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It's 11:30 p.m. on a Monday in the Metro, and the digital screen that says when the next train is coming is frozen forever, and so I find myself thankful yet again for the smartphone. I still do not take for granted the countless waits that would have been so much more painful without the smartphone. You damned kids have no idea what waiting was like before smartphones.
As I'm looking at the various fun things on my phone, a person to my right comes up and stands not close, but just a little too close for such an uncrowded platform, invading my periphery. My eyeballs lock even more ferociously onto the iPhone. "Hi," this person says, but then he wanders away, and I am glad.
Not 30 minutes before, I'd been talking with my high school friends about getting older, your looks changing. "At what point do you just let it go?" my friend asks. I say, never. My mom has not let it go. She has not had plastic surgery, and she has not let it go. She is fit and does the same things that she has always done to put her public self on. She is nearly 67 and beautiful. But my friend is undeterred from the grim scenario she is posing. "What if you are losing your hair for genetic reasons?" she asks. Is that the point where you let it go? Just give up the caring?
"That's when you say, it's time to go wig shopping," I say. My friend is more in favor of going completely bald. Different strokes. I do not share that my interest in shoes lately skews toward the comfortable.
I said that while sometimes it feels, well, not great to get noticed by men less than I used to be, it is also kind of freeing. That doesn't mean I want to let myself go, but a) I am very happy with Sir UncMo and I do not want anyone but him checking me out and b) even without Sir UncMo, that's just not a kind of attention that I need or want to have any longer from strangers.
No sooner do I say this than I am at the Metro and the space-invading person, who I'm guessing is somewhere between 19 and 22 years of age, is back at my side. "Hi! Were you watching the USA game?" He is drunk and wearing some kind of USA paraphernalia pertaining to the World Cup game that took place earlier.
"No," I say. I was not watching the game. Nothing about me—not my firm dedication to my phone or my refusal to remotely turn in his direction—says hey, let's chat.
He says, "Where are you from?"
I give him a look that says, "Really? Are we going to do this right now? Are you so inebriated that you fail to discern the fact that I could be your mother?"
But USA Boy chooses not to understand my look. "What! I don't know where you're from," he says, defending himself in the imaginary scenario where I actually care how much he knows about me. "Are you from Montgomery County?"
Yes I am from Montgomery County, but at this point I can't just dispense with this efficiently. I have to draw it out and make it awkward, because that's what I do, and that's why this blog exists.
"No," I say. I'm not so much answering his question as speaking my truth. "Oh," he says. "Then where are you from?"
I shrug. "Around here."
"What high school did you go to?" Remember, friends, when this question had relevance?
I sigh. "Churchill." His eyes widen. "Oh! Churchill is in Montgomery County!"
"I know, but I don't feel like chatting right now, I'm sorry," I say. Part of me feels like I'm being this really bitchy person when in fact I am just standing my ground against a drunk fool.
USA Boy makes an "aw shucks" motion with his head, pauses a moment in case I want to change my mind, and then moves away. But he doesn't stray far. He manages to pass behind me at least twice and make a comment about how Churchill sucks. I guess he thought that would be the comment that really puts him over the edge, in my estimation. "Whoops USA Boy, I thought I didn't want to have anything to do with you until you started saying that my high school sucked. Now I'm realizing I want you right this very minute."
He gets on a most-welcome train in the opposite direction, muttering about my high school. I am texting my Churchill friend and telling her the irony of our conversation preceding this very rare yet unwanted bit of attention.
"I think I would prefer to go unnoticed," I texted her.
She replied, "Just let it all go downhill from here and it won't be a problem anymore."
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Once a year, a group of anointed explorers converges on my workplace for one week. They are paleontologists, nanoscientists, conservationists, photographers, and adventurers, and they talk to us about what they have been working on.
One of them is a 17-year-old named Jack Andraka who has come up with a paper sensor designed to detect pancreatic and other cancers. The talk he gave this week was not unlike his TED talk: He describes his wild teenage optimism in seeking a new method of detection for this very deadly cancer that had taken away a family friend who had been like an uncle to him; his rejection by 199 of the 200 academics he emailed about his idea; and his eventual success, at age 15, in creating a prototype thanks to the one scientist who agreed to help him.
Andraka's story, and the way he tells it, is designed to inspire: If an outsider, a kid who "didn't even know what a pancreas was," can come up with a potentially groundbreaking, life-saving innovation, why can't you? Why can't we open up the scientific journals that are so expensive to access, and make all of this knowledge available so that others can have the same chance at contributing?
The talk did inspire me. But it also pulled at me so hard that I had to hold back tears, and it wasn't because of the death, the deaths, that enabled him to go on this great, seemingly impossible quest. It was because of the loneliness. His talk in the auditorium this week was a little more raw than the TED one. He talked about how he spent an entire summer holed up alone in his room, causing his mother to worry that he was isolating himself too much, researching proteins that might be early detection markers for pancreatic cancer. He talked about how his biology teacher didn't like him because he tried to bring scientific papers and stuff that was outside the curriculum into her class. On the stage, he no longer had the nice shiny TED look; his hair was untrimmed, his face less roundly youthful. He is deeply, deeply nerdy—I mean, the kid was sneaking nanotubes into biology class—and also openly gay.
Now, I do not know this person at all. Maybe he had a great social experience in high school. But my sense, watching him talk, was that it had to be pretty devastatingly lonely to be that brilliant, that sweetly different, that full of grief, and that willing to abandon yourself and most of your free time to something so esoteric. When a teenager (or anyone, for that matter) is touched by a tragedy or some other highly unpleasant state of being human, turns inward, and becomes obsessive, why does it seem like that combination of states must turn into something destructive? That's what we tend hear about, anyway. I loved that he turned it into something beautiful. I wished I'd had the imagination and the fortitude to do the same at so many points in my life. That's what made the tears come.
It also reminded me of an episode that happened in my junior year of high school in Western Civilization class. This class was supposed to be an "honors" class, but it slowly became apparent that we were learning nothing at all outside of the reading and research we were required to do on our own. The classes were taken up mostly by two things, in my memory: watching videos about cathedrals, and listening to our teacher talk unrestrained about stuff that had nothing to do with history. Mr. C was a relatively tall, big man with a belly, a mustache somewhere between horseshoe and walrus, and a very sharp, incisive way of speaking. His way of holding forth made you feel—in the beginning—that it might be important to listen, because something was going to be revealed. He would punctuate his lectures, which often had nothing at all to do with history, with questions to the group. "Who here has ever had a dream?" he would ask, and we raised our hands, and then waited for the point.
Later, we learned not to bother raising our hands or waiting for the point.
I do not remember much of anything that Mr. C said in class except for this: "How old are all of you? 15, 16? Right now, you are at your peak. It will never be better than this." I remember thinking, "Well that is extremely disappointing news. Also, what does this have to do with western civ?"
Toward the end of the semester, a kid named Jordan had taken to sitting in the back of the class on the floor, backpack in front of him, and sleeping either slumped over or with his head lolled back against the wall. This was typical teen behavior made slightly untypical by the fact that Jordan was an academic prodigy. He was the kid who got a perfect score on his SATs before we were even supposed to take the SATs. He was brilliant in English, he was brilliant in math. He was brilliant in everything. No matter how smart you were, and I was "honors" smart too, tracked into the same classes, Jordan was a type of smart that 99 percent of other 16-year-olds would never achieve, much less understand, and I think most of us knew that even then.
So when a kid like Jordan sat at the back of class sleeping, it was amusingly refreshing, because kids like us who got placed in those classes tended not to be the ones sleeping at the back of class. But it was also a little unnerving, because he was signaling a truth that was sort of scandalous for this particular track at this particular school at this particular time: this class and this teacher were an absolute fucking joke.
Mr. C tolerated this open act of defiance from Jordan for I don't know how long before he finally got sick of it. One day, he began yelling. Jordan ignored it at first, but then he was roused to perform a sleepy, casual and yet brutal takedown of Mr. C as a teacher. It was something along the lines of I don't need to take this class, you have nothing to teach me, I am learning nothing here that I can't learn from a book. Et cetera. Mr. C lost it. I think spittle formed as he ordered Jordan out of the classroom. The kid picked up his backpack and walked out. I had never seen Jordan act remotely disrespectful, and had never seen a teacher so boldly—no, deservedly—challenged, and it was kind of thrilling but also a little sad. All of us, including Mr. C, were wasting our time in that room, and there was really nothing to be done about it.*
Predictably, Jordan went on to Harvard and then became both a math professor and fiction author. It just so happens that I had this high school memory as he is promoting his new bestselling book. He has come to the same conclusion, apparently, that Jack Andraka already has about genius: It may be that only a handful of people will ever reach the upper echelons of science or math or any other given pursuit, but that doesn't mean that we should close off encouragement or information sources to people just because they don't have the same amount of specialness early on.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he said, "[T]he older I get, the more I see how many brilliant people in the world weren't Doogie Howser-like prodigies; didn't shine in Math Olympiad; didn't go to the inner circle of elite colleges. I'm embarrassed that I didn't understand at 13 that it would be this way. But when they keep telling you you're the best, you start to believe you're the best. One of the most painful aspects of teaching mathematics is seeing my students damaged by the cult of the genius."
We need these messages, especially in this country, given our slipping rank in science and math. But when you no longer possess even the specialness conferred by pure youth, and you are still (still!) trying to live up to your potential, whatever that may be, listening to someone like Jack Andraka can feel a little more bittersweet than inspiring. The rest of us, the little geniuses, blessed with brains and maybe education if we're lucky, have so little time, and maybe less clarity, in figuring out what to Do. Our contributions might not make an impact on the level of a life-saving innovation, but it's still up to us to take them seriously, and when it comes to the smart whippersnapper coming up behind you, to get the hell out of the way.
*Okay so now there is a discussion on Facebook among people who had this teacher and it's possible I'm being a bit harsh on Mr. C. Not everyone felt that his class was a "waste of time," I can only speak for myself. And even then, it's not like I was just burning with frustration at not learning enough about western civ. Anyway, the point of recalling the incident in his class, which I sort of fail to make clear in this post, was that it came to mind as I was thinking, what is it like when you're so young and yet on a different level than most everybody else, and when even your teacher just doesn't get you?
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has axed his deputy in a Cabinet reshuffle and sacked the attorney general, who heads a task force investigating allegations that Najib received some $700 million in government money.
Najib is under increasing pressure over leaked confidential documents that allegedly show that money from state investment fund 1MDB into his personal accounts.
The Prime Minister announced over national television Tuesday that his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin will be replaced by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who will retain his portfolio home minister.
Muhyiddin had spoken out publicly on the 1MDB scandal on Sunday, calling on Najib to provide explanations.
In a statement on Facebook (in Malay), Muhyiddin said he accepted Najib's decision "with an open heart", adding that he fully supported the Prime Minister and the government "except on the 1MDB issue".
"I have my own principles and stand in defense of people's rights," the statement said.
His replacement told a press conference Tuesday: "This is a calling that I could not avoid. Najib and I go way back. I was his political secretary when he was the Youth and Sports Minister.
Malaysia's new Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Pic: AP.
Najib also dropped four other ministers to strengthen his administration and ensure they can "work as a team".
"The Cabinet must act as one solid team. I welcome vigorous debate, and can accept dissent and criticism. However, this process should take place in Cabinet as part of the decision-making process," the Prime Minister said in a television announcement.
"Members of the Cabinet should not air their differences in an open forum that can affect public opinion against the government and Malaysia. It is contrary to the concept of collective responsibility that is the foundation of Cabinet government.
Earlier Tuesday, the government announced it had terminated the services of Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail due to health reasons. Gani reportedly said he was unaware of his sacking.


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Every £1 invested in volunteering in the NHS yields services worth £11 in return, estimates a new report by The King's Fund.
Volunteering in acute trusts in England: Understanding the scale and impact is based on the first national survey of volunteering in hospitals. The survey found that there are nearly 500 volunteers in the average acute trust, equating to more than 78,000 volunteers in hospitals across England who contribute more than 13 million hours per year. Based on current NHS pay rates, this translates to a return of £11 for every £1 invested in the training and management of volunteers.
The report, sponsored by the Department of Health, highlights the benefits volunteers bring to the health service, with survey respondents demonstrating the critical role they play in improving patient experience. Volunteers fulfil a variety of different roles, from befriending to collecting survey data, supporting patients to eat well and supporting the running of mock hospital inspections.
In some hospitals, volunteers are seen as an integral part of the care team, but it is clear that few trusts are formally measuring the impact of volunteers at present. Furthermore, many hospitals are not benefiting from volunteers as much as they could do; there is considerable variation too in the number of volunteers - some reported as few as 35 volunteers, while others had 1,300 – and the number of volunteers is not necessarily linked to the size of the trust.
However, volunteering is clearly a growth area; 87 per cent of respondents expected the number of volunteers to increase over the next three years, in most cases by more than 25 per cent. No one said that they expected it to decrease. The profile of volunteers is also changing; two-thirds of survey respondents said that new volunteers now tend to be younger than five years ago, and more than half said that there is more diversity in terms of ethnicity.
The report highlights areas where more research is needed to understand the opportunities available so that the benefits of volunteering can be better understood and adopted more widely. In particular, there is clearly a need to include impact on patient experience and quality of care when measuring the value of volunteering. Many trusts surveyed were measuring impact in some way already, but it is less clear how this information is used to improve planning, evaluation and service changes.
Amy Galea, Senior Researcher at The King's Fund and lead author of the report, said: 'Volunteering has a critical role to play in improving services for patients. It supports many national aspirations such as improving the experience of patients, building stronger relationships between services and communities and creating social value.
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In March 2013, The King's Fund published the report Volunteering in health and care: Securing a sustainable future. This considered the future of volunteering in the context of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and wider system changes. It highlighted the lack of data at the local level on volunteering in the NHS. Following this report, the Department of Health funded The King's Fund to carry out a survey focusing on the scale and value of volunteering in NHS acute trusts.
All 166 acute trusts in England were invited to take part in the survey. 99 responses were collected from mid-May to mid-August 2013, a response rate of 60 per cent.
The survey found an average of 471 volunteers in surveyed acute trusts, which would translate to more than 78,000 volunteers in acute trusts across the whole of England. This does not include the contribution of volunteers in mental health trusts, general practice and other settings. It also does not consider people who give their time in a governance capacity in acute trusts.
Of 91 survey respondents, 66 per cent said that the profile of volunteers now is younger compared to five years ago. Of 89 who responded to the question about diversity, 56 per cent said there is more diversity in terms of ethnicity compared to five years ago.
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On the same day as the report, a new initiative launched by Nesta will support up to 15 hospitals to support innovative approaches to volunteering, and to measure the impact volunteers have on patients' experience. The programme fund (of up to £1.5m) is run by Nesta and funded by the Innovation Fund within the Cabinet Office's Centre for Social Action. For more information, please visit Nesta's website or contact the Nesta media team on 020 7438 2606.
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ანდრაზაშვილი, მარინა; ბასილაია, ნატალია
Colours form part of the objective world; therefore, it is natural that they are reflected by an individual more or less subjectively. Colours are categorized and verbalized in a peculiar way. In some cases, the result is adequate to reality, while in other cases, there are deviations from the norm. It is a widespread device in fiction literature (for example, with Symbolists) to deliberately re-evaluate colours i.e. to use them figuratively, as stylistic devices in order to aggravate or embellish reality. An ordinary user of language may also apply this device. An essentially different phenomenon, described in psychology as synesthesia, is of a completely different origin. It is distinguished by a multitude of combinations, for instance: synthesis of smell and colour, tactile sensation and smell, colour and sound and so on. Based on the genesis, psychologists describe a) genetic/hereditary synesthesia, which is revealed at an early age, alongside the child's mental development; b) secondary/ acquired, i.e. caused by the emotional state, physical or psychic trauma; c) suggestive, aroused on the mental level, as a result of reading psychological literature on the topic of synesthesia. The paper focuses on the synthesis of colour and the phenomena of the material world, analysing it on the language plane, based on the illustrative material from German and Russian fi ction literature (Trakl, Tsvetaeva). The research aims to outline differences between the mere metaphoric use of colours and the process of their transformation in the prism of the "ego" of a synesthetic writer. We aim to distinguish a "genuinely" synesthetic writer from the one marked as such by a literary critic. Based on the constellation Trakl ||Tsvetaeva, we have outlined the common features of synesthetic writers, without regard to the aetiology of the phenomenon itself: a) on the personal plane – psychic disorders, depression, drug addiction, incestuous inclinations, suicide attempts; b) on the language plane – association of numbers, characters of the alphabet, geometric figures, substances, situations and people with colour; verbalization of these associations by means of occasional forms (in the verb, noun and adjective); composition of semantically inappropriate attributive nominal phrases and non-existent collocations with functional verbs; the use of non-adverbial forms in the adverbial function and so on.
კონფერენცია მიძღვნილია აკადემიკოს კოტე წერეთლის 100 წლის იუბილესადმი/ DEDICATED TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ACADEMICIAN KONSTANTINE TSERETELI
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Obama Uses Executive Order To Push Chip and Pin
October 17, 2014 17:57 by Paul Roberts
Add data security to the long list of issues on which U.S. President Barack Obama has resorted to unilateral action in order to push the government forward on a crucial matter.
President Obama used an Executive Order to promote chip and PIN technology for government issued credit cards.
On Friday, President Obama signed an Executive Order directing the government to require the use of so-called "chip and PIN" technology for any newly issued or existing government debit and credit cards.
The Order was intended to make the federal government "lead by example in securing transactions and sensitive data," the White House said in a statement.
The new BuySecure Initiative will provide consumers with more tools to secure their financial future by assisting victims of identity theft, improving the Government's payment security as a customer and a provider, and accelerating the transition to stronger security technologies and the development of next-generation payment security tools.
The Order launches a new initiative dubbed "BuySecure" intended to "drive the market towards more secure payment systems" by putting the weight of the federal government behind secure payments technology for government employees. Newly issued and existing government credit cards, as well as debit cards like Direct Express will be required to use chip and PIN technologies. Retail payment card terminals at Federal agency facilities will also be upgraded to accept chip and PIN-enabled cards.
According to the White House, leading chain retailers have signed on to the initiative including Home Depot and Target (both recent victims of wide scale data theft), Walgreens, and Walmart. Those stores will roll out secure chip and PIN-compatible card terminals in all their stores by January 2015.
Card issuer American Express said it is launching a program to support small businesses as they upgrade their point of sale terminals to more secure standards. Visa said it will launch a national public service campaign to educate consumers and merchants on chip and other secure technologies by sending experts to 20 cities as part of the BuySecure program.
The Order also includes efforts to help consumers affected by data- and identity theft. MasterCard said it will provide its customers with free credit monitoring services and Citi will offer free credit report available to its card customers monthly, in cooperation with FICO. Finally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is working on a web site, IdentityTheft.gov, intended to be a "one-stop resource" for victims of that crime.
Finally, the White House will host a Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection later this year to promote partnership and innovation. It is inviting "major stakeholders on consumer financial protection issues" to discuss ways to "work together to further protect American consumers and their financial data, now and in the future."
In a statement, the American Bankers' Association said it "applauded the President for highlighting the challenges facing American companies and consumers."
However, the ABA said it was already working with banks, payment networks and retailers to "make chip cards and readers widely available in advance of the October 2015 implementation deadline."
"This initiative is part of an ongoing effort to use innovative technologies to better secure the system. Criminals are always looking for ways to exploit the payment system, and we will continue to adapt security measures to meet evolving threats," the ABA said.
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Q: Is any way to mock global variable in CppUTest? Is there any way to mock static global variable to use in test function? Or any workaround for that?
Below example of such situation:
static zsock_t *publish_logs =  NULL;

int btak_log_message_reactor(zloop_t *loop, zsock_t *reader, void *arg) {
    struct btak_log_message *message;
    size_t message_size;

    if(zsock_recv(reader, "b", &message, &message_size) == 0) {
        push_log_message(message);
        if(publish_logs)
            publish_log_message(message, publish_logs);
        free(message);
    }

    return 0;
}

A: We often forget about the linker.  We can use a different object file to mock an interface.  This mock-obj would contain a different definition of your global.
But current unit test frameworks only work on code level...  So some build-fu will be needed to add mock objects to the test build.

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Q: Multiple entries into the table on refresh When I submit a form to a PHP_SELF page via POST method, The text get's inserted into the table again on every refresh. How do I fix this and prevent my textarea from being empty before insertion?
echo "<form action=<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; method='post'>";
echo "<textarea name='msg' placeholder='Type message here' required='required' style='width:100%;min-height:60px;min-height:60px;'></textarea>";
echo "<button>Send</button>";
echo "</form>";

And here is my PHP code to insert the text into the table 'msg'.
if(isset($_POST['msg'])&!empty($_POST['msg']))
{
    $message=$_POST['msg'];
    $message=$conn->quote($message);
    $sql="INSERT INTO msg(msg.to,msg.from,msg) VALUES('".$_SESSION["tousermessage"]."','".$_SESSION["username"]."',$message)";
    $ex=$conn->prepare($sql);
    $ex->execute();

    unset($_POST['msg']);
}

A: Firstly, you're already in PHP and echo:
echo "<form action=<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; method='post'>";

that needs to be changed to (and would have thrown a parse error). Error reporting may not be set.
echo "<form action='' method='post'>";

Now, if you want to avoid getting entries added to your DB on a page refresh, you have a few options.

*

*Use a header to redirect (to same page or a different page)

*Use two different files, HTML form then PHP/MySQL. However, people clicking back to the previous page and doing refresh may also produce the same thing, so either way, use a header.

I.e.: (and you had a & missing in your conditional statement.
Sidenote: $message in your VALUES. That is a string and it should be quoted. I.e.: '$message'. But I left it the way it is below. Quote it if you're getting errors and you should be getting errors.
if(isset($_POST['msg']) && !empty($_POST['msg']))
    {
        $message=$_POST['msg'];
        $message=$conn->quote($message);
        $sql="INSERT INTO msg(msg.to,msg.from,msg) VALUES('".$_SESSION["tousermessage"]."','".$_SESSION["username"]."',$message)";
        $ex=$conn->prepare($sql);
        $ex->execute();

        unset($_POST['msg']);
        header("Location: http://www.example.com/yourfile.php");
        exit;
    }

However, that will only work if you're not outputting before header, such as HTML above PHP etc.
If this is the case, using ob_start(); may work, but PHP should ideally be on top of any HTML you may have.
Using sessions tokens is another option, but that may be beyond the scope of this question.
Have a look at the following page on Preventing Multiple Submits:

*

*http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Preventing-Multiple-Submits.html
That works rather well, and will prevent multiple submissions.

Footnotes:

*

*Your present code is open to SQL injection. Use mysqli with prepared statements, or PDO with prepared statements, they're much safer.


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The commissioners affirm two applications for rededication and add 120 residential lots in South Forsyth
By William S. Steverson on	 December 23, 2021 Commercial Property
Two developments are moving forward after approval by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners on Thursday, December 16. Together, the projects will bring over 100 new residential lots in the southern Forsyth area.
Both motions were unanimously approved 4-0, with District 1 Commissioner Molly Cooper absent.
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JWC Atlanta Holdings, LLC. requested the reallocation of the planned master district MPD and the commercial business district CBD to the master planed district on 23.8 acres from Mathis Airport Parkway for 16 connected units and 62 free-standing residential lots.
The project is expected to have a density of 3.29 units per acre adjacent to commercial buildings totaling 15,000 square feet and 67 parking spaces.
Michelle Horstemeyer, JWC's chief operating officer, said they were looking for a "high street feel" to the project and adding a commercial area with amenities at the entrance to the development.
She also said the expected price points of the residential products would be different, with townhouses expecting a retail price of $ 600,000 and single-family homes selling between $ 700,000 and $ 800,000.
Horstemeyer said that while JWC hadn't developed in Forsyth County in a while, the company was "focusing more on the more urban products" in places like Woodstock.
The board voted to approve the rededication request along with two additional conditions, including a traffic light at the entrance if warranted by a traffic study, and is working "in good faith" with the engineering staff to ensure that there is increased rainwater capacity and Outflow is supported.
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Q: Jmeter : Removing Spaces using RegEx Jmeter :
I am having a JSON from which I have to fetch value of "ci".
I am using the following RegEx : ci:\s*(.*?)\" and getting the following result RegEx tester:
Match count: 1
Match1[0]=ci: 434547"
Match1=434547
Issue is Match1[0] is having spaces because of which while running the load test it says
: Server Error - Could not convert JSON to Object
Need help is correcting this RegEx.

A: Basically, your RegEx is fine. This is the way I would look for it too, the first group (Match[1]) would give you 434613, which is the value you are looking for. As I don't know that piece of software you are using, I have no idea why using just that match doesn't work.
Here is an idea to work around that: if the value will always be the only numeric value in the string, you could simplify the RegEx to:
\d+

This will give you a numeric value that is at least 1 digit long. If there are other numeric values in the string though, but these have different lengths, try this:
\d{m,n}   --> between m and n digits long
\d{n,}    --> at least n digits long
\d{0,n}   --> not more than n digits long

This is not as secure / reliable as the original RegEx (since it assumes some certain conditions), but it might work in your case, because you don't have to look for groups but just use the whole matched text. Tell me if it helped!


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The Origin of Blue Jeans
On the anniversary of Levi Strauss' death, learn the creation story of one of the most popular articles of clothing
An early pair of Levi Strauss & Co.'s "Duck Trousers" (Photo courtesy American History Museum)
By Joseph Stromberg
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On the 109th anniversary of Levi Strauss' death, his chief product—blue jeans—have become a $91 billion per year industry, an icon of American culture, and quite possibly the world's most popular article of clothing. His name, more than any other, evokes the tough denim fabric and heavy stitching of America's favorite pair of pants. But the birth of blue jeans came under surprising circumstances—and the ancestral trousers barely resemble the blue jeans of today.
It all started in 1871, when tailor Jacob Davis of Reno, Nevada, had a problem. The pants he was making for miners weren't tough enough to stand up to the conditions in local mines; among other issues, the pockets and button fly were constantly being torn. "A miner's wife came up to Davis and asked him to come up with pants that could withstand some abuse," says curator Nancy Davis (no relation), from the American History Museum. Davis looked at the metal fasteners he used on harnesses and other objects. "At that time, he came up with the riveted trousers."
As local miners snapped up the overalls he made with rivet-strengthened stress points and durable "duck cloth," a type of canvas, Davis realized he needed to protect his idea. "He had to rush, due to the fact that these worked really well," says Nancy Davis. "He realized he had something." Lacking the money to file documents, he turned to Levi Strauss, a German immigrant who had recently opened a branch of his family's dry-goods store in San Francisco, and the two took out a patent on a pair of pants strengthened with rivets.
Davis soon moved to San Francisco, and wide scale production of riveted pants started for the first time. Strauss ran the business, while Davis became production manager. " actually was the person in charge of making sure that the trousers really did what they said they were going to do," says Nancy Davis. "He was the person who knew how these pants should work."
A close-up of the Smithsonian's original Levi Strauss trousers. Photo courtesy American History Museum
Business for the company boomed as pants flew off the shelves. "Strauss was doing pretty well in terms of bringing in merchandise from the East, but this was great because he didn't need to bring in everything. He could manufacture it there, and that cut out a lot of cost," says Davis. "He didn't make just the jeans, but this was the principal thing he was making, and they were very popular."
Essential to the Levi's name was the integrity and ruggedness of the trousers. As seen on the American History Museum's own pair of antique duck trousers, made sometime between 1873 and 1896, the label clearly proclaims "Patent Riveted Duck & Denim Clothing. . .Every Pair Guaranteed. None Genuine Unless Bearing This Label."
Even as the patent expired in 1890, Levi Strauss & Co. was already associated with a tremendously popular product and set up for long-term success. But introducing a new, more flexible fabric—blue denim—to go with the rivet idea proved to be the combination that would shape American wardrobes for more than a century and counting. "The brown duck continued to be used as late as 1896, and for a while it was side by side with the blue jeans," Davis says.
The 1890 creation of the iconic Levi's 501 style, in particular, led to the denim jeans taking over, eventually moving outside of the working class demographic and into the embrace of everyday casual fashion. "Initially, with Davis, it was the people who really needed serviceable pants, and needed them to last a lot longer than most," says Nancy Davis. "Then we have record of—as early as the 1930s—people, other than blue-collar workers, wearing jeans. You do have people wearing them who don't need to wear them, especially young people."
In the latter half of the 20th century—decades after Strauss' death in 1902—blue jeans achieved widespread cultural significance. "They really come to their apex in the 60s and 70s," Davis says. "The interesting thing is that this particular type of pants, the blue jeans, have become international," she adds. "It's what people think of. When they think of America, they think of blue jeans."
About Joseph Stromberg
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