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package org.cloudburst.etl;

import java.io.*;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;

import com.google.gson.*;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;

import org.cloudburst.etl.model.Tweet;
import org.cloudburst.etl.util.*;

/**
 * Main class to process Q3 files.
 */
public class Q3 {
    private static final String TAB = "\t";
    private static final String UNDERSCORE = "_";

    public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, Text> {

        /**
         * Mapper method that keeps userId and date as the KEY, and all other required fields as
         * the VALUE.
         */
        public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            try {
                String line = value.toString();
                JsonElement jsonElement = TweetUtil.throwExceptionForMalformedTweets(line);
                Tweet tweet = TweetUtil.generateTweet(jsonElement);

                if (tweet != null) {
                    TextSentimentGrader.addSentimentScore(tweet);
                    if (tweet.getImpactScore() != 0) {
                        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.ENGLISH);
                        format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(TweetUtil.TIME_ZONE_UTC_GMT));
                        StringBuilder outputValue = new StringBuilder();
                        outputValue.append(tweet.getImpactScore()).append(UNDERSCORE);
                        outputValue.append(tweet.getTweetId()).append(UNDERSCORE);
                        String censoredText = TextCensor.censorBannedWords(tweet.getText());
                        /* Text is printed in Hex to avoid encoding problems */
                        outputValue.append(Hex.encodeHexString(censoredText.getBytes("UTF-8")));
                        String date = format.format(Date.parse(String.valueOf(tweet.getCreationTime())));
                        context.write(new Text(tweet.getUser().getUserId() + UNDERSCORE + date),
                                new Text(outputValue.toString()));
                    }
                }
            } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
    }

    public static class Reduce extends Reducer<Text, Text, Text, Text> {

        /**
         * The Reducer method iterates over the values with same key (userId and date). Then it sorts them. Finally it print first the
         * 10 best positive and 10 worst negative.
         */
        public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<Text> values, Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            HashSet<String> uniqueTweetIds = new HashSet<String>();
            ArrayList<Q3Object> posTweets = new ArrayList<Q3Object>();
            ArrayList<Q3Object> negTweets = new ArrayList<Q3Object>();

            String[] keyParts = key.toString().split(UNDERSCORE);

            /* Iterate over the values with the same key */
            for (Text value : values) {
                String[] parts = value.toString().split(UNDERSCORE);
                /* If the tweet id is unique add a new object */
                if (!uniqueTweetIds.contains(parts[1])) {
                    uniqueTweetIds.add(parts[1]);
                    Q3Object q3 = new Q3Object(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]);
                    if (Integer.parseInt(parts[0]) > 0) {
                        posTweets.add(q3);
                    } else {
                        negTweets.add(q3);
                    }
                }
            }

            /* Sort the objects according to the sorting criteria (see Q3Object) */
            Collections.sort(posTweets);
            Collections.sort(negTweets);

            int count = 0;
            /* Keep at most 10 positive tweets per user and date */
            for (Q3Object p: posTweets) {
                count++;
                if (count > 10) {
                    break;
                }
                StringBuilder outputValue = new StringBuilder();
                outputValue.append(keyParts[1]).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(p.getImpactScore()).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(p.getTweetId()).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(p.getText()).append(TAB);
                context.write(new Text(keyParts[0]), new Text(outputValue.toString()));
            }
            count = 0;
            /* Keep at most 10 negative tweets per user and date */
            for (Q3Object n: negTweets) {
                count++;
                if (count > 10) {
                    break;
                }
                StringBuilder outputValue = new StringBuilder();
                outputValue.append(keyParts[1]).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(n.getImpactScore()).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(n.getTweetId()).append(TAB);
                outputValue.append(n.getText()).append(TAB);
                context.write(new Text(keyParts[0]), new Text(outputValue.toString()));
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * The MAIN method serves as a driver of the custom job.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InterruptedException {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        Job job = new Job(conf, "q3");

        job.setJarByClass(Q3.class);
        /* Set output keys for mapper and reducer */
        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(Text.class);
        job.setMapperClass(Map.class);
        job.setReducerClass(Reduce.class);
        job.setMapOutputValueClass(Text.class);
        job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
        job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);

        /* Set input and output file formats */
        FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));

        job.waitForCompletion(true);
    }
}


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The Arts of the Fusilier is an assembly of essays, factoids, and "how to's" regarding the shooting sports. It is currently broken down into roughly three sections.
The first is musings on The Second Amendment, local Long Island and New York State politics. I undertake this project as much for catharsis as any other reason, but my hope is that some will take heart in what is written here and embrace the profoundly important significance of the Second Amendment. The success or failure of any democracy is dependent upon two things. The first is consent of the governed, and the second is that the people of that democracy bestow that consent based upon an informed position and reserve the means to withdraw that consent.
The second general section is Reloading for the Rifle for the budding reloading enthusiast, or perhaps even, the shooter who is on the fence about getting involved in reloading. Being assembled strictly for Sh*ts & Giggles, the information presented should not be interpreted as having any merit or instructional content whatsoever. Any decision on the reader's part to take any of the content herein provided as being a good idea is completely misguided and is strongly discouraged. (This is the Disclaimer part). Have fun reading but always fall back on the published reloading manuals! Now if you would still like to follow along with the process, at the end of each article will be a "Next Up" link with the title of the article that follows. If you'd like to follow along logically (in my mind anyway) just click on that link. If you'd prefer hopping around, click on the Category, "Reloading for Rifle" link and it will take you to a page of article titles you can hop to to your heart's content!
The third section "Bullet Casting" arose from the shortage of factory made heads with which to pursue this hobby. So, driven by curiosity and some necessity, I dove into the deep end of the pool and started casting my own bullets. Please feel free to join in on the fun and come along as I discover the joys and frustrations of casting my own bullets.
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Not being one to be inclined toward leaving well enough alone, I have recently taken on yet another challenge. As anyone who has known me for very long knows, I am pretty much a Social Libertarian, and a Fiscal and Constitutional Conservative. I have also been an active participant in the shooting sports for most of my life since about age ten or so. I have actually forgotten when I became a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, Over the last few years, I have upgraded my membership from Life to Patron. But a few weeks ago, I also volunteered to become an NRA-ILA Election Volunteer Coordinator. This is what led to setting up a section of this blog to house some "Pointless Ruminations" in support of Second Amendment issues. While I apologize to some of my less conservative friends in advance for perhaps upsetting their anti Second Amendment viewpoints, I can no longer remain silent while the concerted effort to strip our democracy of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms goes onward. Stay Tuned!
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Die Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) war die erste öffentlich zugängliche Eisenbahnlinie der Welt. Sie führte von Wandsworth über Mitcham nach Croydon in der Grafschaft Surrey (heute alles Stadtteile im Süden von London). Sie wurde am 26. Juli 1803 eröffnet und diente ausschließlich dem Güterverkehr. Der verantwortliche Ingenieur war William Jessop, die Spurweite betrug 4 Fuß und 2 Zoll (1270 mm).

Im 19. Jahrhundert waren in Großbritannien bereits zahlreiche Bahnstrecken für Pferdefuhrwerke errichtet worden. Diese waren jedoch immer Teil eines Kanalprojekts bzw. dienten dem Transport von abgebauten Bodenschätzen zu Verladeplätzen an Schifffahrtswegen. Der ursprüngliche Plan aus dem Jahr 1799 sah auch zwischen Wandsworth und Croydon einen Kanal vor. Doch die Wasserentnahme aus den nahe gelegenen Bächen und dem Fluss Wandle hätte die Stilllegung zahlreicher mit Wasserkraft angetriebener Mühlen und Fabriken zur Folge gehabt.

Bei der Surrey Iron Railway handelte es sich nicht um eine Eisenbahn im modernen Sinne, da sie wie eine Mautstraße funktionierte: Es gab keinen festen Fahrplan und jeder konnte die Bahn nach Bezahlung einer Maut mit seinen eigenen Pferden und Wagen befahren. Die 14,5 km lange Strecke begann an einem Dock an der Themse und folgte dem Fluss Wandle nach Croydon; eine kurze Zweigstrecke führte von Mitcham nach Hackbridge. Als Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway wurde die Strecke im Jahr 1805 von Croydon über Purley und Coulsdon zu den Steinbrüchen in Merstham verlängert (dieser Abschnitt war bis 1838 in Betrieb).

Die zunehmende Verbreitung von schnelleren und stärkeren Dampflokomotiven bedeutete das Ende der Pferdebahn; 1846 wurde die SIR stillgelegt. Die Wimbledon and Croydon Railway eröffnete 1855 einen Teil der Strecke wieder, die elf Jahre später ins Netz der London, Brighton and South Coast Railway integriert wurde. Auf einem bedeutenden Teil der einstigen SIR-Route verkehrt heute die Tramlink-Straßenbahn.

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Science Says: Blacks and Whites are Born Racists
But that's no defense.
By Will Offensicht | September 23, 2009
We hear a great deal of bloviating about the evils of racism, particularly from liberals who think that any and all criticism of Mr. Obama is due solely to racism. Nobody could possibly criticize him for his policies, they being so self-evidently all-wise and all-benevolent, so all these complaints we hear must be due to racism. Time for yet more sensitivity training and more affirmative action!
Racism is Genetic
Newsweek dropped a bombshell into this mix of charges and counter-charges with an article "See Baby Discriminate." New research indicates that children as young as six months judge other people based on skin color.
Birgitte Vittrup, a researcher from the University of Texas, recruited about a hundred Caucasian families with children 5 to 7 years old. With the parents' permission, she administered a Racial Attitude Measure asking such questions as:
How many White people are nice?
(Almost all) (A lot) (Some) (Not many) (None)
How many Black people are nice?
During the test, the descriptive adjective "nice" was replaced with more than 20 other adjectives, like "dishonest," "pretty," "curious," and "snobby."
The families were located in Austin, a liberal city where most parents are multiculturalists who embrace diversity eagerly. To the researcher's surprise, the kids weren't colorblind at all. They said that very few white people were mean and that either "some" or "a lot" of blacks were mean, for example.
When given the results of the test, most parents stated that they didn't want to make their children race-conscious. They avoided discussing race, skin color, or other attributes which could be subject to racism. They had told their children generalities such as "Everybody's equal," or "God made all of us," but they'd avoided explicit talk about racial differences.
More disturbing, Vittrup also asked all the kids a very blunt question: "Do your parents like black people?" Fourteen percent said outright, "No, my parents don't like black people"; 38 percent of the kids answered, "I don't know." In this supposed race-free vacuum being created by parents, kids were left to improvise their own conclusions-many of which would be abhorrent to their parents. [Out of the mouths of babes! emphasis added]
The article went on to explain that the "politically correct" practice of not talking about race contrasts with our explaining other color preferences to children. Most parents teach that pink is for girls and that blue is for boys despite the entreaties of feminists, but children are left to figure out black and white on their own.
It turns out that differences in skin color are just as visible as differences in gender and that Caucasian children tend to believe that people who look the same as themselves more likable and are more trustworthy. Such group preferences are visible wherever people of mixed races come together - people tend to sort each other out by race.
Moody found that the more diverse the school, the more the kids self-segregate by race and ethnicity within the school, and thus the likelihood that any two kids of different races have a friendship goes down.
It's no surprise that white children would prefer white people to black people because white people are more like themselves. What surprises some people, however, is that black children also show strong preferences for white over black.
Back in the 1940's, Dr. Kenneth Clark studied what he thought were the psychological effects of segregation on black children. Black children were given a white doll and a black doll and asked which was nicer. Black children overwhelmingly chose the white doll. Liberals immediately blamed white racism, saying that racists had communicated the message that blacks were inferior so strongly that even black children believed it.
The test was repeated in a Harlem school in 2005. After decades of "black is beautiful," affirmative action, efforts by all and sundry to proclaim that black people are equal in every way to whites, much yelling and screaming about the evils of racism, and a lifetime of seeing black athletes outperform whites in nearly every professional sport, 15 of the 21 black children said that the white doll was good and pretty and the black doll bad.
It appears that a preference for white over black is built into the genes of children of all races: both white children and black children have an inbuilt preference for white over black. Color-consciousness, which is another word for racism, is built into our genes!
What About Gaiety?
We shouldn't expect the fact that racial preferences are genetic to make liberals any more tolerant of color preferences: being a liberal means you twist any scientific fact to support your views, no matter what. In recent years, we've noted a large number of articles proclaiming the discovery of a "gay gene" which makes homosexuals prefer to bond to their own gender rather than to the opposite gender. Liberals all over the world are throwing this "scientific" evidence at conservatives, saying, in effect, "They're that way because it's in their genes. They're here, they're queer, get used to it."
Now that Newsweek, no less, has reported that babies come from the factory pre-equipped with strong color preferences regardless of what their own parents might wish, should we expect liberals to accede to this reality? Logically, we should expect liberals to accept the scientific-proven genetically-caused fact that most people prefer to associate with people who're like themselves and that people in general find white skin preferable - in other words, that racism is every bit as natural and inevitable as homosexuality, and should receive the same deference and respect. Right?
The accompanying photograph illustrates our opinion regarding the exact moment when liberals will accept the same sorts of scientific evidence they demand that conservatives accept.
Of course, it could be that despite being genetically caused, both racism and homosexuality are morally wrong and should be opposed - but that would be a religious moral view, and we can't have those in modern America, now can we?
Will Offensicht is a staff writer for Scragged.com and an internationally published author by a different name. Read other Scragged.com articles by Will Offensicht or other articles on Society.
See Baby Discriminate
awesome sauce said:
If being gay is acceptable because one is born that way, why isn't being racist?
twibi said:
To liberals, there is no single worse crime on the planet then being racist. You could be a murderer, rapists, even child molester - all are redeemable. But racism? Never.
kenxq5471 said:
Now I would like to see the same tests done on black children. I would believe that just as many infant racists would be found in that study as well.
Werebat said:
I'm a White man. I didn't ALWAYS prefer Black women to White women. There was a time when I more or less exclusively dated White women, not that I avoided Black women specifically (one of my first girlfriends in high school was half Cape Verdean).
After taking a job working with people, where I'm often the only White person in the room, and working there for a few years, I began to notice myself being attracted to more and more Black women outside of the workplace. Today I much prefer the look of Black women to that of White women. Not that I find White women unattractive, but I'd probably tend towards looking for a Black woman if I were looking for a serious relationship (I'm already in a serious relationship now, and it's with a woman who is neither Black nor White, but she is considerably darker than I am).
There were probably a number of reasons for this shift in attraction, but one of the most important, I think, was just a simple increase in the frequency of Black faces I saw in the course of a typical day.
Black children (and other non-White children as well) living in the US are living in a sea of White people. They see White faces every day, outside of their houses as well as on television. I think that rather than a "genetic tendency" towards preference for White faces, we humans may simply have a tendency (genetic or not) towards preference for what we perceive as "typical" or "normal" faces, given the environment in which we live.
An interesting study would be one involving White children growing up in an area dominated by another racial group. Which dolls would they choose?
- Ron ^*^
Emmannuel said:
Stories suggest that white expat kids who grow up in nonwhite societies like white dolls.
The article says it perfectly: racism is inborn so, according to liberalspeak, it should be accepted as normal. Liberals (and libertarians for that matter) are the first to yell and scream about leaving alone the way people are born. Newsweek is too stupid to understand their own implications.
Emmannuel -- I'm curious about these stories. Where are you getting your information?
Lfon -- I'm not sure that the concept of discrimination being an inborn human trait would really rock the worlds of many Liberals or libertarians ("discrimination" being at its core just a form of categorizing). More to the point, I'm not sure that many in either group actually believe that anything and everything programmed into the human behavior genome is acceptable and should be tolerated in modern society. In fact I'd be very surprised to find anyone who actually subscribes to that idea. The question is what is acceptable, what isn't, and how one makes the distinction.
After reading the actual article in question, it seems to me that the real conclusions of the researchers were simply that there was an ideal window of opportunity to begin teaching young children about race, and that this window might come earlier than most had expected. Even with the doll experiment mentioned later on, I think Offensicht is taking a bit of a leap when he claims that all children have an "inbuilt preference for white over black".
If Offensicht really wants to cause a stir over racism by commenting on research that may have implications beyond what the scientists involved intended, might I suggest his learning more about the work of Dmitri Belyaev.
Fennoman said:
Werebat:
The point of the article is that liberals pick and choose which behaviors are excused because of "genetics" and which ones aren't.
It's a matter of consistency. It's also something that of which liberals are incapable.
I think you're missing a key point. Most liberals believe that homosexuality doesn't really hurt anyone (you can argue against that notion if you want to, but I think we both agree that this is what most liberals believe). They also believe that discrimination does hurt people.
Could this have anything to do with why they find one acceptable and the other not, regardless of genetics?
jonyfries said:
Racism is not genetic. Categorizing is. Of course children notice differences. They do not however know what they mean.
If I were in a room filled with white and black people, all of whom were dressed exactly alike I would most likely go talk to the white people. My brain will latch onto anything that makes it believe I have something in common and will go there first.
However, if I saw a black guy with a shirt that said "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, Those who understand binary and those who don't" I would go and talk to him well before I would talk to a white guy waring a polo.
Children that are shushed when they talk about something want to know -why-. Part of the reason the terrible twos are 'terrible' is because the children know only enough to know they don't understand and they want to understand. If children can't talk about it with adults they'll talk about it with other children.
Who ever presents the first answer wins. To notice that a person has a different skin color is no different than noticing that a person has a different eye color or a different accent. The difference is how parents react to them.
Yes children notice differences. That does not make them racist. I would be curious to know if that white/black doll experiment was done in Kenya or Somalia what the answer would be.
I am not surprised that white children prefer white dolls, after all as with being put into a room with no markers of where to go your brain will latch onto whatever is most similar. I would be surprised if black children naturally prefer the white doll. I find it more likely that the black children are being taught that white is better by their parents telling them that whites have all the power.
It very natural for black kid, to prefer white dolls to black,b/c they are more beatiful.Every one can testify to that as true.But you cannot compare dolls with human.,I a complete black but i am no racist, i love both white and blacks of any part of the world.I have lived with black,and now am in the mist of whites(ukraine).Racism is not in born,but it is developed.
izakuu said:
Has anybody stopped to think that this 'color preference' is still a product of social bearings? As children we are taught good vs evil, right vs wrong. In fact, growing up, I was always told to accept people as they are... and yet my parents sill enforced the association of the color white with G-d, purity, innocence, beauty and youth - equating black to evil, darkness, confusion, and death. (Which has nothing to do with the difference of a black woman and a white woman, it's just the cultural belief.)
If you give a child a choice of a white doll vs the black doll, they will be draw to the lighter one simply due to the fact that they have been taught white = pure. It would be the same as putting them in a white room, then a black room, and asking which one they liked better. White. Why? Because they're born racist?? No. Because white is supposed to be good, and black is supposed to be scary.
I don't buy for a second that 'color-consciousness' means a person is born racist, just as I don't really believe a person can be born with the 'gay gene'. These are learned or developed behaviors, just as we learn to prefer say red over blue (men over women). So go ahead, let's chop some people up and examine their brain - I'll volunteer. Any structural differences between a racist or a person who loves all people? Any unidentifiable chemical differences? Nooo? Who would have guessed. :I
cathy said:
Whites are racist blacks are self haters. Black's also bleach their skin.
Jeffrey Soto said:
Morality does not come from religion.

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Chyliza bigoti är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Axel Leonard Melander 1920. Chyliza bigoti ingår i släktet Chyliza och familjen rotflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Little racing fans will love this mixin' and matchin' magnetic arranging game. Features durable metal tin, a variety of background scenes and a plethora of race car drivers, spectators and accessories for creating new scenarios again and again. Young aspiring course designers they can also lay out their own designs using the road sections.
Contents: 1 box, 4 background scenes, 112 magnetic puzzle pieces. Material: metal, magnetic foil. Dimensions: box 8.5" x 8.5"


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package com.kotcrab.vis.ui.test.manual;

import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Actor;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Label;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Skin;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Tree;
import com.kotcrab.vis.ui.VisUI;
import com.kotcrab.vis.ui.util.TableUtils;
import com.kotcrab.vis.ui.widget.VisLabel;
import com.kotcrab.vis.ui.widget.VisTree;
import com.kotcrab.vis.ui.widget.VisWindow;

public class TestTree extends VisWindow {

	public TestTree () {
		super("tree");

		TableUtils.setSpacingDefaults(this);
		columnDefaults(0).left();

		if (TestApplication.USE_VIS_WIDGETS)
			addVisWidgets();
		else
			addNormalWidgets();

		setSize(150, 380);
		setPosition(774, 303);
	}

	private void addNormalWidgets () {
		Skin skin = VisUI.getSkin();

		Tree tree = new Tree(skin);
		TestNode item1 = new TestNode(new Label("item 1", skin));
		TestNode item2 = new TestNode(new Label("item 2", skin));
		TestNode item3 = new TestNode(new Label("item 3", skin));

		item1.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 1.1", skin)));
		item1.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 1.2", skin)));
		item1.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 1.3", skin)));

		item2.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 2.1", skin)));
		item2.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 2.2", skin)));
		item2.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 2.3", skin)));

		item3.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 3.1", skin)));
		item3.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 3.2", skin)));
		item3.add(new TestNode(new Label("item 3.3", skin)));

		item1.setExpanded(true);

		tree.add(item1);
		tree.add(item2);
		tree.add(item3);

		add(tree).expand().fill();
	}

	private void addVisWidgets () {
		VisTree tree = new VisTree();
		TestNode item1 = new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 1"));
		TestNode item2 = new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 2"));
		TestNode item3 = new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 3"));

		item1.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 1.1")));
		item1.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 1.2")));
		item1.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 1.3")));

		item2.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 2.1")));
		item2.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 2.2")));
		item2.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 2.3")));

		item3.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 3.1")));
		item3.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 3.2")));
		item3.add(new TestNode(new VisLabel("item 3.3")));

		item1.setExpanded(true);

		tree.add(item1);
		tree.add(item2);
		tree.add(item3);

		add(tree).expand().fill();
	}

	static class TestNode extends Tree.Node {
		public TestNode (Actor actor) {
			super(actor);
		}
	}
}

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Situated in a classic Victorian cobbled street just off Hoxton Square, this self-contained managed office comprises 1,200sqf of newly refurbished office space, available to rent of all-inclusive, flexible terms. Spread over 4 floors, the space is delivered fully furnished (or not) to modern specification and bespoke to individual needs, as well as being equipped with superfast IT infrastructure and connectivity. The occupier also benefits from kitchen facilities, a meeting room, a roof terrace and 2 bathrooms. This space is ideal for a single occupier looking for self-contained building on flexible terms. Coronet Street is frequently used for Hollywood filming locations as its one of the few remaining quaint, cobbled streets in London.
Hoxton Square sits in the heart of London's media, creative and tech hub and is surrounded by many bars and restaurants. Shoreditch High Street & Old Street stations are nearby.


As we all know, the second Elite Dungeon: Dragonkin Lab will be coming on Aug 13, next Monday.So Rush to get Rs3gold 8% discount rs gold for second Elite Dungeon.And today we will share more details before its final release, like the new item RuneScape Dragonfire ash.
1. There will be a new item Dragonfire ash added.
2. The achievements will be added to 39 from previous 17.
3. There will be a way to reduce the cooldown on Berserk using certain ability combos.
4. You will love Astalan, once you have learned his mechanics, which will hit you like a freight-train.
5. There will be a new T90 boot attachment, although we still have no idea what one it is. And we have to wait and see until its release.
6. You will earn an exceptionally rare chance to get lucky dragonkin coin, which can be activated with 99 Summoning to unlock the Diddykin pet.
7. Thanks to the delay of Dragonkin Lab release, the RS team can certainly fine tune the boss encounters, and add the additional rewards that they wanted originally.
8. There will probably some variations on Relics. And the Relics from both Aminishi and Dragonkin Laboratory will disassemble into solely rare components with Ancient, Fortunate, and Refined excluded.
All in all, let's wait for a gauntlet of dragons, punctuated with boss battles against Astellarn, a three-headed black dragon, and a secret third boss after the release of Elite Dungeon II.
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Gold medal - BBC 2019
Just like in 2018, St.Bernardus Tripel came out as the best (Belgian Style) Tripel at the Brussels Beer Challenge. The BBC is an annual international beer competition, in which the contestants vie for the title of 'best beer'. Every beer entered into the competition by the participating breweries is carefully tasted and tested by a jury of 80 beer connoisseurs from all over the world. It goes without saying that we are extremely proud of this acknowledgement! St.Bernardus Tripel is a traditional abbey beer, brewed in the classic 'Tripel' style.
Brussels Beer Challenge
Magnum 2019
Since 2012 we have produced a limited number of 1.5 litre bottles, our Magnums. To create this special edition, the Abt 12 is bottled into a special dark brown St.Bernardus magnum bottle on which the brewery logo is printed in relief. It also comes with a Bière Belge bottleneck, a branded cork and a unique muselet, the wire cage around the cork. Each edition of the labels on these bottles has been designed by a new artist, and all of their art works are kept in the brewery's art collection.
This year's design is an artwork of the Belgian artist Pjeroo Roobjee. The screen printing of the artwork 'De zuster van astronaut Dick beluistert de ruis van sterrenstof' on the bottle makes this Magnum very unique. Together with the editions of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 it becomes a true collector's item.
Pjeroo Roobjee, born in Ghent in 1945, is a multi-talented artist who has been awarded several times in the course of his career. His predominantly monumental canvases travelled the five continents and represented Belgium at important art events such as the Biennales of Sâo Paulo and Venice.
Overview of all Magnums
New beer: St.Bernardus Abt 12 Barrel Aged Sour
St.Bernardus Abt 12 is the brewery's flagship beer and widely regared as one of the best beers in the world. Abt 12 is brewed in the classic Quadrupel style and adheres to the original 1946 recipe.
St.Bernardus Abt 12 Barrel Aged Sour is brewed with the same recipe but after brewing the beer rested in oak barrels for 3 years. This beer aging lets the beer go sour in a natural way. In June 2019 the beer was blended with freshly brewed Abt 12 and bottled in 75cl bottles.
The beer has a fruity - sour aroma that comes from our own specific yeast strain. Remarkable is the absence of alcohol flavor. The acidity in the finish very well masks the gravity of the beer (Alc. Vol 10%). Furthermore, it is a very balanced beer with a fresh taste and a perfect balance between malty and bitter. In short: a must-try!
Given the limited number of bottles, it's really a beer for enthusiasts. It's only available in the brewery shop and in Bar Bernard.
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World Beer Awards 2019
The annual World Beer Awards are among the most prestigious beer prizes in the world, the 'Olympic Games of the beer world'. For the first time in years our brewery participated in the World Beer Awards. We registered 4 of our beers, which earned us no less than 5 medals.
Abt 12 won gold in the 'Belgian Style Strong' category and our St.Bernardus Wit was awarded a silver medal in the 'Belgian Style Witbier' category.
Prior 8 and Tripel are Country Winners (one step higher than the gold medal) in their respective 'Belgian Style Double' and 'Belgian Style Triple' categories. Our Prior 8 and Tripel can now be called the best 'Dubbel' and 'Tripel' in Belgium for one year. At the end of last year, St.Bernardus Tripel also won the gold medal at the Brussels Beer Challenge for best 'Belgian Style' Tripel.
And it's not all, on top of that the Prior 8 received the highest distinction in its category, namely 'World's Best Dark Belgian Style Dubbel'. Prior 8 not only became a Country Winner, but also a 'Style Winner' worldwide, in other words, the world's best 'Dubbel' beer! This also means that the Prior 8 can get even further this fall, since it will compete for the title of 'World's Best Dark Beer'. The results will be announced in September.
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We have been graphing the age and dementia distribution for baby boomers for decades, and yet none of our projections have ever extended beyond the year 2050. Why is that?
I recently cautioned in an op-ed that our attempts to reduce antipsychotic drugs among patients with dementia would soon become problematic if we have not also learned how to care differently. And the chickens are starting to come home to roost.
Things are heating up in the race to reduce antipsychotic use. Three weeks ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new statistics ranking Tennessee as one of the top five states to significantly reduce the use of antipsychotics. Spurred by CMS' National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes, Tennessee claims a 16.5% reduction in antipsychotic use between 2011 and 2013.
A recent New York Times article quoting Dr. Al Power reminds us that people living with dementia have much to teach us about being fully present with one another.


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Supreme Court rejects appeal in racially tinged murder of Jordan Davis in Jacksonville
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an appeal by a man convicted in the high-profile shooting death of a teen in a Jacksonville convenience-store parking lot in 2012.
Michael Dunn took the case to the Supreme Court in December after the 1st District Court of Appeal ruled against him in the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. As is common, justices did not explain their reasons Monday for declining to take up the case.
The murder drew national media coverage and came amid increased scrutiny of the deaths of young black men. Dunn is white, while Davis was black. The shooting came after Davis and three friends stopped at a Gate convenience store and Dunn pulled into an adjacent parking space. The teens were listening to loud music, and Dunn asked them to turn it down.
Dunn and Davis exchanged words, and Dunn fired repeatedly into the Dodge Durango that carried the teens.
Dunn, 53, was convicted of first-degree murder while discharging a firearm, three counts of attempted second-degree murder while discharging a firearm and one count of shooting or throwing deadly missiles, according to the appeals court ruling in September. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder.
At the appeals court, Dunn contended, in part, that he had received "ineffective assistance of counsel" during his trial. As an example, Dunn argued that his lawyer was ineffective for failing to hire an expert to examine audio from the convenience store's surveillance video, but the appeals court rejected the argument.


5 Tips On How To Use Curves in Photoshop + Giveaway!
Welcome back! After some time traveling, we are back in action and can bring you the good stuff! So today, we will go over 5 Tips On How To Use Curves in Photoshop – and while we are at it, we will give away a Peak Design Everyday Sling Bag with a value of $150!
Never heard of Peak Design? You should have! They make some of the best camera bags out there. Check out their page here if you want to see their full range. And no, I am not affiliated with them, I use their bags and love them!
Tell me why you started doing Photography on the side/professionally – be nice and elaborate if you can!
The Giveaway is open for visitors from Europe, Canada, and the United States.
So, now to the matter at hand – what do we do with curves in Photoshop? Let's jump right in!
THE most basic function and probably why this tool came to be one of the tips on how to use curves in Photoshop is the ability to darken and lighten your image. Once you get used to it, you will do this all the time without thinking about it!
So, after creating a curve adjustment layer, lift the curve to lighten the image, or drag it down to darken it. Now, this will affect the whole image, but with just one more step you can select where an adjustment should be visible. Once you made a curve adjustment, just select the mask from the adjustment layer and hit CMD/Ctrl + I. This will invert the layer mask and you can then use a white brush to paint the effect into the image.
The next thing that you can do with curves – something that they are perfect for – is to enhance or reduce the contrast. For this, simply create a curve adjustment layer and create an "S" shape. This will make the darks darker and the brights brighter! Play around with this until it works for you and your image, but once you get the hang of it, enhancing the contrast will be no problem for you.
Sometimes when you take a photo, it can look a little bit too red or green. Unless on purpose, such colour cast can be removed using curves in Photoshop. Perfect #3 for tips on how to use curves in Photoshop.
For this, create a curve adjustment layer and change the channel from "RGB" to any of the three channels "Red", "Green", or "Blue". Say, as an example, there is a red colour cast in the image. Change the channel to red and pull the curve down. This will reduce the red in the image and therefore reduce the colour cast.
You can do this with any combination of the three channels. There are many other ways of doing the same, but I like curves because they can do so much using the same technique.
When watching Hollywood movies, you can often see specific color themes in scenes. For example, the famous Orange / Teal look. This is being done by adding blue to the darker areas and orange to the brigther ones. You can do the same with photos to recreate this super cool look. I call it Bi-Colour Tuning here – but it is simply a colour grading technique. Not sure why I always have this terminology in mind, I think when I learned Photoshop I read it somewhere and never forgot it haha. Forgive me if the naming in the video is confusing.
For this, create a curve adjustment and switch to the red channel. Drag the top right corner of the curve to the left slightly. Change to the blue channel and move the bottom left corner of the curve up slightly. Done! You have added red to the bright areas and blue to the shadows. You can do this with any colour combination using the three channels available within curves.
I have mentioned this technique many times in my videos, but it has to be in the list here as it is a technique I literally use with every single image I edit. Instead of writing it all again, check out these videos where I explain all there is to know about it. Or of course, watch the video above! Here are 3 techniques as to how to create vignettes, if you want to learn more!
Hi, that was a great tip of curves, I basically used it for contrast & vignettes, thanx for sharing.
I could not find the comments tab on YouTube so I m commenting here, hope I win the sling bag ?… painting was my hobby back in school days but once I started job in shipping industry couldn't give time to paint, hence, I started photography, cause somebody told me that photography is painting with Camera..


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California Weighs Tough Rules For Data Brokers
Right To Know Act would allow state residents to see full reports from any website, mobile app or data broker who collects personal data about them.
What personal information about you is being bought, sold or shared by online advertisers, data brokers or anyone else who handles consumer data?
A proposed California state law, "The Right to Know Act" (AB 1291), would give consumers the right to receive -- for free -- a copy of all personal data being stored about them by a data broker, website or mobile app provider, as well as a list of all third parties with which that information has been shared.
According to a current draft of the legislation, which was proposed by California State Assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal, the bill would "require any business that has a customer's personal information, as defined, to provide at no charge, within 30 days of the customer's specified request, a copy of that information to the customer as well as the names and contact information for all 3rd parties with which the business has shared the information during the previous 12 months, regardless of any business relationship with the customer."
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which is backing the legislation, the bill would "modernize current privacy law and give Californians an effective tool to monitor how personal information, including about health, finances, your location, politics, religious, sexual orientation, buying habits and more, is being collected and disclosed in unexpected and potentially harmful ways."
[ Are you willing to trade privacy for a GPS-style map of the mall? See Indoor Location Tracking Has Lost Common Sense. ]
California law already mandates that state residents be allowed to ascertain how some types of personal information about them are being collected. "But this law, which focuses on direct marketing, has been outpaced by rapid changes in technology and data collection and sharing practices," according to a letter written by EFF senior staff attorney Lee Tien in support of the bill.
Lowenthal's law would expand current protections to cover all online and offline information collected and stored by websites, mobile apps and data brokers, including location data. "This law is about transparency and access, not new restrictions on data sharing," said Rainey Reitman, the EFF's activism director, in a blog post. "The proposed law wouldn't limit or restrict sales of data, and it wouldn't provide additional security measures for how data is stored or new requirements for anonymization. While those are all important issues to consider, the law is actually far more basic. It helps consumers, regulators, policymakers and the world at large shine a light onto the largely hidden, highly lucrative world of the personal data economy."
What's the concern with consumer data collection? By some estimates, data brokers now maintain reports on 500 million consumers, and that data can be combined in sometimes unexpected ways to give advertisers and marketers insights that a person would rather remain private. One oft-repeated example hails from a 2012 New York Times story, in which a statistician working for Target -- who was later instructed to stop talking to the Times reporter -- detailed how the retailer could use people's shopping patterns to ascertain when website visitors were most likely pregnant, for the purpose of enticing them to purchase baby-related products.
To date, data brokers have resisted requests from Congress to detail which types of information they're collecting, storing and sharing on consumers, defending their lack of disclosure by citing, in part, non-disclosure agreements with other businesses and their need to protect trade secrets.
But Reitman suggested affected companies would have little difficulty complying with Lowenthal's proposed information disclosure requirement bill. "This law mimics the rights of data access already available to users in Europe, which means that most of the big tech companies should already have systems in place to facilitate user access," she said.
Regardless, consumer rights groups have long recommended that people who are worried about having their personal information tracked should beware what they share via Facebook, Twitter, blogs or other online forums, as well as participating in telephone surveys and other mechanisms used for collecting consumer data for marketing purposes.
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Since I'm always advocating that you gentlemen do your best to actually be in Russia to experience the culture and extraordinary beauty..
I thought it might be wise to pass on a possible way to do it.
As it turns out there is an outfit called Cross Cultural Solutions which specializes in matching up volunteers with various programs not just in Russia but internationally as well.
Although this is a noble thing to do I realize that this may not be everyone's cup of tea.
But if you are up for an adventure of a lifetime and feel like you can make a difference.
Then this may be the ticket which gets you in and initially settled.
Posted by rw_man under Background, Beauty & Brains, Beauty & Sexiness, General, Identity, International Men, Russian Women, Why Russian Women?
Well if you are a certain Russian author named Mrs. Elena Davydova then the answer is a pretty solid yes.
It seems that Mrs. Davydova has a great deal of general respect for our limey compatriots in jolly ol' England.
I think this article could have easily held true for any number of Western Men who naturally have a great deal of appreciation for a traditional Russian Lady.
The article itself was an interesting read.
But if I didn't know any better..
I would say that the Brits have an even more interesting fixation on Russian Women.
But then again who wouldn't?
British men of a certain age make ideal husbands for younger, glamorous Russian women – even if they do have some strange habits, according to a new best-selling book in Moscow.
Posted by rw_man under Advice Column, Anti-Feminist, Background, Beauty & Brains, Beauty & Sexiness, Culture & Beliefs, General, Identity, International Men, Russian Women, Why Russian Women?
Now I admit the following article might be a little biased since it came from the english edition of the Moscow Times..
I don't think I could have done a better job writing such an inspired article about our favorite Russian Women myself.
I can CERTAINLY relate to this guy.
I'm sure many of you can too.
I believe Russia is a country of women. Without questioning the value of Russian men — nor considering the immense Russian cultural, artistic and religious treasures and relics, what definitively impresses most visitors (obviously including me) during a trip to Russia are the Russian women.
Russian women impress more than Russian men. Yes, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, in Russia for a long business trip, an expat, a tourist for just a few days, or if you are a student or a pensioner: what you'll remember about your Russian experience are first of all its women, then comes the rest.
In fact, although Russian men are — like Russian women — warm in their nature, they generally tend not to take too much care about their appearance, which makes them less remarkable than women when you just look at them. This doesn't mean they are not smart, educated, kind and sensitive to their women's needs and desires. For example, compared with foreign men in this aspect, even in their own country they seem very closed and change-resistant – this is particularly true for the current middle-aged male generation. The younger generation definitively has greater access to international standards and trends, and perhaps also driven by a stronger curiosity they are learning how to care more about their appearance.
Should I specify right now that by talking about Russian women I'm not only referring to their indisputable beauty? Maybe I should: well, I'm not just directing my thoughts towards one of the most common international stereotypes (and a reality): the astonishing beauty of Russian women. But I cannot ignore it either. While the reality is evident going around the big cities such as Moscow or St. Petersburg as well as in rural villages, in winter or in summer, there is a second dimension surprisingly able to shadow the glamour of the Russian beauty.
This is probably the main reason why Russian women seem so interesting, attractive and memorable — their strong character which surely enables them to fight to "survive", advance and succeed in the extremely competitive environment of today's Russia without impacting their exquisite natural gentleness. They tend to have a high level of education as well as possess open-mindedness, intelligence and pragmatism, and this combined with their strong ethics at work, where they prove to be reliable and hardworking, can make them exemplary employees.
Their attributes include clarity in setting personal objectives and the consistency in achieving them, an ability to always guide and support their partners, in good times and in bad, and the proven ability to overcome any difficulties while still remaining feminine regardless of the socio-economic context in which they find themselves. Does it seem too much? It is not.
And we are back to the beauty of Russian women. In a convergence with their natural beauty, Russian women — it appears crystal clear — are nowadays extremely determined to affirm their femininity, to be and appear like women regardless of their income and personal situation.
Russian women seem to make something of a mission of valuing their femininity with a dress code, careful makeup, and high heels they apparently never abandon: in the office, visiting shopping centers, going around with their friends, walking with their kids, in supermarkets, in a park or at a museum, with no difference whether they are going to drive a car or take the underground, and even ignoring the sometimes challenging Russian weather or the road and sidewalk conditions.
Why, you might ask? Simply, Russian women desire to be beautiful and attractive. And they succeed because they know well how to do it without offending their intelligence, their dignity as a woman, and surely without merchandising their body. It has nothing to do with feminism in Russia. It is about culture, education and desire.
As a visitor, it is of paramount importance not to confuse a dress code, which sometimes might leave little to the imagination, with an invitation to approach a woman believing she might be somehow "easy". You can instead easily avoid making a poor impression by just not thinking that whatever you see is obvious. The era of Russian women looking for foreigners to escape Russia and improve their living conditions is definitively over. The opposite might be true now.
Surely these are not unique differentiating factors of Russian women, but I believe this combination explains why many non-Russian men fall in love with Russian women although they might keep struggling forever with the cultural differences. But that's definitively a different story.
What I believe is important to consider, when striving to understand today's Russian women, is the historical context that has contributed to the conditions and common elements you can notice in their personality.
Simply learning the recent history of Russia has personally helped me a lot; along with progressively understanding and appreciating the positive aspects of my now years-long experience in the country, while also clarifying many of the more or less apparent and strong paradoxes and contradictions that characterize daily life in today's Russia.
In fact, although the situation is gradually changing for the better with benefits spreading from the wealth Russia has been generating in the recent years, I'm pretty sure that together with the impression of Russian women what you'll bring back from your Russian experience are the extremes you will notice simply going around the country, and — if you stay long enough — you may also come to struggle with. Anyhow, Russian citizens are fighting against them almost daily, and be sure they will progressively solve them; at least the most pressing ones.
In fact, although Russian men are — like Russian women — warm in their nature, they generally tend not to take too much care about their appearance, which makes them less remarkable than women when you just look at them.


I know when I wake up in the middle of the night to visit the bathroom I need a nightlight so it's not so scary. I'm sure this Doll Head Lamp will solve that right? That couldn't possibly achieve the opposite, could it? If you want to wake up to a devil doll head you can buy yours from HeamarKat on Etsy here.


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David Warner's Reply To Troll On Virat Kohli's Instagram Post Wins Hearts | Cricket News
File photo of David Warner and Virat Kohli© AFP
Virat Kohli on Friday took to Instagram to share a picture of his wife and Bollywood star Anushka Sharma, with an adorable caption. He indicated that she was his world with the use of emojis. Australia batter David Warner was among those to comment on the post, writing "lucky man". While many fans praised Warner for his sweet comment, there were others who tried to troll him. However, when Warner did respond to one user, he did not lose his cool, but instead simply explained exactly what he meant by his comment, earning more praise from fans.
"What do you mean by being lucky here?" the user had asked.
"@whokrishna7 it's a saying we say in Aus, like I would say I'm lucky to have @candywarner1 so when we say to others we say " you're lucky mate" or we say you're blessed mate. Interpretation is always going to be different," Warner wrote.
Responding to another user, Warner wrote "we are very lucky to have very supportive wives."
Kohli himself responded to Warner's original comment, saying "I know mate".
While Kohli and Warner have often gone up against each other and even had some heated encounters, the two seem to have developed a friendship over the last few years.
India will host Australia for three T20Is later this month, but Warner has been rested for the tour.
He will be back, however, when Australia host the 2022 T20 World Cup from October.
Kohli, meanwhile, is currently with the Indian team in the UAE for the Asia Cup.
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In the late 1980s, as Bishop-elect Fernand Cheri was concluding a visit to the home of Bishop Harold Perry, the elder priest excused himself, went to his bedroom and returned with a special gift: a pectoral cross given to Bishop Perry by Father Clarence Rivers, a black priest from Cincinnati and pioneer in the 1950s of bringing African-American expressions of culture into the Roman Catholic liturgy.
"This (gift) came out of the blue. I wasn't expecting it. I said, 'Oh this is a treasure!' knowing that there were only a few (of these crosses) in existence," Bishop-elect Cheri recounts of the moment.
The vibrant enamel piece, known as the "Freeing the Spirit" cross, features the three "liberation colors." Red symbolizes love and the blood that was shed through the enslavement of men and women throughout history; black, in the form of the Dove of Peace, represents people of color; and green recalls "the sense of hope that was never lost," Bishop-elect Cheri said.
Bishop-elect Cheri, who had displayed the cross next to his music collection for almost 30 years, put it on for the first time after learning he would be ordained auxiliary bishop of New Orleans. It will be one of several pectoral crosses worn by him on a rotating basis, he said.
Bishop Perry, who was appointed auxiliary bishop of New Orleans in 1965, served in that role until his death on July 17, 1991, at age 74.
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Povijest

Zengidsku dinastiju osnovao je Imad ad-Din Zengi I. koji je od 1127. godine služio kao seldžučki atabeg (namjesnik) u Mosulu. Zengi I. (ili Zangi) ubrzo je proširio politički utjecaj na sjeveru Sirije i Iraka: prvo je 1128. godine zauzeo Alep koji je ranije bio pod kontrolom ortokidskih emira, a potom je 1144. godine porazio križare i zauzeo Edesu što ga je učinilo slavnim u islamskom svijetu. Dvije godine kasnije ubijen je od strane vlastitog roba.

Nakon Zengijeve smrti teritoriji kojima je upravljao bili su podijeljeni: Mosul s okolicom pripao je njegovom najstarijem sinu Saifu ad-Din Gaziju I., a Alep i Edesa drugom sinu Nuru ad-Din Mahmudu koji se pokazao jednako sposobnim. Godine 1149. porazio je antiohijskog kneza Raymonda, a sljedeće je godine osvojio regiju Edesu zapadno od Eufrata. Godine 1154. svladava i buridske emire i zauzima Damask čime nastupa vrhunac njegove karijere.

Vladajući iz Damaska, Nur ad-Din nastavio je nizati političke uspjehe. Uskoro je zarobio i drugog antiohijskog kneza Raynalda od Châtillona čime su granice njegove kneževine svedene na minimum. Tijekom 1160-ih godina zengidski atabeg Nur ad-Din i jeruzalemski kralj Amalrik I. su međusobno politički parirali za kontrolu nad fatimidskim kalifatom, u čemu se iskazao kurdski vojskovođa Širkuh koji je 1169. godine osvojio Egipat. Širkuhov nećak i nasljednik Saladin odbio je priznati zengidski autoritet čime dolazi do uspona ajubidske dinastije.

Nur ad-Din je kao odgovor pripremao invaziju na Egipat kojom bi podčinio Saladina, u čemu ga je 1174. godine spriječila smrt. Njegov maloljetni sin As-Salih Ismail al-Malik bio je prisiljen preseliti se u Alep gdje je vladao do 1181. godine kada biva ubijen i zamijenjen rođakom koji je vladao kao mosulski atabeg. Dvije godine kasnije Saladin osvaja Alep čime zengidska dinastija gubi vlast u Siriji.

Zengidski atabegovi nastavili su iz Mosula vladati sjevernim Irakom sve do mongolske invazije u ranom 13. stoljeću.

Zengidski vladari

Atabegovi i emiri u Mosulu
 Imad ad-Din Zengi I. (1127. – 1146.)
 Saif ad-Din Gazi I. (1146. – 1149.)
 Kutb ad-Din Mavdud (1149. – 1170.)
 Saif ad-Din Gazi II. (1170. – 1180.)
 Iz ad-Din Masud I. (1180. – 1193.)
 Nur ad-Din Arslan Šah I. (1193. – 1211.)
 Iz ad-Din Masud II. (1211. – 1218.)
 Nur ad-Din Arslan Šah II. (1218. – 1219.)
 Nasir ad-Din Mahmud (1219. – 1234.)

Emiri u Alepu
 Imad ad-Din Zengi I. (1128. – 1146.)
 Nur ad-Din Mahmud (1146. – 1174.)
 As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1174. – 1181.)
 Imad ad-Din Zengi II. (1181. – 1183.)

Emiri u Damasku
 Nur ad-Din Mahmud (1154. – 1174.)
 As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1174.)

Emiri u Sindžaru
 Imad ad-Din Zengi II. (1171. – 1197.)
 Kutb ad-Din Muhamed (1197. – 1219.)
 Imad ad-Din Šahanšah (1219. – 1220.)
 Džalal ad-Din Mahmud (1219. – 1220.)
 Fat ad-Din Umar (1219. – 1220.)

Emiri u Džaziri
 Muiz ad-Din Sandžar Šah (1180. – 1208.)
 Muiz ad-Din Mahmud (1208. – 1241.)
 Mahmud al-Malik al-Zahir (1241. – 1250.)

Poveznice
 Seldžuci
 Atabegovi

Literatura

Vladarske dinastije


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Q: Removing 0 at the end of multiple time series I have multiple time series stored in a Spark DataFrame as below:
df = spark.createDataFrame([('2020-03-10', 'France', 19),
                            ('2020-03-11', 'France', 22),
                            ('2020-03-12', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-03-13', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-03-14', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'UK', 12),
                            ('2020-04-11', 'UK', 0),
                            ('2020-04-12', 'UK', 9),
                            ('2020-04-13', 'UK', 0),
                            ('2020-04-08', 'Japan', 0),
                            ('2020-04-09', 'Japan', -3),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'Japan', -2)
                           ],
                           ['date', 'country', 'y']
                           )

I am looking for a way (without looping as my real DataFrame has millions of rows) to remove the 0's at the end of each time series.
In our example, we would obtain:
df = spark.createDataFrame([('2020-03-10', 'France', 19),
                            ('2020-03-11', 'France', 22),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'UK', 12),
                            ('2020-04-11', 'UK', 0),
                            ('2020-04-12', 'UK', 9),
                            ('2020-04-08', 'Japan', 0),
                            ('2020-04-09', 'Japan', -3),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'Japan', -2)
                           ],
                           ['date', 'country', 'y']
                           )

A: Assume you want to remove at the end of every country ordered by date
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
from pyspark.sql.types import *
from pyspark.sql import Window
df = spark.createDataFrame([('2020-03-10', 'France', 19),
                            ('2020-03-11', 'France', 22),
                            ('2020-03-12', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-03-13', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-03-14', 'France', 0),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'UK', 12),
                            ('2020-04-11', 'UK', 0),
                            ('2020-04-12', 'UK', 9),
                            ('2020-04-13', 'UK', 0),
                            ('2020-04-13', 'India', 1),
                            ('2020-04-14', 'India', 0),
                            ('2020-04-15', 'India', 0),
                            ('2020-04-16', 'India', 1),
                            ('2020-04-08', 'Japan', 0),
                            ('2020-04-09', 'Japan', -3),
                            ('2020-04-10', 'Japan', -2)
                           ],
                           ['date', 'country', 'y']
                           )
# convert negative to positive to avoid accidental summing up to 0
df=df.withColumn('y1',F.abs(F.col('y')))
# Window function to reverse the last rows to first
w=Window.partitionBy('country').orderBy(F.col('date').desc())
# Start summing function. when the first non zero value comes the value changes
df_sum = df.withColumn("sum_chk",F.sum('y1').over(w))
# Filter non zero values, sort it just for viewing
df_res = df_sum.where("sum_chk!=0").orderBy('date',ascending=True)

The result:
    df_res.show()
+----------+-------+---+---+-------+
|      date|country|  y| y1|sum_chk|
+----------+-------+---+---+-------+
|2020-03-10| France| 19| 19|     41|
|2020-03-11| France| 22| 22|     22|
|2020-04-08|  Japan|  0|  0|      5|
|2020-04-09|  Japan| -3|  3|      5|
|2020-04-10|  Japan| -2|  2|      2|
|2020-04-10|     UK| 12| 12|     21|
|2020-04-11|     UK|  0|  0|      9|
|2020-04-12|     UK|  9|  9|      9|
|2020-04-13|  India|  1|  1|      2|
|2020-04-14|  India|  0|  0|      1|
|2020-04-15|  India|  0|  0|      1|
|2020-04-16|  India|  1|  1|      1|
+----------+-------+---+---+-------+

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Greenfield Construction has been forced to call in the administrators after failing to secure sufficient funding for the five year old business.
In a statement to the London Stock Exchange today the company said it has asked it's bank to appoint an administrator and request an immediate suspension of its shares.
Greenfield, which is based in Mansfield near Nottingham, was set up in 2000 as a civil engineering and groundworks contractor. In July it reported a pre-tax operating loss of £242,000 for the year ending 31 March on a turnover of £9.5m.
At the time chief executive and founder Ian Taylor said the losses were due to a slowing in the housing market and a restructuring of the business which lead to a "weak performance".
Greenfield previously traded under the name Hightower.


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Q: Decomposing total sum of squares Consider the general linear regression model:
$$y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1x_{i1} + \beta_2x_{i2} + \cdots + \beta_px_{ip} + \epsilon_i = \mathbf{x}_i^t \beta + \epsilon_i$$
where $\textbf{x}_i = (1,x_{i1},x_{i2},\cdots,x_{ip})^T$, $\beta=(\beta_0,\beta_1,\cdots,\beta_p)^T$ and $\epsilon_i$ are iid N(0,$\sigma^2$).
I would like to see a complete proof of the following identity from first principles:
$$\sum_{i=1}^n(y_i - \bar{y})^2 = \sum_{i=1}^n(\hat{y}_i - \bar{y})^2 + \sum_{i=1}^n(y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2$$
where $\hat{y}_i= \mathbf{x}_i^t \hat{\beta} $ ($\hat{\beta}$ is the least square estimator, $\bar{y}$ ia the sample mean of $y_i$).
I know that the two terms on the right can be obtained by subtracting and adding $\hat{y}_i$ on the left side. But this introduces a "cross term":
$$\sum_{i=1}^n2(\hat{y}_i - \bar{y})(y_i - \hat{y}_i)$$
Many texts claim that this is zero, but I have not seen a general proof of this statement. How can this be shown?

A: Split like so:
$=\sum_{i=1}^n \hat{y}_i (y_i -\hat{y}_i)-\bar{y} \sum_{i=1}^n  (y_i - \hat{y}_i) $
$=\sum_{i=1}^n \hat{y}_i e_i -\bar{y} \sum_{i=1}^n  e_i $
(where $e_i$ is the $i$-th residual)
$=\sum_{i=1}^n \hat{y}_i e_i$
Can you do it from there?

A: Since no one else said anything...here we go.
Let $X\in \mathbb{R}_{n\times k}$, $Y\in \mathbb{R}_{n\times 1}$ and $\hat{\beta} = \min_{\beta \in \mathbb{R}_{k\times 1}} \left\| Y-X\beta \right\|^2.$
And let $e$ be the residual vector, i.e. $e = Y-X\hat{\beta} = Y-\hat{Y}$.
By the normal equations, $$X^{T}(Y-X\hat{\beta}) = X^{T}e = \vec0$$ and therefore,
$$\sum_i \hat{y}_i e_i =\hat{Y}^{T}e = \hat{\beta}^{T}X^{T}e = 0.$$
Also note that the above also implies $Y-X\hat{\beta}$ is orthogonal to $\vec{1}$ as the first column of $X$ is all ones, so $$\vec1^{T}(Y-X\hat{\beta}) = \vec1^{T}(Y-\hat{Y}) = \vec1^{T}e = \sum_i e_i =0.$$
Combining these, we have
$$\sum_{i=1}^n (\hat{y}_i - \bar{y})(y_i - \hat{y}_i) = \sum_{i=1}^n \hat{y}_i(y_i-\hat{y}_i) - \sum_{i=1}^n \bar{y}(y_i-\hat{y}_i) = \sum_{i=1}^n \hat{y}_i e_i - \sum_{i=1}^n \bar{y} e_i = 0. $$


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Birthplace: Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Sign: Leo
Joey King Rank
5403rd most popular person ever
23rd born on July 30
178th born in 1999
177th 21-year-old
3475th most famous American
13th born in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
678th most famous actress
521st Leo
About Joey King
Joey King is an American actress.
Though quite young, Joey King has had as much acting work as some established actors and actresses. When 8, she first appeared on the TV show "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody".
Her first big film role was in the 2007 film "Reign Over Me". The next year, among other things, she was in "Quarantine" and voice acted for "Horton Hears a Who".
King's prominence can be associated with her role as the lead actor in "Ramona and Beezus". She also has appeared in the romantic comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and the popular Christopher Nolan film, "The Dark Knight Rises".
King's elder sister, Hunter King, is also a famous actress. She also has another senior sister named Kelli King. She had been romantically involved with actor, Jacob Elordi before commencing a relationship with Steven Piet.
King made a cameo appearance in the music video for Taylor Swift's 2010 song "Mean". She played the main role, Gypsy Blanchard in the 2019 web series entitled, "The Act". That same year, she appeared as Morgan in the sitcom, "Life in Pieces".
In the year 2020, she provided her voice for the character Addy in an episode, "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds", of the animated sitcom series titled, "The Simpsons".
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Joey King's Popularity
Joey King is a famous American actress, who was born on July 30, 1999. As a person born on this date, Joey King is listed in our database as the 23rd most popular celebrity for the day (July 30) and the 178th most popular for the year (1999).
People born on July 30 fall under the Zodiac sign of Leo, the Lion. Joey King is the 521st most popular Leo.
Aside from information specific to Joey King's birthday, Joey King is the 3475th most famous American and ranks 13th in famous people born in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
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