, lasting just over 50 minutes.

A successful early Weiss film was The Revenge of Tarzan (1920), followed the next year by The Adventures of Tarzan.

Like other smaller studios, the Weiss Brothers tried to compete with big-studio movies whenever possible. In 1926 Weiss signed former Hal Roach star Snub Pollard for a series of short comedies. These started as solo vehicles for Pollard, but soon devolved into imitations of the then-new comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, with Pollard in the sad-faced Laurel role and Marvin Loback as an approximation of Hardy. Although filmed on low budgets, the Pollard shorts were popular enough to continue into 1929, and they boosted the Weiss Brothers' standing among comedy producers. This marked a period of ambition and expansion for the Weiss Brothers. They signed a major star, the cross-eyed Mack Sennett comic Ben Turpin, to star in two-reel comedies; then hired circus acrobat Poodles Hanneford for a series of shorts; and added new series with comic characters Hairbreadth Harry (played by Earl Montgomery); Winnie Winkle (played by Ethelyn Gibson); and Izzie and Lizzie (played by Georgie Chapman and Bess True). These films were all released to theaters under the Artclass trademark ("The Sign of a Good Picture").

The Weiss Brothers' advancing progress of the late 1920s came to a screeching halt with the coming of sound to motion pictures, and the stock market crash of 1929. The silent Weiss product had been cheap to begin with -- much of it photographed outdoors to avoid building sets -- and sound would only add to the expense. When much of the brothers' producing capital was wiped out by Wall Street, they could only afford to make occasional films themselves, and would acquire the already completed films of other shoestring producers.

Serials
The Weiss Brothers' fortunes took an upturn when they entered the field of adventure serials in 1935. Under the corporate name of Stage and Screen Productions, the brothers announced three promising cliffhangers: Custer's Last Stand (relying heavily on footage from the Weiss Brothers' silent Custer's Last Fight), The Clutching Hand, and The Black Coin. The Custer serial attracted the most attention, being the brothers' initial serial effort, but all three serials did well on the independent market. Film archivist Kit Parker, who handles the Weiss Brothers library for home video, notes that the Weiss salary scale for these serials was incredibly low: female lead Ruth Mix was paid only $3.75 per day.

When Columbia Pictures decided to enter the serial field in 1937, the studio found it quicker and easier to hire a serial unit that was already functioning. Thus the Weiss Brothers found themselves now making serials for Columbia release. That year's three Weiss serials were Jungle Menace starring animal trainer Frank Buck; The Mysterious Pilot with flying ace Frank Hawks; and The Secret of Treasure Island with Columbia's action star Don Terry. The Weiss serials were very successful, attracting more than the typical number of juvenile audiences for their 15 weekly chapters, and establishing Columbia as a worthy competitor in the serial field. Columbia then took over serial production itself, where it would remain active through the death of the form in 1956. The Weiss Brothers returned to the lower ranks of independent productions.

Exploitation films
Through the 1940s and into the 1950s, Louis Weiss and his son Adrian Weiss specialized in exploitation fare: cheap thrills for undemanding audiences. Their usual choice of director was Harry Fraser, a silent-era veteran who was noted for making his films look more elaborate than their low budgets allowed. Fraser recalled in his memoirs that Louis Weiss urgently needed "a gorilla picture" for the action trade, and Fraser wrote and directed The White Gorilla, which he frankly admitted was pure hokum. True to the Weiss tradition of cutting costs, much of the action was taken from the 1921 Artclass silent The Adventures of Tarzan. The White Gorilla was successful for both Weiss and Fraser, and the two remained friends and colleagues through 1951, when they made an exploitation picture about the love life of Siamese twins:Chained for Life starred real-life Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.

Final years
The Weiss production company was among the first to make its film library available to television; its silent comedies were first revived in 1947. Returning to their story property from the 1934 serial The Clutching Hand, Louis and Adrian Weiss produced the early TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, starring veteran screen actor Donald Woods. The Weiss company discontinued further production and managed its film library for the rest of its existence.

References

Bibliography

External links

Weiss Bros. – Artclass and Beyond – The Sound Era

American film producers
1890 births
1963 deaths
American Jews
Defunct American film studios

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To celebrate MIGeekScene's 4th year anniversary, I decided to try something new. I, finally, made my way out to MuskeCon. What did I think about Muskegon's own comic con? Read on to find out.
This convention had the familiar features of a comic con. Two rooms for vendors and artists with additional vendors in the hallway too. Toys, comic books, books, t-shirts, and various memorabilia were available to purchase. Local artists were on hand to create wonderful commissions or to sell awesome prints of their artwork. In addition to the vendor's room, there was a room for panels and one for board games too. Everything was conveniently close to each other.
I have to give props to MuskeCon for making a nice mark in the apparel department. I think that the graffiti style logo for MuskeCon's apparel were pretty cool and unique. It stands out amongst the numerous comic cons that I've attended. Speaking of unique, the power rangers themed badges were a nice touch. Each badge was a different color depending on the status of the wearer. For example, my badge was pink since I was press for the event. I am jealous that attendee badges were blue since that is my favorite color. I must note that I was impressed by the sturdy laminate surrounding the badges too. I had no worries about it tearing off by accident. Good job.
If one was new to the convention scene, MuskeCon is a nice one day introduction into the comic con world. I would recommend this convention for any attendee whether new or a long time convention veteran. I can see myself returning again in the future.
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Un-til mid-night Paul preached on and on.
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A groundwater system consists of a mass of water flowing through the pores or cracks below the Earth's surface. This mass of water is in constant motion. Water is constantly added to the system by recharge from precipitation, and water is constantly leaving the system as discharge to surface water and as evapotranspiration. Each groundwater system is unique in that the source and amount of water flowing through the system is dependent upon external factors such as rate of precipitation, location of streams and other surface-water bodies, and rate of evapotranspiration. The one common factor for all groundwater systems, however, is that the total amount of water entering, leaving, and being stored in the system must be conserved. An accounting of all the inflows, outflows, and changes in storage is called a water budget (Alley and others, 1999).
Estimation of the amount of groundwater that is available for use requires consideration of two key elements. First, the use of groundwater and surface water must be evaluated together on a system wide basis. This evaluation includes the amount of water available from changes in groundwater recharge, from changes in groundwater discharge, and from changes in storage for different levels of water consumption. Second, because any use of ground water changes the subsurface and surface environment (that is, the water must come from somewhere), the public should determine the tradeoff between groundwater use and changes to the environment and set a threshold at which the level of change becomes undesirable. This threshold can then be used in conjunction with a system wide analysis of the groundwater and surface-water resources to determine appropriate limits for consumptive use.
System wide hydrologic analyses typically use simulations (that is, computer models) to aid in estimating water availability and the effects of extracting water on the ground-water and surface-water system. Computer models attempt to reproduce the most important features of an actual system with a mathematical representation. If constructed correctly, the model represents the complex relations among the inflows, outflows, changes in storage, movement of water in the system, and possibly other important features. As a mathematical representation of the system, the model can be used to estimate the response of the system to various development options and provide insight into appropriate management strategies. However, a computer model is a simplified representation of the actual system, and the judgment of water-management professionals is required to evaluate model simulation results and plan appropriate actions (Alley and others, 1999).
Estimates of the inflow and outflow into the Long Island groundwater system were evaluated using a compilation of data from 2005-2010 where available. Previous estimates from earlier studies and numerical models are also presented in this section as a comparison to a 2005-2010 index period.
State of the Aquifer, Long Island, New York - Introduction
Location and Physical Setting
Land Use and Land Cover
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State of the Aquifer System
NWIS - the USGS Data Archive
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Long Island Water Availability
The foundation of any groundwater analysis, including those analyses whose objective is to propose and evaluate alternative management strategies, is the availability of high-quality data. Some, such as precipitation data, are generally available and relatively easy to obtain at the time of a hydrologic analysis. Other data and information, such as geologic and hydrogeologic maps, can require...
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Long Island Precipitation
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) offers several types of climate information generated from examination of the data in the archives. These types of information include record temperatures, record precipitation and snowfall, climate extreme statistics, and other derived climate products. A collection of statistical weather and...
As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) program for disseminating water data within USGS, to USGS cooperators, and to the general public, the USGS maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the acquisition, processing, review, and long-term storage of water data. This water data is collected at over 1.5 million sites around the country and at some border and...
Long Island Surface Water - Streamflow
Surface water current conditions are based on the most recent data from on-site automated recording equipment. Measurements are commonly recorded at a fixed interval of 15 to 60 minutes and transmitted by satallite uplink or telephone telemetry to the USGS every hour. Values may include "Approved" (quality-assured data that may be published) and/or more recent "Provisional" data (of unverified...
Long Island Groundwater Levels
Water-level measurements from observation wells are the principal source of information about the hydrologic stresses acting on aquifers and how these stresses affect groundwater recharge, storage, and discharge (Taylor and Alley, 2001). Water-level measurements are made by many Federal, State, and local agencies.
Long Island Water Table and Surface Maps
The depth to the water table can be determined by installing wells that penetrate the top of the saturated zone just far enough to respond to water table fluctuations. Preparation of a water-table map requires that only wells that have their well screens installed near the water table be used. If the depth to water is measured at a number of such wells throughout an area of study, and if those...
Long Island Water Use
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Use Information Program (NWUIP) is responsible for compiling and disseminating the nation's water-use data. The USGS works in cooperation with local, State, and Federal environmental agencies to collect water-use information. USGS compiles these data to produce water-use information aggregated at the county, state, and national levels. Every five...
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Long Island Inflow to the Groundwater System
Precipitation that infiltrates and percolates to the water table is Long Island's only natural source of freshwater because the groundwater system is bounded on the bottom by relatively impermeable bedrock and on the sides by saline ground water or saline bays and the ocean. About one-half the precipitation becomes recharge to the groundwater system; the rest flows as surface runoff to streams...
Long Island Outflow from the Groundwater System
The flow of water leaving, or discharging, the groundwater system of Long Island occurs naturally through streams, as base flow, at the coastline as shoreline discharge and sub-sea discharge, and through pumping wells as withdrawals. Estimates of each component of outflow from the groundwater system is presented and summarized in this section using streamflow measurements, and a compilation of...
Long Island Water Suitability
Groundwater quality may be affected by natural and human factors (Johnston, 1988). Although the vulnerability of groundwater to contamination from the land surface is influenced by many factors, the degree of aquifer confinement, the depth of the well, and the surrounding land use are primary key factors that influence shallow groundwater quality.
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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License.
package com.azure.cosmos.implementation.query;

import com.azure.cosmos.BridgeInternal;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.DiagnosticsClientContext;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.DocumentClientRetryPolicy;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.HttpConstants;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.PartitionKeyRange;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.ResourceType;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.RxDocumentServiceRequest;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.Strings;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.feedranges.FeedRangeEpkImpl;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.routing.PartitionKeyInternal;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosQueryRequestOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.FeedResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.PartitionKey;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.SqlQuerySpec;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.function.Function;

/**
 * While this class is public, but it is not part of our published public APIs.
 * This is meant to be internally used only by our sdk.
 */
public abstract class ParallelDocumentQueryExecutionContextBase<T>
        extends DocumentQueryExecutionContextBase<T> implements IDocumentQueryExecutionComponent<T> {

    protected final List<DocumentProducer<T>> documentProducers;
    protected final SqlQuerySpec querySpec;
    protected int top = -1;
    private final Function<JsonNode, T> factoryMethod;

    protected ParallelDocumentQueryExecutionContextBase(DiagnosticsClientContext diagnosticsClientContext,
                                                        IDocumentQueryClient client,
                                                        ResourceType resourceTypeEnum, Class<T> resourceType,
                                                        SqlQuerySpec query, CosmosQueryRequestOptions cosmosQueryRequestOptions, String resourceLink, String rewrittenQuery,
                                                        UUID correlatedActivityId, boolean shouldUnwrapSelectValue) {
        super(diagnosticsClientContext, client, resourceTypeEnum, resourceType, query, cosmosQueryRequestOptions, resourceLink, correlatedActivityId);

        this.factoryMethod =  DocumentQueryExecutionContextBase.getEffectiveFactoryMethod(
            this.cosmosQueryRequestOptions, shouldUnwrapSelectValue, resourceType);
        documentProducers = new ArrayList<>();
        if (!Strings.isNullOrEmpty(rewrittenQuery)) {
            this.querySpec = new SqlQuerySpec(rewrittenQuery, super.query.getParameters());
        } else {
            this.querySpec = super.query;
        }
    }

    protected void initialize(
            String collectionRid,
            Map<FeedRangeEpkImpl, String> feedRangeToContinuationTokenMap,
            int initialPageSize,
            SqlQuerySpec querySpecForInit) {
        Map<String, String> commonRequestHeaders = createCommonHeadersAsync(this.getFeedOptions(null, null));
        for (Map.Entry<FeedRangeEpkImpl, String> entry : feedRangeToContinuationTokenMap.entrySet()) {
            TriFunction<FeedRangeEpkImpl, String, Integer, RxDocumentServiceRequest> createRequestFunc = (feedRange,
                                                                                continuationToken, pageSize) -> {
                Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>(commonRequestHeaders);
                headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.CONTINUATION, continuationToken);
                headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.PAGE_SIZE, Strings.toString(pageSize));
                headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.CORRELATED_ACTIVITY_ID, correlatedActivityId.toString());

                PartitionKeyInternal partitionKeyInternal = null;
                if (cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getPartitionKey() != null && cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getPartitionKey() != PartitionKey.NONE) {
                    partitionKeyInternal = BridgeInternal.getPartitionKeyInternal(cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getPartitionKey());
                    headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.PARTITION_KEY, partitionKeyInternal.toJson());
                }

                return this.createDocumentServiceRequestWithFeedRange(headers, querySpecForInit, partitionKeyInternal, feedRange,
                                                         collectionRid, cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getThroughputControlGroupName());
            };

            Function<RxDocumentServiceRequest, Mono<FeedResponse<T>>> executeFunc = (request) ->  this.executeRequestAsync(
                    this.factoryMethod,
                    request);
            final FeedRangeEpkImpl targetRange = entry.getKey();
            final String continuationToken = entry.getValue();
            DocumentProducer<T> dp =
                createDocumentProducer(
                    collectionRid,
                    continuationToken,
                    initialPageSize,
                    cosmosQueryRequestOptions,
                    querySpecForInit,
                    commonRequestHeaders,
                    createRequestFunc,
                    executeFunc,
                    () -> client.getResetSessionTokenRetryPolicy().getRequestPolicy(),
                    targetRange);

            documentProducers.add(dp);
        }
    }

    abstract protected DocumentProducer<T> createDocumentProducer(String collectionRid,
                                                                  String initialContinuationToken,
                                                                  int initialPageSize,
                                                                  CosmosQueryRequestOptions cosmosQueryRequestOptions,
                                                                  SqlQuerySpec querySpecForInit,
                                                                  Map<String, String> commonRequestHeaders,
                                                                  TriFunction<FeedRangeEpkImpl, String, Integer, RxDocumentServiceRequest> createRequestFunc,
                                                                  Function<RxDocumentServiceRequest,
                                                                  Mono<FeedResponse<T>>> executeFunc,
                                                                  Callable<DocumentClientRetryPolicy> createRetryPolicyFunc,
                                                                  FeedRangeEpkImpl feedRange);

    @Override
    abstract public Flux<FeedResponse<T>> drainAsync(int maxPageSize);

    public void setTop(int newTop) {
        this.top = newTop;

        for (DocumentProducer<T> producer : this.documentProducers) {
            producer.top = newTop;
        }
    }

    protected void initializeReadMany(
        Map<PartitionKeyRange, SqlQuerySpec> rangeQueryMap,
        CosmosQueryRequestOptions cosmosQueryRequestOptions,
        String collectionRid) {
        Map<String, String> commonRequestHeaders = createCommonHeadersAsync(this.getFeedOptions(null, null));

        for (Map.Entry<PartitionKeyRange, SqlQuerySpec> entry : rangeQueryMap.entrySet()) {
            final PartitionKeyRange targetRange = entry.getKey();
            final FeedRangeEpkImpl feedRangeEpk = new FeedRangeEpkImpl(targetRange.toRange());
            final SqlQuerySpec querySpec = entry.getValue();
            TriFunction<FeedRangeEpkImpl, String, Integer, RxDocumentServiceRequest> createRequestFunc = (
                partitionKeyRange,
                continuationToken, pageSize) -> {
                Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>(commonRequestHeaders);
                headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.CONTINUATION, continuationToken);
                headers.put(HttpConstants.HttpHeaders.PAGE_SIZE, Strings.toString(pageSize));

                return this.createDocumentServiceRequestWithFeedRange(headers,
                    querySpec,
                    null,
                    partitionKeyRange,
                    collectionRid,
                    cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getThroughputControlGroupName());
            };

            Function<RxDocumentServiceRequest, Mono<FeedResponse<T>>> executeFunc = (request) -> this.executeRequestAsync(
                    this.factoryMethod,
                    request);

            // TODO: Review pagesize -1
            DocumentProducer<T> dp =
                createDocumentProducer(
                    collectionRid,
                    null,
                    -1,
                    cosmosQueryRequestOptions,
                    querySpec,
                    commonRequestHeaders,
                    createRequestFunc,
                    executeFunc,
                    () -> client.getResetSessionTokenRetryPolicy().getRequestPolicy(),
                    feedRangeEpk);

            documentProducers.add(dp);
        }
    }
}

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Mother of woman killed in Charlottesville has 'no interest' in speaking with Donald Trump
By Jessica Vomiero	Global News
Posted August 18, 2017 9:43 am
1:09 Mother of woman killed in Charlottesville says she won't take President Trump's phone call
WATCH: Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed after being struck by a car in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend told ABC's Good Morning America that she would not be taking President Trump's phone call on account of him equating Heather to the neo-Nazi marchers she was opposing.
The mother of the woman killed in Saturday's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. said on Good Morning America she has "no interest" in speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump.
"I understand that President Trump wants to speak with me, I've heard from his press secretary and a few other people, and it's not that I'm trying to be calloused, it's that I have no interest in speaking to politicians just to hear them say, 'I'm sorry,'" Susan Bro told ABC in an interview.
WATCH: 'You didn't shut her up, you magnified her:' Heather Heyer's mother calls out those responsible for daughter's death
7:59 'You didn't shut her up, you magnified her:' Heather Heyer's mother calls out those responsible for daughter's death
'You didn't shut her up, you magnified her:' Heather Heyer's mother calls out those responsible for daughter's death
Thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer, who was a Charlottesville native and paralegal, died Saturday after a car rammed into a group of protesters during the "Unite the Right" rally in the city.
A day earlier, Bro told MSNBC that though she had three missed calls from the White House, "I just haven't had time to talk to the president."
On Monday, Bro thanked Trump for his "words of comfort" in a statement, though has since told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America that her opinion changed after watching the news coverage of the Charlottesville rallies following a memorial for her daughter earlier this week.
WATCH: Trump expected to reach out to mother of Charlottesville victim
0:30 Trump expected to reach out to mother of Charlottesville victim
Trump expected to reach out to mother of Charlottesville victim
Trump was widely criticized for failing to immediately condemn the white nationalist protesters, and for saying that there were "very fine people on both sides." While he did dedicate a tweet to Heyer, Bro said that after seeing a clip of Trump "equating the protesters" on the news, she'd decided not to speak with him.
Memorial service today for beautiful and incredible Heather Heyer, a truly special young woman. She will be long remembered by all!
"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry.' I'm not forgiving for that," Bro told ABC.
Riots broke out in Charlottesville on Saturday after a "Unite the Right" rally against the removal of a Confederate statue was met with volumes of counter-protesters. The white nationalist rally escalated until a car was rammed through a crowd of people, killing Heyer and injuring 34 others.
0:43 Arnold Schwarzenegger slams Trump's response to Charlottesville
Arnold Schwarzenegger slams Trump's response to Charlottesville
Tina Fey takes out frustration with Trump and Charlottesville by devouring American flag cake
Candlelight vigil held at University of Virginia campus in support of Charlottesville victims
Anti-Nazi solidarity march held in Berlin in support of Charlottesville
Trump attacks Republican senators on Twitter as fallout over Charlottesville response grows
Thousands march in Philadelphia in support of Charlottesville
Fallout escalating for Donald Trump over Charlottesville response
Calgarians hold candlelight vigil for Charlottesville victims
Americans in Calgary weigh in on President Trump's response to deadly Charlottesville protest
Canada's thoughts and prayers with Charlottesville: Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia Freeland offers condolences to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, condemns 'racist hatred' of Charlottesville riots
Christie Pits riot draws comparisons to Charlottesville violence
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members attended the rally along with the counter-protesters.
READ MORE: Donald Trump fires back at Lindsey Graham's 'moral equivalency' comment after Charlottesville racist violence
Bro also told MSNBC Thursday that since Heyer was killed, she's received death threats for speaking to the media.
"I think the president has found a niche in voters of the people who feel marginalized and I think he has continued to nurture those marginalized voters," she said. "I've had death threats already … because of what I'm doing right this second."
READ MORE: Donald Trump says the 'alt-left' shares the blame for Charlottesville. Here's where that term came from
She said that Heyer was part of the counter-protesters standing against a white nationalist rally.
Bro resolved that despite the threats, she will not live in fear. She went on to tell ABC that she will now dedicate herself to "Heather's mission."
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Q: create two-dimensional array/matrix using C I need to read a file with some kind of a matrix from CSV file(number of matrix columns and rows may be different every time) using C.
The file will be something like that:
#,#,#,#,#,#,.,#,.,.,.$
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I need to read the file and save it to a two-dimensional array to be able to iterate through it and find the path out of the labyrinth using Lee algorithm.
So I want to do somenthing like:
int fd = open (argv[i], O_RDONLY);

    while (read(fd, &ch, 1)) {
     here should be some for loops to find the  number of colums and rows.
    }

Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that if heigth and width of the matrix is unknown.
I was trying to do that:
while (read (fd, &ch, 1)) {
  for (int i = 0; arr[i] != '\0'; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j != '\n'; j++) {
      somehow save the values, number of columns and rows.
    }
  }
}

However, number of rows could be greater than number of columns.
Any help will be appreciated

A: If the size isn't known but has to be determined as you parse the file, then a simple but a bit naive idea would be to use a char** rows = malloc(n); where n is a sufficiently large number to cover most normal use-cases. realloc if you go past n.
Then for each row you read, store it inside rows[i] through another malloc followed by strcpy/memcpy.
A smarter version of the same would be to first read the first row, find the row length and then assume that all rows in the file have that size. You can do do a char (*rows)[n] = malloc (n * (row_length+1) ); to allocate a true 2D array. This has advantages over the char**, since you get a proper cache-friendly 2D array with faster access, faster allocation and less heap fragmentation. See Correctly allocating multi-dimensional arrays for details about that.
Another big advantage of the char (*rows)[n] is that if you know n in advance, you can actually read/fread the whole file in one go, which would be a significant performance boost since file I/O will be the bottleneck in this program.
If you don't know n in advance, you would still have to realloc in case you end up reading more than n rows. So a third option would be to use a linked list, which is probably the worst option since it is slow and adds complexity. The only advantage being that a link list allows you to swiftly add/remove rows on the fly.

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After the executive orders which stated that TikTok and WeChat should be banned from the U.S. market due to national security concerns, many companies, World Lab Technologies, Inc included, have shown interest in acquiring the US operations of the social media platform. Sources claim that Microsoft is also among those interested, but World Lab Technologies, Inc to be likely to outbid them.
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The Art of Politics
Michael Paglia April 27, 2000 4:00AM
The process by which an architect will be chosen to design the Denver Art Museum's new freestanding wing is coming along nicely. A couple of weeks ago, the City Selection Committee, a mixed bag of politicos and others appointed by Mayor Wellington Webb, narrowed the list of eighteen architectural firms that had submitted proposals down to the five. On May 22 that will be cut down to three, and the ultimate winner will be announced by the end of July.
The DAM's board of trustees worked with museum director Lewis Sharp, Architecture, Design and Graphics curator Craig Miller, and Modern and Contemporary department head Dianne Vanderlip to put together its own list of ten recommended architects who were then contacted and asked to apply. These ten then became part of the master list of eighteen.
Interestingly, all five of the finalists chosen by the selection committee first appeared on the trustees' list.
The list consists of two acknowledged masters of contemporary architecture, Robert Venturi and Arata Isozaki, and three hotter-than-hot contemporary architects, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne. We really can't go wrong with any of these choices, and it should be smooth sailing from here, even though the DAM's board of trustees will have no further opportunities to influence the selection committee.
Chief credit for the success so far -- though a foundation for the new building has yet to be dug -- goes to Sharp. He has expertly guided the process, from requesting a capital-improvement bond in the first place to making sure the unreliable selection committee had nothing but plums to chose from.
His political savvy has also shown itself in the area of programming: The blockbuster Impressionism exhibit worked just the way it was supposed to last year by attracting large numbers of people who then went to the polls and helped the museum win its capital-improvement bond election last November.
Maybe he can use his programming skill to reorganize the DAM's Modern and Contemporary department as well, which is itself the product of a reconfiguration that only dates back five years.
With the dawn of the 21st century, 20th-century art will become increasingly distinct from contemporary art. For this reason alone modern art needs to be separated from contemporary. Many museums have separate modern departments, and 20th-century departments are appearing in some places in Europe. It needs to happen, and until it does, modern will take a backseat to contemporary at the DAM, as it has for many years.
Nothing like this could possibly happen before the new building is completed in a few years. But maybe by then the need will be understood by everyone.
And in that same time frame, maybe everyone at the Jewish Community Center will get on board for a proposed facility there that will house a combined Mizel Museum of Judaica and Singer Gallery of the Mizel Arts Center.
The sticking point seems to be the chosen site for the new building, which is currently occupied by the tennis house. Being an oddball, I'm more interested in art than sports, so I have a hard time sympathizing with the tennis members who want to keep their facility. Plus, the tennis house itself is one of the ugliest buildings imaginable -- standing out even on Leetsdale Drive, a center for urban ugliness.
One proposed idea is to construct a new tennis facility on land not ten minutes away, at Lowry. The lot, which is adjacent to the Allied Jewish building on Quebec Street, is already owned by the JCC. This sounds like a pretty good compromise. Another idea being volleyed about -- to put the tennis courts on the roof of the new building -- is not so good, because it would unnecessarily tie the hands of the architect.
Some of the city's top talent is being considered for the new structure, including ArchitectureDenver, Oz Architecture and David Owen Tryba. As is the case with the new Denver Art Museum building, the new Mizel is envisioned as an important building and not simply a shed, like the current tennis house.
We can't be too hard on the tennis players at the JCC, however, because their protests, complete with placards, petitions and anonymous phone calls to the newspapers, are simply the latest example of the long Jewish tradition of embracing social and political activism. And from this perspective, we may view them as an ad hoc feature of the multidisciplinary project Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent: Jews and the Art of Conscience, being presented through the spring at the Mizel Arts Center at the JCC.
The project encompasses many elements. Some events have come and gone, like the staging of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock," an opera from 1937. The Work Projects Administration's Federal Theatre Project had originally commissioned the opera, but the feds got cold feet over the pro-union plot and canceled its premiere.
Michael Paglia is an art historian and writer whose columns have appeared in Westword since 1995; his essays on the visual arts have also been published in national periodicals including Art News, Architecture, Art Ltd., Modernism, Art & Auction and Sculpture Magazine. He taught art history at the University of Colorado Denver.
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Ken Burdick and Buzz Wilson made separate proposals for two changes in the Northwest Vintage Diesel Combat Rules.
Both changes were approved by a vote of Northwest combat fliers conducted in March and April 2010. The new rules will be effective for all future contests from the date of approval, April 17, 2010.
Details of the changes are provided below.
For more on the process of promulgating and revising Northwest control-line competition rules, see the Northwest Rules section.
1.1. Engine: Any production .15 c.i.d. maximum diesel having a single or dual ballrace or plain bearing, non-Schneurle, iron piston/steel cylinder.
1.2 Only suction fuel systems are permitted.
1.3 Any propeller may be used which meets AMA safety specifications.
2.1 Aircraft: A nostalgia combat model must be a design which was in common use or kitted prior to December 31, 1970. It must have been designed for a .15 cu in engine.
Addition to or omission of sheeted areas. Omission of vertical fins.
Changes to airfoil or internal structure. Additional booms or substitution of wire for wood, or vice-versa.
Recessing engine into leading edge.
An upright engine mount may be changed to side mount.
A balanced elevator may be changed to a conventional, and vice-versa. The elevator must retain the original outline.
All the major parts of the airplane must be built primarily of wood but may be reinforced, with fiberglass, carbon fiber, boron or Kevlar to increase durability. Major parts may include the leading edge, trailing edge, ribs, wingtips, spars, elevator and motor mounts.
Foam construction may not be used. Exterior controls may not be used.
Metal motor mounts may not be used. Any changes to the original plan view except those outlined in 2.2 are not permitted.
The CD may decide to not accept a model which has been altered from the original design outline.
3.1 Pull test: 25 lb.
4.1 Lines shall be a minimum .015" diameter, stranded type, with a length of 52'-3" measured from the handle grip to the fuselage, plus or minus 3 inches.
5.1 Speed limit: 64 mph = 7.0 seconds/2 laps towing a streamer.
6.1 Number of models. One model per match. 3 models maximum per contest.
7.1 Pit crew. Two pit crew are allowed per contestant. A contestant may start his own engine.
8.1 Officials: A contest shall be run by a circle marshal who shall be the overall timekeeper, plus one scorer per contestant.
9.1 The match: One minute for engine starting and launching. The 5-minute match clock is started as the second plane launches or at the end of the one minute, whichever comes first. The match lasts 5 minutes.
Engines must be started by hand.
9.2 Scoring: One point is deducted for each second a contestant's plane is on the ground during the 5 minute match. 50 points are awarded for each cut of their opponent's streamer or string with knot. There are no kills.
The match shall continue after a mid-air collision or line break. Lines may not be changed during a match.
10.1 Contest Procedure: Each contestant shall compete in 5 rounds. 2 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 for a loss. The top 4 flyers will than compete in 2 semifinals and a final to determine the winner.
10.2 Combat Site: A 3-foot radius pilots' circle and a concentric 65 foot radius safety circle.
1.1. Engine: Any production .15 c.i.d. maximum diesel having a single ballrace or plain bearing, non-Schneurle, iron piston/steel cylinder.


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Орден Франциска Скорини () — білоруська державна нагорода, орден. Заснований у 1995 року постановою Верховної Ради як одна з вищих державних нагород Білорусі за особливі заслуги в справі національно-державного відродження.

Положення про орден
Орденом нагороджуються громадяни:
 за значні успіхи у справі національно-державного відродження Білорусі, досягнення в галузі національної мови, літератури, мистецтва, а також пропаганди культурної спадщини білоруського народу;
 за особливі заслуги в гуманітарній, благодійній діяльності, в справі захисту людської гідності та прав громадян, милосердя та інші благородні вчинки.
Орден Франциска Скорини носиться на лівому боці і за наявності інших орденів міститься після ордена Пошани.

Опис ордена
Орден Франциска Скорини являє собою чотирикінечну зірку з колом, укладену в овал розміром по вертикалі 43 мм, по горизонталі — 39 мм. У центрі кола — рельєфне зображення Франциска Скорини, у нижній частині — лаврова гілка. Овал обрамлений біло-блакитний емалевою стрічкою з написом «Францыск Георгій Скарына». Зворотний бік ордена має гладку поверхню, в центрі перебуває номер ордена.

Медаль за допомогою вушка і кільця з'єднується з колодкою семикутної форми, в нижній частині якої розташований знак «сігнет». Колодка обтягнута муаровою стрічкою темно-фіолетового кольору.

Орден виготовляється зі срібла з позолотою.

Нагороджені
 Алфьоров Жорес Іванович — білоруський і російський фізик
 Алексій II — Патріарх Московський і всієї Русі
 Антонов Юрій Михайлович — російський композитор
 Булахов Михайло Гапейович — білоруський мовознавець
 Герлаван Борис Федосійович — білоруський художник
 Єльцин Борис Миколайович — перший президент Росії
 П'єр Карден — французький модельєр
 Лужков Юрій Михайлович — мер Москви
 Мулявін Володимир Георгійович — радянський і білоруський співак
 Савицький Михайло Андрійович — радянський і білоруський художник
 Філарет (Вахромєєв) — Патріарший Екзарх всієї Білорусі
 Фінберг Михайло Якович — білоруський музикант, диригент
 Янковський Ростислав Іванович — радянський і білоруський актор кіно і театру
 Ярмоленко Анатолій Іванович — білоруський музикант

Див. також
 Франциск Скорина

Джерела
 Исаева И. К. Награды Республики Беларусь — Мн.: Беларусь, 2007. — 120 с.
 А. Никитин Государственные награды Республики Беларусь // Петербургский коллекционер : газета. — СПб.: 2005. — В. 31. — № 1. — С. 29.

Орден Франциска Скорини
Нагороди Білорусі
Нагороди, засновані 1995
Засновані в Білорусі 1995


1978 - Ipswich Town beat Arsenal 1-0 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. Three future U's managers are included in the Town team (George Burley, Mick Mills, and Allan Hunter) along with Kevin Beattie. Roger Osborne, later to join the U's, scores the winner in the 77th minute.
1989 - Steve Cartwright plays for Tamworth against Sudbury Town who include Dave Hubbick and goalscorer Craig Oldfield in their line-up. The game ends one all in front of 26,487 at Wembley Stadium.


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A couple of months ago I happened to mention to Dave Heath that I had never seen a Hen Harrier in this country ( checking my records I was mistaken, but my first and only sighting was at Minsmere in April 1978) something he thought he could very easily remedy. Consequently the evening after the change to summer time saw us on our way to Wicken Fen where I was assured I'd not only see Hen Harriers coming in to roost, but Woodcock also, a bird I had never seen here or on the Continent. (Although I've since learned that all I had to do was walk down the road to Oakington!). The signs were auspicious for as we entered the reserve a male Marsh Harrier floated towards us on characteristically upraised wings. We took up residence in the tower hide overlooking the fen and settled down to wait as dusk started to fall, amusing ourselves by watching a hunting Barn Owl, Cormorants settling in for the night in nearby trees and various water-fowl on the adjacent open water. Marsh Harriers of both sexes were everywhere. It wasn't long, however, before the promised Hen Harriers started to arrive. We spotted a female first, its brown plumage and streaked underparts difficult to pick out against the surrounding trees but then watched it lazily flap-flapping four or five times before gliding with wings half-raised and dropping suddenly into the reeds. The greatest thrill though was reserved for the dramatic appearance of a male, in all its pearl-grey glory broken only by distinctive black wing-tips, a mere 25 yards in front of us. By the evening's end we had probably seen about five of these beautiful - and increasingly rare - birds.
Rare? I have in front of me a book first published in the early 1970's which lauds the fact that only one bird of prey had significantly increased in number since the end of the 2nd World War, that bird being the Hen Harrier. Much of the credit for this increase was attributed to the measures taken to protect all our hawks and that the Hen Harrier, from being confined at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, as a breeding bird, had gradually re-colonised the Scottish mainland and gained a significant toe-hold in Ireland, Wales and England. By the '70's there were well over 500 breeding pairs in the north and west of Britain, the birds spending the season predominantly on the moors and in moorland valleys but also spreading to heaths and sand-dunes and, in winter, regularly visiting coastal areas and inland marshy areas like Wicken.
So what's gone wrong? The Hen Harrier's decline has almost certainly been driven by illegal persecution, especially by those with an interest in grouse populations amongst whom it remains 'one of the most reviled most persecuted and controversial of our raptors'. Although a specially commissioned enquiry in the 1990's concluded that raptors were unlikely to be responsible for the long-term decline in Red Grouse, it cannot be denied that harriers do take grouse and that the challenge is how to reduce their impact without resorting to illegal poisoning or the legalisation of lethal control methods, given that Hen Harriers are rare in Britain and currently declining across half their European range.
As dusk deepened, Wicken Fen fulfilled the second part of the promise made for it. If you haven't, like myself, seen a Woodcock in this vicinity then don't despair, because its plumage has been described as 'one of the best examples of camouflage in the world of nature'. Add to this the fact that it feeds mainly at night and spends the daylight hours in an almost trance-like stillness, then one can see why an evening trip to Wicken is almost obligatory. The Woodcock is a short-legged, large-headed wader with a long, straight bill which is larger and more rounded than the more normally encountered Snipe. I have seen it described as 'part bat, part frog, part nocturnal bird' but as the light faded at Wicken, and Woodcock started to explode out of the darkness all around us, I was reminded more of a motorised, and very large, Cockchafer beetle. My hearing problem meant that I missed out on another notable characteristic of the bird: the sounds it makes. Its flight is usually silent but when displaying, or 'roding', as these were, the male describes low circuits in weak zig-zag curves, grunting and clicking as it flies or, as one authority puts it, making 'two to five growling sounds, followed by a sneeze'. Walking back to the car it became apparent just how numerous Muntjac deer have become as our flashlight picked out their glowing eyes and distinctive profiles almost everywhere it was directed.
At present we have Swallows, Swifts and House Martins scything their way across Girton skies; Turtle doves have been seen and heard, as have Whitethroat, Willow warblers and numerous other summer migrants. Water voles have also been seen, but more of that later.


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Robot Invader's Chris Pruett talks about its long-in-development VR title.
There are many intriguing virtual reality titles coming to PlayStation VR (which you probably wouldn't have guessed if you attended Sony's dismal VR showing at the PlayStation Experience) and Robot Invader's Dead Secret. This murder mystery puts you in the shoes of a detective investigating the murder of Harris Bullard and as you learn more, you come one step closer to preventing your own demise. Dead Secret is already available for Samsung Gear VR but it will also be available for Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. Interestingly, it will also be coming to Steam and PS4 in the future.
GamingBolt had a chance to speak to Robot Invader's Chriss Pruett about Dead Secret, what inspired the decision to bring the game to PlayStation VR, gameplay elements and his thoughts on the overall future of VR.
"All of the original controller-based gameplay code still lives in Dead Secret. As we rebuilt it for VR the TV-based play systems have remained intact (in fact, we showed it running both on a TV and in VR at PAX East this year)."
Can you tell us about the development process for Dead Secret? What inspired you to also develop for PlayStation VR?
Chris Pruett: Dead Secret began its life as a TV / tablet game way back in 2013. Though we built a compelling prototype, we weren't sure what to do with it. There wasn't much of a market for narrative-heavy tablet games, Greenlight made Steam look pretty scary, and the PS4 hadn't launched yet. We put the project on the shelf and went to work on another title (Wind-up Knight 2, the sequel to our studio's hit platformer). When that game shipped in the spring of 2014 we started noodling with Dead Secret again. At the same time we got our hands on an early Gear VR development kit and had our first Oculus DK2 experience, which was staggering. It was clear that Dead Secret was a natural fit for VR, so we tore the project apart and sewed it back together again as a VR game.
Could you tell us about the console roots that Dead Secret still remains faithful to? How did this affect the process of developing for VR and the gameplay differences that will be present in the PS3/PS4 versions?
Chris Pruett: All of the original controller-based gameplay code still lives in Dead Secret. As we rebuilt it for VR the TV-based play systems have remained intact (in fact, we showed it running both on a TV and in VR at PAX East this year). However, the transition to VR caused a dramatic change to the user interface. We removed all of the two-dimensional elements from the game: the HUD, traditional subtitles, even the main menu. Everything was rebuilt to work in 3D space.
Patricia's thoughts and commentary now appear tacked onto the surfaces that she is looking at. The HUD is gone and only a context-sensitive reticle remains. Documents, which once appeared as simple text overlays, are now carefully-rendered pages in Patricia's notebook. When you look down, you see her body. These changes were all requirements for VR, but we were surprised by how much better they made the traditional version of well. VR forced us to streamline our interface, and the console version of Dead Secret was dramatically improved in the process.
Dead Secret has looked upon games like Siren, Deadly Premonition and Clock Tower for its influences. What are thoughts on the current contemporary state of horror, especially with each game seemingly being the "new P.T."?
Chris Pruett: This is a pretty good time to be a horror gamer. The golden age of console horror design was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when scary games were on the forefront of story-driven game design. Many of the narrative systems we find in all sorts of genres today were established by horror games during that time. I think that era ended in 2004 with the release of Resident Evil 4,which single-handedly disrupted several major game genres and made earlier horror titles look dated. After that there was quite a slump. The number of releases dwindled and there are only a few titles from that period that have proved influential. I think we can safely credit the end of that downturn with the release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent in 2010.
The success of Amnesia showed that games made by relatively small teams could reach significant success by focusing on the things that horror has always been good at: story, environment, and subtlety. There were several other post-Amnesia success stories (Slender and Five Nights at Freddy's come to mind, though there are others), also made by small, independent studios. As the indie development scene has grown, horror has experienced a major comeback. These days you can fire up Steam or turn on your PlayStation and find a wide selection of horror games, from brutal gore-fests to psychological mind-benders. As students of horror design, there's a lot for us to be excited about.
"VR in general is very difficult to get right from a game play perspective. Many of the common game design patterns used for years on console and PC games simply do not apply to VR."
What gameplay aspects of Dead Secret will players have to become used to in order to find Harris Bullard's killer?
Chris Pruett: Gameplay in Dead Secret is straightforward. You explore the environment by moving your reticle (using the analog stick or, in VR, by simply looking around) over areas to investigate and selecting them. Dead Secret is about exploring the crime scene for clues at your own pace. Peek in the cupboards, look under the sofa cushions, and examine the names of the book on the shelf. To name Harris Bullard's killer Patricia will need to accumulate enough evidence to reconstruct his bizarre past and piece together the events that led to his murder. But don't get comfortable—Bullard's killer is still on the loose, and if he catches up to Patricia she's done for. At points you'll need to make split-second decisions to escape a grisly death.
What unique challenges did you face when developing for PlayStation VR?
Chris Pruett: VR in general is very difficult to get right from a game play perspective. Many of the common game design patterns used for years on console and PC games simply do not apply to VR. We mentioned the HUD and user interface above, but there are many other areas that are similarly affected. Creating a comfortable motion system, for example, is very hard. Our approach to locomotion is designed around the basic properties of the human vestibular system, and we did a whole lot of user testing to make sure we'd gotten it right. There are many areas like this that we take for granted when playing on a TV that must be completely rethought for VR.
Will Dead Secret release on any other VR platform in the near future, especially if devices like Oculus Rift prove their success?
Chris Pruett: Yes. Dead Secret is available on the Gear VR today, and we have announced it for the Oculus Rift as well.
There are many unique exploration titles, particularly in the first person mode, which will be releasing for the VR platform next year. What makes Dead Secret unique and how will it stand out in the crowded market?
Chris Pruett: Our focus is on the three traits of horror games I named above: story, environment, and subtlety. Our goal has been to achieve "presence" in VR—the feeling that you are really there in the crime scene. We've put a huge amount of detail into the story and environment. For example, every room in Dead Secret has a unique soundscape designed just for that room. We've also put a lot of work into making the experience a comfortable one.
The movement system I alluded to above took us the better part of a year to get right, but it allows just about everybody to move about the house in first person without experiencing motion sickness. Finally, I think that these sorts of games are defined by the narrative that they provide rather than the viewpoint of their camera. As far as the market for creepy murder mysteries that take place in rural Kansas in 1965 go, we're pretty confident.
What are your thoughts on the overall potential for VR in the long run?
Chris Pruett: We think it will represent a new medium, a brand-new way to experience software unlike anything that we've had up until now. It won't happen overnight, but this technology will change the way we work with computers, and the way we communicate with each other using computers.
"As game design connoisseurs, proper PS2 emulation is a big deal to us. A huge chunk of the golden age of horror games mentioned above ran on the PS2, and many of those games are absolutely worth playing."
Do you believe that the overall price and investment required for VR could hinder it or at least limit its outreach to the general populace?
Chris Pruett: No. Once you've tried one of the contemporary VR devices out there, the potential is immediately apparent. It's almost impossible to describe the feeling of being in a virtual space to somebody who hasn't tried it. As folks bring these devices into their homes I think you'll see adoption pick up pretty quickly.
Is the game going to run at 60fps and 1080p on the PS4?
Chris Pruett: The PS4 version of Dead Secret is still in development, so I can't comment yet.
Is there a specific reason why the game is not coming on the Xbox One?
Chris Pruett: We'd love to do an Xbox One version!
As a developer and a gamer, what are your thoughts on the recent announcement by Sony for PS2 emulation on PS4? Do you think it holds value especially given that a number of games are due for the next year and beyond?
Chris Pruett: As game design connoisseurs, proper PS2 emulation is a big deal to us. A huge chunk of the golden age of horror games mentioned above ran on the PS2, and many of those games are absolutely worth playing. There are many titles on that platform that could not be made today simply because they are beyond the means of most independent studios but too niche for a large publisher to consider. It's a catalog of thousands of games.
Did you see the HoloLens demonstration at E3 this year. What are your thoughts on Hololens?
Chris Pruett: It's too early to tell! But I think that it's likely to be targeted at enterprise rather than games, at least at first.
Will Dead Secret be your only title for VR or are there any other ideas in the pipeline?
Chris Pruett: We're already hard at work on a new VR title. Stay tuned!


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Q: Jquery fails to execute controller action and refresh partial view I have a view with a modal window that you can drag an image to for upload. Upon clicking save button on the modal window, I post the image to my controller's UploadImage action, hide the modal, then make another ajax call to a get action to reload a PartialView that contains a list of images uploaded.
My image uploads fine, but the Partial action is never hit.
I don't have a lot of experience with Jquery so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
This is the relevant part of my view:
    <div id="viewSavedContentAreaDiv">
        @Html.Action("PartImagesPartial", "Part", new { PartID = Model.ID })
    </div>

This is the relevant part of my controller:
    public ActionResult PartImagesPartial(int PartID)
    {
        IEnumerable<PartImageViewModel> images = _map.GetPartImages(PartID);

        return PartialView("PartImagesPartial", images);
    }

This is the relevant Jquery in my js file:
$("#btnDroppedSave").click(function () {

var imgSource = $("#drop").find("img").attr("src");

if (imgSource == undefined)
    $("#validateDroppedImage").show();

if (imgSource != undefined) {
    var partId = $('#ID').val();
    var formData = new FormData();
    var totalFiles = 1;
    var dropedFile = newFile;
    formData.append("FileUpload", dropedFile);
    formData.append("PartID", partId)

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: '/Part/UploadImage',
        data: formData,
        dataType: "html",
        contentType: false,
        processData: false,
     });

    $('#part-image-modal').modal('hide');

    //this should refresh PartImagesPartial
    $.ajax({
        url: "/Part/PartImagesPartial",
        type: "GET",
        dataType: "html",
        contentType: false,
        data: { PartID: (partId) },
        success: function (result) {
            $("#viewSavedContentAreaDiv").empty().append(result);
        }
    });
}
});

The PartImagesPartial action is never hit after the button click, but the file does upload. If I manually refresh the containing view, the partial shows the list of images including the new image. Any ideas what I'm screwing up here?

A: Your code has the second ajax call happening before the first ajax call returns which causes the issue.  If you move both your modal hide and the second call into the .success method of the first ajax then it should fix it.  I would probably wrap the second ajax call in a separate function and have that called rather than nesting the ajax call itself.  Something like this:
//... function stuff up here
   $.ajax({
       type: "POST",
       url: '/Part/UploadImage',
       data: formData,
       dataType: "html",
       contentType: false,
       processData: false,
       success: function() {
           RefreshPartial();
       },
       complete: function(){
           $('#part-image-modal').modal('hide');
       }
    });

}//--- end previous function here

function RefreshPartial(){
   //this should refresh PartImagesPartial
   $.ajax({
       url: "/Part/PartImagesPartial",
       type: "GET",
       dataType: "html",
       contentType: false,
       data: { PartID: (partId) },
       success: function (result) {
           $("#viewSavedContentAreaDiv").empty().append(result);
       }
   });
}

You can play around a bit with when you close the modal, see what looks best.  Putting it in the complete means it will happen at the very end which may or may not be what you want.
Special side note:
The new jQuery specs have success, error, and complete as depreciated and replaced with more of a stringing notation using .done(...), .fail(...), and .always(...).  More info on that here:  http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/


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Northeast Passages: November, 2017
By Loretta Jackson
November 27, 2017 November 2, 2017 Hannah ClarkRegional Buzz
Nobody could say it better than the folks at Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, who put out the word in August that "God took a big piece of our sunshine" when dealership scion Dennis Schaeffer, 71, son of Fern "Nana" Koch Schaeffer and the late Carl A. "Pap" Schaeffer, passed suddenly and peacefully on Wednesday, August 30, at a medical facility in California. He married his wife, Carol A. Kimmel Schaeffer, a few years after graduating from Blue Mountain High School in 1963. Dennis was legendary for helping anyone in need and favored the Muscular Dystrophy Association. His obituary in the Republican Herald of September 5 noted he would give sidecar rides at fundraising events to MDA kids afflicted with neuromuscular diseases. His last ride, the Schaeffer family noted, was on a 2018 FLHTK on the Pacific Coast Highway. Thanks went out to all who showed support for the family, whose love of motorcycles prompted the opening of Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson in March of 1967. Why not join others who sent a donation to MDA, instead of flowers? Mail to: MDA, 1123 Brick Hill Rd., Orwigsburg, PA, 17961, in memory of Dennis Schaeffer. They'll notify the family of your kindness… Elsewhere, the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association (MMA), renowned for promoting and protecting motorcyclists through education, legislation and safety efforts, held a sold-out annual raffle of 2,500 tickets on Saturday, July 15, at the Upper Deck, an oceanfront bar with three huge decks, in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. Organizers told me the winner was Jeffrey Judd, 59, a practicing trial attorney and an accomplished actor in television, stage and film in New York City and elsewhere. He is from Copake Lake, New York. I talked to him and heard an amazing story. His new bike is a Velocity Red Street Glide Special. His old one is a 2013 Road King. Judd said he tends to patronize Woodstock Harley-Davidson in New York and Ronnie's H-D in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The prize bike from the MMA is his third Harley and "my best one yet." But here's the kicker: He won the Road King, too, at a volunteer fire department bike raffle. And to sweeten even that deal, he won the new bike from the MMA on his birthday, July 15. He told me, "They called me and told me I won my birthday wish, that I was the winner out of 2,500 entries." He had purchased two tickets because he "had a lucky feeling." He forgot he already had bought the first one. The MMA's Dave Condon, chairman, and Ron Baldwin, MMA District 1 representative, were among many congratulating the winner. Talk about lucky, forgetful dogs!… Now, a big shout out to longtime THUNDER PRESS reader Don Hamme from Erie, Pennsylvania, who called Shadow, our esteemed THUNDER PRESS editor-in-chief, with the news that Charlie St. Clair, longtime executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Rally Association, was recently elected to a New Hampshire House of Representatives seat for the Lakes Region. According to the Union Leader of September 12, writer Kevin Landrigan confirms that the special election eased St. Clair, a Democrat, over the top to defeat Republican opponent Steve Whalley by a vote tally of 1,267 to 1,009…That's all for now, friends. See you down the road.
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Kentucky governor bets bevy of booze Wildcats whoop Wisconsin
foxsports Apr 1, 2014 at 10:54p ET
What's Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got coming his way should the Badgers beat the Wildcats in the Final Four? A whole lot of booze, courtesy of Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.
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After a rough season that failed to meet up to lofty preseason expectations, few expected the Kentucky Wildcats to make much of a run in the tournament.
According to the report, the Kentucky bourbon basket, created by the Kentucky Distillers' Association from half of a Maker'€™s Mark barrel, includes Wild Turkey, Jim Beam, Bulleit Bourbon, Four Roses, Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and Town Branch along with bourbon-related glassware and apparel.
Yowza! That's quite a haul.
"The Badgers season has been un-BO-lievable," Walker said in a press release. "With two great teams and great fan bases, this game will be one for the record books. Under the leadership of Coach Ryan and with the exceptional talent of all our players, the Badgers have the momentum and skills to tame the Kentucky Wildcats and move onto the final. On Wisconsin and go Bucky!"
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Q: How to make middle nested div scroll and top and bottom nested div maintain position fixed? I have a parent container containing 3 inner divs. I only want the middle inner div to scroll horizontally. Here is my code:

        xoxoxoxoxoxo

        only this must scroll ===> yeah yeah yeah

        oxoxoxoxoxox

.outer-container {
    height: 470px;
    position: relative;
}
.top-inner-container {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    height: 70px;
}
.middle-inner-container {
    white-space: nowrap;
    width: 1480px;
    background-color: grey;
    overflow-x: scroll;
    position: absolute;
    top: 60px;
    left: 0px;
    height: 340px;
    display: flex;
}
.bottom-inner-container {
    position: absolute;
    // background-color: #fff;
    width: 100%;
    top: 404px;
    left: 0px;
}

I've tried many variations and this is the best I get but here all 3 divs scrolls.
Any idea how to fix this?
Update:
To reiterate. Instead of just having the middle div scroll horizontally all 3 divs scroll. The scroll bar appears on the parent instead of just on the div with class middle-inner-container. The desired result is where only the div with class middle-inner-container scrolls horizontally.
IMPORTANT
Ignore the vertical scroll for now. I just realize with more content the vertical scroll works. I'm not concern with vertical scroll just horizontal scroll. Top and bottom should not scroll horizontally, only the middle div should scroll horizontally. The "xoxoxoxoxo" should always be visible on the screen when scrolling horizontally. Thank you.
Here is a fiddle

A: You can make the middle container horizontal scroll working by adding white-space: nowrap; to  the .middle-inner-container class.
the css looks like so:
.outer-container {
    height: 470px;
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
    .top-inner-container {
        width: 100%;
        height: 70px;
    }
    .middle-inner-container {
        white-space: nowrap;
        background-color: grey;
        overflow-x: scroll;
        height: 340px;
        .block {
            display: inline-block;
            vertical-align: top;
        }
    }
    .bottom-inner-container {
        // background-color: #fff;
        width: 100%;
        top: 404px;
        left: 0px;
    }
}

remember to add the class block to each subsection in the middle div.


You might remember Troy McClure as the B-rate movie star who never met a project he wouldn't do on The Simpsons. The classic character, voiced by the late Phil Hartman, would often show up in tacky infomercials, school film strips and even a stage version of Planet of the Apes. His classic intro – "Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You might remember me from…" became an enduring part of Simpsons' history.
Naturally, it was only a matter of time before someone on the Internet took it upon themselves to memorialize some of Troy McClure's most outrageous projects with their very own posters. That's where awesome Tumblr blog "You Might Remember Me From" comes in.
Don't just laugh at the titles – the visuals are hilarious too, and if you take the time to read the credits, you'll find even more hilarity (personal favorite? Jim Backus as "The Square" in Gladys the Groovy Mule. It just feels plausible.).
Unfortunately, Troy McClure (and the other classic Hartman character, attorney Lionel Hutz) was retired from active duty after Hartman's murder in 1998. The character may be gone, but the hilarity lives on.
Swing by the "You Might Remember Me From" blog for pages and pages of hilarious spoofs – but first check out a few of my favorites below.