Three images hang on the wall of Independence attorney Bob Buckley's office.
Two are Norman Rockwell lithographs – one of a gentleman speaking his mind at a town hall meeting, which is part of the master illustrator's famous Four Freedoms series, and another of a family saying a prayer before they sit down for a meal.
The third photo might seem out of place, but it fits right in if you know Buckley and his history with the Bears Tomorrow basketball program that he founded along with his friends and coaches Rob Barnes and Rob Sandberg back in 2007.
Little did Buckley know that the Sunday night basketball program would impact the lives of more than 300 William Chrisman High School students – many of whom benefited more off the court than in a gymnasium.
The third photo of is of 2013 William Chrisman graduate and 1,000-point scorer Nieka Wheeler, who could not even look Buckley – or any adult – in the eye when he started driving to her home and taking her to Bears Tomorrow practice sessions.
Thompson, who now coaches girls basketball at Fort Osage High School, praises the Bears Tomorrow program.
As Buckley shows off the photo of Wheeler, his eyes become moist, his voice softens and he sits behind the desk in his office to collect his thoughts. He said Wheeler wasn't able at first to even look him in the eye.
While the Bears Tomorrow program is not as strong now as it has been in the past, Buckley and others are looking for strong, like-minded coaches to help bring the program to the point where it has produced every junior on Chrisman coach Jake Kates' boys basketball team and many players on coach Scott Schaefer's girls team.
"I was so excited when I found out, I couldn't wait to get to Chrisman. I don't know if I have ever met a man as giving as Bob, a man who seeks no personal gain. He just wants to help youngsters on and off the court. We talk a lot about character in our program, and character is an important part of the Bears Tomorrow program. He has given so many young people the opportunity to better themselves and he never asks for a thing in return.
This is Kates' second year at Chrisman, and he has seven Bears Tomorrow graduates on his varsity team and three on his junior varsity squad.
Two of those players are Isaiah Jackson and Zachariah Rowe, who are like brothers on and off the court.
"I was always the smallest guy on every team I ever played on, and that just made me work harder," said Rowe, who is also a junior guard on the Bears varsity team. "I am the person I am today because of my family and the Bears Tomorrow program.
Isaiah's mother, Heather Jackson, works in the front office at Chrisman.
"I'm the sports mom, that's what everyone calls me," said Jackson, who has enough photos throughout the years of the Bears Tomorrow program to fill dozens of scrapbooks. "We have Mr. Buckley and some great coaches and wonderful parents. We have fundraisers and go to each other's houses – we're like one big family. If a boy ever needed a ride to practice, a coach or a parent would go pick him up.
Ask Bears sophomore guard Amanda Szopinski about Bears Tomorrow and a smile appears.
"When I was in fourth grade, I played up on a boys team – a boys team," she said with a touch of pride in her voice.
She said Bears Tomorrow changed her life.
"Bears Tomorrow gave me the chance to play basketball, to prove myself – to boys or girls – and I had so much fun," Szopinski said. "The boys we played against would talk smack to me and I'd go score a basket and the boys on my team would support me like I was their sister.
Chrisman activities director Greg McGhee coaches a summer league Bears Tomorrow boys team that included most of the juniors who are on the Bears varsity and junior rosters.
"I love coaching these students, and I wouldn't have the chance to if it weren't for Bob and what he has done the past 10 or so years," McGhee said. "Bob is phenomenal. He is Mr. William Chrisman High School. He is the (public address announcer) voice of the football and basketball teams and there isn't an event at school that he doesn't attend.


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This week I received the DVD of Cass kindly sent to me from Optimum Releasing. Cass is a movie based on the true story of Cass Pennant who went from being an orphaned Jamaican baby adopted by an elderly white couple and bought up in an all white area of London to one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. He endured the typical racism of that time living and growing up in a white area of London and ended up being one of the leaders of West Ham's notorious hooligan Inter City Firm. As football hooligan movies go and there have been a few terrible ones , I actually really enjoyed this movie and not only because Rides "Leave them all behind " kicks in at a pivotal moment in the movie. The fact that the movie does not just focus on hooligans beating each other up and more on ( as the front of the Dvd informs us) that "the hardest fight is finding out who you are" is for me what sets this film apart in a big way from the other films made in this genre.
I also attended the premier screening of this film last year in Leicester Square and not being a film premier kind of guy I was pretty amused at the after screening party when I met Cass Pennant the man himself along with Frank Bruno who is also in the movie, telling me that "Leave them all behind " needs to be re released. I wasn't exactly going to argue with these guys at the time but there are no plans as yet to re release this song !
Anyway once again Optimum Releasing, release yet another great British movie to follow on from greats among many others such as "Pan's Labyrinth" and all of Shane Meadows movies including "This is England" which was one of my favorite films of last year.
One of the better footy hooligan films. Was surprised to see Ride included here but as you say, it fits in well .... and don't it sound great ... real passion.
Hello Mark, Any new solo material/gigs in the offing please?!
Hello. You' re probably fed up of these kinds of questions, but are you planning a tour of the UK at all soon? Plus , what about a Ride tour too? Saw you many times in early 90s. Still listen to your tunes regularly. Timeless!!!!!
Hello let me tell u, u are amazing and ur songs blow my mind. Finally, somebody could send me the lyrics of "Story of the eye". Thanx a lot.


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NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
Iggy Azalea Leads This Year with Six Nominations
2014 Artist of the Year Nominees include Iggy Azalea,
Beyoncé, Luke Bryan, Eminem, Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Lorde,
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Charli XCX to Perform Live on the 2014 AMA Awards from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on ABC
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Iggy Azalea leads this year with six nominations. John Legend, Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams follow with five nominations each, while Lorde earns four nominations. Additionally, Beyoncé, Eminem, Imagine Dragons, OneRepublic and One Direction were nominated for three awards. Bastille, Drake, Luke Bryan and Sam Smith each receive two nominations.
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The Single of The Year category, increasing from 3 to 5 nominees in 2014, includes nominees Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX, "Fancy," John Legend, "All of Me," MAGIC!, "Rude," Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J, "Dark Horse" and Pharrell Williams, "Happy."
As always at the American Music Awards, artists will be honored in the genres of Pop/Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Alternative Rock, Adult Contemporary, Latin, Contemporary Inspirational, Electronic Dance Music, as well as categories for Top Soundtrack, New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl's, Artist of the Year and Single of the Year.
American Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in Billboard Magazine and on Billboard.com, including album and digital singles sales, radio airplay, streaming and social activity. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound.
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2014 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS® NOMINEES:
• Iggy Azalea
• Beyoncé
• Luke Bryan
• Eminem
• Imagine Dragons
• John Legend
• Lorde
• One Direction
• Katy Perry
• Pharrell Williams
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY KOHL'S
• 5 Seconds of Summer
• Bastille
• Sam Smith
• Meghan Trainor
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
• Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX "Fancy"
• John Legend "All of Me"
• MAGIC! "Rude"
• Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J "Dark Horse"
• Pharrell Williams "Happy"
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK
• OneRepublic
FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK
• Lorde "Pure Heroine"
• One Direction "Midnight Memories"
• Katy Perry "Prism"
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
• Jason Aldean
• Blake Shelton
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
• Miranda Lambert
• Kacey Musgraves
• Carrie Underwood
FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP – COUNTRY
• Eli Young Band
• Florida Georgia Line
• Lady Antebellum
FAVORITE ALBUM – COUNTRY
• Garth Brooks "Blame It On My Roots: Five Decades of Influences"
• Eric Church "The Outsiders"
• Brantley Gilbert "Just As I Am"
FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP
• Drake
FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP
• Iggy Azalea "The New Classic"
• Drake "Nothing Was The Same"
• Eminem "The Marshall Mathers LP 2"
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
• Chris Brown
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
• Jhene Aiko
• Mary J. Blige
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
• Beyoncé "Beyoncé"
• John Legend "Love in the Future"
• Pharrell Williams "G I R L"
FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK
FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY
• Sara Bareilles
FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN
• Marc Anthony
• Enrique Iglesias
• Romeo Santos
FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
• Casting Crowns
• Hillsong United
• Newsboys
FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)
• Avicii
• Calvin Harris
• Zedd
TOP SOUNDTRACK
• Frozen
• The Fault In Our Stars
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1
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Thanks Jane. 'Down Under' was pretty awesome too.
Great interview, Roy! I look forward to reading your latest masterpiece. Congratulation!
Happy Christmas to you too, Roy!
Nice interview. I think Sue is right: you must have tremendous word counts when you do sit down to write! That's fantastic. If only you had more time! Someday, right?
Thanks Julie. I'm actually not sure I'd take to full-time writing. The fun might go out of it.
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Q: How do you include FreeRTOS header files in different source files in an Espressif IDF Eclipse project Upon creating an ESPRESSIF project in Eclipse, I see the following includes already exists in main.
#include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"
#include "freertos/task.h"
#include "freertos/event_groups.h"
#include "esp_syst"
#include "esp_wifi.h"
#include "esp_event.h"
#include "esp_log.h"
#include "nvs_flash.h"
#include "lwip/sockets.h"

I guess the included files are referenced by the path defined in IDF_PATH. But how do you go about using these files in any other source file? The same include won't work.
// file1.c
#include "lwip/sockets.h" // Unresolved inclusion: "lwip/sockets.h"

Below is the snapshot of the properties. I don't see a C/C++ build section for some reason otherwise I know there's an option to put the file paths in there which could then just be used by any source file without specifying the relative path.

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Three Reasons Why You Can't Always Trust Romantic Instincts
When it comes to romance, do you trust your gut? That might not always be the best approach.
By Juliana Breines | August 6, 2015
When it comes to dating, we're often told that we should trust our instincts: If it feels right, go for it, but if you get a bad feeling from someone, steer clear.
These instincts can certainly be helpful at times, but they're also subject to a number of biases that can lead us to trust the wrong people and overlook the right ones.
Here are just three ways that our romantic instincts can lead us astray.
1. We see old people in new people.
Have you ever met someone and felt immediate warmth and affection toward them, only to realize later that he or she reminds you of one of your closest friends? Or have you gotten inexplicably bad vibes from someone and then noticed that he or she just happens to share certain (annoying) mannerisms with your ex? The thing is, a lot of the time we don't consciously notice these similarities, but they shape our perceptions and behaviors nonetheless.
This phenomenon is called transference, and it's not limited to a psychoanalytic context: research suggests that it's a common experience in everyday life, and can occur in a range of relationships.
In a number of clever experiments, researchers manipulated transference by introducing participants to a new, unknown person who in some subtle way resembled a significant person in participants' lives. They found that participants tended to perceive the unknown person through the lens of the known person, attributing the known person's traits and motivations to them, all without conscious awareness of this connection. In addition, participants' feelings, expectations, and behaviors in relation to the new person often mirrored those that they had experienced with the known person.
In other words, our instincts about new people are often influenced by their incidental resemblance to other people in our lives. Our desire to fill in the blanks and make our social worlds more predictable, though useful at times, can also make it difficult to see new people for who they really are. As a result, we may find ourselves attracted to people for the wrong reasons—specifically, because we attribute positive qualities to them that they don't actually possess. By the same token, we may feel repulsed by people who are in reality not guilty of any of the offenses we associate with them.
2. Some of our instincts are stuck in the (evolutionary) past.
Gut feelings aren't just influenced by past relationships—they're also influenced by our evolutionary past. Evolutionary psychologists have found evidence to suggest that attraction in modern humans is shaped by factors that may have aided our hunter-gatherer ancestors but have little bearing on what makes for a satisfying relationship in modern life.
For example, research shows that women tend to be attracted to socially dominant, masculine-looking men during ovulation and to less dominant, less masculine-looking men at less fertile times of their cycle. Some have speculated that this attraction pattern evolved as a dual mating strategy, in which women reproduce with socially dominant men (who presumably have good genes), but settle down with commitment-oriented types (who can be trusted to stick around and help raise the kids).
Supporting this hypothesis, research suggests that women are more likely to fantasize and engage in extramarital affairs with more masculine men during ovulation. Needless to say, following these types of romantic instincts is probably not advisable in modern times.
Men, for their part, are believed to have evolved an instinctive preference for younger women, because such partnerships can increase their likelihood of passing on their genes. To the extent that these youth-seeking instincts are blindly followed, though, they can cloud the consideration of factors that may prove more relevant for lasting relationship satisfaction, not least of which is similarity in age.
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3. Automatic judgments are often prejudiced ones.
Perhaps the most destructive way our instincts can lead us astray is through their association with prejudice and discrimination.
Decades of research on intergroup processes has shown that our reactions to people from different racial or ethnic groups are driven to a large degree by automatic processes—processes that take place outside of conscious awareness.
For example, one study found that European-Americans were more likely to attribute hostile intentions to the same ambiguous behavior if they associated it with African-Americans as opposed to European-Americans.
Other studies showed that participants in a video-game simulation were more likely to mistakenly shoot an unarmed target—and faster to shoot an armed target—if the target was African-American versus European-American.
These biases can also be seen on a neurological level: When viewing other-race faces, people tend to show greater activation of the amygdala, a part of the brain responsible for processing threat.
For many people, racial bias is not driven by malicious intentions, but rather by deeply-ingrained stereotypes about different groups. A lifetime of exposure to negative stereotypes can condition people's fear responses and make them less trusting of others, and this distrust can interfere with the development of friendships and romantic relationships across groups.
Like other forms of bias, automatic prejudice isn't typically consciously experienced as such. Rather, it may be experienced as a vague negative feeling about someone, something you can't quite put your finger on. Because the source of this feeling is often not consciously accessible, it can be difficult to recognize that it's a form of bias (i.e., it feels like an accurate assessment), making it all the more powerful.
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The lesson here is that we can't always trust our instincts about others, especially when we're evaluating members of other groups, since it's possible that automatic prejudice is playing a role in shaping our judgments. By becoming more aware of the potential for our instincts to be biased, we can consciously choose not to heed them blindly and instead strive to take a more open-minded, trusting approach, one that defaults to seeing individuals as individuals rather than simply group representatives.
In sum, instincts may have evolved to protect us from perceived danger and increase our odds of successfully passing down our genes, but the context in which they evolved is very different from the world in which we now live, where the things we want in our lives tend to extend far beyond what was desirable—or possible—for our ancestors. Instincts are not useless, but they're often a lot less meaningful than they feel.
Juliana Breines
Juliana Breines, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University.
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California State University, Northridge's Friends of the Oviatt Library welcomes members of the community to nominate their favorite stories about the San Fernando Valley for consideration of the San Fernando Valley Award for Non-Fiction.
CSUN's Delmar T. Oviatt Library. Photo by Ruth Saravia.
The Friends of the Oviatt Library — a volunteer, non-profit organization that supports and enhances resources at the Delmar T. Oviatt Library — created the award to promote research and writing related to the region, as well as to honor and underscore the importance of non-fiction writing about the area.
Acceptable subjects for submission include social, behavioral, physical and life sciences, history, biographies, autobiographies and humanities. Submissions must also be original, produced in book format and relate directly to the San Fernando Valley. The winner of the award will receive $1,000.
Authors, publishers, and members of the community may request a submission application by visiting the library's San Fernando Valley Award for Non-Fiction website or calling (818) 677-2638. Entries must be submitted no later than Dec. 1, 2017.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Reelected for 4th Term
Wikipedia29.04.2015 Sudan
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir extended his quarter-century in power with a landslide 94.5% victory in presidential elections, organizers announced on Monday.
The 71-year-old looks set to tighten his grip on the unstable oil producer, facing a divided and diminished opposition that mostly boycotted the poll held earlier this month.
Al-Bashir told voters during the campaign only he could steer Sudan away from the chaos engulfing several Arab countries where he said Western-backed aspirations for democracy, that flourished in the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings, took priority over stability. But Sudan is not free of challenges.
Sudan has faced a rebellion in the Darfur region since 2003 and a separate but linked insurgency in Blue Nile and South Kordofan since the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
Al-Bashir is facing arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court over charges that he masterminded genocide and other atrocities in his campaign to crush the Darfur revolt. He denies the charges and refuses to deal with the court.
Al-Bashir's critics complain of a crackdown on media, civil society and the opposition and reject his assertion that Sudan would become a haven for extremists under a different president.
Apart from security, al-Bashir has campaigned on issues such as improving access to water and farmland that most affect the nearly half of Sudan's population of 37 million people in poverty.
The economy has recovered somewhat since a freefall immediately after South Sudan's secession, thanks to lower oil costs and bumper harvests, but unemployment and inflation remain high.
Born in January 1944, al-Bashir came to power in 1989 when, as a Brigadier in the Sudanese Army, led a group of Officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi when the country was at the risk of entering a countrywide famine. Since then, he has been elected three times as President in elections that have been under scrutiny for corruption
Al-Bashir joined the Sudanese Army in 1960. He studied at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo and also graduated from the Sudan Military Academy in Khartoum in 1966. He quickly rose through the ranks and became a Paratroop Officer. Later, al-Bashir served in the Egyptian Army during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 against Israel.
In 1975, al-Bashir was sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the Sudanese Military Attaché. After his return home, al-Bashir was made a Garrison Commander. In 1981, al-Bashir returned to his paratroop background when he became the Commander of an armored parachute brigade.
Source: AFP; Wikipedia
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When perusing the internet for discussions on PHP sessions and cookies in regards to credential validation and user logins, I've never been satisfied with the approaches I find. Many of the tutorials are just plain lousy or incomplete. And the others seem to imply that you should only use sessions or cookies and never mix-and-match, a confusion that would probably trip up many PHP novices. So I've decided to post a tutorial explaining the complete PHP login format I use for my sites and web applications. Before we start, I should let you know that you can grab all the source in this tutorial from GitHub.
The way to create secure pages using PHP is a simple enough concept: determine the pages that can only be visited by logged in users and put a piece of code at the top of them to redirect logged out users to a login page. If a user visits the login page and is already logged in, they should be redirected to the main page.
So, how do you determine if a user has been logged in? You have PHP to see if there's a fingerprint that pairs the server to the client's computer. To do this, PHP provides access to two mechanisms: sessions and cookies. Once a user has logged in with a valid username and password, you fingerprint either the server (session) or the client's computer (cookie). Once the fingerprint is in place, each secured page just needs to check to see if it exists. If it does, show the page to the user; if not, kick the user back to the login page.
From the above, you should be able to deduce that if you are working with sensitive data (passwords, credit card data, etc.), a session should be used. If you simply want to carry non-sensitive data between pages (the contents of a shopping cart), a cookie may be used.
Now that we understand the differences between sessions and cookies functionally speaking, what are they? Basically, as far as the code is concerned, they're just arrays. The cookie array can be accessed using $_COOKIE['project-name']['val-name'], and the session array is conditionally accessible by referencing $_SESSION['project-name']['val-name']. The session array is only accessible if you have started a session by calling session_start().
To store a value into a cookie, we use the provided function setcookie('project-name[val-name]', $myData, time () + $keepAlive). Now let's break this down: val-name will be the string used to reference this cookie as shown in the paragraph above. Whatever is in $myData is the string that will be stored in the cookie, and the cookie will stay alive until $keepAlive seconds from the current time have passed.
To store a value into a session is much easier. After a session has started, you simply execute $_SESSION['project-name']['val-name'] = $myData. The values will be accessible as shown above so long as the session exists—that is to say, so long as the browser has not been closed and session_destory() has not been called.
With this understanding of sessions and cookies now, you should be able to see that a session will be useful in allowing a user to login to a secured page, but that it will not allow a user to close the browser and return to that page still logged in. We're just about to dive into the code that will allow for both of those things, but first let's look at a common oversight.
This is a sneaky issue, because you likely won't know that it exists until your security has been compromised, so I'll let you in on the secret now.
PHP session variables are stored in /tmp by default, and this is true for any user on a server. Since the HTTP server software has access to read and write from this folder, and all users of a shared server execute from that same user, there is never a complete guarantee that your sessions are completely safe when you're in a shared server environment. It is also possible for session collisions to occur because of this, for instance, if you and another user on a shared server are using the same session string. For this reason, it's a good idea to regularly regenerate the session ID, and it's also smart to use session strings that are related to the application you're working with.
Another issue with shared server sessions in PHP is their timeout time. Though you may set a session timeout to be five hours, if another user on the shared server sets the timeout to be something else, say two hours, all of your sessions will also timeout in two hours, since PHP does not disambiguate between users within the /tmp folder.
I don't know of a remedy for the timeout issue, though you may be able to contact your server admin to ask if there is a user-based php.ini file that could be configured to store your sessions somewhere other than /tmp. There are also ways to store your sessions in a database, which would get rid of both of these potential issues.
Regardless, neither of these issues are extreme vulnerabilities, but they should be something you're aware of. If your application simply cannot share its sessions with other users, or your session data needs to be tightly maintained and secured, your best bet is to go with a dedicated server.
Once a MySQL database setup like this, you're ready to write the PHP code.
If you are a PHP beginner, please look into database sanitization. Anytime you are going to be accepting input from a web form and passing that input into a database (for example, in the case of accepting user credentials and logging that user into the website), you need to sanitize the inputs to prevent potential attacks on your website. In the source code below, database inputs are sanitized through the use PHP's PDO library.
The snippets of PHP code below are robust enough to be deployed with a large-scale web application. If all you require is a simple authentication page and don't much plan on using the session variables throughout your user's stay, this code can easily be trimmed down to fit those needs as well. So, let's walk through the code, shall we?
If you are making a large-scale web application a database helpers class can help streamline repetitive database calls. If you are making a more simple login interface, you can move the functionality within this class to functions.php.
If your application eventually has a settings.php file, it'd make more sense to move the defined database constants out there.
The UserData class should be an almost identical interface to the MySQL Users table. Almost identical. You should not have the Password field, as PHP will handle checking that value and beyond that the user's password, hashed or not, should never need to be displayed.
This class is unused by this tutorial, but it is a template that can be used to easily retrieve information from a database table. When you're ready to move on beyond the login page, you can easily use PDO to fill class variables from corresponding variables in a database table with a call like $stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, 'UserData'), and then calling $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_CLASS) to fill the class variables.
The Users class is used to retrieve, assess, and modify data stored in the UserData class. For our purposes, we only need a checkCredentials() function to validate the given username and password against MySQL database elements.
$stmt = $dbh->prepare('SELECT UserID, Password FROM Users WHERE ' .
This class acts as an enum of pages on your site.
Here's where it gets fun. As you create more pages that should only be accessible to validated users, make sure you add them as an OR to the return of isSecuredPage().
The checkLoggedIn() function is our primary work house. This function checks to see if the current page requires validation. If the page requires validation and the user is not logged in, they are redirected to login.php. If a user has been logged in and visits the login page, they are redirected to the main page. If the user has been logged in, this function allows them to access secured pages. The checkLoggedIn() function is also responsible for completing both the login and logout process, and on successful login it sets the proper session and cookie variables.
Take note of how the secondDigest cookie parameter is being used. We need to store authentication information in the cookie so we can securely implement the "Remember me" functionality, but if all we store are credentials, the cookie could still be stolen and used. To prevent against this, we also store physical characteristics of the connection, in this case IP address and HTTP User Agent information. That data should be hashed as well so a hijacker can't just spoof it when they steal the cookie. Now, if a hijacker takes our cookie to their own computer, the cookie will pass user authentication but fail the second digest, and the hijacker will be prompted to login again.
You would be wise to modify what exactly is in the second digest. If a standard were used, hashing it would pointless, even with the salt. Additional salt beyond the Blowfish cypher would be good, adding additional information, reordering the information before it's hashed, etc. For increased security, you could also store the second digest on the server in the Users table, comparing the cookie's value with that value (which would need to be updated after each successful login).
This is the base for a login form on the login page. Notice that now we're modifying front-centric PHP files, the only reference you see to heavy lifting is a simple call to our checkLoggedIn() function. The form handles POSTing to this page to log the user in and redirect them to index.php.
The $loginDiv that we receive from checkLoggedIn() allows us to display informative statuses to the user, for instance, if they try to login with the wrong password.
Last, but certainly not least, our secured pages. All the work we've done above to ensure a robust application allows us to make one simple call from a secured page: checkLoggedIn(). Everything we've done above handles the rest. Add this call to any page you want to be secured and you're good to go!
One thing to note is the logout button, which simple POSTs a logout action to login.php.
Take special note that as soon as it has been determined that checkLoggedIn() in functions.php succeeded or failed (i.e. following a header call to redirect), exit has been called. This is crucial if your secured page makes ready use of your session or cookie variables, because it tells PHP to cease construction of the page immediately. It is a common mistake to not call exit after a header redirect, which is not necessarily insecure, but it is poor practice. If you fail to call exit immediately, the remainder of the page will still be evaluated by PHP (though the variables may not have been initialized), and error reports may occur. Not data will be displayed to the user, but you neglecting to call exit may fill up your PHP error logs.
You now have login page, secured content areas, cookie storage for returning users, and working sessions throughout your pages. What's cool about this from this point forward is that you can easily apply this new knowledge of cookies and sessions outside of the credentials realm.
You now have live sessions on your pages, so you can store additional values in the $_SESSION variable to carry them between pages. You've seen how cookies work, so you can curse your clients with crumbles of your website for the next time they return (don't be evil).
If you have any further questions regarding the login process, sessions, or cookies, or if you just found this tutorial useful, let me know in a comment.


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New 'House of Cards' Season 6 Teaser Reveals Frank's Fate
E. Oliver Whitney Published: September 5, 2018
Since Kevin Spacey was fired from House of Cards last November, following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, we've all been wondering how the final season will address his absence. The most obvious way is to kill off his Frank Underwood, which wouldn't be out of the ordinary for a show full of twisted backstabbing and politicians who kill like it's a sport. Now a new teaser has finally confirmed Frank's fate: he dead!
The latest tease shows Robin Wright's Claire Underwood speaking to what at first seems to be Frank. But wait, it's not actually him. "I'll tell you this Francis, when they bury me it won't be in my backyard. And when they pay their respects, they'll have to wait in line." The camera pans over the gravestone of Frank's father, then to a second one with Frank's name etched across it.
The fifth season of House of Cards ended around the timeframe of March 2017, when Frank resigned and Claire finally stepped into the Oval Office. Based on the headstone, Frank must have died sometime after that. It's unknown when exactly Season 6 will take place – will it still be 2017 or jump to 2018? The biggest mystery though is how Frank died, and if anyone killed him. A natural death seems a little too simple for a show this full of treachery and murder, and he certainly had many enemies.
The final eight episodes of House of Cards arrive on Netflix on November 2.
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Q: How to push both key and value into an Array in Jquery I am reading RSS feed and pushing both Title and Link into an Array in Jquery.
What i did is
var arr = [];

            $.getJSON("displayjson.php",function(data){
                $.each(data.news, function(i,news){
                    var title = news.title;
                    var link = news.link;
                    arr.push({title : link});
                });
            });

And i am reading that array again using
$('#show').click(function(){
                $.each(arr, function(index, value){
                    alert( index +' : '+value);
                });
            });

But it Giving me Output as
1:[Object Object]
2:[Object Object]
3:[Object Object]

like this ...
How i can get both tile and link as a pair ( title as key and link as value)

A: This code
var title = news.title;
var link = news.link;
arr.push({title : link});

is not doing what you think it does. What gets pushed is a new object with a single member named "title" and with link as the value ... the actual title value is not used.
To save an object with two fields you have to do something like
arr.push({title:title, link:link});

or with recent Javascript advances you can use the shortcut
arr.push({title, link}); // Note: comma "," and not colon ":"

If instead you want the key of the object to be the content of the variable title you can use
arr.push({[title]: link}); // Note that title has been wrapped in brackets

A: You might mean this:
var unEnumeratedArray = [];
var wtfObject = {
                 key    : 'val',
                 0      : (undefined = 'Look, I\'m defined'),
                 'new'  : 'keyword',
                 '{!}'  : 'use bracket syntax',
                 '        ': '8 spaces'
                };

for(var key in wtfObject){
    unEnumeratedArray[key] = wtfObject[key];
}
console.log('HAS KEYS PER VALUE NOW:', unEnumeratedArray, unEnumeratedArray[0],
             unEnumeratedArray.key, unEnumeratedArray['new'],
             unEnumeratedArray['{!}'], unEnumeratedArray['        ']);

You can set an enumerable for an Object like: ({})[0] = 'txt'; and you can set a key for an Array like: ([])['myKey'] = 'myVal';
Hope this helps :)

A: I think you need to define an object and then push in array
var obj = {};
obj[name] = val;
ary.push(obj);

A: There are no keys in JavaScript arrays. Use objects for that purpose.
var obj = {};

$.getJSON("displayjson.php",function (data) {
    $.each(data.news, function (i, news) {
        obj[news.title] = news.link;
    });
});

// later:
$.each(obj, function (index, value) {
    alert( index + ' : ' + value );
});

In JavaScript, objects fulfill the role of associative arrays. Be aware that objects do not have a defined "sort order" when iterating them (see below).
However, In your case it is not really clear to me why you transfer data from the original object (data.news) at all. Why do you not simply pass a reference to that object around?

You can combine objects and arrays to achieve predictable iteration and key/value behavior:
var arr = [];

$.getJSON("displayjson.php",function (data) {
    $.each(data.news, function (i, news) {
        arr.push({
            title: news.title,
            link:  news.link
        });
    });
});

// later:
$.each(arr, function (index, value) {
    alert( value.title + ' : ' + value.link );
});

A: arr[title] = link;

You're not pushing into the array, you're setting the element with the key title to the value link. As such your array should be an object.


The cruise is over, but we asked two of our undergraduate researchers (and first-time cruisers), Cristian Camacho and Valeria Nuñez, to share their experiences!
Valeria: Being a marine biology major, I've heard of all sorts of reactions from friends and family about the choice of my degree. The reactions range from surprise and doubt about job security, curiosity as to what kind of work that entails, and even praise for trying to save the planet. With all these reactions, I stayed strong with my decision, and the experience of being a part of this research cruise has even solidified it. Being surrounded by skilled scientists was a little intimidating at first, but they all made me feel so welcome and they all contributed to helping learn along the way. I learned many things I could have only learned while being in the field, including making some mistakes along the way. The tasks that were given to me at hand challenged me, and being able to handle them made me feel much more confident as a student scientist. I saw many zooplankton species that I hadn't seen before, including a lobster and a squid! I hadn't encountered many of the species we caught so it was neat to see them in our nets. Overall, I am very grateful and happy to have been given the chance to be on this research cruise, and I will carry my experience forward to many more scientific opportunities that come my way.
Cristian: Back in Corpus Christi, I am known as the friend who wants to travel to visit all the national parks in the US and to experience more of the world. I've always spoken about visiting the west coast states or revisiting Europe to see my birth country, Germany, and the surrounding countries. I never thought to venture out into the deep blue sea. I was excited, to say the least, when Dr. Geist asked me if I would like to be part of the research team on the RAPID Plankton cruise. It was one of the most eye-opening research experiences yet! I made new friends, learned how to tame the MOCNESS, and saw many new kinds of plankton, including copepods in the family Sapphirinidae! When I first thought about becoming a marine biologist I never knew what I would like to concentrate on because the ocean has such a vast biodiversity of marine life. Being exposed to new labs and seeing what they research was a learning experience on its own. I had the chance to learn about the most abundant predators of the ocean, nanoflagellates, and I was able to see the beautiful colors of live ctenophores. This research opportunity was more than an offshore experience. It made me feel like I was truly a scientist.
Our RAPID Cruise "Green Team"
Our cruise is focused on plankton in the Gulf of Mexico, but this term really describes a lifestyle of "wandering" or "going with the flow" of the currents more than a group of organisms. Gabrielle Corradino, a PhD student with Dr. Astrid Schnetzer at NC State University, and I are studying the tiniest of these - and the ones at the base of the food web - on this cruise. Much like plants on land, microscopic phytoplankton are the photosynthetic members that use light and carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates (or sugars) and oxygen. They do this really well: more than 50% of the oxygen on our planet is produced by phytoplankton in the ocean!
This primary production also makes phytoplankton the base of the marine food web. Zooplankton, fish, even large animals like dolphins and whales, rely on these food webs! Our project is specifically focused on understanding the effects of Hurricane Harvey and its floodwaters on planktonic food webs in the Gulf. Therefore, we have to quantify who is there, since different species of phytoplankton can support different consumers. The main instrument we use to do this is the CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth), which is a suite of sensors mounted to a cage that is lowered over the side of the ship. The cage also holds bottles which can be triggered to collect water at specific depths. We collect water from these bottles for analyses back in the lab using microscopes, a flow cytometer (to look at the really small stuff), and based on their DNA, which can tell us what's there without us even seeing it. Check out Gabrielle's Instagram (@marchoftheplankton) to see this instrument in action!
Gabrielle and I help the ship's crew deploy the CTD during an early morning station. You can see the sensors on the bottom part of the cage, and the grey bottles allow us to collect water at specific depths.
We are also running experiments while on the ship to measure how much consumption is going on by two different groups of zooplankton: small single-called microzooplankton that can grow almost as fast as their prey, and larger copepods that you might recognize from Sponge Bob Square Pants! These experiments are done in bottles in a tub on the back deck that has seawater running through it. We try to mimic the natural ocean as much as possible for the 24 hours we let those food webs function.
We were lucky to have been out here in late July sampling plankton as part of the NOAA-supported Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Carbon Cruise (GOMECC3). This was about a month before Harvey hit the Texas coast. The data we're collecting on this cruise will help us see how who is there and what they're doing has changed after such a massive pulse of freshwater was delivered to the system. It will also tie into the rest of our group's work on larger zooplankton and the complex food webs that are supported by the tiny phytoplankton.
Our on-deck "incubator" system. The bottles each contain a mini food web that we let run its course for about 24 hours. The hose is delivering continuously flowing seawater to keep the temperature nice and constant.


I'm building a porch in my front yard.
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Not only are digital cameras appearing in phones, they're now appearing in mobile games as well.
The Tokyo Game Show typically draws much of its excitement from new hardware announcements. This year, Sony's PSP was the biggest new device at the show. The giant screen and lovely graphics captured a lot of attention, but there weren't too many remarkable games -- mostly tried and true genres and sequels. Nintendo's DS promises more hardware innovations, including a touch screen and built-in wireless chat. But Nintendo avoids the Tokyo Game Show, preferring to stage their own event later in the year.
Surprisingly, for mobile gameplay innovations at the Tokyo Game Show this year, there was more happening on phones themselves. Leading service provider NTT DoCoMo had a booth demonstrating their largest dozen game developers; two of these companies adapted their popular franchises to use mobile phone cameras in the games.
Japanese publisher Tecmo makes the Monster Rancher series of console games, where players breed and fight little beasts. As early as 1997, versions of this game could generate monsters from audio and game CDs -- Metallica might result a spikey black blob, Sade, a smooth red mammal. It was groundbreaking personalization based on media collection. The same principle is applied to their new Monster Rancher Mobile, launched this month. In the game, players can fire up their mobile camera to take a picture of something nearby. That picture is chewed on by the game, and a monster is spit out.
I immediately became excited, imagining that I could make avatars of my friends with my mobile phone camera, and stage cockfights between members of my buddy list. But Monster Rancher Mobile's algorithm renders your photographs as one of Tecmo's predetermined cute-but-deadlies. Between rounds cuing up the phones for visiting Tokyo Game Show attendees, a Tecmo representative explained that there are 400 possible monsters that are generated based on the image. The game primarily uses the image's colors to pick an avatar and to generate statistics like attacking and defensive power. It's not random, the Tecmo rep was eager to point out -- the same image would generate the same monster again.
After the monster is generated, the game is like Pokemon -- supercute monster cockfight, with one side directed by the player. There's no more picture taking, unless you want to add to your stable of monsters.
Tecmo was demonstrating another camera-empowered game, Real. Real plays with the Japanese tradition of shinrei shashin -- spirit photography, the idea that media can record ghosts. This was the thematic underpinning of the popular Japanese film Ringu, and numerous other games feature heroines with cameras chasing the dastardly departed.
Real plays a bit of meta-media; when you launch the game, you're told you have new mobile short mail. A crazed killer ghost is on the loose! You've got to track him down with your mobile camera. Take any picture and you'll find the game develops it with a ghastly ghoul lurking somewhere in the background. There are seventy possible ghostly foes, generated again primarily through the colors of the photographs.
Then, Real turns into a shooter -- aim a crosshair at a ghost, dancing around the photo you took, and press buttons to fire shotguns and repeal the monster. Vanquish that foe, you'll find another email alerting you to another ghost on the loose. The graphics and sound are high quality, but not enough to mask the simplistic gameplay.
Square Enix was demonstrating a mix of mobile technologies in their flagship Final Fantasy title. They call "Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis" a network action RPG, which means essentially a string of battles you play online with other people, while improving your personal avatar. It doesn't sound revolutionary when you compare it to modern PC or console games, but it's significant that a major franchise is pushing mobile technology to offer the chance to play something resembling Final Fantasy, in the company of other people, on your mobile phone. Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis had a large presence at the show, catering to the phalanxes of fervent Final Fantasy fans, some dressed as characters drawn from the story of the mobile title, which launched just after the Game Show.
Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis also makes use of the camera, in limited fashion. Players can take photographs, which are used to generate empowering "material."
A year or two ago, high packet fees might have kept players away from online titles. But DoCoMo has recently begun offering a flat-fee packet data service. This is a huge breakthrough for mobile online gaming -- now gamers can begin to hang out online together. Speaking with Hiroshi Kataoka from NTT DoCoMo's Multimedia Services Department, he explained that the decision to go forward with flat-rate package plans was motivated in large part by the gaming market. "Game users were suffering," he said, with some paying bills around $200 a month.
Flat-rate services have arrived just in time; last year game developers at the Tokyo Game Show were complaining that high packet fees were stalling innovation. Now with the chance to take photos inside games and mail them around without running up big bills, future games might begin to incorporate mobile multimedia. There was nothing so innovative as Masaya Matsuura's game Vib Ripple at the show; that game takes a photo and uses it as the gameboard for a dancing electro-rabbit. But these early games are making mobile media technologies a part of play.


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How can I play Half Life 1 (or any GoldSrc game) in a borderless window?

A: For all games that can run in windowed mode (including Half Life 1), you can also consider using fullscreenizer, an open source tool that forces a chosen window to become fullscreen borderless.
This is especially useful for games that do support windowed mode but don't support fullscreen borderless. But as Joachim pointed out, this specific game does. I personally use it for certain indie titles.

A: You can set the game to run in a borderless window through Steam:
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16 trends and predictions for media and journalism in 2021 from Reuters Institute
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its sixth annual edition of 'Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions'.
by David Tvrdon
1) Covid-19 is accelerating digital transformations
One of the biggest trends to start in 2020 and push into 2021 (according to the 234 digital leaders from 43 countries surveyed) is the adoption of remote working with everything that it entails. Implications range from more video-conferencing tools and changing the way meetings are run to overhauling the entire newsroom workflow.
(Find more in the Reuters report called Changing newsrooms 2020 that dives deeper into these changes.)
2) Health journalists and medical experts are important parts of the newsroom
Another trend underscored by the pandemic is the need for more medical and health experts. They can explain the illness itself, how it spreads and everything connected to vaccinations. Many medical experts have already become household names, such as Professor Christian Drosten working with German broadcaster NDR, or CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
3) Data journalism at the forefront
Hardly a day goes by without a new eye-catching data visualization in your social media feed. Newsrooms have built up expertise "in data and visualization to provide context while websites have used personalization functionality to help audiences quickly understand changing rules," states the report.
2021 won't be different, the pandemic is still ongoing, vaccinations have just started across the globe. Data visualization will play a big role in telling the story of how we continue to deal with the pandemic and its impact.
4) The next wave of misinformation: Anti-vaxxer campaigns
If 2020 was the year to fear election disinformation campaigns, in 2021 the "hot, new disinfo" topic will tackle vaccination efforts. Many nations are propping up vaccination campaigns to counter the anti-vaxxer community.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg told Axios on HBO, Facebook won't target anti-vaccination posts like COVID misinformation. That said, the Facebook CEO also said earlier they won't remove or block politicians' accounts. Then Donald Trump got suspended from Facebook.
As newsrooms built up their fact-checking and debunking units for elections last year, this year they will most probably refocus on anti-vaccination misinformation.
5) The need for strong public media
When the pandemic hit last year, readers turned to the media at unprecedented levels to find out what was going on and how to protect themselves. But this bump in traffic wasn't spread equally.
As The Fix found in a survey of 40 media outlets from 10 European countries, public broadcasters saw the biggest increase in visits. Seen as more trustworthy, they public media saw traffic jump by 65% at the height (then) of the crisis in March, compared to just 24% for tabloids.
"Heavy usage of public broadcasters and their websites during the pandemic may have made it harder for critics to undermine existing funding models – a recurrent theme in many European countries," the RISJ report notes
More from The Fix: Nervous readers turned to public broadcasters in time of crisis
6) Accelerating shift to paid content
The push towards digital subscription and other forms of reader payment will continue. Interestingly, this not only concerns news media but also the broader social media landscape. Look at paid services like Cameo or OnlyFans that proved to be both popular and hugely profitable in 2020.
As the report put it, success comes from "relentlessly focusing on meeting specific audience needs."
7) Retention will be key in 2021
One thing is to gain new subscribers when there is something important happening and your publication puts content behind a paywall. But it is a whole other thing to keep these new subscribers, members, or supporters.
The keyword is "retention." The simple best practice according to a report by the World Association of News Publishers, which I'm a big fan of because it is so useful, is that "Engaged Readers Don't Churn."
Source: A chart by the Reuters Institute [interactive version]
8) The next wave of revenue diversification: E-commerce and Live events
Many see display and native advertising as the most important revenue streams after subscriptions. But there has been a significant decrease in confidence year over year regarding advertising as a reliable revenue source.
Obviously, advertising is still a large chunk of revenue for many publishers but every sign points to a future where it is not a primary source of income for most news publishers. Instead, it seems that e-commerce and live events are poised to become more prominent, and may displace more traditional revenues.
9) Publishers start to look more like retailers
According to official statistics on how e-commerce and retail have changed in 2020, the shift has been very dramatic with consumers accelerating online shopping and leapfrogging decades in one year.
Affiliate revenue is an easy start for any newsroom to dip a toe in e-commerce revenue. Of course, there are examples like BuzzFeed that "will be creating a Sex and Wellness vertical aimed at a GenZ and millennial audience and has already created the first of a range of sex toys," the report states.
10) Audience and data insights will drive innovation
Quote: "The increasing role of audience insight and data (74%) in driving innovation is highlighted in our survey – along with the importance of multi-disciplinary teams (68%) working to break down silos. Even senior leaders polled for this report recognize that their contribution is now less about generating new ideas (26%) and more about facilitating others – in a process informed by data."
11) Better user experience and design
The report states that many respondents feel that websites and apps increasingly lag behind consumer expectations, especially when compared to the likes of Amazon and Netflix which people use every day. In the mind of the reader/ consumer/ user, the news app next to the Netflix app on their screens has the same value.
Unfortunately, many times the user experience is underwhelming. On the one hand, it is understandable as tech giants have much greater resources. On the other hand, the user really cares about a good experience and whoever will provide that will get their attention and possibly their money.
12) Platforms will start paying news publishers in various ways
Facebook's news tab is coming to some European countries (the social media giant licenses content from publishers and pays them a fee), Apple News might come to more countries and because of new rules (for example, in France) Google will start paying publishers directly for content.
One thing to point out, content licensing money from tech giants usually serves the big publishers and the small ones are left aside. Plus, don't expect any of the above mentioned to happen in smaller European countries anytime soon.
13) Impartiality matters more than ever
The Digital News Report research showed that people in most countries still favor neutral and objective journalism, but a larger minority of younger people said they preferred news that shared their point of view.
This report is doubling down on the impartiality reiterated by new executives as a core principle as well. Still, a partisan and strong point of view media will continue to attract younger audiences. This also appears to be the biggest risk linked to subscription based strategies, which encourage the creation of bubbles.
14) More money in newsletters for 2021
If your newsroom doesn't have a newsletter strategy, 2021 is ripe for you to come up with one. Subscription-based newsletter services like Substack has been on the rise in 2020 and will continue to flourish this year.
More from The Fix: 7 potent insights, ideas and resources for your newsroom newsletter
15) Podcasts and audio will continue to grow
The effect of podcasts and audio for newsroom will be twofold: As 2020 has shown, and I have written about this as well, audio in general and podcasts specifically are good retention tools for publishers.
Second, podcasts will continue to generate more revenue and publishers will start exploring paid podcasts or other forms of audio behind a paywall (i.e. audio articles for paying subscribers or supporters).
16) Artificial intelligence is the next big thing
Most digital leaders surveyed for the report said they see AI as the biggest enabler for journalism over the next few years. Though most agree that AI will benefit big publishers.
Nonetheless, it's possible for a smaller organisation to shift focus on AI with some specific applications if they have or can develop the needed expertise.
Find the whole report over here as a PDF.
Photo by brotiN biswaS from Pexels
Tagsartificial intelligence • data journalism • digital • E-commerce • media trends • misinformation • newsletters • podcasts • Reuters • subscription • transformation • user experience
About David Tvrdon
Hi! I'm David Tvrdon, a tech & media journalist and podcaster with a marketing background (and degree). Every week I send out the FWIW by David Tvrdon newsletter on tech, media, audio and journalism.
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WAFL drama as Docker Jayden Pitt sits out
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THE relationship between WA's AFL clubs and the WAFL teams was back in the spotlight after Fremantle's Jayden Pitt sat out the state league yesterday.
On a night when Fremantle was bumped out of the eight by Essendon, which survived an after-the siren kick by Sydney's Adam Goodes to win by a point, the AFL-WAFL alliance was back at flashpoint.
It is understood the Demons were unaware Pitt was to play for them and told the youngster he would not line up in the league team.
Pitt travelled to Melbourne with the Dockers as the emergency for Friday night's clash against St Kilda but wasn't needed and flew back to Perth to play for the Demons against Subiaco at Medibank Stadium yesterday.
Fremantle development coach Ashley Prescott last night said: "There was a misunderstanding regarding Jayden, who had travelled as an emergency for Friday night's game, but came back early to play for Perth.
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Perth chief executive Brian Leys said the Demons were talking to the Dockers.
"It's something that's between the Fremantle Football Club and the Perth Football Club and that's where it lies at the moment," Leys said.
"There was a misunderstanding between both clubs and that's what we have to work out."
West Coast and Fremantle submitted a proposal to the WA Football Commission earlier this season calling for the introduction of Eagles and Dockers reserves teams to the state league and argued a major benefit for the WAFL clubs would be certainty over player availability.
Pitt was Fremantle's No.1 pick in last November's national draft and played six of Fremantle's first seven games this season, but hasn't been seen since the first Western Derby in Round 8.


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Including sex, violence and dragons
Updated on 14 March 2019 • Written By Eamonn Crowe
As the anticipation for the final series of Game of Thrones reaches a fever pitch, a new supper club themed around the global phenomenon is coming to the capital.
Launching this April at The Vaults in Waterloo, 'Dinner is Coming' is an immersive spoof dining experience inspired by the fantasy drama.
True to form, the evening will see gluttonous feasting, as well as plot twists, allegiance challenges and royal celebrations, all mixed in with theatre and comedy.
Guests are encouraged to dress for the occasion
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The limited-time only experience kicks off this April
As this is an immersive spectacle, guests are encouraged to really get involved and arrive dressed as part of their chosen house – whether that be a richly decorated Lord or Lady from 'Easteros', an armoured warrior or a rag-wearing peasant.
Tickets to Dinner is Coming are priced between £30-55 per person, and include food and a specially designed drinks menu. The experience lasts for three hours and the on-site bar will be open until late after performances on Fridays and Saturdays.
To book your place, visit www.dinneriscoming.com
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