"The place for kids to play, run and have fun" is the most cardinal inspiration of this project. Even the simple, elegant, and typical Japanese style is the characteristics of this space, we make numerous details which is full of the fun and joy of childlike innocence, for instance, the moon lamp looks like floating on the kitchen island, the vivid cabinet which can display plenty of adorable toys, the dramatic shelf, the pouf look extremely the same as stone and logs which should be in forest, and the movable blackboard can let the kids give full play to theirs imagination and energy.
When concrete, wood, metal these materials make the room simple, clean and elegant, those details have been mentioned bring the fresh, humorous and unique feature to whole atmosphere.


Today's pick: Chicken tinga huarache ($5) at Cholula Bella Deli.
Cholula Deli is yet another of those southern Mexican delis that have carved out a dining room in the rear, in this case a very pleasant and spotlessly clean place hung with piñatas and decorated with colorful displays of Mexican sodas and other groceries.
The huarache — shaped like the rubber-soled sandal of the same name — is fashioned out of freshly made masa, used as a platform for refried beans, julienned greenery, squiggles of crema, and tinga, a fiery stew made with chicken in a chipotle sauce. The entire thing tastes earthy and delicious, and I could eat one of these for any meal of the day.


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Liberty Hill High School junior Jordan Marsh (right) recently created a GoFundMe page to raise money for chemistry Teacher Bonnie Dortch's medical treatments. (Shelly Wilkison Photo)
By SHELLY WILKISON
"It isn't often that you meet people with such a golden heart."
That's how one Liberty Hill High School student describes chemistry teacher and Student Council advisor Bonnie Dortch.
"Her ability to connect with students and understand their needs is truly inspiring," said junior Jordan Marsh.
Marsh opened the door to Dortch's classroom during her conference period recently and found her teacher on the cell phone, struggling to convince someone on the other end that she needed her prescribed medication and she needed it to be covered by insurance. The phone conversation grew increasingly tense, and Dortch became tearful as the frustration and sense of urgency grew.
Dortch, a 12-year teaching veteran of LHHS, is being treated for the rare autoimmune disease Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). It is a neurological disorder characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the arms and legs. Only eight in 100,000 people have been diagnosed with CIDP — a more acute form of Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
She was first diagnosed with the disease in 2008, but it went into remission in 2010. In 2013, it reappeared more virulent than ever. "It feels like walking on pins and needles, and I lose function of my hands and feet," Dortch said, adding that the disease attacks the sensory nerves and impairs walking, periferal vision and spacial orientation. "It's painful to put my feet on the floor.
"It feels like my whole body is ganging up against me," she said. "And to anyone watching, it looks like I'm a clumsy fool. People probably think I'm drunk all the time, I stumble and fall because I can't feel my feet."
Dortch, who teaches Pre-AP Chemistry and regular Chemistry, recalled the day that her students had to warn her to remove her hand from a hot plate during an experiment. She said she couldn't feel that the plate was hot.
When the symptoms increase at work, she said she has to be especially careful walking and cannot stand a lot while teaching. With a classroom on the second floor, she had to get a key to the elevator.
"I try to be as still as I can because I can't feel my feet. I trip over backpacks (in the classroom), and will even stumble on a flat surface," she said.
"Have you ever seen the opening graphics on the 'House' TV show with all the neurons firing?" she asked. "Well, I can feel that. It's like all the nerves short circuiting."
Marsh, who is an active member of the Student Council, said her teacher doesn't complain and speculated that most are not even aware she is suffering from the disease. Had she not walked in unannounced while she was dealing with the insurance company, the pharmacy and her doctor's office, Marsh might not have known how serious things were.
"I decided I wanted to help and creating a GoFundMe page seemed like the fastest way to bring some relief," Marsh said. "I wanted to make sure this was from me because Mrs. Dortch would never ask for help on her own."
"I'm on support medications all the time," Dortch said. But the treatments that do the most good, that provide the longest-lasting relief are given intravenously.
"I space them out as far as I can because they are so expensive," Dortch said.
After insurance pays a portion of the treatment, Dortch must pay from $1,000 to $1,400 for one infusion. She said she tries to wait about nine weeks before scheduling the next treatment, and added that one treatment requires the plasma donation of 70 people.
Her last treatment was in January.
A new insurance plan put in place by the school district this fiscal year has tripled the cost of medications and treatment.
To help pay medical bills, Dortch also does private tutoring. And in the past, she worked as an adjunct professor for Austin Community College. However, the classes she taught were not offered again.
Dortch has two children in college, and is married, but her husband has no health insurance. While she pays to insure her children, she said she could not afford the premium to add her husband to the policy.
Dortch said she will likely be on medications for the illness the rest of her life.
"Basically, I'm living at the whim of my immune system," she said.
Without treatments, Dortch said the pain would be so severe that she would not be able to work in any job.
Marsh, who plans to study biomedical science or animal science in college to become a veterinarian, said Dortch is well-loved among high school students and her co-workers, but the impact she has had on her life will never be forgotten.
"I was really having some problems last year, and she showed compassion and really cared about me," Marsh said. "She was my mom for the day. She cried with me and I felt so much better. She is my mom at school. That's the kind of teacher she is — she really cares about her students. She is always ready to help and really connects with them."
Marsh said when she was struggling to understand the concepts taught in Pre-AP Chemistry, Dortch made herself available every day at 7:30 a.m.
"I really enjoyed having her as a teacher," Marsh said. "This is not cool, she should be happy."
Hearing her student's kind words brought tears as Dortch silently tried to dry her eyes.
"It makes me happy that I actually really reached someone at that level," Dortch said.
When she first developed the symptoms in 2008, it took doctors more than three months to reach a diagnosis. At first, some thought she was suffering from Muscular Sclerosis.
Dortch said that year she got a Flu Mist vaccine, which has been linked to the onset of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) — a rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nervous system and damages nerve cells. She said although closely related, CIDP is different from GBS in that CIDP impacts the peripheral nerves.
The GoFundMe page was created last Sunday, and at press time had collected more than $300 in donations. Make a donation at www.gofundme.com/l8p9gk.
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Bronze statue – Created in cooperation with the sculpture moulder Prof. Beragnoli of Pistoia and the Venturi sisters, owners of a foundry in Bologna
This bronze work was on display in Bologna's Museum of Modern Art (MAMbo), a symbol to be enlarged and placed outside, on the original tower. The title says a lot about this work, suggesting the idea of a giant (gigante) with three races (razze), three ages (età), three ethnic groups (etnie) and seven limbs (arti).
The face is a reference to the three ages, namely youth, adulthood, and old age. The three ethnic groups are African, Western and Eastern. The three races are human, animal, and divine. The details are one of the most interesting aspects, highlighting the dualism in every life – male and female, sun and moon, good and evil, day and night. Intriguingly, one can see a human foot and centaur hooves, elements of a faun and a merman, suggestions of earth, fire, water, and air.
The truly unique aspect of this work is how open the artist leaves it to the observer's interpretation. For example, looking at the wings, one might think one is a bat and the other is a bird, which must be an emblematic representation of the contrast between day and night. But it could also be the wing of a demon, and of an angel, which takes one into the realm of the good and evil dualism.


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After the dizzying, glorious ride of Gone Girl, it was imperative to dive right into Gillian Flynn's back catalog to see if I was missing out on more of the best mysteries ever.
As logic would dictate, I started at the beginning with her debut novel Sharp Objects, about a mediocre reporter for a mediocre Chicago daily who is sent back to her podunk Missouri hometown to report on a serial killer.
Camille Preaker is not thrilled at all to be back in Wind Gap which has more to do with her cold, distant, rich mother and creepy little sister than it does with the serial killer who is killing young girls and pulling out all their teeth before dumping their bodies.
Though Camille left Wind Gap over a decade ago, she carries the scars of the town with her. Literally. Camille is a cutter and though everyone remarks on her physical beauty, nobody knows that underneath her long sleeves and skirts are raised scars, where Camille has carved words into her skin — wicked, girl, love, whore. Her body is a journal of all her woes. And she's got some woes.
Aurora, Camille's pork-heiress mother has yet to recover from the death of Marion, Camille's younger sister, some eighteen years ago. Aurora takes her anxiety out on Camille's other younger sister, Amma, the thirteen-year-old Queen Bee Mean Girl. Amma is a beautiful, wily bitch who rules the teenage girls of Wind Gap with an iron fist.
The mystery at the heart of Sharp Objects, who is killing the town's nine-to-ten-year-old girls, is kind of an easy-to-figure out bummer. While Flynn tries to throw a few red herrings the reader's way, they are obvious and never really distract from who the real killer is.
Even though the mystery is a bummer, the creepy, weird dynamic between Aurora, Camille, and Amma is the star of this show. These three women are so perfectly characterized, so wonderfully drawn, that you won't even care if you know whodunit, early in the book.
The scenes between Camille and Amma are amazing and make you wish Camille wasn't so easily distracted by a handsome detective from Kansas City or the cutie-pie, barely-legal brother of one of the victims. I wanted all Amma and Aurora all the time.
While this doesn't have the delicious twists and turns of Gone Girl, it's still a pretty decent read. Gillian Flynn has a divine knack for creator characters who are so much fun to hate. It's strange because you'd never think reading about such horrible, awful people would be so damn much fun, but it is.
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- The French sports equipment market had total revenues of $7,575.7m in 2017, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% between 2013 and 2017.
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Part A) I have tacked on several (possibly 10 too many) tags to my About Nicole page. In an effort to create a more seamless brand I have updated my Twitter and LinkedIn pages to match my website's design. The header is from a trip we took to NYC years ago while the personal image is from a hike. I feel the B&W and the color contrast one another to create an interesting balance that features my photo. I heeded the advice of Brian Dean's infographic on SEO as much as I could think to. I chose to link to the places I have studied/worked to create a more interactive page while keeping the length I would normally shy away from to make skimmable content. I am seriously fighting instinct here.
Part B) Keeping the SEO theme for this week if you Google just "SEO" Google Support is definitely represented heavily, but not until the final results on the page. Changing the terms to "SEO for personal website" brought me to "Personal Branding" which is essentially what I was going for in evening-out my social media and attempting a more cohesive online presence. A Forbes article from 2016 makes an excellent point regarding trust of readers: "Modern consumers have a natural distaste for corporations, which are frequently seen as greedy, manipulative, and faceless." This is striking a chord with me. As I think about what space to study for this course I am reminded of the endorsements that "mommy bloggers" receive from corporate sponsors. How does this play into an understanding of "User Trust"? Are they more trustworthy products when your favorite blogger mentions them or generates a catchy skit with the product at the forefront?
Another resources (a lengthy one!) is AudienceBloom. Here I have found a long list of ways to work on your SEO.
Part C) I'm not sure if this is a good thing, but I definitely didn't want my e-mail sitting on this site. So, I have implemented the Contact form but I also linked to my e-mail in the footer with my social media links. I used Google's reCAPTCHA to protect my information from bots.


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Goldman Sticks With Arbitration for Sexual-Harassment Claims
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(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. won't stop sending employees who claim they were harassed into arbitration, but will allow some workers to waive the confidentiality of decisions.
"The firm's review established that the general concerns raised about the use of arbitration agreements are not applicable to Goldman Sachs' arbitration program or experience," the bank said in a report on its website. "Nevertheless, the firm takes seriously the shareholder concerns, which are genuine and strongly held."
The decision represents a loss for critics of the system of forced arbitration, a kind of alternate justice system that allows corporations to keep some fights out of court. The firm had initially opposed a shareholder proposal to study the impact of mandatory arbitration, which was defeated in April, though the margin was so small that company executives agreed to change course.
Goldman said that "while the firm believes that the confidentiality of arbitration proceedings benefits all parties," those employees who claim sexual harassment "will have the option to waive confidentiality as to the arbitration decision."
The decision to allow employees to choose if their arbitration outcome is confidential now becomes the base standard for any business still using such restrictive employment contracts, said Meredith Benton, who founded consultancy Whistle Stop Capital.
"Investors' concerns with arbitration go beyond employee confidentiality," said Benton, who worked with the Nathan Cummings Foundation on the Goldman proposal. "Arbitration prohibits class actions, disincentivizing employees to come forward with all but the most egregious concerns," she said, and the bank seems to be keeping complaints about racial discrimination beyond closed doors.
Goldman's review of arbitration came after a proposal backed by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, an early figure in the #MeToo movement, received almost half of shareholder votes despite Goldman's opposition. The bank has been fighting one of the industry's biggest class-action gender-discrimination cases.
Wells Fargo & Co. has abandoned mandatory arbitration for sexual-harassment complaints. But, in general, Wall Street is lagging behind Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp., which have done away with forced arbitration for sexual harassment.
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Hoi An in Vietnam may open Feb to jabbed foreign visitors
The opening up of Hoi An city would be part of the parent province Quang Nam's efforts to boost the local economy via inbound foreign tourists, as part of a wider national-government opening up effort.
Hoi An's "vaccine passport" initiative could start soonest in February, according to a report by local media outlet VN Express.
The report cited Quang Nam's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism as saying that it had drafted a "three-phase" vaccine passport scheme for people from regions or countries with high Covid-19 vaccination rates, namely Europe, the United States, northeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Inbound tourists from those places would be required to stay in designated resorts in Vietnam, and to book their trip with a designated travel agency. There would be monthly caps on the tally of visitors admitted. The cap would rise incrementally, if all went well.
The first phase of the vaccine passport programme – scheduled to run from February to May 2022 – would see Quang Nam province take in "2,000 to 3,000" foreign visitors every month. They would be allowed to visit several tourist spots within the province, including Hoi An old town and "amusement facilities" in five-star resorts, according to VN Express.
That second phase – until September, 2022 – would see Quang Nam province allowing "10,000 to 50,000" foreign tourists every month, who would then be allowed to visit more destinations in the province and stay at three- and four-star resorts.
The report did not specify if quarantine measures would be partially or fully exempted for Quang Nam inbound foreign tourists that have been fully vaccinated.
Vietnam's National Administration of Tourism said last week that it was preparing for "safe resumption of tourism", as the government had decided to switch from its "zero-Covid 19" approach to adopting a "flexible" response to Covid-19.
Phu Quoc, a holiday island in southern Vietnam, and which is host to Corona Resort and Casino, the country's only casino resort currently permitted to cater to local players, will also have a pilot scheme to admit foreigners. It will run from November to March next year, according to an October 7 statement from the Vietnam government.
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On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Harvestworks and Issue Project Room co-produced an in-depth investigation into the phenomena of no-input, a style of sound art using internal mixer feedback to generate sound. An audio mixer with anything from basic EQ and sufficient outputs/channels provides a diverse palette for experimentation with feedback. Using multiple channels, different configurations of inputs/outputs and possibly external effects can further extend the range of obtainable timbres.
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A Harvestworks 35th Anniversary Event.
Presentations will feature no-input icon Toshimaru Nakamura who will be joined by sound artists Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones and Phillip Stearns in a panel that will explore the limits of the sound-generating technique, it's influence on the audience and how each artist has expanded their equipment to address stylistic concerns. The panel will be followed by a performance with special guest Gene Coleman where participants will exhibit the their idiosyncratic approaches to controlling an instrument that defies control.
Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura has been producing sound art on his self-named "no-input mixing board," after long unhappy years with the electric guitar. The name describes the method of his sounds. "No" external sound source is connected to "inputs" of the "mixing board." Toshimaru is a distinguished and original voice in electro-acoustic improvisation. Since 1998, Nakamura has been exploring the possibilities of his no-input mixing board system.
Philip White is a sound artist who's performances and presentations center on a nonlinear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.
Bob Bellerue is a sound artist based in Brooklyn NY. His work utilizes custom electronics and programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field recordings, demusicalized objects, and found oscillators. The artist states,"my work is based in feedback circuits used for synthesis; recontextualized field recordings; texture/drone/nonmusical instruments (shanai, rebab, gambuh, chinese cymbals, hunting calls, junk metal, sheets of glass); and a performance presence best characterized as animist/animalistic."
Bonnie Jones
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, sound artist, and performer working primarily with electronic sounds and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea, she currently resides in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken). She is interested in how people perceive, "read" and interact with these sounds and texts in our current technological environment. Bonnie has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and received her MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
Philip Stearns
Phillip Stearns creates at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including sound installation, music performance and composition, video, circuit sculpture, photography, and conceptual art. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in his hands-on approach to creating works with materials ranging from electronic objects, biological systems, images, light, video, and sound. In his work with technology, the machine is understood as the living manifestation of human intentions where the development and application of our technologies, machines, and tools reveals our desires and dreams—both conscious and not.
Gene Coleman
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He has created over 50 works for various instrumentation and media. Since 2001 his work has focused on global culture and music's relationship with architecture, video and dance. Coleman is the recipient of the 2013 Berlin Prize in Music Composition and was composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome (Fall 2011). He has collaborated with a wide range of composers; from Jim O'Rourke and Otomo Yoshihide to Helmut Lachenmann and George Crumb. Groups that have commissioned music and film work include Klangforum Wien, The Japan Society, The Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Chamber Music Now, Network for New Music, Ensemble On-Line, Phace Contemporary, I-House Philadelphia, E-Mex Ensemble, Tom Buckner, MoMA, The Crossing and others. More info at: http://vimeo.com/genecoleman (and soon) http://genecolemancomposer.com.
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LISWire: EBSCO Information Services Releases a Free Version of ERIC To Provide Access During the Government Shutdown
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The U.S. Government shutdown has affected the availability of the government database ERIC. EBSCO has temporarily made its version of ERIC available at http://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC. EBSCO President Tim Collins says, "We know our users who access ERIC on EBSCOhost find it to be a valuable resource and we understand that having access to a resource like ERIC shut off handicaps some researchers. Therefore, we have decided to provide this temporary access in order to assist these researchers."
The press release is below and can be found online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/EBSCO/FreeERIC/prweb11193751.htm or on the EBSCO Website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/latest-news
EBSCO Information Services Releases a Free Version
of ERIC To Provide Access During the Government Shutdown
~ Valuable Education Research Database Now Available Online ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — October 3, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is making the government database ERIC available during the government shutdown. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is typically available through the government website (http://eric.ed.gov/) as well as via EBSCO's EBSCOhost® research platform. Because of the shutdown the government website is unavailable so EBSCO has decided to temporarily open its version of ERIC and make it available at: http://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC .
ERIC provides access to educational literature and resources including access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. It was designed as a national information system to provide access to education literature and resources. According to its website, "ERIC is the world's largest and most frequently used education digital library." ERIC provides more than 1.4 million bibliographic records and dates back to 1966.
EBSCO is the provider of hundreds of research databases for academic institutions, public libraries, schools, hospitals and medical institutions, corporations and government organizations. EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins says the decision to make ERIC available to users while service from the government site is interrupted was an easy one. "We know our users who access ERIC on EBSCOhost find it to be a valuable resource and we understand that having access to a resource like ERIC shut off handicaps some researchers. Therefore, we have decided to provide this temporary access in order to assist these researchers."
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May 23rd, 2005 by Monitor
Ofcom further cemented its reputation as a voice of reason today when it found Channel 4 "not in breach" for showing Lars Von Trier's The Idiots (see 13 March article). The report, available as a .pdf download on Ofcom's website, must come as a massive disappointment to the seven complainants who stayed up after midnight especially to be offended by the unpixelated penetrative sex scene (or at least pretended to stay up).
Under the circumstances: the serious contextualisation of the film within a season examining the censorship of film and television, its artistic purpose, the channel which transmitted it, the strong warnings before the film and prior to the scene in question and the scheduling after midnight, we consider this broadcast of the film on Channel 4 did not breach the Code. These circumstances all served to prepare potential viewers for the extreme content.
An important consideration was the artistic intention of the film in its style and narrative. The documentary approach, along with the brevity of the scene and its pivotal role in breaking up the group, further distanced the film from those of the 'adult market'.
Mediawatch-UK has eight members on its committee. Which one is not pulling their weight?
One Response to "Idiots"
24/May/2005 at 7:31 pm
oh…'WEIGHT'!
……sorry, wasn't paying attention there. Thought it said something else.


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You too! Is it Christopher or Chris?
Oh, I don't care, whichever!
and just give me a single name to call you by. Any name! I don't care. Just don't make me arbitrarily choose a name to call you by after 5 seconds of interaction.
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Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and liberal political activist. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the eldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all actors. Baldwin first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice (1988), as Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990), the romantic comedy The Marrying Man (1991), the drama Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), the superhero film The Shadow (1994) and two films directed by Martin Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004), and the neo-noir crime drama The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has done voice work for The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) and The Boss Baby (2017).
Alexander Rae Baldwin III
Beetlejuice, The Getaway, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Thomas & Friends, The Departed and 30 Rock.
Massapequa, Long Island, New York, United States
Actor, Film producer and Comedian
6' (183 cm)
Distinctive feature
Deep Raspy Voice
Greenwich Village, New York City, U.S.
$65,000,000 USD
Alfred G. Berner High School, Massapequa, NY
George Washington University, Washington, DC
BA Drama, New York University (1993)
N2N Entertainment, Inc.
Celebrity Talent International
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Electron micrograph of bacteriophages on a bacterial cell. (Graham Beards/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)
Tens of Thousands of Viruses Found in Human Poop Are Previously Unknown to Science
PHILIP HUGENHOLTZ & SOO JEN LOW, THE CONVERSATION
Research published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut - 92 percent of which were previously unknown.
But as we and our colleagues from the Joint Genome Institute and Stanford University in California found, the great majority of these were bacteriophages, or "phages" for short. These viruses "eat" bacteria and can't attack human cells.
When most of us think of viruses, we think of organisms that infect our cells with diseases such as mumps, measles or, more recently, COVID-19. However, there are a vast number of these microscopic parasites in our bodies - mostly in our gut - that target the microbes that live there.
Everybody poops (but not all poop is the same)
There has recently been much interest in the human gut microbiome: the collection of microorganisms that live in our gut.
Besides helping us digest our food, these microbes have many other important roles. They protect us against pathogenic bacteria, modulate our mental well-being, prime our immune system when we are children, and have an ongoing role in immune regulation into adulthood.
It's fair to say the human gut is now the most well-studied microbial ecosystem on the planet. Yet more than 70 percent of the microbial species that live there have yet to be grown in the laboratory.
We know this because we can access the genetic blueprints of the gut microbiome via an approach known as metagenomics. This is a powerful technique whereby DNA is directly extracted from an environment and randomly sequenced, giving us a snapshot of what is present within and what it might be doing.
Metagenomic studies have revealed how far we still have to go to catalog and isolate all the microbial species in the human gut - and even further to go when it comes to viruses.
11,810 samples of poo
In our new research, we and our colleagues computationally mined viral sequences from 11,810 publicly available fecal metagenomes, taken from people in 24 different countries. We wanted to get an idea of the extent to which viruses have taken up residence in the human gut.
This effort resulted in the Metagenomic Gut Virus catalog, the largest such resource to date. This catalog comprises 189,680 viral genomes which represent more than 50,000 distinct viral species.
Remarkably (but perhaps predictably), more than 90 percent of these viral species are new to science. They collectively encode more than 450,000 distinct proteins - a huge reservoir of functional potential that may either be beneficial or detrimental to their microbial, and in turn human, hosts.
We also drilled down into subspecies of different viruses and found some showed striking geographical patterns across the 24 countries surveyed.
For example, a subspecies of the recently described and enigmatic crAssphage was prevalent in Asia, but was rare or absent in samples from Europe and North America. This may be due to localized expansion of this virus in specific human populations.
One of the most common functions we discovered in our molecular field trip were diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs). These are a class of genetic elements that mutate specific target genes in order to generate variation that can be beneficial to the host. In the case of DGRs in viruses, this may help in the ongoing evolutionary arms race with their bacterial hosts.
Intriguingly, we found one-third of the most common virally-encoded proteins have unknown functions, including more than 11,000 genes distantly related to "beta-lactamases", which enable resistance to antibiotics such as penicillin.
Linking gut viruses to their microbial hosts
Having identified the phages, our next task was to link them to their microbial hosts. CRISPRs, best known for their many applications in gene editing, are bacterial immune systems that "remember" past viral infections and prevent them from happening again.
They do this by copying and storing fragments of the invading virus into their own genomes, which can then be used to specifically target and destroy the virus in future encounters.
We used this record of past attacks to link many of the viral sequences to their hosts in the gut ecosystem. Unsurprisingly, highly abundant viral species were linked to highly abundant bacterial species in the gut, mostly belonging to the bacterial phyla Firmicutes and Bacteroidota.
So what can we do with all of this new information? One promising application of an inventory of gut viruses and their hosts is phage therapy. Phage therapy is an old concept predating antibiotics, in which viruses are used to selectively target bacterial pathogens in order to treat infections.
There has been discussion of potentially customizing people's gut microbiomes using dietary interventions, probiotics, prebiotics or even "transpoosions" (fecal microbiota transplants), to improve an individual's health.
Phage therapy may be a useful addition to this objective, by adding species or even subspecies-level precision to microbiome manipulation. For example, the bacterial pathogen Clostridioides difficile (or Cdiff for short) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea that could be specifically targeted by phages.
More subtle manipulation of non-pathogenic bacterial populations in the gut may be achievable through phage therapy. A complete compendium of gut viruses is a useful first step for such applied goals.
It's worth noting, however, that projections from our data suggest we've only investigated a fraction of the total gut viral diversity. So we've still got a long way to go.
Philip Hugenholtz, Professor of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland and Soo Jen Low, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland.


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MotherJones MA93: Hanan Ashrawi
The Palestinians' tough negotiator is Israel's best hope for peace.
Israel Amrani
Hanan Ashrawi, palestinian spokeswoman for the peace talks with Israel, warmed up instantly at our interview in her home in Ramallah, a town in the occupied West Bank.
"We don't think the decisive factor should be, 'This is what you can get now. Grab it or else you have nothing,'" said Ashrawi, taking a drag from a Marlboro Menthol. "We have changed the mentality of our people from the all-or-nothing equation. There are basic rights that no Palestinian will abandon. When they ask us to abandon these rights, they are asking us to negate not just our national rights but our legitimacy, our credibility."
When Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), made Ashrawi a spokeswoman, the gun-speaking Palestinians finally found a voice. Her success as a woman in a male-dominated region only highlights her uniqueness. She's exceedingly articulate, speaking in rapid, unambiguous sentences. She masterfully conducts press conferences and interviews, controlling the topics of discussion, dodging uncomfortable issues, cutting off what she considers irrelevant questions. She can be personable, but has no urge to please.
The tape-recorded voice of a muezzin broke through our conversation that fall afternoon, calling believers to one of five daily Muslim prayers. Ashrawi, a non-practicing Anglican, is exempt from the ritual.
But the muezzin's interruption illustrates what Ashrawi faces. A wealthy, Christian, feminist, ex-Marxist, she is a strange bird in the flock for which she speaks. Critics accuse her of gliding through the struggle that confronts most Palestinians, protected as she is by wealth and middle-class comforts. In fact, the Palestinian delegation that Ashrawi speaks for may not exist much longer. Extremists like Hamas, the Muslim fundamentalist movement in the territories, are gaining power at the expense of the PLO. Hamas does not accept the appearance of a woman in public, let alone her acting as a spokeswoman for the Palestinians. Their resolution to conflict in the Middle East is to destroy the state of Israel. "After Saturday comes Sunday" is a famous Muslim saying, sometimes interpreted to mean that after the fundamentalists finish the Jews, they'll deal with the Christians.
When Ashrawi speaks of losing "legitimacy" and "credibility," she is afraid of losing not only her struggle for peace, but also her life.
Ashrawi stopped being a private person in April 1988 when she appeared on ABC's "Nightline" in a three-hour, live broadcast pitting four Palestinians against four Israelis. Ashrawi participated on the show by chance, and stole it with grace. She began receiving more invitations to speak than she could accept, but her new status only emphasized her confinement under the occupation. When traveling abroad, she was strip-searched at airports and border crossings.
But in August 1992, she and five other unofficial delegates refused to fill out the security forms required for passage to Jordan. When the Israelis didn't let them pass, they filed a complaint with the U.S. State Department, threatening to boycott the peace talks in Washington. The next day, Ashrawi and her colleagues were whisked through to Jordan, finally establishing their de facto diplomatic status.
Ashrawi had defied the Israelis many times before, most notably by violating what she calls an "illegal law" outlawing private meetings of Israelis with anyone associated with terrorist groups, including the PLO.
For several years, Ashrawi made sure that no cameras were present when she met with Arafat and PLO members in Tunis. Upon her return to Israel, she would deny, to everyone's satisfaction, that the meetings had taken place. In June 1992 she ended the game, meeting Arafat in Amman in a well-televised meeting. In a famous photograph, she rests her head on Arafat's shoulder in submission, and perhaps apology.
What many see as Ashrawi's most critical failure as Palestinian spokeswoman had occurred two months before, in April, when Arafat's plane had been believed lost in a Libyan sandstorm. Ashrawi said at the time that if he had indeed died, elections should be held in all Palestinian institutions, such as the Palestinian National Council. Opponents interpreted her words as wishful thinking. "She eulogized him when he was still alive," said Freh Abu Medein, chairman of the Gaza Bar Association. "She should have waited like everybody else to see what happened to him."
When it became clear that Arafat had survived, critics called for her dismissal. Ashrawi was thankful he was alive but not apologetic to her critics. She blamed the Israeli media for "manufacturing" responses. "The moment they read my interview, people understood what I'd said," she said. "I think the Israeli interviewers went to Palestinian individuals and told them, 'Hanan said this, Hanan is calling for elections. What is your reaction?'
"Most people said, 'We would like to hear what Hanan said; we are not going to react to what you say she said.' It was a deliberate attempt to discredit me. It wasn't the first time."
Hanan Ashrawi is the youngest daughter of the late Daud Mikhail, a wealthy physician, an atheist with a Christian background, and a feminist. Her mother is Anglican, two aunts are Catholic nuns, another is Greek Orthodox, and her uncle is Baptist. Her sister married a Muslim–an act unheard of ten years ago.
Ashrawi was a student at the American University of Beirut when the Six-Day War broke out in June 1967. The Israeli military government implemented a law defining anyone not home at the outbreak of hostilities as an "absentee." Because absentees did not legally exist, Ashrawi was not allowed to return to Ramallah.
She supported herself in Beirut, then studied for a doctorate in medieval literature at the University of Virginia. In September 1973, one month before the Yom Kippur War, the military governor granted a permit for her to resettle indefinitely in Ramallah. Many assume that, like the rest of his class, Daud Mikhail tacitly cooperated with the military government to save his property and business interests–and to bring Hanan home.
Returning to Israel in 1973 at the age of twenty-six, Ashrawi was offered a plum: chairwoman of the English Studies department at the old Anglican Teacher's College in Bir Zeit. Ashrawi headed a department that was authorized to grant doctoral degrees even though she did not receive her own until years later.
She immersed herself in the budding Palestinian revolution. She spoke, she marched, she did political theater, and she attended parties at which nationalism flowed as freely as arak. She had promised to behave as a condition of her return, but she could not resist demonstrating. She was detained, tried, and made to choose between six months in prison and a $120 fine. Her college faculty paid the fine. Others paid much stiffer penalties, but she would use the incident to prove that she, too, had suffered.
Ashrawi's greatest admirer is her husband Emil, a burly, bearded, forty-two-year-old–four years younger than she and her exact opposite. The ninth son of a poor family and barely a high school graduate, his speech is soft, slow, and melodic. Unlike his wife, he often breaks into hearty laughter. A photographer with the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem, he picks up their daughters, Amal and Zina, from school. When Hanan is traveling, the girls stay tuned to the television, hoping to see their mother on the news.
Emil and Hanan met at a party shortly after her 1973 trial. He recalls "this beautiful girl in a miniskirt, with short hair falling over her shoulders, who was talking to everybody." He was intimidated by her education and reputation, but she told him that she had cried at a rock concert in which he'd played drums. They talked all night. In August 1975, they married at the Anglican Cathedral of Jerusalem. For years, she recited Greek poems to him before going to bed. But as time went by, he realized that she was married less to him than to her people's cause.
Twenty miles from Ashrawi's comfortable Ramallah home, in the Dheishe refugee camp, Na'im Abu-Akar was marking the second anniversary of the death of his son. At seventeen, Mohammad had been shot in an incident with Israeli soldiers. His struggle to live had lasted twenty-six months.
Abu-Akar lost a son, but gained respect as the father of a shahid, a martyr. Mohammad, his father said, wanted liberty and hated the occupation. He was in love with peace, died for peace. The Palestinian people also want peace, he said, but they don't see it coming.
Abu-Akar blamed the failure of the peace talks on the Palestinian delegation. But what do you expect from people so removed from daily hardships, he asked. "Did Hanan Ashrawi suffer? Was her daughter arrested, imprisoned, killed? Was she ever here in Dheishe? Was [head of the Palestinian delegation] Faisal al-Husseini here? They did not hurt enough, did not suffer enough to represent the noble Palestinians."
Both Israelis and Palestinians emphasize Ashrawi's lack of popular support. "If elections were held today," a good friend of hers said, "Hanan would not be elected." This is one reason for the lack of progress in the peace talks.
There are other reasons. Ashrawi blames the Israelis for reneging on their promises. Israelis blame the Palestinians for demanding too much, thus missing an opportunity for agreement. Both sides ignore other aspects of the conflict.
For many Israelis on the Left, Hanan Ashrawi is the embodiment of the Good Arab. Other Israelis view her as an exception, because for them an Arab is Muslim, not Christian. Muslim Palestinians similarly express the view that Ashrawi is an inorganic product of the Palestinian revolution, regardless of her family's old roots in the land. Ashrawi dismisses such observations, but does admit to being an "outsider."
For whom, then, does Ashrawi speak? She was appointed by Arafat, who likes her personally, but as the April 1992 fiasco demonstrated, her power base is thin. When the fear of losing legitimacy leaves her little room for maneuvering, and when Israelis are reminded daily that most Palestinians are not like Ashrawi, there is no practical motive to embrace peace.
Peace will indeed be costly to both sides. The Palestinians and Israelis who cooperate and work for peace are negligible minorities in their nations.
The Israeli Left, which represents few workers and is made up largely of urban intellectuals, has little popular support. Social divisions among Israelis are obvious. Forty-five years of independence, $100 billion in financial assistance, and a very high tax rate have not produced the enlightened society that has been envisioned since Biblical times. There are too many poor and undereducated people in Israel. The prospects for bridging the gap and creating a more equal society seem bleak as another year of occupation goes by, bringing more fear of social unrest.
This is important when one considers that peace is impossible without a national consensus. When each side comes to the negotiating table afraid of losing what legitimacy it has, it cannot afford to be generous.
Israelis believe that once they pull their forces from the territories, Palestinians will settle old scores among themselves with destruction and assassinations. It's a fear that Palestinians express as well. On both sides, relative unity is maintained by the struggle against the opponent. Both sides seem to be afraid of peace; perhaps both need the conflict to survive.
I couldn't help but ask Ashrawi the obvious question at the end of our interview: Will there ever be peace in the Middle East?
"In the moment that I give up hope, I will not be in the peace process," Ashrawi answered patiently, as if lecturing to a class of rowdy kids. "If we lose faith, there will be no peaceful solution to the conflict. Peace will be very difficult and very painful, but I think we have to do it."
Israel Amrani is a free-lance writer living in California.


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SRS Crisafulli's Rugged Roots in Montana
Elizabeth Kaiser
By Elizabeth Kaiser, SRS Crisafulli Marketing Manager
SRS Crisafulli's employees are a mix of deep rooted Montanan families, returned children and transplants. It seems those who find themselves here share common goals and values, whether it is access to fresh air and wide open landscapes or taking advantage of a current employment boom. Everyone here also values hard work, the rugged environment, and strong community.
Montana is the 4th largest U.S. state and yet is the 7th least populous. Montana's economy is primarily agriculural and resource-based, with ranching, farming, and mining foremost. We at SRS Crisafulli are sometimes asked how a dredge manufacturer ever evolved in a dry, land locked, rugged state such as Montana. We just laugh and explain we worked, we grew, we drew on that rugged initiative that defines Montana.
Photograph by William Albert Allard
Two sorrels belonging to Buster and Helen Brown have gone AWOL in the snow.
National Geographic recently published an article exploring the history of Montana's Hi-Line. The rails were an important factor in that history, and as Montana today is the 3rd least densely populated state, they are still a widely used method of transportation. "Eventually pavement as well as rails linked those communities, forming a portion of U.S. Highway 2, America's northernmost cross-country ribbon of blacktop. Within Montana, this stretch of road and railway and towns and surrounding landscape became known as the Hi-Line."
Justin Hofeldt, a welder for BNSF Railway, repairs track near Rudyard. The rails opened this ground to homesteaders, with illusory promises of easy crops and plenty of rain.
SRS Crisafulli's own Maureen Lundman, Sales Manager, hails from Malta, which is part of the Hi-Line. Born and reared there, she and her 6 brothers and sisters went to school in Malta, her mother managed the household and her father ran the Lumber Yard. Joel Basta, a SRS Crisafulli Engineer, still works his family's dry land farm operation in Dawson County. Isaiah Helm, SRS Crisafulli Applications Engineer and his 2 brothers still participate in his family's cattle ranch outside Jordan, Montana. Larry Hegel, factory foreman and lifetime SRS employee, is the youngest of eight children raised in Glendive. These and many others at SRS Crisafulli have deep roots embedded in the culture and hardworking standards of the area.
Read more of the National Geographic article, Northern Montana's Hi-Line.
See more of William Albert Allard's pictures of Montana's Hi-Line, Riding Out Another Season
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define(['d3', 'stacked-bar', 'stackedBarDataBuilder'], function(d3, chart, dataBuilder) {
    'use strict';

    const aTestDataSet = () => new dataBuilder.StackedBarDataBuilder();
    const buildDataSet = (dataSetName) => {
        return aTestDataSet()
            [dataSetName]()
            .build();
    };
    const differentStacksReducer = (acc, d) => {
                if (acc.indexOf(d.stack) === -1) {
                    acc.push(d.stack);
                }

                return acc;
            };

    describe('Stacked Bar Chart', () => {
        let stackedBarChart, dataset, containerFixture, f;

        beforeEach(() => {
            dataset = buildDataSet('with3Sources');
            stackedBarChart = chart()
                .stackLabel('stack')
                .nameLabel('date')
                .valueLabel('views')
                .grid('full');

            // DOM Fixture Setup
            f = jasmine.getFixtures();
            f.fixturesPath = 'base/test/fixtures/';
            f.load('testContainer.html');

            containerFixture = d3.select('.test-container');
            containerFixture.datum(dataset.data).call(stackedBarChart);
        });

        afterEach(() => {
            containerFixture.remove();
            f = jasmine.getFixtures();
            f.cleanUp();
            f.clearCache();
        });

        describe('Render', () => {

            it('should render a chart with minimal requirements', () => {
                const expected = 1;
                const actual = containerFixture.select('.stacked-bar').size();

                expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
            });

            describe('groups', () => {
                it('should create a container-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.container-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should create a chart-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.chart-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should create a x-axis-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.x-axis-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should create a y-axis-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.y-axis-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should create a grid-lines-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.grid-lines-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should create a metadata-group', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('g.metadata-group').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });
            });

            describe('grid lines', () => {

                it('should draw horizontal grid line', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('.horizontal-grid-line').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should draw vertical grid line', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('.vertical-grid-line').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });
            });

            describe('axis', () => {
                it('should draw an X axis', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('.x-axis-group .axis.x').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should draw an Y axis', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const actual = containerFixture.select('.y-axis-group.axis').size();

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });
            });

            it('should render a layer for each data entry group', () => {
                const expected = dataset.data.reduce(differentStacksReducer, []).length;
                const actual = containerFixture.selectAll('.layer').size();

                expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
            });

            it('should render a bar for each data entry', () => {
                const expected = dataset.data.length;
                const actual = containerFixture.selectAll('.bar').size();

                expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
            });

            describe('when reloading with a two sources dataset', () => {

                it('should render in the same svg', () => {
                    const expected = 1;
                    const newDataset = buildDataSet('with2Sources');
                    let actual;

                    containerFixture.datum(newDataset.data).call(stackedBarChart);
                    actual = containerFixture.selectAll('.stacked-bar').nodes().length;

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should render two layers', () => {
                    const expected = 2;
                    const newDataset = buildDataSet('with2Sources');
                    let actual;

                    containerFixture.datum(newDataset.data).call(stackedBarChart);
                    actual = containerFixture.selectAll('.stacked-bar .layer').nodes().length;

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });

                it('should render eight bars total', () => {
                    const expected = 8;
                    const newDataset = buildDataSet('with2Sources');
                    let actual;

                    containerFixture.datum(newDataset.data).call(stackedBarChart);
                    actual = containerFixture.selectAll('.stacked-bar .bar').nodes().length;

                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                });
            });

            describe('when stacked bar is animated', () => {

                it('it renders correct number of layers and bars', () => {
                    const expectedNLayers = 3;
                    const nBarsPerLayer = 4;

                    stackedBarChart.isAnimated(true);
                    containerFixture.datum(dataset.data).call(stackedBarChart);

                    const actualNLayers = containerFixture.selectAll('.chart-group .layer').nodes().length;
                    const actualNBars = containerFixture.selectAll('.chart-group .bar').nodes().length;

                    expect(actualNLayers).toEqual(expectedNLayers);
                    expect(actualNBars).toEqual(expectedNLayers * nBarsPerLayer);
                });
            });
        });

        describe('Lifecycle', () => {

            describe('when clicking on a bar', () => {

                it('should trigger a callback', function () {
                    const chart = containerFixture.select('.stacked-bar');
                    const callbackSpy = jasmine.createSpy('callback');
                    const expectedCallCount = 1;
                    const expectedArgumentsCount = 2;

                    stackedBarChart.on('customClick', callbackSpy);
                    chart.dispatch('click');

                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.count()).toEqual(expectedCallCount);
                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.allArgs()[0].length).toEqual(expectedArgumentsCount);
                })
            });

            describe('when hovering', function () {

                it('mouseover should trigger a callback', () => {
                    const chart = containerFixture.selectAll('.stacked-bar');
                    const callbackSpy = jasmine.createSpy('callback');
                    const expectedCallCount = 1;
                    const expectedArgumentsCount = 2;

                    stackedBarChart.on('customMouseOver', callbackSpy);
                    chart.dispatch('mouseover');

                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.count()).toBe(expectedCallCount);
                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.allArgs()[0].length).toBe(expectedArgumentsCount);
                });

                it('mouseout should trigger a callback', () => {
                    const chart = containerFixture.selectAll('.stacked-bar');
                    const callbackSpy = jasmine.createSpy('callback');
                    const expectedCallCount = 1;
                    const expectedArgumentsCount = 2;

                    stackedBarChart.on('customMouseOut', callbackSpy);
                    chart.dispatch('mouseout');

                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.count()).toBe(expectedCallCount);
                    expect(callbackSpy.calls.allArgs()[0].length).toBe(expectedArgumentsCount);
                });
            });
        });

        describe('API', () => {

            it('should provide an aspect ratio getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.aspectRatio(),
                    expected = 600,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.aspectRatio(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.aspectRatio();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide a betweenBarsPadding getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.betweenBarsPadding(),
                    expected = 0.5,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.betweenBarsPadding(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.betweenBarsPadding();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide a colorSchema getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.colorSchema(),
                    expected = ['#ffffff', '#fafefc', '#000000'],
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.colorSchema(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.colorSchema();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should have exportChart defined', () => {
                expect(stackedBarChart.exportChart).toBeDefined();
            });

            it('should provide grid mode getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.grid(),
                    expected = 'vertical',
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.grid(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.grid();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide an hasPercentage getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.hasPercentage(),
                    expected = true,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.hasPercentage(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.hasPercentage();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide height getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.height(),
                    expected = {top: 4, right: 4, bottom: 4, left: 4},
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.height(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.height();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide horizontal direction getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.isHorizontal(),
                    expected = true,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.isHorizontal(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.isHorizontal();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide hasReversedStacks getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.hasReversedStacks(),
                    expected = true,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.hasReversedStacks(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.hasReversedStacks();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide isAnimated getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.isAnimated(),
                    expected = true,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.isAnimated(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.isAnimated();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            describe('loadingState', () => {

                it('should provide loadingState getter and setter', () => {
                    let previous = stackedBarChart.loadingState(),
                        expected = 'test',
                        actual;

                    stackedBarChart.loadingState(expected);
                    actual = stackedBarChart.loadingState();

                    expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                    expect(actual).toBe(expected);
                });

                describe('when getting a loadingState', () => {
                    it('should return an SVG element', () => {
                        let expected = 1,
                            actual;

                        stackedBarChart = chart();
                        actual = stackedBarChart.loadingState().match('bar-load-state').length;

                        expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                    });
                });
            });

            it('should provide margin getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.margin(),
                    expected = {top: 4, right: 4, bottom: 4, left: 4},
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.margin(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.margin();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
            });

            describe('when margins are set partially', function () {

                it('should override the default values', () => {
                    let previous = stackedBarChart.margin(),
                        expected = {
                            ...previous,
                            top: 10,
                            right: 20
                        },
                        actual;

                    stackedBarChart.width(expected);
                    actual = stackedBarChart.width();

                    expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                    expect(actual).toEqual(expected);
                })
            });

            it('should provide nameLabel getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.nameLabel(),
                    expected = 'key',
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.nameLabel(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.nameLabel();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide stackLabel getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.stackLabel(),
                    expected = 'testLabel',
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.stackLabel(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.stackLabel();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide a tooltip threshold getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.tooltipThreshold(),
                    expected = 600,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.tooltipThreshold(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.tooltipThreshold();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide valueLabel getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.valueLabel(),
                    expected = 'quantity',
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.valueLabel(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.valueLabel();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide valueLabelFormat getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.valueLabelFormat(),
                    expected = 's',
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.valueLabelFormat(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.valueLabelFormat();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(expected);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide width getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.width(),
                    expected = 40,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.width(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.width();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide locale getter and setter', () => {
                let defaultLocale = null,
                    testValue = 'ru-RU',
                    newLocale;

                stackedBarChart.locale(testValue);
                newLocale = stackedBarChart.locale();

                expect(defaultLocale).not.toBe(testValue);
                expect(newLocale).toBe(testValue);
            });

            it('should provide xTicks getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.xTicks(),
                    expected = 4,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.xTicks(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.xTicks();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide yTicks getter and setter', () => {
                let previous = stackedBarChart.yTicks(),
                    expected = 4,
                    actual;

                stackedBarChart.yTicks(expected);
                actual = stackedBarChart.yTicks();

                expect(previous).not.toBe(actual);
                expect(actual).toBe(expected);
            });

            it('should provide yAxisLabel getter and setter', () => {
                let defaultYAxisLabel = 'Hello',
                    testYAxisLabel = 'World',
                    newYAxisLabel;

                stackedBarChart.yAxisLabel(testYAxisLabel);
                newYAxisLabel = stackedBarChart.yAxisLabel();

                expect(defaultYAxisLabel).not.toBe(newYAxisLabel);
                expect(newYAxisLabel).toBe(testYAxisLabel);
            });

            it('should provide yAxisLabelOffset getter and setter', () => {
                let defaultYAxisLabelOffset =  stackedBarChart.yAxisLabelOffset(),
                    testYAxisLabelOffset = -30,
                    newYAxisLabelOffset;

                stackedBarChart.yAxisLabelOffset(testYAxisLabelOffset);
                newYAxisLabelOffset = stackedBarChart.yAxisLabelOffset();

                expect(defaultYAxisLabelOffset).not.toBe(newYAxisLabelOffset);
                expect(newYAxisLabelOffset).toBe(testYAxisLabelOffset);
            });
        });
    });
});

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Anne Hathaway: 'I'm not big on mommy guilt'
Parenting / 3 February 2019, 6:00pm / Bang Showbiz
The Serenity star admits that she finds it the hardest to not feel guilty when she's taking on "isolating" characters in films. Picture: AP
Anne Hathaway refuses to let herself feel "mommy guilt".
The 36-year-old actress has two-year-old son Jonathan with her husband Adam Shulman, and has said she always tries to be "nice" to herself when it comes to judging her own parenting skills, because she's "not big" on letting herself feel guilty for the decisions she has to make.
She said: "I try to be nice to myself. I'm not big on mommy guilt. I just don't really do it unless I really, really, really, really, really need to."
And the Serenity star admits that she finds it the hardest to not feel guilty when she's taking on "isolating" characters in films, because she feels as though she isn't spending enough time doting on her son whilst she's in character.
She added: "It's hard when you play characters that are isolated. I just did one this summer. My God, she was such an island, and it's a little harder because I'd be holding [Jonathan], but I felt like I wasn't really giving it to him.
"If I'm in a character for three months, I make sure that I'm not in character for three months. That way I'm never asking for him to share me for too long."
Anne always tries to remind herself that when she's taking on a role, she won't be in that headspace forever.
She said: "With that one, I just say to myself, 'It's three months. It's three months and you're doing your best.' The way I counteract is to the best of my ability."
The Ocean's 8 star knows that's "just what life's going to be" until her son grows up, and says she wants to get better at being "nimble" about her personality changes in and out of character.
Speaking to Jess Cagle for People's 'The Jess Cagle Interview', she said: "I just want to figure out how to become nimble at it. I don't know if I'm that nimble at it yet."
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