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Anaheim Ducks struggle at home against Blackhawks
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Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen (31), of Denmark eyes the puck with Chicago Blackhawks center Andrew Shaw (65) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
By Elliott Teaford | eteaford@scng.com | Orange County Register
The Ducks didn't have to play flawless hockey to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks, but it sure would have helped. They didn't have to get every quirky bounce and official's call possible to win Friday night at the Honda Center, but it would have aided their cause.
Since they were far from perfect and couldn't buy a break during the pivotal second period, a bad combination on this night, the Ducks fell with a thud to the smooth-skating Blackhawks 4-1 in front of a standing-room-only sellout crowd of 17,497.
Jonathan Toews scored in the first period for the Blackhawks, and Duncan Keith added a disputed goal in the second, with Patrick Kane added a back-breaking strike later in the middle period as Chicago took a commanding 3-0 lead. Kane also scored in the third.
Rickard Rakell (power play) scored the Ducks' only goal, a power-play strike in the third that cut their deficit to 3-1 at 10:06. Corey Perry set up the play with a deft pass from the right wing to a wide open Rakell on the left to complete a 3-on-1 rush. The Ducks, soundly thrashed 6-3 by the Sharks on Thursday in San Jose, struggled to generate scoring chances or maintain possession of the puck Friday against the Blackhawks. Chicago grabbed hold of the puck and played keepaway for the better part of the game.
The Blackhawks were smarting from Wednesday's loss to the Kings, who rallied from three one-goal deficits to win 4-3. While the Ducks were skating Thursday against the Sharks, the Blackhawks were resting and plotting to defeat the NHL-leaders.
Toews put the Blackhawks ahead to stay when he beat Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen only 5 minutes, 30 seconds into the game. The Ducks stayed within striking distance for the rest of the period, but then took a pair of ill-advised penalties that blunted any possible momentum.
Keith's goal, his 400th NHL point, probably should have been waved off by referees Dan O'Rourke and Kyle Rehman because Toews collided with Andersen before the puck arrived. They allowed it to stand, and because the play is not subject to video review, Chicago led 2-0.
The Ducks and their fans were outraged. Team captain Ryan Getzlaf barked at the officials, pleading his case to no avail. He did not lose his cool, as he did when throwing his stick after a call went against the Ducks during a loss Dec. 31 to the Sharks.
A lack of composure wasn't the Ducks' undoing this time. The Blackhawks' skill with the puck and a lack of sleep combined to doom the Ducks on Friday, their third in four nights since getting back to work after the All-Star break last weekend.
Before the game, the Ducks activated defenseman Eric Brewer (broken foot) from injured reserve and assigned defenseman Colby Robak to their American Hockey League team in Norfolk, Va., after he cleared waivers earlier in the day.
Brewer wasn't in the lineup Friday, but is expected to play Tuesday against Carolina.
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Elliott Teaford | Sports reporter
Elliott Teaford covers the Anaheim Ducks for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He's covered the Ducks since 2005, including their Stanley Cup season in 2006-07, for the Los Angeles Times and the Daily Breeze before returning to the beat in 2018-19 for SCNG. He also covered the Lakers for five seasons, including their back-to-back NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. He is a Long Beach State graduate.
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I braved designer scorn to champion the kings of Californian airbrush
'Who wants to read a book about airbrush?' Even one of my artist subjects was giving me shit about the decision to publish a book on 1970s airbrush art, writes Norman Hathaway. This project inspired so many grimaces and disgusted responses that I started to question it myself.
Hadn't enough time passed for people to let go their prejudices against this oft-maligned illustration trend? Since design and illustration is always scrambling to seem 'serious', worthy, or (lately and most regrettably) some sort of conceptual art, airbrush art is the loud, embarrassing uncle in the room.
Images by Dave Willardson (above: Keith and Mick, Crawdaddy, 1972 ), Peter Lloyd (top: 'Caddygirl', Playboy, 1985) and Peter Palombi (below: 'Nature By The Pack', Yasei Jidai, 1976).
Airbrush art was a hugely popular and dominant form in its day, and it is worthy of in-depth study. Nobody seems troubled by super-slick photography from the same time period. The work of Helmut Newton, Moshe Brakha and Guy Bourdin are the photographic equivalents of airbrush art: both forms played with sexuality, polished glamour and humour in similar ways, and the photography is enjoying a revival – without the sour faces.
Academics and design journalists tend to focus on overtly intellectual designers, allowing less conservative, more populist work and practitioners to fade into the ether. Searching for famous airbrush dudes online, I was shocked to find barely any. When Dan Nadel (of PictureBox, who commissioned the book) was teaching at Parsons School of Design, he found that illustration students had shown keen interest when he showed them 1970s airbrush books in class. Maybe so much time had passed that many younger artists were unaware of the work altogether, and would be fascinated by the technical skills required to create such work without a computer.
I opted to focus on the airbrush revival of the 1970s, and limit it to as few artists as possible. I'm tired of the buckshot approach taken by Taschen and others, whereby a category is basically scanned and printed without putting the work in context, or providing insights into how and why the work was created.
Though there were other, equally good practitioners, such as Robert Grossman and Doug Johnson plus the Brits Philip Castle and Michael English, I opted to examine just four Californians: Dave Willardson, Charles White III, Peter Lloyd and Peter Palombi. There's a compelling mix of chrome, palm trees and sunny optimism found only in the west coast artists.
Charles White III (above: 'Trees and Peas', 1974), Dave Willardson (below: album cover image for The Section, 1978).
These pictures weren't beating you over the head with cleverness or conceptualism. Many airbrush illustrations are simply about objects, free of environments or situations included to support a hokey angle or narrative. There's usually no puzzle solve, or plot to follow: perhaps that's why many are quick to brand the work as empty or frivolous.
But that view applies incorrect criteria to the work. Instead, think of the pictures as the result of a long, hard gaze. All the artists are world-class 'lookers'. It is as though the airbrush tool itself forced them to view their subjects with obsessive visual analytics – breaking each picture element down to a cellular level of study and then building it back up again, bit by bit, until it becomes an impenetrable part of a larger image.
Charles White III (above: 'Businessman's Lunch', Yasei Jidai, 1976 and below:
'Inflation', magazine cover, 1977).
On the one hand, the work is ultra-tight and seemingly 'straight', but it often slyly winks and tugs against the company line. The artists cheerfully created immaculate piss-takes on advertising and illustration vernaculars. And they regularly and blatantly disregarded client briefs, which enabled the work to communicate on two levels at once: they could be obvious fans of Coca-Cola ads, while simultaneously, via a tweak in the image, giving the finger in the anti-establishment manner of the time.
Norman Hathaway's Overspray: Riding high with the kings of California airbrush art (PictureBox) is out now, and will be reviewed in Eye no. 71 (Spring 09), out in March. Read Hathaway's blog, overspraybook.blogspot.co.uk.
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Highland was most recently the location of Highland Mall, which helped cement Austin's reputation as a modern American city when it was built on the site in 1971. The mall was a key aspect of life in Austin until the early 2000s, when ownership issues and changing retail trends led to the mall's gradual decline.
Before the mall, the Highland site had a long history as a place of education and community. In the early 1900s, it housed the St. John's Orphan Home, an important school for African American children. The surrounding farmland hosted annual gatherings of the St. John Regular Baptist Association, whose members came in wagons and on horseback to support the school. Today, this legacy is celebrated in the name of Highland's largest and most significant park, the St. John's Encampment Commons.
Click through the following milestones to get a deeper sense of Highland's rich history.
A Place for Community
The St. John Regular Baptist Association purchased 300+ acres in North Austin on which to build an orphanage and education buildings, host gatherings and farm the land.
Highland Mall
The 1971 grand opening of Highland Mall, represented the first enclosed shopping center in Central Texas. The Mall became a source of civic pride, a modern amenity that for decades was a gathering place for the community.
Mall Decline
Against new competition and changing shopping trends, Highland Mall struggled. It was named one of "America's Most Endangered Malls" by U.S. News & World Report in 2009.
A New Life for Highland
RedLeaf and Austin Community College partner to acquire Highland Mall and devise a master plan to transform the entire site.
Phase 1 of ACC Highland Opens
A former department store is converted to high tech education space, featuring the ACCelerator.
Ella Parkside
Living at Highland kicked off with the delivery of 309 class-A apartments. The property today is known as Ella Parkside.
PBS Announcement
Austin PBS unveiled its plan to relocate to Highland, in partnership with ACC, bringing with it, media creation as well as public meeting and performance spaces.
FiveTwo
The FiveTwo is completed, brining additional apartment housing, along with 25,000 sf of retail space at Highland's front door.
Fontaine Plaza
Named for civic leader Jacob Fontaine, Fontaine Plaza opened to the public as Highland once again becomes a modern amenity and a gathering space for the entire community.
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Output and Operation. This Speedlite is E-TTL and E-TTL2 compatible. It gives you a 24-105mm (full-frame equivalent) zoom range, a 14mm wide panel, and flash output of GN: 154' @ ISO 100 and 150mm. You also get 0º to +120º tilt and 360º swivel for full bounce capability.
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Current student of Motion Design in Hyper Island Karlskrona, Sweden. Julian finds himself working closely with Blender as a 3D artists.
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Everyone is invited to watch 16 Chicago suburban marching bands, including all four District 202 high school marching bands compete in the 2nd Annual Plainfield South Marching Band Invitational on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Plainfield South High School, 7800 W. Caton Farm Road, Plainfield.
The gates open at 1:30 p.m. and performances start at 2:30 p.m.
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For me, Death Metal is one of the best creative advancements made by humans in recent history. Characterized by its distinct vocal style, this extreme style of music originated in the 1980s in the underground where groups of musicians – having been inspired by Thrash Metal and the First Wave of Black Metal – took what they liked about their favourite bands (such as Slayer and Venom) and began to change and adapt to fit their own new and unique vision. This process of actually developing Death Metal into how we know it today wasn't an instant happening. Even in original Death Metal bands, like Death and Possessed, the music still had a distinct Thrash sound to it, particularly in the drums and guitars. What Death did begin to introduce from their very first album, however, was the harsh death growl, shocking lyrical themes and evil sounding tremolo picking played at blisteringly fast tempos. Metal as an umbrella genre had been steadily on the rise up until this point, with the genre beginning with the iconic Black Sabbath as they inspired the creation of Heavy Metal and numerous sub genres like Doom, Sludge, and Stoner Metal. Following on about a decade later Heavy Metal became even more popular with the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, with the likes of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, with most of the bands from this time and before still hold significant influence in today's Metal scene.
Regardless of the sub-genre you belong to, a common thread can always be traced back to Black Sabbath, and this is no different for Death Metal. Besides the influence of Black Sabbath, Death Metal also thrived off of the extremity of the First Wave of Black Metal which originated for the most part in Scandinavian countries like Norway and Sweden, which is still known as the heart of Black Metal today. Black Metal saw a major influence in Death Metal particularly through the musicians use of aesthetics and visual imagery coupled with lyrics which portrayed strong opinions on the numerous subjects they believed in or supported, which led to Death Metal's use of strong anti-theistic and anti-humanity views in the lyrics. Both Thrash and Black Metal would forever be closely bonded to the sibling genre of Death Metal, and would come on later to actually blend together to form sub-genres like crossover thrash (Municipal Waste, D.R.I., and Toxic Holocaust) and blackened death metal (Behemoth, Necrophobic, and Belphegor) particularly in the late 80s through to the modern day.
The actual origination of Death Metal is still a debate to this day, with some saying Possessed – "Seven Churches" was released before Death – "Scream Bloody Gore." We say "debate" very loosely here, I mean there is no greater passion than the passion for death metal that metalheads share, no one gives a fuck who started it – in fact the more bands there are the better. Seriously though, the way I see it – Possessed was an essential stepping stone, and was still very much in the stages of still transitioning to the more refined style of Death Metal that we know today. Whereas on the other hand Death pretty much hit the nail in the coffin with their debut album, as it serves as a blueprint for some of the greatest Death Metal to ever be created, and in general they are cited as the creators of Death Metal, and Chuck Schuldiner particularly as the godfather of the genre. However, even if you don't see eye to eye with me on this – one things for sure is that I wouldn't be writing this if it wasn't for Possessed and Death.
The first Death Metal bands didn't stop there as bands like Morbid Angel, Autopsy, and Obituary also largely helped make a name for Death Metal as well as helped popularize the genre with their widespread appeal as a scapegoat for all the bullshit that exists in life. The common misconception about Death Metal is that its satanic, often violent themes, promote a way of life that condones various subjects like torture and rape and horrific acts like that. However, the truth is that although Black Metal may have thrived off of satanic ritual and extreme anti-theistic themes which was just a way of life in the scene, Death Metal takes a much broader aspect to the themes that they approach. You're not going to find two bands that focus on the same lyrical theme – Morbid Angel became notorious for their extreme anti-Christian messages, Obituary for their drawn out and evil lyrics, and Death for their almost meta physical poetry.
All of that aside, the themes in Death Metal are not two dimensional. There is so much deeper meaning to Death Metal that is just largely misunderstood by people who don't listen to the genre. The unobvious Influences alone are something that might take you by surprise – Siouxsie and The Banshees (who also largely inspired Black Metal artists), Queen, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, and a shit ton of Blues and Jazz.
Death metal continued its journey from the United States of American to Sweden which is still responsible for producing some of the outright best extreme metal bands to this day. Swedish Death Metal bands started to emerge in the late 1980s through the likes of Carnage, Entombed and Dismember. Sweden shortly thereafter began to sport Death Metal bands that began to explore and expand on the creative possibilities of classic Death Metal with the emergence of Melodic Death Metal (or, Melodeath) which is still one of the most successful sub genres of Death Metal.
It's important to note that although these bands were receiving attention, a lot of it was still largely considered underground as there was just no real market for it. Even in the subculture itself bands from different parent genres were hating on each other (specifically between Norwegian Black Metal and Swedish Death Metal) but this was most probably just due to clashing egos between musicians who frankly lost the majority of their sanity in the extremity of the art form they created.
In the 1990s, Death Metal really started to expand and grow bigger as more and more bands formed under new sub genres that just kept on coming, getting noticeably more intricate and confusing as you go. It would be literally insane, and impossible, to list and speak about all the sub genres and crossover genres of Death Metal, but there are numerous ones that are just too relevant not to mention. We've already spoken about Melodeath (which includes bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, and At The Gates)
Grindcore serves to raise the intensity of Death Metal as it was largely more physically demanding, heavier, and crazier. Carcass (specifically "Heartwork"), Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation, Pig Destroyer and numerous other bands ignited the flame of Grindcore.
Technical Death Metal (Tech Death) is still one of the most popular sub genres of Death Metal – taking on the basic blueprint of death metal with increasingly faster tempos, and more complexity and technicality across the traditional instrumentation of death metal. The most important band in Tech Death, and arguably the most missed band in the history of extreme metal – Necrophagist – saw the rise of an intensity and complexity in the music that had just never been reached before.
There is so much more to Death Metal than meets the eye, as is to most things in life. It might seem like nothing you'd ever get into, but that quickly changes as it just becomes a part of your daily life. Death Metal is just part of the beginning of the journey down the rabbit hole that is extreme metal.
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Sixth Round FA Cup Predictions
Round 6 FA Cup Predictions for the weekend of Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10, 2013. Results and highlights will be posted following match completion.
The FA Cup is such a magical competition that it is always extremely difficult to predict. The Sixth Round has 5 Premier League clubs left with 4 of them facing off against one another. The other matches have Championship sides playing. Below you will find my predictions and brief previews for each match.
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Everton v Wigan Athletic:
Everton has had a great run in the FA Cup along with their form in the Premier League throughout the season. On the other side Wigan has really struggled in the Premier League and are currently sitting in the relegation zone. This begs the question as to whether they will be truly focused on the FA Cup knowing that they will need to battle to survive this EPL season. Neither team has had a significantly difficult Cup run, although they both needed one replay in their run to this point. Wigan is coming off a pretty bad loss to Liverpool while Everton thumped Reading at home.
In all honesty, I have a hard time seeing Wigan coming through this one. It seems that Everton have really taken to this competition and I am actually hoping to see them go far, if not all the way. I think that whatever happens in this match will certainly help the winner in their EPL run. Wigan will certainly look to defend and counter. They have a speedy frontline that could
Manchester City v Barnsley:
Manchester City has finally picked themselves up and managed to get a good run of form going in the Premier League. Meanwhile, Barnsley has lost a bit of focus having won only once since their last FA Cup match against MK Dons. Facing off against Manchester City at the Etihad will surely prove too much for them. I'm predicting a rather easy, if not comfortable, win for Manchester City, 4-0.
Millwall v Blackburn Rovers:
Well, neither team is coming into this one on a good run. Both teams have lost several in a row and Blackburn's last win actually coming in the FA Cup against Arsenal, while Millwall has lost 2 in a row. This should be a good clash between two Championship sides that are separated in the table by only 1 point and 2 places. As it stands neither team looks like they will be challenging for a place in the Championship playoffs and nor will they be dreading relegation, so this is all they have to play for.
This is a match that I would tend to go with the home team and give them an advantage, especially when that home team is Millwall playing in the Den. I think Blackburn will make it close and they could pull off a draw, but my final pick is a Millwall win. I'm predicting Millwall to come away 2-1 winners.
Manchester United v Chelsea:
Manchester United will certainly be out for revenge against a side previously managed by Jose Mourinho. Chelsea will be coming into this one with only 2 days rest following their Europa League match at Steaua Bucharest. I'm tipping Manchester United for the advantage and not only because they are at home.
Following the awful decisions by the Turkish referee in Tuesday's Champions League match, United will be out to prove themselves and will have plenty of time to prepare for a comeback in the FA Cup. For me, United are the favorites to win the Cup and get the Double. I'm predicting a 3-1 win for United. I think they have too many attacking options and their defense has been solid over the past month.
Check out the FA Cup Round 6 TV Schedule as well (when available).
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This little corner of Colorado is a great destination for anyone who wants to take in the mountains' grandeur without staying in bustling Estes Park. A cabin in Allenspark gives you easy access to Estes Park's ski slopes, just 16 miles up the road. Advanced mountain climbers and beginner hikers alike will find satisfying routes in the immediate area, including the St. Vrain Mountain trail and the Sandbeach Lake trail. Visit one of our Allenspark vacation rentals for a big slice of life in the Rockies.


Marcel Dzama's "Untitled (Zodiac/Bear/Woman)," 2003, ink, watercolor and root beer, 14 by 11 inches.
Patte Loper's "When a Southerly Wind Blows," 2006, oil on paper, 62 by 50 inches.
Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave. S., Seattle (206-624-0770 or www.gregkucera.com).
"Let Our Beauty Ease Your Grief: New Works by Patte Loper,"
114 Third Ave. S., Seattle (206-323-2808 or www.platformgallery.com).
A sense of nostalgia — but with a twist — enlivens the work of Marcel Dzama and Patte Loper. Both artists work representationally and use the limitations of realism to veer off into complete fantasy. At the same time, their work addresses complex social and emotional realizations.
Winnipeg-based Dzama, 32, shows several suites of drawings at Greg Kucera. Looking like they came from old schoolbooks, the drawings feature flat figures set on stark white backgrounds. A host of colorful characters caught in the middle of bizarre performances and actions populates them: soldiers, cowboys, flappers, cops, nurses, rabbits, bats, birds, cats, bears, various anthropomorphic blobs.
There's often violence committed or impending, with guns and military formations recurring in several scenes. Tension also comes from the sheer incongruity of contexts put together. A cowboy shoots at bats. A layered cake walks down a set of cat stairs. The free-floating quality brought about by the lack of visual background adds an anything-goes kind of sentiment.
Henry Darger's work comes to mind at first glance, mainly because of Dzama's use of early-20th-century costumes and style of rendering. But there's a tragic desperation in these pieces that recalls the tone of Francisco Goya's "Caprichos (Caprices)" series of etchings.
Masks, costumes and mutations reveal rather than hide the dark side of human intent. Lewd and comic, they point to the limitations of reason in the face of absurd sets of situational choices. Fantasy then becomes not an escape, but a way of speaking truth.
There's an immediate and fleeting aspect to Dzama's line drawing that addresses the intellect rather than the senses. We read the scenes quickly, making them all the more jarring. Rendered with thin ink lines and colored with flat planes of watercolor and, improbably, root beer, the images have no lushness or shading to dwell on.
We accept the images at face value and move to the next one. Fortunately there's lots to chew on, and Dzama executes with such variety, wit and rigor that the effect is stunning.
Patte Loper's paintings and drawings at Platform Gallery are of a different order. Loper presents images done with oil and graphite that invite lingering on depth and detail. She recreates settings from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "North by Northwest," two iconic movies, as well as a photo of a mid-century modernist house from Architectural Review in richly graduated oils.
She chose arresting images to depict from each film, the Devil's Tower monument in the first and the woods near Mount Rushmore in the second. Having captured the settings, she inserts fawns as surprising dwellers. Fawns also make appearances in drawn copies of photos taken from an old article in ArtForum magazine, and in a handmade animated film based on a nature documentary by David Attenborough.
Fawns and deer are cultural symbols of tamed perceptions of nature, typically lingering in places only when they feel safe enough from predators. In one painting, a deer is lying dead, shot through with arrows; but in the rest, their calm demeanors may signify the momentary absence of danger.
The settings receiving these fawns, arguably fixed in time because of their cultural significance, become organic for the moment, transcending cultural trappings and getting sublimated into a larger, nonhuman process.


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Tuskegee Stays Unbeaten with Win over Rival Morehouse
COLUMBUS, Ga. – Needing a spark after a sluggish first half, the eighth-ranked Golden Tigers of Tuskegee University turned to the passing game in the second half en route to a 28-19 victory Morehouse College in the 81st annual Tuskegee-Morehouse Classic at AJ McClung Stadium Saturday afternoon.
With two of the best rushing defenses in the country battling in the trenches Saturday afternoon, combing to give up just 68 yards on 64 carries, senior Kevin Lacey finished the day throwing for 300 yards on 18-of-29 passing with four touchdown passes. He was also named the offensive most valuable player in the game as voted on by the media members in attendance.
While Lacey was throwing the ball around the Morehouse defense, the Golden Tigers rushing game was in held in check with just 35 yards on 40 carries and was led by Kenny Gant with 27 yards on eight carries.
However, the Golden Tiger defense was not to be outdone on the day as they held Morehouse to just 33 yards on 24 carries running the football and just 176 total yards of offense. The Golden Tigers forced three turnovers and sacked Morehouse quarterback Monqavious Johnson four times on the afternoon. [easyazon_infoblock align="right" cart="y" identifier="B01KKXKA9M" locale="US" tag="hbcusports-20″]
Tuskegee (6-0, 4-0 SIAC, 1-0 SIAC West) was the only team to score in the first half as the teams struggled to move the ball against their opponent due to the defensive effort and the wind affecting the passing game. The Golden Tigers got on the scoreboard first with a 16-yard pass from Lacey to tight end Leo Gilbert with 8:10 remaining in the open half. The drive lasted eight plays and covered 75 yards, using 4:42 on the clock and the score stayed that way at halftime.
The Golden Tigers took a two-touchdown lead with 7:42 to play in the third quarter when Lacey threw his second touchdown of the game. This time he hooked up with Desmond Reece at the 50, and the senior weaved his way the final 50 yards and avoided five tackles en route to the touchdown. The drive covered just three plays and 62 yards, using 1:42 and gave Tuskegee a 14-0 lead.
And that is where things got interesting.
Morehouse (2-4, 1-2 SIAC, 0-1 SIAC East) got on the scoreboard for the first time with a nine-yard run by Johnson with 5:48 to play, using just 1:46 to pull within a field goal. The Maroon Tigers scored just 16 seconds later to pull within a point when their defensive front got into the backfield and forced a fumble, scooped up by David Smith for a 28-yard return with 5:32 to play in the quarter.
However, Tuskegee wasted little time in getting back on the scoreboard, scoring on their next possession just 2:03 later. Lacey dropped back and zipped a pass to the right sideline to a streaking Dekendrick Moncrief and he did the rest, racing to the end zone for a 50-yard touchdown – the first of his career – and gave Tuskegee a 21-13 lead.
After a seven-point first half, the two teams combined to score 33 points and Morehouse closed out the scoring in the quarter with another defensive effort. The Maroon Tigers were able to fall on the ball in the end zone on another mishandled exchange when Lynd Parrish scored as time ran out. Morehouse missed the two-point conversion, and trailed by just two points heading to the fourth quarter.
Morehouse continued the momentum into the fourth quarter as the short kickoff was mishandled by Tuskegee, and Morehouse was able to gain possession at their 48-yard line.
However, they could not capitalize, as the Golden Tiger defense came up big on the second play from scrimmage when Darnell Hill picked off his second pass of the season. But he didn't stop there, as the sophomore weaved his way down to the nine-yard line and set up the Golden Tigers in great field position.
And it didn't take long for Tuskegee to take advantage of the opportunity.
Lacey dropped back to pass and lofted the ball up to sophomore receiver Javarrius Cheatham in the back of the end zone. The sophomore was able to high-point the football over the smaller Morehouse defensive back, giving Tuskegee a 28-19 lead with the eight-yard touchdown with 13:47 to play in the game.
Although all the scoring was done, the excitement of the game was not.
Morehouse, trailing by nine, drove down the field on Tuskegee but were stymied inside the red zone and were forced to kick a field goal. However, the field goal didn't get very far as senior Julian Morgan burst through the line and blocked the kick – a 29-yard attempt – and was recovered by Tuskegee around midfield. The block was the second of the game for the Golden Tigers.
The Maroon Tigers were again turned back by the Golden Tigers defense with just 1:48 remaining in the game when sophomore safety Jonah McCutcheon intercepted his first pass of the season, all but ending the threat.
Reece led three receivers with four receptions each in the win on Saturday, finishing with 85 yards on the receptions. Cheatham finished with four receptions for 62 yards, and Gilbert four for 58 yards. Redshirt freshman Ladarell Pettway had his best game at receiver, finishing with three catches and 31 yards.
Defensively, Osband Thompson finished with a team-high 10 tackles, including seven solo tackles. He added a pass break-up which was a near pick-six and a blocked field goal. Marlon Parnell and Devonta Ramseur each finished with five tackles each, while the team combined for four sacks. Senior Vladimir Gray finished with 1.5 sacks in the win for Tuskegee.
The Golden Tigers will have a week off next week before they will face three consecutive SIAC West Division opponents, beginning October 22 against Kentucky State for homecoming.
Courtesy: Tuskegee Athletics
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Cosentino and Mutua Madrid Open strengthen ties in Almería
Francisco Martínez-Cosentino, President of the Cosentino Group, and Santiago Alfonso, the Group´s Director of Marketing and Communications, have played host to visitors from the Madrid Open at Cosentino´s Cantoria (Almería) headquarters.
In addition to both companies signing a new sponsorship agreement, Cosentino employees had a very special encounter, and a pleasant talk, with Manolo Santana and Alberto Berasategui. A number of employees had the chance for a few serves with the two former tennis players in the showroom´s mini, indoor court.
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Santiago Alfonso, Marketing and Communications Director at Cosentino, also expressed his satisfaction after the meeting: "Cosentino will keep backing the Mutua Madrid Open tournament as Spain´s major tennis event, where the best players of the tennis world, like our own brand ambassador Rafael Nadal, will appear. On top of that, in 2017, Cosentino will have a greater presence in Madrid with the opening of a large showroom called Cosentino City, located in the Paseo de la Castellana. We hope that customers from across the five continents will be able to spend a few days in Madrid to see the best tennis in the world."
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NHL misses the mark entirely with performative gestures regarding Black lives
Arun Srinivasan
July 29, 2020, 4:01 p.m. ·6 min read
Performative gestures by the NHL and its teams regarding Black lives won't hold up well against critical examination. (Photo by Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI via Getty Images)
In the four months between the NHL pausing its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resumption of the campaign this week, the world in no uncertain terms changed. The pandemic forced a new reality upon us, and the economic strife combined with increased awareness globally about how the police target and kill Black people with impunity led to a widespread call for change.
It's perhaps naive to expect the NHL to know better by now, despite establishing its Declaration of Principles and running an inclusion campaign under the glimmering, vapid banner "Hockey Is For Everyone" when it's anything but. Once again, the NHL entirely missed the mark on Tuesday when it resumed its pre-playoff schedule.
We've seen the Toronto Raptors and other organizations across the NBA make a demonstrated commitment to anti-racism and eradicating police brutality, while keeping the focus on Black lives as opposed to conflating the issue with the umbrella BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and other People of Colour) as society faces a long-overdue reckoning about how it treats Black people.
The Raptors entered the NBA bubble with three buses reading "Black Lives Matter," a gesture that caught the attention of the basketball community. If this gesture weren't backed up by the organization's strong commitment to community engagement, fighting against anti-Black racism and speaking with direct action against police brutality levied against Black people, this too would feel hollow. This is what happens when well-intended gestures support real leadership, as opposed to hollow gestures trying to make the pertinent issue at hand disappear from the national discourse.
In the absence of real leadership, the NHL and its teams — notably, but not exclusively, the Boston Bruins — made numerous gestures that rang hollow, with players from opposing teams linking arms in an attempt at solidarity. These acts from teams and the league don't match its track record of indifference to Black lives, and worst of all, it was performance advertised as genuine progress by all actors involved, media included.
Let's start with the Bruins, who rightly bore most of the attention for exacerbating this mess Tuesday. Although the Bruins didn't play, the players released a statement saying they would lock arms during both national anthems in an act of solidarity with the Black community. There are numerous things wrong here, so let's go through it.
A statement from the Boston Bruins players: pic.twitter.com/Ge10yy8y7q
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) July 28, 2020
The internet remains undefeated and your track record is easy to verify. During the initial stages of the pandemic when several teams were forced to lay off their workers, the Bruins didn't act at all, then submitted a plan saying they would donate $1.5 million to its workers with the massive contingency being they would only implement said plan if the regular season was outright cancelled. An organization that has done the least for worker solidarity can't respond with an empty gesture and expect us all to not see through it.
After Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask wore a Boston Police cap during an intvw on Tuesday [& Bruins releasing a statement about racial equality], teammate Brad Marchand insulted a reporter for pointing out the conflict.
Will Bruins reporters question Marchand & team about it? pic.twitter.com/wGzCXeMBRx
— Salim Nadim Valji (@salimvalji) July 29, 2020
It doesn't stop there, however. Tuukka Rask wore a Boston Police hat during an interview, undermining the Bruins' attempt at convincing the public they care about Black lives, which in itself is disappointing. When Matt Porter of the Boston Globe highlighted this discrepancy, Bruins superstar Brad Marchand tore into the reporter, stating that he's "part of the problem" before deleting the tweet. Are we all going to back down because it's merely uncomfortable, or are we in media going to do our jobs and ask uncomfortable questions in an uncomfortable economic and racial climate?
Scott McLaughlin of WEEI followed up with Marchand on a conference call Wednesday. Marchand's response was equally disappointing.
Marchand said Rask was given the hat by a friend and the interview was recorded prior to the statement from the team. Says they all want to be part of the solution and he didn't appreciate the negative buzz brought up by reporter for the sake of likes.
— Ian McLaren (@iancmclaren) July 29, 2020
Marchand's contention that a reporter asking about a public interaction on social media equates to clout chasing is frankly ridiculous, and perhaps unintentionally, an attempt by one of the NHL's foremost stars to silence a reporter for holding players and teams accountable for their actions. This is doubly odious if they are trying to convince both the public and media they are now engaged in genuine allyship with the Black community.
Media have a responsibility to hold players accountable and by-and-large, those at the bubble abdicated this part of it. We're all excited by games returning, a hopeful conclusion to what's been a riveting season across the board, buoyed by a boom of young talent who are quickly becoming the new faces of the NHL. But it can't all be about determining line combinations, or expected goals for, or how goals saved above expected may fluctuate in a best-of-five format, or whatever the case may be. If media can't hold players accountable, it's just fandom with more access and clarity.
Stronger Together. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/JU199kGChr
Through a non-critical lens, the picture of the Maple Leafs and Canadiens standing shoulder to shoulder before a game may evoke some feelings of nationhood or brotherhood or some ambiguous term about nation-building that is often spoken into existence in haughty pre-game monologues. Assigning credit to teams for tweeting out #BlackLivesMatter simply isn't good enough.
This is what happens when actors enter the political space through symbolic gestures only; this is what happens when you don't listen to Black leadership, or don't take your cues from what other Black people are saying. It's all too easy to point out that many in the hockey world don't have a genuine proximity to Blackness or meaningfully examine class privilege but this has to change. And if you don't want to do the work, open your purse. If you don't know what to do, and if you're an athlete with disposable income, you can simply donate money to organizations fighting anti-Black racism, which is better than an empty performance.
The NHL is white by design. It panders to white supremacy and sells white masculinity. They know who their audience is and are not ready to give that up. Stop expecting them to actually do anything profoundly significant. These are just meaningless gestures!
— "Science?!" by Jonathan Toews (@dcolonizehockey) July 28, 2020
It's disappointing that the hockey world often feels it's the responsibility of Black, and other people of colour, in hockey media to critically examine any gestures surrounding race, and more to the point, systemic racism and police brutality concentrated heavily towards Black and Indigenous people. The gestures may have sufficed in the world we used to live in, but nothing that we used to know, both the on-ice product and the bystander climate of letting injustices happen, stands to exist anymore. The NHL has to do better. Let the games, and the work, begin.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet resigned Friday to take political responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments that wrongly labeled thousands of parents as fraudsters. In a nationally televised speech, Rutte said he had informed King Willem-Alexander of his decision and pledged that his government would continue work to compensate affected parents as quickly as possible and to battle the coronavirus. "We are of one mind that if the whole system has failed, we all must take responsibility, and that has led to the conclusion that I have just offered the king, the resignation of the entire Cabinet," Rutte said. The move was seen as largely symbolic; Rutte's government will remain in office in a caretaker mode until a new coalition is formed after a March 17 election in the Netherlands. The resignation brings to an end a decade in office for Rutte, although his party is expected to win the election, putting him first in line to begin talks to form the next government. If he succeeds in forming a new coalition, Rutte would most likely again become prime minister. The Netherlands is the third European country thrown into political uncertainty this week in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. In Estonia, the government resigned over a corruption scandal, while Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte's governing coalition is at risk of collapse after a small partner party withdrew its support. Rutte said earlier this week that his government would be able to keep taking tough policy decisions in the battle against the coronavirus even if it were in caretaker mode. The Netherlands is in a tough lockdown until at least Feb. 9, and the government is considering imposing an overnight curfew amid fears about new, more contagious variants of the virus. "To the Netherlands I say: Our struggle against the coronavirus will continue," Rutte said. On Thursday, the leader of the Dutch opposition Labor Party stepped down because he was minister of social affairs in a governing coalition led by Rutte when the country's tax office implemented a tough policy of tracking down fraud with child welfare. Lodewijk Asscher's decision put further pressure on Rutte ahead of Friday's Cabinet meeting. Ministers were to decide on their reaction to a scathing report issued last month, titled "Unprecedented Injustice," that said the tax office policies violated "fundamental principles of the rule of law." The report also criticized the government for the way it provided information to parliament about the scandal. Many wrongfully accused parents were plunged into debt when tax officials demanded repayment of payments. The government has in the past apologized for the tax office's methods and in March earmarked 500 million euros ($607 million) to compensate more than 20,000 parents. One of those parents waited near parliament as the Cabinet met and said she wanted it to resign. "It's important for me because it is the government acknowledging, 'We have made a mistake and we are taking responsibility,' because it's quite something what happened to us," Janet Ramesar told The Associated Press. Rutte plans to lead his conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy into the March election, and polls suggest it will win the most seats. That would put Rutte, who has been in office for a decade at the head of three different coalitions, first in line to attempt to form the next ruling coalition. Deputy Prime Minister Kajsa Ollongren, who serves as interior minister, said as she entered Friday's meeting that "it is very important to be accountable and also to show responsibility in the political sense, and we are going to talk about that in the Council of Ministers today." Mike Corder, The Associated Press
This Windsor woman spent 11 days in hospital with COVID-19. Here's what she took away from it
A friendship and an eye-opening appreciation for health-care workers are what 38-year-old Colleen Kelly was lucky enough to take away from the 11 days she spent in hospital with COVID-19. For most of her stay, Kelly says she was on an oxygen machine and was told she was close to needing a ventilator. Despite how uncertain it all was, she walked away alive, befriended her 87-year-old COVID-positive roommate and came to better understand the unwavering efforts of the region's healthcare workers, she said. "The nurses were so kind and they would come in and check on you and there's a lot going on on that floor," she said. "These people need to be recognized ... it was just like an eye-opener for me, the whole experience, not even with me but just what the health-care workers do." Kelly shared her experience in the Facebook group Windsor Frontline Health Care Workers and told CBC News that she posted so that people working the front lines know that they are "changing people's lives" with their care. The group was started two weeks ago to offer support to local healthcare workers during the pandemic and already has more than 6,000 members. 'I'm going to make it' The whole experience has left Kelly in disbelief, mainly because throughout the entire illness, she said she never really felt "deathly" sick. While battling the illness she said she never felt scared, but looking back she realizes that she could have died. Now she worries about whether others are taking the appropriate action when they test positive. "Trust your instincts and listen to your body," she said. "They told me because my oxygen was so low my organs would start to shut down and I would not have made it through the night." Like many people who have contracted the disease, Kelly said shortly after testing positive on Dec. 9, she felt tired, lost her sense of taste and smell and had persistent headaches. A nurse friend told Kelly that the headaches might be from a lack of oxygen and that she should check her levels with an at-home monitor. When Kelly told her friend that her oxygen was around 65 per cent, the friend told her to immediately go to the hospital, as she said that was low. "I've never been in a hospital before in my life so I've no idea what's going on and when I went in and sat down and the guy hooked the [oxygen] machine up to my finger, it was like pure panic," she said. "And he just kind of went, 'oh my God, your oxygen's at 54 per cent' ... they kept asking me how I got to the hospital, did I walk into the hospital? because they couldn't understand how I was still walking and talking." Once admitted, Kelly said she spent the next nine days on oxygen. During this time, she bonded with her roommate. "She was incredible, like this lady was so funny, our energy in our room was always good, like we laughed and laughed all day long," Kelly said. "This 87-year-old lady was never scared either right. Like, never once did I hear anything negative come out of her mouth and I'm thinking like 'OK, you're going to make it, I'm going to make it.'" Eventually Kelly recovered and was discharged from the hospital and two days later, so was her roommate. Kelly says the two have already made plans to grab lunch together when it's safe to gather again.
Update on COVID-19 immunization campaign and delivery plan
Regina– On Jan. 14, the Saskatchewan Health Authority provided an update on its COVID-19 immunization campaign and delivery plan, as part of the regular COVID-19 update delivered from the Legislature in Regina. Derrick Miller, Executive Director of Infrastructure Management with the Saskatchewan Health Authority, said by phone, "Our immunization campaign goals include minimizing serious illness and death, protecting those that are most vulnerable, protecting our healthcare capacity, minimizing spread and also protecting our critical infrastructure. There really guide us in what we're trying to achieve with our overall campaign." He noted, "Our supply limitations that are being experienced with the COVID-19 vaccine require us to take a very diligent approach to sequencing the vaccine rollout." This requires establishing priority populations, which are based on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommendations. In Phase 1, there are approximately 109,000 in that group. "And based on federal allocations that have been identified, so far, going to the end of March this year, that' well have enough vaccines to vaccinate approximately 50 per cent of this group. That's short about half, obviously, of immunizing all of the priority populations approved in this framework." On Jan. 13, there were 1,393 doses of the vaccines delivered, the highest to date. The average per day, so far, as been just over 1,000 doses per day. He said they anticipate running out of doses before the next allocations, as the speed of delivery means they get it out as quickly as possible and wait for the arrival of the next delivery. Miller said there are "three key planks to our strategy as part of our vaccine campaign." "The first one is faster. Speed really maters in this. Every day counts to save lives and reduced the overall impact of COVID-19." They are establishing distribution hubs throughout for the different type of vaccines. "We're adopting an all-hands-on-deck approach to delivery, leveraging all of our appropriate health care providers that can deliver vaccines, as well as looking for and seeking support from external resources to really bring all resources to bear, as part of this strategy," he said. This includes mobile immunization teams to go to places like long-term care and personal care homes. Locally, they are testing different delivery methods. He said, "Being able to forecast vaccine distribution, with more accuracy will help us be more prepared for rapid distribution. And we know a stable, predictable and large volume allocations will really enable us for rapid delivery." Every corner of the province is ready, in a posture of readiness, to administer the vaccine as it is received. "The second plank of our strategy is 'smarter,' Miller said. "Learning matters. Using improvement is already resulting in more rapid delivery and we can see that just by the results over the last week. The health system is very experienced in delivering the influenza vaccine and other vaccinations. And we're going to leverage that as we go forward, because we know how to do this. "However, we also recognize that this is different. And there are pretty significant differences that are impacting this campaign. We do have limited variable and unpredictable allocations. They vary from week to week, and the timing varies as well. We need to sequence priority populations, based on that. We're not able to offer a mass immunization right off the start." This includes multiple vaccines with different logistical challenges across a geographically dispersed province. Transportation changes allow them to move vaccines in a more efficient manner. Being a single health authority makes it easier, he noted. Miller said we are learning from our partners, including Metis and First Nations partners. The third plank is safety. "Safety matters. High uptake requires strong communications to ensure the public knows the vaccine is safe. We know the COVID vaccine is safe. It is Health Canada-approved and has gone through the various regulatory reviews, and approval processes. We also know that it's effective, or 90 per cent effective, in reducing the risk of infection. And it's simple. It's just like getting a flu shot for Saskatchewan residents, our health care workers are highly experienced and have many years of successfully delivering flu vaccine to the residents of Saskatchewan, and ensuring that all safety requirements are achieved." Challenges include delivery to high-risk populations in remote areas. The Pfizer vaccine has temperature constraints and special handling needs. The consent process can be time-intensive, especially in long-term care homes. Unpredictable allocations should hopefully be resolved in coming weeks. Adverse weather can be an issue. "At the same time, we are preparing for widespread immunization in Phase 2, or we will open up access to the general population and conduct Saskatchewan's largest-ever immunization campaign. One of our key tasks is to ensure that our teams are ready to deliver the vaccine as soon as possible on arrival, and enhance speed of delivery. This is true in Phase 1, as we're focusing on those priority populations, and it will also be true when we go into Phase 2, and get to the point where we're vaccinating the general public," Miller said. He added that "Currently, our health system is at its most fragile point yet for their highest hospitalization rate, and a high case count." Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingston added, "We want to make sure we're getting the vaccine out as quickly as we can to those vulnerable populations and get vaccine in arm as quickly as possible. So, it won't be in the freezer as long. As the vaccines come in, we will get them out and they will go and get administered as fast as we can in the arms of those who need it very most." He pointed out that limited supplied are limiting their capabilities, but they are focussing on the most vulnerable. Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative reporter, Estevan Mercury


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Q: kubernetes Operator-sdk test with envTest I am a newbie for operator-sdk. Now I am writing test for operator with envtest framework, so I had a fake control-plane for environments.
Inside controller reconcile loop, once I initialize a CR, then controller will pull down an image for pod and deploy that Pod.
All behaviour in the above happens in the real k8s cluster. My question is, under envtest environemnts, does controller really pull down image for deploying Pods?

A: That depends on envtest configuration. Here is quotes from kubebuilder book:

[envtest] setting up and starting an instance of etcd and the Kubernetes API server, without kubelet, controller-manager or other components

Unless you're using an existing cluster, keep in mind that no built-in controllers are running in the test context

So, if you don't set USE_EXISTING_CLUSTER env var to true, envtest will set control plane with only API server and etcd. For example, if your controller should create Deployment at some event, there's no deployment controller in test environment that gonna create ReplicaSet and Pods. Basically, all it does is stores state of test environment in etcd.

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Malware Seeks Ransom, Or Else!
Under federal and state law, kidnapping is commonly defined as "the taking of a person from one place to another against his or her will." In other words, someone is taken, a ransom note is sent, and ransom demands are either met or not met, depending on the situation. If the ransom is paid, the victim is released (hopefully), and all goes back to normal.
What happens if the kidnapping "victim" is data? Hard to imagine, yes, but it has happened on one too many occasions. One such incident involved the Dickson County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee. Cyberthieves took over the Sherriff's Department computer system and required a ransom from their victims to release their files.
It appeared the malware could have entered through an online radio stream of radio station WDKN that staff at the sheriff's office was listening to, but the station's president and general manager dismissed that idea. What is clear is that the ransomware infected the department's report management system, according to The Tennessean. Employees were then notified through a message on their computer screens that they had to pay the $572 ransom by a set time for their data to be released.
Start with spam filtering as the first line of defense. Blocking spoofed email is the cleanest and best way to guard against ransomware.
Continue to warn staff not to open email that looks suspicious.
For more information regarding this incident, read the full State Tech Magazine article.


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from openstack.tests.unit import base
import copy
import uuid

DEP_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
DEP_DICT = {
    'uuid': DEP_UUID,
    'name': 'dep_name',
    'parent_id': None,
    'root_id': 1,
    'num_accelerators': 4,
    'device_id': 0
}

DEV_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
DEV_DICT = {
    'id': 1,
    'uuid': DEV_UUID,
    'name': 'dev_name',
    'type': 'test_type',
    'vendor': '0x8086',
    'model': 'test_model',
    'std_board_info': '{"product_id": "0x09c4"}',
    'vendor_board_info': 'test_vb_info',
}

DEV_PROF_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
DEV_PROF_GROUPS = [
    {"resources:ACCELERATOR_FPGA": "1",
     "trait:CUSTOM_FPGA_INTEL_PAC_ARRIA10": "required",
     "trait:CUSTOM_FUNCTION_ID_3AFB": "required",
     },
    {"resources:CUSTOM_ACCELERATOR_FOO": "2",
     "resources:CUSTOM_MEMORY": "200",
     "trait:CUSTOM_TRAIT_ALWAYS": "required",
     }
]
DEV_PROF_DICT = {
    "id": 1,
    "uuid": DEV_PROF_UUID,
    "name": 'afaas_example_1',
    "groups": DEV_PROF_GROUPS,
}

NEW_DEV_PROF_DICT = copy.copy(DEV_PROF_DICT)

ARQ_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
ARQ_DEV_RP_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
ARQ_INSTANCE_UUID = uuid.uuid4().hex
ARQ_ATTACH_INFO_STR = '{"bus": "5e", '\
    '"device": "00", '\
    '"domain": "0000", '\
    '"function": "1"}'
ARQ_DICT = {
    'uuid': ARQ_UUID,
    'hostname': 'test_hostname',
    'device_profile_name': 'fake-devprof',
    'device_profile_group_id': 0,
    'device_rp_uuid': ARQ_DEV_RP_UUID,
    'instance_uuid': ARQ_INSTANCE_UUID,
    'attach_handle_type': 'PCI',
    'attach_handle_info': ARQ_ATTACH_INFO_STR,
}

NEW_ARQ_DICT = copy.copy(ARQ_DICT)

class TestAccelerator(base.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super(TestAccelerator, self).setUp()
        self.use_cyborg()

    def test_list_deployables(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'deployables']),
                 json={'deployables': [DEP_DICT]}
                 ),
        ])
        dep_list = self.cloud.list_deployables()
        self.assertEqual(len(dep_list), 1)
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].id, DEP_DICT['uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].name, DEP_DICT['name'])
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].parent_id, DEP_DICT['parent_id'])
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].root_id, DEP_DICT['root_id'])
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].num_accelerators,
                         DEP_DICT['num_accelerators'])
        self.assertEqual(dep_list[0].device_id, DEP_DICT['device_id'])
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_list_devices(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'devices']),
                 json={'devices': [DEV_DICT]}
                 ),
        ])
        dev_list = self.cloud.list_devices()
        self.assertEqual(len(dev_list), 1)
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].id, DEV_DICT['id'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].uuid, DEV_DICT['uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].name, DEV_DICT['name'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].type, DEV_DICT['type'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].vendor, DEV_DICT['vendor'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].model, DEV_DICT['model'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].std_board_info,
                         DEV_DICT['std_board_info'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_list[0].vendor_board_info,
                         DEV_DICT['vendor_board_info'])
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_list_device_profiles(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'device_profiles']),
                 json={'device_profiles': [DEV_PROF_DICT]}
                 ),
        ])
        dev_prof_list = self.cloud.list_device_profiles()
        self.assertEqual(len(dev_prof_list), 1)
        self.assertEqual(dev_prof_list[0].id, DEV_PROF_DICT['id'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_prof_list[0].uuid, DEV_PROF_DICT['uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_prof_list[0].name, DEV_PROF_DICT['name'])
        self.assertEqual(dev_prof_list[0].groups, DEV_PROF_DICT['groups'])
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_create_device_profile(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='POST',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'device_profiles']),
                 json=NEW_DEV_PROF_DICT)
        ])

        attrs = {
            'name': NEW_DEV_PROF_DICT['name'],
            'groups': NEW_DEV_PROF_DICT['groups']
        }

        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.create_device_profile(
                attrs
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_delete_device_profile(self, filters=None):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'device_profiles', DEV_PROF_DICT['name']]),
                 json={"device_profiles": [DEV_PROF_DICT]}),
            dict(method='DELETE',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'device_profiles', DEV_PROF_DICT['name']]),
                 json=DEV_PROF_DICT)

        ])
        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.delete_device_profile(
                DEV_PROF_DICT['name'],
                filters
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_list_accelerator_requests(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests']),
                 json={'arqs': [ARQ_DICT]}
                 ),
        ])
        arq_list = self.cloud.list_accelerator_requests()
        self.assertEqual(len(arq_list), 1)
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].uuid, ARQ_DICT['uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].device_profile_name,
                         ARQ_DICT['device_profile_name'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].device_profile_group_id,
                         ARQ_DICT['device_profile_group_id'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].device_rp_uuid,
                         ARQ_DICT['device_rp_uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].instance_uuid,
                         ARQ_DICT['instance_uuid'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].attach_handle_type,
                         ARQ_DICT['attach_handle_type'])
        self.assertEqual(arq_list[0].attach_handle_info,
                         ARQ_DICT['attach_handle_info'])
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_create_accelerator_request(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='POST',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests']),
                 json=NEW_ARQ_DICT
                 ),
        ])

        attrs = {
            'device_profile_name': NEW_ARQ_DICT['device_profile_name'],
            'device_profile_group_id': NEW_ARQ_DICT['device_profile_group_id']
        }

        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.create_accelerator_request(
                attrs
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_delete_accelerator_request(self, filters=None):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json={"accelerator_requests": [ARQ_DICT]}),
            dict(method='DELETE',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json=ARQ_DICT)

        ])
        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.delete_accelerator_request(
                ARQ_DICT['uuid'],
                filters
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_bind_accelerator_request(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json={"accelerator_requests": [ARQ_DICT]}),
            dict(method='PATCH',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json=ARQ_DICT)
        ])
        properties = [{'path': '/hostname',
                       'value': ARQ_DICT['hostname'],
                       'op': 'add'},
                      {'path': '/instance_uuid',
                       'value': ARQ_DICT['instance_uuid'],
                       'op': 'add'},
                      {'path': '/device_rp_uuid',
                       'value': ARQ_DICT['device_rp_uuid'],
                       'op': 'add'}]

        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.bind_accelerator_request(
                ARQ_DICT['uuid'], properties
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

    def test_unbind_accelerator_request(self):
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json={"accelerator_requests": [ARQ_DICT]}),
            dict(method='PATCH',
                 uri=self.get_mock_url(
                     'accelerator',
                     'public',
                     append=['v2', 'accelerator_requests', ARQ_DICT['uuid']]),
                 json=ARQ_DICT)
        ])

        properties = [{'path': '/hostname',
                       'op': 'remove'},
                      {'path': '/instance_uuid',
                       'op': 'remove'},
                      {'path': '/device_rp_uuid',
                       'op': 'remove'}]

        self.assertTrue(
            self.cloud.unbind_accelerator_request(
                ARQ_DICT['uuid'], properties
            )
        )
        self.assert_calls()

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A new independent commission on the future of food, farming and the countryside is being launched today by the RSA, promising to put health and wellbeing at the heart of the debate on what happens to farming and the countryside post-Brexit.
Food and farming policy sits in Defra, of course: the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. No mention of health there. Surely the arguments are more about bees versus bottom lines? Is there really any logic to dragging health into arguments about what happens on our farms?
The logic starts with the Brexit Bus. It promised that fictional £350m weekly saving to the NHS, remember? If there's any post-Brexit saving to be made it would chiefly have to come from the £3billion annual subsidy to UK farmers that we have paid out under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The NHS is in a funding crisis. Some might say it needs every penny of that £3 billion. But what it needs even more than treatment money is prevention. And if you asked Simon Stevens, the NHS Chief Exec, to name the three biggest time-bombs coming his way are, I'd bet a good sum he'd come up with:
Time-bomb 1: antimicrobial resistance
Time-bomb 2: poor diet
Time-bomb 3: mental health
Which brings us back to why health and wellbeing is worth more than a passing mention in a future policy on farming and the countryside.
Antimicrobial resistance is being driven as much by the routine use of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming as it is by over-prescribing GPs. Some of that £3bn each year could go to support farmers to transition to healthier, higher welfare systems. The Soil Association's goal is that all farm animals will have a 'good life' within 10 years.
Poor diet has overtaken every other driver of poor health. We all need to eat lots more fruit, vegetables and nuts. Horticulture and orchards have massively declined in this country, leaving us bereft of local, seasonal, delicious fresh produce. Why? Growers have received virtually no subsidy, which, in being based on land area, has gone instead to land-hungry cereals destined largely for processed food and meat production.
Mental health may feel like the stretch here. But MIND and Natural England have presented convincing evidence that exposure to the natural environment positively affects both physical health and mental wellbeing. Better countryside access for all really matters, and farm-based green care programmes could be part of a new solution for mental health care. Currently there is no funding support for farmers providing these services.
As the media concern around US chlorine-washed chicken has highlighted, there is also much at stake for food safety and health from trade deals that may open supermarket doors to food farmed using growth hormones and pesticides long banned in the EU.
Michael Gove is showing welcome leadership in championing a 'Green Brexit' for food and farming. But farmers are stewards of our health as well as of our environment. My hope for the RSA Commission is that it will bring the Health Secretary to the table too, to say that the £3billion can stay with farmers but it must drive a Healthy Brexit too.
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