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History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) by Livy
Translated by Rev. Canon Roberts
Book XXVII Chapter 4: Syphax visits Rome; bad omens.[210 BC]
The summer was now drawing to a close, and the date of the consular elections was near at hand. Marcellus wrote to say that it would be against the interests of the republic to lose touch with Hannibal, as he was being pressed steadily back, and avoided anything like a battle. The senate were reluctant to recall him just when he was most effectively employed; at the same time they were anxious lest there should be no consuls for the coming year. They decided that the best course would be to recall the consul Valerius from Sicily, though he was outside the borders of Italy. The senate instructed Lucius Manlius the City praetor to write to him to that effect, and at the same time to send on the despatch from Marcus Marcellus that he might understand the reason for the senate recalling him rather than his colleague from his province. It was about this time that envoys from King Syphax came to Rome. They enumerated the successful battles which the king had fought against the Carthaginians, and declared that there was no people to whom he was a more uncompromising foe than the people of Carthage, and none towards whom he felt more friendly than the people of Rome. He had already sent envoys to the two Scipios [Note 1] in Spain, now he wished to ask for the friendship of Rome from the fountain-head. The senate not only gave the envoys a gracious reply, but they in their turn sent envoys and presents to the king selected for the mission being Lucius Genucius, Publius Poetelius, and Publius Popillius. The presents they took with them were a purple toga and a purple tunic, an ivory chair and a golden bowl weighing five pounds. After their visit to Syphax they were commissioned to visit other petty kings in Africa and carry as a present to each of them a toga praetexta and a golden bowl, three pounds in weight. Marcus Atilius and Manlius Acilius were also despatched to Alexandria, to Ptolemy and Cleopatra, to remind them of the alliance already existing, and to renew the friendly relations with Rome. The presents they carried to the king were a purple toga and a purple tunic and an ivory chair; to the queen they gave an embroidered palla and a purple cloak. During the summer in which these incidents occurred numerous portents were reported from the neighbouring cities and country districts. A lamb is said to have been yeaned at Tusculum with its udder full of milk; the summit of the temple of Jupiter was struck by lightning and nearly the whole of the roof stripped off; the ground in front of the gate of Anagnia was similarly struck almost at the same time and continued burning for a day and a night without anything to feed the fire; at Anagnia Compitum the birds had deserted their nests in the grove of Diana; at Tarracina snakes of an extraordinary size leaped out of the sea like sporting fishes close to the harbour; at Tarquinii a pig had been farrowed with the face of a man; in the district of Capena four statues near the Grove of Feronia had sweated blood for a day and a night. The pontiffs decreed that these portents should be expiated by the sacrifice of oxen; a day was appointed for solemn intercessions to be offered up at all the shrines in Rome, and on the following day similar intercessions were to be offered in Campania, at the grove of Feronia.
Note 1: Scipios = Publius and Gnaeus Scipio
Actions in Italy in 210 BC. Tarentum
Event: Actions in Italy in 210 BC. Tarentum

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Martin Cranie, currently out in Spain on warm weather training with his Blades team-mates, says the credit for United's clean sheets should be shared.
Martin Cranie has featured in United's last seven games - all of which have ended with clean sheets.
The defender, currently out in Spain on warm weather training with his Blades team-mates, says the credit should be shared.
"It is brilliant for everyone connected, everyone is working hard, it is not just the defence who should get credit for it," said Cranie.
"That is what we pride ourselves on - keeping clean sheets, whenever we do we give ourselves a better chance of winning games and we have picked up a lot of points along the way recently, hopefully when we get back we get another one."
Speaking after a session in the sun on Tuesday, he added: "We seem to have trained more than we do at home, we had a hard session this morning. We'll now do a bit of recovery and hopefully there will be a bit of downtime for the lads."


It was Ana's recommendation that took me to Café Gijón on Madrid's central boulevard Paseo de Recoletos. The list she emailed me of cafes that had been popular among writers, included this one, which opened in 1888 and around the time of the Spanish civil war became popular among intellectuals, writers and artists who were collectively known as the Generation of '36.
It's probably closer to its history inside, but as it was such a gorgeous sunny day I opted to sit at a table on the terrace to eat the splendid fixed menu lunch. All around me the men and women – women mostly – were well-heeled and well-dressed and light chatter and laughter filled the air. The atmosphere was relaxed, comfortable, but I didn't sense that I was in a hotbed of ideas and creativity.
Do such places exist? Did they ever – at least as I imagine them? Places where people came together not only to consume the coffee or a cafe's vibe, but as a community, to talk, debate, argue entertain and be entertained – and, ultimately to have an impact on the world?
As the lunch courses were served I watched the people around me and thought about the conversations I had had the day before and the 'universe' that Ana sketched on a piece of paper in an attempt to explain the complex network that was built up. It was difficult to see any connection between those discussions we had and the rarified Café Gijón. But does my romantic notion of radicals and intellectuals fit any better into this world?
The question, I suppose, is whether there is, or can be, a role for intellectual, artistic culture in the shaping of Spain and other countries?
They certainly seem interested in discussing politics in Spain – La Sexte Noche, the current affairs show is on for five hours on a Saturday night. Of course, TV, the web and social media – and good old books – are key mediums by which the ideas of the thinkers can be communicated, but I find I'm hankering after a different level of engagement – the kind of conversations that change not only the way you think, but the way you act.
Back at home, I watched Victoria Coren Mitchell's show How to be Bohemian and thought again about the way new ideas and new thinking can connect with, and impact, the rest of the social 'universe'. The Bohemians were innovative, creative and committed to challenging conventional culture, but the world they created could be perceived as limited and self-indulgent.
During a trip to Jersey for a bijou "conference" at the beginning of the month, I was able to see the extent to which the work of a number of academics not only engaged with the world beyond academia, but was also done with the intention, or hope, of changing it. Perhaps as well as connection and engagement, it's also about purpose. Is it too vague, unrealistic, undesirable even, to say that the connection between intellectuals, artists, thinkers, writers and the rest of society should be the search for the common good? This opens up a whole host of questions, but maybe the common good is a criteria, lens through which I could look at the world intellectuals, writers etc, as opposed to rose tinted ones?


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CRF Visitor Program News May 2011
CRF Visitor Program News May…
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Darwin Arifin
Torrie Aston
Darwin Arifin and Torrie Aston, visitors with Tony McDaniel
Torrie and Darwin are part of an ongoing collaboration between the CRF and students from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher, post-doc with Chuck Meuller
Brian Fisher worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Alternative Fuels Optical Engine Laboratory with Chuck Mueller. Their work focused on gaining an improved understanding of how fuel, injection-system, and in-cylinder thermodynamic properties affect the maximum distance that liquid-phase fuel penetrates into the combustion chamber of a heavy-duty, direct-injection, diesel-cycle engine. Brian is leaving Sandia to join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa as an assistant professor.
Sebastian Kaiser
Sebastian Kaiser, visitor with Dick Steeper
Sebastian, the principle investigator in Sandia's Hydrogen Engine lab, took a distinguished German academic position last year. He has returned to complete the hydrogen research project. He is also involved with the Engine Combustion Network, an international effort initiated by Lyle Pickett to advance engine research through cooperative experiments and simulations. Sebastian is building up a new engine lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Peter Lillo, visitor with Lyle Pickett
Peter Lillo finished his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at U.C. Berkeley and joined Sandia as a student intern. Peter worked with Chuck Mueller, Chris Polonowski, and Brian Fisher last summer to study the behavior of flame lift-off length in diesel engines. Since January, he has conducted research with Lyle Pickett on locating the position of diesel ignition as a function of ambient gas temperature. His work supports activities of the Engine Combustion Network (www.sandia.gov/ECN) for the "Spray A" condition. Peter will continue engine research studies this fall at the University of Michigan, beginning a PhD program advised by Prof. Volker Sick.
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Ashleigh Hughes and her 10-year old daughter are living out of waste bags instead of closets, because their clothes would otherwise be drenched in water.
She's often forced to get rid of furniture and has stopped buying replacements, saying they'd only get damp and fall apart.
"I don't want to put anything in this house, because what's the point?" she told the Gazette. "It's all going to get damaged anyway.
Ashleigh said she even resorted to withholding rent payments to get the council's attention, but it didn't work.
Ashleigh's sent several repair requests but in the past eight years says all she's received from the town hall is foam wall insulation, which hasn't helped solve the issue.
To make matters worse, she says the soggy environment is making her health worse.
"Physically my breathing is bad," she said. "And mentally, I can't have anyone over, because it's embarrassing. So I'm isolated. I'm on my own all the time.
Islington Council leader Richard Watts last year acknowledged that chronic damp has left lots of the town hall's housing stock unfit for purpose. In April, it launched a £22million programme to tackle the issue on the Andover in Finsbury Park and the Girdlestone in Archway.


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Confucius Institute Roundtable : Is the Confucius Institute a Trojan Horse?
By UTS Social and Political Sciences Program and Australian Values Alliance (AVA)
Thu. 15 November 2018
UTS Building 11, Level B1, Room B1.101
Ultimo, NSW 2000
Currently there are 14 Confucius Institutes on the campus of Australian universities and many Confucius Classrooms at Australian schools. The nature of the Confucius Institute has now become a topic for heated debates worldwide.
Issues raised and addressed at this roundtable include:
On what grounds should Australian governments and academic institutions be concerned about the Institutes and Classrooms?
Are these Institutes and Classrooms simply language and cultural organisations?
Is it baseless to claim that they are propaganda vehicles and lack transparency?
How much money is spent by the Chinese government and what does it gain from funding them?
What are the ramifications for Australia financially and politically if universities and government schools close them?
Please join us for this informative and lively forum chaired by Professor Feng Chongyi.
Academics, journalists, policy makers and the general public are all welcome. There will be Q & A session for audience participation.
Press questions can be addressed to:
Prof Feng Chongyi: phone 0417 676 389 Chongyi.feng@uts.edu.au
Mr John Hugh: phone 0414 816 751 info@ava.org.au
About the Australian Values Alliance
The objective of the Australian Values Alliance is to safeguard and promote Australian core values. Please visit http://www.ava.org.au for more information.
Professor Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is China's first holder of PhD in contemporary Chinese history and served as head of China Studies at UTS for 11 years during 1995-2006. His current research focuses on intellectual and political development in modern and contemporary China, as well as political economy of China's provinces. His research explores the intellectual and political changes, the growth of rights consciousness and democratic forces in particular, leading to constitutional democracy in China.
Professor John Fitzgerald served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Australia-China Council of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, chair of the Committee for National and International Cooperation of the Australian Research Council, and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. His research focuses on territorial government and civil society in China and on Australia's Asian diasporas. His publications have won international recognition, including the Joseph Levenson Prize of the US Association for Asian Studies and the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association.
Mr. John Garnaut is an authority on China's elite politics, policy-making and influence and intelligence work abroad. He served asFairfax Correspondent in Beijing, Asia-Pacific Editor of Fairfax Media,Principal Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull & Cabinet. He is currently Analyst at JG Global. His writings cover the Indo Pacific region and Australia's place in it. He is author of The Rise and Fall of The House of Bo, and is working on a new book about Xi Jinping and his cohort of Red Princelings.
Dr. Kevin Carrico is Lecturer in Chinese Studies in Macquarie University's Department of International Studies. He is the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today and the translator of Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire. He is currently conducting research on the Hong Kong independence movement.
Ms. Sheng Xue is a Chinese-Canadian journalist, a writer, a poet and a commentator on current affairs. She has won awards for her journalism from the Canadian Association for Journalists, National Magazine Awards and the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada. She also was awarded the first Crow Poetry Award by North American Crow Poetry Society. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and in 2016 was chosen as one of 110 Canadians as Canada's Stories for its 150 years by MACLEAN's.
Ms. Zhao Yan is an academic in higher education, specializing in Chinese language and culture studies. She taught briefly at Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales in Sydney before moving to Queensland, and has been teaching at the University of Southern Queensland since 1995. Her main research interests include theory and practice of Chinese language teaching and changes in contemporary China.
Australian Values Alliance (AVA)
Does not look like a very objective panel when all of the speakers are anti-China. Another one of AVA's circle jerk off sessions.
AVA Website: www.ava.org.au
AVA objectives
AVA objectives are to safeguard and promote Australian core values which are universal values including democracy, rule of laws, freedom, equality, tolerance and human rights, irrespective of race, gender, different religions, political viewpoints, thinking and theories, etc. AVA welcomes all participants who embrace Australian core values and are willing to make an effort to safeguard such values.
AVA Email: info@ava.org.au


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package com.gameOfLife.algo;

import android.util.Log;

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;

/**
 *   This class contains the tree maintenance functions for quadtrees.
 */
public class TreeNodeBase {
    /**
     *   Construct a leaf cell.
     */
    TreeNodeBase(boolean living) {
        nw = ne = sw = se = null ;
        level = 0 ;
        alive = living ;
        population = alive ? 1 : 0 ;
    }
    /**
     *   Construct a node given four children.
     */
    TreeNodeBase(TreeNode nw_, TreeNode ne_, TreeNode sw_, TreeNode se_) {
        nw = nw_ ;
        ne = ne_ ;
        sw = sw_ ;
        se = se_ ;
        level = nw_.level + 1 ;
        population = nw.population + ne.population +
                sw.population + se.population ;
        alive = population > 0 ;
    }
    /**
     *   Factory methods to allow us to "override" the constructors.
     *   These two calls are the only places that the constructors
     *   should ever be called.  The first two are nonstatic member
     *   functions only so they can be overriden; they do not actually use
     *   the self class at all.  The third provides a mechanism for us
     *   to bootstrap the root.
     */
    TreeNode create(boolean living) {
        TreeNode node=new TreeNode(living) ;
        WeakReference<TreeNode> weakCounter = new WeakReference<TreeNode>(node);
        return node;
    }
    TreeNode create(TreeNode nw, TreeNode ne, TreeNode sw, TreeNode se) {
        TreeNode node=new TreeNode(nw, ne, sw, se);
        WeakReference<TreeNode> weakCounter = new WeakReference<TreeNode>(node);
        return node;
    }
    static TreeNode create() {
        TreeNode node=new TreeNode(false).emptyTree(3);
        WeakReference<TreeNode> weakCounter = new WeakReference<TreeNode>(node);
        return node;
    }
    /**
     *   Set a bit in this node in its relative coordinate system;
     *   returns a whole new node since our nodes are immutable.
     *
     *   In the recursive call, we simply adjust the coordinate system
     *   and call down a level.
     */
    TreeNode setBit(int x, int y) {
        if (level == 0)
            return new TreeNode(true);
        // distance from center of this node to center of subnode is
        // one fourth the size of this node.
        int offset = 1 << (level - 2);
        if (x < 0)
            if (y < 0) {
                Log.d("Driver","1x="+x+", offset="+offset+",y="+y);
                return create(nw.setBit(x + offset, y + offset), ne, sw, se);
            } else {  Log.d("Driver","2x="+x+", offset="+offset+",y="+y);
                return create(nw, ne, sw.setBit(x + offset, y - offset), se);
            }
        else if (y < 0) { Log.d("Driver","3x="+x+", offset="+offset+",y="+y);
            return create(nw, ne.setBit(x - offset, y + offset), sw, se);
        } else {  Log.d("Driver","4x="+x+", offset="+offset+",y="+y);
            return create(nw, ne, sw, se.setBit(x - offset, y - offset));
        }
    }
    /**
     *   If we ever really need to get a bit one at a time, we can
     *   use this subroutine.  For convenience it returns 0/1 rather
     *   than false/true.
     */
    int getBit(int x, int y) {
        if (level == 0)
            return alive ? 1 : 0 ;
        int offset = 1 << (level - 2) ;
        if (x < 0)
            if (y < 0)
                return nw.getBit(x+offset, y+offset) ;
            else
                return sw.getBit(x+offset, y-offset) ;
        else
        if (y < 0)
            return ne.getBit(x-offset, y+offset) ;
        else
            return se.getBit(x-offset, y-offset) ;
    }
    /**
     *   Build an empty tree at the given level.
     */
    TreeNode emptyTree(int lev) {
        if (lev == 0)
            return create(false) ;
        TreeNode n = emptyTree(lev-1) ;
        WeakReference<TreeNode> weakCounter = new WeakReference<TreeNode>(n);
        return create(n, n, n, n) ;
    }
    /**
     *   Expand the universe; return a new node up one level with the
     *   current node in the center.  Requires us to disassemble the
     *   current node.
     */
    TreeNode expandUniverse() {
        TreeNode border = emptyTree(level-1) ;
        TreeNode node=create(create(border, border, border, nw),
                create(border, border, ne, border),
                create(border, sw, border, border),
                create(se, border, border, border));
        WeakReference<TreeNode> weakCounter = new WeakReference<TreeNode>(node);
        return node;
    }

    /*
     *   Our data; the class is immutable so all of these are final.
     */
    final TreeNode nw, ne, sw, se ; // our children
    final int level ;           // distance to root
    final boolean alive ;       // if leaf node, are we alive or dead?
    final double population ;   // we cache the population here
}

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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
Author: David Pilgrim • Foreword by Debby Irving
Size: 8 x 10
Subjects: History-US / African American Studies
All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as undesirables—and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God's will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that support them. Here readers will find representations of the lazy, childlike Sambo, the watermelon-obsessed pickaninny, the buffoonish minstrel, the subhuman savage, the loyal and contented mammy and Tom, and the menacing, razor-toting coon and brute.
Malcolm X and James Baldwin both refused to eat watermelon in front of white people. They were aware of the jokes and other stories about African Americans stealing watermelons, fighting over watermelons, even being transformed into watermelons. Did racial stories influence the actions of white fraternities and sororities who dressed in blackface and mocked black culture, or employees who hung nooses in their workplaces? What stories did the people who refer to Serena Williams and other dark-skinned athletes as apes or baboons hear? Is it possible that a white South Carolina police officer who shot a fleeing black man had never heard stories about scary black men with straight razors or other weapons? Antiblack stories still matter.
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." Each chapter concludes with a story from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
"Pilgrim's book is a well-researched, comprehensive, and ever-present documentation of where we've been and where we still are. All of America needs to confront these injustices in order to put them where they belong, in the past, not the present."
—Philip J. Merrill, CEO and founder of Nanny Jack & Co.
"Undergirding David Pilgrim's effort is his powerful belief that we, as a society, heal better when we stare down the evils that have walked among us, together."
—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
"In its compelling reimagination of the museum experience, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia leverages the potential of museums to effect positive social change in a troubled world. By creating a forum for the safe exchange of ideas, Jim Crow transforms its campus and the world it inhabits, one visit at a time."
—Bradley L. Taylor, associate director, Museum Studies Program, University of Michigan
"This book allows us to see, even feel the racism of just a generation or two ago—and Pilgrim shows that elements of it continue, even today. See it! Read it! Feel it! Then help us all transcend it!"
—James W Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
"As the title implies, the book isn't merely an exercise in shock value. It lays out the philosophy behind Pilgrim's work as a scholar and an activist: that only by acknowledging these artifacts and their persistence in American culture can we honestly confront our not-so-distant past."
—Dave Gilson, Mother Jones on Understanding Jim Crow
"This heavily illustrated book is a memoir of the author's decades-long drive to collect racist books, illustrations, and knickknacks in order to help Americans confront, understand, and move past racism."
—Jan Gardner, Boston Globe, on Understanding Jim Crow
"It is Pilgrim's thoughtful and passionately told story that makes the book more than just another, albeit unique, history of U.S. racism."
—Bill Berkowitz, truth-out.org, on Understanding Jim Crow
"An amazing, wonderful, and important book whose objects and images may offend some readers. Highly recommended for all public and academic levels/libraries."
—F.W. Gleach, CHOICE, on Understanding Jim Crow
"This is a horrifying but important book that should be widely read to gain an accurate view of the long history of racism in the U.S."
—Barbara H. Chasin, Socialism and Democracy, on Understanding Jim Crow
"To justify the exclusion of and violence toward African Americans after the Civil War, pop culture churned out objects, images, songs, and stories designed to reinforce widespread beliefs about white supremacy and black inferiority. Pilgrim has pulled together examples of such so-called black memorabilia, and he clearly explains the meaning and purpose behind them."
—Lisa Hix, Collectors Weekly, on Understanding Jim Crow
David Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum—a ten-thousand-piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice.
Debby Irving is an emerging voice in the national racial justice community. Combining her organization development skills, classroom teaching experience, and understanding of systemic racism, Irving educates and consults with individuals and organizations seeking to create racial equity at both the personal and institutional level. She is the author of Waking Up White.
See and hear author interviews, book reviews, and other news on David Pilgrim's page HERE
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum (e-Book)
David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.
(H)afrocentric Comics: Volumes 1–4
Juliana "Jewels" Smith • Illustrated by Ronald Nelson
An unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day— including gentrification, police violence, and housing—with humor and biting satire.
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
Chris Crass
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World, 2nd Edition
Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning
Re:Imagining Change is an inspirational inside look at the trailblazing methodology developed by the Center for Story-based Strategy over fifteen years of their movement building partnerships.


What Will Brexit Mean for GDPR and My Business?
The prospect of Brexit creates major uncertainty in many areas of life and business, not least when it comes to the question of the data that you hold in your business and how you comply with data protection requirements and GDPR.
What will Brexit mean for the data you hold in your business and what will happen at the end of March when the UK leaves the EU?
The answer, unfortunately like so many aspects of Brexit, is uncertain, and will depend on how events unfold in a situation that is changing constantly and rapidly.
At the time of writing a Withdrawal Agreement has been negotiated between the EU and the UK along with a Political Declaration on the future relationship between the parties. The Withdrawal Agreement is here and the Political Declaration is here. There is also an explainer document here.
This Withdrawal Agreement has been accepted by the EU members states and the UK government, but it has not yet been accepted by the UK parliament and its prospects of doing so are the subject of enormous uncertainty and speculation. We will just have to wait to see what happens on that.
What will it mean for your business if the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK is confirmed and the UK leaves the EU on this basis?
Well, the Withdrawal Agreement deals with data protection and GDPR issues quite specifically and provides clarity in these areas. Articles 70 to 74 of the Withdrawal Agreement in particular deal with data protection and data security of pages 127 – 131.
Article 71 essentially states that the EU's GDPR will continue to apply in the UK for the duration of the transition period provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement. The transition period is to apply up to 31 December 2020 and may be extended.
If this were adopted, it would allow data to continue to flow freely between the EU and the UK on the basis that the UK will continue to adhere to the GDPR during the transitionary arrangements. And it would seem reasonable to assume based on what is outlined in the Political Declaration that the transition period should enable arrangements to be put in place so that a finding of adequacy to be made by end of the transition period so that data can continue to flow freely thereafter.
Something that is not mentioned specifically in the Withdrawal Agreement and that will have to be clarified as events unfold, is the status of UK based data controllers for the purposes of compliance with Article 27 of the GDPR. At present, the UK is a member state of the EU and data controllers established in the UK are, by definition, established in the EU.
However, after the UK leaves the EU, UK based data controllers holding data on people in the EU who do not have any establishment in another member state of the EU, will not be established in the EU for the purposes of the GDPR and will presumably have to appoint a representative in the EU pursuant to Article 27 of the GDPR in order to be compliant.
Whatever about the uncertainties of Brexit, the one thing that's for sure is that our Brexit Business Data Survival Guide will help you to understand what you can do to prepare your business whatever happens.
Flor McCarthy is one of Ireland's leading lawyers and a recognised expert in marketing. He has particular expertise and hands-on practical experience in privacy, data protection and GDPR issues for marketers.
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Oscar for bedste danseinstruktion eller Academy Award for Best Dance Direction var en filmpris, som blev uddelt ved Oscaruddelingen fra 1935 til 1937.

Vindere og nomineringer
 1935: Dave Gould – Broadway Melody of 1936 ("I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling") og Folies Bergère de Paris ("Straw Hat")
 Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1935 ("Lullaby of Broadway") og ("The Words Are in My Heart")
 Bobby Connolly – Broadway Hostess ("Playboy from Paree") og Go into Your Dance ("Latin from Manhattan")
 Sammy Lee – King of Burlesque ("Lovely Lady") og ("Too Good to Be True")
 Hermes Pan – Top Hat ("Piccolino" og "Top Hat")
 LeRoy Prinz – All the King's Horses ("Viennese Waltz") og The Big Broadcast of 1936 ("Elephant - It's the Animal in Me")
 Benjamin Zemach – She ("Hall of Kings")
 1936: Seymour Felix – Revykongen Ziegfeld ("A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody")
 Busby Berkeley – Gold Diggers of 1937 ("Love and War")
 Bobby Connolly – Cain and Mabel ("1000 Love Songs")
 Dave Gould – Born to Dance ("Swingin' the Jinx Away")
 Jack Haskell – One in a Million ("Skating Ensemble")
 Hermes Pan – Swing Time ("Bojangles of Harlem")
 Russell Lewis – Dancing Pirate ("The Finale")
 1937: Hermes Pan – En jomfru i fare ("Fun House")
 Busby Berkeley – Varsity Show ("The Finale")
 Bobby Connolly – Ready, Willing, and Able ("Too Marvelous for Words")
 Dave Gould – A Day at the Races ("All God's Children Got Rhythm")
 Sammy Lee – Ali Baba Goes to Town ("Swing Is Here to Stay")
 Harry Losee – Thin Ice ("Prince Igor Suite")
 LeRoy Prinz – Waikiki Wedding ("Luau")

Danseinstruktion

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Q: RDD with keys and dicts to dataframes I have data of many temperature measures from different times and continents.
I load the data to an rdd (i gave in this code sample example of the data), combine it by key and then transform the list of dicts to dataframe.
def to_list(a):
    return [a]

def append(a, b):
    a.append(b)
    return a

def extend(a, b):
    a.extend(b)
    return a

def main():
    sc = pyspark.SparkContext()
    parsing_obj = [[('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})], [('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})],
                   [('America', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})], [('America', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})],
                   [('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})]]

    rdd = sc.parallelize(parsing_obj)
    rdd = rdd.map(lambda l: l[0]).combineByKey(to_list, append, extend)
    print rdd.collect()

Which output this structure of data:
[
('Africa', [{'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}]),
('America', [{'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}])
]

\
Is there way to do it without foreach every key of the rdd in the driver, create dataframe and save to hdfs?
I'm looking to more parallel and generic way to do it.

A: You can simply do the following
parsing_obj = [[('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})], [('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})],
               [('America', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})], [('America', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})],
               [('Africa', {'time': '1', 'temp': '2'})]]

df = sc.parallelize(parsing_obj).toDF(['info'])
df = df.select(df.info._1.alias('country'), df.info._2.alias('info'))
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
df = df.groupBy(df.country).agg(F.collect_list(df.info).alias('info'))
df.show(truncate=False)

which would give you
+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|country|info                                                                             |
+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Africa |[Map(temp -> 2, time -> 1), Map(temp -> 2, time -> 1), Map(temp -> 2, time -> 1)]|
|America|[Map(temp -> 2, time -> 1), Map(temp -> 2, time -> 1)]                           |
+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

And you can save it as a parquet file as
df.coalesce(1).write.parquet('path to parquet file`)

Updated
If you don't want the schema of the table to be saved and want to save it as plain text csv then you would need to convert the dict and arrays to plain texts. I have defined a udf function for converting the dict to text json and used concat_ws to convert all columns into csv text
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql import types as T
import json
def makeStringFunc(list):
    return '['+', '.join(json.dumps(x).replace("\"", "'") for x in list)+']'

makeStringUdf = F.udf(makeStringFunc, T.StringType())
df = df.groupBy(df.country)\
    .agg(makeStringUdf(F.collect_list(df.info)).alias('info'))\
    .select(F.concat_ws(", ", F.col('country'), F.col('info')))

which should be
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|concat_ws(, , country, info)                                                                |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Africa, [{'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}]|
|America, [{'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}, {'temp': '2', 'time': '1'}]                           |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

And you can save it using csv function as
df.coalesce(1).write.csv("path to ouput path")

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Pat Mills, conhecido como o "padrinho dos quadrinhos britânicos", é um escritor e editor de histórias em quadrinhos que, junto com John Wagner, promoveu uma renovação dos quadrinhos de ação britânicos  durante a década de 1970. Em suas obras nota-se uma grande dose de violência e de idéias antiautoritárias e humanistas. Mills é mais conhecido por ter criado a revista 2000 A.D. e por ter auxiliado no desenvolvimento do personagem Juiz Dredd.

Ele começou sua carreira como sub-editor para a D.C. Thomsom & Company Ltd, onde encontrou Wagner. Em 1971 ambos se tornaram freelance, e em breve já estariam escrevendo roteiros para os quadrinhos humorísticos femininos da editora IPC.Depois que a D.C. Thomson lançou Warlord, uma bem sucedida publicação semanal com histórias de guerra, Mills foi convidado para, em 1975, desenvolver um título semelhante para a rival IPC. Mills permaneceu no departamento feminino da editora, a fim de evitar a atenção dos outros departamentos da editora; e trabalhou, de forma secreta, junto com Wagner e Gerry Finley-Day num novo título: Battle Picture Weekly. As histórias da Battle eram mais violentas, e seus personagens pertenciam à classe operária, diferentemente dos outros títulos da IPC. Com esses elementos, Battle se tornou um sucesso imediato.

Pouco antes do lançamento da publicação, Mills renuncia ao cargo de editor. Mais tarde, entretanto, ele escreveria para a revista a premiada história Charley's War, ambientada na Primeira Guerra Mundial, com desenhos de Joe Colquhoun.

Depois de lançar Battle, Mills se voltou para o desenvolvimento de outra revista em quadrinhos: Action, lançada em 1976. Action causou polêmica e protestos por parte da mídia britânica, devido à grande carga de violência presente nas histórias. Durou dois anos antes de ser retirada do mercado.

Sua próxima criação foi uma revista voltada para a ficção científica: 2000 AD (1977). Do mesmo modo que Battle e Action, Mills desenvolveu o conceito de várias séries que depois ficariam a cargo de outros roteiristas. Mils cuidou, inclusive, da criação de grande parte do universo de Juiz Dredd, escrevendo algumas das primeiras histórias do personagem, quando o criador John Wagner se ausentou temporariamente.

Em 1978 a IPC lança uma revista para competir com a 2000 AD, chamada Starlord, que teve uma curta vida editorial. Para esta publicação, Mills criou Ro-Busters, história que após o cancelamento de Starlord passou a fazer parte do mix de 2000 AD. Com Ro-Busters, Mills deu início a um mini-universo no qual se passaria algumas de suas histórias, como ABC Warriors e Nemesis the Warlock; o artista Kevin O'Neill esteve envolvido na criação destas três sagas.Nemesis apresentava um herói alienígena  de caráter moralmente ambíguo, que enfrentava um império despótico comandado por humanos. Esta história permitiu ao autor expressar suas idéias sobre imperialismo e religião. Outro de seus trabalhos consagrados foi Sláine, uma história de fantasia baseada na mitologia celta e no neo-paganismo. Sláine foi co-criado pela ilustradora Angela Kincaid, então esposa de Mills. A mini-série The Horned God (desenhada por Simon Bisley) foi publicada no Brasil pela extinta editora Pandora Books.

Sempre teve pouco sucesso no mercado estadunidense, à exceção da obra Marshal Law (desenhada por Kevin O'Neill), uma brutal sátira aos super-heróis, publicada nos EUA pelo selo Epic da Marvel Comics. No Brasil, a primeira minissérie de Marshall Law e uma edição especial foram publicadas pela Editora Abril.

Ligações externas

Roteiristas de histórias em quadrinhos do Reino Unido


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For those in the market for a new scrub a dub dub hot tub and beach camera, the Fujifilm FinePix XP50 will be available in March (2012) in orange, silver, green, blue and tough guy black. The suggested retail price for the XP50 is a very wallet-friendly $199.95. Fujifilm will also be selling and XP camera accessory kit that includes a floating camera strap, protective silicone skin and a neoprene camera pouch.
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Drugs and alcohol are often used by people to have fun and relax, but they can also be very addictive and sometimes very dangerous. As you get older, more teens and even middle-school-aged friends might be using drugs or drinking alcohol. While it might seem fun to them at the time, these things can often become addictive. Drug and alcohol education for kids is important in preventing substance abuse problems later down the road.
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You might not know it, but some medicines are legal drugs. Doctors give them to patients for things like pain. But sometimes, people can get addicted to these medicines. Even though they are legal, they can be very dangerous if someone takes them in high doses or too often. Selling these prescribed drugs to others is illegal. Other forms of drugs might not be like the kind we usually think of.
For example, alcohol and cigarettes are also drugs in their own way. Cigarettes contain nicotine, which is a very addictive substance. Drinking is also addictive for some people. Those who drink a lot may feel like they are escaping reality. But too much alcohol can be very deadly, especially if someone is driving a car. You should never drink any alcohol and try to drive. For people who drink too much or are alcoholics, it can be very bad for their health and even deadly.
Drug and alcohol education for kids should include knowledge about illegal substance because there are also many drugs that are always illegal. This means you can't buy them at the store and you can go to jail if you get caught with them. Some examples of illegal drugs are heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD, and crystal meth. These drugs are very dangerous for the body. Some of them can cause a fast heartbeat, panic attacks, and many other dangerous physical symptoms.
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A funeral service for Roger Byrne was held at St Michaels however he is not buried there as he was cremated.Roger was living off Church Rd Flixton at the time of his death but he actually came from Gorton.Another Busby Baby babe who died at Munich was David Pegg.He was living on Gleneagles Rd Flixton at the time of his death and is buried in his home town of Doncaster.
Roger Byrne's son was born after his father's death and was also named Roger Byrne. The son went to Caius House school on Church Road then to William Hulme's Grammar.


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package com.vaadin.v7.tests.server;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.vaadin.v7.data.Property.ValueChangeEvent;
import com.vaadin.v7.data.Property.ValueChangeListener;
import com.vaadin.v7.ui.TextField;

public class EventRouterTest {

    int innerListenerCalls = 0;

    @Test
    public void testAddInEventListener() {
        final TextField tf = new TextField();

        final ValueChangeListener outer = new ValueChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void valueChange(ValueChangeEvent event) {
                ValueChangeListener inner = new ValueChangeListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void valueChange(ValueChangeEvent event) {
                        innerListenerCalls++;
                        System.out.println("The inner listener was called");
                    }
                };

                tf.addListener(inner);
            }
        };

        tf.addListener(outer);
        tf.setValue("abc"); // No inner listener calls, adds one inner
        tf.setValue("def"); // One inner listener call, adds one inner
        tf.setValue("ghi"); // Two inner listener calls, adds one inner
        assert (innerListenerCalls == 3);
    }
}