Norma called me last month to inquire about photographing Yadira's Quinceañera at the Pioneer Event Center in Grand Prairie. I was so excited to hear from her especially since I had just finished Jazmine's party a couple of weeks before, which was held at the same location. When I arrived I immediately found the beautiful birthday girl in her gown surrounded by tons of well-dressed teens. Soon after I was able to locate Norma, also dressed in gorgeous evening attire. We quickly discussed the plans for the evening and I got set up and ready to shoot. My part of the night began with candid shots of the guests. For the most part, I find that guests either pose and want to get their picture taken or they cover their face and "shoo" me away. After about 30 minutes Yadira danced with her brother and then her father. It became very emotional as Yadira teared up while dancing with her father and then was comforted by her mother as she wiped away tears. But those tears were nothing in comparision to the ones that came as Norma and her sister spoke about Yadira. Norma even brought a card which I believe was made by Yadira when she was younger. Norma's voice cracked as she read from the card and at times had to pause to catch her breath. It was touching to watch their emotions. Afterward the tears dried up quickly as the dancing began. Everyone took to the floor… even Grandma! It was a wonderful party… I hope you had a great night Yadira! Happy Birthday!!!


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EPE Vol.8 No.4 , April 2016
Upgrading Tests Using PSIM Tool of MPPT-PV Feedback-Current Controller
Herman Enrique Fernandez Hernandez
Engineering and Research Group of VG Metals/UNEXPO Puerto Ordaz-DIP, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela.
Abstract: This paper presents improvement tests based in a feedback-current controller designed to Tracking Maximum Power Point in photovoltaic system (MPPT-PV). Previously, a version was developed exhibiting results satisfactory in simulation and through of a low cost prototype. Now, using a sophisticated physical model of solar cell available in PSIM program is shown other cases, considering variations both irradiation and temperature to evaluate successfully the controller. The results show that its system is suitable under dynamical changing atmospheric conditions operating with effectiveness acceptable.
Keywords: MPPT, PV System, PSIM, Feedback-Current, Solar Cell
Received 5 March 2016; accepted 26 April 2016; published 29 April 2016
A MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) controller is most effective solution used to maximize the power extracted from PV modules under atmospheric conditions [1] - [5] . Although some MPPT methods are applicable for rural applications, they are implemented using powerful ICs, microprocessors or DSP (digital signal processor) [6] - [9] . Consequently, topologies mentioned are not the best for applications in underdeveloped countries, where the cost is a fundamental issue and where a highly trained installation and maintenance personnel is not easily available. As solution, a special feedback-current controller designed to operate as a MPPT system is developed [10] , which is a circuit highly efficient, simple, rugged, low cost design, and ideal for applications in isolated locations in the less developed countries. This paper presents improvement tests using PSIM [11] , a simulation program which allows additional verifications, specially focused to evaluate of the MPPT behavior under some perturbations not considered previously [10] : insolation changes, temperature variations and dynamical response of the controller. New simulation tests prove that the proposed controller can achieve effective, precise and fast response, being a part of the essential characteristics of a MPPT unit, specifically when is oriented to be used in an isolated place.
2. System Description
Figure 1 shows the MPPT circuit using PSIM models. The main blocks used are: a sophisticated PV model available in PSIM, a simple power stage represented by an average model DC/DC converter (step-down topology), the MPPT controller constituted for a generic regulator, filtering stages and finally, simplest representation of a battery bank.
DC/DC converter is modeled using controlled sources of voltage VCVSV1 and current IVCCSV1. Both configurations depend on the duty cycle signal provided by the MPPT regulator. Its unit only requires measurement of the current Isal which is proportioned for solar cells array. The controller structure is based on the model equations explained in a next section.
Connecting adequate sources on S and T terminals available of solar cell module is feasible simulate changing conditions of irradiation and temperature respectively. Either S or T can be configured independently using different profiles: fixed, staircase-ramp type, piecewise linear and with triangular variations.
Acquiring and comparing Pmax and Pout signalsis possible evaluate the tracking method proposed under different operational conditions.
2.1. Solar Module Physical Model (PSIM)
Although physical and functional models are available in PSIM, the first option can simulate the behavior of the solar module more accurately, and can take into account the light intensity and temperature variation. Some parameters required are: number of cells, maximum power, voltage and current in maximum power, open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current, standard light intensity, reference temperature, internal resistances, bang energy, ideality factor, temperature and light coefficients.
Both light intensity and ambient temperature are incoming externally. Default parameters used in simulations test are listed in Table 1 [12] .
The node S refers to the light intensity input (W/m2), and the node T is the ambient temperature input (˚C). The node on the top is theoretical maximum power given the operating conditions. While the positive (+) and negative (−) terminal nodes are power circuit nodes.
Figure 1. PSIM diagram used to simulate the MPPT-PV with feedback-current.
Table 1. Solar module (physical model)a.
aPSIM tutorial. How to use solar module physical model.
The equations that describe a solar cell are:
Defining q: electron charge (q = 1.6 × 10−19 C); Ns: corresponding to solar cells connected in series; Ct: temperature coefficient (˚C); k: Boltzmann constant (k = 1.3806505 × 10−23); Rs: series resistance of each solar cell (Ω); A: ideality factor; Rsh(Ω): shunt resistance of each solar cell; S0: light intensity under standard test conditions; Eg: band energy of each solar cell (eV); Tref: temperature under standard test conditions (˚C); vd is the voltage that appears on Rsh; v(V)/Ns is the across the entire solar module; and i(A) is the current flowing out of the positive terminal of solar module [11] .
2.2. Feedback-Current Controller
MPPT strategy works as follows. The proposed MPPT based on output current measurements taking into account the theoretical straight line connecting the maximum power points in the PV panel characteristics. Specifically considering a couple points of power and voltage given by p1: 11.12W, v1: 15.31V and p2: 69.38W, v2: 16.32 V, is possible establish the load power as:
According MPPT strategy previously presented [10] , then Dcontrol or duty cycle expression is determined by:
where Dmax is a constant; and Isal is the current generated according to Equation (1).
3. Simulation Tests
A first test is focused to evaluate MPPT behavior under temperature variations. When Ta is adjusted, tracker function is kept close such to PV power available as is illustrated in Figure 2. Temperature ranges adopted specifically between 25˚C - 40˚C, correspond to environmental conditions in isolated locations at south of Venezuela, regularly registered in some regions at Bolivar State. Under such circumstances the efficiency corresponds to 98.88%.
A second evaluation is realized to verify the possible impact when solar irradiance changes linearly, simulated through triangular waveform with amplitude range between 100 to 1100 W/m2, applied as input signal to "S" terminal of solar cell model. Figure 3 illustrate an acceptable tracking capability of designed controller. The theoretical maximum available power is 63.6357W, the extracted power is 63.3713W, and the MPPT efficiency is 99.58%.
Regarding to dynamic test, the MPPT controller respond quickly under step change of solar irradiance as is showed in Figure 4.
Finally, is considered a staircase function as irradiation over solar cell but adjusting simultaneously a temperature range between 25˚C to 45˚C.When upper temperature is reached, the theoretical maximum available power is 60.648W, the extracted power is 58.292W, and therefore the MPPT efficiency is 96.11%, such as showed in Figure 5. Although the extracted power value has been reduced, the tracker system continues operating satisfactorily.
Because significant modifications are not required, the control system can be implemented with conventional PWM regulators [10] .
Figure 2. Power tracker response under temperature variations. Top traces: superimposed signals Pmax and extracted Power. Bottom trace: temperature profile applied.
Figure 3. System operation when S changes linearly. Newly, Pmax and power signal are coincident.
Figure 4. Step change solar irradiance evaluation.
Figure 5. Staircase function as incoming signal over S terminal available in solar cell model. Simultaneously, a parameter sweep analysis is used in order to produce temperature variations considering a range between 25˚C to 45˚C.
MPPT controller reveals that it operates satisfactorily during each test realized. The controller is efficient but also optimizes energy production of PV array. However, just like any off-line techniques, it requires manufacturer data sheet of solar cell connected.
Under conditions considered, it is feasible to install the MPPT controller in isolated locations although atmospheric perturbations persist.
Although the design does not require a compensation stage, nevertheless, a simple network could be added to adapt the circuit to temperature changes.
The author would like to thank support provided by the team VG Metals, especially to Mrs. María Mendoza and Mr. Jesús Vergara.
Cite this paper: Fernandez Hernandez, H. (2016) Upgrading Tests Using PSIM Tool of MPPT-PV Feedback-Current Controller. Energy and Power Engineering, 8, 236-241. doi: 10.4236/epe.2016.84022.
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British Fashion Council Announces The Fashion Awards 2020
The British Fashion Council (BFC) announces a new format in this extraordinary year for The Fashion Awards 2020. The annual global celebration of creativity and innovation will exceptionally take on a digital format on Thursday 3rd December 2020, in light of the restrictions imposed on large scale events and travel.
The Fashion Awards 2020 will honour and celebrate the designers, brands, creatives and individuals who have created positive change within the fashion industry this year; from those who bravely faced this challenging period with pro-active responses to the global pandemic, showed leadership and creative resilience, to the ones who stood up against prejudice within the fashion industry and fight for change. The BFC is looking to shine a spotlight on those who made humanitarian efforts, adapted their business models and responded to their community's needs.
Twenty individuals and brands will be recognised and receive a '2020 Fashion Award' in honour of their specific contribution. They will be announced as part of a short film that will document the fashion industry in this extraordinary year, while bringing together a list of next generation opinion leaders and creatives to share their personal vision on the most important moments of 2020. Please visit The Fashion Awards website and follow the British Fashion Council Instagram account for further release details.
New Wave: Creatives, the list that includes the most innovative and inspiring young creative talents from around the world, will return. Now in its third year, New Wave: Creatives has become a digital resource created to showcase the community and is being widely used by the international industry as an active resource for booking talent. The 2020 New Wave: Creatives list will place a spirit of resilience, innovation and meaningful change at the heart of the celebration as well as reinforce the BFC's continuous commitment to the creativity of the industry.
The BFC continues its collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) to recognise businesses and individuals in fashion that make concerted efforts to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Stephanie Phair, BFC Chair commented: "This has been a year like no other. Fashion has probably been changed forever and businesses and designers have had to adapt to a new reality. It is more important than ever to recognise those in the fashion industry who played an important role in this extraordinary year, proving the compassion and resilience of our industry. This is what The Fashion Awards 2020 have set to do, by spotlighting those who have shown leadership and creative resilience over the past year."
Caroline Rush, BFC CEO said: "What the past couple of months have shown us, is that the fashion industry is in need of a reset. This is why this year, under unique circumstances, we felt that it was important to recognise the people and businesses who played a role in some of the most important and challenging issues of our generation and champion those who raised the bar in areas such as diversity, sustainability, and community."
The BFC would like to thank its longstanding Official Partners of The Fashion Awards for their generosity, collaboration and commitment, particularly during this unprecedented year. Please help us to acknowledge our special thanks to American Express, Bird in Hand Wine, Getty Images and LAVAZZA for their ongoing support.
The BFC will continue to work with longstanding partner Swarovski and re-focus their support on the launch of a new initiative for 2021, in line with the new BFC strategy. The BFC is grateful to Swarovski who has been a vital partner of the organisation for the past 14 years.
The Fashion Awards 2021 will take place on Monday 29th November 2021, at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The ceremony will be reimagined to reflect the BFC's new mission and with the ambition to have technology and engagement at its heart, looking at innovations for amplification and new experiences. The BFC looks to collaborate with a new Principal Partner, as well as Official Partners, to bring this vision to life in 2021.
The Fashion Awards is a fundraiser for the BFC Foundation and focuses on celebrating excellence in the fashion industry and supporting the future pipeline of creative talent. Never before has there been more need for this support to ensure that our society and industry benefit from the positive cultural impact of fashion design.
The BFC Foundation (Registered Charity Number: 1185152) supports the future growth and success of the British fashion industry by focusing on three areas: Education, Grant-Giving & Business Mentoring and the Institute of Positive Fashion.
The BFC Foundation aims to improve equality and opportunity so that the fashion industry remains diverse and open to all, helping talented designers at all stages of their career from school level through to becoming a global fashion brand.
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I usually see films that I like more than once, but not usually in the same week. I saw Millions for the second time today, this time with my son, John. He liked it as well. The film kicked off the ViewFinders Film Festival for Youth in Halifax last Thursday as the opening gala and it was a great film to start that festival off. Danny Boyle has a great visual sense that comes through in all of his films. They're quirky and exciting and have generally covered topics that tended toward the seedier side of human existence. What's fascinating about Boyle's films is that you can see elements that are common to all of them in terms of subjects, characters, themes and visual elements. Interesting things will be discovered and then show up in other ways in sometimes drastically different contexts. I've seen most of the films that Danny Boyle has directed (with the exception of The Beach) and I've enjoyed them all.
With Millions it seems as if things are lightly and perfectly balanced. The extremes of horror and relentless pacing were hit with 28 Days Later, characters and situations went to extremes with Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, mixing the divine and the secular with A Life Less Ordinary, and the visual limits were reached with the duo of Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise and Strumpet. With the Editor (Chris Gill) and Director of Photography (Anthony Dod Mantle) from his last few films it's not too showy and it all mixes into a magical story where a young boy balances the advice of saints and his family in what to do with a lot of money that fell from the sky.
The casting is just right with Alex Etel as the narrator and main character. Etel has an innocence that carries the film as he tries to figure out the world. He reacts instead of acting and we're watch the struggles of a young boy and not someone trying to be cute. The subtlety and innocence of the main character goes through the entire film which cleverly combines faith, money, morality and loss with a slight covering of melodrama. With a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce (who also wrote 24 Hour Party People) it seems that the words and images fit perfectly. Looking at an excerpt from Boyce's novel of the same name, it's striking how clearly the voice of Damien comes through.
It's rare to see a film now that criticises commercialism without seeming to be filled with product placement. It's an odd thing, but while there are some logos visible through the film, you never have the feeling that the point is being made too obviously or in bad faith. The critical aspect of the relationship that a film has with an audience is that of trust. If you trust the filmmakers you will follow them where they take you since you feel as if you are safe. You can feel safe and still be moved by a film which is quite an achievement.
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How do Freemasons feel about cheating? I am soon to be 18 I live in south east Texas and I plan on going to work on the tug boats. I was just wandering how Freemason feel about cheating in a relationship? Also how do they protect each other if they don't believe in it?
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Freemasonry as a group expects its members to behave morally. A man having an affair is not behaving morally.
I as a Mason would not protect a fellow Mason from the consequences of his infidelity. Period. I won't say it never happens, but covering for a buddy can happen anywhere.


Then there is the potential for deep water soloing Already there are some established routes for this. In many ways this is the next great frontier. All you need is a pair of shoes and an absence of fear and you can go put up 10 new "routes" a day. I reckon that as word spreads, Railey will become the center of a deep water soloing meca... Information on deep water soloeing is here.
The traditional spot is on the obvious wall as you come onto Phra Nang Beach. This is a fantastic spot. Deep sand, fingery and technical low down, and fingery technical overhanging and ultra hard higher up. There are an almost inifinite number of problems and variations on this piece of rock. I love bouldering here and over the years have left gallons of sweat skin and fingernails on it. Whenever I come back it is always the first spot I come to test my strength against the days when I thougt I was strong. It never rains here as the towering rock above provides a permanent roof. It is the favorite spot of the Thai's who have got the thing so wired that they can now just flow accross it.
The basic right to left traverse is about a 6b+ with a 7a crux (I can't talk boulder so you'll have to put up with my approximation). If you go from right to left I reckon it's about a 6c+ with a 7b crux, but then that may be because you are already pumped from going the first way. I like to continue this one as far as you can go, right around the big bulge of choss, towards the little caves, finishing on along a sort of upward sloping crack/ break which ends in a little knob of a stalactite. (admire the chalk marks beyond). There is a high traverse of about 7a+ easier if you are shorter.... There is also a classic stalactite boulder problem, off the deck, onto the stalactite, up over to the wall and down- around 7a+ but a little more scary. Then there are lots of little problems to tweak yourself on from 6a to 9a. Some I've tried for years and given up as impossible, only to watch some unfeasibly strong kid style up it. Some I've thought beyond impossible and watched some of the worlds strongest making heroic attempts at.
As you come onto Tonsai beach, walking the jungle path from Railey, there is a great little wall for traversing, with a few interesting problems on it. (6c traverse?). Next to it there is a tasty little boulder, with some really quite tricky and quality problems to the top.
If you want to boulder boulders, then Koh Tao is a good place to go. There is a great site on it here..


text: Q: Rainbow Array (Android) I have an array that will contain an unknown number of elements. I would like to create an array of equal length that corresponds to that array, only this new array will contain colors. Is it possible to programatically assign colors to the new array in such a way that if you were to line up the colors of indexes 0 thru the length of the array, you would have a rainbow? I am clueless as to how to even go about calculating which color to put at each index, and any guidance would be very very much appreciated. Thanks!

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If you really want to leverage your time and build a team, then you need to have managers. The manager can interface with the team and allow you to do things that will grow your business.
What if you have a spreadsheet with a list of keywords.
Then, you have a draft in WordPress ready-to-publish a few days later.
Boom – It takes about 3 minutes to "Preview" one article and hit "Publish." That's exactly what I do, and it takes a day to start getting traffic on that page since I have KGR compliant keywords on my sites.
VAs are freelance contractors that you can hire to help you do something.
That something can be almost anything. In the context of this post, the VAs are working on the content of a Amazon Affiliate Niche Site, but it can really be for any task.
He wants the writer to do more content management.
I layout a plan to get the writer on board.
Let me know what questions you have in the comments.
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Skybox® Security has released the results of a global survey conducted by Osterman Research, Understanding Security Processes and the Need to Automate. The survey, which includes responses from 465 senior security leaders at large enterprises in the U.S., EMEA and APAC, reveals trends in the use of security automation, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Survey questions focused on workflows in firewall and security policy management and vulnerability management.
Key findings included some surprises. For example, according to the results, APAC is ahead of the U.S. and EMEA in terms of automation for processes involved in the management of firewall rules and security policy — the automation of these processes is least common in EMEA. And despite being hyped at shows and in the media, technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are still in early days, with few organizations using AI/ML in production — just four percent of respondents in EMEA, nine percent in the U.S. and 27 percent in APAC.
In general, the report reveals that companies worldwide are continuing to struggle with network security management, especially as those networks are growing more complex and increasing in size. Surprisingly, most are only partially automating workflows and processes to help overcome these challenges — but they do see the value and are looking to automate more in the future.
Cutting costs, making better use of skilled employees and network size/complexity are top drivers for automation —but that varies by region. In EMEA, 61 percent of respondents said cost was the number one driver; 43 percent said it was in the U.S. Surprisingly, only 35 percent in APAC ranked costs as the key driver for automation. They instead ranked the difficulty of managing the size and complexity of their network as the primary reason (43 percent), as well as being able to move skilled staff off mundane activities to higher value/skill security tasks (40 percent). The U.S. and EMEA also cited the challenges of managing network size and complexity as a heavy driver (42 percent and 38 percent respectively).
Better visibility and context are still needed. Organizations are still deficient in understanding network context and having visibility of firewall and security policy, including why firewall rules exist: 37 percent in the U.S., 61 percent in EMEA and 47 percent in APAC said they had only "minimal or some understanding." Even more surprising, respondents said they have only minimal or some understanding of how security changes impact their business: 49 percent in the U.S., 63 percent in EMEA and 39 percent in APAC. And it appears that identifying vulnerabilities continues to be a challenge, with 53 percent in the U.S., 63 percent in EMEA and 42 percent in APAC having only minimal or some understanding of what vulnerabilities exist on network devices.
Security staff are bogged down with incident response processes, compliance management and making changes to the security infrastructure. The top things respondents said they spend a "substantial" amount of time on are: incident response triage/prioritization and compliance management for the U.S.; firewall configurations and out-of-process changes for EMEA; compliance management and security changes for APAC.
Security teams need help, with most organizations admiting they need to make major improvements in how they manage security and policy. The biggest improvements are needed in how organizations decommission applications: 72 percent of respondents in the U.S., 67 percent in EMEA and 54 percent in APAC say they do it "poorly or moderately. "Security teams also need help pruning firewall rules so that rule sets do not become bloated, with 67 percent in the U.S., 78 percent in EMEA and 48 percent in APAC saying they do it "poorly or moderately." Ironically, these are areas where automation can make a huge impact.
Automation is an impetus for cloud migration. It's no surprise that for many companies, migration to the cloud is having a significant impact on the automation of security policy changes. This is most notable in APAC where 43 percent of organizations said cloud is impacting the automation of security policy changes. Survey results also show that the vast majority of organizations are working on initiatives focused on security automation to support cloud environments.


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import { IProductionContext } from '../ProductionContext';
import { IExportReference } from '../module/ExportReference';
import { WarmupPhase } from '../phases/WarmupPhase';
import { createTestEnvironment, ITestEnvironment } from './testUtils';

describe('Phase 1 export', () => {
  let environment: ITestEnvironment;
  async function getProductionContext(code: string): Promise<IProductionContext> {
    environment = await createTestEnvironment(
      { entry: 'index.ts' },
      {
        'foo.ts': `
        console.log('foo');
      `,
        'index.ts': code,
      },
    );
    environment.run([WarmupPhase]);
    return environment.productionContext;
  }

  async function getReferences(code: string): Promise<Array<IExportReference>> {
    const context = await getProductionContext(code);
    return context.modules[0].moduleTree.exportReferences.references;
  }

  describe('Basic structures', () => {
    // cleanup after each test
    afterEach(() => {
      if (environment) {
        environment.cleanup();
        environment = undefined;
      }
    });

    describe('Normal single object export', () => {
      it('export function foo', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export function foo(){}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('foo');
      });

      it('export class Foo', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export class Foo {}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('Foo');
      });

      it('should have both normal exports ', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export function foo(){}
          export class Foo {}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(2);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('foo');
        expect(refs[1].name).toEqual('Foo');
      });
    });

    describe('Normal default object export', () => {
      it('export default function foo', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export default function foo(){}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('default');
        expect(refs[0].local).toEqual('foo');
      });

      it('export default class Foo', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export default class Foo{}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('default');
        expect(refs[0].local).toEqual('Foo');
      });

      it('export default class (anon', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export default class {}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('default');
        expect(refs[0].local).toEqual(undefined);
      });

      it('export default function (anon)', async () => {
        const refs = await getReferences(`
          export default function(){}
        `);
        expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
        expect(refs[0].name).toEqual('default');
        expect(refs[0].local).toEqual(undefined);
      });
    });
  });

  describe('Export local refs', () => {
    it('should find local ref', async () => {
      const refs = await getReferences(`
        function foo(){}
        export { foo }
      `);
      expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
      expect(refs[0].targetObjectAst).toBeTruthy();
    });

    it('should not find local ref', async () => {
      const refs = await getReferences(`
        export { foo }
      `);
      expect(refs).toHaveLength(1);
      expect(refs[0].targetObjectAst).toBeUndefined();
    });
  });

  describe('Internal export references', () => {
    it('Function foo should have 1 internal export reference', async () => {
      const refs = await getReferences(`
        function bar(){}
        function foo(){
          console.log(1);
          return bar();
        }
        export { foo, bar }
      `);
      expect(refs).toHaveLength(2);
    });
  });
});

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package eu.toolchain.scribe;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;

public interface ConverterMapper<Value> {
  ConverterEncoding<Object, Value> valueEncodingForType(final Type type);

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  default <T> ConverterEncoding<T, Value> valueEncodingFor(final Class<T> type) {
    return (ConverterEncoding<T, Value>) valueEncodingForType(type);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  default <T> ConverterEncoding<T, Value> valueEncodingFor(final TypeReference<T> type) {
    return (ConverterEncoding<T, Value>) valueEncodingForType(type.getType());
  }
}


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Twogaa Sunday Post – 6.2.19 ( Fake News)
Christians and non-Christians, alike, are under attack from "Fake News." For Christians these evil sources undermine the basis of trust and manipulate faith. For non-Christians, Fake News is used to polarize theory with fear, anger and mistrust.
News (stories) should always be evidence-based, but human knowledge and belief are such that social community can lead to the spread of falsity. Unfortunately, our leaders have exacerbated the environment of mistrust, as our national enemies have joined in the manipulation of our disagreements. Over the past two decades, influential figures in America and Britain public life have adopted an ever-more tenuous connection to the truth — a complete disregard for evidence, expert knowledge, or logical coherence — without reprimand or political consequence. If we are to survive as a national but diversified community, Christian and non-Christian, alike, we need to understand how our networks of social interaction have changed from what they once were, and why those changes have affected our ability as we participate in our respective groups, to form reliable beliefs.
We cannot understand changes in our political system by focusing only on individuals. We also need to understand how our networks of social and religious interaction have changed, and why those changes have affected our ability, as a group, to form reliable beliefs. People like to conform with those around them, and when they are surrounded by peers who hold identical beliefs, the forces of conformity become extremely strong. Interestingly, this tendency to conform can be weaponized — as evidenced by Russian interventions in the US and UK in 2016. The Russians have figured out that by appearing to be one of a certain group or thought, i.e., one of like mind, they can follow with a flow of Fake News to influence elections, faith-based decisions, or general disagreement and confusion in the populace.
On Sunday, December 4, 2016, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Edgar Maddison Welch told his wife and two daughters that he had some business to attend to and left the house. He got into his car and drove about six hours from his home in Salisbury, North Carolina, to a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. He carried with him an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a handgun, and a shotgun, all loaded. When he arrived at the restaurant at about 3 p.m., he entered carrying the AR-15 and opened fire, unloading multiple rounds into a locked door inside the establishment.
Welch thought he was a hero. He believed the pizzeria, known as Comet Ping Pong, was the staging ground for an international child prostitution ring headed by none other than Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic nominee for president. Welch was there to investigate the pizza parlor, and if possible, save the children.
The "Pizzagate" was developed by Fake News sources and enhanced by Fake News followers, some for ulterior motives, others just following along because they believed in the communicating source. These bizarre and evidence-free allegations about a pizzeria- based child pornography ring was produced and followed by a slew of emails such as 4chan, Drudge Report, and Infowars.
So, what do we have here? How does such Fake News attack Christian and non-Christian alike? Well, look at the experience of Edgar Maddison. Here is a Christian man who wants to protect the safety of children, his two girls, as well as all children. This horrible woman of power is using her position to profit from the destruction of children's lives, and of all things, right from the capital of America. No one seemed to be doing anything about it, and the more time, the more destruction of children's lives. Of course, God would call Edgar to act and protect! The trouble is it was all Fake.
The mechanisms for the spread of specific beliefs operate in the population by first relying upon a trusted source of information, without searching for that source's evidence of what is being said. Before this period of reliance, the source has befriended through a friendly, like-minded, "I'm one of you," period, so the source is trusted, no need to investigate for evidence or verify.
The American public is deeply divided on many issues, from matters of faith to national policies. Global climate change, Affordable Care act, multilateral treaty with Iran, free-trade agreements, lowering corporate tax rates, regulating guns, tax on high earners, accepting the Bible literally or through interpretation just to name a few issues that all citizens must work through. We do not need the pernicious interference of Fake News as we all search for truth in order to make rational opinions and decisions. How are we to protect ourselves from Fake News taking us down a manipulated path? Without true facts, there can be no reliable faith in decision making.


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Henri Debehogne, né à Maillen en 1928 et mort à Uccle en 2007, est un astronome belge. Il a travaillé à l'observatoire royal de Belgique à Uccle et était spécialisé dans l'astrométrie des comètes et des astéroïdes.

Biographie
Henri Debehogne naît le  à Maillen, dans l'actuelle commune d'Assesse (province de Namur), en Belgique.

Il meurt le  à Uccle (région bruxelloise).

L'astéroïde  porte son nom.

Découvertes

D'après le Centre des planètes mineures, il a découvert 742 astéroïdes, dont 124 avec un co-découvreur, entre 1965 et 2006. Il a notamment découvert les astéroïdes troyens de Jupiter  et (65210) Stichios (ce dernier avec Eric Walter Elst) et l'astéroïde Apollon (314082) Dryope.

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Naissance dans la province de Namur
Naissance en décembre 1928
Décès en décembre 2007
Décès à 78 ans
Décès à Bruxelles
Astronome belge du XXe siècle
Astronome belge du XXIe siècle
Astrométrie
Découvreur d'astéroïdes
Éponyme d'un objet céleste

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Q: Ломается шапка на маленьких экранах Я сделал на странице кнопку меню, появляющуюся при определенных размерах экрана (с помощью bootstrap), она появляется, как и должна, но при размере экрана в <576px кнопка уезжает под поле поиска, сжимаясь до 1 пикселя (почему-то). Пытался лечить добавляя 2 контейнера (лого и кнопки) в один родительский, но тогда при больших размерах поле поиска назад в центр не возвращается, оставаясь внизу. Что делать-то? Может есть какие полезные свойства объектов?

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A: "А ларчик просто открывался". Проблема заключалась в классе bootstrap "row", из-за которого все элементы блока были в строку. Вслед за поиском сносило и кнопку, что было исправлено с удалением этого класса


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Exciting new discoveries about the extent of cities surrounding Angkor Wat and other Cambodian temples
Cambodia's Khmer temples are not only a wonder of the ancient world, but one of its great mysteries. With almost no written record of what was once a vast kingdom, researchers have been left to speculate about its origins, rise to power, and ultimate fading from glory. The large stone structures that remain have many inscriptions that help explain the kingdom's religious life and the facts about the royal family, but are largely silent about the society, culture, or even the technology that helped Khmer agriculture power an aggressive campaign of expansion and conquering neighboring civilizations. The extent of its cities, and whether the area was an extensive urban sprawl or merely a set of disjoint small cities has also been a subject of conjecture -- until now...
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Photo Ethics In The Field: My New Posting on B&H Insights Blog
Submitted by David Cardinal on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 09:58
There is a lot of discussion about the ethics of altering images in Photoshop. But even more important is how we as photographers act in the field. There are many ethical issues which arise whether you're doing travel, nature or wildlife photography.
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Discovery Mix var en TV-kanal som visade delar ur de fem Discoveryägda kanalerna Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Discovery Civilisation, Discovery Science och Discovery Travel & Living. Kanalens syfte var att marknadsföra de olika kanalerna och locka till abonnemang. De som ser tv genom Com Hems kabelnät måste ha en digitalbox för att få tillgång till någon av de ordinarie kanalerna.

När kanalen lanserades i början av år 2002 ersatte den EuroNews i det analoga kabelnätet. Kanalen möttes av protester från Com Hems kunder, främst för att kanalen kunde växla över till ett annat program innan det pågående programmet hunnit ta slut. En del menar att kanalen bara var ett försök från Com Hems sida att locka folk till att köpa digitalboxar för att få se de ordinarie kanalerna.

Den 1 september 2007 försvann kanalen då den byttes ut mot TV8 i Com Hems analoga och digitala TV-utbud.

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Tag Archives: mizrahi
The Elegant Portraiture of Timothy Greenfield Sanders
"For many photographers, fashion is the ultimate. But I'm not a fashion photographer. I'm a portrait artist who shoots fashion"
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"The Most Stylish People"
Isaac Mizrahi decks out Arthur Hubbert in his take on hip-hop in 1991. Photo By Richard Bowditch/WWD Archive
"The most stylish people are the homegirls and homeboys," remarked Isaac Mizrahi, who, inspired by his elevator operator Arthur Hubbert, offered his own witty take: He accessorized his lineup that season with Star of David medallions recast to oversize, Run-DMC proportions.
The designer also had comedienne Sandra Bernhard open his show with a hip-hop ode of her own. "He's got the look that's unky-fey," she rapped. "Big gold jewelry you're proud to be seen in. Homegirl look is the only way." And while the trend would pulse stronger some years over others, the industry's flirtation with the various guises of urban street-chic style remained with designers such as Tommy Hilfiger and brands, including Rocawear, Phat Farm, Ecko and Enyce.
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A Behind-the-Seams Look at the World of High Fashion
Isaac Mizrahi can make things out of tulle or nubuck, but his most fabulous creation is the one he has made of flesh and blood. It is Mr. Mizrahi's hilarious, happily Napoleonic personality that makes such a treat of Unzipped, Douglas Keeve's crafty valentine to the fashion world in general and this irrepressible designer in particular.
And intimacy with his subject — as both a fashion photographer and Mr. Mizrahi's former lover — only heightens Mr. Keeve's acuity rather than compromising his perspective. Of course in terms of objectivity, it helps that Unzipped has nothing to do with state secrets and everything to do with fake fur.
A smart, spiky documentary with just the right running time (76 minutes), Unzipped appreciates not only the loony excess that makes fashion such a high-stakes adventure, but also the monomania of Mr. Mizrahi's creative process. Who else watches The Call of the Wild (William A. Wellman, 1935) and obsesses about the lip-liner on Loretta Young? As Mr. Mizrahi explains to the camera, if you're going to freeze on the tundra, you might as well do it with your makeup un smudged.
A little while later, he is skillfully trying out the same anecdote on Polly Allen Mellen, a fashion arbiter who is enough to out-doyenne any and all of the characters in Robert Altman's Ready-to-Wear. (Comparisons between the two films are invidious but unavoidable. For electricity and fun, not to mention fashion sense, this one comes out miles ahead.) Ms. Mellen listens to Mr. Mizrahi in ways that make it clear his charm is working, and that charm counts for everything in this universe. For her part, Ms. Mellen advises him to "Be careful of makeup; be careful!" She sounds solemn enough to be warning Caesar about the ides of March.
Unzipped is filled with such telling moments and lively walk-ons, not only by power-brokers and Mr. Mizrahi's business associates, but also by the celebrities who give the designer's world its spark. It's no small measure of Mr. Mizrahi's talents as a born entertainer that he can chitchat easily with gorgeous, scene-stealing supermodels (Cindy Crawford talks about her pores, Naomi Campbell about her navel ring, Kate Moss about appearing in her underwear, etc.) and leave no doubt about who is the star of this show.
Unzipped is neatly structured to follow Mr. Mizrahi through the creation of a single collection, which begins in disaster. When first seen, he is crushed by reviews of his last designs ("Certainly his sense of how a modern woman dresses after 8 P.M. failed him") and is about to start again at square one. The film understands that this process can look silly while being deadly serious. And it enjoys watching while a man who loves his work and lives vividly in his imagination — a fun place to be — tries out ideas. He's not even really kidding when he daydreams about a fake-fur jumpsuit, perfect for dog-walking, that could work in one of two environments: Alaska or the Upper East Side.
Mr. Mizrahi is seen auditioning models, talking fabrics, working on sketches and gossiping madly about everyone he meets. (He does a dandy impersonation of Eartha Kitt, whose real presence is smoothly intercut with the Mizrahi version.) Throughout all of this, it's also clear that he is driven rather than frivolous, controlling his employees and the camera crew with equal precision. When one scene finds him ambushed by upsetting news — Jean-Paul Gaultier has done a Nanook look before the completion of the Mizrahi version — he simply puts his face in his hands and refuses to move. That's not as good as yelling "Cut!," but it's the next best thing.
The candor of Unzipped may be as contrived as the pouf skirts, but that doesn't lessen its appeal. After all, in what other culture can you overhear people saying "punk and Hasidic" and have the slightest idea what they mean? (They mean a fashion gaffe by Jean-Paul Gaultier.) Even the film's carefully controlled scenes can be revealing, as in its glimpses of Sarah Mizrahi, who beams at her boy and says "My Isaac made this" with motherly pride. She is all maternal encouragement until, when teased by Isaac, she insists: "That's not funny at all. I have a very good eye."
(Only Mary Tyler Moore in her Mary Richards days seems to rival Isaac's mother as a feminine influence on him. Whatever that means, this film knows enough to leave it unexplained.)
Edited to capture the mounting drama of staging a collection, and filmed by Ellen Kuras in a fluent variety of camera styles (grainy black and white to accentuate the workaday fashion world, exuberant color for the finished clothes), Unzipped builds its tension until it reaches the big day. It looks on as Mr. Mizrahi changes from life of the party into drill sergeant, frantically finishing the clothes and insisting on a see-through ballet scrim to partly shield the models who are backstage. That idea itself becomes a theatrical triumph.
Then the crowd gathers and the show begins. It is alluringly "insane with color" (as Women's Wear Daily will later gush), and yes, it is exciting enough to make sense of this whole enterprise. You may recall that Ready-to-Wear tried to lend thrills and meaning to this crowning moment by sending models down the runway stark naked. But Unzipped doesn't have to be that unzipped. It knows why clothes work better.
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Unzipping Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, contaminated by docudrama, at a time when separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Isaac, Inspired By Nanook Of The North sketches fur pants. Scenes of Unzipped reveal the designer sketching in bed as he watches Nanook of the North—"All I want is to do fur pants!"—and convincing his supermodel participants to don his designs behind a see-through scrim "so the audience can watch models dress backstage."
Isaac Mizrahi. Fall-Winter 1994 collection
There is a scene in Unzipped where one of Isaac Mizrahi's minions tentatively approaches him with the latest issue of WWD featuring Jean-Paul Gaultier's collection based on a similar Nanook of the North theme. Isaac reacts to the catastrophe by venting his frustration on the meek messenger. "Don't show these things to me I've not been looking at it. Just don't show it to me. You showed it to me. It's like you took some evil pleasure in it."
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The Most Unforgettable Woman
Audrey Hepburn for Revlon's "Most unforgettable Women in the World" campaign, circa 1988
Audrey was wearing a dramatic black satin coat by Isaac Mizrahi. Kevin Aucoin did the make-up
The photo session was taken by Richard Avedon
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Fashion's Favorite Son
Portrait by Russel Wong, taken in Raffles Hotel, Singapore, 1997
"A kind of Seventh Avenue Oscar Wilde" Time magazine called Isaac Mizrahi in 1998, after the shocking news broke that the superstar designer was closing up shop. The dimming of lights at Isaac Mizrahi & Co. marked the end of a spectacular run for the Brooklyn native, who had been a fashion and media darling since his first rave reviews more than a decade before.
Naomi Campbell, Isaac Mizrahi and Linda Evangelista. Photo by Mario Testino
Beloved both on and off the runway, the mop-haired raconteur was already a household name when he made a charmingly manic appearance in the fashion documentary Unzipped. By trailing the designer as he prepared his fall 1994 collection (conceived with the help of an Ouija board), Douglas Keeve offered a tantalizing peek behind fashion's velvet curtain in his film. But not even the king-size force of Mizrahi's character was enough to sustain the ride. Though his couture-luxe line of candy-color ("Pink! The new beige!") sequined slip dresses and mink-trimmed ball skirts was admired by critics and Park Avenue princesses alike, his star was destined to fall. Isaac Mizrahi, the personality, was, it appeared, bigger than Isaac Mizrahi the brand.
Dress from Ready to Wear Spring 2012 collection
But after spending several years on other creative endeavors (including a one-man stage production, Les MIZrahi, and a talk show), the buoyant designer that Vogue once called "Fashion's Favorite Son" was itching to get back to his first love.
The polymath Isaac Mizrahi in his studio in Manhattan. Photo: Damon Winter
In 2003 he surprised the industry by announcing a multicategory deal with Target. Kicking the Mizrahi machine into high gear, he spun straw into gold, raking in as much as $300 million in annual sales for the bargain retailer and paving the way for it to forge lucrative partnerships with other high-profile designers. Meanwhile, Mizrahi was also working at the opposite end of the price spectrum, indulging in glorious fabrics and flamboyant silhouettes with a new haute couture line for Bergdorf Goodman. In a landmark 2004 show, Mizrahi helped popularize the high-low concept by pairing pieces from his two new lines on the same runway. "My goal is that you won't always be able to tell the difference between what is Target and what is couture," he said. "If it freaks out a few people now, it will turn them on a few months from now." The risky proposition paid off, and a trend—populuxe, or luxury for all—was born.
In 2009, Mizrahi applied his golden thimble to the ailing Liz Claiborne brand with a fresh injection of his signature brights and prints. And in 2010 the tireless dynamo launched a collection for the shopping channel QVC, with a broad spectrum of products from jewelry and hats to cheesecakes adorned with his favorite tartans and polka dots.
Running like a thread through all these projects is a philosophy of bringing out the best and brightest from within his customers. To borrow the advertising slogan from his Isaac line: "Inside every woman is a star."
Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford. Still from Unzipped
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The Madcap Maestro of American Haute Couture
Portrait of Isaac Mizrahi by Annie Leibovitz. Published in Vogue, December 1995
Isaac Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961, of Syrian Jewish heritage. He is the cousin of rock guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, former player in the New York Dolls.
When Isaac was eight, his family moved to the middle-class Midwood section of Brooklyn. He contracted spinal meningitis during this time and his confinement was spent eating junk food and viewing television, especially old movies. The 1961 remake of Back Street, about an affair between a fashion designer and a married man, was a pivotal event in Mizrahi's development. The glamour of the fashion industry depicted in the movie became an inspiration to him to design clothes.
Around 1971, young Isaac steals money from his mother to buy fabric and trimmings. At eleven, he saves up babysitting money and purchases his first sewing machine—a secondhand Singer from the 1920s—and begins stitching clothes for his puppets. He later says, "I felt like a total outcast. I used to sit and make these puppets and watch a lot of television and a lot of movies on television. My mother was really worried about me. Everybody was worried about me."
After struggling to fit in at Yeshiva of Flatbush, an Orthodox Jewish private school (where he is caught sketching fashions in his prayer books and doing rabbi impersonations), Isaac transfers to New York's High School of Performing Arts. "It was a setting free," he will later say. Dabbles in acting. October: At Isaac's bar mitzvah—to which he wears "sky-blue shantung" —his father presents him with a pair of scissors engraved with his name.At 13, Isaac was designing clothes for himself, his mother, and a close friend of his mother, Sarah Haddad.
Isaac makes an appearance as Touchstone in the singing-and-dancing-teens film Fame (Alan Parker, 1980), based on the competitive atmosphere at his performing-arts alma mater.
His earliest design influences stemmed from his his mother's all-American wardrobe, which included clothing from Halston, Geoffrey Beene, Claire McCardell and Norman Norell.
1982 Graduated from Parsons School of Design, New York. Among his fellow students is Marc Jacobs, two years his junior. "At Parsons, everyone thought he was incredibly talented," Jacobs later recalls.
Worked for Perry Ellis, and said he was a major influence who taught him how to cut a dress, and many lessons in life. After this, he worked with Jeff Banks and Calvin Klein.
After leaving Calvin Klein, in June 1987 he and Sarah Haddad-Cheney pooled $50,000 each and opened Mizrahi's own womenswear company. They occupied a loft on Greene Street in SoHo. Seven stores bought the first season's collection. By the first collection show in April 1988 Haddad-Cheney had secured additional financing from the owners of Gitano Jeans company. In 1990 the company's workrooms and showroom moved to an expanded space on Wooster Street. Mizrahi's menswear collection premiered in April 1990.
1990 Isaac Mizrahi is presented with the CFDA designer of the year award for his women's wear collection.
The year 1997 proved to be a milestone in Mizrahi's career. He announced an unprecedented deal with three major Asian markets in Japan, Singapore, and Korea which included freestanding stores, in-store shops, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and sublicenses in Japan and shops and distribution in Southeast Asia, an online ABC source reported. The deal was estimated to generate at least $150 million in retail sales by the year 2000.
Mizrahi has made appearances in numerous television shows and movies since the 1990s. In 1995, a movie was released about the development of his Fall 1994 collection called Unzipped made by his freind Douglas Keeve. In fall 2005 the Isaac show debuted on Style Network. He previously had a show on the Oxygen network. His new less-expensive line ISAAC, opens in 34 locations around the USA. Each boutique will show his new logo, a Silver Star.
He often appears on many of E!'s programs and has become well-known for being flamboyant and considered by some to be rude. He also appeared as himself in the episode "Plus One is the Loneliest Number" of the fifth season of Sex and the City.
He also guest starred on the American dramedy series Ugly Betty (based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea), in which he played a reporter for the cable channel Fashion TV in the episode "Lose the Boss".
Mizrahi also appeared as himself in The Apprentice season 1 (episode 6) as one of the celebrities auction for The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
He made a series of comic books called Sandee, the Adventures of a Supermodel, published by Simon & Schuster.
Mizrahi is currently the spokesperson for Klein-Becker's StriVectin anti-wrinkle cream.
He is developing "The Collection," a one-hour scripted project that draws on the experiences of the designer for The CW Network.
Known for his magnetic personality and witty style, Mizrahi has won four Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awards. He is famous for his use of colour and the clean flattering lines of his designs. Chanel, who was financing him, pulled the plug and Isaac had closed his own fashion house in 1998. He started his own TV show interviewing celebrities.
However in February 2003, Mizrahi entered into a new partnership with New York based Hip retailer TARGET. Isaac created an exclusive collection of classically designed fashion sportswear and accessories for style conscious women. The collections are named "Isaac Mizrahi for Target" and he unveiled his debut collection in April 2003 in Minneapolis at the Walker Arts Center. Target is putting the designer back on the fashion map in a major mass-market way.
When he was interviewed, Isaac said he was very happy working with Target. Certain aspects of the couture scene and the constant rush to try and make money, just made him unhappy. Now he is making clothes for ordinary Americans at reasonable prices, and they are "racy, fun and crazy" and very popular.
But Isaac's heart has always been with fashion shows, and in June 2004 he put on his first show in six years, and it was really successful. The show celebrates Bergdorf Goodman's decision to devote space in its American couture collections for Mizrahi's label.
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A Life of Its Own
"I have no regrets. I feel beautiful when I'm pregnant. I look at stretch marks as something I've earned, not as something that wrecks my appearance," Demi told the Los Angeles Times soon after the issue came out. "I was trying to tell people I feel it's possible to do all those things — to have a career, be a mother, still be beautiful and sexy. … I mean even on a sexual level, I've never felt more beautiful or sexy or more appreciated by my husband [Bruce Willis] than when I've been pregnant."
Demi Moore, Culver City, California, 1991. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. The photo went on to become one of the most iconic photographs of the past two decades.
Vanity Fair, August 1991 issue
"It's hard to imagine now, but the portrait of Demi Moore nude and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair was truly scandalous in 1991. Scandalous in the sense of shocking and morally offensive to some people. The first day the issue was available, it sold out on newsstands at Grand Central Station during the morning rush hour. Newsstands in other parts of the country displayed it in a white paper wrapper, as if it were a porn magazine. Several supermarket chains refused to sell it even with the wrapper. Television crews were parked outside the Vanity Fair office for days. Editorialists and pundits weighed in. A few years later, the picture was held responsible for the rise of body-hugging maternity fashions.
None of this was my intention, although it's gratifying to think that the picture helped make pregnant women feel less awkward or embarrassed about their bodies. It began as a shoot with a specific problem. Demi had a new movie coming out, and Tina Brown, who was the editor of the magazine then, wanted to put her on the cover, but Demi was seven months pregnant with her second child. Tina and I talked about how to handle this, and we decided to go for a glamorous, sexy look. Lori Goldstein, the stylist, brought diamond earrings and a 30-carat-diamond ring to the studio in Los Angeles where we were shooting. We had long gowns, including a green satin robe by Isaac Mizrahi.
Demi and I had worked together several times before, and I'd taken her wedding pictures when she married Bruce Willis, in 1987. I had said to her then that I was interested in photographing a pregnant woman, which at that point I never had. Demi called me when she was going to have their first child. Bruce was working on location in Kentucky and she had gone there to have the baby. I stopped off in Kentucky on the way back to New York from Los Angeles and took a few rolls of black-and-white film. Just for them. Demi and Bruce were not shy about documenting the pregnancy. Several friends and a man with three video cameras were in the room when their daughter was born a few weeks later.
At the cover sitting in 1991, I shot a few close-ups and some full-length portraits. Demi was by no means camouflaged for any of them. In the standing portrait published inside the magazine the green satin robe is pulled off her shoulders and it falls open to expose her belly and leg. In another picture she's wearing a black lace bra and panties. But the fully nude picture was not taken until toward the end of the shoot and was intended just for Demi. I was taking some companion photographs to the ones I had made during Demi's first pregnancy. As I was shooting, I said, "You know, this would be a great cover." It wasn't until I got back to New York and looked at the proofs that I realized that there really was a great cover photograph there. Tina agreed, although she thought that Demi would be furious if we ran it. She was surprised when Demi said yes right away. We all knew what we were doing up to a point, but none of us completely understood the ramifications.
A few months after the Demi Moore picture was published, an exhibition of my work from 1970 to 1990 opened at the International Center of Photography, in New York. The director of the center, Cornell Capa, wanted to blow the picture up and hang it in the stairwell. I wouldn't let him. It was a popular picture and it broke ground, but I don't think it's a good photograph per se. It's a magazine cover. If it were a great portrait, she wouldn't be covering her breasts. She wouldn't necessarily be looking at the camera. There are different criteria for magazine covers. They're simple. The addition of type doesn't destroy them. Sometimes they even need type. My best photographs are inside the magazine."
Excerpted from Annie Leibovitz at Work, by Annie Leibovitz, Random House, 2008
Speaking in an interview with Vanity Fair – the magazine that placed the image its front cover – Leibovitz says the photograph was not one of her best.
'It was a popular picture and it broke ground, but I don't think it's a good photograph per se,' Leibovitz said in an interview with Vanity Fair. 'It's a magazine cover. If it were a great portrait, she wouldn't be covering her breasts. She wouldn't necessarily be looking at the camera.'
Ms Leibovitz has talked in the past of the genesis of the photograph, which came about quite by accident. The photographer tells how she got together with the star to shoot the Vanity Fair cover, but given that Demi was seven months pregnant, Vanity Fair was nervous about the result. The consensus was that Leibovitz would somehow disguise the pregancy, or just shoot a head portrait. But on the day, after a series of shots in various outfits, Leibovitz suggested the nudes.
'She dropped her clothing and I started to shoot. I said, "well this looks really, I mean… maybe we should make this the cover. Why not?" And she said yes, maybe.' 'So we tried to hide everything the best we could. Tina Brown in New York made a decision to go ahead with it. And this is one of those things, it had a life of its own.'
Leibovitz's naked self-portrait taken when pregnant at age 51
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A White Shirt
Christy Turlington photographed by David Sims. Harper's Bazaar, August 1993
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The new design is, quite literally, edgy. The Elantra is also larger than before and has a bit more distance between the front and rear wheels. PHOTO: HYUNDAI
2021 Hyundai Elantra: Could this be the car that starts a sedan revival?
Pricing starts at $19,750 for the base Essential model and $26,600 for the base hybrid
An everyday compact car masquerading as a premium sedan sounds like a winning formula, and a welcome one for buyers. Add fuel-sipping and performance-focused versions to broaden interest and the result is the 2021 Hyundai Elantra.
The nameplate was launched in the early 1990s as a budget-oriented competitor to the established Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Ford Escort models, to name a few. Back then, the Elantra's low price was its primary claim to fame: A new-car alternative to buying used.
Today, the Elantra is one of the top nameplates in a field that has suffered due to the growing popularity of the utility vehicles. But where others — notably domestic-based automakers — appear to have given up on small sedans, Hyundai is doubling down.
The 2021 Hyundai Elantra features attractive side creases extending along the door and rear-fender panels that blend into a knife-edged trunk lid.
The new Elantra's design is, to put it mildly, jaw-dropping and follows the general shape of the larger Sonata. Most notable is the aggressively styled "jewel pattern" grille and enlarged air intakes. Also attractive are the side creases extending along the door and rear-fender panels that blend into a knife-edged trunk lid. Combined with a sweeping fastback roofline, the Elantra looks as good from the rear as from the front, if not better.
Compared with the previous-gen Elantra, the 2021 model is more than five centimetres longer, 2.5 centimetres wider and it gains close to that amount between the front and rear wheels. The car's slightly lowered stance and roofline (with no loss in front or rear headroom) make it appear larger than measurements otherwise indicate.
The Elantra's stronger and lighter platform has also allowed Hyundai's design team to lower the car's centre of gravity to improve cornering agility.
The interior isn't quite as dramatic as the outside, but it looks downright luxurious. An available 10.25-inch-wide screen for the communications, infotainment and navigation-system is positioned directly beside the electronic gauge panel. A traditional T-shaped shift lever, instead of dials or switches, also speaks to the cabin's conservative environment.
There's also nothing too unusual about the Elantra's base engine, a 147-horsepower 2.0-litre four-cylinder that carries over from the previous model.
For the first time in an Elantra, however, a hybrid system is optional. It consists of a 1.6-litre four-cylinder with an electric motor that makes a net 139 horsepower and 195 pound-feet.
A six-speed manual transmission is standard, while a continuously variable unit (CVT) is optional. A quick-shifting six-speed automated manual is paired with the hybrid and a seven-speed version comes with the N Line.
Hyundai says the hybrid will achieve better than 4.7-litres/100 km in combined city/highway driving. By comparison, the CVT-equipped Elantra is rated at 7.5 l/100 km in the city, 5.7 on the highway and 6.7 combined.
In another first for the Elantra, there's a performance-focused N-Line. It's fitted with a turbocharged 1.6-litre four-cylinder that makes 201 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque. A six-speed manual transmission is standard with the N Line, while a seven-speed paddle-shifted automatic is available. An independent rear suspension is standard for the N Line, as it is with the hybrid. The base Elantra uses a torsion-beam (solid) rear axle.
Pricing starts at $19,750 for the base Essential model. It arrives with dynamic-safety tech such as forward-collision avoidance with pedestrian detection, lane-keeping assist, driver-attention warning and rear cross-traffic alert.
The receives a few more goodies such as dual-zone climate control and hands-free trunk release. The N Line ($30,500) gets heated sport-style front seats (power-operated for the driver) and Goodyear summer tires wrapped around 18-inch wheels.
The variety of Elantra models and content is not dissimilar to what's available from the top-selling Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla, but a stunning design perhaps gives this Hyundai the edge.
The Elantra interior is spectacular in its simplicity, with tidy screens and a traditional shift lever (no buttons or dial). This is the interior of the N Line, which starts at $30,500. PHOTO: HYUNDAI
What you should know: 2021 Hyundai Elantra
Type: Front-wheel-drive compact sedan
Engines (h.p.)2.0-litre I-4 (147); 1.6-litre I-4 with electric motor (139); 1.6-litre I-4, turbocharged (201)
Transmissions: Six-speed manual; continuously variable (CVT); six-speed automated manual (hybrid); seven-speed automated manual (N Line)
Market position: With domestic-based sedans — both compact and midsize — almost extinct, import-based automakers such as Hyundai now have the playing field to themselves. What's more, such automakers are advancing the segment and not slowing down.
Points: Eye-catching design makes for one of the best-looking sedans on the market. • Hybrid and performance editions should appeal to a wider cross-section of buyers. • Interior design is conservative, but includes the latest in technology. • Standard array of safety tech covers nearly all contingencies. • An attractive price point for all models is a huge plus.
Driver assist: Blind-spot warning with cross-traffic backup alert (opt.); active cruise control (opt.); front and rear emergency braking (opt); inattentive-driver alert (n.a..); lane-departure warning (opt.); pedestrian detection (opt.)
L/100 km (city/hwy) 7.5/5.7 (CVT); Base price (incl. destination) $19,750
Popular sedan's all-turbocharged engine lineup ranges from 174 to 306-h.p.
Sedan and hatchback versions are joined by a hybridrated at 4.5 l/100 km.
Low-key compact uses a 147-h.p. turbo I-4. GLI turbo I-4 makes 228 h.p.
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