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Without a driver? Sure!
Scania is developing autonomous buses for the mobility of the future. In the residential area of Barkarby, around 20 kilometers north of Stockholm, an entirely new transportation infrastructure is being built. That is the perfect combination for a trial run.
Text: Mathias Heerwagen
Whether bus drivers want to hear it or not, autonomous buses will be safer on the road than a driver behind the wheel could ever be. "The computer will never drive too fast and is never tired or distracted; it recognizes danger much earlier and reacts a lot more quickly," says Camilla Lood, developer of business models for autonomous vehicles at Scania in Södertälje. She's sitting in the prototype of a battery-powered electric Scania Citywide LF.
No, the bus is not yet driverless. But the project partners aren't worried about that, because the city where it will later be deployed technically doesn't exist yet either. Barkarby, a small residential area about 20 kilometers north of Stockholm, is currently being prepared for the future. Similar to China, where cities with a population of over a million are planned and built from the ground up, a city center is currently being built here in Barkarby—albeit on a much smaller scale. "Barkarby is the perfect city for developing and trialing autonomous driving capabilities," explains Lood. "Everything is only just being planned and built. From the outset, the new infrastructure is being designed to be as car-free as possible to promote the use of public transportation." For a project like this to be successful, many pieces of the puzzle have to fit together: the Barkarby municipality is building the required infrastructure, Scania is developing the buses, and Nobina, a public transportation operator, will run them.
Scania project manager Martin Ottensjö sees rapid developments in sensor technology.
"We don't have to build completely new buses; we can use the existing platform as the basis and retrofit the autonomous system technology."
Martin Ottensjö
Technical project manager, Scania
engineers are working on autonomous driving at Scania.
"In Barkarby, separate bus lanes are being built, among other things. Where that's not possible, we are installing sensors in traffic lights that communicate with the bus and give it right of way," says Daniel Mohlin, manager at Nobina responsible for the implementation of new services. "The infrastructure is the most visible and also the most expensive part of the project. When the bus lanes and traffic lights are finished, we will work out a schedule—and then autonomous buses can be put into operation," says Mohlin.
The partners are sure that by that time, they will have received the necessary legal approvals. "Sweden has a long automotive history. To continue the industry's global success, lawmakers will have to look ahead and be open to new things," Mohlin explains confidently. Besides, there were also no major issues during the approval process two years ago, when a trial run was launched with smaller autonomous shuttles.
Existing platform as the basis
Why doesn't Scania go down the same road of testing with smaller shuttle buses first instead of going straight for a 12-meter-long city service bus? "Because that's the product that public transportation operators and customers already know and like," responds Lood, "although in the future, we will see a lot more multimodal systems and combinations, including micro mobility, to get really attractive public transportation." Her coworker Martin Ottensjö adds, "We don't have to build completely new buses; we can use the existing platform as the basis and retrofit the autonomous system technology." However, that is no easy task: 200 engineers are working on autonomous driving at Scania. The greatest challenge is setting priorities and working through them in the right order. And the rapid development of the sensor technology isn't necessarily making the work easier: by the time production starts, the technology will most likely have developed by leaps and bounds. That's why the exact sensor configuration using cameras and radar and lidar sensors is determined as far down the line as possible.
A conversation between Nobina manager Daniel Mohlin (left) and his partners at Scania, Camilla Lood and Martin Ottensjö.
"The infrastructure is the most visible and also the most expensive part of the project."
Daniel Mohlin
Manager at Nobina
The bus is already covered in sensors. On the front face of the bus alone, there are eight cameras and three lidar sensors; then there are two more lidar sensors and two cameras on the top front sides, as well as another radar and lidar sensor on each of the two bottom corners. The rear of the bus is similarly equipped. What is remarkable is how inconspicuously Scania has been able to integrate the technology. The everyday passenger would hardly notice it. And that is also part and parcel of the strategy: in the future, passengers should see autonomous buses as just an everyday part of getting around the city.
Even though the sensors are already installed, the control cabinet where the many cables come together is still empty. The decision as to which central server will be used is still to be made. Its hardware must be immensely powerful to be able to process the vast amounts of data from the sensors in near real time. In the future, this will also be supported by artificial intelligence. "The vehicles have to develop a better perception of their environment to be able to make more intelligent choices in their driving, both for safety reasons and in order to be more proactive," says Lood.
A bus needs many sensors to drive autonomously—even at the very top and bottom of the vehicle.
Prototype of the battery-powered electric Scania Citywide LF
The driver is not being replaced
This leads us to an insight that Nobina has already gained through operating the small shuttles: the buses and infrastructure work; what complicates things is people parking illegally, cyclists riding in the wrong direction, or drivers who cut in too close in front of the bus. To be able to handle these situations safely, a safety driver will have to sit behind the wheel for a long time to come.
But at some point the question will come up: what will happen to the driver who ultimately makes up a good portion of the operating costs? According to Daniel Mohlin, for bus operations in Sweden, almost 60% of total operating costs are attributed to the driver. An autonomous bus is not bound by rest periods, and could be on the road 24/7, greatly increasing efficiency and saving costs.
"Even so, our aim is not to take the driver out of the bus. But he or she could take over other tasks," says Mohlin. After all, passengers will still require help: they want to know what ticket they need and where they have to get off, or they might need help with a wheelchair. Besides, they feel safer when they aren't sitting alone in the bus at night. Personal contact with passengers will still have a place in the future. Camilla Lood, Martin Ottensjö, and Daniel Mohlin are working together to figure out what that will look like.
Bus chats: Daniel Mohlin and Camilla Lood
"The vehicles have to be able to make more intelligent choices."
Camilla Lood
Business development manager, Scania
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All-electric series truck
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Pursuing sustainability throughout the world
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Sustainability all the way
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Digital, transparent, efficient
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Assembly 4.0
At VWCO's new Industry 4.0 assembly line, trucks are produced even more individually than before. Link


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Cleveland Police holds first Violence Against Women and Girls conference
More than 200 people attended Cleveland Police's first multi-agency conference specifically aimed at tackling violence against women and girls.
The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) conference was held at Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium on Wednesday 18th January.
The event was led by the Force's VAWG Lead Detective Superintendent Helen Barker, and brought together experts to talk about the issues facing women and girls in a bid to increase awareness and understanding.
Guest speakers included DCI Rachel Taylor from the Force's Historical Investigation Unit and Jeanette Smith, Specialist Prosecutor for the CPS who worked together on Operation Rosa – an investigation into complex sexual offences spanning 20 years in Cleveland.
Sammy Woodhouse spoke to attendees about her experience as a victim of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal and her work as an activist against child sexual and criminal exploitation.
Professor Jane Monckton-Smith from the University of Gloucestershire explained the links between homicide, coercive control and stalking and Sue Willoughby, operations manager for the charity A Way Out, shared her 30 years of experience supporting women, men and families through their criminal justice journey. Psychotherapist Franca Mongiardi also spoke at the conference.
Cleveland Police will continue to tackle VAWG as part of the government's 'Enough' campaign and robustly challenge any form of abuse against women and girls.
Detective Superintendent Helen Barker said: "The conference was an opportunity to highlight that tackling VAWG remains an absolute priority in policing across Cleveland.
"It provided a platform to listen and reflect but also to understand a victim's perspective. Thank you to our speakers for giving their time to share their practice and in particular Sammy, for sharing her story.
"This event is just one of a number of things we are doing to tackle the issue and, as a Force, we are working to develop action plans to address VAWG locally.
"We have introduced online reporting for sexual offending to reduce the trauma for victims and make it easier to report incidents to us.
"In February and March, domestic abuse service My Sisters Place are providing 150 officers and staff with training in taking a trauma-informed approach to victims, thanks to funding from the Cleveland Unit for the Reduction of Violence (CURV).
"We also held a week of action in September as part of our relentless pursuit of perpetrators of VAWG and have another planned for April."
If you need to report an incident to police, call 101 and speak to our specially trained officers.
If you think you've been sexually assaulted, you can go to your nearest sexual assault referral centre (SARC) for specialist care and support.
You can also find support at ARCH Teesside: http://www.archnortheast.org

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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package com.shapesecurity.functional.data;

import com.shapesecurity.functional.Pair;
import com.shapesecurity.functional.TestBase;
import com.shapesecurity.functional.Unit;

import org.junit.Test;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.IdentityHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Comparator;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class HashTableTest extends TestBase {
    private static final Hasher<String> BAD_HASHER = new Hasher<String>() {
        @Override
        public int hash(@Nonnull String data) {
            return 0;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean eq(@Nonnull String s, @Nonnull String b) {
            return s.equals(b);
        }
    };
    private static final long multiplier = 0x5DEECE66DL;
    private static final long addend = 0xBL;
    private static final long mask = (1L << 48) - 1;

    static class DummyWithEquals {
        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return 42;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object obj) {
            return obj instanceof DummyWithEquals;
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void simpleTests() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> e = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        int N = 100000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            e = e.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }
        HashTable<String, Integer> e1 = e.put("a", 3);
        HashTable<String, Integer> e2 = e1.put("b", 3);
        HashTable<String, Integer> e3 = e1.put("c", 3);
        HashTable<String, Integer> e4 = e1.put("a", 4);

        assertEquals(N, e.length);
        assertEquals(N + 1, e1.length);
        assertEquals(N + 2, e2.length);
        assertEquals(N + 2, e3.length);
        assertEquals(N + 1, e4.length);

        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e.get("c"));

        assertEquals(Maybe.of(3), e1.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e1.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e1.get("c"));

        assertEquals(Maybe.of(3), e2.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.of(3), e2.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e2.get("c"));

        assertEquals(Maybe.of(3), e3.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e3.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.of(3), e3.get("c"));

        assertEquals(Maybe.of(4), e4.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e4.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e4.get("c"));

        e4 = e4.put("a", 5);
        assertEquals(Maybe.of(5), e4.get("a"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e4.get("b"));
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e4.get("c"));
    }

    protected static long next(long seed) {
        return (seed * multiplier + addend) & mask;
    }

    @Test
    public void deletionTest() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> e = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        int N = 100000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            e = e.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }
        int[] shuffled = shuffle(0x12345, N);

        for (int i = 0; i < N / 2; i++) {
            String key = Integer.toString(shuffled[i]);
            assertEquals(Maybe.of(shuffled[i]), e.get(key));
            e = e.remove(key);
            assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e.get(key));
            assertEquals(N - i - 1, e.length);
            assertEquals(e.length, e.remove(key).length);
        }
        for (int i = N / 2; i < N; i++) {
            String key = Integer.toString(shuffled[i]);
            assertEquals(Maybe.of(shuffled[i]), e.get(key));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void deletionTest2() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> e = HashTable.empty(BAD_HASHER);
        int N = 1000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            e = e.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }
        int[] shuffled = shuffle(0x12345, N);

        for (int i = 0; i < N / 2; i++) {
            String key = Integer.toString(shuffled[i]);
            assertEquals(Maybe.of(shuffled[i]), e.get(key));
            e = e.remove(key);
            assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), e.get(key));
            assertEquals(N - i - 1, e.length);
        }
        for (int i = N / 2; i < N; i++) {
            String key = Integer.toString(shuffled[i]);
            assertEquals(Maybe.of(shuffled[i]), e.get(key));
        }
    }

    protected static int[] shuffle(long seed, int n) {
        int[] shuffled = new int[n];
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            seed = next(seed);
            int j = (int) (seed % (i + 1));
            if (j != i) {
                shuffled[i] = shuffled[j];
            }
            shuffled[j] = i;
        }
        return shuffled;
    }

    @Test
    public void traversalTests() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> e = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        int N = 10000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            e = e.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }
        final boolean[] visited = new boolean[N];

        final int[] count = new int[1];
        assertEquals(N, e.length);
        e.entries().foreach(p -> {
            assertEquals(p.left, Integer.toString(p.right));
            assertFalse(visited[p.right]);
            visited[p.right] = true;
            count[0]++;
        });
        assertEquals(N, count[0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void mergeTestSimple() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> t1 = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        HashTable<String, Integer> t2 = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        assertEquals(0, t1.merge(t2).length);
        t1 = t1.put("a", 1);
        assertEquals(1, t1.merge(t2).length);
        t1 = t1.put("b", 1);
        assertEquals(2, t1.merge(t2).length);
        t2 = t2.put("b", 2);
        assertEquals(2, t1.merge(t2).length);
        assertEquals(2, (int) t1.merge(t2).get("b").fromJust());
    }

    @Test
    public void mergeTest() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> t1 = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        HashTable<String, Integer> t2 = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        int N = 10000;
        int[] shuffled = shuffle(0x12345, N);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 2) {
            t1 = t1.put(Integer.toString(shuffled[i]), shuffled[i]);
            t2 = t2.put(Integer.toString(shuffled[i + 1]), shuffled[i + 1]);
        }
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = t1.merge(t2);
        assertEquals(N, t.length);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            assertTrue(t.get(Integer.toString(i)).isJust());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void mergeTest2() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> t1 = HashTable.empty(BAD_HASHER);
        HashTable<String, Integer> t2 = HashTable.empty(BAD_HASHER);
        int N = 1000;
        int[] shuffled = shuffle(0x12345, N);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 2) {
            t1 = t1.put(Integer.toString(shuffled[i]), shuffled[i]);
            t2 = t2.put(Integer.toString(shuffled[i + 1]), shuffled[i + 1]);
        }
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = t1.merge(t2);
        assertEquals(N, t.length);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            assertTrue(t.get(Integer.toString(i)).isJust());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void getTest() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = HashTable.empty(BAD_HASHER);
        int N = 1000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            t = t.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            assertEquals((Integer) i, t.get(Integer.toString(i)).fromJust());
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), t.get(Integer.toString(i + N)));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void findTest() {
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Pair<String, Integer>>empty(), t.find(x -> x.left.equals("a")));
        int N = 1000;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            t = t.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            int iFinal = i;
            assertEquals(i, (int) t.find(x -> x.right == iFinal).fromJust().right);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void findMapTest() {
        int N = 1000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> empty = HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality();
        assertEquals(Maybe.<Integer>empty(), empty.findMap(x -> Maybe.of(0)));
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> {
            return ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i);
        }, empty);

        range(0, N).foreach(i -> {
            assertEquals(Integer.toString(i), t.findMap(x -> Maybe.iff(x.right.equals(i), x.left)).fromJust());
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void foldLeftTest() {
        HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality().foldLeft((i, a) -> {
            throw new RuntimeException("not reached");
        }, 0);
        int N = 10000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality());
        assertEquals(N * (N - 1) / 2, (int) t.foldLeft((a, i) -> a + i.right, 0));
    }

    @Test
    public void foldRightTest() {
        HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality().foldRight((a, i) -> {
            throw new RuntimeException("not reached");
        }, 0);
        int N = 10000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality());
        assertEquals(N * (N - 1) / 2, (int) t.foldRight((i, a) -> a + i.right, 0));
    }

    @Test
    public void forEachTest() {
        HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality().foreach((p) -> {
            throw new RuntimeException("not reached");
        });
        int N = 10000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality());
        int a[] = new int[1];
        t.foreach(entry -> a[0] += entry.right);
        assertEquals(N * (N - 1) / 2, a[0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void mapTest() {
        assertEquals(0, HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality().map(x -> x + 1).length);
        int N = 10000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.<String, Integer>emptyUsingEquality());
        t = t.map(x -> x + 1);
        t.foreach(pair -> {
            assertEquals(Integer.parseInt(pair.left), pair.right - 1);
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void containsKeyTest() {
        HashTable<Integer, Unit> m = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();

        assertFalse(m.containsKey(0));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(1));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(2));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(3));

        m = m.put(0, Unit.unit);

        assertTrue(m.containsKey(0));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(1));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(2));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(3));

        m = m.put(2, Unit.unit);

        assertTrue(m.containsKey(0));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(1));
        assertTrue(m.containsKey(2));
        assertFalse(m.containsKey(3));

    }

    @Test
    public void removePreservesHasherTest() {
        HashTable<DummyWithEquals, Integer> table = HashTable.emptyUsingIdentity();

        DummyWithEquals one = new DummyWithEquals();
        DummyWithEquals two = new DummyWithEquals();
        table = table.put(one, 1);
        table = table.remove(one);
        table = table.put(one, 1);
        table = table.put(two, 2);
        assertEquals(1, (int) table.get(one).fromJust());
        assertEquals(2, (int) table.get(two).fromJust());
    }

    @Test
    public void mapPreservesHasherTest() {
        HashTable<DummyWithEquals, Integer> table = HashTable.emptyUsingIdentity();
        table = table.map(x -> x);

        DummyWithEquals one = new DummyWithEquals();
        DummyWithEquals two = new DummyWithEquals();
        table = table.put(one, 1);
        table = table.put(two, 2);
        assertEquals(1, (int) table.get(one).fromJust());
        assertEquals(2, (int) table.get(two).fromJust());
    }

    @Test
    public void iterableTest() {
        for (Pair<String, String> string : HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality()) {
            fail("Empty Hashtable Iterated");
        }
        int N = 10000;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.emptyUsingEquality());
        int sum = 0;
        for (Pair<String, Integer> i : t) {
            assertEquals(Integer.toString(i.right), i.left);
            sum += i.right;
        }
        assertEquals(N * (N - 1) / 2, sum);
    }

    @Test
    public void clearedIterationTest() {
        HashTable<String, String> table = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        table = table.put("key1", "value1")
            .put("key2", "value2")
            .put("key3", "value3");

        table = table.remove("key1")
            .remove("key2")
            .remove("key3");

        for (Pair<String, String> pair : table) {
            fail("Empty Hashtable Iterated");
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void postRemovalIterationTest() {
        int N = 10;
        HashTable<String, Integer> t = range(0, N).foldLeft((ht, i) -> ht.put(Integer.toString(i), i),
            HashTable.emptyUsingEquality());
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i += 2) {
            t = t.remove(Integer.toString(i));
        }
        int sum = 0;
        for (Pair<String, Integer> i : t) {
            assertEquals(Integer.toString(i.right), i.left);
            sum += i.right;
        }
        assertEquals(N * N / 4, sum);
    }

    @Nonnull
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    protected static <V> List<Pair<String, V>> prepareForAssertion(@Nonnull HashTable<String, V> table) {
        List<Pair<String, V>> list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(table.entries().toArray((Pair<String, V>[]) new Pair[0])));
        list.sort(Comparator.comparing(pair -> pair.left));
        return list;
    }

    @Test
    public void mutableRoundTripTest() {
        HashTable<String, String> expected = HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality()
            .put("key1", "value1")
            .put("key2", "value2")
            .put("key3", "value3");
        Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put("key1", "value1");
        map.put("key2", "value2");
        map.put("key3", "value3");
        HashTable<String, String> table = HashTable.fromUsingEquality(map);
        assertEquals(prepareForAssertion(expected), prepareForAssertion(table));
        HashTable<String, String> doubledTable = table.putAllFrom(map);
        assertEquals(prepareForAssertion(table), prepareForAssertion(doubledTable));
        map.put("key4", "value4");
        expected = expected.put("key4", "value4");
        assertEquals(prepareForAssertion(expected), prepareForAssertion(table.putAllFrom(map)));
        assertEquals(map, expected.toHashMap());

        IdentityHashMap<Integer, Integer> mapIdentity = new IdentityHashMap<>();
        mapIdentity.put(1, 2);
        mapIdentity.put(2, 3);
        mapIdentity.put(3, 4);
        HashTable<Integer, Integer> tableIdentity = HashTable.<Integer, Integer>emptyUsingIdentity()
            .put(1, 2)
            .put(2, 3)
            .put(3, 4);
        assertEquals(mapIdentity, tableIdentity.toIdentityHashMap());
    }

    @Test
    public void putAllTest() {
        HashTable<String, String> expected = HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality()
            .put("key1", "value1")
            .put("key2", "value2")
            .put("key3", "value3");
        assertEquals(
            prepareForAssertion(expected),
            prepareForAssertion(HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality().putAll(expected.entries()))
        );
        assertEquals(
            prepareForAssertion(expected),
            prepareForAssertion(HashTable.fromUsingEquality(expected.entries()))
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void filterTest() {
        HashTable<String, String> map = HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality()
            .put("key1", "value1")
            .put("key2", "value2")
            .put("keyx2", "value2x")
            .put("key3", "value3");
        HashTable<String, String> filteredMap = map.filter(pair -> pair.left.endsWith("2"));
        assertEquals(prepareForAssertion(HashTable.<String, String>emptyUsingEquality()
                .put("key2", "value2")
                .put("keyx2", "value2x")
            ),
            prepareForAssertion(filteredMap)
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void orderedEntriesTest() {
        class Wrapper {
            private final double wrapped;
            private Wrapper(double wrapped) {
                this.wrapped = wrapped;
            }
        }
        int N = 1000;
        HashTable<Double, Wrapper> t = HashTable.emptyUsingEquality();
        for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
            double x = Math.random();
            t = t.put(x, new Wrapper(x));
        }
        double previous = -1;
        ImmutableList<Pair<Double, Wrapper>> sorted = t.orderedEntries(Comparator.naturalOrder());
        assertEquals(sorted.length, N);
        for (Pair<Double, Wrapper> pair : sorted) {
            assertEquals(pair.left, pair.right.wrapped, 0);
            assertTrue(pair.left >= previous);
            previous = pair.left;
        }
    }
}

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Most of the properties can be indexed this way, e.g. invoker.profiles.3 would specify the profiles to use for the third invocation. If the property invoker.profiles.3 was not defined, the plugin would query the property invoker.profiles as a fallback to determine the profiles for the third build. This build loop ends after invocation i if no property invoker.*.i+1 is defined.
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Face to Face to Face
Gordon Clanton
by Gordon Clanton
Published July 12, 1976 by Ballantine Books .
Nonfiction - General
Format Mass Market Paperback
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Top 10 Films: 2009
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2009 was a fantastic year for cinema. So many amazing films released that a Top 10 really does not give enough justice to all the quality films that released. Enough of my yammering, checkou my Top 10 Films for 2009 after the break...
10. Up in the Air
Jason Reitman's adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air is magnificent. It is a true gem in 2009. It helps that Reitman cast the always charming George Clooney in the role of Ryan Bingham. A character that is hired to travel around the country firing employees from the various company's. Clooney absolutely drips of charm in his character once again. Up in the Air is filled with unbruised dialogue delivered by Clooney and the rest of the talented cast. Anna Kendrick is particularly staggering as Bingham's newly hired assistant. Another surprise delight is Danny McBride, playing Ryan Bingham's soon to be brother-in-law. Up in the Air is a witty dramedy but it contains a very touching story as well. The story itself will most definitely not garnish the same reaction from every viewer, but I for one walked away completely satisfied.
9. Avatar
Billed as the game changer, Avatar is exactly that. Avatar is the first 3D CGI that actually sweeps you away. I will admit I had major doubts that James Cameron's Avatar would be anything to write home about. I was proved wrong by a true master in cinema making. Cameron did not create a new story by any means, but he did in fact create a whole new world that is immensely captivating. The attention to detail that went into the 3D and CGI in this movie is legendary. The story itself is draws a lot of similarities from movies we've already seen, however I found this to be a positive which allowed for the viewer to become completely immersed in the film.
8. District 9
If someone told me I would have two SciFi movies in my Top 10 that both dealt with human and alien relations, I wouldn't have believed them. But here we are! District 9 is a movie no one saw coming. It is a shot in the dark that is mind blowing. Director Neill Blomkamp created a unique story that took apartheid and race relations in Africa and put it on a SciFi level. The result is both stunning and enamoring. The film is unique in the fact that it is presented in a quasi-documentary format, but then shifts into an all out action extravaganza! The film is both touching and entertaining and easily is deserving of a Top 10 spot.
A film I was both worried and excited for ended up being something I embrace without any reservations. Watchmen seemed like an impossible comic to adapt, but Zack Snyder did the near impossible. Snyder is able to take images from the page and put them in motion on screen in a polished and stylized way. Snyder did have to pick and choose which elements from the lengthy comic to remove, but he does a wonderful job. I must note that the Ultimate Cut of Watchmen is the pinnacle version to watch, but the theatrical release was a near perfect adaptation of a comic I've held dear to my heart since the 1990's.
6. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Fantastic Mr. Fox is a fantastic throwback to the days of old stop animation. Director Wes Anderson decided to take a step back from all of the recent trends and deliver a stop-motion animated film that is a instant classic. The Fantastic Mr. Fox has a flawless voiced cast that does a hilarious job of voicing all of the woodland creatures throughout the Ronald Dahl tale. Like any of Wes Anderson's other films, Mr. Fox is housed with layered dialogue that makes for a side-splitting endeavor on each repeat viewing. The animated film is perfect for all ages and is instantly enjoyable.
5. The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is a true white knuckle masterpiece. The military drama set during the current Iraq conflict is one of the most gripping films I've seen this year. Like the members of the bomb squad in The Hurt Locker the viewer is hammered with heart stopping situations all the way through. The performances throughout director Kathryn Bigelow's film are mesmerizing. Jeremy Renner commands the viewer's attention in every frame he is in. The portrayal he delivers is jaw dropping, but more so is the mind set these soldiers have to put themselves into in order to survive on a daily basis.
4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
I always love a film that follows a downward spiral and Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans is a superior effort to say the least. Actor Nicolas Cage has delivered over-the-top performances in the past, but none as stirring as the one he portrays here. Watching as Lt. McDonagh goes further and further down the rabbit hole is immaculate. While we have seen stories of corrupt cops before, none have electrified the screen in a way Nicolas Cage does in Bad Lieutenant. What's more is the film really does come full circle. I won't spoil the ending, but it was a perfect closing point to a mind-trip of a movie.
3. Inglourious Basterds
No other director has the balls like Quentin Tarantino! He breaks the fourth wall and outright claims he may have delivered his masterpiece and I couldn't agree more. Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino's most completed work to date. A Tarantino film always houses remarkable performances, but here everyone within the film is letter perfect. If Christoph Waltz does not win for Best Supporting Actor this year, something is definitely wrong. Not to mention Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Daniel Bruhl and Michael Fassbender. Absolutely stunning. Lastly Inglourious Basterds has one of the best scores of the year, including the infectious finale Rabbia E Tarantella.
Never before have I been so utterly linked with a character, like I was in The Road. It is the most grim film released in 2009, but at the same time it is also the most hopeful. The bare bones story focuses on one of the most simplest human traits, survival. However there is far more beneath the surface. The film perfectly illustrates the unyielding love a parent has for their child. The lengths that they will go to in order to protect them. The Road also teaches core morals that we has humans hold dear. When everything else is lost in the world a father still tries to teach his son core values. Equally his son returns the favor by reminding his father of these life lessons in key moments in the film. I have been a big fan of director John Hillcoat since his directorial debut with The Proposition and he did a unmarred job of adapting Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic story of survival. Actor Viggo Mortensen reminds me again why he is such a superior actor and in my humble opinion Mortensen deserves a nomination for his portrayal.
1. Where the Wild Things Are
It is fitting that my favorite childhood book is my favorite film in 2009. Spike Jonze did a unsurpassed job a recreating Maurice Sendak's tale. Jonze and David Eggers together created a screenplay out of a children's tale that had maybe 10 sentences in all, but together they captured the very same message throughout the 101 minute film. There has been plenty of talk as to whether Jonze's adaptation is made for children. My stance, Spike Jonze created a film that children can understand and appreciate now and only gain more from as they grow. Everything about Where the Wild Things Are is flawless. The actors, the special effects, the Wild Things, the emotions dealt with and the music. Absolutely flawless. Karen O did a knock-out job with the score and captured the tone from Sendak's tale and Spike Jonze's adaptation. I re-watched the movie a few days ago and was completely enamored all over again.
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
3. Tetro
4. (500) Days of Summer
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19. The Maid
20. Star Trek
21. The Hurt Locker
22. A Single Man
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24. Drag Me To Hell
25. An Education
26. Extract
27. Adventureland
28. Adam
29. Big Fan
30. Thirst
31. The Education of Charlie Banks
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42. Moon
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44. Fanboys
45. Taken
46. The Road
47. Whatever Works
48. The Hangover
49. Jennifer's Body
50. Away We Go
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Rather than going into detail already, I'm going to recommend something about the type of SCP you're attempting to write.
You detail the physical appearance of the object a little too much. A sure sign that a humanoid SCP is headed in the wrong direction is if there is a lot of unnecessary exposition about its specific physical appearance or mannerisms when such things are irrelevant to its anomalous properties or containment requirements.
The origin of this SCP is very bare-bones, barely two sentences, where the physical description went into detail a lot more. On top of that, the Foundation doesn't show the least bit of interest in finding out where it came from. That doesn't really make sense.
The SCP and the anomaly it has don't seem to be thematically connected.


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It looks like Stafford from SA, with this wide, plain grill.
Found some more interesting content. So I've been looking/listening trough police dispatch voice files and found three unused soundbanks containing a lot of his voicelines tied to a street races. It looks like that R's originally planned police to give us a hard time during the street racing events given to us by Brucie. There's a lot of dispatch lines where he dispatching units to apprehend a street race in progress and even giving information about the race status by giving description of the current race leader, informing units about player's car condition and oddly enough even has couple of lines in case if player decide to abandon his car and get a new one. As we know in the final version abandoning your car while on race will cause disqualification thus failing it.
I think I found one more cut ped. His model and textures goes by the name "m_m_telephone". Considering his model's name and "Liberty Communication" text on his uniform it's easy to determine that he likely was a phone company worker.
And at first when I came across his textures, I wasn't sure if this ped is actually unused.. But as soon I opened his 3D model I was 90% sure that I never saw him in game before. So to confirm my theory I decided to check and see if I can find him in pedgrp.dat, and as it's turned out he is indeed missing from pedgrp.dat witch confirms that he cannot be found on the streets, but perhaps he might be used in some sort of mission or event, because he still listed in peds.ide file witch allows him to be fully functional when forcibly spawned in-game.
the model is part of a rare scenario that shows him fixing poles.
it is very rare, just like the mailman.
I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to the phone poles then... Anyway, thanks for the tip. I think I'll be better on with exploring game's audio further and trying to avoid IMG archives to prevent this kind of situations.
There are 2 lines for him in scenarios.dat in common>data folder.
Sorry for going off-topic but is there a mod for a GTA SA Hud for IV like in the leak? Otherwise i am going to make one myself.


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var fs = require('fs'),
    hw = require('./fake_hardware');

var sensors = {};
var cache = {};

var FAKE_SENSORS_FILE = __dirname + '/fake_sensors.txt';

function parse_sensors(data) {
    cache.global_panic = false;
    cache.global_alarm = false;

    var lines = String(data).split('\n');
    for (var i in lines) {
        // Skip comment lines
        if (lines[i].charAt(0) == '#') {
            continue;
        }
        // skip empty lines
        if (lines[i] === '') {
            continue;
        }

        var elements = lines[i].split('\t');
        var name = elements[0];
        var alarm_temp = parseInt(elements[1], 10);
        var panic_temp = parseInt(elements[2], 10);
        var temp = parseInt(elements[3], 10);

        var alarm = temp > alarm_temp ? true: false;
        var panic = temp > panic_temp ? true: false;

        cache.global_panic |= panic;
        cache.global_alarm |= alarm;

        sensors[name] = { 'alarm_temp': alarm_temp, 'panic_temp': panic_temp };
        cache[name] = { 'temp': temp, 'alarm': alarm, 'panic': panic };
    }
}

function initSensors() {
    if (!fs.existsSync(FAKE_SENSORS_FILE)) {
        throw 'Fake sensors file not found';
    }
    var data = fs.readFileSync(FAKE_SENSORS_FILE);
    parse_sensors(data);
    return sensors;
}

function availableSensors() {
    return Object.keys(sensors);
}

function readSensor(name, callback) {
    function file_read(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            throw err;
        }
        parse_sensors(data);

        var sensor = cache[name];

        if ( sensor === undefined ) {
            callback({'error': 'No data available for sensor ' + name});
            return;
        }

        callback(sensor);
    }

    fs.readFile(FAKE_SENSORS_FILE, file_read);
}

function readSensorSync(name){
    return cache[name];
}

function getStatus() {
    var data = fs.readFileSync(FAKE_SENSORS_FILE);
    parse_sensors(data);

    if (cache.global_panic) {
        return {'status': 'panic'};
    }

    if (cache.global_alarm) {
        return {'status': 'alarm'};
    }

    return {'status': 'ok'};
}

exports.initSensors = initSensors;
exports.availableSensors = availableSensors;
exports.readSensor = readSensor;
exports.readSensorSync = readSensorSync;
exports.getStatus = getStatus;


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Marlboro is a metro station on the Gautrain rapid transit system in Marlboro, Gauteng. It opened on 8 June 2010 with service to OR Tambo International Airport.

Location
Marlboro is located near the southwestern corner of the interchange between the N3 Eastern Bypass and Marlboro Drive in the suburb of the same name. The surrounding area is mainly residential and includes the well-known township of Alexandra.

Transit-oriented development
One of the major aims of the Gautrain project is to reduce car dependency and its associated congestion through transit-oriented development (TOD). At Marlboro, this is accomplished by connecting the fragmented surrounding area with a pedestrian bridge across Marlboro Drive. Further, the TOD plan subdivides the Marlboro precinct into a number of areas, in particular Frankenwald and the Far East Bank.

Station layout
Marlboro station has four tracks with an island platform and side platforms. As the station is the last before the north–south line to Pretoria and the Airport Line to OR Tambo International Airport split, a cross-platform interchange is facilitated by the use of an island platform.

Gallery

References

External links
Official Sandton station site

Gautrain
Railway stations in South Africa
Railway stations opened in 2010
Buildings and structures in Johannesburg
Transport in Johannesburg
Railway stations in South Africa opened in the 21st century

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They asked me to take their picture when they were hugging. I walked away to get the camera and they were still hugging when I got back to them. They just laughed and hugged while I snapped away. I hope they always love each other as much.
In this picture, I love the way his hand is on her face and I love her hands around his middle. So cute.


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FOX Business' Charlie Gasparino discusses Tesla CEO Elon Musk announcement on Starlink.
Elon Musk said Monday that nearly 100 of SpaceX's Starlink terminals are active in Iran, which has experienced intermittent internet disruptions and social media censorship in recent months during mass protests.
Starlink works by connecting satellites in low-earth orbit with user terminals on the ground.
Musk originally said in September that he would seek exemptions from sanctions on Iran so that Starlink could operate in the country.
A Starlink terminal, which connects with satellites in low-earth orbit. (Starlink / Fox News)
The move came after protests broke out over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of Iran's so-called morality police.
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Internet connectivity has been disrupted in the last few months, most recently around the city of Sanandaj in the east Kurdistan Province on Dec. 20, according to the internet monitor NetBlocks.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 53 Starlink satellites lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 21, 2022. (Reuters/Steve Nesius / Reuters Photos)
Aside from disruptions to internet service, Iran has also placed tight restrictions on social media and other content throughout the country.
SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine earlier this year after Russia invaded and throttled internet service in the country.


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You can therefore find different web design companies from the internet and choose from them. It is possible for you to find information about different web design companies from the internet which may include their contact information, pricing, where they are located and their portfolios. You should check the work which the web design company which you have in mind has done previously so that you can understand better the quality of work that they do. As a potential client, it is necessary for you to look at different websites that they have developed so that you can check if they are user friendly, attractive and if the contents which are put there have some harmony.
The right web design company that you should hire is one that is in a position to meet the demands of its customers since it is at a better place. It is possible for you to get many free website templates from the internet but even with that, most firms need to get a web design company that can be able to create a new one which is meant just for them. You also need to factor where the company is located since selecting one which is far away from its customers may not be the best decision.


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Visiting Internetstores' Berlin office
After we checked out its headquarters in Stuttgart, Internetstores invited us to its Berlin Mitte office: a little smaller, more international and with a distinct start-up atmosphere.
Find out more below.
Thanks for having us. Can you tell us more about the evolution of Internetstores?
We're proud to say that we're Europe's leading multi-channel supplier for bike and outdoor, with around 40 online specialist shops across 14 countries, including fahrrad.de, Brügelmann, Bikester, ProBikeShop, Campz and Addnature.
Our team provides customers with a comprehensive range of products aimed at recreational athletes and pros alike. Bike and outdoor fans will find exactly what they need from a selection of more than 900 brands and 100,000 products.
They'll also benefit from expert advice provided across all channels. In addition to well-known bike and outdoor brands, the range also includes our exclusive in-house brands such as Ortler, Serious, Fixie Inc. and Votec.
Our multi-channel strategy means being exactly where the customer wants us to be: online, in our physical shops or via 'on-site services' at a preferred location.
When was the company established, and what is Internetstores' core business?
The father of our founder René Köhler, Rolf Köhler, was a long-established bicycle retailer in Stuttgart, running a traditional bike shop just outside the centre.
This is where his son got started in 2003 and soon began selling bikes through eBay. This was so successful that father and son decided to buy the fahrrad.de URL together. From then on, the company blossomed, opening many more bike and outdoor shops – online and offline – throughout Europe.
The Berlin office was established in 2011. In October 2014, after three years on Torstraße, we found the perfect office space on Oranienburger Str. and we can't imagine a better workplace.
In which countries are you active?
We operate around 40 online specialist shops in 14 countries, including fahrrad.de, Brügelmann, Bikester, ProBikeShop, Campz and Addnature. In Germany, you'll find fahrrad.de physical stores in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Dortmund, supplemented by a nationwide network of 200 service partners. Addnature and Bikester stores in Stockholm and Probikeshop in Lyon complete the family. We currently employ around 800 people in Stuttgart, Berlin, Lyon and Stockholm.
Why did you open an office in Berlin?
Because we operate throughout Europe, we rely on different team members with international backgrounds, like translators and editors. Stuttgart isn't that big compared to Berlin in terms of international residents (and potential employees in general), so the Berlin location gives us access to the best possible people for the job. This means we can provide our customers with expertise, no matter where they're located. In our experience, it's also easier to find people with a creative background, like designers, in Berlin. Opening the office in this unique city has made recruiting the right people a lot easier.
What are your plans for the Berlin location?
Having the Berlin office also enables us to participate in the city's start-up and tech scene. In the future, we want to expand our IT team in Berlin and organise even more meetups. Psst: follow us on LinkedIn – you won't miss any events or news, and you can gain some insights about our company 😉.
Do you feel closely connected or instead separated from the HQ in Stuttgart?
The Berlin Team has the best of both worlds: on the one hand, they enjoy the many benefits and security that only a larger company can provide. On the other hand, a smaller location is more intimate and creates a start-up-like atmosphere.
How many employees work at the company now? And how many in Berlin?
The whole Internetstores Group employs 800 people. In Berlin, there are around 80 employees, mostly in international Customer Care, SEA, SEO, CRM, Design, Team Text, HR, Marketing & Brand Strategy and IT.
Fun fact: in Berlin, the male/female quota is 50/50.
What benefits can employees expect at the Berlin office?
We offer different benefits to our Berlin Team like fruit, snacks, coffee, regular Friday beers, pizza lunches, BBQs on our terrace and office yoga. Of course, all employees get a grant for their BVG Ticket and discount on all bike and outdoor products sold in our shops.
What kind of team events do you host at the office?
We've had many different events at the office, both before and during corona. Currently, some of these are happening digitally, including our monthly campfire that consists of relevant business updates from the leadership team. However, usually, there are summer parties, boat parties, Christmas parties, beach volleyball and soccer tournaments, a company run and yoga. Our employees also cycle regularly in their free time, and many are keen outdoor enthusiasts.
Your Office
Where exactly is the office, and how big is it?
The office is located on Oranienburger Straße, in the heart of Berlin and easy to reach from all over town. Of course, we encourage our employees to cycle to work and have a bike 'garage' in the office for safe parking.
Who designed the office?
The office was designed in-house by our team assistant and Berlin office manager, Antje. Our design department also helped out, especially our dear colleague Martin!
Thank you Internetstores team for the interview and photoshoot!
Location: Berlin Germany Website: Internetstores
Photos: Andreas Lukoschek
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Watching Egypt 1 – Private Worries, Public Hopes
2 February 2011 9 March 2011 / Alan AtKisson
It was a relief to finally hear my client's voice on the phone. She was a bit breathless, but not sounding in distress. She had been out food shopping by taxi just that afternoon (this was Monday, 31 January), able to find what she needed, "though many people are just buying up whatever they can get, and hoarding it," she noted. She was surprisingly worried about work, and about the project we're working on, a major strategy document for economic competitiveness and Green Transformation in Egypt: "No one is going to the office, because there is no point, the internet is shut down."
And of course, there was the fire.
The first four floors of the office building had been damaged by a fire set in the shops on the ground floor, probably in connection with looting. Fortunately, the offices of the Egyptian National Council on Competitiveness (ENCC) are on the fifth floor. So the home of one of Egypt's most important small think-tanks, a place where a true transition to sustainability was being mapped out in careful detail, is still intact.
Whatever happens in Egypt, the country is going to need that Council, and that new Green Transformation strategy, more than ever in the coming years. One of the many documents I had absorbed in trying to learn about the situation there (as part of my work as a strategic advisor to the ENCC) was the most recent national Human Development Report. The numbers on youth unemployment alone, and the accompanying quotes from young, educated people (whose needs for a meaningful life had clearly not been met), were enough to make the events that are happening now in Egypt all too easy to understand.
Not to mention the many comments I had heard from many people when I visited there, on three occasions last year. These comments were usually whispered, or voiced only after a quick look to the left and the right to see who might be listening (if one were in a public place). It reminded me of being in China in 1982, when people I met on the street literally dragged me behind bushes to have conversations about freedom in some European language they were studying. Egypt was not that extreme, but the feeling of caution, bordering on fear, about saying what one really thought was something I encountered regularly on my visits there.
Suddenly, the whispers have grown to a roar.
Hindsight is 20/20, they say. But in this case, many Egyptian experts had 20/20 foresight as well. No one could have predicted an uprising of this kind, of course; and no one I have met while working there predicted it to happen now. But almost everyone said, either subtly or directly, that something like this — a "phase shift" or "nonlinear event," an encounter with unsustainable trends, building up to a breaking point — was inevitable if Egypt did not make major, transformative changes, and quickly.
The world, watching Egypt, now sees the demands for political openness and justice that are visibly driving the protesters. What is not so obvious is the array of other issues that have contributed to this enormous, tsunami-like outburst of "We're not going to take it anymore" public emotion.
For example, Cairo was experiencing water shortages as well as sporadic blackouts when I visited last year. These are not usual; they were practically a first. Egypt has prided itself on its provision of energy and especially water to its people in modern times; they are serious matters of national security. But one man I met was embarrassed to be photographed, because newly imposed water restrictions had prevented him from shaving for a few days: "The Quality Control Director of a food processing factory [his job] should not appear in a photograph unshaven," he told me.
Meanwhile, prices of some common foodstuffs and other consumer goods were also suddenly skyrocketing, some friends said, and those price increases were not being reported publicly. They were just being felt, and they were so significant that even my wealthier friends were feeling it.
And these were just the pressures visible to anyone. While energy prices were still heavily subsidized, Egypt had recently changed over from being a net oil exporter to being a net oil importer. It was meeting the deficit — and the needs of its fast-growing population of over 80 million — by pumping out natural gas faster than ever. The production curves literally turned almost straight up.
Were these the indicators of a sustainable future? Not a chance.
I am convinced these and other pressures, both visible and less visible (but widely known), helped to create a general feeling of unease, and that this feeling combined with the much more visible calls for democracy and openness that are now playing out so very publicly on the world stage. All of it taken together created a pile of very dry social kindling. The dozens of self-immolations that followed on Tunisia's example were literally the spark that lit a conflagration.
Today, the hopes regarding Egypt are many. Indeed the hopes of the people there, and the hopes of the world on their behalf, have already become highly documented history. World leaders are speaking out in support of the protesters demands in almost unprecedented ways — or at least, in ways not seen since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The public statements of Egypt's military are no less remarkable in their embrace of transition.
But I have private hopes, as we all do. First and foremost, as an outside observer with clients and friends in Egypt, I hope for their safety and security. (I could easily have been in Egypt the week the protests began, as I had been invited to the country for a work engagement, but felt the need to stay home for family reasons.)
And I also have private worries, more than I care to express in a public blog — worries for the safety of specific individuals I know and their family members. I join my voice to the prayers for safety that my client mentioned so many times, when I finally reached her on her mobile phone on Monday.
When it comes to the Egyptian transformation — for that is what we are witnessing — I think most engaged observers have both high hopes and big worries for its outcome. The opportunity for change is enormous now, and Egypt truly needs enormous changes: this was a core message of the materials that had been presented to ministers and senior business and society leaders in May of last year. These Egyptian-born ideas about purusing a Green Transformation strategy — renewable energy, water consevation, sustainable agriculture, jobs and capacity development, innovation, education — were due to be presented in an even more strategic and practical way this year. These were urgent matters before (they were being increasingly framed as national security issues) and they remain urgent, perhaps "super-urgent", matters for the foreseeable future.
And now, one can add a phrase to the list of "super-urgent" matters, a topic that was essentially taboo just two weeks ago, a topic that numerous people essentially only whispered to me previously, a topic than anyone with access to a global news source can now plainly attest to as being the desperate longing of the Egyptian people, a topic that may even become the source of the accelerated sustainability transformation that Egypt desperately needs:
Democratic participation.
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Daniel Thomas Drew (born 1979) is an American politician from Connecticut and the former mayor of Middletown, Connecticut. Drew was elected mayor in 2011 and was re-elected in 2013 and 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

In July 2017, Drew announced his candidacy for Governor of Connecticut, withdrawing from the race in January 2018.

Early life and education
Dan Drew was born in New York City and was raised in New York and Connecticut.

At age 18, Drew volunteered as an EMT in Connecticut.

He attended the University of Connecticut (UConn) where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Campus student newspaper, graduating in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in political science.  On May 3, 2002, while still a UConn student Drew appeared on the Fox News television show The O'Reilly Factor and defended a fellow student's right to free speech despite the controversial content of the student's student-activity-fee-funded TV show.

In 2015, Drew graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in organizational psychology.

Political career

In 2009, Drew ran against incumbent mayor Sebastian Giuliano and lost 52–47%. He ran again in 2011, defeating Giuliano 53-46%. Facing no major party opponent, Drew was re-elected in 2013 with over 80 percent of the vote. In 2015, he was elected to a four-year term as Middletown voters approved an increase in the mayor's term.

In 2016, Drew made news when he donated a kidney to one of his constituents.

In 2018 Drew gave a TED talk at Wesleyan University on the misconceptions surrounding kidney donation.

On January 12, 2017, Drew announced he was forming an exploratory committee to run for Governor of Connecticut.

On July 12, 2017, Drew announced that he was running for Governor of Connecticut in the 2018 election. He withdrew from the race on January 12, 2018, exactly one year after forming an exploratory committee to run, stating that, "Ultimately it became very difficult to raise the required funds to qualify for public financing."

In 2019 Drew was named Co-Chair of the Board of Connecticut DonateLife.

Electoral history

References

External links
 Campaign website
 Official page at City of Middletown
Wesleyan Newsletter Blog

1979 births
21st-century American politicians
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
Connecticut Democrats
Living people
Mayors of Middletown, Connecticut
University of Connecticut alumni


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BlaineParents.org has been linked to from another site: Grass roots math organizations listed by state, scroll down to Idaho.
School District Administrators have organized one of the promised Parent Math Nights.


There's little doubt synthetic racing has fallen out of flavor in recent years, which is why it's a bit surprising that the GIII Spiral will still (essentially) award an automatic starting berth into the Kentucky Derby, but that's exactly the case this year, when a mixed bag of 12 3-year-olds take part in Turfway's signature race.
In a year when Todd Pletcher can seemingly do no wrong with his 3yos, let's give an upset look to #10 BRONSON, who impressed in his lone turf start, when a very troubled second sprinting two-back at Gulfstream Park, won in the slop there last time and should handle the Polytrack in his first attempt.
While he's made his name running on the turf, you have to think #8 KITTEN'S CAT is another who will like the Poly, especially since he's the definite class of the race and has run some very fast figures when stacked up against the rest of the field, not to mention that owner Ken Ramsey loves to take this route to Louisville. The wildcard looks like #9 PARLOR, who is lightly raced and a little late-arriving, but impressed in his comeback win over the turf at Tampa Bay Downs last time and showed a lot of talent as a 2-year-old as well. Price players can give a look to #4 CONVICT PIKE, who was a fine second in a stakes at Ocala over the Poly last time, drew well and has a tactical gear that should allow him to trip out nicely and get first run off the far turn.


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Quicksilver (Ultraviolet #2) by R.J. Anderson
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Quicksilver (Ultraviolet #2)
by R.J. Anderson
Published: March 1st 2013 by Carolrhoda Lab
Genre: YA, Sci-fi
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Back in her hometown, Tori Beaugrand had everything a teenaged girl could want—popularity, money, beauty. But she also had a secret. A secret that could change her life in an instant, or destroy it.
Now she's left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the one friend who truly understood her. She can't escape who and what she is. But if she wants to have anything like a normal life, she has to blend in and hide her unusual... talents.
Plans change when the enigmatic Sebastian Faraday reappears and gives Tori some bad news: she hasn't escaped her past. In fact, she's attracted new interest in the form of an obsessed ex-cop turned investigator for a genetics lab.
She has one last shot at getting her enemies off her trail and winning the security and independence she's always longed for. But saving herself will take every ounce of Tori's incredible electronics and engineering skills—and even then, she may need to sacrifice more than she could possibly imagine if she wants to be free. -Goodreads.com
"I thought I had the truth and that no one could take it away from me. But now I don't know what to believe." (143)
I absolutely loved Ultraviolet and I absolutely love this as well! It's so nice to get away from a story writhing in love triangles and filled with whinny teenagers. While Ultraviolet focused on Alison, Quicksilver focuses on Tori after they escape Mathis. To get away from the police and scientists hounding her, Tori and her parents change their identities and relocate their lives, but it is enough?
"I told myself it felt like freedom, and it did. But deep down, it also felt like death." (7)
Just as the first book, Quicksilver really clung to me with it's sci-fi filled plot of aliens, control and deception. We get to really understand Tori and how she's been brought up to use her charm and ability to read people to manipulate them. Milo is introduced as a factor in which manipulation becomes painful for Tori (AKA Niki) and she learns to hold on to her emotions and trust people. Although this may not always seem like a great decision for some people (including some incidents with Faraday) in the end she learns how to trust herself as well, to do what is right for her and those who care about her. Although dealing with escaping the police and the scientists at GeneSystem seems like enough, there's something bigger in the making as Tori (Niki) finds out that the relay is still active and can send her back through the open wormhole to Mathis. With the help of a few friends, she must take action before it's too late.
"I was tired of lies and evasions: I'd spent a lifetime pretending, and sometimes I hardly knew what the truth was anymore." (94)
In all, this book is a exceptional companion to the first book, even though it has a different feel about it. I love the adventure that the author took me on, especially since I haven't read that much science fiction in my life and this series really gave me a new interest in the genre. Although I love this book in the series, I also feel like it could be read and understood without having read Ultraviolet, but in all seriousness that book was amazing as well and I would highly recommend both of these Ultraviolet books for someone looking for a cosmic adventure.
First Line:"On June 7, the year I turned sixteen, I vanished without a trace." (1)
Last Line:"'Let's call it an experiment in progress,' I said." (314)
"Which meant the only way to solve the problem was to solve the problem, literally. To find the threat to my safety and eliminate it, before it eliminated me. I only wish I knew how." (90)
"'I don't know how to be anything but pretend,' I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. 'But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.'" (226)
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Elophila palliolatalis is een vlinder uit de familie van de grasmotten (Crambidae), uit de onderfamilie van de Acentropinae. De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1890 door Charles Swinhoe.

De soort komt voor in Myanmar.

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The 4/5 "Express" train myth
Gothamist links to a NY Daily News study of the local vs. express trains in the NYC subway system. They sent two reporters on a trip downtown from 86th Street to City Hall, and surprising no one except MTA designers, the local train rider won. Since Liz and I moved to the Upper East Side (or Yorkville, if you want to be that specific), I've suffered on these overcrowded trains like everyone else on that side of town. I decided that the East Side subways were intended to punish people who live on my side of the city, and in the Bronx, via this cruel form of torture. However, my consolation has been that at least the express train only took about 20 minutes to make the trip downtown. This morning's ride, for example, took almost exactly 20 minutes from when I boarded the train to when I got off at Fulton Street. But for the past three weeks, almost every ride to work on the express train has been filled with stops and starts and especially long waits in the tunnels while multiple local trains pass by. My average commute to work sometimes stretches to 40 minutes or longer. I saw this service advisory about track work on the downtown express tracks going on until mid-July. But the NY Daily News article says that riders can expect these delays until late September! That's ridiculous. In a subway system that regularly reroutes trains and repairs lines on weekends, why does the MTA have to work on train tracks during weekday rush hours? Is this some form of cost-cutting? They hired a contractor but refused to pay them overtime for weekend and late-night work, so they're working during the day? I've tried the local train, and sometimes it's quicker for me than the express, but ultimately I lose because the local ends at Brooklyn Bridge, one stop before my regular stop at Fulton. Then I have the choice of waiting for a delayed express train, which will probably be one that my local train passed in the tunnel, or walking to the office from there. The walk adds 10 minutes to my commute, even at my pace. Either way, I lose.
Since there's no other option for me to get to work, I'll just have to put up with the delays. And that's the most frustrating thing.
Yes, this post is a rant.
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