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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, by Guy Ritchie, 2017.
▬ Selection ▬
The Witcher, TV series by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (2019-present).
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, movie by Guy Ritchie, 2017.
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), An Unexpected Journey (2012), movies by Peter Jackson.
Vikings, TV series by Michael Hirst, 2013-present.
Game of Thrones, TV series by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, 2011-2019.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), movies by Andrew Adamson.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Two Towers (2002), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), movies by Peter Jackson.
You are in charge of one item from the selection.
a. Go online to learn more about it. Be ready to present it.
b. Watch the trailer online. Write down the medieval elements you recognise.
a. What is the character's mission or goal?
b. What challenge(s) does he / she face?
Share your findings and learn about the other movies or TV series.
What are the common points and differences between these movies or series?
What kind of heroes are represented? Do they correspond to the archetypal "knight in shining armour"?
What movie or TV series would you feel like watching? Why?
Useful vocabulary: The films share some common elements, such as… The main difference between them seems to be… I'd choose to watch this one because… It sounds…
From French to English
La traduction de « seul »
➜ be alone : sans compagnie
➜ be lonely : isolé / solitaire
➜ on your own / by yourself : sans aide
➜ only / single / sole : unique
➜ only : seulement
► Exercices p. 132
Choose one movie or TV show from the selection above and describe it using only 3 words. The others have to guess which one you chose!
Ex: dragon - orcs - wizard → The Hobbit
Be a cinema expert!
For the introduction of a special film club night on the theme of medieval fantasy, you are part of the organising committee that has to decide which movie trailer should be broadcast and commented on. Discuss.

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Q: How to overlay lat/lon points on a Google layer in OpenLayers 2? I'm stuck adding a vector point in lat/lon on top of a Google layer in OpenLayers. The point is moving when I pan the map. This doesn't happen if I replace the Google layer with a layer in WGS84. How can I fix this?
map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher());

var gmap = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google(
            "Google Streets",
            {numZoomLevels: 20}
           );
var pointLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Point Layer");

map.addLayers([gmap,pointLayer]);
map.setCenter(new OpenLayers.LonLat(16.373056, 48.208333), 5);

var point = new OpenLayers.Geometry.Point(16.373056, 48.208333);
var pointFeature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(point,null,null);
pointLayer.addFeatures([pointFeature]);

I've tried to follow http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html but without success.

A: This is a projection problem, you have to transform the projection of the point into that of base layer(google map here). The following code should work
    map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
    map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher());

    var gmap = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google(
        "Google Streets",
        {numZoomLevels: 20}
    );
    var pointLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Point Layer");

    map.addLayers([gmap,pointLayer]);
    map.setCenter(new OpenLayers.LonLat(16.373056, 48.208333), 5);

    var point = new OpenLayers.Geometry.Point(16.373056, 48.208333);
    point.transform(new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"),new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"));
    var pointFeature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(point,null,null);
    pointLayer.addFeatures([pointFeature])

This is because the default projection of google map(spherical mercator) is 900913 and that of a simple point in lonlat in 4326.
Please make sure that the point is set as (longitude,latitude) and not as (latitude,longitude).

A: You need to add a few changes to get the required results:

*

*Add the sphericalMercator: true property to your Google layer so vector layers are shown correctly on top of your Google base layer (this is the reason for the shifting geometry).

*Add in the maxExtent property of your Google layer, otherwise the centre of the map will not be set correctly. The extent shown below is the extent of the world in Mercator coordinates.

*As user1795 stated your point geometry has to be reprojected from 4326 to Web Mercator to appear correctly on the map.

*This also applies to the setCenter LonLat so you need to transform this too.

Working code below:
            map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
            map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher());

            var proj = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326");

            var gmap = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google("Google Streets", {
                sphericalMercator: true,
                'maxExtent': new OpenLayers.Bounds(-20037508.34, -20037508.34, 20037508.34, 20037508.34)
            });
            var pointLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Point Layer");

            map.addLayers([gmap, pointLayer]);
            var lonlat = new OpenLayers.LonLat(16.373056, 48.208333);
            lonlat.transform(proj, map.getProjectionObject());
            map.setCenter(lonlat, 5);

            var point = new OpenLayers.Geometry.Point(16.373056, 48.208333);
            point = point.transform(proj, map.getProjectionObject());
            //console.log(point);
            var pointFeature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(point, null, null);
            pointLayer.addFeatures([pointFeature]);

A: When you are working with Google Maps JS API, you should be careful on version. There is default to go with development version Google JS Maps API. Check the page: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html#Versioning
And Google Maps JS team fixing bugs too. Check http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Changelog
In future, mention the Google Maps API version in the question. v3.3 didn't have any issues with Openlayers as mostly used by developers.

A: I think it is a projection issue.
Have you tried reporting the centroid of the point when the map pans?  You might be able to see if someting is changing.
But from what i cna see of yuor code, you'd adding WGS84 point to a different corordsys

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Braided hairstyle can make you charming. You can try various kinds of easy braided styles to enhance your look. You can choose to create a single braided and allow some locks at the side. You can also try out the two braided and get it into a bun. Besides, the French braided hairstyles and side French braided hairstyles are also cool and simple to create. Such French braided are also quite fabulous and trendy. Classic thick French braid can make you fabulous and modern. To get such a style, collect your hair to the right at the nape and fix it to a low pony tail. Next separate the ponytail into 3 equal parts and begin braiding it. When you get to the hair end, tie it with a hair band. Choose a fine-toothed comb to get rid off some tendrils of hair from the French braid to create a bit messy look. Messy side French braided also looks quite cool. To get the style, shampoo your hair first. When your hair becomes dry, apply a small mount of mousse to the crown. Style a side parting which is not too severe and comb your hair to get rid off any knots. If you bear bangs, you can blow them to the side. Collect your hair to the right side and create a fishtail braid or herringbone one. Tie the braid with a hair band. Then, curl the rest hair at the sides to make some loose curls.


KolaDaisi University Post UTME and Direct entry now on. The management of the KolaDaisi University (KDU), Ibadan, is now selling admission forms into its various undergraduate programmes for the 2018/2019 academic session. The undergraduate admission form is = N5,000 (five thousand Naira). See more details below.
KolaDaisi University Post UTME and Direct entry form now on sale.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the KolaDaisi University (KDU), Ibadan, Oyo State, various undergraduate programmes for the 2018/2019 academic session.
Note: All applicants would be required to appear for the KolaDaisi University, Ibadan, Screening Exercise, at KolaDaisi University, Ibadan KM 18, Ibadan-Oyo Expressway, Ibadan.
KolaDaisi University Admission Requirements for UTME Candidates.
Candidates applying for the 100-Level Undergraduate Programme at KolaDaisi University, Ibadan must possess a minimum of five (5) 'O' Level Credit passes at not more than two (2) sittings in SSCE, GCE, NECO, NABTEB or equivalent. Candidates awaiting results may apply.
All applicants are required to have sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and meet the required National Cut-Off score.
Participate in the KolaDaisi University, Ibadan, Screening Exercise.
KolaDaisi University Undergraduate Admission Requirements for Direct Entry Candidates.
Candidates must have at least two A' Level passes in the relevant subjects in the Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB), Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) or Cambridge moderated School of Basic Studies.
In NCE or ND passes at the acceptable grades, Candidates are also required to satisfy the Ordinary Level Certificate requirements for the intended programme as in (i).
How to Apply for KolaDaisi University Post UTME / Direct Entry.
5. Successful Candidates MUST bring along the downloaded application form and original copies of their O' Level results for clearance at time of registration.
is it a state university?


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The Worst Geek TV Hookups – Videos
by Great White Snark | updated on December 28, 2007
Now that I've gotten most of the mushy goodness out of my system with the post about the best geek tv hookups, let's get back to the serious business of taking sarcastic verbal potshots at fictional TV characters who can't defend themselves.
Sometimes, when there's an awful accident or a set of tragic circumstances–like a trainwreck… or Britney Spears flashing her panty-less crotch–you can't help but want to seek out more information: How did this happen? Who was affected? What -the-flying-fig-tree is wrong with Britney Spears? Oh, the humanity!
Ever experience that sensation when you witness the truly-miscalculated romantic coupling of particular characters on your favorite TV show? I do. It's sad, really. TV is supposed to be escapist fare. If I wanted to be disgusted by the coupling of two annoying human beings, I'd imagine David Beckham holding back Posh's hair during the "purge" phase of her "binge and purge" cycle, as he reassures her in his laughably pipsqueakish voice.
Buffy and Spike – Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Thanks to this relationship spanning several seasons of Buffy (the later, lamer seasons, I should mention), I have but one indelible image of this couple seared into my brain:
As they're standing on a balcony Spike takes Buffy from behind (sorry for the cheap euphemism, but the scene really doesn't deserve better than that…) in what will go on the record as one of the lamest, most-fake-looking sex scenes on TV. I was embarrassed for the actors, and even wondered for a brief moment if either of them had ever actually had sex in real life. It was that bad.
During the "act," they're both standing perfectly erect (possible, but not probable), and, oh–by the by–neither of them ever moves an article of clothing out of the way. And that's not the last time that they simulate sex while fully clothed.
Maybe their sex life was actually based around a lot of dry humping? Check out the Boils and Blinding Torment site for more entertaining analysis of Buffy and Spike's physics-defying sexcapades.
Meanwhile, enjoy your crappy music video tribute, Spuffy. (The dry-humpalicious moment in question is at 2:00.)
Lex and Lana – Smallville
The problem isn't just that Lana and Lex started lying to and manipulating each other before they even got married. It's not even that Lana's heart so obviously belongs to Clark Kent.
The problem is that Lex's heart so obviously belongs to Clark Kent. (Enjoy one of almost 200 videos on YouTube about Clex.)
Logan and Parker – Veronica Mars
Sorry, wait a tic, Parker. Are you, by any chance, a charming, petite, and witty teenage detective… last name of Mars?
I didn't think so! Get yer dirty mitts off of him, you hussy! That's Veronica Mars' man! So say the Geek TV Gods!
You can't just put a secondary, under-developed, flakey-ish character introduced in the third season with the fella who could easily make it onto my Top Five Man-Crushes list and expect that relationship to stick.
No vid for you, Parker! To spite you, I present this picture of Veronica Mars, looking adorable.
Jake and Heather – Jericho
Silly, silly girl. You presumed for even a second to tie down the mighty Jake? When he's not delivering babies, saving lives, stopping the Plague, turning coal into diamonds, and defending the city of Jericho, he'll be bedding the hottest blond in town, thankyouverymuch.
Go find yourself a supporting character, missy.
Here's to Jake and the hot blond, ol' what's-her-face.
nickolai October 1, 2007, 10:46 am
Never really got into Buffy, but I prefer to think they were simply dry-humping rather than doing the dirty. Buffy stabs woody stakes into hapless vampires every episode — isn't there enough overt sexual material on the show already?
Cynthia October 2, 2007, 1:04 pm
Regarding Buffy and Spike (Spike?), haven't you ever heard of "the zipless f**k," a term coined by Erica Jong in her seminal sex novel, Fear of Flying?
Anyway, this is why I've never been into vampires. It seems like the whole vampire thing is one big metaphor for sex. And I'd rather have (and watch, and read about) the real thing.
Great White Snark October 2, 2007, 1:06 pm
Sorry, it's been a while… what's the real thing like, again?
Cindi October 2, 2007, 1:37 pm
I'm a working mom with a toddler. I don't remember the real thing, either. For me, sleep is the new sex.
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Q: How to change desired div's background color by entering hex color in input filed (with jQuery or without)? Want the background color of the 40x40px box automatically change by entering desired color in input field. I need both solutions, with jQuery and without (if it is possible).
I wrote some code, but got stuck when tried to bind entered value in input field with value of background color proprety in jQuery code...
HTML code

   Enter color (Hex Code):
      <input class="pickedColor" type="text"/>

jQuery code

$('.pickedColor').on('change', function() {
    $('.elementToChange').css('background-color' : 'some value');
})

A: This may help you :
 $('.pickedColor').on('change', function() {
        $('.elementToChange').css('background-color', $(this).val());
    })

A: With jQuery, this should work.
$('.pickedColor').on('change', function() {
    var value = $(this).val();
    $('.elementToChange').css('background-color' : value);
});

A: JQuery
you can use  keyup event:

 $('.pickedColor').keyup(function() {
        $('.elementToChange').css('background-color', $(this).val());
    })

   Enter color (Hex Code):
      <input class="pickedColor" type="text"/>

Javascript

   Enter color (Hex Code):
      <input class="pickedColor" type="text" onkeyup="changeColor(this.className)"/>

A: With Jquery

   Enter color (Hex Code):
      <input class="pickedColor" id ="pickedColor" type="text"/>
      <input id="pickedColorBtn" type="button"/>

its better if you let user to click and change button color
$("#pickedColorBtn").on("click",function(){
     $(".elementToChange").css('background-color', $("#pickedColor").val());
});

It is not possible without javascript or jquery as these language exists for user to interact with html

A: Here is a version without jQuery:
var j, lenJ, listenerTargets;

listenerTargets = document.getElementsByClassName('pickedColor');

function listener() {
    var targets = document.getElementsByClassName('elementToChange'),
        i, lenI;
    for (i = 0, lenI = targets.length; i < lenI; i++) {
        targets[i].style["background-color"] = this.value;
    }
}

for (j = 0, lenJ = listenerTargets.length; j < lenJ; j++) {
    listenerTargets[j].addEventListener('change', listener);
}

working Fiddle: [https://jsfiddle.net/oy7xwyxx/]

A:

$(document).ready(function(){
     $("#colorInput").focusout(function(){
 $('#divColor').css("background-color", $("#colorInput").val());
     });
});

    Enter color (Hex Code):
     <input type="text" id="colorInput"/>


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AASHTO Annual Meeting
Winners of 2021 America's Transportation Awards Named
editor@aashto.org October 29, 2021 0 COMMENTS
A community-inspired multimodal improvement project that vastly improved safety and travel options in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a critical traffic interchange redesign and replacement project in Kansas City, Kansas, were selected as the top prize winners in the 2021 America's Transportation Awards competition.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation's $101.6 million Reconstruction of Salem Parkway (U.S. 421/I-40 Business) project earned the Grand Prize. Meanwhile, online voting determined that the Kansas Department of Transportation's $30.3 million Turner Diagonal: Partnering for Growth project won the People's Choice Award.
Victoria Sheehan (at left), AASHTO's 2020-2021 president, with Jim Tymon at right.
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sponsor this annual contest.
"This competition recognizes the effort and dedication that goes into planning, building, operating, and maintaining America's vast multimodal surface transportation network," said Jim Tymon, AASHTO executive director, in a statement.
"This vital work didn't stop during the pandemic and it continues today because transportation is essential for our quality of live and economic vitality," he added. "In addition, these winning projects reflect a commitment on the part of state DOTs to work closely with their communities to ensure projects meet the needs of the people who use them."
NCDOT's Reconstruction of Salem Parkway project represented the first significant improvement to this historic roadway, which opened in 1958 as the first section of Interstate 40 in North Carolina. Decades later, NCDOT prioritized improvements along a 1.2-mile stretch of the route, redefining it as the gateway into downtown Winston-Salem.
The project features a series of safety upgrades and multimodal improvements, including a multi-use path, reduced interchanges, rehabilitated pavement, reconstructed shoulders and ramps, 10 bridge replacements, bike lanes, and two new signature pedestrian bridges.
Due to residential and commercial development and historical properties adjacent to the freeway, this project entailed a significant amount of agency coordination and collaboration and extensive public involvement and outreach. This broad public outreach campaign began in 2006 to ensure robust participation in the environmental process and continued throughout the project's planning, design, and construction phases.
The Kansas DOT's Turner Diagonal: Partnering for Growth project in Kansas City brought together public and private partners to re-imagine a decades-old interchange in order to improve safety, reduce congestion, promote development, and provide better access to public transit.
Built in the 1960s, the original design of the Turner Diagonal Interchange incorporated tollbooths. However, they were never installed – leaving behind miles of obsolete and hazardous ramps, cutting off land prime for development. This project re-designed the interchange and, in addition to making travelers safer offering greater transit access, provided immediate economic benefits and the creation of thousands of new jobs.
The 2021 competition included 80 project nominations from 35 state departments of transportation. The three highest-scoring projects from four regional competitions competed for the final two awards. An independent panel of industry judges selected the Grand Prize winner, while the project receiving the highest number of online votes from the public (weighted by state population) earned the People's Choice Award.
Presented at the AASHTO Annual Meeting in San Diego, the Grand Prize and People's Choice awards each came with $10,000 cash prizes to be used to support a charity or transportation-related scholarship program of the winning states' choosing.
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A Message From Iran
They're getting ready to have The Bomb.
Reuters reports:
Iran has withdrawn around $75 billion from Europe to prevent the assets from being blocked under threatened new sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambitions, an Iranian weekly said. "Part of Iran's assets in European banks have been converted to gold and shares and another part has been transferred to Asian banks," Mohsen Talaie, deputy foreign minister in charge of economic affairs, was quoted as saying.
Ever since the Islamic revolution under the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 and the ensuing American Embassy hostage crisis that helped sweep Ronald Reagan into office, Iran and the United States have been bitter enemies. Regular anti-American parades and holidays support thriving sales of American flags (for burning, natch) in the markets of Tehran; and for our part, our government freezes any assets in the U.S. which are found to be Iranian-owned.
Over the years, a key part of American strategy has been to isolate that country and its mullahcracy from the world financial and trade community. Thus, for instance, most aircraft flying in Iran are meticulously-maintained antiques dating from the 1970s, since they aren't allowed to buy new ones from Boeing (being American) or Airbus (containing American parts.)
For all this time, Europe has gleefully done the business with Iran that American companies are forbidden to do. This has occasionally been a bone of contention between the U.S. government and our nominal allies across the pond; large parts of Iran's nuclear program, a major foreign-policy concern worldwide, came about because European companies were willing to illegally sell the advanced equipment required.
Iran calls the U.S. the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan", but generally is much more polite to continental Europe. Although traditionally crude oil has been valued in dollars, Iran pressures its customers to pay in anything but, and has made attempts to help make the euro a world reserve currency in replacement. Compared to the volume of world trade, Iran's efforts are a drop in the bucket, but the recent collapse of dollar values has certainly made Iran look prescient.
Why, then, is Iran suddenly moving away from the European banking system? Something must have changed. America has tried to convince the Europeans to freeze Iranian assets and cut off trade for forty years; and for forty years, they haven't. Does Iran believe that Europe is finally taking seriously Ahmadinejad's threats to destroy Israel, and his clear progress toward making a working nuclear bomb available to the world's foremost state supporter of terrorism?
Possibly. But it's more likely that Iran knows that a showdown with America is fast approaching.
Since the Iraq invasion, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has done all within its power to keep the pressure cooker boiling, providing sophisticated IEDs, conventional weapons, even training to anyone willing to fight the Great Satan. What's more, Shiite-Islamic Iran has tried to start a civil war between Iraq's Shiites and the Sunnis who up until recently lorded it over them.
For years, it looked like they'd prevail and that America would be stuck in yet another quagmire that could only end in humiliation and failure. But despite the best efforts of the liberal media, President Bush and General Petraeus have managed to get the situation to the point where, as the Economist said this week, "many things in Iraq have at long last started to go right."
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on both the Bush Administration and Iran's nuke. Will Iran get the Bomb while Bush is still in office? He's given every reason to indicate that, no matter what, he won't let that happen.
This month's large, ostentatious diplomatic carrot - Western assistance in building a civilian nuclear plant, in exchange for total transparency and inspections - was flatly rejected. There really isn't much left to talk about: the Western offer is as generous as it's possible to imagine, and Iran didn't even feel it was worthy of discussion and negotiation. Clearly, no meeting of the minds is pending.
That leaves... what? Israel is already planning a military strike to take out Iran's nuclear capability on their own. It's being reported that advisers of both Obama and McCain recognize the need for the U.S. to talk with Israel about this - and if Iran does actually pull a mushroom cloud out of the hat, it's very difficult to imagine America standing idly by while Israel fights for its life.
By pulling its funds from Europe, Iran is sending a message to the world: Nyah, nyah! You can't catch me!
The only reason Europe would even consider giving up its Iranian trade is if they seriously expect Iran to make and use a nuclear weapon. Iran knows this. It's played Europe and the United States against each other, with tremendous success, for many years. There's only one thing that could cause that streak to end; Iran is clearly planning for that one thing.
Our upcoming presidential election may be about to become even more momentous than it already was.
Petrarch is a contributing editor for Scragged. Read other Scragged.com articles by Petrarch or other articles on Foreign Affairs.
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Iran Holds 'Biggest' Air Defense Drill Yet Over Nuke Sites
Adam Rawnsley
All this week, Iran's military will be strutting, flexing its muscles and showing its tail-feathers around its nuclear sites. Begun, this "Guardians of the Islamic Skies" air defense drill has. Today, Iran kicked off one of its periodic air defense exercise, dubbed "the biggest" yet by Tehran's state-run media. The drills, packaged with bravado about Iran's […]
All this week, Iran's military will be strutting, flexing its muscles and showing its tail-feathers around its nuclear sites. Begun, this "Guardians of the Islamic Skies" air defense drill has.
Today, Iran kicked off one of its periodic air defense exercise, dubbed "the biggest" yet by Tehran's state-run media. The drills, packaged with bravado about Iran's air defense capabilities and focused on the protection of its nuclear infrastructure, are part of the Mullahs' periodic saber-rattling against rumors of attacks by the United States and Israel.
This exercise will last five days and feature Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its paramilitary Basij forces joining in. Already this week, Iran has tested its radar and air defense missile systems against Iranian planes playing enemy forces, according to the wargames spokesman Brigadier General Hamid Arjangi. Its radar systems, Arjangi says, have already identified 194 previously unknown flying routes outside the country's airspace and four within it.
Iran has a history of dubious weapons claims. So take with about a ton of salt any bragging from the Islamic Republic about its cool new military toys. In the past, Iran has tried to spin a SCUD as a "space missile," oversold the capabilities of its homebrew drone, announced a "new" anti-aircraft artillery that wasn't quite so new and photoshopped a purported Shahab-3 missile launch to make it look more fearsome.
With that in mind, keep your eyes out for any hint of a substitute for the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles it thought Russia was going to deliver. The S-300 missiles would have upgraded the range of Iran's air defense systems to 200km – a boost from the 10km range provided by the TOR M-1 air defense missiles – and put a severe crimp in any U.S. or Israeli plans to bomb the country's nuclear facilities. But the Russians recently nixed the long-promised system as a result of pressure from and improved ties with the United States. Iran may try to pretend that it's already get a better missile system in its back pocket.
With some smack-talking and legal threats against Russia thrown in for good measure, Iran has made contradictory claims about its plans for an S-300 substitute. In August when the missiles' sale was looking particularly imperiled, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency floated a story, disputed by western intelligence services, that the country had received four S-300 systems from Belarus. That same month, Iran's defense minister announced the country would build its own damn S-300. And wouldn't you know it, last week Iran said the homemade S-300 it had waited years for the Russians to deliver was already undergoing field modification and ready for testing just three months later.
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...After various false starts and twelve-hour talkathons, by early May 1964 Stanley agreed that "The Sentinel" would provide good story material. But our first concept, and it is hard now for me to focus on such an idea, though it would have been perfectly viable -- involved working up to the discovery of an extraterrestrial artifact as the climax, not the beginning, of the story. Before that, we would have a series of incidents or adventures devoted to the exploration of the Moon and Planets. For this Mark I version, our private title (never of course intended for public use) was "How the Solar System Was Won."
So once more I went back to my stockpile of short stories, to find material which would fit into this pattern. I returned with five: "Breaking Strain" (from Expedition to Earth), "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...", "Who's There?~', "Into the Comet", and "Before Eden" (all from Tales of Ten Worlds). On May 28, 1964, I sold the lot to Stanley and signed an agreement to work on the projected movie.
The announced title of the project, when Stanley gave his intentions to the press, was Journey Beyond the Stars. I never liked this, because there had been far too many science-fictional journeys and voyages. (Indeed, the innerspace epic Fantastic Voyage, featuring Raquel Welch and a supporting cast of ten thousand blood corpuscles, was also going into production about this time). Other titles which we ran up and failed to salute were Universe, Tunnel to the Stars, and Planetfall. It was not until eleven months after we started -- April 1965 -- that Stanley selected 2001: A Space Odyssey. As far as I can recall, it was entirely his idea.
May 28, 1964. Suggested to Stanley that "they" might be machines who regard organic life as a hideous disease. Stanley thinks this is cute and feels we've got something.
May 31. One hilarious idea we won't use. Seventeen alien, featureless black pyramids riding in open cars down Fifth Avenue, surrounded by Irish cops.
June 20. Finished the opening chapter, "View from the Year 2000," and started on the robot sequence.
July 1. Last day working at Time/Life completing Man and Space. Checked into new suite, 1008, at the Hotel Chelsea.
July 2-8. Averaging one or two thousand words a day. Stanley reads first five chapters and says "We've got a best-seller here".
July 9. Spent much of afternoon teaching Stanley how to use the slide rule -- he's fascinated.
July 11. Joined Stanley to discuss plot development, but spent almost all the time arguing about Cantor's Theory of Transfinite Groups. Stanley tries to refute the "part equals the whole" paradox by arguing that a perfect square is not necessarily identical with the integer of the same value. I decide that he is a latent mathematical genius.
July 12. Now have everything -- except the plot.
July 13. Got to work again on the novel and made good progress despite the distraction of the Republican Convention.
July 26. Stanley's birthday. Went to the Village and found a card showing the Earth coming apart at the seams and bearing the inscription: "How can you have a Happy Birthday when the whole world may blow up any minute?"
August 1. Ranger VII impacts on moon. Stay up late to watch the first TV close-ups. Stanley starts to worry about the forthcoming Mars probes. Suppose they show something that shoots down our story line? [Later he approached Lloyd's of London to see if hc could insure himself against this eventuality].
August 6. Stanley suggests that we make the computer female and call her Athena.
August 17. We've also got the name of our hero at last -- Alex Bowman. Hurrah!
August 19. Writing all day. Two thousand words exploring Jupiter's satellites. Dull work.
September 7. Stanley quite happy: "We're in fantastic shape." He has made up a 100 item questionnaire about our astronauts, e.g. do they sleep in their pajamas, what do they eat for breakfast, etc.
September 8. Upset stomach last night. Dreamed I was a robot, being rebuilt. In a great burst of enorgy managed to redo two chapters. Took them to Stanley, who was very pleased and cooked me a fine steak, remarking: "Joe Levine doesn't do this for his writers."
September 26. Stanley gave me Joseph Campbell's analysis of myth The Hero with a Thousand Faces to study. Very stimulating.
September 29. Dreamed that shooting had started. Lots of actors standing around, but I still didn't know the story line.
October 2. Finished reading Robert Ardrey's African Genesis. Came across a striking paragraph which might even provide a title for the movie: "Why did not the human line become extinct in the depths of the Pliocene?...we know that but for a gift from the stars, but for the accidental collision of ray and gene, intelligence would have perished on some forgotten African field." True, Ardrey is talking about cosmic-ray mutations, but the phrase "A gift from the stars" is strikingly applicable to our present plot line.
October 6. Have got an idea which I think is crucial. The people we meet on the other star system are humans who were collected from Earth a hundred thousand years ago, and hence are virtually identical with us.
October 8. Thinking of plot all morning, but after a long walk in the sun we ended up on the East River watching the boats. We dumped all our far-fetched ideas now we're settling for a Galactic Peace Corps and no blood and thunder.
October 17. Stanley has invented the wild idea of slightly fag robots who create a Victonan environment to put our heroes at their ease.
November 20. Went to Natural History Museum to see Dr. Harry Shapiro, head of Anthropology, who took a poor view of Ardrey. Then had a session with Stan, arguing about early man's vegetarian versus carnivorous tendencies. Stan wants our visitors to turn Man into a carnivore; I argued that he always was. Back at the Chelsea, phoned Ike Asimov to discuss the biochemistry of turning vegetarians into carnivores.
November 21. Read Leakey's Adam's Ancestors. Getting rather desperate now, but after six hours' discussion Stan had a rather amusing idea. Our E.T.'s arrive on Earth and teach commando tactics to our pacifistic ancestors so that they can survive and flourish. We had an entertaining time knocking this one around, but I don't think it's viable.
November 22. Called Stan and said I didn't think any of our flashback ideas were any good. He slowly talked me out of this mood, and I was feeling more cheerful when I suddenly said: "What if our E.T.'s are stranded on Earth and need the ape-men to help them?" This idea (probably not original, but what the hell) opened up whole new areas of plot which we are both explorng.
November 23. Stanley distracted by numerous consultations with his broker, and wants my advice on buying COMSAT.
December l0. Stanley calls after screening H. G. Wells' Things to Come, and says he'll never see another movie I recommend.
December 21. Much of afternoon spent by Stanley planning his Academy Award campaign for Dr. Strangelove. I get back to the Chelsea to find a note from Allen Ginsberg asking me to join him and William Burroughs at the bar downstairs. Do so thankfully in search of inspiration.
December 24. Slowly tinkered with the final pages, so I can have them as a Christmas present for Stanley.
December 25. Stanley delighted with the last chapters, and convinced that we've extended the range of science fiction. He's astonished and delighted because Bosley Crowther of the New York Times has placed Dr. S on the "Ten Best Films" list, after attacking it ferociously all year. I christen Bosley "The Critic Who Came In from the Cold."
From these notes, it would appear that by Christmas 1964, the novel was essentially complete, and that thereafter it would be a fairly straightforward matter to develop the screenplay. We were, indeed, under that delusion -- at least, I was. In reality, all that we had was merely a rough draft of the first two-thirds of the book, stopping at the most exciting point. We had managed to get Bowman into the Star Gate, but didn't know what would happen next, except in the most general way. Nevertheless, the existing manuscript, together with his own salesmanship, allowed Stanley to set up the deal with MGM and Cinerama, and Journey Beyond the Stars was announced with a flourish of trumpets.
February 9, 1965. Caught Dali on TV, painting in a Fifth Avenue store window to promote Fantastic Voyage. Reported this to Stanley, who replied: "Don't worry -- we've already reserved a window for you."
March 8. Fighting hard to stop Stan from bringing Dr. Poole back from the dead. I'm afraid his obsession with immortality has overcome his artistic instincts.
April 6. To COMSAT Headquarters, Washington, for launch of first commercial communications satellite, "Early Bird." Introduced to Vice-President Humphrey, who is also Chairman of the Space Council, and told him we were spending ten million dollars to publicize space. Added that one character in the movie would be the Chairman of the Space Council . . . thirty years from now. "Oh," said H.H.H. at once, "I still intend to be chairman then."
April l2. Much excitement when Stanley phones to say that the Russians claim to have detected radio signals from space. Rang Walter Sullivan at the New York Times and got the real story -- merely fluctuations in Quasar CTA 102.
April 14. Reception at Harcourt, Brace and World. Those present included Bill Jovanovich (president), Jeremy Bernstein (New Yorker Magazine), Dennis Flanagan (Scientific American), Dr. Robert Jastrow (Goddard Space Center), Stanley and Christiane Kubrick, Al Rosenfeld (Science Editor, Life), Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, Scott Meredith, and many other friends. There was a general belief that the party was to celebrate Harcourt's publication of Journey Beyond the Stars, but I explained that this was not definite, and depended upon the size of the mortgage they could raise on the building.
April 19. Went up to the office with about three thousand words Stanley hasn't read. The place is really humming now -- about ten people working there, including two production staff from England. The walls are getting covered with impressive pictures and I already feel quite a minor cog in the works. Some psychotic who insists that Stanley must hire him has been sitting on a park bench outside the office for a couple of weeks, and occasionally comes to the building. In self-defense, Stan has secreted a large hunting knife in his briefcase.
May 2. Completed the "Universe" chapter -- will soon have all Part Three ready for typing, hurrah.... Stan phoned to say he liked the "Floating Island" sequence. Strange and encouraging how much of the material I thought I'd abandoned fits in perfectly after all.
May 3. Finished first draft of the runaway antenna soquence.
June 7. Bad book review in the Tribune says I should stick to science exposition and am an amateur at fiction.
Late June. Read Victor Lyndon's production notes, they left me completely overwhelmed. Glad that's not my job. One scene calls for four trained warthogs.
On that note, more or less, I returned to Ceylon after an absence of over a year, and subsequently rejoined Stanley at the MGM studios at Boreham Wood, fifteen miles north of London, in August. His empire had now expanded vastly, the art department was in full swing, and impressive sets were being constructed. My time was now equally divided between the apparently never-ending chore of developing ideas with Stanley, polishing the novel, and almost daily consultations at the studio.
August 25. Suddenly realized how the novel should end, with Bowman standing beside the alien ship.
September 25. Visitors from NASA -- Dr. George Mueller, Associate Administrator, and "Deke" Slayton (Director of Flight Crew Operations). Gave them the Grand Tour -- they were quite impressed. George made several useful suggestions and asked wistfully if he could have the model of the Discovery for his office when we'd finished with it. Deke was later reported to have said: "Stanley, I'm afraid you've been conned by a used capsule salesman." An improbabable story -- I suspect the fine Italian hand of Roger Caras, Stanley's vice-president in charge of promotion.
October 1. Stanley phoned with another ending. I find I left his treatment at his house last night -- unconscious rejection?
October 3. Stanley on phone, worried about ending...gave him my latest ideas, and one of them suddenly clicked -- Bowman will regress to infancy, and we'll see him at the end as a baby in orbit. Stanley called again later, still very enthusiastic. Hope this isn't a false optimism: I feel cautiously encouraged myself.
October 5. Back to brood over the novel. Suddenly (I think) found a logical reason why Bowman should appear at the end as a baby. It's his image of himself at this stage of his development. And perhaps the Cosmic Consciousness has a sense of humor. Phoned these ideas to Stan, who wasn't too impressed, but I'm happy now.
October 17. For the first time, saw Stan reduced to helpless hysterics as we developed comic ideas. There will be no one in the hibernacula: all the trainees chickened out, but the mission had to go ahead regardless.
October 19. Collected by studio car, and spent all day working (or trying to work) with Stan. Despite usual crowds of people getting at him, long phone calls to Hollywood, and a "work-to-rule" the unions called, got a lot done and solved (again!) our main plot problems.
October 26. Had a discussion with Stanley over his latest idea -- that Discovery should be nuclear-pulse driven. Read a resently declassified report on this and was quite impressed -- but the design staff rather upset.
November l0. Accompanied Stan and the design staff into the Earth-orbit ship and happened to remark that the cockpit looked like a Chinese restaurant. Stan said that killed it instantly for him and called for revisions. Must keep away from the Art Department for a few days.
November 16. Long session with Stanley discussing script. Several good ideas, but I rather wish we didn't have any more.
November 18. Peeling rather stale -- went into London and saw Carol Reed's film about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy. One line particularly struck me -- the use of the phrase "God made Man in His own image." This, after all, is the theme of our movie.
November 30. To the Oxford and Cambridge Club with Roger Caras and Pred Ordway (Technical Adviser) to meet Dr. Louis Leakey and his son Richard. Dr. Leakey is just as I imagined him -- full of enthusiasm and ideas. He thinks that Man now goes back at least four to five million years. He also confided to me that he'd written a play -- a fantasy about primitive man which he thought would make a fine movie. It's about a group of anthropologists who are sent back into the past by a witch doctor. I said (breaking all my rules) that I'd be glad to see the manuscript --which is true.
December 16. My 48th birthday -- and Somerset Maugham dies. Trying to make something of this (last of the competition?).
December 25. Christmas Day, ha-ha! Hacked my way to Jupiter -- slow but steady going.
December 26. Working all day. Stan phoned to thank me for the presents and sent a driver to collect what I'd written. He called later to say that he didn't think much of the dialogue. I agreed.


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Construction begins this month on new buildings for J.R. Tucker and Highland Springs high schools
by Tina Eshleman
A rendering shows conceptual plans for J.R. Tucker High School. (Image courtesy Henrico County Public Schools)
A rendering shows conceptual plans for Highland Springs High School. (Image courtesy Henrico County Public Schools)
Students attending J.R. Tucker and Highland Springs high schools this year will have a chance to watch new buildings take shape.
The Henrico County Board of Supervisors approved plans on June 25 for the two schools on opposite ends of the county, clearing the way for construction to start in September. Both of the schools will be constructed near the existing buildings, and both will be similar in appearance to Glen Allen High School, which opened in 2010. The cost for each of the 265,101-square-foot buildings is estimated at $95 million, with most of the funds coming from the 2016 bond referendum and Henrico's meals tax. Plans also include new field houses, concession stands and athletic fields with synthetic turf.
After the projected opening of the new schools in the fall of 2021, the 1962 Tucker building will be demolished, while the 1952 Highland Springs building, renovated in 2008, will be repurposed.
"We are very much in need of attention, and I think the decision to build a new school is a good one," Cari DuVal, president of the Tucker Parent Teacher Student Organization for the 2018-19 academic year, says via email, noting that parents were able to offer input on the plans.
"It is exciting times for J.R. Tucker High School."
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Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology
Online ISSN : 1882-868X
Print ISSN : 0368-9395
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Volume 74 (2008) Issue 3
Genetic and environmental influences on sleeptalking, half-sleeping, night terrors, and nocturnal enuresis in childhood
—A study of two Japanese twin samples—
Syuichi OOKI
Department of Health Science, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University
Keywords: twin children,	genetic and environmental influences,	sleeptalking,	half-sleeping,	night terrors,	nocturnal enuresis
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2008 Volume 74 Issue 3 Pages 130-145
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Published: May 31, 2008 received: November 16, 2007 Released: March 13, 2009 accepted: March 05, 2008 [Advance Publication] Released: - corrected: -
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The purpose of this study was to clarify genetic contributions to the childhood behavioral phenomena of sleeptalking, half-sleeping, night terrors, and nocturnal enuresis using the two largest databases of Japanese twins. The subjects were children of members of several maternal associations for multiples, including 765 pairs ranged in age from 3 to 15 years with a mean age of 7.0 years, as well as school applicants, including 1,140 twin pairs 11-12 years of age. All data were gathered by questionnaire. Structural equation modeling showed that the proportion of total phenotypic variance attributable to genetic influences was 88-96% regarding sleeptalking, 62-91% regarding half-sleeping, and 70-91% regarding night terrors, which were higher in the school applicants group than in the maternal associations group. Age and gender difference was suggested to impact nocturnal enuresis. Moreover, co-occurrence of sleeptalking, half-sleeping, and night terrors were attributed partly to common genetic or environmental factors for these three traits.
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