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Myth System and Operational Code
W. Michael Reisman, Yale Law School
From the standpoint of the disengaged observer, the most overwhelming feature of social systems Is the integrality and the seamless symbiosis of controller and controlled. But for certain problems, Inquiry about legal control must distinguish the flow of behavior which comprises group life from those specialized institutions which purport to-control, In diverse ways, what that flow of behavior ought to be. The specialized institutlons--and they are not limited to the apparatus of the state--convey, both for themselves and for their targets, a very complete picture of how the group in question ought to be acting: a picture of the group as its members would like to imagine it and to some extent do imagine it. Membership in the group involves for most acculturation, a profound shaping of the personality, in processes which impart that preferred picture and make it an integral part of the identity and cognitive structure of the individual. That picture includes the official code of the group and much of its distinctive ritual.

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Reported By 02 Apr 2020
Celebrities and fans could be trapped at home because of the Coronavirus national lockout. Yet others did their bit to support those affected by the pandemic. Some have food, while others give away free sanitisers and masks. And people contribute money to assist with relief. And fans of Thalapathy Vijay do not leave any stone unturned in their fight either. They have supported 1000 families recently by distributing milk packets.
We'd already seen that Vijay's fans were supporting the public by purchasing the things they wanted. Earlier, fans of Vijay in the district of Theni supported 250 families by delivering vegetables. Similarly, now Vijay's fans in the northern region of Chennai have provided thousands of families with milk packets to support the children in that area who are suffering without milk. The fans of Vijay's activities are worthy of mention.
Vijay's fans under the Vijay Fans Club (Vijay Makkal Iyakkam) have always done a lot of social service activities to support the poor.


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Q: How to use Timer inside of constructor? I have a public method inside of my class that takes DataCredentials as a parameter and I need to trigger that method every minute
public Data GetData(DataCredentials dataCredentials) {...}

I know that I can use Timer for the current problem:
public class DataService : IDataService
{
    private Timer _dataUpdateTimer;
    private readonly TimeSpan _updateInterval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);

    public DataService()
    {
        _dataUpdateTimer = new Timer(GetData(?),
                                     null,
                                     TimeSpan.Zero,
                                     _updateInterval);
    }

    public Data GetData(DataCredentials dataCredentials) {...}
}

But how do I know about DataCredentials?
Before that I call this method inside of other class like this:
public Data GetCached(DataCredentials dataCredentials)
{
    return _dataService.GetData(dataCredentials);
}

A: You could get the parameters needed on the GetData(....) as a constructor argument and hold it as a field in the class.
Then, set an elapsed callback to your timer, then start it (use System.Timers.Timer for that).
When elapsed, call your code, and restart the timer:
public class DataService : IDataService
{
    private const double UpdateInterval = 1000; //1000ms = 1s

    private readonly DataCredentials _credentials;
    private Timer _dataUpdateTimer;

    public DataService(DataCredentials credentials)
    {
        _credentials = credentials;
        _dataUpdateTimer = new Timer(UpdateInterval);

        _dataUpdateTimer.Elapsed += DataUpdateTimer_Elapsed;
        _dataUpdateTimer.Start();
    }

    private void DataUpdateTimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {
        //Call your code in here
        var data = GetData(_credentials);
        //.....

        //Reset your timer
        _dataUpdateTimer.Stop();
        _dataUpdateTimer.Start();
    }

    public Data GetData(DataCredentials dataCredentials) {...}
}

Update: If you wonder how to use data after getting them in the interval, I suggest you implement and use the observer pattern, i.e.: registering all objects interested to those data and then notifying-dispatching all the data to them, on each interval.

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The Daily Hit: March 10, 2020
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It's time for your Daily Hit of cannabis financial news for March 10, 2020.
TGOD
The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. (TSX: TGOD) (US: TGODF) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2019. TGOD's quarterly revenue was $3.25 million and $11.16 million for the year. This revenue consisted of hemp-derived product sales in Europe of $2.56 million for the quarter and $9.88 million for the year. Sales from cannabis products in Canada were only $0.69 million for the quarter and $1.28 million for the year.
The company delivered a quarterly net loss of $144.75 million in the quarter and a net loss of $195.75 million for the year including non-cash impairment charges of $127.74 million for the quarter.
Mindbloom
Psychedelic medicine company Mindbloom has opened its first location in New York City. Located in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, the company is offering. The company has plans to expand rapidly, with a new state-of-the-art flagship space set to open in the city later this year. Additional Mindbloom locations are planned for Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Austin.
The treatment at this time offers physician-supervised ketamine treatments. Currently, when it comes to psychedelic medicines, MDMA and psilocybin treatments are still undergoing clinical trials for FDA approval. Ketamine is the only psychedelic medicine that can currently be prescribed in the U.S. The company said that at lower doses, ketamine can induce physical sensations and thought patterns described as psychedelic.
Vireo
Vireo Health International, Inc. (CNSX: VREO)(OTCQX: VREOF) closed on the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement offering of 13,651,574 units of the company at a price per Unit of C$0.77 for up to a total amount of $10 million. The stock moved higher by 2% on the news and was lately trading at 53 cents.
"This financing reflects the confidence of the capital markets in the potential growth of sales and margin for Vireo," said Executive Chairman, Bruce Linton, who is a director and insider at Vireo. "There are significant opportunities across our existing footprint to leverage increasing scale to improve sales growth and operating performance, especially considering that we anticipate as many as seven of our medical-only state markets could enact recreational-use legislation over the near- to mid-term future."
Zynerba
Cannabis pharmaceutical company Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ZYNE) stock was moving higher in premarket trading after the company reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ending December 31, 2019.
The company had no revenue for 2019 as it is currently developing drugs. The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $10.7 million with a basic and diluted net loss per share of $(0.46). The net loss for the full year of 2019 was $32.9 million with a basic and diluted net loss per share of $(1.50).
The company said it has $70.1 million in cash. Zynerba believes that the cash runway is sufficient to fund operations and capital requirements beyond the expected NDA submission and potential approval of Zygel in FXS and into the second half of 2021.
Columbia Care Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Financial Results. Fourth quarter and full year 2019 adjusted revenue of $24.5 million and $78.8 million, an increase of 123% and 100%, respectively, from prior year period. The net loss for the quarter was $28 million and the net loss for the year was $106 million. "2019 was a historic year for Columbia Care. We delivered a third straight quarter of triple-digit revenue growth as well as 100% top line revenue growth for the year." said Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer at Columbia Care. The company expects to have a total of 14 dispensaries in operation by the end of Q1 2020, with an additional six to eight temporary pickup locations available throughout the state.
CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:CVSI) announced that it will now release financial results for the year ended December 31, 2019, after the stock market closes on Monday, March 16, 2020. The Company will hold a conference call with the investment community at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) that same day. The Company is rescheduling the timing of its full year 2019 financial results conference call to provide additional time to complete the finalization of its fiscal 2019 income tax provision.
Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) announced that Khadijah Tribble will become Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility effective March 16, 2020. Khadijah Tribble is a respected expert on equity and inclusion in the cannabis industry. She has advised cannabis investors, government regulators, entrepreneurs, and businesses on policy, business development, and community impact. In partnership with Chief Marketing Officer Jason White and the marketing team, Tribble will oversee the Company's efforts to build an eco-system of impact, policy and business that aligns with the greater good of the cannabis industry and the communities in which Curaleaf operates and serves. She will also lead the company's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Lacks First To Integrate Systems
GRAND RAPIDS — A certain amount of backslapping has been going on at the area plants of Lacks Enterprises Inc.
That's because the firm now is regarded as the first U.S. manufacturer to fully certify and integrate its quality, environmental, health and safety, and laboratory management systems.
Lacks — a Tier 1 auto supplier with 13 plants and nearly 2,000 workers in Grand Rapids and its environs — recently received certification in the ISO 14001 environmental management standard and the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 specification.
Too, Lacks reports having integrated the requirements for these systems with its existing QS 9000 quality management system and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory policies and procedures.
Lacks reportedly is the first automotive supplier and one of only a handful of U.S. manufacturers to earn both ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification.
The firm — comprised of Lacks Trim Systems, Lacks Wheel Trim Systems, and Plastic Plate Inc. — also is an electronics and telecommunications industry supplier.
Lacks reports that it stands alone in certification of lab, environmental, quality, and health and safety systems in its corporate facilities.
"We believe qualification in these standards is a key to doing business in today's global markets," said Douglas Evans, senior vice president and general manager for Lacks Trim Systems and Plastic Plate Inc. "They give us a competitive edge.
"These standards help ensure that we're providing a healthy and safe workplace for our employees, that we're doing what is right for the environment, and that we are producing the highest quality products for our customers."
Lacks management pioneered efforts to certify and integrate all its management systems beginning in 2001 when adapting systems to qualify for certification in the ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory policies and procedures.
Evans said Lacks developed certification policy statements calling for implementation and maintenance of an effective and efficient integrated management system. Cross-functional employee teams planned and managed implementation and maintenance of the systems.
Karla Haverkamp, corporate QS 9000 management representative at Lacks, explained to the Business Journal that quality certification requires well-defined processes and critical procedures. "Most of the elements were there," she said.
"We evaluated what we were already doing, adjusted processes or tools so they conformed to the requirements, and started to take credit for the good things we had already implemented."
Haverkamp said the resulting certified integrated system involves all aspects of the corporation, from components to process, and from managers to plant maintenance.
Haverkamp's office is more or less the corporate certification clearinghouse. She explained that when any department plans to undertake any new process — be it operations or administration — it forwards those proposals to her office to be checked against all certifications protocols.
Perhaps this explains why Richard J. Powals, P.E, says Lacks is the only company his firm has seen worldwide that integrates the operation of all the certified management systems. Powals is the 14000/18000 program manager with Perry Johnson Registrars Inc., the independent certification body that conducted the Lacks audits.
"Not only," he said, "do they have all the systems and all the certifications — quality, environmental, health and safety, and lab management — they have integrated all the systems extraordinarily well."
Haverkamp said that integration of those management systems confers strong benefits, both upon Lacks and its customers.
She said integration has enhanced Lacks' ability to understand and communicate internationally on quality and environmental matters.
"Our clients are assured," she added, "that they are dealing with a company that is far advanced in both its environmental and health and safety systems.
"The bottom line is, we've noticed significant improvements in speed, cost, quality and safety. We've seen a marked reduction in product error rate and an equally significant improvement in our just-in-time product shipments.
"Others in the industry thought you couldn't integrate 17025 with the 9000, 14001 and 18001," Haverkamp said. "Despite its complexities, the integrated management system supports Lacks' business goals of becoming a more efficient, more competitive organization."
The thing that delights her, she said, is the matter-of-course attitude with which everybody at Lacks accepts the audits.
"You call and they just say, 'We're ready!'"
She said it's her observation that the certification effort at Lacks is accepted fully from entry-level employees to senior executives.
Powals said that while achieving full integration of all the management systems is complex, he believes it is a smart way to work and that other companies will follow Lacks' lead.
"I'd expect a large variety of financial and other benefits to accrue to Lacks because of this extremely well integrated QEHSL system," he said.
"We foresee the most forward-looking firms in all industries will look toward the same type of integrated system in the future."
To stay ahead of the December 2006 deadline for first-tier auto suppliers to become certified in the new TS 16949:2002 quality management standard, Lacks reports that it is evaluating and adapting its QS 9000 quality management system and will seek certification in December.
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Luggage Hero completed a $1.7M capital investment round.
LuggageHero, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based company providing a service for short-stay tourists to drop off their luggage in a network of local shops and cafes, announced closing in a DKK 10.8M ($1.7M) capital investment round.
The money was provided by a group of Danish investment companies, including Nordic Eye (which contributed with 8.5M), Vækstfonden and Innovationsfonden. Funding will be used for the company's plans looking to expand in 1700 new locations from 36 cities in North America and Europe.
Luggage Hero, founded under the name Dropnlocal in 2016 by Jannik Lawaetz, offers a service for short-stay tourists to drop off their luggage in a network of local shops and cafe. The company currently operates over 300 luggage storage locations in Copenhagen, London and New York.
Priro to this, LuggageHero raised almost $400k from private business angels.


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Australian Tech Giant TechnologyOne Partners with the Tech Girls Movement
Monday, 6th June 2016 at 10:10 am
Not for Profit Tech Girls Movement has teamed up with Australian software giant TechnologyOne as part of their ongoing mission to support the development of a more diverse IT workforce and encourage more girls to work in the sector.
Monday, 6th June 2016
The partnership promises to help take the Tech Girls Movement to the global stage, with TechnologyOne supporting the 2015 winners of the Search for the Next Tech Girls Superhero to go to San Francisco in July for the global Technovation pitch.
It comes after the team received an honorary invitation as the inaugural winners of the Technovation program in Australia last year.
Tech Girls Movement founder Jenine Beekhuyzen, told Pro Bono Australia News it was an exciting partnership that provided an opportunity for the girls to position their work among the global entries.
"So the partnership is fantastic as we get to expose some of our young audience, our tech girls, to a company that is local but who is also at the forefront of the industry," Beekhuyzen said.
"TechnologyOne, being a global company, they can provide a great platform for us to be able to leverage that."
As part of the new partnership TechnologyOne, which has been operating for three decades, also invited around 30 young female students to their offices so they could see what life is like as professionals in the world of tech.
"We had all the young girls in their offices, getting to meet them and see what it is like to be in a tech company," Beekhuyzen said.
"They [the girls] get to see and experience what it is like to work in an awesome tech company and create the latest technology.
"TechnologyOne thought this was something they would like to get involved in, it's having a direct impact in the community through the mentoring and seeing immediate benefits to what they are doing.
"What we love so much about working with TechnologyOne is their strong commitment to diversity and their dedication to supporting the next generation of female technology leaders."
Beekhuyzen said encouraging diversity was very important for the sector.
"We need to create diversity because… the people who build our technology need to represent our society and that's not currently the case," Beekhuyzen said.
"If everyone looks the same, we all think the same, so diversity leads to better decision making, better innovation, better ideas and actually better financial performances … so it just kind of makes sense that we need different minds at the table.
"Research says there is two main reasons [for a lack of diversity in the sector], and it's a lack of visible female role models and a lack of understanding of what people in technology do, so through our program, and this is where TechnologyOne is helping, they are providing mentors for our young audience, so they are matched up through our program to actually show them a real life role model and what they look like and what we do every day.
"I think there are a number of things we need to tackle. I think education is absolutely key, of our young females and males absolutely, teaching parents, but we also need changes in policy and support from the technology industry as a whole to have a very holistic approach to this, so there is not one solution but if we all work together we can make a big difference."
TechnologyOne's executive chairman, Adrian Di Marco said the partnership was part of the company's continued commitment to fostering young talent and addressing the current shortage of STEM professionals in Australia.
"It is critical that we, as an Australian software company, get students interested in technology to sustain and grow our national technology industry," Di Marco said.
"In order to address the current shortage of women in technology, we believe it is important that we support movements like this, which encourage a more diverse workforce.
"Our goal in joining the Tech Girls Movement is to inspire more women to study STEM and pursue careers in the IT industry."
Wendy Williams | Editor | @WendyAnWilliams
Wendy Williams is a journalist specialising in the not-for-profit sector and broader social economy. She has been the editor of Pro Bono News since 2018.
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After being released by the Braves at the end of the 2018 season, Nick Markakis decided to test the free agent market. In doing so, the Braves also looked to fill the RF hole that came along with moving past Nick.
Sadly for Markakis and the Braves neither were able to find a decent deal and both remained without an OF spot. As the offseason continued, the Braves pursued AJ McCutchen and Michael Brantley but both decided to sign with different teams.
GM Alex Anthopoulos had many Q&A's and stated that they were looking to get an outfielder but nothing was in place. At 3:30pm today, it was announced via The Athletic that Nick Markakis and the Braves had agreed to a 1 year $6 million contract that will allow the Braves another year to try to develop their prospect Cristian Pache.
Nick Markakis had a strong 2018 season where he had 185 Hits, 78 Runs, 14 HR's, 93 RBI's and a .297 batting average. He snagged Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards and became a 1st time All-Star.
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Today the church marks Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, a time of preparation for the great celebration of Easter, the heart of the Christian faith.
The word "Lenten" relates to the lengthening of the days and Lent is observed as a time of spiritual growth and renewal. Traditionally many people have "given up something for Lent" as a form of self-discipline and as a reminder of the hardships suffered by Jesus during his time in the desert. Present-day Christians might give up coffee, alcohol, chocolate or any one of a number of other things which, when Lent is over, they return to once again.
But what about "taking something on for Lent" instead? If Lent is to be a time for spiritual growth and development we can treat it like an athlete preparing for a particular event and focus on those things that are necessary to achieve our goals and lay aside the unnecessary ones. Or like someone on a treasure hunt, we concentrate on finding the clues to where the treasure is hidden while we turn away from the things that lead us astray.
The churches of PACT are running a number of different events during Lent. There are housegroups, talks and church services which would welcome anyone who would like to explore the Christian faith, maybe for the first time or perhaps to grow in maturity in faith already held. See the details of the PACT Lent Programme on this web site or through the Unity Bookshop (01730 262572). Why not try one this Lent and maybe it will start something that takes you well beyond Easter?


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Most penguins we see, are (sub-)Antarctic penguins. That makes sense of course, as we only visit these regions. There is one penguin, however, that also occurs further north. The Magellanic Penguin can be found all around the southern parts of South America. We often see the first ones already when we have just left Ushuaia and are sailing through the Beagle Channel. Also on the Falklands, we see them a lot.
The breeding behaviour of the Magellanic Penguin also differs from the others we see. Where the Emperor and King Penguin lay their eggs on their feet and the brush-tail (Gentoo, Adelie and Chinstrap) and crested (Rockhopper and Macaroni) penguins all make a nest with pebbles, the Magellanic dig burrows and make their nest underground. This, of course, is possible for the more northernly Magellanic and not possible for the others, which breed in areas where the ground is permanently frozen.
Well… There are penguins in South Africa, New Zealand and even close to the equator on the Galapagos. Not on the North Pole though, it is a Southern Hemisphere group. But definitely not only on Antarctica.


Are Apple iOS Point of Sale Terminals a Security Risk? - InternetNews.
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With Black Friday right around the corner, many retailers will consider using iPhones and iPads as point-of-sale (POS) terminals. Some of those implementations will be safe – but others will not.
Trustwave Managing Consultant Mike Park, who has been evaluating mobile POS solutions, has uncovered a few disturbing trends. He is presenting his findings at the AppSec USA conference in New York this week in a session titled "PiOSoned POS - A Case Study in iOS based Mobile Point-of-Sale Gone Wrong."
In an interview with eSecurity Planet, Park said retailers increasingly use mobile POS on Apple iOS devices as a way to accelerate and improve the checkout process during busy periods.


Students at all three Westerville high schools got the opportunity during the month of May to view Chasing Ice, an Academy Award-nominated documentary film that captures visual evidence of climate change through the use of time-lapse photography. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, has been shown in 172 countries, and has won nearly 40 awards from festivals around the world. It was also screened at the United Nations, before Congress, and at the White House.
The Chasing Ice Ohio Tour is an initiative to inspire climate education. Through partnership with National Geographic, Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots Program, as well as numerous local organizations, the tour is offering free screenings of the highly acclaimed film to high schools, universities and youth programs throughout the state of Ohio. The launch of the Chasing Ice Youth Ambassador Program includes interactive screenings, educational discussions and an innovative call to action led by the Chasing Ice Team, which believes youth have a powerful voice within their communities and around the world.
Each Chasing Ice event included an interactive screening of the film, distribution of teacher and student resources, a call to action, and information about the group's Youth Ambassador Program.


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Q: The method getMax(TreeNode>) in the type Tree is not applicable for the arguments (TreeNode>) TreeMap.java file:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class TreeMap<K, V> {
    private TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root;

    TreeMap() {
        root = null;
    }

    public void delete(Pair<K, V> data) {
        root = delete(root, data);
    }

    private static <K, V> TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > delete(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root, Pair<K, V> data) {
        if (root == null) {                                                 //  empty tree
            return root;
        }
        if (data.compare(root.data) == 0 ) {                                //  target on left side of tree
            root.left = delete(root.left, data);
        } else if (data.compare(root.data) > 0) {                           //  target on right side of tree
            root.right = delete(root.right, data);
        } else if (root.left == null || root.right == null) {               //  root is target, but less than two children
            root = root.left != null ? root.left : root.right;
        } else {                                                            //  root is target, but two children
            root.data = getMax(root.left);
            root.left = delete(root.left, root.data);
        }
        if (root == null) {
            return root;
        }
        root.height = Math.max(height(root.left), height(root.right) ) + 1; //  update height for balanceFactor purpose
        int rootBalanceFactor = getBalanceFactor(root);
        if (rootBalanceFactor > 1) {                                        //  if left subtree is unbalanced
            int leftBalanceFactor = getBalanceFactor(root.left);
            if (leftBalanceFactor < 0) {                                    //  make sure balanceFactor of left node >= 0
                root.left = leftRotate(root.left);
            }
            root = rightRotate(root);
            return root;
        }
        if (rootBalanceFactor < -1) {                                       //  if right subtree is unbalanced
            int rightBalanceFactor = getBalanceFactor(root.right);
            if (rightBalanceFactor > 0) {                                   //  make sure balanceFactor of right node <= 0
                root.right = rightRotate(root.right);
            }
            root = leftRotate(root);
            return root;
        }
        return root;
    }

    private Pair<K, V> getMax(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return null;
        }
        if (root.right == null) {
            return root.data;
        }
        Pair<K, V> result = getMax(root.right);
        return result;
    }

    public boolean search(Pair<K, V> data) {
        boolean result = search(root, data);
        return result;
    }

    private boolean search(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root, Pair<K, V> data) {
        if (root == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (data.compare(root.data) < 0) {
            boolean result = search(root.left, data);
            return result;
        }
        if (data.compare(root.data) > 0) {
            boolean result = search(root.right, data);
            return result;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public void insert(Pair<K, V> data) {
        root = insert(root, data);
    }

    private TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > insert(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root, Pair<K, V> data) {
        if (root == null) {                                                 //  create new node at target location
            return new TreeNode<Pair<K, V> >(data);
        }
        if (data.compare(root.data) < 0) {                                  //  target in left subtree
            root.left = insert(root.left, data);
        } else if (data.compare(root.data) > 0) {                           //  target in right subtree
            root.right = insert(root.right, data);
        } else {                                                            //  target already exists
            return root;
        }
        root.height = Math.max(height(root.left), height(root.right) ) + 1; //  update height for balanceFactor purpose
        int rootBalanceFactor = getBalanceFactor(root);
        if (rootBalanceFactor > 1) {                                        //  if left subtree is unbalanced
            if (data.compare(root.left.data) > 0) {                         //  LR case
                root.left = leftRotate(root.left);
            }
            root = rightRotate(root);                                       //  right rotation necessary in both cases
            return root;
        }
        if (rootBalanceFactor < -1) {                                       //  if right subtree is unbalanced
            if (data.compare(root.right.data) < 0) {                        //  RL case
                root.right = rightRotate(root.right);
            }
            root = leftRotate(root);                                        //  left rotation necessary in both cases
            return root;
        }
        return root;
    }

    private int getBalanceFactor(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return 0;
        }
        int result = height(root.left) - height(root.right);
        return result;
    }

    private int height(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return -1;
        }
        return root.height;
    }

    private TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > leftRotate(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return root;
        }
        if (root.right == null) {
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > rightChild = root.right;
        root.right = rightChild.left;
        rightChild.left = root;
        root.height = Math.max(height(root.left), height(root.right) ) + 1;
        rightChild.height = Math.max(height(rightChild.left), height(rightChild.right) ) + 1;
        return rightChild;
    }

    private TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > rightRotate(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return root;
        }
        if (root.left == null) {
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > leftChild = root.left;
        root.left = leftChild.right;
        leftChild.right = root;
        root.height = Math.max(height(root.left), height(root.right) ) + 1;
        leftChild.height = Math.max(height(leftChild.left), height(leftChild.right) ) + 1;
        return leftChild;
    }
}

Pair.java file:
public class Pair<K, V> {
    K key;
    V value;

    Pair(K key, V value) {
        this.key = key;
        this.value = value;
    }

    public int compare(Pair<K, V> pair1) {
        return this.hashCode() - pair1.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return this.key.hashCode();
    }
}

TreeNode.java file:
public class TreeNode<T> {
    public T data;
    int height;
    public TreeNode<T> left, right;

    public TreeNode(T data) {
        this.data = data;
        height = 0;
        left = right = null;
    }
}

I'm trying to implement a treeMap on my own in Java.
I've written the following code so far.
The methods in TreeMap.java: getMax(), height(), getBalanceFactor(), leftRotate() and rightRotate() are throwing the error: "The method getMax(TreeNode<Pair<K,V>>) in the type Tree<K,V> is not applicable for the arguments (TreeNode<Pair<K,V>>)" same with rest of the above mentioned methods with their respective parameters.
What have I done wrong? How to fix this? Thank you.

A: You're getting this compilation error because you've messed around with static and instance methods.
Your method delete is defined as static and you're trying to invoke instance methods from it without the actual class instance:
root.data = getMax(root.left); // getMax() - is an instance method
...
root.height = Math.max(height(root.left), height(root.right) ) + 1; // hight() - is an instance method
...
root.left = leftRotate(root.left); // leftRotate() - is an instance method

Change the declaration of delete() to:
private TreeNode<Pair<K, V>> delete(TreeNode<Pair<K, V>> root, Pair<K, V> data)

it doesn't need to be static.
Remember, when you're invoking an instance method from another instance method, there's always an implicit reference to this:
foo(); // means this.foo() if foo() is an instance method

But if the enclosing method is static there's no implicit reference to this because static method can be invoked without creating a class instance.

A: Remove the static keyword (static can't call the instance methods and cannot access the instance fields) and don't hide the generic parameters (the class definition already defines them):
From:
private static <K, V> TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > delete(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root, Pair<K, V> data)

To:
private TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > delete(TreeNode<Pair<K, V> > root, Pair<K, V> data)


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The IMPRS for Language Sciences offers PhD fellowships that are funded by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The goal of the scheme is to enable young researchers to pursue interdisciplinary research projects in the language sciences, supervised by leading scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and its partner institutes at Radboud University: the Centre for Language Studies and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.
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Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Antithesis of Capital and Labour.
Landed Property and Capital
... forms the interest on his capital. The worker is the subjective manifestation of the fact that capital is man wholly lost to himself, just as capital is the objective manifestation of the fact that labour is man lost to himself. But the worker has the misfortune to be a living capital, and therefore an indigent capital, one which loses its interest, and hence its livelihood, every moment it is not working. The value of the worker as capital rises according to demand and supply, and physically too his existence, his life, was and is looked upon as a supply of a commodity like any other. The worker produces capital, capital produces him – hence he produces himself, and man as worker, as a commodity, is the product of this entire cycle. To the man who is nothing more than a worker – and to him as a worker – his human qualities only exist insofar as they exist for capital alien to him. Because man and capital are alien, foreign to each other, however, and thus stand in an indifferent, external and accidental relationship to each other, it is inevitable that this foreignness should also appear as something real. As soon, therefore, as it occurs to capital (whether from necessity or caprice) no longer to be for the worker, he himself is no longer for himself: he has no work, hence no wages, and since he has no existence as a human being but only as a worker, he can go and bury himself, starve to death, etc. The worker exists as a worker only when he exists for himself as capital; and he exists as capital only when some capital exists for him. The existence of capital is his existence, his life; as it determines the tenor of his life in a manner indifferent to him.
Political economy, therefore, does not recognise the unemployed worker, the workingman, insofar as he happens to be outside this labour relationship. The rascal, swindler, beggar, the unemployed, the starving, wretched and criminal workingman – these are figures who do not exist for political economy but only for other eyes, those of the doctor, the judge, the grave-digger, and bum-bailiff, etc.; such figures are spectres outside its domain. For it, therefore, the worker's needs are but the one need – to maintain him whilst he is working and insofar as may be necessary to prevent the race of labourers from [dying] out. The wages of labour have thus exactly the same significance as the maintenance and servicing of any other productive instrument, or as the consumption of capital in general, required for its reproduction with interest, like the oil which is applied to wheels to keep them turning. Wages, therefore, belong to capital's and the capitalist's necessary costs, and must not exceed the bounds of this necessity. It was therefore quite logical for the English factory owners, before the Amendment Bill of 1834 to deduct from the wages of the worker the public charity which he was receiving out of the Poor Rate and to consider this to be an integral part of wages. [24]
Production does not simply produce man as a commodity, the human commodity, man in the role of commodity; it produces him in keeping with this role as a mentally and physically dehumanised being. – Immorality, deformity, and dulling of the workers and the capitalists. – Its product is the self-conscious and self-acting commodity ... the human commodity.... Great advance of Ricardo, Mill, etc., on Smith and Say, to declare the existence of the human being – the greater or lesser human productivity of the commodity – to be indifferent and even harmful. Not how many workers are maintained by a given capital, but rather how much interest it brings in, the sum-total of the annual savings, is said to be the true purpose of production.
It was likewise a great and consistent advance of modern English political economy, that, whilst elevating labour to the position of its sole principle, it should at the same time expound with complete clarity the inverse relation between wages and interest on capital, and the fact that the capitalist could normally only gain by pressing down wages, and vice versa. Not the defrauding of the consumer, but the capitalist and the worker taking advantage of each other, is shown to be the normal relationship.
The relations of private property contain latent within them the relation of private property as labour, the relation of private property as capital, and the mutual relation of these two to one another. There is the production of human activity as labour – that is, as an activity quite alien to itself, to man and to nature, and therefore to consciousness and the expression of life – the abstract existence of man as a mere workman who may therefore daily fall from his filled void into the absolute void – into his social, and therefore actual, non-existence. On the other hand, there is the production of the object of human activity as capital – in which all the natural and social characteristic of the object is extinguished; in which private property has lost its natural and social quality (and therefore every political and social illusion, and is not associated with any apparently human relations); in which the selfsame capital remains the same in the most diverse natural and social manifestations, totally indifferent to its real content. This contradiction, driven to the limit, is of necessity the limit, the culmination, and the downfall of the whole private-property relationship.
It is therefore another great achievement of modern English political economy to have declared rent of land to be the difference in the interest yielded by the worst and the best land under cultivation; to have [exposed] the landowner's romantic illusions – his alleged social importance and the identity of his interest with the interest of society, a view still maintained by Adam Smith after the Physiocrats; and to [have] anticipated and prepared the movement of the real world which will transform the landowner into an ordinary, prosaic capitalist, and thus simplify and sharpen the contradiction [between capital and labour] and. hasten its resolution. Land as land, and rent as rent, have lost their distinction of rank and become insignificant capital and interest – or rather, capital and interest that signify only money.
The distinction between capital and land, between profit and rent, and between both and wages, and industry, and agriculture, and immovable and movable private property – this distinction is not rooted in the nature of things, but is a historical distinction, a fixed historical moment in the formation and development of the contradiction between capital and labour. In industry, etc., as opposed to immovable landed property, is only expressed the way in which [industry] came into being and the contradiction to agriculture in which industry developed. This distinction only continues to exist as a special sort of work – as an essential, important and life-embracing distinction – so long as industry (town life) develops over and against landed property (aristocratic feudal life) and itself continues to bear the feudal character of its opposite in the form of monopoly, craft, guild, corporation, etc., within which labour still has a seemingly social significance, still the significance of the real community, and has not yet reached the stage of indifference to its content, of complete being-for-self[25], i. e., of abstraction from all other being, and hence has not yet become liberated capital.
But liberated industry, industry constituted for itself as such, and liberated capital, are the necessary development of labour. The power of industry over its opposite is at once revealed in the emergence of agriculture as a real industry, while previously it left most of the work to the soil and to the slave of the soil, through whom the land cultivated itself. With the transformation of the slave into a free worker – i.e., into a hireling – the landlord himself is transformed into a captain of industry, into a capitalist – a transformation which takes place at first through the intermediacy of the tenant farmer. The tenant farmer, however, is the landowner's representative – the landowner's revealed secret: it is only through him that the landowner has his economic existence – his existence as a private proprietor – for the rent of his land only exists due to the competition between the farmers.
Thus, in the person of the tenant farmer the landlord has already become in essence a common capitalist. And this must come to pass, too, in actual fact: the capitalist engaged in agriculture – the tenant – must become a landlord, or vice versa. The tenant's industrial hucksterism is the landowner's industrial hucksterism, for the being of the former postulates the being of the latter.
But mindful of their contrasting origin, of their line of descent, the landowner knows the capitalist as his insolent, liberated, enriched slave of yesterday and sees himself as a capitalist who is threatened by him. The capitalist knows the landowner as the idle, cruel, egotistical master of yesterday; he knows that he injures him as a capitalist, but that it is to industry that he owes all his present social significance, his possessions and his pleasures; he sees in him a contradiction to free industry and to free capital – to capital independent of every natural limitation. This contradiction is extremely bitter, and each side tells the truth about the other. One need only read the attacks of immovable on movable property and vice versa to obtain a clear picture of their respective worthlessness. The landowner lays stress on the noble lineage of his property, on feudal souvenirs or reminiscences, the poetry of recollection, on his romantic disposition, on his political importance, etc.; and when he talks economics, it is only agriculture that he holds to be productive. At the same time he depicts his adversary as a sly, hawking, carping, deceitful, greedy, mercenary, rebellious, heartless and spiritless person who is estranged from the community and freely trades it away, who breeds, nourishes and cherishes competition, and with it pauperism, crime, and the dissolution of all social bonds, an extorting, pimping, servile, smooth, flattering, fleecing, dried-up rogue without honour, principles, poetry, substance, or anything else. (Amongst others see the Physiocrat Bergasse, whom Camille Desmoulins flays in his journal, Révolutions de France et de Brabant [26]; see von Vincke, Lancizolle, Haller, Leo, Kosegarten and also Sismondi.)
[See on the other hand the garrulous, old-Hegelian theologian Funke who tells, after Herr Leo, with tears in his eyes how a slave had refused, when serfdom was abolished, to cease being the property of the gentry [27]. See also the patriotic visions of Justus Möser, which distinguish themselves by the fact that they never for a moment ... abandon the respectable, petty-bourgeois "home-baked", ordinary, narrow horizon of the philistine, and which nevertheless remain pure fancy. This contradiction has given them such an appeal to the German heart.- Note by Marx.]
Movable property, for its part, points to the miracles of industry and progress. It is the child of modern times, whose legitimate, native-born son it is. It pities its adversary as a simpleton, unenlightened about his own nature (and in this it is completely right), who wants to replace moral capital and free labour by brute, immoral violence and serfdom. It depicts him as a Don Quixote, who under the guise of bluntness, respectability, the general interest, and stability, conceals incapacity for progress, greedy self-indulgence, selfishness, sectional interest, and evil intent. It declares him an artful monopolist; it pours cold water on his reminiscences, his poetry, and his romanticism by a historical and sarcastic enumeration of the baseness, cruelty, degradation, prostitution, infamy, anarchy and rebellion, of which romantic castles were the workshops.
It claims to have obtained political freedom for everybody; to have loosed the chains which fettered civil society; to have linked together different worlds; to have created trade promoting friendship between the peoples; to have created pure morality and a pleasant culture; to have given the people civilised needs in place of their crude wants, and the means of satisfying them. Meanwhile, it claims, the landowner – this idle, parasitic grain-profiteer – raises the price of the people's basic necessities and so forces the capitalist to raise wages without being able to increase productivity, thus impeding [the growth of] the nation's annual income, the accumulation of capital, and therefore the possibility of providing work for the people and wealth for the country, eventually cancelling it, thus producing a general decline – whilst he parasitically exploits every advantage of modern civilisation without doing the least thing for it, and without even abating in the slightest his feudal prejudices. Finally, let him – for whom the cultivation of the land and the land itself exist only as a source of money, which comes to him as a present - let him just take a look at his tenant farmer and say whether he himself is not a downright, fantastic, sly scoundrel who in his heart and in actual fact has for a long time belonged to free industry and to lovely trade, however much he may protest and prattle about historical memories and ethical or political goals. Everything which he can really advance to justify himself is true only of the cultivator of the land (the capitalist and the labourers), of whom the landowner is rather the enemy. Thus he gives evidence against himself. [Movable property claims that] without capital landed property is dead, worthless matter; that its civilised victory has discovered and made human labour the source of wealth in place of the dead thing. (See Paul Louis Courier, Saint-Simon, Ganilh, Ricardo, Mill, McCulloch and Destutt de Tracy and Michel Chevalier.)
The real course of development (to be inserted at this point) results in the necessary victory of the capitalist over the landowner – that is to say, of developed over undeveloped, immature private property – just as in general, movement must triumph over immobility; open, self-conscious baseness over hidden, unconscious baseness; cupidity over self-indulgence; the avowedly restless, adroit self-interest of enlightenment over the parochial, worldly-wise, respectable, idle and fantastic self-interest of superstition; and money over the other forms of private property.
Those states which sense something of the danger attaching to fully developed free industry, to fully developed pure morality and to fully developed philanthropic trade, try, but in vain, to hold in check the capitalisation of landed property.
Landed property in its distinction from capital is private property – capital – still afflicted with local and political prejudices; it is capital which has not yet extricated itself from its entanglement with the world and found the form proper to itself – capital not yet fully developed. It must achieve its abstract, that is, its pure, expression in the course of its cosmogony.
The character of private property is expressed by labour, capital, and the relations between these two. The movement through which these constituents have to pass is:
First. Unmediated or mediated unity of the two.
Capital and labour are at first still united. Then, though separated and estranged, they reciprocally develop and promote each other as positive conditions.
[Second.] The two in opposition, mutually excluding each other. The worker knows the capitalist as his own non-existence, and vice versa: each tries to rob the other of his existence.
[Third.] Opposition of each to itself. Capital = stored-up labour = labour. As such it splits into capital itself and its interest, and this latter again into interest and profit. The capitalist is completely sacrificed. He falls into the working class, whilst the worker (but only exceptionally) becomes a capitalist. Labour as a moment of capital – its costs. Thus the wages of labour - a sacrifice of capital.
Splitting of labour into labour itself and the wages of labour. The worker himself a capital, a commodity.
Clash of mutual contradictions.
Preface and Table of Contents | Third Manuscript
Karl Marx Internet Archive


Part 1 - hand made?
Hi, welcome. I am on a placement at the Fablab at Brighton University from a degree in Product Design. I am endlessly overwhelmed with project ideas leaving many things partially completed or just piles of parts. I enjoy working with other people and helping other people in a communal learning process. I was initially drawn to the Fablab and Fabacademy system due to its approach to information dissemination and the flexibility of design scope. I think the collaborative approach is very effective at diversifying creative output. I think my feelings on this subject have been pushed further by exposure to Noisebridge and Strange Parts on YouTube.
I am especially interested in E-waste and the capacity for using E-waste components to build production machines, from the ground up.
I try my hand at photography here and there, I really enjoy the process of creating something from nothing simply using your perspective. Something magical about creation there I think.
This image was created whilst I was cycling, I like that with a light painting image, either the camera can move or the lights can move.
I did a project on benches and urban seating during my second year. I found it increasingly interested what people were prepared to do in the urban environment. Benches seemed to separate people from their surrounding world in interesting ways.
I am occasionally a painter, trying hard to convince myself to try out the oils set I have. The 'fish' are watercolour and paint pens (Posca) on canvas.
I started drawing on this canvas quite some time ago, but decided to cover the parts I disliked most with purple wax because I wanted to see what pouring wax would be like. Whilst organising my acrylic paints a couple were very close to being empty so I just squeezed them out onto the canvas to have a play as I'd not used acrylics for years.
I got rather sucked into doing different bits here and there. I was trying to get a wide range of the feeling of painting, and got engrossed in the way the different materials interact; how the wax reacts to different paints, how the paints react to each other, how the dryness of the paints matter.
Here are a couple of minor details. I love photographing paintings, and got caught thinking on it when I realised Penguin books use painting or artistic details as book covers. The frame directs the mind's eye in a way the overall painting never could, photography seems to me to be a snapshot of the rhizomatic multiplicity of life.
There's a dome in our lab which is intended for use as a VR space, I think it'll be pretty cool, it's pretty huge so hard to photograph, so here's a bit of one of the sides.


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