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>>> fact I would prefer (1), as it requires less work.
>> probably (1) for now.
> Isn't that the worst-case scenario?
one in respect to second, though it would take more effort in review.
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South Jersey first got to know Jennifer Weiner when she was a young Inquirer staffer in the 1990s. She later made the transition to best-selling author with her blockbuster debut "Good in Bed." Decades later, Weiner continues to crank out funny and relevant novels that take women seriously, speaking to their common experiences – like diets and dating, marriage and motherhood. Her latest novel, "That Summer," is a sequel to last year's hit "Big Summer." Notice a theme? In this excerpt from the book's first chapter, main characters Daisy and Diana get to know each other via email. It's the perfect read to make sure that summer vibe lasts just a little longer.
Daisy sat up and swung her legs out of bed, sliding her feet along the floor until she found her slippers with her toes. She moved noiselessly through the darkness with the ease of long practice. From the chaise lounge against the wall, a piece of furniture that existed to be a repository for clothes and for baskets of laundry, she picked up her robe, pulling it around her shoulders as she padded down to her desk just off the kitchen. She pulled her laptop free from its charger and carried it to the living room, opening her email in-box. Saks was having a sale; the local library needs volunteers to run the book drive; and she'd been invited to a fiftieth birthday party in Marin County. Brad and I hope you'll join us for a glorious weekend of wine, food, and reminiscing! read the text, beneath the picture of a verdant vineyard in the honeyed glow of a setting sun. Daisy read on, learning that the party would be at the Vintage Wine Estates, that there was a bike ride planned and a spa day for those who didn't want to ride, and that cedar-plank salmon and filet mignon would be served at the Saturday night dinner. She felt a little guilty even looking, because this invitation, of course, was not for her. Daisy's real name was Diana, and she'd used it as part of the email address she'd claimed way back in high school— DianaS at Earthlink. This other woman, the other Diana, was Diana.S at Earthlink. For the last six months, Daisy had been receiving emails that she realized were intended not for her, but for the other Diana.
The other Diana's emails were innocuous things—an invitation to a tennis tournament or a dinner or to grab drinks at a bar. Enough to give Daisy a sense of the contours of the other woman's life, and to realize that, of the 2 of them, the other Diana seemed to be having a lot more fun.
As Lester navigated the stairs on his stumpy legs and heaved himself effortfully onto the couch beside her, Daisy sent the birthday-party invitation email back with a brief note—sorry, I'm the wrong Diana. She was about to open up Facebook and post some obligatory comments—so cute!—on her brother's latest photographs of his kids when her in-box pinged. A note from the other Diana, with sorry!!! in the memo line, had arrived.
Daisy clicked it open. "I'm so sorry you keep getting my emails. I apologize on behalf of my friends."
Daisy stared at the missive, and then, before she could overthink, she wrote back. "No worries," she typed. "I'm enjoying living your life vicariously (in lieu of having my own)." The instant she'd hit "send" she was instantly awash with regret. Had she sounded too flip? Too snobby? Did anyone say "in lieu" anymore? Should she have included an emoji, or at least written "LOL"?
She'd been on the verge of panic when her in-box had dinged again. "LOL," the other Diana had written. "I'm a corporate consultant based in NYC. It's nonstop glamour." With the rolling-eye emoji after that.
"Anything is more glamorous than my life," Daisy typed. "I have a teenager who hates me, a husband who's never home, and an old dog with digestive issues." She hit "send" before she could rethink it. "Sorry, Lester," she murmured. Lester gave her a mournful look, loosed a sonorous fart, and rearranged himself against her leg, where he promptly went back to sleep . . . and, then, again, her in-box was pinging. This time Diana had sent three emojis, all of the scrunched-up, tears-coming-out-of-its-eyes laughing face. "I don't have any children, but I have teenage nieces. I truly believe that teenage girls are God's revenge on women for what they did to their mothers," she wrote.
"I know she doesn't really hate me. She's trying to be independent. It's what she's supposed to do," Daisy wrote back. After 3 different people had recommended it, she'd read a persuasive book that made the case about teenage girls and the work of separation, and she was trying hard to believe the words as she typed them.
"You're right," Diana replied. "But it still must be hard."
"She's probably going to be expelled from her school," Daisy typed. "My husband and I are leaving first thing in the morning to drive to New Hampshire to meet with the headmaster." Daisy, who'd been raised casually Jewish, had never been to a confessional, but she imagined the rite to feel something like this, sitting in the dark and telling all your sins to a stranger.
"Yikes," wrote Diana. "Is that why you're awake at 2 in the morning?"
"I have insomnia," Daisy wrote. "Me and every other middle-aged woman."
"Same here," wrote Diana. "It's the worst. And I'm sorry about your daughter."
Daisy appreciated that the expression of sympathy wasn't paired with a request for information, a demand to know what Beatrice had done to get in trouble. "Do you feel like you're the one who's been called to the principal's office?" Diana wrote.
"Headmaster, not principal," Daisy typed, rolling her eyes, even as she felt grateful. For all his complaining, for all of his fury at Beatrice, Hal hadn't seemed to realize that Beatrice's expulsion had left Daisy feeling like she'd been the one found lacking. "And yes. I feel judged."
For a moment, there was nothing. Then another email appeared, "I bet you could use a treat. If you've got a free night and can meet me in New York, I'll buy you the best Bloody Mary of your life." And again, Daisy barely hesitated before she typed the word Yes.
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We live in a police state. This isn't going to protect any students or faculty any more than we already are. The police on campus have been getting more and more expensive equipment (cars, ATVS, etc) and students pay the bill.
I think saying we live in a police state is an insult to people who actually live in a police state.
Historically this has been a two-edged sword. However having a record of what was actually said keeps everyone honest. There have been many videos of cops acting badly, that evidence was used to either censure them or charge them with crimes. Sometimes when a citizen makes a complaint the video shows them to be lying. Having the evidence helps everyone here.
While I dislike having security cameras everywhere this is really no different than a dashcam.
You should record them yourselves just so they can't accidently lose the video, oops.
"The policy and procedures of the body worn video cameras does not require officers to inform subjects when the officer decides to record them; however, the officer must disclose that information if asked." I feel like this is important information for people to know. I don't like the fact that it could start and stop at the officer's discretion. I think the person being monitored has a right to know. Also, I agree with Colette though in the fact that it is costing the students money could go to other things. It seems a little unnecessary. This is already a really safe campus. On the other hand, I see it as a good way to keep the police in check as well. Students aren't the only ones being recorded.
They crossed the line with the ATV and the million and a half security cameras. Is anyone shocked that this is just the next level of the hyper-present police force on this campus? You're WASTING MONEY.
I'd be willing to let them have cameras if that means they'll stop carrying firearms. I find it very difficult to trust people with guns; those things hurt people.
I find it difficult to trust the judgement of people who can't see past their own fears..
This is nonsense. I chair a community watch program in Leicester and work closely with police officers. I can see using this type of camera system for a SWAT team during a raid but not for campus police or patrol officers. Dash cams are already in police cars. Cameras are all over UNCA. I guess UNCA will have drones peeking into dorm room windows next. At some point the "1984" madness needs to stop. College kids need to learn and have fun. Its college! Not Guantanamo!
Chad: You imply your being on a community watch program "work(ing) closely with police officers" makes your opinion more valid, or worse, seem to imply it is shared by those officers. Now that would be nonsense; don't try to give them a voice, they can speak for themselves.
Your support for the use of BWVs only during a "SWAT team raid" but not for "patrol officers" is undermined first by line of duty death statistics, and second by your misunderstanding of the main value of the BWV.
And though BWVs improve officer safety, their main value is evidentiary; wearing one provides that value to any officer on any force, municipal or campus, at any place and at any time.
I go to UNCA and think that we should all just live in peace together.
Well, at least we know they have the cameras. We could be totally unaware… And, I'm a little perturbed by all the negative comments about the police. If you're not doing anything illegal, then why should you be so annoyed by their presence?… They're here for a reason, and that's to keep things safe and orderly. Also… think about all the other things you're paying for as students.
This is just ridiculous. Where was this when I got my parking ticket? I DEMAND ADMONITION.
Yeah, I would like to know as well… I had a terrible time when the police searched through all of my things. There is obviously some things that need to be changed here on campus.
Has anyone asked the police officers how they feel about wearing a camera? The chief sounds very positive about it, but he probably doesn't wear one.
Body Worn Videos (BWVs) , like the dash-cams that preceded them, improve officer safety, accountability, public trust, and criminal offender conviction rates.
and another by the Univ of Central Florida (website address is too long to include here, but can be easily found on the web).
I challenge anyone to provide reputable reports, studies or journal articles that take the position that BWVs are not a benefit to both police officers and to the public they serve.


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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
That quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., printed on the bulletin cover, set the tone for the commemorative celebration of King's life that brought nearly 200 people to Calvary Baptist Church in Boardman for an ecumenical worship service January 19.
Remembering What is Civil and Doing What is Right was the theme of this year's celebration in the Mahoning Valley, planned by the Martin Luther King Holiday Celebration Planning Committee.
In her greeting to worshippers, Calvary Baptist Church Pastor the Rev. Dr. Rosie Taylor gave thanks for the life and legacy of King.
"We are blessed because he lived. He was a vessel, just like each one of us is a vessel, but if the vessel is not willing to be used, you're still just a vessel," she said. "He allowed himself to be used. He allowed himself, every time he got empty, he allowed the Holy Spirit to fill him back up, because that's the only way he could have triumphed and did what he did in a non-violent way, in a loving way, was if the Holy Spirit was with him."
Clergy and laity from the Baptist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Missionary Baptist Church and other faith traditions led the service in which Bishop Tracy S. Malone of the East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church preached the sermon.
"Participants in today's celebration come from various faith traditions because Dr. King fought for the lives of all people. We all celebrate his work, his life, and his legacy," said the Rev. Kenneth Simon, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church.
"Dr. King wasn't here for one denomination. He was speaking to the whole world," shared Penny Wells, executive director of Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past.
Retired Presbyterian Pastor the Rev. Jim Ray told those gathered, "We're here to celebrate our opportunity to be God's non-violent people."
"We know that God is already doing a new thing among us, just by us being together. The Spirit of God is ushering something new if we would but show up and be present to receive what God has in store for us," Malone said early in her message.
The bishop lamented that it's been 52 years since King was assassinated "and the battle still has not been won." She said that race and racism continue to exist and play a role in American society – whether we are willing to admit it or not – in our school systems, church systems, political systems, law enforcement, health care systems, prison systems, immigration policy, and more.
"I am convinced, and I continue to be convinced, that if we want to pay tribute to Dr. King for having a dream and galvanizing the nation to strive toward freedom and equality, we can keep having celebrations like these every year, and it's all good. We can keep on singing 'we shall overcome,' and it's all good. We can walk away feeling good. Lift every voice and sing, and it's all good. But if we want to keep the dream alive and commit to the work and the vision of King, we have to face the current realities of our times and admit that we have a societal problem, and we have work to do," Malone declared.
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She decried the media and our nation's political leaders for purposely perpetuating the polarization that already exists between peoples and political parties and groups, which causes more divisiveness, perpetuates fear, and creates suspicion, mistrust, anxiety and violence.
"I am convinced that the failure to admit that racism and the lack of civility is a societal problem is what is fueling the segregation. That's what's fueling the hate and the disrespect between people and nations and groups and races and religions and society," Malone said.
"As a people of faith and as a people of conscience, we have a moral obligation to love the Lord with all our hearts and soul and mind and strength and to love our neighbors as ourselves. We have a moral obligation to keep King's dream alive, the dream that is embedded in God's vision," she proclaimed. "This wasn't King's vision. King had God's vision of being beloved community, of being a civil society,"
Malone reminded those gathered that King said, "it's not enough for the church to be active in the realm of ideas but to move out into the arena of social action."
The bishop said it doesn't matter how many worshippers a church has on Sunday morning because when the people of God come together, recognize the resources we have – instead of focusing on what we don't have – and organize, we are a mega church with unlimited potential to engage in ministry with the poor, with the marginalized, and with the disenfranchised – and to become a voice for the voiceless.
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We are available anywhere in the USA with our 4-12 age group and adult distant learning educational classes.
In the light of the principles laid down by the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, it is our main goal to maintain the secular, democratic and modern Turkish education system in America.
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The financial contributions and supports of the Turkish society and Turkish friends constitute the most important resource for our school in order to continue and develop our work.
Orange County Turkish School is an informal educational and cultural school developed by OCTAA as a service to the Turkish-American community in Orange County. The Orange County Turkish School is not intended to replace formal education. The School's primary goals are;
* To teach Turkish-American children and adults, and any interested community members the Turkish language (at varying levels) emphasizing the whole range of communication skills, speaking, writing, reading and comprehension,
* To familiarize the students with the history of Turkish people and Turkey, its geography and people at a level equivalent to elementary/middle school education in Turkey,
* To teach the basics of Turkish culture, heritage, music, tradition, and customs.
The realization of these objectives depends on the development of a sound curriculum, appointment of qualified teachers, support of the community, and continuous evaluation of the Program by the OCTAA Educational Committee.
The School is intended to teach Turkish as a second language to improve the language skills of children with Turkish ancestry, adults, and interested community members. The Turkish School shall operate based on the educational principles of a democratic, secular, and progressive society as well as the guiding principles of the founder of Turkish Republic: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and modeled after the schools in Turkey. This School will be open to all OCTAA membership and public. OC Turkish School fosters a Turkish identity for children of ages 4-12 and adults based on the historical, cultural, and ethical experiences of the Turkish people from historical times to today. The School curriculum includes background in Turkish history, geography, culture, government, literature, music, language, theater, and holiday traditions.
I am Ezgi Şanlı. I was born in Mersin, Turkey. I have been living in Izmir for 5 years. I graduated from 3 different Turkish universities on different fields. I received my first bachelor's degree in English Translation and Interpretation from Hacettepe University in 2015. After that, I also studied Public Relations and Child Development & Education respectively. I attended a long-term Montessori Certificate Program in 2016, then I started to work as a Montessori Educator and English Language Teacher in a private Montessori Kindergarten. For five years, I have been working in this private Montessori Kindergarten on education of 3-6-year-old children and I have been acting as the principal since October 2020. I am exceptionally excited to be a part of the Orange Country Turkish School.
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My name is Banu ACAR KATER. After my childhood years in Izmir, I completed my high school and university education in Ankara. I graduated from Ankara University in 1999 and was appointed a classroom teacher. I worked in Mersin for the first five years of my professional life. I have been working in Izmir since 2004. The sparkle in the children's eyes and their sincere love are my greatest happiness. It is also very meaningful and flattering for me to be together with the students of Orange Country Turkish School, to make little hearts feel the love of Ataturk, to teach them our beautiful Turkish and to make them know Turkey.
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I was born in 1978, in Balıkesir. I graduated from Balıkesir Sırrı Yırcalı Anatolian High School in 1996. I completed my BA studies in Hacettepe University, Department of Translation and Interpretation in 2000 and got my Pedagogical Formation Training Certificate the following year. I worked at public schools as an English teacher between 2001-2019 and as a vice-principal for a short period of time. I have been teaching Turkish in several language schools and giving private lessons since 2004. In 2017-2018 academic year, under the sponsorship of Fulbright Program, I taught Turkish at University of California,Santa Barbara. I got my MA degree in Sakarya University, Department of Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language in 2019.
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Q: HashMap match against Object value I'm making a text-based adventure game in Java, and I want to be able to match the player location with the location of a character/enemy. My list of characters is imported from a text file and put into a Hashmap. The importing from a text file is a requirement.
I can match the location if I specify the value (name) of the character, but I want to be able to have it go through and match on the "location" property of the character. Here is what I have:
Character object:
Character(String name, String location, int maxHp, int maxAttackDmg, String description)

Character HashMap:
HashMap<String, Character> characters = ReadIn.createCharacters();

ReadIn.createCharacters() parses a text file for the character properties.
There is another method called player.getLocation() which gives the player's current location.
Here is what I have working:
if (player.getLocation().equals(skeleton.getLocation()) && skeleton.getDefeated() == false) {
        Encounter e = new Encounter();
        e.fight(player,skeleton);
    }

If the player is in the same location as the character, and the character has not been defeated, then call the fight() method.
What I want to do is this:
if (player.getLocation().equals(any location in the character HashMap) {
        Encounter e = new Encounter();
        e.fight(player,<matched character from HashMap>);
    }

I know what I want to do, I just don't know how to do it in Java. I'm quite new to Java and programming in general. Hopefully I gave enough detail, but I can provide more if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

A: The traditional way to achieve this in Java would be:
for (Character character: characters.values()) {
    if (character.getLocation().equals(player.getLocation())
            && !character.getName().equals(player.getName())
            && !character.isDefeated()) {
        ... fight ...
    }
}

The alternative using streams would be:
characters.values().stream()
    .filter(ch -> ch.getLocation().equals(player.getLocation()))
    .filter(ch -> !ch.getName().equals(player.getName()))
    .filter(ch -> !ch.isDefeated())
    .forEach(ch -> ... fight ...);

If you want a single encounter irrespective of the number of characters with the same location then replace forEach with
    .findAny()
    .ifPresent(ch -> ... fight ...);

A: I assume that your characters map is a "location to character map"
then use this
    Character matchingCharacter = characters.get(player.getLocation());

    if (matchingCharacter != null) {
        Encounter e = new Encounter();
        e.fight(player, matchingCharacter);
    }

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Huawei's Day of Reckoning Could Arrive Next Week
By Yang Ge and Qu Hui
The biggest challenge for Huawei will be to its smartphone business, particularly its premium products.
Next Tuesday could go down as the beginning of the end for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., one of China's biggest high-tech success stories, as its key chip suppliers are formally banned from selling to the company under a highly coordinated U.S. campaign.
Washington has been assaulting Huawei nearly nonstop since May 2019, first cutting off the company from its many U.S. suppliers after determining it illegally sold American products to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Since then the U.S. has taken similar action to cut off Huawei from its non-American suppliers by threatening to cut off those companies from their U.S. partners that provide everything from chip design software to manufacturing equipment.
Those non-American companies include leading global contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Taiwan-based telecom chipmaker MediaTek and global display giants Samsung Electronics and LG Display, both of South Korea.
A very public campaign will force TSMC, the world's most cutting-edge contract chipmaker, to stop supplying key chips that power Huawei's high-end smartphones and telecom networking equipment as of Sept. 15. That date was determined after the U.S. Department of Commerce ordered TSMC to sever its relationship with Huawei on May 15, and gave the pair four months to wind down their previous commitments.
Meantime, two of the world's biggest display-makers, LG Display Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics, are also expected to stop supplying premium displays to Huawei from Sept. 15, under similar U.S. restrictions, Reuters reported, citing a Wednesday report from South Korean online media Chosun Biz.
TSMC is the world's largest foundry and had counted Huawei as its second largest customer, accounting for 14% of its sales. At an event on July 16, TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said the company hasn't received any new orders from Huawei since May 15, and the company had no plans to supply Huawei after Sept. 14.
The biggest challenge for Huawei will be to its smartphone business, particularly its premium products. The company took the crown as the world's largest smartphone-maker for the first time in this year's second quarter, largely based on its strong performance in China, the world's largest smartphone market.
But most expect that part of its business to start declining toward the end of this year or beginning of next, as the company's stockpile of chips starts to run out and consumers increasingly avoid it due to uncertainties about its ability to provide after-sales support. The company earlier suffered a major setback when U.S. sanctions cost it access to Google's app store, a critical component for nearly all of its phones sold outside China that are powered by Google's Android operating system.
On Thursday, Huawei announced it would begin a mass rollout of its self-developed Harmony operating system in its phones starting next year as an alternative to Android.
In early August, Yu Chengdong, head of the company's consumer products division, said at an industry event that the company's newest flagship model, the 5G-capable Mate 40, would go on sale in the fall using the latest chips from its Kirin series. Those chips, which were designed by Huawei's HiSilicon unit and require some of the most cutting-edge chip-making technology, could well be the last to come from the series with the end of the TSMC relationship.
Caixin's coverage of hobbled Huawei
After the U.S. forced an end to the TSMC-Huawei supply agreement, some had said that Huawei could still continue to make phones with lower-performance smartphone chips designed by third parties like Taiwan's MediaTek. But on Aug. 17 the U.S. expanded its campaign to cut off that channel as well using a similar threat of banning U.S. firms from selling to the company. The U.S. also added 38 Huawei affiliates to its list of companies banned from doing business with U.S. partners, bringing the total of banned Huawei affiliates to 152.
A representative from MediaTek told Caixin the company has already applied to the U.S. for permission to sell to Huawei and is waiting for approval.
The Commerce Department now requires that any transactions involving Huawei-affiliates must get official government approval before being allowed to proceed. Such a requirement not only cuts Huawei off from third-party suppliers outside the Chinese mainland, but is also likely to cut it off from potential substitute suppliers on the mainland like Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., which also rely heavily on U.S. products in their supply chains.
The U.S. previously banned Huawei equipment from use in its domestic telecom networks, saying it could pose a national security risk due to suspected ties between the company and Beijing — something Huawei has denied. Since imposing that ban several years ago, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has embarked on a more aggressive campaign not only to get other countries to stop buying Huawei equipment, but also the most recent campaign to cut off Huawei from many of its suppliers.
Market watchers have speculated that Huawei may be trying to assemble a new chip design and manufacturing supply chain that doesn't include any U.S. technology to get around the various bans, though Huawei has yet to comment.
At the end of the July the company set up a display drive department to lessen its reliance on suppliers in South Korea and the U.S. It has also been stockpiling chips to help it continue making phones as the various bans take hold. Analysts forecast the company's stockpiles are adequate to supply the company through early next year.
Contact reporter Yang Ge (geyang@caixin.com) and editor Joshua Dummer (joshuadummer@caixin.com)
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After 11 years, the Jason-2 Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a US-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission.
Last Updated: 14 April 2020 Published: 09 October 2019
Jason-2/OSTM, a joint NASA mission with the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), launched in June 2008.
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Jason-2/OSTM's mission might have ended earlier if not for the ingenuity of its mission teams. In July 2017, the degradation of critical onboard components and control systems required that Jason-2/OSTM move from its original science orbit, deplete excess propellant reserves, and be manoeuvered into a slightly lower orbit away from functioning satellites.
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CNES president Jean-Yves Le Gall said, "Not only did Jason-2 extend the precise climate record established by TOPEX/Poseidon and continued by Jason-1, it also made invaluable observations for small to medium-scale ocean studies in its second, interleaved orbit.
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The technological advancements proven on Jason-1, Jason-2/OSTM and Jason-3 will be put to use well into future decades. Following Jason-3 will be two future Sentinel-6/Jason-CS satellites, planned for launch in 2020 and 2025.
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describe LoggedOutController do
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  end
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The Francis Marion Hotel is located on the edge of the historic district, within easy walking distance of iconic Charleston attractions and restaurants. The hotel was built in 1924, at which time it was one of Charleston's most luxurious hotels. In 1996 it was re-opened after an extensive renovation. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Francis Marion is a beautiful and comfortable hotel. (And the shrimp and grits in their restaurant was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best in Charleston!) The Charleston International Airport in served by Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, Jet Blue, Southwest, and US Air, and the airport is twenty minutes from the hotel.
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Green cement a step closer to being a game-changer for construction emissions
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of CO₂ in the world.
Joe Mabel/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA
Yixia (Sarah) Zhang, Western Sydney University; Khin Soe, Western Sydney University, and Yingying Guo, UNSW
Concrete is the most widely used man-made material, commonly used in buildings, roads, bridges and industrial plants. But producing the Portland cement needed to make concrete accounts for 5-8% of all global greenhouse emissions. There is a more environmentally friendly cement known as MOC (magnesium oxychloride cement), but its poor water resistance has limited its use – until now. We have developed a water-resistant MOC, a "green" cement that could go a long way to cutting the construction industry's emissions and making it more sustainable.
Producing a tonne of conventional cement in Australia emits about 0.82 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂). Because most of the CO₂ is released as a result of the chemical reaction that produces cement, emissions aren't easily reduced. In contrast, MOC is a different form of cement that is carbon-neutral.
Global CO₂ emissions from rising cement production over the past century (with 95% confidence interval).
Source: Global CO2 emissions from cement production, Andrew R. (2018), CC BY
Buildings produce 25% of Australia's emissions. What will it take to make them 'green' – and who'll pay?
What exactly is MOC?
MOC is produced by mixing two main ingredients, magnesium oxide (MgO) powder and a concentrated solution of magnesium chloride (MgCl₂). These are byproducts from magnesium mining.
Magnesium oxide (MgO) powder (left) and a solution of magnesium chloride (MgCl₂) are mixed to produce magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC).
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Many countries, including China and Australia, have plenty of magnesite resources, as well as seawater, from which both MgO and MgCl₂ could be obtained.
Furthermore, MgO can absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere. This makes MOC a truly green, carbon-neutral cement.
Greening the concrete jungle: how to make environmentally friendly cement
MOC also has many superior material properties compared to conventional cement.
Compressive strength (capacity to resist compression) is the most important material property for cementitious construction materials such as cement. MOC has a much higher compressive strength than conventional cement and this impressive strength can be achieved very fast. The fast setting of MOC and early strength gain are very advantageous for construction.
Although MOC has plenty of merits, it has until now had poor water resistance. Prolonged contact with water or moisture severely degrades its strength. This critical weakness has restricted its use to indoor applications such as floor tiles, decoration panels, sound and thermal insulation boards.
How was water-resistance developed?
A team of researchers, led by Yixia (Sarah) Zhang, has been working to develop a water-resistant MOC since 2017 (when she was at UNSW Canberra).
Adding industrial byproducts fly ash (above) and silica fume (below) improves the water resistance of MOC.
To improve water resistance, the team added industrial byproducts such as fly ash and silica fume to the MOC, as well as chemical additives.
Fly ash is a byproduct from the coal industry – there's plenty of it in Australia. Adding fly ash significantly improved the water resistance of MOC. Flexural strength (capacity to resist bending) was fully retained after soaking in water for 28 days.
To further retain the compressive strength under water attack, the team added silica fume. Silica fume is a byproduct from producing silicon metal or ferrosilicon alloys. When fly ash and silica fume were combined with MOC paste (15% of each additive), full compressive strength was retained in water for 28 days.
Both the fly ash and silica fume have a similar effect of filling the pore structure in MOC, making the cement denser. The reactions with the MOC matrix form a gel-like phase, which contributes to water repellence. The extremely fine particles, large surface area and high reactive silica (SiO₂) content of silica fume make it an effective binding substance known as a pozzolan. This helps give the concrete high strength and durability.
Scanning electron microscope images of MOC showing the needle-like phases of the binding mechanism.
We have the blueprint for liveable, low-carbon cities. We just need to use it
Although the MOC developed so far had excellent resistance to water at room temperature, it weakened fast when soaked in warm water. The team worked to overcome this by using inorganic and organic chemical additives. Adding phosphoric acid and soluble phosphates greatly improved warm water resistance.
Examples of building products made using MOC.
Over three years, the team has made a breakthrough in developing MOC as a green cement. The strength of concrete is rated using megapascals (MPa). The MOC achieved a compressive strength of 110 MPa and flexural strength of 17 MPa. These values are a few times greater than those of conventional cement.
The MOC can fully retain these strengths after being soaked in water for 28 days at room temperatures. Even in hot water (60˚C), the MOC can retain up to 90% of its compressive and flexural strength after 28 days. The values remain as high as 100 MPa and 15 MPa respectively – still much greater than for conventional cement.
Will MOC replace conventional cement?
So could MOC replace conventional cement some day? It seems very promising. More research is needed to demonstrate the practicability of uses of this green and high-performance cement in, for example, concrete.
When concrete is the main structural component, steel reinforcement has to be used. Corrosion of steel in MOC is a critical issue and a big hurdle to jump. The research team has already started to work on this issue.
If this problem can be solved, MOC can be a game-changer for the construction industry.
The problem with reinforced concrete
Yixia (Sarah) Zhang, Associate Professor of Engineering, Western Sydney University; Khin Soe, Research Associate, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, and Yingying Guo, PhD Candidate, School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW
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Learned alot from this interview as usual.Thank you Brian and Dr. Steensma for giving us your insights into Secondary MDS and it's causes.
Fantastic discussion. MDS is very serious and this discussion educates people on the pitfalls of some chemo treatments.


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Q: Trying to convert Firebase timestamp to NSDate in Swift I'm trying to use Firebase timestamps in a Swift app. I'd like to store them in my Firebase, and use them as native NSDate objects in my app.
The docs say they are unix epoch time, so I've tried:
NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970:FirebaseServerValue.timestamp)

with no luck.
This:
FirebaseServerValue.timestamp

returns
0x00000001199298a0

according to the debugger. What is the best way to pass these timestamps around?

A: ServerValue.timestamp() works a little differently than setting normal data in Firebase. It does not actually provide a timestamp. Instead, it provides a value which tells the Firebase server to fill in that node with the time. By using this, your app's timestamps will all come from one source, Firebase, instead of whatever the user's device happens to say.
When you get the value back (from a observer), you'll get the time as milliseconds since the epoch. You'll need to convert it to seconds to create an NSDate. Here's a snippet of code:
let ref = Firebase(url: "<FIREBASE HERE>")

// Tell the server to set the current timestamp at this location.
ref.setValue(ServerValue.timestamp())

// Read the value at the given location. It will now have the time.
ref.observeEventType(.Value, withBlock: {
    snap in
    if let t = snap.value as? NSTimeInterval {
        // Cast the value to an NSTimeInterval
        // and divide by 1000 to get seconds.
        println(NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: t/1000))
    }
})

You may find that you get two events raised with very close timestamps. This is because the SDK will take a best "guess" at the timestamp before it hears back from Firebase. Once it hears the actual value from Firebase, it will raise the Value event again.

A: You will get the right time if you use:
let timestamp = FIRServerValue.timestamp()

let converted = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: timestamp / 1000)

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "hh:mm a"
let time = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(converted)

A: For me in swift 5 use in another class:
import FirebaseFirestore
init?(document: QueryDocumentSnapshot) {
        let data = document.data()
       guard let stamp = data["timeStamp"] as? Timestamp else {
            return nil
        }
       let date = stamp.dateValue()
}

A: let serverTimeStamp = ServerValue.timestamp() as! [String:Any]

Store in Firebase something like [ktimeStamp:timestamp as AnyObject]
than after you convert in seconds using Firebase Server Time:
let timestampDate = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: Double(timestamp as! NSNumber)/1000)

A: This question is old, but I recently had the same problem so I'll provide an answer.
Here you can see how I am saving a timestamp to Firebase Database
 let feed = ["userID": uid,
             "pathToImage": url.absoluteString,
             "likes": 0,
             "author": Auth.auth().currentUser!.displayName!,
             "postDescription": self.postText.text ?? "No Description",
             "timestamp": [".sv": "timestamp"],
             "postID": key] as [String: Any]

 let postFeed = ["\(key)" : feed]

 ref.child("posts").updateChildValues(postFeed)

The particularly relevant line of code is "timestamp": [".sv": "timestamp"],
This saves the timestamp as a double in your database. This is the time in milliseconds so you need to divide by 1000 in order to get the time in seconds. You can see a sample timestamp in this image.

To convert this double into a Date I wrote the following function:
func convertTimestamp(serverTimestamp: Double) -> String {
        let x = serverTimestamp / 1000
        let date = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: x)
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateStyle = .long
        formatter.timeStyle = .medium

        return formatter.string(from: date as Date)
    }

This gives a timestamp that looks like this:

A: Firestore has an API for this --> -(NSDate *)dateValue
For example, if you have saved(set) a new document with a field "createdAtDate"
    NSDictionary *dataToBeSaved = @{
        //Tell the server to save FIRTimestamps when the document is created
        @"createdAtDate":[FIRFieldValue fieldValueForServerTimestamp],
        @"lastModifiedDate":[FIRFieldValue fieldValueForServerTimestamp],

       //Other fields
       @"userName":@"Joe Blow"
    }

    [myFirReference setData:[dataToBeSaved]
                    options:[FIRSetOptions merge]
                 completion:^(NSError* error) {
  }

You can get back this information either with a get query or via setting a listener. When you have the snapshot back, just access the dates you saved and convert to NSDate.
  NSDate *date1 = [snapshot.data[@"createdAtDate"] dateValue];
  NSDate *date2 = [snapshot.data[@"lastModifiedDate"] dateValue];

There will be a slight loss in precision, but as most people use dates for data synchronization or sorts, I can't think of a case where the loss of precision would be an issue.

A: You can create a new transformer for ObjectMapper,
import Foundation
import ObjectMapper

class FirebaseDateTransform: TransformType {
    public typealias Object = Date
    public typealias JSON = Double

    open func transformFromJSON(_ value: Any?) -> Date? {
        if let millisecondsSince1970 = value as? Double {
            return Date(timeIntervalSince1970: millisecondsSince1970 / 1000.0)
        }

        return nil
    }

    open func transformToJSON(_ value: Date?) -> Double? {
        if let date = value {
            return Double(date.timeIntervalSince1970) * 1000.0
        }

        return nil
    }
}

Gist

A: Here is some code, based on alicanbatur's answer, that allows a date to be a Double or a server timestamp, and yet still work within an object mapping layer such as ObjectMapper.
enum FirebaseDate {
    case date(Date)
    case serverTimestamp

    var date: Date {
        switch self {
        case .date(let date):
            return date
        case .serverTimestamp:
            return Date()
        }
    }
}

class FirebaseDateTransform: TransformType {
    public typealias Object = FirebaseDate
    public typealias JSON = Any

    open func transformFromJSON(_ value: Any?) -> FirebaseDate? {
        switch value {
        case let millisecondsSince1970 as Double:
            let date = Date(millisecondsSince1970: millisecondsSince1970)
            return .date(date)
        case is [AnyHashable: Any]?:
            return .serverTimestamp
        default:
            return nil
        }
    }

    open func transformToJSON(_ value: FirebaseDate?) -> Any? {
        switch value {
        case .date(let date)?:
            return date.millisecondsSince1970
        case .serverTimestamp?:
            return ServerValue.timestamp()
        default:
            return nil
        }
    }
}

A: You can get a date approximation from Firebase. For example if you're trying to change a firebase user's creation date (a Timestamp) to a Date:
user.creationDate.dateValue()

A: Swift 4 and updated Firebase library variation of Katfang's answer:
let currentTimeStamp: TimeInterval?

let ref = Database.database().reference().child("serverTimestamp")

ref.setValue(ServerValue.timestamp())

ref.observe(.value, with: { snap in
    if let t = snap.value as? TimeInterval {
    print(t/1000)
    currentTimeStamp = t/1000
    }
})


Beautiful Modern Custom Home to be Built on one of the Last Remaining Beach Front Lots in Del Monte Beach in Monterey. Beautiful Ocean Views and only a 15 minuet Walt to Fisherman's Warf.You can buy this home now before Construction Starts and choose your finish colors and materials. Photos of the home are an Artist Rendering of the planned home to be built.


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Боёк — элемент механизма или машины (оружия, станка, инструмента), передающий ударное воздействие. Обе ударные поверхности называются бойками.

Боёк, как правило, является монолитной деталью. Его применяют, когда невозможно придать требуемые прочностные и иные свойства тем элементам конструкции, которые должны были бы совершать ударное воздействие без бойка, и/или когда требуется частая замена в связи с естественным износом.

В огнестрельном оружии боёк — часть ударника или курка, которая непосредственно накалывает капсюль при выстреле.

Бойком также называется часть цепа, применявшегося для обмолота, и бита в играх (в бабки, городки).

Примечания

Части огнестрельного оружия

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White Stout is the ultimate beer in our "White Range". While the word "stout" has come to mean a dark beer, the original meaning was strong and true. Before the porter brewers commandeered the word to mean a stout, or strong, porter it referred to any strong beer. We have rehabilitated and improved the genre. White Stout is a very pale, full bodied, strong beer. American columbus hops are used throughout to give massive floral and resinous character. At a strength of 7.2% this is a true stout. Indeed, few modern stouts of any colour are true to the word for strong.
Tap in Austria. Pretty clear deep golden pour, white medium head with decent retention. Nose: pretty flat, hints of sweet maltiness. Mouth: goes pretty sweet, malty...bitter overall.
UPDATED: DEC 10, 2017 Bottle – Pours a slightly hazy golden colour with a large lasting foamy near white head. The aroma is fruit, malt and spicy hops. Alcohol dominates a bready malt and bitter, grassy taste, moderately dry and more spicy hop bitterness in the finish. Not great.
Bottle @ Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are hops, grass, straw, little caramel and hops. Light bitter finish.
500ml bottle. Golden amber with a thin, frothy white head. Aroma of apples, distinct strong hoppiness, and grain. Blast of alcohol on the palate, along with bitter grains. Extremely fine carbonation; very smooth.
UPDATED: JUN 22, 2017 Birra dal color giallo paglierino con riflessi dorati. Schiuma bianca, fine e persistente. All' olfatto sentori di frutta, miele, caramello e una nota speziata. Al palato morbida con note di frutta sciroppata, mielata, con un finale speziato ed erbaceo. Nel finale rimane amara senza mai far sentire i suoi 7,2 gradi. Una birra stout (forte) che nonostante tale appellativo riesce a scendere giù molto velocemente. Una buona birra molto beverina.


Looking southwest the rails are still in the road. The line continued south and joined the Durango-Chama line.
Just outside the entrance to the park, about a mile south from the water tower, the rails are still in the road.
Nature is slowly reclaiming the land on which the cars sit.
Another view of the tower and pump house.
Two cars on display in Navajo.


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I had two kites as a child and neither flew well, so I gave up. Now my great nieces have this one and it flies well, so I got one, too. Finally, at 63, I have a kite that is easy to fly and a lot of fun to make it do things.
I've flown this kite on very blustery days and it is super responsive. For the money this costs it's a real bargain. I don't think it's a beginners kite to be honest. The larger ones are easier to fly but more expensive. This little kite screams across the sky and it loves doing tricks. So if you get one watch a YouTube tutorial on basic kite techniques. It'll pay dividends. I hope someone from decathalon reads this because if you followed the exact design of this small kite and produced in a 240 + cm size it would be awesome. . (I'm going to buy another today.) Absolutely recommended but persivere with it of you are new to stunt kites.
Thanks for your message. Sorry that the kite hasn't performed as you wish, it is true that they can be more difficult to control in very windy conditions. This particular kite is designed for winds of up to 40km/hr, anything over that and it starts to be quite hard to control.
If you would like to return or exchange the kite for a slightly larger/more technical model (which are suitable for greater wind speeds), then please don't hesitate to contact your nearest Decathlon store or via the online process.
Thanks for your message and feedback on the Rclic 120 Kite. The kite is one of the smallest and lightest in our range of acrobatic kites and intended for use by beginners in relatively calm to moderate conditions (windspeed below 40km/hr). I will of course pass your comments on to the product design team in France.
If you aren't happy with the performance of the product please do return it to your nearest store or via the online process for an exchange (perhaps a larger model) or a full refund.
Amazing kit for the windy weather.
This was my first two string kite. It took me about 30 min to learn how to lift it into air and keep there more then 10 sec :). I'm very happy with this kite. It's very durable. Survived a lot of crashes on the sandy beach and in the park (grassed ground). My son (8 years ols) is mastering a skills now. I can recommend this for anyone.
The best kite for first time buyers. Very durable.
The strings could be more durable.


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Married last February, Matty and Leah chose a friends house near Pakiri beach on New Zealand's north island for their celebration. Their wedding photos, by Tessa Crisp, are absolutely stunning.
This wedding captures so much of what I miss about New Zealand and my friends there; the counties unending beauty is perfectly complimented by simple celebrations that let laughter and love shine through.
Big thanks go to my beautiful friend, Bree, for sharing her sister's wedding pictures with us!
Wow, I could just get lost staring at all those beautiful shots! They are amazing to say the least!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog Meg - I am back in action these days and loving life!!
Such a beautiful and stylish wedding!
Love the photo of the new Zealand wedding with Leah and Matty sitting in front of the very large mural. Leah's dress looks like a continuation of the mural. The way the material of the dress is flowing and the lovely green in the dress is simple stunning.


Starting in my family business. Any advice on what to do, what not to do?
Discussion in 'General Entrepreneur Discussion' started by Varun, Jun 13, 2018.
My family owns a small business in consumer electronics(retail). My long-term goal is to automate it so that it can be a proper Fastlane venture. It fulfills every other criterion in the framework.
However, it has only been 3 days since I joined. Presently, I've just been told to observe sales and told a couple of things about general functioning. I'll also be getting involved as a salesman and in every other facet of the business to learn about it.
What are the things I can do to expedite this process, apart from things such as deliberate practice mentioned in TMF and Unscripted? Looking to learn more efficiently.
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I'm also helping my Dad in his business. I don't know if this is the best way, but can you see any obvious bottlenecks? You're already getting sales so discovering what's preventing growth can quickly bring into focus what you need to learn and do more efficiently.
Since your business is in retail, maybe a chain strategy is one way of scaling. For that you'll almost surely need solid processes and standard operating procedures (SOPS).
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Thanks for the information. Yeah, I'm aware of chaining, that's the way to go. There's a retail chain in my country in consumer electronics(India) that's already done it, though we are into both retail and distribution to other retailers. Most bottlenecks have to do with micromanaging and therefore automation. Didn't know about SOPS, thanks. What do you mean by solid processes?
Most bottlenecks have to do with micromanaging and therefore automation. Didn't know about SOPS, thanks. What do you mean by solid processes?
Sorry to confuse you, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and solid processes are almost the same thing. They help you run your business more smoothly and can definitely prevent needing to micromanage.
Thank you for your troubles! I'm still learning the accounting side of the business but this will help me greatly later on.
Family businesses can be great, but it really depends on how you approach it.
I left a very lucrative position in another company to work side-by side with my father about 7 years ago. We have always been best friends, and I wanted to continue his legacy and spend more time with him, and build on what he had built. I felt it would be a travesty to see all of the good work be sold to someone else, or go down the drain.
A very good friend of mine said, do business with your friends and family, because as you get older that is the only way to stay close to them (with all of the other stresses and demands of life). it is very true!
At first I didn't want others to think I had the golden spoon, or that I was daddy's boy, so I had to work harder and smarter than all of them. I quickly proved my worth, earned their respect, and to this day work diligently to make the company great.
Best things you can do in the company business, are preserve the good things of the business including the culture and relationships.
Worst thing to do, is take advantage of what your family has built, and destroy the foundation. Don't rob the coffers.
Wave the flag high of what your family has done, and build on it. Become a 2nd generation success story, and build the company into the brand with the reputation that it should have. Grind and hustle every day, until you can be proud for yourself, your employees, your customers and represent your family in such a way that they should be represented.
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Thanks for this great comment! I share many of the ideas you mention in your post, and got some new good ones. Always good to hear from those much more experienced than me.
One word of advice from experience that doesn't directly address your question: Understand that making this move WILL add complexity to your family relationships. Not necessarily better or worse, but complicated. Change will probably be difficult and should be approached carefully after you have proven yourself. Don't try too much too fast. Try and have a game plan as to what the next couple years will look like that everyone agrees with. Spell it out, don't just assume your trajectory and expectations are shared. Good luck.
I think that's excellent advice. In general, it's a good idea for most new managers to simply observe for around 1 to 3 months before making any big changes. That gives you time to see how things currently work, who's involved, and start to ask why things are the way they are. Something that looks inefficient at first, might have been developed through the years to respond to problems. There might not be a need to things that way any more, but maybe there still is a real concern that needs to be addressed. I suggest you take lots of pictures and video clips and have a notepad with you, to document the way things are done now.
Yes, I was beginning to sense it in some ways. I'll use this advice, thank you.
Yeah, I've been asking some questions. I actually have no experience at all right now, just trying to see how the accounting side of things work for now. I was told that if I understand that, I'll understand most of the stuff. Thanks!
Yes most definitely. Looking into omnichanneling, will be a while before I can suggest it though. I have no value right now, my suggestions won't really be considered seriously.
I feel that. It takes a while. Lol.


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The new series of Big Brother will be the last to air on Channel 5, it has been confirmed.
Celebrity Big Brother will also be discontinued after another series packed with controversy.
The seminal reality show first aired on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2010, and was relaunched by Channel 5 the following year.
Ahead of the live launch of the new series on Friday evening, Channel 5 announced it will be the final one.
The show suffered falling ratings compared with reality TV competition, such as the wildly popular Love Island on ITV2.
The final of the first series of Big Brother on Channel 4 attracted a TV audience of 9.45 million.
The final of the most recent series, broadcast by Channel 5 last year, was watched by just 1.11 million.
Channel 5 said in a statement: "The forthcoming series of Big Brother will be the last – of either celebrity or civilian versions – on Channel 5. We'd like to thank Endemol and all of the production team who have worked tirelessly to make the show a success.
"We'd also like to thank our brilliant presenters – Emma (Willis) on Big Brother and Rylan (Clark-Neal) from Bit On The Side – for their consummate professionalism, Marcus (Bentley), the voice of Big Brother and all of the housemates who have created so many memorable moments.
Ben Frow, director of programming at Channel 5, told the Edinburgh TV Festival in August: "I plan for a year without Big Brother.