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Wildcat Ranch introduces its three award-winning builders that will be constructing the homes within this new community: Beazer Homes, Express Homes, and Lennar Builders. These builders are no stranger to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and are excited to start building new family homes in the Crandall community. Building a new home is not a small or easy decision. Here is an outline of the three builders to help you choose who will build your new dream home.
From flooring and countertops to cabinets and molding, Beazer works with "best in class" trade partners to bring you the highest quality innovation and design possible. The seven unique Beazer Homes floorplans available to Wildcat Ranch homebuyers vary from three and four bedrooms and 1,373 square feet up to 2,578 square feet, allowing buyers to choose the amount of space best suited to their needs. Multiple kitchen layout options are available for modern open spaces. The listing site not only offers a virtual tour video, but also has a design feature that allows potential homebuyers to plan their home online. New Beazer homes are built Network Ready, providing immediate Internet connectivity. Homebuyers can easily add their technology of choice after moving in. This builder's commitment to exceed the latest Energy Star standards also extends significant energy savings to homeowners. Beazer Homes works tirelessly to personalize your space and reflect your style in every detail.
Committed to value, quality, and lifestyle, Express Homes gives you a piece of your American Dream. Express combines affordability with the superior quality of the nation's #1 builder, DR Horton. Express Homes' Craftsman Style designs use natural palettes of dark brown shades and exteriors decorated with brick and stone. Offering both one- and two-story homes with 28 different floorplans and square footage ranging between 1,258 square feet to 2,598 square feet, your Express home at Wildcat Ranch can be the new home of your dreams at a price you can afford.
Lennar Builders
Lennar Builders is ready to build a home that caters to all lifestyles with new homes for all stages of life, whether that be a first-time buyer or a move-up home buyer. All of their homes incorporate innovated design details and their signature "Everything's Included" program which provides homebuyers with a high level of standard features already included with the cost of the home. Specifically, Lennar's residences introduce the world's first "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED" Home Designs. This builder believes in simplifying the home buying experience by including everything you need in a new home and community. Lennar is committed to their core values of quality, value, and integrity.
Our Model Row is now open by appointment only for potential homebuyers wanting to learn more about each of the builders at Wildcat Ranch. Beazer and Express have their models available to tour and Lennar Builders will have their model home completed this fall. There will representatives available to give you a tour and to answer any questions you might have. If you can't make it to the property, they will also be offering virtual tours and be able to assist you from a virtual distance.
You are invited to discover a master-planned community like no other in the heart of Kaufman County, Texas. Wildcat Ranch is a new hometown where value meets lifestyle with floorplans handcrafted for your needs and great mortgage rates.
Located 20 minutes from Downtown Dallas, this community offers easy access to major roadways connected to the Dallas Metroplex for employment opportunities, as well as local shopping and dining. Within the community, residents have an assortment of amenities at their fingertips. There is something for everyone from the Amenity Center with an expansive pool and Fitness Center, to the dog parks, and the miles of trails. There is even a brand-new school, Noble Reed Elementary, within walking distance of the homes. Discover "Life On Your Terms" at Wildcat Ranch. Sign up to learn more.
Millennials have arrived, and they are now the largest segment of new home buyers across the country. With a fresh set of priorities, this powerful consumer segment is changing the traditional home buying process and impacting the future design of new home communities. Wildcat Ranch in Crandall, TX has taken note of these trends and incorporate them within their community to appeal to those looking to "Live on Your Terms." Today's historic low mortgage rates have opened a window of opportunity for these free spirits who are getting ready to settle down. Affordability is the #1 contributing factor to millennial's modernizing the market.
Bringing Suburban and Urban Together
For those looking for value, "surban" areas present the right opportunity. These innovative communities, like Wildcat Ranch, offer the best of suburban living with an urban vibe. High walkability scores, efficient public transportation, locally owned businesses, top-rated public schools and community parks for outdoor recreation are preferred. As more homebuyers are leaving the high density of the big cities, many employers are also taking note.
Push to The Plains
You don't have to live in Silicon Valley anymore to be a player in the tech industry. Remote work environments and rising tech centers in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma are the next up-and-coming hubs. Lower costs of living and higher than average employment rates in these regions draw businesses and homebuyers. They see how much more they can get for their money in these areas without sacrificing their quality of life.
Prioritizing Lifestyle
Being social within the community is a high priority to most millennials. Therefore, community design is taking into account the trend for social gathering spaces. Outdoor areas allowing for social distancing include fitness trails, dog parks, bike stations, rooftop decks, outdoor entertainment areas and gathering places. As millennials continue to rise in importance, new communities are including these features. Specifically, at Wildcat Ranch, this community includes an assortment of desirable amenities tailored to those looking to be social and active and to "Live on Your Terms."
Not only has buying online become the choice of source to buy products, but it is also very convenient and easily accessible. Potential homebuyers have the opportunity to buy a house without even having to leave their own living room. This trend has also increased with the advancement of technology. The builders at Wildcat Ranch have jumped on this trend and are offering home tours through a virtual tour and also through video conferencing. Additionally, with the integration of Facebook and Instagram, viewing home listings has never been so accessible.
Having a "green" house does not mean the house is painted green or having house full of plants. Millennials are big on going green for environmental sustainability. Sustainability through more energy efficiency is important for both indoor and outdoor home features. The homes built at Wildcat Ranch will include features that make achieving a smaller footprint convenient by lowering utility costs, which makes owning a home more affordable and more appealing to Millennials.
Why Dallas-Fort Worth?
Texas, more specifically Dallas-Fort Worth, is an upcoming hub for software development, cybersecurity, marketing, and finance, making it the Silicon Valley of the South. As these companies are looking for young talent to build their businesses, millennials have been the ones to take advantage of these new job opportunities. Millennials moving to the Dallas area in search of a job are likely to find one.
Additionally, the Dallas-Fort Worth area offers a variety of almost everything, including arts and entertainment, dining options, and recreation activities. Dallas has also been working to promote a healthy lifestyle for its residents, which is a big draw for millennials looking for outdoor adventures. It also has one of the largest park systems of any Texas city.
In fact, there is a new community coming to Crandall, Texas that offers the perfect hometown feel. Introducing Wildcat Ranch with a prime location for employment opportunities, shopping and dining. Just 20 minutes from Downtown Dallas, this community offers easy access to major roadways connected to the Dallas Metroplex. You are invited to be a part of something new in the fastest growing county in the region, Kaufman County.
Wildcat Ranch offers incredible value with homes priced from the $200s. Today's historically low mortgage rates make it an excellent time to consider a move to the region. Residents have an assortment of amenities at their fingertips. There is something for everyone from the Amenity Center with an expansive pool and Fitness Center, to the dog parks, and the miles of trails. There is even a brand-new school, Noble Reed Elementary, within walking distance of the homes.
This is where value meets lifestyle, with floor plans hand crafted for your needs. Choose from three Award-Winning Home Builders to construct your dream home; Beazer Homes, Express Homes, and Lennar Homes. The Model Row Village is now open to tour! Discover "Life On Your Terms" at Wildcat Ranch. Join the interest list to meet the Builders.
The Dallas Fort Worth area is the fastest-growing metro area in Texas and the nation. The DFW Metroplex is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the country, with a population of 6,700,991, according to 2012 data. That's a gain of over 1 million since 2000. What brings people to DFW? At least one reason is the jobs. The unemployment rate has been consistently lower than both the Texas and national averages: .35 and 1.2% lower in July of 2013, respectively. In addition, 18 DFW companies made the Fortune 500 list in 2013, including Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil Corp., and Dallas-based AT&T. There are more than 70,000 firms in the area, with 90,000 physical business establishments. Around 4% of those firms and 1% of physical establishments have more than 500 employees.
Like other areas in Texas, DFW has plenty of employment opportunities for those who choose to relocate here. In addition, CNBC named Texas America's Top State for Business in July 2012. The area has also consistently had a low cost of living, around the same as Houston, and considerably lower than Austin. With plenty of opportunities, it's no wonder the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex has seen such growth.
The following is a list of the top 25 largest employers in the DFW area, ranked by how many employees they have locally. If you're looking for a job in the DFW area, it's a good place to start.
AMR Corporation (American Airlines)
AMR is the world's largest airline, and serves 250 cities across 40 countries, with thousands of daily flights. The company's main headquarters are in Fort Worth and include the American, American Eagle, and American Connection lines. AMR was named the World's Leading Airline to North America in 2012 by World Travel Awards.
Bank of America Corp.
Bank of America is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and as of 2010, is the fifth-largest company in the United States by revenue. B of A serves small and middle-market businesses and individual customers with everything from investing, to asset management, to banking.
Texas Health Resources Inc.
As one of the largest faith-based, non-profit health care systems in the nation, Texas Health Resources (THR) has 14 hospitals and more than 19,000 employees in the DFW area. Texas Health Resources was named in one of the top 25% of National Top Workplaces in 2013 by the Dallas Morning News.
Dallas ISD
With schools spread across 384 square miles, Dallas ISD serves 157,000 students in 220 schools in the cities of Dallas, Cockrell Hill, Seagoville, Addison, Wilmer, and parts of other areas, including Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Garland, and others.
Baylor Health Care System
Baylor's largest campus is the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and provides excellent patient care as well as teaching and medical research. For the last 19 years, the hospital has been named one of America's best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report.
Over the last century, AT&T has provided customers with innovative products and quality customer service. The company now has the largest 4G network in the United States, serving almost 3 million people with more than 32,000 WiFi hotspots around the nation. In 2013, AT&T U-verse was ranked highest in customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Powers.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
Lockheed Martin provides innovations in aeronautics, information systems, global solutions, missiles and fire control, mission systems and training, and space systems. The company made $47.2 billion in sales in 2012 and was ranked 58th on the 2012 Fortune 500 list of largest industrial corporations. The Fort Worth facility builds mainly military aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-117 Nighthawk.
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
JP Morgan is one of the largest banks in Texas. It serves 21 million households, services 7 million mortgages, and has more than 1.6 million customers worldwide. The American Customer Satisfaction Index named the company number one in customer satisfaction in 2012. Its Dallas headquarters is in the JP Morgan Chase Tower, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city with over 55 stories.
UT-Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has three degree-granting institutions that train 4,600 medical, graduate and health professional students per year. The center cares for nearly 90,000 hospitalized patients and receives more than 1.9 million outpatient visits per year, with an annual budget of around $1.86 billion.
The City of Dallas has a population of over 1,250,000 people and employs 12,836 of them. As the third-largest city in Texas, it is located mostly in Dallas county, but small portions are also in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwell counties.
HCA North Texas
HCA, Inc. was founded in 1968 and was one of the nation's first hospital companies. The company provides around 4 or 5 percent of all medical care in the nation. HCA North Texas has numerous hospitals, imaging, and surgery centers throughout the DFW area, including the Denton Regional Medical Center, the Medical Center of Lewisville, and the Medical City Dallas Hospital, among others.
NAS Fort Worth JRB
The Naval Air Station Forth Worth Joint Reserve Base was established in 1994 as the first Joint Reserve Base in the country. It is made up of 40 separate commands and its 11,350 personnel include active-duty military, Guardsmen, Reservists, and civilian employees.
In 1775, Benjamin Franklin appointed the first Postmaster General and the United States Postal Service was born. USPS has processed 160 billion pieces of mail with 70,000 stores, banks, and kiosks around the country. The organization has the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the country and delivers mail in rain, sleet or snow.
Fort Worth ISD
The public school system of Fort Worth was founded in 1882, and today employs 10,129 teachers and staff. All hiring for the Fort Worth ISD is done through their Human Capital Management organization.
Kroger Co.
Kroger is one of the largest retail companies in the United States and was ranked number 23 on the 2013 Fortune 500 List. Kroger operates 2,424 supermarkets, 786 convenience stores, 328 fine jewelry stores, and 37 manufacturing plants. There are 206 Kroger-owned supermarkets in Texas, and 85 of those are in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Area.
Texas Instuments Inc.
Texas Instruments designs and supplies semiconductors and digital signal processing solutions for the world market. Dallas is home to TI's American operations, which has been on Fortune's Most Admired Companies List for 10 consecutive years.
Established in 1922, Raytheon achieved $25 billion in sales in 2011. The company provides a broad range of mission support systems, including state-of-the-art electronics and mission systems integration for customers around the world. Raytheon employs 8,700 people in 7 different facilities in the DFW area.
The first Target store opened in 1962, and in the very same year it gained the nickname "Tar-zhay." The company has 1,778 stores in the U.S. and 82 in Canada, supporting 361,000 employees. DiversityInc Magazine ranked Target number 20 in its list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2013.
The United Parcel Service Inc.
The United Parcel Service began as a messenger service in 1907 and has grown into a global corporation that services 2000 companies around the world. 2012 revenue was $54.1 billion, with a delivery rate of around 16.3 million packages daily. Though headquartered in Atlanta, GA, UPS employs 8,555 workers in the DFW area.
Parkland Health and Hospital
For more than a century, Parkland Health and Hospital has served Dallas County with talented medical professionals. Parkland has 14 medical centers in the Dallas area, including the Burn Intensive Care Unit, the Arrhythmia Management Center, and a Diabetes Treatment Center.
As an epicenter of economy and arts, everyone wants to be near Dallas-Fort Worth. As a result, many communities have sprung up around the Metroplex. However, there's one community twenty minutes southeast of Dallas that outshines all of the rest, where there are more trees than towers, and the homes reflect the simple way of life that's lived there at Wildcat Ranch.
Residents have an assortment of amenities at their fingertips. There is something for everyone, from the Amenity Center with an expansive pool and Fitness Center to the dog parks to the miles of trails. Neighbors will congregate to take fitness classes together, watch their kids play on the tot lots, compete on the sports fields, and attend community events and parties together. The on-site school, Noble Reed Elementary, opened for its first school year in 2019.
The Wildcat Ranch Homes are priced from the $200's and floor plans handcrafted to meet your needs. Choose from four award-winning home builders to construct your dream home: Beazer Homes, and Express Homes. The Model Row Village will be available to tour this Spring. To learn more, get a free copy of our Wildcat Ranch Texas Digital brochure!
Source: Destination DFW


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Aptos to be Acquired by Affiliates of Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division from Funds advised by Apax Partners
Strategic capital commitment from funds managed by Goldman Sachs to fast-track Aptos' product innovation and retailers' digital transformation
Aptos, Inc.
ATLANTA, Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aptos today announced that funds affiliated with the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs have reached a definitive agreement to acquire the company from funds advised by Apax Partners (the "Apax Funds"). Aptos, Inc., a recognized market leader in retail technology solutions, delivers innovative, cloud-native and comprehensive omni-channel solutions to more than 1,000 retail brands in 65 countries.
The Apax Funds backed Aptos CEO Noel Goggin to spin-out the business from portfolio company, Epicor, in 2015. Since then, Aptos has thrived as an independent company having more than doubled their customer base to become one of the largest global enterprise software providers focused exclusively on retail. In addition, the Apax Funds supported Aptos on a number of strategic acquisitions which strengthened Aptos' presence in Europe and extended its product capabilities.
"Aptos is looking forward to the next stage in our growth and maturation journey in partnering with Goldman Sachs, a group that brings a wealth of enterprise software expertise, commercial relationships and vast global resources," said Noel Goggin, Aptos CEO and culture leader. "We are also grateful for the strong partnership and strategic support Apax has provided over the past four and a half years."
"When evaluating the retail software market, it became apparent that Aptos is a leader in delivering differentiating and built-for-the-future innovation," said Will Chen, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
"With the strength of Aptos' executive team, the company is uniquely positioned to help retailers develop resilient and thriving enterprises that can adapt to shifting consumer trends and market conditions," Chen said. "We look forward to helping the company further scale the product innovations, customer success initiatives and global market expansions that have been hallmarks of Aptos' preeminence to date."
"We would like to thank Noel and his team for all they have achieved. As an independent and entrepreneurial company, Aptos has delivered on its potential by offering a comprehensive "end-to-end" platform at the forefront of the market transition to omni-channel retailing," said Jason Wright, a Partner at Apax Partners. "We wish them continued success in the future."
About Aptos "Engaging Customers Differently"
In an era of virtually limitless choice, sustained competitive advantage only comes to retailers who engage customers differently – by truly understanding who they are, what they want and why they buy. At Aptos, we too, believe that Engaging Customers Differently™ is critical to our success. We are committed to a deep understanding of each of our clients, to fulfilling their needs with the retail industry's most comprehensive omnichannel solutions, and to fostering long-term relationships built on tangible value and trust. More than 1,000 retail brands rely upon our Singular Commerce™ platform to deliver every shopper a personalized, empowered and seamless experience…no matter when, where or how they shop. Learn more: www.aptos.com
Follow Aptos on Twitter @Aptos_Retail
Aptos, the Aptos logo, "Engaging Customers Differently" and "Singular Commerce" are trademarks of Aptos, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.
About Apax Partners
Apax Partners is a leading global private equity advisory firm. Over its more than 40-year history, Apax Partners has raised and advised funds with aggregate commitments of c.$50 billion. The Apax Funds invest in companies across four global sectors of Tech & Telco, Services, Healthcare, and Consumer. These funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. For more information see: www.apax.com.
About Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division
Founded in 1869, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (MBD) is the primary center for the firm's long-term principal investing activity. MBD is one of the leading private capital investors in the world with investments across private equity, infrastructure, private debt, growth equity and real estate.
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package org.apache.geode.internal.logging.log4j;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.URL;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.DistributionConfig;
import org.apache.geode.internal.logging.LoggingPerformanceTestCase;
import org.apache.geode.internal.util.IOUtils;
import org.apache.geode.test.junit.categories.PerformanceTest;

@Category(PerformanceTest.class)
@Ignore("Tests have no assertions")
public class LogWriterLoggerPerformanceTest extends LoggingPerformanceTestCase {

  protected static final int DEFAULT_LOG_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
  protected static final int DEFAULT_LOG_FILE_COUNT_LIMIT = 20;

  protected static final String SYS_LOG_FILE = "gemfire-log-file";
  protected static final String SYS_LOG_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT = "gemfire-log-file-size-limit";
  protected static final String SYS_LOG_FILE_COUNT_LIMIT = "gemfire-log-file-count-limit";

  private File config = null;

  @After
  public void tearDownLogWriterLoggerPerformanceTest() throws Exception {
    this.config = null; // leave this file in place for now
  }

  protected void writeConfigFile(final File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
    final PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(file));
    pw.println();
    pw.close();
  }

  protected void setPropertySubstitutionValues(final String logFile, final int logFileSizeLimitMB,
      final int logFileCountLimit) {
    if (logFileSizeLimitMB < 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("logFileSizeLimitMB must be zero or positive integer");
    }
    if (logFileCountLimit < 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("logFileCountLimit must be zero or positive integer");
    }

    // flip \ to / if any exist
    final String logFileValue = logFile.replace("\\", "/");
    // append MB
    final String logFileSizeLimitMBValue =
        new StringBuilder(String.valueOf(logFileSizeLimitMB)).append(" MB").toString();
    final String logFileCountLimitValue =
        new StringBuilder(String.valueOf(logFileCountLimit)).toString();

    System.setProperty(SYS_LOG_FILE, logFileValue);
    System.setProperty(SYS_LOG_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT, logFileSizeLimitMBValue);
    System.setProperty(SYS_LOG_FILE_COUNT_LIMIT, logFileCountLimitValue);
  }

  protected Logger createLogger() throws IOException {
    // create configuration with log-file and log-level
    this.configDirectory = new File(getUniqueName());
    this.configDirectory.mkdir();
    assertTrue(this.configDirectory.isDirectory() && this.configDirectory.canWrite());

    // copy the log4j2-test.xml to the configDirectory
    // final URL srcURL =
    // getClass().getResource("/org/apache/geode/internal/logging/log4j/log4j2-test.xml");
    final URL srcURL = getClass().getResource("log4j2-test.xml");
    final File src = new File(srcURL.getFile());
    FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory(src, this.configDirectory);
    this.config = new File(this.configDirectory, "log4j2-test.xml");
    assertTrue(this.config.exists());

    this.logFile = new File(this.configDirectory, DistributionConfig.GEMFIRE_PREFIX + "log");
    final String logFilePath = IOUtils.tryGetCanonicalPathElseGetAbsolutePath(logFile);
    final String logFileName =
        logFilePath.substring(0, logFilePath.lastIndexOf(File.separatorChar));
    setPropertySubstitutionValues(logFileName, DEFAULT_LOG_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT,
        DEFAULT_LOG_FILE_COUNT_LIMIT);

    final String configPath =
        "file://" + IOUtils.tryGetCanonicalPathElseGetAbsolutePath(this.config);
    System.setProperty(ConfigurationFactory.CONFIGURATION_FILE_PROPERTY, configPath);

    final Logger logger = LogWriterLogger.create(this.getClass().getName(), false);
    return logger;
  }

  @Override
  protected PerformanceLogger createPerformanceLogger() throws IOException {
    final Logger logger = createLogger();

    final PerformanceLogger perfLogger = new PerformanceLogger() {
      @Override
      public void log(String message) {
        logger.info(message);
      }

      @Override
      public boolean isEnabled() {
        return logger.isEnabled(Level.INFO);
      }
    };

    return perfLogger;
  }
}

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Q: jQuery upgrade causes toggle to no longer work Fiddle  http://jsfiddle.net/hdD8B/
I'm having trouble replacing this code that worked in jQuery 1.7.
I have a button that simply checks all the checkboxes when clicked and then unchecks them when clicked again.
    $('.check:button').toggle(
        function () {
        $('input:checkbox').attr('checked', 'checked');
        $(this).val('uncheck all');
    }, function () {
        $('input:checkbox').removeAttr('checked');
        $(this).val('check all');
    });

this is the closest I have been able to get it works to check and uncheck all once then doesn't work anymore.  It also seems kind of ugly to have to a simple method replaced with a more complicated on.
(function ($) {
    $.fn.clickToggle = function (func1, func2) {
        var funcs = [func1, func2];
        this.data('toggleclicked', 0);
        this.click(function () {
            var data = $(this).data();
            var tc = data.toggleclicked;
            $.proxy(funcs[tc], this)();
            data.toggleclicked = (tc + 1) % 2;
        });
        return this;
    };
}(jQuery));

/*global $, jQuery,document,fnCreateSelect*/
$(document).ready(function () {

    $('.check:button').clickToggle(
        function () {
        $('input:checkbox').attr('checked', 'checked');
        $(this).val('uncheck all');
    }, function () {
        $('input:checkbox').removeAttr('checked');
        $(this).val('check all');
    });

A: As you may have read, .toggle() was removed after jQuery 1.8 -

Note: This method signature was deprecated in jQuery 1.8 and removed in jQuery 1.9. jQuery also provides an animation method named .toggle() that toggles the visibility of elements. Whether the animation or the event method is fired depends on the set of arguments passed. http://api.jquery.com/toggle-event/

Here is one way to fix the issue -
$('.check:button').click(function () {
    if('check all' == $(this).val() ) {
        $('input:checkbox').prop('checked', true);
        $(this).val('uncheck all');
    } else {
        $('input:checkbox').prop('checked', false);
        $(this).val('check all');
    }
});

You'll notice that I switched to prop() instead of attr() as prop() is considered en vogue for elements like this. There has been much debate on "best practices" though but this post makes good reading - .prop() vs .attr()

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Secular. Courtly love. Romance.
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Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
Ivory;silver (original fittings);niello
Depth: 84mm
Meeting of lovers (courting couples); lady chucking her lover under the chin. Youth kneeling before a lady who places a helm over his head. Offering of the heart. Couple embracing; youth lifting the dress of a lady.
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tMeeting of lovers (courting couples); lady chucking her lover under the chin. Youth and lady holding the lock; large rose. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet.
Tristan and Iseult conversing; king Mark in the tree; fountain reflecting king Mark's face. Couple playing chess; lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand; tree.
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple conversing. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist. Lady chucking her lover under the chin; lady on a staircase.
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a flower; youth holding a pair of gloves. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; lady on a staircase.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Calkins 1968: English, 14th century.
Ann Arbor 1976: English or French, 14th century (c. 1300-1340), in the style of the Parisian Master of the Death of the Virgin.
Randall 1993: English, 1340-1360.
Museum's opinion 2011: North French, 14th century.
Style of the Master of the Death of the Virgin (Ann Arbor 1976).
Carved on all sides.
Object Condition
Two deep vertical cracks in the left end panel.
The silver fittings have incised decoration.
Said to have belonged to John Talbot (b. c. 1384-1390, d. 1453), 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; Collection of his son John, earl of Shrewsbury, and descendants (to the twentieth century). Bought by the Museum from Premsela and Hamburger, Amsterdam, in 1964 (Theodore Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour).
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 79.
Images of Love and Death in Renaissance and Late Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, ed. by W. R. Levin, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, November 1975-January 1976, no. 64, pl. IV.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 80.
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Web extra: A pro-gun community in Louisiana leads the charge on disarming domestic abusers
Published April 22, 2022 at 9:00 AM CDT
(M. Spencer Green/ AP)
This is a bonus podcast episode following up on our recent show about a gap in America's federal gun laws.
Lt. Valerie Martinez-Jordan of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department in Louisiana. (@LafourcheSO)
Sheriff Craig Webre of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department in Louisiana.
MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: There's an amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968 that says people convicted of abusing an intimate partner cannot own or buy a firearm. The amendment defines intimate partner in various ways — a current or former spouse, someone living or having lived with the victim or, or has a child with them. But it leaves out an entire group: convicted abusers who dated, but never lived, with their victim.
It's known as the "boyfriend loophole."
Various efforts over the years to close that loophole in federal law have all failed.
But the loophole is not the only problem with the law. Many, if not most of the people the law applies to, never actually get their guns taken away, because it's a law that's rarely enforced.
And I should note that each year more than 600 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner – about half of them had dated — but not married — their assailant.
So some states and local law enforcement agencies have taken it upon themselves to develop their own firearm hand-in laws that they can effectively enforce.
That's happened in California, Washington state, Colorado and … In Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.
And what happened in Louisiana is what we're going to hear about in this special On Point podcast with our producer, Paige Sutherland.
PAIGE SUTHERLAND: Central to our story is Valerie Martinez-Jordan. She's a lieutenant in the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department. But her story begins 1,000 miles away in Lamar, Colorado, where she grew up.
VALERIE MARTINEZ-JORDAN: All I knew in that home was violence. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, drugs at the hand of my biological father.
It was a childhood that would have reverberations throughout her life. When she was a teenager in high school, Martinez-Jordan met someone who, she thought at the time, had saved her. Telling her things she had never heard before.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: And so to have somebody of that age tell you they love you and want to protect you and keep you safe. It was mind boggling to me. The day I graduated high school, I moved out, went to the house, got my belongings, a little bit of stuff I had and I never, never went back to the house.
SUTHERLAND: Martinez-Jordan moved in with her high school sweetheart and they eventually got married and had two kids together. She began a career in-law enforcement. It seemed she had everything going for her … except her husband was becoming increasingly possessive – and acting out.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: He busted out some large, expensive windows at a restaurant because he said I was looking at somebody else who was my cousin.
SUTHERLAND: His paranoia only increased. One day Martinez-Jordan came home from her job at the sheriff's department and her husband had destroyed their house. Broken glass was everywhere. She ran inside to grab her two kids, then aged three and seven. But he wouldn't let her go.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: And I turn around, I have my little one in my arm, and he picked up that large eagle head figurine and he raised it above my head and he said he was going to … kill me. And at that time, I wasn't thinking about me. My daughter was bleeding. So I told him, I said, 'You don't have to. You already did.'
SUTHERLAND: After that incident, she knew she had to leave.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: He got arrested. He was convicted. He was forced to take classes and there was a protective order.
SUTHERLAND: Even after all that, her husband wouldn't stay away. So she filed for divorce, and when that came through, in 2001, she packed up her car, and her two girls and sought somewhere very different to continue her law enforcement career.
And that's how Valerie ended up in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. It's a community of about 100,000 people on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, just 50 miles south of New Orleans. And it lies entirely within the Mississippi River Delta. So there are lots of marshes, and lots of guns.
CRAIG WEBRE: Well, south Louisiana and Louisiana in general is a very pro-gun state. Lafourche Parish, very welcoming parish. People love their families. They love getting together. And probably every family owns at least a dozen firearms. Maybe not that many, but it's pretty predominant.
SUTHERLAND: That's Martinez-Jordan's boss, Sheriff Craig Webre. He's been the sheriff in Lafourche for thirty years.
When he hired Martinez-Jordan to be a patrol officer in 2001, she recalls responding to a lot of domestic violence calls. And quickly being struck by how little she could do as a police officer.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: I was shocked. We had progressive laws in Colorado. … Even if you didn't hit me but you committed an act of violent behavior in my presence and … you threw the dishes against the wall, you didn't hit me, but it was in my presence. Those laws existed.
So when I came here and I was responding to calls like that, and Louisiana … didn't even have a domestic violence statute. I'm like, What do you mean? What do you charge? But what about protection? So we started having those in-depth conversations of how deficient we were.
SUTHERLAND: Officer Martinez-Jordan was sure what she was seeing on the job were not isolated cases.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: We realized maybe there's more we can do, more social, more social change and not be able to be proactive instead of reactive as an agency. So we started looking at the numbers. Louisiana was ranked at the top of the top, I think at that time we were ranked third in domestic homicide and the mechanism most commonly used was a handgun. So it's like, OK, we have to do something we have to do, something is broken.
SUTHERLAND: In 2003, state lawmakers created a domestic abuse battery charge. But Martinez-Jordan knew that would not fix the problem.
The new law said nothing about keeping guns out of the hands of abusers in their state. There was a federal prohibition for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse – with the boyfriend loophole – but no state law existed to prohibit abusers from possessing firearms.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: I could only enforce laws in the Parish of Lafourche. Federal law, I do not have that authority to enforce. So you have to have a federally commissioned individual who can enforce those federal laws.
SUTHERLAND: And right there Martinez-Jordan is pointing to another really big problem. Not just in Louisiana, but nationwide. Federal authorities rarely enforce this prohibition. Frankly, Sheriff Webre notes, because they don't have the resources.
WEBRE: Well, I've spoken to in meetings with federal authorities, and I tell them, if you're trying to take the guns out of people's hands that potentially pose a threat, you could probably create a new federal agency simply to comply with 922(g).
Because there's literally tens of thousands of people in every state and every county and every city, town that are either being prohibited because of a qualifying domestic protective order or because of a conviction that emanated from a domestic violence charge. And literally, it would take a massive amount of manpower on a federal level.
SUTHERLAND: So Martinez-Jordan built a program unique at the time in Louisiana. The sheriff's office would send letters advising certain domestic abuse offenders that they were prohibited under federal law from owning a firearm. And then they would follow up with them with a phone call or visit explaining how they could turn them in.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: So we started doing is education and then we started helping them to educate them. And a lot of them like, well, thank you. I didn't know. Because we approached it as an education, not as punitive.
SUTHERLAND: So they had some success. But again, the sheriff's department had no authority to enforce this prohibition.
Meanwhile, year after year, Louisiana had among the highest rates of female homicides by men in the nation. Sheriff Webre says that Martinez-Jordan's efforts finally began to get lawmaker's attention.
WEBRE: I think those statistics were very eye opening and important in the legislature recognizing the need to pass its own its own laws not just rely on the federal laws in the area of gun divestiture.
SUTHERLAND: But statistics only go so far. As it so often does, there was a local case that caught the media's attention that made all the difference.
On December 26, 2013, Ben Freeman killed his wife and then drove over to his former mother-in-law's house with a shotgun. He then shot and killed her, and shot her husband and their daughter, who both survived. His ex-wife wasn't home at the time.
He then went over to his former boss's house and shot and killed him.
Charmaine Caccioppi, a friend of one of the victims killed, decided she had to do something. So, she assembled a team of advocates and worked tirelessly to change the state law so that anyone – yes, anyone – convicted of a misdemeanor domestic crime could not have a gun.
The first hurdle? Getting it through the Republican-led House. The vote was 99 Yays and O Nays.
Now, the bill had to clear the Republican controlled Senate.
Here's former state senator JP Morrell on the Senate floor: "This literally is your opportunity in the law to save people's lives."
Shortly after, they voted.
38 Yays and 0 Nays. The bill passed unanimously in both chambers.
It then went to the governor's desk. And then-governor Republican Bobby Jindal quickly signed it.
WEBRE: We were thinking, we're going to be facing a mountain of opposition. We're going to have all sorts of grandstanding testimonial speeches that is going to rip us up on why this a terrible thing? And it just really took the lifespan of its own. It sailed through and boom it got passed and signed into law.
SUTHERLAND: So now officers like Martinez-Jordan have the authority to arrest anyone in her parish who has a gun, who has been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic crime, or has a qualifying protection order against them.
In 2018, the state legislature went one step further, passing a law requiring courts to order that offenders surrender their firearms to local enforcement. The letters Lafourche Parish had been sending out finally had the backing of state law. Now Martinez-Jordan could finally do something.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: So that changed everything. … What that means is the judge will check off on the box of the protective order and it will say you are prohibited from possessing firearms because of this statute, because sexual assault, domestic violence stalking.
So he'll check the appropriate one. And they'll say, OK, you are now hereby prohibited. Here is an affidavit you have to disclose in open court. Do you possess firearms? Do you have access to firearms? Yes, I do. No, I don't. Either way, yes, I do.
And so they'll fill it out and then the judge will electronically submit it to us, but our judges are great here. They will actually physically make the defendant with the order, come to our office with the paper and say the judge just gave me this and I have to come talk to you.
SUTHERLAND: Offenders have 48 hours to surrender their firearms and then ten days to submit to the court proof that they did so.
WEBRE: You don't lose ownership. And that's something you have to clarify because people think that you're taking their guns, they don't own it. You still own them. If you have a valuable relic and a collection, you don't, you don't lose the ownership. The state law does not take away the ownership right. It just takes your possession right away.
SUTHERLAND: There are three options on how to surrender your guns. Either have the sheriff's department store them for free, sell them lawfully or transfer them to a qualifying third party.
WEBRE: The most common and most widely used and really been pretty successfully is what we refer to as third party transfer. So third party transfer means a different person, someone else outside of a household will take possession and maintain possession of those firearms until such time that you are legally able to repossess them. If that time ever comes.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: If these firearms end up back in his hands, there is a statute that you provided firearms to a prohibited possessor, you will be arrested and you will go to jail.
SUTHERLAND: Over the years, Martinez-Jordan has traveled around the state advising other jurisdictions how they can set up their own gun relinquishment programs modeled on the one in Lafourche Parish. And she's met with a lot of skepticism from fellow police officers, mostly about the challenge of storing a potentially large number of firearms, orderly and securely.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: My sheriff says something pretty profound. And I talk about it at every training I go to. Whenever he had to go testify and they talked about well storage, I'll have to have this, I'll have to climate-controlled it. Here's my question to you: 'Where are you going to put that gun after he kills her with it? The same place you don't want to put it now. So why are you willing to take it after he kills her with it?'
SUTHERLAND: And Martinez-Jordan thinks any law enforcement agency regardless of size can do it.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: It is absolutely achievable in the fact that it is done with myself, another officer and one civil deputy. We're not a small agency. We're not a large agency. We're kind of perfect in the fact that, what we do mimics the vast majority or sizes of law enforcement agencies across the country. So if Lafourche with a small budget and a small staff could do this, then it would be more achievable as by other agencies.
SUTHERLAND: And she says there is one big reason to implement this kind of program: It works.
MARTINEZ-JORDAN: We haven't had a domestic homicide by a prohibited possessor since this program started, but you're never going to hear of the lives you saved because you're not going to know. But you're going to know about the ones you didn't. And we haven't heard – they don't exist.
So something in that equation is telling me that it's working. What we're doing is effective. This is not a cookie cutter program. It cannot be one stop shopping. One program fits every parish, every law enforcement agency. No, but the foundation of what we've created, can.
SUTHERLAND: That was Lieutenant Valerie Martinez-Jordan of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. We also heard from Sheriff Craig Webre. In the last three years, nearly 500 firearms have been taken out of the hands of convicted domestic abusers, just in Lafourche Parish alone.
And the very program that Lieutenant Martinez-Jordan started from the ground up at the sheriff's department will more or less be mirrored by every parish statewide. For On Point, I'm Paige Sutherland.


Just How Far Can a Motorcycle Lean in a Turn?
A motorcycle leaning hard into a turn looks sort of like magic. Of course, the whole process is actually governed by some basic physics. In short, the motorcycle leans in a turn because of torque and fake forces. You can read a simple overview of a turning motorcycle in my previous post. For the rest of this post, I will assume you have a basic understanding of these concepts.
Instead of just explaining why a motorcycle leans, let's do something more useful. Can we calculate how much (at what angle) a motorcycle would need to lean in a turn? Yes, we can. Let's do it. Oh, you might want to check out this video showing some very cool shots of leaning motorcycles.
The tighter the turn, the more you need to lean. In order to calculate the lean angle I will start with a force diagram.
Note that I assume that the center of gravity is the same location as the center of fake force (the location where we can pretend the fake force acts). That's actually not always the same location. In this older post I calculate the center of fake force—warning, it's fairly complicated.
Since I am using the fake force in an accelerating reference frame, the net force would be equal to zero. I can write this as the net force in both the x- and y-directions.
The fake force is negative value of mass times acceleration. This gives me the following two equations for the net forces.
Now I can write down the total torque about point O. The frictional force and the normal force have zero torques since they pass through point O.
This says that the faster you take a turn, the more you have to lean. The tighter the turn (smaller r), the greater the lean. But how far can you lean? That depends on the frictional force. If I calculate the maximum frictional force, we can use that to calculate the maximum lean angle. The usual model for the static friction force (for a non-sliding tire) says that this friction force is proportional to the normal force.
So what would be the coefficient of static friction (μs)? If I use a coefficient of 0.7, this would give a lean angle of 35 degrees. However, racing motorcycles can lean over 60 degrees. Working in the opposite direction, I can solve for the coefficient of friction for this large of a lean and get a value of 1.7. Yup.
Wait. What? I thought the coefficient of friction was always between 0 and 1. Well, the answer is that friction is actually pretty complicated. The typical model for the frictional force says that μ is less than 1, but no one said it had to be that way.
Do Motorcycles Have High Coefficients of Friction?
How about this? What if I look at a motorcycle taking a turn and estimate the acceleration? From this acceleration, I can get another estimate for the coefficient of friction.
Here is a top view of a motorcycle taking a turn.
Now I just need to look at a MotoGP track and find the motorcycle speeds for different turns and I can estimate the coefficient of friction. My initial idea was to find a video showing a race with a turn, but I couldn't easily get the speed of the motorcycles (not a good viewing angle). Fortunately, I found this site with average speeds for different parts of a track. This particular speed map is for the Circuito de Jerez (just the first one I found). Of course you can also find this track on Google MapsM. From that, I can estimate the radius of curvature for different turns. Here you can see two of those turns.
That is just two turns. From my estimates of the radius, both turns would require a coefficient of friction greater than 1 in order for a motorcycle to turn without slipping. So, a coefficient of 1.7 seems crazy high, but as I have shown—it is possible to have a coefficient greater than 1.
I guess racing motorcycle tires are just awesome.


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Q: event to be triggered when user leaves ckeditor or page I have been trying to find an event that will trigger when a user leaves the ckeditor window or page in any way, this is because I want to call my save method inside the event so that when the user does try to leave their content is saved. I have inserted a conditional statement with an alert to test if its working but so far the alert hasn't been called signifying that the event I am currently using is not the correct one
here is my code block:
$(window).on('beforeunload', function() {
    updateBlockByName(blockname, escape(newhtml), 1, blockid, disableBlogComment);
    if (updateBlockByName) {
        alert('unload save test');
    }
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any help is greatly appreciated

A: Actually beforeunload is broken pretty badly (probably by design) in Blink and it doesn't handle alert or other modal dialogs. If you want to display a message, you can use return:
$( window ).on( 'beforeunload', function() {
    return 'Message for the user';
}

It will display a confirm dialog with "Leave page" and "Stay on page" buttons.
Moreover, there is also the unload event, but it's as unreliable as beforeunload. And both of them don't work well on mobile devices.
Probably a good idea is not to rely on detecting the unloading of the page, but rather changes in visibility, via e.g. the pagehide event. It will also handle all cases when the user puts your page in the background and simply forgets about it.
A very detailed article about pagehide, beforeunload, unload and other similar events is available on Ilya Grigorik's site.
And if you want to detect only leaving the editor, you can probably just listen to CKEditor's blur event. It's fired when the user moves the cursor outside of the editor.


With most of the talk swirling about which quarterback the Browns should select with the top pick in the National Football League college draft later this month, relatively little thought is given whom to take with the fourth overall selection.
Should they go running back if Saquon Barkley somehow is still on the board? Or maybe give Myles Garrett a bookend partner for the pass rush and take Bradley Chubb, the best edge rusher in the lottery if he falls.
Either would fit very nicely into John Dorsey's plans to rebuild the team. But there is another area of concern the general manager certainly has to be aware of if he is a true believer that football games are won and lost in the trenches.
The Browns have a massive hole at offensive left tackle with the retirement of the peerless Joe Thomas. Right now, the plan is to shift Shon Coleman from right tackle over to the left side, a position he played in college.
Let's be perfectly honest here. Nothing short of another perennial Pro Bowler is going to account for Thomas' absence. Coleman is no Joe Thomas, admittedly an unfair comparison at this point of his young career.
He is far from the solution, given his uneven performance last season. But there is a solution and it involves the draft, specifically the fourth pick. It's radical and flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
In a weird way, though, it makes sense.
The heart and soul of any offense is the line. The plug uglies up front can mean the difference between an average offense and something that resonates somewhere between good and great.
Todd Haley, the Browns' new offensive coordinator, had the luxury the past six seasons of working with one of the best offenses in the NFL. He had Pro Bowlers at quarterback, wide receiver and running back. It all worked because he had a terrific offensive line.
And that's where this year's draft comes into focus. It is relatively weak for offensive linemen, especially at tackle. But there is one offensive lineman who clearly stands out above the rest.
Notre Dame guard Quenton Nelson is a 6-5, 330-pound ball of nastiness who has 10-year Pro Bowler written all over him. Only one problem. He's a guard and the Browns already have two pretty good ones in Joel Bitonio and Kevin Zeitler.
Then you realize – assuming here the coaching staff does, too – that Bitonio was a left tackle in college and played the position well. The Browns switched him inside to guard because Thomas and Mitchell Schwartz were the tackles. Enough said.
So why not draft Nelson, plug him at left guard for the next decade and shift Bitonio to Thomas' old spot? Bitonio is an upgrade over Coleman. The idea is to strengthen the offensive line, not weaken it.
The Browns last had a decent offensive line back in 2014-15 with Thomas and Schwartz at the tackles, Bitonio and John Greco manning the guards and Alex Mack at center.
It definitely would be a radical move and yet understandable to select Nelson. The likelihood of it eventuating, though, resides somewhere between are you kidding me and never.
In any other year, taking Nelson at four would be a no brainer. That's how good he is. But this, of course is not just any other year.
Too bad. He would have looked good in the Seal Brown and Orange.
It Is Radical, It Makes Sense From A Long-Term Position. Many Of The Fans Would Prefer The Eye Candy Of A Barkley Or A Chubb. Many Fans Would Moan From Here To Arlington, Texas If That Happened. However, It Does Make Sense In A Unique Way. Wow!!


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Musicvein Interviews: Chantae Cann
Her sublime vocals once provided the perfect backdrop for RnB Queen India Arie, collaborated with Eric Roberson and Snarky Puppy but now Chantae Cann takes centre stage as she embarks on her own pilgrimage with album 'Journey To Golden' and a pit stop in the UK.
MV: Chantae, I've just had my feet up chilling out to your album 'Journey To Golden'. Where did you come from girl!
CC: "Thank you! That album is so special to me, it's my little baby. Technically it's my first solo album although I've had many, collaborations over the years that put me on the map. 'Journey To Golden' is a perfect mix between Soul and Jazz, I see it as a great introduction to people who might not of heard of me before, it's very mellow, laid back and atmospheric."
MV: It certainly is mellow and atmospheric. I get a Erykah Badu and Stevie Wonder vibe from it
CC "Well funny enough Stevie is among my favourite artists, along with Bobby McFerrin, Brandy, Lalah Hathaway and Michael Jackson – those are just a small few but I don't think they've influenced my style if I'm honest. I credit my dad for exposing me to a wide variety of music from a very young age. I can remember car journeys with him to see my grandparents and he would play everything from P-Funk (Parliament-Funkadelic), 2Pac, Incognito, Gospel, Jazz you name it, he played it! So it made me appreciate every kind of music from all over the world. Then while touring with India Arie it made me appreciate different cultures and different music, I'm so grateful for that".
MV: Yes you must have learned a lot while touring with India Arie, tell me about that
CC "Wow touring with India was just literally one huge lesson, I learned so very much! When you travel with an artist of the magnitude that India Arie was, it opens your eyes to so many things – on what to do, what not to do, how to treat people and how you would like to be treated. Touring prepared me for my own career which, the decision to go solo wasn't over-night but a gradual realisation".
MV: So what was it like stepping out of the shadows?
CC: "People had always been supportive of my singing and telling me I should go solo and make an album. I grew up in church and was the head of the music department it grew my confidence, helped me with crowd engagement and instilled values within me which helped me along my journey. It wasn't until I started performing at Open Mic nights in LA that I knew singing wasn't just a hobby, it was more like my destiny. 'Stepping out' was easy, I made my mind up and here we are."
MV: Well I'm glad you found your way Chantae, and you'll be coming over to the UK in April!
CC: "Yes, of all the places I've traveled in the world, the UK was not one of them so I'm super excited to perform in London next month and share my work with you all."
MV: And after this trip what's next for you because 'Journey To Golden' was released last year, do you have any new music on the cards?
CC: "Yeah! I'm working on two projects right now – one is a remix project of 'Journey To Golden'. I'm partnering with producers and DJ's in the Atlanta area and they're remixing the whole album to make it more dance and appeal to new people. Then there's a brand new album which I'm hoping to release in Fall (September)".
MV: Oh really! So what can we expect from this new album?
CC: "Well it'll be more versatile than 'Journey To Golden' which was more a 'Hey I'm Chantae Cann' kinda album with a lot of string pieces – I love strings – but this new album will be very soulful, fun and very inspiring. I'm currently working with Sput Searight (Robert) the drummer from Snarky Puppy, we've actually been working together for a few years now but never quite in this capacity. On the last album I only had one other artist feature but this time round, it'll be more like Chantae and Friends!"
MV: Well I for one am really looking forward to both the new album and the remix project so do make sure you keep us all up to date on that one.
Chantae Cann will be playing at 229 The Venue, London – Wednesday 12th April 2017. For tickets visit Eventim or AGMP.
'Journey To Golden' can be downloaded from iTunes
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A visit to The Funny Farm?
As the class started I took off looking for animal avatar shapes, which one of the students had expressed an interest in. I found several places, and naturally I was too curios not to try some of the shapes I found. Unfortunately I'm having trouble getting some of the shapes off again, so for now I look like an elephant!
By the end of the class I returned to see, what they all had been up to. Ballinger was showing the students a building tool, Prim Finder, created by Anthony Hocken from Crystal Gadgets.


Some of the more interesting data points from running my various touch/pointer tests on a variety of devices/browsers. All tests carried out manually, trying to get the cleanest possible results (e.g. getting a "clean" tap without any finger movement). Most testing carried out against this simple event listener test.
Some of these results first appeared in my presentation Getting touchy - an introduction to touch and pointer events, but have since been retested and are now collated here for easier referencing.
See also Peter-Paul Koch's Touch table , where he tests some further aspects beyond the scope of my tests.
Last updated 1 June 2017. See complete change history.
Generally, only a single ("sacrificial") mousemove is fired as part of the mouse compatibility events, just to rattle any legacy scripts that may be listening for this event.
In the touch event model, mouse compatibility events (and final click) are only fired when a single finger is on the touchscreen. As soon as there's two or more (even outside of the element we're listening on), only touch events are fired and mouse compatibility events are suppressed (or, in certain browsers like default Android "Browser", no events are fired at all unless all touches happen on the element with the listener - if, for instance, one finger is touching the screen outside of the element, a tap with a second finger will generate no events at all).
There is a bug in current Blink implementations (noticed in Android/Chrome M34, M35 beta, and related Blink-based browsers like Opera) which also suppresses actual touch events if the first touch happened on a region with no touch handlers - see Issue 363321:	No touch are ever events fired if the first finger went down in an area with no handler.
If during the tap there is too much movement of the finger (based on browser-specific threshold), this is considered a gesture rather than a tap, and any mouse compatibility events (including click) are generally not fired.
There is a bug in older versions of Blink and Webkit (noticed in Android/Chrome M34, Android/Opera, Android/Maxthon, Android/Browser) where even the slightest movement during a tap results in touchstart, a single touchmove only, and a touchcancel, with no further events being dispatched. This behavior is inconsistent with other implementations (as noted above, the result is usually touchstart, a few touchmove events, a touchend and then - provided the movement was within the threshold - the mouse compatibility and click events). Android/Chrome M35 (beta) seems to have fixed this bug - see Issue 363319:	Swiping over a button with touch event handlers results in a single touchmove then touchcancel.
Note the mix of pointer and touch events in Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 - see MSDN: The Mobile Web should just work for everyone.
Note that Spartan on current Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview behaves subtly differently from Spartan on Windows 10 Technical Preview on desktop with touchscreen.
Using touch gestures (e.g. swipe left/right, double-tap to activate) and "touch explore".
No assistive technology available (yet) for Firefox OS, Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry PlayBook.
Mobile/tablet screenreaders are quite liberal in firing additional blur events when an element is activated – presumably in an attempt to prevent focus-specific CSS styles to "stick" after a user tapped on an in-page link or control. Careful if your code assumes blur means the user has moved away from the focusable element, as the AT focus is actually still there.
There are dramatic differences in the events being fired between gesture navigation and "touch explore" on Android.
There is a bug in WebKit (affecting iOS7.1/Safari and WebView) where mouseenter mouse compatibility event is not being fired correctly - see Bug 128534 - mouseenter mouse compat event not fired when listeners for touch events (fixed in iOS8).
Currently in Microsoft Edge 21.10549 it is not possible to use Narrator together with a paired keyboard on a Windows 10 Mobile device to navigate the actual web content – it seems the web view itself is not exposed correctly when using TAB / SHIFT+TAB.
iOS does not support paired mouse, paired keyboard only works in same situations as on-screen keyboard (e.g. when prompted to enter a web address, enter data in a text input) unless VoiceOver is also activated (in which case it supports full control, but acts the same as regular VoiceOver with touch gestures).
Firefox OS (ZTE Open) currently does not support paired bluetooth mouse/keyboard.
Android 2.3.7 only has partial keyboard support. It was not possible to successfully pair a keyboard or mouse with the Android 2.1 HTC Hero test device.
Windows Phone 8 (Nokia Lumia 520) does not support paired bluetooth mouse/keyboard.
Windows 10 Mobile does support paired bluetooth mouse and keyboard - with a mouse, Microsoft Edge behaves exactly the same as Win8.1/IE11 or Windows 10/Microsoft Edge, firing the same events and no faked touch events (even though it does support both touch and pointer events). However, it is not possible to use to keyboard to navigate - using TAB / SHIFT+TAB has no effect. Using a paired keyboard, Microsoft Edge also behaves the same way as its desktop counterpart, only firing focus, click and blur events.
In Android/Chrome 53 (Dev), note how the browser (which supports both touch and pointer events) when paired with a mouse attempts to keep "closure" of the mouse pointer by continuously adding/removing the pointer (firing extra sets of pointerover / pointerenter / pointerout / pointerleave and related compatibility mouse events), compared to Windows 10 Mobile with mouse.
From Android/Chrome 58 onwards, mouse handling behaves like on desktop, and does not mimic touch anymore.
If during the tap there is too much movement of the finger (based on browser-specific threshold), this is considered a gesture rather than a tap. For browsers supporting Touch Events, no mouse compatibility events nor click are generally fired.
In Windows 8.1/IE11, too much movement results in: mousemove > pointerover > mouseover > pointerenter > mouseenter > pointerdown > mousedown > (gotpointercapture) > focus (if not previously focused) > pointerout > mouseout > pointerleave > mouseleave > pointercancel > (lostpointercapture) (note the fact that no pointerup, mouseup nor click are fired).
In Windows 10 / IE (Edge) (build 10041) with Touch Events and Interop Mouse Events for Touch disabled, too much movement results in: mousemove > pointerover > mouseover > pointerenter > mouseenter > pointerdown > mousedown > focus (if not previously focused) > (gotpointercapture) > pointercancel > pointerout > mouseout > pointerleave > mouseleave > (lostpointercapture) (note different order for focus and pointercancel).
In Windows 10 / IE (Edge) (build 10041) with Touch Events enabled, too much movement results in: mousemove > pointerover > mouseover > pointerenter > mouseenter > pointerdown > touchstart > mousedown > focus (if not previously focused) > (gotpointercapture) > (pointermove > mousemove > pointermove > touchmove > mousemove) > pointercancel > touchcancel > pointerout > mouseout > pointerleave > mouseleave > (lostpointercapture) (note the fact that three pointermove, a single touchmove and two mousemove are fired).
In Windows 10 / IE (Edge) (build 10041) with Touch Events and Interop Mouse Events for Touch enabled, too much movement results in: pointerover > pointerenter > pointerdown > touchstart > (gotpointercapture) > pointermove > touchmove > pointercancel > touchcancel > pointerout > pointerleave > (lostpointercapture) (note absence of any focus, even if element was not previously focused).
In addition, in Windows 10 / IE (Edge) (build 10041) with Interop Mouse Events for Touch enabled, touch-action:none does not result anymore in mousemove being fired when moving a touchscreen pointer.
The first preview of Windows 10 / Spartan (build 10049) behaves the same way as IE (Edge) with Touch Events and Interop Mouse Events for Touch enabled.
Windows 10 / Microsoft Edge has Touch events and Mouse events for touch disabled by default.
Using traditional TAB / SHIFT+TAB / ENTER keyboard navigation. Notice the faked mouse events (particularly in OS X, when activating the test button with CTRL+⌥ ALT+SPACE as prompted by VoiceOver), which are not fired when assistive technology is not present, and are most likely meant for compatibility with sites that assume mouse interactions.
Included primarily as a point of comparison for the more specific case of desktop with touchscreen and assistive technology.
This table also includes classic Opera 12 (Presto) which has a unique spatial navigation feature (also used in Opera-based TV browsers): using SHIFT+cursor keys, this mode allows to set focus with the keyboard not in a sequential tab order, but based on the relative position of elements in the rendered layout (e.g. using SHIFT+→ to move to the closest focusable element to the right of the current element). Again, for compatibility with mouse-centric sites/scripts, Opera's spatial navigation fires the whole range of mouse events when entering and leaving an element.
When using VoiceOver on OS X, different events are fired depending on how elements are activated – for instance, activating a button with SPACE or ENTER will simply fire click, whereas CTRL+ALT+SPACE (the key combination prompted by VoiceOver) also fires the aforementioned "faked" mouse events.
Opera 12 (Presto) on Windows, OS X and Opera 20 (Blink) on OS X seem to have no (workable) support for assistive technology. ZoomText 10.1 currently not working at all with Chrome (34).
Using touch gestures (e.g. swipe left/right, double-tap to activate) and "touch explore", instead of traditional TAB / SHIFT+TAB / ENTER keyboard navigation.
Using a desktop screenreader with a touchscreen and touch gestures (swipe left/right and using "touch explore", similar to mobile/tablet screenreaders), none of the tested combinations of browser/AT fired a focus event when moving the focus outline to an element – focus is only sent as a result of a double-tap activation.
Opera 12 (Presto) on Windows seems to have no support for assistive technology. Chrome+ChromeVox does not currently support touch swipes/gestures on desktop.
In short, the suggested approach for all modern browsers is to use a combination of <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> (which you're likely to be already using anyway for mobile-friendly sites) and, if needed, explicit use of touch-action:manipulation on instant controls (such as links or buttons).
iOS 10 update: Safari now ignores user-scalable=no, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 and similar - by default, users are always able to zoom. The 300ms optimization that was present in 9.3 for these two cases does not work in Safari anymore. For embedded WebViews, these viewport directives supposedly still work (not tested), so it is possible that in these cases (e.g. for hybrid native/web applications) the optimization will still occur.
iOS 9.3 update: this release finally included some of the common ways in which to suppress the delay (Bug 150604 - Implement viewport-width-based fast-click heuristic, Bug 149968 - Web pages with unscalable viewports shouldn't have a single tap delay) and Bug 149854 - Implement touch-action: manipulation; for iOS). See WebKit blog: More Responsive Tapping on iOS.
iOS 8 update: it seems that in iOS 8, some heuristics have been included in Safari that prevent the 300ms delay from happening depending on the duration of the touch/tap. Fast taps have 300ms delay (as they're more likely to be the first of a quick double-tap, presumably), while slightly slower taps (if the delay between touchstart and touchend is above a certain threshold, around 125ms, without too much movement) fire the mouse compatibility events instantly (see Disable FastClick on iOS 8 #262 and my short video iOS8/Safari 300ms delay heuristics). It seems this only happens in Safari, and not in the generic UIWebView, so other browsers like iOS/Chrome still have the delay regardless of tap speed - however, it's likely present in WKWebView and will roll into other browsers when they upgrade to this. Update: rather than an explict heuristic, this is more of a side effect of a change in iOS' gesture recogniser.
Also, in a change from iOS 7, innerHTML now also seems to count as a "content change" (see The iOS event cascade and innerHTML)so my tests will need to be updated, as currently no click event is being fired on them.
iOS/WebKit update (December 2015): all relevant bugs (Bug 150604, Bug 149968) and Bug 149854) are now RESOLVED FIXED . See More Responsive Tapping on iOS. However, no indication has yet been given when these changes will find their way into iOS - all signs are still pointing towards a future iOS 10 release (since Apple don't historically make such wide-sweeping changes in iOS point releases).
iOS 9.3 Preview (January 2016) now includes the viewport and touch-action:manipulation optimisations.
On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on a touchscreen device, Chrome and Firefox do not currently support "double-tap to zoom", so no 300ms delay is present (hence the "N/A" entries in the table). Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, on the other hand, does support "double-tap to zoom", so touch-optimisations to remove the delay (using touch-action:manipulation) will also be necessary on desktop. Also note that viewport is not supported/ignored on desktop in IE/Edge (with some exception when it comes to "Metro" snap mode), so pages using those viewport directives are still zoomable - "double-tap to zoom" still works in these cases, but cannot be prevented by merely adding viewport.
Samsung Internet for Android's default delay is considerably lower than 300ms - on average, closer to 190ms.
As noted in the "Desktop with assistive technology" and "Desktop with touchscreen and assistive technology" sections, even when not using a traditional pointing device, certain combinations of browser/AT generate "fake" mouse events for compatibility with legacy sites/scripts that hang behavior on traditional mouse events.
As part of an admittedly philosophical discussion on whether or not setting focus with a keyboard or screenreader (jumping from one focusable element to the next, usually in linear tab order) could also be considered an act of "pointing" (and as such should generate pointer events - see Bug 24786 - ACTION-64: Propose a non-normative note re the keyboard compat issue), I tested if these "faked" events, as well as the final click, also carry any coordinates in their event object.
Any combinations of browser/AT not listed in this table do not generate "fake" mouse events, and any traditional focus, click, blur events they do fire do not contain any coordinates in their event object, as would be the case with regular keyboard interactions.