If you own a phone which runs Android, the chances are it has a camera setting you don't know about.
Popular smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S8, the Galaxy S7, the Huawei P9, and many others often feature something called "Beauty" or "Beauty mode" when you turn on the front camera to take a selfie.
Theoretically, it does what it says on the tin: airbrushing magic to make you look prettier in photos. Usually, it makes your skin look smoother and your eyes brighter.
When I played around with Beauty mode on my Huawei P9, I found it also whitened my skin. It's especially noticeable on anyone who's dark-skinned, like I am.
I experimented with several other popular phones to see how extreme the beauty settings are, and you can see the results of my experiment below.
A caveat: different phones have different default settings. The default white balance setting on one phone might make you and your surroundings look washed out compared to another phone. So I compared "Beauty" selfies with normal selfies taken on the same device. I took photos at a similar time of day, inside an office with plenty of natural light.
I started with my own phone, the Huawei P9, which has a fairly complicated set of beauty filter settings.
You can set the following attributes anywhere between 1 and 10, where 10 is the most extreme version: "Smooth", "Whiten", "Enlarge eyes", "Brighten eyes", and "Thinner face".
Clearly, this is the most exaggerated version of the filter. But if you wanted to, you could put each setting at 2 or 3, making your face look slightly whiter and slightly thinner.
It's not just high-end smartphones either. Here's a how a selfie turned out on the Moto G5, which costs around £160 ($211) and features a 5-megapixel front camera.
I also tried the Sony Xperia X Compact, another mid-range phone which has a "soft skin" beauty mode. The effect isn't quite as exaggerated as all the others though.
Like Huawei, Samsung included some weird face-thinning settings along with its beauty filter. Its camera can make your eyes bigger and, of course, your skin whiter too.
Finally, I tried the Huawei P10, the successor to the Huawei P9.
The P10 also has lots of complicated beauty settings — the most dramatic I found were the filters you apply after you've taken a selfie. You can turn up how soft your skin appears or ... how white you are. Here's a normal photo compared with a photo where I turned the whiteness up to full.
We also tried taking selfies on the iPhone 7 and the Google's Pixel XL but neither had adjustable beauty settings in selfie mode.
Samsung and Huawei are the two biggest Android smartphone vendors globally, and both actively show off the fact you can use their devices to make your eyes bigger and your skin whiter.
In a demo application, Samsung shows how can you change the size of your eyes on the Galaxy S8. Huawei has a similar video for the P10. Together, the two firms account for a third of the entire smartphone market, according to IDC. That's millions of consumers with phones whose selfie filters suggest whiter skin equals more beautiful.
This isn't the only example of technology apparently reinforcing negative ideas about race.
Black phone users noticed that Snapchat's augmented reality filters narrow their features, lighten their skin, and turn their eyes blue.
FaceApp had to apologise after users found its "hot" filter made them look whiter.
And Microsoft launched a chatbot last year that made racist, pro-Nazi remarks.
All of this is particularly difficult for dark-skinned women who have to contend with the fact that some Asian, South Asian and African cultures already view their complexion negatively. We don't need our phones to do it too.


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Goal: Stop considering all military-age males killed in drone strikes to be "enemy combatants," which can lead to under-reporting of civilian casualites.
For the past several years, the United States has been utilizing drone strikes in order to kill those suspected of terrorist activity. These drone strikes have been promoted as very effective in killing terrorists, completely safe to American troops, and having a low collateral civilian casualty record. Unfortunately, recent revelations as to how the military classifies civilian casualties versus killed enemy combatants have shown that the US drone program may have serious problems in the accuracy of its casualty reporting.
Current casualty statistics, intended to show the effectiveness of drone strikes, count all military-age males killed in drone strikes to be "enemy combatants." Unless those killed as collateral damage of the drone strike are posthumously proven to be innocent, which is particularly difficult considering the fact that missile strikes often leave their victims unrecognizable, they are reported as hostiles. This method of reporting casualties is absolutely inaccurate and can only lead to the underreporting of civilian causalities caused by drone strikes.
If all males of military age killed in drone strikes are reported to be enemy combatants, barring proof otherwise, it will inevitably lead to the over-reporting of killed combatants and the under-reporting of dead civilians (as many killed civilians are counted as combatants). This method of reporting will skew the analysis of the effectiveness of drone strikes and will minimize the number of innocent people reported to be killed in collateral damage.
To put this situation in perspective: If two suspected terrorists were killed with a missile-strike during a soccer game and eight other players (young males) were killed, it is conceivable that the casualty statistics would reflect ten killed enemy combatants, rather than two dead combatants and eight dead civilians.
Regardless of whether one supports the drone program, everybody can agree that reporting of casualties caused by drone strikes should be as accurate as possible. Inflating the numbers of combatants killed, while minimizing the number of civilians killed, is simply bad reporting and will lead to people supporting bad policy.
This petition is directed at President Barack Obama, and is intended to convince him to push for changing the methods by which drone strike casualties are reported. Those confirmed to be terrorists should be counted as such, but all who are killed as collateral damage should be considered innocent until proven guilty. While this change will not help the families of the innocents killed in drone strikes, it will allow us to accurately assess whether the civilian cost to life from drone strikes justifies the benefits.
Currently, the United States is engaged in a widespread armed drone campaign. While many Americans see this campaign as controversial, this letter is not addressing the use of drones, but rather the methods of reporting casualties.
It has recently come to the attention of the public that all male, military age, casualties, of drone strikes are, by default, considered enemy combatants. Only through a posthumous investigation, which is sometimes impossible, can such a casualty be considered a non-combatant.
This method of classifying casualties from drone strikes is deceptive and can only result in inaccuracies in the statistics of drone strikes; many casualties who are actually civilians will inevitably classified as enemy combatants.
I, as well as everybody else who signed this letter, ask you to push for the re-classification of drone strike casualties. Casualties of drone strikes should only be considered enemy combatants if there is conclusive proof of guilt, and the default classification of casualties should be non-combatant. You were a constitutional law professor, thus you know – and probably taught your students – that the American Justice system is built upon the ideal of a presumption of innocence until guilt is proven; while drone strikes are not a domestic legal situation, there is no reason why this assumption should not apply in the reporting of casualties from drone strikes.


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Lars K. (r) is one of the seven defendants in the case. He claims he wanted to free himself from the burden of the past.
The burden of Germany's recent history weighs heavily on the shoulders of many Germans. However the claim of one alleged neo-Nazi that he wanted to "free" himself of the burden of the past by burning Anne Frank's diary has enraged observers.
Seven men are on trial in Magdeburg, Germany for incitement to hatred after they burned a copy of Anne Frank's book on June 24, 2006 during a summer solstice festival in the east German town of Pretzien. The men, whose ages range from 24 to 29, are accused of planning the book burning together. An American flag was also burned during the festival.
The testimony of five witnesses is being heard Wednesday, the second day of the trial, with the key witness being Pretzien's mayor, Friedrich Harwig. During his testimony Wednesday he confirmed that a person had thrown the book into the fire during the festival with the words "It's all lies anyway."
The case caused widespread outrage at the time, raising as it did memories of the Nazi-era burning of books by Jewish authors. Harwig came in for particular criticism for being present at the solstice festival but not taking any action to stop the book burning. He had been earlier criticized for his efforts to integrate young right-wing extremists into the community.
On the first day of the trial on Monday, 25-year old Lars K. admitted to having thrown the book in the fire in front of more than 60 people -- but he claimed it was a spontaneous gesture and had not been planned with the other defendants.
He denied that it had to do anything with right-wing extremism. On the contrary, the defendant's lawyer, speaking on behalf of his client, claimed that the Nazi era had made such a deep impression on Lars K. that he wanted to "free" himself from the "evil" chapter of German history by burning the book. Lars K., like some of his co-defendants, had belonged to the right-wing organization "Heimat Bund Ostelbien" ("East Elbian Homeland Federation") before it was dissolved on July 1, 2006.
Thomas Heppner, director of the Anne Frank Center in Berlin, described Lars K.'s statement as "spine-chilling." He said he "almost felt sick" as he watched the trial. For many Jews, the burning of Frank's diary is like "experiencing the Shoah all over again," he said.
Anne Frank's diary is one of the most widely read books in the world. It describes her experiences hiding from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944. Frank, who was a German-born Jew, later died of typhus in the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen at the age of 15.
A verdict in the trial is expected in mid-March.


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Q: access to enterprise application (EA) in Azure what is a significance of "Users and groups" under EA?

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*adding a person will give same access to person as that EA?

*adding a SP will do what? added SP will not have same access as EA?

A: Just creating the identity (User type or Service Principal) you will not give any role.
After you create the user, you can assign any role that you require to give to the identity.
Assign Azure AD

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*Sign in to the Azure AD admin center.

*Select Azure Active Directory > Roles and administrators to see the list of all available roles.

*Select a role to see its assignments.
To help you find the role you need, use Add filters to filter the roles.

*Select Add assignments and then select the users you want to assign to this role.
If you see something different from the following picture, you might have PIM enabled. See the next section.

*Select Add to assign the role.
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/roles/manage-roles-portal
To Grant a user access to Azure resources you can follow this tutorial https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/quickstart-assign-role-user-portal
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Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi, right, and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade after signing a peace accord at Gorongosa National Park, about 170 kilometres from Beira, Mozambique, Thursday, Aug, 1, 2019. Mozambique's president and the leader of the Renamo opposition signed a peace accord on Thursday to end years of hostilities that followed a 15-year civil war. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
BY ANDREW MELDRUM
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, MOZAMBIQUE (AP) — Mozambique's president and the leader of the Renamo opposition signed a peace accord on Thursday to end years of hostilities that followed a 15-year civil war.
The former rebel group's remaining fighters are disarming just weeks before a visit by Pope Francis and a national election that will test the now-political rivals' new resolve.
The permanent cease-fire is the culmination of years of negotiations to end fighting that has flared several times in the more than 25 years since the end of the civil war in which an estimated 1 million people died.
Pope Francis has said he is coming to promote reconciliation in the southern African country of some 30 million people. The Catholic church's Sant'Egidio community helped to negotiate the war's end in 1992 and the church has encouraged peace since then.
President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade signed, shook hands and embraced at Gorongosa National Park, near the Renamo headquarters where the group has maintained an armed base for more than 40 years. Of the more than 5,200 fighters who are disarming, some 800 are coming down from their camp on Mount Gorongosa and register for employment at the wildlife park.
The accord will be followed by another agreement to be signed in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, on Aug. 6 pledging peace in the Oct. 15 national elections. Previous elections have been marked by violence and Renamo allegations that the ruling Frelimo party rigged the results.
Renamo, which is the Portuguese acronym for National Resistance of Mozambique, became an opposition party after the civil war but had never fully disarmed until now.
"This agreement has historic significance because up 'til now Mozambique has had an opposition party in parliament that also has armed fighters in the countryside. Now there can be peace," said Neha Sanghrajka, a negotiator of the deal. Unlike in previous peace efforts the important issues have been implemented before the signing, she said.
The issues include an amnesty for rebel fighters that Nyusi signed earlier this week and a constitutional amendment that stipulates provincial governors will be elected rather than appointed by the central government.
There is "tremendous symbolic value" in having the signing at Gorongosa, said fellow negotiator Swiss Ambassador Mirko Manzoni, who is also an envoy of the United Nations secretary-general.
"Gorongosa was where the war started and now it is where it ends," Manzoni said, pointing out that the mountain is in a strategic location in the center of Mozambique. "This agreement gives people hope that there will be lasting peace."
Renamo's longtime leader Afonso Dhlakama died in Gorongosa in 2018. Momade succeeded him and is responsible for concluding the peace agreements.
"We will no longer commit the mistakes of the past," Momade said this week as Renamo fighters turned in their arms. "We are for a humanized and dignified reintegration and we want the international community to help make that a reality."
Momade also said he hoped Gorongosa Park would help Renamo's ex-combatants and their families re-enter society.
In recognition of its pivotal role, Mozambique's president declared Gorogosa to be a peace park.
After falling into neglect during the civil war, the park that sprawls over 4,067 square kilometers (1,570 square miles) has been re-invigorated with help from American philanthropist Greg Carr. He has said he was inspired after former South African president Nelson Mandela told him that wildlife parks should be places of national reconciliation and development.
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"I'm excited at what the park can do in the next five years and beyond to help keep the peace," Carr said. "We need the park to deliver opportunities and benefits to the demobilized fighters to sustain the peace. Now it's go, go, go for us to build on the achievement of this peace agreement."
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This Fall/Winter 2016/2017, the runways of the world have provided ample inspiration for our winter wardrobes. This season's trends are easy to emulate at the office, on the town, and over the festive season. With romantic, bohemian, edgy, and classic looks in abundance, whatever your style, you'll find something to love. So here's our top 5 Fall/Winter fashion trends that you can slip into this winter.
From Bottega to Valentino, Loewe to Céline, pleats have graced many a runway this season. Adding a romantic, feminine style to any outfit, on-trend shades included neutrals, blush, and shiny silver, or rich colours such as dark purple or metallic black.
So whether it's knee length, three-quarter, or full-length, grab yourself a high-waisted pleated skirt this winter. Team it with a long-sleeved turtle neck velvet top or thin-knit jumper for a stunning winter style. Or opt for a shirt dress or full-length dress resplendent in pleats.
Each fall/winter, a new coat rises to glory. In 2016/2017, the military jacket is top dog. Every designer from Valentino to Marni et Prada has sunk their teeth into military chic this year.
Try a Navy-inspired long pea coat, like those at Coach, in rich navy blue with gold buttons. Or opt for an Army-style khaki long jacket with a wide belt and feature pockets, as showcased by Burberry. Think vintage silhouettes and designs from the 20s to the 40s.
If you're more alternative, try an oriental style shorter jacket in black with gold embroidery and pom poms, as seen at Givenchy and D&G.
Winter is the perfect time for shiny things—from Christmas presents to decorations. So it makes complete sense that one of this season's hot trends is super shiny fabrics. At Balenciaga and D&G, sequins, mosaic pieces, and embellishments were on brilliant display—with light-reflecting dresses galore.
There was also many a shiny jacket on show, so whether you opt for a shiny puffer jacket, as showcased by Vivienne Westwood, or a stunning metallic dress, like those at Saint Laurent, think extra-terrestrial colours, such as gold, silver, or white.
Nothing says winter quite like festive tartan, and this season, the runways were awash with checks—from bulky belted coats to structured dresses, cut-out pant suits to wide-leg trousers, and short, fitted jackets.
The Scottish plaid was on display at Balenciaga, Chanel, and Victoria Beckham, among countless other designers. Particularly on-trend colours are wintry greys, blacks, and white, as well as bold red and white designs or red and black checks.
Keep cosy this winter in faux fur—particularly bright colours in all their boho glory. Whether it's faux fur stoles draped diagonally, a la Monse, or a fur collar like those at Roksanda. If you're feeling particularly bold, opt for a multi-coloured fur coat, as shown at DSquared2, or a woollen striped long coat like that on display at Chloé. Think striking shades and multiple colours.


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Detroit Tigers say they aren't panicking, but time is ticking
The Tigers have dropped 9 of their last 12 and are now six games below .500; is sell mode in sight?
SEATTLE – At this point of the season, with the Detroit Tigers no longer treading water – they appear to be sinking – it's natural to fast-forward five weeks to the July 31 trade deadline and speculate what their strategy will be at that point.
The narrative is there for the taking with a team that has dropped nine out of its past 12 games, fallen six games below the .500 mark and is firmly entrenched in the rearview mirror in the American League Central.
That narrative is this: The Tigers are pressing. They know time is ticking on this team, with many players whose immediate futures will be bandied about in the media as a reality seems to be setting in. They're squeezing the bat too hard trying to get that big hit that will turn the tide, feeling the pressure of performance.
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But after Tuesday night's 5-4 walk-off loss to the Seattle Mariners, leftfielder Justin Upton emphatically gave his opinion on that narrative: It's bogus.
"It doesn't matter," he said. "Everybody in here is trying to win baseball games every single day, regardless of if we're in buy or sell. Our job is to come in and win baseball games, so there's no point in thinking about that, regardless of what (general manager) Al Avila decides to do.
"We can't do anything about that. So we come here, we prepare for a baseball game and we try to win a baseball game, regardless of what's being said or being written or whatever, we can't do that. As professionals, we can't do that."
Perhaps the biggest positive the Tigers have going right now – veteran right-hander Jordan Zimmermann, who recorded his fourth consecutive quality start in the loss – offered a similar statement, while recognizing the obvious frustration that has permeated the team's clubhouse.
"I think we still have plenty of time," Zimmermann said. "We're not that far back. It's not like we're 15 games and pretty much out of it. We're in striking distance. We're close and do I think we're going to be in first place by the time the deadline comes? I don't know. I think we can get close, close enough to where we don't need to sell and we can hang on to everybody and make a run for this team, but we gotta start playing better baseball, and I think everybody in here knows that.
"I don't think we're panicking by no means, we just gotta play better baseball."
The Tigers do not have plenty of time, although the parity in AL has certainly bought them some more breathing room as they continue to slog through a stretch with inconsistent offense, a beleaguered bullpen and not much help in sight.
"There's guys in here that are frustrated," Zimmermann said. "They expect themselves to hit, they expect themselves to pitch. I've been on teams where we were really bad and really good and, you know, this is a really good team. I think everybody in here knows that, and it's just a matter of getting on a run and winning a few games and once we do that, I think we're going to be just fine."
Zimmermann is right: They do need to go on a run, and quickly. Avila has been waiting for one, which has yet to come. But at this point, as the losses continue to mount and the questions about their futures continue to come, there's certainly a cloud of doubt as to whether that run will come.


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Double Roberts in this trailer for the JUDGE
By Nick De Bruyne
Robert Downey Jr has risen in fame since his excellent portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 movie Chaplin, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. He's most recently been a fan favourite in the Iron Man series of movies and of course The Avengers but now he's changing his iron suit for a lawyer's. This new trailer for The Judge has a troupe of Academy award nominees including Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring), Billy Bob Thornton (Monsters Ball) and Robert Duvall (The Godfather) and looks to be a feel-good film about reuniting a son and father through a crime. It sounds heavy and some of the scenes look to be it but it also contains a lot of rather clichéd soppy images of father (Robert Duval) and son (Robert Downey Jr) going through the usual clash and accept story arc. Perhaps I am just cynical, goodness knows many think I am. That being said I'll go and see this just because of the stellar cast! Have a look and tell me what you think. The movie opened at the Toronto Film Festival and is opening October 10 overseas (no local dates yet).
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
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The Tenth Doctor #3
Writer: Nick Abadzis
Artist: Elena Casagrande
Colourist: Arianna Florean
Publisher: Titan Comics
RRP: US $3.99
Torn between the home world of vicious psychic parasites and the worsening chaos in Sunset Park, the Doctor must battle through his worst nightmares in order to save the lives of everyone in New York – everyone in the world! His sole ally, if she's strong enough to withstand the aliens' psychic predations, is Gabriella Gonzalez. With the help of his trusty sonic screwdriver and a frustrated Mexican-American artist, trapped in her father's laundromat, can the Doctor defeat the ultimate bad spirits? What will be left of Gabby's corner of the world if she and the Doctor succeed? This graveyard shift is living up to its name…
The Revolutions of Terror storyline is concluded in this issue – the release of which is neatly timed so that Halloween in Sunset Park coincides with the time of year in the real world (you know, the one we're living in).
Writer Nick Abadzis packs in plenty of references to the Doctor Who television series, as the Time Lord is confronted by his fears, including the Beast, Sutekh and a Cyberman. Curiously, he also sees the 'reborn via black magic' version of the Master (a bestubbled and hooded John Simm) and the gauntlet-wielding Timothy Dalton incarnation of Rassilon, versions of the characters that were not seen prior to the Tenth Doctor's final adventure, The End of Time. So how can he be 'remembering' them now? It's possible that the Doctor encountered the ruthless Dalton Rassilon during the Time War, but the Master is harder to explain. Could the Cerebravores be terrorising the Doctor with visions from his own future?
There is even more nostalgia in the humorous one-page Psychic Paper, Inc strip at the back of the book, which features a delightfully disdainful Sensorite.
While the Doctor spends time on an alien planet, interacting with a reptilian survivor he encounters there, Gabby gets sidelined for a bit at the beginning of this instalment, though she is richly rewarded at the end of the story. She is granted new freedoms on a couple of levels – including a chance to board the TARDIS! The writer neatly sidesteps the Doctor's stated reluctance to take on another companion after the hearts-rending departure of Donna Noble (this series takes place some time between Journey's End and The End of Time). Gabby's inadvertent choice of words gives the lonely Time Lord hope that "no song should end too soon". Indeed, the girl's reinvigoration of the Doctor's joie de vivre might go some way towards explaining his happy-go-lucky attitude at the start of The End of Time.
There are some curious inconsistencies in artist Elena Casagrande's visualisation of Gabriella. One almost expects this kind of thing with licensed characters, but not with artist-created ones like Gabby. The size of her eyes vary considerably, from tiny nonplussed pinpoints to big worried saucers (I was reminded of the cover to the Eels album Beautiful Freak). Perhaps this has been done for deliberate effect. Certainly the girl's face can be highly expressive – just check out the imploring 'Puss in Boots' look that she unleashes on the Doctor towards the end of this issue!
All in all, things are looking up for Gabriella Gonzalez, and for this series.
Richard McGinlay
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908 Devices, Inc.. (6/14/19). "Press Release: 908 Devices Addresses Emerging Novichok Nerve Agent Threat, Expands Capabilities for MX908 Chemical Detection Device". Boston, MA.
Region Baltimore, MD
Organisation 908 Devices Inc.
Product MX908™ handheld mass spectrometer
Product 2 toxicology
Person Knopp, Kevin J. (908 Devices 201303 CEO + Co-founder before Thermo Fisher + Ahura Scientific)
Company launching latest CW Hunter capabilities at IAFC conference
908 Devices, a pioneer of analytical devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, today announced the expansion of their MX908 multi-mission trace chemical detection device capabilities to include Novichok agents, an emerging chemical warfare threat. The company is debuting this enhancement in the MX908 CW Hunter mission mode at the 2019 International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) International Hazardous Materials Response Teams conference in Baltimore June 13-16.
Novichok nerve agent identification in MX908 CW Hunter mission mode.
Following a 2018 UK attack, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new guidance in January to first responders nationwide for Novichok chemical warfare agents (CWAs), also known as A-series agents or Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs). Novichok agents are more persistent than other nerve agents and can be as toxic as VX. HazMat and military chemical response teams need quick, confident answers in the event of an attack to minimize casualties and limit the spread of contamination. Until now, response personnel have had limited capability to detect and identify Novichoks in the field. The MX908 is the only commercially available field device that can identify Novichoks at trace levels and deliver results within 60 seconds, expediting response times and increasing both public and responder safety.
"First responders must be equipped with tools that can adapt to novel threats as they arise," said Dr. Kevin J. Knopp, CEO and Co-founder of 908 Devices. "We proactively designed the MX908 to address the continuum of emerging threats. A simple, immediately downloadable software update arms federal, military and civilian response teams for the ever-evolving threat landscape."
In addition to Novichok detection capability, the 2.1 software release also adds new V-series agents to the MX908 CW Hunter mission mode. The MX908 can now identify seven V-series agents, HD, and several G-series agents. The 2.1 update also includes performance enhancements for CW Hunter and Explosives Hunter mission modes, and new targets in the Drug Hunter mission mode.
The software will be available in July for existing MX908 customers.
908 Devices is host to two workshops at the IAFC conference, 'Outclassing Emerging Threats' and 'Field Identification of Controlled Substances'. Both focus on how first responders can best equip themselves to detect both known and potential threats, including fentanyl and FGAs. 908 Devices and leading detection technology and HazMat experts – including Dr. Christina Baxter of Emergency Response TIPS, LLC, David DiGregorio, the Director of Mass State Hazmat, Dr. Mike Weibel, the Assistant Project Manager of S&T JPM NBC Contamination Avoidance, and others – will also take part in a panel discussion on the emerging threat of Fourth Generation Agents and pharmaceutical-based agents, challenges in detection, and how teams need to rethink the way they respond.
About 908 Devices
We make point-of-need devices ranging from rugged, handheld chemical detection tools to compact, tiny footprint analyzers and fast separation devices. These uncomplicated purpose-built devices provide users with the power to redefine their workflows by getting actionable answers when and where they need them. Our devices are being used for critical applications across the globe in the life sciences and field forensic markets. 908 Devices is headquartered in the heart of Boston where we research, design and manufacture innovative products based on high-pressure mass spectrometryTM (HPMS) and microfluidic separation technology. For more information, visit 908devices.com.
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'The Autobiography of a Nation': The 1951 Festival of Britain.
Conekin, Becky (2003) 'The Autobiography of a Nation': The 1951 Festival of Britain. Studies in Design . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0719060605
Conekin, Becky
This social and cultural history focuses on the meanings of Britain and Britishness in the immediate post-WWII period. As I argued in Moments of Modernity, the historiography of the post-WWII Britain has been dominated by highly political narratives and cosy assumptions. As consciously constructed cultural and educational events, the Festival shows a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after WW II.
Primary research, initially funded by the U.S. Social Science Research Council, utilised documents from the Public Record Office, the Modern Record Office at University of Warwick, the Science Museum, the Thomas Cook Archive, and the Labour Party Archives, amongst others. Original films and BBC radio broadcasts, along with contemporary newspapers and journals, were used. I interviewed the Assistant to the Director of Exhibitions, Charles Plouviez, and Dr Peter Laslett, who made BBC Festival radio programmes. Employing interdisciplinary methods, I show that the official Festival events were more forward-looking and democratic than previously assumed.
This monograph covers the Festival's history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of future and past, the role of London, the regions, and the 'local', the Empire and finally its legacy, in the Millennium Dome. The book contributes to modern British history and cultural studies, and also to design, material culture and architectural history. It examines the end of Empire, gender and consumption, and struggles between local, regional and national identities in post-war Britain.
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1433
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Becky Conekin is a modern historian and all of her work shares questions of identity and its cultural formations in the 20th Century.
She co-edited and contributed to Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1951 while still a PhD student. That volume combined social and political history, thinking through what modernity meant for post-war Britain. In The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Festival of Britain, she used the 1951 events across the UK as a prism through which to analyse a society and a government recasting national identity after WWII. Then, initially under the auspices of the AHRB-funded, 'Fashion and Modernity' project, she worked on Lee Miller. Miller participated in key circles of modern art in New York, Paris and London, as a photographer, artist, model, gourmet and surrealist hostess. Miller was employed by Vogue, first as model and then as photographer and war correspondent, for the majority of her 25-year career.
Becky co-edited the special 10th anniversary Fashion Theory (March/June, 2006), dedicated to Vogue magazine and wrote on Miller there. Uncharacteristically, for an academic journal, that issue was mentioned in 'In Vogue' and received positive reviews in two UK weekend broadsheets. She has spoken on Miller in Berkeley, Paris, Florence, Philadelphia, Toronto, Cambridge and London and her work on Miller has been quoted in Numero. She is currently embarking on her second monograph, 'Model Girls' in 1950s London & Paris: Gendered Identities and Employment, for which she has received a British Academy Fellowship and she holds a Leverhulme Trust Grant for this project. She has held fellowships at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, CRASSH at the University of Cambridge, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Research Centres No Longer Active > Fashion, The Body And Material Cultures Research Centre (FBMC)
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/becky-conekin.htm


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Q: How can I get my price vector to = values inside my json array Hello I am pretty new to json parsing and parsing in general so I am wondering what is the best way I can assaign the correct values for the price of the underlying stock I am looking at. Below is an example of the code I am working with and comments next to them showing kinda what Im confused about
Json::Value chartData = IEX::stocks::chart(symbolSearched);
int n = 390;
QVector<double> time(n), price(n);

//Time and Date Setup
QDateTime start = QDateTime(QDate::currentDate());
QDateTime local = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
QDateTime UTC(local);
start.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);
double startTime = start.toTime_t();
double binSize = 3600*24;
time[0] = startTime;
price[0] = //First market price of the stock at market open (930AM)
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
    time[i] = startTime + 3600*i;
    price[i] = //Stores prices of specific company stock price all the way until 4:30PM(Market close)
}

the charData is the json output with all the data,
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I am wondering how I can get the various values inside the json and store them, and also since its intraday data how can I get it where it doesnt store p[i] if there is no data yet due to it being early in the day, and what is the best way to update this every minute so it continously reads in real time data?

A: Hope I understood correctly (correct me if not) and you just want to save some subset of json data to your QVector. Just iterate through all json elements:
for (int idx = 0; index < chartData.size(); ++idx) {
  time[idx] = convert2Timestamp(chartData[idx]["minute"]);
  price[idx] = convert2Price(chartData[idx]["high"], chartData[idx]["low"],
    chartData[idx]["open"], chartData[idx]["close"], chartData[idx]["average"]);
}

Then you should define what is the logic of convert2Timestamp (how would you like to store the time information) and the logic of convert2Price - how would you like to store the price info, only highest/lowest, only the closing value, maybe all of these numbers grouped together in a structure/class.
Then if you want to execute similar logic every minute to update your locally recorded data, maybe instead of price[idx] = /* something */ you should push additional items that are new to your vector.
If there is a possibility that some of the json keys might not exist, in JsonCPP you could provide a default value e.g. elem.get(KEY, DEFAULT_VAL).


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In a right-handed world, why is a man's billfold pocket on the left side?
Lefties, southpaws, sinistrals, and other right-brained folk have to put up with right-handed design in everything from school desks to revolving doors to bound books. Given our minority status (though exactly how minor, no one seems to know … do you?), I can almost understand the dearth of left-handed fielder's gloves and scissors. But one major omission in the anti-lefty campaign puzzles me. I stuff my billfold into my pocket every day with amazing ease; if there is only one back pocket, it's on the left, and that's also where you'll find the button or flap to slow down the pickpockets. How in the world did Fashion, the Right-Handed Establishment, and Levi Strauss manage to do such an obviously levophilic thing?
Andy W., Washington, D.C.
Pockets have always tended to be placed on the left side, for reasons that have little to do with the free expression of minority rights. The Roman toga is said to have had just one pocket, which was invariably on the left, and in fact the Latin word and latter-day heraldic term sinister, "on the left side," is supposed to have derived from siniis, "pocket side." No one knows who decided to put the wallet pocket on the left (wallet pockets and hip pockets in general came into fashion in the 1890s), but the reason for doing so is obvious: you extract your wallet from your pocket with your left hand, but you fish the money out and fork it over with your right. By such means are lefties induced to cooperate with a right-handed world.
Wallet pockets aren't the only example of deceptively even-handed gestures to lefties. The design of most telephones (as exhibited in such features as cord placement) is intended to encourage the user to pick up the receiver with the left hand — at first glance, another sop to southpaws. However, if a lefty tries to jot down a note while on the phone, he discovers who the real beneficiary is: right-handed writers, who don't need to clumsily shift hands.
The only important mechanical device I know of that consistently favors lefties is the computer keyboard. Anyone who's ever pondered the standard QWERTY key arrangement, though, can form his own opinion about whether the inventor was trying to help out lefties or just nuts.
Estimates of the number of lefties in the world vary widely; 8-10 percent is the most commonly accepted figure. At least one researcher has claimed the number would be as high as 34 percent were it not for coercion by parents, primary school teachers, and other instruments of juvenile terror. There's a revolutionary movement here waiting to be born.
Out of left field
Your discussion of left-handed fashions contains an error. The hip pocket on men's trousers appears to have originated during the latter part of the Civil War as officers switched from the long, formal frock coat, which contained pockets in the coat's tails, to the shorter sack coat, which was similar in cut and length to the modern sports coats. Pockets were added to the trousers to make up for the scarcity of pockets on the sack coat. In the numerous document specimens I have examined, the pockets on the hip of Civil War officers' trousers were invariably on the right side. In addition, trousers issued by the U.S. Army during the 1870-1880 period had hip pockets on both sides. My guess is that the left-only hip pocket was just a bit of fashion variation that happened to catch on.
On the topic of the frequency of left-handedness, it might be observed that many lefties, particularly those not genetically related to another left-handed person, show evidence of ambidexterity, or skill in using both hands. Some psychologists believe that the ambidextrous left-hander might actually have been a right-hander but for minor biochemical "accidents" during development. Such people may prefer one hand for writing and another for throwing, making it hard to establish the "true" frequency of left-handedness.
— Michael C., Elmhurst, Illinois
The hip pocket may have been invented by U.S. Army tailors, but according to most fashion historians it didn't become generally fashionable until the 1890s. The custom of putting your wallet in your left hip pocket depends on your having a wallet, as opposed to the larger billfold, which 19th-century men kept in one of their inside coat pockets. In prewallet days it wasn't important where you put the hip pockets, but today it's clearly more sensible to place the main one on the left.
You're right about the difficulty of establishing true left-handedness; for that matter, it's difficult to establish true right-handedness. One researcher estimates that if you considered a wide range of motor skills — writing, throwing, batting, eating, and so on — only about 7.5 percent of the population would turn out to be "pure" right-handers.
Moreover, there's some dispute about what true left-handedness means. A few years ago researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claimed to be able to detect two kinds of left-handed writers — those who mirror the way right-handers hold their pencils, and those who "hook" when they write, i.e., they curl their hands around so the pencil points toward the bottom of the page. The latter group, which is thought to comprise about 60 percent of all left-handed writers, is considered the hard-core element, in the sense that their neurological organization (according to the theory, at least) is substantially different from that of the general run of mankind.
You undoubtedly recall that humans have what we call "contralateral neural control," in which the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa. In addition, in most people — righties and nonhooking lefties, anyway — the writing hand is located on the opposite side of the body from the brain's language center. In hooking left-handers, though, the writing hand and the language center supposedly are both located on the left side.
This means one side of the brain is taking care of business on both sides of the body (writing on the left, everything else on the right), which means it has to work harder than usual, which means it ends up either (a) extremely adept or (b) overwhelmed. This may explain the statistically documented fact that lefties tend to be either geniuses or idiots. I should know, because I'm a hooking left-hander myself.


Mark Wahlberg has made one of the most epic transitions in Hollywood history, going from violent thug to show business mogul and family man. Wahlberg sat down with Men's Fitness to talk about how he has matured and changed his life.
As a poor kid growing up in Boston, Mark Wahlberg had more than a few run-ins with police, and developed substance abuse issues at a very young age. These days, however, Wahlberg turns to morning prayer, not only to help himself, but to help him to be a good father to his children. "I grew up with nothing. In America, in one generation you can turn that around. But our biggest worry is that we raise these spoiled, privileged kids. My son has a dirt bike; I never had a dirt bike. My son goes to private school; I always wanted to go to private school. It just wasn't in the cards." The actor is also in the process of removing his tattoos, which he says is symbolic of him stripping away his past as he builds a closer relationship with God.
Wahlberg appears on the cover of the July/August issue of Men's Fitness, which hits news stands today, June 29.


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'use strict';

var path = require('path');
var helpers = require('yeoman-generator').test;
var os = require('os');
var chai = require('chai');
chai.use(require('chai-fs'));
var assert = require('yeoman-generator').assert;
var sinon = require('sinon');
var existTest = require('../generators/utils');
var fs = require('fs-extra');
var stub;

describe('mario:layoutview', function() {

  describe('without template option + Mocha', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({ directory: 'fruit' })
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {ecma: 5, testFramework: 'mocha'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js',
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);
    });
    it('contains template', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js', /JST\['app\/scripts\/apps\/fruit\/apples_layout_view_template.hbs']/);
    });
    it('test with right content', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /.\/apples_layout_view/);
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /, ApplesLayoutView/);
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /new ApplesLayoutView/);
    });
    it('test contains Mocha syntax', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /to.equal\(2\)/);
    });
  });

  describe('without template option + Jasmine', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({ directory: 'fruit' })
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {ecma: 5, testFramework: 'jasmine'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });
    it('test contains Jasmine syntax', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /toEqual\(2\)/);
    });
  });

  describe('without template option ES6', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({ directory: 'fruit' })
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {ecma: 6, testFramework: 'mocha'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js',
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);
    });
    it('contains template', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js', /JST\['app\/scripts\/apps\/fruit\/apples_layout_view_template.hbs']/);
    });
    it('test with right content', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /import ApplesLayoutView from 'apps\/fruit\/apples_layout_view'/);
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /describe\('ApplesLayoutView view/);
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /new ApplesLayoutView/);
    });
    it('test contains Mocha syntax', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /to\.equal\(2\)/);
    });
  });

  describe('without template option ES6 + Jasmine', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({ directory: 'fruit' })
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {ecma: 6, testFramework: 'jasmine'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });
    it('test contains Jasmine syntax', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js', /toEqual\(2\)/);
    });
  });

  describe('with options (directory, template)', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      stub = sinon.stub(existTest, 'verifyPath', function() {
        return true;
      });
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inTmpDir(function(dir) {
          var done = this.async();
          var filePath = path.join(dir, 'app/scripts/apps/template', 'feature_template.hbs');
          fs.ensureFile(filePath, done);
        })
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({
          directory: 'app/scripts/apps/fruit',
          template: 'template/feature_template.hbs'
        })
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js',
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);

      assert.noFile('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_template.js');
    });
    it('contains template', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js', /JST\['app\/scripts\/apps\/template\/feature_template.hbs']/);
    });
    afterEach(function(done) {
      stub.restore();
      done();
    });
  });

  describe('with options (directory, template) ES6', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      stub = sinon.stub(existTest, 'verifyPath', function() {
        return true;
      });
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inTmpDir(function(dir) {
          var done = this.async();
          var filePath = path.join(dir, 'app/scripts/apps/template', 'feature_template.hbs');
          fs.ensureFile(filePath, done);
        })
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withOptions({
          directory: 'app/scripts/apps/fruit',
          template: 'template/feature_template.hbs'
        })
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {ecma: 6}})
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js',
        'app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);

      assert.noFile('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_template.js');
    });
    it('contains template', function() {
      assert.fileContent('app/scripts/apps/fruit/apples_layout_view.js', /JST\['app\/scripts\/apps\/template\/feature_template.hbs']/);
    });
    afterEach(function(done) {
      stub.restore();
      done();
    });
  });

  describe('with tests in separate dir', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {tests: 'custom', testFolder: 'test/'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/apples/apples_layout_view.js',
        'test/apps/apples/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);
    });
  });

  describe('with tests in separate dir ES6', function() {
    before(function(done) {
      helpers.run(path.join(__dirname, '../generators/layoutview'))
        .inDir(path.join(os.tmpdir(), './temp_test'))
        .withArguments(['apples'])
        .withLocalConfig({preferences: {tests: 'custom', testFolder: 'test/'}})
        .on('end', done);
    });

    it('creates files', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/scripts/apps/apples/apples_layout_view.js',
        'test/apps/apples/apples_layout_view_test.js'
      ]);
    });
  });
});


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Rodney Allen may refer to:

Rodney Allen (musician)
Rodney Allen, referee at 2010 FIFA Club World Cup
Rodney Allen (American football), see 2008 Green Bay Packers season

See also

Roderick Allen (disambiguation)
Allen (surname)


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LANGUAGE]
The Spanish Language
The Iberian Peninsula is not a linguistic unit. Not to speak of the Basque, which still forms an island of some importance in the north-west, three Romance languages share this extensive territory: (i) Portuguese-Galician, spoken in Portugal, Galicia, and a small portion of the province of Leon; (2) Castilian, covering about two-thirds of the Peninsula in the north, centre, and south; (3) Catalan, occupying a long strip of territory to the east and south-east.
These three varieties of the Romana ruslica are marked off from one another more distinctly than is the case with, say the Romance dialects of Italy; they do not interpenetrate one another, but where the one ends the other begins. It has only been possible to establish at the points of junction of two linguistic regions the existence of certain mixed jargons in which certain forms of each language are intermingled; but these jargons, called into existence for the necessities of social relations by bilinguists, have an essentially individualistic and artificial character. The special development of the vulgar Latin tongue in Spain, and the formation of the three linguistic types just enumerated, were promoted by political circumstances. From the 9th century onwards Spain was slowly recaptured from the Mahommedans, and the Latin spoken by the Christians who had taken refuge on the slopes of the Pyrenees was gradually carried back to the centre and ultimately to the south of the Peninsula, whence it had been driven by the Arab invasion. Medieval Spain divides itself into three conquistas — that of Castile (much the most considerable), that of Portugal, and that of Aragon. If a given province now speaks Catalan rather than Castilian, the explanation is to be sought simply and solely in the fact that it was conquered by a king of Aragon and peopled by his Catalan subjects.
1. Catalan. — This domain now embraces, on the mainland, the Spanish provinces of Gerona. Barcelona, Tarragona and Lerida (the old principality of Catalonia), and of Castellon de la Plana, Valencia and Alicante (the old kingdom of Valencia), and, in the Mediterranean, that of the Balearic Islands (the old kingdom of Majorca). Catalan, by its most characteristic features, belongs to the Romance of southern France and not to that of Spain; it is legitimate, therefore, to regard it as imported into Spain by those Hispani whom the Arab conquest had driven back beyond the mountains into Languedoc, and who in the 9th century regained the country of their origin; this conclusion is confirmed by the fact that the dialect is also that of two French provinces on the north of the Pyrenees— Roussillon and Cerdagne. From the 9th to the 12th century Catalan spread farther and farther within the limits of Catalonia, properly so called; in 1229 it was brought to Majorca by Jaime el Con- quistador, and in 1238 the same sovereign carried it to Valencia also. Even Murcia was peopled by Catalans in 1266, but this province really is part of the Castilian conquest, and accordingly the Castilian element took the upper hand and absorbed the dialect of the earlier colonists. The river Segura, which falls into the Mediterranean in the neighbourhood of Orihuela, a little to the north of Murcia, is as nearly as possible the southern boundary of the Catalan domain; westward the boundary coin- cides pretty exactly with the political frontier, the provinces of New Castile and Aragon not being at all encroached on. Catalan, which by the reunion of Aragon and the countship of Barcelona in 1137 became the official language of the Aragonese monarchy — although the kingdom of Aragon, consist- ing of the present provinces of Saragossa, Huesca and Teruel, has always been Castilian in speech — established a footing in Italy also, in all parts where the domination of the kings of Aragon extended, viz. in Sicily, Naples, Corsica and Sardinia, but it has not maintained itself here except in a single district of the last-named island (^Alghero); everywhere else in Italy, where it was not spoken except by the conquerors, nor written except in the royal chancery, it has disappeared without leaving a trace.
In the 13th century the name given to the vulgar tongue of eastern Spain was Catalanesch (Caialaniscus) or Catald (Cata-
lanus) — the idiom of the Catalans. 1 By Catalanesch or Catala was understood, essentially, the spoken language and the lan- guage of prose, while that of poetry, with a large admixture of Provencal forms, was early called Lemosi, Limosi or language of Limousin — Catalan grammarians, and particularly the most celebrated of them, Ramon Vidal de Besalu, having adopted Lemosi as the generic name of the language of the troubadours. These grammarians carefully distinguish the vulgar speech, or pla Catald, from the refined trobar idiom, which originally is a modified form of Provencal. Afterwards, and especially in these parts of the Catalan domain outside of Catalonia which did not acknowledge that they derived their language from that province, Lemosi received a more extensive signification, so as to mean the literary language in general, whether of verse or of prose. To this hour, particularly in Valencia and the Balearics, Lemosi is employed to designate on the one hand the old Catalan and on the other the very artificial and somewhat archaizing idiom which is current in the jochs florals; while the spoken dialect is called, according to the localities, Valencid (in Valencia), Major qui and Menorqui (in Majorca and Minorca), or Catald (in Catalonia) ; the form Catalanesch is obsolete.
The principal features which connect Catalan with the Romance of France and separate it from that of Spain are the following: (1) To take first its treatment of the final vowels — Catalan, like French and Provencal, having only oxytones and paroxy- tones, does not admit more than one syllable after the tonic accent: thus anima gives arma, camera gives cambra. All the proparoxytones of modern Catalan are of recent introduction and due to Castilian influence. Further, the only post-tonic Latin vowel preserved ")y the Catalan is, as in Gallo-Roman, a : mare gives mar, gratu (s) gives grat, but anima gives arma', and, when the word terminates in a group of consonants requir- ing a supporting vowel, that vowel is represented by an e : arb(o)rem, Cat. abre (Prov. and Fr. arbre, but Cast, drbol); pop(u)l(us) , Cat. poble (Prov. poble, Fr. peuple, but Cast, pueblo); sometimes, when it is inserted between the two consonants instead of being made to follow them, the supporting vowel is represented by an o : escdndol (scandalum), /j-cto/ (frivol us), circol (circulus). In some cases a post-tonic vowel other than a is preserved in Catalan, as, for example, when that vowel forms a diphthong with the tonic (Dew, Deus; £Ara*,Hebreus); or, again, it sometimes happens, when the tonic is followed by an i in hiatus, that the i persists (diluvi, diluvium; servici, ser- vicium; labi, labium; ciri, cereus); but in many cases these ought to be regarded as learned forms, as is shown by the exist- ence of parallel ones, such as servey, where the atonic i has been attracted by the tonic and forms a diphthong with it (servici, servii, servey). What has just been said as to the treatment of the final vowels in Catalan must be understood as applying only to pure Catalan, unaltered by the predominance of the Castilian, for the actual language is no longer faithful to the principle we have laid down; it allows the. final atonic in a number of substantives and adjectives, and in the verb it now conjugates canto, temo, sento — a thing unknown in the ancient language. (2) As regards conjugation only two points need be noted here: (a) it employs the form known as the inchoative, that is to say, the lengthening of the radical of the present in verbs of the third conjugation by means of the syllable ex or ix, a proceeding common to Italian, Walachian, Provencal and French, but altogether unknown in Hispanic Romance; (b) the formation of a great number of past participles in which the termination is added, as in Provencal, not to the radical of the verb, but to that of the perfect: tingut from tinch, pogut from poch, conegut from conech, while in Castilian tenido (formerly also tenudo), podido, conocido, are participles formed from the infinitive.
As for features common to Catalan and Hispanic (Castilian and Portuguese) Romance, on the other hand, and which are unknown to French Romance, only one is of importance; the conservation, namely, of the Latin u with its original sound, while the same vowel has assumed in French and Provencal,
1 The origin of the name Catalanus is unknown.


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The 9 Best-Selling Fine Jewelry Brands Today
From elegant necklaces made from the most exquisite gold, to rings and bracelets adorned with the purest of diamonds — women can't get enough!
Jewelry is much more than an accessory. Rings, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings are a symbol of femininity and social status. In fact, jewelry is a significant aspect of humankind's history.
One of the first signs of established jewelry making was around 3,000 to 5,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt. Pharaohs and queens embellished themselves in gold, indicating wealth and power. Although many people today continue to wear jewelry as a symbol of high social status, they also hold on to the emotional and sentimental worth present in pieces like engagement rings and wedding bands. Most women also invest in statement jewelry to transform simple fashion ensembles into something more sophisticated and high-end.
Despite skyrocketing prices, the demand for designer jewelry is at an all-time high. Euromonitor International, a leading market research firm, reported that 2018 will witness $37.8 billion spent in the luxury jewelry market.
What Are the Top Nine Luxury Jewelry Brands Today?
For elite men and women, only jewelry exuding sheer elegance and extravagance will do. This list ranks the top nine most extravagant jewelry brands in the world, including:
1. Harry Winston
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In New York City 1932, Harry Winston himself founded one of the world's most sought-after jewelry brands in history. People deem Harry Winston the "King of Diamonds" and "Jeweler to the Stars" for his brilliant, high-end creations. It is widely believed the company uses only the best quality and rarest gemstones for the brand. For their histrionic legacy and highly elaborate diamond masterpieces, the company may continue to rule the diamond world for years to come.
One of the most distinguished pieces Harry Winston received was the 45.42-carat Hope Diamond, a heart-shaped diamond crown centerpiece, which they gave to King George IV of the United Kingdom. Today, the Hope Diamond is in Washington DC and part of the Smithsonian Institution display.
Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Julie Andrews, and Natalie Portman are among the A-list celebrities seen wearing Harry Winston's magnificent creations.
2. Cartier
Founded in 1847 by Louis François Cartier, the French luxury goods conglomerate company is world-renowned for their fine jewelry collection. The Cartier website quotes, "Cartier looks beyond the fleeting fashions of the day, forging a style out of its extraordinary history, travels, and encounters with exceptional personalities." The brand secured its reputation as "The Jeweler of Kings, the King among Jewelers," establishing the combination of platinum and diamond.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o, and Naomi Watts are among the famous wearers of Cartier jewelry.
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3. Tiffany and Co.
Initially called Tiffany & Young, Tiffany & Co. first achieved international recognition at the 1867 Paris World's fair. The brand was awarded the grand prize for astounding silver craftsmanship, the first time an international jury honored an American design house. Today, the household name sells and showcases some of the world's most extravagant and rarest jewelry pieces in their annual Blue Book collection, which started in 1845.
Through the years, some of the most famous faces who wore Tiffany and Co. at the Met Gala include Legally Blonde actress Reese Witherspoon, and former Disney star Selena Gomez.
4. Van Cleef & Arpels
In 1906, married couple Alfred Van Cleef and Estelle Arpels began a high-end jewelry brand in France, which continues to be one of the world's most prominent jewelry names today. The brand has patented an innovative creation called Mystery Set, an intricate piece with a clip that takes approximately 300 hours for a skilled jeweler to create.
Queen Marie Jose of Italy, Mariah Carey, and Margot Robbie are among the public figures who love Van Cleef & Arpels, showing how people around the world pine for the brand.
5. Graff
Founded in 1960, London, Graff Diamonds is one of the most luxurious and top-of-the-line
ewelry brands in the world, harboring the rich and elite as regular customers. One of the characteristics that make Graff a stand-out brand is their consistent use of high-quality gemstones and metals. They also have a reputation for incorporating massive-sized stones in their exquisite collection, which Graff's founder, Laurence Graff, prefers. The company also buys and resets prominent diamonds.
Even royal family members are fans of Graff Diamonds, including the late Princess Diana and Princess Charlene of Monaco.
6. David Yurman
Headquartered in New York City, David and Sybil Yurman founded this renowned jewelry line in 1980. David Yurman is distinguishable by sculpt designs reminiscent of the American Craft Movement. Some of their most well-known jewelry designs include their signature cable bracelet embellished with colored gems, which is available in sterling silver and gold.
Singers like Shakira and Jessica Simpson, as well as actors like Kate Hudson and Brad Pitt have been previously seen wearing David Yurman's luxury pieces.
7. Buccellati
Buccellati honors its Roman origins by crafting chic jewelry from the best Italian gold. The Rome-based jewelry company created Roman-inspired designs and consolidated them into their collection. Roman-styled necklaces and cuff bracelet are only some of their best sellers. Buccellati loves innovation and creates jewelry that set them apart from other brands. They often favor heavy encrustation using high-quality gemstones and diamonds, along with the brushing and mattifying of metals.
Five-time Grammy Award winner Celine Dion is one of the world-famous faces known to love the creations of Buccellati.
8. Bvlgari
Bvlgari, sometimes spelled Bulgari, is one of the oldest Italian jewelry houses dating back to 1884. The trademark, which is customarily written "BVLGARI" in the traditional Latin alphabet, is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirios Voulgaris. Since its creation, Bvlgari continues to reign as a crowd favorite among clients seeking large and brightly-colored jewelry with chromatic effects. It is also because of Bvlgari that the cabochon cut, a popular gemstone cut in ancient times, was reestablished.
Elizabeth Taylor and Keira Knightley are among the famous wearers of Bvlgari jewelry.
9. Chopard
Chopard is a Swiss brand founded by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860, Sonvilier. The brand initially created watches, and only began crafting luxury jewelry pieces when Karl Scheufele, a watchmaker from Pforzheim, Germany, bought the company in 1963. Chopard in the present day is a double threat noted for their Art-Deco inspired timepieces and elegant Happy Diamonds jewelry collection.
The Swiss brand is a crowd favorite among many male public figures, including Colin Firth and Javier Bardem.
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