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Democrats assail 'unacceptable' mpg rollback
Trump administration officials were grilled Thursday over their proposal to roll back stringent gas-mileage rules
Democrats assail 'unacceptable' mpg rollback Trump administration officials were grilled Thursday over their proposal to roll back stringent gas-mileage rules Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/06/20/democrats-assail-unacceptable-mpg-rollback/1514392001/
Keith Laing, The Detroit News Published 6:32 p.m. ET June 20, 2019
Trump administration officials were grilled Thursday over their proposal to roll back stringent gas-mileage rules. (Photo: Max Ortiz, The Detroit News)
Washington — With talks between the U.S. government and California about new gas mileage rules for cars at a standstill, Democrats in the U.S. House grilled Trump administration officials Thursday over their proposal to roll back stringent mpg rules that were enacted under former President Barack Obama.
Speaking at a hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, called "unacceptable" the Trump administration's proposal to freeze gas mileage rules that require automakers to average a fleetwide of 39 miles per gallon by 2020 in place until 2026 in lieu of an Obama-era requirement that called for them to top 50 miles per gallon.
"Strong fuel economy standards have kept our environment clean, reduced our dependence on foreign oil and have saved consumers money at the pump," Dingell continued. "The administration's proposed rule has listed several options. The most unacceptable being the flatlining of fuel economy standards. Flatlining is harmful to American leadership and innovation and the environment."
Dingell chided the Trump administration for pulling out of talks with California about new rules for gas mileage that would cover model years 2021-2025.
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, said he also hopes for a deal between the Trump administration and California.
"For me, particularly from not only from Michigan, but one that knows the importance of the industry, but also clean air, it's important that we have the right standards," Upton said. "I've supported better safety standards, better fuel standards for everyone."
The Trump administration announced last year its intention to ease stringent gas-mileage rules that would have required fleets averaging nearly 55 miles per gallon by 2025. The administration proposed a freeze in the mandate after 2020, touching off a fierce battle with California, which helped to craft the Obama-era rules.
The two sides attempted to negotiate a potential agreement, but the White House announced in February it was pulling out of the talks and moving forward with its proposed freeze in the gas mileage rules.
Automakers cheered the decision to reopen the so called mid-term review they were promised when the Obama-era gas mileage rules were agreed to in 2011. But they hoped the Trump administration would quickly reach an agreement with California on a new set of rules to prevent a lengthy legal battle that would leave the mpg requirements for the next half-decade in limbo.
"Automakers support year-over-year increases in fuel economy that align with market demand, and we support a data-driven final rule and one national program," Dave Schwietert, interim CEO and president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which lobbies for major automakers, told the panel.
Trump administration officials defend the proposed mpg rollback, arguing that the Obama-era rules were based on faulty assumptions about consumer behavior that were based on gas prices being over $4-per-gallon at the time the rule was finalized.
"What we're reconsidering is a standard that is infeasible," Acting National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Heidi King said. "Because the forecast and projections that were made in 2012 turned out to be wrong. One of those being that consumers don't want to drive only passenger cars. They increasingly want larger trucks."
The Trump administration has floated the idea of moving revoke a longstanding waiver allowing California and other states to set their own stricter auto emissions standards. Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., have adopted California's mileage rules, meaning automakers could be left with one set of rules for a quarter of the country and another set for the remaining states.
Revoking California's waiver, which is ensconced in the Clean Air Act, would require a act of Congress that is unlikely with the U.S. House under the control of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, which worked with the EPA under Obama to craft the national mileage rules, said the Trump administration has been inflexible in prior talks about a potential compromise on mpg rules.
"We have met more than a dozen times with members of this administration, including at the White House on multiple occasions, to try to come to resolution," she said. "We have been open to accommodations that would adjust compliance timing and flexibility, that would create new paths to promote innovative technologies and zero emission vehicles, and that would benefit the public. Each time, the Trump Administration has been unwilling to find a way that works."
Some Republicans on the panel were sympathetic to the Trump administration's argument that the Obama-era rules were too stringent for today's auto market and gave California too much power to set gas mileage rules for other states.
"We are a republic, and you talk about in terms of state sovereignty, one state shouldn't dictate what other states do," U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said. "We're a market-driven economy and we are a republic of sovereign states."
U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, agreed, invoking General Motors Co.'s plans to idle and sell a Lordstown, Ohio plant.
"The federal government should not be issues over-burdensome rules that make it too costly to manufacture, or for consumers to purchase, American-made automobiles, especially as the market transitions to trucks and SUVs," he said.
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American Management Association is pleased to honor Julie Irving as the winner of AMA's 2009 Innovation Award for Administrative Professionals. Julie, an administrative assistant at Battelle Energy Alliance, a contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, received her award at the 17th Annual Administrative Professionals Conference in Orlando, Florida on October 5.
Julie Irving winner of AMA's 2009 celebrates outstanding examples of creative problem solving and innovation in administrative support. The primary purpose of the award, now in its eleventh year, is to serve as an inspiration to administrative professionals as they advance in their professional development and seek new knowledge and skills.
The story behind Julie Irving's winning AMA Innovation Award entry began with a distraught phone call from her daughter. She called to say that she had been involved in a car accident. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the circumstances behind the accident seemed almost unbelievable to Julie: her daughter hit a "monster truck" while backing up her Dodge Durango. Julie asked her why she hadn't checked her rear view mirror before backing up. Her daughter replied, "I did, but I couldn't see it. It was in my blind spot."
How could her daughter have failed to see a big, hulking monster truck? Julie decided to investigate. What she discovered stunned her.
In her Innovation Award entry materials, Julie wrote: "Having the 'safety culture' ingrained in me, I decided to check it out further to see if others may have experienced similar circumstances. I started by going online and researching accidents that occur from people backing up vehicles and not being able to see in their 'blind spot.' What I discovered led me down an incredible road that impacted my family, the employees at my company, and people at local and regional outreach safety events."
Julie's research convinced her that her daughter was very fortunate that she had only hit a truck. She wrote, "Every year, thousands of children are injured or killed because a driver backing up didn't see them in the blind spot behind their vehicle. Many of the victims are five years of age or less…Tragically, in over 70% of these incidents, a parent or close relative is behind the wheel."
For most people, that would have been the end of it. Her daughter was OK and thankfully, no one had been injured in the accident. But Julie Irving isn't "most people."
She made up a poster and a "Blind Spot Safety Pack" and presented it to her organization's Employee Safety Team, asking for their support in sharing the information with employees and the community.
Julie didn't stop there. She created key chains and brochures promoting back-up safety and distributed them to Blind Spot Safety Test participants. She also created a special presentation for school children to educate them about the hazards of venturing behind a parked car.


Long vests, which the designers have been playing around with for some seasons now, are perfect for the pre-fall season, particularly because pre-fall is the season for outerwear that you have been so excited about. An alternative for the 70's jackets and blazers, long vests have a slimming effect on the body, especially when left unbuttoned. They can be worn in the late summer September on their own, showing off the bare arms, with sweater when it gets colder, or even used for a layered look.


Add a bit of floral charm to your home or office interior with this alluring Antique Gold Palm Leaf Table Lamp.
This three-light table lamp is made of exquisite antique gold metal crafted to artistic perfection. Designed in a floral palm tree motif, it features 3 separate stems for holding light bulbs which help you illuminate your space with ease.
It's a classic ravishing piece of decor perfect for every home and will add charm to your living room side table and even to your personal workspace.


This watercolour is a view of Elizabeth Woodville's gallery at Windsor Castle.
The gallery is named in honour of the yorkist queen of Edward IV.
William the Conqueror founded Windsor Castle over 900 years ago. The castle's elevated position over the River Thames was an obvious strategic advantage, and there were also several hunting-grounds close by. This site was favoured over others due to its proximity to London. It was only one day's march to the Tower of London, where Elizabeth Woodville's two sons, the princes Edward and Richard, were imprisoned and supposedly murdered by their uncle, the future Richard III.


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Enbers – 'Black Mamba'
Growing up in a musical family, Enbers was surrounded by creativity. His Grandfather and Aunt helped to foster his creative side, and their band created the soundtrack of his childhood. From karaoke nights to earning his Grandfather's acoustic guitar at the age of fifteen, Enbers' journey in music has been a story of growth and evolution, and now, after a decade of writing music and refining his sound, he's finally ready to release his debut EP.
A four-track release that is aptly titled '10 Years', the new EP is set to feature songs that Enbers has written since he first started playing music, drawing inspiration from the various punk bands, country acts, folk troupes that he's been involved in. The first single from the soon to be released EP comes in the form of 'Black Mamba', a deft folk cut that of brevity and emotive beauty.
A rough-cut song with minimal production, 'Black Mamba' brings instant comparisons with Lee Mavers and The La's, perhaps not with their most famous song, but definitely with the likes of 'Timeless Melody' and 'Looking Glass'. It's a song that meets you at a crossroads, and where it leads you will really depend on the sort of music you prefer. For those that appreciate raw authenticity and an emotive folk vibe, 'Black Mamba' will shine as a song of pure, unadulterated charm backed by a heartfelt score of acoustic guitar, but for those more inclined to lose themselves within polished worlds of hard hitting melodies and lavish orchestration, it can be all to easy to see the single as being underdeveloped and more of a demo than a fully realised release.
For us, the song falls within the grey area between the two trails, offering enough imagination and worth to make us excited for the full EP, but not quite enough wonder to really make us want it. Ultimately the real value in 'Black Mamba' might reveal itself when it's backed by the weight of the full EP, but for now, we'll happily settle for the rustic charm that Enbers has already produced.
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PangeaSeed x Spoke Art Gallery Sink or Swim Benefit Show for the Sharks and the Ocean had their Opening Reception on Friday, September 24th at 6PM. We got into San Francisco on a busy Friday evening a bit before the show opened. Looking for parking we see the line go up the block. People were camped out there early in the day with their fold up chairs etc... We later find out the line was for purchasing Josh Keyes' art print.
We were there to purchase Cometdebris x PangeaSeed's Clear blue Sametan figure which made its debut at this show. If you were lucky enough, Cometdebris had a few up for sale yesterday in his online shop. All proceeds for this figure goes to benefit PangeaSeed. If you missed out, don't worry there will be a color version coming out soon.


As the phone rings, it's hard to tell if he's sitting back in reflection, or preparing to spring off the desk into action. The ambiguity seems intentional. "We see Trump in VR as art," co-creator John MacInnes explains. "A tableau vivant, in the American tradition of artists like Edward Hopper in painting, Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman in photography." Indeed, Wide Awake serves as a living picture — it's as frozen as a painting, but a light in the player's hand gives them some control over how the scene looks. And while the subject is frozen, the world around him isn't. The ringing phone continues to add tension to the scene. Who is this new president? What is his reaction to a middle of the night emergency?
The work doesn't answer this question — it merely offers a view of public service the average citizen will never see. Someday soon, Donald Trump will be awoken by a midnight call and rush to the West Wing. He'll be called upon to make life and death decisions most of us can scarcely imagine.
The experience was actually created before the election, but was only released to the public on the Vive store on the dawn of Donald Trump's inauguration. It has more impact this way, portraying a definite future instead of a potential one. It's also an incredibly surreal experience to have just minutes after the President is sworn in.


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package jp.gr.java_conf.kgd.library.cool.framework.input.inputs;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import jp.gr.java_conf.kgd.library.cool.framework.input.keys.IConstInput;
import jp.gr.java_conf.kgd.library.cool.framework.input.keys.IInput;
import jp.gr.java_conf.kgd.library.cool.framework.input.keys.IInputManager;
import jp.gr.java_conf.kgd.library.cool.framework.input.keys.InputConfig;

public abstract class AbstractInputStoreManager<T extends IInputManager>
extends InputConfig
implements IInputStateStoreManager
{
	private ArrayList<T> inputManagers = new ArrayList<>();

	//
	protected AbstractInputStoreManager()
	{
	}

	//
	@Override
	public int getInputNum()
	{
		return inputManagers.size();
	}

	@Override
	public Collection<? extends IConstInput> getUnmodifiableInputs()
	{
		return Collections.unmodifiableCollection(inputManagers);
	}

	@Override
	public int addInput(final int num)
	{
		if(num <= 0)
		{
			return 0;
		}

		int count = 0;
		while(count < num)
		{
			T inputStateManager = createInputManager();

			if(inputStateManager != null)
			{
				inputManagers.add(inputStateManager);
				count++;
			}
			else
			{
				break;
			}
		}

		return count;
	}

	@Override
	public IInput getInput(int no)
	{
		return inputManagers.get(no);
	}

	//
	@Override
	public int removeInput(int num)
	{
		if(num <= 0)
		{
			return 0;
		}

		int count = 0;
		int size = inputManagers.size();
		while(count < num && size > 0)
		{
			if(inputManagers.remove(size - 1) == null)
			{
				break;
			}

			count++;
			size = inputManagers.size();
		}

		return count;
	}

	@Override
	public void updateInputs(boolean hasFocus)
	{
		for(IInputManager inputState : inputManagers)
		{
			inputState.updateKeyStates(hasFocus);
		}
	}

	//
	abstract protected T createInputManager();

	protected List<T> getInputManagers()
	{
		return inputManagers;
	}
}

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class Admin::TaxonomiesController < Admin::ResourceController
  respond_to :json, :only => [:get_children]

  def get_children
    @taxons = Taxon.find(params[:parent_id]).children

    respond_with(@taxons)
  end

  private

  def location_after_save
    if @taxonomy.created_at == @taxonomy.updated_at
      edit_admin_taxonomy_url(@taxonomy)
    else
      admin_taxonomies_url
    end
  end
end


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MVD Rewind Collection #7: ABOMINABLE (Special Edition) Coming June 12, 2018… [Blu-ray + DVD]
SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNFOUND
It has been sighted 42,000 times in 68 countries, a vicious creature of myth and legend called Sasquatch, Yeti, and perhaps most infamously, Bigfoot. It's been hunted it for years. But what happens when it decides to hunt us?
After recovering from a horrific accident, paraplegic Preston Rogers moves back into the remote cabin where he and his now-deceased wife once lived. When his new neighbor Karen, is attacked by a gigantic creature, Rogers contacts the local authorities. But after the police and those around him dismiss Rogers as a delusional widower, he sets out to stop the abominable creature himself.
Featuring an all-star cast that includes Matt McCoy (L.A. Confidential, HBO's "Silicon Valley") Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator, The Frighteners), Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club, Die Hard), Rex Linn (Django Unchained, A Million Ways To Die in the West), Haley Joel (Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding), Phil Morris ("Seinfeld", Black Dynamite), Dee Wallace (E.T., Cujo), Tiffany Shepis (Tales of Halloween, Victor Crowley) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Hard Target)in this wild and gruesome throwback horror shocker that Fangoria called "the best serious fright film ever made about Bigfoot!"
Originally shot on 35mm, Abominable makes it HD debut featuring a brand new high definition transfer from the original camera negative and an ALL-NEW cut of the film with improved CGI-effects overseen by Director Ryan Schifrin and Editor Chris Conlee with enhanced color timing and correction and in this fully loaded collector's edition set!
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  namespace Test\Xparse\ElementFinder\Collection;

  use Xparse\ElementFinder\Collection\ObjectCollection;
  use Xparse\ElementFinder\ElementFinder;

  /**
   * @author Ivan Shcherbak <alotofall@gmail.com>
   */
  class ObjectCollectionTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {

    public function testInvalidObjectIndex() {
      $collection = new ObjectCollection([new ElementFinder('0'), new ElementFinder('1')]);
      self::assertNotNull($collection->get(0));
      self::assertEquals(null, $collection->get(2));
    }

    public function testWalk() {
      $collection = new ObjectCollection(
        [
          new ElementFinder('1'),
          new ElementFinder('2'),
        ]
      );

      $linksTest = [];
      $collection->walk(function (ElementFinder $elementFinder) use (&$linksTest) {
        $linksTest[] = $elementFinder->content('//a')->getFirst();
      });
      self::assertSame(['1', '2'], $linksTest);
    }

    public function testIterate() {
      $collection = new ObjectCollection(
        [
          new ElementFinder('0'),
          new ElementFinder('1'),
        ]
      );

      $collectedItems = 0;
      foreach ($collection as $index => $item) {
        $collectedItems++;
        $data = $item->match('!(.*)!')->getFirst();
        self::assertSame((string) $index, $data);
      }

      self::assertSame(2, $collectedItems);
    }

    public function testMerge() {
      $sourceCollection = new ObjectCollection([new ElementFinder('0'), new ElementFinder('1')]);
      $newCollection = new ObjectCollection([new ElementFinder('0')]);

      $mergedCollection = $sourceCollection->merge($newCollection);

      $aTexts = [];
      $mergedCollection->walk(function (ElementFinder $element) use (&$aTexts) {
        $aTexts[] = (string) $element->value('//a')->getFirst();
      });
      self::assertSame(['0', '1', '0'], $aTexts);
    }

    public function testAdd() {
      $sourceCollection = new ObjectCollection([new ElementFinder('0'), new ElementFinder('1')]);
      $newCollection = $sourceCollection->add(new ElementFinder('2'));
      self::assertCount(2, $sourceCollection);
      self::assertCount(3, $newCollection);
      self::assertSame('2', $newCollection->getLast()->content('//a')->getFirst());
    }

    public function testGet() {
      $collection = new ObjectCollection([new ElementFinder('0'), new ElementFinder('data1')]);
      self::assertNotNull('data1', $collection->get(0)->content('//b')->getFirst());
      self::assertNotNull('data1', $collection->get(1)->content('//a')->getFirst());
      self::assertNull($collection->get(2));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException \InvalidArgumentException
     */
    public function testInvalidDataType() {
      new ObjectCollection([null]);
    }

  }


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Indigenous Religious Traditions
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Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College
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Launching in 2023, Indigenous Religious Traditions is a peer-reviewed journal that will publish papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the study of Indigenous religious traditions.
This new journal strives for increasingly global perspectives, with representation of peoples and traditions from all continents, covering diverse geographical regions and including traditions of the past as well as of the present. We are concerned with the interface between the disciplines of Indigenous studies and religious studies, Indigenous religious traditions and modernity, colonial and postcolonial conditions, and local and global forces that shape the practice of Indigenous traditions and their categorizations. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Indigenous Peoples and religious traditions, emphasizing Indigenous methodologies among other humanities and social science approaches.
Indigenous Religious Traditions will also include papers that discuss important theoretical, methodological, and conceptual innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on disciplinary histories.
The journal will publish book reviews as well as review articles.
Publication Details: 2 issues per year, launching 2023 (July & December)
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Judge: Capital Gazette gunman cannot be compared to mass shooters; prosecution psychiatrist can testify about sanity
By Alex Mann
Capital Gazette |
The prosecution psychiatrist cannot compare the gunman who murdered five Capital Gazette staffers to other mass shooters studied by the FBI, an Anne Arundel County judge ruled Friday.
However, Circuit Court Judge Laura Ripken said Dr. Gregory Saathoff may testify about whether he thinks the gunman was sane when he fatally shot Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters — rejecting one of the defense's latest attempts to prevent the psychiatrist from testifying at a trial slated for December.
Ripken reserved judgment on a number of other arguments by Jarrod Ramos' defense attorneys to limit what Saathoff can say on the stand, including whether the doctor can compare the 40-year-old to other inmates, hikers on the Appalachian Trail, or discuss his use of the law library at the county jail.
In most instances, she said it was too soon to evaluate whether the testimony was relevant or whether it would aid the jury or prejudice Ramos. Ripken said repeatedly she hasn't seen the evidence yet to make such determinations.
"I'm going to have to hear what's being offered when it's being offered in the context of the trial," Ripken said.
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Prosecutors hired Saathoff to investigate Ramos' insanity claims. Despite pleading guilty to the murders, assaults and gun charges, Ramos maintains that he was insane at the time of the attack. At stake is whether he'll spend the rest of his life in prison or is committed indefinitely to a state psychiatric hospital.
Ripken's ruling about mass shooters does not prevent the prosecution from presenting the theory of their case but limits how far they can take it. While the defense and their mental health experts say that Ramos committed the murders because he was insane, prosecutors and Saathoff say the attack was fueled by revenge and followed a pattern exhibited by other mass shooters outlined by FBI research.
Saathoff may use the 2018 FBI report about the pre-attack behavior of 63 mass shooters between 2000 and 2013 to frame his testimony, but he can't compare Ramos to the other shooters studied or say how he fits into the statistics.
Ramos' lawyers argued that comparing him to other mass shooters was overly prejudicial, inflammatory and irrelevant. They said prosecutors didn't have to prove that Ramos was a mass shooter, as his conviction already confirmed that.
Rather, defense attorneys said, prosecutors can rebut the defense's insanity case — but only with evidence and testimony relevant to Ramos and his attack.
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The study, which Ripken lauded, was crafted as a tool for law enforcement to identify potential mass shooters before an attack occurred. It found the vast majority of the shooters were men, most were single and obtained the guns legally, almost three-fourths spent over a week planning the attack and almost 80% had a grievance, which the report defines as a perception of being treated unfairly or inappropriately.
But Ripken said at hearings earlier in September that she was concerned about allowing prosecutors to employ statistics and comparisons. She said jurors might view his case "as almost a math equation" rather than evaluating his insanity claims on their merits.
"It would be hard for the court to find there is not an unfair prejudicial value," Ripken said during the hearing in Annapolis Friday.
Prosecutors say the attack had nothing to do with mental illness, but a grievance developed after The Capital published a column about his harassment of a high school classmate. He tried to handle his grievance through lawsuits against the paper and unsuccessful appeals against the courts' decision against him. When that didn't work, prosecutors said he started planning for revenge. Then, he waited until he was broke and his cat died to act.
Saathoff and prosecutors can still refer to their theory, but they can't say that Ramos' behavior followed that of other mass shooters the FBI studied, under the ruling.
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The hearing Friday was expected to last before jury selection begins in December. Prospective jurors are expected to fill out questionnaires in November.
Also at stake was whether Saathoff could testify about his opinion on the ultimate issue in the mental health proceeding: Whether Ramos was sane at the time of the attack on June 28, 2018.
Saathoff thinks that Ramos was sane when he blasted his way into the office armed with a shotgun, smoke bombs after using a device that blocked his victims from fleeing out a back door.
Six employees survived either by fleeing or hiding from Ramos. The shooting in the newsroom of Capital Gazette, which is owned by Baltimore Sun Media, rattled the close-knit community of Annapolis.
While prosecutors were responsible for proving Ramos was guilty, it's up to him and his defense attorneys to prove that he, because of a mental condition, could not understand what he did was wrong or could not stop himself. Though they have to convince a jury by a lower standard of proof than guilt in a criminal trial, the defense is not usually successful.
Ramos' team of public defenders hired a team of mental health experts to evaluate him. The expert expected to testify, a psychiatrist referred to as Dr. Lewis in court papers, said Ramos was insane and diagnosed him with autism spectrum disorder.
After Ramos pleaded not criminally responsible — Maryland's version of the insanity defense — Ripken ordered the state health department to evaluate Ramos and form an opinion. Dr. Sameer Patel, a forensic psychiatrist with the department, said Ramos was criminally responsible.
Unlike the other experts, Saathoff was not allowed to interview Ramos. Ripken twice denied prosecutors' request to allow him to do so, citing the favorable findings of Patel from prosecutors' perspective. Still, Saathoff took his investigation to the Jennifer Road Detention Center, where Ramos has been in custody for more than two years and interviewed dozens of employees about his behavior behind bars.
Defense attorneys argued that because Saathoff did not conduct an interview, he is not qualified to render an opinion about Ramos' sanity. They said that an expert's opinion must be based on data and, while Saathoff reviewed documents and interviewed collateral sources, his analysis was missing the most critical piece: Ramos.
Prosecutors said nothing in the state law or cases with legal precedent prohibits a mental health expert from testifying in a case involving an insanity plea about their opinion on whether the person is sane or not.
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On Friday, Ripken said she agreed with prosecutors.
Ripken also sided with prosecutors' stance on the defense's request to take the jury to the jail to see the secluded cell block where Ramos lived. She said it was unreasonable and that jurors could garner a good understanding of his living arrangements by looking at diagrams and pictures, which defense attorneys were permitted by jail officials to capture. She said she would've ruled the same way regardless of the coronavirus pandemic.
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On other potential topics of prosecution witness testimony, such other inmates and hikers on the Appalachian Trail, which Ramos walked in 2002, or his use of the law library at the county jail, Ripken said it was too early to determine.


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3rd Street San Francisco, May 1967. I was stationed at Hamilton AFB from 1963 - '67, just up the US 101 from San - Fran - Cisco! And while there was a lot begging for a young airman's attention in and around San Francisco - if you get my drift - I did grab my camera from time to time and venture to South San Francisco (SP) and Oakland (SP & WP).
At 66 feet long, this is the Fairbanks-Morse Train Master. According to the sales brochure, "...the most useful locomotive ever built..." And, it's a fact that upon its introduction in 1953, the 2,400 horsepower H-24-66 Train Master was the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive available!
Until the arrival of the Alco RSD-7 in 1954.
These units carried a steam boiler with a rated output of 4,500 lbs per hour. It was said they could keep up to 15 passenger cars warm down to zero degrees. But since they mostly worked the commuter speedway between San Francisco and San Jose, the need was never challanged!
Fairbanks-Morse first H-24-66 demonstrator units, TM-1 and TM-2 rolled out of the factory in Beloit, Wisconsin, in April and May of 1953. These two demonstrator locomotives became Southern Pacific 4800 and 4801, later becoming the 3020, pictured above, and 3021 following the "Great Re-Numbering Scheme of 1965."
A total of 105 units were built in the US, and 22 in Canada, between 1953 and 1956.
The dipping handrail is indicative of the so-called "1b" modification. A gaggle of these units shuffled commuters out of South San Francisco for years. The 2-cycle opposed piston motor was touted in a sales brochure as "No other engine is so right for railroad service."
Railroad Stuff: Fairbanks-Morse Model H-24-66, 2,400 hp "Train Master", Beloit, 1953, nee 4800, 1953. Southern Pacific Road Class DF-500 (2 units) and DF-501 (14 units.)
Index: Fairbanks-Morse, H-24-66, Hamilton AFB, Oakland, South San Francisco, SP 3020, Train Master


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Tucker Carlson Announces "Long Planned" Vacation After CNN Report Takes Out Top Show Writer Over Racist Posts
By Kristinn Taylor
Published July 14, 2020 at 2:29am
Top rated Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson announced a "long planned" trout fishing vacation Monday night after a senior writer on his show, Blake Neff, resigned in disgrace, after racist and sexist comments he posted anonymously online were exposed by CNN late last week.
Carlson said Brian Kilmeade would be filling in the next four nights and that taped segments would be shown. Carlson held out the possibility of returning sooner "if something dramatic happens".
Carlson addressed the resignation of Neff and his own vacation plans in separate segments on Monday's show.
Here's how @TuckerCarlson addressed his former top writer Blake Neff's resignation for having secretly posted racist and sexist material on an online message board. pic.twitter.com/Kle9kkNygx
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 14, 2020
Tucker Carlson, on his (now former) head writer being exposed as a racist, sexist troll: "…to the ghouls now beating their chests in triumph at the destruction of a young man, that self-righteousness also has its costs." His monologue: pic.twitter.com/XMa7O4FV6Z
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) July 14, 2020
Annnnnnnnd Tucker Carlson announced he's taking a "long-planned vacation" at the end of his show. pic.twitter.com/6TjtGXlvwE
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 14, 2020
Excerpt from CNN's report on Neff:
…Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."
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…while working at Fox News, and while a reporter at The Daily Caller, Neff was a frequent poster on AutoAdmit. Also known as XOXOhth, it is a relatively unmoderated message board like 4chan aimed at lawyers and law school students in which racism and sexism run rampant. The board's vulgar content was previously the subject of much criticism, and two Yale students sued anonymous posters on the site in 2007 alleging they had defamed them and made threatening remarks. The Hartford Courant reported in 2009 that the lawsuit was quietly settled after some of the posters were identified.
Neff, who posts on the board under the username CharlesXII, is widely revered on the forum, with many posters knowing the person behind the account works on Carlson's show. He has spent years posting about history, offering his political opinions, and detailing aspects of his personal life.
After learning of Neff's posts on the board through an email from an anonymous tipster, CNN Business was able to positively identify CharlesXII as Neff by reviewing messages he has posted throughout the years on the forum and matching them up with publicly available information about him…
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and Executive Editor Jay Wallace say Tucker Carlson will address the Blake Neff matter on Monday's program. Here is their statement to the staff: pic.twitter.com/DoC5kLRXyD
— Stephen Battaglio (@SteveBattaglio) July 11, 2020
Fox's habit of hosts abruptly going on vacation as controversy heats up was lampooned by the Daily Show. Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and former Fox host Bill O'Reilly each went on vacation during difficult times for their shows with O'Reilly not returning.
lol Tucker Carlson just announced he's going on a fishing vacation pic.twitter.com/0ofmbSx6Pw
Liberal activists have been campaigning to get Tucker Carlson taken off the air through advertiser boycotts and intimidation.
Time to scare off the advertisers letting Tucker Carlson scare America with his racism. pic.twitter.com/S5O2sp1Kgc
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This post is a light hearted look at your average open house in San Carlos. While some of the information below may seem blatantly obvious, with increased competition this spring in San Carlos every detail could matter.
All signs are pointing toward an early spring market for San Carlos. As mentioned in previous blog posts, there is a backlog of demand that seems to be pushing through the gate early. 343 De Anza, 250 Ruby, 236 Oakview, 218 Exeter, 15 Whitman, 1800 Howard, 500 Prospect, 11 Willow Glen Way, 1043 Sylvan and 309 Old County all went pending in the last 7 days. One of the primary reasons for this early surge is the fear of rising interest rates. Interest rates have slowly crept up in 8 of the last 10 weeks. The prevailing thought among most lenders is that they will continue a very steady climb. Therefore, there is a financial incentive to purchase early in 2011. There is also a feeling among many buyers that the bottom of the market may have just passed us by. The most recent numbers in my 2011 San Carlos Real Estate Report support this statement. A copy of that report can be downloaded by clicking here.
With the expected steady demand in San Carlos this spring, most open houses will be well attended. I believe that competition for some areas will be greater than we have seen in the past few years. If you find yourself in a possible competitive situation for a home, remember that every detail matters, including you. Most realtors that regularly have listings in San Carlos are very good at what they do. They are primarily trying to do two things: They are (1) looking to obtain the highest purchase price for their client, and (2) looking for certainty of close….in other words what offer is going to offer the least amount of bumps along the way. Often times the "bumps along the way" have everything to do with the buyers and the buyers' agent, assuming that everything as been adequately disclosed.
Ask Questions. Most good agents will know the answer to any question pertaining to the property off the top of their head. Asking questions indicates that you have at least some interest and are trying to do your homework prior to making a decision about whether to continue pursing the property.
Take Your Time. Most buyers will walk through a house too quickly. If you think the house may be of interest to you, look beyond the aesthetics. Pay attention to possible improvements, spacing, room sizes, lighting, and neighborhood conditions.
Know the Comps. Your agent should supply you with a list of recently sold homes so that you can compare the property you are viewing with other recently sold properties.
Discuss Price. Do not do this for several reasons. Do not give the listing agent or anyone else at the open house your initial thoughts on price. You may be unintentionally pricing yourself out of the house. It's certainly okay to express interest, but discussing a price or even discussing whether a price is competitive or high, can only work against you.
Contract History. Do not discuss other homes that you have had in contract and subsequently backed out of purchasing. You would think this goes without saying, but I hear it often. Whether the decision to back out of the contract was legitimate, or not, it is not something you need to discuss because it can only hurt your chances if you decide to pursue the property.
Insult the property. You would think this would be an obvious one, but it happens. I think some buyers believe if they go through the property talking about everything that is wrong with the house within an earshot of the agent, the agent and others will start to believe it. This is not a good idea for several reasons. First and foremost, the house your are touring is someone's home. Second, if you do decide to submit an offer I can guarantee that agent is going to let the seller know about your sentiments on the property. If there happens to be competition on the property, it could definitely hurt your chances.
Outside vs. Inside. I say this one with a smile on my face, but when you leave an open house, don't assume that people inside the house suddenly can't hear you talking on the front porch or driveway. I would avoid discussing any of the above until you are comfortably out of earshot.
If you have questions at an open house, just exactly who is holding the house open for the sellers can make a difference. The first possibility would be the listing agent. The second possibility would be a paid assistant of the listing agent. These people are not trying to sell you anything. Rather they are there to answer your questions and offer helpful information about the property. The third possibility, and it's quite common in San Carlos, is that the house may be held open by another realtor who is not a paid assistant of the listing agent. Sometimes, realtors looking to meet prospective buyers will volunteer to hold open a house for a realtor who is unable to hold open their own listing. Understanding the relationship of the person holding the house open will help you put the information you receive into context.


As Florida's population continues to grow, so does the number of motorcycle enthusiasts on the road, which makes motorcycle safety an important issue. The number of motorcycle crashes, injuries, and fatalities in the United States has increased in recent years, and the State of Florida has shown the same trend. The charts below reflect some startling statistics.
From 2008 to 2011, the data reflects a 10.4% reduction in crashes and a 15.5% reduction in injuries. There is a 15.2% increase in crashes, and a 7.6% increase in injuries since 2010. The implementation of Florida's Motorcycle Safety Coalition and the new rider training requirements that were put into place in July 2008 significantly contributed to the overall decrease.
In 2000, motorcycle fatalities accounted for about eight percent of all traffic fatalities in the State, but by 2008 the percentage had increased to 17.8 percent. By 2010, motorcycle fatalities dropped to 14.3% of all traffic fatalities. In 2011, motorcycle fatalities have returned to 2008 levels, accounting for 17.0% of all traffic fatalities.
Below are a number of factors that uniquely contribute to motorcycle crashes in Florida. The numbers is Table 3 correspond to 2011 motorcycle crash injuries by age and gender. They are estimated based on values from the FDOT Crash Analysis Reporting System (CARS), and may not match final reported figures. In 2011, more riders age 25-34 were fatally injured in motorcycle traffic crashes in Florida than any other age group, followed by riders age 45-54. The median age of fatally injured riders was 40 years old in 2011.
Table 4 shows Florida Motorcycle Traffic Fatalities in Florida by Age and Year, 2007 to 2011 (Note: This does not include motorcycle passenger fatality details).
Florida is a popular tourist destination and host to a number of motorcycle enthusiast events.
91 percent of motorcyclists fatally injured in 2011 in Florida were also Florida residents.
Miami-Dade (39 fatalities), Broward (37), Hillsborough (34), Orange (32), Pinellas (23), Palm Beach (20), Polk (19), Pasco (18), Volusia (18) and Brevard (15) counties accounted for the largest number of motorcycle fatalities in 2011.
In 2011, there were 627,613 registered motorcycles.
In 2011, registered motorcycles accounted for 3.6% of Florida's motoring public.
In 2011, 18.8% of all traffic fatalities are motorcyclists and their passengers.
Since the repeal of the helmet law in 2000, the number of fatal crashes for every 10,000 registered motorcycles increased by 21 percent, suggesting motorcyclists without helmets are more likely to suffer serious and fatal injuries.
53 percent of motorcyclists were not wearing a safety helmet before a fatal crash during 2011.
29 percent of motorcyclist fatalities were related to traumatic brain injuries between 2007 and 2010.
27 percent of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2005 involved alcohol.
20 percent of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2006 involved alcohol.
41 percent of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2008 involved alcohol.
37 percent of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2009 involved alcohol.
In Florida in 2011, impaired motorcyclists with a BAC of .08+ accounted for 26% of motorcycle fatalities, while impaired motorcyclists with a BAC of .01+ accounted for 32% of motorcycle fatalities.
Nationally, in fatal crashes in 2011 a higher percentage of motorcycle riders had blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or higher than any other type of motor vehicle driver. The percentages for vehicle riders involved in fatal crashes were 29 percent for motorcycles, 24 percent for passenger cars, 21 percent for light trucks, and 1 percent for large trucks.
In 2011, the percentage with BAC .08 g/dL or above was highest for fatally injured motorcycle riders among the 40-44 (38%) age group, followed by the 45–49 and 35–39 age groups at 37 percent, respectively.
One-fourth of all fatal alcohol-related motorcycle crashes involve motorcyclists running off the road, overturning, or falling from the motorcycle rather than striking another object.
28 percent of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2011 occurred during the months of March, April, and May.
Approximately 37 percent of fatal crashes in 2011 occurred on weekends.
Approximately 32 percent of fatal crashes from 2005 to 2011 involved roadway curves.
Passing or overtaking a vehicle accounted for 4 percent of fatalities in 2011, and changing lanes or merging accounted for 2 percent of fatalities in 2011.
Information from death certificates issued in 2010 show that 29 percent of motorcycle traffic fatalities were associated with a traumatic brain injury, 35 percent with injuries to multiple body regions, 30 percent with injuries to unspecified body regions, and 9 percent with injuries to the thorax.
Unfortunately, death certificates provide limited information about the nature of injuries; therefore, nearly 100 percent of certificates cited at least one unspecified injury as an immediate or contributing cause of death.
For nonfatal injuries among motorcycle riders that required hospitalization from 2007 to 2009, injuries to the lower extremities were responsible for the highest percentage of hospitalizations at 35 percent, followed by traumatic brain injuries and torso injuries each at 20 percent.
The two most common types of principal injuries sustained in nonfatal motorcycle crashes requiring hospitalization were fractures (67 percent) and injuries to internal organs (23 percent).
Upper extremity and lower extremity injuries account for over half of the injuries for motorcycle riders treated in emergency departments from 2007 and 2009.
Superficial wounds and fractures together account for over half of injuries to motorcycle riders treated in emergency departments from 2007 and 2009.
Motorcycle traffic crashes often result in fatal or serious injuries requiring inpatient or outpatient hospital care and treatment. Fatal injuries, though the most severe, account for only a small portion of the overall injury burden among motorcyclists. In fact, nearly seven times more nonfatal injury hospitalizations and over 20 times more emergency department visits occurred for nonfatal injuries during the three year period from 2007 to 2011.
The total hospital charges for the initial treatment of motorcyclists injured in traffic crashes in 2011 was $411,783,763.
In 2011, 49 percent of motorcyclist hospitalizations and emergency department visits were not covered by commercial insurance.


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FEMA Reimburses California $107 Million For Debris Removal
Thursday, January 28, 2016 | Sacramento, CA
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(AP) - California is on track to receive $107 million from the federal government to defray debris removal costs stemming from a pair of destructive wildfires last year that burned more than 200 square miles.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the news Wednesday.
The money reimburses the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or CalRecycle, for removing debris from private property.
The Northern California wildfires began days apart in September, forcing thousands to flee their homes and killing six.
A fire in Lake County destroyed nearly 2,000 structures and ranks as the fifth-costliest wildfire in state and U.S. history, based on insured losses. The other fire burned mostly through Calaveras County.
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Q: Find all the points satisfying the Fritz John conditions Consider the problem
$$\min \>x^2+y^2 $$
$$s.t.\> x^2-(y-1)^3=0$$

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*Find all the points satisfying the Fritz John conditions

Solution
The FJ conditions are
$$2x+\mu_1 2x=0$$
$$2y-\mu_1 3(y-1)^2=0$$
But I am stuck from here

*One may be tempted to solve the optimization problem by substituting $ x^ 2 = (y − 1) ^3$ in the objective, thereby reducing it to the un-
constrained problem $\min \> y^ 2 + (y − 1)^ 3$ . But something is wrong with this approach. What is it and how can it be corrected?

A: Part 1:
The problem has the form $\min \{ f(x) | h(x) = 0 \}$. (I am using $x \in \mathbb{R}^2$ here.)
It helps to plot the set of $x$ satisfying $h(x) = 0$.

A look at the picture will convince you that the solution is $(0,1)$.
The Fritz John conditions are necessary conditions and always hold at an extremum. In this case, the Fritz John conditions give: $h(x) = 0$ and
$\lambda_0 \nabla f(x) + \nu \nabla h(x) = 0$, with $\lambda_0 \ge 0$ and
$(\lambda_0, \nu) \neq 0$. (Note the presence of the $\lambda_0$, which is
different from the Lagrange conditions.)
The points that satisfy the Fritz John conditions are the $((x_1,x_2), \lambda_0, \nu)$ that satisfy the above conditions.
\begin{eqnarray}
x_1^2 - (x_2-1)^3 &=& 0 \\
\lambda_0 \binom{x_1}{x_2} + \nu \binom{2x_1}{-3(x_2-1)^2} &=& 0
\end{eqnarray}
We solve this by case analysis.
Suppose $x_1 \neq 0$. Then the top line of the gradient equation gives $\lambda_0 = - 2 \nu$ and hence both are non zero.
Substituting for $\lambda_0$ and dividing through by $-\nu$ gives
$2 x_2 + 3(x_2-1)^2 = 0$. This quadratic has no real solutions.
Hence we must have $x_1=0$, then the constraint gives $x_2 = 1$, and the gradient condition gives $\lambda_0 = 0$, hence the Fritz John points are
$((0,1),0, \nu)$, with $\nu \neq 0$.
Note that the multiplier on $\nabla f(x)$ is zero.
Part 2:
Note that if $h(x) = 0$, we must have $x_2 \ge 1$. This is a subtle
implicit constraint that 'disappears' if we just substitute $(x_2-1)^3$,
for $x_1^2$. If we eliminate $x_1$ by substituting $x_1^2 = (x_2-1)^3$, we must also ensure that $x_2 \ge 1$.
If we do not add the latter constraint, then it should be clear that the
cost $y^2+(y-1)^3$ is unbounded below.
As an aside, the 'problem' here is that the relation $x_1^2 = (x_2-1)^3$ is
not a function, despite the suggestive form in which it is written. If the
constraint was of the form $h(x) = x_1-g(x_2)$, then we could safely
substitute $x_1$ by $g(x_2)$.

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Benefits of Global Action on Climate Change
IEc recently supported EPA's Climate Change Division in producing two comprehensive reports on the physical and economic impacts of climate change in the U.S. The reports are a product of EPA's Climate Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) project, which quantifies damages to multiple sectors of the U.S. economy (e.g., infrastructure, health, and water) resulting from climate change under multiple scenarios.
The first report, Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action, includes analyses designed and executed by IEc staff, including those focused on infrastructure, water quality, water supply, and wildfire damages. In addition, our consultants drafted methodological summaries for all the analyses; compiled essential data; and developed numerous charts and other graphics to highlight key findings. IEc also oversaw the development of the CIRA website; created infographics and designed the layout of the report; assisted in responding to peer review comments on the draft report; and supported the report's release through the development of presentations, talking points, and one-pagers.
The second report, Multi-Model Framework for Quantitative Sectoral Impacts Analysis, presents the results of the second phase of the CIRA project, with the goal of informing the fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). IEc staff designed and executed ten of the analyses featured in the report, including those related to infrastructure (roads, bridges, rail, Alaska infrastructure, urban drainage, and coastal property), health (water quality and harmful algal blooms), and water resources (water quality, and municipal and industrial water supply). Our consultants again played a central role in the development of the report, including drafting and editing text and developing infographics, maps, and charts to highlight key findings for all the analyses included in the report.
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IEc also supported the USEPA coauthors of a paper titled, Climate damages and adaptation potential across diverse U.S. sectors, by Jeremy Martinich and Allison Crimmins, Nature Climate Change (2019). Data referenced in that paper can be found below.
IEc continues to work with EPA on this project and recently developed a paper titled Climate damage functions for the effects of temperature and precipitation in the United States submitted to the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy in August 2018. Data supporting this paper can be downloaded below.
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. This workshop was based entirely upon the second book and dealt with making usability testing as simple as possible and weaving it into your monthly design operational cycle. In fact, the book is really the script for the workshop/course that Steve does. The material was pretty much perfect for me, as I've been kvetching about not being able to do exactly this as a routine part of our cycles at BCIT.
As my work straddles being a UX designer and project lead, I spend my time in bits and pieces of both without doing either as well or thoroughly as I'd like. My experience leading usability tests has typically been to bring in several users at once and conduct them with at least one observer in the same room. I haven't typically used screen capture software, but used a combination of observer notes and audio recording, strongly encouraging participants to use think aloud to provide feedback as they complete tasks from the test script.
it helped me understand why doing this as regularly as possible is so helpful.
I found the rapid sample user testing on a real website extremely valuable and the key piece of the workshop. As I often find when doing any kind of research, my own biggest challenge is keeping my mouth shut and avoiding introducing bias to the test. I had the same issue when doing my MA thesis interviews in 2009. A nice little addition is some handy downloads for running usability tests, available here.
If I had two suggestions for this workshop, it would be to include Steve's book with the fee (particularly since Lou's workshop the next day did) and for Steve to stray a little more into other aspects of usability testing and do a couple of varied exercises. Since I've done some of this work on a few occasions now, I found the workshop parroted the book's content a little too closely. However, I also recognize that designing a workshop for diverse experience levels and awareness is a real challenge, and the book is a very useful guide to weaving user testing into your normal cycles.
My takeaway will be to try figure out a way to introduce more of this at work. Particularly in an environment where overall design changes happen infrequently, and you begin to take the relationship between your site and your users for granted, it can be difficult to step back and spend time on operational design work. I know it won't happen a day per month as Steve suggests, but certainly some usability testing on the lowest hanging fruit on our main public web property on, perhaps, a quarterly basis would be very useful (giving us enough time in between to actually fix some of the findings). And, like pretty much every large website with multiple audience segments, we have lots of low hanging fruit. I've talked often about just that – routine quarterly testing for iterative improvements. Since I was also lucky enough to snag Remote Research as a draw prize at the day three workshop, I expect my user testing to be done more remotely. My hope is that the convenience of remote testing might give me a fighting chance to actually set up a quarterly user testing process.
I took this workshop with two others, which I also reviewed. Adaptable Information Architecture and Designing with Agile. I also have an overview page here.


Our last full day had arrived and yes you guest it we were up at 5am! However, breakfast was later, at 6am and we walked from the lodge to the forest, no long hours on the bus. Green Jays visited the garden whilst we ate breakfast and Black-breasted Jays were in the drive way a little later. We added our first new bird of the day also in the garden, a Black-capped Tanager.
The walk involved taking a narrow forest footpath up to 1600 meters so there was plenty of uphill work involved. In the lane outside the lodge we found Green-fronted Lancebill, Buff-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Chlorospingus and Slate-headed Flycatcher. Once in the forest things were really slow, birds were few and far between, sometimes we went 15 -20 minutes without a sighting and sometimes there was a flurry of sightings.
Once on the forest trail two birds were seen almost immediately, a Highland Tinamou and then a Chestnut-crowned Gnatcatcher, they both fed on the footpath ahead of us. Next was the White-capped Tapaculo which was very hard to see and not everyone got to see it well. A little flock of species included Striped Treehunter, Streaked Xenops, Canada Warbler and Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner. We had a short stake-out to try to see the Stiles's Tapaculo and then we went a fair distance before we found Acadian Flycatcher.
During the next two hours we found fewer birds but those that appeared need a mention such as: the little beauty Scale-capped Pygmy-Tyrant, Plain Antvireo, Slaty Antwren and Red-bellied Grackle.
We reached the ridge and found ourselves in bright sunshine,not too good for birding, it was also a little breezy. We found Beryl-spangled Tanagers, Ornate Flycatcher, Greenish Puffleg, Spotted Woodcreeper and not much else. No sighting was made of the much anticipated, Multi-coloured Tanager. We heaed back down to the lodge in time for lunch we saw some nice birds; Three-striped Warbler, Orange-bellied Euphonia, Indigo Flowerpiercer, Slate-throated Whitestart and the star of the show, the endemic Wattle Guan.
We took a long lunch in the heat of the day, lunch was served at 1pm and we met again for our afternoon birding at 3pm. Johnnier decided to take us to a lower altitude to look for a couple of endemics along the main the track, so we drove for 45 minutes down the mountainside before we got out. It was a great idea because there seemed to be a lot of bird activity at this lower level, we quickly found the endemic White-mantled Barbet, a pair of which had made a nest hole in a roadside tree. A Sooty-capped Tyrannulet showed very welltoo as did Crimson-backed Tanager, Blue-necked Tanager and Yellow-tufted Dacnis.
We only walked about 50 meters when Johnnier found another endemic, the Magdelana Antbird, that too showed relatively well, soon afterwards he was pointing out a pair of the stunning Sooty Ant Tanagers. We were well pleased with tose two birds. Other sightings included: Striolated Manakin, Swainson's Thrush, Bay-breasted Warbler, Bay-headed & Summer Tanagers.
We finished birding as the light began to fade and the cloud drifted in, our last dinner was taken at 7:30pm on the terrace with the moths and any other flying insect that cared to join us.


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Darrel Stinson was known for strong opinions as a Reform MP. (YouTube photo)
Former MP breaks silence, comments on politics today
Known for his outspoken conservatism, Darrel Stinson was MP for the Okanagan-Shuswap from 1993-2006.
Brieanna Charlebois
Mar. 9, 2019 4:35 p.m.
Recognized for his large cowboy hat and his outspoken conservatism, former MP for the Okanagan-Shuswap Darrel Stinson is breaking his 14 year silence to reflect on the state of politics.
Stinson made a name for himself by ignoring political correctness and was often at the centre of controversy. He is probably best known across the country for his 1997 outburst in the House of Commons after opposition MP John Cannis heckled him by calling Stinson a racist, to which Stinson replied, "Do you have the fortitude or the gonads to stand up and come across here and say that to me, you son of a (b****)?" before crossing the floor toward Cannis. The speaker later cited both men for unparliamentary language.
Related: BEYOND THE HEADLINES: Stinson speaks out
Related: LETTER: Old-style politics is easier to cover
Stinson left office in 2005 when he was diagnosed with cancer, and his political commentary went silent until now. Today, Stinson lives in Vernon and said after leaving office he wanted to be near the mountains and the lakes again, but he looks back at his time in office fondly.
"I wish I was 20 years younger and in better shape health-wise because I'd go back again," he said, chuckling. "I don't know if I'd last there nowadays, I'd probably get kicked out, but I'd absolutely love to go back."
Though over a decade has passed since retiring, he said he's still very invested in politics.
"I wish I was well enough to get back into politics. I can't make it to a lot of the meetings anymore because of my health but I'm still really interested," he said, before praising his constituents. "They were the best people."
He represented the region from 1993 until the dissolution of the House of Commons of Canada for the 2006 federal election (though his illness forced him to retire before that time). When asked about his career and his views on the politics today, he spoke with the same vigor he was known for years prior.
"I think we need to quit being politically correct. Today, politicians are all afraid of the reporter. They're all afraid to be branded this and branded that. The way I see it is, why don't you just say it instead of having fear control your agenda?" said Stinson.
"People accused me of being too straightforward, and I could have been quiet or agreeable, but the people elected me and they elected me to get in there and say something and try and get the change. I always came back and asked the people where they wanted me to go with it because, the way I saw it was, I'm not there to force my morality on the people, I'm there for them to force theirs upon me. That's my job and they're the ones (who) paid my wages."
While in office, he often used media as a resource and a soundboard to find out what the people wanted.
"Opposition ministers didn't like a lot of what we were doing or telling the media, but our job was not to go back there and be liked by the opposition and that's just the way I looked at it. Some of the guys had a problem with me at the caucus because they just figured I was stubborn, which I was I guess but I didn't think much of compromise — once you start to compromise, when do you stop? They used to say, 'Just put a little water in the wine, Darrel.' and I used to say, 'Well you can no longer call it wine then, can you?'"
Encouraging people to vote, he said he believes that everything in society is an extension of politicians in office.
"You're going to see the change, there's no doubt about it, because I think people are tired of the wishy-washy politician," he said. "It's time to stand up and the more you talk to people, the more you find out — I hate retirement but there's not much that I can do about it. A lot of people think I'm dead because of the cancer, but the ones I get to talk to are saying the same thing. It's a sad thing to see because you have young people who have to make a living in this country, but what are we leaving for them?"
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package org.runningdinner.event;

import org.runningdinner.core.RunningDinner;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent;

/**
 * This event is published on every creation of a new running dinner
 *
 * @author Clemens Stich
 *
 */
public class NewRunningDinnerEvent extends ApplicationEvent {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 2362167628097318302L;

	private RunningDinner newRunningDinner;

	public NewRunningDinnerEvent(final Object source, final RunningDinner newRunningDinner) {
		super(source);
		this.newRunningDinner = newRunningDinner;
	}

	public RunningDinner getNewRunningDinner() {
		return newRunningDinner;
	}

}


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Cloud HPC: Harnessing Cloud Computing to Power Up HPC Applications
2018 — Current
In this research project, our primary goal is to explore opportunities for symbiotic, coordinated use of HPC and cloud computing infrastructures. The idea is, starting from an HPC infrastructure, identifying cloud computing aspects that could be explored to provide a flexible (e.g., regarding adaptation to fluctuating demands), secure and efficient environment for running HPC. We will focus on devising models, algorithms, and mechanisms to help users in having access to a suitable execution platform for running their applications, in those scenarios in which users' infrastructure is missing or lacks required resources.
Coordinators: Luciano Gaspary
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU), Beijing Normal University (BNU)
Funding: CNPq
GT-FENDE: Federated Ecosystem for Offering, Distribution, and Execution of Virtual Network Functions
This project is a Working Group supported by the National Research Network (Rede Nacional de Pesquisa, RNP). It aims to design, develop and deploy an ecosystem for the provision, distribution and execution of virtualized network functions (e.g., firewall and NAT). Such an ecosystem will be the first of its kind and will enable the distribution of network functions and services in a manner similar to that found in mobile marketplaces (e.g., Google Play, Apple Store). The ecosystem also includes a platform for executing network functions within FIBRE/FUTEBOL islands, and within the RNP Internet Data Center.
Coordinators: Carlos Raniery, Alberto Egon Schaeffer Filho
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, UFSM, UFPR
Funding: RNP
URL: http://gt-fende.inf.ufrgs.br
Multilevel Resilience for NFV and SDN based Network Infrastructure
This research project aims to demonstrate that the combined use of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) not only allows the development of more flexible and manageable infrastructures, but also allows the design of more resilient and secure systems. This can be achieved through the development of multilevel resilience mechanisms. We argue in this project that the design of such mechanisms is possible based on the comprehensive view of the network and its logic of operation (provided by the logically centralized controller in SDN), associated with the ability to virtualize network functions in different layers of the protocol stack (provided by NFV).
Coordinators: Alberto Egon Schaeffer Filho
Participating Institutions: UFRGS
P4Sec: Securing Networks in the Programmable Data Plane Era
Recent advances in SDN and programmable data planes have allowed network operators to quickly deploy new protocols, customize network behavior, and develop innovative services. However programmable data planes also introduce new complexities to network management: ensuring that the network satisfies critical security properties now also requires to check the program that defines the behavior of the programmable data plane. This project addresses three important problems in network security: new network verification techniques to allow operators verify that their network satisfies security properties; use the data plane to implement a security kernel to enforce security properties; develop new security services that leverage the capabilities of a programmable data plane.
Coordinators: Marinho Barcellos, Kirill Levchenko
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, UFPE, UnB, UCSD, UTAM
Funding: CTIC, RNP, NSF
GT-IPÊ analytics: Transforming raw monitoring data into valuable network management information
The adoption of multiple monitoring techniques increased the availability of raw data. However, state of the art is still limited in terms of in-depth analysis and inferences about network behavior, given the scale and complexity of WANs and the volume/heterogeneity of data. This project investigates methods to analyze, in a longitudinal way, datasets that have been collected from the IPE backbone (Brazilian academic network) for many years. A concrete product will be a web-based system that will provide inferences from the combination of multiple large datasets available, internal and external to the organization. The inferences will help improve performance and security of the backbone network operation, traffic engineering and planning.
Coordinators: Marinho Barcellos
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, INRIA
NFV-MENTOR – Network Functions Virtualization ManageMENT & ORchestration
Applying the concepts of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is now a reality, present in multiple network environments, from new generation cellphone networks (LTE and 5G) to the on-demand service delivery networks (e.g., virtualization of set-up boxes and residential gateways). Among the benefits of NFV are the reduction of both capital and operational expenditures, as well as greater flexibility in deploying new network services. In this way, both industry and academia have been presenting solutions focused on specific goals for their environments, such as optimizing the use of network resources, creating and deploying virtual network functions, among others. Thus, the objective of this project is to create a unified platform for lifecycle management of virtual networking functions, as well as the orchestration of these functions in the context software-defined networks.
Coordinators: Lisandro Granville
FUTEBOL: Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory
The telecommunications research remains largely segregated between optical networks and wireless systems, and rarely do researchers cross the boundary between the two. We argue that the needs of future telecommunication systems, be it from high data rate applications in smart mobile devices, machine-type communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), or backhaul requirements brought about from cell densification, require the co-design of the wireless access and the optical backhaul and backbone. FUTEBOL aims at developing a converged control framework for experimentation on wireless and optical networks and to deploy this framework in federated research facilities in Brazil and Europe.
Coordinators: Juergen Rochol, Cristiano Both
Participating Institutions: Trinity College Dublin, University of Bristol, Instituto de Telecomunicações de Aveiro, VTT, UFRGS, UNICAMP, UFMG, UFC, UFES, Digitel, Intel
Funding: MCTIC, CTIC
FIBRE: Future Internet Brazilian Environment for Experimentation
The FIBRE testbed is as research facility constructed in the scope of a former project funded by the 2010 Brazil-EU Coordinated Call in ICT. It works as a large-scale Virtual Laboratory for students and researchers to test new applications and network architecture models. Currently, the FIBRE infrastructure consists of a federation of 11 local testbeds, also called "experimentation nodes" or simply "islands". Each "island" have a set of network devices to support experiments in both fixed and wireless technologies. They are connected by an overlay network, called FIBREnet, on top of the RNP backbone.
Coordinators: Cristiano Both, Liane Tarouco
Participating Institutions: RNP, CPqD, UFF, UFG, UFPA, UFPE, UFRJ, UFSCar, UNIFACS, USP, UFES, UFRGS, UFU, UFBA, UFMG, AMPATH
Funding: MCTIC, RNP
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based relay network to support mission critical applications
In environments in which there is no fixed telecommunication infrastructure, such as post-disaster and battle field locations, alternative solutions are needed to support disaster relief in case of disasters, and troops in military operations. In these scenarios, the communication among the nodes on the field is very constrained and it needs to be efficient as not always it is able to completely fulfil the application requirements. This project approaches this problem by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial commuters to relay data among the nodes and between them and remote stations, using software defined networking (SDN) and information centric networking (ICN) techniques.
Coordinators: Edison Pignaton de Freitas
Funding: FAPERGS
Rebuilding User Sessions in Large Scale Systems in the Internet
This project addresses the monitoring of dynamic and large-scale distributed systems, focusing on measurements about users' sessions. Specifically, the project aims at the following objectives: define, design, develop and evaluate a methodology to improve the accuracy of online user sessions traces; and to search for a new understanding of the behavior of users in dynamic and large-scale distributed systems. Thus, this project intends to offer a robust and consistent framework for the development and evaluation of new solutions for the problems that exist in such systems.
Coordinators: Weverton Cordeiro
Phoenix: Towards a Survivable SDN Architecture
SDN separates control and data planes, but independency between forwarding devices and remote controllers introduces challenges on survivability – that is, how to preserve network functionality under failures and attacks. This project conducts research based on five main pillars: (a) a comparative study of existing mechanisms and the subsequent creation of a taxonomy of related literature strategies; (b) novel algorithms for controller placement; (c) resilience mechanisms for communication between the control and data planes via alternative channels; (d) development of recovery mechanisms to ensure compliance with high-level policies; and (e) incorporation of security mechanisms to the control plane. These mechanisms are intelligently combined into a novel and robust architectural model.
Microsoft Azure Research Grant
We investigate the dynamics of network peering infrastructures to understand better how it impacts Internet performance. Peering infrastructures, namely Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) and their colocation facilities, are present in every major city, have hundreds of network members, and support tens to hundreds of thousands of interconnections around the globe. Infrastructures with high peering concentration have a major role in the correct and healthy operation of the Internet, as sudden changes in traffic patterns in one such facility may severely impact the performance of several services and affect millions of users. Little is known about their internal dynamics, as studying these infrastructures is challenging and requires computing resources to support storage and data-intensive manipulations.
Funding: Microsoft
ProSeG: Information Security, Protection, and Resilience in Smart Grids
The goal of this project is to investigate and develop mechanisms that can be integrated into Smart Grids to meet stringent security and resilience requirements. While security standards for Smart Grids (e.g., NISTIR 7628) and their prescribed static measures (encryption and authentication) are important, we advocate the need for techniques to manage dynamic behavior in a Smart Grid in order to respond quickly and automatically to cyberattacks or failures. We propose the use of techniques for network management for the coordination of monitoring and mitigation components that operate on the SCADA infrastructure and on the smart devices at the endpoints of a Smart Grid.
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, Lancaster University, CEEE, Globosense, CP Eletrônica
MEICAN: Management Environment for Internet-Domain Circuits in Advanced Networks
National research and education networks (NRENs), such as ESnet, GéANT, and RNP, currently promote the employment of dynamic circuit networks (DCNs) to improve scientific communications beyond the capabilities of today's Internet. In spite of their alleged benefits, DCNs also pose significant challenges. Two examples are dealing with the end user's lack of ability to understand low-level technicalities of virtual circuit establishment, and accommodating NRENs' local policies throughout the lifecycle of DCN. In this project, we seek to improve the usability of DCN services through the design MEICAN, a platform to manage the lifecycle of DCN from definition to provisioning of virtual circuits.
Were You There? Bridging the Gap to Unveil Users' Online Sessions in Networked, Distributed Systems
The comprehension of users' behavior is paramount for evaluating improvements to networked, distributed systems. To this end, several strategies have been proposed to obtain traces based on the capture of usage information. One main strategy consists of taking snapshots of online users. Although popular, related proposals have fallen short in ensuring accuracy of obtained data, as a large number of monitors is required to this end. Proposing a methodology to correct ill-collected snapshots is also hampered, as its evaluation requires accurate snapshots. Our goal is using Azure technology to capture accurate snapshots, for enabling the evaluation of snapshot correction methodologies.
Virtual Network Research Center
The objective of the project was to identify and analyze the main challenges of using virtualization in computer networks, especially concerning management and security issues associated with this new networking paradigm. The project also aimed to propose novel strategies – such as virtual network embedding mechanisms – to address the identified challenges.
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, PUCRS
Advancements in Models and Tools for Information Technology Management
This project CAPES PROCAD, involving UFPA and UFRGS, had as primary objective to investigate, construct and evaluate models, methodologies, and tools to aid the process of decision making in Information Technology.
Participating Institutions: UFRGS, UFPA
Funding: CAPES
SecFuNet: Security for Future Networks
The future Internet will rely heavily on virtualization and cloud networking. Therefore, one of the main challenges for the future Internet is to provide such virtual networks and cloud accesses with a high degree of security. This project proposed the design of a framework providing secure identification and authentication, secure data transfer, secure virtualized infrastructure, and privacy in virtual network and clouds, exploring techniques such as micro-controllers, resource management, intrusion tolerant algorithms, and cryptographic protocols.
Participating Institutions: UPMC, Ether Trust, Telecom ParisTech, École Normale Supérieure (France), TWI (Poland), Implementa, Technische Universität München, Infineon Technologies (Germany), Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), UFRGS, UFPE, UFRJ, UECE, UFAM, UFSC (Brazil)
Funding: Framework Programme 7 (European Union), CNPq


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Underground: Season Two Art Unveiled by WGN America
by Jessica Pena, February 2, 2017
Fans of Underground are in for a treat. Today, WGN America released new key art from the series' upcoming second season.
The historical drama follows the heroes of the Underground Railroad who used everything within them to escape bondage and to find lives as free men and women. The cast includes Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Jessica De Gouw, Alano Miller, Christopher Meloni, Marc Blucas, Reed Diamond, Adina Porter, Amirah Vann, Mykelti Williamson, Theodus Crane, Johnny Ray Gill, Renwick Scott, Jussie Smollett, and Andrea Frankle.
Season two of Underground premieres on March 8th at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Check out the new art and more info from WGN America below:
LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2017 – WGN America released key art for its critically acclaimed hit series "Underground" ahead of the thrilling second season premiere, returning Wednesday March 8, 2017 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The release of the images coincides with the series' participation at aTVfest where "Underground" is being honored today with the festival's annual prestigious CAST AWARD for outstanding contributions to the art of television, adding to the series' growing list of accomplishments including the most recent NAACP Image Awards nominations.
The striking new key art features returning cast including Jurnee Smollett-Bell ("Friday Night Lights," The Great Debaters), Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, Hidden Figures), Jessica de Gouw ("Arrow," "Dracula"), Alano Miller (Loving, "Atlanta"), Christopher Meloni ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) and Amirah Vann ("Girls," And So It Goes), along with all-new cast featuring Aisha Hinds ("Under the Dome," Star Trek Into Darkness) in the pioneering role of Harriet Tubman, Jasika Nicole ("Fringe," "Scandal") as Georgia and DeWanda Wise ("Shots Fired") as Clara.
Additional guest stars featured in the upcoming season include Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner and ten-time Grammy Award® winning singer-songwriter John Legend as renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass, along with Bokeem Woodbine ("Fargo"), Michael Trotter ("Rosewood"), Jesse Luken ("Justified," 42) and Sadie Stratton ("Code Black," "Boy Meets World").
Season two of the 10-episode, hour-long series follows an unremitting struggle for freedom within a divided America on the brink of civil war, each side vying to enact their own justice. Set in the aftermath of the Macon 7's daring attempt to stage the greatest escape in history, this group of American heroes continues on their harrowing journey to freedom, with legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman blazing the trail.
"Underground," delivered 3 million Total Viewers weekly, and made history as WGN America's most-watched original program ever in its freshman season. The series was recently honored with a number of recognitions including four NAACP Image Awards nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Amirah Vann) and Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series (Anthony Hemingway). Additionally, the African American Film Critics Association named "Underground" as Best TV Show (Cable/New Media) and the second highest show overall for 2016, and is also honoring Director Anthony Hemmingway with their 2017 Horizon Award. The series was nominated for a TCA Award for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association and is a finalist for the Cynopsis TV Awards in the categories of Best New TV Drama, Best TV Drama, Best Series Writing, and Best Showrunner.
From Sony Pictures Television, "Underground" is created and written by Misha Green ("Sons of Anarchy," "Heroes") and Joe Pokaski ("Heroes," "Daredevil"), who serve as Executive Producers alongside Emmy Award® winning executive producer/director Anthony Hemingway ("The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," "The Wire"); Academy Award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend) of Weed Road Pictures; Tory Tunnell (King Arthur, Holy Rollers) and Joby Harold (King Arthur, Edge of Tomorrow) of Safehouse Pictures; John Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius of Get Lifted Film Co (Southside with You, La La Land).; and Mark Taylor ("MadTV"). Season two of the gripping original drama was shot in Savannah, Georgia.
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

#nullable disable

using Roslyn.Utilities;

namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.PatternMatching
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Note(cyrusn): this enum is ordered from strongest match type to weakest match type.
    /// </summary>
    internal enum PatternMatchKind
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The candidate string matched the pattern exactly.
        /// </summary>
        Exact,

        /// <summary>
        /// The pattern was a prefix of the candidate string.
        /// </summary>
        Prefix,

        /// <summary>
        /// The pattern was a substring of the candidate string, but in a way that wasn't a CamelCase match.
        /// </summary>
        Substring,

        // Note: CamelCased matches are ordered from best to worst.

        /// <summary>
        /// All camel-humps in the pattern matched a camel-hump in the candidate.  All camel-humps
        /// in the candidate were matched by a camel-hump in the pattern.
        ///
        /// Example: "CFPS" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "cfps" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "CoFiPrSe" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// </summary>
        CamelCaseExact,

        /// <summary>
        /// All camel-humps in the pattern matched a camel-hump in the candidate.  The first camel-hump
        /// in the pattern matched the first camel-hump in the candidate.  There was no gap in the camel-
        /// humps in the candidate that were matched.
        ///
        /// Example: "CFP" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "cfp" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "CoFiPRo" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// </summary>
        CamelCasePrefix,

        /// <summary>
        /// All camel-humps in the pattern matched a camel-hump in the candidate.  The first camel-hump
        /// in the pattern matched the first camel-hump in the candidate.  There was at least one gap in
        /// the camel-humps in the candidate that were matched.
        ///
        /// Example: "CP" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "cp" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "CoProv" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// </summary>
        CamelCaseNonContiguousPrefix,

        /// <summary>
        /// All camel-humps in the pattern matched a camel-hump in the candidate.  The first camel-hump
        /// in the pattern did not match the first camel-hump in the pattern.  There was no gap in the camel-
        /// humps in the candidate that were matched.
        ///
        /// Example: "FP" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "fp" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "FixPro" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// </summary>
        CamelCaseSubstring,

        /// <summary>
        /// All camel-humps in the pattern matched a camel-hump in the candidate.  The first camel-hump
        /// in the pattern did not match the first camel-hump in the pattern.  There was at least one gap in
        /// the camel-humps in the candidate that were matched.
        ///
        /// Example: "FS" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "fs" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// Example: "FixSer" matching "CodeFixProviderService"
        /// </summary>
        CamelCaseNonContiguousSubstring,

        /// <summary>
        /// The pattern matches the candidate in a fuzzy manner.  Fuzzy matching allows for
        /// a certain amount of misspellings, missing words, etc. See <see cref="SpellChecker"/> for
        /// more details.
        /// </summary>
        Fuzzy
    }
}