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Movie Review: Sing
By eelyajekiM | @ | December 20th, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Director: Garth Jennings
Screenwriter: Garth Jennings
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Rated PG | 110 minutes
Sometimes what looks good can end up being just slightly disappointing. In this case, Illumination's Sing gives a very earnest effort through its well-intentioned story and an excellent collection of songs that spans generations and genres, but falls very short of being great through its lack of a narrative and inability to juggle the many subplots. Backed by a great ensemble of actors and singers, director Garth Jenning's animated film has all the makings of an Illumination Entertainment film, but fails to execute a great concept.
Tags: Garth Jennings, John C. Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Kroll, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Seth MacFarlane, Sing, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly
'Sing' Interview: Garth Jennings On Making Singing Animals Feel Human
In Illumination's latest film, Sing, Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) is holding a singing competition in his dying theater in a last ditch effort to scrounge up the money needed before the bank can repossess his beloved property. The optimistic koala settles on five contestants: a mouse (Seth MacFarlane), a timid elephant (Tori Kelly), a pig (Reese Witherspoon), a gorilla (Taron Egerton), and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson), in hopes that they can generate the funds necessary to keep the theater afloat but also bring back interest in genuine talent. Little does he know that the road to success isn't easy, but with a little hard work and some faith, it can be done.
We had a phone interview with the film's director Garth Jennings (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Son of Rambow) to talk about what it was like to get clearance for the songs, working on his first animated film, his reaction to all the positive buzz, and much more. Check it out below.
Topics: Features, Interviews, Movies
Tags: Beck Bennett, Chris Meledandri, Garth Jennings, Illumination Entertainment, Jay Pharoah, Jennifer Saunders, John C. Reilly, Leslie Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Peter Serafinowicz, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Seth MacFarlane, Sing, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Universal Pictures
'Sing' Trailer: Animals Have Dreams Of Singing Stardom
By eelyajekiM | @ | November 2nd, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Universal has released the final trailer for Illumination Entertainment's Sing.
From the writer/director Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri, the film is the sixth animation feature from the studio and features the voice talents of Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, alongside Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, and Grammy Award-nominated Tori Kelly. Check out the new trailer below.
Official Trailer For 'Sing' From 'Minions,' 'Secret Life Of Pets' Animation Studio
By The Movie God | @ | May 24th, 2016 at 5:55 pm
Back in February we saw a teaser trailer for Sing, the latest animated feature from Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind Despicable Me and its sequel, the spinoff Minions, and upcoming release The Secret Life of Pets.
Now Illumination has released the full official trailer for the movie, which follows animals getting the chance to show off their singing talents in a competition similar to the ones humans are very familiar with.
You can read more about the movie and watch the new trailer below.
Topics: Animated, Movies, News, Trailers
Tags: Garth Jennings, Illumination Entertainment, John C. Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Seth MacFarlane, Sing, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Universal Pictures
'Sing' Trailer: Matthew McConaughey As A Koala Searching For The Next Best Singing Animal
By eelyajekiM | @ | February 15th, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Singing competitions are where amateurs and aspiring singers go in hopes of achieving their dreams. Many of us have seen how it all plays out on shows like The Voice or American Idol. But what about the animals? They can sing too, right? Well in a new trailer released by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, Sing answers that question using more than 85 hit songs and an all-star voice cast.
The animated film will see animals of all species auditioning in a singing competition, in hopes of winning a once in a lifetime record deal.
Check out the trailer below.
Topics: Movies, News, Trailers, Videos
Tags: Illumination Entertainment, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Seth MacFarlane, Sing, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Universal Pictures


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As we continue our conversation after Teacher Appreciation week and celebrate Mental Health Aware Month this May we discuss recruiting and retention in the teaching profession with Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson who dives into the topic of teacher's mental health and how to create better spaces for teachers.
Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson received her Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Educational Leadership degree, summa cum laude, in 2003 from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University in September 2004 and teaches courses, as a clinical professor, in the teacher education and multicultural/urban program areas. In 2018, Dr. Hill-Jackson was appointed by the Office of the Dean as the Director of Educator Preparation and School Partnerships. And in June 2019, Hill-Jackson was appointed as the Assistant Dean of Educator Preparation and School Partnerships.
Dr. Hill-Jackson is a nationally and university-recognized educator having garnered: 2007 Maybelline / People Magazine Women Who Empower Through Education Award; the 2008 Texas A&M University (TAMU) Association of Former Students Award for Distinguished Teaching; 2008 Transfer Camp Namesake (TAMU); 2010 Student-Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE) at TAMU; 2010 Outstanding Panhellenic Professor; 2011 National Society of Collegiate Scholars Inspire Integrity Top 10 Finalist award; Honorary Guest Coach for the Texas A & M University Women's Basketball Team, 2011 NCAA Champs, at the McNeese U. Home Game 2011; 2013 Upton Sinclair award; 2015 Aggies Commit to Transforming Lives Administrative Fellow; and the 2016 Educational Institution Image Award by the Edwards Ministerial Association.
Dr. Hill-Jackson developed three new graduate courses including one that is integral to the Educational Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction program. Dr. Hill-Jackson's teaching philosophy is best explained with her simple quote, "students first through action research." Dr. Hill-Jackson's books include: Transforming Teacher Education: What Went Wrong with Teacher Training and How We Can Fix It (Stylus, 2010); Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principals Know, Believe, and Do (IAP, 2016); Better Teachers, Better Schools: What Star Teachers Know, Believe, and Do (IAP, 2017); Teacher Confidential: Personal Stories of Stress, Self-Care, and Resilience (iUniverse, 2018) and; What Makes a Star Teacher: 7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning (ASCD, 2019).
Dr. Hill-Jackson's research interests include: critical teacher education, transformative/servant leadership, service-learning/community education, ethnography, gifted education, culture + curriculum, and STEM education for underserved learners. Early in her career, Dr. Hill-Jackson received the prestigious American Educational Research Association / Spencer fellowship for her qualitative dissertation and was conferred with the LEAD Poisoning Star Award for her research in community education. In 2013, Hill-Jackson won a Traditional Core Fulbright Award and was hosted by the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales. Hill-Jackson received a 2018-2019 Melbern G. Glasscock NTT Faculty Research Fellowship.


Whether companies set up the communities in-house or contract the services of market research companies, the result is almost always positive if the online community is handled properly. This proper handling encompasses a few key elements. Successful brands have mastered a way of integrating these key elements. Particularly the three companies that we'll take a look at below.
Many businesses make the mistake of using public social networks as the only strategy to run a community. Who can blame them? Social networks can and do connect their different customers with each other.
However, these public networks pose quite a number of problems like trolling and other antisocial behavior. Therefor you have to consider them as just another cog in a larger machine. So, what else should you add to your community strategy? Events! Online and offline (if possible). Physical meetings between customers and company employees foster a deeper connection.
For example, Harley-Davidson staffed all its community outreach programs with actual company employees and not temporary hired hands. This increased the connection between the riders and the company. This takes us to our next key element of a successful online community.
With a number of your targeted market huddled in one online place, you might be tempted to have a one-way relationship with them. What do we mean by this? As a business, it is difficult not to take the marketing gloves off. But you should.
Online communities are not just another marketing channel. The information you get from your community members influences decisions in other departments and goes far and beyond the marketing department.
Many people join a community to interact with others and form social connections. Furthering the brand itself is not their top priority – the total opposite of yours. Meet their needs and, in turn, they will provide you with the insight you need to grow your brand and business.
Depending on where you see your business going in the future, you can employ different kinds of online communities to achieve your goals.
For all intents and purposes, this type of online community (also called an insights community) is set up to find out what your target market thinks about a product or service. Researchers collect qualitative data from the participants; gaining insight into a particular part of the business that they feel requires some input. The research in this community can last from a few weeks to a number of months, depending on what you are looking for. Use the information to refine your process, product, and service. We discuss market research online communities in more detail here.
In brand communities, people come together when they use products or services from the same brand. Companies put together these online communities so that they can foster their relationships with their customers.
Brand communities are especially good for creating brand loyalty. When customers are loyal to your brand, they can then become advocates for it, attracting more people into it. They are also advantageous because you can pick up on potential problems with your product early on. Customers in the community talk about the different problems which the community manager notices.
Learning communities often cater to the constant need for professional development, keeping your employees and your clients on the front foot. These communities are also referred to as professional development platforms. It's a space where employees (or clients) can share tips and pass useful information to each other.
Much as online communities might seem like some complex things to run, there are some brands excelling at it.
The Mom365 community covers topics from getting pregnant to birth, baby development to raising children. In this community, parents help each other with their questions. "Who better to share their advice and opinions than other moms going through the same thing as you?" is the community's motto. The platform is a smart move for Mom365, who ultimately specializes in baby portraits. By offering their customers (and potential customers) a community to meet and discuss, they become the one-stop-shop for parents.
This tech company tapped into the idea of creating a community early on. This came about when CEO Dennis Crowley noticed many of the users editing some content on the app. He ran with the idea of creating a Superusers community that continuously worked to make the app better. The company nurtured this relationship, providing motivation to users so that it could get insight into how to further develop its product. These superusers became advocates for the brand, leading to a growth of users from 250,000 to 8 million in just over a year.
This online language-learning tool experienced exponential growth with a team of less than 40. How? They harnessed the power of their online community. They got volunteers who tested and spread the word about their language courses. Their community took off to a point where it churned out content alongside the Duolingo team. The different members of the community developed courses for languages the team didn't even think they'd offer when starting out. What opportunities could you unlock with the power of your online community?
Your online community will only be beneficial if you have a multidisciplinary team. This includes someone to lead them and one to interact with the members of the community. You also need someone from IT to deal with the technical issues of the platform. Learn more about building a multidisciplinary team in this post.
Your online community requires a solid platform that can host it. This platform needs to be technically stable and allow the members to navigate it without any problems. It should have plenty of features and functionality that help both the members and your team. It should also integrate seamlessly with other software for easy login, data sharing, and analysis.
You can't have a community without active and engaged members. You need to know whose insights you're after. Recruit members for your community and let them know what they are signing up for. Get them motivated so that they can be active within the community. However, you should know that most likely only 10 percent will actively participate.
There is no doubt online communities are a well of value waiting to be tapped. Your brand should seize the opportunity to get at these invaluable insights from their customers. If you want to harness the power of customer insights, set up your online community following the tips in this article.


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On the 29th of November 1947, a UN resolution established the basis of the modern state of Israel. Totally without the consent of the native Palestinians, the resolution recommended the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the partition of Palestine, creating two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab, with the Jerusalem-Bethlehem area remaining under special international protection, administered by the UN.
The UN General assembly voted to give the Zionists control of 55% of Palestine with the remaining 45% allocated to the Palestinians. The Palestinian natives at that time represented around 70% of the population and owned 93% of the land whereas Jews constituted the remaining 30% (most of them illegal new immigrants) who had land ownership of less than 7%. In this planned 'Jewish state,' there would be almost an equal number of Christian and Muslim Palestinians as Jews.
The Zionists accepted the idea of a Jewish state but rejected the other parts of the proposal… designated borders, the internationalisation of Jerusalem, economic union, and no 'ethnic cleansing.' There were no viable local leaders of the Palestinians as they had all been decimated by the British between 1936 and 1939 or 'sold-out' by dictatorial Arab regimes. The people (the Christians, Muslim, and Jewish native Palestinians) were however largely against partition of their country. The illegal 'vote' at the UN which totally violated the UN charter, succeeded because of significant pressure from the Zionist-led US government. Truman pressured UN representatives to adopt it because of his need for Jewish support to enable him to remain in power.
Then in April 1948, a trend that has continued right up until the present day, began when Jewish terrorists carried out many mass-murders in the months leading up to the formal establishment of Israel. The Deir Yassin Massacre was the one most notable for its extreme brutality. Members of the Irgun, led by Menachem Begin and the Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, Zionist terrorist groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a village of roughly 600 people where more than a hundred helpless victims, including women and children, were murdered in cold blood. Of course, both Begin and Shamir became future Israeli leaders.
Some of the victims were shot, some had their throats slit, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes. Several villagers were taken prisoner and then killed after being paraded through the streets of West Jerusalem. The strategic aim of the massacres was to terrorise the Palestinians into fleeing from their villages, which the European Jews with their adopted Hebrew names would then takeover.
14th May 1948, Israel Declared Nationhood… And so, Theodor Herzl's plot of 1897 plot came to fruition, just over half a century and hundreds of millions of deaths later, when Israel was formally established on the 14th May 1948. Truman's speedy recognition of the new 'state,' no doubt satisfied his Zionist-bankster sponsors, whose huge influence was instrumental in his victory in the upcoming election of November 1948. Ironically, a 2003 review of his diaries revealed Truman's intense dislike of the Jews who were pressuring him. What was of course not revealed however, was the fact that the Zionists 'owned him,' body and soul.
Just three days after Truman's immediate recognition of Israel, the USSR also unsurprisingly, recognised 'the State of Israel.' However, several Arab nations came to the defence of their Palestinian brothers. The Deir Yassin attack of the prior month, along with further murderous Zionist attacks on Tiberias, Haifa, and Jaffa, put pressure on the Arab governments to save Palestine and news of the killings aroused such public anger in the Arab world that the governments could not ignore it and attempted military intervention.
However, the Arabs were unsuccessful in their brief war, and also in their future attempts to liberate Palestine. The Zionist military and its 'free' arsenal of American weaponry had made Israel the dominant military power of the region.
Israel's ultimate goal still, is to expand from Egypt to Iraq and to include all of the territory between the River Nile and the River Euphrates in Iraq and indeed this is what the two blue lines on Israel's flag represent.
The Rothschilds funded the early European settlers in Israel, manipulated events in Germany that led to the maltreatment of Jewish people and others, and then used that as the excuse to reach their long-term goal, the Rothschild-Illuminati stronghold in Palestine using the Jewish population as fodder to be used and abused as necessary. They called their plan 'Zionism,' which is often, erroneously used as a synonym for Jewish people as a whole, when it is actually a political movement devised and promoted through the House of Rothschild banksters and opposed by many Jews.
And so the justification of the invasion and subversion of an entire nation was based on texts in the Bible written by person or persons unknown, thousands of years ago after the Jewish captivity in the ancient Illuminati centre of Babylon, in what is now Iraq. But of course this is in any case a complete historical fraud, because the vast majority of Jewish people, the so-called 'Ashkenazi' Jews, have no connection, genetic or otherwise, whatsoever to the land of Palestine/Israel at all, as the Jewish writer, Arthur Koestler detailed in his book 'The Thirteenth Tribe.' The Ashkenazi originated in a country once known as Khazaria in southern Russia and the Caucasus, and not the land they have used the Biblical texts to lay claim to. In fact the Ashkenazi Jews have no genetic links at all to the Sephardic Jews who were the original 'biblical Jews.' The Sephardic Jews are in fact genetically identical to the Arab populations of the Middle-east region.
So, Jews fall into two main groups, the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic. Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs wrote that at the end of the 11th Century, 97% of Jews were Sephardic, but the ratio changed dramatically over the centuries and by 1931, Ashkenazi Jews accounted for nearly 92 per cent of world Jewry.
In the 10th century AD, the Khazarian population was an aggressive, Godless, warring tribe who decided eventually that in order to establish peaceful relations with their near neighbours and to integrate their populations into a peaceful co-existence with them, that they should adopt a religion, mainly to demonstrate some kind of respectability. Both Muslim and Christian religions were considered, but eventually the Khazarian leaders decided on Judaism, for reasons best known to themselves and so the entire region became Jewish, eventually speaking its own language of Yiddish.
Today, as a result of the illegal expropriation of Palestine, the Khazarians/Ashkenazim utterly dominate Israel society both in numbers and control. Jewish organisations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) constantly target others for 'racism' when Israel is a strictly and fiercely hierarchical society based on race, even amongst the Jews themselves. The Ashkenazi are at the top of the pyramid, of course, followed by the Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Whilst near the bottom of the pile are the black, Ethiopian Jews who have long complained of blatant racism but underneath all of these are the Palestinian Arabs, regardless of religion.
It is now well-past the time that Zionist racism and apartheid should be exposed in order to balance the endless claims of racism and 'anti-Semitism' that through Zionist/Illuminati fronts like the ADL and many others have been set up to brand as racist, anyone who challenges the Zionist agenda. In truth, Ashkenazi Jews are not even a Semitic people – it is the Arabs and minority, Sephardic Jewish people who are the Semites. Not that it should matter what they are, the human body is just a container for the infinite consciousness to which we all belong, but such labels are used by these people to suppress debate and so we need to counteract the propaganda.
So imagine if all this had happened in our countries. That the American and several European governments suddenly decree that 'our' land, where our ancestors have lived for hundreds of years, now belongs to someone else and millions of Jewish people from all over the world suddenly descend upon our country. Even worse, they do not want to just simply live among us – they believe that it is their inalienable, God-given right to assume complete control of everything and turn us into serfs or slaves. How would we react? Indeed, how would anyone react in the face of all this?
The Palestinians were supposed to just lie-down and accept this staggering injustice and when they did not, they were branded as 'terrorists,' by the Zionists and their controlled world press, turning the Palestinian cause into a universal campaign of hatred. But what the world seems to have forgotten, and they will certainly not be reminded by the mainstream media, is that it was through terrorism that Israel was imposed upon the indigenous Arab population.
The bankster-engendered First World War led to the 'Balfour Declaration' in 1917 when the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Balfour, declared his government's support for a Jewish homeland in Israel. This announcement was connected to a deal to bring the United States into the war, a scam orchestrated through President Woodrow Wilson's handlers, Edward Mandel House and Bernard Baruch. Both were Rothschild agents in America, but it was Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who formulated with others this British government 'declaration' in support of a Jewish homeland.
The Balfour Declaration promised Palestine to both the Jews and Arabs, in fact. They wanted to keep the Arabs on their side for a while because they needed them to revolt against the Turks as part of their First World War strategy. They used the man known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' to lead this campaign. However, they, and Lawrence, knew it was all a ruse, a means to a very different end.
The Hitler regime was funded by Rothschild bankster agents such as the Rockefellers, Harrimans and Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of two future presidents. This allowed the German war machine to emerge in just a few years from the ashes of economic collapse and following this, World War II, the concentration camps, and the Illuminati-Rothschild manipulation of these events, to create both sympathy and guilt over Jewish suffering, to secure their long-held goal – a foothold in the Middle East to advance their evil plans far into the future.
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" And that is exactly what they did and are still doing.
The gang of former military, ultra-nationalist, religious bigots and racist psychopaths that run Israel today are the political heirs of the same terrorists who bombed Israel into existence in the first place. But, to challenge the legitimacy and the past and current exploits of Israel is not a condemnation of Jewish people as a whole. It is simply to expose the fact that they are caught-up in a game that most do not begin to understand – a game controlled from the start by a leadership consisting of terrorists – and if we understand and acknowledge this, past and present events begin to make far more sense.
Good article except HITLER was NOT financed by the banks ! He defeated the Jew Banksters & had they not ganged up on Germany, we would NOT have this ROTTENCHILD JEW problem NOW!
Hi. Thanks for your comment but I'm afraid you are factually incorrect. Hitler was financed at least partly by UBC (Union Banking Corporation) owned by Bush the idiot's grandfather Prescott Bush (amongst others), who was indicted under the Trading with the Enemy Act immediately after the war. This is well documented.
I actually do not subscribe though to the ridiculous assertion that he was a British, Jesuit or Rothschild agent – as per my article here… http://falsificationofhistory.co.uk/zionism/hitler-was-not-a-britishjesuit-agent/ This seems to be a common misconception or supposition by many truthers who have been deceptively led to believe this.


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Q: How to install SDL dev library so CMake can find it I'm running Windows and I want to install the SDL development files in a place so that find_package(SDL) works.
Should I include part of it in the PATH or what?
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I created the environment variable SDLDIR and set it to the directory containing lib/ and include/
Cmake output:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" ..
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.31101.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.31101.0
-- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
-- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64 -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
-- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64 -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Looking for include file pthread.h
-- Looking for include file pthread.h - not found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:138 (message):
  Could NOT find SDL (missing: SDL_LIBRARY) (found version "2.0.3")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:374 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindSDL.cmake:199 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:4 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "E:/Code/Projects/OpenGL-SDL/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "E:/Code/Projects/OpenGL-SDL/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

CMakeLists.txt:
project(OpenGL-Sample-SDL)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

find_package(SDL REQUIRED)

include_directories(${SDL_INCLUDE_DIR})
link_libraries(PRIVATE ${SDL_LIBRARY})

add_executable(OpenGL-SDL main.cpp)

A: I read a bit on the wiki page and found a slight workaround. I don't think it's perfect but it's fine for now.
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" -D SDL_LIBRARY_TEMP=%SDLDIR%\lib\x64\SDL2.lib ..

This correctly find SDL2 although I am running into another issue, but I will make a new topic for it.

A: Check the documentation and source of the CMace module that is supposed to find your package
FindSDL.cmake contains the following documentation comment:
# $SDLDIR is an environment variable that would correspond to the
# ./configure --prefix=$SDLDIR used in building SDL.  l.e.galup 9-20-02

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Scaling of innovations is a process that leads to widespread use of an innovation. It is regarded the last step after the discovery, proof of concept and piloting of an innovation. In business it is often used as maximizing operational scale of the product. This technology, or project-focused scaling takes products and services as the point of departure and wants to see those to go scale. In the public sector, and for example in development aid, the desired impact is the point of departure and whatever leads to more impact is scaled (usually in the form of a range of innovations). However, some authors recognize that the public sector often uses the business way of scaling to reach impact, leading to disillusionment and doing more harm than good. Sometimes, scaling is seen as a process towards sustainable systems change at scale, where sustainability, systems change and responsible scaling are just as important as "reaching many".

Dimensions
Although scaling is often associated only with "more, better, bigger" it is important to consider that it has three dimensions:
 Scaling out involves expanding the geographical spread, or reach, of a technology or practice over time. It is associated with quantitative processes like replication, expansion, extension, adoption, dissemination, transfer of technology, mainstreaming, and multiplication .
 Scaling up entails creating the necessary social and institutional preconditions for scaling out to happen efficiently. It is associated with qualitative processes like transition, institutionalizations, transformation, integration, evolution, and development.
 Scaling deep deals with the notion that sustainable and transformative impact is achieved only "when people´s hearts and minds, their values and cultural practices and the quality of relationships they have are transformed", to make the use of the innovation the new routine.

Tools
The first toolkit on scaling innovations was made available for practitioners in 2006 by Cooley and Kohl. It was called the Scaling Up Management (SUM) Framework, it was subsequently refined and expanded in Editions 2 and 3, both of which include the MSI Scalability Assessment Tool. USAID adapted the latter in 2018 to the Agricultural Scalability Assessment Tool (ASAT). Other donors such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Health Organization (WHO), and GIZ have also developed toolkits. Most recently, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the PPPLab developed the Scaling Scan. All these frameworks assign the difficulty of scaling innovations to a lack of clarity about what is required to achieve sustained results beyond smaller pilot programs. The tools help simplify and explain the complexities of scaling and guide users to systematically think through key elements, ingredients, or success factors.

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Dallas Chief of Police, Craig Miller, has proposed installing cameras, buzzers and electronic card readers at all 150 elementary schools to increase campus safety, after reviewing security protocol since December. Officers discovered that Dallas elementary schools lacked security cameras, metal detectors and on-duty police officers.
This proposal will go to the Dallas school board for discussion and if approved, upgrades would be installed by the start of the 2013-2014 school year.
Install one-way peepholes on all of the portable buildings, allowing people in the building to see outside during a lockdown.
While these recommendations would indeed make schools safer, Miller did caution that to prevent a shooting similar to what took place in Newtown, Conn., is a challenge due to the fact that the gunman forced his way into the school, despite a buzzer system and a locked front door.


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Therapeutic boarding schools in Minnesota are designed to help struggling teenagers find happiness and success.
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Wilderness programs focus on adventure-based education and therapy. The experiential therapy employed by these programs teaches teenagers confidence as well as practical skills, including teamwork, and fellowship. Milieu therapy is commonly employed in therapeutic boarding schools and involves a variety of therapies all happening at once. This approach covers the majority of issues usually facing teenagers. Most schools also include a degree of behavioral modification. This term simply means that problematic behaviors are discouraged. Similarly, healthy behaviors are rewarded. In this way, teenagers abandon their negative ways of thinking and living in favor of new, positive ideas and actions.
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Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the 50 United States. Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the "Twin Cities", the center of transportation, business, industry and education, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.
Minnesota is known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations, and has a high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. Minnesota ranks among the healthiest states, and has a highly literate population. The large majority of residents are of Scandinavian and German descent. The state is known as a center of Scandinavian American culture. Ethnic diversity has increased in recent decades. Substantial influxes of African, Asian, and Latin American immigrants have joined the descendants of European immigrants and the original Native American inhabitants.
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Should you need help finding teen substance abuse treatment, best troubled teen schools, boys boarding schools or therapeutic schools, please let us know. The best therapeutic schools and behavior modification programs providing treatment for troubled teens are listed here. The directory includes a list of the best therapeutic boarding schools, best residential treatment programs for teens, best wilderness programs, outdoor therapeutic and adventure therapy programs, and other behavioral health programs working with troubled teens. Boarding Schools that are Emotional Growth Schools and Therapeutic Boarding Schools provide therapy for at-risk teenage boys and girls. If you are searching for troubled youth homes, summer camps for troubled teens, troubled teen schools, or troubled teen therapy boarding schools, you have found a list of them. Homes for troubled teens and boarding schools for teens don't typically offer teen counseling and therapy, but these programs do. Among the top therapeutic schools, our list of therapeutic boarding schools shows the best therapeutic schools with counseling – also referred to as schools for troubled teens". They are alternative boarding schools that offer a type of psychotherapy that can help your troubled teenager.
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Orchid Jackson, right, of Millville, Cumberland County, chats with her specialist, Dr. Matthew Brant, of Reconstructive Orthopedics in Vineland. Jackson had to lose 90 pounds to qualify for an ankle replacement surgery two years ago. The procedure's been around for several years, but recently gained popularity among younger, more active patients to address arthritis pain.
Orchid Jackson broke her ankle back in the 1980s. She still feels the effects two decades later in the form of post-traumatic arthritis.
Jackson, 55, of Millville, Cumberland County, could still walk, but her mobility was limited and she sometimes experienced pain. Or, as she put it, "I had my good days and my bad days."
Two years ago, Jackson underwent a total ankle replacement, a burgeoning procedure that has emerged as an alternative to ankle fusion, a long-held remedy for severe arthritis.
But before she could have the surgery, Jackson needed to lose weight. On a bad ankle, no less.
Patients who are too heavy can place excessive demands on the replaced ankle, in which a plastic-and-metal joint has been inserted in place of damaged bones.
"You don't want to be too heavy in the ankle," said Dr. Matthew Brant, of Reconstructive Orthopedics in Vineland. "There's a lot of load going through it. It's a smaller, more symmetrical joint. It's not like a knee, where there's a lot of surface going through it."
So, Jackson hit the gym.
In the months leading to her November 2016 surgery, Jackson put herself through a workout regimen that included hip crunches, abdominal workouts, weight lifting and bicycle work.
"When (Brant) gave me a date, that's when I started pushing things a little harder," Jackson said.
In all, she lost 90 pounds.
"I still work out," Jackson said. "I'll still be at the gym. I like lifting weights and showing off. It's alright. I feel better when I'm in the gym anyway. The more I work out, the better I feel."
Two years after her surgery, Jackson had only praise for a procedure that is becoming more and more popular among younger patients. Her recovery was relatively short and her ankle is holding up well.
She said she's even back to dancing – though she's still learning to walk in heels again.
"It's a lot better," Jackson said. "I still get around. I don't use a cane, no crutches, no nothing. I'm independent."
Across the United States, total ankle replacements were expected to reach nearly 10,000 procedures in 2017, according to The Wall Street Journal. That's double the total from 2011.
"It's becoming more of a trend," Brant said. "Some people would say it's moving toward the gold standard compared to a fusion. It's always going to be a debate."
For years, ankle fusions have stood as the standard procedure to relieve arthritis pain, particularly for younger adults who maintained more active lifestyles. Surgeons roughen the ends of damaged bones and attach them with metal plates and screws. The damaged bones fuse together into one bone during the recovery process. But doing so reduces the ankle's motion, possibly causing nearby joints to move more, a factor that increases the risk of developing arthritis in those joints.
Total ankle replacements help patients retain a more natural gait and there's a lower chance of developing arthritis in nearby joints. And patients get back to weight-bearing faster than ankle fusions.
But the replacement components can loosen, eventually requiring additional surgeries. By comparison, ankle fusions are expected to last a lifetime.
Replacement is "good for a patient that wants to walk, run, bike or swim," Brant said. "It's not really made for a patient that wants to do high-impact, twisting activities, like tennis."
Still, Brant said many patients don't yet realize that total ankle replacements are an option. Some who have battled arthritis remember being told years ago that they would eventually need an ankle fusion, he said.
That includes Jackson, who is happy she opted for replacement, not fusion.
"I'm doing real good," she said. "Everything is normal."


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Will DC Comics' Justice League be the answer to Marvel's Avengers?
By Hassan Sardar Published: March 31, 2017
One thing I can never wrap my head around is the bizarre fact that all of Zack Snyder's DC Comics' movie adaptations are shot in the dark. Do they not experience daytime in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU)? With this slight moan out of the way, let's turn our collective attention towards DC Comics' answer to Marvel's Avengers.
The first full Justice League trailer just dropped and the entire internet world is in a state of meltdown. In a world where 'The Avengers' already exist, you've got to seriously up the ante if you plan on introducing a rival, and by the looks of it, this is precisely what DC comics did.
Ben Affleck, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Ray Fisher in Justice League (2017)
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Ok, first impression. The movie seems to be based on Justice League: Origin, the comic book story that overhauls the gang's original members for a new generation of meta-humans.
Months after the events of Batman vs Superman, fuelled by Superman's sacrifice for humanity, Batman (Ben Affleck) takes help from his new found ally, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), to recruit a team. This team consisting of Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Flash (Ezra Miller), and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) will face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Para demons, who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
Gal Gadot in Justice League (2017)
Ezra Miller in Justice League (2017)
Ray Fisher in Justice League (2017)
For the uninitiated, Steppenwolf is a general in Darkseid's army who is the tyrannical ruler of planet Apokolips and one of Justice League's greatest foes. Mother Box, on the other hand, is an Apokoliptan living computer that possesses phenomenal powers and abilities ranging from teleportation to energy manipulation.
For starters, the filmmakers have finally paid heed to fans' feedback. Everything still seems to be covered in that signature Snyder's shadowy haze but the studio had made sure – following the direly serious Batman vs Superman – they smartly squeeze in moments of levity. It is lighter, funnier, and less of a drab than any of the previous DCEU instalment. The cast is top notch while the action and the visual effects are at par with everything that any big studio production would have offered in this day and age.
Furthermore, unlike the previous offerings where everyone spoke mostly in short sentences, it seems like the director has actually worked on developing relationship dynamics between different key characters by contrasting their respective personalities and having engaging back and forth dialogues between them. All the main leads seem as though they are having a really good time.
Speaking of the characters, it sure looks like the studio is pretty hot on Aquaman. With the amount of screen time dedicated to Momoa's act in the trailer, he is definitely being pushed as the league's Wolverine.
But one superhero conspicuous by his absence is Superman. Having Amy Adams making an appearance as Lois Lane during the trailer hints at how the Man of Steel is simply kept under the wraps to rebuild his hype – remember his earlier appearances didn't go exactly according to the plan. To be fair, it kind of does build anticipation for his character and I, for one, am looking forward to see him make a surprise appearance during the movie.
Jason Momoa in Justice League (2017)
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Amy Adams in Justice League (2017)
Justice League hits the screens this year in November.
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Parents often step in when children are fighting, and even if their child is wrong, they will defend their darling. God is like that. God is not happy when others attack his kids, or mistreat them with words or actions.
God has a way of causing; "What you sow is what you reap," to accomplish his purpose.
God is Long suffering, patient and kind, but many times in the Bible, God simply got "ticked off" and rained fire and brimstone on those who sinned, such as the two cities Sodom and Gomorrah. Other times in his anger against blatant sin, He opened up the earth and swallowed whole families even though they were of the Children of Israel.
God puts up with a lot of foolishness and nonsense, but eventually He says, "Enough is enough" and He takes action.
In the New Testament, God struck Ananias and his wife Sapphira, dead because they lied to the Holy Ghost.
There were other occasions when God was angry and ready to punish those who were disobedient to his will, or were harming one of his sons or daughters – but because there was an intercessor, his hand was stayed.
Understand that each of us as Children of God, when persons come against you and trouble you that we are not to retaliate, or "pay back," but to leave the vengeance to God. Romans 12:19-20.
Often we find ourselves gloating and hoping that God will avenge us and "Get them good." We are happy to imagine how God will bring his wrath on them for hurting and offending us.
I would like us to take an unusual step that we normally do not take: Instead of desiring those who persecute us to suffer the wrath of God and His vengeance; Might we consider asking God to NOT hold those persons accountable.
Yes, we are considering those really awful persons who have given you trouble - - Those mean and vicious persons who have maliciously said unkind things to you, told lies about you and your loved ones, and perhaps make fun of your faith in Jesus. Those persons who have stolen from you, abused you, harshly mistreated you; Those persons who showed you NO respect but wiped their feet on you.
Can we find it within ourselves (through God's love and mercy that resides inside us) to pray, Lord, Lay Not their Sin against me - - to their charge?
I assume that in your heart you have already forgiven these persons or person who came against you.
Are you willing to take the next step and intercede for them that trouble will not be their friend? Because you are praying: "Lord, Lay Not their Sin against me - - to their charge.
Today we met to Plead the Blood over our city. Not just ANY Blood, but the precious Blood of Jesus must cover our citizens, our families and our friends.
Only the Blood of Jesus will save, heal and make a person, whole in their spirit, soul and body. His blood was pure, and did not have the nature of Adam. The baby Jesus did not have any blood from his mother's blood from Adam. The blood of Jesus came from His Father who was God.
This meant his blood was unique and was able to flow from Calvary and cover the sins of the world. It is because of His blood that we may boldly enter the Holy of Holies and approach God for ourselves.
Lord we plead the blood to cover our sick city. I sprinkle the Blood of Jesus over broken hearts, sad attitudes, sin in all of its forms, and disease, virus, flu and all infirmities.
One of the speakers reminded us that Super Natural is not Super Weirdo, but Natural to the Spiritual Person. And we are SPIRIT, live in a body and have a Soul. God speaks to us in our spirit but often it seems like it is our own thoughts.
The prophets in the Old Testament often warned but they also could 'see' into the future and would tell what would happen. Samuel saw Saul's lost donkeys and told him they were safe. Many times their message was full of gloom and doom.
New Testaments prophets are to speak positive good words of what is in the heart of God as they listen to His voice.
Jesus is still speaking today, even though He is in heaven. Of course He speaks through the Word, but today more and more Jesus speaks to the Believer in their inner person.
Peter is preaching: Acts 3:21-22 God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Revelations 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the Testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
We have at least 3 witnesses saying that the spirit of prophecy is the testimony (or words) from Jesus speaking from Heaven to your heart so you may share them at appointed times.
God is rising up a Prophetic Culture of Believers who are learning to listen and then speak out the Heart of Jesus over situations.
I shared a bit about something interesting at the Prophetic conference. A group of the students from the School of the supernatural were on the platform and were asked how they saw or heard before they would prophesy.
One young Asian woman said she loves numbers and the Lord often shows her numbers about a person as she illustrated. She gave 4 numbers and said it is part of an address and asked if it meant anything to anyone in the audience. A gentleman stood and said yes. She proceeded to give the street name and the man said, yes that is my church. She said, is your name Joshua, and he said yes. Each time, she gave praise to Jesus for telling her about this man. Then she prophesied that something was going on in his church, but The Lord was making it alright, and his ministry would grow and be blessed.
Actually this was a combination of two spiritual gifts. The word of Knowledge (knowing something you would not normally know.) and prophesy telling the person what God is willing for them to have in the future.
Then we had the lesson and something stirred within me. The name Edith came to my mind, and I asked if the name Edith meant anything to the ladies sitting there. All seemed puzzled - - So nothing. I said, "Well that was a test." (Test for me to learn to obey.) Awhile later one of the ladies said, "What if she was my friend, but she is now in heaven?" So we rejoiced that Edith is in heaven. I suggested we all need to learn to develop our listening and see what God will do in our midst.
After the meeting we dismissed, and I turned and started to re-enter the church because I thought I had forgot my bottle of water. I opened the door and Pastor Allan said, is there anything you need sister? I said, No, I thought I forgot my water, but the Lord just told me that I put it in my purse. Back to the car - - and sure enough there it was.
Learn to Listen to God's voice and go ahead and give God credit for telling you.


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A Pandemic of Consumer Plagues
By James R. Hood
www.ConsumerAffairs.Com
This is the time of the year when consumer organizations, attorneys general
and the Federal Trade Commission rummage around in their complaint files
from the previous year and announce that -- horrors! -- identity theft,
Nigerian scams and auction fraud are big problems.
It's hard to disagree with this but, on the other hand, it doesn't really
address the root cause of the financial, physical and emotional turmoil
inflicted on consumers in recent times.
Rather than flip through the roughly 150,000 complaints in our database, we
decided to gaze out the window and pretend to smoke a cigar while pondering
what we'd say are the companies, institutions and human inclinations
responsible for giving the hot-foot to so many of us.
Here's what we came up with -- our list of the top 10 scourges confronting
those of us still sentient:
1. Congress
A dome full of monkeys would do a better of job of protecting the rights of
Americans than the buffoons currently haunting Capitol Hill. These clowns
have weakened or downright repealed vital consumer protections in virtually
every corner of modern life and are now embarking on a new War of Northern
Aggression aimed at gutting state laws which provide some small measure of
comfort to the afflicted.
Personally, we think Congress has forgotten that it is there to protect the
interests of what the Constitution quaintly refers to as "the people." Last
time we looked, Pfizer, AT&T and MBNA were corporations, not people.
2. Rebates
Rebates are, very simply, fraudulent. They are based on the assumption that
most consumers won't bother to send in the rebate forms and are engineered
to frustrate and hog-tie those who have the audacity to actually try to
collect what is legally theirs. The practice of promising rebates that are
not paid on the spot should be outlawed. Legislators lacking the guts to do
so should be voted out of office, stripped of their retirement benefits and
made to work for a living.
3. Usury
Every now and then, an Ameriquest or Cross Country Bank is prosecuted for
taking advantage of low-income consumers. This is similar to the practice,
common in totalitarian countries, of executing some poor soul at random
every day or two: it looks good on the evening news but doesn't accomplish
anything. Even "legitimate" lenders think nothing of charging their good
customers 29% interest. Is it surprising less well-heeled clients are
stripped and left for dead?
4. Ford Motor Co.
A true American institution, Ford has produced such icons as the Windstar's
weak-gasketed V-6, the self-immolating F-150 and the top-heavy and
rollover-prone Explorer, among many other fatally-flawed products. Not
content with this, it has ignored each problem, refusing to lift a finger to
help its stranded, maimed or killed customers and has trained its
customer-service reps to deny ever hearing of any such thing despite the
thousands of examples that come easily to hand.
5. Extended Warranties
The best you can say about many extended warranties is that they're not
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dollars consumers spend on them. While there may be exceptions, most
extended warranties do nothing but line the pockets of those dispensing
them. As they say in the MBA mills, revenue from extended warranties, a/k/a/
service contracts, "goes straight to the bottom line." Translation: all
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6. Federal Agencies
Don't even get us started on this one.
7. Our Health Care "System"
Actually, there is no health care system in this country. There is instead
an odd form of anarchic socialism, in which everyone pays exorbitant fees to
insurers and drug companies in exchange for which group practices and
hospitals render impersonal care of wildly varying quality. And then there
are the elderly. Abandoned by their supposed advocates who refuse to use the
word "elderly" and instead portray their members as "vitally aging"
post-pubescents eternally riding their bicycles on the beach, America's old
people are driven into insolvency by the high cost of long-term care, even
though they receive very little of it.
8. Disability Insurance
This is perhaps the cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on a large population.
Earnest, hard-working people pay hefty premiums for years, thinking their
families will be provided for should they have the misfortune to become
disabled. Instead, all too many wind up homeless and bereft. Back in the
day, they would have been driven into bankruptcy but Congress has spared
them this misfortune by making it unavailable to all but airlines, energy
companies and other big contributors (see #1 above).
9. TV Talk Shows
We don't watch these but now and then we're trapped in an airport lounge,
trauma ward, Jiffy Lube or other torture chamber where an inaccessible
television is blasting away. Apparently, when the mental hospitals were
phased out a few decades ago, the most hopeless patients were given suits
and fancy hair cuts and then turned loose in the nearest TV studio. No
wonder our government has been taken over by corrupt loonies. Look what
passes for political discourse.
10. Beef
Though some might disagree, there's probably nothing inherently wrong with
eating animal flesh. The problem is that the production of beef, pork, veal
and other meat has become so industrialized that it's no longer possible for
us to know whether what we're eating contains mad-cow-inducing prions,
harmful hormones or exotic bacterial contamination. Personally, our 2006
resolution is to learn a lot more about the joys of tofu.
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Q: Java How to split String and delete a part of it? I have a list of String (List <String> titles) like this:
                    "xxxl54.AE",
                    "xxxl56.AP",
                    "xxxl57.AE",
                    "xxxl58.VP",
                    "xxxl59.WR",
                    "xxxl56.SD"

But I want to get this:
                    "xxxl54",
                    "xxxl56",
                    "xxxl57",
                    "xxxl58",
                    "xxxl59",
                    "xxxl56"

How do I delete the part that is to the right of the point?

A: You need to use combination of default String methods String.substring and String.indexOf
To modify each item of the list, you could use stream().map and to save it again as the modified list collect(Collectors.toList())
List <String> titles = new ArrayList<>();
titles.add("xxxl54.AE");
titles = titles.stream().map(it -> it.substring(0, it.indexOf("."))).collect(Collectors.toList());

But be careful - if one of the items doesn't have a "." in its content, you need to handle it separately:
List <String> titles = new ArrayList<>();
titles.add("xxxl54.AE");
titles.add("xxxl00AE");
titles = titles.stream().map(it -> {
    int dotIndex = it.indexOf(".");
    if(dotIndex != -1) {
        it.substring(0, dotIndex);
    }
    return it;
}).collect(Collectors.toList());

A: If you want to replace the strings in your original list:
titles.replaceAll(e -> e.split("\\.")[0]);

Example:
List<String> titles = new ArrayList<>();
titles.add("xxxl54.AE");
titles.add("xxxl56.AP");
titles.add("xxxl57.AE");

System.out.println("Before: " + titles);

titles.replaceAll(e -> e.split("\\.")[0]);

System.out.println("After: " + titles);


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Snake Oil
May 7, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment
I was hearing voices and not for the first time. There was an epauletted man in ironed khaki across the desk from me. His lips were moving earnestly in French. There was a tea leaf on one of his teeth, a single leaf that distracted me. I knew that this man was not to be crossed. The black fleck on surprisingly perfect dentition got me thinking. I might be better off looking for the future in tea leaves rather than hearing how cooperative this man's army would be.
Looking for landmines in Morocco 2012
A man by my side was simultaneously translating to me in English accented by his Italian and Spanish heritage. The translating man was also on my side, a former French Foreign legionnaire, a mercenary soldier acting as a security advisor. I liked him and I knew he was exceptionally good at his job. Which was a useful thing to recognise because my life was in his hands. That day, his contract was with my company, so to speak. You'd never know what the future brings.
The two burly but lower ranked officers were supporting the seated Major General by whispering. They had to stand since it had been arranged to have only three chairs in the office for this meeting. On signal by a raised hand, they spoke discreetly to their boss in Arabic or Berber. No matter the languages, both sides were lying across his desk.
It was surreal. I couldn't tell what was true. I did know that the voice in front of me was utterly mendacious. That confident, lying voice was the power in the room. This was a world where Power and Truth were maintained in an asymmetric relationship that worked because Power determined Truth.
Power pretended not to understand English but he had trained and worked manoeuvres with US forces. The American military don't do foreign languages and we surmised before the meeting that he'd have to speak their language. How else could his like be the solid and reliable partner NATO boasted? I understood most everything he said and could tell if my advisor withheld anything. He didn't. But we both knew the Major General wasn't telling us everything we needed to know.
My security advisor was fluent in Arabic and told me later that the advisors copped this and switched to Berber. My advisor was competent in Berber too. Indeed, my mercenary was a native Spanish and Italian speaker. He'd been in some undisclosed role in Francophone Africa that needed fluency in French and Arabic to survive. He told me that he learned English from satellite TV during that 'special' mission. And falling for a Turkish woman brought the need for a seventh language.
My mercenary was good with people. I watched him talk with goatherds, military governors, hotel managers and doctors with equal deference and focus. He had the enquiring skills of a good journalist, an interrogator whose grilling was almost undetectable. People wanted to tell him what he wanted to hear. He was an unusual soldier.
Our coffee cups were empty, the biscuits eaten, the tea leaf washed away. Power stood, his teeth radiant within a meaningless smile. The meeting was at an end. We stood and we became amicable for the moment of the handshake. We were escorted out of the office and it was over.
We were 'given' 140 soldiers to clear landmines. 'Plastic mines? It was almost as if it was an insult to suggest that plastic landmines could ever have been used. No, never. Of course not.'
'And what happened on day one? The blade of a dozer dug up a plastic landline.'
The soldier's mental reservation was classified.
I wrote up a memoir-style post here last year. I categorise and tag such things as 'fake memoir' because the details are the devil.
Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: geophysics, land mines, morocco, security, seismic


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Tressie McMillan Cottom Joins The Times as an Opinion Columnist
Opinion announces that the writer, sociologist and cultural critic Tressie McMillan Cottom is joining The New York Times staff as an Opinion columnist.
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On the crowded playing fields of public intellectuals today, be it in books or social media, newsletters or the pages of newspapers and magazines, Tressie McMillan Cottom's words stand out and demand your attention.
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All of this (and more) is why we're delighted to announce that Tressie will become a columnist for The Times in April, as we continue our ongoing expansion of Times Opinion columnists this year.
Tressie has a signature style for interrogating and exposing the ways that systems, codes and privilege can shape our experiences and interactions with one another, and influence mobility and progress (or lack thereof) in our economy and culture. Times Opinion columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein put it like this during a podcast interview with Tressie last year: She examines "the way status structures reinforce the hierarchies of American life of who gets listened to and who gets seen and why."
Her insights and writing are acclaimed from cultural criticism circles to policymakers and pure diehard fans of her essays and podcasts. Among her honors was one of the biggest out there: Tressie was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow in 2020, the recipient of its prestigious "genius grant." She's the author of two critically acclaimed books, Lower Ed and Thick (a finalist for the National Book Awards) — with another two books coming in 2024 — and a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Readers will be familiar with Tressie from Times Opinion's subscriber-only newsletter initiative, and her body of work there shows why we want to bring her important work to an even wider audience. Her signature style — pivoting off a moment to examine how we think and live — immediately drew reader interest. In her essay this December "On bell hooks and the Solace of Ritual," Tressie wove together her work as a public scholar, her renewed relationship with her biological father and … Hallmark Christmas movies.
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Please join us in welcoming her even further into the Opinion fold.
—Kathleen Kingsbury, Patrick Healy and Charlotte Greensit
Vanessa Mobley Joins Opinion to Lead Op-Ed Team
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package org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.interactions.touch;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.HasTouchScreen;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.TouchScreen;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.JsonParametersAware;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.Session;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.WebElementHandler;

import java.util.Map;

public class Down extends WebElementHandler<Void> implements JsonParametersAware {

  private static final String X = "x";
  private static final String Y = "y";
  private int x;
  private int y;

  public Down(Session session) {
    super(session);
  }

  @Override
  public Void call() throws Exception {
    TouchScreen touchScreen = ((HasTouchScreen) getDriver()).getTouch();

    touchScreen.down(x, y);

    return null;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return String.format("[Down]");
  }

  public void setJsonParameters(Map<String, Object> allParameters) throws Exception {
    try {
      x = ((Number) allParameters.get(X)).intValue();
    } catch (ClassCastException ex) {
      throw new WebDriverException("Illegal (non-numeric) x touch down position value passed: " + allParameters.get(X), ex);
    }
    try {
      y = ((Number) allParameters.get(Y)).intValue();
    } catch (ClassCastException ex) {
      throw new WebDriverException("Illegal (non-numeric) y touch down position value passed: " + allParameters.get(Y), ex);
    }
  }

}

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