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MGCUV Peace Day reinstates the need for universal brotherhood
It was one of those usual pleasant mornings in Hiroshima, Japan. Birds chirping, children playing under the shimmering trees, and people readying to go to work. It was a clear sunny day, until, a huge flash of light and thick dust clouds engulfed entire Hiroshima and killed thousands of innocent people. On 6 August, 1945, the warm morning turned in to the most dreaded one, when an American aircraft dropped the first ever atomic bomb on this bustling Japanese city.
Every year, on 6 August the world observes Peace Day, revisiting the horrors of Hiroshima and pledging that this darkest history does not repeat.
As we, a part of GIIS, strongly follow Gandhiji's teachings through Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Univeral Values (MGCUV), Global Indian International School Ahmedabad students observed the Peace Day and remembered the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (another Japanese city where the second atom bomb was dropped). Class 5A students left all students and teachers teary eyed through a skit on an 11-year-old Japanese girl Sadako, who died of cancer caused by the 'atomic attack'. Sadako is known around the world who folded origami paper cranes following the old Japanese belief that a wish is granted for every 1,000 paper cranes folded. Sadako had wished for universal peace so that there is no more warfare where innocent people are killed and life is changed forever.
In a gesture to spread peace and equality, these students also visited a school for underprivileged students and spent the day with them. Little Angels School has around 200 students who are not from affluent houses. When our students presented every child of Little Angels with paper cranes and taught them origami, their happiness knew know boundaries. These children were also taught to paint and dance by our students. The warmth, love, and attention GIIS students gave these children indicate that how even smallest of goodwill gesture can bring a smile on someone's face!
Extending the Peace Day to our campus, all GIIS students came together to pay homage to the victims of Hiroshima by singing a song 'Aman ke liye…'; skit on Sadako; presenting paper cranes to the school's house-keeping staff.
The entire ground floor corridors of the school were decorated with colourful paper cranes, reminding us Gandhiji's famous quote "An eye for an eye makes the world blind".


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I'm selling out of digital, I haven't enjoyed shooting it for a long time now and I've got really into film recently. I'm open to negotiation, discounts when buying things together. Bank transfer or paypal, buyer pays paypal fees. I'll ship worldwide, I'll cover half the postage but not the import fees.
60D + cheap battery grip
4/5 condition, works fine. No dust on sensor. Body cap, battery grip is a cheap knock off. Latest firmware, magic lantern installed. 3 batteries, charger is US and has a UK adapter. 10K shutter actuations. Complete with kit lens, not in best condition but it works fine, has caps both ends. £500/€620/$845.
50mm f1.8
Good condition. £50/€65/$85.
70-200 f2.8 IS USM
Very good condition, extremely good telephoto lens. IS works very well, focuses fast even on the 60D. F2.8 is worth the extra money over the F4, the extra stop is invaluable. Comes with tripod ring, hood, polariser, both caps. £950/€1175/$1600
Lowepro event messenger 250
Holds all the kit above, and more. I haven't had this long so it's still in really good condition. The dividers are velcro so can be repositioned depending on what you're carrying. £35/€45/$60.
Eimo 60cm carbon stabilizer
Cheap glidecam/flycam knockoff. Extremely well made, full metal construction with a carbon fibre shaft. At 60cm it is possible to get stable video, but it is tricky to balance. £60/€75/$100.
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Amateur Baseball: Rambow hit in ninth lifts NL-Spicer past Atwater
ATWATER -- Scott Rambow belted a three-run double with one out in the top of the ninth inning Sunday and New London-Spicer rallied to beat Atwater 5-4 in a Cornbelt League amateur baseball game.
Down 4-2 entering the ninth, the Twins (5-6, 11-7) loaded the bases on an error and consecutive walks. Rambow then cleared the bases with his double to right-center field.
Rambow finished 3-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI. Mike Danielson was 2-for-5.
Darren Ogdahl went the distance on a six-hitter for the win. He walked five and struck out eight.
Jordan Tanner had a two-run single for the Chuckers (4-7, 8-9) in the fourth inning. Brian Kingery took the loss, allowing seven hits and four runs over eight innings.
New London-Spicer 5, Atwater 4
NL-Spicer 100 001 003 -- 5 8 0
Atwater 000 300 010 -- 4 6 2
HITTING - New London-Spicer: Austen Hadley 1-for-3; Scott Rambow 3-for-4, 2 2b's, 4 rbi; Mike Danielson 2-for-5; Jeremy Dirksen 1-for-4, rbi; Mitch Thompson 1-for-4, 2b ... Atwater: Jeff Peterson 1-for-4; Justin Schroeder 1-for-3; Zach Cunningham 1-for-4; Vance Martin 1-for-4, rbi; Luke Wallace 1-for-1; Jordan Tanner 1-for-3, 2 rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- New London-Spicer: Darren Ogdahl (W) 9-6-4-4-5-8 ... Atwater: Brian Kingery (L) 8-7-4-4-4-2, Jeremy Elkjer 1-1-1-0-1-2
Starbuck 7, Norway Lake-Sunburg 5
Starbuck took the lead in the eighth with the help of two NL-Sunburg (3-8, 4-10) errors.
Mike VanOverbeke led the Stars with two hits. Ryan Gandrud doubled.
Joe Heidelberger pitched three innings of relief for the win. He allowed three unearned runs on three hits, struck out two and walked three.
Jared Johnson had three hits and two RBI, and Kent Gjerde had two hits and two RBI to lead the Lakers.
Starbuck 010 002 040 -- 7 8 1
NL-Sunburg 001 000 310 -- 5 10 3
HITTING - Starbuck: Ryan Gandrud 1-for-5, 2b; Mike Andreas 1-for-3; Jon Hoffmann 1-for-1; Mike VanOverbeke 2-for-4; Andrew Olson 1-for-3, rbi; Wyatt Paumen 1-for-4; Nate Sutton 1-for-4, rbi ... Norway Lake-Sunburg: Justin Johnson 1-for-4; Brant Beckman 1-for-4; Kent Gjerde 2-for-5, 2 rbi; Jared Johnson 3-for-4, 2 rbi; Nate Schlagel 1-for-3, rbi; Chris Braaten 2-for-4
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Starbuck: Jon Hoffmann 4-5-1-1-1-5; Joe Heidelberger (W) 3-3-3-0-3-2; Jim Walker 1.1-2-1-1-3-1; Nate Sutton 0.2-0-0-0-0-0 ... Norway Lake-Sunburg: Chris Braaten 6-6-3-2-0-5; Nate Schlagel (L) 3-2-4-2-1-2
Paynesville 6, Regal 5
Brent Savelkoul doubled home Aaron Savelkoul with the eventual winning run in the top of the 11th inning for Paynesville.
Regal had runners on first and second in the bottom of the inning, but Pirates reliever Jamie Paul escaped unscathed.
Paynesville 100 100 201 01 -- 6 9 2
Regal 000 002 201 00 -- 5 9 3
HITTING - Paynesville: Aaron Savelkoul 2-for-4; Jamie Paul 1-for-3; Brent Savelkoul 3-for-4; Adam Miller 1-for-4; Shannon Olmscheid 1-for-5; Ryan Hess 1-for-3 ... Regal: Shane Rademacher 1-for-5; Jordan Beier 4-for-5; Chris Beier 2-for-5; Andy Hadley 1-for-6; Ryan Schneider 1-for-4
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Paynesville: Ryan Hess 6Xc-4-2-2-3-2, Jamie Paul (W) 4Zc-5-3-3-0-1 - ... Regal: Chris Beier 3-4-1-1-0-2, Andy Hadley 3-1-1-1-2-2, Shane Rademacher (L) 4-3-1-1-0-2, Chris Beier 0-1-0-0-0-0
Milroy 9, Bird Island 1
Justin Schlemmer hit a solo home run in the third inning and Milroy (11-3, 19-5) added on with six runs in the fourth to take an 8-1 lead.
Matt Bauer went 3-for-4 with two RBI for the Yankees, and Chris Eichten picked up the win on the mound with six innings pitched. He struck out six, walked one and gave up five hits.
Six players had one single each for Bird Island.
Bird Island 100 000 000 -- 1 6 3
Milroy 011 610 00x -- 9 10 0
HITTING - Bird Island: Kyle Seehusen 1-for-4; Alex Gay 1-for-4; Shawn Dollerschell 1-for-4; Ben Aaseth 1-for-4; Jesse Bjur 1-for-4; Andy Stevens 1-for-4 ... Milroy: Micah Gronli 1-for-3, rbi; Matt Bauer 3-for-4, 2 rbi; Justin Schlemmer 1-for-2, solo HR (3), rbi; Eric Dolan 2-for-4, 2 rbi; Andy Williamson 1-for-4, 2b, rbi; Josh Hadley 1-for-4, 2b, rbi; Chris Eichten 1-for-2
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Bird Island: Dylan Gass (L) 8-10-9-8-3-9 ... Milroy: Chris Eichten (W) 6-5-1-1-1-6; Matt Bauer 2-0-0-0-0-3; Andy Williamson 1-1-0-0-2-1
Non-League Hadley 9, Sacred Heart 4
Derek Platt hit two doubles and scored three runs to lead Hadley.
James Wajer pitched a complete game for the win, allowing four runs on seven hits. He struck out eight and walked four.
Bryan Aeikens went 4-for-4 to lead Sacred Heart (18-7).
Hadley 250 002 000 -- 9 11 3
Sacred Heart 003 000 010 -- 4 7 2
HITTING - Hadley: Derek Platt 3-for-4, 2 2b's, 3 runs; Taylor Rignell 2-for-5, 2 runs; Luke Schneider 2-for-5, 2 runs, rbi; James Wajer 2-for-4, 2 runs ... Sacred Heart: Chris Potter 1-for-3; Mike Johnson 1-for-4; Ryan Hebrink 1-for-4, rbi; Bryan Aeikens 4-for-4
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Hadley: James Wajer (W) 9-7-4-4-4-8 ... Sacred Heart: Matt Koenen (L) 6-9-9-6-4-2; Mike Johnson 2-2-0-0-1-1
Lakewood Litchfield 7, Jimmy's 6
Stephen Pennertz singled in the winning run with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Litchfield.
Gabe Lecher slugged a two-run homer for the Blues in the first inning.
Stephen Pennertz also notched the win in relief, hurling 3Zc innings and allowing three hits and on unearned run.
Stephen Pennertz and Joe Pennertz had three hits apiece for the Blues. Lecher, Lucas Johnson, Terry Euerle and Aaron Solbrack had two hits each.
Jimmy's 101 102 010 0 -- 6 10 3
Litchfield 302 000 001 1 -- 7 16 4
HITTING - Jimmy's: Matt Lehrer 3-for-4; Leion Brownell 2-for-4, 3 rbi; Justin Syzxmarski 2-for-5, 2b, rbi; Ben Phenow 1-for-2, 2b; Caleb Voigt 1-for-5; Matt Wollak 1-for-3 ... Litchfield: Lucas Johnson 2-for-5, 2b; Gabe Lecher 2-for-6, 2-run HR, 2 rbi; Terry Euerle 2-for-5, 2b, rbi; Aaron Solbrack 2-for-2, 2 rbi; Ed Estrada1-for-2; David Pennertz 1-for-4; Joe Pennertz 3-for-6, 2b; Stephen Pennertz 3-for-6, rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Jimmy's: Aaron Schulte (L) 9Zc-16-7-6-7-9 ... Litchfield: Kurt Gartner 5Xc-7-5-4-8-2, Stephen Pennertz (W) 3Zc-3-1-0-1-2


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Lets Look At Jimmy Johnson's Career
Jimmy Johnson, along with Barry Switzer, is one of only two people to have won both an NCAA football championship along with a Super Bowl championship. He's had a long career on the sidelines and is currently employed analyzing football games for FOX on television. But, let's take a look at his football career.
Earned the nickname "Jimmy Jumpup" while at the University of Arkansas where he was a teammate of future Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Johnson on a team that won the National Title.
1965: Louisiana Tech University – Assistant Coach
1966: Picayune Memorial High School – Picayune, MS – Assistant Coach
1967: Wichita State University – Assistant Coach
1968-69: Iowa State University – Assistant Coach
1970-72: University of Oklahoma – Defensive Line Coach
1973-76: University of Arkansas – Defensive Coordinator
1977-78: University of Pittsburgh – Assistant Coach
1979-83: Oklahoma State University – Head Coach
1984-88: University of Miami – Head Coach
1989-93: Dallas Cowboys – Head Coach
1996-99: Miami Dolphins – Head Coach
On the sidelines for eleven different teams over 35 years, Jimmy Johnson more than earned his chance to sit back and watch games with Howie Long and the boys on FOX TV.


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Efforts to integrate sustainable development criteria into the emerging regional planning framework are moving ahead, with a new paper from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) offering draft guidance on good practice in sustainability appraisals. 1 New research has found that most regions have yet to devise planning policies that are sufficiently specific to permit appraisal against sustainable development criteria.
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A Pulitzer Prize Winner Struggles with His Genius
STORY BY Artie Vincent
Published: May 29, 2013
Junot Diaz constantly faced adversity in his life, from being poor as a child in Union, NJ in 1970s to the criticism following his first book, 'Drown,' in 1996. The struggles shaped his writing style, speed and creative efficiency.
He didn't think his biggest challenge would be himself.
Diaz, a 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, took 16 years to write his latest best-seller, 'This is How You Lose Her' mainly because he hated writing the book.
In short, he hates writing short stories -- the book is a collection of short stories that catalog of lost love, violence and despair. Diaz told the New York Times that the narrator of the book is writing his 'Cheater's Guide to Love'.
Needless to say, the book was a critical masterpiece -- mainly due to Diaz's penchant to overcoming and infusing personal trials and tribulations within his work.
Like most novelists, Diaz is self critical.
He described the writing experience as 'miserable, miserable' because he had a bad case of writer's block. He went he went through several versions of the final short of the book, Diaz stated in an interview with the New York Times last year.
In the article, Diaz mentioned he went through hundreds of unpublished pages and story titles like 'Primo' and 'Santo Domingo Confidential'. He believes his self-critical brakes were fully pressed. That's something that wasn't much of an issue on the award-winning and partially self-biographical, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'.
'Oscar Wao' put Diaz on the map, winning him the Pulitzer as well as a slew of awards. His 1996 novel 'Drown' earned re-appraisal as a result and is widely recognized as a landmark book -- critics initially ignored the book.
Last year, Diaz won the 'MacArthur Genius Grant' and received $500,000, but caught flack because book critics believe the grant should've gone elsewhere -- primarily because Diaz was already decorated author.
Unlike most undecorated novelists, Diaz suffered plenty personally like learning a new language -- it is major reason he remained stubborn in order to produce perfection like 'This is How You Lose Her.'
He wrote an essay on oprah.com about his creative process, and delved into psyche when initially became a writer. He wrote how he "kept at it for five straight years. Five damn years. Every day failing for five years? I'm pretty stubborn, pretty hard-hearted character, but those five years of fail did a number on my psyche ... So I put the manuscript away. All the hundreds of failed pages, boxed and hidden in a closet. I think i cried as I did it.
Diaz stated in the article that he 'jumped back down the rabbit hole again'.
And he finished.
"In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
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My wife and I bought our first house at the beginning of 2017. In this house I have finally created my own little demo studio.
I am currently working on a project where I need to parse Open Xml files comming from the Office Suite. As you may already know this involves opening what is essentially a zip file full of xml files.
I recently had to debug an error where stuff that should have been returned through a server to server call did not work correctly. Both servers - in development mode at least - was on my local machine. But since I had to hack either an external dependency or the sending server to find out what was actually being sent between the servers - I realized this was a great time to utilize the tcpdump tool.
For some time I have had the idea that when I have written enough lowlevel mini-tutorials about how to do the most basic things in every language I have ever worked with on Polyglot Bits I would begin doing small projects.
Csharp was probably the first compiled language I really loved. When the first version of .net came out I wrote a small CMS using C# and the new runtime. (A big step up from old school asp)
Reading a file in lua is pretty straight forward.
Lua is among the programming languages - that I write about here - I have used the least.
My son (Toke, 7 years old) and I have long talked about making our own computer game.
Reading a file in C++ is almost identical to how it's done C.
To create a plugin system in C++ you need three things.
To parse json in Rust you need a library. The one used here is called
In C++ there are no built-in ways to handle json. However there are many open source libraries to help you.
Java is - off course you might joke - rather verbose when it comes to reading files. However most of the verbosity has to do with importing the functionality from the standard library.
The go standard library has all you json needs covered. The JSON package has methods for both encoding and decoding to/from JSON.
Parsing JSON in elixir requires an external tool - and you'll need to define the types the data needs to be parsed into.
NOTICE: This may be obsolete. I stopped using HyperTerm again! (Too many things failed). The project has been renamed (to "Hyper"). And the special handling for danish keyboards seems to have been fixed. All in all - you may learn a bit about how to create keyboard shortcuts - but the specifics are probably unusable now.
I love working to some kind of (controlable) background noise. Something I can mostly ignore while working, but that I can focus on when loosing my train of thought. Mostly I use music but lately I have found that (some) movies helps me as well.
Writing a file in Javascript is as easy as using the built-in method fs.writeFile, and as such matches the read file method quite well
When your C++ projects grow a little, you may find yourself needing to log the state of objects. There are two ways of doing this (assuming that you'll want to log the data the same way each time).
The Euler 1 problem is fairly simple to solve. Most people intuitively know how to do it. Here is how I would do it in JavaScript.
The simplest way of writing to a file in php is using the file_put_contents function. This implicitly calls fopen, fwrite and fclose, as we know from e.g. c.
In haskell there are two ways to read the stdin stream. Which one to use depends on what you're trying to accomplish I guess.
Reading from stdin in C++ is surprisingly concise. Only 12 lines of code (including includes and empty lines).
Writing to a file in c is surprisingly simple. Most of the steps in c can be found in most other languages as well. In c you open a file, write to it and close it again. In most languages you either do the same exact steps - or have a higher level construct that does the same thing for you - but every language will ultimately make the same sys-calls that the c languages shows us directly.
In go you will sometimes write more code than you are used to in e.g. most higher level languages (think php, ruby, python) - but will have a lot more control over how it is done.
Just as with reading program arguments - lisp looks a bit weird when reading from the stdin stream. That is until you get the hang of it.
Lisp is a completely different way of looking at programming than e.g. ruby is. Where in Ruby everything is an object - in lisp everything is a list. Which makes sense, since lisp is an acronym for LISt Processing.
In Ruby you parse json by first including the json library (either the one provided with the language - or any one of the gems that provide the same functionality)
In PHP JSON stringify and parse are part of the core libraries - however in PHP they are called json_encode and json_decode respectively. The latter was shown in the post about parsing json in PHP.
As already stated in the post about how to write json in javascript, JSON is an integral part of the JavaScript language.
Reading from stdin in java looks like in most languages. Standard in is bound to System.in - and must be opened as if it where a file just like in c.
Reading from stdin in ruby is as easy as calling STDIN.read
In ruby you have lowlevel access to all the same methods that you do in C. But you also have some higher level sugar on top of that - and a program that does the same as the c version, is almost as concise as it is in javascript. You get no free concurrency here though - you still need multiple processes or threads to achieve that.
If c is the most verbose way to write a tcp server. Javascript (nodejs) is probably the least verbose way.
In c you are as close to the metal - or at least as close to the os - as possible in a high-level language. This shows in the verbose code you need to make a simple tcp server which echos messages back to the client. Furthermore this implementation of the server will only ever accept one client - and when that client disconnects, the program exits.
In javascript (nodejs anyway) stdin can be read as a stream of bytes. Therefore you need to tell node which encoding it is (utf-8 in our instance). We do the reads on the readable event, and read as much data as we can and print it to stdout.
Reading from stdin in PHP is just like reading a file. The only difference is that the file to read is called php://stdin
Reading files in elixir is pretty straight forward - especially if you just want the content of a file you know exists. And that case it is a oneliner just like in php.
In Ruby there is no built-in support for parsing and writing xml. There are however a couple of gems (packages) that allow you to do exactly this. If you are working in Rails - you have this for "free" with ActiveSupport (which you could also just require as a standalone package). This gives you a to_xml on a hash which is dead easy to use. There is also the xmlsimple gem which is a port of the same library from perl.
IISResetMe has made another Program Arguments script. This time in perl. Reading perl has always been weird for me. I have never used perl for much myself - but I have written a lot of php and a lot of ruby - and it shows where they have borrowed many of their ideas.
I don't know much about PowerShell to be honest. It sounds to me like it is some kind of a windows version of bash/zsh. Nevertheless, IISResetMe wrote up a quick hello arguments script - and let me share it with you:
In C# program arguments (like in most c-based languages) are a part of the main method signature. Like in java this variable is an array of strings.
Elixir is rather easy - as long as you get past the pattern matching barrier I stumpled into when writing about how to read program arguments.
Since json is short for JavaScript Object Notation - it does not come as a surprise that is a natural part of the javascript language. The JSON module has two methods that you'll use all the time when working with rest (both server and client side). JSON.parse makes a json string into a JavaScript object, and JSON.stringify makes a JavaScript object into a json string.
Once again php shows how it is an easy language for beginners. In PHP you don't have to think about much when you want to parse json. Json parsing and encoding has been part of the core php language for several version now - and before that as an extension with the exact same methods.
Reading a whole file is as easy as one function call in PHP. (Especially good if you want to read a small file, and want all the data in memory anyway).
Reading from stdin in c - is exactly like reading from a file. (In unix philosophy - everything is a file after all). This means that the how to read a file program is almost the same when reading stdin.
Reading from stdin in go is as easy as reading from os.Stdin - the ioutil.ReadAll method reads all bytes into a buffer and allows you to handle the input once it is read. If you need to stream data to a go program you need to read os.Stdin in some buffered way - since ioutil.ReadAll blocks until it receives a EOF.
In ruby you read a file in two steps. First open the file, and then iterate over the contents. (In this instance we loop over the contents of a text file so the built-in each_line is what we want.)
Reading files in C is very easy. First you need the stdio.h header file included, then you need a pointer of type FILE, and you call fopen on a filename (setting a flag to tell what access you want - here we just want read access).
This is the one programming language to date where I have had the hardest time doing the little hello world program that prints a hello line per input argument.
Rust reminds me of C in many ways. The program arguments include the program name at the first index, but unlike C you have to make a function call to get the options.
let args: Vec<_> = env::args().collect();
There seems to be two schools of program options reading in programming languages. Those who have a main method where arguments are explicitly mentioned in the method signature, and those who have another way of reading the data. Go has a main method, but it has no arguments in its signature - you read the program arguments from os.Args (which requires you to import the os package).
Elixir is fundamentally different than many of the programming languages most people use.
In JavaScript (nodejs) you can access the program arguments in the array process.argv. Like in C it includes the program name but unlike e.g. PHP and Ruby it also includes the path to the intepreter (the path to the node executable). Thus you have to skip two entries in the array to get to the real arguments to the program.
In Java like in e.g. C the program options are part of the main method signature.
Ruby has a global ARGV array which contains all arguments. Contrary to e.g. C and PHP it does not, however, contain the script name. This means the hello world program is very concise, since we do not need to handle the no argument / 1st argument issue.
In PHP the program arguments of current script is always available in the $argv variable except when it is not.
In C program arguments are part of the main method signature.
Sometimes when writing c++ programs I have some textual data that I want to use in the program that I want to be part of the executable instead of in flat files next to the executable. However while developing it is far easier to have the textual data in separate files - instead of in source files as strings.
Splitting strings in cpp is a bit different from high level languages
Use the boost library to trim a string in cpp
It happens to me at least once a week. I meant to make a topic branch. But I dove into the code too quickly - and suddenly I am a couple of commits into what at the moment seems like an important feature or bugfix, and I realize - I have committed to the master branch. This is a big no no in our company - bypassing code review, and a push on master most often means instant deploy.
I try to learn a new thing every day. Sometimes it is a big thing sometimes something small.
In my quest to get better aquainted with my new editor I decided to make some intelligent keyboard shortcuts for my blogging repository. I decided to have one keyboard shortcut that could publish the current draft (with jekyll publish) and one to create a new draft (with jekyll draft).
My two week vacation is comming to an end. I have had one week of doing absolutely nothing productive on the computer - apart from playing around with emacs, org mode and configurations. And then I had a couple of days where I was completely home alone. I have been working on my secret project, as well as live coding some javascript canvas stuff and getting my feet wet in lisp and emacs configuration, literate programming with org-babel (oh is that the only awesome way I have worked with R).
People joke about that I change my blogging platform and editor of choice only to have something to write about. And I guess I change both more than most people. My changes of blog engines may be a subject of another post.
Like so many of my colleagues I have a disease. I think it could be called "Idea Induced Domain Hogging". You know that thing that happens in three easy steps. Develop gets idea, developer buys domain, developer proceeds to do nothing. What happens next depends on the individual. Sometimes you realize your mistake after one year, and stop paying for the thing. Sometimes you actually do real work and put something into the world - maybe someone actually uses it … But most often - the domain is forgotten until a reminder is sent (and my registrar sends them a lot).
We have a single git repository with a large project that is split into two separate PHP application (api and client). We use travis for running tests and deploying to production and CodeClimate to keep an eye on our code quality.


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Player revolt in Holland camp?
The 28-year-old — the leading scorer in the Bundesliga last season with 29 goals for Schalke 04 and also in the Euro qualifiers with 12 in 10 games — had been left seething when Robin van Persie was preferred to him to lead the attack for their opening Group B match against Denmark.
The Danes went on to pull off a surprise 1-0 win over the Dutch in Saturday's clash and left the talented but fragile losers in danger of going home early as they still have games against three-time champions Germany and Portugal.
Van Persie gave a listless performance and Huntelaar was finally sent on with 20 minutes remaining.


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Chasing, and making, a $3.6 billion profit
The first to report results in the big-bank reporting season, JP Morgan Chase reported strong performance on Wednesday. It made a profit of $3.6 billion on $28.8 billion in revenue. The largest US bank by assets, JP Morgan stayed largely away from the sub-prime business that destroyed Lehman Brothers and almost brought the global economy to a halt. JP Morgan was the first to repay the $25 billion loan they received from the government and CEO Jamie Dimon, one of the most powerful men in the US, steered the ship remarkably well. Not all is rosy, though: the bank had to double its provision for home loan and credit card losses to almost $9 billion and Dimon sees the trend increasing still.
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When lunching with two elite members of the accountancy profession the other day, Tulkinghorn was impressed to note that his host, who shall remain nameless and shameless, spoke un petit peu de Franglais.
Before ordering, the host kindly translated all of the dishes on the menu for Tulkinghorn, who was enthralled to learn that crème de céleri meant celery soup.
At the end of the meal, the accountant ventured onto the subject of the provenance of certain coffees. Tulkinghorn could not order a cappuccino, the host told him, as this was a French restaurant and cappuccino comes from Italy, a different country altogether. Tulkinghorn lives and learns. And no, the delightful accountant does not hail from Peckham.
Tulkinghorn would like to invite more examples of idiocy from accountants. Mange tout.


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Manchester United 2 – Birmingham 0 (FA Youth Cup round three, December 9, 2009) Paul Pogba rocked the visitors by heading home the opening goal from Nick Ajose's free-kick inside the first minute. It was the perfect start for Paul McGuinness's charges and when Ajose cracked home the second goal on the half hour the Reds' passage to the last 32 was assured.
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It's interesting how two people can go through the exact same experience together and walk away with completely different perspectives.
This afternoon, I took one of my kids to an appointment. Which, for all intents and purposes, I felt well. Until we got in the car and I found out my child felt differently.
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The year is 2017. It's a brand new year with endless possibilities. Only catch is that it still features the same old osu!weekly you've all come to love. You do love us, right?
The first batch of 2017 Loved maps are ready for voting! Would you like to see Knife Party receive some love, or are you a supporter for Camellia? Perhaps you're more in tune with the sweet sounding screams of Igorrr or maybe relaxing to the unique sound of The Flashbulb. Whichever is your preference, make sure to head over to the voting threads to cast your vote! The poll only runs for about 2 days (48 hours) from now, so get in quick!.
After years in the making, it is now finally possible to submit multiple scores on maps in the Loved category. A long awaited feature, this now means that maps may have a number of scores from the same user on the scoreboards instead of just the single score as it was previously. Only the highest score will count for pp and accuracy when the system moves on to other Ranked maps later in the year.
Syrin has released a rather nifty tool for getting some information about how you play the game. The program, named osu!chan provides information about both your profile and your top performance scores, including those chokes you'd rather forget. You also have the option to filter by mods or no mod, depending on your preferences.
The osu!academy channel has released some more fantastic storyboard showcases for you to enjoy! First, there's Euclid created by Exile- and secondly, there's Sweet Dreams (11t dnb mix) created by Storyboarder (yes that is their name).
S3RL and nanobii have just been announced as the newest additions to the Featured Artists roster. S3RL has already made a huge impact in osu! with several of his tracks already made into insanely popular maps. On the other hand, nanobii is someone we haven't seen much of yet in osu!, but his popularity elsewhere on the web (did someone say Monstercat?) and his amazingly uplifting tracks have some serious potential for some incredible mapping.
Before we get into the scorewatch this week, there is something we'd like to cover. Previously, it was just poor Raveille hunting down and sharing some of the insane plays people were doing on a weekly basis. However, Scorewatch has expanded and we now have a small team of people working on this.
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It's actually pretty hard to play bad on purpose. MinG3012, however, is the master of bad accuracy, and has pulled off an impossible score, with a 45.59% HD FC (not to mention, a Perfect graph) on 9mm Parabellum Bullet - Inferno, on The Eclipse difficulty. Only a few have managed to FC this difficulty with the HD mod slapped on, which makes this play even more impressive. Engulf yourself into the madness that is MinG3012. So bad that it is actually good. Or it was just good from the start.
Cookiezi is on fire yet again as he pulled off an insane HDHR play on UNDEAD CORPORATION - Everything will freeze, on the Time Freeze difficulty. This run saw only 2 misses, which unfortunately did not beat his personal best, but would stand at 652pp. Without the choke, this play would stand at an incredible 869pp. See it to believe it. Will 2017 be the year of the fabled 1k pp score? Time will tell.
hvick225 has now dropped to 5th as a certain 13 year old American has climbed a step higher with a new personal best! Vaxei managed to set a 730pp score on HO-KAGO TEA TIME - Kira Kira Days on the Shiawase!! difficulty, choking a HDDT 98.03% play. There's some intense 300BPM single-tapping in this video, so go check it out!
Our very own n1doking became the first taiko player to FC Renard - Because Maybe! pt.2. Why? Because he could. This 22 minute marathon map tests one's stamina greatly, and the No. 1 American has shone brightly in the leaderboards. Try not to fall asleep while watching this replay. n1doking surely didn't.
Former osu!mania no. 1 jhlee0133 pulled off an unfortunate 1 miss play on Fleshgod Apocalpyse - The Deceit / The Violation on Xeo's Unmerciful Fate difficulty. This 10 minute song brings out the living hell of mania players and this pushes the limits between speed and stamina. Take a dive into the depths of metal with this incredible play, but be aware of the unforgettable (at least for jhlee0133) miss.
The osu!mania World Cup 7K is now fully underway with the live drawings complete. Our teams have been sorted into their groups, the mappool has been revealed (anime girls world cup 2017) and the schedule for the group stage is already out! If you're interested in learning more, all the information is available on the wiki. If you'd rather skip that and cut straight to the action, we'll be starting things off next weekend on Saturday the 14th at 11am UTC.
Before we leave you for the week, our new year comes with a new addition to the weekly team. Xylo- will be helping Starrodkirby86 in creating even more puzzles! Speaking of,we have a new one for you hungry puzzle solvers to chip away at. This time, it's a plain and simple crossword focusing on maps that were classed as some of the best maps of their respective years.
That's all from us this week. We hope you all had a great holiday and start to 2017. A lot of amazing stuff happened last year, and who knows what to expect this year!
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The timezone in Limestone Landing (historical) is America/Iqaluit
Sunrise at 08:26 and Sunset at 18:47. It's Dark
Latitude. 31.5694°, Longitude. -87.5117° , Elevation. 9m
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- Limestone Landing (historical) (0km)
- Barefield Landing (historical) (3.3km)
- Claiborne Ferry (historical) (3.4km)
- Claiborne State Dock (4.7km)
- Strodes Landing (historical) (5.6km)
- Gibbons Landing (historical) (6.4km)
- Lisbon Landing (historical) (7.1km)
- Saint Thomas Church (historical) (7.3km)
- Brewers Store (historical) (7.7km)
- Lees Landing (historical) (8.5km)
- Lamberts Gin (historical) (9km)
- Campbells Mills (historical) (9.7km)
- Williams Store (historical) (10.4km)
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- Mount Zion Church (4.8km)
- Barbara Locklin Baptist Church (8.5km)
- Perdue Hill Presbyterian Church (8.6km)
- Mackey Branch Church (8.8km)
- Good Hope Church (9.2km)
- Zion Church (9.4km)
- Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church (9.5km)
- Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church (10km)
- Carry Mount Baptist Church (10.3km)
- Eureka Church (11.1km)
- Mount Gilead Church (11.3km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Big Flat Creek (1.5km)
- Limestone Creek (1.6km)
- Little Mill Creek (3.3km)
- Galliard Creek (4.7km)
- Mill Creek (5.4km)
- Gray Creek (6.6km)
- Mackey Branch (9.3km)
- Isaac Creek (9.5km)
- Bradley Mill Creek (9.8km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Claiborne Landing (2.8km)
- Claiborne (4.3km)
- Perdue Hill (8.3km)
- Gosport Landing (8.9km)
- Gosport (9.1km)
- Finchburg (10.6km)
- Hixon (10.6km)
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- a burial place or ground.
- Claiborne Cemetery (3.3km)
- Mothershed Cemetery (3.6km)
- McConnico Cemetery (9.8km)
- Forehand Cemetery (10km)
- Carry Mount Cemetery (10.3km)
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- W Sam Carpenters Lake (4.5km)
- Claiborne Lake (8.2km)
- Mabel Bedsole Ward Trust Lake (8.6km)
- Williams Lake (9.2km)
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- W Sam Carpenters Dam (4.5km)
- Claiborne Lock And Dam (8.2km)
- Mabel Bedsole Ward Trust Lake Dam (8.6km)
- Williams Lake Dam (9.2km)
- bridge;
- a structure erected across an obstacle such as a stream, road, etc., in order to carry roads, railroads, and pedestrians across.
- Claiborne-Murphy Bridge (3.3km)
- Lower Bridge (historical) (3.4km)
- Ikner Bridge (historical) (8km)
- cliff(s);
- a high, steep to perpendicular slope overlooking a waterbody or lower area.
- Alabama Heights (4.1km)
- Claiborne Bluff (4.3km)
- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- Bedsole Farm Airport (3.1km)
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Mackey Branch School (9km)
- tower;
- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- Hixon Lookout Tower (8.9km)
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"...a magical tapestry of music, story and life." — Joseph Harrison, Broadway World
New Orleans. 1928. As the Roaring Twenties dance their way down Bourbon Street, an orphan in search of home finds family in the most unexpected places. An exciting new musical twist on the Dickens classic.
Tony Nominee William F. Brown, author of The Wiz, joins forces with Grammy Award winning composer/lyricist Tena Clark – who has written for recording artists Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin and Natalie Cole, and composer Gary Prim on this heart wrenching musical of identity, belonging and family. Twist marks the Alliance Theatre return of legendary director and choreographer Debbie Allen (Fame), fresh from her acclaimed Broadway and Olivier Award winning West End productions of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
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Disability rights advocates say they are fed up with what they call a lack of response from Governor Cuomo. They want funding for services that help them stay in their communities, including money to pay home health care workers adequate wages.
At a protest outside the governor's offices, Bruce Darling, with the Center for Disability Rights, displayed a special award that the group fashioned for Cuomo. It features a five inch gold screw on a trophy pedestal. "We've had enough, so we are issuing the 'Screw the Disabled Award' for Governor Cuomo," said Darling. "His office would not even meet with us."
Several were arrested for blocking the hallway.
A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, said in a statement that Cuomo officials "have met with many of the groups represented here, both in the past and today, to discuss these issues and are committed to working with them in the future to find solutions."
Azzopardi said Cuomo also signed an executive order, known as Employment First, that supports jobs for disabled people, and has already committed $6 billion to the home care workforce, including funds to boost wages.


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By Viktor Pelevin
Translated by Andrew Bromfield. 179 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $22.
Viktor Pelevin has slowly been gaining a reputation as a post-Soviet satirist of Soviet life, a writer of absurdist extremes. His book ''Omon Ra'' was a parody of the glory of the Soviet space program. It centered on the idea that the Soviet Union had, contrary to appearances, not developed the ability to send cosmonauts into space and bring them back, which explains why the men recruited into the program were such heroes.
Mr. Pelevin's newly translated novel, ''The Life of Insects,'' which was published in Russia in 1993, is both disappointing and interesting at the same time, a hit-and-miss parody whose execution unfortunately fails too often to match up to its darkly comic idea.
It is a series of interconnected stories taking place at a derelict and tawdry Crimean resort town. Its characters have names like Sam and Arnold, Dmitri and Marina, drink champagne, play guitars and talk Samuel Beckett-like about the meaning of things. But these characters alternate between being humans and being insects: mosquitoes, moths, dung beetles, ants.
In his poem ''The Fly,'' William Blake talked of casually brushing away the life of a fly and then asking: ''Am not I a fly like thee/Or art not thou a man like me?/For I laugh and dance and sing/Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.''Continue reading the main story
Mr. Pelevin, in writing his surreal and Kafkaesque tale, seems to have some similar notion of the narrowness of the distinction between man and fly, though the themes of ''The Life of Insects'' are too elusive to allow for any confident explanation of what Mr. Pelevin has in mind. But certainly one interpretation consistent with the events in the novel would have to do with the fragility of the human soul, its haplessness and terror in the face of the larger forces of God and nature, its accident-prone state and its puzzlement at the limitations of its vision. And, as in Blake, there is the theme of the commonality of all life, the spiritual anguish that draws insects and men into a shared fate.
A stiletto heel attached to a gigantic red shoe plays the role of Blake's ''thoughtless hand'' in one of Mr. Pelevin's episodes. It comes crashing down without warning, unwittingly raining death on an insect below, an insect who was a father engaged at that very moment in teaching his son the skills he needed to survive.
''The boy cried out in terror and looked up,'' Mr. Pelevin's narrator says at this point. ''He glimpsed a shadow over his head, and for a moment he thought he saw a red shoe with a dark spot on the sole rising up into the sky, and then he thought that up in those ineffable heights into which the shoe had vanished the silhouette of an immense bird with its wings spread had appeared.''
There are other such powerful passages in ''The Life of Insects,'' which is marvelously translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. And yet, despite its bright spots, Mr. Pelevin's newly published work often seems to drag through its own preciousness.
One problem is that decades after Kafka and a long history of serious fantastical works, the absurdist idea behind ''The Life of Insects'' has lost some of its hold on the mind. A more serious problem is that for the most part Mr. Pelevin means to be funny. Sometimes he is, but often reading this book is a bit like watching one of those straining skits on ''Saturday Night Live'' that just doesn't make you laugh.
There is a moment in ''The Life of Insects'' when Sam, a visiting American mosquito who talks like an aging hippie, has a love affair with a comely fly named Natasha. She is impressed that Sam has traveled to many places, including France, about which her mother has spoken a great deal.
''What were you doing there?'' she asks.
''The usual thing, sucking blood,'' Sam replies.
''That's not what I meant. Did you go just because you felt like it?''
''Not exactly. Some friends invited me to the annual Proust festival in Combray.''
A little later, Sam and Natasha go to her mother's place to consummate their desire, and Mr. Pelevin produces a deformed version of the moment in Flaubert when Madame Bovary and her lover meet in an upper story of a village building while down below the honorable Mayor gives a speech full of the commonplaces of the time. In Mr. Pelevin's satire on the modern novelistic sex scene, Sam and Natasha make love with the anatomical apparatus of insects, even as Sam says things like ''Oh yeah, honey,'' and in the next room Natasha's unhearing mother recites passages of post-modernist literary criticism.
Elsewhere, two marijuana-smoking Russian hipsters discover that the little pops they hear when they drag on their joints are actually small hemp bugs going up in smoke. The hipsters, running from the police, are then transformed by the surreal mechanism of Mr. Pelevin's fiction into two hemp bugs inside a pipelike structure with a fire raging at one end.
Then there are the two moths named Mitya and Dima, dead ringers for Beckett's Estragon and Vladimir, who talk earnestly about the mysterious connection between the light one is drawn to and the instant of death. They also talk of other matters.
'' 'But I can't see what I've found,' said Mitya.
'' 'Because you've found what sees,' Dima replied, 'Close your eyes and look.'
'' 'Where?
'' 'Wherever you like.' ''
Mr. Pelevin's new book, broader and more encompassing than ''Omon Ra,'' carries with it the power of its author's antic vision.
At other times, as in this Beckettian passage, it's hard to decide whether he is being imitative or simply incomprehensible for the fun of it.Continue reading the main story


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Spice Mobility has released, Spice Stellar Nhance Mi-435, a new Android smartphone in the Stellar series is now available online. the Stellar Nhance Mi-435 has a 4 inch display , powered by 1 GHZ dual-core processor. It is An entry-level smartphone, let's check the detail specs and features.
Spice Stellar Nhance Mi-435 has a 4 inch capacie touchscreen display with 800×480 pixels resolution. it has 1 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 MSM8225 processor, 512 MB of RAm, 4 GB of internal storage with microSD card slot, expandable memory up to 32 GB. about the connectivity of this mobile, it has 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP and GPS. it has 8 MP auto focus LEd flash at back and 1.3 Mp front facing camera for video calling.
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The integrity of NHL competition and the impartiality of its officials were cast into doubt yesterday after some candid comments from Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows.
Following a 3-2 loss to the Nashville Predators on Monday, Burrows accused NHL referee Stéphane Auger of acting on a personal vendetta. Remarkably, Burrows said the referee told him that he planned to even a score before the puck was dropped.
His claims were supported by a phantom interference penalty in the third period, which led to the game-winning goal, and video that showed Auger and Burrows in discussion before the game began. When asked if he saw the interference penalty, Canucks associate captain Henrik Sedin replied: "No one saw it."
Yesterday, the NHL began two reviews. As a result of the first review, Burrows was fined $2,500 (U.S.) for his post-game comments. There was no suspension. The second review involves Auger's work.
"I can't comment directly on the officiating or else I'll get fined, so we're just going to support Alex however we can," Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said when asked if the organization stood by its player's comments. "It comes from a guy who I think is of impeccable character, and we're going to support him."
NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell, during a brief interview yesterday, would only confirm that a review was taking place.
"Everyone is making a lot to do of it," Campbell said. "But I can't comment until we do what we have to do."
For years, fans have been in the dark, wondering whether officials had axes to grind against certain teams or players. Hockey professionals are loath to talk about such things, however, believing that public outings would only anger officials, and embolden them to make more calls against the men who cried wolf.
Burrows had no such fear. He said NHL players and more than 18,000 paying customers at GM Place deserved better than what Auger delivered on Monday. The veteran referee has refused interview requests, and a message left yesterday for the NHL Officials Association was not returned.After the game, Burrows said that Auger approached him during warm-up and told him that he planned to get even for an embarrassing mistake earlier this season. Auger assessed a five-minute charging penalty - and a game misconduct - to Nashville's Jerred Smithson for a hit on Burrows in a Dec. 8 game. But the NHL later expunged the game misconduct from Smithson's record - a tacit admission that Auger had been duped by Burrows's embellished reaction.
"He said, 'I saw the replay, you got your head up, you weren't really hurt, and you made me look bad so I'm going to get you back tonight,'." Burrows said. "And he did."
Those explosive comments rippled through the NHL yesterday. Players were careful not to align themselves against officials, but they were also intrigued by Burrows's candour and the difficult situation he has created for the NHL and its officials.
"I don't want to be the league having to figure out how to address that," Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Aaron Ward said.
Some players, who asked not to be identified, said Auger is not beloved by the rank and file, and one player said he is considered among the league's worst referees. The 39-year-old from Montreal has been officiating since 1999, but has worked just 10 playoff games, according to the NHLOA's website.
Also yesterday, Vancouver hockey fans lit up talk shows questioning the NHL's neutrality. Roughly 70 per cent of respondents to a Team 1040 AM poll said that they believed the Canucks were a "marked" team by the NHL.
Auger ejected Burrows from a game in Montreal last season, but is most notable for accusing Phoenix Coyotes forward Shane Doan of uttering an anti-Francophone comment in 2005. The NHL investigated and absolved Doan of wrongdoing.
Burrows, meanwhile, is no angel. The fifth-year forward has a reputation as one of the mouthiest players in the league, and he is not above a strategic dive if it will draw a penalty or knock an opponent off his game.
"Seeing the player this is coming from, I'm not surprised," Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque said.
"No one likes a tattletale," Calgary Flames centre Craig Conroy added. "That's kind of what it looked like to me. Maybe he's got a valid point and if he does, then someone's in big trouble."
Burrows, 28, was assessed three minor penalties in the game, including two questionable ones in the third period. He was sent off for diving - a rare call - and then again for interference, before being given a 10-minute misconduct with less than four seconds remaining, after he shared his opinion with Auger.
He issued his comments from a stationary bicycle in the Canucks weight room and as he spoke, his teammates' ears perked up. Veteran defenceman Brad Lukowich cracked a wry smile as Burrows took the hockey public behind the curtain and into an area - officials with personal biases - that is rarely discussed by players.
"It's going to be his word against the referee's word and no one's ever going to admit to that," Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Garnet Exelby said. "From the referee's side, I'm sure they don't forget those kinds of things. If they're verbally abused every time by the same player, I think they're going to definitely remember that, whether they consciously or subconsciously make up for it down the road, that's a different story."
Two attempts were made to muzzle Burrows. The first came from a team communications official. The second came from team captain Roberto Luongo after Burrows continued to answer questions.
After he was shushed by his teammate, Burrows carried on in French - presumably for Luongo, the only bilingual Canuck in earshot - before being escorted into head coach Alain Vigneault's office by a team employee. Vigneault said he was aware of history between Burrows and Auger, but stopped short of criticizing the officials.
Burrows was not the only Canuck scratching his head. Luongo said he has "never seen anything like it" while Henrik Sedin said some calls were "brutal."
"I took three minors and all of them were good calls, but there were others that were very, very, very questionable," Sedin said. "The standard was one way for a few guys and different for certain guys."
With reports from Sean Gordon, James Mirtle, David Shoalts, Eric Duhatschek and The Canadian Press


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Terry, who I have seen online for a long time, comes from the marketing and advertising world. In 1991 he graduated with honors from the advertising program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He's moved on since then to a different country I think. After graduating, he started his own advertising agency with a partner. Six months later he sold that agency to his partner and he moved to the big city of Toronto.
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It's getting hotter by the day? Air coolers are better, but they only add to the humidity, which makes the summer months unbearable. One of the best options then is to install an air conditioner in your home. But how? The answer is simple. Start looking for the Right air conditioner for your home. A right sized AC is the one that you buy keeping in mind the size of your room, ambient climate, amount of light coming into the room, area of windows, direction of windows, floor number, number of people occupying the room, number of lights and computers in the room. That sounds complex!
Here is an easy guide to help you buy the Right AC (air conditioner):
1. Tonnage: Is bigger the better?
Ton or Tonnage measures the cooling capacity of an air conditioner as per the size and requirement of the room. A thumb rule used internationally is that for every square foot, you need 20 Btu/hr (British Thermal Units per hour). The cooling capacity of an AC is its ability to extract a certain amount of heat from a room in an hour, which is measured in Btu/hr (British thermal unit/hour). The AC is considered to be more powerful when the Btu/hr value is higher. The Btu for an AC usually ranges from 5,000 to 24,000, with 12,000 Btu being equivalent to one ton.
When it comes to air conditioners, bigger is not necessarily better – an oversized air-conditioner is less effective and less energy efficient. If the unit is too large, it will cool the room quickly, but only remove some of the humidity, leaving the room damp. A right sized unit removes humidity effectively as it cools. In order to cool a room uniformly while maximising efficiency, the direction of the cooled air should be delivered to the center of the room rather than the left or right.
Here is an approximation to assist you in picking the right sized AC for your room:
- Room Size Up to 120 sqft, AC capacity Needed is up to 0.75 ton
- Room Size 121 – 150 sqft, AC capacity Needed is up to 1 ton
- Room Size 151 – 250 sqft, AC capacity Needed is up to 1.5 ton
- Room Size 251 – 400 sqft, AC capacity Needed is 2 ton or above
The actual tonnage considers a number of factors such as the actual size of the room, ambient climate, amount of light that enters the room, area and direction of windows, the floor on which your room is situated, number of people occupying the room and the number of lights and computers in the room.
2. Split or Window AC?
- Split AC is better when it comes to cooling efficiency.
- Split AC is less noisy as the unit is installed outside your room.
- Window AC is less expensive and easy to install and maintain.
- The regular service and gas fill is more expensive for split AC.
- Leakage Issue: In case of a Split AC; I have observed that water tips from the air unit during high humidity. This is caused as droplets are formed right on the face of blower.
Also read : How to choose Right Portable Air-Conditioner for your house?
3. Compressor:
The most essential component of an AC is its compressor. Primarily, these are of three types—reciprocating, rotary and scroll. Reciprocating compressors are usually used in small to medium systems, such as car ACs, and are bulky and noisy. Rotary units are compact and less noisy, while scroll compressors are the quietest and most efficient of the three. However, the last two are more expensive and are also difficult to repair.
4. Energy Efficiency and Star Rating:
A unit with a higher star rating is more expensive than the one with fewer stars.However, it will also consume less electricity and cut down on power consumption while saving energy and being environment-friendly. In India, an AC runs for around 252 days on an average. The BEE rates appliances from 1 to 5 stars. A 5 star AC is the most energy efficient and consumes the lowest energy while conserving energy and drastically reducing your electricity bills.But you should consider a 5 star rated product only when the consumption is extremely high.
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an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
the state of being close together or side by side.
1660s, from French juxtaposition (1660s), from Latin iuxta "beside, near" + French position (see position (n.)). Latin iuxta is a contraction of *iugista (adv.), superlative of adjective *iugos "closely connected," from stem of iugum "yoke," from iungere "to join" (see jugular).
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01 January 1991 Fantasy, Comedy 8 mins
David defaces his sister's doll. In the fight that follows Rebecca falls and hits her head. When she comes to, she discovers that she has telekinetic powers, and uses them to take revenge on his brother David.
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