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Pushing kids to succeed in Detroit Public Schools amid a literacy crisis
Eliza Mills Aug 9, 2017
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/09/what-its-be-detroit-public-school-teacher/
Murcy Jones holds her twin granddaughters outside her home in Detroit, MI. Eliza Mills/Marketplace
Murcy Jones always wanted to be a teacher. She grew up and attended public school in Detroit, always at the top of her class. She graduated as a member of the National Honors Society and was accepted into Michigan State University.
"I just went out into the world thinking that I had all the tools I needed in order to succeed," Jones said. "When I got to Michigan State I was in for a rude awakening. I found out that I was behind the curveball. I promptly flunked out, and it kind of scarred me. So I didn't go back to school for another 20 years after that."
Jones says it was her children who inspired who to go back to school — she and her husband always emphasized the value of an education, and she felt that it was time to practice what she preached. She started out at junior college, where she got straight As, then graduated from Wayne State University. After her bachelors, she received two masters degrees and was finally able to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a teacher.
Jones encountered a problem many Detroit Public School graduates face. Despite passing and even excelling within the city's public school system, she was not prepared for college. In her 15 years as an elementary school teacher in the Detroit Public School system, Jones has seen a lot of change. Detroit's public schools have been in some form of state control since 1999. The past 15 years have been a constant struggle for stability. Schools open and close irregularly, there are hundreds of teacher vacancies and the physical school buildings are poorly maintained.
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Those stability issues have been a detriment to student literacy, according to a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of a group of students and families against the state. Public Counsel, a pro-bono firm which brought the lawsuit, argues that the state has denied children attending public school in Detroit a constitutional right to literacy.
The state, in turn, argues that it is not at fault, and that there are "many other factors that contribute to illiteracy, such as poverty, parental involvement (or lack thereof), medical problems, intellectual limitations, domestic violence, trauma, and other numerous influences." A federal judge will hear arguments regarding the state's motion to dismiss the case this Thursday.
Murcy Jones is familiar with the state's argument, and she said her students hear and see it everywhere. There is an overwhelming sense — from pop culture, from the state, from their friends — that they are not good enough. She said that's simply not true.
"I service a lot of underprivileged, poverty-stricken students who have a lot on their plates. I try to give them hope that there is something out there other than the environment that they're in, that they're born into," Jones said. "Because I came from that, I let them know that I come from that, and look where I am. You can do better than what people say."
Jones says she prefers working with younger students, who have been less beaten down by the system. She hopes that good teaching early on will set her elementary school students up for success. She knows that her students will face immense challenges — she experienced many of them firsthand during her time in school — but she also knows they can overcome them, with the right resources.
"When I was at Michigan State, I felt worthless. I felt like I was a failure. I felt like nobody cared, because they didn't teach me what I should have known," Jones said, "and for that to be a deal-breaker, it weighed heavy on me for a long time."
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The evolution of MAGICMOTORSPORT
A brief timeline of events that have changed our company.
02.03.1996 › ESTABLISHMENT
MAGICMOTORSPORT was founded by the Skutkiewicz brothers in Poland. The first MMS Team was composed of a handful of mechanics, engineers and software developers that gave Tech Support to racing and rally teams.
Our first headquarters was in Gdansk, Poland where we initially only focused on products for high performance racing that over time led to include the development of hardware and software solutions that interface with automotive electronics.
Our first accolades
Our efforts begin to pay off and our vehicles start to win awards in rallycross, rally and high climbing all over Europe. One step at a time, MMS began to make a name for itself among the most influential companies in its sector.
Our Development in Automotive Electronics
Slowly but surely, the company began to grow in size and experience. In 2002 our first Automotive
Electronics project was perfected; a direct shift gearbox for A7 rally cars.
Subsequently the MAGPro2 line was born. It started out as a simple device that only supported a few Bosch controllers.
New Products: MAGPro2 BASE and BDM v3
After a period of intense development, MMS released the MAGPro2 BASE and BDM v3. Our efficient OBD and BDM MPC5xx programmers are now readily available to chiptuners and repair shops all over the world.
The release of the x17 & T-BOOT modules.
The evolution of the MAGPro2 line led to the development of the x17 that was launched as an advanced OBD & BL programmer for MEDC17, Simos and Delphi ECUs. It quickly became a must have for mechatronic workshops because of its versatility.
The T-BOOT was then released exclusively for tuners who work exclusively in Tricore Bootloader.
Five stars in Customer Support
We were awarded five stars in 2012 thanks to the release of our MMS Helpdesk. A source of pride to the company, it allows the MMS Team to offer better quality in Customer Support to all our users and is a portal where anyone in need can get in touch with our qualified technicians and staff.
MAGICMOTORSPORT Italy
Due to the rapid growth of our company, we moved our headquarters to Terrasini, Italy where our Team expanded in number and experience. In our new R&D and Manufacturing Labs, MAGICMOTORSPORT added Made in Italy quality workmanship to its products.
Our Technical Training Course Program
At the request of our users and potential customers, we began to structure training courses that give
us the means to assist the participants with the technical aspects of our products as well as give them
a hands-on experience with the tools themselves under the expert guidance of our Team.
Worldwide tour of Automotive Fairs
MMS has grown to include an extensive Team of skilled professionals with distributors all over the world. The MMS Team takes part in all the major Automotive fairs around the world and these events give us the chance to get to know our clients and fellow enthusiasts in person.
Opening of our Chinese Branch
A MAGICMOTORSPORT international branch was officially opened in Shanghai, China to open the doors to development and technical support to the eastern Asian market and to establish our presence in the currently expanding Chinese automotive sector.
The launch of dynoMAG
A solution aimed towards our professional customers, this product line of rolling road dynamometers gives tuners accurate and detailed measurements of torque, power and performance and also gives them the chance to validate the work that has been done on the vehicle.
Worldwide tour for the MAGICMOTORSPORT Training Courses
By popular demand, we established an international line of training courses to be able to offer our foreign customers the chance to participate in a MMS quality training course in their native language.
We returned to our roots and sponsored an Audi TT from the Bezpieczne Wyścigi racing team that competes in the most important circuits in Poland. A champion in its field, the MMS endorsed vehicle has gone on to win numerous events.
BMW Fxx Flasher
The launch of the Fxx Flasher that supports BMW Fxx series vehicles directly through the OBD socket
of the vehicle is a revolutionary new tool that simplifies work on these difficult ECUs. This innovative solution is also available to our esteemed customers as well.
We participated in the 2018 edition of the Giro di Sicilia where we introduced the first electric vehicle into the competition. Driving a Tesla Model S, the MMS crew covered over 1000 km in the Sicilian provinces where we introduced our sustainable mobility project to automotive enthusiasts.

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S. Korea court to declare Hanjin Shipping bankrupt
South Korea's Hanjin Shipping -- once the country's largest shipping company and the world's seventh biggest -- is expected to be declared bankrupt this month, a court said Thursday, resulting in thousands of job losses.
Hanjin filed for bankruptcy protection in August after creditors refused to further help the firm, which was sinking under the weight of $5.37 billion of debt.
The company started going under after the shipping industry suffered its worst downturn in six decades owing to slumping global trade and a slowdown in China.
The Seoul Central District Court said in a statement it would end court receivership and declare the company bankrupt on February 17 following a two-week period for appeals.
Hanjin's demise would reportedly cost about 3,000 jobs, including those employed by the company and others working for its suppliers.
The court made its decision after it became clear that Hanjin's liquidation value would be greater than its worth as a going concern, the statement said.
Hanjin had sold most of its assets and the court determined there was little possibility of it being kept afloat. (AFP)


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Q: Image inside transparent background-color without being affected What i want to do is to make a background-color (with opacity) inside a image, there's a way that i can achieve this without being affected by the background-color? The problem here is the background-color with opacity, it makes everything transparent, including the text and the image.
Here's my code:
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div.trans-bg {
  background-color: #646464;
  opacity: 0.5;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border: 2px ridge #7AC3D1;
  position: absolute;
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div.trans-bg p {
  text-shadow: 1px 2px 2px #000;
  margin: 5%;
  padding-top: 45px;
  width: 100px;
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http://jsfiddle.net/c3ja7rjn/

A: Try to use rgba instead of the opacity.
background-color: rgba(100, 100, 100, 0.29);

Opacity changes everything contained in the block-level element,
whereas setting the opacity with RGBA changes the
opacity of the element itself.

A: First. Youll also want to remove the opactity on the parent div. This will affect all child divs. This is why the BG color on the image div is affected.
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  background-color: #646464;
  opacity: 0.5;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border: 2px ridge #7AC3D1;
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Next, youll want to use background-color to set the color without affecting the image BG css on the image div.
background-color: #000;

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PM unveils new FGM measures
News, 23 July 2014
David Cameron has unveiled measures to prosecute parents who fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation.
New funding to protect girls from the practice and forced marriage was announced at the Girl Summit 2014 in London yesterday (22 July).
A £1.4 million prevention programme, in partnership with NHS England, will care for survivors and safeguard those at risk. Teachers, doctors and social workers will get training to identify and help girls at risk.
The Prime Minister told the Summit, hosted with children's charity Unicef, the practices should be stopped worldwide "within this generation"
He said: "All girls have the right to live free from violence and coercion, without being forced into marriage or the lifelong physical and psychological effects of female genital mutilation.
"Abhorrent practices like these, no matter how deeply rooted in societies, violate the rights of girls and women across the world, including here in the UK."
Find out more: On 9 December 2014, Pavilion will host a conference entitled 'Preventing Female Genital Mutilation' aimed at building an awareness of FGM and encouraging HCPs and safeguarding teams to act swiftly on their behalf - click here to find out more and book your place
The announcement came as it emerged that the number of women living in England and Wales who have been subjected to FGM is twice as high as previously thought.
A new study by City University and the human rights group Equality Now revealed more than 137,000 women in England and Wales are living with the consequences of FGM. The number has significantly increased in the past 10 years as women flee war-torn countries to find safety in Britain.
Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the UK since 1985, and the law was tightened in 2003 to make it an offence for a British resident to travel abroad in order to have FGM carried out on a child. Pressure has been growing on police and prosecutors over the failure – until earlier this year – to bring a single case to the British courts. Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, announced the first ever charge relating to FGM earlier this year but the case has yet to go through the courts.
Other moves announced yesterday include the launch of a new specialist FGM service which will include social services, to identify and respond to FGM; this will be supported by an ongoing package of work led by the Chief Social Worker Isabelle Trowler.
New legislation will also grant victims lifelong anonymity from the time an allegation is made. The domestic changes will not apply in Scotland or Northern Ireland, but governments there said they had their own plans to tackle FGM.
For more details on the proposals read: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-hosts-girl-summit-2014-a-future-free-from-fgm-and-child-and-forced-marriage
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Islanders vote on pros and cons for new winter ferry timetable
Kathie Griffiths Updated: 04/04/19, 10:34 am
Islanders on Mull and Iona have until next week to vote on a new ferry timetable for next winter – or to keep this year's.
To help people make up their minds, Mull and Iona Ferry Committee has come up with a list of pros and cons for each.
After the deadline of April 12, votes from each island will be counted separately and the new proposed timetable for 2019/20 will only be accepted if it wins majority support from both of the communities individually.
If there is no majority, the 2018/19 winter timetable will stay as it is.
Under the new timetable put forward by CalMac, the pros for people on Mull would include being able to get a full working day on the mainland every weekday and there would be a bigger window of opportunity for people to make appointments and get other travel connections, including the 08.57 train out of Oban Monday to Saturday.
However, disadvantages for both Mull and Iona would be likely 24-hour delays for Royal Mail deliveries and the loss of Saturday's late boat back to Craignure. For those coming from Iona, cons would mean they could only get a full day in Oban on a Monday and, other than that, would not get to the town on other days before 11am.
To compare both timetables, go to mullandionaferrycommittee.org. As well as being online, the information is also being made available in public places across the islands. The voting deadline is at midnight on April 12.
Mull and Iona Ferry Committee says its long-running campaign to get an improved island-focused ferry service between Oban and Craignure has now reached 'a significant juncture'.
Over the past four months, it has increased its lobbying of Transport Scotland and CalMac to produce a timetable for next winter that would make the sailing day longer and give a full eight to nine hours on the mainland every weekday, the same as the 2019 summer service.
Transport Scotland has agreed to extra funds but CalMac's proposal for the new winter timetable still does not fully match the committee's hopes for what an island-focused community service could achieve.
Elizabeth Ferguson, who is the chairperson of Mull and Iona Ferry Committee, said: 'After years of campaigning, CalMac has at last offered Mull a possible new winter timetable which could finally give islanders a full day on the mainland 12 months of the year.
'Unfortunately, the timetable which CalMac has proposed has a number of key shortcomings, including delaying inward post by 24 hours affecting delivery of essential medicines which come by Royal Mail, severely reduced weekend sailings, and a significant degradation of the service for Iona residents.
'The proposed timetable falls a long way short of what we had hoped, and CalMac would not consider any of our suggested counter offers. On first look, this proposed CalMac timetable may look attractive to some. However, it is really important to read through the pros and cons we have put together before voting, so that people fully understand the implications of this proposed CalMac timetable.'
Discussions with Transport Scotland and islands minister Paul Wheelhouse will still be continuing over the summer to get a better timetable deal for 2020/21.
Votes online via surveymonkey.co.uk/r/J25Y5FG.
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When asked what the impetus or inspiration is behind one of They Might Be Giants' most popular recent albums, Here Comes Science, TMBG's John Flansburgh's answer is quick and – delightfully predictably – the first thing he focuses on are the meanings of the words themselves.
"Inspiration seems so pompous compared to the worker-like pragmatism of impetus, so let's go with impetus…" he muses, "our previous projects had big topics – the ABCs and the 123s – and themes that are that big generate a lot of ideas. Science was one of the few topics that seemed equally rich. Although we've gotten some nervous questions about Here Comes Science's controversial 'fact-based' method, ultimately for us it was less politically volatile than doing a history project," he chuckles.
The wit and charm of the lyrics and music are all TMBG – but the details, facts, and info, as Flansburgh already mentioned, were cribbed together, appropriately, much as one might do research for a term paper. Flansburgh says he thinks they'd still get a decently high grade.
Flansburgh's personal favorite song from Here Comes Science – "Meet the Elements" – is a song that he says has a "natural rhythmic pocket," a novelty of sorts amidst TMBG's usual roster of far more intricate, geek-cred compositions.
In addition to the new …Science album, the band recently completed not one, but two additional albums, a rarities set and their new full-length studio set (their 15th album overall), which they dubbed Join Us. The studio where the latter album was recorded may not necessarily be where you'd picture a geeky-cool indie-rock band working on their songs – well, unless that band is They Might Be Giants.
So what do TMBG have in their plans next, now that their latest record is completed? Again, from Flansburgh, a quick, direct – and perhaps wig-inspired – answer.
Find out more about They Might Be Giants on their official website.
originally published on Groupee.com, reprinted with permission.
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We strongly recommend taking public transportation.
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Earl Marriott's first-place senior girls cross-country team. Below
Banner day for Earl Marriott runners
EMS senior teams win banners and Fraser Valley Cross-Country Championships last week in Coquitlam.
A big day for Earl Marriott Secondary senior cross-country teams last week may only be topped by one thing – another big day on Saturday.
At Fraser Valley Cross-Country Championships last Wednesday afternoon at Coquitlam's Mundy Park, the EMS Mariners snagged both the senior boys and senior girls banners in convincing fashion, and could – if all goes well – repeat the feat this weekend at provincial championships in West Kelowna.
"In all my years coaching, I don't remember a year where one school had a shot at both (senior) provincial banners," said Marriott's head coach Scott Kent.
"There's just very few times you get to go for both in the same year… there's a lot of good teams, but we've got an outside shot. It's a fairly unique situation."
The Valley showdown at Mundy Park, Kent added, was a fairly accurate predictor of provincials, considering most of B.C.'s top runners this year hail from the Fraser Valley.
In the 6.3-km senior boys race, Marriott's Dawson Ribeiro won silver, clocking a time of 22 minutes, 10.68 seconds, losing a sprint to the finish line against first-place runner Liam Foster of Pitt Meadows, who finished less than half a second ahead of Ribeiro, a first-year Mariner who formerly competed at Semiahmoo Secondary.
Ribeiro wasn't the only EMS senior to fare well in the race, however. Jaxon Mackie – recently returned from a serious ACL injury that required surgery – was fifth, in 22:55.15, and his younger brother, Grade 9 runner Jeremiah Mackie was 11th, clocking a time of 23:34.93.
"Jaxon is getting stronger every day," Kent said of his Grade 11 runner.
Sajjan Sarai and Andrew Lewis, two more EMS runners, rounded out the top 20 with a 14th and 16th place showings, respectively.
In the 4.7-km senior girls Fraser Valley run, the Mariners won the team banner with ease, with three finishers inside the top 10 and six in the top 20. Their overall team score – in which finishing positions of a school's top four runners are added together, with the lowest score winning – was 50 points clear of the second-place Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam.
Georgia Ginther led the charge for the Mariners with a fifth-place finish, in a time of 17:36.54, which was less than two seconds quicker than teammate Kera Mumford, who placed sixth.
Mumford's performance at the senior level was made even more impressive considering she is only in Grade 8 and was, by far, the youngest runner in the field.
"It's amazing what she's done – how is she only in Grade 8?" Kent said.
Haley Ribeiro – in eighth – rounded out the top 10, while Carly Good was 14th, Lisa Seidelmann 16th, Simran Sarai 20th and Colleen Wiebe 22nd.
But even with a slew of green-and-orange clad EMS runners at the front of the field, Clayton Heights Secondary proved tough to top, and had a perfect 1-2 punch on the podium with sisters Christina Sevsek winning gold and her sister, Julie, taking home silver.
Other top finishers from the Semiahmoo Peninsula included White Rock Christian Academy's Elizabeth Gin, who was 15th and Sullivan Heights' Gabby Bourassa-Tait, who finished in 31st.
The Mariners' Grade 8s were equally impressive.
The boys team fared well enough as a unit that they qualified for provincials this weekend – though they'll be running alongside junior teams, as there are no Grade 8 races at the provincial level.
The Mariners' top finisher was Cash Raymond, who placed seventh, and was followed by Micah Logie in 11th, Daya Sarai in 13th and Matthew Weibe in 22nd.
As well, Alexis Friedel won bronze in the 3.4-km Grade 8 girls race, finishing in 16:02.91.
Like her Grade 8 boys teammates, her performance was also enough to qualify her for the junior provincial race, though she'll compete without teammates after the Grade 8 team missed qualifying as a group by a single point.
For full results from Fraser Valleys, visit www.fraservalleyxc.ca
Though the Mariners will now take aim at one, and maybe two, provincial banners, Kent expects the task to be a difficult one – not just for his team, but for everyone.
The West Kelowna course is on a mountainside, he explained, so in addition to the usual challenges of trail-running, competitors will have to deal with an increase in altitude.
"Also, it's November – it could be snowing," he said. "It'll be tough, a real test, especially for runners from the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island who aren't used to training there.
"It's going to be about survival – fitness will be a huge factor."
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Marguerite De Backer, qui signa ses premières œuvres sous son nom de jeune fille Marguerite Smekens, née à Bruxelles le , et morte à Ixelles en 1968, est une artiste peintre néo-impressionniste de paysages, de marines et de natures mortes.

Biographie
Marguerite De Backer se forma auprès des maîtres de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles où elle suivi les cours de peinture, de dessin et de gravure.

Elle se fit connaître surtout comme peintre de fleurs et de scènes marines bordant des paysages portuaires.

Bibliographie
 Paul Piron, Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et XXe siècles, Ohain-Lasne, 2003, tome I, p. 294.
 Paul Piron, Deux siècles de signatures d'artistes de Belgique, Ohain : Éditions Art in Belgium, 2002
 Dictionnaire des peintres belges. Lire en ligne.

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Liens externes

 Marguerite de Backer sur Artnet

Peintre belge du XXe siècle
Personnalité bruxelloise


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СРОК ЗА ИЗДАВАНЕ НА РЕШЕНИЕ ОТ МИТНИЧЕСКИЯ ОРГАН ПО ПРИЕТО ЗАЯВЛЕНИЕ
Author(s): Atanas Simeonov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019
The research covers issues related to issuing customs decisions on the application of EU customs legislation. There is currently no in-depth discussion on these issues. The practice of the administrative authorities competent to issue acts on the application of customs legislation reveals uncertainty and still ignorance of the new legal framework, which undoubtedly leads to contradictions in the judicial resolution of legal disputes. This article is part of a larger study on administrative service delivery by Member States' customs administrations in the EU and aims to clarify and analyze problematic issues.
Срок за предявяване на иск за вреди от трудова злополука. Начална дата на срока
Author(s): Zhivko Boychev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017
The report considers the determination of the starting point from which the period for claiming damages for an accident at work starts to run. Is it right to claim that the right to claim damages for an accident at work becomes chargeable only after the issue of an order under article 55 of the Code of Social Security for accepting the labor accident or the chargeability occurs on the day of the accident at work?
СРОК ЗА ПРЕДЯВЯВАНЕ НА ИСКА ЗА ОСПОРВАНЕ НА ПРЕОБРАЗУВАНЕТО НА ТЪРГОВСКИТЕ ДРУЖЕСТВА
Author(s): Kiril Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2020
The report aims to scrutinize the term to file a legal claim for contestation of the transformation of legal entities under art. 263O of the Commercial Law. The study will begin with the legal framework, then will examine the beginning of the term for bringing the claim and finally will survey the deadline for contestation of the transformation. In the closing notes I will make de lege ferenda suggestions.
Срокове за изплащане на обезщетенията за временна неработоспособност при прекратяване на осигуряването
Author(s): Yaroslava Genova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2005
Српска православна дијаспора и јединство Православне цркве у САД
Author(s): Miroljub Jevtić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2010
On one territory or in one town can exist only one diocese according to the orthodox ecclesiology. Precisely speaking, it is not good for two orthodox jurisdictions to coincide at the same territory. This fact is not respected in case of the USA, Australia or Western Europe. Therefore, there is more then one diocese in one city, which coincides with each other. If we perceive the position of Serbian Orthodox Church from that point of view, we will very often find on the same territory Serbian Orthodox Church along with other Orthodox jurisdictions of lawfully recognized Orthodox Churches. So, on the same territory we can find Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian and other Orthodox Churches. On the other side OCA (Orthodox Church in America) has been established in order to gather all Orthodox worshipers in the USA, but so far it has managed to gather only lesser part of Orthodox worshipers. By far most of Orthodox worshipers stayed connected to national churches such as Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian etc. But, on the other hand it is obvious that this Church would like to reintegrate all Orthodox worshipers in the USA. From that point of view, it is clear that interests of Serbian Orthodox Church, as well as other Orthodox Churches, are opposite to politics of OCA (Orthodox Church in America).
Српска револуција (1804-1813) и античке правне и политичке идеје
Author(s): Samir Aličić / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0
The subject of the research is the reception of ancient legal and political ideas by Serbian intellectuals who actively participated in the First Serbian Up- rising (1804-1813) and in the creation of the ideology of the Serbian Revolution. They generally accepted the theory of social contract according to which the state is not an abstract term separate from the people who make it, that is, it is equated with the community of citizens. Serbian scholars knew about the forms of government that existed in classical antiquity, and they accepted the division of forms of government into monarchical, aristocratic and democratic, just like some fundamental legal principles of Roman law, such as equality of citizens before the law and the rational and ethical character of law. Also, defining the concept of law as an expression of the people's will expresses the influence of the analogous concept of Roman law.
Српски парламентарни одбори - компаративна анализа
Author(s): Marko Pejković / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2011
For a long time the legislative studies have been out of focus in political science. The fall of interest in theory was paralleled with common notion of ''decline of legislatures'' inside the political systems. However, during the last few decades, revitalised research of parliaments, especially of their committees, has coincided with new processes of comprehensive parliamentary institutionalisation, primarily through strenghtening of committees in period which in literature is called ''age of parliaments''. Therefore, in this paper, the newest Rules of Procedures Act of Serbian National Assembly (july 2010) occupies central place of analysis and in it the status and roll of parliamentary committees. First, theoretical aspect of conceptualizing legislative-executive relationships is mentioned, i.e. the theory of committees as main agents influencing the nature of such relations, then structures, procedures and powers of serbian committees are examined in comparative context, as well as impact of political parties on their membership and functioning. This paper is an attempt of its writer to partly present an institutional arrangement of serbian legislature and to assess reform potentials of committees as parliamentary units.
СРПСКО СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНО ПРАВО: ОД ОСВЕТЕ ДО РЕЗЕРВАТА СУДСКИХ
Author(s): Đorđe Đekić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 138/2012
Since legal norms have come a long way from revenge to the ruler's prerogative in the period between the Slavic arrival to the Balkans and the 12th century, this paper is an attempt to offer solutions for the chronology of these events. As the ruler's prerogative occurs for the first time at the end of the 12th century, it is clear that this process had to have been completed by then. In the pre-state period Serbs had revenge and pacification of blood (godfatherhood), which were retained even after the state was established. In the state period the phenomenon of blood brothers occured as another form of pacification of blood. The existence of the system of composition payments can be proven indirectly. At the end of the 12th century the Old Serbian Law was created, which proscribed that the ruler tried for murder and theft of church property. This is the evidence that revenge disappeared in the meantime. Revenge and the system of composition payments remained legally valid ways of settling disputes in Bosnia until the end of the 15th century. As Bosnia was part of Serbia until the end of the 10th century, this implies that until that time revenge was a legally valid way of settling disputes in Serbia. This would mean that the abolishment of revenge and the transfer of this dispute to the competence of the ruler, when a blood debt was settled, which had been a remnant of the system of composition payments, occurred in the period between the end of the 10th century and the end of the 12th century, when it became part of the written law. As for the theft of church property, it must be said that the decisions of the Split (Spalatum) Assembly of 925 AD lead to the conclusion that the state accepted to regulate the theft of church property, which indicates that the mention of the theft of church property could have been the record of the ruler's prerogative. Finally, it was noticed that at least one more felony – treason – had to be the regulated by the ruler's prerogative. It was a felony that could be committed only against the ruler and the throne, for which the ruler himself tried the guilty party. Examples have proven that this is the oldest ruler's prerogative and a presupposition was made that other forms of court orders were introduced after this model.
Стабилитетът на служебното правоотношение като гаранция срещу незаконосъобразното уволнение на държавния служител
Author(s): Radoslav Radushev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2006
As a significant element of the state service the stability of the official legal relationship between the state officials and the state is regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, the State Official Act, as well as by a number of special acts of primary and secondary legislation. The legal regulation should take into account the practical problems emerging in the process of carrying out of the state service by the state officials; therefore the article is aimed at the analysis of some of these problems. Stability of the official legal relation is a principle of state service, which is represented in different legal figures. The study explores the application of the principle of stability during the establishment, development and termination of the official legal relationship. In view of the fact that the stability of the official legal relationship is characterised by its considerable guarantee function, the analysis pays attention to the issues regarding the alterations of the official legal relationship. The problems are examined in the context of the normative regulation of the state service and state officials' legal status.
Стабилност на законодателството
Author(s): Zhivko Stalev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2002
The article has been provoked by the changes, which happen too often in the legislation, and the author illustrates this with comparative data. Having in mind that the frequent changes in the legislation destroy certain established stereotypes of behaviour and transform just in paper suitable only for recycling the entire judicial practice and literature, which deal with the amended law, the author proposes to stop the need for amendments through interpretation of the law, when the text is unclear, contradicting or regulates the matter, which it relates to.
Стабильность уголовно-процессуального законодательства Республики Таджикистан
Author(s): Rifat Yuldoshev / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2015
The paper analyzes the changes and additions to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Tajikistan, which have substantially changed and influenced its stability. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the driving force of the amendments and their relevance, as well as timeliness and appropriateness of their introduction and adoption. The author emphasizes the important role of the legislative body and the scientific community because their indifference, silence and inactivity may disturb the stability of the domestic criminal procedural law.
СТАВ СУДА ПРЕМА ДОКАЗИМА У КРИВИЧНОМ ПОСТУПКУ
Author(s): Čedomir Stevanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 16/1976
L'activité du tribunal et des autres sujets dans la procédure pénale se déve-loppe dans le sens de l'éclaircissement le plus complet et général et la résolution des affaires pénales, ce qui peut être réalisé par la production des preuves. Con-sidéré e dans son contenu, la production des preuves, en tant qu'activité de pro-cédure complexe consiste dans la découverte, la déduction, la vérification et l'esti¬mation des preuves. De toutes ces activités pour le tribunal sont de la plus haute importance la déduction et l'estimation des preuves. La déduction des preuves représente l'adoption, la connaissance et la fixation par écrit des faits par les¬quels sont constatés les faits litigieux dans l'affaire pénale.L,estimation des preuves représente la constatation de la valeur des faits découverts et constatés par les moyens probatoires prévus par la loi par rapport aux faits litigieux. Considéré historiquement, le législateur a donné la possibilité au tribunal de déterminer de deux manières la valeur de certains faits. Sous ce rapport-là existent deux théories relatives à la détermination de la valeur des preuvse: la théorie relative à la valeur légale des preuves, selon laquelle c'est le législateur qui devait déterminer la valeur des preuves et la théorie relative à l'estimation libre des preuves, selon laquelle le tribunal à l'occasion de la dé-termination de la valeur des diverses preuves n'est lié par aucune règle proba¬toire formelle. La première était caractéristique pour la procédure d'instruction pénale et la deuxième pour la procédure pénale d'accusation et contemporaine.Notre législateur a prévu expressément que le droit du tribunal et des autres organes d'Etat d'estimer l'existecce ou l'inexistence des faitis n'est pas lié et limité par des règles probatoires formelles spéciales. Le tribunal correcti¬onnel déduit et en même temps détermine la valeur des preuves au cours de toute la procédure pénale soit dans la composition individuelle ou d'assemblée. Dans ce cas le tribunal doit consacrer une attention particulière au contenu des déclarations des diverses peronnes et examiner critiquement les possibilités ob¬jectives d'une personne à observer les faits, ainsi que son rapport subjectif en¬vers la vérité.Cette activité du tribunal est surtout intense et responsable quand il s'agit de l'estimation des déclarations des experts, en raison de la spécificité de ce moyen probatoire. A l'occasion de la détermination de la valeur des faits conte¬nus' dans la constatation et de l'opinion des experts le tribunal doit -en parti¬culier concentrer son attention sur les questions suivantes: les capacités pro- fesionnelles de l'expert, son objectivité et son impartialité, la quantité et la qualité des matériaux de l'instruction, le caractère scientifiques des méthodes appliquées par l'expert et -sur le lieu des constatations et l'opinion de l'expert parmi d'autres preuves. Le tribunal peut exiger une expertise complémentaire ou plusieurs expertises réitérées si le résultat de la première expertise ne donne pas satisfaction. Cependant, s'il s'agit des faits litigieux qui doivent être constatés par l'application des connaissances professionnells ou des expériences spéciales et si le tribunal en estimant plusieurs constations et opinions des experts n'ado¬pte pas une seule, alors le tribunal doit considérer de tels faits comme ine¬xistants, vu qu'ils ne sont pas prouvés ou qu'ils sont douteux. Si ces faits sont aux dépens du prévenu le tribunal les attribuera au profit du prévenu par l'ap¬plication du principe in dubio pro reo. Enfin, sur l'exactitude des résultats des experts influent aussi les parties dans la procédure pénale tant dans la procédu¬re en première instance que dans la procédure par les voies de droit.
СТАВЉАЊЕ ЗАВЕШТАЊА ВАН СНАГЕ У АУСТРИЈСКОМ И СРПСКОМ ПРАВУ
Author(s): Dragica Živojinović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 88/2020
The proceeding for declaring a will (testament) ineffective on the basis of facts presuming incompliance with the previously expressed last will of the testator, which is prescribed in several contemporary legislations, is distinct from the revocation of a testament as a strictly personal act by which the testator explicitly or tacitly expresses or manifests animus revocandi. The subject matter of this paper is the analysis of legal solutions regulating cases when the last will can be revoked in Austrian law (in case of cessation of partnership or kinship relations after making a last will and exclusion of the only child from the will due to the testator's misconception) and in Serbian law (in case of a substantial change of circumstances which were the testator's decisive motive to make the bequest of certain content at the time of making the will). After examining the facts which are the basis for the presumption of incompliance with the testator's last will and considering other conditions as prerequisites for the application of this institute, as well as their comparison, the author concludes that the legislator's intervention into the freedom of testation could be justified only if it is crucial for exercising this freedom. In other cases, such an intervention bears the risk of imposing additional restrictions, including the interference into testamentary freedom.
Стан здоров'я працівника як підстава розірвання трудового договору за ініціативою роботодавця
Author(s): О.O. Konopeltseva / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 149/2020
The grounds on which the employer is allowed to terminate the employment contract with the employee are considered if the employee's inconsistency with the position or job is established. It is emphasized that dismissal of an employee is allowed in case of a discrepancy due to a state of health, which hinders the continuation of this work, if it is impossible to transfer him to an easier job due to the absence of a vacant job or refusal to transfer. A characteristic feature of dismissing an employee due to poor health is the lack of guilt. The inability of the employee to perform his or her work duties is linked to the state of health and does not depend on his will and desire, and therefore cannot be blamed on him. The article proves that temporary disability cannot be considered as a reason to dismiss a worker.According to the medical report, the owner or his authorized body must transfer such persons with their consent to such work temporarily or without a time limit. Such transfer of an employee is possible under the conditions on which both medical and legal basis can be.In the case of refusal of the employee to transfer or absence at the enterprise of work that he could perform without harm to his health, the owner or his authorized body may raise the issue of his dismissalin due course due to the found inconsistency of the occupied position or performed work due to a state of health that impedes the continuation of this work (paragraph 2 of Article 40 of the Labor Code of Ukraine). Such dismissal shall be allowed in the exceptional cases where the owner or his authorized body really does not have the opportunity to transfer the employee upon his or her consent to another job according to a medical report.
СТАНДАРТИ ЗА ДЕТСКО ПРАВОСЪДИЕ
Author(s): Maria Dishkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016
This is a statue about laws in Bulgaria regarding juvenile justice. It is very useful to comment this area, because it seems to stay just a little bit unknown for society. It is European requirement to have specific standarts in justice for children and Bulgarian laws are a good reply. Most of these standarts are written in Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code.
Стандарти забезпечення законності здійснення негласної діяльності у кримінальному процесі крізь призму правових позицій європейського суду з прав людини
Author(s): A. R. Tumanyants,I. O. Krytska / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 152/2021
The analysis of the legal positions of the ECHR in the aspect of the subject of the article under consideration made it possible to conditionally single out the following standards for ensuring the legality of the implementation of covert activity in criminal proceedings:– predictability. Its essence lies in the fact that the grounds, procedural order, conditions, timing, the circle of persons and crimes in relation to which it is allowed to carry out covert activities should be as detailed, clear and accurate as possible in the criminal procedural legislation. Moreover, any person had the opportunity to familiarize himself with the relevant regulatory prescriptions and foresee the actions that can be carried out in relation to him;– warranty against abuse. The content of this standard can be disclosed by more detailed highlighting of clarifying provisions ("substandards"). These include: control of interference in human rights and freedoms; the certainty of the circle of persons in relation to whom it is possible to carry out secret activities; limited corpus delicti, for the purpose of investigation or prevention of which covert activity is allowed;; the existence in national legislation of procedures that facilitate the law of the implementation of covert activity in criminal proceedings; the temporary nature of the implementation of secret activities in the criminal process;–verifiability. The essence of this standard can be disclosed through the establishment of judicial control over the decision of the issue regarding the possible destruction of information obtained in the course of conducting covert activities, which is not relevant to criminal proceedings, as well as the requirement for the mandatory opening of decisions that were the basis for conducting covert investigative actions;–exclusivity. The main content of this standard is that covert activity in criminal proceedings can be carried out only in cases where the disclosure or prevention of a crime in another way is impossible or is too complicated;–proportionality of the intervention and its expediency. The essence of this standard is that the implementation of certain covert coercive actions that are associated with the restriction of human rights and freedoms must be proportionate to the goals for which such actions are directed. Moreover, these goals and the applied coercion must be necessary in a democratic society;– inadmissibility of tacit interference in the communication of some subjects. First of all, this requirement concerns the need to legislatively guarantee non-interference in communication between a lawyer and his client, a priest and an accused, etc., which means a ban on targeted control over the communication of certain subjects, as well as the obligation to destroy information obtained in the course of an accidental, situational interfering with their communication.
Стандартизиране на обучението по български език, литература и народознание в Унгария – от националните стандарти до учебния час
Author(s): Svetla Kjoseva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019
The training in Bulgarian language in Hungary has its old traditions. If we turn our attention even to the last great migratory wave of Bulgarian gardeners (the second half of the IXX and the beginning of the XX century), we can account for almost 100-year history, which has its historical and content stages. The paper attempts to track the development of curricula at different government levels, taking into account the conflict situations that arise in the course of such an activity, the approaches for overcoming the difficulties, the efforts to reconcile the opportunities provided by the Hungarian education system and its synchronization with the Bulgarian state standards. The text reflects efforts to create such standards and a system of requirements that meet best the local needs without detracting from the level of education.
Стандартизираният модел на управление на съдебен район в контекста на новите икономически предизвикателства и добрите европейски практики
Author(s): Vanuhi Arakelyan / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0
The report examines the contemporary model of a judicial area of district trough analysis of the normative acts, regulating the management of the judicial system. The problems are examined in the context of the new economic challenges and the good European practice. On basis of the research are made proposals de lege ferenda for improvement of the legislation.
Станковић, Марко. 2020. Преображаји федералне државе –Десет расправа о промењеној природи и суштини федерализма
Author(s): Aleksa Nikolić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2020
Становление и развитие теории юридических фактов в цивилистике: опыт комплексного исследования. Часть первая
Author(s): Alexander Baikov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2018
The article looks into some argumentative issues in somewhat "frozen" theory of juridical facts in civil law; standpoints expressed by academia concerning the nature and understanding of juridical facts are reviewed, and the system of juridical facts in cvil law examined.The author emphasizes the role and the place of juridical facts in the legal regulation mechanism, classification of the juridical facts is given based on various grounds, individual types of juridical facts in civil law are selected and analyzed and differences between them are established.


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Heading Off To College? Be Prepared To Sign A Statement 'Voluntarily' Accepting The Risk You'll Catch COVID-19
Education Practice Co-Chair Paul Lannon was cited in a Chicago Tribune article discussing the distribution of "liability forms" or "waivers" by colleges and universities to help avoid financial repercussions if there were to be a COVID-19 outbreak on campus. Not all of these forms are the same, but many students, faculty and staff are being confronted with similar documents as a prerequisite for returning. Many of the forms include statements that universities cannot guarantee risk-free environments and that those returning to campus are doing so voluntarily. Mr. Lannon said the agreements work in everyone's favor by providing an understanding of the expectations on campus. Many schools have sent out documents called "assumptions of risk" notices — which are distinct from liability waivers — that also communicate what schools are doing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
"Schools think it's fair and appropriate to notify their community that there are risks so that the members of the community can make their own risk assessment," said Mr. Lannon, who's drafted a number of these forms for university clients. "We put the people on notice so they can't say ... 'Had I known about the risk, I wouldn't have gone,' or 'I wouldn't have allowed my children to go.'"
READ: Heading Off To College? Be Prepared To Sign A Statement 'Voluntarily' Accepting The Risk You'll Catch COVID-19
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I've always been interested in books that tell the story if creation from the inside, and particularly when they related to software. I remember being very impressed by Tracy Kidder's The Soul Of A New Machine when I read it way back at university, and another of Kidder's works, House. This week I finished another book in the same tradition, Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg.
"Dreaming in Code" recounts the development of Chandler, an open source personal information manager (PIM) that's now been in development for four years. I have to admit that when I saw the project start date, I assumed that the book documented a rise and fall, and I was really surprised to find out that the project was still in development, but without a widely used release, after all this time. It's not really important though. "Dreaming In Code" is a journey, not a destination, and it was revealing to see that developers with great pedigrees have the same problems that I do on my projects.
"People write programs. That statement is worth pausing over. People write programs. Despite the field's infatuation with metaphors like architecture and bridge-building and its dabbling in alternative models from biology or physics, the act of programming today remains an act of writing - of typing character after character, word after word, line after line. Tools that let programmers create software by manipulating icons and graphics shapes on screen have a long and sometimes successful history... But these have generally served as layers of shortcuts on top of the same old text0based code, and sooner or later, to fix any really hard problems, the programmer would end up elbow-deep in that code anyway.
...Is programming a kind of creative writing? The notion seems outlandish at first blush. Any discipline that involves complex mathematics and symbolic logic does not seem to share the same cubbyhole with poetry and self-expression. Yet the programming field could learn much from the writing world, argues Richard Gabriel, a veteran of Lisp and object-oriented programming who is now a Distinguished Engineer at Sun. 'My view is that we should train developers the way we train creative people like poets and artists. People may say, "Wall, that sounds really nuts." But what do people do when they're being trained, for example, to get a master of fine arts in poetry? They study great works of poetry. Do we do that in out software engineering disciplines? No. You don't look at the source code for great pieces of software. Or look at the architecture of great pieces of software. You don't look at their design. You don't study the lives of great software designers. So you don't study the literature of the thing you're trying to build.'"
"Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new"
"The only software that's worth making is software that does something new."


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Our aim within the History syllabus at Gayhurst School is to excite, inspire and enthuse pupils within the subject and to develop a natural curiosity to know more about people and events that have helped to shape Britain and the wider world. By developing the pupils' historical skills and methods of historical enquiry, we aim to help our pupils make sense of the past.
The History department follows the New National curriculum topics from Years 1-6. Each term, a new topic is covered by each year group but there is flexibility for any current events of importance to be celebrated or for further study to occur.
The topics are taught within classes that allow for plenty of opportunities for independent research using ICT and other available resources. The subject is taught in a way which encourages questioning, thinking critically, examination of artefacts and historical evidence which allows the students to develop perspective and judgement. There are also opportunities for debates, presentations, art and project style work.
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Q: Paint bucket getting "Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded" error This is the code of the paint bucket tool in my drawing app using the p5.js library. The function self.floodFill always get "Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded" because of recursion and I want to know the way to fix it. I am thinking if changing the function to a no recursion function would help or not. Any help would be appreciated.
function BucketTool(){
    var self = this;
    //set an icon and a name for the object
    self.icon = "assets/bucket.jpg";
    self.name = "Bucket";
    var d = pixelDensity();

    var oldColor;
    var searchDirections = [[1,0],[-1,0],[0,1],[0,-1]];

    var pixelsToFill = [];
    var positionArray = new Array(2);

    self.checkBoundary = function(currentX, currentY, localOldColor) {
        if (self.getPixelAtXYPosition(currentX,currentY).toString() != localOldColor.toString() || currentX < 0 || currentY < 0 || currentX > width || currentY > height || pixelsToFill.indexOf(currentX+" "+currentY) != -1) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    };

    self.floodFill = function(currentX, currentY, localOldColor, localSearchDirections) {
        if (self.checkBoundary(currentX, currentY, localOldColor)){
            pixelsToFill.push(currentX+" "+currentY);
        } else {
            return;
        }
        for (var i = 0; i < searchDirections.length; i++){
            self.floodFill(currentX + searchDirections[i][0], currentY + searchDirections[i][1], localOldColor, localSearchDirections);
        }
    };

    self.getPixelAtXYPosition = function(x, y) {
        var colour = [];
        for (var i = 0; i < d; i++) {
          for (var j = 0; j < d; j++) {
            // loop over
            index = 4 * ((y * d + j) * width * d + (x * d + i));
            colour[0] = pixels[index];
            colour[1] = pixels[index+1];
            colour[2] = pixels[index+2];
            colour[3] = pixels[index+3];
          }
        }
        return colour;
    }

    self.drawTheNeededPixels = function(){
        for(var i = 0; i < pixelsToFill.length; i++){
            positionArray = pixelsToFill[i].split(" ");
            point(positionArray[0],positionArray[1]);
        }
    }

    self.draw = function () {
        if(mouseIsPressed){
            pixelsToFill = [];

            loadPixels();

            oldColor = self.getPixelAtXYPosition(mouseX, mouseY);

            self.floodFill(mouseX, mouseY, oldColor, searchDirections);

            self.drawTheNeededPixels();
        }

    };

}

A: This problem is well documented on the wikipedia page and the shortfalls of the different types of algorithms to perform flood filling. You've gone for the stack-based recursive implementation.
To prevent a stackoverflow — Maximum Call Stack Exceeded — the first step would be to use a data structure. Using queues/stacks rather than having the function call itself.
The code below creates an empty stack where we put a new object containing the x and y where the user has chosen to fill. This is then added to the pixelsToFill array. We then loop the stack until it's completely empty, at which point we are ready to display the filled pixels.
In the while loop we pop an element off the stack and then find its children — the directions up, down, left, right denoted by the searchDirections array you created. If we've not seen the child before and it's within the boundary we add it to the pixelsToFill array and add it to the stack to repeat the process:
self.floodFill = function (currentX, currentY, localOldColor, localSearchDirections) {
    let stack = [];
    stack.push({ x: currentX, y: currentY });
    pixelsToFill.push(currentX + " " + currentY);
    while (stack.length > 0) {
      let current = stack.pop();
      for (var i = 0; i < searchDirections.length; i++) {
        let child = {
          x: current.x + searchDirections[i][0],
          y: current.y + searchDirections[i][1],
          localOldColor,
        };
        if (self.checkBoundary(child.x, child.y, localOldColor)) {
          pixelsToFill.push(child.x + " " + child.y);
          stack.push(child);
        }
      }
    }
  };

This code may stop the stackoverflow but there are still a lot of optimisations that can be made. Once again, it's worth checking out the Wikipedia page and potentially take a look at Span filling.

let bucketTool;
function setup() {
  createCanvas(400, 400);
  bucketTool = new BucketTool();
}

function draw() {
  background(220);
  strokeWeight(5);
  circle(width / 2, height / 2, 100);
  frameRate(1);
  bucketTool.draw();
}

function BucketTool() {
  var self = this;
  //set an icon and a name for the object
  // self.icon = "assets/bucket.jpg";
  // self.name = "Bucket";
  var d = pixelDensity();

  var oldColor;
  var searchDirections = [
    [1, 0],
    [-1, 0],
    [0, 1],
    [0, -1],
  ];

  var pixelsToFill = [];
  var positionArray = new Array(2);

  self.checkBoundary = function (currentX, currentY, localOldColor) {
    if (
      self.getPixelAtXYPosition(currentX, currentY).toString() !=
        localOldColor.toString() ||
      currentX < 0 ||
      currentY < 0 ||
      currentX > width ||
      currentY > height ||
      pixelsToFill.indexOf(currentX+" "+currentY) != -1
    ) {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  };

  self.floodFill = function (currentX, currentY, localOldColor, localSearchDirections) {
    let stack = [];
    stack.push({ x: currentX, y: currentY });
    pixelsToFill.push(currentX + " " + currentY);
    while (stack.length > 0) {
      let current = stack.pop();
      for (var i = 0; i < searchDirections.length; i++) {
        let child = {
          x: current.x + searchDirections[i][0],
          y: current.y + searchDirections[i][1],
          localOldColor,
        };
        if (self.checkBoundary(child.x, child.y, localOldColor)) {
          pixelsToFill.push(child.x + " " + child.y);
          stack.push(child);
        }
      }
    }
  };

  self.getPixelAtXYPosition = function (x, y) {
    var colour = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < d; i++) {
      for (var j = 0; j < d; j++) {
        // loop over
        index = 4 * ((y * d + j) * width * d + (x * d + i));
        colour[0] = pixels[index];
        colour[1] = pixels[index + 1];
        colour[2] = pixels[index + 2];
        colour[3] = pixels[index + 3];
      }
    }
    return colour;
  };

  self.drawTheNeededPixels = function () {
    for (var i = 0; i < pixelsToFill.length; i++) {
      positionArray = pixelsToFill[i].split(" ");
      point(positionArray[0], positionArray[1]);
    }
  };

  self.draw = function () {
    if (mouseIsPressed) {
      pixelsToFill = [];

      loadPixels();

      oldColor = self.getPixelAtXYPosition(mouseX, mouseY);
      self.floodFill(mouseX, mouseY, oldColor, searchDirections);

      console.log(pixelsToFill.length);
      self.drawTheNeededPixels();
    }
  };
}
html, body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
canvas {
  display: block;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/1.4.1/p5.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/1.4.1/addons/p5.sound.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
    <meta charset="utf-8" />

  </head>
  <body>
    <main>
    </main>
    <script src="sketch.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Shameless plug, but relevant: I've created a blog comparing the different flood fill algorithms using p5.js.


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After nearly three years of rumor and speculation, Amazon has officially announced their first smartphone in the Fire Phone.
The Fire Phone features a 4.7-inch HD resolution display, quad-core 2.2 GHz processor sourced from the Qualcomm Snapdragon series, 2 GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera with an f/2.0 lens and Optical Image Stabilization, with dual stereo speakers. One key feature of the smartphone is Firefly, which is a 3D capture algorithm that recognizes objects, text, and audiovisual content using the camera and/or microphone for future Amazon purchases. Firefly also has a dedicated button, as does the camera.
Amazon will make an SDK available to developers to let them integrate Firefly functionality with third-party apps for other undetermined uses. A camera-driven Dynamic Perspective feature lets you view lock screens, images, and maps in a parallax perspective by tilting the phone in multiple directions to simulate depth. The system uses four infrared cameras to track faces, and can be used to navigate parts of the interface without the need to use physical input.
The Fire Phone supports all Amazon Prime media services, such as music streaming, TV, and movies, and also includes one free year of Prime membership currently worth $99. It also supports Miracast for streaming video directly from the phone to a compatible TV while including unlimited online storage via Amazon Cloud Drive for images taken with the main camera; the Fire Phone also includes the Mayday 24/7 live support feature that debuted with the Kindle Fire while being packed with premium earbuds that feature flat cord magnets to keep them from tangling.
AT&T has the U.S. exclusive on the Fire and lists the phone for sale for $199.99 for the 32 GB version, and $299.99 for the 64 GB version, both with a standard 2-year contract. It will be available July 25th from Amazon.com, listing the phone starting at $649 without contract and $749 for the 64GB version.


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package com.blueninjas.aditlal.trackingapp.utils;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.graphics.Point;
import android.os.Build;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.view.WindowManager;

/**
 * Provides utility methods for working with the device screen.
 */
public class ScreenUtils {

    /**
     * Converts the given device independent pixels (DIP) value into the corresponding pixels
     * value for the current screen.
     *
     * @param context Context instance
     * @param dip     The DIP value to convert
     * @return The pixels value for the current screen of the given DIP value.
     */
    public static int convertDIPToPixels(Context context, int dip) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        return (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, dip, displayMetrics);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given device independent pixels (DIP) value into the corresponding pixels
     * value for the current screen.
     *
     * @param context Context instance
     * @param dip     The DIP value to convert
     * @return The pixels value for the current screen of the given DIP value.
     */
    public static int convertDIPToPixels(Context context, float dip) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        return (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, dip, displayMetrics);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given pixels value into the corresponding device independent pixels (DIP)
     * value for the current screen.
     *
     * @param context Context instance
     * @param pixels  The pixels value to convert
     * @return The DIP value for the current screen of the given pixels value.
     */
    public static float convertPixelsToDIP(Context context, int pixels) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        return pixels / (displayMetrics.densityDpi / 160f);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the current screen dimensions in device independent pixels (DIP) as a {@link Point} object where
     * {@link Point#x} is the screen width and {@link Point#y} is the screen height.
     *
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return The current screen dimensions in DIP.
     */
    public static Point getScreenDimensionsInDIP(Context context) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) {
            Configuration configuration = context.getResources().getConfiguration();
            return new Point(configuration.screenWidthDp, configuration.screenHeightDp);

        } else {
            // APIs prior to v13 gave the screen dimensions in pixels. We convert them to DIPs before returning them.
            WindowManager windowManager = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
            DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
            windowManager.getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);

            int screenWidthInDIP = (int) convertPixelsToDIP(context, displayMetrics.widthPixels);
            int screenHeightInDIP = (int) convertPixelsToDIP(context, displayMetrics.heightPixels);
            return new Point(screenWidthInDIP, screenHeightInDIP);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return [true] if the device is in landscape orientation, [false] otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean isInLandscapeOrientation(Context context) {
        Configuration configuration = context.getResources().getConfiguration();
        return configuration.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE;
    }

    /**
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return [true] if the device has a small screen, [false] otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean hasSmallScreen(Context context) {
        return getScreenSize(context) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL;
    }

    /**
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return [true] if the device has a normal screen, [false] otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean hasNormalScreen(Context context) {
        return getScreenSize(context) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL;
    }

    /**
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return [true] if the device has a large screen, [false] otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean hasLargeScreen(Context context) {
        return getScreenSize(context) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE;
    }

    /**
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return [true] if the device has an extra large screen, [false] otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean hasXLargeScreen(Context context) {
        return getScreenSize(context) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE;
    }

    /**
     * The size of the screen, one of 4 possible values:
     *

     *

     *
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL

     *
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL

     *
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE

     *
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE

     *

     *

     * See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#screenLayout for more details.
     *
     * @param context Context instance
     * @return The size of the screen
     */
    public static int getScreenSize(Context context) {
        Configuration configuration = context.getResources().getConfiguration();
        return configuration.screenLayout & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK;
    }

}

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Pearlpalooza returns to North Pearl Street in Downtown Albany on Saturday, Sept. 16, for it's eighth annual event. The free, family friendly event is open to all ages, and presented by the Real Alternative WEQX, the Downtown…
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We kick off the week with Round 3 of the Fourth Annual NYS Music March Madness! We're down to 16 teams out of 64 in our friendly tournament style competition for readers to discover new artists who call New York home. The original field…
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YouTube had the biggest gains in number of searches on Google search last year, and Reddit had the biggest drop, according to recent research from Searchmetrics.
The report was based on the SEO visibility scores—a combination of organic search volume and rank position of pages—for major websites.
The researchers compared each site's level at the end of 2017 with its position at the start of the year. Adult websites and illegitimate streaming sites were excluded from the analysis.
YouTube had the largest absolute gain in SEO visibility in 2017. Encyclopedia and dictionary properties also had large SEO visibility gains last year, including the websites of Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica.


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package io.entertainmentgo.exception;

import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseStatus;

@ResponseStatus(code=HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class NoTitleFoundException extends RuntimeException {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	public NoTitleFoundException(String msg) {
		super(msg);
	}

}


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Within this gorgeous publication of photography by Randall Hobbet, 40 of the world's finest dancers have been captured as they leap, spin and move with such exquisite grace.
These dancers have embraced discipline, passion, struggle and creativity to unlock the incredible esthetic potential of the human body.
We thought we were going to do an article with Randall's dance images, but as he started sending them, we realized this incredible body of work deserved its own publication.
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text:
'use strict';

const Joi = require('joi');
const ObjectAssign = require('object-assign');
const BaseModel = require('hapi-mongo-models').BaseModel;

const NoteEntry = BaseModel.extend({
    constructor: function (attrs) {

        ObjectAssign(this, attrs);
    }
});

NoteEntry.schema = Joi.object().keys({
    data: Joi.string().required(),
    timeCreated: Joi.date().required(),
    userCreated: Joi.object().keys({
        id: Joi.string().required(),
        name: Joi.string().lowercase().required()
    }).required()
});

module.exports = NoteEntry;


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Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played è un disco del celebre chitarrista Les Paul prodotto da Steve Zuckermann.

Vede protagonisti alcuni dei più importanti artisti rock del '900 tra cui Sting, Eric Clapton e Keith Richards, Joss Stone, Jeff Beck, Richie Sambora, Buddy Guy e molti altri.

Il disco è stato acclamato dalla critica vincendo 2 Grammy Awards.

Steve Zuckerman ha lavorato anche alla seconda edizione del disco (Les Paul And Friends: A Tribute To A Legend), uscita nel 2008.

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