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Q: Dart: How to test a function that takes a function as a parameter? i been trying to unit test a function that takes a function as a parameter the unit test returns null value on the function that im testing so may i ask how to unit test this kind of function in dart.
this is the function that i want to test
final result = await _appStateNotifier.guard(
      () => _authService.requestTempPassword(username: credentials.username),
    );

and this is how i test it but got an error type 'Null' is not a subtype of type 'Future<Result<ErrorObject, String>>'
when(() => mockAuthService.requestTempPassword(username: tCredentials.username))
              .thenAnswer((_) async => successMessage);

when(() => mockStateNotifier.guard(
              () => mockAuthService.requestTempPassword(username: tCredentials.username),
            ),
          ).thenAnswer((_) async => const Success(successMessage));

await notifier.onRequestTempPassword(credentials: tCredentials);

and this is the guard clause function
Future<Result<ErrorObject, T>> guard<T>(Future<T> Function() function) async {
try {
  final data = await future();
  return Success(data);
} on FailureException catch (e) {
  return Error(e);
} catch (e, s) {
  return Error(e);
}

}
thank you

A: Your Future<Result<ErrorObject, T>> excludes the possibility of having a Null result. If you want to allow Null, then you need to make it nullable, see https://dart.dev/null-safety/understanding-null-safety
I'm not fluent with Flutter, so the syntax might be off, but as far as I understand, you could change that to
Future<Result<ErrorObject, T>>?

in order to make it nullable. Let me know if I'm totally off with the syntax.
EDIT
It turns out that the solution finally applied was putting the when method in the setpup function before the test run, as @Ken Verganio described in the comment section.


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A team of scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) have discovered a rare mineral in alpine plants. Vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, holds enticing potential as a new material for industrial and medical applications. This is the first time that vaterite has been found in plants.
The discovery of vaterite was made through a collaboration between SLCU and Cambridge University Botanic Garden as part of an ongoing research project that is probing the inner workings of plants in the Garden using new microscopy techniques, including Raman spectroscopy.
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The Garden has a national collection of European Saxifraga plant species. Vaterite was found to be a dominant component of the protective silvery-white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants. Dr Wightman said: "In this case, the inVia microscope not only identified signatures corresponding to calcium carbonate as forming the crust, but was also able to differentiate between the calcite and vaterite forms when it was present as a mixture while still attached to the leaf surface."
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Lethal Leadership from Maniacal Monsters: Perfectionist Predators & Ungrateful Ghouls
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Some of the most frightening stories involve horrible leaders. Listen to these terrible tales about lethal leadership from maniacal monsters.
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Imagine, if you will, that we are all sitting around a large campfire. You smell the burnt marshmallows as we make s'mores. The sounds of crackling firewood fill your ears. Surrounding us is a dark forest full of trees. Within the darkness, you occasionally think you see a flash of eyes looking back at you or hear an unfamiliar noise.
It's the perfect time to share horror stories.
Some of the most frightening stories involve times when we find ourselves working with horrible leaders. As I position the flashlight underneath my chin, sit back and listen to these horrific tales about lethal leadership from maniacalmonsters.
Perfectionist Predators
Whether cleaning up the street or cleaning up on Wall Street, truly dedicated professionals always try their best. After completing a task and knowing they have given it their all, they often feel proud of their accomplishment, and rightfully so.
However, when working for Perfectionist Predators, everyone's best will never be good enough.
The only way to appease Perfectionist Predators is to be error free, 100% of the time. Delays or adjustments to project timelines are unacceptable. Even the smallest of errors will not be tolerated. Under the lethal leadership of Perfectionist Predators, nothing is good enough unless it is perfect.
They not only look for weaknesses in performance; they focus on them. Perfectionist Predators hone in on weaknesses so strongly that they mainly criticize and never praise their team members.
What is even worse is that for many jobs, perfection is relative. Unless clearly defined, the definition of "perfection" likely will vary from person to person and project to project. It's a moving target that is often unidentified.
While ultimately their hearts may be in the right place, Perfectionist Predators often do not know how to pick their battles. Although "acceptable" should not be the end goal or common standard for all projects, having the ability to prioritize tasks allows everyone to best use their time. Perfectionist Predators have a difficult time recognizing the difference between inconsequential and important work. They often believe the smallest element can make or break the company and will drive their team to use valued energy on the most insignificant detail.
Perfectionist Predators set such a high bar for success that it is unattainable. Those they lead lose motivation because the likelihood of performing perfectly is slim. They get scared to even try. Ultimately, this type of lethal leadership kills team productivity and morale.
What If You're a Perfectionist Predator?
The description of a Perfectionist Predator may sound familiar because you work for one or perhaps you are one yourself. Although you can't necessarily change leaders who are Perfectionist Predators, you can work on ways to change these monstrous habits in yourself.
Stop Comparing.
Your initial idea of what is perfect may not actually be accurate or meeting the full potential of your team. By releasing your own concept of perfection, you give your team members room to use their skills, knowledge and expertise to produce something even better than what you had imagined. Stop yourself from comparing the end result to what you believe is perfect and work with your team to achieve excellence as you all synergically define it.
Prioritize Tasks.
Evaluate the workload of your team. Make honest decisions about the projects that are essential. Identify those that could greatly damage the team or the company if not done with extreme excellence. Select the ones that require the most attention and highest degree of success and share that expectation with the team. Focus less on the smaller jobs that can be completed efficiently without demanding full perfection.
Equip Your Team.
Provide your team members with the support, resources, time and information that will help them deliver. If a performance gap occurs, remind yourself that those are normal and use the instance as a teachable moment.
Perfectionist Predators can be their own worst enemy. Don't allow yourself to stand in your own way.
Ungrateful Ghouls
A friend once shared a horrifying story with me.
In a staff meeting, the leadership team was discussing how morale was dipping in the organization. Supporting team members felt uninvolved, uninformed and unappreciated.
"We need to show the team members that we appreciate them," one executive said.
A C-Suite leader said, "You know who I show I appreciate them? I pay them every two weeks. They should be grateful for that."
Ungrateful Ghouls will scare off even the most talented members of your team. When employees of a company start seeing that their work is not recognized, valued or honored, they will likely start looking for places that will. Even in today's uncertain markets, finding companies that show their gratitude for their team members are easy to find. They will gladly welcome those fleeing from Ungrateful Ghouls. In doing so, organizations can lose some of their very best people… all for not properly thanking them.
Considering the amount of time and energy team members contribute to the success of the company, employees deserve to be rewarded and recognized, especially in today's world of added stress. Don't allow Ungrateful Ghouls to haunt your organization with their lethal leadership and drive your highly-prized team members away screaming.
What If You're an Ungrateful Ghoul?
If you don't work for an Ungrateful Ghoul, you should feel thankful. If you are an Ungrateful Ghoul, there are steps you can take to change your ways.
Check Your Pride.
Consider reasons why gratitude doesn't seem to be an initial response. Is it because sharing credit is a challenge for you? Does it seem unnecessary to thank individuals for fulfilling their job responsibilities? Ask yourself tough questions to see what serve as barriers to you telling your team members you appreciate them and their contributions. Find ways to reprogram yourself to overcome these hindrances to gratefulness.
Delegate Gratitude.
If thankfulness doesn't come naturally to you, find a trusted person on your team to manage that part of your culture. Charge someone to be your Officer of Appreciation. Ask them to provide support in consistently demonstrating appreciation to team members. Ensure that the recognitions happen frequently enough that your team identifies it as a part of the culture but not too often where they carry no significance.
Make It Special.
Depending on the budget, the acts of gratitude can range from luxurious incentive trips to high-end resorts (post-pandemic) to simple $5 gift cards for coffee. To effectively show appreciation, truly know the people you are thanking including what they enjoy and value. Learn about their life outside of the office and connect the gift to those interests. This requires time visiting with them, learning about them and remembering what they share. When they receive the "thank you," they will both appreciate the token and be impressed that you truly saw who they are. Remember that xpressions of gratitude do not always have to be in the form of gifts. Company-wide acknowledgements of excellent performance cost nothing and serve as major investments in the relationships with your team members.
Other Monsters
Whether telling ghosts stories around a campfire or considering all the horror movies ever made, we all know there are more than just two monsters out there. In the second part of this series on Lethal Leadership, we'll talk about Disappearing Demons and Blaming Beasts – two other leadership styles that can kill a team.
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This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven in this "fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door.
"Part history, part scholarly adventure story, and part journalist survey….Joshua Hammer writes with verve and expertise" (The New York Times Book Review) about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist "has all the elements of a classic adventure novel" (The Seattle Times), and is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty of their culture. His the story is one of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.
If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons – as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.
HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bombs effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Now, Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the Colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henriettas small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
Henrietta's family did not learn of her immortality until more than 20 years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family, past and present, is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.
The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humor and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children – four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness – sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child – not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power – the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur; Daedalus and his doomed son, Icarus; the murderous Medea; and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or the mortals she has come to love.
With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and pause-resisting suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, and love and loss as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times best-selling author of The Hunting Party.
The bride – the plus one – the best man – the wedding planner – the bridesmaid – the body.
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.
But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride's oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.
And then someone turns up dead. Who didn't wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, 15-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful 42-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: Remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager – and who professed to worship only her – may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa's present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
As with her New York Times best-selling debut, The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing pause-resister about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
From New York Times best-selling author Joshilyn Jackson, a twisting novel of domestic suspense in which a group of women play a harmless drinking game that escalates into a war of dark pasts.
In this game, even winning can be deadly….
Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it – teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited 15-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when the mysterious and alluring Angelica Roux arrives on her doorstep one book-club night.
Sultry and magnetic, Roux beguiles the group with her feral charm. She keeps the wine flowing and lures them into a game of spilling secrets. Everyone thinks it's naughty, harmless fun. Only Amy knows better. Something wicked has come her way – a she-devil in a pricey red sports car who seems to know the terrible truth about who she is and what she once did.
When they're alone, Roux tells her that if she doesn't give her what she asks for, what she deserves, she's going to make Amy pay for her sins. One way or another.
To protect herself and her family and save the life she's built, Amy must beat the devil at her own clever game, matching wits with Roux in an escalating war of hidden pasts and unearthed secrets. Amy knows the consequences if she can't beat Roux. What terrifies her is everything she could lose if she wins.
A diabolically entertaining tale of betrayal, deception, temptation, and love filled with dark twists leavened by Joshilyn Jackson's trademark humor, Never Have I Ever explores what happens when the transgressions of our past come back with a vengeance.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger.
Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band's existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.
Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
A rogue order of nuns, in tucked away in Humboldt County, are raising an undocumented deity on the down-low. Persecuted by the patriarchs of the Great Church and decimated by a plague of prayer eaters, The Sisterhood is on the verge of extinction when a white monkey appears in a snowstorm and makes a special delivery.
It is a holy night like no other—complete with a wandering star, three disreputable magi, and a babe mangered in a cardboard box.
Scandal alert!
The mere existence of the misbegotten baby god is a provocation. In celestial realms, the reputations of celebrity A-list Gods are at stake. On Earth, the undocumented deity is a threat to the birdmen of the Great Church—Cardinals, Hooded Crow, Cloistered Ravens, and gay Budgies, plus a malevolent Cassowary and an ancient Hierophant: His Holiness, the Divine Mallard of All Mysteries.
Luckily, a white monkey with impeccable spiritual credentials has broken out of bounds and jumped into this world!
Expect literary enchantments!
Discover the cognate soul-group at the heart of the Sisterhood.
Enter the Byzantine world of the Birdmen of the Great Church when the seven-year-old boy is kidnapped and brought to Mount Quoborium. Witness the heartstopping moment when the Hierophant questions the boy. Thrill to the astonishing spectacle when the divine monkey attempts a rescue. And don't miss a spirituous whiff of Humboldt Snow #9, a psychedelic game-changer like no other.
A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller's monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction's brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years — good years — but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.
But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it.
Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end.
She needs an assistant.
He needs a hero.
Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's Worst Dressed list. She's an actress in need of assistance, and he's adrift and in need of a lifeline.
Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and award-winning movie star, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She's also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so, as Charlie quickly discovers.
Charlie gets the job, and his three-year odyssey is filled with late-night shopping sprees, last-minute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own life's leading role?
Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.
The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.
When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?
Nina considers her options.
1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)
2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)
It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.
Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.
Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century."
In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different—special—she names her Onyesonwu, which means "Who fears death?" in an ancient language.
It doesn't take long for Onye to understand that she is physically and socially marked by the circumstances of her conception. She is Ewu—a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half-breed rejected by her community. But Onye is not the average Ewu. Even as a child, she manifests the beginnings of a remarkable and unique magic. As she grows, so do her abilities, and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm, she learns something terrifying: someone powerful is trying to kill her.
Desperate to elude her would-be murderer and to understand her own nature, she embarks on a journey in which she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the spiritual mysteries of her culture, and ultimately learns why she was given the name she bears: Who Fears Death.


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NIST to play big role to secure online identities
Federal News Network Staff
By Jason Miller and John Buckner
Federal News Radio
What is not surprising about the final version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is the role the National Institute of Standards and Technology will take on.
NIST's responsibilities will be familiar – one of facilitator.
But what is surprising about the new strategy is that with the thousands of comments the White House received about the draft issued last June, the biggest change was in who would lead this effort.
The administration made it clear in the final document that it's asking the private sector to lead the way in securing online identities in cyberspace.
"This is an area where a public and private partnership can help address real problems and allow for future economic growth by enabling more industry and government to move services online," said Gene Sperling, the White House's National Economic Council director, Friday at an event in Washington to release the NSTIC at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Sperling said the goal of NSTIC is to provide a privacy credential that works across different public and private service providers to make it easier to authenticate a person's identity for transactions.
"The problem is passwords are broken because they don't offer adequate security, no one can remember all of them, and no one knows if you are a dog on the Internet," said an administration official during a phone briefing with reporters Friday before the White House event. "The goal of the government is to facilitate growth of a marketplace, where the consumer can go to a provider and have a choice to buy a strong credential. It could be something on a cell phone or a smart card or a USB drive or even a one-time password generator. This would be entirely optional and a voluntary system. Choice is the key."
While the private sector must provide the credentials, technology and systems to authenticate to, the government will help develop, build and implement what administration officials are calling a comprehensive identity ecosystem framework. The administration will use this framework to work with industry, privacy, security and other experts to formulate policy, governance and standards for cybersecurity.
And that is where NIST comes in.
White House Cyber Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt said NIST will hold several workshops in the coming months around the country to bring people together to begin the conversation.
NIST already has planned three workshops to discuss governance, privacy and technology standards issues.
The high priority actions for NIST will focus on implementing the plan as well as expanding government services, pilots and policies. NIST will pay special attention to security plans in the areas of health care, communication information technology and energy.
NIST also will develop pilots in the Defense Industrial Base and financial sectors.
The bureau asked for almost $25 million in the 2012 budget request, about $17.5 million of which will pay for programs using trusted identity technology in the areas of government services, e-commerce, and health IT. The pilot programs are scheduled to be in place in 2012 but the entire strategy could take three to five years to really come together, said another administration official during the briefing with reporters.
The NSTIC also identifies the benefits the government will receive from collaboration with the private sector. The administration states that security will be improved and efficiency of serving the people better also will increase.
"One of the things we wanted to do at DHS was to integrate the work on cybersecurity with the overall effort to help build the safe, secure, resilient place where the American way of life can thrive," said Jane Holl Lute, deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department. "We see cybersecurity as an important aspect of a safe and secure homeland."
Lute said the NSTIC is the cornerstone of the broad adoption of voluntary, interoperable, privacy enhancing authentication.
Lute also said that since the NSTIC targets the private sector, results will come more speedily and provide effective and efficient solutions.
"This is the totally right way of thinking about how government can help lay a foundation for economic growth," said Sperling. "Where the government brings together this type of standards where they bring together and create something, you create a platform of confidence that no individual company could create for itself."
John Buckner is an intern with Federal News Radio.
(Copyright 2011 by FederalNewsRadio.com. All Rights Reserved.)
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Q: Discard rows that do not have 6 doublequotes I have a CSV file that has some errors in it. What I want to do is disregard all lines that do not have 6 double quotes (") in them.
So in short it should be something like;
cat output.txt | grep -v '"*"*"*"*"*"'

Of course the above command won't work.. but it's a direction I am thinking.. maybe AWK would be a better option?

A: * is glob pattern not regex pattern.
You can use this regex in grep:
grep -Ev '^([^"]*"){6}' file

Using awk you can do by using " as input field separator:
awk -F '"' 'NF<7' file

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How do we discern and know religious truth? That's actually a big question, one that has intrigued theologians, philosophers and preachers for generations. The question is important in figuring out what we believe and also in trying to discern the church's response to complicated social issues of our time. The simple answer is usually, "Well, God revealed it to me" which is always hard to argue with, but rarely subject to any verification outside of a someone's own personal encounter with God. We usually start by thinking that religious truth and ideas should be grounded in scripture. We see the Bible as the revealing of God's story and will for our lives, but we also understand that the Bible can be complex to interpret. There are passages that are straightforward and some that are perplexing and difficult (some parts of the Bible are gruesome, others seem very culturally specific to an ancient time and life—too far removed from our modern reality).
As the Methodist movement was growing, John Wesley gave a great deal of thought to this issue. He understood, as the early Protestant Reformers did, that the Bible is authoritative for us, that it contains words of God and words about God that have stood the test of time and are seen by the Jewish and Christian community as foundational for us. Wesley also said there are additional sources of authority for us: the tradition of the church, our reason that God has given to us to use and our personal experience of God. All four are essential for us. Using all of these sources is part of the method in Methodism. It is our way of looking at faith that helps us to perceive more clearly what God is saying to us. In one of his letters John Wesley would write, "Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can." Sunday we'll wrap up our worship series on John Wesley and his legacy that still lives and guides our church. Join us as we talk about these important tools for knowing and living our faith.


Centronic boron ion chambers can be tailored to measure neutron fluxes over the range required for the application.
Uncompensated boron ion chambers are generally used in regions of high neutron flux where the gamma field, which will also contribute to the output measurement, is not significant in relation to the neutron flux. The most common application of uncompensated boron ion chambers is therefore in reactor control detectors for operation at full reactor power.
Gamma compensated boron ion chambers are also available for use in reactor control instrumentation. These are more suited to high mixed fields (neutron and gamma) found near a reactor, being capable of compensating for gamma fluxes in these environments. Compensation for the gamma flux allows this type of device to operate at lower neutron flux levels.


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Trump lashes out at the Fed and suggests people want to travel to Europe because of 'devalued' currencies
Business Insider | Jun 11, 2019, 06.42PM IST
U.S. President Trump departs for travel to Japan from the White House in Washington
President Donald Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve in a series of tweets Tuesday morning.
He said that currencies including the euro are devalued against the dollar and suggested that is why tourism abroad is strong.
Trump has repeatedly called on the independent central bank to ease monetary policy and attempted to fill its policymaking board with political allies.
President Donald Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve in a series of tweets Tuesday morning, saying that currencies including the euro are devalued against the dollar and that interest rates should be lower.
Responding to a Bloomberg Opinion story on Twitter, Trump suggested the Fed's policies are hurting growth and contributing to a surge of tourism in Europe.
"This is because the Euro and other currencies are devalued against the dollar, putting the U.S. at a big disadvantage," he said. "The Fed Interest rate way too high, added to ridiculous quantitative tightening! They don't have a clue!"
The Bloomberg story Trump was referring to outlined how relatively low travel costs have encouraged travel to Europe. Higher interest rates encourage investment in a currency, increasing its value.
Trump has put an increasing amount of pressure on the Fed ahead of the 2020 elections, as global growth cools and his trade policies cast uncertainty on American businesses and consumers.
He has repeatedly called on the independent central bank to ease monetary policy and attempted to fill its policymaking board with political allies. In April, he said the Fed should return to quantitative easing, a financial-crisis-era policy that injected trillions of dollars into the economy.
Trump on Tuesday also praised below-target inflation levels, which have been a central challenge for Federal Open Market Committee officials as they set policy.
"The United States has VERY LOW INFLATION, a beautiful thing!" he said.
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This website has been through a lot of iterations. Throughout the years, some projects were lost and others were deleted because they were not important for my career anymore or because they had lost relevance in the bigger picture of it all. This page is dedicated to those projects. I affectionately call it the B-side of this website. Similar to how some of my favorite tracks can be found on the B-sides of vinyl records, this page holds pictures of some of my most-cherished projects.
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UXUS designs "permanently temporary" gift shop for Herzog & de Meuron's extended Tate Modern
Alice Morby | 14 June 2016 3 comments
Amsterdam studio UXUS has designed a gift shop with stackable shelving for the new Tate Modern extension, which is set to open to the public this week (+ slideshow).
The store is housed at the base of the angular gallery, designed by original Tate Modern architects Herzog & de Meuron.
It will be divided into three zones – generalist, specialist and children. Each zone is defined by the material palette, which uses different accents of wood for the display modules.
Throughout the gift shop, a purpose-designed system of stackable furniture and modules allows displays to be reconfigured to keep up with changing exhibitions and events.
In the children's area, brightly coloured, circular cubbyholes are incorporated into the bookshelves.
"Tate is a pioneering global institution that leads the way in the arts and now is breaking new ground with a retail experience at the crossroads of culture and commerce," said UXUS.
"[The shop] is designed as a permanently temporary space with the flexibility to respond to the gallery's fast-changing exhibition and project schedule."
UXUS, which has previously designed spaces for Nike and K-Swiss, first worked with the Tate Modern to design a pop-up shop for its Damien Hirst exhibition in 2012.
Tate Modern releases first images of Herzog & de Meuron's Switch House extension
"The hope is that the new retail outlet will enable the gallery to generate more of its own funding through increased store revenue," they said.
Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron was invited to work on the new wing following the success of its design for the main building – a conversion of the former Bankside Power Station designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
The perforated walls of the new addition are intended to resonate with the 64-year-old brickwork of the old power station, while its height is two-thirds that of the now-defunct chimney.
"We wanted the combined elements of Tate Modern, old and new, to be expressed as a whole, to have them come together and function as a single organism," said Herzog & de Meuron, describing the building back in 2011.
"Using the same base palette of bricks and brickwork in a radical new way, we created a perforated brick screen through which light filters in the day and through which the building will glow at night."
For job opportunities at FutureBrand UXUS, visit their company profile on Dezeen Jobs.
Photography is by Ed Reeve.
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import { compareDays, isDateAfter, isDateBefore } from '../date-time-picker/date-time-picker.utils';
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable()
export class DateRangeService {

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    isRange: boolean = false;

    /** Specify the direction of the selection */
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    /** Specify the start of the range */
    start: Date;

    /** Specify the end of the range */
    end: Date;

    /** Specify the date we are hovering over */
    hover: Date;

    /** Emit whenever the start date changes */
    onStartChange = new Subject<Date>();

    /** Emit whenever the end date changes */
    onEndChange = new Subject<Date>();

    /** Emit whenever the range has changed */
    onRangeChange = new Subject<void>();

    /** Emit whenever the hover date changes */
    onHoverChange = new Subject<void>();

    /** Emit whenever the range is cleared */
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    /** Indicate if we should show time */
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    /** Defines the aria label for the range start picker */
    startPickerAriaLabel: string = 'Selecting the start date';

    /** Defines the aria label for the range end picker */
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    /** Indicate if we are currently changing the time */
    isChangingTime: boolean = false;

    /** Store the current start time */
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    setStartDate(date: Date | null): void {

        // if the start date is after the end date the clear the end date
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        this.start = date;
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    setEndDate(date: Date | null): void {

        // if the end date is before the start date the clear the start date
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        this.end = date;
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    clear(): void {
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        this.onClear.next();
    }

    setDateMouseEnter(date: Date | null): void {
        this.hover = date;
        this.onHoverChange.next();
    }

    setDateMouseLeave(date: Date): void {
        if (date && this.hover && compareDays(date, this.hover)) {
            this.setDateMouseEnter(null);
        }
    }
}

export enum DateRangePicker {
    Start = 'start',
    End = 'end'
}

export interface DateRangeTime {
    hours: number;
    minutes: number;
    seconds: number;
}

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God's Vision for Victory Church: Worship, part 3
Elder John Abner Sunday, March 13th, 2016
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Nehemiah 12:27-47 (ESV)
Dedication of the Wall
27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; 29 also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem. 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.
31 Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate. 32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah, 33 and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, 35 and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; 36 and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them. 37 At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.
38 The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall, 39 and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard. 40 So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me; 41 and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader. 43 And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.
Service at the Temple
44 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered. 45 And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. 46 For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. 47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
1. We participate as the people of God.
Ephesians 5:19-20 (ESV)
19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Nehemiah 12:36 (ESV)
36 and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.
45 And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. 46 For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
2. We dedicate ourselves to the service of God.
47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
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Vote for Judson Sapp, a New Republican, on August 28th!
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The new year ushers in feelings of hope and renewal, but also causes us to pause and reflect. I am more convinced than ever that the beginning of 2018 places us at a crossroads as a nation. Our Congress has not been delivering its promises.
Nevertheless, I am filled with the hope that our children will inherit a better country. This hope for a better future is unfaltering despite the current state of the U.S. Congress, where a culture of egotism, backstabbing and unbridled ambition for power reigns.
It is no wonder we live in a culture of fear, hatred and revenge. Our politicians stoke these elements because it is easier to fundraise, get media attention and be re-elected by appealing to the darkest nature of our culture.
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After having harshly criticized President Obama for providing some military support to the Libyan rebels, GOP presidential candidates are struggling to respond to the good news about the rebels sweeping into Tripoli, the New York Times reported. Mitt Romney, who last month accused Obama of "mission muddle" for supporting efforts to remove Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (in photo), said this week that "the world celebrates the idea of getting rid of Gadhafi." Jon Huntsman, who called the intervention a mistake, said Monday that Gadhafi's defeat "is a step toward openness, democracy and human rights for a people who greatly deserve it."