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Putting yourself in the role of the bad guys is also cool and in this PlayStation Plus game you can get to dominate the world
By Cooper December 22, 2022 No Comments2 Mins Read
In video games we are more than used to having the role of the hero who is in charge of fighting against hordes of enemies, ending powerful threats and becoming the savior of the world. However, What would happen if the tables were turned? Well, basically that is what Evil Geninus 2: World Domination wants to propose to us.
The Rebellion Developments management title was released almost a year ago, but since yesterday all those who have a subscription to PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium You can access its download and thus see first-hand what it feels like to embody a villain whose purpose is to conquer the world.
It is a kind of parody of movies like Austin Powers either gru my favorite villain in which behind the appearance of a casino hides a super secret base where we can carry out our Machiavellian plans for domination. So we can design the place we want in order to create a unique super weapon for each villain, who in turn will have their own abilities.
The bases have rooms for the soldiers, vaults to store the wealth, power stations and there will be no shortage of traps. The reason is because the government will be suspicious of what is going on inside these casinos, so they will send spies to investigate, so everything possible will have to be done to prevent them from thwarting our plans.
And not everything will be just building, since little by little you will also have to control more areas of the world that can generate resources and to carry out missions. However, it also has a sandbox mode for everyone to build the base they want without having to worry about anything else with infinite money.
That being said, if you want to see what it feels like to embody an evil villain, then you are already taking time to download Evil Genius 2: World Domination and spend hours and hours getting your bases forward.


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class Workflow::VerificationStatus < Workflow::Base

  check_default_project_media_workflow

  check_workflow from: :any, to: :any, actions: [:check_if_item_is_published, :apply_rules, :update_report_design_if_needed]
  check_workflow on: :create, actions: :index_on_es_background
  check_workflow on: :update, actions: :index_on_es_foreground

  def self.core_default_value
    'undetermined'
  end

  def self.core_active_value
    'in_progress'
  end

  ProjectMedia.class_eval do
    alias_method :custom_permissions_original, :custom_permissions

    def custom_permissions(ability = nil)
      perms = self.custom_permissions_original
      ability ||= Ability.new
      perms["update Status"] = ability.can?(:update, Dynamic.new(annotation_type: 'verification_status', annotated: self))
      perms
    end

    def self.core_status_ids
      YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read("#{Rails.root}/config/core_statuses.yml")).result)['MEDIA_CORE_VERIFICATION_STATUSES'].collect{ |st| st[:id] }
    end

    def custom_statuses
      settings = self.team.settings
      settings = settings.permit('media_verification_statuses') if settings.is_a?(ActionController::Parameters) # Legacy from Rails 4
      statuses = settings.to_h.with_indifferent_access['media_verification_statuses']
      statuses = statuses.permit('statuses') if statuses.is_a?(ActionController::Parameters) # Legacy from Rails 4
      statuses.to_h.with_indifferent_access['statuses'].to_a
    end

    def custom_status_ids
      self.custom_statuses.collect{ |st| st[:id] }
    end

    def status_ids
      self.custom_status_ids.blank? ? ProjectMedia.core_status_ids : self.custom_status_ids
    end

    def status_i18n(key = nil, options = {})
      key ||= self.last_status
      core_status_ids = ProjectMedia.core_status_ids
      custom_statuses = self.custom_statuses
      if core_status_ids.include?(key.to_s) && custom_statuses.blank?
        I18n.t('statuses.media.' + key.to_s.gsub(/^false$/, 'not_true') + '.label', options)
      else
        default_language = self.team.default_language
        language = options[:locale] || I18n.locale
        default = nil
        label = nil
        custom_statuses.each do |s|
          if s['id'].to_s == key.to_s
            default = s.dig('locales', default_language, 'label')
            label = s.dig('locales', language, 'label')
          end
        end
        label.blank? ? default : label
      end
    end
  end

  DynamicAnnotation::Field.class_eval do
    protected

    def apply_rules
      status = self.annotation&.load
      team = status.team
      if !team.nil? && status.annotated_type == 'ProjectMedia'
        # Evaluate only the rules that contain a condition that matches this status
        rule_ids = team.get_rules_that_match_condition do |condition, value|
          condition == 'status_is' && self.field_name == 'verification_status_status' && self.value == value
        end
        team.apply_rules_and_actions(status.annotated, rule_ids)
      end
    end

    def check_if_item_is_published
      published = begin (self.annotation.annotated.get_annotations('report_design').last.load.get_field_value('state') == 'published') rescue false end
      if published
        error = {
          message: I18n.t(:cant_change_status_if_item_is_published),
          code: LapisConstants::ErrorCodes::const_get('PUBLISHED_REPORT'),
          data: {
            type: 'media',
            id: self.annotation.annotated_id,
          }
        }
        raise error.to_json
      end
    end

    def update_report_design_if_needed
      pm = self.annotation.annotated
      report = pm.get_annotations('report_design').last
      unless report.nil?
        report = report.load
        data = report.data.clone.with_indifferent_access
        data[:options].each_with_index do |option, i|
          data[:options][i].merge!({
            theme_color: pm.last_status_color,
            status_label: pm.status_i18n(pm.last_verification_status, { locale: option[:language] })
          })
        end
        report.data = data
        report.save!
      end
    end
  end

  Team.class_eval do
    def get_media_verification_statuses
      settings = self.settings || {}
      settings.with_indifferent_access[:media_verification_statuses]
      custom_statuses = settings.with_indifferent_access[:media_verification_statuses]
      return custom_statuses unless custom_statuses.is_a?(Hash)
      if custom_statuses
        custom_statuses.with_indifferent_access['statuses'].to_a.each do |s|
          s[:label] = ProjectMedia.new(team: self).status_i18n(s[:id], { locale: self.get_language }) # Return label in current language
        end
      end
      custom_statuses
    end
  end
end

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Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Directed By: Lasse Hallström
Written By: William Wheeler
Domestic Distributor: Miramax
Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis
Financed by: Yari Film Group; Stratus Film Company; Mark Gordon Company
Domestic Gross: $7,164,995 Overseas Gross: $4,607,466
In 1997, Mark Gordon's The Mutual Film Company optioned the rights to fraudster Clifford Irving's book The Hoax (1981), which was about the scribe's experience penning a phony biography of Howard Hughes and eventually getting caught in a ridiculous series of lies. In 2001, Mark Gordon left Mutual and formed the Mark Gordon Company and took the property with him.
The Hoax was financed for $30 million by Yari Film Group, Stratus Film Company (which was run by Bob Yari and Mark Gordon, who dissolved their relationship in March 2005) and The Mark Gordon Company. Bob Yari's Syndicate Films pre-sold the film very well, which limited the investor's exposure to the budget. The Hoax went before the cameras in August 2005 and one month earlier Disney acquired the domestic rights, which they passed onto their sibling specialty label Miramax.
Miramax originally positioned The Hoax as a late 2006 awards contender with a November release planned, but they pushed the film back to April 6, 2007. The delay gave the rumor mill ammunition that the picture was a turkey, but The Hoax landed strong reviews, with many calling it Richard Gere's best performance. Miramax decided on a platform release and booked the movie into 235 theaters, where it pulled in a so-so $1,449,320 with a $6,167 per screen average. They expanded the film in its second frame to 413 theaters with no growth at $1,466,552. The Hoax went moderately wide in its third session at 1,069 theaters with diminishing returns at $1,229,781 which killed off a further expansion. The domestic run closed with $7,164,995.
For the offshore release, The Hoax posted small numbers across numerous distributors, grossing just $4.6 million and it went straight to video in Germany and Australia. In a head scratching move, Disney canceled the Blu-Ray release last minute without reason and only released the movie on DVD — it would finally be release on Blu-Ray in 2013.

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I just planned to follow this, easy peasy I thought but not.
I cannot get it to work, even if I try to load the sdk on the sametime server it will not run. I also get the prompt for the unsigned applet but if I choose to "run" it it shoudl not be a problem.
But after I installed the newest Java and then it came up with several more java "approve me and me and me"
It seems that I have not found all the latest sametime java updates.


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Policy Governance fundamentalism and what's wrong with it
By Donald Kreis
127 November - December - 2006
Thanks to the wonders of anesthesia, a trip to the dentist's office to have a cavity filled is no longer a painful experience, but it is still anything but pleasant. The high-pitched whine of the drill, the poking and prodding, the numbness itself—all of these things are reasons for wishing to be anywhere else.
Let that serve as a metaphor for the experience of attending a meeting of a board that has not adopted Policy Governance as its framework for doing business. What agony to be a part of governing an organization that has mission-critical issues to confront, and yet sit through a three-hour board meeting and feel as if all of that time had been squandered. At least one leaves the dentist's chair with a problem solved!
I make this point by way of establishing my Policy Governance bona fides. Because the rest of this article is a lament about Policy Governance—or, rather, about a phenomenon that can fairly be described as Policy Governance Fundamentalism.
Any idea, however noble, becomes untenable when applied in its most extreme and absolutist form. The point should be obvious to anyone who has observed the recent behavior of those around the world who take every word of their sacred religious text literally. Unthinking adherence to any ideology is self-evidently unconscionable. These principles apply just as compellingly to John Carver's Boards That Make a Difference as they do to the Bible or the Koran (or, for that matter, to the First Amendment, since none of the freedoms it protects is absolute).
At page 79 of the second edition, Carver proclaims—in italics, omitted here—that "apart from being prudent and ethical, the activities that go on at and below the level of chief executive are completely immaterial." This statement, and similar pronouncements from the person in the world who obviously has the biggest incentive to promote strict adherence to Policy Governance, accounts for the pernicious and persistent notion, heard time and again at CCMA and other gatherings of cooperative leaders, that there exists a realm, called "operations," which is none of the board's business. I personally have heard this answer given to queries about health benefits for same-gender couples, the sale of tobacco products and fossil fuels, relations with labor unions, store expansions, and even membership in the NCGA itself.
A much better, un-fundamentalist take on Policy Governance would start with the premise that nothing about a cooperative is off limits to the co-op's board. What keeps the board from wasting its time is the imperative to "abstract up"—by seeking the least restrictive, most discretion-granting form of executive limitations, and also by considering whether any particular concern about store operations is really a call to revise and refine the organization's stated ends. The general manager of a co-op whose global ends policy called for "a healthy, cancer-free community" would not need to wonder whether to sell cigarettes.
Paper bags and the "f" word
Policy Governance fundamentalists would impose what can be described as a "paper bag rule" on board members so as to preserve inviolate the Carver principle that the board should speak with one voice. Policy Governance sensibly teaches that boards are deliberative bodies exercising collective responsibility, vesting no authority whatsoever in individual board members acting alone on their own initiative. But this should not require board members to place a paper bag over their heads when visiting the co-op, lest any comments they make to an employee be misunderstood as an attempt to exercise individual authority.
The day I wore a name tag identifying me as a board member at one of our cooperative's stores was the day that employee after employee expressed gratitude and delight in what they perceived as an expression of interest in them by a board member. Establishing a human connection with a store employee, or using up 10 minutes of a board meeting on a digression about how the retail price of fresh spinach is set, would give John Carver an aneurism. But, from the Golden Gate to Verrazano Narrows, it is the play in the joints of our mighty bridges that prevent them from collapsing. Fundamentalism in the realm of Policy Governance is also incompatible with the other "f" word—fiduciary, as in fiduciary responsibility. In a lawsuit naming individual board members and alleging a failure to keep informed about the cooperative, it will be no defense to tell the judge and jury about how boards that make a difference speak only with one voice. Nor can one ignore Enron-style accounting irregularities because the Executive Limitation policies neither prohibit them nor require their disclosure to the board. When an individual board member knows, or should know, that something is wrong, she has a legal duty to speak up.
Although Boards that Make a Difference, carefully parsed, does not reduce board members to automatons whose chief concern is applying Policy Governance with unthinking literalism, Carver is as responsible as anyone for the proliferation of the fundamentalist view of his model. This is because he consistently and arrogantly treats any disagreement with him as apostasy. For example, Carver's essay in the May-June 2006 issue of his newsletter "Board Leadership" had this to say about a paper presented to the Association for Research in Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations that dared to criticize Policy Governance: "Most governance effectiveness research is so disjointed and so internally focused that it is hard to know where to begin a useful criticism. This report is no exception."
Few men abstain from cutting their hair, notwithstanding the apparent command to that effect in the Old Testament (Leviticus 19:27). And yet the principles enshrined in the Ten Commandments—from the same source—are commonly accepted cultural norms. For similar reasons, we can hope that Policy Governance and its call to board effectiveness will someday become embedded in our civilization, much as Robert's Rules of Order have.
Until then, practice Policy Governance, by all means, and read your Carver. But also recall what Judge Learned Hand said in 1944: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right."
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Q: Calling Session.close() on HibernateDaoSupport HiI'm using HibernateDaoSupport for my application to do hibernate related actions(Save, update etc).
Well I'm getting the hibernate session by calling getSession() to create a criteria.
 After getting my result should I call session.close(); or will it automatically get released?

A: An idiomatic way to use Session in HibernateDaoSupport is to call execute() or executeFind() on HibernateTemplate obtained from getHibernateTemplate(). With this approach you won't need to manage your session manually.

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package org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.json;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.lucene.tests.util.LuceneTestCase;
import org.apache.solr.EmbeddedSolrServerTestBase;
import org.apache.solr.SolrTestCaseJ4.SuppressSSL;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.embedded.EmbeddedSolrServer;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.AbstractUpdateRequest;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.ContentStreamUpdateRequest;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.UpdateResponse;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.json.BucketJsonFacet;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.json.NestableJsonFacet;
import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocumentList;
import org.apache.solr.util.ExternalPaths;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

@SuppressSSL
public class DirectJsonQueryRequestFacetingEmbeddedTest extends EmbeddedSolrServerTestBase {

  private static final String COLLECTION_NAME = "techproducts";
  private static final int NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS = 32;
  private static final int NUM_IN_STOCK = 17;
  private static final int NUM_ELECTRONICS = 12;
  private static final int NUM_CURRENCY = 4;
  private static final int NUM_MEMORY = 3;
  private static final int NUM_CORSAIR = 3;
  private static final int NUM_BELKIN = 2;
  private static final int NUM_CANON = 2;

  @BeforeClass
  public static void beforeClass() throws Exception {
    final String sourceHome = ExternalPaths.SOURCE_HOME;

    final File tempSolrHome = LuceneTestCase.createTempDir().toFile();
    FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory(new File(sourceHome, "server/solr/solr.xml"), tempSolrHome);
    final File collectionDir = new File(tempSolrHome, COLLECTION_NAME);
    FileUtils.forceMkdir(collectionDir);
    final File configSetDir =
        new File(sourceHome, "server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf");
    FileUtils.copyDirectoryToDirectory(configSetDir, collectionDir);

    final Properties props = new Properties();
    props.setProperty("name", COLLECTION_NAME);

    try (Writer writer =
        new OutputStreamWriter(
            FileUtils.openOutputStream(new File(collectionDir, "core.properties")), "UTF-8"); ) {
      props.store(writer, null);
    }

    final String config =
        tempSolrHome.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + COLLECTION_NAME + "/conf/solrconfig.xml";
    final String schema =
        tempSolrHome.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + COLLECTION_NAME + "/conf/managed-schema";
    initCore(config, schema, tempSolrHome.getAbsolutePath(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    client = new EmbeddedSolrServer(h.getCoreContainer(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    ContentStreamUpdateRequest up = new ContentStreamUpdateRequest("/update");
    up.setParam("collection", COLLECTION_NAME);
    up.addFile(getFile("solrj/techproducts.xml"), "application/xml");
    up.setAction(AbstractUpdateRequest.ACTION.COMMIT, true, true);
    UpdateResponse updateResponse = up.process(client);
    assertEquals(0, updateResponse.getStatus());
  }

  @Test
  public void testSingleTermsFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertEquals(NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, topLevelFacetData.getCount());
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
  }

  @Test
  public void testMultiTermsFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "    },",
            "    'top_manufacturers': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'manu_id_s',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertEquals(NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, topLevelFacetData.getCount());
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_manufacturers",
        new FacetBucket("corsair", NUM_CORSAIR),
        new FacetBucket("belkin", NUM_BELKIN),
        new FacetBucket("canon", NUM_CANON));
  }

  @Test
  public void testSingleRangeFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'prices': {",
            "      'type': 'range',",
            "      'field': 'price',",
            "      'start': 0,",
            "      'end': 100,",
            "      'gap': 20",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertEquals(NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, topLevelFacetData.getCount());
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "prices",
        new FacetBucket(0.0f, 5),
        new FacetBucket(20.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(40.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(60.0f, 1),
        new FacetBucket(80.0f, 1));
  }

  @Test
  public void testMultiRangeFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'prices': {",
            "      'type': 'range',",
            "      'field': 'price',",
            "      'start': 0,",
            "      'end': 100,",
            "      'gap': 20",
            "    },",
            "    'shipping_weights': {",
            "      'type': 'range',",
            "      'field': 'weight',",
            "      'start': 0,",
            "      'end': 200,",
            "      'gap': 50",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertEquals(NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, topLevelFacetData.getCount());
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "prices",
        new FacetBucket(0.0f, 5),
        new FacetBucket(20.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(40.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(60.0f, 1),
        new FacetBucket(80.0f, 1));
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "shipping_weights",
        new FacetBucket(0.0f, 6),
        new FacetBucket(50.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(100.0f, 0),
        new FacetBucket(150.0f, 1));
  }

  @Test
  public void testSingleStatFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'sum_price': 'sum(price)'",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(topLevelFacetData, "sum_price", 5251.270030975342);
  }

  @Test
  public void testMultiStatFacet() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'sum_price': 'sum(price)',",
            "    'avg_price': 'avg(price)'",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(topLevelFacetData, "sum_price", 5251.270030975342);
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(topLevelFacetData, "avg_price", 328.20437693595886);
  }

  @Test
  public void testMultiFacetsMixedTypes() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'avg_price': 'avg(price)',",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(topLevelFacetData, "avg_price", 328.20437693595886);
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNestedTermsFacet() throws Exception {
    final String subfacetName = "top_manufacturers_for_cat";
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "      'facet': {",
            "        'top_manufacturers_for_cat': {",
            "          'type': 'terms',",
            "          'field': 'manu_id_s',",
            "          'limit': 1",
            "        }",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    // Test top level facets
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
    // Test subfacet values for each top-level facet bucket
    final List<BucketJsonFacet> catBuckets =
        topLevelFacetData.getBucketBasedFacets("top_cats").getBuckets();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(catBuckets.get(0), subfacetName, new FacetBucket("corsair", 3));
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(catBuckets.get(1), subfacetName, new FacetBucket("boa", 1));
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(catBuckets.get(2), subfacetName, new FacetBucket("corsair", 3));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNestedFacetsOfMixedTypes() throws Exception {
    final String subfacetName = "avg_price_for_cat";
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "      'facet': {",
            "        'avg_price_for_cat': 'avg(price)'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    // Test top level facets
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
    // Test subfacet values for each top-level facet bucket
    final List<BucketJsonFacet> catBuckets =
        topLevelFacetData.getBucketBasedFacets("top_cats").getBuckets();
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(catBuckets.get(0), subfacetName, 252.02909261530095); // electronics
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(catBuckets.get(1), subfacetName, 0.0); // currency
    assertHasStatFacetWithValue(catBuckets.get(2), subfacetName, 129.99499893188477); // memory
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithDomainFilteredBySimpleQueryString() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_popular_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'filter': 'popularity:[5 TO 10]'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_popular_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", 9),
        new FacetBucket("graphics card", 2),
        new FacetBucket("hard drive", 2));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithDomainFilteredByLocalParamsQueryString() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_popular_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'filter': '{!lucene df=\"popularity\" v=\"[5 TO 10]\"}'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);
    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_TECHPRODUCTS_DOCS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_popular_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", 9),
        new FacetBucket("graphics card", 2),
        new FacetBucket("hard drive", 2));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithArbitraryDomainFromQueryString() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': 'cat:electronics',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'top_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 3",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'query': '*:*'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_ELECTRONICS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "top_cats",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", NUM_ELECTRONICS),
        new FacetBucket("currency", NUM_CURRENCY),
        new FacetBucket("memory", NUM_MEMORY));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithArbitraryDomainFromLocalParamsQuery() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': 'cat:electronics',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'largest_search_cats': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'query': '{!lucene df=\"cat\" v=\"search\"}'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_ELECTRONICS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "largest_search_cats",
        new FacetBucket("search", 2),
        new FacetBucket("software", 2));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithMultipleSimpleQueryClausesInArbitraryDomain() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': 'cat:electronics',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'cats_matching_solr': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'query': ['cat:search', 'name:Solr']",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_ELECTRONICS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "cats_matching_solr",
        new FacetBucket("search", 1),
        new FacetBucket("software", 1));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithMultipleLocalParamsQueryClausesInArbitraryDomain() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': 'cat:electronics',",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'cats_matching_solr': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'query': ['{!lucene df=\"cat\" v=\"search\"}', '{!lucene df=\"name\" v=\"Solr\"}']",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_ELECTRONICS, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "cats_matching_solr",
        new FacetBucket("search", 1),
        new FacetBucket("software", 1));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFacetWithDomainWidenedUsingExcludeTagsToIgnoreFilters() throws Exception {
    final String jsonBody =
        String.join(
            "\n",
            "{",
            "  'query': '*:*',",
            "  'filter': {'#on_shelf': 'inStock:true'},",
            "  'facet': {",
            "    'in_stock_only': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 2",
            "    }",
            "    'all': {",
            "      'type': 'terms',",
            "      'field': 'cat',",
            "      'limit': 2,",
            "      'domain': {",
            "        'excludeTags': 'on_shelf'",
            "      }",
            "    }",
            "  }",
            "}");
    final DirectJsonQueryRequest request = new DirectJsonQueryRequest(jsonBody);

    QueryResponse response = request.process(getSolrClient(), COLLECTION_NAME);

    assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(response, NUM_IN_STOCK, 10);
    final NestableJsonFacet topLevelFacetData = response.getJsonFacetingResponse();
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "in_stock_only",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", 8),
        new FacetBucket("currency", 4));
    assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
        topLevelFacetData,
        "all",
        new FacetBucket("electronics", 12),
        new FacetBucket("currency", 4));
  }

  private static class FacetBucket {
    private final Object val;
    private final int count;

    FacetBucket(Object val, int count) {
      this.val = val;
      this.count = count;
    }

    public Object getVal() {
      return val;
    }

    public int getCount() {
      return count;
    }
  }

  private void assertHasFacetWithBucketValues(
      NestableJsonFacet response, String expectedFacetName, FacetBucket... expectedBuckets) {
    assertNotNull(
        "Expected response to have facet with name " + expectedFacetName,
        response.getBucketBasedFacets(expectedFacetName));
    final List<BucketJsonFacet> buckets =
        response.getBucketBasedFacets(expectedFacetName).getBuckets();
    assertEquals(expectedBuckets.length, buckets.size());
    for (int i = 0; i < expectedBuckets.length; i++) {
      final FacetBucket expectedBucket = expectedBuckets[i];
      final BucketJsonFacet actualBucket = buckets.get(i);
      assertEquals(expectedBucket.getVal(), actualBucket.getVal());
      assertEquals(expectedBucket.getCount(), actualBucket.getCount());
    }
  }

  private void assertHasStatFacetWithValue(
      NestableJsonFacet response, String expectedFacetName, Double expectedStatValue) {
    assertNotNull(
        "Expected response to have stat facet named '" + expectedFacetName + "'",
        response.getStatValue(expectedFacetName));
    assertEquals(expectedStatValue, response.getStatValue(expectedFacetName));
  }

  private void assertExpectedDocumentsFoundAndReturned(
      QueryResponse response, int expectedNumFound, int expectedReturned) {
    assertEquals(0, response.getStatus());
    final SolrDocumentList documents = response.getResults();
    assertEquals(expectedNumFound, documents.getNumFound());
    assertEquals(expectedReturned, documents.size());
  }
}


Parking on a residential street beginning today could yield you a hefty ticket or tow.
Snow plows began turning their attention to residential areas as of 7 a.m. to clean up the roughly 10 cm of snow that fell on Winnipeg Thursday morning. To make the process easier, a residential parking ban is now in effect.
The ban prohibits parking on a residential street in 12-hour intervals from 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. depending on which snow zone you happen to be in.
Zones being targeted for plowing until 7 p.m. tonight are C, F, I, M, N, S, U, followed by D, G, J, L, P, R, V from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Plowing will continue until Monday evening. To find your zone, visit knowyourzone.winnipeg.ca or contact 311.


Honors Faculty member Dr. Brandy Bryson, associate professor in the Reich College of Education's Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, is serving as director of Appalachian State University's Inclusive Excellence Team. This is a new professional development initiative for faculty intended to make classrooms more welcoming and strengthn the culture of diversity and inclusion across campus.
For the full story about Appalachian's new Inclusive Excellence Team by Linda Coutant in AppalachianToday, click here.
For the Honors College, Dr. Bryson has taught Honors seminars like HON 3515: Critical Perspectives of Racism and Whiteness. She also regularly serves on Honors thesis committees. Recently she mentored Chancellor's Scholar Allison Collins (May '17) in her Honors thesis, The Influence of Teachers' Racial Schema on Educational Outcomes for Students of Color: A Critical Analysis of Racial Inequalities in American Schools, and Wilson's Scholar Sarah Aldridge (Dec '17) in her Honors thesis, The City That (Didn't) Make It Work: An Analysis of State-Sponsored Resegregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools .


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President House opens doors for general public
Important News Pakistan
11:44 AM, 8 Dec, 2018
Islamabad (Staff Report): The government opened the doors of President House in Islamabad for the general public.
According to details, the President House will remain open for general public from 9 am to 4 pm. The visitors can enter the Aiwan-e-Sadr by showing their national identity card at the entrance.
This is worth mentioning here that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had announced opening of official buildings for the general public as its policy to allow public access to the state buildings.
Earlier, the Governor Houses in Karachi (Sindh), Lahore (Punjab) and Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) were also opened for general public.
The Sindh Governor House was the first state building that had been opened to the general public on September 7. Governor Imran Ismail had himself greeted visitors on this occasion.
Later, Punjab Governor House in Lahore and Government House in Murree were also opened for public on the PM's directives.
On September 30th Governor House Khyber Pakhtunkhwa opened its doors for the public.
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The overall goal of the interfaces that I created was to increase the visibility of the most important information while removing any extraneous and unnecessary visual clutter that was ultimately preventing the viewer/observer from having the most optimal experience possible. After thoroughly studying the existing system and truly looking at the user experience of viewing eSports, I found that the bottom 1/3 of the screen was more or less "wasted space" that, for the most part, is usually covered up by tournaments and streamers. By allowing the bottom 1/3 of the screen to only display information when there's information to be displayed (information-on-demand), we allow for a much more unobstructed viewing experience. I also felt that by allowing a number of elements to be toggled on and off, the viewer/observer can tailor the viewing experience to best-suit their own needs. Additionally I wanted to help smaller grass-roots tournaments that might not be able to afford external overlay software the ability to display information such as the win-loss count in a best-of series, team logos/player images, player bios and information, or even the logo of their tournament built completely into the interface.
While I was excited to give the community a variety of different ways of displaying the information and experiencing Starcraft 2 eSports, I also understand that it may not be for everyone. It is because of this that I developed the Streamlined interface, which is the interface which most closely resembles the normal, default interface. The only changes that I made beyond removing the un-necessary interface elements, was to re-skin the existing interface and make text larger and easier to read. This was done primarily due to the way that compression handles the small text when viewing a stream at a lower bitrate, and my attempt at still relaying all of the important information to the viewer.
For the HoTS launch event as well as the "grand reveal" of the power of our new custom interface system, I wanted to try a radically new approach for displaying what is happening in the game to the viewer/observer. With this in mind we decided to break up the interface to have each player essentially "own" a side of the screen. By allowing this split, I feel as though there's an extremely clear delineation and separation between who is doing what, and also feel as though this is a very interesting way of presenting the information to the viewer.
I created a third direction for the custom observer interface setup, which is the "Super Minimal" version of the interface. A number of changes from the traditional interface are present within this version, and I'd like to explain the decisions that were made with this interface so as to help others understand the direction that I ultimately went.
No Minerals or Gas: After viewing countless tournaments and discussing the matter with others at Blizzard, we came to the conclusion that there really isn't any actual need to have the minerals and gas constantly displayed. It may seem very jarring at first, however we found that very rarely do the vast majority of spectators are actually looking at the minerals and gas. Most of the time we only actually notice it when a caster points it out, beyond the few times trying to see if a player has the resources to re-max an army or will be able to adequately defend from any potential attacks. I made sure that if an observer/viewer felt it necessary, that the resources could still be displayed via the default resources leader panel. After careful observation of tournaments and streams, I feel as though Supply is the most important information here, which is why it is displayed prominently next to each player's name.
No Multiple Select: I feel as though the main time that this is important is when a caster or observer has multiple units selected and we can see that a number of the selected units are very low on health. With unit health bars displayed in game, I feel as though this negates needing to display this duplicate information.
Upgrades not shown: With the availability of the new Upgrades Panel, I feel as though displaying this information all of the time is unnecessary and potentially redundant. By removing this information, we are also allowing for the UnitInfoPanel to occupy less screen real-estate and provide a more optimal viewing experience.
Queued Units not shown: Beside being a bad way to play in general and reinforcing negative habits, I felt as though this provided no benefit to the viewer beyond knowing that a person has additional queued units which ultimately won't be available for use for quite some time. This also helps to save the amount of space that is required for the UnitInfoPanel. I have however made sure to display both active queues if a production facility with a reactor is producing two units at the same time.
Leader panels along the bottom-middle: After looking at a number of professional sports casts and analyzing their use of screen real-estate, I noticed that many of these organizations were utilizing the very bottom of the screen to display additional information. While it is still displayed on the screen, I feel that this is not only an interesting location for the information, but may prove to be a more optimal location, as it keeps the primary view of the battlefield un-obscured.
Score "numbers" rather than "pips": While the score pips present the number of wins in a new and cool way, in order to best utilize space while adhering to the "minimal" theme of this interface, I felt that numbers denoting wins would be the most appropriate for the scores.
Removing the portrait and abilities command card: I have noticed that the vast majority of tournaments obscure both the portrait panel and unit command card with advertisements or player cameras. With this being the case, I have found that there was no need to display this information as it would most likely be covered up.
As was mentioned earlier, this was the first version of a very new way of experiencing Starcraft, and may be very different from what a person may be used to. After a number of times watching replays and live games with this interface enabled, it felt as though this was the correct direction to head with minimalism in mind. While I may eventually push this direction further by possibly eliminating more elements and further streamlining the experience, I feel as though this is a great first step towards an optimal viewing experience.
With Heroes Of The Storm, I was given a chance to fully evaluate and see how the experience of observing a MoBA game could be improved upon. Since this was going to be the first time that anyone outside of Blizzard viewed Heroes, I felt as though I could omit a lot more of the information that would normally be present in an observer interface, because it wouldn't mean anything to anyone who hasn't been playing the game for months at that point (hotkey labels, buffs and debuffs, ability tooltips, mana bars, etc). My main goal with the Heroes Of The Storm interface was to make the game and the players the rockstars – I wanted to strip out as much of the un-necessary visuals that often-times supersedes the gameplay and give people a chance to really see the action. I also needed to make sure that we displayed all of the important information and distilled down all of the action happening throughout the map, making it as easy to understand as possible. One of the biggest issues for many people new to MoBA style games is needing to have an enormous amount of "tribal knowledge" before you have a basic understanding of what's going on. I felt that it was extremely important to effectively display as much of this information in an easy to understand manner for both a MoBA Veteran and a person viewing it for the first time.
Video game development has progressed significantly over the years – from punch cards and user made tools to enterprise level applications. While the technology that we use on a daily basis has changed significantly, can we really say that the experience of creating games has improved as well?
Studios are constantly on the look-out for the next best tech, middleware, or ideas to help make their next title a reality (and success). With licensed tech and often-times even proprietary software, the User Experience is frequently viewed as a second class-citizen when efficiency and deadlines are in the fore-front. At Insomniac Games, we've decided to make the user experience of our tools a priority. By leveraging traditional engine programming with web application technology, Insomniac Games has created their new engine from the ground up with a focus on the user experience.
Please check back after BlizzCon for full details about a number of additional systems that I helped to develop – many of which are forthcoming in future patches.
While at Insomniac, I was tasked with designing not only all of the interaction logic and flow for our internal web-based editor, but also prototyping and developing the majority of all user-facing systems and UI. What you see above is a small sample of what was done during my time at Insomniac. Please feel free to contact me if you wish to see more.
After Effects – Was done as a fun, personal project to create a "music video" using The Glitch Mob's "Animus Vox" with the cutscenes from Heart of the Swarm.
Resupply Tanker has an easy to take fast expansion, but allies can't easily assist each other on this map, so be careful not to grab this expansion too soon. The two attack paths along the sides of the map are good for focusing attacks on one opponent, but taking some time to clear out the center Xel'Naga Watchtower area before initiating an attack will often be a much safer way to engage on this map.
A natural expansion located above a player's main base – making it easy to secure and difficult to attack.
A high-yield mining base located in the center of the map – a prime location for establishing a forward mining base while dividing the map.
Multiple attack paths separated in the middle with high-ground terrain.
You and the rest of the CoG forces are sent to investigate an abandoned facility, codenamed "Destiny", and come under attack via entrenched Locust forces.
This was an exercise in creating an entire environment and props from start to finish. This exercise included: modeling, texturing, creating material graphs, lighting, and sculpting terrain.
Contact me, I would love to hear from you!


I am using a custom page renderer so I can access PresentViewController, but all the examples i've seen call functions on ViewDidAppear. I would like to be able to call it whenever I want, for example on a button click. Is there a way to access my ShareOnFacebook method from my c# project?
Here is the code for my custom renderer.
Define a C# event in your PCL Element class, and subscribe to that notification from your renderer.
@adamkemp Is there somewhere that I can see an example of this? I'm new to Xamarin/C# so i'm not sure how to go about doing that exactly.
@adamkemp I went through the article, but it just seems to be a regular custom renderer with some text being passed. I need to call a function in a custom page renderer, similar to a dependency service though as shown in my code.
That example shows you what you need. Look at the renderer's OnElementChanged method and notice how it subscribes to the Element's Toggled event. When the element (the PCL class) wants the renderer to do something (update the state of the switch in this case) it invokes the event, and the renderer subscribes to that event. Essentially that allows the element to call a method in the renderer without directly referring to the renderer or the method. Events are a way to decouple things.
I have done this kind of thing by overriding OnElementPropertyChanged in the custom renderer, then checking the name of the property that changed to find out if the renderer has to update something. It's probably less efficient but to my simple mind it seems easier to understand, and if you browse the Xamarin.Forms source code it's a pattern that's heavily used there too.
If the code lends itself to implementing as a property then that's a great way to do it. Sometimes it isn't natural to use a property with a value, and what you really want is just an action that says "do this now". In that case a new event is more natural.


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The 2016 edition of the Bergen International Festival gets underway this week. The annual arts and culture festival was established in 1953 and is one of the biggest of its kind in the Nordics.
Visitors can enjoy art in all its guises from music to theatre, dance, opera and visual art, as the whole city comes out to play. Around 250 events will be held across 20 venues during the festival, which runs from 25 May to 8 June.
Although classical music and theatre are major features of the festival, the programme is organised under three central themes: festivities, foundations & friction.
The festival programme has been put together by Artistic Director Anders Beyer.
A soprano and an accordion player make an unlikely duo, but you'll soon change your mind once you hear the unique baroque sounds of Andrea Pellegrini and Bjarke Mogensen. Expect to hear pieces by Bach, Vivaldi and Händel.
Bergen International Festival, Bergen National Opera and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra present Arnold Schönberg's passionate Erwartung, featuring soprano Allison Cook and British video artist Netia Jones.
The psychological monodrama is a sharp contrast to the beautiful Verklärte Nacht, which caused a stir in its time because of its contempt towards the moral condemnation of sexual urges.
Performed in German, subtitled in Norwegian.
The ensemble has made their mark internationally with their distinctive artistic profile, combining electronics and video with a repertoire of avant-garde and classical music.
A world premiere of the works of Henrik Hellstenius and Carola Bauckhol.
An international symbol of African creativity, Angélique Kidjo combines her western African roots with influences from funk, soul and Latino music.
Kidjo won the Grammy for Best World Music Album in 2016 for the album Sings.
A visit to Bergen is a must for anyone living in Norway. Surrounded by seven mountains, the city is known as the gateway to the fjords as is one of the best cities in the Nordic region for music, culture and festivals.
For more details on the Bergen International Festival including the full programme and how to buy tickets, see FIB.no.
All photos from the Bergen International Festival. Photographers: Ingvild Habbestad Kjelsås, Robin Skjoldberg, Netia Jones, J. Norvik.


According to @evleaks, a Pixel-branded watch will launch later this year, alongside the already expected Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
On top of this news that Google may keep attempting this whole wearable thing, @evleaks also mentions second generation Pixel Buds, a sequel to the Google Assistant-toting earbuds that launched last year after Google I/O.
UPDATE August 31: Google says no Pixel Watch this year.
Now, as for the watch, we have to hope that Google spent a lot of time thinking about what they want to showcase on it. It seems like a safe bet that Google Assistant will play a big role, but unless Google makes Wear OS truly something that can compete with the Apple Watch, it could be another bust.
What would you hope to see from a Pixel Watch by Google?


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Action Research Manuscript Template Abstract Introduction and the AR study by establishing the theoretical foundation of the action, curriculum review, self-study, or ethnography you later describe in your AR paper. Note: This section will contain the majority of your citations, although we suggest bringing in the voices of distant colleagues throughout your paper. Clarifying My Action... Preface This book is a collection of conference and workshop papers on action research and reflective practice that were held over a period of seven years, stretching from 2006 to 2012.
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A second grade student at Pleasantview Elementary School attacked three other students with a knife on Monday.
Sauk Rapids, MN – An eight-year-old boy attacked three other students with a kitchen knife at an elementary school on Monday.
Authorities said the incident occurred before classes started at Pleasantview Elementary School at about 7:15 a.m. on April 16 when a student came to school with a knife and began randomly attacking students, the SC Times reported.
Interim Superintendent Bruce Watkins told the SC Times that the "second-grade student entered the building, put his backpack away, and pulled out a knife and struck three students."
The superintendent said the incident continued for about five minutes before the student with the knife was stopped by "adult intervention." Authorities did not know what had motivated the attack.
Sauk Rapids Police Chief Perry Beise said the three students who were wounded were eight, nine, and 13 years old.
Chief Beise said all three children had "superficial wounds to be stitched up," but that there were no other injuries. All three victims were taken to CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital.
He said two of the children were taken to the hospital by their own parents, and had been treated and released.
The chief said the eight-year-old attacker was in the school counselor's office when police arrived, The Virginian-Pilot reported. He said the child was cooperating with authorities.
Police interviewed the knife-wielding second grader and then released him into the custody of his own parents, Time reported.
The police chief said the official police report will be sent to the Benton County Attorney's Office for potential charges, KARE reported.
However, he told also said that children that young usually weren't charged, and that they would likely try to get him help instead, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The chief said he did not know whether the boy had any prior mental health issues or if he had been bullied.
Pleasantview Elementary School has Kindergarten through fifth grade classes, with about 790 students enrolled, the SC Times reported.
The 13-year-old who was stabbed was a seventh grade student who was waiting to catch a transfer bus at the time he was stabbed, Time reported.
Parents of students at the elementary school were notified of the incident electronically Monday morning; however, classes were not interrupted and continued as usual for the remainder of the day.
Watkins sent parents a message that explained what had happened.
"This morning we had an unfortunate incident that happened before school started. A Pleasantview primary-aged student entered the building and upon putting away his backpack, he pulled out a knife and began striking students with it," the superintendent wrote.
"The incident took place in the hallway as students were heading to class. Currently, we are working with school support staff to identify and provide support to staff and students that may have been impacted by this incident. Mental health professionals are available on site at Pleasantview Elementary. Please know in situations like this the District's discipline policy is applied and aggressive students are not allowed in the building(s)," the message read.
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Poodles bite more people than pit bulls.
Relax SJWs. Bronx may be right. Pit bulls, by percentage of attacks, are responsible for more attacks than any other breed. Of course many are great and loving. Of course past abuse causes em to be psycho. Of course any breed could attack. But percentagewise, well youre more nervous about a 100-lb pit bull running at you than a 100-lb. golden retriever. You know it's true. Why? Bc you know the truth and are afraid of it bc it doesn't sound fair. What's not fair is violence against the innocent. No judgment here, just percentages and statistics aka facts - just being smart, wise, cautious, aware and alert. That's how you stay safe. Naievete gets ppl hurt. God knows what the reason is, & we'll find out.
What is this world coming to. My God. Second grader.
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6 tips for creating an effective team culture
Meaningful team building can help you weather changes and challenges.
By Teri Saylor
If you enjoy watching televised sports, you likely have seen a peloton in action during the Tour de France bicycle race or the cycling event in the Summer Olympics. A peloton is a group of cyclists who ride close to one another, working together and drafting off each other to increase their speed and work efficiently.
Professional leadership coach and cycling enthusiast Michael O'Brien compares a highly functioning workplace team to a peloton in motion. That's why he named his New Jersey-based consulting firm Peloton Business Leadership Coaching and Consulting.
"Because of the complexity of our modern work lives, success lies in teamwork," he said. "We need people around us. Like cycling in a peloton, we must trust each other and advance with more efficiency. With good teamwork, there is less drama, and we can respond to changes around us rather than react to them."
Effective teamwork isn't inherent in a business environment; rather, it is developed over time through training and practice, said Elizabeth Cipolla, founder of The Change Agent-SEE Leadership Company and an adjunct professor at Jamestown Community College in New York.
"Oftentimes, managers convince themselves they are too busy to develop their team," she said. "But if the team is not cohesive, it is not effective, and team members are subject to breakdowns in communication."
O'Brien and Cipolla, along with Susan Heathfield, a human resource professional and consultant who writes for a variety of publications, including website The Balance: Careers, offer these tips for managers on how to build an effective team and develop exercises to keep it running smoothly.
Practice regular communication. Every team needs to keep up with regular communication, whether it is a sit-down meeting or a quick huddle. "Building a team is not a 'one-and-done' event. It's ongoing, and part of a team's communication language," Cipolla said. "Regrouping doesn't have to be a big meeting or drawn-out episode. It can be a commitment of just a few minutes at a time." Heathfield has a favorite ice-breaker game that asks team members for one-word responses to different ideas. She used "conflict" as an example. "Ask the team 'What do you think of when you think of conflict?' And then invite them to make a one-word response," she explained. "This helps teammates start recognizing each other's similarities and differences, and it sparks good discussion."
Develop trust. To deal with today's complex challenges, it is important to build a culture of trust, according to O'Brien. "And it starts with leadership," he said. "We need to learn to listen to connect, as opposed to listening to reply. Listening and connecting builds empathy, and empathy builds trust." To develop trust, O'Brien likes to use an exercise called "But/And." It's a method often used by improvisation performers. "We do a lot of 'but-ing' when we provide feedback to employees. This exercise is very simple. Just replace 'but' with 'and,'" he said, and gave an example: "Hey, you're doing great, and I know you can be even greater.'" This builds positivity and momentum and makes employees feel good about improving, he added.
Build a strong foundation. Building a foundation of trust will help your team walk through challenges. "Don't wait for a crisis to strike or a problem to arise before building a team to deal with it," Cipolla said. "If you have a strong team in place when you face a dilemma, you already know your individual and collective strengths, preferences, and skills to tackle the problems together." To illuminate the importance of building strong foundations, Cipolla recommended an exercise that asks team members to name one or two effective leaders in their lives or careers. "Even on a large team, most people can't name more than one or two," she said. "That's because most leaders don't build their teams effectively. The magic is not to wait until you see signs of problems to start team building. As a matter of course, you practice this every day.
Empower your team. "Provide a checklist of discussion items or tasks to do and allow teammates to work through it themselves," Cipolla said. Creating a team charter is also a step toward empowerment. While it is important for the department head or CEO to provide clear direction so employees will know why the team was built and why they are on it, "creating a mission, vision, goals, and objectives gives the team a sense of purpose. They own their charter, and ownership is essential to accomplishing goals," Cipolla said.
Embrace difficult conversations. Provide leadership through clear communication and consistent messages, even when having difficult conversations. O'Brien recommended trying to create agility with conversation by asking curious, open-ended questions as reporters do. He cited five key questions to ask: Who, what, when, where, and why. "If you need to have a difficult conversation, develop empathy and try to understand how the other person might feel when the conversation is over," he said. "We often avoid difficult conversations, hoping that the need to have them will just float away, but you can have these conversations and develop a good, trusting relationship if people believe you have good intentions."
Reach past resistance. Generally, when employees show up for a team-building exercise, some of them will be eager while others will be resistant to change, according to O'Brien. Dealing with skeptics is a natural part of team building, so don't force it, he advised. "At the core, most people are eager to improve the workplace and create a better culture. With a focus a trust building and active listening, the doubters will begin to feel comfortable gravitating to the positive side," he said. In the face of resistance, the leader's role is to reassure the team and help each member develop a sense of trust and connectedness, Heathfield added. "In team-building exercises, people are scared they're going to be forced to talk about things that make them uncomfortable," she said. "But if an exercise provides them with a chance to be a part of forging the team, the result will be engaged, involved, and empowered employees because they own the process."
In the end, employees have a universal need to be a part of a team, to have a sense of belonging, Cipolla said. "Do an online search on team-building ideas and you'll find hundreds. But the main point is to use those exercises to create a sense of belonging for the employees," she said. "Team building won't cure all of the dysfunctions in an office environment, and that's not what it is for. But what it will do is make your team strong enough to get through the tough times together."
Teri Saylor is a freelance writer in North Carolina. To comment on this article or suggest an idea for another article, contact Chris Baysden, associate director – content development, at Chris.Baysden@aicpa-cima.com.


David Adger is Reader in Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-editor of Specifiers: Minimalist Perspective (OUP, 1999) and publishes widely in syntax and semantics. He is co-general editor of the series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.


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At 4am it's -4 degrees in Aurora, and where I am it's 1 degree. HEAT WAVE!! The announcer gives some temps in Iowa--Des Moines--Cedar Rapids--Dubuque. They all have the same temps as here. This is a big weather system. By 4:15 I have the covers off me as it is HOT in this truck. I'm so glad to have a truck with this great heat! If I had two keys I would let the truck run while I go inside to eat. I study a map of the new I-355 that will be done in 2007. It is a 12-mile extension of I-80. Sure hope it helps eliminate some traffic off I-55 & I-294.
Back at the truck it's still warm. I start it up and head for Wheeling. I head east on I-90 to get to I-294 and go north. I get off at Willow Road exit which turns into Palatine not far down the road. Naturally, the directions given to me do not say that. But everything is going well and I am feeling good about this. Traffic is not bad and I'm just rolling along, not far from my receiver. Suddenly I find myself going from the fast speed I was traveling on the freeway, to a slow-moving business street. What the hell happened!!!??? Where did all the fast traffic go?? How can this be happening to me?? I was cruising along at a great pace like the others in front of me and suddenly they are gone and I am on a different road. I am pissed, and my blood pressure is going up - I can feel it. I keep going and I'm thankful that I'm in a business area for semis. That helps a lot, but I still don't know what happened to the road.
I drive very slow and try picking out a business that I can turn around in and head back to my starting point. As I move slowly forward thinking this through, I see the road ends ahead of me. But it crosses over another road, and when I get closer I'm able to see that it's the road I need to be on. I get up to the turn and see that I cannot make that turn - it's not wide enough for trucks. It's 6:30am and I now have to back up two entire blocks and avoid all the traffic coming up behind me arriving for work. I have my flashers on and back up with extreme caution. I stop from time to time so the 4-wheelers know that I am watching them. I keep on backing up and I see a "ramp," which is about as long as the tractor, and I take it. @#$& Chicago! What a way to start my day!
I make it to the shipper without any more problems and I get loaded in 15 minutes. Why can't this happen at every place I go? From where I am there are several options I have to get back to the I-80 area. I decide to stay on I-290 so I can drive fast and stay with the other traffic as this will be my only time I can "speed" in Illinois. This will help me get home faster. When I get to I-80 I start slowing down as I know this is where the cops watch for trucks not staying within the 55 mph limit. I have my cruise set at 55 and I keep on heading south on I-55 towards home. Some of the truckers that did not slow down in time on the south side of I-80 were pulled over by the police. I wave at them as I head south. I don't like the 55 mph limit, but I do it to keep my perfect record of no tickets and no accidents. You have to do everything you can to keep your record clean to protect your job and your career. I keep heading south and I have no problems all the way home.
Truck drivers often have a tough time dealing with dispatch because of misunderstandings. But for new truck drivers it can be even tougher to handle.
As a truck driver you have to be on guard at all times. Even when you're doing everything right you never know when someone will do something crazy.
You never know when a beautiful day for a drive can suddenly turn ugly, as it did for Rhonda in her big rig on a typical summer day in Wisconsin.
Although I had never planned on driving a semi, I wound up having a great trucking career. Here's a story about the trip where I reached 300,000 miles.


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Air Traffic Controller Premiere New Track "What You Do To My Soul"
By Benjamin Ricci on March 11, 2016
Performer is super excited to premiere the new track "What You Do To My Soul" by Boston's Air Traffic Controller. Their new album Black Box is out TODAY and you can catch them on tour throughout the month.
Says David Munro on the new track: "What You Do To My Soul" is about knowing you belong with someone because you have this new feeling, yep, right in your soul. They say when you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you just know it. It's a wonderful feeling, worth singing about. Everyone has their faults, ups and downs, it can't always perfect, but somehow it all feels right.
Listen below and sound off in the comments!
Air Traffic Controller have created a place all their own in the indie pop world.
Serving in the US Navy as an air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home demos written during deployment. Bandmate and singer/songwriter Casey Sullivan met Dave soon thereafter, and the two forged a collaborative bond that has become the vocal sound of ATC.
With an eclectic song catalog and category-defying organic/electronic sound, people are taking notice of ATC. They were 2015 Billboard Hot 100 Fest performers with The Weeknd and Justin Bieber, placed on the NPR Hot 100 List for SXSW, named Guardian UK Band of the Day, won Best Indie Alternative Song in the Independent Music Awards, and have over 15 million Spotify plays. ATC's music has been licensed by Bose, MTV, NBC, ABC, Disney, Verizon, Toyota, and many more.
The band started the new year with showcases in Park City at Sundance with ASCAP, Toyota Music Lodge, Zen Den, and Cisero's. They followed this up with their first Sixthman Rock Boat cruise with bands like Bronze Radio Return, Jukebox The Ghost, and Michael Franti.
Upcoming Air Traffic Controller Tour Dates:
Sat, 3/12 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair (CD release headlining show)
Sat, 5/21 – New York, NY – The Mercury Lounge (CD release headlining show)
Wed, 3/16 – Austin, TX – Shiner's Saloon (Humpday Hootenanny, 5 p.m.)
Wed, 3/16 – Austin, TX – Textile Events Space (McDonalds Music Session, 9 p.m.)
Thu, 3/17 – Austin, TX – TBD (acoustic set w/MyMusicRx, 2 p.m.)
Thu, 3/17 – Austin, TX – Maggie Mae's ("Music Milestones: 40 Years of The Ramones" presented by the GRAMMY Museum, 10:40 p.m.)
Fri, 3/18 – Austin, TX – Little Woodrow's (Live Vibe Presents: #PartyInMyPants, 5 p.m.)
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Sandvine, which provides intelligent network policy control solutions for fixed and mobile CSPs, has reported record revenue of US$30.8 million for its fourth quarter of 2013, net income of US$5.6 million and non-IFRS income of US$5.9 million.
Finnish CSP DNA has extended its use of Comptel Policy Control. The operator has used the company's roaming cost control functionality to launch defined data packages for a fixed price, to enable customers to affordably use their services while abroad and to reduce their fear of experiencing bill shock.
Oracle has announced that it and Telefónica I+D, the research and development company of the Telefónica Group, have completed a process of definition, developing and testing to allow Oracle's Tekelec Policy Server (PCRF) to extend mobile policy management to fixed broadband networks.
Openet and Allot Communications have announced their joint policy management solution has been selected by TELE Greenland, which provides fixed broadband and mobile networks across the country.
Telenor Global Services is to make its LTE roaming services available around the world using Oracle's Tekelec Diameter Signaling Router. The system will enable national and international roaming and over-the-top (OTT) services, such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) for partner service providers, helping to increase revenues and provide subscribers with greater LTE network access.
Openet has acquired Forkstream, a spin out from University College Dublin, that has created technology that enables operators to define policies for routing mobile data streams within and between different access networks while ensuring a seamless user experience.
Tekelec's Policy Server product has been selected by Telefónica UK to provide the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in its 3G and LTE core networks. The Policy Server will combine with Tekelec's Subscriber Profile Repository to enable Telefónica UK to offer advanced digital lifestyle services for smartphones, tablets and other mobile data devices, while lowering network operating costs.
Amdocs has announced the industry's first complete, virtualised network control offering. The new virtualised deployment options for Amdocs' suite of network control products are set to enable service providers to accelerate the introduction of new services while taking full advantage of standard off-the-shelf hardware to reduce costs. The virtualisation solution will be supported on Amdocs network control products widely deployed today, including Amdocs Policy Controller (PCRF), Amdocs Home Subscriber Server, and Amdocs Subscriber Data Broker.


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The Great Wall: a movie by the master of spectacle
Although Zhang's repertoire includes a number of fine, small-scale and intimate movies about family and personal relationships, such as the recent Coming Home, about a political prison returning to his family after 20 years incarceration, the Chinese director is best-known for his amazing command of spectacular set-pieces and and martial-arts action in movies such as Hero and House of Flying Daggers. In these epics he combines lustrous imagery, slow-motion effects and intricate duels and battles to superb visual effect, best seen on the biggest possible screen.
Hopefully The Great Wall Wall will provide similar spectacular and action-packed payoffs.
One of the great slow-motion action sequences in "Flying Daggers"
Shot from opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics, 2006, directed by Zhang.
The director on the set of "House of Flying Daggers"
Left to right: a political prisoner returns after 20 years in Coming Home; scene fom Zhang's remake of the Coen brothers' Blood Simple, A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop and a reflective moment in Raise the Red Lantern, a domestic drama with magnificent interior settings. Zhang is a master of both spectacle and more intimate, personal, domestic drama. Below, two scenes from Red Lantern (right), showing the director's love of movement set against lavish backgrounds and his penchant for placid, realistic domestic scenes.
"Battle of the Bastards' battle-scenes from 2016 Game of Thrones series are indebted to a sustained battle sequence in Zhang's 2006 martial-arts movie Curse of the Golden Flower. Indeed the whole series owes a lot to that movie's focus on inter-family rivalries and betrayal, and its emphasis on powers struggles, sibling rivalry and strong women.
Battle of the Bastards features a wall of shields encircling the enemy and advancing inexorably to crush them.
A decade earlier, 'Curse of the Golden Flower' showed an encircling shield moving in to crush the enemy.