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Q: Three.js | applying texture from Blender model I'm using a free 3d model from turbosquid. This model is using a texture that looks like this:

It does look good in Blender:

But once exported to three.js, it seems that the texture does not follow the uv map:

Here is the code i'm using:
var loader = new THREE.JSONLoader();
loader.load('json/Ship.json', function ( geometry, materials ) {
        ship = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, materials[0]);
        scene.add(ship);
    }
);

And here is the json I get once exported from Blender:

What am I missing?
Thanks a lot for your help!

A: There are some minor complexities in this model, which I think are causing issues for Blender exporters. They're not "wrong", but they're hard for exporters to handle without cleanup. You can fix those manually (open the .blend file in Blender, apply modifiers, remove all textures except the diffuse) but the easiest path is probably converting the OBJ version provided by Turbosquid to glTF. Going to the Cesium OBJ->glTF converter (or OBJ2GLTF if you need something programmatic) and dragging in the OBJ/MTL/texture will give the right result. NOTE: you'll need to move the sh3.jpg file into the same directory as the MTL file; it shouldn't be in the Textures/ folder.
Result on https://gltf-viewer.donmccurdy.com/ — using three.js r92 and THREE.GLTFLoader.


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Tying the weasels down (review: Did You Put The Weasels out?)
As the back-cover blurb tells us, Did You Put The Weasels Out? (Eyewear) by Niall Bourke is inspired in part by an eighth-century Irish epic (The Tain) and in part by a nineteenth-century Russian romantic verse novel (Eugene Onegin); but it also contains roughly equal measures of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Spike Milligan. What results from this mix of influences is something rather more than the sum of its parts, and it would be a mistake to write it off as a piece of showy experimentation: this is not romanticism, not modernism, not surrealism or absurdism – not just, anyway – it's also a contemplation of the modern condition: western spiritual malaise, economic disparity, loss of identity. But like any such contemplation worth its salt, it does not take itself too seriously.
The text invites you to draw comparisons between the silly/funny/mundane story of Mark Setanta's imagined row with his fiancée Jen, his sloping off from work early to spend the afternoon walking and drinking, and his return home later that night, with the The Tain episode of the Ulster Cycle of myths in which uber-hero Cú Chulainn defends Ulster against Medb and Ailill's cattle-raiding forces of Connacht. It's therefore tempting to try and read Did You Put The Weasels Out? in the same way you might approach Ulysses, trying to find mythic equivalence in every character, episode and action; and it is true that both Mark and Jen at different times might be read as Cú Chulainns (Setanta is the Irish hero's childhood name) and other characters may or may not have their direct equivalents (Mike/Medb? Isy/the Morrigan? Masefield/Fer Diad?) but in general we look in vain for heroic parallels in this tale of modern paranoia (all Mark's worries are in his mind) and alienation (Mark is an 'exiled' Irishman in London) – and this is part of the whole "perverse" point, I think.
Like Flann O'Brien, Bourke makes extensive and eccentric use of footnotes throughout – often the footnotes themselves have footnotes – and he impressively/doggedly sticks to rhyming through most of these (as well as in the contents and acknowledgements!). There is no denying that (as in O'Brien) this interrupts the flow of the narrative to begin with, but as you proceed you become attuned to the style and it adds layers of richness and depth to the poems rather than detracting from them. Bourke takes layering to a whole different level in two poems which are given lives of their own by thinking/speaking verse in cartoon bubbles (again bringing O'Brien to mind in At Swim-Two-Birds where internal characters are given unexpected life in relation to their author, but here it is the Pushkin sonnets themselves which appear to be coming to life, as post-modern an idea as anything I've ever read).
Just as Irish mythology gives great significance to the relationship between event and landscape ("landscape as a mnemonic map" as Ciaran Carson calls it in the introduction to his translation of The Tain), Mark (as much a Leopold Bloom as a Cú Chulainn) walks through and observes different parts of London, and while doing so he imbues them with similar significance: the shapes of the City skyscrapers viewed from Hampstead Heath inspire the radical shape of the 'graph-poem' (my term for what is as far as I know unique in its form) called 'Economic Development', a briefly digressing mini-critique of laissez-faire capitalism; and the winding River Thames itself becomes a metaphor for tamed and emasculated modern life (in 'River Retirement Blues').
Mark Setanta's story is free from the insane violence of the Ulster Cycle until the very end (in the last of the three 'remscéala' named after The Tain's prologues but which Bourke, in typically contrary style, uses as appendices) when Cú Chulainn's famous 'battle frenzy' or 'warp-spasm' is replicated by Mark losing his temper hilariously with the 'serve-yourself' scanning machine at his local supermarket (I will now never be able to hear these machines say "unexpected item in the bagging area" without smiling!) and subsequently being beaten to death by his fellow shoppers. This episode, like the other 'remscéala' are to be read, like a couple of other incidents in the story I think, as things which didn't happen but could have in another, more directly analogical world perhaps.
Quite apart from the mythological allusions, the Milliganesque absurdity and fun with language (e.g. sausages/assuages) and the use of the Onegin Stanza to carry the narrative on at a good clip (footnotes notwithstanding) both add to the reader's enjoyment and suggest further layers of meaning (there is possibly something Onegin-like in Mark's self-absorption and his misinterpretation of Jen's door-slamming for example, but perhaps we could go too far with this line of thought?).
There are also moving individual poems in here which stand up well on their own, outside of the main sonnet-flow, and which serve to turn Mark into a more fully-rounded character than he would otherwise have been ('My Father The Forest' and 'My Love Is The Weeds' are my favourite of these) and which also contribute, I would suggest, to the feeling in general that there is some equivalence intended not only between Mark and various fictional characters but also with the poet himself.
As to what the Weasels of the title signify – they appear (along with various types of hats) several times throughout the novel, mentioned by different characters in different situations – they appear to be symbolic of playfulness, memory, gnawing fears, paranoias, and imagination itself (and possibly all – or none! – of these). I can't pretend that I know what they are intended to signify ultimately, but it is perfectly possible that they have some mythological significance I'm unaware of or that they are intended simply to mean whatever I want them to mean. The biggest compliment I can pay this book is that it makes me want to go back in and look for more. Perhaps on a subsequent reading I will finally be able to tie the weasels down to my satisfaction.
It seems easy to dismiss allusive and formally structured (though experimental) poetry as elitist or 'show-offy', but I would offer this intriguing, beguiling book as evidence against that charge. I hadn't read either The Tain or Eugene Onegin before beginning Did You Put The Weasels Out? but it soon became clear that I would get more out of it if I did. So I picked up the e-books very easily and quickly, read them, enjoyed them and then read and enjoyed this book. We should thank poetry for introducing us to more poetry, I think. But more than that, this "Perverse Novel in Verse" made me want to go off and try writing some Pushkin sonnets and some 'graph-poetry' (if that's what we're going to call it!) not because I thought I could do a better job than Niall Bourke (I tried, I can't), but because he clearly had such a good time doing it!
Did You Put The Weasels Out? is published by Eyewear and can be bought here.
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Suffrage 2020 Illinois
The Fight for the Vote in Illinois
Illinois Suffrage Historic Sites and Markers
Chicago Suffrage Mural
Evanston and Suffrage
Suffragist Biographies
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Knox Booth
Caroline Corbin – Anti-Suffragist
Margaret Haley
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Ellen Annette Martin
Catharine Waugh McCulloch
Agnes Nestor
Kate O'Connor
Grace Wilbur Trout
Clara Barck Welles
Frances Willard
Fannie Barrier Williams
A Month of Suffrage – August 2020
The suffrage anniversary arrives this August with many events in Illinois and beyond. Stay connected as we update this website with event listings as they develop.
Connect with some of the many national suffrage events through links below.
National Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
The Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission will commemorate 100 years of the 19th Amendment and women's constitutional right to vote with National Women's Suffrage Month throughout August. Dozens of free virtual programs and events are planned between Aug. 1 through Sept. 2.
The Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission will be highlighting the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites' National Votes for Women Trail with a webinar on Thursday, August 13 at 12pm EST. Here's what WSCC has to say about this exciting opportunity: "The National Votes for Women Trail is uncovering women's history sites across the United States, and we're sitting down with them…for a virtual brown bag lunch to learn about the Trail's plans to place historic markers at suffrage sites and how you can get involved!" Register for the webinar here. More than 50 Illinois sites are on the trail and at least five will be marked with historical markers this year.
Suffrage Centennial Podcasts
Actresses Rosario Dawson and Retta will co-host "And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote" and gymnast and advocate Aly Raisman will host "The Magic Sash," a time-traveling historical adventure for tweens. The National Park Service will provide companion materials for each podcast. More here.
She Votes! digs into the complex history of the women's suffrage movement and its enduring significance, hosted by award-winning journalists Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr.
National Women's History Alliance
A new guide published by the NWHA outlines the many centennial celebrations across the U.S. Despite the pandemic, countless events, real and virtual, will mark next month's historic anniversaries and the months that follow. Online events will make many of these diverse, widespread celebrations easily accessible as never before.
The Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives are launching a campaign to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on social media. Find and follow them for more – and use the hashtag #19SuffrageStories.
#SuffrageSyllabus
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America has launched the #SuffrageSyllabus, a collaborative teaching resource on the intersectional history of women and voting in the United States. The syllabus includes lesson plans, primary and secondary sources. https://long19.radcliffe.harvard.edu/teaching/suffrage-syllabus/
Women's Rights Pioneers Monument and 'Talking Statues' Announcement
The Women's Rights Pioneers monument is set to be unveiled on Central Park's Literary Walk on August 26, 2020, the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. This will be the first statue depicting real women in Central Park. The monument will be included in the 'Talking Statues' with an all star cast providing the voices. The monument was designed by sculptor Meredith Bergmann. To read the full press release, click here.
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A century ago, Illinois women fought a long, hard battle for full citizenship and the chance to improve society through their electoral power. In 1913 they won an important victory: the right to vote in federal and municipal elections.
In 1919, Illinois was the first state to ratify the 19th amendment granting all American women the right to vote. This website seeks to document and commemorate their struggle, their accomplishments and failures, their vision of social change, and their legacy.
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We are updating this website and adding content regularly leading up to the August 2020 anniversary. Follow at the link above to see updates and posts.
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In the contemporary a cappella landscape, it's not unusual to look at groups as cover bands—acts that arrange and often recreate popular music, but that, just the same, depend upon performing someone else's material.
Using original songs in recordings is a gamble. There's the chance that listeners won't as readily seek out or enjoy a cappella music that they don't already have a degree of familiarity with. Moreover, it's fundamentally harder to not only arrange, but create new music.
That said, there are very real rewards to recording originals. Most prominently, there's the glass ceiling effect for both individual groups and the a cappella genre on the whole. Think about a cover band that you may have heard at a bar, club, or on campus. You may have liked them perfectly fine, but in resigning themselves to only playing cover songs, the band has relinquished any meaningful shot at ever become as notable as the acts that they are imitating. Similarly, it's difficult for a cappella to ultimately be taken as seriously as music with instruments for as long as the genre is so dependent on covers.
Originals open new opportunities. They provide the chance for an a cappella group to achieve a breakaway hit on the group's own merits. Moreover, they afford group members creative outlets. If we liken arranging an established song to problem solving, then assembling an original is more like the process of invention. And for those groups concerned that not filling their albums with covers will hurt their sales, consider how excited people who know and care about you may be to buy something that is wholly your creation. If the work is good, the word will spread from there—among your social networks, and among the a cappella world.
Recording original music is not for every group. If you don't have songwriters in your midst, or don't aspire to anything but cover music, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that. But for groups that do wish to make the leap to recording their own original songs, there are myriad opportunities blaze a new trail and thrive.


Please see the slides on Hellenism for our in class discussions.
Please consider the Classical Greek era in Classical Greece for our discussion together.
Thanks to the open sourced brilliance of Internet Archive we have a rich compendium of articles about the Greek and Roman Mythology. We will use this together as we discuss Greek and Roman mythology.


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Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida
André B.B. Wilke, Chalmers Vasquez, Gabriel Cardenas, Augusto Carvajal, Johana Medina, William D. Petrie, John C. Beier
Species from the Culex coronator complex are Neotropical species and potential vectors of Saint Louis and West Nile viruses. Culex coronator was first described in Trinidad and Tobago in the early twentieth century and since then it has invaded and has been reported established in most countries of the Americas. Species from the Culex coronator complex were first detected in the United States in the state of Louisiana in 2004 and were subsequently detected in Florida in 2005, reaching Miami-Dade County in 2008. We hypothesize that species from the Cx. coronator complex are adapting to urban environments in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and are becoming more present and abundant in these areas. Therefore, our objective was to investigate the patterns of the presence and abundance of species from the Cx. coronator complex in the urban areas of Miami-Dade County. Here we used weekly data comprised of 32 CDC traps from 2012 to 2020 and 150 BG-Sentinel traps from 2016 to 2020. A total of 34,146 female mosquitoes from the Cx. coronator complex were collected, 26,138 by CDC traps and 8008 by BG-Sentinel traps. While the number of CDC traps that were positive was relatively constant at 26–30 positive traps per year, the number of positive BG-Sentinel traps varied substantially from 50 to 87 positive traps per year. Furthermore, the heat map and logistic general linear model for repeated measures analyses showed a significant increase in both the distribution and abundance of mosquitoes from the Cx. coronator complex, indicating that these species are becoming more common in anthropized habitats being able to thrive in highly urbanized areas. The increase in the distribution and abundance of species from the Cx. coronator complex is a major public health concern. The ability of species from the Cx. coronator complex to benefit from urbanization highlights the need to better understand the mechanisms of how invasive vector mosquito species are adapting and exploiting urban habitats.
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Wilke, A. B. B., Vasquez, C., Cardenas, G., Carvajal, A., Medina, J., Petrie, W. D., & Beier, J. C. (2021). Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida. Scientific reports, 11(1), [14620]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94202-8
Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida. / Wilke, André B.B.; Vasquez, Chalmers; Cardenas, Gabriel; Carvajal, Augusto; Medina, Johana; Petrie, William D.; Beier, John C.
In: Scientific reports, Vol. 11, No. 1, 14620, 12.2021.
Wilke, ABB, Vasquez, C, Cardenas, G, Carvajal, A, Medina, J, Petrie, WD & Beier, JC 2021, 'Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida', Scientific reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 14620. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94202-8
Wilke ABB, Vasquez C, Cardenas G, Carvajal A, Medina J, Petrie WD et al. Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida. Scientific reports. 2021 Dec;11(1). 14620. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94202-8
Wilke, André B.B. ; Vasquez, Chalmers ; Cardenas, Gabriel ; Carvajal, Augusto ; Medina, Johana ; Petrie, William D. ; Beier, John C. / Invasion, establishment, and spread of invasive mosquitoes from the Culex coronator complex in urban areas of Miami-Dade County, Florida. In: Scientific reports. 2021 ; Vol. 11, No. 1.
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Creation of Dell Computer Corporation by Michael Dell
Creation of Dell Computer Corporation by Michael Dell to assemble PC.
Dell Inc. is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Based in Round Rock, Texas, Dell employs more than 76,500 people worldwide as of 2009[update].
Dell grew during the 1980s and 1990s to become (for a time) the largest seller of PCs and servers. As of 2008[update] it held the second spot in computer-sales within the industry behind Hewlett-Packard. The company currently sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, and computer peripherals. Dell also sells HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players and other electronics built by other manufacturers.
While a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Michael Dell founded the company as PC's Limited with capital of $1000. Operating from Michael Dell's off-campus dormitory room at Dobie Center, the startup aimed to sell IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Michael Dell started trading in the belief that by selling personal computer-systems directly to customers, PC's Limited could better understand customers' needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs.[citation needed] Michael Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting about $300,000 in expansion-capital from his family.
In 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design — the "Turbo PC", sold for US$795 — which contained an Intel 8088-compatible processor running at a speed of 8 MHz. PC's Limited advertised the systems in national computer-magazines for sale directly to consumers, and custom-assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. This offered buyers prices lower than those of retail brands, but with greater convenience than assembling the components themselves. Although not the first company to use this model, PC's Limited became one of the first to succeed with it. The company grossed more than $73 million in its first year of trading.
The company changed its name to "Dell Computer Corporation" in 1988. In 1989, Dell Computer set up its first on-site-service programs in order to compensate for the lack of local retailers prepared to act as service centers. Also in 1987, the company set up its first operations in Ireland; eleven more international operations followed within the next four years. In June 1988, Dell's market capitalization grew by $30 million to $80 million from its June 22 initial public offering of 3.5 million shares at $8.50 a share. In 1990, Dell Computer Corporation tried selling its products indirectly through warehouse clubs and computer superstores, but met with little success, and the company re-focused on its more successful direct-to-consumer sales model. In 1992, Fortune magazine included Dell Computer Corporation in its list of the world's 500 largest companies.


SFGAm 2018 - Mardi Gras Hangover: Larson Loop : Theme Park News & Construction!
This latest thrill will be located in the Mardi Gras area of the park. The new coaster will be named soon and is set to open in spring of 2018. For more information about next season at Six Flags Great America, visit https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/newfor2018.
Six Flags Great America is also announcing the start of 2018 Season Pass sales with its special Flash Sale through Labor Day weekend featuring the best deal of the year—savings over 70% off on a 2018 Pass!
August 31 through September 4, guests will receive a free upgrade to a Gold Season Pass with every Pass purchased. Gold Season Passes include admission to Six Flags Great America and Hurricane Harbor, and any other Six Flags theme park, as well as free parking and special admission offers for friends.
And people thought Crazanity was bad. This name is incredibly generic and if a taller Super Loop is built then this will be a misnomer. Actually it sort of is a misnomer because Full Throttle's loop is much bigger. They're just about satirizing themselves by now.
I believe the name was actually supposed to be something along the lines of "Hurricane Force" but because of what just happened in Texas they're probably waiting a little longer to release the name.
Yeah I heard similar to what VF15 is saying. Kinda makes sense I guess.
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WORLD'S LARGEST INVERSION ON A POWERED COASTER!!!!!
WORLD'S LARGEST "HOTWHEEL" LOOP INVERSION ON A POWERED COASTER!!!!!
Fixed for you! It's gonna be one of the kid's best dreams!
Well, that's certainly an interesting name.
Well, that translates into "Pancake Day Hangover" in English!
That's a much better name than "World's Largest Loop coaster." Not even hurricane-related. I wonder if they were concerned about the name 'hangover' being family friendly.
It takes them literally 7 months to install a flat ride and they use the caption "talk about progress"????
 Photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus.
become a time-honored tradition that can only be experienced at Six Flags Great America.
I have to say I love how well SFGAm integrates their flat rides into their park. I remember some of the more significant ones looking like they're supposed to be there, rather than afterthoughts placed on the side of a path. This one is no exception.
Right, I remember riding that Top Spin. Only 4 inversions but they were in crazy rapid succession, had my world spinning vertically. I also remember GAdv's Frisbee in particular standing out as being in a really nice location.
They've done a lot of work on the Mardi Gras section at GAm the past couple years. Nice to see this area get a facelift. After Ragin Cajun was removed, that area was a ghost town.


mmmhhhh very nice in pantyhose !
I just have 2 keep coming back and wanking over your pics nicole. Cant wait 4 u 2 share more with us.
great pics nicole! u look great in your pantyhose but even better out of them!


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Southington girls swimming and diving closed out the regular season with a strong 95-82 victory over Berlin on Oct. 23 at Platt High School in Meriden.
The Lady Knights were ready to go against the Redcoats, who don't have a pool at Berlin High School. Southington started the meet with a win in the 200 medley relay (2:02.08) behind the team of Maddie Symecko, Andie Nadeau, Meghan Hammarlund and Gianna Perugini, and they never looked back.
The Lady Knights also won the 200 freestyle relay (1:49.50) behind the team of Julie Duszak, Perugini, Anny Moquette and Nadeau.
Hammarlund was a double winner in the 200 individual medley (2:23.96) and 100 butterfly (1:04.26). Abby Lo Presti (200 freestyle, 2:19.89), Duszak (50 freestyle, 26.12), Nadeau (100 freestyle, 58.41) and Symecko (500 freestyle, 5:56.95) added individual wins.
Duszak finished first in the 100 breaststroke, which was an exhibition race for Southington. The 400 freestyle relay team (4:11.76) of Hammarlund, Moquette, Julia Holland and Symecko was also first in an exhibition race.
Next up for Southington was CCC Diving, which took place Tuesday at Miss Porter's in Farmington. The CCC West Division championship meet was on Thursday at the Cornerstone Aquatics Center in West Hartford.
Hall and Conard defeated Southington in the regular season, but the same thing happened last year and the Lady Knights wound up winning the championship meet. Anything can happen on Friday.


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Mossy Oak Scholarship drives success through passion
By: MSU Foundation
Photo By: Mossy Oak website
In 1986, just three years after graduating from the Mississippi State University College of Business, Toxey Haas returned to his home in West Point and founded Haas Outdoors Inc., parent company of Mossy Oak brands. Utilizing his education to fuel his passion for the outdoors, Haas revolutionized the modern hunting industry. Today, Haas is helping more students pursue their ambitions through a newly endowed scholarship in the MSU College of Forest Resources.
The Fox Haas Mossy Oak Endowed Scholarship was established by Haas to honor his father and fellow MSU alumnus, Carl Fox Haas. Often referred to by many as simply, "Mr. Fox," the avid sportsman inspired his son's lifelong love for hunting from an early age.
"My dad has always been my hero and my biggest influence," said Haas. "He not only taught me to hunt and be a woodsman, but more importantly he taught me the value system for life. Nothing means more to him than his faith, his family, and the earth we are responsible to care for."
Fox, a native of Mobile, Alabama, graduated from then Mississippi State College in 1956. During his time as a student, he met his wife, Evelyn Nash, a fellow 1956 classmate. After a 30-year progressive career, Fox retired from West Point-based Bryan Foods in 1990 to join his son in the family business. He currently serves as secretary and treasurer of Mossy Oak.
"My dad is, in my opinion and also countless others, the model 'conservationist,' which by definition requires giving back more than you take," Haas said. "This scholarship is not just a way for our family and the Mossy Oak brand to honor my dad, but also to hold him as the example in this field. Mississippi State has always been a huge priority in his life and although he has received many accolades and honors, I believe he considers this one his greatest."
The Fox Haas Mossy Oak Endowed Scholarship will be awarded to students enrolled in the College of Forest Resources. Candidates for the award must submit a resume and brief essay, and be recommended by at least one faculty member. Preference may also be based on financial need.
In addition to his parents, Haas also shares his alma mater with his wife, Diane, who graduated from the MSU College of Education in 1983, as well as the couple's three children, Sara Frances, Daniel and Neill. Through the Fox Haas Mossy Oak Endowed Scholarship, the family's maroon legacy will ring true for future generations.
Haas' support also extends to MSU athletics, including co-developing the Mossy Oak Golf Club, which is set to open this fall, with fellow MSU alumnus George Bryan. The facility will serve as the official home of the MSU men's and women's golf teams. He also contributed to the collaborative creation of the Diamond Dawgs' Mossy Oak camo-pattered jerseys, the first of their kind in collegiate baseball, which the team sported against Eastern Kentucky in the spring of 2015.
Mossy Oak was also the initial and pioneering sponsor of the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which was based at Mississippi State University from 2003 to 2012.
In pursuing his passion, Haas has transformed the sport of hunting, making the Mossy Oak name synonymous with the outdoor lifestyle it serves. Now, the Fox Haas Mossy Oak Endowed Scholarship will also synonomize the brand with educational opportunities at MSU, and will provide perpetual support for future success as ambitious students pursue their own passions.


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Home News McKinley Young Storytellers Program Puts On "The Big Show"
McKinley Young Storytellers Program Puts On "The Big Show"
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The McKinley Young Storytellers script to stage program held "The Big Show" in the William McKinley Elementary School auditorium on April 21.
Ten fifth-grade screenwriters from the school partnered with mentors from Walt Disney Studios to develop scripts over the 2015-16 school year. Professional actors came in and read those scripts for "The Big Show" to an audience of the entire fifth grade.
The students meet at lunch for several weekly sessions in the fall and the spring with their Disney mentors and learn about script writing, explained McKinley Principal Liz Costella.
"Their mentors help them create a script that can come alive on the stage," she went on to say. "Disney gets actors to act out the scripts the day of 'The Big Show.' The actors don't see the script before the day of the show."
Disney's Robert Bishop acted as head mentor for the program.
Scripts presented were:
"DFL" – A rookie T-Rex wide receiver must learn to believe in himself to defeat his rival, a professional linebacker velociraptor, in order to win the Dino bowl." – written by Robert Garayoa, mentored by Brian McDevitt.
"The Lightsaber Steal" – "Four people. One trophy. Who will win?" – written by Adriana Flores, mentored by Alex Kang.
"Making Friends" – "How a cat and two marshmallows become friends and help each other." – written by Samantha Aquino, mentored by Rene Benavides.
"The Minecraft Story Mode" – "A recent college graduate sets out to write and design the coolest Minecraft game for the chance to win $1.3 million prize." – written by Guillermo Rodriguez, mentored by Manny Lima.
"Castle Moonlight" – "This is a story about a princess named Sarah and a Knight named Henry who has to fight an Evil Octopus." – written by Alexander Aviles, mentored by Natalie Steffies.
"The Magical Adventure" – "Sunset the ghost cat must venture out to find a cure for her friend, Delta the Wold, who no longer is a wolf…" – written by Danielle Yap, mentored by Marcelina Hollender.
"The Strangest Story Ever" – "This is a strange story about an ordinary potato who saves his friends by doing something simple." – written by Kelly Fitzgerald, mentored by Diana Stone.
"A Long Journey" – "The story of two people." – written by Betel Merida-Flores, mentored by Beau Puckett.
"Dun Dun Duuuun…" – "In the woods, Caroline finds a doll, but the doll is actually eveil and curses Caroline and the whole town. So Caroline, along with the help of her friend Rene, must uncurse the town, learning how to do the dab along the way." – written by Genevieve Corea, mentored by Amanda Oberg.
"The New Kind of Donoville" – "Two brothers must compete against each other for the kingdom as the king is dying." – written by Donovan Feinberg, mentored by Amanda Raymond.
"This a wonderful program to have at McKinley; the students involved feel pride in seeing their script come to life," commented Costella. "The other students who are the audience members are not only proud of their friends but they get see what an idea can become."
The McKinley Young Storytellers program culminates with a visit to the Walt Disney Studios main lot in Burbank for a wrap party. Students will visit with their mentors a final time and check out a set or sound stage on the lot.
The Young Storytellers Foundation supports the Young Storytellers script to stage program at McKinley Elementary, in addition to the Young Movie Makers program at David Starr Jordan Middle and John Burroughs High School.
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A couple of years ago, when I was volunteering in the annuals greenhouse at the Royal Botanical Garden, I got to do all sorts of different tasks. At one point during the winter, my job involved taking flats filled with delicate little seedlings and separating them into their own pots. Guess what my most valuable tool was? A chopstick. One of the volunteers taught me a chopstick tip to gently separate seedlings that are growing too closely together.
This may seem so elementary, but for me it was super helpful at home. I've always used tweezers to pull out seedlings and then discarded them. But you don't have to let all those extra seedlings go to waste. You can transplant them all into their own pots, which is what we did in the greenhouse as we prepped for a plant sale.
This is especially helpful for tiny flower seeds that are hard to see. You can just scatter them in one pot and then worry about separating out the strongest of the bunch later. Sometimes I'll put one in a pot, but for tinier plants, I'll separate out maybe two or three wee little plants.
1. Gently place the tip of the chopstick beside the seedlings and gently use it to pry one seedling loose at a time.
2. Use the chopstick to make a hole in a new pot filled with soilless mix and plunk the seedling in, patting the soil around it to hold in place.
That's it! Stupid easy, but a trick I found to be incredibly useful.
Love this tip! I've been using a chopstick when sowing seeds for a long time, but didn't think to use one when transplanting – Thanks!


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The Economist's Survey on Global Warming
The Economist has a lengthy survey on global warming. The introduction shows they are more open to examining the science than American conservatives:
This survey will argue that although the science remains uncertain, the chances of serious consequences are high enough to make it worth spending the (not exorbitant) sums needed to try to mitigate climate change. It will suggest that, even though America, the world's biggest CO2 emitter, turned its back on the Kyoto protocol on global warming, the chances are that it will eventually take steps to control its emissions. And if America does, there is a reasonable prospect that the other big producers of CO2 will do the same.
They look at the science and at the economics of global warming. Some areas could actually benefit from global warming. "Not all the change will be bad. An extra couple of degrees might not do northern Europe any harm. Russia could benefit hugely from a bit of warming: large parts of the country that are currently uninhabitable could become comfortable enough to live in. The 25% of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves that are reckoned to be in the Arctic, much of them in Russia, would become easier to get at." Despite these benefits, they find that overall gloobal warming is a serious threat which makes economic sense to take action on:
Out of the fog of uncertainty over the economics of climate change, the outline of a few conclusions emerges. Global warming poses a serious risk, and the costs of mitigation are not so large as to be politically unthinkable. Mitigation is better done gradually than swiftly, because the faster it is done, the more it will cost. That said, the economics of the subject are too uncertain for policymakers to lean heavily upon them, so in the end it will be the politicians who decide.
Different players are examined. Problems of global warming may worsen as China develops. Businesses are becomming more environmentally friendly, often at the urging of government. In the United States, views vary, with signs of improvement, especially if Bush and the Republicans are voted out of office:
The passionate argument about climate change going on inside America is not always obvious to the rest of the world. Some greens in other countries tend to write America off because it chose not to ratify the Kyoto protocol, because the federal government has consistently refused to adopt a mandatory system for restricting emissions, and because American public opinion is relatively indifferent to global warming (see chart 5). Yet the politics of global warming in America are more complex than that, and are changing.
The federal government's inaction contrasts with a flurry of activity at lower levels of government. The mayor of Seattle has started an initiative to get cities to aim for Kyoto targets, and 279 cities have signed up. Seven north-eastern states have set up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative—emissions stabilisation followed by cuts, with a trading scheme—and six western governors are agitating for federal action.
California is particularly interesting, for two reasons. First, the Hummer-driving Mr Schwarzenegger is, improbably, one of the greenest politicians in the world. This may in part reflect his personal convictions, but also chimes with the views of Californians, who are much more environment-minded than other Americans. Second, the state has long experience of adopting tougher environmental regulations than other parts of America, and of gauging their economic impact.
On August 31st, California became the first state to legislate for cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions—by 25% by 2020. The bill was opposed by most Republican legislators. Mr Schwarzenegger has also set a target for cutting emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. (Oregon has a target of 75%, and the governor was clearly determined not to let some northern girlie-man steal the crown of greenest governor.) By 2010, 20% of California's energy is to be generated from renewables. . .
Opinion in America as a whole is shifting a little in California's direction. Hurricane Katrina brought the issue to the fore. Scientists had given warning that climate change might cause "extreme weather events". Katrina demonstrated what such an event—for which the government was unprepared—could look like. Individuals thought about their safety; businesses about their balance sheets.
The White House's sceptical stance lost credibility last year when it emerged that Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, had been editing scientific reports to emphasise uncertainties in climate science. Mr Cooney resigned and joined Exxon Mobil.
The steady drumbeat of stories attributing all manner of evil to climate change is getting louder: California burning (because the woods are too dry); ski resorts struggling (because the snow line is rising); alligators in Florida eating people (because their pools and thus their food supplies are drying up); polar bears eating each other (because melting ice makes it harder for them to hunt).
Several of America's wealthiest and best-organised foundations have raised the temperature by making climate change one of their big issues. The Hewlett Foundation's Hal Harvey and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change's Eileen Claussen are key figures in commissioning research and working on politicians. The sceptics can call on funding from companies keen to avert federal action, but the green think-tanks outgun them. Myron Ebell of the Competititive Enterprise Institute, who calls them "the forces of darkness", says they receive "huge amounts of money from charitable foundations. The children and grandchildren of capitalist buccaneers are soft left."
Their activities have helped create a curious new alliance whose members disagree about almost everything except global warming. Jim Woolsey, a Prius-driving former head of the CIA, who numbers himself among them, calls it "a coalition of tree-huggers, sod-busters, cheap hawks and evangelicals."
Sod-busters, explains Mr Woolsey, is a south-western term for farmers. Farming subsidies are continually under threat, but when the federal government started subsidising ethanol production and wind power, farmers realised that renewable energy offers new streams of revenue. Turbines are a lucrative alternative to turnips.
The cheap hawks, which Mr Woolsey says include him, are concerned about the vulnerability of oil installations in the Middle East. "Relying on this unstable part of the world for this very important part of our economy is rather worrying." America does have coal, but coal supplies won't last forever, so demand for fossil fuels needs to be cut. Mr Woolsey, who backed the Iraq war, is on the advisory board of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which argues for subsidies to make cars more fuel-efficient and for plant-based alternatives to petrol.
Earlier this year, Christian evangelicals, who have a direct line to the White House, launched the "Evangelical Climate Initiative", signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, "The Purpose-Driven Life". It says that "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbours."
Not all evangelicals go along with this. According to an opinion poll last year, 33% of evangelicals think hurricanes are a deliberate act of God—which presumably means that man should not mess with them. (Some 13% of non-evangelical Protestants, 15% of Catholics and, bizarrely, 17% of non-religious people agree.) Twenty-two leading evangelicals wrote to the National Association of Evangelicals asking it not to endorse the climate initiative. It didn't.
Two more important lobbies are coming round to the view that something needs to be done. Hunting and shooting lies close to the heart of the Bush administration (as Dick Cheney showed when he accidentally peppered an old friend). One-fifth of voters hunt or shoot, and two-thirds of hunters and anglers vote Republican. In the first poll of their views, carried out in May this year, 76% of these sportsmen said they had personally noticed climate change, and 78% said that the right way to address America's energy needs was to conserve more, develop fuel-efficient vehicles and use more renewables. Only 15% thought the right approach was to drill for more oil.
Business is doing its bit. In April this year, eight big energy companies, including GE, Shell and the two largest owners of utilities in the United States, Exelon and Duke Energy, were being questioned by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Six of the eight said they would welcome or at least accept mandatory caps on their greenhouse-gas emissions. Wal-Mart was keen, too.
Does all this add up to federal legislation on mandatory controls? The progress of two bills says "not yet". One, from Senators John McCain, a Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat, has been voted on twice, and got slightly less support in the second vote than in the first. The other, a comparatively modest proposal based on a scheme put together by the National Commission on Energy Policy for a cap-and-trade system with a price limit of $7 per tonne, was part of an energy-bill amendment initially proposed by Jeff Bingaman, a Democrat, and Pete Domenici, a Republican. Mr Domenici backed away at the last moment. Earlier this year he and Mr Bingaman published a white paper on how a trading scheme might work.
So on Capitol Hill the issue is not dead but resting. Three things might wake it up: first, a strong performance by Democrats in the mid-term elections; second, and more important, a new president. The favourites for the two parties' nominations, Mr McCain and Hillary Clinton, both favour mandatory federal emissions controls. Third, the Supreme Court is to rule next year on whether the federal government has the right to control carbon-dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. That will either pave the way for legislation or kill off the possibility.
They conclude by looking at various technological solutions, and the political changes which are necessary to make them possible:
Economics can help make these technologies viable. That can be done in two ways. One is to subsidise early-stage R&D to bring down the price of alternatives. The second is to tax carbon (or set up a cap-and-trade system similar to Europe's ETS) to push up the price of fossil fuels. Given that governments are reluctant to make themselves unpopular by taxing consumers or constraining companies, there is probably a need for a bit of both.
That leaves the hardest bit of the puzzle: the politics. The best solution would be to get the world's biggest polluters to share the burden. Kyoto tried to do that, and failed. America, which is now allergic to the word, is not going to accept the protocol, and over time Europe will get fed up with paying for something that is doing no global good. So, in the short term, the world is faced with the choice of no solution or a better-than-nothing approach that might improve over time.
America is the key. If America does nothing, then the developing world's big polluters will do nothing. If America decides, independently, to constrain emissions at a federal level (and cap-and-trade is much likelier to be acceptable than anything that includes the dread word "tax"), then China and India might come to accept that they have as much to lose as everybody else, and that they should lead the rest of the developing world towards cutting emissions.
Or America might restart the process of involving the rest of the world, possibly at a regional level, through the Asia-Pacific Initiative that it set up in competition to Kyoto. For the moment, the chances of that happening do not look great. But as the weather changes, so does the political climate. Another heatwave, another disastrous hurricane season, and the pressure to take action will become harder to resist. It would need a different name, of course: the Peoria Protocol, perhaps, or the Indianapolis Initiative. Or what about the Crawford Convention, Mr Bush? That would stick the personal brand of the man who likes to enjoy the natural world at his ranch on America's attempt to save it.
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The Charters Of Dreams says:
January 31st 2008 at 1:03 am
"The sceptics can call on funding from companies keen to avert federal action, but the green think-tanks outgun them." Well thank god for that — feeling good about oneself by 'saving the earth' is what's most important.
There's way to much to respond to here, but let's just focus on 1) the (lack of) foresight and 2) unintended consequences, a couple of factors always conveniently ignored because they really dilute one's passions derived from certainty that doom is just over the horizon.
Monday, January 14, 2008, Indonesia. The world's first food riot caused by well-intentioned steps driven by "something needs to be done" passions: Indonesians took to the streets, demanding that their government to do something about the price of soybeans, a dietary staple.
All over the world, food prices are on the rise. For most of the late 1990s and up until 2005, the price of beans on the Chicago Board of Trade had remained stable at about $5 a bushel. Since then, they have shot up over 150 percent, to around $13. Corn has doubled, to $5. Wheat prices have tripled.
It all started with the 2005 Energy Policy Act, passed by a Republican congress and signed by a Republican president, mandating that an increasing amount of ethanol be admixed with gasoline. The bill was sold as a road to "energy independence" and as lowering the amount of carbon dioxide we emit, reducing dreaded global warming.
The Act required production of four billion gallons of ethanol in 2006, increasing by approximately 700 million gallons each succeeding year. Enter those familiar characters supply, demand, and price. Supply tightens, prices escalate, and more and more farmers divert cropland from other crops (mainly soybeans and wheat) to corn. In the U.S., most crops are turned into animal feed, but in poorer countries, such as Indonesia (soybeans) or Mexico (corn for tortillas) they are consumed directly.
It's too much to go into, but how much cooling will ethanol substitution buy us? Not a hell of lot — probably too small to even empirically detect given the temp. variations observed over the last few decades.
But — no matter: "something needs to be done."
Interesting how The Economist and the coalition of tree-huggers, sod-busters, cheap hawks and evangelicals never saw this coming. What other negative public policy consequences can't they see coming? Have they really thought it though? Do they really understand the problem and consequences?
Does it even matter?
If the 2005 Energy Policy Act driven in large part by global warming hysterics is any guide (and it is), the answer is — nope!
If The Economist and the coalition of tree-huggers, sod-busters, cheap hawks and evangelicals are embarrassed to be caught with their pants down on this one, they should just take a page from the neo-con spin book on Iraq, i.e., yeah, all this bad stuff we either didn't realize or really didn't care about happening since 2003, but remember — it would have been even worse had we "done nothing."
Yeah — that'll fly.
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First of all, sorry for missing two days of blogging! I had a uni deadline on Monday (23rd) and went away to London on Friday (20th) for my birthday and stayed till Sunday, so I spent the whole of last week trying to get all my uni work done so I could enjoy a nice weekend away! However, that brings me nicely onto the subject of this blog post: Motel One! This is where I stayed for my weekend away, and it was such a lovely yet affordable hotel, I thought it deserved a place on my blog.
I spent so long searching for hotels in London, and most were either too small or too expensive, or they looked great online till I got to TripAdvisor, or they'd be so far away from Central London. I was so happy when I found Motel One, it looked really nice both online and on TripAdvisor, and I found that it had also been opened Christmas last year so it's pretty new. For the whole weekend, for an ensuite double bedroom for me and my boyfriend, it came to a total of £230 which to me, is a pretty good deal for London. For the price, I wouldn't expect much, but on arrival I was so pleased. It looked exactly like it did online, with a beautiful lounge area, delightful looking breakfasts, a lovely room and the bathrooms by the lounge even had projections of flowers in the sink and cute quotes on the walls.
Now, as lovely as the room was, I feel like I should firstly point out that they weren't the biggest rooms ever. This being said, it's not like I needed extra space, this was just the right amount for me and my boyfriend, especially as we didn't spend much time in the hotel anyway. It included a small desk by the window, a TV set up with Freeview, two rails with 4 hangers each to hang clothes on, as well as a full length mirror and even a hairdryer so you can save on space in your suitcase. The ensuite featured a huge showering area, it didn't have a door or shower curtain but really, it didn't need one. It had a glass wall around half of it, then towards the bottom half it was open as no water could reach to that area anyway. It was quite a small bathroom, but again it doesn't need to be much bigger. My only problem was the lighting, which seemed to have a strange green tint to it, so not the best for doing your makeup!
The view from the room was lovely too. I'd seen some people on TripAdvisor recommend certain rooms to get a view of the Gherkin, and although we didn't get one of these rooms, we still had a decent view of it. We stayed on Floor 11, room 22, for anyone who'd like to know!
For breakfast, we actually ate out as it was £9 for the continental breakfast, and we thought our money could be spent better elsewhere. However, if you're looking for convenience, I will say it looked pretty darn good! Although it didn't look like you'd be finding the traditional egg and bacon in the mix. On the first day we actually ate at somewhere called the Polo Bar, which I'll do a blog post on soon. There's also a place called The Breakfast Club which I plan to try out next time I'm in London.
Oh yes, and they had free Wi-Fi!
Trying New Brands, First Impressions.


"Daughter of God is made possible by a generous grant from the cosmos with additional support from the space-time continuum."
Along with robust appreciation for who did what, explore an extensive elaboration of influences at why.movie reference, part of the Deep Development archive.
"Another Fucked Up Day in Paradise"


Quub is currently in limited beta and, as of this writing, as 5,773 open spots remaining. There are a few up-and-coming websites that specialize in mass-status updates for all of your social networking sites and Quub is one of those, but better.
It officially launched on April 28 and has now sort of matured a little after a slightly rocky start—which was expected, really. Even though it's still in beta, it's extremely strong and well-thought-out, I think.
Basically, Quub aims to make life easier for the over-socialed, over-networked people of today. Some of us don't just have accounts on multiple networking sites like VOIS and Facebook, but we have multiple accounts on those sites as well. Personal, business, and even family accounts are not uncommon now as we juggle everything on our PCs and smart phones.
Quub links with Facebook, Hi5, LinkdIn, MySpace, Plaxo, Plurk, Tumblr, and Twitter. More than just an across-the-board status updater, though, Quub has a few extras that put it over-the-top compared to some of its competition.
First, it's extremely easy to use and generally holds your hand through the entire process. This without being condescending or too dumbed-down for power users. Better than that, though, it's intelligent.
Quub uses a small AI that recalls what you've written before and makes guesses as you enter what you're doing now. So if you put in a lot of "Going ot the gym," and "Just got off work" updates, it will repeat those for you easily. This not only makes it faster to send updates, but it gives it a more tailored feel to the prefab info we tend to use.
Another bonus is that you're not locked in to update every network you have linked to it. Every time you send an update, you have the option of de-selecting sites from the list, so if you just want to Tweet and Facebook Status your update and forget the others, you can do so.
One downer to Quub right now is that it doesn't work on most mobile platforms and doesn't have a browser plug-in or desktop app yet either. Those are coming down the pike, though. Right now, Quub can be used through your browser on the Web and on Android and Blackberry handhelds.
Finally, let's wrap up with another of Quub's great features: contact and message grouping. You can group contacts from each network into groups and time-line message threads and group them as well. The dashboard for this is very easy and looks similar to others in that game.
Another thing you won't find on Quub are URL shorteners (like TinyURL) or photo uploading. No word on whether those are coming soon or not. I'd like to see them, myself.
Overall, since it's still in beta, I'd say that Quub is a great app so far and definitely has a huge amount of potential. It runs quickly, syncs nicely, and is very easy to use.
You guys are always, putting up articles about all these sites! I don't think I can keep up, lol.


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Q: Mi código no encuentra el archivo especificado Estoy haciendo una galería light box, al principio cada imagen tiene un efecto (hover) donde sale un fondo negro que lo cubre un 60%, mi problema es que cuando pongo la ventana modal al dar clic en una imagen esta no se manifiesta en su ventana correspondida
Me sale el error undefined:1 GET file:///C:/wamp/www/proyectos/Paginas/plantillas/Galeria/modelo%202/undefined net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
Pero tanto las variables de "fotoModal" como "imagenes" las probé con un "alert()".
Este es mi codigo javascript:
const descriptor = document.querySelectorAll(".container-description");
const imagenes = document.querySelectorAll(".litlle, .large, .big");
let contador = true,
  lightBoxModal = document.querySelector(".modal-light- galery"),
  contadorVentana = true,
  botonCancelar = document.querySelector(
    ".descriptor-modal .cancelar-modal-one img"
  ),
  fotoModal = document.querySelector(".photo-modal img");

function hoverImages() {
  for (let i = 0; i < imagenes.length; i++) {
    //Efecto hover de imagenes
    imagenes[i].addEventListener("mouseover", function () {
      if (contador == true) {
        descriptor[i].style.height = "60%";
        contador = false;
      }
    });
    imagenes[i].addEventListener("mouseout", function () {
      if (contador == false) {
        descriptor[i].style.height = "0%";
        contador = true;
      }
    });

    //Efecto hover de imagenes

    //Light-box
    imagenes[i].addEventListener("click", () => {
      if (contadorVentana == true) {
        lightBoxModal.style.display = "grid";
        fotoModal.src = imagenes[i].src;
        contadorVentana = false;
      }
    });
  }
}
hoverImages();

botonCancelar.addEventListener("click", function () {
  if (contadorVentana == false) {
    lightBoxModal.style.display = "none";
    contadorVentana = true;
  }
});

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The Aurora DT398 Desk Calculator has a fixed angle LCD display for up to 12 digits.
It features a 3 key memory, +/- change key, backspace corrector and enables decimal point selection.
The DT398 has dual power facility and an auto power off function.