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Q: hta vbs populate drop down menu with files in folder Using an Onload command I can output the relevant files from a folder in a messagebox but cannot understand how to use that information to populate a drop down menu in the html code.
Sub Window_onLoad
    LoadDropDown
End Sub

Sub LoadDropDown
    Dim dir, foundFile
    dir = zipfolder
    Dim fileNames, fso, folder
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set folder = fso.GetFolder(dir)
    For Each foundFile In folder.Files
        fileNames = foundFile.name
        If(Right(fileNames,4) = ".zip") then
        fileNames = Left(fileNames,(Len(fileNames)-4))
        Value = Value & fileNames & vbCr
        MsgBox "inside sub Value : " & Value
    End If
    Next
End Sub

This will display a msgbox for each file found with extension ".zip"
The confusing part is how to display this information (on load) in a drop down menu???
What am I missing from the below?
<select id="test" name="test" onchange="LoadDropDown" style="width: 336px;">
        <option value=""></option>
        </select>

Thank you in advance for any help!
This is NOT the same as:
How to output all sub-folder to a drop down list in a HTA?
They are not using a file filter and mouseover on populate is NOT what is required or even wanted.

A: You can try like this to auto-populate your drop down menu :
I have tested this in the temporary folder to populate *.tmp files, so you can change it for your needs
<html>
<HTA:APPLICATION ICON="magnify.exe"/>
<head>
<Title>Load DropDown Menu</Title>
<script language="vbscript">
Option Explicit
Dim ws,Temp,dir,objOption,Ext
Set ws = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Temp = ws.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Temp%")
Dir = Temp
Ext = "tmp"
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Window_onLoad
    Call LoadDropDown(Dir,Ext)
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub LoadDropDown(Dir,Ext)
Dim fso,folder,foundFile,fileNames,objOption,Count
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(Dir)
Count = 0
Call ClearListbox()
For Each foundFile In folder.Files
    fileNames = FSO.GetBaseName(foundFile)
    if Lcase(fso.getExtensionName(foundFile.path)) = Lcase(Ext) then
        Count = Count + 1
        Set objOption = Document.createElement("OPTION")
        objOption.Text =  Count & " - " & fileNames
        objOption.Value = foundFile.path
        DropDown.Add(objOption)
    End If
Next
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub ClearListbox()
    For Each objOption in DropDown.Options
        objOption.RemoveNode
    Next
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Explorer(File)
    MsgBox File
    ws.run "Explorer /n,/select,"& File &"",1,True
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
</script>
</head>
<select id="DropDown" name="DropDown" onchange="Explorer(DropDown.value)" style="width: 336px;">
</select>
</body>
</html>

Based on your last comment

How can i add more than extension file in the dropdown listbox ?

<html>
<HTA:APPLICATION ICON="magnify.exe"/>
<head>
<Title>Load DropDown Menu</Title>
<script language="vbscript">
Option Explicit
Dim ws,Temp,dir,objOption,ArrayExtensions,Ext
Set ws = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Temp = ws.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Temp%")
Dir = Temp
ArrayExtensions = Array("exe","bat","cmd","vbs","ps1","zip","rar","tmp")
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Window_onLoad
    Call ClearListbox()
    For each Ext in ArrayExtensions
        Call LoadDropDown(Dir,Ext)
    Next
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub LoadDropDown(Dir,Ext)
Dim fso,folder,foundFile,fileNames,objOption,Count
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(Dir)
Count = 0
For Each foundFile In folder.Files
    fileNames = FSO.GetBaseName(foundFile)
    if Lcase(fso.getExtensionName(foundFile.path)) = Lcase(Ext) then
        Count = Count + 1
        Set objOption = Document.createElement("OPTION")
        objOption.Text =  "[" & Ext & "] - " & Count & " - " & foundFile.Name
        objOption.Value = foundFile.path
        DropDown.Add(objOption)
    End If
Next
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub ClearListbox()
    For Each objOption in DropDown.Options
        objOption.RemoveNode
    Next
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Explorer(File)
    MsgBox File
    ws.run "Explorer /n,/select,"& File &"",1,True
End Sub
'---------------------------------------------------------------
</script>
</head>
<select id="DropDown" name="DropDown" onchange="Explorer(DropDown.value)" style="width: 336px;">
</select>
</body>
</html>

A: Here is an example:
<html>
<head>

<script language="vbscript">

Sub Init
    document.getElementById("option1").innerText = "Sample 1"
    document.getElementById("option2").innerText = "Sample 2"
End Sub

</script>

</head>
<body onLoad="Init()">

<select id="test" name="test" style="width: 336px;">
    <option id="option1"></option>
    <option id="option2"></option>
</select>

</body>
</html>

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use yii\db\Connection;
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     * the query result may be either an array or an ActiveRecord object. `null` will be returned
     * if the query results in nothing.
     * @throws ModelNotFountException
     */
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    {
        $row = Query::one($db);
        if ($row !== false) {
            $models = $this->populate([$row]);
            if (reset($models)) {
                return reset($models);
            }
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Bad Timing (1980) is a dizzying descent into psychosexual hell, courtesy of director Nicolas Roeg and stars Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell.
It's the middle of the night in Vienna at some point circa 1980, and an ambulance takes a critically wounded woman to a hospital. As doctors try to save her life, her lover, an older man, relives memories of their relationship. And a dogged Viennese inspector tries to understand exactly what happened before the ambulance arrived: is this a failed suicide, or an attempted murder?
That's the start of Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing. Released in 1980 (and sometimes known as A Sensual Obsession), it stars Theresa Russell as young wild-hearted Milena Flaherty, Art Garfunkel as reserved psychoanalyst and professor Alex Linden, and Harvey Keitel as Inspector Netusil. It's streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of their films about psychology, and it's one of their more interesting selections—ambitious formally and thematically, it wrong-foots the viewer. It hints at complexities that don't exist in the actual plot, as a way to insist on the complexity of character.
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Alex isn't necessarily a political conservative, except perhaps in the sense of having a patriarchal desire to control the woman who attracts him. But he'd conservative by nature, buttoned-down and orderly; the film makes a great point of contrasting the neat precision of his apartment, with its muted color scheme, to Milena's messy and colorful home. Almost twice Milena's age, Alex is psychologically abusive and fearful of her freedom. She can never give him enough assurance that she loves him and is faithful to him.
So Alex's lecture on spying becomes an important part of the film and of his character development. We don't see him analyzing a patient, but his ideas about human psychology inform the film. The movie's about relating to the other, about fear and dominance, and Roeg's thoughtful enough to understand that he's dealing with mental processes.
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in Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0004
History, European Early Modern History, Historiography
Chapter 3 approaches the notion of trophy through historical accounts of the Christianization of the Córdoba and Seville Islamic temples in the thirteenth-century and the late-fifteenth-century ... More
Chapter 3 approaches the notion of trophy through historical accounts of the Christianization of the Córdoba and Seville Islamic temples in the thirteenth-century and the late-fifteenth-century conquest of Granada. The first two examples on Córdoba and Seville are relevant to explore the way in which medieval chronicles (mainly Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his entourage) turned the narrative of the Christianization of mosques into one of the central topics of the restoration myth. The sixteenth-century narratives about the taking of the Alhambra in Granada explain the continuity of this triumphal reading within the humanist model of chorography and urban eulogy (Lucius Marineus Siculus, Luis de Mármol Carvajal, and Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza).Less
Chapter 3 approaches the notion of trophy through historical accounts of the Christianization of the Córdoba and Seville Islamic temples in the thirteenth-century and the late-fifteenth-century conquest of Granada. The first two examples on Córdoba and Seville are relevant to explore the way in which medieval chronicles (mainly Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his entourage) turned the narrative of the Christianization of mosques into one of the central topics of the restoration myth. The sixteenth-century narratives about the taking of the Alhambra in Granada explain the continuity of this triumphal reading within the humanist model of chorography and urban eulogy (Lucius Marineus Siculus, Luis de Mármol Carvajal, and Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza).
Keywords: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Ferdinand III, Alphonse X, Catholic monarchs, Córdoba Mosque, Sevilla Mosque[ Granada Alhambra[ Lucius Marineus Siculus, Luis de Mármol Carvajal, Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza
The Foundations of an Antiquarian Literature for Islamic Architecture
Chapter 5 explores the codification of antiquarian writing in Spain in its original form as expressed by Ambrosio de Morales in Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575), and particularly it ... More
Chapter 5 explores the codification of antiquarian writing in Spain in its original form as expressed by Ambrosio de Morales in Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575), and particularly it considers the consequences of the inclusion of Córdoba Mosque and Madinat al-Zahra in this commentary. The terms of the description and Morales' use of antiquarian tools are analyzed. In addition, the chapter deals with the interesting methodological debate Morales' writings gave rise (Pedro Díaz de Ribas, Gregorio López Madera, Alonso Morgado, among others) to around the use of antiquarian tools in formal historical research of Islamic monuments: literary sources, epigraphy, and archaeological analyses of the materials and building techniques (stones, bricks, and mortar). Finally, the chapter deals with the conflictive relationship between the narratives on the Islamic antiquities of Spain, the antiquarian vocabulary and the classical canon.Less
Chapter 5 explores the codification of antiquarian writing in Spain in its original form as expressed by Ambrosio de Morales in Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575), and particularly it considers the consequences of the inclusion of Córdoba Mosque and Madinat al-Zahra in this commentary. The terms of the description and Morales' use of antiquarian tools are analyzed. In addition, the chapter deals with the interesting methodological debate Morales' writings gave rise (Pedro Díaz de Ribas, Gregorio López Madera, Alonso Morgado, among others) to around the use of antiquarian tools in formal historical research of Islamic monuments: literary sources, epigraphy, and archaeological analyses of the materials and building techniques (stones, bricks, and mortar). Finally, the chapter deals with the conflictive relationship between the narratives on the Islamic antiquities of Spain, the antiquarian vocabulary and the classical canon.
Keywords: Ambrosio de Morales, Pedro Díaz de Ribas, Gregorio López Madera, Córdoba Mosque, Madinat al-Zahra, antiquarian sources and methodology, Islamic architecture, Mosaico work, Morisco work
This introductory chapter opens with the case study of the amendments that the historian Ambrosio de Morales introduced in the manuscript version of his core book Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de ... More
This introductory chapter opens with the case study of the amendments that the historian Ambrosio de Morales introduced in the manuscript version of his core book Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575) before sending it to print. The changes in the description of Córdoba Mosque reveal the conflictive status of Islamic architecture in the Spanish historical writing of the time. Upon this example the subject of Admiration and Awe is introduced through three angles: the connection of the topic of the interpretation of Islamic monuments to sixteenth and seventeenth historiographical building of Spanish national identity; a review of recent academic literature on the subject as well as on its possible connection to postcolonial theory; and a survey in the early modern historiographical distinction among medieval Islamic buildings and contemporary uses of Islamic architecture.Less
This introductory chapter opens with the case study of the amendments that the historian Ambrosio de Morales introduced in the manuscript version of his core book Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575) before sending it to print. The changes in the description of Córdoba Mosque reveal the conflictive status of Islamic architecture in the Spanish historical writing of the time. Upon this example the subject of Admiration and Awe is introduced through three angles: the connection of the topic of the interpretation of Islamic monuments to sixteenth and seventeenth historiographical building of Spanish national identity; a review of recent academic literature on the subject as well as on its possible connection to postcolonial theory; and a survey in the early modern historiographical distinction among medieval Islamic buildings and contemporary uses of Islamic architecture.
Keywords: Ambrosio de Morales, Córdoba Mosque, Islamic Spain, historiography, postcolonial theory, cultural hybridity, cultural homogenization, maurophilia, Mudejar, literature review
The Antiquarian Appropriation of Islamic Monuments
Chapter 6 focuses on three case studies: the appropriation of Córdoba Mosque as a classical edifice, the transformation of Seville Giralda into an antiquity, and, finally, the humanist reading of ... More
Chapter 6 focuses on three case studies: the appropriation of Córdoba Mosque as a classical edifice, the transformation of Seville Giralda into an antiquity, and, finally, the humanist reading of Toledo. Since in the latter the destruction of the Aljama Mosque had deprived the city of major Islamic buildings, it provides a useful example to explore the limits of antiquarian strategy (Francisco de Pisa, Pedro de Rojas, Cristóbal Lozano). Regarding Córdoba, Pablo de Céspedes' theory about a section of the mosque actually being Roman is commented on. Regarding Seville, the common praise for the Giralda is analyzed upon its antiquarian description by Alonso Morgado, which was later copied and transformed by Rodrigo Caro.Less
Chapter 6 focuses on three case studies: the appropriation of Córdoba Mosque as a classical edifice, the transformation of Seville Giralda into an antiquity, and, finally, the humanist reading of Toledo. Since in the latter the destruction of the Aljama Mosque had deprived the city of major Islamic buildings, it provides a useful example to explore the limits of antiquarian strategy (Francisco de Pisa, Pedro de Rojas, Cristóbal Lozano). Regarding Córdoba, Pablo de Céspedes' theory about a section of the mosque actually being Roman is commented on. Regarding Seville, the common praise for the Giralda is analyzed upon its antiquarian description by Alonso Morgado, which was later copied and transformed by Rodrigo Caro.
Keywords: Pablo de Céspedes, Alonso Morgado, Rodrigo Caro, Francisco de Pisa, Pedro de Rojas, Córdoba Mosque, Seville Giralda, Islamic Toledo, antiquarianism, local history
Conquest and Plunder
Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their ... More
Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their potential destruction, conservation, and transformation offers a convenient framework for subsequent analysis of the strategies behind the appropriation of the surviving edifices. The chapter sets out the general background by way of a review of the writings of Ambrosio de Morales in relation to the Christian architectonic transformation of Córdoba Mosque. Then, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his medieval idea of restoration as applied to the Christian conquest of Islamic Spain, as well as its consequences in the Humanist interpretation of Islamic buildings, are explained.Less
Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their potential destruction, conservation, and transformation offers a convenient framework for subsequent analysis of the strategies behind the appropriation of the surviving edifices. The chapter sets out the general background by way of a review of the writings of Ambrosio de Morales in relation to the Christian architectonic transformation of Córdoba Mosque. Then, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his medieval idea of restoration as applied to the Christian conquest of Islamic Spain, as well as its consequences in the Humanist interpretation of Islamic buildings, are explained.
Keywords: Ambrosio de Morales, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Bishop Manrique, Córdoba Mosque, loss of Spain, restoration of Spain, trophy
Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early ... More
This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Spain was left with a significant Islamic heritage: Córdoba Mosque had been turned into a cathedral, in Seville the Aljama Mosque's minaret was transformed into a Christian bell tower, and Granada Alhambra had become a Renaissance palace. To date this process of Christian appropriation has frequently been discussed as a phenomenon of hybridisation. However, during that period the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. The aforementioned cultural hybridity encountered partial opposition from those seeking to establish cultural and religious homogeneity. The Iberian Peninsula's Islamic past became a major concern and historical writing served as the site for a complex negotiation of identity. Historians and antiquarians used a range of strategies to re-appropriate the meaning of medieval Islamic heritage as befitted the new identity of Spain as a Catholic monarchy and empire. On one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician. On the other hand, religious forgeries were invented that staked claims for buildings and cities having been founded by Christians prior to the arrival of the Muslims in Spain. Islamic stones were used as core evidence in debates shaping the early development of archaeology, and they also became the centre of a historical controversy about the origin of Spain as a nation and its ecclesiastical history.Less
Admiration and Awe : Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Spain was left with a significant Islamic heritage: Córdoba Mosque had been turned into a cathedral, in Seville the Aljama Mosque's minaret was transformed into a Christian bell tower, and Granada Alhambra had become a Renaissance palace. To date this process of Christian appropriation has frequently been discussed as a phenomenon of hybridisation. However, during that period the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. The aforementioned cultural hybridity encountered partial opposition from those seeking to establish cultural and religious homogeneity. The Iberian Peninsula's Islamic past became a major concern and historical writing served as the site for a complex negotiation of identity. Historians and antiquarians used a range of strategies to re-appropriate the meaning of medieval Islamic heritage as befitted the new identity of Spain as a Catholic monarchy and empire. On one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician. On the other hand, religious forgeries were invented that staked claims for buildings and cities having been founded by Christians prior to the arrival of the Muslims in Spain. Islamic stones were used as core evidence in debates shaping the early development of archaeology, and they also became the centre of a historical controversy about the origin of Spain as a nation and its ecclesiastical history.
Keywords: Islamic architecture, Early Modern Spain, antiquarianism, historiography, cultural hybridity, Christian forgeries and martyrs, Ambrosio de Morales, Córdoba Mosque, Seville Giralda, Granada Alhambra


I need to get every single user IP address when he logged in to the application.
Please advise, how to get IP address.
This is the IP v6 loopback address so this is expected if running on localhost. You could also check first https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Forwarded-For if available and then only use UserHostAddress.
You mean to say that I should host the web page on IIS so that it will show the correct IP rather than to run on localhost.
It has to be hosted on a remote system. However, reading the IP in a web application is seldom the solution due to networking fundamentals.
Yes. As most developers you are in the very special case where your browser and the web server are running on the same machine in which case you are using "localhost" (and its special 127.0.0.1 or ::1 address). It means basically "the same machine" so that the http request is sent from your browser to a web server on the same machine.
As pointed by mgebhard you may want to explain your final goal. At best it could be "for information" but your application should not depend on this (for example a company could expose multiple machines using a single IP or if you have a box your IP address could change over time etc... so in particular it shouldn't be considered as a unique id).
My objective is that my application is hosted on remote system and the user of that application is using from different machine within the same IP pool. So, I want if the user has the same IP address which I have defined in the system for that user then user will be able to logged in.
As mgebhard and PatriceSc have mentioned, it is because you have run your application in local.
Have you tried to run your application on another machine?
In my opinion, if you visit your application from different machine, the IP address will be different and will all log in successfully.
Seems definitively your browser and the web server is on the same machine and so you get the "localhost" address. Try a real deployment.
You could also have a look at https://www.ntweekly.com/2017/07/21/block-specific-ip-address-from-accessing-iis-10-web-site/ to configure restrictions at the IIS level.


Pop performer and Christian-music singer Kim-Char Meredith returns to Cedar Rapids to perform at the Unity Center, 3791 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE, on Sunday, July 26. She will provide music for Unity's 10 a.m. service, followed by a brunch and then a concert at 1 p.m. Donations will be taken at both.
Kim-Char spends her days as a Certified Hypnotherapist at The Healing Place in Naperville, IL and her first five independent albums of faith-based music garnered three Na Hoku Hano Hano Award nominations, sometimes considered Hawaii's version of the Grammy.


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Fascinating article by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae in the Times:
In minimizing the grass-roots work of women, the framing of white supremacist politics was no different. Just as Ms. Robinson and Ms. Gilmore led the 1955-56 boycott of buses in Alabama, in the 1970s, women like Louise Day Hicks led the antibusing crusades in the North, in an effort to avoid the desegregation of Boston public schools. While men debated in legislative chambers and listened to challenges on the bench, women headed to school cafeterias, playgrounds and PTA meetings, doing the bulk of the behind-the-scenes work of supporting the politics of segregation.
White women organized precinct gatherings to pressure their politicians to uphold Jim Crow laws. They transformed their homes into centers of bureaucratic efficiency — copying fliers, assigning neighborhoods for petition drives and scheduling protest shifts at elementary schools and bus garages. . . .
The point, here, is neither to catalog nor to celebrate white women's contributions to white supremacist politics. Instead, their work should change how we understand history. It is easy to denounce the racist pronouncements and white-supremacist politics of a George Wallace or a Roy Moore. But what white women teach us is that white-supremacist politics is sustained at a much more grass-roots level by our neighbors, school boards and even friends. White women have made white supremacy a much more formidable and long-lasting force in American society, sustaining it at both the local and national levels.
Liberals have long wanted "equal rights" to be a struggle that unifies all oppressed groups – minorities, women, the poor – but of course it does not work like that at all. The anti-busing movement of the 1970s in particular was very much a women's movement.
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The problem is, we've known for a long time that people who come from backgrounds of oppression tend to themselves become oppressors once they gain even the slightest degree of acceptance and status.
There's an old Puch magazine political cartoon which depicts a motley assortment of Americans of immigrant stock - an Irishman, a former slave, a former Union soldier, an a Frenchman, a Jew, et cetera - all working together to build a great big wall along the coastline to keep other immigrants out.
Meanwhile, in the background, on the far shore, Chinese laborers toil to tear down the walls keeping them locked in their own country, and attempt to flee across the mighty Pacific in rowboats. The rowboats pass under the sides of a towering, black-hulled ship belonging to the US government, unloading cargo which gets hoisted over the Chinese wall by a crane.
We're more than happy to trade with the brutally repressive government of Qing China, but we want nothing to do with the Chinese people themselves. Nevermind that it's our trading with China which directly inspires them to seek out freedom and opportunity upon our own shores. We sail triumphantly into their harbors, ostensible paragons of liberty and democracy, but then we expect them to go about their business and keep toiling to death for the Emperor's sake, and turn them away when they beg to be allowed to join us and toil for our sakes instead.
Poor, desperate immigrants turning away other poor, desperate immigrants. The hypocrisy is staggering, but it's not remotely new. It's been around for centuries.
Typo - "Puck" magazine. I think my brain tried to subconsciously edit it to "Punch" and didn't quite get there.
Shadow said...
Or a mother's movement?
@Shadow- yes, I imagine ant-busing was very much a mother's movement.


On the eve of the Rugby World Cup 2019 pool draw in Kyoto, we look at the qualifying process to date and how the eight teams will emerge to take their places at the tournament in Japan.
Kingstown may be more than 14,000 kilometres from Tokyo but it was here that the road to Rugby World Cup 2019 began on 5 March when St Vincent and the Grenadines met Jamaica in the opening match of the 2016 Rugby Americas North Championship.
Less than five months after All Blacks captain Richie McCaw held aloft the Webb Ellis Cup at Twickenham, the coveted trophy was back on its travels as the next cycle of Rugby World Cup qualifiers began in the Caribbean.
Officiating in his first test since New Zealand's RWC 2015 final win over Australia, Welshman Nigel Owens took charge of affairs as Jamaica ran in eight unanswered tries on their way to a 48-0 victory in front of a record 1,000-strong crowd at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex.
Since that curtain-raiser in the Caribbean, RWC 2019 qualifiers have also taken place in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and South America, as teams from around the globe make their bids to join the 12 nations who confirmed their place at Asia's first Rugby World Cup following a top three pool finish at England 2015.
While the dream of competing on the game's biggest stage is now over for many of the participants, the fact is they have had the opportunity to do so. Every full member union of World Rugby can aspire to compete at the Rugby World Cup through the clearly defined regional pathways, and the journey to Japan 2019 will have plenty more twists and turns before the identity of all 20 competing nations are known.
The honour of hosting the first qualifier fell to the Rugby Americas North (RAN) region for the second tournament running, with St Vincent and the Grenadines and Jamaica two of the nine unions competing in the RAN Championship.
Split into two zones, the teams stepped their way through the competition until only Guyana, who edged out defending champions Trinidad and Tobago in a Port of Spain thriller, and the rapidly-improving Mexico were left standing.
Three months passed before they met in the RAN Championship final in Mexico City on 1 October. Leading 10-3 at half-time, Las Serpientes capitalised on Guyana's ill-discipline and missed kicks at goal to pull away and win 32-3.
Mexico's victory set up a straight shoot-out with Sudamérica B Championship winners Colombia, who had claimed a hat-trick of regional titles following victories over Ecuador, hosts Peru and Venezuela in Lima.
Buoyed by moving into the World Rugby Rankings' top 50 for the first time, Mexico put up a valiant fight in rugby-mad Medellin but it was Colombia who prevailed 29-11 to move to the next stage of the Americas qualification process.
In November, Paraguay welcomed Colombia to the Héroes de Curupaytí Stadium in Asunción with a place in the 2017 Sudamérica A Championship also on the line. Los Tucanes took an early 12-6 lead but Paraguay came back strongly to score five tries and win 39-27.
The qualification process resumes later this month when Paraguay line up alongside Uruguay, Chile and Brazil in the Sudamérica A Championship, the winner of which will face the loser of the Americas 1 play-off between USA and Canada, on 24 June and 1 July, on a home and away basis for a place at Japan 2019 as the Americas 2 qualifier. The team that misses out will enter the Repechage tournament.
The qualification process for Asia's first Rugby World Cup began in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent in May 2016 when the hosts welcomed Guam, Thailand and UAE for the Asia Rugby Division II Championship.
And for UAE coach and former Samoa back-row Apollo Perelini the chance to join the select band of individuals who have played and coached at a Rugby World Cup is still alive after his side beat Uzbekistan and Thailand to secure promotion to Division I in 2017.
"We want to challenge at the next level. We want to go beyond Division I in fact. We have a good group of players who can achieve that and we have more to come so I think the future looks bright for us," said Perelini, one of the stars of Western Samoa's historic RWC 1991 campaign.
Division I fixtures against host nation Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines lie in wait for UAE, with the champions keeping alive their RWC 2019 dreams by earning promotion to the top tier to face Hong Kong and Korea in 2018. This Asia Rugby Championship winner will then face the Oceania Cup 2017 winner in a cross-regional play-off with the winner progressing to the Repechage tournament.
It's advantage Fiji and Samoa at the halfway stage of the qualification process which will deliver the Oceania 1 and Oceania 2 qualifiers for RWC 2019 in July, leaving Tonga with work to do if they are to avoid a cross-continental play-off with a European team and, potentially also the Repechage tournament, to qualify.
Results across the 2016 and 2017 editions of the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup will determine the qualifiers with Fiji leading the way after beating both Samoa and Tonga last year. Samoa's 30-10 victory over Tonga means they lie second going into the July conclusion of this process.
For other nations in the region, the Oceania Cup in 2017 will provide another route to qualification with the winner to face the Asia Rugby Championship 2018 winner for a place in the Repechage tournament.
The 2016 Africa Cup Division 1B and 1C doubled up as the first round of RWC 2019 qualifiers in the region. Back-to-back defeats to Madagascar (24-15) and Senegal (54-3) saw Zambia relegated from Division 1B to the third tier of the regional competition to end their Japan 2019 dream at the first hurdle. The same applies to Mauritius and Nigeria who lost out to Morocco in the race for the Division 1C title. Morocco will therefore step up into the renamed Rugby Africa Silver Cup competition in 2017, which Senegal won last year after a dramatic 15-14 win over Tunisia in Monastir.
Senegal and Tunisia will both step into an expanded top tier – now known as the Rugby Africa Gold Cup – in 2017 to join last year's champions Namibia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The Silver Cup winner will replace the bottom-ranked side for the 2018 Gold Cup competition which will be the final stage of the African process with the winner qualifying as Africa 1 and the runner-up entering the Repechage tournament.
The Czech Republic made a flying start when the qualification process in World Rugby's largest regional association got underway in Enköping, about 80km from Stockholm last September. Captain and number eight Vojtěch Havel led from the front as the Czechs saw off Sweden 56-14 to make the early running in Rugby Europe Conference 1 North.
To remain alive in the qualification process, teams in the Conference 1 North and South and Conference 2 North and South must finish top of their respective divisions. The respective 1 (Czech Republic and Malta) and 2 champions (Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina) then meet in May, with the winners of both matches to face off for the right to face the Rugby Europe Trophy winner in 2018.
Portugal, seeking an immediate return to the top tier of the Rugby Europe Championship, were the dominant team in the Trophy this year with five wins from five to finish 10 points clear of second-placed Netherlands. This earned them a play-off with Belgium later this month.
The region's direct place – Europe 1 – for Japan 2019 will come from the Rugby Europe Championship across the 2017 and 2018 tournaments. Georgia have already qualified after finishing third in their pool at RWC 2015, so all matches against the Lelos do not count for Japan 2019 qualification.
Romania top these standings at the halfway stage after bouncing back well from a shock loss to Germany in round one to win a first Rugby Europe Championship title and end Georgia's six-year stranglehold on the title. However, Romania's 15 points is only two more than Spain with Russia a further four points adrift. Germany, who stunned Romania 41-38, are fourth with eight points meaning there is still plenty to play for in 2018.
For more information on the RWC 2019 qualifying process, visit rugbyworldcup.com/qualifying.


Bolingbrook's residents or Chicagoland's trees? That's the ultimatum from Bolingbrook's emerald ash borer colony.
According to eyewitnesses who just happened to be by Mayor Roger Claar's home, a man under the borer's influence presented the list of demands to Claar. The witnesses say the "terms of surrender" require Bolingbrook's residents to be injected with larvae. The larvae will then take control of the host, removing all of its freewill and independent thought. In return, the borers will stop infesting Chicago's ash trees.
"You want to turn my residents into zombies?" Asked Claar.
"We prefer to think of it as relieving humans of their thinking problem." Replied the infected man.
The man added that it would be a win-win situation. The borers would gain hands and the knowledge of Bolingbrook's residents. Bolingbrook's residents wouldn't be bothered by thinking. Neighboring suburbs would save thousands of dollars in tree removal costs. Claar would be spared from becoming a host.
Claar, according to the eyewitnesses, made three phone calls then asked the man to follow him. They walked a few blocks to the nearest infested tree. A few minutes later, two police cars and a portable tree shredder arrived. Two officers restrained the man, while a city contractor handed Claar a chainsaw. Claar started the chainsaw and cut down the tree.
The man was then taken to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital where doctors are trying to safely remove beetle larvae from the man's brain.
When called for a comment, Claar's receptionist replied that he was on a teleconference call with all of Bolingbrook's surviving former mayors, and could not be disturbed.


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// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.

'use strict';

var assert = require('chai').assert;

var Client = require('azure-iot-device').Client;
var Message = require('azure-iot-device').Message;
var SimulatedMqtt = require('./mqtt_simulated.js');
var Mqtt = require('../lib/mqtt.js');

describe('Mqtt', function () {
  describe('#constructor', function () {
    /* Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_MQTT_12_001: [The Mqtt shall accept the transport configuration structure */
    /* Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_MQTT_12_002: [The Mqtt shall store the configuration structure in a member variable */
    /* Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_MQTT_12_003: [The Mqtt shall create an Mqtt object and store it in a member variable */
    it('stores config and created transport in member', function () {
      var config = {
        host: "host.name",
        deviceId: "deviceId",
        sharedAccessSignature: "sasToken",
        gatewayHostName: "gatewayHostName"
      };
      var mqtt_obj = new Mqtt(config);
      assert.notEqual(mqtt_obj, null);
      assert.notEqual(mqtt_obj, 'undefined');
      assert.equal(mqtt_obj._config, config);
      assert.notEqual(mqtt_obj._mqtt, null);
      assert.notEqual(mqtt_obj._mqtt, 'undefined');
    });
  });
});

function badConfigTests(opName, badConnStrings, Transport, requestFn) {

  function makeRequestWith(connectionString, test, done) {
    var client = Client.fromConnectionString(connectionString, Transport);
    requestFn(client, function (err, res) {
      test(err, res);
      done();
    });
  }

  function expectHostNotFoundError(err) {
    assert.equal(err.message, 'Invalid host address');
  }

  function expectRefused(err) {
    assert.isNotNull(err);
    assert.equal(err.message, 'Connection Refused');
  }

  var tests = [
    { name: 'hostname is malformed', expect: expectHostNotFoundError },
    { name: 'device is not registered', expect: expectRefused },
    { name: 'password is wrong', expect: expectRefused }
  ];

  /*Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_CLIENT_05_016: [When a Client method encounters an error in the transport, the callback function (indicated by the done argument) shall be invoked with the following arguments:
   err - the standard JavaScript Error object, with a response property that points to a transport-specific response object, and a responseBody property that contains the body of the transport response.]*/
  badConnStrings.forEach(function (test, index) {
    it('fails to ' + opName + ' when the ' + tests[index].name, function (done) {
      makeRequestWith(test, tests[index].expect, done);
    });
  });
}

function runTests(Transport, goodConnectionString, badConnectionStrings) {

  describe('Client', function () {
    describe('#sendEvent', function () {
      /*Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_CLIENT_05_007: [The sendEvent method shall send the event indicated by the message argument via the transport associated with the Client instance.]*/
      /*Tests_SRS_NODE_DEVICE_CLIENT_05_017: [With the exception of receive, when a Client method completes successfully, the callback function (indicated by the done argument) shall be invoked with the following arguments:
       err - null
       response - a transport-specific response object]*/
      it('sends the event', function (done) {
        var client = Client.fromConnectionString(goodConnectionString, Transport);
        var message = new Message('hello');
        client.sendEvent(message, function (err, res) {
          if (err) {
            done(err);
          } else {
            assert.equal(res, 'OK');
            done();
          }
        });
      });

      badConfigTests('send an event', badConnectionStrings, Transport, function (client, done) {
        client.sendEvent(new Message(''), done);
      });
    });
  });
}

function makeConnectionString(host, device, key) {
  return 'HostName=' + host + ';DeviceId=' + device + ';SharedAccessKey=' + key;
}

var connectionString = makeConnectionString('host', 'device', 'key');
var badConnStrings = [
  makeConnectionString('bad', 'device', 'key'),
  makeConnectionString('host', 'bad', 'key'),
  makeConnectionString('host', 'device', 'bad')
];

describe('Over simulated MQTT', function () {
  runTests(SimulatedMqtt, connectionString, badConnStrings);
});

module.exports = runTests;


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Columbia Science Review Debunks COVID-19 Misconceptions
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News Editor Lauren Kahme reports on the virtual event, where speakers sought to debunk misconceptions around COVID-19 in public health.
The Columbia Science Review (CSR) hosted its second virtual event via Zoom on April 23, 2020, where two Columbia University doctors and a doctor from the Chinese CDC broke down the common misconceptions surrounding COVID-19. Kat Wu, CC '23, moderated with the help of three other student organizers: Boyuan Chen, SEAS '23, John Nguyen, CC '23, and Nick Vaughan, CC '22.
The event was structured with specific questions curated by CSR to which one or more of the speakers responded.
How does COVID-19 compare to epidemics and pandemics we've seen over the past few years from the perspective of your field?
Dr. Bob Fullilove, Professor and Associate Dean of Community and Minority Affairs at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, began by speaking to the unprecedented nature of the virus. Compared to SARS and MERS, COVID-19 is less deadly, which explains the overwhelming amount of people requiring hospitalization. Because COVID-19 is less fatal than SARS and MERS, many people get sick without dying, they need hospital care, and the healthcare system gets flooded. He says that the only virus to come close to what we're experiencing with COVID-19 is the 1918 Spanish Flu, but COVID-19 takes advantage of the way modern humans live—connectedly.
Dr. George Gao, Director of the Chinese CDC, says that we haven't seen a pandemic of this magnitude in centuries, even referencing the Black Death and Smallpox pandemics as comparable to COVID-19. Scientists had expected a widespread virus to come due to climate change, changes in human behavior, and the overall progression of modern ways of living; they just couldn't say where and when it would occur. Dr. Gao says that "this virus has a lot of hidden characters" that make it much harder to control and understand. For example, many cases of COVID-19 are asymptomatic but many are also sever or deadly, so it is difficult to trace and control.
Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Higgins Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University and doctor from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of CU, starts by acknowledging the other pandemic affecting 37 million people and coexisting with the COVID-19 pandemic that he hopes we don't forget: HIV and AIDS. In his view, the coronavirus could have been prevented and "the most outstanding feature of this virus is that it could have been prevented." He says that "we have the tech to prevent it," but the people with the means to do so did not step up to help. He hopes we all take this pandemic as an opportunity for a lesson learned.
What is each of your understandings on the state of vaccine development for COVID-19 or, more specifically, what do you think are the resources most urgent to finding a solution to this problem as of now?
Dr. Fullilove emphasizes the importance of following what's happened successfully in places like South Korea. We have to know details about the level of transmission; this would require much more expansive testing to trace the virus more closely. He also talks about populations, specifically in New York, that are most vulnerable to COVID-19 (and illness, in general, before this pandemic). These groups of people are the ones who keep the city running; they are running the trains, driving busses, and serving you food. Getting these public essential workers protected is of great priority because we probably won't get to a point where we have a safe and universally-accessible vaccine for a year or a year and a half.
Dr. Gao agrees that "testing is the key" for the current situation. For a long term solution, though, vaccines and anti-viral drugs are what we're looking toward. It looks like Remdesivir might work, and this is special for all coronaviruses. "I would encourage all the countries…to share the information." Dr. Gao promotes solidarity and avoiding quarrels between countries, and he hopes we'll have a vaccine for everyone all over the world as soon as possible.
Dr. Vincent Racaniello points out that many companies who are working toward a vaccine are doing so with a profit in mind. He hopes that after going through this pandemic, we can change "our model for developing life-saving medicines."
There is a difference across the globe in terms of cases and deaths in different regions. Why do you think this disparity exists?
Dr. Gao says that the case fatality rate is affected by early strategies: early diagnoses, early treatments, and early quarantines. Because certain countries took earlier precautions, their outcome may have been different than those countries that took a later approach.
Dr. Fullilove speaks on the degree to which COVID-19 exploits the social faults of America. In New York City, areas with high levels of folk with pre-existing conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, are also the areas of densely packed neighborhoods and are also the areas with folk working essential jobs. This combination of factors means that fatality rates are much greater in these neighborhoods, specifically Black and Latinx communities in New York City.
Dr. Racaniello says that we can't hope to know the crude case fatality ratio of COVID-19 because "we don't know the denominator." He refers to the high rate of cases that are asymptomatic, which contributes to our lack of accuracy when assessing the case fatality rate. This may be why we see such disparities across the globe.
How have narratives in the news and social media contributed to incidents of racism and xenophobia and how have they played a role in COVID-19 response?
Dr. Fullilove recognizes that the world has been upset in such a dramatic way, and millions of people lost their jobs, and it's human nature to search for a scapegoat. People whose lives have been uprooted are not looking to scientific studies or epidemiologic findings; they are looking for somewhere to place the blame. This way of thinking is problematic, as is the rhetoric "starting with the White House" that calls this virus the "Wuhan Virus" or the "Chinese Virus."
Dr. Racaniello says that the desire to blame someone else is driven by "the political situation in this country." He emphasizes the harms of incorrect theories or false studies when he says that "bad science gets propagated" and contributes to the frenzy of false information and conspiracy theories. He hopes that after this pandemic, people will learn how to deal with science.
Dr. Gao weighs in on the mixture of public opinion and science; scientific findings are a commodity of sorts that journalists pick up and spread. He emphasizes the critical nature of focusing on the virus itself rather than on different countries.
People claim that the statement "the virus came from China" is the truth, and that's the way it should be remembered. If not, how do you think the public should view pandemics of foreign origins?
Dr. Gao recommends that the public focus on the real enemy: the virus. Dr. Racaniello adds that "this virus came from nature, and nature has no country." Dr. Gao agrees and poses the question "do you really think the earth has a border?" to remind viewers that borders of countries are human inventions having nothing to do with the natural land of earth. Dr. Fullilove reminds us that the 1918 Spanish Flu was only named "Spanish" because when the Spanish King contracted the virus, newspapers reported it and it was the first time many people heard the media talk about the virus. In fact, it originated in the state of Kansas in the United States. He remarks that we seem to continue applying misnomers to viruses even a century later.
How will climate change affect the frequency and severity of the viruses we see in the future?
Dr. Racaniello says that his main concern about climate change is "the expansion of the mosquito range." Mosquito ranges will expand north and south from where it is now, which could potentially spread disease since mosquitos are a known vector for many diseases.
Dr. Gao adds that COVID-19 exists in countries across the world that experience different kinds of temperature and climate, and he emphasizes that this disease spreads regardless of whether it's in the northern or southern hemisphere.
Dr. Fullilove says that as the climate changes, "population density and the move toward urbanization…are going to wreak havoc on the local environment in a wide variety of ways." Pandemics are just part of the many ways the human-induced environmental change will impact our health.
Can any of the specialists speak to the most likely timeframe of the virus, if possible?
Dr. Fullilove asserts the likelihood of multiple waves of the virus if people return to "normal life" too early. The 1918 Spanish Flu saw this happen, having two or three waves of the virus in places where people returned to their pre-pandemic habits before it was safe to do so.
Dr. Gao acknowledges the challenges of balancing both the economic and human health of the world when he says that we have to balance "opening businesses and disease control."
Dr. Gao and Dr. Racaniello have a short dialogue about China's numbers specifically; China has had a full month of zero new cases, but herd immunity is low. Once people from outside China start coming in, they may bring COVID-19 with them, and China may have to face another wave of the virus.
Why do you think the rates of infection and death are so high in the United States compared with other countries?
Dr. Fullilove says that "our leadership failed us completely." The United States could have prepared for a very long time, and scientists have known that a large pandemic was coming. He says that we've not done a good enough job at convincing the American public that the advice of medical professionals and viral experts is in their best interest.
Dr. Racaniello says we should have started "extensive testing" when the first cases started showing up in Washington state in January. He agrees with Dr. Fullilove that "we had leadership who was denying it was a problem." Both doctors agree, then, that the rates of infection and death can be attributed in some way to the current leadership of our country.
What is the best way for us to determine for ourselves what information are misconceptions and what information can we trust?
Dr. Racaniello says it's crucial to seek out scientists that are trustworthy; he recommends going on social media and podcasts to find a scientist since they may not be able to be featured on major news channels.
Did the virus originate from animals and transfer to a human?
Dr. Gao reveals that there have been viruses in bats or pangolins that are close to COVID-19—though not the coronavirus exactly—which leads scientists to believe there must be another animal involved that has a closer genetic make up to humans. They suspect some other mammal was involved in the transfer of the virus which would explain how COVID-19 was able to take hold in human populations.
How should we react to skepticism in the news toward test results and suspicions that they are underestimates?
Dr. Fullilove says that "we should accept that as the truth," and he references how New York City's fatality rate jumped a few thousand people after accounting for those who never got tested because they couldn't and those who died at home, all of whom are people who were suspected to have had COVID-19. Because it is so difficult to create accurate models due to the nature of the virus, some of these models have been wrong which fuels people's skepticism.
Dr. Racaniello discusses how "testing is iffy" and the various tests are "being developed on the fly."
Both Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Fullilove acknowledge the possibility of having a fuller picture of truth and accuracy in the years to come as we look back on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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David Booth's season likely over
By NBC SportsMar 26, 2010, 5:30 PM EDT
David Booth, after working so hard to come back from a devastating
concussion five months ago, will have his season end after another
concussion.
From Steve Gorten of the Sun Sentinel:
Coach Pete DeBoer wouldn't declare it so today, saying only that
"it's a strong probability." But you could tell DeBoer knows that, and
that even if doctors somehow cleared him to return, he wouldn't feel
comfortable putting Booth back on the ice this soon after his second
concussion in five months.
There's not much else to say, other than to wish Booth a speedy and
safe recovery. He's a promising and talented young player and it's a
shame this season has gone the way it has for him. Coach DeBoer doesn't
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ice,'"
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puck. The play last night, he's making an extra effort, reaching for it.
When he lifts his head up, there's a guy there. It's not something you
can talk to a guy about that he can fix. That's how he plays and
unfortunately, he's had bad luck and a couple of concussions because of


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