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Jon Rajkovich
THE SUN BELOW THE CEILING
THIS Los Angeles is pleased to present a solo exhibition of sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Jon Rajkovich. The show will run from July 20 through August 17, 2012, with an opening reception on Friday, July 20 from 7:00 to 10:00pm.
Rajkovich's abstract sculptures explore material's ability to conceal, reveal, and disguise. Each work suggests its own character through posture and surface appearance. Together they interact, with some works seeming exposed and sincere, and others dressed up and adorned. This collection represents a continued departure from the artist's earlier, highly finished works of brightly colored cast plastic. Now Rajkovich leaves the process of making the works visible, and the audience to decipher whether or not color is inherent to the material. By objectifying the creative process and providing clues to its material and formation, Rajkovich offers the viewer a shared experience of assigning narrative to the work itself.The pieces are fabricated from several materials including bendable plywood, steel, plastic, and found objects.
The exhibition's center work is a large, precariously balanced sculpture on wheels titled Heaven and Earth. Says Rajkovich, "This work is partially inspired by the writings of Robert Johnson. I built a jagged wall that morphed into cantilevered, curvy forms, in hopes of invoking a sort of downward growth. But instead the sculpture kept getting taller, and I kept having to haphazardly bolt it into the ceiling so it wouldn't fall over. I moved it several times to different locations, reincarnating the problem, hanging it from higher ceilings while I tried to resolve the bottom. My original intentions were superseded by the need to solve the more practical problem of balance between the ceiling and ground."
Rajkovich employs surprising shifts in surface, material, and physical posture in his work. His attention to material and craft draws upon the legacy of modern sculpture. Sometimes this arrangement reflects the otherworldly and imaginative; the vaudevillian semi-figurative sculpture Bacchus is sealed entirely with stripes, for example. At other times, his sculptures expose a crude elegance, where hints of unresolvedness are maintained and choices are revealed to reflect the complexities of the world as it is, resisting any singular conclusive outcome. The aim for these works is to balance the external circumstances with the personal and emotive, something the artist admits can be a bit dark and perplexing. Sometimes unaltered material or objects are added to balance things out: glass grapes, suitcase parts, and a wooden candle are all part of the mix.
Many of the materials in Rajkovich's work have begun to echo human characteristics by impersonating other materials. Plastic looks like metal, wood looks like plastic. While this role play is a response to the artist's dislike of informational placards in galleries and museums that give away all of the ingredients and date everything, it's also a response to the fact that much of Los Angeles is built on artifice. "I like the way people portray someone else or their super–selves. Posture is important on the street and becomes so in the forms within my work."
Jon Rajkovich grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He received his MFA from Winthrop University and attended Skowhegan. He has had an extensive exhibition history at venues such as the Axel Raben Gallery in New York, NY, the Susanne Hillberry Gallery in Fernadale, MI, Whitespace in Atlanta, and Shoshana Wayne in Santa Monica.
Rajkovich's work has been written about in Art in America, the Chicago Sun Times, Time Out, Art Papers, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Any help or input is highly appreciated, thanks.

A: You can store the full text content in a data attribute then display it once the button is clicked.
Just base whether or not there is a read more button on the length of the description string given back by the API.

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The Herper of the Week is David B. Wake, director and co-founder of AmphibiaWeb. He was also the director and curator of herpetology of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California – Berkeley and president of the American Society of Naturalists and American Society of Zoologists. His research is evolutionary patterns and the processes of it. He currently has two projects he is working on: AmphibiaTree, a phylogenetic hypothesis for all species of amphibians and HerpNET, a biodiversity project to produce a fully geocoded distributed database of amphibians and reptiles in 40 North American museums.


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A surprisingly soft mineral may control how Earth recycles rocks
Knowing this is important for understanding what happens to slabs of rock as they sink into the Earth, which in turn teaches us about how and why earthquakes and volcanoes happen on the surface.
Paul Gabrielsen - science writer, University Marketing & Communications
The geological events we see on the surface of the Earth as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are expressions of processes that are happening deep in our planet. Here on the Earth's crust, we're part of a conveyor belt system called plate tectonics where old crust at the margins of oceans is shoved back underground beneath continents, into the mantle.
As that crust goes deeper into the Earth, some of the minerals in the rocks change under the high temperatures and pressures of the mantle. New research from University of Utah geologist Lowell Miyagi and colleagues finds that one of these mantle minerals is among the weakest in the Earth's interior.
It's a tough mineral to study, but the research shows that it's around 1,000 times softer than much of the rest of the mantle. This is important for understanding what happens to slabs of rock as they sink into the Earth, which in turn teaches us about how and why earthquakes and volcanoes happen on the surface.
"We want to understand the mechanical properties of all these rocks and minerals because this is what determines how a slab will behave when it sinks into the Earth's interior," says Miyagi, associate professor of geology and geophysics.
The study is published in Nature and was funded by CDAC, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the German Science Foundation, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the European Union's Horizon 2020 program.
Plate tectonics above and below ground
The crust of the Earth is made of plates – large sections of crust that to our perception seem immovable and eternal. The plates that make up the oceans start as magma rising in the center of the plate at a place called, descriptively, the "mid-ocean ridge." That magma turns to basalt, similar to the black volcanic rock we see spouting from Hawaiian volcanoes.
As magma continues to rise, the plate spreads, pushing older basalt crust to the sides. Every plate runs into its neighbors and when it does ocean crust, which is denser than the crust on the continents, is pushed down into the mantle. It's a process called subduction.
After that, our best clues as to the fate of this recycled crust come from our readings of seismic waves, generated by earthquakes, that travel through the interior of the Earth.
"It's a bit like when you go to the doctor to image a baby with ultrasound," Miyagi says. "In this case the waves are bigger and the baby (the Earth) is bigger."
Seismic waves travel through different materials at different speeds, so when seismic waves show something unusual, geoscientists pay attention and naturally wonder- what's that made of? One of these notable unknowns is a feature at the boundary between the mantle and the core known as a Large Low Shear Velocity Province, or an LLSVP. There are two: one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa. And they're huge—the province beneath the Pacific is about 1,800 mi (3,000 km) wide – about the distance from Salt Lake City to Washington, D.C. And they're tall, possibly up to 600 mi (1,000 km) high. That's more than 100 times the height of Mount Everest.
(The edges of these provinces feature ultra-low velocity zones, or ULVZs, that featured in a previous U study here.)
Geoscientists previously thought that these provinces were hotter than the surrounding rock, and might be the source of some volcanic features like the Hawaiian Islands or the East African Rift Zone. "However more recently people think that these are a different kind of rock than the mantle," Miyagi says. "So the question is: What kind of rock is it, and how does it pile up there?"
Meet davemaoite
One candidate is the mineral davemaoite, with the chemical formula CaSiO3. It's part of a class of minerals called perovskites. Sinking slabs of rock are rich in davemaoite (up to 30%), and the rest of the mantle doesn't have much of it. It's important to know the mechanical properties of davemaoite, like how it bends or stretches in the mantle, to know how the Earth recycles material from the surface into the deep interior. But it's been a tough mineral to study. Why?
"It is very difficult to study because it cannot survive to room pressure," Miyagi says. "It has to be made at high temperature and pressure. If you take the pressure and temperature away it becomes a glass." The only davemaoite found at the surface thus far, reported recently in 2021, was trapped inside a diamond, which maintained the high pressure needed to keep its atomic structure together.
So how did the research team, which included scientists from Utah, California, Germany and the UK, manage to study the mechanical properties of davemaoite? By squeezing powdered CaSiO3 under 30 gigapascals of pressure (19 times the pressure of the deepest point of the ocean) between two diamond anvils and heating it to 1600 °F (1150 K). They had to build a window into the apparatus just to let an X-ray beam through to analyze the atomic structure of the resulting crystal.
1,000 times softer
After analyzing the structure of davemaoite, the researchers modeled its strength and behavior when being stretched or pulled. Davemaoite, they found, is about 1,000 times softer than the rest of the mantle.
What does that mean, though? The viscosity of a material, or its ability to flow, is measured in several different units, including Pascal seconds. Something very thin, like water, is about 0.001 Pascal seconds, while something thicker like peanut butter is around 200 Pascal seconds. The Earth's lower mantle comes in at around 1021 Pascal seconds—a LOT thicker than peanut butter. But if the mantle is peanut butter, then davemaoite is maple syrup. And anyone who puts both of those on their pancakes knows that the difference between the two is significant.
So, let's walk through how this difference affects a slab of rock sinking into the Earth. At a depth of around 340 mi (550 km), the temperature and pressure forms davemaoite in much of the slab, suddenly making it very weak.
"Those weak parts of the slab could then delaminate or peel away from the rest of the slab and then fall away into the mantle," Miyagi says. "We have seismic images that look like parts of slabs have separated and fallen away."
If this dense material, rich in davemaoite, separates and sinks, it's plausible that it could form a Large Low Shear Velocity Province, Miyagi says. "This would occur over long time periods of piling up this material by dripping these upside-down plumes to the base of the mantle."
There's a lot still to explore about how the properties of the minerals inside the Earth affect how things move around. "Knowing the mechanical properties of this material gives us a better understanding of how slabs subduct and behave in the Earth's interior," Miyagi says. "So, this can give us a better understanding of the large-scale processes that drive plate tectonics and thus earthquakes and volcanoes."
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FM Transmitters: How Good a Choice for Listening to Your iPod on Your Car Stereo?
I talked a while back about how to get your car set up for an iPod. Since then, not much has changed, except for the fact that I've had the opportunity to play around with one of the options for iPod/car compatibility, an FM transmitter.
These little things are pretty amazing. Simply connect one to your iPod, and whatever you have playing on the iPod will come through on the desired frequency on your radio.
My mom recently picked up a Belkin TuneCast II for use with her iPod nano. Two of her three cars have cassette decks, so the cassette adapter was a viable solution, but the third car has a CD player and no cassette deck. That's why we figured the TuneCast II would be perfect.
The main feature of the TuneCast, as opposed to the Griffin iTrip, is that it's compatible with any MP3 player - or even Walkman cassette player - since it has a standard headphone connector instead of iTrip's iPod dock connector. This is excellent if you have a car with a CD player but sometimes want to listen to your cassettes.
The TuneCast operates off it's own batteries, not draining the iPod's, something the iTrip does. The downside is that you may need to carry some extra AAA batteries with you on a long trip.
The big question is how well does it work? My use of it found that it really depends on the car you're driving and the area you live in.
Why the area? Some areas have more radio stations, whereas others have very few. If you have a large number of open frequencies, you should have no trouble finding something to set the TuneCast to.
Unfortunately, the New York metro area has a station on nearly every frequency, and finding an open one is a bit of a chore. Also, a station may come in on the frequency you have selected as you drive, forcing you to change the settings while you're driving.
The car also matters quite a bit. Cars that have their radio antenna in the front tend to get better reception from the TuneCast. The two cars I spent time testing this in were a 1986 Saab 9000 Turbo and a 1995 Mercedes E300. Both cars have their antennas in the rear, and there was a significant difference when it came to reception.
The Saab wouldn't receive the signal from the TuneCast unless the it was positioned on top of the dashboard. Not the most convenient location for it - go around a sharp corner and it could fall off. The Mercedes required a bit of fiddling with placement, but I was able to find a spot on the center console where reception was decent. Perhaps this is due to the angled antenna in this car, as opposed to the vertical one in the Saab.
In terms of sound quality, there's a noticeable difference in terms of whether the radio's getting good reception or not from the TuneCast. Even at it's best, the sound was a bit muffled and quiet in the Saab. Touching the TuneCast would open it up, but removing your hand removed the improvement in sound.
To see what it could really sound like, I tested the unit indoors with the radio in the kitchen. With the TuneCast close to the radio's antenna, the sound was much better. I could see this as a very handy device if you want to play music through your stereo system without going connecting cables, but the TuneCast II seems to not have a very good broadcast range in general. I was a bit disappointed - and there's no way to add an antenna to the TuneCast itself.
The bottom line is that the best solution is to have a stereo that supports either an audio input (through a headphone-type jack) or an iPod via a dock connector. A cassette adapter would be my second choice (if your car stereo takes cassettes), and an FM transmitter is a last resort.
Link: $15 Device Turns iPod into a Personal Radio Station, Dan Knight's review of the NewerTech RoadTrip FM transmitter, which draws its power from your cigarette lighter plug.
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Mark Cavendish to miss national road race championship
Mark Cavendish has confirmed he will not ride the 2014 British National Road Race Championship on Sunday to recover from illness
OPQS confirm Cavendish to miss Scheldeprijs 2014
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By Richard Windsor published 26 June 14
Mark Cavendish has confirmed that he will not defend his British national men's road race title on Sunday in Monmouthshire after suffering from bronchitis.
Cavendish's team, Omega Phrama-Quick-Step, released a statement late on Wednesday evening to confirm the current champion would not be riding in order to be fully prepared for the start of the Tour de France on July 5.
Cavendish reportedly contracted the illness towards the end of the Tour de Suisse earlier this month and will return to training in Italy from now until the Grand Depart in Yorkshire.
In a statement the former world champion said: "I'm sad because, as current champion, I would really like to defend the title.
"I would have liked to honor the race and this jersey that I wore for all of 2014 so far, which allowed me to represent my country proudly. I think it's wiser, however, to not take any risks and focus on absolute, 100 percent recovery, and continue to train in function of the Tour de France.
"I talked with the race organizers and they understood my situation perfectly. I wish them well, and also wish good luck to all riders at the race on Sunday trying to fight for this jersey I've been so proud to wear."
The championships kick-off on Thursday with the men's and women's time trial competitions, while the likes of Bradley Wiggins, Peter Kennaugh, as well as Adam and Simon Yates will all take to the start line of the 186km road race course on Sunday, with a new champion now guaranteed.
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Q: Proof that $S$ is a subgroup of $G$ Let $S$ be a subset of $G$ such that the identity element $1\in S$. Assume that the subsets $aS:=\lbrace as \ |\ s\in S \rbrace\subset G$ for $a\in G$ form a partition of $G$. Prove that $S$ is a subgroup of $G$.
I'm having some difficulty with this proof. I haven't really gotten anywhere with this question. I would greatly appreciate some help.

A: Let $s,t \in S$. Note that $st \in sS$ and $st = st1 \in (st)S$. Thus because we have a partition, this implies that $sS = (st)S$. In particular, there is $r \in S$ such that $sr = sts$. Canceling $s$ from the left implies $ts = r \in S$, showing closure under multiplication.
Similarly, $s \in sS$ and $s \in S$ so we get $sS = S$, so there is $a \in S$ with $sa = 1$. Canceling $s^{-1}$ from the left implies $s^{-1} = a \in S$, showing closure under inverses.
Hence, $S$ is a subgroup of $G$.

A: Every partition of a set defines an equivalence relation among the elements of the set (and vice versa).
For any $a \in G$, the subset $aS$ is the equivalence class of $a$ ($a \in aS$ because $1\in S$) induced by the equivalence relation $b \sim a \iff a^{-1}b \in S$. If $a \in S$, then $S$ is the equivalence class made of the $b$ such that $a^{-1}b \in S$; but $a$ is arbitrary in $S$, so $S$ is closed under inverses and it is a subgroup of $G$.


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Brent Harmon knew that his new girlfriend had slept with a few guys before him and he was able to accept that but when Tami took him to her home in the country for the weekend he was faced with quite an unusual situation. A situation that was a little more difficult to cope with.
Her mother Emily, who was a pretty good looking woman for her age, greeted him with a smile, but then laid down the law to her daughter.
"I don't know what you two get up to back in the city – but in my house, you're going to have separate rooms."
"Oh mom,"
"Don't Oh mom me, you know the rules and I'm sure that Brent understands my position."
He nodded his head in agreement because there seemed no alternative. The whole family appeared to be very pleasant and treated him well and so he settled himself in for an enjoyable weekend, even though it promised to be a celibate one. It was not until bedtime that he became aware of what "Oh Mom" really meant.
Brent kissed Tami goodnight outside her bedroom door and proceeded to his designated room to find her mother sitting on his bed in the nude. Of course, he thought he was in the wrong room for a moment but she soon informed him that wasn't the case. She had two glasses of brandy on the bedside table and she held one out to him.
"I thought we'd have a little nightcap and a chat before retiring," she said.
He was totally shocked by what was happening but at the same time the forty-year-old Mrs. Duncan had a great figure, and with her hair cascading down to her breasts like a legendary siren he was getting a bit excited.
"Do you think Tami will be Ok with you and me sitting like this," he asked, taking the glass and placing his bum beside hers.
"Of course, I've fucked all her boyfriends at one time or another, and two of her girlfriends – it's sort of a family ritual."
"And Mr. Duncan?"
"Eric? He loves it – see that little hole in the wall over there," she pointed to an area above the dressing table, "That hole is from our bedroom – he loves to watch – don't you Eric," she called out, giving him a little wave.
Poor Brent almost choked on his drink as Emily knocked hers back in one gulp. He wasn't that keen on fucking his girl friend's mother but in front of her father, that seemed completely obscene. However, when her hand rubbed up his thigh and gently stroked his dick he began to feel that maybe he was being a bit too prudish.
"Why don't you take your clothes off and I'll suck your cock for you," she smiled, starting to help by unbuttoning his shirt. Then she added,
"Hurry up – dear Eric gets impatient leaning against the wall if there's no action going on."
Now Brent wasn't completely convinced that what he was doing was right but he seemed cornered, and his dick was sticking up like a flagpole and so he slipped off his things and in an instant Emily threw him on the bed, opened up his legs like a chicken and went down on him.
Her generous lips, as soft as velvet, slid down his dick and completely took his breath away. She was just about to go up and down on again it when there was a knock on the wall.
"Oh shit," she said, "I don't think Eric can see what's going on, can you move your ass around that way so he can get a clear few."
Brent's dick actually started to deflate a bit because he wasn't really into to playing to a fucking audience. It didn't deter Emily, she worked it with her hands, her lips and her tongue until it was as hard as a rock, and then she kept working it and stroking his balls until a gush of hot cum shot up his pipe and into her mouth.
He was still lying there breathing heavy when she got up from her knees, walked around the bed and climbing up at the back of him, reversed herself and stuck her cunt right over his face. It was warm and wet and spread out over his mouth and partially over his nose.
Brent knew what was required of him and so he began to lick up, down and sideways, at the same time reaching up to play with her tits. She loved it and started to call out things like, "Oh Brent your so naughty– but keep doing it, it's lovely."
She used a baby voice that was a bit creepy but he tried to not waiver in his enthusiasm and kept eating away, sometimes chewing at the lips, sometimes licking up and down the slit. When she came she screamed and started bouncing her ass up and down on his face. It took a few seconds for her to stop trembling then she flung herself onto her back and yelled, quite loudly, "Now fuck me like you fuck our Tami."
Brent climbed between her legs and stuffed it in, her face broke out into an almost sinister smile and asked him to hold it there for a while. It wasn't the easiest thing to do as he was dying to cum again. It must have been thirty seconds before she slapped his ass and yelled, "Go for it!"
He just rammed it into her hard and fast. Her tits, that were at least twice as big as Tami's, jiggled and bounced as he pounded her pussy and he was just dying to cum inside of her of her warm wet crack. When his balls began to ache and he felt his goo traveling up his dick once more it was his turn to yell as he shot his load. It seemed to be streaming out forever and she held on to him tight as he gave her a cunt full.
The next morning when he arrived at the breakfast table Tami gave him a little kiss on the cheek and said, "I hear you did very well last night." His face went little red and he tried to force a smile but then Eric chimed up, "Very well? He did fucking marvelous – I loved it – keep up the good work my boy."
At that moment the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen in his life came walking through the door. She had the figure of a supermodel and the face of an angel.
"This is my …" Tami began but was interrupted.
"Just call me Joanne – I'm delighted to meet you,"
The conversation that followed left him in no doubt that it would be Joanne that would be sharing his room that night – he got an enormous hard on just thinking about it.
As he strolled around the garden with Tami later than morning he remarked what a nice person Joanne was.
"Yes – he's very nice," she said.
"Yes – Joanne – or John to give him his real name, is my mother's youngest brother – he's always felt more comfortable dressing as a woman and he really carries it off with that figure- don't you think so? THE END


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Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. These visionary tales span genres--sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism--but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. Also features essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.
"Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is possible. Our job begins with speculative fictions that fire society's imagination and its desire for change. In adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha's visionary conception, and by its activist-artists' often stunning acts of creative inception, Octavia's Brood makes for great thinking and damn good reading. The rest will be up to us." --Jeff Chang, Who We Be: The Colorization of America
"Conventional exclamatory phrases don't come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia's Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, 'It's going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.' Our radical imaginations are under siege and this text is the rescue mission. It is the new cornerstone of every class I teach on inequality, justice, and social change....This is the text we've been waiting for." --Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
"Octavia once told me that two things worried her about the future of humanity: The tendency to think hierarchically, and the tendency to place ourselves higher on the hierarchy than others. I think she would be humbled beyond words that the fine, thoughtful writers in this volume have honored her with their hearts and minds. And that in calling for us to consider that hierarchical structure, they are not walking in her shadow, nor standing on her shoulders, but marching at her side." --Steven Barnes, Lion's Blood
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I was in a dream. And in that dream I was walking down a dirt road. I remember thinking that it ought to be yellow. But then I realised that it couldn't be. I was the witch and not the innocent girl.
I turned and behind me I saw that the road was crumbling into nothing. It wasn't darkness it was just nothing. I once lost my peripheral vision due to a virus. Most of it came back but I didn't notice it had gone until a car had tried to overtake me and I didn't see it until it was past me. Very scary. Well, this disappearing road was like that. I just couldn't see it anymore.
I turned back and walked a little faster. A bird flew near me.
"Staying ahead of that." I motioned behind me. I didn't feel it was odd that I was talking to a bird. It was a dream.
I laughed and started to run. I shot a look behind me and realised that the missing path was no further back nor any closer.
"I told you," the bird said.
I slowed to a walk again, happy this was a dream, because I'd be out of puff in real life.
I did and closed my eyes. I wasn't swallowed. I opened my eyes and the bird hovered in front of my face.
And then I woke up. Okay, I know I have strange dreams, but this one actually makes sense. I am doing a lot at the moment and most of it is scary and new. I have recently read at an open mike and tomorrow I go to sell my wares at a show. I have done many shows before now, but this is the first with my book. I am scared. But excited at the same time.
This morning, at breakfast, I realised how surreal my life has become. I mean, I didn't learn to read until I was 11 and now I have one anthology published, a children's story with an agent (they may or may not want it), another anthology on the way and I am writing a novel. Even in my wildest nightmares or dreams I never imagined that this is what my life would be.
I think I am in shock, because the last day I have moved through it as if I'm watching it on a large screen rather than living it. But it is becoming more real for me. Now all I have to do is remember that my fears, and I have a lot due to a fertile imagination, are my own making, and although I can't escape them, they can't catch me unless I let them.
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import click
from click.testing import CliRunner
from element.cli import cli
import os
import csv
from pkg_resources import Requirement, resource_filename
from element.tests import mvipip

# For the connection commands we set it up so that the sdk returns a fake connection.
def test_check_functionality_of_connection_suite():
    runner = CliRunner()
    # First run the push
    result = runner.invoke(cli.cli, ['connection', 'push', '--mvip', mvipip.ip, "--username", "admin", "--password", "admin", "--name", "name"])
    # Next, verify that it happened by opening up the csv file and checking.

    connectionsCsvLocation = resource_filename(Requirement.parse("solidfire-cli"), "connections.csv")
    with open(connectionsCsvLocation) as connectionFile:
        connections = list(csv.DictReader(connectionFile, delimiter=','))

    assert connections[-1]["mvip"] == mvipip.ip
    assert connections[-1]["username"] is not None
    assert connections[-1]["password"] is not None
    assert connections[-1]["name"] == "name"
    print("Push is working")

    result = runner.invoke(cli.cli, ["Connection", "remove", "--name", "name"])
    with open(connectionsCsvLocation) as connectionFile:
        connections = list(csv.DictReader(connectionFile, delimiter=','))
    connectionsNamedb = [connection for connection in connections if connection["name"] == "name"]
    assert len(connectionsNamedb) == 0
    print("Remove is working")
    print("Functionality is good")

#check_functionality_of_connection_suite()