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Inside USBE > Departments and Programs > Internal Audit
Welcome to Internal Audit
Mission and Vision: AEIOU and Y (Why)
The Internal Audit Department's mission is Analyzing Education Independently and Objectively for Utahns.
WhY (Internal Audit's Vision): To ensure the achievement of the Board's strategic mission.
Resources and Policy
Report a Concern Form
Authority and Independence
Utah State Legislature Utah Code Title 63I-5-201(4): Internal Auditing Programs, State Agencies directs the Utah State Board of Education to establish an internal audit program. The Internal Audit Department of the Utah State Board of Education has the authority to audit entities governed by or provided resources by the Utah State Board of Education, including:
Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB)
State Charter School Board (SCSB)
Sub-recipients (entities sub-awarded funds by the above organizations)
The Internal Audit Department follows professional internal auditing standards. These standards are included in the Internal Audit Department's Policies and Procedures Manual, which is available upon request. Internal Audit is independent from daily operations of the Utah State Board of Education and reports directly to the Utah State Board of Education Audit Committee.
Internal Audit Responsibilities
Critical Internal Audit functions include:
participating in risk management,
preparing an annual prioritized audit plan,
performing performance, financial, and/or compliance audits,
acting as the external audit liaison, and
maintaining a hotline for stakeholders of public education to report concerns.
The Internal Audit Department is committed to performance management and continuous improvement. You can help us identify specific areas or processes that are working well or that are opportunities for improvement. Please send your suggestions to audit@schools.utah.gov.
Internal Audit Reports
2018 Year-End Financial Close Audit
Comprehensive Administration of Credentials for Teachers in Utah Schools (CACTUS) Data Accuracy and Reliability
Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR)
Local Education Agency (LEA) Audit:
American International School of Utah (AISU)
Athenian eAcademy
Use of Funds:
East Hollywood High
Fast Forward Charter
Mana Academy
External Audit Reports
Utah State Legislature Office of the Legislative Auditor General
Search Local and State Government Reports
State of Utah Office of the State Auditor (OSA)
Internal Audit maintains two full years of past audit reports on the website, if you are interested in a report not currently listed, please contact Internal Audit at audit@schools.utah.gov or (801) 538-7813.
Audit Plan and Calendar
Internal Audit maintains a list of audits prioritized (approved) by the Utah State Board of Education. Audits are scheduled based on available resources and upon consideration of staff skillsets and potential conflicts.
Projected Internal Audit Project Calendar
Internal Audit Whitepapers
Want to know more about Internal Audit?:
Auditing or Monitoring?
Eyes on Education (Risk)
The Audit Process
We're Here for You (Hotline)
Working to Improve (Corrective Action)
The Internal Audit Department Policies and Procedures Manual is available upon request.
Also see the Utah Office of Administrative Rules R277-116: Audit Procedure for additional information.
The Internal Audit Department acts as the external audit liaison for the Utah State Board of Education, so we interact with other agencies that audit the Utah State Board of Education (e.g., the Office of the State Auditor, Office of the Legislative Auditor General, United States Department of Education). The policies and procedures outlined below are internal forms that help us fulfill this function and report back to the Audit Committee:
External Audit Checklist
External Audit Notification Form
Note: These PDF forms work best if opened in Adobe® Acrobat. You can download a copy at Adobe.
Any organization receiving taxpayer dollars through federal or state appropriations, grants, contracts, or sub-awards, is trusted to safeguard those funds and ensure they are used in compliance with the regulations and intent of the awarding party. The hotline is maintained by the Internal Audit Department of the Utah State Board of Education and it is a venue for citizens, educators, employees, and other stakeholders to request audits or report concerns related to any of the agencies governed by or provided resources by Utah State Board of Education.
Public Education is governed both at the state and local levels, so it is important to try and identify who has authority in the area where you have a question or a concern. The document below will help you identify options when you have a concern; many times, the best option is to Start Local.
Utah Public Education: Where Should I Start?
Utah State Board of Education Utah Schools Directory
Includes District and Charter Schools
For concerns regarding Special Education and/or Alleged Educator Misconduct consider the following resources:
Utah State Board of Education Special Education Laws, State Rules and Regulations
Reporting Misconduct/Arrests
Utah State Board of Education Policy, Law and Professional Practices Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission (UPPAC)
Protection for Individuals Reporting Concerns?
The Utah State Board of Education and the Internal Audit Department are committed to protecting individuals who report concerns. As requested, and to the extent allowed by law, we maintain the confidentiality of anyone providing information. Utah law prohibits discharging, threatening, or otherwise bringing a personal action against an employee who reports a violation of law or waste of public funds, property, or manpower unless the employee knows the report is malicious, false, or frivolous. Please see the Utah State Legislature Title 63G-2-305: Protected Records Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) concerning protected information, including information for audit purposes, and Title 67-21: Utah Protection of Public Employees Act concerning the whistleblower protections.
Reporting a Concern
If you would like to request an audit or review of a program, function, account, internal control, compliance requirement, report, etc., or if you would like to report misuse of assets, funds or resources, non-compliance with regulations, policies or rules, fraud, waste, abuse or unethical behavior, please contact the Internal Audit Department in one of the following ways:
1. Fill out the Report a Concern Form.
2. E-mail us at audit@schools.utah.gov
3. Call our dedicated hotline at (801) 538-7813, or
4. Mail a concern to:
Internal Audit Department
Attention: Debbie Davis
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4200
5. Visit the Internal Audit Department Offices, 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah.
To expedite a preliminary analysis of reported items and requests, when you report a concern please provide as much information and documentation as possible. This could include:
Your name, e-mail, and phone number (requests or reports may be anonymous, but we request this information to be able to contact you with further questions that may arise as part of the audit or investigation).
A detailed description of the request or allegation, including any laws, regulations, policies, etc. that are relevant, and if applicable, the source of the funds involved (e.g. federal, state, other)
The name of the individual(s), program, funding, etc. involved
The location where the action(s) occurred
The date the action(s) or concern occurred
Additional information such as: other witnesses, supporting documents, evidence, etc.
Internal Audit will conduct a preliminary analysis to determine the individual or entity with oversight responsibility of the area(s) of concern at the state and/or local level. As necessary, we will refer the concern to that individual or entity for further review and necessary action, which may include a request for prioritization of an audit.
Complaint to remain anonymous?
Complainant would like a response?
Public Education Employee
Address, City, State, Zip
School Name (please include District, if applicable)
Who is the person(s) the complaint is against? Who is the person's supervisor? (Please provide name, position, district or school, and phone number. Also, supervisor's name, position, and phone number).
Please describe your complaint or the activity you are reporting in detail. Include places, dates, times and frequency of the event. Also, how do you know about the improper action? Did you see it occur?
Are there any other persons who might provide information or who witnessed the event? If so, what are their names, positions, and their contact information? Has this activity been reported to anyone else? (If reported, please include who it was reported to, the date it was reported and attach any relevent documentation below.)
Is there evidence that can be examined or documentation that can be reviewed? (Please provide any documentation you have.) Did you see documentation indicating the event occurred?:
Do you know the source of funding involved or what specific law or state regulation has been violated?
Supporting Documentation File 1:


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Brought the slicer to to slice homemade slabs of bacon. No issues cutting through a frozen slab of bacon creating uniform thickness slices. I was even able to cut slabs wider than product tray by tilting the slab and feeding it into the blade.
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This slicer slices hams effortlessly. It is so simple to operate, that even first timers can get the hang of it and slice perfect slices.
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I think this machine would be great for light duty...we may have over used it because the motor seems to be slowing down...but to be fair it did say for light duty.
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Ouilt Blocks in a Floral Motif. The motif also make beautiful pillows or Place Mats .
Suggested floss, DMC with conversion for Anchor. As always, the designer encourages the stitcher to use fabric size/color, and floss type/colors of choice.


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I've made this one available as a direct JPG download for wallpaper.


AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – By 2020, the land off I-20 and Riverwatch Parkway will completely transform into the new home of News 12/NBC 26.
"There's going to be a noticeable difference in the way we gather and deliver news," said News 12/NBC 26's General Manager, Mike Oates, when describing the new opportunities this new building will bring.
We've been in our current building in North Augusta for 64 years it's, and it's time for an upgrade.
The man that's making it all happen – Gray Television CEO Hilton Howell, who likes to think big.
Our viewers can look forward to some distinctly Augusta touches – like a putting green and digital billboards on the building, able to broadcast everything from Amber Alerts to Masters coverage.
Gray Television is turning that giant plot of land into one of the most modern, high tech news gathering operations in the country, which will mean big things for our viewers.
"Make no mistake about the fact that News 12 and WAGT are the absolute news leaders in this town, but this is going to allow us to take another big, big step forward," Oates said in closing.
This new opportunity allows us to be on your side like never before.
The plan is to move in to the new building sometime before Masters Week in 2020.
Follow News 12 NBC 26 on Facebook and Twitter if you don't already. We'll post some behind the scenes footage of the progress.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – News 12/NBC 26 will be moving to a new building in Augusta in 2019. The Gray TV-owned station has been located in North Augusta for 64 years.
Crews broke ground Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. at the building site off Riverwatch Parkway and I-20, next to Costco and Cabela's.
The design brings in certain aspects that keep Augusta in mind. The facility will span about 30,000 square feet.
Attending the groundbreaking event were Hilton Howell, President & CEO of Gray Television; Chris Mossman, Regional Vice President, Gray Television; Rick Burns, Vice President of Corporate Relations, Gray Television; Mike Oates, Vice President/General Manager, WRDW/WAGT; Laura Warren, Anchor, WRDW/WAGT; Travis Darnell, President of CT Darnell Construction; Chris Heard, Principal, Hendrix Interior Design; Willis Watts of Willis Watts Design; Sue Parr, President, Augusta Chamber of Commerce; Tiffany Heitzman, Vice President, Columbia County Chamber of Commerce; Ben Hasan, Augusta Commissioner; Trey Allen, Columbia County Commissioner; Doug Flanagan, Juvenile Court Judge; Mark Herbert, Business Owner; and Cal Wray, President of the Augusta Economic Development Authority.
The development of Gray TV's new station in Augusta will be a state of the art broadcast facility with cutting-edge technology. There will be two stories to the building, one specifically for news use.
Gray TV has hired teams out of Atlanta to see the project through to completion.
The entire News 12/NBC 26 team is excited and honored to continue serving the CSRA in their new home.


For your convenience, you may pre-register for your appointment by electronically submitting our secure new patient forms.
Upon your first visit to our office, we will have your completed forms printed and available for you to sign. The security and privacy of your personal data is one of our primary concerns, and we have taken every precaution to protect it.
If you do not wish to submit your new patient forms online, please print them, then complete by hand and bring them with you to your appointment.


You know the %N trick?
You must be so smart.
AIM in class? You rebel, you.
Was not getting included on one.
For when inspiration wouldn't come.
This is the most cliche quote in existance.
You know you wanted them to IM you anyway.
You should have shut off the computer more.
Ever warn your friends just for fun?
If you were chatting online in the late 1990s and early 2000s, of course you do.
Remember what you set as your away messages? Think hard, AIMers.
New Twitter parody account YourAwayMessage remembers them all, and is sharing them with the world.
The service was an entire generation's introduction to conversing with others instantaneously on the Internet. In a way, the service acted as one of the first mainstream social networks.
What is your favorite memory from AIM? Share your story in the comments.


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The 35th Annual Life West Alumni & Friends Golf Classic will be held on May 9, 2019 in Walnut Creek, CA. This years event will be at the Boundary Oak Golf Course, a municipal course in the East Bay that boasts an 18-hole championship golf course, driving range and practice area with putting and chipping greens, a perfect venue for Golf Tournaments.
The Life West Alumni and Friends Golf Classic begins at 1:00 pm with a shotgun start (a tournament format in which all groups of players tee off simultaneously from different holes).
A tournament dinner and awards event will follow.
For sponsorship opportunities call Life West at (510) 780-4500, ext. 2060.


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Residents Invited to New Year Resolutions Event
January 15 2020 — Community
Are you looking to start a new hobby, take part in some volunteer work or meet new people in the area in 2020?
Residents in Hailsham are invited to go along to a special New Year Resolution event at Hailsham Parish Church and the church lounge on Saturday 25th January, from 10am to 2pm, which will showcase local community groups, clubs and voluntary organisations in the Hailsham area.
The event, organised by the Hailsham Community Forum, is open to everyone to attend and representatives from local community groups will be on hand to answer questions about what they do and how new members and/or volunteers can benefit from joining them.
There will also be a 'Volunteers' Hub' at which people who are unable to commit to joining any group or organisation but wish to help occasionally, can register their interest.
"It's the people of Hailsham that really make our town such a wonderful place to live and work," said Deputy Town Clerk & Business Enterprise Manager Mickey Caira.
"One of the best ways to meet new people and benefit from new experiences is through joining one of the many clubs and community groups around the town. Therefore, I encourage residents to come along to this special event, find out more about the groups operating in the local area and perhaps join one or more of them!"
Hailsham Community Forum organiser Jenny Seale said: "Nearly everybody makes New Year resolutions to join or do something. Whether it's to sign up to a gym, join a dieting class, enrol in a course, join a club, start a new hobby, meet new people and get out more… or do something of benefit in your community."
"By joining a local community group or club, you can find out about our town's history and wildlife, drive a bus as a Cuckmere Bus volunteer, take up bowling, go for scenic health and well-being walks around the town and meet new people at the same time, take part in a variety of sports, or perhaps even assist our local community radio station – Hailsham FM – as a show presenter or behind-the-scenes helper. The opportunities are unlimited."
For more information about the New Year Resolution event contact Jenny Seale on 07887 910150 or by email: jennyseale567@gmail.com.
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Recognise and use connections among mathematical ideas, and between mathematics and other disciplines.
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Placeholders can now be used in the default email subject of Letters!
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This should help to automate your Letter-emailing process even more.
Cliniko This Week: Email subject of Letters now supports placeholders, Draft Treatment Note navigation added, 2FA requires mobile on file, and bug fixes!


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Border guards assigned to keep Canada safe are blowing the whistle on the Trudeau government.
CBSA officials are being "muzzled" and the Trudeau government is not properly enforcing the law, according to a CBSA official who reached out to the Toronto Sun for an exclusive interview.
"But, I can tell you that the rank and file cadre has had it 'up to here' as with the rest of the growing number of frustrated Canadians out there," he said.
As reported exclusively in the Sun, a CBSA vehicle was parked at the popular illegal border entry along Roxham Rd. in rural Quebec. This raises serious questions about why CBSA is stationed at an unofficial crossing, and why they're not enforcing Canada's immigration laws.
RCMP arrest migrants who enter Canada illegally, and then "transfer to CBSA for (immigration) processing," according to a government backgrounder on the process for illegal entry and asylum claims.
If, however, the CBSA is stationed at the illegal border crossing on Roxham Rd., as proven by the Sun report, CBSA should be enforcing border and immigration laws. Specifically, they should be applying the Safe Third Country Agreement that prohibits asylum seekers coming from safe countries like the United States.
Both CBSA and RCMP officially refused to comment on the situation at Roxham Rd., or explain why CBSA was stationed at an illegal entry point.
"You couldn't be more spot on," said the CBSA officer about the Sun report. He went on to explain this contradiction in greater detail.
"If (CBSA) powers only apply in custom controlled areas, and CBSA is stationed (at Roxham Rd.)," it means one of two things, he explained.
Either Roxham Rd. is now "a customs-controlled area and an official crossing where the safe third country (law) is now as applicable as anywhere else," or, "it is not an official crossing and all actions taken by CBSA officers are null and void," he said.
More than 50,000 asylum claims were made in 2017, the highest number in our history. Almost half of those claims came from people who crossed illegally from the U.S., most at this one location on Roxham Rd.
So far in 2018, the number of border jumpers has already tripled since last year.
The CBSA official also mentioned his disappointment towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's role in sparking this surge of illegal immigration into Canada, and his government's failure to stop it.
"These migrants can read Trudeau's Twitter but can't read the sign saying their crossing is illegal?" he asked skeptically, referring to large signs placed on the New York side of Roxham Rd.


Cofounder of EnSCo AG. Has been involved in the Environmental and Energy markets since 2003 having worked initially as an analyst and later as a trader for power utilities and commodity trading companies in the USA, Greece and Switzerland. He holds advanced degrees in Environmental Engineering and in Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University (New York, USA). He completed his graduate studies on a scholarship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME/SWPD) while contributing research as a Junior Research Associate at the Earth Engineering Center, a unit of the pioneering Earth Institute at Columbia University. Previously, he studied Earth Sciences at the University of Athens, focusing in Petroleum Geology and Geophysics.


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After a as-crazy-as-you-can-get competition where he asked people to guess the most absurd, dangerous and unpredictable stunt, Devin decided on creating a 2000ft Urban zipline. Making it the largest of it's kind.
Devin collaborated with Speed Stick GEAR to set up the stunt, which not just required finding a high and scary enough building but also connecting the rope to a bunch of cars parked on a boat..in the Panama canal. And also blocking roads, making sure that in case a camera falls down (which it did) no irrevocable damage is done.
Though the challenges were plenty, to both life and property, the result that is encapsulated in under three minutes is just breath taking. And though the likes of us will never really get the opportunity to stop Panama's traffic for a stunt, we can sure as hell get off our couches and go seek a Great Perhaps.
Check out the full video here..


Union Depot in St. Paul's Lowertown recently launched a midweek farmers market where residents and workers can pick up locally made goods and seasonal produce over the lunch hour. As many as 15 vendors will offer artisanal products, homemade jams, baked goods and more. 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Dec. 19. 214 E. 4th St., St. Paul. uniondepot.org.
The Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis will present a talk with Kim Risen on the fast-fluttering birds. Learn about ruby-throated hummingbirds, and how to attract them to your yard and photograph them. Risen will talk about their nests and show photos of varieties of hummingbirds from Canada to South America. 7 p.m. Dec. 4. Free. Beth El Synagogue, 5225 W. Barry St., St. Louis Park.
Local influencer Sarah Edwards will share the latest trends in holiday style, decor and gift-giving. Find out how to impress friends and family with tips on dressing a holiday table or mixing a festive cocktail. 6 p.m. Dec. 8. Free. Third-floor Home Department, Macy's Southdale, Edina. macys.com.
Create a winter design that will last until spring. Using pine cones and a little creativity, you can create a seasonal basket that will bring cheer indoors. 6 p.m. Dec. 13. $49, advance registration at 612-362-3133 or online at Koehler & Dramm Institute of Floristry, 2407 E. Hennepin Av., Mpls.


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Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry Carl L. Alsberg to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/8/1917
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry Carl L. Alsberg to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
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DEPARMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY,
THE SECRETARY:
I have received a number of complaints from business men concerning the methods of purchasing food supplies for the various Government Departments. I am not in a position to pass on the merits of these criticisms but I take the liberty of passing them on to you, without comment, as statements made to me for whatever they may be worth and for whatever consideration you may care to give them. Perhaps the best way of illustrating what these criticisms amount to is to take a definite example.
Some few weeks ago the Navy Department issued bids for some 250,000 cases of canned goods of different kinds. A good many of the articles required are not to be had at any reasonable figure owing to the existing shortage which I have, on several occasions, brought to your attention in connection with the tin can situation. The result was that proposals were made by a number of people who had, of course, to locate the goods and obtain options upon them. The result of that was to put up the price for canned goods throughout the country; I am informed from 15 to 25%. Then after the bids were in, nothing was heard from the Navy Department for about two weeks. I am informed that many of the people who had bought the goods did not feel justified in holding them and therefore disposed of them. One man, who represents one of the very largest concerns in this country dealing with foodstuffs, informs me that his firm, being patriotically disposed, located and actually purchased some 50,000 cases of canned goods of the desired grades and kinds. This required several days' work of one of their best men and probably $100.00 for telephone calls, telegrams and travel. When the goods were actually purchased, this firm telegraphed the Navy Department offering the goods at cost to them. They held the goods for ten days and receiving no information from the Navy Department, they disposed of the goods. About two weeks after the sending of the first telegram, they were notified to deliver the goods. The Navy Department therefore has lost the advantage of this liberal offer to receive one-fifth of their total requirements at cost. Many of the goods were of a character that could not be located excepting by experts experienced in the business. This, however, is not the important point. The important point is that by advertising bids in the old-fashioned manner, the cost of canned goods was put up from 15 to 25%. This would not be so serious if the increase of price affected only the Navy Department but it affects every consumer in the country1. . . .
Source Note: TLS, DLC-MSS, Josephus Daniels Papers, Roll 98. Document is on Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry stationery. Alsberg was a medical doctor with an expertise in biochemistry. He became chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in 1912 and remained in the post until 1921. According to a biography on the Food and Drug Administration website, his tenure as director was characterized by "increasing the attention given to drug regulation, to research, and to an enforcement philosophy that relied more on education and persuasion than prosecution." "Carl L. Alsberg, M.D.," U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Accessed 5 May 2017, https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/Leaders/Commissioners/ucm093764.htm,.
Footnote 1: As Alsberg suggests in this letter, food prices in the United States were "giddily levitating." As a result, on 19 May 1917, President Woodrow Wilson created the Food Administration and named Herbert C. Hoover as its first director. Kennedy, Over Here: 116-20, quotation on p. 118. While this new agency and the War Industries Board wanted to take over all purchasing for the Navy, in the end, the Navy continued to do its own purchasing at prices fixed by "constitu[t]ed authorities." Josephus Daniels, diary entry of 28 September 1917, DLC-MSS, Josephus Daniels Papers, Diary, Roll 1.
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 5/1/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/1/1917
Vice Admiral Henry F. Oliver, Chief of War Staff, to Rear Admiral Dudley R.S. De Chair and Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, 5/1/1917
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, and various Division Commanders, 5/1/1917
British Admiralty Memorandum Concerning Convoys from New York and Ports Northward, 5/1/1917
Rear Admiral Dudley R.S. De Chair to First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, 5/2/1917
Diary of Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Divison Eight, 5/3/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Commanding Officers, Armed Guard Detachments, 5/3/1917
British Admiralty to Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair and Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, 5/3/1917
Vice Admiral Charles J. Badger, President, General Board of the Navy, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/3/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, 5/4/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C., 5/4/1917
Commander John V. Babcock to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/4/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Navy Department, 5/5/1917
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 5/5/1917
Commander Bernard A. de Blanpré, French Naval Attaché in Washington, to French General Staff, 5/6/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 5/7/1917
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Rear Admiral James H. Oliver, Governor of the Virgin Islands, 5/7/1917
Diary of Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Division Eight, 5/8/1917
United States Consul at Cork Wesley Frost to Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 5/8/1917
Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C., to British Admiralty, 5/8/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 5/8/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Lieutenant Commander David C. Hanrahan, Commander, Destroyer Division Six 5/9/1917
Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases 5/10/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Naval District Commandants, 5/10/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/11/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William B. Caperton, Commander, Pacific Fleet, 5/11/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 5/11/1917
Joint Resolution of Congress Concerning Seizure of Enemy Ships, 5/12/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 5/12/1917
Rear Admiral Sir Alexander L. Duff to Vice Admiral Dudley R.S. De Chair, 5/13/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/14/1917
Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour to Under Secretary Lord A. Robert Cecil, 5/14/1917
Lieutenant Commander Edward C.S. Parker to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 5/15/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Frank A. Scott, Chairman, General Munitions Board, 5/15/1917
Rear Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair to Secretary of the Admiralty Sir W. Graham Greene, 5/15/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating from British Bases, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 5/16/1917
Lieutenant Ronan C. Grady, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases 5/16/1917
Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, Patrol Force, to Patrol Force, 5/17/1917
Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, Commander, Base Defense Force, to Base Guard Force, 5/17/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché, Washington, D.C., 5/17/1917
Extracts from Reports of Officers Commanding Armed Guards, 5/17/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus M. Daniels to Lieutenant Commander John H. Newton, Commander, Destroyer Division Five, 5/18/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 5/18/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, 5/19/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 5/19/1917
Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché, Washington, D.C., to British Admiralty, 5/1917
War Diary-U.S.S. Ericsson, 5/21/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, 5/21/1917
Press Notice Issued by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/21/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Chiefs of Navy Bureaus, 5/21/1917
Commander John V. Babcock to Reginald E. Gillmor, 5/21/1917
Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/22/1917
House of Representatives Bill 3330, 5/22/1917
Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, 5/23/1917
Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 5/25/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, to Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair, 5/25/1917
Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair, R.N., to First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, R.N., 5/25/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 5/25/1917
Commander Harris Laning, Senior Assistant to Capt. Josiah S. McKean, Chief of Bureau of Materials, to Rear Admiral William F. Fullam, Commander, Patrol Force, Pacific Fleet, 5/25/1917
Lieutenant Commander Benyaurd B. Wygant, Commander, Tucker to Lieutenant Commander Joseph F. Daniels, 5/25/1917
Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Coast of Ireland, to United States Navy Department, 5/25/1917
Address by British Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Coast of Ireland, to American Destroyer Captains in Destroyer Division Nine, 5/26/1917
Captain Volney O. Chase, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, 5/26/1917
Vice Admiral Henry F. Oliver, Chief of War Staff, to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché at Washington, D. C., 5/27/1917
Captain William V. Pratt, Planning Section, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, 5/27/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/27/1917
Regulations Concerning the Naval Convoy of Military Expeditions, 5/27/1917
Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, Surgeon General and Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/28/1917
Captain Arthur MacArthur III, to Captain Edwin A. Anderson, Commander, Third Squadron, Patrol Force, 5/28/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, 5/29/1917
Master Painter Frank M. Watson to Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 5/29/1917
British Admiralty to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché, Washington, D.C., 5/29/1917
General Instructions for United States Navy Destroyer Force Operating in European Waters, 5/30/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commnader, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/30/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers, Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/30/1917
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destoryers Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 5/31/1917
Diary of Lieutenant Commander John H. Newton, Commander, Destroyer Division Five, 5/31/1917
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Q: Export 2-D object array (Object[][] array) into a .csv file in Java I'm working on a java project and using Eclipse with JDK 1.7. I have 2-D array of object type as Object[][] array. I wish to store the contents (export) of array to a csv file (each value in a separate column for each row) on the disk. Here is the code I'm trying:
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which is some garbage value. I need help to figure out what is wrong in this program (how to convert object into a string before storing, this is what I'm guessing the error is), and how to resolve the issue.
I found a help on http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/io/objectinputstream_readobject.htm but it deals with byte[] and String, not with 2-D object array. Similarly, http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-write-to-file-in-java-fileoutputstream-example/ deals with byte[] only. I have also found a solution at Java - How to write ArrayList Objects into txt file?, where ArrayList<String> MenuArray = new ArrayList<String>(); is used instead of 2-D object array, and also the solution is not complete. I also find a help at Using FileUtils in eclipse
I'm getting the similar error.
The solution says use:
FileUtils.writeLines(new File("input.txt"), array);

However, I receive an error that method writeLine(File, Collection<>) is not applicable for  WriteLine(File, Object[][]).
Further a solution in ADO.NET exists for reading csv file and store data in 2-D array at Reading a csv file and storing the data in a 2-D object array, but I need the other way and also solution in not for Java.
Both the methods I used are not working. Please note my 2-D array is of Object type not String. Any help is appreciated.

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Gessle at Melodifestivalen?
Written by tevensso on October 5, 2004 to Per Gessle.
STOCKHOLM - According to an interview with Aftonbladet, Per Gessle might be interested in writing a song for next year's Swedish leg of the Eurovision Song Contest. "Have them [SVT] call me and we'll work something out," Per grins. Per has changed his mind about the Song Contest as it's more pop now, before it was just strange, Per thinks.
Also, Per is currently working on not one, but two Gyllene Tider DVDs! The first DVD is a live recording from this year's summer tour and it will be released in the beginning of December. The second DVD is a documentary about Gyllene Tider's tours and it will be released in January, 2005.
Aftonbladet meets Per at his studio/office in Stockholm. They notice that the door to Per's apartment is barred by a locked gate. "We had to do that because German Roxette fans slept here," Per says. He mentions that he's writing new material, in English, and that Roxette may well use these songs if possible. "It's all up to Marie, I don't know if she has what it takes anymore, or if she wants to. It's a big machine releasing an album abroad. We haven't discussed it."
Aftonbladet article (In Swedish)
Per tells Aftonbladet that he sees Marie now and then, that they eat together. He also mentions that he loves her new album. "It's really great. Some of the songs are amazing! Her vocals are terrific! It's unbelievable that she's made the album," Per says.
So Per may be off, but he'll be back, maybe even in a few months…
Robert Thorselius, andersb, m-cvk and frodi contributed to this article.
iblue said on October 5, 2004 09:28:
finally a official comment about the german fans... i dont think a locked gate is something the family like to have there.
per_mson said on October 5, 2004 09:28:
Cool we will get a documentary DVD as well!! :-))
"German Roxette fans slept here".... And I who thought they are so normal nowadays.... at least a certain letter claimed that some time ago...
Marc-Bergwerk said on October 5, 2004 09:37:
It would be nice to hear that Marie is willing and that everyone is 100% confident. I really don't want to see the end of Roxette.
xarrrr said on October 5, 2004 09:39:
LOL..... that bit about the fans made me laugh.
back in a few months?! sheeeesh this guy's gonna make me broke!
Sascha said on October 5, 2004 09:40:
Hi! I'm a german fan. The last time I slept in Sweden was 1981. I was 4. So much about generalizing people. Cheers. ;-)
lonely_girl said on October 5, 2004 09:45:
So, this is his idea of having a break ;-) How typical is that!?!
I'm looking forward to the 2 DVDs, can't wait!
:-DDDD
...and no comment to the Germans from my side
*runsandhides*
Rich-UK said on October 5, 2004 10:21:
Ooooh. This could open a can of worms...
jobarth said on October 5, 2004 10:27:
YEAH, without exception positive news, thanx!
Kattunge said on October 5, 2004 10:42:
His face looks so strange.
Bad plastic surgery?
rox-kuryliw said on October 5, 2004 10:44:
roxette will always go on ! they will never split just stop releasing albums international , it would be nice, but marie has been through so much, they is no rush i say :-).
Polisson said on October 5, 2004 10:46:
So that´s the point: The future of Roxette depends on Marie Fredriksson.
Bad news, having in mind that Marie is only doing a taped documentary for promoting her new solo album.
But, on the other side, I don´t agree with Per that releasing an album abroad as Roxette is a big big machine. He must assume that the concept of the group need to be changed. I think that the last big promotion efforts Roxette did was with Room Service (at least here in Spain). But we don´t need Roxette in the TOP 40 anymore. We just want another album, perhaps more mature Roxette album, to be heard. Great artists -I´m thinking in Annie Lennox, for instance- don´t promote their albums but they still keep with their projects.
And I´m sure that, even without a big promotion campaign, Roxette will do well in many European countries, ´cos they have a big fan-base around who is seeking for another release. I mean, a great album with litte promotion steps (Marie doesn´t need to be everywhere, just Per...) would do fine for Roxette.
Anyway, I´m extremely pleased with Per Gessle and his capacity of work. It´s amazing...we will have to learn from him definitely. Moreover, I´m looking forward to hearin "The Change" by Marie, since the positive review Per has done of it (what would we expect from him, hehe?).
In the past, when Marie and Per said they loved their fans, I always thought it was a "correct" position, to please all of us. But now I can feel they are sincere, ´cos they try to go on with their careers no matter what it happens. And we, the fans, should be eternally pleased for that.
Zargo said on October 5, 2004 11:09:
Man, i'm gonna have to have a whole shelf dedicated to GT DVDs soon :)
Pity the Rox shelf is comparitively empty though :(
on_a_mission said on October 5, 2004 11:15:
yea, quit sleeping in his garden....psychos. good news though
[edit] it doesn't look that different in aftonbladet. the photo is just taken at a really funny angle in a weird light. the article is quite big though, worth picking up if you are in Sverige. Don't think its a surgery issue, he's hardly Micheal jackson is he...?
Mari said on October 5, 2004 12:11:
on_a_mission why isn't Aftonbladet worth of picking if you are not in Sweden ;)
I'm definetly gonna buy it today, and I'm not in Sweden.
Kiwein1 said on October 5, 2004 12:19:
Not every German fan behaves like that - keep that in mind while generalizing people! :)
kiwein1...I was BY NO MEANS...intending to generalise or berate every German fan. I apologise if it appeard that way. However, I still don't agree with doorstep sleeping no matter WHERE you are from!
And yes, if you can read any Swedish or are a heavy collector I'd get todays Aftonbladet.
Take care folks, oam
"However, I still don't agree with doorstep sleeping no matter WHERE you are from!"
Of course NOT! I sure agree!
I guess it was Aftonbladet at first who generalized people by writing it. I still can't believe that Gessle should have said it exactly this way..
And I NEVER EVER would sleep in anybody's doorstep.
Hi Kiwein1 ;-) I don't see the problem with the article. There is no generalisation in these words: "German Roxette fans slept here". It is a factual comment in the past tense about an event that has taken place. These words represent nothing other than an informative statement which says that two or more German Roxette fans have slept there at some point. There is no implication in this comment that many or all German Roxette fans have done this or do this on a regular basis. Therefore I see nothing wrong with the comment by Per Gessle or the reporting by Aftonbladet unless the event did not take place or the translation is incorrect. All the best! From Rich
Yes, but you know.."our" reputation is bad enough as you can see by reading the comments here..so, immediately while reading this article people start generalizing again..doesn't matter..I wouldn't sleep there - so I actually I shouldn't care about it, haha!
Best wishes to you! ;)
Lars-Erik_Olson (moderator) said on October 5, 2004 16:41:
EDITOR'S NOTE: OK... and with THAT exegesis... I think we can let the whole "German fans" part of this article drop. Everyone understands that the actions of a few people don't depict an entire group (or in this case countrymen)... but that they only reflect poorly – and often in an exaggerated way – on that entire group. So let's let that go...
Feel free to post comments on anything ELSE. Thanks for your cooperation.
harriej said on October 5, 2004 17:35:
wow, really good news: 2 more GT-DVD's coming up. Looking forward to it.
Nice Christmasgift!
And i really do hope that, when Marie is fresh again and her new album has worked out positive, she will have energy to continue with Roxette.
Roxette for ever!
I suppose I'm gonna spend my whole Christmas-money on Per & GT... :-)
Parre said on October 5, 2004 20:09:
why 2 dvds??
question to Mister G.
could you please give me the money to buy TWO dvds?
BTW im looking forward to it, even if i dont know how to finance ??????
edit: forgot something
why not placing the GT-videoclips on the 2nd dvd??
i would really love to see them all.
AURYTE said on October 5, 2004 20:50:
Do you know that the first DVD is from Ullevi?? I guess I'm the only one who truly loves the picture. Stop those "surgery comments". It's really silly, as silly as sleeping in front of the door. I don.t care what your nationality is, never sleep again. You ruin first of all GABRIEL's life.
konstpaus said on October 6, 2004 11:25:
im sick of all the people who say they cant afford to buy the odd rox or rox-related releases cdon isnt that expensive so if you cant afford it too bad i dont wanna hear about it!
Not everyone is so rich as you are.
Zerot said on October 6, 2004 17:28:
What is exactly "Melodifestivalen"?
im so sorry that i have some more things to pay for than just roxette or gt
maybe you havent, but i do!!!
otherwise, this was a JOKE!!!
do you know that word?
"Melodifestivalen". I think it is Eurovision Song Contest.


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These days location based services can tell where you are at any time. Many online services can pretty much tell your location but they don't generally pinpoint it at the exact GPS co-ordinates. Samy Kamkar has used the undocumented Google Maps API to map a web browser to GPS coordinates via router XSS and Google's Location based services i.e. using this, one can find the location of any person from their MAC address. The application is called MapXSS.
The router and web browser themselves contain no geolocation/GPS data and is also not IP based Geolocation. This works via Router XSS which obtains the MAC address of the router via AJAX. The MAC address is then sent to the person who is trying to learn your location. The MAC address is then sent to the Google's Location Based Services which can map the location (approximate GPS co-ordinates) of a user based on his MAC address. The creator of MapXSS says that he determined this protocol by using Firefox's Location Aware Browsing.
Without Google Maps, this method of knowing one's location through XSS exploit isn't possible. Google while collecting data for the Google Street View had also collected data of the wireless networks in the vicinity and the MAC address of those routers. and then mapped them to the GPS co-ordinates. A malicious page you're visiting might perform an XSS exploit and retrieve the MAC address of your router and then retrieve the GPS co-ordinates corresponding to that MAC address from Google Maps.
This exploit is a really serious thing and it can cause serious crimes as thugs and ruffians can easily know your location.


In this project, dr. Johan van den Heuvel designed an algorithm and RF IC implementation for analog spatial filtering of a MIMO system. The RF IC contains 4 beamformers who generate 4 simultaneous antenna beam patterns from 4 antenna signals. This can also be modeled as a 4x4 analog complex matrix multiplication.
The thesis in which this research is documented can be found here.


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Home » Fashion » The Queen is advertising for a £22k-a-year gardener to keep her lawns at Buckingham Palace maintained to an 'exceptional standard' – The Sun
FANCY working at Buckingham Palace? The Queen is on the hunt for a gardener to help keep the stunning grounds looking "exceptional".
The green-fingered candidate will have ownership of their own section within the royal gardens, which "thousands will admire".
The advert on the Royal Household website says the senior position is an "opportunity to make your mark".
The chosen gardener will earn around £22,000-a-year, depending on experience, and they will help to deliver the palace's annual plan of maintenance and work.
The ad says: "Leading a small team, you'll organise and allocate daily tasks, as well carrying out some of the work yourself, from all important lawn maintenance, to caring for shrub, herbaceous and rose borders.
"Helping to shape the future of the gardens, you'll have creative input into planting new shrubberies, bulbs and seasonal flower displays, ensuring that they continue to provide a spectacular setting for the palace.
"You'll also grow your management skills, monitoring Health & Safety and training records, as well as guiding the performance and development of the team.
"And conserving the garden's rich biodiversity, as well as its unique history, will continue to inspire you."
But mowing a lawn to a royal standard isn't the only requirement.
The palace are looking for people with a "passion for horticulture", who have this backed up by a relevant degree such as an NVQ3 or Botanic Diploma in Horticulture.
It explains: "You'll have previous experience carrying out cyclical maintenance for a high quality landscape garden, ideally within a historic environment.
"This means you have excellent knowledge of lawn maintenance, and cultivating a broad range of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants.
"Able to demonstrate a range of horticultural craft skills, you'll be well equipped to use the wide range of garden machinery we have here, including rotary machines and large mowers."
You will also need a clean UK driving license, as driving a lorry is part of the duties.
But given the royal family's love of nature, you could spot some very famous visitors during your working day.
Kate Middleton previously told schoolchildren that she likes to go on 'spider hunts' with Prince George and Princess Charlotte in their garden.
Meanwhile, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have split up at Madame Tussauds to reflect duchess' 'celebrity status' over her royal ties.
We shared how Meghan and Harry will be known as the Earl and Countess of Dumbarton when they 'visit Scotland this summer'.
And the frugal Queen uses bedsheets from the Royal Yacht Britannia that was decommissioned in 1997.


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4 Legal Scholars Set To Testify In House Impeachment Inquiry
By Adam Elrashidi
and Briana Koeneman
Four constitutional scholars will appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the four witnesses set to testify during its first hearing in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump on Wednesday. All four are constitutional law scholars, with three selected by Democrats and one selected by Republicans.
Noah Feldman is a Harvard Law School professor. He's written several articles on impeachment, including an editorial for The New York Times in which he called the current situation a "constitutional crisis." In an editorial for Bloomberg, he advised House Democrats to focus on the Constitution and not on statutory law, saying the latter could "obfuscate the fundamental wrongness of Trump's conduct."
Pamela Karlan is a professor of public interest law and the co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School. She was considered for a Supreme Court appointment by the Obama administration, and a 2009 profile in The New York Times described her as "a champion of gay rights, criminal defendants' rights and voting rights." She also served the Justice Department between 2014 and 2015 as deputy assistant attorney general for voting rights.
Michael Gerhardt is a professor of jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. He's written two books on impeachment and served as a witness during the impeachment of former President Clinton. In an interview with Slate last month, he said President Trump had "dismissed the rule of law as being relevant to his life."
Jonathan Turley is a professor of public interest law at The George Washington University Law School and will serve as the minority witness. In 2014, Turley was hired by House Republicans when they sued the Obama administration over the Affordable Care Act. Turley has criticized the impeachment inquiry. In an editorial for The Hill last month he said it was "designed to fail with an incomplete and conflicted record."
During a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, a House staffer called the witnesses the "nation's top legal experts" on the constitutional standards of impeachment. The staffer said their respective testimonies would help lawmakers understand how those standards could be applied to the president's alleged misconduct.


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Q: n-Tree traversal from root node down to all childen I have a List with some tables from a database where each row contains a parent field refering to another row. Like this

title, parent
  A, null
  B, A
  C, A
  D, C
  E, B
  F, null

Here the A and F are root nodes,  B and C is child to A, D is child to C and E is child to B in turn.
What is the best way to produce a tree structure from this list?
One way is to recurse over the list finding the root (the title without no parents) then for each root again loop over the list and attach the roots nodes. Then for those nodes again loop over the full list to attach any children of their own.
Example:
private Node getNode(SomeData d) {
    List<SomeData> tmp = getChildren(d);
    if (tmp == null OR empty) return new Node(d);

    Node n = new Node(d);
    for (SomeData m : tmp) {
        n.addChild(getNode(m)); // recurse
    }
    return n;
}

private List<SomeData> getChildren(SomeData parent) {
    List<SomeData> tmp = new ArrayList<SomeData>();
    for (SomeData candidateChild : myBigFlatDataList.values()) {
        if (parent.equals(candidateChild)) {
            tmp.add(candidateChild);
        }
    }
    return tmp;
}

Is there a better way to do this?

A: Since you get the data from a DB you can sort the rows according to the parent attribute. Then you wouldn't need to iterate over the whole list everytime you search for the children of a node.
EDIT:
When the list is sorted you can stop iterating over the list when you found all children you were looking for. For example when you have the root "A" and you start searching for its children in this list:
B, A
C, A
E, B  <- when you reach "B" you can assume that there are no
D, C     other nodes which are children of "A" and stop the iteration

A: Re-reading the entire file (or worse querying the database) for every node is rather expensive. I would rather you build the tree as you read the list. Here's my 2 cents

*

*Let Nodes be a set of Nodes (initially an empty set).

*Let RootNodes be a set of all Root Nodes (initially an empty set).

*For every pair of nodes (N1,N2):

*

*For each N in (N1,N2) if N not in Nodes, create N and insert into Nodes.

*If N2 == null, also insert N2 into RootNodes (additionally you could also delete it from Nodes)

*Mark N2.child = N1.

If you follow this, at the end of the iteration over the list you should have:
RootNodes = {A,F}
Nodes = {B,C,D,E}

A.child = B
A.child = C
C.child = D
B.child = E

Hope this helps.

A: You can build your tree all at once.  You can do a first pass over the table to build all of the nodes (build a hashtable from name to Node), then do another pass where you can add parent-child relationships between two Nodes (add parent pointer to child and add child to list of children in the parent).

A: This is a pretty good way, but it is more naive than it has to be.
Another route takes just linear time.  Is there something about a SomeData that uniquely identifies it?  I would assume so; this could be SomeData itself implementing equals() and hashCode() properly.
Lets say there is a method int SomeData.getID().  Then we can keep Nodes we've previously seen in a HashMap.
Map<Integer, Node> visitedNodes = new HashMap...

Then we just read forward through the rows:
for ( SomeData data : ... ) {
    SomeData parent = data.getParent();
    Node<SomeData> parentNode = getOrCreateNode(parent);
    Node<SomeData> childNode = getOrCreateNode(data);
    parentNode.addChild(childNode);
}

private Node<SomeData> getOrCreateNode(SomeData data) {
    Node<SomeData> node = visitedNodes.get(data.getID());
    if ( node == null ) {
       node = new Node<SomeData>(data);
       visitedNodes.put(data.getID(), node);
    }
    return node;
}

A: List<User> list = new ArrayList<User>();
User blankNode;
class User{
    String userid;
    User child;
    public User() {
        //blankNode
    }
    public User(String userid) {
        this.userid = userid;
    }
    @Override
    public int hashCode(){
        return userid.hashCode();
    }
}
public void addUser(User parent,String userid){
    if(null == userid)return;
    User child = new User(userid);
    parent.child = child;
    list.add(child);
}
public void removeUser(User child){
    if(null == child)return;
    list.remove(child);
}
/* move the rank to up - assume
 * secParent - assign to new child
 */
public void boubbleUp(User secParent,  User oldParent, User child){
    if(null == child || null == secParent)return;
    secParent.child = child;
    oldParent.child = null;
}
public List<User> getTopUser(int num){
    if(num <1)return null;
    Map<Integer, List<User>> map = new HashMap<Integer, List<User>>();
    for(User usr : list){
        int count =0;
        User temp = usr.child;
        while(null != temp){
            count++;temp=temp.child;
        }
        if(map.get(count)== null){
            List<User>  sameNoOfChildren = new ArrayList<User>()    ;
            sameNoOfChildren.add(usr);
            map.put(count, sameNoOfChildren);
        }else{
            map.get(count).add(usr);
        }
    }
    Integer[] arr = (Integer[]) map.keySet().toArray();
    Arrays.sort(arr);
    List<User> result = new ArrayList<User>();
    for(int i = arr.length-1; i <=arr.length-num; i-- ){
        result.addAll(map.get(i));
    }
    return result;
}


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import be.ephec.exceptions.ValidatorException;
import be.ephec.utilities.FrameworkSupport;
import be.ephec.utilities.Validator;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public abstract class ValidationController {

    protected static final String USER_SESSION = "userSession";
    private final Map<String, String> erreurs = new HashMap<>();
    private String result;

    public ValidationController() {
    }

    public String validateData(HttpServletRequest request, String dataKey, extraCallback next, String... dataKey2) {
        String result = "";
        try {
            if (dataKey2.length > 0) {

                result = FrameworkSupport.getTrimedValue(request, dataKey);
                String value2 = FrameworkSupport.getTrimedValue(request, dataKey2[0]);
                Validator.class.getDeclaredMethod(dataKey + "Validation", String.class, String.class).invoke(null, result, value2);
            } else {
                result = FrameworkSupport.getTrimedValue(request, dataKey);
                Validator.class.getDeclaredMethod(dataKey + "Validation", String.class).invoke(null, result);
            }
            if (next != null) {
                next.doJob(dataKey, erreurs);
            }
        } catch (ValidatorException e) {
            erreurs.put(dataKey, e.getMessage());
        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            erreurs.put(dataKey, e.getTargetException().getMessage());
        } catch (NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            erreurs.put(dataKey, e.getMessage());
        }
        return result;
    }

    protected void setErreur(String champ, String body) {
        erreurs.put(champ, body);
    }

    public Map<String, String> getErreurs() {
        return erreurs;
    }

    public String getResult() {
        return result;
    }

    protected void setResult(String result) {
        this.result = result;
    }

    protected interface extraCallback {
        void doJob(String dataKey, Map<String, String> erreurs);
    }
}

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She wanted to be dignified. So cotton was made. She wanted to be special. So silk was made. She wanted to be celebratory. So gold was made. And then, she wanted it all at the same time. So the Gadwal saree was made.
The glorious but understated Gadwal saree is a love triangle between cotton, silk and gold where the only heart that breaks is of the one who cannot have the saree.
The Gadwal is a pure cotton saree filled with small self or gold checks.
The saree body usually has a pale neutral colour like beige, tan, off-white or even white with a border and a pallu of a contrast colour. The border and pallu also come embellished with gold or zari brocade work of varying detail. The pallu of a Gadwal may be filed with heavy brocade but is usually quite small, just a little more than a foot long.
This saree comes in exciting body-border combinations, with gold being a standard on all. You have white and black, off-white and maroon, beige and pink, black and pink, off-white and bright green, light-blue and dark-royal blue and whew! There are too many to list. Even though I own quite a few Gadwals, I do enjoy browsing these sarees in shops just to see if I can spot a unique or unusual combination.
Sometimes a border may have two-tones. Just thinking of the colour combination possibilities fills me with glee and a hmmpphh…because I know I can never have them all.
A two-toned border of a Gadwal in red and blue. Note the interlock of the border and the body.
The border and pallu are made of pure silk and sometimes even cotton-silk. The border is stitched on, or woven to the body in a manner in pretty much the same way as a Kanjeevaram border is woven a silk saree. The place where the order joins the body leaves a distinct wavy line which is often seen in a Kanjeevaram as well. This technique of interlocking the border and body is called 'kupadam'. Sometimes the Gadwal is also called a 'kupadam' saree locally in Andhra Pradesh where it is made.
The brocade patterns on the border are influenced by the traditional stone and wood carving of the Gadwal area in the Telangana region from where these sarees hail. The 'hansa' or mythical swan, the 'youli' or lion or the double-headed eagle are popular motifs. One of my sarees luckily has the 'hansa'.
Other popular border motifs are a paisley, a temple or a peacock. Sometimes these motifs are geometric.
In recent times I have seen Gadwals that come with longer, heavily brocaded pallus and even small or large butis all over the body. It is even possible to find a Gadwal made of silk and not just cotton. Now when a saree departs from its definition so much, it is difficult to tell it apart from other types of sarees and then you're left with just the shopkeeper's word. That said a pure, real Gadwal would essentially be cotton body with self or gold checks and a silk border with gold brocade work on it.
The Gadwal saree hails from Gadwal, in the Mahbubnagar district in Telangana in Andhra Pradesh. And I think this is the place where I must mention that Gadwal town of Andhra Pradesh must not be confused with Garhwal of Uttarakhand. Garhwal is the name of a region up North of India while Gadwal is a small town or mandala in Mahbubnagar (also called Raichur earlier). This town is known for its traditional, highly skilled weaving. Like is the case for many other sarees I have written about in this blog, this saree too came into being after being commissioned and patronized by the royal family of Gadwal.
This saree has been my favourite for a long time. It's the ideal saree for a wedding when you don't want to be too overdressed. It is ideal for wearing at a pooja ceremony or any other traditional family event. The cotton body lends comfort in the predominantly warm climate conditions of India and the silk and brocade border lends the saree its festiveness. Such a thoughtful saree!
And while I am hovering on the alphabet G and in the state of Andhra Pradesh, I must mention another local staple here – G for Guntur. The Guntur saree is made in, well you guessed it, Guntur, a city in Andhra Pradesh. Guntur, most known for growing one of the spiciest types of chilies available in India is also known for producing some of the finest cotton. This cotton goes into making a Guntur saree, also sometimes called the dance saree.
The Guntur cotton saree fine as it may be is also very sturdy. Its only embellishments are a body which may have lines or checks and a distinctive pallu – again with woven lines. The same weave is found on the border of the saree which may or may not be in high contrast with the body. Sometimes the body of the saree may have sparse, small woven butis all over.
So how can you say whether you are looking at a Guntur saree? Well for one, Guntur sarees are the daily staple fare in Andhra Pradesh and not popular in other states or cities. And the other most distinctive feature of a Guntur saree is that this saree has the most well behaved cotton weave ever. Those who struggle while wearing a cotton saree which has a mind of its own will know what I am saying. The cotton is superfine without being too diaphanous and is blissfully easy to drape.
The Guntur saree was one my mother-in-law loved and any trip to Hyderabad I made was usually preceded by a request for the Guntur saree. She loved the feel of the cotton and the colours – always very warm and earthy. Just the way she was.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Although every saree I own and write about is my favourite but there is one which can be called 'the first among equals'. That is for my next post. And let me add that I am not done with the alphabet G yet, in case you want to take a shot at guessing what that saree is.
Copyright: All photographs in this post are the copyright of Punam Medh unless stated otherwise. These photographs are not available for use for any other purpose to anyone.
Love the Gadwal saree. It is really one of the very best and I totally agree that this is one which you can wear to most occasions – from a wedding to a party to a puja to office and to a cultural function.
Hello Sreerupa – so glad you enjoyed the post. Thank you so much!
Last year when I had my both sons Thread ceremony and since it was the most important occasion of my life as a mother and for the first custom chudakaran (as mentioned in Upanishads) ,that is start of the ceremony i didn't thought of any other saree, other than our own Gadwal saree and I must confess this saree added my feeling of being proud of mother ,our tradition and our being Indian and some what same feeling I am having right now while reading your post .Thanks a lot Punam ,i love your posts.


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And now some questions for China's TikTok
One of the fastest-growing social media platforms worldwide, TikTok is home to silly memes, celebrity videos, and trenchant political satire alike - on US politicians, that is
By Kristine Berzina, Nad'a Kovalcikova and Lindsay Gorman
Brussels/Washington, 15. Jun 2020, 07:00
In a week of firsts last week, a high-level European Commission communication named China as responsible for targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns around Covid-19.
In parallel, the most globally successful video sharing platform owned by a Chinese company – TikTok – signed onto the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation.
European Commission vice-president Věra Jourová announced on Wednesday (10 June), TikTok will join Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Mozilla as a signatory to the Code of Practice.
This self-regulatory code was launched in 2018, and updated this week with new transparency and reporting obligations, in order to bring higher accountability to platforms in their handling of online disinformation.
Last week's announcements open a new chapter for the European Union's fight against foreign interference and an opportunity for the EU to wield its newly-strengthened anti-disinformation tools on an emerging platform.
Yet it remains to be seen whether the EU's disinformation mechanism, which has been criticised in its present form, can handle the unique challenge of overseeing TikTok, whose challenges may prove different from those of the US-based tech companies for which the existing system has been designed.
TikTok should also be under scrutiny for the potential suppression of content that offends the Chinese Communist Party.
The updates the commission presented to the code of practice may meaningfully increase the EU's leadership from the EU on platform transparency, but the mechanism as it currently stands is unlikely to be up the task of fighting Chinese political censorship.
The EU has a choice to make – will it keep developing its transparency regime to protect the plurality of views and freedom of speech?
If not, there is a risk that by taking TikTok into the code of practice, the commission will facilitate the whitewashing of and give a boost to TikTok's reputation without achieving greater transparency in return.
What is TikTok?
One of the fastest-growing social media platforms worldwide, TikTok is home to silly memes, celebrity videos, and trenchant political satire alike - on US politicians, that is.
But there are significant questions about the extent to which TikTok's parent company, China-based ByteDance, propagates censorship on the platform of content that is critical of the Chinese Communist Party.
At the height of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests last fall, for example, hashtags relating to the protests appeared abundantly on platforms like Twitter.
On TikTok, however, the same hashtags yielded scant results and almost no signs of unrest.
Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok (also owned by ByteDance) appears to be censoring content to comply with the authoritarian regime's rules – in one recent instance a Chinese singer's account was apparently suspended after being reported because he looked similar to Xi Jingpin.
And during the Hong Kong protests, Douyin was awash with patriotic messages from Chinese state media.
It is extremely difficult to provide definitive evidence of explicit censorship given the transitory nature of the videos that fly by on TikTok's platform and the opaque process by which they are select for display.
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have sought to address concerns over the platform.
Last Tuesday (9 June), the European Data Protection Bureau decided to establish a taskforce to coordinate action and prepare an overview of TikTok's practices across the EU, after questions raised by MEP Moritz Körner.
Similarly, in the United States, TikTok is reportedly under national security review, as legislators of both parties have raised concerns over its handling of content and whether it pipes user data back to the Chinese government.
In the UK, however, TikTok was not asked to appear before the virus inquiry with British lawmakers on 30 April, in which the largest technology companies (including Facebook, Google and Twitter) were asked to reveal their efforts to eliminate the amplification of misinformation during the Covid-19 crisis.
Questions over TikTok's possible censorship are themselves a clarion call for greater transparency writ large on how platform algorithms prioritise content for users.
That's why it's interesting that the announcement of TikTok's membership coincides with the roll-out of stricter requirements for social media platforms that subscribe to the code of practice.
While these new requirements are tied to the coronavirus response and efforts to curb the ensuing 'infodemic' they may open the door for greater EU oversight over social media platforms more broadly.
TikTok's membership provides an opportunity for the EU to take a renewed look at information manipulation online and institute needed transparency that all platforms lack.
A successful approach would mean that standards depend not only on how much content is taken down – but also on how it is algorithmically prioritised and shown.
Information manipulation and influence are not just about the false content actors push on a platform, or the censored content that never reaches wider audiences, but how that platform prioritises types of content as part of its algorithmic infrastructure.
Info suppression
Information suppression can be just as dangerous a tool as outright disinformation – and more insidious.
Given TikTok's rising global popularity, it's clear this transparency is needed, and the EU has an opportunity to lead the charge.
Absent strong scrutiny and such an expanded understanding of information manipulation, both of which are currently lacking, TikTok's membership in the Code of Practice risks prematurely legitimising the platform as a responsible information space actor and providing cover for suspected political censorship therein.
The EU needs to face up to the reality that authoritarian states use information suppression – in addition to information propagation - as weapons for narrative control in an unfolding contest over the information environment.
Absent US leadership to build transparency around the ways online platforms display information, EU policies may be democracies' best hope for sound governance in the immediate term.
But only if they can be honest about the threats.
Kristine Berzina is a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy in German Marshall Fund Brussels office. Nad'a Kovalcikova is program manager, Lindsay Gorman is a Washington-based fellow.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.
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Says of immigrant family separations at the border, "we had the exact same policy as the Obama administration."
— Donald Trump on Sunday, November 25th, 2018 in a tweet
Donald Trump falsely says family separations were Obama policy
By Miriam Valverde on Thursday, November 29th, 2018 at 2:37 p.m.
Despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the Obama administration separated immigrant children from their parents at the border the same way the Trump administration did, the facts remain unchanged: that's not true.
Family separations under the Obama administration did happen, but immigration experts say they were relatively rare; under Trump's administration they were the systematic result of a policy to prosecute all immigrants who crossed illegally into the United States.
Trump on Nov. 25 tweeted:
"[email protected] did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama separated....
....children from parents, as did Bush etc., because that is the policy and law. I tried to keep them together but the problem is, when you do that, vast numbers of additional people storm the Border. So with Obama seperation [sic] is fine, but with Trump it's not. Fake 60 Minutes!"
.@60Minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama separated....
....children from parents, as did Bush etc., because that is the policy and law. I tried to keep them together but the problem is, when you do that, vast numbers of additional people storm the Border. So with Obama seperation is fine, but with Trump it's not. Fake 60 Minutes!
This summer, a 2014 photo of detained children circulated widely on social media, falsely pegged by some journalists and liberal activists as a detention happening in 2018.
The rest of the claims in Trump's tweets are inaccurate and don't tell the whole story. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Differences in family separations by Obama and Trump
The Justice Department in April introduced "zero-tolerance" as a new policy under the Trump administration, not as one carried over from past administrations. The policy called for the prosecution of all adults who were referred by immigration authorities for violating immigration laws.
As a consequence of the policy, more than 2,300 immigrant children were separated from their parents as they arrived at the border this summer. Children were put into the custody of U.S. Health and Human Services and the parents referred for prosecution.
Past administrations also separated children from the adults they arrived with in the United States. But immigration experts said those separations were relatively rare and nowhere near the scale under the Trump administration.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees border enforcement, told PolitiFact that Obama's administration did not count the number of families separated at the border.
The Obama administration began prosecuting border-crossers who had already been deported at least once, but very few of them crossed with children, so it didn't become as visible an issue, Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, told us for a previous fact-check.
"There was some child separation and some pushback by immigrant advocacy groups around that, but the numbers were quite limited," Seele said.
While Obama's administration generally refrained from prosecuting adults who crossed the border with their children, the Trump administration chose to prosecute adults, even when they had kids with them, said Peter Margulies, an immigration law and national security law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, in June.
"That's a choice — one fundamentally different from the choice made by both Obama and previous presidents of both parties," Margulies said.
The George W. Bush administration had a program, Operation Streamline, that referred immigrants who crossed into the country illegally for prosecution, but it made exceptions for adults traveling with children.
Trump's tweet also claimed that family separations were done "because that is the policy and law."
There is no law requiring that all families be separated once they cross the border. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in June tweeted, "We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period." The "zero-tolerance" policy did not explicitly say parents and children had to be separated, but that was the result of parents being referred for prosecution.
Katie Waldman, a DHS spokeswoman, told PolitiFact that families are separated for one of three reasons: when officials cannot establish the custodial relationship, when they believe the custodian may be a threat to the child, or when the custodian is being detained for prosecution.
Trump also claimed that he "tried to keep them together." Trump in June insisted that he didn't have the executive power to end family separations — but he later did just that after mounting pressure and criticism over the separations. We rated Trump's claim that he couldn't end family separations a Full Flop.
Our ruling
Tweeting about family separations at the border, Trump claimed, "we had the exact same policy as the Obama administration."
That's not true. Families were separated at the border as a result of a new Trump policy called "zero-tolerance." There were some family separations under the Obama administration, but experts say not at the scale of the Trump administration's and that they were relatively rare.
We rate Trump's statement False.
PolitiFact Rating:
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About this statement:
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2018 at 2:37 p.m.
Researched by: John Kruzel, Miriam Valverde
Edited by: Katie Sanders
Subjects: Homeland Security, Immigration
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