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package im.actor.server.user

import im.actor.api.rpc.users._
import im.actor.server.models
import im.actor.server.models.UserPhone

import scala.language.postfixOps

object UserUtils {
  def defaultUserContactRecords(phones: Vector[Long], emails: Vector[String]): Vector[ApiContactRecord] = {
    val phoneRecords = phones map { phone ⇒
      ApiContactRecord(ApiContactType.Phone, stringValue = None, longValue = Some(phone), title = Some("Mobile phone"), subtitle = None)
    }

    val emailRecords = emails map { email ⇒
      ApiContactRecord(ApiContactType.Email, stringValue = Some(email), longValue = None, title = Some("Email"), subtitle = None)
    }

    phoneRecords ++ emailRecords
  }

  def userContactRecords(phones: Vector[models.UserPhone], emails: Vector[models.UserEmail]): Vector[ApiContactRecord] = {
    val phoneRecords = phones map { phone ⇒
      ApiContactRecord(ApiContactType.Phone, stringValue = None, longValue = Some(phone.number), title = Some(phone.title), subtitle = None)
    }

    val emailRecords = emails map { email ⇒
      ApiContactRecord(ApiContactType.Email, stringValue = Some(email.email), longValue = None, title = Some(email.title), subtitle = None)
    }

    phoneRecords ++ emailRecords
  }

  def userPhone(u: models.User, phones: Seq[UserPhone]): Option[Long] = {
    phones.headOption match {
      case Some(phone) ⇒ Some(phone.number)
      case None        ⇒ Some(0L)
    }
  }

  def normalizeLocalName(name: Option[String]) = name match {
    case n @ Some(name) if name.nonEmpty ⇒ n
    case _                               ⇒ None
  }
}


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Or turn him into a girl . . .
That's already been done. Now if it could make him open minded & compassionate for peoples from other countries….
Probably be easier to turn his outfit into one worn by a popular Disney character!
Yes he wouldn't notice until someone pointed it out though!
I'm not a big fan of the whole Borg concept of 'perfection', but I have to say… Improving stars-and-stripes-boy is no great achievement. =_= There is SO MUCH room for improvement!
Finally got all caught up again after I found this place. I can't say how much I love this comic and how much I'm going to obsessively check for updates every time I can.
Agreed, Sgt. Soundbite needs to grow into more than one dimension.
Just you wait! These improvments will make him MORE patriotic! More obsessive focused on his viewpoint!
Echhh. Now you've gone and reminded me that the most recent cartoon-incarnation of Spiderman was given a motorcycle… which wall-crawls.
One mini-manchurian candidate coming up.
If it's an attitude adjustment, then I say let Mecha-Zodon go for it!
It's not but you'll have to wait until, oh, May, I think, to find out.


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Julie Ertz Wiki: Age, Instagram, Hot Pics & Facts about Zach Ertz's Wife
By: Ashmeet Bagga - Published: October 24, 2017 at 6:16 am
Photo: Matthew Stockman / Staff/ Getty Images
Soccer player Julie Ertz and her team are currently celebrating their victory after defeating team Korea Republic in Cary. N.C. The U.S. Women's National Team are thrilled with their win. If you want to know more about the team's midfielder, then take a look at our Julie Ertz wiki.
Julie Ertz's Wiki
Born on April 6, 1992, in Mesa, Arizona to David and Kristi Johnson, Julie Ertz's age is 25. She has an older sister, Melanie, who also joined the Arizona Arsenal Soccer Club, formally known as Gilbert Soccer Club, in 2000. However, to push their limits, the sisters started playing for Sereno Soccer Club in Phoenix. Ertz was very happy with her decision, claiming it was the best she ever made, and staying with the club from 2004 to 2010 in their U-13 through U-19 teams.
While playing for Sereno, Ertz won the state title nine times and was captain of the team. In 2010, she graduated from Dobson High School. Throughout her four years there, she volunteered as a student athletic trainer, but never played for her school team. Additionally, she was a member of the National Honor Society.
Julie Ertz's College Career
A post shared by Julie Johnston Ertz (@julieertz) on Apr 3, 2015 at 3:37pm PDT
Ertz attended Santa Clara University, where she majored in communications. She also joined the school's women's soccer team, playing as a midfielder.
In 2010, as a freshman, she played a total of 20 games. By the end of the season, she was named All-WCC Freshman of the Year and was awarded the All-WCC Second-Team, NSCAA All-West Region Second-Team, and WCC All-Freshman team honors. Because of her amazing skills, Ertz was named the U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year. In 2013, she played a total of 22 games and was named WCC Player of the Year as well as College Sports Madness WCC Player of the Year.
Julie Ertz's Net Worth and Career
Game day! Go USA! ??
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Julie Ertz's net worth has not officially been calculated, but due to her thriving soccer career, it is bound to grow. Her professional career started with the Chicago Red Stars, who picked her in the first round of the 2014 NWSL College Draft. She is also a midfielder for the United States Women's National Team. Ertz also played in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Julie Ertz and Zach Ertz's Wedding
Happy one month @zachertz ! I wish I could be back in this exact moment. I love you babe thanks for making me the happiest wife. Best day ever!! ?
A post shared by Julie Johnston Ertz (@julieertz) on Apr 26, 2017 at 3:29pm PDT
Zach and Julie Ertz met in 2012. Both were in college, with Zach being a junior at Stanford and Julie a sophomore at Santa Clara. They were at a Stanford baseball game, and it looked like love at first sight for Zach, because the moment he saw Julie in the student section, he decided to go and talk to her.
It was on February 26, 2016, that the couple decided to take their relationship to the next level, getting engaged at the stadium they first met. "Julie has a great personality, a big personality. It's fun to be around her. She keeps me humble, and she makes fun of me. She laughs at me. She makes me laugh. I could go on for hours about what's so amazing about her. She's an amazing cook, which I love. I'm convinced she makes the best tacos in the world. That's something that people probably don't know about her." Zach said, adding, "There are things that I do to get focused that have helped her out, and vice versa. I think it's going to continue throughout our careers and relationship. If I'm stressed out or something, she's there to help me out, just like I am for her."
To take a look at Julie Ertz' hot pics, then make sure to follow Julie Ertz's Instagram, which is regularly updated, and even features her tight end husband.
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Rashida Jones on Freckles, Instagram Culture, and Hollywood Double Standards
By Christine Whitney
Rashida Jones. Photo: John Sciulli/Courtesy of Almay
Do you ever look at a beauty campaign and laugh — because it's actually funny? If you have, it's probably thanks to Almay's newest beauty ambassador, Rashida Jones. Not your standard beauty face, the 41-year-old actress and producer wrote and stars in a series of videos for the brand in which she pokes fun at the social-media influencer economy. Of the role, Jones says, "We're trying to talk about beauty in a way that isn't just about what people think you should look like. We can make it funny and fun and self-effacing."
At Almay's recent event in downtown Los Angeles, Jones spoke to the Cut about all things beauty. Read on to learn how she feels about Instagram, being a modest dresser, and navigating Hollywood's double standards.
The Almay "Mega Influencer" idea for your campaign is really fun — how did it come about?
It was some combination of my own feelings about not being a millennial and the fact that this is a brand-new occupation. A lot of people and companies take it very seriously. I'm not sure I consider myself an influencer, but I like playing the part of somebody — a "millennial whisperer" who knows everything and can tell you how it is.
What intrigues you about Instagram culture?
This idea that you can define your life however you want and sell moments of your life to other people. It feels like virtual high school.
The one thing I do like is that if you pick moments in your life when you felt really pretty or you were having a really good time, you do tend to reflect back on them. You have this whole scrapbook of your life. You can be like, You know what, I did have fun on that trip. Even though I had food poisoning, I still had time to go out on the beach and take pictures of my toes.
The campaign is about the "True You." You've said before in interviews that you would like to see more real women in the beauty space. What does "real woman" and "true" mean to you?
It's not just one thing. The conversation about inclusion usually just talks about a broadening of shades but not necessarily body types — or even people who aren't models. I'm definitely not a model. I'm lucky; I have good-looking parents. But I love the idea of being able to be my age. To be what I am, which is black, Jewish, and biracial — I don't have to subscribe to some other thing to be beautiful and that's good. Women want to see themselves represented, so they can feel like what they are is beautiful.
The true me is kind of like what's in the ads. I'm goofy. I like to sort of poke fun at myself. I'm somewhere between hyperfeminine and interested in products, and then also bookish and not that. I can be both those semi-contradictory things. It's kind of the truest thing ever.
We're here in Hollywood where there's so much of a premium on our external beauty, yet everyone will say, at the end of the day, that it's inner beauty that counts. How do you reconcile those two ideas?
That is funny. Who says inner beauty counts? It's true, but it's not validated a lot. I was very lucky to grow up with incredibly supportive, loving parents. I was really given an opportunity to pursue things that wouldn't necessarily seem so beautiful to the outside world. I could be goofy and funny, or interested in math, or interested in computers.
Now, I am an amalgamation of things I was told along the way were beautiful and interesting. That counts way more than external pressure. I feel lucky because I'm not just a Barbie. I don't want people to just stand there and look at me. I want to engage. I want to write. I want to produce.
What are some of the things that make you feel good, that might not be considered "beautiful"?
I'm a pretty modest dresser. I grew up wearing a uniform. I'm never happier than when I'm in a suit or a button-down shirt. I feel so beautiful, elegant and sophisticated. Even with beauty stuff, I like a really clean face. I know it's not the sexiest or what most people are going to like.
I like when people put their hair back in a tight bun. I like a dewy face, lots of freckles so you could see everything coming out and maybe a really bright lip. I like when people can play with the art of how to wear makeup on their face.
In society and especially in Hollywood, there's such a premium on youth and beauty, but then when people try to look younger with procedures or whatever it might be, they're often criticized in the media. What are your thoughts on that?
We are prohibitively age-averse, and it's a bummer. There's so much good stuff that comes with age. I'm not sure that it's the common feeling among people. [Fear of aging] feels like a sales tool. It's just a way to get people to keep consuming things, but then you have to try to get this thing that's unattainable. You're never going to stop aging. We're born and then we start getting older.
I can't imagine the people who are really scrutinized. It's got to suck. Whatever procedure you're doing, you're probably doing because you don't feel good about the way you look. You're trying to feel better and it didn't work out that way. If I were getting deep, I would speculate that it has to do with everybody fearing their own mortality.
You think about women who spend two and a half hours getting ready for an awards show and a guy blots himself down and walks out the door. We've gotten to this place where the preparation for what it looks like to be a beautiful woman is literally just so fucking time-consuming. I don't know. I would love to say that if women just were like, Screw you, this is how old I am, and I'm not going to try to do anything to hide that from you, that things would change. Maybe it's a big, giant cultural shift. A lot of things have to change in order to bolster that.
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It's a YA book. It was a huge best-seller and it's about a young black girl and it's kind of about Black Lives Matter. It's really good. I just started it.
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THE language of the United Nations investigation of the "clearances" of Rakhine state by the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar military, is remarkably measured, given the atrocities that it lists in its assessment of events since August 2017: "The crimes in Rakhine State, and the manner in which they were perpetrated, are similar in nature, gravity and scope to those that have allowed genocidal intent to be established in other contexts." In other words, there is clear evidence that genocidal acts were deliberately carried out against the Rohingya people. The report lists the hallmarks of the Tatmadaw action, that caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee, without food, water, or shelter, into Bangladesh: the targeting of civilians, sexual violence, exclusionary rhetoric (often through the medium of Facebook, which, finally, since having been criticised in the report, has blocked key military accounts), and impunity. Far from being held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the military perpetrators have enjoyed enhanced popularity. The violence, the UN report says, "has been used by the military to reaffirm itself as the protector of a nation under threat, and further cement its political role" — a remarkable reversal, it says, given the democracy movement's long struggle against its rule. The silence of Myanmar's once-iconic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has led to accusations that she is complicit in the violence. "[She] has not used her de facto position as head of government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine state" the UN report says.
As was argued by Neil Casey last week, there is no prospect of immediate return for the refugees, however much they and their Bangladeshi hosts might wish it. It will require not only a reversal of intention in the military government to ensure their safety, but a complete change of mood in the country, where the Buddhist majority are, in general, pleased to see the back of the Muslim "Bengalis". Although the problems are essentially ethnic and political, such a change of heart falls into the realm of religion. Buddhism is no different from Christianity or Islam in its ability to turn a blind eye to violence when it is given a nationalistic gloss, or when the other side is portrayed as the aggressor; but it is to be hoped that the incontrovertible evidence from the UN gives religious leaders in Myanmar pause. Otherwise it will be necessary to conclude that the military action was completely successful.
The existence of up to a million refugees in camps in Bangladesh — surviving on only one third of the donations said by the UN to be needed — is a clarion call for sacrificial generosity by people in the developed world as a mark of their thankfulness at living away from such violence. How hard it is, therefore, to hear the British Prime Minister announce on Monday: "I am unashamed about the need to ensure that our aid programme works for the UK." Theresa May described the aid budget, of which the UK Government has previously been so proud, as an "investment" that will now "support our own national interest". For shame.
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I bought some tomato plants last week when Cory and I went shopping and got those planted on Friday. I really wanted to get some pepper plants, too, but all they had was the larger plants that cost $3 each. In the end they're probably worth it, but I'd really rather buy a pack of several smaller plants for the same price or less. Like the tomato plants which were $1.50 for 4 plants.
So last night Jeffrey and I went to Home Depot and found just that - packs of 6 pepper plants for around $3. So we got 3 packs. We really don't need that many pepper plants, but they were mixed packs. One was all hot peppers that Cory wanted to try, and the other two packs were a mix of hot peppers and bell peppers. I really wanted the bell peppers, but I think there are only two plants per pack since there are 2 kinds of hot peppers, and I wanted more of the bell peppers. So that's why I bought two. That's a lot of pepper plants! And I had to plant them all, because all the plants look pretty much the same, and I had no idea which ones were which.
I worked on pulling weeds and turning up the soil and then planting those peppers, and the rest of the garden, all afternoon. I planted zucchini, green beans, radishes, cucumbers, lettuce, basil, cilantro, and probably more stuff that I can't remember right now. I planted some lettuce, spinach and chard a couple weeks ago, and there are little chard and spinach plants now. I'm not sure what's going on with the lettuce, because I'm not seeing it - so I might have to plant that again. I think something is eating the chard, too. Hopefully some of it will survive.
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit tired and sore from all the gardening today, but it does feel good to have it all planted. Now we can look forward to SALSA!


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Az Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da a The Beatles egyik legismertebb száma, amelynek szerzői John Lennon és Paul McCartney, noha a dal nagy részét valójában Paul McCartney írta.

A szerző a dalt az együttes 1968-as indiai tartózkodása alatt írta. A dal felvételei 1968 júliusában készültek az EMI stúdiójában. A felvételek a dal bonyolult zenéje miatt több napig tartottak. Geoff Emerick, a zenekar hangmérnöke visszaemlékezése szerint Lennon "nyíltan és hangosan utálta" a dalt, inkább "Paul zeneszarának" nevezte, bár időnként lelkesnek tűnt, "amolyan bolondként viselkedett". Lennon a felvételek alatt többször is elhagyta a stúdiót, majd később mindig marihuána hatása alatt tért vissza. A dal 1968. november 22-én jelent meg a The Beatles albumon.

Az Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da a mai napig megosztja a kritikusok véleményét. Míg egyes kritikusok az együttes legjobb dalának nevezik, addig egyes kritikusok az együttes legrosszabb, legpocsékabb dalának nevezik. A dal 2004-ben bekerült a Blender magazin Minden idők 50 legrosszabb dala listájába.

Közreműködött

 Paul McCartney – ének, elektromos basszusgitár, akusztikus basszusgitár, taps, ütőhangszerek
 John Lennon – zongora, háttérvokál, taps, ütőhangszerek
 George Harrison – akusztikus gitár, háttérvokál, taps, ütőhangszerek
 Ringo Starr – dob, bongo, maracas, egyéb ütőhangszerek, taps

Egyéb zenészek:

 Három ismeretlen zenész – szaxofon
 George Martin – fafúvós hangszerek

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Philip Glanville: Hackney's council house building programme is a model for the nation to follow
1st May 2019 4th May 2019
By making good use of its own land and with financial support from the London Mayor, the East London borough has shown what can be achieved
Philip Glanville
Hackney Council has built no less than 912 by itself since 2009. That's despite receiving barely a penny of national government funding to do so amid austerity, a constantly shifting national housing policy environment and a Conservative Mayor of London from 2008 until 2016.
I'm incredibly proud of that record, achieved – it shouldn't be forgotten – during a sustained attack on council housing and tenants by a succession of housing ministers and prime ministers who have turned to a failing market to build the genuinely affordable homes our city needs.
Hackney, the borough I lead as its Mayor, has done it by acting as our own developer, and building for ourselves on our own land rather than flogging it to the highest bidder, while giving tenants and leaseholders a meaningful voice in what their new homes look and feel like.
And we're getting noticed – our new homes have been called "some of the best council housing ever built" and we've picked up a bulging shelf of architecture and design awards. Most importantly, our residents – whether they rent or buy – love their new homes.
But as we mark the centenary of the Housing and Planning Act 1919 that marked the first direct council housebuilding in Hackney – dubbed the Addison Act after Shoreditch MP Christopher Addison – the sad truth is that we're simply not building enough homes to tackle London's growing housing crisis.
There are 13,000 families on Hackney's housing waiting list alone, more than 3,000 of whom are homeless and in temporary accommodation. If we are to provide them with the genuinely affordable council homes they deserve, Hackney and other boroughs must return to their historic role as housebuilders at scale.
Sadiq Khan recognises this. This week, I set out how we'll use the funding he awarded Hackney through his building council homes for Londoners programme to deliver 100 more council homes for social rent than would otherwise have been possible. Without that money from the London Mayor, we would have had to sell outright or use for shared ownership some of the new homes in order to help pay for the expensive business of building new Council homes through our cross-subsidy model.
That's 100 more families on our waiting list with a permanent, modern and high-quality place to call home. While the government's removal of its arbitrary cap on our ability to borrow to fund housebuilding last year was welcome – and something I had long campaigned for – ministers did not give local authorities in London any additional direct funding to build social housing. So although house building ambitions are no longer handcuffed in that pointless way, we can't simply borrow to build the homes we require, especially given the need to maintain our existing stock and deliver the urgent fire safety work that is so necessary after the Grenfell tragedy.
Without the Mayor's lobbying for the capital, and his provision of cold hard cash, we would not be able to deliver these 100 homes at social rent levels or start work on a new long-term programme to build another 2,000 over the next few years.
Stable, sensible grant funding would transform the delivery of council housebuilding in London and across our country. If ministers were serious about tackling the housing crisis, they'd follow Sadiq's lead, back Hackney's vision and celebrate the anniversary of the first council homes by kickstarting a new era of public sector housebuilding.
Philip Glanville is the Mayor of Hackney.
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Westminster Abbey and its monastic surrounds have seen more great scenes of history than practically anywhere else but seldom more poignantly than the last visit of Henry IV. In 1413 Henry was on his way to the Holy Land in order to do penance for his misdeeds when he took ill, probably as a result of a stroke, while praying at the shrine of Saint Edward the Confessor in the Abbey.
He was carried unconscious to the Jerusalem Chamber in the Abbot's house and was seated by the fire. Much of the original stonework is still there as is the ceiling above and the walls behind the Victorian panelling. When he recovered his consciousness he asked where he was and was told the "Jerusalem Chamber". He realised then that he was about to end his life because of a prophecy mentioned in the Holinshed Chronicles that he would die in Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Chamber was also the place where the committee overlooking the writing of the beautifully written King James Bible met and where many celebrated people such as Isaac Newton were laid to rest before being buried in the Abbey. Today it is one of the private rooms of the Deanery - but it can be glimpsed from outside as it is the room above the Abbey bookshop adjacent to the main entrance. It is not open to the public except on certain open days but sometimes events and lectures are held there which are free to attend.


We were in Scotland this morning! How weird is that? We had one last lovely drive through the Highlands. It was raining when we left Glencoe, but it quickly let up. It was surprising as we were driving out how quickly the mountains were gone. We were taking them for granted I think. We missed them when they were gone from our sight.
We met up in Stirling at Stirling Castle. We didn't take the tour, just walked around the grounds and tried to get as far away from the group of annoying tourists. They were a group from the US who were singing religious songs at the top of their lungs clad in fluorescent yellow ponchos. The streets of Stirling leading up to the castle are idyllic. Cobble stone streets, many of the buildings built with similar dark colored stones. The castle in the center of the town rose high above on a rocky crag. Those cobbled streets wound in narrow switch backs to reach the top.
From here, we worked out a strategy for getting home. The plan, to drive through Northumberland National Park. We left the relative plateau of the lowlands and entered the rolling hills of Northumberland and large swaths of forests. Since we would be driving parallel to it for some time, perhaps a stop at Hadrian's wall would be in order. We've been to Hadrian's Arch in Athens, might as well cap it with a stop at the wall. It turned into a fly by of Hadrian's Wall. If we had more time, I would have loved to hike along the suggested trails. But the long day of driving, after several long days of driving, I just wanted to get home. Perhaps there will be a next time and more time.
Two miles before we reached a service station, we needed to pull off to the side of the motorway to put the soft top back on. The skies were looking incredibly threatening. It would be the first time we needed the top on for the entire trip! Eventually this proved a good strategy, but the rain did hold off for quite a while. We ended up meeting our traveling companions part way at that service stop, completely randomly. We thought we would be way ahead of them. They were getting ready to hit the road just as we were pulling in the lot. We took our time leaving, doing things like rainx-ing the window, getting fuel. They had a least a half hour head start on us.
We entertained ourselves on this last stretch by texting our positions along the way. "We are looking for you! Where are you?" I imagined this is a sing song Bugs Bunny accent, but I doubt that's how in translated in the text. Mile markers were counting down, they were in slow traffic and as luck would have it, they needed to make a pit stop to refuel. "We may catch up to them yet!" as I joked about our refueling stop strategy as if we were in an F1 race. Despite a 40 mile headstart we made it home seconds after they reached our house. Ha ha!
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Carr, Lucien, 1925-20054
Jewel Heart Organization4
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Ann Arbor (Mich.), January 9, 1997; Boston (Mass.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Hayagrwa-Camp Copneconic"
New York (N.Y.), January 26, 1997; San Francisco (Calif.)
New York City; San Francisco
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"Amherst, MA; New York City; homeless, street scenes; kitchen window views"
New York (N.Y.), March 15, 1996
Prague (Czech Republic), March 26, 1996; Milan (Italy); Ann Arbor (Mich.)
"Prague, Czechoslovakia; Milan, Italy; Ann Arbor, MI; street scenes"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), April 7, 1996; New York (N.Y.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; New York City; kitchen window views"
New York (N.Y.), April 25, 1996
New York City; Mary Help of Christians Church; street scenes
Online 10. Allen Ginsberg contact sheet 2434 [1996]
San Francisco (Calif.), April 1, 1996; Ann Arbor (Mich.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; San Francisco, CA; street scenes"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), September 2, 1996
"Ann Arbor, MI; Copneconic"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), September 9, 1996; New York (N.Y.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; New York City; last photos from kitchen window"
New York (N.Y.), December 29, 1996; Ann Arbor (Mich.)
"New York C ity; Ann Arbor, MI; Hayagrwa-Camp Copneconic, street scenes"
New York (N.Y.), January 3, 1995; Paris (France)
"New York City; Paris, France"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), January 15, 1995; New York (N.Y.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; New York City; subway views"
San Francisco (Calif.), February 16, 1995; Ann Arbor (Mich.)
"San Francisco, CA; Ann Arbor, MI"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), February 17, 1995
"Ann Arbor, MI"
Ann Arbor (Mich.), February 21, 1995; New York (N.Y.)
"Ann Arbor, MI; New York City"
New York City; kitchen window views; Gelek Rinpoche with Uncle Sam hat


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Q: Is it possible to stream the output of an ffmpeg command to a client with dot net core? I'm trying to take two videos and transform them with ffmpeg into a single video. It works great if you take the two videos, run them through ffmpeg and then serve that file up via an API. Unfortunately the upper range for these videos is ~20 minutes, and this method takes too long to create the full video (~30 seconds w/ ultrafast).
I had an idea to stream the output of the ffmpeg command to the client which would eliminate the need to wait for ffmpeg to create the whole video. I've tried to proof this out myself and haven't had much success. It could be my inexperience with streams, or this could be impossible.
Does anyone know if my idea to stream the in-progress output of ffmpeg is possible / feasible?

A: you should check hangfire. I used this for running the process on the background, and if it needs a notification, signalR will help you

A: What do you mean by "streaming" ? Serving the result of your command to an http client on the fly ? Or your client is some video player that play the video (like a VLC player receiving a tcp stream of 4 IP cameras) ?
Dealing with video isn't a simple task, and you need to choose your protocols, tools and even hardware carefully.
Based on the command that you send as an example, you probably need some jobs that convert your videos.
Here's a complete article on how to use Azure Batch to process using ffmeg. You can use any batching solution if you want (another answer suggests Hangfire and it's ok too)

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Ohio State takes down Oregon to win College Football Playoff
foxsports Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10a ET
ARLINGTON, Texas — Ohio State was done when Braxton Miller got hurt in August.
Ohio State was done when it lost at home to Virginia Tech in September.
Ohio State was done when J.T. Barrett got hurt in November.
A funny thing happened: Every time the Buckeyes looked done, they kept getting better. And in the new era of college football, that was enough to earn a chance to win a championship.
They took advantage of an opportunity they never would have had in the BCS, shrugging off questions about if they belonged among the college football's final four. Cardale Jones, Ezekiel Elliott and the Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff national championship, upsetting Marcus Mariota and Oregon 42-20 on Monday night.
Behind their bullish backup quarterback Jones and the relentless running of Elliott, the Buckeyes (14-1) completed a remarkable in-season turnaround with a dominating performance against the Ducks (13-2).
"Late August, around camp, everybody counted us out when our Heisman Trophy quarterback went down, and then when the first college football playoff rankings came out we was like No. 16 or 17," Jones said. "Long story short, we weren't supposed to here."
Ohio State began the first major college football playoff as the fourth and final seed, and was an underdog against both top-seeded Alabama and second-seeded Oregon. Plenty of people thought TCU or Baylor should have had the Buckeyes spot.
No question about it now: Ohio State is the truest champion big-time football has ever crowned, showered by golden confetti as its band played the school's unofficial anthem, "Hang on Sloopy," after the clock hit 0:00.
"This will go down as one of the great stories in college football history," coach Urban Meyer said.
The Buckeyes overcame two injured Heisman contenders and one awful 35-21 loss to Virginia Tech to win their first national title since the 2002 BCS championship. In the BCS, the early slip to the Hokies could have pretty much eliminated the Buckeyes for the championship race.
Before the BCS's 16-year stint, it was up to The Associated Press and coaches' polls to sort out which team was best, with a little help from the bowls. The Buckeyes have three of those championships, too.
Now they can add college football's newest championship trophy to the display cases at Woody Hayes Athletic Center back in Columbus.
Meyer now has three titles, adding this one for his home state team to the two he won for Florida. He matches Alabama's Nick Saban as the only coaches to win national championship at two schools. It's taken just three seasons for Meyer to put the Buckeyes — and the Big Ten — back on top, with a team that looks built to last.
Elliott, a sophomore, was the offensive MVP and ran for 246 yards and four touchdowns on a career-high 36 carries. In the last three games — the Big Ten championship against Wisconsin, the Sugar Bowl semifinal against Alabama and the final against Oregon — Elliott had 696 yards rushing.
"With all the stuff we went through to get here, it's just crazy," Elliott said. "It doesn't feel real."
Jones, who took over in the Michigan game for the injured Barrett (who had taken over at the start of the season for the injured Miller), passed for 242 yards and a touchdown and ran for score in his third career start. The 250-pound third-year sophomore proved he could keep up with Mariota — at least on this night.
Mariota passed for 333 yards and two touchdowns, but the Ducks' warp-speed spread offense missed too many red-zone opportunities and couldn't unleash its running game against linebacker Darron Lee and an Ohio State front seven stacked with future NFL draft picks.
"We fought through a lot of stuff," Mariota said. "We ended up short tonight, but that shouldn't take away from what we were able to do this year."
Even with the benefit of four Ohio State turnovers, the Ducks were held to their lowest point total of the season, four touchdowns below their average coming in. They went 2 for 12 on third downs, with two killed dropped passes in the first half.
"Their front seven is unbelievable," Oregon receiver Byron Marshall said. "I think we missed some opportunities, and they played a great game."
Oregon has done just about everything as it has blossomed into a national power over the last two decades, but it will likely continue the search for its first national championship without Mariota. Barring a major surprise, the junior is likely to turn pro — though he wouldn't talk about his upcoming draft decision after the game.
Elliott scored the game's last three touchdowns, finishing off the rout with a 1-yarder with 28 seconds left.
While Elliott slipped and darted through the Ducks, Jones pushed them around and shook them off.
When Jones surged and spun his way into the end zone with 4:49 left in the second quarter it was 21-7 Ohio State and the O! H! I! O! chant made the dome in North Texas sound like the horseshoe in Columbus. The Ducks were facing their largest deficit of the season.
If there was any concern that fans wouldn't travel to the championship game in the new postseason system, the packed house at the home of the Dallas Cowboys, awash in Buckeyes' scarlet and Ducks' yellow, put that to rest. The crowd of 85,689 was as charged as any BCS national championship game.
But by the time Elliott went in from 2 yards out with 9:44 left in the fourth to make it 35-20 it was clear this night had turned into a Buckeyes Bash.