Fort Jefferson from inside the brick walls.
Not so long ago, an article showed up on my Facebook news feed concerning the challenges of the National Park Service as it looks into the future of Fort Jefferson located at the Dry Tortugas. Reading the article, I was reminded of one of the most memorable trips we have ever made to a national park. In 2009 Jim and I, along with my sister and her husband, traveled to Fort Jefferson and Dry Tortugas Natiional Park. What a jewel…how beautiful this place truly is!
To reach the Dry Tortugas we boarded a ferry in Key West, FL for the seventy mile trip out to the park. The scenery was astonishing, the color of the water those brilliant shades of aquamarine you have always believed were artificially enhanced when seen on photographs. Looking into the water you realize it really is that deep, rich color, it really is that beautiful! The water is so clear you can see schools of fish almost as clearly as if you were in the water with them. You also see dolphins, pelicans and other birds. It is a marvelous trip!
The Gulf of Mexico seen from the ferry to the Dry Tortugas.
Fort Jefferson is situated on Garden Key, one of the seven keys which make up Dry Tortugas National Park. It is the largest all-masonry fort in the United States, so large that the entire playing field of Yankee Stadium would fit within its walls. Construction on this massive fort was begun in 1846 for the purpose of helping to control shipping that entered the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. It was, however, never finished due to problems with settling of the heavy structure. The weather has always been a problem at Fort Jefferson, and the structure has been in almost constant need of repair.
In addition to helping the United States control its interests in the shipping that entered the Gulf of Mexico, Fort Jefferson also served for a time as a military prison. While Florida became the third state to secede from the Union, Fort Jefferson remained under the control of the United States. Perhaps its most famous prisoner was Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Fort Jefferson has 2,000 arches and they are one of its most beautiful features.
Its most imposing feature as you approach is the lighthouse that was erected in 1825 to warn ships entering the Gulf from the Atlantic Ocean of the dangerous coral reefs in the area. As you near the fort you will notice Loggerhead Key where a new, more powerful, lighthouse was built in 1858. The lighthouse on Loggerhead is still operational today and is under the authority of the US Coast Guard.
Garden Key Lighthouse was built in 1825.
The lighthouse at Loggerhead Key was built in 1858. Loggerhead Key is protected as a nesting site for Loggerhead turtles, who return to the Key each year to lay their eggs.
Other keys in the Dry Tortugas are closed for parts of the year to allow for the nesting of various birds.
In addition to enjoying the ferry ride and visiting the fort, visitors to Dry Tortugas National Park can camp overnight on the grounds, do some snorkeling(as I did, my first time ever!), fish or do some birdwatching. You can learn more about Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas at the National Park Service site, http://www.nps.gov/drto/index.htm.
You can learn more about the ferry to the Dry Tortugas at http://www.drytortugas.com/?gclid=CJqAxl-1678CFSxk7AodMncAiA.
Campers set up at Fort Jefferson. You can see Loggerhead Key and its lighthouse in the background.
Whether or not we want to accept, or even believe it, climate change, whatever the reason, is occurring. And in the face of this change, all of us will need to adapt in one way or another. The National Park Service is also responding to the reality of climate change and trying to make plans that will deal with its effects, preserving our parks as best they can.
Fort Jefferson sits on a small key, a small island, and has always been vulnerable to the storms and tides of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Understanding that makes it easy to see why the prospect of a sea level rise of anywhere from .06 to 1.2 meters at Dry Tortugas over the next one hundred years poses great challenges for the agency charged with its maintenance and preservation.
You can clearly see how the walls of Fort Jefferson are deteriorating.
The National Park Service reported in 2010 that parts of the structure have already fallen into this moat which surrounds the fort.
There are many issues to be considered as the Park Service makes its decisions. Courses of action that might be taken to save the fort, such as dredging, may very well cause extensive damage to the environment. As we all learn to cope with changes in our world, in our environment, in our special and our sacred places. let us all hope we get this right. It is going to be a big job and we need to be up to the challenge.
You can read the report on climate change at the Dry Tortugas from the National Park Service at http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/climate-change-at-dry-tortugas/.
As we were traveling through the Florida Keys to Key West where we boarded the ferry to Dry Tortugas National Park, I picked up a cookbook at one of the tourist stops we made (but that is for another posting). Keys Cuisine was written by Linda Gassenheime and was published in 1991 by Atlantic Monthly Press. The book is full of great recipes from the Keys, highlighting its special foods as well as its ethnic diversity.
This recipe for Picadillo is slightly adapted from a recipe in Key Cuisine. Picadillo is said to be the original sloppy joe. My husband and I think it is much better than any sloppy joe we have ever had. I make my own Cubano bread and you can find the recipe I use at http://www.icuban.com/food/pan_cubano2.html.
I hollow out big slices of the Cubano bread and fill them with the Picadillo. Together with a green salad and a class of white wine, this makes a really good supper. Enjoy!
A little while back, CNN created a list of 50 Natural Wonders in 50 States (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/07/travel/50-states-natural-wonders/). The natural wonder in our state of Missouri is Elephant Rocks State Park. It has been many years since we took our older children to Elephant Rocks, so we decided to pack a picnic lunch and head out to revisit this park we only vaguely remembered. I baked a batch of corn flake crusted chicken and we were off. Such memories…this was the chicken we took on all our family picnics when the kids were home, and it was fun to realize, once again, how good it really is (the recipe is always on the back of the Corn Flake Crumbs box).
These are the rocks that give Elephant Rocks State Park its name.
The huge pink boulders at Elephant Rocks are red granite. The granite was formed when hot magma cooled over a billion years ago, then gradually weathered into the huge, rounded boulders we see today. Over time the boulders will erode away, while at the same time, other rock is weathered, making new "elephant rocks". The huge boulders are strewn throughout the park which also includes an old quarry. The granite rocks were quarried during the 1800's, becoming paving blocks for the St. Louis levee and its downtown streets, facing stones on the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, and the material from which the turned columns on the front porch of Missouri's Governor's mansion in Jefferson City were made. In nearby Graniteville, you can see an old schoolhouse and several homes that were built using the highest quality granite blocks from the quarry.
Trees and rocks live together in harmony in the park as seen here. This tree has made its way around the boulder while appearing to hold onto it for some support.
A long line of granite rocks along the path.
One of the side paths takes you to this ruin of an engine house from the 1890's. It serviced the trains of the Sheahan Quarries private railroad.
The end of the line? A view inside the old engine house.
When you reach the line of "elephants", you are at a point that provides great views of the surrounding countryside.
These rocks are ginormous. The largest rock at the park is 27 feet tall, 35 feet long and 17 feet wide. Dumbo, as it has been named, weighs 680 tons!
Men who worked at the quarry carved their names into the huge elephant rocks.
A view of the old quarry. The water is forty feet deep.
Can you guess how much this granite boulder weighs? It weighs 8,500 pounds, as much as a full-sized pickup truck.
At the end of the day, Elephant Rocks State Park is a great walk in the woods!
Elephant Rocks State Park is located in Graniteville, Mo, about 90 miles south of St. Louis. You can learn more about this "natural wonder" at http://www.mostateparks.com/park/elephant-rocks-state-park.
After leaving the park, we decided to look for a coffee drink. We found an antique, candy, coffee, etc. shop in Caledonia. It is called the Old Village Mercantile. What fun…we got great frozen coffee drinks, which remember was all we were looking for, plus 7 oz. bottles of coke (the only way it is really good), fudge, ground coffee, and those little sugar dots on paper I remember from my childhood. What a neat little shop in a tiny little town in rural Missouri. What a great day we had…a day trip not so very far from home!
We loved this little antique and coffee shop in Caledonia.
Gooey Butter Cake was first made by a St. Louis baker in the 1930's. It was actually a mistake in recipe ingredients that created this cake, but because America was in the midst of the Depression, the thrifty baker decided to sell the "mistake" anyway. It was a success and Missourians still eat lots of Gooey Butter Cake! There are two ways to make this cake. One way is to use a yellow cake mix and cream cheese. This method is quick and easy, but not the "real thing". The real cake is made with yeast and lots of butter. It takes time, but it is so worth the extra effort! This slightly adapted recipe for Gooey Butter Cake is from Melissa Clark and appeared in the New York Times in November of 2009.
Mix the milk with 2 tablespoons of warm water(about 110 degrees) in a small bowl. Add the yeast and whisk until it dissolves. You should see a bit of foam on the mixture. Cream the butter, sugar and salt in a stand mixer. Scrape the sides of the bowl and beat in the egg. Add the flour and the milk mixture alternately, scraping down the sides of the bowl each time. Continue to beat the dough on medium speed for 7 to 10 minutes, until the mixture is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl. It will form a beautiful, soft dough that you will press into an ungreased 9 by 13 glass baking dish. Cover the dish with a clean towel and let rise in a warm place* until doubled in size, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
*Here is a good hint for raising yeast dough when the weather cools and your house may not have any really warm place. Put the dish with the dough into the oven. Turn the oven to preheat at 400 degrees for exactly 1 minute. Turn the oven off and allow the dough to rise…works great every time! Just don't forget to turn the oven off!
Mix the corn syrup with 2 tablespoons of water and the vanilla in a small bowl. Cream the butter, sugar and salt for 5 to 7 minutes until it is light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and beat in the egg. Add the flour and corn syrup mixture alternately, scraping down the bowl after each addition. Spoon the topping in large spoonfuls over the raised dough. Use a spatula to spread the topping over the cake in an even layer. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Be very careful not to over-bake the cake, keeping a close eye on it the last five minutes of baking. The cake, when finished, should be golden brown with an almost liquid center.
After the cake has cooled completely, sprinkle the top with confectioner's sugar. Enjoy!
In my previous post, I introduced the Cane River National Heritage Area in Louisiana. We began our visit of the area in Natchitoches, a charming small town in northwestern Louisiana. After spending the night in one of the city's several Bed and Breakfasts, we headed out on Louisiana Hwy 494 to see one of the area's main attractions, Oakland Plantation, part of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.
This wine bottle garden, circa 1835, edges the flower gardens in the front of the main house.
In 1789, Jean Pierre Emmanuel Prudhomme obtained a grant for land from the Spanish government. On this land he built the plantation, originally named Bermuda. The plantation remained in the hands of the Prudhomme family until 1997, when the family sold the property to the National Park Foundation. The Park Service has restored the main house to what it would have looked like in the 1960's.
A comfortable spot for reading, playing music,or relaxing in the main house.
This fan, over the dining room table, would be operated by a slave. It was often called a "shoo-fly" fan.
The kitchen at Oakland which appears as it would have in the 1960's.
The master bedroom at Oakland has a cradle attached to the side of the bed.
Toys that young boys of the house would have played with in the 60's.
In addition to the main house, there are 27 buildings which are original to the plantation. A National Park Service guide took us on a tour of the property and many of the outbuildings. This is not one of America's most popular national historic sites, so we had the guide all to ourselves. She spent a lot of time with us, patiently answering all our questions, and helping us better understand what life had been like at Oakland for all the people who lived and worked there. It was truly a community unto itself. In addition to cash crops, the plantation had to provide food for all its people by growing crops and raising livestock.
A pigeonnier was a special building used for raising pigeons. Pigeon eggs were gathered for eating and the pigeons were also eaten.
A cane syrup boiling pot, like this one at Oakland Plantation, could be found on every farm and plantation in the old South. They were used to make thick cane sugar syrup and cane sugar brown sugar squares.
The corn crib was used to dry and store corn that was left on the cob. In front of the crib you can see a scarecrow. On a typical plantation, slaves were allowed to have their own small gardens for growing food for the slave community.
The plantation store was built following the Civil War. It served plantation residents as a retail outlet, a bank, a source for credit, and a place to gather to discuss current events. It also served as a U.S. Post Office.
Following the Civil War, those who had once been slaves on the plantation became sharecroppers. These sharecroppers and their descendants were part of the plantation's history for many years, deep into the twentieth century. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a sharecropper as "a farmer, especially in the southern United States, who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops". This payment could, in part, be in the form of credit to obtain the things the sharecropper and his family would need, such as food, housing, and seeds for planting.
Many of the buildings used by the sharecroppers at Oakland Plantation still remain. They are furnished much as they were when they were being used. There are artifacts from the lives of the sharecroppers' families inside these dwellings, such as toys, photos of school graduations and weddings, periodicals, and craft items made by members of the families.
Music was an important part of sharecropper life, just as it had been for the slaves.
There is so much more information I could give about this amazing historical site. I think it better, however, if you head out on your own onto the back roads of this nation, discovering its rich history, its exciting stories, sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic, and the lessons we can learn to make it a greater nation with even greater stories to tell. Enjoy the journey!
In my last post, I discussed the difference between the Creole and Cajun cultures. Creole cuisine is also different from what we know as Cajun cuisine. There are two main areas in which Creole and Cajun foods differ. The first is that Creole food uses tomatoes, whereas Cajun food typically does not. Another difference is that when making sauces or roux, Creole dishes use butter and Cajun dishes use oil. Creole food is considered "city food", Cajun is known as "country food". With that explanation, let's make an authentic Creole dish!
While we were in New Orleans, I bought a small cookbook, The Little New Orleans Cookbook, by Gwen McKee, with illustrations by Joseph A. Arrigo. It contains recipes for fifty-seven Creole dishes. The book was published by Quail Ridge Press and is available for less than $10.00 from Amazon. The inspiration for my Shrimp Creole came from this little book.
This Shrimp Creole is served over grits. It is equally good served over white or brown rice.
In a cast iron pan, or a pan with a heavy bottom, melt the butter on medium-high heat. Gradually add the flour, whisking constantly for five minutes. Turn heat down to medium and continue cooking and whisking for ten more minutes. The mixture should be the color of peanut butter. Add the green pepper, onion, celery, and garlic. Continue stirring the roux mixture for another five minutes, until the vegetables are softened. The roux may become even darker in color, that is okay.
Bring to a boil, then simmer for fifteen minutes. Add 1 1/2 pounds fresh or frozen shrimp, peeled, deveined, and tails removed. Simmer ten minutes or until shrimp are done. Turn heat off and allow the creole tosit for at least ten minutes. Serve over hot rice or grits. This recipe will serve four.* Enjoy!
*The sauce in this recipe is so good, and we have over a cup left after finishing all the shrimp. I put it in the freezer and use it as a sauce for later side dishes, such as pasta or rice…so yummy the second time around, too!


Red sky at morning, shepherd's warning. But I don't care – the day dawned mostly clear and mostly bright, with wonderful streaks of pink, purple and ice blue. It's colder today, though not cold enough for frost, and in a moment, I'm out on a bike ride (wish me luck – my first since my injury). Today's threads are all vintage bar one: dark pink 1920s rayon embroidery floss, grey Cartier-Bresson Brilliante d'Alger, rayon shawl fringing in pink, blue and lilac, and pink DMC coton à broder 22. Only the gold Decora rayon is new(ish) in that I bought it new, but about 20 years ago. These are not easy threads to sew with, and I used a blunt needle to avoid splitting them and held them taut at the back. Today I thought it would be fun to use only one stitch, so this is entirely done in chain stitch, forward, reversed and angled.
The fabric for this month is hand-woven hemp, which was produced in convents all over this area, mainly as sheeting, on narrow looms that mean the sheets had to be joined down the centre. I drew up the squares with a quilting ruler and drew them in water-soluble marker, then stitched them with a long running stitch by machine, so they can be pulled out afterwards. Then I washed out the markings and dyed the fabric grey with a Procion acid dye, dipping it very quickly, using salt as a mordant and vinegar as a fixative.
However, this month's stitching nearly had a disastrous start when, halfway through the outline on the heart, my cat jumped up, dipped his tail in my coffee and neatly flicked a drop over the work. Since it was the first heart, and I know that section won't be filled on the panel, since it's a 28-day month, I just turned the panel the other way up – I'll try to figure out what to do about the splash stain later!


In the book "Rihlati min al-Wahhabiyyah ila al-Ithna 'Ashariyyah", I explained the reason as to why I left Wahhabism even though I used to lead prayers in a Wahhabi mosque myself. In the present book, however, I attempt to clarify the facts and peculiarities of the Twelver Shi'ah, Imamiyyah, in a manner that will set a Wahhabi's confused mind right, and give him a clear understanding of the Imamiyyah faith. So long as the confusions are not settled, any discussion with the Wahhabis will be barren.
The Imamyyiah faith, I believe, should be introduced to a Wahhabi at three essential levels, duly sequenced. If done otherwise it will be impossible to treat his mental perplexity or make him understand the relevant facts and peculiarities.
The Wahhabis should also understand that because they have not heeded the three immediately-linked stages (explained below), they have drifted away from the method which the Sunnis follow when investigating the Imamiyyah school. This, in turn, has resulted in an entirely different image from the one the Sunni forerunners had of Shi'ism.
The present research gains further importance because no scientific framework has yet been offered for the proper method of discussion with the Wahhabis nor has there been one to show why their approach differs from the one the Sunnis followed when confronting other Islamic schools with whom they had sharp differences.
I have no doubt, however, that differences stem from the dissimilarity inherent in these two approaches. There is evidently a close link between the method that the Wahhabis advocate and their conception of the Imamiyyah. Therefore, the application of a non-scientific procedure—one containing invisible errors—will result in a distortion and falsification of the Imamiyyah's real beliefs.
We cannot grasp how important research methodology is in depicting and presenting the realities of Shi'ism, unless we take up a scientific method that contrasts the Sunnis' conception of the Shi'ahs with that of the Wahhabis.
It is apt for an objective researcher examining the Imamiyyah school of thought to make a distinction between the school itself and the erroneous methods that lead to the misunderstanding of the realities of Shi'ism. We ought to remember that these two are different. This is the point where "the proper method of doing research on the Imamiyyah school of thought" acquires value.
The Wahhabi's method of study.
c) Being unaware of the Immayyiah's position towards the Ghulat.
b) The Wahhabi's with the Sunnis' approach of treating the Twelver Shi'ism.
The purport of some common expressions used by the Imamiyyah.
Advent of the Imamiyyah: source and causes.
Having finished these three stages, the reader shall enter the final stage and begin investigating the particularities of the Imamiyyah.
The Imamiyyah's views concerning the Twelfth Imam's ('a) occultation.
The pyramid I have sketched below lucidly expounds all the earlier stages. The pyramid clearly shows our method of introducing Shi'ism; it also requires us to go through the first stage, i.e. the Shi'ah link, before the second one. Stage one is where we attempt to cure the disease of identifying Shi'ism with the Ghulat. The first stage has been placed at the top to emphasize its importance. Any miscalculation will bring a downfall. Stage one is what the Wahhabis always have before their eyes.
A reconsideration of the pyramid highlights the stage of secondary importance, ranked next to the peak, i.e. a careful examination of the Imamiyyah faith. This stage should not be displaced: it should not come before the peak nor should it be presented after the third stage.
Then comes stage three, i.e. the roots of the Imamiyyah, the third in importance. Each stage is inclusive of facts that need to be examined in their proper places.
The final stage is the particularities of the Imamiyyah. This denotes that a thorough understanding of the traits and particular features of the Imamiyyah faith is dependent on a survey of the previous stages. This pyramid shows the hierarchy of importance.
We have placed our first stage of discussion at the peak to remind the reader of the strong influence it has over other levels, and "the reality of divinity and prophethood as viewed by the Imamiyyah" at the head of the second level to explain that an understanding of other realities is subject to a thorough and correct understanding of this very fact. This is the stage insisting on a clear separation of the rank of divinity from that of serving God, and the different plane the creatures occupy from the station of the Creator.
The point to be made here is that "the reality of the Imamate" and "the occultation of the twelfth Imam ('a)" are two issues admittedly transcending the position they have been placed at in the pyramid. This is because my past experience with the Wahhabism has taught me that a Wahhabi is unable to comprehend these two realities, unless he passes through the previous stage of study. As long as he has not, he will not easily understand these delicate truths. This explanation will bar the illusion that I may have desired to downgrade the two issues of the Imamate and the Occultation of the twelfth Imam ('a).
The vertical lines joining the peak and the base denote that there is a close link between the various stages of investigation and the existing realities, that each layer is generated by the one before it, and that there is a need to conduct a step-by-step research.
The stages depicted above are coherent, pointing to the indivisibility of the Imamiyyah beliefs and realities signifying that the investigator should take all the Imamiyyah realities as a coherent, unified whole, made up of identical constituents.
The realities and the particularities should never be studied individually—separated from other facts—otherwise it will be impossible to appreciate the grand and angular spirit this coherent system embodies. Perhaps the perilous error the Wahhabis commit when investigating the Shi'ism is that they place the Shi'ah belief system and realities in isolation.
The pyramid also exhibits a succession and a sequence of the topics of discussion. That is, each stage is both a prelude to the next debate and a conclusion of the preceding one, somehow denoting that only belief in the first reality results in a belief in the second reality.
The horizontal lines of the pyramid also signal that each stage requires a comprehensive study, and it should not be mingled with the one following it. We cannot expect to enter the second stage and arrive at a proper understanding after having made an imperfect study of the previous level.
The sharp peak and the broad base of the pyramid reminds us that a mistake, or a slip, expands and broadens in scope as it progresses, however slight it may be at the beginning.
acquire a sound knowledge of the Shī'ism. My previous experience with Wahhābism clearly showed me that unless the disease of identifying the Shī'ism with Ghulāt is cured and the issues of divinity, Prophecy, sharī'ah (precepts of religion), Shī'ah sources of jurisprudence, the occultation of the Twelfth Imām ('a) are made clear meticulously and in detail, it will be impossible for a Wahhābī to appreciate the reality of the Prophet's (S) succession and the Imamate. This is why I placed "Imamate" and "Occultation" in the final stage. This explanation will bar the illusion that I may have downgraded the issues of the Imamate and Occultation.


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Rare has shared some details on what Sea of Thieves players can expect in the next content update named Shrouded Spoils which includes dynamic fog.
Rare has shared some details on the next Sea of Thieves expansion named Shrouded Spoils in a developer update video posted to their YouTube channel.
In this video Joe Neate, executive producer, talks about how every update includes beta testing, player feedback, and bug testing and how important it is to development. Festival of the Damned will come October 31 and is currently undergoing testing. Forsaken Shores cosmetics will disappear once the Festival of the Damned starts up, so now is the final time for you to try to earn those costumes.
Shrouded Spoils will come at some point in November and a future video will address all the content coming with that expansion. Some of the features included in Shrouded Sails are ship customization. Fog will be introduced into the world and will obstruct your vision and making the crow's nest more important in order to see farther. This fog can roll onto islands and the sea at any point and makes navigation more dangerous. Commendations for Pirate Legends will be added, which are specific challenges made only for that class of players.
Beyond Shrouded Spoils, on November 10, at the XO18 event in Mexico City, Sea of Thieves will have an announcement for future content as well as a trailer showing those additions off.
Sea of Thieves is currently available on Xbox One and PC after its release on March 20, 2018 and has received multiple updates and expansions since release.
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


This has become my favourite Ancients rules set. Well written with a relaxed, non competitive design style, it is perfect for friendly, scenario driven wargaming.
Rick Priestley - Rick Priestley is a miniature wargaming designer.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using FluentAssertions;
using JSONAPI.Core;
using JSONAPI.Documents;
using JSONAPI.Documents.Builders;
using JSONAPI.Json;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using Moq;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

namespace JSONAPI.Tests.Documents.Builders
{
    [TestClass]
    public class RegistryDrivenSingleResourceDocumentBuilderTests
    {
        class Country
        {
            public string Id { get; set; }

            public string Name { get; set; }

            public Continent Continent { get; set; }

            public ICollection<Province> Provinces { get; set; }

            public ICollection<City> Cities { get; set; }
        }

        class Province
        {
            public string Id { get; set; }

            public string Name { get; set; }

            public City Capital { get; set; }
        }

        class City
        {
            public string Id { get; set; }

            public string Name { get; set; }
        }

        class Continent
        {
            public string Id { get; set; }

            public string Name { get; set; }

            public ICollection<Province> Countries { get; set; }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Returns_correct_document_for_resource()
        {
            // Arrange
            var city1 = new City
            {
                Id = "10",
                Name = "Madrid"
            };

            var city2 = new City
            {
                Id = "11",
                Name = "Barcelona"
            };

            var city3 = new City
            {
                Id = "12",
                Name = "Badajoz"
            };

            var province1 = new Province
            {
                Id = "506",
                Name = "Badajoz",
                Capital = city3
            };

            var province2 = new Province
            {
                Id = "507",
                Name = "Cuenca",
                Capital = null // Leaving null to test a null to-one
            };

            var continent = new Continent
            {
                Id = "1",
                Name = "Europe"
            };

            var country = new Country
            {
                Id = "4",
                Name = "Spain",
                Continent = continent,
                Provinces = new List<Province> { province1, province2 },
                Cities = new List<City> { city1, city2, city3 }
            };

            // Country registration
            var countryName =
                new ResourceTypeAttribute(
                    new PrimitiveTypeAttributeValueConverter<string>(typeof(Country).GetProperty("Name")), null, "name");
            var countryCities =
                new ToManyResourceTypeRelationship(typeof(Country).GetProperty("Cities"), "cities", typeof(City), null, null);
            var countryProvinces =
                new ToManyResourceTypeRelationship(typeof(Country).GetProperty("Provinces"), "provinces", typeof(Province), null, null);
            var countryContinent =
                new ToOneResourceTypeRelationship(typeof(Country).GetProperty("Continent"), "continent", typeof(Continent), null, null);
            var countryRegistration = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistration>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            countryRegistration.Setup(m => m.GetIdForResource(It.IsAny<Country>())).Returns((Country c) => country.Id);
            countryRegistration.Setup(m => m.ResourceTypeName).Returns("countries");
            countryRegistration.Setup(m => m.Attributes).Returns(new[] { countryName });
            countryRegistration
                .Setup(m => m.Relationships)
                .Returns(() => new ResourceTypeRelationship[] { countryCities, countryProvinces, countryContinent });

            // City registration
            var cityName =
                new ResourceTypeAttribute(
                    new PrimitiveTypeAttributeValueConverter<string>(typeof(City).GetProperty("Name")), null, "name");
            var cityRegistration = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistration>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            cityRegistration.Setup(m => m.ResourceTypeName).Returns("cities");
            cityRegistration.Setup(m => m.GetIdForResource(It.IsAny<City>())).Returns((City c) => c.Id);
            cityRegistration.Setup(m => m.Attributes).Returns(new[] { cityName });
            cityRegistration.Setup(m => m.Relationships).Returns(new ResourceTypeRelationship[] { });

            // Province registration
            var provinceName =
                new ResourceTypeAttribute(
                    new PrimitiveTypeAttributeValueConverter<string>(typeof(Province).GetProperty("Name")), null, "name");
            var provinceCapital = new ToOneResourceTypeRelationship(typeof(Province).GetProperty("Capital"), "capital", typeof(City), null, null);
            var provinceRegistration = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistration>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            provinceRegistration.Setup(m => m.ResourceTypeName).Returns("provinces");
            provinceRegistration.Setup(m => m.GetIdForResource(It.IsAny<Province>())).Returns((Province c) => c.Id);
            provinceRegistration.Setup(m => m.Attributes).Returns(new[] { provinceName });
            provinceRegistration
                .Setup(m => m.Relationships)
                .Returns(() => new ResourceTypeRelationship[] { provinceCapital });

            // Continent registration
            var continentName =
                new ResourceTypeAttribute(
                    new PrimitiveTypeAttributeValueConverter<string>(typeof(Continent).GetProperty("Name")), null, "name");
            var continentCountries =
                new ToManyResourceTypeRelationship(typeof(Continent).GetProperty("Countries"), "countries", typeof(Country), null, null);
            var continentRegistration = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistration>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            continentRegistration.Setup(m => m.ResourceTypeName).Returns("continents");
            continentRegistration.Setup(m => m.GetIdForResource(It.IsAny<Continent>())).Returns((Continent c) => c.Id);
            continentRegistration.Setup(m => m.Attributes).Returns(new[] { continentName });
            continentRegistration
                .Setup(m => m.Relationships)
                .Returns(() => new ResourceTypeRelationship[] { continentCountries });

            var mockRegistry = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistry>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            mockRegistry.Setup(r => r.GetRegistrationForType(typeof(Country))).Returns(countryRegistration.Object);
            mockRegistry.Setup(r => r.GetRegistrationForType(typeof(City))).Returns(cityRegistration.Object);
            mockRegistry.Setup(r => r.GetRegistrationForType(typeof(Province))).Returns(provinceRegistration.Object);
            mockRegistry.Setup(r => r.GetRegistrationForType(typeof(Continent))).Returns(continentRegistration.Object);

            var linkConventions = new DefaultLinkConventions();

            var metadataObject = new JObject();
            metadataObject["baz"] = "qux";
            var metadata = new BasicMetadata(metadataObject);

            // Act
            var documentBuilder = new RegistryDrivenSingleResourceDocumentBuilder(mockRegistry.Object, linkConventions);
            var document = documentBuilder.BuildDocument(country, "http://www.example.com", new[] { "provinces.capital", "continent" }, metadata, null);

            // Assert
            document.PrimaryData.Id.Should().Be("4");
            document.PrimaryData.Type.Should().Be("countries");
            ((string) document.PrimaryData.Attributes["name"]).Should().Be("Spain");
            document.PrimaryData.Relationships.Count.Should().Be(3);

            var citiesRelationship = document.PrimaryData.Relationships.First();
            citiesRelationship.Key.Should().Be("cities");
            citiesRelationship.Value.SelfLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/countries/4/relationships/cities");
            citiesRelationship.Value.RelatedResourceLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/countries/4/cities");
            citiesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Should().BeNull();

            var provincesRelationship = document.PrimaryData.Relationships.Skip(1).First();
            provincesRelationship.Key.Should().Be("provinces");
            provincesRelationship.Value.SelfLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/countries/4/relationships/provinces");
            provincesRelationship.Value.RelatedResourceLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/countries/4/provinces");
            provincesRelationship.Value.Linkage.IsToMany.Should().BeTrue();
            provincesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[0].Type.Should().Be("provinces");
            provincesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[0].Id.Should().Be("506");
            provincesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[1].Type.Should().Be("provinces");
            provincesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[1].Id.Should().Be("507");

            var continentRelationship = document.PrimaryData.Relationships.Skip(2).First();
            AssertToOneRelationship(continentRelationship, "continent",
                "http://www.example.com/countries/4/relationships/continent",
                "http://www.example.com/countries/4/continent",
                "continents", "1");

            document.RelatedData.Length.Should().Be(4); // 2 provinces, 1 city, and 1 continent

            var province1RelatedData = document.RelatedData[0];
            province1RelatedData.Id.Should().Be("506");
            province1RelatedData.Attributes["name"].Value<string>().Should().Be("Badajoz");
            province1RelatedData.Type.Should().Be("provinces");
            province1RelatedData.Relationships.Count.Should().Be(1);

            var province1CapitalRelationship = province1RelatedData.Relationships.First();
            AssertToOneRelationship(province1CapitalRelationship, "capital",
                "http://www.example.com/provinces/506/relationships/capital",
                "http://www.example.com/provinces/506/capital",
                "cities", "12");

            var province2RelatedData = document.RelatedData[1];
            province2RelatedData.Id.Should().Be("507");
            province2RelatedData.Type.Should().Be("provinces");
            province2RelatedData.Attributes["name"].Value<string>().Should().Be("Cuenca");

            var province2CapitalRelationship = province2RelatedData.Relationships.First();
            AssertEmptyToOneRelationship(province2CapitalRelationship, "capital",
                "http://www.example.com/provinces/507/relationships/capital",
                "http://www.example.com/provinces/507/capital");

            var city3RelatedData = document.RelatedData[2];
            city3RelatedData.Id.Should().Be("12");
            city3RelatedData.Type.Should().Be("cities");
            city3RelatedData.Attributes["name"].Value<string>().Should().Be("Badajoz");

            var continentRelatedData = document.RelatedData[3];
            continentRelatedData.Id.Should().Be("1");
            continentRelatedData.Type.Should().Be("continents");
            continentRelatedData.Attributes["name"].Value<string>().Should().Be("Europe");
            continentRelatedData.Relationships.Count.Should().Be(1);
            var continentCountriesRelationship = continentRelatedData.Relationships.First();
            continentCountriesRelationship.Key.Should().Be("countries");
            continentCountriesRelationship.Value.SelfLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/continents/1/relationships/countries");
            continentCountriesRelationship.Value.RelatedResourceLink.Href.Should().Be("http://www.example.com/continents/1/countries");
            continentCountriesRelationship.Value.Linkage.Should().BeNull();

            ((string) document.Metadata.MetaObject["baz"]).Should().Be("qux");
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Returns_correct_document_for_null_resource()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mockRegistry = new Mock<IResourceTypeRegistry>(MockBehavior.Strict);
            var linkConventions = new DefaultLinkConventions();

            // Act
            var documentBuilder = new RegistryDrivenSingleResourceDocumentBuilder(mockRegistry.Object, linkConventions);
            var document = documentBuilder.BuildDocument(null, "http://www.example.com", null, null, null);

            // Assert
            document.PrimaryData.Should().BeNull();
        }

        private void AssertToOneRelationship(KeyValuePair<string, IRelationshipObject> relationshipPair, string keyName, string selfLink, string relatedResourceLink,
            string linkageType, string linkageId)
        {
            relationshipPair.Key.Should().Be(keyName);
            relationshipPair.Value.SelfLink.Href.Should().Be(selfLink);
            relationshipPair.Value.RelatedResourceLink.Href.Should().Be(relatedResourceLink);
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.IsToMany.Should().BeFalse();
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.Identifiers.Length.Should().Be(1);
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[0].Type.Should().Be(linkageType);
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.Identifiers[0].Id.Should().Be(linkageId);
        }

        private void AssertEmptyToOneRelationship(KeyValuePair<string, IRelationshipObject> relationshipPair, string keyName, string selfLink, string relatedResourceLink)
        {
            relationshipPair.Key.Should().Be(keyName);
            relationshipPair.Value.SelfLink.Href.Should().Be(selfLink);
            relationshipPair.Value.RelatedResourceLink.Href.Should().Be(relatedResourceLink);
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.IsToMany.Should().BeFalse();
            relationshipPair.Value.Linkage.Identifiers.Length.Should().Be(0);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Jairus Hamilton Nick Hopkins Adam Kunkel Derryck Thornton Nick Muszynski Michael Benkert Nik Popovic Sports Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports
Eastern Washington Big Sky Belmont Ohio Valley Boston College ACC
Kunkel's career-high 35 puts Belmont over Boston College
By KEN POWTAK - Nov. 16, 2019 05:29 PM EST
BOSTON (AP) — Belmont's first-year coach Casey Alexander broke into a smile and seemed a bit surprised when asked about his team's outstanding 3-point shooting.
"It was pretty good today, huh, but that's not something you can count on," he said after the Bruins shot 58 percent from beyond the arc in a 100-85 victory over Boston College on Saturday afternoon.
Adam Kunkel scored 10 of his career-high 35 points during a game-breaking run, connecting on a pair of treys in the key spurt.
"It felt amazing. I was just living in the moment," said Kunkel, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard. "My team had a couple of big stretches where we were just lighting it up. It was a lot of fun."
Nick Hopkins chipped in with 15 points, Nick Muszynski had 13 and Michael Benkert 10 for the Bruins (2-1). Kunkel was 5 for 9 on 3-point attempts and 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. Belmont was 15 for 26 on 3s.
Nik Popovic led the Eagles (3-1) with 23 points, and Derryck Thornton scored 15 with seven assists despite playing with a sore right ankle that sent him to the locker room briefly in the opening half.
"I was disappointed about how we guarded the ball, how we rotated. All the things we had done really, really well, we didn't do tonight," BC coach Jim Christian said. "A learning lesson for a lot of guys. I'm disappointed in myself and the way we played today. We're a better basketball team than that."
The Bruins used their torrid 3-point shooting during a 30-7 run over a 7:22 stretch, pushing their two-point lead to 79-54 on Hopkins' 3 from the right corner with just over 12 minutes to play.
During the run, Belmont went 6 for 7 from beyond the arc, connecting on all of them in a 4:43 stretch.
Belmont went to the locker room holding a 49-45 edge after a well- played opening half that saw both teams shot over 50 percent (BC 61, Belmont 55).
In the first half, the lead changed hands 16 times and neither team led by more than five.
Thornton, a graduate transfer from USC, went down and grabbed his ankle midway into the first half before heading to the locker room, but returned to action about two minutes later. He also limped off favoring the same ankle in the last game.
It was the first-ever meeting between the schools and was part of the Gotham Classic, which is made up of five teams (also Saint Louis, Eastern Washington and High Point) from across the country.
Boston College forward Jairus Hamilton missed his third straight game with a leg injury.
Belmont: The Bruins have won an Ohio Valley Conference title the last 17 years (seven tourneys and 10 regular season) and posted 19 wins in 14 consecutive seasons. Judging by Saturday's well-balanced offense and steady play, they'll be tough to beat again this season.
Boston College: The Eagles had relied on strong defense during their first three games, but Belmont's efficient offense and long-range success brought them back to reality for Atlantic Coast Conference play. It was a test they can learn a lot from, especially if they continue to provide the solid scoring they showed.
"This had nothing to do with offense," Christian said. "We scored 85 points and shot 56 percent. This has everything to do with defense."
NOT IN AWE
Alexander knows Belmont's program certainly doesn't fear playing ACC teams with its recent success.
"I told our team before the game: 'First of all, Belmont quit worrying about who we were playing and where we were playing a long time ago, so go in there with that type of mentality,'" he said. "But, at the same time, you've got to recognize who you're up against and don't take wins against the ACC for granted."
EASY DRIVE
Kunkel felt like they could get to the basket nearly anytime they needed to.
"Coming in at halftime, I told the people they can't guard off the dribble,'' he said.
Belmont: At High Point on Monday night.
Boston College: Hosts Eastern Washington on Wednesday night.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25


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News Sports Memphis Tigers Business Opinion Obituaries E-Edition Legals
Shelby Farms architect named No. 1 design firm in U.S.
Thomas Bailey Jr.
The Commercial Appeal
A leading architectural magazine ranks the architects that designed Shelby Farms' seven new buildings the nation's No. 1 design firm.
Architect magazine's '2016 Architect 50'' puts Marlon Blackwell Architects in the top spot. The ranking by a jury carries weight because Architect is the journal of the American Institute of Architects.
The firm, based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, submitted designs for a high school, Montessori school and golf facility in its portfolio for judges to see, but the Shelby Farms buildings likely made the most impact, principal Marlon Blackwell said Tuesday.
The firm designed the new visitors center, restaurant/retreat center, stage pavilion, boat-rental kiosk, a bathroom structure and two picnic pavilions.
The new buildings, the redesigned landscape between them and the enlarged Patriot Lake comprise the $52 million 'Heart of the Park'' renovation for the 4,500-acre urban park.
Marlon Blackwell Architects basically used three materials for the buildings' facades: aluminum bar grate, zinc-like metal panels and second-growth cypress wood. 'A very reduced palette, like you'd find in old agriculture buildings,'' Blackwell said Tuesday.
Though modern, the buildings' designs are rooted in agriculture. There's the breezeway, or dogtrot, that splits the visitors center, the front porches, and the simplicity that tends to mark agriculture structures.
'These are historic precedents we've taken into the 21st century,'' Blackwell said of the modern buildings.
He describes the seven buildings as a family of structures. 'Each new structure at Shelby Farms has its own porch and a similar (design) language and similar palette of material that makes it a family or ensemble of structures. It really helps create an identity of the 'Heart of the Park'' that it didn't have before,'' Blackwell said.
His firm ranked No. 7 on Architect's design list last year, the first year the Blackwell submitted its work in the contest.
Blackwell recalled the time that former executive director of Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, Laura Morris, told him, ' 'I want this to be the most important project in your office'. I told her, hands down, this is the No. 1 job in our office.
'I think we were true to our word. We gave it everything you could possibly give to make the project what it is today... We were ecstatic to do the project and we poured our hearts and soul into it,'' he said.
The firm's recognition will put a brighter spotlight on the 4,500-acre park.
'Here's the thing,'' Blackwell said. 'Now other (architectural) magazines are fighting who's going to get to feature (the Shelby Farms buildings) in their magazine a year from now.''


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import * as React from 'react';
import { useTheme } from '@mui/material/styles';
import Box from '@mui/material/Box';
import Card from '@mui/material/Card';
import CardContent from '@mui/material/CardContent';
import CardMedia from '@mui/material/CardMedia';
import IconButton from '@mui/material/IconButton';
import Typography from '@mui/material/Typography';
import SkipPreviousIcon from '@mui/icons-material/SkipPrevious';
import PlayArrowIcon from '@mui/icons-material/PlayArrow';
import SkipNextIcon from '@mui/icons-material/SkipNext';

export default function MediaControlCard() {
  const theme = useTheme();

  return (
    <Card sx={{ display: 'flex' }}>
      <Box sx={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column' }}>
        <CardContent sx={{ flex: '1 0 auto' }}>
          <Typography component="div" variant="h5">
            Live From Space
          </Typography>
          <Typography variant="subtitle1" color="text.secondary" component="div">
            Mac Miller
          </Typography>
        </CardContent>
        <Box sx={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', pl: 1, pb: 1 }}>
          <IconButton aria-label="previous">
            {theme.direction === 'rtl' ? <SkipNextIcon /> : <SkipPreviousIcon />}
          </IconButton>
          <IconButton aria-label="play/pause">
            <PlayArrowIcon sx={{ height: 38, width: 38 }} />
          </IconButton>
          <IconButton aria-label="next">
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Q: rearrange the characters of a string so that any two adjacent characters are not the same How to rearrange the characters of a string so that any two adjacent characters are not the same? using c#
c#
Without using Hashmaps and Dictionary
I managed to find each element of the string, and the occurrence of each element.
This is what I've done so far

A: Using LINQ, you can gather the characters of the string, group them by duplicate characters, then pivot the groups and join then back into a string.
First, some extension methods to make Join easier:
public static class IEnumerableExt {
    public static string Join(this IEnumerable<char> chars) => String.Concat(chars); // faster >= .Net Core 2.1
    public static string Join(this IEnumerable<string> strings) => String.Concat(strings);
}

Then, an extension method to pivot an IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>>:
public static class IEnumerableIEnumerableExt {
    public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> Pivot<T>(this IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> src) {
        var enums = src.Select(ie => ie.GetEnumerator()).ToList();
        var hasMores = Enumerable.Range(0, enums.Count).Select(n => true).ToList();

        for (; ; ) {
            var oneGroup = new List<T>();
            var hasMore = false;
            for (int j1 = 0; j1 < enums.Count; ++j1) {
                if (hasMores[j1]) {
                    hasMores[j1] = enums[j1].MoveNext();
                    hasMore = hasMore || hasMores[j1];
                    if (hasMores[j1])
                        oneGroup.Add(enums[j1].Current);
                }
            }

            if (!hasMore)
                break;

            yield return oneGroup;
        }

        for (int j1 = 0; j1 < enums.Count; ++j1)
            enums[j1].Dispose();
    }
}

Finally, use these to solve your problem:
var s = "How to rearrange the characters of a string";

var tryAns = s.OrderBy(c => c)
              .GroupBy(ch => ch)
              .Pivot()
              .Select(gch => gch.Join())
              .Join();

var dupRE = new Regex(@"(.)\1", RegexOptions.Compiled);
var hasDups = dupRE.IsMatch(tryAns);

// tryAns will be " Hacefghinorstw aceghnorst aeort aert ar r "
// hasDups will be false

If the resulting string has two adjacent identical characters, then hasDups will be true.

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The documentaries Levy works on are often on controversial subjects such as patents in the pharmaceutical industry, Israēl, doping in bicycle racing, bonuses in the banking industry etc. The first part of a six-part documentary on the last Dutch war criminals (including a rare interview with the wife of Nazi collaborator Klaas Carel Faber is scheduled to air on Monday 18 June 2012 on AVRO television.
In 2009 he and BlazHoffski won the Prix Europa in the category "current affairs" for Lockerbie Revisited, a film about the follow-up on and investigation of the Lockerbie terrorist attack, along with production company BlazHoffski.


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The Charles Conlon Collection of baseball photographs, set the mark as the most valuable lot that Heritage Sports has sold at auction. The archive sold for more than $1.7 million. The company also sold a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 8.5 for over $1.13 million, the highest price ever paid for a post-WWII card.
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Heritage is the world's third largest auction house, selling in collectibles, luxury real estate and numerous other realms.


Take a step back in time with the Classic Car Show on July 20th. Over 150 pre-1979 vehicles were proudly displayed on the streets of Downtown Milton. Attendees could view the delightful display from outdoor patios, whilst listening to the fantastic live music. Donors such as Canadian Tire sponsored winning prizes, while Wallace, Mr. Lube and others sponsored the show itself. This trip to the past was a voyage to remember.


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Snow White's Poison Bite er et post-hardcore band fra Joensuu i Finland. Deres musik kan også beskrives som rock, screamo eller metal. Bandet er meget inspireret af horror. Bandet blev grundlagt i starten af 2007 af Allan "Jeremy Thirteenth" Cotterill, Juuso Puhakka, Tuomo Korander og Teemu Leikas. Senere, i 2008, blev bandet en helhed da bassist Jarkko Penttinen trådte til. I slutningen af 2009 forlod Juuso Puhakka bandet pga. personlige og musikalske uoverensstemmelser, så nu er bandet en kvartet. Forsangeren Allan Cotterill blev født i Storbritannien, men har boet i Finland siden han var teenager, resten af bandmedlemmerne er finnere.

I maj 2008 vandt Snow White's Poison Bite bandkonkurrencen "Big Boom". Præmien var tre dage i et studie og en koncert på en velkendt midsommer festival, Himos festival. I maj 2009 var Snow White's Poison Bite opvarmningsband for det amerikanske post-hardcore band Alesana i Helsinki. De har også spillet på Music Against Drugs touren i Finland, som er en del af Youth Against Drugs (YAD) organisationen.

I begyndelsen af 2009 skrev Snow White's Poison Bite under på en kontrakt med Poko Rekords/EMI Finland. I februar 2009 udgav Poko Snow White's Poison Bite's første EP "Drama Through Your Stereo". I 2010 skrev Snow White's Poison Bite under på en kontrakt med Sound Of Finland's Hyeena Trax -label og udgav to singler, "Valentine's Doom" som gratis download og "Kristy Killings". Debut albummet "The Story of Kristy Killings", udkomm den 27. oktober 2010. Den japanske udgivelse sker gennem Marquee/Avalon.

Medlemmer

Nuværende
 Allan "Jeremy Thirteenth" Cotterill – Vokaler
 Tuomo Korander – Guitar
 Teemu Leikas – Trommer
 Jarkko Penttinen – Bas

Tidligere
 Juuso Puhakka (2007-2009) – Screams

Diskografi

Selv udgivelser/EP'er/Singler
 Snow White's Poison Bite (EP 2008, selvudgivelse)
 Drama Through Your Stereo (EP 2009, Poko Rekords)
 Valentine's Doom (single 2010, Sound Of Finland)
 Kristy Killings (single 2010, Sound Of Finland)
 The End Of Prom Night (single 2010, Sound Of Finland)

Links
 snowwhitespoisonbite.com
 SWPB's danske street team
 SWPB Forum

Musikgrupper fra Finland
Musikgrupper fra 2007

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Darrell Bridge is a Senior Data Analytics Strategist and is the Open Data Lead for the City of Ottawa. As part of a Smart City team, he works with internal and external stakeholders to develop data analytic solutions to facilitate fact-based decision making to enable service improvements. Darrell's primary focus is Open Data, releasing data to the public that is machine readable without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. He is passionate about data and working collaboratively with community partners to solve civic issues. He has worked for the City of Ottawa for the past 16 years, with the majority of the time spent within Information Technology Services as strategic support to the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Prior to joining the City, he was an IT Management Consultant for Deloitte. He has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Business Administration and System Management.


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Enter the Dragon: China's Belt and Road Rising in the Middle East
Posted by aurelius77 on October 2, 2018
Cairenes are not modest about their beloved city. It is Umm al-Dunya, they say, the mother of the world. They also call it simply Masr, the Arabic term for Egypt, suggesting, of course, that there is really nothing worth noting in the vast country beyond their grand city on the Nile.
Fifty miles east of Cairo, a Chinese construction firm is giving the aged, crowded, increasingly decaying "mother of the world" a face-lift of sorts. China State Construction and Engineering Company (CSCEC) has broken ground on a new business and administrative district to the tune of $3 billion, mostly financed by Chinese banks. When completed by late 2019, according to projections, much of Egypt's government will move to this new "capital."
Other Chinese companies are actively engaged with Egyptian authorities on other aspects of the multi-billion dollar project to build a new and as yet unnamed capital city out of the desert. The new city will be larger than Singapore and aims to house some 6 million people, the planners of the so-called Administrative Capital for Urban Development say, a partnership between the Egyptian housing ministry and the military. As is the fashion of these things, the glossy brochures and websites speak of "smart cities" and "sustainable growth" and, of course, the requisite "tallest skyscraper in Africa."
Cairo, even its most sympathetic observers will admit, has become increasingly congested, polluted, and difficult to navigate for modern business. Her estimated metropolitan population of more than 20 million have left their mark. Cairo desperately needs an infrastructure upgrade. So, what do you do in the year 2018 when you are a developing country looking for an infrastructure upgrade? You call China, and you say the two magic words: Belt and Road.
First outlined in two speeches in 2013 by President Xi Jinping in Astana, Kazakhstan and Jakarta, Indonesia, the Belt and Road Initiative (previously known as One Belt, One Road) aims to build roads, ports, railways, and other infrastructure of connectivity across the Eurasian landmass, and into Africa and the Middle East, with up to $1 trillion of Chinese investment flowing in by the time the dust has settled. Tom Miller, author of China's Asian Dream notes the initiative is "arguably the most ambitious development plan ever conceived." Even if China does not get anywhere near those ambitious numbers, the program could be a game-changer for many countries – and the BRI, as it is known, has now entered the Middle East.
Despite these numbers, critics of BRI have a warning for the Middle East and anyone who will listen. They see the plan as a geopolitical ploy by Chinese President Xi Jinping to ensnare developing countries into debt traps and thus become beholden to Beijing. They also see it as a way for China to sell its overcapacity of steel, cement and the like, while giving a jolt of stimulus to its state-owned enterprises. What's more, Chinese-financed ports in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean can also become useful stops for an expanding People's Liberation Army Navy – a concern shared in Delhi and Washington.
Supporters of the program in the developing world see China's investments as an opportunity to upgrade their position in a world where your prosperity is increasingly driven by physical connectivity via road, sea, and air to the rest of the world. They also like China's approach: no pesky questions about human rights or transparency or sustainability. Besides, they point out to those in the West who lecture them on the pitfalls of BRI, "where are your companies and governments when we need your investment?"
To be sure, along with increasing Pakistan's gigawatts of electricity and its container terminal capacity in ports like Gwadar on the Arabian Sea, Beijing is also increasing Islamabad's debt pile. Pakistan is reportedly on the verge of asking the IMF for a $12 billion bail-out, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has drawn a line in the sand on that rescue: not a cent should go to pay interest to Chinese state-owned enterprises.
This brings us back to Egypt. All told, the new capital city plan could exceed $20 billion, and Chinese companies will likely be the dominant foreign contractor. Chinese construction firms are already the largest investors in Egypt's other mega-project: the expansion of the Suez Canal Economic Zone.
So, is Egypt headed toward a China-financed debt trap? Infrastructure investments often take a long time to pay off, and the lack of transparency on the deals makes it difficult to say how onerous the Chinese financing is in Egypt. In the most egregious case, Chinese financing of a mega-port and airport project in Sri Lanka under the corrupt administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa put Colombo in a precarious position. Unable to service its mounting debts, Colombo simply handed over the port to Beijing.
The best case example of the 1+2+3 might be China's relations with Oman. A consortium of six Chinese private firms are building a $10.7 billion industrial city in the sleepy fishing village of Duqm, 550 kilometers south of the capital, Muscat. The new Sino-Oman Industrial City, as it is called, will include an oil refinery, methanol plants, steel pipe production plants, and an auto assembly factory, according to a Reuters report.
But there is another unwritten box – military cooperation. China's Navy increasingly uses the deep water Omani port of Salalah on the Arabian Sea as a refueling and replenishing base during its anti-piracy operations. Thus far, China has not demonstrated any of the sort of aggressions in the Arabian Sea or Indian Ocean that it routinely displays in the South China Sea. What's more, China currently benefits from the American security umbrella in the Persian Gulf — the U.S Navy protecting the sea lanes for barrels of oil that mostly go to Asia, not the West.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are in an even stronger position than Oman in the 1+2+3 framework. Both have been on the receiving end of growing Chinese investment, but neither faces the prospect of a China debt trap given their own considerable resources and ability to attract international capital. Both sell considerable amounts of oil to the Asian giant, but the relationship goes beyond the transactional, as both are also developing strategic relations that include investments in downstream energy projects on the mainland.
As for Iran, China has hardly scratched the surface of its investment potential, choosing to tread cautiously lest it anger Beijing's most important trading partner: the United States. Thus, Iran will likely continue to watch other countries receive significant BRI investments, while it sits on the sidelines, maintaining a transactional relationship with China rather than a strategic one.
Full article: Enter the Dragon: China's Belt and Road Rising in the Middle East (Hoover Institution)
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Ashley Lynn Freiberg (born November 22, 1991) is an American racing driver who has competed in open-wheel, sports car and endurance racing. She became the first woman to win a Skip Barber Racing championship title in 2010, and the first female to claim outright race victories in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge and the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

After working as a timing and scoring official at her local kart track, Freiberg began karting at 13, achieving early success by winning five championships. She later progressed to car racing in Skip Barber and Formula Mazda, winning 25 races and two series titles in the former in 2010. Funding issues caused Freiberg to drop out of Skip Barber after four wins in 2011, but she later drove for JDC MotorSports in the 2012 Star Mazda Championship, finishing ninth in the points standings.

Freiberg moved to sports car racing in 2013, entering the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge before moving to the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in 2014 and 2015, earning two outright victories. She debuted in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2016, running a partial schedule in the Prototype Challenge and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) categories. Her best finish was second in GTD at the 12 Hours of Sebring, taking class and outright podiums for DAC Motorsports in the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Championship.

Personal life
Freiberg was born on November 22, 1991, and raised in Homer Glen, Illinois. She is the daughter of Chuck and Donna Freiberg; no members of her family had any prior involvement in auto racing. Freiberg is a 2010 graduate of Lockport Township High School; she graduated early due to a good academic performance. Freiberg does cyclo-cross, hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare herself for auto racing events.

Biography

Karting (2004–2008)
Freiberg's earliest racing experience came at the age of ten, when both her elder brothers took up the hobby. At the time, she did not believe girls could compete, but after skateboarding, playing basketball and soccer and studying karate, she was attracted to racing. At the age of 11, she acted as a timing and scoring official at a local kart track. Freiberg made her go-karting debut at the age of 13, and her father took her to the Jim Hall Karting School in Ventura, California in 2004. In December 2004, Freiberg made her national debut in a World Karting Association (WKA) event at Daytona International Speedway's road course. Her father supported her financially. In her first season, Freiberg finished fourth overall in the regional Championship Enduro Series (CES) and seventh overall in the national WKA points standings in 2005. In 2006, she raced in the Junior Sprint category because she was too young to progress to other classes. Freiberg took her first race wins in regional and national karting series, and went undefeated in CES, winning two championship titles. She also won her first WKA title in 2006 and two more karting championships over the next two years.

Junior open-wheel racing (2007–2012)
Freiberg's achievements in karting led to her enrollment in both the two and three-day Advanced Skip Barber Race Schools in Daytona, beginning her open-wheel racing career. Soon after, she also joined Lyn St. James's Women in the Winner's Circle Driver Development Academy in Phoenix, Arizona, setting for herself the goal of reaching the IndyCar Series. In 2007, Freiberg finished fourth in her debut Skip Barber race, finishing six times in the podium and taking nine more top-five finishes during the 2008 Skip Barber season. Freiberg placed fourth in her debut Formula Mazda race in 2008, and Mazda Motorsports invited her to enter a round of the Skip Barber National Championship, in which she finished sixth. In 2009, Freiberg won the races held at Sebring International Raceway, Road America, Road Atlanta and the Carolina Motorsports Park. Freiberg also raced in the 2009 Skip Barber National Championship, becoming the first woman to claim a podium finish in that race and placing sixth overall in the points standings.

In mid-2009, Freiberg drove in both of the Autobahn Country Club races in the Star Mazda Championship for Team GDT. She won 25 Skip Barber races and two series championships in 2010, making her the first woman to win an overall Barber Series title and a Skip Barber National Championship race. In addition, Freiberg was the first woman to win a Skip Barber National Series feature race at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, and the first to take a race victory in the Skip Barber Mazda MX-5 Sedan Championship. She also finished fifth for Team GDT in the 2010 Star Mazda Championship race at Autobahn Country Club. Freiberg's results over the course of the season led to her receiving the Coach's Choice Award as "the best all-round driver in the series." She was also the second woman after Danica Patrick to earn a nomination for the Team USA Scholarship that year.

Freiberg won four races in 2011 before she was required to withdraw from racing due to funding issues. As a result, she visited race tracks and spoke to team owners who declared an interest in her through various channels because she was unable to employ a publicist. Towards the end of 2011, Freiberg was contacted by an official from TrueStar's driver development program Women Empowered Initiative, which had watched her compete in the Skip Barber championship season. This led to JDC MotorSports signing her for the full 2012 Star Mazda Championship, partnering her with Juan Piedrahita. Although she entered the series with the goal of finishing in the top-five or on the podium, Freiberg frequently changed her expectations over the course of the season. She took six top-ten finishes, with a sixth place at the Grand Prix of Baltimore being her best result of the season. Freiberg was 11th in the final points standings.

Sports car and endurance racing (2013–present)
Although she desired another season in the Star Mazda Championship before switching to Indy Lights, Freiberg researched the possibility of driving sports cars, and competed for EFFORT Racing in the 2013 GT3 Cup Challenge. At the season-opening round at Sebring, she twice finished in the overall top-five, and took second place outright in the first Laguna Seca race, tying Madison Snow for the championship lead. On June 29, Freiberg became the first woman to win a North American GT3 Cup Challenge race outright in the Platinum Cup class, leading every lap of the Watkins Glen International round. She was also the second female class winner after Melanie Snow at the 2009 Sebring race. The victory allowed Freiberg to break her tie with Madison Snow for the championship, leading by four points. After an accident during a qualifying race at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, EFFORT Racing terminated her contract for unspecified reasons. Frieberg was named a Faces in the Crowd by Sports Illustrated that year.

She began competing on a race-by-race basis in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in 2014, sharing the No. 48 Fall-Line Motorsports BMW M3 Grand Sport (GS) car with Shelby Blackstock as she struggled to find sponsorship for a full-time seat. Freiberg and Blackstock won the season-opening BMW Performance 200 after the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) disqualified the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M3 for a technical infringement. This made her the first woman in series history to win a race overall, and the first outright at Daytona International Speedway. Freiberg participated in four more races until her sponsorship money ran out. She was named a BMW North America Scholarship Driver in 2015 and rejoined Fall-Line Motorsports, who partnered her with Trent Hindman in the No. 46 BMW M3 GS car in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. After poor results in the season's first three events, the duo finished second at the rain-affected Watkins Glen round, finishing third overall at Road America, and winning outright at the season-ending Road Atlanta race. Freiberg was eighth in the GS drivers' championship, garnering 226 points.

Freiberg co-drove Turner Motorsport's No. 96 BMW M3 Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) car in the 2016 IMSA SportsCar Championship North American Endurance Cup, and shared the No. 88 Starworks Motorsport Oreca FLM09 Prototype Challenge (PC) car with Mark Kvamme for the sprint races. She debuted at the season-opening 24 Hours of Daytona alongside Jens Klingmann, Bret Curtis and Marco Wittmann, finishing 22nd in the GTD class and 48th overall after multiple technical problems. During the Daytona race weekend, Freiberg earned support from the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission, making her the first North American female driver to receive recognition from the racing governing body. Two months later, she, Klingmann and Curtis finished a season-high second in the GTD class and 23rd overall at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Freiberg and Kvamme finished seventh in the PC class at both Long Beach and Laguna Seca and fifth at Belle Isle. After sitting out the mid-season races, she returned to drive for Turner Motorsports alongside Klingmann and Curtis at the season-ending Petit Le Mans, retiring before the race ended and being classified 10th in class.

After spending months locating sponsors to fund her career, Freiberg signed for DAC Motorsports to drive select races of the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Championship after she was contacted by the team in May that year. She took two consecutive third-place pro class finishes at the Circuit of the Americas, and was third overall at Watkins Glen. This achievement made Freiberg the first woman to stand on the overall podium in any of Lamborghini's Super Trofeo global series. In the opening round of the 2018 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, the BMW Endurance at Daytona, she and Audi Sport TT Cup driver Gosia Rdest formed the first all-female team in the GS class. The duo drove the No. 50 RHC-GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS GT4, finishing 23rd overall after Freiberg's progress into the top five was halted by Austin Cindric, who hit the car early in the race. In December 2018, Freiberg shared a Shift Up Now-entered BMW E30 with Lynn Kehoe, Kristina Esposito, Mandy McGee, and Karen Salvaggio in an all-female team at the 2018 25 Hours of Thunderhill, finishing second in class and 25th overall.

She competed in the second endurance race of the 2020 Michelin Pilot Challenge alongside co-driver Ryan Nash in the GS-class M1 Racing McLaren 570S GT4 at Road Atlanta in September 2020. Freiberg retired after completing 88 laps. For the season-ending round at Road Atlanta, Freiberg and Nash drove a Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 sourced by M1 Racing from Volt Racing after their McLaren was damaged beyond repair following an accident caused by brake failure. The pair finished the race in 14th position.

Racing record

Star Mazda Championship
(key) (Small number denotes finishing position;  indicates that the driver was ineligible to score points)

IMSA SportsCar Championship
(key) (Small numbers denotes finishing position;  indicates that the driver was ineligible to score points for not completing enough laps of a race)

24 Hours of Daytona

12 Hours of Sebring

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1991 births
People from Will County, Illinois
Racing drivers from Illinois
American female racing drivers
Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
Living people
Starworks Motorsport drivers
JDC Motorsports drivers
Michelin Pilot Challenge drivers