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Q: jQuery Plugin - Call input value from method I hope you can help me with this. I'm writing a jQuery Plugin that works like this. When the user clicks an input, a pop-up div will appear with some fields for the user to complete.
What I try to achieve is that after initializing the plugin, I can call a method from inside the plugin that will return the value of a field.
Here's some code:
(function($) {
$.geoHelper = {};
$.fn.geoHelper = function(method) {
    return this.each(function() {
        var $elem = $(this);
        var $template = $('
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            '' +
            'Calle:' +
            '<input id="street" type="text" />' +
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            '
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            '
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        var $defaults = {}
        var $settings = {}

        var $methods = {
            init: function() {
                $template.css('position', 'absolute')
                    .css('top', $elem.offset().top + $elem.outerHeight())
                    .css('left', $elem.offset().left);
                $elem.on('click', function() {
                    $('body').append($template);
                    $methods.open();
                });
            },
            open: function() {
                var itm = $('.geoHelper');
                itm.css('display', 'block');
                itm.switchClass('geoHelper-close', 'geoHelper-open', 100, 'easeInOutQuad');
            },
            close: function() {
                var itm = $('.geoHelper');
                itm.switchClass('geoHelper-open', 'geoHelper-close', {
                    duration: 100,
                    easing: 'easeInOutQuad',
                    complete: function() {
                        setTimeout(function() {
                            itm.css('display', 'none');
                        }, 100);
                    }
                });
            },
            locate: function() {

            },
            getAddress: function() {

            },
            setAddress: function() {

            },
            getFields: function() {
                return $template.find('#street').val();
            },
            loadMap: function(add) {
            },
            getAddress: function(pos, cb) {

            },
            getCoordinates: function(add, cb) {

            }
        };

        if ($methods[method])
            return $methods[method].apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
        else if (typeof method === 'object' || !method)
            return $methods.init.apply(this, arguments);
        else
            $.error('Method "' + method + '" does not exist in pluginName plugin!');
    });
}})(jQuery);

So I initialize the plugin like this: $('#geo').geoHelper(); and then I want to call the method getFields like this $('#geo').geoHelper('getFields);, but this returns an empty value.
Could you please help me with this? Thank you so much!


I would like to apply for the position of Board Member with Ridgewood Swim Club. I lived in the New River Valley when I was younger but just moved back 2 years ago. I joined RWSC last summer through the sale of a neighbor's stock and my son Parker (10) and I have enjoyed having such a nice facility available to enjoy with family and friends. I have been wanting to become a more integral part of the community and think my work experience and broad skillset will be of benefit to the Board and members of RWSC.
I am currently part owner of Budget Blinds of Salem, Roanoke, Botetourt & the NRV, and own multiple rental properties. I work from home and have a flexible schedule so if there are tasks or other things I can help with I will be glad to take on things as needed.


It's a later afternoon, not quite evening time, and for a new PI and Personal Security firm, things are a little slow, even with social networking, and word of mouth, it's not that busy. A few cases, only a handful are even being worked. Sally's taken to a rather casual dress. Jeans, a yankee's Jersey T-shirt, and a pair of gladiator styled sandals, feet propped up on a corner of the desk, chair leaned back, and a rather new looking Starkpad held in her hands, doing something on the screen, tapping and sliding with her fingers occasionally.
Still convinced this is a good idea, a teenaged redhead stops outside the door to said small office, and takes one more deep, cleansing, centering breath. She has more than a few years' experience combating nerves, and easily enough stills the butterflies that want to be running riot in her tummy. Then she reaches out her hand and knocks firmly on the door, waiting to be acknowledged.
If beckoned in, the redhead opens the door, nodding to the blonde woman inside, and steps in to close the door behind her. "Hi. My name is Mary Jane Watson. I saw your advertisement for a receptionist. I was hoping I could drop off my application in person?"
Ah yes, the receptionist, and looking over the girl, "Well.." she begins as she pulls her feet back and sets the chair out of leaned back position, "Can you answer the phone, show concern for people and their problems, and put people at ease till I or one of the other two women who work here can get back to the office to speak with a possible client?" she asks, "And just to be clear, it's answering phones, and talking to people, no field work, we've got three people for that…"
The redhead eyes the blonde curiously, a slight lift to her eyebrows. "Yes, Ma'am. That was very clear in the advertisement: Receptionist. Answering phones and emails, greeting people as they come into the office; and taking care of coffee and such. Maybe occassional typing." No introductions? OK, fine. Mary Jane continues. "I won't lie. I want to learn. But I recognize that for me to learn, I have to be useful, first. So, I will do the job I'm hired to do, and ask questions /when/ those questions won't interfere with you and the others' abilities to get the job done and serve the clients." And if she gets in on field work, she'll assume it to be unpaid until they negotiate a change in her status /together/.
"Well, we act as a team, in all things. I will talk it over with Mary and Kate, and we'll likely have a decision to you soon. I'm sure you've been told, we'll let you know either way, but I will call or email you back. My name's Sally." Sally says softly. She didn't even look at the girl's resume, "We're here more for little person, the one who needs help, who is in a tough spot, more than we are for the privledged." she says softly, a touch of strong conviction in her tone. "All that being said Ms. Watson, you'll likely here from me in a day or so on when you can start."
The door opens up to a small office and waiting area. The walls are painted a pale blue and have various paintings from local artists hanging from them. A few fake plants occupy the corners of the room, along with a water cooler by the waiting area. A coffee maker and mini-fridge stand near the water cooler. The waiting area consists of four chairs lined up against a wall. Opposite the chairs is a large mahogany desk with a new computer and phone system on it. A bank of file cabinets occupies a far wall, and a number of windows allow in plenty of natural light.


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I don't know about you but pasta seems to be a dinner winner in our house on most nights with the kids. With this in mind we decided to put a collection of our favourite family pasta recipes together below. The only thing that tends to get a bit boring at times is the fact that we have the same dinners over and over. I guess for me it is more painful to hear my kids whinge about their dinner than it is to have the same thing.
Sometimes just to mix it up a bit I like to add something to the mix to try and keep it interesting. This is mostly for my own sanity haha. One thing we have found is a favourite in our household is garlic bread. It tends to go well with pasta dishes and makes it feel a little more interesting and fancy. We recently had the chance to try out the La Famiglia garlic bread and I have to say it was super tasty.
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1. Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Cook the pasta until al dente and drain.
2. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the chicken strips until they are golden brown.
3. Add the chorizo and cook for 3 minutes.
4. Then add in the sliced green capsicum and sliced mushrooms and fry for approx. 2 minutes.
5. Mix together the cream and white wine and add to the chicken mix. Stir in thoroughly.
6. Mix the cornflour and water together stirring slowly into the chicken – this will thicken the sauce. Allow to simmer for 2 minutes.
7. Toss the pasta through. Serve the pasta dish with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper on top to taste.
Break up the noodles and place into a heatproof bowl with the peas. Cover with boiling water. Stand for 2 minutes, then drain well. Return to the bowl and add the contents of the noodle flavour sachet, corn and eggs. Spray a small non-stick frying pan lightly with oil. Heat the pan and spoon 2 tbs of the mixture into a small pile. Spread out to about 7cm in diameter. Cook over medium heat for 1 1/2 minutes each side. Repeat with remaining mixture to make 12 omelettes (you can cook 3-4 at a time). Serve with salad.
Add mince, carrot, zucchini and capsicum to a large frying pan and cook over medium heat. Add a little oil if needed.
Once mince has browned, add tomatoes, water, dried herbs and spices.
Break up mince and tomatoes with a spoon.
Simmer on low heat for 20 minutes, stirring often.
Bring a pot of salted water to the boil and add your pasta.
Heat oil in a fry pan and add onion and cook until it is translucent.
Add in the bacon and cook through. Add in the mushrooms.
Stir in the evaporated milk and add the spinach leaves.
Leave it for 5 minutes to simmer away as it thickens. The spinach leaves will wilt in this time.
Once your pasta is cooked, drain and then add to the creamy bacon mix and stir through thoroughly.
When you are plating up, add the parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste.
Cut up and brown the 2 chicken breasts.
Once pasta is cooked add the pasta and sauce together.
We are giving one reader the chance to win a year supply of La Famiglia garlic bread (1 x loaf per week for 52 weeks = $330 which will come to you in the form of supermarket gift vouchers) just by commenting on the blog post below and telling us one way you take your family meals from simple to special? The competition is open from the 23/10/15 and closes at midnight on the 08/11/15.
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By using different techniques to cook our food! I like to look in websites and recipe books to get different ideas and inspiration to turn something simple into something special.
To make dinner a bit more special I aim to try 1 new recipe a week, and we always sit down and eat as a family! It is definitely our favourite time of day together.
I love to add my own special touches to otherwise traditional pasta dishes.
I love creating humble and artistic meals that my family can enjoy and have fun with. Such as pasta pizza's, taco's or rice paper rolls, where my family can get involved and have fun cooking!
Get the kids involved in the cooking they always enjoy eating anything they have made themselves way better than anything I make for them!
A dish can go from plain Jane to gourmet. We stew our own fruits from the fruit trees in our garden, we grown some fresh herbs for a rich taste sensation. It's all about love and care.
We make meals extra special by sharing the work and cooking together.
Adding the right HERBS & SPICES can take any meal from ORDINARY to EXTRAORDINARY!
A bowl of pasta is simple, but when there's a plate of La Famiglia pan bread on the side, it goes from simple to special. Can't get enough of that pan bread, so good!
I will only try new foods or meals on days that I know they won't be tired – there's no point doing it on a Friday night after a long week of school.
I add in a little Asian touch to every meal. This could even include eating foods using chopsticks!
We have two very young kids, so the food itself is rarely special. But we do make an effort to eat dinner together.
Master 4s favourite meal is anything with cucumber, broccoli & La Famiglia as accompaniments.
"Me eat more pan bread prease Mummy"? Lucky I always buy extra!
My family loves garlic bread. It really completes a pasta dinner.
Shopping on a budget has it's obvious limitations but I try to make our dinners special right from the beginning with careful planning. Shopping in season helps, as does watching out for sales on our staples. Saving in some areas allows me to splurge on others so still get to enjoy the brands and products we love. Pasta and garlic bread is one of the few meals that we get to enjoy together as a family as our daughter can be a fussy eater.
Food decorating! . So that they're more fun and special to eat. For example: heart shaped omelettes , dinosaur shaped bread, and flower shaped carrots. I also add yummy surprises. Like bacon crumbs on top of garlic breads. Mmm.
One of the ways we take our family meals from simple to special is to get our kids to help out with the actual preparation of the food.
Whether it be to crack the egg, or spread the sauce on the pizza dough, or pour the pancake mix. The list goes on.
This way our kids feel involved and when we eat the meal we make sure we comment on how much yummier it is because of their help.
Let's say a plate of pasta is pretty simple, I spice it up by a sprinkling some home grown basil and homemade olive oil over it. The fam loves it!
On baked potatoes I add cream cheese then sprinkle crispy Bacon pieces on top…mmmmmm……bacon makes everything taste better!
By sitting down as a family to eat and chat about our day. That's what a good meal is really all about!
I make meals special by getting the kids to help. They are more invested and likely to eat something if they have helped to make it. Especially homemade pizzas. Plus it's a special bonding experience to share with them while they are young.
We add ambiance…sometimes that might mean candles and fancy cutlery, other times it's eating outside on a picnic rug.
Each week, my children are each given one night where they choose the meal for the family and get to cook it themselves (under my supervision). This makes it special for them and they learn cooking skills and I get two nights off cooking too which is a bonus.


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$17 million gift helps build new facility for international studies school
By Theresa Ahrens
Posted September 2, 2014 at 8:15 am
The new 43,000-square-foot building will adjoin the Korbel School's existing facilities to form the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex.
The University of Denver in March announced a $17 million gift from philanthropists Anna and John J. Sie to support a new building for the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. The donation is the largest single private gift in the Josef Korbel School's 50-year history.
"Anna and I are both immigrants to the United States, and we understand the importance of global education and engagement. It is not only the cornerstone of world peace, but also economic advancement," says John J. Sie, founder and former chairman of Starz Entertainment Group LLC and an honorary member of the University of Denver's Board of Trustees. "With what Josef Korbel and his family have built, and under the instruction of Dean Chris Hill, we believe the Korbel School is poised to be preeminent in the world preparing future global leaders."
The Sies previously donated $5.5 million to the Josef Korbel School to build the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy in honor of John's father, a Chinese diplomat.
The new 43,000-square-foot building will adjoin the Korbel School's existing facilities to form the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex. University Architect Mark Rodgers and the architectural firm Anderson Mason Dale are collaborating on the final design, with input and guidance from the Sie family. It will feature several signature University of Denver elements, including load-bearing stone masonry and a tower that will become a new landmark on the University's skyline. The building's top floor will house presentation facilities for dignitaries and leaders from around the globe.
The ceremonial groundbreaking for the building is scheduled for 8 a.m. Sept. 23, and construction is scheduled to be completed by December 2015.
Aside from providing space for classrooms and offices, the new facilities will allow the Korbel School to significantly enhance the use of technology across its graduate and undergraduate programs.
"The future Korbel School classroom will be equipped with advanced technology that will add depth and breadth to lessons, while also training students on the technological tools they will use in their future careers," says Christopher Hill, dean of the Korbel School.
The donation by the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation is the lead gift in a five-year, $40 million fundraising campaign for the Korbel School. The Future of Korbel: An Investment in Global Leadership will support endowed student scholarships, additional faculty positions, innovative uses of technology and program expansions.
Anna and John J. Sie will receive the University of Denver Josef Korbel Humanitarian Award at the Korbel Dinner, which will take place Sept. 22 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Also being honored is Jeffrey Tarr, CEO of DigitalGlobe, who will receive the International Bridge Builder Award. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (BA '74, PhD '81) is the evening's keynote speaker. For more information, visit du.edu/korbel.


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Jonathan A. Noyales
Phillip Sheridan
As the shadows began to grow long on September 20, 1864, Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan and his commanders stared at the seemingly impregnable heights of Fisher's Hill, grandly known as the 'Gibraltar of the Shenandoah Valley,' which seemed to be crawling with Lieutenant General Jubal Early's men.
Fisher's Hill, just south of Strasburg, was recognized as a defensive key to the lower Valley during the Civil War. Massanutten Mountain stood to the east, while Little North Mountain rose to the west. Those two ridges narrowed the Valley, and the steep slopes of Fisher's Hill stood roughly in the middle. The hill had a sharp northward-facing slope and a small creek, Tumbling Run, traversing the ground to the north. Officers in both armies knew the site and understood that if defended properly it could be impenetrable. 'Fisher's hill is a natural fortification of lofty heights thrown across the Shenandoah Valley at a point where the Massanutten Mountain reduces [it] to a width of barely four miles,' remarked a staff officer in the Union XIX Corps. Nonetheless, Sheridan knew he had to attack the precipitous slopes — how to do so remained the question.
When Sheridan received command of the Middle Military Division in early August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered him to 'give the enemy no rest.' Grant was disgusted that Early had become such a distraction that summer by marching down the Shenandoah Valley into Maryland and threatening Washington. That campaign had disrupted Grant's efforts to hammer General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia into submission near Petersburg, and the Yankee commander wanted the troublesome 'Old Jube' quieted for good.
But throughout his first month of command of the Army of the Shenandoah, which consisted of the VI Corps, two divisions of the XIX Corps, the VIII Corps and two cavalry divisions, Early's Army of the Valley — approximately 15,000 men — had kept Sheridan at bay, even though 'Little Phil' had some 60,000 men at his disposal. By mid-September, Sheridan had received intelligence from area Unionists and his own scouts that bolstered his confidence and prompted an attack on Early's Confederates in Winchester on September 19. The Third Battle of Winchester turned out to be an outstanding victory for Sheridan's army and left Early's command in chaos. However, Early's army was not totally demoralized as it retreated south to the fastness of Fisher's Hill before Sheridan's pursuit.
Jubal Early Library of Congress
Early knew the Valley well and understood that Fisher's Hill afforded the best immediate opportunity to defend against Sheridan. The previous month he had sought refuge at Fisher's Hill after feeling threatened by Federal forces and was never attacked. Furthermore, Early could not retreat any farther up the Shenandoah Valley without leaving the door wide open for Sheridan to move into the upper valley and carry out his plan to lay waste to the fertile region known as the Confederacy's 'breadbasket.'
The battered Confederate force arrived at Fisher's Hill during the early morning hours of September 20 and by noon had taken up defensive positions facing north to Strasburg. Although the chief engineer of Maj. Gen. William Emory's XIX Corps had initially deemed the heights 'inattackable,' during the afternoon of September 20 the position was in fact extremely vulnerable.
In order to adequately defend Fisher's Hill, Early needed to have enough troops to stretch out over a four-mile front from Little North Mountain to Massanutten or his flanks would be exposed and susceptible to assault. And there was the rub. A captain in the 13th Virginia succinctly described the Confederate dilemma, saying, 'The position was a very strong one, but our army was too small to man it.'
In August Early had the ability to defend the position, but by late September he did not. Four thousand of his men had become casualties at Third Winchester, most of whom had been taken prisoner. Orders from the Confederate War Department to move Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge's troops to the Department of Southwest Virginia further diminished Early's strength. Early also had to pare off troopers to contend with a Union cavalry threat in the Luray Valley, as the portion of the Shenandoah Valley from Massanutten east to the Blue Ridge was known.
Early attempted to compensate for his lack of troops by strengthening the defenses and using dismounted cavalry, but with Sheridan's Federals moving in to his front, Early realized the foolishness of his position and thought it best to withdraw. 'Having discovered that the position could be flanked,' Early confessed, 'I had determined to fall back on the night of the 22nd.' Unfortunately for Early, he would not be given the option to retreat without battle, for the Federals had realized the extent of Early's problems by late on the night of the 20th.
Little Phil realized a frontal attack was unlikely to succeed and would result in heavy casualties no matter the outcome. He recalled that the 'enemy's position at Fisher's Hill was so strong that a direct assault would entail unnecessary destruction of life, and besides, be of doubtful result.' The initial meeting of Sheridan and his three corps commanders on September 20 provided no immediate decision. One of the initial plans discussed was an attack against the Confederate right flank, and although VI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright and Emory liked the idea, Brig. Gen. George Crook, Sheridan's West Point roommate and close friend and the head of the VIII Corps, was not keen on the idea.
Captain Russell Hastings, the adjutant of the 23rd Ohio of Crook's command, had been wounded on the 19th and was in a hospital in Winchester, but after the fight at Fisher's Hill, he undoubtedly discussed the battle with those who were there and had access to correspondence related to the engagement. Hastings claimed that Crook suggested a turning movement before the evening meeting. A flank attack on the right would be difficult to conceal from a Confederate signal station atop Massanutten, but an assault against the left end of Early's line held promise, argued Crook. Sheridan adjourned the meeting and then summoned the commanders later that evening to discuss a turning movement of Early's left.
Major General George Crook Library of Congress
Crook sometimes lacked confidence in presenting his opinions verbally, especially to superiors. To bolster his argument and hopefully convince Sheridan at the evening meeting, Crook brought his two division commanders, Colonels Rutherford Hayes and Joseph Thoburn, to Sheridan's headquarters. Hayes, a Harvard-trained lawyer, was brought along to plead Crook's case. At the 'somewhat stormy council of war,' as Hastings later described it, Hayes made a most eloquent appeal to Sheridan to allow Crook to conduct the turning movement against Early's left flank — just as Crook had done one day earlier at Winchester. General Wright, however, would not hear of it.
Wright, senior to Crook, believed that conducting the flank attack should be his privilege, as it was the post of honor. Some Union officers in Sheridan's army already had a negative opinion of Wright and saw him as a glory hound who disliked working in conjunction with other commands. When Wright demanded he be given the post of honor, Hayes apparently lambasted him. 'It is not a question of post of honor,' Hayes lectured Wright. 'The question is, how can the battle be fought, and won, at the least loss of life. The success of the Union Arms must not at this time be jeopardized by personal interests.' Crook suggested that while his men got into position to flank the enemy, the VI and XIX corps could distract the Confederates by moving against Early's front. Wright was still doing everything he could to block the flank attack plan, and Sheridan was not yet convinced.
Hayes then reminded Sheridan about the fighting experiences of many of the men in Crook's command and the nature of the ground over which this flank march of nearly a dozen miles would take place — rocky, rugged and mountainous terrain. A large portion of Crook's corps had fought much of the Civil War in the mountains of western Virginia and the men were simply more accustomed to this sort of terrain; neither the troops of the VI Corps nor the XIX Corps had such experience. An aged fifer in the 13th West Virginia constantly boasted that he 'was born on the mountain side [and] have always stood sidewise, with one foot higher than the other ever since I can remember.'
Despite Wright's strong feelings against the attack, Sheridan believed it was the only way to break the Valley's Gibraltar. After the war ended Sheridan failed to give Crook any credit for devising the plan to crush Early at Fisher's Hill. 'I resolved on the night of the 20th,' Sheridan penned in his memoirs, 'to use again a turning-column, against his left, as had been done' at Third Winchester. 'To this end I resolved to move Crook, unperceived if possible, over to the eastern face of Little North Mountain, whence he could strike the left and rear of the Confederate line.' Sheridan's reluctance to credit Crook for his role in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 marred a four-decades-old friendship.
Other officers, however, did give Crook credit. Chief among them was Hayes. Four days after the battle Hayes wrote his uncle: 'At Fisher's Hill the turning of the Rebel left was planned and executed by General Crook against the opinions of other generals….General Sheridan is a whole-souled brave man and believes in Crook, his old class and roommate at West Point. Intellectually he is not General Crook's equal, so that, as I said, General Crook is the brains of this army.' Others viewed things with a bit more objectivity. Artillery Captain Henry A. DuPont recognized that the flank attack was Crook's idea, but keenly observed that 'Hayes' admiration for his corps commander may have led him to underestimate the intellectual ability of his commanding general.'
Regardless of who should receive the lion's share of the credit for conceiving the plan, both Sheridan and Crook knew that if the plan was going to succeed, the flank attack needed to be kept secret — therefore many of Crook's movements would have to take place under cover of darkness or amid the fall foliage. That night Crook organized his men in heavy woods on the north bank of Cedar Creek. Paramount in Crook's mind was keeping his corps out of sight of the Confederate signal station on Massanutten.
Throughout the day on the 21st, Crook's men stayed concealed in the woods north of Cedar Creek while the VI and XIX corps marched from the area around Strasburg south to Fisher's Hill. Troops of the VI Corps occupied a small hill in front of Fisher's Hill that was a good platform for artillery. Meanwhile, Crook's men waited for the cover of darkness. Then, as the sun began to set, they marched southwest and occupied a position in an area of dense woods slightly north of Hupp's Hill. Crook wore a private's blouse, just in case prying eyes from Massanutten happened to land on him, and he ordered his color bearers to trail their flags, fearing that the bright colors of the Stars and Stripes or flagpole finials would attract attention.
Crook's regiments filed into their positions near Hupp's Hill during the evening of the 21st and rested for several hours. Beginning the next morning, they marched to the eastern face of Little North Mountain, from which they would launch their assault.
By 2 p.m., Crook's two divisions had reached the Back Road, situated at the base of the mountain. Along the road, near St. Stephens Church, Crook's men made their final preparations for the ascent up Little North Mountain and the subsequent attack. Knapsacks were piled, and the men, remembered one soldier from the 116th Ohio, 'arranged canteens and bayonet scabbards so that no noise would be made by them.' Crook's men had managed to maintain secrecy throughout the march, but that effort would be wasted if the Yankees revealed themselves as they climbed up the slopes of the mountain.
To distract Early's men from the events on their left flank, Sheridan directed Emory and Wright to increase their activity along the Rebel front. While the large majority of Early's men were preoccupied with Emory and Wright, the VIII Corps moved into position along the eastern face of Little North Mountain. The march was a difficult one, and all organization in Hayes and Thoburn's columns was lost as they moved along the rocky precipice.
At approximately 4 p.m., Crook — with battle lines formed squarely on the enemy's left flank — launched his assault. While most Confederates did not know Crook's whereabouts, evidence suggests that Early had some knowledge of the attack but failed to give it credence. Brigadier General Bryan Grimes noticed some activity on the Confederate left flank around 3 p.m., at least one hour before the flank attack commenced. Concerned about the vulnerability of his position, Grimes summoned Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Ramseur and implored him to reinforce the left end of the line. The units on the extreme Confederate left, dismounted cavalry under Maj. Gen. Lunsford Lomax, a force that many other Rebel commanders rated as sub-par, were the only obstacles that stood in the way of the massive flank attack.
Ramseur initially shrugged off Grimes' suggestion, stating that the Union troops Grimes observed was nothing more than a fence row. But when Ramseur peered through his binoculars, he saw Crook's 16 infantry regiments bearing down on the left. Despite that, Ramseur declined to bolster the left until he first discussed the matter with Early — a tremendous error in judgment on his part. To many, the sight of Crook's four brigades was plain as day. A Confederate private observed in his diary that he and his comrades could see Crook's men 'moving heavy columns of infantry to their right all day. We can see them plainly climbing up the side of North Mountain.'
Between 4 and 4:30 p.m., as the sun began to set behind Little North Mountain, Crook's two divisions, about 5,500 strong, struck Early's left, encountering Confederate pickets who put up no resistance and took to their heels, reporting to their comrades in Ramseur's Division that they had been flanked. Confederate artillery soon opened up, but did 'little execution,' Crook later remembered.
As Hayes' and Thoburn's divisions rolled down the mountain into a ravine, their orderly lines became jumbled. By 'the time we arrived at the foot of the mountain and emerged from the woods our lines were completely broken,' recalled Crook. Speed was everything, and that meant there would be no time to reform. 'Thence we went, sweeping down their works like a western cyclone, every man for himself, firing whenever he saw a rebel and always yelling and cheering to the extent of his ability,' recalled the 116th Ohio's Colonel Thomas F. Wildes.
The Union attackers first ran into Lomax's dismounted horsemen. Early generally held his cavalry in low regard, and those troopers did little to change his opinion that they had 'been the cause of all my disasters' when they could not thwart the Union onslaught.
After the war, some Confederate veterans contended that the panic-stricken cavalrymen did more than Crook's division to create alarm among the Confederate defenders and break up the left. 'While standing in position a cavalryman from our left came down our line,' remembered the 13th Virginia's Captain S.D. Buck, 'reporting to each command that we are flanked! This did much for Sheridan and the worthless soldier should have been shot then and there.' Buck continued his tirade against this nameless horseman, 'That one cowardly cavalryman is responsible for this disaster.' While unfair to blame one cavalryman for the disintegration of Early's line, it is reasonable to surmise that the sound of firing on the left and frantic men from Lomax's command fleeing their position must have been demoralizing to an army that three days earlier had suffered defeat.
Stephen Ramseur
By the time Crook's men caromed into the Confederate left, Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts' division of the VI Corps had linked with Crook's left. Sheridan's entire army then pressed Early from the front and left, just as it had done three days earlier at Winchester. Crook had thrown Early's army into disarray, and Old Jube's attempts to redeploy troops to bolster his left were counterproductive, as that only weakened the areas that were under pressure by the Union VI and XIX corps.
Ramseur desperately tried to hold to his tenuous position, and immediately ordered Brig. Gen. Cullen A. Battle's Brigade of Alabamians to the left to form a line parallel to the attackers. Battle's Brigade, which had performed admirably at Winchester, found itself supporting Major Thomas J. Kirkpatrick's Amherst Battery (part of Major William Nelson's artillery battalion) and the only obstacle between Crook's Federals and the Confederate left. As the attackers rushed onward, the gunners of the Amherst Battery fired canister into their foe, and Battle — wielding a cedar fence stake — urged his men to stand firm and shouted, 'Close up! On your life!'
Even though they were facing a hopeless situation, Battle's Brigade put up enough resistance to gain Crook's attention. 'On a prominent ridge about one mile from the base of the mountain,' Crook penned in his after-action report, 'where one of their main batteries was posted, the enemy made his most stubborn stand.' Regardless of that tenacity, however, Crook claimed his men soon drove the Confederates 'pell-mell from their position.'
As the men of Hayes' and Thoburn's divisions pounded the Confederate left, Ramseur sent Brig. Gen. William R. Cox's Brigade to help Battle. In the confusion of the fight, however, Cox got off track and left the Alabamians to fend for themselves. When the pressure of Crook's attack became too much to endure, the Alabamians and the guns they supported withdrew from the field.
After Battle's men pulled out, Grimes' Brigade of North Carolina Tar Heels was next to bear the weight of the attack. Without orders, Grimes, who was already taking fire to his front, took two of his regiments and faced them to the west to meet Crook's attack. Grimes' men fought ably according to most accounts, but fire from the front, left and rear compelled him to fall back. The rout was on. Small pockets of Confederates desperately tried to defend their positions but to no avail.
The regimental historian of the 116th Ohio recorded that they had been 'stopped at several points by small bodies of the enemy, but such stops were only momentary, for as soon as a little sharp firing was heard at any point, the men would of their own accord, concentrate there, and in a few moments would be rushing on again.' Colonel George Wells, commanding Thoburn's 1st Brigade in the fight, echoed, 'As long as a rebel was in sight they chased him, and whenever they heard heavy firing and saw that our advance was checked they gathered like bees.'
As darkness began to cloak the field, Early's men withdrew from their positions, and he later admitted he was quite displeased that the fight was a 'very brief contest' and that his men 'retired in considerable confusion.' The Southern commander believed that the troops could have provided better resistance to Crook's flank attack, but as he explained to General Robert E. Lee: 'In the affair at Fisher's Hill the cavalry gave way, but it was flanked. This could have been remedied if the troops had remained steady, but a panic seized them at the idea of being flanked, and without being defeated they broke, many of them fleeing shamefully.' A Virginian agreed with Early, expressing shame that, as he put it, 'we had disgraced ourselves.'
Battlefield deaths were minimal at Fisher's Hill; only 30 of Early's men and 51 of Sheridan's were killed. Early, however, did have his ranks greatly depleted, with nearly 1,000 of his men captured and more than 200 wounded. Sheridan had slightly more than 400 wounded, but he had more men than Early and could afford the loss. Crook lost 162 men in the fight, about 30 percent of the Federal casualties.
Sheridan's army pursued the Confederates south past Woodstock after the battle, but were unable to put the finishing touches on Early. 'Our success was very great,' lamented Sheridan, 'yet I had anticipated results still more pregnant.' Early had slipped away once again. Following his second defeat in three days Early retreated south and by month's end was near Waynesboro.
Despite the fact Early had escaped, Crook's flank attack reaped significant results. Fisher's Hill had disorganized Early's men and pushed them farther up the Valley. The lack of a strong Rebel presence in the upper Shenandoah gave Sheridan the freedom to begin what became known as the 'Burning' during the autumn of 1864, as he fired large amounts of property, carrying out another element of Grant's plan to destroy the region as a source of provender for the Confederate armies.
While Sheridan laid waste to the upper Shenandoah Valley, Early reorganized and reinforced his battered command. The two would lock horns on October 19, 1864, at the Battle of Cedar Creek. That morning, Early turned the tables by striking Crook's VIII Corps on Sheridan's left flank. In a matter of 15 minutes Crook's men, many of them asleep in the early morning hours, were captured or driven from their position.
Though Sheridan's men rallied to carry the day, that fight tainted the reputation of the VIII Corps. Although it is true that Sheridan's army won at Cedar Creek largely due to the fighting of the XIX and VI corps, the VIII Corps was responsible for much of Sheridan's success in the Valley up to that point and played an important role in the creation of his wartime legacy. The flank attack at Winchester and the massive maneuver at Fisher's Hill gave Sheridan two crucial victories and elevated him to the pantheon of legendary Union commanders.
As the years went by, arguing over the fight at Fisher's Hill resulted in animosity between Sheridan and Crook, two men who had been nearly as close as brothers for four decades. Historians have expended a fair amount of ink debating who was responsible for developing the idea to strike Early's left flank. Evidence exists to support both claims.
Regardless of who conceived the plan, Crook should be credited for guiding his men to the eastern slopes of Little North Mountain, and his soldiers deserve a large portion of the recognition for taking matters into their own hands after the terrain had disrupted their formations. Had the soldiers lacked initiative and fighting prowess, the attack would have failed and the plan declared a blunder. 'I feel the success is due, more than in any battle I know,' Colonel Wells wrote in his battle report, 'to the splendid individual heroism of the men in the ranks.'
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In advance of this week's big developer confab, Microsoft also appoints Nokia chief Stephen Elop, who figured as a possible CEO candidate, as head of its device group.
The exec who formerly ran Microsoft's cloud services business just officially anointed his successor.
In a note to Microsoft employees, Satya Nadella announced that Scott Guthrie is the company's new executive vice president of cloud and enterprise group. Guthrie has been running the group since Nadella's appointment as Microsoft CEO in early February.
At the same time, Stephen Elop, who was one of the CEO candidates considered by the board, officially will be rejoining Microsoft as the executive vice president of its Devices Group. Elop is returning to Microsoft as part of the company's acquisition of Nokia's mobile business, which is expected to close next month. He will report to Nadella.
One other bit of executive housekeeping: Phil Spencer was put in charge of combining the Xbox and Xbox Live development teams with the Microsoft Studios team. It's a nice promotion for the 25-year Microsoft veteran, who has served as the chief of Microsoft Studios. Last July Don Mattrick, the highly regarded executive who ran the Xbox business, left Microsoft to run game maker Zynga.
Today marks the start of another big week for Microsoft as we gear up for the Build conference in San Francisco. We continue to push on the momentum from last week's news about how we will thrive and grow in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, as shown by the great Office apps for iOS, rich new APIs for developers and our new Enterprise Mobility Suite.
In advance of Build, I want to highlight three announcements about how we're continuing to evolve and tune our organization for maximum focus and impact.
First, I am pleased to announce that after his two months as acting leader for the Cloud and Enterprise organization, I have promoted Scott Guthrie to Executive Vice President, where he will continue to lead and drive the organization. As you know, Scott has been a very public and passionate evangelist for many of our most important developer and infrastructure businesses. Since joining Microsoft in 1997, he has made critical contributions to .NET and other pivotal technologies that help power the Microsoft ecosystem today, and most recently has been the driver behind the unprecedented growth of Microsoft Azure. As a leader, Scott has shown incredible energy and insight into how we create technology that others can build on, and which can be built on what others have created. Please join me in congratulating Scott on his promotion!
Next, I have asked Phil Spencer to take on a new role leading Xbox, combining the Xbox and Xbox Live development teams with the Microsoft Studios team. Phil will report to Terry Myerson, allowing us to keep gaming close to the group developing operating systems across devices. In this new job, Phil will lead the Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Music and Xbox Video teams, and Microsoft Studios. Combining all our software, gaming and content assets across the Xbox team under a single leader and aligning with the OSG team will help ensure we continue to do great work across the Xbox business, and bring more of the magic of Xbox to all form factors, including tablets, PCs and phones. Phil will continue his close partnership with Yusuf Mehdi, who leads business strategy and marketing for Xbox, George Peckham, who heads up third-party partnerships and Mike Angiulo, who will continue leading Xbox hardware. Over the years, Phil's team at Microsoft Studios has helped build a community of more than 80 million Xbox owners and 48 million Xbox Live members through blockbuster game franchises such as "Halo," "Gears of War," "Kinect Sports," "Fable," "Forza Motorsport" and many others. He's helped drive the development of brand-new entertainment offerings like the partnership with the NFL and the formation of Xbox Entertainment Studios. I love the way the Xbox team is focused on great games and gaming experiences (go, "Titanfall"!), connects with its fans, pushes the boundary of entertainment and has embraced the power of the cloud in such interesting and impactful ways. Phil is the right person to lead Xbox forward.
Finally, effective with the close of our deal with Nokia, Stephen Elop will join Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Microsoft Devices Group, reporting to me. We expect to close the acquisition by the end of April 2014. I've had a chance to work closely with Stephen, when he was previously a senior leader with Microsoft, as a key partner during his tenure as Nokia CEO, and again in the last several months as we've worked through the initial stages of integration planning. I look forward to working with Stephen as a key member of the senior leadership team and welcoming the Nokia Devices and Services employees to the Microsoft family. The mobile capabilities, hardware design expertise, and world-class manufacturing and supply chain operations they bring will help us drive innovations in devices to delight our customers. Stephen will partner closely with Phil and Terry on Xbox and will bring together many of the top leaders from his existing Nokia Devices and Services organization as well as the current leaders of the Devices and Studios team.
Recently, I've discussed with the Microsoft leadership team the need to zero in on what truly makes Microsoft unique. As I said on my first day, we need to do everything possible to thrive in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. The announcements last week, our news this week, the Nokia acquisition closing soon, and the leaders and teams we are putting in place are all great first steps in making this happen.
There's a lot of work ahead of us and I am counting on every single one of you to bring your "A" game every single day. I look forward to our second employee Q&A session on Thursday and hearing what's on your mind and sharing more about what's on mine.


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Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli Kills Key State-Level Counterterrorism Measure Known as Andy's Law
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State legislation known as "Andy's Law" stiffens criminal penalties for terrorism and material support for terrorism.
It is needed on the state level because our bureaucratized counterterrorism apparatus on the federal level is routinely reluctant to bring terrorism charges in cases that are clearly terrorism. The law also creates a civil cause of action empowering victims of terrorism to sue in state court those who provide material support and aid those who commit acts of terrorism. Andy's Law has already passed into law in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, North Carolina and Tennessee.
It is called Andy's Law after Private Andy Long, who was gunned down on June 1, 2009 by a Jihadist named Abdulhakim Muhammed outside an Army Recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, as reported in the documentary, "Losing Our Sons."
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Army in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, June 2, 2009, Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, Ark., is shown Friday, May 15, 2009. Long was killed outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center on Monday, June 1. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)
One state in which Andy's Law will not be passed into law in 2016 evidently is Florida.
That's because the state's House Speaker, Steve Crisafulli, killed the Andy's Law bill that was authored by Senator Joe Negron and Representative Mike Hill.
Prior to Crisafulli's action, the bill had passed 3 committees in the Florida Senate, 2 subcommittees of the House and a full committee of the House without a single opposing vote.
It then passed the full Senate 35-0.
Andy's Law Sponsor Senator Joe Negron
At the 11th hour, at Crisafulli's specific direction, the bill was blocked from a vote on the House floor.
Crisafulli is a prime example of a generation of establishment Republican politicians who have failed the nation in terms of making national security a top priority as President Reagan did.
The question remains: why did Crisafulli block a measure that has sailed through state legislatures elsewhere and had unanimous bipartisan support in the Florida legislature?
The only known opponents of Andy's Law are Muslim Brotherhood groups, as identified in the largest terrorism financing prosecution in U.S. history, the U.S. v. the Holy Land Foundation.
In that trial, groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) and others were named as Muslim Brotherhood fronts and unindicted co-conspirators in that prosecution.
All of these well-funded groups and their allies are active in Florida. They are the only known opponents of Andy's Law. This raises serious questions about the political terrain in the Sunshine State to say the least when a prominent Republican leader would unilaterally kill a popular counterterrorism measure opposed by nefarious elements of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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I thought I'd inject some more NASCAR into the mix, basically more Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson.
Some are saying that Jeff is a favorite going into tonight's race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. I would really like that to be the case.


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Sjoerd Swane ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1953) is een Nederlandse voormalige VVD-politicus en zakenman en een voortvluchtige crimineel.

Swane was namens de VVD fractievoorzitter in de Utrechtse Provinciale Staten en raadslid en wethouder in de toenmalige gemeente Maarssen. In laatstgenoemde plaats had hij grote politieke invloed.

In 2007 werd Swane gearresteerd als verdachte van belastingfraude en in 2011 werd hij veroordeeld tot twee jaar gevangenisstraf wegens ambtelijke corruptie, valsheid in geschrifte en belastingfraude. Zo pleegde hij fraude bij de verkoop van zijn bedrijf aan Jan-Dirk Paarlberg en liet hij zich voor grote bedragen omkopen door bouwers. Tijdens het proces verdween Swane spoorloos, vermoedelijk  naar het buitenland. Begin 2022 was hij nog steeds voortvluchtig.

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 Deedee Derksen en Michiel Haighton, Zeg Swane en je hebt een verhaal, De Volkskrant, 31 maart 2005 (geraadpleegd: 26 augustus 2011)
 Henk Willem Smits, VVD-prominent in cel na omkoping Tom Westermeijer, 9 augustus 2011, op: quotenet.nl (geraadpleegd: 26 augustus 2011)
 Siem Eikelenboom, Bouwers beboet voor omkoping oud-raadslid Sjoerd Swane (VVD), 27 juli 2011, op: fdselections.nl (geraadpleegd: 26 augustus 2011)
 Roeland Franck, Waar is de gevallen politicus Sjoerd Swane toch gebleven?, Algemeen Dagblad, 7 februari 2015 (geraadpleegd: 9 november 2016)
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Polyphony's next driving simulator gaming instalment, Gran Turismo Sport, will become available exclusive to PS4 on November 15.
The seminal driving simulator has been through six iterations since 1997, over four different platforms. The series has faced some stiff competition in recent years from Turn 10 studios's Forza franchise on rival Microsoft XBOX console.
Polyphony are taking a completely different approach with the new game, featuring a collaboration with Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). This partnership means that expert gameplayers could see themselves racing in the real world, like GT Academy, with access to more data thanks to FIA.
The game features 140 cars including the Vision Gran Turismo concepts from various automakers and many original race cars created just for the game. Nineteen tracks including urban environments such as Tokyo will also feature. It will also be compatible with Sony's virtual reality headset.
Check out the gameplay footage below, as well as some of the cool concept cars in the launch video further below.


Every dress in the world should have pockets! Admittedly these are patch pockets on the front, so not quite as useful, but still better than none!
One sentence in and I loved this post! I don't wear much green really, not sure I suit it, but do wear the jewel tone, darker greens and khakis. Maybe I should try something a bit brighter and see.


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This is a brand-new edition of the popular activity book. Crammed full of fun and challenging things to make and do with paper, from paper crocodiles to 3-D bugs, the book covers and embossing will keep even the most active and keen-minded child occupied. It also contains ideas on how to dye and texture paper which can then be used in other projects, either at school or home. It contains over 45 activities, each accompanied by simple, step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations to make them easy to understand and complete.


Absortech specializes exclusively on products and services that help customers all over the world avoid moisture damage. Since 1991, they have been developing a product range offering innovative moisture protection technology for containers and packaging. Their headquarters and main production facility are located in Falkenberg, Sweden, where they conduct their product development, based on worldwide input. They also conduct quality assured production in China and Indonesia, as well as presence in India, Singapore, USA, Australia, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, and England.
Beans in Cup was established 2017 through a merge of three different, but still quite similar coffee companies: Kaffebönan, Beans and inCup.
Together we share a background in roaster, machine development and concepts of taste, which makes us the optimal coffee supplier for office coffee services. We ensure our customers have the best tasting coffee, by flavour, sustainability and operational safety.
Cupola is a leading actor of systematic fire protection in Sweden, covering the whole nation. The company offers products, such as fire alarm, smoke hatches, fire protection-documents, as well as service, installation, and training. Cupola creates an environment of safety and prepares the public and companies for fire, evacuation, and unexpected events with the use of its tailored and complete solutions.
Since 2010, Safe Solutions with its base in Hollviken, Skåne, has been developing a digitalized security system, with the combination of an intelligent thermal camera placed on a mast, who self-rotates 24 hours despite different weather conditions. The idea behind is to secure, analyze, alarm, and document the proceedings in order to prevent both damage and trespass as well as acting and protecting values of the different areas.
Somna AB is a Swedish company, located in Stenkullen, Gothenburg that develops, produces, and distributes cognitive devices. These products are mainly handmade and are created on the basis of scientific studies of the relaxing impact of weight and pressure. The products are designed to relieve anxiety, agitation, insomnia, and improve life quality. Somna is a market leader within the category of weight blankets with its patented product the Somna Blanket.
Ställning Karlskoga is an e-commerce leader within the industry of scaffolding and complementary products in Sweden. The company offers scaffolding to construction- and- maintenance work at home, companies, and craftsmen, where a number of package solutions on frontage- and tower scaffolds are produced, to make it easier for the customers.
Micropol Fiberoptic AB is one of Sweden's oldest companies within the fiber optic industry. The company is one of the world's most experienced companies in fiber optic applications for demanding environments. Applications for heavy industries such as mining, forest and offshore, as well as military cable systems, are some examples of areas where Micropol Fiberoptic is world-leading.
STAPP produces and sells environmental and safe bullet catcher to shooting ranges, used by shooting clubs, police and military in mainly Sweden and the United States. In Sweden, the company is the dominant supplier to the Swedish Armed Forces.
Sappa offers broadband and telephony, digital TV, analogue TV via Koaxkabel and IPTV via fiber to villas and multi-family houses and has about 400 000 households as customers in Sweden.
Today, Fibertjänst has a small organization with talented employees, all of whom have extensive experience in the telecom industry. When the fibre expansion is now in the absolute final phase, the company will focus increasingly on the services of the future, especially within the care sector.


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'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' Has Real-Life NASA Touches
By Tariq Malik 2011-07-01T15:57:00Z Entertainment
Michael Bay works at Launch Pad 39A with space shuttle Discovery in the background during filming of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" while the production team was at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in October 2010.
(Image: © Paramount Pictures)
The latest installment of the live-action "Transformers" film franchise may be packed with Hollywood action and special effects, but sometimes all that high-tech fakery doesn't hold a candle to the real thing. That's why the film's creators turned to NASA for help.
The new science fiction film "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," which opened Wednesday (June 29), creates an alternate version ofNASA's Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 (in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin find a robot alien spaceship) as a major plot point, then puts the agency's space shuttle Discovery — and some employees — in the spotlight.
"Transformers" director Michael Bay filmed Discovery on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida last October, with some shuttle workers appearing as extras in the scenes. [10 Coolest Robots in Pop Culture History]
"The idea of the space program always was how to get in contact with others, so we've brought the Transformers to the shuttle," said Lorenzo di Bonaventura, one of the film's producers. "The Kennedy Space Center has always been this sort of mythical thing, I think, for me. You imagine it out there and then you come here and you realize how many people are working here and what this kind of endeavor entails."
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is the third film in the "Transformers" franchise about huge intelligent robots that transform into cars, planes and other vehicles to disguise themselves on Earth. The films are based on the 1980s cartoon series and toy line of the same name.
Some NASA employees remembered watching the "Transformers" cartoon and playing with the toys when they were younger.
"Being that kid watching the cartoon back in the 80s and being part of it now is just an awesome experience," said Danny Zeno, a NASA test director who appears in the film.
NASA Kennedy Space Center employees and their families gather around 'Optimus Prime' in this snapshot taken during a photo opportunity Oct. 8, 2010 after the Transformer cars were used to film scenes of the new "Transformers: The Dark of the Moon" film at the space center.
(Image credit: NASA/Frank Michaux)
Actors Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Josh Duhamel and John Turturro — who portray the film's main human characters — all visited the Kennedy Space Center while filming was under way.
"It's kind of hard to believe that you're standing in front of the shuttle over here," said John Turturro, who portrays the character Agent Simmons. "When you see something for real you kind of have to keep looking at it, walk around."
The "Transformers" filming at the Kennedy Space Center included scenes at the Launch Pad 39A, where Discovery was being prepared for its final mission, as well as NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building, and a space shuttle hangar known as an Orbiter Processing Facility. Scenes were also shot at the Space Station Processing Facility, where components for the International Space Station were being prepared to fly on shuttles, NASA officials said.
"It was kind of [in] homage to the space program," said NASA test director Bill Heidtman in a statement.
Tranquility Base transformed: Teaser for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" reveals an alternate Apollo 11.
(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)
Those touches of real-life space exploration helped give the new "Transformers" film an extra flavor, according to film's creators.
"The highest grossing films of all time are science fiction movies and things that are in space. I think it's something we still have to discover," Bay said.
The NASA employees who appeared in the film were able to see a sneak preview on Tuesday (June 28) at the nearby Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex, which has an IMAX Theater.
"I thought they did a great job," said Mike Cianelli, another NASA test director who appears in the movie. "It was fun to see the production and then to see the end product."
You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter @tariqjmalik. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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During a normal working day, people send and receive more than 100 emails on average. Leverage this technology by updating your email signature. Instead of handing out business cards left, right and centre, let your email signature do the work for you. These days, everyone has easy access to a computer, tablet or smartphone.
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This conference examines the work Mi'raj al-su'ud, a fatwa or legal opinion on the subject of the black slaves that could be legally sold according to Islam, written in Timbuktu by Ahmad Baba (1556-1627). In it, the author treats the issue of the slaves that claimed their freedom for having been captured while being Muslims, a practice banned by Islamic law, and this way gives a response to the questions that had been addressed to him by North African Muslims: from the Touat region, in the south of present-day Algeria, and from Marrakech. The analysis of the legal foundations of the work shows that, together with a careful mention of the previous jurisprudence on the matter, an adaptation of the Islamic regulations on slavery to the social and political characteristics of the local African setting takes place, namely by establishing lists of the "enslaveable" non-Muslim ethnic groups, and the "unenslaveable" Muslims. This localized and differentiated praxis, typical of the Maliki law school, to which the author adhered, obviates important precepts that could have had a decisive effect on the Trans-Saharan trade in slaves, and that indicate the persistence of the phenomenon of enslavement according to ethnicity, with an Islamic final coat.


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The Good News on Jobs and Trump Approval
RUSH: We've got the jobs report out now, and we have a record number of Americans employed: 155,965,000 in June. That's the 11th record-setting, jobs-related statistic under Donald Trump. The 11th record. The economy added, according to the Bureau of Labor Stats, 157,000 jobs in July, but this is kind of misleading. There are a number of economics experts in the media and throughout the Washington establishment who are disappointed with this number.
They're saying, "If we're coming off a second quarter where the GDP was growing at a rate of 4.1% and we only add 157,000 jobs, why, that's not good news!" Larry Kudlow has been running around saying, yeah, but that's not all of the information because the three previous — what is it — months, have all been revised upwards significantly. In other words, in the last three months… I don't have the exact months and revisions in front of me, but the total is around 60,000 additional jobs that were not reported in each of the past three months.
And this number, this 157,000 number, will probably be revised as well. So Kudlow is out saying that if you look at the revisions that have been made… These are estimates. Nothing's new about this. These are estimates. They have to put this number out because, well, it's demanded. But then, as more data rolls in, as time goes on, we get a more accurate picture. Sometimes they get revised down. That happened a lot during the Obama administration. They released numbers; then we found out it wasn't quite as good.
This happened with gross domestic product I can't tell you how many times, and it caused a number of us to actually wonder, if you can believe it, whether or not the Obama administration would fudge the numbers. We couldn't believe that! But it began to happen so frequently that, I mean, you'd have a GDP report, "Wow, that's not bad, considering nobody's got a job," and then very quietly the next month, they'd revise it down.
Well, what's happening here with Trump in the last three months, the last three-month jobs report numbers, today revisions were announced and it's an additional 60,000 new jobs. So Kudlow is out saying that this number today, 157,000, if the revision trend holds, it's going to be closer to 200,000. But of course the experts aren't having it. The 4.1% GDP should be a lot more jobs. The one thing that really happened here that I think is good — and this will show you the dichotomy or the contradicting nature of the market.
You would think… Just if you had no other concerns, you would think that the wages, the amount of money people earn, if it's going up, it's great news, right? That's what we're all about here. We're about a growing economy. We want people to earn more money, higher wages, earn a lot for risk-taking and entrepreneurship. We want people earning it, right? Not so fast. Over at the Federal Reserve, if they think that wage increases are happening too fast, you know what they do? They raise interest rates.
You know why they do that? Because they need to slow down the economy. Now, us plebes out here who have not been educated in the intricacies of the economics in the Ivy League say, "Wait a minute! Why in the world would you want to slow things down when people's wages are going up?" They say, "This is classic. This is why we're doing it and you are not. You don't understand! We have to guard against inflation."
"Ohhhhhh, I get it. You have to make sure the economy doesn't grow too fast so that inflation doesn't set in and make every dollar out there worth less than it should be."
"Yes, that's exactly right."
I said, "But something doesn't make sense here, because you people start raising interest rates at the slightest increase in anything. You are ready to choke off an economic growth pattern way too prematurely, I've always thought."
Well, they're not doing that here. They didn't raise interest rates the latest time around. The latest wage increases averaged 2.7%, which, again, it's not high enough for the thinking experts in TV economics. But it's still an uptick and it wasn't enough to cause interest rates to be — which, believe me is a good thing. We don't want to start slowing down the economy, especially now, as we head into the midterms.
Of course, the Democrats are getting all worried about this and they've got people running around saying, "There isn't any tax cut. I know people can't feel it! I mean, you say you've got the numbers, and the Washington revenue sources are going way up because there's more taxpayers paying taxes, but people don't feel like this economy's any great thing, and they're not aware of having any more." It's the Democrats out saying this, of course; the media loves publicizing them.
But that, of course, is just an effort to, I think, misdirect people and overcome reality with psychology. Now, here's another interesting thing. We learned earlier this week in the Rasmussen Tracking Poll that Trump's approval numbers have reached 50%. The left says, "It's Rasmussen! It doesn't count." Well, it does. Rasmussen was among the most accurate presidential election pollsters the last two elections, and they're tracking poll, we take it.
We go with it, up or down, at 50%. Let's take a look at other world leaders and their public opinion polls. Over in France, the young guy over there who is the president, Macron? Know what his approval number is? These are globalists, by the way. These are globalists. They believe in the European Union. They believe in global economies. They believe in erasing borders and all this stuff. Macron's approval rating, 36%. Donald Trump, 50%. Over in the U.K., Theresa May. Her approval number is 30%. Donald Trump, 50%.
In Germany, Angela Merkel — after having just won a super-secret natural gas pipeline deal with Vladimir Putin, for which she roundly criticized by President Trump — her number is 29%. The world press, the United States press loves these people. They love Macron. They love Trudeau in Canada. They love Theresa May. They love Merkel. Because they think all these people hate Trump. But they're globalists, too. They're part of the world order that was before Trump came along, and so they are adored and respected, and they're sitting there:
Macron 36%; Theresa May, 30%; Angela Merkel at 29%.
Here's Donald Trump at 50%.
Take that globalists!
And I have a question. In the unemployment news, the unemployment rate for African-Americans and Hispanics continues to be at an all-time low. Unemployment rate, African-Americans, all-time low. You would think — the way the world thinks, the way the country thinks, the way the media thinks — that with the election of the first African-American president that life for African-Americans in America would skyrocket.
Everybody thought that was going to happen. It's one of the reasons why so many non-African-Americans voted for The One. There were a lot of votes, a lot of reasons for that vote. A lot of white people thought they could demonstrate that they weren't racist if they proudly said they voted for Obama. Other Americans thought that it would be a great thing for an African-American to win because what greater proof could you have that America isn't racist?
So Obama gets votes for a bunch of racist/racial reasons. You would think that this would lift the spirits, the attitude, the psychology of minorities all over America. But it didn't happen. Unemployment in the black community skyrocketed to almost a record high in Obama's second term. How do you explain this? I guarantee you, the African-American community wasn't expecting anything like that.
They were expecting what's happening now. African-American unemployment is at an all-time low. And get this (also from Rasmussen so the Drive-Bys are going to ignore it): Donald Trump's approval rating among black voters is, ta da ta da ta da ta da, 29%. Do you know what it was this time one year ago? 15%. In other words, Donald Trump has nearly doubled his approval rating among black voters, 15%, one year ago; 29%, today.
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Trump Approval Ratings Among Black Voters 29%! This Time Last Year: 15%


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Forth Road Bridge Closed Til New Year Due to "Defective Steelwork"
Submitted by edg on Fri, 4 Dec '15 8.23pm
The Forth Road Bridge is shut until the New Year for repairs following the discovery of defective steelwork in the last few weeks.
The decision to close the iconic bridge was taken by the Scottish Government Resilience Committee (SGoRR), chaired by the First Minister, after inspections carried out by specialist engineers and following advice and assessment of the fault by independent experts.
Transport Minister Derek Mackay said the decision to close the Forth Road Bridge "is not taken lightly".
"Every effort is being made to open the bridge as quickly as possible but safety is the main priority, however these works are weather dependent given the height and location of the bridge. We are aware of the potential economic impact, for strategic traffic in the east of Scotland and on people living in local communities," said Mackay.
Chartered Engineer Mark Arndt, Amey's Account Director responsible for the bridge said they faced "a complex engineering challenge". A 20mm-wide crack in a truss under the bridge deck was discovered since the last inspection of the bridge in May.
"The component failure is in a difficult to access location and our response is also highly dependent on weather conditions," said Amey.
"We continue to work around the clock on inspections, assessments and calculations along with the development of designs to effect the necessary repairs, while at the same time mobilising all the resources required to reopen the bridge as soon as is possible."
One option considered was running traffic on the bridge while repair work was in progress. However, even with a restriction in place on HGVs using the bridge, continual running of traffic over the bridge would increase the risk of causing extensive secondary damage to the structure.
"This is an unprecedented challenge in the maintenance of the Forth Road Bridge. On balance following advice from engineers and independent experts, the full closure is essential for the safety of the travelling public and to prevent further damage to the structure of the bridge," said Minister Mackay.
"We are taking every step we can to lessen the impact of this closure. Action now, will mean that any closure is much shorter than it might be if we waited. We continue to work closely with all partners to co-ordinate our efforts to lessen the impact of this closure. Additional bus and rail services are being provided between Fife and Edinburgh. Every effort and resource available is being deployed to repair the damage to the Forth Road Bridge and minimise the disruption to the public."
SGoRR will continue to meet over the weekend and further updates will be provided and a dedicated webpage for travel information will be created.
Emergency vehicles will still be able to use the bridge in bluelight situations.
Traffic is expected to be allowed back on the bridge following repair work in January.
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