"China has noted the relevant report. China's position on the Kashmir issue is clear-cut," Lu said, in response to a question.
"The Kashmir issue is left over from history. China hopes India and Pakistan can increase dialogue and communication and properly handle relevant issues and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability," he said.
The 57-member OIC, of which Pakistan is a member, routinely passes a resolution on Kashmir calling for the implementation of the UN resolution.
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install Windows 11; Windows 10 users can now experience the initial beta of Windows 11 by subscribing to Windows Insider; Read the Windows Insider membership tutorial and how to download and install Windows 11 in this article.
Within a few weeks, Windows 11 was officially rumored to be an abstract concept, and PC users could now experience a beta version of this exciting new operating system.
Just four days after the introduction of Windows 11, Microsoft released the first public beta (Insider Preview) for members of the Windows Insider Program. This trial is a golden opportunity for Microsoft to use the feedback of users and developers to improve the Windows 11 experience before its official release in October (October-November) and fix its bugs.
General steps of downloading and installing Windows 11
Check the minimum system requirements for Windows 11
Enable TPM 2.0 via BIOS
Install Windows 10 on the drive/partition separately from the main system
Sign up for the Windows Insider Program
Select the Dev channel in Windows Insider
Download Windows 11 via Windows Update
Join Windows Insider to get the beta version of Windows 11 for all users who have a Windows PC and a Microsoft account, and you can join the program right now and experience the new operating system; But keep in mind that this initial build may not include some of the features of Windows 11, but it does have a lot of bugs; Therefore, we do not recommend installing this version of Windows on the main system.
Many users prefer to wait until the public release of Windows 11 in July or better, until the official release of Windows 11 in mid-October; But if you have an extra computer or you do not have a problem with dual boot and you are impatiently eager to experience Windows 11 before its release, join this article.
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Check the minimum hardware specifications of Windows 11
Windows Insider membership training
Installation tutorial for Windows 11 beta
Download the official and general version of Windows 11
Before going through the Windows Insider registration process, it's a good idea to first make sure Windows 11 is running on your system. The easiest way to check this is to use the PC Health Check software, which is not currently available on the Microsoft website.
Microsoft first asked users to check the specifications of their PC hardware with this software; But after many reported that the software did not provide enough details, Microsoft temporarily removed it from the site to release a more complete version soon.
How to return from Windows 11 to Windows 10?
In the absence of this software, you can check the minimum hardware specifications of the system required to run Windows 11, which Microsoft has officially announced, below:
One GHz dual-core 64-bit processor
4 GB of RAM
64 GB of storage memory
9-inch display
1366 x 768 resolution
Supports UEFI, Secure Boot and TPM 2.0
Support for DirectX 12 and WWWDM 2.x
In general, if you have purchased a PC in the last four years, your system will be able to get Windows 11.
To check the compatibility of the processor with Windows 11, you can see the complete list of processors whose compatibility with Windows 11 has been officially confirmed; But keep in mind that even Microsoft is not 100% sure about this list; So if your processor is out of date and not on this list, do not despair and see for yourself if your system is capable of running Windows 11.
But the biggest obstacle for many users to install the new Windows is the need for TPM 2.0 support, which if your system is relatively new, just enable it in the BIOS. Because enabling this security microchip depends on the manufacturer's settings, the steps vary from system to system; But to activate the TPM feature on your system, you can read the TPM activation guide on PC to install Windows 11.
If you bought your computer before 2016, it is very unlikely to support TPM 2.0; But Microsoft has quietly pointed out that under certain circumstances, Windows 11 can run at TPM 1.2.
Join Windows Insider
The initial build of Windows 11 has been available to Windows Insider members for a few days; But who are these mysterious members and how can one become one?
Windows Insider members are no different from you and me. These are also technology "addicts" who are willing to live with all the bugs and bugs of the early version of Windows 11 to experience this beautiful and exciting version of Windows before anyone else. In order for you to join the ranks of these Windows addicts, all you need is a PC with the latest version of Windows 10 and a free Microsoft account.
Learn how to download and install Windows 11 on Windows devices
Follow the steps below to join the Windows Insider Program:
1- First, make sure that your device's operating system is Windows 10 (for more security, its legal version) and your account is Administrator so that you can have full control of the system.
On the Windows Insider Program website, click on the Register option and register with your Microsoft account (Hotmail or Outlook account).
3 – After registering on the website, go to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Insider Program on your computer to the insider and click Get Started.
Note: To receive Windows builds, you need to enable the optional diagnostic data option in the Diagnostics & Feedback section.
4- Click on the + sign to enter the Microsoft account information with which you have registered. Click Continue.
5- In this section, you are faced with three options:
Dev Channel, which is for developers and has the highest number of bugs.
Beta Channel which is the initial beta version and is more stable than the developer version.
Release Preview Channel, which is the most stable version of Windows before its release.
The build is currently only available to developers; Then select the Dev Channel option.
6.Read the privacy statement and terms and click confirm. Then click on Restart Now.
You are now a member of Windows Insider.
Install the beta version of Windows 11
Before we get into the process of installing the Windows 11 beta, let us remind you again that this build of Windows is incomplete and most likely full of bugs. In fact, Microsoft's goal in releasing this version is to find bugs in Windows 11 to fix them before they go public.
To install the beta version of Windows 11 in a completely secure way on your system, so that the security of your saved files and valuable games is not compromised, it is better to use a device that is not your main system or dual boot mode. If you have an extra drive, you can convert it to a partition and use it to experience the Windows 11 environment.
Since Windows 11 is available as a free update to Windows 10, and the Dev build is only available on the latest version of Windows 10, the operating system you install on another drive must first be upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10.
How to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
With this in mind, you can download and install Windows 11:
On your computer, go to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Update.
Click on Check for updates.
3.After a few seconds, the update called Windows 11 Insider Preview will start downloading automatically.
4- After completing the download, you will be asked to restart your PC. Click Restart now.
After completing the installation and rebooting of Windows, you can enjoy the beta version of Windows 11.
Download the official version of Windows 11
Once the official version of Windows 11 is available to all users – which is rumored to be October 20 – you can download and install it similar to Windows 10 updates; Provided that your system has the minimum hardware specifications required to run Windows 11.
Many users try to get updates by going to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Update and clicking Check for Updates. If your system is capable of running Windows 11, after clicking this button, you will be presented with the Feature update to Windows 11 option. In this case, just click on Download and install and let the operating system perform the download and installation steps automatically.
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Windows 11 has a new, simpler design with pastel colors, rounded corners, a new boot sound, and a Mac OS-like look overall. The Windows 11 Start menu has been moved from the left to the middle of the screen, and the application icons are located in the center and next to it. In Windows 11, you can find new desktop tools, including widgets and smart feeds. Android applications will be easily downloaded from the Microsoft Store and installed on Windows 11 without the need for an emulator. You can read other new features of Windows 11 in the article Everything you need to know about Windows 11.
Finally, Windows 11 looks like an attractive upgrade; But users of older systems that can't run Windows 11 don't have to worry about that. The new features of Windows 11 are interesting, But they are not vital and you can enjoy the Windows operating system without them.
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UK Intelligence and Security Committee criticise Police and MI5 over Manchester and London bombings
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Salman Abedi killed himself and 22 others in an attack at the Manchester Arena last May.
Police and intelligence service did not do enough to monitor and restrict movements of bombers who carried out 2017 attacks, committee finds.
A number of serious mistakes by police and government officials allowed a teenager to build a bomb and partially detonate it on London's underground train network, according to an investigation by a UK parliamentary oversight body into a series of terrorist attacks in the country.
Pointing to a "litany of errors" and "fundamental failings", the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said there would need to be a further inquiry into the September 2017 tube train bombing in which 23 people suffered burns and 28 were crushed in the stampede that followed.
The ISC condemned as unacceptable the UK Home Office's failure to provide sufficient information for its inquiry.
The committee's concerns centre on the way in which the bomber, Ahmed Hassan, an Iraqi asylum seeker, was not properly monitored despite having been identified as someone who was a potential threat.
Hassan was jailed for life earlier this year with the judge recommending that he serve a minimum of 34 years.
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The ISC examined UK security measures in relation to the five serous terrorist attacks in the country last year, which cost 36 lives with scores injured.
Its report on the terrorist attacks was published as the British government was about to respond to an earlier report from the committee on the UK's involvement in rendition operations and the mistreatment of detainees following the 9/11 attacks in the US in 2001.
The ISC was also critical of the UK's domestic security service, MI5, which admitted that it should have done more to restrict the movements of Salman Abedi, who killed himself and 22 others in a bomb attack on a concert in Manchester in May last year.
Furthermore, the ISC concluded, the system in place for regulating and reporting the purchase of ingredients that Hassan and Abedi had used to construct their bombs had been "hopelessly out of date"; recent reforms should have been carried out sooner.
Members of the committee said that they could not be sure that the underground train and Manchester bombings could have been averted if police and security officials had acted differently, but that policies needed to be revisited.
The committee also renewed its appeal to internet and communications companies to do more to remove material that it considers extremist.
The ISC's chair, Dominic Grieve, a Conservative MP and former attorney general, said that the committee had first raised these concerns four years ago following the murder of an off-duty soldier in London.
"It was Facebook on that occasion," he said. "We recommend that pressure is put on the communications service providers by the business community. We strongly consider that action which affects the providers' profits will hit home harder than an appeal to them to do the right thing."
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Theresa May pledges £106m funding boost for green vehicles
By Peter MadeleyBirminghamPoliticsPublished: Sept 11, 2018
Theresa May has laid out her 'ambitious mission' for the UK to become a world leader in the design and manufacture of zero-emission vehicles.
Theresa May speaking to the world's first zero emission vehicle summit at Birmingham's International Convention Centre
At a speech in the West Midlands, the Prime Minister pledged to help car makers prepare for a pollution-free future which would be spearheaded by Britain.
She also announced £106 million in funding for research and development in green vehicles, new batteries and low carbon technology in the West Midlands.
Britain is to ban the sale of new petrol or diesel cars from 2040, by which time zero-pollution vehicles such as electric cars – which are currently being piloted in the West Midlands – will be sold instead.
Mrs May's announcement came as Birmingham considers introducing a controversial 'clean air' charge, which could see motorists face a £10 fee for driving within the city's ring road. The plans have met with widespread public criticism.
The Prime Minister was addressing delegates at the world's first zero emission vehicle summit at Birmingham's ICC.
She said: "I want to see Britain, once again, leading from the front and working with industries and countries around the world to spearhead change.
"That is why I have set this country an ambitious mission. To put the UK at the forefront of the design and manufacturing of zero emission vehicles and for all new cars and vans to be effectively zero emission by 2040.
"Already we are taking significant strides forward. Our electric UK manufactured cars account for one in five sold in Europe. Our batteries are among the best in the world.
"And our Road to Zero Strategy is the most comprehensive plan globally - mapping out in detail how we will reach our target for all new cars and vans to be effectively zero emission by 2040 - and for every car and van to be zero emission by 2050."
Mrs May also highlighted investment in green vehicle technology from private firms, saying that £500m had come from key industries in the sector to add to a £100m funding pot from the Government.
She said that both cash injections will 'drive the design, use, uptake and infrastructure necessary for cleaner, greener vehicles' – and help the UK meet its obligation to the Paris climate accord.
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West Midlands Mayor Andy Street said: "The West Midlands is already the home of UK automotive manufacturing."
He added: "Names like Jaguar Land Rover and Geeley proudly call the West Midlands home and are market leaders who continue to invest in our region, drawn by the strong skills base, healthy supply chain and world-class R&D.
"It is absolutely vital we continue to build on this as we move towards future automotive technologies, low-emission vehicles and driverless vehicles.
"Two particular game-changing developments will particularly help us to develop these new industries.
"The first is the £100m battery institute at the University of Warwick which will cement our region as the centre of this technology.
"And the second is the successful bid to be the home of the 5g testbed announced last week and is absolutely imperative for the development and roll-out of connected and autonomous vehicles.
"The future is happening. We are trialling autonomous vehicles on our region's roads already and our universities and R&D centres are working with the private sector to drive down emissions and develop technology, supporting sectors which will create the jobs of the future here in the West Midlands."
The Government has viewed the summit as an opportunity to try to drive more foreign investment into the UK through discussions on how to accelerate the development of the zero-emissions market.
She was due to hold talks with supply-chain companies from the US, Germany, Japan, China, Spain and India during the event, which will also see the unveiling of a UK-led international initiative dubbed the 'Birmingham deceleration'.
The project aims to pave the way for the global deployment of green vehicles and the introduction of zero-emission infrastructure, with its first signatories including Italy, France, Denmark, UAE, Portugal, Belarus and Indonesia.
Also speaking at the summit, Business Secretary Greg Clark announced that taxpayers would contribute to rolling out a network of charging stations for electric vehicles.
He said this would enable drivers to charge up their cars on motorways 'in minutes'.
Mr Clark also made the case for a Brexit deal along the lines of Mrs May's much-criticised Chequers proposals, due to the importance of EU trading ties for car manufacturers.
He added: "It's one of the reasons why we need to have a deal with the rest of the EU that allows one of the most sophisticated ways of producing products on earth – the components coming in from all parts of the EU and elsewhere across the world, and being exported out there."
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Drought, wildfires, intense storms and rising temperatures–thinking about climate change can be overwhelming. It's why international climate activist Greta Thunberg is using her new book, "The Climate Book," which releases on Oct. 27, to educate people and give them hope for the future, with the help of scientists and scholars, including a couple of Northeastern's. the finest
Northeastern professors Mauricio Santillana and Jennie C. Stephens are two of the more than 100 experts Thunberg has gathered to help share their expertise on how to combat climate change. Santillana is a professor of physics and network science, while Stephens is a professor of sustainability science and policy. Although they approach climate change from different fields, they are united in their insistence that climate change is a pressing issue that must be tackled with speed and ambition.
Left to right: Jennie C. Stephens, professor of sustainability science and policy and director of strategic research collaborations for the Global Resilience Institute, and Mauricio Santillana, professor of physics and network science and director of the Machine Intelligence Lab, Network Science Institute. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
"Most of the authors in this book embrace a transformative lens," Stephens says. "At this point we're not talking about small, incremental changes. We're talking about a bigger transformation of society that's needed."
Santillana, who co-authored his chapter with John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden and Sarah McGough, drew on previous research about the effect climate change has had on antibiotic resistance. His work drew Thunberg's interest because of how it illustrates the subtle impacts of climate change, Santillana says.
Antibiotic resistance has been increasing, making it more difficult to fight bacterial infections with medicine like penicillin, which was long thought to be a "magic bullet," Santillana says. In part, this has to do with the frequent use of antibiotics on humans and on animals that eventually become food, but Santillana says he and a team of researchers discovered that, in the US, antibiotic resistance differs based on region.
"The South has seen a larger prevalence of antibiotic resistance and the North not as much," Santillana says. "We hypothesized whether it could be where farms were located, but at the end of the day when we combined weather data from the models that reconstruct weather in the past–the ones that we use for weather forecasting–we realized that there was a very strong correlation between places that were experiencing warming and antibiotic resistance."
Santillana and his team later looked at 20 years' worth of data from Europe and found a similar trend: Antibiotic resistance occurred more quickly in warmer places.
By illustrating these findings in Thunberg's book, Santillana wanted to "go beyond the usual side effects that we know well about global climate change." The impact of climate change on public health is still being unpacked, but what's clear to Santillana is that antibiotic resistance "is one of the symptoms that happens as a consequence of a larger system."
"The lesson here is that there are other ways in which the consequences of climate change will bite us, so it's important to not look the other way and to do something and own our role in this ecosystem and to be more responsible–for the sake. of our generation but more so for the sake of future generations," Santillana says.
Stephens focused her chapter on opposing another approach to climate change. Geoengineering, also known as climate engineering, is the large-scale intervention in and manipulation of Earth's climate system to slow climate change. It's a "technical fix" that has given Stephens cause for concern, she says.
"It has this technological optimism, even a colonial, problematic power structure about who would govern it, who benefits and who gets screwed with it," Stephens says.
The chapter Stephens co-authored with Niclas Hällström and Isak Stoddard takes aim at climate change solutions like geoengineering that Stephens says distract from broader systemic changes, like ending reliance on fossil fuels. In order to make these changes, Stephens argues for a climate justice approach that makes transformative changes while taking into account global inequities.
"We've been ineffective in addressing the climate, in part because a lot of the proposals of what to do are quite narrow and technocratic and they don't integrate or aren't based on who the most vulnerable people are," Stephens says. . "How do we invest in new ways and redistribute power, literally and figuratively, so that our climate solutions don't exacerbate inequities and disparities?"
Proposed solutions like geoengineering are a form of technological optimism that recreate systems of inequality by creating another mechanism to concentrate power in the hands of those who already have it.
Stephens called these approaches forms of "climate isolationism" that view climate change as a problem to be fixed as opposed to a complex system that needs to be handled with care and focus. Stephens points to solar geoengineering, which would inject aerosol into the stratosphere to cool the planet, as an approach that has garnered support with little regard for its systemic implications.
"One of the many problems with that is the benefits of cooling the planet would not be equal, just as the warming of the planet isn't affecting everyone equally," Stephens says.
It might seem like a simple change, but stratospheric aerosol injection could have disastrous effects on precipitation systems, disrupting seasonal rains and agricultural systems in the process.
"It's so dangerous when you do this simplistic, 'This is the problem so we're going to fix that problem' approach, and the cascading impacts of having that narrow, technocratic view of what the problem is are so antithetical to what we know. about how systems work, especially Earth systems," Stephens says.
Despite their different fields of study, both Santillana and Stephens are using "The Climate Book" as an opportunity to educate readers with the conviction that with knowledge comes power.
"What I'm hoping is that we all acknowledge the role we have had and we still have and become more proactive," Santillana says. "Being aware of that empowers us as humans to react and try to curb the way in which we are basically dumping pollution into the atmosphere and other resources like water."
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Trial for the three men accused of multi million dollar health care fraud will begin next year. A fourth defendant will get a separate trial.
Woman will get separate trial in health care fraud case Trial for the three men accused of multi million dollar health care fraud will begin next year. A fourth defendant will get a separate trial. Check out this story on guampdn.com: http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/10/24/woman-get-separate-trial-health-care-fraud-case/793264001/
Jasmine Stole , jstole@guampdn.com Published 2:00 p.m. ChT Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 2:14 p.m. ChT Oct. 24, 2017
This combined image shows, from left: Clifford Shoemake and Kimberly Conner, part owners of Guam Medical Transport, and Nicholas Shoemake, executive assistant, right. The three defendants made an appearance at the District Court of Guam on Jan. 26.(Photo: PDN file photo)
A woman accused of trying to cover up a scheme to collect federal money for unauthorized ambulance rides will get a separate trial from other defendants, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Thelma Joiner is charged with a one felony charge of obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses.
The remaining 44 counts in the 25-page superseding indictment charge three other defendants - Clifford "Cliff" Shoemake, Kimberly "Casey" Conner and Nicholas "Nick" Shoemake - with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, money laundering and other related crimes.
Clifford Shoemake and Conner owned Guam Medical Transport, which provided ambulance transportation, mostly for people who needed transport to and from kidney dialysis clinics, court documents state. Nicholas Shoemake, Clifford Shoemake's son, was an executive assistant for the company, the indictment states.
The indictment alleges the Shoemakes and Conner conspired to defraud the federal government through false claims to Medicare and TriCare for ambulance transportation.
They're accused of providing ambulance services through Guam Medical Transport, knowing the transportation services weren't medically necessary, and submitting claims to Medicare and TriCare for payment based on "false and fraudulent claims," according to the indictment. They reportedly received more than $10 million in payments from Medicare and TriCare from March 2010 through March 2014, court documents state.
The one charge in the indictment against Joiner stems from her alleged submission of altered or fabricated documents to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General after the inspector general subpoenaed the company.
Joiner's attorney, Colin Thompson, said Joiner should get a separate trial for several reasons, and that she would be prejudiced if she stood trial alongside the other defendants.
The crime Joiner is charged with is different from the other crimes in the case,Thompson said.
Thompson said Joiner is not charged with health care fraud conspiracy or money laundering.
U.S. Department of Justice attorney John Michelich said there's a significant overlap in the charges against the three men and the charge Joiner faces.
Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood granted Joiner's request for a separate trial. The Shoemakes and Conner also asked for separate trials, but instead will stand trial together.
The trial was scheduled to start next month, but Tydingco-Gatewood agreed to push it back. Defense attorneys asked to postpone trial to allow them time prepare. The case involves a large amount of evidence, including some 250,000 related documents, court papers state..
Tydingco-Gatewood decided that trial for the Shoemakes and Conner will begin March 27, 2018. Joiner's trial is scheduled to start after that trial ends.
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import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.NumberPicker;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;

import org.hamcrest.Description;
import org.hamcrest.Matcher;
import org.hamcrest.Matchers;

import de.avalax.fitbuddy.R;
import de.avalax.fitbuddy.application.dialog.WeightDecimalPlaces;
import de.avalax.fitbuddy.presentation.edit.SelectableViewHolder;

import static android.support.test.espresso.Espresso.onView;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.click;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.closeSoftKeyboard;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.longClick;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.replaceText;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.swipeLeft;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.swipeRight;
import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.typeText;
import static android.support.test.espresso.assertion.ViewAssertions.matches;
import static android.support.test.espresso.contrib.RecyclerViewActions.actionOnItemAtPosition;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.RootMatchers.isDialog;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isDescendantOfA;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isDisplayed;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isEnabled;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isRoot;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId;
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withText;
import static de.avalax.fitbuddy.runner.BottomNavigationMatcher.bottomNavItemIsChecked;
import static de.avalax.fitbuddy.runner.BottomNavigationMatcher.bottomNavItemIsNotChecked;
import static de.avalax.fitbuddy.runner.ToastMatcher.isToast;
import static java.lang.Integer.parseInt;
import static java.lang.String.valueOf;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.allOf;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;

public class ApplicationRunner {
    public void showsStartBottomNavAsActive() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_start_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_workout_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_summary_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
    }

    public void showsWorkoutBottomNavAsActive() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_start_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_workout_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_summary_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
    }

    public void showsSummaryBottomNavAsActive() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_start_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_workout_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsNotChecked()));
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_summary_item)).check(matches(bottomNavItemIsChecked()));
    }

    public void showsFinishedWorkoutBottomNavAsDisabled() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_summary_item)).check(matches(not(isEnabled())));
    }

    public void showsAdMob() {
        onView(withId(R.id.adView)).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void notDisplayAdMob() {
        onView(withId(R.id.adView)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void navigateToSummary() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_summary_item)).perform(click());
    }

    public void deleteFinishedWorkout(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(actionOnItemAtPosition(position, longClick()));
    }

    public void deleteSelectedFinishedWorkouts() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_finished_workout)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownAddNoFinishedWorkoutsHint() {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(withText(R.string.empty_finished_workout_list)));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void selectFinishedWorkout(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
    }

    public void showsFinishedWorkoutOverview(int position, String name, String date, String tendency) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list))
                .perform(RecyclerViewActions.scrollToPosition(position))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(name), R.id.item_title)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(date), R.id.item_subtitle)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withDrawable(tendency), R.id.item_tendency)));
    }

    public void showsSupportMenuItem() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_support)).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void hasShownAddNewWorkoutHint() {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(withText(R.string.empty_workout_list)));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void hasShownAddNewExerciseHint() {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(withText(R.string.empty_exercise_list)));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void hasShownAddNewSetHint() {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(withText(R.string.empty_set_list)));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void addWorkout(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.fab_add_workout)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_workout_name)).perform(typeText(name), closeSoftKeyboard());
    }

    public void editWorkout(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, longClick()));
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_edit_workout)).perform(click());
    }

    public void selectWorkout(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
    }

    public void showsWorkoutIsActive(int position) {
        onView(withId(R.id.card_status))
                .check(matches(withText(R.string.workout_active)));
    }

    public void changeWorkout(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_workout_name)).perform(replaceText(name), closeSoftKeyboard());
    }

    public void deleteWorkout(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(actionOnItemAtPosition(position, longClick()));
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_workout)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownOldWorkoutNameInEditView(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_workout_name)).check(matches(withText(name)));
    }

    public void addExercise(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.fab_add_exercise)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_exercise_name)).perform(typeText(name), closeSoftKeyboard());
    }

    public void editExercise(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
    }

    public void hasShownOldExerciseNameInEditView(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_exercise_name)).check(matches(withText(name)));
    }

    public void changeExercise(String name) {
        onView(withId(R.id.edit_text_exercise_name)).perform(replaceText(name), closeSoftKeyboard());
    }

    public void addSet(String reps, String weight) {
        onView(withId(R.id.fab_add_set)).perform(click());

        onView(withId(R.id.set_reps)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.repsNumberPicker)).perform(setNumberPicker(parseInt(reps)));
        onView(withId(R.id.done_button)).perform(click());

        String[] weightSplit = weight.split("\\.");
        onView(withId(R.id.set_weight)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.numberPicker)).perform(setNumberPicker(parseInt(weightSplit[0])));
        WeightDecimalPlaces weightDecimalPlaces = new WeightDecimalPlaces();
        int position = weightDecimalPlaces.getPosition(Double.parseDouble("0." + weightSplit[1]));
        onView(withId(R.id.decimalPlaces)).perform(setNumberPicker(position));
        onView(withId(R.id.done_button)).perform(click());
    }

    public void editSet(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
    }

    public void hasShownOldSetDetails(String reps, String weight) {
        onView(withId(R.id.set_reps_text_view)).check(matches(withText(reps)));
        onView(withId(R.id.set_weight_text_view)).check(matches(withText(weight)));
    }

    public void changeSet(String reps, String weight) {
        onView(withId(R.id.set_reps)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.repsNumberPicker)).perform(setNumberPicker(parseInt(reps)));
        onView(withId(R.id.done_button)).perform(click());

        String[] weightSplit = weight.split("\\.");
        onView(withId(R.id.set_weight)).perform(click());
        onView(withId(R.id.numberPicker)).perform(setNumberPicker(parseInt(weightSplit[0])));
        WeightDecimalPlaces weightDecimalPlaces = new WeightDecimalPlaces();
        int position = weightDecimalPlaces.getPosition(Double.parseDouble("0." + weightSplit[1]));
        onView(withId(R.id.decimalPlaces)).perform(setNumberPicker(position));
        onView(withId(R.id.done_button)).perform(click());
    }

    public void saveSet() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_save_set)).perform(click());
    }

    public void enterSetSelectionMode(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, longClick()));
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_sets)).check(matches(withMenuTitle(valueOf(1))));
    }

    public void selectSets(int... positions) {
        for (int position : positions) {
            onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                    actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
        }
    }

    public void hasShownDeleteSetsCount(int count) {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_sets)).check(matches(withMenuTitle(valueOf(count))));
    }

    public void deleteSelectedSets() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_sets)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownCantSaveExerciseWithoutSets() {
        onView(withText(R.string.message_save_exercise_without_sets)).inRoot(isToast()).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void hasShownSetAddedToExercise(String reps, String weight) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
        onView(withId(R.id.item_title)).check(matches(withText(reps)));
        onView(withId(R.id.item_subtitle)).check(matches(withText(weight)));
    }

    public void enterExerciseSelectionMode(int position) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                actionOnItemAtPosition(position, longClick()));
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_exercices)).check(matches(withMenuTitle(valueOf(1))));
    }

    public void selectExercises(int... positions) {
        for (int position : positions) {
            onView(withId(android.R.id.list)).perform(
                    actionOnItemAtPosition(position, click()));
        }
    }

    public void hasShownDeleteExerciseCount(int count) {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_exercices)).check(matches(withMenuTitle(valueOf(count))));
    }

    public void deleteSelectedExercices() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_delete_exercices)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownCantSaveWorkoutWithoutExercices() {
        onView(withText(R.string.message_save_workout_without_exercices)).inRoot(isToast()).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void hasShownSelectWorkoutFirst() {
        onView(withText(R.string.message_select_workout_first)).inRoot(isToast()).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void saveExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_save_exercise)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownExerciseDetails(String name, String details, String weight) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
        onView(withId(R.id.item_title)).check(matches(withText(name)));
        onView(withId(R.id.item_subtitle)).check(matches(withText(details)));
        onView(withId(R.id.item_weight)).check(matches(withText(weight)));
    }

    public void saveWorkout() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_save_workout)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownWorkoutDetails(int position, String name, String lastExecuted, String executed) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list))
                .perform(RecyclerViewActions.scrollToPosition(position))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(name), R.id.item_title)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(executed), R.id.item_subtitle)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(lastExecuted), R.id.card_date)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(R.string.workout_not_active), R.id.card_status)))
                .check(matches(not(itemIsSelected(position))));
    }

    public void hasShownSetDetails(String reps, String weight) {
        onView(withId(R.id.set_reps_text_view)).check(matches(withText(reps)));
        onView(withId(R.id.set_weight_text_view)).check(matches(withText(weight)));
    }

    public void showsActiveExercise(String exerciseName, String weight) {
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_exercise_name)).check(matches(withText(exerciseName)));
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_set_weight)).check(matches(withText(weight)));
    }

    public void showsNoPreviousExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_previous_exercise_name)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void showsPreviousExercise(String exerciseName) {
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_previous_exercise_name)).check(matches(withText(exerciseName)));
    }

    public void showsNoNextExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_next_exercise_name)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
    }

    public void showsNextExercise(String exerciseName) {
        onView(withId(R.id.exercises_bar_next_exercise_name)).check(matches(withText(exerciseName)));
    }

    public void navigateToStart() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_start_item)).perform(click());
    }

    public void navigateToWorkout() {
        onView(withId(R.id.navigation_workout_item)).perform(click());
    }

    public void backPressed() {
        onView(isRoot()).perform(ViewActions.pressBack());
    }

    public void cancelAction() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_cancel_action)).perform(click());
    }

    public void addRepToExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.leftProgressBar)).perform(click());
    }

    public void switchToNextSet() {
        onView(withId(R.id.rightProgressBar)).perform(click());
    }

    public void hasShownRepsExecuted(int reps) {
        onView(allOf(withId(R.id.valueTextView), isDescendantOfA(withId(R.id.leftProgressBar))))
                .check(matches(withText(valueOf(reps))));
    }

    public void hasShownActiveSets(int sets) {
        onView(allOf(withId(R.id.valueTextView), isDescendantOfA(withId(R.id.rightProgressBar))))
                .check(matches(withText(valueOf(sets))));
    }

    public void switchToNextExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.pager_exercise)).perform(swipeLeft());
    }

    public void switchToPreviousExercise() {
        onView(withId(R.id.pager_exercise)).perform(swipeRight());
    }

    public void hasShownWorkoutProgress(int progress) {
        onView(withId(R.id.workoutProgressBar)).check(matches(progress(progress)));
    }

    public void hasShownFinishExerciseHint() {
        onView(withText(R.string.message_finish_workout)).inRoot(isDialog()).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void finishWorkout() {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.button1)).perform(click());
    }

    public void showsFinishedWorkoutDetail(String name, String created, String executed) {
        onView(withId(R.id.finished_workout_name)).check(matches(withText(name)));
        onView(withId(R.id.finished_workout_created)).check(matches(withText(created)));
        onView(withId(R.id.finished_workout_executed)).check(matches(withText(executed)));
    }

    public void showsFinishedExerciseDetail(int position, String name, String sets) {
        onView(withId(android.R.id.empty)).check(matches(not(isDisplayed())));
        onView(withId(android.R.id.list))
                .perform(RecyclerViewActions.scrollToPosition(position))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(name), R.id.item_title)))
                .check(matches(itemAtPosition(position, withText(sets), R.id.item_subtitle)));
    }

    public void showSupportDiablog() {
        onView(withId(R.id.toolbar_support)).perform(click());
    }

    public void showsPaymentMessage() {
        onView(withText(R.string.message_payment_available_soon)).inRoot(isToast()).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void hasShownSupportDialog() {
        onView(withText(R.string.dialog_support)).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    }

    public void support() {
        onView(withId(R.id.button_support)).perform(click());
    }

    private static ViewAction setNumberPicker(final int value) {
        return new ViewAction() {
            @Override
            public void perform(UiController uiController, View view) {
                ((NumberPicker) view).setValue(value);
            }

            @Override
            public String getDescription() {
                return "Set the value into a NumberPicker";
            }

            @Override
            public Matcher<View> getConstraints() {
                return ViewMatchers.isAssignableFrom(NumberPicker.class);
            }
        };
    }

    public static ViewAction clickChildButtonWithId(final int id) {
        return new ViewAction() {
            @Override
            public void perform(UiController uiController, View view) {
                View v = view.findViewById(id);
                v.performClick();
            }

            @Override
            public String getDescription() {
                return "Click on a child view with specified id.";
            }

            @Override
            public Matcher<View> getConstraints() {
                return ViewMatchers.isAssignableFrom(Button.class);
            }
        };
    }

    public static Matcher<View> withMenuTitle(String label) {
        return new BoundedMatcher<View, ActionMenuItemView>(ActionMenuItemView.class) {
            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("has label " + label);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean matchesSafely(final ActionMenuItemView actionMenuItemView) {
                MenuItem supportMenuItem = actionMenuItemView.getItemData();
                return label.matches(supportMenuItem.getTitle().toString());
            }
        };
    }

    public static Matcher<View> progress(int progress) {
        return new BoundedMatcher<View, ProgressBar>(ProgressBar.class) {
            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("has progress " + progress);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean matchesSafely(final ProgressBar progressBar) {
                return progress == progressBar.getProgress();
            }
        };
    }

    public static Matcher<View> itemAtPosition(int position, Matcher<View> itemMatcher, int id) {

        return new BoundedMatcher<View, RecyclerView>(RecyclerView.class) {
            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("has view id " + itemMatcher + " at position " + position);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean matchesSafely(final RecyclerView recyclerView) {
                RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder = recyclerView.findViewHolderForAdapterPosition(position);
                View targetView = viewHolder.itemView.findViewById(id);
                return itemMatcher.matches(targetView);
            }
        };
    }

    public static Matcher<View> itemIsSelected(int position) {

        return new BoundedMatcher<View, RecyclerView>(RecyclerView.class) {
            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("selected at position " + position);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean matchesSafely(final RecyclerView recyclerView) {
                SelectableViewHolder viewHolder = (SelectableViewHolder) recyclerView.findViewHolderForAdapterPosition(position);

                return viewHolder.isSelected();
            }
        };
    }

    private static Matcher<View> withDrawable(String description) {
        return new BoundedMatcher<View, ImageView>(ImageView.class) {
            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("description does not match " + description);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean matchesSafely(final ImageView imageView) {
                Matcher<String> stringMatcher = Matchers.equalTo(description);
                return stringMatcher.matches(imageView.getContentDescription());
            }
        };
    }
}

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Oculus VR's founder, Palmer Luckey.
Virtual reality wouldn't even be brought back to life without the ingenuity of some individuals. The resurrection of VR from its initial failure a few decades ago was enough to be a reason for this fancy piece of technology to stand as the future of human-computer interactions.
A young man from Long Beach, California brought VR to its current status today thanks to a simple Kickstarter project with a simple goal: to bring virtual reality to life. This passionate, 22-year-old man is no other than Palmer Freeman Luckey. Read on to know more about his passion in making virtual reality a piece of the future to exist today – a future looking at how we will view and experience media for ourselves.
Palmer Luckey is the original founder of Oculus VR, the company which traces its roots to a Kickstarter project with a plain, straighforward goal of creating content immersion through virtual reality. His project was the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that creates an immersive canvas for games and videos, among other possible applications of VR in everyday life.
Luckey put a huge emphasis on developing electronics-related projects involving Tesla coils and lasers since he was 11 years old. He also built a high-end desktop computer rig daisy-chained to six monitors. Having a high degree of interest in virtual reality, Luckey built a portfolio of over 50 virtual reality headsets he purchased in auctions at a fraction of their original cost. His enthusiasm and passion for technology, particularly with virtual reality, has pushed his efforts to contribute to University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies where he was an engineer and a part of the design team at the university institute's Mixed Reality Lab (MxR). Luckey did his job at the University of Southern California while he was taking journalism at California State University in Long Beach.
At the age of 18, he developed his first prototype of a virtual reality headset called CR1. The creation of CR1 was Luckey's basis for improving on VR headset features, including improvements on field of view angles, 3D stereoscopy, and reducing the overall footprint of the headset. Leading to his sixth VR headset prototype, Luckey intended to launch this VR headset, called the Rift, as a Kickstarter project with a target audience of 100 backers.
The sixth generation of his CR1 prototype, the Rift, has gained popularity among key people in the VR industry. Luckey has partnered with John D. Carmack, a game developer at id Software to make the Rift the sole basis for Oculus VR's existence. Together with Brendan Iribe, Luckey has created Oculus VR, a company that intends to focus its operations in the development and widespread adoption of virtual reality technology for consumers.
The Kickstarter campaign for the Rift was so successful, it has surpassed its initial funding goal by almost 1000%. Facebook has expressed a tremendous interest in VR, and so the social media giant bought Luckey's company for US$2 billion.
Luckey made a big impact on the development of present-day virtual reality technology – from the days of clunky headsets to the highly sophisticated Oculus Rift. Because of Luckey's huge contributions for VR's development, he was awarded by the Smithsonian Magazine with the American Ingenuity Award in the Youth category. It can truly be told that Palmer Luckey has rebooted VR for good.


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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Apache Creed and Dean Corll. Dean Corll has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
With a record of 5 wins, 1 losses and 0 draws, fighting out of Los Angeles, Apache Creed!
With a record of 2 wins, 0 losses and 0 draws, fighting out of Helsinki, Dean Corll!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Roosa Järviläinen and Anni Minnemäki.
Creed scoring well with a low kick there.
Creed connects with an inside leg kick.
Corll is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Creed.
Creed takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Corll throws a hook but Creed avoids it easily.
Corll throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Creed.
Creed wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Corll lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Creed circles away quickly and effectively.
Creed throws a jab but it's blocked by Corll.
Creed takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Creed.
Corll waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Creed.
Creed needs to keep his hands up - Corll had a free shot at his head there.
Creed looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Creed swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Creed displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Corll throws out the jab.
Creed connects with a high kick.
Corll uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Creed.
Creed slips under a jab.
Creed scores with a kick to the body.
Creed misses with a double jab.
Creed feints and then cracks Corll's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Corll down.
Creed fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Corll on the side of the head.
An inside leg kick lands from Creed.
A little feinted left hand from Creed on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Corll throws out a loose jab but Creed uses good head movement to avoid it.
Creed throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
and Creed counters with a slapping leg kick.
Corll moves out of range as Creed strikes.
and Creed counters with a low kick, right behind Corll 's knee.
Corll uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Creed.
Creed keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Creed throws the kick towards the body but Corll avoids it.
Creed tried to score with a low kick but Corll checks it.
Corll uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Creed.
Creed sizes up Corll with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Creed uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Corll.
Creed lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Creed lands with a thumping leg kick.
Creed drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
A decent looking body kick lands there for Creed.
Corll throws a looping overhand right but Creed ducks down to avoid it.
Creed cracks Corll with a right hand to the side of the head.
Creed throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Corll.
Corll keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Creed connects with a nice looking jab.
Creed takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Corll might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Creed has got the better of the exchanges.
Creed connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Creed was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
and Creed makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Creed looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Creed fakes the leg kick and cracks Corll in the body.
and Creed counters with a nice uppercut.
Creed bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Corll's head backwards.
Corll misses with an uppercut. Creed saw that one coming.
and Creed counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Creed scores with a nice right hand.
Creed just misses with a punch to the body.
Creed misses with a straight left.
Creed lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Creed lands a head kick!
Corll looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Corll has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Creed.
Creed fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Corll has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Corll throws a hook to the side of Creed's head but Creed sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Corll throws a body punch but Creed moves out of range.
It looked like Creed wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Creed throws a leg kick which misses Corll's front leg but catches the back leg as Corll tries to avoid it.
and Creed counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Creed bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
and Creed counters with a good low kick that Corll was not able to check.
Creed throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Corll.
Corll lands a head shot.
Corll feints and then winds up with a huge right hand that connects perfectly and sends Creed sprawling to the canvas! Creed rolls over backwards and springs off the cage and manages to regain his footing - how acrobatic! Oh, he's still wobbly - can Corll finish him?!
Creed lands a jab to the nose.
Creed feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Corll's calf.
Creed throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Creed ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Today's fight clock is brought to you by... OOOH that's a huge shot by Corll! Creed is in big trouble here - the ref steps in to save him and this one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:54 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dean Corll!


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The Xbox Series S portable screen reveals new features
The final launch trailer for the xScreen, a portable screen meant to connect directly into the Xbox Series S, has been released by Australian firm UPspec Gaming. The xScreen is a portable screen designed to fit directly into the Xbox Series S. Early bird pricing of $159 (compared to the full price of $249) was revealed for the xScreen in June 2021, ahead of its planned Kickstarter campaign. Those interested in the peripheral may reserve it for $1 and lock in 'early bird' pricing of $159 (compared to the full price of $259). The Kickstarter campaign was started the next month and met its AU$13,000 funding target in less than 20 minutes, ultimately raising AU$145,118 in total.
In order to connect to the Series S's HDMI and USB connections, the xScreen must first be folded in order to provide an 11.6-inch IPS screen.
The screen will display a 1080p 60Hz image, and it features integrated stereo speakers as well as controls for the display settings and volume that are incorporated into the screen.
In many ways, the outcome is comparable to the portable displays that were built for the PlayStation One and GameCube, which effectively transformed those consoles into "portable" gadgets (as long as a power supply was nearby). But the xScreen also claims a "cable-free attachment solution," which means that it takes its power directly from the Series S's own power source and does not require a separate power supply. The ability to switch on a crosshair overlay for first-person shooter titles, as well as the ability to automatically turn off the Xbox when the lid is closed, are among the new features mentioned in today's teaser (to prevent it overheating when the lid blocks the vent). Users can also choose to add an optional stand to the console, allowing them to position it vertically.
According to the screen's manufacturer, UPspec Gaming, the screen will only weigh 695g and can be transported in a 15-inch laptop bag alongside the Series S, however a special carrying case for the screen and console will also be available.
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The tablet features a premium design with an aluminum rear cover and a metal mid-frame to add strength and rigidity to the device. This durable design provides additional protection for the 7.9-inch display (1024 x 768 resolution) with IPS technology. The IPS display offers crisp and accurate colors from viewing angles up to 178 degrees for an enhanced visual experience. The 4:3 aspect ratio provides a large viewing area for browsing websites and reading.
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The Acer Iconia A1-830 keeps consumers connected to Wi-Fi networks with 802.11b/g/n wireless. Its rear-facing camera captures 1080p HD audio/video recording with a 2560 x 1920 resolution. The front facing camera is great for video chats and capturing images with a 1600 x 1200 resolution for 720p audio/video recording. Plus, the tablet's integrated microUSB and Bluetooth 3.0 lets consumers quickly connect the tablet to a variety of other devices, such as headsets and speakers.
Acer PCs can be seamlessly integrated for accessing data anytime, anywhere – through Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC). It enables users to build their own cloud on their devices, such as music, photos and other types of clouds. These self-built clouds, based on an Acer Open Platform, are reliable, more secure, easy to use and provide users convenient access to their information and content anytime, anywhere.
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Canada Focus 2020
About DOKUARTS
DOKUARTS
Due to lack of funding, there will be no regular edition of DOKUARTS in 2020, but we are looking forward to a special cooperation and are glad that our program can be streamed all over Germany:
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New Canadian Films on Art
Nov 2-8, 2020
Detailed information here
DOKUARTS 12: NUANCES NOW
"Maxima in Minimis", or, to use an expression of German scholar and film director Alexander Kluge, "The Devil's Blind Spot", are two ways to paraphrase the meaning of "nuance". Today, more than ever, nuances play a crucial role as an antidote to the polarization of political and cultural discourse. The twelfth edition of DOKUARTS develops intuition and sensibility for the use and understanding of nuances within the audiovisual realm. It highlights the nuanced documentary film as a 21st-century art form which is, in equal measure, historically charged and forward-looking. The presented films all demonstrate a keen understanding of shades and overtones, of complex tensions, turbulence, and ambiguities.
The international festival presented 25 films about art from 17 different countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Lebanon, China, and Pakistan. More than half of the cinematic work was either created by women directors or features female artists. All films were shown in Berlin for the first time, most of them as German premiere. Many of the filmmakers were present to introduce their work; among them documentaries featuring:
Armando, Mania Akbari, Miles Davis, Ida Haendel, Jacqueline de Jong, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Miloš Forman, Seamus Heaney, Toyo Ito, Naomi Kawase, Buster Keaton, Maleonn (Ma Liang), Piet Oudolf, Ziva Postec, Paula Rego and Orson Welles
The international symposium took place on Friday, October 11, 2019 and looked at the current relevance of nuance and discussed its significance in the realm of documentary filmmaking.
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Vercoquin y el plancton (Vercoquin et le plancton en francés) es la segunda novela de Boris Vian escrita en 1943 aunque publicada en 1946 por Gallimard. Esta novela ha sido editada en Argentina por Ediciones De La Flor en 1969 (1ª ed.) y en España por Ediciones Felmar en 1974 y en Editorial Impedimenta en 2011. En ella el autor retrata el ambiente festivo que se vivía en París durante la Ocupación alemana ante la necesidad de evadirse de la dura realidad cotidiana, en concreto por lo que respecta a las llamadas surprise-parties. En estas reuniones nocturnas las personalidades más excéntricas se congregaban para dar rienda suelta a sus desenfrenadas ansias de diversión.

Argumento
La novela se sitúa entre dos de las parisinas surprise-parties. En el transcurso de la primera de ellas, el Mayor (personaje recurrente de Boris Vian creado a partir de la figura real de su amigo de juventud Jacques Loustalot) se enamora de Zizanie, a la que logra conquistar, no sin antes ofrecernos todo un «manual» de seducción con los trucos más estrambóticos. En la segunda de las fiestas, el Mayor acaba prometiéndose en matrimonio con la chica. Entre ambas celebraciones, este personaje trata de obtener la autorización del tío y tutor de Zizanie, Sub-Ingeniero principal de la CNU (Consorcio Nacional de la Unificación), versión esperpéntica de la AFNOR (Asociación Francesa de Normalización), en la que Vian trabajó. Para ello cuenta con la ayuda indispensable de su amigo Antioche Tambretambre -que podría ser el propio autor-, brazo derecho del Mayor, experimentado organizador de surprise-parties, conquistador de doncellas y bebedor empedernido. Sin embargo, el camino hasta lograr el beneplácito del Ingeniero -hombre mezquino y aburrido al que todos sus subalternos detestan- será largo y tortuoso.

Enlaces externos
 (en francés) Artículo de Ramiro Martín Hernández - «Onomastique et jeu dans Vercoquin et le plancton de Boris Vian»

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Fungi can withstand the high radiation doses of outer space, scientists find
These two species of fungi could potentially survive space travel.
By Korey Haynes | Published: Friday, June 28, 2019
RELATED TOPICS: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
This petri dish contains fungus samples collected from the International Space Station.
Anywhere humans go, we bring companions along, in the form of bacteria and mold. Some of them, like gut bacteria, are essential for healthy living. Others are mere tagalongs. As hospitals well know, even the spaces meant to be most clean still teem with microbial life, and the International Space Station is no exception.
Astronauts have been cataloging the presence of microbes in space for a while now. They need to make sure their home in space is safe, and not growing colonies of harmful microbial critters. But in many other ways, the health and fertility of such microbes can teach researchers a lot about how living things — up to humans — respond to the harsh environment of outer space.
Recently, Marta Cortesão, a microbiologist at the German Aerospace Center, found that two types of mold in particular can survive radiation doses that would kill a human 200 times over. She reported her findings June 28 at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Seattle.
Hardy Fungus
Two of the most common molds found on the International Space Station (ISS) are Aspergillus and Pennicillium. They're usually not harmful, unless inhaled in large quantities by someone who already has a weakened immune system, unlikely with fit astronaut crews. So their presence on the ISS isn't a problem in itself. But their extreme radiation tolerance raises other questions.
Cortesão tested samples of the two fungi on Earth with ionizing radiation from X-rays, heavy ions and high-energy ultraviolet light. These are all types of radiation that rarely or never make it to Earth or even the ISS, thanks to the protection of Earth's magnetic field. But they will be present on longer trips to the Moon or Mars, both trips NASA is planning in the near future.
A trip to Mars, for instance, will deliver a cumulative radiation dose of about 0.7 gray. If delivered all at once, 0.5 gray is enough to cause radiation sickness. Five gray will kill a human outright.
The fungi Cortesão tested survived being blasted with 1,000 gray of X-ray radiation, 500 gray of heavy ions, and large doses of UV radiation.
Fungus Beyond Us
While Aspergillus and Pennicillium aren't an immediate threat to human space travelers, one of the key questions on Mars is whether life was or even is now possible. Similar questions are being asked about Saturn's moon Titan, which just received its own dedicated mission.
NASA has serious guidelines in place for sterilizing any spacecraft that visits other solar system destinations, both on the outgoing trip to prevent contaminating our own search for life, and on the return trip to keep Earth safe from alien microbes.
But findings like Cortesão's make that a harder problem to tackle. Researchers have discovered microbes that can endure vacuum, heat and hard radiation, all common methods of sterilization.
Contamination issues aside, her findings also lend weight to theories of panspermia. This is the idea that life might not have developed first on Earth, but was instead delivered by asteroids, comets, or other space-faring objects. While Cortesão tested only her fungus' radiation tolerance, it's a step toward showing that microbial life can travel successfully through space, and survive on worlds that seem otherwise too harsh for life as we commonly think about it.
On the other hand, Cortesão's fungi prove that NASA and other space agencies need to be extra careful not to trust that the harsh environment of space travel alone will give them a clean slate when looking for life on alien worlds. It seems more possible than ever that the first microbes humans find on Mars might be the same ones they brought on a free ride from Earth.
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HomeTech - MainframeGlossaryVirtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
9th September 2010 Rui Miguel Feio Glossary, MVS, Storage, Tech - Mainframe
VSAM applies to both a data set type and the access method used to manage various user data types.
VSAM data sets are held on direct access storage devices (DASD) auxiliary storage. VSAM divides its data set storage into control areas (CA), which are further divided into control intervals (CI). Control intervals are the unit of data transmission between virtual and auxiliary storage. Each one is of fixed size and, in general, contains a number of records. A KSDS or ESDS can have records that extend over more than one control interval. These are called spanned records.
VSAM is primarily used for applications.
VSAM types:
KSDS:
Key-Sequenced Data Set
This is the most common use for VSAM
Each record has one or more key fields and a record can be retrieved (or inserted) by key value.
To find the physical location of a record in a KSDS, VSAM creates and maintains an index. This relates the key of each record to the record's relative location in the data set. When you add or delete records, this index is updated accordingly.
It provides random access of data.
Starting with releases of DFSMS/MVS 1.4 and later, a data set can be greater than 4GB in size if it is defined as extended format and extended addressability in the storage class
The KSDS cluster has two components in it:
Index component
Data component
ESDS:
Entry-Sequenced Data Set
Keeps records in sequential order
Each record is identified by its Relative Byte Address (RBA)
Records are held in the order in which they were first loaded into the data set.
New records added to an ESDS always go after the last record in the data set.
You cannot delete records or alter their lengths. After a record has been stored in an ESDS, its RBA remains constant.
When browsing, records are retrieved in the order in which they were added to the data set.
A standard ESDS (32 bit RBA) cannot contain more than 4 gigabytes (GB) of data. However, there is a different kind of ESDS that supports 64-bit Extended Relative Byte Addresses (XRBAs) and which is therefore not subject to the 4GB limit
RRDS:
Relative Record Data Set
RRDS records are identified by their Relative Record Number (RRN). The first record in the data set is RRN 1, the second is RRN 2, and so on.
Provides random access and assumes the application program has a way to derive the desired record numbers.
Records in an RRDS can be fixed or variable length records, and the way in which VSAM handles the data depends on whether the data set is a fixed or variable RRDS.
A fixed RRDS has fixed-length slots predefined to VSAM, into which records are stored. The length of a record on a fixed RRDS is always equal to the size of the slot. VSAM locates records in a fixed RRDS by multiplying the slot size by the RRN (which you supply on the file control request), to calculate the byte offset from the start of the data set.
A variable RRDS, on the other hand, can accept records of any length up to the maximum for the data set. In a variable RRDS VSAM locates the records by means of an index.
A fixed RRDS generally offers better performance. A variable RRDS offers greater function.
With releases of DFSMS/MVS 1.5 and later, a data set can be greater than 4 GB in size if it is defined as extended format and extended addressability in the storage class.
LDS:
Linear Data Set
It's in effect a byte-stream data set and is the only form of a byte-stream data set in traditional z/OS files (as opposed to z/OS Unix files).
A number of z/OS system functions use this format heavily, but is rarely used by application programs.
It is a VSAM data set with a control interval size multiple of 4096 bytes.
In a sense, a LDS is a non-VSAM file with some of the VSAM facilities, such as the use of IDCAMS and VSAM specific information in the catalog.
The most common LDS exploiter is DB2
Like the ESDS and RRDS, an LDS contains a data component only.
JCL most common operands


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The Saviors
Gordon (TV Series)
Michael Scialabba
Former Worker for the Saviors (Post-Apocalypse)
Maria - Former Wife (Deceased)
"The Cell"
"The Cell" (Alive)
"Mercy" (Zombified, Off-Screen)
Shot in the back by Dwight. (Alive)
RV explosion caused by the Militia. (Zombified, Off-Screen)
Gordon is shot in the back by Dwight and reanimates. Later, his zombified corpse is burned in the RV explosion caused by the Militia.
"Thug swoops in with a baseball bat and smiles and we're so scared we gave up everything - but there's only one of him and all of us so why are we living like this?"
—Gordon to Dwight about Negan.[src]
Gordon is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. He is a member of the Saviors and a worker of the Sanctuary, alongside his wife Maria.
Nothing is known about Gordon's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he had a wife named Maria.
During the early months of the apocalypse, Gordon and Maria were trying to survive on their own. Eventually, they were found by the Saviors and brought to live at the Sanctuary. At some point later, Maria died and Gordon came to a realization that the Saviors' way of life is not worth it and thus would have rather wanted to leave them or die trying.
Gordon works in the garden taking care of the livestock and vegetables and kneels down with the others when Negan walks by. He stares at Dwight with a grim look on his face as he walks away, clearly unhappy with his life at the Sanctuary. Later that day, in an act of desperation, Gordon flees the Sanctuary, prompting Negan to send Dwight after him.
While on the run, Gordon is struggling with a lone walker when Dwight catches up with him. Holding him at gunpoint, Dwight forces Gordon to walk back to the Sanctuary as Gordon pleads to be let go, stating that anything would be better than going back to the Saviors. Ultimately, Dwight agrees to mercifully let Gordon go in a way and shots him through the back. His reanimated corpse is then brought to the Saviors' base and incorporated into the walker perimeter around the Sanctuary.
"Mercy"
While unseen, Gordon was among the chained walkers on the perimeter fence to have been blown up after the militia detonated an RV full of explosives at the Sanctuary in an attempt to have the Saviors' headquarters overrun.
Himself (Caused)
Dwight (Alive)
After Gordon asks Dwight to end his own life, he gets shot in the back by him. However, he is left to reanimate and is used as a walker on the sanctuary fences.
Rick Grimes (Caused)
Gabriel Stokes (Caused)
The Militia (Zombified, Off-Screen)
After the militia reaches the Sanctuary, they set off an RV full of explosives, effectively killing and destroying the walkers chained to the perimeter fence, including Gordon.
This list shows the victims Gordon has killed:
Originally, when Gordon fled the Sanctuary, numerous Saviors, including Dwight and Arat, were sent to go after Gordon, and there was a car chase scene involved. However, the scene was deleted and only Dwight went after Gordon in the final version for "The Cell".
He is the first person to defect from the Saviors before the events of All Out War, the second being Jerel.
He is one of three known Saviors who were once chained to the Sanctuary's fence, the others being a red-haired Savior and Simon.
Woodbury Jeanette • Mrs. Richards • Ms. McLeod • Philip • Caesar • Shumpert • Mr. Jacobson • Mr. Richards • Owen • Eryn • Karen • Greg • Milton • Dr. Stevens • Rowan • Eileen • Foster • Betty • Noah • Paul • Jody • Richard • Haley • Penny • Warren • Michael • Gargulio • Crowley • Tim • Emily
Unknown Location Lucy • Rufus • Princess
Miscellaneous Survivors Wilhelm • Siddiq • Milo • Amelia • Eastman • Sam • Ana • Mrs. Blake • Clara
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(26 November 2018) Plan S, the contentious plan that a group of European science funders hopes will end scholarly journals' paywalls, has fleshed out its rules—and softened its tone a bit. In seven pages of implementation guidance released today, the funders explain how their grantees can abide by Plan S rules come 2020, when it goes into effect. But some critics say the document—which is up for public discussion for the next 2 months—remains too restrictive.
Science has the full article by Tania Rabesandratana.
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A local with a talent for painting homes, Annai Smith is offering her time and services to the community of Paradise and Camp Fire survivors.
Smith calls her service the Home Homage Project, dedicated to recreating the homes of residents who lost their homes in the fire in the form of a free oil painting.
Former residents who lost their homes in the Camp Fire can send a picture of their home to her via email, and she will use the image to create an 11×14 oil painting of it, for free.
Smith, who has several friends who grew up in the Paradise area, said she was inspired by peers and past artistic experience.
She said after hearing about donation opportunities, she felt best able to help out by offering her painting services to former residents.
"About a year ago … I had a friend whose husband passed away," she said. "McDonald's wanted to buy her home … ultimately for financial reasons, she sold the house.
A stay-at-home mom, Smith said she realized that she has the time to offer to others who want a reminder of their lost home.
She added that any photos available of each resident's home — whether in a physical photo, digital image or from Google Maps or the iCloud — will help her paint a faithful representation of the home. She has also asked that submissions include the former residents' names, full address and several sentences about their favorite memory or aspect of the home.
Smith looks forward to helping former residents have a tangible piece of their home through the artwork.
"When they do have a home soon, they'll have something personal meaningful to add to their new home, of their old home," she said.
Smith said that she will do this until the anniversary of the Camp Fire on Nov. 8 of this year, in order to have time to complete all paintings. However, she is willing to consider some requests after that date, based upon the volume of paintings asked for.
Smith can be reached at homehomageproject@yahoo.com with photos and descriptions of a home lost in the Camp Fire, or for other questions or information.