Cooper Tires has produced a new series of videos with ex-Formula 1 star and brand ambassador David Coulthard. In the new DriveTribe.com series, the tyre manufacturer challenges Coulthard to explore the role that tyres play in a range of extreme driving conditions.
Fort Mill, SC (March 22, 2019)- Continental Tire has teamed with SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks (SST) as a tire partner through the 2019 season. Organized by racer Robby Gordon, the SST Championship is an exciting race series where a field of versatile off-road trucks compete against one another on a circuit lined with man-made ramps for the ultimate display of jumps, launches, and grip.
Mercedes-AMG Lewis Hamilton is bored. Nearly two dozen men and women swarm the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 car he's poured into – it's got more in common with NASA's spacecraft than your average Subaru – but Lewis? He's cool as a cucumber, waiting for the moment. It's here. The signal comes, and he guns the engine mere feet in front of me.
Pirelli has committed to being involved in 10 major motorsport championships in North America this year.
In addition to supplying thousands of tires to several races and rallies every weekend, Pirelli has also committed to 40 personnel to be a part of them.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Continental Tire the Americas' General Tire brand has secured exclusive tire supplier and official racing tire status with NASCAR's K&N Pro Series, Pinty's Series and PEAK Mexico Series for the next few years.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Long before NBC Sports clinched the deal to televise live coverage of the 57th Rolex 24 from Daytona International Speedway on Jan.


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The Hacker News — Cyber Security and Hacking News Website: Turla Malware
Gazer: A New Backdoor Targets Ministries and Embassies Worldwide
August 30, 2017Mohit Kumar
Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new malware campaign targeting consulates, ministries and embassies worldwide to spy on governments and diplomats. Active since 2016, the malware campaign is leveraging a new backdoor, dubbed Gazer , and is believed to be carried out by Turla advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking group that's been previously linked to Russian intelligence. Gazer, written in C++, the backdoor delivers via spear phishing emails and hijacks targeted computers in two steps—first, the malware drops Skipper backdoor, which has previously been linked to Turla and then installs Gazer components. In previous cyber espionage campaigns, the Turla hacking group used Carbon and Kazuar backdoors as its second-stage malware, which also has many similarities with Gazer, according to research [ PDF ] published by ESET. Gazer receives encrypted commands from a remote command-and-control server and evades detection by using compromised, legitimate website
Russian Hackers Hijack Satellite To Steal Data from Thousands of Hacked Computers
September 10, 2015Swati Khandelwal
A group of Russian hackers, most notably the Turla APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) is hijacking commercial satellites to hide command-and-control operations, a security firm said today. Turla APT group, which was named after its notorious software Epic Turla , is abusing satellite-based Internet connections in order to: Siphon sensitive data from government, military, diplomatic, research and educational organisations in the United States and Europe. Hide their command-and-control servers from law enforcement agencies. Despite some of its operations were uncovered last year, Turla APT group has been active for close to a decade, while remaining invisible by cleverly hiding from law enforcement agencies and security firms. Now, security researchers from Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab claim to have identified the way Turla APT group succeeded in hiding itself. The researchers said the group disguised itself by using commercial satellite Internet
Powerful Linux Trojan 'Turla' Infected Large Number of Victims
December 09, 2014Mohit Kumar
Security researchers have discovered a highly nasty Linux trojan that has been used by cybercriminals in state sponsored attack in order to steal personal, confidential information from government institutions, military and pharmaceutical companies around the world. A previously unknown piece of a larger puzzle called " Turla ," one of the most complex Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab in August, remained hidden on some systems for at least four years. The malware was notable for its use of a rootkit that made it extremely hard to detect. The German security company G Data believed that Turla campaign is linked to Russia and has in the past exploited a variety of Windows vulnerabilities, at least two of which were zero-days, to infect government institutions, embassies, military, education, research, and pharmaceutical companies in more than 45 countries. Recently, security researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab

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updated 12:30pm with Cruz remarks and at 1:30pm with Trump and Palin remarks.
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz joined forces this afternoon at a rally against the president's nuclear deal with Iran.
"This Iranian nuclear deal is catastrophic," Cruz said, calling it the No. 1 national security threat to the United States. "If it goes through, over $100 billion will flow directly to Iran" and billions of that will go to jihadists intent on murdering Americans, Israelis and Europeans.
"It is a disgrace for this administration to abandon Americans in Iranian hell holes," he added, referring to a number of prisoners whose release wasn't part of the negotiations.
Lawmakers who vote to protect the deal, he said, will bear responsibility for any murders Iran and its proxies perpetrate going forward.
"If you are directly responsible for sending billions of dollars to jihadists who use those billions to murder Americans, you cannot wash your hands of that blood," Cruz said.
The rally drew several thousand anti-Iran, anti-Obama protesters, though White House allies on Tuesday secured enough votes to protect the deal from a congressional backlash.
The turnout was more modest than for many tea party events at the same site on the Capitol lawn. Those on hand were dedicated, though. They baked in a sharp sun, with temperatures hitting 93 degrees and typical high humidity for late summer in Washington.
Many expressed open revulsion at President Barack Obama, along with Iran.
Signs in the crowd took aim at both, and at the deal and all of its defenders.
"What part of death to America [and] death to Israel don't you understand?" read one sign.
"POTUS in bed with those who behead," read another, referring to atrocities perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State terror group.
Even though Democrats have enough support in Congress to protect the deal, Erwin – like others in the crowd – said he remains optimistic that the rally can turn the tide.
The political dimensions of the event weren't far below the surface, though Cruz refrained from any overt vote-for-me rhetoric. He had invited Trump, in part to maximize news coverage -- a tactic that worked.
Trump, mobbed by cameras as he headed to and from the sun-drenched stage, wasn't so restrained.
"We are led by very very stupid people," he told the adoring crowd, adding that "We lose to everybody" – to ISIS, to China, to Iran.
"We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning," Trump said. "Believe me."
"Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran," he said. As for Iran's prisoners, he said, "if I win the presidency, I guarantee you that those four prisoners are back in our country before I ever take office."
Asked by one reporter about the apparent campaign bromance between himself and Cruz, Trump said off-stage: "It is a little bit of a romance. I like him. He likes me." But, he suggested, Cruz might be disappointed if he's hoping Trump supporters will end up shifting to him.
"I'm not dropping out of anything. I never drop out," Trump said.
Warm-up speakers drew boos at the mention of Obama's name.
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, lamented that he, and "a large minority of Congress," is willing to allow nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of modern equivalent of Hitler's Nazi Germany. He accused the White House of "mafia and Chicago politics at its worst" in pressuring lawmakers to protect the deal.
Why? "President Barack Obama is sympathetic to radical Islam…. This deal shows that President Obama wants to make Iran great again," Klein asserted.
The Trump-Cruz alliance has been an unusual element of the 2016 GOP race. For the billionaire front-runner, the rally at the Capitol provides a chance to move past reality TV posturing and debate stage bluster and into the realm of policy.
For Cruz, who invited Trump to the event, it's a chance to bask in the glow of Trump's blazing star power, and a surefire way to command more news media attention as he seeks both to torpedo the Iran deal and to break out of the 17-way GOP pack.
Cruz and Trump are hardly alone in the 2016 field in condemning the Iran deal as capitulation that undermines Israeli security, emboldens a theocratic and anti-American regime in Tehran, and cements Obama's reputation as weak and short-sighted. Cruz and others vow to undo the deal as soon as they're sworn in.
But for all the bluster and dismay over the deal, Congress seems powerless to block it.
On Tuesday, three more Democratic senators announced support. That brought the tally to 41 -- far more than the 34 needed to back a presidential veto if Congress sends Obama a resolution disapproving the deal.
That's also enough to block such a resolution from coming to a vote at all.
"We certainly would expect that those members of Congress who support the agreement to take the necessary steps in Congress to prevent Congress from undermining the agreement," Earnest said.
On the Senate floor, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., opened debate on the Iran deal by calling on Democrats to "resist attempts to obstruct a final vote… on this extremely important matter."
Democrats called that hypocritical, noting that before the GOP regained the majority in last November's elections, McConnell and his partisans killed hundreds of measures by invoking the 60-vote threshold to quash a filibuster.
The debate over the Iran deal has raged for months. A vote could come as soon as Friday, Sept. 11 – a date favored by Republicans to maximize the emotional impact.
Trump has called it "a disaster," though unlike Cruz and others, he has said he would make the best of a bad agreement rather than try to rip it up. He has boasted that he could have cut a far better deal though – drawing a jab from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The Bush campaign dusted off a CNN interview in which Trump lauded Hillary Clinton as the person he would want cutting a deal with Iran.
Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, will also headline the "Stop the Iran Deal" rally, co-sponsored by Tea Party Patriots, Center for Security Policy, and the Zionist Organization of America. Conservative talk show hosts Glenn Beck and Mark Levin are expected to speak, as is Tyler congressman Louie Gohmert.
Levin acidly joked that Obama makes Neville Chamberlain -- Britain's infamously appeasing pre-World War II prime minister -- look like Gen. George Patton.
Palin revved up the crowd, too.


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On The Big Screen, Reviews
Searching Eva – Fragments Festival
The world has been birthed a new. Though there are pressures from the far right to curtail to a more puritan landscape, there is a somewhat freeing blow coming from liberation. More people are expressing their love and who they are with sheer confidence.
It is still a terrifying world – with brutality leering at every corner.
But now, more than ever, a new generation is standing proud of their identity and proclaiming loud on who they are. That's somewhat the case in the gorgeous captured Searching Eva.
Directed by Pia Hellenthal, Searching Eva is it's very own beautifully filmed documentary. The movie revolves around Eva. At 25, she is a sex-worker, a drifter, a Berliner, a pet-owner, a lesbian, a Virgo, a housewife, a feminist, a model, and Convey this new age of humanity who have grown in the age of the internet, Searching Eva looks to tackle the different threads of Eva that tie and dance together.
In Hellenthal's film, the movie takes a fly-on-the-wall approach whilst also interviewing Eva in order to showcase exactly who she is and why her story matters in this vast new social climate.
Searching Eva certainly comes with its own sets of rules. The film's titular subject is an intriguing soul who definitely underlines what it means to be a "millennial" in this landscape. Observing her behaviour and her own history, it becomes apparent that Eva is fluid in her sexuality, her identity, and also her lifestyle – spending her time taking drugs or having sex. In one scene, she utters "the patriarchy fucks me over every day, so I may as well get paid for it." (I mean, you go girl.)
Eva herself is a beguiling watch and at times annoying – a point that the film plays into. She is vastly different from the norm that older generations have and though not all of her behaviour is permissible to all, she is still a confident young woman and fleshed out greatly in this documentary.
The framing is stunning. From pastel colours to intense reds, the movie utilises this pretty world that Eva lives in. It is incredibly lush.
Searching Eva is an intriguing watch. It feels somewhat dismissive to mention that it may not appeal to everyone's sensibilities. I mean, there never has been a truer sentiment here because the documentary flits through these gorgeously filmed landscapes, intimate stories, sexual moments, texts on screen, and more surreal moments that will tinge with the unexpected.
That being said, Searching Eva is a bold documentary about an equally vibrant subject. Gorgeously filmed and wonderfully excavated, this is certainly a titillating and phenomenal watch.
Much like it's subject.
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The Women's College Advantage
The history of the Seven Sisters Colleges
The Women's College Advantage:
"We may be in the board room, but the CEO won't get off his cell phone to hear our presentation."*
To women readers, I hope you have not faced discrimination or intimidation from men, but, let's face it; it still goes on.
When universities first began in North America, women simply were not admitted to the elite colleges, including the Ivy League. By the mid-1800's, women began demanding a good education, and some men supported them. "The plan and policy of this school recognizes the principle that in the present state of society in our country young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men," wrote all-women's Hollins University founder Charles Cocke in 1857.
Co-education was not yet the norm, and the history of women's colleges is, indeed, a noble one. Most think first of the Seven Sisters colleges, and although they were not consistently the first US colleges granting bachelor's degrees to women, all were founded between 1837 and 1889, seeking to achieve the same Ivy League liberal arts education (think arts and sciences, or general education) as men.
1837: Mount Holyoke really was one of the earliest, founded by chemist Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Seminary. In the small town of South Hadley in central Massachusetts, Mt. H. is about 2 hours west of Boston, enrolls 2,300 undergraduate women, has one of the most beautiful college campuses, and continues to offer an equal-to-Ivy rigorous education, often attracting scholarly women interested in sciences and medicine. Among many, noted alumnae include Elaine Chao, current U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and poet Emily Dickinson. One parent, an M.D. herself, reminded me of Dr. Virginia Apgar, Class of 1929, who developed the test still in use for evaluating the health of newborns.
Nowadays, Mt. H. is part of the five-college consortium in the area that includes all-women Smith, the big state University of Massachusetts – Amherst, alternate-learning style Hampshire College, and elite formerly all-men Amherst College. Women can take classes at any of the other colleges, and men from the other schools come to yours.
In 1865, Vassar came next, located in Poughkeepsie, NY, about 1 hour north of New York City. However, when the all-men's colleges began to accept women, Vassar decided it was only fair that they accept men.
In 1875, Wellesley College began admitting students. Only a 20-minute train ride away from the glories of downtown Boston, truly the most wonderful place for students, the college sits on a high plateau over looking the rolling Wellesley Hills and on into Massachusetts. Wellesley boasts two former U.S. Secretaries of State: Hillary Rodham Clinton under Obama (she gave the graduation speech for her class 1968), and (Georgetown professor and author) Madeleine Albright under Bill Clinton. Other notable alumnae include former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy and Canadian economist Jalynn Rogers Bennett. Currently welcoming 2,300 women, Wellesley students enjoy exchange opportunities with nearby co-ed business school Babson College and Olin College of Engineering.
Also in 1875, Smith College opened its doors in central Massachusetts. Now welcoming 2,750 students, Smith has resisted pressure to become co-ed. Imagine being able to get a 4-year engineering degree in a program specifically for women while concurrently continuing your dance and music skills – for credit. Smith is also a member of the five-college cooperation, and their town of Northampton is the liveliest in the area, full of activity, attracting students from the other campuses and folks all the way from Hartford coming in for an evening concert. Their art museum alone is so amazing that young men choose Amherst, 7 miles' distance, to be able to enjoy it.
Opening their doors in 1879 was Radcliffe College, then known as the Harvard Annex. Nowadays, men and women undergraduates enroll in Harvard.
Bryn Mawr (meaning large hill in Welsh) College opened in 1885 in Pennsylvania as the women's counterpart to nearby Haverford, then men-only. Formerly Quaker, now non-denominational, both schools enjoy cross-registration as well with Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. The glories of Philadelphia are only a ½ hour SEPTA train ride away, and their most famous graduate is the late actor Kathrine Hepburn. I've always admired war correspondent alumna Martha Gellhorn. In a college ranking in the '60's Bryn Mawr ranked ahead of Harvard partially owing to their having the greatest percentage of Ph.D's actually teaching undergraduates. Many would agree with that evaluation today.
The most popular in the group is Barnard, founded in 1889, currently hosting 2,500 undergraduate women in New York City. Barnard has developed a unique relationship with Columbia, just across the street, whereat students can take any classes they want and obtain an Ivy League degree. Those who allege that Barnard women couldn't get offer from Columbia have never met any, for all, past and present, are eminent. Famous ones include anthropologist and author Margaret Meade, homemaking TV star Martha Stewart, and author Zora Neale Hurston.
Make no mistake: although not technically Ivy, these schools are all formidable and will offer you an equally fine or better undergraduate education.
Although Pembroke, the women's college affiliated with Brown, and Douglass College, affiliated with Tulane, have folded into the larger universities, other schools have resisted the pressure.
I think of Sweet Briar in VA, not far from the University of Virginia, boasting graduate pioneering Toronto attorney Mary Lamont. This school has implemented the second engineering program for women. In Lynchburg is Hollins University, mentioned originally. Also pre-eminent is Mills College in Oakland, CA, and if you like the idea of California plus other options right next door, Scripps College is part of the Claremont Consortium, coordinating with Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Claremont McKenna and Pitzer. It is totally glorious.
So why, with schools like Vassar, Chatham University, Wells College, Connecticut College and Mary Lyon's Wheaton College bowing to pressure to admit men, have these other schools remained all women?
The reality is that not all men in positions of power recognize women as equal. Putting us at a disadvantage is most often a smaller stature and higher, more-childlike voices, readily trivialized. How would a women's college change that? Receiving a top-flight education at a women's college can give the support a woman needs to increase confidence and speak with authority to be able to compete on an equal footing with men. All the resources of that school are directed towards women; yes, there are men on the faculty, but they wouldn't be there if they thought women were dopes – and if they did, they soon learn otherwise. Your class president will be a woman; head of student council will be a woman; you have role models and mentors to encourage and inspire you whom you will admire forever.
Though often 50% or more of law, business and medical school enrollment nowadays, women are still underrepresented in STEM, medical specialties and arguably areas that "require raw intellectual talent—a sort of talent that women are stereotyped to possess less of than men." (See: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00235).
We still have a distance to go.
Two Smithies/guidance counselors meet joyfully by chance at the College of Idaho in Boise. Ingrid Dávalos (right), originally from Paraguay, Smith Class of 2010, now at the United World College Maastricht International School in the Netherlands, can't believe the rules in place in the early 1960's. You had a housemother? What did she do? (Kept the sign-out book). Men allowed in your room only once a year? Ha ha! Was that Valentine's Day? (Yes, if you found one, but you had to keep the door open).
Nowadays, "in loco parentis" rules are gone, and affiliations and co-operations with co-ed colleges proliferate, so you're not in boarding school or isolated in an ivory tower.
Definitely worth considering.
*Actual scenario in May 2018


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Have something specific in mind for your Chamberino musicians? Maybe you have a favorite classical song that you want to walk down the aisle to? Hire a violin soloist or a string quartet to create an elegant ambiance. A jazz pianist provides an upbeat setting for a corporate dinner and gospel singers will have your guests standing at their seats.
A vocalist in Chamberino can serenade a couple with their favorite song for an anniversary party, while bluegrass musicians add southern flair to a casual event. A guitarist makes a soothing addition to any party and they often use less equipment than bands and DJs requiring only an instrument and a microphone.
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Dvostruka je olimpijska pobjednica u plivanju, a 1979. godine primljena je u Kuću slavnih vodenih sportova.

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Countdown to kickoff — Player showcase: Hendon Hooker
Hendon Hooker has become the man in Knoxville, so what does he have in store for an encore?
By Matt Seese Aug 1, 2022, 11:18am EDT
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As we move closer to the long awaited opening kickoff of the 2022 season, there's a certain cautious optimism surrounding the Tennessee Volunteer football program. Albeit amidst a slew of heavy sanctions that were smacked down on the Vols program for the short lived Jeremy Pruitt era, Josh Heupel putting together a top 10 2023 recruiting class, highlighted by landing five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava, has fans excited for the future of the program.
2022 is also a year of promise for the Vols as they look to build off of the record setting success that is the 2021 offense. Heupel's offense moved at breakneck speed, taking the sludgy 2020 offense and flipping it on its head. Though the 7-and-6 final record may not indicate the path of Tennessee's football program very well, one man shined brighter than almost any other Rocky Top signal caller has in program history, and his success could be indicative of things to come. That man is Hendon Hooker.
September 1 is just around the corner, so as we move toward week one, we are going to take a look at some of the key players for the Vols continuing their momentum from a season ago. We are starting with the Vols quarterback for one reason: he is the most valuable player to come through the doors of Tennessee in well over a decade and decided to bless us with his presence for his graduate year, choosing Rocky Top over the NFL Draft.
From a little-thought-of transfer from Virginia Tech to fighting for snaps with Michigan transfer Joe Milton, Hooker didn't fully take the reins of the offense until week two following a Milton injury halfway through Tennessee's matchup with Pitt.
Though the Vols scored 72 points over their first two games, the offense was able to mask its deficiencies behind playing Bowling Green week one, but it was clear as soon as Hooker stepped in for Milton against Pitt that he was 'the guy', and the offense started humming just a little bit differently.
Following a putrid 2020 season where a 3-and-7 Vols squad averaged 21.5 points per game under Jeremy Pruitt, Josh Heupel ushered in a new era, bringing a much needed infusion of offense to Knoxville. With Hooker under center, the Vols scored a school record 511 points, good for 39.3 per game, falling a single point short of 40.3 set back in 1993.
Hooker's dual threat skills complemented Heupel's fast break offensive style to perfection. He finished behind Jabari Small in rushing yards on the team while leading the SEC in adjusted yards per pass attempt (11.3) and touchdown to interception ratio (10.33). He was as efficient as any QB in the country, finishing second in the country in touchdown percentage (10.23%) and third in interception percentage (0.99%). Oh, and he set the single season school record for passer rating at 181.4.
From the word go in week three, Tennessee's offense took off like a rocket ship fueled by Hooker. Over the next four games, Tennessee's offense averaged 498.8 yards per game, going 3-1 in the stretch against Tennessee Tech, at Florida, at Missouri, and against South Carolina. Florida was the only game they fell short in. On his own, Hooker was as good as anyone in the country. As you can see here, from week three to the end of the season, no one in the SEC had a higher PPA per play (collegefootballdata.com's predicted points added per play metric) than the Vols and only Georgia saw a higher success rate on offense.
Playing turnover-free football, Hooker threw for 870 yards and 14 total touchdowns, 11 coming through the air, in that span, and the cold that plagued Tennessee's offense for the previous four seasons was finally decongested.
Hooker complimented Heupel's style of offense incredibly well. Using screens and short passes as a means of a running game let Hooker and the receiving duo of Cedric Tillman and Velus Jones Jr. take the top off defenses all year long.
Unfortunately, the gauntlet of the SEC caught up to the Vols, especially the defense. Hooker continued his standout play, but it wasn't enough as Tennessee fell to Ole Miss and Alabama in consecutive weeks.
In previous years, these are the times where we'd tend to see Tennessee teams fold. However, as Hooker and this Vols offense showed all year, this isn't that kind of team. He responded with his best game of the regular season in Lexington against rival Kentucky in a 45-42 win. Hooker threw for 316 yards and 4 touchdowns on just 20 attempts without an interception, out-dueling Will Levis for the win.
The Purdue game will get overlooked simply because of the result, but Hooker capped off his incredible, historic season with a 5 touchdown performance in the Music City Bowl, once again without an interception.
Looking at this season, all any Vols fan can ask for is simply Hendon Hooker being himself and staying healthy and the rest will take care of itself with the offense. That being said, there were a couple areas of concern with Hooker last season. The primary issues were pocket presence and fumbles, and these two problems tended to coincide with one another.
Hooker often held onto the ball too long seeking the big play, and while it worked more often than not, it also created a handful of cough ups and poorly timed turnovers. Tennessee's offensive line struggled to both stay healthy and protect Hooker, so you can imagine how poorly their struggles to block combined with Hooker's tendency to hold onto the ball meshed. The upside here is that Hooker doesn't throw interceptions, so if he can clean up his game in the pocket, the fumbles going away are likely to follow suit.
Asking for a repeat of the incredibly high level of performance from Hooker again in 2022 is almost unfair to the fifth-year senior. In a perfect world, Hooker won't need to put on his Superman cape as often this year due to the defense hopefully taking a necessary step forward, but his emergence as one of the better quarterbacks in the nation has been as unexpected as it is welcomed.
A fight with COVID almost took away Hendon Hooker's football career. Now he's thriving in ways many saw unimaginable. He's become the face of Tennessee's hopeful program turnaround, and if you're Tennessee, you couldn't ask for a better player or person to do so. Hooker is the perfect player to lead this team in 2022 as he gets set for his swan song in college football.
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using NExpect.Exceptions;
using NExpect.Implementations;
using NUnit.Framework;
using PeanutButter.RandomGenerators;
using static NExpect.Expectations;

// ReSharper disable ConditionIsAlwaysTrueOrFalse

namespace NExpect.Tests.ObjectEquality
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class TestingBooleanValues
    {
        public class TrueEquality
        {
            [Test]
            public void ToBeTrue_WhenValueIsTrue_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.True(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeTrue_WhenValueIsNullableTrue_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                bool? value = null;
                value = true;
                // Pre-assert
                // Act
                Assert.That(() =>
                {
                    Expect(value).To.Be.True();
                }, Throws.Nothing);
                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeTrue_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.True(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains($"Expected\ntrue\nbut got\n{value.Stringify()}")
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeTrue_WhenValueIsFalse_GivenCustomMessage_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;
                var message = RandomValueGen.GetRandomString(12);

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.True(message),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains($"Expected\ntrue\nbut got\n{value.Stringify()}")
                );

                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.True(message),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains(message)
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void NotToBeTrue_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).Not.To.Be.True(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeNotTrue_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.Not.True(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void NotToBeTrue_WhenValueIsTrue_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).Not.To.Be.True(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeNotTrue_WhenValueIsTrue_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.Not.True(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ShouldWorkOnNullableBooleans()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true as bool?;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.True(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }
        }

        public class FalseEquality
        {
            [Test]
            public void ToBeFalse_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.False(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeFalse_WhenValueIsNullableFalse_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                bool? value = null;
                value = false;
                // Pre-assert
                // Act
                Assert.That(() =>
                {
                    Expect(value).To.Be.False();
                }, Throws.Nothing);
                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeFalse_WhenValueIsTrue_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.False(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains($"Expected\nfalse\nbut got\n{value.Stringify()}")
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeFalse_WhenValueIsTrue_GivenCustomMessage_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;
                var message = RandomValueGen.GetRandomString(12);

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.False(message),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains($"Expected\nfalse\nbut got\n{value.Stringify()}")
                );

                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.False(message),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                        .With.Message.Contains(message)
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void NotToBeFalse_WhenValueIsTrue_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).Not.To.Be.False(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeNotFalse_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldNotThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = true;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.Not.False(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void NotToBeFalse_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).Not.To.Be.False(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ToBeNotFalse_WhenValueIsFalse_ShouldThrow()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.Not.False(),
                    Throws.Exception.InstanceOf<UnmetExpectationException>()
                );

                // Assert
            }

            [Test]
            public void ShouldWorkOnNullableBooleans()
            {
                // Arrange
                var value = false as bool?;

                // Pre-Assert

                // Act
                Assert.That(
                    () => Expect(value).To.Be.False(),
                    Throws.Nothing
                );

                // Assert
            }
        }
    }
}

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MMA Magic
By On Feb 12, 2011
Parties at the Mansion fall into two categories: official Playboy events, like the annual, infamous,and celeb-laden Mid summers Night's Dream Party hosted by the company's icon founder Hugh Hefner, and third-party affairs, when a promoter or organization pays a fee for use of the grounds. Tonight's festivities—Playboy Energy Fight Night—is the latter. But that doesn't mean Playboy won't protect the integrity of their brand—a public company this valuable doesn't just lease out their symbolic headquarters and take off for the night.
That means that while the fight card and the publicity are left in the hands of sports promoter George Chung, a former five-time World Karate Champion and a member of the Black Belt magazine Hall of Fame, Playboy higher-ups—specifically the organization's publicity chief, Teri Thomerson —will be on hand to make sure things run smoothly. The Mansion itself is off limits, but the expansive back garden, along with a view of the legendary 83-year-old Gothic-Tudor structure, where many a deflowering has occurred, and which Hef bought in 1975 for a cool $1.1 million (it's worth $50 million today), is available to the masses here tonight.
Playboy magazine and mixed martial arts have something in common. Both embrace our most primal attributes (sex and violence), while at the same time occasionally serving as the raw material for what might be described as higher thinking—in the form of some truly great writing. Like Playboy, MMA has overcome its hurdles on its way to mainstream visibility. Detractors compare it to human cockfighting or some other metaphor connoting uncivilized gladiatorial combat. Then again, just like Playboy—or Hef—it's impossible to put MMA into a neatly wrapped box.
Hef is also a big boxing fan. In the early 1960s, he provided a platform for a brash young heavyweight champ named Cassius Clay to announce and explain his highly controversial decision to convert to the Nation of Islam and change his name to Muhammad Ali. And he did so by employing another African-American icon, Alex Haley, to write the story. This was the same year Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress, a time when black activists and their white supporters were in constant fear of their lives. But Hef didn't blink. Over the years, he hired several of the best writers alive to cover boxing for the magazine, most famously Norman Mailer, whose article about Ali's triumph over George Foreman at 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" remains one of the best samples of boxing literature ever published.
Only the organization's inner circle and VIPs are permitted to park at the Mansion. The rest of us have to hop onto a shuttle bus from Palomar Hotel that takes you on a five minute ride into Holmby Hills, where many a man's definition of paradise is located.
On our way up the hill, my fellow bus riders—all men in their 20s-40s—drop catch phrases from Jersey Shore like it's going out of style. They've each forked over a cool G for the privilege of interacting with Bunnies on these hallowed grounds (along with the fights, of course), and all of them undoubtedly are secretly hoping they might score, or at least get some digits. I feel like I'm part of a traveling strip club audience, and the collective testosterone is palpable, with one exception: Ms. Landry Major, one of FIGHT! 's ace photo gs and a very good friend of mine, who is totally unfazed by the locker room humor as she gets her gear ready. Landry has photographed hundreds of fighters over the years—she has experience with boys behaving badly.
The Mansion's famed garden is overwhelming. This place stands alone as a testament of 1960s and '70s excess: when hedonism was a life choice. And Chung and Playboy have delivered on providing more than a night of combat—there are scantily clad girls everywhere, some bonafide Playmates, others hired hands for the night. Landry, a former model herself, starts a conversation with one of them, a petite brunette in a neon bikini. "Basically these guys pay a grand to pose in pictures," she says. "Some of 'em try to grab our asses. But we're totally with that. It's just a natural impulse." Case closed. As a matter of fact, no one seems to be misbehaving. These guys aren't dumbasses—it's one thing to grab tail during a $20 lap dance in Reno and get bounced, it's another to get tossed from the Mansion for being a tool after dropping a thousand bucks for a ticket. Considering all the flesh on display, this is as classy as it could possibly get, and Playboy deserves credit for that.
Approaching the makeshift ring on the back lawn, I run into famed trainer Cesar Gracie and Strikeforce Lightweight Champ Gilbert Melendez, one of the jewels in the crown of Gracie's formidable fight squad, which also includes Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz, his UFC welterweight contender brother Nate, and with UFC's most publicized recent free-agent acquisition, former Strikeforce middleweight king Jake Shields. Cesar and Gilbert are here to support two of their prospects and friends, welterweight Bobby Taylor and Germaine de Randamie, a female 155-pounder from Holland.
Randamie, whose cornrows and shredded abs contrast sharply with her pretty face and big smile, sports a 45-0 record as a kickboxer and goes by the nickname "Iron Lady." She lost her first and only MMA bout two years ago via arm bar, but that was before she entered the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu factory. I can tell Cesar's got high hopes for his latest protégé. As it turns out, the Taylor and Randamie fights are the most interesting bouts of the night, but for very different reasons. Due to the fact that boxing is also on the menu this evening, the MMA matches take place in a ring.
While some pros prefer the squared circle to the Octagon, MMA fighting in a ring can be problematic, as I'm about to find out during the evening's first bout: Taylor vs. Leo Kuntz (6-1), a tough-looking kid from North Dakota. Landry and I are positioned, along with the other members of the press, at the far end of the ring. The fight starts, and Taylor wastes no time in scoring a quick takedown. Kuntz scrambles to his feet and the two fighters separate.
Then chaos ensues. Kuntz shoots for his own takedown, driving Taylor backward and toward press row—specifically Landry, who's about a foot in front of me. Taylor flies through ropes and lands just inches away from her, his head and right shoulder crashing hard on the plywood walkway. It hurts just watching it, especially when Taylor's face, twisted in agony, is in such close proximity to my own. Then Taylor passes out and starts to roll over, and that's when Landry, who's in front of me and closer to Taylor, snaps into action with her ninja-like reflexes and maternal instincts. She drops her camera and literally catches Taylor before he falls off the platform and onto the ground. He comes to a few seconds later. "How did I get here," he asks Landry. Ever the pro, Landry makes sure to snap a few shots of Taylor as soon as a fight official takes over for her.
The fight should have been called then and there, but after a minute or two, Taylor's standing up and back in the ring and ref restarts the action. This kid is clearly tough-as-nails, but he is definitely on another planet. Still, he manages to survive the round, during which time he flies out of the ring another three times. It's excruciating. I try to make out what's happening in Taylor's corner on the far side of the ring in between rounds. Cesar appears very concerned, and gives what seems to be a warning that he'll stop the
fight if anything else happens, but Taylor insists on continuing. Round 2 begins and, luckily, Taylor doesn't take much more punishment, as the ref disqualifies him for throwing a punch after a break a minute in the action. I highly doubt that the nice kid I met in San Francisco with Gilbert even knew he was doing anything wrong—he doesn't strike me as a dirty fighter. More likely, he was still in lala land and punching purely on muscle memory and instinct.
A few minutes later, I talk to a still woozy and very disappointed Taylor, who's laid out on a bench inside a makeshift medical tent about 50 feet away from the ring. "I was winning the fight up until I flew out of the ring," he says with a punch-drunk slur. "But then…I don't know what happened actually. It was like…what the fuck…that was a mess."
The Randamie fight I watch with special interest, not simply because of her kickboxing pedigree, but also because she and her opponent, Nicole Johnson, are perhaps the only women of their age in the entire crowd whose primary purpose tonight has nothing to do with being an object of sexual desire. Neither fighter seems fazed by the surroundings. They both come out banging with power shots thrown with bad intentions. Within the first 30 seconds, the disparity in class is painfully obvious: Johnson is simply not in the same league as her Dutch foe. Randamie doesn't even get a chance to show off the ground game that she and Cesar have been working on. Instead, she wisely utilizes her advantages in reach, speed, footwork, and overall technique to pick apart Johnson from the outside.
As round one comes to a close, the ring girls climb through the ropes, and I notice something. At first, I thought they were wearing tight lingerie, really tight lingerie, but they're actually not wearing anything. It's body paint.
The next two rounds are more of the same, with Randamie putting on a Muay Thai clinic while Johnson shows her heart and a terrific chin as she endures non stop punishment through to the final bell. Randamie seems to have a bright future ahead of her.
On her way back to the fighters' tent, I ask a happy Randamie how she feels about fighting in a place like this. "I really don't care about the girls," says Randamie, who stills works as a psychiatric nurse in her native Holland. "I saw a naked, body painted, ring girl move in a certain way, and I was like, 'Oh my God, did she just do that?' But I wasn't focused on that. If it were naked men, or naked women, I don't care. I come to fight." Nuff said.
Later, the kind folks at Playboy give me a private tour, which includes a few room in the actual Mansion, the exotic petting zoo, and the legendary Grotto, an indoor bathing area/swimming pool with rock walls that resembles a movie set from a 60s Bond film. It dawns on me that I am, indirectly, a personal guest of The Man himself, and that is nothing to be taken lightly. And while tonight's fight may not have approached Ali-Foreman in terms of talent quality, George Chung, himself quite the showman (he busted out a few round house kicks during his post-fight speech), did a fine job at promoting a hybrid card, attracting a very well-paying crowd, and using the Mansion as a draw.
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package com.amazonaws.services.codepipeline.model.transform;

import static com.amazonaws.util.StringUtils.UTF8;
import static com.amazonaws.util.StringUtils.COMMA_SEPARATOR;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
import com.amazonaws.Request;
import com.amazonaws.DefaultRequest;
import com.amazonaws.http.HttpMethodName;
import com.amazonaws.services.codepipeline.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.Marshaller;
import com.amazonaws.util.BinaryUtils;
import com.amazonaws.util.StringUtils;
import com.amazonaws.util.StringInputStream;
import com.amazonaws.util.json.*;

/**
 * CreateCustomActionTypeRequest Marshaller
 */
public class CreateCustomActionTypeRequestMarshaller
        implements
        Marshaller<Request<CreateCustomActionTypeRequest>, CreateCustomActionTypeRequest> {

    public Request<CreateCustomActionTypeRequest> marshall(
            CreateCustomActionTypeRequest createCustomActionTypeRequest) {

        if (createCustomActionTypeRequest == null) {
            throw new AmazonClientException(
                    "Invalid argument passed to marshall(...)");
        }

        Request<CreateCustomActionTypeRequest> request = new DefaultRequest<CreateCustomActionTypeRequest>(
                createCustomActionTypeRequest, "AWSCodePipeline");
        request.addHeader("X-Amz-Target",
                "CodePipeline_20150709.CreateCustomActionType");

        request.setHttpMethod(HttpMethodName.POST);

        request.setResourcePath("");

        try {
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            JSONWriter jsonWriter = new JSONWriter(stringWriter);

            jsonWriter.object();

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getCategory() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("category").value(
                        createCustomActionTypeRequest.getCategory());
            }

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getProvider() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("provider").value(
                        createCustomActionTypeRequest.getProvider());
            }

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getVersion() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("version").value(
                        createCustomActionTypeRequest.getVersion());
            }

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getSettings() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("settings");
                ActionTypeSettingsJsonMarshaller.getInstance()
                        .marshall(createCustomActionTypeRequest.getSettings(),
                                jsonWriter);
            }

            java.util.List<ActionConfigurationProperty> configurationPropertiesList = createCustomActionTypeRequest
                    .getConfigurationProperties();
            if (configurationPropertiesList != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("configurationProperties");
                jsonWriter.array();
                for (ActionConfigurationProperty configurationPropertiesListValue : configurationPropertiesList) {
                    if (configurationPropertiesListValue != null) {

                        ActionConfigurationPropertyJsonMarshaller.getInstance()
                                .marshall(configurationPropertiesListValue,
                                        jsonWriter);
                    }
                }
                jsonWriter.endArray();
            }

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getInputArtifactDetails() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("inputArtifactDetails");
                ArtifactDetailsJsonMarshaller
                        .getInstance()
                        .marshall(
                                createCustomActionTypeRequest
                                        .getInputArtifactDetails(),
                                jsonWriter);
            }

            if (createCustomActionTypeRequest.getOutputArtifactDetails() != null) {
                jsonWriter.key("outputArtifactDetails");
                ArtifactDetailsJsonMarshaller
                        .getInstance()
                        .marshall(
                                createCustomActionTypeRequest
                                        .getOutputArtifactDetails(),
                                jsonWriter);
            }

            jsonWriter.endObject();

            String snippet = stringWriter.toString();
            byte[] content = snippet.getBytes(UTF8);
            request.setContent(new StringInputStream(snippet));
            request.addHeader("Content-Length",
                    Integer.toString(content.length));
            request.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-amz-json-1.1");
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            throw new AmazonClientException(
                    "Unable to marshall request to JSON: " + t.getMessage(), t);
        }

        return request;
    }

}


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Added on March 6, 2019 Press Trust of india
Ayodhya land dispute case: SC says aware of outcome of mediation on body politic of country
New Delhi, Mar 6: The Supreme Court Wednesday said it was conscious of the gravity of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute and the outcome of mediation on the body politic of the country.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the case was not only about property but also about sentiment and faith.
"It is not only about property. It is about mind, heart and healing, if possible," the bench also comprising Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer said.
"We are not concerned about what Mughal ruler Babur had done and what happened after. We can go into what exists in the present moment," the bench said.
The apex court is considering whether the dispute can be settled through mediation.
The top court had asked the contesting parties to explore the possibility of amicably settling the decades-old dispute through mediation, saying it may help in "healing relations".
Fourteen appeals have been filed in the apex court against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties -- the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.


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swipestripe-shippingclasses
===========================

Allows to create and manage shipping classes in swipestripe

Requires SwipeStripe Flat Fee Shipping to work: https://github.com/icecaster/silverstripe-swipestripe-flatfeeshipping

Create shipping classes through cms, eg free, small, medium, large.

Designate one as default, eg medium.

Assign priority score. Higher priority makes it overrule lower ones.

Link class to flat fee rate, via your existing module.

Checkout picks rate with highest priority, displays rates.

Inherits all existing functionality (country) that comes with flatfeeshipping.

contact
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Q: How to use Get-SSMParameterList CmdLet to process parameters with a specific prefix I want to write a Powershell script that will get all parameters from the AWS SSM Parameter store that belong to my application, then iterate over the parameters and perform an action on each one.  The parameters for my application are identified by having a specific prefix, e.g. they are named:
/MyApp/Component1/Param1
/MyApp/Component1/Param2
/MyApp/Component2/Param1
...

I'm a Powershell beginner, but my starting point is to use the AWS Get-SSMParameterList CmdLet, and filter the results by the prefix /MyApp/.
I see from the linked documentation, that a single call to Get-SSMParameterList returns results on a best-effort basis, i.e. I may need to call it repeatedly passing the -NextToken parameter received from a previous call in order to guarantee that I get all results.  This answer to a related question states that "the vast majority" of AWS CmdLets handle paging automatically if -NextToken and -MaxResult are not specified but it's not clear to me from the documentation if this CmdLet is included in this majority.
I'm stuck on the following:

*

*I don't know what syntax to use for the -ParameterFilter argument to match all parameters with the prefix /MyApp/

*I'd like confirmation that I don't need to use -NextToken to get all results, or, if I do need it, to know how to capture the NextToken value returned by the API, so I can loop and get the next page of results.
Can anyone help with this?
UPDATE
For point 2, my experience suggests I don't need to use -NextToken and to date have always got all results in one call.  But I guess this may depend on the number of parameters in the result set.
For point 1, I've found a way of doing this, which is:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile(
    "...\AWSSDK.SimpleSystemsManagement.dll")

...
$p = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.ParameterStringFilter
$p.Key = "Name"
$p.Option = "BeginsWith"
$p.Values = "/...my prefix..."

Get-SSMParameterList -ParameterFilter $p ...

but this seems ugly, as it requires me to know where the AWSSDK.SimpleSystemsManagement.dll assembly is installed in order to use the Get-SSMParameterList CmdLet.  I would have expected as a minimum to be able to use:
$p = New-SSMParameterFilter -Key "Name" -Option "BeginsWith" -Values "..."
Get-SSMParameterList -ParameterFilter $p

Another SSM CmdLet that appears to require me to load the AWSSDK.SimpleSystemsManagement.dll assembly is Add-SSMResourceTag, whose -Tags parameter requires an array of Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.Tag objects:
$tag = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.Tag
$tag.Key = ...
$tag.Value = ...
Add-SSMResourceTag -Tags ($tag)

Why doesn't the -Tags parameter take a Hashtable like Add-SQSResourceTag?
$tags = @{}
$tags.add(key, value)
Add-SQSResourceTag -Tags $tags

Have I understood this right or is there a way of doing this without loading an assembly?

A: Regarding your question about the explicit loading of the DLL, I find that with the following code that is not necessary for me:
$p = new-object -typename Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.ParameterStringFilter -property @{key="Name";Option="BeginsWith";Values="sandbox"}
Get-SSMParameterList -ParameterFilter @($p)

This produces the correct filtered results for me.
Please note that -ParameterFilter takes an array of ParameterStringFilter.
I am using powershell version 5.1.17134.228 (as shown by $PSVERSIONTABLE) and Get-AWSPowerShellVersion returns "Version 3.3.215.0"

A: Late to the party here but, like Greg, the DLL is loaded with the AWSPowerShell module for me.
PS C:\Users\ncox> Get-AWSPowerShellVersion

AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Version 3.3.390.0
Copyright 2012-2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET
Core Runtime Version 3.3.28.0
Copyright 2009-2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

...

PS C:\Users\ncox> [appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |? FullName -Like "AWSSDK.SimpleSystems*" | select fullname

FullName
--------
AWSSDK.SimpleSystemsManagement, Version=3.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=885c28607f98e604

PS C:\Users\ncox>

As as alternative, perhaps you could use  Get-SSMParametersByPath?
Get-SSMParametersByPath -Path '/...myPrefix...'

A: As pointed out in the answer from Nick Cox:

the DLL is loaded with the AWSPowerShell module for me

In the example Nick posted, it was loaded by a previous call to Get-AWSPowerShellVersion: in fact it is auto-loaded the first time any AWS cmdlet is called (and, btw, it takes up to 30 seconds to load!!!).  I understand Amazon is working on the load time but I haven't seen this so far (in particular it's not in the AMIs I'm currently using, which means the UserData script is very slow).
So the inconsistent behavior I was seeing was because the availability or not of the Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.ParameterStringFilter Type was dependent on whether or not the AWSPowerShell module had been previously loaded.  If I happen to have used an AWS cmdlet previously, it works; otherwise, it doesn't.
The solution, of course, is to explicitly ensure it's loaded before referencing any of its types:
Import-Module "AWSPowerShell"
$p = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.ParameterStringFilter
$p.Key = "Name"
$p.Option = "BeginsWith"
$p.Values = "/...my prefix..."

Get-SSMParameterList -ParameterFilter $p ...

This still begs the question: why does a cmdlet take a parameter that is a custom type that may not be available before the cmdlet is called?

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http://www.barrons.com/articles/alexion-look-out-below-1495554811
Alexion: Look Out Below!
Ben Levisohn
May 23, 2017 11:53 am ET
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN), which brought in a new CEO in March, announced more changes today, including the impending departure of its CFO.
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That Alexion needed change was a given. Alexion was forced to conduct an investigation of the previous team, an investigation that concluded management forced sales staff to boost sales but didn't result in a restatement of its earnings. New CEO, Ludwig Hantson, was hired in March.
Now, more change is on the way. BMO's M. Ian Somaiya says its too early to know if the changes are good or bad:
Alexion announced multiple leadership changes including appointing a new Chief Commercial Officer, Brian Goff (formerly of Neurovance, Baxalta (BXLT), Baxter (BAX), Novartis (NVS), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) ) and the departure of its CFO (in Aug.), EVP Head of R&D (YE17), and EVP Chief Human Resources Officer (6/1/2017), with replacement searches underway...
Too early to know if changes are good/bad. It is difficult at this point to get a good read on what these particular changes mean and if we should expect the company to be run better or do better deals. For starters, we do not even know who the permanent CFO will be, although we understand the turnover and uncertainty may add volatility for ALXN shares. The 2Q earnings call should provide additional visibility and help guide investors' understanding of the company's direction and high level vision under new management. We expect longer-term strategy and guidance (including multi-year financial guidance) to help frame that discussion.
Shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals have dropped 9.2% to $104.84 at 11:53 a.m. today.


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Yamaha, KTM Group Head to AIMExpo to Connect with Dealers
January 12, 2023 Motor Sports NewsWire Events, Powersports 0
IRVINE, CA – January 12, 2023 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Two more manufacturing powerhouses, Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., and KTM North America, Inc. will be joining AIMExpo, February 15-17 in Las Vegas, bringing their products and team members to engage with dealers from across the country.
"Dealers are the lifeblood of our industry," said Andre Albert, director of marketing and events at the Motorcycle Industry Council, "And manufacturers know that the best way help businesses grow and thrive is to connect, in-person, with those who represent their products daily to customers."
Yamaha and KTM — along with its Husqvarna, GasGas, and MV Agusta brands — will be exhibiting on AIMExpo's 250,000-plus square-feet of show space.
They will join major manufacturers including:
Piaggio Group, with Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Piaggio, and Vespa
"There is no better opportunity than this for dealers and manufacturers alike to network, learn, and plan for profitability," Albert said. "Major aftermarket brands, distributors, data and financial companies, services, marketing companies, and industry leaders will all be here in one place. Not to mention we'll have AIMExpo's Disruptive Thinking Education series that will offer plenty of actionable ideas that can be put to use immediately."
For a list of exhibitors, go to www.AIMExpoUSA.com.
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I thought you might be interested in this Ashmolean object: Barbu de la Guyane, Seconde Variété , http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/object/WA.RS.RUD.217
Barbu de la Guyane, Seconde Variété Jacques Barraban
The bird, identified by Le Vaillant as the second variety of Guyanese 'barbu', is perched on a bare branch.
The print was taken from the small-paper edition of Le Vaillant's illustrated two-volume work on birds of paradise and other tropical birds; it is pl. 26 in vol. II, immediately folowing the accompanying text on p. 62. (Ruskin's inscription appears to have confused the plate number with the related text's page number, '62', as all the other Le Vaillant plates in the Teaching Collection are inscribed with their corresponding plate number.) James Dearden has been unable to find anything other than Ruskin's published references to this book (personal communication, 20 December 2003). In his catalogue entry for the prints, Ruskin wrote that he did not cut up his 'fine-paper copy', and rather used the small-paper edition, because he intended the former 'to be in the student's library'.
The print was one of a set included in the second section of the ninth cabinet of the Rudimentary Series which, like the Goulds in cabinet eight, were not catalogued infividually: the contents of the cabinet are simply referred to as examples from 'Le Vaillant's work on the Birds of Paradise'. The reasons for this appear in an inscription on no. 223 (in fact a plate a from Nozeman's "Nederlandsche Vogelen"): 'All these plates are only put in temporarily: and un-named; because every bird has half a dozen names, now, and I can't get my catalogue printed, safely, yet, but for drawing practice - they will serve, just now. It is of no use arranging till the frames are all filled'. The numbers allocated to the individual plates in the present catalogue are those inscribed upon them, which presumably reflect their original arrangements in the cabinet.
The second section of the ninth cabinet included 'Exercises in balanced colour and shade, with perfect form'. Ruskin stated that the prints would 'answer my immediate purpose, of giving exercises in colour, with extreme precision of terminal line'. He thought highly of Le Vaillant's work, describing it as 'Far beyond rivalship [...] its plates, exquisitely engraved, and coloured with unwearying care by hand, are insuperable in plume-texture, hue, and action, - spoiled in effect, unhappily, by the vulgar boughs for sustentation' (Love's Meinie, § 87 = XXV.77-79). Indeed, Ruskin explained in his catalogue that these examples from the smaller edition were 'not justly representative of Le Vaillant's book'.
It also seems likely that Ruskin included these plates for the same reason as he included the prints from Gould's "British Birds" (nos 195-200 & 225), which he intended to further his students' relationship with birds and their study: 'I believe even these few examples will be greatly useful in exciting the interest of the younger students in ornithology, and especially in the living birds' (Rudimentary Series catalogues, entry for cabinet eight, section two); such study would be morally improving (The Eagle's Nest, §§ 173-199 = XXII.241-244).
Jacques Barraban (1767 - 1809)
Langlois (active c. 1806) (printer)
Rousset (active c. 1806) (printer)
Jacques Louis Perée (b. 1769) (engraver)
watercolour and bodycolour over line and stipple engraving, and colour line and stipple etching, on paper
439 x 328 mm (sheet)
Recto, top right corner, in graphite: 62
Verso, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small, yellowed piece of paper (38 x 108 mm):
along the top edge, in graphite, crossed out: Ed - 15 - b [6?] - [...] outline [the two words preceding 'outline' may read 'Hard' and 'striped', but the script is very difficult to make out]
centre: Vol II 62.Levaillant
bottom left, in black ink: 217
barbu de la Guyane
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 217, RUD.217
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 214-225
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 214-225
Ruskin, John, 'The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions', Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 214-217
Le Vaillant, François, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus, 2 (Paris: Denné & Perlet, 1806), vol. II, pl. 26
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 214-225
Technique of tapping the surface of a material with a pointed implement to produce a pattern of tiny dots that builds up to create a picture.
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These examples are from Le Vaillant's work on the Birds of Paradise , but not catalogued, for the same reason that Mr. Gould's Birds are not: that I wish the book to be in the student's library. For which reason, also, I have not cut up my fine-paper copy; and these prints, from the small-paper edition, are not justly representative of Le Vaillant's book ; but will answer my immediate purpose, of giving exercises in colour, with extreme precision of terminal line. The swallow, from my Dutch book, R|223 , and egret, from Mr. Gould's , R|225 , are necessary for other particulars, and will remain.


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Icheon () is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Together with Yeoju, Icheon is known as a center of South Korean ceramic manufacturing and is a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art. Other famous local products include peaches and rice. Local institutions of higher learning include  Korea Tourism College and Chungkang College of Cultural Industries.

Icheon is home to Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip maker.

Fires
Major building fires occurred on 7 January 2008 and on 29 April 2020.

Geography
Neighboring districts include Yeoju City, Gwangju City, Yongin City, and Anseong City within Gyeonggi Province, as well as Eumseong County in North Chungcheong Province.

The Yeongdong Expressway and Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway pass through Icheon. In 2016, the city will connect into the Seoul Metropolitan Subway via Yeoju Line's Icheon Station.

Administrative divisions
Dongnam-gu is divided into 2 towns (eup), 8 townships (myeon), and 4 neighbourhoods (dong).

Climate
Icheon has a humid continental climate (Dwa in the Köppen climate classification).

City symbols
 City bird: Magpie
 City flower: Azaleas
 City tree: Pine

Ceramic village

The Icheon Ceramics Village features 300-plus ceramics-making firms in the area of Sugwang-ri, Sindun-myeon, Saeum-dong, and a popular visitor attraction. They use traditional skills and produce porcelains in some 40 traditional firewood kilns. This pottery is recognized both at home and abroad for its quality.

The Saeum-dong and Sindun-myeon areas also include a ceramics village with many ceramics stores. Potters have researched traditional methods and revived the manufacture of ceramics in the style of Goryeo celadon and Joseon white porcelain here. The village is the center of the effort to preserve these traditions.

Twin towns – sister cities

Icheon is twinned with:

 Jingdezhen, China (1997)
 Kōka, Japan (2005)

 Santa Fe, United States (2013)
 Seto, Japan (2006)
 Wuxi, China (2005)

Notable people
 Seo Hui: The historic figure of Goryeo dynasty who made a huge decision with Khitan people who was forcefully occupying northern areas of Korean peninsula.
 Kang Mi-na (Hangul: 강미나): South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, actress and K-pop idol, former member of K-pop girlgroup Gugudan and its subunits Gugudan 5959 and Gugudan SeMiNa.

See also
 Korean pottery
 Geography of South Korea
 List of cities in South Korea

References

External links

 Icheon : Official Seoul City Tourism
 City Council website

Cities in Gyeonggi Province


It's reckoned that elephant numbers across the world have plummeted by 90% in the last 100 years for a variety of reasons, from a massive loss of habitat to hunting for ivory.
In response to this crisis Elephant Family, a small dynamic non-governmental organisation (NGO), was started by the late Mark Shand. Mark had written the best-selling book Travels on my Elephant about his 800 mile trip across India on the back of a 30 year old elephant, Tara.
Inspired by Mark's book, the NGO launched a unique awareness and fund raising initiative, Travels to my Elephant. The result was a fantastic series of events throughout 2015, in which Tukshop founder and all round Tuk Tuk Guru, Mr Steve, played a key part.
Steve's involvement in the project actually began in September 2014 with a visit to the Tukshop HQ near Southampton from event organisers Elephant Family and Quintessentially Foundation. At that stage, no one knew whether what was planned was possible.
The logistical challenges ranged from the Tukshop providing a fleet of Tuk Tuks (the company's entire UK stock!), which would be specially designed and auctioned and whether the vehicles could be insured and driven through London streets, to whether Steve could teach the novice crews how to drive the vans. Fortunately, Steve was able to respond with a resounding 'Yes' to all these questions and many more besides.
As a result, the Travels to My Elephant event was formally launched in March 2015 by the NGO's patron Goldie Hawn – featuring the first of the Tukshop Tuk Tuks – at Clarence House in London. It was supported there and globally by Elephant Family's Royal Presidents, HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, as well as a host of international stars and celebrities.
For the launch, Steve taught Ben, nephew of the Duchess of Cornwall, to drive a Tuk Tuk in the car park at Olympia so that he could chauffeur the royal couple to Clarence House.
As part of the adventure, 20 Tuk Tuks were especially designed by big names from the worlds of art, fashion and millinery including Rebecca Campbell, Diane von Furstenberg, Nicky Haslam, Mulberry and Zandra Rhodes. All these amazing artists and designers were licensed to use Tukshop's copyrighted Tuk Tuk artwork templates to produce their individual creations. This unique fleet of elephant infused Tuk Tuks charmed Londoners over that summer appearing at parades, events, shops and hotels right across the capital.
Steve spent three days in London as the event's expert Tuk Tuk consultant during this time. He was there to provide technical and driver support for the entire fleet. This ranged from ensuring the vans were commissioned correctly to keeping them on the road and successfully promoting the cause.
At the end of June 2015 an auction was hosted at Lancaster House in the presence of HRH Prince of Wales and HRH Duchess of Cornwall where Sotheby's sold the 20 specially designed Tuk Tuks. This event alone raised nearly £800,000 to help safeguard this wonderful species from extinction. Mr Steve was a special guest at the event to ensure that the Tukshop supplied rickshaws went to good homes, mingling to answer any of the guests' questions about driving and owning these cool little vehicles.
September 2015 saw Steve back in London again. This time to train around 50 of those taking part in the race, from super models to the super wealthy, to drive Tuk Tuks. He used the 5th floor car park of event sponsors, Selfridges, for this purpose. There the ramps, pillars and other hazards provided a great training ground for the Tuk Tuk race teams.
In November 2015, the eagerly awaited Travels to my Elephant race took place with 49 Tuk Tuks in total chasing each other across some 500km of India – along Mark Shand's original route - to meet up with the world's most famous elephant, the above-mentioned Tara.
The collaboration between Elephant Family and the Quintessentially Foundation, ably supported by sponsors like Selfridges and fine art logistics specialists' Cadogan Tate, raised over £2 million for Asia's endangered elephants and the communities that share their forest homes. It's reckoned that nearly 700 million people across the globe heard about the event and its message of conservation.
In addition, this unique event raised global awareness of the dangers facing elephants such that it has inspired five NGOs to join forces and pledge £20 million toward further elephant corridors across the whole of Asia.
'Mr Steve provided us with invaluable help in making sure this project ran smoothly from start to finish with his skills in Tuk Tuk supply, logistics, artwork & technical support. Training all our riders without mishap in the Selfridges car park prior to heading off to India was another achievement. Mr Steve even managed to give me a Tuk Tuk driving lesson in the very glamorous Olympia car park the night before the big launch at Clarence House. For anything Tuk related look no further than Tukshop'!


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