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Oncolytics Biotech Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement whereby the NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, will sponsor and conduct a randomized Phase II study of REOLYSIN® in patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
"We are excited to announce our fourth randomized study with the NCIC CTG," said Dr. Brad Thompson, President and CEO of Oncolytics. "This study will build upon pre-clinical research conducted with REOLYSIN in human breast cancer primary tumour samples."
The study will be an open-label, randomized, non-blinded, Phase II clinical study of REOLYSIN given in combination with paclitaxel versus paclitaxel alone.
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USC causes stir with misspelled Shakespearean statue
August 23, 2017 | 1:13am
A quote attributed to William Shakespeare is seen on the base of a statue of Hecuba on USC's campus. AP
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LOS ANGELES — Visitors to the University of Southern California might well be muttering, "What fools these mortals be" as they stroll past a statue of the legendary queen of Troy and notice William Shakespeare's name seemingly misspelled at its base.
To USC officials, it's much ado about nothing.
"To E, or not to E, that is the question," the school responded in a statement Tuesday when asked why Shakespeare's name is missing the last letter E in a quotation attributed to him.
The school noted Shakespeare has been spelled nearly two dozen different ways over the years. Officials say they settled on Shakespear, a spelling popular in the 18th century, because of the "ancient feel" sculptor Christopher Slatoff brought to his larger-than-life bronze work of Queen Hecuba.
The bard himself was known to switch up the spelling of his last name during his lifetime, although he did spell it Shakespeare on the last page of his will, filed shortly before his death in 1616.
He referenced Hecuba in several of his works, most prominently in "Hamlet," in which Hamlet asks how the legendary queen of Troy grieved over the death of her husband, King Priam.
Her statue was unveiled to great fanfare at Thursday's opening of the school's new USC Village.
The $700 million project brings new restaurants, retail stores and other amenities to both students and the general public, as well as 2,500 new units of student housing. It represents the largest expansion in USC's history.
Hecuba was commissioned as a female counterpart to Tommy Trojan, the popular life-size bronze of a Trojan warrior that stands in the center of campus. Unveiled in 1930, Tommy Trojan has become a mascot of sorts to a school whose sports teams are the Trojans.
"This is our commitment to all of the women of the Trojan family," USC President C. L. Max Nikias said at Hecuba's unveiling.
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package org.sagebionetworks.repo.manager.discussion;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.discussion.DiscussionThreadEntityReference;

public class DiscussionUtilsTest {

	@Test (expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseNullMarkdown() {
		DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername(null);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseZeroUsers() {
		assertEquals(new HashSet<String>(), DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername(""));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseOnlyUsername() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@anonymous"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseWhiteSpacePrefix(){
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("\t@anonymous"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseWhiteSpacePostfix(){
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@anonymous\n"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseDoubleAlpha(){
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anon");
		expected.add("ymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@anon@ymous"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseMultipleUsername() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		expected.add("saturn");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@anonymous\n@saturn"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseEmptyStringUsername() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@ @anonymous"));
	}

	@Test
	public void getMentionedUsernameSurroundedByParentheses() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("(@anonymous)"));
	}

	@Test
	public void getMentionedUsernameFollowedByComma() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("anonymous");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@anonymous, check this out"));
	}

	@Test
	public void getUsernameWithValidSpecialChars() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("a.non-ymo_us");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@a.non-ymo_us"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetMentionedUsernameCaseSimilarUsername() {
		Set<String> expected = new HashSet<String>();
		expected.add("username1");
		expected.add("username2");
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getMentionedUsername("@username1 @username2"));
	}

	@Test (expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseNullMarkdown() {
		DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences(null, "1");
	}

	@Test (expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseNullThreadId() {
		DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("", null);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseZeroEntities() {
		assertEquals(new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>(), DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseOnlyOneEntity() {
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("syn123", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseWhiteSpacePrefix(){
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("\tsyn123", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseWhiteSpacePostfix(){
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("syn123\n", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseContainNonDigitChars(){
		assertEquals(new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>(), DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("syn123ab56*", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefeCaseMultipleIds() {
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref2 = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref2.setEntityId("456");
		ref2.setThreadId("1");
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> actual = DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("syn123\nsyn456", "1");
		assertTrue(actual.contains(ref));
		assertTrue(actual.contains(ref2));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseMissingDigits() {
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("syn syn123", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseInsensitive() {
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("sYn123", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseParenthese() {
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("(syn123)", "1"));
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetEntityRefCaseSpecialChars() {
		List<DiscussionThreadEntityReference> expected = new ArrayList<DiscussionThreadEntityReference>();
		DiscussionThreadEntityReference ref = new DiscussionThreadEntityReference();
		ref.setEntityId("123");
		ref.setThreadId("1");
		expected.add(ref);
		assertEquals(expected, DiscussionUtils.getEntityReferences("*^syn123)/+", "1"));
	}
}

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The leader of Lichfield District Council has been warned it's the electors and not his councillors he really needs to persuade of his ability to continue in the top job.
Cllr Mike Wilcox survived a leadership challenge at a meeting of Conservative council members last week, with sources telling LichfieldLive the result had been "very close".
But the leader said he was "delighted with this endorsement" after his colleagues opted to keep him in the hot seat after the failure to make Friarsgate a reality and defeat in the Curborough ward by-election.
But Cllr Sue Woodward, leader of the opposition Labour group, said Cllr Wilcox should listen to the wider electorate rather than just the closed circle of his own party.
"Conservative councillors at Lichfield District Council may have backed their current leader, but that's at odds with the message I'm hearing from electors across the District," she said.
"People are incensed by the complete shambles around the Friarsgate project – and the recent by-election result in Curborough underlined this.
"It's not just the fact that so much of our money has been wasted on this failed vanity project, supported, I might say, by all of the Conservative candidates at the last district elections in 2015 – even those now trying to distance themselves from it. It's also been about the failure to engage with the public, not for the first time, and the complete lack of transparency in decision-making.
Cllr Woodward also challenged her Conservative counterpart to reveal just how many of his colleagues had backed him so the public could see for themselves how strong the foundation was for his continued leadership.
Keep up the pressure Sue. We can't oust him immediately and I don't believe the electorate should have to wait another year to vote him and his cronies out.
He has lost the confidence of the people but not the Tory Council….says it all really. MW will not step down despite the articles on LichfieldLive. Roll on the next election when we can hope that the electorate remember the shambles known as Friarsgate and the omnishambles known as LDC. Is there no one on the Tory benches capable and willing to replace MW? Many Tory Councillors need to look over their shoulders as the people will vote them out. How will they manage without their income from the Council?
How do you get people's support? Firstly by showing you are a safe pair of hands. Secondly that you perform openly. Thirdly that you are a good communicator. And that you act impartially in the best interests of all citizens. What has happened in Lichfield and District over the last decade may well make us wonder if the quality of leadership meets any of the above. Why would you vote for more of the same?
Man narrowly survives vote of his cronies and considers it an endorsement.


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£45 million investment in rural broadband for businesses and communities
Rural businesses and communities are set to benefit from improved broadband access as part of a £45 million boost by the government. The new funding for the government's Rural Broadband Infrastructure Scheme adds to the £30 million investment announced last year, increasing the total pot of funding available to £75 million....
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Slow start for £400m full fibre fund but Government vows to 'scale up'
Just £66m has been released so far as five-year scheme approaches halfway point More than two years into its five-year lifespan, a £400m government fund to support the rollout of fibre networks has only handed out a sixth of its available money. The Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund (DIIF) was...
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A recent partnership between the members of Care Provider Alliance, Skills for Care and NHS Digital unveiled a new website named 'Digital Social Care' which launched on 27thJune 2019. Digital Social Care, which has funds extended until March 2021, is a new innovate space run by social care providers...
Digital Marketplace transitions to CCS control
The Crown Commercial Service has taken over responsibility for the running of the Digital Marketplace platform. As of 1 April, leadership was shifted to the procurement agency from the Government Digital Service. Some GDS employees working on the programme will be redeployed to other areas. What the shift of...
Leaders 'struggling' with digital transformation ambition
Public sector leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated with the slow progress made towards a fully digital government, according to a report. Deloitte's latest annual The State of the State study, recently, assesses public services across UK and looks at the trends that will affect the future of government, including...
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Sepe Elye Wahi (born 2 January 2003) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for  club Montpellier.

Club career
While a youth player at Caen, Wahi made headlines for scoring 89 goals in the 2016–17 season as an under-14 and under-15 player.

On 17 October 2019, Wahi signed his first professional contract with Montpellier. He made his professional debut in a 2–0 Ligue 1 loss to Metz on 16 December 2020.

Wahi scored his first goal for Montpellier in a 3–2 loss to Monaco on 15 January 2021. In doing so, he became the club's second-youngest ever goal scorer at the age of 18 years and 13 days. On 14 March 2022, Wahi signed a contract extension at Montpellier. On 29 December 2022, by scoring his twentieth career Ligue 1 goal in a 2–0 away win over Lorient, Wahi became only the second teenager after Kylian Mbappé to reach this milestone in the previous forty years.

International career
Born in France, Wahi is of Ivorian descent. He is a youth international for France.

Career statistics

Controversy
In October 2021, a 22-year old woman filed a legal complaint against Wahi for violence that resulted in her being incapable to work. She claimed that he had punched her in the nose during an evening out at the L'Entrepôt nightclub in Lattes, Hérault, in the night of 12–13 September a month earlier. The woman received treatment from emergency services due to the violence.

In November 2021, it was revealed by investigative reporter Romain Molina that Wahi had been expelled from Caen's youth academy for allegedly pressuring secondary school students to masturbate in front of him in the bathrooms.

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Living people
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Montpellier HSC players
Ligue 1 players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
People from Évry, Essonne

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Research studying the connection between human facial expressions and the human brain suggests that our minds control how we feel based on even the slightest expression—like a smile. Even a forced smile does cause change of mood and any "sad" song you like (or the one above), will help you feel the difference a smile can make. A good, sappy ballad that evokes melancholy experienced from the past can trick our minds and have us feeling sad even when we're not unhappy. Unless you need a good cry, smiling during a woeful tune helps you connect with the song's lyrics, harmony and composition and actually makes you feel better.


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I recently went through my books in storage only to discover that I had more book collections than expected.
I will begin with the children's books. I loved the Cat in the Hat series and still have a large collection. I remember getting them through mail over, a different one would come each week and I would read them and add them to the shelf.
I think because I haven't read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as many times as earlier books in the series I under-estimated how good it was. It's an exciting tale with interesting characters and a plot that is full of twists and turns.
* Amazingly (unlike all of the rest of the book in the series), the characters don't get into Narnia until page 12. Necessary because of the introduction of Eustace Scrubb, a brand new character.
* The description of the Dawn Treader is vivid and you can imagine how it looks and where everything is located.
* I liked the inclusion of Eustace's diary during the storm – it made it more realistic.
* The story of how Eustace turns into a dragon and subsequently has a change of heart about how he feels about Narnia and his comrades is delightful.
* One of my favourite parts of the books is when they are on the Island of the Voices and when Lucy goes into the magicians house. Suspenseful, and the description of the house is fascinating.
* I always found it sad when they leave Reepicheep at the end of the world and when Aslan tells Lucy and Edmund that they would not be returning to Narnia.
New Releases to Add to my Wish List!
Some titles that have just been released that I cannot wait to read.
1) Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesket – An elderly beekeeper looks back at his life and learns the painful truth about his friend Claire.
2) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki – In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.
3) The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart – The history of the plants that have created the world's great drinks.
4) Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare – I know I should stop reading books about teenagers but I love the series The Infernal Devices and this final instalment in the trilogy will hopefully not disappoint.
5) The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee – A fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider.
The fourth book in the series sees the four Pevensie children return to Narnia only to find that it is a very different place than when they reigned. I find this book one of the most interesting in the series. The character development of Caspian and the plight to restore Narnia to what it was makes it a fascinating read.
* Again Lewis dives right into the story, the children are back in Narnia by the second page. No mucking around in the real world.
* When the children find out they are at the ruins of Cair Paravel and take their gifts you feel the same sense of adventure brewing as in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
1) Joyland by Stephen King (JUNE) – As a fan I'll read pretty much anything he writes but this plot just sounds intriguing and creepy. Set in a small-town amusement park in the 70s, student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder.
2) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (JUNE) – I really enjoy his books for young adults (Coraline, The Graveyard Book) and am curious to see what he has in store for an adult audience.
3) The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen (APRIL) – I love both Illustrator and Writer and a picture book about being afraid of the dark will be enjoyed by my students (and myself).
4) Revenge by Yoko Ogawa (JAN but I haven't had the time to get it as yet) – 11 connected stories with macabre and supernatural themes. Sounds fascinating.
5) In the Shadows of Blackbirds by Cat Winters (APRIL) – Séances, spirit photographers and early-twentieth-century photographs, what more could I ask for?


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Moscow's Post-Soviet Integration Dreams: History, Economics Play Roles
By Rahim Rahimov
Russian president Vladimir Putin hosted leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in an informal summit in Saint Petersburg on December 20. The format of this year's gathering was a bit different from previous years as the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) also arrived in Saint Petersburg to make it a joint informal summit of the EEU and the CIS.
Earlier this year, at the October 11 CIS summit in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Vladimir Putin had explicitly invited the CIS leaders to attend the Saint Petersburg event. Putin's invitation was of a piece with his January 1, 2018, call for a "deeper pairing of the formats of the Eurasian Economic Union and Commonwealth of Independent States." Such an approach to integrating the post-Soviet space was predictable in many regards. Indeed, the series of 1917 Russian revolution films broadcast on major Russian state TV channels before the 2018 presidential elections signaled, through their take on historical events, that Moscow is going to behave more sensitively, if not assertively, in particular with those CIS countries that have not joined the Russian-led integration structures, such as the EEU or the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), an intergovernmental military alliance formed within the framework of the CIS.
Interpretation of historical events appeared on the agenda of the December 20 informal summit, too. For the Kremlin, the gathering represented an audience of the like-minded. In response to the European Parliament's September 19, 2019, resolutions regarding World War II prehistory narratives, which resolutions accused Russia of "distorting historical facts," Putin passionately made the case at the summit for the Russian version of history, introducing archival documents to support his position and noting Russia's desire for truthfulness and openness in interpreting history. Putin's apparent bland earnestness was well received by attendees, who took up his invitation to tour the accompanying exhibit.
Nonetheless, while appearing to be in solidarity with Putin on the topic, some CIS and EEU countries are unhappy with Moscow's attitude toward historical and more recent events. For example, many in Azerbaijan see it as unfair that the Soviet authorities failed to honor its capital, Baku, with the title "City Hero," an honorific that, in the Soviet era, was bestowed on cities that had played an important role in battles against Nazi Germany. Baku produced 80 percent of oil used by the USSR then, and Azerbaijani oil was crucial to the World War II victory of the USSR.
Armenia, a close ally of Russia, is also unhappy with Moscow. Russia recently dismantled a memorial plaque in the Russian city of Armavir honoring Garegin Nzhdeh, a controversial Armenian figure. Though Armenia sees Nzhdeh as a national hero, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities for collaborating with Nazi Germany. The dismantling came after Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev called on the CIS leaders to fight against the "glorification of Nazism" in the CIS countries, specifically singling out a different monument to Nzhdeh in Armenia but referring obliquely to the plaque in Armavir.
Alongside symbolic and historical issues of this sort, more significant sources of troubles for Russian-led integration processes in the post-Soviet space are major political and economic obstacles that Moscow finds difficult to overcome. In particular, conflicts between individual CIS nations have sapped the Kremlin's energies. Border and territorial disputes between Kyrgyzstan, Russia's close ally in the CSTO and EEU, and Moscow's other CSTO ally, Tajikistan, have proved a hurdle to the latter's accession to the EEU.
The most stubborn problem, however, is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, in which Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting a territorial and ethnic war. For most in Azerbaijan, it is unacceptable to enter into a formal alliance with Armenia by joining either the EEU or CSTO, as Azerbaijan views Armenia as an occupying power of its internationally recognized territories. Yet Armenia, currently a member of both, threatens to exercise its veto power should Azerbaijan attempt to join either organization.
Moscow is right to be concerned about its difficulties moving forward with its post-Soviet integration processes. Moldova is fettered by its Association Agreement with the EU. Georgia and Ukraine left the CIS because of conflict with Russia. Moscow is keen to counter the development of any similar scenarios. Russia has huge military and other forms of leverage in the post-Soviet space, but those tools may be ineffective or insufficient.
A foundational problem is that Russia's economy is a poor match for its military power and its geopolitical ambitions. Without some economic attraction, it is hard, if not impossible, for Moscow to draw CIS countries, especially economically better-off ones, closer into its orbit. Russia's economy is smaller than that of Italy, an EU member state, and much smaller than the economies of leading EU powers such as Germany. But in population, Russia vastly surpasses any individual EU member state, and its land area is greater than the European continent's. Thus, compared to the situation in EU nations, its much smaller economy must support its much larger population. Yet Russia's giant military force and its involvement in conflicts in Syria and elsewhere impose a heavy burden on its modest economy and constrained budget, consuming large amounts of resources. Moreover, Moscow provides big subsidies to its allies—Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan—to keep them within its umbrella organizations.
Other political barriers stand in the way of a formal EEU-CIS merger. While the non-EEU countries in the CIS are closely engaging with Russia, they also insist on staying clear of the EEU or the CSTO. Azerbaijan's assumption of the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries for 2019–2022 is a message in that regard. Another NAM country leader, Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, awarded Sergey Lebedev, the executive secretary of the CIS, the Order of Neutrality, in both a reminder and a symbolic reaffirmation of Turkmenistan's neutrality. Moscow is mindful of the fact that it must take into consideration the restraints on its ambition to expand the EEU and the CSTO into the rest of the CIS.
Russian expert Sergey Markedonov argues that if Azerbaijan joins the EEU, the organization will become a clone of the CIS and yet another ineffective structure owing to disputes with Armenia and related disagreements and vetoes. Therefore, the rationale behind pairing the EEU and the CIS through initiatives such as the joint informal summit can't necessarily be regarded as Moscow's effort to enlarge the EEU by channeling the CIS leaders into it. The rationale is to keep a close eye on the EEU and CIS countries rather than integrate the two organizations, and also to create good optics for audiences inside and outside Russia.
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Rahim Rahimov is an independent political analyst focusing on Russia and post-soviet space with interests in conflicts, foreign policies and economic and political integration projects. Rahim is also a contributing analyst for The Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor. He holds an MA in International Relations from Hult International Business School in London, UK and a BA from the Baku State University, Azerbaijan. He speaks English, Russian, Arabic, Turkish and Azerbaijani.
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Read the Full Transcript of Trump's Call With Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
Last month Donald Trump spoke by phone with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and was widely criticized by members of both parties for inviting the strongman to meet with him in the White House.
The Intercept obtained a transcript of the call and is publishing it in full. On the call, Trump enthusiastically endorsed Duterte's murderous "drug war," and repeatedly addressed the possibility of a U.S. nuclear strike on North Korea. The transcript, which contains numerous typographical errors, is an official document of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs. Well-placed sources at the Palace and the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed its authenticity to reporters for the Philippine news outlet Rappler, which collaborated with The Intercept on this story.
The White House readout describes the call as a "very friendly conversation":
President Donald J. Trump spoke today with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. It was a very friendly conversation, in which the two leaders discussed the concerns of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regarding regional security, including the threat posed by North Korea. They also discussed the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world. President Trump enjoyed the conversation and said that he is looking forward to visiting the Philippines in November to participate in the East Asia Summit and the U.S.-ASEAN Summit. President Trump also invited President Duterte to the White House to discuss the importance of the the United States-Philippines alliance, which is now heading in a very positive direction.
Here is the transcript:
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Top photo: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a joint press conference with Thailand's prime minister in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 21, 2017.
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What Trump and Duterte Said Privately About the North Korean Nuclear Threat
President Donald Trump repeatedly addressed the possibility of a U.S. nuclear attack on North Korea in a private call last month with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Intercept.
"We can't let a madman with nuclear weapons let on the loose like that. We have a lot of firepower, more than he has times 20, but we don't want to use it," Trump told Duterte. (In fact, the U.S. has 6,800 nuclear warheads and North Korea is thought to have about 10.) "You will be in good shape," he added.
"We have a lot of firepower over there. We have two submarines — the best in the world — we have two nuclear submarines — not that we want to use them at all," Trump said. "I've never seen anything like they are, but we don't have to use this, but he could be crazy so we will see what happens."
The call took place on April 29. The transcript, an official Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs document, contains numerous typographical errors. Multiple government sources contacted by the Philippine news outlet Rappler, which collaborated with The Intercept on this story, confirmed its authenticity.
During the call, Trump echoed his publicly stated position that he wants China to take the lead in addressing potential threats from North Korea. "I hope China solves the problem. They really have the means because a great degree of their stuff come [sic] through China," Trump said. "But if China doesn't do it, we will do it."
Duterte then volunteered to call Chinese President Xi Jinping, adding, "The other option is a nuclear blast which is not good for everybody." Both leaders expressed a preference for avoiding a nuclear confrontation, but nonetheless, Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund and a leading expert on nuclear weapons, was alarmed by the exchange.
"Trump has a disturbing tendency to talk very cavalierly about nuclear weapons — as if he is an impulse away from using them," Cirincione said. "He doesn't seem to understand the vast destructive nature of these weapons and the line he would be crossing by using them."
During the Obama administration, Duterte made clear his disdain for the U.S. president, who he repeatedly called the "son of a whore." The Obama administration's measured criticism of Duterte's murderous war on drugs enraged the Philippine leader. At one point, Duterte threatened to "say goodbye" to a U.S.-oriented foreign policy in favor of a closer alliance with China. Beijing has offered to train Philippine anti-drug forces tasked with carrying out what human rights advocates characterize as an extrajudicial killing campaign.
Duterte welcomed Trump's election victory. Recently, he has publicly counseled restraint and the de-escalation of tensions with North Korea, even to the point of criticizing the U.S. for its bellicosity. "There seems to be two countries playing with their toys and those toys are not really to entertain," he said at an April news conference in Manila.
People in Pyongyang watch a public broadcast about the launch of a surface-to-surface medium-long-range ballistic missile, Pukguksong-2, at an undisclosed location in February 2017.
Photo: Kim Won-JinAFP/Getty Images
During the call with Trump, however, Duterte had a different message, emphasizing that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was a "madman." "He is playing with his bombs, his toys and from the looks of it, his mind is not working well and he might just go crazy one moment," he told Trump. The two leaders praised each other, and Duterte encouraged Trump to "keep the pressure on" Kim Jong-un while offering to aid Trump in pressing China to bring its influence to bear on North Korea.
Duterte's public comments, rather than his private ones, are more in line with regional attitudes toward North Korea. North Korea has been saber-rattling for so long that its neighbors have largely decided that ignoring the provocations is the best path forward, a strategy that has been abandoned by Trump.
Earlier this month, amid escalating tensions with North Korea, South Korean voters went to the polls in their presidential election and elected Moon Jae-In — a former human rights lawyer in favor of dialogue and joint economic projects with North Korea.
In his conversation with Duterte, Trump asked for information about the region. "What do you think about China? Does China have power over him?" Trump asked. "What's your opinion of [Kim Jong-un], Rodrigo? Are we dealing with someone who [is] stable or not stable?"
"He is not stable," Duterte answered.
The Intercept also obtained a briefing document from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs dated several days after the call with Trump, which contains talking points for an upcoming call between Duterte and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. The document lists as a talking point that Duterte should "call on all parties to exercise restraint and level-headedness to avoid making the situation worse."
The talking points do not mention Trump.
Disclosure: Omidyar Network is an investor in Rappler, an independent news organization based in the Philippines. The Intercept's publisher, First Look Media, was founded by Pierre Omidyar.
The post What Trump and Duterte Said Privately About the North Korean Nuclear Threat appeared first on The Intercept.
Trump Called Rodrigo Duterte to Congratulate Him on His Murderous Drug War: "You Are Doing an Amazing Job"
In a phone call from the White House late last month, U.S. President Donald Trump heaped praise on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, one of the world's most murderous heads of state, for doing what Trump called an "unbelievable job" in his war on drugs. Trump offered an unqualified endorsement of Duterte's bloody extermination campaign against suspected drug dealers and users, which has included open calls for extrajudicial murders and promises of pardons and immunity for the killers.
"You are a good man," Trump told Duterte, according to an official transcript of the April 29 call produced by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and obtained by The Intercept. "Keep up the good work," Trump told Duterte. "You are doing an amazing job."
Trump began the call by telling Duterte, "You don't sleep much, you're just like me," before quickly pivoting to the strongman's drug war.
"I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem," Trump told Duterte at the beginning of their call, according to the document. "Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that."
"Thank you Mr. President," replied Duterte. "This is the scourge of my nation now and I have to do something to preserve the Filipino nation."
The transcript, which contains numerous typographical errors, was authenticated by well-placed sources in the Palace and the Department of Foreign Affairs by reporters at the Manila-based news outlet Rappler, which collaborated with The Intercept on this story.
Since Duterte took office in June, Philippine national police and vigilante death squads have embarked on a campaign to slaughter drug users as well as drug dealers. "Hitler massacred three million Jews [sic], now, there's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them," he said in September. Last month, he told a group of jobless Filipinos that they should "kill all the drug addicts." Police have killed over 7,000 people, devastated poor areas of Manila and other cities, and used the drug war as a pretext to murder government officials and community leaders.
The new details of Trump's call with Duterte come on the heels of the Philippine president's announcement that he is imposing martial law on the autonomous island of Mindanao, where government forces are battling Islamist rebels. "If I had to kill thousands of people just to keep Philippines a thousand times safer, I will not have doubts doing it," Duterte said.
On the April 29 call, Trump pointed out to Duterte that his predecessor in the White House had been critical of the rising body count under Duterte's reign in the Philippines, but that Trump himself gets it. "I understand that, and fully understand that, and I think we had a previous president who did not understand that," Trump said, "but I understand that and we have spoken about this before."
When the Obama administration offered some tempered criticism of Duterte's killing spree, Duterte called the U.S. president the "son of a whore" and an "idiot" who "can go to hell." Speaking in Beijing in October, Duterte said, "America has lost now. I've realigned myself in your ideological flow. And maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia. It's the only way."
However, in the wake of Trump's election, Duterte said, "I don't want to quarrel anymore, because Trump has won." On the April call, Trump addressed Duterte warmly by his first name, Rodrigo, and Duterte thanked Trump for his sentiments on Obama.
This week, Duterte was slated to be in Russia for a five-day trip, including a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, whom he has called his "favorite hero." On Tuesday, Duterte announced from Moscow that he was cutting the trip short in light of his declaration of martial law and fighting between rebels and the government in Mindanao.
Following the call last month, the White House publicly described a "very friendly conversation" that culminated with an invitation for an Oval Office meeting. "To endorse Duterte is to endorse a man who advocates mass murder and who has admitted to killing people himself," said John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, reacting to the transcript. "Endorsing his methods is a celebration of the death of the poor and vulnerable."
A member of a "Scene of the Crime Operatives" team investigates the scene where two alleged robbers were killed after a gun fight with police in Manila on Feb. 8, 2017.
Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
Duterte's police killings are widely recognized by the international community as an ongoing atrocity. The "war on drugs" has drawn condemnation from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, and last month a Philippine lawyer filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Duterte of mass murder and crimes against humanity. The State Department's annual human rights report acknowledges thousands of "extrajudicial killings" with impunity and calls them the country's "chief human rights concern."
Killing is nothing new for Duterte. His bloody record started in 1988, when he became the mayor of Davao City, a coastal city in the southern Philippines. During his tenure, he earned the nickname "the Death Squad Mayor" — a title he embraces. According to one former hitman, Duterte formed an organization called the "Davao Death Squad" — a mafia-like organization of plainclothes assassins that would kill suspected criminals, journalists, and opposition politicians, often from the backs of motorcycles. Multiple former members of the group have come forward and said that they killed people on Duterte's direct orders.
Duterte has even bragged that he personally killed criminals from the back of a motorcycle. "In Davao I used to do it personally," he told a group of business leaders in Manila. "Just to show to the guys [police officers] that if I can do it, why can't you."
In 2016, Duterte campaigned on a policy of mass extermination for anyone involved in the drug trade. "I'd be happy to slaughter them. If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have me," Duterte said after his inauguration in September.
Despite human rights concerns, the U.S. has long considered the Philippines a military ally, and under Obama the U.S. gave the country's military tens of millions of dollars in weapons and resources per year. The U.S. government does not provide lethal weapons directly to the Philippine National Police, which has a decadeslong history of extrajudicial killings. But it does allow U.S. weapons manufacturers to sell to them directly. In 2015 the State Department authorized more than $250 million in arms sales from U.S. defense contractors to security forces in the Philippines.
After Duterte's election, Obama's State Department halted one sale of assault rifles to the Philippines, largely due to the objections of Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the leading Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Philippines became a colony of the United States in 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War. A long insurgency followed, and the country didn't win full independence until 1946.
Top photo: A drug suspect lies dead in a hallway during an alleged shootout with police in Manila, Philippines, on Aug. 18, 2016.
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In May 2018 I visited the stunning Pembrokeshire coast in South West Wales with a particular interest in seeing puffins and gannets. They can be seen in abundance around the islands off the coast: Skomer, Skokholm and Grassholm along with plenty of other birds and wildlife. It's a fabulous place to visit and I would highly recommend the area.


How can you be in Italy, yet not in Italy? OK, so smarty pants people will immediately say "the Vatican", and yes they are correct. But what about another country? I had not heard of tiny San Marino, embedded in the north east of Italy. Lucky for me, Ken had known of San Marino from his childhood stamp collection, so it was on the list of places we had to visit.
San Marino has the full title of The Most Serene Republic of San Marino and the old fortified town is perched on top of Mount Titano, with a short skirt of land around the base. At only 61 square kms it's one of Europe's smallest nations.
Apart from the local residents, it is mostly visited by day trippers so it is really only becomes serene after 5pm.
It is easily reached firstly by train from anywhere in Italy to Rimini, then by frequent buses to San Marino. We found out that Rimini has direct flights to and from Russia, so many day trippers are Russian. Who knew?
The bus stops in a plaza where we caught a toy train up to one of the fortress town gates. For some reason the Navetta Shuttle train only takes passengers upwards, never back down. When we asked the tourist information man, he shook his head and said, " it is a long story…" We didn't ever find out the details.
There is plenty to see and do despite the small size of San Marino.
We explored the various twisting streets, confusing connecting stairways, plazas and ramparts with stunning vistas.
The three Towers are a must. They were linked by high walls and performed an essential function in keeping San Marino independent.
Tower One is the most visited but all three are worth seeing. The towers are the symbol of San Marino.
Close to Tower Three is an Iron Age cave shrine (6th century B. C.) Votive statues from the shrine can be seen in the State Museum.
The Tanaccia Shrine was also used by Romans, Goths and Byzantines.
We were the only people there and it is just off the path in the woods. Peaceful and calm after the busy-ness of the town streets.
If you feel like more time alone, follow the cliff path around San Marino. The Sentiero della Rupe is clearly marked and has ladder steps and ropes to help on the steeper sections. We even came across a small shrine on the track. Apparently, this trail was made during WWII to help Italians escape into neutral San Marino.
Back in town, there are many interesting churches, including the Basilica dedicated to the founder, San Marinus himself and historical convents and museums of Capuchins, Franciscans and the Clares.
The museums of San Marino range from informative to bizarre, from the State Museum to the Museum of Curiosities. Being broad minded, we had to visit both types.
This 'saintly' guy lived for 45 years on top of a pillar, and locals collected his dropped poo as holy relics.
The views are stunning, the town is very interesting, the food was good and serene moments are possible. Definitely a country to add to the list of must sees.
But why are there so many gun shops? Another thing we never did find out about. Maybe next time.
Note: Since this post was published a reader has informed us that the guns are all replicas and not real.


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Prima della guerra, Alberto Errera era un soldato dell'Esercito Ellenico, promosso successivamente a ufficiale raggiungendo il rango di capitano; si è unito ai partigiani durante l'occupazione tedesca della Grecia. Ha preso il nome cristiano Alex (Alekos) Michaelides. Nella notte del 24 marzo 1944, è stato arrestato dai tedeschi a Larissa, insieme a un gruppo di 225 ebrei, imprigionato poi nel campo di Haidari. È stato deportato da Atene il 2 aprile, arrivando ad Auschwitz l'11 aprile, facendo parte a quel punto di un gruppo di 320 greci (numeri dal 182440 a 182759) selezionati per i lavori forzati. Il suo numero era il 182552.

Gli furono assegnate le mansioni di Heizer (un membro del Sonderkommando incaricato alla fornace) nel crematorio V di Birkenau. Alcuni compagni di prigionia, come Alter Fajnzylberg e Leon Cohen, lo descrivono di corporatura atletica e di grande forza fisica. Proprio secondo la testimonianza di Alter Fajnzylberg, Errera sarebbe l'autore delle famose "foto del Sonderkommando", aiutato da Dawid Szmulewski, un membro della Resistenza Polacca, e altri tre membri del Sonderkommando (Szlama Dragon, suo fratello e lo stesso Fajnzylberg) che sorvegliava la scena. Dopo avere scattato le fotografie, Errera seppellì l'apparecchio fotografico nel terreno all'interno del campo, per il successivo recupero.

Il 9 agosto del 1944, durante il trasporto dal crematorio delle ceneri che doveva essere disperse nel fiume Vistola, Errera provò a convincere i suoi tre compagni di prigionia (Hugo Baruch, Venezia e Henri Nechama Capon) a tentare una fuga, ma essi rifiutarono. Una volta sul posto, Errera riuscì a colpire con una pala due ufficiali nazisti accompagnatori e si tuffò nella Vistola tentando di scappare. Fu catturato nei successivi due o tre giorni, torturato e ucciso. Come spesso accadeva quando un fuggitivo era catturato, il suo corpo fu esposto all'entrata del campo come monito per gli altri prigionieri.

Le foto del Sonderkommando
Per molti anni, l'autore delle foto del Sonderkommando non è stato mai precisamente identificato e a lungo considerato anonimo. Le foto furono attribuite arbitrariamente a Dawid Szmulewski, nonostante egli stesso descrivesse l'autore come un greco di nome Alex. Ancora, la storia di queste foto è stata descritta negli scritti di Alter Fajnzylberg, in cui si evoca la figura di un ebreo greco di nome Alex, senza però menzionarne il cognome. Nel maggio del 1978, Fajnzylberg rispose a una lettera proveniente dal Museo di Auschwitz-Birkenau, riguardo alle fotografie:"Era Alex dalla Grecia, ma non ricordo il suo nome, che scattò le fotografie. Morì nella fuga durante il trasporto delle ceneri dei morti. Queste ceneri erano scaricate nella Sola o nella Vistola. Alex disarmò due SS della scorta e buttò i loro fucili nella Vistola. Morì durante l'inseguimento. Non ricordo dove la macchina fotografica e gli altri documenti furono seppelliti perché fu proprio lui che se ne occupò."Tuttavia, nel suo diario, scritto immediatamente dopo la guerra, Fajnzylberg racconta la tentata fuga di un ebreo greco di nome Aleko Errera. Questo tentativo di fuga colpì molto gli altri prigionieri e l'episodio fu raccontato da diversi testimoni, fra i quali: Errikos Sevillias, Shlomo Venezia, Leon Cohen, Marcel Nadjary, Miklos Nyiszli, Henryk Mandelbaum, Albert Menasche e Daniel Bennahmias.

Note

Bibliografia

 Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pubblicato dapprima in francese, Images malgré tout, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2003.
 Janina Struk, Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence, I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Voci correlate
 Campo di concentramento di Auschwitz
 Sonderkommando (lager)
 Foto del Sonderkommando
 Auschwitz Album
 Libri di memorie sull'Olocausto

Altri progetti

Partigiani greci
Antifascisti greci

Collegamenti esterni


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Q: Return a result in descending order Teachers of Horizon Academy Public School collect the names of those students who are going to participate in the Mathematics exhibition, that is to be held in a week's time.  They have collected all the names and now, they want to store all the names into a system, in the descending order of the length of the names.  This means, the longest name should get stored first, followed by the name that is shorter than the previous, and so on.   Can you help the teachers to perform this task easily by creating a program in Python?
Note:  The number of names specified must be positive, else the program should display the message "Invalid Input" terminate the program.
Input format:
Input consists of an integer that corresponds to the number of names followed by the names.
Output Format:
Print the name list sorted by the names' length, if name length are equal sort based on alphabetical order in descending order as shown in the sample input and output.
Sample Input 1:
Enter the number of names :
5
Enter the names:
William
James
Ella
Lily
Jackson
Sample Output 1:
The sorted name list is:
William
Jackson
James
Lily
Ella
Sample Input 2:
Enter the number of names:
Sample Output 2:
Invalid Input
Sample Input 3:
Enter the number of names :
3
Enter the names:
Lily
Jack
Lucy
Sample Output 3:
The sorted name list is:
Lucy
Lily
Jack
Above is the question and below is my code.
n=int(input("Enter the number of names:\n"))

l=[]

if n>0:

    print("Enter the names:")

    for i in range(n):

        l.append(input())

    print("The sorted name list is:")

    l.sort(key=len,reverse=True)

    for i in l:

        print(i)

else:

    print("Invalid Input")

I can't seem to figure out why I can't sort it alphabetically. Any suggestion? For example if my input is "Lily, Jake, Lucy", I want it to display the result "Lucy, Lily, Jake"

A: Hi I think you're misunderstanding the behavior of the <list>.sort() method, here you don't need to use the key parameter:
number_of_names = int(input('Number of names: '))

names = list()

if number_of_names > 0:

    print('Enter the names:')
    for _ in range(number_of_names):
        names.append(input())

    names.sort(reverse=True)
    for name in names:
        print(name)

Key isn't useful there, it can be if you want to modify each key, for example, if I want to sort my items after applying a specific transformation:
l = ["tato", "taty", "tyta", "tate"]

# if I want to sort this list based on the  last character of each items
l.sort(key=lambda x: x[-1])
# l = ['tyta', 'tate', 'tato', 'taty']

Actually this parameter, will be very useful when you have a list of dicts and you want to sort it based on a parameter:
users = [{"name": "Jack", "age": 22}, {"name": "John", "age": 16}]
users.sort(key=lambda user: user['age']) # sort the users by age

A: The issue in the code is that you are specifying a key to sort. It is currently sorting by length in decending order. I tried this and it gets the result you are looking for:
people = ['Lily', 'Lucy', 'Jack']

people.sort(reverse=True)

print(people)

Read more about sort() here

A: use reverse = True while using sort method
l = list(["Lilly", "Lucky", "Jack"])

l.sort(key=lambda x: x, reverse=True)
print(l)

Updated ans:
key = len doesn't make sense
n=int(input("Enter the number of names:\n"))

l=[]

if n>0:

    print("Enter the names:")

    for i in range(n):

        l.append(input())

    print("The sorted name list is:")

    l.sort(reverse=True)

    for i in l:

        print(i)

else:
    print("Invalid Input")

Output:
$ python3 test.py

Enter the number of names:
3
Enter the names:
Lilly
Lucky
Jack
The sorted name list is:
Lucky
Lilly
Jack

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package io.prestosql.sql.planner.iterative.rule;

import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import io.prestosql.matching.Capture;
import io.prestosql.matching.Captures;
import io.prestosql.matching.Pattern;
import io.prestosql.metadata.Metadata;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.Symbol;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.iterative.Rule;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.optimizations.ScalarAggregationToJoinRewriter;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.AggregationNode;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Assignments;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.CorrelatedJoinNode;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.PlanNode;
import io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.ProjectNode;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import static com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList.toImmutableList;
import static io.prestosql.matching.Capture.newCapture;
import static io.prestosql.matching.Pattern.empty;
import static io.prestosql.matching.Pattern.nonEmpty;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.Aggregation.groupingColumns;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.CorrelatedJoin.correlation;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.CorrelatedJoin.filter;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.CorrelatedJoin.subquery;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.aggregation;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.correlatedJoin;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.project;
import static io.prestosql.sql.planner.plan.Patterns.source;
import static io.prestosql.sql.tree.BooleanLiteral.TRUE_LITERAL;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

/**
 * Scalar aggregation is aggregation with GROUP BY 'a constant' (or empty GROUP BY).
 * It always returns single row.
 *

 * This optimizer rewrites correlated scalar aggregation subquery to left outer join in a way described here:
 * https://github.com/prestosql/presto/wiki/Correlated-subqueries
 *

 * From:
 *

 * - CorrelatedJoin (with correlation list: [C])
 *   - (input) plan which produces symbols: [A, B, C]
 *   - (subquery) Aggregation(GROUP BY (); functions: [sum(F), count(), ...]
 *     - Filter(D = C AND E > 5)
 *       - plan which produces symbols: [D, E, F]
 *

 * to:
 *

 * - Aggregation(GROUP BY A, B, C, U; functions: [sum(F), count(non_null), ...]
 *   - Join(LEFT_OUTER, D = C)
 *     - AssignUniqueId(adds symbol U)
 *       - (input) plan which produces symbols: [A, B, C]
 *     - projection which adds non null symbol used for count() function
 *       - Filter(E > 5)
 *         - plan which produces symbols: [D, E, F]
 *

 *

 * Note that only conjunction predicates in FilterNode are supported
 */
public class TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationToJoin
{
    private final Metadata metadata;

    public TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationToJoin(Metadata metadata)
    {
        this.metadata = requireNonNull(metadata, "metadata is null");
    }

    public Set<Rule<?>> rules()
    {
        return ImmutableSet.of(
                new TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationToJoin.TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithProjection(metadata),
                new TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationToJoin.TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithoutProjection(metadata));
    }

    @VisibleForTesting
    static final class TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithProjection
            implements Rule<CorrelatedJoinNode>
    {
        private static final Capture<ProjectNode> PROJECTION = newCapture();
        private static final Capture<AggregationNode> AGGREGATION = newCapture();

        private static final Pattern<CorrelatedJoinNode> PATTERN = correlatedJoin()
                .with(nonEmpty(correlation()))
                .with(filter().equalTo(TRUE_LITERAL))
                .with(subquery().matching(project()
                        .capturedAs(PROJECTION)
                        .with(source().matching(aggregation()
                                .with(empty(groupingColumns()))
                                .capturedAs(AGGREGATION)))));

        private final Metadata metadata;

        @VisibleForTesting
        TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithProjection(Metadata metadata)
        {
            this.metadata = requireNonNull(metadata, "metadata is null");
        }

        @Override
        public Pattern<CorrelatedJoinNode> getPattern()
        {
            return PATTERN;
        }

        @Override
        public Result apply(CorrelatedJoinNode correlatedJoinNode, Captures captures, Context context)
        {
            PlanNode rewrittenNode = new ScalarAggregationToJoinRewriter(metadata, context.getSymbolAllocator(), context.getIdAllocator(), context.getLookup())
                    .rewriteScalarAggregation(correlatedJoinNode, captures.get(AGGREGATION));

            if (rewrittenNode instanceof CorrelatedJoinNode) {
                // Failed to decorrelate subquery
                return Result.empty();
            }

            // Restrict outputs and apply projection
            Set<Symbol> outputSymbols = new HashSet<>(correlatedJoinNode.getOutputSymbols());
            List<Symbol> expectedAggregationOutputs = rewrittenNode.getOutputSymbols().stream()
                    .filter(outputSymbols::contains)
                    .collect(toImmutableList());

            Assignments assignments = Assignments.builder()
                    .putIdentities(expectedAggregationOutputs)
                    .putAll(captures.get(PROJECTION).getAssignments())
                    .build();

            return Result.ofPlanNode(new ProjectNode(
                    context.getIdAllocator().getNextId(),
                    rewrittenNode,
                    assignments));
        }
    }

    @VisibleForTesting
    static final class TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithoutProjection
            implements Rule<CorrelatedJoinNode>
    {
        private static final Capture<AggregationNode> AGGREGATION = newCapture();

        private static final Pattern<CorrelatedJoinNode> PATTERN = correlatedJoin()
                .with(nonEmpty(correlation()))
                .with(filter().equalTo(TRUE_LITERAL)) // todo non-trivial join filter: adding filter/project on top of aggregation
                .with(subquery().matching(aggregation()
                        .with(empty(groupingColumns()))
                        .capturedAs(AGGREGATION)));

        private final Metadata metadata;

        @VisibleForTesting
        TransformCorrelatedScalarAggregationWithoutProjection(Metadata metadata)
        {
            this.metadata = requireNonNull(metadata, "metadata is null");
        }

        @Override
        public Pattern<CorrelatedJoinNode> getPattern()
        {
            return PATTERN;
        }

        @Override
        public Result apply(CorrelatedJoinNode correlatedJoinNode, Captures captures, Context context)
        {
            PlanNode rewrittenNode = new ScalarAggregationToJoinRewriter(metadata, context.getSymbolAllocator(), context.getIdAllocator(), context.getLookup())
                    .rewriteScalarAggregation(correlatedJoinNode, captures.get(AGGREGATION));

            if (rewrittenNode instanceof CorrelatedJoinNode) {
                // Failed to decorrelate subquery
                return Result.empty();
            }

            // Restrict outputs
            Set<Symbol> outputSymbols = new HashSet<>(correlatedJoinNode.getOutputSymbols());
            List<Symbol> expectedAggregationOutputs = rewrittenNode.getOutputSymbols().stream()
                    .filter(outputSymbols::contains)
                    .collect(toImmutableList());

            return Result.ofPlanNode(new ProjectNode(
                    context.getIdAllocator().getNextId(),
                    rewrittenNode,
                    Assignments.identity(expectedAggregationOutputs)));
        }
    }
}


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Juan Van Halen y Sartí (16 February 1788 – 8 November 1864) was a Spanish military officer. After fighting for the losing side in the Peninsular War, he was forced to flee to Spain. Van Halen became a military adventurer throughout Europe and went on an 18-month tenure as a colonel in the Russian Caucasus Dragoon Regiment until his removal by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

Early career
Van Halen was born in Isla de León, Cádiz, into a family of sailing merchants who had settled there.
He was trained in the School of Nobles and in the School of Pages of His Majesty, coinciding there in 1800 with the high liberal and French officers Francisco and Mariano de Unzaga Saint Maxent, with José María Torrijos or with the Count of Montijo. Between 1800 and 1803 Van Halen was a guardian marine of the Navy School in Cadiz.
In 1803, he left Cádiz as a Spanish Navy cadet on the frigate Anfitrite headed for La Habana, Cuba and Veracruz, Mexico. In 1808, Juan began his service for the French King of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, later assisting him during his refuge in France in 1813.

In 1814, Van Halen defected to the opposing army. By forging the signature of Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French commanders were advised to surrender various fortresses because the documents claimed that the war was over. Fooled by the trick, the 1,900 strong French garrisons of Lleida, Mequinenza and Monzón marched out and laid down their arms in surrender. However, Louis Benoît Robert, the commander at Tortosa, was not fooled by the forged documents and continued his engagement.

When Captain Van Halen returned to Spain in 1815, he was investigated for his involvement in the Spanish War of Independence, first in Murcia, then in Madrid. As a result of his connections with a Masonic Lodge in Granada, he was imprisoned on 21 March 1817. Van Halen also had ties to General José María de Torrijos y Uriarte, who was later executed by a firing squad.

Adventurer
Having escaped from imprisonment, Van Halen traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the beginning of 1819. He met with various Russian dignitaries including Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky, close advisor to Tsar Alexander I and chief of the general staff from 1815 to 1823. Volkonsky resigned in 1824 after a conflict with War Minister Count Alexey Arakcheyev. Van Halen visited the Tsar's assistant, Prince Dmitriy Vladimirovich Golitsyn, who had fought bravely during the Napoleonic Wars and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, governing Moscow for 25 years.

Van Halen also visited the famous Spanish engineer Augustíne de Betancourt, then director, and one of the founders, of the First Engineering Academy School of Russia. Supported by Betancourt, who was trusted by other Russian military leaders, Van Halen was appointed colonel of the Caucasus Dragoon Regiment in Tbilisi, Georgia.

He served under General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov and Armenian prince Valerian Madatov, and participated in the conquest of Josereck on 21 June 1820 against the troops of Surghai Khan (later replaced by Ashan Khan) in the Kazikoumik region of Daghestan. For this he received the medal of the Russian Order of St. George. In 1854, Van Halen donated the Tartar Yatagan long knife he had taken on 12 June 1820 to the Naval Museum of Madrid.

Van Halen's liberal convictions prompted the tsar, who was informed by Russian secret police, to remove Van Halen from the Caucasus in December 1820 and put him on the Austrian frontier. In 1821, he returned to Spain in the middle of the Trienio Liberal until the revolution was crushed by a European Kingdom Absolutist coalition that included Russia. He then stayed in Matanzas, Cuba for three years while also doing business in New York and Philadelphia.

In 1830, Van Halen went to fight against the Netherlands to participate in the creation of the new kingdom of Belgium in the Belgian Revolution.

In 1831, as a "Condottiere" in the 15th-century Italian style, he formed a military brigade of Belgian subjects to defend Portuguese Liberals from the prosecutions of the absolutist King Miguel I of Portugal. This was funded by Cadiz businessman, banker, and politician Juan Álvarez Mendizabal.

Before and after the war against the Netherlands, Van Halen took part in the First Carlist War in Catalonia under generals José María Torrijos, Francisco Milans del Bosch and Francisco Espoz y Mina.

Van Halen returned to Spain in February 1833 after the death of King Fernando VII, but he would travel and make brief stays in Belgium and England from 1835 to 1838.

Since he was very close to General Baldomero Espartero, Van Halen joined him in exile in England when Espartero fell from grace in 1843.

He returned to Madrid in 1854 and received the Great Cross of King Carlos III on 30 November that year.

Van Halen first married Maria del Carmen Quiroga y Hermida in 1821. She died on 14 February 1859. After her death, Van Halen married Clotilde Butler y Abrines, the daughter of a Spanish Navy frigate captain, who died after 1854.

Van Halen died in El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, Spain, at the age of 76.

Honors
 1854: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Charles III.

References

Further reading

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