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Stanley Diamond (January 4, 1922 in New York City, NY – March 31, 1991 in New York City, NY) was an American poet and anthropologist. As a young man, he identified as a poet, and his disdain for the fascism of the 1930s greatly influenced his thinking. Diamond was a professor at several universities, spending most of his career at The New School. He wrote several books and founded Dialectical Anthropology, a Marxist anthropology journal, in 1975.

Early life
Diamond was born into a progressive and intellectual middle-class Jewish family in New York City. His family had strong ties to the city's Yiddish community, and his grandfather had founded a Yiddish theater. However, he rarely discussed secular or religious Judaism in his work, and a biographer characterized his tone when discussing Judaism as "dismissive, even bitter."

Diamond was interested in African-Americans' civil rights at a young age, writing about the topic as early as age fourteen. As a young man, he befriended an African-American artist whom he admired, and they remained close. While he was serving with the British army in North Africa, he met soldiers who had been sold by their tribal chiefs to the South African military. Diamond attributes his social justice values to his early experiences: "Being a Jew I always tie the two things together, that is, the persecution of Jews and the persecution of Africans and African-Americans were twin horrors of civilization. I suppose it goes back, then, to the question of social conscientiousness and social conscience."

Education
Diamond attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then New York University, graduating from the latter with a B.A. degree in English and philosophy. At the outbreak of World War II, Diamond joined the British Army Field Service and served in North Africa. Like many veterans of his generation, he went to graduate school on the G.I. Bill. And, in 1951, received a Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Columbia University, where he was greatly influenced by the anti-racism writing of Franz Boas. Supporting Diamond's Ph.D.-degree was his unpublished dissertation "Dahomey: A Proto-State in West Africa" (1951).

Career
After graduation, his first teaching position was at the University of California at Los Angeles, but, as a result of denouncing the McCarthyist politics of that era and on a politically divided campus, he was dismissed and found that no other university was willing to hire him for the next three years. It was during this period that he conducted his first ethnographic fieldwork, which took him in the 1950s to an Israeli kibbutz and a nearby Arab mountain village. On his return to the United States, he taught at Brandeis University from 1956 to 1961. At Brandeis, Diamond became very close to Paul Radin and organized a Festschrift for that notable student of Franz Boas.

In the 1960s, Diamond was a member of the research team, the first to study schizophrenia from a cultural perspective, at the National Institute of Mental Health. After a professorship at the Maxwell Graduate Faculty at Syracuse University, he moved to The New School for Social Research in 1966, where he founded The New School's anthropology program. Within a few years, the program developed into the first critical department of anthropology in the U.S., where Diamond served as the department chair until 1983. He became the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Humanities at The New School and also Poet in the University. Diamond later taught as visiting professor in Berlin and Mexico and at Bard College.

As an ethnographer and social critic and in addition to conducting research in Israel, he was active among the Anaguta of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria during the last years of British colonial rule; among the Seneca Nation of upstate New York; and in Biafra during the 1967-1970 Biafran War, when he advocated for Biafran independence. Diamond is also known for having founded social-science journal Dialectical Anthropology in 1976.

His published books are several volumes of poetry, including Totems and Going West and a collection of essays called In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization (1974).

In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

In memoriam in the journal which he founded, his legacy was recognized thus: "Diamond was one of the first anthropologists to insist that researchers both acknowledge and confront power relations, often colonial and neocolonial, that form the context of their work. His sympathetic portrayal of the Arab mountain villages, and analysis of psychodynamics on the Israeli kibbutz — as stemming from an incomplete critique of shtetl life — was as much against the grain of contemporary research then as it is today. His concern for countering racism found its way into a number of trenchant popular and scholarly writings and, always, in his teaching" (Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 16, p. 105, 1991).

Diamond died of liver cancer on March 31, 1991, at the age of 69.

Major publications
Culture in History, Columbia University Press, 1960.
Primitive Views of the World, Columbia University Press, 1964.
Music of the Jos Plateau and Other Regions of Nigeria (audio recording), Folkways Records, 1966.
The Transformation of East Africa: Studies in political anthropology (Stanley Diamond and Fred G. Burke, editors), Basic Books, 1967.
Anthropological Perspectives on Education (Murray L. Wax, Stanley Diamond, and Fred O. Gearing, editors), Basic Books, 1971.
In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization, Transaction Books, 1974.
Toward a Marxist Anthropology: Problems and Perspectives, Mouton, 1979.
Anthropology: Ancestors and Heirs (Stanley Diamond, editor), Mouton, 1980.
Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin (Stanley Diamond, editor), Octagon Books, 1981.
Dahomey: Transition and Conflict in State Formation, Bergin & Garvey, 1983,
Paul Radin. In: Sydel Silverman (Editor) Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology. Alta Mira, 2003, S. 51–73,

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References
"Stanley Diamond: In Memoriam," Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 2 (June, 1991), pp. 105–106.

External links
 The African Activist Archive Project website includes the pamphlet NIGERIA Model of a Colonial Failure by Stanley Diamond published by the American Committee on Africa in 1967.

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Pak Taliban claims responsibility for Rawalpindi attack
Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the Pakistan Army's Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday, which left four of its militants and eight soldiers dead.
The outfit has again demanded a halt in the ongoing military campaign in the NWFP.
The Amjad Farooqi group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella grouping claimed that it was behind the audacious attack and demanded that former President Pervez Musharraf be put on trial.
The group took the responsibility in a telephone call made to Geo News. They also asked for closure of all Western NGOs and expulsion of US private security firm Blackwater.
The Taliban's hand in the frontal assault on the Pakistan Army Headquarters comes amid reports that the security forces are on the brink of launching a major attack on its stronghold of South Waziristan.
Earlier in the week, Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq had warned the military of a "harsh response" if it launched an offensive in Waziristan.
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik has declared that the army, which has encircled Waziristan with troops and armours would march into the area close to Afghan border in the next few days.
"I believe we have no option except to take action in South Waziristan and North Waziristan," Malik said.
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Zander Mateo Cassierra Cabezas (auch Casierra; * 13. April 1997 in Barbacoas, Nariño), kurz Mateo Cassierra, ist ein kolumbianischer Fußballspieler. Der Stürmer steht beim Zenit Sankt Petersburg unter Vertrag.

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Cassierra begann seine Karriere als Fünfjähriger bei Deportivo Cali, wo er ab der Saison 2015 in der ersten Mannschaft zum Einsatz kam. In jener Spielzeit erzielte er acht Tore in 23 Spielen. 2016 traf er bis Juni viermal bei 20 Einsätzen, ehe er zu Ajax Amsterdam in die niederländische Eredivisie wechselte. Dort erzielte er bei seinem ersten Pflichtspieleinsatz am 7. August 2016 das Tor zum 3:1-Endstand gegen Sparta Rotterdam. Mit Ajax spielte Cassierra in der Saison 2016/17 in der Europa League. Er kam in fünf Gruppenspielen zum Einsatz und erreichte mit seiner Mannschaft das Finale, das das Team mit 0:2 gegen Manchester United verlor. In der Saison 2017/18 gewann er mit Ajax' zweiter Mannschaft, Jong Ajax, die Meisterschaft in der Eersten Divisie.

Zur Spielzeit 2018/19 wurde Cassierra an den Ligakonkurrenten FC Groningen verliehen, für den er zu zehn Ligaeinsätzen kam. Im Januar 2019 wurde er bis September 2019 an den argentinischen Erstligisten Racing Club weiter verliehen. Anschließend wechselte er zu Belenenses SAD. Seit August 2021 spielt der Stürmer beim FK Sotschi.

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Western Geographic Science Center
Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect
How is land changing in the United States?
Why is land changing in the United States?
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For two decades, USGS scientists with the Land Cover Trends team have used satellite data to study landscape change across the United States. Increasingly, research is focused on understanding why change occurs. Insights into the underlying causes of shifts in land use and land cover (LULC) will allow managers and stakeholders to make more informed decisions about how to respond to future environmental and climatic conditions.
USGS investigations into the causes of land change are called 'driving forces' studies. Driving forces are different processes--economic, demographic, technological, institutional, cultural, environmental, and climatic--that transform or maintain LULC.
The Land Cover Trends team is now undertaking research that quantifies the complex spatial and temporal relationships between land change and its driving forces in order to develop more accurate land-cover assessments and forecasts.
The goal of the PLACE project is to develop and implement a systematic approach for identifying the rates, patterns, and causes of land change at regional to national scales. Advances in high performance computing and cloud computing have ushered in a new era of landscape analysis, in which scientists can easily process and analyze massive amounts of data. The ability to track landscape changes at frequent (monthly and annual) time-steps over broad geographical extents improves the reliability and accuracy of detected patterns of change and makes it easier to determine and quantify the contributions of underlying forcing agents. The PLACE team will leverage this detail to isolate abiotic influences, explore land change sensitivity to extreme weather events and sustained climate changes, and investigate effects across a wide range of explanatory parameters.
In late 2016 PLACE team members began development of regional-scale methods, largely focused on the western United States. Early published efforts covered logging characteristics in the Pacific Northwest, causes of vegetation change in Sierra Nevada meadows, and mapping surface water change monthly throughout California. The regional focus has provided the opportunity both to test method efficacy prior to a national-scale rollout and to tailor outreach products to regional resource managers, researchers, and local governments for assessment and utilization.
The benefits of identifying the rates and causes of LULC change are far-reaching. More informed understanding of drivers allows insights into the environmental impacts of past change and more precise estimates of future responses to specific processes and climate scenarios. The use of scenario-based LULC projections enables an assessment of the interactions among climate, land-use, policy, and socioeconomic driving forces. This information can facilitate land-use planning and restoration efforts.
Diagram illustrating surface water fluctuations using select March snapshots of Friant Dam outside of Fresno, CA (black background represents March maximum water extent across 31 years. Christopher Soulard, USGS. Public domain.
Resource managers. non-governmental organizations, and private stakeholders are increasingly interested in knowing how altered environmental conditions will affect priorities such as preserving plant and animal species of concern, mitigating the negative impacts of development projects, and planning for protection of communities in flood-and-drought-prone areas. Understanding the factors that lead to landscape change provides an opportunity to identify, isolate, and manage risk by highlighting areas of particular vulnerability or resistance to change under different future scenarios.
Gagehouse at 06225500 Wind River near Crowheart, WY just before it washed away. Jul 01 2011; 13,900 ft3/s. Credit: Jerrod Wheeler, USGS. Public domain.
In the first two years of the PLACE project, the team has focused on developing methods and data that will lead to improved LULC detection at a national scale, while approaches to quantify the causes of change have been tested at regional scales. The monitoring products that PLACE has published characterize land-use practices across the entire United States with improved accuracy, and currently serve as some of the best available empirical data for land-use modeling applications. These results are a bridge between past generations of intermittent, limited-scope LULC maps and the annual, nation-wide ones of the future. To that end, PLACE is actively working on cloud-based methods to generate a series of LULC products, including annualized maps of development and monthly maps of surface water.
As the PLACE team heads into a second year studying the patterns and causes of surface water change, we have created a scalable, transferable method to validate and interpolate monthly map time series wherever stream gage information is available. These methods have also been useful for mapping surface water changes elsewhere around the globe where gage data are sparse. Continuous, long-term estimates of surface water change can form the backbone of subsequent analyses into the rates, patterns, and causes of change. Quantifying the linkages between mapped changes and monthly weather records over a span of 30 years will help determine how precipitation events contribute to the timing, location, and extent of flooding and drought.
Photo comparison illustrating streamflow along the San Fransiquito Creek (Palo Alto, CA) associated with different atmospheric river precipitation events in February 2017 (left) and February 2019 (right). Credit: Christopher Soulard, USGS. Public domain.
Linking surface water change to climate is just one example of how important the PLACE project is in advancing research into LULC change drivers beyond qualitative or anecdotal observations of individual forcing agents.
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Landsat time series assessment of invasive annual grasses following energy development
Invasive annual grasses are of concern in many areas of the Western United States because they tolerate resource variability and have high reproductive capacity, with propagules that are readily dispersed in disturbed areas like those created and maintained for energy development. Early-season invasive grasses "green up" earlier than the most...
Villarreal, Miguel L.; Soulard, Christopher E.; Eric Waller
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Villarreal, M.L., Soulard, C.E. and E.K. Waller. 2019. Landsat time series assessment of invasive annual grasses following energy development. Remote Sensing 11(21), 2553. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212553
Integrating stream gage data and Landsat imagery to complete time-series of surface water extents in Central Valley, California
Accurate monitoring of surface water location and extent is critical for the management of diverse water resource phenomena. The multi-decadal archive of Landsat satellite imagery is punctuated by missing data due to cloud cover during acquisition times, hindering the assembly of a continuous time series of inundation dynamics. This study...
Walker, Jessica J.; Soulard, Christopher E.; Petrakis, Roy E.
Spatial patterns of meadow sensitivities to interannual climate variability in the Sierra Nevada
Conservation of montane meadows is a high priority for land and water managers given their critical role in buffering the effects of climate variability and their vulnerability to increasing temperatures and evaporative demands. Recent advances in cloud computing have provided new opportunities to examine ecological responses to climate...
Christine M. Albano; Meredith L. McClure; Shana E. Gross; Kitlasten, Wesley; Soulard, Christopher; Charles Morton; Justin Huntington
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Removing rural roads from the National Land Cover Database to create improved urban maps for the United States, 1992-2011
Quantifying change in urban land provides important information to create empirical models examining the effects of human land use. Maps of developed land from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) of the conterminous United States include rural roads in the developed land class and therefore overestimate the amount of urban land. To better map...
Soulard, Christopher E.; Acevedo, William; Stehman, Stephen V.
Soulard, Christopher E., Acevedo, William, Stehman, Stephen V., 2018, Removing non-urban roads from the National Land Cover Database to create improved urban maps for the United States, 1992-2011, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 84(2), 101-109, DOI: 10.14358/PERS.84.2.101.
Forest harvest patterns on private lands in the Cascade Mountains, Washington, USA
Forests in Washington State generate substantial economic revenue from commercial timber harvesting on private lands. To investigate the rates, causes, and spatial and temporal patterns of forest harvest on private tracts throughout the Cascade Mountains, we relied on a new generation of annual land-use/land-cover (LULC) products created from the...
Soulard, Christopher E.; Walker, Jessica; Griffith, Glenn E.
Attribution: Western Geographic Science Center, United States of America, Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection
Soulard, C.E., Walker, J.J. and Griffith, G.E., 2017. Forest Harvest Patterns on Private Lands in the Cascade Mountains, Washington, USA. Forests, 8(10), p.383. 10.3390/f8100383
How misapplication of the hydrologic unit framework diminishes the meaning of watersheds
Hydrologic units provide a convenient but problematic nationwide set of geographic polygons based on subjectively determined subdivisions of land surface areas at several hierarchical levels. The problem is that it is impossible to map watersheds, basins, or catchments of relatively equal size and cover the whole country. The hydrologic unit...
Omernik, James M.; Griffith, Glenn E.; Hughes, Robert M.; Glover, James B.; Weber, Marc H.
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Omernik J.M., Griffith G.E., Hughes R.M., Glover J.B., Weber M.H., 2017, How Misapplication of the Hydrologic Unit Framework Diminishes the Meaning of Watershed: Environmental Management v. 60, no. 1, p. 1-11. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0854-z
Projecting community changes in hazard exposure to support long-term risk reduction: A case study of tsunami hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Tsunamis have the potential to cause considerable damage to communities along the U.S. Pacific Northwest coastline. As coastal communities expand over time, the potential societal impact of tsunami inundation changes. To understand how community exposure to tsunami hazards may change in coming decades, we projected future development (i.e. urban,...
Sleeter, Benjamin M.; Wood, Nathan J.; Soulard, Christopher E.; Wilson, Tamara
Attribution: Western Geographic Science Center, Climate Research and Development Program, Land Change Science Program, United States of America
Benjamin M. Sleeter, Nathan J. Wood, Christopher E. Soulard, Tamara S. Wilson, Projecting community changes in hazard exposure to support long-term risk reduction: A case study of tsunami hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 22, June 2017, Pages 10-22, ISSN 2212-4209
Harmonization of forest disturbance datasets of the conterminous USA from 1986 to 2011
Several spatial forest disturbance datasets exist for the conterminous USA. The major problem with forest disturbance mapping is that variability between map products leads to uncertainty regarding the actual rate of disturbance. In this article, harmonized maps were produced from multiple data sources (i.e., Global Forest Change, LANDFIRE...
Soulard, Christopher E.; Acevedo, William; Cohen, Warren B.; Yang, Zhiqiang; Stehman, Stephen V.; Taylor, Janis L.
Soulard, C.E., Acevedo, W., Cohen, W.B. et al. Environ Monit Assess (2017) 189: 170. doi:10.1007/s10661-017-5879-5
Influence of atmospheric rivers on vegetation productivity and fire patterns in the southwestern U.S.
In the southwestern U.S., the meteorological phenomenon known as atmospheric rivers (ARs) has gained increasing attention due to its strong connections to floods, snowpacks, and water supplies in the West Coast states. Relatively less is known about the ecological implications of ARs, particularly in the interior Southwest, where AR storms are...
Albano, Christine M.; Dettinger, Michael D.; Soulard, Christopher E.
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Albano, C.M., Dettinger, M.D. and Soulard, C.E., 2017. Influence of atmospheric rivers on vegetation productivity and fire patterns in the southwestern US. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122, 308-323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003608.
Mapping extent and change in surface mines within the United States for 2001 to 2006
A complete, spatially explicit dataset illustrating the 21st century mining footprint for the conterminous United States does not exist. To address this need, we developed a semi-automated procedure to map the country's mining footprint (30-m pixel) and establish a baseline to monitor changes in mine extent over time. The process uses mine seed...
Soulard, Christopher E.; Acevedo, William; Stehman, Stephen V.; Parker, Owen P.
Attribution: Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Western Geographic Science Center, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center
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Data supporting Landsat time series assessment of invasive annual grasses following energy development
To determine if invasive annual grasses increased around energy developments after the construction phase, we calculated an invasives index using Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery for a 34-year time period (1985-2018) and assessed trends for 1,755 wind turbines (from the U.S. Wind Turbine Database) installed between 1988 and 2013 in the southern California desert. The index uses the maxim
Date published: September 13, 2019
Datasets for Integrating stream gage data and Landsat imagery to complete time-series of surface water extents in Central Valley, California
This data release comprises the data files and code necessary to perform all analyses presented in the associated publication. The *.csv data files are aggregations of water extent on the basis of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Monthly Water History database (v1.0) and the Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) algorithm. The shapefile dataset contains the st
Date published: November 22, 2017
Data - Removing roads from the National Land Cover Database to create improved urban maps for the United States, 1992-2011
To better map the urban class and understand how urban lands change over time, we removed rural roads and small patches of rural development from the NLCD developed class and created four wall-to-wall maps (1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011) of urban land.
To investigate the rates, causes, and spatial and temporal patterns of forest harvest on private tracts throughout the Cascade Mountains, we relied on a new generation of annual land-use/land-cover (LULC) products created from the application of the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm to Landsat satellite imagery collected from 1985 to 2014.
Attribution: Region 9: Columbia-Pacific Northwest, Western Geographic Science Center
Below are partners associated with this project.
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Disney has given away the 1 million tickets they had committed for this program, so it has officially ended. The thing that surprises me more than anything about this is how quickly they gave them out. It was supposed to last all year and we're only three months into the year and it's over. I guess now they'll have to come up with new ads for the rest of the year.


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Kamen Rider Build: Building a Good Rider
The following article was submitted by STALK.
It's now September, and tokusatsu fans always know what this means: A new Kamen Rider! But before we enter a new season of Kamen Rider, let's take a look back at Kamen Rider Build, the series for 2017/2018.
Disclaimer: The following article contains spoilers for the Kamen Rider Build series.
Kamen Rider Build tells the story of Sento Kiryu, an amnesiac scientist who lives in a world haunted by the Sky Wall Tragedy, an incident 10 years ago that caused an impenetrable wall to appear and divide Japan into Seito, Touto and Hokuto. The three nations lived in relative harmony, but always eyed the power of Pandora's Box, an extra-terrestrial Box recovered from Mars.
Sento lives as a scientist by day working for the Touto government, but by night, he fights Faust, a secret society experimenting on humans led by Night Rogue and Blood Stalk, turning humans into monsters called Smash. Joining Sento along for the ride is Banjo Ryuga, an innocent man convicted of murder who eventually transforms into Kamen Rider Cross-Z; Misora Isurugi, a young idol with the power to purify the essence of the Smashes; Soichi Isurugi, Misora's father who owns Café Nascita; and Sawa Takigawa, a reporter who can get any information.
Eventually the story escalates to an all-out war as the three nations fight over Pandora's Box, with Hokuto sending Kamen Rider Grease / Kazumi Sawatari, a potato farmer obsessed with Misora's idol identity, and Seito sending Kamen Rider Rogue / Gentoku Himuro, the true identity of Night Rogue who was disgraced when Sento unmasked him.
Pandora's Box eventually makes its way into Blood Stalk's hands, with his identity revealed to be a possessed Soichi, who is forcibly bonded to an alien known as Evolto. Using Pandora's Box, Evolto obtains his complete form – Kamen Rider Evol, and proceeds to destroy the world, with only the Kamen Riders standing in his way.
Source: Kamen Rider Build
Sento Kiryu/Kamen Rider Build
Sento is the main character who starts off as an amnesiac scientist. Throughout the series he struggles with the concept of "science used for war" and has doubts and insecurities, blaming himself for the events that transpired. Ultimately he chooses to fight for justice, because of his belief that science can be used to better humanity.
Banjo Ryuuga/Kamen Rider Cross-z
Banjo is the secondary character and Sento's partner (in more ways than one). He starts out an escaped convict framed for a murder, who is vital to Faust's grand plan. After losing his girlfriend to Faust's experiments, he awakens his true power and fights for justice, but he harbors a dark secret inside.
Kazumi Sawatari/Kamen Rider Grease
A potato farmer from Hokuto who gets drafted into the war between the various nations. Curiously obsessed with Mii-tan, Misora's alter ego, his passion for fighting burns bright like a fire, yet he remains cool as ice under pressure.
Himuro Gentoku/Kamen Rider Rogue/Night Rogue
Gentoku starts off as Night Rogue, the leader of Faust and a major antagonist, but when his actions cause him to be exiled from Touto, he joins Seito as their Kamen Rider. But eventually, he joins Sento to fight a greater threat to the world.
Misora Isurugi/Mii-tan
Misora is Sento's ally who has the power to purify Full Bottles, which seems to be tied to her mysterious bracelet. She also has a secret identity as Mii-tan, a popular web idol that has a massive fanbase aiding the Riders in gathering information.
Soichi Isurugi/Blood Stalk/Evolto/Kamen Rider Evol
Evolto, masquerading as Soichi Isurugi, is the source of Pandora's Box and the true villain of the series. He is an extraterrestrial entity bent on consuming planets (a la Galactus) who has set his sights on Earth after devastating Mars. He starts off as Blood Stalk, but eventually recovers his powers as Kamen Rider Evol.
Plot-wise, Kamen Rider Build starts off as a fairly generic Rider series, with a lot of throwbacks to early series such as the Showa riders, evil organizations, human experimentation and the familiar monster of the week formula. But even during the first few episodes, there was a hint of a greater plot, introducing the overarching mythology of the series, especially the mystery of Misora's bangle and the Sky Wall.
One thing I particularly admired about Build is the willingness to show an actual war, and the Kamen Riders as weapons of war. Previous Kamen Riders hinted at it, especially 2013's Kamen Rider Gaim, where the Riders fought a proxy war through dance-offs, but Build is the first series to openly portray the Riders as weapons, however much unwilling they were.
Not only is this concept executed beautifully, but another plot point that was unconventional was the portrayal of politics. Touto, Seito and Hokuto had different Prime Ministers that worked in different ways, and had differing goals and methods of governing, which was portrayed convincingly in this giant sandbox version of Japan.
Another particularly impressive piece of writing is the balance of light-heartedness and serious topics. Despite addressing topics such as war, tragedy and amoral scientists among others, the series never fails to show us humorous topics, such as the opening narration banter between Sento and Banjo, with various in-jokes and meta-commentary. This makes Build easy to watch, but still willing to show the tough choices, especially in later episodes. Contrast this with Ex-Aid, a series which started out promising, but ended up without permadeaths.
Of course, a superhero show wouldn't be complete without its supervillain, and Evolto remains one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite Kamen Rider villain. Evolto started out as Blood Stalk, an enigmatic chaotic neutral villain who had his own agenda, helping the heroes at times and hindering them at times. As he became Kamen Rider Evol, he started to show his true colors, with the singular goal of consuming the Earth.
This complexity is rarely seen in Rider final villains, especially those in recent years (Gold Drive, Cronus) as the series moved towards introducing late-game villains. Evolto's role and introduction during the early stage of the story actually helped cement his memorable role and of course, allowed for some character development.
One particular bit that appealed to my science-loving self is the bits of science easter eggs in the show. A lot of Build's finishers have actual scientific formulas, such as Projectile Motion, Maxwell's Equations and the Law of Entropy, to name a few. As a science buff, I had a lot of fun playing "spot the formula" and appreciate the touches they put into the show.
Needless to say, Build isn't without its flaws as well. One major criticism I have with the show is the characterization of Evolto towards the end. During the final few episodes, his motivations pulled a one-eighty and became a one-note villain with the cliched motivation of destroying the world. This characterization is in stark contrast with his original goals and characterization.
Another flaw is the introduction of side characters that lasted for one of two arcs. Though arguably it could be a boon (such as the case of the Hokuto trio), in most cases such as the Hell Bros causes the story to get sidetracked.
Story: 8/10
Characters: 9/10
Visuals: 7/10
Music: 7/10
Build is one of the few rider series to actually Build a decent plot, a sandbox world and an epic story with whatever materials they had. Build succeeded in transcending the concept of a show for children, and became what, in my opinion, is one of the best Kamen Riders of all time. Do give it a try, and enjoy the adventures of the genius Scientist.
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The Bogense World Cup marked this season's European debut for many American riders. Bart Hazen submitted this gallery from the Danish shore that captures the epic day of cyclocross racing.
The seaside setting and tough course of the Bogense World Cup made for some great visuals. Jeff Curtes was in Denmark to put his unique spin on the action. His top shots from Sunday's race made it into this photo gallery.
Mathieu van der Poel used a midrace adjustment to win the 2017 Bogense World Cup, outlasting a challenge from Toon Aerts. Our race report and results tell the story.
The Telenet UCI World Cup moves to Bogense, Denmark this weekend. Start lists include 11 Elite Americans and 2 British riders. Full starts lists now available.
10 young U.S. cyclocrossers are headed to the November block of EuroCrossCamp and 11 Elites are racing the Denmark and Germany World Cups. We have a list of the riders and the races they will be doing while in Europe.


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Decentralised innovation hubs of the future
What if we never have to worry about food, water, data or electricity again? What if we can create a universal basic income for people living in decentralised innovation hubs that teach people how to take ownership? What if people can choose their own laws using smart contracts and artificial intelligence within these decentralised innovation hubs?
We've had a few rounds of proposing the Leaderless idea now and every time we've had them, it became clear that we needed to polish the idea a little more to address a question and get clearer about how people can become Leaderless. How does one steer a ship without someone at the helm?
It has taken a fair amount of thinking, meetings and figuring out how this idea will work, but I am glad to announce that we have finally managed to figure it out. Starting with the Leaderless team, we will build our first decentralized innovation hub where social entrepreneurs like ourselves will come together and not have to worry about electricity, food, water or housing and instead keep focused on creating course material that will teach people how to take ownership in the sectors of government where service delivery is not happening fast enough and to create jobs of the future in light of job losses like the 3000 jobs that were lost to software bots by Nedbank here in South Africa just the other day.
We will launch the pilot project and record the process which people will then be able to replicate. Our first pilot project will be in Cape Town where this project started, but with plans to create decentralised innovation hubs all along the coast. For this, we are working on an awareness campaign for 2019 called the LongRideToFreedom.com and along this route, we will build the innovation hubs.
An example school/studio we have in mind, central to the innovation hub that we will build for the Leaderless team. Everything here will be recorded and put online in order to replicate these hubs down the coast of South Africa and around the world.
The first thing we need to ensure is that the innovators are fed. In a meeting I had with a farming company last week, a colleague was asked to join because he knows a lot about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this meeting he said, "So you're trying to build super schools" – and yes, that is what we're doing. Building schools in decentralised innovation hubs for optimised human beings of the future. In the book Stealing Fire, the author goes on to explain that as a Navy Seal, the leader exposes himself as the situation arises. It is this kind of leader we want to create.
For now, I will lead this process until the vision is very clear to everyone involved. But I want to make this clear, Leaderless belongs to all the people. It is designed for people to take ownership of their own lives. We are not a political party but a Non Profit Company who teaches the most immediate leaders around them who then influences the most immediate people around the next group of people in order to get things done.
Until we get the right investors, Leaderless will continue to fund itself by building certain Blockchain applications that plug into the bigger picture of Leaderless further down the road. I asked this farming company to help us with a couple of things.
We'd like to use a piece of their land where we will set up our first digital literacy school.
We'd like to build a Blockchain application that bypasses the supermarkets to deliver food directly to the customer from the farm.
We'd like to start a vertical farm where their employees will be able to start migrating their skills to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
We'd like to convert their existing farming equipment to electric vehicles which will save them money and help clean up the planet.
All of this will be recorded and be used as courses that we fund the future of Leaderless through a subscription model. We will solve the free education problem by making the course for free if you catch it at the time it is aired, else it will be a paid for course. Each lecturer we choose, is meticulously chosen for their disruptive thinking and because they want to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.
All of courses are designed to show people how to take ownership in each abused sector of government. Finance, communication, food, energy, education, transport and more, further down the road. If the technology does not exist, we educate and create it.
This week, I see a client of to help us build out a very big 3D printer that will be used for projects on the farm as well as course material for the future. We have started assembling the team who will help us put this 3D printer together, figure out how to recycle plastic and then start making products that will clean up our future.
Our next meeting is an important one to get a yes from the owner of the farm. With a yes, we can go back to the construction company willing to help us build the first digital literacy school and get the foundations down.
More good news is that Leaderless has gone through to be registered as a Non Profit Company. With advice from the Fibre Council of South Africa, we took this route for two reasons.
It builds trust – at the core of everything we do, we teach principles and values and it was important for people to understand that the profits Leaderless will make will be poured back into the projects we develop that will help educate people about how they can take ownership and lean less on government.
We can accept grants from companies – from $10,000 per month from Google to advertise, to aligning ourselves with disruptive companies who can right off their contributions to tax, we will make use of other people's money to help educate people about the digital disruption that will replace jobs.
Our next goal is to complete our Initial Coin Offering, which is just a fancy word for crowd funding the money to be able to build out the Leaderless platform on a Blockchain application. The money made from the platform will be poured back to create the next innovation hub. For this though, we will need to create a PTY company. We only have one shot at this to get it right and don't want to mess it up.
It's been a lot of work since 2015 and a lot of networking that's taken place but it is full steam ahead from here on out.
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Comment| Volume 371, ISSUE 9622, P1391-1392, April 26, 2008
Risk of myocardial infarction and nucleoside analogues
James H Stein
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53717, USA
Judith S Currier
Division of Infectious Diseases, UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education, University of California David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Published:April 02, 2008DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60491-2
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In today's Lancet, the D:A:D Study Group analyses whether the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors zidovudine, didanosine, stavudine, lamivudine, and abacavir are associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction.
D:A:D Study Group
Use of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and risk of myocardial infarction in HIV-infected patients enrolled in the D:A:D study: a multi-cohort collaboration.
Lancet. 2008; (published online April 2.)https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60423-7
Their analysis included 517 patients with myocardial infarction, and 157 912 person-years of follow-up of a cohort with a myocardial infarction rate of 3·3 per 1000 patient-years. Their unexpected finding was that ongoing or recent exposure to abacavir (relative risk 1·90, 95% CI 1·47–2·45) or didanosine (1·49, 1·14–1·95), but not the thymidine analogues zidovudine or stavudine, increased risk of myocardial infarction.
Because randomised trials show that abacavir improves the lipid profile when substituted for a protease inhibitor, patients with poor lipid profiles or at high risk of coronary heart disease might have been more likely to receive abacavir.
Clumeck N
Goebel F
Rozenbaum W
Simplification with abacavir-based triple nucleoside therapy versus continued protease inhibitor-based highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1-infected patients with undetectable plasma HIV-1 RNA.
AIDS. 2001; 15: 1517-1526
Martínez E
Arnaiz JA
Podzamczer D
Substitution of nevirapine, efavirenz, or abacavir for protease inhibitors in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Keiser PH
Sension MG
DeJesus E
Substituting abacavir for hyperlipidemia-associated protease inhibitors in HAART regimens improves fasting lipid profiles, maintains virologic suppression, and simplifies treatment.
BMC Infect Dis. 2005; 5: 2
Anderson KM
Wilson PWF
Odell PM
Kannel WB
An updated coronary risk profile: a statement for health professionals.
Circulation. 1991; 83: 356-362
El Sadr WM
Lundgren JD
Neaton JD
CD4+ count-guided interruption of antiretroviral treatment.
The DAD Study Group
Class of antiretroviral drugs and the risk of myocardial infarction.
Cutrell A
Brothers C
Yeo J
Hernandez J
Lapierre D
Abacavir and the potential risk of myocardial infarction.
Stein JH
Cotter BR
Parker RA
Antiretroviral therapy improves endothelial function in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a prospective, randomized multicenter trial (Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study A5152s).
Circulation. 2005; 112 (abstr).: 23
Abacavir and the potential risk of myocardial infarction
The D:A:D Study Group1 describe results from their international observational cohort of 33 347 HIV-1-infected individuals, which suggest an unexpected increased risk of myocardial infarction associated with abacavir therapy (relative rate 1·9, 95% CI 1·47–2·45; p=0·0001). We summarised data from our HIV data repository, which includes information from 54 clinical trials sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) designed for 24 or 48 weeks of combination antiretroviral therapy. Data were assessed from 14 683 HIV-infected patients who received abacavir (n=9639; 7845 person-years) or no abacavir (n=5044; 4653 person-years).
Use of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and risk of myocardial infarction in HIV-infected patients enrolled in the D:A:D study: a multi-cohort collaboration
There exists an increased risk of myocardial infarction in patients exposed to abacavir and didanosine within the preceding 6 months. The excess risk does not seem to be explained by underlying established cardiovascular risk factors and was not present beyond 6 months after drug cessation.


This is a simple sheath-like dress worn by Norse Vikings and by other folk of earlier periods.
Also called a Viking tube dress, this simple design is perfect for SCA, LARP or Viking reenactment costumes.
The shoulder straps are made from fabric.
Trim can be added to the straps and along the top and bottom hem.
The hem on the Tube Dress is approximately 8-10 inches shorter than full length.


Forster's mix of topicality and sensationalism makes The Kite Runner sentimental, not profound.
The terseness of Hosseini's prose has been replaced by the sentimentality of the director's approach.
In real life the opportunity to make amends is rare, though the attempt may produce great art. In The Kite Runner, we get neither.
It's okay to be manipulated, so long as you don't feel the strings being pulled. Here the tug is constant, and constantly distracting.
A drama as bland and beige as its tasteful palette.
What results is a patchy, uncertain motion picture, full of incidents and images but fundamentally unfocused and superficial.
Mr. Forster, who previously directed Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland, has been soundly defeated by The Kite Runner. Despite the film's far-flung locations (it was shot primarily in China), there is remarkably little of visual interest here; the setups are banal, and the scenes lack tension, which no amount of editing can provide.


theres only 1 stupid question, thats the 1 left unasked, if we dont ask we dont learn,were all the asame all a wee bit nervous people will think us dumb and laugh , due to the questions we ask, but if some-one laughs at ou for asking a question, then they are the wrong person to help you with anything ????
hi im new here im empathic just wondering is there any point in being empathic ?
I DOnt men to be self centered but when im just going about my daily life and i pass some one i just feel the sorrow or there pain, thats what i mean in whAts the point. i want to be able to do some thing positive not just feel sorrow, also if i meet some one i can instAntly feel if the person is a good or bad person. IF THIS IS A GIFT HOW AM I supposed to use it positively.aNY ADVICE welcome. iv just stArted A holistic therapy course, and i dont even know why, but it just felt right.
We do have an empathy circle in our chatrooms also if you look further down the boards you will see the empathy board where many have shared their experiences of empathy.
Empathy can be a pian or a blessing the trick is to learn to control it rather than it controlling you. First thing is learn g&p grounding and protection this turns the volume down and allows those emotions to ground. Emotions are energy like electricity is energy. The analogy i like to use is that the empath is the ligtning rod you know those rods stuck on top of buildings to attract lightning strike away from unprotected places, attracting all that energy. Now if you are not grounded then this energy is stored in you buidling up as time goes by. You may have noticed that electrical appliances tend to short out or flicker when you are near.
Now how can empathy be a blessing, you have learned to control this, the excess energy is flowing down through your roots to mother earth, but you can draw some of that energy for yourself feel the emotions of the other that needs your help. Often empaths are healers as they can see what is needed, sometimes just listening to the person knowing that you just know what is wrong is also a way to help.
Empathy to my thoughts is a great gift for helping others I have been an empath my whole life up to now, and it was a pain then I found Mystic familiar it was here I found how to control it so now i can use it to help others and yes help myself too lol cos i firmly believe by helping others we help ourselves too.


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Import Blu-ray & DVD Reviews
THE RAINBOW THIEF blu-ray review
Germany Region B blu-ray
1080i Widescreen 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (original)
German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (dub)
MOVIE: 8.5
VIDEO QUALITY: 9.5
AUDIO QUALITY: 9.5
I've never seen The Rainbow Thief until blind-binding this German blu-ray, and it's surprisingly an exciting movie starring a bunch of old timers! If no one had told me this was an Alexandro Jodorowsky film, I would have thought it was a Terry Gilliam film.
One of my all-time favorite films is The Holy Mountain, so I was expecting some outrageous weirdness that would need to be interpreted after many viewings. Just the opposite, I felt like I was watching a better version of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, minus the CGI fantasy scenes. The movie is just a nice, slightly wacky Dickens-type story about the adventures of a thief, played with serious intensity by Omar Sharif. Peter O'Toole is good as his usual weird flamboyant self, and Christopher Lee is great in his short crazy role at the beginning of the movie.
The Rainbow Thief is filmed so well and it's surprisingly one of my favorite edited films now, because Omar Sharif was chugging all over the place as if he was 20 years old. The directing and editing was just amazing because it was really impossible to tell the stunt man from Omar. That's great editing. If this movie had cast a younger thief copying the style of Omar Sharif's intense acting, I was thinking that the role could have been played by Robert Downey Jr.
The music was also excellent, great gypsy and classical infused with the funny visuals in the film.
I remember how exciting it was to see DeNiro and Pacino reunite for their Michael Man film, Heat. Well, I feel the same for the reuniting of Sharif and O'Toole in this film, since they played so well together in Lawrence of Arabia. It's sort of sad watching them old in this film since they were so young in Lawrence of Arabia. But their age does not slow them around in this film – they are just a bunch of old timers chugging around as if on speed. It's amazing how O'Toole and Sharif still look the same as well – for the past 30 years, they have always looked like they are 65 years old!
I now rank The Rainbow Thief right under The Holy Mountain, then El Topo, and then Santa Sangre. The movie is certainly worth it for the amazingly-filmed rainstorm/flood scene in the climax of the film – it was something like out of a Rolland Emmerich or James Cameron film.
The German blu-ray has perfect video and audio quality. For such an obscure title, Ascot Elite Home Entertainment gave this film a very generous make-over. The well-lit and dark scenes all look equally crisp and clear. Great colors, no DNR – just a perfect video presentation. The English DTS-HD 2.0 is very impressive, especially during the climactic flood scenes. The subwoofer was certainly active in the film, which was a nice surprise. The only extra is the trailer with original English audio.
Very nice film – it's just a crime that Jodorowsky hasn't directed more films, because he is a masterful director. It's too bad he doesn't direct any of those Euro sci-fi comics he had written over the years. And I can't wait till The Holy Mountain gets a blu-ray release somewhere in the world.
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How do I change this so it appears from the right?
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A: Include jquery UI and changed it as jQuery(this).next('.box').toggle('slide', {direction: 'right'});
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Update: The open beta is live . Fire at will.
Free-to-play mech shooter Hawken will enter open beta later today, once the developer is done "updating and double-checking" existing accounts. We're told to hang in there until it's ready. In the meantime, feel free to bombard the official site —new servers apparently had to be added to keep up with demand, and we bet web engineers really appreciate it when we encourage everyone to jam the F5 key.


According to a 2017 study conducted by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute, 23% of B2C marketers said their overall content marketing success was flat year-over-year. But why? The top two reasons cited are strategy issues (49%) and not enough time devoted to content marketing (48%).Data from DemandMetric even shows content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about three times as many conversions. With the rise of content marketing, automation and technology to reduce waste and increase yield would suggest that practitioners today are actually doing content right. But the numbers are elusive.
Today, I'm focusing on one popular integration which involves how best to get DMP segment data into Adobe Target. We'll look at both the client-side and server-side methods, including some important considerations that you'll benefit from knowing.
Experience Fragments, introduced with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3, provide an excellent feature set to author content in a channel-neutral way. An experience fragment is a set of content that, when grouped, forms an experience that should make sense on its own.
This blog is going to take you through our eight tips to help you get personal with your customers. The tips range from simple solutions to more advanced solutions depending on the maturity of your current personalisation strategy. There should be something here for everyone!


Protest last month over plans to contract hospital services to private clinics. Competitions have not been announced, but hospitals are cutting diagnostic and lab jobs, suggesting the government may be trying to achieve the same aim by stealth.
In October a Whitby nursing home experienced a major fire displacing more than 250 residents.
About 80 of those residents found temporary accommodation in area hospitals. Many are still there for lack of available alternative long term care spaces in the community. It's remarkable the public hospitals were able to accommodate this many residents given the limited availability of beds.
Hospitals are presently in the third year of a base funding freeze. The Ontario government has maintained that the freeze is part of their overall health care transformation plan, but the Whitby experience would suggest that there is increasingly less flexibility due to funding shortfalls across the entire system. In another year or two how many beds will be available under a similar emergency?
The previous Auditor General of Ontario warned in 2011 that restraining annual health care funding increases to a proposed 3.6 per cent would lead to either service cuts or rising deficits. Instead we have seen health care funding increases limited even further to roughly 2 per cent.
In recent weeks a number of hospitals have been meeting with their respective unions to give notice of layoffs in the coming year. This is starting to become an annual holiday season tradition worthy of a Charles Dickens novel.
While cancelling the new $136.8 million West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby, along with cuts to five other hospital projects across the province, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan announced a task force to look at building a new $1.5 billion regional hospital in his Windsor constituency.
The new super hospital would replace both Windsor Regional Hospital and Windsor Hotel Dieu. This is even though both hospitals have undergone recent additions, including a $91.6 million mental health facility at WRH and an $80 million cardiac care expansion at Hotel Dieu. Last year the government also approved a $60 million expansion of WRH's ER and laboratory facilities – a project that wasn't shelved as part of the McGuinty austerity budget.
Despite more than $230 million in new builds at the two hospitals – almost twice what it would cost to rebuild West Lincoln, Duncan estimates the Windsor hospitals will require another $1.8 billion in new capital projects to keep the two hospitals operating.
David Musyj, CEO of Windsor Regional, says both the buildings and the site are physically inadequate for what's needed in the near future.


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package org.tapley.jenkins.maven.dependency.plugin;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doNothing;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doThrow;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import org.springframework.test.util.ReflectionTestUtils;
import org.tapley.jenkins.maven.dependency.plugin.model.JenkinsClient;

/**
 *
 * @author ctapley
 */
public class TestJenkinsPluginAbstractMojo {

    @Rule
    public final ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none();

    String expectedJenkinsUrl = "expectedJenkinsUrl";
    String expectedJobName = "expectedJobName";
    String expectedBuildNumber = "expectedBuildNumber";
    String expectedOutputDirectory = "expectedOutputDirectory";
    String expectedBuildArtifact = "expectedBuildArtifact";

    private class JenkinsPluginAbstractMojoInternal extends JenkinsPluginAbstractMojo {

        @Override
        protected void executeForArtifactItem(ArtifactItem artifactItem) throws Exception {

        }

    }

    JenkinsPluginAbstractMojoInternal mojo;
    JenkinsPluginAbstractMojoInternal mojoSpy;

    @Before
    public void init() {
        mojo = new JenkinsPluginAbstractMojoInternal();
        mojoSpy = spy(mojo);
    }

    @Test
    public void getJenkinsClient() {
        ArtifactItem artifactItem = mock(ArtifactItem.class);
        doReturn(expectedJenkinsUrl).when(artifactItem).getJenkinsUrl();
        doReturn(expectedJobName).when(artifactItem).getJobName();
        doReturn(expectedBuildNumber).when(artifactItem).getBuildNumber();

        JenkinsClient client = mojo.getJenkinsClient(artifactItem);
        assertNotNull(client);
        assertEquals(expectedJenkinsUrl, ReflectionTestUtils.getField(client, "jenkinsUrl"));
        assertEquals(expectedJobName, ReflectionTestUtils.getField(client, "jobName"));
        assertEquals(expectedBuildNumber, ReflectionTestUtils.getField(client, "buildNumber"));
    }

    @Test
    public void getOutputDirectoryFullPath() {
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojo, "outputDirectory", expectedOutputDirectory);
        assertEquals(new File(expectedOutputDirectory).getAbsolutePath(), mojo.getOutputDirectoryFullPath(expectedOutputDirectory).getAbsolutePath());
    }

    @Test
    public void ensureOutputDirectoryExists_cannotCreate() {
        File baseDir = mock(File.class);
        doReturn(baseDir).when(mojoSpy).getOutputDirectoryFullPath(expectedOutputDirectory);
        doReturn(false).when(baseDir).exists();

        expectedException.expect(IllegalStateException.class);

        mojoSpy.ensureOutputDirectoryExists(expectedOutputDirectory);
    }

    @Test
    public void ensureOutputDirectoryExists_alreadyExists() {
        File baseDir = mock(File.class);
        doReturn(baseDir).when(mojoSpy).getOutputDirectoryFullPath(expectedOutputDirectory);
        doReturn(true).when(baseDir).exists();
        mojoSpy.ensureOutputDirectoryExists(expectedOutputDirectory);

        verify(baseDir, times(1)).exists();
    }

    @Test
    public void ensureOutputDirectoryExists_creates() {
        File baseDir = mock(File.class);
        JenkinsPluginAbstractMojoInternal mojoSpy = spy(mojo);
        doReturn(baseDir).when(mojoSpy).getOutputDirectoryFullPath(expectedOutputDirectory);
        doReturn(true).when(baseDir).exists();
        mojoSpy.ensureOutputDirectoryExists(expectedOutputDirectory);

        verify(baseDir, times(1)).exists();
        verify(baseDir, times(1)).mkdirs();
    }

    @Test
    public void fillInMissingArtifactItemFieldsFromDefaults_nullarg() {
        expectedException.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
        expectedException.expectMessage("artifactItem");

        mojo.fillInMissingArtifactItemFieldsFromDefaults(null);
    }

    @Test
    public void fillInMissingArtifactItemFieldsFromDefaults_ok() {
        ArtifactItem artifactItem = new ArtifactItem();
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojo, "jenkinsUrl", expectedJenkinsUrl);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojo, "jobName", expectedJobName);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojo, "buildNumber", expectedBuildNumber);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojo, "outputDirectory", expectedOutputDirectory);
        artifactItem.setBuildArtifact(expectedBuildArtifact);

        mojo.fillInMissingArtifactItemFieldsFromDefaults(artifactItem);

        assertEquals(expectedJenkinsUrl, artifactItem.getJenkinsUrl());
        assertEquals(expectedJobName, artifactItem.getJobName());
        assertEquals(expectedBuildNumber, artifactItem.getBuildNumber());
        assertEquals(expectedOutputDirectory, artifactItem.getOutputDirectory());
        assertEquals(expectedBuildArtifact, artifactItem.getBuildArtifact());
    }

    @Test
    public void execute_throws() throws Exception {
        expectedException.expect(MojoExecutionException.class);
        ArtifactItem artifactItem = mock(ArtifactItem.class);
        List<ArtifactItem> artifactItems = Arrays.asList(artifactItem);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojoSpy, "artifactItems", artifactItems);
        doThrow(new IOException("bang!")).when(mojoSpy).executeForArtifactItem(artifactItem);
        mojoSpy.execute();
        verify(mojoSpy, times(1)).executeForArtifactItem(artifactItem);
    }

    @Test
    public void execute_ok() throws Exception {
        ArtifactItem artifactItem = mock(ArtifactItem.class);
        List<ArtifactItem> artifactItems = Arrays.asList(artifactItem);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(mojoSpy, "artifactItems", artifactItems);
        doNothing().when(mojoSpy).executeForArtifactItem(artifactItem);
        mojoSpy.execute();
        verify(mojoSpy, times(1)).executeForArtifactItem(artifactItem);
    }

    @Test
    public void selectFirstIfNotBlank_firstIsBlank() {
        String second = "expectedSecond";
        assertEquals(second, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(null, second));
        assertEquals(second, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank("", second));
        assertEquals(second, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank("   ", second));
        assertEquals(second, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank("\t", second));
    }

    @Test
    public void selectFirstIfNotBlank_firstIsNotBlank() {
        String first = "expectedFirst";
        String second = "notExpectedSecond";
        assertEquals(first, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(first, null));
        assertEquals(first, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(first, ""));
        assertEquals(first, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(first, "   "));
        assertEquals(first, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(first, "\t"));
        assertEquals(first, mojo.selectFirstIfNotBlank(first, second));
    }
}

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