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Looking into the future of the metaverse
by Editor's Choice 4 October 2021
Conversations around the metaverse are gaining in popularity. It's most likely because Big Tech, including Microsoft and Facebook, think it is time to go all-in, making you think that metaverse might be the next big thing after AI.
Definitions are still evolving as to what the metaverse really is, but mainly it refers to a convergence of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space – or the universe of data. Like with our real universe, humanity is still in the dark about most of its secrets and we are at the brink of exploring it. AR or VR are just the first glimpses we are seeing.
To effectively trade within the metaverse, digital currencies will come into play. This may most likely come from Bitcoin, Ethereum or Cardano, but new currencies are always being introduced. The result will be a digital artefact created in the metaverse, that is protected and sold using the advancements made in blockchain and NFTs. This means the metaverse will have the option to build an economy on par with the one in the physical world.
Having a digital currency that can cross the boundaries between our world and the metaverse will undoubtedly raise the stakes and spark all kinds of new ventures. Where the start-ups might be creating the equivalent of small planets, where you can entertain yourself if you have the cash, the big digital natives will most likely create their own Milky Way (or even galaxy) in the metaverse. But before doing so, the metaverse has to grow up, like the Internet did in the early 1990's. Based on the initial excitement it is most likely AR and VR initiatives will be the prevalent initiatives.
The obvious candidates to succeed in the early stages are the gaming companies, like Epic who is pushing the boundaries with Fortnite and hosting things like digital concerts (most recently the Ariana Grande concert). E-commerce and retail will soon follow suit, but B2C companies will not be the only ones trying to understand how to exploit the metaverse; there is also a big opportunity for the B2B industry.
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Will it be a success?
What will make or break the metaverse will be its ability to capture data from its surroundings and even the biosphere. The only way to do that will be by mass ingestion of the data coming from the Internet of Things. Only with this data will you be able to create a rich and meaningful environment. The next need after "seeing" will be "interacting," meaning that the data not only needs to be represented in a meaningful way but also must be responsive.
On the lowest level, equal to the physiological needs of humans in the real world, you can imagine the needs of a digital infrastructure in the metaverse: tools for ingestion of and access to data and the infrastructure to store, analyse and enrich data. But just like in the real world, before any meaningful interactions can be achieved, security needs to be guaranteed.
With all the attention on the exciting possibilities of the metaverse, you could forget what infrastructures will be needed for the heavy lifting. It would have to be optimised for transferring and storing data. To make the metaverse attractive, not only would historical data need to be available, to facilitate context and depth in any interaction, but it would also have to be highly accurate. This means the need for real-time data ingestion and analytics would be paramount. Besides radical innovations in the infrastructure, major innovations in the software stack will be needed too.
Event-driven world
For the metaverse to be on a par with the real world it has to be event-driven in nature so that every significant change of state can be signalled and responded to by the interested audience.
Moreover, semantics will be extremely important, together with context. In a siloed world where you control your data, you know the intent of that data and define the meaning of it at the time stored. However, data in the metaverse is likely to be highly distributed. In a world where you are depending on your ecosystem for data, you really need to understand the meaning of the data exchanged with you, a lingua franca might be necessary to interpret formats and measurements correctly.
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Trying a different approach
Security and trust are paramount online. Currently, the way we mostly address trust on the Internet is with gated access. We are used to "partitioned" access to websites, governed by separate clickwrap or browsewrap terms and conditions. As that approach does not lend itself to seamlessness in the metaverse, technology would need to provide the solution; for example, self-executing smart contracts on a metaverse. That, together with some hard-learned lessons on how to protect data in modern infrastructure might allow the metaverse to put safeguards in place with minimal footprint.
Contrary to the universe the metaverse will not be created with a big bang, but if the scaffolding comes off, then this will give rise to a whole new array of solutions and unlimited creativity. The metaverse is where consumers will go for games and entertainment and businesses will probably explore virtual reality meetings for enhanced collaboration and bring training to the next level with fully simulated environments.
The metaverse, long seen as a futuristic dream, is quickly becoming a reality.
Written by Bart Schouw, chief evangelist at Software AG
Tagged: Emerging Technologies, Immersive Technology
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I went to T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach for the waters, but…I was misinformed. The waters of the Pacific Ocean are a seventy-dollar round-trip cab ride from where T.H.E. Show is actually located, which is in a fourteen-story hotel in an industrial park in Irvine (or "Ir-veen," as one of the receptionists at The Hotel Irvine called it). Of course, I can understand the misnomer. I mean, how many people are gonna get all worked up about going to "T.H.E. Show in Irvine/veen"?
Though I'd heard that "Newport Beach" was great sounding, you couldn't have proved it by my first day at T.H.E. Show. Everything sounded dark and various shade of lousy. However, while darkness remained an enduring theme, the quality of the rooms picked up on Saturday and Sunday, and I left thinking that T.H.E. Show was decent sonically (or "sone-ically").
As virtually every exhibit at T.H.E. Show was in my category—loudspeakers $20k and up (a little wrinkle we're gonna have to do something about next time I go to Irveen)—this show report is long, even by my standards. While it is as complete as I could make it, there are undoubtedly rooms I missed and prices/facts/names I've gotten wrong. I can only reiterate that I'm just one guy with a briefcase full of blues (and classical and jazz). Though I did enjoy the company of Ms. Mullins—who was covering the allied category of electronics $20k and up—we are two, and the show is many. We did the best we could, but apologies in advance for rooms missed or mistakes in nomenclature/pricing.
German loudspeaker designer Roland Gauder's $60k five-driver, three-and-a-halfway Gauder Akustik Berlina RC-7 Mk II floorstander—with its ribbed enclosure, 50dB/octave symmetrical crossovers, and custom-built Accuton ceramic and diamond drivers—made my Top Five in Munich driven by Vitus electronics, and it made it again here in Newport, this time driven by Accuphase's A-70 Class A stereo amplifier and C-2820 linestage preamp, and Air Tight's ATE 2005 phonostage, sourced by a Hanss T-60SE turntable with Durand Kairos tonearm and Air Tight PC-1S cartridge, and cabled by PranaWire. If the bottom line of a stereo system is how successfully it conjures up a lifelike semblance of real vocalists and musicians, then the Berlina RC-7 was one of the three most lifelike systems at Newport Beach. No, the Gauder doesn't have the astounding dynamic range of a horn system like the Cessaro Wagner; nor does it reach as deeply into the bass as my Magico M Pro/JL Audio Gotham system at home; nor it is quite as seamlessly of a piece as the single-driver Voxativ 9.87. But…it is dynamic, deep reaching, superbly defined, and seamlessly neutral and transparent enough to make everything from Peter, Paul & Mary to the Talking Heads to El Vy sound uncannily "there." Just a great loudspeaker—and a great system.
Jeff Catalano of High Water Sound had an exceptionally good show with Cessaro's new $65k Wagner spherical-horn-loaded two-ways driven by TW-Acustic's 300B monoblock amplifiers, RPA 100 linestage preamplifier (later replaced by an MBL because of "technical difficulties"), and RPS 100 phonostage preamplifier, sourced by a TW-Acustic Black Knight turntable with TW 10.5 'arm and Mijayma Labs Mandrake cartridge, and cabled with Zen Sati wire. This was the best horn system I heard at a show that, to my surprise, rivaled Munich for high-quality horn loudspeakers. Though limited in the very low bass, the Wagner was absolutely granitic from the midbass through the treble, with no shoutiness or cupped-hand coloration I could detect. Though the Wagner didn't show its best at lower volumes, when the sound was turned up—on, for example, Julie's El Vy Return to the Moon LP or my Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense—the system was simply terrific because of its uncannily natural dynamic range. To hear the shout of one of the backup singers on El Vy's "I'm the Man to Be" sound like a real shout—rocket-propelled, completely uncompressed, and yet without any edge or bite—is to hear something that you generally only hear on reel-to-reel tape or in life. Like the seamless Voxativ one-way or the superbly neutral and natural Berlina RC-7, the Wagner brings something to the audio table that is so much like the real thing that it makes the speaker stand apart from other very worthy contenders. This was the best presentation of a Cessaro loudspeaker I've experienced.
My third best sound of Newport Beach was Holger Adler's $34.9k Voxativ 9.87 one-way (using Voxativ's AC-4x spruce-wood-cone driver with neodymium magnet and whizzer tweeter in a folded-horn enclosure, which sits atop an active 12" dipole bass "extender"). Driven by Voxativ's 845 SET monoblock amps and Ampeggio preamp, and sourced by Totaldac digital, this German masterpiece couldn't be more different than Cessaro's horns or Gauder's steeply crossed-over multiways (both also from Germany, as it turns out), but its sound was, in its own way, just as fascinating and just as realistic. Neutral and absolutely seamless, the 9.87 (along with Voxativ's Ampeggio Due) is simply the fullest-range, most natural-sounding one-way (or augmented one-way) I've ever heard. And once you've heard a speaker without a crossover that is this good, it makes everything else sound just the slightest bit cobbled together from parts. No, you're not going to get the dynamic range of a horn speaker from the 9.87, nor quite the same resolution or treble extension that you get from the Gauder, but what you are going to get is true point-source imaging and a sound that doesn't change a jot in timbre from octave to octave.
My fourth best-sounding room was, believe it or not, digital only. Tidal's gorgeous $59.9k Contriva G2 three-way (diamond tweeter, black ceramic cone midrange, and twin black ceramic cone woofers), driven by Tidal's Preos-D preamplifier and Impulse Dual Mono amplifier, sourced by Lampizator digital, and cabled by Dynamic Design, sounded very, very natural on a Jenna Mammina cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game." Ditto on a live recording of Valerie Joyce. Open, energetic, neutral, and finely detailed, the Contriva was right up there with the Gauder Akustik Berlina RS-7 for realism (not a trace of the bottom-up darkness that was epidemic at this show), though it was, naturally, a bit flatter in aspect than the analog-sourced RS-7. Of course, I wish I had been able to hear my LPs with the Contriva, but, even at that, this was a Best of Show Contender.
As was the case in Munich, I'm in a bit of a quandary about my fifth pick. There are, once again, several very worthy contenders (the Von Schweikert VR-55 Aktiv driven by Constellation electronics, the YG Acoustics Sonja 1.2 driven by MSB electronics, the Raidho D-4.1 driven by Aavik electronics, the Stein Music V6 driven by Stein electronics, the Vivid Audio Giya G2 driven by Luxman electronics, the German Physiks HRS-130 driven by Merrill electronics, the Burwell and Sons Mother of Burl horn-loaded loudspeaker, the Vandersteen Model 7 MkII driven by Vandersteen electronics, the Lumen White White Light 25th Anniversary driven by Ayon electronics), but I'm gonna settle on the $50k Marten Mingus Quintet, driven by EAR 509 monoblocks and an EAR 912 preamplifier, sourced by a Helius Viridia turntable (with Helius Omega Silver Ruby 'arm and Kiseki Purpleheart cartridge), and cabled with Jorma Prime wire. Frankly, it was a very close call between this system and the Vandersteen, as both sounded extremely realistic (and very much alike) on my PP&M and Deano LPs. I went with the Marten because it had a slightly smoother presentation and more life-sized imaging (particularly when it came to image height).
Von Schweikert Audio showed its three-way VR-55 Aktiv (with built-in, powered, transmission-line-loaded subwoofer) powered by Constellation electronics, wired with Masterbuilt cables, and supported by Critical Mass Systems stands. The room was digital with a tape deck—so I couldn't try out my LPs—but it impressed me nonetheless. I liked the VR-55s very much at AXPONA Chicago, and they sounded just as lovely in Newport on a recording of "I Love Paris," with good detail and color, albeit also with a slight thickness in the midbass. On a second visit a solo piano recording of Yoram Ish-Hurwitz playing Liszt was beautiful, full, and powerful, though still a bit dark in balance. The system really picked up when tape was played back, sounding altogether superior on reel-to-reel—not nearly as dark though a bit constricted in width and depth because of the unusually narrow room. Although I wish there had been a turntable to listen to, this was still a Best of Show contender.
Philip O'Hanlon of On A Higher Note had yet another great outing with Vivid Audio's $50k five-driver, four-way Giya G2 floorstander with its twisty, tapered-tube, fiberglass cabinet, driven by Luxman B-1000f monoblock amplifiers, C-700u linestage, and EQ-500 tube phonostage, sourced alternately by a Luxman PD-171AL turntable (with SME M209R tonearm and SoundSmith Hyperion cartridge), a SonoruS 1/4" reel-to-reel tape deck, an Otari 1/2" reel-to-reel tape deck, and Merging Technology digital, and wired with Shunyata Research cables. O'Hanlon treated listeners to a feast of sources, starting with two two-mike digital recordings (made by Mark Levinson) on CD (both of which sounded a little dark in timbre with superior transient response and excellent instrumental texture), followed by an LP of Lori Lieberman (slightly dark timbre again but still natural with really good resolution), followed by 1/4" two-track tape of Vanessa Fernandez (which produced an immediate increase in density of color and bass extension, richness, and power but had the tube signature of the SonoruS deck), followed by 1/2" two-track of Muddy Waters on the Otari studio deck (no tube signature here but great power and transient response, though Muddy sounded, as he usually does, as if he and his guitar were clipping the mic preamps occasionally), and finishing with a quad-DSD file of the first movement of the Mahler Third Symphony (tremendously powerful and bitingly incisive but with the usual digital broken-glass treble and without the power range richness of tape or vinyl). A fascinating and impressive demo—and very close to a Best of Show.
Wilson Audio showed its $111.2k four-way Alexx floorstander again, this time with VTL Siegfried Series II amps, VTL TP-6.5 phonostage, and VTL TL-7.5 Series III linestage, sourced by a Grand Prix 2.0 turntable (with Triplanar tonearm and Lyra Etna cart), and wired with Transparent Opus cables. On my LP of the Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, the system sounded extremely rich, smooth, and lovely, though a bit lacking in dynamic spark (odd for a Wilson speaker). The Alexx was once again just a little polite dynamically on my PP&M and Talking Heads LPs (on Chris Franz's lightning-strike drumming, for example, from Stop Making Sense), though octave-to-octave coherence was simply wonderful and tone color was never less than gorgeous. Though it didn't have the very lowest bass in this room, in Newport Beach the Alexx showed promise of being one of the all-time-great Wilsons.
Carl Marchisotto's $19.8k Nola Studio Grand Reference Gold sounded very alive dynamically and quite neutral driven by VAC electronics and wired with Nordost cable. Though lacking a little presence on my Dream with Dean disc, the Nolas made Dean sound, as he should, like a baritone rather than a bass; they also offered excellent reproduction of his distinctive articulation and breath control (or lack thereof).
Driven by Levinson electronics and sources, JBL's $65k Project K2 S9900 "augmented two-way" horn-loaded floorstander sounded simply terrific on a Fairfield Four recording in a smallish, all-digital room, with wonderful presence and dynamics on voices (though their timbre was—you guessed it—a bit dark). I don't know how JBL does it, but its speakers manage to achieve an excellent blend of an Alnico-magnet-powered cone woofer with a horn-loaded compression-driver mid/tweet and a horn-loaded beryllium-driver super-tweet. The presentation was as good in Newport Beach as it was in Munich. This is a wonderful horn loudspeaker, and a personal favorite.
Speaking of superb horn loudspeakers and personal favorites, Avantgarde Acoustic was showing its new $34.6 spherically horn-loaded Uno XD (with powered SUB225 XD subs), which offers user-adjustable crossovers for each driver and DSP room correction. Driven by Audiopax amps and a D'Agostino phonostage and sourced by a Bergmann turntable, the Uno XD sounded very detailed on Deano (superb reproduction of vibrato), with outstanding dynamic range and not a hint of excess sibilance or cupped-hands coloration. Like so many other exhibits at Newport Beach, the Avantgardes may have been a little dark in timbre but they were also very realistic.
The $45k horn-loaded Natural Sound 1 loudspeaker (from Natural Sound Europe), which uses Maxsonic field-coil drivers from Japan, was being driven by top-end Audio Tekne tube electronic from Imai-san, and sourced by a Vertere turntable and My Sonic Labs cartridge. On my Deano disc, the system was absolutely gorgeous and very detailed—a little dark in balance, like almost everything else, but still ravishingly beautiful with excellent bass. After hearing this system, I noted that "horns are having the best of it at this show." And so they were. In passing, it is a very great pleasure to welcome Audio Tekne's Imai-san, whose electronics I have long admired, back to the U.S. market.
As I noted, the $74.8k Sonja 1.2 driven by MSB electronics and source components, and wired with Analysis Plus cables produced a sound that was very close to a Best of Show contender—warm and rich but (for once) not at all dark, and surprisingly dimensional for digital. The system was really quite superb on a CD of sax, which is an instrument that is hard for digital to get right.
Also flirting with a Best of Show nomination was the $110k, seven-driver, three-way, ribbon/diamond cone Raidho D-4.1 driven by Aavik electronics, sourced by a Thales turntable and tonearm (with EMT JS6 cartridge), and wired with Ansuz cables. In Munich the D-4.1 did not fare well in the glassed-walled cubicles of the MOC, with a bass range that sounded out of control and imaging that was swimmy. In Newport Beach, on Julie's El Vy disc (which has very low bass), the speaker was extremely well behaved in the bottom end. It did not reach down quite as deeply as my Magico M Pro/JL Audio Gotham system does, but it was quite well defined where it played without any hint of a port bump, and with the usual superb color, speed, and resolution of Raidho's ribbon/diamond cone midrange/treble. Image focus was pinpoint, too, with terrific stage depth and width. Just a much much better showing for one of the world's great loudspeaker marques.
Another BOS contender (and a perennial one), the $62k Vandersteen 7 Mk II with active subwoofer, powered by Vandersteen M7-HPA monoblock amps, Audio Research Reference 10 linestage and Reference 10 Phono preamps, sourced by a Basis Audio Work of Art turntable with Basis tonearm (and Lyra Atlas cartridge), and wired with AudioQuest cable, sounded superb on PP&M with great separation of voices, extremely natural timbre, and exceptional resolution (Paul's sometimes harder to hear vocal and guitar lines were outstandingly clear). Talking Heads was also pretty damn good. At its best this speaker is just plain realistic, though it tends to reduce image height, probably because the drivers in their smallish enclosure sit close to the floor.
Also very much a contender, German Physiks showed its $22,750 HRS-130 with carbon-fiber Dicks Dipole Driver coupled to a new 10" woofer, driven by Merrill Audio electronics. Dark and sweet in tone color, the HRS-130 had a boxless three-dimensionality that made for a great disappearing act on my Taj Mahal LP. This was, by far, the best I've heard any German Physiks speaker sound at a trade show.
Sourced wirelessly by $1.5k worth of Questyle's electronics, the $20k Focal Sopra 3 three-way floorstander (in articulating cabinet) sounded surprisingly terrific—rich, lively, with an analog-like roundedness. A definite for-the-money contender (because of the affordable Questyle electronics), this was the best wireless demo I've ever heard.
Famous for its room treatments, Stein Music introduced its $80k V6 floorstander with spherical-horn-loaded tweeter and midrange, cone mid/bass, and active, DSP'd woofers that are side-mounted. This large, striking-looking transducer was driven by Stein electronics and wired with Stein cables. The room was digital-only, alas, but that didn't prevent the V6 from coming close to a Best of Show award. On The Weavers' "Guantanamera," it was superbly natural on all three voices (with zero horn coloration), gorgeous on guitars, and extremely high in resolution (I could hear Seeger humming as he played, which is almost a first). A BOS contender.
Burwell & Sons debuted its wittily named Mother of Burl three-way horn-loaded loudspeaker. As I've already said, this was very good show for horns and the Mothers of Burl did not disappoint, sounding very lively and open with neutral-to-light balance on digital and no obvious horn coloration. These giant things showed very natural timbre and superb dynamic ease on my PP&M LP (with exceptional resolution of Mary's voice on "Don't Think Twice"). On top of this the Mothers were well defined and pretty extended in the bass. Another BOS contender.
Thrax demo'd its two-way Lyra MTM module with horn-loaded tweeter sitting atop a Bassis active subwoofer with built-in crossover. The entire package costs $60k. The Lyras were powered by Thrax's Teres monoblocks with tube inputs and MOSFET output, and sourced by a Döhmann Helix turntable. On my Dream with Dean disc, the sound was very dark—Deano sounded like a bass rather than a baritone—with what seems like a roll on top and some suckout in the midrange that added a distinct cupped-hands hollowness to Martin's voice. There was also a slight upper-midrange spittiness riding on top of vocal. Not a good showing for Thrax, etc.
Perfect 8 Technology $100k The Point ribbon/cone, glass-enclosed semi-dipole with powered bass modules was driven by BAlabo electronics and sourced by a Bergmann turntable. I've very much like The Point in the past, but this was not a sound that I recognized from previous shows—darker, richer, and "prettier" than what I'm used to from Perfect 8. My Dream with Dean LP was close to superb on Dean's voice, but the powered woofer was a little heavy on standup bass (I thought the woof needed to be dialed back a bit) and the ribbon tweet was a little aggressive on fff. Peter, Paul & Mary sounded pretty much the same as Dean—dark and lovely but not at all realistic (and these speakers are capable of sounding very realistic, as is this superb reissue).
Driven by Audionet electronics, sourced by a Kronos turntable, and wired with Kubla-Sosna cable, the YG Acoustics $72.8k three-way Sonja 1.2 with YG's BilletCore and ForgeCore aluminum drivers sounded very much like the Perfect 8's on my LPs—dark and beautiful. PP&M's voices on "All My Trials" were simply gorgeous, with superior definition on Paul's vocals. But, once again, the sound was not realistic on this eminently realistic disc because of a slight darkness on top and a bit too much fullness in the bass and midbass, which tended to make the Paul's casket-bodied guitar (Sebastian) sound muddy. This was not as superbly lifelike a presentation as I heard from this same system at AXPONA Chicago.
Magico S7s, driven by Soulution monoblocks and wired with Synergistic Research Galileo 2 in a room outfitted with Ted Denney III's various room treatments, made a huge sound with an astonishing abundance of air, though the bass was muddy even with Ted's tuning box in place. I wasn't able to listen to my LPs in this room, but the presentation was kind of amazing on a Roger Waters cut, with such tremendous spatiality that Waters appeared to the outside and way in front of the left speaker, as if his voice were emanating from the side channel of a multichannel setup—quite remarkable from a "wow-me" standpoint. Alas, there was way too much low end on a big orchestral Hans Zimmer recording. Once again, this was not a realistic sound, though it was, in its own way, a startlingly impressive one.
Unfortunately, Analysis Audio was having trouble with its VPI Avenger turntable equipped with SoundSmith's strain-gauge cartridge (the 'table was "doing some funny things" when it came to maintaining proper speed). As a result Analysis' $22k Omega full-range ribbon/planar did not come close to achieving the realism I expected from my PP&M disc.
Acoustic Zen's $22k five-driver Crescendo floorstander with horn-loaded ribbon and cones driven by Metaxsas and Ypsilon electronics, and sourced by a Thales turntable sounded kind of thick and congested with no really deep bass on Julie's El Vy disc. On the darkish side in balance, it lacked stage depth and width.
Ampsandsound's $30k, tractrix-horn-loaded three-way, the Hudson, driven by the company's own 300B amplifiers and a McIntosh C-22, had a very pleasant sound on Julie's El Vy disc, though the bass may have been a bit disconnected and didn't really go low (maybe 60 or 70Hz), though it had nice snap on drums in the upper bass. "Like teaching a gorilla table manners" was the witty way the fellow in the room described taming a horn's excesses. Given the overall smooth midrange (no cupped hands coloration), I'd say he did a decent job of it.
The $29k Vandersteen 5a Carbon with Aries Cerat electronics sounded dark, smooth, and a bit homogenized in a digital-only room—not my cup of tea, but quite pretty. Also in a digital-only room, Tidal's $22.8k three-way Piano G2 with Reimyo electronics made a lovely, dark, precise, and attractive sound with CD—quite beautiful, actually. Driven by Angstrom electronics Diesis Audio's $20k Aura with horn-loaded tweeter and dipole woofers had, I'm afraid, a classic hooded, cupped-hands midrange.
Burmester showed it $35k BA31 aluminum-enclosure floorstander driven by a Burmester 111 server/preamp and Burmester amp. Very neutral on both Hugh Maskela's Hope and Take Five, it sounded controlled and precise but not particularly lively. Acoustic Zen's Maestro powered by Ypsilon electronics and sourced by an Aurender server had a nice showing—with a sweet treble and highly resolved midrange that produced nice bite on brass and lovely wind tone. Ocean Way's $31k Sausalito three-way, driven by Viola electronics, sounded particularly dark and sweet—unusual for Ocean Way, which is typically more studio-monitor-like aggressive.
The $22k Revel $22k Salon 2 driven by Levinson electronics and wired with Clarus cables made a big, quite dark, and very spacious sound in a huge ground floor room. Driven by its own electronics, Gamut's $20k RS3 two-way stand-mount sounded very smooth and natural on PP&M's voices with excellent separation and resolution and not a trace of the analytical. YG Acoustics' $24.3k Carmel 2 two-way stand-mount, driven by Mola Mola and wired with Kubla-Sosna sounded dark, hard-hitting, and solid in an all-digital room. MBL's classic 101 E Radialstrahler, driven by MBL's new Noble amplifiers and other MBL electronics, sounded open and dimensional, of course, but lacking in immediacy and dynamic punch. This was not the sound I'm used to from MBL.
A three-way tie among: 1) Gauder Akustik's Berlina RC-7 Mk II driven by Accuphase's A-70 Class A stereo amplifier and C-2820 linestage preamp, and Air Tight's ATE 2005 phonostage, sourced by a Hanss T-60SE turntable with Durand Kairos tonearm and Air Tight PC-1S cartridge, and cabled by PranaWire; 2) Cessaro's $65k Wagner spherical-horn-loaded two-ways driven by TW-Acustic's 300B monoblock amplifiers, RPA 100 linestage preamplifier, and RPS 100 phonostage preamplifier, sourced by a TW-Acustic Black Knight turntable with TW 10.5 'arm and Mijayma Labs Mandrake cartridge, and cabled with Zen Sati; and 3) Voxativ's 9.87 augmented one-way, driven by Voxativ's 845 SET monoblock amps and Ampeggio preamp, and sourced by Totaldac digital.
Focal Sopra 3 driven (wirelessly) by Questyle electronics.
A tie between the Lumen White White Light 25th Anniversary and the Stein Music V6.


WATERVILLE, Maine – Katherine Hoving (Bristol, Maine) scored her fourth hat-trick of the season to lead the Thomas College women's soccer team to a 3-0 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) victory over SUNY Canton on Sturday afternoon on Smith Field.
Hoving scored all three of her goals in the first 30 minutes of the game to secure the 3-0 win. Cassie Contigiani (Belmont, N.H.) assisted her first goal while Julia Smith (Durham, Maine) assisted the second.
Kayla Gordon (Wiscasset, Maine) recorded her fifth consecutive shutout and ninth overall, stopping three shots on goal. Allison Wakefield took the loss for SUNY Canton, allowing three goals on 11 shots.
Prior to the game, seniors Contigiani, Smith, Gordon, Sam Cleaves (North Yarmouth, Maine) Samantha Griffin (Union, Maine) and Makenzie Carlow (Winslow, Maine) were honored for playing in their final regular season home game on Smith Field.
Thomas travels to Maine Maritime Academy on Tuesday October 22 for their NAC and regular season finale at 4:00 PM.


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User Management for Project Manager allows the delegation of Group Membership management to powered users depending on an advanced configuration.
for which groups (Delegated Group) in which project a delegation has to be created ?
which powered users are allowed to benefit from this delegation ?
which type of delegation is created ?
As Granted User with the permission Manage Group Delegation, you will be allowed to define which groups will be delegated in which Projects.


Today's headline from the @ncnewspapers Twitter feed reads "House Kill Bill For Licensing Of Auto Operation." I suppose I'd always taken it for granted that a license from the state was necessary for driving a car; certainly I would have thought that they would be in place by the 1930s.
Forty-seven yearbooks from Methodist University are now available online at DigitalNC.org. The yearbooks span from 1964, four years after the institution was formed, to 2010. Methodist University also contributed three yearbooks from the now-defunct Carolina College, which was located in Maxton, N.C. Interestingly, the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks digital collection also contains fifty-four yearbooks and course catalogs from another defunct school that was once located in Maxton, Presbyterian Junior College.
The small town of Brevard has lately received a lot of attention here at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Following last week's announcement about the digitization of early issues of the Sylvan Valley News, I'm pleased to announce that a long run of historic student newspapers from Brevard College is now available online.
Over 700 issues of student-produced papers from Brevard College as well as predecessor schools Weaver College and Rutherford College can now be searched and browsed online. The papers range in date from to 1924 to 2006, and are a fantastic resource for studying student life in a small mountain college throughout the 20th century.
These digital versions were created from original newspapers held in the Brevard College Archives, located in the James A. Jones Library.
As the Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate their centennial this year, I wanted to look for historic images of Girl Scouts in North Carolina on DigitalNC. It's clear that the Girl Scouts have been active throughout the state for many decades. Here are a few highlights from the handful of interesting photos and items relating to Girl Scouts on DigitalNC.org.
Girl Scouts in Greensboro welcome First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to Bennett College in 1945. From the Bennett College Library.
Girl Scout receiving a pin during Scout Week, 1951, in Rocky Mount. From the Braswell Memorial Library (Rocky Mount, N.C.).
Girl Scouts in Ashe County, ca. 1940s. From the Ashe County Public Library.
Girl Scouts in Burgaw, 1954. From the Pender County Public Library.
Ten early student exercise books from the collections at the Old Salem Museums & Gardens are now available online at DigitalNC. These fascinating volumes, primarily from the late 18th and early 19th-centuries, are the work of students from the Moravian community in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. We will be digitizing more volumes from this collection later this spring.
The Sylvan Valley News from 1900-1911 is now available online through the North Carolina Newspapers project. The paper was published in Brevard and contains news from all over Transylvania County as well as updates from the "mountain metropolis" of Asheville.
Looking through the paper one gets a first-hand glimpse into the struggles and excitement of a small town emerging into the twentieth century. Issues of civic improvement are often at the forefront as the citizens of Brevard make the case for pressing issues such as the addition of sidewalks and electric lights to their town.
The Sylvan Valley News was nominated for digitization by the Transylvania County Library. More issues of this paper, including its successor, the Brevard News, will be published online this winter.
After reading about the exciting work taking place this week on the coast as archaeologists and volunteers uncover artifacts from a sunken Civil War ship, I went looking through the North Carolina Newspapers collection for a mention of the wreck.
The last lines are especially notable: "It is believed that a portion of the cargo can be saved. All will be saved if possible." Portions of the cargo are indeed being saved. It has only taken 150 years.
The more we read old newspapers, the more we find what we assumed to be modern trends showing up long ago. The Sylvan Valley News, published in Brevard in the early 20th century, was a strong advocate for the "Buy Local" movement. In those days, local businesses weren't threatened by large discount chain stores or online retailers but by another recently-developed and extremely popular shopping alternative: the mail order catalog.
Chicago, of course, was the home of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
We found this ad in an issue of the Sylvan Valley News, published in Brevard on August 10, 1906. The "novelty" of creating custom postcards was a widespread phenomenon, resulting the creation of many thousands of rare and often unique images that seem especially striking when we come across them today. Photographic or "real photo" postcards are actual photographic prints produced on postcard backs, enabling the users to mail them as they would a normal postcard. While the act of simply mailing a snapshot doesn't seem like a big deal today, it was in the early twentieth-century, as people around the country shared scenic and personal photos with ease.
Dora Mayberry, Cooleemee (Davie County Public Library).
John T. Etheridge of Rocky Mount (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Note the raccoon skin on the wall behind him.
Fisherman repairing a net in Morehead City (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Susie Sharp family photo, Reidsville (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).


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Mother-to-be Kim Hyo Jin Glows in Latest Fashion Spread
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Actress Kim Hyo Jin is looking fabulous in a new photo spread for fashion brand Must Be.
Kim Hyo Jin recently delivered both good and bad news as she left her role in the upcoming movie "There's No Today" because of her pregnancy. In 2011, Kim Hyo Jin married actor Yoo Ji Tae, and the two are now expecting their first child.
For the spread, Kim Hyo Jin modeled the women's brand Must Be collection from Kbrands, a Korean clothing company. In the fashion world, Kim Hyo Jin is famous for her chic fashion sense, and in these photos, her doll-like facial features and body figure stand out.
Meanwhile, Kim Hyo Jin is looking towards the theatrical release of the Japanese-Korean joint production film"Genome Hazard." "Genome Hazard" stars Kim Hyo Jin and actor Hidetoshi Nishijima which will be released in theaters by the end of this month. The film is about an incident which revolves around a man name Ishigami (Hidetoshi Nishijima). A female Korean news reporter Kang Ji Won (Kim Hyo Jin) is the witness of the incident and works with Ishigami to solve it.
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Zero Caliber VR
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Zero Caliber VR is a first-person tactical shooter developed by XREAL Games exclusively for premium Virtual Reality headsets. The story brings the player to a dystopian United States in the not too distant future where physics-based interaction combined with hyper realistic weapon handling and stunning graphics will make you feel like you're physically part of the action. Fight either alone, or with your friends throughout the whole campaign, which is fully playable in Co-Op.
Action-oriented story, gripping gunfights, realistic weapons with an on-the-fly swappable attachment system. Immersion like you've never felt before in a VR military shooter!


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Information about the Medical Informatics work of Michael Weilert, MD
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New Drug For Leukemia
July 31, 2014 by Michael Weilert
A new drug target for treating leukemia has been identified as part of the largest ever genetic analysis of tumor growth in childhood blood cancer. T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the most common and aggressive childhood blood cancers. Every year, an estimated 500 american youths with this blood cancer fail to achieve remission through standard chemotherapy. With genetic scanning techniques, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center identified 6,023 long, non-coding strands of RNA active in immune system T cells taken from a group of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. These strands of RNA from the 15 patients were not active in the healthy T cells of three young people who didn't have leukemia.
Publishing their findings in the journal Cell, researchers describe how they were able to block the action of one of these RNA strands, leukemia-induced non-coding activator RNA-1 or "LUNAR1", which slowed leukemia progression. Long-coding sequences of RNA, such as LUNAR1, are more frequently being recognized as important in regulating cell functions. Beforehand, they were more though of as "junk DNA", which help transcribe DNA without fully assembling proteins. Although LUNAR1 does not produce cancerous proteins itself, it forms an important part of the signaling action of a protein related to many cancers.
Leukemia cells, as seen underneath a microscope.
The researchers discovered LUNAR1 through examining RNAs active in a biological pathway known as NOTCH1. This pathway is active in at least half of all T-cell actue lymphoblastic leukemia patients, and the researchers discovered that LUNAR1 was the most highly expressed long, non-coding RNA associated with NOTCH1. Among normal T cells, NOTCH1 is inactive, and LUNAR1 and another long, non-coding RNAs are not transcribed and can't bind to an activate IGF-1R. They found that LUNAR1 was overproduced in 90% of the leukemia patients in the study. Drugs that block LUNAR1 could therefore form the basis of an alternative treatment to chemotherapy, which kills both healthy cells and cancer cells.
The study reveals that LUNAR1 is highly specific for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and plays a key role in how this cancer develops. To test this hypothesis, the scientists transplanted human leukemia T cells into mice and then successfully stalled tumor growth in a subset of the mice by chemically blocking LUNAR1. This research suggests that future therapies for cancer should take into account the RNA make-up of individual patients, as well as mutations in their DNA. The team now needs to develop drugs that will more effectively inhibit LUNAR1, perhaps through targeting its component nucleotides.
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Researchers captured and comparted hi-res images of ribosome structures from sensitive and resistant bacteria and report that a water molecule needed for antibiotic binding was not present in the ribosomes from the drug-resistant bugs.
A new therapy is showing success as a way to prevent COVID-19 symptoms in mice.
The abnormal immune system response that causes multiple sclerosis (MS) by attacking and damaging the central nervous system can be triggered by the lack of a specific fatty acid in fat tissue, according to a new study. The finding suggests that dietary change might help treat some people with the autoimmune disease.
New research suggests that aged African green monkeys may be suitable models for the study of severe forms of COVID-19.
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Court Awards N21.4m Against Police Over Unlawful Detention of Truck
Justice Sule Hassan, of a Federal High Court, Lagos, today, ordered the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to pay a total sum of N21.4 million, to a limited liability company, Alfredo Resources Nigeria Limited, for unlawfully detained the company's truck, unlawful extortion and general damages.
Justice Hassan made the order while delivering judgment in a fundamental rights suit marked FHC/L/CS/338/18, instituted by the company against Mrs. Toun Sobajo, who trades under the name and style of Alol Wadudat Nigeria Limited, Inspector-General of Police(IGP), Assistant Inspector-General, Zone 2, Onikan-Lagos, as first to third respondents.
Other respondents in the company's fundamental right suit are: Commissioner of Police, Lagos State; Divisional Police Officer, Ebute-Ero Police Station, Lagos Island, Inspector Sunday, and one Ifeanyi Okafor, as fourth to seventh respondents.
The applicant, through its lawyers, Chief Charles Enwelunta and Chijioke Chinewubeze, had urged the court for an a declaration that its arrest, detention, incarceration, torture and dehumanization by the Force over a business transaction with the first and seven respondents, is illegal and unlawful.
The applicant had also asked for a court's declaration that the use, employment and hiring of the police by the first respondent to unlawfully and illegally recovered the sum of N9 million from them, over a trumped up allegations, was illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.
The applicant had urged the court for a declaration that the resumption of the use, employment and procurement of the Force by the first respondent to again commence a further extortion and recovery of monies for the first respondent on account of same transaction for which the sum of N9 million had been unlawfully taken from it in favour of the first respondent, where the second, third and sixth respondents are determined to commence the extortion of another N200 million monthly, is illegal and unconstitutional.
The applicants have asked the court for an order compelling the Nigeria Police Force, its IGP, AIG Zone 2, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, DPO, Ebute-Ero Police Division, and one Inspector Sunday to pay back the sum of N9 million unlawfully extorted from them, and a total sum of N2.4 million, at N100, 000, daily for 24 months, for unlawfully detained their Mack trailer at Ebute-Ero police station, and the sum of N50 million for general damages.
Delivering judgment in suit today, the Justice Hassan, said: "I have gone through all the processes filed, the motion on notice, supporting affidavit and the written address.
"The respondents didn't file any counter despite been served. In view of the above, I hereby granted all the reliefs sought by the applicant except relief G, in which I award the cost of N10 million, as general damages, against all the respondents, jointly and severally, for the breach of applicant's fundamental rights".
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(-) Diane B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., M.S., R.Ph., FASHP (2)
(-) M. Lynn Crismon, Pharm.D., FCCP, DABCP, BCPP (1)
(-) Nathan D. Pope, Pharm.D., FAPhA (1)
(-) Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (5)
(-) Diane B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., M.S., R.Ph., FASHP
(-) M. Lynn Crismon, Pharm.D., FCCP, DABCP, BCPP
(-) Nathan D. Pope, Pharm.D., FAPhA
(-) Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
UT Pharmacy Earns Highest Residency Match Rate in Texas
Pharmacy schools across the country completed their 2022 Phase I and Phase II residency matches for new or upcoming graduates of their Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) programs. The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy placed in the top ten of all pharmacy schools in the nation, and number one in Texas.
Research Provides Further Insight into Causes of Manganese-Induced Parkinsonism
Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Hamm Centennial Fellow in Pharmacy, and a team of researchers have released new findings defining the first homeostatic regulatory pathway for manganese in mammalian systems. Identifying these pathways opens up new possible options to prevent or treat manganese-induced parkinsonism and other disorders linked to elevated manganese exposure.
Nathan Pope Named New Assistant Dean
Nathan Pope, Pharm.D., BCACP, FACA has been named The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy's new assistant dean of experiential education and will succeed Jennifer Ridings-Myhra, M.Ed., R.Ph., who plans to work with Dr. Pope through July and August to assist in the transition. The start date for this new role is effective July 1, 2021.
Ginsburg Appointed to Leadership Texas
Dr. Diane Ginsburg has been accepted into the Leadership Texas 2021 class by Leadership Women, Inc. She will represent The University of Texas at Austin during Leadership Texas sessions through November 2021.
Cherish Taylor Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition
Neuroscience graduate student Cherish Taylor took home the top prize in the Graduate School's Three Minute Thesis competition. Taylor is a graduate student in the lab of Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. in the College of Pharmacy's Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Mukhopadhyay Wins Research Excellence Award
Associate Professor Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. wins the 2020 Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper. The awards are presented each year by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Co-operative Society.


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The syntactic complexity of SCADA/ICS protocols along with the emphasis on availability has led to the increase in the prevalence of input-handling vulnerabilities in SCADA/ICS protocols. We present PhasorSec, a methodology to produce hardened implementations of the C37.118 protocol in Wide Area Measurement Systems. PhasorSec reduces latency by outsourcing input validation to a separate network filter that exhaustively validates C37.118 packets with respect to the specification of the protocol. We evaluate PhasorSec in terms of CPU-time and development effort and demonstrate its resilience to the state-ofthe-art AFL fuzzer. Abstract is not available.


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3.0.12 / 2014-07-17
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  * Fix remaining issues with the definition arguments parsing
  * Introduce `Testwork\Argument` component

3.0.11 / 2014-07-09
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  * Fix argument resolution for functions with default values (thanks @alesblaznik)
  * Fix step colouring of internationalised definitions
  * Refactor `ContextFactory` and `RepositorySearchEngine` arguments resolution into the new
    Testwork component - `ArgumentResolver`

3.0.10 / 2014-06-29
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  * Fix argument resolution when named arguments used and method has defaults (thanks @WouterJ)
  * Fix support for decimal numbers in turnip placeholders

3.0.9 / 2014-06-20
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  * Fix definition translations reading bug with multi-suite configurations (thanks @WouterJ for reporting)
  * Fix pretty printer bug with failing background and 2 scenarios (thanks @andytson for reporting)
  * Fix memory footprint calculation (thanks @dready for reporting)

3.0.8 / 2014-06-06
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  * Profile level Gherkin filters are now overridable by CLI filter options
  * Rerun cache path is now configurable
  * Fix turnip-based step definitions starting from token
  * Fix token-based transformations interfering with regex-based ones
  * Rerun cache dump have been optimised

3.0.7 / 2014-05-27
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  * Properly generate keywords in snippets for non-english and `And`, `But` steps (thanks @kibao)
  * Fix regex check bug with transformations that return objects (thanks @vaidasm)
  * Return ability to use custom formatters by specifiying their class names

3.0.6 / 2014-05-06
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  * Fix a small extension registration shortcut issue introduced in previous release (thanks @FrenkyNet)

3.0.5 / 2014-05-06
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  * Fix a suite initialization bug when suite contexts have arguments
  * Fix wrong handling of an empty `behat.yml`
  * Explicitly fail when provided context argument is not supported by constructor
  * Fix extension registration shortcut for 3rd-part plugins

3.0.4 / 2014-04-29
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  * Make sure that `Before*Tested` is always executed before `Before*` hooks
  * Introduce additional `After*Setup` and `Before*Teardown` events
  * Improved the error reporting for invalid regexes in step definitions (thanks @stof)

3.0.3 / 2014-04-27
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  * Support definition transformations without capture groups
  * Override gherkin filters in custom profiles instead of merging them
  * Refactored the handling of colors to set them earlier
    ([#513](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/pull/513) thanks to @stof)

3.0.2 / 2014-04-26
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  * Fix warning on empty scenarios

3.0.1 / 2014-04-26
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  * Make sure that `AfterStep` hook is running even if step is failed
    ([504](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/issues/504))
  * Optimised the way service wrappers are registered (thanks @stof)

3.0.0 / 2014-04-20
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  * Brand new highly extendable and clear architecture
  * Support for multiple suites per profile
  * Support for multiple contexts per suite
  * Support for multiple feature paths per suite
  * Support for filtered suites
  * Support for unique context constructor parameters
  * Hooks are first class citizens and thus have their own error and output buffering
  * Turnip syntax in definitions
  * Reworked formatters with improved error and output buffering
  * Rerun does not require precache run
  * New gherkin role filter
  * Improved error handling with 3 levels of error reporting (-v, -vv, -vvv)
  * Dropped subcontexts
  * Dropped chained steps
  * Dropped closured definitions

3.0.0rc3 / 2014-03-16
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  * Multiline step description support ([082da36b7db2525700287616babe982e485330d1](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/commit/082da36b7db2525700287616babe982e485330d1))
  * Added ability to choose all 3 verbosity levels and moved stack traces to the 2nd one ([d550f72d6aa49f0f87a6ce0e50721356a5d04c45](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/commit/d550f72d6aa49f0f87a6ce0e50721356a5d04c45))
  * Renamed Subject to Specification ([#447](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/pull/447))
  * Refactored ContextSnippetGenerator ([#445](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/pull/445))
  * Refactored context arguments handling ([#446](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/pull/446))
  * Refactored testers to use composition over inheritance and added setUp/tearDown phase to them ([#457](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/pull/457))
  * Refactored output formatters to be chain of event listeners
  * Refactored hooks to use [scopes](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/tree/3.0/src/Behat/Behat/Hook/Scope) instead of events
  * Fixed the GroupedSubjectIterator when dealing with an empty iterator ([2c1312780d610f01116ac42fb958c0c09a64c041](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/commit/2c1312780d610f01116ac42fb958c0c09a64c041))
  * Forced the paths.base to use a real path all the time ([b4477d7cf3f9550874c609d4edc5a4f55390672c](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/commit/b4477d7cf3f9550874c609d4edc5a4f55390672c))

3.0.0rc2 / 2014-01-10
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  * Fixed progress formatter hooks support
  * Reintroduced suite hooks (with an additional functionality of name filtering)
  * Behat tells about steps that it couldn't generate snippets for
  * Memory consumption optimizations
  * Fixed contexts inheritance
  * New formatter translations

  * Added constructor arguments and class resolving extension points to context creation routine
  * Simplified and cleaned `Context` package of the Behat
  * Minor public API changes across the board (simplification)
  * Optimized subject finding routine and cleaned extension points (`SubjectLocator`)
  * Both `ExampleTested` and `ScenarioTested` now use same method name - `getScenario()`
  * Added exception accessors to `StepTestResult`
  * Renamed `ExerciseTester` to `Exercise`
  * Added `HookableEvent` to Testwork, which extends `LifecycleEvent`
  * Made `priority` attribute of a tag optional
  * Changed all occurrences of `classname` to `class` across public API
  * Renamed `GherkinSuite` to `GenericSuite` and moved it into the Testwork
  * Added `initialize` call to extension lifecycle and Extension interface
  * Renamed some extensions config keys to be more intuitive

3.0.0rc1 / 2014-01-01
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  * New layered and highly extendable architecture
  * Standard output buffering of definitions and hooks
  * Hooks as first class citizens
  * New pretty and progress formatters
  * Huge speed and memory footprint improvements
  * Moved 40% of non-Behat related codebase into a shared foundation called Testwork

3.0.0beta8 / 2013-10-01
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  * Add `*SnippetsFriendlyInterface`(s) that are now required to generate snippets
  * Add support for turnip-style definitions
  * Use turnip-style definitions by default from `--init`
  * Rename `SuitesLoader` to `SuitesRegistry` to clarify purpose
  * Extract snippet generators into extendable component
  * Extract context generators into extendable component

3.0.0beta7 / 2013-09-29
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  * Multivalue options are now array options (format, output, name and tags)
  * Added back junit formatter (should support all junit formats from 4 to 7)
  * Added back html formatter
  * Small optimizations and refactorings
  * Proper handling of hook failures

3.0.0beta6 / 2013-09-25
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  * Skip step execution and `AfterStep` hook if its `BeforeStep` hook failed
  * Fix failure-initiated skips of hooks in Scenario and Example testers
  * Refactor Suite routines
  * Cleanup Context Pools
  * Enhance `--definitions` option with suites output and regex search
  * Add `toString()` methods to `DefinitionInterface` and `TransformationInterface`
  * Add `SnippetlessContextInterface` to `Snippet` namespace - to prevent snippet generation for
    custom contexts

3.0.0beta5 / 2013-09-15
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  * Switch to Gherkin 3.0 parser
  * Complete rewrite of pretty formatter (much better outline handling)
  * Automatically add `use` for `PendingException` to contexts during `--append-snippets`
  * Lots of optimizations

3.0.0beta4 / 2013-08-17
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  * Cleanup suite configuration sub-system
  * New ability to turn off specific suites through `behat.yml`
  * Support for danish language

3.0.0beta3 / 2013-08-13
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  * Refactor extension sub-system. Update `ExtensionInterface`
  * Avoid trying to create folders for non-fs suites

3.0.0beta2 / 2013-08-13
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  * Remove support for Symfony 2.0 components

3.0.0beta1 / 2013-08-13
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  * New suite-centric architecture
  * New context pools sub-system with multi-context support
  * New dynamic event-driven testing core
  * Refactored console processors sub-system
  * Refactored formatters management sub-system
  * 8 new process extension points and 36 generic execution extension points
  * Gherkin caching is enabled by default
  * Rerun is enabled by default (use `--rerun` to rerun failed scenarios)
  * New Gherkin Role filter
  * Subcontexts removed in favor of context pools
  * Chained steps extracted into [separate extension](https://github.com/Behat/ChainedStepsExtension)
  * Closured step definitions removed

2.5.0 / 2013-08-11
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  * First Behat LTS release
  * Update Junit formatter to reflect latest junit format (thanks @alistairstead)
  * Fix some container options

2.4.6 / 2013-06-06
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  * New --stop-on-failure option
  * Support JSON in environment variables
  * Update Gherkin
  * Support Symfony 2.3
  * Out-of-the-box support for PHPUnit assertions pretty output

2.4.5 / 2013-01-27
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  * Added wrapping of lines in progress formatter
  * Added `--append-to` option to be able to add snippets to custom class
  * Both `ScenarioEvent` and `OutlineExampleEvent` now extend same `BaseScenarioEvent` class
  * Highly improved ability to create simple custom extensions
  * Always hide stack traces for `PendingException`
  * Ensured compatibility with all major symfony versions
  * Fixed configs import directive and loading precedence
  * Fixed path to vendor dir (solves problem of custom vendor dirs)

2.4.4 / 2012-09-12
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  * Fixed `RuntimeException` namespacing error
  * Added `FormatterManager::disableFormatter(s)` method
  * Updated Gherkin parser and fixed couple of helper bugs

2.4.3 / 2012-07-28
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  * Fixed broken `output_path` setting ([issue #169](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/issues/169))
  * Added shellbang to phar executable ([issue #167](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/issues/167))
  * Added feature title to progress exceptions ([issue #166](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/issues/166))
  * Tuned failed formatter to print only failed examples in outline ([issue #154](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/issues/154))
  * Small bugfixes

2.4.2 / 2012-06-26
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  * Fixed broken autoloading with Composer installation

2.4.1 / 2012-06-26
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  * Force custom context class usage if user changed it from `FeatureContext`
  * Clarified `Context class not found` exception
  * Use CWD for CLI options, basepath (config path) for everything else
  * Pass `behat.extension.classes` container param to extensions during their load
  * Tuned `event_subscriber` priorities
  * Use `require_once` instead of `require` in closured loaders
  * Fixed transformers bug with falsy transformations (that return **falsy** values)
  * Fixed custom formatters definition bug
  * Fixed formatter manager exception bug
  * Fixed czech translation
  * Fixed CS to be PSR2 compliant

2.4.0 / 2012-05-15
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  * New extension system based on Symfony2 DIC component
  * Refactored paths reading system (now relative paths are fully supported)
  * Support latest Composer changes
  * Removed static constraint for transformations
  * Updated to latest Gherkin with immutable AST
  * Fixed couple of definition snippet generator bugs
  * Option for HTML formatter to provide step definition links
  * Added fallback locale (in case if provided lang is unsupported yet)
  * Print step snippets in HTML formatter only if they're enabled
  * Escape placeholder brackets in HTML formatter
  * Use different names for examples in JUnit formatter
  * Major core cleanup

2.3.5 / 2012-03-30
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  * Fixed formatter language configuration and locale guesser

2.3.4 / 2012-03-28
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  * Added `StepEvent::getLogicalParent()`. Fixed issue #115

2.3.3 / 2012-03-09
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  * Implemented Gherkin caching support ([--cache](https://github.com/Behat/Behat/commit/753c4f6e392a873a640543306191d92e6dc91099))
  * Line ranges filtering support (`behat features/some.feature:12-19`. Thanks @headrevision)
  * `behat.yml.dist` configs support out of the box
  * Minor bug fixes
  * Updated Gherkin

2.3.2 / 2012-01-29
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  * Fixed bug in `ErrorException`, that caused wrong exceptions on warnings and notices

2.3.1 / 2012-01-26
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  * Updated error handler to avoid suppressed exceptions
  * Autoload bootstrap scripts in their name order
  * Updated Gherkin dependency to v2.0.1

2.3.0 / 2012-01-19
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  * Switch to the Behat\Gherkin 2.0 usage
  * Migration to the single-file translation
  * Support for callables inside steps chains
  * Support for `*.yml` and `*.php` as definition translations
  * Added opposite options to option switchers (`--[no-]colors`, `--[no-]multiline`, etc.)
  * Redesigned `--story-syntax`
  * Refactored Runner
  * Performance improvements
  * Bugfixes

2.2.7 / 2012-01-13
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  * Added ability to search translated definitions with `--definitions`
  * Fixed custom formatters use bug

2.2.6 / 2012-01-09
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  * Fixed pretty and html formatters printing of undefined steps in outlines

2.2.5 / 2012-01-07
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  * `BEHAT_PARAMS` env variable support (083092e)
  * HTML formatter print styles optimization (@davedevelopment)

2.2.4 / 2012-01-04
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  * Prevent method name duplication with definition snippets

2.2.3 / 2012-01-04
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  * Fixed couple of `--append-snippets` bugs

2.2.2 / 2011-12-21
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  * Fixed Composer deps

2.2.1 / 2011-12-21
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  * Fixed Composer package bin

2.2.0 / 2011-12-14
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  * Multiple formats and outputs support
  * New `snippets` formatter
  * New `failed` formatter
  * Updated output of `-d` option
  * Search abilities added to `-d` option
  * New `--dry-run` option
  * New `--append-snippets` option
  * Rerun functionality refactored to use `failed` formatter internally
  * Overall code refactoring and cleaning
  * Polish translation added (Joseph Bielawski)
  * Spanish translation updated (Andrés Botero)
  * Locale autodetect

2.1.3 / 2011-11-04
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  * Substep translations support
  * Correctly print undefined substeps in pretty printer
  * @Transform callback now gets all provided matches
  * Always set proper encoding (UTF8)

2.1.2 / 2011-10-12
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  * Fixed filtered feature hooks
  * Fixed JUnit formatter time output in some locales

2.1.1 / 2011-10-09
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  * Fixed multiline titles printing bug
  * Fixed outline parameter inside step argument printing bug

2.1.0 / 2011-09-12
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  * Totally revamped HTML formatter template
  * Added transliteration support to definition snippets (for most langs)
  * Written missed features and fixed some bugs
  * Stabilization fixes for 3 major OS: MacOS/Ubuntu/Windows

2.0.5 / 2011-08-07
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  * Cleaned ContextDispatcher extension points
  * Cleaned context-parameters passing behavior

2.0.4 / 2011-08-02
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  * Subcontexts aliasing and retrieving
  * Multiple steps chaining
  * `--snippets-paths` option to show steps alongside the snippets
  * getContextParameters() method in SuiteEvent and FeatureEvent
  * Updated to Symfony2 stable components
  * Spanish translation
  * Dutch translation

2.0.3 / 2011-07-20
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  * Fixed JUnit formatter CDATA output

2.0.2 / 2011-07-17
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  * Added extra checks to context instance mapper
  * Fixed i18n support in definitions printer
  * Refactored Gherkin tags inheritance

2.0.1 / 2011-07-12
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  * Exception prefix added to statuses. Now you should throw `PendingException` instead of just
    `Pending`

2.0.0 / 2011-07-12
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  * Brand new Context-oriented architecture
  * Refactored --definitions (--steps) to print more useful info
  * Rafactored --story-syntax (--usage) to print more useful info
  * Refactored Command to use separate processors
  * Added --no-paths option
  * Added --no-snippets option
  * Added --expand option to expand outlines
  * phar package
  * Faster autoloader
  * Steps chaining added
  * Added BEHAT_ERROR_REPORTING constant to change error_repoting level
  * Fixed some Gherkin bugs
  * Fixed lots of bugs in Behat itself

1.1.9 / 2011-06-17
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  * Updated to the latest Symfony components

1.1.8 / 2011-06-09
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  * Fixed empty match printing in Pretty and HTML formatters
  * Updated to latest Symfony components

1.1.7 / 2011-06-03
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  * Fixed steps colorization bug in outline
  * Additional checks in config import routine

1.1.6 / 2011-05-27
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  * Updated Symfony vendors
  * Refactored console formatters

1.1.5 / 2011-05-17
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  * Fixed CWD path finding
  * Fixed HTML formatter (thanks @glenjamin)

1.1.4 / 2011-05-03
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  * Fixed `--out` option usage critical bug
  * Added ability to specify `output_path` from config file

1.1.3 / 2011-04-28
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  * JUnit formatter fix
  * Formatters basePath fix. Now formatters uses CWD as path trimmer
  * Relative paths locator bug fix
  * Show table argument header in HTML formatter

1.1.2 / 2011-04-27
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  * Fixed custom features path locator bug(issue #020)

1.1.1 / 2011-04-21
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  * Fixed paths finding routines
  * Totally refactored BehatCommand
  * Added rerun functionality (`--rerun`)
  * Ability to remove previously specified paths in `behat.yml`
  * Bugfixes and little tweaks

1.1.0 / 2011-04-04
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  * New configuration system with profiles and imports support
  * New event system
  * Environment parameters support
  * Named regex arguments support
  * Japanese translation for formatters
  * JUnit formatter bugfixes
  * HTML and Pretty formatters multiple arguments print bugfix
  * Step snippets (proposals) bugfixes
  * Updated vendor libraries

1.0.0 / 2011-03-08
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  * Changed XSD
  * Updated vendors

1.0.0RC6 / 2011-03-03
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  * Cleaned command options
  * Added --init option
  * Multiple paths support in behat.yml
  * Application options refactoring

1.0.0RC5 / 2011-02-25
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  * Windows support
  * Bundled features hooks optimizations

1.0.0RC4 / 2011-02-23
=====================

  * Pretty formatter tag printing fix
  * Custom formatter specification fix in `behat.yml`
  * Symfony components updated
  * Extension configuration manager (Symfony\Component\Config component)
  * Cleaning of `behat.yml` configurator (thanks to Symfony\Component\Config)
  * Additional formatter parameters support in `behat.yml`

1.0.0RC3 / 2011-02-18
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  * Event dispatcher binding optimizations
  * Command API optimizations for easier overloading
  * Formatter path trimming bugfix
  * BehatExtension config merging support

1.0.0RC2 / 2011-02-15
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  * Step printing option bugfix

1.0.0RC1 / 2011-02-15
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  * Gherkin DSL parser is standalone project
  * Own Behat namespace for both Behat & Gherkin
  * Fully rewritten formatters (much cleaner & beautifull API)
  * Big refactoring of whole Behat code (clean code DRYing)
  * Config file is now handled by standart-driven DIC extension (cleaner `behat.yml`)
  * API documentation retouched
  * New `--strict` option
  * New `--no-multiline` option
  * Feature examples in your language with `--usage`
  * Available definitions listing with `--steps`
  * Definition i18n
  * Command refactoring (much cleaner API & actions)
  * Event system refactoring
  * 42 new languages with new Gherkin DSL parser

0.3.6 / 2010-12-07
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  * [Behat,Gherkin] Fixed French support includes (fr)

0.3.6 / 2010-12-06
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  * [Behat] Updated Symfony2 Components to latest PR4
  * [Gherkin] Added French support (fr)
  * [Gherkin] Added German support (de)
  * [Behat] Small bugfixes

0.3.5 / 2010-11-19
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  * [Behat] Refactored EnvironmentBuilder to allow Environment service definition overload

0.3.4 / 2010-11-18
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  * [Behat] Introduced environment builder
  * [Gherkin,Behat] id locale support

0.3.3 / 2010-11-07
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  * [Gherkin] Added ability to create Table & PyString nodes with hands (in your step to step calls for example)
  * [Gherkin] Added getRowsHash() method to TableNode, so now you can "rotate" given tables
  * [Gherkin] You now can add comments before language specification in your feature files

0.3.2 / 2010-11-06
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  * [Gherkin] Added ability to specify extended langs (en-US)
  * [Behat,Gherkin] Added pt-BR translation

0.3.1 / 2010-11-02
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  * [Behat] JUnit formatter
  * [Behat] Pretty & HTML formatter background hooks fix
  * [Behat] Other small fixes

0.3.0 / 2010-11-02
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  * [Behat] Refactored tags filter
  * [Behat] Added name filter
  * [Behat] Refactored hooks
  * [Behat] Added tagged/named hooks
  * [Behat] Customizable HTML formatter with w3c valid default markup
  * [Behat] Ability to specify out path for formatters
  * [Behat] Bunch of new options
  * [Behat] DIC optimisations

0.2.5 / 2010-10-22
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  * [Behat] Format manager introduced
  * [Behat] Formatters refactoring
  * [Behat] Optmized container parameters to support EverzetBehatBundle
  * [Behat] --no-color => --no-colors

0.2.4 / 2010-10-19
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  * [Behat] Autoguess of colors support
  * [Behat] Formatter setup bugfix (properl casing)

0.2.3 / 2010-10-19
==================

  * [Behat] Filters optimisations
  * [Behat] Changed Core Loaders with topic-specific (`StepDefinition\Loader\PHPLoader`,
    `Features\Loader\GherkinLoader`)
  * [Behat] Simplified TestCommand in prepare of Symfony2 BehatBundle
  * [Behat] Configuration file/path setting update (you can now create `behat.yml` inside `./config/behat.yml` & Behat
    will load it
  * [Behat] Updated Redundant & Ambiguous exceptions behavior

0.2.2 / 2010-10-10
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  * [Behat] Configuration file/path setting update

0.2.1 / 2010-10-10
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  * [PEAR] Fix path to phpbin on installation

0.2.0 / 2010-10-08
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  * [Behat] Brand new stateless testers, based on Visitor pattern
  * [Behat] Refactored event listeners & event names
  * [Behat] Refactored formatters to confirm with new stateless testers (statuses now sent as event parameters)
  * [Behat] Refactored ConsoleFormatter (and removed base formatter)
  * [Behat] Removed custom I18n classes & refactored Translator routines in flavor of Symfony\Component\Translation
  * [Behat] Added missed translation strings into XLIFF files
  * [Behat] Optimised multiline arguments (Node instances are sent to definitions instead of their plain representations)
  * [Behat] Support for Scenario Outline tokens replace in multiline arguments (tables & pystrings)
  * [Behat] Step arguments transformations (including table transformations)
  * [Behat] Colorize inline step arguments
  * [Behat] Optimized exit statuses of CLI
  * [Behat] Added ability to turn-off colors
  * [Behat] Added ability to translate formatters output with `--i18n` option
  * [Behat] Bunch of new core feature tests
  * [Gherkin] Parser now uses Symfony Dependency Injection to
  * [Gherkin] Refactored parser to be like AST (Nodes that supports Visitor pattern)
  * [Gherkin] Comments support
  * [Gherkin] Fixed PHPUnit warnings
  * [Behat,Gherkin] PEAR release script to support http://pear.everzet.com release model
  * [Behat,Gherkin] DIC naming refactoring
  * [Behat,Gherkin] Autoloader refactoring
  * [Behat,Gherkin] Removed Zend & Goutte depencies

0.1.5 / 2010-09-25
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  * Added ability to call other steps inside step definition
  * Added profiles
  * Refactored container creation routine
  * Single quotes support in step definitions
  * Added tests for hooks, profiles, inline steps

0.1.4 / 2010-09-16
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  * Refactored code
  * Removed logic from object constructors
  * Added Loader & Filter interfaces

0.1.3 / 2010-09-14
==================

  * Ability to specify arrays of paths/files for loaders
  * Event hooks and support for `support/hooks.php`
  * Formatters listens events with smallest priority
  * Don't try to load steps if `steps` folder doesn't exists
  * Bugfixes/refactoring

0.1.2 / 2010-09-10
==================

  * Added ability to read from `behat.yml` and `behat.xml`
  * Moved tags filter to separate object
  * Refactored injection controller
  * Optimized event names in event dispatcher
  * Other small fixes/refactorings

0.1.1 / 2010-09-09
==================

  * Added `--tags` option
  * Changed environment (world) routines
  * Added lots of core tests (writed in Behat itself)

0.1.0 / 2010-09-08
==================

  * Initial release

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Ted and Lorita Montgomery are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary this weekend in Santa Fe with their children and grandchildren.
Their actual anniversary was on April 9, 1966, but they are having a delayed vacation and celebration in order to get the family together.Ted and Lorita have lived south of Canyon for 41 years. Ted taught meat science at West Texas A&M University. He established the WTAMU Beef Carcass Research Center in 1991. He is now retired as a Professor Emeritus.
Lorita has worked as a mother, artist and was the ISS teacher at Canyon High School for 17 years.
The couple have three children and seven grandchildren. The children are Chandra Mathis, Tanya Montgomery and Mike Montgomery, who lives in Canyon.


Get to Know This Season's Hottest New Pasta ShapeCaramelle is obscure, playful, and a sudden favorite of New York's cutting-edge Italian chefs.
How Chefs Are Celebrating Culinary Connections Between Italy and East AsiaAround the country, a new kind of fusion cuisine has emerged that combines the flavors of Italy, China, and Japan.
8 Dining Trends We're Tired OfTicketed restaurant reservations, absurdist cocktail names, chef-backstory narratives, and more.
RIP, Matcha, the Ancient Delicacy That America Has RuinedIt's now inside beer, babka, chicken liver, and beauty products.
Can Fish Supplies Keep Up With Poke's Growing Popularity?The resource-intensive dish is poised to become a major trend — and that could be problematic for the top-of-the-line fish often used to make it.
Clearly Canadian's Triumphant Comeback Hits a Snag, and Fans Are UpsetThe first shipments finally went out this month, but tens of thousands of orders have remained unfulfilled.
The New Black: How Charcoal Became the Latest Hot IngredientA staple of the medical and beauty worlds is creeping on to the trendiest menus in town.
Prepare Yourself for Crystal Pepsi's ComebackIt's a full-on '90s-soda revival.
Has America Run Out of Foods to Turn Into Straws?Experts in the field think so.
How Clearly Canadian's Surprising Comeback Actually HappenedThe transparent soft-drink will launch a second round of crowdfunding before hitting store shelves next year.
Original NY Seltzer and Clearly Canadian ReturnCan a Crystal Pepsi revamp be far behind?
How the Bone Broth Debate Boiled Over So SuddenlyIs it really the next great health food, or merely some marketing sleight of hand designed to sell a simple ingredient for a few dollars more?
Scrapple Is Having a Serious Moment Right NowAll killer, lots of filler.
Blazing a Lumpia Trail: Filipino Cuisine Finds a Foothold in New YorkIt seems New Yorkers are finally ready for this food, which has long languished in the shadow of Thai, Indian, Chinese, and other Asian standbys.
Gag Order: What It's Like to Eat a Totally Silent Dinner at a RestaurantA look at the latest dining fad.
Alternative-Flour Power: Gluten-Free Food Enters the Fine-Dining MainstreamIt might be a made-up health craze, but that's not preventing chefs from making gluten-free food that's actually pretty good.
BLD's Mariah Swan Shares A Recipe For Southern BiscuitsThe pastry chef recreates White Lily flour for a true taste of The South.
7 Swell New Spring Cocktails From S.F.'s Better BarsWe tour the bar scene and offer some recommendations.
Femivores vs. Feminists: Let the Debate BeginA new book argues that the current food movement is triggering a kind of backslide in the way women assume responsibility for the kitchen and home.
The Latest Trend in Cocktails: Kale and Spinach?Also avocado, and arugula.
Five Hip-Hop Lines That Made Moscato HugeMoscato drinking appears to be driving growth in domestic wine sales overall, and we trace its rise to popularity via hip-hop lyrics.
Tired of Ten-Minute Cocktails? There Are Plenty of Quick But Cool Options NowAnd praise be, we've waited long enough.
Truffles and Caviar Quite Prevalent on Local High-End MenusSee, it's a word cloud.
Fact: San Franciscans Have Many, Many Dietary Special NeedsThe Bold Italic explores them. All of them.
Our Celebrated Kid Chefs Just Keep Getting YoungerNow there's an eleven year-old food blogger making a splash in the headlines.
Soda Consumption Lowest It's Been in Two Decades; Companies Respond byPer capita soda consumption in the U.S. is now down to 1987 levels.
Chiarello to Serve Passed Apps at Coqueta, in a Dim-Sum StyleSound familiar?
The 17 Craziest Foods Found at Natural Products Expo West 2013Will White Girl Salsa, pre-natal Gatorade, and bee-less honey become the trends of the future?
Bordeaux Is So Out It's Back In AgainNo one ever thought it was possible, but the Bordelais are now begging for attention from the wine cognoscenti.
Sausage and Beer Are Trending in Oakland With Telegraph and Hog'sAfter Rosamunde, the deluge.
Vegan Food Gets Real: Tal Ronnen Adding Crossroads To The Growing Scene OfHis new venture comes on the heels of other chef-driven, plant-based concepts opening that also serve cocktails.
Bauer Is Not On Board With the No-Reservations Generation, But He May Need to BeThe trend toward wait lists at smaller, popular restaurants may not please the Bauers of the world, but it hardly matters if the crowds are already there.
Breaking: Apparently Speakeasy-Style Bars Are Having a MomentNo doubt the city's craft cocktail movement still has legs to stagger on, but this whole speakeasy schtick is yesterday's news.
The Southland Scrambles to Make Room For Your Backyard ChickensSeveral cities are overturning bans on domesticated poultry.
Cocktails on Tap Drafted By Eveleigh and The ChurchillThe trend is just now making its way to L.A. from New York and Chicago and saves drinkers the fussy prep act.
Where to Get Batched Cocktails on TapThere are now two at Jasper's, and one at Grand Cafe, with likely more on the way.
Now There's Mexican FernetIt's called Fernet-Vallet, and they use it like bitters around Mexico City.
Kale Chips, New-School Sodas Both Huge at Fancy Food ShowThis year in snack and fancy beverage trends.
Orange Wine Already Over, Say Two Wine WritersBefore the majority of wine drinkers have even heard of orange wine, two wine writers are already tired of the wine world fad.
The Latest Trend in Los Angeles Dining: Child ChefsFirst a fourteen-year-old doing a pop-up, and now a twelve-year-old.
Now a Twelve Year-Old is Going to Cook You DinnerWe're getting dangerously close to someone sticking a wooden spoon in their infant's hand and calling it a pop-up.
Yet Another Crawfish Place Headed For the RichmondThere are now at least five of these Vietnamese-by-way-of-Louisiana places around town.
Ten Ways Dining in S.F. Changed in 2012Our year-end round up of notable food trends, and the like.


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Devimco Immobilier, the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ and Fiera Properties have partnered to develop the largest mixed-use real estate project in Montreal's Quartier des spectacles. The $700-million project, MAESTRIA, is set to rise on the former site of Le Spectrum de Montreal.
MAESTRIA will be comprised of two towers, rising 51 and 53 storeys, and will have access points on Jeanne-Mance, De Bleury and Sainte-Catherine streets. Marketing of the approximately 1,000 condo suites and 500 rental units, ranging from 300 to 2,500 square feet, will begin in February 2019, with construction scheduled to begin by the end of next year.
MAESTRIA's other amenities include 512 interior parking spaces, green spaces developed to promote urban biodiversity, a semi-Olympic indoor pool with swimming lanes, an outdoor pool with spa, a full Scandinavian thermal pool and spa circuit, a 4,800-square-foot fitness room, a virtual golf room, a games room for children, a library and business centre, a movie theatre, multipurpose room and games room, music rehearsal studios and creative studios. The development will also feature a 51,000-square-foot mini-plaza with retail space, featuring restaurants, cafes and shops, and two sky lounges with terraces and a SkyBox, which will overlook the entire Esplanade des Festivals/Place des Arts complex and connect the two towers.
Along with the project, Devimco Immobilier, the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ and Fiera Properties also plan to contribute to the community, but according to Goulet, discussions are underway to determine how to best use the space, for example, as recording studios or arts and culture presentation venues. In addition, the partners made donations totalling $100,000 to promote children's welfare.
Proposed changes to the Ontario Building Code will create opportunity for more energy efficient building products, such as triple-glazed windows.


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Personnes
 Théophile Moreux, dit l'abbé Moreux (1867-1954), astronome et météorologue français
 Jean-Charles Moreux (1889-1956), architecte français
 Colette Moreux (1928-2003), sociologue franco-canadienne

Astronomie
 (14914) Moreux, astéroïde nommé en hommage à Théophile Moreux
 Moreux, cratère météoritique martien nommé en hommage à Théophile Moreux

Voir aussi
 René Moreu

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text:
class Node
  attr_reader :name, :type, :connections, :required, :provided
  def initialize name, type
    @name=name
    @type=type
    @activated = false
    @connections = []
    @required = []
    @provided = []
  end

  def activated?
    @activated
  end

  def activate
    unless @activated
      @activated = true
      @connections.map(&:activate)
    end
  end

  def add(*connections)
    connections.each do |conn|
      @connections << conn
    end
  end
  alias :<< :add

  def require property
    if property.respond_to? :each
      @required = @required + property
    else
      @required << property
    end
  end

  def connect property
    @provided << property
    activate if (@required-@provided).empty?
  end

  def to_s
    "Node '#{@name}' active: #{@activated.to_s}"
  end

end


It's official: I'm now a sophomore in college!
As you read this, I am moving into my new dorm room and bracing myself for my first semester of sophomore year to begin. Currently I'm an English major (and potential Hispanic Studies double major) at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
The thought of starting a new year and semester of college is both incredibly exciting at a bit nerve-racking. Leaving freshman year behind means that I will have more independence, opportunities, and responsibilities than ever before. It's all a little daunting, to say the least!
Nevertheless, I'm ecstatic to be able to see my college friends again and get back into a routine of classes, clubs, and countless campus events. I love steady routines and schedules, so this aspect of college is actually really comforting to me.
I'm definitely the most nervous about the physics class because science isn't really my forte. However, I'm looking forward to the Spanish literature class because we'll be reading several interesting novels over the course of the semester. Hopefully everything goes well!
It's so strange to think that this new school year is finally here. my first year of college certainly had its ups and downs, but all in all I couldn't have asked for a better freshman year at Wheaton. I can't wait to see what exciting adventures this year will bring!
Ahhh, congratulations on starting sophomore year! I'm technically considered to be a junior now, based on credits, but it's still only my second year in college too and I'm looking forward to making this year an even better one than last year! Freshman year was sort of trial and error, you know? I have BIG PLANS for this year.
haha I feel the same way! It feels strange to not be a freshman, but it's also a huge relief. I actually have an inkling about what I'm doing now! 🙂 Hope you have an awesome year!!
Congratulations and good luck! I miss college.
Hope you do well in your sophomore year of college. Good luck!
That's so nice! I wish I didn't have to take all of these extra classes, especially the science and math ones. Commuting by train sounds like a hassle, though. But it does solve the homesickness problem that I have sometimes.
Cingrats! Your new subjects sound very interesting.
Thank you! I'm really looking forward to my classes, especially my Spanish one. Fingers crossed that I enjoy them all!
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That's so cool! There are so many things that I didn't know before coming to school last year haha 🙂 Thanks!


Martha, my grandmother on my father's side.
This woman has seen 90 birthdays. Well, 91 birthdays if you count the actual day of birth, which she does. Up until today she would always say "I'm in my 90th year of life" – as if she was fooling us into forgetting that she was 89. I suppose today she'll tell me it's her 91st year. She would be correct.
Mom asked me to go to Mardels before joining the whole family for cake at the hospice. She wants me to pick up some sort of stuffed animal for her. It's the very least I could do. I wish I could do more.
You know who does it all? My dad.
So we're meeting the whole Blackmore clan at 4:30 for cake and celebrations! 90 years! Holy smokes!


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Q: How do I change a CSS property with a . in its name? In a website I am trying to make a theme for, they have a CSS name ul.menu li ul and I want to change the border-top property of it. I know how to do it with simple CSS names like mycssname but how do I do this with a dot in JavaScript?
I have tried these:
document.getElementsByClassName("ul.menu li ul")[0].style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"

document.getElementsByClassName("ul.menu li ul")[0].style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"

document.getElementsByClassName("ul")["menu li ul"].style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"

Here's the HTML:

When I inspect it, it shows the modifiable value of ul.menu li u in the CSS inspector.
But all of them give an Error of a Undefined.

A: You cannot use CSS selector with getElementsByClassName(),  you must define a class name for it.
so, you can do:
document.querySelector("ul.menu li ul").style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"
Or,
document.querySelectorAll("ul.menu li ul")[0].style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"

A: You can put the selector as a parameter of querySelector() method:
document.querySelector('ul.menu li ul').style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff";

I see that more than one element in your site matches that selector, so you will have to set the styles to all such elements:
document.querySelectorAll('ul.menu li ul').forEach(e=>e.style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff");

A: I think you should try adding class property to element instead of using hierarchy.

 Hello world

document.getElementsByClassName("app").style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff"

A: You can do the following
    const elements = document.getElementsByClassName("ddm");
    elements[0].style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff";

A: Read docs for document.getElementsByClassName() :

The getElementsByClassName method of Document interface returns an
array-like object of all child elements which have all of the given
class name(s).

Keep in mind CSS selectors read right-to-left, your selector is expecting something like this structure:

</ul

There is no element with those classes. More precisely li and ul are not even classes but HTML tag names.
Using either querySelector or querySelectorAll will be more appropriate based on whether you want only first matching element or all the matching elements. Both of these methods accept css selector.

A: As mentioned by others, the following does in fact work.
document.querySelector('ul.menu li ul').style.borderTop = "5px solid #fff";

However, the site in reference (https://v3rmillion.net) has two elements matching that selector. They are only visible on hover. (Home & Misc)
Therefore, we need to alter the code to update all elements matching the selector:
let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('ul.menu li ul')].forEach(el => {
     el.style.borderTop = '5px solid #fff';
})

Alternatively, if you just want to update the second element:
document.querySelectorAll('ul.menu li ul')[1].style.borderTop = '5px solid #fff';

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