I would like to commemorate the memory of all the heroes who have fallen defending the sovereignty of Turkey, the dignity of Turkish people, its identity, freedom, and independence on 15thJuly 2016. I`m sure that without such sacrifices Turkey wouldn`t exist today.
This was not simply a classic case of regime change – it was existential challenge for Turkey. From what I know, the Kurds in Turkey and beyond the border were prepared to take the next step if the coup was successful. Turkey could have been transformed into a new Iraq, Libya or Syria, suffering a bloody civil war. The people who sacrificed their lives didn't do so for Erdogan's sake, but for the glory of Turkish people.
Thanks to these sacrifices we can meet today in an independent, powerful, free and stable Turkey.
I would like to stress the expression some are using, (that I like very much) by calling this coup d'etat a "postmodern coup". I think that the coup of 15 July 2016 was very different from previous coups in Turkey by its very nature. Previous coups (such as 1960, 1971, 1980, 1993) were Kemalist. They were carried out -- at least ostensibly -- in order to restore stability in Turkey, to preserve its independence and to find the way out of political chaos presented as a threat to democracy. These coups were not democratic, but they were essentially patriotic. And that`s why we use the term «Deep State» (Derin Devlet) to refer to a structure of patriotic military groups that considered themselves to be the guardians of Kemalist Turkey, and of Turkish heritage, because to this "Deep State" independence and sovereignty were above all other political interests. When the Derin Devletfelt that there was a threat to the Turkish identity, it reacted, suspending democratic rules.
But the July 15th coup was completely different. It was organized by a Parallel Devlet, a «Parallel State». To understand how this was possible, we need to delve deeper into its essence. Thr postmodern coup on July 15thwas not organized by the army - the army was used and not in the interest of the Turkish state. It was organized againstTurkish State, against order, against the Turkish people, in order to destroy, to manipulate, to transform Turkey into another failed state.
The plot began during the early stage of Erdogan's time in office, when FETÖ (Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü) was part of a common anti-Kemalist strategy. But these steps and strategies were conceived in order to "free political society of Turkey from the tutelage of the Kemalist army", to free it from the tutelage of Deep State, more precisely.
Why were Erdogan and gülenists once opposed to the Kemalists of the Deep State? Because of a struggle for a return to pre-Kemalist identity including Ottoman identity, the return to the Islamic roots of Turkish society with a strong political party and a strong charismatic leader... It was a kind of right wing religious populism. And this idea presumed that politicians sharing these politics and accepting this identity should enter into a kind of mortal struggle against the previous guardians of Turkish identity, against the Deep State. At this point, FETÖ and Ergodan worked together, trying to diminish or destroy the Derin Devlet. In the case of the previous coup attempt against Erdogan, this was the likely explanation. That is why the FETÖ judges were almost the exact same people who acted as judges for the Ergonikon Kemalist group.
But what was the reason for the split between the terrorist FETÖ organization, completely controlled by CIA and United States (representatives of Parallel State) and Erdogan? I don`t know the political or economical details, but from an external point of view I've noted a very important difference between the two. Erdogan was clearly a Turkish national sovereign leader. He tried to overcome and liberate Turkish politics from the tutelage of the Deep State in order to make Turkey greater, to make Turkish society more powerful, more sovereign, more free. FETÖ was a kind of simulacrum, a dark shadow of Erdogan`s politics. Their project was more or less the same – fighting the Kemalists, but at the same time they tried to impose their own sectarian identity, promoting their own charismatic leader Fethullah Gülen (who was naturally not living in Turkey but in United States), broadening their network, destroying the order of Deep State and installing the Parallel State in its place.
At this point Erdogan made an existential decision. He didn`t want to follow the path of the parallel state, because at heart he is a real son of Turkish nation. And so he began the struggle against Shadow politics, he began to fight against his owndark double. This resulted in a revolt of the Parallel State against Erdogan. It wasn't classic coup d`etat, because the real Kemalist core of the Turkish army was not involved in the conflict. During the Ergenekon purges the possibility arose to install a pro-gülenist and pro-CIA group inside the army. So the coup d`etat of July 15th wasn`t Kemalist, it was in fact completely American and deeply anti-Kemalist. FETÖ tried to establish control over the country, but not in order to rule it as Erdogan wanted, but in order to destroy it and sell it to their American CIA masters. That is the main difference. When FETÖ saw that they couldn't achieve their goal working with Erdogan, they tried to organize the coup d`etat. That is how the situation looks like from outside.
And here we must turn to geopolitics. We need to introduce new distinctions into the geopolitical sphere. Today in Trump's America we see clearly two groups – the globalists and the patriots (nationalists). Trump may look not too sympathetic, but he represents a national administration. Gülen, on other hand, was part of a globalist strategy. The Globalists need to destroy everything that strengthens Eurasianism and multipolarity. They insist that there is only one system of values – those of the liberal West, and that these values should be accepted universally, by every nation on earth. You have tobe liberal, you have no choice. If you are not liberal or not liberal enough for their taste, they will bomb you, organize regime change operations and punish you at their will. If you are not unconditionally under their power, you will be treated as enemy of the open society and dealt with accordingly.
When Erdogan first showed signs of developing a good connection with Russia, defending national sovereignty and not willing to be controlled by the globalist sect, the globalists decided to destroy him.
The downing of the Russian plane was not Turkey's decision – this action was organized by FETÖ in order to destroy the agreement between Mr. Putin and Mr. Erdogan concerning Syria. What is happening in Syria now? Russia let the Turkish army enter, and as far as I know, this was planned before (!) the downing of Russian plane in the fall of 2015. Putin was furious not because the plane was shot down, but because of the feeling of being betrayed by his Turkish ally. He saw the action as incomprehensible and irresponsible and that this was Erdogan`s personal decision– and this is afterhaving made the agreement regarding Syria. This was a terrible moment.
Later an unofficial delegation of Kemalist military leaders close to the Vatan party of Doğu Perinçek was sent to Russia. While in Moscow, this group claimed that there was a conspiracy against Erdogan being organized by CIA-groups and FETÖ. They also suggested that Russia should take Erdogan`s side and end the current confrontation. When I came to Turkey in March of 2016, I met people close to Mr. Erdogan (including leader of Turkish Eurasian Movement Hassan Cengiz and other important people), and they confirmed the information that the Parallel Devlet is growing in strength, that it was behind the downing of Russian plane and that they are preparing a new coup. One of their main goals is to destroy the Eurasian alliance between Russia and Turkey. We were trying to preserve our good relations, to avoid war, and at that very moment the gülenist sect came to the center of our mutual relations.
In Russia, we already long ago shut down and prohibited the gülenist groups, and at first Erdogan protested our actions. But Russian special services saw clearly that the group was an Atlantisist (globalist) instrument working against Russian national interests. We had no choice but to prohibit such a dangerous organization.
After Erdogan apologized for downing the plane, the situation became totally clear – these were not only diplomatic words, they were a clear sign to everybody – we are going to reestablish a Eurasianist Moscow-Ankara geopolitical axis.
I was in Turkey again on the 15th of July, 2016. I visited the mayor of Ankara in his office, and one hour later a group of putschists arrived. During this meeting discussed precisely the Parallel Devlet and its growing opposition to Erdogan.
On July 15th I was on Turkish TV a few hours before the coup started, and I told the Turkish public that something was going to happen, because the Atlantisists (globalists) would absolutely respond to the refoundation of our strategic partnership – of course I didn't know it would happen so soon, let alone before I left Turkey. Before I knew it I was in the airport encircled by putschists. Perhaps they were waiting for Erdogan's plane. Flights were cancelled, it was a dangerous moment – I did everything I could in order to support Mr. Erdogan. Putin only had confidence in Russian patriots – everybody with serious commercial interests in Turkey were cast out, Putin wouldn't listen to them at all, he considered national interests to be much more important than economic gains or losses. Our positive understanding of Russian-Turkish relations is based on the calculations of Russian national geopolitical interests and on Eurasian strategy – something other than pure economy. Certainly Putin had all the necessary information gathered from intelligence or through other channels… but the most important thing is not information - the most important thing is interpretation of information. In light of FETÖ's role in the geopolitical struggle against Eurasia we provided our government with all the pieces of this geopolitical puzzle (the downing of the plane and later – the coup).
The coup was defeated by the Eurasianists, by Erdogan, by the Turkish people, and by the military (Kemalist) circles who refused to participate, choosing to support Erdogan instead of the Parallel Devlet. The Turkish people saved Turkey. They were the real heroes on July 15th.
There was one more desperate attempt to destroy this Eurasian axis - the murder of our ambassador Mr. Karlov. But if you notice, this didn`t provoke an acute reaction from Moscow, because it was not considered as the treason of betrayal of friendship (as it had been in the first stage of the plane crisis) but just an episode in the war between the Eurasianists (Turkey and Russia) and Atlantisists (FETÖ and other networks of enemies). In the course of common actions to save Syria from destruction, we are developing a deeper and deeper strategic partnership – Erdogan's Turkey and Putin's Russia. I would like to thank our Azeri friends and the president of Azerbaijan Mr. Aliyev who played a very important role in saving Russian-Turkish relations, and to stress the role of Azerbaijan as a strategic partner of Russia and Turkey. That was very important for us, and we are very grateful for his support in maintaining positive relations and being part of the Eurasian Slavic-Turkish alliance.
To conclude this speech, I would like to say that after the elections there is only one future path for Turkey –a Eurasian path, which is the true Turkish path, and signals the return to Turkish greatness. That doesn't mean only an alliance with Russia – Eurasianism is the identity of Turkish people, that is partly European, but also partly traditional, conservative, religious and Asiatic. It is precisely the same with us – we have a lot in common.
As the French globalist philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy pointed out in Amsterdam recently (2017 during Nexus Institute conference), today we are seeing a reemergence of the three traditional Empires – Russian, Persian and Turkish (Ottoman). Bernard-Henri Levy blamed Russia for letting this happen, because for globalists it means the end of hegemony. We should learn lessons from the past – our three Empires fought against each other, but who was the winner? The West. So, Turkish-Russian war - never more. We are good fighters, we have proven that – but now we need to be good strategists. It is time to develop a strategy to win, so we need to focus more on soft power, on intellectual power.
A strategically oriented Eurasianist Russian-Turkish geopolitical alliance is the future for Turkey, and the ideological confirmation of the great political victory that Erdogan has achieved. He has proved victorious in the politicalchallenge – now, I think, he will need confront the ideologicalchallenge. Mr. Erdogan should propose to the Turkish people a new ideological way, a new vision of Turkish identity based on its eternal roots and restoring the greatness of Your beautiful people. Erdogan has proven that he is the true Turkish leader and has defeated, in mortal combat, his own shadow – the Parallel State of FETÖ. But now the challenge is different. He has won the present, and now he has to win the future. However, this is impossible for one man, even surrounded with good friends and advisers. You need Russia and other Eurasianist countries help your in order to create this future. It is impossible to do everything on your own– you need our help, you need collective Eurasianist intellectual efforts.
That is the challenge for all of us - first of all for you, for the intellectual elite of Turkey -- to create and propose this future for your people and for all of us.


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Is Anybody Watching My Do-Gooding?
The difference between being a hero and being an altruist.
By Katy Waldman
Oct 20, 201411:46 AM
Bruce Wayne: altruist by day, hero by night?
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros./IMDb
Hero means everything and nothing. It encompasses the firefighters who rushed into the burning twin towers, long-distance runners who compete through chronic disease, and the wag on Twitter who makes a point you agree with. The highly specific, armor-bright figure of classical myth has grown a thousand faces. We still want him around (DC Comics recently announced 10 new superhero films to unspool over the next six years, including one about a her: Wonder Woman), but his omnipresence makes him easy to mock. Part of our ambivalence may also stem from the suspicion that his noble deeds are not as selfless as they seem, motivated instead by a thirst for attention, rational egotism, or even masochism.
What's the psychology of heroism? Is extreme self-sacrifice the result of a pained calculus, a weighing of desire and obligation, or an instinct? (Which would be more heroic? Does it matter?) In a study out last week in the journal PLOS ONE, Yale researchers recruited more than 300 volunteers to read statements by 51 contemporary "heroes." These men and women had all received the Carnegie Hero Medal for "civilians who risk their lives to save strangers"; the experimenters wanted to know whether they had acted without thinking or after exerting "conscious self-control" in order "to override negative emotions like fear."
The volunteers—and a computer algorithm, for safesies—analyzed the medal winners' statements for evidence of careful thought, or of unpremeditated action. Overwhelmingly, they found that day-savers rescue first and reflect second. As Christine Marty, a 21-year-old student who wrested a trapped senior citizen from her car during a flash flood, said, "I'm thankful I was able to act and not think about it." Study author David Rand noted that people playing economic games are similarly less likely to share resources when they ruminate about their moves, but more generous when they don't take time to consider strategy. Perhaps human nature is reflexively pure and kind (and corrupted by our hyper-rational, transactional society)—or perhaps, as Rand speculated, cooperation becomes an intuitive habit only after we see it paying off. (Quoth Zazu: Cheetahs never prosper.)
The Yale study adds to a rich tradition of scientific inquiry into altruism, generosity, and the better angels/cannily perceptive salespeople of our nature. Before diving in, though, it's worth noting that the hero and the altruist are made of slightly different stuff. While both act admirably, only one has, by definition, a superhuman, preternatural aura. That distinction raises the question of whether what we value in heroism is a kind of transcending of what we take to be our frail or selfish wiring. Generosity might retain its gleam if it's innate—but does heroism count as heroism if we're predisposed to it?
We may indeed be built for acts of kindness. Children engage in prosocial behavior early on, helping, giving, and empathizing. One-year-olds will comfort an experimenter in feigned distress. And a 2009 study by German psychologists revealed that 18-month-old toddlers often provide "spontaneous, unrewarded" help to adults, retrieving a dropped clothespin, for instance, or opening a cabinet for a researcher whose hands are full. It isn't just that the kids like feeling useful or picking up clothespins. When the experimenter seemed unruffled by the fallen pin or the closed cabinet, rates of helping declined.
Of course, it doesn't cost a lot to pick up an object from the floor (especially when you are 2 feet tall). So next, the researchers strewed obstacles between the clothespin and the child—complex motor movement is hard at that age!—and got the same results. Phase 4 was giving the child enticing toys to play with in one corner of the room and positioning the closed cabinet in the opposite corner. In order to do a mitzvah for the researcher, the toddlers had to leave behind the toys and walk precariously across the room. Many did. Nor did rewards for helping motivate them to help more. (In fact, suddenly introducing an extrinsic motivation can undermine the internal glow of doing good—and drive subsequent helping rates down. This overjustification effect is the bane of helicopter parents everywhere.)
Once we're older, research finds, the impulse to be nice doesn't go away. Brain scans show the activation of neural regions that process pleasure when we give to charity. Some people experience more activation—they find giving more pleasurable—than others. They are the ones who voluntarily donate the most in an experimental setting. (Stroke victims who suffer from lesions to selected brain areas may also exhibit pathological generosity.) But the question remains: Why do these so-called altruists take such joy in acting kindly?
One study, by researchers at Georgetown University, implies that the world's givers and helpers simply possess more empathy. Psychologist Abigail Marsh and her team recruited 19 people who had donated their kidneys to total strangers, and 20 people who had not. They flashed images of fearful, upset, or angry human faces at the volunteers while recording their brain activity with an fMRI machine. The donors and the control group generated similar scans, except for two details: In donors, the right amygdala, which governs emotional response, was 8 percent larger, and it showed enhanced activity. Previous tests had already revealed the opposite finding for psychopaths. These empathy-impaired subjects had amygdalae that fired less when distressed faces were presented. Though fMRI studies are in their infancy, this one implied that altruists just give more shits than do the rest of us.
Yet perhaps they pursue generous deeds for craftier reasons. In 2012, psychologists from Knox College in Illinois divided 78 students into 26 groups of three—some with two men and one woman, and some with two women and one men. The groups were asked to complete a task that would result in a financial reward, and one facet of the job was that a team member would need to plunge his or her forearm into a bucket of icy water for 40 seconds. Within each group, the volunteer who elected to "sacrifice" him- or herself to the bucket ("This hurts a lot more than people think it will, and … even more after you remove your arm from the ice," intoned the experimenter) was judged as more likeable and admirable than everyone else. That group member was also awarded more money when the teams decided how to split up their prize.
Perhaps predictably, intense rivalry broke out, especially between the men in male-male-female groups. Guys really wanted to wear the heroic, ice bucket-conquering mantle, gain social status, and impress the lady. The researchers concluded that engaging in "self-sacrifice" is "a profitable long-term strategy." "Competition … and 'showing off' are key factors in triggering altruistic behavior," they wrote.
Which brings us back to heroes. Despite all the prestige, money, and adoring lookers-on, at a certain point altruism no longer represents any kind of long-term strategy. Rather, its risks and sacrifices overwhelm its benefits.
The morbid, unspoken problem with studying real-life heroes is that they have a tendency to die. The three men who leapt in front of their girlfriends when a gunman opened fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater can't tell us what they were thinking and feeling. Nor can the Sikh temple president who lost his life shielding worshippers from a skinhead's bullets. Nevertheless, a few papers shed some light. In 2005, researchers ran personality tests on 80 Gentiles who risked their lives to shelter Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, as well as 73 bystanders. Two interesting commonalities arose among the "heroes": First, they were more likely to embrace, or at least tolerate, danger. Second, they were more likely to say they interacted frequently with friends and family. These findings expanded on a classic 1970 study of 37 Holocaust rescuers, in which researchers determined that the helping Gentiles were animated in part by "a spirit of adventurousness." (Related but more prosaic: Studies suggest that "sensation-seeking" is positively correlated with the willingness to give blood.) In 1984, scientists John P. Wilson and Richard Petruska determined that "high-esteem" college students—those who believed they were worthy and competent—more often rushed to aid an experimenter during a simulated explosion, while "high-safety" students, driven by a need for security and the desire to avoid anxiety, were less likely to lend a hand. In the realm of smaller, but still substantial, risk, 74 percent of kidney donors interviewed for a 1977 study said they put great faith and trust in people, compared with only 43 percent of non-donors.
The heroic picture that emerges here—confident, risk-taking men and women who believe in others and value their relationships—looks familiar. It's idealistic Peter Parker and grinning, goodhearted Indiana Jones. It's Buffy, Wildstyle from The Lego Movie, and Law & Order: SVU's Olivia Benson. Meanwhile, for show-offy altruists, there are philanthropic golden boys Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark, or that one male ally in your Twitter feed who always blurs the line between feminist support and benevolent sexism.
What about you or me? Will we be heroes when the moment calls? Maybe, if we don't overthink it.

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The Impact Institute was formed through the innovative partnership of Dakota Medical and the Alex Stern Family Foundations, who witnessed a need for charities that went beyond granting dollars and included a demand for knowledge and skills by nonprofit leaders, particularly around fundraising.
In 2005, the Impact Institute was founded to build the capabilities of others to make the greatest impact possible. With a goal to help improve the fundraising efforts of nonprofit organizations through assessment, training and coaching. It is designed to be a vehicle of innovation and collaboration to provide member charities with experiences that both enrich and equip them to reach their goals and unleash their potential to create an even greater impact for those they serve.
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A primeira temporada da série animada americana Adventure Time, criada por Pendleton Ward e exibida pelo Cartoon Network e suas subsidiárias regionais, foi transmitida entre 2009 e setembro de 2010. A série segure as primeiras aventuras de Finn, o Humano e Jake, o Cão. A temporada foi lançada em DVD na região 1 em 10 de julho de 2010; com uma posterior edição em Blu-ray em 4 de junho de 2013.

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Content Strategist: What On Earth Is That?
When I tell people that I am now a Content Strategist, I'm often greeted with a blank look and a polite nod…
In March, I finally became a Content Strategist, a profession I've been trying to get into since I took up the CIM Digital Marketing Diploma in 2015. However, when I tell people that I am now a Content Strategist, I'm often greeted with a blank look and a polite nod. I can't blame them. Until a few years ago I didn't even know that there was such a thing as content strategy.
My First Encounter. My first brush with content strategy was in 2012 when I was hired to become the "content person" of a startup digital marketing agency. As "Digital Content Strategist" for the agency, I wrote copy, of course. However, I also designed the structure of websites, wrote scripts for online videos and social media posts, and entered website content into software called "content management systems". It's not until I read the book Content Strategy by Kristina Halvorson that I found out what I was doing was "content strategy".
It Has Some Other Names Too! In Malaysia, where good writing isn't as cherished by organisations as I'd like, most companies don't even know they need content strategists let alone feel the need to hire one. But in truth, these people already exist in organisations. They are just called by other names: Head of content, Digital content manager, Web writer, Web editor to name a few. Even some social media managers have content strategy tasks.
So What Do They Do? This is an industry that loves jargon, and I'm not a fan of that because it makes this profession more "exclusive" than it is. (I'm not saying that it's not an amazing, fun job, but that they've existed in other forms in the print media.) But I concede there's a need for "special words" because it's pretty hard to describe what content strategists do succinctly. Some things content strategists do include content audits (analysing the content produced to see if it's done to the best practices), design editorial workflow (create a system where copy is created and published), governance (managing content in a way that works with the company's staff, policies and systems), write content marketing materials and last but definitely not least create a content strategy that will ensure the content produced will help a company achieve its goals
What skills do Content Strategists need? Content Strategy is a hybrid discipline itself. The content strategist has to get his or her hands dirty in every step of the content creation process. She or he must know what makes good copy, search engine optimisation, if a website will help or frustrate the user experience or UX, marketing principles that will guide her writing and content strategy and planning systems. Because not only will she be creating content she has to oversee the management of it. And that means a lot of documentation.
The personality of a content strategist. You must love learning – it will never stop in this industry because trends change lightning fast. Enjoy variety too, as I said, you will wear many hats in this job. Be okay with being uncomfortable. The steep learning curve is one. The "dealing with people and set systems" is another (governance). Which is why you must also and finally, be a people person. You are not just dealing with words, photos or videos. You'll be getting to know people, work with them and try to reason/negotiate and persuade them as you push forth your content strategy.
This is a new and vibrant profession. I really do hope the role becomes more in demand in Malaysia one day – it's kinda lonely being one of the few in town! Also, there's a dire need for better content management in Malaysia!
This is also a way for wordsmiths to move up a step in their careers. If you enjoy writing, planning, learning new things and are relatively web- and social-media savvy, this may be the career for you!
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these PNG files stablized position to show like these egg is live.
Sorry that I do not have a code. Please give me some ideas of this problem.

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Q: Change char to int or string in C# I am very new to C# sharp and this question may not be very well formulated, but here it goes.
I am currently generating a level consisting of more game objects. The map is generated by parsing a text file, this being my dictionary. Currently the code I have works perfectly if the index of the object does not go over 9, because of the char declaration.
I would like to know an approach on how to change this into an int maybe or into a string format (A-Z).
I attached a photo of my current "Map Generator", and highlighted the 10, which is currently read as 1 and 0.
private void CreateLevel() {

    Tiles = new Dictionary<Point, TileScript>();

    string[] mapData = ReadLevelText();

    int mapX = mapData[0].ToCharArray().Length;
    int mapY = mapData.Length;

    Vector3 maxTile = Vector3.zero;

    // Calculates the world start point, this is the top left corner of the screen, rememeber to use on the sprite the top left pivot point
    Vector3 worldStart = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, Screen.height));

    for (int y = 0; y < mapY; y++) // the Y position
    {

        char[] newTiles = mapData[y].ToCharArray();

        for (int x = 0; x < mapX; x++) // the X position
        {
            // Places the tile into the level
            PlaceTile(newTiles[x].ToString(), x, y, worldStart);
        }
    }

    maxTile = Tiles[new Point(mapX-1, mapY-1)].transform.position;

    cameraMovement.SetLimit(new Vector3(maxTile.x + TileSize, maxTile.y - TileSize));
}

private void PlaceTile(string tileType, int x, int y, Vector3 worldStart) {

    int tileIndex = int.Parse(tileType);

    // Creates a new tile and makes a reference to that tile in the newTile variable
    TileScript newTile = Instantiate(tilePrefabs[tileIndex]).GetComponent<TileScript>();

    // Uses the new tile variable to change the position of the tile

    newTile.Setup(new Point(x, y), new Vector3(worldStart.x + (TileSize * x), worldStart.y - (TileSize * y), 0));

    Tiles.Add(new Point(x,y), newTile);

}

A: The data format you are using is not possible to parse.
Think about it, there is no way of telling which of those digits are supposed to be interpreted as a pair "10" or a single "1" or even three "101".
In these scenarios, I would recommend redoing your file format to use characters instead of digit, giving you many more symbols to work with, and/or I strongly recommend using a delimiter like a , character between each of your. The file format CSV (Comma Separated Values) does exactly this.
You could create your levels in a spreadsheet program like Excel, Numbers (mac), LibreOffice, or an online spreadsheet tool like Google Sheets. You would do this by filling in the values in the cells, and then when you are done you would export / "save as" a .csv file.
You can parse the .csv file using a .NET library like CsvHelper (which I highly recommend using for reading CSV data in the real world)
Or, if you want to do it the quick and dirty way, you would read the file into memory using something like File.ReadAllLines, Trim() each line from the file, and then use Split(',') to split each line into its values. You can then iterate through your 2D array, and map it to another value if you prefer to do that!

A: I'd create an array of string to hold symbols, first of all -- probably "A"-"Z".  Then, change the char[] to unsigned int[] (and other changes to support that, like the ToCharArray() calls).
Then, when you place the tiles, instead of passing newTiles[x].ToString(), pass symbols[newTiles[x]].
(Truthfully, I'd probably make the symbol array char, and change the signature of PlaceTile(), if that's an option).


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Ask a Pilot with Spencer: What Is This Condensation on My Plane?
Spencer Marker, June 25, 2018
From a young age, Spencer has been fascinated by aviation. And as his aviation career took off, that passion has turned into a love for all things travel. Adventurous and always taking the road less traveled, he seeks travel that changes his perception of the world. Highlights from his journey include visiting Chernobyl in the Ukraine, skydiving in Switzerland, and SCUBA diving in Colombia. Spencer is currently a pilot for a major airline and resides in Redondo Beach, CA.
In our Ask a Pilot series, pilot Spencer Marker answers one of your aviation-related questions each week. See past installments here and submit your own to Whitney@johnnyjet.com.
For those of you that have noticed, it's been quite a while since I've posted a new Ask a Pilot. Well, to explain the delay: I got married to the woman of my dreams and went away on a fantastic honeymoon (stay tuned). But after all that excitement, I've gotten back to the daily grind of plying the skies and answering your questions. So that all being said, let's dive in!
Can you explain the condensation in the plane in my video?
— Johnny Jet
Hey Johnny, thank you for asking such a great question! And providing a nice visual aid to help people understand exactly the phenomenon you're talking about! The condensation you're seeing comes from the usage of the airplane's air conditioning system during hot and humid days. I'd even venture to guess your video was likely shot in Florida? During the normal use of the air conditioner on humid days, passengers can sometimes see condensation coming out of the vents. Let's take a little deeper look at how airplanes air conditioners work, and why they create such lovely special effects!
Air cycle machines
In large jet airplanes, the cabin is conditioned with air that has been run through an air cycle machine (ACM). This equipment, located either in the belly of the aircraft or in the tail, is commonly referred to by pilots as the air conditioning packs, or simply, the packs. The packs are the refrigeration unit of the aircraft's environmental control system (ECS). The ECS is responsible for the overall pressurization and temperature control of an airplane's cabin.
Air conditioning systems of a Sukhoi Superjet (Credit: A.Katranzhi via Wikimedia Commons)
As opposed to the air conditioning in your car, which uses a chemical refrigerant to cool the air, an ACM uses compressed air and physics to lower the air's temperature before it's ducted into the cabin. To accomplish this, unburned, compressed air is bled off the engine or APU (read more about the APU here). This highly compressed air is hot, sometimes over 150°C. So, the first stop to cool it down is a heat exchanger, which operates like your car's radiator, but instead uses ambient air to lower the temperature. From here, it's ducted to a compressor, which again raises both the temperature and pressure.
After passing through yet another air-to-air heat exchanger, this hot air is routed through an expansion turbine. A turbine is a wheel with vanes that used to extract work from compressed air. In an ACM this highly compressed, hot air, directed through this turbine, which spins like a pinwheel. In so doing, the air is allowed to expand, which drops the pressure and as a result, the temperature. Even during hot weather, the ACM can drop the air temperature below 0 °C. In addition, this spinning turbine is connected by a shaft to the compressor at the beginning of the cycle.
(You can actually hear the whine of the ACM from the jetway as you board Airbus and Boeing aircraft. You may think it's an engine, but its actually the pack compressor spinning away!)
After leaving the pack, this cold air is mixed with untreated hot air also bled from the engine, mixed to the desired cabin temperature, and ducted into the cabin. Controlling the release of this air out of the airplane is how cabins are pressurized too, but that's a story for another article!
Air conditioning fog on a Virgin America Airbus 320 (Credit: Spencer Marker)
So right about now, science-minded folks are thinking, "If the temperature is dropped that much in humid air, won't the cooled air come out as a fog?" That's correct: Left to its own devices, an ACM will drop the temperature below the dew point, causing the moisture in the air to condense and become visible.
Other than producing a nuisance fog, moisture and airplanes are largely not compatible. Left in a moist environment for long periods of time, an aircraft structure can corrode, leading to all sorts of issues. This is the principal reason cabin air is so dry. To combat this, engineers employ water separators in the ECS. This removes most of the humidity from the conditioned air, dumping it overboard (sometimes it's reused in the heat exchangers) to ensure the air entering the cabin is dry.
Luckily, air at altitude is relatively dry anyway, so the water separators have no trouble removing moisture from the air before it's ducted into the cabin. During humid days on the ground, however, the water separators can't remove all the moisture from the air, so sometimes this cooled fog makes its way into the cabin, resulting in a harmless special effect. This foggy air occurs so infrequently that it doesn't present a corrosion issue for the airplane.
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Thanks for asking such an awesome question, Johnny. I always love to dive into the nuts and bolts of how things work on the airplane and share them with my readers. The video you shared is a visible example of how the process of cooling the airplane works. While it might be concerning to some infrequent travelers, it's simply water vapor, benign to both passengers and the airplane alike.
Thanks again for the question! Have you seen the fog on an airplane like Johnny has? If so, share your comments below. And remember, if anyone has a burning aviation question or something you would like cleared up, drop us a line at Whitney@johnnyjet.com to get your question featured in an upcoming Ask a Pilot column.
Tailwinds,
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By Chris White@uzworm Aug 1, 2012, 10:02am CDT
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A host of events in the water will be getting gold medalists on August 1 as several swimming, diving and rowing competitions will be decided on Wednesday along with more Judo and Weightlifting events to continue the themes of the past several days. There are also plenty of other semifinal and group stage events to keep the day full.
The current medal count has the Americans at the top with 25, though China is nipping at their heels with 24. China also holds the most gold medals throughout the competition.
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Here's a list of all the events that will find gold medalists on Wednesday:
Men's K-1 (kayak)
Women's individual time trial (cycling)
Men's individual time trial (cycling)
Men's synchronized 3-meter springboard (diving)
Men's individual epee (fencing)
Women's individual sabre (fencing)
Men's individual all-around (gymnastics)
Women's 70 kg (judo)
Men's 90 kg (judo)
Women's pair (rowing)
Women's quadruple sculls (rowing)
Men's eight (rowing)
Women's 25-meter pistol (shooting)
Men's 200-meter breaststroke (swimming)
Women's 200-meter butterfly (swimming)
Men's 100-meter freestyle (swimming)
Women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay (swimming)
Women's 69 kg/152 lbs (weightlifting)
Men's 77 kg/170 lbs (weightlifting)
As usual, streaming is available on NBC's website if you have the proper credentials and the games are being shown on tape delay as well across the NBC network of channels.
For more coverage of local athletes at the 2012 Summer Games, stay with this StoryStream. For more news and analysis from London, be sure to visit SB Nation's Olympic hub.
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Miss Kathleen Fan is consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) at King's College Hospital and is also an honorary senior lecturer at King's College London.
During sixth form I decided that dentistry was the career for me, after being inspired by an enthusiastic dentist during some work experience. I liked the fact that dentistry involved contact with people and also involved working with your hands. I'd always enjoyed practical things like baking, cooking and art. But at this stage a career in OMFS had not crossed my mind.
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In OMFS we really are part of a large multidisciplinary team. We work alongside neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, orthodontists, dermatologists, physiotherapist and other medical and dental specialists, which is very enjoyable.
The hours in surgery are long and working in trauma and infection can sometimes be unpredictable but you learn to pace yourself. But I do have to plan my personal life around my surgical lists – this means an early night the day before surgery. You have to be very focussed during your work as a surgeon, but your training prepares you for this.
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Manchester bomber's Imam linked to Muslim Brotherhood
Mustafa Graf spoke alongside controversial Libyan cleric who supported extremist groups
Mustafa Graf also featured in photos with a senior Libyan politician who is part of the Muslim Brotherhood (AP)
A controversial Imam, who preached at the same mosque the Manchester bomber attended, also had links with a Muslim Brotherhood member in the Libyan government and the former Grand Mufti of Libya, who has shown support for extremist groups, it has been revealed.
It was discovered last week that Mustafa Graf, an Imam at Didsbury Mosque in Manchester, had seemingly called for armed struggle in Syria and Iraq in 2016, although he denies the accusation. Salman Abedi, who blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year and killed 22 people, was a regular attendee at the mosque.
Mr Graf is believed to know Mohamed Amari Zayed, who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and part of the UN-backed Presidency Council of Libya, which is supposed to pave the way for a new government. The preacher appeared in photos with Mr Amari Zayed at a 2015 conference in Brussels, according to Libyan news site Al-Marsad, which obtained the images and shared them with The National.
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A 2014 posting on the website of Youssef Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood cleric, appears to refer to Mr Graf as a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, which has been designated a terrorist group by the UAE over its Brotherhood links.
Mr Graf also spoke at Didsbury Mosque alongside the controversial former Grand Mufti of Libya, Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani. Mr Ghariani has previously shown admiration for the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC), an extremist coalition that held Libya's second city until last year. Deceased BRSC field commander Wissam Bin Hamid had previously appeared speaking in front of an ISIS flag.
One faction of the BRSC was Ansar Al Sharia, who are widely believed to have been behind the 2012 murder of US ambassador Christopher Stephens in Benghazi. Mr Ghariani has also been designated a terrorist by an array of countries including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt. He has previously condemned US airstrikes on the Libyan city of Sirte in 2016 when it was held by ISIS.
Mr Graf has often appeared on the Ghariani-owned Tanasuh TV and the Turkey-based Al-Nabaa. Through this and social media he has repeatedly attacked Dr Aref Nayed the former Libyan ambassador to the UAE and current presidential candidate. Dr Nayed is vehemently opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood and extremist groups.
Mr Ghariani is currently believed to be Tajoura, a suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. A coalition of groups and Islamist fighters based in Tajoura who Mr Ghariani supports have attacked a prison at Metiga airport in Tripoli run by a powerful brigade nominally operating under the UN-backed government's interior ministry.
The prison holds a range of people including ISIS fighters and the brother of the Manchester bomber Hashem Abedi, who stands accused of supporting terrorism.
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According to a document obtained by Al-Marsad, Mr Graf was barred from Libya during the 1990's until 2004 because of his extremist links. The 1990s saw an exodus of Islamist fighters from Libya amid a crackdown from Colonel Gaddafi. These included the Manchester bomber's father Ramadan, who is believed to be a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which has extensive links to Al Qaeda.
After the recording of Mr Graf seemingly encouraging violent armed struggle emerged last week at a service at Didsbury Mosque as well as images of him and Salman Abedi attending protests, organised by the same group, that showed support for Islamist militias.
The mosque has insisted it and Mr Graf do not support terrorism. Despite multiple attempts to contact the mosque, no one was available for comment.
Updated: August 21, 2018 08:55 PM