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Viaccess-Orca Acquires BigHill to Strengthen Mobile Video Portfolio
By 202 Communications 17 January 2017
PARIS -- Jan. 17, 2017 -- Viaccess-Orca, a global leader in the protection and enhancement of content services, announced today that it has acquired BigHill, a Finland-based software company that specializes in developing mobile apps for TV content. An agreement between the two companies was reached in December 2016. Adding a mobile TV app solution to its rich product and solutions portfolio will allow Viaccess-Orca to offer content providers an end-to-end solution for a rich and immersive content experience on any device.
"This acquisition reinforces our mobile-centric solutions portfolio, allowing content service providers to deliver the best possible video experience on all screens, speed up time to market for new offerings, increase operational readiness, and manage the user experience with consistency across all devices," said Paul Molinier, CEO of Viaccess-Orca. "We're thrilled to welcome BigHill to the Viaccess-Orca family and promise to continue driving high-quality, secure, and immersive mobile TV experiences."
BigHill's team has more than 20 years of international experience in the areas of mobile software and devices. Since 2009, BigHill has provided mobile TV applications to Orange on iOS(R) and Android(TM) devices.
"Mobile video usage is growing quickly, and content service providers that wish to maintain a competitive edge must provide their customers with best-in-class applications for viewing movies, sports, and TV shows on connected devices," said Kari Karkkainen, CEO of BigHill. "Our apps offer the perfect combination: easy to manage for service providers and intuitive for end-users. By joining forces with Viaccess-Orca, we are excited to take mobile TV apps to the next level of innovation."
To learn more about this acquisition, meet us at Mobile World Congress 2017, Booth 5C71.
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Q: How to determinate row and column of grid on hover in js I have created a page to see the events in a sort of calendar. I wish I could add new events when I hover in empty sections by showing a "+". The code is as follows:

$("#classroom_admin-orario-content").hover(function() {
  console.log("Mouse leave");
  $(this).find(".row").each(function() {
    $(this).find(".col").each(function() {
      $(this).hover(function() {
        var row = $(this).parent().index();
        var column = $(this).index();
        console.log("Row: " + row + " Col: " + column);
      });
    });
  });
});
.container-orario {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: 3em 3em auto;
}

.title {
  background: #217346;
  text-align: center;
  display: grid;
  place-content: center;
  color: #fff;
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  z-index: 10;
}

.days {
  background: #f3f2f1;
  display: grid;
  place-content: center;
  text-align: center;
  grid-template-columns: 3em 20px repeat(6, 1fr);
  top: 3em;
  z-index: 10;
  border-bottom: 2px solid #dadce0;
}

.day {
  border-left: 1px solid #dadce0;
}

.content {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 3em 20px repeat(6, 1fr);
  grid-template-rows: repeat(8, 6em);
  row-gap: 3px;
  margin-top: 10px;
}

.time {
  grid-column: 1;
  text-align: right;
  align-self: end;
  font-size: 80%;
  position: relative;
  bottom: -1ex;
  color: #70757a;
  padding-right: 2px;
}

.col {
  border-right: 1px solid #dadce0;
  grid-row: 1/span 24;
  grid-column: span 1;
}

.filler-col {
  grid-row: 1/-1;
  grid-column: 2;
  border-right: 1px solid #dadce0;
}

.row {
  grid-column: 2/-1;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #dadce0;
}

.event {
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 5px;
  margin-right: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 80%;
}

.weekend {
  background-color: #f1f3f4;
}

.calendar1 {
  background-color: rgba(253, 197, 208, 0.7);
  color: #f8254e;
  border: solid;
  border-top: none;
  border-bottom: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-width: 2px;
}

.calendar2 {
  background-color: rgba(254, 240, 219, 0.7);
  color: #fc9b10;
  border: solid;
  border-top: none;
  border-bottom: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-width: 2px;
}

.calendar3 {
  background-color: rgba(247, 219, 254, 0.7);
  color: #e010fc;
  border: solid;
  border-top: none;
  border-bottom: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-width: 2px;
}

.calendar4 {
  background-color: rgba(219, 227, 254, 0.7);
  color: #105bfc;
  border: solid;
  border-top: none;
  border-bottom: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-width: 2px;
}

.calendar5 {
  background-color: rgba(183, 236, 253, 0.7);
  color: #2fc6d1;
  border: solid;
  border-top: none;
  border-bottom: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-width: 2px;
}

/* .current-time {
  grid-row: 10;
  border-top: 2px solid #ea4335;
  position: relative;
  top: calc(50% - 1px);
}

.circle {
  width: 12px;
  height: 12px;
  border: 1px solid #ea4335;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #ea4335;
  position: relative;
  top: -6px;
  left: -6px;
} */

.current {
  font-weight: bold;
}

.time-subtitle {
  margin-top: 10px;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-family: sans-serif;
}

Lun

Mar

Mer

Gio

Ven

Sab

08:00

09:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

13:00

14:00

Matematica
08:00 - 10:00

Sistemi e Reti
10:00 - 11:00

Educazione Fisica
11:00 - 12:00

Inglese
12:00 - 13:00

Italiano
13:00 - 14:00

With JavaScript I can't even get printed in which row and column the cell under the cursor is. Thanks in advance
Result (with the events entered)

A: So I think this works. I've added an event listener to the container and added a data-row attribute to each row, and a data-column attribute to each column. At each mousemove it tests each row and column bounding rectangle to see if the mouse coordinates are within that element. If yes, it pulls the relevant data attribute in to the variables 'row' and 'col'.
HTML here:

08:00

09:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

13:00

14:00

JS here:
var row;
var col;
$( document ).ready(function() {
  $("#classroom_admin-orario-content").mousemove(function(event) {
    row=-1;
    col=-1;
    const x=event.pageX-window.scrollX;
    const y=event.pageY-window.scrollY;

    $('.row').each(function() {
      const rect=$(this)[0].getBoundingClientRect();
      if(x>=rect.left && x<rect.right && y>=rect.top && y<=rect.bottom) {
        row=$(this).attr('data-row');
      }
    });
    $('.col').each(function() {
      const rect=$(this)[0].getBoundingClientRect();
      if(x>=rect.left && x<rect.right && y>=rect.top && y<=rect.bottom) {
        col=$(this).attr('data-col');
      }
    });
    console.log("col="+col+" row="+row);
  });
});

It'll hopefully get you started.

A: Probably the easiest thing to do is to use a custom attribute (e.g. the data- attribute) on each element to identify the row and column (or other unique identifier) so when you hover you can use jQuery's .attr method to get the details you need.
For custom attributes see here.
jQuery .attr method is here.

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UK pubcaster the BBC and its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, have co-commissioned David Beckham: For the Love of the Game, a 90-minute film in which the eponymous star will embark on a global footballing journey. Beckham will play seven football games across seven continents for the film, which will be part of BBC One's Christmas […]
Broadcasters buy into Beckham's jungle trip
BBC Worldwide has sold its upcoming one-off doc David Beckham into the Unknown to a raft of broadcasters. The doc will go out on the BBC in the UK to coincide with the football World Cup, which kicks off next week. In the film, the celebrity and football star and three friends explore the Brazilian […]
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Football icon David Beckham has partnered with BBC Worldwide and UK terrestrial channel BBC One for a 1x90mins doc in which he will experience life in the Brazilian rainforest. Beckham's management firm XIX Entertainment, which Pop Idol co-creator Simon Fuller runs, is coproducing through its XIX Productions imprint with BBCWW and the BBC. The Beckham […]
ITV buys Class of '92 football film
ITV has picked up football feature doc Class of '92, TBI understands. The UK commercial broadcaster has taken UK rights after the doc was released in cinemas. The film follows the group of talented football players that emerged from Manchester United in the early 90s and has exclusive footage of that group, which includes David […]
Tax breaks fuel UK's global production hub ambitions
When UK Chancellor George Osborne sat down on March 20 having presented his Budget, the huzzahs of television producers should have been heard even above his own backbenchers, but the picture is a mixed one, reports Tim Adler. This year's Finance Bill in the UK finally approved tax breaks for high-end drama production, animation and […]


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Striking Los Angeles' teachers take aim at charter schools
The growing number of charter schools in the Los Angeles County school system – and the school board's support for them – is one of the most contentious issues in this week's teachers' strike in America's second-largest school system.
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) President Alex Caputo-Pearl last week accused district leaders of wanting "to starve our schools in order to justify cuts and justify handing more schools over to privately run charter schools."
School Superintendent Austin Beutner says that claim is baseless, but his supporters have strongly promoted charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated.
A 2017 school board election that pitted teacher unions against charter school backers resulted in a pro-charter majority on the board.
About one in five Los Angeles students now attend charter schools, and their enrollment has continued to grow in the past decade while overall enrollment in the district has declined. The city now has more charter schools and more charter school students than any other school system in the country, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Most charter school employees are not unionized.
At a rally on Tuesday, teachers from three charter schools joined the UTLA strike, the first time that has happened. The teachers at those three schools run by Accelerated Schools, are represented by the UTLA.
KEEPING SCHOOLS OPEN
"What they're demanding is basically fairness with other teachers in California, like having a voice and not being afraid of being fired the moment they use that voice on behalf of student needs or their own professional judgment," American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten told Reuters. "They have an astronomical turnover rate."
Thousands of protesters, many of them wearing red shirts and jackets in solidarity with their union, flooded the streets around the California Charter Schools Association in Los Angeles on Tuesday, chanting "We are the union, the mighty, mighty union."
Charter schools have grown in response to demand from parents for school options. The schools usually offer different approaches than traditional public schools, including programs that emphasize math, science or the performing arts, according to the California Charter Schools Association.
Nationwide, students at most charter schools perform about the same as their peers at traditional public schools, according to research from Data First at the Center for Public Education, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
"However, research also shows that students in charter high schools score higher on college entrance exams and are more likely to graduate high school and attend college than similar students in traditional public schools," it said.
District officials have kept schools open in Los Angeles and will offer regular after-school programs, mindful that working-class parents cannot afford independent child care during the strike. The district has hired about 400 substitute teachers, a move the union has called "illegal."
Many parents have expressed support for the teachers and only around a third of the affected half-million students are showing up at school.
Reporting by Bill Tarrant, Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb; writing by Bill Tarrant; Editing by Cynthia Osterman


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Q: What's a good URL shortening script? What's a good URL shortening script that does the following things?

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*It is customizable (HTML and CSS)

*Users can create accounts

*Users can delete shortened URLs

*There is a bookmarklet

*Users can set privacy codes

*Some sort of API (so Twitter clients could use it, etc.)

Thanks a document.write(Math.random()*Math.pow(10,18));
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A: I haven't used any of these, but a quick googling turns up lots of results
Here's a good tutorial on how to do it yourself
Here's a php implementation you can use for free
The user account creation side of things is a separate issue and I'm not aware of any url-shortening scripts that would consider that. You might want to look into using openID providers for your authentication, though.

A: HotScripts looks like it has a few.  Haven't used any but that might be a good place to start.

A: Check out ur.ly.  I use it almost daily to compress URL's.
If you want to use an API to interact with a URL compression service, they have that.  They also publish their code, so you can check it out if you want to do something similar.  It's written in Python.
ur.ly doesn't have accounts or allow deletion, but the code should help you get started.
EDIT for managing URL's using an account, you could try bit.ly, but they don't offer their code AFAICT.  They do offer an API, though, that includes authentication.

A: I prefer Shrinky the free URL shortener, it's free and it must be listed too :
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Shocker! Tinubu, Akande were not important, no need to invite them to dinner with Buhari – APC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi
By Funmi Akinbolu	 On Jan 20, 2018
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said party leaders such as Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande would have attended the dinner with President Muhammadu Buhari if there was a need to.
President Muhammadu Buhari held a dinner with select party leaders at the Villa in Abuja, on Thursday night to discuss party affairs.
Party leaders who attended the meeting include Odigie-Oyegun, National Secretary of the APC, Mai Mala Buni, and National Organising Secretary, Sen. Osita Izunaso.
Others include a Deputy National Chairman (North), Sen. Lawal Shuaibu and his counterpart from the South, Segun Oni. A former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime was also among the non-National Working Committee members in attendance.
However, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande were among leaders who were absent at the meeting.
In response to enquiries about the attendance at the meeting, Abdullahi said he wasn't aware of the criteria used to select those who attended but that he was certain that if there was the need for the leaders to attend they would have been in attendance.
Abdullahi said, "I don't know what parameters they used to invite people to the meeting so I cannot say whether there was a reason why they (Tinubu and co) were not at the meeting. But I am sure that if there was a need for them to be a part of the meeting, they would have been there."
Speaking in a similar vein, Tinubu's Media Adviser, Mr. Tunde Rahman, noted that "there shouldn't be any issue about this at all.
"Why are you trying to make a mountain out of a molehill? If there was a need for Asiwaju Tinubu to attend the dinner, he would not hesitate to be there.
"He had attended many meetings and dinners at the Presidential Villa before when it was required of him to attend."
A source close to Akande, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said, "I am sure that Baba would not turn down such an invitation from President Buhari if he had been invited to the said dinner.
"You know that Baba Akande clocked 79 on Tuesday and he is around. I am sure to a very large extent that he was not invited to the dinner. He would have honoured the invitation if he was invited. "
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Andhra govt mulling action against Telangana Police in alleged data theft case
The ruling Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) tech advisor, along with a team, were rushed to Vijayawada on March 3, who have been camping there ever since.
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UPDATED: March 7, 2019 00:05 IST
Chandrababu Naidu's Andhra govt has accused the Telangana Police of data theft.
The Andhra Pradesh government is mulling action against the Telangana Police in the alleged data theft case, accusing the police department of stealing "sensitive data".
Late on Wednesday not only did the TDP file an official complaint against the Telangana Police, but also went onto release photographs of alleged Telangana Police personnel raiding the MS IT Grids Hyderabad office on the February 23, 2019.
Time and time again, senior Telangana Police officials and leaders from TRS have come out and justified the action of the Telangana Police by saying that they were doing their job by acting on a complaint they received on the March 2.
Meanwhile, the Andhra cabinet has claimed that no government data was stolen.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday claimed no government data had been stolen as it took a "very serious" view of a senior Telangana police official's remarks on the alleged data theft through a mobile app of TDP.
It decided to explore options for legal action against Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar over his comments on the investigation into the case at a press conference in Hyderabad on Monday, state Information and Public Relations Minister Kalava Srinivasulu said.
While Sajjanar had said preliminary investigation into the case revealed the company got "illegal" access to the data, the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet maintained that no data had been stolen.
They (Telangana government) are trying to portray the victim as the accused.
This is atrocious and malafide. There is no theft of data. The Telangana government, its police system and some officers within it are acting in an illegal manner, the Andhra Pradesh minister alleged.
"An official should not speak like this against another (state) government. His remarks and behaviour could cause friction between two governments. We are treating his remarks against our government very seriously," he said.
Srinivasulu was briefing the media on the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Amravati.
If someone oversteps his brief as per Constitution, there is scope for legal action.
Everyone has a limited role under the Constitution. How our future course of action should be and how we should expose them has been discussed in the Cabinet meeting. We will disclose the details soon, he added.
The TDP government would utilise all options available under the law, the Minister said.
The Cyberabad police had on Saturday registered a case against Hyderabad-
based IT Grids India Pvt Ltd the company and conducted searches at its office here based on a complaint by a data analyst that TDP cadre were using "Seva Mitra" app for collecting data of Andhra Pradesh voters and "advancing their party's electoral prospects".
Srinivasulu accused the Telangana government of trying to steal data and pass it on to a rival political party, in an oblique reference to the YSR Congress party.
Naidu had Monday alleged a cyber conspiracy to help the YSR Congress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and KCR (Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao were helping Jaganmohan Reddy of
YSR Congress in executing this 'cyber conspiracy', he had alleged in his teleconference with TDP party leaders.
"It is atrocious to steal our data and give it to our rivals," he had said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to attend climate change summit in Scotland
By: Rachel Mipro - October 25, 2021 4:28 pm
Gov. John Bel Edwards (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator)
Gov. John Bel Edwards, along with ten other Louisiana officials, will be traveling to Scotland for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Along with the governor and security personnel, the following people will be part of the Louisiana delegation:
Special Assistant to Edwards Donald Dunbar
Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Thomas Harris Executive Director for the Louisiana Office of International Commerce Larry Collins
Assistant Director for the Louisiana Office of International Commerce Ben Fontenot
Deputy Director for the Governor's Office of Coastal Activities Harry Vorhoff
Chief Resilience Officer for the Governor's Office of Coastal Activities Charles Sutcliffe
Policy Advisor for Governor's Office of Coastal Activities Lindsay Cooper
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Special Projects Christina Stephens
President of the Center for Planning Excellence Camille Manning-Broome
Everyone's travel will be state-funded, with the exception of Manning-Broome. Edwards and his team will leave Thursday and the governor returns Nov. 4. Some members of his team may stay longer at the conference.
One of the topics included at the conference will be biomass and the wood pellet industry. Biomass, renewable organic energy that comes from plants and animals, has been championed in the U.K. as a source of green energy. Much of the biomass burned in the U.K. comes from wood pellets made in the Southeast, including in Louisiana, which houses several wood pellet plants.
Environmental activists condemn this practice on several different levels. Many say that the wood pellet plants pollute surrounding areas, and that the biomass practice depletes woods and destroys southern forests.
Advocates against biomass also say the practice isn't sustainable or eco-friendly, as the carbon emissions from burning wood pellets are greater than those from burning fossil fuels. Louisiana officials have not made any mention of the industry's impact on carbon emissions, though other environmental measures have been announced.
In October, Edwards announced the state's joining of the international "Race to Zero" campaign, a campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Edwards is also part of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a network of governors committed to state-led environmental action.
The state launched a 2020 Climate Initiatives Task Force, with the goal of reducing the state's greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
"Make no mistake: an industry-wide transition to cleaner, less environmentally impactful energy production and utilization is going to happen regardless of if Louisiana participates, so it's best that Louisiana be a leader in this space," Edwards said in a press release.
"For my part, I want world leaders to know that in Louisiana we have the most productive manufacturing workforce in the nation, a workforce that makes essential products that drive the global economy, and a workforce that is ready to make those products but with a greater reduced carbon footprint," he said.
by Rachel Mipro, Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to attend climate change summit in Scotland

by Rachel Mipro, Louisiana Illuminator
October 25, 2021

Rachel Mipro
Rachel Mipro has previous experience at WBRZ and The Reveille and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Louisiana State University. At LSU, she worked as an opinion editor for The Reveille and as a nonfiction editor for the university's creative writing journal. In her free time, she enjoys baking, Netflix and hiking.
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"""Tests for the experimental input pipeline ops."""
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from tensorflow.contrib.data.python.ops import batching
from tensorflow.python.data.ops import dataset_ops
from tensorflow.python.data.util import nest
from tensorflow.python.framework import dtypes
from tensorflow.python.ops import array_ops
from tensorflow.python.platform import test

class DatasetConstructorTest(test.TestCase):

  def testRestructureDataset(self):
    components = (array_ops.placeholder(dtypes.int32),
                  (array_ops.placeholder(dtypes.int32, shape=[None]),
                   array_ops.placeholder(dtypes.int32, shape=[20, 30])))
    dataset = dataset_ops.Dataset.from_tensors(components)

    i32 = dtypes.int32

    test_cases = [((i32, i32, i32), None),
                  (((i32, i32), i32), None),
                  ((i32, i32, i32), (None, None, None)),
                  ((i32, i32, i32), ([17], [17], [20, 30]))]

    for new_types, new_shape_lists in test_cases:
      # pylint: disable=protected-access
      new = batching._RestructuredDataset(dataset, new_types, new_shape_lists)
      # pylint: enable=protected-access
      self.assertEqual(new_types, new.output_types)
      if new_shape_lists is not None:
        for expected_shape_list, shape in zip(
            nest.flatten(new_shape_lists), nest.flatten(new.output_shapes)):
          if expected_shape_list is None:
            self.assertIs(None, shape.ndims)
          else:
            self.assertEqual(expected_shape_list, shape.as_list())

    fail_cases = [((i32, dtypes.int64, i32), None),
                  ((i32, i32, i32, i32), None),
                  ((i32, i32, i32), ((None, None), None)),
                  ((i32, i32, i32), (None, None, None, None)),
                  ((i32, i32, i32), (None, [None], [21, 30]))]

    for new_types, new_shape_lists in fail_cases:
      with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
        # pylint: disable=protected-access
        new = batching._RestructuredDataset(dataset, new_types, new_shape_lists)
        # pylint: enable=protected-access

if __name__ == "__main__":
  test.main()

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Here's where you can watch the fourth night of Jeff Ross's Roast Battle. This finale episode featured judges Judd Apatow and Sarah.
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Once you have made the decision to either setup your web presence online, or start a web design makeover, what are the costs associated with this task? There is quite a bit of information out there that can cause headaches in this regard. If you have decided not to make a website yourself, then what should you be paying a professional web designer? What we like to do is show what others are charging for this type of work first.
Did you find your pricepoint? Are you shocked?
A lot of our customers get squeamish when they read this. Even our rates, which can be 30% to 50% less than the competition gives the customer wallet shock.
But, talk should really center around what YOU, the customer, wants. You could get a website for 300-500 bucks, but what will that final product look like? See our previous article that discusses "What Your Customer Sees". Will they come back if your website is less than functional, or does not "Beautify The Web" in some way.
Will that cheap website get you results?
For SiteDart Studio, the team takes a different approach. We try to calculate the amount of time we need to spend on a site to get content in place (does the business already have good, descriptive text for their website, or do they need help creating it?). Next we will discuss options with the customer to find out their budget and needs. We know not everyone can pay that lump sum upfront, so we do offer payment plans to suit their business needs.
We then will go a step further in developing that site. We offer a great managed hosting plan that makes sure your site is secure, backed up, and FAST. We do a full SEO sweep of pages, images and blog posts to help get you noticed. We offer website branding packages that gets you on social media and connected with that customer base. We even offer logo design, business cards for your business and more.
The next time you ask "How much should you pay for your website", also ask yourself what you really want your website to do for you.
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The Bark River Hatchery is an organization responsible for stocking walleye and northern pike throughout the Rock River / Lake Koshkonong system. They have stocked roughly 50,000,000 fry since 1996 and operate on an annual budget of $8,000. In order to stay active, they need assistance in raising future funds to keep our fishery thriving. Our goal is to raise these funds through the new Bark River Hatchery Banquet. For more information contact Adam Walton at 608-290-3929.


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Q: Telerik Kendo UI Grid - Inline editing of composite object as a single column with multi-field widget We are considering kendo ui to replace GWT in our ERP product. The main motivator is kendo grid. We have many composite objects that are rendered and edited as a single column. The column editor will contain multiple fields.
An example: In sales invoice lines, the product column should display product code (autocomplete field), product name (Link), and a button to open products browser (a modal dialog with search fields and a grid that displays products along with images, names, available quantities, etc).After selecting a product in the products browser the grid should update the product in the row that requested the browser.
I think I know how to implement the products browser. But the composite editor is the one I do not know how to implement.
My question is: how can I edit a composite object in a single grid column using a composite widget? And we need inline editing not popup editors.
I have been browsing the demos to find a close example but could not find any. My search was "kendo grid composite object custom editor".

A: Yes, you can do that with Kendo UI
Check this demo (a ComboBox with a custom template)
http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/combobox/template
You can create a custom row's template for the ComboBox (with multiple columns like in the demo) and in the grid you can use a custom template for the column products and use the ComboBox with the custom template.
Check this demo for the grid with a custom column template
http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/editing-custom


Enterprises need to proactively protect their business-critical applications from external and internal threats. Whether an application is internally focused, such as a customer relationship management (CRM) system delivered through a service-oriented architecture (SOA), or is an externally facing application, such as a new customer portal, clearly defined security policies and processes are critical to ensure that the application is enabling the business rather than introducing additional risk.
Identity management and authentication is no longer enough to protect against online web application attacks. Because of the authentication solutions put in place over the last few years like second factor and device ID, criminals have become much more sophisticated in how they perpetrate attacks against websites. To stay one step ahead of the criminals, it is critical that website malware and fraud detection systems perform more than authentication checks. Instead, the latest types of attacks, like Man in the Browser, require behavioral analysis of the website traffic.
Enter startups like Silver Tail Systems, Dasient, Incapsula, Zscaler, and others who focus on protecting your web applications.
Silver Tail Systems' Forensics solution provides behavioral analytics to detect emerging threats. In addition to its heuristic threat scoring capabilities, it also provides a business policy manager so fraud analysts can write business policies to be alerted to suspicious behavior. As typical with these new Security 2.0 offerings, Forensics provides a comprehensive point-and-click dashboard to make fraud investigations straightforward and efficient.
Forensics is installed by a system administrator by redirecting a span port on a switch to the Forensics data acquirer. This implementation takes on the order of hours – not months (no updates to html of the pages under protection). And Forensics can send alerts based on business policies to your current systems including case management systems, workflow systems, and SIEMs. Also, Forensics is available as either an on-premise installation or as Software as a Service (where SaaS is my preference, of course).
Dasient takes a traditional approach to web application protection. Similar to classifying an event on the corporate website as "fraudulent", the company provides a comprehensive offering to avoid your site from being blacklisted, defend against zero-day attacks, prevent visitors to your website from getting infected, and contain malicious code on your website.
The Dasient service detects any and all malware compromising a website through hourly, daily, and weekly scans using multiple scanning approaches: browser emulation, virtual machine emulation, and checking against blacklists and anti-virus engines.
Dasient identifies zero-day malware and malvertising with deep, precise scans using Dasient's behavioral analysis technology.
Dasient scales infinitely to deliver a high-performance, low-cost architecture modeled on Google's web-scale infrastructure.
The service delivers security intelligence based on massive amounts of telemetry data collected globally by monitoring millions of websites and dozens of ad networks for malware. The service effectively gathers the 'wisdom of the masses' through its continuous web-wide monitoring, with results recorded in the Dasient malware infection library.
In addition to containing attacks automatically, it also provides tools for rapid removal of malware, so online businesses can get up and running quickly following a web malware infection.
What I love about hosted / SaaS services in the security space is the ability to leverage the 'wisdom of the masses', as Dasient describes it. You can begin to see the power of the infection library stats they pull together on a quarterly basis.
As the graphic above depicts, Incapsula offers security and performance software as a service. Once you put your website behind Incapsula, the company traffic is routed through the Incapsula global network of servers that inspect all incoming traffic, keeping hackers out while accelerating outgoing traffic.
Incapsula's global network of servers will shield websites from hackers, spammers and other online threats and only permit legitimate traffic to reach it. At the core of the service is Incapsula's Web Application Firewall (WAF) that constantly detects new attackers and threat vectors that emerge globally. Incapsula's intelligence is shared across the entire network so that each website protected by the service receives the benefits of collaborative threat detection.
Incapsula makes your website faster by caching and optimizing its content and serving it directly from the internet's backbone. Because it is a SaaS offering, it takes less than 5 minutes to add your website to Incapsula by making a simple change your domain's DNS settings. There is no hardware or software to install or maintain and you can keep your current hosting provider. If you are ever unhappy you can turn Incapsula off as easily as you turned it on.
Zscaler has a similar offering and approach.
More on the use of Cloud for securing your network, server and endpoint; and physical infrastructure to come….


With well over a trillion dollars in annual spending power, it is no wonder that the millennial generation is the target of so many marketing campaigns. When done well, marketing to this generation can be extraordinarily profitable, and can result in an extremely vocal, and loyal customer base. When marketing efforts fall flat, or worse, are found to be patronizing and offensive the results can be devastating to a company's branding and reputation. Following these five steps will help you to develop a millennial marketing strategy that works.
Audit your social media presence. If you don't have one, create one. Then, make sure that you are using social media in a way that is appealing to the 19 to 37 year old demographic. Here are a few ways in which social media can be used to attract members of this demographic.
Be aware of the conversations that people are having about your company. This is a generation that shares their thoughts, beliefs, and experiences with one another, and they do so on the internet. Take the time to learn where these conversations are occurring, and then take the time to actually listen to them. It's great to learn what you're doing right in the eyes of your target demographic, but painful to learn what you're doing wrong. Both, however, are necessary.
Don't market to a stereotype. The millennial generation spans from 19 to 37. Members of this generation vary widely when it comes to lifestyle, education, financial situation, and political/social points of view. When making a marketing plan, don't target a caricature, and never underestimate the spending power or intelligence of your audience. It's also a good idea to be certain that the millennial generation in its entirety are truly your target audience. You may find that you are wiser to target sub-demographics based on income, age, or lifestyle.
Make sure that your website and content are accessible on all devices and browsers. This is a multi-device generation that is constantly on the go. They also have little patience for things that are not compatible with the technology that they use. Avoid the dreaded 'click away', and make sure that visitors can use your website no matter where they are or what device they are using. Better yet, embrace mobile technology and design an app that will make getting connected even easier.
Do something good. In spite of the fact that the label of narcissism is frequently applied to this generation, millennials are more aware of social issues than other generations. They're more likely than other generations to research your company's policies and history on issues such as fair trade, equal pay, family friendly leave policies, and the environment. They're also more likely to use that information when they make purchasing decisions. Some of most effective marketing strategies have combined sales with the chance to do something good. One example of this is the sales model used by Tom's Shoes. When consumers purchase a pair of shoes, another pair is also donated.


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Crotty Couldn't Keep Away
After two second half slips the Canterbury Wildcats have been working to iron out a few kinks ahead of their round five rematch against neighbours, the Otago Gold Rush.
Having beaten the Southerners comfortably during preseason, the Wildcats should go into the match as favourites, especially with two of Otago's star players unavailable. Nicole Ruske is away with the NZ 3X3 side and Dayna Turnbull is focusing on touch with the New Zealand women's team.
But this week has been more about sorting out their own combinations ahead of the derby for veteran Shea Crotty. 'They started slow last year and went on to win the comp, so we're not reading into the result of the preseason game at all.'
'And to be honest we didn't get things right ourselves last week. We didn't get things running the way we wanted and needed to. I was pretty rusty, I played (as expected) like I hadn't played in a fair while.'
Crotty was in part referring to her own reintroduction to the game after eight months out, as well as Tessa Boagni playing her first game of the season after injuring her foot before the season started.
That's also been compounded with the great news that Terai-Ma-Teata Sadler and Ajiah Pepe have both been selected for the Cook Islands national team, but will result in them not being available for the final tournament. 'It's awesome for them, but we're needing to work on our combinations a bit more over the coming weeks just to make sure the Wildcats are in the best position now too,' said Crotty.
Crotty's intentions at the start of the season was that after 10 seasons playing for the Wildcats was to retire, especially due to the constant pain she suffers from arthritis in her knee. A lingering issue following knee reconstruction eight years ago. 'It's not too bad when I'm playing, but often after a game, or the next day, it all seizes up and it's pretty uncomfortable.'
I found it hard to watch; I still have a passion for the game, and I don't want to not play just because of the pain. I just need to find a way to manage it,' Crotty added.
Her combination with captain Tessa Morrison will be crucial for the Wildcats as they look to find the best-balanced side they can put out on court. Crotty's strength on defence is an area the team has been missing a little in the past few games, while Morrison's scoring abilities are too good to have riding the pine.
Now that Coach Lori McDaniel has two quality bigs in Tessa Boagni and Maryta Davydova at her disposal it'll be interesting to see how she utilises that option too.
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Seen in a New Light
6.16.13 Seen in a New Light
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.' Jesus spoke up and said to him, 'Simon, I have something to say to you.' 'Teacher,' he replied, 'speak.' 'A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he cancelled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?' Simon answered, 'I suppose the one for whom he cancelled the greater debt.' And Jesus said to him, 'You have judged rightly.' Then turning towards the woman, he said to Simon, 'Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.' Then he said to her, 'Your sins are forgiven.' But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, 'Who is this who even forgives sins?' And he said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you; go in peace.'
On our Birthday: The 327th Anniversary of King's Chapel
On Sunday afternoons, I love to lie down with the Sunday newspapers and languidly make my way through every section, reading to my heart's delight. So, week by week, I end up turning to the little magazine called Parade, the most widely read magazine in the US, tucked inside hundreds of Sunday newspapers, big and small, all over the country. Usually glancing through it is a humbling experience, reminding me how few celebrities I've even heard of, but it somehow remains a stubborn part of my Sunday paper reading routine; hope springs eternal that someday I'll be less obtuse.
Last week the Parade magazine included this true story – about a family of four in Ohio. Perhaps you read it.
A little over a year ago, a father named Brad was driving home with his two children, an 18 year old daughter and 16 year old son. Brad had just gotten out of prison, where he and his wife had served several years for growing marijuana. Today his son had been in court for punching another student, an aggression that seemed to be growing, and he'd been sentenced to 16 hours of community service. Brad's daughter had gotten pregnant while Brad and his wife were in jail, and now the daughter was struggling as a single mom in high school, wondering if she'd ever get her degree. Brad hadn't been able to find work since he'd been released – no one wanted to hire an ex-con - and now they were late picking up his wife from her job….
Well, I now knew just where this article was going, and I was ready to skip to the next story. Because really, What had this dad been thinking, breaking the law with drugs? Of course his kids were messed up – how could they not be with a father like him? And Brad not getting a job – well, he'd made his own bed. Being late to pick up his wife – ah yes, clearly they were speeding and….
But I was all wrong. It wasn't Brad who had the accident – Brad and his kids came upon one, hearing a horrible crash, then seeing the sight. They jumped from their car, rushed to a mangled pickup truck that had rolled over twice, flames all across its underside. The man inside was tall and strong, but he couldn't get the door open. Brad, an amateur boxer, pulled on the door with all his strength, then wedged himself between the door and frame, somehow prying it open with his body. Though Brad had yelled at his kids to stay away, they were there – and it was the kids who dragged the dazed and bleeding man out of the truck just before it was engulfed in flames.
The rescue was reported in the local Ohio paper, and Brad began to notice that rather than steering clear of him on the sidewalk, townsfolk began to come up to him and thank him for what he had done. His son's grades began to turn around, as the son felt he had a dad he could respect.
Townsfolk slowly learned more about Brad's story – that his troubles had started when his grandfather had died, and Brad became severely depressed. Brad had self-medicated with drink then drugs. His small home improvement business began to fall apart, and to make ends meet, Brad and his wife began to grow marijuana in the basement. When they were arrested, everyone in their little town saw the banner headlines. During prison, Brad kept hoping he could get out and turn things around, prove to people that he was a changed man, prove it to himself, his wife, his kids. But when Brad returned home, no one would give him a chance to do that. He fought to remain sober, day by day.
After the crash, the man they'd rescued – Matt Sterling -- befriended Brad and his family, grateful that they'd saved his life. Matt owned a small local restaurant, and he hired Brad's wife as a waitress; when Brad's daughter did complete high school, Matt catered her graduation party for free. Brad and his family were now seen in a new light. Forgiven. Restored.
The headline to the article said it this way: "Local Heroes: Brad Ray and his kids saved one man's life. Turns out their own lives were saved, too."
What a difference, when we see things in a new light. What power when we can be seen in a new light. What despair, when we remain trapped, unable to begin afresh.
In our sacred story from the New Testament, the Pharisee plays the role I did, as I began reading the article, convinced I knew the likely outcome once I was aware of Brad's past. Brad had been in prison for growing marijuana; the woman who snuck into the Pharisee's home and anointing Jesus' feet was known by all to be a grievous sinner – doesn't the past determine the future? People don't really change! Once someone has proven themself untrustworthy, we cut them off. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Anyone with standards, anyone with insight, knows this! So reasoned the Pharisee. So was reasoning, I confess – oh I confess, at the beginning of Brad's story.
But Jesus sees us all in a different light. Where the world, with all its supposed insight, saw a sinful woman, Jesus saw the woman's potential, and her great love. Jesus may have known why she had done what she had, as the townsfolk in Ohio later learned about Brad's story. But even without that, Jesus knew she needed a fresh start, and he gave it to her, changing her life. As Brad's was, once the town's people began to give him and his family another chance, too. Jesus thinks people can really change. He risks forgiving and being the fool. Because that's the only way any of us have a chance, really.
Because dear friends, who of us has not done things we regret? Who of us has not suffered because of actions of another? Without forgiveness, we are trapped. We're left with hating ourselves for what we've done or left undone. Or burning with anger and resentment towards those who did us wrong.
Or we can see each other in a new light.
Sometimes the one we need to see in a new light is ourselves – that's what Jesus wanted the Pharisee to do. To see that the woman was not less than the Pharisee – if anything, the rich and educated Pharisee had behaved less well than she. The Pharisee had not welcomed Jesus with gracious hospitality, but the woman had – bathing Jesus' feet, greeting him with a kiss of gratitude.
Sometimes our need is to see ourselves in a new light, to see ourselves as the ones in need of forgiveness. That was true for King David, too. David, the boy who slew the giant Goliath with a slingshot, is now the grown and powerful King of all Israel. David sees beautiful Bathsheba, the wife of his loyal solider Uriah, and David wants Bathsheba for his own. David arranges to have Uriah abandoned and killed in battle, and God's prophet Nathan comes to visit. The prophet tells David of a poor man, with only one beloved lamb, and rich man who steals the little lamb, slaughtering it for a meal. David is outraged at the rich man's greed. Then Nathan shouts: You are the man!
David had to see himself in a new light, and it was excruciating.
Time – years passing – casts a new light on things, too.
My time with you at King's Chapel is still measured in weeks and months – 13 weeks and soon, the three month mark. But King's Chapel's history is measured in decades and centuries – 327 years marked on this Sunday.
So in the few moments that I've been able to in these last three months, I've taken the old key that unlocks the Parish House archives, and read, read, read all that I can about our roots. I've barely scratched the surface, I know, but what a rich and vital story all these documents tell. I've also taken time with many of you, to just listen, listen, listen, to your stories; I want to hear many more. For again the powerful history is told, in your own lives, in your lives dedicated to this church.
I'm learning the history of the many who have sat in just the pews in which you sit, of the preachers who stand just where I do now, of the women and men and children outside these granite walls who watched us, debated with us, came through those doors to join us, shook their heads in disbelief or anger or awe at the freedom of new religious thought born here – and who together, with us, the people of this city, shaped our country and its ideals; shaped religious thought in America; shaped lives.
Time does cast a new light on things. So, in the annals of our 200th birthday, in 1886, the historical sermons offered by the Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, needed to remind the gathered of what all the fuss have been about, when Puritan founders of this colony recoiled at the notion of a King's Chapel erected on their soil. With a gentleness not present in those first heated days, the preacher two hundred years later could identify the strands of truth found on each side of the argument.
In the new light of time passed, and a new nation born, Rev. Foote could name the strengths of the independence the Puritans insisted upon, to worship God and live separate from the dominant religion of their homeland; but also, their need to be more open to religious traditions not their own, to respect that not all who lived in this fledgling city could worship God most fully in Puritan style, to make some space for those who longed for the familiar prayer book words and tunes with which their own faith had been formed.
So on the history of King's Chapel has gone: all of us learning from one another, shaping one another, and most important, seeking to live lives that reflected Christian teachings, as best we understood them. All the debates over style or dogma were always rooted, at their best, in the question of how to follow Jesus of Nazareth.
Today's question remains the same – how do we best follow Jesus? How do we share what we have glimpsed, week by week, and year by year, in our own lives, about the power of forgiveness to change lives, about the value Jesus gave to every single person – from the weeping woman to the Pharisee – always seeking to spend time with them, to share a table with them, to reprove them when needed, but to ultimately love and cherish them, seeing in them –seeing in you – all that you are, all that God has dreamed for you.
What now, is God dreaming of for you, for this place? What is needed in this city today, with its hurts and longings, its broken hearts, its injustices untended. Where are we needed, and where do we most need to be, to follow the man from Nazareth?
I don't know just the shape our future will take, but this I do know: our tradition of independence and freedom of religious thought is desperately needed in our time, perhaps even more that it has been in the past. Others may preach today's lectionary lesson of forgiveness, but it comes only at a heavy cost, where the bottom line is to believe in one narrow way, or be damned. As the tract I was handed this week on Boston Common asked in bold red letters, Heaven or Hell? Reading it, it was clear where the writers would have placed me.
The Christianity understood and preached here – and with God's help, the Christianity lived by us each day, as best we can – is one of freedom and inclusiveness that sees the sinful woman and loves her, not a religion that damns her forever, as the Pharisee did. As I almost did of Brad, when I began the Parade article, sure I knew its direction.
We know that hurtful, wrong actions have consequences, and do cause pain. It was true for King David. And for the woman with the alabaster jar. And for the Pharisee. All caused and experienced hurt. But to David, God said, Your sins are forgiven. To all, even the woman whose sins were "grievous," Jesus said, you are forgiven.
Dear ones, let us always see this place, and one another in a new light, the radiant light that forgiveness brings. Let's see ourselves as the city around us sees us – what do they see now, and what shall they see?
I believe they will see a place of progressive Christian thought that honors all! A place where questions can be asked and answers given, in love and respect. A place that doesn't just speak, but acts, that forgives and trusts, that is grateful, grateful, grateful, like the woman, for all the Love that God has given us, and in gratitude, returns that love, spilling out generously, pouring over others in love. Love they can feel in their lives, when their feet and souls are weary and worn.
Brad seemed just like another petty ex-con. But he saved Matt's life, and in return Matt gave Brad back his dignity. The story hasn't had a storybook ending – Brad still doesn't have a full-time job, but the family is making do. And in some of the time he has free, Brad has started an afterschool program for kids struggling, giving them sports to help raise their own sense of self worth. There, at that program, he's not an ex-con. He's "coach."
There are so many Brads and Matts. They, we, all of us can stand in amazement at the changes and turns of history. So forward through the ages we go – in God's forgiving grace. I'm excited for all that lies ahead!
Forward through the ages, in unbroken line,
Move the faithful spirits, at the call divine.
Gifts of differing measure, hearts of one accord
Manifold in service, one the sure reward.
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Description: Intensive writing projects and discussion in subject areas within Environmental Studies. Course content varies. This course fulfills NAU's junior-level writing requirement. Letter grade only. Course fee required.


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Q: Android Remote (WiFi) debugging native app doesn't work I have a native (Java with NDK C++ code) Android app that when connected over usb I can run in Debug mode within Android Studio and set break points etc fine.
I am debugging a USB host app - so having the usb connected is not an option. So I would like to run my apps in debug mode over wifi within android studio. My build configuration sets "debuggable" to true.
I connect over wifi as follows:
adb kill-server
adb tcpip 5555
adb connect 192.168.0.xx:5555

This gives me logcat output over WiFi OK - so is not a connection issue
However when I go to run my app in Debug mode from Android Studio:

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*the app is launched on the device (so must have connection), and display showing "Waiting For Debugger" is shown.

*The debug console in android studio lists:

    05/21 17:18:47: Launching 'app' on Google Pixel 3a.
    $ adb shell am start -n "com.myapplication.testapp/com.myapplication.testapp.MainActivity" -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -D
    Waiting for application to come online: com.myapplication.testapp | com.myapplication.testapp.test
    Waiting for application to come online: com.myapplication.testapp | com.myapplication.testapp.test
    Connecting to com.myapplication.testapp
    Waiting for application to start debug server
    Waiting for application to come online: com.myapplication.testapp | com.myapplication.testapp.test
    Connecting to com.myapplication.testapp
    Now Launching Native Debug Session
    $ adb shell cat /data/local/tmp/lldb-server | run-as com.myapplication.testapp sh -c 'cat > /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb/bin/lldb-server && chmod 700 /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb/bin/lldb-server'
    $ adb shell cat /data/local/tmp/start_lldb_server.sh | run-as com.myapplication.testapp sh -c 'cat > /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb/bin/start_lldb_server.sh && chmod 700 /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb/bin/start_lldb_server.sh'
    Starting LLDB server: /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb/bin/start_lldb_server.sh /data/data/com.myapplication.testapp/lldb unix-abstract /com.myapplication.testapp-0 platform-1590077930063.sock "lldb process:gdb-remote packets"

*The bottom of Android studio there is a loading wheel, with messages - goes something like this:

1. Starting LLDB server
2. Attaching to the app
3. Loaded module:LLModule(path=C:/...this file changes - it appears to be loading several files)
4. Resuming the app process
5. Loaded module:LLModule(path=C:/

*After this, the debugger console goes blank, and the app starts to run as normal. BUT breakpoints are not hit, and I can't pause the app, as I can normally when connected over usb.

I've also tried using the "attach debugger to android process" option in Android Studio - the process appears in the list presented when the button is pressed, but its unable to attach - after some time the debugger console displays:
Connected to the target VM, address: 'localhost:8600', transport: 'socket'
Disconnected from the target VM, address: 'localhost:8600', transport: 'socket'

I wonder if its something to do with the localhost:8600 - should this be pointing at the ip address of the phone? I can't find an option to change this though.
Any ideas of what I can try to fix this? Having proper debug capabilities would massively help my work right now!

A: Same problem happened to me today. After many trials, I found it works after I change the encryption protocol to WPA-PSK in the wifi AP settings section of my router's admin panel.
It worked for me. But I think you also have to check out whether the debugger server
is listening at localhost:8600
By the way, if the adb is always timed out due to your apk being too large or the wifi too slow, this build.gradle configuration might be somewhat helpful:
android {

    adbOptions {
        timeOutInMs 30 * 1000
    }
....
}

Good luck!


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In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2017
By Liz Ronk
December 22, 2017 11:00 AM EST
These photographers helped shape and define nearly every area of our world, from rock music to civil rights to fine art. Here, TIME celebrates the lives and work of some of the great photographers we lost in 2017.
Russ Adams (1930-2017)
June 15, 1981 Sports Illustrated Cover. Sweden Bjorn Borg in action during match at Stade Roland Garros. Paris, France. Photo by Russ Adams.
Russ Adams—Sports Illustrated
Russ Adams, a pioneer in tennis photography, died on June 28 at the age of 86, just weeks after the death of his wife of 65 years, Betty. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1955, he began his career at the Worcester Telegram and the Boston Herald-Traveler photographing sports greats in the Boston area. By 1953, he had honed in on the sport of tennis — a subject that would dominate the next 50 years of his life.
Among his many accomplishments, he worked with the USTA to create a code of conduct for photographers covering tennis around the world in 1969 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., in 2007. "He's our dean, our guru, our guardian," tennis champion Billie Jean King told the Boston Globe when Adams was inducted into the Hall of Fame. "Believe me, the players look for him and love him."
His body of work, comprising about 1.6 million images, is considered the largest privately held source of tennis images in the world.
Richard Benson (1943-2017)
Forillon Park, Gaspé, 2006.
Richard Benson, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Photographer, educator and master printer Richard "Chip" Benson died in Providence on June 22 at the age of 73. Benson taught photography at the Yale University School of Art for more than three decades, starting in 1979, and also served as Dean from 1996-2006. Among his many accomplishments are two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur fellowship. The son of a stonecutter, he always loved working with his hands.
He is perhaps best known for his innovations in photographic offset printing techniques and, later, ink-jet printing. In 1981, the Gilman Paper Company bought him an offset printer to install in his home in Newport, R.I., with which he was able to reproduce 200 of the historic photographs in the company's collection, by photographers including Matthew Brady, Alfred Steiglitz and Robert Frank . He spent nearly five years creating prints that were tonally accurate to the originals. In a talk recorded for a later exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Benson stated that he couldn't sleep through the night during that period, due to "blind terror" that he would screw it up.
From platinum palladium to the most cutting-edge digital technology, Benson embraced the future of photography and still believed in the power of the print.
Nick Cornish (1966-2017)
Mobarak Mohamed, 46, lies distraught on hearing the news that her son Hassan Ali, 14 had been killed by Gaddafi's forces during the first Battle of Brega, March 2 2011. Libya.
Nick Cornish/The Sunday Times
Photojournalist Nick Cornish died after a battle with leukemia on Jan. 18. He was only 51 years old. During his two-decade-long tenure at the London Sunday Times, he covered conflicts ranging from the wars in Libya, Syria and Iraq to riots in Europe and everything in between. He was a photographer who put himself in harm's way on a regular basis.
In addition to working as a photojournalist for the Sunday Times and other publications, he was an accomplished commercial photographer with an eye for portraits and landscapes. He lived in Umbria, Italy, with his wife, Simona. "He was not just a wonderful photographer;" said Sunday Times picture editor Ray Wells in a Facebook tribute to Cornish, "he was the most gracious and self-depreciating of men, always surprised that anyone would know his name."
Marie Cosindas (1923-2017)
Lenore, Boston, 1965. Dye Diffusion transfer print.
Marie Cosindas Estate, courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY
Marie Cosindas, a pioneer in the use of color photography, died in her hometown of Boston on May 25 at the age of 93. She had studied textiles and painting at the Modern School of Fashion Design and the Boston Museum School before a 1959 trip to her family's homeland of Greece triggered a passion for photography.
After studying and attending workshops with Paul Caponigro and Ansel Adams, she was referred to Polaroid's Edwin Land in 1962 to test out the company's new instant-developing film. Excelling in experimentation with color film, particularly in its uses for ethereal portraits and still-lifes, she garnered the interest of Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski. He would offer her an exhibition in 1966, making her just the fifth woman in the museum's history of have a solo show. In the press release, Szarkowski stated that her photographs were "as real and as unlikely as butterflies."
Her work fell into obscurity during the 1980s but was revisited in 2013 when two museums — the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Tex., and the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University — presented new looks at her work. During her lifetime, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Grant, a Rockefeller Grant and two honorary degrees.
Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017)
Communion.
Arlene Gottfried courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Street photographer Arlene Gottfried died on Aug. 8 from complications of breast cancer. She was 66 years old. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she was the older sister of actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried, but her compassionate, curious photos of everyday New York City stand on their own.
As a teenager, she received her first camera from her father and would roam her Brooklyn neighborhood photographing her surroundings and interesting characters. After studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and working for an advertising agency, she shot for publications such as the New York Times Magazine, FORTUNE, LIFE and Newsweek. But her street work, captured over the course of three decades, resonated the most.
During the course of her career Gottfried published five books — the first of which, 1999's The Eternal Light, brought her into such close contact with her subject, the Eternal Light Community Singers, that she became a gospel singer herself. (The photo featured in the gallery is from her 2011 book Bacalaitos and Fireworks.) And yet, in an interview with TIME's Paul Moakley that year, she said that she still felt sometimes that she didn't know much the business of making a photo book, even though she had clearly proved her aptitude at the process. "I'm good at taking the pictures and putting them in some order," she said. "For me it's a way of concluding something."
Stanley Greene (1949-2017)
Chechnya, Grozny, woman staring 1995-2003 Downtown Grozny, April 2001. Since the death of her child Zelina often stares at something far away, elusive. She says she is already dead herself, if only time would hurry up.
Stanley Greene—NOOR
Photojournalist, World Press Award winner and founding member of Noor photo agency Stanley Greene died on May 19 in Paris after a long battle with cancer. He was 68 years old. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1949, he received his first camera from his parents at age 11. As a teenager, he joined the Black Panthers and was an anti-Vietnam activist. With the encouragement of renowned photojournalist and former LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith, Greene pursued photography at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.
After college he moved to San Francisco and documented the punk scene and produced a body of work called "The Western Front." He would move to Paris in 1986 and have a brief career as a fashion photographer and was in East Berlin in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell.
He won his first World Press award in 1994 for his 1993 work in the Russian White House. He was the only western journalist inside during the coup attempt against Russian President Boris Yeltsin. His focused work in conflict zones including Chechnya, Georgia, Afghanistan and Iraq would win him additional World Press awards and other honors including the W. Eugene Smith award in 2004 and the Lifetime Achievement Visa d'Or Award in 2016
Speaking to TIME earlier this year, MaryAnne Golon from the Washington Post stated: "From battlefields in Chechnya and Iraq to the Silk Road in Asia to New Orleans underwater to long defunct punk clubs in San Francisco, Stanley Greene floated through all with his gifted eye and came away with haunting black and white photographs often as unusual as he was."
Ren Hang (1987-2017)
Untitled.
Ren Hang courtesy of Taschen
Controversial Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang died on Feb. 24 in Beijing. Born in Jilin, China in 1987, he wrote about his struggle with depression on his website; he was 29 and is reported to have jumped to his death.
Known for nude portraits of his friends, he began taking pictures as an advertising student while studying advertising a the Communication University of China using a point and shoot camera. Hang once said he "simply shot what he saw," and in China what he saw got him arrested on various occasions for his sexually explicit work. This did not stop him from creating work and during his lifetime he published seven photo books and a book of poetry. Renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei took an interest in Hang's work and included his photos in a 2013 exhibition in the Netherlands and curated his 2014 exhibit, La Chine a Nue at Paris' Nue Galerie.
Speaking to TIME earlier this year, Alexander Öberg, of Galleri Tryffelgrisen, a longtime collaborator of Hang's, told TIME he was a "lovely person and an incredibly creative artist who had so much more to share with the world."
Don Hunstein (1928-2017)
Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, 1963. This photo was used as the album cover for 'Freewheelin' with Bob Dylan.'
Don Hunstein
Don Hunstein, best known for his iconic images of Columbia Records musicians, died in on March 18, from Alzheimer's disease, in New York, N.Y. He was 88 years old. Born in St. Louis, Mo., Hunstein first became interested in photography while in the Air Force, stationed in Fairford, England. He bought his first camera, a Leica M3, after being inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Not long after returning to New York, he began his career at Columbia Records in the company's photo library. The position afforded him incredible access to photograph musicians including Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. He would go on to become chief photographer and Director of Photography for the label, spending 30 years of his career there. Hundreds of his photographs, as album covers, made their way into homes across the world.
One of those pictures in particular would become a defining image in pop culture. Early in his career, he captured Bob Dylan and girlfriend Suze Rotolo on a cold winter day in 1963, walking down the street in Greenwich Village. That picture would become the album cover of Freewheelin' with Bob Dylan. The album cemented Dylan as a major recording artist and its cover remains one of the most recognizable images in Hunstein's archive.
Ben Martin (1930-2017)
Martin Luther King and Coretta King, Selma March, Pettus Bridge, March 21, 1965.
Ben Martin came to photography young: He received his first camera at the age of 8 and became the youngest member of the National Press Association at 17. But when he joined TIME magazine it was as a copyboy, after a promised job in the photo department of LIFE was eliminated. Carrying around a camera around with him everywhere had its advantages, however, and he quickly went from copyboy to one of the magazine's first staff photographers, shooting alongside many of the great LIFE photographers. He died on Feb. 10 in Salisbury, N.C., at the age of 86.
Martin is responsible for many of the memorable images that ran in the pages of TIME and LIFE during that era, including photographs of the 1960 presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy and JFK's funeral in 1963. In 1965, he joined civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. As the photographer spent much of the march walking backwards, the assistant United States Attorney General John Doar said that Martin was "the best shield Dr. King could have."
Speaking with TIME, Martin's former wife Kathryn Leigh Scott fondly remembered that he always said he would never retire. In fact, he never did and continued to work right until the year before his death.
Lennart Nilsson (1922-2017)
The cover of LIFE Magazine features a photograph of an 18-week-old fetus inside its amniotic sac, April 30, 1965.
Lennart Nilsson—LIFE Magazine
Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson, well known for his groundbreaking scientific imagery, died on Jan. 28 in Stockholm. He was 94 years old. Nilsson became a household name after LIFE magazine published the April 30, 1965, cover story Drama Of Life Before Birth, a photo essay that introduced LIFE's large audience to color images documenting the growth of the human embryo. These images — which had been made over the course of 12 years, amid controversy over whether the fetuses on the pages were alive or not — fascinated readers, leading the issue to sell over 8 million copies in the first four days of publication.
Nilsson described himself as "fascinated with mankind," but his fascination with the camera also began early. Born in Strängnäs, Sweden on Aug. 24, 1922, he received his first camera at age 11 and followed his father and uncle to a career in photography, working as a freelancer in Sweden in the mid-1940s before he embarked into the world of scientific photography.
During his career, he received Emmy awards for two of his documentaries, The Saga of Life (1982) and The Miracle of Life (1996). He is also credited with taking the first images of the human immunodeficiency virus and the SARS virus. His many honors include three honorary doctorates and membership in the Swedish Society of Medicine. In 2016, the iconic fetus that appeared on the cover of LIFE was included in TIME's 100 Most Influential Photos.
George Pitts (1951-2017)
George Pitts attends the launch of the second issue of Aleim magazine at Crosby Hotel on Feb. 19, 2011 in New York City.
Charles Eshelman—FilmMagic/Getty Images
George Pitts, a pillar in the photographic community, died on March 4 after a long illness. He, seen above, described himself as a photographer, artist and writer on his website, but he was much more: a painter by training, a pioneering photo editor and an educator whose students often went on to become stars in their own rights. He was the founding photo director of Vibe Magazine from 1993-2004 and the Director of Photography of the revived LIFE magazine from 2004-2007.
"I vividly remember our meeting in 1999," photographer Gillian Laub told TIME in the wake of Pitts' death. "I remember immediately after looking at my photographs he said, 'Some people photograph with only their brains as an intellectual quest, but your images come from your heart.' He was deeply and so passionately interested in people and photography."
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Bronx, NY: : Bathgate Avenue ca. 1976 -1983.
Mel Rosenthal—The Image Works
Born in the Bronx in 1940, photographer and educator Mel Rosenthal became well known for his work in the New York City borough. Though he received a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1967, it was in Tanzania that he found his passion for documenting the human condition through photography. He died on Oct. 30 at 77.
The teaching career he began at Empire State College in 1975 would last for the next 36 years of his life, during which time he returned to the South Bronx to document his hometown and its resilient residents. In 2000, he published a book, In the South Bronx of America, images from which were later exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York.
"I'm not an artist; I'm a messenger," he said in a 2011 interview with the New York Times. "I go to a place to see what's going on, bring it back for people to see, then I go to the next place.
David Rubinger (1924-2017)
Small group of Israeli soldiers at the wailing wall after it was recaptured during the 1967 war.
David Rubinger/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
David Rubinger, who died on March 1 at 92, was known as one of Israel's most famous photographers — and in fact his link to that region was older than the nation itself. Born in Vienna in 1924, he moved to British Mandate Palestine as a teenager in 1939. While his father escaped to Great Britain, his mother perished in the Holocaust.
Rubinger was introduced to photography when he received his first camera from a girlfriend while on leave from his post in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He would go on to photograph his adopted homeland for more than six decades, for several local outlets and later, starting in 1954, for TIME and LIFE. The photo included in this gallery, of paratroopers at the Western Wall, is considered a defining image of conflict and his "signature photo" from 1967's Six-Day War. He did not consider this to be the best image on the roll, but it was distributed by the government and gained widespread exposure.
Among his many accomplishments, Rubinger helped found the Foreign Press Association, published a decisive book of his work in 2008, and in 1997 became the first photographer to be awarded the Israel Prize in communications, the country's highest honor in the field. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin eulogized Mr. Rubinger in a statement: "There are those who write the pages of history, and there are those who illustrate them through their camera's lens. Through his photography, David eternalized history as it will be forever etched in our memories."
Khadija Saye (1992-2017)
Nak Bejjen, 2017. From the series: Dwelling: in this space we breathe. Photograph, wet plate collodion tintype on metal. 250 x 200 mm
Image courtesy of the Estate of Khadija Saye
Khadija Saye, a rising star in the photography world, died in the Grenfell Tower Fire on June 14, 2017. She was only 24 years old, and lived with her mother on the 20th floor. Although she was born and raised in London, her work was closely tied to her Gambian heritage.
Saye attended the prestigious Rugby School and the University for Creative Arts at Farham, where she earned a BA in photography. While a student, she created a series called "Crowned" that focused on identity, hair and her understanding of being a black woman. This work caught the eye of artist Nicola Greene, who selected her work to be included in the Discerning Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in Central London in 2014. Saye's work was subsequently exhibited at the Diaspora Pavillion (which Greene co-founded) at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The youngest artist represented in that group, she created the series Dwelling: in this space we breathe specifically for the exhibition, exploring her African heritage using traditional ritual objects. The work, she said, spoke to "the search for what gives meaning to our lives and what we hold onto in times of despair and life-changing challenges."
"I had the privilege of watching Khadija rise from a shining light of emerging talent who was struggling to get her work into the world, to a star at the crest of a wave of international success," Greene told TIME. "It is impossible to believe that such a positive force of energy and power is gone from this world."
Lord Snowdon (1930-2017)
Photographer Lord Snowdon, husband of Princess Margaret, pictured at work in Venice, Italy on Oct. 14, 1971.
Popperfoto—Getty Images
Lord Snowdon, born Antony Armstrong-Jones, died on Jan. 17, 2017, in London at the age of 86. His interest in photography began during his time as a student at Eton and, though he briefly studied architecture at Cambridge, it continued as he left school to set up a photo studio in London, where he became known for throwing wild parties and hosting a revolving door of celebrities.
In 1956, he became the court photographer for the British royal family — an assignment that did more than help his career, as he met his future wife, Princess Margaret, when he shot her official portrait in 1958. Their marriage in 1960, which made him Lord Snowdon, was the first time in four centuries that a British commoner married a King's daughter. Though LIFE magazine billed him as a "retired" photographer when the magazine featured a five-page portfolio of his work in the March 14, 1960, issue, the marriage was not the end of his career. In fact, after the couple divorced 18 years later, he continued to photograph the royal family.
Beyond his position in the royal family, he was an Emmy-winning director, advocate for the disabled and the co-designer of the Aviary at the London Zoo. His photography appeared in the pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Tatler, and he worked for the Sunday Times for nearly 30 years. In 2000, he received a major retrospective of his work at the National Portrait Gallery and over 200 of his images now live in the permanent collection. And yet, in 2010, when interviewed by The Telegraph on the eve of his 80th birthday, he described himself as "an ordinary, run-of-the-mill photographer doing reportage," and added: "I don't think I'll ever give up."
Boris Spremo (1935-2017)
World press photo winner in feature class at Hague; Holland 1966 1st prize; Gold Medal.
Boris Spremo—Toronto Star via Getty Images
Boris Spremo, the first Canadian photojournalist to win a World Press Award, died on Aug. 21 at the age of 81, after a battle with cancer. Born on Oct. 20, 1935, in the former Yugoslavia, Spremo's path to Canadian photo history was a winding one — he attended the Belgrade Cinematographic Institute and traveled to Paris before settling in Canada — but he had a long career at some of the nation's most prestigious publications, working as a staff photographer at the Globe and Mail for four years before beginning a 30-year run at the Toronto Star, from which he retired in 2000. As a staff photographer, he covered everything from war zones to royalty to Muhammad Ali. A member of the Canadian News Hall of Fame, he was known for always getting his shot no matter what the circumstances and for putting his subjects at ease.
It was at the Globe and Mail in 1965 that he achieved an impressive if somewhat odd distinction. Among the numerous awards he received for his work (close to 300) is that year's World Press Photo award, the first-place prize in the General News category, pictured here. But, according to World Press Photo, though the photo was commissioned by The Globe and Mail, it was never actually run by the paper. Because the editors worried that readers would be offended by the image of a dog urinating, it was never published in the paper — even when they reported on it winning a World Press award.
Virginia Thoren (1920-2017)
American in Paris, 1957. Image courtesy, June Bateman Fine Art and Virginia Thoren Collection, Pratt Institute Libraries.
Virginia Thoren Collection—Pratt Institute Libraries
Fashion photographer Virginia Thoren, born to Swedish immigrant parents in South Orange, N.J., died on Oct. 27. She was 97 years old. Although not formally trained, she would go on to shoot for magazines such as Vogue and Town and Country and photographed many famous faces of the day, including actor Vivien Leigh and model Suzy Parker.
Before her interest in photography blossomed, she studied advertising and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. She received her degree in 1942 and soon after joined the art department at Vogue, after turning down a position at the Museum of Modern Art. Although hired as an assistant in the art department there, she also became an assistant to Toni Frissell, the leading female fashion photographer of the time.
In 1944, Thoren began working for Albert Woodley and Company, an advertising agency, traveling to France frequently for her work. She bought her first Rolliflex in 1945 and photographed Yves Saint Laurent's first collection for Christian Dior in 1946. She was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1954.
Like her mentor, Frissell, she brought her models outside of the traditional studio and photographed them in natural light and real environments. Her early interest in watercolor is also evident in the soft atmospheric lighting and palette of her work. In 2007, her archives were donated to the Pratt Institute Libraries and her work is represented by June Bateman Fine Art.
In an email to TIME, June Batemen said of Thoren, "She was a unique person and photographer, and always modest about her trail blazing career in post WWII France, and in the competitive and mostly male world of commercial photography in the U.S. through the 1970s."
Pete Turner (1934-2017)
Giraffe, 1964.
Pete Turner
"I see in color, and it's as simple as that," Pete Turner once said.
Turner, one of the first masters of color photography, died on Sept. 18, 2017, at age 83. Known for his brilliant, saturated color images, his work blurred the line between art and commercial photography. His experiments with color began when he was a teenager in Rochester, N.Y. — home of Kodak — and continued as he studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with peers and future photography stars Bruce Davidson and Jerry Uelsmann.
Upon graduating from RIT, he was drafted into the Army and stationed in Astoria, N.Y., where he ran the color film lab and was able to continue his personal work. His first major assignment came in 1959 where he traveled to Africa for Airstream and National Geographic. In the mid-1960s he met music producer Creed Taylor, which led to a long partnership with Turner's images gracing the covers of countless classic jazz albums. (One hundred of these images can be seen in the book Color of Jazz.) Perhaps most famously, an image that Turner shot of giraffe in Amboseli National Park in Kenya while on assignment for the oil company Esso in 1964 became the cover art for Brazilian artist Antonio Carlos Jobims' 1967 album Wave. Turner's use of filters to manipulate the color in the photo was not done widely at the time, and Turner would later say that the photo was important in his career because it showed him the benefits of breaking the rules. "It said you don't need to be afraid to experiment," he said. "Playing things safe is often a mistake."
Turner was named one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time in 2000 by PDN and his archives reside at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.
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