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The evening started with some prosecco and warm from the oven snacks before we got started measuring, kneading and rolling under the instruction of Chef David. We learned what kind of flour to use to make a simple water and flour pasta and how to know when the dough is ready to roll out and when it is ready to rest. Chef David also gave us all a quick lesson in knife skills as we each tried our hand at chopping ingredients for the pasta sauce. Tender fresh zucchini flowers, sausage, garlic and aromatic saffron melded together to create an incredible sauce that was perfect for the hand shaped pasta that we had just made.
A few glasses of wine around the stove, biscotti dunked into a boozy chocolate mix and lots of laughter with friends old and new are the recipe for an unforgettable and delicious experience.
This class is fun if you live in Rome and want to learn a few new cooking tricks or for visitors who want a behind the scenes look at how some of the delicious food you have been eating on your trip is made. Contact Walks of Italy for more information.
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The good folk over at Disney have released the first TV spot for Guy Ritchie's upcoming live-action remake of 'Aladdin,' giving us our first proper look at Will Smith as Genie. Hitting Irish cinemas on May 24, the film also stars Mena Massoud as Aladdin; Naomi Scott as Jasmine; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar; Navid Negahban as the Sultan; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia; Billy Magnussen as Prince Anders; and Numan Acar as Hakim.
Irish release date is May 24, 2019.


Mary Pickford's friends, colleagues and coworkers were the ones who knew her best. Here we bring together stories they told about her, giving us their unique perspective on her personal and professional life.
"Toward the end of 1916 I received the opportunity to help what was to become one of the brightest careers in motion pictures, that of Mary Pickford. We had not met since appearing together on the stage in The Warrens of Virginia. Mary Pickford had since become one of the main assets which Mr. Zukor brought in the merger of Famous Players with our company; but Mary was not happy with the merger. Her personal relationship with Mr. Zukor had been almost that of a father and daughter. Now, since the merger and the advent of Jesse [Lasky] and Sam [Goldwyn] to positions of executive power, she felt oppressed by the sense of being part of a machine rather than a family. She too had some serious clashes with Sam. Added to her professional discontent was the growing unhappiness of her marriage to Owen Moore. Her last two pictures had been failures: Less than the Dust lived up to its name, and Pride of the Clan was an opus of which neither Mary nor anyone in the Famous Players-Lasky clan could be proud. Mary's mother and doctor both felt it urgently necessary the she get away from New York and Owen Moore. Mr. Zukor asked me if I would direct her in two pictures to be made in Hollywood.
I agreed readily. Then developed the first hitch. For the films she had made in New York, Mr. Zukor had given Mary the privilege of selecting the writer of her scenarios, approving the scripts, and in other ways exercising an authority which belongs strictly to the producer and director. When I received word that she would expect the same rights when she came to Hollywood, I put my foot down firmly. I liked Mary, I knew her ability as an actress, and I respected her writer, Frances Marion. But I would not be moved from the principle that it is the producer-director's job to produce and direct. If he divides that authority with anyone else, the result is almost certain to be a bad picture. …I have never allowed script approval or any other such major authority to anyone who works in any of my pictures. It fell to Mr. Zukor to explain this to Mary and persuade her to send me a most docile telegram, abdicating her previous privileges and placing herself unreservedly at my direction. Mary yielded; but she came to Hollywood fearing her older brother had become an ogre….
De Mille was right when he mentions Mary being at a low point personally. Her marriage to Owen Moore was all but over, but she felt pressure not let the public know. De Mille was proud of the films he made with her, but graciously agrees that her career continued upwards after their two films together. Pickford and De Mille made their peace and shared a friendship and a genuine mutual respect for the rest of their lives.


The Maryland Organic Food & Farming Association (MOFFA) – is a non-profit educational organization. Our mission is to bring together the community of growers, consumers, and retailers in Maryland to support organic and ecological farming and local food production. We publish a newsletter, sponsor workshops, field days, and related educational activities, and speak on behalf of organic agriculture. For more info on who we are and meet our Board of Directors, please visit our About page.
Be sure to visit our Blog Posts and read our Newsletter to be up to date in the latest happenings in the Maryland Organic Food and Farming community.
Find out how you can become an integral part of this great group of people and how to make a donation to MOFFA on our Join Us page.
MOFFA Events page has announcements on upcoming meetings, gatherings and our annual Summer Social. Here we will also post events such as farm tours, workshops, extension programs and other happenings.
Want to make your own incubator, register your poultry flock, find info on organic certification for Maryland, build a high tunnel or grow organic apples? Our Resources page will have the answers. We will continue to plant it full of useful web links & lists of people to know!
Looking for a farmer's market in your neighborhood? Want to join a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm? Need some free-range chicken eggs? Pastured organic beef or chicken? Pesticide-free fruit? How about some soil amendments? MOFFA hopes to provide you with all of that info and more on our Markets and CSA pages.


♥ Mama 2 Multiples ♥: Costume Super Center: The Hulk Costume Review!
I have done several reviews and even some giveaways for various costume websites. These reviews have got to be among my kiddo's favorite ones that I participate in because -- clearly -- they get free, cool costumes!
We decided on a Superhero theme this year. If you know me, you know I am fully taking advantage of the years I get to choose my kiddo's costumes. I know one day they won't let me do that, so while I still can, I am soaking it up! I LOVE doing themes with my children! We have done a Cat in the Hat theme, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan so far and each year we get so many compliments from friends, family, and even complete strangers on our thoughtful costumes and neat themes for my 4 kiddos.
The boys were very much into the Superhero theme this year! Connor and Mason are very much into the Avengers, Transformers, and all things hero and boy related! Costume SuperCenter has so many Avengers costumes to choose from, among many others!
Mason could not wait to get his costume on when it finally came in! It was difficult to make him sit still long enough to get too many photos of him in it though but I did manage to get some group shots of him and his siblings all in their costumes too!
Is he cute or what?! He absolutely adores this costume! He was upset when he had to take it off but he will get plenty of chances to wear it at upcoming Halloween parties and of course, the main event at the end of the month.
I can't thank Costume Super Center enough for working with me on this review! This costume is easy to use as it comes in all one piece (except for the mask of course!) It's nice that it is all one piece and that it will be fairly warm for Mason, since Vermont Octobers are known to be pretty darn cold! While it is warm enough as it is, we always put pajamas on underneath the kiddos costumes, and with this one, there is plenty of room to do that without hindering the true look and feel of the costume itself.
At first I worried that the mask would be cheaply made, like a lot of monster masks you find in stores but I was wrong! This mask is nice, thick, and comfortable for little Mason, which is the most important factor!
All in all, we are both very satisfied with this costume and greatly looking forward to our Halloween festivities this year!
For all of your Halloween costume needs, head over to Costume Super Center's website and their follow Costume Super Center on Facebook for all the latest news, updates, and deals!
This costume is so nice. Hulk is always a popular choice among kids for costumes. Maybe it is because it makes you feel so powerful.


"Phineas Chaney died at his residence in Oregon last Wednesday morning. Mr. Chaney has been quite feeble for some time. He was one of the oldest settlers of Ogle County. His wife died about a year ago. His funeral will take place on Saturday, at 10 o'clock a.m."


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Apollo's injectable spinal disc technology will involve a minimally invasive procedure in which the spine is mechanically stabilized from the inside-out, maximizing retention of the patient's existing range of motion. The company seeks funding through several crowdfunding sources.
CANTON, OHIO, August 4, 2014. Millions of people in the USA are affected by back pain. In fact, very few people have not been touched by a family member or a friend who is dealing with some form of back pain. Over 400,000 people this year will be faced with a critical decision on how to proceed with treatment for spinal disc disease. Apollo Implants LLC is at the cutting edge of a new technology that utilizes a minimally invasive procedure to inject nano-polymer into the disc space, creating a new spinal disc, thus alleviating the common problems caused by a deteriorating disc.
Apollo reports that surgeons have a number of options available for the treatment of these disc conditions, unfortunately there are multiple drawbacks to these surgical interventions. The most common utilized solution is Spinal Fusion, which makes up about 21% of the spinal procedures on a global basis. Spinal Fusion is replete with permanent post-surgical problems, after all, the human body does not like the addition of plates, rods, and screws. Make no mistake about it, Spinal Fusion is a major surgical procedure and takes several hours. The purpose of this procedure is to alleviate debilitating back pain. In this spinal intervention, two or more vertebrae are permanently connected to each other becoming one unit. A bone graft is utilized, and is often removed from the patient's pelvic bone. Implants made from metal will support the vertebrae until new bone is generated. The patient will no longer have any movement between the involved vertebrae.
In some cases, the spinal fusion procedure has to be repeated, sometimes years later. Nerve damage can also occur and may result in the loss of strength and/or sensations in the legs, or worse. This kind of spinal correction changes the dynamics of the way the spine is meant to move, and places an inordinate amount of pressure and strain on the vertebrae above and below the area of fusion. Apollo Implants has developed a unique "Injectable Spinal Disc" technology which involves a minimally invasive procedure in which the spine is mechanically stabilized from within, thus maximizing the patient's existing range of motion. This remarkable new procedure preserves the natural spinal structures while providing significant advantages over currently available solutions.
Apollo Implants is seeking additional funding through several crowdfunding sources. This is an unprecedented opportunity to be part of medical history. Apollo's Patented Technology will change the way spinal disc problems are corrected forever. Crowdfunding gives the public a chance to participate in ground-breaking new medical technology that they would normally never have access to. Everybody is invited to learn more at one of the crowdfunding campaigns shown below.


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After a Fashion
By Stephen MacMillan Moser, October 26, 2012, Columns
That's Right
Stephen Rice, Mark Erwin, and I headed over to Matt McGinnis' annual Mellow Yellow benefit for LiveStrong. With an enormous selection of Texas-made wines and liquors, and delicious treats from caterer Suzanne Court, the party was a raging success, attracting notables such as Ed Bailey (Austin City Limits), Ed and Susan Auler (Fall Creek Vineyards), Master Sommelier (one of only two in Austin) Devon Broglie, DJ el john Selector, Scarlett Olson, and more. With a goal of raising $5,000, the host was pleasantly surprised when the event raised $6,000 for a worthy cause – regardless of what anyone's saying about Lance Armstrong. Stay tuned for the announcement of Matt's next Mellow Yellow party and see for yourself.
Last week's Beauty of Life brunch for Hospice Austin was perhaps one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable I've been to. For one thing, it was at the Hilton Austin instead of the Renaissance, which made it waaay more convenient for Jacki Oh and me, plus there was more room for vendor displays. Of course, Hospice Austin means a lot to me, and I've supported them since before my cancer diagnosis. Busy with my own collection for my fashion show for Hospice Austin, I almost didn't go, and planned to leave there early when I did. But this year, the feature speaker was Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help. She was so damned entertaining and irreverent that I banished the thought of leaving. I watched the Ladies Who Lunch blushing and giggling over Kathryn's bon mots about being Southern. And, just like in her book, she's got the South nailed. Mellifluous tones led from one story into another, and I just wanted to curl up at her feet and listen to her talk all day and all night. I did make a quick exit before the Q&A part, but heard later that Kathryn had to be escorted out through the adoring throngs of fans by Hospice's development director, Grace Washington. Good work, Hospice Austin.
Speaking of Hospice Austin, my fundraiser for them, Eleven Eleven: An Evening of Extraordinary Fashion happens Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Driskill and tickets are on sale now at hospiceaustinbenefit.ticketbud.com/eleveneleven2012. We've added the glorious Holly Mills-Gardner as our emcee, and have the trailblazing Avant Salon handling the hair, with makeup by the exquisitely glamorous Rochelle Rae, who will also walk the catwalk. In fact, the runway will be littered with local celebs all wearing Made In Heaven by Stephen MacMillan Moser. So many things are in the works that it's hard to see through to the end yet, but the first of my finale dresses is being worked on now and that's a tremendous relief. Naturally, when it feels like all is good and I'm on top of the world, I have to be brought down a notch. Things have been going swimmingly emotionally, physically, and socially, but I find that my diseased body is doing its best to slow me down. It just couldn't happen at a worse time for me, when it feels that I have so much riding on this show. I rest more often than usual, but finding the energy to complete the tasks that my mind sets for me is more difficult now, and I've found that I've had to cut back on the number of looks I intended to show. So many wonderful people have come forward to help me out and get this show to the runway, that I'm verklempt. The show will go on.
The Octopus Club's most beloved event, their annual OctoTea Dance, is happening this Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Good food, copious beverages, great company, and a wonderful cause add up to a helluva fundraiser. Details at www.octopusclub.org/OctoTea. Be there or be Cher.
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Q: Weird \nocite{*} behaviour with bibtex & beamer I'm using BibTeX together with latex beamer and have a weird issue:
the entries of my BibTeX file look like this one:
    @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/latin/BenderF00,
      author    = {Michael A. Bender and
           Martin Farach-Colton},
      title     = {The {LCA} Problem Revisited},
      booktitle = {LATIN},
      year      = {2000},
      pages     = {88-94},
      ee        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10719839_9},
      crossref  = {DBLP:conf/latin/2000},
      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
    }
    @proceedings{DBLP:conf/latin/2000,
     editor    = {Gaston H. Gonnet and
                  Daniel Panario and
                  Alfredo Viola},
     title     = {LATIN 2000: Theoretical Informatics, 4th Latin American
                  Symposium, Punta del Este, Uruguay, April 10-14, 2000,            Proceedings},
     booktitle = {LATIN},
     publisher = {Springer},
     series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
     volume    = {1776},
     year      = {2000},
     isbn      = {3-540-67306-7},
     bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
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using \cite{DBLP:conf/latin/BenderF00} together with
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    \begin{scriptsize}
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     \setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}[text]
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gives me:

[BFC00] Michael A. Bender and Martin Farach-Colton. The LCA problem revisited. In Gaston H. Gonnet, Daniel Panario, and Alfredo Viola, editors, LATIN, volume 1776 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 88–94. Springer, 2000.

which is perfect.
But when i don't cite \cite{DBLP:conf/latin/BenderF00} explicitly and use \nocite{*} instead i have the following result:

[BFC00] Michael A. Bender and Martin Farach-Colton. The LCA problem revisited. In Gonnet et al. [GPV00], pages 88–94.

with a new reference to [GPV00] and so on...
How can i avoid that behaviour? I'm pleased about every advice

A: With \nocite{*} you're basically adding a \nocite command for every entry in the bibliography database. When BibTeX finds \nocite (or \cite) relative both to a @inproceedings item and its cross-referenced @proceedings item, it adds both entries in the bibliography, with a reference (in your case "[GPV00]") in the @inproceedings item.
So, with \cite{DBLP:conf/latin/BenderF00}, without \nocite{*}, the @proceedings entry is used for filling data in that item. But, if there were another item cross-referencing DBLP:conf/latin/2000, this entry would appear by itself anyway (see Tame the BeaST, section 12).
There is no \nocite command that avoids cross-referenced only items.
In the case of a huge database to show, I'd go with this default method. The alternative is getting all the keys, removing those that appear in a crossref field and do a \nocite with the explicit list of keys.

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Abstract: 研究期間:10101~10112;This is a two years period research project. The thermal and flow characteristics of supercritical CO2 refrigerant in microchannel heat exchangers will be analyzed experimentally. The flow pressure drop and heat transfer performance of supercritical CO2 in a single microchannel have been tested and the fundamental data base of supercritical CO2 was established in the first year. In the second year, the microchannel heat exchanger will be designed and fabricated. It performance will also be tested. It is expected that the results of this project will be applied by the local research institutes and manufacturers for related air-condition and heat pump system design.


The Haier DE65EK 65 pint dehumidifier is not unattractive to look at. It comes in a clean white color and has soft curves which all add to the overall look. The manufacturer has very proudly announced this model was voted a "best buy" by one leading consumer report due to its energy efficiency, value for money and competent water removal.
The DE65EK comes with all the features you would expect from this manufacturer, they have definitely thought about ease of use when it comes to water removal. This model is fitted with a larger than average easy access bucket which means less emptying. Of course, you can also make use of the direct drain option.
When using the bucket as an option, your unit will sound an alarm when it's full. You also benefit from a 24 hour on/off timer which makes using this dehumidifier an absolute breeze. Add to this the adjustable humidistat and Smart-Dry auto adjusting fan and you have a unit that really needs little attention when in operation.
The DE65EK has easy to use touch-button electronic controls and the display panel will tell you both the current and set humidity levels.
Haier has included a Smart-Dry feature with this model which means the unit will automatically set the appropriate speed depending on the settings and the relative humidity in the room.
You have two options with the DE65EK. The first is the large easy access bucket which comes with a bucket full indicator and alarm. Alternatively, you can make use of the continuous drainage option.
The DE65EK comes with easy roll casters and hand recesses to the sides so it can be moved from room to room, or floor to floor with ease.
Based on various opinions, there appears to be an issue with the auto-shut off on this unit. For this reason many consumers have experienced an overflow when using the bucket as their preferred drainage option.
When hooked up to a hose, it has been reported this dehumidifier will still fill the bucket first. The only way around this problem seems to be to tilt the unit back.
Several users have reported that this dehumidifier works great, but only for a few years, months or even weeks. It's unclear if Haier already addressed the issue.
Haier has done their best to bring a large capacity dehumidifier to the market that has all the features you would expect. The fact it has been voted a "best buy" can go some way towards the promise of a good product. However, the design flaws stated above are something that should be addressed. For even less money you may wish to consider the Frigidaire FAD704DUD which has more capacity and far better reviews.
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Weekly Sermon Illustration: Xerxes, Esther, Haman, and Mordecai
On September 27, 2015 we will celebrate The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost. Here is this week's reading from the book of Esther:
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled. Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me -- that is my petition -- and the lives of my people -- that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king." Then King Xerxes said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?" Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Look, the very gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
In Buechner's book Peculiar Treasures, he describes this episode. (Also later published in Beyond Words.)
King Xerxes of Persia, otherwise known as Ahasuerus, has the distinction of being the only person in the Bible whose name begins with an X. There's not much else you can say for him. He was a blow-hard and a show-off, and anybody with an eighth-grade education could wrap him around his little finger without half trying. Or her little finger.
There was Haman, for example. Haman was Xerxes' right-hand man and a raging anti-Semite. There was also a Jew named Mordecai, who lived in the capital, and one day when Haman came prancing by, Mordecai refused to flatten himself out and grovel in the dust like everybody else. It was the break Haman had been waiting for. He told Xerxes about Mordecai's insubordination and rudeness and said it was a vivid illustration of how the Jews as a whole were a miserable lot. He said if you let one of them in, they brought their friends, and Persia was crawling with them. He said the only laws they respected were their own, and it was obvious they didn't give a hoot in Hell about the king or anybody else. He then said that as far as he was concerned, the only thing to do was exterminate the whole pack of them like rats and offered the king ten thousand of the best for the privilege of organizing the operation. Xerxes pocketed the cash and told him to go ahead.
But then there was also Queen Esther, a good-looking Jewish girl who was both a cousin of Mordecai's and Xerxes' second wife. As soon as she got wind of what Haman was up to, she decided to do what she could to save her people from the gas-chamber. Xerxes had a rather short fuse, and you had to know how to handle him, but she planned her strategy carefully, and by the time she was through, she'd not only talked him out of letting the Jews get exterminated but had gotten him to hang Haman from the same gallows that had been set up for Mordecai. She even managed to persuade Xerxes to give Mordecai Haman's old job.
Unfortunately, the end of the story is less edifying. Not content with having saved their people and taken care of Haman, Esther and Mordecai used their new power to orchestrate the slaughter of seventy five thousand of their old enemies. The whole unpleasant account is contained in The Book of Esther, which has the distinction of being the only book in the Bible where the name of God isn't even mentioned. There seems every reason to believe that he considered himself well out of it.


Lost on a platform where the trains only go into autumn.
Where no one will ever again remember to hum.
Where there are no children.
Whose hearts are all broken.
He may never weave dreams again.
Comes alive only to cry in the rain.
Sealed in with dried blood.
To come out from beneath the mud.
Leaning in an abandoned box.
Dancing in a field of land mines.
Of a springtime of dragonflies.
Of reflecting the world's pains.
The world when it cries in it's sleep.
Out to sweeten the tears of grief.
Setting out with it's cargo of reveries.
Ushering in the tides of peace.
Always wide eyed with wonder, prone to reveries and restless with an inexplicable yearning to create ever since he was a little boy, Jay wrote his first poem when he was six. He discovered the ore of his creative endeavors in the writings of his sister from which everything else originated, in attics filled with vanilla smelling old books, in savoring the classics and in intricate poems of Wordsworth and William Blake inlaid with rhyme…. His poems have snuck under editorial radars and appeared in global anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online journals. He also runs an idea shop called the Centre of Gravity, draws cartoons, directs animated short films and conceptualizes communication campaigns. All of which originate from the same artery of poetic longing that destiny charmed into his soul.
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But, this is a very nice poem, no doubts! Well captured moments, to describe the thread of life.


Department encourages districts to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Language Opportunity for Our Kids (LOOK) Act to offer new programs to meet English learners' linguistic and academic needs. The Department's Office of Language Acquisition has extended the deadline to submit preliminary proposals to December 21 in order to give districts more time to plan. The office will review preliminary proposals in two business days and will help districts finalize their complete proposals by January 1. More information, including a quick reference guide on "Starting a New English Learner Education Program", is available at the same link.
Two competitive grants to plan for implementation of new English learner education programs are available for districts that have more than 1,500 English learners and for districts serving Gateway cities.
The Department will hold webinars on at 3:00 p.m. Monday, November 19 and at 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 11 to share information about the proposal process and grants. Any district that is planning to propose a new English learner education program or would like to learn more about the opportunity is encouraged to participate if they did not participate in the earlier webinar. Registration is open online.
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The Cry Baby Killer (1958) Jus Addiss, Carolyn Mitchell, Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson
17-year-old Jimmy Walker is brutally beaten by Manny Cole and two of his teen-age punk friends, Joey and Al, because Manny wants to move in on Jimmy's girl, Carole Fields. Later, Jimmy shows up at the hangout of the teenage crowd to take Carole away, and challenges Manny to a fight. Manny's two buddies move in with brass knuckles, and one of them pulls a pistol, which falls to the ground in the scuffle. Jimmy picks it up and shoots Manny and Al. A police officer orders Jimmy to surrender, but he panics, thinking he killed the pair, and dives into a small storeroom, and holds Sam and Mrs. Maxton and her small infant baby hostages. Police Lieutenant Porter and others plead with Jimmy to surrender and release the hostages, but the terrified Jimmy threatens Sam and Mrs. Maxton with death if they break out. A large crowd gathers and almost breaks through the police lines to storm the storeroom. Porter decides to use tear gas, with a rescue unit standing by to help Mrs. Maxton and her baby….
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Chip Conley Helps Guide Modern Elders
The Ascent Luminaries, made possible by VisitDallas, is part of the PCMA Ascent initiative, which seeks to promote inclusion and diversity across the business events industry.
Nearly seven years ago, Chip Conley was approached by the founders of Airbnb to help turn their tech startup into a global hospitality brand, taking on the role of head of global hospitality and strategy. As the founder and CEO of Joie De Vivre Hospitality for 24 years, Conley had plenty of hospitality experience under his belt.
"I thought I was there to mentor them," Conley said. "What I realized within a week or two is that I was there to be the intern as much as the mentor, because I'd never worked in a tech company before."
Taking on such a different role in his 50s was initially so overwhelming that Conley considered quitting. Instead, he stayed on to help shape Airbnb into the behemoth it is today — he now serves as the company's strategic advisor for hospitality and leadership — and founded Modern Elder Academy, a "midlife wisdom school" for older individuals feeling similarly uncomfortable about career and life transitions. More than 500 people have participated in the one- or two-week program, held at a campus in Mexico, since it was created in 2018.
"Society has done a great job of helping people through stages of life that are often known for transitions: puberty, commencement of adulthood, marriage, etc.," Conley, author of the book Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, told Convene earlier this year. "We haven't similarly ritualized midlife or career transitions, but that doesn't mean we can't start creating a celebration of when a midlifer changes their career or we take a gap year (or any substantial period) to reflect on what we want next in our life."
Learn more about Modern Elder Academy at modernelderacademy.com.
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All gamers have areas of interest when going into an MMO beta test, the things that they want to see and the content that they want to preserve for launch. Personally I hate going through quests and spoiling the story while in beta, so if there's a way to skirt around that, I take it. That's why my time with WildStar has been so very combat-centric, as I've been happily grinding on both PvE mobs and PvP competitors during my sessions like the archaic dinosaur gamer that I am.
So today we'd like to share with you some observations and lessons to help you survive your first few days on Nexus, whether as a beta tester or a player in live.
No auto-attack? Perish the thought!
Whenever I get into a new MMO, I want the game to ease up on the tutorial at some point to just let me get a feel for fighting against as many mobs as I like. Happily, WildStar does just this early on with a room full of enemies asking for a little smackdown.
Many MMOs these days have what WildStar refers to as "telegraphs:" visual indicators of where an enemy attack is going to land and a strong suggestion that you not be there when it does. But WildStar takes this concept and kicks it up to the next level with a variety of telegraph types and the addition of player telegraphs.
Running and gunning isn't the be-all, end-all of WildStar's combat, of course. While positioning and evading are important, having a good set of tools at your disposal is even more so. This is where the game's "limited action set" comes into play, a phrase that sounds as if I'm collecting G.I. Joes.Now u can well combat in WildStar now !


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Published On: Thu, Mar 6th, 2014
Movies | By Stephen Nevets
Michael B Jordan discusses 'The Fantastic Four' role, playing Johnny Storm and fan outrage
With the recent casting Fox's Fantastic Four reboot, a lot of people were less than happy with both the casting of Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm and the cast overall.
The Chronicle star discussed the fan outage and taking the role during a new March 6 interview with Cinefilos.it
"It was expected. You kinda know going into it that people are used to seeing something one way, it's a continuity thing more than anything. People don't like change too much. But annoyed? Eh, you just kinda accept it, it is what it is. You can't make everybody happy. You just gotta accept that and know. I'm an actor, I have to do my job. I'm going to do my job the best I can and the way I've been doing it my entire life, my entire career. I grew up a comic book guy, I read comic books as a kid growing up, and the Fantastic Four/Human Torch is one of my favorite characters so I'm going to give it my everything. I can't wait. I don't really let it bother me at all. I just want to go into it and do the best job I can. We'll see what happens."
Jordan then explained why he took the role.
"The Human Torch is, 'yknow, that's fun. That's going to be a good time…To play a superhero? That's dreams coming true. It's not going to be hard. It's going to be fun to kind of show a side of me that I don't really get to show on screen, to be a little bit lighter, funnier, just more personality. It's going to be fun."
The Fantastic Four will star Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as Invisible Girl, Jordan as the Human Torch, and Jamie Bell as The Thing.
The Fantastic Four is scheduled for release on June 19, 2015.
Stephen Nevets - Stephen is a contributor and writer on The Dispatch. Stephen is the founder and editor for the Steven Spielberg Fan Club website and contributes to pop culture stories on The Dispatch, especially upcoming movie news. Beginning in 2016, Stephen took the role of Managing Editor for the Tampa Dispatch.
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The front men of The Harmed Brothers, Alex Salcido and Ray Vietti, frequently recount how lucky they are to have found their musical soulmate in each other.
"It's a person who speaks your language of ideas and hopefully challenges you to learn and embrace new ones," said Salcido in an interview with the Source.
Paired with brothers Zach and Ben Kilmer on bass and drums, the nomadic Portland band makes rustic string music with pop sensibility. With call-and-response composure between the bandmates and smooth sweeping harmonies, the songs are built in an unpretentious and simplistic tenor, comforting flashbacks to avowed songwriting of the past.
The band's most recent album, 2013's Better Days, has come from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in Western North Carolina, via Cottage Grove, Eugene, and Portland and was recorded in East St. Louis, Missori.
"It was the first time we had a series of songs that came together to build a single, cohesive theme, mostly championing your demons if not being at least able to live with them," said Salcido. "It's a very travel-centric album."
It's not exactly original—a young, hard-living band writing about their road-dog lifestyle, touting their songs as "tales of love, loss, woe, hard-drinking and the eventual search for redemption." But the vigor and emotion with which The Harmed Brothers approach their music and performance is a cut above and songs like "XMAS is Cancelled...Get Drunk!" and "Moonshine and Marijuana," have a sense of humor sometimes lost in the slow, sad song movement or the boot-stomping hoedown. While the band has its own more rustic and certainly more authentic sound, it's not at all uncommon for it to be shuffled under the Mumford and Sons moniker with bands like The Lumineers and The Avett Brothers.
"Honestly, we're indifferent to it," said Salcido of the references. "Comparisons can get a little tricky. We choose to not pay so much attention to them—or "Wagon Wheel" requests—and just do what we do. It's just better this way."
I agree, the world is better without any more "Wagon Wheel" covers.


HA NOI (VNS)— Viet Nam imported 27.8 per cent more cattle feed and materials in the first two months of the year than the same period in 2014, according to the Viet Nam Trade Information Center (VTIC).
Argentina and the US are the country's main cattle feed providers, accounting for 61.6 per cent of the product's total import turnover.
Viet Nam imported a total of US$561.7 million in cattle feed - $189.8 million from Argentina and $156.2 million from the US. Viet Nam also imported from China, Italia, India and Thailand.


To register for ice skating lessons you must complete two steps. First, register all skaters (children and adults) with US Figure Skating Learn to Skate program to obtain a Learn to Skate (LTS) number. Your LTS number(s) are valid until June 30th. Keep them in your records. Second, sign up for local ice skating lessons here in the Twin Ports! You will need your LTS number to complete the registration for class. It's important to complete both steps to register. Skaters without a US Figure Skating LTS number will not be allowed on the ice.
STEP 1: You must sign up for a Learn to Skate number. Click the image below.
A Learn to Skate number is required to complete Step 2.
STEP 2: After purchasing a LTS number in Step 1, click the link below to sign up for local ice skating classes.
Learn to Skate Duluth consists of a 30 minute lesson with an additional hour of practice time for skaters 2 years old to adult. There are five sessions offered per year – Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions are held on the weekend, and Summer sessions are held on Thursday evenings.
LTS Duluth follows the Learn to Skate USA protocol, endorsed by US Figure Skating, USA Hockey, USA Speedskating, and Special Olympics. Our mission is to provide a fun and positive experience that will instill a lifelong love of skating. Our program encourages skating at all levels for all ice sports and is designed to keep students excited about skating from the time they begin until they achieve their goals.
What is needed for LTS class? Skates.
Skaters must come with their own skates to participate in all classes provided by DFSC. Helmets (bike, snowboarding, etc.) and elbow pads are welcome at your discretion but are not required. We also recommend children wear snowpants, winter coats, mittens and hats if they don't have a helmet on. We do not have skates to rent or borrow.
Can we wear hockey equipment? No.
Our Learn to Skate program's focus is on skating. Our goal is to create a safe and fun environemt for all skaters, which includes those skaters lacing up for the first time to those prefecting their edge work or crossovers. While gear is important for game play, hockey gear during Learn to Skate is unnecessary, restricts learning and movement. For the safety of all skaters, hockey gear is not allowed. "Hockey gear" is defined as: shoulder pads, breezers, sticks, and knee pads. Skates, helmets, and elbow pads only please.
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Gervaise (Louis Gervais, dit) est un directeur de parc d'attractions ;
 Gervaise est un personnage de L'Assommoir, roman d'Émile Zola et protagoniste du film Gervaise qui l'adapte ;
 Gervaise est un film réalisé en 1956 par René Clément, adapté du roman L'Assommoir d'Émile Zola.


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St. Augustine, Thanksgiving here first En Español
November 22, 2013 Andrea Elyse Messer	Leave a comment
St. Augustine Lighthouse
Thanksgiving is coming. A holiday enjoyed by nearly everyone in the country and perhaps my favorite secular holiday. And yes, unlike in other places, Thanksgiving in the U.S. is secular although everyone of every faith celebrates in their own way. A truly diverse holiday.
The first Thanksgiving celebrated in 1621 in Plymouth Plantation is usually what we think of when we think of the origins of the holiday, but is that true? How Northern European centric are we being with that celebration?
A few weeks back I was in Gainesville, Florida, for a meeting and had the opportunity to go to St. Augustine with an archaeologist as a guide — at least for part of the day. St. Augustine, founded by the Spanish crown in 1565 as a military installation, is still the oldest European-based settlement in the U.S. When the Spanish landed, they immediately fortified an area, offloaded their ships and had a mass of thanksgiving and a feast. The first Thanksgiving. Probably, but not important really. The settlement site was attacked, burned down a number of times and rebuilt, and while it moved from Spanish to English to Spanish to English hands, there were always people in the area.
What is important is that nearly everyone outside of Florida who is not an American history teacher of some kind thinks of the Plymouth colony, or Jamestown settlement. The first European child born in what would become the U.S. was not Virginia Dare, but Martín de Argūelles, born in 1566. St. Augustine was also an unusual place in that while it had slaves, they weren't all from Africa and there were many African freemen as well. Why? Because if you pledged allegiance to the Spanish crown and converted to Catholicism you could be a resident and protected. Slavery, as ugly as it is, was of a different sort. A Spanish slave could buy his or her freedom and many did.
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, St. Augustine, FL
Macapplethorpe
Some of the early 17th century town still exists and has been conserved. The 17th century fort, the oldest in the continental U.S., still stands on the water's edge facing the bay. The chapel, living areas and the "necessary" are still there.
These men and women, whether Spanish soldiers, their wives, native Americans from the Saturiwa or Africans undoubtedly spoke Spanish as their common language. They attended church together, and while excluding other faiths, they embraced other differences.
It is only because England won the wars against Spain and France and Florida was a prize passed back and forth that St. Augustine is not what we look to at Thanksgiving. I suppose it is a case of to the victors go not only the spoils but the place in history.
Archaeologically, we know a lot about the St. Augustine settlement and its original location in what is now Fountain of Youth Park. A new exhibit, "First Colony: Our Spanish Origins," curated by Kathleen Deagan of the University of Florida at the Florida Museum of Natural History, opened last week and we had a preview at Old Colony House in St. Augustine, where the exhibit will remain until 2016. Eventually, this exhibit will travel across the country, bringing the Spanish origins of many of our citizens to light.
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The full data from the SOLO-2 trial can be found in the 25 July 2017 publication of The Lancet Oncology.
Lynparza was first approved under the FDA's Accelerated Approval programme in December 2014, as a capsule formulation, making it the first poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor approved. Since then, more than 3,000 advanced ovarian cancer patients have been treated with Lynparza capsules in its approved indication.
SOLO-2 was a Phase III, randomised, double-blinded, multicentre trial designed to determine the efficacy of Lynparza tablets as a maintenance monotherapy compared with placebo, in patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed or recurrent gBRCA-mutated ovarian, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancer. The trial, conducted in collaboration with the European Network for Gynaecological Oncological Trial Groups (ENGOT) and Groupe d'Investigateurs National pour l'Etude des Cancers de l'Ovaire et du sein (GINECO), randomised 295 patients with documented germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations who had received at least 2 prior lines of platinum-based chemotherapy and were in complete or partial response. Eligible patients were randomised to receive 300mg Lynparza tablets twice daily or placebo tablets twice daily.
Study 19 was a Phase II, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of Lynparza compared with placebo in relapsed, high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients, involving 82 sites across 16 countries. Patients received Lynparza maintenance monotherapy, at a dose of 400mg per day or matching placebo. Treatment continued until disease progression if toxicities were manageable.
Lynparza is an innovative, first-in-class oral poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor that may exploit tumour DNA damage response (DDR) pathway deficiencies to preferentially kill cancer cells. It is approved by regulatory authorities in the EU and US for the treatment of women with BRCAm ovarian cancer.
Lynparza is the foundation of AstraZeneca's industry-leading portfolio of potential new medicines targeting DDR mechanisms in cancer cells. Lynparza tablets are currently being tested in combinations in a range of tumour types including breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers.
On 27 July 2017, AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., announced a global strategic oncology collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialise AstraZeneca's Lynparza, the world's first and leading PARP inhibitor, and potential new medicine selumetinib, a MEK inhibitor, for multiple cancer types. The collaboration is based on increasing evidence that PARP and MEK inhibitors can be combined with PDL-1/PD-1 inhibitors for a range of tumour types and is aimed at maximising the potential of Lynparza to become the preferred backbone of combination therapies. Working together, the companies will jointly develop Lynparza and selumetinib in combination with other potential new medicines and as a monotherapy. Independently, the companies will develop Lynparza and selumetinib in combination with their respective PD-L1 and PD-1 medicines.
Worldwide, ovarian cancer is the 7th most-commonly diagnosed cancer and the 8th most-common cause of cancer death in women. The risk of developing ovarian cancer is increased in women with specific inherited genetic abnormalities, including BRCA mutations. AstraZeneca is committed to the continued development of our R&D portfolio for ovarian cancer, with a focus on improved care for all patients, including the development of targeted therapies for patients with specific gene mutations such as BRCA.
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WASHINGTON — If President Trump has his way, television viewers who see commercials for the drug Keytruda will learn not only that it can help lung cancer patients, but also that it carries a price tag of $13,500 a month, or $162,000 a year.
Viewers who see advertisements for Neulasta, a drug that reduces the risk of infections after chemotherapy, would learn that the list price for each injection is $6,200. And magazine readers would see a new bit of information in ads for Humira, the world's best-selling drug, prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases: its list price, which has been widely reported as approximately $50,000 a year.
The disclosure of such data is perhaps the most eye-catching goal of Mr. Trump's plan to lower drug prices. The president is determined to bring "price transparency" to the market in an effort to stimulate competition and overturn the current convoluted, opaque system in which everyone but the consumer benefits from higher prices, said Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services.
But what the administration presents as a simple matter of transparency has raised a torrent of questions from consumers, doctors, drugmakers and advertising professionals. Would it be legal? How would it work? Would it actually drive down drug prices? Would it be counterproductive, since high prices could discourage patients from considering helpful medicines?
And the experts asked: What price would be advertised? Different people pay different prices for the same drug, depending on whether they have insurance or what type of coverage they have.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive, have put drugmakers on the defensive. Companies that pour hundreds of millions of dollars into drug advertising were tongue-tied when asked to comment on the president's proposal.
Among them was AbbVie, which spent $429 million advertising Humira to American consumers last year — the most for any prescription drug in the United States, according to Kantar Media, an ad tracking company. Jillian Griffin, a spokeswoman for AbbVie, declined to comment.
Laurel Sacks, a spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers Squibb, said that ads for its lung cancer drug Opdivo "play a critical role in educating patients" and inform them of "options beyond chemotherapy." But Ms. Sacks declined to say whether the ads should be required to disclose the list price of Opdivo, about $13,680 a month per patient.
The American Medical Association supports a ban on drug advertising aimed at consumers. The proliferation of such ads — spending on them reached $6.1 billion last year in the United States, according to Kantar Media — is driving demand for new, more expensive medicines, even when less costly but effective alternatives are available, the group says.
Until a ban is in place — and none is in sight — the A.M.A. says that advertisements for prescription drugs should be required to state the manufacturer's suggested retail price for those drugs.
Experts said that providing the list price, as recommended by the Trump administration, could be misleading because, in many cases, it is not what consumers pay.
A major purpose of direct-to-consumer advertising is to encourage patients to ask doctors about particular drugs. Those talks are more likely to include a discussion of prices if that information is readily available in ads, administration officials said. Officials hope that by publicizing such data, they can force drugmakers to compete aggressively on prices.
Other experts said that giving list prices could be not just confusing but also ineffective.
But Dr. Debra Patt, a breast cancer specialist at Texas Oncology, a group of more than 400 doctors, was more optimistic. She said she would welcome the publication of prices in drug ads, provided the ads are factual and accurate. "It would drive costs down and drive quality up," she said.
The list price for Ibrance is about $10,000 a month. But a message pops up on the screen near the end of TV ads for the drug. "If you're eligible, you could pay as little as $0 a month," says one such message.
The legal questions may also be a challenge.


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Nine yards is the length of a traditional Indian saree, still worn by the Brahmins in Tamil Nadu in South India.
It is also the length of a traditional turban wrapped around the head, still worn by the men in Rajasthan in Western India.
That is one possible origin.


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Cool but nice during the day. It can snow anytime up there. Never a good idea to leave the jacket at home!
The weather out there in Montana will probably be cool when you get back up there especially at night. Not gonna be like that Az. weather for sure. I remember in 2009 when I left Sturgis in mid august and headed up through Montana and went across the Beartooth pass down into Yellowstone, It was cold … It had snowed up on those mTns already and the temperatures were in the high 30`s low 40`s on those mountain tops. But that is up around 12,000 feet above sea level, so it probably never gets real hot up there.
Yep, school is out the second week of May. Should be home a week or so after that.
You don`t have long until you go back home now do you, I thought you said sometime in May ?
LOL Yeah, something like that I guess.
Dave, maybe they are looking for a new head design , so they can increase interest and sales, since they are in a declining market.
I always figure since they came out with the Milwaukee Eight, that they should have called it the Water Head..... lol just a little blast from the past, that is the welcoming committee at the town of Custer SD.
Sounds like a good day. Good luck tomorrow, VT.
My boss and his friends ride scooters on the weekend, they go all over on them. He was at the Casa Grande airport last weekend and they were doing a photo shoot of a new Harley. When they drove by they covered it up so they couldn't see it. He thought it might be a street Glide but wasn't sure. I was thinking maybe it was one of the new 2020 models. They do the test rides not too far from there, so maybe they had one on the test track and wanted some place different to do the photos so they took it there.
That airport has very little activity even on the weekends. They do have a pancake breakfast there on the first Saturday of the month that I have been to a couple of times. You never know what you might see fly in there on that Saturday, but for the rest of the week it pretty quiet.
Played golf again today, I shot 83, I had 43 on the front nine holes and 40 on the back nine. It was a very pretty day outside here today. It is currently 80 degrees on my indoor outdoor thermometer, and the probe is under the deck in the shade. I am playing again in the morning , we have a match between the senior league I play in and another league or two there at the golf course. We will be playing a scramble or captains choice format. Should be a good time, supposed to be sunny and 84 degrees tomorrow, am looking forward to it.
Sounds like a good time. Enjoy the festivities.
I always associated the snake head or cobra looking hood at the front of the aircraft with a stealth design , and stealth meaning blacked out and nothing shiny that would reflect light, mostly flat black.
The all black motif on Gibs bike reminded me of stealth, because of the all black color and no shine. I like that look, but it just isn`t me, although I really liked my black roadglide, but I had some shiny stuff on it too, to try and contrast all that black.


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import unittest
import time, threading, random, functools

if __name__ == '__main__':
	import sys, os
	sys.path.insert(0, os.getcwd())
	import sleekxmpp.xmlstream.statemachine as sm

class testStateMachine(unittest.TestCase):

	def setUp(self): pass

	def testDefaults(self):
		"Test ensure transitions occur correctly in a single thread"
		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))
		self.assertTrue(s['one'])
		self.failIf(s['two'])
		try:
			s['booga']
			self.fail('s.booga is an invalid state and should throw an exception!')
		except: pass #expected exception

		# just make sure __str__ works, no reason to test its exact value:
		print str(s)

	def testTransitions(self):
		"Test ensure transitions occur correctly in a single thread"
		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		self.assertTrue( s.transition('one', 'two') )
		self.assertTrue( s['two'] )
		self.failIf( s['one'] )

		self.assertTrue( s.transition('two', 'three') )
		self.assertTrue( s['three'] )
		self.failIf( s['two'] )

		self.assertTrue( s.transition('three', 'one') )
		self.assertTrue( s['one'] )
		self.failIf( s['three'] )

		# should return False immediately w/ no wait:
		self.failIf( s.transition('three', 'one') )
		self.assertTrue( s['one'] )
		self.failIf( s['three'] )

		# test fail condition w/ a short delay:
		self.failIf( s.transition('two', 'three') )

		# Ensure bad states are weeded out:
		try:
			s.transition('blah', 'three')
			s.fail('Exception expected')
		except: pass

		try:
			s.transition('one', 'blahblah')
			s.fail('Exception expected')
		except: pass

	def testTransitionsBlocking(self):
		"Test that transitions block from more than one thread"

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))
		self.assertTrue(s['one'])

		now = time.time()
		self.failIf( s.transition('two', 'one', wait=5.0) )
		self.assertTrue( time.time() > now + 4 )
		self.assertTrue( time.time() < now + 7 )

	def testThreadedTransitions(self):
		"Test that transitions are atomic in > one thread"

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))
		self.assertTrue(s['one'])

		thread_state = {'ready': False, 'transitioned': False}
		def t1():
			if s['two']:
				print 'thread has already transitioned!'
				self.fail()
			thread_state['ready'] = True
			print 'Thread is ready'
			# this will block until the main thread transitions to 'two'
			self.assertTrue( s.transition('two','three', wait=20) )
			print 'transitioned to three!'
			thread_state['transitioned'] = True

		thread = threading.Thread(target=t1)
		thread.daemon = True
		thread.start()
		start = time.time()
		while not thread_state['ready']:
			print 'not ready'
			if time.time() > start+10: self.fail('Timeout waiting for thread to init!')
			time.sleep(0.1)
		time.sleep(0.2) # the thread should be blocking on the 'transition' call at this point.
		self.failIf( thread_state['transitioned'] ) # ensure it didn't 'go' yet.
		print 'transitioning to two!'
		self.assertTrue( s.transition('one','two') )
		time.sleep(0.2) # second thread should have transitioned now:
		self.assertTrue( thread_state['transitioned'] )

	def testForRaceCondition(self):
		"""Attempt to allow two threads to perform the same transition;
		only one should ever make it."""

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		def t1(num):
			while True:
				if not trigger['go'] or thread_state[num] in (True,False):
					time.sleep( random.random()/100 ) # < .01s
					if thread_state[num] == 'quit': break
					continue

				thread_state[num] = s.transition('one','two' )
#				print '-',

		thread_count = 20
		threads = []
		thread_state = {}
		def reset():
			for c in range(thread_count): thread_state[c] = "reset"
		trigger = {'go':False} # use of a plain boolean seems to be non-volatile between threads.

		for c in range(thread_count):
			thread_state[c] = "reset"
			thread = threading.Thread( target= functools.partial(t1,c) )
			threads.append( thread )
			thread.daemon = True
			thread.start()

		for x in range(100): # this will take 10s to execute
#			print "+",
			trigger['go'] = True
			time.sleep(.1)
			trigger['go'] = False
			winners = 0
			for (num, state) in thread_state.items():
				if state == True: winners = winners +1
				elif state != False: raise Exception( "!%d!%s!" % (num,state) )

			self.assertEqual( 1, winners, "Expected one winner! %d" % winners )
			self.assertTrue( s.ensure('two') )
			self.assertTrue( s.transition('two','one') ) # return to the first state.
			reset()

		# now let the threads quit gracefully:
		for c in range(thread_count): thread_state[c] = 'quit'
		time.sleep(2)

	def testTransitionFunctions(self):
		"test that a `func` argument allows or blocks the transition correctly."

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		def alwaysFalse(): return False
		def alwaysTrue(): return True

		self.failIf( s.transition('one','two', func=alwaysFalse) )
		self.assertTrue(s['one'])
		self.failIf(s['two'])

		self.assertTrue( s.transition('one','two', func=alwaysTrue) )
		self.failIf(s['one'])
		self.assertTrue(s['two'])

	def testTransitionFuncException(self):
		"if a transition function throws an exeption, ensure we're in a sane state"

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		def alwaysException(): raise Exception('whups!')

		try:
			self.failIf( s.transition('one','two', func=alwaysException) )
			self.fail("exception should have been thrown")
		except: pass #expected exception

		self.assertTrue(s['one'])
		self.failIf(s['two'])

		# ensure a subsequent attempt completes normally:
		self.assertTrue( s.transition('one','two') )
		self.failIf(s['one'])
		self.assertTrue(s['two'])

	def testContextManager(self):

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		with s.transition_ctx('one','two'):
			self.assertTrue( s['one'] )
			self.failIf( s['two'] )

		#successful transition b/c no exception was thrown
		self.assertTrue( s['two'] )
		self.failIf( s['one'] )

		# failed transition because exception is thrown:
		try:
			with s.transition_ctx('two','three'):
				raise Exception("boom!")
			self.fail('exception expected')
		except: pass

		self.failIf( s.current_state() in ('one','three') )
		self.assertTrue( s['two'] )

	def testCtxManagerTransitionFailure(self):

		s = sm.StateMachine(('one','two','three'))

		with s.transition_ctx('two','three') as result:
			self.failIf( result )
			self.assertTrue( s['one'] )
			self.failIf( s.current_state in ('two','three') )

		self.assertTrue( s['one'] )

		def r1():
			print 'thread 1 started'
			self.assertTrue( s.transition('one','two') )
			print 'thread 1 transitioned'

		def r2():
			print 'thread 2 started'
			self.failIf( s['two'] )
			with s.transition_ctx('two','three', 10) as result:
				self.assertTrue( result )
				self.assertTrue( s['two'] )
				print 'thread 2 will transition on exit from the context manager...'
			self.assertTrue( s['three'] )
			print 'transitioned to %s' % s.current_state()

		t1 = threading.Thread(target=r1)
		t2 = threading.Thread(target=r2)

		t2.start() # this should block until r1 goes
		time.sleep(1)
		t1.start()

		t1.join()
		t2.join()

		self.assertTrue( s['three'] )

suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(testStateMachine)

if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()


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This screening includes Downfall
Mon, Nov 18, 2013, From 7–9:36 pm
Series: President's Choice
About Downfall
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Set in Berlin in 1945, Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his bunker at the end of WWII. Bruno Ganz gives a remarkable performance as Hitler in this 'insider's' perspective into the final hours of desperation and madness as the Russian Army surrounds Berlin. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel presents a human character in Hitler, and not a demon, which created controversy around the film. Nominated in 2005 for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, it is in German language with English subtitles. (35mm presentation)
This screening is part of the President's Choice Film Series: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
This screening includes 8 ½
Thurs, Feb 18, 7 pm
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CBS MoneyWatch: Hacker's paradise: Secrets of the "dark web"
"The days of the Dark Web being focused only on guns and narcotics are over," Ward says. "The growing trend is the sale of Intellectual Property for profit, and that should have many companies concerned. However, our experience so far is that it does not….until they talk with us and we show them how easy their proprietary information could become available. That gets their attention."Ward noted that product designs are hugely popular, especially with nefarious manufacturers looking to release the next high-tech gadget on the market before the real manufacturer's launch date. "We know of an electronics manufacturer that had been preparing a product launch for months, under what they thought was tight security. But the design showed up on the Dark Web, it was purchased, and counterfeits started hitting the market before the genuine product did. Shareholders were made aware of the situation and the stock price dropped at a time when the company had hoped for big gains. That's how serious the Dark Web can be."Advances in technology have made it even easier for that type of situation to be repeated across nearly any manufacturing segment. Computer Assisted Design (CAD) plans are regularly shared electronically within a company and even with third-parties brought on to help with product development. This provides many opportunities for leaks to occur. Furthering the problem, the advent of large-scale 3D printers has made it easy for those plans to turn into real products. According to Ward, many companies have invested in personnel and technology to troll online auction sites like eBay and Amazon, looking for their proprietary information and products being offered. But they fall far short when it comes to the Dark Web.
The first thing that has to happen is someone has to leak, either intentionally or otherwise, the intellectual property information. "And that just takes one disgruntled employee either at your company or a vendor your company uses," says Ward. "That person decides to market your information and the Dark Web is a good way to do that anonymously."
Once a buyer is found, a transaction is conducted. Now we get to Bitcoin. The very nature of the Dark Web, where many illegal transactions take place, lends itself to Bitcoin, which is a currency service set up to protect the identities of those using it. Therefore, someone buying product designs will pay via Bitcoin so they cannot be traced to the transaction. But many times, these initial buyers are, in reality, resellers. Their role is to find and secure the information from the sellers who, as in the case of a disgruntled employee, are not normally engaging in this activity. The resellers are looking for opportunities like this and then once they secure the information, use their network to sell the information at a higher price to the ultimate buyer.
"As your company evolves, so should your security needs and solutions," Ward says. "Too many companies either don't know about or don't concern themselves with the Dark Web. That's a mistake that is proving costly, as recent news like WannaCry demonstrates. Criminals on the Dark Web can be caught because they usually make a mistake. But a company needs to commit to a plan that is dedicated to this type of mitigation."