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On Tuesday, November 26, the 2013 Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge took place at Goff Hall in Woodstock, Ontario. The Oxford Challenge is a community-based partnership that encourages high school youth to consider careers in engineering, technology or the skilled trades. This is accomplished by providing the students with hands on experience in design, construction, and team problem solving by building and programming a robot for an industry modeled task.
OES Engineering personnel were very excited to be involved with the Westminster Secondary School Team from London. Through their insight, experience, and education in technology, OES Engineering offered the students guidance with their design. The Westminster team stepped up to this year's challenge by winning the Platinum award – first time for Westminster. OES congratulates Westminster on their exciting win.


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European Belarus
civil campaign
About campaign
Andrei Sannikov: "Europe has demonstrated fidelity to principles, and it can be acclaimed"
The leader of the civil campaign "European Belarus" has made a statement in connection with presentation of the Eastern Partnership project by the leadership of the EU.
"The fact that the European Union has expressed its readiness to pay more careful attention to the Eastern European region to which Belarus belongs, should be viewed favourably. The leadership of the European Union took into consideration difference in attitudes of post-Soviet states to the principles according to which the united Europe lives. The fact that Belarus is not completely included into the Eastern Partnership is logical, and despite of all talks nothing else could be expected from the EU. Europe has demonstrated its fidelity to principles which can be acclaimed.
The key problem of Belarus is known to everyone. It is not economy, but the repressive political system based on the personal power of Lukashenka. Only democratisation is able to draw Belarus nearer to Europe, and it should be emphasized in any practical steps for realization of the Eastern Partnership program. Today Lukashenka and his representatives state directly that Belarus does not make it aim to integrate into the EU. Thus they underline that they would like to maintain the existing regime, and to receive help from the EU on their own conditions. It is the only thing the regime needs today in the context of the global financial crisis.
It should be reminded that it is not the first offer addressed to Belarus by the EU. The Belarusian regime hasn't responded to the 12 recommendations of the EU which were offered 2 years ago. In the conditions of the crisis they are ready to give promises generously, but do not want to follow through on their promises.
Today Europe repeats its approach which was stated two years ago in fact. Only tangible moves related to the well-known 12 requirements of the EU could give Belarus a chance for rapprochement with the European Union. It can hardly be expected that anything can change in Belarus without free elections. Unlike the Belarusian authorities, activists and participants of the civil campaign "European Belarus" see the future of Belarus in the United Europe, and believe that only after free elections the country would be able to join in any European programmes and initiatives in its full role," — stated the leader of the civil campaign "European Belarus", former deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Belarus Andrei Sannikov.
Eastern partnership for Belarus but not for dictatorship
Alyaksandr Barazenka sentenced to 1 year of restriction of freedom
Mogilyov: Go away! (Photos)
Act of solidarity in Minsk (Video)
Everyone – come to the People's Assembly! (Photos)
Belarusians at "Nations Fair" in Vilnius
SHOS! (May he breathe his last!) Photos
We demand the immediate release of Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk
Andrei Sannikov: One cannot save Ukrainians, betraying Belarusians
Andrei Sannikov: Either Statkevich runs in elections, or boycot
Maxim Vinyarski stopped waterless hunger strike
Andrei Sannikov: Terrorism in Paris and violence in Minsk are same things
© 2023 European Belarus

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Focus on goals, but don't lose sight of returns!
Keep in mind the desired returns while planning a financial goal.
Most of us are catalysed into saving money and investing it regularly, if there is a financial goal that we have to meet. That goal could be retirement, buying a home or most often providing for our child's future. Recent research conducted by Aviva Life Insurance and IMRB found that parents, for instance, would like to build up a fund not only for their child's higher education, but also much ahead of that, as the child approaches higher secondary education. A separate Conjoint analysis found that a whopping 82 per cent of the Indians save for their children's education. Goal-based savings may be a good idea, but not when individuals opt for low return avenues just for the sake of safety or guaranteed returns.
Traditional insurance products are one clear instance of the need for safety taking precedence over returns. In many instances, returns from traditional insurance products, without reckoning tax benefits, are quite poor. A typical product for a sum insured of Rs 1 lakh with compounded reversionary bonus of 3 per cent for a term of 15 years will fetch you a final amount of Rs 1.55 lakh. Certainly not a return that will beat the inflation.
If the individual is availing tax benefits on the investment, returns may be slightly higher. The tax bracket apart, the age of the individual too plays an important role in determining net returns. While the bonus is common to all the policyholders, those with a higher age will shell out higher premium, lowering their effective returns.
Consider this. A man aged 30 who has a 3-year old child , plans to buy the recently launched Max New York College Plan for a term of 15 years. For a sum assured of Rs 5 lakh, his total outgo will be Rs 6.06 lakh over the term of the policy. It carries an annual premium of Rs 39,515 and a fixed sum of Rs 900 till maturity.
Living and maturity guaranteed benefit under this plan will be 120 per cent of the sum insured; in this case Rs 6 lakh. The sum assured will be paid to the investor in instalments as child attains 18, until he turns 21. To meet the education needs, 40 per cent of the sum assured is paid in the first and final years and 20 per cent is paid in the second and third years.
Besides, at maturity policyholders will be eligible for reversionary and terminal bonus. Now, the total yield of the plan will be just 3.7 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively, if the insurer is able to generate returns at 6 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. If you consider a likely return of 8 per cent based on the yield of long-term government securities, your net yield will be 5.6 per cent.
Considering that education expenses will certainly grow with inflation, an even assuming a modest 6 per cent inflation, you are just saving for education and not making an investment that can earn you a return.
While buying a policy with guaranteed additions, individuals should not look at the rate of guaranteed additions alone to evaluate the returns. The actual returns will be far lower. For instance ING Life Insurance recently launched ING Ace Life a non-linked, non-participating, limited premium payment (3 years) endowment plan that provides guaranteed additions for the entire policy term of 10 years. The product assures guaranteed additions of 7 per cent for the annual premium less than Rs 24,000 and 7.75 per cent for premium Rs 24,000 and above.
Under this plan, if an individual aged 24 buys the plan with a sum assured of Rs 1 lakh paying an annual premium of Rs 20,000, at maturity he will receive a guaranteed addition of Rs 78,683 at the end of tenth year.
The effective return at the time of maturity will work out to 3.05 per cent. Though the guaranteed additions appear high at 7 per cent, the actual return is far lower because the guaranteed addition is not based on the death benefit. In this plan, guaranteed additions are calculated on the maturity sum assured; Rs 39,998 in this example. The maturity sum assured is arrived by multiplying the age and the premium per thousand.
So, evaluate net yield at the time of maturity before signing up!
There's nothing wrong in investing systematically every year to reach desired corpus and achieve a financial goal. But what is required is that before planning for a goal one should look at the desired return to reach the goals. Anything without a given rate of return will only end up buying a product which will not helpful to fulfil your goal.


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Man of the High Seas
SALEM AL ADIDI, POWER BOAT RACING CHAMPION
Salem Bin Ali Al Adidi, UAE's very own powerboat racing champion with the Victory Team, one of the most successful teams in the history of XCAT racing was born and raised near the seaside where his entire family enjoyed all kinds of water activities and that's where his love for the deep blue sea started. We met with him to talk about his life, his passion and his vision for powerboat racing.
Salem's father and his ancestors before him were all men of the sea. It was their way of living and so Salem's father taught him how to embrace the mysterious waves of the sea rather than fear it.
In 1996, Salem started to watch all kinds of water sports games, and he was especially mesmerised by power boat racing. He was only 10 years old but he knew that someday he will be standing next to the champions who he looked up to and admired.
Being a Powerboat Pilot was Salem's dream and in 2000, Salem's racing career started when he enrolled himself in traditional dhow sailing and through passion and hard work, he won numerous races. To this very date, he continues to participate in races and still wins among the top 10 out of 100+ sailing boats.
It was in 2012 when the magic happened, Salem became a member of the outstanding Victory Team "the dream team". It was and still is an amazing experience for him as every day is a new day with new lessons for him to learn.
In 2013, Salem had his first official powerboat race, the Xcat race, and finished in third place which is not bad at all for a beginner. This was his first break until he finished in First in the latest Xcat World championship competition in Abu Dhabi.
In between these two competitions, Salem already had his fair share of victories, He competed in Class 1 Race 2013 in China and participated in all the races in the 2014 season when he was crowned the winner of the Speed Cat Race World Championship. He also finished second in the overall championship.
Salem completed all the races in 2015 and won the first heats in Abu Dhabi. In 2017, Salem won his first race in a wooden boat which was also his first race in this class. In 2017, he continued making the sea his second home and finished 5thin the ALGAFFAL Race 60ft Dhow Sailing. He also won first place at the China Grand Prix. Salem also enjoys his races in the USA and enjoys the sport in Florida and in particular, Lake Michigan.
Salem is now more eager, ambitious and determined to reach even further in this field. He tells us that his passion for the sea is as the salt in it "dissolvable" and he hopes to be the best in all he does when out in the ocean.
Salem lives by the Victory Team values which include innovation, teamwork, integrity and leadership. He hopes to help maintain the legacy of Victory Team being the world champions in powerboat racing, and help nurture a new generation of racers for victory team for the future.
When Salem needs a dose of the ocean outside the international competitions, Dhow sailing is a family affair for him which keeps him happy. He is the captain of a dhow with four of his brothers going out to sea with him and they have their own sailing race. Salem comes from a big family of five brothers and six sisters.
Salem studied at the Dubai Police Academy and is now a Lieutenant. He believes that nothing is impossible and we admire the way he balances his career as a policeman with his passion for racing with powerboats and dhows.
On the personal front, Salem is easy going and loves the great support from his wife and daughter to be successful. He loves gaming and while he enjoys beach holidays by the sea, he also loves the vibe in London. His motto is not to put limits on anything he does in life.
As a leading powerboat race team, Victory Team has pinned Dubai's place in the World map of Powerboat Racing competing in different categories and with passionate powerboat pilots like Salem on their side, we hope they continue winning more international championships.
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10 Web Tech Innovations That Have Improved Our Lives
By Josh Catone 2009-12-14 13:57:10 UTC
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In the 20 or so years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee conceived of and launched the World Wide Web, a lot has changed. The Web itself has certainly had one of the most profound impacts on the world of any new technology in the past hundred years, easily ranking up there with the standardized assembly line, the communications satellite, and the airplane as one of the century's most important inventions.
Innovations in Web technology since then have continued to improve the way we communicate with each other. Here are ten of the most profound Web tech innovations that have changed our lives for the better.
1. Web Browsers
The Web browser is arguably the most important part of the entire Internet experience, and without one, the Web experience would likely be very boring and gray. Browsers, which allow users to retrieve information from the Web, have come a long way since the first one was released in 1991. Browsers went mainstream a few years later with Mosaic in 1993, which was followed by Netscape Navigator in 1994, and Microsoft Internet Explorer in 1995, a browser that Microsoft gave away for free, touching off the infamous Web browser wars of the 1990s.
Modern browsers are headlined by four main competitors: Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the open source Mozilla Firefox, a browser that essentially replaced Netscape and has so far done the best job of eating into Microsoft's market share monopoly, Apple's Safari, and the newest entrant, Google's open source Chrome browser.
Web browsers mediate the connection between our computers and those that serve the Web pages and Web applications we use and enjoy every day. Without these important software innovations, the World Wide Web would be a very different experience.
2. Search Engines
Of course, being able to see and interact with Web pages is only useful if you can find them. That's where search engines come in. Most people probably don't remember the first search engines — such as Archie, Veronica, and Jughead — I know I don't. But starting in the mid-90s a slew of search engines and searchable Web directories launched that many of you likely do remember. WebCrawler, Infoseek, Lycos, AltaVista, Megellan, Yahoo!, Excite, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, and more provided ways for early Web users to find information.
Then in 1998, Google launched, with the lofty goals of indexing more of the Web than any search engine before it, and organizing all of the world's information — including information beyond the scope of the Web. Very quickly, Google became the dominant search engine on the Internet, and perhaps more importantly, they were also the first to figure out how to really successfully monetize search results and transform Web search into a multi-billion dollar business.
Search is still the main way that users find information on the Web, and today's search landscape is very much a three-horse race between Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's recently launched Bing search engine, though Google's lead is a couple of furlongs.
3. VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is a technology for transmitting voice communications over IP networks like the Internet. It's certainly not a new technology — the first IEEE paper describing the basic ideas behind the system appeared in the 1970s — but it has recently become a mainstream technology thanks in large part to the biggest name in VoIP: Skype.
Skype allows its over 520 million users to make free or very cheap calls around the globe, with traditionally expensive features, such as caller ID, call waiting, and conference calling all built-in. The cost savings and ease-of-use of VoIP platforms like Skype (which also offers text and video chat) have changed the way we communicate with one another.
4. RSS
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has quite simply changed how we consume content on the Web. Essentially, RSS is a technology that let's Web sites push updates — such as new blog posts or news articles — directly to a user, who can read those updates using a special RSS feed reader (which can either be desktop or Web-based). Rather than forcing users to visit a Web site to check for new updates, the Web site can instead push the updates to them (though technically, the client software still needs to pull RSS feed data, unless another push technology is being used, but the result for the end user is still the same).
RSS has revolutionized how people interact with content by allowing them to become passive consumers of massive amounts of information. Further, it has allowed Web developers to mash up news coverage in new and exciting ways. Sites like Regator and Techmeme use RSS feeds to enhance the way readers find and consume the news.
5. The Real-Time Stream
Real-time has been one of the biggest buzzwords of 2009, and with good reason: it is literally creating a paradigm shift in the way we share information with each other. Real-time status update platforms like Twitter and Facebook allow users to exchange ideas and media almost instantly.
That's changing the way we find information on the Web, shifting at least some content discovery from search to real-time interactions. It's such a big deal that search engines have begun integrating real-time information into search results, so that people can get the best of both worlds. Real-time search pairs organized, algorithmic search of mostly static content with the absolute freshest, more up-to-date information being shared or created on social platforms and blogs.
In other words, the real-time stream is improving the way we communicate and spread news by making information instantly available.
6. Peer-to-Peer
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology is a distributed network architecture that allows data to be spread from computer to computer without a central node. One of the major advantages of this type of setup is that as more people log on and use the network, they add their resources (like bandwidth), so the network scales automatically as demand increases — meaning that the more people using a P2P network, the faster it generally becomes.
The idea rose to mainstream prominence in 1999 with the launch of Napster, a P2P software product that allowed people to trade MP3 music files with one another. Though the service was eventually litigated out of business by the music industry, it arguably changed the way music — and later movies and other types of media — are distributed, and paved the way for the success of MP3 players like the iPod and legitimate online music stores like iTunes. Indeed, it can be argued that without P2P networks making the idea of trading MP3 files and movies over the Internet commonplace, legitimate services that allow us to do things like stream multimedia content and store entire music libraries on our cell phones might have never been made.
Today, P2P traffic accounts for anywhere from 27-55 percent of all Internet traffic (depending on location), and popular peer-to-peer protocols, such as BitTorrent, continue to influence everything from music and film distribution to network architecture and Internet legislation.
7. AJAX
AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a set of Web development technologies that allow Web applications (Web sites) to poll the server for new information without reloading the page. That sounds boring on the surface, but it made a whole new generation of Web-based applications possible and enabled developers to bring more desktop-like functionality to the Web.
AJAX makes possible applications like Google Docs, Meebo, Google Maps, and Picnik. Each of those applications use AJAX technologies to update your current page — with things like new messages, new maps, new image or text edits, etc. — without the need to reload. The result is a more desktop-like experience in the browser and more useful Web-based applications.
Though the concept for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications dates back to at least the late 1990s, it has begun to catch on at the consumer level more broadly over the past couple of years, thanks in large part to AJAX-powered rich Internet applications. The general idea behind SaaS is that software is provided on demand over the Web and data is stored in the "cloud" — another buzzword that, for users, essentially means that user data is stored on the computing infrastructure for the service (think: a series of networked servers), rather than on the user's own machine.
The main advantages of using SaaS applications for end-users are that the software can be accessed from any Web-connected computer, and perhaps more importantly, so can the data. The idea is certainly not without potential pitfalls — if the software service in question goes down, users are left without access to their important data (for example, SaaS email service Gmail has suffered numerous outages this year).
However, the benefits of always on, accessible from anywhere computing have made Software as a Service and cloud-computing extremely attractive to both consumers and enterprise users. When combined with Web-connected desktop applications (such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic for Twitter), SaaS appears to be the future of software distribution.
9. E-commerce
When the World Wide Web was first conceived as a system for sharing information, who knew people would some day use it to spend an estimated $329 billion per year on retail? Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, has indeed changed how we buy things.
The banner year in the history of e-commerce was undoubtedly 1995, which saw the launch of both Amazon.com and Ebay, two sites that would come to define the Web in the 1990s and continue to be leading sellers and brokers of goods online. Today, if you can buy it, you can buy it online, and Web-based selling has revolutionized how just about every industry does business.
One of those industries in which e-commerce really shines is travel. It used to be that the only way to access booking systems for airlines, hotels, and car rental agencies was to either call them directly and comparison shop by phone — a painful and time-consuming prospect — or go through a travel agent, which introduced an additional cost.
Online booking systems and price comparison engines have greatly simplified the process, however. Now, with just a few clicks, we can not only find the best prices for travel, but also book our flight, hotel room, or rental car without the need for a middleman.
10. Wi-Fi
Remember when you had to plug your computer (or computer's modem) into the wall in order to access the Internet? I do. Thanks to Wi-Fi, though, even though your modem still needs to be connected via wires, your computer doesn't. Wireless Internet access makes laptops and other Web-connected devices infinitely more useful because they can be used from anywhere within range of the wireless access point (the Wi-Fi router that is plugged into the wall).
And in some places, thanks to municipal wireless networks, and new technologies such as WiMAX and cellular data networks, you may not need anything to be plugged into the wall to access the Web.
Being able to take the Web with us without the need for wires has definitely made our lives better. What other Web technologies have made your life easier, simpler, or otherwise improved? Let us know in the comments.
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Lagun Akinloye
What country were you educated in?
London, United Kingdom.
What makes your country special?
I am a British man with Nigerian heritage therefore both countries have elements and aspects in which I find special. The pragmatism, functionality and opportunities within Britain are equally as special as the vibrancy, passion and strength in which Nigeria exhibits in abundance.
What is your favourite city and why?
Sao Paulo, Brazil. A beautiful metropolis with an intriguing variety of museums, galleries and park, a great gastronomy scene and a remarkable nightlife. Moreover, the city is inhabited by warm, helpful and friendly people.
Where is your favourite place to hang out in your city and why?
Notting Hill/ Portobello Road. I'm a bit partial because I live in the area, but the plethora of cafes, restaurants, bars and general fun spots makes you never want to leave.
What is your favourite restaurant in your city?
PHO, A Vietnamese restaurant chain dotted around London. The food is consistently exceptional.
What is your favourite gallery in your city?
The Royal Academy of Arts (RAS). They are very selective in their curation process but always seem to get it right. (The summer exhibitions are special)
Tell us about your favourite African travel destination
Ibadan, Nigeria.
The home city of my father and the centre of my family's historical gravity. The ancient city (as it is commonly known) is the third biggest in Nigeria and is filled with noise, markets, commerce, cars, colour, food and laughter. A city like no other on the continent (and perhaps in the world)
Have any books (plays or films) changed your life
Sister Act 2. I borrowed (and never gave back) the VHS from my local video store when I was around 11 and I'm still singing and dancing to it till this day. (The play 'One Night in Miami' written by Kemp Powers was also truly riveting)
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party (dead or alive)
Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Notorious BIG, Sam Cooke, Amber Rose and Barack Obama.
Who is your style icon?
Kanye in the 2000's
What item of clothing do you wear the most
Tell us about your most extravagant fashion purchase
Leather Avirex Jacket £280
What simple thing would improve the quality of your life
Wifi everywhere you went
What are your guilty pleasures?
Fast food, Chocolate and Tequila
What makes Africa Special to you?
That despite the continents economic subservience caused by the West's feverish desire for its natural resources and the inability of many of the continents leaders to actually lead, the people remain undeterred, hopeful and beautifully creative.
If you were the (President, leader, Prime Minister) of your country for a day what would you do
1. Call up world leaders who I don't like and talk a lot of smack. 2. Drastically reduce taxes for the working and lower/middle classes whilst raising them for big corporations. 3. Hold a music concert in my honour headlined by all my favourite artists. 4. Make four day working weeks.
Which living person do you most admire
My mother and Puff Daddy
Where do you see your country in 10 years
Britain-Hopefully a more tolerant and progressive country that has managed to emerge from the Brexit fiasco with lessons learnt. Nigeria-The growth of democratic principles and structures (continuous elections) and a burgeoning job market that has finally employed/absorbed the millions of unemployed young people whose only wish is for a chance to improve their lives.
How is technology changing your country Britain
The level of accessibility in the service sectors (Deliveroo, Ebay, Amazon) and other sectors such as internet/mobile banking and contactless payment has tremendously eased the way we carry out our day to day lives. Nigeria - There are now 150 million registered mobile phone subscribers in Nigeria with 97 million active internet users. The statistics are enough to let you know how many doors have and will be opened for the average Nigerian due to technological developments.
Tell us about your favourite charity, what work do they carry out
The Wellbeing Foundation for Africa (WBFA). http://www.wbfafrica.org Their objections are to: • Further education for midwives and frontline community health workers • Improve education around water, sanitation and health (WASH) for life-saving healthy habits • Advancement of early childhood mental and physical health development, and; The fundamental necessity of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls for a fair and just society.
Why does T.I.A appeal to you?
The African fashion industry is growing from strength to strength and it is high time that a brand with such cross market appeal, a strong ethos and a visionary designer brings something new and fresh to an eagerly awaiting and increasingly receptive market audience.


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Q: Understanding HashMap#resize function detail The key point of resize is recalculating newCap and newThr. However, in the source code, there are two different ways to calculate newThr.
First, when
oldCap > DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY &&
oldCap < MAXIMUM_CAPACITY &&
newCap = < MAXIMUM_CAPACITY

happens, it uses:
// double the old threshold
newThr = oldThr << 1;

Second
// newCap * load factor
newThr = (newCap < MAXIMUM_CAPACITY && ft < (float)MAXIMUM_CAPACITY ?
                  (int)ft : Integer.MAX_VALUE);

Why do we need two different methods? And what does the first condition mean?
Source code of resize function:
final Node<K,V>[] resize() {
    Node<K,V>[] oldTab = table;
    int oldCap = (oldTab == null) ? 0 : oldTab.length;
    int oldThr = threshold;
    int newCap, newThr = 0;
    if (oldCap > 0) {
        if (oldCap >= MAXIMUM_CAPACITY) {
            threshold = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
            return oldTab;
        }
        else if ((newCap = oldCap << 1) < MAXIMUM_CAPACITY &&
                 oldCap >= DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY)

            // FIRST!!!
            newThr = oldThr << 1; // double threshold
    }
    else if (oldThr > 0) // initial capacity was placed in threshold
        newCap = oldThr;
    else {               // zero initial threshold signifies using defaults
        newCap = DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY;
        newThr = (int)(DEFAULT_LOAD_FACTOR * DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY);
    }

    // SECOND!!!
    if (newThr == 0) {
        float ft = (float)newCap * loadFactor;
        newThr = (newCap < MAXIMUM_CAPACITY && ft < (float)MAXIMUM_CAPACITY ?
                  (int)ft : Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    }
    threshold = newThr;
    @SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes","unchecked"})
        Node<K,V>[] newTab = (Node<K,V>[])new Node[newCap];
    table = newTab;
    if (oldTab != null) {
        for (int j = 0; j < oldCap; ++j) {
            Node<K,V> e;
            if ((e = oldTab[j]) != null) {
                oldTab[j] = null;
                if (e.next == null)
                    newTab[e.hash & (newCap - 1)] = e;
                else if (e instanceof TreeNode)
                    ((TreeNode<K,V>)e).split(this, newTab, j, oldCap);
                else { // preserve order
                    Node<K,V> loHead = null, loTail = null;
                    Node<K,V> hiHead = null, hiTail = null;
                    Node<K,V> next;
                    do {
                        next = e.next;
                        if ((e.hash & oldCap) == 0) {
                            if (loTail == null)
                                loHead = e;
                            else
                                loTail.next = e;
                            loTail = e;
                        }
                        else {
                            if (hiTail == null)
                                hiHead = e;
                            else
                                hiTail.next = e;
                            hiTail = e;
                        }
                    } while ((e = next) != null);
                    if (loTail != null) {
                        loTail.next = null;
                        newTab[j] = loHead;
                    }
                    if (hiTail != null) {
                        hiTail.next = null;
                        newTab[j + oldCap] = hiHead;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return newTab;
}

A: Essentially, if the old threshold was nonzero, the new one is set to twice its size. Otherwise, if the old threshold was zero (whatever that means, not visible in the code excerpt) we need some other way of calculating the new threshold, so we do the second computation. Simple as that?

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Politics/ Spring 2006
Meet Jim McGovern: congressional class of 96 and godfather of Worcester politics
By Shawn Zeller 0 Comments May 9, 2006
bald and bespectacled, he doesn't exactly look like power in pinstripes as he moves though the Capitol. Still, after 10 years in Congress, Jim McGovern is increasingly taking on the aura of a certified Massachusetts powerbroker, even if he's quick to deny it.
"That's not the way I see myself," says the 46-year-old congressman from Worcester, whose district extends southeast to take in part of Fall River. McGovern says he's "just a hard working, bread and butter, nuts and bolts congressman who wants to make a difference for his district."
But the 3rd Congressional District representative has also spawned a political subculture in the City of Seven Hills and beyond, becoming the undisputed go-to guy in central Massachusetts—a role in his region that few, if any, of his colleagues in the state's congressional delegation can lay claim to in theirs. Among his protégés: former McGovern campaign coordinator Timothy Murray, who went on to become Worcester mayor and is now a candidate for lieutenant governor, and Ed Augustus, onetime McGovern chief of staff, who won election to the state Senate in 2004.
Not surprisingly, McGovern downplays his role as political godfather. "If I can encourage good people to pursue politics and government as a career, that's all to the good," he says.
McGovern himself needed little encouragement, even though he was considered a long shot in the 1996 race against two-term incumbent Republican Peter Blute, two years after failing in a bid for the Democratic nomination. But since then, the left-leaning McGovern has had an easy go of it in less-than-liberal central Massachusetts. His GOP challenger in 2004, anti-gay marriage activist Ron Crews, couldn't muster even 30 percent of the vote. Thus far, he has no announced opponents in this year's election.
"Jim's demeanor is down-to-earth friendly," says Augustus. But "it masks a backbone of steel. People look at him and say he's an easygoing guy. But he can fight hard."
McGovern studied at the knees of two very different Democratic Party masters, the late South Boston congressman Joe Moakley and former US Sen. George McGovern. He worked as an aide to both men, toiling on Capitol Hill for 17 years before winning office on his own, and he is in many ways a composite of his two mentors. From Moakley, he inherited a bring-home-the-bacon devotion to district interests. From the former South Dakota senator whose surname he shares (they are not related), McGovern acquired an unvarnished liberalism that he practices without apology.
"I love this job," says McGovern. "I want to keep it, but not so much that I want to sell out all my convictions and at every vote stick my finger up and see which way the wind is blowing."
The combination has served McGovern—and his district—well, even in the eyes of constituents who may not share his passion for bleeding-heart causes. "Everyone doesn't have to agree with every position he takes, but from an economic development perspective, he's been quite effective," says Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce president Richard Kennedy.
Former state senator Guy Glodis—the Worcester County sheriff and a socially conservative Democrat who's often considered a McGovern rival —also has almost nothing but praise. "We don't always agree on the issues," he admits, but quickly adds, "Jim McGovern is a great congressman—accessible, visible, and effective." That despite the fact that the two differ on some major culture-war issues, such as the death penalty, which Glodis favors in contrast to McGovern, and gay marriage, which McGovern champions and Glodis opposes.
How influential McGovern is in politics outside of Worcester County will soon be seen. Last year, he became one of the first high-profile Massachusetts politicians to endorse Deval Patrick in his bid to wrest the Democratic gubernatorial nomination from the establishment favorite, Attorney General Tom Reilly. McGovern met Patrick, who has been embraced by the party's liberal wing, at a political function, then got together with him privately.
"We had a three-hour dinner," says McGovern. "We talked about everything. I'd been reading his speeches. I decided this guy is the real deal." Since then, McGovern says, "I've been campaigning my ass off for him."
As much as McGovern's brand of full-throated liberalism seems to descend from his almost namesake, his passion for social causes was as much honed in service to Moakley, the longtime chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. In 1990, Moakley sent McGovern to El Salvador as part of a House task force that investigated the murders of six priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter in 1989. McGovern's work is credited with revealing the depravity of the Salvadoran army, then funded by the United States as a bulwark against communism. McGovern has continued to advocate for the closure of the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation, a US Army school that trained Salvadoran military officers. He's also continued to work on issues of poverty in the developing world, chairing the Congressional Hunger Caucus.
As he was dying of leukemia in 2001, Moakley asked then-House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri to ensure that his seat on the Rules Committee went to McGovern. Rules is considered one of the most powerful committees in the House because it sets the terms for debate on every bill that passes through the chamber. It was a valuable gift, and McGovern—now the second-ranking Democrat on Rules behind 76-year-old Louise Slaughter of New York—says his career ambition is to take over the committee chairmanship eventually. If that dream were to come true, it would vault him to the pinnacle of national power, which for McGovern would be a change of pace. Unlike his mentor Moakley, McGovern has never spent a day in the House majority. To win victories, he has had to make friends on both sides of the aisle, following his mentor's advice: "Get to know every single person here on a first-name basis," because "a lot of what gets done up here is based on relationships."
Sometimes, that means getting on a conference committee that's resolving differences between the House and Senate on a bill. That's how McGovern managed to amend last year's transportation funding bill to bar destruction of the Brightman Street Bridge, which spans the Taunton River between Fall River and Somerset. McGovern's move kept a literal barrier in the way of plans for a liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall River, preventing the passage upstream of tall LNG tankers to the proposed docking site ("Congressional Club," Washington Notebook, CW, Fall '05). McGovern has been an outspoken critic of the project, arguing that the risk of terrorism is too great to allow flammable LNG near a population center.
He's an unvarnished liberal who delivers for his district.
It's been harder for McGovern to get his way on matters of national policy. He's been a vocal opponent of US involvement in Iraq, and he believes the United States should withdraw troops immediately. Like the state's senior US senator, Ted Kennedy, he wants to expand Medicare until every American has health insurance. He'd also like the federal government to be doing much more to regulate polluters, combat greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, and fight poverty.
Still, by picking his battles and his allies, McGovern has scored some victories. He worked closely with North Carolina GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole to boost funding for an international school lunch program, which he considers one of his proudest achievements. In 2005, the program provided $91 million in food to 3.4 million children in 15 developing countries.
He's also worked to overturn the decades-old embargo on trade with Cuba, and is working with the Cuban government to preserve the home of author Ernest Hemingway, who lived on the island from the late 1930s to 1960. Though he's teamed with like-minded Republicans on Cuba relations, it's this kind of thing that drives hometown Republicans crazy.
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"To give Jim McGovern credit, he brings projects and money to the district," says Michael Theerman, past president of the Worcester County Republican Club. "Politically, though, he is way too far to the left for the district. He likes to mollycoddle up to dictators."
So far, his politics have done McGovern little damage at home, and in Washington, he has gotten used to operating in the opposition, though he'd love for that to change. "[There is a case] to be made that people like me may be of greater service in the minority than the majority," he says. "I don't want to test that thesis for very much longer."
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Foster families give love, security
By MEAGAN HARKINS & RABRIA MOORE,
As recently as 2016, Marion County had the most foster children per capita in the state of Mississippi. There were 315 children in the system out of a population of just over 25,000. For comparison, adjacent Pearl River County had 11 less children in foster care despite having more than double the population.
Two drug epidemics — methamphetamine and opioids — had slammed the rural community for a decade-plus, and more than half of foster children in Marion County in 2016 were there because of parental drug abuse, according to an annual report by the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services.
Now, three years later, the picture has changed significantly.
Marion County is one of the three counties in Mississippi that has shown the most dramatic decrease in number of children in care during the last year, Lee Anne Brandon, director of marketing and communications for the Department of Child Protection Services, said. That's mostly because these children are reunified with their parents.
"If we can keep a child safe at home by bringing in staff to work with the parent, to address the issue that caused a potential risk to the child, we try to do that," Brandon said.
Not everyone agrees with that approach.
Some foster parents, who see the situation from the inside, say biological parents often do the bare minimum to regain custody but rarely have a lasting transformation because of lack of money, lack of support and negative influences from other family members.
"In Mississippi, it looks good if your numbers are down and if the child's reunified with their parents," Kathryn Selman, a Marion County foster mother, said. "They will be getting a case off their desk so CPS enjoys it."
Selman and her husband want to fight for the best of the children and believe that sometimes returning to their biological family is not the answer.
"CPS works with the parents," Selman said. "They don't work with the children. They're not there for the children. They're there to put the family back together.
"Most of the time we're not talking about a mess up; we're talking about a meth lab in a house, and we're talking about putting a child in a car going all over the country with no food or car seats and running from the law," Selman said, describing some of the situations she encounters.
Many reunifications she feels good about, though. Returning children to their biological parents is important, she said. She only wants parents to receive the right help and to be equipped for parenting. A majority of parents of foster kids were themselves in the system, she said.
"We're fighting the court system," Selman said. "We are trying our best to get somebody from the state to listen."
A Broken System
The state's foster care system has been under federal court oversight for more than a decade, following a 2004 federal lawsuit called the "Olivia Y" case that alleged Mississippi utterly failed to adequately protect foster children under its care. The case started with a girl in the foster care system referred to in court documents as Olivia Y. The 4-year-old suffered from severe malnourishment, weighing just 20 pounds, the average weight of a 1-year-old.
The state agreed to a settlement in 2008, but the plaintiffs in the lawsuit later asked for control of foster care in the state to be shifted to a federal receiver to hire an outside group to run the system. In 2016 the state admitted to never complying with the terms of the agreement. That year the state renegotiated the terms of the settlement in a last effort to keep control of the system, and the Legislature created a new agency separate from the Department of Human Services, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services. Its job is to provide protection and safety services and serve as a foster care and adoption agency.
If a child is sexually or physically abused or if neglect puts health or well-being in danger, they are supposed to be immediately moved from the home. Those children are then placed with foster families who agree to take them.
When fostering, Child Protection Services first tries to keep children in their homes and schools, but it is not uncommon for children to move to another county for their safety.
Families like the Selmans and Johnsons in Marion County foster younger children who are close in age to their own children. Mississippi law permits each household to care for as many as five children, including biological ones.
"These are human beings that just want somebody to love," Kathryn Selman said. "They didn't ask to be brought into their situation."
The Selman family
Selman and her husband shuffle around the kitchen, fixing their daughters' breakfast before school and before she leaves for work as a nurse.
This regular family routine could change abruptly with the next phone call. Selman could set another place at the table, for another child, who might join them for dinner that night, and the night after.
Selman once worked with a 13-year-old who was sexually abused by her family and beat a caseworker, who also told her that if she would stop overreacting to rape, her anxiety "would all go away."
That teen is now in a facility and has few options. Selman spoke of the need for mental health resources in Mississippi to aid the system.
"These children need to understand that this is not their fault," Selman said.
However, Selman recognizes that many CPS workers are overworked, underpaid, "busting their behinds trying to take care of the children." She knows of one CPS worker who drives 40 miles out of his way so children can stay at their current schools. She said she knows of workers, lawyers and judges who purchase dishwashers, refrigerators and couches to help.
In one year, the Selmans have fostered three children and have two daughters of their own. A girl stayed with them only one night, but a 15-month old boy has been with them for nearly a year.
The boy stays with his biological mother on weekends. "They peel him off of me," she said of his departures.
"Even at that age he acts out because he is so torn between back and forth. It's not good for him. I don't really care what people say," she said.
"You're never prepared," Selman said of being a foster mom. "You can go to all the classes you want, to all the hearings you want, but nothing prepares you."
The Selmans keep a photo album with pictures of each child on the day that child moved in and the day each left. The entire process is about loving unconditionally and accepting the outcome of these newfound foster relationships.
"You cannot do this and not get attached," Selman said.
Kelly Johnson is a foster mom in Marion County and works as an elementary school teacher. Her family has fostered 13 children during the last three years.
"There are times I feel tired, but we're fighting for a purpose," she said. "We're fighting for a reason. We're fighting for kids."
The Johnsons have been caring for two little girls for almost a year. She and her husband are the only parents the two children know.
Their hardest part is that a child could be taken at any time, and most court dates produce anxiety in foster parents.
Johnson said they get through the hard times and unexpected turns by keeping up the routine of their normal lives. They once fostered a girl on Dec. 20 and gave that child a great Christmas.
But such moments are rare. It takes time for foster parents to build trust, and the Johnsons view themselves as caregivers and protectors, not parents.
"I'm not trying to take the role of the mother, but trying to take the role as the person that'll be there," Johnson said. Many of the children have abandonment issues, she said.
One of Johnson's 3-year-old foster girls took seven weeks to say, "I love you."
"There are times that we see the bright star. We see their improvements. We see the light at the end of the tunnel," she said.
Johnson hosted a child who had been burned with cigarettes for misbehaving. She noticed the girl's misbehavior was always a plea for extra attention. Instead of timeouts, she created "time-ins," during which the child helped with chores like laundry.
"It's getting someone else's child that has been programmed one way and then you're learning how to parent that child," Johnson said.
"They don't know what structure is. They don't know what it's like to have Mom, Dad, a bed every night, food every night, not from a gas station or a dumpster."
The Johnsons have struggled with creating schedules for the children. Many have never had a designated bedtime. Two sisters they fostered travelled throughout the country avoiding law enforcement, with six family members sleeping in a car.
"I can't replace her mother, but my husband and I try to step in and do the best that we can and give her that security," she said.
Children often go back and forth for weekend visits with parents and are given false hope for reunification. Johnson's 3-year-old packed because her mom told her that she would be returning home permanently.
The family once had to remove decals from their cars, not take their girls to Walmart and switch daycare locations so that the biological mother could not take them out of school. Johnson and her husband were warned to be cautious because officials feared that she would harm the foster parents to get her children.
The Johnsons say that through fostering they have become closer, learned to love better and live gratefully.
Whoever is living with them at the time, their two young children insist that their foster sibling are their siblings, at the dinner table and on vacations.
Johnson took her oldest foster child to the Child Protection Services office to visit her biological mother. When a worker entered the hall to inform the girl her mom would not be coming, the child insisted she would appear, but the worker repeatedly said, "No."
"I have heard her cry, I have heard her throw a fit, I have heard her scream, but this child wept," Johnson said. "That child laid on the floor and said, 'My momma doesn't love me.'"
"My bond with her changed that day. Her weeping broke her heart and after that day she stopped asking for her mom. She needed me more, and that's why I do this."
Meagan Harkins and Rabria Moore are students in the University of Mississippi School of Journalism. They may be reached at meharkin@go.olemiss.edu and rmoore4@go.olemiss.edu.
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NASA Perseveres Through Pandemic to Complete Successful 2020
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WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — In 2020, NASA made significant progress on America's Moon to Mars exploration strategy, met mission objectives for the Artemis program, achieved significant scientific advancements to benefit humanity, and returned human spaceflight capabilities to the United States, all while agency teams acted quickly to assist the national COVID-19 response.
NASA Telescope Named For 'Mother of Hubble' Nancy Grace Roman
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Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (Credit: NASA)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.
The newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – or Roman Space Telescope, for short – is set to launch in the mid-2020s. It will investigate long-standing astronomical mysteries, such as the force behind the universe's expansion, and search for distant planets beyond our solar system.


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'Appropriate' is the play at Westport Country Playhouse. But what is 'Appropriate?' That is a question writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wants us to ask. Is it appropriate for a father to cry in front of his children? Or for parents to deny that their kids have "issues"? How about to deny racism? This play is complex while also a rehash of parts of several better plays which the author appropriated.
But that doesn't mean it isn't interesting. Even though it's close to 3 hours long, you won't doze off!
Part of that can be attributed to Betsy Aidem who, as the pained matriarch, Toni, spends the entire first act screaming at everyone- her family of so-called "misfits" as well as everyone else. This is, at first, unsettling but after a half hour it just becomes annoying. I'm not sure if this is on her or director David Kennedy but, fortunately, she brings some nuance to Act 2, which helps. And the rest of the cast does a fine job with what they are given- which varies constantly as the play about secrets becomes one about revealing them- while bigger secrets remain buried. Or worse, denied.
It isn't a spoiler telling you the play makes no secret that, while none of the speaking roles are played by African-Americans, race is a central theme here. And the fact the white characters all deny it, while instead focusing on the deep wounds of their childhood which they are all still carrying into middle age- narcissistically- seems to be the focus of playwright Jacobs-Jenkins and Kennedy's direction.
(l to r): Anna Crivelli, Shawn Fagan
Given current events in Charlottesville, Virginia and the reactions to them, this play has become remarkably timely.
Yet it doesn't fully deliver on its promise, which is disappointing. The cast, overall, is solid. Tara Rubin Casting, of 'Dear Evan Hansen' and 'Indecent' on Broadway- two of the best casting jobs I've seen- again gets every part right. Shawn Fagan, Anna Crivelli, David Aaron Baker and Diane Davis all turn in strong performances. Just Betsy Aidem, as I said, is a bit too over the top in Act 1. The set and lighting are, well, appropriate.
Where the play weakens is that 'Appropriate' has appropriated pieces of better plays and they don't fit as well here in this play. As the author himself notes, he wanted to, quote, "take one thing from each of them… and put those all in the play."
So we get pieces of 'August, Osage County,' 'Buried Child,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' 'The Humans' and others- most are even listed in the show's program- but these 'borrowed' strokes just seem to be piled onto the story instead of serving it, particularly towards the end. And, when 'Appropriate' degenerates into a silly family fistfight with almost the entire cast, you know credibility has been lost.
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But it's a valiant- if not really successful- effort. And give Westport Country Playhouse credit for taking on a challenging work. They had two hits already this season with 'Lettice and Lovage' and 'Grounded.' This time, they just come up short and I give 'Appropriate' 2-and-a-half stars out of 5. It runs through September 2nd.
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The attached image shows where I've hidden all inherited objects; only our internal "Notes Button" and text on this page remain.
Close the file in Lectora.
Search for <note Be sure to include the < in what you search for; otherwise you'll find lots of things you don't care about.
Delete the entire node, from <note through </note> See the attachment.
Repeat steps 3-4 until no more are found.
Re-open in Lectora and see that the notes are gone.
Thanks for the quick tip! I'll try it out later.
The <notetext> node, as you might guess, shows the text of the note.
The <notepos> node and its <x> and <y> children show the position of the note icon, in pixels from the top left corner of the stage (though in my experience this is not always correct).
The <floatpos> node and its children show the position of the opened note, in pixels from the top left corner of the Lectora application window (not the stage).
The <color> node even lets you change the background color of the opened note (but not of the icon) if you really want to get fancy.
Yes, good to have a workaround, but I think I'll continue to avoid them. I'm in the habit of using ReviewLink or keeping a separate spreadsheet, or sometimes a hidden text box, that I can delete later. Just sounds like Notes need some work to make them useful. I guess it means that the chapter/page is not highlighted in bold, which would be useful if you need to scan through a large title.
I used this tip to delete a system generated note that I couldn't find, and therefore couldn't delete.
Any update to this NOTES issue?
It is getting beyond frustrating to have to use workarounds in order to use Lectora (and I've been using it for 11 years).
There has to be a way to set the X,Y of where the note shows up and can be clicked and edited. The note I found in the workaround was found at 5328,1184. To me that is like looking for something in my kitchen only to find out it is in the basement of my neighbor's house down the street and around the corner.
Another suggestion is to make the notes editable in the Notes Manager.
So as an example…I just spent several minutes having to close my title, open it in Notepad, find and edit the X,Y of the note, save it, and reopen my title. All when I should have been able to open the note, make the change, and move on. If it was just one note…meh…but this course has nearly 50 pages that could potentially add to the headache I've already had for several days (not a jab at the notes issue, I've really had headache for a few days and it is just making this situation worse).
Click on a page with a hidden note.
Drag the divider between the title explorer or thumbnail view and the stage all the way to the left.
You may also need to zoom all the way out to 25%; sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't.
For 10 out of 11 notes, this revealed the note near the lower right corner of the stage, and I could easily drag it back to where I wanted it — and it stayed there when I dragged the divider back. I had to zoom out for two or three of them, not for the rest.
It's still a silly bug that needs fixing, but at least this workaround is easier than editing the XML directly.
Good catch Stan! I'll be sure to try it out as I still wrestle with this issue daily.


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TMM Family Services Hires Interim Director
by Billie K. Fidlin | Oct 5, 2018 | Not In USe, Billie's Blog
By Billie K. Fidlin, Director of Outreach
Diana Sheldon, Interim Director for TMM Family Services. Photo by Tricia McQuiston Photography, Carefree, AZ
(Tucson) The Desert Southwest Conference welcomes Diana Sheldon to the position of Interim Director for TMM Family Services, one of the Conference's urban ministries under the Conference Board of Global Ministries. Ms. Sheldon comes to TMM with a comprehensive national non-profit background, with work for the American Cancer Society, the Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona. Ms. Sheldon is a graduate of the Kellogg Business School of Management Executive Education Program (Chicago) and received her degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.
As our Conference with immense gratitude says a fond farewell to Rev. Don Strauch for his many years of visionary service at TMM, we look forward to the future and the exciting ministry that continues with TMM. https://www.tmmfs.org/
Author: Billie K. Fidlin
Billie K. Fidlin is the Director of Outreach & Justice for the Desert Southwest Conference. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University and attended Claremont School of Theology for religious studies. Ms. Fidlin currently serves as the President of the Arizona Faith Network in her second term. She is President & Founder of Whisper n Thunder Inc., and sits on various boards including the Justa Center and the Phoenix Police Department's Faith Advisory Council. Her awards include the UM Foundation for Evangelism 2004 Distinguished Evangelist; 2016 Church Women United / United Nations Human Rights Award; 2018 Servant Leader Award AZ Faith Network; 2022 Southern Poverty Law Center Certificate of Recognition; and 2022-23 Class of Who's Who in America.


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Nike's previous FuelBand device also worked only with iOS gadgets, such as the iPhone 5. The company on Tuesday said if users don't have Apple devices, they can track their progress through a PC app.
Nike unveiled its new FuelBand SE Tuesday during an event in New York. The device, like its predecessor, is designed to push people to move more throughout the day by awarding "NikeFuel" points. Some new additions include the ability to track sleep, and the new device also is waterproof.
The company long has had close ties to Apple, working together many times in the past. Apple CEO Tim Cook even serves on Nike's board, a position he's held since 2005. That could cause some conflicts in the future as Apple reportedly preps its own smartwatch device, but for now the two seem closely linked.
During Apple's iPhone launch last month, the company revealed that the Nike+ Move app is the first program that takes advantage of Apple's new M7 processor in the iPhone 5S. That "motion coprocessor" continuously measures motion data through the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope, taking it away from Apple's standard A7 processor. That should allow health apps to constantly collect data without draining the battery too quickly.
Stefan Olander, Nike vice president of digital sports, said Tuesday that the Nike+ Move app is free on the iPhone 5S and allows users to get NikeFuel scores using Apple's M7 processor.
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Creating a gesture-based interface using Arduino.
We work in the sweet spot for innovation, somewhere between strategy, design and technology. Of these areas, technology is certainly the one that evolves the fastest and most often. It's one thing to keep up with technology by reading or talking about it, but yet another to truly grasp the possibilities and implications, especially on the user experience, of these emerging and often disrupting technologies. That is why we decided to spend a day each month to get some hands-on experience.
To start off our tinkering with technology sessions, we decided to explore the seemingly endless possibilities of Arduino.
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By assembling the hardware according to the provided schemes we gathered insights in basic electronic components and sensors. The provided code was easy to understand and uploading the code to the Arduino's controller was literally as simple as pushing a button. In no time all of us we're making working spaceship interfaces, love-o-meters and motorized pinwheels. So we decided to up the ante and to set ourselves our first mission.
How to build the prototype of a gesture-based interface?
Inspired by our colleagues at IDEO, we decided we wanted to try and come up with a similar experiment to control our Spotify with gestures. In our case though, it had to be Arduino-based, cheap, and we needed to be able to complete the prototype in less than a day's time.
The first thing we had to do, was to find input sensors that'd allow us to capture hand gestures in a similar way the kinect would. By searching for sensors that'd do just this, it became clear quite quickly that we wouldn't be able to match the accuracy of this specialised device. We did however find a blog post via the arduino website that set us in the right direction.
With just two ultrasonic sensors, costing 1 euro each, we would be able to register a limited amount of gestures by placing our hands in front of the sensors and moving them closer or further away.
The same post guided us to an incredibly useful Python library named Pyautogui. This library allowed us to establish a connection between a computer and the Arduino board and converts the input received from the sensors to predefined keystrokes which would let us control the active application on the computer.
Moving our right hand closer or further away from the sensor would lower or raise the volume.
So what did we learn after one day of tinkering with Arduino?
Arduino is an incredibly powerful and extremely versatile platform. The range of available input sensors and outputs is huge and together with the seemingly endless amount of documented examples you should be able to create almost anything you can think of.
But what is even more impressive is the ease of use and speed. Building a circuit is child's play and even coding for the Arduino is extremely accessible for even the least code-savvy among us. All this makes Arduino the perfect starting point for anyone's journey into technology and the ideal rapid prototyping tool for any kind of electronics-based project.


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A052999 Take n-th prime p, let P(p) = all primes that can be obtained by permuting the digits of p and possibly adding or omitting zeros; a(n) = |p-q| where q in P(p) is the closest to p but different from p (a(n)=0 if no such q exists). 5
0, 0, 0, 0, 90, 18, 54, 90, 1980, 199980, 18, 36, 360, 3960, 3960, 450, 450, 540, 540, 36, 36, 18, 79999999999999999999999999999920, 720, 18, 90, 72, 36, 90, 18, 144, 18, 36, 54, 270, 900, 414, 450, 450, 36, 18, 630, 720, 54, 18, 720, 810, 1980, 1800, 1800, 2790, 54, 180, 270, 20250, 1800, 1800, 144 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for n > 4. - Sean A. Irvine, Nov 23 2021
Table of n, a(n) for n=1..58.
a(6)=18 since 6th prime is 13 and 31-13=18. a(9)=1980 because 9th prime is 23 and the smallest prime in P(6) different from 23 is 2003; 2003-23=1980.
a(23)=(8*10^31+3)-83 because 8*10^31+3 is closest prime distinct from 83 but in P(83). - Sean A. Irvine, Nov 23 2021
Cf. A052902, A052998, A053544, A052495, A052484.
base,easy,nonn
N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 16 2000
More terms from Asher Natan Auel (auela(AT)reed.edu), May 12, 2000
a(23) corrected by Sean A. Irvine, Nov 23 2021


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Q: AttributeError: '...' object has no attribute '...' I want to be able to make it that if the description of the persons problem includes needing a new password, that it will replace the IT support response with a new generated password (haven't created that class yet so for now, I just want to be sure I can print that it will do that). Please ignore the autoAssign method/ticket counter stuff for now.
For the class callPassword, I don't want to insert any data into newPassword, I just want it to replace the ticketResponse with "New password generated" if the issue description mentions wanting to change the password. But I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here, have spent 2 days on it (very beginner)
I keep getting :

t3P = callPassword()

self.tc = self.ticketCreation()

AttributeError: 'callPassword' object has no attribute 'ticketCreation'

Code:
class ticket(object):

    counter = 2000

    def __init__(self):
        self.name = 'Ticket'
        self.tc = self.ticketCreation()
        self.sr = self.supportResponse()
        self.pc = self.callPassword()

class ticketCreation(ticket):

    def __init__(self, creatorName, staffID, email, issueDescription):
        self.creatorName = creatorName
        self.staffID = staffID
        self.email = email
        self.issueDescription = issueDescription
        ticket.counter += 1
        self.ticketNumber = ticket.counter

    def displayTicket(self):
        ticket_info = []
        ticket_info.append(self.ticketNumber)
        ticket_info.append(self.creatorName)
        ticket_info.append(self.staffID)
        ticket_info.append(self.email)
        ticket_info.append(self.issueDescription)

        if self.creatorName == "":
            print("Ticket Creator: Not Specified")
        else:
            print("Ticket Creator: " + str(ticket_info[1]))
        if self.staffID == "":
            print("--STAFF ID REQUIRED TO SUBMIT TICKET--")
            return
        else:
            print("Staff ID: " + str(ticket_info[2]))
        if self.email == "":
            print("Email Address: Not Specified")
        else:
            print("Email Address: " + str(ticket_info[3]))
        if self.issueDescription == "":
            print("--DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ISSUE IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT TICKET--")
            return
        else:
            print("Description: " + str(ticket_info[4]))

    def autoAssign(self):
        if self.staffID == "" or self.issueDescription == "":
            print("TICKET NOT CREATED\nTicket Number: N/A")
            return
        else:
            print("Ticket Number: " + str(self.ticketNumber))

class supportResponse(ticket):
    def __init__(self, ticketResponse):
            self.ticketResponse = ticketResponse

    def respond(self):
        if self.ticketResponse == "":
            print("Response: Not Yet Provided")
        else:
            print("Response: " + self.ticketResponse)

    def resolve(self):
        if self.ticketResponse == "":
            print("Ticket Status: Open")
        else:
            print("Ticket Status: Closed")

    def reopenStatus(self):
        print("Ticket Status: Reopened")

class callPassword(ticket):

    def newPassword(self):
        if "change password" in ticketCreation.issueDescription:
            supportResponse.ticketResponse = "New password generated"
            print(supportResponse.ticketResponse)

t1 = ticketCreation("Inna", "INNAM", "inna@whitecliffe.co.nz", "My monitor stopped working")
t1R = supportResponse("sucks")
t2 = ticketCreation("", "MARIAH", "", "Request for video camera to conduct webinars")
t2R = supportResponse("")
t3 = ticketCreation("Joel", "JOELS", "", "change password")
t3P = callPassword()

print("\nPrinting Tickets:\n")

t1.autoAssign()
t1.displayTicket()
t1R.respond()
t1R.resolve()
print()

t2.autoAssign()
t2.displayTicket()
t2R.respond()
t2R.resolve()
print()

t3.autoAssign()
t3.displayTicket()
t3P.newPassword()
t3R.resolve()

A: In the ticket class you are trying to assign new instance attributes from methods that don't exist.
Try removing the self from the assignments in the ticket constructor.
Like this:
class ticket(object):

    counter = 2000

    def __init__(self):
        self.name = 'Ticket'
        self.tc = ticketCreation()  # ticketCreation constructor has parameters.
        self.sr = supportResponse() # supportResponse class does too
        self.pc = callPassword()


It may seem strange that, after successfully toppling the Taliban government, a savage regime that had given safe haven to Al-Qaeda to launch its 911 attacks against us, we would now, nearly two decades later, be anxious to cut a deal with that same Taliban, even possibly bringing them into a power-sharing role.
Anything to get the heck out of Kabul and back to the good ol' USA. And it is a recognition, right or wrong, that the Afghan government is unsustainable.
The alternative? Keep a significant contingent of U.S. troops in Afghanistan . . . forever. Or until we have fashioned a brand new westernized-Afghanistan that is no possible threat to us.
The same mistaken reasons we stayed in Vietnam.
I feel so sorry for the children & the women that live in that god-forsaken pile of sand. There's no work. Little literacy & run by drug lords (in the form of Taliban, tribal leaders, whatever you want to label them) for centuries.
I'm fine with men & women who want to be there in an advisory capacity, but 20 years is long enough.
We can't help people who don't want to be helped. We can't save people who don['t want to be saved. If the PEOPLE of Afghanistan had wanted to be free, they would have done something about it before now. They boast that Afghanistan is the 'graveyard of empires'. Let them have it.


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