One of the power couples of Chicago tech is taking the wraps off their latest startup, Codeverse, which aims to teach tech to kids.
Katy Lynch co-founded SocialKaty, a social media advertising agency, with Craig Ulliott, who also was chief technology officer at shopper rewards app Belly and founder of travel app Where I've Been.
They've been working on Codeverse for more than a year, building software called KidScript. In July they'll open a 3,600-square-foot "hackable" classroom at 819 W. Eastman St. in Lincoln Park, where kids will be able to use iPads to program everything from drones to TVs and speakers.
Their plan is to teach 6- to 12-year-olds how to code and work with technology. Prices will start at $125 a month for after-school and weekend classes. A standalone subscription software product for at-home use is expected to be available early next year.
Lynch said she got the idea for Codeverse in late 2015, when she was CEO of Techweek, a tech conference that screened a documentary titled "Code: Debugging the Gender Gap" about the lack of women and minorities in software.
"I thought, between our passions and skill sets, we should do this," Lynch says. "We did a lot of research: figuring out the best way to code, having a space that's collaborative and social, teaching kids how technology actually works."
At age 16, while still living in the U.K., Ulliott built and sold a piece of educational software for teaching language skills to children with learning disabilities. There's been an explosion of demand for coding education. Chicago and New York public schools intend to make computer science classes mandatory. But Codeverse faces some challenges, says Jacob Furst, a professor in DePaul University's college of computing and digital media.
"There are significant technical challenges to what you can do with an iPad," he said. "Classroom management with 6- to 12-year-olds also will be a challenge. Another issue is the student-to-teacher ratio. We face significant challenges in teaching coding to 18- to 22-year-olds."
Lynch said Codeverse has a full-time staff of six, as well as contractors. It has raised significant outside money, but she declined to say how much or name the investors.
Dave Arel, a former director of product at Belly, also is a co-founder of Codeverse. The company plans to open three more locations in Chicago within 18 months and expand to other large cities within a few years.


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Q: Facebook pixel form submission tracking on gatsbyjs I'm trying to find a way on Gatsbyjs site to add custom Facebook pixel conversion when visitors submit the contact form. Couldn't figure it out even using facebook pixel documentation.
The plugin that I'm using - https://github.com/gabefromutah/gatsby-plugin-facebook-pixel
The event that I need to track is:
fbq('track', 'Lead', {content_name: 'ContactForm'});
Is it the best way to do it through button click on the contact form? If so, how do I add it in?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

A: This plugin (gatsby-plugin-facebook-pixel) only works in production build (i.e gatsby build && gatsby serve), perhaps that's why you're not seeing any tracking?
It sounds like you only want to track successful submission? If so, you might want to avoid only tracking button click and instead track after the submission's been received. For example, if you're using fetch to send your data, it might look roughly like so:
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While a hunter in Indiana happened to trap an albino raccoon this month, a hunter in Missouri deliberately took aim at an animal that for years had been a sort of local mascot. Others had avoided taking down the albino buck in the past, but this guy shot it with a bow and arrow on private land just north of Cape Girardeau. After the kill, Jerry Kinnaman (IMAGE ABOVE) commented, "I'm sure this is gonna stir some people up." And it did. In an attempt to appease them, he donated the deer's meat, but plans to have its body mounted and possibly put it up for sale, rather then keep it as a trophy. Kinnaman has no regrets: "This is the oldest and most unique deer I'll probably ever take. This is the buck of a lifetime."
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Q: Appending to $PATH vs using aliases: Which is better? In at least some cases, aliases and adding $PATH locations can be used interchangeably. For example, looking at the python tool couchapp, I need to either alias the executable (as helpfully described here) or make the executable available via $PATH.
These are the two lines that can achieve this:
alias couchapp="~/Library/Python/2.7/bin/couchapp"

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Is there a very definite 'better' option of these two? Why or why not?

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*An alias is a shell feature: any environment that invokes utilities directly, without involving a shell will not see aliases.

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*Note: Even when calling shell commands from languages such as Python (using, e.g., os.system()), user-specific shell initialization files are typically not called, so user-specific aliases still won't be visible.

*A directory added to the $PATH environment variable is respected by any process that tries to invoke an executable by mere filename, whether via a shell or not.

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*Similarly, this assumes that any calling process sees the $PATH environment-variable additions of interest, so additions made by the user-specific initialization files are typically not seen, unless the calling process was launched from an interactive shell.

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If you know that a shell will be involved in invoking your utility, you can keep overhead down by defining aliases that invoke your executables by their full path.
Of course, you need to do this for each executable you want to be callable by name only.
By contrast, adding directories to the $PATH variable potentially increases the overhead of locating a given executable by mere filename, because all directories listed must be searched one by one until one containing an executable by the specified name is found (if any).
Precedence
If a shell is involved, aliases take precedence over $PATH lookups.
Of course, later alias definitions can override earlier ones.
If no shell is involved or no alias by a given name exists, $PATH lookups happen in the order in which the directories are listed in the variable.

A: As your example shows, $PATH allows you to do one line for all of your executables in that location. For that reason I use the latter option. You can also chain many $PATH statements together, allowing you to easily add many more locations to your "executables" from the command line.
If for some reason you do not want to make all of the executables available alias would be better.


View the corrected motion capture animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
His response was "The reason why the hips appear floaty is because of the way the retargeting is done in Carrara/Daz/Poser.The Kinect does it's tracking by identifying bodyparts by looking at pixels in the 2D depth space and then relating them into 3D. This has the advantage of being very quick so it can be done in realtime, but it also means the limbs can have small variations in length."
5. Scale the imported skeleton to the size of the genesis figure.
6. Select the "hip" bone of the Genesis figure and change the Modifier from "IK Terminator" to "Inverse Kinematics"
7. Set the "object to track" to the New skeletons "hips"
8. Select the genesis figures "hips" and Import the BVH file with "Apply to select skeleton" selected.
Now the hips do not float as they are linked to the BVH new skeleton's hips and the feet will contact the ground.
There are still problems but the motion now looks a lot more solid. Hopefully this information helps others to avoid my mistakes.
One of Sparrowhawke's free plugins has a drop-to-floor function. It might not save you time though, if you have to invoke it 900 times. I was messing around with the PyCarrara plugin (also free) to automatically position feet for a walk cycle. I imagine one could write a script to calculate the distance of the feet to the floor and drop the hip down so the lowest foot touches the floor. You could automate that over the length of your mocap.
Thanks for the information, sparrowhawke3d has some amazing plug-ins. Unfortunately I get an error when I try them in Carrara 8.5 pro. Have you used them with the latest version of Carrara?
I consolidated my posts in this discussion.
View the motion capture animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
This is a another experiment with same technique as yesterday for Brekel Kinect Pro Body Motion Capture and Carrara Pro 8.5. This time I used a better motion capture BVH and a different Genesis figure. This experiment is all motion capture with no key frame animation.
I think its my best result yet, what do you think?
I own Ipisoft2 and can retarget directly in there, save BVH and import in to Daz studio. If I want the motion in Carrara 8.5 I create an aniblock in Daz studio and import that in to Carrara.
Here is what I have been doing..
You wouldn't need to use this method as this technique is needed because of retargeting issues. Your results look a lot better than anything I ever got with Brekel Kinect Pro Body Motion Capture and DAZ.
I have heard ipisoft is much better than berkel. It was too expensive for me to justify buying with out a client for it. I even bought a second kinect to use with the trail version, but the trial period ended before I understood it enough to buy it. If you are getting that good of results, it may be worth purchasing.
Allowing for direct retargeting to genesis and other figures seems to be the best benefit. The biggest problem with Brekel is there is no retargeting, so you have to work around with DAZ figures and I am too dumb to figure a clean way to do it. Maybe I need to learn to use Motionbuilder, as I have seen some very good Brekel samples using it. Of course that the cost for that software is prohibitive too.
Plus with two kinect support ipisoft allows for spins and better overlapping movement? Since Brekel only uses one sensor ant time a body part moves over another it it hurts the quality. Most movement crosses something else, so brekel is limited at best.
Your results look a lot better than anything I ever got with Brekel Kinect Pro Body Motion Capture and DAZ.
Plus with two kinect support ipisoft allows for spins and better overlapping movement? Since Brekel only uses one sensor ant time a body part moves over another joit it hurts the quality. Most movement crosses something else, so brekel is limited at best.
You wouldn't need to use this method as this technique is needed because of retargeting issues.
I bought Brekel Pro and Face for $75 bundled together and have spent a lot of time and I am still not happy with the results. I'll have to try the space blanket trick.
Today's experiment is again with Brekel Kinect Pro Body Motion Capture and Carrara Pro 8.5. This time I tried capturing two figures at the same time with Brekel Kinect Pro Body. Then I simply imported the BVH files and rendered the result, kind of a workflow speed test. I think I found the best solution for foot placement issues in the second part of the video. This experiment is all motion capture with no key frame animation.
Thanks for posting these helpful tips.
For some reason I can't get the arms on my genesis model to track with the brekel bvh. Everything else tracks fine: hips, legs, etc. But the arms remain in t-pose. Any suggestions?


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"Usually, the only reason I do these things is 'cause I'm promoting health care," said President Barack Obama when he appeared on comedian Jerry Seinfeld's new Web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. "I didn't work in Obamacare," he lamented.
Obama is the latest celebrity to appear on the series. Other guests have included Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, Aziz Ansari, Tina Fey and Larry David (who wears too much sunscreen, they agreed: "It's caked white all over," Obama said. "It's dripping," Seinfeld agreed). But the president of the United States is easily Seinfeld's biggest get yet.
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Coalition for Effective Copyright rallies to protect the rights of creators, producers, publishers and those working in the creative sector from the far-reaching negative impact of the bill.
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Organisations representing a range of creative arts, production and publishing interests have joined forces to call for a thorough review of the Copyright Amendment Bill in its current form.
The Coalition for Effective Copyright comprises:
The Music Publishers Association of South Africa (MPASA)
Independent Black Filmmakers Collective (IBFC)
The Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA)
Academic and Non-Fiction Authors of South Africa (ANFASA)
Printing SA (PIFSA)
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Dramatic, Artistic, Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO)
Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA)
The Coalition is calling on the NCOP to undertake further stakeholder engagement before passing this bill in what they believe will be a rubberstamping exercise on 20 March 2019.
The need to update South Africa's outdated Copyright law is not disputed and the Coalition agrees with the intentions of bringing our copyright law up-to date with the digital age; and protecting the rights of artists, writers, filmmakers and composers.
However, the Coalition, as well as numerous individual publishers, musicians, audio-visual practitioners, writers and academics, is concerned that instead of protecting the rights of content creators, the Bill will destroy their livelihoods and harm the academic, arts, audio-visual and publishing sectors collectively.
"One of the key issues is a provision that allows for 'fair use' of other people's work, without infringing copyright," said Collen Dlamini, representing the publishers' associations and the broader book sector value-chain. Our concern is that free publication and reproduction of intellectual property which will rob the creators of their livelihood and make it commercially unviable for new works to be created or published. The digital colonisation of our education is imminent."
Nhlanhla Sibisi from RiSA is concerned about the weighting that the Bill gives to 'users' of the content at the expense of creators, producers and publishers: "The bill places the onus on the artists and publishers to challenge the use of rights protected material in a court of law. We know that most artists in this country struggle to make a living as it is, most will not be able to foot the bill of hefty legal fees. The only winners will be lawyers and big tech companies."
The impact this Bill could have on the economy is significant. An economic impact study which was commissioned by PASA indicates that the publishing sector alone would shrink by 30% with over R3-billion in losses and job losses would be inevitable. More broadly, Global financial institutions use intellectual property rights as a measure of competitiveness, and this Bill would further erode the perception of South Africa. The bill has not had a creative and cultral industries imapct asssesment study conducted to see what effect it will have in this area.
The impact of the first sale doctrine is an untested imported clause. The effect of inserting this section is that the act of assigning copyright is considered to constitute a first sale, thus exhausting the rights in the work concerned. As such, the provision legitimizes the parallel importation and introducing of international exhaustion 'rights'. We will not be able to on sell our work and it shall be freely available to all.
The primary aim of technological protection measures (TPMs) is to reduce infringement of copyright works. These protective measures are critical now more than ever as the audio-visual world migrates to online platforms and more films are offered online and become susceptible to illegal downloads and streaming. This bill will effectively eradicate any protection for South African creators world-wide. Enabling a digital colonialism as South African creators will effectively be made redundant if their work is freely available on any digital platform raises questions on the value-gap which has been ignored.
The Bill has already been passed by the National Assembly and is now sitting with the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), which offered only five days in February for public submissions on the Bill. The NCOP is due to vote on the Bill on 20 March 2019.
"The Bill is a complex piece of legislation and there is an expectation that these members would have allowed for enough information, consultation and time to properly apply their minds as they are legally mandated to do," said Mpuka Radinku from PASA.
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The Coalition grossly misstates what the "first sale doctrine" entails. The bill makes clear that exhaustion of the distribution right is not with respect to "the work," but to an "original or copy" of the work. This has been the law in the U.S. for over a century, with no harm to copyright owners yet important benefits to society. Millions of people cannot afford to buy new books or new movie DVDs, but thanks to the first sale doctrine, may obtain them used by resale, lending or gifting. "(6) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, the Trademark Act, 1993 (Act No. 194 of 1993), and the Counterfeit Goods Act, 1997 (Act No. 37 of 1997), the first sale of or other assignment of ownership of an assigned original or copy of a work in the Republic or outside the Republic, shall exhaust the rights of distribution and importation locally and 5 internationally in respect of such assigned original or copy." Section 202 of the U.S. Copyright Act contains a corollary to the codification of the first sale doctrine in Section 109: It makes clear that rights in the copyright and rights in the copy are two different things. Selling a copy conveys no copyright. Selling a copyright conveys no copies. Thus, to exhaust the distribution right with respect to a particular copy has absolutely no effect on the copyright owner's exclusive right to reproduce the work or make derivative works.
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As one of a few works talking about Asian history (rather than only part of the context, e.g. South Asian or Southeast Asian history), Arthur Cotterell provides a contextual and comprehensive vision looking at Asia's civilisation trajectories from the ancient time to the present. This book is framed through two axes – the divisions of epochs (divided into the ancient, medieval and modern periods) and geographic locations (in West, South, East and Central Asia). Starting from ancient West Asia, Cotterell introduces one of the very first civilisations in the world – Sumer – and ends the story in modern Southeast Asia; the author concludes his examination with a view of post-WWII scenario of Asia. When compared to traditional ways of framing Asian history, such as categorising the work solely by colonisers, races or civilisations, this book provides a rather complex framework which is sorted by both time and location. However, two concerns regarding to this framework reveal a theoretical problematic of this book. First, the use of "medieval" in this book as the term depicting the period between the ancient and modern periods confuses the readers who have no contextual and historical understanding of Asia. The term "medieval" usually refers to the Middle Ages in European history, although the author talks about Asia at a close periodisation when one sees it as a text in the context of world history (or the author implies the correlation between Asian and European histories?). Secondly, a contextual definition of West, South, East, Central and Southeast Asia is lacking in the book; in this sense, an illustration and classification of these geographic contexts, which are also weak in the book, would be very helpful and essential.
Apart from the contextual framework of seeing Asian history proposed by Cotterell, critical examination of historic milestones in Asian history highlights different historical divisions in Asia. In ancient West Asia, Sumerian clay token is first examined by the author as the very original invention of writing systems, when compared to several cultural residues amongst Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian civilisations. In addition, two initial intentions of writing – in order to expand economy and to archive communication – have been pinpointed by the author in the discussion. Next, one of the oldest written laws – the code of Hammurabi (Babylonian law code) – is addressed in the discussion through the introduction of the very well-known Semitic custom "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". As a piece of Asian historiography, this book puts the attention on the details of narrative, i.e. the development of Asian history's methodology and practices and a specific body of writing Asian history are highlighted by the author through his explicit depiction and examination. However, criticism – a philosophical vision of this history – is rather deficient in the work. For instance, although the idea that religion was originally derived from myth is exemplified by the author by depicting Sumerian's question of fate, the Jewish interrelation amongst nationality, ethnicity and religion, and the later religious struggle between Europe and Asia during the period of Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire's encounter with Constantine the Great's acknowledgement of Christianity and its contest with the Sasanian king Khusrau ll, the relationship between myth and religion is still pending at the end.
In ancient South Asia, Cotterell starts from one of the oldest civilisations – Indus Valley – and ends his examination with a synthetic review of ancient north India before and after the time when Asoka ruled the Mauryan Empire, an age of invasion amongst the Bactrians, the Huns and the Chinese is therefore outlined. Here, the most attractive parts would be the examinations of the Aryan invasion and the rise of Buddhism. In Asian history, the emergence of Indo-European languages (Greek and Indian languages, for instance) and the spread of Buddhism are surely two essential elements which cannot miss.
In ancient East Asia, shared Chinese civilisation is an inevitable part. The author starts the discussion from Yin Shang, the earliest period in which written records were kept, and concentrates on the development of Confucianism and its trajectories in China and in other relevant East Asian cultures such as Confucius residues in Korea and in Vietnam. Here, two complex issues are mentioned. First, Cotterell describes the idea of "the multitudes" as the core of Confucian philosophy and indicates it as a "democratic theory" in ancient China, which reveals a paradox when compared to Confucianism's later influence in East Asia. Confucianism is rather considered as a mutated form of ancient Chinese feudalism (a system involving strong social stratification) before the making of centralisation in China – the Qin dynasty. Confucianism is never a democratic idea as it still claims the necessity of dividing classes. When compared to ancient Chinese feudalism, Confucianism, at most, can only be regarded as a re-definition of feudalism along with a nationalist ideology. Although the Qin Shi Huangdi later criticised Confucian scholars, it does not mean that Confucianism is relatively "democratic". A best example is testified in the second complex issue discussed later in the book – the examination systems in ancient China. There are two main examination systems can be regarded in ancient China, the first one was strongly influenced by Confucianism – the so-called "imperial examination" – developed from the Han dynasty against the administrative recruitment system in the Qin dynasty following the order of succession – and the second was an improvement of the imperial examination developed from the Sui dynasty and peaked in the Tang dynasty – the so-called "elective examination", a system mainly relied on official recommendation and the examination process was only to assist the outcome generated from the recommendation. Confucian philosophy claims the legitimacy of meritocracy which is the core spirit of the imperial examination system. Confucianism, hence, is hardly to be connected to democracy – a platonic idea based on the public – but an ideological thinking of nationalism – a disciplined idea based on a group of people who are talented.
Following the focus on nomads in ancient Central Asia, the second part of this book looks at the time period described by the author as a "medieval" period. However, apart from issues of Islamic and Christian development in Asia: the Turks, the Crusades, Persian history and European colonisation in the Asia-Pacific, the rest issues are rather awkward to be associated with the very European "medieval" period. Issues such as Buddhism in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific, Imperial China, Korean history, Feudal Japan and the development of Southeast Asian countries are particular.
The discussion of Christianity in Asia through colonisation is one explicit part in this discussion, but the author's assertion that the significant progress of Christianity in Asia of the time was only in the Philippines as a result of Spanish colonialism is probably arbitrary. One exception example is the Christian implantation in Austronesian Taiwan. Taiwan's Austronesian-based aborigines are highly Christianised as a result of Dutch and Spanish colonialism during the sixteenth and the seventeenth century. Apart from Christianity, the flourishing age of Imperial China and its degeneration are another part which is spectacularly described here. The cultural development of the Tang dynasty and Imperial China's economic-cultural peak age in the Song dynasty are discussed first and followed by a nation-based analysis of this shared Chinese culture's influence in Korea and Japan. A Confucian and Buddhist impact on the Korean peninsula from the Tang dynasty and Silla's acceptance of Tang's support to the first unification of the peninsula are essential when one studies Korean history. As far as another nation, which is highly connected to this shared Chinese culture, is Japan. Feudal Japan was comprised of three classified levels: the military dictator (Shogun), the regional families (Daimyo) and the de jure emperor. This feudal system was the dominant social hierarchy in Japan before its westernisation and modernisation in the Meiji Restoration in the nineteenth century. By concluding the story of "medieval" Asia, Imperial China's degeneration is described by the author through the Manchu Ching Empire's interaction with European forces and transformed into China's modern history: started from the founding of the Republic and highlighted presently by its communist dictatorship along with an economic open policy.
Modern Asia is the last part of the book and the spotlight here focuses on the two World Wars. Geographically, the Middle East and Southeast Asia have emerged as parts of the narratives in Modern Asia. In the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the involvement of the British force kicked off the modern development of the peninsula from the independence of Iraq, followed by the foundings of Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and stopped on the discussion of the inscribing Iran-Iraq War and the two Gulf Wars. Through Cotterell's description, the focus of Asian history is transferred from an imperial and colonial context onto a post-colonial discourse. In this decolonisation discourse, the rise of South and Southeast countries in Asia is started from the story of Great Souled – Gandhi – and Indian Nationalism, and summarised through the emergence of the independent Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. As part of the historical context, the Russian's involvement and Imperial Japan's Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere are also crucial in Modern Asia. Lastly, China's political transformation from the end of its imperialism, to the spring up of the Republic, and to the take-over of the totalitarian communist regime is another focus here. Interestingly, the author mentions Taiwan and its significant role as one "Asian Tiger" in modern Asia without talking about its developing relationship with China, such as the historic Treaty of Shimonoseki, but only mentioning briefly the relocation of the Nationalist Government from China to Taiwan after 1949 and commenting Taiwan's "smallness" and "eventual reunion" as forms of today's global "China Treat", which, to a certain extent, is a pity of this work (not to mention, Cotterell uses a fake photo of Sun Yatsen and Chiang Kai-shek (p. 374), which originally included Ho Ying-chin and Wang Bo-ling, without a detailed textual research).
As a concluding point made by the author, the future development of China, India, Indonesia and Turkey is pinpointed as the most significant historical direction in Asian history based on their growing economy, but the question that whether the economy is sufficient to draw a conclusion in a historical observation is surely debatable. However, as a book which is organised in context and in content, this work shall be appreciated by those who are interested in Asia's historic trajectories along with critical eyes, i.e. the proper readers of this book should put down to those who have already had basic understanding of Asian history, both historically and theoretically.


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The International Monetary Fund welcomed the commitment made by the G-20 Summit on Thursday to enhance the multilateral agency's ability to support emerging markets and low-income countries, and to bring the world economy out of its deepest post-war recession.
Observing that the global crisis is hitting emerging markets and poor countries hard, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said, "The G-20 leaders have on Thursday sent a powerful signal that the international community is committed to support these countries, including by ensuring that the IMF has the resources available."
At the end of their London Summit on April 2, G-20 countries agreed to make available immediately an additional $250 billion, to be expanded by up to $500 billion in total.
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How does this happen? Well, brilliant but hapless scientist Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) invented a machine that could shrink things down to microscopic size if he could get it to work. One of the neighbors' sons, Ron (Jared Rushton), accidentally hits a baseball through the window and it somehow fixes the machine's problem upon hitting it, causing it to work all too well, shrinking Ron, Ron's older brother Russ (Thomas Brown), and both of Wayne's own kids, Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robert Oliveri). They're too small to get Wayne's attention, and they get swept up and taken out with the trash. So now they must travel miles worth of enormous backyard, where they come across many dangerous obstacles—bees, sprinklers, lawnmowers, and more.
Will they be saved? Will they be restored to normal size? Well, seeing as how it's a family adventure by Disney, don't feel bad in correctly assuming the answer to both questions is "yes." Just have fun with this comedic, thrill-packed adventure and enjoy what it has to offer, which is a darn good time.
If "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" were all about the look, it'd be fine, but I was engrossed by the human characters walking through it all. The kids are all likable and are given room to develop and…"grow" (forgive the pun). Russ starts as a meek wimp who quits the football team and the behest of his former-jock father, Big Russ (Matt Frewer), and as the film continues, he becomes a swashbuckling hero and an unofficial leader of the minute group. Amy is a popular but shallow teenage girl who just wants to "get home, get big, and get to the mall," but throughout the journey, her priorities change for the better. Nick is a pre-teenage version of his father, and all he wants is to be heard by his father; he gets his chance by providing an important clue by the end of the film. My favorite development came from Ron, who starts off as a bratty 12-year-old jock and is still a wise-guy by the end of the film but much friendlier. All four young actors do good jobs, but Jared Rushton as Ron impressed me the most.
But the film's main comedy comes from the two sets of parents—Wayne and Diane Szalinski (Marcia Strassman) and Big Russ and Mae Thompson (Kristine Sutherland). Rick Moranis is delightful as Wayne, goofy enough for us to laugh at him but more than likable enough too. He's a perfect everyman. (Honestly, I like Moranis' work here a little more than his goofier roles in "Ghostbusters" and "Spaceballs.") And speaking of "goofy," Matt Frewer is surprisingly effective as Big Russ, a man who goes through his own change while worrying about his missing kids. Most of the laughs come from Wayne's inventive method of searching the yard for the kids without even touching the ground, Big Russ' reactions to Wayne's bizarre behavior, and the byplay between parents trying to work together but simply can't (er, they can, but they…won't).
Oh, and there's also the Szalinski family's dog, Quark, who of course knows more than the human characters. Simply put, this dog is a delight. Anytime the camera is on him, he's a natural actor.
The film is a ton of fun but it isn't great. I get that it's just supposed to be a fun adventure, but sometimes I think things turn out a little too well for these kids. Also, I'm not so sure James Horner's music score is the best fit for this material—it's a little too foreboding and overly serious at times. It makes scenes that are already intense (such as when the kids are about to be sucked into a lawnmower) overly so.
And I have to ask—where in the world did that killer scorpion come from?! It leads to a neat-looking fight between the scorpion vs. the ant and the kids vs. the scorpion, but seriously, where did that thing come from?
But whatever. "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" is loads of fun and in the great tradition of Disney. Much of it still holds up today as it did in 1989 when it was originally released, and I have fun watching it now as much as I did when I was a kid watching it over and over.


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Q: Store HTML and CSS of target container I have a container div containing some html - for example:

Bla bla

     Send

and some css related to the container:
#container {background:red;}
#container h1 {font-size:30px;}
#container .myItem {color:red;font-size:12px;}

I would like to store all the html inside the container and all the related css to it in some variable/database/whatever is available, and then load it back on a new page. The content is dynamic and it's up to the user to style the container and it's content.
How could I accomplish this? One way I was thinking was to retrieve all this properties using javascript and than store them somehow in the database to load them back later or try to do this with html5 webstorage.
Is there any plugin that does this?
EDIT:
I've also tried html2canvas but it's support for css3 is not good enough to render the elements correctly.

A: If the CSS and HTML are both stored within the page, you can just grab the content (based on the wrapper) and store it in localStorage (if this works for your purpose).
An example with jQuery and localStorage... you will need to change where things are being saved from to fit your case.
jsFiddle
Saving the items:
var html = $('#container').html();
localStorage.setItem('html', html);

var css = $('#csscontainer').html();
localStorage.setItem('css', css);

Pulling/showing the items:
var showHtml = localStorage.getItem('html');
var showCss = localStorage.getItem('css');

$('#showHtml').html(showHtml);
$('#showCss').html(showCss);


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Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio Answers Your Burning Questions
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Alessandra Ambrosio Reveals The Biggest First Date Mistake Men Make
Sharon Feiereisen
Alessandra Ambrosio may be best known for having walked the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show an astounding 17 times (including while pregnant!), but her latest endeavor sees her as the face of a new campaign for lingerie and swim brand LASCANA. We caught up with the Brazilian stunner at her launch event and chatted all things dating, romance and, of course, underwear.
What Qualities Do You Find Most Attractive In A Man?
I love a man who is confident, kind, and has a sense of humor.
Hypothetically Speaking, What Are Your First Date Deal Breakers?
It has been so long since i've been on a first date… let me think! I would say no conversation, being rude, and just having no connection.
What Advice Would You Give To Men Who Are Shy To Approach A Woman?
You have to find your inner strength and go for it!
Boxers Or Briefs?
I actually don't care!
Clean Shaven Face Or Beard
I like something in between.
What's Your Favorite Romantic Gesture?
You can't go wrong with flowers and breakfast in bed. My favorite breakfast is blueberry pancakes.
What Recommendation Would You Give Men When It Comes To Holiday Shopping?
Go to the LASCANA website of course! There's a lot to choose from...lots of great, sexy hot styles! I really love the beautiful, simple black lace pieces, but today I was looking at the racks here and there are these incredible bras with details like pearls and crystals, so I also love the idea of making it sparkle for the holidays.
Do You Have A Favorite Men's Cologne?
I don't know any names! But I will say I don't like when a cologne is too strong.
What's Something People Would Be Surprised To Learn About You?
I feel like people know everything about me! I'm an open book, but maybe that I really love swimming…I love being in the water, like a mermaid.
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Take a peek inside her closet to find out her size so you can get her something nice and safe. If you don't know her size or lingerie style, there's always a beautiful slip dress or cute robe that you could get since those don't have to be as specific when it comes to size.
Is It Ever Too Soon To Buy Lingerie For A Significant Other?
Hello here's some lingerie [laughing]. That's a hard question! I would say that it all depends on the relationship and how the chemistry is flowing.
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In the wake of the recent mass shooting in Orlando that left 49 people dead, Democrats in both houses of Congress have proposed legislation aimed to curb gun violence by expanding background checks to include guns purchased either online or at gun shows, and block anyone on the federal terrorist watchlist from purchasing deadly weapons.
Here, to get a sense of how things began, is footage of Lewis calling his fellow Representatives to join him.
"We are blind to a crisis. Mr. Speaker, where is the heart of this body? Where is our soul?," Lewis said as he announced his plans to sit down on the floor until such time that Paul Ryan would agree to call a roll-call vote, allowing the American people to see which of their elected officials had been bought by a weapons lobby unwilling to even consider the most basic common sense measures to address gun violence.
…Democrats have tried numerous times over the past week to force a vote on a "no fly, no buy" bill, which would bar terror suspects on the "no-fly" list from purchasing guns. The sit-in represented a sharp escalation in the fight, however, putting political pressure on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to allow a roll-call vote on the policy issue that's gotten the most traction following the Florida shooting.
…House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pledged that Democrats would stay on the floor until they get a vote.
But in appearance on CNN, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wisc.) showed little inclination to meet Democrats' demands, criticizing them for staging "a publicity stunt" and for calling for votes on "a bill that already died" in the Senate earlier this week.
Some Republicans said it was possible the lights and air conditioning would be turned off later in the night when the House adjourns for the day.
…As with much of the civil disobedience that fueled progress in the civil rights movement, Lewis's involvement in efforts to end segregation involved knowingly violating the laws that enforced it. He was beaten by mobs and arrested by police.
And on Wednesday—more than 55 years after he first led lunch counter sit-ins—Lewis and his Democratic colleagues technically broke rules that forbid anyone from taking photos or video inside the House chamber, staying in place for a sit-in after the House had been called into recess.
Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) took to Twitter while the Democrats sat and made speeches on the House floor, referencing the 1960 sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where four black students refused to leave after being denied service.
In case it's not obvious, the photo at the top of this post shows Elizabeth Warren, John Lewis, and our own Debbie Dingell sitting down in protest… Oh, and don't feel too bad for Dingell, who looks painfully uncomfortable in the photo. Someone apparently found her a chair.
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When Mark Walker (R-NC) says this is "a disgrace to Woolworth's", does he know that Woolworth's was the entity running the segregated lunch counter?
It's nice that they decided to stage a sit in – now. The Johnny Come Latelys are worried about re-election. This sit-in should have happened a long time ago.
For once I'm with the Republicans on this. Besides this is all just political theater for the election season.
I am not really sure what they are hoping to accomplish with this but I hope what they are going for is to motivate people to vote for people who support more gun control.
I'll note though that even though I am kind of extreme for an American on this issue in that I think it would be best for everyone if we repealed the second amendment and just banned most guns, I really dont like the idea of denying any rights to people on the terror watch list or the no-fly list. A terror watch list should only be a tool for law enforcement so they can better focus their investigations. It shouldnt be used to restrict people's rights especially since we are in a culture where everyday bias means that people of certain ethnicities are more likely to be on the list than the white men who are the ones who do most of the shooting up and domestic acts of terrorism.
Would, by chance, Secretary of "Defense" Ashton Carter be on that watch list? Why not? We've got to STOP this horrific gun violence and terrorism!
I don't think you can dismiss this as opportunism. I received this letter from Chris Murphy in December 2015.
Last weekend, a man with a long history of violence against women and animal cruelty took an assault weapon into a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood where he shot and killed three people, including a police officer, an Iraq War Veteran and a mother of two. He also injured nine others.
We've heard a lot of talk over the past few weeks about ISIS and the threat of terrorism. Keeping Connecticut safe is my number one priority, which is why I called on Congress to debate and vote on the ongoing air war against ISIS, and demanded new legislation that would tighten the U.S. visa waiver program to keep terrorists out of the United States. But to truly keep Connecticut families safe, Congress must do more than solely focus on terrorists. Since 2001, over 400,000 people have died in shootings in the United States vs. 3,380 in acts of terrorism.
I believe this latest mass shooting will tragically raise the tally in both categories.
Here's the truth: if Congress won't do anything to try to stop the soul-crushing, life-extinguishing gun violence epidemic in this country, then we might as well just pack up and go home.
And one piece of legislation we should ALL agree on is passing a bill prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from buying guns in the United States. Sign my petition if you agree.
Tell Congress: you expect them to take action preventing people on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun in the United States of America.
Since 2004, over two thousand people on the FBI's terrorist watch list have legally purchased guns in the United States. That means while it takes a Syrian refugee two years to pass a background check to come to the United States, it takes someone on the terrorist watch list six minutes to pass one that allows him or her to buy a gun.
Whether it's mass shootings in America fueled by racism, religious fundamentalism, rage against women, or mental illness, I shudder to think what it says about us as a nation if we don't even attempt to make a good faith effort to end this carnage.
Yes, we should expand background checks. Yes, we should ban the sale of military-style assault weapons. Yes, we should limit high capacity magazines. Yes, we should keep domestic abusers from getting their hands on a gun.
But really, if we can't even take action to ensure that known foreign and domestic terrorists are unable to legally buy a gun in the United States, then what are we doing here?
Sign my petition: tell Congress to close the "terror gap" that allows people on the terrorist watch list to legally buy guns in the United States.
Our collective silence in the face of these mass shootings is complicity, and it sends a quiet message that we are willing to accept these murders.
Surely keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists is something we can all agree on.
Ryan adjourned the House until July 5 rather than deal with the Democrats.
After a chaotic, daylong occupation of the House floor, Republican leaders moved in the middle of the night to cut off House Democrats' gun control sit-in by adjourning the House through the July 4 — without a vote on gun control.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) sought to to quell the Democratic demonstration by having lawmakers vote at 2:30 a.m. on several bills they had to pass this week, including one to combat the Zika virus. After that, Republican leaders sent lawmakers home until July 5, starting their already-scheduled recess a few days earlier than planned.
The move will deny Democrats any chance of votes on gun control legislation.
Democrats, though, continued their sit-in after the House adjourned, and on Thursday morning the effort was still going, with the action being livestreamed online. They vowed not to stop until Ryan and GOP leaders relent.
The terror watch list and the no fly list are gross violations of Constitutional protections for due process.
It is wholly disturbing that these Representatives would work so hard to codify those lists even further.
I support gun control, but this is not the way to do it.
Yes, Chris, our collective silence in the face of these mass shootings, bombings and dronings in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere is complicity, and it sends a quiet message that we are willing to accept these murders. Surely keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists in the U.S. military and State Department, and congress and senate, is something we can all agree on.
I wish that those participating in this photo op would be as willing to protest the 3000 killed each day in abortion clinics in our country.


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The World Bank reaffirms its commitment to support Sri Lanka
Colombo – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, February 24, 2015
World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region Annette Dixon said the Bank would partner with the government to help shape and implement policies aimed at reducing poverty, improving shared prosperity and promoting sustainable growth.
During her visit, Dixon met with President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe, the Finance Minister, and the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Policy Planning and Economic Affairs.
The President Maithripala Sirisena outlined his priorities for Sri Lanka's development agenda and confirmed that the Bank's ongoing portfolio and pipeline of projects were in line with the country's development priorities. Dixon expressed the Bank's support for the implementation of the reforms for strengthening good governance, transparency and accountability as outlined in the government's 100 day plan.
"The Government has laid out an ambitious reform agenda aimed at improving governance, transparency and accountability and establishing strong institutions for that purpose within its first 100 days. This is no small feat and the Bank stands ready to provide support to the government to help achieve these goals." Dixon said as she concluded her first visit to Sri Lanka since her appointment as a World Bank Vice President in December 2015.
During her stay in the country, Dixon visited rural Sri Lanka to observe one of many successful Bank-financed community-based development and livelihood improvement interventions. Later, she interacted with small tea holders benefitting from a project, funded by the World Bank Group's private sector arm IFC, which provides index-based weather insurance. Her visit to a global IT services provider and a private university specialized in providing IT knowledge and skills gave her a perspective of the growing demand for skills based learning and outcomes.
The Bank's engagement in the education sector has been comprehensive across primary, secondary, tertiary levels and includes overall skills development. The latest project under preparation is in the area of early childhood development, and Dixon visited a number of preschool facilities in the outskirts of Colombo to get a deeper understanding of the issues in this sector. Dixon also had the opportunity to visit the sites of the Metro Colombo Project that supports urban flood reduction and disaster mitigation and the ancient Dutch Port under the Strategic Cities Development Project, Bank interventions that aim at tackling the challenges of urbanization.
During the insightful discussions she had with the private sector, civil society representatives and other development partners, Dixon shared that the World Bank Group is examining the constraints and opportunities for ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in Sri Lanka through the preparation of a Systematic Country Diagnostic. This exercise, she explained, is a part of the World Bank Group's new model for engagement with country partners and will inform future programming. Dixon also underscored the World Bank Group's willingness and commitment to serve the people of Sri Lanka.
The World Bank's total net commitments in Sri Lanka stand at $1.7 billion (as of Jan. 15, 2015). Currently the Bank is active in fourteen projects throughout the country. The partnership in Sri Lanka which spans sixty years has been focused on bringing global best practices to the country and providing technical assistance to improve the quality of life of the people.
The World Bank Group's private sector development arm, IFC, focuses on access to finance, infrastructure, tourism, and agribusiness, prioritizing balanced regional growth. As of January 2015, IFC's total committed portfolio stood at $552 million, including a US$250 million investment mobilized from partner institutions.