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Our little sunshine Tim is now seven months and a half old. He's currently the most important member of our family, and we all adjust to his schedule and rhythm. Sometimes it can be quite difficult and, most of all, exhausting, but this is what living with a baby is like. I think sometimes about the peace of his first sleepover. They grow up to be little curious munchkins too soon as it is.
I shouldn't be complaining: Tim sleeps nicely through the night, waking up for his pacifier from time to time and falling back asleep immediately. However, he wakes up quite early in the morning and starts complaining around six and sometimes falls back asleep until seven. Since we all wish to catch a little more sleep, I tried having him next to me in my bed but was surprised to find that this made him complain even more. Since modifying his sleep habits has proved almost impossible, we've tried to modify ours – we resolve to go to bed earlier but generally end up carrying on without enough sleep.
Since grandmothers and grandfathers like to say that mommy and daddy deserve some rest, we decided that Tim and Pia would spend a weekend night at their grandmas' houses. Tim will be staying with one grandma and Pia with the other, so that both grandmas could handle the little ones' needs without it being too exhausting.
This won't be anything new for Pia – she has stayed the night with both of her grandmas before and enjoyed her time there. But it will be the first time for Tim. Even though I'm looking forward to sleeping in the morning and not having to get up at six a.m., I'm also a little worried about how things will turn out. I remember that Pia first slept over at her grandma's house at a very young age and had no problem. She's very sociable, loves visiting people and is not afraid of anyone. Tim is different, calmer, more reserved. He observes his surroundings more carefully and is more attached to me… in short, he's not like Pia.
So doubts creep in about how granny will "work it." I'm 100 percent positive that she'll be just fine, though I can't help but wonder whether he is too small for such adventures. I truly don't know if it is better for him to go and get used to it or if we should wait for him to be a little older. When I asked others about it, some of them thought we should wait and others said that he should get used to it early on or he won't be comfortable with it when he's older. I don't know, I think we'll try it out and see what happens.
What do you think about baby's first sleepover at the grandparents'? When did you let go the first time, and what was the result?


Amiga DOS was my favourite magazine in that short period of time it existed. It was made by the people that came from the magazine Joystick. I liked the style of the articles, but the layout was a bit boring.
Probably Amiga DOS was not mainstream enough to compete with the many other mags out there at that time. The market just wasn't that big. In the end, it had 140 pages but only about 10 pages of ads.
Status: R.I.P 1999, last issue published in 4 / 1999, merged with AmigaOS.
I bought this mag at the Computer '98 exhibition, the world's largest Amiga-fair. It looks quite good, although I personally liked the layout of AmigaOS better. After a few issues Amiga Fever was integrated into AmigaOS.
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Amiga Fever was taken over by amigaOS, it concentrated on games and scene, less on tools and hardware.
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Lots of magazines have disappearead during the last years, but this one actually started in 1998 ! It's the only Amiga game-magazine in Germany. It comes with a CD with demoversions and more.
As there are unfortunately not that many games being released for the Amiga, they can't really write that much about new games.
The mag has been released under Amiga Plus, but it is written by the famous German club APC&TCP.
Amiga Games was the second German games-mag to be on the market and the first to come with a disk in every issue. It contains lots of color-screenshots and has a clean layout.
After it stopped publication because of lack of new Amiga-games, it is now part of the Amiga Magazin.
Amiga Joker was the first German Amiga-mag that concentrated only on games. It's full of colors, screenshots and lookes like a comic-magazine.
Later, they also reviewed other sw/hw, also because the Amiga game-market shrinked to nearly nothing. That's also the cause why they had to stop publication.
This is the first Amiga-mag I ever bought, and it still is the major German Amiga-publication. It has more ads than the competition. The quality is good, with some up and downs during the years. There are articles both for beginners and professionals. I guess the hard- and software tests in Amiga Magazin are important for the industry.
The layout is clean, altough a bit a lot of "white space" in my opinion. The quality overall is very good.
It has no longer been available on newsstands in Switzerland in 97, and in Germany you could only get it at very large newsstands (and by subscription of course). Now it's only available for subscribers as an add-on in a PC-magazine. The editorial tells Amigans to buy a PC, which I guess is the final point where Amigans will cancel their subscription. I give this magazine 1/2 year or so before it disappears.
I wrote on this page some time ago: When Amiga Magazin dies, the Amiga in Germany is dead.. I hope this is not true, since the main cause this mag is dying is its bad content over the last few years, and the strong competition from Amiga Plus and now also from Amiga Special, they have been more innovative.
Their new web-page looks very nice btw !
It's a special issue from the creators of the Amiga Magazin that concentrates on one specific theme, e.g. Programming or Graphics. Very big (about 120 pages) and expensive.
I bought this mag at the Computer '98 exhibition, the world's largest Amiga-fair. It can be bought on newsstands and is quite popular - probably the magazine that is going to outlive the few other German mags around. It has lots of advertisements, and as it's not part of a huge publishing-company probably is produced with less cost, which is necessary to survive in today's small Amiga market.
This issue here is a special issue (Sonderheft) of Amiga Magazin, I think for some time it was a magazine-inside-the-magazine.
Voted the "most innovative Amiga-magazine" by Commodore Germany in 1993 (hey, how much did they pay Commodore for that ? :-)) it surely can be called most innovative today. Amiga Plus is really very active, it publishes lots of special CDs that can be bought on newsstands, it has the latest news and also lives outside print-media, e.g. in BTX, Videotext and Internet.
It was the first and only German Amiga-mag to come with a coverdisk every month. The articles and disk-contents are mostly for freaks/Amiga-hobbyists. There's also a picture-gallery where readers provide their graphics done on Amiga. They have also organized the famous and world's biggest Amiga-fair in Cologne during the first year of this exhibition, now someone else does it.
Hey, and I wrote an article for AmigaPlus once !
During the last issues, they nearly had no advertisements anymore - it seems there isn't enough market left to support two Amiga magazines in Germany.
Status: R.I.P., last issue published in ?
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From Amiga Power 5/89: Price: DM 5.50, pages: 64. Frontcover captions: CeBit 89: auf einen Blick, Public Domain: Power zum Nulltarif, Im Vergleich: Grafiktabletts, Brandheiß: Die neuesten Games , DFÜ: Komplett.
28 advertisers. Anschrift in 1989: Amiga Power Postfach 1161, 8044 Unterschleißheim. Vertrieb Verlagsunion Wiesbaden. Printed bei ADV, Aindlinger Str.17-19 Augsburg.
Overall : Semi-glossy cover pages, not much colour inside, mostly black and white pages except for a few articles. Contents solid, but lacked the top professional look inside.
I've seen this mags for some years on newsstands, but never bought it, it was quite expensive, and at that time, there was a lot of choice in Amiga magazines. I think this mag was around for 2-3 years, at least on Swiss newsstands.
Amiga Special has been there for as long as I can remember. It's the first German Amiga magazine published at newsstands. Compared to other Amiga-mags, you once could have called this the "boulevard"-version of Amiga-magazines. It is a kind of "scene-magazine", but going "mainstream" also. It has always been the mag with the lowest price until they began including a CDROM and disk.
They changed from monthly to every-other-month in 1997.
However, their 10-year anniversary issue makes them look very good. That issue comes with a CD and disk, and has lots of ads. It has interesting articles. It seems that they recovered. They are the first German Amiga-magazine to come with a CDROM, and there's a disk included as well. My personal opinion is that it has become a LOT better, it's really a good magazine now. Unfortunately, they stopped publishing it in 1999.
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Another IDG Publication, with the same logo and some similar articles as the original US Amiga World.
It was one of the earliest German Amiga magazines, but was only published every other month to my knowledge. It was a bit boring to read and quite expensive in my opinion, however, I don't remember it very well.
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Very few ads, just a few games at the end, no listing of Editors etc except one name: Ute Bahn with picture in the editorial. Overall : A professional, informing quality magazin in the style of the german "Amiga Magazin".
I bought some of the Kickstart issues, but at that time there were so many Amiga magazines you could buy, this one just didn't stand out too much. It was a bit too boring for me, but it was a good professional magazine.
Kickstart had some kind of alliance with MAXON, a German Software-company that is still very active today (Cinema 4 , Maxon C++...). In the end, about 70% of all ads in Kickstart were from MAXON.
After publication stopped, it was somehow integrated into Amiga Plus, I guess they signed a deal that they could place the Kickstart-logo onto the AmigaPlus-Logo so they "port" the readers to Amiga Plus instead of other magazines.
Some of the guys that made Joystick switched to Amiga DOS after Joystick wasn't here anymore.
As with Amiga DOS, I really liked to read the articles, even from games that were for C64 or PC. The "Helpline" for adventure-games were written like real stories, you didn't have to buy a science-fiction book or buy the game, just read the solution in Joystick. However, when they finally managed to improve the boring layout, the best issue they ever made was the last one.


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Technology adds new dimension to India's heritage tourism
Friday, March 20th, 2015 at 4:37 PM
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS): Technology is aiding in the digital preservation of India's cultural heritage, with mobile apps offering audio tours and virtual space providing panoramic views of various historical sights – all at the click of a button.
The innovations in the world of culture and heritage began a few years ago.
In October 2013, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Google India ushered in the world of "digital tourism", bringing popular technology like "street view trekker" – which provides a 360 degree view of a particular site – to India by offering visual walkthroughs (taking a walk around a site in the virtual world).
The collaboration has so far seen the successful publication of panoramic imagery of 30 important heritage sites, including Unesco World Heritage Sites like the Taj Mahal, the Qutub Minar and the Red Fort.
All these historical sites can be explored through Google maps and the Google Cultural Institute (GCI).
"Digital technology is increasingly being used for the preservation, representation, enjoyment and promotion of the world's rich cultural heritage," Suren Ruhela, director and product manager, India Google Maps, told IANS.
"Online tools like GCI can be used to preserve heritage and share information about the same with global audience, irrespective of the size of the country. So technology is addressing the access barrier by providing equal opportunity for all," he said.
He added that people can take a virtual walk at rock-cut Jain temples (across India), marvel at the Nagarjunakonda Buddhist stupas (in Andhra Pradesh) or relive Mughal history in Fatehpur Sikri (near Agra in Uttar Pradesh).
But that's not all. Now, a smart phone can tell one about the history and heritage of 17 of India's historical sites.
This innovative idea came to Gautam Shewakramani's mind when he realized that there are 981 Unesco World Heritage Sites worldwide, of which 30 are in India. But there was not much awareness about them.
"As an avid traveller, what I found was that most of the tour guides available at the heritage sites have no knowledge about its history. And the audio tours at various historical forts are so boring that a person who is not into history will not like it," Shewakramani, the founder of AudioCompass, told IANS.
AudioCompass provides a free mobile application for smart phones that gives audio tours of popular Indian heritage sites or heritage walks. Monuments and their interesting features have been selected for a particular city.
This means that for a city like Agra, one can take an audio tour of the Taj Mahal or Fatehpur Sikri, and be informed about historical anecdotes associated with them.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) will identify the place and, with the click of a button, you are transported into the history of that place.
"Indian travellers are becoming more mature. They don't want to be tied down and they don't want to compromise either. Technology is helping them to access heritage and our audio guides are not boring. So, they learn in a happy way," Shewakramani explained, adding that two destinations were planned to be added every month.
Experts said that this route of cultural preservation using technology is a revolutionary idea, and in many ways an essential ingredient for bringing closer interaction between tangible heritage and human beings.
Taking the aid of technology for digital preservation is one way and using social media is another way of increasing awareness amongst the people, the experts added.
Ajay Reddy's www.gounesco.com online initiative is an attempt in this direction.
The site urges travellers to take up the challenge of visiting World Heritage Sites across the globe on their own. They can then post their pictures along with the site as a proof – and earn points.
Each visit to a site gets you 100 points, and those with the highest number of points get prizes.
"Technology is a key aspect in preserving culture. I am using the tool to bring awareness because not many know that a World Heritage Site is right next to you," Reddy told IANS.
"So when you post a picture, the visual appeal of the place gives you a thrill, and probably you might make an effort to learn about the site, or aim to go there next," he added.
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Dualed (Dualed #1) – Elsie Chapman
Title: Dualed (Dualed #1) by Elsie Chapman
Publishing Info: February 26, 2013 by Random House Publishing Group
Source: Received from the publisher for review purposes
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult
Find it on the web: Buy from Amazon // GoodreadsDate Completed: February 9, 2013
The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.
Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West's confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she's no longer certain that she's the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her
DUALED is a tough one for me to review. It was definitely one my more anticipated reads of early 2013… So where did I end up with this? I guess the answer is still excited, but confused.
There's no doubt that DUALED is reminscient of the action-packed and somewhat gruesome battles that we all loved about The Hunger Games, but where as THG had a strong world in which it was based, I felt like DUALED needed to be challenged a little bit further before the dystopian future-world of Kersh became believable for me. Even within the first few pages (page 23 to be exact) and explanation of Kersh, I was confused. Kersh is described as a city that put up its walls to keep out the war that was going on and taking over the rest of the world. So what baffled me is, why set up a complicated system in which the children and teenagers of Kersh are destined to kill each other off in a brutal fashion? Surely there's a better way to make your city stronger other than killing off the weak in a public and violent fashion. I didn't see how this promoted Kersh as a peaceful place in anyway. It made them seem even more brutal – Killing off the weaker Alts just for the sake of having a stronger army IF the war ever broke through. Heidi from Bunbury in the Stacks had a great review that even opened up more questions I didn't even know I had – I won't go into all the details because she says it so well herself, so check out her review if you're ready to analyze it more!
Now. If I completely overlook the confusing foundation of the plot, I actually really enjoyed reading DUALED. I thought the book was very action-packed and fast-paced to keep the reader flipping pages and racing to find out what happens between West and her Alt. At the same time, we have the conflict of West and Chord – two people who you can tell have an attraction to each other, but being constantly pushed apart as West tries to distance herself from Chord to keep him safe. It kept me guessing whether they would end up together in the end of the book or if Chord really would end up tangled in the mess of West's epic battle with her Alt. And I'm not even going to get started on all of the "different"- sounding names in the book. We all know I struggle with that.
I'd have to say that the action carried me through the book. With the conflicting basis of the plot and the push and pull of West & Chord's relationship getting repetitive, I still came out enjoying the book overall. The positives won over the negatives for me in this case and I actually came out the other side with a positive feeling about the book as a whole. Maybe it's because I was always hoping it would be great? Although usually that sets me up for disappointment. I guess you'll just have to try it to find out!
West: You know. I never really did end up liking West. She was a tough cookie, but it got to the point where she was SO independent that she refused any and all help from everyone and that kind of bothered me. I think it really hindered a developing relationship with Chord which is something I would have liked to see more of instead of Chord stalking her every move and West batting him away.
Chord: I really wanted to like Chord, but since West was the one telling us the story, I feel like we go to see some of those great things about him, but kept getting shut down. I really wanted to know more about Chord and see his side of the story. I almost wish book two would be from his perspective instead of West…
I really, really wanted to like this one but it had some bit plot holes for me… I did like the overall feel but there were a few too many things I couldn't connect with.
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How to Hit Pause Button on Mortgage Payments During the Coronavirus
Disheartening levels of jobless claims will likely drive more homeowners to seek mortgage relief in the weeks ahead.
Already almost 4 million homeowners were on forbearance plans as of May 3, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act — or CARES Act — provides borrowers with home loans the right to request a temporary suspension of payments on federally backed mortgages.
Forbearance is a temporary fix but it may be worth exploring in order to avoid a foreclosure down the road.
In March, lenders might have initially offered to let homeowners who made such requests to postpone 90 days of mortgage payments through a forbearance agreement. Many of those agreements, though, would likely expire come late June or July.
Consumers can see their payments paused for up to six months initially and possibly another six months.
The debt isn't forgiven and the regular interest keeps building. No additional fees can be charged.
"Forbearance is really a deferral. They will still need to make these payments," said Kathleen L. Kraninger, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in phone call Friday morning.
Some early requests triggered a great deal of confusion and frustration, though, when some homeowners were told by some mortgage servicers that they'd be required to repay the money in a lump sum when the three months were up.
But that's not your only option.
A new Consumer Relief Guide, which spells out the relief process associated with federally backed mortgages, was released Friday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. The guide outlines the rights to mortgage payment forbearance and foreclosure protection under the federal CARES Act.
See www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus for information on how to protect your finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
Such relief is essential as 36.5 million workers across the country have applied for unemployment benefits in the past eight weeks.
Much of the U.S. economy has been put on pause in an attempt to save lives during the coronavirus crisis. In the coming weeks, parts of the economy are expected to gradually reopen. Some workers may return to their jobs soon; others won't.
John W. Ryan, president and CEO of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, said borrowers are telling state regulators that they're confused about mortgage relief, and in some cases, getting inconsistent information about forbearance.
Consumers have a right to get up to 180 days of forbearance initially, and then request an extension for up to another 180 days of payment relief.
The consumer relief guide gives a summary of borrowers' rights under the CARES Act, steps to access mortgage relief and repayment options.
Many lenders and servicers are providing forbearance benefits regardless of federally backed status, according to the Consumer Relief Guide.
Kraninger said the CFPB is working hand-in hand with other federal and state regulators to protect consumers during this national emergency.
The guide notes:
Homeowners have the right to obtain a 180-day pause in paying your mortgage or temporarily lower mortgage payments if you are a borrower on a federally backed mortgage loan and affirm that you are experiencing a financial hardship due directly or indirectly to the COVID-19 emergency.
Your mortgage servicer — or company where you send payments to each month — can tell you if your loan is federally backed.
While in forbearance, you can still choose to make partial payments, which will reduce the amount you would need to repay in the future.
In most cases, you should receive multiple options for repaying the monthly payments that were not made during the forbearance period.
Foreclosure actions on loans federally backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD, which includes single family FHA loans and reverse mortgage HECM loans, are frozen until June 30, 2020.
Loan types that are federally backed include: Conventional loans purchased or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Today must be the day of retribution in motorsports. NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Matt Kenseth just, ahem, returned the favor after Joey Logano spun him out of the lead at Kansas two weeks ago. Today at Martinsville, Kenseth put Logano straight into the wall.
Kenseth was already driving a heavily damaged car from an earlier incident on lap 434 where Brad Keselowski's number 2 car spun Kenseth's car into the number 41 car of Kurt Busch.
Later, Logano was attempting to lap Kenseth on lap 454 when Kenseth apparently decided to ruin Logano's day. The incident brought about a red flag.
Definitely my fault. I got into him. The right front was dragging down there and probably should've went to the garage area and went into the corner there and man couldn't get it to turn and collected him.
Well, then. That's a more than interesting "coincidence" that you just so happened to take out your on-track nemesis with you.
Apparently, NASCAR did not buy Kenseth's story that he couldn't turn the car. Kenseth was immediately barred from continuing in today's race even if his crew is able to put his car back together.
Additionally, Motorsport.com reports that Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, their crew chiefs, and owners of the number 20 and number 22 cars have been called to meet with NASCAR officials after the race.
Joey's father Tom Logano had to be escorted away to the hauler to calm him down. Apparently Logano's team had prepared a plan on what to do if Kenseth sought retribution during a race after Kenseth's heated comments over the incident at Kansas.
Joey Logano's crew rushed to prepare his car for work under the red flag. Because working on the car under a red flag nets them a penalty, the team opted to wait until the red flag period ended to start putting Logano's car back together. Logano returned to the race with 4 laps to go, as the race was under caution.
Logano spinning out Kenseth likely cost Kenseth entry into the next round of the playoff-style Chase for the Sprint Cup. Instead of winning or finishing near the front, Kenseth finished much further down the field in 14th. Combined with poor finishes in the other two rounds of the Contender Round of the Chase, Kenseth was out for this penultimate round before the season finale.
Needless to say, Kenseth was fuming mad about this and swore several times that Logano needed to watch his back after the incident. It looks like he made good on this promise today.
Even though this fight was on the track, Logano was hit right where it hurts: his chances at the Chase for the Sprint Cup's final four shoot-out are slimmer now that he had such a miserable outing at Martinsville. The four drivers that advance to the Chase's final round at Homestead-Miami compete to determine who wins the season championship.
UPDATE: NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell addressed the media after speaking with Matt and his crew chief from Joe Gibbs Racing.
The fact that Kenseth was not battling Logano for position and was "many laps down" at the time of the incident will likely play a role in NASCAR's decision. Any decision will most likely be made after Tuesday of this week once the series has time to consult additional parties on the incident.


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#OscarsSoMale? Women shut out of the directing category
Remember when Issa Rae was presenting the Oscar nominations for best director in 2020 and quipped "Congratulations to those men"?
It's déjà vu.
In a year that saw many critically acclaimed films helmed by female directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is again taking heat for failing to nominate any women in the directing category.
"Women Talking" was nominated in the best picture category, but its director Sarah Polley was shut out.
Other notable names ignored by the Academy: Charlotte Wells for her work on "Aftersun," Maria Schrader for "She Said," Gina Prince-Bythewood for "The Woman King" and Domee Shi, director of the animated Pixar film "Turning Red."
The snubs come after two years of progress, during which Chloé Zhao was awarded best director for "Nomadland" and Jane Campion won for "Power of the Dog."
Those achievements came with some history making as well.
Zhao's 2021 win happened in a year where, for the first time, two women were nominated in the best director category. Emerald Fennell was also nominated that year for "Promising Young Woman."
Campion's nomination and subsequent win last year marked the first time a woman was nominated twice for a best director trophy. (Her first nomination was for her 1993 film "The Piano.")
Women fared better in other categories this year.
Catherine Martin's nomination in the costume design category for her work on "Elvis" makes her the seventh woman with nominations in three or more award categories. The others are Chloé Zhao with four; Barbra Streisand, Sofia Coppola, Fran Walsh, Emerald Fennell and Jane Campion all with three.
With her producer credit on "Elvis," Martin also becomes the first person to be nominated in both the costume design and best picture categories in the same year.
That film also helped Mandy Walker become the third woman to be ever be nominated in the cinematography category. Previous nominees were Rachel Morrison (2017) and last year's Ari Wegner (2021).
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National leaders of education (NLE) are headteachers of an outstanding school with the ability to support schools in challenging circumstances in addition to leading their own school. The goal of national leaders of education (NLEs) is to increase the leadership capacity of other schools to help raise standards.
When selected as an NLE, your school will become a national support school (NSS). This recognises the fact that your staff are likely to work alongside you in any support you may provide.
Karen Kerridge - The Appleton School
Karen Kerridge, Headteacher of The Appleton School, was selected as a National Leader of Education in June 2011. The Appleton School has been recognised by the Government's Specialist Schools and Academies Trust as being placed in the top 20% of schools across the country for value added results.
Dr. Margaret Wilson - The King John School
Margaret Wilson, CEO of the Zenith Multi Academy Trust, was selected as a National Leader of Education in July 2011. She was appointed by her peers to one of the eight Regional Headteacher Boards as well as being on the boards of Pearson Education Limited and Anglia Ruskin University. Margaret received a CBE for services to Education in February 2019.
Simon Harbrow - South Essex Academy Trust
Simon Harbrow is CEO of South Essex Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust comprising of five primary and infant schools, two of which are outstanding, two good and one sponsored school moving from inadequate to RI. He was selected as a National Leader of Education in May 2018. He inspects as both a team member and lead for OFSTED. Westwood Academy has sponsored two failing schools both improving due to his leadership and the capacity of the Trust.


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TEN thumped as Seven wins Sunday, Nine hypnosis show dips.
April 11th, 2016 By David Knox 24 commentsFiled under: News,
The bad news for Seven on Sunday was that My Kitchen Rules was not the #1 show for the first time this season. The good news: it was only outranked by Seven News, and only by 10,000. At 1.32m viewers MKR is still safely positioned as TV's best performer.
Seven had a strong Sunday showing with Sunday Night's emotional Kerri-Anne interview drawing 994,000 viewers, well up on last week's 711,000.
You're Back in the Room wasn't quite so hypnotic to some of last week's audience, dropping from 1.16m to 890,000. The curiosity was probably over quickly for some, but the number is still respectable and it finished second in its timeslot.
ABC's David Attenborough doco also debuted well at 815,000 viewers. The heated competition was again bad news for TEN, unable to rise above 500,000 for any of its titles. Modern Family was best with 475,000.
Seven network won with 34.5% then Nine 28.6%, ABC 17.0%, TEN 12.8% and SBS 7.1%.
Seven News was #1 with 1.33m then My Kitchen Rules (1.32m), and Sunday Night (994,000). The Blacklist was 388,000.
Nine News (1.16m) was best for Nine then You're Back in the Room (890,000) and 60 Minutes (694,000). Movie: Man on Fire was just 227,000.
ABC News (818,000) led for ABC followed by David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef (815,000) and Call the Midwife (595,000). Stephen Fry: Out There was just 198,000.
TEN struggled with Modern Family (475,000 / 434,000), Scorpion (354,000), TEN Eyewitness News (338,000), American Crime Story just 265,000 and NCIS: New Orleans on 192,000.
On SBS it was SBS World News (202,000), Egypt's Lost Queens (198,000) and Vietnam: The War that made Australia (192,000). Inside Heston's World was 88,000.
7mate's movie Shooter was 232,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 10 April 2016
Tags: 60 Minutes, ABC News, American Crime Story, Call The Midwife, David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef, Egypt's Lost Queens, Inside Heston's World, Modern Family, My Kitchen Rules, NCIS: New Orleans, Nine News, SBS World News, Scorpion, Seven News, Stephen Fry: Out There, Sunday Night, TEN Eyewitness News, The Blacklist, Vietnam: The War That Made Australia, You're Back in the Room
shjahf April 12, 2016 8:25 pm
Sunday nights ep of The Blacklist was the best yet. Shame 7 did no advertising until Sunday night was on and even then the advertising was horrible. No wonder it got 388,000. Shame on you, Seven
NQ Resident April 11, 2016 10:21 pm
It's a pity NCIS:NO doesn't get higher numbers in Australia, especially as this week's episode had an Aussie theme, and Australian actress, Kate Beahan playing an Australian, with an Aussie accent.
[email protected] April 11, 2016 4:55 pm
Re Back in the Room – thought Martin St.James did it so much better in his club shows a few years ago…
Secret Squïrrel April 11, 2016 11:53 am
The only thing that had me hypnotised last night was watching a couple of hundred men flog themselves over the cobblestones of the Paris-Roubaix. Nice to see Hayman get his reward for his years of selflessness helping others.
PJs Ronin April 11, 2016 3:29 pm
Well said Sir. Reality TV at it's finest, with the possible exception of Le Tour.
npstanley80 April 11, 2016 11:31 am
Enjoyed You're Back In The Room Again Last Night thought it was hilarious much better viewing than MKR
Den April 11, 2016 11:09 am
Thought YBITR was largely terrible. It made me wish for a return of TGYH.
Dantheman84 April 11, 2016 11:05 am
I enjoyed YBITR thought it was much better than last weeks. Scorpion was a good one last night. American crime story is getting better and better sarah paulson what an actress! Also watched swimming on 72.
David Knox April 11, 2016 11:08 am
Also enjoying American Crime Story.
Dantheman84 April 11, 2016 4:00 pm
Its a pity its going head to head with such strong current affairs shows.
shelltvfan April 11, 2016 4:34 pm
I am one of the few also, all my viewing last night was on Ten. Scorpion another great episode, the 2 Modern Family eps were great and agree with daveinprogress season 7 picking up from the slow start.
Sarah Paulson was wonderful again last night, I can see Emmy and Golden Globe wins for her performance.
Dantheman84 April 11, 2016 11:53 pm
I hope so. I hadnt seen her work before OJ. She certainly upstages the higher profile actors IMO.
Be warned – it seems two eps of O J this coming week.
David Knox April 11, 2016 5:01 pm
Yes, actually scheduled before the weekend numbers. I will run an Update.
laurie April 11, 2016 10:51 am
hmm maybe people watching the show was hypnotized !!
jonno April 11, 2016 10:32 am
Watched You're back in the Room for the first time and it was hilarious. Loved it.
smit0847 April 11, 2016 10:25 am
I watched YBITR for the first time last night. Like previous reviewers have commented, I did not believe it was real. There is a huge difference between making someone believe something because they are hypnotised, and them being able to turn that thought into 'works well on tv' entertainment. Even if they believed something it doesn't mean they would be over the top and do the same silly thing over and over until the buzzer went off.
At worst I think the whole show is fake, at best it's good actors being hypnotised because they are good entertainers.
Angela April 11, 2016 12:38 pm
Yes, watching TYITR last night, there were definitely times when I suspected the whole thing's a fake.
One was the way the contestants seem to often conveniently wait their turn to "perform", instead of yelling over each other.
Another was the way they seemed to snap out of their "hypnotised state" and immediately cease their obsessive behaviours as soon as Daryl said time's up, rather than when the hypnotist "officially" snapped them out of it.
Also, a bit suss that the contestants have managed to win the entire amount of money in the kitty each week so far.
yum-e April 11, 2016 10:05 am
Shocking that nearly 900,000 people thought that complete dreck was watchable! shocked! (YBITR)…
poida April 11, 2016 12:37 pm
Thanks for your enlightened
judgement of me.
Aussiecam58 April 11, 2016 10:00 am
Ten has some great US programs but they have screened in the US months. Any savvy person has already seen these. Stations can no longer store these shows for a rainy day.
At Nine YBITR was never going to hold a big audience in the longer term. The silly factor gets stale in my view.
daveinprogress April 11, 2016 11:16 am
I must be one of the half a million non-savvy folk who tuned in to two new Modern Family eps. Ten only have themselves to blame for holding onto them for a few months; and burning them off at 4 eps in a week! I don't think they would have got a lot higher if screened back in October onwards. Maybe early 600's if they are lucky. Shame as the current block of eps are pretty good after a lacklustre start to season 7.
Shoudy Chen April 11, 2016 9:52 am
Next weeks show will be called 'You're Out Of The Room!'
prankster April 13, 2016 3:27 pm
Agreed.. it is a terrible, terrible show. Cannot believe people watch this tripe. The ABC test signal was more entertaining.


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Best of Enemies: Why Occupy Activists Are Working with New York City's Government
Though many Occupy activists remain wary of Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD, the movement has revitalized itself with relief work and a new moniker: Occupy Sandy
By Jared Malsin / New York City Nov. 13, 2012
John Moore / Getty Images
Brooklyn resident Theresa Goddard is overwhelmed while discussing her living conditions on Nov. 8, 2012
Two hundred people were lined up at a hurricane relief center in a park in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on Sunday morning when three volunteers hoisted the banners of two enemy camps that had come together in an uneasy collaboration: the Occupy movement and the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
One of those helping hang the banners on white tents with duct tape was Red Hook resident Kirby Desmarais, 26, a band manager and volunteer with the local branch of Occupy Sandy, an effort launched the day after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the East Coast in late October. "I'm getting a little verklempt. This is a really big thing," Desmarais said, looking at the two signs, using the Yiddish word for choked with emotion. One banner read, "Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid Not Charity." The other, sent by the mayor's office, read, "City of New York Distribution and Relief Center."
Behind the tents, volunteers unloaded boxes of meals ready to eat from a six-wheel National Guard truck. Red Hook residents, many of whom still lacked electricity in their homes, filed in to fill shopping carts with canned goods, batteries, candles and bottled water. Police officers looked on. Two officials from the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit (CAU) soon appeared but declined to answer questions. Separate from the relief point, a hulking truck sent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sat on the other side of the park, out of sight.
(PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street, One Year Later: Protesters Return to the Movement's Roots)
Before the hurricane, direct collaboration between Occupy activists and city authorities would have been unthinkable. It was a year ago this week that Bloomberg ordered an early-morning police raid that uprooted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in the financial district, ending a weeks-long standoff. The eviction ended the potent first phase of the movement, which had captivated the media, inspired an international Occupy protest and resulted in numerous confrontations with police.
The disbanding of protest camps across the country sent Occupy to the brink of irrelevance. In New York City, hardcore demonstrators soldiered on, including a few who gave up their jobs and apartments to become full-time Occupiers. Others launched dozens of localized initiatives focusing on foreclosed homes, summer camps and farms. Thousands attended Occupy protests on May Day, but without its vital core in a protest camp, the movement became something of an abstraction. What was Occupy without an occupation?
When Hurricane Sandy brought thrashing winds and a two-story surge of water to the city, Occupy activists mobilized to assemble a relief effort. According to volunteer Shlomo Adam Roth, 34, "We got on the ground in the Rockaways when one of the blocks was still burning."
As every organizer involved will be quick to remind you, Occupy does not see itself as an organization. It's a network, a swarm. In the wake of the storm, this decentralized, highly flexible structure proved to be a strength. While huge bureaucratic organizations like the Red Cross and overwhelmed government agencies like FEMA took days to reach some neighborhoods, Occupy made use of Facebook and Twitter to channel volunteers and supplies to existing local institutions like the activist group Good Old Lower East Side, churches, a mosque in Coney Island and ad hoc citizen relief groups that sprang up across the city.
(PHOTOS: The Toil After the Storm: Life in Sandy's Wake)
Being among the first to move made Occupy a vital part of the city's hurricane relief infrastructure. As a result, this radical nonstate movement finds itself in the unlikely position of coordinating with government institutions it might otherwise be in conflict with. The group is now in contact with a wide range of agencies, and organizers said they participated in two recent conference calls that included FEMA. The agency's news desk did not respond to requests for confirmation from TIME.
On the ground in the city's disaster zones, the urgency of the situation has yielded some unlikely cooperation. This dynamic was apparent at an Occupy hub in a community center called You Are Not Alone in the Rockaways on Saturday. Amid the National Guard vehicles rumbling through the mud and the acrid smell of mold and ash, Tamara Crifasi, 30, a television producer, was frenetically coordinating deliveries and volunteer flows. On the phone, she gave directions to someone looking for the center: "It's Beach 113, after the bombed-out buildings."
Crifasi said members of the Red Cross had visited the day before. "I think they were trying to see how our operation was working," she said. The National Guard has provided security when volunteers lock up the building at night and has even directed traffic for them, she added, saying, "They haven't necessarily been coming and giving us a hard time, which is sometimes what people expect."
Nowhere has cooperation been closer than in the unique case of Red Hook, where the joint Occupy-government relief point was set up on Nov. 11. That center was the result of an unusual 30-person meeting that reportedly included four members of the National Guard, a police officer and Andrew Olsen from the CAU and took place in Occupier Desmarais' Red Hook loft on Saturday.
(VIDEO: After Sandy: Gas Shortages in New York)
Desmarais, a young mother who participated in the original Zuccotti occupation and helped organize Saturday's meeting, stressed that this type of intimate collaboration with city authorities was localized to Red Hook (Occupiers are part of a local relief committee in the neighborhood) and acknowledged that the relationship was a tenuous one, given Occupy's history of confrontation with police. But she argued that the local group needed to work with police to address specific needs like security. "We all have agreed that we're cleaning the slate," she said, referring to a conversation with a local police captain. "We're building this relationship so that it's healthy, so that the community's needs are met right now."
Other volunteers at Occupy's Red Hook branch were more conflicted about working directly with the authorities, particularly the police. Paulie Anne Duke, 23, a veteran of the militant Occupy Oakland movement, who ran Saturday's meeting, said, "It's really hard for me to work in the housing projects and befriend people in the housing projects and open the conversation about working with someone who's kind of their enemy, who's not their ally, the NYPD."
If Occupy Sandy is a network, then St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood is its buzzing, chaotic nerve center, complete with crackling walkie-talkies and offices stuffed with organizers on laptops. At 8:40 a.m. on Saturday, Occupiers were puzzling over a problem: someone had applied a padlock to the gate leading to the church basement, where volunteers sort through mountains of supplies, and no one knew who had the key. Volunteer Roth devised a solution. After borrowing a power-cutter tool from a bodega across the street, he threw on a pair of sunglasses and warned everyone to stand back. "That's probably church property," someone mused as Roth began to saw on the lock, which soon fell off in a blaze of sparks. The supplies were liberated.
At St. Jacobi and at an even larger hub at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in the Clinton Hill neighborhood, volunteers pulled up in cars, loaded the trunks with bottled water, canned goods and hot meals, received instructions and passengers, and then raced out to the field sites. Shortly after the incident with the power cutter, my ride to the Rockaways arrived, a cobalt blue 1976 Dodge Dart Swinger driven by bespectacled Yonkers native Garrett Shore, 30, who leads historical walking tours in Manhattan.
(VIDEO: Sights and Sounds from Occupy Wall Street's 'Action Day')
Once you arrive in the field, the lines blur between Occupy Sandy as a phenomenon and the hundreds of local, sometimes nameless relief projects. For many volunteers, Occupy is primarily an entry point. Their answer to the question, "Are you with Occupy?," is usually some variation of "sort of." Outside the Beach 113th Street site in the Rockaways, Chris Devlin said he had volunteered leaving from the St. Jacobi location three days earlier, but that didn't make him an Occupier: "I'm a full supporter of people power, but I can't say I'm with Occupy because this is my first interaction."
Ultimately, Occupy Sandy is an ethos, a grassroots, on-the-fly approach to disaster relief that, in certain areas of the city, has filled a void left by overwhelmed bureaucracies. It's an approach adopted by numerous local groups and individuals throughout the city, and Occupy is in large part an attempt to link volunteers and donations to those efforts. "We were worried that the Red Cross and FEMA weren't doing so well, though they're definitely at a scale that we can't match and shouldn't try," said Roth. "We're sort of like the water that's filling in the cracks."
At the point of contact with residents of the disaster area, the Occupy brand sometimes vanishes completely. A team of medics who were dispatched on Saturday from the Occupy station on Beach 113th Street visited seniors trapped in darkened apartment buildings. When they knocked on 75-year-old Barbara LaKusta's door, they said only, "We're just a volunteer organization." Because she was recently hospitalized with a hernia, LaKusta had stayed without electricity or heating in her 11th-floor apartment for the 13 days since the storm, missing a doctor's appointment. No one from any government agency had come to check on her, she said, but her neighbors down the hall had been bringing her groceries. One of the medics lent her a cell phone. "Beverley, are you there? Barbara. Did you get water?" she asked her friend. The word occupy was never spoken.
PHOTOS: Sandy's Aftermath: Devastation in Staten Island


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Mrs. Duke might not have earned her first World Series of Poker Bracelet until two thousand and four but she is one of the most feared poker competitors around the cash games at The Bellagio in vegas. Annie's long-overdue WSOP bracelet came with success at the "forgotten game" of Omaha hi/low.
While competitors from the "younger crowd" of poker run crazy following a big win at the tables, Annie goes home to be "mom" to her 4 kids. Annie was born in New Hampshire and raised into a family of card competitors. If you do not accept that, observe her brother, Howard Lederer, in action who educated her how to compete in the game.
However, Annie Duke is no small-potatoes girl and has won her share of difficult tables, which includes eliminating Howard along the way on several occasions. They are both competitors that have the skill to acquire the huge money and do it with a smile.
Annie is a strong player at any table due to the fact that she is a legitimate poker player, but it is a little more than just being strong at the game. Annie is incredibly smart and graduated from Columbia University where she majored in English and Psychology.
When you take a seat across from her at the poker table you know Annie Duke is there to play the game and she starts "summing" you up as soon as you approach the poker table. If you can't compete like a camp, then don't bother.
Winning over three million dollars in tournament competitions, Mrs. Duke branched out to become a adviser to both UltimateBet.com and Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, who was looking to sharpen his skills and develop into a force at the poker table.
You might see her at the Bellagio, you'll notice Annie on the tv and you might even play against her in a web-based poker match, but don't count on a simple win. Except of course you're a champion-in-the-making, you'll not defeat her. Although, it would be exciting to say you played at the same table as "The Duke".


Research suggests that facilitating effective mathematics inquiry poses substantial challenges for beginning teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. For elementary teachers, the research suggests that a lack of understanding of mathematics may inhibit effectively implementing inquiry-oriented mathematics programs (Ball, 1990; Ball & Bass, 2002). For secondary teachers, while some of the same concerns exist about the procedural nature of their mathematics knowledge, the real challenge is to help them shift their teaching practices from traditional delivery models to more inquiry-oriented approaches (Stigler & Hiebert, 1999).
This longitudinal study probes such challenges as it investigates the experiences of 150 beginning elementary teachers who participate in a one-week inquiry-based mathematics environment (a.k.a. math camp) that is facilitated by 12 newly graduated secondary mathematics teachers. Through questionnaires and focus groups we examine the experiences of both groups during the math camp and through their first two years of teaching in regular school classrooms.
Graves, B., Suurtamm, C., & Benton, N. (2005). Learning and teaching mathematics in communities of inquiry: Is it enough to transform practice? International Commission on Mathematical Instruction – Study 15. May 2005. Brazil.
Graves, B., & Suurtamm, C. (2005). Misunderstanding in mathematical inquiry: A systems perspective. Complexity Science and Society Conference. September 2005. Liverpool, England.


I'm happy to have come across this site.
See, they are already publishing me in China.
This site's bibliography, however, doesn't list any translations into any of the Chinese languages. Does anyone here know anything more about this?
I live in Taiwan and have never seen any translations of Lem here. When I lived in China back in the early 1990s, nobody I met had even heard of him, much less read anything by him -- a situation I did what I could to rectify by loaning out The Cyberiad (my favorite) and the other Lem books (in English) I had brought with me.
I hope his books are finally getting the large audience they deserve in China.
In fact, two Lem's books will be published in China: A PERFECT VACUUM and SOLARIS, both in the complex and simplified Chinese. Also IMAGINARY MAGNITUDE and ONE HUMAN MINUTE will be translated into the complex Chinese.
That's great news, thanks. Any further information (publisher, translated name of the works, etc.) would also be greatly appreciated.
Do you know what originals the translators are working from? I'd be surprised if they knew Polish. English would be my guess, but I haven't seen good things written here in this forum about the English translation of Solaris.
I have an English translation of another Lem book -- which one I can't remember offhand -- that has a grammatical error in the very first sentence! Unfortunately, the translation continues in that vein, which I suppose is a legacy of the fact that lots of early SF publishers in America didn't bother with copy editors.
We have a member here who is a translator himself. I mean Socrates and he is the one You can always ask about english translations, I mean the details. He translated some of Lem's book himself.
That`ll be amusing if Mr.Lem be translated into Japanese language. He would be called not MISTER but SENSEY or Lem San.
What about Lem in Pinyin? Simplified Chinese is still Chinese (in fact thewords "simple" and "Chinese" should never be used together), but a Pinyin edition might be somewhat readable by non Hanzi speaking foreigners.
For those unfamiliar with this, Pinyin is a way of writing Mandarin Chinese with the Roman alphabet instead of Chinese characters (Hanzi).
I'd love for Lem to be available in Pinyin and would certainly be willing to help out. But translation itself -- especially from Polish -- would be beyond me.
As for the notion that "simplified" Chinese characters are in no way simple -- so true, unfortunately.
I'm just wondering who would read any book in pinyin ?
Wouldn't such a translation introduce huge number of awkward ambiguities ?
My Chinese friend told me the intention was to help foreigners recognize certain names and orient themselves (not necessarily understand) in China. I believe it's also used to enter Chinese characters using Latin keyboard.
Why would any native Chinese speaker (meaning Chinese reader) read pinyin ?
Why would people read pinyin? Well, because, well, actually, you're right, it would not make sense since the book would be for chinese people who can all read hanzi. But it would be nice to learn Chinese that way, with a pinyinized copy of Lem. "Wo ai ni Hari!" "Wo ye ai ni Kris"! etc, etc.
[...] But it would be nice to learn Chinese that way, with a pinyinized copy of Lem. "Wo ai ni Hari!" "Wo ye ai ni Kris"! etc, etc.
Sounds like a plan :-).
Exciting, challenging, virtually useless - and therefore quite romantic.
Does the fact that it's a tonal language make it pretty much impossible to make a "good" alphabet for it?
Well, I think it's possible, but there is no a 'good' way - in my opinion. In fact, that is exactly what pinyin is meant to accomplish. I have been laughed at in the past when trying to say something meaningful in Mandarin - thus my lack of optimism.
What's a tonal language, excuse me?


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package org.qi4j.functional;

import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Utility functions. Combine these with methods in Iterables, for example. See FunctionsTest for usages.
 */
public final class Functions
{
    public static <A, B, C> Function2<Function<? super B, C>, Function<A, B>, Function<A, C>> compose()
    {
        return new Function2<Function<? super B, C>, Function<A, B>, Function<A, C>>()
        {
            @Override
            public Function<A, C> map( Function<? super B, C> bcFunction, Function<A, B> abFunction )
            {
                return compose( bcFunction, abFunction );
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * compose(F1(M,T),F2(F,M)) = F1(F2(F)) -> T
     *
     * @param outer
     * @param inner
     *
     * @return
     */
    public static <FROM, MIDDLE, TO> Function<FROM, TO> compose( final Function<? super MIDDLE, TO> outer,
                                                                 final Function<FROM, MIDDLE> inner
    )
    {
        return new Function<FROM, TO>()
        {
            @Override
            public TO map( FROM from )
            {
                return outer.map( inner.map( from ) );
            }
        };
    }

    public static <TO, FROM extends TO> Function<FROM, TO> identity()
    {
        return new Function<FROM, TO>()
        {
            @Override
            public TO map( FROM from )
            {
                return from;
            }
        };
    }

    public static <FROM, TO> Function<FROM, TO> fromMap( final Map<FROM, TO> map )
    {
        return new Function<FROM, TO>()
        {
            @Override
            public TO map( FROM from )
            {
                return map.get( from );
            }
        };
    }

    public static <T> Function<T, T> withDefault( final T defaultValue )
    {
        return new Function<T, T>()
        {
            @Override
            public T map( T from )
            {
                if( from == null )
                {
                    return defaultValue;
                }
                else
                {
                    return from;
                }
            }
        };
    }

    public static Function<Number, Long> longSum()
    {
        return new Function<Number, Long>()
        {
            long sum;

            @Override
            public Long map( Number number )
            {
                sum += number.longValue();
                return sum;
            }
        };
    }

    public static Function<Number, Integer> intSum()
    {
        return new Function<Number, Integer>()
        {
            int sum;

            @Override
            public Integer map( Number number )
            {
                sum += number.intValue();
                return sum;
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Count the number of items in an iterable that matches a given specification.
     *
     * Sample usage: last( map( count( in( "X" ) ), iterable( "X","Y","X","X","Y" ) ) )
     * Returns: 3
     *
     * @param specification
     * @param <T>
     *
     * @return
     */
    public static <T> Function<T, Integer> count( final Specification<T> specification )
    {
        return new Function<T, Integer>()
        {
            int count;

            @Override
            public Integer map( T item )
            {
                if( specification.satisfiedBy( item ) )
                {
                    count++;
                }

                return count;
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Find out the index of an item matching a given specification in an iterable.
     * Returns -1 if it is not found.
     *
     * @param specification
     * @param <T>
     *
     * @return
     */
    public static <T> Function<T, Integer> indexOf( final Specification<T> specification )
    {
        return new Function<T, Integer>()
        {
            int index = -1;
            int current = 0;

            @Override
            public Integer map( T item )
            {
                if( index == -1 && specification.satisfiedBy( item ) )
                {
                    index = current;
                }

                current++;

                return index;
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Find out the index of an item in an iterable.
     *
     * @param item
     * @param iterable
     * @param <T>
     *
     * @return
     */
    @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
    public static <T> int indexOf( T item, Iterable<T> iterable )
    {
        return Iterables.first( Iterables.filter( Specifications.not( Specifications.in( -1 ) ),
                                                  Iterables.map( indexOf( Specifications.in( item ) ), iterable ) ) );
    }

    /**
     * Only apply given function on objects that satisfies the given specification.
     *
     * @param specification
     * @param function
     * @param <T>
     *
     * @return
     */
    public static <T> Function<T, T> filteredMap( final Specification<T> specification, final Function<T, T> function )
    {
        return new Function<T, T>()
        {
            @Override
            public T map( T from )
            {
                return specification.satisfiedBy( from ) ? function.map( from ) : from;
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Creates a comparator that takes a function as input. The returned comparator will use the
     * function once for each item in the list to be sorted by Collections.sort.
     *
     * This should be used if the function to generate the sort key from an object is expensive, so
     * that it is not done many times for each item in a list.
     *
     * @param comparableFunction
     * @param <T>
     *
     * @return
     */
    @SuppressWarnings( "raw" )
    public static <T> Comparator<T> comparator( final Function<T, Comparable> comparableFunction )
    {
        return new Comparator<T>()
        {
            Map<T, Comparable> compareKeys = new HashMap<>();

            @Override
            @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
            public int compare( T o1, T o2 )
            {
                Comparable key1 = compareKeys.get( o1 );
                if( key1 == null )
                {
                    key1 = comparableFunction.map( o1 );
                    compareKeys.put( o1, key1 );
                }

                Comparable key2 = compareKeys.get( o2 );
                if( key2 == null )
                {
                    key2 = comparableFunction.map( o2 );
                    compareKeys.put( o2, key2 );
                }

                return key1.compareTo( key2 );
            }
        };
    }

    private Functions()
    {
    }
}


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