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Max Gropper On Anonymity and Appresentation: Perceiving the Stranger in Everyday Life
In his famous work on the stranger, Alfred Schutz focuses on the interpretative discrepancies between in-groups and out-groups from the perspective of a stranger approaching a new group. In doing so, Schutz emphasizes that strangers can overcome their strangeness within a social group by adapting to the prevalent cultural patterns. Shifting the perspective from the stranger to the in-group this essay aims to argue that the experience of the Other's strangeness due to a discrepancy of interpretative schemes is only one dimension of how the stranger is perceived in everyday life. A second dimension can be derived from Schutz' work on appresentation. This essay will follow four analytical steps. First, this essay summarizes the Schutzian approach on perceiving the Other as a taken-for-granted part of everyday life within an assumed intersubjective understanding based on an assumed reciprocity of perspectives. Referring to Eberle's description of an irreciprocity of perspectives, the second section analyzes the Schutzian stranger based on an intersubjective understanding. The third section then focuses on the appresentational processes of perceiving the stranger in everyday life. By using Goffman's distinction between virtual and actual social identity, the interplay of categorizing and experiencing the Other in everyday life can be described. Finally, considering the question of how it comes that people can find themselves strangers in their own society, this paper closes by merging the argumentation with a description of the Schutzian perspective on the processes of stigmatization.
Ellen Jacobsson The Stranger in Immigrant Integration
This paper suggests that Alfred Schutz's account of systems of typification together with Sara Ahmed's account of the proximity of the stranger allows for a different understanding of social integration. The paper proposes to rethink the political and social relationship of the in-group and the stranger, approached through the face-to-face encounter between an integration counselor and an immigrant. The encounter offers a disruption of what is taken for granted by the in-group and functions as a catalyst for a system of reference to appear at all. Through Ahmed's account on the familiarity and proximity of the stranger, I argue that integration practices are considered to produce, rather than translate, a coherent system of reference for an in-group. The institutionalization of social integration is consequently risking concealing the "unintegratable" stranger rather than offering a solution for the more epistemological dimensions of social exclusion that we find in the experience of sameness and difference.
Karsten Krampe, Svenja Reinhardt, Sebastian Weste Choosing to Wait: Waiting as a Possible Part of Projects of Action
In this paper we examine the concept of waiting from a phenomenological point of view. In order to do so, we start with a definition from Andreas Göttlich and contextualize it within the theoretical framework provided by Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann and Peter L. Berger. Additionally, we discuss waiting on the basis of our previous research, specifically within the context of a field extract from an earlier life-world analytical ethnography on the parents of pre-adolescent, non-professional soccer players. The field vignette depicts a mother who has problematic possibilities of conflicting preferences due to the apperception of her soccer playing child, who was injured during the match. This negotiation within projects of action will be outlined as a specific facet of waiting.
Christian Etzrodt A Phenomenological Approach Towards the Analysis of Politics
The goal of this paper is to develop a consistent framework for a phenomenological discourse analysis of political debates. The political sphere arises through the questioning of taken-for-granted definitions of reality: a crisis. During a crisis meaning has to be restored, and different interest groups will try to push their definition of reality, which is advantageous for them. For the analysis of such a political discourse phenomenology provides several tools that can help us to understand the background of the discourse, the severity of the crisis, the level of expertise of the participants, the source of the information, discourse strategies and what arguments the audience accepts. These tools allow a unique phenomenological approach towards political discourse analysis.
Jochem Kotthaus The Religious Experience of Setting Off Emergency Flares?: Reflections on a Soccer Fan's Answer to the Heretical Imperative
The vague idea of likening soccer to religion, specifically in watching soccer as a fan, is widespread spread in both everyday life media and academia. The slightly muddled discourse can be clarified by focusing on two variations, differentiating between sport in religion and sport as religion. Concentrating on sport as a form of religious activity and experience, it seems obvious that one's theoretical framework here connects Durkheim's elevation of formerly profane objects to a Sacred with concepts of individualization and secularization. Yet, taking a critical look from the perspective of Luckmann's theory of invisible or private religion, religion ought to be more narrowly conceived as a specific experience of transcendency. Employing Berger, it is plausible to employ a different rationale, leading to the conclusion that fandom constitutes a mimicry-religion. Mimicry-religion adheres to the inclination of the Self to understand his or her experience as religious for the need of a nomos, a legitimization of social institutionalizations.
Jerry Williams Considering Finite Provinces of Meaning: The Problem of Communication in the Social Sciences
This essay considers social science as a finite province of meaning. It is argued that teasing out common-sense meanings from social scientific conceptions is difficult because the meanings of scientific concepts are often veiled in life-worldly taken-for-grantedness. If social scientists have successfully created a scientific province of meaning, attempts to communicate findings outside of this reduced sphere of science should be somewhat problematic.
Thomas S. Eberle Regaining Sense-connections after Cerebral Hemorrhage
This study is a kind of applied phenomenology, or more precisely, of applied phenomenological hermeneutics. I argue that phenomenologists hardly analyze concrete phenomena but prefer to engage in theoretical debates, and therefore I call for more applied studies. The case of a patient who suffered a cerebralhemorrhage is used in order to reconstruct how she slowly regained everyday sense-connexions. The case is very interesting as the patient was rather disoriented when waking up from an artificial coma of several weeks, and it took her many years to fully recover. The goal of this paper is to describe some aspects of this process from a subjective perspective as well as from a participant observer's viewpoint. The data used for this chapter mainly stem from in-depth qualitative interviews. The structures of the life-world of Alfred Schutz are used to analyze the processes of sense constitution. This proves helpful but the data also suggest a revision of Schutz's analyses in some respects.
Alfred Schutz, Marina Banchetti Schutz's Contribution to a Philosophical Dialogue at the Royaumont Conference in 1957
This paper is a transcription and translation by Marina Banchetti of two memories of Edmund Husserl that Alfred Schutz recounted as part of a panel of philosophers discussing their memories of Husserl at Royaumont in 1957. One memory concerned Husserl lecturing in Prague without notes on the dignity of philosophy. The other had to do with Schutz ordering oranges for Husserl during his final illness.
María-Luz Pintos-Peñaranda Aron Gurwitsch at the Dawn of French Phenomenology: From a Relative Invisibility to an Indelible Mark
A network (1) of dates, persons, activities and publications relating to the beginning of phenomenology in France is listed below, thus enabling to substantiate the direct objective of this essay: (2) estimate how much Aron Gurwitsch contributed to the reception of phenomenology in France during the 1930s, to what extent he contributed, how and when. (3) The indirect objective is to establish the legacy of Gurwitsch in France after he was exiled to the United States. (4) Another objective is related tacitly with this: to show that in his Parisian stage Gurwitsch was not merely in a kind of transit, unimportant, "between" the life of the novice researcher in Germany and life of the relevant phenomenolgist in the US. He played an important role in France. This to the point that without Gurwitsch, probably French phenomenology would not have followed the path it followed in the years after his departure. (5) Yet, paradoxically, this crucial role was exercised implicitly and has had to be explicated.
Benita Luckmann Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch at the New School for Social Research
This never published paper by Benita Luckmann describes the origins and uniqueness of the New School for Social Research. It portrays Alfred Schutz's arrival in the United States, his reasons for working at the New School, his exchange with Talcott Parsons, the debate over his presentation of the Stranger in the General Seminar, and his many efforts to recruit Aron Gurwitsch to the New School. It also provides an account of Gurwitsch's experience of life in exile, his friendship with Schutz, and his time at the New School after Schutz's death.
Jochen Dreher Symbolic Reality Construction: A Bridge between Phenomenological Individualism and Pragmatic Realism
The particularly significant theory of the symbol of Alfred Schutz is based on a combination of the two perspectives of phenomenological individualism and pragmatic realism. This theory on the one hand explains processes of symbolic meaning constitution from a phenomenological viewpoint, specifically following Edmund Husserl. On the other hand it demonstrates the functioning of symbols through pragmatic social action, which is relevant for symbolic reality construction. The paper elaborates both perspectives within the Schutzian theory of the symbol with reference to diverse interpretations of Franz Kafka's novel The Castle. It outlines the decisive capacity of symbols to overcome and harmonize diverse and often contradictory meanings that are expressed and at the same time united by the symbol itself.
Jan Straßheim The Problem of 'Experiencing Transcendence' in Symbols, Everyday Language and Other Persons
Alfred Schutz made a point which is crucial for understanding communication and social coordination. Through symbols, signs or indications we experience that which transcends our experience. However, Schutz never solved the conceptual problems his claim implied. A solution is proposed through constructive criticism of Schutz. Symbols, signs and indications are based on typical expectations. In contrast, 'experiences of transcendence' are analyzed as experiences which deviate from typical expectations due to a tendency inherent to experience, as opposed to deviations prompted by the frustration of types. Such experiences are shown to be constitutive of our use of symbols, our use of language, and our relation to individual others. Experiences of transcendence do not passively reflect the situation, but they are motivated in their selectivity by 'anxiety.' Anxiety is phenomenologically understood as the expectation of atypical experiences. While anxiety motivates deviations from types, it is itself motivated by previous frustrations of types. Through this dynamics of motivation, experiences of transcendence and typical experiences refer to each other. Even so, the two categories are logically distinct. The possibility of communication and social coordination can only be explained by assuming, in addition to shared types, anxiety as a shared readiness to transcend types.
Michael M. Hanke Schutz' Semiotics and the Symbolic Construction of Reality
Some decades before Umberto Eco refounded semiotics in the sixties, Alfred Schutz had already elaborated a theory on signs and symbols. Moreover, as Schutz himself affirms, neither was he the first to do so. The thoughts of Charles Sanders Peirce had already clearly influenced American pragmatism, and thinkers like George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer had developed a theory of symbols, both referred to by Schutz in his later works. Nonetheless, sign theory was already present in his first book, Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt, and can be traced to the influence of Edmund Husserl. Schutz's focus on the analysis of the relationship between individual and society fomented his perception of the importance of intermediary communication and sign processes as the setting and interpretation of signs, "Zeichensetzung und Zeichendeutung", reflections that in his later working phase resulted in a proper sign theory, which is analyzed in the following article. Based on Husserl's concept of pairing, Schutz here develops his theory of appresentational references, comprising a subdivision of: marks, indications, signs and symbols. This involves the concept of representation, a relationship between the signifier and the signified, and a subjective as well as constructive interpretation by actors. Consequently, this concept involves an objective sign system, a social situation and, as inserted into a process of communication, complementary producers (senders) and receptors (receivers) of signs and symbols. In the final comments the question is addressed whether, and in what sense, given the preceding theory of appresentational references, Schutz would hold that reality is a symbolic construction, as proposes the title of the 2016 conference on Schutz in Tokyo, The Symbolic Construction of Reality.
Carlos Belvedere Why I cannot dance the Tango: Reflections of an incompetent member of the "milongas porteñas"
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the idea that members are fully competent at what they do. With that aim, I start with a Schutzian and Ethnomethodological account of what it is like to be a member of the tango scene in the dance halls of Buenos Aires. I specify different degrees and kinds of competences. On the one hand, there are fully competent members (sanctioned dancers) and incompetent members (the "beginners"). The incompetent members are the vast majority in comparison to the few fully competent ones. On the other hand, there are technically competent members and socially competent ones. Technical competence is very hard to acquire, thus it is very rare. Social competences, instead, are accessible to all members. These different ways of being a member are heterogeneous and indicate a significant diversity of competences and skills. I conclude that not all members are alike and that each one is challenged in a particular way.
Frederick J. Wertz Outline of the Relationship Among Transcendental Phenomenology, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Sciences of Persons
Husserl focused perhaps more than any other philosopher on the relationship between philosophy and psychology. This problem was important to him because the European project of universal science must include sciences of consciousness that address questions of meaning, value and purpose so crucial for humanity. This paper provides a sketch of the later Husserl's thinking on this issue in order to clarify the relationships among transcendental philosophy as the mother of the sciences, psychology as the foundational mental science, and the various regional sciences of persons. Radicalizing and extending the transcendental tradition to free philosophy from naturalism, Husserl developed methods and fundamental concepts for understanding consciousness in its distinctive world constituting function. In parallel fashion, Husserl traced the historical failures of psychology to its naturalistic philosophy, from which he liberated the discipline by means of phenomenological reflections on the intentional property of its subject matter. This pure focus on mental processes resulted in the clarification of the transcendental phenomenological foundation of psychology as well as a recognition of the paradoxical manner in which psychological processes are both world constituting and mundanely present in the lives of persons. The apperceptive synthesis of transcendental consciousness and mundane embodiment in the identification of the person is proposed as essential for a non-naturalistic, intentional psychology, which provides appropriate concepts and the method of intentional analysis for such sciences of persons as sociology, history, literary studies, and religious studies. The problems, means, and inevitable inadequacies of communicating transcendental insights in language are discussed. Analysis of the complexity of living persons discloses their transcendental dimension in the manifolds their mundane activities and in their products, including use, cultural, and art objects as well as social institutions. Attention is drawn to resources in phenomenology beyond Husserl and in the genuine psychological intuitions of non-phenomenologists for generating non-naturalistic, phenomenologically grounded person sciences.
Hermílio Santos On Biography: A Schutzian Perspective
The paper explores biographical experiences for the understanding of social phenomena, both in the writings of Alfred Schutz himself and in sociological empirical approaches based on his work. Schutz handles biography at least in two different ways: as a manner to investigate the "because" motives for one's action and as a way to exemplify his theoretical considerations. The first step will be to discuss the biographical experience as a key aspect to understand the motivation for action. It will be argued that for Schutz, biography is not exclusively an individual life's trajectory, but results of both individual and social experiences, synthesized on the individual relevance systems, which are embedded by the relevance systems of the community in which one has been socialized. In the second step the paper verifies how Schutz deals with his own biographical experiences to discuss theoretical and empirical aspects of his sociology. Examples of the first kind of use of biography by Schutz are, for instance, "The Stranger" and "The Homecomer", which will be considered in this paper. A third step aims to discuss how these writings influenced empirical researches in sociology based on biographical narratives as a way to access empirically the social construction of reality.
Ken Takakusa Inconsistency Between Solitary Ego and the Social World?: Becoming and Meaning in Alfred Schutz
This paper aims to show the logical consistency between the subjective and the intersubjective constitution of meaning in Alfred Schutz by revealing his insight into the dynamic character of reality. In reconstructing what is implied by the proposition "the problem of meaning is a time problem," this paper reveals that the interrelationship between the past and the present, namely "becoming," is fundamental to meaning-constitution. By critically introducing the Bergsonian view of the tension between the durée and its symbolization, Schutz thematizes our meaningful reality in the fluidity. From this perspective, the intersubjective world is characterized as a continuous dynamic reality taken for granted by the actors. While subjectivity, as a function of articulating experiences in becoming, is a condition of the intersubjective world, the intersubjective process enables the taken-for-grantedness of subjective reality. Schutzian phenomenology may lead to a theory of the complexity and uncertainty of social reality.
Jerry Williams Growing Old: On Becoming a Stranger
This essay considers how normal aging (without disease or cognitive impairment) might over the long run be thought of as undermining to "thinking as usual" in a society undergoing rapid social change. Informed by the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz, the criteria for thinking as usual are considered. Derived from his essay "The Stranger," these criteria were developed by Schutz about the experience of an immigrant stranger approaching a new culture (Schutz 1964a). Here it is argued that they might also help us better understand the experience of aging. It is suggested that in the context of social change older people can, under the right circumstances, feel like strangers in the culture they have known all their lives.
Jochen Dreher Lester Embree: Biography


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Case in point: Would you rather have Champagne or sparkling wine? Let's face it "sparkling wine" doesn't carry the same loftiness of Champagne. And because sparkling wine doesn't come from the Champagne, with the region's unique characteristics, it's not (to use a popular 70's phrase) "the real thing". Officially, it's a different thing that also has bubbles.
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Wikipedia defines Appellation of Origin this way: A geographical indication (GI) is a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin (e.g. a town, region, or country). The use of a GI may act as a certification that the product possesses certain qualities, or enjoys a certain reputation, due to its geographical origin.
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标签档案: Cuomo
Where is Chris Cuomo?
CHRIS Cuomo has been missing from his usual slot on CNN after being fired by the network in 2021.
But after being fired from CNN for his alleged loyalty to his brother, 前任的 Governor Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo was back in the primetime slot on October 3, 2022, but on a different channel.
Chris Cuomo enjoyed a week-long vacation for his birthday信用: 盖蒂
Chris Cuomo's new show aired on October 3, 2022, on NewsNation, which is owned by NextStar.
The channel, which has a smaller audience than CNN, is banking on the award-winning host to bring them viewers.
His schedule for his premiere show of CUOMO on October 3, 2022, stated that his guests were slated to be Dan Rather and Bill Maher.
During the remainder of the week, he plans to host guests, 包括 Stephen A. 史密斯, Andrew Yang, Dr Anothony Fauci, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tulsi Gabbard.
Has Chris Cuomo been fired by CNN?
十二月 1, 2021, CNN announced that Chris had been indefinitely suspended from the network.
His suspension came after his involvement in his brother's ongoing sexual harassment scandal was revealed.
The network star came under fire after it was reported he had taken part in advising his brother, Andrew Cuomo, on a response to allegations made against him.
A spokesperson for CNN said: "The New York Attorney General's office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo's involvement in his brother's defense.
"The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions.
"When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother's staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly."
"But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.
"然而, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother's efforts than we previously knew,.
"因此, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation."
In the wake of the information coming to light, many have called for Cuomo to be fired or step down from his cable TV show on CNN, with an article in The Atlantic 陈述: "Chris Cuomo Must Go."
CNN released a statement on the messages on Monday, 十一月 29, 2021, 读: "The thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits that were released today by the NY Attorney General deserve a thorough review and consideration.
"We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days."
Cuomo did not comment on the story during his show on Monday, 十一月 29, 2021.
之前, Cuomo had refused to mention his brother Andrew's sexual harassment scandal on his CNN show after returning from a short break from the show.
然而, Cuomo awkwardly joked his brother would join him on his Hamptons vacation in "分钟" despite being tight-lipped about the topic.
"是的, if you wait here, he'll be here in five minutes," the CNN host told a Fox reporter on August 10 as he strolled towards his Ford F-150 SVT pickup through the plush Sag Harbor Yacht Yard.
在八月 16, Chris returned to prime time and spoke publicly for the first time about his brother's resignation – and the ethical headaches it created for him and his network.
What did Chris Cuomo say about his brother's sexual harassment scandal on his CNN show?
在八月 16, before concluding his Prime Time show, Cuomo publicly addressed his brother's resignation for the first time on the air.
Cuomo said in brief remarks toward the end of his show: "It was a unique situation, being a brother to a politician in a scandal and being part of the media.
"I tried to do the right thing, and I just want you all to know that."
Cuomo also said he had advised his brother to step down as New York's governor.
He told viewers: "While it was something I never imagined ever having to do. I did urge my brother to resign when the time came,"
Chris apologized in May 2021 after it emerged that he had offered advice to Andrew's aides as the governor faced sexual harassment accusations.
在那之后, the host pledged not to discuss his brother's scandal, but CNN kept him on the air, disturbing some colleagues who considered his role a glaring conflict of interest.
Cuomo added that the situation involving the governor's scandal was "unlike anything I could have imagined."
在八月 16, Chris Cuomo returned to prime time and spoke publicly for the first time about his brother Andrew's stunning resignation信用: 盖蒂
He said on Prime Time: "I'm not an adviser; I'm a brother. I wasn't in control of anything. I was there to listen and to offer my take.
"And my advice to my brother was simple and consistent: own what you did, tell people what you'll do to be better, be contrite, 和, 最后, accept that it doesn't matter what you intended. What matters is how your actions and words were perceived."
Cuomo also debunked the claims of his involvement in the efforts by Andrew's aides to stave off the growing scandal.
The former CNN host said: "I never attacked nor encouraged anyone to attack any woman who came forward.
"I never made calls to the press about my brother's situation. I never influenced or attempted to control CNN's coverage of my family."
He said he would no longer comment any further. "This will be my final word on it," the host said before cutting to a commercial.
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Q: How do you run NUnit tests from Jenkins? I'm looking to run automated NUnit tests for a C# application, nightly and on each commit to svn.
Is this something that Jenkins-CI can do?
Is there an online tutorial or how-to document which documents a similar setup that I can look at?

A: This works nicely, I've set this up before.
Configure NUnit to output the results to an XML file and configure the NUnit Jenkins Plugin to consume this XML file.  The results will be available on the dashboard.
Now, how you invoke NUnit is up to you.  The way we did it was:
Jenkins job executes NAnt target executes NUnit test suite.
You can configure Jenkins jobs to run on commit and/or scheduled at a certain time.

A: The solution from Ralph Willgoss is working good, but i changed 2 things to make it great:
a) I used a NUnit project instead of the DLL file directly. This makes it more easy to add more assemblies or configure the test in the NUnit GUI.
b) I added one more line to the batch to prevent the build from failing when a test fails:
[PathToNUnit]\bin\nunit-console.exe [PathToTestProject]\UnitTests.nunit /xml=nunit-result.xm
exit 0

The NUnit Plugin mentioned marks the build UNSTABLE automatically, which is exactly what i want, whenever a test fails. It shows with a yellow dot.

A: I think it's better to fail the build when it doesn't pass so you don't deploy it. Do something like this:
C:\YourNUnitDir\nunit-console.exe C:\YourOutDir\YourLib.dll /noshadow
if defined ERRORLEVEL if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto fail_build

:: any other command

: fail_build
endlocal
exit %ERRORLEVEL%

Reference: http://www.greengingerwine.com/index.php/2013/01/tip-check-errorlevel-in-your-post-build-steps-when-using-nunit/

A: If you don't want to hardcode your unit test projects, you are better off writing a script to grab all of your Unit Test project dll's. We do it with Powershell and follow a specific convention for naming our Unit Testing Projects. Here is the content of the powershell file that runs our unit tests:
param(
[string] $sourceDirectory = $env:WORKSPACE
, $fileFilters = @("*.UnitTests.dll", "*_UnitTests.dll", "*UnitTests.dll")
, [string]$filterText = "*\bin\Debug*"
)

#script that executes all unit tests available.
$nUnitLog = Join-Path $sourceDirectory "UnitTestResults.txt"
$nUnitErrorLog = Join-Path $sourceDirectory "UnitTestErrors.txt"

Write-Host "Source: $sourceDirectory"
Write-Host "NUnit Results: $nUnitLog"
Write-Host "NUnit Error Log: $nUnitErrorLog"
Write-Host "File Filters: $fileFilters"
Write-Host "Filter Text: $filterText"

$cFiles = ""
$nUnitExecutable = "C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.6.3\bin\nunit-console-x86.exe"

# look through all subdirectories of the source folder and get any unit test assemblies. To avoid duplicates, only use the assemblies in the Debug folder
[array]$files = get-childitem $sourceDirectory -include $fileFilters -recurse | select -expand FullName | where {$_ -like $filterText}

foreach ($file in $files)
{
    $cFiles = $cFiles + $file + " "
}

# set all arguments and execute the unit console
$argumentList = @("$cFiles", "/framework:net-4.5", "/xml=UnitTestResults.xml")

$unitTestProcess = start-process -filepath $nUnitExecutable -argumentlist $argumentList -wait -nonewwindow -passthru -RedirectStandardOutput $nUnitLog -RedirectStandardError $nUnitErrorLog

if ($unitTestProcess.ExitCode -ne 0)
{
    "Unit Test Process Exit Code: " + $unitTestProcess.ExitCode
    "See $nUnitLog for more information or $nUnitErrorLog for any possible errors."
    "Errors from NUnit Log File ($nUnitLog):"
    Get-Content $nUnitLog | Write-Host
}

$exitCode = $unitTestProcess.ExitCode

exit $exitCode

The script is robust enough that we are reusing for all of our build jobs. If you don't like the full path to NUnit console, you could always put that location in your PATH environment variable.
Then we put the RunUnitTests.ps1 file on our build server and use this batch command:
powershell.exe -file "{full-path-to-script-direcory}\RunUnitTests.ps1"

A: For Nunit 3 or above farmework:

*

*Building Step (Windows command line)
"c:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit.org\nunit-console\nunit3-console.exe" c:\AutomationTraining\CSharpSelenium\bin\Debug\test.dll --result=TestR.xml;format=nunit2

*Post step for Nunit report publishing, it shows only test results file in Jenkins workspace directory, not in your project:
TestR.xml
We need to make test results in nunit2 format because now Jenkins Nunit plugin doesn't recognize Nunit3 results format.
Also options string format is different:
--result=TestR.xml;format=nunit2
NOT
/xml=nunit-result.xml

A: I needed to do exactly what you do, here's how I setup Jenkins to do this:

*

*Add the NUnit Plugin to Jenkins

*In your project go to Configure -> Build -> Add a build step

*In the dropdown scroll down to  -> Execute Windows Batch Command

*Ensure this step is placed after your MSBuild step

*Add the following, replacing the variables:

Single dll test:

[PathToNUnit]\bin\nunit-console.exe [PathToTestDll]\Selenium.Tests.dll
  /xml=nunit-result.xml

Multiple dll test using NUnit test projects:

[PathToNUnit]\bin\nunit-console.exe [PathToTests]\Selenium.Tests.nunit
  /xml=nunit-result.xml

*

*Under Post-build Actions, tick Publish NUnit test result report

*For the textbox Test report XMLs, enter nunit-result.xml
Once you project has been built, NUNit will now run and the results will be viewable either on the Dashboard(if you hover over the Weather report icon) or on the project page under Last Test Result.
You could also run the command from within Visual Studio or as part of you local build process.
Here's two blog posts I used for reference. I didn't find any that fitted my requirements exactly:
1-Hour Guide to Continuous Integration Setup: Jenkins meets .Net  (2011)
Guide to building .NET projects using Hudson  (2008)

A: Jenkins does have plugins that will support that. The exact configuration is going to depend quite a bit on your project setup. There are specific plugins for nUnit, MSBuild,nAnt etc. Start by looking at the plugins page, but it shouldn't be terribly difficult to figure out.

A: This is my solution for running OpenCover with vstest in Jenkins:
param(
[string] $sourceDirectory = $env:WORKSPACE
, $includedFiles = @("*Test.dll")
, $excludedFiles = @("*.IGNORE.dll")
, [string]$filterFolder = "*\bin\Debug*"
)

# Executables
$openCoverExecutable = "C:\Users\tfsbuild\AppData\Local\Apps\OpenCover\OpenCover.Console.exe"
$unitExecutable = "F:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe"

# Logs
$openCoverReport = Join-Path $sourceDirectory "opencover.xml"
$openCoverFilter = "+[*]* -[*Test]*"

Write-Host "`r`n==== Configuration for executing tests ===="
Write-Host "Source: `"$sourceDirectory`""
Write-Host "Included files: `"$includedFiles`""
Write-Host "Excluded files: `"$excludedFiles`""
Write-Host "Folder filter: `"$filterFolder`""
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Write-Host "OpenCover Report: `"$openCoverReport`""
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# look through all subdirectories of the source folder and get any unit test assemblies. To avoid duplicates, only use the assemblies in the Debug folder
[array]$files = get-childitem $sourceDirectory -include $includedFiles -exclude $excludedFiles -recurse | select -expand FullName | where {$_ -like $filterFolder} | Resolve-Path -Relative

$exitCode = 0
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foreach ($file in $files)
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    $argumentList = @("-target:`"$unitExecutable`"", "-targetargs:`"$file /UseVsixExtensions:false /Logger:trx`"", "-register:user -filter:`"$openCoverFilter`" -mergeoutput -mergebyhash -skipautoprops -returntargetcode -output:`"$openCoverReport`"")

    $unitTestProcess = start-process -filepath $openCoverExecutable -argumentlist $argumentList -wait -nonewwindow -passthru -WorkingDirectory $sourceDirectory

    if ($unitTestProcess.ExitCode -ne 0)
    {
        $failedTestDlls = $failedTestDlls + $file + "`r`n"
        $exitCode = $unitTestProcess.ExitCode
    }
}

if ($exitCode -ne 0)
{
    Write-Host "`r`n==== Executing tests in following dlls failed ===="
    Write-Host "$failedTestDlls"
}

exit $exitCode

Each test dll is executed in an own process because we had troubles to execute all test dlls in a single procress (probmels with assembly loading).

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After that add "Publish MSTest test result report" post-build action to make test results visible.
Default test reports path should be **/*.trx and will publish all produced .trx files.

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After storming to victory in the Bupa Great Manchester Run and providing a glimmer of hope that he may yet make London 2012, Haile Gebrelassie's Olympic hopes are all but over after he finished seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo.
Used as an official Ethiopian Olympic trial, Gebreselassie was required to finish among the top two athletes from his country at yesterday's race in Holland to qualify.
Even though he improved on his time at Manchester last week, down from 27:29 to 27:20, he was the sixth placed Ethiopian and came home nearly nine seconds behind winner Tariku Bekele.
In what would have been his fifth Olympic event, Gebrselassie was downbeat but philosophical about his failure to qualify: "The Games in London is over for me. I ran a good race until the last lap. I felt good but I didn't have the speed to compete against my rivals. That's life. I am not disappointed."
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oulanges-la-Vineuse in the late 1960's had very little to do with wine. In terms of wine production the village was still recovering from the phylloxera and two world wars. Instead the villages around Auxerre in northwestern Burgundy were focusing on cereals and cherries. But slowly a few people in the area began planting vines. One of them was Michel Bernard at Domaine du Clos du Roi.
– The estate was created by my grandmother and my father in 1969. Coulanges-la-Vineuse has a long history, but 60–70 years ago the vines had almost completely disappeared. My father and a few others started planting and began bottling not so long after that, explains Magali Bernard, daughter of Michel.
There are more winegrowers in the village today. But production is still small. The appellation, Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse, covers 700 hectares, but only 135 are planted with vines. In total there are 15 winegrowers in Coulanges-la-Vineuse and the neighbouring villages. The size of the domaines varies from six hectares to 26 hectares.
– Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse is almost only pinot noir, says Magali Bernard. Of the 135 hectares only 18 are chardonnay. The majority of the chardonnay is around the village of Migé. There are only a few hectares around Coulanges-la-Vineuse.
– In 2001, after six years at the Lycée viticole in Beaune, I began working here at the domaine, she continues. In 2004 I went to work in New Zealand for a few months to work at Pegasus Bay Winery and Mount Edward Winery, and since 2005 I am the big boss here at the domaine. In 2007 my husband Arnaud joined me.
Domaine du Clos du Roi has 14 hectares of vines, all located around the village. With the exception of some Bourgogne Passtoutgrain and Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire all wines are Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse – red, white and rosé.
– I would say we are a very traditional domaine, says Magali Bernard. All our wines are aged in barrels or in foudres, wooden vats. We want to sell wines that have aged for a minimum of two years. For the evolution of the wines I think wood is the best, with the micro-oxidation that takes place.
Since her arrival at Domaine du Clos du Roi Magali Bernard has changed the wine portfolio. There are now three different cuvées of red Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse – the traditional one plus Cuvée Coline and Cuvée Chanvan.
– I haven't changed the traditional Coulanges. That's the same as when my father was making it. The white Coulanges I changed; my father didn't use any barrels. 15 per cent is fermented in new oak and 85 per cent in stainless steel vats, so we don't get too much oak aromas. The white Coulanges is a wine to be used as an aperitif or with fish.
The Coline cuvée, named after Magali's and Arnaud's daughter, is a blend of two grape varieties - pinot noir and césar, 85 percent of the former and 15 of the latter. Originally Magali made a wine made from 100 per cent césar, but since this didn't fit within the regulations for the appellation the new cuvée saw the light of day in 2008.
– It was a test, says Magali Bernard about the césar wine. The césar grape is a speciality of Irancy, Coulanges-la-Vineuse and Saint-Bris. Many use it to add more structure to the wine, but since we make lighter wines in Coulanges-la-Vineuse my idea was to try to make something different with the césar, not a full-bodied wine with lots of tannins.
– We tried to make a césar wine that was very light. The fermentation took place in very big vats at very low temperature, 20°C to 25°C (68°F–77°F). It was interesting to do this, but since we are within the AOC we cannot do what we want. Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse cannot be 100 per cent césar.
– Instead we are doing the Coline cuvée, but the idea is the same. How to use the césar for a light wine. This cuvée has a little bit more body than the traditional Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse, but not much.
Magali Bernard describes the césar vine's behaviour in the vineyard as very different to the pinot noir. Unpredictable is a word that sums it up.
– In the past there was only césar planted. Then it was replaced by pinot noir and gamay. There is a reason for that, she smiles.
– The césar doesn't make a better wine than the pinot noir, but it is very interesting to blend the two grape varieties. The césar bunches are enormous. And some years you have a lot of grapes. Some years there is very little. So the césar is very difficult to work with.
It may not be obvious, but the other cuvée, Cuvée Chanvan, is closely linked to the name of the domaine. Chanvan is a lieu-dit within the Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse appellation where Domaine du Clos du Roi owns three hectares.
– Chanvan is a very good parcel, says Magali Bernard. It is between Coulanges-la-Vineuse and Jussy (just north of Coulanges-la-Vineuse). The old name of this parcel was Clos du Roi, the clos of the king. According to old writings, the French king was very fond of the wines from Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Irancy and Auxerre. At that time, before the railway, these wines were considered as the best available in Paris.
The area around Auxerre and Chablis is pretty much the northern limit for the pinot noir. Warmer years, such as 2003, certainly have an effect on the style of the wines. With global warming this may seen more frequently in the future.
– It is not a bad thing, says Magali Bernard. The clients appreciate the different styles. There is the very light 2009 and there is the 2008 which has more structure. But if every year was warm it would be a problem, because people want the Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse to be a light, fruity and supple wine. When our old clients tasted the 2003 they thought it was interesting, but asked if we had some 2002's to sell.
– The big problem is the quantity. Our wines are not expensive, so we need the quantity to be able to keep the price down. If we were to have hot summers every year, which mean lower yields, it would be difficult for us to offer wines for five to seven euros per bottle.
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OC Air Show 2019: Who's performing, where to watch
The OC Air Show returns for a 12th year, offering a mix of military and civilian demo teams which will fly over the beaches and the Boardwalk on June 15 and 16.
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The P-51 Mustang, a World War II-era fighter flown by Scott "Scooter" Yoak, will also be demoed. P-51s were used during World War II, the Korean War and other conflicts.
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You'll be able to see the performances if you're between 14th to 17th Streets, with 16th Street being the "Aerial 50 yard line" or Show Center, according to OC Air Show's website.
Corporate chalets and hospitality tents extending from along the sea wall of The Boardwalk will be at the event site as well.
For more:2019 OC Air Show: Canadian Snowbirds to fly in for first time
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For top quality viewing experiences, organizers recommend attendees check out premium viewing areas including the VIP Penthouse, VIP Skybox, Flight Line Club and Drop Zone Beach.
To learn more or purchase premium viewing or VIP tickets, visit ocairshow.com or call 877-722-2927.
Is what I see in the sky all there is to show?
If you want more to see than the airplanes, exhibitors will be present near Show Center over the weekend as well. They will include the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and companies including Toyota, T-Mobile, and Geico.
Can I watch the show from my boat?
Viewing of the show from a boat or watercraft is permitted in a limited area on the eastern perimeter of the United States Coast Guard Safety Zone, the show's website states. The eastern perimeter extends 12,000 feet parallel with the flight path of the performing aircraft. The depth along the eastern perimeter is about 30 to 35 feet.
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No anchoring, hovering or idling of boats or watercraft will be permitted to the north or south of the Coast Guard Safety Zone. U.S. Coast Guard and Fish and Wildlife Commission vessels will be patrolling the perimeter of the Coast Guard Safety Zone and will be strictly enforcing these guidelines and regulations.
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Traffic tends to be hectic during the weekend of the air show. The Worcester County Sheriff's Office made a Facebook announcement last year warning drivers to be aware of congestion during air show weekend. You might want to check its Facebook page again early in the week for an update.
"Traditionally, West Ocean City will become congested very quickly going into Ocean City on Friday and Saturday. Please plan accordingly. The peak times for traffic congestion will be as crowds exit on Saturday and Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the air show. In past years, Route 90 and Route 1 in Delaware will be congested and delays can be expected.
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Ocean City officials recommend using the municipal bus system to avoid some of the traffic. Buses leave every few minutes from the Park and Ride Lot on Route 50 and also the Tanger Outlets across Route 50.
Regular bus service on Coastal Highway starting at 144th Street at the Ocean City Northside Transit Station will be leaving southbound every 10 minutes or less. Buses may be boarded at stops that are located every other block between the 144th Street Station and 17th Street, where the Air Show can be accessed.
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When leaving the Air Show in the afternoon, head back to 17th Street for the Park and Ride buses and head back to your vehicle at the Park and Ride Lot on Route 50. Police officers will be available to direct buses out in the traffic. Buses and bikes have dedicated travel lanes of Coastal Highway from 15th Street to the 144th Street Station. Bus stops along Coastal Highway will also be available for your trip back to the north Ocean City and mid-town areas.
Special ticket agents will be available at the Park and Ride Lot on 16th and 17th streets to allow for easy and quick access to the bus. Restrooms are available. If boarding a bus to buy an all-day pass, one must have exact change to purchase a pass.
The Boardwalk trams will continue to operate except at the full height of the air show, given crowd levels on the Boardwalk. Trams will operate from the 27th Street Station on the Boardwalk to the First Street Station near the Inlet. The tram stops upon request.
For more information about the show, visit http://ocairshow.com/ or follow the show on Facebook.
For next year:Blue Angels' 2020 schedule up in the air, but 2019 OC Air Show on track
12th annual OC Air Show
When: June 15 to 16; noon to 4 p.m.
Where: 14th Street to 17th Street, Ocean City
Cost: Free; separate pricing for VIP Penthouse, Drop Zone and Flight Line, prices range from $14 to $400.
Info: https://ocairshow.com/
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mammasplace: Recycle your Buttons-Make Rings!
I have many vintage buttons and and did not know what to do with them so I did a search and found a way to recycle them and make rings. This is easy to do, will be fun and they will look nice. When I am done I will be posting one for a giveaway.
Tell me what you think of them and which one you like the best.


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Part 1 – Gap Detection: The Past, Present, and Future
Dr. Frank Musiek
Chris Niemczak , AuD, Ph.D.
Scientist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Accurate timing perception of auditory information, known as temporal processing, is essential for human communication and environmental awareness. It's necessary for auditory psychoacoustic abilities, such as frequency discrimination, modulation detection, and perceiving speech in noise (Shetty 2016; Soli et al. 2008). Accurate assessment of temporal processing is fundamental to effective clinical care. This article will cover what gap detection is, how it is tested, and why it is so important.
The ability to order two auditory stimuli or separate them in time as distinct auditory events depends on auditory temporal processing (Fitzgibbons et al. 1987; Fitzgibbons et al. 1982; Moore et al. 1989). Detecting silent gaps in sound requires precise neural encoding between and within several levels of the auditory pathway. For example, distinguishing between the two phonemes /ba/ and /ga/ is largely based on voice onset time (VOT), or the length of the silent interval between the plosive burst (i.e. the /b/ or /g/) and the following vocalization of the vowel. At more peripheral levels of the auditory pathway, representation of VOT has been identified in the firing rate of auditory nerve fibers (Sinex et al. 1988) and cells in the inferior colliculus tuned to the dominant frequency in the vowel (Eggermont 2000b). Properties of these neurons within the auditory pathway include differential sensitivity to stimulus level, different width of the frequency-tuning curve, different first-spike latency, and different percentages of monotonic or nonmonotonic input-output functions (Schreiner 1995). This means that the entire auditory pathway is well tuned for detection of silent gaps in sounds, but degradations in the neural activity could lead to deficits in detecting those gaps.
Before discussing deficits in auditory neural pathway related to disordered temporal processing, behavioral gap detection requires a brief review of differential sensitivity. Differential sensitivity is the smallest perceptible difference between two sounds measured using a difference limen (DL) (Gelfand 2010). For example, the smallest intensity difference that can be distinguished between two sounds is the DL for intensity. This may be as small as 1 dB and is often called delta (Δ) intensity (I) or ΔI. With temporal discrimination we can replace ΔI with signal duration or the timing of the signal. Traditional gap detection paradigms consist of placing a silent gap in between two auditory stimuli and presenting these gaps (G) at progressively shorter durations. The DL for duration of the gap (ΔG) becomes smaller (shorter) as the overall duration of the gap (G) decreases until the subject can no longer hear the gap. The shortest detectable gap, or gap threshold, is then obtained. Here is where we could discuss how this violates Weber's Law, but I will spare you the psychoacoustics review.
The stimulus used for gap detection testing is usually a pair of noises that are presented in rapid succession with a period of silence in the middle. In most gap detection paradigms, the gap is surrounded by spectrally identical noises (i.e. same frequency information on both sides of the gap). This requires a relative timing operation to be performed on activity between similar perceptual channels or frequency regions (Phillips et al. 1997). However, in the case of discriminating VOT as described above in the /ba/ and /ga/, the task is also to judge the relative timing of the high frequency plosive burst of the /ba/ compared to the predominantly low frequency /ga/. It has been shown that the mechanisms that mediate the perceptual responses of gap detection between spectrally similar and dissimilar noises are likely different (Phillips et al. 1997), but for the purposes of this discussion, let's simply focus on length of the gap threshold.
A typical gap threshold is approximately 3-5 milliseconds (ms) in young normal hearing individuals completing the gap task for the first time (untrained). You may think that is incredibly quick, but considering we speak at 4-5 syllables per second (Miller et al. 1976), we need to be this fast to perceive sound accurately.
To measure a gap threshold precisely, several approaches exist. In the Random Gap Detection Test (RGDT; Keith 2000), the listener is presented with a series of noise bursts (or tone bursts) containing various gap durations and must indicate whether the gap was heard in each case. In contrast, the Adaptive Test of Temporal Resolution (ATTR; Lister et al. 2006) presents the listener with a choice of two noise bursts, and they must indicate which of them contains the gap. The test is adaptive because the duration of the silent gap is increased and decreased until the gap detection threshold had been found. In the Gaps-in-Noise (GIN) test (Musiek, Shinn, et al. 2005), listeners are presented with six-second blocks of broadband noise which may contain anywhere between zero and three gaps. Gap durations vary between 2 and 20 ms, and listeners are asked to press a button immediately following detection of a gap. The left and right ears are typically tested independently as previous work indicates that thresholds may vary between the ears, possibly due to the presence of damage in different neural locations (Efron et al. 1985). The GIN was specifically developed to serve as a rapid clinical measure of auditory temporal resolution (Musiek, Shinn, et al. 2005) and is typically used in various Central Auditory Processing batteries (Filippini et al. 2020).
Both animal and human studies have shown gap detection to be both sensitive and specific to peripheral and central auditory system damage, as well as central nervous system deficits (i.e. requiring longer silent gaps than controls for accurate perception) (Bamiou et al. 2006). Auditory gap detection is essentially functional timing of a discontinuity in the neural activity pattern along its path from cochlea to cortex. This short discontinuity detection has been demonstrated in the activity of auditory nerve fibers (Zhang et al. 1990), in single cells of the inferior colliculus (Walton et al. 1997), and in cells in three divisions of auditory cortex (Bertoli et al. 2002; Eggermont 2000a, 2000b; Rupp et al. 2002). That is, while peripheral mechanisms in the cochlea encode temporal aspects of sound, the central auditory pathway including the auditory cortex also contributes to a temporal processing. Therefore, damage to either the peripheral or central auditory system could lead to problems with gap detection. The integration and diverse nature of temporal processing in the central auditory pathway is also the rationale for why gap detection is sensitive to central nervous system dysfunction.
Previous reports on gap detection tests have shown them to have considerable diagnostic consistency in populations with confirmed central auditory system lesions, insular strokes, and multiple sclerosis (Bamiou et al. 2006; Filippini et al. 2020; Musiek, Shinn, et al. 2005). The GIN specifically has proven highly sensitive to the presence of a wide range of brain pathologies in various clinical populations (Chowsilpa et al. 2021), including individuals blast-exposure and mTBI (Gallun et al. 2012; Saunders et al. 2015), adults with mild cognitive impairment (Iliadou et al. 2017), those who stutter (Prestes et al. 2017), and even in Parkinson's disease (Guehl et al. 2008). Our work has shown people living with HIV experience hearing difficulties originating primarily in the central nervous system evidenced by temporal processing deficits (Buckey et al. 2019; Maro et al. 2014; Niemczak et al. 2021; Zhan et al. 2018).
As stated above, the range of pathologies associated with poor gap detection performance likely reflects the diverse auditory processing and brain networks required to perform this task. So, why isn't this test included in a standard audiometric test battery? The reason is understandably complicated by clinical scheduling and reimbursement. But while gap detection performance clearly relies upon intact and high functioning temporal resolution within the auditory pathway, performance is also dependent on the listeners' ability to attend to the auditory stimulus, their speed of information processing, and speed of motor response. The recruitment of non-auditory networks during auditory perceptual tasks is certainly not specific to the gap detection tasks. Indeed, all other perceptual and behavioral processes such as speech understanding in noise and dichotic listening similarly depend upon a range of sensory and cognitive functions, thus highlighting the non-modular nature of auditory processing in the brain (Musiek, Bellis, et al. 2005).
In part two, I will make the case that gap detection can not only provide an accurate measure of auditory temporal processing, but also a window in brain function utilizing metrics that are already accumulated while taking the test. I will also further highlight the sensitivity of gap detection measures in pathologic populations.
Accurate auditory temporal processing is essential for speech identification and recognition, highlighting the importance of this auditory perceptive ability in everyday conversations. Gap detection is by no means the only kind of time-released discrimination in hearing but provides an opportunity to better understand auditory temporal processing and potentially brain function. Poor gap detection (i.e. longer thresholds) has been identified in various clinical populations with central nervous system deficits highlighting the sensitivity of gap detection paradigms to provide a window into overall brain function.
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Today we're back for another sneak peek of the World of Pandora at Disney's Animal Kingdom. You could say it's our sequel, and it only took us a week.
Kaltxì! We're back at Disney's Animal Kingdom this morning to travel to the moon of Pandora.
Going beyond the wall and taking the journey to Pandora.
And just like that we're on Pandora. It's beautiful and I don't think we'll ever get tired of looking at it.
Green beer at 9am from Pongu Pongu, because why not. And it's delicious!
For you Trash Can enthusiasts. We mean table for the inevitable Pandora Food and Wine Festival enthusiasts.
Breakfast at Satu'li Canteen. French toast and Pandoran Sunrise. Yum!
Two of the souvenir cups available with drinks in Pandora.
Pandora water fountain. Love that they have the water bottle refill spot.
Because there's probably someone wondering what they look like... Pandora restrooms.
Let's take our Flight of Passage!
The queue for Flight of Passage is intense! Expect long wait times in this glorious space.
More Flight of Passage queue.
This place is no joke. They definitely spared no expense.
One of the most creative elements in the Flight of Passage queue.
More Flight of Passage... time to enter the Link Chambers.
Pre-show room before finally entering the ride. The whole process is actually very cool.
Flight of Passage ride vehicles. So I personally loved the ride way more than I thought I would. I'm prone to motion sickness and was fine!
Snack time! Sampling the Night Blossom signature drink with the Pongu Lumpia. Both are very sweet treats.
At Windtraders gift shop, you can stop by the Rookery to select your very own banshee.
Other items at Windtraders for sale include baby Na'vi and banshee plush.
More souvenirs at Windtraders - pins, shirts, iPhone cases and more!
Some traditional snacks and candy, with a Na'vi twist.
Colors of Mo'ara face painting and gift kiosk, where you can transform into a Na'vi.
Now on to the Na'vi River Journey.
Though not quite as extensive as the Flight of Passage queue, Na'vi River Journey has some lovely theming.
Na'vi River Journey is a great dark ride for all ages. The bio-luminescent lighting is beautiful.
The Na'vi shaman animatronic is one of Disney's best. Simply amazing. Maybe they can finally fix the yeti?
Back at Satu'li Canteen. I think it has a similar look to Animal Kingdom Lodge.
This time I got the vegetable curry pods, cheesecake, and the other Pandora beer, Mo'ara High Country Ale.
Still more of the beautiful sights in Pandora. I can't wait to come back and see this all at night!
Traveling back to earth for now. We had a wonderful time on Pandora again and hope to revisit it many times. Disney did an outstanding job.


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The explain_getgrouplist_or_die function is used to call the getgrouplist(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained from the explain_getgrouplist(3) function, and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
The explain_getgrouplist_on_error function is used to call the getgrouplist(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained from the explain_getgrouplist(3) function, but still returns to the caller.
The user, exactly as to be passed to the getgrouplist(3) system call.
The group, exactly as to be passed to the getgrouplist(3) system call.
The groups, exactly as to be passed to the getgrouplist(3) system call.
The ngroups, exactly as to be passed to the getgrouplist(3) system call.
The explain_getgrouplist_or_die function only returns on success, see getgrouplist(3) for more information. On failure, prints an explanation and exits, it does not return.
The explain_getgrouplist_on_error function always returns the value return by the wrapped getgrouplist(3) system call.


TEHRAN, Jan. 26 (MNA) – The US should first build trust by taking concrete steps before discussing the establishment of a 30-kilometer safe zone in Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said.
Speaking to reporters on his way back from France, where he met US Counterpart Rex Tillerson, Çavuşoğlu said that the US needs to start taking concrete actions to win Turkey's trust again.
"There was a loss of trust with the United States during this period. Until trust is instilled again, it is not right for these issues to be discussed," Çavuşoğlu said, according to Daily Sabah.
Meanwhile US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert on Thursday described the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northwestern Syria a terrorist group as "PKK."
Meanwhile, US and Turkish military commanders discussed the possibility of creating a "secure zone" along the border with Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday amid Turkey's ongoing military operation in northwestern Syria's Afrin against the YPG and Daesh.
The US government has long supported the YPG with a vast amount of military equipment and heavy armament to fight Daesh. Despite Ankara's concerns, former US President Barack Obama initiated the support program, which so far has sent nearly 5,000 truckloads and 2,000 planeloads of weapons. This has been continued by the Trump administration.
The lack of consistency from the Trump administration regarding the US's activities in Syria has fueled tensions and deepened the rift in relations with Turkey that was already complicated.


How much juice is enough?
My son Ed is twenty four and suffered from arthritis since the age of 12, culminating in him taking the strongest meds the hospital could give him for the past two years. When I spoke to him last, he had switched his diet from vegetarian to vegan and included juicing and was off all his medication. He said he felt like a young man again. I was overjoyed, of course, and on his recommendation looked into juicing and watched the video 'Fat, sick and nearly dead'. I can't begin to describe the film as I'd miss out too much but it's a great watch.
My partner and I decided to take the plunge, bought a juicer and ordered the book of juices, recipes and advice that accompanied the video.
We had our final meal and were ready to fast.
We tried detoxing while we carried on working…….we were mad! So my first piece of advice once you've watched the video, read the book and have your juicer set up is….WATCH THE VIDEO AGAIN! We realised that fabulous Joe Cross spent the first ten days with himself in a hotel room dealing with the detox and Phil was at a beach resort by a lake, but we only realised this on the second viewing. We missed lots of useful advice the first time around.
Not only am I a vegetarian but I eat very little dairy and am wheat intolerant. We don't drink alcohol and have very few take-away meals. I teach dance classes while my partner lays and sands wood floors and together, we are attempting to renovate the Grade II listed house and byre that we live in and rescue four acres from thirty years of neglect.
Neither of us was carrying much fat so we attempted to juice fast and keep working with very little reserve….the first night I fainted, luckily in the bedroom and was able to get on the floor. So my second piece of advice is, be kind to yourself. For at least five days, give yourself time to adjust, rest…the video says all you want to do is curl up in bed but….it does get easier.
Nearing the end of the third day, Mike needed to drive to Cardigan to give a price for a wood floor and I was wrapped up in layers and a hot water bottle trying to get warm. We felt dreadful and made the decision to add some food at this point. Mike had eggs and in the evening, I made leek and potato soup (loads of leek, little potato;-)) with the broth I made from the vegetable pulp. On the fourth day, we had our fruit juice breakfast, green juice and took our Berries and Beet coconut water to the beach. Home made hummus, crackers, ryvitas, grapes and carrots for lunch followed by Beet delight juice and hot carrot spinach salad (v v hot!!), home made vege burgers and sweetcorn for dinner and apple crumble with nuts and seeds topping for our evening meal. We have continued to drink lots of water.
It's day five today. Coconut water contains electrolytes to help with the dettox symptoms…tricky to know if it works as I'm not feeling great but, the Berries and Beet recipe is delicious!
I've learned a lot about the foods our bodies really need and what my body needs to stop it keeling over! Maybe we stopped too soon to get the full benefit of a detox but I've been shopping today so I can try the Quinoa burgers and Veggie meatballs recipes, and I've bought more kale and spinach. I've learned I can't 'eat' cucumber or it repeats on me all day but has no effect on me if juiced. I've learned that I may actually be allergic to celery as after the first green juice, where I thought someone had hit me on the head with a sledge hammer, I reduced the amount to no avail until yesterday when I removed it and no head slam! While I'm drinking the juices, I can eat apples and oranges with no tummy ache. A delicate but necessary detail…instead of around five visits each morning, I'm now having a much more comfortable one or two.
Please join me next week for the next five days of this juice journey where I try to decide, how much juice is enough!


Our typical never 2 the same pieces of beautiful art you can wear! This hand beaded piece is a mix of black,white, red, orange, yellow and turquoise to 2 layers of black leather and a double snap closure. The white buffalo makes a great center focus point. From center to center on the stainless steel snaps is measures 7.5", the band is about 1 1/4" wide and the beaded area wraps 6" long.