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Chishang Wuzhou Theater 池上五洲戲院
Places / July 16, 2018 / Updated: May 22, 2019 / V1.2
Wǔzhōu Theater 五洲戲院 is the last remnant of cinema in Chíshàng 池上, Taitung 台東, a picturesque town located in the fertile Huādōng Valley 花東縱谷 of Taiwan. Built in 1965 in the midst of the Taiwan Economic Miracle, it remained in business until 1982. After the final screening the theater was neglected for decades, falling into disrepair but remaining more or less intact until recently. More recently Chishang emerged as a tourist destination, spurning a local community development association to invest in revitalizing the theater in 2013.
Chishang's sole remaining movie theater at dusk.
A message beneath the ticket booth. Despite the vintage style this was recently installed.
The first thing you'll notice about this old theater are the murals painted by local artist Wèi Qīzhāng 魏期章 during the 2013 revitalization project. On the left you'll see a poster for Eight Hundred Heroes 八百壯士 (中文), a patriotic war epic released in 1977. On the right is The Story of a Small Town 小城故事 中文, which also featured theme songs by Teresa Teng 鄧麗君, one of the most famous Taiwanese vocalists of her time. Above the entrance is a fare table displaying insanely cheap ticket prices (including a discount for military veterans), obviously a replica of recent manufacture. Below the ticket booth you'll notice a phrase embedded in the ground: 幸福原來在這裡, something along the lines of "as it turns out, happiness is here". This is a play on words, for the theater is located within Fúyuán Village 福原村.
Fare collector's booth.
A replica fare table.
The exterior appears to be in decent shape but the inside is another story. News reports indicate the theater was still intact in 2013—but the rooftop completely collapsed sometime since then, fully exposing the interior to nature's wrath. Eastern Taiwan is regularly struck by typhoons—and Nepartak made landfall just south of Chishang in 2016—but I have no idea whether the theater collapsed in a dramatic storm or more mundane circumstances. Whatever the cause, decay has been swift since the theater broke open, and what remains of the interior is a total disaster zone. It is hard to imagine that this theater once accommodated 400 patrons—with standing room for 50 more.
Inside the remains of Wuzhou Theater. The far wall was once a movie screen.
A scene of abject desolation and decay.
The detached retina of the mind's eye.
A coil of film on the projection room floor.
Facing the projection room in the gathering gloom.
Small town theaters often provide insight into local population dynamics, economic development, and urban planning history. Wuzhou Theater was one of three cinemas in town1, and probably the last to be built. It flourished throughout Chishang's most prosperous years and went out of business not long after the town slipped into decline. The early 1960s were a time of explosive growth and great promise, with ample employment opportunities in agriculture, forestry, and an important veterans affairs facility. Chishang reached a peak population of approximately 15,000 sometime in the 1970s but has been emptying out ever since—most recently dropping below 9,0002. This exodus is partly due to nationwide trends of urbanization and rural flight but also attributable to the collapse of the sugar and lumber industries, both of which contracted in the 1980s and effectively ceased to exist in the new millennium3. Nowadays Chishang is mostly known for tourism, bento boxes4, and its agricultural output—especially rice, for which it is famous, as well as peanuts and corn.
The view from the projection room of Wuzhou Theater.
Projection room and main entrance, a tight squeeze.
Fresh air flowing through the old restrooms.
An open air theater in Chishang.
Several other details can be gleaned from this excellent interview with the owner from 2011. Taitung County was once home to 36 movie theaters5 but it was quite some time before newly released films arrived in this remote part of the island—years in some cases! After films were shown in Taipei they would be shipped down to Taitung by rail and shared between different theaters, sometimes with same-day showings. The owner mentions a close relationship with the long-vanished Dōngshān Theater 東山戲院 in neighbouring Guānshān 關山 and introduces the practice of pǎopiàn 跑片, just-in-time delivery of film canisters by bicycle or motorbike. Back in those days films were contained on multiple reels—and through a continuous relay system the same film could be shown on multiple screens simultaneously, albeit with staggered showtimes.
Ventilation along the side of Wuzhou Theater angled to ensure the silver screen is only visible to paying customers.
One last look at the ruins of Wuzhou Theater beneath dusky skies.
Wuzhou Theater occupies an open plot of land next to the railway line on the back side of the station. This somewhat obscure location—away from the main commercial thoroughfare—helps to explain why it remained derelict for so many years while other theaters in town were demolished. Now that Chishang is experiencing a second life as a popular tourist destination the theater has become an asset to the local community and finding it isn't difficult—just enter the Chinese name into Google Maps and it will appear. You're welcome to wander over and take a look but be mindful of what dangers await should you explore the interior.
Chishang was also home to two other theaters: Yùshān Theater 玉山戲院, built in 1958 near the front of the train station, and Guāngmíng Theater 光明戲院, about which little is known. Yushan Theater was allegedly destroyed in a fire and rebuilt on nearby Qìngfú Road 慶福路 before closing sometime in the 1980s. I found no physical evidence of either theater in my travels. ↩
According to Wikipedia, Chishang had a population of 14,109 in 1981 and 8,375 in 2016. I wasn't able to unearth population data from the 1970s so that 15,000 figure is mere guesswork. ↩
Chishang was home to an extensive sugarcane farm in Japanese times. After the KMT took control of Taiwan the sugar industry was nationalized—along with this farm, which continued to provide employment for local residents into the 1970s, when Taiwan Sugar Corporation reached its peak output of more than a million metric tons. After a collapse in global sugar prices at the dawn of the 1980s this farm was briefly the site of the Chishang Syrup Factory 池上糖漿工廠, which was only in operation from 1982 to 1986. Taiwan's lumber industry also peaked in the 1970s and declined in the 1980s, eventually ending with a nationwide ban on commercial logging of natural forests in 1991. ↩
Chishang is to bento boxes what Yonghe is to soy milk shops. Spend enough time in Taiwan and you'll run into a generic Chishang bento box (池上便當) shop; they're everywhere. ↩
Datong Theater was the last vintage standalone theater operating in Taitung. It was also the theater that really kickstarted my interest in researching Taiwanese movie theaters. ↩
Taiwan Urban Exploration 台灣城市探險, Taiwan Theater Project 台灣的老戲院
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Chishang 池上, Taitung 台東, Taiwan
Field notes and photos from a week of bicycle riding from Hualien City 花蓮市 to Taitung City 台東市 along the scenic Huādōng Valley 花東縱谷 in the spring of 2018.
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Christmas is such a special occasion, so you will want to look your best.
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Isolation and characterization of 17 microsatellite loci for the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
Kevin P. Oh, Alexander V. Badyaev
The house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) has emerged recently as a model species in studies of sexual selection, reproductive physiology, population genetics, and epizootic disease ecology. Here we describe 17 highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for this species. In a sample of 36 individuals, we observed an average of 16 alleles per locus and heterozygosity ranged from 0.61 to 0.97. One locus showed significant deviation from Hardy-Weinberg proportions, but no significant gametic disequilibrium was observed among any of the loci. Amplification by polymerase chain reaction was optimized under similar parameters across loci, thereby facilitating multiplexing and rapid multilocus genotyping.
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Oh, Kevin P. ; Badyaev, Alexander V. / Isolation and characterization of 17 microsatellite loci for the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 2009 ; Vol. 9, No. 3. pp. 1029-1031.
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Az Éjszakai üzenet Katona Klári 1986-ban megjelent nagylemeze, amelyet a Pepita adott ki. Katalógusszáma: SLPM 37051. A Titkaim után a második legnépszerűbb albuma, egyben az utolsó Presser Gábor új dalaiból készült album.

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Images have been released of Layton Williams and the new cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre in London.
The award-winning feel-good musical sensation stars Layton William ( RENT , Billy Elliot , Bad Education ) in the title role of Jamie, Shane Richie (EastEnders) as drag artist Hugo/Loco Channelle and Hayley Tamaddon (Emmerdale, Coronation Street) as Miss Hedge.
The main cast is completed by Sejal Keshwala as Ray, Sabrina Sandhu as Pritti Pasha and Rebecca McKinnis as Jamie's Mum, Margaret.
With catchy songs by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling , Dan Gillespie Sells, and book and lyrics by writer Tom MacRae, this funny, fabulous, feel-good, musical sensation has been wowing audiences and critics alike.
The Cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre. © Johan Persson.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie is booking until 28 September 2019 at the Apollo Theatre, London.


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Radio. We use it to hear our favorite bands. We tune in to see what new gossip is being told. We rely on it during times of disaster and during rush hour. It tells us whether or not we should wear a jacket or sunglasses. We trust it to tell us who won the World Series in explicit detail. Radio even sends us goodies if we can manage to dial in as caller number nine. It is in our cars, set up in the garage, on every alarm clock and heard in almost every store. Radio runs with us.
A videography professor of mine said that unless students had a solid appreciation of radio and sound they have no business touching a video camera. Television relies on the cooperation of pictures and sound, whereas radio can stand alone. It was the original outlet for broadcast reporters, and it must not be buried under the explosion of television reporting. There are broadcasting jobs available in both radio and television.
To gain a better understanding of careers available in radio and the type of people that work in radio, I spoke with three journalists. Each fell took a different path in order to get into radio. Two were from Phoenix's 91.5 FM KJZZ. KJZZ is a public radio station that operates out of Tempe, Ariz. NPR programming broadcasts throughout most of the week, and jazz and blues music plays when news updates are not being reported. The other, Miguel Otárola, is a college student.
Otárola, 19, is a freshman at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is studying journalism, and although he says he plans to embark on the print side of journalism he got involved in radio this year because it spiked his interest.
Otárola said his participation in the radio broadcast, "The Rundown" was his first radio experience.
"The thing I enjoy most about it is having a product at the end of every week," Otárola said.
He said it is easier for him to jump from print to radio because he already has a writing foundation. It is not something Otárola plans to make a career out of, but he said he enjoys learning and gaining the experience while he can.
Mark Brodie is KJZZ's government and politics reporter. He has been working at KJZZ for the past decade, but his previous home was Syracuse, N.Y. He attended Syracuse University and received degrees in both journalism and political science.
Brodie said that he had wanted to be a journalist since the early age of six. He said he watched the CBS evening news with his parents and could name all the correspondents by age five. He enjoyed learning about new things, and he enjoyed talking to people.
His career path was set from the start, but reporting in what format and on what topic was still unclear for Brodie by the time he reached Syracuse University. Brodie said he originally wanted to be a sports reporter, but then he realized everyone else wanted to do the same thing so he became hesitant.
It was an internship at Connecticut Public Radio that opened his eyes up to the rest of his life.
Throughout college Brodie was involved in radio, and he had a lot of support. Brodie said his mother used to tease him and say that she was probably the only mother of a 22-year-old who knew what her son was doing on a Friday night because she always listened to his broadcasts.
Brodie said he enjoys working with KJZZ because it presents something new each and every day. He compares it to New York as being more accessible. Brodie said in Arizona it is a lot easier to get in touch with sources.
He said he takes his work very seriously, and believes his co-workers do as well. Credibility is important to him and his station, and they work to supply the best information to their listeners.
"KJZZ is the place in this town that people can go to to really hear in depth stories about what is going on locally and in the world," Brodie said.
Unlike Brodie, who jumped into the radio world at an early age, his co-worker, Al Macias, took a different route.
Macias said he headed into his last semester not really that certain about where to head next. He considered going to Mexico to brush up on Spanish before he heard news that his friends boyfriend knew a guy at Channel 3 who had just quit.
Macias's professor at Arizona State University put a good word in for him at the station, and upon graduation Macias was hired.
He said that he, a Latino reporter, and a young African American man were both hired around the same time. Together, they had no experience on television.
Macias said everything he learned about television reporting was learned as he went. After about 6 years with Channel 3 he decided to make a career change.
He became the assignment manager at Channel 12 in 1981. There he spent the next 13 years of his life.
Once again, Macias decided to make a career move and transferred to Channel 15. He took a break from the broadcast industry in 2000.
In 2010, Macias was hired on with KJZZ. He was 58 years old. Macias realized his age was higher than other broadcasters, but he did not see it as a problem, especially in radio. He knew he had talent.
He compares his radio experience to the learning as you go process he encountered with television.
Macias says he prefers radio now because he can report on events that really impact people's lives. Macias said they do not cover every car accident in the valley, and that is why he likes radio. The content is much broader. He said it reaches out beyond the street corner and nabs at bigger issues.
For students or young journalists hoping to enter the broadcasting industry, Macias said radio and television are really one in the same.
"It doesn't matter if you can see your face or not. If you want a job in this industry you need to learn how to write. You won't get a job unless you can write. It is that simple," Macias said.
Three journalists in radio, all three at different stages in their life, agree on the fundamentals of radio. Learn to write. As long as you can write, people will always listen, and the radio will always be in business.
I'm a downtown Phoenix student who loves acting and performing. I want to end up on the big screen. Or the small screen. Or both. Yeah, let's go with both.


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Check out LEGO City Undercover's launch trailer ahead of its current-gen release this week - Use a Potion!
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group today announced the launch of LEGO City Undercover, an action-packed adventure where players must assume the identity of undercover police officer, Chase McCain, and track down the fiendish Rex Fury to finally put an end to his city-wide crime wave. Developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, LEGO City Undercover will be available in the UK on the 7th of April for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
LEGO City Undercover allows both long-time fans and newcomers alike to explore the sprawling, open-world metropolis that is LEGO City with more than 20 unique districts to investigate, filled with car thieves to bust, vehicles to navigate, mischievous aliens to capture, lost pigs to rescue and of course, hundreds of collectibles. For the first time, LEGO City Undercover will feature a two-player cooperative mode for gamers to track down criminals as a team.
"Between solving crimes in the hilarious original storyline and exploring the vast open-world city, LEGO City Undercover is the perfect game for friends and families to play together," said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games.
As a man of many talents, Chase McCain has eight disguises to choose from, each with unique skills and abilities to infiltrate every corner of the city and access places only he can. Chase is joined by officer Frank Honey, Chief of Police Dunby and paramedic Natalia Kowalski, who are just a few of the more than 300 unlockable and playable characters that gamers will meet throughout their adventure. With 15 special assignments to complete, the game brings together witty, original storytelling with signature LEGO humour to create a fun-filled experience for players of all ages.
LEGO City Undercover launches on the Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on April 7th 2017.


Home > News > PT64 HDLink card is now available.
PT64 HDLink card is now available.
It is finally time to celebrate... the Protools HD option card for Horus and Hapi is here!!!!!
What is this card all about then you ask?
The Pro Tools HDLink option card (IOM-H-PT64) is a way to connect 64 channels (at 44.1-48kHz) of Pro Tools HDX directly to Horus and Hapi. This is done by using 2x HDLink cables connected directly between the card and a HDX PCIe Card or HD Native interface. It will now allow you to sell our networked audio interfaces to Pro Tools HD users as they can now be a direct replacement for HD interfaces from AVID.
It fits into the option slots of the Horus or Hapi in the same manner as the Analog option cards do. Once there you are able to route to and from it just as you would with the MADI connection (in blocks of 8 for input and output).
Also, remember that we have done the work so that Mic-Pre's can already be controlled directly from within Pro Tools! For this you would also need to connect to the Ravenna port in order to remote them (no Ravenna Signal would be used directly into the Protools PC/MAC as that is what the HD connection is for!
Not to worry! Within the device, you can choose for it to emulate either the HD MADI, HD I/O or 192 I/O signal delay (you can even set it to no additional delay for the shortest round trip!). So when using the Pro Tools HD system, the software will be able to compensate for the signal through Horus & Hapi perfectly.
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Every Sunday we meet at 9:00AM and 10:45AM, and offer our live broadcast at 9:00AM. We look forward to worshipping with you whether its together in-person or online. Additional Notes About Our In-Person Services -Auditorium seating is at full capacity. -Children's Ministry is offering classes at both our 9:00AM and 10:45AM services. -YOCF meets during our 10:45AM service.
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The Washington Department of Ecology delivered a report on marine and rail oil transportation to state legislators on December 1. The report outlines several recommendations to better protect public health and safety, including funding for the state's Spill Prevention, Preparedness and Response Program and modifications to the railroad regulatory fee structure. The final report is expected to be delivered to the Legislature March 1, 2015.


How many hotel soaps do you have in your stash at home? What was your thought process in accumulating your beautiful fragranced pile of soaps; I will use this when I have guests staying over? How many guests have so far enjoyed the ladder of your un-relentless dedication to your soap collection? My collection was a humble 26 when I realised I had a problem, I had to confess I was a soapaholic!
Working in the hotel industry is part of the challenge but also part of the solution, how often can you say that you feel like you are part of something bigger than you? Remember as a kid when the teacher or parent said it's not what you do but to participate? It creates a sense of achievement even if you sole purpose in the soccer team was to keep the bench warm & the super talented player hydrated? When you scored and won the match, you won too, you felt it you were part of it too.
Spicers is dedicated to reduce their impact on the environment and create a sustainable future and has a relationship with SoapAid that is collecting our soaps for re-purposing the soaps to new bars that is then distributed in communities in Australia and overseas.
By the simple act of handwashing with a bar of soap we can potentially reduce the number of sanitation related deaths by over 40 percent.
Every day thousands of hotels around the world discard millions of soap bars that may be used only once or twice. Australia has a strong dependence on landfill as a form of waste management, and this, unfortunately, leads to waste soap ending up in already overflowing landfills, directly affecting our precious environment. In fact, Australians are the second highest producers of waste in the world behind the US with each disposing over 690kgs to landfill each year.
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In order to study the effect of solution treatment at different temperatures on Inconel 600 material, a piece of 16mm-thick plate of ASTM B168 UNS N06600 is selected as the specimen which is then cut into 6 pieces of 4mm-thick plates. The Inconel 600 plate was manufactured by the following processes in sequence: electric arc furnace(EAF) – argon oxygen decarburization(AOD) – eletroslag remelted – hot rolling – annealing – descaling.
*All values are measured by weight.
The 6 pieces of Inconel 600 specimens were heated to the temperature 950°C, 1000°C, 1050°C, 1100°C, 1150°C, and 1200°C, respectively, and holding for 5 minutes, respectively, before quenched in cold water.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 950°C.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 1000°C.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 1050°C.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 1100°C.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 1150°C.
Microstructure of Inconel 600 specimen after solution treated at 1200°C.
It is obvious that after being solution-treated at 1100°C, the Inconel 600 nickel alloy forms single phase austenite (with twins available) which also means carbides completely dissolve into the austenite matrix. It is also found that the grain size of austenite doesn't grow up apparently if the solution treatment is conducted at the temperature 950°~1050°C. However, when the solution treatment temperature is 1100°C, the growth of austenite grain is accelerated. When the solution treatment temperature is over 1150°C, the grain boundaries become straight and more twins are found. As the temperature is elevated, dislocation density is reduced which results in faster grain boundary migration and faster growth of grain size.


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Bear is Watching
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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dabbles in a few different ponds, first by playing a bit of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, then talks about his experience going through Subnautica: Below Zero, and testing his mettle with Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch. D. Bethel is very conflicted––but having a lot of fun––as he plays through Dragon's Crown Pro.
"Shortcast 44 – The Game of Life" (23 Feb. 2018): Where Andrew talks about Full Metal Furies, another side-scrolling beat-em-up with RPG elements.
"Shortcast 62 – Not the Episode Title" (06 July 2018): Where Andrew discusses his previous experience with gamified fitness playing Zombies, Run!
"It's Always a Game" (08 Feb. 2019): Where Andrew first discusses his experience playing the original Subnautica.
"We Still Don't Know $#!&" (31 May 2019): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the incorporation of "RPG elements" in non-RPG genres of games.
"Full Release" (29 Jan. 2021): Where Andrew discusses his first impressions of the early access version of Subnautica: Below Zero.
From Clerks: The Animated Series, the famous "Who is driving?" clip:
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WEEK IN GEEK: As a buffer between episodes about the The Karate Kid movies and talking about Cobra Kai, Andrew and D. Bethel talk about what other nerdy stuff has been occupying their attentions. Andrew talks about the early access release of the Subnautica sequel with Subnautica: Below Zero while D. Bethel is pretty sure he's playing Rebel Galaxy Outlaw incorrectly as he delivers goods across different solar systems.
Hernandez, Patricia. "The Fallout From GameStop's Wild Wednesday Has Been Ugly." Polygon. Vox Media, 28 January 2021.
A quick––but comprehensive––explanation of the Gamestop stock debacle:
If you're dumb like I am, here's a quick 5 minute explanation of what's happening with GameStop and Wall Street $GME. The Robinhood Reddit bros are making millions and essentially took out an entire hedge fund. David vs Goliath. POWER OF THE INTERNET pic.twitter.com/G2iJVeBRsl
— KFC (@KFCBarstool) January 26, 2021
D. Bethel's tweet of his drawing of "Frog" from Chrono Trigger:
Frog from the classic SNES JRPG, Chrono Trigger. pic.twitter.com/B2pV842esP
— D. Bethel (@DBethel) January 27, 2021
"It's Always a Game" (08 February 2019): Where Andrew first discusses his time playing the original Subnautica.
"Math That Works" (25 October 2019): Where Andrew dials in the gumption to finish Subnautica.
"Tile Pile" (22 November 2019): Where D. Bethel discusses his time playing Outer Wilds.
2019: No Time To Play
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This year we are hosting a variety of looks back at 2019 as hosts and friends-of-the-show offer up the things that defined the year for them. Today we have our other co-host, Andrew Asplund, looking at the 2019 that was (to him).
For all intents and purposes, 2019 was a big year for all things nerdy and geeky. There were big movies, big video games, big TV shows, and big just about everything. When I looked back on the year, something stood out to me and it is encapsulated pretty well by my experience at PAX West back in September: despite being at one of the biggest game conventions in the United States, my notable memory from that event was my experience at the nearby parallel event, the Seattle Indies Expo.
What I realized was that 2019 became the year in which I began actively seeking out small studio and independent video game titles in lieu of more standard, big studio content. This isn't mean to suggest that I never really played indie games before or that I entirely eschew big studio content. It's more that my overall preference (at least with respect to video games) has changed enough that I noticed.
The (AAA) World Is Not Enough
It is important to begin this retrospective on 2019 with where it started: in January 2019, I was still excited to see where Bethesda Game Studios intended to go with their … uhhh, masterpiece… Fallout 76. But, shortly thereafter, I fell into the sublime oceans of Unknown Worlds' Subnautica. Two months later, I discovered Hello Games' No Man's Sky. As the year went on, other small studio and indie titles made their way into my hands. It's not that I stopped playing other games: July saw me finally pick up Capcom's remake of Resident Evil 2 and in August, I spent a little bit of time with EA's The Sims 4. And, to be honest, I still managed to find time to play some of the Bethesada Game Studios "classics," which is to say Fallout 4 and Skyrim. But, by the time PAX West came to town, it felt like I couldn't even be bothered to look at the big studio content.
A picture of a friend and me, tired of overgrown, AAA studio content.
Now, don't get me wrong: I don't write this to dismiss or deny the value of a well done AAA publisher title. Just a month or so ago, I was talking about my experience playing Hideo Kojima's … masterpiece? … Death Stranding. I also spent time with FarCry Primal, a game I still consider one of the only pre-historic RPGs on the market.
Exceptions aside, it's hard not to see the AAA video game market as a testament to … playing it safe. It's a place where companies are willing to spend millions (or tens of millions) of dollars on a game title, which means their willingness to deviate from the standard of "what works" is minimal, to say the least.
From Indies With Love
In contrast, my interest in indie content, whether it be small studios of one or two developers or larger "triple-I" studios, has increased significantly. This year, I have dedicated seemingly countless hours to playing indie games. And, to an extent, I feel like that's what has come to define my memory of 2019, at least insomuch as it relates to nerdy and geeky content.
I'm not necessarily looking for games that are this indie. Image source: 3909 LLC.
It's not that I'm on some adventure to play especially bizarre video games. I'm far from somebody who is looking for video games that are #hashtag #edgy. As important and envelope-pushing as a game like Lucas Pope's Papers, Please is, it's not the kind of game I want to spend hundreds or even tens of hours playing. But, there's something about a lot of these indie titles that I engage with. So often, these are games that a small group of people put a lot of work and feeling into. Not to say that big budget AAA games don't have work and feeling. It just resonates with me that indie titles feel more less like a million dollar dog-pile and more like something that I could do with my friends.
It helps that 2019 was also the year that I completed a certificate in web development. What I originally started as something that might help me build a cool cooking website turned into something else entirely. An in-class assignment putting together a basic adventure game opened my eyes to the web as a tool for delivering game content; this eventually took me down a path of extremely amateurish game development. I started to really relate to the … allure of indie game development.
This is the kind of stuff big AAA studios just don't do much anymore. Image Source: Picklefeet Games
Perhaps, for all intents and purposes, that's why the Seattle Indies Expo became such a benchmark for my 2019 and a reflection of something that had been going on for me since the year began. Getting to actually meet the developers of games like Wildfire Swap, The Wind and Wilting Blossom, or Monster Jaunt really gave it all perspective. Maybe it's just a little dose of childhood fantasy given perspective. As a young person I always dreamt of making games "when I grow up." In a sense, 2019 was the year that I finally remembered that.
In the end, my look back on 2019 is a personal one. I have been playing a lot more indie games than I used to. I have started following more indie developers on Twitter and other social media. Honestly, I'm just trying to pay more attention to all of the creative people out there making their mark on gaming. And, as we move into 2020, I hope to start getting more involved in those communities as well.
Math That Works
WEEK IN GEEK: Taking a break from the news, Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the things that have been interesting to them over the last week or so. First, Andrew goes back to finish Unknown Worlds Entertainment's Subnautica. Then D. Bethel finds much to appreciate––and much to make him uncomfortable––in the recent film, Joker. Then, to round things out, Andrew also gets underwhelmed but intrigued by the possibility found in Lazy Bear Games' Graveyard Keeper.
Bethel, D. "The Week – 18 October 2019." Long John. Where D. Bethel wrote about his thoughts on Joker.
Shortcast 21 – Love the Stank (30 Dec 2016): Where Andrew harvests his experience playing Stardew Valley.
Episode 126 – Not Choosable Parts (10 March 2017): Where D. Bethel discusses another challenging comic book movie, Logan.
Shortcast 28 – Linguistic Bravado (11 Aug. 2017): Where Andrew and D. talk about Lazy Bear Games' previous game, Punch Club.
It's Always A Game (08 Feb. 2019): Where Andrew first talked about his time with Subnautica.
Tummy Drums (04 Oct. 2019): Where D. Bethel mentions "grotesque" art when discussing Warhammer 40,000 (the show notes also include a link to the Wikipedia explanation of "grotesque" in art and literature).


Growing in spiritual awareness and understanding, we open ourselves to new possibilities for sacred service.
Unity of Fairfax's outreach ministry, known as the Compassionate Community Service, provides opportunities for our congregation to contribute to the well-being of others locally and globally.
Mission: To inspire Unity of Fairfax to participate in activities promoting social justice, equality, and respect for all through education and action.
Vision: A committed community living our Unity Principles through engagement in social action.
A ministry that offers loving prayers and supportive cards and phone calls for members who are facing physical and emotional challenges as well as for joyful occasions.
Our prayers for others are affirmations acknowledging life's gifts and challenges as the Light of God surrounds us.
Reaches out to assist members in times of need—prepares and delivers meals, shopping and errands, medical transportation, odd chores, and friendly phone calls or visits.
Volunteers: We seek a volunteer coordinator to establish and oversee a new sacred service ministry tentatively called Unity Rides to set up a system, schedule, and announcements to match people who need rides to Unity of Fairfax with people willing to offer transportation.
The purpose of the Benevolence Fund is to meet people's basic needs on a short-term interim basis. Donations to the Benevolence Fund to help fellow congregants can be made by check (with Benevolence Fund in memo line), or go to the Benevolence Fund page and donate online.
Thank you for your willingness to help. To learn more about the fund click on Benevolence Fund Guidelines. Congregants who wish to apply for assistance: contact care@unityoffairfax.org or 703-281-1767.
All brochures, ads, signage, and mailings.
Volunteers: Calling all techies! Are you an IT professional, or just technically inclined?
We need more technical types to be on call to help the office staff with computer issues. Some projects we've completed: installed a cellular repeater on the roof, re-wired the network closet, upgraded WiFi access, and built a special purpose computer for the live streaming team.


We offer our clients advice on finding and identifying key talents for their organizations. We specialize in high level positions: Managers, Directors, VPs and Board Members, across various industries and functional areas.
Understanding the business and diagnosis.
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It is a customized service based on our client's needs. Includes analysis and presentation of organizational structures, job profiles, salary & benefits schemes and executives individual motivations.
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South Africa is the African dream; this commonly refers to South Africa as the role model of African countries. If there is an African dream, then an African nightmare exists and the later should learn from South Africa. The phrase refers to the good standards of living that exist in South Africa compared to other African States. The good living standards are direct products of democracy and equality in South Africa. What most people do not realize is that South Africa was once an African nightmare before it developed to its status. Peace and economic stability in South Africa today never existed when South Africa was the African nightmare. Thanks to Nelson Mandela, dedicated and courageous leadership, South Africa has achieved its status.
The struggle for freedom for all South African cannot be a complete subject without the role played by Nelson Mandela. Mandela was not only the most courageous leader that Africa has ever had but also sacrificed a lot for the freedom of the nation. The climax of this sacrifice is the choice he made to go and remain in prison until South Africa achieved total liberation. The people forgot Mandela following this imprisonment, but he never lost his dream of a free South Africa. A critical analysis on Mandela's imprisonment proves that South Africa the dream of Africa is a direct product of his imprisonment. This implies that without his imprisonment the 'African dream' could be no more and therefore South Africa moved from prison to the palace.
The Sharpeville massacre is not only an event that remains in the memory of many people across the world, but it also shaped the country's future. This event made the South African people to realize that they needed changes in their government. In addition to that, Mandela faced detention when he came under the spotlight as the main organizer of the demonstration. The event also led the government to declare ANC as an illegal movement and therefore Mandela got into trouble. Although the authority did not charge Mandela with any crime during the detention, his name entered the wrong list of the law. This however did not stop him from pushing for reforms and in 1961; he delivered a speech in Pan-Africans conference that got him into trouble.
Mandela led a normal life like any South African citizen before he got involved in the political activities of the ANC that was later an illegal movement. In 1961, there was declaration of ANC as an illegal movement by the government and Mandela went underground. However, his political ambitions and determinations did not end with ANC. He later founded the guerrilla movement Ukomoto we Sizwe which led to more troubles than he experienced before. Unlike the ANC that used political tactics to bring the government into negotiation, this new movement carried out sabotage actions against apartheid symbols in South Africa. In august 1962, the sabotage and demonstration organized by the newly founded movement reached their peak. The government branded these demonstrations illegal and arrested Mandela for his role in organizing an illegal movement and demonstrations. Following his arrest Mandela used the courtroom as an opportunity to challenge the apartheid government on the role it played in the suffering of the people, but he lost the case and served 5 years in prison. Due to the way he presented his defense in court, the government viewed him as a threat to the nation, in June 1964, he was charged with treason, and this led to his life imprisonment.
Before sending Mandela to prison, the South Africans did not realize that the government could do anything to suppress them. The act of sending him to prison made the people realize that they needed to have a total change in the whole government and the governing systems. This realization made them to know that they needed to earn their freedom and the freedom of the country through struggle. South Africa therefore became a confrontation zone between the police and black South African youths. From these demonstrations, it is evident that his imprisonment made the black South African majority realize that the country needed change and that the only way to achieve these changes was through struggle. According to Mandela going to prison was a choice; he actually made a choice between going to prison and collaborating with the government. However, he chose to go to prison for the freedom of the nation and this made the people to realize that in their struggle for freedom they had to make sacrifices. The number of youths who lost their lives during the confrontations is a clear indicator of their sacrifices.
The Roben Island Prison had little effect on Mandela's ambitions and while there, he continued to sell political ideas to his fellow inmates. The prison authority however noticed this quickly and he spent most of his years in confinement. In 1984, the government tried to convince him to accept freedom on condition that he denounces his political ambition and move to Transkei but he turned down the offer. In 1985, the government offered him full freedom but he refused to accept it until the government gave the Black South Africans their political right. From these three events, the government realized that it could not succeed in suppressing South Africans dream of a free state. The government also realized that a change of regime was inevitable and that people could not settle for anything in exchange of their freedom. These events also made the government to realize the need for dialogue with the black South Africans to cut the racial divide (Joyce 168). Before these events, the South African government had never considered dialogue with the black South African. In addition to that, the government realized that people could not turn back in their pursuit for freedom. The conclusion is that the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela made the government to realize that people needed change and that was inevitable. The government also realized that using force on the people could not solve the countries problems and therefore dialogue was the best option (Joyce 215).
Political freedom in South Africa is unparalleled in Africa and throughout the developing countries (McGann and Johnson 207). Freedom in the formation of political parties defines a country's political stability, which characterizes the modern South Africa. Before Mandela's imprisonment, the South African government banned all political parties and movements including the most dominant party the ANC. Without these political parties, the government realized that it had taken away the people's political freedom and was not ready to give them back. However, with Mandela imprisonment, the government realized that people could not accept freedom without their political freedom. In 1989, De Klerk legalized ANC together with other sixty political parties and movements that had been banned. Legalization of political parties and movement took place even though apartheid rule still existed (McGann and Johnson 209). The main reason why the government legalized political movement followed the need for negotiations with the people, which resulted from Mandela's imprisonment. In conclusion, Mandela's imprisonment made South Africa realize its status of political stability.
Finally, South Africa is the African dream following the unity and cohesiveness that exist among South Africans. With Mandela's imprisonment, the South African realized that it was only through unity that they could defeat apartheid and initiate reconciliation in the country. Mandela's release from prison in 1990 clearly demonstrated the unity created in South Africans following his imprisonment. In his book Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela (7) states that, people from our country were happy following my release from prison after 27 years." Mandela (9) goes on to add that he did not expect this from the people to imply that, they had indeed changed and valued unity.
Mandela played a great role in influencing South Africa to achieve its status and shape its history. Although South Africa has experienced rapid changes, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela is a major cause of all these changes. Before Mandela went to prison, the South African people expected the government to give them their freedom. However, his imprisonment made them to realize that freedom is earned and there was need to fight for it. In their fight for freedom, the government realized that there is need to negotiate with the people and therefore political parties were legalized. Mandela's imprisonment therefore contributed to the countries political independence. Finally, his imprisonment made the South Africans to unite and reconcile. Freedom, political stability and unity among people means prosperity and this is the "African dream", South Africa the country from prison.
Joyce, Peter. The Making of a Nation: South Africa's Road to Freedom. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2007. Print.
Mandela, Nelson. No Easy Walk to Freedom. Johannesburg: Heinemann, 1965. Print.
McGann, James and Johnson, Eric. Comparative Think, Politics and Public Policy. Massachusetts. Edward Elgar Publishing Inc, 2005. Print


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Guerlain Shalimar This is the signature vanilla perfume that was initially developed by Jacques Guerlain in 1925.
This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the fourteenth century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability.
Buy products such as Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy Eau De Parfum for Women 3.4 oz at Walmart and save.
S-Perfume is a small independent perfumery brand founded in New York City in November 2000 by artist Sacre Nobi (aka Mother S).
Burberry Classic (Burberry) With notes of green apple, jasmine, peach, currant, cedar, vanilla and sandalwood, this most popular perfume for women emits a fresh and clean scent that evokes feelings of calm.
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This is a bright, fresh and energetic fragrance, which matches a picture of a bold, but charming wom.
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A place to discuss all the smells! r/fragrance is a global, open community to connect, discuss, share knowledge, experience and love of perfumes and fragrance.
Of course you are free to purchase a lot of elegant and stylish outfits or accessories, but always a perfume will complete your image.
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Q: How to access directories with flask So I am making a website that has different accounts stored under the accounts folder path so for example I have a account folder for Bob and an account for John under each folder they both have a achivements.dat file how can I access that file from bobs account meanwhile John is trying to access his own achivements.dat file without getting crossed or changing the entire os's system path?
Thank you all for answering

A: For bob :
 with open('/path_to_files/bob/achivements.dat', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as inbob:
     ...do some awesomness for bob here...

For john :
 with open('/path_to_files/john/achivements.dat', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as injohn:
     ...do some awesomness for john here...

Of course this code can sit in 1 function and be called as needed with parameter for user specific path passed. For example :
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         ...do some awesomness for john here...

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Universal-ethics.org is a virtual forum and resource centre setting out the theory, practice and social and cultural interface with the universal ethics at the fount of the world religions. The Director of "Universal-ethics" is Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen, Director also of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization, Melbourne, Australia. Though individual participants may not wish to take responsibility for everything which appears on this site, the term "We" is used to designate all those participants who chose to take part in the forums documented on this site, persons of influence and leadership in contemporary society.


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Nato nella provincia di Esfahan in Persia (poi Iran), fu un esattore delle tasse e amministratore dell'India settentrionale, talvolta descritto come uno studioso persiano, rilevante per le sue memorie di viaggio in Gran Bretagna, Europa e Asia Minore, dal titolo Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji ("Viaggi di Talib nella terra dei Franchi"), scritte tra il 1799 e il 1805 circa.

Il libro, tradotto in inglese, è stato uno dei primi di un viaggiatore indiano riguardo all'Occidente ed è stato definito "forse il primo più significativo "diario di viaggio inverso" pubblicato in Europa durante l'epoca romantica".

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 Lubbu-s Siyar wa Jahánnumá, c.1793-4
 Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji, c.1805
 Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa and Europe, 1810, 1814

Tra queste, Elliot e Dowson asseriscono che egli fu autore di "numerosi altri trattati, una biografia dei poeti, antichi e moderni, e, citando il Zubdatu-l Gharaib of Muhammad Riza, "egli stesso indulgeva nel verseggiare, specialmente sul soggetto delle donne d'Inghilterra, che aspirano all'uguaglianza con gli Angeli del Paradiso, e si dilungava sempre sulle struggenti incursioni delle donne di quel Paese, che cantava nelle assemblee pubbliche".

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Hairspray (not the musical) may reveal interplanetary alien civilizations
By Graham Templeton on November 23, 2012 at 8:55 am
As has so often been the case, Douglas Adams predicted it first. When he wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Adams created a species called the Jatravartids, small blue aliens with more than fifty arms and the distinction of being the only race to invent aerosol deodorant before the wheel. Now a new study tells us how we might find the Jatravartids, or any similar societies, by looking for effects of CFCs in the atmospheres of alien planets.
Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are artificial compounds now outlawed for most industrial purposes, but which were previously used in virtually every household aerosol product and are still produced in huge quantities as a precursor in Teflon manufacturing. CFCs are famously destructive to ozone, breaking the radiation-absorbing O3 molecules in our upper atmosphere and thinning our planetary radiation shield. Research into this effect has been almost exclusively in reference to its impact on human beings; how much more radiation will be getting in to hit us? Far less attention has gone to the idea that a thinner atmosphere will also allow more radiation out — until now.
The Blue Marble Space Institute for Science is a new, crowd-funded research group made up of astrobiologists and spectroscopists with the aim of predicting and finding unambiguous spectral evidence for intelligent life. The word unambiguous is important: While many astrobiologists believe they can identify planets with vegetation simply by looking at the light they reflect and refract, many others are skeptical. Virtually everyone can agree, however, that a planet with CFCs in the atmosphere could not have gotten them naturally — someone had to have put them there. The group hopes to find intelligent life by finding planets with spectra showing CFC content, and possibly even atmospheric breakdown like that found on Earth.
The idea of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life via spectral assumptions is actually quite an old one. Perhaps most famously, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that any advancing civilization will require exponentially more power as it progresses, and will eventually construct a device to capture nearly 100% of the energy from their local star. He called this hypothetical device a Dyson sphere (pictured right) and proposed that we search for extraterrestrial life by finding stars visible only in the gamma radiation range. If all of the less powerful forms of radiation are somehow blocked from reaching us, we can infer something like a Dyson sphere around the star, and thus something like an intelligent civilization to have created it.
Whether you buy Dyson's hypothesis or not, there's no denying that the search for life is getting increasing attention of late, especially via analysis of light. Spectroscopy recently proved that the Solar System's most distant dwarf planet has no atmosphere to speak of, and it proved Mars was lifeless long before Curiosity was sent to ask whether it has always been. An increasingly large faction in physics is compiling a list of possible biosignifiers, telltale spikes in a light reading that imply the existence of life on the source.
Ultimately, all this talk of Dyson spheres and aerosol aliens may turn out to be utter bunk. The central conceit of the report is what really matters: that an increasingly powerful minority within astronomy is looking leverage our light-reading technology toward ending mankind's ultimate identity crisis. The researchers have several targets for their searching, not just CFCs but the radio signature of advanced technology and even warm spots on an otherwise cold planet. They present the thought experiment of the alien astronomer who turns its telescope on Earth, and in it observes all the transformations human beings have affected. How could the alien infer anything other than the presence of an intelligent society? Blue Marble hopes to peer through their own radio telescopes and have that moment for themselves.
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De Territoires et mouvement (Nederlands: Gebieden in Beweging, TeM) is een Franse centrum-rechtse politieke partij die op 5 september 2011 werd gevormd door Jean-Christophe Fromantin, burgemeester van Neuilly-sur-Seine en lid van de Nationale Vergadering (sinds 17 juni 2012).

TeM was een van de partijen die betrokken was bij de oprichting van de Union des démocrates et indépendants in 2012. In december 2015 trad de partij echter uit de UDI, maar niet uit de UDI-fractie.

Zie ook
Union des démocrates et indépendants

Franse politieke partij


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Story Plant, 9781611882254, 322pp.
Ethan Cross is the award-winning international bestselling author of The Shepherd (described by #1 bestselling author Andrew Gross as "A fast paced, all too real thriller with a villain right out of James Patterson and Criminal Minds."), The Prophet (described by bestselling author Jon Land as "The best book of its kind since Thomas Harris retired Hannibal Lecter"), The Cage, Callsign: Knight, and Father of Fear. His books have been bestsellers in the US, UK, and Italy, and his novel The Shepherd recently spent 19 weeks in the top five on the German Der Spiegel list. In addition to writing and working in the publishing industry, Ethan has also served as the Chief Technology Officer for a national franchise, recorded albums and opened for national recording artists as lead singer and guitar player in a musical group, and been an active and involved member of the International Thriller Writers organization and Novelists Inc. He lives and writes in Illinois with his wife, three kids, and two Shih Tzus.


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Le siège de Jhansi est livré entre le  et le  pendant la révolte des cipayes. Il oppose les forces britanniques de la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales aux forces coalisées de la principauté de Jhansi et de l'Empire marathe, et se solde par la victoire de la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales et la prise de la ville de Jhansi.

Causes de la guerre
À la mort du Raja , son épouse la reine Lakshmî Bâî assure la régence au nom de leur fils adoptif Damodar Rao, mais en suivant la doctrine de préemption.

Le gouverneur-général Lord Dalhousie décide alors que puisque Gangâdhar Râo n'a laissé aucun héritier, l' est annexé par la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales, rejetant les prétentions de Damodar Râo comme héritier de droit. La rânî envoie une pétition à Dalhousie, puis en appelle à Londres, mais sans succès.

Refusant de renoncer à son royaume, Lakshmî Bâî rassemble en pleine révolte des cipayes une armée de volontaires forte de  et fait améliorer les défenses de la ville qui est attaquée par les Britanniques le  sous le commandement de Sir . La bataille de Jhânsi est féroce, hommes et femmes participent à repousser les assiégeants et la rânî elle-même mène ses troupes pour la défense de la ville qui finit tout de même par tomber, après deux semaines de siège.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
  Donald Featherstone, Victorian colonial warfare, Blandford, 1993 .
  R. Ernest Dupuy et Trevor N. Dupuy, The Collins Encyclopedia of Military History, BCA, 1998.
  George Bruce, The Paladin Dictionary of Battles, Paladin books, 1986 .
  Brigadier Peter Young, A Dictionary of Battles (1816-1976), Mayflower books, 1977 ,

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package org.springframework.security.oauth.examples.tonr;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.OAuth2RestTemplate;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.resource.UserRedirectRequiredException;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.token.DefaultAccessTokenRequest;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.token.grant.code.AuthorizationCodeAccessTokenProvider;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.token.grant.code.AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.common.OAuth2AccessToken;
import org.springframework.util.LinkedMultiValueMap;
import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;

/**
 * @author Ryan Heaton
 * @author Dave Syer
 */
public class AuthorizationCodeGrantTests {

	@Rule
	public ServerRunning serverRunning = ServerRunning.isRunning();

	private AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails resource = new AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails();

	{
		resource.setAccessTokenUri(serverRunning
				.getUrl("/sparklr2/oauth/token"));
		resource.setClientId("my-client-with-registered-redirect");
		resource.setId("sparklr");
		resource.setScope(Arrays.asList("trust"));
		resource.setUserAuthorizationUri(serverRunning
				.getUrl("/sparklr2/oauth/authorize"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testCannotConnectWithoutToken() throws Exception {

		OAuth2RestTemplate template = new OAuth2RestTemplate(resource);
		resource.setPreEstablishedRedirectUri("https://anywhere.com");
		try {
			template.getForObject(serverRunning.getUrl("/tonr2/photos"),
					String.class);
			fail("Expected UserRedirectRequiredException");
		} catch (UserRedirectRequiredException e) {
			String message = e.getMessage();
			assertTrue(
					"Wrong message: " + message,
					message.contains("A redirect is required to get the users approval"));
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void testAttemptedTokenAcquisitionWithNoRedirect() throws Exception {
		AuthorizationCodeAccessTokenProvider provider = new AuthorizationCodeAccessTokenProvider();
		try {
			OAuth2AccessToken token = provider.obtainAccessToken(resource,
					new DefaultAccessTokenRequest());
			fail("Expected UserRedirectRequiredException");
			assertNotNull(token);
		} catch (UserRedirectRequiredException e) {
			String message = e.getMessage();
			assertTrue("Wrong message: " + message,
					message.contains("A redirect is required"));
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void testTokenAcquisitionWithCorrectContext() throws Exception {

		ResponseEntity<String> page = serverRunning.getForString("/tonr2/login.jsp");
		String cookie = page.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie");
		HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
		headers.set("Cookie", cookie);
		Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("(?s).*name=\"_csrf\".*?value=\"([^\"]+).*").matcher(page.getBody());

		MultiValueMap<String, String> form;
		form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();
		form.add("username", "marissa");
		form.add("password", "wombat");
		if (matcher.matches()) {
			form.add("_csrf", matcher.group(1));
		}
		ResponseEntity<Void> response = serverRunning.postForStatus("/tonr2/login", headers,
				form);
		cookie = response.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie");

		headers = new HttpHeaders();
		headers.set("Cookie", cookie);
		// headers.setAccept(Collections.singletonList(MediaType.ALL));
		headers.setAccept(MediaType
				.parseMediaTypes("image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5"));

		String location = serverRunning.getForRedirect(
				"/tonr2/sparklr/photos/1", headers);
		location = authenticateAndApprove(location);

		assertTrue("Redirect location should be to the original photo URL: "
				+ location, location.contains("photos/1"));
		HttpStatus status = serverRunning.getStatusCode(location, headers);
		assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, status);
	}

	@Test
	public void testTokenAcquisitionWithRegisteredRedirect() throws Exception {

		ResponseEntity<String> page = serverRunning.getForString("/tonr2/login.jsp");
		String cookie = page.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie");
		HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
		headers.set("Cookie", cookie);
		Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("(?s).*name=\"_csrf\".*?value=\"([^\"]+).*").matcher(page.getBody());

		MultiValueMap<String, String> form;
		form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();
		form.add("username", "marissa");
		form.add("password", "wombat");
		if (matcher.matches()) {
			form.add("_csrf", matcher.group(1));
		}
		ResponseEntity<Void> response = serverRunning.postForStatus("/tonr2/login", headers,
				form);
		cookie = response.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie");

		headers = new HttpHeaders();
		headers.set("Cookie", cookie);

		// The registered redirect is /redirect, but /trigger is used as a test
		// because it is different (i.e. not the current request URI).
		String location = serverRunning.getForRedirect(
				"/tonr2/sparklr/trigger", headers);
		location = authenticateAndApprove(location);

		assertTrue("Redirect location should be to the original photo URL: "
				+ location, location.contains("sparklr/redirect"));
		HttpStatus status = serverRunning.getStatusCode(location, headers);
		assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, status);
	}

	private String authenticateAndApprove(String location) {

		ResponseEntity<String> page = serverRunning.getForString("/sparklr2/login.jsp");
		String cookie = page.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie");
		Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("(?s).*name=\"_csrf\".*?value=\"([^\"]+).*").matcher(page.getBody());

		MultiValueMap<String, String> form;
		form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();
		form.add("username", "marissa");
		form.add("password", "koala");
		if (matcher.matches()) {
			form.add("_csrf", matcher.group(1));
		}

		HttpHeaders response = serverRunning.postForHeaders(
				"/sparklr2/login", form);

		cookie = response.getFirst("Set-Cookie");
		HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
		headers.set("Cookie", cookie);

		serverRunning.getForString(location, headers);
		// Should be on user approval page now
		form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();
		form.add("user_oauth_approval", "true");
		form.add("scope.read", "true");
		response = serverRunning.postForHeaders("/sparklr2/oauth/authorize",
				form, headers);

		return response.getLocation().toString();
	}

}


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Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
(The Pearl Harbor Committee)
Resolution passed: Sep 6, 1945 (Senate); Sep 11, 1945 (House)
Final report issued : Jun 20, 1946
Chairman: Senator Alben Barkley (D-KY)
Vice Chairman: Representative Jere Cooper (D-TN)
Senator Owen Brewster (R-ME)
Representative J. Bayard Clark (D-NC)
Senator Homer Ferguson (R-MI)
Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart (R-CA)
Senator Walter George (D-GA)
Representative Frank Keefe (R-WI)
Senator Scott Lucas (D-IL)
Representative John Murphy (D-PA)
Chapter 1: Origins
Chapter 2: Process
Chapter 3: Public Relations
Chapter 4: Investigation
Chapter 5: Outcome
The Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, took the lives of more than 2,400 Americans and sunk or damaged 21 ships in the U.S. Pacific fleet. As a stunned nation mourned its losses, many demanded to know why the U.S. was unprepared for the attack. Rumors even circulated that President Franklin Roosevelt, determined to draw the nation into war, baited Japan with an unguarded harbor. Numerous investigations, including one ordered by the president under the direction of Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, blamed military commanders at the naval base for being ill-prepared. On August 29, 1945, President Harry Truman released army and navy investigation reports which found commanders in Washington, especially former secretary of state Cordell Hull and army chief of staff General George Marshall, largely responsible for the lack of preparedness at Pearl Harbor. Congress postponed an investigation while the nation was at war. Germany's surrender on April 8, and the formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, created an opportunity for Congress to act. Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was the first to call for action, presenting a Senate resolution on September 6, 1945. He urged the creation of a joint investigatory committee to explore the "contradictions and inconsistencies" within the preceding reports.
The Senate unanimously approved Barkley's Concurrent Resolution 27 the same day and the House concurred on September 11, creating the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, commonly known as the Pearl Harbor Committee. The resolution authorized a 10-member committee, evenly divided between members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and chaired by Senator Barkley, to investigate "the facts relating to the events and circumstances leading up to or following the attack made by Japanese armed forces upon Pearl Harbor." The committee selected William Mitchell, former attorney general under Republican president Herbert Hoover, as its first counsel. (Seth Richardson served as counsel from January through June of 1946.) Originally authorized to issue a final report on January 3, 1946, Congress passed a series of resolutions extending the life of the committee to allow members more time to hear witnesses.
From November of 1945 through May of 1946, the committee heard testimony in the Senate Caucus Room from 44 people, including top level military commanders such as Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, and former ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew and former secretary of state Cordell Hull. The hearing transcripts filled more than 5,000 printed pages and included some 14,000 pages of printed exhibits.
The Pearl Harbor investigation never piqued the public interest like other notable Senate inquiries. After four long years of war, a weary nation longed for peace and reconciliation. News media accounts often characterized the committee as politically divided, featuring headlines such as: "Angry Senators Debate on 'Records' of Pearl Harbor," and "GOP Senators Say Democrats Block Pearl Harbor Probe."
On August 28, 1945, President Truman issued an executive order directing several government departments and the joint chiefs of staff "to take such steps as are necessary to prevent release to the public" information related to a U.S. cryptanalysis program to crack Japanese coded transmissions. When Congress formed the Pearl Harbor Committee a few weeks later, members objected to the withholding of information by the executive branch. The president revised the order, directing some individuals to "make available to the Joint Committee on the Investigation of Pearl Harbor Attack … any information in their possession material to the investigation."
Though numerous investigations of the attack preceded the congressional inquiry, some files related to the attack had never been located. Partly to facilitate the search for missing documents and partly because, in the words of one historian, Republicans "did not trust counsel to find and produce all relevant information," Senator Owen Brewster proposed a resolution to authorize individual committee members "in company with a member of the staff, to examine any records deemed to be relevant to the current investigation." The committee voted down Brewster's resolution on a straight party-line vote. Senators Homer Ferguson and Brewster, both members of the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman committee) were seasoned investigators. Frustrated by the committee's decision, they appealed to their colleagues from the Senate floor. Senator Brewster complained that committee members had not been "granted the same latitude in the examination of governmental records that was always accorded without question during the history of the Truman committee." The Pearl Harbor investigation, Brewster urged, should pursue new lines of inquiry, rather than "review what had already been put in the record." Senator Ferguson asked, "Are we confined in our investigation only to the matters appearing in the existing official reports?" In reality, the executive branch deluged the committee with documents and exhibits, prompting Senator Brewster to lodge his "regret and protest—at the first public committee hearing about the "premature beginning of this inquiry" noting, "it is just a physical impossibility to go over the [more than 1000 exhibits] prior to this hearing."
Disagreements over committee procedure led, at times, to acrimonious exchanges among senators on the Senate floor. James Tunnell of Delaware denounced Brewster and Ferguson's demands for greater access to material as a partisan plan to "dig up something" that could be used to "besmirch the reputation of the Nation's wartime Commander in Chief [Franklin Roosevelt]." Brewster dismissed Tunnell's "extreme attack" as an inaccurate characterization of his effort to simply "explore the files."
Debates over procedure were driven, at least in part, by Republican concerns that Barkley's long-standing allegiance to President Roosevelt made him incapable of objectively pursuing the Pearl Harbor inquiry. Barkley's close association with the president dated to 1937 when Roosevelt intervened on Barkley's behalf to ensure his election as majority leader and continued until Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945. As one historian observed, "Barkley accepted his role of presidential flag carrier, but it took him years to regain confidence or to command the loyalty" of members of his own party.
"The ultimate responsibility for the attack and its results rests upon Japan," the final report concluded, and "the diplomatic policies and actions of the United States provided no justifiable provocation whatever for the attack by Japan on this Nation." The eight members who signed the majority report found that "officers, both in Washington and Hawaii, were fully conscious of the danger from air attack." The Hawaiian commands and the Intelligence and War Plans Divisions of the War and Navy Departments made "errors of judgment and not derelictions of duty." Authors rejected the claim that President Roosevelt and top advisors "tricked, provoked, incited, cajoled, or coerced Japan" into attacking the United States in order to draw the nation into war.
Senators Brewster and Ferguson penned a minority report, dismissing the majority's conclusions as "illogical." "When all the testimony, papers, documents, exhibits, and other evidence duly laid before the Committee are reviewed," they wrote, "it becomes apparent that the record is far from complete."
In the end, the committee left many questions unanswered. "Why, with some of the finest intelligence available in our history," wondered the committee, "why was it possible for a Pearl Harbor to occur?" The final report noted "interdepartmental misunderstanding" which "prejudiced the effectiveness" of intelligence. Though its findings were not conclusive, the committee's recommendations had a lasting effect. The majority report recommended centralizing "operational and intelligence work" and drawing more "clear-cut" lines of responsibility among intelligence agencies. Some of these recommendations became law when Congress passed and the president signed the National Security Act of 1947. The law consolidated the military into a newly-formed Department of Defense directed by a secretary of defense. The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency to gather and evaluate intelligence related to national security.
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Friends Reminisce About Slain Neighbor
Joey Gallegos' Death Comes As Shock To Many
Updated: 12:54 AM MST Nov 17, 2009
The death of Joey Gallegos came as such a shock to people who live at an Albuquerque apartment complex.Gallegos' neighbor who lives at the complex near Comanche and Interstate 25 was one of the last people to see him alive.Mike Lesicka said he answered the knock at about 2 a.m. Saturday and found friend and neighbor Gallegos covered in blood."Apparently from what I could tell stab wounds," said Lesicka.He called 911 and waited with Gallegos, but the 20-year-old did not make it."It was shocking to find out it was him," said Geraldine Pearman.Pearman manages the apartment complex and has known Gallegos for more than three years."He was such a nice kid, how someone could hurt him like that," said Pearman. "I wish we could find out who did it."Neighbors struggling with that expressed their sorrow. Candles, kids' drawings, and notes tell passersby that a peaceful person lived at Gallegos' apartment.Why he was the target and who was behind it are questions police are working to answer.It's the kind of crime that can spark fear, but Pearman said that's not the case with neighbors at the complex."They are not scared. They are saddened," Pearman said. "They lost a good friend and a good neighbor."Gallegos last words to his neighbor he said were actually a request that he get his dog to make sure it would not run off, but he did not say anything about who attacked him or why.At last check, police said detectives did not have any suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call 242-COPS.
The death of Joey Gallegos came as such a shock to people who live at an Albuquerque apartment complex.
Gallegos' neighbor who lives at the complex near Comanche and Interstate 25 was one of the last people to see him alive.
Mike Lesicka said he answered the knock at about 2 a.m. Saturday and found friend and neighbor Gallegos covered in blood.
"Apparently from what I could tell [it was] stab wounds," said Lesicka.
He called 911 and waited with Gallegos, but the 20-year-old did not make it.
"It was shocking to find out it was him," said Geraldine Pearman.
Pearman manages the apartment complex and has known Gallegos for more than three years.
"He was such a nice kid, how someone could hurt him like that," said Pearman. "I wish we could find out who did it."
Neighbors struggling with that expressed their sorrow. Candles, kids' drawings, and notes tell passersby that a peaceful person lived at Gallegos' apartment.
Why he was the target and who was behind it are questions police are working to answer.
It's the kind of crime that can spark fear, but Pearman said that's not the case with neighbors at the complex.
"They are not scared. They are saddened," Pearman said. "They lost a good friend and a good neighbor."
Gallegos last words to his neighbor he said were actually a request that he get his dog to make sure it would not run off, but he did not say anything about who attacked him or why.
At last check, police said detectives did not have any suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call 242-COPS.


Have you ever heard of a coffee brewer called D-Kanta? Some time ago, we got to test this recently-developed brewer at our office and will tell about who invented it, what inspired them and what kind of coffee it produces.
D-Kanta was invented and perfected by the 2017 French Barista Champion Marco de Sousa Rosa. He spent two years developing a product based on his theory that air has a great influence on the aroma and the taste of the coffee that you brew. He took this theory and turned it into the product that is D-Kanta.
D-Kanta is made entirely of glass and comes in one piece. You do not really need multiple devices to brew with D-Kanta—it serves as the brewer, the decanter, as well as the serving vessel. You only need the paper filters, which sit perfectly inside the cone of the brewer, and after rinsing with hot water are attached to its walls.
D-Kanta is a pour-over method of coffee brewing which may remind you of a Chemex brewer. And it is true, there are some fair similarities: the conical shape of the brewer, the usage of a similar paper filter, as well as the amount of coffee you can brew with it. Nevertheless, there are some differences that set this brewer apart. Let's go through the brewing process to learn about those differences.
First, you insert the paper filter in the brewer and rinse it with hot water. For D-Kanta, Phoenix 70 by Saint Anthony Industries is the recommended brand of filters. It is folded in two layers, and the angle is at 70°, which is said to be the best angle for coffee brewing.
After rinsing the paper filter, use the handle of the brewer to get rid of the rinsing water. This may sound strange, but if you look at the brewer, you will notice that you can hold it at its neck and that what looks like a handle is actually a tube. You will use it to discard the water, as well as pour the finished brew into your cup.
For D-Kanta, you should aim for a rather coarse grind. It should sit somewhere between Chemex and French Press settings on your grinder.
We tested the brewer for a week and our favourite recipe was the one of 38 g of coffee in the brewer and 500 g of brewing water.
We are positive that you could even brew more coffee in this brewer, it surely is large enough to take up to 6 cups of coffee, which is approximately 750 ml of liquid. That is also the maximum volume presented by the company that produced it, Maxi Coffee.
At the beginning of the brew, you start with two blooming phases. Each one has got 20 sec and after that, you only add the remaining water to the brew.
There is another way of influencing the brew with D-Kanta. Thanks to a little plug that comes with the brewer, you can restrict the flow of the water through the filter. If you want to slow the brew down and let the coffee sit in the brewer for a little longer, you just close the handle's opening with the plug.
This comes useful for example in the blooming phase when you can bloom the coffee without any water dripping through the bed and into the decanter. Marco recommends blooming this way.
As you may know, the resulting brew will have quite a high temperature. This would usually require you to wait a little longer before you drink your coffee, but the shape of the bottom of D-Kanta was incorporated to introduce some air into the coffee. This is a feature that the D-Kanta's inventors were inspired to by the world of wine, and the way that wine is tasted—by swirling and aerating it in a carafe. This feature allows you to taste the coffee soon after finishing the brew. It also leads to experiencing some nice aromas in the brew.
Have you ever tried the D-Kanta brewer?


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Q: jQuery: Slide effect/tweening slide options I want to hide an element by sliding it up. For example, see this demonstration:

http://jsfiddle.net/HHgJU/

When the red box slides up, decreasing in height, you'll notice that the position of the text below it does not change until the slide is complete and the red box is "display:none."
Instead, I would like the text to move up to take the space in the page that is now available as the height of the red box continues to decrease.
How can I do this?
Ultimately, I'm trying to slide left to hide while simultaneously fading its opacity out to 0 at the same time. Bonus points if you can tell me how to do this in addition to answering my question :)

A: is it possible for you to use .slideUp()(link)?
$("div").slideUp(1000);

demo

A: I updated your fiddle (click here) with a manual animation of the height to do exactly what you described.  Basically, I'm using the .animate() method to animate the height to 0px and then changing display:none in the callback.  The text below slides up as the height shrinks.
And here's an updated fiddle (click here) with your bonus question.  Instead now just animating width and opacity.
And as an added bonus, here's both together!


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Won't be a part of delimitation exercise: NC MPs
Precious Kashmir News
Srinagar, May 29: Terming constitution of the Delimitation Commission as unwarranted, National Conference (NC) on Friday said its three Members of Parliament (MPs) will not participate in the exercise.
The development comes a day after three party MPs, including its president Farooq Abdullah, were nominated to the Delimitation Commission set up by the Centre to assist the panel in redrawing parliamentary and assembly constituencies in J&K.
In a statement issued here, the NC said, 'This delimitation commission is a product of the J&K Re-organisation Act 2019 which JKNC is challenging in and outside the SC. Participating in this delimitation Commission will be tantamount to accepting the events of 5th Aug 2019 which the NC is unwilling to do.'
'According to the constitution of J&K, the constituencies of J&K were to be delimited in 2026 with rest of the country. The constituencies in the state were last delimited in 90s. Thereafter an amendment was made in the constitution of J&K unanimously passed in the state Assembly in which all the regional parties, Congress and BJP voted for this amendment to go with the delimitation with rest of the country in 2026. Therefore the constitution of the delimitation commission is unwarranted,' the statement added.
The Lok Sabah Speaker on Thursday nominated all five Lok Sabha MPs from Jammu and Kashmir – three from the NC and two from the BJP – as 'associate members' of the Delimitation Commission to assist the panel in redrawing Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in the newly-created union territory.
Besides Dr Abdullah, who was released in March after remaining in detention under Public Safety Act (PSA), NC MPs Hasnain Masoodi and Muhammad Akbar Lone are other two members nominated to the commission. Union Minister and Udhampur MP Jitendra Singh and Jammu-Poonch MP Jugal Kishore Sharma are the two BJP leaders on the panel.