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Democratic Republic of the Congo Country Code +243
Africa > Democratic Republic of the Congo
How to Call Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo from USA
Kinshasa UTC/GMT +4 hours 30 minutes
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo Country and Area Codes
Country code guide are providing you a detailed information on country & area codes in Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo, you find that most people have a series of two digits from their phone number in CD (for example, +243). There is no longer distance charge from the Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo phone number to call the landline and mobile number in Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo (apart from customer service numbers, the rate can be charged per minute). The process is similar to calling from Landline: initial country code + destination country code + phone number.
French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
2345410 KM2
https://www.countrycodeguide.com/Africa/+243
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Q: Have to click twice to submit a form with form validator and AJAX I've some trouble using form-validator (JQuery) on submiting a form. It requires a second click to fire the onSucces callback of my form validator object.
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Thank you!

A: I the end, i had to dissociate the submit event of element #form-partners from the auto trigger of the validate pluggin form-validator like this :
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    validateOnBlur : false,
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Tag: sports
Boys. Baseball. Bisexuality?
Luke is not gay, but his boyfriend is. Also, Luke does have a boyfriend. To make sense of his life, he seeks advice from his best friend. Zach is bi, but interests include having fun, baseball, himself, his hair, and avoiding serious discussions. So Luke corners him when the baseball team is on a bus for an away game. This is a deleted scene from One Little Lie.
My sister said she thought I was a boring straight guy once. I was certainly interesting now; my dilemma was multifaceted. I had no idea what I was. I didn't think and maybe didn't want to be gay, but what if I was? Things had never felt this good, this intense before. That's what I thought about after leaving Ryan's house.
Then there was the other part, which was maybe worse. Maybe things didn't feel so intense and crazy and wonderful because Ryan was a guy. Maybe it felt that way because my feelings for Ryan were more than I'd ever had for anyone else, maybe it was lo-
Nope. No. Too scary.
I'm the good guy, I'd always been the good boyfriend. I held doors open, paid for dinner, tried to listen, bought flowers, all of it. I executed all the right moves on the outside, but it never felt like this on the inside. I'd said I love you before and I had thought I meant it at the time, but it didn't feel like this. Real, intense. Consuming. Was I gay? Did it matter that I still liked girls?
I wasn't the type to do awkward or self-doubting and now there was a lot of that in my life. Ryan and I were each other's first boyfriends. Though he'd been on a few dates with Zach and had definitely been attracted to other guys. Maybe Ryan was special to me, but I wasn't special to him. Huh.
What a not fun thought.
That was only one of the reasons I couldn't share with Ryan when he offered last night. Mainly, I wanted to go into his house and do anything that involved being undressed and not talking. Also because I didn't want all of my fond, serious thoughts to spill out. And also because… it just didn't feel right unloading all this stuff on him.
Lydia had her own soul searching to go through, so I turned to Zach. The easiest way to get Zach to cooperate was to tell him exactly what you wanted and make it clear that you would leave him alone after you got it. This wasn't baseball. No warm up. No beating around the bush. Direct.
When it was time for our next away game, I clapped him on the shoulder and sat down next to him on the bus. "Prepare yourself for a serious conversation," I informed him.
"Thanks for the warning." He moved to get up. "But you didn't inform me in writing at least three days in advance so—"
"Okay, but I want to talk about BEING GAY AND QUEER SHIT," I raised my voice. "Whoever sits next to me will have that to look forward to." Suddenly there were no free seats for Zach. "Come on, we can do this quickly."
He sat back down but complained, "I don't want to hold your hand through this. Can't you talk to your actual boyfriend about this?"
"I'll tell him once I figure it out." He did it on his own. Okay, this was what I was talking about earlier. The big reason I couldn't let him help me. Not only did he figure it out on his own, my addition only made things more complicated. I opened my stupid big mouth and told people he was gay.
I didn't really know him at the time. I didn't know about being in the closet or outing people. It was an accident. I just… After that, I didn't want to put this on him. I could do this myself.
Mostly. I told Zach, "I'm talking to you whether you like it or not."
He idly glanced out the window, but I doubted he'd make a break for it. "Fine."
Deep, deep down he was really a good person. You just had to get through all the bullshit first. Zach liked to present himself a certain way and his family weren't really the type to have serious, intense conversations. My parents freaking loved talking. I just didn't think they'd want to listen to anything I had to say at the moment.
I didn't say anything for a few moments. "So," Zach said after a tense silence, "Are you gonna start talking then, or what?"
"Right, right." Okay. I wanted this. "I bought some time. With the Lydia thing. But I still don't know." There.
He didn't say anything. I just expressed my doubts in such an eloquent and articulate manner and he had nothing to say? "Okay, so this is supposed to be a conversation," I explained.
"I'm aware," Zach said cooly. That was all he said.
"It's your turn to talk," I prompted. Maybe I should jump out the window instead.
He shrugged. "I don't know what you want me to say to that."
Oh dear god. "Help me," I ordered. Or maybe begged. "How do I even decide? It's like a big decision. Straight or gay."
"You're acting like there's no other options." He rolled his eyes. "Like being bi, for instance."
"Yeah, I guess." I shrugged.
Zach said he liked guys and girls. That was an option, hypothetically. I couldn't imagine it any more than I could being gay; maybe I liked it even less for some reason. It wasn't that simple, was it? To just say, oh, I like both and there, problem solved. That was awfully convenient. How long could that last for? Wasn't it just putting off the inevitable? I couldn't decide if that's what I wanted to do or not.
"Please don't let this inflate your ego any more," I told Zach, "But you make it look really easy."
"I've known I was gay for a while now," he said simply. He used gay and bi interchangeably sometimes, but how was I supposed to know if that was what he was doing this time? Then seeing that I was clearly about to ask if he was gay now, he added, "I'm still bi, but I don't have a problem with either term."
Gay had become something of a catch all term, but it didn't feel like it to me. If I called myself gay out loud, that meant I liked men and men only. Zach didn't agree. Not that there was anything wrong with it, obviously. It just wasn't me.
Zach sighed and his tone wasn't exactly gentler, but for him it was almost warm and fuzzy as he continued, "You suddenly found yourself in a… situation." Instead of boyfriend, I would have to refer to Ryan as my situation later; he'd get a kick out of that. "It might take time to figure everything out."
I thought about that. How much time did I get? Did I have to become gay after my transitional period was over? When should I expect my membership card in the mail and how did I go about returning it? Still, it wasn't bad advice. This was new to me. I got a little time at least. All I could come up with to say in response was, "Wow, you sound so wise and rational."
"I know," Zach shuddered. "I don't like it."
Well, that didn't really help. But I guess it was reassuring. I felt really dumb, but I hadn't been dealing with this for that long, that was true. But Zach had known he was gay for a while now? "I don't think I've seen you go after a guy besides Ryan," I noted.
"Oh god, we are not talking about that," he said firmly.
I sighed. This was probably as good as our conversation would get, so I deemed Zach's best friend duties over with and reached into my backpack. "Hey, I brought snacks."
Zach smiled. Now some of the guys looked jealous, which made his smile grow. Zach liked envy even more than dessert. Ryan made cookies for the road. We ate them all ourselves but shared with Joey too. Apparently, I owed him for always telling him things he didn't want to know.
fnmanningblog	Uncategorized	Leave a comment December 14, 2020 October 13, 2020
Bye bi Zach (lolz)
Once upon a time, Luke Chambers went on a confusing sexuality journey. I can be more specific than that. Once upon One Little Lie, Luke Chambers went on a confusing sexuality journey.
I really enjoyed writing this storyline, so there's a lot of it, which is why some of it isn't in the book. There needs to be more about being bi in books, says the bi person, and also, I love Zach, so that's probably why I liked coming up with this stuff.
Here's some info about this scene: See Zach. See Zach be bi. Bye Zach bye.
Now here's some info that includes, um, actual info. Due to shenanigans, Luke told his parents he's dating a girl while he's really dating a boy and all he knows is that he likes a boy, he just doesn't know what means in terms of who and what he is.
His BFF Zach is bi, and Luke often ropes him into his gay freakouts.
As you maybe haven't read the larger story this is part of, I should probably note that these are a character's thoughts. This doesn't make them right. In fact, a lot of them are wrong. That's the fun thing about first person POV, you get to see the thought process from beginning to end.
It was Friday and we just played and won a game at another school. I cleaned up afterwards and got to my car before realizing I'd left my mitt in the dugout. When I went to grab my glove, I almost ran into Zach, who was there flirting with some girl.
"Seriously?" I questioned when I saw the pair and muttered, "I'm the one who hit a home run."
Sure, I was taken. But we were at a rival school and she didn't know that. And I was a pitcher. I didn't get a huge number of home runs, it was annoying I had to bat at all, so it was doubly impressive.
"I got on base every time I was up," he told me without looking at me and smiled at the girl with him as he said, "And I look better running."
That was debatable, but I didn't get into it as the girl gave Zach her number and left. He looked like he wanted to leave too but was resigned, waiting for me to speak. Good. I just didn't get this.
I still couldn't really picture him with a guy, but I guess it would happen eventually. Maybe his pride was wounded because the first guy he went on a date with after he came out chose someone else. But he said he liked guys, so eventually he'd have to get over that and give in to being gay.
"You still want to date girls?" I asked.
"Yeah," he said simply, like that was it.
Zach was the out one who said he was bi, and he even didn't mind the term gay, but he wasn't acting very gay at all. He liked one guy, and his shoes and car were always clean. But those last things probably didn't even count.
I was gayer than him at the moment, which was really unsettling.
"Just thought you'd be over girls by now," I commented. How long did it take? Did I set him back by stealing Ryan away?
"Bi isn't gay," he said, which sounded like a weak argument to me because he was the one who used the terms interchangeably for himself.
"Yeah, but—" I started to argue because it was rare that I got to be right in an argument with Zach. Damn, I rarely got to be right in argument with anyone. There was Alicia, but that was more she just didn't care and went along with me instead of arguing, which wasn't the same.
"Look, I still like girls," Zach interrupted. Yeah, he was making that clear, with his hitting on every girl, and making out with them in front of my locker. It was a little too clear.
"Me too." I felt the need to say that even though no one had asked. "We don't need to talk about this anyway—"
"You started it," he fired back. He would throw that in my face. "And you were asking questions earlier."
"That was before." Did I have to know things right away? Couldn't I just enjoy this for a while?
"Before your beard?" he asked with snide amusement.
I played dumb. "No, I think technically that had already started."
"Oh," Zach said in mock understanding. "So you're going to dig in your heels and ignore the problem until it goes away?"
Like he could talk! Zach always made a big show of protesting whenever he got dragged into a serious conversation and generally did everything he could to avoid them.
He was the one who loved avoiding stuff, but the second I tried to do the same, he called me on it. That totally wasn't fair.
I pointed this out. "Like you're one to talk. How long are you gonna be bi?" He liked guys and girls right now. Eventually, the girls would fade away. That was how it worked. The longer he tried to stay bi, the longer he was avoiding the truth.
"I like guys and girls and don't feel the need to choose and I'm not just saying that." He sounded annoyed.
He was totally just saying that.
"Okay, but it's a half way point," I argued.
Zach rolled his eyes. "Not literally."
He said it wasn't either/or. I kinda had a hard time remembering that. It had always seemed like either/or to me. Not both. And that wasn't right, you couldn't really have both, could you? For a little while when you figured things out, sure. But not forever. That was greedy or something.
"But like—" I tried to say some of my thoughts.
"No, it may be different for you but that's how it is for me," Zach talked over me. "I'm bi. I've always been bi. I am not interested in switching my cell phone provider. Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, totally, completely bi."
I snorted, but he wasn't done yet.
"Will that change in the distant future?" he asked and then answered his own question. "Well, keeping in mind that sexuality is fluid and I may learn more about myself as I get older," he looked at me wryly, "No, probably not." But he couldn't really- "I really don't think so," he said earnestly. "Maybe sometimes I'll be more into girls, maybe sometimes I'll be more into guys, but I like both and will continue to like both. I say that with as much certainty as I can."
He stared at me. I stared back. He stared back.
I coughed and remarked, "What? Do you want an Oscar for that speech or something?"
He shoved me and left.
Jeez, and I thought I was handling this whole thing bad.
Maybe all Zach's flirting with girls made sense. What if he was just getting it out of his system? Or trying really hard to appear straight before he gave up and went gay? He just hadn't quite got there yet.
Okay, I know that goes against everything Zach just said but he's confused. I didn't blame him.
This whole thing was really confusing.
I was confused, Zach was confused, and Cara had seemed really confused about me and Ryan. Maybe some of it was denial or just that rumors abounded surrounding my love life and that made things unclear, but mostly? Mostly it seemed like she didn't even want to think about the idea of me with another guy.
Cara Lewis shouldn't be the standard I base anything on. But. It kinda seemed like a lot of people thought like her.
Zach was pretty adamant about being able to like both, but did it really matter? If I was bi, I could date guys and girls. Except, would any of the girls want me? Or would I be able to be bi but I'd have to hide it from girls? Would guys care too? What was so good about having a label if no one wanted you once you had it?
I looked a lot of information up when I found out Ryan was gay and that I'd accidentally outed him. I guess I could go look at that research again. But… just the thought kinda made me sick. Which was weird because it was all really supportive stuff about how figuring out sexual orientation was a process, and it was okay to experiment, and that it took time and whatever.
Reading that once was way different than trying to apply it to yourself. It had all sounded good but now I thought it was wishful thinking. Maybe in some ideal world anyone could be anything they wanted and you could go back and forth and try things out.
Here, though? This was a modest Midwest community. You got a label and it stuck to you. That's just how it worked.
I'm currently playing around with the thing at the end where I say this has been more on Mondays, where I post deleted scenes every other Monday.
fnmanningblog	Uncategorized	Leave a comment November 4, 2019 September 12, 2019
Review: Out of the Pocket
Sports are not my thing. What is my thing? Everything but sports. I did watch the World Cup, because my friend had a party and provided free donuts. I watched one Superbowl for the actual game and not the commercials, and it wasn't too bad, but I still never did that again.
When I say I was able to read all of Out of the Pocket , that's not an insult or me having nothing else to say. Good job, Bill Konigsberg, I finished a sports book! The book is very sports and I am very not sports. If you're into gay, coming of age sports stories, this is probably the best one you'll find. The writing is super good and it's easy to read even if you don't know anything about football.
Summary and definition, all in one: The pocket is a safe place for quarterbacks while they find someone to throw the ball to. Being out of the pocket means the QB isn't in the safe zone and a bunch of scary dudes are running toward him and trying to tackle him into the ground.
Before coming out of the closet, Bobby Framingham has to go out of the pocket as he's out of his comfort zone when things start changing during his senior year of high school. He tells some people he's gay, other people find out, and things keep happening a little quicker than he's ready for. He doesn't want anything to change but that never works out in fiction.
Being out of the pocket isn't his strong suit on the field but now it's happening during life too. Get it? There's a double meaning!
Sports! Ahem. Sports: There's a lot of action with the football games and while some of it went over my head, it's pretty fast paced and not terribly difficult to follow. There's also a good amount of moments with the team that are fun and lively. My notes were, "Very sports. Very bros."
If you like football or other sports and are interested in things people who know things about football and other sports have to say, there's a forward and afterward by people who are much more well informed than me.
The end of the world as we know it: When you have a secret, sometimes you can ignore it and pretend like it doesn't exist. Until you can't anymore and suddenly everything is about the secret. Because all the parts of life you like will be ruined if people find out and all the parts you don't like will be even worse.
Bobby wants to win games with his team and play football in college, and he's not sure that's possible if people find out he's gay. There's a lot of that, I like my life the way it is, I don't want it to change stuff. Even though it has already changed. College is approaching, he's growing apart from some friends, and his dad doesn't seem to be himself.
Naturally, YA is really good at teen angst, and this book fits in. I love the impending sense of doom and the end of the world because that's really how problems seem sometimes, especially with something as big as coming to terms with sexuality. There's a lot of worrying about how things will go wrong, how the main character won't get the future they wanted.
I also like how the novel highlights that coming out isn't typically a one and done thing. Bobby comes out multiple times to different people with varying reactions. But as each coming out happens, it's okay, even when it goes bad. The world doesn't actually end. Sorry, spoilers.
Writing Style: Great writing that is so effortless it makes me want to cry out of appreciation and jealous, impotent rage. The more you read, the more satisfying it gets. It's all fairly straight forward at first glance, which works well for a sports book. No flowery prose, just the action. However, there are plenty of parallels and metaphors and all that good literature stuff.
My favorite part: Bobby tries to discuss coming out with a guidance counselor who is very focused on getting the right answer to his crossword puzzle. It's a cute scene. What I loved about it is that Bobby can't fathom going to college or beyond as an openly gay athlete, it just doesn't happen very often. The counselor tells him that someone has to change the world and he could be the one to do it.
If you're wondering why I love that part, here are my thoughts: UGH. IT'S JUST SO GOOD. WOW. GAH. I LOVE IT. SO GOOD!
Plot Twist: Just kidding, it's right there in the offical summary that Bobby gets outed. Coming out to the larger world wasn't his choice and there was some angst and distress, naturally, but I enjoyed that he eventually went with it all instead of dwelling on what he couldn't change.
Moving on and focusing on the positives and whatnot is such a weird, foreign concept for me, the perpetual worrier who is incapable of letting things go. I liked how Bobby decided to take control of what was happening even though it didn't happen how he planned.
The Supporting Cast: Actually, there's a lot of supporting characters. The novel is a glimpse into Bobby's world, so several faces come and go. For me, Austin and Carrie were the other characters that stood out.
Carrie is the BFF and quasi love interest, she's very manic pixie dream girl. She's a little much for me sometimes, but she also had some good lines. Her character is very strong. She takes over a lot of the scenes she's in, not in a bad way, she's just larger than life. Everyone thinks Bobby and Carrie are dating, and even Carrie thinks they should be at the beginning. I'm not totally sure there needed to be a one-sided attraction. She gets over it pretty quick and everyone assuming they're dating would work just as well on its own.
Austin is one of Bobby's best friends. Austin is a ladies' man and a football bro. He's a bit of a dick as he tells some friends Bobby is gay, but it seemed like he just didn't know how to react. He tries to support Bobby and ultimately it was one of those things where he wasn't as big a jerk as he could have been.
TL;DR? This is as brief as I was able to make it: Bobby makes a couple comments to himself about how Austin selectively acts Mexican when it works for him. Austin is mixed, white and Mexican (me too, samesies), and many people probably didn't give the parts about his ethnicity a second thought because they're very small. Just let it go, I told my brain. My brain did not let it go.
With being biracial or bisexual, it's sometimes hard for people to get things that aren't always visible. For example, if you're a guy dating a guy, you're gay. If you're a guy dating a girl, you're straight. In my experience, some things aren't one or the other. Some things are always both.
Some parts of YA are intense, so let's be clear this isn't a call out or anything. Fiction is rad because it can be anything. And all the things Bobby thinks about Austin's race are a very accurate outsider POV as I've heard them said to me a million times. I just wanted a little more. Why did Bobby think these comments about his friend's race and not say them out loud? Had he said them out loud before and they weren't appreciated?
I don't need an after school special where a Very Important Lesson about racial sensitivity is learned. Things could have gotten worse, and Bobby could have doubled down on his comments to Austin. Either way, I just wanted more, for the throwaway comments to be given a little substance.
The Romance: There is some, hooray, but it isn't the main focus. The love interest this time is named Bryan and he's great. He's in college and he's sweet, confident and supportive, a very good first boyfriend. There's a lot of uncertainty and figuring stuff out in the plot, so it's nice to have this relatively uncomplicated romance.
There's a moment where Bobby is freaking out and Bryan is just steady. Bobby thinks the world is ending and Bryan's just like, nah. And of course, they're by the water for maximum mood. That's another of my favorite moments.
fnmanningblog	Uncategorized	Leave a comment August 12, 2019 August 3, 2019


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Q: Cannot insert an item that is already owned by another QTableWidget I'm having issues with QTableWidgetTable, after I run the FindTableItems function it resets the rows/number to the appropriate size, but does not put any data into the cells.
I can see that the objects are holding the correct data. I recieve no compile errors but the debugger makes the note:
QTableWidget: cannot insert an item that is already owned by another QTableWidget
What I don't understand is I only have one tablewidget ? so whats the deal ? I'm also open to a different way of doing this.
void MainWindow::FindTableItems(QString searchItem)
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An immaculately presented ground floor apartment within St Clements House is superbly located within the centre of town directly accessible to the shops and the River Thames. A rarely available flat with a direct view into the residents private communal garden, with disabled access at the main entrance, secure entry and two allocated parking spaces at the rear of the building.
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Both bedrooms view onto the enclosed residents garden, with each easily accommodating double beds. The master bedroom has a built-in double wardrobe and a refitted en-suite shower room with heated towel rail. The main bathroom has also been refitted with a three piece suite including fitted storage furniture. The property has UPVC double glazing and gas central heating to radiators.
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Kaplica pw. Ścięcia św. Jana Chrzciciela "Tal-Għargħar" (, ) – rzymskokatolicka kaplica w miejscowości San Ġwann na Malcie. Budynek znajduje się u zbiegu Triq Bellavista i Triq tal-Ghorghar.

Historia
Współczesne źródła podają, że kaplica została zbudowana przez prywatną rodzinę w 1546, inne, że przed 1615, natomiast Achille Ferres pisze w 1866 jedynie o jej dawnym pochodzeniu. W raporcie z wizytacji parafii Birkirkara przez apostolskiego wizytatora Pietro Dusinę w 1575 nie została wymieniona; Dusina nie zawsze ujmował w raporcie kaplice, o których istnieniu skądinąd wiadomo, lub będące w ruinie czy opuszczone. Właśnie z tego ostatniego powodu została zdekonsekrowana przez biskupa Balaguera 23 marca 1659; następnie odbudowana w 1672. Kaplica stała niepoświęcona do 1680, kiedy biskup Molina po swej wizytacji zarządził, aby datki w niej zbierane przekazywane były do kościoła parafialnego w Birkirkarze na nieszpory w przeddzień, oraz mszę świętą w dzień święta św. Jana.

Kiedy w 1947 wspólnota zakonna kapucynów rozpoczęła posługę w Birkirkarze, przez pierwsze trzy lata, do wybudowania klasztoru, a później kościoła parafialnego w San Ġwann, odprawiali posługę duszpasterską w kaplicy św. Jana Chrzciciela.

Architektura

Wygląd zewnętrzny
Kaplica jest zbudowana na planie prostokąta, i ma wygląd kostki, typowy dla maltańskiej architektury wernakularnej. Fasada kaplicy, skierowana na zachód, jest prosta, z centralnie położonymi drzwiami i zakratowanym oknem powyżej, jedynym naturalnym źródłem światła w kaplicy. Po prawej stronie drzwi wmurowana inskrypcja NON GODE L'IMMUNITA ECCLESIAS.[TICA], ostrzegająca przestępców, że schronienie się w tym świętym miejscu nie daje ochrony przed ujęciem przez władze. Jedyną ozdobą fasady są proste obramowania wokół drzwi i okna. Nad oknem, dobudowana później w formie pojedynczej arkady, prosta dzwonnica bell-cot z dzwonem, zwieńczona krzyżem maltańskim, chociaż nie wiadomo o jakimkolwiek połączeniu kaplicy z Zakonem. Z obu stron dachu wystają po dwie kamienne rynny do odprowadzania wody opadowej. Przed frontem niewielki plac, otoczony niskim murkiem, z czterema schodami doń prowadzącymi; kaplica stoi na lekko spadzistym terenie.

Do kaplicy przylega niewielka zakrystia, w której frontowej ścianie znajduje się otwór wentylacyjny w kształcie pięcioramiennej gwiazdy. Budynek ma drzwi łączące z kaplicą, oraz osobne wejście od frontu, do którego prowadzi pięć schodów.

Wnętrze
Wewnątrz cztery kamienne łuki wspierają sklepienie kolebkowe, pokryte kamiennymi płytami. Nad ołtarzem malowidło nieznanego artysty przedstawiające Ścięcie św. Jana Chrzciciela. Pochodzi prawdopodobnie z późnego XVII wieku, przypomina dzieło Caravaggia z oratorium kościoła konwentualnego joannitów w Valletcie.

Kościół dziś
W 2016 kaplica została gruntownie odrestaurowana. Dziś odbywają się tam zajęcia katechetyczne, prowadzone przez Stowarzyszenie Doktryny Chrześcijańskiej.

Ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego
15 listopada 1994 budynek kaplicy uznany został zabytkiem 1. klasy, zaś od 27 sierpnia 2012 umieszczony jest na liście National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands pod nr. 00785.

Przypisy

Kaplica św. Jana Chrzciciela
Kaplice na Malcie
Kościoły rzymskokatolickie na Malcie
Świątynie pod wezwaniem św. Jana Chrzciciela
Architektura wernakularna na Malcie

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TGIF to you all. I am really looking forward to a couple of days at home. Hope you are too. These are the things that turned my head lately. Enjoy!
1. Succulent Window Box from the ladies at A Beautiful Mess: All kinds of creative is happening here. They created this crafty tutorial as decor for a guest room, and I think it's super adorable.
2. Potted succulent from Kim at Today's Creative Life: A darling little potted felt succulent project is given here. It might even have a chance of surviving on my desk.
3. Apartment Therapy on crafty vacations: They provide a round-up of some terrific sounding crafty vacay's. I would just love to indulge myself on one of these retreats. Can you imagine block printing with Lotta Jansdotter in Scandinavia? Swoon. They also mention CreativeBug -- an online craft class platform -- for those that want to stay close to home (or maybe just pay $4.95 a month vs. a ticket to Scandinavia). Lot's of great classes that you can watch from your computer or even via their app on your iPhone. I have it and love it.
4. Pillar Box Blue provides us with giant cacti: Great tutorial for a paper mache cactus.
5. Team Mids polymer clay project: A site dedicated to miniatures provides a project making succulent plants at 1/12 scale. I am a super fan of just about anything miniature.
6. CraftBits provides us with cacti painted rock planters: These painted rock planters are easy and cute. Could be a fun craft with the kids or even a nice summer hostess gift.
7. TMTOMH gives us everything cement: 20 great projects using cement all in one place.
8. A Pretty Cool Life shares a Cinco De Mayo flower decoration: These tabletop arrangements would look great on a picnic table this summer, and pretty up a taco night with friends. I just love the bright yellow cans; I have a Cento can I keep on my craft desk to hold my scissors, but I should get some more to use for flowers when I cook Italian.
9. Dizzy, Busy and Hungry shares a delicious dip recipe: Really simple but it sounds perfect, this Cilantro Lime Dip is going on my summer table along with those El Pato flower arrangements.
10. Tiny Tacos from Tastemade: I really meant it when I said I love all things miniature. So this video just makes me smile.


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George Macy's illustrated editions of Charles Dickens's Christmas classic
December 19, 2017 - Tracy Bonfitto
Between July 1937 and March 1938, Nonesuch Press—under the direction of George Macy—set out to publish what it billed as the most extensive collection yet made of Charles Dickens's writings. It had already been an energetic few years. Macy founded the subscription-based Limited Editions Club in 1929, and the Heritage Press in 1935, before acquiring London-based Nonesuch Press in 1936. Nonesuch's practice of teaming up a small hand press for design and commercial printers for production allowed for a wider circulation of its fine-press quality books. [Read more…] about George Macy's illustrated editions of Charles Dickens's Christmas classic
Filed Under: Art, Featured1 Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Christmas, George Macy, illustrations, Limited Editions Club
Featured "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" artist Abelardo Morell delivers Amon Carter Lecture
March 24, 2015 - Marlene Renz
Photographer Abelardo Morell, whose work is featured in the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland exhibition, delivers the Amon Carter lecture on Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. at the Ransom Center.
Morell's work has been collected and shown at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Five prints from Morell's series Alice in Wonderland are on view in the Ransom Center's current exhibition, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Morell says of this series, "When I began to make photographs illustrating this book by Lewis Carroll I had in mind that books themselves should form the architecture and landscape where the story takes place."
The program is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. Seating is first-come, first-served, and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Morell's photographs can be seen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, on view through July 6. Share with #aliceinaustin.
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Abelardo Morell, "Down the Rabbit Hole," from the series "Alice in Wonderland," 1998; 2014.Inkjet print, 22.5 x 18 in. Image appears courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. © Abelardo Morell
Abelardo Morell, "A Mad Tea Party," from the series "Alice in Wonderland," 1998; 2014.Inkjet print, 22.5 x 18 in. Image appears courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. © Abelardo Morell
Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: Abelardo Morell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Amon Carter Lecture, illustrations, Photography
Alice in Burnt Orange: Salvador Dalí's rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic at the Ransom Center
June 22, 2012 - Sarah Sussman
Sarah Sussman is a graduate student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Though currently writing about nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, she is interested in Surrealist art, children's literature, and British literature as well.
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel that stretches the imagination and playfully defies logic has been adapted by a number of artists throughout the years, but perhaps none have been so well-suited to put their own spin on the English author's topsy-turvy adventure as Salvador Dalí. The surrealist artist's galas might have rivaled the Mad Hatter's tea parties, and his paradoxical identification of himself as a sane madman would have put him at home as one of Carroll's whimsical characters.
Dalí's illustrations for the novel come more than 100 years after its original printing with John Tenniel's images. Although many will be familiar with Tenniel (a number of his images can be seen reproduced today on all sorts of Alice ephemera), the Dalí prints are far less common. Viewers will be struck by the artist's intensely vivid, color-saturated heliogravure with woodblock prints. They offer a new way to read Alice's Adventures, from a twentieth-century perspective only Dalí could provide—from an outlandishly sized, wide-eyed, dashing white rabbit, to dripping fluorescent mushrooms, to larger-than-life butterflies and, yes, even one of the artist's signature melting clocks. It seems especially fitting that this portfolio is at The University of Texas at Austin, because Dali's edition is highlighted entirely in burnt orange, from the portfolio's burnt orange box, to its burnt orange typographical accents, to its featured frontispiece of Alice, looming large in frenetically etched orange lines, carrying a jump rope or a hoop against a cloud-scudded sky.
Published in New York by Maecenas Press–Random House in 1969, the portfolio-style book features 12 prints to correspond with each chapter of Carroll's book and an original signed etching as the frontispiece. The Ransom Center's copy is signed and one of 2,500 portfolios. Dalí's rendition is a well-paired match for Carroll's adventure and a lively part of the Ransom Center's holdings.
Click on the thumbnails below to view larger images.
"The Mouse's Tale." © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2012.
"Down the Rabbit Hole." © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2012.
"Advice From a Caterpillar." © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2012.
Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures, Art, illustrations, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Maecenas Press–Random House, Sarah Sussman


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Girls of the Pink Titans represent Grades 9 to 12 students from a variety of strong interests including biology, arts, business, phys. ed., and social sciences.
While a few of the girls arrived with experience in the FIRST LEGO League, many of the girls of the current Pink Titans were introduced to robotics this past year. Using MakerBots, the girls learned coding with Scratch, built with tools, and learned about the variety of sensors; including, ultrasonic range finder, line-follower, and light sensors.
Over the year, the girls of the Pink Titans coached and mentored girls from local elementary schools in utilizing MakerBots, Dash and Dots, Spheros, and LEGO Mindstorms EV3s; as part of the learning in the elementary curriculum.
Many of the girls have expressed assuming additional roles on the Pink Titans, including programming, building, controlling, and public relations.
On May 15, 2018 and Oct. 29, 2018, girls of the Pink Titans presented the impact of Girls' Robotics Outreach at the "Ignite Explore Inspire" Robotics Symposium for educators of the Toronto District School Board. The girls shared their experiences mentoring younger girls in robotics principles. Over the year, the girls of the Pink Titans demonstrated global competencies of global citizenship and character, communication, creativity and inquiry, plus collaboration and leadership.
Pink Titans as Youth Mentors Of The Year in FIRST LEGO League
In Nov. 2017 and Jan. 2018, Manahil Rauf earned the Youth Mentor Award at the FLL TDSB - David & Mary Thomson C. I. Qualifying Event and the FLL Ontario East Provincial Championship. She mentored FLL 2014.
Rubika Nanthakumar (below) earned the Youth Mentor Award at the FLL Toronto East - Woburn Qualifying Tournament. She mentored FLL 2111. She is currently a mentor of the Pink Titans.
In Dec. 2016 and Jan. 2017, Manahil Rauf (top right) earned the Youth Mentor Award at the FLL Toronto East - Woburn Qualifying Tournament and FLL Ontario East Provincial Championship. She mentored FLL 2014.
On May 27 and 28, 2017, female students from FIRST Robotics Teams across Ontario attended the Inaugural Girls In STEM Conference by FIRST Robotics Canada.
Amelia Singh, a Grade 9 member of FRC 5719 - Pink Titans, attended. She and other girls listened to inspirational guest speakers. As well, Amelia participated in team-building activities that fostered inspiration and confidence in pursuing dreams and goals.
VP at a STEM girls weekend by FIRST Canada. Fantastic team building! 6 of the girls are from our team 4914, 1 from Thomson team 5719. pic.twitter.com/FgPtrehpRK
— Victoria Park CI (@vicparkci) May 28, 2017
On May 15, 2017. Girls of FRC 5719 - Pink Titans participated in Girls In App-titude Workshop on coding at Centennial College - Morningside Campus.
 On Dec. 5, 2016. Girls of FRC 5719 - Pink Titans interact with female students of different engineering fields, including Sogand Talebi in the program of Space Engineering; plus Jackie Zeni, and Assistant Dean Marisa Sterling at Lassonde School of Engineering at Bergeron School of Engineering Excellence at York University.
On Nov. 26, 2015. Fiona, Mahia, Jasmine, and Vanessa comprised the all-girls' VEX robotics team, one of three teams of the Pink Titans at the Toronto VRC Qualifying Event. The girls worked hard over the last month to build and program the scissor-lift mechanism of the robot. All of the girls expressed interest in pursuing careers in health sciences.


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Electricity is always available in Switzerland. Around the clock, 365 days a year. But we must not take that for granted. Particularly in the winter months, energy producers are confronted with special challenges. The demand for energy increases considerably during periods of snow, ice and low temperatures. The problem here is that domestic electricity generation cannot cover this increased demand, which means that Switzerland relies on imports during the winter months.
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But why is it that some places in Switzerland do not generate enough electricity during winter? The answer is that electricity generation is heavily dependent on the weather. For example, if water levels in rivers are low due to long dry spells, run-of-river power stations produce less electricity. The same applies to storage power plants: a dry summer or autumn means that the water levels in dams are low and water reserves are limited.
The potentially challenging energy and grid situation in the winter can only be overcome by working together.
The particular challenge is that Switzerland cannot simply import an unlimited amount of electricity. In the winter months, around 80 percent of electricity is imported at the highest voltage level (380 kV). To supply Switzerland with the energy it requires, this imported electricity must first be transformed to a lower voltage level (≤ 220 kV). However, the capacity for transforming electricity is limited. A greater number of high-capacity transformers is required.
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In the autumn of 2015 it became apparent that the energy and grid situation in winter could become strained. Energy reserves in Switzerland were scarce at that point due to a series of specific circumstances:
Due to the dry weather in summer and autumn the rivers were carrying significantly less water compared to the long-term average, which affected electricity generation from hydroelectric power plants.
The level of the reservoirs was found to be below average based on a long-term comparison.
The nuclear power plants Beznau 1 and 2 were both out of service. As a result, a feed-in of 720 MW into the 220-kV grid was lacking in northern Switzerland.
The lack of constant energy from hydroelectric and nuclear power had to be compensated for with other types of generation, particularly from storage power plants and imports. Since the capacity for the transformation from 380 kV to 220 kV is limited, imports were only usable to a limited extent to compensate for the lack of constant energy.
The «Winter 2015-2016 Report» highlights the difficult initial situation, the steps taken to ease the pressure and the measures taken to avoid a recurrence of it in future. The working group «Responsibility for the Security of the Electricity Supply» documented the results of its work in the report of the same name.
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Often asked: What Does Is Mean If You Dream And You Cant Make A Decision?
1 What does it mean when you can't make a decision in a dream?
2 What does it mean when you have a dream where you can't open your eyes?
3 Do dreams affect decision making?
4 What does it mean to have a dream where you can't see?
5 Is it true that if you dream of someone they dream of you?
6 Are your dreams telling you something?
7 Can you have sleep paralysis with your eyes closed?
8 What does it mean when you can't wake up from your dream?
9 How can I safely lucid dream?
What does it mean when you can't make a decision in a dream?
Problems getting the confidence to make a difficult change in your life. To dream of having problems making a decision represents feelings about overcoming doubts, anxiety regarding mistakes, or insecurity about about appearances or conflict with a change you are making.
What does it mean when you have a dream where you can't open your eyes?
When Dream Interpretation Can't Open Eyes is something that seems normal, this symbolizes that the dreamer has a strong personality. On a different side, it also develops into nightmares, and this is a sign of bad news in the future, this is also the temptation of bad energy around the dreamer.
Do dreams affect decision making?
Your dreams might influence your final choice, suggests new research. Scientists disagree as to what extent dreams reflect subconscious desires, but new research reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 2) concludes that dreams do influence people's decisions and attitudes.
What does it mean to have a dream where you can't see?
When dreaming of being unable to see clearly the dream may indicate that there is a situation that is overwhelming, something that is so overpowering that you can't focus on it. This type of dream may also be a dream advising you that you are too close to a problem and need to take a step back to see more clearly.
You might be interested: Quick Answer: The Valuation Principle Shows How To Make The Costs And Benefits Of A Decision Comparable?
Is it true that if you dream of someone they dream of you?
The superstition says that dreaming of someone means that you are thinking of you. In most cases, this is not true. The person appeared because you think about them a lot and not the other way around. The reason why this superstition still exists is because of coincidences.
Are your dreams telling you something?
Dreams tell you what you really know about something, what you really feel. They point you toward what you need for growth, integration, expression, and the health of your relationships to person, place and thing. When we talk about our dreams coming true, we're talking about our ambitions.
Can you have sleep paralysis with your eyes closed?
– It also often includes hallucinations and reported nightmares. Because unlike the visuals in your dreams which occur when you're deep in sleep and your eyes are closed, these hallucinations occur when your mind is alert and eyes are open.
What does it mean when you can't wake up from your dream?
You're most likely to experience dreaming during REM sleep, he said, and the body actually becomes paralyzed "presumably so you don't try to act out your dreams." During an episode of sleep paralysis, a person becomes paralyzed for seconds or minutes just as they're falling asleep or waking up.
How can I safely lucid dream?
By regularly practicing the following techniques, you can train your brain to lucid dream.
Make your bedroom hospitable to dreaming.
Keep a dream journal.
Recognize your dream signs.
Perform reality checks.
Use the MILD technique.
Try going back to sleep.
Induce sleep paralysis.
Use the Wake Back to Bed technique.


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Well, Sports Illustrated Attempted a Swimsuit Issue for the #MeToo Era
Paulina Porizkova posing for the 2018 Swimsuit Issue. Photo: Taylor Ballantyne/Sports Illustrated
As sure as the sun sets and rises, as sure as the tides rise and fall, we are graced with an annual Swimsuit Issue from Sports Illustrated. This year, however, the compendium of models posing sexily on beaches in bathing suits arrives at a time when conversations about sexual harassment and the objectification of women are especially widespread. And so Vanity Fair spoke to editor MJ Day about making such an issue during the #MeToo era.
Last year's issue was about promoting body diversity, which they accomplished in part with three different covers featuring the diverse bodies of Kate Upton. They also ended on a shot of model Nina Agdal, taking a page out of Em Rata's book and wearing bikini bottoms and a tank top reading "A woman doesn't have to be modest to be respected."
There's more of that messaging in the 2018 issue with a nude spread called "In Her Own Words," which features models posing with words like "truth" and "artist" and "natural" painted on them. The issue will also feature more standard bikini shots.
"It's about allowing women to exist in the world without being harassed or judged regardless of how they like to present themselves," Day said. "That's an underlying thread that exists throughout the Swimsuit Issue."
"These are sexy photos," she added. "At the end of the day, we're always going to be sexy, no matter what is happening.
That sound you just heard was a thousand straight men collectively sighing in relief.
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Dai, X; Zhang, W; Xu, J; Mitchell, JE; Yang, Y; (2012) Kalman interpolation filter for channel estimation of LTE downlink in high-mobility environments. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , 2012 (232) 10.1186/1687-1499-2012-232.
The estimation of fast-fading LTE downlink channels in high-speed applications of LTE advanced is investigated in this article. In order to adequately track the fast time-varying channel response, an adaptive channel estimation and interpolation algorithm is essential. In this article, the multi-path fast-fading channel is modelled as a tapped-delay, discrete, finite impulse response filter, and the time-correlation of the channel taps is modelled as an autoregressive (AR) process. Using this AR time-correlation, we develop an extended Kalman filter to jointly estimate the complex-valued channel frequency response and the AR parameters from the transmission of known pilot symbols. Furthermore, the channel estimates at the known pilot symbols are interpolated to the unknown data symbols by using the estimated time-correlation. This article integrates both channel estimation at pilot symbols and interpolation at data symbol into the proposed Kalman interpolation filter. The bit error rate performance of our new channel estimation scheme is demonstrated via simulation examples for LTE and fast-fading channels in high-speed applications.
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Malacañang: Case vs pork senators based on evidence
A spokesman of the President denies that the Palace had a hand in the decision of the Ombudsman to indict 3 opposition senators in the pork barrel scam
Published 8:32 PM, April 02, 2014
Updated 9:22 PM, April 02, 2014
Presidential spokesperson Herminio Coloma Jr. Rappler file photo
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang said on Wednesday, April 2, that it had no hand in the decision of the Office of the Ombudsman to file plunder charges against several personalities in connection with the pork barrel scam, including opposition senators, contrary to the claim of the latter.
Responding to questions at a news briefing, Palace Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr denied the claim of the opposition that their members are being singled out in the pork barrel scam, while those allied with President Benigno Aquino III are likely to be spared.
"Our guiding principle from the start is, as the President said, let the evidence direct the course of the inquiry…. The whole process followed this principle, that everything is based on evidence, without bias or favor," Coloma said.
Responding to questions, Coloma gave an indirect assurance that cases would be pursued against administration allies implicated in the pork barrel scam, as urged by Vice President Jejomar Binay. (READ: Binay: Probe Aquino allies in pork scam too)
"The Executive has done what's necessary with regard to the initial cases. So in those cases in the Ombudmsan and in the next step, the Sandigan – it's clear that this is outside the scope of the Executive," Coloma said, when asked for an assurance that the wheels of justice would also move forward in the case of administration allies.
Pressed to respond to the same question, the Palace official said, "As I said in the last part of my statement yesterday, we share our people's fervent hopes on the final resolution of these cases."
Sought for clarification, Coloma said the "cases" he referred to included the Malampaya fund scam that is also being investigated by the Ombudsman.
"'Cases' are plural, also referring to the Malampaya [fund] and other cases that are being processed by the assurance. That is our statement. What is important here is that we respect the independence of the Office of the Ombudsman and the judiciary…. That is clearly stated in the Constitution," he said.
He said that the "participation" of the Executive branch in the legal process "is through the prosecutors of the Department of Justice and, if called upon and needed, the Office of the Solicitor General."
"But the whole process is in the hands of Sandiganbayan and, prior to that, the Ombudsman. We recognize and respect them as separate and independent bodies," he said.
Coloma gave the same answer when asked if Malacañang would urge the Ombudsman to work quickly on the second batch of cases on the pork barrel scam which would reportedly include administration allies.
At the regular Palace briefing aired live on state-run PTV 4, Coloma used visual aids to show the public the process awaiting those charged with plunder.
Coloma showed a "roadmap" of the steps that would follow after the Ombudsman found probable cause to indict senators Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Jinggoy Estrada, alleged pork scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles, and 6 others for plunder.
In making the brief presentation, he said that "it is important that our people know and understand the processes in connection with the PDAF case."
Coloma said that under the law, respondents have 5 days from receipt of the Ombudsman's resolution to file a Motion for Reconsideration. The Ombudsman will evaluate and resolve such motions up to a maximum of 60 days.
The Ombudsman will then file the information with the Sandiganbayan, and the case will be raffled-off to one of the 5 divisions of the Sandigandayan.
Upon evaluation of the information and the records of the case, the court will issue warrants of arrest, which ensures that the court acquires jurisdiction over the person of the accused. After this, trial will commence, Coloma said.
"We note that these judicial processes shall be carried out by the Ombudsman, an independent constitutional body, and the Sandiganbayan that belongs to an independent and co-equal branch of the government. When the 1987 Constitution was promulgated, the Filipino people affirmed fidelity to the rule of law. We are a government of laws, not of men. Let the rule of law take its course," he said. – Rappler.com
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Q: How to know what objects were added to window by the current page code? When I visit some page, like an SPA, I know some objects are added to window by its code.
Is there a way to know what are native browser objects/methods, and which were added by the app?

A: calling the window variable basicly give you an overview from all the content inside of it. I guess if you want to known how much functions it currently includes you could do something like:
Object.keys(window).length; //or just Object.keys for the names

To known if new functions have been added to the window object need to known the number of keys their where before they where included or just by knowning the static number. To just give some example. Here on stackoverflow the window object only contains 246 keys. However on something like google I counted 1597 keys. So it really depends on the app you are using.
So what you could do is write a function that checks if the amount of keys have been increased and when that happends taking out the key and moving it into a array inside the function.
That just what I get from your question.

A: I think you are looking for Mutation Observers. With them you can listen for newly added or removed DOM elements. I believe you also get notified of attribute and text changes.
Here is a link to a short article about them. Mutation Observers
Hope this helps!

A: Suppose you have two separate tabs. One that doesn't add anything to window (which is hard to find), one that have added some properties.
have both open.
in the clean one do :
a = Object.keys(window);
JSON.stringify(a);
copy the result and move that to the tab that have added some properties to window. then do a = JSON.parse(<Ctrl + v>)
and b = Object.keys(window)
and finally :
c = b.filter(p=>a.indexOf(p)=== -1)
now c contains names of all properties that have been added to window object by that tab;
HOT TIP:
Firefox Developer Edition does that by default :
a screenshot of how it works
Note that window's default properties are separated in a different property (called [default properties])


I have found myself dehydrated over the past few weeks. When that happens my energy level drops and I am not very productive. I need to be restored.
Throughout lunch, she would stop by to check on us and would always smile at the large pitcher of water I was drinking. Turns out it was a liter of water. Partway through lunch I could tell my hydration was better, my energy level was up and I was thinking clearer. My pitcher of water was slowly restoring my body and mind.
Later in the day, I was thinking about how that water restored my body. There is a life-giving quality that water brings to our bodies. Ever since chemotherapy I have had to pay special attention to being hydrated. In those moments when I am weak, I am encouraged by the way a few glasses of water can restore my body and mind.
I was drawn to the 23rd Psalm.
"He restores my soul" There will be seasons in life when my soul needs to be restored. I may feel attacked by those who do not have my best interest at heart or maybe the road I am traveling is dark and filled with dangers. Maybe grief and illness will weave a tapestry of sadness in a particular season of life. Whatever the reason life becomes difficult and we begin to struggle.
I find myself in an odd place. Six months into a break from chemo I am excited to be gaining strength. At the same time, I am wondering when my break will end.
When people ask, "How are you doing?" I find it hard to answer. I am experiencing life the same way I do a special vacation or trip. The first part of my time away I am super excited and enjoy counting the days away from the routine. At some point I am closer to going home than to when I arrived. At that moment I begin to count down the days till I return. While I try to stay excited and engaged in the trip, the closer I get to the time we leave, the harder it gets.
One of the devotional books that God used to speak to me while I was going through my first round of chemotherapy was Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.
This week I have the privilege of sharing a guest post on the Jesus Calling Blog.
Chemotherapy has many side effects. The past few weeks I have seen healing from one of the most annoying side effects I have experienced.
Soon after I started my chemotherapy treatments in May of 2016, I lost my nose. One of the drugs that was part of my chemo cocktail caused the lining of my nose to bleed constantly. I would slowly get better during my off week, but as soon as treatment began again, my nose would be sore and raw. During my first long (six months) break from chemo my left nostril cleared up, and I had hopes for complete healing. Once we started my second round of chemo that hope soon disappeared. My nose was raw each morning and night. The lining would bleed, and it would form clots that would, in turn, cut the interior of my nose when I blew my nose.
I talked with Dr. Saroha about it many times. He was compassionate, but it was just one of those side effects that came with the type of chemo I have been using. I had resigned myself to taking care of a raw, sore, bleeding nose for the rest of my life.
Six months into this break from chemotherapy and suddenly my nose has cleared up! I do mean suddenly. One day it was a wreck, and by the end of the week, it was healthy. The healthy caught me by surprise. I had a routine that I used to keep my nostril clean and clear (I will spare you the details). I found myself sitting in my chair realizing I had not needed to follow my routine for three or four days. At that moment I realized the clotting had stopped and my nostril was healthy.
It may not seem like much to some…but this is huge for me. I had resigned myself to living with a damaged nose for the rest of my life. In the grand scheme of things, it is a small discomfort. A minor inconvenience for the joy of living life. I had made peace with the awkwardness of my nose, now to find out I was experiencing healing.
Thank you to Brian Bingaman of The Reporter for a great article on The Journey Continues.
The Reporter is a daily newspaper and web site serving the North Penn, Indian Valley and surrounding communities in Montgomery and Bucks counties, southeastern Pennsylvania.
As we get ready to celebrate Ash Wednesday, I spent a few moments to make the ashes. It is one of my favorite jobs as a pastor.
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent. It marks the beginning of forty days of fasting and prayer that lead up to Easter. Lent is a time for self-examination, and for discernment. A special season where we slow down and reflect on who God is, who we are, and our place in the world.
Part of what makes Lent so exciting is that it is a season leading to a celebration. We know that Easter is coming, a time to celebrate what Christ accomplished for us. Lent is a way of not letting that celebration sneak up on us. There are forty days for us to prepare ourselves, heart and mind, to celebrate the empty tomb.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this wonderful season. Ashes of burned palms from last spring's Palm Sunday celebrations are placed in the sign of a cross on people's foreheads as a symbol of repentance and a reminder of our own mortality. As we enter this forty-day season of Lent, we are reminded of Jesus' forty-day fast in the desert.
As I burn the ashes each year, I spend time in prayer. I pray for those who will join us for the Ash Wednesday service. I pray for the people of First Baptist as they travel these next forty days, that they would be open to hearing clearly from Abba Father. I pray that in some small way we might connect with the journey of Jesus. I pray for all people, that this season may be on in which we are all reminded of the depth of God's love for us.
My oncologist appointment was an early one, 8:15 a.m. We awoke to find our driveway coated with one to three inches of snow. Last night Nancy and I had talked about possibly canceling the appointment. We were not going to learn anything new, we had seen the blood work and talked with Dr. Saroha about the scans.
Not one for missing time with Dr. Saroha I was up early and outside with the snow blower. I am going to stop here for a moment. I cleaned our driveway of snow using our snow blower! This is not something I would have been able to do a few months ago. Now the truth is I have paid a high price for that activity and have slept most of the day, but I did it! I am thankful for small victories.


Although this is packaged as a mystery, which it is, the protagonist/narrator has empathic powers, which makes it fantasy or science fiction as well, depending on your definition. You can pretty much tell by the title that this one isn't going to be entirely serious. Maggie, our heroine, works in a kind of magic shop when she isn't solving murders, of which there have been more than her share recently. When she accompanies a friend to a crafts fair, she meets a ruggedly handsome man, but before anything romantic can happen, he turns up dead, murdered. The police naturally are looking for an entirely mundane solution, but Maggie suspects that witchcraft, real or otherwise, is intimately involved, and there wouldn't be much of a story if she wasn't right.
E.E. Knight is probably best known so far for his Vampire Earth series in which an alien race of humanoids that drink human blood invade the Earth, resulting in some quasi-military SF. This particular title is the third in his first fantasy series, which gets strong points for not falling into the usual patterns. The protagonists of all three novels are dragons in a world where the race of dragons is rapidly vanishing. A copper dragon is the main character this time, crippled while still in the next during a battle for dominance with another hatchling. As a consequence, he becomes an outcast even among his own species. Rejected, he gets into more trouble and saves his own life by betraying his own kind, which only serves to worsen his alienation from other dragons. So he flees his homeland, eventually finding a greater civilization of dragons, only to discover that he needs to earn a place among them, overcoming their prejudices against his maimed body to do so. My only real complaint about the series is that the dragons are essentially human beings. Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw really stood out because the personality of its characters was shaped in part by the fact that they were dragons and not human. There's not enough of this differentiation in Knight's series, which is otherwise well conceived and written.
I normally shake my head in disappointment when I see another SF writer moving to fantasy, but if they were all as interesting as this one, I wouldn't mind at all. Hieronymus Bonaventure is an officer aboard a British frigate in 1808 that is dismasted and forced into unknown waters somewhere in the South Pacific. They come upon a Spanish boat whose crew is dead or dying. One of the survivors tells them they landed on a deserted island and all but three of their number were mysteriously changed so that they had no wish to leave and eventually drove the dissenters out. They themselves encounter an inhabited island whose natives appear to welcome them. Bonaventure is somewhat suspicious of the local witch doctor, of course, whose monopoly on magic seems in danger of succumbing to the new competition. He also meets one of the young females, Pelani, which complicates his emotional state. And when he disregards her warning and approaches a strange flying creature from another island, he discovers that things are a lot more dangerous than he ever suspected.
The new wave of contemporary or parallel universe urban fantasies has, up to now, featured female protagonists almost exclusively. I suspect that this is because of an overlap with paranormal romance. The authors have also been predominantly female, with the exception of Rob Thurman and, if you count it as part of the same phenomenon, the Nightside stories by Simon R. Green. This first fantasy novel - the author has previously written mysteries - is clearly the first in another series and, despite some window dressing, the protagonist is clearly a male witch named Mason, complete with familiar, in this case his dog Louie, or what passes for a dog. He's actually considerably more than that. But hence the title. Mason is - or rather was - a kind of magical policeman, not that he uses magic to solve ordinary crimes, but that he solves crimes involving magic. That kind of occupation is bound to make you some enemies, of course.
This young adult fantasy is apparently quite popular in Europe. It was first written in Spanish, translated recently into English. Grimpow is a young boy in 14th Century who discovers a magical stone among the possessions of a dead man, a stone which will transform his life. It's a quest story with most of the usual plot elements, and the underlying premise - that knowledge is more valuable than gold and jewels - is refreshingly intelligent. He has various adventures, learns as much about himself as about the stone, and eventually is rewarded with a happy ending. The historical setting is well rendered and in general it's surprisingly sophisticated for a book supposedly aimed at younger readers. The prose seems at times a trifle too formal but otherwise it's one of the better YA fantasies I've read in some time.
I never know exactly which category to put this magazine in because the contents range from SF to horror to surreal fantasy. The majority this time incline toward fantasy this time so here it is, but the next issue might drip with supernatural horror. This one opens with horror, in fact, a slightly offbeat werewolf story by William F. Nolan. I guessed the surprise ending, but only just before it was revealed. Michael Canfield has the most overtly SF tale, about a bank robber and killer whose daughter is a famous astronaut. Clever situation, and handled pretty well. Jack Skillingstead also has an SF story, about the resurrection of man by machines. Darrell Schweitzer has an amusing story in which we once again examine the possibility that famous works of literature might have had different authors than those to whom they are credited.
James Glass introduces us to a woman with a most unusual rose garden, after which Mary Robinette Kowal provides the best story in the issue, a nicely bizarre period piece about an elixir that restores the dead to life. Sort of. There are also less interesting but still readable stories by Patricia Russo, Andrew Tisbert, and Hayden Trenholm. A small letter column, editorial, and some poems fill out the issue. I'd call this one average for the magazine or slightly better.
There was a time when I gobbled up everything I could find on Greek and Roman mythology, including the works of Robert Graves, which include this very long, very detailed, fascinating retelling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the golden fleece sacred to Zeus. Graves opens with considerable background, and the story of the evolution of religious belief in ancient Greece is interesting in itself, the battle between adherents of the Triple Goddess and the male oriented gods like Zeus. Graves is somewhat ambiguous in this as to whether the gods are real. If so, they seem to have been created out of the mass consciousness of humans rather than the other way around.
Although I've read the first two novels in this series, it was a while ago and I remembered very little other than it featured a young woman who became a member of a group of couriers who had magical powers, with an otherwise standard fantasy world background. Her world is bordered by a magically reinforced wall, erected after an old war and, predictably, with the passage of time, the secrets of just how the wards operate has been forgotten. The wall has been partially breached and evil magic was featured prominently in those earlier volumes, and now it's getting worse. Just to make things more complicated, a sorcerer long believed dead has revived, and he holds a grudge. So naturally the seepage through the wall gets worse and the protagonist and her fellows recognize that something has to be done before the situation becomes irreversible.
I needed to re-read this for a project I'm working on. I had only the vaguest memories of it from having read it back in the 1960s. Hudson was a professional naturalist, so the lengthy and evocative descriptions of plants and animals comes as now surprise. It's the story of a young Venezuelan who flees into the interior after a failed revolution, living with a primitive tribe until he encounters Rima, a strange girl who can apparently communicate with animals. Rima speaks Spanish only other protest, preferring to communicate in a musical language peculiar to herself. Abel - the Green Mansions are obviously a reference to the Garden of Eden - falls in love with her and is desperate to discover her origins. The local natives, on the other hand, fear her as a supernatural creature and try to convince him to murder her. They eventually set out to find the land of her origin.
Time to look at a couple of paranormal fantasy romances. The first is the sequel to Lord of the Fading Lands, a not bad traditional high fantasy. A woman with magical powers is matched with an ancient warrior who has recovered from a period of near insanity in which he became a destructive force in the world. The opening volume had some interesting ideas but the romance was a bit intrusive at times, interfering with the story flow, and as the opening volume in the series, it obviously had to spend considerable time establishing the background, characters, etc. So this one is quite a bit more adventurous, with magical battles and such, but it never really came to life for me, I think in large part because there's so much attention paid to the two main characters that the minor ones have little depth.
Lawrence Watt-Evans has been doing intelligent, light fantasy adventures for many years now, and while I've liked some of his books better than others, I almost always feel that the time reading them is well spent. His latest is a perfect example. Someone tried a magic spell that was a bit too advanced and it backfired, creating a mirror which produces diminutive, froglike humanoids who are constantly getting into trouble, breaking things, and generally making pests of themselves. These are the spriggans. Our hero, who specializes in procuring magical artifacts and supplies, is hired by the Wizards guild to find the mirror, which was spirited away by the spriggans, because it creates new ones at a rate of about one every two hours, apparently unceasingly. And sooner or later, they'll overrun the world.
We were introduced to Az Gabrielson, a wingless boy in a fantasy world where most people can fly, in The Fledging of Az Gabrielson (2006). Az has the misfortune of having no wings in a fantasy world where most of his people do, which puts him at a disadvantage, for obvious reasons. It also makes him an object of contempt for some, and when he succeeds despite his handicap, the object of envy and even hatred. The flying people were once believed to be gods, and those that couldn't fly, the Groundlings, made offerings to them. Now the times are more enlightened and the tribute has stopped, so elements among the flying population turn to piracy, raiding the Groundling installations to steal what they are no longer given freely.
No, this isn't exactly the fifth book in a four book series. It's actually a prequel to the other four Tales of the Otori. The novel is set in a fantastical version of feudal Japan, and involves a secret society of assassins and protectors of the helpless who sometimes make use of supernatural powers to achieve their ends. The series followed the adventures of Takeo, who was introduced into the mysterious "Tribe" and who had various adventures involving political intrigue as well as battles. The series was particularly appealing because of the author's beautifully described settings and ability to create the feeling that her society was a real one, magic or not. The original sequence was, I believe, supposed to be a trilogy, but the author - actually Gillian Rubinstein - added a fourth in which we get a glimpse of the next generation.
I had read that the British publishing house, Orbit, was going to start a line distributed in the US, but this is the first actual title I've seen from them. The author is new to me as well, so I'm guessing this is a first novel. At first glance, it looked like just another epic fantasy and I'd been skipping over it, particularly since it is quite long and apparently the opening volume of the inevitable trilogy. When I finally got around to trying it, I was quite pleasantly surprised, because in a sense it is just that, but at the same time it isn't. For one thing, there is effectively no magic. The gods have gone away and while there is religion, a pretty nasty one, there are no wizards or sorceresses lurking in the background.


We must first warn you that the below video is not suited for work - if by "not suited" we mean that you find video of two soccer players getting tangled up and kissing in a video game "too raunchy."
That's what the people of Kotaku discovered during an unexpected and very intimate moment during gameplay of EA Sports' FIFA 12.
The foreplay begins as Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski dives into Liverpool striker Andy Carroll in a diving goal-saving attempt.
He fails to make the stop.
But Fabianski doesn't leave the entanglement empty-handed, commencing the most unique goal-scoring celebration we've ever seen - with the opposing goalie pulling Carroll in for the real thing and locking lips.
No tongue was reportedly involved. We can only assume developers of FIFA 13 are already working on that.


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