The following are selected MEMRI TV clips from The MEMRI Reform Project (visit the MEMRI TV Reform In The Muslim World project page).
Dr. Rita Faraj, a Lebanese sociologist and author, was interviewed on Abu Dhabi's Sky News Arabia TV. Faraj criticized extremist Islamist groups for embracing religious discourse that calls people to violence and martyrdom against the "other." She said that these groups develop out of crises, poverty, and ignorance of culture, religion and history.
Sky News Arabia (U.K./Abu Dhabi) – September 21, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Moroccan author Rachid Aylal said that Islamic heritage has become "like a grave, surrounded by flowers, with buried rot underneath." Those clinging to the heritage "have given us ISIS and people who accuse of heresy anyone who believes the Earth is round," he said.
The Internet – "Hamed Abdel-Samad on YouTube" – July 30, 2017 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that one of the "chronic and hereditary diseases" from which Arab societies suffer "is that we have no problem with lies, deceit, and the use of falsification and fake media."
BBC Arabic (The UK) – July 27, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
French-Algerian philosopher and researcher of Islamic thought Razika Adnani said that various Islamic rulings based on the Quran – such as the punishments for stealing and for slavery – had been abolished over history in order to adapt to the circumstances of the times.
France 24 Arabic TV (France) – June 25, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Paris-based Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik, interviewed on Al-Hurra TV on June 13, said that "since the death of the Prophet Muhammad and to this day, our history has been a pack of lies." He discussed the incompatibility of the Quran with modern man-made laws, saying that these laws were rendering the religious texts obsolete.
Al-Hurra TV (The U.S.) – June 13, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
In a Saudi 24 TV interview, Jordanian journalist Yousef Alawnah compared his incarceration in Israel to prisons in the Arab world and said that he was ashamed by the comparison. Alawnah recounted that he had served 30 months in an Israeli prison for smuggling explosives, adding that "prison was like an institute of education," where inmates had "an opportunity to acquire culture, to read, and to study many things."
Saudi 24 TV (Saudi Arabia) – June 12, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Following the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb gave an address, in which he said that as Arabs, "we need to take a hard look at ourselves." "We have brought shame upon the world, shame upon humanity, by what we are doing by ourselves and to ourselves," said Adeeb, speaking on the Egyptian ON TV channel on April 8.
ON TV (Egypt) – April 8, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Iranian cleric Seyyed Mohammad Anjavinejad recently delivered a sermon in a mosque in Shiraz in which he leveled harsh criticism against the Iranian regime. Denouncing the regime officials for what he described as widespread corruption among their families, Anjavinejad said: "They robbed you and me. We have no idea... how many billions each of those families conceals."
The Internet – July 7, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Hussein Snoussi, a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan origin, recounted that his daughter Maryam had left for Al-Raqqa, Syria, to join ISIS without telling the family, and that a few years later, her mother had joined her, taking their son Elias, then 14, with her.
Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia) – August 12, 2017 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Women's Mosque of America, activist Sumaya Abubaker of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California talked about sexual abuse in the Muslim community – sometimes perpetrated by imams and Quran teachers – and about the silence surrounding it.
The Internet – "Women's Mosque of America on YouTube" – April 24, 2015 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Iraqi TV host Anwar Al-Hamadani went on record as saying "that it is our duty to apologize to our Iraqi Jewish compatriots for the tragedy that befell them" during the 1941 Farhoud massacre of Jews in Baghdad and "to rectify that historic error," which he compared to the tragedies that befell the Iraqi Christian, Sabaean, and Yazidi communities.
Al-Fallujah TV (Iraq) – February 23, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
British-Palestinian human rights activist Ahlam Akram appeared on a Hewar TV show, where she said that the mosque plays a negative role in promoting acceptance of the other. "I have stopped going to the mosque," she said. "Why? The one main reason is the culture of incitement." Akram further said that "if we believe in the values of democracy, we should abide by the British laws, [which] guarantee justice, equality, and freedom."
Hiwar TV (U.K.) – March 10, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Dr. Nayla Abi Nader, a Lebanese researcher on Islamic thought, warned that the dichotomy between Muslims and non-Muslims was splitting society. Abi Nader said that "our interests do not lie in conflict, in fighting, or in classifying people as dhimmis or non-dhimmis," and called for reform in the field of education, in order to stop educating to backwardness, ignorance, and reactionism.
Alghad (UAE/Egypt) – March 20, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Tunisian poet Anis Shoshan, interviewed on Sudania 24 TV, discussed notions of citizenship and human rights, and said that while in Arab societies we are taught "to be passive, not to think, but to follow obsolete customs," there is a new generation that is educated and aware of human rights.
Sudania 24 TV (Sudan) – May 6, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Egyptian-German Scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad On The "Enlightenment Phobia" Of Intellectuals: There Can Be No Enlightenment Without A "Mighty Clash With Heritage"
Speaking at a conference held by the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called to stop trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to incorporate them in the enlightenment game is perpetrating a crime."
The Internet – April 5, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Sudanese Women Clash With Cleric Who Justifies Sexual Harassment Of Women Dressed "Immodestly"
A debate about the sexual harassment of women in Sudan took place on Shabab Talk, an Arabic-language TV show on Deutsche Welle TV. Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is the head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association and who participated in the debate, said that the statistics that demonstrated that Sudan is a dangerous country for women were from sources "hostile to Sudan."
Deutsche Welle TV Arabia (Germany) – September 18, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Talking about conflicts between Arabs and non-Arabs in the history of Islam, Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said that Ibn Taymiyyah, with his "abominable fanaticism," had "destroyed all the values of equality."
Al-Hurra TV (The U.S.) – September 2, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi said that following the Unified Building Law, the Egyptian state has taken upon itself to build non-Muslim places of worship, including churches. Speaking at the World Youth Forum held in Sharm El-Sheikh, the Egyptian president said: "Every citizen has the right to worship as he pleases… [and] the right not to worship at all."
Channel 1 (Egypt) – November 4, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
UAE Sheikh Waseem Youssef: Our Generation Grew Up Playing 'Super Mario' And Produced ISIS – What Will The 'Fortnite' Generation Produce?
During a segment on Abu Dhabi TV, Emirati cleric Waseem Youssef said that today's generation is growing up playing "Fortnite," which is about "killing, destruction, stealing, and slaughtering," and that "[it is] producing a generation of murderers."
Abu Dhabi TV – September 9, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Egyptian author Dr. Tarek Heggy said that it is not unreasonable for Westerners to draw their own conclusions when they observe that most terrorists are Muslims, even if not all Muslims are terrorists. He said that a secular state is not an infidel state, explaining that it is simply a state where religion is a private matter.
Al-Hurra TV (The U.S.) – November 5, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
British cleric Nahiem Ajmal, also known as Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki, was asked during a Q&A session what his first piece of advice would be to Muslims. Ajmal answered that Muslims should stop focusing on bringing new converts to Islam through da'wa and criticized the "da'wa industry" for being run by people with "five minutes of Islam under their belt."
The Internet – November 1 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Layla, a nurse who had worked for ISIS in Syria, said that she had been forced to perform abortions on ISIS slave girls when they became pregnant. She described how she had sedated her children so that she could safely escape with them to Lebanon under garbage bags in the back of a pickup truck.
Al-Hurra TV (The U.S.) – November 8, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef said that religious fascist regimes are more dangerous than political dictatorships because anybody who disagrees with the Islamist regime is seen as an infidel who disagrees with God and must, therefore, be killed.
Hicham Nostik, who goes by the Internet identity of "Moroccan infidel" on social media, recounted the transformation he underwent after coming to Germany. Spending time with mujahideen at the mosque where he was living, "I turned more religious and became acquainted with the dark side of Islam," he told Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad, on whose "Box of Islam" Internet show he was interviewed.
The Internet – August 12, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
In a recent TV interview, Lebanese journalist Ziad Njeim said that the only thing he was sure of was his doubt that God exists. Zjeim refers to God as female "out of rebellion against the male-dominated religious institutions." "If men had any brains, they would not have brought the planet to such wretchedness," he said.
Murr TV (Lebanon) – January 4, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that throughout history, the Palestinian cause has suffered because of the extremists. "Lands are regained through peace, not through war," he said.
Kuwaiti Diwan Al-Mulla Internet TV – July 11, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Liberal Kuwaiti activist Nasser Dashti gave an interview on Sky News Arabia, in which he said that "when religion is presented as an ideological platform, it is more dangerous than a nuclear weapon." Dashti, a member of the Tanweer Center for Culture, said that in order to make progress, a nation needs to criticize its history and confront its old notions and ideas, but that the Islamic nation "to this day, employs rhetoric of veneration and glorification of what happened 1,400 years ago."
Sky News Arabia (U.K./Abu Dhabi) – January 12, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Mohammad Hashem, an atheist, was invited to the Alhadath Alyoum TV studio to participate in a debate with former Deputy Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mahmoud Ashour. However, his statement that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of God and his attempt to talk about the Big Bang theory met with a barrage of insults from Sheikh Ashour and from TV host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim, with Sheikh Ashour recommending psychiatric treatment and Abd Al-Halim refusing to allow him to remain on the show.
Alhadath Alyoum TV (Egypt) – February 11, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Shiite Iraqi scholar Jawad Al-Khoei, co-founder of the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue, said that ISIS is deeply rooted in Islam and that "when [violence] dons the cloak of religion, it is a hundred times more evil."
BBC Arabic (The UK) – March 5, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said that "the notion of the Caliphate is a commodity, which is shaped and sold by the merchants of illusion," such as Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and Turkish President Erdoğan.
Al-Hurra TV (The U.S.) – April 15, 2018 – View this clip on MEMRI TV here.


We are very proud to congratulate Johannes Schrimpf on successfully defending his PhD thesis, Sensor-based Real-time Control of Industrial Robots, 3 September 2013. The trial lecture starting the day was on the topic Control of Robotic Swarms: State-of-the-art and future challenges. In the committee were: Professor Aspragathos Nikolaos, University of Patras, Greece; Professor Anders Robertsson, Lund University, Sweden and Project Director Ingrid Schjølberg, Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway (Committee Administrator).


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3 Mar.2007 The Kaneff family and the Bulgarian-Canadian Association organized a National Liberation Day celebration at the prestigious Lionhead golf club. This year's celebration of 3.March, Bulgaria's National Liberation Day, was especially exciting due to the presence of Mr Michael Ignatieff, the great-grandson of Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev – the Russian diplomat who dictated the conditions of the San-Stefano treaty to Turkey on 3.Mar.1878.
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Mary endured several traumatic miscarriages, and only one of her children, Percy Florence, survived infancy. Her son William, who died at the age of four, was buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, the place where his father would also one day be buried. After the death of her husband, in 1823 Mary returned to live alone in London, rejecting the courtship of both men and women as she continued to write. Apart from her own writing, the remainder of her life was spent in editing the poetry of her late husband, and caring for her only surviving son. According to his father's wishes, Percy Florence was educated at Harrow and then at Cambridge, progressing to a happy and conventional marriage, and remaining close to his mother for the rest of her life.
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The Hershey Region of AACA is synonymous with the Eastern Fall Meet, which began in 1955. The meet takes place the first full week in October, where you can visit over 9,000 vendors, view over 1,000 cars for sale in the car corral, and admire the approximately 1,200 cars at the car show on Saturday.
The Hershey Region consists of about one thousand members, with our headquarters located at the Chuck Wagon Lodge in Hershey. Even though preparations for the Fall Meet continue year round, we also schedule many events throughout the year for our region members, including a cruise night at the Lodge, a visit to Shady Maple Smorgasbord, and many others.
Meetings are held at the Chuck Wagon Lodge, 131 Museum Drive, in Hershey, as well as many other awesome activities!
Hershey Region AACA is incorporated under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law, under section 501(c)3, for the purpose of sharing and preserving the common interest in and preserving of antique automobiles, education regarding antique automobiles, the preservation of automotive history, and the promotion of sportsmanship and good fellowship.
The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Antique Automobile Club of America was held in Philadelphia February 7-9, 2019. The Hershey Region was well represented as was evidenced by the many folks who stopped by the Hospitality Suite. There were various seminars available for attendees, the ever-popular Trade Show, and the General Membership Meeting.
Several Hershey members were big winners at the banquet on Saturday night. Congratulations goes to Dave Lockard, Mike Kissinger, Don Barlup, and Stan Kulikowski, Jr.


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Improving the Usability of a MAS DSML
Tomás Miranda
Moharram Challenger
Baris Tekin Tezel
Omer Faruk Alaca
Ankica Barišić
Vasco Amaral
Miguel Goulão
Geylani Kardas
Context: A significant effort has been devoted to the design and implementation of various domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) for the software agents domain.
Problem: Language usability is often tackled in an ad-hoc way, with the collection of anecdotal evidence supporting the process. However, usability plays an important role in the productivity, learnability and, ultimately, in the adoption of a MAS DSML by agent developers.
Method: In this chapter, we discuss how the principles of The "Physics" of Notations (PoN) can be applied to improve the visual notation of a MAS DSML, called SEA_ML and evaluate the result in terms of usability.
Results: The evolved version of the language, SEA_ML++, was perceived as significantly improved in terms of icons comprehensibility, adequacy and usability, as a direct result of employing the principles of PoN. However, users were not significantly more efficient and effective with SEA_ML++, suggesting these 2 properties were not chiefly constrained by the identified shortcomings of the SEA_ML concrete syntax.
Usability Multi-agent systems Domain specific modeling language Physics of Notations SEA_ML
The authors would like to thank the followings: (i) the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under grant 115E591, and (ii) Portuguese grants NOVA LINCS Research Laboratory (Grant: FCT/MCTES PEst UID/ CEC/04516/2013) and DSML4MA Project (Grant: FCT/MCTES TUBITAK/0008/2014).
Appendix A. Descriptions of the Selected SEA_ML Concepts
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Q: What src to specify in an iframe... in a custom element... in a published package? I have turned a Flutter web app into custom element, which I am publishing as an npm package.
The output of a Flutter web build is a html file (within which some scripts are run), so a quick way to turn this is a custom element is to wrap it in an iframe. The custom element has the general form:
class CustomElement extends HTMLElement {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.innerHTML = `
            <iframe src="src/flutter_output.html"></iframe>`;

Running on localhost, no problem.
Published to npm, yes problem.
This is because the src path in the iframe is relative to the home dir of the users index.html, so if the user has installed the package locally, the src should be something like "./node_modules/@package/flutter_output.html" (hard-coding where the package file will be feels dangerous). Or if they are using unpkg, then presumably the src would link back to unpkg, e.g. unpkg.com/package/flutter_output.html (and this seems wasteful).
So the question is what src do I use in the iframe? Or is there another solution to this issue? I am new to web dev, so could quite easily have overlooked something.
A possible solution could be to lose the iframe and html entirely, by converting the flutter_output.html to javascript. Although this could be very painful.

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L'édition 2018 du tournoi d'exhibition de tennis d'Abu Dhabi se déroule du 28 au . Bien qu'ayant lieu en intégralité pendant l'année civile 2017, le tournoi d'exhibition est considéré comme point de départ de la saison 2018.

Le tournoi masculin est remporté par Kevin Anderson.

Alors qu'il était exclusivement masculin depuis 2009, le tournoi accueille pour cette édition un match féminin, lors duquel Jeļena Ostapenko bat Serena Williams.

Faits marquants
Serena Williams effectue son retour à la compétition, après sa mise en retrait depuis  du fait de sa grossesse puis maternité.

Le , le Suisse Stanislas Wawrinka, blessé au genou, et le Canadien Milos Raonic, blessé au mollet, déclarent forfait. Ils sont respectivement remplacés par Kevin Anderson et Andrey Rublev.

Trois jours plus tard, le  mondial Rafael Nadal renonce également au tournoi exhibition à cause de problèmes au genou. Il est remplacé par Roberto Bautista-Agut.

Novak Djokovic annonce également son forfait à cause de douleurs au coude le jour de son premier match. Il est remplacé par Andy Murray dans le cadre de matchs d'exhibition additionnels.

En finale, le Sud-Africain Kevin Anderson s'adjuge le titre face à Roberto Bautista-Agut.

Participants
  Dominic Thiem ()
  Pablo Carreño Busta ()
  Novak Djokovic () remplacé par  Andy Murray ()
  Kevin Anderson ()
  Roberto Bautista-Agut ()
  Andrey Rublev ()

Tableau masculin

Tableau féminin

Notes et références

Lien externe
 Site officiel du tournoi

2018
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Sport aux Émirats arabes unis en 2017
Sport en décembre 2017

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This cute and colored cube also pairs up well with a bouquet of pink roses, making this charming box and the perfect packaging to let that special someone know you care. Ideal for special occasions such as Valentine's Day, anniversaries, weddings or birthdays, you'll be sure to attract attention with this hot pink glossy gift box.
Fuchsia Glossy Gift Boxes are available in 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. And in more sizes too, just look at our Pink Boxes page.
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I reckon 4 or 5 is about the most we should have, keep things simple and unimposing.
Maybe a 4th flag along the lines of "Needs corrections/details adding", if inaccuracies or missing details have been found, either during the review, or just by a casual observer. Some details could then be left in the editorial notes block.
> We've had many people report that they are discouraged, intimidated, and confused by the current set of flags.
> Julee and I discussed this when I was giving her the rundown of the recent Seattle Doc Sprint, and we think perhaps we should remove most of the flags.
> I propose that we discuss the flags on this thread for the next week, then next week, we change the templates to remove most of the flags.
> Changes to the visible style will be done later.
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The DCT Foundation was created after our beautiful son, Dan, died at the age of 24 from an accidental drug overdose. While he suffered from the disease of addiction for the last 7 years of his precious short life, this didn't define him. He was bright, caring, funny, and athletic and loved by many. The pain of losing our son was crippling. The memories of that devastating day on December 3rd, 2010, is somewhat clouded. But the shock, numbness, emptiness, tears and pain that filled our bodies is something that may never be completely forgotten. The final good-by from a parent to a child is an unnatural act, and one that may have been prevented if we had the resources, education, treatment, and prevention tools.
This disease not only affects and can destroy the person in addiction, but also those who care the most and are closest, their family and friends. They/we suffer physically, emotionally, financially and socially. Our grief is still at times tangled with a longing for answers, many of which may never be answered. Within a few months after Dan's death, we were searching for grief support, and tried a local hospital, only to discover that we didn't seem to be able to "fit in". While any type of death is a very sad loss, a parent grieving their child is one that only another parent can identify and support. Also, the journey of addiction is complicated, and for some, filled with shame. We discovered a national support group, GRASP (Grief Recovery After Substance Passing), and decided to start a local chapter. In May, 2011, we had our first group and it was attended by over 30 people. We currently meet once a month, and some of the original group still attend. While we may never have some of those questions answered, we have found love, strength and support among these very special people, who are now our GRASP family. Yet we still felt the need to move in the direction of advocacy for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Many obstacles are evident when searching for drug and alcohol treatment information and assistance. To honor Dan's life, this foundation was formed. We are dedicated to offering charitable aid for entrance into in-patient treatment for low-income adults, as well as our overdose prevention and response program.
As a community, we face a challenge, in that the issues surrounding addiction are shrouded in misunderstanding, silence and shame. To everyone who assists and encourages our outreach efforts in awareness, prevention and treatment, we hold you deeply in our hearts. To our sons John and Austin, we love you, and we embrace the future together, healing and supporting one another. We are blessed in all that we share.


With this article, the World Solidarity Forum starts its campaign running through the month of October 2017 to raise awareness about the danger of a nuclear conflict. Our goal is not just to expose the humanitarian and environmental tragedy that it would cause but also flag the areas in the world where the danger is most present and what actions can be taken to prevent it, particularly from the EU side.
Since the Cold War, the presence of nuclear weapons has dramatically changed the relationships between countries. In case of tensions and disputes, States in the world who have a nuclear arsenal know they can use these weapons as a deterrent, while at the same time hoping to never have to use them in reality. This is a very precarious balance as it brought about an arms race, where a number of countries have gained access to military nuclear technology to level the play field with those who already have them. This creates a permanent state of threat between rivalling countries. It would be enough for one of these threats to be enacted upon once for a nuclear holocaust to happen.
The escalation of nuclear armament has put the world on an edge, as this new dimension added higher stakes and deeper division in regions of the world where tensions had been brewing for some time. The most evident example right now is the mounting conflict between the USA and North Korea, but it would be a mistake to think this is an isolated case. Other global players entangled in crisis, like India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, or the display of powers connected to the crisis in Ukraine, can lend to the deployment of nuclear weapons.
This danger is represented well by the Doomsday Clock, which gives an immediate idea of how close we are to midnight, ie. a nuclear holocaust that could wipe away the human race if not life on Earth.
It is vital the citizens and the international community find ways to limit this risk, working towards minimising if not eliminating all together the chance of a nuclear war. A global power that struggles for human rights and peace, like the European Union, can really make a difference if it puts its efforts in promoting peaceful conflict resolution coupled with nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
In the coming weeks we will explore what the EU has done to achieve and what more can be done by the international community. We will also discuss a couple of the hottest regions in the world that experts deem at real risk of nuclear conflict. Moreover we will host a debate in Brussels on the topic with academics, activists and policy-makers. Stay tuned for more!


The SeaDarQ system uses radar processing technology to extract hydrographic, oceanographic and environmental information from radar waves.
Over the past 25 years the Dutch Governmental Institute TNO has researched and completed extensive experiments focused on radar and antenna design. These experiments have successfully demonstrated how radar waves reflected from the sea surface contain valuable information which can be extracted using complex algorithms to process radar clutter. This information is very valuable in the fields of oceanography, hydrography, maritime safety and environmental protection. In 2003, the Dutch Institute TNO formed a joint venture with Tech 5 B.V., a company designing and building electronic measuring systems. Through this venture the company SeaDarQ B.V. was formed. The advanced technology developed by TNO and the expertise of Tech 5 B.V. was exported and incorporated into industry through SeaDarQ B.V.
Since its formation in 2003, SeaDarQ has been delivering products worldwide using a distribution network and OEM partners with local service facilities. Its customers include Coast Guards, Ship-owners, VTS-integrators and Port Authorities.
In 2011 SeaDarQ has been acquired by Nortek B.V., Dutch subsidiary of Nortek AS based in Norway. Nortek group has an extensive network of offices and distributors around the world. Main offices are located in US, China, Brazil, Norway and the Netherlands. Nortek has enjoyed an annual revenue growth of 20-25% per year. The annual revenue of Nortek AS for the first time hit US$ 10 mill in 2006. Nortek B.V. will continue to supply Seadarq products and aims to provide combined technology solutions to the benefit of its worldwide customer base.
Nortek provides a wide range of instruments to measure currents and waves in the ocean, sea, river and laboratory. See the movie below for a short introduction or surf to www.nortekgroup.com.


Randy has a natural and organic voice. He did a great job with our phone IVR system, delivering a range of recordings for us to work with. He delivered the recordings with correct specifications, exactly as we asked for. I would highly recommend you to work with Randy if you're looking for a real authentic voice!
Not only did Randy have precisely the voice we were looking for, his voice acting was superb. Everything from his tone to the emotion with which he delivered his lines was spot on. He is easily one of the most talented individuals I've ever worked with, and any director would be lucky to have him on board.


Authentic Italian food is always a treat, and that's what I found at the Sweet Sicily Gilroy restaurant and bakery.
The hidden gem is located in an older strip mall, and it doesn't look like much from the outside. However, the menu and pastries have the authentic flavors we were looking for.
The menu is huge, so it took us awhile to decide on our order. We shared an appetizer sampler to start and then each of us ordered pasta for the main dish.
All of our entrees were good, but we all agreed that my tortellini alfredo was the best. The sauce was creamy and decadent, and it had a nice little burst of fresh nutmeg for added flavor. Portions were big, so I was happy to share with my friends.
We were way too full for dessert, but we couldn't resist. We got a box of sweets to go, so that we could enjoy them the next day.
The food was great and the atmosphere was comfortable. We will be back!


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In these Terms and Conditions of Trade
:"Account" means the Customer's account with the Vendor.
"Customer" means the person or entity making the application or any person acting with ostensible authority on behalf of the Customer. "Goods" means goods supplied by the Vendor to the Customer at any time.
"Guarantor" means any party executing a guarantee of the Account with the Vendor.
"Order" or "Orders" means the order or orders of the Customer to the Vendor to supply Goods.
"PPSA" means the Personal Property Securities Act 1999.
"Vendor" means IPS LIMITED or associated entities.
Orders will be on such forms or in such manner as the Vendor may require from time to time.
Each Order shall constitute acceptance by the Customer of these Terms and Conditions of Trade.
Prices are subject to change without notice. All Orders will be charged at prices prevailing at the date of delivery of the Goods.
Where the Order makes provision for delivery then delivery shall take place at the place stated in the Order. If no place is indicated then delivery shall be made at the physical address of the Customer set out in the application.
6. Time of Performances
Time shall in no case be of the essence. The Vendor shall not be responsible for any delay in delivery of the Goods and the Customer shall not be entitled to cancel orders because of any such delay. Dates for delivery are given in good faith and are not to be treated as a condition of sale or purchase. Delivery by the Vendor to a carrier is deemed to be delivery to the Customer.
7. Terms of Payment
(a) Unless otherwise specified, payment for all Goods shall be made prior to delivery.
(b)Where a customer has opened an account with the vendor, payment for goods shall be made no later than 20th day of the month following supply
(c) An administration fee may be charged on all overdue amounts in addition to any other charges pursuant to this clause.
(d) Interest will accrue on all amounts overdue at the rate of 2.5% per month and will be calculated on a day by day basis until payment is made In full.
(e) All costs of or Incurred by the Vendor as a result of a default by the Customer including but not limited to administration charges, debt collection costs and legal costs as between solicitor and client shall be payable by the Customer.
(f) If the Customer defaults in any payment or commits any act of bankruptcy or any act which would render It liable to be wound up or If a resolution Is passed or proceedings are filed for the winding up of the Customer or If a receiver Is appointed for all or any assets of the Customer, the Vendor may cancel any Order without prejudice to any other rights it may have and payment for all completed Orders shall Immediately become due.
8. Quotation
Where a quotation is given by the Vendor for the supply of Goods:
(a) unless otherwise agreed the quotation shall be valid for thirty (30) days from the date of issue;
(b) the quotation shall be exclusive of Goods and Services Tax unless specifically stated to the contrary;
(c) the Vendor reserves the right to alter the quotation because of circumstances beyond Its control.
9. Errors or Omissions
Clerical errors or omissions, whether in computation or otherwise In the quotation, acknowledgement or invoice shall be subject to correction.
10. Risk
Where the vendor has arranged freight, risk shall pass to the customer on delivery, otherwise, from the time of dispatch to the Customer by the Vendor, risk In all Goods supplied shall pass to the Customer and any loss, damage or deterioration to the Goods shall be borne by the Customer. The Customer shall notwithstanding any loss, damage or deterioration to the Goods remain liable to pay for the Goods.
11. Ownership/General Lien
(a) The Vendor shall retain ownership of all Goods supplied until It receives payment In full of all amounts owing by the Customer for all Orders.
(b) If any of the Goods are incorporated In or used as material for other goods before payment Is made ownership in the whole of the other goods shall be and remain with the Vendor until payment Is made. The Vendor's Security Interest In the Goods shall continue In the terms of section 82 of the PPSA.
(c) The Vendor shall have a right to stop and retrieve the Goods in transit whether or not ownership has passed.
12. Ownership
Until payment is made by the Customer, the Customer agrees to:
(a) ensure the Goods are readily identifiable at all times as the property of the Vendor;
(b) hold the Goods as trustee for the Vendor and will deal with the Goods for and on behalf of the Vendor (but will not hold the Customer out as an agent to any third parties);
(c) if the Goods are resold, the proceeds of re-sale will belong to the Vendor and the Customer shall keep the proceeds of sale in a separate account for which separate records are kept.
13. Merger with Other Goods
If the Goods are attached, fixed or Incorporated into any property of the Customer, by way of any manufacturing or assembly process by the Customer or any third party or otherwise, title in the products and services shall remain with the Vendor until the Customer has made payment for all Goods and where those Goods are mixed with other property so as to be part of or constituent of any new goods title to those new goods shall be deemed to be assigned to the Vendor as security for the full satisfaction by the Customer of the full amount owing by the Customer to the Vendor.
14. Recovery of Goods
(a) In the event of non-payment or if payment of the Customer's Account is overdue the Vendor shall be entitled without prejudice to any right it has at law or in equity to enter the place where the Goods are stored whether the Customer's premises or property or the premises or property of a third party for the purpose of recovering and taking possession of the Goods supplied.
(b) The Customer warrants to the Vendor that where the Goods are stored on the premises or property of a third party the Customer is acting as agent for the third party and has the full authority of the third party to authorise entry on to the premises or property of the third party for the purpose of recovering the Goods without releasing the Customer from liability.
(c) The Vendor will not be responsible for any damage reasonably caused in the course of removal of Goods supplied either In the possession of the Customer or a third party and the Customer indemnifies the Vendor in respect of damage caused in the removal of the Goods from the property of a third party.
(d) The Vendor may resell the Goods and apply the proceeds towards payment of the Customer's outstanding Account with the Vendor. Any shortfall will remain the liability of the Customer. The Customer Indemnifies the Vendor for all costs and expenses including legal costs as between solicitor and client which the Vendor may incur In recovering the Goods and any monies owed to It.
15. Warranties
(a) Unless otherwise specified, the Vendor gives no warranty express or implied as to the quality, description or fitness for any particular purpose of the Goods.
(b) Where applicable, manufacturer's warranties will attach to the Goods.
(c) Where Goods supplied are defective in terms of any condition warranty or guarantee or otherwise do not conform to the Order, the Vendor will at its discretion replace or repair any faulty Goods or pay the Cost of replacing them, but only If a claim Is made by the Customer within seven days of delivery of the Goods time being of the essence.
16. Compliance
The Customer shall be solely responsible for obtaining any necessary permits under and for compliance with all legislation, regulations, bylaws or rules having the force of law in connection with the installation and operation of the Goods.
17. Cancellation
The Customer shall not be entitled to cancel an Order other than as allowed pursuant to these Terms and Conditions of Trade.
18. Returns
a) The Customer shall not be entitled to return the Goods or Cancel an Order other than as allowed pursuant to these Terms and Conditions of Trade.
b) Faulty or wrongly supplied goods see ci 15(c).
c) Goods correctly supplied cannot be returned without the prior consent of the Vendor, and a re-stocking fee may be charged. No credit will be allowed for goods returned In dirty or damaged condition or not in original undamaged packaging.
19. Personal Property Securities Act 1999
(a) The Customer hereby acknowledges that these Terms and Conditions of Trade constitute a security agreement which creates a security interest in favour of the Vendor in all Goods previously supplied by the Vendor to the Customer (If any) and all after-acquired Goods supplied by the Vendor to the Customer (or for the Customer's account) to secure the payment from time to time and at a time, Including future advances. The Customer agrees to grant a "Purchase Money Security Interest" to the Vendor, as that term Is defined in the PPSA.
(b) The Customer acknowledges and agrees that by assenting to these terms the Customer grants a security Interest (by virtue of the retention of title clause in these Terms and Conditions of Trade) to the Vendor and all Goods previously supplied by the Vendor to the Customer (if any) and all after-acquired Goods supplied by the Vendor to the Customer (or for the Customer's account) and these terms shall apply notwithstanding anything express or Implied to the contrary contained In the Customer's purchase order.
(c) The Customer undertakes to:
(I) sign any further documents and/or provide any further information (which information the Customer warrants to be complete, accurate and up-to-date in all respects) which the Vendor may reasonably require to enable registration of a financing statement or financing change statement on the Personal Property Securities Register ("PPSR');
(ii) not register a financing change statement as defined in section 135 of the PPSA or make a demand to alter the financing statement pursuant to section 162 of the PPSA in respect of the Goods without the prior written consent of the Vendor;
(iii) give the Vendor not less than 14 days prior written notice of any proposed change in the Customer's name and/or any other changes in the Customer's details (including but not limited to changes in the Customer's address, facsimile number, email address, trading name or business practice);
(iv) be responsible for the full costs incurred by the Vendor (Including actual legal fees and disbursements on a solicitor and client basis) In obtaining an order pursuant to section 167 of the PPSA.
(v) The Customer waives any rights it may have under sections 116, 119, 120(2), 121, 125, 126, 127, 129, 131 and 132 of the PPSA upon enforcement.
(d) Pursuant to section 148 of the PPSA, unless otherwise agreed to In writing by the Vendor, the Customer waives the right to receive the verification statement in respect of any financing statement or financing change statement relating to the security interest.
(e) To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Customer waives its rights and, with the Vendor's agreement, contracts out of its rights under sections referred to in sections 107(2), 8(e) and (g) to (I) of the PPSA.
(f) The Customer agrees that nothing in section 113, 114(1)(a), 117(1)(c), 133 and 134 of the PPSA shall apply to these terms, and, with the Vendor's agreement, contracts out of such sections.
(g) The Customer and the Vendor agree that section 109(1) of the PPSA is contracted Out of in respect of particular Goods if and only for as long as the Vendor Is not the secured party with priority over all other secured parties In respect of those Goods;
(h) the Customer agrees that immediately on request by the Vendor the Customer will procure from any persons considered by the Vendor to be relevant to Its security position such agreement and waivers as the Vendor may at any time require.
20. Events of Default
All payments shall become immediately due to the Vendor and the Vendor may at its option suspend or terminate these Terms and Conditions of Trade and/or exercise any of the remedies available to It under these Terms and Conditions of Trade In the event that
(a) a receiver is appointed over any of the assets or undertaking of the Customer;
(b) an application for the appointment of a liquidator is filed against the Customer which remains unsatisfied for a period of 10 days, or any of the conditions necessary to render the Customer liable to have a liquidator exist, or a liquidator is appointed;
(c) the Customer goes Into voluntary liquidation, amalgamates with another company or acquires Its own shares in accordance with the Companies Act 1993;
(d) the Customer suspends payments to its creditors or makes or attempts to make an arrangement or Composition or scheme with Its creditors; or
(e) the Customer becomes insolvent within the meaning of the Insolvency Act 1967 or is, becomes, or Is presumed to be unable to pay Its debts as they fall due as defined in section 287 of the Companies Act 1993 or section 261 of the Companies Act 1955; or commits any act of bankruptcy.
21. Authority to Sell Goods Supplied
Notwithstanding that title In all Goods is retained by the Vendor, the Customer Is authorised to sell the Goods In the ordinary course of business provided that the authority may be removed by written notice if the Vendor considers the credit of the Customer to be unsatisfactory or If the Customer is in default In the performance of its obligations to the Vendor and shall be deemed automatically revoked If the Customer commits any act of bankruptcy or any act which would render it liable to be wound up or if a resolution is passed or proceedings are filed for the winding up of the Customer or a receiver Is appointed for all or any assets of the Customer.
22. Sale of Goods Supplied
(a) Where Goods in respect of which property has not passed to the Customer are sold by the Customer in the ordinary course of business, the book debt created on the sale and the proceeds of sale when received shall be held by the Customer for the Vendor In terms of section 45 of the PPSA.
(b) Where any proceeds of sale are placed in the Customer's bank account the funds In the Customer's bank account shall be deemed to be held on trust for the Vendor to the extent of proceeds of sale.
(c) Where any payments are made from the Customer's bank account otherwise than to the Vendor payment shall be deemed to have been made from all other funds in the Customer's bank account and not from funds held on trust for the Vendor.
(d) The trust obligation imposed by this clause and the Vendor's entitlements under the PPSA shall continue for so long as the Vendor Is unpaid for all Goods supplied to the Customer.
The Customer gives the Vendor a Security Interest In all of the Customer's present and after-acquired property In which Goods or materials supplied or financed by the Vendor have been attached or incorporated.
24. Liability
(a) The Vendor's liability to the Customer shall be limited to the value of the Order supplied.
(b) The guarantees contained in the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 are excluded where the Customer acquires goods from the Vendor for business purposes in terms of Sections 2 & 43 of that Act.
(c) The Sale of Goods Act 1908, the Fair Trading Act 1986 and other statutes may imply warranties or conditions or impose obligations upon the Vendor which cannot by law (or which can only to a limited extent by law) be excluded or modified. In respect of any such implied warranties, conditions or terms imposed on the Vendor the Vendor's liability shall, where it is allowed, be excluded or if not able to be excluded only apply to the minimum extent required by the relevant statute.
(d) Except as otherwise provided above the Vendor shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, arising from the supply of Goods by the Vendor to the Customer including Consequential loss whether suffered or incurred by the Customer or another person and whether in contract or tort (including negligence) or otherwise and irrespective of whether such loss or damage arises directly or indirectly from Goods provided by the Vendor to the Customer.
25. Suitability of Goods
The Customer must satisfy itself that the Goods as ordered are fit and suitable for the purpose for which they are required. The Vendor makes no warranties or representation and expressly negates any implied or expressed condition that the Goods will be suitable for a particular purpose or use for which the Customer may use them. The Customer accepts all risk and responsibility for consequences arising from the use of the Goods whether singularly or in combination with other Goods.
26. Dimensions and Specifications
Dimensions and specifications contained or referred to in any Order, catalogues, brochure or other publications maintained or issued by the Vendor are estimates only.
(a) The Customer shall not assign all or any of its rights or obligations under this contract without the written consent of the Vendor.
(b) The Vendor is entitled at any time to assign to any other party all or any part of a debt which is owing to the Vendor.
28. Disputes
(a) In the event of any dispute arising between the Vendor and the Customer, such dispute shall in the first instance be referred to mediation for resolution.
(b) In the event that resolution by mediation is not achieved to the satisfaction of both parties within 30 days of referral to mediation, either party may then take legal action to resolve the dispute.
(c) Nothing in this clause prevents the Vendor from taking legal action to enforce payment of any debt due, nor where required to seek interlocutory or injunctive relief.
All notices required or committed under these Terms of Trade are to be served as provided in section 152 of the Property Law Act 1952, or by facsimile, in which case notice Is deemed to be given the day after sending.
30. Validity
If any provision of this contract shall be invalid, void or illegal or unenforceable the validity existence, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected, prejudiced or impaired.
31. Changes of General Terms and Conditions
(a) The Vendor may at any time refuse an order by the Customer or decline to approve any application by the Customer for any reason whatsoever.
(b) The existence of an account by the Customer with the Vendor does not automatically entitle the Customer to credit in the future.
(c) Failure by the Vendor to enforce any of the terms and conditions Contained in these Terms and Conditions of Trade shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any of the rights or obligations the Vendor has under these Terms and Conditions of Trade.
(d) The Vendor may from time to time by written notice to the Customer amend, add to or repeal the trading conditions covered by this Agreement or may substitute any fresh trading conditions and such amendment, addition or substitute trading conditions shall be binding on the Customer fourteen days after the date of delivery of the notice.
Neither the Vendor nor the Customer will be liable to the other for any breach of this Agreement by any extraordinary occurrences which are beyond the reasonable control of the party in question.
These Terms and Conditions of Trade constitute the entire agreement and supersede and extinguish all prior agreements and understandings between the Vendor and the Customer.
34. Other Agreements
If there is inconsistency between these Terms and Conditions of Trade and any order submitted by the Customer or any other arrangement between the Vendor and Customer, these Terms and Conditions of Trade prevail unless otherwise agreed in writing by the parties.
These Terms and Conditions of Trade will be interpreted in accordance with and governed by the laws of New Zealand
36. Privacy Act.
36.1 The customer authorises the vendor or its agent or duly authorised credit reporter to:
1. access, collect, retain and use any information about the customer for the purpose of assessing the customer's creditworthiness and /or for the purpose of marketing products and services to the customer.
2. Disclose information about the customer, whether collected by the vendor from the customer directly or obtained by the vendor from any other source, to any other credit provider or any credit reporting agency for the purposes of providing or obtaining a credit reference, debt collection, or notifying a default by the customer.
36.2 Where the customer is an individual the authorities under this clause are authorities or consents for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1993
36.3 The customer shall have the right to request the vendor for a copy of the information about the customer retained by the vendor and the right to request the vendor to correct any incorrect information about the customer held by the vendor.


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Q: Vuelidate check 1 rule only I have a huge input form which is needed to be populated with data and be able to save progress, to finish the form later, BUT only when the form fits 1 custom rule only:

*

*form is able to be saved when it not containing any forbidden words(let's say that forbidden words are [TEST1, TEST2])
That means that is for example I have validations rules like this:
validations: {
  A: {
    required,
    $each: {
      Aa: { required },
      Ab: { required, dontHaveForbiddenWords },
      Ac: { required, dontHaveForbiddenWords }
    },
  },
  B: {
    required,
    Ba: { required, dontHaveForbiddenWords },
    Bb: { required },
  }
  // ... a lot of additional fields
}

In this case, I want the form to be able to be saved when all fields are empty(cos it DO NOT CONTAIN forbidden words) even if it has unfilled required fields.
The problem is that the form has an $invalid state due to required rule, and I have no idea how to bypass it.

A: UPDATE: This answer is not working, it was a fluke and bad testing from my side, the flag that I set up as the conditional check is NOT reapplied on this.$v.$touch() and stays with a default value all the time
As @EstusFlask suggest I've created a custom validator so I could turn it off in some cases, it uses a top-level variable instead of a parameter because I want to overrule this validator for all fields at once, also in my project I have conditional required validators, and I found not create a better solution, would be glad if you will edit my solution:
import { helpers } from 'vuelidate/lib/validators';

let isRequired = true;
const customRequiredValidator = (value) => {
 return isRequired ? helpers.req(value) : true;
}

later in code, I have 2 handlers:

*

*onSave() where I am turning the required rule OFF

*onSumbit() where I am setting the required rule back ON

smth like this
onSave() {
 isRequired = false;
 if (this.$v.$invalid) {
   isRequired = true;
   // show alert
   return;
 }
 isRequired = true;
 // save form progress
}

// isRequired is always true after onSave
onSubmit() {
 this.$v.$touch(); // to trigger the validation
 if (this.$v.$invalid) return; // show alert

 // sumbit the form
}

A: The working solution was to use JSON.stringify()
My team mate it to stringify validationState, and test it on a regex string that contains name of our validationRule, which in my case is dontHaveForbiddenWords, and check for a false value, that means that at least 1 rule is failed on entire form:
hasForbiddenCharacters() {
  const validationStateString = JSON.stringify(this.$v.currentOffer, null, 0)
  const hasForbiddenCharacters = /\"dontHaveForbiddenWords\":false/.test(validationStateString)

  return hasForbiddenCharacters;
}


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Q: Applications can only connect using root password (MariaDB) I have set up a Docker-compose that starts multiple applications. Basically it comes down to all the applications being able to connect to the MariaDB container/database.
Within MariaDB there's a variable called MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD to change the root password. But whenever I change it and use that password with let's say Wordpress I'm getting access denied errors. But when I then switch the password Wordpress is using back to just 'root', it works.
I hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong! :)
Here is my docker-compose.yml:
version: "3.2"

services:

    mariadb:
        image: "mariadb"
        container_name: mariadb
        volumes:
            - "./mariadb:/var/lib/mysql"
        networks:
            - front
        environment:
            - MYSQL_DATABASE=mariadb
            - MYSQL_USER=mariadb
            - MYSQL_PASSWORD=mariadb
            - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=321verysecurerootpassword123

    wordpress:
        depends_on:
            - mariadb
        image: "wordpress"
        container_name: wordpress
        links:
            - 'mariadb:mysql'
        volumes:
            - "./wordpress/:/var/www/html"
        networks:
            - front
        ports:
            - "80:80"
        environment:
            WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: root

    firefly:
        depends_on:
            - mariadb
        image: "jc5x/firefly-iii:latest"
        container_name: firefly
        networks:
            - front
        ports:
            - "8080:8080"
        volumes:
            - "./firefly:/var/www/html/storage/upload"
        environment:
            - APP_KEY=dRZ1lRipw1htgeanQrmjRcD3PGGJjvlk
            - DB_CONNECTION=mysql
            - DB_DATABASE=firefly
            - DB_USERNAME=root
            - DB_PASSWORD=root
            - DB_HOST=mariadb
            - DB_PORT=3306

    orangehrm:
        depends_on:
            - mariadb
        image: "docker.io/bitnami/orangehrm:4-debian-10"
        container_name: orangehrm
        networks:
            - front
        ports:
            - "8081:80"
            - "443:443"
        volumes:
            - "./orangehrm:/bitnami"
        environment:
            ORANGEHRM_DATABASE_NAME: orangehrm
            ORANGEHRM_DATABASE_USER: root
            ORANGEHRM_DATABASE_PASSWORD: root
            ORANGEHRM_USERNAME: orangehrmuser
            ORANGEHRM_PASSWORD: orangehrmpassword

networks:
    front:
        external: false

A: I found the answer already.
I can't change the password on-the-go, I had to remove the old volume that MariaDB and Wordpress were using and re-create them. Then it works.


Based out of Pasadena, Texas, Christian-metal rock band Shining Force have a sound true to the genre and a message in the music that works in sync with their rock melodies. The band began in 1995 through a vision received by Billy Vaughn, who would later connect with Randy Dickey, a man inspired by similar aspirations. Since this time, Shining Force has built a handsome following through a circuit of live performances and music. The group has been covered by many media outlets. Today, I will be reviewing a few songs from their upcoming full-length album.
By The Blood – Shining Force lays down some fabulous guitar play in this gritty undertaking that also unveils some excellent drumming on behalf of the band. Shining Force is able to take us on a journey that describes the atonement made by Christ's shed blood. This handsome offering contains the energy of taking that relentless drive on an open highway, very impressive.
Demon Fighter – This is a crafty tune that plays like a rock orchestra and demonstrates Shining Force's ability to give their audience a little extra with a riveting performance. The track has a lot of free space, so the listeners really get to hear the tightness of the band and its instrumentation. Demon Fighter has a brilliant break where the guitar lead comes to the fore for an exhilarating ride.
Rapture – Shining Force breaks out with an awesome intro on Rapture. The song's display of low-pitch guitar riffs and thumping basslines creates a transcendental effect especially suited for the apocalyptic-themed tune. Shining Force's theatrical musings is enough to put the listener at the scene of the Most Hight's work.
Resist The Devil – This track opens up with a tantalizing and exotic keyboard riff that provides a metallic dose of inspiration and shield of resistance against the forces of evil. Resist The Devil is a testimony of Shining Force's unbridled inventiveness and ability to develop each tune for its own quality. Exceptionally, tracks like Resist The Devil exceed the boundary of genre.
Resurrected – Shining Force's melodic light certainly pierces through the darkness with this rock hummer. Resurrected also stands out as one of the Shining Force's best vocal performances. The call and response verbal singing is a great way to ride upon the waters of truth.


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Santa Monica is LA's most popular beach area. It's a fun place to visit, and has an outdoor mall, famous pier, amusement park, and oceanfront trails.
Santa Monica is on the west side of Los Angeles. It evolved as a resort community when an amusement park opened on the famous Santa Monica Pier in 1915.
Today it's one of LA's most desirable neighborhoods with charming bungalows, beautiful gardens, cool coffee shops, both casual and trendy restaurants, and a great outdoor mall.
10 BEST things to do in Santa Monica
1. Plan a beach day on the golden sands of Santa Monica Beach.
Santa Monica Beach is a glorious stretch of sand with beautiful views of the Santa Monica Mountains up the coast to Malibu. The north side of the beach is significantly busier than the south side, and the lifeguard towers are staffed seasonally.
Visitors are surprised to learn that downtown Santa Monica is separated from the beach by an 100-foot bluff! So how do you get to the beach by foot? The easiest way is to walk along Colorado Avenue from downtown, that eventually connects to the Santa Monica Pier. If you have a car, drive down the California Incline road to get to the parking lot at the Pier.
Water temperatures vary from 58 degrees in winter, to 68 degrees in summer, and the months of July, August and September are the best for swimming. Bring flip-flops or sandals, because it's a long walk across the sand to the water's edge. Water temperatures are coolest in January and February when the beach gets a lot quieter.
In this photo you can see the famous 100-foot Santa Monica bluff above the highway. The Pacific Coast highway divides downtown Santa Monica from the beach. To get from Santa Monica downtown to the beach, walk along the highway overpass on Colorado Avenue. So easy!
2. Shop and eat along the bustling Third Street Promenade.
Santa Monica: 10 BEST Things to Do
The stylish Third Street Promenade has three blocks of fast food restaurants and shops, including Banana Republic, Anthrologie, Sephora, Zara, and Apple. It's undergone a facelift in a recent years, and is a nice place to hang-out.
3. Catch a movie at Santa Monica Place.
Santa Monica tourist attractions
Santa Monica Place is directly east of the Third Street Promenade, and is an open air mall with luxury brands, a cinema and food court. Retailers include Nike, Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Michael Kors, and Tory Burch. The food court is on the top floor, and has an outdoor patio with great views, and an indoor playground called Samos Clubhouse.
4. Explore the fun amusement park at Santa Monica Pier.
The legendary Santa Monica Pier is both a fishing pier and an amusement park, with an aquarium below the pier. It gets extremely busy so expect large crowds.
The Pacific Park amusement area has a carousel, roller-coasters, and food vendors.
Stroll along the pier for a photo at both the arched Santa Monica Yacht Harbor sign, or the Santa Monica 66 End of the Trail sign. The iconic Route 66 extends 2,448 miles from LA to Chicago, and is one of America's most famous highways. Continue to the end of the Pier to the Route 66 Last Stop Shop for souvenirs.
5. Enjoy magnificent coastal views from Palisades Park.
Santa Monica highlights
The narrow Palisades Park runs along Ocean Avenue at the top of Santa Monica's sandstone bluffs, and the views of the coastline are incredible along this 1.6 mile cliff-top path.
The path starts at the entrance to the Santa Monica Pier (corner of Ocean Avenue and Colorado Avenue) and ends at Adelaide Drive. There are plenty of beautiful overlooks along this grassy, palm lined promenade, designed to maximize those incredible Pacific Ocean Views.
You can picnic on the lush lawns while enjoying the cliff-top breezes. Los Angeles isn't known for it's shaded areas, but Palisades park offers plenty of respite from the scorching sun beneath its palm tress.
The Mexican fan palms and Canary Island date palms were planted in the early 1900s.
Santa Monica best places to see
Look at the gorgeous succulent gardens planted along Palisades Park, surrounded by bright pink flourishes of bougainvillea. On the left of this photo you can see a eucalyptus tree, planted in the 1890's.
This is the 18-foot art deco statue known as "Santa Monica", the patron saint of Santa Monica. It was commissioned in 1934 as a Public Works Project. Look out for the other beautiful sculptures in Palisades Park, like the Hastings Monument, Cabrillo Monument, UN Marker, Overlook Beacon, George Washington Memorial, Bust of Arcadia Bandini de Baker, and Genesis Sculpture.
The concrete fence was installed in the mid-1990s. It was designed to replicate the post-WWII concrete, criss-cross fence that it replaced.
Santa Monica tourist guide
The majestic Santa Monica mountains can be seen in the northwest. These are some of LA's best views. If you look closely, you can see the coastline arch around Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Look at the jewel tones of the Pacific Ocean. It's simply breathtaking.
6. Take a beachfront ride along the Marvin Braude Bike Trail.
Santa Monica trip planning
The concrete bike trail known as the Marvin Braude Bike Trail runs 22-miles from Pacific Palisades to Torrance Beach.
Join the trail near the Santa Monica Pier, and ride 3.2 miles north to Will Rogers State Park at Pacific Palisades, or 2 miles south to the Venice Beach Pier.
Rent a bike from Perry's Cafe and Beach Rentals, Helen's Cycles, Santa Monica Bike Center, or Bike Attack Electric.
7. Stroll along the beautiful Ocean Front Walk.
The pedestrian Ocean Front Walk runs 6 miles from Pacific Palisades (Will Rogers State Park) down to Marina Del Rey, and overlaps a smaller section of the Marvin Braude Trail where bikers and pedestrians share the path.
Join the trail near the Santa Monica Pier, and walk 3.2 miles north to Pacific Palisades (Will Rogers State Park) or 3.8 miles south to Marina del Rey.
8. Swim or visit the playground at the Annenberg Community Beach House.
Drive or walk to the Annenberg Community Beach House 1.5 miles north of the Santa Monica Pier. No membership is required. Pay a small fee to use the stunning swimming pool.
There's also a splashpad and playground on the sand, with swings, a sandbox and climbing structures. This is adjacent to the Back on the Beach Cafe where you can eat at a beach table and sink your feet into the sand. There's also a kiosk for snacks.
Here's another perspective on the playground and splashpad, with the swimming pool tucked away in the background.
9. Enjoy waterfront restaurants at Santa Monica.
There are two great options at or near the pier. Eat at the upscale The Lobster or Del Frisco's Grille. There's also beachside dining at the cafe at the Annenberg Beach House.
10. Relax at quiet Tongva Park.
Peaceful Tongva Park is located in downtown Santa Monica, just a short distance from the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Pier. This is a great, free activity for kids, and has a modern playground and splashpad.
It's also ideal for adults wishing to escape the hustle and bustle of LA. It's the perfect oasis, tucked away just steps from the busiest streets of Santa Monica. You generally wont find many people here.
Take a seat on the bench and enjoy the fountains and gardens.
Watch your kids in the Discovery Hill Play Area. There are a few picnic tables adjacent to the playground. The playground equipment is modern and innovative, with a climbing wall, slides and fun climbing structures.
The small splashpad is adjacent to the playground, and a lovely place for kids to cool off.
Find the best places to eat in Santa Monica.
Fast food: The Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Pier have fast food outlets. There's also a food court at the top of Santa Monica Place.
Upscale restaurants. The Lobster (with views) or Del Frisco's Grille at the Santa Monica Pier.
Casual restaurants: Mariasol at the end of the Santa Monica Pier (mexican food). The Albright (seafood) and Rusty's Surf Ranch (bar and grill) are also at the Pier.
Trendy restaurants: Dine with the cool crowd inside a stylish restaurant. These restaurants are scattered throughout Santa Monica and include Cassia (Southeast Asian), Forma (Italian), and Little Prince (American), and the Bungalow Bar and Grill.
Trendy coffee shops: 10 Speed Coffee, Expresso Cielo, and Sidecar Doughnuts and Coffee.
Brunch: Blue Daisy (crepes), Bondi Harvest.
Santa Monica's best hotels.
Luxury hotels: The Huntley Hotel, Fairmont Miramar, Hotel Shangri-La, and Shutters on the Beach.
More affordable: Bayside Hotel, Le Meredien Delfina, Sea Blue Hotel, Hampton Inn.
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Variety Cruises Israel, Egypt and Jordan FAM Winter 2019!
Variety Cruises returns to Israel, Egypt and Jordan aboard the Mega Yacht Harmony V and is now offering winter FAMs to give travel advisors the opportunity to experience this itinerary.
• In January, February and March 2019, Variety Cruises will operate 7-night cruises with its 25-cabin Harmony V.
• The 2019 itineraries depart from Aqaba, Jordan sailing to the Herzliya Marina (north of Tel Aviv), Israel, and reverse.
• Highlights of the itinerary include a 2-day visit to Luxor with transfers and an overnight stay in a hotel included, plus optional excursions to the Valley of the Kings, and Hatshepsut, Karnak and the Luxor Temples.
• Advisors will also spend a full day in Suez, allowing for optional visits to Cairo or the Coptic Monasteries, and have the opportunity to enjoy other excursions and lectures delivered by a professional onboard guide/lecturer.
• Pricing for this FAM starts at $1,499 pp dbl or $1,799 pp sgl.
• The package includes full board, all port taxes, $100 shipboard credit per cabin, and the excursions in Cairo and Port Said, as well as the 2-day Luxor visit with hotel accommodations and full board.
• Dates currently available for sailings from Israel to Jordan are Jan. 19 and Feb. 2, 2019.
• For Jordan to Israel sailings, available dates include Jan. 26 and Feb. 16, 2019.


Wijnne Barends was founded in 1855 and is one of the oldest active shipping companies in the world.
Wijnne Barends was founded in 1855 and is one of the oldest active shipping companies in the world. Based in Delfzijl, Wijnne Barends has developed into a dynamic and flexible company with all the disciplines required to provide an outstanding service for cargo providers and receivers.
Wijnne Barends offers its fleet in management a broad range of services, including chartering, crewing, financial management, ISM, ISPS and MLC certification, insurance and technical and nautical management. The main activities are ship management and maritime management as well as chartering of variable dry goods and bulk cargo, especially wood- and steel products. The main navigation area is from the White Sea to the Black Sea: Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Western Europe and the Mediterranean.


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Q: Accessing values from an option block HTML using PHP I want to read the value that is selected by user in the form, populated via a database. I tired but found only static populated topics.
Also how can I set a default selection when the list is dynamically populated?
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' action='' method='POST'>
//Other options to enter

<select name="crit">
$sql= "select Criteria from criterias";
$result= mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<option value=\"owner1\">" . $row['Criteria'] . "</option>";
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="Sub" value="Submit">
</form>

$POST['crit']; //dosen't work

Also what is the use of owner1 tags? I took that piece from net and it was populating like I wanted.

A: Check if its the first row and set the selected attribute
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' action='' method='POST'>
//Other options to enter

<select name="crit">
$sql= "select Criteria from criterias";
$result= mysql_query($sql);
$count = 0;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<option " . ($count++ == 0 ? "selected=\"selected\"" : "") . " value=\"owner1\">" . $row['Criteria'] . "</option>";
}

// Access with
$_POST["crit"]

A: not sure what you are trying to do since the value in your option is will ALL be owner1. but you could add a condition in your while loop to select an option by default.
//set any id in your url, this way we can match anything in your db with $GET['id']
if ($row['Criteria'] == $_GET['id'])
{
    echo "<option value=\"owner1\" selected>" . $row['Criteria'] . "</option>";
}
else
{
     echo "<option value=\"owner1\">" . $row['Criteria'] . "</option>";
}

but if you want to auto select the 1st option do this.
$i = 0;
$selected= '';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
     if ($i == 0) $selected = 'selected';
     echo "<option value=\"owner1\" ".$selected.">" . $row['Criteria'] . "</option>";
    else
     $i++;
}


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Automation, drones and touchscreens added as At The Races becomes Sky Sports Racing
By Will Strauss, Editor
Sky Sports has added a host of production, presentation and technology enhancements to Sky Sports Racing as it looks to bring the horse racing channel formerly known as At The Races in line with its other live sports channels.
Now part of Sky's genre line-up that includes dedicated channels for football, cricket, golf and F1, the horse racing hub is being given an overhaul that includes the addition of studio automation, drone cameras and touchscreen technology and a move to HD.
The changes are part of a plan that Matthew Imi, the chief executive of At The Races, said would "raise the bar for daily coverage of horseracing."
They also follow a subtle change of ownership.
A long-term partner and investor in At The Races, Sky strengthened its involvement in the channel in 2017 by becoming the majority shareholder, purchasing additional shares from partner Arena Racing Company (ARC).
"The obvious assumption people make is that automation is about saving headcount, For us, it wasn't. We've always been very lean. We felt it was an opportunity to improve workflows and provide a better output with our existing headcount."
Although Sky now majority owns At The Races, the company behind At The Races continues to operate the channel with Sky Sports acting as the production partner. The -revamped channel went live on 1 January 2019.
The new name and new majority owners are not the only changes. And one of the technological enhancements was a bit of no-brainer, as Rob Dakin, At The Races director of broadcast and head of channel, Sky Sports Racing told SVG Europe.
"HD was a pre-requisite," he said. "At The Races was only available in SD which meant we were well behind the rest of the industry and it was a constant source of criticism. The sports viewer expects to see coverage in HD, the move was long overdue."
The move was made possible because the race coverage itself had gone HD with technical and broadcast services firm RaceTech now providing all UK race feeds in HD on behalf of ARC.
At each of the 25 racecourses that the channel covers, there have been other additions too.
A fixed high-motion camera has been added for 'across the line' finishes.
Two live cameras are now positioned on the finishing straight: a close and a wide. The close camera has super slo-mo capabilities to allow for replays and analysis.
An RF camera that can be used for presenter pieces to camera or for additional race coverage is also part of the armoury at each track.
For flat racing, a side-on camera has been installed to the show the start of a race.
"One of the key objectives for us was improving the standard coverage of all of our races, not just the bigger fixtures," said Dakin. "We wanted to raise the bar for every fixture on the channel.
"Sky Sports has built its reputation on the quality of its live event coverage. Clearly, we would love to do [full-scale] coverage at every single fixture but it's not cost-effective."
For those bigger fixtures, and for some other selected races, a drone camera and a tracking vehicle, fitted with Aerial Camera Systems technology, will be used.
Importantly, both will be used in a discerning way and not just for the sake of it.
A drone was used at Plumpton for coverage of the Sussex National Handicap Chase in January, for example, capturing parts of the course that other cameras couldn't reach.
"At Plumpton, on the positions on the race course where we felt that the coverage could be improved, we used the live drone," explained Dakin.
"We will only use the drone and the tracking vehicle when we think it enhances the coverage of the live race. And that is not aimed at a new audience. It is aimed at providing the best coverage we can of a live event."
Cameras won't be the only additions for bigger meetings.
At the Chester May Festival, Royal Ascot and the St Leger Stakes, Sky Sports Racing will bring in additional reporters and the focus of the presentation will move from the studio to the racecourse.
Later in the year, the production team will also look to roll-out the Sky Pad, as used on Sky Sports' F1 coverage. The touchscreen technology will be used for presentation and analysis.
"We want to be in the position where we can bring jockeys and trainers over to the Sky Pad and allow them to explain to us how a race has developed," revealed Dakin.
For what is a very analytical and stats intensive sport, on-screen data will also be crucial for Sky Sports Racing.
"Sky has developed a back-end that can take in all the raw data feeds, whether they are domestic or international, aggregate them and then present them for broadcast," continued Dakin.
"That back-end has been a massive piece of work. They've created this product that we can now build on. At the moment it is just providing us with what we had previously with At The Races but there is real opportunity to build on that in the future."
"You can see how quickly in miles per hour the leading horse is travelling, for example. We've now put an algorithm in there that tells the viewer whether it's fast, slow or standard. In the future, we might be able to provide virtual replays of races too."
Data usage can go much further than simply showing the form of the runners and riders.
There are a number of ARC courses where live in-running data is available, provided by Total Performance Data, using information taken from a microchip housed in the saddle cloths of the horses.
"We currently provide that as a live section on some of our racetracks to provide us with live sectional time data," he explained.
While the addition of HD, more camera angles and increased data and analysis will benefit the output (and the viewer), perhaps the biggest (and most complicated) change is happening back at Sky in Osterley.
Here, a new studio and production gallery have been built that make use of automation.
Built around the Ross Video Overdrive system, the studio has four robotic cameras, including two on rails. These can be programmed or operated remotely by the technical supervisor in the gallery.
Although Sky News has been using automation for some time, the move means that Sky Sports Racing is the first live sports channel at Sky to work this way.
Dakin feels that there are lots of parts of the channel's schedule where they can benefit from automation.
"The obvious assumption people make is that automation is about saving headcount," he said. "For us, it wasn't. We've always been very lean. We felt it was an opportunity to improve workflows and provide a better output with our existing headcount.
"When we have a busy afternoon of racing, we have someone in sound but there are parts of our schedule where the sound is automated which means we don't need a sound person. We can effectively run our output with just a producer and a director. That is very lean. But for the big events, we will staff it in a more traditional way.
"It's been a real challenge. It's still work-in-progress. But each week it improves, and we believe automation is the right thing to do. We will really start to see the benefits in the months to come."
Importantly, automation provides Dakin and his team with flexibility in how they resource the channel.
"For our US programming, which is more of a continuity presentation, we don't need to have a fully manned gallery until 2 am. Automation means can stay on the air longer with existing resource. We think we have the best of both worlds."
Although there are benefits (and more to come), the introduction of automated systems has not been completely plain sailing, he admitted.
"The work doesn't disappear! It gets moved. The producers and assistant producers are having to work in a completely different way. Currently, they are working on some very intricate coding and we need to get up-to-speed on that. It's been a real challenge. It's still work-in-progress. But each week it improves, and we believe automation is the right thing to do. We will really start to see the benefits in the months to come."
In 2019 Sky Sports Racing will provide live coverage of over 700 UK fixtures from 25 courses, including Ascot, Chester, Lingfield and Doncaster, plus more than 200 fixtures from France and over 80 from Hong Kong. There is also daily coverage of live racing from the US and Australia.
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It is Independence Day in South Korea. This is a red day for many public school teachers. Yes, we have a day to ourselves. Many of my colleagues and I intended on having a hike in our local town. Since it was a midweek break, we did not have any intentions of travelling far. We changed our hump day into an unintended adventure.
Once a month, a group of expat teachers along with locals hike in Jeollabuk- do. Our basic requirements are costs for the bus trip (on average 4500 won), snacks and patience to walk with different people of different fitness levels. As a result, we have a starting time and no finishing time. However, we travel together as one.
I have enjoyed several pleasant days in the mountain with my local hikers in Gochang – gun. One hike that will remain with me was the day one hiker asked local man directions to the nearest restroom. Instead of taking us to the trail restroom, he offered us his bathroom.
Madison and Injae left the group to use the restroom. While we stood outside waiting for them to finish. This middle-aged man asked us about our hike, the terrain and our journey to Korea. We were eager to leave. Then, he offered us tea. We could not refuse the offer. We felt obligated in some ways. Here, a senior man was offering us something to drink in the woods.
We entered his home and sat on the floor. There we were seated in a small and cosy cabin beside the fireplace. The ondol was on as I could feel the heat rising from the floor. Also, our host had a splendid display of different classical types of vinyl and books throughout the cabin. Tea bags were hanging from the ceiling, and handmade ceramic tea sets were on display.
The ambience of the room left ten expats including two locals breathless. We were in aware of the blend of old and new within the chamber. Injae and Injo helped with the introductions to the host. We were able to make ourselves comfortable in his home. There, we were drinking tea and speaking about our lives. Yes, we talked to a total stranger about living in Korea.
He spoke about employment opportunities for young men after leaving the military services. Also, he highlighted the cost of living in Korea. We talked at great lengths of the salary differences between Korea and our home countries. He joked about living alone in a cabin at the foot of the mountain. His straightforward manner of speaking was refreshing and intimidating at times. We sat on the ground for two hours next to the fireplace.
He spoke his rationale for leaving the military services and how becoming an artist was liberating. He talked to the men directly about love, lust, and romance in South Korea. It became clear that he had heard about nuances between expats and Koreans. He was firm about dating lives and the temperament of men in Korea.
I thought this was refreshing. Two hours have passed, and we were still seated on the floor of this person home. My friends and I were mesmerized by the beauty of the cottage. Here, in the middle of nowhere, no I lie, Gochang – gun. We have found an artist who displayed his work in Europe.
He chooses to live a solitary life to ensure that he is untouched by the hustle of life. He offered us tea which he had made. After that, he informed us that he build everything around us from scratch.
For more details on the artist, please follow the link below. The artist is open to people visiting his cabin and displaying his artwork upon request only.