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Q: Binary Tree - C code My problem is: I want to write a code that gets number from the user, put it on a binary tree and when the user types 0, print the tree in order. But, when I get, for example, 5 4 6 0, the correct result would be 4 5 6, but I get no output... Can anyone help me?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct TreeNode TreeNode;
struct TreeNode{
    int data;
    TreeNode* left;
    TreeNode* right;
};

TreeNode* newTree(){
    return NULL;
}

void insertNode(TreeNode* node, int value){
    if(node==NULL){
        TreeNode* tmp = malloc(sizeof(TreeNode));
        tmp->data=value;
        tmp->left=NULL;
        tmp->right=NULL;
    }

    else{
        if(value > node->data){
            insertNode(node->right, value);
        }
        if(value < node->data){
            insertNode(node->left, value);
        }
    }
}

void inOrder(TreeNode* t){
    if(t==NULL){
        return;
    }
    else{
        inOrder(t->left);
        printf("%d\n", t->data);
        inOrder(t->right);
    }
}

int main(){
    TreeNode* root = malloc(sizeof(TreeNode));
    TreeNode* aux;
    aux = newTree();
    root = newTree();
    int number, cont=0;

    while(1){
        printf("Type the number you want to add (0 to exit): ");
        scanf("%d", &number);
        if(number==0){
            printf("In order: \n");
            inOrder(root);
            return 0;
        }
        else{
            insertNode(root, number);
        }
        cont++;
    }

}//end of main

A: In your insert node function you're creating a new tmp node when the node you recieve from the parameter is NULL, but you never assign the pointer you sent as parameter TreeNode* node to the new node you created.
Another problem is performing malloc in the root node outside the insertNode function, as this will create a non-null node, without a data value. Then it'll enter the else in your function without any value to be compared, or worse, garbage. By removing it, the root node will be assigned as soon as you insert your first value, without any problems.
Finally, your insertNode should be passing the node by reference, in order to retain the new value it'll be assigned once malloc is performed, which would make the insert function look like this:
Edit: realized the question asked for C, not C++, corrected the code
void insertNode(TreeNode** node, int value){
    if(*node==NULL){
        TreeNode* tmp = malloc(sizeof(TreeNode));
        tmp->data=value;
        tmp->left=NULL;
        tmp->right=NULL;
        *node = tmp;
    }

    else{
        if(value > (*node)->data){
            insertNode(&(*node)->right, value);
        }
        if(value < (*node)->data){
            insertNode(&(*node)->left, value);
        }
    }
}

And removing the malloc from the main function:
int main(){
    TreeNode* root = NULL;// = malloc(sizeof(TreeNode));
    TreeNode* aux;
    aux = newTree();
    root = newTree();
    int number, cont=0;

    while(1){
        printf("Type the number you want to add (0 to exit): ");
        scanf("%d", &number);
        if(number==0){
            printf("In order: \n");
            inOrder(root);
            return 0;
        }
        else{
            insertNode(&root, number);
        }
        cont++;
    }

}//end of main

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Q: Manipulate a collection to produce a condensed version I'm currently stumped on a small piece of functionality that I can't seem to figure out.
Firstly I have a Stock class that looks as follows:
public class Stock
{
    public int Id;
    public int LocationId;
    public int Quantity;
}

Stock logs are returned from the database which are produced from another piece of functionality. The log is represented as a List<Stock> collection - however I need to add the Quantity property of each object of the same ID and LocationID combination, for example:

Original Data Set:
ID: 1    Location: 1    Quantity: 20
ID: 1    Location: 2    Quantity: 30
ID: 1    Location: 1    Quantity: 30
ID: 2    Location: 2    Quantity: 20
ID: 1    Location: 2    Quantity: 30
ID: 1    Location: 1    Quantity: 100

Should return:

Condensed Data Set:
ID: 1    Location: 1    Quantity: 150
ID: 1    Location: 2    Quantity: 60
ID: 2    Location: 2    Quantity: 20

To reiterate: The data set is dynamically returned from a database, there is no guarantee that there will be every ID & LocationID combination and I need the resultant data set to be unique on a compound key of ID and LocationID.
Not sure about the most effective way of going about this and it's holding back my progress with the project, any advice or approaches would be much appreciated. I'm kind of thinking this is a knowledge gap really but I've not been able to find anything appropriate / that fits my requirements (it's quite an odd requirement I guess).
Many thanks,
Andy

A: Use GroupBy to do this:
var grouped = (from s in stocks
                group s by new { s.Id, s.LocationId }
                    into grp
                    select new Stock()
                    {
                        Id = grp.Key.Id,
                        LocationId = grp.Key.LocationId,
                        Quantity = grp.Sum(x => x.Quantity)
                    }).ToList();

A: It would be better to do this on the database but you can also use GroupBy to achieve the exact same effect:
public class Stock
{
    public int Id;
    public int LocationId;
    public int Quantity;
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var list = new List<Stock>()
        {
            new Stock(){ Id = 1, LocationId = 1, Quantity = 20},
            new Stock(){ Id = 1, LocationId = 2, Quantity = 30},
            new Stock(){ Id = 1, LocationId = 1, Quantity = 30},
            new Stock(){ Id = 2, LocationId = 2, Quantity = 20},
            new Stock(){ Id = 1, LocationId = 2, Quantity = 30},
            new Stock(){ Id = 1, LocationId = 1, Quantity = 100},

        };

    var grouped = list.GroupBy(c => new {Id = c.Id, LocationId = c.LocationId})
            .Select(g => new
                 {
                      Id = g.Key.Id,
                      LocationId = g.Key.LocationId,
                      Quantity = g.Sum(a => a.Quantity)
                  });
    foreach(var group in grouped.OrderBy(c => c.Id))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Id:{0} - LocationId:{1} - Quantity:{2}", group.Id,
                 group.LocationId, group.Quantity);
    }
}

A: I will prefer to use SQL query something like this :
select id, location, sum(quantity) quant from stocktable group by id, location

This helps in getting the computation done at the db itself helping you in terms of performance. As the DB server will anyway read and give all the data to app layer, there is no performance penalty and you gain in terms of simplicity.

A: You can use Enumerable.GroupBy to perform the grouping and Enumerable.Aggregate (or, in this case the specialised Sum) to perform the aggregation.
Something along the lines of:
IEnumerable<Tuple<int, int, int>> result =
    stocks.GroupBy(stock => new { id = stock.Id, locationId = stock.LocationId},
                   (key, s) => new { key.id, key.locationId, total = s.Sum(ss => ss.Quantity) });

foreach (var result in results)
{
    Console.WriteLine(result.id);
    Console.WriteLine(result.locationId);
    Console.WriteLine(result.total);
}


Sometimes I like to change plans and improvise lunch and prepare something different than I originally planned. This is what happened this week, kids did not want eggs so looking into my fridge I realized that had everything I needed to make a healthy version of flat bread pizzas with veggie toppings!
Mix the ricotta with the herbs, lemon zest, some salt and pepper and the parmesan.
Place the flat bread on a baking sheet and spread the ricotta a mix on top of all of them. Put in the oven for 5-7 minutes until the bread gets crispy!
Remove form the oven and add the toppings you want, I made single toppings because each of my kids like different things but feel free to mix and match!


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A journey that takes the hero, Christian, through the varied landscapes that constitute life and through the events that happen to human beings is the plot of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Readers who have read and loved Louisa May Alcott's Little Women would recall the many references to this 17th century work of religious fiction. The Pilgrim's Progress is based on several values based in the teachings of Christianity. The importance of using the Bible as a guiding principle in life, of traveling not just geographically but also spiritually, the emphasis on community living and of the companionship of fellow people and many other themes. The story begins with a detailed explanation by the author in which he explains his beliefs about misconceptions in people's minds about religion and fiction. He examines the role of stories and parables in the Bible and how they are used to teach us certain lessons about life. The narration goes on to portray a dream that the narrator has once when he is wandering in the wilderness. In the dream, a man named Christian is visited by a spiritual guide called Evangelist who urges him to leave his home in the City of Destruction and embark on an arduous journey to the Celestial City. Christian's family and friends refuse to go with him and he finally leaves alone, carrying a heavy burden. The rest of the book describes the strange and laborious journey, punctuated by grief, disappointment, fear and many difficulties. Each of these incidents are portrayed as different people or places that Christian has to pass or overcome before he can continue on his journey and reach his final glorious destination. Written in the period between 1677-84 by writer/preacher John Bunyan whose own life was as eventful, fraught with suffering and misfortunes, The Pilgrim's Progress was written during one of his terms of imprisonment for violating religious laws. The book received enormous acclaim and went on to become one of the most popular religious texts in Christianity. It was translated into many languages and was used by preachers and missionaries the world over. The Pilgrim's Progress retains enormous appeal for its imaginative and lyrical prose, wonderful descriptions of landscape and travel, simple yet elegant style and also for the delightful touches of humor. Many of the names of places are phrases taken from the Bible, which went on to become common idioms. For modern-day readers, both young and old, Pilgrim's Progress is an interesting and inspiring read.
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The maestro of music AR Rahman was in the city today to launch the anthem of Premier Futsal League. The most interesting part of the event was when Rahman was asked an opinion on a biopic of RD Burman. Here's what he had to say.
The maestro of music AR Rahman was in the city today to launch the anthem of Premier Futsal League.
The most interesting part of the event was when Rahman was asked an opinion on a biopic of RD Burman. Here's what he had to say.
"I would love to see a biopic of Bismillah Khan sahab, Kumar Gandharva and Leela Sahastrabuddhe. In my opinion, the films have always shown the musicians suffering as an alcoholic, his wife abandons him and then he dies. Which is why I made my own production house - YM Movies and my movie 99 Padangal is about music. I want to change that."
Rahman along with his team has been researching about Indian raagas for the past five years. "We don't have a platform for exploiting musical themes, so it becomes boring. We have a set formula and the music is used more for promotion and less for exploring," he added.
Rahman has collaborated with the Virat Kohli for singing the anthem Naam Hai Futsal for which he was seen shaking a leg with the cricketer. He also revealed that Virat is a good singer who has a sense of rythm, so making him sing wasn't a task.


Hello everybody! Today I want to share with you a couple of layouts that I did for my Project Life album. I like to mix traditional layouts with pocket pages in my Project Life album, so let's start by looking at the project life pocket page that I did to document a recent date night out with my hubby.
I wanted to include a lot of pictures in this pocket page, so I only used three of the exclusive project life cards that come in the Hip Kit Club July kit – two 3x4 cards and one 4x6. And on the 4x6 I actually added a few more small pictures, so that in total on my pocket page I would have six pictures.
I think using the project life cards that come in the kit as journaling cards for your project life or decorative pieces are great, but they also function as a great matting so you can add even more pictures to your pocket page layout. I had fun playing with all the embellishments in the kit, especially the exclusive goodies like the acrylic pieces, the puffy stickers, the flare, and the ephemera.
I think this pocket page layout came out really vibrant and fun for the summer, and I hope you like it, too.
I also want to share with you the traditional layout I did for my project life album.
Because it goes across from my pocket page, I wanted to coordinate the two. For this reason, I used a lot of the same kind of elements and embellishments on my layout as I did on my project life page.
For my layout I cut down one of the exclusive patterned papers in the July kit from 12x12 to 9x12 so it would be the same size as my pocket page. I used the pretty, pink polka dot paper designed by Kim Watson to be my background, and, with the Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith rainbow patterned paper, I layered and stitched a mat for my large, focal photo.
For these I used a combination of puffy stickers, die-cut patterned paper, glitter thickers, exclusive thickers, and ephemera from the July kit. I hope you like my layouts and that I've inspired you to create a traditional layout and a coordinating pocket page layout, using the July Hip Kits, for your project life album!


This pretty blue and ecru runner measures 62" x 20," with a "faux" monogram medallion in the center. On opposite ends is an "A" and a "D." They don't stand for anything in particular; rather, the design was taken from some antique French linens. So don't worry if they don't match your monikers!


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Mac Tonnies and Other Digital Ghosts in The New York Times
Rob Walker wrote a long piece on "digital ghosts" – the online remnants of people who have died. He talks quite a bit about Mac Tonnies:
I spoke to a half dozen people Mac Tonnies met online and in some cases never encountered in the physical world. Each expressed a genuine sense of loss; a few sounded grief-stricken even more than a year later. Mark Plattner, who lives in St. Louis and met Tonnies a dozen years ago through the comments section of another blog, decided that Posthuman Blues needed to survive. He used software called Sitesucker to put a backup of the entire thing — pictures, videos, links included — on a hard drive. In all, Plattner has about 10 gigabytes of material, offering a sense of Tonnies's "personality and who he was," Plattner says. "That's what we want to remember." He intends to store this material through his own hosting account, just as soon as he finds time to organize it all.
Plattner was one of several online friends who got involved in memorializing Tonnies and his work. Dia Sobin, an artist who lives in Connecticut, met Tonnies online around 2006; they communicated often by e-mail and phone, but never met in person. She created art for Tonnies's site and for the cover of what turned out to be his final book. Less than two weeks after he died, she started a blog called Post-Mac Blues. For more than a year, she filled it with posts highlighting passages of his writing, reminiscences, links to interviews he gave to podcasters and bloggers, even his Blip.fm profile (which dutifully records that he listened to a song from "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today," by David Byrne and Brian Eno, at 4:16 p.m. on the last day he lived). Her site is "a map to Mac Tonnies," Sobin says. "And a memorial."
"I only ever knew him over Twitter," Sarah Cashmore , a graduate student in Toronto, told me. She shared his enthusiasm for design and technology and learned of his death from Twitter contacts. "I was actually devastated," she says. A few months later, she teamed up with several other members of Tonnies's Twitter circle to start a second Tonnies-focused blog, Mac-Bots.
This outpouring of digital grief, memorial-making, documentation and self-expression is unusual, maybe unique, for now, because of the kind of person Tonnies was and the kinds of friends he made online. But maybe, his friend Rita King suggests, his story is also a kind of early signal of one way that digital afterlives might play out. And she doesn't just mean this in an abstract, scholarly way. "I find solace," she told me, "in going to Mac's Twitter feed."
New York Times: Cyberspace When You're Dead
(Thanks Chris Arkenberg)
Walker also covers various services for dealing with one's digital life posthumously and transhumanist notions of immortality.
See also: Technoccult interview with Sarah and Mark on MacBots.
Remembering Mac Tonnies
March 18, 2010 / Klint Finley
Mac Tonnies was a ufologist, the author of After the Martian Apocalypse and The Cryptoterrestrials, and the blogger behind Posthuman Blues. He died on October 19th, 2009 due to heart complications.
The Cryptoterrestrials was released posthumously on March 15th, 2010. Fortunately, Mac gave numerous interviews on the subject of his book prior to his death, including this one with the Ballardian and an interview on Coast to Coast AM.
Since his death, a dedicated community of friends and readers has been working to preserve his legacy. Blazingbetta (aka Sarah Multiverse) has started a Mac Tonnies tribute site, and Capn Marrrk has been hard at work archiving Posthuman Blues. I talked to both of them via instant message.
Above: Blazingbetta
Klint Finley: How did you discover Mac and his work?
Blazingbetta: I met Mac through Twitter. He was a friend of a transhumanist friend of mine, and I noticed he got retweeted a lot. I just started checking out his feed, which often led to his website.
I went ahead and introduced myself to him one day, once I had added myself to be a follower. He added me back and pretty much from that point we were conversing weekly. Our mutual friend told me he was a writer, so I did a bit of digging, and came to know what kind of stuff he wrote about.
Did you ever get to meet him in person?
No, but we had plans to meet. I live in Toronto, Canada, and he kept mentioning through the summer that he was planning to come to Halifax, I think, to shoot a TV series on the paranormal in November, and we were going to try to fit in a visit while he was up here. Unfortunately, he passed away in October.
I never got to meet him either. I really regret that.
I totally regret it, too! He would have loved Toronto, and said often he always wanted to visit. besides that, he seemed like a really fun guy to spend time with!
Can I ask how you came to know him?
It was one of two places, I can't remember which: either the sTaRe group blog or the Cabal blog aggregator that grew out of sTaRe.
Both our blogs were on Cabal. But I think we may have originally 'met' through sTaRe. Either way, around 2003-2004.
Cool. Wow, that's a long time…! I wasn't that familiar with paranormal/ufo stuff when I first met him, I visited his site mostly because he had such an eye for design… but then I got to know what kind of stuff he researched, and then I was impressed by how level-headed he was about the whole thing.
Above: Mac's final "women in tubes" find.
Do you have a particular favorite post his or link that he found?
I could hardly pick a favourite… I love his photography, he had a great eye for beauty, for details… I like his really old science fiction cover art, and of course his obsession for women in tubes… I love his architecture and design posts, oh my god his whole site was amazing… One that I guess stands out was that we had a thing going for a while with the triceracopter, we both couldn't believe how awesome it was, and laughed about it for weeks, so that might be my favourite.
He'd come up with these scenarios that the triceracopter was good for. He had me in stitches all the time.
So what made you decide to start a tribute site?
A couple reasons, I guess. In the first place, I guess I wanted to preserve the sense of community that had developed as a result of his death. You see, I had met many people through Twitter just as a result of sharing condolences and updating people on what we knew of the situation (no one really knew what had happened, and it was kinda crazy the first week or two) I had seen these people on Twitter through mac's retweets, but I began to seriously talk to them only after his passing.
It struck me that so many of these people that I had met were creative or artistic in some way.
So on the one hand, I thought that creating a site just for fan art would be a fun way to commemorate the special person he was.
When I suggested that, people picked up on it right away, and i thought, well if people like the idea and want to remember this special time, maybe we could even put the art into print for ourselves to have a lasting piece I guess I was thinking that a site like this would also help with the grieving process.
Also, Mac's lasting impact seemed, for most people, to be his sense of joy and imagination… he just seemed to inspire people.
So I thought, when his final book comes out, let's all be imaginative with him. I knew once I had the book in my hands, I would be illustrating to it, and I thought others would have fun doing that, too. I guess that's how it REALLY started in my head… just a way to have fun with our last message from mac…and once I got thinking about it, i realized it might be healing for people, too.
You're planning on compiling material there into a book?
It's a possibility, and I make that clear in my first or second post there. The idea is not to create something to make money off of, it is more to just take the images/words and create a commemorative picture book or something. It's pretty easy to get things in print nowadays. I guess it's still only an idea, because its hard to say what the site will become, if anything. If it becomes a place where people do indeed post illustrations, photography, poetry, and other kinds of design like I first envisioned, then I think that would work really well as a big coffee-table book. If it turns out that people just want to share links to other sites and cool books that Mac would've liked, then that doesn't translate so well. But whatever, we'll take it as it goes.
So you're taking a kind of hands off approach in terms of how it develops?
I guess so. I don't really see myself as a blog owner here, just a facilitator. I like to facilitate great ideas. And this, I think, is a great idea. But it's not up to me. I can't force people to create; they have to do that out of their own hearts.
I personally would love to have a big book of images of creativity inspired by Mac… doesn't that sound awesome?!
It does sound awesome. I'd also like to maybe do something with audio. I played a Halloween show not long after he died and used some sample of his voice as a tribute. But I'd like to do something more.
Aw, that sounds amazing. See, I would love to have something like that on the site, but it doesn't translate well into a coffee table book.
Well, maybe if enough people contribute we could have a CD that could be a companion to the book or be packaged with it or whatever.
That would be so awesome. I would do it.
See, this is what I love. Collaborating and trying to think creatively. That's what Mac was ALL about.
Above: Alien with a Mac Tonnies button, by isoban.
I really like the alien with a Mac Tonnies button that's been posted there.
Isn't that awesome?! Its kind of an ongoing joke around twitter lately. Lately, as in the last number of months.
What do you think it is about Mac and his work that people find so alluring?
A couple things. First, he was incredibly optimistic, even in the face of ignorance and dismissal that he would have encountered all the time. He was a trooper, and encouraged others to be.
Second, he was a fresh breath of reasonability. He took a "problem" or issue that has been around for decades and tried to cut through the mysticism and secrecy, whatever, and tried to get down to points that we could not only use, but that might help people or just be fun to know.
I think we are starving for this kind of a direct approach, in our day in age, and Mac provided it, without any hint of arrogance.
Lastly, and most of all, probably, his legacy is lasting because he was full of joy and wonderment and his unbounded enthusiasm about what our world and universe had to offer us was truly contagious. and lasting.
Have you read The Cryptoterrestrials yet?
I'll be honest. I have not read The Cryptoterrestrials yet. In the first place, it is not available on Canadian sites yet, and his publisher suggested to me that I wait a bit for it to come out on The Book Depository website, which offers free worldwide shipping
In the second place, I am still gearing myself up to read it. I have barely been able to visit his site, Posthuman Blues, without becoming emotional, and just last night was the first time since his passing that I could bring myself to watch a video of him and hear his voice.
To receive his last message is honestly going to be one of the harder things I'll ever have to do.
Sounds weird to feel this way about an internet friend, but he seriously broke down any kind of barriers with his outgoing personality and that smile
I understand. When I read that it was out I felt sad all over again. I haven't read it yet either.
Totally. It brings back every bit of the loss. Because a conversation goes two-ways. That's just how we function. So to only be able to be part of half of that seems wrong, even scary. But Mac's friends are pushing through, you know? And being unbelievably open and honest about how they're feeling. I admire them all.
Left: Mac Tonnies. Right: Cap'n Marrrk
Klint Finley: How did you meet Mac?
Cap'n Marrrrk says: I first met Mac through Bsti Natosi's Chapel Perilous, which I went seeking after reading R.A.W.'s Prometheus Rising…but there was no relation between Bsti's site and R.A.W. I stuck around anyway.
And this goes way back in Internet years before 2000.
And you guys met in person as well right?
Yeah we met twice…
Mac started PostHuman Blues in 2003, but he was posting at Chapel Perilous before then or at least commenting there.
Then after following him for a few years he told me he was coming to Saint Louis, which was great because he only lived a state away. He was the first person from the Internet, that I had met in person. He came to town with his girlfriend, who was a local, and we had a brief lunch at a Thai Pizza Place.
The first visit was very brief, only lunch. Then the second one, was dinner at the same Thai place, then we went to a performance of choreographed by his girlfriend.
You've been working with his parents on archiving his online work. How's that coming along? Will it be hosted in the same place or somewhere else?
So, when it was discovered he died the first think I thought of, as did many, "What will happen to PHB and Mactonnies.com?" No one had any answers, so I just grabbed everything. The story is, Mac had a recurring charge on his credit card, but no one really knew what it was attached to. His parents picked up the charge, and I don't think they'll let it lapse, but maybe if they know his work is safe, we can save them some money.
As far as hosting it goes, Doctor Menlo offered up some space. But just last week, I bought some hosting and I'm going to host my own site there. But they've given me 150 gigs. So I can host it at my space.
Hosting is dirt cheap these days.
What I discussed with his parents was to leave it all on line, and let people take from it what they want or need in a fair use basis. I don't think Mac would have wanted to lock down his writing. And I'm not really worried about plagerism. His works and ideas are very selective.
There's been an amazing community of people spring up around Mac since his death. I was just talking to Blazingbetta about the tribute site she started. What do you think it is about Mac and his work that was affected people so much?
Mac was (I don't like saying "was") earnest in his desire to stay neutral, and had a curiosity which was infective. He also didn't take himself too seriously, and had a very dry sense of humor about himself.
Mac was also very vulnerable. And in me, I felt protective and extreme sympathy towards what I saw as his difficulty in living in Kansas City. Because he was way to smart, and way to weird for that town.
As you can see, Mac had a wide range of interests. So he had an ability to draw people in. And through Macs passing I've met several people with whom I'm very sympatico.
Above: a fake tombstone Mac generated in 2004
The Cryptoterrestrials is out, plus Mac Tonnies tribute site
Mac Tonnies posthumous book The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us is out from Anomalist Books.
I would have loved to interview Mac on this occasion. Seeing that the book is out makes me sad all over again. I look forward to reading it very much.
There's also a new Mac Tonnies tribute site up.
RIP Mac Tonnies
October 23, 2009 / Klint Finley
I was just catching up on tweets and learned, via Captain Marrrk, that Mac Tonnies has passed away. I'm in shock. This is just so sad:
Nick just called to tell me that our friend and colleague Mac Tonnies was found in his apartment this (Thursday) afternoon, apparently dead of natural causes. There was no evidence of foul play or suicide according to a close friend.
It is hard to find the right words to describe my feelings at this moment.
The last time we talked was just after his appearance on Coast To Coast on September 28th. He asked if I thought he had done a good job. I said he hit one over the fence. Tentatively, I asked if he would consider collaborating on a fiction project, and he liked the idea. Now, I don't really know what to do or say.
The manuscript of Mac's last book was apparently complete and ready to be delivered to the publisher.
Nick will have his feelings and more details to follow, but Mac's family have been informed, and we wanted to get the news out to people who either knew Mac, or were inspired by his original and highly intelligent contributions to the study of UFOs and other anomalies, as well as many aspects of leading-edge science and technology.
Just an indescribable loss. In the next day or so, perhaps I'll have more to say.
From: UFO Mystic: Mac Tonnies Gone
Update: Some info about Mac's heart problems


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Solar Tuki
A solar tuki is a rechargeable solar lighting system that is used in Nepal to replace kerosene lamps commonly used by villagers. It includes two lamps that have white LED lights powered by an individual solar panel . [1] In 2004, Anil Chitrakar Engineers and Babu Raj Shrestha collaborated with their respective organizations, Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness and Renewable Energy Center, to produce, distribute, and further develop the solar tuki in Nepal. [2] Their organizations sell solar systems, including solar panel, for $ 28 US dollars, and the individual lamp is sold for $ 11.
The typical solar cell has 3 watt solar panel that charges a battery ( NiMH or Li-ion ) connected to two 0.4 watt white LED lamps. [3] In addition to being used as a solar power, it has the ability to power a radio, and charge a mobile phone. An added feature that can be used is a chlorinator , which is used to treat water. The charging time of the lamps varies by how long the solar panel is kept in the sun, and the strength of the sunlight on a given day. Anil Chitrakar, co founder and developer of solar tukis, claims that the lamp can work for you. [2]
The research and development of Solar Tuki is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Asian Institute of Technology . It was developed from May 1999 until the final model of Solar Tuki was completed in December 2003. [4]
The organizations that advocated the growth of solar energy in Nepal are the Center for Renewable Energy (CRE) and Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA). These two organizations have worked together since the establishment of the solar tuki program in 2004. [5] The advancement of ECCA's and CRE's efforts in Nepal have been funded primarily by the multiple awards and competitions that have been endowed by several environmentally aware agencies. These donations were allocated by the Global Environment Facility , which donated $ 50.00, and the World Bank Development Marketplace Award , which awarded ECCA another $ 92.00.
ECCA's involvement
Environmental Camps for Conservation has been the leader in influencing the availability of solar tuki in Nepal. They have influenced other organizations, like CRE, to work together to provide you with the best price Nepalis . Since the solar tuki project's training, there have been over 130,000 solar tuki lights distributed throughout Nepal. [5]
ECCA created a micro financing system in order to reach even the poorest individuals. The system allows you to pay $ 2.30 per month for two years. This pricing includes a 5-year warranty and services to repair the lantern if damaged. [2] They set up the market to encourage entrepreneurs to compete in the distribution of solar tuki's. ECCA did not make it cheaper to buy solar power, but it was cheaper than it was in Nepal. [5] ECCA has service centers in Kathmandu and Eastern Nepal to help local entrepreneurs learn how to build solar tukis and give advice on business aspects of starting an energy enterprise, such as natural resource management. Over 13 local manufacturers take part in constructing and selling solar in different areas of Nepal. [2]
To further help the poor villages, ECCA has set up the community charging stations. These charging centers allow the community members to charge their lamps from one large 36-50 watt photovoltaic solar panel . One 50 watt solar panel can charge up to 40 lamps at once. The idea behind these communities is that they will only pay $ 11 for the lamp, instead of $ 28 for the solar panel. [2]
They also set up buildings called service centers. Service centers serve as a place where villagers can go to have maintenance and replacements done to their tukis. ECCA individual trains on repairing the solar lamps so that they can always be available at the service centers. Manufacturers provide service centers with spare parts for repairs. [4]
The solar tuki was created to be used as a tool to improve the quality of life for the Nepali people. Its various functions has helped the people in many aspects of their lives. Criticisms of the solar technology have been the cost of the technology. Even with maximum efforts to reduce costs, the price is still high. Some villagers do not need it to invest in the solar energy if they already own a source of light (kerosene lamp). [6]
Health and economic benefits
With the solar cell replacing the traditional kerosene lamps, the health of individuals has been improved due to the lack of smoke produced. Previously, soot from the kerosene lamps had caused eye irritation and coughing. Fire safety has also improved due to the lack of a flame inside households. With the absence of kerosene in the solar tuki, villagers save considerable amounts of time which they would spend acquiring fuel . Monthly expenses which would be spent on fuel are also allowed to be allocated to their income to other necessities. [7] The introduction of the solar energy market has strengthened the economy of rural Nepal. Employment opportunities become available in the business of manufacturing and distributing tuki's. [4]
Educational benefits
The brightness of the LED bulbs illuminates smaller areas than the kerosene lamp, which helps people with tasks such as cooking and studying at night. Some schools in Nepal give students a solar tuition. This requires the students to come back to their tukis, which has increased student attendance. [6] The ability to power a small radio from the solar panel provides unlimited use, without worrying about electricity costs. Therefore, villagers can have access to important information. [4]
Jump up^ "Tuki-In Solar, Kerosene Lamp-Out" . World Bank Group . Retrieved 22 October 2013 .
^ Jump up to:a b c d e Chitrakar, Anil; Babu Raj Shrestha. "The Tuki: Lighting up Nepal" . Retrieved 23 October 2013 .
Jump up^ Bhandari, Ramchandra. "Electrification using solar photovoltaic systems in Nepal" . doi : 10.1016 / j.apenergy.2009.11.029 . Retrieved 22 October 2013 .
^ Jump up to:a b c d Shrestha Prachet. "A Clean Solar Alternative to Kerosene Lamps, Nepal" .
^ Jump up to:a b c "Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness" . Retrieved 22 October 2013 .
^ Jump up to:a b Prestero Timothy. "Better by Design" .
Jump up^ "Solar Tuki in Kantipuri village" . ECCA.


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Master

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Review – Just Go With It
Jennifer Aniston specialises in making mediocre romantic comedies while Adam Sandler is the go to guy for pedestrian goofball humour. Essentially they are two negative forces so teaming them up should create a positive right? Wrong! Two wrongs don't make a right in the case of 'Just Go With It' that tells the story of plastic surgon Danny (Adam Sandler) who pretends to be married to pick up women. When the girl of his dreams Palmer (Brookyln Decker) wants to meet his 'fake wife', Danny enlists the help of his assistant Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) and her children to trick Palmer. 'Just Go With It' is a romantic comedy mess with the stock standard humour from every Adam Sandler film of the last 5 years, I counted 3 people getting hit in the nuts and one person getting pooped on…not much has changed.
I have to admit I was once a big fan of Adam Sandler especially his stand up and early work on Saturday Night Live. As a teenager I had Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison on repeat and till this day I still love those movies and I understand the stupidity of his humour. Everything went pear shaped after he hit big time fame and he has consistently churned out the same crap year after year which is when I cashed in my stocks in Adam Sandler. A lot people will watch this movie and say, 'yeah, but what did you expect? It's an Adam Sandler movie,' but I guess they're the same people who go to a dodgy kebab joint because they love the explosive gastro that follows the day after.
I'm not going to waste time talking about this movie because it's the worst of both the Sandler and Aniston worlds. A big dumb romantic comedy that's light on laughs.
The Popcorn Junkie
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Few weeks ago I absolved lovely day trip to falls in Connecticut, in Kent Falls State Park. These falls are mostly known for local people and I must say, I've never heard of Kent Falls State Park before I came to Connecticut. Tourists don't know about this place, so if you're looking for a quiet place where not everyone had been, stop by and enjoy what Kent Falls offer and trust me, here you can do what you can't even think of on another places. Let me explain.
Kent Falls became Connecticut's eighteen state park in 1919 with a gift of 200 acres by White Memorial Foundation and by this day, it's area takes little more over 295 acres. Kent Falls include series of cascades that descend over 250 feet through the forest. To discover this spectacular place by visitors, there was build the Kent Falls Trail which is long quarter mile and takes you up to the falls. Just don't forget to wear appropriate shoes, not as me. I've done this in flip flops and survived without broken bones. As you're ascending, you can stop by on one of many viewing platforms to enjoy this beautiful cascades and take pictures. You don't have to be worried about other people on the pictures, there aren't many of them. This is big advantage of barely known places like this.
Right on the bottom of Falls, there is large pick nick area, favorite especially for families with young children. While walking around here, I've seen lot of children playing in the water, while their parents were preparing dinner on grill. Many people just drive here to walk their dogs or enjoy sunshine on green lawn. Next to the pick nick area, there is big parking lot (maybe unnecessary big) for your vehicle. There are few parking spots for disabled people, so if you're disabled you can come and enjoy this beauty, as well. Falls are wheelchair accessible, expect of the Kent Falls Trail.
As I wrote, this state park is not that popular for tourists, although you will find lot of boards with warnings, that coming off the trail is prohibited, but nobody pay attention. It's wrong that people are not paying attention to the boards, because this ecosystem is weak and we want to save it for further generations, but on the other hand, if you ever wanted to swim in waterfalls, you can try it here. Many of my friends have done it and spammed my Facebook page. I skipped entering the waterfall, just walk little bit in the water and it was very cold what didn't surprise me.
Kent Falls State Park is one of those places you always find by accident and nobody knows about them. If you will ever have travels around Western Connecticut, consider stopping by and make picture under, or behind the waterfall.


Many Electronic Arts games based on the FrostByte engine allow you to open a console window that you can use to type in console commands, many of the allow you to enable or disable special functions, for example to benchmark your system or to play around with hidden graphic settings. This is not much different in Mass Effect Andromeda. In this short guide you will learn how to open the Mass Effect Andromeda console window.
To open the console window, just press the tilde key (~) on your keyboard. The console window should now be opened and now you can type whatever command you want to use, and after that you just need to confirm your input with the return key. To close the console, just press the tilde key (~) again on your keyboard.
If you want to find out what kind of commands you can use, type "list" into the console without the quotation marks, or check my up to date list of all Mass Effect Andromeda console commands. If you want to find out more tricks, check out my Mass Effect Andromeda article section.
I hope this short guide was helpful. Feel free to check the comment section if you want to share additional knowledge, it might help other people too.


Right before Christmas break I finally participated to my first site meeting with David Bers. I was surprised by the incredible organization for every particular: the items to discuss, the path to follow inside the building, the famous agenda. The cold was another problem to solve, and American attention to safety and self-care were also ready for that. I received information's and suggestions and I was ready to go.
The train took two and a half hours to get to Hudson, upstate New York, and we didn't lose time. As soon as the restaurant on board opened, we were team meeting and analyzing the mechanical drawings of the building while the winter landscape was rolling in the windows. One short last trip with the car and we were there. The entire team involved in the project, after a morning sugar session dominated by black coffee and donuts, started to talk about all the bullet points of the day.
One of us had to write down all the things that were happening during my first site meeting, to then collect the "meeting minutes", another new entry in my work habits. After the still-meeting, the pilgrimage started. We carefully made an inspection of all floors pointing out items and taking measurements and photos. After this, I knew my destiny. I had to survey an entire building next to our project area, and I had fun. I closed myself inside there four hours with a laser disto and a notebook and time just flied. As it is doing now, back to work after 10 days spent with family and friends in Italy. The routine is established and the journey continues.
Architect, born in Verona in 1988.


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Who is the fool? The one that boasts they are the best may be the biggest one of all ...
A rabbit and a bear are full of their own importance, bragging to each other about their superior abilities in this digital edition of a classic Dr. Seuss book, from Oceanhouse Media. The original print title, Yertle the Turtle and other stories contained three tales and was published in 1958. This tale is essentially about vanity and being overly competitive.
The rabbit claims that his hearing is so good, he can hear the tiny cough of a fly on a hill 90 miles away. Not to be outdone, the bear claims it's his nose that makes him superior to the rabbit. "I can smell twice as far as you hear," claims the bear, saying he can smell 600 miles away, where a hummingbird egg has just gone stale. In the end both are put in their place by a worm who claims to be able to see all the way around the world ... to where two fools "seem to have nothing else better to do than to sit here and argue who's better than who!"
As a digital offering, this book has simple settings, easy page turn and great narration with each word highlighted as it is read. You can also tap on any word to hear it spoken, even in the 'read-it-myself' mode. There are also lots of things in every picture to tap to hear and see words for illustrated elements, like scenery and characters in the story. This book is not as colorful as some Seuss books, but the illustrations are otherwise delightful and filled with the same whimsy that makes Dr. Seuss so popular.
Although each page is essentially a still image, many pages begin by panning over Seuss' classic original artwork, zooming in and out to show off each segment of text, a nice semi-animated style. The book has no real animation, but most of the items pictured in the story react to a light tap with a visual image of the word with accompanying audio (for example, tap on a flower and the word "flower" appears with audio saying "flower").
This book was a favorite of mine as a child and it's a wonderful chance to share it in modern form with my own child. Since it's just one of a group of three tales from the original edition, this title is shorter than some of the other digital Seuss books currently available in the app store, making it a good length for bedtime. It's also a good cautionary tale, showing young readers the downside of boasting. Recommended.
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Yertle the Turtle and other stories is a 1958 children's book by Dr. Seuss. The original title contained 3 stories. In this, the 3rd story, a rabbit and a bear, who both boast that they are the "best of the beasts", because of the range of their hearing and smelling abilities, respectively. However, they are humbled by a worm who claims he can see all around the world—right back to his own hill, where he sees the rabbit and bear, whom he calls "the two biggest fools that have ever been seen". [Source: Wikipedia]
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PrepClass is addressing Nigeria's educational issues one student-tutor relationship at a time
by Ifeanyi Ndiomewese | Jun 19, 2017
On September 30 1999, the federal government of Nigeria, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, introduced the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme. The aim: to ensure unfettered basic education for every Nigerian child.
While this move reaffirmed the important role of education in building a vibrant economy, it also emphasised the poor state of education in Nigeria. Nigeria has continually struggled to maintain its educational standard beyond the ordinary. Regrettably, this has allowed the spirit of illiteracy creep its way into the nation.
Looking back 18 years since the UBE programme was inaugurated, the government has been the primary champion of educational reforms at the basic level. But in recent times, individuals have equally found the required motivation to step up to the challenge — especially by utilising technology.
This is the case with PrepClass, whose founders — Chukwuwezam Obanor and Olumide Ogunlana — have developed an appetite for solving the challenges of education. Their motivation stems from the perceived notion that the poor quality of education in Nigeria has more to do with the sector being understaffed.
L-R: Chukwuwezam Obanor and Olumide Ogunlana pose with the PrepClass team
"There are currently about 1.5 million teachers in Nigeria, about 500,000 are not trained," Chukwuwezam explains, "The education market in Nigeria is understaffed and the population of students is too much for the numbers of trained teachers available."
Many other African countries are also affected by a severe shortage of trained teachers. According to information from UNESCO, the African region in general has experienced an exponential increase in the number of students enrolled in primary schools. The number more than doubled from 62 million to 149 million children between 1990 and 2012. The same statistics also put the average pupil/teacher ratio in these primary schools at about 42:1.
Indeed, while more students are in classrooms, the pipeline of trained teachers, instructional materials, and infrastructure development has not kept pace with the heavy demand. Consequently, there is a deeper learning crisis at play — in the sense that many students aren't gaining basic skills while in school. Some students in school are even said to be not much better off than those who miss school.
Utilising technology to fill in the gaps
The infectious nature of the problem overtime have also resulted in an alarming failure rate for university entrance examinations, and prompting the federal government to gravitate from Paper Based Test (PBT) to Computer Based Test (CBT).
Seeing the complexity of this challenge, both co-founders of PrepClass became convinced that technology is essential to scaling both the impact and reach of education.
"There just had to be a way in which teachers could reach out to students one-on-one using technology, achieving greater impact," Chukwuwezam remarks, "We started with a decentralised, one-one-one classroom tutoring, using technology to achieve scale, thus PrepClass was born."
No sooner had it launched in 2014, than the startup settled into the groove pretty well. PrepClass has since raised over $100,000 in a seed round funded primarily by the Africa Angels Network and Venture Garden Group. Although PrepClass share investors with the likes of Andela, Suregift and a few other notable names, "the business itself have been its own major source of funding," Olumide affirms.
The PrepClass methodology mirrors traditional brick and mortar tutorial centres. Apparently, people are already accustomed to booking tutors physically from brick and mortar sources as a way of improving the impact of education. "Our mandate is to change the way tutors attract customers in the first place," Chukwuwezam explains.
A training session for current and prospective tutors
So by integrating technology, PrepClass would fundamentally have joined the existing army of solutions trying to innovate in the educational space. The business model is pretty simple: Clients pay PrepClass for connecting them with tutors. A significant percentage of this payment is remitted to the tutors while PrepClass retains the remainder as commission.
In contrast to when it started, where the founders had to undergo multiple iteration to achieve the product market fit, PrepClass now hosts over 22,000 tutors on its database, with over 5000 registered client requests. With a recently awarded grant of $322,000 from the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund, the startup is now on course to expand outside of Lagos to Abuja and Port Harcourt.
If anything, it is clear that this learning system supports the shift away from antiquated learning models toward personalised learning opportunities. Instructional designs and academic-support strategies are essentially tailored to meet the need of the individual learner, as opposed to one-size-fits-all learning systems.
Mr. Olamide Adeleke, an accredited tutor of PrepClass, believes the learning system supports a raise in the standard of learning while equally offering great financial incentives for tutors. "Asides making me more sincere to myself, my clients, the learner and my team members, the system has been interesting and equally lucrative for me," he said.
Olamide Adeleke, an accredited tutor on PrepClass
This explains why countries like South Korea, the US, and UK, despite having highly advanced educational structures, still have a thriving tutoring market worth about $13.9 billion, $7 billion and $8.59 billion respectively. Although Nigeria's tutoring market is at the nascent stage, it is still estimated to be valued at around $250 – $400 million, according to Chukwuwezam.
Nevertheless, should the perks of personalised learning automatically make the likes of PrepClass immune to possible resistance from the Nigerian market?
Where technology fits within the Nigerian context
"When we launched, we realised the business wasn't an instant commercial success because there were so many solutions in the market, and there were like a billion reasons why test prep(aration) is very tricky," Olumide admits, "Nigeria is still largely an offline market."
Although the internet is driving many online businesses, it is not necessarily at the core of the services for most. With PrepClass, as is with most online tutor booking platforms, a physical tutoring session doesn't exactly require the use of internet.
Notwithstanding, other aspects of the business process (such as customers acquisition, booking, profiling and assessment of tutors, self evaluation test prep for learners etc) are dependent on good internet connectivity. As long as these internet problems (of low penetration and adoption and excessive cost) continue to fester on, there's no imagining how it will impact the revenue the business generates.
However, it is important to remember that technology plays the role of an enabler in any business process. Thinking that technology would even replace teachers outrightly in Nigeria, or anywhere for that matter, could prove very costly.
The PrepClass team is aware of this, as echoed by Chukwuwezam: "The integration of technology into PrepClass' solution isn't borne out a need to force the market to do something it doesn't do but to infuse technology into the gaps that currently exist in the system."
No doubt this is in agreement with the fact that if the online tutoring market is to gain considerable traction in Nigeria, the number of trained teachers first has to increase. A 2011 UIS report buttresses this by projecting that Sub-Saharan Africa needed to recruit more than 1.1 million additional school teachers at the basic level between 2009 and 2015 in order to meet the rising demand for school needs.
Even with the integration of technology, an increase in the number of trained teachers will still be an urgent necessity if the tutoring market in Nigeria is to rise beyond its current value.
And if that be the case, the spike in market value may even perhaps force teachers to quit their full-time jobs to become full time tutors.
Going by what is applicable with PrepClass, quite a number of people have already shown interest in signing up as tutors. However, the strict tutor verification process in place has kept tutor adoption at a substantial level. Chukwuwezam confirms a less than 1% pass rate for tutors who go through their screening exercise, as this helps them to bring the best ones onboard the platform.
For all we know, this could be a space that may still usher unimaginable possibilities within the education sector in the nearest future.
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It seems hard to believe but here we are on the eve of Holy Week, the week that contains our holiest of holy days, the week that teaches us once again about the Paschal Mystery -the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus,- and reminds us of the paschal mystery that each of us experiences every day. For, as was true for Jesus, so is true for us. In the course of our lives, we experience small dyings and risings. Something is always dying yet something is always rising. And not just at the end of our lives but throughout our lives.
If you have been here at St. A's for any previous Holy Week, you know that this is a special time for us.
All that we do throughout the liturgical year points us toward this week, and all that follows flows from the celebrations of this week. The is THE WEEK for us, and here at our parish we take seriously our responsibility to celebrate these days well…to mark them for the meaningful remembrances that they are, days that provide food for the journey.


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The Monument is a 61 metre (202 feet) tall stone Roman doric column in the heart of the City of London. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and erected between 1671 and 1677, as the City's memorial to the Great Fire in 1666.
The monument is the tallest single stone column in the world and contains a spiral staircase leading to a viewing platform from which you can see some remarkable views of the city.
Sir Christopher Wren's flame-topped Monument
The fire began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666 and finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City.
Why is The Monument 202 feet high?
The Monument is 202 feet high, because it is 202 feet from the base to where the Great Fire of London started in 1666 (the King's baker's shop, Thomas Farynor's in Pudding Lane).
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The 2010s have quickly become a decade to remember in America, and although the final twelve months of the decade will likely contain plenty of news-worthy events and memorable moments of the past ten years, it's a great time to look back and appreciate the foundational moments and shifts that shaped the current state of our country.
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Pop culture has been a major force in shaping American life in the last decade. Some of the most prominent phenomena of this time period include:
Social Media: Social media has become a ubiquitous part of American life, with platforms like Twitter and Facebook being mainstays of daily news and discourse.
Streaming Services: From Netflix to Hulu, music streaming to fake collections, streaming services have become a major part of pop culture and entertainment.
Memes: Memes have become a major part of internet culture, evolving images, videos, and other media into universal pieces of humorous content.
Politics and Geopolitics
Politics and geopolitics have always played an important role in shaping American life, and this decade has been no exception. The decade began in 2011 with Barack Obama in his second year as President, and it will end with Donald Trump in his third year. Within this timeline, some major events include:
The Arab Spring: The Arab Spring was a series of protests and demonstrations that swept the Middle East and North Africa, starting in 2011 and persisting for much of the decade.
The Great Recession: The Great Recession was a major financial downturn that hit much of the world in 2008, with its effects lasting well into the next decade.
The Syrian Civil War: The Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 and is still ongoing, spurring conflict, refugees, and an international response.}
The Impact of Technology
Technology has been a huge force in shaping the last decade in America. Mobile phones and tablets have gone from luxury items to essential devices, with the internet and other digital technology becoming ever more entrenched in our daily lives. From advancements in driverless cars and artificial intelligence to major outbreaks of cybercrime, this decade has seen major advances in technology as well as setbacks and challenges.
The past decade has seen its share of major events, breakthroughs, and challenges in American life, and although the decade is coming to an end, its effects can still be felt in the present-day. As the world continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see how the last ten years have shaped the next one.


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Woman bombarded with sexually inappropriate messages on flight: 'You tidy babe'
Yahoo Style UK 8 October 2019
Stock photo: Jessica Van Meir, from Atlanta in the US, was bombarded with a number of inappropriate messages during a recent flight. [Photo: Getty]
A woman has been bombarded by a series of inappropriate messages during a flight.
Jessica Van Meir, from Atlanta in the US, shared photos of a series of messages she received via Virgin Atlantic's in-flight messaging system on Sunday.
One passenger called "Big D*** Swinger" sent her two winking emotes.
Another called her a "tidy babe".
"Welcome to hell," a passenger called "Dirty Mike" wrote to her.
Ms Van Meir shared the messages on Twitter.
Yesterday I was on a @VirginAtlantic flight, and I unexpectedly received these sexually harassing messages on my screen (I was in 55C).
The flight attendants were helpful & dealt with it swiftly.
Have any other women had this happen to them?#metoo #cyberharassment @SCFGallagher pic.twitter.com/7tbVkRhpQp
— Jessica Van Meir (@jessicavanmeir) October 6, 2019
She added the airline's staff were helpful and dealt with the "sexually harassing messages" swiftly.
"After the flight attendants spoke with the guys, I walked through the aisle and took a picture of them," she tweeted.
"Afterwards, a young guy came up to me and said he heard about the chat between me and the guys, and wanted to apologise on their behalf."
The woman was told the group were on a rugby trip and the man apologising her was "one of the leaders".
"He said the guys had been drinking and he'd talk to them, was sorry and hoped we could leave it at that," Ms Van Meir tweeted.
"What matters to me is not going after these guys, but making sure they understand why it was harmful."
People called the messages "gross".
"Sorry you experienced that," one woman tweeted.
One man added he was glad she "spoke out" about sexual harassment because "many have not".
Another man shared the images tweeting men who sexually harass women need to "cut the crap".
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Ms Van Meir has since followed up on her original tweet, thank "everyone who has expressed sympathy and concern" on Twitter. She also shared an email from Virgin Atlantic, revealing that she hopes the airline will "take measures to prevent other forms of sexual harassment from happening to others."
Thanks to everyone who has expressed sympathy & concern.
After the flight attendants spoke with the guys, I walked through the aisle and took a picture of them. Afterwards, a young guy came up to me and said he heard about the chat between me & the guys and wanted to apologize..
...on their behalf, they were on a rugby trip & he was one of the leaders. He said the guys had been drinking & he'd talk to them, was sorry and hoped we could leave it at that.
I received this email today from @VirginAtlantic. I appreciate their following up on it & hope they'll take measures to prevent this & other forms of sexual harassment from happening to others.
A seat chat is a fun function & I'm not against it, but it can easily be abused. pic.twitter.com/s5kD8Qe0UY
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Yang Jisheng (born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author. His work include Tombstone (墓碑), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward, and The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing. Yang is also listed as a Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.

Tombstone: The Great Famine
Beginning in the early 1990s, Yang began interviewing people and collecting records of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961, in which his own foster father had died, eventually accumulating ten million words of records. He published a two-volume 1,208-page account of the period, in which he aimed to produce an account that is authoritative and can stand up to the challenge of official denial by the Chinese government. He begins the book, "I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my [foster] father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death, and perhaps for myself for writing this book." The book was published in Hong Kong and is banned in mainland China. In 2012 translations into French, German, and English (which has been condensed almost by 50%) have been published. He was reported to be banned from leaving China to receive the award in a ceremony in Harvard University to be held in March 2016.

Praise
Journalist Anne Applebaum praised the book as being the definitive account of the Great Famine.

Yang was awarded The Stieg Larsson prize 2015 for his 'stubborn and courageous work in mapping and describing the consequences' of The Great Leap Forward. Yang was awarded the 2016 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, selected by the Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. In the award citation, the fellows stated: "Through the determination and commitment required for this project, Mr. Yang clearly demonstrates the qualities of conscience and integrity. He provides inspiration to all who seek to document the truth in the face of influences, forces and regimes that may push against such transparency."

Criticism
Sun Jingxian, a Chinese mathematician, saw in the book a direct attack of China's political system asserting that Yang had done that by committing a distorted historical investigation. He argued that Yang made serious methodological errors in his assumption that starvation deaths could be calculated by looking at the difference between the average number of deaths for a given period and the actual number of deaths for that same year. Sun believed that this was an absurd mathematical formula and he called the book "extremely deceptive", characterizing it as faulty, inadequate and even fraudulent. In an academic paper, Sun wrote: As a professional mathematician [...] we must seriously point out that from an academic point of view, [Yang's methodology] completely violates the basic principles that modern mathematics must follow when dealing with such problems.Additionally, political scientist and historian Yang Songlin disputes several of Yang Jisheng's claims, such as that the Chinese government under-reported deaths or manipulated data.

Economic historian Cormac Ó Gráda, reviewing the book, stated that: "Yang tends to neglect the famine historical context and China's economic vulnerability". He notes that China was the "land of famine" because it was extremely poor and, in the 1950s, China was still extremely poor. Ó Gráda also asserts that Yang's estimate of 40 million fewer births is excessive.

Response to Criticism
Yang strongly dismissed related criticisms, especially from Sun Jingxian. He argued that the sources about population loss were reliable and Sun's claims were baseless and Sun himself seemed to be the case. Yang accused Sun of lacking basic knowledge about Chinese household registration system at that time and frequently using ad hominem attack.

Awards
2013 Hayek Book Prize and Lecture by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
2015 Stieg Larsson Prize
 "for his stubborn and courageous work in mapping and describing the consequences of The Three Years of Great Chinese Famine"
2015 Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center (for the Chinese language version)
2016 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

Published works
 墓碑 --中國六十年代大饑荒紀實 (Mubei – - Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi) ("Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine in the 1960s"), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books (Tiandi Tushu), 2008,  . By 2010, it was appearing under the title: 墓碑: 一九五八-一九六二年中國大饑荒紀實 (Mubei: Yi Jiu Wu Ba – Yi Jiu Liu Er Nian Zhongguo Da Jihuang Shiji) ("Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine From 1958–1962").
 Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine, trans. Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, Publisher: Allen Lane (2012),  (English Translation of the above work)
天地翻覆——中国文化大革命史, ISBN 9789888258369
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, English translation of above book, translated and edited by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021), .
"Renverser ciel et terre - La tragédie de la Révolution culturelle, 1966–1976, French translation of 天地翻覆 by Louis Vincenolles, Éditions du Seuil, 2020年,

See also
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
Mao's Great Famine

References

External links
Richard McGregor. The man who exposed Mao's secret famine. The Financial Times. 12 June 2010.
 Ian Johnson. Finding the Facts About Mao's Victims. The New York Review of Books (Blog), 20 December 2010

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The look of the Earth has changed over time but continents have always been part of the picture. (Image credit: USGS.)
They didn't always look the way they do today, but yes, there have always been continents on Earth.
The familiar configuration of the seven official continents spread out over Earth today has undergone many permutations during the planet's 4.5 billion year history.
Many scientists figure Earth began as one huge continent — dry as a bone. Water was delivered in comets, the thinking goes, and then the oceans developed.
Plate tectonics has continually shifted the position of landmasses; while some were rifted apart, creating new landmasses, others collided to create tall mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas, and combine landmasses.
At a few points in Earth's history, all the landmasses were stuck together to form a supercontinent.
The most recent of these supercontinents was called Pangaea, which means "all lands." It began to break up about 200 million years ago, first forming the two supercontinents Gondwana (in the Southern Hemisphere) and Laurasia (in the Northern Hemisphere). Eventually these two supercontinents also fragmented, forming the continents as we know them today.
Though scientists have a good deal of geological evidence for Pangaea (patterns of sea-floor spreading, similar rock sequences on different continents and the jigsaw puzzle-like edges of the continents), there are still questions about what exactly Pangaea looked like and how its various components fit together.
Less well-known are the supercontinents that are thought to have existed before Pangaea. One such example is Rodinia, the supercontinent though to have existed around 1.1 billion years ago; it began to break apart 800 million to 600 million years ago.
Geologists call this continual breaking apart and coming together of the continents the supercontinent cycle.
And that cycle is likely still going. The continents are still on the move, drifting apart at the rate of about an inch each year, typically spreading in mid-ocean. The movement, and all the bumping and grinding it causes as plates dive under continents, creates earthquakes, fuels volcanoes and builds mountains. As they gradually move over millions of years, the continents as we know them today could crash together again to make yet another supercontinent, scientists say.
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ISLAMABAD: The Tax Reforms Commission headed by the Minister of State for Revenue, Hammad Azhar on Monday has decided to refine the system for valuation of immovable properties, quicken procedure of track and trace system in the tobacco sector.
This would also include recommending procedures for taxation of small entities involved in the retail business, reports Business Recorder.
The meeting discussed the issue of valuation of immovable properties and informed the participants that using valuation tables was a temporary proposition and isn't a long-term measure for the assessment of such properties.
Moreover, from revising valuations every time, a permanent solution for the valuation of properties was proposed during the meeting.
And the issue of linkage between bank accounts and national tax numbers (NTNs) for a widening of the tax base was also discussed during the meeting.
Hence, it has been agreed upon to survey the likelihood of effectively utilizing the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) data for bringing potential people into the tax net.
The meeting also took up the recommendation of the Tax Reforms Implementation Committee (TRIC) to draft a simplified return form for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
As per the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) officials, the hold-up in the enforcement of track and trace system in the tobacco industry was contributing to a massive revenue loss of Rs40-50 billion a year.


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Above works perfectly
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Not working. No errors in python code and no cron syntax error.

A: Problem resolved. Root level permissions to files and CRON works on GMT so I set timings according.

A: If you want to run it every hour it is 0 * * * * *.
Your version runs it every day at 6a.m.


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