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SAMINA is the first highlight of this EXTRA WOOL!
He will work in the historic city center (Rua das Portas do Sol No. 87) and there he will leave his unique brand, a work that looks for different and exciting ways to express his vision of space and that constantly challenges the technique of stencil, resulting in complex and exciting works, which also reflect the conflict between the rigid geometry and natural way of being human.
A work that beacon from its roots in architecture, his interest in graphic design and years of constant search for something new on the streets of Lisbon.
Since 2010, he has collaborated with countless artists in several outstanding projects that took place in countries like Spain, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Turkey and India.
PT | SAMINA é o primeiro dos destaques deste EXTRA WOOL!
Ele irá trabalhar bem no centro histórico da cidade (Rua das Portas do Sol nº 87) e por lá deixará a sua marca única, um trabalho que procura diferentes e empolgantes formas de expressar a sua visão de espaço e que permanentemente desafia a técnica do stencil, resultando em obras complexas e emocionantes, que reflectem igualmente o conflito entre a geometria rígida e a forma natural do ser humano.
Um trabalho que se baliza entre as suas raízes na Arquitectura, o seu interesse pelo Design Gráfico e os anos de constante procura de algo novo pelas ruas de Lisboa.
Desde 2010, colaborou com inúmeros artistas em vários projectos de destaque que decorreram em países com Espanha, França, Países Baixos, Brasil, Turquia e Índia.
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A random idea of alternate rule I had while I commuted would be, for magic action, to allow the opposing army, if any, to do a counter-missile. It's like the counter-melee in melee.
Lore-wise, it can be rationalized as magician having to expose themselves to do their rituals. Given the few description in the rulebook and the fact that ranged can attack an adjacent terrain, it don't seem completely stupid. Also, it reinforce the anti-magic thematic of the frostwing, since in addition to their racial they are good at missile.
Gameplay-wise, it will transform archer as mage killer in addition to their current power, which in a game where mage are considered a little bit powerful and missile a little bit weak does not seem too much of a stretch. Also, heavy infantry with some missile, like the elven ones, will be able to use their missile faces a bit more easily, since in effect it would be a passive effect against magic.
Since Dragonkin exist, it mean that they will be a strategic choice between taking additional defenser for your mage and having your mage casting immediatly useful spell, or wasting one or more turn to have enough dragonkin to soak counter volley.
The three races which gain the most from the change are Frostwing, because they are good at archery, Amazon, for the same reason, and Scalder, because they have autosave against missile and consequently will have mage better protected against retaliation. None of the three seem particulary overpowered at the moment. Also, the value of Volley would go up, which I like since it's not particulary desireable at the moment.
On the other end of the stick, mages with weak or no save will be the most weakened. Firewalker are the most impacted, since none of their mage have any save or way to get some. They can still summon dragonkin to help soak damage, or use spell like Dust devil or Dancing light, and their mage are very good, but the race as a whole isn't noticeably strong. Other races may also be hit harder than average ; for example, undead, while having resilient mages, do really need their magic.
A refinement of the idea would be to forbad ID icon from counting in this counter-missile, to force people to use actual archer for that. I don't know if it's necessary, while it's a bit strange.
I think the idea is a bit too game-changing and seem to shift power level too much to propose for 3.0 rules, but it may create fun games.
What do you think ? Do you think it's simple enough ? What would you fear it would cause ?
I can't say I'm in favor of this idea. Easy counter-measure: put an open grave down and use the save roll as a free chance for more cantrips.
And what about multiplayer games where you could have two or more opposing armies? Does everyone get a shot at you or ???
Well, on average you need 27 points of mage to recoup the cost of the open grave. With 18 points, all of 3-health mage with a 4 face cantrip, the trick will cost you 2 points, or the full 6 if your opponent decide simply not to fire. This is not too problematic for me ; the goal is not to make sure that mage will never be able to cast a spell ever.
The slightly more problematic thing would be casting open grave, hoping to have as much unit as possible killed, and redeploying them to another terrain. It seem too unreliable to work however.
Also it show that Open Grave does not scale and is more powerful at 60hp game than at 36hp game. Not unlike Frost Breath or Dancing light for that matter.
Good point, and I didn't think about it.
Even on a 4-player I am not sure that your mage will often see two army big enough to make real damage to it at the same time, and if it's the case maybe you can just flee to somewhere else.
But ignoring balance problem does not solve another issue, which is that it will take too much time, since unlike maneuver it must be sequential. I don't have any definitive and good solution to avoid that for now.
My best solution would be that the biggest army only can retaliate, with the current player deciding in case of tie, which is better but not perfect since assessing the bigger army can be a chore too.


The genealogy of evidence is important and there are many important ideas about how we could track it, especially with advances in technology; However, this page is not about that propagation of certainty, but rather the shabby proxy, citations in actually-existing academic publishing.
In particular, here I answer for myself: How can I get my journal-ready citations in the outmoded format required by my journals with the most modern possible convenience? Fast-forwarding citations themselves all the way into the state of the 1940s art must fall accomplished by someone else with time.
After trying too many things at great cost of time, I use Zotero. This option is open source, powerful and hackable. It could be more user-friendly; but then the competitors set the bar so low that this is hardly a criticism. Slightly more user-friendly but less hackable is Mendeley, a closed-source reference manager that I will not judge you for using. Since I have no patience for things that cannot be automated, Zotero is an easy winner for me; you may wish to try both.
All other options that I have tried are abysmal and I can say nothing but I told you so if you try them and they give you grief.
"What kind of grief?" you ask.
Zotero has, as presaged, an API with which you can both read and write data.
It has an active community around it, and I don't feel that I am locking my data away forever if I rely upon it. (Of course, you can always try to migrate data around from anything to anything with BibTeX or one fo the XML formats etc, but if you have URLs in there, or consort with foreigners who dare to have diacritics in their names, this usually leads to trouble). I can use the API to make changes that I couldn't make manually, without worrying about that parsing nonsense. Moreover some other apps, such as Mendeley, already use the Zotero API, so you know that it's not going to be a community of one playing with it.
Integrate with your existing folder of PDFs?
Richard Zach points out > … you keep your PDF directory synced across computers (e.g., if it lives in your Dropbox), > linking the PDFs is just as good. If you add a PDF, > Zotero will look up the metadata for you and add a reference to your database.
For exporting references from Zotero to my plain text blog, I wrote a CSL file which renders my citations and bibliographies as Markdown and RestructuredText, which is good enough for the internet. This is a hack that works, but it could be better if you want to keep your citation keys consistent across internet and web pages.
You could write a custom exporter for Zotero without too much pain. But this is asking for pain. Nontheless, here are overview docs, detail docs, and all the code. Moreover, here is a simple example which deals with the sensitive citekey issue (albeit with an outdated version of the citekey system) Here is a soothing walk-through of the process.
or you you use zotfile to synchronise a folder full of attachments to your tablet. That's what I do. It's not perfect, but it's easy and robust.
Caleb McDaniel talks through the process of getting citation into near anything using pandoc; I have lots of links like this because, whilst it works, I can't believe how painful it is, but I hope it will seem less painful if I read a lot about it. The wisdom of the ancients etc.
You will need to set up Preferences>export>Default format to be Better Bibtex citation key quick copy and set Better Bibtex to copy pandoc style.
See also the markdown/pandoc page for more on this.
I no longer recommend this. For all the laudable design goals and extensibility of ReST, it's not where the community is. They are all using markdown.
Standard ReST citations are supported, with the additional feature that they are "global", i.e. all citations can be referenced from all files.
For your comfort and convenience these citations will be rendered as born-obsolete fugly 1995-esque hard-coded HTML tables that no-one in the entire internet has managed to whip into anything other than an eyesore in a decade of vain struggle.
sphinxcontrib-bibtex provides citation management for sphinx.
tl;dr. There are many over-engineered solutions. The CSL file one is the simplest I've found, and it should additionally work for anything which supports CSL, not only Zotero. This includes Mendeley at the least, and possibly Papers. Others?
Anyway, if you want a more fragile but fancier solution, there are other options below.
Render using a CSL style file.
CSL is a citation rendering mini-language used by modern journals and software to express house style. And you can use it too.
This is a slightly weird way to get plain-text citations out, since it's designed for rich formatting etc, but it is robust ad simple. There is a CSL editor online so this is easy-ish.
Here is my docutils/ReST style file, restructuredtext.csl, which renders citations as plain text with ReST markup, including anchor links.
It's ugly, because it has to battle with a grumpy rich-text XML infrastructure to render plain text, but it gets the job done without any coding, and is robust against software changes.
Similarly, here is my Markdown style file, markdown.csl, which, likewise, renders citations as plain text with Markdown markup, including anchor links.
CSL has a citation-label variable, but it doesn't correspond to the bibtex keys generated by BBT, which is unsatisfactory.
Better bibtex makes all the BibTex stuff in Zotero much smoother, and since bibtex also integrates with markdown via pandoc, this is a double win.
Here are some citation key format strings for bibtex.
I don't bother; BetterBibtex works fine for my needs.
They are rendered in the output by an in-built pandoc filter, which is installed separately.
Erik Hetzner's zotxt can avoid the need to create bibfiles, rendering bibliographies directly by querying the zotero app, rather than manually rendering an intermediate file. Note that Better BibTex also does this, and even more flexibly, and so may wish to use it.
None of that faffing about is useful if you are working with academics, who don't regard words on the internet as a real thing. Your words must be behind a paywall where no-one can read them to count as significant. Moreover, they must have been rendered harder to analyse by running them through LaTeX, and obfuscating them into a PDF, which probably also entails using BibTeX to do the citation stuff.
If you are starting from Zotero, you can use Better BibTeX to make this less painful.
To manage annoying BibTeX problems from BibTeX files themselves algorithmically I use bibtool.
BibTeX is ancient and has accreted deep strata of fossilised rules, but it does work if you move very carefully and don't touch anything. Imitate your predecessors and the gods will reward you.
a.k.a. biber, because it is broken into a couple of distinct packages. It looks similar to BibTeX but is better in various ways, except in that it is not supported by many moribund journals/conferences who think these foreigners will despair of their disconcerting languages.
As such, it is a low key upgrade from the winding steeplechase of character set errors that is BibTeX. It can handle non-english names and URLs, bringing it up to speed with 1999. You often need to use bib styles made by passionate bibliography rendering fans, e.g. here is an IEEE-like one.
Jabref, bibdesk, biblatex vs bibtex vs biber, character set sadness.
There have been various other options such as Papers (meh) and Sente (defunct due to being crappy) and (sigh) Endnote. I won't link or refer to those further here, for the reason that I've already lost too much data that way, and I don't intend to lose more. Since all citation software is, basically, awful, it is even more important that whichever application you choose, it is one that you can get your data out of it when you find a less awful option. But the one that is best at letting you keep all your citations even if you ditch it, is Zotero. Also it's probably the least awful.
Still, if you're unswayably dedicated to trying other things for yourself, here is my advice: For any closed-source software my advice is the same – Try and see how well you can get data in and out, en masse, because that's what you'll have to do if the company goes bankrupt or gets bought by Google and shut down, or by Yahoo and accidentally set on fire, or by Facebook and you are only allowed to use it if you click on ads promoting sports shoes for 18 minutes out of every hour.
If you mostly care about LaTeX (which decision is constrained by the lowest common denominator amongst your collaborators, and probably not available to promiscuous authors) you might be able to survive on Bibdesk or jabref or just editing a plain Bib(La)TeX file, but I for one could not bear to give up the browser integration of Zotero, which has saved innumerable hours of painstaking pointless typing.
See also text editors, academic writing workflow.
TODO: apologise for accidentally complaining at length despite my stated aim of keeping it short.


These days, I seldom make it to a store to try on clothing. I mean, if I brought my almost three-year-old shopping with me, I'd probably end up running out of the dressing room naked to try to catch the little escape artist. So, that means, if I need a new shirt, I shop online.
The last time I purchased a shirt, it was from a brand that sold one size fits all items. That's really funny to me because, everyone knows that's not possible, unless you're a character in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants".
However, I really wanted this shirt so I went for it. A few weeks later, when it showed up at my doorstep, I was happy that the shirt did fit me. Still, it was a little tight for my liking and emphasized my muffin top a wee bit too much.
The idea of 'one size fits all' is silly. There isn't one shirt out there that will fit everyone in the world, at least not how we want it to fit.
And then I stop myself because what I'm saying…...it's ridiculous.
After all, there isn't a "one size fits all" manual for each child.
We can't always use the same discipline method for each child. What works for one may not work for another.
We can't make our kids fit into a specified learning style. One may be a tactile learner while another may be a visual one.
And, we can't stuff them into football jerseys and assume they will become football players.
Most importantly, we can't assign a checklist to our children, a list of personality characteristics and achievements, that they should possess or meet.
If we did these things, we would strip them of the characteristics that makes them unique.
When I catch myself questioning why my kids do this or that, I will remind myself of a poster I saw that said "No Two Flowers Bloom in Exactly The Same Way" because children grow, develop, and love in all different ways. Indeed, nature can be cruel but it also teaches us plenty of life lessons.
In order to help children bloom, we must be willing to adjust our discipline methods and the way we teach.
We need to support their choices (even though sometimes we have to say no).
But most of all we can love and encourage them, because, like the sunshine and water that flowers need to grow, these methods will help our children develop and thrive, in their own way.
As for now, I'm think I'm done with shopping for clothing that only has one size….it's just not natural.


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Paper $10.00 ISBN: 9780708326725 Published November 2013 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Amy Dillwyn
David Painting
120 pages | 17 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 1987
E-book $30.00 ISBN: 9780708326794 Will Publish October 2019 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Born into one of Swansea's most distinguished families, Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935) was a Welsh novelist who tackled complex class issues in her works. Following the deaths of her brother in 1890 and her father in 1892, Dillwyn inherited her father's bankrupt business and, employing an aggressive management style, restored it to prosperity. In this biography, based largely on Dillwyn's diaries, David Painting sheds light on this extraordinary woman of exceptional spirit and personality, revealing her to be not just a pioneering female British industrialist and novelist but also an ardent proponent of social justice.
Foreword to the New Edition
Preface to the New Edition
Royal Prologue
Early Years at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan
Debut into Society
Picking up the Threads
Mistress of Hendrefoilan
Charity begins at Killay
Society and Suitors
Moral Amazons
Amy in the Literary World
Catastrophe and Salvation
The Celebrity
Grand Old Lady
Clare Morgan | Times Literary Supplement
"This reissue of David Painting's 1987 biography of a remarkable Victorian woman is in itself remarkable for being a document of its time. . . . Amy Dillwyn evokes with significant skill the ethos of the age that bred the woman, and in its detailed familial, social, and political discussions can still count as a 'touchstone' for subsequent exploration of her life and work."
"Dillwyn's was a fascinating life."
Western Mail
"One of the most remarkable women in Welsh history."
Welsh History Review
"[A] thoroughly readable and entertaining account of a quite remarkable Victorian gentlewoman."
"[Amy Dillwyn] offer[s] the reader a remarkably strong sense of Dillwyn's own voice through quotations from her diaries. Painting's discussion of his subject's deep religiosity is illuminating. Even more skillful is his consideration of Dillwyn's philanthropy from which his subject emerges as someone who possessed a profound and unsentimental compassion for those she sought to help."
Biography and Letters

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Q: Expose an OSGi Service as Camel Endpoint I don't even know if I formulated the question the right way around ;-)
What I basically want to achieve is something like this:
<route >
    <from uri="osgi:serviceName"/>
    <!-- do some processing ->
    <to uri="activemq:queue:inbox"/>
</route>

So I'd like to have an OSGi Service as starting point of my route. This service can be referenced by some other bundles and fed with input data, that will be later on processed by the Route.
How would I do this?

A: Simply create an OSGi service outside of camel and a route that starts with direct:anyname. Then you can inject a ProducerTemplate into your service an call the route from there.

A: If you have really simple method signature, or typeConverter for the parameters you want to pass, you can use CamelProxy to link the service to your route in a simple XML configuration file.
To extends the example of the doc, you would have something like :
<osgi:service id="service" ref="myProxySender"                             (4)
      interface="org.apache.camel.spring.config.MyProxySender" />

<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">

    <!-- create a proxy that will route to the direct:start endpoint when invoked -->
    <proxy id="myProxySender"
           serviceInterface="org.apache.camel.spring.config.MyProxySender"
           serviceUrl="direct:start"/>

    <!-- this is the route that our proxy will routed when invoked
         and the output from this route is returned as reply on the proxy -->
    <route>
        <from uri="direct:start"/>
        <transform>
            <simple>Bye ${body}</simple>
        </transform>
    </route>

</camelContext>

A: To use "osgi" as the URI scheme in a Camel route, you would need to create a custom Camel component to handle invoking the relevant OSGi commands.  For more information, please see http://camel.apache.org/creating-a-new-camel-component.html
A simpler alternative would be to write custom OSGi commands that used a ProducerTemplate to send messages to a Camel route.  An example for Karaf can be found here: https://github.com/apache/karaf/tree/master/demos/command
Injecting a ProducerTemplate can be done via standard Spring configuration.

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Q: Polynomial expansion of a linear transformation (alternative proof) This is the problem 35.3 from Halmos's 'Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces'.
Let $\mathscr{P}_n$ be the set of all polynomials of degree less or equal to $n-1$, having complex coefficients (together with the identically zero polynomial, $\mathscr{P}_n$ forms a vector space).

Let $A$ be a linear transformation on $\mathscr{P}_n$, such that
  $Ax(t) = x(t+1)$ for every $x \in \mathscr{P}_n$. Prove that if $D$ is the differential operator, then
  \begin{gather}
\tag{$\star$}
1+\frac{D}{1!}+\frac{D^2}{2!}+\cdots+\frac{D^{n-1}}{(n-1)!}=A
\label{eq}
\end{gather}

Proof
The proof follows by induction. The base case for $n=1$ is straightforward to verify. Suppose that \eqref{eq} holds for $n$. Then, for $n+1$, observe that any polynomial $x$ in $\mathscr{P}_{n+1}$ can be written as $x=y+\alpha_n t^n$, with $y \in \mathscr{P}_n$. Then,
\begin{align}
Ax=A\big(y+\alpha_n t^n\big)&=y(t+1)+A(\alpha_nt^n)\\
&=y(t+1)+\alpha_n\big(t^n+\frac{n!}{1!(n-1)!}t^{n-1}+\frac{n!}{2!(n-2)!}t^{n-2}+\cdots+1\big)\\
&=y(t+1)+\alpha_n(t+1)^n\\
&=x(t+1)
\end{align}
I) Is the proof correct?
II) I would be interested in an alternative -more intuitive- proof for the above problem. For example, the polynomial expansion of the operator $A$ resembles the one of the exponential function. Is there anything in common there? What if we had a more general translation, like $x(t+c)$? Again, I can see what's happening when I carry out the computations, but I wonder if there is a more intuitive proof, unveiling something more interesting.
Thanks in advance!

A: It is perhaps slightly more intuitive to use the fact that these are linear operators and so we only need prove identities for individual powers of $t$.
Consider the infinite series for $e^D$. Acting on $t^k$ it is immediate that this produces $(t+1)^k$.
Re. the question about $x(t+c)$, the same argument proves this transform is $e^{cD}$.
Hope this helps.


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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/autoscaling"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
	"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
)

type ASGServersCommand struct {
	ASGName string
	Ui      cli.Ui
}

// Help function displays detailed help for the asgservers sub command
func (c *ASGServersCommand) Help() string {
	return `
	Description:
	Display the internal IP addresses of auto scaled servers

	Usage:
		awsgo-tools asgservers [flags]

	Flags:
	--asg-name <auto scale group> to display ip addresses for that group
	No flags to display a list of auto scale group names
	`
}

// Synopsis function returns a string with concise details of the sub command
func (c *ASGServersCommand) Synopsis() string {
	return "Display auto scale server internal ip addresses"
}

// Run function is the function called by the cli library to run the actual sub command code.
func (c *ASGServersCommand) Run(args []string) int {

	cmdFlags := flag.NewFlagSet("asgservers", flag.ContinueOnError)
	cmdFlags.Usage = func() { c.Ui.Output(c.Help()) }

	cmdFlags.StringVar(&c.ASGName, "asg-name", "", "Auto scale group name or blank to list all groups")
	if err := cmdFlags.Parse(args); err != nil {
		return RCERR
	}

	// Get details of current Auto Scale Groups
	// Create empty auto scale group list and append any group name on the command line
	asgNames := []*string{}
	if len(c.ASGName) > 0 {
		asgNames = append(asgNames, &c.ASGName)
	}

	// Create an Autoscaling service object
	// config values keys, sercet key & region read from environment
	svcAs := autoscaling.New(session.New(), &aws.Config{MaxRetries: aws.Int(10)})
	asgi := autoscaling.DescribeAutoScalingGroupsInput{AutoScalingGroupNames: asgNames}

	resp, err := svcAs.DescribeAutoScalingGroups(&asgi)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Fatal error: DescribeAutoScalingGroups - %s\n", err)
		return RCERR
	}

	// if no asg name provided then display current asg names and exit
	if len(c.ASGName) == 0 {
		fmt.Println("No Autoscaling Group Name provided. Current Groups:")

		for asGroup := range resp.AutoScalingGroups {
			fmt.Printf("%s\n", *resp.AutoScalingGroups[asGroup].AutoScalingGroupName)
		}
		fmt.Println("")
		return RCOK
	}

	if len(resp.AutoScalingGroups) < 1 {
		fmt.Printf("No Auto Scale Group info found for %s\n", *asgNames[0])
		return RCOK
	}

	instanceSlice := []*string{}

	// extract the instanceid's from the auto scale details and append to a slice
	for asGroup := range resp.AutoScalingGroups {
		for instance := range resp.AutoScalingGroups[asGroup].Instances {
			instanceSlice = append(instanceSlice, resp.AutoScalingGroups[asGroup].Instances[instance].InstanceId)
		}
	}

	if len(instanceSlice) < 1 {
		fmt.Printf("No instances in auto scale group %s\n", *asgNames[0])
		return RCOK
	}

	ec2i := ec2.DescribeInstancesInput{InstanceIds: instanceSlice}

	// Create an EC2 service object
	// config values keys, sercet key & region read from environment
	svcEc2 := ec2.New(session.New(), &aws.Config{MaxRetries: aws.Int(10)})

	respEc2, err := svcEc2.DescribeInstances(&ec2i)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Fatal error: DescribeAutoScalingGroups - %s\n", err)
		return RCERR
	}

	// extract the private ip address from the instance struct stored in the reservation
	for reservation := range respEc2.Reservations {
		for instance := range respEc2.Reservations[reservation].Instances {
			fmt.Printf("%s\n",
				*respEc2.Reservations[reservation].Instances[instance].PrivateIpAddress)
		}
	}

	return RCOK
}

/*

 */

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The Insightful Panda
Looking for the truths behind the truth
Giant Monsters & Robots
Other Films
Arrow-verse
Cosplay Interviews
The Meme Vault
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer #2 Hints At Splinter vs Shredder
The Insightful Panda / May 1, 2014
The new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just came out, but is it really new? With the trailer basically 85% reused footage – even the same voiceover – it seems like there's nothing left to see. And that's basically true . . . UNLESS you have a very keen eye – and freeze frame. The 15% of this trailer that we haven't seen yet not only shows all four turtles, but also gives us a look at the team's mousy master, Splinter.
It's Turtle Time:
This time around we got to see a little bit more of Donatello (purple mask) and Raphael (red mask), but much like Michelangelo (orange mask) and Leonardo (blue mask) in the first trailer, these turtles range from weird looking to amazingly awesome. Maybe it's the noses or those really pronounced lips, but Michelangelo and Donatello look like Shrek's goofy and brainy clones.
Ok, a much cooler shot of Mikey. Maybe it was just two unfortunate close ups.
On the other hand, Leonardo and Raphael look incredibly badass and perfectly embody the ninja-look. Now I'm aware those two were the more serious ones, but that shouldn't affect their look under the masks that much. Remember the original Ninja Turtles movie from the 90s. Sure, they didn't look realistic, but they all had the same genuine look to them. Maybe these trailers just used the most unflattering close-shots of Mikey and Donnie – who knows.
Regardless of their looks, it certainly seems like Michael Bay has their personalities right: Michelangelo is still the jokester; Leonardo is the quite and reserved leader; Donatello is the most intelligent of the group and works on his inventions more than his fighting skills; and Raphael is the most aggressive and short tempered of the group. All and all, bravo on this side Michael Bay.
Splinter vs Shredder:
Now the biggest new addition to this trailer was a VERY quick glimpse at Splinter, the turtles' sensei and father figure. Over the years, Splinter has always been the mutated pet of the honorable ninja master Hamato Yoshi – or Hamato himself mutated into a rat. Which version Michael Bay is going to use we don't know yet, but one thing – hopefully – seems certain: his relationship with Shredder.
Blink and you'll miss it, but the heavily armored fellow Splinter is about to fight is none other than Shredder.
As I said last time, I'm a bit disheartened that Shredder isn't going to be Japanese like he is in every other incarnation TMNT. On the bright side, it seems that Shredder and Splinter's antagonistic relationship towards each other remains the same. And if my hypothesis is true, then I'm very okay with William Fichtner playing Shredder.
Insightful Panda Hypothesis:
Since Shredder is narrating the trailer and is telling April O'Neil about how he and her father wanted to create heroes, perhaps April's father is Splinter. Maybe Shredder tried to kill him and that turned him into Splinter.
If my theory is true, then this would add an interesting new dimension to the story while also remaining true to the long held animosity between Splinter and Shredder. At the very least, Splinter probably knows what happened to April's father.
So . . . much . . . awesome
Whatever comes from this movie remains to be seen. We need a much more substantial trailer, but either way this movie is just meant to be fun. Don't expect the political thriller of Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, nor the grandeur and suspense of Godzilla (2014). This is just another attempt to bring one of our childhood cartoons to the movies, but will it be as fulfilling as the first Transformers (2007) or will it be as WTF as BattleShip (2012).
Another shot of Raphael about to seriously knock some guy out. Aggressive much?
Did you really have to use that shot of Donnie? He looks like a deer in headlights!
William Fichtner finally dons the iconic Shredder armor
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import pytest
from mock import MagicMock, mock
import responses
import re
import json
from threading import Event

import utils.notifier_bot as notifier_bot
from .common import controlled_responses, get_message
from plugins.jira import JiraBot, JiraNotifierBot
from utils.messages_cache import MessagesCache

with open('tests/test_jira_data.json') as data_file:
    data = json.load(data_file)

jira_server = {
    'host': 'http://host',
    'username': 'user',
    'password': 'pass'
    }

imageproxy_server = {
    'host': 'http://imageproxy'
    }

prefixes = ['JIRA', 'JIRB']

@pytest.fixture
def bot():
    jiraBot = JiraBot(
                      MessagesCache(),
                      jira_server,
                      imageproxy_server,
                      prefixes)
    return jiraBot

@pytest.mark.parametrize('input,expected', [
    ('', None),
    ('JIRA', None),
    ('JIRA-', None),
    ('JIRA-1234', 'JIRA-1234'),
    ('IRA-1234', None),
    ('SOMETHING JIRA-1234', 'JIRA-1234'),
    ('JIRA-1234 SOMETHING', 'JIRA-1234'),
    ('SOMETHING JIRA-1234 SOMETHING', 'JIRA-1234'),
    ('SOMETHINGJIRA-1234', None),
    ('JIRA-1234SOMETHING', None),
    ('CLEAN JIRA-1234', None),
])
def test_jirapattern(bot, input, expected):
    result = re.search(bot.get_pattern(), input, re.IGNORECASE)
    if expected is None:
        assert result == expected
    else:
        assert result.group(1) == expected

@pytest.mark.parametrize('input,testdata,thread_ts', [
                         ('JIRA-1 & JIRA-2', data['jirabot_result'], None),
                         ('JIRA-1 & JIRA-1', data['jirabot_result1'], None),
                         ('JIRA-3', data['jirabot_notexist'], None),
                         ('JIRA-1 & JIRA-2', data['jirabot_result'], 'threadTS'),
                         ('JIRA-1 & JIRA-1', data['jirabot_result1'], 'threadTS'),
                         ('JIRA-3', data['jirabot_notexist'], 'threadTS'),
                         ])
def test_display_issues(bot, input, testdata, thread_ts):
    with controlled_responses(data['jira_default_field_query'] + testdata['requests']) as rsps:
        message = get_message(input, thread_ts=thread_ts)

        bot.display_issues(message)

        assert len(message.send_webapi.call_args_list) == 1
        args, kwargs = message.send_webapi.call_args_list[0]
        assert args[0] is ''
        assert json.loads(kwargs['attachments']) == testdata['result']
        if thread_ts is not None:
            assert kwargs['thread_ts'] == thread_ts

@pytest.mark.parametrize('input,testdata', [
                         ('JIRA-1', data['jirabot_result1']),
                         ('JIRA-3', data['jirabot_notexist']),
                         ])
def test_messages_cache(bot, input, testdata):
    with controlled_responses(data['jira_default_field_query'] + testdata['requests']):
        # First call should display message
        message = get_message(input, channel='channel1')
        bot.display_issues(message)
        assert message.send_webapi.called

        # Second call on same channel should not display message again
        message = get_message(input, channel='channel1')
        bot.display_issues(message)
        assert not message.send_webapi.called

    with controlled_responses(testdata['requests']):
        # Call on another channel should display the message again
        message = get_message(input, channel='channel2')
        bot.display_issues(message)
        assert message.send_webapi.called

def test_wrong_auth(bot):
    with controlled_responses(data['jira_default_field_query']) as rsps:
        rsps.rsps.add(
            responses.GET,
            'http://host/rest/api/2/issue/JIRA-1',
            status=401)

        message = get_message('JIRA-1')
        bot.display_issues(message)

        assert len(message.send_webapi.call_args_list) == 1
        args, kwargs = message.send_webapi.call_args_list[0]
        assert args[0] is ''
        assert json.loads(kwargs['attachments']) == [{
                'color': 'danger',
                'fallback': 'Jira authentication error',
                'text': ':exclamation: Jira authentication error'}]

@pytest.mark.parametrize('testdata', [
                         (data['jiranotifier_changelog_with_assignee']),
                         (data['jiranotifier_changelog_without_assignee'])
                         ])
def test_notifier(testdata):
    slack_mock = MagicMock()
    slack_mock.find_user_by_name = MagicMock(side_effect=lambda x: x)
    slack_mock.channels = {'channel_id': {'name': 'atlassianbot-test'}}
    slack_mock.send_message = MagicMock()

    conf = {
        "polling_interval": 1,
        "notifiers":
        [
            {
                "query": "project = JIRA and status = Closed and issuetype not in subtaskIssueTypes()",
                "channel": "atlassianbot-test"
            }
        ]
    }

    with controlled_responses(data['jira_default_field_query'] + testdata['requests'][1:]) as rsps:
        rsps.rsps.add(
            responses.GET,
            re.compile(r'http?://host/rest/api/2/search.+'),
            status=200,
            body=json.dumps(testdata['requests'][0]['text']),
            content_type='application/json')

        rsps.rsps.add(
            responses.GET,
            re.compile(r'http?://host/rest/api/2/search.+'),
            status=200,
            body=json.dumps(testdata['requests'][0]['text']),
            content_type='application/json')

        with JiraNotifierBot(jira_server, imageproxy_server, conf, slack_mock) as obj:
            assert len(obj._jobs) == 1
            event = Event()

            def notifier_run():
                event.set()

            obj._jobs[0].run_callback = notifier_run
            assert event.wait(timeout=5) is True

            slack_mock.send_message.assert_called_once_with(
                                                        'channel_id',
                                                        '',
                                                        attachments=mock.ANY)
            call = slack_mock.send_message.call_args
            call_args, call_kwargs = call
            assert testdata['result'] == json.loads(call_kwargs['attachments'])


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Naomi Watts Stars in Creepy Thriller 'Shut In'
Naomi Watts portrays a widowed child psychologist trying to rescue a young boy in 'Shut In.'
Naomi Watts stars in the new psychological thriller Shut In, about a widowed child psychologist living in rural New England who must rescue a young boy during a fierce winter storm before he disappears forever.
The cast also features Oliver Platt (Chicago Med), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Crystal Balint (Mech X-4), David Cubitt (TV's Van Helsing) and Jacob Tremblay, best known for his well-loved performance in the 2015 film Room.
Tremblay talked about the difference between acting in this film and the critically acclaimed Room: "I had to act scared a lot with Jack [in Room]. But I had to act scared [in Shut In]Â most of the time." Describing his character in the new movie, he said, "Tom's a dark character. Not Batman dark. But he's scared, has rings under his eyes and looks creepy."
Naomi Watts stars in the new psychological thriller Shut In, about a widowed child psychologist living in rural New England who must rescue a young boy during a fierce winter storm before he disappears forever.
Tremblay talked about the difference between acting in this film and the critically acclaimed Room: "I had to act scared a lot with Jack [in Room]. But I had to act scared [in Shut In] most of the time." Describing his character in the new movie, he said, "Tom's a dark character. Not Batman dark. But he's scared, has rings under his eyes and looks creepy."
Shut In marks the feature film screenwriting debut of Christina Hodson, who also wrote the upcoming Katherine Heigl-Rosario Dawson thriller Unforgettable, debuting next year.
Directing the movie is Farren Blackburn, best known for the TV series Dr. Who and Daredevil.
Watts has done some of her best work in thrillers, but her seven upcoming projects are an interesting mix of genres, ranging from the suspenseful TV series drama Gypsy, in which she again plays a therapist, to the big screen re-imagining of Hamlet, titled Ophelia, and the small screen adaptation of The Divergent Series: Ascendant. Watts will also re-team with Tremblay for the highly anticipated 2017 feature The Book of Henry, about a single mother raising a child genius.
Shut In hits theaters on Nov. 11.
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In the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times, Avner Cohen and Marvin Miller have an op-ed about the Israeli covert nuclear program. Cohen, a non-proliferation fellow at California's Monterey Institute of International Studies is about to drop a book — "The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain With the Bomb" — about Israel and its opaque nuclear program, about which the Jewish state adopts a policy of ambiguity to protect.
Israel needs to recognize, moreover, that the Middle East peace process is linked to the issue of nuclear weapons in the region. International support for Israel and its opaque bomb is being increasingly eroded by its continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the policies that support that occupation. Such criticism of these policies might well spill over into the nuclear domain, making Israel vulnerable to the charge that it is a nuclear-armed pariah state, and thus associating it to an uncomfortable degree with today's rogue Iranian regime.
Indeed, while almost all states publicly oppose the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, there is also growing support for dealing with this problem in an "evenhanded" manner, namely, by establishing a nuclear weapons free zone across the entire region.
However, if Israel takes seriously the need to modify its own nuclear posture and its approach to the peace process, there will likely be stronger international support for measures designed to stop Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold and to contain a nuclear-armed Iran if those efforts fail.
Israel IS a nuclear-armed pariah state. Any other country that had done the things Israel has done over the past thirty years would be a target for economic sanctions and, according to the doctrine of at least one former U.S. president, preemptive war.


The Astro collection is inspired by the twelve signs of the zodiac, a longtime fascination with the cosmos and a desire for modern design. Each watercolor illustration features delicate figures, soft colors and hand finished gold metallic constellation.
Trivia - The collection name, Astro, is a small nod to my hometown baseball team and of course, George Jetson's dog.


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YJB research finds mentoring does not work
January 30, 2006 in Youth justice
Mentoring schemes for young offenders are expensive and do not work, a new Youth Justice Board study has found.
Mentoring "succeeded in some respects – particularly in reintegrating young people into education, training and the community," says the report.
However, it finds that young people are reluctant to be mentored and that questions about effectiveness and cost of the scheme remain.
The research failed to "find evidence of improvements in behaviour, literacy and numeracy" and does not "provide convincing evidence of a reduction in offending".
The study analyses 80 mentoring projects for young offenders, or young people at risk of offending, supported by the Youth Justice Board
between 2001 and 2004. About half the programmes ended earlier than planned.
The findings do not support an expansion of mentoring for young offenders.
Mentoring is "substantially more expensive than alternatives that produce similar benefits", such as the Youth Justice Board's education, training and employment schemes, the research finds.
Many young people refused to take part in mentoring. Less than half (2,045 out of 4,828) young people referred to schemes in the study took part.
On average, mentoring programmes consist of eight meetings, around 20 hours. The report suggests this is not long enough for work with very vulnerable young people as many on the schemes had serious emotional and behavioural difficulties.
The government's Respect action plan on antisocial behaviour, published earlier this month, promises to expand mentoring schemes for young people.
Download Mentoring schemes 2001 to 2004 here
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How to elegantly check if any field has a longer value between two objects in JS?
Don't get me wrong: I think the answers posted there are stellar. However, they don't cover the edge case where some key might not contain an Array.
Is that a problem? Are answers expected to provide code snippets that cover every edge case?
For what it's worth, I think that it's out of scope to cover edge-cases in answers. Instead, the asker should be responsible for adapting the provided code to production-level quality.
Is it expected? No. You may do so, but such considerations are not all equally useful.
Since you're (usually) not writing the entire application yourself, at some point you have to expect the user to use the code properly. If you have a short function that uses a parameter as an array, then it would be obvious to most programmers that the value has to be an array. You could call that out explicitly, but because most programmers can see that, it's about as useful as a comment explaining that a + b adds a and b.
That being said, there are times when such information is really valuable. If the OP mentioned that some value is being provided by code outside of their control, then a discussion of sanitizing inputs is not unreasonable. And if the data is user provided and could pose a security concern, then definitely bring up the importance of making sure the input is properly sanitized.
Overall, make sure that such discussions add value to the answer.


Electronic equipment cannot be disposed of with normal trash collection and must be recycled by law. Electronic equipment covered under the law includes Computers, Televisions, Cathode ray tubes, Small scale servers, Computer peripherals, and Small electronic equipment (i.e. VCR's, DVD players, Video game consoles).
Go to DEC's list of electronic equipment manufacturers registered in NYS (PDF) (194 kB), to find manufacturers, their brands of covered electronic equipment, websites and toll-free telephone numbers.
Find the manufacturer's brand of equipment you wish to recycle, and click on that manufacturer's website link or call its listed toll-free telephone number.
Follow the specific instructions listed on the manufacturer's website or provided over the telephone. The manufacturer will provide information on how to recycle your equipment, free of charge.
The NYS Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act (PDF) (39 kB), requires manufacturers to provide free and convenient recycling of electronic waste to most consumers in the state. It was signed into law by the Governor on May 28, 2010.
conserving natural resources by allowing valuable materials to be reclaimed and reused, rather than using virgin materials.
All consumers will be prohibited from disposing covered electronic equipment in landfills or waste-to-energy facilities beginning January 1, 2015.
one piece of electronic waste of any manufacturer's brand if offered by the consumer with the purchase of covered electronic equipment of the same type by a consumer.
Who qualifies as a consumer of CEE?
A "Consumer" is an individual, business, corporation, limited partnership, not-for-profit corporation, the state, a public corporation, public school, school district, private or parochial school or board of cooperative educational services or governmental entity located in New York State. Any entity involved in a wholesale transaction between a distributor and retailer is not a consumer.
Do consumers have to pay for electronic waste recycling?
Most consumers should not be charged for the recycling or reuse of CEE. However, for-profit businesses with 50 or more full-time employees and not-for-profit corporations with 75 or more full-time employees may be assessed a charge for these services by manufacturers. In addition, any consumer may be charged for "premium services." are any services above and beyond the reasonably convenient acceptance methods defined in the Act. These include equipment and data security services, refurbishment for reuse by the consumer, and other custom services such as at-home collection (other than mail back programs), data wiping, specialized packing and preparation for collection, etc.
Can school districts, municipalities or government entities be charged for the recycling or reuse of their CEE?
School districts, municipalities and government entities located in New York State may not be charged for the recycling or reuse of their CEE. They can, however, be charged for any "premium services" provided.
Are consumers required to recycle electronic waste?
Consumers should take advantage of manufacturers' free and convenient recycling programs currently available. Beginning January 1, 2012, businesses, municipalities, and subdivisions of the state, including your waste collection company or service, will no longer be able to collect electronic waste for disposal, or dispose of any electronic waste in a landfill or waste-to-energy facility. Beginning January 1, 2015, individuals will be prohibited from disposing any electronic waste in a landfill or waste-to-energy facility, or placing electronic waste for collection which is intended for disposal at such types of facilities.
What if I want to recycle electronic equipment that is not covered by the new law?
Municipal Collection Programs: Some municipalities offer household hazardous waste (HHW) collection programs that accept electronic equipment. Some transfer stations also collect electronic equipment for recycling. Please check with your municipality for more information on recycling electronic equipment not covered by the new law. More information on HHW collection programs is available.
Wireless Telephone Service Providers: Under the separate New York State Wireless Recycling Act, all wireless telephone service providers that offer phones for sale must accept cell phones for reuse or recycling.
How can I protect my confidential or personal information when I recycle my electronic waste?
Consumers should erase all personal and confidential data before sending it for recycling or reuse. Reformatting your hard drive or deleting files does not destroy your data. Manufacturers must provide information on their public education websites on how consumers can destroy the data contained in their electronic waste. As previously mentioned, manufacturers may offer data security services as part of the electronic waste acceptance program, but may charge a fee for this type of "premium service".
How does a manufacturer go about taking its CEE back?
A manufacturer is required to set up an electronic waste acceptance program using any of the following collection methods to take back its CEE, which means there might not be a physical acceptance location in every community: mail or ship back programs; collection events; fixed acceptance locations; or any combination of these or other acceptance methods which effectively provide for the acceptance of electronic waste for recycling or reuse. Manufacturers have the option of setting up their acceptance programs either individually or in cooperation with other manufacturers, also known as a collective. Manufacturers and collectives have to bear the costs of whichever acceptance method(s) they choose.
How do I know which acceptance methods and/or collection locations are available in my area for recycling my CEE?
Each manufacturer of CEE sold in New York State has an obligation to register and provide information on its acceptance program, including its toll-free telephone number and public education website, to the Department. The Department has compiled a list of each registered manufacturer's acceptance program for your convenience. To learn which free and convenient acceptance methods a manufacturer has available in your community, visit Recycle Your Electronic Waste in Three Easy Steps above.
Can I bring my CEE for recycling to the retailer where it was originally purchased?
If a retail location has been designated as a convenient acceptance location collecting on behalf of a manufacturer's electronic waste acceptance program, then it is required to accept CEE for recycling or reuse free of charge. When not collecting on behalf of a manufacturer, a retailer may still accept your CEE for recycling or reuse, but a fee might be charged. If the retailer charges a fee for collection, then the weight of the CEE collected cannot be used towards meeting any manufacturer's electronic waste acceptance standard or recycling goal. Taking advantage of a manufacturer's electronic waste acceptance program directly is the best way to return your CEE for recycling or reuse. See Recycle Your Electronic Waste in Three Easy Steps above for more information.
I anticipate taking advantage of a mail back program for my CEE. Who is responsible for providing the packaging materials and covering shipping costs?
The manufacturer is responsible for covering the cost of shipping. The packaging material may be provided free at the manufacturer's discretion.
What do I do if I encounter a problem when trying to return electronic waste for recycling or reuse?


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Sir Hubert
von Herkomer
Terracotta bust of Sir Hubert von Herkomer
by Onslow Ford
Hubert Herkomer was born in 1849 in Waal, a village near Landsberg, in Bavaria. His father, Lorenz, was a woodcarver and his mother, Josephine, was a pianist and taught music.
In 1851 they emigrated to America but could not settle so they moved to Southampton, England in 1857. The family were extremely poor.
Herkomer was educated at home by his father. From an early age he showed promise as an artist. He briefly attended art schools in Southampton and South Kensington but found them uninspiring and so was largely self-taught. He became an illustrator for the Graphic magazine in1870. It was not until 1875 that he achieved his first critical success with 'The LastMuster' at the Royal Academy.
Meanwhile, in 1873 he had settled with his parents in a small cottage in Bushey. In the same year he married Anna Weise. They had two children, Siegfried and Elsa, but Anna's continual poor health led to her early death in 1882.
In 1883 he married Lulu Griffiths, who died tragically the next year.
In 1883 he opened the Herkomer Art School in Bushey on the site now occupied by the Rose Garden. He set a very high standard and was progressive for the time, including the provision of life classes for women students. The School became worldfamous and more than six hundred students attended over a span of twenty-one years.Many of these students became very well known artists and many also stayed
to live and work in Bushey. Amongst them were George Harcourt, Tom Mostyn, Sir William Nicholson, Algernon Talmage, William Titcomb and Lucy Kemp-Welch, whom Herkomer described as 'his most illustrious pupil'.
Young girl from Bushey village posing for a life class, professional models would have been naked
In 1888 he married his late wife's sister, Margaret, and they had two children, Lorenz and Gwendydd. In 1899 he was decorated by the Kaiser and became von Herkomer following an award by the Prince Regent of Bavaria. Despite being very wealthy in the early 1900s, Herkomer's grand projects forced him to take on more work and his
health suffered. In 1904 Herkomer gave up the Art School and Lucy Kemp-Welch opened the Bushey School of Painting in the Herkomer School premises. Herkomer was knighted by Edward VII in 1907. By 1912 Lucy Kemp-Welch had left the Art School premises which were demolished to make way for the Rose Garden. Sir Hubert von Herkomer died in 1914 and was buried in St James' churchyard, Bushey. You can see paintings by Herkomer and some of his students in the Bushey Museum & Art Gallery in Rudolph Road, only a short distance away.
Our Village Nurse (detail) Herkomer, despite honours
and wealth, never forgot his early poor upbringing and he
funded the Village Nurse so that even the poorest people
could have access to medical advice
© 2020 by Bushey Rose Garden. Created by Questr CIC


To an extent, looking for a job in the current climate is inherently difficult. The challenges presented to jobseekers are many, from the lack of available jobs in some areas to way too many competing candidates in others.
However, people can and do get jobs, seeing the fruits of their jobseeking labours. If you have been applying for jobs for awhile with not so much as an interview request to show for it, it's worth wondering… maybe it's me?
When the job market is both sparse (in terms of jobs available) and competitive (in terms of the number of applicants) than standing out is essential. While you might have an amazing work history and relevant qualifications for the job you're applying for, sometimes, employees want to see a little bit more than that. It's the same way you'd talk about your hobbies and interests when applying to university; it's all about rounding you out as a person.
If you want to give your CV a little more shine, there's a few additions it might be worth adding. Some are bigger than others in terms of the time required to get them and the impact they'll have, but they're all better than just plugging away with the same old CV that isn't currently seeing results.
If you can type above average (around 50wpm) then it's worth showing off your typing speed on your CV. This doesn't just have to be an empty claim you make, either; you can take online tests and then display the badges as images on your CV. It's always better to be able to backup any claims that you make!
Jobs in remote locations - such as a business park with little public transport - often find it useful to see that a candidate is able to be responsible for their own transport. If you have a driving licence and your own vehicle, then it's well worth adding it to your CV. If you don't, a scooter is the best entry route into driving - lessons are inexpensive and it's far more reasonable to buy a scooter than it is a car. With that done, you have another string to your bow ready to impress potential employers.
Most of us are able to use the Microsoft Office package; you may also have a few skills with using software such as PhotoShop or accounting packages. However - harking back to the first point - it looks better on your CV if you have proof of your competence rather than just claiming it. There are plenty of short courses you can complete online that will give you a recognisable qualification to make your CV stand out more. Not only that, but you will probably genuinely pick up some new skills that will make you a more attractive candidate - so there's plenty of reasons to pursue this area.
Even if your skill in said language is patchy, being able to list yourself as at least conversational in a foreign language will make your CV look great. Just make sure you are at the level of fluency that you claim - you don't want to go to an interview, be quizzed on it, and have no way of talking your way out of it!


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NASA's First Rover on the Red Planet
July 5, 2019 | NASA
This 8-image mosaic is of Sojourner, NASA's first rover on Mars, and was acquired during the late afternoon on Sol 2, the second Martian day on the planet as part of an "insurance panorama." Sojourner arrived aboard the Mars Pathfinder on July 4, 1997.
This color image was designed as "insurance" against camera failure upon deployment. However, the camera deployment was successful, leaving the insurance panorama to be downlinked to Earth several weeks later. Ironically enough, the insurance panorama contains some of the best quality image data because of the lossless data compression and relatively dust-free state of the camera and associated lander/rover hardware on Sol 2.
Sojourner spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain, acquiring images, and taking chemical, atmospheric and other measurements. The final data transmission received from Pathfinder was at 10:23 UTC on September 27, 1997. Although mission managers tried to restore full communications during the following five months, the successful mission was terminated on March 10, 1998.
Right now, NASA is taking steps to begin a new era of exploration. Working with U.S. companies and international partners, NASA will push the boundaries of human exploration forward to the Moon and on to Mars, establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon within the next decade.
DARPA Tests Advanced Chemical Sensors
05/03/2019 | DARPA
DARPA's SIGMA program, which began in 2014, has demonstrated a city-scale capability for detecting radiological and nuclear threats that is now being operationally deployed.
Space Communications and Navigation: Supporting Exploration
12/10/2018 | NASA
NASA spacecraft have studied Earth and the surrounding universe for more than 60 years, making ground-breaking discoveries and enabling human exploration. From hundreds, thousands and millions of miles away, these spacecraft must send their critical information back to Earth and the scientists who can use it.
Telecom (Compute and Storage) Infrastructure Market to Reach $16.35B in 2022
09/03/2018 | IDC
A new forecast from IDC sizes the market for compute and storage infrastructure for Telecoms at nearly $10.81 billion in 2017. However, as Telecoms aggressively build out their infrastructure, IDC projects this market to see a healthy five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% with purchases totaling $16.35 billion in 2022.


This cute iPhone 5S/5 case by FvnnyEve feature cute cartoon pets suffering from an acute identity crisis such as Rabbit dog who is a rabbit who wants to be a dog. It's a cute graphic against a light pick background. Help them find a loving home in your pocket or purse. Made from a durable plastic, these cases feature clear sides and a glossy coated colorful graphic on the back.


We all want to have great hair; but unfortunately, shiny, healthy hair doesn't just happen without a little bit of effort. Trying to look after your hair and get all that everyday stuff done that you need to do, as well as look after your friends and family, can be a difficult balancing act.
Not shampooing properly – Remember to shampoo in small, circular movements; don't forget to target dirt collecting areas such as the nape of your neck. You should focus on your scalp rather than your hair – and don't forget the back of your head. Then rinse for 40 to 60 seconds to make sure you remove all the shampoo.
Heat styling – make sure you put on protection spray before styling to provide a barrier for your hair. Straighteners can get up to 400 degrees and will damage your hair so try straightening it on a lower temperature.
Excessive hair brushing can cause shedding – use your hair brush in the morning. However, brushing keeps your hair tangle free and distributes its natural oils throughout the hair. This promotes healthy growth and shine.
Over colouring your hair can cause a lot damage – but who doesn't like change their look every once in a while? It can be a lot of fun, but if you do it too often your hair is going to get damaged – so try to limit the number of times you colour your hair.
Using too many products – If you have a hairstyle that needs to use hair products – hairspray for hold, wax for hold and shine, or serum for shine and to maintain fly-away pieces – then don't use too much! You might end up weighing your hair down and reducing its volume, or just making it greasy and dirty. Often less is more. If you do want to use different products, try to find ones that are organic or have moisturizing/conditioning elements to protect your hair.


ATLANTA (AP) ? Frank Gore ran for a pair of second-half touchdowns and the 49ers rebounded from a 17-0 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 in the NFC championship game Sunday, sending San Francisco to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1995.
The top-seeded Falcons (14-4) tried to pull out another season-saving drive at the end, but Matt Ryan's fourth-down pass for Roddy White with 1:13 remaining was knocked down by San Francisco linebacker NaVorro Bowman.
The 49ers pulled off the biggest comeback victory in an NFC championship game, according to STATS. The previous NFC record was 13 points ? Atlanta's victory over Minnesota in the 1999 title game, which sent the Falcons to what remains the only Super Bowl in franchise history.
In the AFC, the record is 18 points, when Indianapolis rallied New England in 2007.
Gore's 9-yard run midway through the fourth quarter completed the comeback from a 17-0 first-half deficit. The run came at the end of a short 38-yard drive set up by Ted Ginn Jr.'s 20-yard punt return.
Gore had a 5-yard touchdown run to cap an 82-yard drive to open the second half.
The high-scoring pace of the first half continued as the 49ers began their run of points. Colin Kaepernick had passes of 21 and 17 yards to Randy Moss in the drive. The 17-yarder moved the 49ers to the Falcons 5, setting up Gore's scoring run.
Matt Ryan threw three touchdown passes in the first half, including a 10-yard toss to Tony Gonzalez with 25 seconds remaining in the half. The score answered San Francisco's two straight touchdowns as Atlanta led 24-14 at halftime.
Ryan also threw touchdown passes of 20 and 46 yards to Julio Jones.
Ryan was hurt by two third-quarter turnovers. His pass for Roddy White was intercepted by cornerback Chris Culliver early in the third quarter. The 49ers couldn't take advantage of the game's first turnover when David Akers' try for a 38-yard field goal hit the left upright.
Later in the third quarter, Ryan fumbled a shotgun snap. Again the 49ers were denied when receiver Michael Crabtree fumbled at the goal line when stripped by Dunta Robinson. William Moore helped on the hit and Stephen Nicholas was credited with the recovery.
The Falcons led 17-0 following Ryan's 20-yard touchdown pass to Jones on the first play of the second quarter.
Kaepernick threw a 4-yard scoring pass to tight end Vernon Davis and LaMichael James had a 15-yard touchdown run as the 49ers charged back.
Trailing 17-0, the 49ers answered with a long drive that consumed almost 7 minutes. The drive began with four straight runs by Gore.
On third-and-7 from the Falcons 42, Kaepernick completed a 27-yard pass to Davis to the 15. Following an incomplete pass on first down, James ran right behind a block by Davis for the touchdown.
The 49ers then went on an 82-yard touchdown drive. Big plays included Kaepernick's 19-yard pass to Davis and a 23-yard run by the dual-threat quarterback.
Falcons linebacker Nicholas helped the 49ers with a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness.
On first down from the Falcons 4, Kaepernick rolled right before throwing to Davis for the touchdown.
Ryan opened the game with three straight scoring drives, including two touchdown passes to Jones. Ryan capped the Falcons' opening drive with a 46-yard touchdown pass to Jones.
Matt Bryant's 35-yard field goal capped the Falcons' second drive.
Ryan moved the Falcons 80 yards on seven plays on Atlanta's opening drive. Ryan completed passes of 13 yards to Jones and 16 yards to White on the drive.
On second-and-9 from the 49ers 46, Ryan faked a handoff to Jacquizz Rodgers. San Francisco safety Dashon Goldson bit on the fake, allowing Jones to run past Goldson. Jones was open for the deep pass as safety Donte Whitner trailed on the play.
Ryan completed a 27-yard pass to Jones to set up Bryant's field goal to end the Falcons' second drive. Jones beat Goldson on the catch.
On the first play of the second quarter, Ryan threw to Jones in the left corner of the end zone. Jones was closely covered by 49ers cornerback Tarell Brown. Jones made the catch over Brown and then looked down as he made sure he touched the end zone with both feet.
Jones' second foot was close to the back of the end zone, but the officials' review confirmed the touchdown.
Ryan completed 18 of 24 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns in the half. Jones had seven catches for 135 yards and two touchdowns.
The Falcons had a strong start for the second straight week of the postseason. They led Seattle 20-0 at halftime in last week's divisional playoff game and lost the lead before winning 30-28.


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Domestic and home grown terrorists
Couple arrested for possessing Weapons of mass destruction
Date: October 19, 2018Author: Ericka Courtney 0 Comments
Bucks County, PA – The girlfriend of a man accused of throwing homemade bombs while driving around Philadelphia suburbs earlier this year has now been charged in connection to the blasts.
Tina May Smith, 31, was arrested last week on more than four dozen criminal counts, including conspiracy to possess or manufacture a weapon of mass destruction, reckless endangerment and related offenses.
Officials say she helped her long-time boyfriend, 30-year-old David Surman Jr, distribute and detonate the improvised explosives that accounted for a spate of blasts in a rural part of Bucks County, starting in early April.
The bombs were mostly detonated in sparsely populated areas at night. No injuries were reported.
Surman was arrested on June 28 on charges of possessing a weapon of mass destruction and reckless endangerment, after a raid on his Milford Township home and his chemical company, Consolidated Chemicals and Solvents, turned up makeshift explosives, among them black, round bombs looking like something out of a comic book.
Law enforcement officials were led to Surman after his girlfriend's SUV was spotted by a state trooper speeding away from the site of a blast in mid-June, reported Philadelphia Inquirer.
Surman is suspected of detonating 30 bombs at seven sites around his hometown. He also has a separate child pornography case pending against him.
On Tuesday, Bucks County District Attorney Weintraub issued a warning to local residents to be on the lookout for additional bombs that have failed to blow up, reported Lehigh Valley Live.
'This is more an FYI than an SOS,' Weintraub said in a statement. 'Nonetheless, we will continue to do our best to protect you by working hard to find any unexploded devices that may remain. If you find something suspicious, please do not investigate it on your own. Call 911.'
Around the time of Surman's arrest, authorities released pages from notebooks seized from his home that featured a collage depicting a woman driving him in a black Ford Explorer as a cartoonish bomb explodes in the distance.
So what in the hell was the point of this? Luckily nobody got hurt, but what's the point of spending your life behind bars over homemade bombs that never hurt anybody?
They didn't harm a fly more than likely and you know they are going away for a long time. This is one of the dumbest crimes I've ever seen.
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A Georgia college student jailed in the Cayman Islands for violating COVID-19 quarantine measures is back home, according to media reports.
Nearly a year since COVID-19 first touched the United States, California, and Florida – both of which have responded to the pandemic in their own ways – are yielding vastly different results.
Universal Orlando hosting Mardi Gras celebration with coronavirus safety measures
Universal Orlando Resort is bringing back its popular Mardi Gras celebrations, but this time it will feature modified events for the current global pandemic.
Kyrie Irving sits out seventh straight game as Nets host Bucks
Kyrie Irving missed a seventh straight game Monday and could rejoin the Brooklyn Nets later this week in his original NBA home.
A retired New York City firefighter who photographed himself inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan.6 insurrection and claimed he was "at the tip of the spear" has been criminally charged, authorities said Monday.
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says playing an NCAA Tournament this year, at least on the men's side, is a fiscal necessity for most schools.
Cavaliers, Kevin Porter Jr. expected to go separate ways: Reports
The Cleveland Cavaliers are expected to move on from Kevin Porter Jr.
DC restaurateur: COVID restrictions, inauguration security has my business 'hanging on by a thread'
The unprecedented security restrictions in place for this week's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden coupled with the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic have left at least one Washington restaurant "hanging on by a thread."
Homan: Biden's words will cause 'a surge at the border that we've never seen before'
President-elect Joe Biden's pledge to reverse the Trump administration's policies on border security and illegal immigration will cause "a surge at the border that we've never seen before," former acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan said Monday.


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"Adaumbelle's Quest", Comedy, Director, Entertainment, Film/Motion Picture, Music, Other, Playwright, Television, Theatre
"Adaumbelle's Quest" welcomes director Carl Andress who discusses directing "The Mad Show" in The York Theatre Company's "Musicals in Mufti" series (which will run July 29-31), working with Charles Busch, and other everyday details of his life and career!
"Adaumbelle's Quest", "Divine Sister", "The Mad Show", Carl Andress, York Theatre Company


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Situm starts 2016 with increased international presence
Situm starts operations in new continents, through recent agreements signed with partners in Japan, Colombia and other countries, confirming the interest arisen from all over the world in Situm technology.
Situm closes a year in which its system has proved being a reliable and precise product. Its indoor location technology has been installed in 25 medical centers and hospitals, including Lucus Augusti University Hospital, one of the biggest in Europe and the first hospital in the world that has introduced a system of this kind.
The Spanish start-up convinces around the whole world because of its solution that offers maximum accuracy at positioning inside buildings just using the actual infrastructure, without installing new devices. In this way, Situm will begin the new year with presence in Japan, USA and several countries in Latin America.
A proved technology
Last November, Situm had the chance to show the effectiveness of its system at Web Summit, one of the most important technology conferences in the world. Among all the specialized companies at indoor location, only Situm was capable of showing the way its system works in real time.
Situm closes a year of recognition
During 2015, several awards have been given to Situm, all of them recognizing the work of the company team and specially the efficiency of its system. Among all of them, these ones stand out:
First place at YUZZ
Chosen one of the 20 best startups at South Summit and one of the 5 strongest ones at "Digital Solutions for Mass Markets" category.
Selected among almost 1000 european startups projects to join the IMPACT Program.
Winner of the Galicia Open Future first edition.
Awared at Elevator Pitch Singularity University.
Situm has also received several prizes in Galicia, such as Spin-off or Galicia Emprende.
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Calling all animal print lovers! Taken from an original watercolour painting of zebra stripes. Available in green, pink or black!
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All packs are wrapped in a rainbow belly band with green, yellow and orange envelopes.


The CoffeeShop Blog: CoffeeShop 12x12 Photographer Storyboard Set #43!
CoffeeShop 12x12 Photographer Storyboard Set #43!
Today I have a brand new photographer storyboard set to share with you. These storyboards are layered psd files so you can add your images using clipping masks (tutorial and free action). One of them has white borders (you can change the color). These are 12 inch by 12 inch so you can print them or use them on the web. If you want them bigger, simply enlarge them BEFORE adding your images.
I want to thank Jill Wellington (Etsy Shop, Facebook, Blog, YouTube Videos, Pixabay) for allowing me to use her beautiful images on my sample storyboard.
Download the CoffeeShop Photographer Storyboard Set #43. You can also download it here.
Do you want to download my favorite CoffeeShop PSE/Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets or Design Elements in one convenient zipped file AND help support this blog? Just click here for my action pack or here for a download of some of my most popular design elements, storyboards, and textures.


I've been using this quite a lot recently. It's not a problem looking for people who are talking about an issue on Twitter, but it is a problem that Twitter is so fast moving, and the people you find today might not be there tomorrow. Likewise, it's not a problem finding people who major on a certain issue (WeFollow, anyone?), but they might not be talking about it right now. Enter Tweefind. Type in your search terms and it gives you the people talking about that, now, ranked. As with all these tools you need to supplement it with real work, like you would supplement a MacDonalds and Special Brew with some freshly crushed orange juice and vitamin pills, but it's a reasonable place to start.


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PwC and REWIND Create Futuristic VR City Experience to Help Organisations Navigate Potential Disruptions
By Peter Graham	 Last updated Apr 4, 2018
A view of a potential future city as portrayed in the new virtual reality experience developed by PwC and REWIND
Global accountancy firm PwC has been dabbling in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for awhile now, setting up its own specialist division which saw the creation of an interactive map in 2017 detailing the UK's VR/AR industry. Today, the company has announced its latest project – built in collaboration with creative agency REWIND – a VR experience that aims to help PwC's clients explore and better understand the range of potential future disruptions that could impact their organisation.
The companies built an immersive experience of a future city, illustrating how emerging technologies (including megadrones and robotics), as well as various social and climate trends, might impact our future.
PwC has said that more than 100 people have been guided through the experience already as part of its pilot phase, including clients in banking, transport, local government and the public sector. Participants use VR to spot 20 potential disruptions around them in a future city environment and collectively rate their credibility and impact.
Jeremy Dalton, VR lead at PwC, said in a statement: "VR is a unique medium to tell the story of disruption, allowing our clients to experience the potential impact first-hand and bring their challenges to life in a much more immersive way. It enables far more meaningful conversations about the risks faced by each organisation as a result. This tool demonstrates there is far more to VR than gaming – it's a technology with huge potential across a whole host of sectors, including professional services, with its power to engage people in a new way."
"Organisations are facing so many potential disruptions today – not only from technological advances, but from the collision of broader megatrends, from ageing populations to income inequality," adds Leo Johnson, disruption lead partner at PwC. "We've established a new team specialising in disruption to help our clients stay one step ahead of these risks and build future-proofed strategies. The challenge is to map out the potential disruptions an organisation could face, separate out the reality from the hype, and then look at strategies to transform risk into opportunity. The value of the VR tool is that it brings the future into the present and allows our clients a first-hand glimpse of how exponential technologies will start to transform the business landscape."
As businesses continue to use VR in all its forms, VRFocus will keep you updated on the latest developments.
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Senior Staff Writer at VRFocus who has reported on the VR industry for the last 5 years. A keen gamer since the days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Peter enjoys covering all aspects of the technology; from the latest consumer hardware to enterprise use cases.
E-mail: pgraham@vrfocus.com


With New York Mayor Bloomberg's controversial proposition to ban 16 oz. sodas, many have begun to question the true effects of soda on one's health. While seeking the insurance policy that's best for you or your family, it's important to keep in mind the health issues that are present in your life, as well as those that may one day become present. Taking note of, and being honest about, your lifestyle and state of health will ultimately be the most important factor in determining your proper insurance plan. That being the case, for the sake of insuring yourself and preparing for a healthy future, sometimes behaviors and habits are best changed to promote your own well-being. The average American is consuming large quantities of of sugary drinks and soda each year, and while the idea of banning soda is raising eyebrows across the country, some of the statistics associated with soda consumption are having the same effect. For a nation that loves to crack open a Coca Cola, the idea of giving up soda seems nearly impossible. But as our waistlines expand and new health issues develop, the idea of at least cutting back on a little bit of the fizzy stuff doesn't seem like such a bad idea. The following infographic examines some of the facts and figures that go along with soda consumption, and might make you think twice before you pop the tab on that can of cola.
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More than two decades ago, I got so hooked up with writing letters to penpals. Email back then wasn't as famous as it is now., therefore snail mail made it possible to keep up with my hobby. Every week, I received letters from strangers. I remember my mother was very furious before because I used to spend money for postal services. She thought I was just making the PhilPost rich. True enough, but the fulfillment I got when receiving replies for my snail mails was incomparable.
Until now, I still have those old letters from the people I've exchanged snails mails before. In fact, I barely recall their names and stories, but sometimes when I have the chance to read again the letters, it really makes me smile that there are some strangers who trusted their stories to another stranger.
There are some of them who found me on facebook after so many years when we stopped sending letters to each other. One of them is Bhego. She was just a high schooler when we started exchanging snail mails. Four to five years after, the communication stopped because we were both busy in school. Modern technology paved a way for me to find Bhego in one of the social networking websites. She's now in Singapore, working as an engineer.
Compared to email, I still prefer snail mails because of the thrill I get while waiting for the mails to arrive. Of course emailing has a very big advantage to everyone. It's easier, quick and very comfortable to use. To top it all, no matter how inconvenient a snail mail is, I would still love to receive one from a friend or maybe a stranger out there.


The raucous psychedelic cow-punk party band sound of Entire Cities has matured into something a little more restrained on their second album, I Hope You Never Come Home. Ultimately this release feels a bit more mature than the band's debut album, Deep River, and that's only right and proper.
I Hope You Never Come Home is still filled with those signature change-ups in tempo and in melody, and the vocals are still dominated by the iconic booming voice of frontman, Simon Borer. But there's a shift toward a more subtle sound. Those shouting choruses that dominated the earlier album, although present, tend to eventually morph into a more restrained group-sing dynamic. The unapologetic barn-yard hollering has moved indoors and has been replaced by a slightly demented choral group.
Despite the more subtle sound, Entire Cities has managed to maintain the exuberant instrumentation for which they have become known. The album is still filled with breakneck rushes of recklessness (A Closed Hand) and the big flourishes that characterize their established party band sound, but added to the mix is a sweet boy-girl duet (Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear), touches of nostalgic Canadiana with a soupcon of the big band sound (A Coat of Loup Garou), and a highly satisfying poetic spirit that runs throughout the entire album.
The final track, Predator Song, is particularly bittersweet, a beautifully restrained summation of the sensibilities that have come before and those that identify Entire Cities in their present guise. The gasp of oh my god and the burst of surprised laughter that follows the final notes somehow encapsulates the entire spirit of this album. A spirit of discovery and surprise.
I Hope You Never Come Home, ironically, feels like home.


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Ashland is a town located just north of Richmond in Hanover County, Virginia., United States. The population was 6,619 at the 2000 census. Ashland is home to Randolph-Macon College (1830). "The Center of the Universe" is a popular thematic phrase displayed on signs in the town.
Ashland is located at 37°45′34″N 77°28′38″W / 37.75944°N 77.47722°W / 37.75944; -77.47722 (37.759361, -77.477226).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.2 square miles (18.7 km²), of which, 7.2 square miles (18.6 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.55%) is water.