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Există o controversă în ceea ce privește care este primul joc video. Deși termenul de video se aplică unei imagini generate electronic pe un monitor, jocuri video sunt considerate a fi pe mai multe platforme.

Cel mai vechi joc electronic interactiv a fost creat de Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. și Estle Ray Mann pe un tub catodic. Patentul invenției a fost înregistrat la 25 ianuarie 1947. Jocul era asemănător cu un radar din al doilea război mondial.

Primele jocuri video
Printre jocurile video timpurii se numără:
 Turochamp (1948) - primul program de șah, a fost dezvoltat de Alan Turing și David Champernowne în 1948. A fost creat ca parte a cercetării celor doi în domeniul informaticii și învățării automate. Turochamp este cel mai vechi joc PC cunoscut care a intrat în dezvoltare, dar nu a fost niciodată finalizat de Turing și Champernowne, deoarece algoritmul său era prea complex pentru a fi rulat de primele computere ale vremii, cum ar fi Automatic Computing Engine. Turing a încercat să convertească programul în cod executabil pentru computerul Ferranti Mark 1 din 1951 din Manchester, dar nu a reușit să facă acest lucru.
 Bertie the Brain (1950) - un joc PC timpuriu și unul dintre primele jocuri dezvoltate în istoria timpurie a jocurilor video. A fost construit la Toronto de Josef Kates pentru Expoziția națională canadiană din 1950. Computerul înalt de patru metri le-a permis participanților la expoziție să joace un joc de X și 0 împotriva inteligenței artificiale. Jucătorul introducea o mișcare pe o tastatură sub forma unei grile de trei câte trei, iar jocul se desfășura pe o grilă de lumini deasupra capului. Mașina avea un nivel reglabil de dificultate. După două săptămâni la Rogers Majestic, mașina a fost dezasamblată la sfârșitul expoziției și în mare măsură uitată ca o curiozitate.
 OXO (1952) - primul joc (cu grafică) care a rulat pe un computer
 Tennis for Two (1958)
 Spacewar! (1962)
 Marienbad (1962)
 The Sumerian Game (1964)
 Hamurabi (1968)
 Galaxy Game (1971)
 Computer Space (1971) - primul joc arcade
 Star Trek (1971)
 Pong (1972)
 Hunt the Wumpus (1973)
 Gotcha (1973)
 dnd (1974)

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Most people call what we do construction. We, however, like to think of it more as creation. Our buildings and renovations are more than just wood and steel and nails. They are the work of inspired architects and skilled craftsmen. The result of impeccable management and open communication. And, of course, it all starts with our client's vision.
Sure, you can call what we do building. But at Grayson Construction, we believe we go way beyond building. And our clients tend to agree.
Innovative spaces. Historic restorations. Brand new structures. Complex renovations. At Grayson, we pretty much do it all. Restaurants. Retail. Residential. Commercial. And we do it all well.
Most importantly, we do it as a team – suppliers, architects, subcontractors, and tradesmen. For each and every project, we assemble a team that works seamlessly together to create a fabulous finished product that's on time and within budget. Simply put: we meet, and even most often exceed, expectations. Because at Grayson, satisfaction is the only acceptable outcome.
We believe people are the most important part of any project or business. Again, we don't just want to build a building. We want to earn the trust of our clients, and establish relationships that last much longer than one construction project.
And because people are the most important part of any project, we also believe construction shouldn't be a hassle for our clients. It should be a positive collaboration. A mutually beneficial undertaking. So we work very hard to minimize disruption during renovation projects. We keep all lines of communication open, at all times. We watch every penny. We eliminate surprises.
Basically, we keep our promises. It's just who we are, and how we work.


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tax shelters such as captive REITs.
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/*  image_loader_webp.cpp                                                */
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#include "image_loader_webp.h"

#include "io/marshalls.h"
#include "os/os.h"
#include "print_string.h"

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <webp/decode.h>
#include <webp/encode.h>

static PoolVector<uint8_t> _webp_lossy_pack(const Ref<Image> &p_image, float p_quality) {

	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(p_image.is_null() || p_image->empty(), PoolVector<uint8_t>());

	Ref<Image> img = p_image->duplicate();
	if (img->detect_alpha())
		img->convert(Image::FORMAT_RGBA8);
	else
		img->convert(Image::FORMAT_RGB8);

	Size2 s(img->get_width(), img->get_height());
	PoolVector<uint8_t> data = img->get_data();
	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Read r = data.read();

	uint8_t *dst_buff = NULL;
	size_t dst_size = 0;
	if (img->get_format() == Image::FORMAT_RGB8) {

		dst_size = WebPEncodeRGB(r.ptr(), s.width, s.height, 3 * s.width, CLAMP(p_quality * 100.0, 0, 100.0), &dst_buff);
	} else {
		dst_size = WebPEncodeRGBA(r.ptr(), s.width, s.height, 4 * s.width, CLAMP(p_quality * 100.0, 0, 100.0), &dst_buff);
	}

	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(dst_size == 0, PoolVector<uint8_t>());
	PoolVector<uint8_t> dst;
	dst.resize(4 + dst_size);
	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write w = dst.write();
	w[0] = 'W';
	w[1] = 'E';
	w[2] = 'B';
	w[3] = 'P';
	copymem(&w[4], dst_buff, dst_size);
	free(dst_buff);
	w = PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write();
	return dst;
}

static Ref<Image> _webp_lossy_unpack(const PoolVector<uint8_t> &p_buffer) {

	int size = p_buffer.size() - 4;
	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(size <= 0, Ref<Image>());
	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Read r = p_buffer.read();

	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(r[0] != 'W' || r[1] != 'E' || r[2] != 'B' || r[3] != 'P', Ref<Image>());
	WebPBitstreamFeatures features;
	if (WebPGetFeatures(&r[4], size, &features) != VP8_STATUS_OK) {
		ERR_EXPLAIN("Error unpacking WEBP image:");
		ERR_FAIL_V(Ref<Image>());
	}

	/*
	print_line("width: "+itos(features.width));
	print_line("height: "+itos(features.height));
	print_line("alpha: "+itos(features.has_alpha));
	*/

	PoolVector<uint8_t> dst_image;
	int datasize = features.width * features.height * (features.has_alpha ? 4 : 3);
	dst_image.resize(datasize);

	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write dst_w = dst_image.write();

	bool errdec = false;
	if (features.has_alpha) {
		errdec = WebPDecodeRGBAInto(&r[4], size, dst_w.ptr(), datasize, 4 * features.width) == NULL;
	} else {
		errdec = WebPDecodeRGBInto(&r[4], size, dst_w.ptr(), datasize, 3 * features.width) == NULL;
	}

	//ERR_EXPLAIN("Error decoding webp! - "+p_file);
	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(errdec, Ref<Image>());

	dst_w = PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write();

	Ref<Image> img = memnew(Image(features.width, features.height, 0, features.has_alpha ? Image::FORMAT_RGBA8 : Image::FORMAT_RGB8, dst_image));
	return img;
}

Error ImageLoaderWEBP::load_image(Ref<Image> p_image, FileAccess *f, bool p_force_linear, float p_scale) {

	uint32_t size = f->get_len();
	PoolVector<uint8_t> src_image;
	src_image.resize(size);

	WebPBitstreamFeatures features;

	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write src_w = src_image.write();
	f->get_buffer(src_w.ptr(), size);
	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(f->eof_reached(), ERR_FILE_EOF);

	if (WebPGetFeatures(src_w.ptr(), size, &features) != VP8_STATUS_OK) {
		f->close();
		//ERR_EXPLAIN("Error decoding WEBP image: "+p_file);
		ERR_FAIL_V(ERR_FILE_CORRUPT);
	}

	/*
	print_line("width: " + itos(features.width));
	print_line("height: " + itos(features.height));
	print_line("alpha: " + itos(features.has_alpha));
	*/

	src_w = PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write();

	PoolVector<uint8_t> dst_image;
	int datasize = features.width * features.height * (features.has_alpha ? 4 : 3);
	dst_image.resize(datasize);

	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Read src_r = src_image.read();
	PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write dst_w = dst_image.write();

	bool errdec = false;
	if (features.has_alpha) {
		errdec = WebPDecodeRGBAInto(src_r.ptr(), size, dst_w.ptr(), datasize, 4 * features.width) == NULL;
	} else {
		errdec = WebPDecodeRGBInto(src_r.ptr(), size, dst_w.ptr(), datasize, 3 * features.width) == NULL;
	}

	//ERR_EXPLAIN("Error decoding webp! - "+p_file);
	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(errdec, ERR_FILE_CORRUPT);

	src_r = PoolVector<uint8_t>::Read();
	dst_w = PoolVector<uint8_t>::Write();

	p_image->create(features.width, features.height, 0, features.has_alpha ? Image::FORMAT_RGBA8 : Image::FORMAT_RGB8, dst_image);

	return OK;
}

void ImageLoaderWEBP::get_recognized_extensions(List<String> *p_extensions) const {

	p_extensions->push_back("webp");
}

ImageLoaderWEBP::ImageLoaderWEBP() {

	Image::lossy_packer = _webp_lossy_pack;
	Image::lossy_unpacker = _webp_lossy_unpack;
}

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It's no secret that children are heavily influenced by what they see on TV, and due to their natural fascination with the princess' and superheroes they get to know and love in popular kids films, they want to cover their surroundings (clothes, toys, decoration) with their favourite character from the movie.
Kids films are predominantly based on teaching the child a life lesson, what's right and wrong and how to be a good person in general, which makes exposure to these stories will more often than not, have a very positive effect, especially looking at the modern fairy tale where princess' are portrayed as a strong and independent, and love for family is embraced over romance.Kids want to bring the story and character to life and through wearing character clothing the child can feel as though their favourite character is almost a part of or at one with them. It can encourage children to want to behave in the same way that they believe their favourite hero/heroine would.
Stocking character clothes is always going to prove popular in children's stores because this trend will never go out of style! Think Disney and Marvel classics, stories created decades ago, yet still adored by millions of children and adults across the globe. Parents are likely to introduce these movies to their children (especially Disney), like when they were children. The legacy is passed down from generation to generation and the characters truly have consistent and powerful marketability.


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The Tanec Ensemble of folklore dances and songs of Macedonia was founded by the Government of the People's Republic of Macedonia in 1949 with an aim to collect, preserve and present the Macedonian folklore: folk songs and folk dances, folk instruments, national costumes etc.
The ensemble insprired by ancient Macedonian culture and traditions[1] also has a junior ensemble.
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Tickets available from September 7 to 9 in celebration of 13th International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietjet Air is offering 700,000 promotional tickets priced from just VND0 (excluding taxes and fees), available during the "golden hours" from 12pm to 2pm daily from September 7 to 9.
The promotion is in celebration of the 13th International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City (ITE HCMC), also held from September 7 to 9, at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC).
The promotional tickets are available for all domestic routes from October 1 to December 31 and on international routes to Seoul and Busan (South Korea), Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan (Taiwan), Singapore, Bangkok (Thailand), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Yangon (Myanmar), and Siem Reap (Cambodia) from October 1 to August 31, 2018 (excluding national holidays).
Tickets can be booked during the "golden hours" at www.vietjetair.com (compatible with smartphones at https://m.vietjetair.com) or at www.facebook.com/vietjetvietnam (just click the "Booking" tab). Payment is easily made with debit and credit cards of Visa, MasterCard, JCB, KCP, and American Express, and ATM cards issued by 32 banks in Vietnam that have internet banking.
When visiting the expo and the Vietjet pavilion, visitors can also enjoy interesting performances, join lucky draws to have the chance to win free return tickets to domestic and international destinations, take part in games to receive amazing gifts, and have their photo taken with beautiful and friendly flight crews.
ITE HCMC is endorsed by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in collaboration with other agencies. Entitled "The Gateway to Asia", ITE HCMC 2017 is organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN and is expected to attract 300 booths, with 60 per cent of vendors being international, together with 400 other international and domestic vendors and over 350,000 visitors. ITE HCMC is a national event with a regional influence.
Vietjet is the first airline in Vietnam to operate as a new-age airline with low-cost and diversified services to meet customer demand. It provides not only transport services but also uses the latest e-commerce technologies to offer various products and services.
It is a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and possesses IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification. The airline was named as one of the Top 500 Brands in Asia 2016 by global marketing research company Nielsen, the Best Asian Low Cost Carrier at the TTG Travel Awards 2015, which compiles votes from travelers, travel agencies and tour operators throughout Asia, and Asia's Best Employer Brand by the Employer Branding Institute and World HRD Congress for many years. It was also rated as one of the Top 3 fastest growing airline brands on Facebook in the world by Socialbakers.
Vietjet currently boasts a fleet of 45 aircraft, including A320s and A321s, and operates 350 flights each day. It has already opened 73 routes in Vietnam and across the region to international destinations such as Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Cambodia and has carried nearly 40 million passengers to date.


If you haven't read the last two days of my blog, go back and check them out. It is a few different things I have tried to help a teacher implement iPads into their classroom. Today is a continuation of that and I am going to go over the next step of using the iPads to collaborate in the classroom.
Since our students have their Google Drive accounts, I had them sign into their Google Drive account on the iPad. Throughout the two weeks I was in this classroom, I had the students put a sticky note on their iPad so they had the same iPad every day. You could also number the iPads in some way and have them keep the same number iPad so that they do not have to keep signing in to the iPad each day. What ever works for you. Once they were signed into their google Drive account, I created a folder and shared it with all of the students in that class. That way anything that I put in that folder will be shared with that class so they can easily find it.
I projected my iPad onto the board so everyone could see the story there as well.
It also helped the students see the ideas of their classmates as the story evolved. They had to put a lot of detail into one sentence so they could help guide the story the way they wanted, but still help the story flow. After we finished writing the story, we went back as a class and read the story. There were still some mistakes made, but it gave them a chance to see the revising and editing process from a different perspective. The students really enjoyed the process of writing the story together and they were very engaged as students came up with new sentences to change the course of the story. I would make sure that I gave a little more direction at the beginning of the lesson to make sure students do not keep clicking and typing in the middle of the story, but for the most part it turned out very well. Tomorrow I will talk about another great way to collaborate with your students in the classroom that is probably a little more fun for the students and they are still learning!
Since we were working on narrative and expository writing, I had the students write a story together. Within the folder, I created a word document. With that folder being shared with everyone in the class, they were all able to see the document I created. Each student opened that document on their own iPad and we were all able to see the same document at the same time. I had one student at a time write a sentence in the story. While one student was writing, the other students could see what they were writing and were able to pick out the mistakes that they made. It was a very interesting lesson, because you could see the thought process of the students as they wrote. Some of the students were able to write their sentence quickly without having to go back and change anything. While other students had to think about what they were writing for a while and even go back to change it a couple times. It gave me as a teacher a better idea of who was a good writer and who needed some more guidance in their writing skills.
Grading....Debatable as the worst part about teaching! It is a necessary piece of the puzzle, but why does it have to be so tedious?? Isn't there a way to not have to sit there all night grading classwork, homework, and projects? That is a question that I am sure a lot of people have asked themselves after a couple hour haze of grading! If you are using Google Apps and you don't know about Flubaroo, you are about to save yourself a lot of time! You can use Google forms to create a quiz or assignment for your students to work on. You will need to make all of the questions multiple choice or check boxes so that the grading program will work. Once you have created your quiz, you need to go through and take the quiz yourself to use as the answer key. Once you have done that, you can have your students start completing your assignment or quiz however you prefer.
Now that you have taken the quiz and your students have finished taking the quiz, you need to look at your spreadsheet with all of the answers. Once looking at that spreadsheet, insert the script called Flubaroo. The picture above shows you how to find it. Once installed, you will run the script on that assignment. Click the button for Flubaroo and click grade assignment. It will walk you through the steps of grading the assignment. It gives you the option to change the point value for each question and then asks you which person you will use to grade the assignment. That is why you have to answer the quiz first. Once you have done that, just click grade assignment and you can view their scores! The picture below is what it will look like once you have graded the assignment. You can see that Billy got a 50% so he is in red while the other students are in Black who were above a 70%. It also shows you which questions the students missed and the percentage for each question! You can see that question 4, only 50% of the students got it right it is highlighted in yellow. That would be a concept that needs to be retaught to make sure more of the students understand it.
Instead of spending all day and night creating quizzes and then grading those same quizzes, there is a much easier way to grade! As with anything else, you will need to take the time to create the quiz or assignment, but the grading is now a breeze with Flubaroo! I have showed this to several different teachers and the ones who have tried it out are in love with it!


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Q: Partial derivative problem Using differentials to approximate increments to find the amount of material in a hollow
rectangular box, whose inside measurements are 5ft long, 3ft wide, and 2ft deep, if the
box made of lumber that is 0.5inche thick and the box has no top?
what I understand in this question is $x=5$ , $y=3 $, $z=2$ and the function that must be used to find the volume is this$f(x,y,z)=x*y*z$ and the thickness is $0.5 inches$ so we have to find the volume with respect to that as well
I want the answer with steps and by using partial derivatives and I don't even know where to start and what to do!
use this:- $$df=\frac{\partial{f}}{\partial{x}}dx+\frac{\partial{f}}{\partial{y}}dy+\frac{\partial{f}}{\partial{z}}dz $$
$$0.5in=\frac{1}{24}ft$$
In my textbook, it requires the change of volume (delta V) and the answer is ($\frac{47}{24}$) but I don't know the solution.

A: Let us denote the thickness by $a$. The volume of the material is equal to
\begin{align} \Delta V = (x+2a)(y+2a)(z+a) -xyz &\approx a\cdot \frac{d}{dt}\Big|_{t=0}\big((x+2t)(y+2t)(z+t)\big) = \\
&= a \cdot\Big(2\frac{\partial (xyz)}{\partial x} + 2\frac{\partial (xyz)}{\partial y} + \frac{\partial (xyz)}{\partial z}\Big) = \\
&= a(2yz+2xz+xy) = \\
&= \frac{47}{24} \text{ ft}^3\end{align}
The result doesn't quite match the answer you're given (47 vs 27), but I believe this is a typo in your book.

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"Is that a trick question?"
Herb Smith, Ph.D., is retiring after nearly 50 years on the Hill and he's enjoyed his time too much for us to ask.
Smith, who began teaching in the political science and international studies department at McDaniel in the fall of 1973, says that he could count the number of bad days on one hand.
"I got to do what I wanted to do, which is immensely satisfying," he said.
His fondest memory comes from teaching the U.S. Campaigns and Elections course in 2008.
"I publicly tore up the syllabus after two weeks," Smith said.
The class was so popular 15 people audited it which made for an outstanding group, he said.
But his achievements are a little harder to pin down than his memories. One of them is being able to teach through relevant and practical assignments that help students connect to their future and prepare them for the assignments of the 21st century, Smith said.
"My achievements are micro," he added.
Away from the Hill, Smith is also proud of his lobbying on behalf of the College in Annapolis, Md. and Washington D.C.
Another of Smith's accomplishments is his co-authoring of the book "Maryland Politics and Government: Democratic Dominance" which he wrote with John Willis and was published in 2012. It became the backbone of his State and Local Government course, his favorite to teach.
"I get a royalty," he said of every purchase students make when buying the book for his class.
Smith has also been powerful in bringing speakers to campus, many of whom held office or were running for office. Former Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer and Gov. Larry Hogan are just two of the more than 100 that stand out to Smith. Schaefer visited in 1986 as a gubernatorial candidate where students gave him a standing ovation as he toured through Glar. Hogan made the trip in 2014 to talk about state funding for private colleges.
Smith humorously added that elected officials are always free.
Not free, however, was Smith's regular Jan Term trip to Belize which ran for 15 years until the last trip in 2012. As many as 30 students would join him on a trip to San Pedro to explore the local culture.
Smith's care for his students, like providing a fun-filled Jan Term, was enhanced by his experience as a father. Becoming a parent, he said, helped him realize that each student is someone's child.
Once his retirement is finalized, Smith plans to enjoy his time on Pine Island, Fla., where he lives with his wife, gardening, playing tennis, fishing, crabbing, and boating.
After 46 years, it's the people at McDaniel that Smith will miss the most, from his students to his supportive department and amazing colleagues.
"Optimism is a great force multiplier," he said as a final thought to these people. "I try to pass that along."
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The 2015 WTA Elite Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played at the Hengqin International Tennis Center in Zhuhai, China. It was the 1st edition of the singles event and doubles competition. The tournament was contested by twelve singles players and six doubles teams. The event replaced the WTA Tournament of Champions.

Tournament

Qualifying
WTA Elite Trophy is an invitation-only event.

Singles qualifying
The field will consist of the top eleven players not already qualified for the 2015 WTA Finals, plus either (a) the 12th-player not qualified for 2015 WTA Finals, or (b) a wild card. The final two alternates for the 2015 WTA Finals (Venus Williams and Carla Suárez Navarro) would have been eligible to play in WTA Elite Trophy even if they had participated in the WTA Finals.

Doubles qualifying
The field will consist of the top four pairs of players not already qualified for the 2015 WTA Finals, plus two wild cards. For each wild card not given out, the next highest pair of players not already qualified for the 2015 WTA Finals shall become a participant. As in the case of the singles field, the final alternate pair for the 2015 WTA Finals (Alla Kudryavtseva/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova) are eligible to play in WTA Elite Trophy even if they subsequently participate in the WTA Finals.

Format
The singles event features twelve players in a round robin event, split into four groups of three. Over the first four days of competition, each player meets the other two players in her group, with the winner in each group advancing to the semifinal. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match. The six doubles teams will be split into two round robin groups, with the winner of each advancing to the final.

Round robin tie-breaking methods
The final standings of each group were determined by the first of the following methods that applied:
 Greatest number of wins.
 Greatest number of matches played.
 Head-to-head results
 In case of a 3-way tie:
Percentage of sets won
Percentage of games won

Prize money and points
The total prize money for the Huajin Securities 2015 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai 2015 WTA Finals was US$2,150,000.

1 RR means prize money or points won in the round robin round.

Qualified players

Singles

Venus Williams had a resurgent year in 2015. She began the year by winning the ASB Classic defeating Caroline Wozniacki in three sets. She then followed it up by reaching her first slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open since 2010 losing to Madison Keys. She also was able to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open losing to sister Serena. She won her biggest title since Dubai 2010, by claiming the Wuhan Open defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in the finals. She also was the first alternate for the 2015 WTA Finals but was not used.

Carla Suárez Navarro had a break through season in 2015, including breaking through the top 10 and reaching a career high of no. 8 in the world. She was able to reach three finals in the year, but losing in all of them. The first coming at the Diamond Games, where she needed to withdraw from the final against Andrea Petkovic with a neck injury. She followed it up with her biggest final to date at the Miami Open but lost to world no. 1 Serena Williams winning just two games. Her third final was at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia where she fell to Maria Sharapova in three sets. Despite strong showings at WTA events, Suárez Navarro struggled at the major events losing in the first round of three of the four slams. She also struggled in the second half of the year, going on an 8 match losing streak from mid-June to late September, and only winning 5 of her last 17 matches going into the 2015 WTA Finals. She also served as an alternate at the WTA Finals but wasn't used.

Karolína Plíšková had a breakthrough year in 2015, including breaking through the top 10 with a career high of number 7. She reached five finals in 2015, the most finals reached by any player. She began the year by reaching the final of the Apia International Sydney losing to Petra Kvitová. She reached her biggest final to date at the Dubai Tennis Championships but fell to Simona Halep in two tight sets. She took her lone title of 2015 at her home tournament at the Prague Open defeating compatriot Lucie Hradecká in three sets. She reached the finals of Aegon Classic and Bank of the West Classic, both losing to Angelique Kerber in three tight sets. Despite these performances at WTA events, she struggled at majors only surpassing the second round once.

Roberta Vinci had a slow start to the year only winning back-to-back matches twice until she reached the final of Nürnberger Versicherungscup losing to compatriot Karin Knapp in three sets. She wasn't able to carry this momentum following the final up with four first round loses. She reached the quarterfinals of Rogers Cup and followed it up with the biggest upset of the year when she ended Serena Williams dreams of a Grand Slam in New York in the semifinal. In the final she faced her compatriot Flavia Pennetta, who was in her first slam final as well, she went down in straight sets. She followed it up with a semifinal showing at the Wuhan Open losing to Venus Williams.

Caroline Wozniacki began the year by the reaching the final of ASB Classic but lost to Venus Williams. She followed it up with a semifinal performance at the Dubai Tennis Championships losing to Simona Halep. She won her lone title of the year at the Malaysian Open defeating Alexandra Dulgheru in three sets. She reached her third final of the year at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix losing in three sets to Angelique Kerber. This is the first year Wozniacki failed to get to the WTA Finals even as an alternate since 2008. She reached the second round of all slams except for a fourth round showing at the Wimbledon Championships.

Sara Errani did not begin the year well until she reached the final of the Rio Open defeating Anna Karolína Schmiedlová in the final. At the French Open, Errani was able to reach the quarterfinals for the fourth straight year losing to Serena Williams. She reached her second final of the year at the BRD Bucharest Open, once again facing Anna Karolína Schmiedlová but this time losing. She then reached the semifinal of the Rogers Cup losing to Simona Halep. She then reached the quarterfinals of the China Open losing to Timea Bacsinszky.

Madison Keys began 2015 well, she was able to upset Petra Kvitová in the third round, then world no. 4 her biggest win to date based on ranking. Keys eventually reached the semifinals for the first time in her career where she lost to world no. 1 Serena Williams in straight sets. She reached her second career final at the Family Circle Cup losing to Angelique Kerber in three sets. At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached the quarterfinals losing to Agnieszka Radwańska in three sets. She also reached the fourth round US Open losing once again to world no. 1 Serena Williams. She also reached a career high of No. 16.

Elina Svitolina had a breakthrough year proving her place as a rising star on tour. She began the year by reaching the semifinal of the Brisbane International losing to Maria Sharapova. Svitolina won the third title of her career at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem defeating Tímea Babos in the final. She reached her first slam quarterfinal at the French Open losing to Ana Ivanovic in straight sets. At the Western & Southern Open, Svitolina reached the semifinals by defeating Lucie Šafářová before losing to Serena Williams. She also reached a career high of No. 15.

Jelena Janković had inconsistent results in first half of the year except reaching the final of Indian Wells. She, however, rebounded with strong performance at Wimbledon and then went on to reach the semifinals of Cincinnati and won three titles after a strong Asian swing in Nanchang, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Andrea Petkovic had a strong season despite a certain degree of inconsistency. Highlighted by a title in Antwerp as well as semifinal showings in Miami and Charleston. She also reached the quarterfinals of Doha and Eastbourne. She found consistency at the slams reaching the third round of the last three slams.

Svetlana Kuznetsova had an inconsistent season finding her form momentarily within the year. Highlighted by winning the title in her home nation in Moscow and reaching the final of Madrid. She also reached the quarterfinals of Guangzhou as well as the fourth round of the US Open, Miami and Beijing.

Zheng Saisai heads to Zhuhai after being awarded a wildcard to play in front of her home nation. Her season was highlighted by a win of the WTA 125k title in Dalian and a semifinal performance in Shenzhen as well as quarterfinal showings at Tokyo and Guangzhou.

Doubles

Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Andreja Klepač lost in the round of 16 in their first two tournaments in Sydney and Hobart together to Ana Ivanovic and Angelique Kerber and Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson respectively. They then reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, edging Jelena Janković and Arantxa Parra Santonja, upsetting sixth seed Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro and ninth seed Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká along the way before losing to fourteenth seed Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie in straight sets. They beat Dominika Cibulková and Kirsten Flipkens to reach the quarterfinals in Antwerp but was beaten in three sets by Barbora Krejčíková and Renata Voráčová and then they lost in straight sets to Anastasia Rodionova and Arina Rodionova in Dubai. They then reached the semifinals in Indian Wells, upsetting fourth seed Hsieh Su-wei and Flavia Pennetta, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova and Coco Vandeweghe, Sabine Lisicki and Andrea Petkovic along the way before losing to second seed Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in straight sets. They beat Kiki Bertens and Tatjana Maria to reach the round of 16 in Miami before losing to ninth seed Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká in straight sets. They then beat Oksana Kalashnikova and Kateřina Siniaková in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals in Stuttgart before losing to Arantxa Parra Santonja and Alicja Rosolska in three sets. They lost in the round of 16 to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová, having beaten Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska in the round of 32. They then suffered a five-week drought without a win, losing their first match in Rome, French Open, Eastbourne, Wimbledon to fifth seed Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová, Janette Husárová and Paula Kania, fourth seed Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik, Kimiko Date-Krumm and Francesca Schiavone respectively.

Anabel Medina Garrigues / Arantxa Parra Santonja

Gabriela Dabrowski / Alicja Rosolska

Liang Chen / Wang Yafan

Lyudmyla Kichenok / Nadiia Kichenok

Xu Shilin / You Xiaodi

Player head-to-head
Below are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.

Road to Elite Trophy
The 2 tables below are part of the tables from Road to Singapore

Singles

Qualified players
Players with a  gold  rank cell have qualified.
Players with a  brown  rank cell were eligible to play but chose not to participate.

Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles draw:
  Zheng Saisai

Doubles

Qualified players

Pairs with a  gold  rank cell have qualified.
Pairs with a  brown  rank cell were eligible to play but chose not to participate.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles draw:
  Liang Chen /  Wang Yafan
  Xu Shilin /  You Xiaodi

Champions

Singles

  Venus Williams def.  Karolína Plíšková 7–5, 7–6(8–6)

Doubles

  Liang Chen/  Wang Yafan def.  Anabel Medina Garrigues /  Arantxa Parra Santonja, 6–4, 6–3

References

External links
 Official website
 Order of Play

2015
2015 WTA Tour
WTA Elite Trophy


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Q: How can I use localStorage to make the browser remember a classlist toggle state for a light/dark mode theme switch? I am a working on a portfolio website that has a light/darkmode theme switch. The switch works, but it does not save the input. So when the user refreshes or clicks on a navigation link, the website goes back to the default lightmode. I want it to remember the state. I know that I have to use localStorage to make it work, but I can not seem to figure out how to do it.
Website:
www.hermanvulkers.com
JavaScript theme switch code:

button.addEventListener("click", function () {
    if (document.body.classList.contains("light-theme")) {
        // Turn light mode off -> dark mode on
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Dark</span><img src="images/moon.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;

    } else {
        // Turn dark mode off -> light mode on
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Light</span><img src="images/sunrise.png" alt="Choose website theme"></img>`;

    }
});

HTML button code:
<button class="themeswitcher" id="themeswitcher">
    Dark

</button>

Is anyone able to help? Thanks in advance!

A: Your code is unnecessarily complex.
Here is a full version
window.addEventListener("load",function() {
  const theme = localStorage.getItem("theme");
  if (theme) document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme",theme==="light")
  document.getElementById("themeswitcher").addEventListener("click", function () {
    const light = document.body.classList.contains("light-theme")
    this.innerHTML = `<span>${light? 'Dark' : 'light'}</span><img src="images/${light? 'moon' : 'sunrise'}.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
    document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
    localStorage.setItem("theme",light?"dark":"light");
  });
});

A: You can add it like this:
button.addEventListener("click", function () {
    if (document.body.classList.contains("light-theme")) {
        // Turn light mode off -> dark mode on
        window.localStorage.setItem('darkmodeTurnedOn', 'true');
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Dark</span><img src="images/moon.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;

    } else {
        // Turn dark mode off -> light mode on
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        window.localStorage.setItem('darkmodeTurnedOn', 'false');
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Light</span><img src="images/sunrise.png" alt="Choose website theme"></img>`;

    }
});

Also, on initial loading of your site, you should have listener to switch this on or off, like this:

And in the setTheme function you can do the following:
function setTheme(){
  if (window.localStorage.getItem('darkmodeTurnedOn') === 'true'){
     document.body.classList.remove("light-theme");
  }
}

A: You can simply set an item into the localStorage with:
localStorage.setItem('key', value);

and then access it with
let value = localStorage.getItem('key');

So I think this should work:
    button.addEventListener("click", function () {
    if (document.body.classList.contains("light-theme")) {
        // Turn light mode off -> dark mode on
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Dark</span><img src="images/moon.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
        window.localStorage.setItem('darkMode', 'true');

    } else {
        // Turn dark mode off -> light mode on
        document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
        document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Light</span><img src="images/sunrise.png" alt="Choose website theme"></img>`;
        window.localStorage.setItem('darkMode', 'false');

    }
});

And somewhere in the beginning of your code:
let wasDarkMode = window.localStorage.getItem('darkMode');
if (wasDarkMode) {
document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");

    document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Dark</span><img src="images/moon.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
} else {
document.body.classList.toggle("light-theme");
            document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Light</span><img src="images/sunrise.png" alt="Choose website theme"></img>`;
}

A: This can be used to set and retvie the switch state. Retrieve it when you need to check the state. Instead of "if (document.body.classList.contains("light-theme"))"
you should just use the localstorage state. Just set the default state to localstorage if it is null.
export const set = (key, value) => {
localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
};

export const retrieve = key => {
    try {
      return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(key));
} catch (error) {
    return null;
}
};

export const remove = key => localStorage.removeItem(key);

export const exists = key => localStorage.getItem(key) !== null;

A: Here is a theme switcher for two or more themes. Working with localstorage.
Tell me if it works great and if you have questions. :)
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
    var themesList = ['dark-theme', 'light-theme', 'other-theme'];

    var theme = localStorage["theme"] || themesList[0]  /*if localStorage["theme"] exists || default is dark-theme*/;
    const updateTheme = (themeToUpdate = theme)=>{
        switch (themeToUpdate) {
            case 'light-theme':
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').setAttribute('data-theme', themeToUpdate); // better to use data-* attributes for javascript use only
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Light</span><img src="images/sunrise.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
            break;
            case 'dark-theme':
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').setAttribute('data-theme', themeToUpdate);
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Dark</span><img src="images/moon.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
            break;
            case 'other-theme':
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').setAttribute('data-theme', themeToUpdate);
                document.getElementById('themeswitcher').innerHTML = `<span>Other</span><img src="whatever/you/want.png" alt="Choose website theme">`;
            break;

            default:
            break;
        }
    }
    updateTheme(theme);

    button.addEventListener("click", function () {
         let nextIndex = (themesList.indexOf(theme) >= themeList.length - 1) ? 0 : themesList.indexOf(theme) + 1;
        theme = themesList[nextIndex];
        localStorage["theme"] = theme;
        updateTheme(theme);
    });
});


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Trump celebrates US-UK ties in state visit
June 5, 2019 Jonathan Lemire, Kevin Freking and Jill Lawless | The Associated Press News
Britain's Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, from left, attend an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, England Wednesday, June 5, 2019. World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump are gathering Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
LONDON — Making nice at the end, President Donald Trump eased up Tuesday on his frequent criticisms of outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May over her handling of the tortured Brexit deal, declaring that history will remember her fondly if the United Kingdom can successfully leave the European Union.
The latest chapter in the allies' storied "special relationship" played out as anti-Trump protesters — with the infamous Trump baby balloon bobbing overhead — thronged the streets of nearby central London.
The president's unexpected compliments for May come just days before she was set to resign the leadership of her party after failing to secure a Brexit deal. She will depart as prime minister once her successor has been chosen.
"I have greatly enjoyed working with you. You are a tremendous professional and a person who loves her country very much," Trump told May at a news conference near the prime minister's Downing Street office. But he couldn't resist a slight dig, evoking the two years of broadsides he had lobbed at her by recalling that he had urged her to sue the EU rather than try to negotiate a departure.
Trump said he would have "sued and settled, maybe, but you never know. She's probably a better negotiator than I am." And he added that the deal May came away with was a good one and "perhaps you won't be given the credit you deserve."
May voiced hope her successor will be able to achieve Brexit.
"I still believe — I personally believe — that it is in the best interest of the U.K. to leave the European Union with a deal. I believe there is a good deal on the table," she said. "Obviously, it will be whoever succeeds me as prime minister to take this issue forward. What is paramount, I believe, is delivering on Brexit for the British people."
Earlier in the day, Trump jokingly suggested that May "stick around" until a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal was brokered. May and her aides chuckled at that.
Trump said Britain and the U.S. would be able to strike a "phenomenal trade deal" once the U.K. had left the EU — music to the ears of pro-Brexit Britons. But, in words sure to alarm those in Britain concerned about Brexit, he said that "everything"— including the National Health Service — would be "on the table" in future trade negotiations.
Most Britons are protective of the state-run NHS, which delivers free health care to all, and many worry that private U.S. health care firms could try to gain access to chunks of it as a condition of a trade deal.
On a separate issue, Trump said he anticipated "no limitations" on the future sharing of intelligence with the U.K. as the U.S. continues to press its longtime ally to ban Chinese company Huawei amid espionage and trade concerns.
He renewed his praise of Conservative lawmaker Boris Johnson, who is campaigning to replace May as Conservative leader, and of another contender, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. He said he'd turned down a requested meeting from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and took new swipes at one of his most vocal critics, London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Afterward, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and Trump met at the U.S. ambassador's residence, with Farage tweeting that they'd had a "good meeting."
As the pageantry of Trump's British state visit gave way to politics, an economic meeting between the leaders at St. James's Palace brought together 10 leading companies — five from the U.K. and five from the United States. CEOs and senior representatives from BAE Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, National Grid, Barclays, Reckitt Benckiser, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs International, Bechtel and Splunk were listed as attending.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump later toured the Churchill War Rooms, the British government's underground command center during World War II. Then it was time for a fancy reciprocal dinner that the Trumps hosted at the U.S. ambassador's residence for Prince Charles, his wife, Camilla, and other dignitaries.
A day earlier, Trump had lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and tea with Prince Charles before a grand state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Also on Monday, May and her husband, Philip, presented Trump with a framed, typescript draft of the Atlantic Charter, the declaration signed by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 setting out common goals for the world, including freer trade, disarmament and the right to self-determination of all people.
The declaration helped lay the groundwork for the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
The gift is a copy of Churchill's personal draft of the document, with his handwritten revisions in red pencil.
Following Tuesday's focus on business and trade, Trump will use the next two days to mark the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day landing, likely the last significant commemoration most veterans of the battle will see.
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Trump lauds US economy in Davos
January 22, 2020 Darlene Superville | The Associated Press News
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said the turnaround of the U.S. economy was "spectacular" while urging the world to invest in America. In his […]
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Q: What is the correct way to use getInitialProps with getDefaultProps (React) In a react component you can have both functions as shown below.
  getInitialProps() {
    return fetchProps();
  };
  getDefaultProps() {
    return this.defaultProps;
  }

Can getDefaultProps ever be called in the react lifecycle?
I'd imagine you'd want to do some try catch in getInitialProps that grabs the defaultProps whenever it fails to fetchProps:
  getInitialProps() {
    try{
      return fetchProps();
    } catch(error){
      return getDefaultProps();
    }
  };

Seems strange to me.

A: I know getInitialProps() is used for async behavior while getDefaultProps() is more for setting up the props for a component so it can still render before the props are passed.
So to answer your question I dont think so. you cannot call getDefaultProps() once it is rendered.
This would be an example of using getInitialProps()
Page.getInitialProps = () => {
  return fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/developit/preact')
    .then(res => res.json())
}

While getDefaultProps() would work more like this
getDefaultProps: function() {
return {
  name: 'Mary'
};


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Send us your BWCA fire photos, videos
BringMeTheNews would like to see your photos or videos from the Boundary Waters wildfires near Ely. E-mail them to tips@bringmethenews.com and we'll try to feature as many as we can on our website.
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New fires lead to closings in the BWCA
The Forest Service has closed some areas of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, where three new wildfires are burning. The largest is 75 acres. But crews are aggressively fighting another two-acre fire because it's near an area of dry timber that was part of the 1999 blowdown.
Crews continue to battle BWCA fire
Ground crews are still battling the Cummings Lake fire Monday near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The fire, which started Sunday afternoon, is now about 20 acres in size and is located in a lowland area about 12 miles northwest of Ely. Five aircraft were attacking a 50-acre fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on Sunday night not far from Ely, the Duluth News Tribune reports. Crews were on their way to the remote site.
Firefighters pounce on BWCA fire, but it's growing
Wildland firefighters were quick to head off to a fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, first reported Sunday afternoon northwest of Ely, which has grown to about 30 acres and will get bigger before it can be contained, officials said. No structures were immediately threatened. The cause isn't yet known.
Hot spots remain, but fire crews leave smoldering remains of BWCA fire
Fire crews have left the smoldering Boundary Waters Canoe area, confident any hotspots will burn themselves out. Even as smoke continues to rise, new growth is returning.
Forestry officials underestimated beginnings of BWCA wildfire
U-S Forestry Officials vastly underestimated the beginnings of a wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The Star Tribune reports internal memos show an initial wait-and-see approach set the stage for the blaze to explode into the largest fire the state has seen in almost a hundred years.
Forest service says all BWCA fires contained, controlled or out
The wildfires that have been plaguing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness area in northeastern Minnesota are contained, controlled or out, the U.S. Forest Service reported Saturday. However, with the forecast of dry weather in the next few days, campfire restrictions remain in the area and some lake and trail closures are still in effect.
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No luck needed to visit the BWCA
The U.S. Forest Service announced an end to the long-running lottery for entry into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The 1.1 million-acre wilderness will now accept entry applications on a first-come, first-served basis


Click here to see the numbers and origins of refugees hosted by Congo.
National Headquarters: 111, rue Mbomo- Talangai, Brazzaville, Congo.
Association Nationale des Gardiens de la Paix (ANGP) is a non-governmental agency in Brazzaville that offers humanitarian assistance for refugees and focuses on the promotion and the defence of human rights. Emmanuel Ongouala serves as the President of ANGP. ANGP provides services in health services, education, welfare and employment and deals with cases of corruption, security, and judicial inequalities. Refugees in the Congo are vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, corruption, and legal injustices and ANGP assists in securing the rights of refugees and advocates for the creation of a protective legal framework. According to the UNHCR's 2010 Statistical Online Population Database refugees from Chad, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, and Rwanda, Angola and Sudan are residing in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
OCDH is a human rights NGO that organises its work into six programmes: programme for the promotion of human rights education, and a culture of peace and democracy; programme for the defense and promotion of human rights; legal assistance programme; medical assistance programme for victims of torture; programme for the special protection of vulnerable groups (including women, children, refugees and minorities).
OCDH's work on refugees has included involvement in the repatriation of Rwandan refugees, surveying refugees on their feelings about repatriation and urging the government and UNHCR to provide reliable information on the current situation in Rwanda to refugees.


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Pär Hallström (born 7 May 1947) is a Swedish legal writer and professor emeritus of Law at Umeå University. He graduated from Pantheon-Sorbonne University with a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures and holds a doctorate in law from Stockholm University.

Hallström introduced EC constitutional law in Sweden with his work Europeisk Gemenskap och politisk union (European Community and Political Union), 1987, and WTO-law with his book The GATT Panels and the Formation of International Trade Law, 1994.

Hallström's partial bibliography can be found in the Festschrift Festskrift till Pär Hallström (Uppsala 2012).

References

External links
 Publications in the DiVA Academic Archive

1947 births
Living people
Swedish jurists
Legal writers
Academic staff of Umeå University


Will UN's Yemen war blacklist help protect children?
Saudi-led coalition and Houthis placed on draft UN blacklist over deaths of hundreds of children in conflict.
The Saudi-led coalition has again been placed on a draft United Nations blacklist. The coalition is accused of killing and maiming 683 children in Yemen last year, as well as accusations of attacking schools and hospitals.
But the annual draft report also notes that the Saudi-led coalition has put measures in place to protect children.
The report also blacklists the Houthi rebels, government forces and their militia allies.
The UN doesn't punish nations on the list, but the hope is the "naming and shaming" forces them to do more to protect civilians.
The Saudi-led coalition was on the blacklist last year but was removed after Saudi pressure on the UN secretary-general.


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The DALI Alliance announces the call for entries for the DALI Lighting Awards 2022.
With a closing date of December 2, 2022, the DALI Lighting Awards 2022 will highlight and recognize the best use of DALI control applications and solutions in lighting projects across the world.
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The DALI Lighting Awards 2022 will accept entries for all projects linked with DALI technology in the following categories:
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"The DALI Lighting Awards 2021 attracted a wealth of excellent DALI-based projects from around the world, with a diverse range of applications," said Paul Drosihn, DALI Alliance General Manager. "As DALI continues to evolve and add new features, we anticipate an even broader range of projects for this year's Awards." Winners of the DALI Lighting Awards 2021 can be viewed here.
The awards aim to promote the benefits and features of DALI, the internationally standardized protocol for digital communication between lighting-control devices.
There is no entry fee for the Awards, and submissions are welcomed from all geographical regions. Entrants can nominate multiple projects, one per category, on an individual basis or as part of a team.
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Training a dog to learn new tricks isn't often easy… but it's essential to pet ownership and can be lifesaving. Some of the more simpler commands like "stay" and "come" are so beneficial to pets in so many ways. Imagine for a moment your dog runs into the street, your command of "come" will obviously bring your pet out of the street and back to your home, unharmed.
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Phasing Out Pepper Spray
May 6, 2019 /in 5 - Public Safety, Top Stories /by admin
The Probation Reform and Implementation Team (PRIT) released a road map for providing humane treatment and improving safety in Los Angeles County's juvenile halls and probation camps that, for the first time, includes recommendations for phasing out the use of pepper spray over the course of a year. The roadmap emerged from a Special Hearing called for by the Board of Supervisors, asking the PRIT to solicit community input after voting unanimously to eliminate pepper spray in February.
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Photo by Diandra Jay/Board of Supervisors
"It is high time we come to grips with the problems plaguing the juvenile halls and probation camps," added Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who wrote the motion to create the PRIT. "Alarmed by findings of abuse in the OIG's investigation, the Board directed pepper spray be phased out and that safety be improved for youth and staff alike. The PRIT has given us a roadmap with clear and actionable steps on how to do this, crafted with input from a range of stakeholders. There is no excuse for not moving forward now, and with expediency."
"The Special Hearing allowed the Board of Supervisors' PRIT appointees to elevate community voices, including formerly incarcerated people and probation officers, to shape the first-ever road-map for humane treatment and elimination of pepper spray in LA's juvenile justice facilities," said Saul Sarabia, PRIT Chairman. "It advances the Board's vision to center robust community engagement as a key element in oversight and systemic reform of the nation's largest Probation Department," Sarabia added.
PRIT's proposed timeline begins with enhancing training for all staff who work with youth, particularly on de-escalation techniques and non-use of force options. Such training is to start as soon as possible, and be ongoing. Soon after, only supervisors – not line staff – will have access to pepper spray, though only as a last resort. Eventually, the pepper spray will be placed in a lock box and taken out only under very limited circumstances. By the end of the year, all pepper spray will be removed from juvenile halls and probation camps.
"Having gone through the experience of being pepper sprayed as an adult, I am glad to see that L.A. County's Supervisors have decided to eliminate its use on youth under the care of the L.A. County Probation Department," said PRIT member Jose Osuna, who formerly worked with Homeboy Industries. "I believe that the PRIT's recommendations lay out the safest path that can be taken in order to accomplish that."
"We appreciate the work the PRIT has undertaken to develop these recommendations and will take them under advisement as we continue to develop a comprehensive strategy to safely eliminate the use of OC spray in our residential facilities. Our goal is to continue to work with our staff and partners to reduce the circumstances that contribute to the need for physical interventions. Additional training to build upon staffs skills working with high need youth and increasing rehabilitative services are among the actions we plan to take to ensure a safe environment," said Probation Chief Teri McDonald, who received the recommendations.
Representatives of the Office of Inspector General presenting their findings to the Board of Supervisors. Photo by Diandra Jay/Board of Supervisors
Concerned about the tripling of pepper spray use in the County's juvenile halls in the last three years, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on February 19 to phase out pepper spray, and tapped the PRIT to conduct a special hearing after a County Inspector General (OIG) investigation found excessive and troubling uses of pepper spray. The OIG noted cases of pepper spray being used on youth under psychotropic medication, youth being pepper sprayed in the groin, and youth not being allowed to decontaminate after being pepper sprayed.
PRIT's special hearing, held March 16 in Carson, drew more than 100 people, including formerly incarcerated youth, probation staff, experts in youth justice, youth advocates, County leaders, concerned community members, and other stakeholders. Their comments informed PRIT's report, which had 15 recommendations in all.
The first 10 recommendations included developing strategies for ending the "us versus them culture" observed by the OIG in juvenile halls and probation camps and providing environments where youth can flourish. This includes providing enhanced mental health support to youth; and expanding staff support to deal with childhood vicarious trauma. Additionally, the PRIT recommended the Probation Department ensure robust oversight in creating a way for youth to report grievances without fear of retribution.
Chief Probation Officer Terri McDonald. Photo by Diandra Jay/Board of Supervisors
The last five recommendations strive to balance the urgency of phasing out pepper spray with the need to do it incrementally.
"As the author of a recent motion to eliminate pepper spray from LA County juvenile halls and camps, I applaud the Probation Reform Implementation Team for synthesizing the insights of our community stakeholders on how to eliminate pepper spray while preserving safety in our facilities," said Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, lead author of the motion to phase out pepper spray.
"Phasing out the use of pepper spray at our Probation facilities is the only way to address our serious concerns for the young people in our care– but I am also concerned for the safety of our staff," said Supervisor Janice Hahn. We are charting path forward that takes into account both of these legitimate concerns equally."
The PRIT is a five-member panel of experts primarily tasked with developing a comprehensive plan for reforming the Probation Department, as well as to transform the existing Probation Commission into a new – and strengthened – Probation Oversight Commission.
The effort is in line with the Board's far-reaching commitment to criminal justice reform, and is expected to result in better outcomes for youth and adults under Probation supervision, and to make Probation more transparent and accountable to the public.
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1 What Is Retro Design?
2 Why Is Retro Design in Vogue?
3 How Do You Execute Retro Design?
4 How to Create a Retro Design?
Believe it or not, anything we call 'retro' or 'vintage' owns an undefinable charm, be it an old cuckoo clock, Mercedes-Benz 280 SL, 50's Polka Dot Dress or Gramophone. Digital arts is no exception, especially the graphic designs. Let's have an insight into the retro design and the best ways to incorporate retroism in your own design.
"Retro style is a style that is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the historical past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. It may also be known as "vintage inspired"." (Wikipedia).
Loosely stated, retro design is a genre of "throwback" design, in which it incorporates elements of design from decades past.
Retro design also goes by the name "modern retro", excels at giving the viewer a feeling of nostalgia. More specifically, it tends to focus on designs from the eras of the 60s and 70s, though there are "niche" genres of retro design that are stirred by other decades, from the 20s (art deco) to the 90s (blues, pinks, mint greens, and blocky shapes in arrangements that are best described as "unconventionally attractive").
Why Is Retro Design in Vogue?
Emotional investment in design is a powerful force for motivating consumers to buy, investors to invest, and audience to keep on watching, reading, or participating.
Even though the industry is constantly bearing new design trends, the significance of retro design is increasing. Things—that were once obsoleted—are new again; old trends and designs are now brought out, dusted, and put into use, thus proving their own point.
Retro design is popular with both the people who are already familiar with the style, and those who are experiencing these designs for the first time now. Drawing multiple demographics (that retro designs are famous for), retro effects make it easier to engage the audience instantly and make designs recognizable and remembered for long.
How Do You Execute Retro Design?
When it comes to retro design, there is a variety of elements to consider. And when you have the right elements, in the right order, the process of taking your audience down the memory lane (through retro design) can go smoother.
First, for obvious reasons, you need to pick the decade that you wish your viewers to reminisce through the use of retro in design. But it is not that simple. There are tons of options to select from and it is easy to get confused when picking a decade to ruminate. Sometimes, the 20's design looks like 30's design, and certain elements that were popular or common in the 60's might be echoed in the 80's or 90's. Design comes from design; inspiration begets inspiration.
So, even if you choose a deliberate historical reference, such as art deco, it doesn't mean that other elements won't bleed through. And rest assured, there's really not a problem with that unless you're a historical purist.
But it is a good idea to go with styles that mesh well with each other, rather than retro choices that clash. Don't forget the purpose of your design: create something effective and memorable.
This is especially important when it comes to logos, which are the frontrunners for your brand and which will be the first contact for new customers.
Shapes follow the decade choice in our list. The right choice of shape depends a great deal on the decade you are trying to evoke.
The 20s, for instance, tended toward Art Noveau style, with clean lines and basic geometric shapes. The 30s echoed the 20s in this regard.
By the 40s and 50s, the shapes were a little more blurred, with hand-drawn comics-style lines.
In the context of logo design, classic choices include diamonds, both horizontal and vertical, and triangles. Both of these shapes lend themselves well to logo design. Circles are also smart choices for retro logos and can be incorporated as "frames" for logos, which include diamonds or other shapes within.
It's easy to pick out art deco as an example of line techniques in retro design. Art deco featured geometric shapes are often paired up with lines to highlight the shapes themselves.
When using lines as separate elements in your design, you can incorporate them both parallel to the basic shapes within your logo, and perpendicular to the shapes (cutting across them) to help text and other elements stand out.
Art deco is famous for its use of polished, mirrored, or golden metallic textures paired with black or silver. The basic effect of retro design tends to be almost overwhelming in terms of shine and sheen. Which is why, it looks very smooth and slick, as though the design was a floor that you could slide down on your socks.
Other decades of retro design may have a very different feel, however.
"Vintage" designs, typically, have a "lived-in" or "grunge" texture, giving the design the appearance of having been around for a while. This is an easy shorthand for making your retro design look older than it is, but it doesn't usually pair very well with the afore-mentioned art deco style.
Fonts are fun to play around with at the best of times, and investigating what style is most appropriate for your retro logo design is no exception.
Some designs, like Cheque, are clearly following the mold of art deco, with straight, classic lines based on geometric shapes.
Jocker also has a vintage look and feel, with a vibe that is perfect for a retro circus poster design.
For every decade, there is guaranteed to be a handful of fonts based on the fonts in use at the actual time. Many of them are free to use and easy to find with a simple Google search.
How to Create a Retro Design?
So how will you piece all your elements together?
It's always a good idea to sketch things out ahead of time, to get an idea of what you want your finished product to look like.
If you're using elements from different eras, it may take a little playing around with different versions to make sure that your design meshes well and presents a coherent, effective whole.
Keeping all of the above elements under consideration, it's also important to remember that retro design itself is retro design. In other words, people have been doing and re-doing the same thing for decades. What about the current popularity of "vintage" design? It certainly isn't the first time that it has happened.
With that in mind, certain elements of retro design may in themselves actually be repeated from former designs. They may have been altered to fit the then-modern sensibilities, or they may just have been copied completely. But either way, the odds are that your retro design is going to end up incorporating throwback design elements from multiple eras, whether you intend to or not.
And this does no harm.
The things that were popular in past times trended for a reason, and there's no reason why they can't be popular now. Retro design, even if somewhat muddled and widespread, can be just as effective and appealing now as it was back then.
About the author: this is the quest article by Ayesha Ambreen, a Creative Content Strategist, Top Author on Quora, Featured SlideShare Author, and Graphic Designer. Best known for her creative visuals and viral content ideas, Ayesha's work has been featured on blogs such as Entrepreneur.com, LifeHacker, CreativeBloq, Hubspot and more. She holds a degree in telecommunication engineering with extensive experience in writing, outreach, strategic visuals, and search engine marketing.


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The Northeast Frontier Railway on Friday said that it will complete the repair work on the historical Saraighat Bridge by June 20.
Saraighat Bridge, the first rail-cum-road bridge built in 1963 in Assam, was closed for use in February this year as it required repairs. The closure of the bridge has led to a congestion in road traffic into Guwahati.
"The herculean task of completing the repair and restoration of the upper deck of the Saraighat rail-cum-road bridge over Brahmaputra near Guwahati is nearing completion and the bridge is likely to be reopened within the targeted date of June 20.
"Some 500 workers have been engaged to carry out the technically challenging task of replacing all the 54 slabs on the entire upper deck and the replacement of 11 expansion joints over the pillars is progressing as planned," said P.J. Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer, NF Railway.
Sharma said that the slabs and the 11 connecting expansion joints were badly damaged and the methods adopted to replace them involve breaking down the concrete slabs and the expansion joint slabs.
"On an average, 75 workers per day are engaged in breaking the slabs and 45 workers per day are engaged in carrying these broken pieces away for cleaning. The repair and replacement of the upper deck slabs of the bridge is particularly difficult because train movement on the lower deck continues without disruption," he said.
The Chief PRO added that special permission had been obtained from the Commissioner of Railway Safety for uninterrupted train movement during the repair work by providing a guarantee that care would be taken to ensure that no debris from the upper deck falls on the lower deck of the bridge.
"Accordingly, special temporary scaffolding was erected under the upper deck to collect broken pieces from the deck. After breaking down of the old concrete slabs and the expansion joint slabs, fresh 10 mm thick steel plates are laid and welded to the bridge over which high-strength concrete is laid to make the deck slabs. More than 500 tonnes of steel plate and reinforcement rods have been used for the deck slabs alone," he said.
"Once the deck-slabs are ready and the expansion joints replaced, 50 to 65 mm thick heavy-duty Semi-Dense Bituminous Concrete (SDBC) will be laid over the entire deck to facilitate vehicular movement. To ease the bumps over the expansion joints, 150 mm thick aluminium plates will be laid over them under the SDBC. This will make driving over the bridge comfortable even at high speed," he said.
He added that the bridge repair work had progressed well without any major traffic disruption because of the cooperation offered by the people and the civil administration.
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Interesting Article re the Battle of Mons and the Angel
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Re: Interesting Article re the Battle of Mons and the Angel
by zerdini Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:11 am
In November 2006 "Two Worlds" published the following article:
The Angels of Mons are supposedly a group of angels who protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. They are now generally believed to have been fictitious and developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, a London journalist, rumours and urban legend, some actual visions seen after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda.
On August 22-23 1914, the first major engagement of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War occurred at the Battle of Mons. Advancing German forces were thrown back by heavily outnumbered British troops, who also suffering casualties and being outflanked were forced into rapid retreat the next day.
On April 24, 1915, an account was published in the British Spiritualist magazine telling of visions of a supernatural force that miraculously intervened to help the British at the decisive moment of the battle. This rapidly resulted in a flurry of similar accounts and the spread of wild rumours. Descriptions of this force varied from it being medieval longbow men alongside Saint George, to a strange luminous cloud, though eventually the most popular version came to be angelic warriors. Similar tales of such battlefield visions occurred in medieval and ancient warfare. However there are strong similarities between many of these accounts and Arthur Machen's short story The Bowmen first published six months earlier on September 29, 1914 in the London newspaper, the Evening News.
Machen was a journalist on the paper and although he was a well known author of supernatural stories there was no indication that Machen's story was fiction when it was originally published, and as it was written from a first hand perspective it was a kind of 'false document' a technique Machen knew well. The story described bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt summoned by a soldier calling on Saint George, destroying a German host. The unintended result was that Machen had a number of requests to provide evidence for his sources quite soon after publication, to which he responded it was completely imaginary, as he had no desire to create a hoax.
It was not until May 1915 that a full blown controversy was erupting with the angels being used of proof of the action of divine providence on the side of the Allies in sermons across Britain. Machen, bemused by all this attempted to end the rumours by republishing the story in August in book form with a long preface stating the rumours were false and originated in his story. It became a bestseller and merely resulted in a vast series of other publications claiming to provide evidence proving the Angels existence.
However, all these reports confirming sightings of supernatural activity were at best second-hand and some of them even quoted soldiers who were not at Mons. A careful investigation by the Society for Psychical Research in 1915 said of the first-hand testimony, "we have received none at all, and of testimony at second-hand we have none that would justify us in assuming the occurrence of any supernormal phenomenon." The SPR went on to say the stories relating to battlefield "visions" which circulated during the spring and summer of 1915, "prove on investigation to be founded on mere rumour, and cannot be traced to any authoritative source."
Friedrich Herzenwirth, a director of the German espionage system, published his memoirs in February, 1930, and writes that the Angels of Mons were motion pictures, projected by German flyers on the clouds to make the English troops believe that even God was on the German side.
Note by Zerdini: Gordon Higginson's mother called her child, Gordon Mons Higginson. He was born in November 1918.
by Admin Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:47 pm
Thanks Z and therefore one of the earlest urban myths because so many have, over time, come to accept it as reality.
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