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Thursday September 21, 2017
All 194 episodes of Will & Grace are now available to stream on Hulu.
More love for American Vandal.
I feel very unsatisfied both with Josh's win last night as well as Cody taking home $25k as fan favorite. I actually felt bad for Paul.
A new season of Gotham airs tonight.
As does a one-hour Nathan For You special on Comedy Central.
A quiz for you die hard fans of The Simpsons.
Billy Eichner's cult hit Billy on the Street — which was just nominated for an Emmy — will not return to TruTV, a source exclusively tells Page Six.The show has featured celebs such as Olivia Wilde, Paul Rudd and Sarah Jessica Parker. But another source explains, 'The show is not going away' completely. 'It's just going to be distributed differently.' The insider added of the show and its host, 'It's always evolved. He's doing so many acting projects, he doesn't have time to devote to full episodes. They're figuring out a way to do it.'"
There's nothing more addictively soothing than watching someone flipping homes on HGTV. Until we end up in a real-life rerun of the housing bubble. Click here to read more.
Apparently, a lot of Major League Baseball players like to binge on Friends.
The final shoot day of The Mindy Project.
A little more on season 2 of Stranger Things.
"Ink Master star Chris Blinston believes his daughter researched online how to make it look like she was strangled, right before accusing him of strangling her ... TMZ has learned. Blinston's attorney tells us ... Chris obtained info that his 13-year-old daughter used her school computer to look up how to make bruises on one's neck prior to telling police he choked her twice so hard he squeezed off her airway. A judge has now granted Blinston's motion to obtain school records of his daughter's computer activity from before his arrest to see if it's true. We broke the story ... the Ink Master star was arrested on September 1 on charges of child abuse and felony domestic violence. He wholly denies the allegations and hopes this helps resolve the case quickly."
"A Watchmen TV series just took a major step toward becoming a reality. HBO has greenlit a pilot for its adaptation of the dark superhero epic from showrunner Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers). The drama is based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 limited comic series, which is set in an alternate universe where the presence of superheroes has changed the course of history. In the story, a group of heroes known as the Watchmen encounter a massive, deadly conspiracy while investigating the murder of one of their own."
In support of NBC's The Good Place.
The complete opposite for CBS' Me, Myself & I.
Putting a LOT of pressure on Issa Rae. "Issa Rae has cemented herself as a force to be reckoned with in the TV landscape. She's changing the game for people of color who aren't used to seeing themselves represented on screen and fighting back against the stereotypes of black life that are so often presented as truth. Much like writer, actor, and director Spike Lee did in the late 1980s, Rae has become a voice for young African Americans struggling to figure everything out (really, who isn't?). While Rae may not have reached Lee's level of success quite yet, there's no doubt that the young writer/actor is poised to continue the filmmaker's legacy."
Happy to see that people still read MAD Magazine.
Joe Bastianich will return as a permanent judge to Season 6 of MasterChef Junior, which will air during the 2017-18 season on Fox. Bastianich previously served as a judge on MasterChef Junior for its first three seasons and on MasterChef for its first five seasons.
If you were wondering, and I'm sure you were NOT, The Great American Baking Show will return for a 3rd season on ABC. NBA star Steph Curry's wife Ayesha and former NFL star and media personality Anthony "Spice" Adams will co-host.
Per Deadline, "Netflix has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to an untitled comedy (fka Russian Doll) from Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping with Other People) and Amy Poehler, with Lyonne attached to star.
"Co-created and executive produced by Lyonne, Poehler and Headland, the comedy follows a young woman named Nadia (Lyonne) on her journey as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party one night in New York City.
"'Natasha's humor, humanity and depth have connected with audiences around the world on Orange Is the New Black,' said Cindy Holland, VP Original Content for Netflix. 'With this new series, she, Leslye and Amy are creating an ambitious and uniquely formatted comedy that will have viewers guessing as much as they will be laughing.'
"Headland wrote the first episode, and she and Lyonne will serve as writers for the series. Universal Television, Poehler's studio-based Paper Kite Productions, JAX Media and 3 Arts Entertainment produce, with Brooke Posch executive producing for Paper Kite and Dave Becky for 3 Arts Entertainment.
"'So excited to get cracking with the intensely brilliant Leslye Headland, the GOAT with a heart of gold Amy Poehler, and Netflix, the safe haven I've been searching for since the '80s,' said Lyonne. 'Deeply moved to work with such heavy hitters and to share our show with the world.'"
From The Hollywood Reporter: "In a surprise twist, Dick Wolf is headed to CBS.
"The prolific producer behind NBC's Law & Order and Chicago drama franchises has landed a 13-episode series order at CBS for his latest drama.
"Theseries, F.B.I. (working title), is a scripted drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Craig Turk (The Good Wife) will pen the pilot and will serve as showrunner. He and Wolf will exec produce with Wolf Films veterans Peter Jankowski and Arthur W. Forney. Universal Television, where Wolf has a rich overall deal through 2020, will produce the series with CBS Television Studios. The drama will launch during the 2018-19 TV season.
"Wolf had previously expressed interest in doing an FBI-centered drama in 2016 when he had a similar project in development at NBC. Wolf's interest stemmed from his relationship with then-director James Comey, whom he called 'one of the most interesting people I've met in the last 10 years.' (Comey has since exited his post.)
"'I am big fan of the FBI,' he told reporters at the time. "I think they do an impossible job remarkably well. The acceptance rate is one percent. The average agent is 30 years old. It's a world that is very rich. The New York field office is the biggest FBI office in the country. It's kind of a natural for us.'
"Wolf also went on to produce an unscripted series centered on the FBI's New York field office, titled Inside the FBI: New York, which premiered on NBC's sister cable network USA in April.
"The CBS series order is surprising given Wolf's long history at NBC dating back 27 years to the 1990 launch of Law & Order. That drama ran 20 seasons and spawned five spinoffs, including Law & Order: SVU, which is heading into its 19th season, and the Law & Order True Crime anthology series that will launch Sept. 26 in the post-This Is Us slot.
"Wolf also has the Chicago universe at NBC, which includes Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med. A fourth series, Chicago Justice, was canceled in May after one 13-episode season and Chicago Med is being held this year for a midseason launch.
"CBS has found success with similar procedural franchises with the NCIS shows, Criminal Minds and, until recently, the various offshoots of CSI.
"The move brings Wolf back to CBS nearly 30 years after they worked together on Law & Order. After Fox originally ordered the series, and then scrapped that order, CBS ordered a new pilot for Law & Order in 1988. However, the project did not move forward and it ultimately ended up at NBC, where Wolf's CBS pilot episode aired as the sixth episode of the Emmy-winning series.
"While most of Wolf's scripted series have been at NBC (until now), Wolf has unscripted series at a variety of networks including A&E (Nightwatch) and Oxygen (Cold Justice and Criminal Confessions).
"The drama order marks CBS' first new series order for the 2018-19 TV season and joins hit comedy The Big Bang Theory, which was renewed for two seasons in May."
"In just nine years, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has spun Goop into gold. What started in September 2008 as a weekly email newsletter — sharing recipes, spiritual advice from Los Angeles' Kabbalah Centre director Michael Berg and book recommendations from Madonna — has grown into a Santa Monica-based healthy (and yes, luxurious) lifestyle brand with 110 employees and according to The Business of Fashion, market sources estimate Goop's 2016 revenue is between $15 – 20 million, and the company is on track to almost triple revenue year over year in 2017. On Sept. 14, Paltrow, 44, opened her first brick-and-mortar store, Goop Lab, in L.A.'s Brentwood Country Mart. That followed on the heels of the Sept. 8 launch of Goop, a new quarterly magazine with Conde Nast. The $15 magazine features Paltrow on the cover slathered in mud with the line 'Earth to Gwyneth.'
"Since Paltrow took over as CEO last year and raised an additional $15 million in Series B funding from three venture capital firms, Goop is on track to triple its revenue, she says. Online shoppers are snapping up $165 bottles of Goop's new shiso-scented fragrance and $795 Goop-designed floral maxi dresses. Digging deeper into the wellness space, on June 10, Paltrow hosted In Goop Health, her first live event, and launched a collection of branded vitamins, including Why Am I So Effing Tired?" monthly packets ($90).
Goop has been the object of some derision for promoting what watchdog groups say is sham science, from bee-sting facials to vaginal steaming (including $66 "jade eggs for your yoni"). And in August, Truth in Advertising called on California regulators to investigate the brand for making false health claims. But Paltrow hasn't let it get to her. 'I'm interested in criticism based on fact, not on projections'" she says. In other words, 'If you want to fuck with me, bring your A game.'
"Paltrow, mother of Apple, 13, and Moses, 11 (dad is Coldplay's Chris Martin), invited THR to her California-casual office to discuss Goop's growth plan and why she's putting acting on the back burner:
Many say traditional shopping is dead, so why open a Goop brick-and-mortar store?
I do think there are people who have formed a bond with a digital brand that's resonant for them, and they want an IRL touchpoint. We have come to that from all of our pop-up shops and seeing how our readers and shoppers like to interact with the brand and smell the perfume and try things on and be in the Goop world. And looking at models like Warby Parker and Bonobos and the "click 'n' mortar" dynamic, where someone is really connecting online but appreciating an offline experience, we're a brand that's primed to do that. I envision retail being a more dynamic experience, using the store for talks, signings, lectures and wellness activations, making it a living space where you are coming into our collective home.
The store design is very residential-feeling. Is this hinting at a move into the hospitality category? Will there be Goop spas or hotels?
That's part of my plan. We are a few years away, but there's a big opportunity to have somewhere where people are interested in wellness or a reset, a real retreat where you can have access to Goop's doctors.
Why launch a magazine now, when print media is challenged?
The media side provides a platform whereby we can create relevance and context for why we are selling what we're selling. For me, a magazine kid, the thought of doing a magazine with Conde Nast and being able to leverage their creative and design side and sit with Anna Wintour was so great. Hopefully, we might reach people who heard about Goop from a jade egg but don't know much about the actual content and what our values stand for.
Are you going to be on the cover of every issue like Oprah with O?
It remains to be seen. It would be great if I didn't have to be, but I know that the people at Conde Nast and Anna know what best practices are. We're doing this first year as a test, and I wouldn't want to make the magazine more than quarterly, but we'll see.
You have created a style that's become its own adjective, as in, "That's so Goop!" What is the source of your taste?
I got it from my dad [director Bruce Paltrow]. My mom [Blythe Danner] was never into clothes or interiors — she is an incredible artist but very internal. My dad loved art, was a painting major in college; he loved beautiful things and clothes. Also, I remember when I moved from L.A. to New York, seeing all the people expressing themselves through what they were wearing. It was the '80s and Madonna and shaved heads. I became really fascinated with style when I was, like, 11.
What are the pros and cons of your celebrity now that you are a business and media mogul?
It makes it much more difficult. For the business I'm creating, it's an obstacle I always have to overcome. For example, Reese [Witherspoon], who is a dear friend, has this quickly growing Draper James [clothing] business, and she leverages her celebrity in a great way for her brand. But for this model — where I'm trying to make Goop bigger than me and its own brand — you become inextricably linked. I'm a target in a way most entrepreneurs are not.
Do you feel like people tiptoe around you?
When I interview someone for a position, it takes them a while before I'm not Gwyneth Paltrow. It's just an obstacle and then it's OK. But it's also a blessing when we need to leverage my celebrity — it opens doors. I don't know many young entrepreneurs who can call [Disney CEO] Bob Iger, [Facebook COO] Sheryl Sandberg or [Airbnb founder] Brian Chesky, and they are kind enough to waste a little bit of their day to help me. So in that respect, my celebrity has been a huge asset.
Who are your Hollywood mentors?
[CAA president] Richard Lovett — I speak to him a lot about leadership, stamina and how he maintains his optimism. And [Disney Studios chairman] Alan Horn has been very helpful to me.
What business lessons have you learned from Hollywood?
When you are an actress on a set, an unspoken component of your role is an energetic one to maintain balance and communication, which is a very feminine impulse. For me, when I'm on set, I try to make sure the energy is clean and people can communicate in a safe space, and that's what I bring to my leadership here at Goop, too.
What are your priorities for 2018?
We want to take Goop international, we want to get this TV show right, and we have a lot of key hires to make. And we are looking to open another store.
What about acting? Is that on the back burner?
I need to be here right now. I went to Atlanta to do Avengers 4, so I'm in and out for that, and it's weird to go back and forth. We're growing fast, and balls are dropping all the time. But honestly, I was on set and thought, "You sit here for two hours sipping tea, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle are making me laugh hysterically — why the hell did I give this up?"
Do you want to direct?
No desire.
You've mentioned a TV show. Would it be an Oprah-style talk show?
Good morning! (Laughs, doing her best Oprah impression.) No, what we are thinking of doing is a TV show with the working title "The Radical Wellness Show." I would be going into the field and talking to any number of doctors, scientists, civilians, people in crisis in Flint, Michigan, where there is something to uncover and confront about wellness. We would want it to feel more Vice-y in its vibe, but we're just in the brainstorming phase. We signed on with Ben Silverman's production company, Propagate, to help us formalize and pitch it.
Maybe you'll have a Goop network?
Dude, then I'll be hospitalized."
One more interview for you: "If you've ever felt that twentysomething struggle, at some point, Broad City will feel a little too real. Sure, you've probably never cleaned the apartment of an adult baby in your underwear to get cash for a Lil' Wayne show, but you've definitely had a run in with an ex that is so awkward that you want to disappear into a hole or had to work a job that kills your will to live. The world of Broad City is a heightened one, but it comes from a genuine place.
"While it started out as a web series about two stoners in New York City, Broad City has since grown into a generation-defining, and progressive, comedy. Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the stars, creators, and eventual showrunners of Comedy Central's cult hit have created a pair of hilarious and failure-prone kweens with Abbi and Ilana, who are honestly just trying to get high, be heard, and make rent. Jacobson and Glazer have since expanded to other television projects, films, podcasts, and comedy tours, but Broad City is still the beating heart of this friendship and creative partnership.
"With the return of Broad City for a fourth season, we spoke with Jacobson and Glazer about what to expect from the floundering twosome and whether or not they're on the verge of growing up:
One of the first things that I noticed about the new episode was the seasonal shift. I'd previously associated Broad City with summer, so it was really interesting to see a sort of different side of New York living. Why did you guys do that change?
Abbi Jacobson: We felt like we had thoroughly examined what it was like to live in the summer in New York, and just always had thought, you know, oh, if we're a show that is based in New York, we have to do at least one season that's not in the summer, so it was exciting to us to get to explore the winter and what it's like to live there in a different season. We thought that that would present us with a whole new set of situations and obstacles and feelings and it did. It's exciting to see a different tone. I mean, it's the same tone, but it's a little bit altered.
Plus, it's amazing to see Ilana adapt her outfits for winter weather.
Ilana Glazer: It's true, it's so funny.
Jacobson: Global warming made it easier for her to adapt her clothing, unfortunately.
Glazer: You know, New York is such a different city in the winter. There's like such different vibes in each season, but we did find that there's barely a winter anymore and that we were acting colder than we expected to. There was like one storm. You know, it's not like it just makes things hotter, it just makes the ups and downs more drastic. There was this one storm that, it gave us a snow day, and then it was melted by the next day. It was a crazy lens through which to see global warming. I had never seen it like that before. It was creepy.
It also seemed like Abbi and Ilana were very slowly sort of crawling their way to a slightly more responsible adulthood. Like, Abbi is working at the corporate firm, and Ilana is making actual money as a waitress. I think that kind of compromise will really resonate with a lot of people, because all had that moment where you kind of had to grow up and take the job with health insurance, right?
Jacobson: You know, I think over the course of writing this season, Ilana and I really realized, like, this show can't be one of those shows where these characters are just in the same place forever. We're getting older and the characters are based on us, and now Abbi is 28, Ilana's 26, they're getting into their late 20's and things just inevitably have to shift a little bit. They don't shift all the way, or whatever, but we have to show how the characters are changing and reflect that in the storylines and in their struggles. Whether it is a mundane task at hand, you know, they're just in a different place, and we haven't been on the air for 17 months. That's a lot of time when you're in your twenties. We've been talking, you know, in interviews, just to reiterate that this show has existed over those 17 months. The world of Broad City has continued and we're picking up not where we left off, we're picking up now. Time has passed, and they are in a little bit of a different place.
I read that you guys actually ended up having to rewrite a lot of the season after the election and it didn't go the way that we hoped. What was your mindset for doing Broad City in a Trump presidency?
Jacobson: You know, I'm just going to clarify that a little, because we didn't have to. It wasn't like the season was in any way about Hillary winning. It actually wasn't political at all before, and sort of after the election, we needed to rewrite for the story anyway. The writing period was pretty difficult this year and we went on a hiatus pretty abruptly and we would have had to rewrite, but you know, after the election we just felt so differently.
Glazer: I think it must be easier for people to write about us having to rewrite the season because we had written a season for Hillary, but it was really more about scheduling. We both had these movie projects, I had Rough Night and Abbi had this indie movie Six Balloons. We've never had a hiatus like that before, so we just had like weaker outlines to begin with and we kept planning for a longer rewrite period. We always rewrite the scripts before productions because we just cut scenes, and condense shit, and limit our locations, whatever. It becomes budget-driven. We kept being like, oh, we'll figure it out later, we'll figure it out later, so we knew we had a lot of work to come back to, I think if Hillary had won, we didn't plan on celebrating that in the show. You know, maybe we would have rewritten that, but we just had a lot of feelings once the election happened.
Jacobson: But it wasn't like we sat down and said, "Let's infuse the political climate into the show." It's sort of happening. You saw the sixth episode, right, that's one of the ones you saw?
Yeah, it was.
Jacobson: It was sort of like an organic way to write about it, if you know what I mean, with Ilana's storyline in that episode. When we were breaking it, it just felt like it was a way that we can talk about this frustration in a personal storyline, and once we found that it felt like an interesting way to comment on the way that we were feeling, if that makes sense. It wasn't something that we were like, "We've gotta change it now." It was just that we couldn't help talking about what was happening in the world, so inevitably it's going to end up in the show.
You've said, Broad City is first and foremost a comedy show, so there are political elements, but they're really subtle. More like everyday kind of political activism with the pins, the t-shirts, and the Planned Parenthood posters on Ilana's wall. I'm sure that you guys feel some responsibility use your position to speak politically.
Jacobson: That was a thing that we sort of had a conversation with all our department heads on how we could, as you said, subtly infuse this. You know, the characters are really trying in this current state to be more woke and they're trying to be better and they're trying to be more involved and be more informed. Sometimes they fail at that, but we really wanted to show the small details with that and how they're really attempting to involve themselves.
Glazer: Also, you're totally right that like, it's a comedy show. It definitely helps to approach this shit with this platform, you know? It's not like we have a platform of like an essays column or something. I'm so grateful to have this platform because it's the way that I know how to deal with shit. They're both different, the circumstances pushed them to have different kinds of jokes, too, this year. Like, the Trump bleep thing is a different kind of joke than we've ever had before. Where it's like, what world is this, you know what I mean?
They are being viewed by an audience. Like Ilana's bed frame and shit, all those posters, just having that joke in the background, feeling the texture of these girls' relationship and what they're talking about. I think we realized in that rewrite period that we've always had these values and vaguely this progressive messaging, but it became necessary to articulate exactly what these messages are and scream our values.
I know that Broad City has been renewed for a 5th season, but can we expect anything beyond that? I know you guys are starting to get super busy with all sorts of other projects. As much as fans want Broad City to run forever, is there something to be said for sort of handling how long you guys run on your own terms?
Glazer: We have been talking about this ourselves. You're making me verklempt thinking about it! Yeah, we've been talking about it ourselves. I think we're kind of… we're not sure. You know, it's still this discussion and we have an idea about where the characters are headed, but when we get back into the writers' room, I think we'll see how much we want to stretch that path to get to where we know that they're headed."
This interview has been condensed.


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December 23, 2017
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- Cook: 2 hrs
2-3 TBSP bacon grease or vegetable oil
2 medium onions, finely chopped
3 lbs. beef shank, chuck roast, or shoulder, cut into 1/2-1 inch cubes
3 TBSP sweet Hungarian paprika
5-6 cups low-sodium beef broth, or water (either, or any combination of the two, is fine)
2 large russet potatoes, cut into 1/4-1/2 inch cubes
2 large carrots, cut into 1/4-1/2 inch half-rounds
2 red or green bell peppers, diced
2 Hungarian wax peppers, or banana wax peppers, seeded and finely diced
2 tsp. whole caraway seeds, toasted
1/4-1/2 tsp. hot Hungarian paprika, or to taste
Fresh chopped flat-leaf parsley, for garnish
Egg noodles, rye bread, or pumpernickel bread, for serving – optional

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For us in the Northeast, Friday was a dreary day.
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It was also 12/21, the Winter solstice ⚫, and the year's shortest day.
Not the brightest, most encouraging day, to say the least.
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How can we stay positive when the "weather" that surrounds us is bleak?
Here are some tips:
Find the positives ➕ - In every situation, there are positives and things to be grateful for. Despite the rain, the weather is quite warm. Actually, the warmest we're had in weeks. A down market offers opportunities to buy on the cheap. Reduced volume gives us time to think and strategize about how to grow when the trends reverse.
It's all pointing up ⬆ - Starting tomorrow, the day will begin to lengthen. It will be a long climb, but it will happen. The rain will clear out as well. We can't predict when we've hit bottom in our personal lives, but past experiences tell us that better days are ahead.
Focus on your locus of control - We can't control bigger things around us but we can control more than we often think. Most important, we can control our attitude and gratitude.The more in control we feel, the better our mindset will be and the better our decisions and behaviors will be as well.


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License Optimizer
License matching
Now that you have imported your licenses, you need to make sure that the software that they reference is matched to an entry in the DSL. When you import licenses, License Optimizer automatically tries to match license records to a product entry in the Definitive Software Library (DSL). Unmatched licenses are those license records that have been imported but which couldn't be automatically matched to a product in the DSL. In this section, we are going to match unmatched licenses using the License Matching page.
To match licenses using a proposed match:
1.On the menu bar, under Entitlement, click License Matching.
The License Matching page appears, showing all unmatched license records.
Above the data grid, a message reports the number of unmatched license records that License Optimizer has identified potential product matches for in relation to the total number of unmatched license records. In the example above, there are 964 licenses that need matching, and the system has suggested matches for 962 of them.
The Recognised Product column for each row shows potential matches from the DSL for the unmatched license, along with a match value in square brackets before the product name. Higher match values, which appear first in the list, represent a higher confidence in the product match. The match value is summarized in the Quality column as High, Medium, or Low, enabling you to filter the list so that you can more easily focus on high-quality potential matches.
2.Use the menu to add or remove columns on the data grid to help you identify the appropriate product from the information in the license record.
Columns that are not initially included, but which you can add to the data grid, include columns relating to entitlement. Removing columns increases the width of the remaining columns so that you can more easily read the details of, for example, the Recognised Product column.
You can use the filter box on the DataSource column to display only unmatched licenses from the data source that you imported.
3.Select the required product match from the potential matches in the drop-down list in the Recognised Product column, then select the associated check box in the first column. You can do this for multiple rows.
4.Click Commit Matches from the License Matching page gears menu.
The Accept Matches dialog appears, asking how you want to apply the matches.
5.Select how you want to save the matches that are being committed. You can:
•Assign product to selected entitlements only – assigns only the selected license to the product
•Assign product to selected entitlements and all similar descriptions – assigns the selected license and any similar licenses in the system to the product
•Assign product to selected entitlements and all similar descriptions, and also for future entitlement with these descriptions – assigns the selected license and any similar licenses in the system to the product, along with any similar licenses imported in the future
The licenses are matched to the selected products, and the list updates to show the remaining unmatched licenses.
Sometimes there won't be an appropriate product available in the Recognised Product column, so you need to search for a matching product.
To search for a matching product for an unmatched license:
1.On the License Matching page, click Products above the list of unmatched licenses.
The Search Product panel appears.
2.Type the product name you are searching for in the Search Product field, then click Search.
A search results list appears.
3.Select the handle alongside the license you want to match, and drag it onto the matching product in the search results list.
The Accept Matches dialog appears, asking how you want to accept the match.
4.Select how you want to save the match, using the options described above.
We all make mistakes
Sometimes, you will match the wrong product to a license by mistake. Don't worry, you can fix this from the Software Library page.
Take great care in deleting recognition phrases or files.
To remove a mistaken license recognition phrase:
1.On the menu bar, under Configuration, click Software Library.
The Software Library page appears, which gives you access to your Definitive Software Library. This includes both the global DSL maintained by Ivanti, and your personal DSL for items that are specific to your estate.
There are a huge number of records in the DSL, and the top half of this page helps you to find the software record you are interested in. Selecting the Display Licensable Products Only check box enables you to filter out all items that do not require a license. You can then use the filters at the top of the Vendors, Products, and Items panes to find the specific item you are looking for.
The Library drop-down in each pane enables you to select items from the Global DSL, the named DSL for your implementation, or Both.
2.In the Name filter in the Vendors pane type part of the name of the vendor you are interested in, then press ENTER.
The pane updates to show matching vendors.
3.Select the required vendor.
The Products pane updates to show the products for the selected vendor.
4.Similarly, filter and select the required Product Title.
The Items pane updates to show the items for the selected product.
5.Filter then select the required Item.
The Detail panel for the selected item appears at the bottom of the page.
6.Click the Recognition Phrases tab.
The list of matching phrases for the software item appears.
The Type column contains icons to indicate the type of matched phrase:
– program
– operating system
– license
7.Click alongside the entry you mistaught and want to remove.
If you have deleted mistaken license recognition phrases, you need to re-import the license file that contains the licenses that you mistaught with the Import Method set to Overwrite. When you re-import this file, License Optimizer automatically recognizes all of the licenses that you correctly taught it and displays on the License Matching page any licenses that you removed the recognition phrase for, so that you can teach it the correct phrase.
If you have deleted a recognition file or phrase for a program, you need to run recognition for the changes to take effect. You can run recognition by clicking Initiate Recognition at the top of each of the Recognition tabs.
What next?
Only valid license records can be used in reconciliation, so we need to make sure that the licenses we have in the system are valid: License validation.
More information
License Matching – further information about license matching
Software Library – further information about the software library
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When I got married we lived in the hood. I don't mean the hood as in just not a nice part of town, I'm talking about trains going by at 2am and gun fire in the background type hood. Like most married people, we were broke. Our dining room table was the card table I stole from my parents house, the appliances worked 50% of the time, and we had no cable or internet just because the cost was too much. All of that, but hey, rent was only $400/month. We were able to pay off the debt we had incurred from the wedding very quickly.
Like most married people though we found out that if you've been married for more than a day it's time to buy a house. I guess it's the 11th commandment that renters are sinners because it all of a sudden became very important to us to buy a house. 3 months after getting married we began our search and couldn't find anything we liked so decided to sign a contract to build a house. We closed a few months later and moved in to begin our lives as homeowners. We had no savings, no money to put down, no money to buy the furniture for the house, but we had a house. So like most Americans we now had a house, and our house had us.
Looking back the was a prime example of how we couldn't control stupid. This idea of Sacrificing to Win in the housing area is huge! If you're able to hold off on buying a house until you have the cash to pay for it, do you have any idea how rich you'll be? Just investing a house payment from age 30-65 results in $5.8 million. If you combine that with the principles from college and cars in the previous posts, you'll have over $15 million at retirement and you never had to earn or try to find extra dollars to invest.
Here's the Sacrifice to Win method for housing. Find the cheapest rent you can find while still feeling safe and meeting the basic needs of your family. The cost of this rent has to be less than 20% of your take home pay, the lower the better and the faster you'll get a house. Get out of debt, fast. Build your emergency fund of 3-6 months expenses, fast. Now that your financial foundation is built, you can start saving for your house. Because I hate debt so much and know that the borrower truly is slave to the lender I won't ever borrow another dime again, not even for a house. My preference is that you save every dollar over essentials towards your house fund until you have enough to pay cash, but I know that for many of you it will take 5+ years to be able to save that much and you'll want a house faster than that. If that's the case, it's ok to get a mortgage (literal root of the word is death pledge) but make sure that you have saved at least 20% for your down payment + the closing costs for the house and that your monthly mortgage payment is no more than 25% of your net take home income and that its at the longest a 15 year mortgage. Yes I know this is conservative and yes I know that you'll qualify for a lot more. Remember we are sacrificing to win. If you can wipe out your mortgage in 5-10 years, you'll be able to invest long term and become a multi-millionaire. Then you can go buy any house you want.
Did you buy a house too early and now instead of owning a house, your house owns you? Can you sacrifice to win in the area of housing? Is this too tough? Leave your thoughts in the comments


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There once was a vampire named Thume, Who took a succubus up to his room,
Where they argued all night,
Over who had the right,
To drain away what, and from whom.
There once was a vampire named Thume, Who took a succubus up to his room,
Where they argued all night,
Over who had the right,
To drain away what, and from whom.
Back inside, Jack and Crystal eyed the couple from the second story terrace overlooking the hotel lobby. They watched a crowd slowly form around their two targets while they swapped use of the Chem-Thermo goggles that had been provided for them.
Among the crowds of cosplayers interspersed with the banner advertisements and kiosks showcasing the newest trends in manga, anime, and fantasy there they stood among them all. Even dressed in costumes like the other con goers, it was frightening yet intriguing spectacle to see these kinds of predators blending in with the other humans down below.
The vampire looked no older than perhaps twenty as he spun his cape and flashed his fangs for the adoring fans that took photos of him and his poses. The young Dracula cosplay look that he was going for must have been some sort of meta-joke of his, or a blatant invitation for someone to stake him right then and there. Even so, he fit right into the costumed clientele of this particular convention. Crystal zoomed in on him, noticing his thin, smooth, innocent, and androgynous looking face with piercing, pale-blue eyes. Crystal raised an eyebrow as he pouted at one of the cameras that coaxed him for another photo. Under the therm-optic filter his body took on a greyish blue hue in a sea of deep red pedestrians that stood or passed him by.
The succubus — the vampire's partner — was able to spoof her heat signature better among the crowd, but she also shared her undead boyfriend's meta sense of humor. She was standing next to him with her bat wings and black horns on full display. They looked real, but could just as well be chalked up to being the product of well done prosthetic make up and accessories. Like the vampire, she had a conventional beauty and confidence in the way she carried herself. She wore armor, but nothing that could be considered practical. It reminded Crystal of Xenia the Warrior Princess, but with a shorter leather skirt. Not much left to the imagination. Jack and Crystal switched to the chemical tracer filter on the goggles and could see that she was already releasing pheromones into the crowd. People who
might have been uninterested in the impromptu photo shoot in the lobby, were now transfixed and slowly growing attached to this attractive couple posing together. On the surface, things looked innocent enough, but Jack and Crystal saw it for what it was: lambs being lead to slaughter in some anonymous hotel room later tonight.
As the crowd grew from a dozen to nearly twenty in a matter of minutes, Jack and Crystal got up from their table and began to walk down to the lobby area. They were dressed in post-apocalyptic duster jackets. A cosplay grab that fit with the eclectic dress code of the nerd convention. As they walked, they fingered the holstered, plastic-looking guns that were actually loaded with silver and holy relic tipped subsonic ammo. They were suppose to take this demon and vampire in alive, but if worse came to worse, the subsonic ammo and suppressors would quietly dispose of them. Jack and Crystal each put on their shades and pulled on their gas masks to counter the vampires hypnosis and the pheromones of the succubus.
Now in the lobby, they walked casually into what was now turning into a fan mob. Not a single person among the crowd of ninjas, transformers, and alien princesses noticed nor raised an eyebrow at the Mad Max cosplay couple making their way to the front to see the vampire and succubus "models" gaining attention.
When Jack and Crystal reached them, the two supernaturals noticed them, and momentarily paused their act. For a split second, it felt like a connection was made between the four of them. Fight or flight began to take hold. The vampire and succubus noticed the gas mask and shades Jack and Crystal were wearing and tensed up. The fear in their eyes seemed to surprise Jack momentarily before realizing that he had already put his hand on his gun.
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I carried her body out of the room. My left hand holding the pistol I had hidden earlier as the rest of my arm propped up her legs. I made a jog back to the elevator, but I didn't make it so far as a few meters before I saw an angel rounding the corner after us.
"Magus!" he shouted, before raising his wings to fire a barb of sliver feathers into my chest.
Three sharp feathers pierced my body armor, nearly cutting into my heart. My growl echoed into the dark hallway. I gritted my teeth as I struggled to support the weight of Cassidy's body. I stumbled for a moment, almost into a half-kneel, but I still managed to raise my longinus hand canon and squeeze off several pincer shots that pinned the angel to the wall. The angel scream was deafening with a wave of anger that nearly stopped me in my tracks. Not wanting to waste anymore time, I took a deep breath, held on tightly to Cassidy, and lifted off into a sprint around the corner. As I pasted the angel he continued to spit out a string of curses at me as he slowly died from his wounds. Finally, I made it to the elevator, and using the same enchantment once again, I transformed my hand into that of Agather's and summoned the elevator via the palm print scanner. The elevator responded with banal, womanly approval in the lyrically brutal, ancient language of Sanctum-Lilim Orthodox. I looked behind me and saw that several portals within the corridor were forming down the hall as more angels warped to my location. I took cover with Cassidy behind one of the protruding walls.
"There's no way out, James!" one of the angels called out to me, "you're not going to make half a kilometer before we run you down! Give up Cassidy and we promise you a swift death."
"Really good at negotiating, aren't you?" I mumbled.
I switched my pistol to fully automatic and fired blindly from around my small corner as the elevator was in its last moments of descent. There was a moment of pause before I heard there counter offer.
"Say your prayers, half-blood whore!" one of them yelled back in my direction.
I pulled out another loginus grenade from inside my suit and activated the trigger.
"How original," I said to myself.
Just as the elevator doors opened, I tossed the grenade towards the pack of angels and jumped into the elevator with Cassidy in my arms. I could feel several feathers piercing into my back like knives as I shielded her from the barrage. I could hear the shrapnel exploding behind us as the elevator doors closed and began its ascent up towards the surface to a shrill burst of torturous screams. I kneeled down, placing Cassidy gently down on the floor and pulling out one of the sharp, knife-like feathers from my back. I could feel myself bleeding under the layers of my clothes.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
Cassidy slowly propped herself up and looked up at me. I could see that she was coming out of her fog, but her face told me that seeing me before her was a shock to her system.
"Is this a dream?" she asked.
"No, I'm getting you out of here."
I smiled, but winced from the effort as I felt another sharp twinge of one of the feathers digging into me. Cassidy got up and held me by my head.
"Cassidy," I said, gritting my teeth, "do the have the strength to heal me?"
"We're going to need to help each other out of this if we want to get out of here alive," I told her, "there's going to be more of them waiting for us on the surface."
She paused.
"I'm sorry James, but I'm not going to heal you."
I looked up at her. My mouth was open, nearly slack jawed over what I was hearing.
"Cassidy, what the fuck are you doing?"
"I wanted to look into your eyes and see the man that left me for dead," she said, before grabbing one of the feathers and shoving it into my heart.
I doubled over, falling on my back as she looked down on me. I could hear the elevator screeching, sparks started to fly, and a massive inferno erupted inside the box car. As the fire quickly engulfed us, Cassidy bent down and looked at me, a sadistic smile spreading across her lips. Her beautiful eyes melted and in their place were embers of fire that slowly cracked the skin of her face as if her head was made of pottery.
"Come and die with me, James," her voice echoed in the flames as the fire consumed us, "die like the cowardly traitor you are."
I could feel my body shaking, unable to look away from her as the fire became hotter and more intense. Somewhere, I heard someone screaming, the wail becoming louder and louder until that's all I could hear.
Once again, I found myself in the familiar position of being at least a kilometer underground This time, however, I was the buyer and not the product being sold inside this angel-controlled outpost of maximum security and imprisonment of my fellow mages. The spell that I had cast on myself was working so far. I had come in disguised as a well-dressed businessman. A respectable incubus looking to buy one of the several half-demon bred magi girls whose sole purpose or punishment was to have their essence drained. This ritual would be conducted through an act of sexual conquest that would provide a lifespan two-to-three times that compared to any normal human that fell victim to this routine act of life extension.
I looked away from my corner of the elevator and towards the white-haired angel who stared back at me with unblinking, golden eyes. He had a face so pale that I almost thought he might be an underfed vampire. As an almost fitting bit of contrast to my black, three-piece suit, he wore a white blazer and tie, along with white leather shoes. In fact, it'd be easier to describe him as being white from head-to-toe, as if accentuating the purity of his supernatural lineage. He was holding a tablet in front of me with a stylus, the screen fixed on a set of digital paper work that needed to be co-signed. I smiled, hoping the horns on my head looked real enough to pass as an ancient looking demon who often made these sorts of transactions on a regular basis.
"Yes, of course," I said, taking the stylus and signing the name of the old demon baron that I was impersonating before handing it back to him, "you didn't expect to see me so soon, I suppose?"
"No," said the angel, who sounded polite, but with a twinge of annoyance, "you're back again much earlier than we had anticipated."
I smiled apologetically and shrugged in an attempt at dispersing the cloud of suspicion that was beginning to form around me, but I could see that he was already trying to look into my mind. However, the additional spell that I had cast upon myself was just going to give him a series of memories that I had crafted based on ones I had pulled from the incubus in question. Most angels wouldn't doubt my identity after doing this kind of cursory view of my mind, but this was no ordinary facility, and I wasn't the first magus to try to break into such a place.
"Now the secondary audit," droned the angel, as he glanced back at his tablet.
"Yes, let's finish this," I said, with perhaps too much eagerness.
"Your name?"
"Your wife?"
"Your sister's name?"
"Trick question: no siblings,"
"Private herd count and mistresses?"
"Three herd members, one mistress,"
"Their classifications?"
"Herd is human stock, the mistress is another succubus,"
"Genevieve would be a very sorry demoness if she knew your extramarital appetites,"
"False: she knows and accepts these lifestyle choices,"
"Your date of birth and place of birth?"
"Dis, 1648"
"Name three emotions from your childhood,"
"Fear, desire, and…" I paused for a moment, as did Agather from the countless video logs I managed to procure of these conversations in order to analyze his speech patterns, "…happiness."
I waited as the angel finished whatever notes he was taking before he looking back up at me and handed the tablet back for another signature.
"Very good," he said, "once again you passed, but then again I wouldn't dream of some magus crazy enough at trying to disguise themselves as you anyway."
"That would be a bit full hearty of them, wouldn't it?" I answered back, as I concentrated on making Agather's signature look as authentic as possible.
"What brings you back, Baron Agather?"
"Well," I said, handing the tablet and stylus back to the angel, "a recent scare has prompted me to make another request for your services. I know this is one of the busier times of the year for people like yourself."
"Yes," the angel answered somberly as he looked down at the tablet, the lids of his eyes drooping a fraction, "you also requested a specific half-breed magus to source from, a Ms. Cassidy Wells?"
"Yes," I answered.
"A little old, don't you agree, Mr. Agather?"
"My proclivities are none of your business, angel,"
"True, but there are plenty of eighteen-year-olds you can harvest from if it's simply life-extension you're seeking. You do understand that there is a rate of diminishing returns as these magi get older."
I bit my lower lip and wondered how this conversation would go if he knew who he was really talking to, or that I was packing — optically and magically camouflaged — "angel killer" equipped grenades and pistols inside my suit. I changed tactics in order the steer the conversation away from the current subject, but looking back, I realized then that this slight loose in composure would mark the beginning of a series of fatal blunders.
"My good friend Carmilla wants this one gone as quickly as possible," I said, "this Cassidy did a lot of damage to my friend's assets in Europe and in turn my own. I know she sold Cassidy to your organization, but this is also a personal favor from me to an old friend of mine. I get my allotment early and help tie up some loose ends."
The additional name dropping of the infamous succubus, Camilla, added the weight I needed to expedite this process.
"Very well," said the angel, reverting back to the dull professionalism he displayed earlier, "we'll take you to her."
When the elevator stopped, we were met by a small entourage of three other angels waiting to escort us down the dark, neon-blue lit cell block. One of these angels, a woman, greeted me with a slight bow.
"Mr. Agather," she said, "so good to see you again!"
"And you as well, Abby," I said, recalling her name and face in a dossier I looked over prior to coming here, "still purifying the wicked?"
"Only the ones that transgress the natural order," she said with reverence.
"And what about me?" I asked, gesturing at myself with a half-cocked smile.
"Your kind were once angels too, you know," she said, raising an eyebrow. "You exist because God allows it."
"Hence why we're all here today," I mocked, as I clasped my hands and rubbed them together, "so, let's see Ms. Wells, shall we?"
As we started our walk towards our destination, I continued to make conversation.
"I've noticed that the prices in magi essence and blood has spiked recently in the past month or so," I continued, "I take it the commodities market has been favoring your recent change in live stock?"
"Oh yes," said Abby, excited, "our investors are very happy. These magus farms of ours have seen an increase in business over the last year. Even vampires are ordering from us now."
We rounded a corner and down another hallway.
"So I take it you get complaints from the Warlock Human Rights Organization everyday then?" I asked with a laugh.
"Those half-breed, spawns of whores at the W.H.R.O can send as many petitions as they want," seethed Abby as we continued our stroll down the hall, "as long as they all stay in Geneva and Stockholm where they belong, it won't hurt our bottom line."
Our pace began to slow as we approached what I assumed to be Cassidy's cell; a black cement rectangle of a door with no windows and a blue-neon keypad that kept it locked.
"Sometimes I wonder if a member of my herd birthed something like one of those mages, but didn't tell me," I mused, "it's a scary thought."
"Your kind still executes incubi who procreate with humans, don't they?" asked Abby, as she started to punch in the code to unlock the cell.
"The laws are changing what with the business community lobbying to build more magus farms," I answered, pulling the facts from reading business quarterly I remembered reading a month or so back, "but yes, that's still a common practice."
"That's too bad," said Abby somberly, as the cell doors slid open and a fog of cool mist greeted us from inside, "we'd make a killing with the profits that would bring."
A shiver went down my spine as she said this to me and I became reacquainted with the fear I thought I'd left behind in a place like this.
Cassidy was strapped into a leather chair that protruded from the ceiling wrapped up with cords, and hooked into a virtual reality headset. The chair that Cassidy was sitting on looked like it had sprouted from the ceiling like a post-modern fungus of furniture and wires. Her clothes were basic, white inmate fatigues that had long since been yellowed and dirtied by years of neglect. Her hair was a blond mess that fell over her shoulders and chest as she remained slumped forward, tuned into whatever program the VR simulation was running. She appeared to be in a vegetative state as she drooled all over herself, lost in her world of forced media coma. I felt myself clearing my throat, trying to stifle the urge end this quickly and risk getting sloppy for just a few moments longer.
"Tell me something," I asked the four angels in the room with me, "how long has she been in this state?"
The angels looked at each other confused.
"How is this relevant to…" one of them started to say, but I interrupted them.
"Indulge me," I insisted, holding up a hand to counter their protests.
"Almost a year," one of them finally answered, "we feed them well, of course, and keep them on a steady media diet so that they remain docile."
"What kind of media diet are we talking about?" I asked. I could feel my jaw tightening as I struggled to maintain composure.
"Nothing that would violate any current treaties, I assure you," answered Abby, her sales pitch straddling the border between offering a clean conscience and client happiness, "we can pull images from their mind. Previous lovers or crushes can be used to implant fantasies into them while they sleep. On the rare occasion that they are woken up, they often choose to go back into VR, but the fantasies themselves use digital actors. Approximations of their ideal man or woman that are tailored to their preferences."
As she stated this, Abby got a better look at my face and paused mid lecture.
"I have to say, you of look like one of the men Cassidy fantasies about the most," she said.
While Abby's comment proved that my face and memory enchantment had worked further in disguising myself from her, I still felt the unconscious need to glance up at Cassidy in an attempt to avoid eye contact.
"And you'll collect her soul…after I'm done with her?"
"After it's husked, yes," answered Abby, "tainted or not, it's still a useful byproduct and can be refined later for us to use in our ongoing quest for eternal life."
All this so a few can live forever, I thought.
I could feel myself starting to sweat despite the chill within the dark chamber while the other angels watched me. My heart was pounding as the pressure began to mount. I remembered how this other mover sight proved to be another fatal error, but at the time I was too nervous knowing that my window of opportunity was starting to close.
"Do I hear…." it was the first male angel that I had met in the elevator, "your heart beating?"
I turned to him and smiled. The bastard had asked this knowing that Cassidy's should be the only beating heart human in the room right now.
"Perhaps its my aura giving off palpitations of excitement?" I said hopefully.
"No, an incubus does not have a beating heart," said the angel, his voice becoming more threatening.
I turned away from the angels and looked up a Cassidy. Worse case scenario I can at least say I made it this far. I took a breath and allowed myself to succumb to the anger festering within me.
"I know," I responded softly, "but it's not for lack of trying."
Silence filled the room before the first one responded.
As soon as the first angel swore, I was already crouching towards the floor to avoid the longinus shrapnel grenade that I had activated. The grenade's cylindrical chassis popped up from the floor and fired a series of demonic-tipped knives that fired an even circle towards all targets. When I activated the grenade I made sure that I was low enough and Cassidy was high enough to avoid the blast arc as each pincer found their mark and turned the angels into combustible, blue embers of ash.
I snapped my fingers, which deactivated all of my enchantments that maintained my incubus disguise, and scrambled up the platform that Cassidy was hanging from. From here on out, I knew I was going to need every ounce of my energy if I was going to use magic to get her and myself out of here alive. I removed the wires wrapped around Cassidy and pulled the VR headset off of her. The pupils of her eyes looked like square, white cataracts of digital haze from hours of media bombardment as she slumped into my arms. I patted her cheek softly, trying to break her from her trance. I could already hear the alarm going off.
"Hey," I whispered, "hey, hey! It's James. Remember? I promised you. I'm getting you out."
Cassidy's eyes fluttered as she looked at me. "I don't," she moaned, "I can't feel my legs."
"I'll help you, but we have to leave now."
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I wasn't going to let that bastard break up with me. I gave too many years of my life, too many hours of emotional labor, too many weekends where I cleaned the apartment and did the laundry while he sat on his ass and did shit. I loved him too god damn much to let him just call it quits and leave me.
Now he's in my bed. He's not breathing anymore. I poisoned his dinner and as one last gesture, I held him in my arms as he choked to death. He isn't warm, but that's okay. I get to lay with him and be by his side like we used to be. I just hope they understand when they find the body. I hope they understand what kind of pain I was in. I hope I can get off by reason of insanity.


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Javascript testing is what separates the professionals from the amateurs. frameworks are broadly classified as per Unit, Acceptance and Covergae Tools.
An overview of some of the most popular testing frameworks is listed below.
A feature-rich framework that works on browser mode and Node.js. This simple and fun to use or asynchronous testing run serial wise and allows for accurate and flexible reporting,. It is good to map uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
A headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API, it provides fast and native support for various web standards like DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
Primarily used by Facebook for all JavaScript code including React applications.It provide an integrated "zero-configuration" experience. Ideal for engineers tits ready-to-use tools, facilitate them writing more tests, that are stable and healthy code bases.
The primary objective of this framework is i to provide a productive testing environment for developers to just write codes and access instant feedback without having to set up tedious configurations.It thus enables the work to be more productive and creative
It works best on ibraries like QUnit and Jasmine, to help simulate user actions, easily test asynchronous behavior, and support black box testing. Its terse jQuery-like syntax tis best suited o superpower your functional or unit tests.
A comprehensive test system to write and run consistent, high-quality test cases for JavaScript libraries and applications. It is best suited to test any JavaScript code. It is minimally prescriptive and reinforces a basic set of best practices designed so that tests stay maintainable over time.
The extensive architecture is ideal to write custom test interfaces, executors, and reporters to influence how tests run and easily integrate with the existing coding environment.
It also comes with Grunt tasks so ias to minimise time to add to existing Grunt-based workflows, and is designed to work out-of-the-box with popular continuous integration services like Jenkins and Travis CI.
An open source Ruby library for automating tests, it human-like browser interaction: clicking links, filling out forms and validating text is good.
It instruments ES5 and ES2015+ JavaScript code with line counters, so one can track how well unit-tests exercise your codebase.
Primarily a software for React, it makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse React Components' output.It's API is intuitive and flexible by mimicking jQuery's API for DOM manipulation and traversal.Enzyme's is independent of the test runner or assertion library used, and is compatible with all major test runners and assertion libraries. The documentation and examples for enzyme use mocha and chai, but one can extrapolate to a framework of choice.
An opinionated, carefully-designed test double library maintained by a software agency called Test Double.It was designed to promote terse, clear, and easy-to-understand tests.
It runs tests concurrently, and is best suited for for IO heavy tests, since IO in Node.js can happen in parallel due to its async nature.Test files are run in parallel as separate processes, to better performance and an isolated environment for each test file. Switching from Mocha to AVA in Pageres brought the test time down from 31 to 11 seconds.Having tests run concurrently aids in write atomic tests, so that tests are independent of global state or the state of other tests,
An easy, simple to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful W3C WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.
An end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. it runs tests against applications running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.
One of the most recommended Javascript testing frameworks, It supports over a dozen different software platforms. Every Cucumber implementation provides the same overall functionality, along with their own installation procedure and platform-specific functionality.
It provides beautiful test and code coverage reports in real time, by testing immediately as one types and displays execution results in your code editor.
A pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps that takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports. TestCafe doesn't need browser plugins – The testing framework works in all popular modern browsers out-of-the-box.
A powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit test suite used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects . It is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself
A test engine that runs unit and integration tests in the browser itself, Drive an application with automated tests instead of manually verifying that the app works. Saving time on set up of a test environment. Just download the desktop app, add the project and start testing immediately.
One need not change or modify the code Test in any major language or framework.
An open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript and based on PhantomJS — the scriptable headless WebKit engine. It simplifies the process of defining a full navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks
A standalone and test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks (pronounced "sigh-non", named after Sinon, the warrior).
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With a penchant for vibrant prints, saturated colour palettes and mid-century modern design, Pedro Almodóvar's aesthetic is unmistakable. The director's body of work – spanning over 40 years, 21 feature films and earning him two Oscars – has cemented his position as the modern master of Spanish cinema, but it's his maximalist visual style that makes him a cultural mainstay. The key? Eclectic sets, exquisite cinematography and bold, playful costuming.
Following a three-year hiatus, Almodóvar has returned with Pain and Glory, the tale of an aging filmmaker reflecting on his life, as played by his longtime muse Antonio Banderas. Ahead of its release, Vogue looks back at Almodóvar's career to date through his seven most stylish films.
Broken Embraces (2009)
An austere Alaïa suit, a silk Loewe scarf, a Chanel ballgown dripping with gold chains – the costumes in this thriller are some of Almodóvar's best, setting the scene for a tense, Hitchcock-esque romance. Penélope Cruz plays an aspiring actress caught between her relationship with a jealous financier and a passionate affair with a director. When she chooses the latter, they flee to Lanzarote and her sculpted dresses give way to floaty skirts and wide-brimmed straw hats.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
A heartbroken TV actress sets out to discover why her lover abandoned her in Almodóvar's first mainstream hit, a mile-a-minute madcap comedy that takes one shocking turn after another. In line with the surreal script and larger-than-life characters, the costumes are delightfully kitsch: bedazzled denim jackets, candy-coloured skirt suits and polka dot blouses paired with headbands and towering bouffants. It's worth keeping an eye out for the jewellery too, which includes earrings in the shape of miniature espresso pots.
All About My Mother (1999)
Groundbreaking in its dissection of parenthood, trans identity and the AIDS epidemic, the drama earned Almodóvar an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and a legion of international fans. It follows a nurse who travels to Barcelona after the death of her son, hoping to track down the boy's father. Instead she meets an eccentric cast of sex workers, hustlers, movie stars and a pregnant nun, played to perfection by a fresh-faced Penélope Cruz. Their wardrobes are stylish and dotted with cherry-red accents – from Cruz's headscarves to Cecilia Roth's eye-popping coat.
Talk to Her (2002)
In the auteur's next film, two women – one a matador gored during a bullfight and the other a ballerina hit by a car – fall into comas and become voyeuristic objects of desire for two men. While the art direction is subdued compared to the Pop Art exuberance of High Heels or Kika, the costumes are no less ravishing. Among the best dressed is Geraldine Chaplin as an elegant dance teacher, in crisp white shirts and impeccably-tailored jackets.
Volver (2006)
Taking its style cues from Spanish soap operas and a pre-Hollywood Sophia Loren, Volver sizzles with sensuous promise. A riot of colour and print fills every corner of the screen; and much is owed to Penélope Cruz's (above) explosive performance as Raimunda, a working-class woman fighting to protect her daughter. Costume designer Bina Daigeler's attention to detail is unparalleled as she dresses Cruz in patterned pencil skirts, floral tops and plunging gingham cardigans, offset with gold hoops and a locket featuring a tiny rendering of the crucified Christ.
Julieta (2016)
Adapted from three short stories by Alice Munro, Julieta is a tender portrait of a mother's estrangement from her child. We meet the eponymous heroine in Madrid, when a chance encounter with Beatriz, a friend of her daughter Antía, brings news of her whereabouts. Consumed with guilt, grief and the hope of reconciliation, she seeks to re-establish contact. Hallucinatory flashbacks to Julieta's youth contain plenty of 1980s references (power shoulders, clip-on earrings), but their modern-day ensembles are the most sophisticated: she favours old Céline and Hermès, while Beatriz is a vision in head-to-toe Dior.
Pain and Glory (2019)
In the director's most personal project to date, a brooding filmmaker recalls his childhood, examines his emotional scars and faces up to his own failings. Antonio Banderas gives a ruminative and melancholy lead performance, but his wardrobe remains unapologetically flamboyant. There are bright leather jackets, jewel-toned suits and printed shirts, some of which were even sourced from Almodóvar's own closet.


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Nintendo Confirms E3 Plans, Including Pre-Show Video Presentation and Treehouse Live
We already knew that Nintendo had some big plans for E3 with a pair of tournaments revolving around Splatoon 2 and its recently announced Super Smash Bros., but no details were available as of yet regarding what the company was actually going to do during the big game event, in terms of reveals and live events.
Now, though, we have a better idea. Nintendo of America recently sent out a tweet confirming what it has planned for the big event in June, including the start times for the Splatoon 2 and Super Smash Bros. tournaments.
The tweet can be seen below, but here are how things are broken down.
First off, the Splatoon 2 World Championship will begin with opening rounds on June 11, going from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM PDT, with the finals set to go on the next day.
Before that, however, Nintendo's annual video presentation will once again take place before the show, showing off the "Nintendo Switch titles for 2018, including the recently announced Super Smash Bros. game." That presentation is set to kick off on June 12 at 9 AM PDT on Nintendo's social channels.
Following that, Nintendo will host live presentations across all three days, with the return of Treehouse Live. A variety of hosts will showcase a number of titles with members and developers of Nintendo's forthcoming line-up, including a better look at Super Smash Bros., based on what we've heard thus far.
Finally, the Super Smash Bros. Invitational 2018 will begin "right after the conclusion of the Splatoon 2 World Championship Finals on June 12" -- so, needless to say, that day is going to be very busy.1comments
"Every year we take a look at E3 and craft the best experience for our fans, regardless of whether they are attending the show or watching from afar," said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We expect that each of our E3 activities will give an additional boost to the already strong momentum enjoyed by Nintendo Switch."
Join us during #E32018 for tournament coverage, gameplay with Treehouse | Live, and a video presentation focusing on #NintendoSwitch games coming this year, including Super #SmashBros! https://t.co/7Kiz5KkcW5 pic.twitter.com/2vpvUsHhIr— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 27, 2018
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