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Dulce's Underground Alien Base: Real Or Not?
In just a few days from now, the 2018 Dulce Base UFO Conference will be held at Dulce, New Mexico. There will, of course, be a great deal of debate and conversation on the town's legend: namely, that deep below Dulce's Archuleta Mesa there exists a huge, fortified "alien base" where all sorts of horrific experimentation is undertaken on untold numbers of people. By who? By hostile aliens, that's who. The stories range from the fairly down to earth to the downright paranoid. It should be noted, though, that in his 2005 book, Project Beta, Greg Bishop made a very persuasive case that much of the story was created/fabricated by (a) counterintelligence experts in the U.S. military and (b) those skilled in the field of creating and disseminating disinformation.
Back in the 1970s, Paul Bennewitz – who died in 2003, in Albuquerque, New Mexico – had his own company that stood adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Its name was Thunder Scientific. On occasion, Bennewitz had seen – late at night and in the early hours of the morning – strange, unidentified objects flying over Kirtland Air Force Base and the nearby, huge Manzano Mountains. They could have been early drone-like craft. But, for Bennewitz they were alien craft.
Bennewitz's head spun: he came to believe that aliens were in league with the U.S. Air Force, and that much of the secret program was run out of Kirtland. While one school of thought suggests that Bennewitz was indeed tracking the movements of UFOs in the skies over Kirtland, another suggests that Bennewitz had actually stumbled on tests of new and radical aircraft, and additional advanced technologies of a terrestrial kind. It's this latter angle/theory that Greg Bishop addresses chiefly in his book.
In ingenious fashion – but from the perspective of Bennewitz, in terrible fashion – a plot was initiated to, in essence, give Bennewitz exactly what he wanted to hear. So, with that in mind, well-placed government agents, intelligence operatives, and experts in the fields of counterintelligence and disinformation, all fed Bennewitz fictitious tales of dangerous ETs, of thousands of people abducted and mind-controlled in slave-like fashion by the aliens, of terrible experiments undertaken on people held below the Dulce base, and of a looming confrontation between the human race and the deadly creatures from another galaxy.
With his mind and research diverted to Dulce – and, most importantly from the perspective of the government, away from the classified programs at Kirtland Air Force Base – Bennewitz became more and more paranoid and finally had a nervous collapse. He kept a low profile after that, his research largely over. But, the story isn't quite over.
More than a decade before Bennewitz came to believe the awful rumors of Dulce were true, the U.S. Government already had a stake in the area and its surroundings. A contingent from the Atomic Energy Commission headed into town and set up what was called Project Gasbuggy. It was a sub-project of a much bigger project called Plowshare. The plan was to detonate – way below ground – a small nuclear device, as a means to try and extract natural gas. The operation went ahead on December 10, 1967 – and it worked well. The bomb was detonated at a depth of more than 4,000 feet.
Years later, certain figures in the UFO field suggested that the natural gas scenario was a cover for something else. You may already see where this is all going. There is an enduring belief within certain factions of Ufology that the nuke was actually used, by a panicked government, to try and wipe out the alien base and the extraterrestrials said to live deep within it. Even to this day it is illegal to dig in certain areas around Dulce, on the orders of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Moving on, from 1975 to 1979, the town of Dulce was hit by numerous cattle mutilations: black helicopters soared across the skies of town by night – and sometimes, and incredibly, in complete silence. Strange lights were seen flitting around Dulce's huge Archuleta Mesa. Cows were found with organs removed and blood drained from their corpses. The incisions looked as if they were the work of lasers.
For those who might find all of this to be just too incredible, it's worth noting that the FBI was heavily involved in the investigation of the mutilations at Dulce and has now placed its files on the mystery on their website, The Vault. It's a file that reads like science-fiction (but it isn't…)and that runs to more than 100 pages. Many of the incidents were investigated by the late Police Officer Gabe Valdez of Espanola. The FBI summarized Valdez' theories as follows:
QUOTE: "Information furnished to this office by Officer Valdez indicates that the animals are being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti-coagulant. It appears that in some instances the cattle's legs have been broken and helicopters without any identifying numbers have reportedly been seen in the vicinity of these mutilations.
"Officer Valdez theorizes that clamps are being placed on the cow's legs and they are being lifted by helicopter to some remote area where the mutilations are taking place and then the animal is returned to its original pasture. The mutilations primarily consist of removal of the tongue, the lymph gland, lower lip and the sexual organs of the animal.
"Much mystery has surrounded these mutilations, but according to witnesses they give the appearance of being very professionally done with a surgical instrument, and according to Valdez, as the years progress, each surgical procedure appears to be more professional. Officer Valdez has advised that in no instance, to his knowledge, are these carcasses ever attacked by predator or scavenger animals, although there are tracks which would indicate that coyotes have been circling the carcass from a distance. Special Agent Putman then informed the Director of the outcome of Valdez's run-ins with officials.
"He also advised that he has requested Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to conduct investigation for him but until just recently has always been advised that the mutilations were done by predatory animals. Officer Valdez stated that just recently he has been told by two assistants at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory that they were able to determine the type of tranquilizer and blood anti-coagulant that have been utilized." END OF QUOTE
Putman then demonstrated to headquarters the astonishing scale of the mutilation puzzle, according to Valdez: "Officer Valdez stated that Colorado probably has the most mutilations occurring within their State and that over the past four years approximately 30 have occurred in New Mexico. He stated that of these 330, 15 have occurred on Indian Reservations but he did know that many mutilations have gone unreported which have occurred on the Indian reservations because the Indians, particularly in the Pueblos, are extremely superstitious and will not even allow officers in to investigate in some instances. Officer Valdez stated since the outset of these mutilations there have been an estimated 8,000 animals mutilated which would place the loss at approximately $1,000,000."
So, where do things stand with the "Dulce Base?" Well, I'll tell you. Today, there are a lot of rumors, not one of which has ever provided hard, undeniable proof that such an underground installation really exists. But, that the area has been a hotbed of very weird activity of the "mute" kind (and particularly in the 1970s), and that underground detonations occurred in the area, certainly makes it understandable why Dulce and its surroundings are interesting to ufologists. Unfortunately, for those who are absolutely sure that such a facility does exist below Dulce, "interesting" is about as good as it gets, right now. Unless you know better…
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The Queen City just made a new "best of" beer list that will have you raising a pint in pride because of Cincinnati's wealth of breweries.
The site follows that up saying that the Queen City is home to 25 different breweries. That puts Cincinnati as the 14th-highest in that metric.
However, we would take issue with that scoring. By our count, the Greater Cincinnati area has more than 60 breweries either currently serving beer or about to open.
That said, it is nice to be recognized. We even made it into the Top 5 cities in the nation. Cleveland only came in at ninth, so we've got that going for us.
Another item of note, the site claims that the average price for a pint in Cincinnati is $4.75 — making the Queen City one of the most affordable options.
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With 100% LED lights installed in stations, ECoR to save Rs 1.35 crore
ECoR is expected to save Rs 1, 33, 52,038 every year after using LED lights across its zone. "After implementation of 100 per cent LED lights at all 313 stations, total energy savings comes to 21, 29, 690 units," said official sources.
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BHUBANESWAR: In order to take forward the energy conservation measures, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has completed installation of LED lights in all its stations under its jurisdiction. It has replaced the conventional lights with these LED lights.
The zone had started installation of the LED lights in January this year. The Railway Board had given target to ECoR to provide 100 per cent LED lights in all its stations by end of the March this year. According to the direction, the zone completed the process by March 25.
ECoR has three divisions- Khurda Road, Sambalpur and Waltair. It has 313 stations and six passenger halts (PH) under its jurisdiction spread over Odisha and parts of Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Out of these, six PHs under Waltair division have no electricity connection. So the six PHs are not included in the projects.
The project covered 134 station of Khurda Road division. After installation, this division will save 12, 79,690 energy units per annum and save cost around Rs 77, 52,038. Sambalpur division has installed these lights in its 67 stations and saved 6.5 lakh energy units costs around Rs 41 lakh per annum. Similarly, 118 stations of Waltair division have received the lights to save 2 lakh energy units that cost around Rs 15 lakh per annum.
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a government-owned energy service company, carried out the project in the ECoR after going through an agreement with the ministry of Railways.
Railway minister Piyush Goyal in his budget speech had announced about the LED project. It had set the target of achieving 100 per cent LED lighting by March 31, 2019, but the deadline was later revised to March 31 this year.
ECoR spokesperson said the initiative will not only save millions of rupees per annum in electricity bills but also reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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Anna who is Magic: "We Took Lunch Count and Attendance"
"We Took Lunch Count and Attendance"
For the past five weeks, I've spent Thursdays at a local high school for my clinical for grad school. (Don't ask. That's a story for another day, but if you are a praying person, please pray for me.) There is another teacher at my school that handles my homeroom for me when I am not there on Thursdays. I always leave a sheet of paper on my desk for her that allows her to take attendance and lunch count.
In case I've never said it before, my homeroom is eighth grade. There are 11 boys and 1 girl in that class, and this is the second year I've had them. They are a rambunctious bunch, but I dearly (DEARLY) love them because they are my people, you know?
It's a good day when nobody dies.
I was cracking. up. Because ... true, right?
It's a good day when nobody die's.
They came in the room to get their backpacks at just the moment I was standing there laughing. That's when they told me the amazing news -- apparently the teacher who covers for me on Thursdays wasn't able to get there this morning, so the kids were left there alone. YIKES! But guess what they told me they did?
"Well, Miss Lafferre, C found that paper on your desk, so M took lunch count and attendance."
YOU SAT THERE AND DID LUNCH COUNT AND ATTENDANCE?!?
They did. Also, they PUT IT IN THE DOOR BOX so the school secretary could pick it up. WHAT?!
I said, "And everyone stood for prayer and did the pledge?"
Now, granted, apparently my class clown, G, ordered himself two lunches and a milk today and got called to the office to explain himself later, but in the grand scheme of things how terrible was that really?
I mean these kids took attendance and lunch count today, stood for the prayer and the pledge, took down all the chairs off the desks (where we put them so the custodian can sweep), and stayed until 8:05 when the first period bell rang.
They also left me many funny board decorations.
Maybe they do like me after all.


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Booking both regional and national artists, The Flying Monkey's upcoming schedule includes violinist / fiddler Natalie MacMaster, singer / songwriter Judy Collins, guitarist Johnny Winter, androck icons Blue Oyster Cult, among others. Providing sound reinforcement for artists of this stature is nothing to be taken lightly. That's why a new sound system using components from Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio was selected.
K Production Services, a full service production, design / build firm specializing in professional audio presentation services was contracted to design and oversee installation of the newly renovated theater's sound system. Ultimately, a selection of D.A.S. Audio Aero 12A powered, 2-way, mid-high line array modules and LX-215A powered, band-pass subwoofer systems were deployed. Gary Agresti, the firm's President, discussed the nature of the project.
"The Flying Monkey is an old converted movie house," Agresti explained, "it is very oddly shaped and presented many sound related challenges for live audio performance. The venue envisioned offering shows from a variety of genres—from soft acoustic acts all the way through loud rock concerts—and, thus, we needed to find a sound reinforcement solution that would provide maximum dispersion and clarity at all sound pressure levels."
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This highly recommended book, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, comes with a codicil. The reader needs to be able to sustain their concentration for the 521 page epic tale of an intense Spanish family, that falls in and out of fortune over several generations.
If the reader is charmed by fairy tales and has a vivid imagination that has not been dulled by the rigors of adult life, this book will be a satisfying read.
Set in Spain in 1945, the tale continues through 1966. The main protagonist is Daniel, a motherless child, raised and shielded by his father who runs a bookshop of rare and unusual books. As a special tenth birthday adventure, Daniel is taken to a secret location: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Here, one must wander through the vast collection of dusty books until a specific book calls you to adopt them. Once this obligation is accepted, the keeper of the book must ensure that the soul and purpose of that book be kept alive forever.
Once Daniel has found and adopted his book, he becomes consumed by the twisted tale within. The author of his book has disappeared. As Daniel searches for answers, he is entangled with various Spanish personalities that are as improbable and interesting as Gaudi's sculpture. He is shadowed and menaced by a corrupt, sociopathic police chief and seduced by an older mystery woman. Daniel later discovers this woman is central to the facts of the mystery he struggles to unravel.
Bittersweet, tender and brutal, the spellbound reader is lead on through the catechisms of paths in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. As Daniel perseveres, he finds disappointment, love and finally relinquishes his childhood to the grim realities that adult life brings us all. Yet through his maturation, his life is honed and enriched by the wild and varied characters that assist him in his quest.
Originally published in Spanish in 2001, The Shadow of the Wind was translated to English in 2004. This reviewer was sometimes surprised by the language used by the translator, not that it was profane, merely base and very earthy considering the spiritual and intellectual tone of Daniel's quest.
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Gable End Roof Drip Edge
A drip edge is a thin metal flash that is applied as shingles to the edge of the roof above the shingles. The main purpose of a dripping edge is to divert the water flow away from the fascia plate and protect the rakes and eaves of your roof. Understanding how to apply drip edges will only get you so far, but it's worth it.
Drip Edge is usually made of steel covered with a protective layer of galvalume (lacquered finish) over the steel.
It is one of the first things you attach to your roof and is built into the roof and feels like an inch of overhang that extends over the fascia and hangs just above the gutters. It is a piece of metal, plastic or vinyl that is pinned down to facilitate proper drainage. This allows the water to flow from above and below, which ultimately leads to rot. Roof edge and facades run along the edge of a gutter, not only on the floor, but also in front of and behind it.
This includes any steps that flash along the roof walls or intersections, and any part of your roof that towers over the wall or the bottom edge of a roof.
Surprisingly, sometimes the drip edges are missing at the roof edge, but most often the metal drip edge at the bottom edge of the gable end. The water will cling to them, as it would to any other part of a roof, such as the wall or the base of an overhang.
There is also a non-supporting edge, and if the shingles overhang the edges, they will wrap around the edge of the drip edge.
The dripping edge is the flashing light that protects the edges of the eaves and the end of the gable. It should be placed on the top layer of the roof, which feels like the gable is finished, and is used to channel the sewage into the gutters and away from the facade, rather than raking it.
The International Building Code (IBS) of 2012 requires shingles on the roof, and you should ensure that they are properly installed on any new roof you get. The veneer goes to the rafters and serves as a solid surface for the rest of your roofing, including the shingles and shaking tile backing. This is ideal to protect areas of a roof that are not visible or prone to water damage or wood rot.
The metal flashing light on the roof edge is supposed to divert the rain away from the house and lead into the lower end of the house. The horizontal boards are attached to the rafters, and the metal flashes on them.
In the picture above, there is a drop on the edge of the roof, and the white line shows where it would be. In other words, it is the metal flashing on the edges of this roof.
The drip edge is installed at a designated slope, specifically designed to channel water to ensure that holes and cracks do not blow out the foundation and roof prematurely. The correct placement of the droplets consists in forming a fascia plate at the edge of each section of the roof, and not in the middle or even at the bottom.
This improves the drainage flow and protects the roof from possible water damage. One of the reasons why the drip edge is installed at this point is to prevent water from getting through the drip edge to the wooden base of your roof. This supports the shingles and creates a roof drop edge that helps to channel water into the gutters and away from the facade.
Most of these products can be divided into different areas: dripping edges, flashing lights, valley eruptions, etc. Dimensions Onduline eaves are made of preformed seam lines that form the gutter and the drip edge above. It is best to first install the droplet edge on the eaves and then lay felt paper over them.
The dripping edge is a piece of metal that flashes to cover the fascia plate, also known as the gutter plate. Valley-blinking eaves edges are typically attached to the long side of the roof and attached to the ends of the gable to protect against lateral rain and snow. The valley is fixed by extending the fixed inclination of a low roof – floating, flat or flat – over the dripping edge. It is usually installed on top of an ondulin roof, usually in the lower floating or low floating side.
The dripping edge is the best type of flash to have, because the shingle manufacturer does not always require a warranty.
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The World Population Hits 8 Billion
On November 15, 2022, the world's population hit 8 billion.
Chase Kim, Photojournalist
According to a report by the United Nations, the world population reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022. The milestone marks another massive increase in the world's population since it reached 7 billion in 2011, just over a decade ago.
"Baby 8 Billion" will likely be born in India, which contributed 23 million people to the global population this year, and is likely to be male based on India's population demographics. This individual will likely see the beginning of the 23rd century.
To get a better grasp on the leadup, significance, and future of this number, The Wrangler reached out to an expert of our very own—Mr. Bradford (staff), who teaches AP Human Geography on campus. The course focuses on the locations, cultures, and movements of different groups of people. A significant unit is dedicated to population growth.
According to Mr. Bradford, "advances in wealth, medicine, and agriculture" are main factors that contribute to population growth. Moving from primitive hunting/gathering societies into organized groups, these advances in technology improved the quality of life and kept more people alive—increasing population.
As Mr. Bradford explained, "people started to live longer, more people were living to child-bearing age and we started to duplicate as a population." Exponential population growth occurred.
Mr. Bradford contributes much of current population growth to lesser-developed countries, since greater-developed countries (such as the US, much of Western Europe, and many others) have already moved past the early stages of population growth where the most increase typically occurs. "Currently, we see a lot of population growth happening in countries that we would consider to be lesser-developed, where they have a really young population…Those population cohorts grow to child-bearing ages," Mr. Bradford said. "So places like Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia."
The significance of 8 billion is we're not done at 8 billion."
— Mr. Bradford
However, we may not be done growing. When prompted about the significance of 8 billion, Mr. Bradford responded, "The significance of 8 billion is we're not done at 8 billion. We'll probably get to 10 or 11 billion people, so it's really important that we understand that there's nothing we can do to stop that." Mr. Bradford stressed the importance of preparing for even further population growth in order to accommodate for 2-3 billion more people.
"We need to recognize that we need to allocate the resources we have available in preparation for 10 or 11 billion," he said. "If we can find a way to make 10 to 11 billion people work in a sustainable, healthy way for both the people and the environment, then we should be okay."
Mr. Bradford reassured that, "The good news is, we will stop…We will get to 10 or 11 billion and we will plateau." He said that the world will not see catastrophic effects of population growth with proper resource management. So at least for now, the world is sitting safe at 8 billion…at least until 2037 when experts estimate we will reach 9 billion.
"Fingers crossed."
Chase Kim, Editor
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Helicopter Takes Off With the Power of Human Thought
Written by Nina Lincoff on June 6, 2013
The future may very well be…now. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have successfully harnessed human thought to remotely control a quadcopter, a variation on the helicopter with four arms and four blades that allow for more precise movement. While it's not quite telekinesis, it's a technologically enabled equivalent—a complex machine controlled by the human mind.
The intersection of the human brain and remote controls has long been explored as a potential way for the physically handicapped to be re-enabled through the use of machines. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) work by recording and interpreting the brain's electrical signals and using them to control external devices like artificial limbs.
Basically, when your brain thinks "left," an electric signal flows through and across your brain and scalp, is interpreted by sensors, and is then translated by a computer to actively turn a machine to the left.
The researchers were surprised that their experiment was so successful, said study author Bin He, Ph.D., a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota. "This is the first time a noninvasive BCI can accomplish such demanding tasks with complexity," He told Healthline.
Five human subjects, three women and two men between the ages of 21 and 28, were given an initial training to get them used to using a one-dimensional and two-dimensional control system. Then, they progressed to controlling the movement of a virtual helicopter, after which they were tested with a real AR Drone quadcopter that they flew safely through several foam rings suspended from the ceiling.
The BCI used in this study recorded electroencephalograms (EEGs), or the electrical signals of neurons firing in the brain, using a cap placed on the scalp. Study participants were seated in a comfortable chair facing a computer monitor in a standard college gym. A 64-channel EEG cap was fitted to their heads, which read the electric signals flowing across their scalp as they controlled the AR Drone. The quadcopter received a consistent "forward" command, and the participants turned and maneuvered the device to fly through the foam rings.
"The subjects were successful in achieving accurate control of the quadcopter in 3D real space," the researchers wrote.
BCI technology has the potential to help patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative condition that results in the loss of motor skills that control speech, swallowing, and limb movement. Although there is no cure for ALS, a BCI-controlled device could enable patients who have lost limb control to move again, along with patients who are disabled from other ailments, such as spinal cord injuries.
"The study demonstrated the complexity a noninvasive BCI can do, which is needed for future BCI systems helping disabled patients," He said.
Before He's BCI is available to the public, however, more tests must be conducted to ensure that both able-bodied and disabled people can easily and reliably operate the controls.
"The reliability is an important issue before wide applications. Another issue is to reduce training time needed to use the BCI," He said. In the future, BCIs may very well open doors for the previously disabled, but first they must be accurate enough not to hit a telephone pole along the way.
ALS 101: What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease?
What Is an EEG?
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package io.github.zwieback.relef.web.services;

import io.github.zwieback.relef.configs.WebConfigForTest;
import io.github.zwieback.relef.entities.Product;
import io.github.zwieback.relef.entities.dto.product.prices.ProductPricesDto;
import io.github.zwieback.relef.utils.json.AbstractDeserializerTest;
import io.github.zwieback.relef.web.rest.services.RestService;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyObject;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyString;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {
        WebConfigForTest.class
})
public class ProductPriceServiceTest extends AbstractDeserializerTest {

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    @Autowired
    private ProductPriceService productPriceService;

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    @Autowired
    private RestService restService;

    @Test
    public void test_getPrices_should_return_prices_for_zero_products() {
        setProductPricesDto(readValue("classpath:json/product/prices/no_product.json", ProductPricesDto.class));
        ProductPricesDto productPricesDto = productPriceService.getPrices(buildProductListStub(0));
        assertThat(productPricesDto.getProductMap()).isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void test_getPrices_should_return_prices_for_one_product() {
        setProductPricesDto(readValue("classpath:json/product/prices/product_34259.json", ProductPricesDto.class));
        ProductPricesDto productPricesDto = productPriceService.getPrices(buildProductListStub(1));
        assertThat(productPricesDto.getProductMap()).hasSize(1);
    }

    @Test
    public void test_getPrices_should_return_prices_for_ten_product() {
        setProductPricesDto(readValue("classpath:json/product/prices/catalog_68526.json", ProductPricesDto.class));
        ProductPricesDto productPricesDto = productPriceService.getPrices(buildProductListStub(10));
        assertThat(productPricesDto.getProductMap()).hasSize(10);
    }

    private void setProductPricesDto(ProductPricesDto productPricesDto) {
        when(restService.post(anyString(), anyObject(), anyObject())).thenReturn(productPricesDto);
    }

    private static List<Product> buildProductListStub(int amount) {
        return IntStream.range(0, amount)
                .mapToObj(i -> new Product().setId(0L).setXmlId(UUID.randomUUID()).setDataType("basket"))
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }
}


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KING'S X's DOUG PINNICK Launches GRINDER BLUES
Megaforce Records will release GRINDER BLUES' self-titled debut album on August 19. The powerhouse trio teams KING'S X legend Doug Pinnick with two gritty, hard-rocking (and Emmy-winning) roots music MVPs, Jabo Bihlman on guitar and vocals and Scot "Little" Bihlman on drums, percussion and vocals.
"Grinder Blues" is like a shot of adrenaline to the heart of the genre. Its 10 original, high-voltage songs sizzle with daredevil virtuosity and rock with unrestrained energy, blasting a sound minted in the urban canyons of Chicago and the swamps of rural Louisiana during the 1950s into the present thanks to rumbling guitars, freight train rhythms and Pinnick's virtuoso licks and elegantly gritty rock 'n' soul voice.
"The idea for the music was to stay away from the clichés and rock out," Doug explains. "If we felt like we were heading into any songs that seemed like standard blues lyrically or musically, we made it a point to veer in the opposite direction."
"Doug was particularly enthusiastic about moving into the blues; it's a whole new direction for him," says Scot, who, like his brother Jabo, is a longstanding fan of Doug's work.
"A heavy, twisted take on the blues is something we all felt Doug was born to do. He's the most soulful vocalist, a blues singer, really," adds Jabo. "Even with KING'S X and his other projects, it's always Doug's soulful, thundering vocals that push the music over the top."
Produced by Miles Fulwider and Barry Mork, with mixing by Miles, Barry and Doug, "Grinder Blues" was written collaboratively by the band. Pinnick aimed to keep the music "simple and fun," while exploring new directions. The lyrics are traditional, an homage to the old blues heroes who came before them. Recorded almost entirely in a drop-C tuning, the band "wanted the sound to be unique and heavy, like nothing anyone had ever heard in the blues vein," says Jabo.
"The whole production angle we took was to push some boundaries sonically and musically that one associates with 'the blues' or 'rock n' roll,'" says Fulwider. "We set out to pull and push typical blues 'axioms' to see what we could come up with on the other side."
GRINDER BLUES will be on tour in 2014.
Tags: king's x, doug pinnick


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August 5, 2012 .
Edmonson Set to Open Play at U.S. Women's Amateur
Cleveland, Ohio – Virginia sophomore golfer Melissa Edmonson (Coral Gables, Fla.) will begin play at the 2012 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship Monday at the par-72, 6,386-yard The Country Club in Cleveland, Ohio. She will start her round from the 10th tee at 1:30 p.m.
The tournament features 36 holes of stroke play Monday and Tuesday before the 156-player field is reduced to 64 players for match play, which runs through Aug. 12. The final four days of the tournament will air on The Golf Channel.
Last season Edmonson played in one tournament for UVa when she competed in the Tar Heel Invitational. She qualified for the Amateur by placing seventh at the Sectional Qualifier at The Wanderers Club in Wellington, Fla.
The U.S. Women's Amateur Championship was first held in 1895. It is considered the tournament that marks the beginning of women's competitive golf in the United States.
Virginia Concludes Day One at Virginia Tech Invitational
XC/Track
Six Hoos Go Undefeated On Day One At Virginia Duals
Sunday's Virginia Women's Basketball Game Against Syracuse Postponed


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total economic terrorism waged on Venezuela: submit or face the consequences →
insane new dangers from US nuclear & space weaponization, US and France
Lockheed Martin presented the 2nd Space Operations Squadron with a GPS Block III model satellite to celebrate the successful on-orbit testing of the new GPS III satellite at @SchrieverAFB.
Read more: https://t.co/RuU3qLQ9ny
— AF Space Command (@AFSpace) August 4, 2019
(I offer the following without comment, as I'm not sure that I have another gasket to blow, at least without self-injury. Although thought crimes are a whole 'nother matter…)
'Weaponizing Space Is the New Bad Idea Coming From Washington D.C.', Federico Pieraccini, July 29, 2019, strategic-culture.org
"When considering the possibility of great-power conflict in the near future, it is difficult to bypass space as one of the main areas of strategic focus for the major powers. The United States, Russia and China all have cutting-edge programs for the militarization of space, though with a big difference.
Donald Trump's announcement of a "Space Force" is by no means a new idea. During the Reagan presidency, a similar idea was proposed in the form of the famous "Star Wars" program, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. It aimed to do away with the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD) by positioning anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) interceptors in low-Earth orbit in order for them to be able to easily intercept ballistic missiles during their entry into orbit and before their re-entry phase. The costs and technology at the time proved prohibitive for the program, but military planners retained the dream of negating the concept of MAD in Washington's favor, especially with the dawning of the unipolar era following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The decisions taken in the years since, such as the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in 2002 during Bush's presidency and from the INF Treaty during Trump's, follows Reagan in trying to invalidate MAD, a balance of terror that has served to maintain a strategic stability.
This hope of doing away with MAD so that the unthinkable may become thinkable has guided the missile developments of Russia and China, which through the development of hypersonic missiles aim to nullify the US's ABM systems and thereby make the thought of an unreciprocated nuclear first strike MAD again. With Russia's recent successes in testing hypersonic technologies, and the fast-tracking of other new strategic weapons announced by Putin less than 12 months ago, strategic stability seems to have been restored through Russia's strengthened deterrence posture." [snip]
Neither China nor Russia has been sitting idly by waiting to be struck undefended. Russia's development of its S-500 system has been quite timely. The S-500 system is often considered an upgrade to the better-known S-400 system, but these are in reality different systems with different aims and objectives. The main task of the S-500 is to engage long-distance targets in low-Earth orbit. We are therefore talking about the ability to take out military or any future ABM satellites as those originally conceived with Reagan's "Star Wars" program.
Unlike Washington, Moscow and Beijing do not appear to be developing space-based weaponry; they are certainly not going to increase their military budgets to create a space force. On the contrary, both countries have been working for more than a decade on a proposed Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) treaty that seeks to ban the weaponization of space."
The rest, including the summary of the PAROS treaty, is here.)
'Preparing for great-power war, France creates space command', Will Morrow, 31 July 2019, wsws.org
"French President Emmanuel Macron's administration announced this month the creation of a military space command and detailed plans to place anti-satellite weapons systems in orbit. The announcement is the latest step in a military build-up by France and the EU imperialist powers, and part of preparations to wage "great power" wars, including between nuclear-armed states.
The new military branch, whose creation was signaled by Macron on July 13, will be merged into the Air Force, which will henceforth be called the Air and Space Force. Defense Minister Florence Parly outlined the details of the new division in a speech to over 100 air force military brass at the Air Base 942 in Lyon on July 25.
"Space is a new front to defend, and we must be ready," Parly declared. "Seeking to one day become a space general will no longer be a fantasy, it will be a credible ambition." [snip]
"This first stage of the command's operations will involve the deployment of a new generation of Syracuse satellites equipped with visual cameras to identify other nearby satellites. In the second stage, so-called nano-satellites that are more difficult to shoot down, and satellites equipped with submachine guns and lasers capable of destroying or incapacitating rival satellites, will be deployed.
The obvious implication of these announcements, ignored and covered up by the media, is that the ruling class is preparing to wage wars not only against impoverished and former colonial countries in the Middle East and Africa, targeted under the fraudulent banner of the "War on Terror"—which have no capacity to launch attacks using satellite technology or destroy French satellites—but against militarily-advanced nuclear-armed powers, like Russia, China and the United States, which rely heavily on satellite technology for their operations." [snip]
"The development of a French space force is part of Macron's bid to take the leadership of a European army being spearheaded by Paris and Berlin. Their aim is to transform the European Union into a military power capable of waging war, including independently of and in opposition to the United States. Germany, in addition to having no nuclear weapons, does not have an active space program of its own, while the exit of Britain from the EU leaves France as the only EU nuclear power, in addition to possessing—for now—Europe's largest blue-water navy.
The EU's "Strategic Agenda for 2019–2024," adopted at its Brussels summit last month, asserts that Europe must "reinforce its global influence," "influence the course of world events," and "move forward towards a genuine European Defence Union." [snip]
"In June 2018, US President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new "Space Force," to oversee and expand the more than 20,000 personnel already under the direction of the Air Force's Space Command. Last March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a blood-curdling address to the nation to announce that India had become the third nation after the US and China to shoot down a satellite, and proclaim that "We are now a space power." China and Russia, the two principal targets of US military aggression to offset its relative economic decline through military force, are building up their own anti-satellite missile systems as well." [see 'with a difference' above]
'US to ring China with missiles in nuclear arms race', Andre Damon, 5 August 2019, wsws.org
"Within hours of the official withdrawal by the United States on Friday from the world's most important nuclear treaty, the Pentagon made clear that it intends to ring China with missiles amid a rapidly accelerating nuclear arms race.
"Speaking to reporters during a trip to Australia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon would deploy missiles prohibited under the treaty "sooner rather than later."
"I would prefer months," Esper said.
The deployment of medium-range missiles in the Pacific would turn the Chinese coast and the Pacific islands surrounding it into a nuclear battlefront, putting the lives of billions of people in China, the Koreas, Japan, Taiwan and the broader region at risk.
The INF treaty, which was signed between then President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, banned the US and Russia from developing missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,000 kilometers, meaning that most of Europe and much of the Pacific were off limits to the stationing of nuclear missiles." [snip]
"With the potential deployment of US nuclear missiles just minutes in flight-time from the Chinese mainland, tensions will be on a hair trigger, with the huge population of the region living under the specter of nuclear annihilation.
Responding to the US withdrawal from the INF treaty, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that "the world will lose an invaluable brake on nuclear war." [snip]
"In defending his decision to station missiles in a densely populated area thousands of miles away from America, Esper accused China of "weaponizing the global commons using predatory economics."
In other words, China, by carrying out peaceful economic activities, is threatening the United States, and that should therefore be countered with the threat of military annihilation." [snip]
"In subsequent comments, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is accompanying Esper on his trip to Australia, declared that the United States had been "asleep at the switch" with regard to the "danger" posed by China.
He then reemphasized Esper's declaration that China's peaceful economic growth constituted a military threat to the United States.
"I'll hear folks talk about trade and economic issues as separate from national security," Pompeo said. "Let's make no mistake about it, China's capacity, the People's Liberation Army's capacity to do exactly what they're doing is a direct result of trade relationships that they built."
"They grew their country on the backs of a set of unfair trade rules. So they were able to grow their economy at a high rate of speed," Pompeo said." [snip]
"In other words, there is no dividing line between peaceful coexistence, and military conflict. Economic growth and trade are themselves seen by Washington as military threats to be countered by anything from trade conflict to military saber-rattling and full-scale war.
Pompeo's words are in keeping with the doctrine of great-power rivalry against Russia and China embraced by the Pentagon last year, which declared that "Great power competition—not terrorism—is now the primary focus of US national security."
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In a discussion on Facebook, I came across a comment about how unfriendly to vegetarians Chinese fried rice is. There are always bits of Chinese sausage, roast pork, shrimps and scrambled egg, wrote some girl. Not just a few people agreed with her. Oh, I thought, she's talking about yang chow fried rice and all those who agreed thought the same way she did—as though there is only one Chinese fried rice. I said nothing though. The conversation didn't take place on my wall and I didn't want to hijack the discussion. Then, I cooked this shiitake fried rice and I do plan to post it as a reply in that conversation.
Blame it on the limited understanding of fried rice. Most of us know it only from what we've eaten in Chinese restaurants. What most don't realize is that, historically, fried rice was designed by enterprising Chinese cooks to make good use of leftover food from the previous day's meals. Cold rice, bits of meat and seafood, small amounts of various vegetables… all these go together in a wok to make a brand new meal. If there isn't enough meat or seafood, beaten eggs are added not just for color but for more nutrition too. There is no exact formula. There is no explicit combination of ingredients.
So, yes, fried rice can be both meatless and eggless, like this shiitake fried rice, and it will still be Chinese-style fried rice if it is cooked as a stir fried rice dish.
Peel the carrot and chop or cut into small cubes.
Cut the celery into the same size as the carrot bits.
Discard the stalks of the shiitake; cut the caps into half-inch cubes.
Heat the cooking oil in a wok or frying pan. Over high heat, stir fry the carrot, celery, scallions, garlic and mushrooms with a little salt and pepper.
Add the rice, sprinkle in a bit more salt and pepper, and continue stir frying until the rice is heated through.
Off the heat, drizzle in sesame seed oil, stir the shiitake fried rice and serve.


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package org.kuali.kra.committee.print;

import org.kuali.coeus.common.committee.impl.print.ScheduleTemplatePrintBase;

/**
 *
 * This class identifies the template print functionality for committee schedule reports.
 */
public class ScheduleTemplatePrint extends ScheduleTemplatePrintBase {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1565960151556324475L;

//    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1565960151556324475L;
//
//
//    @Override
//    public String getProtoCorrespTypeCode() {
//        return  (String) getReportParameters().get("protoCorrespTypeCode");
//    }

}


In an era where technology has completely streamlined our lives, reaching out for any kind of information is certainly not a strenuous task. Yet, when it comes to hiring the right professionals for a job, there are limitations that hold us back and we tend to resort to the age old methods. We tap our friends, relatives and people we know. With a skilled workforce spread across the globe, it is indeed a challenge to separate the best from the rest. BlooCYS is a platform that gives it's consumers an unrestrained access to skilled experts and that too in a swift manner.
With BlooCYS, you can get professional help for all services of all genres. You could be facing an issue related to your website or there could be a language that you have always been eager to learn. From a database of myriad professionals, you can get specialised assistance on possibly everything under the sky.
Many a times, professionals are not what they claim to be, but as a consumer of the service, how would you know if that's true? Only if the professional's credibility has been verified and if there are considerable amount of reviews to substantiate the same, can a professional call himself/herself an expert. BlooCYS's platform does exactly that. Only verified professionals are listed on the platform and therefore, you get an access to only the proficient, and not just any other unqualified individual on the block.
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While we believe that crypto payment is beneficial for users as it is more transparent and cost efficient. BlooCYS will also support fiat payment in the beginning to increase user adoption and provide easy transition for users who are new to blockchain and/or cryptocurrency.
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I am excited to announce that our Talia wedding gown made the front cover of the Queensland Wedding and Bride Magazine.
These amazing photos of my Talia gown were taken by Lisa Clarke Photography. The photo shoot was done at beautiful Maleny in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The Talia gown is 100% silk satin with a lushes French lace overlay. The gown is vintage inspired, with sheer 3/4 lace sleeves. The gown has a low scalloped back, embellished with a delicate crystal and pearl belt around the waist.


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Not your local supermarket's candles, these bad boys are made from a soy wax blend with a lead-free wick so you can breathe assured you're not clotting up your lungs with nasties. Ooh, and they're hand poured in snazzy repurposed, recycled wine bottles. So ethical.
Now that all that's settled, only one question remains: Do you really need another candle in your life? Abso-bloody-lutely. Just WINE not?!


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Client library for VM Insights Onboarding

## Installation and Usage
```bash
npm install --save @datafire/azure_monitor_vminsightsonboarding_api
```
```js
let azure_monitor_vminsightsonboarding_api = require('@datafire/azure_monitor_vminsightsonboarding_api').create({
  access_token: "",
  refresh_token: "",
  client_id: "",
  client_secret: "",
  redirect_uri: ""
});

.then(data => {
  console.log(data);
});
```

## Description

API to manage VM Insights Onboarding

## Actions

### VMInsights_GetOnboardingStatus
Retrieves the VM Insights onboarding status for the specified resource or resource scope.

```js
azure_monitor_vminsightsonboarding_api.VMInsights_GetOnboardingStatus({
  "api-version": "",
  "resourceUri": ""
}, context)
```

#### Input
* input `object`
  * api-version **required** `string`: API version.
  * resourceUri **required** `string`: The fully qualified Azure Resource manager identifier of the resource, or scope, whose status to retrieve.

#### Output
* output [VMInsightsOnboardingStatus](#vminsightsonboardingstatus)

## Definitions

### DataContainer
* DataContainer `object`: Information about a container with data for a given resource.
  * workspace **required** [WorkspaceInfo](#workspaceinfo)

### Error
* Error `object`: Error details.
  * code **required** `string`: Error code identifying the specific error.
  * message `string`: Error message in the caller's locale.

### ProxyResource
* ProxyResource `object`: An azure resource object
  * id `string`: Azure resource Id
  * name `string`: Azure resource name
  * type `string`: Azure resource type

### ResponseWithError
* ResponseWithError `object`: An error response from the API.
  * error **required** [Error](#error)

### VMInsightsOnboardingStatus
* VMInsightsOnboardingStatus `object`: VM Insights onboarding status for a resource.
  * properties `object`: Resource properties.
    * data `array`: Containers that currently store VM Insights data for the specified resource.
      * items [DataContainer](#datacontainer)
    * dataStatus **required** `string` (values: present, notPresent): The status of VM Insights data from the resource. When reported as `present` the data array will contain information about the data containers to which data for the specified resource is being routed.
    * onboardingStatus **required** `string` (values: onboarded, notOnboarded, unknown): The onboarding status for the resource. Note that, a higher level scope, e.g., resource group or subscription, is considered onboarded if at least one resource under it is onboarded.
    * resourceId **required** `string`: Azure Resource Manager identifier of the resource whose onboarding status is being represented.
  * id `string`: Azure resource Id
  * name `string`: Azure resource name
  * type `string`: Azure resource type

### WorkspaceInfo
* WorkspaceInfo `object`: Information about a Log Analytics Workspace.
  * id **required** `string`: Azure Resource Manager identifier of the Log Analytics Workspace.
  * location **required** `string`: Location of the Log Analytics workspace.
  * properties **required** `object`: Resource properties.
    * customerId **required** `string`: Log Analytics workspace identifier.


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MUNICH SHOW: Neat launches compact Ultimatum XLi floorstander
By Andrew Everard
New model is based on the Ultimatum XLS, goes on sale in July at around £6000/pr
Responding to demand from consumers and distributors, Neat Acoustics has launched a new compact floorstanding speaker design, the Ultimatum XLi, here at the High End Show in Munich.
The new speaker, which goes on sale in July at around £6000 a pair, is based on the design of the Ultimatum XLS, but uses a floorstanding cabinet to allow separate internal volumes for mass-loading and crossover isolation.
Neat says the launch of the speaker 'follows a significant number of requests from retailers and distributors around the world who found that the performance of the XLS was ideally suited to potential owners needs but a 'floorstander' would have been more domestically acceptable.'
The speaker stands 1m tall, and has a cabinet built from slow-growing birch ply, with a controlled-density fibreboard front baffle coupled to it via a polyethylene membrane to create an inert platform for the mid/bass and treble drivers.
Low frequencies are handled by two 16.8cm Neat mid/bass drivers mounted isobarically, while the tweeter is a 26mm Sonomex domed XL unit in its own enclosure. Twin upward-firing EMIT 25mm planar-ribbon supertweeters are also used, again in their own enclosure
There's rear-porting for the main mid/bass speakers, a separate cabinet section for the crossover, and a further volume in the base for greater stability by lowering the centre of gravity of the speaker. The cabinets are extensively braced, and the speakers weigh 33kg apiece.
Sensitivity is 87dB/W/m, the recommended amplifier power is 25-200W and the average impedance is 6ohms.
The XLi will be available in a choice of finishes: black ash, walnut, oak, figured birch and rosenut will be the standard ones, with piano black and Neat's Velvet Cloud and Red Velvet Cloud high gloss available as premium options.
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Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?
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Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in loads of air in the process. "We don't know for sure, but horses could be one of the most sensitive species to smoke of all mammals," says Kent E. Pinkerton, director of the Center for Health and the Environment at the University of California, Davis. "The volume of air that they're taking in, that is basically laden with particles in the air that they're breathing, could really be quite devastating to the horse."
The infamous 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise, bathed the UC Davis campus in smoke, giving Pinkerton and his colleagues a unique opportunity to determine the effects on another species: the rhesus macaque. At the campus' California National Primate Research Center, the macaques live in outdoor enclosures. So just as Skibiel did with dairy cows, Pinkerton could monitor them as the haze rolled in.
He found an increase in miscarriage during the breeding season, which happened to overlap with the smoke event: 82 percent of the animals exposed to smoke gave birth, when in a normal year the average rate of live births is between 86 and 93 percent. "We actually had a small, but statistically significant, reduction in birth outcomes," says Pinkerton. "We don't know all the specifics of it, or what the precise cause would be, other than the fact that it was associated with wildfire smoke."
In Indonesia, which is plagued with peat fires, primatologist and ecologist Wendy Erb of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has studied smoke's effect on another primate, the orangutan. Peat fires have created a dire public health crisis in Indonesia, where developers drain peatlands and set them on fire to create farmland. This is a particularly nasty kind of conflagration, as it smolders through carbon-rich fuel for months on end, bathing cities and surrounding forests in smoke for far longer than, say, a California wildfire that rips through vegetation.
Erb monitors individual orangutans in the wild by collecting urine and stool samples (yes, that means standing under trees to catch the stuff) and following them around throughout the day to see how much they're eating and how much energy they're expending. From the urine samples, she can determine ketosis, or whether the animal is metabolizing fat as an energy source.
Following smoke events, she found, ketosis among orangutans increased significantly. "We actually saw that they were eating more calories, but despite eating more calories they're also resting more, and they traveled shorter distances," says Erb. "So they're showing this energy-conservation strategy—they're moving less, they're slowing down, and they're eating more calories—but they're still going into ketosis."
One hypothesis, which the team hasn't yet tested, is that the orangutan's bodies are mounting an immune response to the deluge of smoke, and that they need more calories to fuel that defense. But this might use up calories the animals need for other life necessities, like growing, reproducing, and feeding their offspring. (Of all the primates, orangutan mothers spend the most time raising their children.) Saving energy by moving less also means fewer opportunities to socialize, which is a concern for a primate that's already critically endangered because it's losing its habitat to deforestation.
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The Snapdragon 865-powered Axon 10s Pro may be close to launch
The Axon 10s Pro 5G may look a lot like this. (Source: ZTE)
ZTE's next flagship, the Axon 10s Pro, may be revealed in full soon. It has passed through testing by the Wi-Fi Alliance and TENAA, which confirms its premium 5G status. However, besides its updated chipset, it appears to have the same chassis as its predecessor.
Deirdre O Donnell, Published 01/22/2020
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ZTE has reportedly cleared some major hurdles to its Axon 10s Pro launch. This phone has already been announced, but not officially revealed in full as yet. It will be powered by the new Snapdragon flagship SoC for 2020, and is rated for dual-mode 5G. Otherwise, it may strike some as very familiar on its actual release.
This new device has gone through the Wi-Fi Alliance's validation process, which shows that it is also has the latest version of the connectivity in question, as expected. It has also passed through the TENAA regulatory authority in China, its initial market. This certification points to a phone with much the same specifications as the pre-existing Axon 10 Pro.
This includes its FHD+ 6.47-inch display, its triple rear camera display and its 4000mAh battery. However, ZTE has stepped up to LPDDR5 for its 6 to 12GB of RAM. In addition, its 128 to 512GB internal storage will be of the UFS3.0 variety. Therefore, it seems this new phone is a comprehensive refresh of the Axon 10 Pro 5G - one which, as ZTE has hinted, will be priced at about US$434 (3000 yuan) at launch.
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