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Elaine Showalter is the author of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, among other books.
A Perfect Eel
'Lady Audley's Secret'
All I Did Was Marry Him
Laura Bush's Other Life
Vibrating to the Chord of Queer
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The Snowman cometh
How to Be Good
Carol Shields
Mexxed Missages
A road trip through Middle America
Every single one matters
The first black female novelist?
Joanne O'Leary
Madeleine Schwartz
Kathleen Collins
Andrew O'Hagan
Lillian Ross
'Early Work'
Walter Kempowski
Shakespeare's Last Plays
Vol. 17 No. 17 · 7 September 1995
page 25 | 2500 words
Elaine Showalter
In 1973, having finished a doctoral dissertation on Nabokov, Bobbie Ann Mason found herself compulsively rereading her favourite childhood books: series fiction about daring girl detectives, especially Nancy Drew. Admitting to such low tastes in the Seventies was like confessing a fondness for Hello! magazine today. Graduate schools regarded an interest in popular culture as a sign of intellectual frivolity, and demanded Leavisite vows (or appearances) of poverty and high culture. I still remember the shock and disdain of two senior professors whom my husband and I invited to join us at the original screen version of Village of the Damned; they restricted their movie-going to the annual Bergman film, always sufficiently depressing to count as Art. Thus Mason is quaintly self-conscious and defensive about her tastes, pointing out that while historians of children's literature dismiss the series books as 'bad habits', they constitute the primary reading that shaped the desires and fantasies of millions of American girls; 'even Lolita must have read Nancy Drew.' In fact, 1973 was something of a turning-point for popular culture; Mason proudly notes that the 'august MLA' has just scheduled a seminar on juvenile series books. Anticipating the coming rise of cultural studies, Mason predicts the emergence of Scholars of Relevant Trivia, who say: 'it's okay for literate people to like kitsch.'
Now that kitsch's time has come, and Mason is established as a prize-winning American regional novelist, the University of Georgia Press has reissued The Girl Sleuth,[*] her engaging study of several of the most popular 20th-century American series novels for girls: the family stories about Honey Bunch and the Bobbsey Twins; the girl detectives Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Trixie Belden; and the 'career girls' Cherry Ames, Vicki Barr and Beverly Gray. These are books which girls inherited, and which no boy would be caught dead reading. In her Introduction to this new edition, Mason describes the stories, most of which were developed between the Depression and the Fifties, as metaphors for a vanishing American childhood and perhaps even a vanished America. In retrospect, she now sees the mystery stories, along with jigsaw puzzles and quilt-piecing, as influences that led her 'to delight in the intricate designs of fiction'. While much has changed in these two decades, Mason still believes that stories about the girl sleuth deserve a privileged position in American fiction. In 1973, she argued that 'the girl sleuth is the supreme role given to females in juvenile fiction, the role which allows more freedom than any career.' Even today, she still sees herself as 'a girl sleuth, setting my magnifying glass onto words and images and the great mysteries of life'.
Indeed, The Girl Sleuth is most interesting for what Mason tells us about herself along the way; the book is really a portrait of the artist as a young girl. Growing up in relative poverty in rural Kentucky on a hardscrabble farm with a vegetable garden, 'endless weeds' and no furnace, Mason looked to the series books for glimpses of middle-class American culture, city life and the world beyond. These stories shaped her dreams of plenty and her longings for travel and experience; she still has 'recurring food dreams where I stand in a cafeteria line, and have to choose from a thousand beautiful foods and by the time I get done choosing it's time to wake up and I don't get to eat the food.' At the same time, the novels' images of femininity are both liberated and constrained; as a teenager, Mason dreams that she was 'a prostitute in a cream-puff shop, an old-fashioned soda shop/tea room right out of the Nancy Drew books I had been reading'.
The series books were hardly feminist; they reflected the materialist, gender-bound, even racist values of their era. 'Cotton picking is a healthful exercise,' a plantation owner assures the visiting Bobbsey Twins, as they watch the merry black servants at work. Mason sees the Shirley-Templeish Honey Bunch series as promoting an especially pernicious model for feminine behaviour. 'Honey Bunches' are little girls from four to eight, nymphets 'with a built-in chastity belt', programmed for flirtatious cuteness. The affluent Bobbsey Twins, whose series began in 1904, are less coy, but also bound to a smug social hierarchy which Mason calls the Great Chain of Bobbsey, where success comes from kowtowing to higher authority, and accepting service from those below.
Honey Bunch and the Bobbseys were young children who led fairly placid lives, with trips and travel providing most of the plot-line, and only the odd puzzle or mystery to liven up the day. Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, who made her literary debut in 1929, was the first real sleuth in the series books. Even in 1933, in the depths of the Depression, Macy's sold six thousand Nancy Drews at Christmas, and they had sold sixty million copies worldwide by 1975. Nancy is the perfect teenage princess, 'as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty Crocker'. The surrogate hostess for her widowed father, Nancy does not seem to go to school, but spends her time alternating debutante pursuits – tea dances, calls, antiquing – with detection, pursuing various thieves, con men and kidnappers from the lower classes, men with names like Rudy Raspin and Mr Warte, who 'want to upset the élitist Wasp order'. Seemingly fearless, multi-talented and mature, Nancy is also invariably 'dainty'. To Mason, she represents the ambivalence of 20th-century women, both 'protected and free'. In later series, the career girls Cherry, Vicki and Beverly extended the boundaries of feminine ambition a bit more, aspiring to be either nurses or airline hostesses. But solving mysteries was the real outlet for female intelligence and daring, offering much more freedom than any of the available 'careers'.
In describing her mesmerised reading of these tales of juvenile detection, Mason presents herself as a kind of Kentucky Catherine Morland, desperately longing to find some clues and solve some mysteries of her own. She longs to follow the girlish heroines into their magical world where footprints are always 'freshly made, like cookies', in the snow. 'I looked for footprints until I was blue in the face,' Mason writes; in Kentucky, where the snow quickly turned to mud, they were hard to find. In 1951, with a girlfriend, she formed a detectives' club.
I longed with all my heart to solve a mystery. I sniffed for clues like a starved sleuthhound. If only I could find a cryptic note, a lost love letter in a hollow oak, a quaint genealogical enigma behind an emerald embedded in the eye of an old figurine in the attic! I eavesdropped lustily for the secrets of thieves and searched for footprints and signet rings, but all I ever found was an old tin can and a twisted cigarette wrapper in the woods – the case of the phantom litterbugs.
The analogies to Jane Austen's parodic female Gothic are not really very far afield. In the Nancy Drew stories, 'all mansions are haunted'; they are juvenile, Americanised forms of the haunted castle of classic female Gothic, where the heroine searches for the mystery of femininity itself. This coded search accounts for the 'mythic' quality in stories that seem otherwise stereotyped and banal. Like the heroines of Mrs Radcliffe's archetypal stories, Nancy is motherless, and in novel after novel, her quest leads her to secret rooms, hidden chambers, treasure-chests and jewel-boxes. Discoveries of secret compartments, Mason notes, are a recurring scene in the stories which she now recognises as 'a celebration of masturbation': "'I can feel something with my fingers!" Nancy said in an excited voice... "it's a tiny knob! Girls, I've found a secret compartment!" ' The treasure that has to be found and protected, 'something hidden, precious and beautiful which must be defended from the greedy, disreputable tricksters', seems to be 'a neat Freudian analogy to the precious jewel of a girl's virginity'.
More important, the plot structure of the Nancy Drew series, with its pair of femme/butch sidekicks (Bess and George) for Nancy, its balancing act between adventure and domesticity, effectively sets out the options for female development. Mason is retroactively charmed by Honey Bunch's sidekick, a feisty little girl nicknamed 'Stub', who looks like a football or a potato, and longs for a tool-chest rather than a hope chest. 'Stub is the real heroine of that series,' Mason now realises; but this seems too reductively feminist an interpretation. The appeal of the books, after all, is not just to the stubby and aggressive side of femininity, but also to its internalised preoccupation with domestic sanctuaries. Mason notices in the stories a fascination with the attic, a recurring motif in women's writing since Jane Eyre and Little Women. While 'boys act out their fantasies in the outside world', girls retreat from their assigned roles to these places to contemplate their secret longings.
Mason also describes a female space she calls the 'kitty corner', a cozy diminutive interior in the various stories, 'a perfect world in miniature, a little elf nook, a playhouse, a gingerbread cottage, an English garden in a terrarium, a hideaway in an attic'. In a famous, flawed experiment, Erik Erikson had 12-year-old children play with blocks. The boys built towers and fortresses, and then assaulted them: the girls constructed interiors and defended them. Erikson said the children were playing out their body maps, but 12-year-olds already know quite well what sort of play is expected of boys and girls. Still, there's some thing about this experiment, and about the kitty corner, that rings true. I've always preferred movies like The Alamo and Fifty-Five Days in Peking, where the fortress is being defended from within, to those like The Guns of Navarone in which it is besieged from without. For years, Mason confesses, she herself was obsessed with the notion of the perfect play house. Indeed, this 'subversive affirmation of a feminised universe' is finally more appealing than the detection, and as in Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz, the girl sleuth's quest 'is not really for the unknown, but for the known, the familiar', or perhaps the familiar romanticised.
I, too, loved series fiction as a girl, but Nancy Drew was never high on my list, and The Clue of the Leaning Chimney, which I have just reread, strikes me as unspeakably dull. My favourites were the luridly masochistic Elsie Dinsmore books, set in the Deep South after the Civil War. In the first book, Elsie is ordered by her papa to play the piano on a Sunday; too pious to obey, she sits mute on the piano bench until she faints and gets brain fever.
I also treasured a wonderful series about a girl called Maida, set in Boston, where I grew up, and written by Inez Haynes Irwin, a novelist, suffragist and all-round feminist radical who graduated from one of the first classes at Radcliffe in the 1890s, and came to Europe as a war correspondent during the First World War. Irwin hung out with the expatriates in Paris, including Gertrude Stein, whom she found obnoxious and overbearing, and in the mid-Twenties contributed an anonymous autobiographical essay to a series in the Nation which was entitled 'These Modern Women'.
There's virtually nothing about the Maida books in Irwin's papers at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. But as a child I identified with them with the same passion that Mason feels for Nancy Drew. When I was 11, and about to have an operation on my eyes, I stayed up all night to reread them in hospital. In the first book, Maida's Little Shop, ten-year-old Maida, the motherless only child of a rich Boston newspaper publisher, is recovering from a serious illness which has left her listless and weak. The ebullient chief reporter Billy suggests that she be sent to live for a while with his mother, who runs a penny candy and toy store in a working-class area of Charlestown. Maida's growing interest in the shop and the neighbourhood parallels her growing friendships with the local Irish-American and Italian-American kids. By the end of the story, her father has decided that her health depends on staying with this large surrogate family of siblings. He persuades the parents to agree to let their children come to live with Maida on her fabulous estate, and to be tutored and counselled by a glamorous young couple named Robin and Bunny. In the subsequent books, the Big Eight, as the children are called, study in Maida's Little School, summer at Maida's Little Camp, and have endless adventures in exquisitely equipped schoolrooms, libraries, gymnasiums, theatres and house boats, up till the time that Maida's dad pays for them to go to college. All the girls in the story were intelligent and talented, and one of them, Rosie, was a real hell-raiser, but it was the decor that appealed to me most of all, along with the adults' collective devotion to creating a perfect dream environment for each child.
Mason sees the girl sleuth as a 'pathfinder and an explorer', someone who carries on in the tradition of Alcott's Jo March. Nancy would never dream of writing a story herself, but Mason was inspired to write as a child by imitating the formulae of the series novels. She modelled her first childhood efforts, which she ironically calls 'Bobbie Ann: Her First Little Novel', on the adventures of the insufferable Honey Bunch, whose books are called Her First Trip West, Her First Little Mystery and so on. At 11, she wrote a full-length series novel, The Carson Girls Go Abroad, in which twin sisters Sue and Jean unmask a stamp counterfeiting ring in provincial France. The story, she now thinks, 'reveals a desperate dependence on escapist fantasies'. But it's obvious that Mason had a lot to escape from, and an unusually urgent relation to her reading. It's hard to imagine a girls' series superheroine for the millennium; supermodels seem to have taken the place of the Nancy Drews and Famous Fives. Nancy Drew paperbacks are still on the market, but what's really happened to the girl sleuth is that she's become a woman, the feminist detective of Amanda Cross, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Joan Smith or Sarah Dunant. The crimes are now drugs, rape and murder, but the fantasies are the same: 'no thugs and smugglers can dwell in their grungy hideouts for long when a girl sleuth is around.'
[*] Georgia, 160pp., $10.95,15 May 1995, 0 8203 1739 X.
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TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have scored their own docu-series on Amazon Prime Video.
The streaming service and NHL Original Productions have announced "All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs," which will go behind the scenes of their 2020-'21 NHL season.
The Canadian multi-episode Amazon original series will be available in more than 240 countries and territories later this year.
Cameras will follow the team as they compete in the first all-Canadian division in NHL history.
A news release says the series will offer "an intimate look into the world of the players, coaches and team personnel."
Uganda's Museveni wins sixth term, rival alleges fraud
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country's election commission said on Saturday, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them. The 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, dismissed the allegations of fraud in an evening address to the nation, saying Thursday's election may turn out to be the "most cheating free" in Uganda's history. The Electoral Commission said final counts showed Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6%, while Wine had 3.48 million votes (34.8%).

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News: Saturn Ion to be Replaced by Opel Astra in 2007
Saturn pulls the plug on its homely compact and finds a stylish replacement in the Opel Astra
RAY HUTTON
Saturn is becoming the American name for GM's German subsidiary, Opel. The 2007 Saturn Sky Red Line convertible is virtually identical to the Opel GT; the 2007 Saturn Aura mid-size sedan is directly related to the Opel Vectra; and at the end of 2007, the Saturn Ion compact reportedly will be replaced with a barely changed Opel Astra. According to Automotive News, the new Astra-based Saturn will not only be designed in Europe but also will be exported from there. The Ion ceases production in Spring Hill, Tennessee, at the end of this year. GM officials won't confirm that the Astra is the Ion's replacement or tell us what it will be called. Whatever the name, the scribes at Automotive News expect it to be priced from about $16,000 — some $3500 more than the Ion.
We have been driving the Opel Astra in Europe to give you an idea of what's in store for Saturn and how it compares with the small-car competition.
The Opel Astra took a big step forward when it appeared in Europe two years ago. Its predecessor had been a dowdy thing, outclassed by the original Ford Focus in the most competitive sector of the European car market. The styling of the fifth-generation Astra is more exciting and more sporting, and the design and quality of its interior is a quantum leap from the previous car's. Martin Smith, then design chief at Opel — now with Ford — can take credit for that. He made his name with Audi interiors, arguably regarded as the best in the business.
The Astra entered the European arena as one of the best, if not the best, of the bunch. Bigger and more spacious than its predecessor at 167 inches — it is 5.5 inches longer — it is also nicer to drive. GM's European engineers have learned from Ford's success with the nimble Focus that drivers appreciate cars that steer precisely and handle confidently. Ford has also moved on in Europe with a bigger and better Focus (not sold in the U.S., where the old model continues), but the Astra beats it on style and presentation.


Interface Builder is a visual design editor that's integrated into this tool. Use Interface Builder to create the user interfaces of your apps by assembling views, controls, menus, and other elements from the library of controls. Below image shows the interface area where you can design your screen. The orange bordered area is interface area where we can design our screen.
The white colored area in the above screen is said to be the Main_View of the current screen. You can drag any control from control panel on left and drop into the Main_View to design your screen.
Select any control in the Main_View which you want to move in the Main_View area.
You can even select multiple controls at a time to move in the area using Ctrl/CMD to select.
You can make use of two options to move the selected control/controls. They are : 1) Drag using mouse 2) Using keyboard arrow keys.
Drag the selected control/controls in the Main_View area to wherever you want to move.
Make use of keys to move the control/controls up, down, right, left.
Note : While using arrow keys, don't make use of any other key while moving the control / controls.
Control resize can be done by selecting the control and dragging from the end corner points.
Shift Arrow can be used to move the control by 5 pixel position in every direction.
This option is only for ioS to change the screen size between 1x and 2x. With this you can check the screen configuration on both the sizes.
Plus Icon: On click of plus icon the screen size changes from 1x to 2x. This also changes the images which we have assigned for 2x resolution.
Minus Icon: On click of minus icon the screen size changes from 2x to 1x. This also changes the images which we have assigned for 1x resolution.
Full screen: With this panel will cover whole screen giving more visibility.
Managing view hierarchies is a crucial part of building your application's user interface. The positioning of your views influences both the visual appearance of your application and how your application responds to changes and events.
Below image shows an example of how the hierarchy organization of views creates the desired visual effect for an application. In the case of the Template application, the view hierarchy is composed of a mixture of views derived from different sources.
As shown in above figure, Main_View is the main parent view in the screen. You can add any control from the control panel under Main_View as a child control. In Main_View hierarchy, the child control can be moved up and down with reference to some other control.
For e.g. As shown in above figure, we can drag IMAGE_VIEW5 under TEXTFIELD3 or move up above IMAGE_VIEW4. You can even select multiple controls at a time and can move up and move down together in the hierarchy.
Screen : This is the screen that is selected from Screen List.
Objects Hierarchy : This is said to be Object Hierarchy Window. It is used to view the complete hierarchy of the current selected screen's Main_View and to manage parent with child along with their sub child. Tapping on objects buttons in the top left panel will open up this window as shown in the below image.
Main_View : The parent in the hierarchy.
Sub-Control / Child-Control : The sub controls in the objects hierarchy.
Sub-Control : The sub control under a sub control in the hierarchy. You can add unlimited number of child controls in hierarchy .
Selected Control : The selected control is displayed in turquoise color. Tapping on any control will show its property in the Property window.
Hide : Select any control from the objects hierarchy window and tap on this button. It will hide that particular control visually but it will be properly seen at the runtime of the app.
You can delete the single object or multiple object in the same view from the object hierarchy. You can't delete the multiple controls from different views.
The move up will bring the object one step up of another control. This is more important in android platform where the hierarchy of the controls on the object tree must be similar to the way it is placed on the screen.
The move down will bring the object one step down of another control in the object hierarchy. This is more important in android platform where the hierarchy of the controls on the object tree must be similar to the way it is placed on the screen.
The Move to option will move the selected control from one view to the another view. When you click on the "Move to" option you will get the number of views to which you can move the selected control. This excludes Tableview and Gridview.
This will bring the selected object below the object on the same view. When you click on the "Move below" you will be provided with the list of possible object with respect to which the object can move below.
This will bring the selected object above the object on the same view. When you click on the "Move above" you will be provided with the list of possible object with respect to which the object can move above.
Use this option to remove selected control from the current selected screen.
Use this option to clone control in the same screen. The cloned control will be added in top left corner i.e. 0th position of its parent view. You can then set the position of the control as per your needs. For example: The button control is inside view. If you clone the button inside this view, cloned button will appear at the top left part of its parent view.
With "Save as control" you can create your own control. Once created you can make use of this control across multiple screens as well as multiple apps. Configure once and use it again and again.
Follow the steps to create your own control.
You can select single or multiple controls and click on "Save as control" to create your own control.
Next, On Click of "Save as Control" will open up following pop-up.
Add name of the control.
Add description of the control.
Press on add to save the control in the My Controls Panel.
Once you save any control as My Control. You can see it will reflect in the My control list , from where you can easily drag and drop into the required screen.
If you Save view (i.e parent control) as My Control. All the child controls in that view will also be saved in My control.
Hierarchy of the controls will remain the same as before. Even the internal references(especially for android app) will remain intact.
The following Quick menu Bring front, Bring Forward, Send back and send backward is only enabled and visible on the right click of the control when controls are overlapped else this options are disabled.
When you click on the overlapped control and apply bring front. The control appears above all the overlapped control. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped where Button1 is below the two buttons. The bring front action on button1 will bring it to the top of the two buttons in object hierarchy.
When you click on the overlapped control and select Bring forward. The control appears one level above the overlapped control. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped where Button1 is below the two buttons. The Bring forward action will bring the button1 above button2 and below the button3 in the object hierarchy.
When you click on the overlapped control and select Send back. The selected control will appear to the last place in the object hierarchy. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped. Button3 is above the two buttons. The Send back action will send button3 to the last place below button2 and button1 in object hierarchy.
When you click on the overlapped control and select Send backward it will send the selected control to one level below the current level in the object hierarchy. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped and Button3 is above the two buttons. The Send backward action on Button3 will bring it below button1 and above button2 in object hierarchy.
It is used to make the selected controls height and width of same pixels. Here, right click on the control with which you want to change the other control size. Suppose Button1 and Button2 are two controls. If we want the Button2 size to be same as Button1. Then right click on the button1 and click same size. This will make the button2 size same as button1 and vice-versa.
Use this option to make the height of selected controls of equal pixels. Here, right click on the control with which we want to change the other control height.
Use this option to make the width of selected controls of equal pixels. Here, right click on the control with which we want to change the other control width.
Use this option to align horizontally two or more controls within the same view. When two controls are horizontally aligned they have same Y-position. Here, right click on the control with which you want to horizontally align the other controls. In the below example: Button1 is horizontally align to button2.
Use this option to align vertically two or more controls within the same view. When two controls are vertically aligned they have same X-position. Here, right click on the control with which you want to vertically align the other controls. In the below example: Button1 is vertically align to button2.
Embed option is used to embed the number of controls on one view. This organizes the number of controls into one view. See the below object hierarchy after embedding.
Use to un-embed the number of controls from view. See the below object hierarchy after un-embedding. All the controls will come out of the view after un-embedding.
The hard sync option appears when you right click on the control on Android platform. It is used to sync particular control for all dimension.
Select parent is used to select the parent of the control. It is mostly used when the parent and child is of same size which makes it hard to select the parent. Suppose view1(Parent) and view2(Child) are of same size. Therefore, instead of directly selecting parent control you can right click on Child control(View2) and select the parent view.
It takes you to the related control document. It ensures to provide related control information during app development.
Various workspaces are provided in App Console to facilitate users with grouping of properties. When a team is working on a project, there can be different stakeholders like Designer, Developer, Tester etc. Every person will have different requirement for different workspace focusing on Design, Development and Actions.
Design Mode : Loading only design properties will save the time as well as increases focus of the user.
Development Mode : This will require all the properties as well as actions.
Action Mode : This mode will show only the actions related to the selected control. No properties will be displayed.
Loading time can be reduced considerably as well as time can be saved using this practise.
Preview : Redirects user on Project >> PreviewIT page from where either he can invite user to preview the App or get information on how to install PreviewIT App.
Backend : Switching to this option will allow the user to view dashboard of the Backend panel. To get more information about backend, please refer to Backend Management.
Language Manager : Get connected with Language Manager Section using this option.This option will be visible only if the application is multilingual app.
Asset Manager : Get connected with Asset Manager Section using this option.
DataSource : Accessing this Menu will display the datasource used in the selected screen. You can edit or delete the datasource as well as add events for datasource. Adding more datasource can also be achieved from here. Refer Datasource Management for more information.
Miscellaneous Settings : Some Application wide common but important features like Splash Screen, Alert View, Side Panel etc. can be configured using this option. Refer Miscellaneous Settings for more information.
Tab Settings : Default Tab setting is Disabled. Enabling it will show all available tabs of the screen and related settings can be configured using this menu. Refer Tab Settings for more information.
Notifications : Clicking this option will display the notifications used in the selected screen. You can edit or delete the notification as well as add events for notification. Adding more notification can also be achieved from here. Refer Notifications for more information.
Third Party : Lists all the Third Party Applications which can be configured. Configure.IT supports many Third Party Apps for now such as Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, Flury, Admob, Google+ etc. This lists gets expanded as we keep on adding more third party Apps here. Refer Third Party Applications for the complete list of Apps as well as more information about how to configure them.
Walkthrough :Clicking this icon will give you a walkthrough of the entire screen as well as also creates new screen for you as sample. This video tutorial is very helpful feature.
Full Screen : This icon will put the App Console to Full Screen.
Edit Profile: You can edit your profile anytime using this menu item. Refer to Front-end Overview >> Profile.
Team: If you have subscribed for "Team Plan" as mentioned on our Pricing Page, then you will see the "Team" Tab or else you won't. Please refer to "Team Management" to get complete and detailed information about Team Plan.
When any control is selected, it open Quick Menu as shown above. Quick Menu options are enabled/disabled depending upon the control selected.
Setting: The setting icon in the Quick menu is used to show hide property window.
Dimension Window : The dimension window is only enabled on the Android platform(xhdpi and xxhdpi and more). It provides information of current size vs original size.
Font : To change the font style and color of the text. Tapping on this button will show below screen.
Choose font color of the text of the selected control.
Choose font name of the text of the selected control.
Choose font size of the text of the selected control.
Left Align : Use this option to align left.
Center Align : Use this option for align center.
Right Align : Use this option for align right.
Background Color: Tapping on Background color will open the following screen.
Here, You can apply this quick action only after selecting the control. You can apply it on single or multiple controls at the same time. For multiple controls full width, full height, and full height and width won't work.
Top: It will align the control to the top of it's parent control. If you select two or more controls and apply this action. The selected control will form a group. Here, the selected control will be placed at the top considering the position of the Particular control on the top of the group.
For example: Button1 and Button2 are selected control which form a group. The position of button1 is above the button2. When the Top action is applied to this group. Both the controls are placed to the top considering the position of button1 which is above button2.
Middle: It will align the control to the horizontal center of its parent.If Multiple controls are selected then they will form a group and the horizontal center of that group will be aligned to the horizontal center of parent.
For example: Button1, Button2, button3 are selected control which form a group. It considers the horizontal center of the group. When the middle action is applied to this group. The group is moved so that the horizontal center of the group is aligned with the horizontal center of parent.
Bottom: It will align the control to the bottom of its parent control. The selected control which formed a group will be moved to the bottom considering the control below all the controls.
For example: Button1, Button2, button3 are selected control which form a group. The position of button2 is below the button1 and button3. When the Bottom action is applied to this group. All the controls are placed to the bottom considering the position of button2 which is below button1 and button3.
Left: It will align the controls to the left of its parent control. The selected control which formed a group will be moved to the left considering the control on the leftmost side of all the controls.
For example: Button1, Button2, button3 are selected control which form a group. Button2 is leftmost of button1 and button3. When the "LEFT" action is applied to this group. All the controls are placed to the Left considering the position of button2.
Right: It will align the controls to the Right of its parent control. The selected control which formed a group will be moved to the Right considering the control on the Rightmost side of all the controls.
For example: Button1, Button2, button3 are selected control which form a group. Button3 is Rightmost of button1 and button2. When the "RIGHT" action is applied to this group. All the controls are placed to the right considering the position of button3.
Center: It will align the control to the vertical center of its parent. If Multiple controls are selected then they will form a group and the vertical center of that group will be aligned to the vertical center of its parent.
For example: Button1, Button2, button3 are selected control which form a group. It considers the vertical center of the group. When the center action is applied to this group. The group is moved so that the vertical center of the group is aligned with the vertical center of parent.
Full Width: This action will change the width of the selected object to the full width of parent control.
Full Height: This action will change the height of the selected object to the full height of the parent control.
Full Screen: This action will change the height and width of the selected object to the full height and width of the parent control.
Bring Forward: When you click on the overlapped control and select Bring forward. The control appears one level above the overlapped control. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped where Button1 is below the two buttons. The Bring forward action will bring the button1 above button2 and below the button3 in the object hierarchy.
Send Back: When you click on the overlapped control and select Send back. The selected control will appear to the last place in the object hierarchy. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped. Button3 is above the two buttons. The Send back action will send button3 to the last place below button2 and button1 in object hierarchy.
Bring Front: When you click on the overlapped control and apply bring front. The control appears above all the overlapped control. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped where Button1 is below the two buttons. The bring front action on button1 will bring it to the top of the two buttons in object hierarchy.
Send Backward: When you click on the overlapped control and select Send backward it will send the selected control to one level below the current level in the object hierarchy. Suppose button1, button2, and button3 is overlapped and Button3 is above the two buttons. The Send backward action on Button3 will bring it below button1 and above button2 in object hierarchy.
Copy/Cut Paste Control: This option appears after we select the control to be copied or cut. You can copy or cut and paste single control or multiple controls. The copied and cut controls can be pasted in same screen or other screen.
When you select the multiple control and paste it, the control maintains the same arrangement wherever it is placed.
Note: We can't select the controls on different views to copy together.
Embed in View : This option will be used to embed current selected control into a view.
Unembed from View : This option will be used to un-embed current selected control from a view.
Link : This option will provide you shortcut to attach any action to the selected control.
The detail description of each action event of the control will be discussed in detail later.
Delete : This option will delete the current selected control.


A day that marks an essence in the Jain calendar, the Mahavir Jayanti festival is celebrated by the Jains, which is one of the oldest religious community in India that stepped with the birth of Adinatha, who was the first Tirthankara (omniscient teacher) of Jainism. The Mahavir Jayanti Festival, held on an auspicious day of the rising moon of 'Chaitra', is celebrated to commemorate the birth of the last Tirthankara, Mahavir. Though the birth place of the spiritual leader is still an obscure but according to Jainism, Mahavira was born in 540 BC into the royal family of King Siddartha of Kundgraam and Queen Trishala. The celebration takes place in all the Jain temples across the world and further, many engage in some sort of charitable act like feeding the poor and saving cows from slaughter. On this auspicious day, local statues of Lord Mahavir is given a ceremonial bath, which is known as 'abhisheka'. The Mahavir Jayanti festival experiences the rush from major international tourists from Sri Lanka, Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and United States.
The origin of Jainism is still concealed in the chapters of Indian history but it is believed that Parsva, whose followers are referred in the canonical books, is the first Jain figure who lived somewhere in between 9th-7th century BC. According to the historians, Adinatha, who was also known as Rishabha and born in between 7th-6th century, is the traditional founder of Jainism and later after the birth of Mahavir, who was also known as Vardhamana, was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara. Traces of Jainism remains in ancient Ayodhya, which is the birth place of Adinatha, and in Vaishali, Jamui and Nalanda, currently all in Bihar. The Jains traditionally followed 'Purva', which was a collection of Jain scriptures that was preached by all Tirthankaras but was lost because of famine that resulted the of several Jain saints. Since the origin the Jains were the followers of the principles of non-violence, self control and creed. In the later period, during the reign of the Mauryan dynasty, Emperor Chandragupta was converted to Jainism but his grandson Emperor Ashoka was turned to Buddhism. In the 1st century BC, Emperor Kharvela of the Mahameghavahana dynasty conquered Magadha and marked the presence of Jainism in Udayagiri and Khandagiri in Orissa. Over the years the Jains left their footprints in several Indian states, currently like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh.
Ellora Caves, Maharashtra: Popular for its rock cut temples belonging to Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism, the Ellora Caves brings forth 5 caves demonstrating the religious essence of the Jains in between the period of 5th century and 10th century. It is a world heritage site and is maintained under the Archaeological Survey of India. Cave 30, the Chhota Kailash; Cave 31, which is an unfinished four pillared hall; Cave 32, Indra Sabha; Cave 33, Jagannath Sabha; and Cave 34, which is a small cave having some rock cut work, are the most prominent Jain shrines. The site is approximately 30 kilometers from Aurangabad, 340 kilometers from Mumbai and 260 kilometers from Pune.
Palitana Temples, Gujarat: Scattered with hundred of temples on Mount Shatrunjaya in Gujarat, the Palitana Temples are considered as the holiest of all pilgrimage sites by the Jain community. The main shrine is dedicated to Rishabha that belongs to the Svetambara Murtipujaka sect of Jainism. There is only one shrine that belongs to the Digambara sect. The temples date back to the period between 11th century and 16th century. The Palitana temples are approximately 220 kilometers from Ahmedabad and 160 kilometers from Rajkot.
Saavira Kambada Basadi, Karnataka: Built in the 15th century by ruler Devaraya Wodeyar of the Vijayanagara kingdom, the Saavira Kambada Basadi temple is noted for its 1000 pillars. It is located in the town of Moodabidri and the town also hosts 18 Jain shrines. Amongst all the temples, the Saavira Kambada Basadi temple is the most beautiful and popular one. The Saavira Kambada Basadi temple complex is approximately 350 kilometers from Bangalore and only 30 kilometers from Mangalore.
Ranakpur Temples, Rajasthan: Built in the 15th century, the Ranakpur temples are considered as the most remarkable and largest temples of Jainism that boasts an exceptional masterpiece of intrinsic works along with 24 pillared halls, 80 domes and 400 columns. Amongst all the temples in the complex, the Chaumukha temple, Parsavnath temple, Amba Mata temple and Surya temple are the noted ones. The Chaumukha temple is dedicated to Rishabha. It is said that the construction work of the temple took approximately 65 years and it covers an area of 48,000 square feet with 1,400 exquisitely carved pillars. The temple complex is easily accessible from Udaipur, which is approximately 95 kilometers away.


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Winning students from 'Introduction to Programming' MOOC attend exclusive workshop at Google São Paulo
Fifteen journalists who participated in the online course "Introduction to Programming" were at Google offices in São Paulo on Feb. 19 for an exclusive Python workshop. They were able to deepen what they learned in the Knight Center course with instructors Pedro Burgos and Álvaro Justen.
Students from Portuguese MOOC 'Introduction to Programming' create their own programs and receive grants for workshop at Google
Scripts that compile data on political candidates' assets, send e-mails alerting you about schedules for women's soccer games or minimize the risks of password theft and other sensitive information. Robots that Tweet the votes of senators on legislative proposals or that follow bills on women's rights in the House. These were some of the final projects developed by journalists who started programming after the Portuguese MOOC "Introduction to Programming: Python for Journalists," offered by the Knight Center with the sup
How Argentina's La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in Latin America
This story is part of a series on Innovative Journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean.(*) In 2010, political reporter Diego Cabot of Argentina's La Nación received a leak with the potential of shaking up one of the key ministries of President Cristina Kirchner's first term. It was a CD with 26,000 e-mails from the […]
What to do after losing your job at a newspaper: Brazilian reporter creates a profitable startup and hires 20 journalists
When he was laid off from Folha de S. Paulo in 2014, political reporter and columnist Fernando Rodrigues did not stop his behind-the-scenes coverage of power in Brasilia. He continued to write for his blog, which he had kept for 14 years, and to participate in a radio show. Shortly thereafter, he launched his own company, an innovative startup that has been growing, making profits and hiring journalists.
Panama Papers: Mar Cabra, ICIJ's data editor, talks about challenges of analyzing 11 million documents
The Panama Papers, the biggest leak in journalism's history, led to a global investigative effort joined by about 100 Latin American journalists who were able to untangle how fiscal paradises work. Under the leadership of Spanish journalist Mar Cabra, the global data team from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) was the brain behind the investigation that required an analysis of 11.5 million documents; the team proved that knowing how to deal with big data has become essential to investi
Employees protest censorship after CEO of media state company was replaced by interim president in Brazil
Professionals of Brazil Communications Company (EBC) that manage the Brazilian public TV channels and radio participated in a ceremony on May 20th to denounce the alleged censorship that has being happening since the change of CEO of the company, defined by interim president Michel Temer. The information is on the website Rede Brasil Atual.
Daylong suspension of WhatsApp affects journalists and media in Brazil
Due to a judicial order, service of WhatsApp was blocked for one day starting May 2 for about 100 million Brazilians who use the messaging application. The measure had immediate repercussions among journalists who are accustomed to using the application for communication and also on news organizations that use it to distribute information and interact with readers.
Documents show involvement of JBS company in defamation campaign against Brazilian journalist
Documents obtained by judicial order show that the company JBS, one of the largest food company in the world, and another company contracted by it in 2015 sponsored a smear campaign against Brazilian journalist and founder of the nonprofit organization Reporter Brazil, Leonardo Sakamoto. The information was published by Folha de S. Paulo on April 8.
Editor of Brazilian magazine Época defends national coverage of country's corruption investigation
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After retiring from Brazilian newspaper Folha, renowned reporter Elvira Lobato releases first major independent investigation
A full-time reporter. That is how Elvira Lobato, one of the most award-winning and prestigious journalists in Brazil with 39 years dedicated to print journalism, described herself. Even after deciding to retire from Folha de São Paulo in 2011, where she was a special reporter and worked for 27 years, her "destiny" to investigate would not allow her to leave the field. In February, Lobato published a series of reports on television concessions in the Amazon in partnership with independent news site Agência Publica.


Companies are resorting to blunt force marketing tactics. An online retailer says that customer personalization requires more nuance -- and reality-testing.
For many companies, marketing efforts continue to be one-dimensional or unsuccessful.
Marketing departments are still following a principle of more is more in their email campaigns. This focus on quantity over quality is driving away consumers who are clamoring for customer personalization, not a barrage of messages. Despite that fact, between 2015 and 2019 the number of email messages sent is due to increase from 205 billion to 246 billion, according to the Radicati Group's "Email Statistics Report 2015-2019."
To add to that, consumers want quality interactions or they will opt out of the messaging they receive. According to "The Contextual Marketing Imperative" by Forrester Research, of 1,200 consumers and 200 advertising and marketing employees surveyed, 66% of marketing departments reported that they are doing a good job of personalized marketing, whereas only 31% of consumers believe they are. And 40% have unsubscribed because they find the messaging irrelevant, particularly when they are already in a "state of information overload," the report noted.
But some companies are trying to tailor their marketing efforts, by using customer personalization and then reality-resting these methods with qualitative and quantitative research.
That's why the Gilt Groupe, an online flash-sale retailer in New York City, blended A/B testing of website recommendations, online feedback and interview research to understand what was desired from customer personalization efforts.
You can cross the line to sound like a stalker if you get too extreme with [customer personalization].
"We literally had 2,500 flavors of email, depending on your previous interaction with us," Bill Kinneman, senior director of marketing analytics and customer insights at Gilt, said. "But we didn't know how it was being received. ... Knowing the feel and the experience from the customer's perspective was something that we were largely blind to before we did this research."
Kinneman also noted that Gilt Groupe wants to travel a careful line: Showing customers that the company knows them through their data, without being intrusive or creepy in its marketing approach.
"You can cross the line to sound like a stalker if you get too extreme with it," Kinneman emphasized. Customers, for example, may have purchased a baby stroller as a gift, then received recommendations for baby items thereafter; these customers want to opt out from these kinds of irrelevant recommendations. As a result, Gilt Groupe ran pilot programs to reality-test its methods. It built its website algorithm to incorporate customer feedback on its recommendation engine and built more dialog boxes on the website.
Kinneman said companies also need to regularly refresh their customer personalization efforts and use quantitative and qualitative methods to understand whether methods continue to resonate with customers. "These could be the wrong answer by next year," he said, adding that while personalization is "sweeping the entire industry," it is overshadowing individual company business models and the need to understand one's own customer base.
Ernan Roman, founder and principal at ERDM Corp., also shed light on some of these findings by discussing his Voice of Customer research and the Gilt pilot projects. "People are willing to provide information to brands they trust. The stronger the trust, the stronger it serves as an offset to data privacy concerns," he explained. Roman also discussed a privacy pyramid, in which companies have to satisfy basic levels of trust first; then as they deliver on basic levels, customers are willing to cede personal information in return for valuable offers and information.
For more, check out the podcast above and also check out ERDM Voice of the Customer research.
Do you reality-check your customer personalization methods?


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Shipshape Network
Certificate no 99
Status National Historic Fleet
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Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Wherry (trading)
Location Ludham
Vessel type Trading Wherry
Current use Commercial Activity
Available to hire Yes
Available for excursions Yes
Info required No
Web address http://www.wherryalbion.com/
Builder Brighton, William, Lake Lothing, Suffolk
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff - Other
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 1
Propulsion Sail
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None
Breadth: Beam
14.98 feet (4.57 m)
4.49 feet (1.37 m)
Length: Overall
57.97 feet (17.68 m)
Tonnage: Gross
Air Draft
ALBION was built as a wherry and used to carry cargo on the inland waterways of eastern England. As road transport improved, the wherry became redundant and most were abandoned, sunk or broken up. In 1949, ALBION, one of the few traders remaining, owned by Colmans Mustard, was one of those about to be broken up when a group of enthusiasts formed The Norfolk Wherry Trust to rescue her. Equipping her with a new mast and sail, they re-conditioned her and brought back to the Broadland scene a craft that had been a distinctive feature for nearly three hundred years. She was set to work carrying cargoes on the rivers - timbers, sugar beet, building materials, etc.
ALBION was carvel built of oak with a pitch pine mast, counterbalanced on to a tabernacle set forward. A carvel built wherry was very unusual at this time, most were clinker built. It is believed this type of construction was undertaken to create a smooth external surface, to avoid the vessel being hooked up in locks. The cargo hold was in the centre and the crew quarters were at the rear. The Trust continued to use ALBION as a cargo carrier until 1953 when the hold was cleared to fit basic accommodation for charter parties during the summer with maintenance work carried out in the winter. However, the venture ran into problems. ALBION broke her mast in 1952, sank in 1957, and again in 1959. In 1966, the Trust was faced with the choice of spending large amounts of money they did not have in repairing ALBION, or scrapping her. A 'Save the Wherry' week was held under the patronage of the Duke of Edinburgh, and was highly successful. Several thousand pounds were raised and ALBION underwent a major refit over a three year period. She was re-timbered throughout and a new mast was made. A new sail was donated by a local boat hire agency.
She continued to carry passengers and, in the winter of 1999, various repairs were undertaken on ALBION. The covering boards were removed from the port bow to reveal rot. The fore quarter knee was also found to be rotted and both these were replaced, along with the carling hatch. Some of the seams in the aft deck also needed to be recaulked. ALBION now has cooking, toilet and sleeping facilities for twelve people. She has no engine - quanting and sailing are the order of the day.
In 2007 work has been carried out to remove the wooden keel and replace it with a steel I-beam. Following this work ALBION has lost the 15 inch hogging, and regained her sheer line. This helps when steering, giving the helmsman a lot faster response at the tiller.
Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, pp134, Edition 2, 1993
Sullivan, Dick, Old Ships, Boats and Maritime Museums, Coracle Books, 1978
Finch, Roger, Sailing Craft of the British Isles, William Collins & Son Ltd, 1976
Bray, David The Story of the Norfolk Wherries, Jarrold
Malster, R, Wherries and Waterways, Terence Dalton, 1971
Norfolk Wherry Trust, Norfolk Wherry Trust, 2011
Classic Boat: Major refit underway for Albion, Jan 2002
Classic Boat: Twice the fun at the Barton Regattas, Dec 2005
The Wherry Around the Wherry Sheds (2000)
Clark, Roy, Black Sailed Traders, David & Charles Ltd, 1972
1898 Built in Oulton Broad
1898-1939 In continuous use as a cargo vessel
1939-1949 In use as a lighter
1949 Purchased by the Norfolk Wherry Trust and restored
1949-1952 In use as a cargo vessel
1953s In use as a charter vessel
1966-1975 Restoration work continued
1996 Transported a Caen 13 tonne stone to commemorate the building of Norwich Cathedral
2007 Keel replaced
Presented with their runner up certificate for Flagship 2010
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If you are the owner of this vessel and would like to provide more details or updated information, please contact info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk
National Historic Fleet, built 1899 by Hall, D S, Reedham
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Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz is the university with more than 60-years of tradition, the only one in region that educates engineers, integrates technological and agricultural sciences. Currently, about 10 000 students are educated within daily, extramural studies, PhD and postdoctoral studies, on the university seven faculties. The process of education characterise with flexibility. New, major studies needed in region are opening (design, architecture, biomedical engineering). Students have the opportunity to continue part of their studies at other universities and abroad. UTP closely cooperate with the economy. Students have their internships in companies and participate in research conducted for the industry. Regional Centre of Innovativeness provides its laboratories interested companies from the region to support the development of innovative enterprises, which do not have adequate facilities to research. Multifaceted achieving make the university one of the best among universities of technology and science in the country, what is confirmed in the universities rankings. The pride of the University of Technology and Life Sciences are its graduates, who are doing very well in the labour market and find employment easily.


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Piqua is a city in Miami County and it is the 76th most populous city in the State of Ohio. Today Piqua is a part of the Dayton Metropolitan area. Piqua started out as two cities actually, the prosaically named Upper Piqua and Lower Piqua, and the name appears to derive from part of a Shawnee phrase which means "He has risen from the ashes." From this work came the mane for one of the five divisions of the Shawnee, the Pekowi, later known as the Piqua. Piqua in known for being the home of the first municipal nuclear power plant the Piqua Nuclear Generating Station.
Grow Piqua Now and the City of Piqua initiated the Economic Development Strategy, which provides further guidance for both organizations and the various organizations they partner with in the business community. The Piqua Economic Development Update came about as the result of the concerns of the Piqua business community, City government staff and officials, and other interests, and the strategies and tools that came out of the Update proposed a plan of action rooted in the data and ideas shared by participants. Its strategy is to identify current economic development successes, opportunities, and challenges and presents recommendations for future economic dynamism while protecting and promoting the quality of life for the community. Call the Piqua Surety Bond Pros Today at 800-314-7003!
Tell me something I should do when I am shopping for a surety bond provider? One of the best things you can do is look for a surety producer who is dedicated to providing that service. You may not realize it but there are thousands and thousands of firms that sell surety bonds. The majority of these also sell regular insurance, which poses a problem. While surety bonds are technically a type of insurance, it is an entirely different market, and knowing the insurance industry is not the same thing as knowing the bond market. Additionally, with some bonds, like performance bonds, it's good for the surety producer to know about the construction business, which is where performance bonds are used mostly.


Illnesses that could pose a risk during an Ayahuasca ceremony are: severe renal diseases, instable diabetes mellitus, epilepsy and serious neurological disorders, very high blood pressure, heart diseases, vascular diseases (angina pectoris, cerebral hemorrhage or stroke), factual or to be expected pheochromocytoma, dysfunctional thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism), liver disorders, or abnormal blood cells (blood dyscrasias).
With certain serious, instable mental illnesses like schizophrenia, psychosis and borderline symptoms Ayahuasca is not recommended.
Ayahuasca contains an MAO-inhibitor and does not combine well with medication like antidepressants, beta blockers and antihypertensives.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding are also counter-indications for using Ayahuasca.
The ceremonies are not to be considered a therapeutic treatment and are definitely not a substitution for regular medicine and/or mental health care in any way.


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"The four of us planned to put maximum pressure on Congress while voting," Alexander said in a recently deleted video about Periscope highlighted by the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit investigation. The plan, he said, was to "change the hearts and minds of the Republicans who were in that body and hear our loud roar from outside."
After riots inside the Capitol left five people dead – and Alexander and his group were banned from Twitter this week ̵
1; these three GOP lawmakers are now under increasing control of their role in helping the right-wing activist.
In a statement to The Washington Post, a spokesman for Biggs said the congressman had never been in contact with Alexander or other protesters, denying that he had helped organize a rally on January 6th.
"Congressman Biggs is not aware of hearing about or meeting Alexander at any time – let alone working with him to organize part of a planned protest," the statement said.
Neither Brooks nor Gosar responded to requests for comment from The Washington Post. But in a lengthy, defiant statement Wednesday, the Alabama lawmaker insisted he bears no responsibility for the uprising either. Brooks added that he would not have promoted any action that could undermine the GOP's efforts to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory for the Electoral College.
"I am very offended by anyone who suggests that I am so politically inexperienced that I want to torpedo my honest and accurate electoral system efforts, which I spent months fighting for," Brooks wrote.
Videos and social media posts suggest connections between all three Republicans and the right-wing activist.
Alexander, a criminal who has also been identified in media reports as Ali Akbar, received a large following of live-streaming monologues in which he declared his conservative views and support for Trump. Speaking to Politico Magazine in 2018, he called himself an "interpreter of energy during this period."
After Trump lost in November, the Daily Beast noted, Alexander positioned himself as a leading voice behind the movement to support the president's challenge to the election results. He was branded "a true patriot" by Gosar on Twitter, and on December 19, the two spoke at a "Stop the Steal" meeting in Phoenix.
"We do not want to go silent. We will close this country if we have to, "Alexander told the crowd, leading them later in a song from" 1776. "
Later at the event, Alexander played a video message from Biggs calling him a "friend" and "hero." In the recording, Biggs said he wished he could have attended the event and promised to challenge the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory.
"When it comes to January 6, I will be right down there in the well of the house with my friend from Alabama Representative Mo Brooks," Biggs said in the recording. A tweet from Alexander, including the message from Biggs, was retweeted by Trump on December 26th.
A spokesman for Biggs told CNN that the congressman recorded the video at the request of Gosar's staff.
In late December, Alexander said he was planning a protest outside the Capitol on January 6th. His event appears to be one of at least four competing collections that had sought permission for this date. But right-wing extremist online forums showed that Trump's supporters were preparing for more than just a rally – and Alexander also seemed to suggest that protesters might be doing more than just waving signs.
If Democrats got in the way of an objection from congressional Republicans, "everyone can guess what I and 500,000 others will do with that building," he wrote on Twitter in December, according to the Daily Beast. "1776 is * always * an option."
At a demonstration meeting the night before the vote, Alexander led the audience to sing, "Victory or Death!" The following morning, Gosar tagged the activist in several tweets.
Alexander told about the riot in a video about Periscope over the weekend and said he wished people had not entered the American Capitol or even walked up the stairs. He also argued that the rebels had not necessarily violated the law, although dozens have now been prosecuted by federal prosecutors.
In an email to The Post, Alexander said he "had remained peaceful" during the riots, claiming that his previous speech "mentioned peace" and was misrepresented.
"Mixing our legal, peaceful permitted events with the demolition of the US Capitol building is defamatory and false," he said. "People get misled, and then the same people promote violence against me and my team."
Around At 4.30pm on Wednesday – about two hours after rebels broke the Capitol – Alexander posted a video of himself overlooking the crowd outside the building, claiming that the majority of protesters were peaceful and praised those who did not enter.
But, he said in the video, "I do not deny this. I do not condemn this. "
Kim Bellware contributed to this report.
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The Angry Birds Trailer Looks Pretty Lame Despite A Great Cast
September 23, 2015 September 23, 2015 Hank
How can something with Bill Hader, Kate McKinnon, Hannibal Buress, and more be so lame? Try not to get mad about it…
As a cynical player of video games, it's easy to hate on Angry Birds for being a moderately fun game that became a global phenomenon. From a distance it looks like the billion-dollar, simple (and not all that original) gameplay overshadows the many great games on touch devices, let alone consoles. Well, now I can get annoyed on a different front, because Angry Birds' mediocrity will soon be combining with another sad trope: the snarky CGI film that's been the bane of animation since Shrek premiered. Take a look at the May 2016 film…
Yup, this trailer has it all! The overly obvious pop tunes dropped in to make parents nostalgic! The stock characters that appear in every animated film! A cast full of very funny folks who can improvise dirty lines that'll fly over kids' heads! The odd mockery of therapy groups that pops up an inordinate amount of times in comedy! Characters who have to take inspiration from a game with virtually no story, so they're literally birds with anger issues!
Ugh, yes, I get it, this isn't for me, but this trailer just seems so factory produced, right down to the fairly uninspired visual style. Unlike the intentionally poor animation of LEGO Movie or gorgeous art styles you'll see in Disney's Oscar-winning shorts, this is just the same level of competence we've been seeing from Sony's CG folks for years. I'm glad the Peanuts movie doesn't seem to suffer from this, trailer music choices notwithstanding.
Also, I love Bill Hader, Kate McKinnon, and can nominally tolerate Josh Gad, so it's annoying to not like something they're in. The same goes for the credited writer, John Vitti, who wrote many of the best episodes in the early years of The Simpsons – he wrote Mr. Plow FOR GOD'S SAKE!
Oh well, here's hoping it doesn't go on to make a billion dollars (it will). As a nice pallette cleanser, Disney's Paper Man short shows that using polygons in cartoons doesn't mean they have to be soulless.
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Angry Birds movie? THATS IT I'M OUTTA HERE!!!
I was surprised that I didnt see the Dreamworks logo on there as they are the factory house of cgi animated garbage.
HacktheBears says:
Call Angry Bird, that's my name, that name again is Angry Bird.
codystovall says:
Looks fine, sadly probably the best videogame movie so far.
Oh my god thank you for making me watch that awesome Peanuts trailer.
IT LOOKS LIKE A NEWSPAPER COMIC!!
DanMar says:
Well, not everything needs to have amazing, ground breaking CG. I think it looks fine, but you are right about it probably being a factory produced piece of trash. Say what you want about movies like Shrek, but I enjoyed that franchise immensely and this movie more than likely will not compare at all. What a waste of time and money and I don't think it will be successful, which might be the final nail in the coffin for the Angry Birds franchise.
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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has approved the release of the admission list into Junior Secondary School 1 for the 101 federal government colleges in the country.
This was made known in a press statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES and confirmed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Willie Bassey, on Tuesday afternoon.
Over 80,000 pupils sat for the entrance examination held in April 2018.
The education ministry lamented that the insecurity situation in the North-east and North-west regions affected admission into the colleges in the regions.
According to the statement, the list follows the 2018 selection exercise for placement of qualified candidates into Junior Secondary School One (JSS1) held recently at Owerri, Imo State.
The selection exercise employed the national merit criteria of 60 per cent, with a cut-off score of 146 and above, and equality of state of 30 per cent of each college's carrying capacity.
The statement also said the education minister approved for supplementary examination to be held tentatively on August 11 for colleges in the North-west and North-east zones affected by insecurity.
"Candidates are therefore requested to check their result at the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja all Federal Government Colleges and also online at www.education.gov.ng or www.fmeinterviewtest.com".


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package life.http;

import life.LifeCoin;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.JSONStreamAware;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

public final class GetTime extends APIServlet.APIRequestHandler {

    static final GetTime instance = new GetTime();

    private GetTime() {
        super(new APITag[] {APITag.INFO});
    }

    @Override
    JSONStreamAware processRequest(HttpServletRequest req) {

        JSONObject response = new JSONObject();
        response.put("time", LifeCoin.getEpochTime());

        return response;
    }

}

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Q: Problems with password matching with Angular Auto Validate Trying to integrate Angular Auto Validate's password matching/confirmation example into a form. I'm not getting any errors but the password matching code is not kicking in. What's the simplest way to fix this? What am I doing wrong?
Here's a plunkr of my code
Here's the password matching code I'm trying to integrate:
function ConfirmPasswordValidatorDirective(defaultErrorMessageResolver) {
  defaultErrorMessageResolver.getErrorMessages().then(function (errorMessages) {
      errorMessages['confirmPassword'] = 'Please ensure the passwords match.';
    });

    return {
        restrict : 'A',
        require : 'ngModel',
        scope : {
            confirmPassword : '=confirmPassword'
        },
        link : function(scope, element, attributes, ngModel) {
            ngModel.$validators.confirmPassword = function(modelValue) {
                return modelValue === scope.confirmPassword;
            };

            scope.$watch('confirmPassword', function() {
                ngModel.$validate();
            });
        }
    };
}

ConfirmPasswordValidatorDirective.$inject = [
  'defaultErrorMessageResolver'
];

Here's a plunkr of angular-auto-validate's password matching code working.

A: Well, at first you forgot to call the directive in your view, so you should include it in your confirmPassword <input>:
confirm-password="formModel.password"

Also you haven't declared the directive in your JS file:
app.directive('confirmPassword', ConfirmPasswordValidatorDirective);

Look: DEMO

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Q: PHP shell_exec from a script doesn't seem to work Im using a PHP that needs to run a PHP in the background. Im using shell_exec to do it and passing the parameters it needs to run correctly.
Example:
shell_exec('php /home/nobounces/crons/process3.php ' . $_SESSION['user_id'] . ' ' . $job['job_id'] . '  >/dev/null 2>&1');

However, when run from a PHP script under the user "nobounces" it doesn't run at all.
I tested the exact same call via SSH as root and it works smoothly.
Am I missing something in the call?
The ">/dev/null 2>&1" is there to avoid waiting for the response as it could take hours for the script to finish.

A: As running on a cpanel server, the solution was to use:
shell_exec('/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /home/nobounces/crons/process3.php ' . $_SESSION['user_id'] . ' ' . $job['job_id'] . ' >/dev/null 2>&1 &');

You can also use PHP-CGI using the path:
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php-cgi

Thanks @arkascha for your suggestion.


This a brief but informative description of the Japanese religion, Buddhism. It is short, concise and colorful but not too much detail. It would be good for general study.
A behind the scene look at Eric Dickerson congratulating the SMU Football team after winning the BBVA Compass Bowl in Alabama against The University of Pittsburgh. The final score was 28-6! This season's record ended at 8-5. Go Mustangs!
Jan. 7 - Jamaica's new prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, says the time has come for her country to cut ties with the British monarchy. Sunita Rappai reports.
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This 14 minute program features interviews with those involved in teaching the gifted and talented and students. This video looks at the gifted and talented programme, exploring what the role of the gifted and talented coordinator is and what it can bring to a career. British schools featured.


Having a Casa Burés apartment is living in the very history of Catalan modernism but with all the comforts and luxury of contemporary life in the big city.
It is 145m2 built, where the qualities and details are the real protagonists. The hydraulic mosaics are authentic works of art that decorate the different floors of the property in the form of mats combined with natural wood flooring. In the same way, traditional modernist stuccoes with floral motifs and vegetation cover most of the roofs.
The floor design is presented in a day area composed of living room and kitchen in a large open space to the wrought iron balconies of the chamfer. For its part, the private area consists of two double rooms with access to the terrace and two bathrooms.
The community facilities of the property include swimming pool with solarium on the roof, indoor pool, gym, living room, among other spaces for their owners and guests.


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Q: How do I link a csv file to flask? I have a CSV file of readings from a sensor that I would like to graph with chart.js on a flask server, however I am getting 404 errors when trying to access the CSV file, since I am getting 404 errors I am assuming that I need to actually path the CSV file in flask, but I cant figure out how to do this, I'm coming across a lot of irrelevant information about using flask to make and fill a database but I need to pass the database to an html page to parse for graphing.

Could someone please help me learn how to do this?

Code that I'm testing and playing around with for reading CSV files in JavaScript. Has the route specified in flask code below!
<script>
    //path is from html file location to db location is this right?
    d3.csv("../db/test.csv", function(data) {
        for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            console.log(data[i].Test1);
            console.log(data[i].Test2);
            console.log(data[i].Test3);
        }
    });
</script>

Test CSV file.
Test1, Test2, Test3
1, 2, 3

404 Error Details
Any help to better understand how to do this is much appreciated!
forgot my flask code!
@app.route('/test')
def test():
    #every thing that links the csv to flask would go here? Or would I need a more specific function for the csv file?
    return render_template('test.html'), 201

A: I FOUND IT!!! Here is the article I used in case anyone ever has a similar issue!
https://medium.com/@rovai/from-data-to-graph-a-web-jorney-with-flask-and-sqlite-6c2ec9c0ad0
flask code
#Retrieve data from db (logs/log_db/sht.#.db ; # = run_id = SHT30_#.log, #)
def getData():
    conn = sqlite3.connect('logs/log_db/sht.%s.db' %run_id)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    for row in cur.execute('''SELECT Itn, Temp, Humi FROM READING'''):
        Itn = str(row[0])
        Temp = str(row[1])
        Humi = str(row[2])
    conn.close()
    return Itn, Temp, Humi

#main route
@app.route("/")
def index():
    Itn, Temp, Humi = getData()
    templateData = {
        'Itn': Itn,
        'Temp': Temp,
        'Humi': Humi
    }
    return(render_template('index.html', **templateData))

In my index.html i used {{ variables }} to display the data on the page.


Wisconsin's Native American casinos offer thrilling games, luxury accommodations and fine dining to satisfy groups of any size and interest. These attractions often provide exceptional rates and a variety of entertainment offerings to please non-gamers in your group, and their diverse amenities will make travelers feel like they hit the jackpot.
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in the heart of downtown Milwaukee is the largest Native American casino in the Midwest, with over 3,000 slot machines, a 2,500-seat bingo room and over 100 table games. The complex also houses seven restaurants and the Northern Lights Theater, which hosts live music and comedians. The casino's 19-story hotel includes 500 rooms, meeting space for social events and a gourmet coffee bar.
Legendary Waters Resort & Casino, located in the tranquil Northwoods region, offers unbeatable views of the Apostle Islands and the nearby town of Bayfield. Here guests can discover thrilling no-limit Texas Hold'em tables, indulge in fresh seafood at the Wii-Kway-Ong restaurant and relax in 47 deluxe hotel rooms. Outdoor amenities include an adjacent campground and RV park, and a marina is available for adventures on Lake Superior.
An all-in-one destination for gaming groups that boasts more than 33,000 square feet of casino space, Menominee Casino Resort is an exceptional gaming experience less than one hour from Green Bay. The casino floor includes over 850 exciting slots, six poker tables and the new Menominee Bingo Hall. The resort also houses two outstanding restaurants: Autumn Leaf Café (which serves tasty burgers) and Forest Island (where guests can indulge in the house specialty of pressure-fried chicken).
Directly north of Menominee is Potawatomi Carter Casino & Hotel in the town of Wabeno. Amenities include more than 500 slots, a spa/whirlpool area and tempting menus at the Springs Restaurant & Lounge and Flames Sports Bar & Grill (which features a 165-inch TV screen). Recharge in one of the casino's 98 Northwoods-inspired hotel rooms or plan an unforgettable gathering in its numerous meeting spaces.
With six locations throughout the state, Ho-Chunk Gaming offers plenty of action no matter where your group decides to stay. Whether you prefer the water parks of the Wisconsin Dells, the gallery scene of Madison or the Northwoods atmosphere of Wittenberg, you'll be sure to find a location that matches your interest.


the best holiday you've never celebrated. | six words to change the world.
the best holiday you've never celebrated.
No, I'm not talking about the fact that it's practically Christmas by retail standards, or even Veterans Day (although that is certainly a worthy holiday in itself). Rather, I am talking about November 11. As in 11/11. And the exact moment of the holiday takes place at 11:11:11 on 11/11. You know how some people tell you to make a wish when the clock says 3:33? This holiday is like that, on steroids.
Yeah, maybe it's not very mature of me to celebrate such a thing. But everyone loves silly holidays. There are holidays for everything these days, so why not 11/11? My friend Katie and I "invented" the holiday back in 6th grade, and we've been celebrating ever since. Every 11/11 is a great day, but the biggest 11/11 of all is coming up in just a few years.
It's funny, because back in sixth grade, when we invented this holiday, it was 1997, and 2011 seemed a hell of a long way off. It was. Strange how that works out. I'm not in the mood to get into a deep discussion about how time flies and how your perspective is so different when you're 11 (AH! I just realized that we invented the holiday when we were 11!), so I won't.
Let's just stick with Happy 11/11! Make it a good year.
Ok, so get this. November 11 is Pepero Day in Korea. Pepero is this cookie stick dipped in chocolate that the Koreans have dedicated an entire day to. Everyone buys it and gives it to each other and there are huge displays everywhere. Quite a wonderful way to celebrate 11/11 in my opinion.
My first kiss (well, the first one that meant something) was at 11:11. Pretty cool, right? Whatever, it was a first kiss-there has to be a corny story behind it.
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Hi Guys! I opened an online store recently called "Daisy Jane". I specialize in street wear/street style clothing and some bespoke pieces. Been meaning to share and promote it to you guys sooner but due to my really busy schedule the past few weeks, it's been put on the back burner again and again.
Everything in the shop is really affordable and well-made. Nothing above P1k and you can even use your credit card to pay via paypal!
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