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I have a assignment that I am having trouble with. I need to create a abstract class Person with subclasses Student, Employee, Staff, and Faculty. The problem I am running into involves the Staff and Faculty classes. Here is the parts of the UML diagram that we have to follow for the assignment, there are more classes but I pretty sure that I have completed those correctly.
Create the class structure represented in the UML diagrams below. When finished, zip all necessary source (.java) files into a single archive named with your last name and submit it along with one printed copy of each file.
For all constructors, parameters are in order of declaration (ie. name, address, phone, email, ). The class Date is provided as discussed in class.
- officeHours : String
- rank : Rank
+ Faculty()
+ Faculty(String,String,String,String,String,int,int ,int,int,String,Rank);
+ getOfficeHours() : String
+ getRank() : Rank
+ setOfficeHours(String) : void
+ setRank(Rank) : void
+ toString() : String
- Adjunct
- Instructor
- AssocProf
- AsstProf
- Professor
My code for the class Faculty:
class Faculty extends Employee{
enum Rank{Adjunct, Instructor, AssocProf, AsstProf, Professor};
private String officeHours;
private Rank rank;
public Faculty(){
officeHours = "";
public Faculty(String n, String a, String p, String e, String o, int s, int m, int d, int y, String h, Rank r){
officeHours = h;
rank = r;
public String getOfficeHours(){
return officeHours;
public Rank getRank(){
return rank;
public void setOfficeHours(String h){
officeHours = h;
public void setRank(Rank r){
rank = r;
public String toString(){
return super.toString() + " Office Hours: " + officeHours + " Rank: " + rank;
- title : Title
+ Staff()
+ Staff(String,String,String,String,String,int,int,i nt,int,Title);
+ getTitle() : Title
+ setTitle(Title) : void
+ toString() : String
- Clerical
- Maintenance
- Supervisor
- Administrator
My code for the class Staff:
class Staff extends Employee{
enum Title {Clerical, Maintenance, Supervisor, Administrator};
private Title title;
public Staff(){
public Staff(String n, String a, String p, String e, String o, int s, int m, int d, int y, Title t){
title = t;
public Title getTitle(){
return title;
public void setTitle(Title t){
title = t;
public String toString(){
return super.toString() + " Employee Title: " + title;
The problem I am running into involves the enumeration for Title and Rank. I'm pretty sure that I have used enumeration right but when I try an test it in the main program I get 4 errors (Cannot Find Symbol). The statements that are causing the errors are listed below.
error: cannot find symbol
Staff s1 = new Staff("John Doe", "5 Main St.", "123-450-6789","firstname.lastname@example.com", "", 29000, 2, 5, 1983, Title.Clerical);
symbol: variable Title
location: class TestPerson
error: cannot find symbol
Faculty f1 = new Faculty("John Doe", "5 Main St.", "123-450-6789","firstname.lastname@example.com", "", 29000, 2, 5, 1983, "", "10 to 12", Rank.Professor);
symbol: variable Rank
location: class TestPerson
error: cannot find symbol
System.out.println(f1.getName() + " is a" + f1.getTitle() + "his office hours are:" + f1.getOfficeHours());
symbol: method getTitle()
location: variable f1 of type Faculty
error: cannot find symbol
symbol: variable Rank
location: class TestPerson
I'm not sure if there is a problem with the main program or if I need to change something in the Staff and Faculty classes. If anyone could help me out with this problem it would be greatly appreciated.


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They'll be starting at the BitFlux offices and moving to Rossi's following.
The agenda includes a talk from Maarten on "containers, database abstraction and applied PHP magic" and a talk from Harry in the form of a basic PHP security primer.
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'Saving Mr. Banks' a spoonful of sugar (review)
For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of water.
Hollywood has always, and probably will always, chew up authors. From "Sunset Boulevard" to "In a Lonely Place" to "Barton Fink," we've often had the writer's perspective on the painful life of movie scripting. Now, in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks," we have the studio's.
No one, needless to say, winds up face down in a swimming pool in the Disney version.
"Saving Mr. Banks," directed by John Lee Hancock (a sure studio hand of inspirational tales like "The Blind Side" and "The Rookie"), is based on the true story of the tug of wills between "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) and Walt Disney (Tom Hanks). Finally drawn by Disney's money and years of entreaties to adapt her books, the extremely particular British writer arrives in mythic 1961 Los Angeles like a dark cloud indignant of sunshine.
She peers warily at "Los Ang-uh-lees," as she calls it, from the back window of the limo that's been sent to pick her up. Her chipper driver (Paul Giamatti) is infuriatingly American. She flinches when he calls her home "Inger-land" and, worse, says "no problemo."
It's just the start of the unpleasantness for Travers, who recoils at the thought of handing over her very precious characters - "my family," she says - to Disney. When she arrives in a hotel room strewn with baskets and stuffed animals, she faces a giant Mickey doll in the corner, telling him he can stay there "until you learn the art of subtlety."
She doesn't treat Disney much better, nor her would-be collaborators: writer Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and the songwriting Sherman brothers, Robert (B.J. Novak) and Richard (Jason Schwartzman). She is resolute in keeping sentimentality, trite showmanship or dancing penguins from her tale.
The Disney team are puppy dogs, obedient but pleading with big eyes to be let off the leash. As the mustached Disney, Hanks (well-suited for the part, belying only the slightest hint of Disney's strong-arm side) absorbs her contempt for his "silly cartoon" with a quick wince. But he's equally dauntless in the certainty of his mission, a zealot for the fantasy of storytelling. They're all flummoxed by her demands, like not having red in the film: "I've simply gone off the color," says Travers.
As these lines, from the script by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, suggest, it's extremely pleasurable watching Thompson in the role. With pursed lips and folded arms, she's a force of condescension.
But she's also a haunted woman. In a flashback that runs intermittently throughout the film, "Saving Mr. Banks" explores the roots of Travers' fiction in the reality of her upbringing. Her childhood in rural Australia at the start of the 20th century was poor and tragic because of her sick and alcoholic father (Colin Farrell), the Mr. Banks in need of saving.
The background explains the source of Travers' Poppins and gives "Saving Mr. Banks" something genuine about artists and the drive for storytelling. (Don't expect straight history here. Travers, for one, didn't end up a fan of Disney or the "Mary Poppins" movie.) But it also leads it into the very same kind of sap Travers wailed against.
"Saving Mr. Banks," a Disney movie about a Disney movie (timed for the 50th anniversary of "Mary Poppins"), is a feature film advertisement not just for the Mouse House, but for the Hollywood dream factory. Just as Travers is eventually won over by her Hollywood adversaries, the strong sentimental pull of "Saving Mr. Banks" overwhelms, too.
Resistance is futile. We're helpless before Hollywood, done in by the simple, undefeatable power of a little song and dance.
"Saving Mr. Banks," a Walt Disney Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic elements including some unsettling images." Running time: 126 minutes. Three stars out of four.


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Tom Felton Talks Potter Actor Jam Sessions, and Wizard Rockers Draco and the Malfoys
Mar 24, 2009
Actor Tom Felton recently gave a new interview to Feltbeats.com, where the Draco Malfoy actor discussed his love of music, jamming on the set with fellow Harry Potter actors, and even a bit on Wizard Rockers Draco and the Malfoys.
While it isn't quite the Weird Sisters at work on set, Tom Felton first discussed his long love of music, and time spent with fellow cast members playing music on the set. Quotage from the interview:
TF:As far as jamming on the set with people, I know James Phelps is a big
guitar man. I think he's more into his electric, shredding up the
e-string and that sort of thing. He was always working, though, as
well, so we never actually got a chance. One of the young chaps,
Freddie Stroma (Cormac) – we had a little jam once on one of the nicer
days outside. He brought his guitar and I had mine. And some of the
crew members as well.
FB: Were you wearing your school uniforms while you were playing?
TF: Yes, I think so. It was a really sunny day the day we played so I remember being really hot in my uniform outside!
FB: And doesn't Matt Lewis play?
And Matt Lewis, yeah! I didn't realize he jammed on the strings! He
sent me a message the other day. He said, "Loved the new song; I really
want the chords." And I didn't realize he played the guitar. That's
cool, that's cool. We've got another jammer on the list.
FB: Yeah, you guys should have, like, a Harry Potter Reunion Tour.
TF: Yeah, that's it. We should have a band, shouldn't we? Brilliant.
Talk then turned to the wildly popular Wizard Rock, where Tom Felton described learning of the fan based rock music recently while here in Florida, where he spoke on the phone to members of Draco and the Malfoys (Brad and Brian). In what is surely a cool thing, Tom described this encounter as follows:
TF: Well, you know, when I was in America, I was brought aware of this thing called wizard rock. Are you aware of such a thing?
FB: Oh, yeah, definitely!
Oh my god, I had no idea that people were actually making a living out
of singing about, you know, Harry Potter! It's craaazy, man! I find
that so fun!
FB: Have you heard any of the songs, then?
The funny thing is, we met a lady once who actually sung in one of the
bands. And she got some of her friends on the phone. I think it was a
band called 'Draco and the Malfoys'?
FB: Yeah, yeah!
Yeah, it's quite random! And I spoke to them, and was like, "Hello,
nice to meet you." I won't lie, I thought it was a novelty thing; I
didn't realize it had this huge following! And they actually have gigs
and stuff! I was like, "Wow!" I mean, 'Draco and the Malfoys' actually
toured Europe! It's incredible.
FB: And have you heard their song "Tom Felton's Kinda Hot"?
TF: Well, I think I heard about that… Aren't there guys in that band?
Yes, but it is from Draco's perspective, see? All the songs in wizard
rock are from the perspective of the character the group is named
after. So this song is about how Draco thinks you're a good actor to
play him in the movies.
TF: Well, there you go. How bizarre! How bizarre. Wow, well, that gives me more insight!
Thanks to Feltbeats, and much to Emma from Snitchseeker, who emailed about their questions that Tom answered!


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by Akh The Angry Academic Activist
So what are we to make of the situation in Syria?
The UK, US and France have vigorously attempted to get a UN security resolution passed on the ever worsening conditions in Syria,a resolution which has been vetoed by both permanent UNSC members China & Russia.
The Russian envoy to the UNSC, Vitaly Churkin has insisted that:
"Some influential members of the international community unfortunately… have been undermining the opportunity for political settlement, calling for a regime change, pushing the oppositionists to power"
You have to question the real motives of the Western diplomats and their Arab allies. Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN has made blustering statements on the veto:
"sell out the Syrian people and shield a craven tyrant……any further bloodshed that flows will be on their hands"
Our very own William Hague hasn't been that far behind his American counterpart, stating the veto:
"lets the Syrian people down, and will only encourage President Assad's brutal regime to increase the killing"
Almost every single player involved in this unfolding tragedy are engaged in the same manner of self righteous indignation. The same players of course that were prominent in the regime change in Libya.
I'm no fan of the regimes in Damascus, Moscow or Beijing, but are they right to veto the resolution?
But not for the whiter than white reasons they might claim.
There is a far greater game being carved out in the Middle East, sadly our media (as well as Al Jazeera) is presenting it as a simple case of acrimony amidst the geo-political self interests of China and Russia, against the benevolent and kind hearted nature of UNSC members that supported the resolution.
The resolution was of course itself driven by political machinations, by strategic demands and potential gains. It is downright perfidious to suggest that the real concerns of the western political powers are with the Syrian people.
In fact some media commentators have stated that the unfolding conflict in Syria has been covered with "less interest in empirically collected data and more reliance on hysteria and manipulation and rumour."
For example, last Friday's attack on Homs was reported to have killed more than two hundred people, in reality the number was later revised to fifty five. Fifty five deaths too many, but when your only sources are "activists" that you are using to bolster another western intervention, the veracity of the information cannot be guaranteed. The apple hasn't fallen far from the tree where the Assad's are concerned. Basher's father, Hafez gave the go ahead for the Hama massacre of February 1982 that left tens of thousands of Syrians dead.
Do I condemn Assad and his regime, of course I do, whole heartedly, but not for the same reasons of self interest "The West" has.
With Libya as the new template for regime change, we have to ask the questions that no one else is asking:
Why is there not a greater split amongst the Assad regime?
Who are the "Free Syrian Army"?
Who are the "Syrian National Council"?
Who is arming the rebel factions?
Why are Qatar acting as a military and media cheerleader?
Why have the Saudi's declared it recognises the Syrian National Council and what is their motivation in doing so?
The written testimony of Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer is worth considering. He claimed last year that:
"NATO is already clandestinely engaged in the Syrian conflict"
If this is correct, why are NATO involved in conspiratorial schemes of regime change, deemed illegal under international law ?
Would you be surprised to know that the self styled Christian crusading knight and uber mercenary Erik Prince and his Blackwater boys have been carrying out covert operations in Syria since January 2011. In a recent interview, Prince stated:
"In Syria, we did the signals intelligence to geo-locate the bad guys in a very denied area"
So will direct intervention like in Libya improve the situation?
These are the questions to which we should be demanding answers, yet they are not even being asked. The official narrative (same as Libya) is of the archetypal evil Arab tyrant, butchering his own people. These narratives are of course promoted by the very same people who want regime change in Syria.
Are atrocities being committed?
Can we say conclusively who is committing them all?
The Arab League observer mission (not that it carries much gravitas, when tyrants from equally abhorrent murderous neighbouring states are doing the observing) stated it is not conclusive who is perpetrating the acts of terror in Syria. If we believe NATO and effectively the US is on the ground in Syria in some capacity, could they be responsible for some of them?
The cases of full Western invention are being made, with the now well worn 'we cannot stand idly by' argument that "The West" should provide the opposition with special forces training of the kind that was provided in Libya
The policy for Syria is being developed in America, of that there should be no doubt.
Therefore it's probably best to leave you with the cold hearted realism of the realpolitik espoused by neo con and "Israel firster"Charles Krauthammer. In a recent op-ed piece in The Washington Post the game plan for regime change in Syria and external intervention were made all too startlingly clear:
"His (Assad) fall would deprive Iran of an intra-Arab staging area and sever its corridor to the Mediterranean. Syria would return to the Sunni fold. Hezbollah, Tehran's agent in Lebanon, could be next, withering on the vine without Syrian support and Iranian material. Hamas would revert to Egyptian patronage. At the end of this causal chain, Iran, shorn of key allies and already reeling from economic sanctions over its nuclear program, would be thrown back on its heels"
He continued:
"Force the issue. Draw bright lines. Make clear American solidarity with the Arab League against a hegemonic Iran and its tottering Syrian client. In diplomacy, one often has to choose between human rights and strategic advantage. This is a rare case where we can advance both — so long as we do not compromise with Russia or relent until Assad falls."
Does it make it clearer now?
It's Iran and it always has been about Iran.
After the illegal invasion of Iraq for the purpose of regime change, "The West" quickly learnt that the blowback on their own shores from a restive Muslim population would cause immense problems. So how do "The West" engineer regime change now?
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, General Wesley Clark, the retired four-star American General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, stated that he was privy to discussions that described how:
"we're going to take out seven countries, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran."
The conditions for a similar strategy of tension are being unrolled in Lebanon, with a cargo containing huge amounts of US dollars, guns, special passports and credit cards having been seized upon arrival in Beirut this morning.
Understand that whilst our politicians in the UK pontificate about the ever worsening condition of the Syrian people, the real drivers for the resolution come from the Americans.
They are not concerned about the slaughter in Syria or anywhere else in the region. Their murderous intent of reshaping the region is polished with the veneer of respectability afforded by the useful idiots in the FCO and the media right here in the UK.
For me, the motives are clear, and that's why I will not support any UNSC resolutions bought forward by America and her cronies.


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Nintendo's Wii U: First Impressions
Wii U Hands On
Nintendo's newest console has only been available for one day, but that's still enough time for early-bird consumers to get their hands on the Wii U, and test out its features and games.
We spent the last 24 hours playing with the Wii U, and have organized our early thoughts on the system. Read on if you're on the fence about buying one.
Out of the Box
Setting up the Wii U is easy, but installing the software is more of a process. Nintendo issued a day-one patch to activate features such as MiiVerse, the company's social features; this means users will spend between one to three hours (depending on connection speed) downloading and installing a patch that bricks their system. Not a great way to greet consumers excited to play your games. But there's a chance that servers won't be as busy in the coming weeks, so download times may improve. Each game I inserted had its own patch too, which users have to install on the second playthrough.
After getting through the patch, user still face an involved setup. They have to create their Mii avatar before they start playing, and create a Nintendo Network ID for network play. Users must also set up the GamePad's universal remote functionality, which is thankfully the easiest part of the process. They only have to pick their TV manufacturer (the Wii U knows what to do next). The GamePad controls volume, input source and channels.
Look and Feel
The GamePad is the Wii U's main portal, so users need it to access all the relevant menus (the console shows a different menu from the television); here, users can launch applications by touch. The default view includes apps such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Video Services and YouTube; but only Netflix is available now, which seems a bit like false advertising. Loading other options, such as the Nintendo eShop, requires pressing the Home button on the controller, which is unintuitive at first. But soon, the button quickly becomes a handy way to navigate to other parts of the Wii U, like the upcoming Nintendo TVii.
The most troublesome thing about the console is that everything moved slowly; launching games and apps took a long time. I felt like I spent awhile looking at a spinning blue circle.
Wii U games definitely take advantage of the console's ability to support high-definition graphics. Cartoony games, such as Scribblenauts Unlimited or Nintendo Land look beautiful. For games such as ZombiU, which are supposed to appear more realistic, users might be disappointed. This system is supposed to be the next-generation of gaming consoles — meant to outshine the Xbox 360 — but I can't say it achieves that.
The GamePad
Pre-launch, Nintendo has spent much of its time crowing about the features of the GamePad, a hybrid touch screen and controller that's central to the Wii U. The first thing I noticed is its large size; but after spending a few hours with the GamePad, I've concluded that it won't weigh you down like an iPad, yet is substantial enough that it doesn't feel like a toy (though the glossy finish makes it look like one.)
Unfortunately, the GamePad takes some getting used to as an actual controller, especially for games that require more than simple controls or the gyroscope. My biggest complaint is that Nintendo bucked all gaming-controller tradition by swapping the position of the right analog stick and the four letter buttons. Anyone who has played any other modern console (including Nintendo's own GameCube) knows instinctively that the analog stick goes below the buttons; but Nintendo flipped them on both the GamePad and the Pro Controller. If the company is only targeting non-gamers, they won't notice; but this will be a difficult change for many others. Despite this drawback, the buttons, and especially triggers, feel good.
The GamePad is mostly dominated by the 6.2-inch touch screen with a passable resolution: 854 x 480. The most appealing feature of the Wii U — that users can play games or watch movies entirely on the GamePad — may be spoiled for some looking for HD crispness. Still, I watched a whole episode of Portlandia from Netflix on the GamePad, and also spent time playing New Super Mario Bros. U with the television off. Being able to isolate your gameplay to a smaller screen is very novel, and one of my favorite parts of the system.
Nintendo's Wii U has a better launch lineup coming out, compared to other consoles — but only a few titles stick out. Almost everyone I talked to in line at the Nintendo World store during the Wii U launch wanted New Super Mario Bros. U or ZombiU, both of which are fun titles. Nintendo Land, which is a pack-in if users purchase the Deluxe model, is going to be a huge hit at parties; from what I've seen so far, it has some engrossing minigames. I haven't cracked open Scribblenauts Unlimited yet, but in demos it looks like a very promising title that would go well with a touch screen.
Some non-exclusive titles on other consoles are also appealing. I'm looking forward to digging in to Epic Mickey 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. While the system had 24 launch titles, many more are expected to debut in the coming months.
I plan to spend Thanksgiving week exploring the Wii U, and will write a more detailed report on whether it's the right console for gamers, families or casual users.


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J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD (Andy), is a Trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a staff psychiatrist for Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Virginia Student Health Center, as well as the University of Virginia's Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. Thomson also has his own private practice, and is a forensic psychiatrist for Region Ten Community Services. Thomson acquired his B.A. from Duke University in 1970, he acquired his M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1974, and he did his adult psychiatry training at the University of Virginia from 1974 to 1977.
Thomson has published papers on a variety of issues, including racism, narcissistic personality disorder, forensic psychiatry, depression and PTSD, and has written psychobiographical essays on Lee Harvey Oswald and Robert E. Lee. He is most noted for his work on evolutionary psychology, as well as for his exploration of the cognitive and evolutionary basis of religious belief, as presented in his latest book entitled Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith. Dr. Thomson has been a featured speaker at several atheist conferences including American Atheists 2009 and Atheist Alliance International 2009 for which he spoke about his theories on the cognitive origins of religious belief. In an interview with the Austin American-Statesman, Thomson stated, "There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three."
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YouTube is a video sharing website which allows users to upload and share videos. Created in February 2005, YouTube is now owned and operated as a subsidiary of Google. The site hosts a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media companies including The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Workshop and The Muppets Studio have uploaded materials to the website.
- Youtube Rewind's Video of 2013 features cameos from various Sesame Street Muppets. Cookie Monster appears following a "Harlem Shake" scene, devouring the YouTube Rewind logo. Grover and a camel appear during a short scene with Macklemore, filmed during his time on the Sesame Street set. The Two-Headed Monster also appear during the credits, referred to as "Horn and Hardart."
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The Muppets
The Muppets Studio started posting a series of original web videos online in 2008 (many exclusive to the site). The first sets of videos were posted on YouTube accounts created for individual characters, including Sam the Eagle, Gonzo, Beaker, the Swedish Chef, Statler and Waldorf, Fozzie Bear, Rizzo the Rat and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. In 2009, the videos were posted under a central Muppets Studio account on YouTube. Additional promotional videos have been posted to the channel as well.
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Sesame Workshop maintains their own YouTube channel featuring various clips from Sesame Street. In July 2008, Sesame Workshop launched their own YouTube channel under the user name SesameStreet (which was registered in 2006).[1] As of 2010, the channel features over 700 officially released videos clips, with new clips being added regularly. Many of the clips feature segments or excerpts from Sesame Street episodes, home videos and other related productions. Several exclusive YouTube videos have been released, it has been the home of the Put Down the Pacifier initiative, along with exclusive interactive "Ask Elmo" sessions.
On September 24, 2010, an image of Elmo graced the official YouTube logo site-wide.
On October 16, 2011, the channel was hacked, with all its videos replaced with pornography. Due to the incident, the channel (and its videos) were unavailable for several hours.
In February 2013, the channel started a campaign to become the first non-profit organization and the first US children's company to receive one-billion total video views on YouTube. The goal was reached on March 6, 2013; to celebrate, the channel released the music video "Counting the "You"s in YouTube" starring the Count.
In June 2013, a new paid subscription channel debuted, featuring select episodes from Sesame Street (seasons 35 to 38), The Electric Company (2009 revival) and Plaza Sésamo.
Telly is apprehensive of the site; learning that he's going to be on the site via 5Facts, he blurts out "you know the kind of stuff they have on YouTube? Ahhhhhhhh!"
- YouTube channel
Sesame Workshop
In June 2012, select episodes of Sesame Street (from Season 40 to 42) were made available to purchase, as well as classic episodes.
- Episodes
- Episode 0592
- Episode 0597
- Episode 0598
- Episode 0600
- Episode 1854
- Episode 1899
- Episode 1952
- Episode 1957
- Episode 3137
- Episode 3171
- Episode 3174
- Episode 3240
- YouTube channel
- Full episodes uploaded on Sesame Street's official YouTube channel
- Episode 3061 (February 23, 2018)
- Episode 3990 (May 3, 2019)
- Episode 4033 (December 8, 2017)
- Episode 4046 (June 8, 2018)
- Episode 4058 (January 25, 2019)
- Episode 4062 (April 13, 2018)
- Episode 4063 (November 9, 2018)
- Episode 4067 (March 22, 2019)
- Episode 4085 (July 13, 2018)
- Episode 4090 (May 26, 2017)
- Episode 4113 (January 26, 2018)
- Episode 4116 (September 14, 2018)
- Episode 4122 (November 24, 2017)
- Episode 4139 (March 9, 2018)
- Episode 4149 (October 20, 2017)
- Episode 4157 (June 16, 2017)
Sesame Workshop also hosts a channel for international versions of the show. Plaza Sésamo's (while the account has been registered since September 2006) officially uploaded videos in July 2011. A channel for Sesamstrasse debuted in January 2013.
- YouTube channel
YouTube ads
In September 2012, Sesame Street released a series of YouTube ads that would play before various third-party sponsored videos on the site. The videos promoted the Sesame Street YouTube channel and featured Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster. Short variants of the ads were posted in 2018 used to promote the said channel on monetized videos.
The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company also has a channel that showcases special videos and clips from their various productions. Exclusive full-episode previews of The Simian Undercover Detective Squad and Alt/Reality were first posted to the company's YouTube channel. Video episodes of the Henson.com podcast have also been released on the channel.
Henson briefly hosted a paid channel under the name Jim Henson Family TV, now defunct.
- YouTube channels
- The viral video "Beaker's Ballad", lampoons the site's video annotations.
- In the viral video "American Woman", Sam the Eagle prepares a pie chart to show the current content of YouTube: videos of ninjas, sleeping puppies and pirated music videos.
- In an insert for Season 41 of Sesame Street, Elmo appears in a video in "U Tube" doing "The Elmo Slide."
- In Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, an allusion is made to "YouTood", a spoof of YouTube.
- A 2012 episode of Sesame Street features a spoof of the website, "Me Tube."
- In "Too Hot to Handler", Scooter says he shot a YouTube video.
- In "Swine Song", Pache says he wants to replace Fozzie with a YouTube kid.
See also
- Muppet viral videos
- Sesame Street viral videos
- Ask Elmo
- Sesame Studios, a channel that the Sesame Street Muppets have promoted
The Muppets have appeared in original segments (scripted, improv, or interview, but not coverage of news events) on the following YouTube channels:
- The Archive of American Television, AwesomenessTV, Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, BuzzFeed, Country Music Association, Garmin, Inside the Magic, Moviefone Unscripted, The Nerdist, Nerdy Nummies, New York Daily News, Noir, 1D Day, Pentatonix, The Showbiz 411, Tough Pigs, Vanity Fair
- Muppet Wiki does not maintain articles about fan videos posted to YouTube.


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[Micheal] developed this board to be the heart of an even bigger sensor interface project. I think the design might come in handy for someone looking for more flexibility than even an Arduino or similar projects offer. The SAK2 uses a 40Mhz PIC 18F452, step down power regulation, RF transceiver and plenty of I/O ports. Firmware, schematics and BOM are all provided.
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first yes awesome do want
jeez you'd think with such high-resolution photos posted on the main site (without scaling the thumbnails) that they would be in focus. What a ripoff.
Just kidding. Those pdf's provide crazy amounts of info.
This is a very impressive project — what every professional yet free project should be. This thing is literally a swiss army knife of any embedded device development. Unfortunately it's way beyond my needs.
@ 2 & 3… take your spam elsewhere.
This looks like an awesome project. I have been working on a couple of projects that use the 18F452 and the updated 18F4520, this sure beats the socks of my development board. I especially like the RTC and CF slot.
Way cool. /me wants.
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Ha! I haven't seen one of those in years – back in the summer of 2004, my job was debugging those at the Media Lab. Very fun toys…
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James Buchanan Duke: Father of the modern cigarette
It looks harmless enough - white, 8cm (3in) long and about the width of a child's finger - but the cigarette is vilified like no other product. Who invented it and how much responsibility does he bear for the countless deaths it has caused?
US surgeon Alton Ochsner recalled that when he was a medical student in 1919 his class was summoned to observe an autopsy of a lung cancer victim. At that time, the disease was so rare it was thought unlikely the students would ever get another chance.
But by the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from the disease, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause - tobacco.
"The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation," says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. "It killed about 100 million people in the 20th Century."
Jordan Goodman, the author of Tobacco in History, says that as a historian he is careful about pointing the finger at individuals, "but in the history of tobacco I feel much more confident saying that James Buchanan Duke - otherwise known as Buck Duke - was responsible for the 20th Century phenomenon known as the cigarette."
Not only did Duke help create the modern cigarette, he also pioneered the marketing and distribution systems that have led to its success on every continent.
In 1880, at the age of 24, Duke entered what was then a niche within the tobacco business - ready-rolled cigarettes. A small team in Durham, North Carolina, hand-rolled the Duke of Durham cigarettes, twisting the ends to seal them.
Two years later Duke saw an opportunity. He began working with a young mechanic called James Bonsack, who said he could mechanise cigarette manufacturing. Duke was convinced that people would want to smoke these neatly-rolled, perfectly symmetrical machine-made cigarettes.
Bonsack's machine revolutionised the cigarette industry.
"It cranked out what was essentially a cigarette of infinite length, cut into the appropriate lengths by whirling shears," says Robert Proctor. The open ends meant it had to be "juiced-up with chemical additives". They added glycerine, sugar and molasses, and chemicals to prevent it from drying out.
Women Are Free! (1929)
Dr Robert K Jackler of Stanford University Medical School explains how women were persuaded to smoke in the early 20th Century.
The industry had a problem. You can't advertise your way into convincing women to smoke - you have to change cultural expectations.
A woman smoking on a street corner was a signature of prostitution. A polite woman would never be caught smoking in public.
Edward Bernays - who was actually Sigmund Freud's family member - was engaged by the American Tobacco Company to work out a public relations strategy to enable women to smoke.
So in the late 1920s, for example, they hired a bunch of young women to march down Fifth Avenue in the Easter Parade, holding their "torches of freedom" - their cigarettes. And this then became a symbol of women's emancipation.
You can hear more from Dr Jackler on the BBC World Service programme The Why Factor.
But keeping cigarettes moist was not the only challenge that Bonsack's contraption presented to Duke. While his factory girls typically rolled about 200 cigarettes in a shift, the new machine produced 120,000 cigarettes a day, about a fifth of US consumption at the time.
"The problem was he produced more cigarettes than he could sell," says Goodman. "He had to work out how to capture this market."
The answer was to be found in advertising and marketing. Duke sponsored races, gave his cigarettes out for free at beauty contests and placed ads in the new "glossies" - the first magazines. He also recognised that the inclusion of collectable cigarette cards was as important as getting the product right. In 1889 alone, he spent $800,000 on marketing (about $25m in today's money).
Bonsack retained the patent to his machine, but as thanks for Duke's support in developing it, he offered him a 30% discount on the lease.
This competitive advantage - coupled with vigorous promotion - was key to Duke's early success. As he had suspected, people liked mechanised cigarettes. They were modern-looking and more hygienic - one campaign emphasised this point over cigars, which were manufactured using human hands and saliva.
But although cigarette smoking in the US quadrupled in the 15 years to 1900, it remained a niche market, with most tobacco being chewed or smoked through pipes and cigars.
Duke - a cigar smoker himself - saw the potential for cigarettes to be used in places closed to cigars and pipes, such as drawing rooms and restaurants. The ease with which they could be lit and - unlike pipes - remain lit, also suited them to coffee breaks in modern city life.
"The cigarette was really used in a different way," says Proctor. "And it was milder - and this is one of the great ironies, that cigarettes were widely thought to be safer than cigars, because they are just 'little cigars', right?"
Merchants of death?
The AK-47 assault rifle - or Kalashnikov - is the world's most popular assault weapon. There are thought to be as many as 100 million AK-47s in circulation globally, but its designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov (left), laments the fact it has become the weapon of choice for the world's guerrilla armies. "It is not the designers who must ultimately take responsibility for where guns end up - it is governments who must control their production and export," he says.
J Robert Oppenheimer (centre), along with Enrico Fermi, is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II programme that developed the first nuclear weapons. After the war he became a chief adviser to the United States Atomic Energy Commission and lobbied for international control of nuclear power to try to avert nuclear proliferation.
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patented dynamite and gelignite. In 1888, when a French newspaper accidentally published his obituary, he was shocked to read: "The merchant of death is dead… Dr Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday." It's thought this may have led him to bequeath $2.69m (£1.7m) when he died in 1896 ($301m £190m in today's money) to establish the Nobel Prizes.
We now know that cigarettes are far more addictive than cigars. The fact that the smoke is inhaled - which it is not traditional for cigars - also makes them more dangerous. But a correlation with lung cancer was not made until the 1930s and the causal link was not established until 1957 in the UK and 1964 in the US.
Counting the cost
Cigarettes cause about one death per million smoked.
A 12m (40ft) container... houses 10 million cigarettes, which means that each container will cause about 10 deaths.
A factory such as Hongta's in Yuxi [China] is responsible for generating 25,000 or 30,000 deaths per year from lung cancer. And about twice that number from other diseases.
Cigarette makers make about a penny in profit for every cigarette sold, which means that the value of a life to a cigarette maker is about $10,000.
Robert N Proctor: The history of the discovery of the cigarette
Cigarettes were in fact promoted as beneficial for health. They were listed in pharmaceutical encyclopaedias until 1906 and prescribed by doctors for coughs, colds and tuberculosis (a disease which the World Health Organization now links with tobacco).
There was an anti-cigarette movement in the early 1900s, but it was more concerned with morality than health. A rise in smoking among women and children fed into a wider concern about the moral decline of society. Cigarettes were prohibited in 16 different US states between 1890 and 1927.
Duke's gaze shifted overseas. In 1902 he formed British American Tobacco with his transatlantic rival, Imperial Tobacco. The packaging and marketing would be tweaked for different consumers but the cigarettes would remain largely the same. More than a decade before the creation of the Model T Ford, Duke had a universal product.
"To him every cigarette was the same," says Goodman. "All of the globalisation that we are now familiar with through McDonald's and Starbucks - all of that was preceded by Duke and the cigarette."
The global reach of cigarettes is still extending today. Although smoking in wealthy parts of the world is in decline, cigarette demand in developing countries is increasing by 3.4% a year, leading to an overall growth in cigarette consumption.
The WHO warns that unless preventative measures are taken, 100 million people will die of tobacco-related diseases over the next 30 years - more than from Aids, tuberculosis, car accidents and suicide combined.
Tobacco and the birth of globalisation
Buck Duke is said to have marched up to a map of the world and planted a finger on China, saying: "This is where we're going to build our empire!"
The man tasked with achieving this was James Thomas. Until the company was asked to leave China in 1952, British American Tobacco's market share did not drop below 50%. Thomas was rewarded with a salary of between $60,000 and $100,000 in 1912 ($1.4m - $2.3m in today's money).
Howard Cox of the University of Worcester says Thomas was one of the first Westerners to understand Chinese ways of doing business, based on networking and reciprocal favours.
At first, cigarettes were imported from the US, but manufacturing soon shifted to China. For Cox, this transfer of production technology rather than product marks a move from colonial trade towards the current age of globalisation and multinational corporations.
Thomas had his own team of salesmen from the US, but he also formed joint ventures with established Chinese firms to distribute his product. This way of doing business is the norm today for international firms hoping to tap into the Chinese market.
But can we blame Buck Duke for any of that? After all, no-one is forced to take up smoking, even if they find it difficult to give up once they have started.
In a recent essay for the journal Tobacco Control, Robert Proctor argues that many people in the tobacco industry all share some responsibility. "We have to realise that adverts can be carcinogens, along with convenience stores and pharmacies that sell cigarettes. The executives who work for cigarette companies cause cancer, as do the artists who design cigarette packs and the PR and advertising firms that manage such accounts," he says.
Successful lawsuits that have been brought against "big tobacco" have tended to argue that tobacco companies knew about the detrimental effects of their products, but did nothing about it. But Buck Duke, who died in 1925, did not.
"I wouldn't want to blame him for cigarette consumption," says his biographer Bob Durden, who is keen to point out Duke's positive character traits. "He was very hard-working. He loved his work."
Those who still find something unsavoury about Duke may wish to consider his good deeds. He gave more than $100m to Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, which was renamed Duke University in 1924 (in honour of James Buchanan Duke and his father, Washington Duke, another benefactor).
But if it weren't for Buck Duke, would Americans still be chewing tobacco today? Would modern sports bars have spittoons by the door?
Goodman believes that the world was inevitably heading towards mechanised cigarette production. Bonsack's machine wasn't the only prototype, and if Duke hadn't seized the opportunity another businessman would have.
"He was both a hero and a villain I suppose. Buck Duke is a hero in terms of his understanding of the market, his understanding of human psychology, his understanding of pricing, his understanding of advertising. He's not villainous in that sense," says Goodman.
Yet however great Duke's achievements as an architect of mass-production and globalisation, his legend will continue to be eclipsed by his controversial creation.
"He made the world smoke cigarettes," says Goodman. "And it's the cigarette which has been the problem of the 20th Century."
The Why Factor is broadcast on BBC World Service on Fridays at 18:30 GMT. Listen to the smoking episode via iPlayer or The Why Factor download.
Tobacco advertising images courtesy of the collection of Stanford University. Robert Proctor's book Golden Holocaust is published by University of California Press.


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Chestnut Cake
(Kestaneli Pasta)
1 kg Chestnuts or 2 cans of whole chestnuts, each 439 gr (15.5 oz)
2 1/2 cup (250 gr) powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
60 ml unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tbsp cocoa powder
250 gr frosting
1 package tea biscuit
1/2 cup warm milk
1.5 liter round shape Pyrex bowl
Boil the chestnuts and peel them off. Blend with a food processor. Add the butter, powdered sugar and egg yolk, and knead. Divide the dough into two. Leave one half plain. Add the cocoa to the other half and mix.
Soak each tea biscuit in milk for a few seconds and line them inside the bowl along the sides and bottom. Place the plain puree all over the surface of the biscuits. Place the puree with the cocoa in the middle. Cover the top with the remaining biscuits, again soaked in milk. Cover the Pyrex bowl with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge overnight.
The following day, use a long knife to loosen the sides of the chestnut cake. Place on a service plate upside down. Cover the cake with frosting. If you like, you can also decorate with grated chocolate and cherries as shown in the picture.
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A large Italian rolling-stock manufacturer had been experiencing significant losses over an extended period of time. A complete turnaround effort was required to avoid bankruptcy and bring performance back on track.
A BCG team was engaged to help restructure operations with the goal of reducing the total cost of error and failure—extra costs related to, for example, rework, scrap, excessive controls, and warranties, as well as delays and liabilities—by rebuilding the company's foundation: new management, a new business-driven organization, and new processes and systems. The objective was to save tens of millions of euros by improving efficiency through the implementation of lean in manufacturing, procurement, support functions, and engineering over a three-year period.
An 18-month lean-manufacturing transformation started with a pilot program that would demonstrate the application of lean methods, deliver quick impact, and gain momentum within the organization. The lean approach was then rolled out in six other lines across four plants and successively implemented in nearly all programs, including new developments.
The most tangible effects of the transformation included the implementation of flow production, improved layout and material flows, balanced work content, production leveling using takt time, material management using pull method, and transparent performance indicators. Within the first four months of the project, productivity inceased by 30%, and lead times decreased by as much as 70%.
In order to sustain these improvements and ensure the successful rollout of the lean program, the BCG team partnered with the client to build lean skills and put in place next-level platforms that would support the lean transformation.
On the platforms side, a continuous-improvement organization of lean champions was created to support the rollout of the program. The new organization included ten dedicated lean champions who reported directly to the chief operating officer and the lean manufacturing committee (CEO, COO, CFO, and HR director).
In parallel, the BCG team developed and delivered a tailored skill-building program for the lean champions and the broader organization. The program included simulations, interactive workshops in classroom settings and on the shop floor, and one-on-one on-the-job coaching focused on applying lean tools and techniques. The topics covered included introduction to lean, kaizen philosophy, performance management, line balancing, and change management.
By the end of the program, the BCG team had developed a complete handbook—including lean principles, deployment guidelines, implementation plans, lean methods and tools, application examples, standard forms, and training materials—for the client's lean team.
In addition, a tracking system was put in place to monitor the progress of the lean program implementation. The system included three levels—"bronze wrench," "silver wrench," and "gold wrench"—to signify the different stages of implementation of the lean program. The goal of the system was to track the progress of every single plant to the level of operational excellence: the gold wrench. A clear governance process involving the head of continuous improvement, the lean manufacturing committee, and the cross-functional lean team, was established to track and verify the status of the lean implementation.
The overall transformation led to the reestablishment of competitiveness at the pilot factories. In less than a year, over-budget manufacturing hours were brought down to zero, and three new programs (high-speed train, regional train, and metro) had been successfully launched and ramped up. Reduced lead times and increased productivity laid the foundation for meeting ambitious delivery dates and tight budget constraints.


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Nothing says sacrifice for a fighter until fight week and the holidays fall at the same time.
Myles Jury is finding that out the hard way this week.
"Christmas Eve, Christmas … I can't eat too much at family get-togethers, I can't have any beer," Jury told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "But I don't want to be a 'Debbie Downer,' so I just keep to myself, me and a couple friends, and pretty much just hang out until fight night."
Jury (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) fights Michael Johnson (12-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC) on Saturday at UFC 155, which takes place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The lightweights' fight will open up the FX-televised portion of the preliminary card.
Jury may have the hard part over now that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day have passed. He's made himself a promise to make up for lost time after Saturday, and he's counting on it being a celebration beyond just delayed stocking stuffers.
"I've got family back in Michigan and once I get back there I'll be having a little bit of a Christmas," he said. "It's a sacrifice right now. But once I go out there and compete and get the victory, it's worth it."
Jury was a contestant on Season 13 of "The Ultimate Fighter." But a knee injury knocked him out early. He got a shot at redemption on "The Ultimate Fighter Live" this past spring and made it onto the show. He lost to Al Iaquinta once in the house, but he still got a shot at the live finale, and he made Chris Saunders his 10th straight first-round stoppage victim.
Johnson will be trying to go 4-0 in the UFC in 2012 – which would put him in rare company. He's also by far the biggest name Jury will have faced in his career.
But the thought of playing spoiler to Johnson's unbeaten year doesn't matter to him, he said. He's minding his own business, not worrying about what a win does to someone else's.
"I'm not too worried about how it feels to do that to a guy," he said. "I'm just worried about how it feels for myself to get my second win inside the UFC. Wins are hard to get in the UFC, and whether I'm fighting Michael Johnson or Joe Schmo who is just in the UFC, it's all going to be the same once I get the victory."
The major uptick in opponent quality for Jury means he has taken his training up a notch at Alliance MMA in San Diego. He brought in lefties for the camp, including UFC fighter Lance Benoist, to help him prepare for Johnson.
But he knows the increased level of competition is only beginning – especially if he walks away with a win on Saturday.
"I was definitely excited for the opportunity," Jury said. "I'm in this sport for fights like this and to keep working my way to the top. And at the same time, a lightbulb went off in my head (when I got the fight), like, 'OK. We're going to start getting more serious now and really take this seriously.' Not that I didn't take opponents seriously, but this one gets me up in the morning and makes me push myself."
Jury has 10 first-round stoppages on his official resume, but he said being on "TUF Live" helped him get acclimated for answering the bell in the second round if he needs to on Saturday. Or the third.
In some ways, he believes going three rounds would be better than another first-round finish.
"I'd love to finish in the first or second, but fighting three rounds in the books and getting a decision is better for me, too, because I get more ring savvy and experience like that. It's a win-win situation either way."
Still, maybe because it's Christmastime, he's compelled to be honest.
How would he really like to beat Johnson on Saturday?
"First-round KO," he said. "But none of that even matters. All that matters to me is just competing and if the bonuses come, they come. I'm just looking forward to that victory. That's the biggest thing."
For more on UFC 155, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Quicksort is a well-known sorting algorithm developed by C. A. R. Hoare that, on average, makes Θ(n log n) comparisons to sort n items. However, in the worst case, it makes Θ(n^2) comparisons. Typically, quicksort is significantly faster in practice than other Θ(n log n) algorithms, because its inner loop can be efficiently implemented on most architectures, and in most real-world data it is possible to make design choices which minimize the possibility of requiring quadratic time. Quicksort is a comparison sort and, in efficient implementations, is not a stable sort.
Quicksort sorts by employing a divide and conquer strategy to divide a list into two sub-lists.
The steps are:
- Pick an element, called a pivot, from the list.
- Reorder the list so that all elements which are less than the pivot come before the pivot and so that all elements greater than the pivot come after it (equal values can go either way). After this partitioning, the pivot is in its final position. This is called the partition operation.
- Recursively sort the sub-list of lesser elements and the sub-list of greater elements.
The base case of the recursion are lists of size zero or one, which are always sorted. The algorithm always terminates because it puts at least one element in its final place on each iteration.
Quicksort with median-of-three partitioning functions nearly the same as normal quicksort with the only difference being how the pivot item is selected. In normal quicksort the first element is automatically the pivot item. This causes normal quicksort to function very inefficiently when presented with an already sorted list. The divison will always end up producing one sub-array with no elements and one with all the elements (minus of course the pivot item). In quicksort with median-of-three partitioning the pivot item is selected as the median between the first element, the last element, and the middle element (decided using integer division of n/2). In the cases of already sorted lists this should take the middle element as the pivot thereby reducing the inefficency found in normal quicksort.
The following code shows how to implement quick aortwith median-of-three partitioning and cutoff for small arrays:
/** * Quicksort algorithm. * @param a an array of Comparable items. */ public static void quicksort( Comparable [ ] a ) { quicksort( a, 0, a.length - 1 ); } private static final int CUTOFF = 10; /** * Internal quicksort method that makes recursive calls. * Uses median-of-three partitioning and a cutoff of 10. * @param a an array of Comparable items. * @param low the left-most index of the subarray. * @param high the right-most index of the subarray. */ private static void quicksort( Comparable [ ] a, int low, int high ) { if( low + CUTOFF > high ) insertionSort( a, low, high ); else { // Sort low, middle, high int middle = ( low + high ) / 2; if( a[ middle ].compareTo( a[ low ] ) < 0 ) swapReferences( a, low, middle ); if( a[ high ].compareTo( a[ low ] ) < 0 ) swapReferences( a, low, high ); if( a[ high ].compareTo( a[ middle ] ) < 0 ) swapReferences( a, middle, high ); // Place pivot at position high - 1 swapReferences( a, middle, high - 1 ); Comparable pivot = a[ high - 1 ]; // Begin partitioning int i, j; for( i = low, j = high - 1; ; ) { while( a[ ++i ].compareTo( pivot ) < 0 ) ; while( pivot.compareTo( a[ --j ] ) < 0 ) ; if( i >= j ) break; swapReferences( a, i, j ); } // Restore pivot swapReferences( a, i, high - 1 ); quicksort( a, low, i - 1 ); // Sort small elements quicksort( a, i + 1, high ); // Sort large elements } } /** * Method to swap to elements in an array. * @param a an array of objects. * @param index1 the index of the first object. * @param index2 the index of the second object. */ public static final void swapReferences( Object [ ] a, int index1, int index2 ) { Object tmp = a[ index1 ]; a[ index1 ] = a[ index2 ]; a[ index2 ] = tmp; } /** * Internal insertion sort routine for subarrays * that is used by quicksort. * @param a an array of Comparable items. * @param low the left-most index of the subarray. * @param n the number of items to sort. */ private static void insertionSort( Comparable [ ] a, int low, int high ) { for( int p = low + 1; p <= high; p++ ) { Comparable tmp = a[ p ]; int j; for( j = p; j > low && tmp.compareTo( a[ j - 1 ] ) < 0; j-- ) a[ j ] = a[ j - 1 ]; a[ j ] = tmp; } }


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Here is the link: http://www.nba.com/statistics/plusmi...9&team=Raptors
Notice that Amir is one of only 2 Raps in the plus (+31), while JV is the worst (-116) and Bargs is second worst (-108). JV has also had about 270 less minutes than Bargs to accumulate that poor stat.
I watch JV with rose-colored glasses and think that any time he touches an offensive board, or makes an aggressive move, he is doing well... Amir on the other hand only gets my praise when he does something truly great. In other words, I have a double standard and so do the commentators.
JV will be good, very good, but we are definitely sacrificing good starts, and possibly wins, to get there.


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In the original Japanese release of Naruto, (Da)ttebayo! (「(だ)ってばよ!」) is Naruto Uzumaki's catch phrase. He uses it at the end of most of his sentences as a way of making his speech unique. Naruto inherited this from his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, who would instead end her sentences with (Da)ttebane (「(だ)ってばね」) when she got excited or angry, something she had hoped — albeit unsuccessfully – that her son would not inherit.[1] Naruto's son, Boruto Uzumaki, also inherited this verbal tic, ending sentences with (Da)ttebasa (「(だ)ってばさ」).
Dattebayo has no literal English translation; however, "Believe It!" was used in the English dub whenever Naruto is making a big statement to keep a similar tone in the English version of the series. It is also used to match the lip movements from the original Japanese release. Around the start of the Chūnin Exams, however, "Believe it" fell out of use. It is translated also as "Do you get what I'm saying?", which he uses before the fight with Zabuza Momochi, where it was hard to match the lip movements when translated into English.
- Since chapter 492 and Naruto: Shippūden episode 243, 'Dattebayo' has been translated as 'you know' and more loosely as 'ya know' when used by B. Kushina's '(Da)ttebane' has been translated in a likewise manner.
- In the Japanese version of episode 101, when Sakura tries to scare away the Moya Triad, she says "Dattebayo!"
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Hello everyone, I am attempting to write a program whereby it calculates the total amount of cash that the user has and also the interest. I have done that..what i now want to do is allow the user to add more money into their account. I currently have one static method which is to basically collect all the information as well as a for loop because i'm letting the user choose the rate of interest, principle value and year...what i tried to do is create a new method which just stores the number that the user chooses and then wanted to call my previous method to pass that value into it.
For the time being i just want to know if it is possible to pass this number that is currently stored in a method into a different method. Sorry if this is unclear or for any misuse of terminology (please correct me on my terminology also XD ) Thankyou!


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One of the questions that many people have when trying to sell their cars is "how can I sell my car Gold Coast and get the most out of it?" If you are in the process of selling a car, it's important that you approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves if you are to profit maximally from it. In order to do so, there are a number of things you might need to keep in mind before actually starting the process of selling the car. Some of these include:
Be careful about repairs
A general rule of thumb is that in order for you to sell the car quickly and for more, you should try to have it repaired before putting it on the market. However, this is not always as simple as it sounds. When thinking of doing repairs, it's always wise to find out whether this will result in any tangible benefits or not. The best way to do this is by finding an estimate of how much you can sell the car for when it's all fixed, and then compare the profits you make from this with if you decided to sell the car as is. If you end up spending too much on the repairs, the resulting car might be more difficult to sell since it will be more expensive, and you may end up making less from it overall.
Try to have the car valued by a professional
When you are thinking of putting the car on sale, you should try to find out how much its worth is. One of the major mistakes that many people make when selling cars especially for the first time is putting an arbitrary price tag on the car. In many cases, doing this will result in either putting too high a price on the car, which will make it harder for you to find someone to buy it. You can also sell the car for much less than you should, losing the potential to make more out of it. The latter is especially common for cars that have some sentimental or historical significance, such as very old and rare cars. When you get quality valuation services from a professional, they will consider everything from the car's state and history to figure out the true value of the car.
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When you are trying to sell a car, it's always a good idea to try and be patient. Being too impatient will result in you getting much less for the car, since you will be willing to sell it off as soon as possible even if the buyer drives a hard bargain. If you have the car reasonably priced, chances are that you will find an ideal buyer within a short time. This makes the wait worth it in the end.
To ensure that all the above are done, you can also try to have the car sold through the help of a car sales agent. Most of them will do everything they can to ensure that you end up getting the most out of the car.


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Baby Goes for Car Rides in Homemade Armchair (Aug, 1939)
This thing terrifies me, but at least he's got a seat belt. It's better than this one, or this one.
Baby Goes for Car Rides in Homemade Armchair
No conventional sling-type infant's chair for automobile use would satisfy the baby-son of Lester Bresson, of Torrington, Conn., so Father constructed the armchair shown at the left. Made from odd bits of wood, strap iron, and discarded upholstery fabric, the chair rests on a column extending to the floor between the car's two front seats.


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The Rolling Stones' longtime former manager has died at the age of 80.
Prince Rupert Loewenstein died early on Tuesday after a long illness.
The Bavarian aristocrat, who was born Prince Rupert Ludwig Ferdinand zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, served as the rock legends' business manager and financial advisor from 1968 to 2007.
He is widely credited with helping the Stones turn their fortunes around from a band on the brink of bankruptcy in 1968 to the multi-million dollar money-making machine it is today, but he angered frontman Mick Jagger last year when he released his memoir, titled A Prince Among Stones.
The book detailed how the rockers became tax exiles in France in a bid to protect their fortune and spilled the beans on their income and spending habits.
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If there are 3 or more apartments in your building, then yes, the building code requires periodic inspections of such buildings not less than every 3 years. Please call with any questions and/or to set up an appointment with our Housing Inspector.
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Holders of Colorado medical marijuana cards who dont want to smoke their tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the principal component of the cannabis plant can select from a virtual supermarket of edibles.
Among the munchies are baked goods, candies, sauces, spreads, tea, ice cream and honey. Patients who have celiac disease can find gluten-free products.
But Kristin Hoff, the office manager at Durango Organics, said she hears an occasional comment about the lack of variety in low-sugar edibles.
Some patients ask about options that dont have as much sugar, Hoff said. Options are limited for patients who require sugar-free food.
The sale of marijuana edibles falls under the vigilance of the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division of the state Department of Revenue, as do the operation of dispensaries and the cultivation of marijuana.
We regulate the commerce in medical marijuana in the three areas, said Julie Postlethwait, the enforcement division spokeswoman.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has about 80,000 people in its Medical Marijuana Registry. A moratorium on applications imposed Aug. 1, 2010, to keep the system from being overwhelmed, is due to be lifted July 1.
Once that happens, there no longer will be provisional licenses, Postlethwait said. No one will be able to open a business without a license in hand.
Since there are no sanitary requirements, infused products (edibles) are not considered food and therefore dont come under the jurisdiction of the state health department, Postlethwait said.
The Food and Drug Administration plays no role, she said, because under federal law marijuana is illegal.
Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division inspectors, who must be POST-certified (Police Officer Standards Training) oversee and investigate the three phases, she said.
Because no agency sets standards for the content or quality of marijuana edibles, each item or container carries a printed caveat:
This product is infused with medical marijuana and was produced without regulatory oversight for health, safety or efficacy and there may be health risks associated with the consumption of the product.
Eric White, a former confectioner who started concocting marijuana edibles when his business fell off with the recession in 2008, is aware of the challenge.
We use only high-quality materials and we do a lot of testing, White said. Its what we feel we have to do for our patients.
In fact, said White, whose Gaias Garden does business statewide, were anxious to see more regulation and further study of cannabis components other than THC for positive benefits.
Wanda James, who owns Simply Pure in Denver with her husband, Scott Durrah, and Lauren Gennet, is equally aware of the need for producers of edibles to police themselves.
Were dedicated to the health of our patients, James said. Our products are gluten-free, organic and vegan. Theyre also low-glycemic and we cook with brown rice syrup instead of sugar.
James grows her own marijuana.
We use only the bud, never the trim, James said.
Many Simply Pure products are packaged in foil by machine to extend shelf life, she said.
The owner of a dispensary must grow or control the cultivation of at least 70 percent of the product sold, Postlethwait said. A purveyor of edibles may own a grow operation or buy from a dispensary.
A 77-page manual lays out regulations:
Edibles must be produced in a single-use kitchen. No non-infused edibles can be cooked there.
The product package must bear a label listing company name, list of ingredients and nutrition facts if nutritional claims are made.
If the product is made for a specific patient, the label must bear the patients Medical Marijuana Registry number.
A physician must certify that a person can benefit from medical marijuana before a card can be issued.
Seven ailments qualify an applicant for a card: cachexia (loss of body mass not because of dieting), cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, muscle spasms, seizures, extreme pain and severe nausea. Some applicants list more than one ailment.
The lack of oversight of the content or quality of edibles and the prominent disclaimer on packaging apparently doesnt deter consumption, Hoff of Durango Organics said.
I dont recall anyone ever saying anything about that to me one way or the other. Some patients consume only edibles because they choose not to smoke.
White of Gaias Garden sees nothing but good coming from potential ballot measures to allow marijuana to be sold much like alcohol and tobacco.
Legalization would increase knowledge and put financial investment in the industry on surer footing, he said.


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The proposed rule focuses on manufacturers of animal food or feed, and according to information on the FDA website does not apply to farms that manufacture food for their own animals or other food facilities not required to register under section 415 of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetics Act.
Under the proposed rule for preventive controls for food for animals, facilities manufacturing, processing, packing, and holding animal food, both domestically and abroad, would be required to put into place procedures to minimize or prevent hazards reasonably likely to occur, as well as to follow new current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs).
"Historically, we have put most of our efforts into responding to safety issues involving animal food as they arise," writes Daniel McChesney, Ph.D., director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance at FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine in an FDA Voice column. "And while regulations have been crafted to address such threats as the brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy, this regulation moves towards a comprehensive, risk-based regulatory framework to keep all animal foods safe."
McChesney also cites the massive 2007 recalls of pet food due to melamine contamination in ingredients from China, a 2012 salmonella outbreak tied to dry dog and cat food from a South Carolina facility and the issue of dioxin contamination in some animal feeds.
The proposed rule for preventive controls for food for animals will publish in the Federal Register on October 29, 2013. Comments on this proposed rule are due by 120 days from the publication date. Based on the proposal, the requirements would become effective 60 days after the final rule is published in the Federal Register. Recognizing that small and very small businesses may need more time to comply with the requirements, FDA is proposing tiered compliance dates based on facility size.
The FDA will hold three public meetings on the Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Animal Food Facilities. The first meeting will be held on November 21, 2013 at the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in College Park, MD. The second meeting will be on November 25, 2013 at the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago. The third meeting will be held on December 6 at the John E. Moss Federal Building in Sacramento, CA.