The first full trailer for "All of You," Jennylyn Mercado and Derek Ramsay's first movie together since their 2014 hit, "English Only, Please," was released on Thursday.
An entry to this year's Metro Manila Film Festival, it's about two strangers who hook up via an app. The trailer chronicles their love story up to the point when they have their first big argument.
It also features the theme song, "Dying Inside," covered by Darren Espanto.
The romantic comedy is directed by Dan Villegas, whom they worked with in "English Only, Please." The movie is produced by Quantum Films.


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Boating can be an environmental nightmare given the spewing of petrochemicals and other pollutants into the waterways we love. (Dreamstime/TNS)
Greener boating: How to enjoy the high seas (and lakes) without the guilt
By E/The Environmental Magazine, Emagazine.com
Dear EarthTalk: I am in the market for a small motorboat to putter around in lakes near my home in Michigan but I don't want to contribute to water pollution. What are my options? — Marlene Y., Merritt, Mich.
No doubt, boating can be an environmental nightmare given the spewing of petrochemicals and other pollutants into the waterways we love, and the toll it takes on marine wildlife and ecosystems. Spilling even a small amount of oil, diesel or gas can contaminate acres of water and poison shellfish beds.
Meanwhile, hull paints leach copper and other toxins into the water, while soaps and other cleaning solutions — not to mention the improper discharge of onboard sewage holding tanks — can be toxic to aquatic life as well.
But if you take proper precautions, boating doesn't have to be so bad. According to the nonprofit Oceana, being careful not to spill during refueling seems trivial but could save the life of marine wildlife nearby. And if your boat has a two-stroke outboard engine, you can do a lot better for the environment by upgrading to a newer four-stroke engine. Due to the way they're designed, two-strokes lose up to 30% of their fuel right into the water, and are about a third less fuel efficient overall than newer, four-stroke counterparts.
Even better, get an emissions-free electric motor (inboard or outboard) from a company like Ray Electric, Aquawatt, Torqeedo, Elco or Pure Watercraft. The last few years have seen lots of innovation in the industry — including the development of high-capacity marine-grade lithium-ion or absorbed glass mat (AGM) batteries which in some cases can be charged up by onboard solar panels.
If you want to buy a new all-electric boat, Ray Electric and Aquawatt have several options — from fiberglass speedsters to pontoon party boats to wooden fishing boats. Another option is Duffy Boats, which makes 18- and 22-foot all-electric cruisers perfect for puttering around a harbor or lake at cocktail hour and entertaining friends. The company brags that its boats "do 5 mph better than anyone else!"
If you're just trying to be greener on an existing boat, take care to only use non-toxic cleaning products inside and out, and avoid conventional hull paint containing toxic heavy metals. Always hose off your boat right after you take it out of the water so you don't transport any marine species, invasive or otherwise, to your driveway or your next launch spot. Also, if your boat has a "head," make sure to get it pumped out properly so you don't release bacteria-laden human waste — often containing traces of antibiotics and medications that aren't good for marine wildlife — into the water column.
Of course, you could always just forego the worry, environmental footprint and expense of a motor boat and go green in a kayak or canoe. Self-powered boats don't emit any pollutants whatsoever and allow you to get closer to wildlife, which would otherwise be scared off by engine noise — and you can get a good workout as well. Likewise, you could get a small sailboat that doesn't need a motor — and pray for wind (or download a wind prediction app and time your outings accordingly).
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NBC's 'The Event' Wooing Connie Britton
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EXCLUSIVE: Now this is what I would call an event: NBC's freshman drama The Event — which was recently picked up for a full season despite eroding ratings — is pursuing Emmy-nominated Friday Night Lights star Connie Britton for a major recurring role. According to sources, producers — one of whom is Britton's longtime FNL director, Jeffrey Reiner — put a feeler out to the actress to play a senator's wife. When her husband suddenly dies, the Harvard grad and former powerhouse attorney is given 90 days to prove herself worthy of his seat. And let there be no doubt that Britton is their first choice for the role; the casting breakdown lists the name of the character in question as "Senator Britton." Should she bite, this would be the MVP's first TV gig since wrapping up her five-season stint on FNL last July; the show's final episodes are currently airing on DirecTV. Michael Ausiello will be contributing to Deadline.com and Movieline.com as he preps for the early 2011 launch of a new TV-centric website.
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Another conference in the books and this time it was the fourth year for BloomCON at my alma mater and Bloomsburg University. It's always great to go back to the old stomping grounds and see what is new on campus as well as visit with alumni, current students, and former professors. There was a good variety of talks this year including a keynote from Michael Daugherty.
Some of the ones that I was able to attend including Dan Pany discussing "Red teaming from a Blue team perspective" (link), Ben Brown discussing Tor and dark web (link), and Larry Snyder talking about the human weakness in terms of cyber security (link).
I also had a chance to venture outside on a beautiful sunny day to watch high school and college teams from all over compete in the drone hacking competition. Lastly, I had some time to compete in the forensic CTF put on by the Digital Forensics club at the university and I placed 1st! I hope to put together a write-up for another blog post. A big thank you to Phil for the custom pen as well organizing another great year of BloomCON!


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Matchers for strings.
"""
import fnmatch
import re

from callee._compat import IS_PY3, casefold
from callee.base import BaseMatcher
from callee.objects import Bytes

__all__ = [
    'Bytes',  # backwards compatibility
    'String', 'Unicode',
    'StartsWith', 'EndsWith',
    'Glob', 'Regex',
]

# String type matchers

class StringTypeMatcher(BaseMatcher):
    """Matches some string type.
    This class shouldn't be used directly.
    """
    #: String class to match.
    #: Must be overridden in subclasses.
    CLASS = None

    # TODO: support of= param, so we can assert what characters
    # the string consists of (e.g. letters, digits as iterables of chars;
    # boolean predicate; or matcher)
    def __init__(self):
        assert self.CLASS, "must specify string type to match"

    def match(self, value):
        return isinstance(value, self.CLASS)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<%s>" % (self.__class__.__name__,)

class String(StringTypeMatcher):
    """Matches any string.

    | On Python 2, this means either :class:`str` or :class:`unicode` objects.
    | On Python 3, this means :class:`str` objects exclusively.
    """
    CLASS = str if IS_PY3 else basestring

class Unicode(StringTypeMatcher):
    """Matches a Unicode string.

    | On Python 2, this means :class:`unicode` objects exclusively.
    | On Python 3, this means :class:`str` objects exclusively.
    """
    CLASS = str if IS_PY3 else unicode

# Infix matchers

# TODO: generalize for all sequence/collection types

class StartsWith(BaseMatcher):
    """Matches a string starting with given prefix."""

    def __init__(self, prefix):
        self.prefix = prefix

    def match(self, value):
        return value.startswith(self.prefix)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<StartsWith %r>" % (self.prefix,)

class EndsWith(BaseMatcher):
    """Matches a string ending with given suffix."""

    def __init__(self, suffix):
        self.suffix = suffix

    def match(self, value):
        return value.endswith(self.suffix)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<EndsWith %r>" % (self.suffix,)

# Pattern matchers

class Glob(BaseMatcher):
    """Matches a string against a Unix shell wildcard pattern.

    See the :mod:`fnmatch` module for more details about those patterns.
    """
    DEFAULT_CASE = 'system'

    #: fnmatch functions that the matchers uses based on case= argument.
    FNMATCH_FUNCTIONS = {
        DEFAULT_CASE: fnmatch.fnmatch,
        True: fnmatch.fnmatchcase,
        False: lambda f, p: fnmatch.fnmatchcase(casefold(f), casefold(p)),
    }

    def __init__(self, pattern, case=None):
        """
        :param pattern: Pattern to match against
        :param case:

            Case sensitivity setting. Possible options:

                * ``'system'`` or ``None``: case sensitvity is system-dependent
                  (this is the default)
                * ``True``: matching is case-sensitive
                * ``False``: matching is case-insensitive
        """
        self.pattern = pattern
        try:
            if case is None:
                case = self.DEFAULT_CASE
            self.fnmatch = self.FNMATCH_FUNCTIONS[case]
        except KeyError:
            raise ValueError("invalid case= argument: %r" % (case,))

    def match(self, value):
        return self.fnmatch(value, self.pattern)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<Glob %s>" % (self.pattern,)

class Regex(BaseMatcher):
    """Matches a string against a regular expression."""

    REGEX_TYPE = type(re.compile(''))

    def __init__(self, pattern, flags=0):
        """
        :param pattern: Regular expression to match against.
                        It can be given as string,
                        or as a compiled regular expression object
        :param flags: Flags to use with a regular expression passed as string
        """
        if self._is_regex_object(pattern):
            if flags and flags != pattern.flags:
                raise ValueError("conflicting regex flags: %s vs. %s" % (
                    bin(flags), bin(pattern.flags)))
        else:
            pattern = re.compile(pattern, flags)

        self.pattern = pattern

    def _is_regex_object(self, obj):
        return isinstance(obj, self.REGEX_TYPE)

    def match(self, value):
        return self.pattern.match(value)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<Regex %s>" % (self.pattern.pattern,)

# TODO: matchers for common string formats: Url, Email, IPv4, IPv6


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Нитрит лития — соль щелочного металла лития и азотистой кислоты с формулой LiNO2. Образует кристаллогидрат LiNO2•H2O.

Получение
 Нитрит лития получают термическим разложением нитрата лития:

 Монооксид азота взаимодействует с гидроокисью лития с образованием нитрита лития:

 Из водных растворов выделяется в виде кристаллогидрата LiNO2•H2O, который плавится в кристаллизационной воде при 100°С и обезвоживается при 160°С. Кристаллогидрат хорошо растворяется в воде.

 Осторожным нагреванием в вакууме можно получить полугидрат нитрита лития LiNO2•½H2O.

Физические свойства
 Бесцветные гигроскопичные кристаллы.

Химические свойства
 Нитрит лития термически неустойчив и уже до температуры плавления начинает разлагаться по нескольким реакциям, основная из которых:

Применение

 Нитрит лития используется в пиротехнике для придания пламени красного цвета.

 Также он используется при производстве взрывчатых веществ, из-за своей возможности нитрозировать кетоны при определённых условиях.

Литература

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Josh Pollen from Blanch & Shock & James Murray from Nur in Hong Kong are cooking a special Sunday lunch and dinner at French & Grace in Brixton Village on Sunday 29th December called 'Goodbye 2013'. Perfect for the time between Christmas and the new year. French & Grace is one of the best places in Brixton Village, but it's also one of the smallest, so tickets for this will go quickly. Full booking details below.
"I am going to be cooking lunch and dinner at French & Grace in Brixton Village on 29th December with Jimmy Murray, formerly of Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, now of Nur in Hong Kong. There are going to be 5 courses, snacks, bread and butter and an optional drink pairing from French & Grace.
The menu is still being tweaked, but so far includes fried pork skins, pumpkin and hazelnut grain risotto, something amazing from The Butchery, herrings, tangerines and all sorts of other stuff."
Tickets - 35 pounds, and available from F&G by telephone, email or in person. Brixton Pounds accepted!


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Sociologists study society and social behavior by examining the groups, cultures, organizations, social institutions, and processes that develop when people interact and work together.
Sociologists typically work full time during regular business hours.
How to Become a Sociologist
Most sociology jobs require a master's degree or Ph.D.
The median annual wage for sociologists was $82,050 in May 2018.
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Some sociologists conduct interviews for their research.
Sociologists typically do the following:
Design research projects to test theories about social issues
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Prepare reports, articles, or presentations detailing their research findings
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Sociologists study human behavior, interaction, and organization. They observe the activity of social, religious, political, and economic groups, organizations, and institutions. They examine the effect of social influences, including organizations and institutions, on different individuals and groups. They also trace the origin and growth of these groups and interactions. For example, they may research the impact of a new law or policy on a specific demographic.
Sociologists often use both quantitative and qualitative methods when conducting research, and they frequently use statistical analysis programs during the research process.
Their research may help administrators, educators, lawmakers, and social workers to solve social problems and formulate public policy. Sociologists may specialize in a wide range of social topics, including, but not limited to:
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Sociologists who specialize in crime may be called criminologists or penologists. These workers apply their sociological knowledge to conduct research and analyze penal systems and populations and to study the causes and effects of crime.
Many people with a sociology background become postsecondary teachers and high school teachers. Most others find work in related jobs outside the sociologist profession such as policy analysts, demographers, survey researchers, and statisticians.
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Sociologists may work outside of an office setting when conducting research through interviews or observations or presenting research results.
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Most sociology jobs require a master's degree or Ph.D. Many bachelor's degree holders find positions in related fields, such as social services, education, or public policy.
Sociologists typically need a master's degree or Ph.D. There are two types of sociology master's degree programs: traditional programs and applied, clinical, and professional programs. Traditional programs prepare students to enter a Ph.D. program. Applied, clinical, and professional programs prepare students to enter the workplace, teaching them the necessary analytical skills to perform sociological research in a professional setting.
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Analytical skills. Sociologists must be able to examine data and other information, often using statistical methods to test their theories.
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The median annual wage for sociologists was $82,050 in May 2018. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $46,170, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $140,430.
In May 2018, the median annual wages for sociologists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
State government, excluding education and hospitals $92,040
Research and development in the social sciences and humanities 91,820
Educational services; state, local, and private 65,210
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Percent change in employment, projected 2016-26
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Employment of sociologists is projected to show little or no change from 2016 to 2026.
Sociologists will continue to be needed to apply sociological research to other disciplines. For example, sociologists may collaborate with researchers in other social sciences, such as economists, psychologists, and survey researchers, to study how social structures or groups influence policy decisions about health, education, politics, criminal justice, business, or economics.
A projected decline in research and development in the social science and humanities industry, an industry employing nearly one third of sociologists in 2016, is expected to limit the employment growth of these workers. Sociologists' research in these organizations is often dependent on and limited by the availability of outside research funding, including federal funding.
Candidates with a Ph.D., strong statistical and research skills, and a background in applied sociology will have the best job prospects. However, Ph.D. holders can expect to face strong competition for sociologist positions because sociology is a popular field of study with a relatively small number of positions.
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ENTRY-LEVEL EDUCATION
Anthropologists and Archeologists
Anthropologists and archeologists study the origin, development, and behavior of humans. They examine the cultures, languages, archeological remains, and physical characteristics of people in various parts of the world.
Master's degree $62,410
Economists study the production and distribution of resources, goods, and services by collecting and analyzing data, researching trends, and evaluating economic issues.
Master's degree $104,340
Political Scientists
Political scientists study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. They research political ideas and analyze governments, policies, political trends, and related issues.
Postsecondary Teachers
Postsecondary teachers instruct students in a wide variety of academic and technical subjects beyond the high school level. They may also conduct research and publish scholarly papers and books.
See How to Become One $78,470
Psychologists study cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments. They use their findings to help improve processes and behaviors.
Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Clinical social workers also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional issues.
Survey Researchers
Survey researchers design and conduct surveys and analyze data. Surveys are used to collect factual data, such as employment and salary information, or to ask questions in order to understand people's opinions, preferences, beliefs, or desires.
Urban and Regional Planners
Urban and regional planners develop land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
Geographers
Geographers study the Earth and the distribution of its land, features, and inhabitants. They also examine political or cultural structures and study the physical and human geographic characteristics of regions ranging in scale from local to global.
Bachelor's degree $80,300
Historians research, analyze, interpret, and write about the past by studying historical documents and sources.
Mathematicians and Statisticians
Mathematicians and statisticians analyze data and apply mathematical and statistical techniques to help solve real-world problems in business, engineering, healthcare, or other fields.
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I'm sew excited to be able to share two finishes with you today!
The first is this Little Dragon wall hanging. It was so much fun to make! I chose to make the smaller version. And backed it with this feather print I made myself on Spoonflower 100 years ago. And I added corner tabs for hanging.
finished at 16" x 16"
The second finish is The Queen's Corgi wall hanging. Of course, it was also so much fun to make! It is backed with a graphic black and white text print and also has corner tabs for hanging. Both were quilted with organic wavy lines using my walking foot and plain white thread.
Feels so good to have a couple little finishes under my belt!!!
Dragons!!! Whoppeee. You mentioned that you made the small one. dose this mean there is a larger version around somewhere?
That dragon is super cute!!!! And I love the feathers you used on the back.
Both of these are so cute. You always amaze me with your creativity - each of these are so different yet both are spectacular!
You are on a roll! Creative fabulousness. Both nicely done.
Wow...that dragon. Keep those great ideas coming.
I love the dragon and the corgi!
The dragon is neat! I've actually been looking for dragons lately.


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Genevieve Goth Graf
The Woman in the Background
by Rachel Perry
images provided by Brown County Art Guild
Always doing for others, Genevieve Goth (1890–1961) was inseparable from her older sister (Jesse) Marie (1887–1975) as they grew up in Indianapolis.
Genevieve attended the city's Normal College and, in 1915, began a career in education that would span more than four decades. She saved part of her teacher's salary each week to help with Marie's expenses at the Art Students League in New York City. Furthermore, Genevieve wrote to Marie every day during her sister's ten years of fine arts study.
Genevieve was also responsible for Marie's relocation to Brown County, having purchased the property on 135 North where Marie and V.J. Cariani (1891–1969) (more commonly known as "Cari") eventually moved.
Carl Graf (1892–1947), a Bedford, Indiana native who had attended the Arts Student League with Marie and Cari, started coming to paint in Brown County in the early 1920s. Nicknamed "Shorty," the six-foot-four artist was a memorable sight, setting up his easel near creeks and country lanes. He often painted with his old classmates. Marie, Cari, Genevieve and Carl regularly tramped through the woods, struggling with easels and palettes, to find inspirational subjects. Carl encouraged Genevieve to resume her painting and began giving her art lessons.
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After several years of camping out during his summer painting trips, Carl Graf finally built a permanent home east of Nashville in 1925. Three years later he reportedly, due to shyness, asked a friend to go to the courthouse to take out a marriage license on his behalf. He then took Genevieve as his bride and the couple made Graf's "Lone Tree Ridge" cabin their summer home. Winters were spent in Indianapolis at Genevieve's family home. Graf continued to work from his two-room studio in the Union Trust Building downtown while Genevieve taught classes at Indianapolis Public School #7.
The time spent teaching, however, became an obstacle for her newfound passion—painting still lifes. Genevieve worked to improve her painting skills between her days at school and her domestic responsibilities.
Genevieve's household duties as a wife were nothing new. Due to her mother's poor health, she had been the housekeeper and cook in the Goth residence while also working as a public school teacher before her marriage.
Unable to spend more time at the easel, it took nearly a decade for Genevieve to feel confident enough to enter a juried exhibition in Chicago. To her delight, two of her pieces were selected to join those of other Brown County artists (including her husband) in the Hoosier Salon of 1937. Within two years, Genevieve was invited to mount a solo exhibition at an Indianapolis gallery.
An Indianapolis Star art critic wrote about the exhibit: "One can almost follow her advancement, step by step, through the few years since her first picture . . . The fact that Mr. Graf expressed a wish that one picture be marked 'Not for Sale' is still further evidence that it represents the wife's first effort as a painter of still life."
Carl Graf died rather abruptly of influenza in 1947 and Genevieve, once again, concentrated her care-giving energies on her older sister. She left Indianapolis for Nashville and became Marie's housekeeper, but would commute to the capitol city to teach until her retirement in June of 1956.
"My sister was such a comfort to me, though she was a little younger than I," Marie would write later. "She was mother and sister combined, and no one has ever given me such devotion as she gave." Genevieve had more time to paint after her retirement, and would often walk the distance to her studio-home that Graf had built for them outside of town. She painted and exhibited in Brown County until her death at age seventy-one on December 21, 1961.
Marie wrote to a friend, "On December 20 at noon, Genevieve said that she wanted to go to her studio to finish packing some Christmas boxes and to bake some cookies or cake. I begged her to stay here, because it was rather cold. But this fall she had bought a Warm Morning stove for her studio. So Cari took her over. Several hours later I was busy trying to finish up my Christmas cards when Cari came in to tell me that he had found Genevieve unconscious on the kitchen floor. She had been about to mix up a cake, for all the ingredients were on the table. She was taken to the Franklin Hospital where she passed away at 2:30 the next morning."
Forty-three years later, some still contemplate the promise of this woman who dedicated herself to others. Although she revealed considerable artistic talent, Genevieve Goth Graf's primary role as caregiver consumed the bulk of her time. Many art collectors speculate that, had she spent more time at the easel, Genevieve's paintings would have been truly exceptional.
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Billie Holiday It Had To Be You
Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music made her a superstar of her time. Today, Holiday is remembered for her masterpieces, creativity and vivacity, as many of Holiday's songs are as well known today as they were decades ago. Holiday's poignant voice is still considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.
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Memphis Slim and Sonny Boy Williamson II
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Memphis Slim - Beer Drinking Woman
An amazingly prolific artist who brought a brisk air of urban sophistication to his frequently stunning presentation, John "Peter" Chatman -- better known as Memphis Slim -- assuredly ranks with the greatest blues pianists of all time. He was smart enough to take Big Bill Broonzy's early advice about developing a style to call his own to heart, instead of imitating that of his idol, Roosevelt Sykes. Soon enough, other 88s pounders were copying Slim rather than the other way around; his thundering ivories attack set him apart from most of his contemporaries, while his deeply burnished voice possessed a commanding authority.
As befits his stage name, John "Peter" Chatman was born and raised in Memphis; a great place to commit to a career as a bluesman. Sometime in the late '30s, he resettled in Chicago and began recording as a leader in 1939 for OKeh, then switched over to Bluebird the next year. Around the same time, Slim joined forces with Broonzy, then the dominant force on the local blues scene. After serving as Broonzy's invaluable accompanist for a few years, Slim emerged as his own man in 1944.
After the close of World War II, Slim joined Hy-Tone Records, cutting eight tracks that were later picked up by King. Lee Egalnick's Miracle label reeled in the pianist in 1947; backed by his jumping band, the House Rockers (its members usually included saxists Alex Atkins and Ernest Cotton), Slim recorded his classic "Lend Me Your Love" and "Rockin' the House." The next year brought the landmark "Nobody Loves Me" (better known via subsequent covers by Lowell Fulson, Joe Williams, and B.B. King as "Everyday I Have the Blues") and the heartbroken "Messin' Around (With the Blues)."
The pianist kept on label-hopping, moving from Miracle to Peacock to Premium (where he waxed the first version of his uncommonly wise down-tempo blues "Mother Earth") to Chess to Mercury before staying put at Chicago's United Records from 1952 to 1954. This was a particularly fertile period for the pianist; he recruited his first permanent guitarist, the estimable Matt Murphy, who added some serious fret fire to "The Come Back," "Sassy Mae," and "Memphis Slim U.S.A."
Before the decade was through, the pianist landed at Vee-Jay Records, where he cut definitive versions of his best-known songs with Murphy and a stellar combo in gorgeously sympathetic support (Murphy was nothing short of spectacular throughout).
Slim exhibited his perpetually independent mindset by leaving the country for good in 1962. A tour of Europe in partnership with bassist Willie Dixon a couple of years earlier had so intrigued the pianist that he permanently moved to Paris, where recording and touring possibilities seemed limitless and the veteran pianist was treated with the respect too often denied even African-American blues stars at home back then. He remained there until his 1988 death, enjoying his stature as expatriate blues royalty.
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Koko Taylor - The Man Next Door
Grammy Award-winning blues legend Koko Taylor, 80, died on June 3, 2009 in her hometown of Chicago, IL, as a result of complications following her May 19 surgery to correct a gastrointestinal bleed. On May 7, 2009, the critically acclaimed Taylor, known worldwide as the "Queen of the Blues," won her 29th Blues Music Award (for Traditional Female Blues Artist Of The Year), making her the recipient of more Blues Music Awards than any other artist. In 2004 she received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award, which is among the highest honors given to an American artist. Her most recent CD, 2007's Old School, was nominated for a Grammy (eight of her nine Alligator albums were Grammy-nominated). She won a Grammy in 1984 for her guest appearance on the compilation album Blues Explosion on Atlantic.
Born Cora Walton on a sharecropper's farm just outside Memphis, TN, on September 28, 1928, Koko, nicknamed for her love of chocolate, fell in love with music at an early age. Inspired by gospel music and WDIA blues disc jockeys B.B. King and Rufus Thomas, Taylor began belting the blues with her five brothers and sisters, accompanying themselves on their homemade instruments. In 1952, Taylor and her soon-to-be-husband, the late Robert "Pops" Taylor, traveled to Chicago with nothing but, in Koko's words, "thirty-five cents and a box of Ritz Crackers."
In Chicago, "Pops" worked for a packing company, and Koko cleaned houses. Together they frequented the city's blues clubs nightly. Encouraged by her husband, Koko began to sit in with the city's top blues bands, and soon she was in demand as a guest artist. One evening in 1962 Koko was approached by arranger/composer Willie Dixon. Overwhelmed by Koko's performance, Dixon landed Koko a Chess Records recording contract, where he produced her several singles, two albums and penned her million-selling 1965 hit "Wang Dang Doodle," which would become Taylor's signature song.
After Chess Records was sold, Taylor found a home with the Chicago's Alligator Records in 1975 and released the Grammy-nominated I Got What It Takes. She recorded eight more albums for Alligator between 1978 and 2007, received seven more Grammy nominations and made numerous guest appearances on various albums and tribute recordings. Koko appeared in the films Wild At Heart, Mercury Rising and Blues Brothers 2000. She performed on Late Night With David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, CBS-TV's This Morning, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, CBS-TV's Early Edition, and numerous regional television programs.
Over the course of her 40-plus-year career, Taylor received every award the blues world has to offer. On March 3, 1993, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley honored Taylor with a "Legend Of The Year" Award and declared "Koko Taylor Day" throughout Chicago. In 1997, she was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame. A year later, Chicago Magazine named her "Chicagoan Of The Year" and, in 1999, Taylor received the Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009 Taylor performed in Washington, D.C. at The Kennedy Center Honors honoring Morgan Freeman.
Koko Taylor was one of very few women who found success in the male-dominated blues world. She took her music from the tiny clubs of Chicago's South Side to concert halls and major festivals all over the world. She shared stages with every major blues star, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy as well as rock icons Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
Taylor's final performance was on May 7, 2009 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards, where she sang "Wang Dang Doodle" after receiving her award for Traditional Blues Female Artist Of The Year.
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Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon & Buddy Guy - Wang Dang Doodle
Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon & Buddy Guy
"Wang Dang Doodle" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon. On June 30, 1964, Willie Dixon brought Koko Taylor to Chess Records, where she recorded "What Kind of Man Is That?". Her next session for Chess was on December 7, 1965. It was at this session that she recorded her version of "Wang Dang Doodle". Backing Koko Taylor on vocals were Gene Barge and Donald Hawkins on saxophones, Lafayette Leake on piano, Buddy Guy and Johnny "Twist" Williams on guitar, Jack Meyers on the bass guitar, Fred Below on drums, and Willie Dixon singing with Koko.
Koko's version was released in early 1966 and peaked at #4 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart and #58 on the Hot 100.
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Longhorns take series with Hilltoppers with ease
Evan Berkowitz
In the first ever meeting with the Hilltoppers, No. 8 Texas flexed its muscles with a 4-0 win. Ace Blaire Luna (19-1) carried the Longhorns taking a perfect game into the seventh inning. But after a walk to begin the inning, Luna struck out the next three hitters to secure her second no-hitter of the season.
This was the third time in program history that no-hitters were recorded in back-to-back games as the Longhorns combined for a four-pitcher perfect game Thursday against Texas Southern.
Luna was also struck out 16, one short of her career high.
On offense, the Longhorns were able to get runners on all day, but couldn't push any of them home until the sixth inning.
In the sixth, Kim Bruins and Mandy Ogle combined for consecutive hits to start the inning. After an error on Torie Schmidt's ball, the bases were loaded for Karina Scott. On a 2-0 count, Scott broke the tie with a grand slam.
Freshman Holly Kern pitched a beauty Sunday against Western Kentucky as the Longhorns took the second game of the series 3-1. Kern allowed just three hits and not a single earned run.
Kern worked her magic by making the Hilltoppers put the ball in play and letting her defense work. Despite two errors, the Longhorns were able to make all 21 outs in the field as Kern didn't strike out a single batter.
The Longhorns struggled to get hits, collecting just five on the day, but were able to jump out to a 3-0 lead in the third on two, two-out bases loaded walks and an error on Western Kentucky.
That was all Kern needed.
After getting out of a jam in the fifth caused by two Texas errors, Kern cruised the rest of the way to help Texas get to 31 games over .500 and a 35-4 record.
By the numbers:
1,242: Strikeouts by Blaire Luna giving her sole possession of third place on the all-time Big 12 list.
6: Career no-hitters for Blaire Luna, tied with Christa Williams for the second-most in school history.
4: straight wins for freshman Holly Kern after starting the season 3-3. Since her last loss to Fordham on March 3, Kern has lowered her ERA from 2.88 to 1.72.
.648: On-base percentage for Taylor Hoagland this season. The Texas single-season record is .510 and the Big 12 mark is .594.


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Джеффри Мартин  (; род. , Дувр, Англия — 1966, Брент, Англия) — английский химик, трижды доктор философии по химии (1905, 1915, 1915), автор множества книг, учебников и монографий. Один из представителей британской традиции XX века авторов мировой химической литературы.

Биография

Детство и образование
Джеффри Мартин родился 29 января 1941 года в городе Дувр графства Кент в Англии. Один из нескольких детей в семье Уильяма и Грейс Мартин. Среднее образование получил в Хаверфордуэсте в Уэльсе, куда переехала его семья по причине болезни отца.

В 1897 году, в возрасте 16 лет, поступил в Технический колледж торговых предпринимателей в Бристоле. Окончив обучение в Бристоле к 1901 году, Мартин получил степень бакалавра по химии с отличием в Лондонском университете.

Академическая карьера
Следующие четыре года Мартин провёл в Германии. В 1902 году обучался в Берлинском университете, затем в 1902—1903 годах в Кильском университете в Лейпциге, где познакомился и женился на немке Анне Вентритт. После короткого перерыва в Лейпциге он перевёлся в Росток, где оставался до 1906 года, получив там степень доктора философии по химии в декабре 1905 года. Его диссертация была посвящена «Закону сродства в периодической системе».
В списке немецких профессоров, приведённом в конце диссертации, значились имена математиков и физиков, чьи лекции Мартин посещал в течение своей работы в Германии, но ни одного химика. Все исследования Джеффри Мартина в области теоретической химии явились в значительной степени результатом его самообразования и обширного чтения научной литературы.
Как и все последующие, докторская диссертация Мартина не имела научного руководителя. Все они основаны на его собственных идеях и исследованиях.

В 1907 году Мартин вернулся в Англию в университетский колледж Ноттингема, где читал лекции и проводил исследования по кремний-органической химии совместно с , первооткрывателем силиконов. В 1910 году, после получения степени магистра в Бристоле, он переехал в Лондон, где преподавал химию в Биркбек-колледже, одновременно работая над второй докторской диссертацией в Лондонском университете, которую защитил в 1915 году. В том же году ему была присуждена третья докторская степень в Бристольском университете на основе его опубликованных работ.

Химическая индустрия
В 1915 году Джеффри Мартин приостановил свою сугубо академическую карьеру и начал работать в области прикладной науки — промышленной химии.
В период 1915—1917 гг. он попеременно, а иногда одновременно занимал должности химика-исследователя в United Kingdom Chemical Products Co., управляющего директора в Abbey Chemical and Medical Supply Co., химика-исследователя в Stockton-on-Trees Chemical Co. и Chemical Supply Co.

В 1917 году Мартин стал директором по исследованиям потребительского кооператива  в Манчестере — одного из крупнейших производителей и оптовых поставщиков широкого ассортимента продукции. Мартин был первым директором созданной научно-исследовательской лаборатории и лаборатории контроля качества, штат которой в конечном итоге составляли 23 высококвалифицированных химика, химика-инженера. В статье 1921 года, описывающей деятельность лаборатории, Мартин сообщал, что лаборатория анализирует примерно 3000 образцов в год и оформляет примерно три патента в месяц на новые или усовершенствованные методы исследования.

К концу 1921 года Мартин стал директором по исследованиям в компании , объединившей в себе 33 компании, производивших цемент, а затем в 1925 году директором по исследованиям в Martin and Taylor Ltd. и Asheham Cement and Lime Co., а также техническим директором Hinde and Hardy Ltd, Silk, Dyers, Weavers, etc. При работе на Martin and Taylor Ltd. к середине 1920-х годов Мартин стал реже замещать различные должности, став совладельцем своего собственного бизнеса.

После 1938 года в журнале Poggendorff не появилось ни одной статьи Мартина, вплоть до 1958 года, когда Мартин уже находился на пенсии. Джеффри Мартин умер в 1966 году в возрасте 85 лет в своем родном районе Брент в Северном Лондоне. Его жена умерла за год до этого. У них было двое детей.

Научные достижения
Вскоре после окончания Лондонского университета и прибытия в Германию летом 1902 года Мартин начал проводить свои первые академические исследования, которые были посвящены таким разнообразным темам, как теория растворимости и осмотического давления, периодический закон, природа валентности и измерение химического сродства элементов и его связь с химическими и физическими свойствами. Большинство работ были опубликованы в виде коротких заметок в журнале Chemical News, несколько исследований были опубликованы в Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Правило восьми
В мае 1902 года, находясь в Берлинском университете, Мартин опубликовал заметку в журнале Chemical News: «Примечание к математическому выражению закона валентности периодической таблицы и необходимости предположить, что элементы ее первых трех групп являются поливалентными». В заметке Мартином был представлен график зависимости проявляемых валентностей элементов от номера его группы.
На основе такой зависимости он вывел правило: «…Сумма высших и низших степеней валентности, с которыми элемент действует по отношению к другим элементам, является константой, значение которой равно 8». Это, так называемое, «правило восьми», которое независимо от Мартина впервые изложил в 1902 году немецкий химик Рихард Аббегг и описал его подробно в 1904 году. Вклад Джеффри Мартина так и не был учтен в истории.

Геометрия молекул
В 1903 году в Киле Мартин опубликовал еще одну заметку в Chemical News: «Некоторые дополнительные замечания о связи между металлами и неметаллами и ее влиянии на валентную теорию Гельмгольца и на стереохимию».
В этой заметке он аргументирует свое мнение, что только подвижные отрицательные электроны участвуют в валентных взаимодействиях и что компенсирующий положительный заряд должен находиться где-то внутри атома и сам по себе не является подвижным. В отсутствие каких-либо экспериментальных данных, Джеффри Мартина предложил предсказательную модель молекулярной геометрии отталкивания электронов, в то время когда необходимых методов исследования вещества еще не существовало:

…Способ, которым электроны (и, следовательно, валентные связи) распределяются по поверхности атома, зависит только от количества электронов, а вовсе не от природы материала, из которого состоит атом. Поэтому задача определения формы атома валентности «n» сводится к задаче распределения «n» точек как можно более симметрично по поверхности сферы.

Уже в 1911 году он описал в своей книге правильную тетраэдрическую модель атома углерода, отталкиваясь от значений валентности атома, хотя модель отталкивания валентных оболочек электронных пар была окончательно сформулирована лишь в 1957 году Найхольмом и Гиллеспи.

Закон химического сродства
Первые работы Мартина, получившие огласку в научном сообществе, заключались в исследовании сродства химических элементов. Мартин в 1904 году впервые высказал идею о характерных поверхностях, как способе графического представления свойств элементов. Вместо двумерной зависимости какого-либо свойства элемента от атомного веса, предложенной Лотаром Мейером в 1870 году, он предлагал использовать короткую форму периодической таблицы в виде сетки, лежащей в плоскости (xy), и построить соответствующее свойство для каждого элемента вдоль оси z непосредственно над его положением в периодической таблице, в результате чего получалась характерная трехмерная поверхность.

Кроме того, Мартин предложил использовать данный способ для отображения химического сродства отдельного элемента ко всем другим элементам периодической таблицы. Он понимал, что аффинная поверхность (поверхность сродства) элемента будет зависеть от температуры и давления, и предположил, что, варьируя эти параметры, можно для разных элементов добиться одинаковых химических свойств, чему была посвящена следующая работа «О состоянии, определяющем химическое сходство элементов и радикалов», опубликованная в издании Journal of Physical Chemistry в 1905 году. В статье предлагался количественный способ определения сродства двух элементов, заключающийся в вычислении :  отношения значений сродства этих элементов f(i), f(j) к произвольному третьему элементу.

В конце 1905 года Мартин развил свои идеи и опубликовал свою первую книгу «Исследования сродства элементов и причин химического сходства или несходства элементов и соединений».
В начале 1906 года он представил краткое резюме книги в качестве своей докторской диссертации под названием «Ueber das Affinitätsgesetz in dem periodischen System». Мартину удалось построить поверхности сродства для 34 элементов из имеющихся термохимических данных, многие из которых очень точно отражали действительность и позволили сделать некоторые выводы относительно химической периодичности. Несмотря на то, что книга была встречена неоднозначно, она имела некоторый успех в научной среде, однако быстро была забыта и никогда не упоминалась в работах об истории периодического закона. Вильгельм Оствальд в своём журнале  дал положительную оценку этой работе Мартина:

…Мы имеем дело с исследованием, которое заслуживает самого серьезного внимания и поощрения… Следует признать, что здесь действовало весьма необычное научное воображение, берущее слово в его лучшем смысле, которое побуждает искать гораздо большие достижения в будущем.

Кремнийорганические соединения
Химия кремния интересовала Джеффри Мартина с начала обучения в Техническом колледже Торговых предпринимателей. Он развивал идеи о возможности кремниевых форм жизни, которые постулировал в серии статей «Жизнь в других условиях». В частности, он высказывал предположение, что живая материя изначально начиналась не с С, H, O, N в качестве ее основных элементов, а с элементов более тяжелых — таких как Si, P, S. Мартин хотел доказать химическое сродство кремния и углерода при различных условиях.

После возвращения из Германии Мартин устраивается в Университетский колледж Ноттингема, чтобы работать с британским экспертом по химии кремния . Но за 3-х летний период работы ими была опубликована лишь одна совместная статья.
Суммарно в период 1907—1914 гг. Мартином было опубликовано более 10 экспериментальных работ по химии кремния, однако подтвердить свои идеи ему не удалось. Статьи послужили основой для его докторской диссертации 1915 года в Лондонском университете о получении тетрахлорида кремния и гексахлорида дисилиция.

«Промышленная химия»
Джеффри Мартин на рассвете своей карьеры, отмечал, что химическая промышленность (как и химическое образование) в Великобритании, практически, отсутствует. Понимание необходимости собственного производства химических веществ, ранее импортированных из Германии после начала войны в августе 1914 года, а также невысокий социальный и научный статус Мартина на тот момент сыграли ключевую роль во внезапной смене деятельности Мартина.

Органический том
В 1913 году вышел в свет самый известный трактат жизни Джеффри Мартина — «Промышленная и производственная химия. Органическая химия», что послужило новым вектором развития в жизни Мартина и началом его 9-томной серии «Руководств по химической технологии». Актуальность своей работы Мартин показывает в предисловии:

…редактор признал, что предмет химической промышленности не только полон проблем, решение которых требует высочайшего технического мастерства, но и имеет очень большое значение для научного работника.

Текст книги носит описательный характер с акцентом на детали процессов, сопровождаемых чертежами используемого оборудования. Нет никакой попытки систематически преподавать промышленную химию. «Органическая химия» включала в себя следующие темы: алифатические углеводороды, реактивы из каменноугольной смолы, синтетические краски, синтетические наркотики, фотографические химикаты, а также молоко и сыр, сахар, вино и пиво, краски и чернила, и взрывчатые вещества. Новшеством Мартина был раздел синтетического каучука.

Начало Первой мировой войны в начале августа 1914 года показало важность органической химической промышленности и опасную зависимость союзных стран от импорта из Германии. Это придало повышенное значение развитию промышленности в Великобритании, и, не удивительно, что издательство быстро выпустило второе издание органического тома «Промышленной и производственной химии», хотя неорганические тома еще не появились.

Неорганический том
Предполагалось, что неорганическая и органическая часть выйдут в печать одновременно, но публикация неорганической части была сорвана наступившей Первой мировой войной, из-за чего соавторы книги стали участниками военных действий.

Неорганический раздел наконец появился в 1917 году в двух томах. Она охватывает широкий спектр материалов, как чисто органической природы, так и сугубо неорганической: он охватывает топливо, печи, строительные материалы (включая мастики), керамику, стекло, асбест и спички. Характерной особенностью второго тома является материал по второстепенным элементам, таким как цирконий, тантал и радиоактивные элементы. Были охвачены все стандартные отрасли неорганической химической промышленности, такие как основные кислоты, щелочи, промышленные газы, хлор, аммиак и нитраты, промышленные удобрения. Следует отметить, что антисептики и дезинфицирующие средства включены во второй неорганический том. Мартин извинился за данное несоответствие, однако есть подозрение, что антисептики и дезинфицирующие средства были добавлены после того, как война продемонстрировала их важность. Инсектициды и фунгициды также находятся в этом объеме, но они были почти исключительно неорганическими соединениями в этот период. Стиль идентичен органическому тому.

Начиная с 1913 года, Мартин каждые несколько лет выпускал (или пересматривал) том по промышленной химии, но после 1932 года больше не издавал ни одной книги. Издательство выпустило седьмое заключительное издание органического тома «Промышленная и производственная химия» в 1952 году, изменения были в основном незначительным обновлением глав. Следует отметить тот факт, что в последнем томе нигде не упоминается Джеффри Мартин.

Руководства по химической технологии
Учебники химической технологии начали появляться в 1915 году, за два года до выхода в свет неорганических томов «Промышленной и производственной химии». Они затрагивали такие сферы производства как красители, азотные продукты и промышленные газы и др. Данные руководства были не дополнениями к книгам, а выдержками из них. Предпосылка издания таких руководств — подготовка британского правительства к созданию в больших масштабах различных видов химической промышленности, и как следствие, рост спроса на инженерную (промышленную) литературу.

Другие работы в области промышленности
На фоне отсутствия какой-либо литературы, касающейся мыльной и моющей промышленности, Мартин опубликовал трехтомную работу «Современная индустрия мыла и моющих средств, включая производство глицерина» в период 1924—1926 гг. Книга была популярна и, второе издание появилось в 1931 году. «Глицерин» был последней книгой, изданной Мартином в 1956 году.

В период работы директором по исследованиям в Британской ассоциации портландцемента, он обнаружил техническую неэффективность в цементной промышленности из-за того, что большая часть завода была спроектирована в незнании законов, регулирующих поток жидкостей. Это послужило изданием в 1928 году «Трактата о химической инженерии», которая была направлена на обеспечения инженера-химика и механика-химика научными средствами для расчета потока жидкостей всех видов и практическими методами для оценки их скоростей и объемов с целью более эффективного проектирования установок.

Сфера образования
Джеффри Мартин был сильно озабочен состоянием преподавания в Англии тех лет. Он критиковал систему образования за отсутствие свободы у студентов в своем выборе, ее рутинности и бесполезности как для преподавателей, так и для студентов. Из-за жесткой модели обучения, он не мог дать студентам ничего, кроме заранее заданной информации, которая требовалась на экзаменах.

Эта проблема нашла отражение в четырёх публикациях Мартина в период с 1907 по 1915 год, посвящённых разным сторонам химического образования. Среди них были: практическое руководство (1907), химические лекционные диаграммы (1914) и две книги, в которых Мартин изложил все то, что хотел бы дать своим студентам: «Триумфы и чудеса современной химии» (1911) , «Современная химия и ее чудеса» (1915).

Проблема образования, была также одной из причин завершения его академической карьеры.

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Примечания

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Q: JavaScript keeps returning 'undefined', console log is perfectly fine though I can't figure out why I'm getting this result, I've never been able to master JavaScript because I'm always intimidated by how erratic the code behaves compared to Python or Java.
I need the variable lng_ to be set to the current Longitude, once I figure that out I will do the same with lat_. Here's my code:
var lng_ = navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(GetLong);
var lat_ = navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(GetLat);

function GetLong(location)
{
    console.log(location.coords.longitude);
    var ret = location.coords.longitude;
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console.log(lng_);

function GetLat(location)
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if you look at the function GetLong(location) it should return the value of longitude AND include a JavaScript log to show if it's working.
And according to my JavaScript log, I get the correct result

-122.15616500000002

But when I store this value in ret and return it, the final console.log() comes up with undefined
How does JavaScript even know what kind of object it's returning whether it's a string or int? And what is the solution to my problem?

A: You only have to call getCurrentPosition() once with a callback function, it doesn't actually return the position when called; the reason for this is that the position will not be immediately available:
function getPosition(location)
{
    var lng_, lat_;

    lng_ = location.coords.longitude;
    lat_ = location.coords.latitude;

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navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(GetPosition);

It works much like how other asynchronous operations work in JavaScript.

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James Wood Davidson (March 9, 1829 – June 27, 1905) was a United States author.

Biography
James Wood Davidson was born in Newberry District, South Carolina on March 9, 1829. He graduated from South Carolina College, Columbia, in 1852, studied languages under private tutors, from 1854 to 1859 was professor of Greek in Mount Zion College, Winnsboro, South Carolina, and in 1859 became principal of Carolina High School, Columbia. From 1862 to 1863, he was adjutant of infantry in Jackson's corps of Lee's army. He left Columbia in 1871, and lived two years in Washington, D.C., and eleven years in New York City, where he was literary editor of the Evening Post in 1873, and American correspondent of the London Standard from 1873 to 1878. In 1884, he moved to Figulus in Dade County, Florida, where he continued his literary work, and engaged in fruit culture. In 1885, he was a member of the Florida constitutional convention.
After 1887, he was employed in the Treasury Department at Washington, as a clerk.

James Wood Davidson died in Chattahoochee on June 27, 1905.

Works
 Living Writers of the South (New York, 1869)
 School History of South Carolina (Columbia, 1869; new ed., 1886)
 The Correspondent (New York, 1886)

He edited:
 William M. Martin, Lyrics and Sketches (1865)
 The Educational Year-Book (1872)

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References

1829 births
1905 deaths
American male journalists
People from Newberry County, South Carolina


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Q: Symmetric cryptography decrypt problems I'm trying to do a program with java that encrypt and dencrypt by command lines. By the moment I can encrypt correctly but when I try to decrypt the crypted message I get a padding error. The code of the proggram is
    package cat.copernic.simetriccd;

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.util.Arrays;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

class symetric{

    public static String byteArrayToHexString(byte[] b){
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(b.length * 2);
        for(int i = 0; i < b.length; i++){
            int v = b[i] & 0xff; if(v < 16){
                sb.append("0");
            }
            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(v));
        } return sb.toString();
    }

    static SecretKey genKey(String text) {
        SecretKey sKey = null;
        int keySize = 256;
        try {
            byte[] data = text.getBytes("UTF-8");
            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
            byte[] hash = md.digest(data);
            byte[] key = Arrays.copyOf(hash, keySize/8);
            sKey = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.err.println("Error generant la clau:" + ex);
        }

        return sKey;
    }

    static String encryptData(String password, byte[] data) {
        byte[] encryptedData = null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, genKey(password));
            encryptedData =  cipher.doFinal(data);
        } catch (Exception  ex) {
            System.err.println("Error xifrant les dades: " + ex);
        }

        return byteArrayToHexString(encryptedData);
    }

    static String decryptData(String password, byte[] data) {
        byte[] decryptedData = null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, genKey(password));
            decryptedData =  cipher.doFinal(data);
        } catch (Exception  ex) {
            System.err.println("Error desxifrant les dades: " + ex);
        }
        return decryptedData.toString();
    }

}

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //controlar numero de parametros que se pasan
        if(args.length <= 1 || args.length > 3 || args.length == 2){
            System.out.println("java Main -mode=encrypt|decrypt <message> <key>");
            return;
        }

        //sacamos los valores de los argumentos
        String mode = args[0].split("=")[1].toLowerCase();
        byte[] mensage = args[1].getBytes();
        String key = args[2];

        if(mode.equals("encrypt") || mode.equals("decrypt")){
            switch (mode) {
            case "encrypt":
                //System.out.println("encrypt");
                System.out.println(symetric.encryptData(key, mensage));
                break;

            case "decrypt":
                //System.out.println("decrypt");
                System.out.println(symetric.decryptData(key, mensage));
                break;

            default:
                break;
            }
        }else {
            System.out.println("Solo coje valores encrypt/ENCRYPT o decrypt/DECRYPT");
        }
    }
}

The message error is
    Error desxifrant les dades: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at cat.copernic.simetriccd.symetric.decryptData(Main.java:61)
    at cat.copernic.simetriccd.Main.main(Main.java:92)

I'm pretty sure that the error is generated here but dunno how to fix it... any idea? Thanks
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, genKey(password));
            decryptedData =  cipher.doFinal(data);

A: You need to convert the hex encoded String back to bytes before decrypting. Suggest using this function. Also decryptedData.toString() wouldn't quite work. Try encoding the bytes as a "UTF-8" String like so :
new String(decryptedData, "UTF-8");

A: Finally thanks to the people who helped on that exercise the solution is:
package cat.copernic.simetriccd;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;

class symetric{

    public static String byteArrayToHexString(byte[] b){
        return DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(b);
    }

    public static byte[] hexToByteArray(String b){
        return DatatypeConverter.parseHexBinary(b);
    }

    static SecretKey genKey(String text) {
        SecretKey sKey = null;
        int keySize = 256;
        try {
            byte[] data = text.getBytes("UTF-8");
            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
            byte[] hash = md.digest(data);
            byte[] key = Arrays.copyOf(hash, keySize/8);
            sKey = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.err.println("Error generant la clau");
        }

        return sKey;
    }

    static String encryptData(String password, String data) {
        byte[] encryptedData = null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, genKey(password));
            encryptedData =  cipher.doFinal(data.getBytes());
        } catch (Exception  ex) {
            System.err.println("Error xifrant les dades");
        }

        return byteArrayToHexString(encryptedData);
    }

    static String decryptData(String password, String data) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        byte[] decryptedData = null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, genKey(password));
            decryptedData =  cipher.doFinal(hexToByteArray(data));
        } catch (Exception  ex) {
            System.err.println("Error desxifrant les dades");
        }

        return new String(decryptedData, "UTF-8");
    }

}

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {

        //controlar numero de parametros que se pasan
        if(args.length <= 1 || args.length > 3 || args.length == 2){
            System.out.println("java Main -mode=encrypt|decrypt <message> <key>");
            return;
        }

        try {

            //sacamos los valores de los argumentos
            String mode = args[0].split("=")[1].toLowerCase();
            String mensage = args[1];
            String key = args[2];

            if(mode.equals("encrypt") || mode.equals("decrypt")){
                switch (mode) {
                case "encrypt":
                    //System.out.println("encrypt");
                    System.out.println("mensaje encriptado= " + symetric.encryptData(key, mensage));
                    break;

                case "decrypt":
                    //System.out.println("decrypt");
                    System.out.println("mensaje desencriptado= " + symetric.decryptData(key, mensage));
                    break;

                default:
                    break;
                }
            }else {
                System.out.println("Solo coje valores encrypt/ENCRYPT o decrypt/DECRYPT");
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Error en la definicion de los atributos");
        }
    }
}