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Q: Common practice with validating emails? I read an article the other day that briefly touched base on some common validation flaws in most modern websites, and I decided to do some research on it.
Turns out, MOST websites, and email providers (hotmail, yahoo) are being TOO STRICT with their validation.
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In section 2.3.10 of RFC 2821

Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address.

In section 3.4.1 of RFC 2822 It goes into more detail as to what the user-interpreted string should be!

An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@", ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain.  The locally interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom.

In section 3.2.4 of RFC 2822 And finnally, tells us that a dot-atom may include any of the following characters

 $ & * - = ^ ` | ~ # % ' + / ? _ { }

In RFC 3696 It goes further to display a list of valid emails.

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*"Abc\@def"@example.com

*"Fred Bloggs"@example.com

*"Joe\Blow"@example.com

*"Abc@def"@example.com

*customer/department=shipping@example.com

*$A12345@example.com

*!def!xyz%abc@example.com

*_somename@example.com

Now, My question to all you guys out there, how strict should I validate emails. According to the RCF? or according to the crowd. And what are the majority of people out there validating too?

A: I usually use a regex to validate emails. regular-expressions.info has a good page, including a regex that is supposed to conform to RFC 2822.
Another question is which ISP allows email addresses like: !def!xyz%abc@example.com, customer/department=shipping@example.com, "Fred Bloggs"@example.com ? I suspect very few, if any. I think you don't have to worry about these odd cases as they are very rarely used (to the best of my knowledge - I have never seen any addresses of these forms in use).

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2019 NFL regular season awards prediction: Will Patrick Mahomes repeat as MVP?
Odett Ochoa, Sports Writer|September 9, 2019
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Reigning league MVP Patrick Mahomes is set to have another breakout season in the Chiefs high-flying offense.
Yes, the 2019 NFL season officially began this past week, but it's never too early to predict who will walk away with the annual regular season awards. With week one already over, here is who I'm expecting to be the frontrunners for this year's NFL Awards.
Most Valuable Player: Patrick Mahomes
Coming off of a record-breaking season, reigning MVP Patrick Mahomes will have a spotlight on him throughout the 2019 season. However, it is true that Mahomes will likely not repeat the 50+ touchdowns and 5,000+ passing yards he had last year, and the Chiefs quarterback has a lot of areas where he could improve his game, such as his mobility in the pocket and his footwork.
With the return of Tyreek Hill, Mahomes should also gain some confidence in the consistency within the offense. The second-year starter has already proven he is the real deal, but what could keep him in MVP contention this season will be his ability to perform at an elite level each week.
Offensive Player of the Year: Saquon Barkley
Last year, running back Saquon Barkley was a walking highlight reel. Having produced 2,028 yards from scrimmage with 15 total touchdowns, Barkley rightfully earned the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award. Finishing second in rush attempts, Barkley is expected to continue to produce impressive numbers for the New York Giants.
The departure of superstar Odell Beckham Jr. was heartbreaking for Giants fans, yet I think this could be what Barkley needs in order to take control of the offense and the team. It's realistic to believe Barkley can one day finish as the top rusher in the league.
Defensive Player of the Year: Myles Garrett
Entering his third season, defensive end stud Myles Garett has already proven that he can be a premier edge rusher, with 29 quarterback hits and 13 quarterback sacks last season. With insane levels of athleticism and size, Garett has had a large impact on the Cleveland Browns' defense since being drafted. Doubling his productivity each season, I think that Garett will end the season with more than 20 sacks and 50 total tackles.
However, this offseason's additions seem to be just what Garett will need to solidify a Defensive Player of the Year award. With what is expected to be a dynamic defensive line, Garett will have opportunities to drill through the line of scrimmage while still showing off his unique pass rushing skills.
Offensive Rookie of the Year: Kyler Murray
Quarterback Kyler Murray, 2018 Heisman Trophy winner and 2019 first overall pick, is expected to carry over his collegiate excellence to the pros.
As the front-runner for the OROY race, Murray will have the opportunity to showcase his skills by not only starting week 1 but also by being foundation upon which the Cardinals will run their offense this season. Murray is familiar with the fast-paced, highflying offense that head coach Kliff Kingsbury runs. Combining that with his ability to both pass and run the ball putsMurray in good position to win the race.
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The late former treasurer and comptroller helped rebuild the state GOP when it was at a historical low point, while reaching across the aisle and winning support from state Democratic voters. So how did Rod Blagojevich beat her by double digits?
Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Richard M. Daley, and Judy Baar Topinka during the annual Columbus Day Parade, Oct. 9, 2006 Photo: Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune
When news spread that state comptroller Judy Baar Topinka passed away, I heard from a number of devoted Democrats that she was one of the few, if not the only, Republican they'd ever voted for. Tributes are pouring in from across the aisles; Rich Miller has a list as long as your arm. It's quite remarkable, even if you're familiar with her, given that she spent the bulk of her career in the workmanlike bureaucratic positions of treasurer and comptroller.
Topinka's crossover appeal was clear. She was a full-throated defender of gay rights, going well back into the 1990s. She supported abortion rights, though with the kind of restrictions common from centrist Democrats and some Republicans. She was a fiscal conservative, but—unlike Blagojevich—refused to rule out a tax hike during her gubernatorial run in 2006. Even as comptroller, she warned that letting the recent tax hike sunset on schedule would cause the state to have a "heart attack."
And she was running against Rod Blagojevich, who'd not only lost the faith of many Democrats, but alienated ones like Eric Zorn still further with a well-funded, brutally negative campaign against Topinka:
The millions he spent flinging offal at Topinka and sowing general revulsion has paid off, as it was nearly bound to in a Democratic state. He's still unpopular–just 40 percent of the public views him favorably, according to our recent poll–but he's succeeded in making her even more unpopular and racking up a 15-point lead in our poll.
Barack Obama writes of the audacity of hope. Rod Blagojevich practices the audacity of cynicism. I almost fell for it. Will you?
Yet she got drubbed. Blago took 50 percent of the vote, Topinka 39 percent, and Green Party candidate Rich Whitney 10 percent. What happened?
First, the state GOP was a Superfund site. Topinka was the only Republican to win statewide office in 2002, a year that the party lost control of the state government for the first time in 30 years. According to Topinka, the state Republican party had $9,000 in the bank when she took over as state chair.
Then it got worse. In 2004, with Topinka still at the helm, GOP golden boy Jack Ryan—a former investment banker with a MBA and JD from Harvard, a multimillionaire who quit finance to teach in Bronzeville—flamed out when his divorce records were unsealed.
After the loss of their young superstar, who had been polling respectably behind Barack Obama in their Senate race, the party's conservative wing replaced Ryan with his opposite, the hardcore social conservative and carpetbagging loose cannon Alan Keyes. In a devastating and compellingly detailed account of the state GOP's decline, Trib reporters Rick Pearson and John Chase report Topinka has having said "the media is going to make us out to be a laughingstock."
Which was true. Keyes lost 70-27 to Obama. Topinka stepped down as GOP chair. She'd restored fiscal order to the state party but couldn't heal the ideological rifts that led to the Keyes debacle. That was the shaky foundation on which she ran two years later:
If anything, Topinka's candidacy has been something of an accident, much as when she took over to chair the state GOP at a time of intense infighting. In each case, she took the job, not quite kicking and screaming—but almost. Topinka had hoped former Gov. Jim Edgar would seek his old office, and she agreed to run only when he wouldn't. Each time, she said she accepted out of a sense of duty.
In contrast to Topinka's perceived weakness as a social moderate in a bitterly divided party, she actually did well in central Illinois. What doomed Topinka were actually the collar counties, which at the time seemed like a bad omen for Illinois Republicans:
Despite the significant Blagojevich surge in the Suburban 30 – it is the 5 collars where the true 2006 GOP political disaster smothered Topinka and the rest of the statewide ticket. Compared to 2002 – Blagojevich upped his collar vote percentage by over 3% and has been mentioned earlier cut his Republican foe's collar winning margin by over 110,000 votes. Conversely, Topinka's collar vote percentage dipped by almost 12% compared to Ryan's 2002 totals…. [T]he basic fact that an Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate received less than 50% of the vote in the once bedrock Republican collars is a staggering statistic that should elate Democrats and frighten Republicans.
Obviously that didn't come to pass. The GOP repaired its problems in the Chicagoland area, making inroads deep into its heart when Bruce Rauner won a North Side ward outright.
Greg Hinz argues that the party "generally went south as suburban women in the 1990s and 2000s moved toward the Democrats and scandals tarnished its image." And there's likely truth to both—though Topinka was running against an already-tarnished politician whose indictment surprised few.
Running alongside those problems was the structural collapse of the party that Pearson and Chase detail. First, the bipartisan pinstripe-patronage machine steered by Richard Ogilvie and Jim Thompson ground to a halt:
[A]s governor, Thompson invented a new form of patronage that eventually helped make the party more reliant on big-time political fundraisers.
Known as "pinstripe patronage," the practice involved the awarding of no-bid taxpayer-funded contracts to politically connected attorneys, bond lawyers, consultants and other governmental specialists.
Thompson still had ample jobs at his disposal at the state level. But in 1990, just as he was preparing to leave office, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stunning rejection of the way Thompson used his office to control more than 60,000 jobs in state government.
"I think this will strike a severe blow at whatever is left of political parties in America," Thompson said at the time.
Second, at the local level, the reputation for competent fiscal conservatism the party maintained through governors like Thompson and Edgar—in essence, the image at the root of Bruce Rauner's campaign—began to fray at the local level in the party's suburban strongholds:
Suburban Republicans had always portrayed themselves as fiscal conservatives who fought to keep taxes low, but that image also was challenged by a rapid escalation in property taxes and growth in the GOP-run bureaucracy in DuPage.
While Philip and others looked the other way, Lake County and suburban Cook County turned increasingly Democratic as voters tired of being taken for granted by unresponsive Republican leaders, who raised taxes and cut services.
What had been the GOP's suburban strength, an active political base, was aging while Democrats, who relied on the patronage of jobs and contacts to get things done, began making suburban inroads, working those communities much like they did precincts in the city.
Jim Ryan beat Blago 63-34 in DuPage County in 2002. Bill Brady beat Pat Quinn 54-39 there in 2010. Bruce Rauner beat Pat Quinn 61-37. Topinka beat Blago 51-39, with Rich Whitney breaking double-digits. It was the only collar county she won a majority of the vote in, while losing both Lake and Will Counties. (Update: As Thomas Bowen pointed out to me, Topinka also only raised $11 million, a total dwarfed by Blago's haul. Of course, Blago's fundraising prowess was also part of his downfall.)
Topinka's loss to Blagojevich was devastating—a double-digit defeat by an unpopular governor running an off-putting campaign while being nipped at by the feds. But it came at the absolute low point of the modern Illinois GOP, which had lost its foundation and was at war over its ideological nature. Eight years later it rebounded; Bruce Rauner's money not only bought it the media firepower that Topinka completely lacked, it aided him in building the kind of organization that Topinka's GOP didn't have the money, the momentum, and even the internal unity for.
But even in ignominious defeat, Topinka left a legacy with her party, holding fast to her centrist beliefs and dogged focus on the state's fiscal issues—and ultimately drawing a historic and political line from Republicans like Jim Edgar, her first boss as treasurer, to the party's current fiscally-obsessed, socially moderate standard-bearer.
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Rep. Shuster said he was not issuing draft legislation. Although details of the discussion draft are not yet available, Rep. Shuster said it will "cover all the bases in infrastructure" and "deal with all the policy pieces, plus it's going to talk about pay-fors."
"I think there'll be a lot of members that'll go, 'I like this [part of the draft] but I don't like that,'" Shuster told Politico.
At a March committee hearing to examine the Trump Administration's infrastructure proposal, Congressman Shuster encouraged support for increasing the motor fuels tax to fund the nation's infrastructure.
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Tester's Corner: Cartagra Ed. Vol 6
By Kouryuu December 29, 2014 December 29, 2014 Tester's Corner
Cartagra ~Affliction of the Soul~ is the second game I've tested for Manga Gamer and the first title by Innocent Grey I've played in full and boy, let me tell you, it was quite a ride. A twisted, gory, and absolutely fantastic ride, and all things that happen to be right up my valley of visual novel taste.
Cartagra is the prequel to Kara no Shoujo, a game I picked up during the beginning of my visual novel escapades years ago and, as many Manga Gamer frequents know, a murder mystery game, just like Cartagra. So when I was told that I was going to be beta-testing not only an Innocent Grey game, but the prequel to Kara no Shoujo, I was stoked and even that's a severe understatement.
You play as Takashiro Shugo (or just Shugo, if you will), a war veteran and former police detective who now finds his home in a brothel by the name of the Yukishiro in the small town of Ueno. One wintery day, Shugo's former boss, a man named Arishima Kazuma, visits Shugo in his humble abode to tell him of recent happenings. The usual: life, love… Oh yeah, and the trio of serial slayings going down in Ueno.
(Good to see you too, buddy.)
Somehow, our dear protagonist has avoided hearing about the news of the string of killings in THE SAME TOWN HE LIVES IN. Arishima is the lead detective on this case, and it's a doozy to say the least. But never mind the killings, dismemberment, and cannibalism of the three victims, because Arishima contacted Shugo for a completely different reason; he has a different request for Takashiro Shugo, private eye. Arishima asks Shugo to take on the case originally bestowed up on him of finding a missing girl by the name of Kozuki Yura in the town of Zushi which just so happens to be the very place Shugo evacuated to when the war began.
If that wasn't coincidence enough, hold on tight because it gets even better. Not only is Zushi a town that Shugo holds very strong negative feelings toward, but the missing girl, Kozuki Yura, is—wait for it—Shugo's ex-lover. Good lord, we're not but ten minutes into the game by this point.
Shugo arrives in Zushi via train and who does he find waiting for him there but a crapload of snow, snow, and more snow and the very person he is supposed to be looking for:
(Golly, what a coincidence!)
… Just kidding. As if it's ever that easy. Who Shugo actually runs into is not Yura but Yura's bubbly and positively adorable twin sister, Kazuna, an actress aspiring to someday perform on stages in Tokyo. She swoops in just in time to rescue Shugo from dying of possible hypothermia while searching for the Kozuki household and brings him to the family's mansion to meet with Kozuki Keiichiro, Yura and Kazuna's father.
He gives you the rundown of what the hell's going on: Kozuki Yura was injured in an accident ten years ago and was almost completely confined to her room due to her injuries. In the confusion that followed after the war, Yura slipped out of her room and has been missing ever since.
But why look for her now, after half a decade of being gone? Despite the fact that, according to Keiichiro, he could care less about Yura, someone apparently spotted the girl in, you guessed it, Ueno. Kazuna instantly latched on to that hope that her twin sister was still alive and this hope is the sole reason Keiichiro called someone out to Zushi. Kind of weird, but otherwise a pretty standard missing person's case. But here's the zinger:
Kozuki Yura is already dead and Kozuki Keiichiro wants Shugo to prove to Kazuna once and for all that her beloved twin sister will never be returning.
(What an asshole, right? This guy even looks like an asshole.)
This is how Shugo's job of finding (or rather not finding) Kozuki Yura begins all while the mystery of the bizarre Ueno serial slayings lingers ominously in the background. But remember? That has nothing to do with you.
Then the killings strike close to home.
While I wish I could go into more details, that's as far as I'm going because any further and I'm sure I'll wind up spoiling something and that's something you definitely don't want to do with this kind of game. (Or any kind of game, for that matter.)
(Murder mystery and cute girls? My kind of game.)
If I could pick one thing to single out that I liked about Cartagra… I probably couldn't single out one thing, to be honest. Cartagra was not a game I initially expected to grow so fond of, but against all odds, I fell in love with this title so much so that I would gladly play it a second time to go over details I missed.
It's a game that never failed to surprise me. I can't say I'm the best at mystery-type games. Seriously, imagine a person running around in circles hitting themselves on the head with a mouse and you have an accurate depiction of me playing mystery visual novels. Regardless, there were times when I thought I figured out what the hell was going down in small town Ueno but did I actually manage to figure everything out before everything was revealed? Hell no, not even close. Just when I thought I solved the murders and the mystery of Kozuki Yura, Cartagra threw another giant plot twist at me and I was back to square one. A little frustrating, sure, but that's the fun of the game.
(Another fun aspect of the game is how hopelessly goofy Shugo is. He's not much help, but at least he's lovable.)
The mystery I loved, the atmosphere the game set was beautifully orchestrated, but my single most favorite thing about being able to test this game was the colorful cast of characters that made this game so damn interesting. You had your typical visual novel tropes—the mischievous little sister and the ditsy but huggable female lead—but even the tropes it gave it turned on its head plus some.
(The "mischievous little sister" in question who has a gross fascination with murder and forcefully assists Shugo in his detective adventures.)
Cartagra has definitely landed itself on my "Favorite Visual Novel" and I suspect will remain there for a long time to come. It's a game that gets shit done and cuts no corner all while providing an awesome visual novel experience for those reading it
I'll sum this up the best I can: do you like mystery? Do you like murders? Do you like girls kicking ass and looking awesome while doing it? Then do yourself a favor and play Cartagra! You won't regret it. ★
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The right music can make the difference in many different venues, but nowhere is music more important than at the wedding ceremony.
Anyone who has ever planned a wedding knows how important it is to choose the perfect music, and this is especially true when it comes to church wedding music.
Choosing the perfect church wedding music is an important part of planning any successful wedding, and it is vital for couples to give this important decision the care and consideration it deserves.
There are many ways for couples to choose the perfect church wedding music for their big day, and it is important for those couples to look to a wide variety of individuals for advice.
In many cases the church officials themselves may be the best source of information about the perfect church wedding music. Those church officials will of course have access to a wide variety of church wedding music, often an assortment far greater than the couple would otherwise have access to.
In addition, those church officials may be able to make arrangements for playing the church wedding music on the big day.
Family members and friends can also be a great source of information regarding church wedding music.
Those who have recently planned or attended a wedding themselves may be in the perfect position to recommend excellent church wedding music for the ceremony.
Wedding planning guides and bridal magazines are yet more sources of information about church wedding music, and it is a good idea for brides to be to carefully review these publications for some great ideas.
From the latest trends in church wedding music to how best to present that church wedding music, these publications can be a big help.
Last but certainly not least, the internet itself can be a wonderful source of church wedding music for any ceremony.
From Catholic wedding ceremonies to Protestant denominations, the right church wedding music can make all the difference in the world, and the internet can be a real source of inspiration for any couple seeking the perfect church wedding music.


Starting from the Operator's office right by Marina Vallarta, ride your ATV along off the beaten paths to Rancho Las Vegas, which is the take-off point for the canopy tour. Don't miss out on taking photos of the breathtaking view of Puerto Vallarta and the bay from here; they didn't name it La Vista Canopy for nothing!
Once you've zipped through all 14 lines, reward yourself with a little bit of tequila tasting before more off-road riding back to basecamp.
* Operator's office in front of Marina Vallarta. Detailed instructions will be specified on your e-ticket.


Six rhinos have been killed in the last one week in spite of new anti-poaching laws that stipulate hefty fines or life imprisonment for offenders. One more rhino was wounded by poachers and is fighting for its life at Ol Pejeta ranch in Laikipia.
The six were killed in Solio and Ol Jogi ranches and Nakuru National Park, according to independent reports. Poachers killed two rhinos from each of the three conservancy areas and chopped off the horns.
The rising wave has startled conservationists, who fear Kenya's new punitive law may not have deterred poachers. Kenya is home to just over 1000 Rhinos.


How much would you sacrifice to start your own business?
The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today's answer to the question "What advice would you give someone looking to start their own business?" is by Clara Shih, founder and CEO of Hearsay Social.
In Silicon Valley (where I live) it can feel like anyone with an idea these days is starting a company. But building a business requires far more than an idea. It requires blood, sweat, and tears to the point of obsession. There is in fact nothing easy about being an entrepreneur. Leaving Salesforce.com five years ago to found Hearsay Social was one of the hardest but best decisions I've ever made. It took every ounce of courage and conviction to make the leap from a comfortable job at a big company to a completely blank slate. And I have never looked back.
When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on–and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
Our first year in particular was marked by long days and nights that often blurred together. We pulled all-nighters in my living room, and then when we got our first office, we would go home at three in the morning or often just spend the night. There were no sick days or vacations. I regret missing my friends' birthdays during this time. I stopped socializing altogether except with coworkers. I also had to get comfortable and adapt quickly to not having a salary for an indefinite amount of time. The specific areas of sacrifice are different for each entrepreneur, but there is always sacrifice of one form or another. Success requires focus, and focus is about tradeoffs.
The ability to evaluate, attract, and build strong working relationships with cofounder(s), early employees, and investors often means the difference between success and failure. I was incredibly fortunate to co-found Hearsay Social with longtime friend and Stanford classmate, Steve Garrity. As first-time entrepreneurs, it helped tremendously to bounce ideas and talk through big decisions and differing perspectives with one another. Our decade-long friendship provided a foundation of trust for us to debate as well as reassure one another through the inevitable emotional roller coaster that is part of every startup journey.
Your key early hires will help determine the fate of your business, too. Hearsay's first employee, has played multiple roles within the company and recently moved to London to start and head Hearsay Social Europe. Another early employee, started as a customer success manager, later ran our customer success department, and a few months ago moved to Hong Kong to launch our Asia office. The founding team and early employees establish the company culture. At Hearsay, we decided early on that we would value three things above all else: 1) long-term customer success, 2) teamwork and 3) getting stuff done. Since our founding, we have hired and promoted based on these values, which makes them self-reinforcing. The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
Many companies talk about customer success, but how many actually put the customer first above all else, always? One of Hearsay's proudest moments happened earlier this year, when a customer of ours—the CEO of a Fortune 100 company–spoke at our January kickoff event and said he views Hearsay as a partner, not a vendor. At this company, the CEO and general managers–rather than the procurement department–own the relationship with Hearsay. It is a true partnership and crucial to our success. This level of trust was not easy to achieve, and is something we must re-earn every day.
In practice, enabling customer success has also evolved significantly since our founding days. Early on, customer success at Hearsay meant customers having my personal cell phone number. It meant pulling all-nighters to fix a bug in the code and other hero moves. Today, we have a global customer support team with a 1-800 number (thankfully!) and quality assurance and site reliability teams. From Nordstrom and Zappos to Apple and Zendesk, a focus on doing right by the customer and delighting her or him is what every successful company has in common. Obsess over your customer or would-be customer from the very beginning, and the rest will work itself out.


Orphaned heiress Deborah Halsey has never known love. Raised by her devoutly Puritan aunt and uncle, tolerated only for her wealth, she has learned to be obedient and dutiful. Betrothed to Sir Edward Biddulph, a man she dislikes, she does not expect her future to offer any hope of a happier life.
It looks as if her prospects are to become even more grim, when she is kidnapped by Sir Edward's old enemy, a Royalist highwayman demanding a ransom for the cause of the exiled King Charles II.
Why then does she have her first taste of happiness while a prisoner of the notorious Captain Black?


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Contemporary Arts Center Welcomes New Curatorial Fellow of Lens-Based Art
Posted September 03, 2018 in
CINCINNATI, OH – The Contemporary Arts Center(CAC) is pleased to announce Valentine Umanskyas the new Curatorial Fellow of Lens-Based Arts. The three-year fellowship, funded by FotoFocus and its Founder Tom Schiff, focuses on bringing lens-based exhibitions to the CAC with an eye toward the FotoFocus Biennial's ten year anniversary in 2020.
"We are thrilled for FotoFocus' and Mr. Schiff's support for this important curatorial position, "says Raphaela Platow, CAC's Alice and Harris Weston Director. "This fellowship will allow a brilliant, emerging curator to present the most forward thinking projects with a focus on photography, video, film, and digital production. After a highly competitive interview process with superb candidates from around the world we believe that Valentine Umansky will add a unique perspective and fresh voice to our curatorial program. Her curatorial experiences in Europe, the U.S. and Africa will broaden the scope of our exhibitions and programs and her passion for the Midwest is in concert with our commitment to the artists and makers at home."
As an independent curator, author and critic, Umansky has worked for various institutions dedicated to visual arts. After collaborating with the Rencontres d'Arles– a renowned photography festival—for several years, she left France for the U.S. where she has been based since 2015, working with institutions including MoMA and the International Center of Photography. That same year, she published her first book, Duane Michals Storytellerwith Filigranes. Umansky has also spent a considerable amount of time in the Midwest, collaborating with artists in both Michigan and Illinois. "At the Contemporary Arts Center, I hope to develop new ties between these states and Ohio, creating projects between Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnati, says Umansky. "These three cities function as the breeding ground for some of the most creative artists I've met and I look forward to being a harbinger of new collaborations and co-productions."
Umansky will be working alongside the Curatorial team and the position is a result of the strong bond shared by FotoFocus and the CAC. "Valentine brings her international experience to a talented CAC team," says Schiff. "For both the CAC and FotoFocus we are certain that a decade of this very special partnership will manifest in bold and brilliant projects for future audiences."
For additional information, contact Asa Featherstone, IV: Media Relations Coordniator/Video Producer.


Joanna Field is the pseudonym of Marion Milner.
Marion Milner was born Nina Marion Blackett in London, England. Her brother Patrick Blackett grew up to be a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. She graduated with a first class honors degree in psychology from University College, London in 1924. In 1927, she married Dennis Milner, with whom she had a son. She kept an introspective daily journal that became the basis for a critically-acclaimed book called A Life of One's Own (1934), published under the pen name Joanna Field. Also under this pseudonym, she published An Experiment in Leisure (1937). In 1940, she started training as a psychoanalyst and went into practice in 1943, working with both children and adults. She became a prominent member of the Independent school of the British Psychoanalystical Society. Among her works on psychoanalysis, the best-known is The Hands of the Living God (1969). An enthusiastic painter herself, she wrote about the benefits of painting in On Not Being Able to Paint (1950).
Marion Milner is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Marion Milner is composed of 8 names. You can examine and separate out names.


Good news for those who already spend hours planting perennials: Gardening is considered moderate- to high-intensity exercise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you can burn up to 330 calories during just one hour of light gardening and yard work — more than lifting weights for the same amount of time.
Just 30 minutes of moderate-level physical activity a few times a week can prevent and control high blood pressure. In fact, gardening scored a place on the The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's recommendation list for battling high blood pressure.
While you're outdoors basking in the sun, you'll also soak up plenty of vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium. In turn, calcium helps keep your bones strong and your immune system healthy.
We already know you love pruning your rose bushes, but a study published in Evolutionary Psychology actually maps out the emotional impact of being around flowers. All participants smiled when they saw flowers, and researchers noted that flora had lasting positive effects on their moods.


We will be offering FREE SHUTTLE PARKING from 5-11 on Friday, 3-11 on Saturday.
Pick up/Parking at Minerva DeLand School Parking Lot (140 Hulburt Rd., Fairport).
There is FREE parking in the Village Landing or Packett's Landing lots on the South Side of the Erie Canal, a short walk over the historic liftbridge to our festival. Additional parking is available off North Main Street in any of the Village parking lots. Please do not block any access ways. Handicap parking is available in the South Band parking lot area, please ask any of the security attendants for assistance if needed.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-music-to-maps-how-apples-iphone-changed-business-1498210201
From Music to Maps, How Apple's iPhone Changed Business
Apple's iPhone gave rise to whole new industries and laid waste to others. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact on everything from cameras to telecoms
On the iPhone's 10th birthday, former Apple executives Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell and Greg Christie recount the arduous process of turning Steve Jobs's vision into one of the best-selling products ever made.
Betsy Morris
@betsymorris2
betsy.morris@wsj.com
Updated June 23, 2017 8:56 am ET
Ten years ago, hailing a cab meant waving one's arm at passing traffic, consumers routinely purchased cameras, and a phone was something people made calls on.
The iPhone, released a decade ago this month, changed all of that and more, sparking a business transformation as sweeping as the one triggered by the personal computer in the 1980s. Apple Inc.'s AAPL 3.67% gadget, and the smartphone boom that followed, gave rise to whole new industries, laid waste to others and forced new business models.
By essentially compressing a powerful, networked computer into a pocket-size device and making it easy to use, Steve Jobs made the internet almost ubiquitous and fundamentally altered decades-old consumer habits in areas like music and books. What's more, the functionality packed into the iPhone made it a digital Swiss Army knife, supplanting existing tools from email to calendar to maps to calculators.
"It combined size, power and personalization," said Paul Nunes, managing director at global consulting and services firm Accenture and author of "Big Bang Disruption," a book about transformational technologies.
The upheaval triggered by the iPhone, and the launch of Google's Android operating system for smartphones the following year, led to new innovations like apps that continued to transform industry.
Entrepreneurial coders and upstart businesses could now reach consumers directly, creating new modes of shopping, entertainment, travel and more. App stores today offer an estimated 3.5 million to 3.6 million choices, including games, fitness programs, shopping and dating, according to audience-measurement firm Verto Analytics Inc.
Apps also made it easier for big companies to connect with customers: airlines use them to expedite flight check-ins, banks to handle check deposits, and restaurants to automate ordering.
That activity has been a catalyst for the growing dominance of tech-industry titans. Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. now get the bulk of their advertising revenue from mobile-ads. Together with Apple, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., they are the five most valuable companies on the stock market today. Ten years ago, only one of the top five was a tech company.
Along the way, smartphones disrupted communication. By offering faster, easier ways to communicate—text, photo, video and social networks—"the iPhone destroyed the phone call," says Joshua Gans, professor at the University of Toronto and author of the book, "The Disruption Dilemma." "It's funny we even call it a phone."
Spotify Subscribers Over Time
Source: the company
Smartphones didn't start social media. Facebook launched in 2004 on desktop PCs. But they made social networks and messaging apps like Facebook's WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, along with Twitter, Snapchat and others, pervasive and indispensable. As of March 31, at least 1.94 billion users were checking into Facebook at least once a month.
As mobile audiences grew, so did the time individuals spent on their phones. Average usage had risen to 73.8 hours a month by June of last year from 68.2 hours the prior year, much of it on social media, according to a report by comScore released later in 2016.
Advertisers have redirected their spending accordingly, wreaking havoc on established news companies. In 2015, total mobile ad spending in the U.S. overtook print ad dollars, according to eMarketer. Last year, Facebook captured 14% of the $190.6 billion global digital advertising revenue, second only to Google's 32.8%. And in the first quarter of 2017, Facebook's 49% rise in revenue was largely fueled by online advertising.
Smartphones have also laid waste to the camera industry—even as they made photos more relevant than ever. Digital camera shipments fell 80% between 2010 and 2016 to 24 million, according to the Camera & Imaging Products Association. Among the casualties: Eastman Kodak Co. , the iconic film company that was already reeling from the onslaught of digital cameras. In 2012, it declared chapter 11 bankruptcy and has reorganized to focus on commercial imaging markets.
How Smartphones Are Slowly Killing the Camera Industry
Source: International Data Group
Most photos taken today aren't printed and kept, but tweeted, messaged or posted. That gave rise to the $20 billion-plus IPO in March of Snap Inc., the disappearing-messaging app. It calls itself a camera company.
Smartphones have paved the way for new technologies that have led to faster production cycles and unpredictable competitors, says Accenture's Mr. Nunes.
Garmin Ltd. 's navigational device technology was groundbreaking. In 2005, sales of its GPS devices were exploding despite retail prices of $700 and above. Within four months of the introduction of the iPhone, equipped with Google Maps, Garmin had gone from posting record earnings at the end of 2007 to missing expectations in early 2008. Its stock, which was trading around $100 at the end of 2007, had fallen to under $20 a year later. The company has since diversified into wearables and other markets besides autos; its stock is now trading in the $50 range.
As existing businesses evaporated, the iPhone spawned new industries and business models. Ride-hailing firms Uber Technologies and Lyft are built on apps; a smartphone is the price of entry for both riders and drivers.
From the days of the phonograph, people have owned music, whether vinyl records, compact discs or downloads from iTunes. The smartphone accelerated a move away from that concept to effectively renting music from subscription services like Spotify and Apple Music.
Artists and labels, who earn far fewer royalties on these new services, have fought the move but for a flailing music industry, streaming has this year been a shot in the arm. A doubling in paid streaming music subscriptions last year drove an 11.4% increase in retail revenue to $7.7 billion—the industry's biggest gain since 1998, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Nowhere has the smartphone's impact been more pronounced—or unexpected—than in telecommunications. A month before the iPhone was launched, Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, Apple's exclusive partner in the U.S. at the time, told a financial audience: "I believe the iPhone is going to be a game changer."
It was, but not in favor of telecoms. The iPhone became such a hit with consumers, who lined up and camped out for days to buy it, that it tipped the balance of power. Manufacturers like Apple could now set tougher terms and demand more concessions from carriers.
Wireless companies were able to capitalize on soaring data use for a while, as consumers became more addicted to their smartphones. But the shift to data plans from texts and calling minutes made it easier for users to treat their cellphone service like a commodity.
Wireless service revenue among the top U.S. carriers grew 5.9% in 2008, the first full year the iPhone was on the market, following years of double-digit growth, according to investment bank UBS Group AG. Revenue, which has been falling in recent years amid increased competition, slipped 1.6% last year.
Many carriers are now rushing to diversify their revenue streams as their customer bases stagnate—most developed nations already have more active smartphones than people—and persistent competition keeps them from raising prices.
—Drew FitzGerald contributed to this article.
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In day eight of our legitimate work from home business plan we are putting ourselves in the best position to make the most of the free traffic we are receiving from the search engines and building a legitimate home business the correct way, a way that 99% of those creating income online are missing out on. We know an E-zine is a great addition for keeping a relationship with our visitors but how will we convince them that another email in their box is something they want or need?
Many marketers use different tactics to increase the conversions of visitors wanting to opt-in to their lists. Most experienced webmasters understand the need of enhancing their legitimate work from home business through a list and just like everything else we learned, we want to take full advantage. We want the visitors to feel that keeping in contact with your site is worth their while and here is some ideas for just that.
We want to stress the benefits for the visitor to join our newsletter on a page dedicated towards our Ezine, this page will be on are menu or navbar and will be a sales letter for joining our newsletter. This is why many webmasters will give something away free with there legitimate work from home business. E-books are very inexpensive to purchase and resell, so if you can find an E-book related to your topic then telling your visitors that if they sign up they will receive this E-book free you will see conversions sky rocket for your list. Many affiliate programs will allow you to offer discounts or electronic coupons for your customers, telling your visitors that if they sign up for your newsletter they will receive discounts on products is another great incentive to get them to sign up.
Make sure we emphasize that this newsletter is completely free and add testimonials from others who have signed up for the newsletter. Let the visitors know that they will be the first to know of any new content and products listed on your site and make sure to use a "call to action" showing them how to sign up for the E-zine. You can also post a back issue of one of the newsletters so the visitors can see what it is they are signing up for and what they will be receiving.
When we set up are E-zine for our legitimate work from home business we will use a template in the web hosting software to set the newsletter format up. This is very easy to do, but we want to stay predictable so our readers see the email in their boxes and open it. We will create a name for our Ezine, a subject for each going out, a small logo and perhaps a small text block to get our readers exited. Then just follow through with your newsletter content and have a strong closing statement to keep them interested for the next update.
Just like anything else with a legitimate work from home business, a little marketing for our Ezine can go a long way, so we will want to do a little work to get our newsletter out the web and continue to grow our legitimate home business even further. Just like every other marketing technique we have discussed there are directories and places on the Internet devoted to newsletters and E-zines so we want to go ahead and place our newsletter with them.
Make sure that you are placing your E-zine sale page in the correct category for your topic or site theme. If the directory has a keyword search function type in some keywords related to the theme of your site and see what categories the other web sites are listed in. Also you will be asked to create a description so once again we want to be exiting and "pre-sell" our E-zine so that visitors want to join. This process takes about an hour to accomplish and will be well worth the time. Our legitimate work from home business will continue to receive subscribers and out site will receive more traffic without any further work.
I cannot stress how easy it is to create and manage the E-zine and most is handled automatically. Solo Build It! includes the E-zine templates and tools in the hosting and they can be looked at by clicking the link Legitimate Work From Home Business E-zine ToolsThe only part we must participate in is creating our sales page to get subscribers to sign up and then create a weekly or monthly newsletter we will send. The E-zine template will be saved so we just add our new content and title with a small subject line telling the subscribers what is "hot" in this current issue. After that it is "push a button" and the newsletter is blasted to everyone in our list.


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Q: Current milliseconds, from long to int I currently have the following code:
public static int currentTimeMillis()
{
    long millisLong = System.currentTimeMillis();
    while ( millisLong > Integer.MAX_VALUE )
    {
        millisLong -= Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    }
    return (int)millisLong;
}

which returns the current time in an int format (not exactly, but it can be used for time differences). For very good reasons, I can't use long.
Yes, I am just interested in the difference between two calls, and this approach works well. But it just looks wrong. I know that. And inefficient. I know. So my questions is, how can I improve it?
I need a function that returns an int such that:
int x1 = currentTimeMillis(); //my function
long y1 = System.currentTimeMillis();

.....

int x2 = currentTimeMillis();
long y2 = System.currentTimeMillis();

// here, x2 - x1 must be equal to y2 - y1

EDIT:
FYI, I want to do this for benchmarking. I'm running tests on multiple threads in parallel, the stop event is triggered by an external component. I'm also serializing the data in a way that only supports int, and the object I'm serializing can not have long members.

A: Your function does essentially the same as:
public static int currentTimeMillis() {
    return (int) (System.currentTimeMillis() % Integer.MAX_VALUE);
}

The above is probably what you're looking for. The modulus operator % returns the remainder of the division. I would only wrap it in another class which hides this away. It's namely confusing to have "current time in millis" as an int with the wrong value. Something like:
Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.start();

// ...

int elapsed = stopwatch.elapsed();

with
public final class Stopwatch {

    private long start;

    private Stopwatch() {
        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }

    public static Stopwatch start() {
        return new Stopwatch();
    }

    public int elapsed() {
        return (int) (System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
    }

}

This is also much better in order to prevent problems when the start time is less than Integer.MAX_VALUE and the end time is larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE which thus overflows back to Integer.MIN_VALUE and continues from there.

A: Instead of finding a modulus, a much faster solution would be a simple bitwise mask operation:
public static int currentTimeMillis() {
    return (int) (System.currentTimeMillis() & 0x00000000FFFFFFFFL);
}

A: Be aware that if the currentTimeMillis value rolls over the Integer.MAX_VALUE between taking x1 and x2, you will end up with x2 - x1 being a negative value. There are two ways to address this.

*

*Use BalusC's approach, and then when you subtract x2 - x1 check to see if it's negative. If it is, add Integer.MAX_VALUE to it again. (This assumes that no two time values will be checked that are actually more than Integer.MAX_VALUE distance apart.)

*Store the current time as a a private static value when the class is first initialized. From then on, make your function return the difference between the current time and that first startup time. This assumes that these time values will not need to persist when the system is restarted, and that the system will not be alive long enough to pass the Integer.MAX_VALUE mark.

As a side note, I'm sure we're all wondering what your very good reason is for not using long values?

A: You won't be able to satisfy your condition 100% of the time because time can elapse between lines in your program during execution which will throw things off slightly. But the numbers won't be off by much. Without knowing more about your problem, I have to assume that you're not interested in the actual time. Perhaps you're just interested in elapsed time? Are you running some benchmarks? If elapsed time is all you need, the modulus solution suggested by @BalusC will do fine.

A: You can just do
public static int currentTimeMillis() {
    return (int) System.currentTimeMillis();
}

If its negative it won't matter provided you take a difference. e.g.
int start = currentTimeMillis();

// will be positive for differences less than 24 days.
int time = currentTimeMillis() - start;

Using this approach avoid the issue of overflows as they will cancel out e.g.
int start = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
// 1 ms later
int time = Integer.MIN_VALUE /*due to overflow*/ - start;
// time equals 1 due to underflow.


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Great write up! I have a 2002 F 150. I saw so many conflicting reports about which driver's side door ajar switch was right for my truck, that I decided to remove the "bad" switch before I bought a replacement.
Ford Transit Connect: Where are the door ajar switches on this vehicle with automatic door locks. There seem to be at least 5, one on the left drivers door, one on the passenger door, one for the left sliding door, one for the right sliding door and one for the rear door.
Bought vehicle 2nd hand, cash, everything worked fine. Now, I have no brake lights, & my door locks no longer work on the remote, or the "all lock unlock" button, & now my trunk latch is not working correctly.
Ok, I have had this problem a couple of times before, generally when it is wet and cold outside and the result is a very dead battery. The heat ac blower fan continues to run after the truck has been shut off and the key removed.


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Po međunarodnoj fonetskoj abecedi alef se izgovara: [ʔ].

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Alef je prvo slovo feničke i hebrejske abecede i odgovara arapskom slovu Alif. Grci su preuzeli taj suglasnik u svoje pismo i pretvorili ga u samoglasnik alfa iz kojeg je onda nastalo slovo A latinskog pisma.
Ime slova je nastalo iz stilizirane slike bika. Tijekom razvoja pisma slovo se okrenulo i oblik se promijenio.

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 אדם Adam "Čovjek" sličan אדמה adamah: "zemlja"
 אברהם Abraham: "Otac naroda"
 כיתה אלף kita alef: prvi razred
 מאלף עד תו me-alef ad taw: od a do z
 אונן Onan: biblijsko ime
 אופיר Ofir: geografsko ime
 אוריאל Uriel, muško ime: "Moje svjetlo je Bog"

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U standardu ISO 8859-8 simbol ima kod 0xe0.

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Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (SPM/AFM), is initiating its 2012 Webinar Series on February 22. The first webinar will focus on ultra-high resolution imaging. AFM pioneer, inventor and Asylum Research co-founder, Dr. Jason Cleveland, will present "Smaller and Quieter: Ultra-high Resolution AFM Imaging."
Bacteriorhodopsin imaged with the Cypher AFM in AC mode using a short cantilever. In the original AFM image (top) missing sub-units are easily resolved (white circle) and its power spectrum shows spots outside of the 10 Angstrom circle, demonstrating sub-nanometer resolution. The lower right image is a correlation average of the original image.
Miniaturization of cantilevers for Atomic Force Microscopy has increased their resonant frequencies and decreased their thermal noise, allowing faster, lower noise measurements. When used in the extremely low noise Cypher AFM, these levers have enabled significant improvements in imaging resolution in air and especially in liquids. On crystals, individual atomic point defects can now be routinely resolved, and this higher resolution also extends to biological samples. Examples to be shown include the movement of individual point defects in bacteriorhodopsin, atomic point defects in calcite, and resolution of the double-helix structure of DNA in solution.
"Recent advances in cantilever and AFM system design have enabled imaging and measurements that were previously not possible. I'll talk about these advances and show some of our latest achievements and capabilities, which I think will be of substantial interest to the full spectrum of AFM users, from beginners to the most experienced," said Dr. Cleveland.
To register, please go to www3.gotomeeting.com/register/982536366. Attendance will be limited, so early registration is recommended.
Additional Asylum Research Webinars in the coming months will include topics such as fast imaging and nanomechanical analysis tools.


Yesterday, October 28, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2647) (the "Act"). So what does that have to do with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)? Well, this Defense bill includes provisions that expand the FMLA's exigency and caregiver leave provisions for military families that were only recently established in January 2008.
As you may remember, the January 2008 amendments to the FMLA (also enacted through a Defense bill) provided up to 12 weeks of exigency leave for urgent needs related to family members (spouse, child, or parent) due to the call to service of a member of the National Guard or the Reserve. The January 2008 amendments also provided for up to 26 weeks of unpaid caregiver leave for an employee to care for a family member (spouse, child, parent, or next of kin) who was a member of the armed services, National Guard, or the Reserve, and who was injured while serving on active military duty.
The Act just signed by President Obama expands the FMLA's exigency leave benefits further to include the urgent needs of family members of active duty service members, rather than just Reservists and members of the National Guard. A qualifying exigency leave results from the service member's call to service and includes short-notice deployment; military events and related activities; child care and school activities; financial and legal arrangements; counseling, rest and recuperation; post-deployment activities; and any other event the employer and employee agree to be a qualifying exigency. The Act also expands the FMLA's caregiver leave provision to include coverage for veterans who are undergoing medical treatment, recuperation or therapy for serious injury or illness that occurred any time during the five years preceding the date of treatment. This latest expansion of the FMLA became effective on October 28, 2009 with the President's signing of the legislation.
While these changes to the FMLA's military leave provisions may only apply to a relatively small percentage of employees in your workforce, the new coverage provisions will require employers to modify - again - their FMLA policies to ensure full compliance with the law. Likewise, employers need to communicate these changes to management employees and other employees who are involved in administering FMLA leaves and handling other leaves or employee absence issues.


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# Tests for setuptools-green.
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# See /LICENCE.md for Copyright information
"""Tests for setuptools-green."""
import subprocess

import sys

from distutils.errors import DistutilsArgError  # suppress(import-error)

from mock import Mock

from setuptools import Distribution

from setuptools_green import GreenTestCommand

from testtools import ExpectedException, TestCase
from testtools.matchers import (Contains, ContainsAll, Not)

def _subprocess_call_args():
    """Return arguments to last call to subprocess.call."""
    return subprocess.call.call_args[0][0]

class TestGreenTestCommand(TestCase):
    """Test cases for the GreenTestCommand class."""

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Initialize instance variables on this test case."""
        super(TestGreenTestCommand, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def setUp(self):  # suppress(N802)
        """Patch out functions to monitor GreenTestCommand behavior."""
        super(TestGreenTestCommand, self).setUp()

        self.patch(subprocess, "call", Mock(spec=subprocess.call))
        self.patch(sys, "exit", Mock(spec=sys.exit))

    def test_run_quiet(self):
        """Run green tests quietly."""
        cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
        cmd.quiet = True
        cmd.ensure_finalized()
        cmd.run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(),
                        Not(Contains("-vvv")))

    def test_run_concurrently(self):
        """Run green tests concurrently."""
        cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
        cmd.concurrent = True
        cmd.ensure_finalized()
        cmd.run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(),
                        ContainsAll(["-s", "0"]))

    def test_run_coverage(self):
        """Run green tests with coverage."""
        cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
        cmd.coverage = True
        cmd.ensure_finalized()
        cmd.run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(), Contains("-r"))

    def test_run_target(self):
        """Run green tests against a predetermined target."""
        cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
        cmd.target = "test"
        cmd.ensure_finalized()
        cmd.run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(),
                        Contains("test"))

    def test_run_coverage_omit(self):
        """Run green tests against a predetermined target."""
        cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
        cmd.coverage_omit = "abc/*,*/def"
        cmd.ensure_finalized()
        cmd.run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(),
                        ContainsAll([
                            "-o",
                            cmd.coverage_omit
                        ]))

    def test_invalid_quiet_option(self):  # suppress(no-self-use)
        """Invalidly formed quiet option throws."""
        with ExpectedException(DistutilsArgError):
            cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
            cmd.quiet = "A string"
            cmd.ensure_finalized()
            cmd.run()

    def test_invalid_target_option(self):  # suppress(no-self-use)
        """Invalidly formed target option throws."""
        with ExpectedException(DistutilsArgError):
            cmd = GreenTestCommand(Distribution())
            cmd.target = True
            cmd.ensure_finalized()
            cmd.run()

    def test_run_verbose(self):
        """Run green tests verbosely."""
        GreenTestCommand(Distribution()).run()
        self.assertThat(_subprocess_call_args(), Contains("-vvv"))

    def test_use_exit_status(self):  # suppress(no-self-use)
        """Use Green's exit status."""
        subprocess.call.return_value = 1
        GreenTestCommand(Distribution()).run()
        sys.exit.assert_called_with(1)

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The recently launched scheme offers universities the opportunity to work in partnership with an internationally recognised professional body - the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL).
CIOL's HE Language Partnership gives language students parity with their peers in other chartered professions. They will be part of a network of professional translators, interpreters and language specialists using their skills in business, academia and research.
Membership of CIOL is free to all language students at Student Affiliate level and is the first step on the career ladder to becoming a chartered linguist. It is open to all language undergraduate and postgraduate students studying in the UK and overseas.
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is one of the UK's largest universities, which has academic partners in all regions of the globe. In 2016, the Centre for World University Rankings placed UCLan in the top 3.7% for all worldwide universities.
The School of Language and Global Studies, housed within UCLan, offers students the opportunity to learn twenty-nine different languages via various pathways, including language degrees in over twenty combinations. The school strives to develop global graduates by giving students the opportunity to participate in international experiences, including year abroad opportunities, travel bursaries and intercultural events.


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Mozambique's LNG operators have just over six years to submit plans for monetising the rest of the Rovuma Basin gas Mozambique's LNG operators have just over six years to submit plans for monetising the rest of the Rovuma Basin gas.
The scalability of Mozambique's liquefaction projects could make the country an important strategic player in the LNG world, like Qatar. But unlike Qatar, Mozambique will not have the luxury of scaling up its exports over decades.


a major challenge to human rights, or is Big Brother really still quite controlled and tame? Is it fair to say that the majority of satellite images benefit our daily lives more than they intrude? And what is the scale and shape of their intrusion?
People's concerns regarding the intrusive "eyes in the sky" turning to "spy" on our back yards, is what interest me. The event will explore these concerns. I hope to explain some of the technical set up of satellite observation of the Earth and the way data from "Earth Observation" is used. Such usage includes various applications related to management of the environment, natural resources, energy generation and consumption, public transport networks.
Since I am particularly interested in your views, about half of the show will be discussion based. You can ask me questions and share your opinions and ideas!
We will look into both the current cutting edge developments in Space Science, as well as technological applications and the impact they are generating in various contexts of our daily lives. Here, I will draw heavily on my research of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Space Sector. This relates scientific endeavour, technological prowess and entrepreneurial spirit, to generate an advanced Space-enabled economy for the future.
Though I am a Physicist by training, specialising in Astronomical Instrumentation, I am a postgraduate (PhD) student in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (stis.ed.ac.uk). I now primarily research innovation and business incubation in Space Technologies. Examples include satellites and ground-based telescopes. My research is centred on how knowledge is passed from basic research (i.e. science and engineering) into small firms all around Scotland. These firms, in turn, provide products and services to make space technology. They then use the data generated to make our lives that bit easier and richer.
Fear not! CoDI's wonderful compère, comedian Susan Morrison, will be sure to keep the entertainment coming. We may even have special surprise in store for you – a special guest of sorts!
Furthermore I am no stranger to a bit of fun. I have done some similarly interesting stuff before! I have previously performed stand up in Bright Club (bit.ly/Bright-Club-First-Degree). Additionally I am a science communicator at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Visitor Centre. Here I am speaking to a variety of audiences about Astronomy and the emerging technologies. I assist in the running of the Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4SS, UoE); assist with the delivery of Sci-Fun (UoE), Physics in the Field and Lab in a Lorry projects (IOP); and organise one off events (e.g. Falkirk and Borders Science Festivals). Additionally, I regularly deliver talks to Astronomy societies across Scotland.
This event is part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas series (codi.beltanenetwork.org). It is a Beltane Network, Fair Play and Stand co-production for Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. Special thanks to Graduate School of the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics in Scotland (iopscotland.org) for financially supporting this show.
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Top 10 Topless Beaches
Forbes.com has compiled their annual list of Top Topless Beaches.
To make the Forbes Top 10 Topless Beach list, a set of criteria are imposed which include: a recognized consensus to go topless, consistently sunny weather, beautiful scenery, a young, fun crowd and easily accessible bars, restaurants and boutiques.
And The Top 10 Topless Beaches for 2006 are …
Anse du Gouverneur, St. Barts
Black's Beach, San Diego
CLIFTON BEACH, Cape Town
Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Illetes, Formentera, Spain
La Voile Rouge, St. Tropez, France
Las Salinas, Ibiza, Spain
Manly Beach, Sydney
Nikki Beach, St. Tropez
Paradise Beach, Mykonos, Greece
Plage de Pampelonne, St. Tropez
Santa Maria, Forte Dei Marmi, Italy
South Beach, Miami
Clifton was rated as one of the Top Ten Beaches by the satellite television network Discovery Travel Channel in 2003 and 2004 and has received Blue Flag status. In 2005 and 2006 it was rated by Forbes.com as one of the Top 10 Topless beaches in the World.
At the northwest tip of South Africa's Cape Peninsula lies the swanky coastal gem Clifton Beach, a haven for international hipsters and jet-setters. Clifton is a series of four beaches, each separated by a stretch of granite boulders.
The beach is sprawling and clean, reflecting the brilliant sunshine off white sand and throngs of tanned bodies. A distinct vibe is felt at Clifton, owing in part to the mystique of Table Mountain, which looms in the beach's background, and in part to the glamorous pulse of the surrounding neighborhood … For additional info please visit: Clifton Beach, Cape Town.
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Hey y'all, so I lied and took a lot longer than I promised to get back to you, but I am SO excited to be back!! I hope that you all have been doing very well. I surely have!!
The weather in Houston this past weekend was crazy. We went from having 80 degree weather to mid-50's, which is insane for this city at this time of the year. I was a little bummed by it because I've been excited to soak up some sun, but the beginning of this week has felt amazing and it has been so sunny. I cannot wait to have some free time to tan soon!
So I am taking y'all back to a couple of weekend's ago before I fill you in with Jordan and I's new adventure because Easter weekend was such a wonderful weekend. On Thursday evening (March 29th), Jordan, Mila, and I met my grandparents at the Woodlands Church for their Easter service. We went to a very early "Easter" service because were going to be heading out of town the next day. I'm so glad we were able to go with my grandparents to celebrate Christ together. After a very long day of working on Good Friday, Jordan, Mila, and I packed up the truck and began our trip to Canyon Lake. The drive there is always beautiful.
We arrived at our rental condo being warmly welcomed by Jordan's family. We all visited and sipped some wine (or Bloody Mary's if you were Jordan) before we all got tucked in for a good night of sleep. Saturday we all slept in and were woken up with some yummy sausage and pancakes that ShaRon had made.
A couple hours after breakfast, we all headed back to Houston. In the afternoon, I headed to the grocery store to grab some healthy eats for the next week ahead and later that evening Jordan and I had dinner together at Chili's and finally got to go see "The Black Panther" in theaters. It was such a great movie and I cannot wait to see the new Avengers movie coming out soon!
Well this concludes my Easter weekend post. I am very excited to announce that Jordan and I have decided to tackle a new challenge and that challenge is the Ketogenic diet. Today is our 11th day and we have been doing so well. My next post will fill you all in with how it's been going exactly, yummy low-carb recipes, and goals for the rest of the month.
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"A Whole New Life After Bone Sarcoma Surgery"
Dr. Edward Cheng of the University of Minnesota, presents moving stories of young people's nervousness, courage, and optimism before and after amputation surgery in the treatment of bone sarcoma cancer. (c) 2012 by The Regents of the University of Minnesota. Sponsored by the Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma Foundation.
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Although the impact of an amputation is profound, this inspiring five-part video is a testament to the human spirit. It clearly demonstrates that the recovery process, both physically and emotionally, is transformational and leads to lives that are flourishing, productive, and joyful. Produced by Dr. Edward Cheng, with Dr. Bill Robiner and Evie Sands, and Musculoskeletal Bone and Soft Tissue Center, University of Minnesota. Sponsored by the Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma Foundation.


Farm Clash 3D is a third-person shooter in which you and your teammates battle against the other team on a beautiful farm. The game features raging cowboys eliminating everything on their way with shrapnel. Have fun with this game!
Farm Clash 3D was made by Andrew Panov (who has previously made Subway Clash 3D).
This game is a web browser game (desktop and mobile). We also have the Android version.
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Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder recently performed The Who's "My Generation" in Seattle at the Paramount with 90's Saturday Night Live stars Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Norm Macdonald, and Tim Meadows. Watch a video clip, and view photos, below, from @PearlJamOnline!
Eddie Vedder collaborated with another great comedy mind, Judd Apatow, in a chapter for his book Sick in the Head last year. During an interview for the book, Vedder discussed his struggles finding people to relate to as a teenager, and how The Who's Quadrophenia was a 'lifesaver' for him. Apatow mentioned that he had heard Quadrophenia was a mind blower for Vedder.
"Yeah. And a lifesaver. A life ring to hang on to because, for some reason, I just didn't feel like there was anybody I could relate to on the whole planet. Nobody at school and certainly no one in the household. And then, all of a sudden, it was like here's some guy from London named Pete, and he knew everything that was going on."
He added, "[I was] probably about thirteen, fourteen. And all kinds of stuff was happening in my life. It was really like, just, you know, it was like a bridge with the planks covering a big, deep chasm – and the planks were just falling. That whole period, I was just hanging on."
Vedder elaborated on what Quadrophenia meant to him, "I mean, it was a number of things – I was finding messages in, like, Split Enz and Talking Heads. But as a whole, Quadrophenia was the one that…thank God the record store prescribed that drug, because that's what got me through. Even though it didn't offer any answers, in the end it was just knowing that you weren't the only one going through these things."
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Baruch Shemtov joined Fox 5 News in January of 2015. Raised in Manhattan, Baruch is passionate about everything the City has to offer, from the arts to politics and everything in between. Before joining FOX 5, Baruch interviewed some of the world's most influential leaders and cultural figures including Senator John McCain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Pervez Musharraf, President Alvaro Uribe, Secretary Madeleine Albright, Yo-Yo Ma, Kristen Stewart, James Franco, Heidi Klum, Michael Kors, Spike Lee and many others.
A 2009 graduate of Harvard College, Baruch was named by one of the "15 Most Interesting Seniors" by the Harvard Crimson. His passion for the interview was ignited as a researcher for CNN's David Gergen, leading him to become a Special Correspondent on Extra and #waywire and the New York Host on Young Hollywood.
Baruch has also been active in the fields of design and fashion from a young age. A fashion entrepreneur since his junior year of high school, Baruch launched his line of ties at age 15, garnering press and attention around the world, including features in The New York Times, The Times of London, GQ Japan, New York Magazine, and other publications. He and his designs have also been profiled on CNN, E!, NBC, and PBS.
Baruch has opened the New York Stock Exchange, closed the NASDAQ, and hosted the TEDx Youth Conference in New York. He is committed to public service and was appointed to the Advisory Board at the Harvard Kennedy School Taubman Center for State and Local Government.