RIT President David Munson said exciting changes are in the works in RIT's revised 2025 Strategic Plan that will help the university get closer to becoming a top-50 university, yet unlike any other top-50 university in the nation.
Rochester Institute of Technology President David Munson said exciting changes are in the works in RIT's revised 2025 Strategic Plan that will help the university get closer to becoming a top-50 university, yet unlike any other top-50 university in the nation.
He quoted the plan's vision, which he said will streamline 121 goals reflecting RIT's collective strategic vision in the 2015 Strategic Plan to 44 goals, while preserving critical aspects including student success and diversity.
People: Building a Creative and Diverse Community. The credit for the RIT difference belongs to its people. We will attract and support an extraordinary mix of increasingly creative multi-talented students, faculty and staff, and we will continue to diversify all segments of our community.
Programs: Fostering and Exercising Creativity. RIT's students constantly seek new ways of thinking, doing and making. We will serve the aspirations of our students by integrating our core strengths in technology, the arts and design, and continuing to grow programs in all forms of experiential learning.
Places: Facilitating our Creative Community. To attract the most talented and creative people, we must provide a welcoming physical environment that is conducive to the connecting, making and imagining that will define their RIT experience. Anticipated new and renovated facilities to support the centrality of creativity, design, learning and making include an integrated Student Alumni Union/Center for Immersive Learning and Making/Wallace Library, a performing arts center and outdoor interactive installations embodying art/technology integration. Anticipated new and renovated facilities to support research and graduate students include a cybersecurity addition to the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, conversion of some classrooms to research and graduate student office space, and an engineering and science research laboratory building.
Partnerships: Extending our Reach and Serving the World. RIT has a long history of successful partnerships. We will remain committed to the enrichment of our local community, continue our close relationship with New York state and search for promising new partners at the national and global levels. Overseas partners will increasingly afford enriching experiences for our students and faculty and will become a source of talented undergraduate and graduate students for the RIT home campus.
He said there is no university better equipped to realize this vision.
"RIT has tremendous capital in all the right places – in its diverse and variously talented people, its deep and unique program portfolio, its defining commitment to students and its socially responsible culture," he said.
Munson also discussed the yearlong celebration of RIT's 50th year at its Henrietta campus, the new Lobozzo Alumni House on the west side of campus, and the October dedication of MAGIC Spell Studios, which includes a 7,000-square-foot state-of-the-art sound stage, a high-tech theater with a projection booth and a cinema-quality audiovisual system, sound mixing and color correction facilities, numerous labs and other production facilities.
Munson also congratulated students, faculty and alumni that won awards and accolades – including a Pulitzer Prize and an "Inventor of the Year" – and discussed the $1 billion "Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness" fundraising campaign announced this summer. More than $530 million has been raised so far, from alumni and friends, government and corporate partners and research foundations and agencies. The money will be used to attract exceptional talent, enhance the student experience, improve the world through research and discovery, and provide future initiatives.


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I can explain to you, in excruciating detail, the problems I'm having choosing my winter quarter classes. If given the slightest prompt, I could rant for an uninterrupted hour about how much I hate people who walk slowly in bike roundabouts during rush hour.
This tendency I have to focus on the slight inconveniences that are right in front of me and to fail to critically engage with broader issues is wildly problematic. I pride myself on being politically informed, but when the Mueller investigation news broke, I was too busy complaining about my economics problem set to sit down and try to actually understand the facts of the case. I claim I care about social justice, both on campus and off, but I didn't hear about the petitions that some members of dining hall staff delivered to Residential & Dining Enterprises management until a couple of days after it happened.
A part of me offers up excuses — I had a paper due last week. I had so much reading to do yesterday, there was no time for me to think about anything else. But the amount of work I have to do isn't a good enough excuse for approaching politics and social issues in this fundamentally lazy way.
There's a tendency, both in me and, I think, on other parts of campus, to do all of the obligatory things that show you're a good and active member of American political systems. I'm righteously indignant about all of the right things — I send screenshots of news headlines about Russia and Trump to my friends and follow the photos up with angry tirades. I can explain to you what a microaggression is and why they are bad things, and my explanation will be chock-full of all the self-important jargon you could wish for. But does any of that jargon I use really matter if I stay silent when someone in my dorm tells a casually racist joke?
It can be tempting to label this tendency for lazy political activism as another consequence of the infamous Stanford Bubble — this allows us to tuck it away into neat vernacular, make ironic jokes about it and let life slip smoothly on. But I think that's somewhat of an oversimplification, and by putting most of the impetus on Stanford, we allow ourselves to shirk responsibility. At its core, our tendency to not engage with critical issues has less to do with us retreating into the safe haven of a Stanford "bubble" and more to do with us retreating into our self-made bubbles. There are countless ways to be involved in politics and social issues on campus — getting involved with Cardinal Service, participating in on-campus protests, starting conversations about systems of injustice that concern you.
Regardless of whether you go to Stanford or not, it is easy to get caught up in a life of constant leapfrogging. We hop, ceaselessly, from one problem set to another, one class to the next, living from quarter to quarter, year to year. We have no time to read the news because we have to finish an essay by midnight. We can't volunteer this weekend because we have to apply for that big internship. We can't engage with anything for longer than 10 weeks because we only have the bandwidth for what's right in front of us.
So we read all the right books, we use all the right jargon, and we hold all the right opinions, but when it comes down to it, we consistently fail to do the right things.
We tweet about proposed bills that we are angry about, but we don't take the time to call our congressmen. We are superficially angry about whatever social problem is at the forefront of American consciousness on a particular day or week, but we don't devote ourselves to fighting for substantial change through activism, or even just starting important conversations about issues that aren't related to the crazy-hard CS class that we're taking this quarter.
This mindset does a disservice to the larger goals of activism and liberal democracy, which are to craft a better society.
There's no use in being informed if you don't act on that information. Our impact on the politics of our time is not predicated on how many angry tweets we send in a week, or how many news headlines we skim on our way to class. It is predicated on our active, and productive, engagement.


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Wallan resident Adam Georgelin is pushing his wheelchair the length of the Great Victorian Rail Trail to raise money and give back to two organisations that have played a large part in his life.
Mr Georgelin, who was born with Spina Bifida on the lower part of his spine, plays in the Victorian Wheelchair Football League, where he won a premiership with Richmond earlier this month.
Disability Sports and Recreation and the Robert Rose Foundation both play major roles in the Victorian Wheelchair Football League.
Disability Sports and Recreation's main focus is to help Victorians with disability live happier, more active lives.
The Robert Rose Foundation was set up in honour of Victorian Football League footballer and state cricketer who became a paraplegic at the age of 22, after a car accident in 1974. The foundation assists people with spinal cord injuries and their families.
Mr Georgelin said the two organisations had been great to him since he started playing wheelchair football.
"I've always loved footy and having a physical disability, there were no options to play footy. As soon as I heard about the wheelchair footy, I had to get into it," he said.
"The idea came about because I just wanted to give back to them and I wanted to do something that was achievable but challenging."
Mr Georgelin will start his challenge, Push On, at Tallarook on December 1 and will travel a total of 125 kilometres to Mansfield, finishing on December 3, International Disability Day.
His wife Tammy will ride a bike by his side to accompany him.
Mr Georgelin said his plan was to push more than 40 kilometres each day with overnight stops in Yea and Merton.
"There's a fair bit of training involved. I've been training with the footy, keeping fit with the footy has been good but now it's going to be more specific to cardio training," he said.
"From Yarck into Merton, it's winding up to the base of the snowfields so that's going to be the toughest part."
Mr Georgelin has already raised close to his goal of $5000 with more than three months remaining but is looking to increase his target and split the money raised between the two organisations.
"We're 14 weeks out and we've nearly hit it so once we get to that, I'll bump it up and whatever I get, I'm going to be thrilled to bits to receive," he said.
"I just want to thank the community so far for what they've done."
Getting to nearly $5000 in eight weeks has been fantastic and we've still got 14 weeks to go."
Mr Georgelin will have donation tins at a business in Euroa and a gym in Whittlesea.
He welcomes any other businesses who would like to have a donation tin in their shop.
People can donate to Mr Georgelin's cause, by visiting www.gofundme.com/f/push-on-adams-cycle-challenge.
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Fame as an asset: Will Casey Anthony's Chapter 7 bankruptcy case preclude future book and movie deals?
In re Casey Marie Anthony, Bankr. M.D. Fla., Case No. 8:13-bk-00922-KRM
Although this blog typically focuses on Michigan bankruptcy cases, last week's Chapter 7 filing by Casey Anthony raises interesting questions about the impact of bankruptcy on public figures.
Casey Anthony held the national spotlight for nearly three years after being charged with murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony initially alleged that Caylee was kidnapped by her nanny, then claimed that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool. After a jury found her not guilty on all charges except some misdemeanors, Anthony faced a barrage of lawsuits, including claims for defamation and for reimbursement by private investigators who searched for Caylee in the months before her remains were found.
Those lawsuits ground to a halt when Anthony filed a voluntary Chapter 7 petition in the Middle District of Florida on January 25, 2013. In her bankruptcy papers, Anthony lists few assets (comprised mostly of household goods) but discloses unsecured debts of nearly $800,000, plus numerous debts of unknown amounts. The debts include the pending lawsuits against her and $500,000 in legal fees owed to her criminal defense attorney.
Dischargeability of Debts
If Anthony obtains a discharge, many of those debts – including her legal fees and other costs arising out of her nationally televised murder trial – will be wiped away. The dischargeability of the defamation claims is more questionable, as Florida's bankruptcy courts have recognized that defamatory statements can be a "willful and malicious injury" – and thus excluded from discharge1 – if the debtor knew the statements were false.2 The plaintiffs in the defamation actions would be required to file lawsuits in bankruptcy court to determine whether the debts are nondischargeable.
"Right of Publicity" as Property of the Estate
Some may question the fairness of Anthony's bankruptcy filing, as it is conceivable that she could discharge her significant debts and then immediately pursue a book or movie deal worth millions. Indeed, her status as a public figure may be her most valuable asset. But is the potential value of her fame (or, as courts describe it, the "right of publicity") property of the bankruptcy estate that the trustee can use to pay creditors? Is fame an asset?
In Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases, a trustee liquidates the debtor's non-exempt property to pay creditors. Few courts have addressed the question of whether a public figure's "right of publicity" – including such intangibles as name recognition, likeness, and life story – is an asset that can be liquidated for the benefit of creditors. One California state court, in litigation against O.J. Simpson, rejected the notion that an individual's right of publicity can be assigned for the benefit of his creditors.3 And though case law is sparse, some legal scholars argue that allowing the right of publicity to be treated as a bankruptcy asset raises constitutional concerns about involuntary servitude.4 If the right of publicity were an asset in her bankruptcy, could the trustee compel Anthony to make public appearances, with the proceeds going to her creditors? Could she be forced to cooperate in publishing her life story? No courts have yet gone so far.
If fame is an asset, bankruptcy courts also will have to grapple with whether future use of that fame arises out of pre-bankruptcy property (which can be used to pay creditors) or whether it is post-petition property (which is safe from creditors). Certainly, if Anthony had written a book before her bankruptcy filing, the proceeds of that book would be property of the bankruptcy estate. But if she tells her life story after the bankruptcy, would her profits be traceable to pre-bankruptcy property (i.e., her fame – or infamy – which arose before the bankruptcy), or are they treated like post-petition job earnings, which would not be reachable by the Chapter 7 trustee?5
Case law offers no clear answer to these questions, and it is too early to know whether the bankruptcy court handling Anthony's case will address them. But it remains possible that Casey Anthony could walk away from her debts and then try to profit from her public notoriety, without having to pay a penny to her creditors – assuming, of course, that the world will pay to hear her story.
1 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6).
2 In re Durrance, 84 B.R. 238 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1988).
3 Goldman v. Simpson, No. SC03-6340, slip op. at 12 (Cal. Super. Ct., Oct. 31, 2006).
4 Rothman, Jennifer E., The Inalienable Right of Publicity, Georgetown Law Journal, 101 GeoLJ 185 (Nov 2012).
5 See Jacoby, Melissa B., Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Uncharted Boundaries of the Right of Publicity, New York University Law Review, 77 NYU L Rev 1322 (Nov 2002).
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Taxonomic history, comparative morphology, and variation in Astrophytum myriostigma and its subspecies tulense (Cactaceae)
Richard R. Montanucci Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University
Klaus-Peter Kleszewski
Astrophytum myriostigma subsp. myriostigma and subsp. tulense are distinguished by both vegetative and reproductive characters. The stem of the nominotypical subspecies is broad and depressed becoming broadly cylindrical in age, reaching a known maximum height of ca. 52 cm. In subsp. tulense, the stem is relatively slen-der and columnar and can reach a maximum height of ca. 90 cm. Both taxa show variation in the angle and profile of the ribs. In the nominotypical subspecies, the ribs are usually obtuse with a rounded or angular profile, or moderately acute with an angular profile. In subsp. tulense, the ribs are typically moderately to very acute with an angular profile. There are exceptions to these generalities. Both taxa have a modal number of five ribs, and both have the tendency to insert additional ribs with age, although the tendency seems more pronounced in subsp. tulense.
The flower of the nominotypical subspecies differs from that of subsp. tulense in having a significantly larger mean perianth diameter (P <= 0.01), a significantly higher mean number of stigma lobes (P <= 0.05), and more tepal rows (3–5 vs. 1–3). The color of the tepals is pale yellow to whitish yellow in subsp. tulense, but brighter yellow or golden yellow in the nominotypical subspecies. The seeds of the nominotypical subspecies are significantly larger (P <= 0.01) than the seeds of subsp. tulense.
Morphological variation was studied in nine populations of the subsp. myriostigma and six populations of the subsp. tulense. The nominotypical subspecies displays rib angle and rib profile differences among individual plants within a population. Plants with a depressed stem and obtuse, rounded ribs are predominant at some localities. At other localities, plants with more moderately acute, angular ribs are predominant, or at least common. Populations of subsp. tulense show individual variation in stem morphology. The stem varies from attenuated (tapered) to non-attenuated and from relatively slender (diameter ca. 20% of height) to relatively broad (diameter ca. 77% of height).
The plants from near Mama León and adjacent localities in Tamaulipas, have very robust stems and are the least typical of the columnar subspecies. The rela-tionships of this population to other columnar populations warrant further study. The population near Las Tablas, San Luis Potosí, shows considerable variation in the stem and rib morphology. Some plants resemble the nominotypical subspecies whereas others are similar morphologically to subsp. tulense. The perianth diameter is intermediate between those of the two subspecies. The evidence suggests that this is an area of past or ongoing hybridization between the two taxa; the question of hybridization warrants further investigation.
Attenuated and non-attenuated stems are the result of differential rates of vertical and lateral growth due to cellular activity in the apical and lateral meristems, respectively. The attenuated (tapered) stem is produced by a gradually increasing lateral growth rate which remains slower than the vertical rate. A non-attenuated stem is produced by the lateral growth rate exceeding the vertical rate early in development, then stabilizing at some point and not surpassing the vertical rate.
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GRAND JUNCTION – Winter storms are taking a toll on wildlife in northwest Colorado and state wildlife biologists are monitoring conditions to determine if emergency feeding for big game should be expanded from the west-central part of the state.Weekly flights over the area and on-ground checks will help the Colorado Division of Wildlife decide whether to start putting out feed, wildlife officials said."We are ready to feed on a moment's notice. But we don't want to intervene too quickly," said Steve Yamashita, the division's assistant northwest regional manager. "If you intervene too soon and prevent the natural processes you can unnaturally overinflate populations and aid the spread of disease."The Division of Wildlife began feeding deer and other big game in the Gunnison Basin last month after a series of storms dumped several feet of snow and temperatures plunged below zero.Deer are of particular concern because they're smaller than elk and have trouble busting through crusty snow to reach shrubs and other natural food sources.Heavy snow and winds have made conditions difficult for animals in the Steamboat Springs and Eagle areas. Wildlife managers have developed plans for those areas if emergency feeding becomes necessary.Ranchers are reporting losses of hay to elk looking for food, and wildlife managers are trying to lure elk away from where cattle are fed.Wildlife officials, though, are concerned about the spread of disease if feed is put out and deer and elk become concentrated in certain areas. Chronic wasting disease is present in some of the big game herds.The brain-wasting ailment is similar to mad cow disease.


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A. Nairne wrote " Philo deals with allegories, the Epistle with symbols." p.171. Evidences and arguements see pp.173-4.
He used the contemporary exegetical methods [p.185] and avoided pesher, midrashic and allegorical approaches; but used the Christocentric perspective within traditions of the christian church.


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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks at a Purple Line event in Lanham, Maryland, on Sept. 5, 2019. Capital News Service photo by Elliott Davis.
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GOP Gov. Hogan affirms support for Trump impeachment inquiry
October 12, 2019 October 11, 2019 David Higgins
By: Elliott Davis, Captial News Service
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has shared his support for a Congressional impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, saying at one point that the allegations are "troubling and disturbing."
The governor's series of comments this week come after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last month a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump after a whistleblower complaint said he asked the president of Ukraine to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Politico reported Friday Hogan's comments in a PBS "Firing Line" segment expected to air Friday night, where he says he supports the inquiry because he doesn't "see any other way to get the facts." He did clarify that he's concerned about whether the inquiry could be "a fair, objective one" with Democrats controlling the House of Representatives, according to Politico.
"I think we do need an inquiry because we have to get to the bottom of it," Hogan said. "I'm not ready to say I support impeachment and the removal of the president, but I do think we should have an impeachment inquiry."
Hogan also spoke Thursday at an event in New York City hosted by Yahoo! Finance and said he was "very concerned" and "very troubled" by the allegations against Trump, according to The Baltimore Sun.
"I'm troubled by all of the allegations, all of the things that are taking place, all of the things that are being said," Hogan said.
Hogan spokeswoman Shareese Churchill had not responded to a request for comment Friday afternoon.
The Republican governor also appeared at an event Monday at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service. In a video posted to a Georgetown Twitter account and first reported by the Washington Examiner, Hogan answers a question from a student about impeachment.
"I said it was very troubling and disturbing and we do need to get to the bottom of the facts," Hogan said. "Absolutely we do. I'm very concerned about it. But am I ready to say that the president should be impeached? No. I don't have the ability to make that decision."
Hogan also said "nonpartisanship is the best way to conduct these hearings," and spoke of the country's "divisiveness."
"There's way too much opinion and not enough reporting of the facts so that people can make their own opinion," he said, according to the university Twitter account. "This is part of the problem of divisiveness in America."
Asked via email Tuesday what Hogan was referring to, Churchill told Capital News Service that there was "nothing further to add."
"The governor's statements speak for (themselves)," Churchill wrote in an email.
Maryland's governor has spoken about impeachment before, but not in this context.
During his first inaugural address, in January 2015, Hogan spoke about his father, former Maryland congressman Lawrence Hogan Sr., being the first Republican on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to call for President Richard Nixon's impeachment in 1974 despite "tremendous pressure" and the "entire world watching."
Hogan Sr. was eventually the only Republican member of the committee to vote for all three articles of impeachment, according to his Washington Post obituary.
"Dad put aside party politics and his own personal considerations in order to do the right thing for the nation," Hogan said during the speech, getting emotional. " … And he taught me more about integrity in one day than most men learn in a lifetime."
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A – My name is Rosalba, I'm 28 years old and live in a small town in Italy. In life I'm a creative, for work and for passion: I am a designer of exhibition,interiors and furniture stands and in my spare time I like to design and manufacture jewelry and fashion accessories. After a path which leads me to graduate in art school and specialize on "Jewellery Design", I founded in 2006 "Alb & Rose – Bijoux", a brand that embodies the experience gained in recent years in terms of jewelry and fashion accessories, experimenting with new techniques and with an eye for materials, quality and price.
A – The inspiration comes in different ways, sometimes I try to follow some patterns found on the internet or some magazines and meanwhile my imagination and my experience have the best and I end up doing something totally different. In the case of my hand embroidered pashminas, inspiration is totally random and very tied to the feelings of the moment and the color of the stole: so I take needle, thread and beads and I start … the result will only be visible at the end.
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A – The jewelry and accessories "Alb & Rose" born as single pieces, combining crafts, tradition, research and quality. Each piece is entirely handmade with high quality materials that I create in the lab where I purchase the components including: Murano glass beads, Swarovski crystals (with certificate), half-crystals, Japanese cultured pearls, precious stones and then organza, cotton, wool, felt, fimo, etc … Creating a jewej doesn't mean simply threadin a gem after another, but keep studying the latest fashion trends, looking for particular (and why not alternative) materials, color theory, research o new and traditional techniques … but the thing that makes an accessory "Alb & Rose" unique is the passion with which I realize it: who buys an "Alb & Rose" jewel knows to have an object that is original, unique, not standardized, and made lots and lots of passion.
A – I will definitely recommend to follow the instinct and the heart: don't stop if you get a "no" and if you truly believe in a project and in youe skills, go your own way … Is certainly not always an easy path, you may face many obstacles but if you keep on. you'll succed! So, roll up your sleeves and get to work!
A – Many, perhaps too many, and time is running out! Now I'm finishing Spring/Summer 2011 collections: I will continue to enrich the line "cotton yarn" with lots of accessories and crocheted, and for Fall/Winter 11-12 season I'm going to experiment a little creative sewing and try some knit!
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Q: How can i get the svn log message using (SvnClient client = new SvnClient())
{
    client.Commit(_targetPath, commitArgs);

    SvnInfoEventArgs result;
    client.GetInfo(_targetPath, out result);

    SvnLogArgs args = new SvnLogArgs();
    args.Start = new SvnRevision(result.LastChangeRevision);
    args.End = new SvnRevision(result.Revision);

    Collection<SvnLogEventArgs> logitems;
    client.GetLog(_targetPath, args, out logitems);

    foreach (SvnLogEventArgs logentry in logitems)
    {
        string author = logentry.Author;
        string message = logentry.LogMessage;
        DateTime checkindate = logentry.Time;
        AddMessage(string.Format("Commited successfully by {0} on {1} for message: {2}", author, checkindate, message));
    }
}

This is my codes, but I only can get one logentry,it should be the path all logs for the revision range,what's the problem?

A: I don't know anything about this api but it looks like you are calling GetLog with a range between the last change revision and the current revision.  Instinctually, I would think this would only be a single log entry by definition.
So my thought is that your revision range is wrong.  Why don't you try hard coding the expected revision range and seeing if the results meets your expectations.

A: I think what you're trying to do is list changed files as you're committing a working copy, ie show notifications of files as they're committed. There's a much better way to do this than what you're doing:
using (SvnClient client = new SvnClient())
{
    // Register the notify event, to get notified of any actions
    client.Notify += (sender, eventArgs) => AddMessage(
        string.Format("Changed path,{0},by action,{1}",
            eventArgs.Path,
            eventArgs.Action));

    client.Commit(_targetPath, commitArgs);
}

See the Notify event, and SvnNotifyEventArgs for more details.
In addition, you can also use a Commit overload that has an out parameter of type SvnCommitResult:
SvnCommitResult commitResult;
client.Commit(_targetPath, commitArgs, out commitResult);

Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
    "{0} commited revision {1} at time {2}",
    commitResult.Author,
    commitResult.Revision,
    commitResult.Time));

A: okay now i've got what i want from below codes:
using (SvnClient client = new SvnClient())
{
    try
    {
        client.Commit(_targetPath, commitArgs);
        SvnLogArgs args = new SvnLogArgs();

        // get latest changed version
        SvnWorkingCopyClient workingCopyClient = new SvnWorkingCopyClient();
        SvnWorkingCopyVersion version;

        workingCopyClient.GetVersion(_targetPath, out version);
        long localRev = version.End;
        args.Start = new SvnRevision(localRev);
        args.End = new SvnRevision(localRev);

        //get latest log
        Collection<SvnLogEventArgs> logitems;
        client.GetLog(_targetPath, args, out logitems);
        if (logitems.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (SvnChangeItem path in logitems[0].ChangedPaths)
            {
                AddMessage(string.Format("Changed path,{0},changed on,{1},by action,{2}", path.Path, logitems[0].Time, path.Action));
            }
        }

        WriteLogFile(messageLog.ToString());
    }
    catch (SvnException ex)
    {

    }

}

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By using both the Pólya theorem on the connection between the growth of an entire exponential function and the location of singularities of its Borel transform and the analog of this result for finite-order entire functions (due to Mclntyre), we obtain estimates for the indicator of the growth of an entire function in terms of its Taylor coefficients and, in some cases, determine this indicator exactly.
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Q: Regex na função Find() no python Preciso utilizar uma regex na função Find() no Python por exemplo, se eu utilizar dentro de um loop :
arq = open("arquivo.txt","rb")
var = arq.readline()
a = var.find("abc.*def")

Ele vai estar procurando na linha "abc alguma coisa(.*) def" em todas as linhas do arquivo, beleza
Só que agora eu tenho duas variáveis contendo uma string cada, eu preciso chamar a função Find() com "Var1 .* Var2", ou seja procurar Var1 + qualquer coisa + Var2
Var1 = "abc"
Var2 = "def"
arq = open("arquivo.txt","rb")
var = arq.readline()

a = var.find(Var1 ".*" Var2) //DESSA FORMA NÃO FUNCIONA

Alguem poderia me ajudar como posso fazer esse tipo de busca na linha contendo regex?

A: Com a função find() não dá, mas podes fazer o seguinte:
import re
var1 = "abc"
var2 = "def"
var = 'abc1dois3quatro5def' # aqui e o conteudo do teu ficheiro, arq.readline()
match = re.compile('{}(.*?){}'.format(var1, var2)).search(var)
if match is not None:
    print(match.group(1)) # 1dois3quatro5
else:
    print('nada encontrado em {}'.format(var))

DEMONSTRAÇÃO
Pelo que percebi em conversa comentada está a usar python 2.6, então faz assim:
import re
var1 = "abc"
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cold indifference to migrants, the poor, the hungry and the persecuted must be overcome through the warmth of mercy, which can transform people into artisans of peace, Pope Francis said.
Biblical and human history is marked by countless migrations of those seeking a better life or fleeing circumstances such as war, persecution, poverty or the effects of climate change, Pope Francis said. Unfortunately, their suffering has begun to "appear normal" to too many people.
"It is my hope that the traditional sense of hospitality and solidarity which distinguishes the Italian people will not be weakened by the inevitable difficulties of the moment but that, in light of its age-old tradition, the nation may prove capable of accepting and integrating the social, economic and cultural contribution which migrants can offer," he said.
"Extremism and fundamentalism find fertile soil not only in the exploitation of religion for purposes of power, but also in the vacuum of ideals and the loss of identity — including religious identity — which dramatically marks the so-called West," he said.
Recalling his apostolic visits in 2015 to Africa, North and South America and Asia, the pope said that mercy was the common thread that linked his journeys, particularly in areas suffering due to war, poverty, social inequality and persecution.
"Today there is a widespread fear of the definitive commitment demanded by the family; those who pay the price are the young, who are often vulnerable and uncertain, and the elderly, who end up being neglected and abandoned," the pope said.
And the pope urged the world community to place human dignity at the heart of its humanitarian response in fighting the culture of waste and lack of respect for human life.
The Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis said, can serve as an opportunity to overcome indifference and work toward lasting peace in the world.
"I am certain that this jubilee year will be a favorable occasion for the cold indifference of so many hearts to be won over by the warmth of mercy, that precious gift of God which turns fear into love and makes us artisans of peace," the pope said.


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Bertolini is a vocal advocate for cloud and enterprise solutions in government, cross-boundary resource sharing, and inter-jurisdictional cooperation. He has overseen the development of unique government technology programs such as the G2G Cloud Solutions Initiative, the G2G Marketplace, the Cyber Security Assessment for Everyone (CySAFE) initiative, the GeoVision Assessment, and the TechDebtCheck Assessment. He has also created successful models that can be implemented by other governments interested in improving operations while containing costs. In 2017, Bertolini was honored as a Public Official of the Year by Governing Magazine and was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO Magazine. He has traveled extensively to speak about eGovernment best practices and has authored a growing collection of resources to help other organizations modernize IT within today's rapidly changing technology landscape. Bertolini has promoted his philosophy of "Build it once, pay for it once, and everybody benefits" to many other government agencies, including those within the U.S. and others as far off as Australia and Dubai.
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Our Lady of Succor
In 1613 the Spanish governor of Manila sent out a small fleet made up of two large galleys and several barques, to assist a neighboring settlement which was under siege by pirates. The two galleys were named for Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Guidance.
The chief gunner on the Guadalupe was one Francis Lopez, a man given to all kinds of wickedness. He had only one soft spot in his hard heart, and that was for Our Lady of the Rosary. Wicked as he was, he never neglected this offering to the Mother of Mercy.
On the voyage in question, the Guadalupe struck a rock and sank and everyone had to swim for shore. Francis arrived safely, but promptly got embroiled in a free-for-all with the native galley slaves, who saw an opportunity to escape from the Spaniards. The slaves entrenched themselves behind the cliffs and rolled rocks down on their former masters. Francis was horribly wounded and left for dead, when the few survivors pulled away in a boat, sent from the Guidance.
For two weeks he lay helpless and in a frightful state from his wounds. He was surrounded by the dead, and deserted by the living. In his lucid moments he prayed not to Our Lady of Succor, not to be delivered or for his heath to be restored, but for a priest. Francis was in no state to face God without confession, and he begged Our Lady of the Rosary to send him a priest.
Two weeks later, the other galley was in trouble and blown off its course. It was carried into the straits where the Guadalupe had gone down, and with all the efforts of the crew, it could not be gotten around the cape. Finally the captain gave up, dropped anchor, and sent the crew ashore for fresh water. One of the sailors heard someone calling his name.
The wounded man he found was almost too horrible to look upon, but his request was plain enough, "For the love of God, get me a priest!" The Franciscan chaplain of the Guidance was hastily summoned, and the man made his confession, and then died.
Favorable winds filled the sails of the Guidance, and in an hour the vessel was back on course. Back in Manilla, the sacristans were decorating the sanctuary for a feast. Dusting around the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary, one of the ladies noticed an odd fact.
"His little shoes are wet and muddy," she said, pointing to the Infant, "and Our Lady's skirts are damp and full of wet sand, as though she had been walking on the beach!"
The prior, Father Michael Ruiz, was summoned to see the phenomenon. He confirmed that the Mother's robe and the Baby's shoes showed definite signs of a journey in a wet sandy place, and that the niche where the statue stood was perfectly dry. He carefully noted the day and the time, and summoned a visiting Franciscan who examined the statue and finally took the Baby's sandals to his room with him as a proof of the incident.
Weeks later when the Guidance came home, the story was put together. Our Lady of Succor had heard the cry of her wandering child, and no one ever doubted that the sand on her robe came from the beach where Lopez died, calling on her for help.
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James Patterson calls The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King – A Nonfiction Thriller . Why did he decide to go the nonfiction route? Patterson claims to have always been curious about the short life of the young Pharaoh Tutankhamen. He wanted to try to solve the mystery surrounding Tut's death with actual facts. But did he?
Patterson presents his thesis stating King Tutankhamen was murdered by his half-sister and wife Ankhesenpaaten, his vizier Ay and his general Horemheb. Patterson believes Tut was murdered because of the power grab desired by these three individuals. Tut and Ankhesenpaaten had two still-born children with no male heir to the throne leaving Ankesenpaaten, Ay and Horemheb to reign after Tut.
Patterson wrote the novel in three distinctive parts all interwoven with one another. These short, easy-to-read chapters breeze between Tut's life and death, the discovery of Tut's tomb by Howard Carter and present day.
By far, my favorite chapters were the actual story of Tut's life. These chapters pre-date Tut's life and the follow-up after his untimely death. If you want a simple, very visual version of the history on Tutankhamen, you will enjoy these chapters.
I knew very little about Howard Carter until I read this book. The Carter chapters offer a very short and interesting read about the man consumed by finding the missing tomb of the unknown Pharaoh Tut.
The chapters concerning present day Palm Beach seemed unnecessary. I think the chapters were used to fill space and wasteful.
I enjoy Patterson's writing style. His chapters are short, intriguing and very easy to read.
I love history and have always wanted to visit Egypt. I'm not sure how much of this fictionalized, but it is an enjoyable fast-paced novel.
The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King – A Nonfiction Thriller is a great semi-fictionalized story on the boy king. It is a great gift for the amateur Egyptologist in your life.


This week on Barking Wednesday I wanted to share a great comb for long haired pets.
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Chris Castagnetto (DJ Helsing) is proud to be hosting the Official Gaia Online panel. This is your chance to meet the Gaia staff, including Princess Angelishia. Get your burning questions answered, and take a sneak peek at some of the great stuff Gaia has planned for 2014. Expect plenty of fun and some great prizes.


Mortgage Debts Around the U.S.
Real estate hasn't been doing so well for the last several years and that is no surprise. The bubble burst, jobs were lost and the economy is struggling to get back on track. Surprisingly though, Housingwatch.com reports that the states with the highest average mortgage debt are not in trouble. The average home price decreased in those same states, but the foreclosure rates are among the lowest ones in America.
Nevada has a mortgage debt of $196,911 per person and a 44.5 percent decline in home value. Colorado has a mortgage debt of $ 198,117 and an actual increase in home value, at 1.6 percent. Connecticut has $211,516 in mortgage debt per person and a decline of 3.4 percent in home value. Virginia, Washington, New Jersey also join this list of worst mortgage debt.
The local Maryland movers learned that Maryland had $242,445 in mortgage debt per person and an average of $68,854 in household income. The average credit card debt of a person residing in Maryland is at 7,226. Maryland had a very small number of homes built before the recessions, so the state has been able to do relatively well. In fact, Maryland had the 12th fewest foreclosures as of this past December. Also, the average credit score of a resident in Maryland is 12th best.
Credit Karma recently did a study to find the 10 states with the highest mortgage debt and found that most of them were in that situation due to an initial high mortgage. For examples, Connecticut and Massachusetts have the highest average home values but also the highest mortgage debt. Hawaii has the second highest mortgage debt per person and an average home value of $525,400.
Not surprising, that the states with the highest mortgage debts also have the sharpest drops in home value. Home price tags of states with the most mortgage debt in seven of the 10 states declined. California and Nevada have residential properties lost more than 30 percent of their worth. New Jersey and Maryland, who did relatively well during the housing crisis, lost between 7 and 10 percent of their value.
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So, why is the region still facing challenges in improving labor productivity levels in both the manufacturing and service sectors?
Between 2009 and 2011, the Enterprise Surveys project interviewed nearly 15,000 businesses in 31 countries in the region. These countries include 7 large economies including Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, 13 medium-size economies as well as 11 Caribbean islands. In addition to covering many aspects of the business environment that affect firms' operations, the surveys also collect firm-specific information that can be used to measure performance.
In a recent note (World Bank 2013), we investigated the evolution of labor productivity and employment levels in the region benchmarking them with the developing countries of other regions.
According to our analysis, while firms in LAC increased employment levels in 2010 their labor productivity declined in both manufacturing and service sectors with a stronger decline in the manufacturing sector (figure 1 and 2). This is in strong contrast with the picture seen in most of the developing countries of other regions, for example the positive labor productivity growth in both sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The gist of this trend is that changes in sales are not keeping up with the changes in employment levels. That is, for some reason the private sector in the Latin America and the Caribbean region has not been able to translate the increase in employment levels into greater levels of production.
However, the decline in labor productivity is not consistent across the region.
In the manufacturing sector, our data show that Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Uruguay, and Ecuador achieved both positive labor productivity and employment growth, with Peru showing an impressive employment growth rate at 11 percent annually. In some large economies, notably Brazil and Argentina, although both employment levels and sales levels increased, labor productivity declined.
All of the small Caribbean countries included in the project had positive growth in employment, but they fared worse than the rest of the region in labor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector. In the services sector the picture was not much different: only three countries (Belize, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) showed positive labor productivity growth.
These trends also vary by business size.
Small firms, i.e., those with 5-20 employees, have been the most dynamic group in the region. They are the only group in the services sector that had positive labor productivity growth; both medium and large services firms exhibit negative labor productivity growth (figure 3). Similarly in the manufacturing sector labor productivity growth of small firms was positive if we exclude the small Caribbean countries. Another encouraging feature of small firms in the region as a whole is that they are the only group that had acceleration in labor productivity levels between 2006 and 2010. Although it can be expected that small firms grow faster than large firms, conditional on survival, it is surprising to see them being the only group that had positive yet mild growth rates.
These results add a further dimension to the first blog post we presented, here.
Yes, larger and more productive businesses were better able to survive between the waves of the surveys in 2006 and 2010, but the evidence shows that labor productivity in more recent years is declining. Over the past few years the region has shown a dynamic labor market with many countries creating new jobs. However this dynamism was not coupled by labor productivity increases.
Altogether, the data show that while businesses are expanding employment, real factors in the region's business environment could be holding back the region's full economic potential. This result makes us wonder what other aspects of the private sector in the Latin American region may be hindering the private sector from fully exploiting its gains in employment, a very concerning result, which is particularly stronger in the manufacturing sector.
As the Enterprise Analysis team moves ahead with the release of additional notes on the results obtained from the recent enterprise surveys data for Latin America and the Caribbean, we plan to dig deeper into some of the business environment aspects that may be behind these results.


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Abdoulaye Camara est un footballeur international malien né le  à Bamako au Mali. Il évoluait au poste de défenseur central.

Biographie

En club
Formé au Mali à l'Association sportive Onze Créateurs de Niaréla, il joue ensuite en Slovénie, en Italie, en Belgique, en France et en Afrique du Sud. D'abord passé par la première division slovène au FC Koper, il joue deux matchs de Série A en 1999-2000. Il fait ensuite une saison complète au Cercle Bruges KSV en deuxième division belge, puis retourne en Italie au Castel di Sangro Calcio en Série B.

Il s'ensuit un nouveau retour en Belgique à La Louvière, avant de rejoindre le Grenoble Foot 38, pensionnaire du championnat de France de Ligue 2 en 2003. Blessé pendant quasiment toute la saison, il ne joue que quatre matchs avec l'équipe 1 et rejoint finalement le club voisin (qui évolue en Championnat de France amateur 2, cinquième division).

En , alors qu'il est convoité par l'Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien, club de National, il rejoint le championnat d'Afrique du Sud au Thanda Royal Zulu FC. Il reste 2 ans en Afrique du Sud, jouant par la suite deuxième division sud-africaine et dans un club local de Durban.

En 2010, il rentre en France, terminant sa carrière au Football Club d'Échirolles, qui est sacré champion de division d'Honneur en fin de saison et se promu ainsi en championnat de France amateur 2 ( national).

En sélection
Il porte le maillot de l'équipe du Mali entre 1997 et 2008, notamment durant la coupe d'Afrique des nations 2002.

Il est également régulièrement sélectionné en équipe de jeunes, notamment en 1995 pour la Coupe du monde des moins de 17 ans. Il participe aussi à la Coupe du monde des moins de 20 ans en 1999 où le Mali termine à la troisième place.

Palmarès
 Champion de division d'Honneur de la ligue Rhône-Alpes en 2011 avec le Football Club d'Échirolles

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Footballeur international malien
Joueur de l'AS Onze Créateurs de Niaréla
Joueur du FC Koper
Joueur de l'Udinese Calcio
Joueur du Cercle Bruges
Joueur du Castel di Sangro
Joueur du Grenoble Foot 38
Naissance en février 1980

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Q: Javascript checking date I am trying to use JavaScript to validate that the date selected is not earlier than today, but when I select today's date it's showing the alert box.
JavaScript:
function checkDueDate(sender, args) {
    var td = new Date();
    td.setMinutes(59);
    td.setSeconds(59);
    td.setHours(23);
    //to move back one day
    td.setDate(td.getDate() - 1);

    if (sender._selectedDate < td) {
        alert("You can't select day from the past! " + td + "");
        sender._selectedDate = new Date();
        // set the date back to the current date
        sender._textbox.set_Value(sender._selectedDate.format(sender._format))
    }

ASP.NET:
        <asp:TextBox ID="txtDueDate" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:CalendarExtender ID="txtDueDate_CalendarExtender" runat="server"
            TargetControlID="txtDueDate" OnClientDateSelectionChanged="checkDueDate">
        </asp:CalendarExtender>

A: I think maybe you're complicating things too much. I would just subtract a day in miliseconds and it should work:
function isPast( date ) {
  return date.getTime() < (new Date().getTime() - 864e5);
}

Demo: http://jsbin.com/igeyov/1/edit

A: the logic you have here seems to do exactly what you want - you have set the td variable which you evaluate against to the last possible second of todays date and you are checking if the selected date is before or equal to that. Todays date IS "before or equal to" 23:59:59 today...
Also, you have tagged this with c# , although it is all javascript and ASP.net as far as I can tell.

A: if you want to do select only future dates then you can try this code also....this is working with ajax calendar:
 function checkDate(sender, args) {
        if (sender._selectedDate < new Date()) {
            alert("You can select only future day!");
            sender._selectedDate = new Date();
            // set the date back to the current date
            sender._textbox.set_Value(sender._selectedDate.format(sender._format))
        }
    }

Here is the HTML code:
 <asp:TextBox ID="txtDOB" Width="180px" MaxLength="50" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                            <ajaxctrl:calendarextender onclientdateselectionchanged="checkDate" id="cale_txtDOB"
                                runat="server" targetcontrolid="txtDOB" format="MM/dd/yyyy" cssclass="cal_Theme1">
                            </ajaxctrl:calendarextender>

This code works only if you select past dates it will show a pop up " that you can not select past dates"  whatever be it.
UPDATED CODE:
Here is code work if you dont want to include today's date also, you just want future dates only:
function checkDate(sender, args) {
        if (sender._selectedDate <= new Date()) {
            alert("You can select only future day!");
            sender._selectedDate = new Date();
            // set the date back to the current date
            //sender._textbox.set_Value(sender._selectedDate.format(sender._format))
        }
    }

hope this will help you..


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Bennington, Vermont (population 15,473) was chartered and named in 1749 by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth, the first town in the territory now known as Vermont. The town's original 1761 settlement was populated by Congregational Separatists from Connecticut and Massachusetts in the area known today as Old Bennington.
These early settlers resisted land claims from the New York colony and formed a local citizen militia headed by Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Boys. This militia later played a crucial role at the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777, a prelude to the surrender of British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, leading directly to the success of the Revolution.
Bennington's long tradition of manufacturing was stimulated by the availability of both water power and natural resources. Among the earliest industries in town were a sawmill, a gristmill, and a paper mill. The quality of pottery, iron, and textiles produced in Bennington came to be nationally recognized. Some of the mills have now been adapted for modern uses.
Downtown Bennington began developing in the early 1800's. Today there are three National Register Historic Districts within the town, one in each of its historic village centers. Visitors can explore the Bennington Battle Monument, the Old First Church, the Bennington Museum, the Park-McCullough House, Bennington College, and three covered bridges. Heritage tourism efforts include two walking tours, interpretive signs, and a welcome center and annual events like Bennington Battle Day.
In partnership with the Bennington Historical Preservation Commission, the Town of Bennington helped plan and hosted the statewide preservation conference in 2005. Workshops showcased Bennington's industrial heritage and economic development strategies. Many local preservation groups have used Bennington's efforts as a model to facilitate the recognition of their own downtown districts.