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First-ever EAGLE Academy student defies odds, graduates with Eagle Nation at Paulson Stadium
Kasey Hayes (left) participated in the Spring 2019 Georgia Southern University Commencement Ceremony in Paulson Stadium with mentor and friend Amanda Floyd.
During Georgia Southern University's Spring 2019 Commencement, held at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, Kasey Hayes not only became the first student to successfully complete the university's EAGLE Academy program and participate in commencement alongside Eagle Nation graduates, but she also overcame a lifetime of adversity.
"I was very emotional at graduation," said Hayes. "I was picked on in high school and middle school. People would put me down. They told me I wouldn't be able to make it in college or that I wouldn't even be able to go to college."
With the help of EAGLE Academy, an inclusive post-secondary education program, offering Equal Access to Gainful Learning and Employment (EAGLE) to students with mild intellectual disabilities, Hayes was able to prove them wrong.
Hayes was one of the first students to enroll in the program when it began in fall 2017. At the time, she was interested in childcare. Through the Academy program requirements, Hayes completed two internships that provide students with experience and preparation in the workforce. Her first placement was with the First United Methodist Preschool.
"I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do when I first started the program," she said. "I realized that while I love kids, I didn't want that to be my career."
Hayes redirected her passion for helping others and obtained an internship with Willow Pond Senior Care in Statesboro.
"I fell in love with it," Hayes said. "Since I was young, I have enjoyed taking care of others. I have now realized that I want to work with the elderly."
Having a clear vision has motivated Hayes further. She is enrolled in the practical nursing program at Ogeechee Technical College for the fall semester with the goal of one day obtaining a nursing license.
None of this would be possible, Hayes explained, without Georgia Southern and EAGLE Academy.
"I don't think I would be the person I am now if I had not gone to Georgia Southern," she said. "EAGLE Academy has made me a more sociable person. They taught me about finances and helped me learn how to be independent and responsible."
According to Hayes, she worked harder in her college classes than she has ever worked before.
EAGLE Academy hosted a completion ceremony for Kasey Hayes in May. Pictured (l-r): Special Education faculty members Stephanie Devine, Ph.D., and Catherine Howerter, Ph.D., Senator Jack Hill, Kasey Hayes, and Associate Dean for Educational Outreach, Partnership and Diversity Cynthia Bolton, Ph.D.
"My mentor, Amanda Floyd, would push me to study and work hard," said Hayes. "With time, I wanted to do it for myself. I knew that Amanda would be a good mentor. We clicked like sisters right away."
Floyd and Hayes participated in the university commencement ceremony together, as Floyd completed a bachelor's in special education.
"Not only did I graduate, but I also got engaged that day," said Hayes. "At one time, I didn't think I would ever get married or graduate. So to have both become a reality in one day overwhelmed me with emotion."
Hayes says that today, she is no longer the shy, self-critical girl she once was.
"Just because I have a disability doesn't mean I cannot do what you can do."
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The Tiburon Island Tragedy – What Happened?
A view of Tiburon island.
The Tiburon Island tragedy is an event that happened in 1905 when three people that embarked upon a gold-seeking quest disappeared in the deserts of Tiburon Island. The island itself is located in the Gulf of California. It is the biggest island in the area, covering the space of more than 1200 square kilometers. The volcanic origin of the terrain and very hostile environment probably led to the disappearance of the expedition members.
Past Disappearances
The 1905 events were not the first of their kind that happened on Tiburon. Sometimes between 1894 and 1896, a similar incident occurred, and it included an American writer R.E.L. Robinson. A plan for his writer's mission seemed pretty straightforward. Robinson was supposed to travel to Tiburon. Still, prior to his leave, he informed the Associated Press that he wants the public informed of his death. He was expecting to be gone for six months, which he thought would be enough to gather enough information about the native people living on Tiburon.
Robinson's plan completely backfired. When he joined his guides, and they started to travel down the Colorado River, the person driving the boat heard gunshots, and before he knew it, Robinson was taken down with arrows.
The same destiny struck upon an experienced explorer named George Porter. Captain Porter participated in a similar mission before but ended up disappearing on Tiburon Island. The authorities in Mexico conducted a search but reported that nothing was found except one shoe and woods used for the campfire. The official statement from the Mexico Army was that Porter was killed, cooked on that same campfire, and - eaten by the natives.
Cannibals?
The idea that the people inhabiting the area were cannibals was most probably used to initiate a military campaign by Governor Izabal, who wanted to clear the Tiburon Island from such a threat. Who lived there, and why were they considered to be so dangerous?
Tiburon Island was populated by Seri people, and the island itself was the land they held sacred. The Seri people were living isolated from the mainland, and it was believed that they did not master the fire yet and that they eat their food raw. One thing that accompanied this speculation is rumors of Tiburon Island being very rich in gold resources.
The American Expedition of 1905
All of these dangerous stories and events surrounding the Tiburon Island and the Sari people that lived there did not stop the Grindell expedition to travel to the island. Three more people were coming along with Thomas Grindell, who had a reputation of a skillful and experienced explorer, who even had military experience. They were joined by a Papago guide called Dolores Valenzuela, who had to lead them through the desert area before they reach the Tiburon Island. So, how did everything go so wrong?
First of all, as it was later reported by the only American survivor Jack Hoffman, Grindell made a mistake of storing all the water on one donkey that carried the cans through the desert. When the equipment they brought to purify the water failed, the Papago guide did not want to continue any further. The five people group decided to split up; the guide went back, and the men tried to find a boat that will get them to Tiburon Island.
All of these decisions ended up fatal for everyone except Hoffman, who was alone for more than four months while he traveled from Tiburon to Guaymas. Hoffman survived 150 miles of unpredictable and harsh terrain, while the others were not so lucky.
Hoffman's testimony explains that all of them died from dehydration and that the Sari people were not responsible for their deaths. These events were later investigated further when another expedition, led by Edward P. Grindell, found artifacts that the Grindell expedition used on their fatal journey. A whole year passed before the body remains of Thomas Grindell were found. It was then confirmed that Thomas Grindell died from dehydration. In the Grindell expedition, four people lost their lives: the leader Thomas Grindell was gone, along with his partners G. O. Ralls and D. Ingram. The remains of the Papago guide Dolores Valenzuela were never found.
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For quite some time now I've been trying to learn about distributed systems, and it's appropriate to say that once you start digging, there seems to be no end to it, the rabbit hole goes on and on. The literature in distributed systems is quite extensive, with lots of papers coming from different universities, plus quite a few books to choose from. For a total beginner like me, it proved hard to decide what paper to read, or what book to buy.
At the same time, I've found that several bloggers recommend this or that paper that one must know in order to become a distributed systems engineer (whatever that means). So the list of things to read grows: FLP, Zab, Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed Systems, Viewstamped Replication, Paxos, Chubby and on and on. My problem is that many times I don't see a justification of why I should read this or that paper. I love the idea of learning just for knowledge's sake, to satisfy curiosity, but at the same time one needs to prioritise what to read, since the day only has 24hs.
Apart from the abundance of papers and research material, as mentioned above, there are also lots books. Having bought quite a few of them and read chapters here and there, I started to see that a book that had a promising title was quite unrelated to what I was looking for, or that the content didn't directly target the problems I would have liked to solve. Therefore, I would like to go over what I think are the main concepts of distributed systems, citing papers, books or resources where one can learn about them.
As I'm continuously learning while writing these words, please have some patience, expect some mistakes, and be aware that I will try to expand whatever I end up writing here.
Distributed systems algorithms can be classified according to different kinds of attributes. Some classifications are: the timing model; the kind of interprocess communication used; the failure model assumed for the algorithm; and many others as we will see.
Here we have the synchronous model, the asynchronous model and the partially synchronous model.
The synchronous model is the simplest one to use; here components take steps simultaneously, in what are called synchronous rounds. The time for a message to be delivered is usually known, and we also can assume the speed of each process, ie.: how long it takes for a process to execute one step of the algorithm. The problem with this model is that it doesn't reflect reality so well, even less in a distributed system context, where one can send a message to another process, and wish that the stars are aligned for us, so the message arrives to said process. The good thing is that using this model it is possible to achieve theoretical results that later can be translated to other models. For example, due to the guarantees of this model about time, we could see that if a problem cannot be solved under these timing guarantees, then it would probably be impossible to solve once we relax them (think of a Perfect Failure Detector for instance).
The asynchronous model gets a bit more complex. Here components can take steps in whatever order they choose and they don't offer any guarantee about the speed in which they will take such steps. One problem with this model is that while it can be simple to describe and closer to reality, it still doesn't reflect it properly. For example, a process might take infinitely long to respond to a request, but in a real project, we would probably impose a timeout on said request, and once the timeout expires we will abort the request. A difficulty that comes with this model is how to assure the liveness condition of a process. One of the most famous impossibility results, the "Impossibility of Consensus with one Faulty Process" belongs to this timing model, where it is not possible to detect if a process has crashed, or if the process is just taking an infinitely long time to reply to a message.
In the partially synchronous model, components have some information about timing, having access to almost synchronised clocks, or they might have approximations of how long messages take to be delivered, or how long it takes a processes to execute a step.
The book Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch is actually organised in sections based on these timing models.
Here we need to think about how processes in the system exchange information. They can do it by sending messages to each other, in the message passing model, or by using the shared memory model, where they share data by accessing shared variables.
One thing to keep in mind is that we can use a message passing algorithm to build a distributed shared memory object. A common example in books is the implementation of a read/write register. We also have queues and stacks, which are used by some authors to describe consistency properties, like linearizabilty. We should not confuse shared memory as a way to share data between processes by accessing a shared variable with shared memory abstractions built on top of message passing, like the ones just mentioned.
I already wrote an article about failure modes in distributed systems but it is worth reiterating here. A property of a distributed system model is what kind of process failures are assumed. On the crash-stop failure mode, a process is assumed to be correct until it crashes. Once it crashes, it never recovers. There's also the crash-recovery model, where processes can recover after a fault, in this case, some algorithms also include a way for the process to recover the state it had before before crashing. This can be done either by reading from persistent storage or by communicating with other processes in a group. It's worth noting that for some group membership algorithms, a process that crashes and then recovers could not be considered as the same process that was alive before. This usually depends if we have dynamic groups or fixed groups.
There are also failure modes where processes fail to receive or send messages, these are called omission failure modes. There are different kind of omissions as well, a process can fail to receive a message, or to send a message. Why does this matter? Imagine the scenario where a group of processes implement a distributed cache. If a process is failing to reply to requests from other processes on the group, even though it is able to receive requests from them, that process will still have its state up to date, which means it can reply to read requests from clients.
A more complex failure mode is the one called Byzantine or arbitrary failures mode, where processes can send wrong information to their peers; they can impersonate processes; reply to other process with the correct data, but garble its local database contents, and more.
When thinking about the design of a system, we should consider which kind of process failures we want to cope with. Birman (see Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems) argues that usually we don't need to cope with Byzantine failures. He cites work done at Yahoo! where they concluded that crash failures are way more common than Byzantine failures.
Depending on the process failure mode and timing assumptions we can construct abstractions that take care of reporting to the system if a process has crashed, or if it is suspected to have crashed. There are Perfect Failure detectors that never give a false positive. Having a crash-stop failure mode plus a synchronous system, we can implement this algorithm by just using timeouts. If we ask processes to periodically ping back to the Failure Detector Process, we know exactly when a ping should arrive to the failure detector (due to the synchronous model guarantees). If the ping doesn't arrive after a certain configurable timeout, then we can assume the other node has crashed.
On a more realistic system, it might not be possible to always assume the time needed for a message to reach its destination, or how long it will take for a process to execute a step. In this case we can have a failure detector p that would report a process q as suspected if q doesn't reply after a timeout of N milliseconds. If q later replies, then p will remove q from the list of suspected processes, and it will increase N, since it doesn't know what the actual network delay between itself and q is, but it wants to stop suspecting q of having crashed, since q was alive, as it took longer than N to ping back. If at some point q crashes, then p will first suspect it has crashed, and it will never revise its judgement (since q will never ping back). A better description of this algorithm can be found in Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming under the name "Eventually Perfect Failure Detector".
Strong Completeness: Eventually, every process that crashes is permanently suspected by every correct process.
Eventual Strong Accuracy: Eventually, no correct process is suspected by any correct process.
Failure detectors have been crucial in solving consensus in the asynchronous model. There's a quite famous impossibility result presented in the FLP paper mentioned above. This paper talks about the impossibility of consensus in asynchronous distributed systems where one process might fail. One way to go around this impossibility result is to introduce a failure detector that can circumvent the problem.
Related to the problem of failure detectors is that of actually doing the opposite, to determine which process hasn't crashed and is therefore working properly. This process will then be trusted by other peers in the network and it will be considered as the leader that can coordinate some distributed actions. This is the case of protocols like Raft or Zab that depend on a leader to coordinate actions.
Having a leader in a protocol introduces asymmetry between nodes, since non-leader nodes will then be followers. This will have the consequence that the leader node will end up being a bottleneck for many operations, so depending on the problem we are trying to solve, using a protocol that requires leader election might not be what we want. Note that most protocols that achieve consistency via some sort of consensus use a leader process and a set of followers. See Paxos, Zab or Raft for some examples.
Fault-tolerant systems often require a means by which independent processors or processes can arrive at an exact mutual agreement of some kind. It may be necessary, for example, for the processors of a redundant system to synchronise their internal clocks periodically. Or they may have to settle upon a value of a time-varying input sensor that gives each of them a slightly different reading.
So consensus is a problem of reaching agreement among independent processes. These processes will propose some values for a certain problem, like what's the current reading of their sensor, and then agree on a common action based on the proposed values. For example, a car might have various sensors providing it with information about the breaks temperature levels. These readings might have some variations depending on the precision of each sensor and so on, but the ABS computer needs to agree on how much pressure it should apply on the breaks. That's a consensus problem being solved in our everyday lives. The book Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems explains consensus and other problems in distributed systems in the context of the automotive industry.
Termination: Every correct process eventually decides some value.
Validity: If a process decides v, then v was proposed by some process.
Integrity: No process decides twice.
Agreement: No two correct processes decide differently.
Quorums are a tool used for designing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Quorums refer to intersecting sets of processes that can be used to understand the characteristic of a sytem when some processes might fail.
For example if we have an algorithm where N processes have crash-failure modes, we have a quorum of processes whenever we have a majority of processes applying certain operation to the system, for example a write to the database. If a minority of process might crash, that is N/2 - 1 process crashes, we still have a majority of processes that know about the last operation applied to the system. For example Raft uses majorities when committing logs to the system. The leader will apply an entry to its state machine as soon as half the servers in the cluster have replied to its request of log replication. The leader plus half the servers constitute a majority. This has the advantage that Raft doesn't need to wait for the whole cluster to reply to a log-replication RPC request.
Another example would be: let's say we want to limit the access to a shared resource by one process at a time. This resource is guarded by a set S of processes. Whenever process p wants to access the resource it needs to first ask permission to a majority of the processes S guarding the resource. A majority of processes in S grant access to the resource to p. Now process q arrives into the system and tries to access the shared resource. No matter which processes it contacts in S, q will never arrive to a majority of processes that will grant it access to the shared resource until the resource is freed by p. See The Load, Capacity, and Availability of Quorum Systems for more details.
Quorums don't always refer to a majority of processes. Sometimes they even need more processes to form a quorum for an operation to succeed, like in the case of a group N processes that can suffer Byzantine failures. In this case if f is the number of tolerated process failures, a quorum will be a set of more than (N + f) / 2 processes See Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming.
Understanding time and its consequences is one of the biggest problems in distributed systems. We are used to the concept of events in our life happening one after the other, with a perfectly defined happened before order, but when we have a series of distributed processes, exchanging messages, accessing resources concurrently, and so on, how can we tell which process event happened before? To be able to answer these kinds of questions, processes would need to share a synchronised clock, and know exactly how long it takes for electrons to move around the network; for CPUs to schedule tasks, and so on. Clearly this is not quite possible on a real-world system.
The seminal paper that discusses these issues is called Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System which introduced the concept of logical clocks. Logical Clocks are a way of assigning a number to an event in the system; said numbers are not related to the actual passage of time, but to the processing of events by a node in a distributed system.
There are many kinds of logical clocks algorithms, like Vector Clocks or Interval Tree Clocks.
For a very interesting discussion on time in distributed systems I recommend reading the article There Is No Now by Justin Sheehy.
I would claim that time and its problems in distributed systems is one of the crucial concepts to understand. The idea of simultaneity is something we have to let go. This is related with the old belief of "Absolute Knowledge", where we used to think that such a thing as absolute knowledge was attainable. The laws of physics show us that even light requires some time in order to get from one place to another, so whenever it reaches our eyes, and it's processed by our brains, whatever the light is communicating, it's an old view of the world. This idea is discussed by Umberto Eco in the book Inventing the Enemy, chapter "Absolute and Relative".
To finalize this article, let's take a quick look at the Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process paper to try to relate the concepts we have just learned about distributed systems.
So we have an asynchronous system, where no timing assumptions are made, either on processing speed or the time required for messages to reach other processes. We also know that some of these process may crash.
The issue here is that in usual technical jargon, asynchronous might refer to a way of processing requests, like RPC for example, where a process p sends an asynchronous request to process q, and while q is processing the request, p keeps doing other things, that is: p doesn't block waiting for a reply. We can see that this definition is completely different from the one used in the distributed systems literature, so without having this knowledge, it's quite hard to fully understand the meaning of just the first sentence of the FLP paper.
So the paper only considers the crash-stop failure mode discussed above (sometimes called fail-stop). We can also see that there are no omission failures, since the message system is reliable.
So we can't use failure detectors either.
To recap, this means that the FLP impossibility applies for asynchronous systems with fail-stop processors, with access to a reliable message system, and where detecting the death of a process is not possible. Without knowing the theory related to the different models of distributed systems, it might be possible that we miss many of these details, or we just interpret them in a totally different way from what the authors meant.
Also, it is interesting to read the paper Stumbling over Consensus Research: Misunderstandings and Issues by Marcos Aguilera, which has a discussion about what it means for FLP to be an impossibility result for distributed systems (spoiler alert: is not the same level of impossibility as the halting problem).
As you can see, learning about distributed systems takes time. It's a very vast topic, with tons of research on each of its sub-areas. At the same time implementing and verifying distributed systems is also quite complex. There are many subtle places where to commit mistakes can make our implementations totally broken under unexpected circumstances.
What if we choose the wrong quorum and then our new fancy replication algorithm loses critical data? Or we choose a very conservative quorum that slows down our application without need, making us break SLAs with customers? What if the problem we are trying to solve doesn't need consensus at all and we can live with eventual consistency? Perhaps our system has the wrong timing assumptions? Or it uses a failure detector unfit for the underlying system properties? What if we decide to optimise an algorithm like Raft, by avoiding a small step here or there and we end up breaking its safety guarantees? All these things and many more can happen if we don't understand the underlying theory of distributed systems.
Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch. This book is kinda the bible of distributed systems. It covers the various models cited above, having sections with algorithms for each of them.
Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming by Christian Cachin et al. Besides from being a very good introduction, it covers many kinds of consensus algorithms. The book is full of pseudo-code explaining the algorithms which is a good thing to have.


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New #iPhone 5S does NOT waterproof: #Fake adverts trick user
The advert, pictured, appeared on Facebook and Twitter. It made false claims that iOS 7 has a 'smart-switch' which prevents damage from water. It showed the new iPhone 5S covered in droplets with the tagline: 'Waterproofing covered by Apple's warranty policy'. The advert is believed to have originated from online forum 4Chan
A fake advert claiming Apple's new iOS 7 software makes iPhones and iPads waterproof is reported to have duped some users into breaking their devices by submerging them in water.
The advert appeared on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, earlier this week and is rumoured to have originated from online forum 4Chan.
The advert shows an iPad and an iPhone 5S covered in water droplets, with the tagline: 'a smart-switch will shut off the phone's power supply and corresponding components to prevent and damage to your iPhone's delicate circuitry'.
There are a number of waterproof handsets on the market, including Sony's new Xperia Z1, pictured, Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active and Motorola Defy, however, Apple's handsets are not. Many warranty policies do not cover water damage, even if its accidental
It goes on to say that 'Waterproofing is covered by Apple's warranty policy.'
The advert is said to look so much like an official Apple ad, some users have apparently trialled the feature and ultimately destroyed their handsets by getting them wet - invalidating their warranties.
Some have taken to Twitter, including one user who tweeted: 'Whoever said iOS 7 was waterproof **** you.'
Other tweeters, such as Queen V said: 'Are people so gullible?', while Andy Porter slammed anyone who was duped as 'idiots'.
Apple's iOS 7 software was released to iPhone users last Wednesday as a free upgrade.
The new iPhone 5S and 5C handsets also come with iOS 7 pre-installed.
There are a number of waterproof handsets on the market, including Sony's new Xperia Z1, Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active and Motorola Defy, however, Apple's handsets are not.
Many warranty policies do not cover water damage, even if its accidental.
Just two days after Apple's iPhone 5S handset went on sale, hackers found a way to bypass the new fingerprint sensor.
They used a high-resolution photo of a fingerprint to create a laser-printed copy.
Wood glue was then poured onto the copy and, once dried, was peeled off and pressed onto the phone's TouchID sensor.
The hackers were from German-based group Chaos Computer Club.
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Bank of America is paying a one-off $750 pandemic bonus to some staff earning less than $100,000. Those earning more get a stock award instead.
Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America.
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Eligible Bank of America staff earning $100,000 or less a year will get a $750 pandemic bonus.
Those earning more will get a stock award.
The lender spent around $300 million providing child and adult care to its employees in 2020.
Bank of America is rewarding staff for their work during the pandemic with a one-off $750 bonus.
Eligible staff at the second-biggest US lender who earn $100,000 or less annually will get the bonus. Employees earning more than that that will get a grant of between 150 to 750 restricted stock units, per a staff memo viewed by Insider.
Bank of America didn't confirm what the eligibility criteria was, but noted that 97% of its global workforce would be getting either the bonus or the stock award.
Bloomberg first reported on the news.
"Our company and teammates were called upon to address unprecedented challenges," CEO Brian Moynihan wrote in the memo. "This move is the next step our company is taking to significantly invest in health, safety, benefits, and other resources to support you during this global health and humanitarian crisis."
Read more: In Biden's first 100 days, businesses can expect more stimulus, easier access to loans, and government contracting opportunities
In fourth-quarter results posted on Tuesday, Bank of America beat analyst expectations, but its revenue was hit by historically low interest rates that affected its consumer banking business. It posted a drop in net income of 28% for the quarter, and 35% for the year.
The bank has dished out other benefits to staff during the pandemic, 85% of whom have transitioned to working from home.
It spent about $300 million on 3 million days of child and adult care to its employees in 2020, and a further $600 million on other COVID-related measures including personal protective equipment, overtime pay, free coronavirus testing, meals, and transportation.
Dozens of other major companies have offered staff bonuses or increased wages for working during the pandemic, including Walmart, Lowe's, Target, CVS Health, McDonald's, Trader Joe's, Costco, and Domino's Pizza.
Amazon has come under fire for providing a $2 pandemic pay bump to warehouse workers, which lasted less than three months.
Some top business leaders, meanwhile, temporarily forfeited their paychecks amid the pandemic, including the cofounders of Lyft, executives at Airbnb, and the CEO of Marriott. Disney's Executive Chairman Bob Iger gave up his salary for 2020, while the top five Comcast executives donated theirs to charity.
In the public sector, the Dutch government is giving civil servants $2 extra day to cover coffee and toilet paper while working from home.
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package com.jeeplus.common.util;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

import javax.crypto.*;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

/**
 * 加密解密工具类
 * Created by yuzp17311 on 2016/8/31.
 */
public class EncryptUtils {

    private static Logger logger= LoggerFactory.getLogger(EncryptUtils.class);

    public static final String defaultKey = "awujdklowdbsurtg";

    /**
     * SHA1
     * @param decript
     * @return
     */
    public static String SHA1(String decript){
        if(decript==null)
            return null;
        try{
            MessageDigest digest=MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
            digest.update(decript.getBytes());
            byte[] messageDigest=digest.digest();
            StringBuffer hexString=new StringBuffer();
            // 字节数组转换为十六进制数
            for (int i=0;i<messageDigest.length;i++){
                String shaHex=Integer.toHexString(messageDigest[i]&0xFF);
                if(shaHex.length()<2){
                    hexString.append(0);
                }
                hexString.append(shaHex);
            }
            return hexString.toString();
        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            logger.error("SHA1加密失败:"+e.getMessage());
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * SHA
     * @param decript
     * @return
     */
    public static String SHA(String decript) {
        if(decript==null)
            return null;
        try {
            MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest
                    .getInstance("SHA");
            digest.update(decript.getBytes());
            byte messageDigest[] = digest.digest();
            StringBuffer hexString = new StringBuffer();
            // 字节数组转换为 十六进制 数
            for (int i = 0; i < messageDigest.length; i++) {
                String shaHex = Integer.toHexString(messageDigest[i] & 0xFF);
                if (shaHex.length() < 2) {
                    hexString.append(0);
                }
                hexString.append(shaHex);
            }
            return hexString.toString();

        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            logger.error("SHA加密失败:"+e.getMessage());
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * MD5加密
     *
     * @param input 需要加密的字符串
     * @return
     */
    public static String MD5(String input) {
        if(input==null)
            return null;
        try {
            // 获得MD5摘要算法的 MessageDigest 对象
            MessageDigest mdInst = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            // 使用指定的字节更新摘要
            mdInst.update(input.getBytes());
            // 获得密文
            byte[] md = mdInst.digest();
            // 把密文转换成十六进制的字符串形式
            StringBuffer hexString = new StringBuffer();
            // 字节数组转换为 十六进制 数
            for (int i = 0; i < md.length; i++) {
                String shaHex = Integer.toHexString(md[i] & 0xFF);
                if (shaHex.length() < 2) {
                    hexString.append(0);
                }
                hexString.append(shaHex);
            }
            return hexString.toString().toUpperCase();
        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            logger.error("MD5加密失败:"+e.getMessage());
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * AES加密
     * @param str 要进行加密的字符串
     * @param key 加密使用的key串
     * @return
     */
    public static String aesEncrypt(String str, String key)  {
        if (str == null || key == null)
            return null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("utf-8"), "AES"));
            byte[] bytes = cipher.doFinal(str.getBytes("utf-8"));
            return new BASE64Encoder().encode(bytes);
        }catch (Exception e){
            logger.error("AES加密失败:"+e.getMessage());
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

    }

    /**
     * AES解密
     * @param str 要进行解密的字符串
     * @param key 加密使用的key串
     * @return
     */
    public static String aesDecrypt(String str, String key)  {
        if (str == null || key == null)
            return null;
        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("utf-8"), "AES"));
            byte[] bytes = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(str);
            bytes = cipher.doFinal(bytes);
            return new String(bytes, "utf-8");
        }catch (Exception e){
            logger.error("AES解密失败:"+e.getMessage());
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String str = aesEncrypt("1091216604", EncryptUtils.defaultKey);
        System.out.println(str);
        str = aesDecrypt("yimLj5LvEgx/Noi9/GGzXw==", EncryptUtils.defaultKey);
        System.out.println(str);
    }

}

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Enjoy Christmas at the theatre with Steptoe and Son
For theatre-goers and comedy fans, it makes a great alternative to pantomine and other festive-based shows
Abby Ruston
Grimsby-born performer John Hewer starring in Christmas with Steptoe and Son in Grimsby, Louth and Barton-upon-Humber next month (Image: Jack Lovett)
A re-creation of a missing Steptoe and Son sequence, which featured in BBC1 series Christmas Night with the Stars in 1962, is to be included in a special stage production.
Hambledon Productions' latest stage offering - Christmas with Steptoe and Son arrives at the Caxton Theatre, Louth Riverhead Theatre and Joseph Wright Hall in Barton-upon-Humber this December.
Ray Galton, who passed away in October gave the go-ahead for Grimsby-born performer John Hewer to re-work his and fellow Steptoe and Son co-creator Alan Simpson's stellar material.
John Hewer who will also star in Christmas with Steptoe and Son said: "The show is a brilliant representation of everything we love about the sitcom.
"These are situations and characters we relate to, and the strength of the writing sees us laughing helplessly while also caring about both father and son at the same time.
"I think, because of the Christmastime setting, these scripts and stories are more powerful, more nostalgic and carry greater resonance.
"With the close bond we've enjoyed with the original writers and the amount of time and preparation we've put into this, fans of the TV show will not be disappointed, particularly on the back of our previous Steptoe and Son success.
"For theatre-goers and comedy fans, it makes a great alternative to pantomine and other festive-based shows."
Nurse and author Joy Wood releases fourth book that's 'a little different' from what's come before
Hewer who plays Harold Steptoe remembers legendary scribes Galton and Simpson who he first met in 2012 with affection.
"Ray and Alan were both such modest gentle men," says the Tommy Cooper impersonator.
"No ego or bravura. Humour and joviality just came naturally to them. Lovely, lovely people and the whole industry is missing them."
Christmas with Steptoe and Son takes place at Caxton Theatre at 7.30pm on Monday, December 10 and Tuesday, December 11, Louth Riverhead Theatre on Saturday, December 15 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm and Joseph Wright Hall at 7.30pm on Sunday, December 16.
Further information is at hambledonproductions.com
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Iconic Grimsby pub set to relaunch as a cocktail bar and restaurant
Pubs and BarsAn application has been submitted for a pavement licence
I visited the international food shops on Grimsby's Freeman Street and was very surprised
Shopping in GrimsbyLays crisps galore, every type of salami and spices that will blow your socks off
10 things I noticed walking down St Peter's Avenue in Cleethorpes
CleethorpesOne of the only surviving Peacocks stores makes the list
70 photos from a 2019 Big Night Out in Cleethorpes
Pubs and BarsPhotographer Carl Leslie headed out to Arthur's bar, The Fisherman's, The Counting House, Tale of Two, Studio bar and The Market Tavern for this Big Night Out in April 2019


Brad's Delphi Blog – The only way this is Delphi related is that I used it to listen to a Borland Radio show. I put an iPod in my car.
Brad's Delphi Blog – When Delphi 2005 works it works well, Here are some of the best features.
Brad's Delphi Blog – I have been using Delphi for DotNet 2005 full time for a month now. I would love it, I would love all the features but the damn thing locks up so much that it is amost unuseable and I have all three patches on a brand new PC. It is almost enough to move me to Visual Studio. Fix the bugs Borland.
Brad's Delphi Blog – Borland has put the papers from the 2003 and 2004 conferences online. I'll go through them and link to the interesting ones here.
Brad's Delphi Blog – Sorry for the break in posting I am getting a new job.
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10-15 13:19:12.265    4998-4998/com.mobiotics.tvb_stb E/Trace﹕ error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
10-15 13:19:12.845    4998-4998/com.mobiotics.tvb_stb E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action inside of onLoadFinished
            at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.checkStateLoss(FragmentManager.java:1284)
            at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.enqueueAction(FragmentManager.java:1291)
            at android.app.BackStackRecord.commitInternal(BackStackRecord.java:548)
            at android.app.BackStackRecord.commit(BackStackRecord.java:532)
            at com.mobiotics.tvb_stb.activity.HomeScreenActivity.OnChannelCountChanged(HomeScreenActivity.java:308)
            at com.mobiotics.tvb_stb.fragments.ChannelDBThumbFragment.onLoadFinished(ChannelDBThumbFragment.java:234)
            at com.mobiotics.tvb_stb.fragments.ChannelDBThumbFragment.onLoadFinished(ChannelDBThumbFragment.java:44)
            at android.app.LoaderManagerImpl$LoaderInfo.callOnLoadFinished(LoaderManager.java:482)
            at android.app.LoaderManagerImpl$LoaderInfo.onLoadComplete(LoaderManager.java:450)
            at android.content.Loader.deliverResult(Loader.java:143)
            at android.content.CursorLoader.deliverResult(CursorLoader.java:113)
            at android.content.CursorLoader.deliverResult(CursorLoader.java:43)
            at android.content.AsyncTaskLoader.dispatchOnLoadComplete(AsyncTaskLoader.java:254)
            at android.content.AsyncTaskLoader$LoadTask.onPostExecute(AsyncTaskLoader.java:91)
            at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
            at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
            at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
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Gábor Rakonczay completed the first stage of his transatlantic canoe expedition. He arrived at port Las Palmas (Canary Islands) after cruising about 650 nautical miles (1200 kilometers) within 17 days.
First time achievement over the World!
His boat, Vitéz (7m long, with btto 600 kg weight; designed and built by Nándor Fa, the excellent hungarian skipper of Vendee Globe) went almost 100 km during the 16th day of the trip. Gábor navigated in fog and had some complaints about his shoulder - still, he was committed to get at shore the sooner.
His trip is a world-record. According to the public memory, noone has taken a similar offshore trip with such a small boat.


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The previews of AMC's new series Hell on Wheels have convinced a new generation to give the Old West a fair shake. The tortured hero standing on freshly laid track, cigar smoke drifting toward the wilderness would seem a tired cliche, but in HD the landscapes roll lush & seductively dangerous as one might imagine it to have been 150 years ago, and the tattered Confederate veteran wreaks with the pain of revenge. The juxtaposition of beauty and horror is a delicate dance, but intoxicating when crafted with brilliance and the filmmaker's have out done themselves in this regard with Hell on Wheels.
One element sadly overlooked would have elevated the footage to perfection: the miles of treeless prairie that set the scene for the original railroad shanty towns where the name Hell on Wheels stuck has a distinctly different feel than the rainy plains of Calgary, Canada (for those of you city slickers, just think of Dances with Wolves and you'll find yourself reminded of how the sun and wind ripples through the prairie).
The show's synopsis is simple and straight forward "Hell on Wheels is a contemporary Western that centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, portrayed by Anson Mount, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad's westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad."
As Cullen struggles with his war demons, his dark charisma pulls us into incredibly rich tapestries to meet up with historical characters whose greed, passion, sweat and blood built the Transcontinental Railroad. Thomas Clark Durant, portrayed by Colm Meaney, was the real life railroad tycoon who founded the Missouri & Mississippi Railroad in 1854 and proceeded to make a fortune smuggling contraband cotton from the Confederate States. He invested his ill-gotten gains in a subscription scheme that put him in a position to seize control of the Union Pacific Railroad, naming himself its vice president. From there he swindled his way across the prairie one mile of track at a time until we meet up with him somewhere near what is today North Platte, Nebraska, or as Cullen Bohannon came to know it: Hell on Wheels.
I grew up near a prairie train town, and I live today in a train town. The years in between have seen the demise of the miles of network tracks that were built in the late 1800s when trains were the preferred choice of travel (until Henry Ford came up with a better idea). I am here again to see the resurgence of the endless ribbons of freight trains that carry coal from Wyoming to power plants east. Today the mighty Union Pacific connects 23 western states and North Platte's Bailey Yard is the world's largest train yard spanning 2,800 acres. Each day it manages 10,000 railroad cars and sorts 3,000 daily to make sure the cargo reaches its final destination.
Hell on Wheels weaves the story of the early history of the railroad seamlessly through Cullen's tale of revenge for the murder of his wife, but the world around him and the characters that he meets are gritty and rich with their own set of demons and baggage. Anson Mount is not afraid to explore his darker side and he is confident enough in his craft to know when to take a step back and allow his fellow actors to tell their character's story. Without his seductive invitation, I doubt most of us would have gotten through the blood and mud of the first episode. Colm Meaney is equally brilliant as the railroad boss and his character is wonderfully faceted. Lily Bell, played well by Dominique McElligott, is too pale and pretty to have wandered in the elements for weeks but we'll forgive her beauty and fine clothes ... its all a part of that cinematic juxtaposition. Christopher Heyerdahl as The Swede and Tom Noonan as Reverend Cole are superb. Elam, played by Common, finds understanding in his struggle beyond Slavery with Eva, a tattooed prostitute, both actors live large in their characters. One by one these bruised souls emerge from desperate situations to reveal a bit of humanity in a cruel wilderness. The last hold out is Cullen, the man who we all hope will reveal a glimpse of his long lost soul ... stay tuned.


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Hey guys has anyone used one of these North Power XT Shox extensions and do they work. They are meant to act as a shock absorber between the board and the rig. Similar to how shockies work on bikes.
I've been using them for about 3 years, I has breaking a lot of board jumping and where I sail is very choppy and v onshore. Have to say I love them and I haven't broken a board since. Ref the feel it softens the chop but not as much as you would think. I don't notice it when I'm sailing I only notice it when I try other kit without it.
Everything is softer. The power delivery is softer as well. On big heavy sails it bottoms out quickly in chop. Nice to use though.
I have one but haven't used it yet, nice looking piece of gear.


Many people are confused about the consumption of fat when it comes to heart health. Too much fat raises cholesterol levels and ups your risk for heart disease. Not enough fat, however, has negative health effects, too. Your body needs healthy fat to give you energy and insulate you against heat loss. Every cell membrane contains fat. And fat is a component of myelin, the fatty material that sheathes your nerve cells and makes it possible for them to fire the electrical messages that enable you to think, see, speak, move, and perform daily tasks. Clearly, you need to have some fat in your diet!
If you're worried about the best sources of fat, consider the results from a recent clinical trial. The study investigated the effect of consumption of fatty acids and selected nutrients, along with regular physical activity, on cardiovascular risk factors in rats. The rats were divided into seven groups. Group 1: regular food and drinking water; Group 2: same as Group 1 + physical activity; Group 3: same as Group 2 + calcium, vitamin D, and boron; Group 4: same as Group 3 + canola oil; Group 5: same as Group 3 + sunflower oil; Group 6: same as Group 3 + a mix of sunflower oil and canola oil; and Group 7: same as Group 3 + coconut oil.
The researchers say their findings show that canola oil and sunflower oil, separately, showed beneficial impacts on heart disease risk factors; whereas their combination had negative impacts on lipid profile. Coconut oil seemed to provide health benefits in terms of cardiovascular protection.
The message seems to be to choose your fats carefully, but definitely include them in your diet. Fats can work for or against your health depending on which ones you use and how you combine them.
For more information on this important subject, read the article Get Your Share of Healthy Fats with These Foods.


Self-controlled active oscillating microcantilevers with a piezoresistive readout are very promising sensitive sensors, despite their small surface. In order to increase this surface and consequently their sensitivity, we nanostructured them with copper hydroxide (Cu(OH)2) or with copper oxide (CuO) nanorods. The Cu(OH)2 rods were grown, on a homogeneous copper layer previously evaporated on the top of the cantilever. The CuO nanorods were further obtained by the annealing of the copper hydroxide nanostructures. Then, these copper based nanorods were used to detect several molecules vapors. The results showed no chemical affinity (no formation of a chemical bond) between the CuO cantilevers and the tested molecules. The cantilever with Cu(OH)2 nanorods is selective to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in presence of humidity. Indeed, among all the tested analytes, copper hydroxide has only an affinity with NO2. Despite the absence of affinity, the cantilevers could even so condensate explosives (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane (RDX) and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) on their surface when the cantilever temperature was lower than the explosives source, allowing their detection. We proved that in condensation conditions, the cantilever surface material has no importance and that the nanostructuration is useless because a raw silicon cantilever detects as well as the nanostructured ones.


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FEMA deputy administrator discusses federal response to 'historic flooding' caused by Florence.
People affected by the damage brought by Hurricane Irma received assistance on Saturday with applying to FEMA for relief.
Many people are signing up for FEMA assistance following Hurricane Irma.
James Taylor, a representative with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, talks about the services being offered at disaster recovery centers around Southern Illinois. Residents continue to rebuild after floods earlier this spring ravaged many river-front communities.
Former FEMA director Michael Brown on the mounting costs the department faces as Hurricane Maria continues to batter Puerto Rico.
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"Disaster" is a song recorded by American recording artist JoJo and released as a buzz single initially for her third studio album. The song was written by Gino Barletta, along with JoJo, Marc Himmel, and Mario Marchetti. The song was Produced by Mario Marchetti. "Disaster" premiered on US radio on August 29, 2011 via Interscope Records and it was made available for digital download on September 6, 2011.
Musically, "Disaster" is a mid-tempo pop ballad with R&B and pop rock influences. The song's lyrics describe a relationship that has gone from happy and blissful to tumultuous and disastrous. The song received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, who noted its similarities to JoJo's 2006 single, "Too Little Too Late", and Jordin Sparks's "Battlefield". However, the song was also criticized for not showing any progression after a five-year hiatus. The single debuted at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving JoJo her first charting single since "Too Little Too Late". The single also charted on the Billboard Pop Songs, peaking at number 29.
"Disaster" is the 105th episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fifth episode of the fifth season. The episode has an average rating of 4.4/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of November 8, 2009).
The crew of the Enterprise are undertaking routine tasks when suddenly the ship is struck by some outside force, rendering much of it inoperable and many of the crew stranded in various locations without communication to other sections; later the crew discovers the collision was with a fragment of a quantum filament, and after effecting basic repairs, set course back to the nearest starbase for a full overhaul.
The bridge, at the time of the incident, is only manned by Counselor Troi, Miles O'Brien and Ensign Ro. They find that the anti-matter containment field in Engineering is rapidly fading. Ro suggests that they split the drive section of the Enterprise off to save those in the saucer section, but O'Brien refuses to accept this. Troi agrees, and instead suggests a plan to divert a supply of their minimal power reserves to Engineering to the appropriate panel, hoping that someone there would rectify the situation. This is later done by Commander Riker and Lt. Commander Data. Ro apologizes for considering such a hasty action.
Hundreds of families who have been affected by the fire visit the center to figure out what to do next.


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package org.databene.commons.condition;

import org.databene.commons.Condition;

/**
 * Composite condition that requires at least one sub condition to be true.
 * If no sub conditions exist, false is returned by default.
 * Created: 04.02.2007 00:45:23
 * @param <E> the type of argument to evaluate
 * @author Volker Bergmann
 */
public class OrCondition<E> extends CompositeCondition<E> {

	@SafeVarargs
    public OrCondition(Condition<E> ... components) {
        super(components);
    }

    @Override
	public boolean evaluate(E argument) {
        for (Condition<E> condition : components)
            if (condition.evaluate(argument))
                return true;
        return false;
    }
}


Ascend to new heights on both the physical and astral body planes! You've heard that yoga helps athletes perform at higher levels, the same is true for yogi's who practice a mind & body challenging sport like climbing. Combine the two and you've got a match-made for a truly vibrant mind-body and soul.
8. Have Fun & Laugh!
11. Develop Subtle Body Awareness.


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Time for football to look after its own
BURY's recent expulsion from the Football League was a reminder that the overall state of English football is not as resilient as top Premier League income streams would have you believe.
The reality is that many clubs still live hand-to-mouth and revenues at the lower end of the 92-club structure are merely a fraction of what the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool enjoy.
Mismanagement is one thing and clubs need to do more due diligence on who they get to run their clubs, but why should any new owner continue to plough money into a lost cause? That's not to say that benefactors who promise the earth shouldn't try to fulfil the claim they made when taking over a club, but if the financial situation is dire and basically a case of burning money, then common sense and business ethics would tell you not to pour more cash down the hole.
Football fans expect owners to fund their hobby, often with no questions asked, and it has long been a cause for concern that seemingly successful business people who have made their fortune elsewhere then adopt a reckless approach to running a football club. Why should anyone merely maintain the status quo – that of poor financial practices – just to keep a couple of thousand people happy, whose claim to "ownership" is the fact they have turned up week-in, week-out to watch the team?
Hard decisions have to be made and as we all know, "austerity" is generally unpopular with the masses. Yet poor judgement, living beyond their means and careless fiscal policies can send a football club into oblivion. For too long, though, fans look upon a football club as some form of vocational institution and expect the people who prop it up to do likewise. If banks and other corporations didn't fear the fall-out and negative PR that sending a club to the wall would bring, more clubs would have gone bust over the past 70 years.
Fans complain about the clubs that have received inflated investment, such as the Chelsea's, Manchester Citys and Paris Saint-Germain's of this world, but if a wealthy chap with money drives through the stadium gates promising untold riches, they invariably embrace the prospect of joining the elite.
Sugar Daddies (or Mummies) are bad, unless they're at our club, that's often the message. How often do you hear that the fans are calling for a new investor, somebody who will provide the cash to buy new players to make the club more competitive? It's the same in non-league football, where reckless, attention-grabbing behaviour hits the headlines, but makes a club something of a laughing stock.
When bubbles burst, and they mostly do for high-spending can only go on for so long, clubs find they have to pick up the pieces. Too many people look the other way when there's a car crash and a departed owner is blamed for everything. Very few people appear to be accountable when the extractor fan gets hit.
However, some clubs get into difficulties because of misfortune, lack of public support, ownership problems affected by macro-economics and declining sponsorship. Even a string of postponements can impact the cash flow of a club and make life very uncomfortable for players and staff, who are the real people affected by their employer disappearing. Football, overall, has no shortage of cash, in fact the top clubs are even making a profit these days, something that was almost unheard of 20 years ago.
If it is everyone's interest to look after football's eco-system, then why not use football's wealth to protect the structure? In other words, create an insurance system that clubs contribute to in order to assist clubs who have temporary problems? Not unlike the national pension protection scheme?
Of course, such a scheme should not be a crutch for foolish behaviour or poor ownership and should not amount to a "bail-out", but short-term assistance to enable a club to overcome existential setbacks. When you consider that a club from League Two may only have a turnover of less than £ 5 million and compare that to the income of Manchester United, there is surely scope for the big clubs to lend a hand?
Such a scheme would be difficult to put in place, there is a culture of the survival of the fittest in football and it is remarkable how little support clubs give each other. There are some that undoubtedly do their best to help, but the game still has too much schadenfreude when another club gets into problems. It should be remembered that football is a fragile game and for many clubs, it is money-in, money-out giving little scope for error. With that in mind, when Bury tipped into trouble, the now out-dated expression, "there but for the grace of God go I" should have been recalled. After all, how many Burys are still out there?
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Isaak Newton (1642 - 1727).
The main part of Newton's life passed in the college of Saint Triple in Cambridge University. He loved solitude and hated the scientific discussions, that is why Newton avoided the publication of his works. He loved to think and to compose. In his solitude this man made a revolution in science, concerning a human being and nature. He created a language of classical science, which it has been thinking and speaking three centuries already.
During 1665 - 1667 Newton made his three main discoveries: the method of fluxings and quadratures (differential and integral calculus, explanation of the light nature and the law of gravitation). His works were begun with optics: Newton considered all over again Decart's system of the world where the nature of optical occurrences and gravitation just the same. But Decart's whirlwinds were not coordinated with Kepler's laws and comets movement. "The real philosophy" of Decart was not proved mathematically.
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In 1680 Newton returned to the mechanics and gravitation problems. That year a very bright comet appeared. Newton observed it and calculated the orbit of the comet. He was the author of the gravitation law and its consequences.
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Mikdad: Any Foreign Aggression on Syria will Have Catastrophic Consequences on the Region
Arabi Souri- December 7, 2012 - Syria- 0 Comments
DAMASCUS, (SANA)_Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad, stressed that any foreign military aggression on Syria will be costly and lead to catastrophic consequences on the region.
In an interview with the Lebanese al-Manar TV Channel on Thursday, Mikdad said that a psychological war has been launched against Syria since the beginning of 2011, and those who think of waging aggression on Syria should consider the consequences of such aggression on the whole region.
Mikdad described the western fierce campaign against Syria over allegations of chemical weapons as "dramatic", reiterating that if chemical weapons exist in Syria, they will not be used against the Syrian people definitely.
He expressed concerns over a western scheme to provide terrorists with chemical weapons to accuse the Syrian army of using them to justify the military intervention.
Mikdad said that Israel stands behind the events taking place in Syria and the Arab region, adding that the U.S. administration is embracing the allegations of chemical weapons and all formulas that help rescue Israel from the impasse in which it has put itself due to its policies of occupation and settlement in the Arab region, adding that these are the main reasons for threatening Syria and sending terrorists from all the countries of the world, particularly the Arab countries which pledged to the U.S. to preserve Israel's security.
He stressed that the solution to the crisis in Syria is a political one, adding that if countries hostile to Syria, especially the US and some western countries, want this solution, they should stop their support to the terrorism targeting Syria and its people since it contradicts international law.
He added that Russia asked Turkey to stop its support and facilitation of gunmen's flow to Syria and called upon the EU and the US not to interfere in Syria's affairs.
Mikdad said the ballot box will be the decisive criterion among all parties that will determine who will lead Syria, adding that Russia, which rejects any military intervention in any part of the world, cannot negotiate on the behalf of the Syrian people because it respects its sovereignty.
He added that there are some countries that came under the rule of Muslim Brotherhood groups are working to isolate Syria, pointing out that these groups support terrorism in Syria, unlike the peoples of these counties who support Syria and its people, and they will expose the reality of these groups.
Mikdad said that Turkey's request to deploy Patriot missiles on the Syrian-Turkish borders indicates its bankruptcy, adding that the problem lies in the policy of the Turkish "Brotherhood" government towards Syria as Erdogan's government appeals to NATO to interfere against the Syrian people who have good feelings towards the Turkish people.
He added that Turkey has armed the terrorists and called upon al-Qaeda terrorists to come and opened its borders for them to enter Syria, then it funded, harbored and trained them, but all this has yielded nothing on the ground that may give the impression that the Turkish government led by Erdogan is achieving its goals.
On the involvement of the Future Movement in the events in Syria and the confession of Oqab Saqr on supplying terrorists with money and arms, Mikdad wondered if Syria can just stand and do nothing while Saad al-Hariri and Oqab Saqr provide money and arms to terrorists to kill the Syrian people.
He said that the Lebanese government can no more adopt the policy of self-dissociation as terrorists are there in Lebanon, adding that when terrorism spreads in Syria, it will spread in Lebanon as well and the Lebanese leadership should be decisive in holding those responsible for supporting terrorists in Syria accountable as what is taking place is not a policy, but rather killing of Syrians.
He added that "we warned of such thing seven months ago and presented documents on it." Mikdad added that Syria is considering listing the names of those Lebanese criminals on the international lists of terrorism, adding "we are also considering the possibility of addressing an official letter to the UN Security Council in this regard."
Mikdad said that the French stances have become disgustingly hackneyed and supportive of terrorism, adding that all those who provoked hostility towards Syria, namely Chirac or Sarkozy, are gone and the Syrian leadership is still there.
"In case the French leadership sticks to its hypocrisy, it will also depart as it will implicate the French people in colonial attempts that have been long discarded by the peoples of the world," Mikdad added.
"Saudi Arabia's latest stances have no logic to them, and are devoid of any purported interest in the wellbeing and sovereignty of Syria. The Saudi ruling family sides with terrorism in Syria, that's why we urge Saudi Arabia to change course and refrain from backing terrorism, because those who support terror will have a taste of their own medicine."
He added that the stances of Arab governments on Syria do not reflect the stances of their own peoples, stressing that the Arab masses support Syria.
Mikdad added that some Arab governments have become mere tools in dealing with the developments on the ground, as no state which has no constitution or parliament has the right to criticize a country that has offered a great deal to establish democracy and uphold human rights.
Mikdad reiterated that the financial support, arms smuggling and media campaign against Syria won't prevent the Syrian people from confronting the conspiracy.
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Цоргонь ліга 2010/11 — 18-й сезон найвищого рівня футбольних дивізіонів Словаччини. Кожна з 12 команд зіграла 33 матчі (три кола). Чемпіонський титул вшосте здобув клуб Слован.

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module EventMachine
  module CometIO
    class Client
      include EventEmitter
      attr_reader :url, :session
      attr_accessor :timeout

      def initialize(url)
        raise ArgumentError, "invalid URL (#{url})" unless url.kind_of? String and url =~ /^https?:\/\/.+/
        @url = url
        @session = nil
        @running = false
        @timeout = 120
        @post_queue = []
        EM::add_periodic_timer 1 do
          flush
        end
      end

      private
      def flush
        return if !@running or @post_queue.size < 1
        post_data = {:json => {:session => @session, :events => @post_queue}.to_json}
        @post_queue = []
        that = self
        http = EM::HttpRequest.new(@url, :connect_timeout => 10).
          post(:body => post_data)
        http.callback do |res|
        end
        http.errback do |err|
          self.emit :error, "CometIO push error"
        end
      end

      public
      def push(type, data)
        if !@running or !@session
          emit :error, "CometIO not connected"
          return
        end
        @post_queue.push :type => type, :data => data
      end

      def connect
        return self if @running
        self.on :__session_id do |session|
          @session = session
          self.emit :connect, @session
        end
        @running = true
        get
        return self
      end

      def close
        @running = false
        self.remove_listener :__session_id
      end

      private
      def get
        http = EM::HttpRequest.new("#{@url}?session=#{@session}", :connect_timeout => @timeout).get
        http.callback do |res|
          begin
            data_arr = JSON.parse res.response
            data_arr = [data_arr] unless data_arr.kind_of? Array
            data_arr.each do |data|
              self.emit data['type'], data['data']
            end
          rescue JSON::ParserError
          rescue StandardError
            self.emit :error, "CometIO get error"
            sleep 10
          end
          get
        end
        http.errback do |err|
          get
        end
      end

    end
  end
end


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Ex-Proteas women cricketer Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie dies in car accident
Former South Africa Women's World Cup cricketer Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie and her child both lost their lives in a car accident on Saturday.
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Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie. Photo: Cricket South Africa / Twitter
Former South Africa Women's World Cup cricketer Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie and her child were killed in a car crash this weekend, police confirmed on Sunday.
The fatal accident occurred in the northwestern mining town of Stilfontein, a police spokesperson told AFP.
All-rounder Theunissen-Fourie, 25, represented South Africa in four internationals – three ODIs and one Twenty20 – and was part of the 2013 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup squad.
"This is a dreadful tragedy in the true sense of that word," said Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive Thabang Moroe.
"This is devastating news for all of us.
"Elriesa did so much for the community in which she lived and gave excellent service both as a national player and in the work she did at grassroots level.
"On behalf of the CSA family, I extend our deepest sympathy to her husband, her family, friends and all her cricketing colleagues."
Thabang Moroe, Cricket South Africa
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Theunissen-Fourie's last match for South Africa came in an ODI against Bangladesh Women in September 2013. She made her ODI debut during the 2013 World Cup – against Sri Lanka Women in Cuttack.
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In domestic cricket, Theunissen-Fourie played for the North West Dragons. She was known to be very active at the grassroots level and coached at the local community hub until she opted for a maternity leave ahead of the birth of her first child.
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