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//
// A user can specify which test(s) in a Google Test program to run via
// either the GTEST_FILTER environment variable or the --gtest_filter
// flag.  This is used for testing such functionality.
//
// The program will be invoked from a Python unit test.  Don't run it
// directly.

#include "gtest/gtest.h"

namespace {

// Test case FooTest.

class FooTest : public testing::Test {
};

TEST_F(FooTest, Abc) {
}

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TEST(BarTest, TestOne) {
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TEST(BarTest, TestTwo) {
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TEST(BarTest, TestThree) {
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TEST(BarTest, DISABLED_TestFour) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

TEST(BarTest, DISABLED_TestFive) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

// Test case BazTest.

TEST(BazTest, TestOne) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

TEST(BazTest, TestA) {
}

TEST(BazTest, TestB) {
}

TEST(BazTest, DISABLED_TestC) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

// Test case HasDeathTest

TEST(HasDeathTest, Test1) {
  EXPECT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(exit(1), ".*");
}

// We need at least two death tests to make sure that the all death tests
// aren't on the first shard.
TEST(HasDeathTest, Test2) {
  EXPECT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(exit(1), ".*");
}

// Test case FoobarTest

TEST(DISABLED_FoobarTest, Test1) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

TEST(DISABLED_FoobarTest, DISABLED_Test2) {
  FAIL() << "Expected failure.";
}

// Test case FoobarbazTest

TEST(DISABLED_FoobarbazTest, TestA) {
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}

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class ParamTest : public testing::TestWithParam<int> {
};

TEST_P(ParamTest, TestX) {
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#endif  // GTEST_HAS_PARAM_TEST

}  // namespace

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);

  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}

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You can find this fish swimming in waters that are 300 to 1000 feet deep in basically any ocean of the world. The king usually remains in the deep waters and the rare times when it surfaces it usually dies. The fish can reach around 16 feet in length and you know that myth that says there are giant sea serpents? It is said that those rumors might have branched off the Kings.


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My parents brought me to Weymouth when I was seven, so they could run a burger bar, so I have been involved with food from an early age. I started working for them when I was twelve, washing up to start with and progressing on to grill chef. My love of food really started here and from my parents taking me on holidays around the World and encouraging me to try new things.
When I left school I went to Weymouth Catering College, whilst here I also worked at a local Hotel, where I gained valuable experiences from my first Head Chef, who gave me the nickname "Crazychef". After leaving college I went to London and worked at a top Hotel in Piccadily, here I gained further knowledge and experiences. From London I came back to my roots to become a Second Chef at a local 3 Star Hotel.
Life then started to get a bit boring and I started looking for new challenges. This was when I decided to start work in my local public house as assistant manager with the responsibility also of running the kitchen. I love this line of work and it has taken me to places such as Ascot, Wales, Bideford, Taunton and back to Weymouth where currently I am still in the trade.
I have had a love for hot and spicy food for something like the last 15 years but my love for chillies has really grown in the last couple of years. At the public house I now work there are quite a few of us chilli lovers and we are always trying to make the hottest and strangest recipes, using chillies, that we can, each of us trying to out do the others. This is why the Chilli Ice Cream was initially made. It remains today one of the strangest dishes made along with Chillied Pickled Brussel Sprouts, mad by a good friend of mine.
I have never been rigid in my approach to cooking and I think that all recipes can be approached in a flexible manner and are subject to change to suit individual tastes. This is especially true if you cannot find all the ingredients listed or do not like a particular ingredient.
So my golden rule when it comes to cooking is do not be afraid to experiment with food, always look at a recipe as though they are just guidelines not to be folowed by the letter of the law. If you think it will work then to hell with waht everybody esle thinks, as long as you like it try it.
I love to cook anything with chillies!!!!!
I grow my own chillies through the Summer and make plenty of chilli sauce for myself and my friends with a little bit left over to sell.
I also make chilli chutney and pickled chilli eggs and onions, chili bread and chilli pickled garlic. For dessert, Chilli Ice Cream and Chilli Praline. Also I love to cook seafood, fresh pasta, Chinese and Indian recipes.
I cook using any strange herbs or spices that I can lay my hands on, having brought back all sorts from my travels to various countries such as America, Canada, Thailand, China and Europe.
At the moment I am having great fun using the Australian bush herbs and spices that are currently gaining recognition in England.
Crazychef's own website has long since disappeared. Anyone know where he is these days?


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This Salwar Kameez White top is craft by butterfly net. Available with the santoon fabric bottom. This semi stitched suit come with the chiffon dupatta. You can wear this suit in wedding, party and function. With this suit you can wear heavy earrings that give you amazing look. Buy this saree at Gunj Fashion before it gets out of stock.


San Pablo City Government's One Stop Shop played host to the 8th leg of the road show. Held last November 15-16, the event was formally opened by Honorable City Mayor Florante Boy Aquino and First Lady Leila Aquino, together with notable fashion designer Renee Salud and ABS-CBN reporter Sol Aragones.
Organized by SPCNHS-MPC, headed by Mrs. Loida Dantic, and known event organizer Mr. Egay Victorio, the City Government's One Stop Processing Center became a one stop shop of wedding-related needs during the 2-day event. The event was highlighted with a bridal fashion show on the 2nd night by the City's leading designers.


The RSPCA is appealing for information after a cat with an injury to his tail was abandoned near Peterborough.
The RSPCA believe the young male cat - which has since had to be put to sleep - had been taken to a vet by his owner, as when the RSPCA investigated the location where the cat was found, they discovered a vet bandage along with part of the poor cat's tail.
The RSPCA attended the incident on Sunday August 5 and collected the cat, who was hiding in a barn at a location in Stamford Road, Marholm, after concerned members of the public called the charity for help.
It is understood that someone had previously seen a person leaving a cat box and the cat, who was wearing a black sparkly collar, on a nearby bench, with some food.
RSPCA Inspector Justin Stubbs who is investigating this incident, said: "I am very grateful to everyone who has tried to help this poor cat. It is absolutely appalling that whoever dumped this cat knew he had an injury to his tail. While I may never know what has happened, I suspect someone had this cat with an injury, and taken him to a vet, but when they were told they would have to pay for the tail to be amputated they instead just dumped this poor fella.
"When I searched the area where the cat had been hiding I found a vet bandage and the remainder of the cat's tail.
"This poor cat was very poorly and I rushed him straight to a vet so he could have the stub of his tail amputated as it was infected and had a swarm of flies around it. But sadly despite the best efforts of all involved he had to be put to sleep as the infection had caused too much damage and it was the kindest thing to do to prevent him suffering further.
"I am appealing for information and I would urge anyone who may recognise this cat or know who owns him to please contact the RSPCA appeal inspector appeal line in confidence on 0300 123 8018.


I love the mix of 2D and 3D clothing on this line to decorate a girl's bedroom. Found via Studio Tout Petit.
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I love everything about this little artistic collage of stitching, fabric, embroidery hoops, and a clothesline. By Stephanie Kelly Clark, via Hiving Out.
Ordinary Parent featured this super adorable way to mark your child's month-age.
Give me a wooden ladder, a chalkboard, tags, a rusted metal urn and a clothesline and you had me at hello. Via Style Me Pretty.


We have created a 2019 ranking of the best colleges in New Mexico that offer Graphic Arts degrees to help you find a school that fits your needs. Each school's ranking is based on the compilation of our data from reliable government sources, student surveys, college graduate interviews, and editorial review. In addition, you can view our entire list of all 12 Graphic Arts schools located within New Mexico. We also provide reviews, facts, and questions and answers for schools on our site and offer you access to get valuable information from colleges and universities today.
University of New Mexico-Main Campus offers 1 Graphic Arts Degree program. It's a large public university in a large city. In 2015, 17 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 17 Bachelor's degrees.
Santa Fe Community College offers 4 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a medium sized public college in a outlying rural. In 2015, 13 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 7 Associate's degrees, and 6 Certificates degrees.
Santa Fe University of Art and Design offers 2 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a very small private university in a small city. In 2015, 13 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 13 Bachelor's degrees.
New Mexico State University-Dona Ana offers 4 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a large public college in a outlying rural. In 2015, 30 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 17 Associate's degrees, and 13 Certificates degrees.
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus offers 2 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a small public college in a remote town. In 2015, 8 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 5 Associate's degrees, and 3 Certificates degrees.
San Juan College offers 1 Graphic Arts Degree program. It's a medium sized public college in a small city. In 2015, 8 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 8 Associate's degrees.
Western New Mexico University offers 1 Graphic Arts Degree program. It's a small public university in a remote town. In 2015, 2 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 2 Associate's degrees.
Clovis Community College offers 2 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a small public college in a remote town. In 2015, 2 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 2 Associate's degrees.
Southwest University of Visual Arts-Albuquerque offers 1 Graphic Arts Degree program. It's a very small private university in a large city. In 2015, 17 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 17 Bachelor's degrees.
New Mexico State University-Alamogordo offers 2 Graphic Arts Degree programs. It's a small public college in a outlying rural. In 2015, 2 students graduated in the study area of Graphic Arts with students earning 1 Associate's degree, and 1 Certificates degree.


text: Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $9,143,000 one-year follow-on contract under previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-reimbursement contract (N66001-04-D-2504) to exercise an option to provide support for the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), San Diego, to include studies of symptoms, morbidity, hospitalizations, reproductive outcomes, mortality, and other health-related issues among service members and Department of Defense beneficiary populations. The original two-year contract included three one-year options, and this award represents exercising of the second option year. The cumulative potential value of the contract, if the third option is exercised, is $45,000,000. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif. (90 percent) and at NHRC Detachment at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio (10 percent), and is expected to be completed July 2008. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

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Hiddink preferred caution at Vicarage Road with Cesc Fabregas sitting ahead of Nemanja Matic and John Obi Mikel, whereas Oscar was deployed on the left. However, Quique Sanchez Flores's midfield diamond posed several issues for the Blues in the first half.
Watford has thrived through the direct combination play between Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, and though that partnership created promising half chances — with the former targeting Cesar Azpilicueta, whereas the latter briefly bullied John Terry — it was the manner in which the home side's short intricate passes bypassed Chelsea's midfield. Jose Manuel Jurado was the key man in the first half, as he freely drifted into pockets in central areas to retain possession, evade Chelsea's sluggish midfield, and play positive passes.
One move in particular near the half hour mark witnessed Jurado evade Mikel's challenge, before running past several Chelsea players to lay the ball off to the onrushing Etienne Capoue in half space, but the Watford midfielder's shot was saved by Thibaut Courtois. Chelsea clearly encountered difficulties with Watford's numerical advantage in midfield, as the away side's defensive shape was fairly poor.
"I'm very happy. After 10 minutes we played really well in the first half, we controlled the ball and had good chances," Flores stated.
Elsewhere, Chelsea struggled to create goal-scoring chances, as Watford goalkeeper, Heurelho Gomes comfortably dealt with the Blues' main attacking ploy — Willian's tame crosses from the right flank. Matic and Azpilicueta's pressure resulted in the latter poking a shot wide of the net, whereas Diego Costa's battle with the Watford centre-backs was ineffective.
Under former manager Jose Mourinho, Chelsea would rely on quick counter-attacks in transition, but that approach has been partially abandoned since the Portuguese manager's departure. Oscar's first half long ball over the Watford defence for Costa epitomized the ideal Chelsea attack — Hiddink's approach emphasizes the importance of Fabregas' passing, Costa's running and brute strength, along with Oscar's tenacious invention.
There was a vast improvement in Chelsea's second half display, as Flores' men were unable to sustain their dynamic midfield pressing. Fabregas adopted deeper midfield positions to clip passes over the Watford defence for Costa and Oscar. Meanwhile, though Costa's movement into the channels was exceptional throughout, the Spanish international's productivity around the Watford box was profligate.
Fabregas' passing from deep areas combined with Oscar's work-rate and guile was pivotal to Chelsea's second half dominance, but Gomes' heroics were decisive. First, substitute Eden Hazard directed Willian's pass into half space for Branislav Ivanovic, who fired a powerful effort at Gomes. Then, the Watford keeper pushed aside Costa's point-blank header, courtesy of a venomous Willian cross.
"We are playing better and better every week. I like to see. How the team is playing, especially in the last 20-25 minutes when we pushed," he said.
"Once more I think my old goalie from a previous spell, Gomes, got a big reward, otherwise I think we would have won easily."
Where Hiddink only utilized Hazard off the bench, Flores didn't risk the possibility of losing, and moved to a 4-5-1 with Almen Abdi replacing Jurado. The alteration didn't necessarily prevent Chelsea from creating chances, and with energy levels decreasing, sloppy passes being played, and non-existent width from the full-backs, Flores' men rarely posed a threat.
Maximizing Costa and Fabregas' strengths signify Hiddink's master plan during his second interim spell at Stamford Bridge, but here, Gomes prevented the Blues from claiming maximum points.


Last week I shot a print campaign for Twixrix, a vaccine to protect against contracting both hepatitis A and B. Everyone on set, from the people representing the product and ad agency to photographer Darrin Klimek and the crew were great to work! Had lots of fun during this one, and was even offered a ride back home (I had taken the subway to the job and one of the guys was headed to my area). Anyway, it should be released by the end of the year, in magazines, brochures and on the Internet. We went through a lot of pictures, angles, setups and different expressions that I can't tell you exactly what to expect, but in all cases I play a chef, dressed in an all white chef's outfit, complete with hat.
I also went back home (Ottawa-Gatineau area) for the Thanksgiving weekend, but it wasn't all just pleasure. Well maybe it was, because the audition I had, along with the little photoshoot I took part of were both very enjoyable. First I auditioned for Parktown Productions' upcoming feature length film and was happy to see some familiar faces. You may know them as the producers of the Live 88.5 commercials (Bathroom, Stereo) and the Calvin Klein Grand Prize winning shot film "2@2", both which I act in. Then I met up with Kevin McMillan (who I've also worked with before) to take some pictures for his promotional materials he's putting together to get funding for his TV pilot that he wants to shoot in China! If this goes through, Kevin has offered me one of two lead roles.. which would be a blast to shoot. Combining acting and traveling.. awesome!
Other than that, I still audition on a regular basis and doing great! I actually just got news of a callback for a short film I auditioned for before the weekend. Will keep you updated as usual!


In Year 3 the children have the opportunity to learn either the cello or the violin. The children are taught by specialists teachers and, each term, the School invites parents to a special concert to showcase their progress.
In Years 3 and 4 children are encouraged to take on more responsibility both for their own learning and as a member of the cohort.
By this stage, most children have sufficiently established reading and comprehension skills to undertake independent research. Maths skills are developed and extended in both recorded and practical forms. Our curriculum enables children to develop their research and problem-solving skills, with the children encouraged to become self-regulated learners; as they gather information from a variety of sources their research skills flourish.
The Year 3 curriculum is enhanced by a series of educational excursions. The children visit Lunt Fort to experience life as a Roman soldier, dressing as a soldier and taking part in military exercises. The children also visit Rosliston Forestry Centre for orienteering activities and environmental games and have the opportunity to learn survival skills and den-building at Calke Abbey. Chinese New Year is celebrated as part of the international curriculum.
Year 4 have a very exciting start to the year with their first big trip away from home. The children venture to the Pioneer Centre in Shropshire which provides a fantastic environment for team building and year group bonding. The children get involved in lots of fun activities and develop their independence.
Year 4's Rainforest topic is brought alive for the children by a trip to Cadbury World and by celebrating Fairtrade fortnight which allows the children to learn more about the wider world. Tudor Day is also a highlight of the school year allowing children experience life in that era, with Tudor cooking, pomander making, dancing and much more.


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Adoptee Journal: Please Sir, May I Have A Bit More Space?
Some people, like my adoptive father, take up a BIG space. They demand all the attention, do all the talking and all the emoting. The rest of us are bystanders to the drama...pushed to the corner where we nod and listen and react to "them." My adoptive mother was like that in a different way. When I was around ten and went in for surgery to remove a benign forehead cyst, it was she who was undone by a fit of nerves. I sent her home and stayed in the hospital by myself. It was calmer that way.
Certainly, there are plenty of biological parentified children out there. But is there something about being adopted that adds to the risk of becoming one? When couples adopt, there is an enormous hole in their lives that they are trying to fill. Often, after much loss and heartbreak. In a way, it seems that adoption itself - which is a very odd and complicated institution - by its very nature sets up the child as an emotional caretaker for adults. For their happiness and wellbeing and sense of "completeness" as a human being rests on one person. Of course, there are some amazing adoptive parents who seem to understand this - expressly verbalized or not - and grip the reins of parenthood and act that way...allowing their adopted child to be what they are...a child.
In any case, my adoptive parents lacked the education and the sensitivity and the EMPATHY and, as a result, as an adult I have a very warped view of space. How much I am allowed in the day-to-day world of interactions. Friends talk about themselves and their lives way more than I would dare. As soon as I open my mouth to talk, I begin to feel guilty. I am being too self-centered. Or, in my confusion about space, I talk too much...trying to cover up my discomfort. I am always trying to accomodate other people...their feelings...their needs...their schedules. Them first. Me last. "Oh no no no," I'm apt to say, "Whatever works for you." Perhaps it's a lack of sense combined with a lack of sense of me. Parentified children know who their parents are and what they want. What we want is not a part of the equation.
The great thing, when one is finally aware, is that this is a behavior that can be changed. I've outgrown the little space that was doled out to me back in the early sixties. Space inflation? When I called my dad last night, he dispensed with the "Hello" and "Are you are" and launched straight into reciting every single item he'd eaten that day. Of course, what I ate would be of no interest to him. Apparently, I'm supposed to be fascinated by his every meal and latest encounter with the toilet. While it's maddening, it's also useless to try and change that relationship because he can't change. But I can. Learning to emotionally detach and learning to take up a bit more space in my other relationships. A square inch is rather claustrophobic!
Dementia makes the "recipient" self-centered. I think it has to do with information overload. It takes so much effort for them to remember their own lives and recount them to us family, that extending thought into OUR lives is just too much, or too hard. They get lost.
I've read many of your Dad entries. I don't think your feelings are without merit, but for the sake of you and the pain you are going through, try not to personalize his growing self-centeredness. It surely echoes his earlier self-centeredness and pushes your buttons, but now he really can't help it. As it all becomes too much, demented parents like yours have to let go of things mentally and hold on to what little they can.
Somewhere inside he is probably aware of what he is losing (his mind, and any chance of a better relationship with you) but he is powerless.


Dried rice offers hours of sensory play and is always a big hit at our Messy Play Sessions. Everyone joins in with the messy fun from tiny tots to big kids (and sometimes even the parents)! Read on to discover how easy it is to transform a simple packet of plain dried rice into exciting sensory activities for your little one to enjoy at home.
Kids love playing with colourful Spring rice at our Eggstravaganza Easter Parties! With our guidance you can make your own colourful Spring rice so that your little one can enjoy messy rice fun at home this Easter.
All you need is a packet of rice, some food colouring and either vinegar or hand sanitiser – that's it! Oh – and a mixing bowl and baking tray.
When you're ready, just place the rice, food colouring and vinegar (or hand sanitiser) in a mixing bowl and give it a really good mix. Once you're happy that all the grains of rice are covered, spread it out on a baking tray and leave it to dry.
Once your colourful Spring rice is dry, the fun can begin. Give your little one some toys such as plastic spoons, forks, funnels, cups, eggs, tea sets, trucks or any other suitable play items to encourage creative and imaginative play.
They can pour it, scoop it, shake it, spread it or just enjoy the feel of it running through their little fingers as they try to grasp it in their hands. They can play with each colour separately, or they can mix all the colours. Just let them dive in and enjoy hours of make-believe fun!
Top tip: When your little one has finished playing you can store your colourful rice in an air-tight container ready for messy play another day. It lasts for ages!
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If your little one is a messy play adventurer who loves Paw Patrol, then they will love our Messy Mutz Party in May! Until then they can create their very own Paw Patrol doggie play scene at home.
Just make up some colourful rice, then add their Paw Patrol toys, funnels, scoops, dog bowls and bones for lots of pooch adventures at home.
Here at Mess Around we love hosting your Messy Birthday Parties! If you'd prefer to host your own messy birthday party at home, here's how to create a messy birthday play tray.
It's really easy! Just add plates, cups, spoons, bowls, scoops and your littluns favourite toys to a tray with some colourful rice.
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Roy Hodgson yesterday parted company with Udinese of Italy after a row over critical remarks about the Serie A club in an English report.
After being quoted as saying he regretted joining Udinese in the summer and calling it "an extremely strange club", the nomadic English coach was called to account by Udinese's furious owner Giampaolo Pozzo.
The upshot was that the 54-year-old Hodgson is now looking for another club after Pozzo said he was "shocked" and "hit in the heart" by the coach's remarks. "The club does not deserve those criticisms," he added.
Udinese initially would not comment on the crisis talks but later issued a statement confirming the Englishman's departure.
It said: "After the meeting today, Mr Roy Hodgson and the Bianconeri [black and white] have decided by mutual consent to break the agreement they had in the month of July. The new manager will be announced tomorrow."
Hodgson was quoted in the English report as saying: "Obviously I'm very happy to be back at this level of football but I could have chosen a better club to come back to." He also said that he and the players were "not as well supported as we should be".
Although Hodgson had a tense relationship with certain club officials and with fans, he said he was committed to the Udinese cause and to keeping them in Italy's top flight.
"Nothing that has happened in my time at the club has suggested that we aren't going to be able to stay in this division," he said.
Indeed Udinese are ninth in Serie A, five points clear of the relegation places after 13 games, and they staged a dramatic late fightback to defeat Verona 2-1 on Sunday.
The former Switzerland national manager and Internazionale coach, who endured an unsuccessful spell back in England with Blackburn Rovers in 1997-98, joined Udinese on a two-year contract after leading FC Copenhagen to the Danish championship .
In the future, Hodgson said, "I'd like to have another crack at the Premiership. I regard myself as a European but the great advantages for me going back to England would be the language and the culture.
"I'll just have to wait and see if an offer comes my way."
Udinese's goalkeeping coach Alessandro Zampa will take charge for the Italian Cup match against Parma tonight.


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Marijuana Taxes Could Go to Housing Colorado's Homeless in 2017
Kate McKee Simmons December 28, 2016 6:58AM
We just released our five top marijuana stories for 2016, and Governor John Hickenlooper has set the stage for one of the biggest stories in 2017.
In his budget request for the 2017-'18 fiscal year, Hickenlooper asked Colorado's lawmakers to put aside $12.3 million of the revenue garnered from marijuana taxes during that time and use the money to build 1,200 new housing units for people on the streets experiencing chronic and episodic homelessness, as well as an additional 300 units every five years for people facing periodic homelessness.
His plan calls for an additional $6 million a year to help house low-income residents and people with behavioral-health needs. Another $4 million will be used to acquire or build 354 housing units dedicated to behavioral-health services, and $2 million is earmarked for another 250 affordable-housing units for seniors and people affected by rising housing costs. All told, that's $24.3 million going to one of this state's most urgent issues: affordable housing.
After Amendment 64 was passed by voters in 2012, many proponents of the measure shared their concerns about people with systemic drug-abuse problems with state officials, saying they hoped the government could help provide more public-health solutions instead of incarcerating such individuals, according to Andrew Freedman, director of marijuana coordination for the State of Colorado.
"Roughly 70 to 80 percent of all homeless people have some drug-abuse problem, and one of the best public-health solutions is to give them housing and get them out of the cycle of dependency," Freedman says.
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, there were 9,953 homeless people in Colorado in 2015. HUD reports that this state's homeless population rose by 13 percent last year, the third-largest increase in the country, second only to those of California and Washington.
Amendment 64 passed with the promise that tax revenue would go to capital improvements for schools, so Hickenlooper's latest proposal has received some pushback.
"We put roughly $40 million this year, and next year maybe closer to $50 million, into school construction," Freedman explains. "The problem is, there's about a $15 billion need for school construction, as we estimate it. I think people were expecting to see a lot more of an impact, that this money would bring a gym to their specific school. It's just not enough money to do stuff like that. Even if we put every dollar of marijuana tax cash into school construction, it would cover less than a tenth of a percent of the need."
The state is still planning to use a significant portion of the tax revenue from marijuana on schools, but with sales at $1 billion at the end of October, Hickenlooper would like to see some of the additional taxes collected going to those who suffer from drug addiction. "We're trying to use the revenues for unintended consequences of drug use," Hickenlooper told the Colorado Springs Gazette, "especially legalization of marijuana."
Kate McKee Simmons interned at the National Catholic Reporter, was a reporter for the New York Post, and spent a brief stint in Israel learning international reporting before writing for Westword.
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Q: Drawing a value from a normal distribution in F# How do I go about obtaining a random value drawn from a specified normal distribution in F#?
I want something similar to Python's x = numpy.random.normal(mean, standard_deviation), but in F#.

A: You can for example use the Math.NET Numerics library.
open MathNet.Numerics.Distributions

let normalDist = new Normal(mean, stddev)
normalDist.Sample()

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Jemimah Rodrigues: An all-rounder in the true sense
Having tasted moderate success, Jemimah has understood the challenges of staying at the top and raising the profile of women's cricket in a country that's crazy for the game played by her male counterparts.
Amol Karhadkar
02 July, 2018 19:19 IST
Rodrigues anchored the chase with six boundaries and two huge sixes adding 53 runs for the fourth wicket with Harmanpreet (24). | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre
From: Mumbai
Education: Pursuing HSC (Standard XII)
Discipline: Cricket
Beginning: She is still two months shy of getting a drivers' license but the youngest of the three children to a couple that primarily runs coaching classes in suburban Mumbai has already built a reputation as one of the prospective driving forces of India women cricket's batting. Welcome to the world of Jemimah Rodrigues.
At an age where most teenagers are confused about choosing a career path, Jemimah is on the threshold of dealing with options in plenty. She is good in studies, excellent in hockey and a brilliant batter — all-rounder for that matter — on a cricket field. Academics has definitely taken a backseat over the last couple of years. As for hockey, with the cricketer in her having risen to high standards, the stick-work has resulted in being restricted to a stress-buster for her.
Just like a majority of female cricketers, Jemi — as she is fondly known — started following her two elder brothers to a cricket ground in the neighbourhood under the watchful eyes of Ivan, their father. Once she started bettering boys her age, it didn't take time for the Mumbai women's coaches and selectors to spot her. At 12-1/2 years, she was first selected in the Mumbai Under-19 girls' team. At the same time, she was also on the verge of breaking into the U-17 hockey team.
The aggressive opening batter continued her surge, with two innings at the fag end of 2017 in the Under-19 zonal tournament in Aurangabad — 178 against Gujarat followed by a 202 versus Saurashtra — catapulting her into the India A set-up. She impressed one and all in the big league and made her international debut during India's tour to South Africa earlier this year. The Rodrigues household, just like the rest of the Indian women's cricket fraternity, believes it's just the beginning for Jemi.
Father and coach: Ivan Rodrigues (conducts coaching classes) is a disciplinarian on the cricket field and a religious, loving father off it. Over the years, Ivan, a former club cricketer, has mastered the art of honing Jemimah's skills on and off the field. Be it cricket or hockey, Ivan remains Jemimah's coach but he is also modest enough in admitting the help and appreciation received by some of the finest and sincere cricket brains on the maidans. "Kalpana Murkar (daughter of renowned coach Ramakant Achrekar) spotted her at the first summer camp and continued to back her all the way. Same is the case with Prashant Shetty, who selected her for MIG Club's team at a tender age after watching her in a boys' match against his club at Indian Gymkhana and Sanjay Gaitonde sir (former Mumbai U-19 coach) backed her to the hilt even when she was finding it difficult to notch up big runs at the Challengers or in the inter-zonal tournaments," admits Rodrigues Sr.
Achievements: 2013: Represented Mumbai Under-19 cricket team at a tender age of 12-1/2 years.
2014: Represented Mumbai Under-17 hockey team.
2016: Represented Mumbai Under-19 both in cricket and hockey, taking over captaincy in cricket.
2017: In what turned out to be a breakthrough year for her, Jemimah amassed 1,013 runs and scalped 19 wickets in the BCCI Under-19 one-day tournament.
2017: Her 202 off 163 balls against Saurashtra was only the second double hundred by a woman cricketer in domestic cricket, emulating Smriti Mandhana's feat in 2013.
2018: Scored a valuable 27-ball 37 on her T20I debut for India versus South Africa in Potchefstroom.
2018: Has featured in three ODIs and nine T20s so far, having scored 190 runs in international cricket.
Aim: She has achieved one of her biggest goals by making it to the highest echelons of the game. Having tasted moderate success, Jemimah has understood the challenges of staying at the top and raising the profile of women's cricket in a country that's crazy for the game played her male counterparts.
Strong point: "Desire to improve all the time is her forte. We keep discussing the finer points of her game in the evenings and at times I recite verses from the Bible to simplify some of the complex technical issues. It doesn't take long for her to figure out her deficiencies and she quickly overcomes it," says Ivan.
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What We're On: Cody's All City Mr. Pink
The steel road bike that proves the #partybrand can make a damn fine race bike.
I've ridden some nice bicycles over the years. Like most people in Traverse City, it seems it started with a Specialized Allez. That bike gave me 30,000 miles of joy before being swapped out for a Focus Variado. Working at a shop, the trade-in, trade-out progression was quick and proliferous; everything from the original BMC GF02 Disc (Ultegra, Firebird paint job and a Tom Selleck mustache) to both the rim brake and disc versions of the Focus Cayo, a BMC Roadmachine, and the All City Macho King that's still technically in my stable.
Of all those bikes, it's always been the steel frames that have gotten me excited. Blame it on reading too many books on Coppi and Bartoli and Yates and Gaurin, but the history of the sport is just as exciting to me as the present. It's part of the reason I first grabbed an All City. My Nature Babe was a throwback to Costante Girardengo and was ideal for riding in Michigan's cold, windy, wet spring and fall seasons. A steel frame, a single gear, a man against the elements. Is there a more pure form of cycling?
Of course, there are also group rides, and those tend to be filled with a plethora of fast riders with eleven (11, count 'em) gears in the back and two up front to offer some spice to the dish. The Mr. Pink has been on my radar for years, but with just a touch of pressure to ride what was a. carbon b. a higher margin c. lighter I always ended up with a different bike. And let me preface the rest of this piece with a clear statement: Those other bikes are great. They are. There is nothing wrong with a carbon rocket ship that weighs 14 pounds. That's just not what I'm excited about right now.
Finally, I pulled the trigger. Tyler and the guys bugged the All City rep to get one headed to Grand Rapids Bicycle Co., and after one very conveniently timed business trip to GR, my bike was stuffed into the back of Wes' Volkswagen Golf.
All City does a great job going over the specs and geometry, and since you have a mouse and obviously some time to kill, head over there to see the details. But not yet! You're going to want to see what we did to it.
The goal was not to make this 14 pounds, but my bike weighed in at 20.8 pounds stock, without pedals or cages. That's a pound lighter than my Macho King, so it was certainly a step in the right direction. The bike comes with Novatec Thirty rims; we have a long a sordid love/hate affair. The disc version of those wheels came on my Kona Private Jake, and while these wheels weigh 2,000 grams, they're also completely bomb-proof. You don't need to swap them, but if you're racing, at some point, you're just going to want to.
I did ride the stock wheels for a little while, set-up with Schwable Pro One in a cushy 28mm. As Susan Vigland once remarked, all my bikes end up being 'cross bikes, so the 28s add some comfort and a bit of floatation for my patented in-the-gravel-shoulder-dodging-mail-boxes attacks. On the first Tuesday Night Ride with the bike, I could feel the 2k weight penalty on the climbs; they just felt like a lot to get up to speed, especially if, say, somebody accelerates on a 12% grade.
Luckily, Brad White from Velo City Cycles loves to wheel and deal (get it) and I just happened to have some Ailerons bouncing around the garage. He traded me for another set of very non-disc A23s, and I saw the light. It was a night and day difference, which is, if you're wondering, almost a pound and half. From 2,000 grams to just shy of 1,500, that's a LOT of weight off the rims.
I swapped out a few other things, too. The biggest difference was putting on my heritage Ritchey seatpost. With the supple and smooth Colmbus tubing and the slight flex of the carbon post, it's as smooth of a ride as I've ever felt, and that includes the very cloud-like BMC GF02 Disc. The other changes and additions were a Fizik Arione R5, 3T stem, and King Cages.
The final touch was my Absolutle Black oval rings. A million things have been said, and this isn't the place to go into it, but I average a higher cadence, less leg fatigue, and a slightly better feel climbing. For our hilly but certainly not mountainous terrain, I can spend most of my time in the 50t across an 11-28t cassette. I did grab an AB oval 36t inner ring from City Bike Shop, which is a lot more useful around here than a 34t.
With all these changes, the bike is not a lightweight, but it's a huge difference in how the bike feels, especially on the climbs. It's now 18.2 pounds. Yep, that's the same as most comparable carbon bikes stock. Yep, your bike weighs less, sure. The beauty of this bike is, you're not going to care.
I got the bike in April, and as we roll into July, I've put over 1,600 miles onto it. The range of rides has been very cool, including everything from a gravel ride, some short sprint rides, long days in the hilly and hot Leelanau County, to a 100 miler in June that really tested the comfort factor. And even with a pretty aggressive set-up (stem slammed on a relatively short head tube for this day and age), comfort is still the operative word for this bike. Take notice, this isn't a competitor to your dad's Roubaix or Domane. It's not upright, and the classic steel geometry means the top tubes are long (I normally ride a 54, but am a rock solid 52 on ACs, which have a 545 top tube) and your stem might end up slightly short. I dropped from a 100mm stem on my Cayo to a 90 on the Mr. Pink.
Between the steel frame and tubeless 28s, this bike takes out road vibration, shallow potholes, and makes gravel feel largely innocuous. Nail your tire pressure and it feels like you're on 35 or 40mm tires, not 28s. I weigh about 150 pounds and never go above 70psi, even on totally paved, fast group rides like the aforementioned TNR. It clears 32s as well, though I haven't tossed them on yet. That's in the works for the fall.
One big plus of this bike is how All City and their sister brand from QBP, Whisky, fixed the fork issue. Moving from the steel to carbon fork certainly saved weight, but it also stiffened up the bike in a big way. That's the biggest difference in ride quality between the steel-pronged Nature Babe and the Macho King and Mr. Pink; the carbon forks keep the whole frame more responsive when you're out of the saddle. I will admit, though, I miss bouncing over gravel roads and watching that steel fork flex like on the Nature Babe.
So, after 1,600 miles and more, is it a bike for more people than just riders that miss Sean Yates? Absolutely. For a lot of riders, the weight penalty is offset by the ride quality. When you compare it to the added weight seen on even WorldTour Roubaixs and Domanes as racers get them ready for Flanders and Roubaix, 18ish pounds isn't that crazy. Plus, if you knock it over in garage, you don't have to have an infarction; this bike is tough as nails, and it's going to outlast me, I'm sure.
We'll be taking a look at the Salsa Timberjack with B+ wheels in the next few weeks, so check back for that whenever Beckwith gets around to it.
Thanks to Jeff from QBP for helping make the Mr. Pink happen, too.
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House Stuff Works: New Bathroom!
Hallelujah! I've finally finished the FIRST room in the house! It is DONE!
Check out the upstairs bathroom before and afters.
Beige walls, old Ikea shower curtain from college, not much else.
I was obviously testing paint when I had the thought to take a before picture, so you're lucky!
I chose this color paint for the bathroom, a clean slate-blue-grey color... there's a lot more blue it in than this swatch lets on.
I couldn't decide if I wanted to keep it clean and "normal" looking, or add some fun color to it.
For Option A, "Normal," I would've chosen all white accessories, white flowers, white frames, white towels, etc.
For Option B - Fun, it was a tough choice between yellow and magenta/pink. From reading this earlier post, you obviously know that I am in love with yellows and greys together, but the magenta pop seemed like the natural thing to do.
But everybody appreciates a little personality, right?
Here's a close-up of the artwork, my favorite part. All it took was an image of a bird and branches, which I cut out on magenta cardstock. The grey zigzags were just created in Photoshop and printed out on white cardstock. I used one of my many many many brand spankin' new Ikea frames!
As a sidenote, I have an addiction that needs to be dealt with-- it's birds. I flippin' love birds. I can't help it.
It all began with this guy, a patio accessory from Lowe's a couple summers ago.
This chick's not alone, either. He has a red buddy named "Roundy."
Then I graduated to the hard stuff, the glass bird paperweight from Pier 1. It was tempting not to buy the glass octopus they had too, but that would've just launched me into more seascape madness.
And obviously, the latest paper addition, bathroom birdies.
So those are my bird buddies. I'm expecting it'll only get worse from here - but admitting it is the first step to recovery...?!?!
ps- My friend Mandy just shared this website with me: www.putabirdonit.com. Put a bird on it, and call it art. Hilarious but true!
Psst -- 3/5/2013 -- Bathroom update! If you liked the bird art, check out the latest bathroom artwork update. I shared it as a free printable!


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Q: link pthread statically with cmake How can I get CMake to link pthread statically on Windows? I use MSYS2 MinGW 32 bit and cmake v3.7.
What I would like to achieve is a compiler invocation like
g++ -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -std=c++11 -o test test.cpp -Wl,-Bstatic -lpthread

Setting
target_link_libraries(test PUBLIC "-Wl,-Bstatic -lpthread")

results in -Wl,-Bdynamic -Wl,-Bstatic -lpthread being called. If I change CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS, pthreads is included before my object files and thus symbols are not resolved.

A: find the Threads module:
find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
add_executable(myApp main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(myApp Threads::Threads)

Note from the documentation:

For systems with multiple thread libraries, caller can set CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD

A: As the FindThreads.cmake mention in its source code:
# For systems with multiple thread libraries, caller can set
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#   CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD
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# If the use of the -pthread compiler and linker flag is preferred then the
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#   THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG
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# Please note that the compiler flag can only be used with the imported
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So in addition to what already said, you might need to set the additional flag THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG. In some systems (OSX, etc.) this flag is needed at compilation time because it defines some macros that would be missing if you would only link -lpthread.
set(CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD TRUE)
set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG TRUE)
add_library(test test.cpp)
set_property(TARGET test PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 11)
set_target_properties(test PROPERTIES LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC 1)
set_target_properties(test PROPERTIES LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC 1)
set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a")
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++")
find_package(Threads REQUIRED)

target_link_libraries(test Threads::Threads)

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Though plenty of those who worship her every move with a devotion bordering on the religiosity that's so much a part of her work adamantly disagree, for this longtime fan, punk-poet Patti Smith hasn't had a great century. The last album that really measured up to the brilliant invention of her four classic releases in the '70s was her first comeback/postcard from her sojourn as a mother and a housewife, Dream of Life (1988), and that only in part ("People Have the Power").
Gung Ho (2000), Trampin' (2004) and Twelve (2007) all have been more disappointing than the albums that preceded them, failing to answer the question I posed in my review of the middle of that trio—"Why should we care about this windy old hippie poet spouting all that drivel over bad, boring folk songs?"—and in general serving as "a better parody of Patti Smith than Gilda Radner's infamous Candy Slice, only Candy rocked a lot harder." Nor was I a big fan of her 2010 memoir Just Kids, which served more as an exercise in skillful mythmaking than honest or artistic autobiography. In everything she did, Smith seemed to be pulling her punches, a far cry from the not-always successful but consistently fearless Beat legend we first came to love.
More than two dozen listens into Banga, the singer and songwriter's 11th studio album and her first set of original material in eight years, I'm thrilled to say that this is the record I no longer thought her capable of giving us—certainly her best since Wave (1979), and quite nearly as strong as the immortal Horses (1975). The question I've been wrestling with is: Why?
Funny enough for this famously loquacious wordsmith, it succeeds largely on the strength of the music. For once, the diverse musical backings of longtime collaborators Lenny Kaye and Tom Verlaine on guitars, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Tony Shanahan on bass shine as brightly as Smith's vocals and lyrics, integral to the latter rather than mere decoration to them. That is to say, the songs finally work as songs, even as the themes are more than a little familiar to those familiar with Smith: We get another elegy for another dead pop star (Amy Winehouse in "This Is the Girl," a much less worthy subject than Kurt Cobain in "About a Boy"), more tributes to heroes religious, artistic, historical and literary (Saint Francis and painter Piero della Francesca in "Constantine's Dream," the explorer Vespucci in "Amerigo," and the Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol in "April Fool") and even another cover (Neil Young's "After the Goldrush," which follows the batch of a dozen her on last set, the covers album Twelve, though this one is better than any of those).
As usual, some lines are brilliant ("Oh Lord, let me die on the back of adventure/With a brush and an eye full of light"), some are bullsh*t ("We'll burn all of our poems/Add to God's debris") and some are a little of both ("Last night was a rapture in the mosaic sky/ Dropping shards of love"). But for the first time in a long time, Smith doesn't seem to be laboring quite so hard over any of it—or struggling quite so desperately to sell it as Art. She's simply letting it blurt, riding a range of glorious grooves that vary from somber, folksy ballads ("Mosaic") to catchy, driving pop songs ("April Fool"), and from balls-out rockers ("Banga") to the more than 10-minute psychedelic epic "Constantine's Dream," which finally approaches the musical nirvana she attempted but didn't quite reach on Radio Ethiopia (1976).
Belying the surprising consistency of all of the above is that fact that these tracks were recorded in a haphazard, scattershot way over the course of more than a year, in between Patti's many commitments to being Patti, traveling the world to promote her art, her poetry, her music and most of all herself (a la her 2009 chat with this interviewer following a screening of Steven Sebring's Patti Smith: Dream of Life at Northwestern's Block Cinema). At last, the legend isn't worried about polishing her legend. She seems just to be having fun. It's contagious, and it's brilliant.


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A dedicated increase is being marked in the flock of businesses unfolding different versions of the same apps for some of the highlighted mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Windows respectively. So to cut-down the cost & development pace cross-platform app development is the in-demanded in market. Based on its business requirements, each organization has option to decide from a multifold range of cross-platform mobile development tools including Xamarin, Titanium, Kony and many more. But a number of logs have limelighted the increasing favor and market share of Xamarin.
Different from other cross-platform framework xamarin allows mobile app developers to share same c# code base to develop apps on Androids , windows and iOS. Meanwhile Xamarin can be utilized for bug tracking and testing in variety of mobile devices in cloud.Also, they can use Xamarin cleverness for deliverance of high quality app by vigilling exceptions and crashes in the real time.
As discussed earlier ,Xamarin allows Sharing same code base to develop apps on the major platforms.
Thus, due to sharing of code makes it easier for Xamarin to save one's business time and resources while creating same UI for different platforms.
Alongwith mobile app development developers need to focus on areas like look & feel of app and how it functions on various devices, but with the use of Xamarin Test cloud finding the bugs & cracks in the app has become quite easy.
Furthermore, they can check the test upshots, and performance metrics to make functioning of mobile app flawless.
Xamarin supports development patterns like MVC and MVVM ( Model view view Model) that supports developers to maintain consistency between application logic and UI . This makes quite easy for the company to update and perform modifications and meanwhile MVVM patterns helps out for reusing same code base for numerous projects.
Xamarin allows developers to execute on device computation without developing specific plug-ins. Xamarin apps are developed with patterns and native UI controls and they cart better user experience across multiple mobile platforms. Also, the applications can approach all specifications of the basic mobile device and platform. For Example, the Xamarin apps empowers access to platform-specific traits like those of Android Fragment and i Beacons. So the businesses can conserve their pace and resources needed for development of plug-ins for device processing.
Normally, all cross-platform mobile development tools augments the necessities of small projects. But most of these tools busts to match the requirements of larger and complex projects. Xamarin is fruitful in meeting the demands of both small and complex projects. As the developers can write code in a standalone programming language (C#), it becomes easy for the company to put on the scale without hiring auxiliary developers. Meanwhile, the developers can further aid the native iOS and Android Libraries to easily transform and improve the mobile app.
Hyperlink Infosystem have developed Multiple Applications on all the major platforms using Xamarin Technology. It is one of the top app development companies that have developed apps for iPhone, Android, iPad devices and approached clients of diverse Industry verticals, like entertainment Media, finance Companies, Lifestyle & E-Commerce Zone and many more . So if you want to develop such cross-platform app with us drop your word and we will be in touch with you soon ..!


Several times in my career I have been involved in the design of a visual skin for basic UI controls – usually as part of a much larger project. Designing individual form controls doesn't seem too hard, or like much of a priority, but actually they are surprisingly complex beasts and it's easy to get it wrong. At the same time, this kind of detail really matters – a set of clumsy buttons can throw off your impression of a whole product.
One aspect of designing form controls that takes care is figuring out how they should respond to the different interaction states that they can be placed in – for example, what they do when you rollover them with the cursor. This gets particularly tricky when states can be combined, such as keyboard focus combined with rollover.
What shouldn't be tricky is knowing what these various states are and how they relate to one another for the different controls. However, I haven't actually found a neat definition of this and each time I've worked on this problem the team has ended up wasting time and effort with confusion and miscommunication over the exact properties to be covered. So here is my attempt at creating an all-encompassing, well-structured representation of the control states. Let's hope I didn't forget too many!
For this description, I've concocted some very simple example controls, with a basic appearance. Don't worry about the specific design – its just an example. Four controls are shown here: button, checkbox, dropdown and input box. You should be able to see how to extend this to cover the rest.
Normal – as it sounds, the normal state of the control.
Rollover – when the cursor is placed over the control.
Clickdown – what happens at the moment you click the mouse over the control (it lasts for only the length of the click, but is important in signalling that your click was registered by the system).
Active Edit – the state of the control as you make changes to the content itself.
Text Selection – how the control looks when you select text during editing.
Note that not all of these will apply to every control – for example, the last state can only apply to controls that contain editable text, e.g. an input box, or combo box.
'Not in focus' – the state of the control when it doesn't have keyboard focus.
Focus – when the control has keyboard focus.
Disabled – when the control cannot be interacted with – e.g. because it is not applicable at that time.
These two sets of states and conditions can be represented as a grid with states down the side and conditions across the top.
Here is a simple button used as an example.
Note first that the button has neither an Active Edit state, nor a Text Selection state, since the content of the button can't be changed or selected. There is also no visual representation of a Rollover or Clickdown state for the Disabled button (such states could be designed, but they are not usually used).
Note that in this example that I have used different types of treatment to signal the conditions – primarily fill effects for the states and stroke effects for the focus. This kind of separation is useful since the two effects can easily be applied at the same time where they coincide – e.g. rollover of a button that is already in focus.
I have shown a distinct visual appearance for each of the valid combinations. However, this isn't necessarily needed – as an example, Apple's OSX Lion does not use a rollover state for the majority of its controls. What you support is a design decision – albeit one that may also be informed by time and the complexity of coding all the variants.
This next diagram shows a simple dropdown. In this case, there is an active edit state: the point at which the dropdown is open and you can select a different item.
Note how I have applied pretty much the same visual style to represent the same states as in the buttons shown earlier – this is good practice, since it leads to a consistent overall feel.
This example also shows another detail – there is only one Active Edit state – regardless of whether you reached it via the keyboard or the mouse, as represented by the arrow. This is because, once you click on the dropdown, it automatically takes keyboard focus as it moves into Active Edit state.
An even more complex example is the input box shown here. In this case, there is no Normal-Focus or Rollover-Focus state, since as soon as an input box is placed in focus using the keyboard, it moves directly into Text Selection state. At the same time there is no 'Non-Focused' Active Edit or Text Selection state, since, by definition, the control must have keyboard focus in both of these states.
The final example here is the Checkbox. This shows much the same states as the button, except that the whole array of states is duplicated in order to account for the fact that the control can be either unchecked or checked ('Selected'). This same property of multiple overriding states applied to other controls – notably the radio button, but also buttons that can be toggled between an on and off state and several others.


Shadrack, Inc. is a non-profit, multi-cultural organization devoted to furthering the work of artists of color. Shadrack promotes, presents and preserves the efforts of creative artists who have made and are continuing to make contributions to American culture. Past projects have concentrated on the work of artists of the African diaspora, but the work of any artist of color, i.e. non-white, will be considered in connection with the organization's programming.
Shadrack's past endeavors have included producing concerts, residencies, classroom activities and recordings, along with the ad hoc such as instrument replacement following Hurricane Sandy (a powerful storm that hit the New York area in 2012), and acting as an umbrella for other nonprofit groups to support shared goals.
Shadrack will continue to present and record new music, and to collect and preserve artistic work.
Near-term goals include performance series featuring today's great living jazz legends – many in their later years – and the recording of those performances to capture jazz at its most possible in-this-moment incarnation; and the 'Recapture Project' – intended to archive some of the innumerable hours of historic recordings made informally by musicians over the last 50 years, which currently reside in basements, on shelves and under couches, and which – without technical migration – will be lost.


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Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond
Jian Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe)
The atomistic mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond is a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. Here, we establish by ab initio calculations bond reconstruction pathways from graphite to a basic series of diamond polytypes of 2H, 3C, 4H, and 12R. The conversion proceeds through two newly identified compressed-graphite phases of orthorhombic and monoclinic carbon with odd-membered (5 + 7) rings toward the diamond structures via a local-bond-rotation mechanism. The rhombohedral 12R phase represents a new crystal form of diamond with an alternating four-layered hexagonal (h) and cubic (c) close-packed structure in (hcch)3 stacking. These results resolve the fundamental questions about the graphite-to-diamond phase transformation at high pressure and high temperature.
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012102
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Wang, J. T., Chen, C., & Kawazoe, Y. (2011). Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 84(1), [012102]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012102
Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond. / Wang, Jian Tao; Chen, Changfeng; Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki.
In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 84, No. 1, 012102, 11.07.2011.
Wang, JT, Chen, C & Kawazoe, Y 2011, 'Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 84, no. 1, 012102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012102
Wang JT, Chen C, Kawazoe Y. Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2011 Jul 11;84(1). 012102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012102
Wang, Jian Tao ; Chen, Changfeng ; Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki. / Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2011 ; Vol. 84, No. 1.
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Europe win the Inaugural Atlantic Challenge Cup
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Team Europe won the Inaugural Atlantic Challenge Cup after a dramatic last day of singles matches here in Rankweil Austria. Leading 9-6 after day three, team Europe only needed to win two from the six singles matches to claim victory but team USA did their best to spoil the party.
Europe's Kristina Tkach, who had played solid throughout the previous three days seem to suffer a bout of nerves in the first match of the day, losing 6-3 to USA's Taylor Hansen which brought the overall score to 9-7.
USA had obviously loaded their front line up with their best players and it was the General's turn "Nick Evans" who came up against the inform Daniel Tangudd from Europe. Nick was off to a flyer and it seemed that the USA selection was working, they were in control and looking good until Daniel found his feet. He pegged back rack after rack in a thriller that was to produce the fifth hill-hill match of the tournament and for the fifth time, Europe came out on top.
Europe, now leading 10-7 and needing just one more match to claim the title looked odds on to finish this event quickly but the USA team would not lay down and surrender. The next match saw Europe's Patryk Statkiewicz up against USA's Drake Niepoetter.
In this match, Patryk created the running jump shot, having already used his time extension and forgetting that he had, sprinted back to grab his jump stick. While running back to the table, he just aimed and shot in a single motion making the ball in the pocket and the whole crowd went crazy. This however was not enough to stop the USA winning this match to bring the score closer at 10-8 in Europe's favor, ironically it was another hill-hill and the first USA had won.
The nerves seemed to be creeping in to the European team, they could see the finish line but were trying to force themselves over it and this was clearly seen in the next match. Marharyta Fefilava who had played a very good tournament until this match was feeling the pressure the most and could not get going at all. Team USA capitalized on the mistakes from Marharyta and April Larson picked off rack after rack coming out on top 6-3.
Only two matches remained with Europe leading 10-9 and still needing that one point to clinch the crown. USA had the momentum and Europe were on the ropes until the cool headed Maxim Dudanets came to the arena. With the pressure mounting, could the youngest member of the European team deliver? It started evenly and after the score was 1-1, Maxim showed such maturity that you could easily forget that he was still only 16 years old. Running racks and playing some brilliant safety shots, he never let his opponent "Joshua Franklin" have any joy when he did get to the table.
As the racks piled up, Europe were on the march again, singing as every 9-ball went down. Maxim delivered the point required, playing beautify pool in the process as this match finished 6-1 and 11-9 overall.
A relived European team were now celebrating the victory that seemed to be slipping away as USA pressed them all the way to the wire.
April Larson picked up the MVP award for team USA and Daniel Tangudd the same award for team Europe. This event was an amazing display of pool at the highest level and shows the talent that is going to grace the world stages in years to come.
It is now over to the BCA & BEF in America to organize this event in 2016 and an announcement will be forthcoming on the date & location, meanwhile the European's have a complete year to bask in the glory of a well earned victory.
All results and pictures can be found here at http://www.x-patspoolleagues.com/#!atlantic-challenge-cup/c5ay
The Atlantic Challenge Cup was organized by the EPBF/IBPF in cooperation with the BCA/BEF.


CFTC Commissioner Christopher Giancarlo told me that excessive speculation was not a cause of the 2008 crisis, citing a lack of demonstrable data. Cato Summit on Financial Regulation New York City: June 2, 2015.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people's lives. Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange. Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2011. © VPRO Backlight November 2011 On VPRO broadcast you will find nonfiction videos with English subtitles, French subtitles and Spanish subtitles, such as documentaries, short interviews and documentary series. VPRO Documentary publishes one new subtitled documentary about current affairs, finance, sustainability, climate change or politics every week. We research subjects like politics, world economy, society and science with experts and try to grasp the essence of prominent trends and developments. Subscribe to our channel for great, subtitled, recent documentaries. Visit additional youtube channels bij VPRO broadcast: VPRO Broadcast, all international VPRO programs: https://www.youtube.com/VPRObroadcast VPRO DOK, German only documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBi0VEPANmiT5zOoGvCi8Sg VPRO Metropolis, remarkable stories from all over the world: https://www.youtube.com/user/VPROmetropolis VPRO World Stories, the travel series of VPRO: https://www.youtube.com/VPROworldstories VPRO Extra, additional footage and one off's: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTLrhK07g6LP-JtT0VVE56A www.VPRObroadcast.com Credits: Director: Kees Brouwer & co-director Maren Merckx Research: Maren Merckx Gerko Wessel Producer: Marie Schutgens Commissioning Editors: Henneke Hagen / Jos de Putter English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson. French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.
RakeM plays Wall Street Raider and explains the fundamentals. In Episode 1, RakeM plays nine months of game time and turns $1B into $3.8B. For maximum image clarity, please watch in 720p or 1080p. Concepts covered in this episode: WSR Game interface Buying stocks Taking control of companies Increasing stock value Improving corporate earnings Ethical dilemma ("Cheat") scenarios In-game reports Subscribe to my channel to receive updates when new episodes are released. Wall Street Raider developer website: http://www.roninsoft.com/wsraider.html Wall Street Raider official fan forum: http://wsrunited.freeforums.org/ Wall Street Raider Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/wallstreetraider Wall Street Raider Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WSraider/ Wall Street Raider, Copyright 1984-2014 by Roninsoft and Michael D. Jenkins. Used by permission.
How To Go To Heaven: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/how_to_be_saved.html http://www.stwr.org/food-security-agriculture/massive-bank-and-hedge-fund-speculation-causes-food-prices-to-soar.html BANKS AND HEDGE FUND SPECULAITON CAUSES FOOD PRICES TO SOAR Speculation on agricultural commodities by banks and hedge funds is primarily responsible for spikes in food prices. Strong national and global civil society campaigns are needed to ensure governments take coordinated action to rein in this dangerous activity, writes Tim Jones 22nd November 2010 ONE MONTH PRICE INCREASES In just one month in July 2010, the price of wheat increased by 60%. The huge increase in the price has already led to people across the world paying more for the staple food. The sudden change in the price of wheat has had knock-on effects on other crops. The global maize price increased by 40% between the start of July and the end of August. PLENTY OF WHEAT Drought and the consequent fall in Russia's wheat crop were quickly blamed for the spike in prices. Yet the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) pointed out that despite events in Russia there was still plenty of wheat in the world. The US in particular was producing a bumper wheat harvest. CULPRIT=SPECULATORS The real reason for the large and rapid increase in wheat price lay in banks trading in exchanges in Chicago, US. Away from the wildfires of Russia, hot money flooded into the wheat markets in July 2010, betting on an increase in prices. Dan Basse of AgResource Co. in Chicago said historically low US interest rates were helping to fuel massive speculation in wheat contracts as financial institutions 'look for investable markets' amid concerns that Western economies might suffer a double-dip recession in the coming months. The ugly face of banks and hedge funds speculating on the price of food had raised its head once again. LOBBY FOR DEREGULATION In the 1990s and early 2000s these regulations were weakened in the face of intense lobbying by the financial industry. For instance, in 1991 lobbying by Goldman Sachs exempted many commodity speculators from the limits on trading created in the 1930s. At the same time, new and more complicated contracts, collectively known as derivatives, were created based on the price of food. Derivatives in food, just as in property and shares, expanded massively. Further deregulation in 2000 exempted many commodity derivatives from any regulation at all. HOUSING TO FOOD Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, says: 'From about late 2006, a lot of financial firms -banks and hedge funds and others -realised that there was really no more profit to be made in the US housing market, and they were looking for new avenues of investment. Commodities became one of the big ones - food, minerals, gold, oil. And so you had more and more of this financial activity entering these activities, and you find that the price then starts rising. And once, of course, the price starts rising a little bit, then it becomes more and more profitable for others to enter. So what was a trickle in late 2006 becomes a flood from early 2007.' MAIN BENEFICIARIES The main beneficiaries have been banks which charge fees for arranging derivative contracts. They then use the information gained from their central role in commodities trading to gamble with their own money, often betting against their own clients. The World Development Movement has estimated that Goldman Sachs made a $1 billion profit in 2009 from speculating on food. ARMAJARO CASE 2010 a British hedge fund called Armajaro bought huge numbers of cocoa bean contracts, pushing prices up to a record 33-year high. Armajaro even went as far as buying real food, purchasing 7% of global cocoa production for storage in European warehouses. Armajaro was attempting to manipulate the market, hoarding a huge amount of cocoa now to push up the price and profit later. COFFEE CASE Another cash crop, coffee, has also been subject to big swings in price. The price of coffee traded in London shot up by 20% in just three days in early June 2010, yet there was no news about big falls in coffee production, or increases in coffee consumption. Instead, hedge funds had been betting on the price of coffee falling. This betting or speculation had depressed the price. When a large trader called the hedge funds on their bet, they were forced to buy back contracts they had sold, leading to a large and sudden increase in prices.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the warning from legendary stock market speculator, Jesse Livermore, that speculation is "not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor." And, yet, speculation has become the economic model for a nation of stupid and mentally lazy speculator-taxpayers. They also discuss splat collateralized debt obligations and fracking Walden Pond to pay off our bad debts. In the second half, Max interviews Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, about housing bubbles, falling wages and why Mom & Pop investors are always wrong. WATCH all Keiser Report shows here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL768A33676917AE90 (E1-E200) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC3F29DDAA1BABFCF (E201-E400) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPszygYHA9K2ZtV_1KphSugBB7iZqbFyz (E401-current) RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.
www.pinnacleadvisory.com Every successful investor must begin by understanding the difference between saving, investing, and speculating. If you get those confused, you run the risk of losing a lot of money. Luckily, this brief but informative (and funny!) video will clear it up for you. Put simply: Save to protect your money. Invest to grow your money. Speculate to gamble your money. Of course, there's more to it than that, so press "PLAY" and enjoy.
The Keiser Report is a financial news and analysis show on RT UK and the RT network, hosted by Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. It has been running since September 2009, with three new show every week. Herbert (announced on a December 2012 episode as his wife) is the co-host; she banters with Keiser on headlines and commentary.
Each episode is divided into two parts. In the first half, Keiser and Herbert alternately discuss a current financial topic, comment on financial media reports, and provide commentary on the actions of bankers. The second half features a guest interview, either face-to-face in the studio or through video conferencing, conducted by Keiser.
The Independent describes the show as "mischievously seditious" and Keiser as "America's most outrageous political pundit".
An episode broadcast in September 2011 featured an interview with the comedian Rosanne Barr, who stated that her solution to the financial crisis was to "bring back the guillotine".
According to Forbes magazine, the economist Sandeep Jaitly of the Gold Standard Institute was forced to resign following comments made on Keiser's show.
Corbis is a Seattle, Washington-based licensing agency. Founded by Bill Gates in 1989 as Interactive Home Systems, with a goal to serve as a distributor of artwork for the prospective concept of digital art frames in homes, the company, later re-named Corbis, focused more intensely on the acquisition and preservation of historic images, and a general photo and footage licensing business. The company also expanded into the entertainment advertising market, as well as providing rights clearance and personality rights management services.
In January 2016, Corbis announced that it would sell its image licensing businesses to Visual China Group. VCG will, in turn, license the images to Getty Images outside of China.
The company's collection includes contemporary creative, editorial, entertainment, and historical photography as well as art and illustrations. Among its acquisitions are the 11 million piece Bettmann Archive, acquired in 1995; the Sygma collection in France (1999); and the German stock image company ZEFA (2005). Corbis also has the rights to digital reproduction for art from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery in London.


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