MEXICO CITY – A leading Mexican journalist's website says the private home of President Enrique Pena Nieto was built and is registered under the name of a company central to a much-criticized high-speed rail contract that Pena Nieto abruptly canceled last week.
Aristegui Noticias says the $7 million, 13,000-square-foot home in an exclusive Mexico City neighborhood was built and is owned by Ingenieria Inmobiliaria del Centro, a company belonging to Grupo Higa.
Constructora Teya, another Grupo Higa company, was part of a Chinese-led consortium that received the $3.7 billion, Mexico-Queretaro high-speed rail contract amid criticism it was the only bidder in a rapid process. Critics questioned ties between Pena Nieto, his political party and the rail contractors. The deal was canceled late Thursday.
The report appeared on journalist Carmen Aristegui's website on Sunday.


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package org.midao.jdbc.core.handlers.output;

import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.midao.jdbc.core.exception.MjdbcException;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 */
public class MapOutputHandlerTest extends BaseOutputHandlerTest {
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        init();
    }

    @Test
    public void testHandle() throws Exception {
        MapOutputHandler handler = new MapOutputHandler();

        Map<String, Object> result = handler.handle(paramsList);

        org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals(new Object[]{"jack", "sheriff", 36},
                new Object[]{result.get("name"), result.get("occupation"), result.get("age")});
    }

    @Test
    public void testEmpty() throws MjdbcException {
        MapOutputHandler handler = new MapOutputHandler();

        Map<String, Object> result = handler.handle(emptyList);

        Assert.assertEquals(0, result.size());
    }
}

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package convalida.validators;

import android.widget.EditText;

/**
 * @author Wellington Costa on 07/02/18.
 */
public class ConfirmEmailValidator extends AbstractValidator {

    private EditText emailEditText;

    public ConfirmEmailValidator(
            EditText emailEditText,
            EditText confirmEmailEditText,
            String errorMessage,
            boolean autoDismiss) {
        super(confirmEmailEditText, errorMessage, autoDismiss);
        this.emailEditText = emailEditText;
    }

    @Override public boolean isValid(String value) {
        return emailEditText.getText().toString().equals(value);
    }

}


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A week from election, Curry holds nearly $1 million cash advantage over Brosche
Christopher Hong @ChrisHongTU
After struggling to keep pace with her early fundraising success, City Councilwoman Anna Lopez Brosche will enter the last week of the mayoral campaign with a meager war chest as she tries to keep Mayor Lenny Curry from surpassing the 50 percent mark that would give him an outright re-election victory.
Neither Brosche or Republican Jimmy Hill will be in striking distance of Curry in the March 19 election. Instead, they will spend the final days of the campaign fighting to keep him below a majority, forcing a runoff in May. Brosche's strategy is focused on winning support from Democrats, while Hill will need his outsider message and conservative background to resonate with Republicans.
Curry's campaign has been a dominating force this election, raising far more money than his competitors, thanks to strong support from the city's wealthy political establishment. He has already spent nearly $4 million and has another $1.1 million left in the tank, which is nearly $1 million more than Brosche has.
After raising $370,000 in the last two weeks of January, Brosche's fundraising cooled down last month. She exhausted most of the money she raised through her political committee, which can receive unlimited sums from donors, and has $110,000 left in her campaign account, according to the most recent fundraising reports.
Well positioned for a strong election day, Curry has begun funneling money into an obscure political committee. While the group, Turning Jacksonville Blue, hasn't yet reported how it spent the money, voters have received at least one round of mail advertisements paid for by the group that target Garrett Dennis, Curry's most vocal critic on the City Council who is running for re-election.
Hill, a former Atlantic Beach city commissioner who has struggled to raise money, received a last-minute infusion of $25,000. According to a recent report in Florida Politics, that committee has ties to former Florida state Sen. Jack Latvala, who resigned in 2017 after six women accused him of sexual harassment. One of those women, Rachel Perrin Rogers, is married to Curry's chief of staff, Brian Hughes.
Christopher Hong: (904) 359-4272

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<?php

namespace Drupal\media\Plugin\Field\FieldWidget;

use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinitionInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldWidget\StringTextfieldWidget;
use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
use Drupal\media\Entity\MediaType;
use Drupal\media\Plugin\media\Source\OEmbedInterface;

/**
 * Plugin implementation of the 'oembed_textfield' widget.
 *
 * @internal
 *   This is an internal part of the oEmbed system and should only be used by
 *   oEmbed-related code in Drupal core.
 *
 * @FieldWidget(
 *   id = "oembed_textfield",
 *   label = @Translation("oEmbed URL"),
 *   field_types = {
 *     "string",
 *   },
 * )
 */
class OEmbedWidget extends StringTextfieldWidget {

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function formElement(FieldItemListInterface $items, $delta, array $element, array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    $element = parent::formElement($items, $delta, $element, $form, $form_state);

    /** @var \Drupal\media\Plugin\media\Source\OEmbedInterface $source */
    $source = $items->getEntity()->getSource();
    $message = $this->t('You can link to media from the following services: @providers', ['@providers' => implode(', ', $source->getProviders())]);

    if (!empty($element['value']['#description'])) {
      $element['value']['#description'] = [
        '#theme' => 'item_list',
        '#items' => [$element['value']['#description'], $message],
      ];
    }
    else {
      $element['value']['#description'] = $message;
    }

    return $element;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public static function isApplicable(FieldDefinitionInterface $field_definition) {
    $target_bundle = $field_definition->getTargetBundle();

    if (!parent::isApplicable($field_definition) || $field_definition->getTargetEntityTypeId() !== 'media' || !$target_bundle) {
      return FALSE;
    }
    return MediaType::load($target_bundle)->getSource() instanceof OEmbedInterface;
  }

}


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Thu, 11 Apr, 2019 - 20:27
Average 9-hour waits in Mercy University Hospital A&E
The Mercy University Hospital
Darragh Bermingham
NEW figures have revealed that the average waiting time for patients at the Mercy University Hospital A&E was almost 9 hours over an entire month-long period.
Information obtained by The Echo through a Freedom of Information (FoI) request revealed the average waiting time for patients in the emergency department at the Mercy was 8.6 hours before they were admitted, discharged, or treated.
The HSE has said that patients should wait no more than six hours.
The Echo sought the information on waiting times amid continuing overcrowding concerns at Cork hospitals, and was given the average waiting figures for the entire month of February.
The figures for the Mercy were revealed after a chaotic period in Cork University Hospital last week when patients were waiting for more than 12 hours during a status black escalation, deeming it clinically unsafe to admit more patients.
A spokesperson for the Mercy told The Echo that more and more elderly people were presenting at the A&E, which was having a knock-on effect on the waiting times.
The spokesman for the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) said: "The number of frail, elderly people presenting to MUH is increasing, and this patient cohort are prioritised for admission, which can lead to delays for other age groups."
He said the hospital has introduced a number of strategies to improve patient flow in the emergency department including rapid access triage by doctors to assist patient turnaround times, redeployment of specialist staff, and additional Saturday and Sunday shifts in the laboratory to support further timely infection control screening and reduce the number of people in the emergency department (ED).
"The challenges relating to patient flow within emergency departments is not unique to MUH," he added.
"It should be noted that the majority of people presenting are very ill and require hospital admittance for treatment.
"The clinical needs of all patients in the ED are cared for, and all beds are open within the hospital."
It was revealed last month that more than 1,200 people aged over 75 were forced last year to wait for over 24 hours in Cork hospital emergency departments.
Almost 1,000 of those were waiting in Cork University Hospital (CUH), while 364 were forced to wait at the Mercy.
HSE figures, obtained by Fianna Fáil, revealed that around 14,000 over-75s were left in the same situation across Ireland in 2018.
Cork University Hospital has witnessed severe overcrowding at times since the beginning of the year.
A status black escalation was issued at CUH on Monday of last week, which means the hospital was at maximum capacity and deemed unsafe to admit further patients.
More than 230 patients were waiting on trolleys and in wards at the Mercy in February, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), which did not take counts on February 5 or 7 due to strike action.
cork healthhealth crisis


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I Heard Myself in You
by Leonard Roberge April 6th, 2001 August 29th, 2020
Poptones
Like former Slowdive frontman Neil Halstead, ex-Jupiter singer-guitarist Simon McLean grew up to be a cowboy. But unlike Halstead's Mojave 3, whose last couple of albums have aped Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds and Nashville Skyline-era Dylan as if shoegazing never happened, McLean's January joins its vintage country-rock twang to a wombadelic whoosh straight outta 1991. The twang comes mostly from David Ogilvy's uncomplicated pedal-steel work, the whoosh mostly from McLean's overdriven electric six-string. I Heard Myself in You, January's debut long-player, is heftiest when the two compete for dominance, as on "I Heard Myself in You (Part 2)" and "Falling In," the album's spectacular penultimate track, a kaleidoscopic, desert-baked epic that shuttles between quiet restraint and wall-of-sound abandon. But the album's lighter songs—especially the delicate "Invisible Lines," the slinky "Eyes All Mine," and the ghostly "Fused"—can be just as packed with incident. Indeed, much of the record spins out the same sort of lush, atmospheric psychedelia practiced by Paisley Undergrounders Opal and the Rain Parade: McLean's gauzy vocals nestle among twinkling, shimmering, jangling, soaring, vaguely trippy acoustic and electric guitars and uncluttered percussion; throughout, ex-Seefeel vocalist Sarah Peacock adds sparkling instrumental filigree with slide guitar, piano, and Hammond organ. Along with McLean's talent for writing sweeping melodies and Mads Bjerke's meticulous, clear-as-a-bell production, her playing elevates I Heard Myself in You's songs from standard retro-rock exercises to luxuriant, satisfying little symphonies.
—Leonard Roberge


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'Why would anybody do this?' Burnley town centre tea room owner blasts thieves after devastating break-in
Kelly Bland has been left devastated following the break-in at Krafty Cow tea room
John Deehan
Published: 16:25 Monday 01 July 2019
A devastated Burnley business owner has had her "heart broken" after cold-blooded thieves broke into her tea room over the weekend.
Kelly Bland's Krafty Cow tea room in Boot Way was targeted by burglars overnight Friday.
The callous offenders made off with money from the till, a number of electrical items and around £150 in charity money.
"It's been an absolute nightmare," said Kelly. "The insurance will cover the window and the money taken but it won't cover loss of earnings. I had to close Saturday and I haven't been able to open today either. I was supposed to have a stall at Padiham on Parade on Saturday but I couldn't make that because I was waiting for the police.
"It's probably going to cost me in the region of £1,000. The charity money I'd collected was for Mind. I can't believe somebody would do this.
"I don't know why anybody would want to target a little tea room like this. I'm just glad I didn't have any children's parties booked in on Sunday because I wouldn't have been able to handle cancelling them.
"At first I thought it was just the window that had been put through. We had the door kicked in a few weeks ago but nobody went into the shop on that occasion. I really don't like the fact that somebody has been in there looking around. It's really upsetting."
Kelly started her business up three years ago after working at Costa and Grub in the town.
She describes it as a "funky little tea room" where people of all ages can enjoy daily arts and crafts workshops. She also regularly host children's parties at the weekend.
"Everybody has been so nice. People have been round offering to help and it's lovely knowing how many nice people there are out. It's hassle I could so without and it is upsetting but we'll get there."
Anybody who may have seen something can contact the police on 101 or ring Crimestoppers, anonymously, 0800 555 111.
Police use drones to tackle nuisance moped riders in Burnley


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Home // News // UQ physicists create quantum Mona Lisa
The researchers' rendition of the famous Mona Lisa, approximately 100 microns wide. Photo credit: UQ
UQ physicists create quantum Mona Lisa
Posted: Monday 20th May, 2019 by Study Options
Scientists in the UQ-based ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems have recreated the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night and dozens of other images on a quantum 'canvas', that is no more than the width of a human hair.
The images were projected and photographed on a blob of gaseous quantum matter known as Bose-Einstein condensate. The resulting images are barely visible to the human eye, with each pixel representing only about 50 atoms.
The quantum artworks began as a side project to the departments main research topic, although the researchers believe that these initial images are a fanatastic demonstration of quantum matter as an new art material.
Dr Tyler Neely, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems explained: "We never aimed to do this – we were originally looking to better understand the unsolved mysteries of how fluids flow.
"We were hoping to gain new insights into how our everyday world arises out of the microscopic quantum world, helping us create new quantum-enhanced technologies.
"But, while we were at it, we just happened to create some of the world's smallest masterpieces."
Dr Neely and his team cooled a gas made of rubidium atoms down to a few billionths of a degree Celsius above absolute zero, which at minus 273.15 degrees Celcius is the coldest temperature possible. This gas behaves as a blob of gaseous quantum matter onto which the images were projected. The light from the project 'stamps' the image onto an area about 100 microns wide.
"Although these images are fascinating, extending the creative expression of this medium is the next step," Dr Neely said.
"We're now aiming to collaborate with an artist to help us realise a creative vision for this technology."
Find out more about the University of Queensland and the research they do in their profile.


Leading Scottish independent property consultancy CKD Galbraith is offering for sale West Brockloch, a group of exclusive country properties by H McMurray and Son, situated in a stunning rural location in popular South Ayrshire.
The original farm steading has been converted to create just four homes on a beautiful site, each individually designed to take advantage of the wonderful situation and panoramic views.
There are only two of these exceptional properties left. Carrick View, the larger of the two remaining, is now being offered at a discounted price of Fixed Price £315,000.
This is a unique and special location. Only a mile from the local facilities of Maybole, and around a 15 minute drive from popular Alloway, the houses enjoy a peaceful and tranquil setting with unrivalled and uninterrupted views of the surrounding countryside, north to the Carrick Hills and south across the Girvan Valley to The Merrick. Nearby, the Ayrshire Coast offers wonderful beaches and walks and the renowned Culzean Castle and Country Park is only a short drive away.
H McMurray & Son have drawn on their many years of experience to create these family homes, with attention to detail and careful consideration of modern lifestyle needs.
Each of these four bedroom houses is generously proportioned with floor areas ranging from 221-241 sq m. There is a great balance of formal and informal living space, kitchen/living rooms and separate utility areas, essential designs for rural family life. The clever incorporation of the original steading buildings, along with the use of full height windows and double doors through many of the reception rooms opens them up to take advantage of the available light and space.
Externally the houses are traditionally finished with a blend of render and natural timber features. Large private gardens wrap around the properties, benefiting from the wonderful countryside views.
Internally the specification and quality of finishes are second to none. There is a choice of kitchens by Crown and Kingswood with a full range of Whirlpool integrated appliances, and bathroom suites by Ideal Standard or similar. Heating is by high performance gas fired condensing boiler, and there is high performance insulation throughout.
Eric McMurray's close and personal supervision of his projects are a key element to ensuring the highest quality product. Certainly the National House Building Council (NHBC) – under whose 10 year warranty scheme the houses at West Brockloch are certified – have previously commended the work of the H McMurray & Son in their strict standards of construction.


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John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).   One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.  He also served as ILM's visual effects supervisor for Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Along with Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall, Knoll and the trio's work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest earned them the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Knoll has been praised by directors James Cameron, Gore Verbinski, Guillermo del Toro, and Brad Bird. Del Toro, who worked with Knoll for the first time on Pacific Rim, stated "He basically has the heart of a kid and the mind of a scientist, and that's a great combination."

Knoll is also the inventor of Knoll Light Factory, a lens flare generating software inspired by his work at Industrial Light and Magic.  He was the Computer Graphics Project Designer on The Abyss, an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Oscar, and worked on two Star Trek episodes: Star Trek: The Next Generations pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers".

Knoll had a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as a fighter pilot, helped pitch the story of Rogue One, a feature film set in the Star Wars series, for which he also worked as writer and executive producer.

John Knoll reflected on his work with George Lucas on the Star Wars prequel trilogy: "I still feel like I owe George a lot to have been given that opportunity. On those three films, I feel like I got a whole career's worth of experience packed into eight years. George never constricted his thinking to what he knew for sure the tools were capable of; his attitude was, "Yeah, well, I'm writing what I want to see, so you guys will figure it out." I loved that he would constantly throw those challenges out with the confidence [that] you guys will figure it out. That was great."

In 2016 John (alongside with and his brother Thomas) were inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

At the 2019 Oscars, John and his brother Thomas were awarded a Scientific and Engineering Award for the original architecture, design and development of Photoshop.

Filmography

Awards

Books
 John Knoll, J. W. Rinzler: Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days with CDROM; Book about the Making of the Star Wars Saga;

References

External links

1962 births
Living people
Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners
Best Visual Effects BAFTA Award winners
Computer graphics professionals
Visual effects supervisors
Special effects people
Industrial Light & Magic people
Artists from Ann Arbor, Michigan
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni

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Chennai: The NSE Academy Limited (NAL) a wholly owned subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSEIL), has named ALPHABETA INC as a certified partner for online education. NAL currently offers certificate programs in extensive finance subjects in collaboration with select educational and financial institutions. Starting with a certificate course in Equity Portfolio Management, ALPHABETA will grow its offerings and will progressively deploy its courses to enhance the NAL product offerings.


29.5 cm soles suits both men and women.
Very competitive pricing on this line as we imported this directly.
100 pairs per pack. Each individually wrapped in clear packaging.
Guests shoes can have stones in the tread scratching tiles and wooden floors.
It is a sign of luxury found in most premier properties and resorts.


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VancouverVAN
Seattle Sounders 3, Vancouver Whitecaps 2 | MLS Match Recap
Jeremiah Oshan
SEATTLE — The Seattle Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps certainly gave the league's largest crowd of the season their money's worth.
The Cascadia Cup rivals traded the lead twice in a wide open affair with Lamar Neagle finally scoring the game-winner in the 81st minute of a 3-2 Sounders victory Saturday evening.
Neagle got the winner after taking a near perfect cross from Obafemi Martins. Neagle also drew the penalty that allowed the Sounders to tie the match and picked up the assist on the Sounders' first goal.
Building off some of the energy from the 53,679 in attendance, the Sounders jumped out to an early lead when they struck Vancouver on a well-executed counter. Neagle was in the middle of it, sending a weighted ball to Andy Rose as the midfielder streaked behind the Whitecaps defense and finished to the back post.
OPTA Chalkboard: Neagle, Martins indomitable vs. 'Caps
The Whitecaps hit back just one minute later. Russell Teibert and YP Lee created space down the right, then found Camilo Sanvezzo with a well-placed cross at the back post for a wide-open header.
The game continued its frantic pace with the Sounders nearly grabbing the lead right back in the 11th minute. Neagle created some space and sent in a cross through the box that went just over Martins' head.
Neagle and Martins nearly combined again in the 23rd minute. Neagle ripped a shot from just outside the penalty area that deflected off a Whitecaps defender and fell to the feet of Martins, whose attempt to redirect the rebound went just inches wide.
The Whitecaps capitalized on those missed chances with another Teibert-to-Camilo masterpiece in the 26th minute. This time, Teibert took a free kick from about 30 yards out that again found the head of Camilo, who was able to slip between two defenders and score.
The Whitecaps nearly extended their lead in the 53rd minute. Camilo laced a free kick from about 25 yards that caused Michael Gspurning to spill the rebound. Nigel Reo-Coker was first to it, and his one-time strike from about eight yards out forced a spectacular kick save from Gspurning.
The Sounders made the big save count when Neagle drew a penalty after being taken down by Greg Klazura in the area. Servando Carrasco, who had never scored in his MLS career, calmly stepped up and rifled his shot into the top of the goal.
FULL LINEUPS AND BOXSCORE
That had come just a few minutes after the Sounders felt as though they should have been awarded another penalty. Martins was taken down very close to the edge of the penalty area and foul was called, but the referee ruled that Martins was just outside the area. Replays appeared to show that he was just inside it.
Neagle's game-winner came after a sustained run of Seattle pressure. Martins took a clever pass from Rose at the top of the box and turned into the box, then laced a low cross into the six. Neagle was on the spot, beating his defender to the near post for his fourth goal of the season.
The Sounders improved to 6-4-3 and moved into fourth place in the Western Conference.
The Whitecaps fell to 4-5-4 and fell four points behind the final playoff spot.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
Rank Player What We Saw
1 Lamar Neagle He's the Sounders MVP this year, leading the team in goals, assists and heart. Did everything you could ask of a forward on the night.
2 Camilo Sanvezzo He can disappear for long stretches, but has a knack for turning up at the right time in the box. His set pieces are a danger as well.
3 Obafemi Martins Didn't bury any of his chances, but kept making great-plays until he finally made the game-deciding one. Worth every penny.


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Q: How to sort by time.Time I am trying to sort struct in Go by its member which is of type time.Time.
the structure is as follows.
type reviews_data struct {
    review_id string
    date time.Time
    score int
    firstname string
    anonymous bool
    review_text string
    title_text string
    rating float64
    upcount int
}

I have the below functions for sorting
type timeSlice []reviews_data

// Forward request for length
func (p timeSlice) Len() int {
    return len(p)
}

// Define compare
func (p timeSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
    return p[i].date.Before(p[j].date)
}

// Define swap over an array
func (p timeSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
    p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
}

A map is defined as follows
var reviews_data_map = make(map[string]reviews_data)

After the map gets filled with values,sorting of the map by values is done as below
//Sort the map by date
    date_sorted_reviews := make(timeSlice, 0, len(reviews_data_map))
    for _, d := range reviews_data_map {
        date_sorted_reviews = append(date_sorted_reviews, d)
    }
    sort.Sort(date_sorted_reviews)

The problem is that the result is not sorted.Can anyone tell me what the problem is.

A: Go 1.8 and above:
sort.Slice(timeSlice, func(i, j int) bool {
    return timeSlice[i].date.Before(timeSlice[j].date)
})

A: This can be done below go 1.8 without the extra type and map in the accepted answer.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
    "sort"
)

type reviews_data struct {
    review_id   string
    date        time.Time
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Sort Example")
    var listOfReviews = make([]reviews_data, 0)
    listOfReviews = append(listOfReviews, reviews_data{review_id: "1",date:time.Now()})
    listOfReviews = append(listOfReviews, reviews_data{review_id: "2",date: time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 7*1)})
    listOfReviews = append(listOfReviews, reviews_data{review_id: "1",date: time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 7*-1)})

    sort.Slice(listOfReviews, func(i, j int) bool { return listOfReviews[i].date.Before(listOfReviews[j].date) })
}

A: It looks sorted to me:
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sort"
    "time"
)

type reviews_data struct {
    review_id   string
    date        time.Time
    score       int
    firstname   string
    anonymous   bool
    review_text string
    title_text  string
    rating      float64
    upcount     int
}

type timeSlice []reviews_data

func (p timeSlice) Len() int {
    return len(p)
}

func (p timeSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
    return p[i].date.Before(p[j].date)
}

func (p timeSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
    p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
}

func main() {
    var reviews_data_map = make(map[string]reviews_data)
    reviews_data_map["1"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now().Add(12 * time.Hour)}
    reviews_data_map["2"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now()}
    reviews_data_map["3"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now().Add(24 * time.Hour)}
    //Sort the map by date
    date_sorted_reviews := make(timeSlice, 0, len(reviews_data_map))
    for _, d := range reviews_data_map {
        date_sorted_reviews = append(date_sorted_reviews, d)
    }
    fmt.Println(date_sorted_reviews)
    sort.Sort(date_sorted_reviews)
    fmt.Println(date_sorted_reviews)
}

Output:
[{ {63393534000 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0} { {63393490800 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0} { {63393577200 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0}]
[{ {63393490800 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0} { {63393534000 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0} { {63393577200 0 0x1ba3e0} 0  false   0 0}]

A:
sorting dates

type Location struct {
  Lat     float64   `json:"lat"`
  Lng     float64   `json:"lng"`
  Thetime time.Time `json:"thetime"`
}
func sorttime(dat []Location) {
  for i := 0; i < len(dat); i++ {
    for j := i + 1; j < len(dat); j++ {
      if dat[i].Thetime.Unix() < dat[j].Thetime.Unix() {
        dat[i], dat[j] = dat[j], dat[i]
      }
    }
  }
}

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The modern era gave rise to a sharply contoured – theoretical – model of the stato (to use Machiavelli's term): in the state, individuals join together mutually to protect themselves from violence. They do this by agreeing to recognize general laws that impose burdens on them (particularly the burden of responsibility for defending one's fellow citizens in the event that they are unjustly attacked), but also promise mutual benefits (particularly the principle of collective protection against unjust attacks). But to ensure that not everybody needs always to be ready to defend their fellow citizens, this task itself is assigned, again in a kind of collective contract, to particular citizens in a special institutional way, namely to the internal security forces, the police. Only where no member of the police is present may citizens – acting as their deputy – use force themselves to independently repel unjust violence in cases of self-defence or emergency assistance. The police, as upholders of the law and guarantors of internal security, still treat anyone who breaks the law as a citizen – but as a law-breaking citizen, i.e. as a criminal. As such, criminals do not lose their rights as a citizen entirely, but only to the extent necessary for defence against their breaches of the law.
It is different when it comes to defending against dangers that threaten the state as a whole, which come from people and institutions outside of the state. The modern model of the state – here used only as a stereotype, of course – encompasses acts of violence which do not occur within the state between citizens, affecting the lives, property and security of individual citizens, but which instead come from outside the state and are directed against the state itself. Violence of this kind is not criminal. It is, in the literal sense of the word, enemy. Criminals break laws that apply to them as citizens. Enemies do not violate laws to which they are subject, for they attack the community bound by law as outsiders. This is one reason why conventional international humanitarian law generally lets enemy combatants go unpunished when a war is over: as enemy actors, they did not break the law of the attacked state, even if they killed and injured citizens of this state during the conflicts. But to ensure that not everybody needs to be constantly ready to assume responsibility for the state's external security, this task for its part is assigned, again in a kind of collective contract, to particular citizens in a special institutional way, namely to the state's armed forces. Thus, the separation of the state's internal and external security is due to the difference in the quality of this security: one is in order to preserve the law, the second is a means of existential protection against external attack.
So much for the theoretical stereotype.3 We should have a conceptual understanding of it, even as we know that it should always be taken only as an approximation of a reality that is never so clear-cut. For example, there have always been spies and collaborators in wars, who acted from within to support the enemy without. And furthermore, there is a particular group of law-breakers who actually attack their fellow citizens, not with the intention simply of gaining advantage by harming them, but in the expectation that news of the attack will spread in such a way as to undermine other citizens' sense of security to the greatest extent possible. This general sense of insecurity, they hope, will bring about social and political change. The strategy of scaring people by triggering frightening communication is called terrorism. For a long time, this strategy was confined to the interiors of states – such as in the case of the Rote Armee Fraktion, the IRA, and ETA. In so far as they break the state's laws, these terrorists are simply criminals – extremely dangerous criminals in many cases. At least since the end of the 20th century, however, and particularly through the actions of Islamic terror groups, we have faced a phenomenon that utilizes global communication networks, and regards the world community as the target it wants to scare.
That the lines between a state's internal and external affairs have become blurred could be explained, in the first instance, by the fact that the communicative interior space has become larger – especially as a result of the Internet and globally available social media. 9/11, for example, is not simply an American event, it is global. But it is also true that some of these terrorists live in states which they fight against and whose internal normative order they wish to destroy or at least place under pressure via their attacks. Thus, although they appear on the one hand to be citizens, in terms of the target and intention of their actions, they are "enemies." Particularly after 9/11, it was this fact which prompted many politicians to talk of a "global war on terrorism" as a way of appealing to a well-known veneer of legitimization for violent acts by states. But at least two aspects were overlooked: first, that in this way the war is brought into one's own state, i.e. among the citizenry, and second, that this paves the way for an outward totalization of war, i.e. a dissolution of boundaries in terms of geography, time, and personnel. Indeed, the omnipresent drone war is no longer a mere chimera. In certain parts of the world, it appears as if it has already begun. War in the traditional sense cannot be the answer to the phenomenon of global terrorism, if we do not wish to undermine, from within, the core task of the state, which is to protect its citizens. In the "global war on terror," the state's interior ultimately becomes a war zone just like all the surrounding external areas.
But, then again, transnational terrorism is a fact, and to treat it simply as a problem of large-scale organized crime seems empirically impossible. National security organizations are reliant on information-sharing with other states, which means that security policy in country A cannot consider only its own vulnerability, but should also regard the prevention of an attack in country B as a task that it can help fulfill. Often the physical capabilities of an attacked state prove insufficient to defend against global terror groups, and other countries have to step in to protect it. Since the sphere of communication is now global, and as a result terrorism has become global, too, there is no alternative except global responses to terrorism, even if this still frequently seems hard to imagine, given the current diversity of the global community. Divides in values seem to run too deep – between west and east, north and south, rich and poor, and other contrasting pairs.
If we see counterterrorism as being a task for the civilized world community as a whole, then we can at least hint at answers to the questions mentioned earlier. Shouldn't it be possible for national armed forces – such as the Bundeswehr in Germany – to be given greater competences in the state's internal security? The answer can be provided based largely on pragmatic considerations. Since national armed forces have extreme means of violence at their disposal, there has always been a particular risk that they – who are supposed to provide external security – will take over power within the state, especially when the distinction between external and internal security is already blurred. That military coups are not entirely a thing of the past can be seen from events in Turkey on July 15 and 16, 2016, or developments in Egypt in 2013. Even if there is no immediate danger of a coup, it may be highly advisable not to allow any uncertainty to arise with regard to responsibilities for internal and external security. Instead, it would appear necessary to enable the police to deal appropriately with newly emerged internal threats by providing them with equipment and expertise.4 At the same time, the institutional and personal actions of police forces should always be measured against the standard of upholding the law, so that police work does not slip into warlike patterns of legitimization on the quiet. That, then, means upholding the basic and human rights of terrorist attackers – although of course, conversely, these basic and human rights should be applied to these attackers according to the threat that they pose. If multiple institutions or persons could potentially take on a defense role, ethics demands that that role should be assigned to whomever can best perform it. Therefore, we also need to gain a clear understanding about what we consider good defense to be. Ultimately, however, this process of self-conception is not limited only to the interior of states, as the phenomenon of the drone war again shows. Just as the appropriateness of such defense measures outside one's own borders is discussed internationally, so there is also a need to transform this global communication process into global institutions.
But the global public media and the politics of protecting people in their individuality (keyword "human security") need to be accompanied by a global political process, otherwise conflicts of values will constantly spiral into acts of violence. After all, there will still be conflicts of values and different ideas about how the global political community should be shaped. Differences between the secular-liberal attitudes of people in the so-called "West" and religious ways of life are still too great, differences in mentality are still too great, and differences in the global distribution of wealth are also too great, promoting different attitudes to property and economic systems. If someone explicitly opposes the formal concept of a "cosmopolitan interior" (e.g. Kant's "unjust enemy"7) or materially aspires to a completely different system of values, we will never fully do that person justice if we treat them merely on the basis of our values, even if this is in accordance with our extremely high standards of human rights. We will only do the radical adversary justice if we acknowledge him as such, but firstly such radical adversaries are rare, and secondly it is particularly important in their case that we do not betray our own values.
It remains to be hoped – despite the current depressing experiences of renationalization and disintegration – that in the long term, institutions will actually be created that make it possible for every person to regard themselves as a world citizen, and that as such they will be able to participate in a more just, cosmopolitan, integrated community – incidentally without simply levelling either individual identities or the ensuing differences. Even if the White Paper does not dare go that far, nevertheless those thinkers in the various administrative organizations whose minds are open to optimistic speculation could at least give some thought as to what suitable kind of role the armed forces could play in such a world.
1 Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (2016): Weißbuch 2016 – Zur Sicherheitspolitik und zur Zukunft der Bundeswehr (2016 White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr). Berlin, p. 110.
2 For example, the debate is hampered by a confusion between acts by individuals and institutional action. The imperative of the Fifth Commandment – "thou shalt not kill" – applies to every individual human. One's own acts should not involve killing. But there is no logical bridge leading from this imperative to the imperative "thou shalt not let be killed", which invokes the creating of institutions – and especially of the law (e.g. third-party-defence) – which are intended to prevent or at least reduce the number of killings. Both imperatives may be right, both may be wrong. Or only one may be right and the other wrong. Just because one is right, it does not follow that the other is too.
3 Cf. also by this author (2014): "Zum Verhältnis von Freund und Feind im bewaffneten Konflikt." In: Informationes Theologiae Europae. Internationales ökumenisches Jahrbuch für Theologie 18, pp. 223–229.
4 Questions like these need to be answered with careful attention to real circumstances. Thus, as Aristotle would say, what is right for a large state like Germany may be different for a small state such as Luxembourg. Sometimes, at any rate, when there are calls for the German armed forces to be deployed "internally," it is hard to escape the impression that the aim is simply to avoid the costs of adequately staffing and equipping the federal and regional police forces.
5 It has been discussed occasionally, but repeatedly, whether terrorists are not something like "hostes humani generis" (Karl Jaspers to Hannah Arendt) – a term that was applied to pirates in ancient Rome. In the case of some globally operating terror groups, the question does indeed arise. But, of course, using this term does not answer the question of how to deal with them.
6 Cf. Habermas, Jürgen (2004): Der gespaltene Westen. Frankfurt, pp. 172–174.
7 Cf. Kant, Immanuel: Metaphysics of Morals. Doctrine of Right, section 60.
Bernhard Koch is deputy director of the Institute for Theology and Peace (ithf) in Hamburg. He teaches practical philosophy in Frankfurt and studied philosophy, logic and philosophy of science in Munich and Vienna.


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Venney Set For Loan Move
JOSH Venney is set to join his team-mate Max Wright at Evo-Stik Northern Premier League side Sutton Coldfield Town on an initial one-month loan deal.
The young midfielder is yet to feature in Sky Bet League Two for the Mariners. The Royals travel to face Frickley Athletic on Saturday.
Max Wright made a scoring debut against Ilkeston FC last week, scoring from what he described as a bad cross.


Snacks are as vital as your meals so always make it part of your day. These are small amounts taken in between meals. That is, at least two. Snacking as usually skipped by many can fill in nutrient gaps. So whatever you missed on your previous meal, it can be substituted during snacks. It also gives you energy. Using your brain and other body parts throughout the day can be draining. As you work, you need to feed your brain too for it to function properly. But snacking does not mean grabbing a bag of chips or anything junk. You can have healthy choices as you read through this book. Not only that, the choices are healthy, nutritious, and delicious. Make it a habit to munch on these great selection of salads, seeds, yogurt, and a lot more. With this book, you'll have great choices to pick from.


Recently I saw a post attributed to CS Lewis that read, "Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work." However, according to the CS Lewis official website, it is not his quote but belongs to John Tanner. This just illustrates that mistakes happen and we make a ton of mistakes as parents.
However, one of the biggest mistakes is taking your kid's love for granted. When our children are little they are dependent upon us for so many things. They love us if we feed them, it's that simple! As they grow older they follow us around, hang on every word, and say, "Mommy, mommy," 5432 times…a day.
…is something to be cherished. As a busy homeschool mom, there were times I was very short tempered with my sensitive children. I could see the hurt in their face, but I didn't have time to work out the problem. We had to get to the park, to church, to (you fill in the blank). There was always some reason more important than my child's feelings. And, parents that is when we begin to erode the trust and the love our children have for us.
On the flip side, we've all experienced the harassing mother or father in a public place who is embarrassing the child and everyone within earshot. I remember wanting to run to the child and give her a hug and tell her that everything will be okay. It is also a lesson to me that there is absolutely nothing that can't wait to talk about until later.
My husband tells my children, "This home is where you should feel safe. It is your safe place." He would further reassure our kids that they could ask us or tell us anything. He'd also remind them that we love and want the best for them. This type of reassurance often came after they were disciplined. Telling our children we love them after they get in trouble is a significant step to reminding them of our love.
Parents love (or should) unconditionally. We don't love one child more than another. We don't play favorites. When we have another child our love just expands to include one more. My dad use to joke and ask my children, "Don't you love grandpa a little more than grandma?" My kids would look from one to the other, while my mom would laughingly tell my father to stop and then jump into the game, "No she loves grandma better." But, it was a joke. Just fun.
Some families don't talk about love. They think their kids know they love them. They don't. Kids see things differently. Just ask them. The point here is not only telling them you love them but knowing that they love us back. And that is the crux of the issue.
Does anyone in your family have a hard time saying the words, "I love you." Those simple words can go a long way to improving relationships especially if they are coupled with a hug or a cookie. My kids loved when I baked. They told me it was saying I love you without words. Once my little son gave me this amazing trophy. He had made it out of his blocks that were all squares and angles and he present it as my "Cooking Trophy." He was only five.
Our kids need to trust that when we say, or promise something we will follow through. We've all be guilty of forgetting or having something really important come up and disappointing the children. One thing that you may consider is waiting until you are certain before you promise. My daughter doesn't tell her children, typically until the day of an event. My grandchildren tell me, "I never know anything that we are going to do." However, when they do find out it is a wonderful surprise!
Your children are a gift and the best that life has to offer. There is no sunset, no ocean or mountain view that can take your breath away on a daily basis in the same way as our children. This is a reminder for us all. Your child's love is precious. And, it is given freely. Cherish them and they will in turn model the same behavior.
How do I Teach Politics to My Kids?


Non-verbal communication (NVC) has been studied in academia since the 1950's. A pioneering study at UCLA indicated that up to ninety-three percent of communication effectiveness is determined by non-verbal cues (Mehrabian, 1971). Another study determined that non-verbal messages are seen as more reliable than verbal messages (Zuckerman, DePaulo, and Rosenthal, 1981).
Even some of the latest research on "bullying" suggests that students would be less targeted by bullies if they could master three factors identified by researchers, all of which have to do with the ability to properly identify and react appropriately to non-verbal communication (McKown, 2009).
An often overlooked aspect to our daily life is that of first impressions. A series of experiments by Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov reveal that all it takes is one-tenth of a second to form an impression of a stranger from their facial expression. Furthermore, longer exposures don't significantly alter this impression (although they might boost your confidence in your judgments). The Willis and Todorov research is presented in their article "First Impressions" in the July 2010 issue of Psychological Science. Another study conducted at Carleton University in Ottawa, concludes that people form first impressions in as little as one-twentieth of a second. Regardless of which study you agree with, the time that it takes to make a first impression is really fast.
The results of these and other studies make understanding non-verbal communication extremely valuable. NVC goes hand-in-hand with the importance of mastering good communication skills for effectiveness in the workplace, school, home, personal relationships, during recreation, and virtually all aspects of life. So, the question remains: despite the great importance placed on NVC, why is it the study of NVC is totally absent from public school education and only selectively available at the post-secondary level? Such a critical skill needs to be made available at all levels of education and training, with refresher studies as needed.
When you are in a meeting, can you tell who is bored or wants to leave?
When you are in a meeting, can you tell who may be nervous?
Can you tell if someone lies or is deceptive with you?
Can you read an interview applicant as being truly interested in the position or simply after income?
Can you tell if a client is displeased when negotiating a contract?
Can you tell if a student may be nervous about taking a test, or anxious to leave class?
Do you know what to look for if a date is going well?
Your friend crosses his arms while you are arguing. What is he thinking?
Your mother-in-law is telling a boring story, but you don't want to hurt her feelings. How should you display interest?
Can you tell if a person you are about to hire to come into your home to clean, care for an elderly parent, or care for your children, is being deceptive?
Can you tell if you are being deceived when the car repairperson says you need an expensive part?
People that have first-hand knowledge of non-verbal communication skills go farther faster in organizations because they have a distinct advantage over others within and outside of their organization. Thankfully, the skills required to know what to look for and how to interpret NVC can be taught and mastered just like any other skill set.
Mastering non-verbal communication will enhance your personal body language cues to project a calm and collected persona. You will come across credible in meetings, and have that first impression "wow" factor. There has never been a better time for learning and mastering non-verbal communication skills.
Want to try it? Test out your newly learned skills!
Greet them at the door and walk them to the meeting area. Watch as they walk to collect baseline information about their overall body movement, arm swing, walking gait, etc.
Keep a conversation going with them while walking. During conversation listen for tone, speed, and check to see how much eye contact is happening.
Such baseline data will help you to know what is "normal" activity with that person.
During discussion of the service to be rendered and amount to be paid, check to see if the same body movements, speech patterns, and eye contact are maintained.
If they are different or change, i.e., loss of eye contact, voice changes up or down, there may be some deception with this person.
Calmly thank them for their bid of service, but indicate you are collecting several bids to compare.
Jerry Balistreri, MS, M.Ed., DTE, is a professional educator, administrator, author, and trainer with more than 30 years experience training, researching, writing, and speaking on non-verbal communication. To learn more visit http://www.readingthetells.com.


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Q: Reverse URL by more than one parameter in Django REST Framework Let's take the usual Customers with Orders pair of models.
How can we make a HyperlinkedModelSerializer of Order url field reverse to a url like /customers/<customer_pk>/orders/<order_id>/?
I thought of using the lookup_field in the Meta class but it seems to only accept one field.
Thanks for your help

A: HyperlinkedModelSerializer uses a single parameter in the lookup_field as of DRF 2.0, so like you, I wasn't able to use this.
However, with some tricks I picked up on this question I was able to build a ModelSerializer that would have a url field that contained the reverse URL as you describe.
class OrderSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    # Fields, etc
    url = serializers.SerializerMethodField('make_url')

    class Meta:
        model = Order
        # Class info here as usual

    def make_url(self, obj):
        """
        Build URL for Order instance
        """
        # Prepare the IDs you need for the URL reverse
        kwargs = {
            'customer_pk': obj.customer.id,
            'order_id': obj.id,
        }
        url = reverse('api:single_order', kwargs=kwargs)
        return self.context['request'].build_absolute_uri(url)

A: If you're using viewsets, then this library will help you out: drf-nested-routers.


Our ultimate goal is to pursue and establish the vision which God has given to us and fulfil our mission. In Habakkuk 2:2c the Lord declared, "…Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." We have to be ready and purpose in our heart that we're able to take the land.
To promote the Christian religion in accordance to the teaching of Holy Bible.
To establish, erect, maintain and sustain churches, parsonages, community houses, Sunday schools, crèches facilities, and publish literatures for her local churches.
To engage in Christian relief foundation project.
To promote the gospel through multimedia, latest technology, audio and visual aids.
To provide Christian education, such as schools, colleges to enhance the community development.
Rehabilitation/Care centre project for disable, Senior citizen, homelessness, scoters and drug addicted.
To engage in free Christian literature distribution, Seminar, Christians awakening meeting and crusade both national and international."


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Introduces children to the International Space Station (ISS), the most complex international scientific endeavor in history. Activities focus on the purpose and construction of the ISS, the history of rockets, and the role of rockets in space station assembly. Activities emphasize hands-on involvement, data collection, observation, exploration, prediction, interpretation, problem solving, and language skills.
The Periodic Table of Elements
This website developed by the Faculty of Chemical Technology in Croatia provides an interactive Periodic Table of Elements. Students and educators can find information dealing with each element's discovery history, thermal properties, ionization energy, minerals and use, isotopes, and reduction potentials. Besides the standard periodic table, this easily navigable website features an online remote control where visitors can quickly obtain information about the chemical either by name or symbol a
Infinite secrets
This NOVA web site describes the recent discovery of the Archimedes palimpsest, a tenth-century copy of an ancient Greek manuscript, and examines the meaning of infinity. It offers students the opportunity to learn about mathematics history and to see how the understanding of infinity has developed through the centuries. The site contains articles, an interview, a brief video, and two online interactive activities. One activity allows the student to see how modern technology is used to read anci
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Bowl 'em over : does he have a chance?
The initial question for this online activity asks students to determine the probability of winning a bowling tournament, given scores for the first five games. Students determine what the score in a sixth game must be in order to win the tournament. They also calculate the probability of bowling that score. Two solutions to this problem are included. The activity is one of 80 mathematical challenges featured on the Figure This! web site, where real-world uses of mathematics are emphasized. In r
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Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2)
With this online activity, students explore the classic mathematics map-coloring question known as the four-color problem. Students must determine the minimum number of colors needed to color a map so that entities sharing a border have different colors. Initially, students investigate the minimum number of colors necessary to color a map of states west of the Mississippi River. The activity's Getting Started section suggests coloring the states in a specific order. The Solution page uses odd an
Profit or loss?
This online activity challenges students to think about money and profit as they consider buying and selling a Beanie Baby. The activity is one of 80 mathematical challenges featured on the Figure This! web site emphasizing real-world uses of mathematics. After determining the profit for two transactions involving a Beanie Baby, students are asked to determine the number of attendees necessary to make a profit for a dance and to find the profit from buying and selling stock. Information about th
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Three squares : when do two squares make a new square?
This activity opens with a diagram of two unequal squares and challenges students to find a way to construct a third square from them. It is part of the Figure This! collection of 80 math challenges emphasizing math in the real world. The activity introduces the Pythagorean theorem and explains its importance in construction and engineering professions. Students are encouraged to model the problem using squares of paper. Related questions introduce Pythagorean triples, and the Did You Know page
I win! : she always wins, it's not fair!
In this activity, students play a game and examine what it means for a game to be fair. The activity is part of the Figure This! collection of 80 online mathematical challenges emphasizing real world uses of mathematics. In the game's 12 rounds, two six-sided die are rolled, the face values are subtracted, and data are recorded on a table. Player A wins if the difference is 0, 1, or 2, and Player B wins when the difference is 3, 4, or 5. The page contains a solution hint, the solution, and relat
Auburn vs. Alabama (1955)
"The Auburn Tigers put the finishing touches on one of the greatest seasons in Auburn history by defeating hapless Alabama, 26-0, at Legion Field in Birmingham. Once again, Howell Tubbs and Jerry Elliott supplied the offensive thrills for the afternoon, with Tubbs tossing two scoring passes to Elliott and taking one in for him. The Tigers' steady quarterback gained 68 yards rushing and completed five of ten passes for 78 yards. Joe Childress proved once and for all that he deserved every bit of
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Auburn vs. Stetson (1953)
"Auburn opened its 1953 season with a 47-0 trouncing of Stetson in Montgomery. Auburn fans got their first look at "One Platoon Football" and saw the Plainsmen show a strong running attack and a stubborn defense. The Plainsmen scored in every period of the onslaught with seven men figuring in the scoring. Fob James scored twice on runs of 13 and 3 yards and Jim Pyburn scored twice on passes from Bobby Freeman. Other scorers were Charles Hataway, Bobby Freeman and Charlie Littles, who scored one
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This document examine wind power as an energy resource. The reading will define wind and discuss topics such as (1) The history of wind machines, (2) Today's windmills, and (3) Types of wind machines. This resource is structured as an informational handout to supplement your energy activities or to generate discussion questions. Copyright 2005 International Technology Education Association
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Debates have raged for years over whether the Soviet legacy was best characterized by its successes or its crimes. Was Lenin's revolution one of history's great events, later perverted by Stalin; or was the October Revolution, which rejected God, dispossessed large segments of the population, and made the entire people subject to the state, flawed from the moment of inception? Rather than answering the question, we hope with this web site to help students and readers understand the more complica
History and Comparing Programming Languages
This site contains files on the history of computer programming language statements. The files compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages.
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a companion to the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Medieval Sourcebook is both a classroom resource and the largest collection of online medieval texts. The Ancient and Modern Sourcebooks have a different role: since there are already ample online repositories of texts for these periods, the goal here is to provide and organize texts for use in classroom situations. Links to the larger online collections are
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Topics in Pre-Modern Japanese History
This book emphasizes a succession of topics rather than strict adherence to the flow of time. The chapters move from earlier periods of time to later periods of time, but their content and organization gives top priority to coverage of topics. While the "mainstream" narrative of politics and institutions is present in these pages, the emphasis is on social and cultural history wherever possible.


Rebecca Kujawa joined HoganWillig as an office clerk in the fall of 2011 and became a law clerk in the spring of 2013, after completing her first year of law school. Since that time, Rebecca has focused her practice on civil litigation and personal injury. She has experience in various types of civil litigation in state court as well as with administrative agencies. Rebecca assists in many aspects of the litigation process, including pleadings, discovery and motion practice.
Rebecca received her JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, where she served as a Publications Editor for the Buffalo Law Review and was awarded the Order of the Coif (highest academic achievement). As a law student, Rebecca also gained extensive insight into civil litigation as a student law clerk to the Hon. Richard J. Kloch, Sr., Niagara County, 8th Judicial District.


We've previously featured a preview for TicToc Games' Adventures of Pip, which has now been funded on Kickstarter and is ready for its retail debut sometime this May for multiple platforms. While at PAX South I had a chance to get some hands-on time with Pip, and I now have to agree with Nick's glowing preview of the game. It definitely is an Indie gem that faithfully pays homage to classic 2D side-scrolling adventures like Super Mario Bros. and other 8 and 16-bit juggernauts from the 80's and 90's.
Adventures of Pip stars, well, Pip, who is a single bit inhabitant of Pixelonia, which is a 32-bit kingdom with a caste system based on bit size. Due to Pip just being a single bit he's a nobody in the eyes of higher bit citizens, so he is relegated to the bottom rung of society. Although, once the Skeleton Queen kidnaps the Princess, Pip is the only pixelite brave enough to save her, so his legend can be forged anew.
To help with his journey Pip is taught the secrets of the Bitstream by a ghostly knight, which allows him to absorb the energy of his foes to increase his bit count to gain more abilities. This gameplay mechanic is what sets Pip apart from other 2-D side-scrollers thanks to the puzzles that revolve around it. For example, in 8-bit form Pip can scale walls and take larger jumps, but while in 1-bit form he can shimmy his single square self through tiny crevices and pathways that his larger forms couldn't pass through.
By the power of the bitstream I AM PIP!
Players must devolve and evolve to progress, and when you add in sections that feature ceilings closing in on you and platforms to climb while avoiding being squished to bits (sorry for that one couldn't pass it up), the gameplay gets quite frenetic and challenging without feeling unfair. It's hard not to be reminded of some of the castles from SMB3 that had spiked ceilings looking to pancake your plumber of choice while frantically navigating Pip through similar gameplay tropes as you curse your brain and fingers for not being able to keep up with the action. Moments like this make you feel alive, which sometimes is a lost emotion in modern video games, especially the AAA franchises that spew out sequel after sequel.
The gameplay is tight and intuitive just like you remember from the old days of gaming when two button controllers ruled the day, but its visuals may be even more of a love letter to the games Pip pays homage to. I absolutely love the concept of Pixelonia being a 32-bit world full of pixelized citizens that are relegated to classes based on their number of bits. This motif shines with Pip, who after all is just a single bit to begin with, but after obtaining the power of the bitstream he can transform into higher resolution versions of himself. It's quite nostalgic to see him morph into an 8-bit styled character, evoking memories of Mario and Luigi in their NES debut, while his 16-bit form will remind you of your days spent playing games on the SNES and Sega Genesis. The environments also reflect a classic appeal, so when mashed with the awesome character design Adventures of Pip is a beautiful game to look at and live in.
Pip is set to make his debut on Steam's Early Access sometime this March, with plans to release in full this May for the PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U platforms. Pricing will be modest at $15, which is well worth the joy and nostalgia this game can bring into your life. Older gamers with kids should also plan on snagging Adventures of Pip to show their burgeoning young gaming enthusiasts what games used to be like when the home console craze kicked off over 35 years ago. This game truly epitomizes the Indie movement, and it's a testament to the passion these developers have to set off on their own and create the games that make them happy. There's something to be said about marrying work with your passions, so TicToc Games has definitely embraced this life lesson and produced a piece of moving art because of it.
You can check out some Adventures of Pip gameplay after the break.


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Madhyamavani online
The FWBO — a Community in Transition Part I
Nagabodhi
1/ The size and identity of the F/WBO
When I spoke in 1989 there were about three hundred and fifty members of the Western Buddhist Order worldwide. There are now more than a thousand. In the last third of its lifespan to date, the Order has tripled in size. That is pretty good news: it suggests that our approach to Dharma practice – and to sharing that practice – has remained attractive, and has offered an effective context for people who want to commit themselves to the ideals and practice of Buddhism.
Although the FWBO's spread has been mainly unplanned and uneven, there are now Order members and FWBO activities on every continent. This makes for an extremely rich and diverse community. Fourteen years ago, I anticipated this expansion cheerfully, but injected a warning note to the effect that unless we made considerable efforts to keep in good contact with each other we might find ourselves falling into a complex of regional ghettos – in poor communication with each other and occasionally suffering from bouts of misunderstanding and mistrust.
I don't think this has happened – yet. For sure, we can find it hard to understand each other's ephemeral preoccupations, and the pages of Shabda can occasionally host unfortunate lapses of sensitivity to the mores of cultures other than the contributor's own, but we've never yet experienced any serious rift merely on the grounds of geography or race.
Probably the greatest difficulties we've faced in this regard have been in our attempts to negotiate, especially in our public life, the gaping difference between the conventionally held moral attitudes of Indian society and those of the western world where most of the rest of the FWBO/TBMSG is located.
For example, some people in the western wing of our Movement were troubled by what they saw as a duplicitous economy with truth in the FWBO's official responses to the Guardian article and the —FWBO Files'. The authors of those responses were themselves uncomfortable, but sources in India had warned them that a complete and open account of some relevant aspects of the FWBO's (western) history — particularly in the area of sexual behaviour — might well expose our Indian Friends, Mitras and Order members not merely to unpopularity or ridicule, but to actual physical danger. I know the authors of the responses well, and know they acted in good faith, and had little freedom for manoeuvre. But they would be the first to admit that the choices they made have left a legacy that we are still addressing.
This is probably the biggest single predicament our global spread has created. But although the relative mores of the East and West created a problem in the West, to my knowledge it did nothing to dent the goodwill flowing between eastern and western wings of the FWBO/TBMSG.
The fact is we all seem to get on pretty well with each other, and actually manage to experience ourselves as a coherent community. Windhorse:evolution, our giftware company based in Cambridge, England, has played a key part in this sense of unity, by offering team-based right livelihood opportunities and a substantial taste of residential community life to Friends, Mitras, and Order members from all over the world. The extended ordination retreats at Guhyaloka and in Tuscany also provide a context in which people of many nationalities and social backgrounds spend long enough in each other's company, and go through a sufficiently intense time together, to form friendships that can last a lifetime. As we currently contemplate a future in which many of our activities, systems and structures look likely to get more regionalised, even atomised, we should bear in mind the crucial bonding value of these more —central' institutions, and do what we can to support and preserve them.
Despite a few prominent exceptions, most Order members in 1989 followed a pretty standard regime of meditation and devotional practice. And although today the majority of Order members maintain an approach to meditation best epitomised in Sangharakshita's lecture, 'A System Of Meditation', certain preferences and special interests are emerging. I suspect we can look forward to a far richer mix of approaches and practices in the future, even, quite possibly, to the emergence of 'schools', as likeminded individuals cluster together for guidance and inspiration in fulfilment of more personal spiritual leanings. I don't know whether or not this kind of diversification will create tensions, but I would like to think that Sangharakshita's —system' – if interpreted flexibly as an outline of the stages in the meditation process, and of the way meditation actually works on consciousness, irrespective of the specific practices involved — is probably broad enough to embrace and unite us spiritually for a good time to come.
In 1989 it was just about possible to relate to the Order and even to large sections of the Movement as a fairly coherent social group. Most of us still knew each other by sight and by name. Many of us had visited each other's homes or at least home centres. Moods, issues, innovations, even emphases in thought and spiritual practice, could spread through the Order and movement very quickly (if not always efficiently) on the grapevine. Despite the extraordinary opportunities provided by cheap air travel and telephone connections, and of course e-mail and the Internet, no one could claim that we function in that way any more. We are definitely no longer a cosy group. And while we continue to maintain certain institutions that cater for the Order or Movement as a whole (for example Shabda, the biennial International Order convention, Dharma Life and the College of Public Preceptors) the likelihood is that our Order and Movement will become more regionalized in the coming years, with higher and higher levels of responsibility being decentralised and devolved — or even deconstructed.
For those of us who were around in the earliest days – who can remember, for example, the first Order convention, when just twenty of us spent a few days with Sangharakshita in the front room of a house in Purley – such a transformation might seem overwhelming; but it surely promises an exciting prospect of liberated creativity, greater depth, and approaches to Dharma practice more specifically geared to the individual needs of people of varying temperaments and living under differing conditions. Indeed, I suspect one of the challenges of the coming years will be finding ways of bringing to our —local' institutions – such as Order chapters, regional gatherings, meditation kulas, and public centres – a substance and intensity equivalent to that which we used to gain from our participation in the total Movement in the days when such participation was possible – or at least, seemed possible. (To the extent that such participation was really always something of an imaginative construct, the strengthening of local institutions might actually constitute a step forward.)
Over the past fourteen years, a number of Order members have initiated projects such as public centres and right livelihood businesses. But the days when most Order members found themselves living in relatively small concentrations around an FWBO centre (to which all of them gave some, if not all, of their time) seem to be over, even in the UK. Although most Order members still live within easy reach of a centre, it is now quite common to find many who have little or nothing to do with its day-to-day life. Proportionately, too, far less Order members – again, even in the UK – work in FWBO right livelihood businesses. In other words, the idea that an Order member is someone who pretty much lives and breathes within an FWBO context (something which was never explicitly prescribed, and never even realised in most countries outside the UK) is fast losing currency. The FWBO, and even the Order, are far more heterodox communities than they were a decade or so ago.
'Commitment is primary; Lifestyle is secondary.' With this maxim, Sangharakshita once expressed his hope that the WBO would be neither monastic nor lay. In the UK, at least, whilst explicitly articulating this vision, I believe we've lived through an era when many of us perhaps paid Sangharakshita's maxim little more than lip service, believing somewhere in our hearts that unless we were following a supposedly normative 'centre/single-sex community/team-based right livelihood business' lifestyle, we would not be quite the full ticket. I suspect it will always be essential to the health of our Movement that a significant number of people choose to live a —semi monastic' (even fully monastic, even —forest renunciate') lifestyle. But it will be equally essential that those choosing to live in other ways honour their commitment to the Three Jewels by doing everything they can to turn their life and work, whatever it is, into a form of full-on spiritual practice. Unless we accept this challenge then it will probably not be many decades before the Order evolves into a two-tier Community of full-time FWBO-style —monastics' and half-hearted —lay people'.
The increasing diversity of lifestyles within the F/WBO therefore presents an interesting challenge. Such a community requires guidance, nourishment, and inspiration in forms that are specific to as many of its needs and concerns as possible. When Sangharakshita was most active as a teacher – giving lectures, leading seminars, giving personal interviews – most of the people he was talking to were British, relatively young, unmarried, and living the 'classic' FWBO lifestyle. Accordingly, much of the material we have on record from those days is geared to the needs of such people. It therefore seems important that we now start to develop a much broader body of —lifestyle teachings' than we presently have to hand. But who will give them? Who will write the books, give the lectures and lead the seminars? The obvious candidates are those who are trying to practice the Dharma within some of those hitherto undervalued contexts. There are now a good number of people who have spent years trying to live a Dharma life whilst fulfilling family responsibilities, or working in the wider world. Surely by now they have insights to share and struggles to record. Get out your word processors, folks! It's time to tell us what you've learned.
Fourteen years ago the gender balance was very lopsided, with many more men in the Order than women, and more ordinations taking place among men each year. Things are certainly changing. There are still more Dharmacharis than Dharmacharinis, but the annual ordination tallies are evening out. Teams of Dharmacharinis are playing leading roles at several of our centres, and in some regions there are considerably more women than men in the process of preparing themselves for ordination. Should this trend continue, it is quite conceivable that there will be more women in the Order than men within a few decades, and it will be fascinating to see how this shift affects us.
The F/WBO is fast becoming very different to the F/WBO in which many of us grew up – and on the basis of which we formed our visions for the future. It is time to take up the task of recording the stories of those early days, before the memories of that very different world fade away completely, or seem too bizarre to be credible. Those stories would communicate the spirit, the culture, the understandings and misunderstandings out of which our present Movement has grown. They will have a lot to teach us, I suspect – about ourselves if nothing else. I hope they will also remind us of some principles from which we can still learn. Doubtless they will also highlight some of the naive assumptions and expectations from which we must free ourselves, if we have not done so already.
Since I made this point in my talk last November, the Order, and to some extent the wider FWBO, has in fact witnessed quite an explosion of Order members' reminiscences of its early days. This was sparked off by a single contribution to Shabda, which posed directly and indirectly a number of questions about the FWBO's attitudes to sex, sexual relationships, to the family, to gender, and to the uses and abuses of spiritual authority. Although the questioning and reminiscing is still very much a feature of our life at the moment, and still putting some of us in touch with painful memories, my sense is that most of us are finding the process enormously productive and liberating.
The Size and Identity of the FWBO
Next: The Economic Climate
Ideological Shifts
The Biological Clock
The Changing Buddhist World
Sangharakshita's 'Withdrawal'
This article orignally saw print as Living in Interesting Times Part I
Nagabodhi reflects on his relationship with Sangharakshita as a teacher in issue 26 of Dharma Life magazine
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BMJ Case Reports authors have described the case of 22-year-old patient who required a corneal transplantation in her right eye after herpes simplex keratitis was triggered by breastfeeding.
The woman presented to a hospital in New Delhi, India with a sudden loss of vision following a five-day history of redness, pain and photophobia in both eyes.
She was breastfeeding her two-month-old baby at the time of the onset of the symptoms.
Clinicians determined that in the absence of ocular trauma or long-standing ocular problems, the patient was likely to have viral keratitis.
This was supported by observing decreased corneal sensations in both eyes and the characteristic dendritic pattern of an ulcer in the patient's left eye.
The patient was treated with antiviral medication and a therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in her right eye.
At three months follow up, best corrected visual acuity in her right eye was 6/12 while her left eye responded "dramatically" to medical management from day one onwards.


The Johns Creek Recreation and Parks Division opens its 2018 Amphitheater summer concert series on Friday, May 4, featuring Pirate Flag Kenny Chesney tribute band. Pirate Flag is sure to entertain audiences, playing all the Kenny Chesney hits you know and love.
Food trucks will be returning to the venue in 2018 with beer and wine available for purchase from Hurricane Grill. The Pirate Flag concert will feature fresh to order burgers from Patty Wagon and King of Pops for a sweet treats.
Be sure to mark your calendars for the next concert on Friday, June 1! The Rumours, a Fleetwood Mac cover band, will take the stage. Rumours captures the energy of Fleetwood Mac at the height of their career by blending perfect harmonies, precise instrumentation, and a visually engaging stage show.
The concerts are free. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the concert starts at 7 p.m. No pets or outside alcohol are allowed at the event. The Mark Burkhalter Amphitheater is located at Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Rd. in Johns Creek.


Baumgartner's offers cheese sandwiches and hearty chili partnered with locally brewed beers. Since 1931, among the ways locals in Monroe have been enjoying Limburger cheese is with mustard and onion on rye bread. A mint is served on the side! Hot eats from the grill outside on Sundays in summer. Sidewalk dining available seasonally.


JCB today officially marked its 65th anniversary by presenting thousands of employees around the world with gifts to mark the occasion. The milestone was celebrated as JCB also reported a strong recovery from the deepest-ever recession in the global construction equipment industry with a return to robust earnings.
Employees received a bottle of Château Léoube rosé wine, two glasses and a DVD highlighting the global footprint of a company which started life in a lock-up garage in Uttoxeter. The celebration took place today (June 21st) to coincide with the 95th anniversary of the birth of JCB's Founder, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford.
JCB Chairman Sir Anthony said: "In 65 years we've gone from one man in a garage in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, to a major global brand renowned for its pioneering spirit. All of this is down to our people. JCB is on the threshold of even greater success and it's our employees who will help drive our future."
Today JCB also reported that in 2010 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) reached £235 million (£94.5 million – 2009). Sales in 2010 increased by 48 per cent to £2.0 billion (£1.35 billion – 2009) and in 2010 JCB sold 51,600 machines (2009 – 36,000 machines).
Sir Anthony Bamford said: "We started 2010 cautiously optimistic about trading prospects and I'm delighted that our optimism was rewarded with a very strong result for the year. The pace and strength of the recovery varied by market. Growth was strongest in the 'BRIC' countries and other developing economies, but some established markets, notably the UK and Germany, also performed satisfactorily.
"2011 has also started well for the JCB Group but we are still mindful of economic concerns which could hold back the recovery. We continue to invest in our manufacturing facilities, notably this year in India and Brazil and, of course, in new products, with 13 new machines launched so far in 2011."
In 2011 JCB will be investing more than £20 million in modernising and increasing capacity at its 11 UK plants. The company is also investing in a new 350,000 sq ft factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the manufacture of backhoe loaders and tracked excavators. The plant will become operational in early 2012. The company has also opened an engine manufacturing plant in India which went into production this year.