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Lessons From the Road: Environmentalism Is No Longer Just for Lefties
SourceDustin Thomas Chambers
Welcome to a new era in politics around the world, from innovators at the local level to federal disrupters like the Trump administration in America's capital.
Because diverse coalitions can lead to more wins.
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Join OZY as we travel through all 50 states to uncover the challenges and meet the innovators reshaping a country that's more divided than ever.
The Daily Dose JUL 25 2017
Having toured half the country for OZY's States of the Nation project, reporter Nick Fouriezos reflects on the lessons learned from his travels around this imperfect union.
Water lapped the sides of the riverboat as it slid down the Savannah River, driven by Tonya Bonitatibus, as she pointed toward the coast. There, she warned, lurk "big-ass radioactive alligators!" — a warning served up with plenty of Southern sass. I'll never forget the sight of those mammoth reptiles as they slipped below the surface of water artificially warmed by a nearby nuclear power plant. A more poignant moment came later, as Bonitatibus, the Savannah riverkeeper, walked through the massive cypress trees in the swampy marshes. "This is absolutely where our heritage lies. This is us," she said.
She caught flak from some on the left for turning her message into an indictment of property laws, but for her, talking to local values was a no-brainer.
It was that plea — not purely environmental, but more of a conservationist message focused on opposing eminent domain abuse — that helped her rile up local opposition against a problematic pipeline project. She caught flak from some on the left for turning her message into an indictment of property laws, but for her, talking to local values was a no-brainer. Her push succeeded, with conservative lawmakers passing laws that ultimately derailed the pipeline project, and similar tactics are now being used by activists from New Hampshire to Arkansas.
OZY's Nick Fouriezos on the Savannah River in Georgia, with riverkeeper Tonya Bonitatibus.
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As I've toured the U.S. — from the Northeast to the Rockies — I've seen diverse ideological coalitions uniting around environmental issues. It's just another sign of the bleeding of red and blue that happens once you take a microscope to national issues. And such politically colorblind tactics could prove invaluable for the activists facing, say, the next North Dakota Access Pipeline.
Is Gold Worth More Than Yellowstone?
Sitting in the back of the tiny single-engine Cessna Centurion, I was nervous when the propeller initially stalled like an old boat engine. "Sometimes she runs hot," the EcoFlight pilot said, moments after telling us it was pretty rough in the skies that day. Once safely airborne, the view of Gardiner, the Montana doorstep to Yellowstone, and the Chico Hot Springs showed me why locals are so worried about two proposed gold mine projects in the area — the mountains run straight down into the businesses and the Yellowstone River, and any polluted runoff would likely cause significant damage to one of the nation's most dramatically gorgeous landscapes. The mine proponents argue that drilling has done no major damage in the past. But opposition has been wholeheartedly bipartisan, uniting liberal wolf guides and conservative inn owners alike — and many more who rely on the $200 million in tourism that rolls in from the park each year.
Getting Fracked Over — Even If Your State Doesn't Do It
It's never great when a truck dumps 1,200 tons of radioactive fracking waste into a landfill across the street from your local middle and high schools. It's even worse when your state doesn't even frack, as was the case when Kentucky's Estill County — an Eastern foothill region with the slogan "Where the Bluegrass Kisses the Mountains" — became "a dumping ground for Yankee trash," as former state auditor Adam Edelen told me. The companies involved received a slap on the wrist, essentially; such outsourcing of waste is "a natural consequence," environmental law experts say, of companies trying to avoid disposal regulations in states with more stringent laws.
Tilting at Windmills in Upstate New York
This is a case of unified opposition against an environmental endeavor. In the tiny villages of Somerset and Yates, where the only bar open past 9 on a weeknight is a half-hour drive away, the quiet and the beauty go hand-in-hand — and it's what has locals worried about a proposed project to build dozens of windmills looming larger than the tallest skyscrapers of Buffalo. Environmentalists, too, have opposed the project, citing concerns over harm to local birdlife. Such turbines are increasingly becoming fixtures, not just of upstate New York but also of previously unexplored locales such as Georgia and Tennessee.
But speaking with locals, including Sherry McKenna, a Trump-loving grandma who kindly packed me a free muffin for the road, I found that many felt their voices weren't heard, and that the tranquility of their community was being sacrificed to fulfill the energy needs of New York City seven hours away — or to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose famous promise to get half of the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030 will mostly be built on the backs of rural communities like these. Still, perhaps the most fascinating account came from Susie McNulty-Atwater, a 40-year-old engineer who moved to Somerset from Carroltown, Pennsylvania — a coal town that, more recently, has embraced the wind industry. "It brought jobs to the area," she says. "And they are cleaner and safer."
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Why is the Data Center Industry booming in Ashburn, Virginia?
Ashburn, Virginia has become one of the most prominent cities in America for building businesses, and for building and expanding data centers. Located in Loudoun County, Virginia, Ashburn has broken fiscal records in 2016. Ashburn started drawing data centers to build in the late 1990's. Five years ago, Loudoun county housed 40 data centers that comprised roughly 4 Million square feet of space.
Loudoun County Virginia Exceeds Continuous Data Center Growth in 2016
The current fiscal year started on July 1, 2015, and ran through June 30, 2016. Within that time, Loudoun County recruited or retained 71 businesses. These businesses invested $2.3 Billion dollars into Loudoun, which is the most investment revenue of any county in Virginia, and double what was invested in the 2015 fiscal year for Loudoun County.
The IT Industry has continued to remain among the most booming of enterprises in Loudoun County. Ashburn is an ideal place to build and maintain a data center. So many have been built in the last several years that Ashburn has been dubbed "Data Center Alley," and rivals other booming markets including Silicon Valley.
Why does the Ashburn, Virginia Data Center Industry continue to boom?
Inexpensive Power
There are many reasons why Ashburn's Business Climate offers a better home to data centers and colocations including inexpensive power supplies. The average power rate for the last five years has hovered at around 6.0 cents per kWh, as compared to 7.4 cents per kWh in other areas of the United States. Currently, the average power rate paid by data centers in Loudoun costs 28% below the United States' national average.
Loudoun land space is conveniently located 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C., and thus is easily accessible. Loudoun County is relatively risk free of Natural Disasters occurring, including a very low risk of an earthquake occurring. An earthquake has not occurred in Loudoun since 1931, and the likelihood of an earthquake occurring in the next 50 years is 0.64%.
Loudoun offers incentives to data centers that build within the county including: a six percent sales and use tax exemption on servers, server equipment, generators and chillers. Because of these incentives, and the ideal location and inexpensive powering costs, many prominent colocations and other data centers have chosen a Loudoun County location.
Currently, Data Center Alley has 9 Million square feet that is devoted to data centers that are currently operational or under development within Loudoun—specifically 6 Million square feet of data centers are currently operational and 3 Million square feet of data centers are being planned or developed. Loudoun is currently home to 60 data centers with over 3000 technology companies housed within them. Loudoun touts that up to 70% of the world's internet traffic flows through Loudoun data centers each day. Among the big name companies that have built data centers in Loudoun are: Cyrus One, Digital Reality, Dupont Fabrus Technology, Equinox, RagingWire, and Sabey Corporation.
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Kim Zolciak has been very open about procedures she's had done in the past. Now the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star is opening up about her man receiving Botox injections.
That's right. Kroy Biermann was spotted at the doctor for shots but it's not for the reason you think.
The athlete suffers from TMJ, a condition in which the patient has pain and compromised movement of the jaw and its surrounding muscles. Instead of surgery, many people tend to get Botox instead.
Zolciak has opened up in the past on what she's had done.
Yes please! For the love of God! ??? Wet n Wild Wednesday! @kroybiermann ??Fun Fact: Today 8 years ago Kroy TRIED to break up with me ? that lasted only 24hrs ? grateful for you baby! My ride or die, my rock, my heart, the best daddy ever and you are the hottest man I ever did see ? #ImGreatWithDates #IRememberEverything TUNE IN TO "HOUSE OF KIM" my new podcast episode dropping today to find out why he tried me …. ?
She also added that she's done Ulthera, a skin-tightening treatment.
The 40-year-old and her husband seems closer than ever after she opened up about him trying to dump her at the beginning of their relationship.
Luckily, four kids and a reality show later, the two are still together. The new season of "Don't Be Tardy" is rumored to premiere this winter.


This 14 mm wide deBeer watch strap is made of genuine red lizard grain calf leather with embossing in a semi-gloss finish. This beautiful watch band tapers to 12mm on the buckle end. It has medium padding and measures 3.5mm thick. Length dimensions below do not include the buckle. Add the length of your watch to ensure that this strap would fit your wrist. Image for illustration purposes. Please choose your buckle color. Unless otherwise noted, this strap does not come with spring bars.


On the reverse at the top in the middle there is a large number "1" indicating the denomination of the coin. The inner part of the figures has a horizontal hatching. Below in smaller font the word "РУБЛЬ" centered relative to the digit "1". Another horizontally below the year of minting - "1981". In the lower and lateral part of the coin depicts a stylized semicircle, a wreath composed of two ears of wheat (above) and oak leaves (below), place a sling of two branches of a shell.
The kind is determined by the details of the front side. Elements that you should pay attention to, tagged in photos red.
Around its edge the inscription «ОДИН РУБЛЬ»and year: "1981", separated by asterisks.
F - 34: AVERS - Шт. 2 (f-13), reverse - Шт. f-33.
F - 35: obverse - 3 PCs (f-32), reverse - Шт. f-33.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe Trakio do

  subject { Trakio }

  after {
    Trakio.default_instance = nil
  }

  describe '#alias' do

    context "when an array alias is provided" do
      it "sends an array" do
        stub = stub_request(:post, "https://api.trak.io/v1/alias").
          with(:body => {
            token: 'my_api_token',
            data: {
              distinct_id: 'user@example.com',
              alias: [
                'alias1@example.com',
              ],
            }
          }).to_return(:body => {
            status: 'success',
            trak_id: '1234567890',
            distinct_ids: ['user@example.com', 'alias1@example.com'],
          }.to_json)

        trakio = Trakio.new 'my_api_token'
        trakio.alias distinct_id: 'user@example.com', alias: ['alias1@example.com']

        expect(stub).to have_been_requested
      end
    end

    context "when a string alias is provided" do
      it "sends a string" do
        stub = stub_request(:post, "https://api.trak.io/v1/alias").
          with(:body => {
            token: 'my_api_token',
            data: {
              distinct_id: 'user@example.com',
              alias: 'alias1@example.com',
            }
          }).to_return(:body => {
            status: 'success',
            trak_id: '1234567890',
            distinct_ids: ['user@example.com', 'alias1@example.com'],
          }.to_json)

        trakio = Trakio.new 'my_api_token'
        trakio.alias distinct_id: 'user@example.com', alias: 'alias1@example.com'

        expect(stub).to have_been_requested
      end
    end

    context "when no alias is provided" do
      it "raises an error" do
        trakio = Trakio.new 'my_api_token'
        expect { trakio.alias distinct_id: 'user@example.com' }.to raise_error Trakio::Exceptions::MissingParameter
      end
    end

    context "when no distinct_id is provided" do

      context "when there is one set on the instance" do
        it "sends a request" do
          stub = stub_request(:post, "https://api.trak.io/v1/alias").
            with(:body => {
              token: 'my_api_token',
              data: {
                distinct_id: 'user@example.com',
                alias: 'alias1@example.com',
              }
            }).to_return(:body => {
              status: 'success',
              trak_id: '1234567890',
              distinct_ids: ['user@example.com', 'alias1@example.com'],
            }.to_json)

          trakio = Trakio.new 'my_api_token', distinct_id: 'user@example.com'
          trakio.alias alias: 'alias1@example.com'

          expect(stub).to have_been_requested
        end
      end

      context "when there is not one set on the instance" do
        it "raises an error" do
          trakio = Trakio.new 'my_api_token'
          expect { trakio.alias alias: 'alias1@example.com' }.to raise_error Trakio::Exceptions::MissingParameter
        end
      end

    end

  end

end

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Spaghetti Tom: I saw Chris Hardin speak on Dependency Injection in Angular 6 midday Wednesday at the St. Louis Angular Lunch.
I saw Chris Hardin speak on Dependency Injection in Angular 6 midday Wednesday at the St. Louis Angular Lunch.
First, at the root of the tree is the root injector for the whole of the application. Injectors here are singletons and they get looped in at the outermost module. Once a service (anything injected, the items at the providers metadata property) is setup here its lifecycle will be the whole of the lifecycle of the application. The "root" way of doing things is the default way of doing things and the recommended way of doing things.
Next, at the component level one may similarly have a service (at the providers metadata property) and these are available to that component and child components and have lifecycles tied to the component where they are looped in. Chris gave a rich text editor with a bunch of controls written in a parent-with-a-tree-of-children manner as a good use case for these. If the WYSIWYG editor needed to appear upon clicking in a textarea and then go away again to be refreshed anew when a different textarea is edited, then the lifecycle behavior herein is appropriate to that circumstance. Most of Chris' other experience with dependency injection is of the Java Spring framework and she said that the component level injection felt like what would be a prototype bean in that alternative universe. Alright, the important thing to know here is that when a component service has a conflict with seemingly the same service in a module that the component service wins. This is not the challenging, tricky part.
Finally, services created at lazy loaded modules can "shadow" those created at root and allow you to accidentally get multiple instances of things and here is where the bad creeps in. Augury can even misreport the services from lazy loaded modules as if they are of root.


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The visit of Hamas has raised the reputation of the Russian Federation in the Arab world.
Yesterday in Moscow at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin arrived delegation of Hamas.
Even at the airport Sheremetyevo chairman of Hamas politburo, Khaled Mashal, warned that the talks are unlikely to be effective, because the most important requirement to fulfill Russia and the West - to recognize Israel - Hamas is not going to.
Still, Hamas for the fact of negotiations was initially much more important than achieving any result.
high-level visits to Moscow from the beginning seen as winners of Palestinian elections as a way of doing international PR, rather than an opportunity to reach a compromise. There was no secret that the Russian side. As the head of the Duma committee on international affairs Konstantin Kosachev, "the purpose of receiving advice not to reach any agreement. This is a very long process."
Initially, the Russian side stressed that the Hamas delegation heads of the Foreign Ministry is awaiting a short protocol reception, but instead the parties talked about two hours. Obviously, such a retreat from previously announced plans for a compensation for the absence of the visit the reception in the Kremlin. The head of the Politburo of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, insisted that the delegation is invited to Moscow, Vladimir Putin, threatening otherwise to lower-level delegation. The Kremlin decided to Hamas only if the negotiations will reach a breakthrough. Since this has not happened, it was decided to limit the extended negotiations on Smolenskaya Square.
Another unpleasant news for HAMASovtsev was Moscow's decision to refuse to deliver to Palestine several military transport helicopters to transport the Palestinian leadership and top-50 armored personnel carriers for the Palestinian security services: the Russian side agreed that such goods will be delivered only to the consent of Israel. That is to say never. But Moscow has guaranteed HAMASu $ 10 million financial aid, which must be such as to compensate for the U.S. assistance of $ 30 million has already been transferred to the PNA, but returned back at the request of State Department just before the visit of Hamas to Moscow.
The current talks are likely to be only the beginning of a long process of international recognition of Hamas.
group is now at the stage of forming their own government, and by Khaled Mashal, it would be illogical to make any serious concessions to bypass a future prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. Clearly, this foreign policy is to begin negotiations after the government will be formed. And Hamas, of course, still soften its radical stance. Experience shows the Israeli side, the greatest success of the peace talks to reach at a time when the authorities were "hawks" (in the case of Israel - Likud) rather than "blue" (ie, "Labor").
However, one undeniable benefit the Russian side of the Hamas delegation visits Moscow extract, and now. This is the image of Russia in the Arab world, which in recent years is quite concerned over the Russian authorities. Invite Hamas - in this sense is much more effective move than the recently acquired observer status in the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Khaled Mashal, and the words that "Arabs are fed by warm feelings for Russia" certainly outweigh common statement yesterday Movladi õÄÕÇÏ×Á and Akhmed Zakayev, condemned time and the Russian authorities and the leadership of Hamas.
ru Визит ХАМАС повысил репутацию РФ в арабском мире
de Der Besuch der Hamas hat den Ruf der Russischen Föderation in der arabischen Welt.
es La visita de Hamas ha elevado la reputación de la Federación de Rusia en el mundo árabe.
fr La visite du Hamas a fait la réputation de la Fédération de Russie dans le monde arabe.
it La visita di Hamas ha sollevato la reputazione della Federazione russa nel mondo arabo.
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Common Reader
"Gimme a Head with Hair, Long Beautiful Hair"	An anthropologist studies how hair travels the world as style, identity, and currency.
Gerald Early
Features, Page by Page: Book Reviews
The Hair Issue
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Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair
By Emma Tarlo	(2016, One World) 407 pages including index, notes, photos and illustrations.
… there ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my hair.
—Galt Macdermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado, "Hair" from the 1968 musical, Hair
You can tell all my pets
All my blondes and brunettes
—White version of Harry Warren and Al Dubin's "Lulu's Back in Town" as sung by Dick Powell and Mel Torme
All my Harlem coquettes
—Black version of Harry Warren and Al Dubin's "Lulu's Back in Town" as sung by Fats Waller
I. Hair as Sin and Hair as Style
Entanglement, an anthropological and journalistic account of the business, art, and meaning of hair across the globe, among other things, tells two contrasting stories: the first is about the bonfires in New York and London in 2004, Orthodox Jewish women burning their sheitels, human-hair wigs covering their own hair as prescribed by their religion. The wigs hide the women's hair which is meant only for their husbands. The wig-wearing is not a deception as much as it is a revelation of religious piety. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, a 94-year-old rabbi living in Jerusalem, had declared that the wigs, made mostly from the hair of poor Indian women, were prohibited "[tainted] with the sin of idol worship." (85) One of the main sources of Indian hair is Hindu temples like Samayapuram where faithful women undergo tonsure, an act of renunciation, in preparation to pray to the Hindu goddess, Mariamman. Tonsure sheds cut the women's hair (and men as well) for a small fee and the hair is then kept under lock and key. It is more valuable than money. (63-65) Previous Orthodox Jewish rulings had declared Indian hair to be suitable for the wigs but suddenly Indian hair was pronounced "unclean" and "impure." So, the Orthodox Jewish women, in obedience, had to burn the wigs. They could not simply be thrown or given away. They had to be thoroughly destroyed, so no Jewish woman, by accident, would wind up with one of them. As human hair wigs are expensive, and many of these women bought top-of-the-line quality, it was an enormously costly sacrifice, even more for the Jewish businesses that made and supplied the wigs and the Indian merchants and sellers who supplied the hair. But if Orthodox Jews do not want wigs made from the hair of Indian women, there are plenty of others who do.
Tarlo establishes the difference in these two episodes best when she writes, "If Jewish sheitels are about maintaining continuity with the self, the world of black hair is about the opposite. It is about the endless possibilities of transformation."
The second is about the Muslim women in Senegal who are enamored of cheveux naturels, human hair wigs, hairpieces, and weaves. Cheveux naturels are extremely expensive in this country, costing more than most of the women make in three or four months of work. They are purchased on the installment plan or by a group of women pooling their money together to buy pieces for each other as a sort of cooperative or by sexually wheedling boyfriends or sugar daddies, who, on the one hand, speak against the wigs and hairpieces but on the other wish for their women to look attractive and the deceptive hair does, in fact, make the women better looking. From a man's perspective, it is nearly impossible for a woman to have too much hair on her head. (Perhaps it is the deception of it that men do not like, a woman stripping off hairpieces at night, the sheer artifice of sexual attraction.) The imams have condemned the false hair for its cost as a wasteful indulgence, for its display of vanity, and because "it prevents women from performing ritual ablutions correctly as the water cannot get properly to their heads." (151) One woman told anthropologist Emma Tarlo that "'Cheveux naturels is completely contrary to Islam.'" (151) The same woman was wearing false hair at the interview. Apparently, her piety, such as it was, was not so compromised by the weaves she wore that she felt compelled to forego them. Why should God care whether a woman wears wigs! The Senegalese women pay little-to-no attention to the stern disapproval of wig-and-weave wearing. They love their false hair. Hair is more than a pose, it is hope, it is the fulfillment of how one would like to be. In an earlier part of Entanglement, a Black woman is described as "a hair addict" because she buys hair every week, despite the considerable cost. (137) Buy enough hair and you can become a kind of fairy godmother transforming your inner Cinderella. Perhaps imams condemn what they feel is an addiction. The adoption of Cheveux naturels is a vice and an illness, as the imams see it. If that is true, their prohibition is a lost cause. There are instances when people defiantly choose to be wicked and sick. Tarlo establishes the difference in these two episodes best when she writes, "If Jewish sheitels are about maintaining continuity with the self, the world of black hair is about the opposite. It is about the endless possibilities of transformation." (133)
So goes the tales of two religions, two sets of religious women, two different income groups, and the incredible compulsion for millions of women to wear hair that they did not grow.
II. Blondes Have More Fun, Especially If They Wear Artificial Wigs
In Billy Wilder's 1966 film, The Fortune Cookie, a striking commentary about race in America among other things, Black actress Judy Pace plays Elvira, a barfly girl, who offers her wares to football star "Boom-Boom" Jackson (played by Ron Rich), drunk and depressed because he thinks he has seriously injured cameraman Harry Hinckle (played by Jack Lemmon) during a game. In the scene which takes place in a Black bar, Pace shows off her new blonde hair-do, varying the tagline of the then-popular Clairol hair dye commercials by saying, blondes have more fun. (The tagline was "Do blondes have more fun?") Of course, Pace is wearing an outlandish blonde wig, "towers of horsehair," as the women in my family referred to them.
They were popular among Black girl performers of the day, think Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Mary Wells, the Shirelles. I thought the performers, most of them very young, wore these outlandish wigs to appear older. (White girl performers wore them too, the Shangri-Las, Dusty Springfield, Leslie Gore, Brenda Lee.) Before anyone thinks that women jazz performers were more sedate, check out the cover photo of Carmen McRae on her 1972 album, The Great American Songbook. It is not possible that that much hair could be growing out of that woman's head! I saw Sarah Vaughan perform some years ago and she kept moving her wig around as if it were a hat that was making her much too hot, as she was perspiring heavily. In that same year or nearly so, I saw Nina Simone in performance snatch her wig from her head and throw it into the audience. It was quite the gesture!
It is understandable why women performers, working nearly every night, would wear wigs. They are convenient. One does not have to worry about getting one's own hair styled and coiffed every night, a hairstyle that had to survive sweat, cigarette smoke, constant chemical treatments, bad diet, stress, lack of sleep, and the motions of sleep itself which ruins most hairstyles. The wigs were not meant to fool audiences into thinking they were the women's own hair. They were too obvious. They were not meant to deceive but to make visible something that was concealed. They might have been meant to tell the audiences that the women themselves were something like designs, structures, architecture, works of art, not sexual candy but gender abstractions, the wigs underscoring, even celebrating, the artifice of the performance.
Black male performers of the day, think James Brown, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Mathis, and Nat "King" Cole who wore chemically straightened hair and could not readily resort to wigs, had considerable challenges in keeping up appearances for the sake of the show. Processed hair, as it was called in my boyhood, had its dangers. I remember many a boy, when I was young, walking around with purple stains on his scalp, the color of the medicine used to heal the sores that resulted from too much barbershop processing or trying to do it yourself.
I saw Sarah Vaughan perform some years ago and she kept moving her wig around as if it were a hat that was making her much too hot, as she was perspiring heavily. In that same year or nearly so, I saw Nina Simone in performance snatch her wig from her head and throw it into the audience. It was quite the gesture!
Whatever Wilder might have been hinting at by having Judy Pace sport a blonde wig that was fairly similar in style to the tresses of Judi West, the White female lead in The Fortune Cookie, is not my concern here. (West very likely wore hairpieces too.) I wish to return to the comment about these wigs being "towers of horsehair." People freely admitted that the wigs most Black women wore in the 1960s and 1970s were not made of human hair. Most Black women could not afford wigs made completely of human hair, so many wigs circulating in the Black community of my boyhood were made of animal hair (yak, for instance, but the constant rumor was horse or goat hair, which was probably true) or a synthetic hair invention of the Japanese called Kanekalon. (When I saw Simone in 1970 throw her wig to the audience, it was surely not made of human hair, as it would have made the gesture expensive. She did it more than once, as I learned, and human hair wigs cost at least ten times what a synthetic wig does.) As Tarlo relates, by the late 1960s, synthetic wigs began to make a big push in the market. They were, in fact, preferred by many women as more durable than human hair wigs and less likely to burn. (187, 190) The human hair wig market crashed for at least ten years before making a comeback in the late 1970s. It is interesting that, at the time of the natural hair movement among Blacks (the "natural" or the "bush" of the early 1960s such as actress Cicely Tyson sported in the 1963-64 television series, East Side, West Side to the "Afro" of the late 1960s), there was an opposite impulse toward something so artificial as the synthetic wig. But every movement always produces its own counter-movement.
I knew a lot of Black women in those days who wore synthetic wigs. Many of them also adopted Afros too. Like Simone, they sometimes wore synthetic wigs to cover their Afros but I do not remember any doing Simone's big reveal. Simone clearly wanted to make a statement about re-birth, redefinition, about discarding her past appearance with straightened hair, showing her new self with natural hair. Going natural, adopting an Afro during the Black Power/Black is Beautiful era was a political as well as style statement about opposing White beauty standards. When I first met my wife in the early 1970s, she was wearing an Afro. After we had been married, she began to chemically straighten her hair again. Tarlo, in her chapter on Black hair, despite witnessing heated debates about wearing natural hair at various Black hair gatherings she attended, found that most Black women saw natural hair as one style among many that they could adopt. Natural hair was good as a break from the chemical relaxers; it was good for a different look; it was good because it made wearing a wig easier. It was something that a woman could do, now and again, to switch things up, for variety. For most Black women it was not a political commitment. When I asked my wife why she changed her hair, she was both resigned and slightly annoyed. "I don't believe in politically correct hair," she said. "White women do what they want to their hair including getting it dyed, permed, and straightened. Why can't I do what I want to mine? And if Black people quit issuing dogmas and edicts about what they think other Black people should be and do, the race would be a lot better off." Here endeth that lesson!
The key question is, as Tarlo aptly put it: What is natural hair? More to the point, what is natural?
And wearing natural hair was not by any means easier than having it straightened, wash-and-wear ease, as many believe. As Tarlo relates, one natural hair advocate listed the products she used regularly for her hair: "cider vinegar, two pre-shampoo products, shampoo, conditioner, hair mayonnaise, oil, leave-in conditioner, end protector, revitalising (sic) styling spray, and filtered water" plus "a Denman brush, a wide-tooth comb, rollers, duck-bill clips, end wraps, a silk scarf, a spray bottle, a hood steamer or plastic cap, a hood dryer, ceramic straighteners and a hand-held dryer." (154) Tarlo calculated that this woman spent eight hours a week on her hair. So, going into natural hair whole-hog, with the zeal of a health faddist, would not save a woman much money or much time.
The key question is, as Tarlo aptly put it: What is natural hair? More to the point, what is natural? The Black women who chemically straighten their hair feel they are wearing their natural hair as it is, after all, growing out of their heads. Why is treating it making it less natural? African women have been treating their hair in various ways for thousands of years. Black women who buy human hair wigs and weaves feel these are perfectly natural. They are human hair, after all! They grew out of some woman's head. As Tarlo pointed out, animal hair wigs are certainly "natural;" women refer to some hairstyles as "ponytails," "pig tails," and "rats" which reflect our relationship to animal hair. (338) (Some Jews and Muslims are concerned about hairpieces and brushes made from boar's bristles but that is another story.) And what difference does it make if someone wears a synthetic rather than a natural hair wig, whether the person is attempting to conceal illness or display exaggeration and extravagance? It must be remembered, as Tarlo stated, that "… African hair … has the slowest growth rate and is more prone to breakage than any other type." (175) Wigs and hairpieces are forms of compensation to increase Black hair's expressive possibilities.
So, we see some Black women with dreads, some with Afros, some with frizzy hair, some with hair as straight as a board, long and lank, blonde, brunette, and auburn. I suppose today, for this and other reasons, a Black crooner could sing the "White" lyrics of "Lulu's Back in Town." If it mattered.
III. The Business of Hair, or Every Woman a Rapunzel
As Tarlo makes clear, hair is a hot commodity, that is, false hair that a person puts on his or her head. For women, as I mentioned above, head hair is beauty, sexual capital. It never hurts to have a lot of it. In fact, if you have a lot of it, you are likely to be appealing to men and the envy of other women. A woman can never have too much hair, on her head, that is. (It can be problematical for a woman to have a hairy body. Typically, women want a lot of hair on their heads but nowhere else on their bodies. But the story of women with hairy armpits, hairy arms, hairy legs, hairy genitals, mustaches, beards and the like, and what the massive business of epilation is about and the fetishization of hairy women in pornographic films is a story for another time.) So, for women who do not have as much of it as they would like, because of illness or disease or bad genes that resulted in thin, unruly, unbecoming hair, buying better hair is the thing. The demand for human hair is high, much higher than the supply. After all, hair has to be grown. To grow shoulder-length or back-length hair takes a long time. Tarlo writes, "[Hair] may grow easily in every part of the world, and in every climate; it may not require a complex balance of sun, water and fertiliser (sic) to help it on its way; but it is slow-growing compared to other crops and has a complex life-cycle." (41) Head hair does not all grow at the same rate. At least ten percent is in a transitional or a resting phase, not growing at all. We all shed hair every day. As Kurt Stenn put it in Hair: A Human History (2016), "… while one shaft on your head may be growing, another may be shedding, and a third anchored and resting."
The length that human hair grows in a year is not enough for making wigs or extensions. Tarlo explains, "A decent crop [of hair] requires a minimum of two years to grow, whilst the cultivation of the really valuable lengths of over fifty centimetres (sic) requires at least four years." (42) Hair extensions attached to the head usually last four-to-five months. Human hair wigs worn every day last about a year. Generally speaking, poorer women in Asia, eastern Europe, and South America supply hair for middle-class and wealthier women in the United States and western Europe. It is apparent that those women could never grow enough hair to satisfy the demand. But the buying and selling of hair in the world is not so easily understood as that.
Trading in hair is no business for the faint-of-heart or less than cunning. One needs to know several languages as trails of hair circulate among many different countries. Navigating ethnicities and nationalities, religions, and customs requires the abilities of both a spy and a diplomat.
Women are not only the source for hair but also make up most of the workers in Asian countries who make wigs and hairpieces. They work for low wages, but most are glad to get the work, for without the hair industry there would be no work for them or no work that they would find respectable. The work and money give them a sense of autonomy. Moreover, they become expert craft persons, being able to tell from touch whether the hair is Indian, Chinese, Korean, or North African. (Tarlo reminds us that in the typology of race, hair texture was an important marker, except that it was never quite consistent.) They become adept at making waste hair (shedded hair in combs that many poor women sell or hair on barbershop floors) useable, painstakingly separating tangled, gummed together strands to make columns of hair for wigs and weaves. They are expert at dying hair products, know which hair absorbs dye best, can do the tedious work of creating hairpieces and wigs, which often take days just to make one or two. Women also work as hair peddlers, buying hair from women, but it is more likely a man who will do this. Hair is hustle and women in the business hustle hard.
Trading in hair is no business for the faint-of-heart or less than cunning. One needs to know several languages as trails of hair circulate among many different countries. Navigating ethnicities and nationalities, religions, and customs requires the abilities of both a spy and a diplomat. Cheating and conning are common. Dealers are constantly trying to pass off hair as something that it is not: Dyed hair as the real thing; coarse grades of Asian hair as finer-textured European grade; animal hair as human hair; hair from corpses as hair from the living; hair from sick women as hair from healthy women entering a convent. Stealing shipments of hair is common; it is a crime that is hard to trace; police, unfamiliar with the denizens of the hair industry, sometimes find it difficult to track down culprits, and punishment from perpetrators is not severe. After all, it is only hair.
IV. Wool
Growing up, I heard more than a few Black persons, and there were some who thought deeply and researched tenaciously about such matters, pronounce that Jesus was Black. This, in spite of the fact that every Black church I visited as a boy was bathed in White iconography. In fact, the insistence that Jesus was Black may very well have arisen because of this White iconography one saw every week during worship service. No self-respecting Black person wished to pray to a White god or a White Jesus, so, subconsciously, one had to oppose or ignore it. This was not easy, which may have been why some Blacks became Muslims, Baha'is, or some other faith where the iconography was non-existent or less oppressively pervasive. On the other hand, at times it seemed as if there might very well be a White god, for what else would explain as well the position most Black people found themselves in at the time. That view was perverse but funny in the way a good blues lyric sometimes was.
In any case, the idea that Jesus was Black is based on one verse of New Testament and it involves hair. Revelation 1:14 reads:
"[The Son of Man's] head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire …" (KJV)
The verse following mentions "his feet like unto fine brass," which is used as supporting evidence (brass is brown) but the key word is "wool." Racial typing was not only dependent on skin color and head and eye shape, but also on hair type. Black people's hair was always described as wooly, considered a legitimate scientific description of a hair type. Take your pick among classic authors like Twain, Beecher Stowe, Melville, London, and somewhere in their works when they are describing a Black character you will find the word. A random example that underscores how widespread the unflattering stereotype was: a minor nonfiction children's book of 1902, Our Little African Cousin by Mary Hazelton Wade, used "woolly" to describe African hair on the first page. As Tarlo suggests, as woolly became the standard description of Black hair, "smooth" and "straight" became identifiers of European (White) hair, as Whites were the opposite of Blacks in the typology of races. In this way, Black hair came to be seen as degraded, its texture inferior. Technically, all hair is wool or fur insofar as it functions for the human body. Humans shed hair in their evolution from primates because as our brain grew larger, sweat glands were better at regulating the brain's temperature than heavy fur was. In this way, all human beings are hairless apes. Tarlo poses this question about today's hair trade, implying how it reinscribes the racist hair typology of the past: "And why is European hair so highly valued whilst African hair types feature mainly as a base fibre (sic) to which hair extensions can be attached?" (161)
In the instance concerning Jesus' race, Blacks have taken racist terminology and turned it to their advantage or their racial aggrandizement. If Christ is described as having hair like "wool," then he must be Black because wool refers only to Black people's hair. Despite a certain cleverness, there are numerous problems with this formulation:
1. Were the King James translators aware of wool as a signifier for Black? If so, why would they have translated the Koine Greek word as "wool"? If not, it means that at the time of the King James translation, wool was not inevitably or inescapably a signifier Black.
2. The passage seems to emphasize the color of Jesus' hair rather than its texture. There are two analogies about its whiteness, wool, and snow.
3. As there is much mention in Revelation about Jesus as the Lamb of God, wool could be another way of referring to Jesus as the lamb of God.
4. Revelation is describing the transfigured Jesus, not the earthly or historical savior. The description is not meant to interpret him as a human being but as something transcendent.
When my children for a time wore Afros when they were in elementary school, they were called "Brillo heads," an especially unflattering way of referencing the African's wool, no doubt. I suppose this interpretation of "wool" in Revelation is a way of finding solace in the way other people describe you.
V. Black Hair and Korean Hands
Recall the intense animosity that Black and Latino rioters displayed toward Korean merchants in Black neighborhoods during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992. The Koreans were seen as interlopers, aliens, much as Blacks saw Jewish merchants in the Black communities from, say, the 1930s through the 1960s. Most Korean merchants owned hair supply stores that catered to Black and Latino women. "How dare these racist Asians come into our communities to sell ethnic products to us! This is appropriation, theft, colonizing. We should be selling these products to our own." (A similar complaint against East Indians can be heard in many African and Caribbean countries.) As Tarlow explains it, "By 1972 wigs had become Korea's third most important export item, and it was through wigs that many Korean migrants and merchants surfed into America and established an economic foothold in urban centres (sic) up and down the country. They settled mainly in poor urban neighborhoods, where they soon became familiar with the tastes of African-American and Latino women keen to buy wigs and hair at discount prices. It is no exaggeration to say that Korean prosperity in the United States was built to a large degree on hair." (192) Indeed, on Black hair. But the Koreans came here familiar with the hair trade, not just hairstyling and hair care, but the business of buying, selling, and making hair. They discovered that Black women spend far more on their hair than White women do. In business, you go where the money is. One can hardly blame the Koreans for doing that. And business opportunities in an ethnic or racial community are not necessarily the entitlement of that race or ethnicity. One Korean merchant Tarlo interviewed said his store sold over 20,000 different products for its Black customers. (135) The store provides goods and services the neighborhood wants. Beat the Korean at his game or shut up. A neighborhood is yours if you can gain it and keep it, not simply because you live in it. To be sure, Black neighborhoods have been designed historically for its residents to be powerless in its management. And of course, Blacks do the flip test: Could they set up a business in a Korean community selling a Korean-oriented product? Probably not. And the Korean ownership does not benefit the Black people in the neighborhood because the Koreans do not consider themselves to be true members of the community as they are a different ethnicity.
Few Black women are so poor that they are unwilling to spend considerable sums of money on hair, their own and that of other people, that they can append to their heads. Consider, the United States is the biggest importer of human-hair products but Africa imports a larger volume of synthetic hair. (210) Africa is far poorer than the United States. If African women had more money, Africa would probably outpace the United States in importing human hair. Chinese hair dealers agree that the future of the trade is Africa.
When my children were very young, my wife and I had them stay during the day with Black women "north of Delmar," as they say. These women were very nice but they were what some would call very "ghetto." They illegally ran a beauty shop out of their basement and they were obsessed with hair, straightening their hair nearly every day, putting on hairpieces, constantly looking at themselves in the mirror, and talking about hair all the time. I did not worry much about my daughters being abused with the women. I did wonder if the women were ever able to tear themselves away from their own and each other's hair to pay attention to my kids.
Few Black women are so poor that they are unwilling to spend considerable sums of money on hair, their own and that of other people, that they can append to their heads. Consider, the United States is the biggest importer of human-hair products but Africa imports a larger volume of synthetic hair.
It is Black women like my daughters' babysitters of long ago who own hair braiding and weave business in Black neighborhoods. In fact, these are the most likely business a Black woman will own in a poor neighborhood. I have been nowhere in urban America, or urban Africa or the Caribbean, for that matter, where I have not seen such shops where Black women stylists and weavers work on Black women's heads, either in chairs or on the floor, painstakingly, as attaching and styling weaves take hours. They are marginal, financially precarious businesses, under-capitalized, with an owner who may have other employment in addition to the business and thus distracted in running it, not likely to be insured (and thus particularly vulnerable to failure from fire, flood, theft, and damage from rioters). Early during the pandemic, I drove through parts of north St. Louis with my wife and discovered that the only businesses that were open (surreptitiously yet unmistakenly), defying the order that all non-essential businesses had to close, were hair-weaving joints and small cheap clothing boutiques, businesses run by women. They could not afford to close, so they took their chances with the law. It is that kind of life for some people. Not the best, to be sure, but not the worst either, by a considerable measure. Just harder than it needs to be.
Hair is another story of haves and have-nots, takers and the taken, aspirants and the contemptuous, as we are reminded yet again that this world, for better and for worse, is what it is.
Gerald Early, editor of The Common Reader and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and African-American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Kyle Vest, 25, of Orlando competes on the second season of 'Skin Wars,' starting Wednesday on GSN. (Kevin Lynch / GSN)
Season two of "Skin Wars" will feature an Orlando hopeful: Kyle Vest has worked as a florist, go-go dancer, aerial ice skater, costume designer and stilt walker. Yet body painting, the focus of "Skin Wars," is his true love.
The season starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday on GSN. Fans will remember that Shannon Holt of Orlando placed second last season. The winner receives $100,000.
Vest, 25, overcame dyslexia as a child. He is a graduate of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and the Joe Blasco makeup master's program in Orlando.
He answered questions I submitted:
Have you ever tried out for a reality show?
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Yes, I have tried out for "Face Off" seasons 1 and 5, and was contacted by season 1 of "Skin Wars." You know when you are ready to do the final jump and go for it. This time felt right and I was ready. I wish I had painted more before, because I really wasn't painting that much before, though we will see if I really needed to practice or not.
How would you describe the experience of being on the show?
This competition was eye-opening. I am so thankful I did it, and if I could choose life this way, I would, as long as I got to sleep more. (No sleeping in these style competitions.) I loved it. You are forced to new levels and forced out of your comfort zones. I wanted to win this so badly I worked harder than I ever had. I loved walking in and being surprised every day.
Are you still performing and what have been the highlights of your performing career?
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I am still performing full time for both Blast Effects and Universal Studios. I do aerial, skating, stilt walking, characters, modeling, makeup, costuming -- but I don't sing. The highlights of being a performer are the reactions I get every day from thousands of tourists or fans. It is such an amazing feeling to cheer up those around you.
How does performing help your body painting?
It helps so much. I learn how it feels, from sitting in a makeup chair to standing and being painted for hours. I have changed my style to make it way easier or more comfortable for the model/performer. In the end, it's all about the performers and their shows. I was trying everything on myself before putting anyone else through it.
What are you doing now?
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I still am full time skating for Universal and doing everything for Blast Effects (aerial, pole, makeup, body painting and more). I don't know if I could do just one thing. I love the spotlight of performing, but I love getting to do behind the scenes.
How long have you been in Orlando and did you grow up here?
I feel like I have two homes: the one I grew up in Lebanon, Ind., and here in Orlando. I will call Orlando home as long as I can. It's such a perfect city, and I love the people, weather and sites.
Your bio talks about overcoming dyslexia. How did you do that?
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia in second grade, and I hid it so well that I'm pretty sure no one knew except teachers and family. There are multiple types of dyslexia and levels, so, growing up, I had to be tested over and over, and luckily, I had very patient people in my life to help me through (especially my mother). It was such a struggle. It made me change my career choice and now, I am very happy I did.
What are your strengths as a body painter?
I can't say I have just one strength or weakness with body painting. I am always staying on top of my body painting. If I have a weakness, I work extremely hard to bring it up to the level of my other skills.
One competitor underestimates you in the premiere. Is that a recurring theme in the show and has that been a recurring theme in your life?
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Every day of my life I have felt like an underdog. I work as hard as I can so I can one day be up there with the best. As for the show, I am the youngest and I think I am the one with the least experience in body painting, but I fight to show it doesn't matter. I can work just as hard and pick up tricks on the way. You will watch and learn. I always have surprises.
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Watching Season one of "Skin Wars," I didn't know anyone, and I did cheer for Shannon because she was from Orlando. She is such an amazing person. After meeting her, I love her even more. She is extremely talented.
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Lars Ulrich Toilet the Latest Creation of Musician Who Made Skeleton Guitar
Photo by Prince Midnight
A toilet fashioned in the 1980s likeness of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has made a splash online.
And the creator behind it is none other than Prince Midnight, the Florida metal musician and provocateur who previously went viral when he made a guitar out of a skeleton he claimed was his dead uncle's.
The Lars Ulrich toilet is just the latest physical art from Midnight, who performs unconventional, vibraphone-led gothic and black metal and produces a range of unusual artwork. He released a self-titled EP of his music last year, but the Lars Ulrich toilet is part of his Hellmouth Plumbing Supply, a boutique bathroom outfitter and art concern he started with toilet seat lids carrying the images of classic heavy metal album covers.
See more photos of the Lars Ulrich toilet down toward the bottom of this post.
Prince Midnight tells Loudwire of the toilet, "Make no mistake, this is not me taking a jab at Lars. This is my way, albeit unconventional, to honor Lars Ulrich and Metallica. I could have painted a picture or made a traditional sculpture, but no one would have even noticed, and really, that's not the kind of art and performance I do. The first band I ever loved was Metallica, the first record I became obsessed with, the first music I ever dove into, the concert I ever attended."
He fashioned the toilet's ornamentation using "a ton of natural clay from the art store to sculpt the body and legs," he explains. "I used alginate to mold and cast my own hands and feet in resin. I saved the facial sculpt for last, using photos of Lars from the '80s. Then, like the hands and feet, I made a mold and cast it in resin. I ran steel rebar through the whole thing with fiberglass batting. My backyard has essentially been an auto body shop for the last couple of months."
Midnight adds that "some might find the concept of making this toilet to be a work of absurdism, or even feel offended by the notion that it's being presented as a work of fine art, but that's how every creative is treated when exploring new creative spaces."
Midnight maintains the Lars Ulrich toilet is installed and fully functional. He says he'll be relocating it "for public use" to the Tampa, Fla., music venue Brass Mug on Dec. 3 as part of what he calls an "art show taking place in the bathroom during the [Prince Midnight] show."
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So, you want to parse microformats in your app? Awesome. There are parsers in many languages.
A critical effort to assist in interoperability and completeness of microformat parsing is the Test Suite. This page documents the effort to produce test cases for each microformat and parsing pattern, so that you can verify the operations of your parser.
NB: This page is new. There is a limited test suite available already for hCard, hCalendar, hReview and hAtom. It is somewhat outdated and unmaintained, but should give you a starting point. This effort hopes to produce something far more robust and extensive, as well as setting a precedent and framework for future microformats and test suites.
This page will be expanded.
1 Get the Tests
2 Goals of Test Suite Project
3 Test Structure
4 Establishment Tasks
Get the Tests
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Goals of Test Suite Project
We need to support specifications with better tests. There's no better way for parser writers to verify the correctness and completeness of their code without them. Microformats are getting adopted by big players, with large, stable implementations and are having bigger and bigger impact. It's critical that implementers don't reinvent the testing wheel for each new project.
We need to provide a suite to:
Verify the correctness of microformats parsing
Indicate the completeness of a parser implementation
Ensure that global patterns like abbr-design-pattern and value-class-pattern are implemented accurately
Provide a base set of tests for implementations to build their automated test scripts
Encourage implementations to put their tests into this combined effort, rather than working alone
Test Structure
Each test takes the form of:
Valid HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0 compatible file, containing the HTML mark-up for the test itself, along with the assertions used to validate the test.
Assertions are described using a test-fixture mark-up pattern, invented by Glen Jones for his tests. This pattern needs to be documented here.
This generic format has the following advantages:
It is language implementation agnostic, so never has to be ported into other languages (e.g. PHPUnit tests ported to JUnit ported to YUITest ported to…)
The test case and assertions are contained in the same physical file. One file per test is easier to manage than multiple files associated in name.
The test is self-documenting. Because the test is written in HTML, it can contain explanation alongside the assertions, can be verified easily by hand, as well as parsed by machines.
The test-fixture format can be tested using itself.
Dedicated automated test suites for languages (PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.) can be generated from the HTML using a single script. One new test case written using test-fixture can create tests for all languages.
It's useful that all tests be in the same output format. Early tests for microformats returned native formats, such as vcf (vcard), ics (iCal) and Atom. These were useful in the context of early implementations, but parsers and consuming cases are now more sophisticated so providing assertions to verify against is more useful.
There is to be one test suite per format. In some cases, such as geo and adr with hCard, the address and geo portions will be included in the geo and adr test suites and hCard parsers will be expected to run cases from all three suites.
Tests using global patterns, such as value-class and abbr-design-pattern should be included in tests for all vocabularies, where appropriate.
Each vocabulary suite is organized as follows
/stable contains tests for the stable, specified aspects of each vocabulary.
/stable/new is the initial location for a new test. Tests are checked into new first, pending peer-review. After review, the test is moved into verified.
/stable/verified contains tests for stable aspects of a specification which have been sanity checked by at least one other. These tests will be presented as (and should be) 100% correct and reliable.
/experimental is a repository for brainstorm tests, for experimental implementations. The tests will be filed under /experimental/brainstorm-name. This keeps them separate from the stable branch, but makes it easy to merge them in if a brainstorm is successful and results in an update to the spec.
/old contains tests that don't match the proposed test suite format/criteria. They're useful and should be ported to the new form, but are filed separately.
Establishment Tasks
Get the existing test cases from hg.microformats.org and into a Github repository.
The collaboration functionality of Github is well suited to the development of new tests.
Get the existing test-fixture tests integrated
Needs Public Domain release from Glen Jones.
Make people aware of it!
Compile documentation for test-fixture
Fill in all the blanks on this page.
Rewrite the existing hCard, hCalendar and hAtom tests to transform into JSON rather than native formats
Encourage production open source scripts to convert a test-fixture document into a runnable test case in major languages:
PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java
Produce test-fixture test cases for test-fixture itself.
Later, thought should be given to how assertions can be used to test implied meanings in microformats. For example, we cannot test 'hCard is an organisation' using a simple assert, since that is not a field of hCard (but would be a data field in an implementation). Initially, these implied meanings should just be documented in the tests, and applicable implementations can take note.
ufXtract test suite
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Test Suites was last modified: Wednesday, December 31st, 1969


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In late January 2014 the band released their first studio album entitled "Gypsy Spirit", a mini album which has garnered a vast amount of praise and positive reviews from the online community and press beyond.


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People were very attentive, especially for breakfast, which was a plate of fresh fruit, beautiful buttered bread, Mexican coffee (with cinnamon) and tea...and bonus of scrambled eggs. We particularly enjoyed being right at the pyramids and could walk to the entrance. They were also helpful in finding us a taxi ride back to the city. The property is well cared for. The rooms are spartan, but cheerful...all you really need for a night or two.
I like the location and the privacy, very near to the pyramids, the temezcal was great, they have accomodate it for us at night which was great.
Rustic and charming, but lacking in most things I am used to. My fault for thinking I was in a more metropolitan area.
Everything, the service, the location, the facilities. It is a beautiful place and I definitely see myself coming back!
Very beautiful and clean property with a view to the Pyramids. It's a perfect location if you wanna explore the Pyramids all day bc you still can walk home since its only 20min walking distance to the hotel. Restaurants are close by but be aware most of them are closing at 7pm. Close to the Hotel is also a laundry. The lady charged 12 pesos per kilo and you get your clothes clean and folded after 2hours back...that was awesome.
Everything as expected - simple but location is perfect. It was cold at night but they provided us with extra blankets.
It's a family run hotel and the owner does everything to make your stay comfortable.
The space was perfect for one night visiting Teotihuacan.
Good outdoor space with a table and chairs. Clean. Good price. Excellent fast wifi. Large bath towels. Walking distance (15-20 minutes) to Gate 1 of ruins.
Hotel Quetzalcalli This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
One of our top picks in San Juan Teotihuacán.With views of the world-famous Teotihuacan Pyramids, the Mexican-style Hotel Quetzalcalli offers guests free Wi-Fi, a shuttle service and a children's playground.
The rooms at this hotel come with cable TV and a wardrobe, table and balcony. They also feature a private bathroom with a shower and toilet.
Hotel Quetazlcalli features an on-site cafeteria, and there are a range of restaurants serving national and international food within 1.2 mi of the property.
Visitors can enjoy a relaxing temazcal treatment at the hotel or head to the archaeological site, just a 5-minute drive from the property.
Located only 2.5 mi from the property is the town of Acolman, where guests can find the historic San Agustin Monestary.
Guests also enjoy an on-site football field and craft store, and the Parque Reino Animal Park is only a 10-minute drive away.
Mexico City's International Airport is a 1-hour drive from the hotel.
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The Double Rooms at this hotel come with cable TV and a wardrobe, table and balcony. They also feature a private bathroom with a shower and toilet.
Our place has witnessed many beautiful spiritual ceremonies. It has a very special altar dedicated to Chac-Mool, since he has asked it to Carmen through a dream. We have a soccer school for kids of the comunity where they also learn indigenous games.
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Property accepts credit cards but a deposit for 50% of the first night of the reservation via bank transfer is required at least 72 hrs before arrival or the reservation can be cancel by property (see Hotel Policies). [Hotel Quetzalcalli] will contact you with instructions after booking.
Super comfy mattress, welcoming place, would recommend doing a temazcal ceremony.
Shower was only a sprinkle of lukewarm water. Bad smell from bathroom at times.
There is no restaurant or café (but yes, it includes a continental breakfast) . The bathrooms and the room's lighting can be improved. Keep in mind is a very affordable hotel.
The location is awesome. The building is cozy and the backyard is very peaceful. This is a great cost-effective hotel.
Very basic. Cold rooms. Hard. Ed, old solid pillows. No soundproofing. The block backs onto neighbouring yards, so expect the sounds of real life in Mexico. Dogs barking, cockerels crowing and pigs squealing-especially when they're resisting being loaded into transport at dawn.
The location, walking distance to gate 1 of the pyramids.
The room was a little damp and chilly at night with no portable heaters during our January stay, probably a blessing during summer. We didn't have hot water the second night, but it was fixed within an hour.
The personnel was extra friendly and eager to please us. The hotel rooms are beautiful. It is also very close to Teotihuacan.
temazcal, they have not provide enough towels, so we got cold, Im still surviving after the cold.
The location was not as close to the pyramids as I was led to believe. Very few taxis in the area. No view from the hotel.
Could be better if they take attention to the Shower, Hot Water, toilet, before the people used the room... Continental Breakfast is with eggs, not included the eggs in the breakfast!
2km to the gate5 ! Very nice staff only espanol !
Unfortunately, our room was filled with mosquitos. Our friend's room was not, good for him! But hey! All part of the experience!


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There are a total of 25 assisted living facilities in DULUTH, Georgia area. This list includes DULUTH senior housing, assisted senior living communities and residential care homes for the elderly. DULUTH assisted senior living facilities also provide dementia and Alzheimer's care (also known as memory care in DULUTH, GA).
Breckinridge Ii is an assisted living facility in Duluth, Georgia. It can provide senior living to a maximum of 2 older adults at a time. It is located at 2845 Briar Oak Drive, 30096 zip code in Gwinnett county. Breckinridge Ii helps elderly adults who need assistance with everyday tasks.
Plantation South Pch Of Duluth provides assisted senior living in Gwinnett county, Georgia. It contains a total of 73 assisted living apartments for senior citizens. Plantation South Pch Of Duluth provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 3450 Duluth Park Lane, Duluth, Georgia 30096.
Breckinridge I is an upscale senior living facility in Duluth, Georgia. It supports a total of 3 assisted living units. Breckinridge I is available to all Gwinnett county elderly adult residents in need of assisted living. Breckinridge I is situated at 2006 Executive Drive in Duluth, Georgia.
Best Senior Care Home is a residential care facility in Duluth, Georgia, located at 3324 Hill Drive in 30096 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Gwinnett county in Georgia. Best Senior Care Home has a total of 3 assisted living apartment units.
Parc At Duluth is an elderly assisted housing facility in Duluth, Georgia. Parc At Duluth is located at 3315 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, 30096 zip code and provides assisted living to all Gwinnett county elderly residents. It provides 25 senior living units in total.
Legacy Personal Care Home is a senior care and living facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia, located at 174 Mcconnell Drive. Any elderly or older adults looking for assisted living in Gwinnett county or near 30045 zip code should consider Legacy Personal Care Home as one of the best options.
Killian Hill Personal Care Home is an assisted senior living community in Lilburn, Georgia, located in the Gwinnett county area. Killian Hill Personal Care Home is directly located at 1538 Killian Hill Road in the 30047 zip code area. It has a maximum capacity of 8 assisted senior housing units.
Morning Star Personal Care Ii is an elderly care and living facility in Lilburn, Georgia. It is conveniently located at 2225 Thorndale Dr in the 30047 zip code area. Morning Star Personal Care Ii is an excellent choice for Gwinnett senior citizen residents who are looking for residential care, assisted living or dementia care. It has 3 senior assisted living apartments in total.
Consumer's Care Corp 6 is an assisted living facility in Snellville, Georgia in Gwinnett county. It is best suited for elderly seniors who need daily living help in 30039 zip code area. Consumer's Care Corp 6 is situated at 3560 Golfe Links Drive. It includes 3 assisted senior living apartment units.
Safe Harbor Personal Care is an assisted living community in Buford, Georgia. It provides housing and care to elderly Gwinnett county residents and is located at 1385 Rocksprings Road in 30519 zip code. Safe Harbor Personal Care includes a total of 3 assisted living units.
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Stone Mountain Estates Assisted Living And Memory provides assisted senior living in Gwinnett county, Georgia. It contains a total of 60 assisted living apartments for 55+ adults. Stone Mountain Estates Assisted Living And Memory provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 1745 Parke Plaza Circle, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30087.
Mercy Personal Care Home is an upscale assisted senior living facility in Loganville, Georgia. It supports a total of 6 assisted living units. Mercy Personal Care Home is available to all Gwinnett county elderly adult residents in need of assisted living. Mercy Personal Care Home is situated at 3630 Brushy Wood Drive in Loganville, Georgia.
Senior Care America is a residential care facility in Sugar Hill, Georgia, located at 1165 Hillcrest Glenn Circle in 30518 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Gwinnett county in Georgia. Senior Care America has a total of 3 assisted living apartment units.
C & E Integrity Care is an elderly assisted housing facility in Stone Mountain, Georgia. C & E Integrity Care is located at 2397 Rockbridge Road, 30087 zip code and provides assisted living to all Gwinnett county elderly residents. It provides 3 senior living units in total.
Blossom Personal Care Home is a senior care and living facility in Dacula, Georgia, located at 2494 Lillies Trace. Any elderly or older adults looking for assisted living in Gwinnett county or near 30019 zip code should consider Blossom Personal Care Home as one of the best options.
Good Faith Personal Care Home Ii is an assisted senior living community in Snellville, Georgia, located in the Gwinnett county area. Good Faith Personal Care Home Ii is directly located at 3123 Skyland Drive in the 30078 zip code area. It has a maximum capacity of 3 assisted senior housing units.
New Hope Care Home is an elderly care and living facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is conveniently located at 1260 Hiram Davis Road in the 30045 zip code area. New Hope Care Home is an excellent choice for Gwinnett senior citizen residents who are looking for residential care, assisted living or dementia care. It has 6 senior assisted living apartments in total.
Eva - And - Erma's House is an assisted living facility in Snellville, Georgia in Gwinnett county. It is best suited for older adults who require daily living help in 30078 zip code area. Eva - And - Erma's House is situated at 2641 Abington Drive Sw. It includes 4 assisted senior living apartment units.
Willis House is an assisted living community in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It provides housing and care to elderly Gwinnett county residents and is located at 1895 Lawrenceville-suwanee Road in 30043 zip code. Willis House includes a total of 6 assisted living units.
Bailey Woods is an assisted living facility in Dacula, Georgia. It can provide senior living to a maximum of 4 seniors at a time. It is located at 882 Bailey Woods Road, 30019 zip code in Gwinnett county. Bailey Woods helps older adults who require assistance with daily living tasks.
Kind Hearts provides assisted living in Gwinnett county, Georgia. It contains a total of 4 assisted living apartments for older adults. Kind Hearts provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 3676 Lee Road, Snellville, Georgia 30039.
Cottage Senior Living is an upscale assisted senior living facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It supports a total of 6 assisted living units. Cottage Senior Living is available to all Gwinnett county elderly residents in need of assisted living. Cottage Senior Living is situated at 818 Round Tree Court in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Delta Corners is a residential care facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia, located at 1390 Delta Corners in 30045 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Gwinnett county in Georgia. Delta Corners has a total of 4 assisted living apartment units.
Sunrise Assisted Living At Five Forks is an elderly assisted housing facility in Lilburn, Georgia. Sunrise Assisted Living At Five Forks is located at 3997 Five Forks Trickum Road, 30047 zip code and provides assisted living to all Gwinnett county elderly residents. It provides 101 senior living units in total.
Assisted Living Facilities in DULUTH, GA. List of all of the best assisted living, senior living and elderly housing options in DULUTH for 2019.


CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- A driver died Tuesday after being stabbed by another motorist in an apparent case of road rage following a minor traffic accident, witnesses said.
The fatal attack took place about 9 a.m. in the area of Sweetwater Road and Willow Street near Chula Vista Golf Course, according to police. The two drivers had apparently been feuding on the road for at least a mile before the crash, investigators said.
"We have witness information that these vehicles were traveling while they were in some sort of a dispute," Chula Vista police Capt. Phil Collum said. "We know that at one point a liquid was thrown from one vehicle to another."
Tracy Ryan, who witnessed the stabbing, said everything happened very quickly after the minivan rear-ended the pickup.
"You could tell that he [the pickup driver] was really mad. And then the guy in the van -- the victim -- rolled down the window and the guy just started punching him while he was still seated in the van," Ryan told FOX 5. "And then I seen the Fed Ex guy, he reached into his pocket, he grabbed a knife and he just started stabbing him right there, and the guy was still seated."
Ryan said the wounded minivan driver, a man in his 30s, stumbled out of the vehicle and collapsed on the road.
"He fell like four times, banging his head each time, and I saw the blood everywhere," Ryan said.
A passing motorist stopped and began giving the bleeding man CPR until paramedics arrived. They continued CPR and took the victim to a hospital where he later died. Police identified him as Horace Williams, 36, of National City.
The suspected assailant, 60-year-old Rickey Smith of San Diego, remained at the scene until police arrived. He was arrested and booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of first degree murder.
As of Wednesday, police were still trying to gather facts and discover the motive for the violence.
Williams was a father to five daughters and was engaged.
A GoFundMe campaign is raising money to help the family with funeral costs and other expenses.


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Your team's culture is it's life-blood, its soul. It's who you are and how you interact as a group. If it's a good one, your culture can directly contribute to increased employee engagement, rising productivity and decreased turnover.
But if you are not careful, from the very first day someone new joins your team, you have several good opportunities to torpedo the culture you were trying to grow without realizing it. Here are three good ways to sabotage team culture, and some better approaches you could use, just in case that's not what you were trying to do.
Sabotage Tactic #1: Put Them Immediately to Work.
Introductions can happen later, there's work to be done. Give them the task and have at it.
Or you could do this: Greet them personally the moment they walk in. Introduce them to the other members of the team right away. At the first opportunity, talk with them one-on-one, welcoming them to the team.
You should talk about what the team does and what you specifically expect from them. That's important.
But be sure to also talk about how you expect team members to interact with each other, and with you. Talk about your team vision, and about the values that serve as guides for team behavior as they reach for that vision. Let them know it's important, too.
Sabotage Tactic #2: Force Them to Forage.
When you were new, you had to find your own desk and chair, so why shouldn't they? If they can find the stuff they need to survive, maybe they will make it on your team. If they can't, maybe they shouldn't be here in the first place.
Or you could do this: Make the physical welcome match the spoken one.
Have their work space ready for them – desk chair, office supplies, phone, tools – whatever it is they will need to do productive work, have it ready and waiting for them.
This simple act of foresight speaks volumes about how your team feels about working together, helping each other out, and thinking as a group instead of a bunch of individuals.
And when acts like these match the words you just said, it starts to build trust.
Sabotage Tactic #3: Leave Them to the Wolves.
It's survival of the fittest, so leave them alone to fend for themselves. It won't be long before you see if they will become predator, or prey.
Or you could do this: Assign them a champion. Think about who on your team best personifies the values and culture you are trying to promote. Ask that person to sponsor the new teammate for the next two weeks.
You wouldn't leave your kid to the care of a baby sitter that you didn't trust, would you? Same idea applies here. Put them in the hands of of people who will be a positive influence.
Building team culture is not a one-event thing. It's something that happens in all the interactions among the people on your team every day. But the moment when those interactions can have the greatest impact is when someone is new.
If you are trying to establish a strong, positive cultural climate, start by focusing on what happens when someone new joins the team.
Welcome them warmly, show them around, talk about team values and the expectations team members have for each other.
Build a little trust by having a place ready and waiting for them; that simple act serves as evidence that your team approach is more than lofty words.
And team them up with one of your champions to help them get oriented, and to personify and imprint team values on the new person.
It's much easier to keep a ship going in the same direction than to change it's course. So do these things to get each new teammate headed in the right direction on day one.
Question: How else have you seen culture derailed on day one? What could you do to counteract it?


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Jeremy Mayfield Arrested For Meth Possession
By Kevin Dolak November 3, 2011
Catawba County, N.C., Office of the Sheriff
Jeremy Mayfield, the former NASCAR driver who was suspended indefinitely in 2009 for violating the organization's substance abuse policy, has been arrested for drug possession and may face further charges after stolen goods were found in his home.
Mayfield, 42, was arrested Tuesday at his western North Carolina home and charged with possession of methamphetamine, according to The Associated Press. Records from the Catawba County Sheriff's Office indicate that he was charged with possessing 1.5 grams of meth.
The 1999 Pocono 500 winner posted $3,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in district court Wednesday, The AP reported. Detectives told The AP that approximately $100,000 worth of merchandise from businesses in neighboring Lincoln County was found in Mayfield's home when he was arrested. The items found included welding equipment, truck parts and various other items that had been reported stolen.
Daniel Marin, Mayfield's Washington, D.C.-based attorney said that the search of his client's home was made on a "baseless allegation," and he is denying all charges.
"Mr. Mayfield has no knowledge of either stolen property or methamphetamine being present on his property and denies the accusation that he was in possession of methamphetamine or any other illegal drug and he denies any suggestion that he knowingly received or possessed stolen property," Marino said.
Mayfield showed promise in his early racing career but was suspended in 2009 when NASCAR said he tested positive for methamphetamine from a random drug test.