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NBA rules changed because of players
Basketball does not standstill. When James Naismith came up with this sport a long time ago he probably thought that the majority of rules would stay the same, but the NBA evolved and a number of rules were changed because of players.
What NBA rules changed because of players? Actually throughout the existence of the world's best league – the NBA – more than 40 rules have been changed because of players. The list includes mammoth players such as Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Reggie Miller, Allen Iverson and many more.
The players that we are going to talk about in our article have shaped the NBA significantly. Let's talk about them and the rules that have been changed primarily because of them.
Hack-a-Shaq Rule
Shaq was undoubtedly the most dominant center of all time. When he entered the paint the job was done – he would smash everyone in front of him. He already forced the NBA to take care of the backboards (he broke a lot of them during his career). Hack-a-Shaq rule was a tactic adopted by opposing teams to foul on Shaq even in the cases when he was without a ball. Shaq was a poor free-throw shooter so he missed the majority of them. After Shaq retired, this tactic was used frequently by Gregg Popovich.
To resolve the situation the NBA decided to alter the rule in 2016 and if any player who is without a ball, is fouled, his team gets 2 free throws and possession for the ball, in the case fouls take place in the final 2 minutes of each quarter. The reason for the rule change was a fact that the duration of the match was extended notably. If you want a more in-depth review of the Hack-a-Shaq Rule, check out our article here.
Charles Barkley Rule
Like Shaq, Charles Barkley was also a dominant player in his prime. Even though he did not manage to get the championship title, Barkley was one of the best players of his generation. Due to his athleticism, strength, and flexibility, Barkley would use his back to force the defenders back to the paint and then shoot the ball. He could do this for 20 seconds even. Because of that, the league decided to make changes, and right now no player can do such a manoeuvre for more than 5 seconds.
Reggie Miller Rule
Reggie Miller was a relentless shooter – he could throw the ball from any distance. At the same time, he was a very smart shooting guard. He would often cause contact with the opposing players by sometimes kicking them with his leg while shooting. In such a way, Miller would draw a lot of fouls from the 3-point range. In 2012 the league prohibited kicking a leg while shooting, resulting in the offensive foul for the attacking player.
Zaza Rule
Known as "Zaza Rule" right now (Golden State Warriors center Zaza Pachulia injured Kawhi Leonard in 2017 by stepping on the latter's foot), Bruce Bowen was actually the one who laid the foundation to this rule. He was a formidable defender, playing against top-class shooters, but at the same time, he used dirty tactics, which frequently led to injuries. The NBA decided to introduce a rule according to which, players should have a safe space to land after shooting.
Allen Iverson Dress Code
Allen Iverson was an extremely talented player. While this rule is not directly connected to the gameplay, he played a pivotal role in forcing the NBA to change the dress code. He would often appear in a hip-hop style, which was deemed unprofessional. So the NBA decided to introduce a dress code – players were required to wear formal clothes both before and after the game. Iverson himself opposed the rule, saying that the visual appearance of a player was not determinant of his character. We have looked at the reason why NBA Players were banned from wearing throwback jerseys here.
Chamberlain was an extraordinary player. He still holds a record for the most point scored in a single game (100) and was one of the most athletic players in the history of the NBA. He forced the change of numerous rules. First of all, he would make free throws, by hitting the board and then jumping from the line to the basket. Basically, this resembles an alley-oop, which players do frequently in the modern NBA. Right now, players cannot cross the free-throw line when they are shooting.
Another rule that was changed because of him was offensive goaltending. Right now the players can carry out spectacular alley-oops.
Dikembe Mutombo made over 3,000 blocks in his career and is arguably one of the best defenders of all time. Whenever Mutombo made blocks on opposing players he would frequently taunt players and the crowd by wagging his finger. The league decided that such an action would immediately result in a technical foul – does not matter whether a player blocks a shot or not, as it is considered to be taunting for the opposing side.
This rule is not directly related to Rasheed Wallace, but he was actually on top when the NBA decided to make changes. Whenever a player accumulates 16 technical fouls in a regular season he gets a one-game suspension. As for the playoffs, the number of technical fouls is 7.
There are even more players who had an impact on the rules both in and off the game. We can mention Caron Butler, Marck Jackson, Trent Tucker, George Mikan. The latter is especially important because Mikan was the one who led to the introduction of the 3-second rule as well as widened free throw lane
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Release: Heard in LA
Posted on November 14, 2021 January 25, 2023 by viralnetv4
Release: Heard in LA is a continuum of previous online sound projects — The Lament Project (2008), Dry Run (2012), Imagining Tellus 28- Heard in LA (2017) and Project Scream (2019) produced by The Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts and its web-based curatorial initiative, archive, and virtual studio, viralnet-v4.net. The work was also exhibited as an assembly of laser printed QR codes, printed on bamboo panels and "planted" in the James Irvine Japanese Garden of the Japanese American Community Cultural Center.
These sound projects grew from the desire to expand the critical and conceptual understanding of sound as a countercultural alternative to pop culture and contemporary media. This viralnet-v4 project was built upon an ongoing collaborative impulse through the diverse assembly of emerging and underrepresented transdisciplinary artists.
Release: Heard in LA encouraged the participating artists to invent new and personal projects that explored a full range of sonic possibilities, spanning spoken word, noise, electronics, acoustic and multi-instrumental compositions and improvisations.
The artists are current and former residents from the Los Angeles region, responding to the word "Release." We chose the word "Release" as a play on the word for "dropping" a new recording, juxtaposed with the aspiration that we can be released from the restrictions of our current crises into a post-future consisting of meaningful networked relationships, ecological sustainability, and mutual socio-economic justice. However, the title and responses are not meant to be a direct correlation to the Covid-19 virus or other current issues–– instead, the artists were asked to create works that were based on their personal interpretations of the word and as a means to interrupt our habitual patterns of listening.
Participating artists are: Alex Buck, Jing Dong, Weilu Ge, Brian Griffith, Tatum Howey, Kai-Luen Liang, Dongpu Ling, Shan Ni, Provisional Collective (with Tyler Harper), Sara Sithi-Amnuai and Sam Wells.
Tatum Howey:
Tatum Howey is a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego researching infrastructures of visual production with a current focus on submarine communications cables and data management and storage. In 2021, they graduated with an MFA in Critical Studies & Integrated Media at CalArts.
Sara Sithi-Amnuai:
Sara Sithi-Amnuai is a multi-instrumentalist (on trumpet, flugelhorn, sheng, and some handcrafted electronic instruments) born in Sydney, Australia and based in Los Angeles, California. Her interest in the cultural design of interfaces inspired her to create Nami, a custom built glove interface designed for live musical performance inspired by Nikkei community research. She has presented her work about Nami at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, received the 2021 Nikkei Music Reclamation Fellowship with Sustainable Little Tokyo, 2019 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, and is a member of the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra.
Shan Ni:
NI Shan (1987) is a visual artist, performer and composer based in China and Europe. She likes to smear the edges in both space and time, to create overlapping perceptions that are activated by listening, seeing and touching. Her practice resides in the gap between illusion and reality. Currently Shan's projects exist on four distinct yet entangled axes: sculpture, graphic notation systems for composition, instruments design for live performance, and interactive installations.
Weilu Ge:
Weilu Ge is a composer and media artist based in Cambridge, MA. She works with various media forms from concert music, installation, to video and innovative technology. Since 2015, she has focused her research and career on experimental and intermedia theatre in the role of a Composer-Director, exploring the potential of sound and space as the medium that integrates other art forms and helps create a comprehensive artistic expression. She is interested in blurring the boundaries between minimalism and complexity, noise and silence, seeing and listening. Her recent practice and experiments often center around theatrical expression and dramaturgy of sonic, visual and spatial media, taking composition and space as critical means to inquiry issues around and relations between power, system, body, and technology in a social- cultural context. She is an active member of IMUU, an artist collective and practice- based research lab specializing in working with intermedia narrative to create interactive and immersive experience.
Dongpu Ling:
Dongpu Ling is an intermedia artist born in Shanghai, China, currently based in Los Angeles, California.
Dongpu is working at the intersection of interactive installation and performance art, specifically her works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a multidisciplinary relationship with machine intelligence. Her fascination with the unseen, including body senses, data transformation, and theoretical physics, is various. Her work spans multiple media formats including interactive installation, sculptures, videos, and performance art. In her mind and world, time does not exist without a soul/ observer and art does not exist without viewers.
Kai-Luen Liang:
directory.calarts.edu/integrated-media/kai-luen-liang
Brian Griffith:
Brian Griffith is a musician and visual artist living in Los Angeles. His work blends analog with digital; subtle movements with bold features; and virtual with physical reality.
Sam Wells:
sllewm.as/about
Alex Buck:
music.calarts.edu/faculty-and-staff/alex-buck
The Provisional Collective:
The Provisional Collective has collaborated with numerous artists and has employed a diverse range of projects resulting in online publications, seminars, public art works, videos, installations, sound-based works and socially engaged initiatives.
The Provisional Collective's intent is to explore the relationship between art and life in a technological age by forging temporary collaborations that can occur online, in public spaces, alternative cultural and educational institutions and throughout our everyday landscapes. As a multidisciplinary practice, the collective has engaged in topics such as climate change, arts education within a globalized context, cultural memory and speculative futures. Their projects expand our understanding and experience of social and physical space through a critical process of bearing witness.
For this project, The Provisional Collective members are Tyler Harper, Dongpu Ling, Chris Bassett and Tom Leeser.
Jing Dong:
Jing Dong is a media artist and technology developer whose work experiments with interdisciplinarity and speculative possibilities. Their intent is to break through our common definitions of the future and to critique the problems in society, forging a path for the care of marginalized communities. The work explores computational aesthetics, the post-human, autonomy systems and interaction using sound installation, AI, VR, generative art, internet art, big data, and mobile applications.
In addition to their MFA in Art and Technology from CalArts, Jing has an undergraduate degree in computer science and has worked as a software engineer for major tech companies. Jing states, "I am an artist who is both rational and emotional. I positively embrace the changes brought on by merging art, technology and science. I also think the boundaries in art should be approached and altered dynamically."
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Dongpu Ling – Shan Hai Jing Spectrogram
An Interview with Sara Sithi-Amnuai – Wabi Sabi: Cultural Bodies, Collective Social Ecologies and the Ripple Effect
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Q: How to fix LNK2019 unresolved external symbol I have a very simple threading class I'm using for a project. I've just begin progress on it but I'm stuck because of a LNK2019 error I can't figure out how to fix. I've narrowed down the problem to a single line. Perhaps someone can help guide me on what I need to do to fix it.
The following is the class I'm making:
#ifndef __THREADING_H
#define __THREADING_H

#include <Windows.h>

class Threading {

public:

    virtual void run() = 0;

    void start();
    void stop();

    bool isStopped();
    void cleanup();

private:
    bool stopped;
    HANDLE reference;
    static DWORD WINAPI start_helperfunction(LPVOID ptr);

};

#endif // __THREADING_H

And the line where I'm getting the error is by 2nd line of the start_helperfunction, with the Threading::start_helperfunction below:
#include "Threading.h"

void Threading::start()
{
    stopped = false;
    reference = CreateThread(NULL, 0, Threading::start_helperfunction, this, NULL, NULL);
}

Finally the error message I'm getting is:
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "private: static unsigned long __stdcall Threading::start_helperfunction(void *)" (?start_helperfunction@Threading@@CGKPAX@Z) referenced in function "public: void __thiscall Threading::start(void)" (?start@Threading@@QAEXXZ)

I'm not sure what I've done wrong or what to try. I'm sure it's a simple fix. I'm not the most experienced in C++.

A: You didn't implement start_helperfunction, so the linker can't find it. You need to actually write a static member function with that name. The simplest possible one might look like this:
DWORD WINAPI Threading::start_helperfunction(LPVOID ptr)
{
    return 0;
}

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Second blood drive scheduled for critically injured Simi Valley police officer
Ventura County Star
A second blood drive has been scheduled for the Simi Valley police officer who was critically injured following a serious on-duty traffic collision earlier this month, officials said.
The Simi Valley Police Department said motorcycle officer Tom Carney was transported to Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center with critical life-threatening injuries, including facial and jaw fractures that require substantial facial reconstruction, fractured ribs, hip and pelvis fractures, wrist and forearm fractures that require surgical repair, and significant internal injuries that require multiple surgeries to stop bleeding and repair damage.
He remains in critical, but stable condition, officials said.
Officials said Carney was riding his motorcycle south on Tapo Canyon Road at Los Angeles Avenue just before 5 p.m. June 16 when the motorcycle collided with a northbound pickup. The pickup driver was attempting to make a U-turn or left turn into the path of Carney's motorcycle, officials said.
The collision threw Carney from his motorcycle.
The driver of the pickup, a 43-year-old Simi Valley resident, was not injured. No arrests or citations were issued, and alcohol or drugs did not appear to be factors in the collision, officials said.
Carney has already undergone three surgeries spanning 15 hours, most of which was focused on controlling the bleeding that required over 50 pints of blood. Officials said that he will need more surgeries to address his other injuries.
The Simi Valley Police Department, American Red Cross and Simi Valley Unified School District coordinated a blood drive for Carney earlier this week. Appointments filled up in a matter of hours.
Due to the success of the first event, officials have scheduled a second blood drive from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on July 5 at Simi Valley High School. If appointments for this event fill up, donors may be directed to other locations where they can donate blood in Carney's name.
To make an appointment, visit redcrossblood.org/give/drive/driveSearchList.jsp?zipSponsor=simipd.
A GoFundMe account has also been set up for Carney and his family to help offset uncovered expenses. To make a donation, visit gofundme.com/tomcarney.


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Über mich (About me)
Workshop – BonVibe
Sasha Shlain
Composer, producer, pianist, keyboardist, music educator
sashashlain@yahoo.com
Sasha (Alexander) Shlain is an award-winning composer, producer, pianist and keyboardist, whose varied work covers world music productions, music for the theater, concert, chamber, choral and Jazz music. He is also a versatile and experienced arranger / "orchestrator" in a variety of music genres and has been working in both live and digital settings. Sasha is best known for his musical projects with contemporary dance company "Dysoundbo", chamber band project "Sashin Orchester" and numerous produced songs and instrumental pieces with different artists around the globe.
With Sasha's co-founded dance company (in 2007), the "Dysoundbo" dance production with live music, "WAVE-S", won a first prize in an international "Side-by-side" competition in Dusseldorf and a Swiss prize for best video-dance production of the year.
In April 2019, Sasha was honored as the winner of Beyond Music Project (BM foundation) at the international competition with the song "Egyptian" (first prize) in collaboration with Egyptian artist, Abdullah Alhusseiny; Armenian artist, Jivan Gasparyan; and Swiss bassist, André Pousaz. Another song – "Beyond the Horizon" – composed and arranged in collaboration with Nashville based singer songwriter, Heather Bond, was chosen to be a part of an audio album summarizing the project's 10 best compositions and released in 2019 under the name, "Same Sky". The album was produced by multiple Grammy Awards producer, Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Luciana Souza to name a few) and recorded in "La Fabric" studios in South France. Sasha's co-compositions and co-productions (Last Dance, Dreamer) also won the creativity awards in the 2020 Beyond Music production competition and a place in the 2021 album, "Same Planet". Both albums are available on Spotify, Apple music, Shazam etc.
Since 2016, Sasha has been a part of "Harmonie59", a Germany-based platform for composers, musicians, sound designers and audio engineers. This is a network for musical and interdisciplinary productions, compositions and improvisations for original, high quality and highly individual, entirely REALTIME realizations. (harmonie59.org). The result of Sasha's collaboration with participants of live sessions of "H59" is a release of 3 consecutive albums.
Through last 15 years, Sasha gave numerous workshops and participated in educational programs alone and in collaboration with "Ssassa" – a multicultural band led by Swiss world music composer, musician and producer, Christian Fotsch.
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Death of John Talbot at the the Battle of Castillon
The Battle of Castillon ended in a French victory, and it marked the end of the Hundred Years War - although a peace treaty was never signed.
The English, who achieved several major victories during the course of the war lost all their possession in France except for Calais which was recaptured by the French in 1558.It was at this battle that John Talbot lost his life, Talbot is said to have been the best general Henry VI had.
In Shakespeare's play, John Talbot is seen as the last of the medieval heroes, a daring soldier loyal to his king while most of the English nobles are fighting among themselves, he was said to be the best general Henry VI had.
O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:
The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,
Retiring from the siege of Orleans,
Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.
By three and twenty thousand of the French
Was round encompassed and set upon….
More than three hours the fight continued;
Where valiant Talbot above human thought
Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:
Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:
The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;
All the whole army stood agazed on him:
His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit
A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain
And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.
Henry VI Part One: Act 1, Scene 1
Thank you for this telling of Sir John Talbot's death. I went to Sir John Talbot's Grammar School in his home town of Whitchurch in Shropshire. His embalmed heart lies beneath the top step of the town church, the Church of St Alkmund. The town is named Whit(e)church for this (rebuilt many times) church as it was staggeringly brilliant white and visible for miles, apparently. The school was founded by a descendant of his in Whitchurch in 1548 by the Rev. Sir John Talbot and opened into 1550.


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I was talking to my boss the other day, and he mentioned that his oldest grandson likes to make the animal sounds, and knows each one correctly and on demand. That reminded me of my oldest grandson, Christopher when he was little. It's funny how some kids have such an interest in animals. Lots of kids take a passive interest in the farm animals and such, but some kids, like my my boss, Jim's grandson and my grandson, Chris are so interested that they really learn those sounds and even know what the animal is doing when it makes that sound.
Many people like the wild animals, wearing pictures of them of shirts and hanging pictures in their homes, but when a child shows such an interest, at such a young age, it would seem to be something special. Listening to Christopher make all those animal sounds was always something that we delighted in doing. My very favorite sound was when he would tell you what the wolf says. His little voice seemed so tiny and yet he perfectly and softly howled like a wolf. It was so cute!! He could do all the other animals sounds too, from the domestic animals, to pets, to the wild animals.
I don't know why some kids are so interested in the animals and the sounds they make. Since they have never been anywhere near some of those animals, how could they feel such a connection. Maybe they are like people who know at a very young age that they want to go into Veterinary Medicine, or some similar career, and others have the interest in animals just for personal reasons. I don't know what my grandson will do with his life. At almost 17 years of age, he doesn't seem to have that intense interest in animals that he did as a child. I know that whatever he does, he will be great at it, because he always puts his heart and soul into the things he does. No matter what he does though, I will always remember what he was like as a little boy, when he answered the call of the wild.
I love the way that kids can be so inventive. They have some great ideas, and while they can't always make their ideas into reality by themselves, with a little help, you will find that they will get it done. No one really knows who created the skate board, but it was designed by attaching wheels from a pair of skates to create a surfing effect. That way they could surf, even if the ocean waves weren't cooperating. A good idea if you ask me.
Then there were the go carts. Made from things in the garage, they were usually wooden and used the wheels off of a tricycle or some such item. Of course, I would expect that the brakes took a little more figuring. I'm sure those first go carts ended in crashes more than they didn't, and eventually someone found a way to make them stop. If they hadn't, I think they would have stopped riding them after a while, since there is only so much crashing a person can take before they decide that this just isn't worth the ride.
What I find very interesting, is the types of things the kids back in my parents' day did when they wanted to create a new mode of transportation. It would appear to me that they were trying to make a sleigh, and they had no wheels…or snow, for that matter. I would imagine that it was a bumpy ride to say the least, but them these boys don't seem to mind that thought much. I'm quite sure they were very proud of their new contraption. It also makes me think of the many kids these days, who have done their very best to hook their dog up to a wagon and have the dog pull them around. While that might work ok with a dog, I'm not so sure I would want to try it with a horse, but then, I don't know that particular horse, and they surely did. It is quite possible that the horse knew the typical antics these boys pulled, and like any pet, who loves it's master, the horse was gentle enough to go along with the new fangled vehicle that was hooked up to it.
My niece, Machelle was born almost 7 months after my youngest daughter, Amy, and a year and 5 months after my oldest daughter, Corrie. Nevertheless, due to the height of Machelle's dad, at 6′ 6″ tall, it was doubtful that she would be shorter than my girls for very long. By the time the first stair step pictures were taken, Machelle had passed Amy up permanently. Amy would be the shortest of the grandchildren in the end.
Machelle and Corrie would go back and forth for a number of years, but by the time Corrie was 12, she was done growing, and Machelle would pass her up permanently too. Through the years, it was hard to tell which of the girls was the oldest, because people naturally expect the tallest child to be the oldest child. As the years have gone by only Eric, the youngest grandchild passed all the girls up, Barry is the same height as Machelle, and JD is shorter than she is. As to the girls, it's pretty mixed up. Machelle finally lost out in the race to be the tallest, but it was to her own little sister, Susan. Corrie is taller than Amy, at 5'0″ to Amy's 4'11". Of course, now, it doesn't really matter who is the tallest anyway.
Machelle may have lost the height race, but that doesn't mean that she has lost out as a person. I love the person Machelle has turned into. She is sweet and loving, and very helpful. I can count on her to help out with anything I ask, whenever she is here. My only regret is that she lives in Powell, because I don't get to see her and her family as much as I would like. All the years of competing to be the tallest are long past now, as are the little girls toys and games…and sometimes I wish they hadn't gone by so fast. The kids were all so cute standing up straight and tall, hoping to have maybe…just maybe, passed the child who was taller than they were the last year. It was all so cute, and it was over too soon, and now it is Machelle's birthday again, but the one thing we no longer ask…who's the oldest, because really…you don't ask a woman her age, you know. Happy birthday Machelle!! Have a great day!!
My parents have always loved the mountains much more than the lakes. Lakes are beautiful too, but in the summertime, they are hot, unless you spend every minute in the water, and the sun beats down on you all day long. On the other hand, the mountains are cooler because of the altitude and the many trees, and there is a feeling of peaceful relaxation that you just can't get at the lake. The love of the mountains is something I share with my parents. I could hike through the trees for hours and never get tired of it.
Early in their marriage, Mom and Dad went up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and took the opportunity to ride the ski lift to the top of the ski area in the summertime. Bob and I have done that too, so I know how beautiful it is up there. The view of the Tetons, standing majestically in the distance is a view that many people have captured on film, simply because it is so breathtaking. You can see the beauty of the view, even in the black and white photos they had back then. Mom and Dad looked like they were having a wonderful time. If you have never taken a ride on a ski lift in the summertime, it is something I highly recommend, because you get a totally different picture of things without all the snow. And for me, no snow is a good thing.
I never knew my Great Grandpa Byer, because he passed away in 1930, long before I was born. Most of what I know of him comes from my genealogy research, pictures I have found, and the stories I have heard from my mom. The first time I remember hearing about him was when I gave birth to my oldest daughter, Corrie. My mother mention that I might want to name her Cornelia, so that it would be after her great great grandpa. I was not willing to go so far as to change the name I had chosen, but the name did attach itself to Corrie anyway, in the form of a nickname…that I loved, by the way.
My research told me that my great grandfather was born in Russia, which very much surprised me, as I thought that part of the family came from Germany. My mother filled in the blanks there, by telling me that in the 1780's, my 6th great grandfather, who was concerned because of wars in Europe, and wanting to keep his family, and especially his son safe from the increasing German interest in jumping into the war. So, he moved his family to Russia, where my part of the family would live until, my great grandfather's family immigrated to the United States. He eventually settled in South Dakota, where he married my great grandmother.
Picture documentation, at the point, places my great grandparents on a homestead in Nebraska. During his time in South Dakota and Nebraska, he befriended many of the Indians in the area. He was well respected by them and was invited to their Pow Wow's. It is at this point in the family history that I came across another picture that made me wonder about its inclusion in the other family pictures. It still seems odd to me, but my mom assures me with her story, that it indeed fits in the family history. The picture is of a group of men in a pool hall. When I asked mom about the picture, she told me that she didn't know the men in the picture, but the pool hall had belonged to her grandfather. I am still trying to figure out how he went from homesteading to a pool hall owner, but that is what he did. I'm sure that like most career changes, the decision was based on the income possibilities, because the main thing is to be able to support your family. The pool hall is not surprising to me because of what it was, but because of the fact that he had been a homesteader and farmer by trade for so long. Things change, as the needs change, and that is as simple as that. He saw a way to make a living, or even supplement the family income, and he did it. It is an interesting twist to my history.
Every grandchild is special, but you will always remember when your first one arrived. It is a day you most parents have waited for since their kids reached marrying age. I don't mean that you wanted grandkids since your kids became teenagers, but as they grew, your mind…maybe deep down, maybe consciously, wondered what their children would be like. We were no different. As my girls grew up, I wondered what my grandchildren would be like. No matter how hard I tried, my thoughts of who they might be, came up very short of the great kids they are, or the fact that after having two daughters, I would end up with only one granddaughter, and 3 grandsons.
Every one of my grandchildren is very special and very unique. Christopher, from the beginning, had the best smiley faces. His eyes were so expressive. You couldn't help but laugh with him. He loved doing goofy things, like dumping all the clean clothes out of the basket they were in, so he could get into the basket himself. Then, he waited to see what you were going to think of it. His great big eyes were always so expressive, and in them you could totally see the delight that he was feeling. And he seemed to be able to play to your sense of humor, because he never seemed to fail to do things that were just funny.
People call people like that a ham or a clown, and maybe he was, but all I can say is that it was just Christopher's way. Also, I don't know if he even realized what he was doing, at least at first. After a while, I'm sure he did, and he seemed to hone his skills as he went along. I remember the first time I saw him talking and shaking his head side to side, when he was about 3, and that is something many adults can't do, but again, on Christopher it just came naturally. And I have laughed at that one over and over, because I can still see it in my memory. He was so funny as a little kid, and still is today. It was his unique talent.
This time of year seems to be filled with family traditions. Family dinners, shopping, and decorating all play a part. For our family, the day after Thanksgiving, being Black Friday is shopping day, and the Saturday after Thanksgiving, is decorate the Christmas tree day. Since my girls are grown and married, it is the grandkids and me doing the decorating each year. We always have such a good time. The kids are getting older now, all teenagers, so there is a fair bit of goofing off and yet, they are much more help now too. The boys can handle the lights and garland, where before they always had to wait until I got the lights and garland on before they helped with just the ornaments.
This is a tradition I really enjoy, because it gives me time to be with my grandchildren doing something that is lots of fun and that we all enjoy. I think the kids look forward to it too. If one of them has to work, they are really disappointed, so we try to make sure that doesn't happen. That can mean doing the decorating at different times each year, but that is ok, as long as there is a way to do it together.
We usually try to add Christmas carols to the mix, to put everyuone into the Christmas spirit. I don't so much like it when the stores start playing Christmas music before Halloween, but once Thanksgiving is over, it's just the right time. By then I'm ready…or as much as I ever will be…to start thinking about all that shopping, decorating, cooking, cleaning, and…fun!!! Here comes Christmas everyone!! Are you ready!!
It is tradition in our family, as in many families, to get up at 3:30 in the morning the day after Thanksgiving, and head out to the stores for the Black Friday sales. I know that many people think we are crazy, but if you want some really good deals on all the things you want to get your family for Christmas, then Black Friday is your day!!
Our morning starts out with a trip to the local convenience store for cappuccino and donuts. We stuff down the donuts, and sip our coffee as we shop. We usually go with our kids, and that is helpful for buying for the grandkids, but this year the grandkids wanted to go as well. I did amazingly well in my purchases this year, even with the kids there. We had to dodge them a little bit, so they didn't see the things we had purchased, but it all worked out.
I'm not so sure all the grandkids thought shopping so early in the morning was a great idea, but you never know until you try, right. I was surprised, however, that it was my granddaughter who thought the whole thing was a waste of time. My three grandsons seemed to have a great time…or at least I didn't hear any complaints.
Our shopping day ends around 8:00 in the morning, and when we break for breakfast. We sit around the table at Johnny J's Diner, and discuss what great deals we got, and try to figure out what things we need to get next, eat good food, and drink a little more coffee, to get woke up, then we head home to relax and probably take a nap for a while, before deciding if we should venture out for one more shopping trip before Black Friday is history for this year.
The first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 and was shared between the Pilgrims and Indians, was a day complete with new foods to try. The purpose was to spend time together, getting to know each other. I have often wondered if some of those present were ancestors of mine. I have not come across anything in my family's past that could prove the presence of my family at that first Thanksgiving, but I would not be surprised.
Many of those early traditions are still being carried on today. The big meal, with foods we don't eat every day. The gathering of friends and family and the celebration of those relationships. We find ourselves reminiscing about the past, and missing the loved ones who are no longer with us, but we also find reasons to be thankful for the things we have and the people who are still in our lives. So often during our day to day lives, we can find ourselves dragged down by the mundane details of daily living, and the stresses of deadlines and daily obligations. We forget the blessings we have.
For that reason, it is important to take the time once in a while to look back on the year and really see all the good things we have. The difference between those mundane details and stresses in life, and blessings is just a matter of perspective. When we look at the memories and abilities that an aging parent has lost, we feel sad, but if we look at what they have left instead, we can see that it is a blessing to still have them in our lives, and that what they have left is a blessing too.
Today, I am thankful for the people in my life. I am thankful for the time I had with those loved ones who are in my past, and soon in my future, like my dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and nieces who have gone home to Heaven. Your lives were a blessing to me and while I miss you right now, I look forward to the time when I will see you again. I am thankful for those loved ones in my present. The people who support me when I am feeling down, and help me in the obligations I have in my life. I am thankful for the loved ones who will come into my life in the future. Your lives will bring me new joy and blessing. I am thankful for friends, past, present, and future who have and will bring kindness and friendship into my life. I am thankful for my job and a boss who goes above and beyond the expected every day to allow me to do the things I need to do. And most of all, I am thankful for my God, who saw that I was lost, and even though I didn't earn or deserve any kindness, He sent His only begotten son, Jesus, to die for me, to pay for my sins, and through the grace and mercy of my Father, He redeemed my life. He brought me back from the brink of Hell, and gave me the best He has to give…eternity in Heaven with Him.
Our nephew, Barry's wife, Kelli has always been an outdoor girl. She loves hiking and long drives…going just about anywhere. Saturdays often will find them heading out for a drive, and posting pictures of the things they see on Facebook or Twitter. Kelli loves to travel and, while Texas is the place she likes the best, so far, you never know if, in their travels, she just might find a place she likes better.
During various vacations, Kelli and Barry have hiked in a number of places. On trips down to Colorado to visit her mom, they have hiked in the Rocky Mountain National Park. They have also hiked in the Black Hills, the Oregon Trail, the Big Horn Mountains, and many other places. A love of hiking and the mountains is something Kelli and I definitely share. We also share a love of beautiful nature scenes, and I have really enjoyed the pictures she has posted.
Kelli loves animals. She likes the wild animals in nature, and she loves her dog, Dakota, but the thing that surprised me the most is her love of donkeys. I can relate to that in that when we go to the Black Hills, one of the highlights of the trip is being able to see the wild donkeys there, but Kelli would love to raise donkeys. That is something I had never considered doing. Donkeys are so sweet though, and I think that would be a really cool thing to do, and I hope she will get the chance to make that dream come true someday.
Kelli has been a part of our family since she and Barry were married in 2004. They share so many common interests, and it seems like they have always been together. Today is Kelli's birthday. Happy birthday Kelli!! We love you!! Have a great day!!


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package com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.lang;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * The ClassUtilsTest class is a test suite with test cases to test the contract and functionality of the ClassUtils
 * class.
 * <p/>
 * @author John Blum
 * @see com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.lang.ClassUtils
 * @see org.junit.Assert
 * @see org.junit.Test
 * @since 7.0
 */
public class ClassUtilsTest {

  @Test
  public void testForNameWithExistingClass() {
    assertEquals(Object.class, ClassUtils.forName("java.lang.Object", new RuntimeException("unexpected")));
  }

  @Test(expected = RuntimeException.class)
  public void testForNameWithNonExistingClass() {
    try {
      ClassUtils.forName("com.mycompany.non.existing.Class", new RuntimeException("expected"));
    }
    catch (RuntimeException expected) {
      assertEquals("expected", expected.getMessage());
      throw expected;
    }
  }

  @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
  public void testForNameWithNullClassName() {
    ClassUtils.forName(null, new IllegalArgumentException("Null Class!"));
  }

  @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
  public void testForNameWithEmptyClassName() {
    try {
      ClassUtils.forName(StringUtils.EMPTY_STRING, new IllegalArgumentException("Empty Class Name!"));
    }
    catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
      assertEquals("Empty Class Name!", expected.getMessage());
      throw expected;
    }
  }

  @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
  public void testForNameWithBlankClassName() {
    try {
      ClassUtils.forName("  ", new IllegalArgumentException("Blank Class Name!"));
    }
    catch (IllegalArgumentException expected) {
      assertEquals("Blank Class Name!", expected.getMessage());
      throw expected;
    }
  }

  @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
  public void testForNameThrowsNullPointerExceptionForNullRuntimeExceptionArgument() {
    ClassUtils.forName("com.mycompany.non.existing.Class", null);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetClassWithNull() {
    assertNull(ClassUtils.getClass(null));
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetClassWithObject() {
    assertEquals(java.lang.String.class, ClassUtils.getClass("test"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetClassNameWithNull() {
    assertNull(ClassUtils.getClassName(null));
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetClassNameWithObject() {
    assertEquals(java.lang.String.class.getName(), ClassUtils.getClassName("null"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsClassAvailableWithExistingClass() {
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isClassAvailable("java.lang.Object"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsClassAvailableWithNonExistingClass() {
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isClassAvailable("com.mycompany.non.existing.Class"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsAnInstanceOf() {
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Object.class, "null"));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(String.class, "C"));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Number.class, Math.PI));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Number.class, 3.14f));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Number.class, 0l));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Number.class, 0));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Boolean.class, true));
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Boolean.class, false));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsNotAnInstanceOf() {
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(null, null));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(null, new Object()));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Object.class, null));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(String.class, 'C'));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Long.class, Math.PI));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Double.class, 3.14f));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Date.class, Calendar.getInstance()));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Boolean.class, 1));
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isInstanceOf(Boolean.class, "false"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsNotInstanceOfWithNoTypes() {
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isNotInstanceOf("test"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsNotInstanceOfWithMultipleTypes() {
    assertTrue(ClassUtils.isNotInstanceOf("test", Boolean.class, Character.class, Integer.class, Double.class));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsNotInstanceOfWithMultipleNumberTypes() {
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isNotInstanceOf(1, Double.class, Long.class, Number.class));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIsNotInstanceOfWithMultipleCompatibleTypes() {
    assertFalse(ClassUtils.isNotInstanceOf(1, Double.class, Float.class, Integer.class, Long.class, Number.class));
  }

}

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Around the World, Collections, Conservation, Our Community
Posted by mbgadmin on September 11, 2017
Where do the tropical butterflies that fill the Butterfly House Conservatory come from and how do they make it all the way to Missouri?
To answer that question, we must first travel to Costa Rica.
El Bosque Nuevo
Beginning in 1995 in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, El Bosque Nuevo aimed to help preserve the rainforest and the species it harbors by finding a way to balance humanity and the nature that surrounds them. It began with 36 hectares of property being reforested, leaving 50 hectares to be used for protection and conservation efforts.
The organization has grown since then from an initial spread of 86 hectares to 285 hectares. Half of that land is reforested, while the other half is used for the protection and conservation of native species.
The Butterfly House began working with El Bosque Nuevo in 2007.
Two owl butterflies perch on a single branch. (Photo by Kat Niehaus)
Currently, El Bosque Nuevo exports 87 butterfly varieties as pupae to butterfly gardens and conservatories across the globe.
Money received from butterfly buyers goes into supporting their rainforest preserve and the buying and re-planting of previously farmed rainforests.
El Bosque Nuevo sells thousands of butterflies each week, with 80 percent of the butterflies coming from local families in impoverished areas who have been taught how to sustainably farm butterflies. The income they receive per week from farming butterflies is more than they used to make in an entire year.
"I think it's really cool that the purchase of a ticket can be used to the fund the purchase of butterflies, which helps rainforest conservation in Costa Rica, which also helps impoverished families living in the area," explains Tad Yankoski, an entomologist at the Butterfly House.
Chrysalis Processing
Butterflies are transported as chrysalises largely due to their durability. Every supplier packs their chrysalises in boxes slightly differently. For example, El Bosque Nuevo uses specialized foam cells.
LPS LLC packages their chrysalises in layers of cotton padding. (Photo by Morgan Niezing)
The Butterfly House receives approximately 44,000 chrysalises each year, broken down into 4,000 each month at about 1,000 each week in two smaller shipments.
Once the chrysalises are received, the processing begins. This delicate process can take three to four hours to complete, as every single chrysalis must be checked for disease, damage, and parasites.
"Essentially, you look for anything that looks different, such as discoloration," says Yankoski, "It can take some practice because some species have a lot of color variation in their chrysalises."
Once all of the chrysalises have been accounted for and examined, the hanging begins.
In this particular shipment from LPS LLC, 400 chrysalises were accounted for, with 34 different butterfly species represented.
This particular shipment from LPS LLC came in at 400 butterflies representing 34 different species. (Photo by Morgan Niezing)
"When forming a chrysalis, caterpillars produce a string of silk that connects them to the branch and we pin the chrysalises to styrofoam boards through that silk," says Yanksoski. "If that silk isn't present for any reason, then we hot glue a piece of paper to the chrysalis and pin that paper to the styrofoam."
The pinned chrysalises are color-coded by country of origin and are then transferred to the emergence cases. The cases are sterilized weekly to insure that no parasites or diseases are able to incubate there and endanger butterflies emerging within the cases.
Small butterflies typically emerge within 3-5 days of arrival, while larger butterflies typically emerge within 5-10 days.
Occasionally a butterfly will begin to emerge from their chrysalis during the processing, as happened in this case. (Photo by Morgan Niezing)
Butterflies are placed in transfer cages once they emerge and are then released into the Conservatory at an average rate of one hundred per week for Butterfly House visitors to enjoy with their families.
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Cal Lutheran is home to rising stars Marcito, Nomie! and Randy White
Zoe Rodriguez-Willie, Reporter
California Lutheran University is home to many talented artists, singers and songwriters, who are simultaneously carrying a full course load while developing their music career, including rising stars Marcito, Nomie! and Randy White.
Marcito
Junior Marc Anthony Quezada, also known by his stage name, Marcito, is a rap and hip-hop artist and has been making music for two years.
"I got into music when I got to Cal Lu. Before I knew it, I was in the school's studio, recording my first song," Quezada said.
The first song Marcito released was entitled, "Hello," which can be found on all streaming platforms.
"That really ignited my passion for music," Quezada said.
Quezada has performed at Cal Lutheran events such as freshman orientation and Black Student Union's SoulFest. He has also performed at venues off campus such as The Guitar Merchant in West Hills and El Cid on Sunset Boulevard.
Quezada's most recent project he has been working on is an album, entitled "Elevate," which released on April 20 on all music platforms.
You can keepup with Marcito on social media @_iammarcit0_.
Nomie!
Maya Fleming, or Nomie! is another upcoming artist at Cal Lutheran. Her career really kick-started over the last six months.
Fleming has performed at on campus events like SoulFest and other 'block party' events.
She has a diverse music style, and doesn't consider herself to be an artist of one particular genre.
"I guess I'd say my style of music is RnB, but I don't really like to box myself in," Fleming said. "Some days I'm in a gospel mood, others pop and even country and rock."
Nomie! will be featured on Marcito's upcoming album "Elevate," as well as an album called "Lost Legends," which dropped March 1. The album features a variety of artists and was executively produced by DJ CB5.
A tour is planned with the artists featured in "Lost Legends," but the date is to be determined due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As for her future plans, Fleming plans to release an extended play album by the end of the year.
"Never expect one thing from me because I strive to be well versed in music in general," Fleming said.
Stay tuned for Nomie!'s upcoming plans by following her on social media @yoodatsnomie.
Randy White, a junior at Cal Lutheran has been surrounded by music for the entirety of his life, as he grew up in a music-orientated family.
"My mother, sister and father all sing, so I grew up surrounded by music," White said. "I was always in choir and other singing groups in elementary school all the way through high school."
The influence of his family's passion for music led him to create and write his own by the time he was in middle school, when his dad introduced him to making beats, White said.
White's music spreads across a variety of styles and genres.
"Normally, I'm an RnB and soul singer, but I've always loved trying new things," White said.
He has released music that is Afro-fusion, island vibe, as well as rap and hip-hop.
As a performer, White has performed everything from smaller shows at Five07 coffee shop in Thousand Oaks, to the main stage at 626 Night Market in Arcadia.
White's first album was released on May 3, 2019, entitled "Love Jones." Since then, he has released an album with artist Leesto, called "After Night, Before Morning."
"The album has lots of late night vibes. We've been working on it for around three years now, and we are very excited for people to hear it," White said.
To see more of Randy White's upcoming projects, be sure to follow him on his social media accounts, @10randy01 on Instagram, and @randywhitemusic on Twitter.
Zoe Rodriguez-Willie
Students unleash their inner pop-star at iCLU's Lip Sync Battle
'Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life': New exhibit satirizes current social conditions
Gallery: Little Calf Creamery drop-in for Cal Lu Students
New table tennis club 'values openness'
Social justice altars address inequality for Día de Los Muertos
Open Mic Night 'fosters a community of musicians'
Newspaper 'Le Gumby' launched for French language majors
4+1 graduate programs at Cal Lutheran grant students a head start on their career paths


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Someone ought to tell that lady not to wear those argyle socks.
Someone ought to tell that those orderlies not to bang the door.
I ought to think of you less often. I should pray more.
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Q: ember-cli and brocfile app.import with glob I just installed a bower library that has dozens of javascript files that I need to concatenate at
bower_components/library/extension/*.js

In my Brocfile.js I wanted to do something like
app.import('bower_components/library/extension/*.js');

But it's telling me I can't use glob patterns in app.import.
So I tried to manually to concatenate these using broccoli-statis-compiler
var jsTree = concat('/', {
  inputFiles: [
    'bower_components/library/extension/*.js'
  ],
  outputFile: '/assets/app.js',
  seperator: '\n'
});

But it's telling me it can't find the bower_components path.
How exactly is this done?


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Инажа () — город и муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Пернамбуку. Составная часть мезорегиона Сертан штата Пернамбуку. Входит в экономико-статистический микрорегион Сертан-ду-Мошото. Население составляет 14 036 человек на 2007 год. Занимает площадь 1094 км². Плотность населения — 12,1 чел./км².

Праздник города — 2 января.

История
Город основан 2 января 1949 года.

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2005 составляет 41.343 mil реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,566 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

География
Климат местности: полупустыня. В соответствии с классификацией Кёппена, климат относится к категории BShW.

Муниципалитеты штата Пернамбуку

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require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe 'Dashboard snippets' do
  let_it_be(:user) { create(:user) }

  context 'when the project has snippets' do
    let(:project) { create(:project, :public, creator: user) }
    let!(:snippets) { create_list(:project_snippet, 2, :public, author: project.owner, project: project) }

    before do
      allow(Snippet).to receive(:default_per_page).and_return(1)
      sign_in(project.owner)
      visit dashboard_snippets_path
    end

    it_behaves_like 'paginated snippets'

    it 'shows new snippet button in header' do
      parent_element = page.find('.page-title-controls')
      expect(parent_element).to have_link('New snippet')
    end
  end

  context 'when there are no project snippets', :js do
    let(:project) { create(:project, :public, creator: user) }

    before do
      sign_in(project.owner)
      visit dashboard_snippets_path
    end

    it 'shows the empty state when there are no snippets' do
      element = page.find('.row.empty-state')

      expect(element).to have_content("Code snippets")
      expect(element.find('.svg-content img.js-lazy-loaded')['src']).to have_content('illustrations/snippets_empty')
    end

    it 'shows new snippet button in main content area' do
      parent_element = page.find('.row.empty-state')
      expect(parent_element).to have_link('New snippet')
    end

    it 'shows documentation button in main comment area' do
      parent_element = page.find('.row.empty-state')
      expect(parent_element).to have_link('Documentation', href: help_page_path('user/snippets.md'))
    end
  end

  context 'filtering by visibility' do
    let_it_be(:snippets) do
      [
        create(:personal_snippet, :public, author: user),
        create(:personal_snippet, :internal, author: user),
        create(:personal_snippet, :private, author: user),
        create(:personal_snippet, :public)
      ]
    end

    before do
      sign_in(user)

      visit dashboard_snippets_path
    end

    it_behaves_like 'tabs with counts' do
      let_it_be(:counts) { { all: '3', public: '1', private: '1', internal: '1' } }
    end

    it 'contains all snippets of logged user' do
      expect(page).to have_selector('.snippet-row', count: 3)

      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[0].title)
      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[1].title)
      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[2].title)
    end

    it 'contains all private snippets of logged user when clicking on private' do
      click_link('Private')

      expect(page).to have_selector('.snippet-row', count: 1)
      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[2].title)
    end

    it 'contains all internal snippets of logged user when clicking on internal' do
      click_link('Internal')

      expect(page).to have_selector('.snippet-row', count: 1)
      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[1].title)
    end

    it 'contains all public snippets of logged user when clicking on public' do
      click_link('Public')

      expect(page).to have_selector('.snippet-row', count: 1)
      expect(page).to have_content(snippets[0].title)
    end
  end

  context 'as an external user' do
    let_it_be(:user) { create(:user, :external) }

    before do
      sign_in(user)
      visit dashboard_snippets_path
    end

    context 'without snippets' do
      it 'hides new snippet button' do
        expect(page).not_to have_link('New snippet')
      end
    end

    context 'with snippets' do
      let!(:snippets) { create(:personal_snippet, author: user) }

      it 'hides new snippet button' do
        expect(page).not_to have_link('New snippet')
      end
    end
  end
end


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We Are One Film Festival Short Reviews: Black Barbie, Dew Line And Shannon Amen
June 7, 2020 · by Irish Cinephile	· in Film Reviews.	·
Currently we're in the middle of the We Are One Film Festival, a free ten-day online festival that's running exclusively on YouTube. The festival is running till the 7th June (started on the 29th May) and currently has a load of features, shorts and Q&A's for people to watch that is co-curated by over twenty film festivals (including BFI London Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival as examples) and even if you miss the premiere screenings, the films will remain on the page duration the festival's run for free in order to raise funds that will benefit COVID-19 relief funds. So I've spent time watching a few of the short films that's available at the moment and put my reviews for them below.
BLACK BARBIE
DIRECTED BY: Comfort Arthur
In a poetic animation, Comfort Arthur recollects her personal journey with skin bleaching products and questions societal ideals of beauty.
Black Barbie is written and directed by Comfort Arthur, where she recollects her childhood and personal journey about excepting her beauty as a black woman. The animation is well done in showcasing the experiences of Arthur's childhood struggles of self-esteem, and then embracing who she is, and highlights just how the standards of society can have an effect on children from a young age (especially minorities), such as what they perceive to be beautiful and how media, fashion and glamour industry play a part in that. But the films message of love who you are is a very important to those that are experiencing the same issues.
A well made animated short with a personal story that is important to listen to.
DEW LINE
DIRECTED BY: Joanna Priestley
An animated tapestry of biomorphic forms elegantly dances through the life cycles of cells while hinting at the loss of botanical diversity.
Okay. The animated here is decently done, I figured it was looking at evolution as a whole in the way that it is presented, but when it came to typing this up and finding the shorts synopsis, I'm just as confused now as I was when the short finished. The music composed by Jamie Haggerty is decent. Maybe Joanna Priestley's short animation is just too experimental for my tastes.
I'm perplexed.
SHANNON AMEN
DIRECTED BY: Chris Dainty
This loving, handcrafted elegy to a friend lost to suicide reanimates the passionate and pained artwork she left behind.
Shannon Amen is written and directed by Chris Dainty, based on the words, music and art of Shannon Jamieson. Overwhelmed with anxiety and guilt of trying to reconcile her sexuality with her faith, the film is a mixture of archive footage and animation, as Shannon continues to feel the weight of the world on her shoulders and the pain of these complex issues that tormented her finally take their toll and Dainty uses this short to pay tribute to his friend, as well as come to terms over his own grief and confusion over losing Shannon. This documentary/animation hybrid really resonated with me well after the end credits, the issues that Shannon went through with her sexual identity, the memories that Dainty instills between animation and live-action settings, it's a heartbreaking look at how faith really burdens us from who we are and while it's sorrowful and packs a devastating punch, there's sensitivity and compassion in how it is handled.
A short that will resonate with a lot of people struggling between their faith and sexuality, Shannon Amen has been the standout so far at We Are One Film Festival.
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Chatsezjyna (vitryska: Хацежына, ryska: Хатежино) är en agropolis i Belarus.   Den ligger i voblasten Minsks voblast, i den centrala delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Minsk. Chatsezjyna ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Natur och klimat
Terrängen runt Chatsezjyna är platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydväst om Chatsezjyna. Runt Chatsezjyna är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Närmaste större samhälle är Horad Mіnsk,  km öster om Chatsezjyna.

Trakten runt Chatsezjyna består till största delen av jordbruksmark.  Trakten ingår i den hemiboreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C.

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WHI-P180 moderately inhibited ABCG2 function, exhibiting weak phototoxicity.The elimination half-life of WHI-P180 in CD-1 mice (BALB/ c mice) following i.v., i.p., or p.o. administration was less than 10 min. Systemic clearance of WHI-P180 was 6742 mL/h/kg in CD-I mice and 8188 mL/h/kg in BALB/c mice. Notably, WHI-P180, when administered in two consecutive nontoxic i.p. bolus doses of 25 mg/kg, inhibited IgE/antigen-induced vascular hyperpermeability in a well-characterized murine model of passive cutaneous anaphylaxis.
Cellular phototoxicity evoked through the inhibition of human ABC transporter ABCG2 by cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors in vitro.
An R,et.al. Pharm Res. 2009 Feb;449-58. PMID: 18841444.
BSJ-03-123 is a potent and novel CDK6-selective small-molecule degrader.
THZ2 (an analog of THZ1) is a potent and selective CDK7 inhibitor which overcomes the instability of THZ1 in vivo (IC50s: CDK7=13.9 nM; TNBC cells=10 nM).
LY-3177833 is a potent and selective inhibitor of CDC7 with IC50 of 3.3 nM.
Voruciclib (P1446A-05) is a protein kinase inhibitor specific for the cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) with IC50s of 90nM, 25nM, and 22nM for CDK4-CyclinD1, CDK1-Cyclin B, and CDK9-Cyclin T, respectively.
CVT-313 is a potent and selective inhibitor of CDK2 that prevents neointimal proliferation, which has an IC50 of 0.5 microM in vitro.


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Q: best way to store aes encrypted data What is the best/secure/easy to implement way to (locally) store data which has been encrypted using AES encryption?
There doesn't seem to be a proper guide or standard way to store the data, but after looking at some projects that use AES encryption, these seem to be the formats that come most:

*

*XML

*Text files

*csv

for csv - the AES encrypted data might contain ',' commas which could be cause problems for csvs
for text files - if there are multiple data columns per item, would the data storing look like this?;
item directory
|
|__ item's encrypted key1.txt
|
|__ item's encrypted key2.txt

When decrypting the data should the program decrypt the actual file or get the content of the file  to memory and then decrypt it?
The first way seems to be unsecure, if the applications for some reason crashes after the files have been decrypted then the data will be exposed also it will cause problems when reluaching and trying to decrypt already decrypted data.
Which is the best way to store the data? and how should writing the data be implemented (preferably java)

A: Encrypted data is a sack of bytes. It has no structure and cannot be rendered as text.
The obvious way to store it is as a sack of bytes: Take your encrypted data, open a FileOutputStream / Files.newOutputStream, and write it. Verbatim.
Having encrypted data in a .txt file is silly. CSV is even crazier. It has no structure - if you can detect anything other than random noise in encrypted data, then it wasn't encrypted (perhaps 'slightly obfuscated in a way any serious hacker is not going to get fazed by in the slightest', and lets not call that 'encryption').
You can't compress it, either (if you want to compress data, compress first, then encrypt it. If you encrypt something, and if you then compress it and it gets smaller, your encryption algorithm is broken!) - hence, just, start writing.
If you need to transfer encrypted data across a channel that does not allow bytes, only text, then generally the text it allows is also problematic if you use wonky characters or encodings and is limited in that e.g. quotes aren't allowed either. The industry standard solution to this problem is to take any bunch of  bytes and convert it to safe ASCII characters using Base64. Note that this is inefficient: An input of X bytes becomes a base64 string of (X*4/3) bytes, e.g. it grows by 33% percent, for no reason.
This is a good idea if you need to send this stuff in emails, you want people to be able to open the file in an editor and copy/paste it into a web form, it needs to go in a data-x="" attribute of an HTML document, you want to send it in an HTTP header, etcetera.

for text files - if there are multiple data columns per item, would the data storing look like this?;

It really sounds like you have some structured data, such as a bunch of data representing a person, say:
{
  "dob": "2000-01-01",
  "name": "Joey Bloggs",
  "parents": [
    "Anna Bloggs",
    "Jane Bloggs"],
  "hobbies": [
    {"name": "Painting", "started": "2020-05-01"}
  ]
}

and you want to encrypt this by keeping the structure but just encryping each 'value' in it. Something like:
{
  "dob": "AJDNDA21489234JDASD9234",
  "name": "FDJFFDJADIDN235AFSFDS1243",
  "parents": [
    "SDJDDHRCDODFJF234",
    "D234ADFS9IT9CX"],
 ... and so on
}

This is a very bad idea. The structure alone gives me loads of information (I don't know who this is, but I do know they have 1 hobby and 2 parents. I even know something about roughly how 'long' the names of the parents are!).
Just take the entire blob and encrypt the whole thing.


This was a fun one. When I saw the challenge title and description (Tell someone's story without showing their face.), I really did think of Colin right away. For someone who, for many years, didn't want to have kids, Colin is an amazing Dad to our boys. He is a present, active, caring, challenging and strong Dad. I am grateful to share the joyful burden of parenting with him.
My faceless portraits of Colin.
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Bargaining for the Common Good: Alex Caputo-Pearl
September 28, 2017 | Just Talk: Voices of Education & Justice | UCLA Center X
Above, UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl fields media questions in 2014
Above, UTLA officers hold a news conference and rally outside LAUSD, September 3, 2014.
In this week's Just Talk, John Rogers sits down with Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA). For more than two decades, Alex has taught in Los Angeles elementary schools and high schools. Most recently he served as a social studies teacher at Crenshaw High School, where he co-founded the extended learning cultural model, an innovative approach to connecting schools to the communities they serve. Alex has a long-history as an organizer.
He co-founded the Coalition for Educational Justice and played an important role in Progressive Educators for Action and the Bus Riders Union. In 1998, he was one of the inaugural recipients of a social justice educator award from UCLA's Center X.
John Rogers: I'd like to start us off on a historical note. In 1904, Chicago teacher union leader Margaret Haley gave a speech before the National Education Association entitled "Why Teachers Should Organize." She wrote, "The struggle to maintain quality schools is part of the same great struggle of workers to secure living conditions for themselves and their children." To what extent do you feel like Haley's words still ring true today, and further, what does this imply for UTLA's agenda?
Alex Caputo Pearl: I think her words ring very true, particularly in a place like Los Angeles, where the public school students are approaching 95% students of color and over 85% low-income, working class folks. You have survey after survey of workers in different industries who say that, beyond issues within their industry, the top thing they're concerned about is their children's education. So, I think that the words ring very true. Also, because the public education system is a civic institution that serves all students, it is a fundamental good in our society that benefits everyone, but working class and low-income folks in particular. These are people who may be left out if there isn't that kind of civic institution.
Q: As you think about UTLA's work, to what extent do you feel like you're trying to advance those broad interests as you engage in contract negotiations, or as you organize and work with teachers?
A: Some of the components of our Schools LA Students Deserve campaign relate to this. For example, the campaign is citywide, and we're engaging not just 33,000 educators but hundreds of thousands of parents and youth as well. In one way, the Schools LA Students deserve campaign is a contract campaign. We are fighting for things like educators' salary and benefits, which matters not just in terms of recruiting and retaining educators, but having fair compensation for people who are doing very important work. We see this as setting a standard for other sectors to live up to in terms of wages and benefits. But really, it's much more than that. In our contract, we are able to bargain and we are organizing around things like class size, access to counselors, and access to nurses, to name a few. We are also now demanding that the curriculum expand to include ethnic studies, and more opportunities for music and the arts. We're pushing for more support for special education, as all levels of government over the years have, in many ways, left behind our most vulnerable students. So, our contract campaign is suffused with a lot of demands that benefit society much more broadly.
Beyond that, UTLA is part of a growing national movement that is centered on the idea of bargaining for the common good. By the time we get to the bargaining table, we're taking demands and proposals that have come out of months of working with community organizations, youth, and parents, and that bring to light things that are not typical, mandatory subjects of bargaining. If a subject falls outside the norm but we think it's important to sustaining the civic institution of public education, we won't hesitate to make it an issue. For instance, we've recently put forward proposals to expand green space at schools, and we have a proposal that the district establish a million dollar legal defense fund for students and family members who are facing deportation. We've demanded a stop to the so-called random wanding of students, which has resulted in racial profiling in schools. In bargaining for the common good, we see great possibilities for a style of campaign that puts forward a vision for the city as well as for the schools.
Q: You hinted at this earlier, but I'm wondering if you can say a little more about how your engagement with young people and community members allow you to hear their concerns and promote the common good.
A: Over the last few years, we've worked with many different organizations — from immigrants' rights and civil rights, to community organizing groups, or Reclaim Our Schools LA. In the case of Reclaim Our Schools LA, we were very deliberate in holding a number of meetings in different parts of the city, from the northern San Fernando Valley down to the most southern parts of south LA, with community groups, parents, and youth. First, we just listened to people's concerns. When we went back for a second round of meetings, we said "Okay, these are some ways we can address your key concerns through a proposal that will get the school district to act, or to use its leverage to get other institutions to act." For example, we've got a demand that LAUSD use its influence to press MTA to provide free bus passes to all students in Los Angeles. This was only made possible by engaging in a dialogue over a period of months. It was very productive, and we learned a lot from the process — the long conversations, going back to people and checking in, and so on.
Q: Is that the result of a shift in how you deploy staff resources at UTLA?
A: Yeah. In 2015-16, UTLA had one of the lowest membership rates in the state of California among teacher unions. After taking that up with our members, we ended up having 82% of our members vote to increase our dues. Some of that we put into member rights issues—that is, making sure we're continuing the very important struggle around bread and butter issues and representing teachers' workplace issues. We also put a lot of resources into building up our parent and community engagement arm. We also have staff who are specifically assigned to work with parents who are, for example, frustrated with the impacts of privatization at their schools, as some charter school locations are taking resources away from the district school. So as things change, we've been able to develop and then deploy staff resources in a different way.
Q: I want to ask you about the different ways that the Trump administration has created new challenges or vulnerabilities, and how UTLA is responding to them. One of the results of Donald Trump's victory is the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Right after President Trump nominated Gorsuch, the conservative Center for Individual Rights filed Yohn vs. California Teachers Association.
This case seeks to re-litigate Friedrichs vs. CTA which challenged the right of all public sector unions to collect dues for collective bargaining purposes. The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 on Friedrichs. Neil Gorsuch, who has a history of siding with corporate interests over labor rights, now represents the potential deciding vote in this new lawsuit.
To what extent do you see Yohn vs. California Teachers Association as a threat to UTLA, or to teacher's unions more generally? What do you do about that threat?
A: We've looked at the Trump/DeVos agenda as … there are obviously multiple threats there. There are clearly threats to our students and families around immigration issues, but there is also a dangerously cavalier attitude towards issues of race, racism, police brutality, and so forth. That is all part of the Trump agenda. We think that potentially cutting federal resources for schools and bulking up privatization efforts through charters and vouchers is very serious. The Supreme Court as it's now constructed, and the Janus case and others are a fundamental threat to labor unions, as they basically put forward an idea that is anti-collective, in the sense of allowing people to benefit from collective action and collective bargaining without having to contribute to the collective.
It is a great threat. UTLA has been moving an organizing agenda for the last three years, beginning with our contract campaign in 2014-15 and different community issues as well, and because we're methodical and systematic about building structures that all 900 school sites across the city benefit from, I think we're probably in a better position than many unions are. Our members see that being part of a collective has brought some substantial results. Having a fighting union is important, particularly in these political times. But it is very worrisome for the labor movement overall. We're going to have to put a bunch of our resources into making sure that all of our members remain members, and continue to see the real value of the union.
Q: You hinted at a few other issues for teacher unions, and for the common good, which have emerged since Trump took office. The centerpiece of Trump and DeVos's education agenda had been the expansion of voucher and charter schools. To what extent do you think the nexus of Trump and the charter agenda has affected, or shaken up, California charter school politics?
A: It didn't go without notice that, when Betsy DeVos was first nominated right before Thanksgiving, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) came out with a very positive statement about her public comments. A few days later, CCSA retracted them because there was a fear that Trump, being tied to charters, was going to take some of the gloss off of the charter movement in California. I do think it's had an impact, that someone as ideological and irrational as Donald Trump, and someone who has the lack of experience and record of intolerance like Betsy DeVos, the fact that they are so tied to the charter agenda has had an impact.
That said, I don't think it's enough of an impact to really realign things in a place like California. The irony of California is that, in what is arguably the bluest state and factually the richest state, we're 46th out of 50 in per pupil funding and we've got one of the most permissive legal structures for authorizing charters. When you put those two things together, it means that there's very low revenue coming in and it's very easy for revenue to leave through charters. Nobody would argue that this is a good business model. I think the harder nut to crack and the bigger struggle in California is how community-labor coalitions can lead California to do something bold in the age of Trump, and move us out of 46th place in funding.
Q: Let me ask the seemingly impossible question. Part of the politics that undergirds this dynamic, is that many in the business community, including billionaires in the high-tech sector, have chosen to invest in charter school expansion rather than build the case for greater public investment in the public schools that six million students in California are attending. Is there a way to change that common sense amongst the sector of billionaires? If so, how do you go about doing that?
A: I think there is, and it's a big part of our Schools LA Students Deserve campaign. We need to do a better job projecting what public schools, and public school districts, actually do. Part of it is telling those positive stories, which is part of reframing some of the argument. A big part of Schools LA Students Deserve campaign is what we call the 20 by 20 campaign: the state of California, or at least Los Angeles, should be spending $20,000 per student, per year, by the year 2020. That's very aspirational, seeing how we're around $11,000 per student right now. What's great about the 20 by 20 campaign is that it already exists in the real world. There are already states that are putting $20,000 per student into education.
Q: It's not aspirational for New York. It's not aspirational for Connecticut or New Jersey. Why is it aspirational for California?
A: Exactly — why is it so difficult to realize here, where there's more wealth than in any of those places? Part of the problem we're facing is figuring out how to frame the issue differently. We need to say, "Okay, if we really value the civic institution of public education, then we've got to act like it in the richest state in the country." It isn't an anti-charter message; charters should serve the purpose that they originally aimed to serve, which is to be centers of innovation that they can feed back into the public education system. They should not be creating a parallel system that undermines public schools.
I think that, with many of the scandals that continue to emerge from charter schools, charter chains, or leaders in the charter movement, some of the gloss has come off of the word "charter." Some of the shine has come off of that. There's a renewed interest in accountability structures. The work of the NAACP has been profoundly important around this issue. If there are multiple ways to authorize charters, it leads to less transparency and less accountability. If you slim it down in terms of how you authorize it, it goes towards transparency and more accountability.
Q: And less playing one venue off of another.
A: Right, exactly. I do think it's possible. I think it's going to take a social movement. That's why this moment of the Schools LA Students Deserve campaign is so important, given that Oakland, San Francisco, and San Diego are all in bargaining. There's a moment here where we can build the kind of movement we need.
Q: What would be different in the lives of your members, and even more importantly, the lives of the students and families that they're serving, if the 20 by 20 goal was realized?
It's pretty astonishing to think about. I always encourage people to go to UTLA.net to look at all the bargaining proposals that we're putting across the table. Both the common good proposals and the more typical contract proposals. It would mean a nurse in every school. It would mean a librarian in every school. It would mean actually having restorative justice programs, staffed with people whose job it is to help develop restorative practices. It would mean that what I had when I taught at Crenshaw High School, when it was a Quality Education Investment Act school, I went from having 48 students in my World History classes to having a few years where I had about 27 students in those classes, which made a difference for me, my students and for families. It would mean another one of our common good proposals around investing in a community schools model. It would mean more schools with wrap around services, with real breadth of curriculum in ethnic studies, music, and the arts. Thinking about going form $11,000 per student to $20,000 per student is a pretty astonishing thing to think about.
Q: I'd like to return to the threat you mentioned before, which has heightened in the last couple of weeks — the threat to immigrant youth and their families. What role can a teacher union play? You mentioned that you're bargaining to earmark a set of dollars for legal protections. What else can the union and your members play in supporting young people and their families in this time of threat?
A: In UTLA, we're proud to be part of that movement and we have been for quite a while. It's something that you always wish you could do more. Along with our partners in the Alliance To Reclaim our Schools national network, we were instrumental in doing a national day of action on January 19th, where hundreds of teacher unions across the country made it visually clear by having shields — we printed tens of thousands of shields for our members — that we're going to act as shields against deportations and racism. Students saw tens of thousands of educators show support for them on the day before the inauguration, which many were looking at with such fear. It shouldn't be underestimated, how important that kind of thing can be.
We've been able to invest in defending our parents, including Juan Romulo, who was picked up by ICE when he was dropping his daughter off at school. Of course, we're fighting against deportations whenever and however they happen, but to pick up a father as he's dropping off a child at school is not only chilling in terms of how people could be targeted, but also just wrong in terms of the message it sends to young people. With Reclaim Our Schools LA, we've partnered with the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights in LA (CHIRLA). Thanks to them, we're able to distribute resource information to every educator across Los Angeles, on what to do if you're approached from a student who's scared about various issues. We've been able to do things like that and we're going to continue doing things like that.
One of the other common good proposals is for the district to use currently unused space at schools to set up immigration clinics. Our students and family members who are immigrants — that's not the only thing that defines them. They're people with families, they use public transportation, they have trouble paying their bills, just like the rest of us. Another proposal we've put to the district, which is very realistic, is that the district could take some of the unused parcels of land that the district owns and work with a developer to develop affordable housing. It's very achievable, and we know developers who do that. It actually would benefit the district in terms of money. That's a housing justice thing, but it's also an immigrant justice thing. We're trying to think about things that way as well.
Q: Nice. Last question. At this moment, with threats to immigration rights and organized labor coming from the Supreme Court and directly from the president, what keeps you hopeful?
A: I think teachers are generally hopeful people. For 22 years as a teacher, I went into work every day knowing that I was touching the lives of many folks who have their eyes set on the future. It's an inherently optimistic profession in many ways. I think that I sort of internalized that optimism from my years as a teacher. Beyond that, having worked with so many leaders in racial justice movements and unions who keep on plugging away, trying to make things better in our city and in our schools. I just take a lot of inspiration from the people that I work around. One of my jobs as president of UTLA, or at least one of things that I have made my job, is getting out to hundreds of schools and just talking to members. Even though they can be challenging or difficult, they're overwhelmingly positive conversations. Teachers want to act together and they want to act together with community. That is a very optimistic thing.
John Rogers: Thank you, Alex, for all your efforts to make LA schools better for everyone.
Alex Caputo Pearl: Thank you.
Above, UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl joins members and parents outside Arminta to fight co-location, March 23, 2017.