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Q: Is there a way to pop up a modal window on top of another? I'm making an application form that's on a modal and I made it so the user can upload their picture on the application form. So I have my thumbnail with a "upload picture" bubble inside it, and when I click it, a modal pops up. However the problem is when I click on "cancel" or "upload" on my "upload picture" modal, it closes both modal windows (application form and upload picture).
I'm using bootstrap and here's a snippet of my code:

            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>

Application Form

                             Upload new avatar

                            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>

Upload new avatar

Please choose a file to upload. JPG, PNG, GIF only.

                                <form role="form">

                                        File input
                                        <input type="file" id="file">

Files up to 5Mb only.

                                    <button type="button" class="hl-btn hl-btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
                                    <button type="button" class="hl-btn hl-btn-green" data-dismiss="modal">Upload</button>
                                </form>

            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>

Basically I put my second modal within my first modal.

A: Although the Bootstrap 3 docs say "Overlapping modals are not supported..", I think I found a workaround that works. You need to..

*

*Make sure your 2nd modal's markup is outside the body of the 1st modal

*Manually close the 2nd modal by using the Bootstrap modal toggle method in jQuery.

*Change the z-index of the 2nd modal so that it appears over the first.

http://bootply.com/108243
Also, I changed your markup to remove the fade and `display:none'.

A: I've opened a modal from another modal. I call it 'modalception'. It sounds like you just need to make sure your events are targeting the correct modal.
I have overlapping modals, and they work as expected. Clicking the background of the second modal closes that modal only, not the one behind it.

A: Just set the z-index correctly. Be sure not to nest them, and it should work just fine. It is not "supported", but I do it all the time. A project I am currently working on stacks 3 on top of each other with no problems.
I am using Bootstrap v3.3.2 and jQuery 1.11.2.

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Students are immersed in a fully-integrated learning experience through our rich array of specialty classes that compliment and extend the core academic subjects. Classes are led by qualified specialists who help students develop practical and physical aspects of a challenging, yet enjoyable, well-rounded education.
At the Brooklyn Waldorf School, specialty classes are compulsory for all students and this particular array of classes is provided to cultivate deep learning across all aspects of human capacity. Learning is neither competitive nor cursory, but provides an impressive experiential encounter with themes that echo and parallel the academic curriculum.
The curriculum within each specialty subject offers challenges and opportunities for growth appropriate to each age student.
We offer a developmentally based physical education program with the aims of developing confidence and presence in one's own body, spatial awareness, coordination, strength, grace, and sportsmanship.
In the course of grades 1-8, the children become skilled at running, jumping, throwing, catching, skipping, and balancing. Traditional non-competitive circle and line games are themes of the early grades and the children learn how to play with each other rather than against each other.
Fifth grade students spend the year training for the Greek Pentathalon in connection with their studies of ancient cultures. In sixth grade traditional sports are introduced, and middle school students have the opportunity to compete with other local independent schools.
Music is a defining element in a Brooklyn Waldorf School education. Class teachers sing and play music throughout the day to inspire and support academic learning. Children sing songs from a variety of traditions and cultures, beginning with simple singing games in the early grades to polyphony in the upper grades choir. First grade students play the Choroi flute and add a string instrument in the third grade. In fifth grade, regular choral, and orchestra classes are added to the schedule and upper grades students study music theory and play together in the school orchestra.
Drawing is treated as a communicative language and incorporated into every academic class and several specialty classes, rather than existing as a separate subject or as a stand alone class. Drawing fluency is developed along with all other learning and can transcend, accentuate, compliment and demonstrate comprehension of any subject.
Watercolor painting is introduced alongside drawing and students develop a strong sense of color and learn to create form through the color. Students also learn to sculpt, first in beeswax and then in clay. By eighth grade students have a firm foundation in pencil, charcoal and pastel drawing, watercolor painting, and clay modeling, and they have come to perceive their surroundings in a more conscious way.
Unique to Waldorf schools, eurythmy is a movement art that engages the whole being of the student helping them to become more coordinated, more alert and more at ease with themselves.
Eurythmy students learn movements that are uniquely associated with the essential sounds of language. Performed as a class, eurythmy appears somewhat like folk dancing as students shift through fluid and complex sets of patterns and formations. Eurythmy require intense concentration, attention and rapid movement interpretation and response. Intricate and challenging exercises performed with batton-like copper rods increase dexterity, and help promote healthy posture.
Throughout the grades the students learn both Spanish and Mandarin. Our world language classes are taught by native speakers who have been trained in the immersive Waldorf method of learning.
The focus is, foremost, on the importance of creating an environment that fosters the student's love of the language. Learning a foreign language is not only practical in today's global society, but it strengthens students' ability to listen, offers them flexibility in their thinking, and instills an appreciation for other cultures.
Classroom study is enriched by annual festivals and field trips relating to the Hispanic and Chinese cultures abroad and here in New York City.
Another unique Waldorf class is the handwork class. Students learn to make practical objects that unite both beauty and function using natural fibers and plant dyes.
In the practical arts, many skills develop simultaneously and reinforce other subjects as well. The concentration and persistence that this work demands is rewarded by the pride in making something from start to finish all by hand. Students develop an awareness of design principles and learn to give form to their creativity. Recent brain research has found that the interrelationship of the hand and eye allows more neurological pathways to function. One could say that teaching handwork and woodwork to the young is training ground for thinking.
First grade learns to knit and second grade to crochet. In third grade the students learn to spin and weave, and in fourth grade they learn complex cross stitch and embroidery. The level of complexity increases right up through eighth grade, when students learn to use a machine to design and make clothes.
In fourth grade the students also begin woodwork. They learn to use gouges, saws, chisels, rasps, and many other woodworking tools to sculpt and build with wood.


Update, 8:50 a.m. Tuesday: Fire officials say they've made rapid progress in the last 24 hours in getting a handle on the Shirley Fire, burning in Sequoia National Forest northwest of the resort community of Lake Isabella.
In its latest update on the blaze, the U.S. Forest Service says the fire is now 75 percent contained, up from 10 percent on Monday. The fire's acreage is now estimated at about 2,700, up from 2,200 on Monday.
LAKE ISABELLA, Kern County — A wildfire burning near homes Monday in the southern Sierra Nevada west of California's Lake Isabella grew only slightly overnight, and crews expected to make significant progress before hotter, drier weather sets in later in the week.
Firefighters using air tankers and helicopters were battling the Shirley Fire, which has charred about 2,200 acres of trees and brush in and around the Sequoia National Forest.
Flames came within a mile of the mountain community of Wofford Heights, and authorities called on residents of about a thousand threatened homes to evacuate.
The fire has destroyed at least two structures, fire spokesman Jay Nichols said.
The blaze was 10 percent contained, but officials said that number was expected to grow throughout the day.
The fire broke out Friday night in a remote area about 40 miles northeast of Bakersfield and exploded late Saturday as dry winds pushed the flames toward homes, prompting Kern County sheriff's deputies to knock on doors into the night to urge residents to leave.
More than 1,100 firefighters were battling the blaze in steep, rugged terrain at elevations around 2,500 feet amid a popular outdoor recreation area. Aircraft were scooping water from Lake Isabella to use against the flames.
More crews were expected to join the fight. Authorities planned to keep the augmented crews working through a "swing shift" so they don't lose any time during shift changes to make progress, Forest Service spokeswoman Jennifer Chapman said.
"Our current outlook for the forecast is such that we are really ramping up suppression operations over the next couple of days because it's going to be even hotter and drier at the end of the week," she said.
The Forest Service said that camping, horseback riding, rafting and other activities in the Sequoia district were so far unaffected by the blaze.


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Read Fantasy Book Critic's Review of "This Is Not A Game"
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Walter Jon Williams has been nominated repeatedly for every major SF award, including Hugo and Nebula Award nominations for his novel City on Fire. His most recent books include the Dread Empire's Fall series, Implied Spaces and This Is Not A Game. He has also written both fiction and rulebooks for the roleplaying games, Privateers and Gentlemen and Cyberpunk.
PLOT SUMMARY: By day, Dagmar Shaw orchestrates vast games with millions of players spanning continents. By night, she tries to forget the sound of a city collapsing in flames around her. She tries to forget the faces of her friends as they died in front of her. She tries to forget the blood on her own hands.
But then an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project. The project he pitches is so insane and so ambitious, she can't possibly say no. But this new venture will lead her from the world of alternate-reality gaming to one even more complex. A world in which the players are soldiers and spies and the name of the game is survival...
FORMAT/INFO: Deep State is 416 pages long divided over a Prologue, three Acts and seventeen numbered chapters. Also includes an excerpt from Master Baby Head, the upcoming third Dagmar Shaw novel. Narration is in the third-person, exclusively via the protagonist Dagmar Shaw, except for the Prologue. Deep State takes place three years after the events of This Is Not A Game, but like its predecessor, is self-contained. February 3, 2011 & February 7, 2011 marks the UK/North American publication of Deep State via Orbit.
ANALYSIS: A smart, entertaining, and skillfully written techno-thriller, Walter Jon Williams' This Is Not A Game was one of the best novels I read in 2009. So naturally, when I heard the author was writing another book featuring Dagmar Shaw, the heroine from This Is Not A Game, I was pretty excited. Unfortunately, Deep State was not nearly as enjoyable to read as its predecessor.
The main problem I had with Deep State, was the story. In This Is Not A Game, Walter Jon Williams cleverly explored how alternate reality gaming (ARGs) could help solve real-world problems like extracting a person from a third-world country suffering from currency collapse, finding a murderer, and preventing a financial crisis, all while delivering a story that was not only intelligent and relevant, but also highly entertaining. In fact, for most of the time that I was reading This Is Not A Game, I felt like I was watching a big-budget Hollywood action-thriller. Deep State on the other hand, was more like watching a documentary or a movie on The History Channel. Using the alternate reality gaming model to stage a revolution in a country under the rule of a military dictatorship, Deep State is mostly set in Turkey, and is rife with political, historical and cultural details about the country and its citizens. Of course, as informational as all of this was, it just wasn't entertaining. To compound the problem, the whole ARG concept felt less interesting the second time around, while weak subplots involving murder, treachery, a Scottish actor named Ian Attila Gordon, and the High Zap—"the Internet equivalent of a thermonuclear bomb"—failed to add anything of value to a story already suffering from a transparent lack of excitement. Finally, the conclusion to Deep State, which included the outcome of the revolution in Turkey and defeating the High Zap, was disappointingly sudden and anticlimactic.
Apart from the story however, I can't really complain. Like its predecessor, Deep State is an extremely well-written novel led by crisp dialogue, accomplished prose and brisk pacing. Supporting characters may lack depth, but they make up for it with distinctive personalities, while Walter Jon Williams convincingly captures the pain and torment that haunts Dagmar Shaw because of what happened to her in This Is Not A Game. On top of that, the subject matter in Deep State is once again topical and thought-provoking, perhaps even more than its predecessor.
In the end though, the excellent This Is Not A Game was a tough act to follow, and even though the writing in Walter Jon Williams' Deep State was on par with the first book, the story and degree of entertainment were not. As a result, Deep State is one of the biggest disappointments of the year...
Jon said...
Darn, that's too bad. I used to read a lot of Walter Jon Williams' stuff. Was hoping these would be worth hunting down.
Ian Kaplan said...
Thanks for the review. I buy a lot of books, so, perhaps counter-intuitively, I'm careful about what I buy. I also like "This is not a Game" and, like you, was thinking of buying this book. Now I think I'll wait until I can get it used or from the library.
If you enjoyed This Is Not A Game, then I would at least give Deep State a shot if you can get it from a library or borrow it from someone, but keep your expectations lowered...

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The Four Horsemen of the Innovation Apocalypse
by Robyn Bolton | Mar 2, 2021 | Innovation, Leadership, Stories & Examples
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They've come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With The Four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
– "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica
No scene from The Bible's description of the Apocalypse has captured the popular imagination as much as that of the Four Horsemen. In Revelation 6, four beings are summoned, each riding out on a different colored horse – Conquest on a white horse, followed by War on a red horse, Famine on a black horse, and, finally, Death on a pale horse.
"The Four Horsemen" has been used as an analogy to describe everyone from Notre Dame football players to Supreme Court Justices, and referenced in books for everything from dealing with addiction to relationship counseling.
There are also Four Horsemen that foretell the end of innovation in a company
The White Horse: Short Term-ism
Like Conquest, Short Term-ism wears a crown and is hailed as a bringer of victory, prosperity, and health. After all, the only thing better than hitting your quarterly numbers is hitting them two quarters in a row. Then three, then four…
Short term-ism convinces you that the good times are here to stay if you just keep investing in today. Anxious to continue reaping immediate rewards and blind to the fact that it will end someday, executives dedicate more and more financial resources to short-term initiatives, reducing and ultimately killing long term investments
The Red Horse: Size
Size matters. Rulers fight wars to expand their empires. Executives spend, acquire, and merge to expand theirs.
The result is that an idea, business, or investment that was attractive 5 years ago needs to be 10x the size and 100x the certainty today. As companies get bigger the size of new products, business models, and revenue streams need to get bigger to move the needle.
I spoke to a CEO recently who lamented that he regularly shuts down ideas for new products because they're "not big enough." The irony, he told me, is that the new product that's not big enough for today's business would have doubled the size of the business 7 years ago.
But innovation often starts small, with a single spark, and needs to be incubated and nurtured over (a reasonable amount of) time. Companies that will only invest in big innovations that produce immediate results, don't invest in innovation.
The Black Horse: Scarcity
When there's not enough to go around, you have a famine. It can be food and water, or money and time. It can be real or perceived. It is always deadly.
We live and work in environments of scarce resources. Even the biggest companies don't have infinite amounts of time, money, and people. That means that $1 spent on innovation (something new that creates value) is $1 NOT spent on the certainty of today's business.
Trade-offs are a part of life. The problem is when trade-offs stop being seen as choices we make to achieve the best possible outcome, and start to become us-versus-them battles.
The result is corporate cage matches in which a small band of innovators must battle powerful business unit owners and influential functional heads for scarce resources. Spoiler alert, innovators rarely emerge victoriously.
The Pale Horse: Fear
Corporate innovators can survive short-term-ism, size requirements, and scarcity. They can't survive fear.
Rarely is it their own fear – of failure, humiliation, or unemployment – that stops them. It is the fear that senior executives have of poor results, losing customers, no bonuses, and, yes, failure, humiliation, and unemployment.
Like Revelation's depiction of Death as empty-handed and followed by Hades, its jaws open to receive Death's victims, Innovation's apocalyptic Pale Horse rider neither shows nor speaks of its fear and is usually followed by HR*, its arms open to welcome innovators into new roles in the core business.
Averting the Apocalypse
Unlike the Biblical Apocalypse, the Innovation Apocalypse can be stopped and even prevented.
To prevent the Innovation Apocalypse, embody the opposite mindsets and behaviors of the Four Horseman:
Invest in the long-term and patiently wait for results
Invest in things that start small but have the potential to grow
Remember that growth isn't about slicing up the same pie differently, it's about making the entire pie bigger
Confront fear and minimize real risk through experiments, pilots, and other small-scale tests
Of course, all of this is easier said than done.
The reality is that the Four Horsemen are already running rampant in most organizations. The only way to stop them from ushering in the Apocalypse is to confront them.
This takes guts.
It's not easy or risk-free to challenge, however politely, a senior executives' decisions that prioritize the short-term over the long-term, big business over small, preservation of resources over investment, and certainty over the unknown.
You may need to set-up a one-on-one conversation. You may need to pull someone in as an ally or messenger. You may need to talk to someone with the hopes that they can talk to the decision-maker.
But if you don't speak up, the Horsemen will ride roughshod over your business and the Innovation Apocalypse will come.
* To be very clear, I am NOT equating HR to Hades. I love HR. They have a very important and very difficult job, and they are woefully under-appreciated. They also have the misfortune of being the people who show up immediately after an innovation initiate gets shut down with the task of picking up, reallocating, or separating the people left behind. Which, unfortunately, makes them a great element for this analogy.
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Icon of Neolithic technology given enhanced protection by UNESCO
The Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes in Belgium, which cover more than 100 hectares, are the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in Europe and reflect an extremely high level of human technological development for the era. The people who dug the mines, some 6,000 years ago, are regarded as the oldest miners in the world, and the flint production they undertook occurred on an almost industrial scale with thousands of shafts and pits bored into the earth.
The flint mines were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2000 for providing exceptional testimony to early human inventiveness and application, marking a major milestone in cultural and technological development, and providing an outstanding example of Neolithic mining of flint. However, last month the importance of the site was given further recognition by being granted UNESCO's "enhanced protection" status .
The granting of such protection can be made under three conditions: that the site be of the greatest importance to humanity, that it be protected by adequate domestic legal and administrative measures recognizing its exceptional cultural and historic value and ensuring the highest level of protection, and that it not be used for military purposes or to shield military sites.
The flint mines of Spiennes were actively used from 4,400 BC to 2,000 BC, with extraction carried out in open quarries and pits. A large diversity of methods were employed to extract the flint by open quarries, pits and networks of underground horizontal galleries. Vertical tunnels range from 30 to 40 feet deep. Shafts were sunk through the chalk layer vertically with galleries radiating out from the shafts. Unique to Spiennes, when the flint was exhausted above the bedrock, the rock layer was penetrated to reach the chalk layer below. This feature shows the mastery these Neolithic humans had of their local geology!
Mines were dug with only the aid of antler picks and bone shovels demonstrating an incredible feat based on the expansiveness of the site. Despite the miners' knowledge to leave pillars in the horizontal galleries for roof support, skeletons of workers have been found in collapsed shafts at Spiennes.
Flint is found in layers within beds of chalk and is an easy to shape material with sharp edges. From the early beginnings, humans used flint tools for personal use, for example, to make robust axes (to be used by hand or with a wooden grip). Axes were used initially for forest clearance during the Neolithic period, and for shaping wood for structural applications, such as timber for huts and canoes.
The flint mines at Spiennes show that Neolithic man was anything but primitive, and that our ancient ancestors achieved a lot more than they are typically given credit for.
Spiennes
Zuell wrote on 20 January, 2014 - 02:13 Permalink
Why is it that Neolithic man is almost always catagorized as being some dumb, brute of a caveman when in actuality they were quite the opposite? This is just another proof of their intelligence that their rarely given credit for.
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The Western Maryland Law Journal was published from 1998 to 2003 by the Allegany/Garrett Counties Criminal Defense Attorneys Association. Its run consisted of thirty three works by fourteen authors.
Ramon Rozas, III, and James E. Malone were on the editorial board throughout its run and were regular contributors. Other authors include Michael O. Twigg; Frederick Voss; Samuel J. Lane; and the Honorable W. Timothy Finan.
The Journal published Penny C. Kahn's article Due Process Rights for Juveniles: Ensuring Competence to Stand Trial in Maryland's Juvenile Courts (Vol. 3 2003 No. 2.) It was cited in Maryland General Assembly House Bill 994 (2004 Session); House Bill 1007 (2005 Session); Senate Bill 564 (2004 Session); Senate Bill 616 (2005 Session); and Senate Bill 784 (2005 Session).
The Western Maryland Law Journal is made available on this site. However, it remains the property of its owners and may not be redistributed for profit.
The Western Maryland Law Journal Vol. 1 1998 No. 1
Articles and works include: Impeachment in Maryland After State v. Giddens by James E. Malone and Ramon Rozas III; Aggregation in District Court by Ramon Rozas III; A Brief Examination of Drug Cases by Marsha Steele; Three Cases for the Practitioner by The Editors; Book Review of Akil Reed Amar's "Back to Basics" – Reviewing The Constitution & Criminal Procedure by Samuel J. Lane; and Reference Chart of Impeachable Offenses.
Articles and works include: Evaluating Spinal Injuries Using the AMA Guides by Bruce A. Kirkwood; "Still Smokin'" Constructive Possession and Taylor v. State by James E. Malone; Sanitization: Is it for Maryland? by Ramon Rozas III; Case Note: Bowen v. A.H. Smith by Lee A. Caplan; Points and Authorities by the Editors; Comparative Analysis of Jury Trial Prayers In Allegany County, Maryland by Nat Horsch; Book Review of Michael Stoolies' The Law Under the Swastika by Raymond F. Weston; and Reference Chart of Juvenile Court Provisions.
Articles and works include: "Know When to Hold'Em, Know When to Fold'Em:" Withdrawing and Enforcing Plea Agreements by James E. Malone and Samuel J. Lane; A Primer for MVA "Per Se" Hearings by R. Steven Friend; Points and Authorities by the Editors; Book Review of David M. Rabban's Free Speech In Its Forgotten Years by Ramon Rozas III; and Model Guilty Plea Litany.
Articles and works include: An Overview of Other Crimes Evidence in Maryland by Michael O. Twigg; Case Note: United States v. Singleton by Ramon Rozas III; Points and Authorities by the Editors; and Book Review of Dr. Dorthy Otnow Lewis's Guilty By Reason of Insanity by James E. Malone.
Articles and works include: "Here Comes the Bride?" Proving Common Law Marriage in Pennsylvania by Suzanne McGrath Dale; Writ of Coram Nobis by James E. Malone; "The Complainant Who Cried Wolf" Cross-Examining Witnesses with Prior Allegations by Ramon Rozas III; Points and Authorities by the Editors; Book Review of John C. Tucker's May God Have Mercy by the Honorable W. Timothy Finan; and Fifth Amendment Checklist.
Articles and works include: Ten Reckless Years: Negligence as a Criminal Act by James E. Malone; Does the Constitution Sometimes Require Severance? by Ramon Rozas III; Points and Authorities by the Editors; Book Review of Prof. Mark Tushnet's Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts by Frederick H. Voss; and Preserving Evidence of Innocents [Digital Version Lost] .
Articles and works include: "'Till Death Do Us Part." Interspousal Tort Immunity by Edward Hagan; "A Jury of One's Peers:" Criminal Convictions of Prospective Jurors and the Assembling of a Jury Pool by James E. Malone; Points & Authorities by The Editors; Book Review of D. Graham Burnett's A Trial By Jury by Ramon Rozas, III; and Police Inducements of Confessions.
Articles and works include: Due Process Rights for Juveniles: Ensuring Competence to Stand Trial by Penny C. Kahn; Chen v. State: Some Modes of Statutory Interpretation by James E. Malone; Case Note: Smith v. State by Ramon Rozas III; Points & Authorities by The Editors [Note: Digital Version Partially Lost]; and Book Review of Ronald C. White, Jr.'s Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, by Edward Hagan [Note: Digital Version Lost].