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TechCentral on KDE and Novell/SUSE Acquisition
Submitted by Navindra Umanee
With the KDE development and user communities flourishing more than ever, some people are anxious to drum up panic and drama surrounding corporate plays such as the acquisition of SUSE by Novell. As you might know, SUSE has thus far been a huge KDE believer and by using KDE has benefited from a loyal and enthusiastic Linux desktop userbase of its own. Last year, Richard Seibt CEO of SUSE confirmed this sentiment and pledged to maintain SUSE's strong support for KDE. A recent investigation by TechCentral reveals the same: "SuSE will continue (to operate) as a business unit of its own." said John Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region. "We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux."
With the number of incredible KDE Enterprise features available now and planned for the near future, the robustness and vitality of the KDE community, we can remain confident KDE will be an incontrovertible choice for Novell in the long term as well.
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
I think we should post it to Slashdot and let them decide. :D
By Anonymous at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
"b) Evolution mailer developers both went on 3 weeks vacation over the holidays and so many of the patches could not get committed or discussed"
Ha. Having a holiday from hacking on a free software project that has no return on investment for Novell. Nice one.
By David at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Are there only _two_ Evolution developers. Boy these are real geniuses!
Kudos to the two Evolution developers! May they have a nice holiday... Come back soon!
By anon at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
--- Kudos to the two Evolution developers! ---
And even more Kudos, lots of Kudos, shitloads of Kudos, to the two KDE developers named Benjamin who _didn't_ go for a X-Mas holiday, but who did a _complete_ port of KDE over to Mac OS X (which included "Kontact", the new Outlook-Killer-ish, KDE app) !!!! How's that? Isn't the KDE community a wonderful bunch of dedicated hackers? Creating miracles while others go for a holiday...
By ATK at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
The maintainer of Evolution died in December.
By mill at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
God. You mean there's more of them. Holy crap!
By David at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
> c) Christmas is exam/finals time for students, so hacking is a secondary issue.
wtf? Academic years start around september and finish around june.
Finals are in may/june, so the exam/revision frenzy is from easter onwards, not christmas.
By ac at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Exams in Canada are in December.
Exams in the UK are in January.
There are other exams in May/June as well, but December/January time is defintely exam time.
By Yellowboy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
> Exams in Canada are in December.
> Exams in the UK are in January.
> There are other exams in May/June as well, but December/January time is defintely exam time.
Well, im not canadian, so I wont make any assertions about their education system except to say that if you know as little about canada as you do about the UK, you're almost certainly wrong.
I've been in the UK education system for the last 15 years, non-stop. I've had occasional exams at most times of year.
But _The_ big exam season happens around June. Kinda figures, since it's the end of the academic year.
There are always, of course, exceptions. Some freinds of mine are doing uni courses that have all-year-round exams, and yes there is a _small_ exam season around this time of year. mostly for gcse/a-level course modules.
I'm getting the feeling there's a big YHBT coming..
> But _The_ big exam season happens around June. Kinda figures, since it's the end of the academic year.
In the US, usually exam time is mid to late December AND late may/early June. They are equal since most of the time (semester system... academic year? WTF is that?)
What might be great to see out of the Novell/Ximian/SuSE trio is to see some Mono/KDE integration. I don't really like C#, but its a popular language, and it would be good to see KDE accessible from it.
By Rayiner Hashem at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Also, the Mono project is using the SWT toolkit (from the Eclipse Java IDE) for its GUIs, which draws on Gtk+ on Linux. It'd be nice to see a Qt port (there's already a Motif one).
By David Walser at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
>>Also, the Mono project is using the SWT toolkit (from the Eclipse Java IDE) for its GUIs, which draws on Gtk+ on Linux. It'd be nice to see a Qt port (there's already a Motif one)<<
It does NOT use the SWT toolkit. In fact, it has very little to do with Java at all. It's all about c#.
What some of them are doing is porting the SWT toolkit to C#.
By rizzo at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
I didn't say it had anything to do with Java, smart guy. SWT has two parts, a library (written in C I think) and the Java part of it. Obviously they're not using the Java part of it, I know mono is C# (duh!). They are using the library. If that means they're not *really* using the SWT _toolkit_, then you're getting all worked up over semantics.
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By Derek Kite at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Yep, but to do that you have to think only about $. Easy when some people doesn`t care about computer stuff.
By JC at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
This can be all over if...
Trolltech released Qt as LGPL under Linux/Unix, let them keep it propietery under Windows..etc, but let it be LGPL under Linux!
No one would be interested in GNOME if KDE/Qt is LGPLed.
C'mon Trolltech, you made a brave move earlier, just one more!
By RMS at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: This can be all over if...
If you think that Gnome will disappear if Qt is released as LGPL then you are mistaken. Its gone way beyond that. This whole licensing thing is a complete red herring. The Gnome laddies and lassies can't have it both ways, either:
1. GPL is more "pure" or...
2. LGPL is more "business friendly".
Choose your poison and stick with it. Both of these arguments are mutually exclusive and if you take RMS at his word (ahem!!) then LGPL is the greater evil and therefore, because the core libraries of GNOME are licensed LGPL then GNOME is greater evil. But no, the open source "leaders" (with the noticeable exception of Linus T) consider the GNOME project to be the more blessed.
Both desktops need each other to spur on growth. KDE has the better underpinnings whereas Gnome has seen HIG work (which I think sucks eggs, but thats me :). Both desktops cross pollinate each other with ideas and the concept of two interoperable desktops is intriguing.
By Bruce at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
It's more than that. Since day one the GNU community has been against KDE, and has rolled out one weak argument after another. First it was the proprietary "free-beer" license of Qt. So a binding agreement was made with KDE to ensure that Qt would always remain "free beer". But that wasn't good enough. Trolltech then changed the license to the QPL, which even RMS approved as Free. But that wasn't good enough. Then Trolltech released Qt under a dual QPL/GPL license (even better than pure GPL). But again, that wasn't good enough. Along the way other arguments unrelated to licensing have been offered and countered.
By David Johnson at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
RMS wants a desktop that he can influence and be more under his influence. Its all personnel pride and such.
By Kraig at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
That's not true.
In fact RMS is quite disappointed with Miguel de Icaza and GNOME.
By Debian User at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Why because he can't control it like he planned?
By Kraig at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Stop the FUD.
When KDE started, Qt was proprietary (the GNU community doesn't care about free beer, but about freedom). That's the only reason the GNOME and Harmony projects were born.
Later TrollTech used the QPL license. As you say, the FSF approved it as a free software license, but incompatible with the GPL. The KDE developers could add an exception to allow linking to it, but people behave too emotionally at the moment.
When Qt became GPL, a lot of people jumped wagon, and keep doing it. The licensing terms of Qt and KDE are very nice for the GNU community.
I might just add this quote from an earlier interview with Eirik Eng of Trolltech (http://dot.kde.org/1001294012):
"We had the same rate of growth before the change in license. In the very early years, we were afraid that if we GPLed Qt, someone with more development muscle would create a hostile fork of Qt and, in a sense, take over our only product. You just don't take any chances with your only bread and butter.
"So, as soon as we felt that we could outrun anyone trying to make a hostile fork, we switched to using the GPL. The switch did not affect our customers, and it had very little practical impact on the Open Source community. But the symbolic effect was astronomical. My inbox was flooded with 'thank you' e-mails for quite some time."
By Anonymous at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
I am against it.
You want to develop proprietary apps, pay Trolltech licence per developer. It is cheap, considering development costs. Even in here in Brazil.
Make Qt for windows GPL: that would be a great change! Imagine all KDE apps available for windows! The transition to linux could be smooth.
By Carlos Leonhard Woelz at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
>> Make Qt for windows GPL: that would be a great change! Imagine all KDE <<
>> apps available for windows! The transition to linux could be smooth. <<
I can't help but to agree. (I am not sure if all KDE apps could be ported and would run as "smoothly" and easily as on Mac OS X, or if too many "UNIX assumptions" went into the KDE design... But probably a thing that *could* be solved!) The migration path to Linux would indeed become much more smooth, for everybody -- users, admins, ISVs, bosses, programmers....
By Kurt Pfeifle at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
"Make Qt for windows GPL..."
Hah! You know Windows people are bootleg everything.
By Jilks at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Qt is not only GPL:d.
It's GPL:d and QPL:d. You can choose whichever you want.
By OI at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Yes, but not on all platforms, and that was the point.
Note that I'm not saying that Trolltech should do this. I think they are quite right *not* to actually. They get a lot back from the open source movement on linux (especially from KDE, I'd imagine), and it's far from certain the same would be true on windows, which has on average, IMHO, a different mindset on things like this.
By André Somers at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Actually I don't see this really happen, however...
If the GTK integration efforts reach the level where the user can't (or can hardly) tell which app is Qt and which one is GTK, we can say we got two native toolkits. This means businesses that want to write KDE apps are not tied to Qt and unless GNOME would do a similar thing for Qt integration this would give KDE a _huge_ advantage. And the most beautiful part is the GNOME crowd can't complain about licenses anymore ;)
By Arend jr. at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
+++ GNOME crowd can't complain about licenses anymore ;) +++
GNOME zealots (which not all GNOME supporters are) will always complain about KDE or Qt:
+ KDE has more apps and features --> "KDE is bloated!"
+ KDE has more configurability --> "KDE is too complicated!"
+ Qt uses C++ --> "Qt excludes C coders!"
+ KDE is a big grassroots movement --> "KDE is not a useful desktop for businesses!"
+ KDE extends its integrative desktop to GTK/GTK+ apps --> "KDE hasn't got any good programs of its own!"
+ KDE develops programs of its own --> "KDE is re-inventing the wheel every week!"
+ Qt uses the GPL --> "Qt doesn't allow for gratis proprietary development by ISVs!"
+ KDE is ported to Mac OS X --> "KDE is trying to betray Free Software by supporting a proprietary OS!"
+ Trolltech ploughs money back into GPL'ed Qt development --> "Trolltech is demanding huge lock-in tax from poor ISV developers!"
+ Trolltech, KDE or Qt could be whatever you imagine --> "Trolltech, KDE, Qt are not what *we* want them to be!"
## Who can list more examples? Go to Slashdot any day and you'll find lots and lots and lots.... Or just save your time.
Oh, well...
By anon at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
This is a legitimate complaint. Configurability is not necessarily exclusive to complexity. Given the appropriate tools/interface, you can be very configurable without becoming overly complex.
Your other arguments are spot-on.
Exactly. I'm looking forward to downloading and testing your personal idea-KDE-world settings package for everyone. The configurability is there.
By Datschge at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Just out of interest, where are the commercial GTK applications?
I see commercial Motif applications, and commercial QT applications, but I haven't actually seen any commercial GTK applications.
Does anyone have any examples?
By mabinogi at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Evolution, RealPlayer, YahooMessenger... umm... there are a few more but i cannot rember as i have never used them. Does eclipse count? Or any java app that uses SWT or what ever its called?
There are a few... but none that really are big apps, and they are rewriting evolution now...
-ian (really really trying hard not to troll) reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
And GTK is not enough mature to be used for commercial apps.
It's bankruptcy...
Or suicidal :)
Now that my friend is a direct troll...
Remember people used MFC for many years and motif also. GTK really draws from those roots, and tries to emulate them. Some people are just more comfortable in C with no objects to encumber them. Some of us like objects and C++...
I think time will tell what happens, but I will admit programming in GTK for a summer is what made me move to Qt/KDE.
-ian reinhart geiser
If anything, Qt is much more like than MFC than gtk is.. although wxWindows has even more close resemblance to MFC than Qt does.
By fault at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
ldd /usr/bin/realplay
libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x4002e000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40036000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4004c000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4005a000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400ae000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x401ab000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401ce000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x401d1000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40222000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40355000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4035e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
Which of these dependencies make Real Audio Player a GTK-application?
By rinse at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
i was sure that i read somewhere it used gtk... maby staticly...
not sure as i dont use real player here, it may or may not, im not the expert, i was just trying to keep reality involved with the troll...
It uses Motif. At least, RealPlayer 8 does. strings $(which realplay) | grep Xm will show all sorts of Motif stuff.
By KDE User at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
The new HelixPlayer (https://player.helixcommunity.org/) is build on GTK2.
Old (RP8 and RealOne) players use Motif.
By Niek at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
But is HelixPlayer commercial and proprietary?
If it isn´t, then it´s still not an example of a commercial, proprietary GTK app ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
don't forget AIM and VMWare
By Steven Scott at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
I support your statement.. LGPL is the better way for a lib
(although BSD is the best way - see what beauty Apple did)
By Anton Velev at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: i agree
Some folks have noticed (http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030927090008) that some executables shipped with Microsoft's SFU 3.0 (Services for Unix) kit contain OpenBSD RCS tags.
Interix, the company contracted to develop the SFU for Microsoft, had apparently borrowed a great deal from the OpenBSD codebase. Providing that they kept the BSD copyright notice in the SFU sources intact, this is all completely legal.
It seems that having such an unrestrictive license does cut both ways.
1. Trolltech has already said they will GPL Qt for Windows once it becomes a more "open-source friendly" OS.
2. http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
3. If Trolltech released Qt under LGPL, they would go bankrupt. No commercial developers would pay for QPL anymore, because they would just use the LGPL version in their commercial product! That would be an asinine decision, which would mean the end of Qt and KDE.
By Luke Sandell at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
I hear Sleepycat makes most of its money through a similar dual-licensing trick with Berkeley DB.
The database is released under the GPL, but companies wanting to link it into their proprietary application have to buy a license. They sell to folks writing embedded applications (like set-top boxes, network appliances and the like), where the one-off cost of buying a license would be a tiny fraction of the development budget.
Trolltech probably makes money off the same principle; that people developing for Windows are doubtless already paying for proprietary development tools and other libraries and should well be able to afford a Qt license, too.
Funny how for the longest time the GPL zealots screamed that QT sucks because it isn't free. GNOME started as a GNU project partially due to the FSF and others dislike of proprietary QT. Now that it is GPL, you have the GNOME people bitching that it isn't LGPL, although the FSF and GNU project now prefer GPL for libraries. In fact, GNU has basically lost all influence in GNOME, and RMS seems to be warming to KDE.
I think that the GNOME camp that was complaining in the pre-GPL days is very different than the GNOME camp complaining now.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2004/01/19 - 6:00am
medium term != long term
"...for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux," assured John Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region.
Novell is not committed to KDE, even if SuSe is. How long is "medium term"? I think they are planning something, or they would have said "long term". I switched to SuSe because of their KDE support, I would hate to think that would ever change.
By David K at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am

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package com.zjk.wifiproject.picture;

import android.content.Context;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.facebook.drawee.view.SimpleDraweeView;
import com.zjk.wifiproject.R;
import com.zjk.wifiproject.presenters.Vu;
import com.zjk.wifiproject.view.TouchCheckBox;

public class PictureFolderAdapterVu implements Vu {

    private View view;

    private SimpleDraweeView     mImage;
    private TextView      mPictureCount;
    private TouchCheckBox mSelect;
    private TextView      mFolderName;

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Brad Guice was in Haiti this month donating his energy and talent documenting the construction of a medical facility to help the team of doctors and professionals arriving weekly to care for people of Haiti. Brad captured these images to help us see what is there. Scott Zacaroli at Merkley & Partners created this video AidToHaitiToday.org from Brad's images and video footage as he sings about the dire situation that persists there. Imagine how we can make a difference. We donate to Partners in Health. We hope you will find your own way to give. We thank you Brad for your generosity.


There will be some layout and design changes to our site: AnimeInspirations.com. For the time being, we will switch to a Dynamic Blogger Theme (for those who are familiar with that) and place a greater emphasis on our content.
Our updated design is in the works, and hopefully will be polished over the next month or so. Thanks again for your continued patience.
New design is live on the site. Still working on things, but so far so good. Most likely this is temporary (the blogger style) as I was working on an updated custom template that will be finished in the future. For now, please enjoy.
Hope everyone had a merry Christmas by the way. I am still working on the development of the new site, just taking my "merry" time with it.
Just wanted to give everyone an update on how things are going. This time I have visual proof that I am actually doing some work! We all know the proof is in the pudding (or whatever that saying is).
By the way, the banner in the middle is revolving, that way you get a new image on each page load. I liked the idea and theme too much to scrap it. By the way the visual appearance my change ever so slightly along the way. That is why it is listed as being in beta.
Of course you can't see the whole site right now, but I hope you enjoy the changes, from what you can see. Trying not too rush things as I still have some bugs and other kinks to work out.


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Busted News Day: a Punk Pit Bull and a Pot-Bellied Pig
Photos by John Ross Ferrara.
It's a peaceful day in Humboldt County. No egregious crimes, no traffic jams, no viral videos to speak of.
So after hours of twiddling my thumbs in the LoCO office, I jumped on the first scrap of information to cross the news desk.
Word came over the scanner that a suspect may have brandished a shotgun at Chin's Cafe and Motel. I rushed to the scene in hopes of salvaging this slow news day, but nothing seemed to be going on.
Fortunately, you don't have to go very far in Eureka before you'll have a story to tell.
On the way back to the office, I spotted this sunglass-wearing pit bull named Trainwreck, and his owner Ronald Villemez strolling down Broadway.
The 7-year-old pit had just walked from WinCo, where Villemez bought him a savory lunch.
"We got a couple of rotisserie chickens," Villemez said. "He's already had one today."
Villemez is originally from Port Arthur, Texas, but moved to California 15 years ago to get his 215 card.
"I wanted to smoke some legal weed for once in my life," Villemez said.
He's lived here ever since.
After a brief chat, I parted ways with the odd duo and headed back to the office.
But on my way through Old Town, I came across another sight. A pot bellied pig on a leash.
The voice of my past journalism professor Marcy Burstiner cried out in the back of my mind.
"Strange pets, that's a great trend story!"
I restrained myself from bashing my brains against the driver-side window and pulled over for another weird photo op.
Meet Beautiful Too Phatz, and her owner Tammy Ingalls.
Ingalls is fresh out of Minnesota, and looking for a home in Eureka.
"We call her Beautiful Too Phatz cuz she's gorgeous," Ingalls said. "They're the best pets to have."
Ingalls, adopted the 6-month-old pig after suffering a recent heart attack.
"I had to give up two horses because the heart attack prevents me from riding anymore," Ingalls said. "She's my everything."
There's your news for the day, Humboldt. It was a nice day.
No wildfires, no drug busts, no mugshots. Just a dog in sunglasses, and pot-bellied pig named Beautiful.
See ya tomorrow.


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Ghost Knigi is a beautiful children's book by Benjamin Sommerhalder, editor of Nieves books. I'd like to give away a copy of this book to someone who has a kid, who has one?
If you want to snag a copy of Ghost Knigi tell me your kid's name and who he or she is named after! Although I can't actually verify your answers, it would be nice if this actually went to a parent out there!
I'll pick a winner on Monday January 2nd!


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Q: Identity Server 3 AngularJS with .Net Web API We are planning to integrate Identity Server3 in SPA page application using AngularJS with .Net Web API.
1) Need to create identity token and oAuth token for the application and store identity token in browser cookie. So taking Hybrid approach and need to map the identity to create oauth token, so both users and api are protected. Able to create oauth token, but struggling how to do authenticate using custom login page (not using identityserver3 login page) where userid and password validated from Angularjs page and create identity token and store it in browser cookie.
Any one have implemented custom login approach with identity token creating using identityserver3?
2) How to integrate identity Server3 with Active Directory as user data store?
Please provide comments.
Thanks
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A: For Active Directory(AD) user store, implement Identity Server as a Relying Party to your AD implementation. You can then simply integrate it within Identity Server as an external Identity Provider. Details on how to do this are in the official documentation: https://identityserver.github.io/Documentation/docsv2/configuration/identityProviders.html.
I assume you'll be doing this over WS-Federation, so you'll need to use the Microsoft.Owin.Security.WsFederation package.
If you want to use just AD as your user store, you can disable local logins in the IdentityServerOptions, set AD as the only Identity Provider for your Client using the IdentityProviderRestrictions property or use the acr_values property of idp when using the Authorization endpoint.
Regarding custom log in page external to Identity Server, many people have asked about this on the Identity Server issue tracker. Some have made implementations, but FYI: the team behind Identity Server do not recommend this approach.

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import { AxisConfig } from "./AxisConfig"
import { DualAxisComponent, HorizontalAxisGridLines } from "./AxisViews"
import React from "react"
import { ScaleType } from "../core/GrapherConstants"
import { DualAxis } from "./Axis"

import { configure, shallow } from "enzyme"
import Adapter from "enzyme-adapter-react-16"
configure({ adapter: new Adapter() })

it("can create horizontal axis", () => {
    const axisConfig = new AxisConfig({
        scaleType: ScaleType.linear,
        min: 0,
        max: 100,
    })

    const view = shallow(
        <HorizontalAxisGridLines
            horizontalAxis={axisConfig.toHorizontalAxis()}
        />
    )
    expect(view).toBeTruthy()
})

it("can render a dual axis", () => {
    const verticalAxis = new AxisConfig({
        scaleType: ScaleType.linear,
        min: 0,
        max: 100,
    }).toVerticalAxis()

    const horizontalAxis = new AxisConfig({
        scaleType: ScaleType.linear,
        min: 0,
        max: 100,
    }).toHorizontalAxis()

    const dualAxis = new DualAxis({
        verticalAxis,
        horizontalAxis,
    })

    const view = shallow(<DualAxisComponent dualAxis={dualAxis} />)
    expect(view).toBeTruthy()
})


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Single. Bachmann Turner Overdrive - Hey you. 1975.
Single. John Fogerty - The Wall.
Single. John Lennon - Nobody told me. 1983.
Single. Rolling Stones - Undercover of the night. 1983.
Single. The Cure - Boys don´t cry. 1986.
Single. The Who - 5.15.
Single. Trio - Da, Da, Da. 1982.
Single. Vinyl. AC / DC - Hells Bells. 1980.


Naomi Watts stepped out wearing a quirky card print dress which had the eight of hearts printed throughout on Thursday.
The 49-year-old headed out for another day at the 75th annual Venice Film Festival, where she was pictured with a big smile on her face.
She teamed her summery dress with a matching tote bag and sunhat as she took a twirl out in the sunshine.
Naomi hid her eyes behind a pair of shades and completed her look with a pair of red suede flat Mary Jane shoes which added a further pop of colour to her look.
But while the outfit may have looked casual and carefree, the actress added some serious bling to her look in the form of $16,275 worth of Anita Ko jewels, including an $11,025 diamond and rose gold bracelet.
The star has been a part of this year's jury at the Film Festival, which showcased upcoming movies.
Meanwhile, the Venice Film Festival has come under fire for selecting only one female director in the 2018 competition.


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Homeward Announces Leadership Team Additions to Accelerate Growth and New Market Expansion
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 2, 2022 — Homeward, a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients win with cash offers, today announced the addition of four experienced executives. Jamie Sampson joins as chief revenue officer, Chelsea Woodhead as chief people officer, Megan Tedford as senior vice president of financial products, and Chike Farrell as senior vice president of marketing.
These new leaders come to Homeward at a time of major growth. In 2021, Homeward saw four and a half times year-over-year growth in the number of homes sold, secured growth capital of $371M, and hired more than 250 new employees.
"As the real estate market has intensified, real estate agents and their homebuyers are increasingly seeking financial solutions that can make the experience of buying and selling homes easier," said Tim Heyl, chief executive officer at Homeward. "Our tailored financial products and agent-first approach has led to unprecedented demand, and I'm excited to welcome these exceptional leaders to help achieve our mission of streamlining the home buying and selling experience."
Jamie Sampson, Homeward's new chief revenue officer, has spent over a decade working in sales, scaling sales organizations at Realtor.com, Zenefits, MINDBODY, and Opcity. Most recently, he served as Realtor.com's senior vice president of sales and customer success. As chief revenue officer, he'll lead the sales and revenue operations teams to help drive Homeward's continued growth.
Chelsea Woodhead, Homeward's new chief people officer, has provided executive leadership to human capital strategy for more than a decade in high growth companies. Woodhead joins Homeward most recently from Arrive Logistics, where she was dedicated to building and scaling their talent strategy for nearly five years, and prior to that she served as chief people officer for Austin-based BuildASign. At Homeward, Woodhead will lead the people organization, helping Homeward hire, develop and retain the best talent while continuing to maintain its values-driven culture.
Chike Farrell, Homeward's new senior vice president of marketing, is a data-driven executive with over 20 years of B2B and B2C marketing experience in both high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies. He joins Homeward most recently from SkyKick, where he built the marketing function from the ground up to help drive annual recurring revenue growth and boost brand and product awareness. At Homeward he will lead the marketing organization, helping to drive customer acquisition, brand and product marketing, and industry engagement.
Megan Tedford, Homeward's new senior vice president of financial products, has spent over a decade in general management from which she brings a wealth of strategic problem-solving and cross-functional execution experience. She joins Homeward after seven years at NerdWallet, during which she led both the core credit cards business and launched international expansion. At Homeward she will build out the team that creates innovative new financial products and brings them to market.
"Over the past few years, we've seen the need for our Buy before you sell and Buy with cash solutions grow, with real estate agents increasingly advising their clients on using the power of cash to win in competitive markets," said Heyl. "We're excited to be at the forefront of a transformation in home buying, and we'll continue to invest in capabilities, talent and technology that deliver more seamless experiences to agents and their clients."
The company recently announced that it will expand into at least 20 new markets in 2022. Heyl was also recently named Inman's 2021 Person of the Year.
About Homeward
Homeward is a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients overcome the limitations of traditional mortgages. The Homeward Cash Offer eliminates finance, home sale, and appraisal contingencies, enabling homebuyers to win with cash and, when necessary, to buy their new home before they sell their old one. Homeward has an office in Austin, TX but operates with a fully remote workforce. For more information, please visit Homeward.com.


Lights performs live in concert on the Main Stage at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, BC for the 11th Annual Rifflandia Music Festival (2018) on Sunday, September 16th, 2018. Festival presented by Atomique Productions.
To view photos from the show, you can find them at Darren Ho Media's Facebook page HERE (Coming Soon).
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NTH :: Mumbai builder to pay Rs 14 lakh for 5-year delay in handing over flat
TNN | Dec 15, 2014, 03.41 AM IST | Times of India
Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission said that on carefully going through the written version on record no tangible reasons were revealed with respect to the delayed possession of the flat.
MUMBAI: The state consumer commission last week directed a builder to pay a compensation of Rs 13.50 lakh to a Jogeshwari couple for a five-year delay in handing over possession of a flat in Thane. The couple has paid more than 95% of the flat's price of Rs 30 lakh. The commission also directed the builder and developer Ganaraj Group to hand over the flat within 45 days failing which Rs 1,000 per day would be payable to the complainants, Prashan and Sailee Dhotre, till handing over of actual possession of the flat.
The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission said that on carefully going through the written version on record no tangible reasons were revealed with respect to the delayed possession of the flat. "On going through the registered agreement to sale, we find that the possession was to be delivered on or before November, 2009. The terms and conditions set out are certainly binding on the parties executing the agreement. Therefore as rightly pleaded by the advocate, the opponents have incurred deficiency of service to the complainants by not delivering the vacant and peaceful possession," the commission said.
The Dhotres filed the complaint before the commission in 2010. The complaint said that in March 2007 they had entered into a registered agreement to purchase flat which was to be constructed and developed by the builder and developers for a total of Rs 30 lakh. Out of total consideration the couple had paid Rs 29 lakh and yet the builder had not handed over possession. The developer did not response to the complainants repeated persuasion for handing over possession and neither had they assigned any reason for the delay.
The company appeared before the commission and filed its written version. They alleged that the complaint was not maintainable as complainants are not consumer under the provisions of Consumer Protection Act,1986. While the company accepted that the Dhotres had paid the amount, no reason whatsoever was mentioned for abnormal delay in delivery of the possession of the flat.
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Creating a Pedagogical Vision for Tanakh Education
March 24, 2017 / Susanne Shavelson / 0 Comments
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld
This year marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in Jewish education. A few weeks ago, Prizmah, a new organization comprising the five major day school networks, held its first conference. Thousands of educators from across the country gathered to compare notes, share best practices, and chart the future of Jewish education in North America.
This moment represents an opportunity to take a fresh look at what day schools, regardless of their particular ideology, share: the study of Jewish texts, however defined. For the last 15 years, the Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks, developed by the William Davidson School of Education at JTS, have offered a clear picture of what it looks like to read Tanakh successfully. The first standard, for example, states that students will be "independent readers of the biblical text." They should notice textual details and ambiguities, and will be able to "cite a text to prove a point opinion or claim."
But how do we get students to that point? The standard itself tells us where we want to go; that is its function. The schools themselves, together with coaches, are expected to develop not just curricula but also the pedagogic repertoires of their teachers and curricula. But the Standards and Benchmarks framework, itself, does not tell us how to get there.
The next step for Jewish text education is to articulate a vision of pedagogy. That is, an approach for teaching students to be "independent readers," to notice textual details, and build textually grounded arguments.
Outside the Jewish world, scholars of literacy education have made progress in learning how to promote reading development.[1] They argue that reading development beyond the initial stage of learning to read requires ongoing work in five related areas:
Fluency: Students must become fluent in reading the words, sentences, paragraphs, and longer texts on the page.
Vocabulary: They must build their vocabularies so that they can read increasingly sophisticated texts.
Background knowledge: They must gain background knowledge to comprehend adequately and situate what they read in the appropriate context.
Strategies: They must learn, practice, and use the various comprehension strategies such as prediction and questioning that expert readers use.
Engagement: They must read widely, think deeply, and discuss what they read with teachers, peers, and others.
A large portion of the field of literacy research can be analyzed in terms of these five areas of practice. Over the last several decades, researchers have helped us come to a better understanding of how beginner readers become intermediate and advanced readers in each of these four areas. Beginning to think about Tanakh education in light of these categories is the first step to articulating a vision for achieving the outcomes of independent Tanakh readers.
At the same time, the world of literacy research could learn a lot from the special character of Tanakh. The reading of Tanakh, perhaps because of its sacred nature, calls on readers to develop a special kind of attention to textual details and ambiguities sometimes ignored in the general studies classroom. Tanakh classrooms provide an incredible opportunity for literacy researchers looking to learn about how students learn to read a text closely.
This spring, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University will bring together a group of scholars and practitioners of elementary Tanakh education and the broader field of literacy education to begin formulating a pedagogical vision for Tanakh education. Over the course of two days, in dialogue with renowned literacy scholar Claude Goldenberg, we will ask, "How do we help students become independent readers of Tanakh? What instructional practices and pedagogies best promote these various facets of reading comprehension?" Beginning this conversation is an important next step to building a unified educational culture across the landscape of North American day schools. While the roster for this small conference is now fixed, we look forward to sharing the insights of this conference with the larger community.
Ziva R. Hassenfeld is a post-doctoral fellow at the Mandel Center.
Chall, J. (1983). Stages of reading development (New York: McGraw-Hill; 2nd ed. published by Harcourt-Brace in 1996).
Duke, N. & Pearson, P. D. (2002). Effective practices for developing reading comprehension. In A. Farstrup & S. Samuels (Eds.), What research has to say about reading instruction (3rd ed.), pp. 205-242. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Available at http://www.learner.org/workshops/teachreading35/pdf/Dev_Reading_Comprehension.pdf
Goldenberg, C. (1992/93). Instructional conversations: Promoting comprehension through discussion. The Reading Teacher, 46, 316-326. Available at https://people.stanford.edu/claudeg/video/opportunities-through-language-arts/publications
[1] Chall, 1983; Duke & Pearson, 2002; Goldenberg, 1992
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Police suspend search for two missing people after White Island eruption
The death toll rose to 19 over the weekend.
Search crews near White Island off the coast of Whakatane, New Zealand (NZ Police/AP)
By Nick Perry, Associated Press
December 24 2019 4:50 AM
Authorities in New Zealand have called off the search for two bodies they believe were washed out to sea after the White Island eruption.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/police-suspend-search-for-two-missing-people-after-white-island-eruption-38811296.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/fd6e5/38811295.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_f534ea8d-e017-49ff-ba09-9403ce186fd4_1
There were 47 people visiting the tourist destination when the volcano erupted on December 9, killing 13 people initially and leaving more than two dozen others hospitalised with severe burns.
The death toll rose to 19 over the weekend, including two people who have not been found.
Police said their decision followed "extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches from east of White Island to north of Cape Runaway".
"Sadly no further items of significance have been located," a statement added.
Police have identified the pair believed to be washed out to sea as New Zealand tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman, 40, and Australian teenager Winona Langford, 17.
Meanwhile, the families of two American newlyweds who were badly injured during the eruption said the pair are progressing as well as could be hoped for given the extent of their injuries.
The couple, Lauren Urey, 32, and Matt Urey, 36, from Richmond, Virginia, remain in hospital in New Zealand.
"There are no words to express how horrible this has been for everyone involved, but we are very lucky and grateful that although Lauren and Matt are severely injured, they're still with us," the families said.
They said that while the two were progressing as well as could be hoped for, "they both have a tremendously difficult and long road to recovery ahead of them".
White Island, also known by its Maori name, Whakaari, is the tip of an undersea volcano about 30 miles off New Zealand's North Island and was a popular tourist destination before the eruption.
New Zealand authorities are investigating the circumstances around the disaster.
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Eimear McGovern A Northern Ireland lecturer who has been stranded in China due to the coronavirus outbreak is hoping to leave the country by Thursday.