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Q: Segment Tree Codechef TLE I am trying to solve this CodeChef problem:

There are N coins kept on the table, numbered from 0 to N - 1.  Initially, each coin is kept tails up.
  You have to perform two types of operations:

*

*Flip all coins numbered between A and B inclusive. This is represented by the command "0 A B"

*Answer how many coins numbered between A and B inclusive are heads up. This is represented by the command "1 A B".
Input: The first line contains two integers, N and Q. Each of the next Q lines are either of the form "0 A B" or "1 A B" as mentioned above.
Output: Output 1 line for each of the queries of the form "1 A B" containing the required answer for the corresponding query.

What I have used is a segment tree. So that every time user enter a query of type 1 A B the output is the sum at that interval [A,B]. However I am getting a Time Limit Exceeded error. I believe the error is due to the update step 0 A B. After updating the elements in the array I reconstruct the tree. The code is given below. Can someone help me with a faster way to update?
BTW - I am getting the desired output for the sample input.
public class SegmentTree
{
    private int[] tree;
    private int maxsize;
    private int height;
    private static int elems[];
    private  final int STARTINDEX = 0;
    private  final int ENDINDEX;
    private  final int ROOT = 0;

    public SegmentTree(int size)
    {
        height = (int)(Math.ceil(Math.log(size) /  Math.log(2)));
        maxsize = 2 * (int) Math.pow(2, height) - 1;
        tree = new int[maxsize];
        ENDINDEX = size - 1;
    }

    private int leftchild(int pos)
    {
        return 2 * pos + 1;
    }

    private int rightchild(int pos)
    {
        return 2 * pos + 2;
    }

    private int mid(int start, int end)
    {
        return (start + (end - start) / 2);
    }

    private int getSumUtil(int startIndex, int endIndex, int queryStart, int queryEnd, int current)
    {
        if (queryStart <= startIndex && queryEnd >= endIndex)
        {
            return tree[current];
        }

        if (endIndex < queryStart || startIndex > queryEnd)
        {
            return 0;
        }

        int mid = mid(startIndex, endIndex);

        return  getSumUtil(startIndex, mid, queryStart, queryEnd, leftchild(current))
                 + getSumUtil( mid + 1, endIndex, queryStart, queryEnd, rightchild(current));
    }

    public int getSum(int queryStart, int queryEnd)
    {
        if(queryStart < 0 || queryEnd > tree.length)
        {
            return -1;
        }

        return getSumUtil(STARTINDEX, ENDINDEX, queryStart, queryEnd, ROOT);
    }

    private int constructSegmentTreeUtil(int startIndex, int endIndex, int current)
    {
        if (startIndex == endIndex)
        {
            tree[current] = elems[startIndex];
            return tree[current];
        }

        int mid = mid(startIndex, endIndex);

        tree[current] = constructSegmentTreeUtil(startIndex, mid, leftchild(current))
                           + constructSegmentTreeUtil(mid + 1, endIndex, rightchild(current));

        return tree[current];
    }

    public void constructSegmentTree()
    {
        constructSegmentTreeUtil(STARTINDEX, ENDINDEX, ROOT);
    }

    public static void main(String[]args) throws IOException
    {
        BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        StringTokenizer str = new StringTokenizer(buf.readLine());
        int n = Integer.parseInt(str.nextToken());
        int q = Integer.parseInt(str.nextToken());
        SegmentTree segmentTree = new SegmentTree(n);
        int elements[] = new int[n];
        for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            elements[i] = 0;
        }
        elems = elements;
        segmentTree.constructSegmentTree();
        while (q-- > 0) {
            str = new StringTokenizer(buf.readLine());
            int x = Integer.parseInt(str.nextToken());
            int a = Integer.parseInt(str.nextToken());
            int b = Integer.parseInt(str.nextToken());
            if(x == 0) {
                for(int j = a; j <= b; j++)
                {
                    elems[j] = elems[j]^1;
                }
                segmentTree.constructSegmentTree();
            }
            else {
                int num = segmentTree.getSum(a, b);
                System.out.println(num);
            }
        }
    }
}

EDIT:
According to GeeksForGeeks, tree construction costs O(n) and the update method is O(log n). So here are the new methods for update:
private void updateTreeUtil(int startIndex, int endIndex, int updatePos, int update, int current)
{
    if ( updatePos < startIndex || updatePos > endIndex)
    {
        return;
    }

    tree[current] = tree[current] + update;

    if (startIndex != endIndex)
    {
        int mid = mid(startIndex, endIndex);
        updateTreeUtil(startIndex, mid, updatePos, update, leftchild(current));
        updateTreeUtil(mid+1, endIndex, updatePos, update, rightchild(current));
    }
}

public void update(int update, int updatePos)
{
    int updatediff = update - elems[updatePos];
    elems[updatePos] = update;
    updateTreeUtil(STARTINDEX, ENDINDEX, updatePos, updatediff, ROOT);
}

And now the if loop in main method modified to this:
if(x == 0) {
    for(int j = a; j <= b; j++)
    {
        segmentTree.update(elems[j]^1, j);
    }
}

But still getting TLE error.

A: In the tutorial of GeeksForGeeks, their running time of update is O(log n), in case of updating a single element. However, when doing update for an interval, you have to use Lazy Propagation to ensure O(log n) update time, which is basically only update nodes which are visited, and hence ensure the sum of visited nodes are correct. You may search for many good tutorial on Lazy Propagation, for example:
http://se7so.blogspot.hk/2012/12/segment-trees-and-lazy-propagation.html
Wish that helps.

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Anti-smoking advocates called on the government yesterday to raise tariffs on cigarettes, touting the health and revenue-generating benefits of a sin tax widely applied in other countries.
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According to the group's report, titled The Asean Tobacco Control Atlas, only Laos beats out Cambodia for the lowest rate of tax as a percentage of retail price. Cambodia's is at 20 to 25 per cent, while the rate in Laos stands at 16 to 19 per cent.
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If you're a teacher or a trainer, creating groups of students/participants is a common task. For example, you may want to create groups to conduct a quiz or a team building activity.
And in most of the cases, you need these groups to be random.
Today, I am sharing a random group generator template that will make it super easy for you to create a group of students/participants.
All you need is the list of students or participants and specify how many groups you want to create.
The list of students/participants is in A2:A17. If you have a longer list, simply add the names in it.
Cell E2 has the number of groups that you want to create. Based on the number you enter, you would get the groups and the names in each group in columns G to P. As of now, I have created it this template for a maximum of 10 groups.
Once you have entered the number of groups you want in cell E2, click on the 'Create Teams' button to randomly generate the groups of names.
There are a couple of cool Excel features and a few helper columns that make this random group generator template in Excel.
A2:A17 contains the list of names that are to be grouped randomly.
A1:C17 has been converted into an Excel Table. This helps to keep the formulas intact when you add/remove names from the list.
The function returns a random number between 1 and the total number of names in the list (using the COUNTA function). To this, ROW()/100 is added to make it unique (as the RANDBETWEEN function can spit out duplicates as well).
This function gives the rank for each value in Column B. Since all the values in column B are unique, this formula gives a unique list of integers that vary from 1 to the total number of names in the list.
The same formula is copied in cells H1 to P1. It returns the number of columns between column G and the current column. Hence, G1 gets 1, H1 gets 2 and so on. It also checks whether the number is greater than the value in cell E2. If yes, then it returns a blank.
It is copied to all the cells in G2:P17.
In cell G2, this formula will pick up the rank from C2 and return the name at that position in the list.
In cell G3, it will pick the rank from C6 (which is 1 + 1*4, where 4 is the number of groups to be formed).
In cell G4, it will pick the rank from C10 (which is 1 + 2*4, where 4 is the number of groups to be formed).
If the cell in the first row is empty or the result of the formula is an error, it returns a blank.
Since RANDBETWEEN function is volatile, it will automatically refresh every time you make a change in the worksheet. This may be undesirable as it will change the grouping every time.
In the Excel Options dialog box, select formulas in the pane on the left.
In the Calculation options, make Workbook Calculation Manual.
Now the worksheet would not refresh until you force a refresh by hitting the F9 key.
But to make it look better, there is an orange button that does the refresh when you click it. There is a one line VBA code at play here that gets executed whenever you click the button.
Go to Developer –> Code –> Visual Basic. (You can also use the keyboard shortcut Alt + F11).
In the VB Editor right click on any of the objects for the workbook and go to Insert –> Module.
Note that name of the worksheet is in double quotes. If your worksheet name is different, change it in the code.
Go to Insert –> Shapes and insert any shape that you want as the button.
Right-click on the shape and click on Assign Macro.
In the Assign Macro dialog box, select the macro name and click on OK.
Format the button the way you want.
Now when you click on the button, the worksheet would recalculate and you would get a new grouping based on the number of groups you have specified.
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This is a great tool. However I tried modifying it. But could'nt.
I just need 1 Team where I need to mention the no of members in cell E2 and it creates a team with Random Names. I am confident its a piece of cake for you.
Absolutely perfect but I need the absent function to work. I would love to this to randomly select 3 or 4 ball groups of golfers whilst we are on the tee. However we are never sure who is going to turn up hence the need to mark golfers absent from the master list and randomise the selection of the players who are there. Can anyone help???
Sorry this does not work very well.
I have 40 teams and they have to be paired this goes no where needed for this program to work.
i ended up making a few alterations of my own, namely, put the generating function into VBA so that it stopped updating all the time, I added some arrows to increase/decrease the number of groups with a single click and also made a 'secret' tab where you could specify two people you didn't want in the same group. I'd be happy to share it if you're interested.
Is there a way to set group 1 to have 10 members, and the others to have like 7 ?
Cool trick, but i have one scenario. let's say i have names(2 or more) that cannot be teamed together,is there any way to solve it?
This is amazing for my classroom thanks so much!
Is there any way to increase the max number of groups? I really need 12 groups!
I really enjoy using your random group generator for my classes (I created a tab for each class. It's swift and easy to use.
Sometimes, however someone in a class is absent (visit to the dentist, etc.).
If so, I have to alter the table, to remove the absent student.
It would be nice if there could be a column next to the student names where I could mark the absent student(s) (for example with a zero) , so he/she won't be displayed in the generated groups.
Unfortunately I don't have the programming skills to make that happen.
Thanks Willem.. Glad you liked it.
Thanks to both of you, Sumit and Rudra!
Sumit, I enjoy your formulabased random generator. I have my ovn VBA-generator that I will continue using,but I learned a lot from your reallønn Nice formulas.
Rudra! I've never notised the easy way of changing calculation mode. I still miss a warning light when ExCeL is in manual mode. Forgetting to return to aut. Mode has caised me lot f extra work.
From the Custom Quick Access Toolbaar, add "Manual" to the Quick Access Toolbaar and it will show when in Manual mode.
Thanks Hennie, I've already adferd it to QAT.
Cool trick Sumit. Thanks for sharing. However there is a short cut to change calculation from ribbon itself. Just go to formula ribbon and click on Calculation Option.
Thanks for sharing Rudra.. That's definitely the faster way to do this.


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As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up: the Seattle Seahawks.
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It doesn't make a big difference whether Tarvaris Jackson takes the first snap of training camp. It doesn't make a difference that rookie Russell Wilson will compete for the starting spot. (Although Wilson will be a factor in the future.) The Seahawks gave Flynn a healthy amount of guaranteed money because they want to see what he can do. The money matters, no matter what Pete Carroll says.
Flynn will get a chance to start this year, and we'll be stunned if its not in Week 1. He has the game to take advantage of the opportunity when he gets his shot.
In one of the final days of my former professional life, I watched every Matt Flynn snap possible. I won't repeat myself here, but Flynn was accurate, composed and threw the ball well under pressure. That pocket presence gives him an edge over guys like Kolb, Matt Cassel and Jackson.
In many ways, Flynn didn't look like a young quarterback. He was very good before the snap. He moved safeties with his eyes. He responded to his bad plays.
Flynn doesn't have to carry the Seahawks. They have a solid running game and a stronger defense. He has a chance to be an average starter sooner than later. That's a big upgrade for the Seahawks and that may be all they need to make the playoffs in 2012.


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The crime ring, operating since 2003, was busted in 2010, but its alleged leader Vladimir Krasavchikov fled prosecution, Russia's Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Krasavchikov was held in the Netherlands in early 2012, but extradition formalities took two years to accomplish, the ministry said in a statement.
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 Santibáñez de Béjar, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Salamanca
 Santibáñez de Ecla, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Palencia
 Santibáñez de Esgueva, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Burgos
 Santibáñez de La Fuente, eine Parroquia in der Gemeinde Aller in der Region Asturien
 Santibáñez de la Peña, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Palencia
 Santibáñez de la Sierra, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Salamanca
 Santibáñez de Tera, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Zamora
 Santibáñez de Valcorba, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Valladolid
 Santibáñez de Valdeiglesia, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz León
 Santibáñez de Vidriales, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Zamora
 Santibáñez del Val, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Burgos
 Santibáñez el Alto, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Cáceres
 Santibáñez el Bajo, eine Gemeinde in der Provinz Cáceres

Santibáñez ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Efraín Santibáñez, chilenischer Speerwerfer
 Enrique René Michel Santibáñez (* 1947), mexikanischer Botschafter
 Fernando Santibáñez Pugo (1886–1973), chilenischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, siehe Fernando Santiván
 José Joaquín Santibáñez (* 1952), mexikanischer Schwimmer
 Luis Santibáñez (1936–2008), chilenischer Fußballtrainer
 Marcela Santibáñez, chilenische Filmproduzentin
 Mario Santibáñez (* 1950), mexikanischer Schwimmer

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It's no secret that the job of a sommelier or wine director is to create a restaurant's wine list and keep its wine room or cellar stocked with inventory. But what about maintaining your own cellar at home? Unless you plenty of extra space and maybe a dark, cool basement, you have to get creative.
Sure, you can invest in a 400-bottle wine refrigerator, which is the easiest way to get a quick cellar. But Morgan offers plenty of tips and to put together your own cellar—even on a limited budget.
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Way and I had lunch downtown today with my Biffer, aka, Aunt Mary! So fun to just sneak away and grab lunch just the three of us! Turns out my meal came with a side of quinoa salad, which reminded me that I had not yet shared my new favorite quinoa recipe. . .
Thanks for a fun lunch date, Biff!
So, it's been a few months since I've posted a quinoa recipe. Some of you are new around here. Some of you have never tried quinoa. Some of you need a new recipe. And I'm guessing, ALL of you like yummy food, right??
Well, stop what you are doing. Go grab the ingredients. And then, prepare yourselves for a healthy and delicious meal! Plus--easy peasy to make. What could be better??
Oh, and you get to massage a salad. Fancy stuff.
A friend of mine sent me the Kale-Quinoa recipe, but I made a few changes. . .
Whisk together dressing and then massage onto kale, add quinoa and stir well. Refrigerate for a couple of hours and then add the other ingredients!
Now for the kiddo rating. Let me preface this by saying Luke does NOT like olive oil, which is why I cut back the olive oil a bit, you can actually use a touch more. He noticed the dressing right away. He's also not a fan of Craisins. So that being said, it wasn't his favorite. Charlie did well with it, finished his and Miles did too. Luke ended up finishing his after being bribed with a piece of chocolate. Because that's how we roll sometimes! Chocolate makes everything worth it. Should be a hashtag! Hubby and I devoured it, and lucky me had leftovers the next day! I'd put this quinoa recipe right up there at the top of the list with my Lemon-Cilantro Quinoa recipe. So, what are you waiting for? Go try it! Let me know if this tops your list too!


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Loathing the Politician
Written on July 31, 2008 by Rolf Strom-Olsen in International Relations
Rolf Strom-Olsen
Imagine if you went to consult a doctor and to reassure you she said "You can trust me. I have no medical training." You would leave at once, of course. Yet why is it then that in the popular imagination, and especially it seems in Anglophone culture, that the idea of a professional politician is both derided and decried? This dilemma is currently at the heart of a growing discussion about the candidacy of Barack Obama, which can be summed up as the question:
With a dollop of gnawing fear:
Is he just another politician?
That question picked up last week as Barack Obama demonstrated his rockstar status in countries routinely perceived as anti-American (thus: Germany, France). Even as an adulatory crowd of 200,000 heard Obama deliver a rousing, if slightly canned, speech in downtown Berlin the debate back home has turned increasingly to the question whether he is inspired Übermensch prophesying change, or just (just!) a clever and skilled politician telling people what they want to hear.
Sapiens readers may be familiar with a risible flap that erupted recently in the United States, when the unswervingly upper-middlebrow magazine The New Yorker decided to publish a cover that was unflinching in its political satire. Here's a link to the picture. As we can see, with the terrorist paraphernalia, the jihadist garb, the burning American flag, and the presidential-style portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall, there was not a lot of subtlety to this depiction.
In fact, to my mind it was an excellent riposte to the often absurd caricature of Obama made by the right wing (especially the assembled band of ranting lunatics masquerading as journalists and commentators at Fox News). These media boors have been making constant and nasty, if exceedingly clumsy, insinuations about both Obama and his wife that go roughly as follows: he might be Muslim and he's probably unpatriotic; his wife definitely hates America; he's a far-left-leaning ideologue who sympathises with terrorists and wants to bend over to rogue nations like Iran and France. Hell, he might even BE a terrorist since he was educated in a Madrassa. (Here and here are some links if you have the stomach for these deceits, most of which have been showcased at some point on Fox News (or Faux News, or Fox Noise, as critics have taken to calling this particularly vapid corner of the cable television world).
The goal of this caricature is presumably to bamboozle that part of the electorate which is weak-minded enough to have doubt planted in their minds. And there is probably a more chilling, depressing and repulsive reason as well: which is that it is a way of playing off the latent racism that exists. There are white voters who are uncomfortable voting for black candidates. Since these troglodytes nonetheless live in the twenty-first century and are thus presumably exposed to at least a glimmer of enlightened thinking about things, they are also uncomfortable admitting that they are uncomfortable voting for black candidates. Obama as Islamic-educated radical or far-left Euro-loving socialist offers a reassuring alternative. (It's not because he's black: it's because he supports the terrorists.)
Such antediluvian posturing, however, is limited to a fringe of self-marginalising, under-cultured yahoos. Of rather greater interest is the growing perception that Barack Obama may turn out to be – GASP – a politician. Now, it is a truism that in those countries which have inherited British parliamentary culture, the politician is a largely detested beast. Not that the rest of the world loves their politicians (just ask the Belgians), but the automatic contempt in which the citizenry hold their politicians – their outright distrust of the motives of the political classes – is a particularly ingrained feature in the Anglophone world. Canadians, Australians, Americans, and Brits themselves, all generally share a fundamental view that politicians are some mixture of self-serving, corruptible (if not yet corrupt), incompetent, cynical, insincere, two-faced lackeys of the power elites whose interests they unflinchingly serve.
(By contrast, consider the last election in France, which featured
a high-level, intellectual engagement of many important issues from
nuclear power to trade unions to education policy. Gazed at from within
the legacy of British parliamentarism or American political debate, it
was a marvel.)
Thus, in the US, the term "WaRshington," with a superfluous 'r' thrown in. No mere instance (for any linguists out there) of rhotic accentuation (or so-called R-colouring, a common enough linguistic practice).
No, the superfluous 'R' is there to show contempt for the political
class, usually by a member of the political class – a display of
faux-bumpkin hokum that apparently goes down well with local yokels.
This cultural predisposition across Her Majesty's territorial legacy to
distrust politicians is thereby reinforced every election cycle as
tired slogans promising to change the sleaze and corruption of politics
pollute the public sphere as a matter of course.
In the US, the rhetorical violence against politics is heightened by
the fact that the US political right regularly runs on an
anti-government platform, in which government is consistently
portrayed as the major problem in America, the obstacle to progress,
and a largely unremitting evil in the lives of the ordinary citizen.
Even George Bush was forced to confront this fatuous stereotype of his
own party's making. During the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, he reminded his fellow Americans that government could be a powerful force
for good (even as the actions of his administration were abundantly
proving the opposite).
But is it really much of a revelation, as the New Yorker article which accompanied that outré cover would have us believe, that Obama is at heart homo politicus and that he has achieved such rapid success in his political career because he is, in fact, a good politician? Actually, I don't wish to mischaracterise the article, which observes that many of Obama's longtime supporters from the black neighbourhoods of Chicago's South Side now feel somewhat disillusioned as Obama has redefined himself as a national politician. But that's essentially the same thing: as a candidate moves from one stage to another, his or her politics must change accordingly. That's how politics works, considered as a system of garnering increasingly broad support as one moves higher and higher up the system. Note how quickly the populist fulminations of Lula stopped once he was elected president in Brazil.
Anyway, the point is fairly clear. We need good politicians if we are to have good politics. And the presentiment in the anglophone cultural sphere against the professional politician has not eliminated them, but instead introduced a phony language of dissent, in which political aspirants are often forced to present themselves as something other than people who aspire to politics. Barack Obama is, as far as I can tell, an excellent politician – he is highly capable of bringing together a broad and disparate base of support, he is articulate in presenting his ideas, and he comes across with a note of candour and honesty. No, he is not some precious objet trouvé that can magically reform the muddle of global politics. But that's not what the US – and the world – needs. How about a competent, skilled politician – silly popular resentments be damned.
La poesía es un arma cargada de futuro
Who Is the World's Greatest Intellectual?


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CLOTHING & GROOMING
THE GROWING CHILD
Bush Dance
Garden Day
ENROLMENT AND FEES
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Aetaomah is a small school nestled in the heart of the Tweed Valley in the foothills of Mt Warning, a short bus ride from Murwillumbah or Uki.
We offer Kinder to Year 8 education based on the principles of Rudolf Steiner.
The curriculum is organised in accordance with the physical, social and emotional development of the child. Subjects or aspects of subjects are taught at the time most suited to the age of the children.
"Our highest endeavour must be to develop free individuals who are able, out of their own initiative, to impart purpose and direction in their lives."
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Kinder finishes Thursday November 30
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Class trips and excursions are an important part of the Aetaomah learning program and arise out of the educational impulse of the teacher and class.
Class trips usually occur in the second part of the school year and can range in costs from below $100 per year for the younger classes up to $1000 per child for an older class trip to the snow.
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A man who has friends must show himself friendly.
A friend is like a second self.
1. Do you need friends?
2. Do you think friendship is important in your life? Why do you think so?
3. Do you have any good friends? What do you think of them?
Make the survey on page one, Add up your score according to the scoring sheet on page 8, you don't have to tell your results , you can keep it a secret.
Why do you need friends? Make a list of reasons why friends are important to you Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friend?
Skim the first paragraph of the reading passage below and find who was Anne's best friend.
11 go on holiday 12 take care of 13 walk the dog 14 be careless 15 get loose 16 be hit by a car 17 take the dog to the vet 18 take the end-of-term exam 19 cheat in the exam 20 should have studied hard.
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1.add up 加起来 合计 Add up all the money that I should pay you.
3.add to 增加 The bad weather added to our difficulties.
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get sb. doing sth. 让某人一直做某事 get sb. to do sth.
Are you upset when the new term begins? Does the new school term upset you ?
1 Your friend comes to school very upset. 2 His friend's death upset him very much. 3 I will be really upset if you don't come.
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He ignores the doctor's advice and goes on smoking. I was ignorant that the boss could be so strict. The villagers' ignorance made them poorer and poorer.
5.calm down Let's go and calm your angry brother down. Though it was dangerous, he remained calm.
The meeting was concerned with reforms and everyone for present was concerned their own interests.
concerned about / for her safety. We are all .
You should have come her five minutes ago. You shouldn't have told him about this.
8 cheat n. V.作弊,作假 作弊, 作弊 cheat sb. (out) of sth. 骗取某人的某物 Cheating in examination can get you into trouble. A stranger cheated the old woman (out) of her money.
Don't get off the train until . the train has stopped.
Not until then did he realized . that he was wrong.
2 while walking the dog, you were careless and it got loose and was hit by a car. While (you are) walking the dog,you …… When heated, water will be changed into vapor 过马路时要小心。 过马路时要小心。 Be careful while/when crossing the . street. 如果有必要,请及时与我联系。 如果有必要,请及时与我联系。 . Please get in touch with me in time, if necessary.
1.Please write a short passage to describe one of your best friends. Try to use the new words and phrases that you have just learned.
2.Please tell one or two proverbs about friendship.
1., ( 从山上看 ) we can see as far as the sea.
2., (我已经失望两次了 我已经失望两次了) Having disappointed myself twice 我已经失望两次了 I decided to work much harder than before.
1.Emily asked Karen. The teacher asked Karen and Emily if there is anything that . they are not clear Karen told the teacher that Emily had asked her how to pronounce "kilometre" .
Make up A dialogue for three students and act it out in class, using the following expressions to help you.
Can you spell that, please? Could you repeat that, please? What do you mean by…? Could you speak a bit slowly, please? I beg your parden? How do you say …in English? How do you pronounce…? What does … mean?
1.Why is it becoming more and more important to have a good knowledge of English?
Because English is spoken and used all around the world.With so many people communicating in English, it is becoming more and more important to have a knowledge of English.
2.In which countries do we find most native speakers of English? Give the names of three countries.
The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand.
3.Living in China you can use English every day in different situations. Give two examples.
We can use English when we are having an international meeting, having a business talk with our business partner.
English is a all around the world. For more language spoken than 375million people in countries such as and Australia , English is their mother tongue Another 375 . Canada million people as a second language. However, Learn English most people learn English at school as a . foreign language The English language __also by most international is used organizations as their working language, as well as in international and . Most foreigners visiting China tourism trade speak are either or . If they cannot businessmen tourists Chinese, they use to communicate with Chinese English people. In global culture, for example the Internet or popular music, English is widely used. In the future we will be using speaking Chinese with our, but we will be people English with people around the world for our work.
1.At first the language in Britain and America was the same.
2.In 1776 America became an independent country.The language began to change.The language in America stayed the same,while the language in England changed.
3.At the same time, British English and the American English stared borrowing words from other languages, ending up with different words.
4.In 1828 Noah Webster published the first American dictionary. And he changed the spelling of some words.


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'Evolutionary Blues' Resurrects West Oakland's Musical Legacy
West Coast blues pioneer Jimmy McCracklin. (Courtesy of Evolutionary Blues/Cheryl Fabio)
Liam O'Donoghue
The new documentary Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland's Music Legacy examines a timely topic: the ways in which art, and specifically music, is constantly changing in concert with larger sociopolitical forces. The film, by director Cheryl Fabio, traces how hymns sung by slaves picking cotton transformed into the blues, which begat rock 'n' roll, funk, and even elements of hip-hop.
Alabama Mike, one of many East Bay musicians featured in the film, sums up this progression aptly: "The blues had babies."
While the music has evolved, the reason for its existence remains obstinately rooted. The blues emerged as the collective, mournful wail of people trampled by America's system of white supremacy. Fabio weaves politics into the narrative of music history to show how the migrants who fled the Jim Crow south were unable to escape institutionalized racism -- and neither were the generations that followed. African Americans weren't lynched in Oakland, but their homes were stolen and smashed during the era of "urban renewal." Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are still being targeted and killed in the streets by police.
Fabio, a long-time Oaklander, doesn't have an academic expertise in the blues, but still felt qualified to make a movie about the genre. "I've been black all my life," she explains.
Filmmaker Cheryl Fabio (center) on set at 16th Street Station. (Courtesy of Evolutionary Blues/Cheryl Fabio)
Evolutionary Blues was originally intended as a one-hour special for KTOP, the City of Oakland's public access TV channel that broadcasts local government meetings. Once Fabio began her research, though, she was flooded with so many stories that it turned into a two-year project, culminating in the feature-length film thatpremieres at the Grand Lake Theater on Sept. 27 before hitting the festival circuit.
"It wasn't our intent to go this big, but it was too fascinating to squelch it, so we let it grow," she says.
The people brought the sounds with them, and once they became city people, the sounds evolved — because they was evolving. Faye Carol, singer
Citing one example of how community involvement made the film possible, Fabio explained that when she couldn't afford to license archival photos of performers like James Brown and T-Bone Walker, a local photographer offered images from his personal collection for free. The DIY spirit behind the film is reminiscent of the mid-century West Oakland that Evolutionary Blues vividly brings back to life.
During World War II, the demand for workers sparked the biggest black population boom in Oakland's history. Most of the new arrivals settled near the shipyards to be close to their jobs -- and also because housing segregation was strictly enforced throughout the Bay Area. As black families primarily from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma moved in, white homeowners subdivided their Victorians into rental units and moved out to East Oakland.
The 7th Street corridor quickly became a thriving hub for black-owned businesses, including many nightclubs, and the musical styles that new residents brought with them blended into a fresh concoction: West Coast Blues. In an interview filmed inside West Oakland's historic, crumbling 16th Street Station, award-winning singer Faye Carol explained, "The people brought the sounds with them and once they became city people, the sounds evolved -- because they was evolving."
Legendary 7th Street blues club Esther's Orbit Room shuttered in 2011. (Liam O'Donoghue)
In the late 1940s, record producer Bob Geddins launched a massively influential though often overlooked studio, and several record labels. The Pullman Porters, a politically active union of Black railroad workers, helped distribute Geddins' recordings of blues pioneers such as Lowell Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin across the country. West Oakland turned into a magnet for aspiring musicians like B.B. King, who visited frequently, and T-Bone Walker, who became famous for doing the splits while playing guitar and was called "the greatest entertainer of all time" by Chuck Berry. Other stars of the scene included Big Mama Thornton, renowned for making "Hound Dog" a hit three years before Elvis Presley, and Sugar Pie DeSanto, a firecracker known for leaping from pianos with James Brown, who is still playing shows at 81 years old.
Unfortunately, video recordings of juke joint performances during the height of this scene are virtually nonexistent, but Fabio makes up for the lack of archival footage with rich recollections from folks who were actually there, like the aforementioned DeSanto. These stories, along with a thumping soundtrack and gorgeous black-and-white photos from the collection of E.F. Joseph -- an Oakland photojournalist who obsessively documented local black cultural events for more than five decades -- give the documentary an intimate, visceral feel.
This era captured in Evolutionary Blues ended abruptly when swaths of the neighborhood, including most of 7th Street, were demolished to make room for massive infrastructure projects, including Interstate 880, BART, and an enormous U.S. Post Office facility. Thousands of residents were pushed out with little compensation through eminent domain. Decommissioned military tanks were used to crush one of America's most vital black communities into rubble. (Yes, really -- the photos are devastating.) As the film shifts into the post-blues era, the viewer is left grappling with these traumatic images, making it difficult to fully appreciate the chapters exploring 1960s and '70s funk -- and that music's connection to another Oakland institution: The Black Panther Party.
Sugar Pie DeSanto, an Oakland blues icon, still performs today. (Courtesy of Sugar Pie DeSanto)
In recent years, historic venue Eli's Mile High Club, now primarily known as a punk bar, has begun hosting blues nights to bring local legends back to its storied stage. But according to Geoffrey Pete, long-time owner of downtown venue Geoffrey's Inner Circle, black businesses are still facing institutional discrimination, and have limited opportunities to rebuild the scene or preserve its legacy. Pete's club was shut down from 2009 through 2012 following a controversy that involved an OPD sergeant allegedly fabricating a shooting as part of what Pete characterized as a shakedown scheme for "protection money." As long as these kinds of stories persist, the message behind the blues will remain urgent. "The pain and suffering won't go anywhere, so there'll be a need to sing the blues for a long time," he said in film.
Fabio is also confident that Oakland's Black population will ultimately refuse to succumb to the forces of displacement bearing down on the East Bay. "I'm optimistic, because I view us as a stubborn people," she said. "That's why we're still here. I can't imagine this generation is gonna flake out and we're going to disappear."
'Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland's Music Legacy' premieres at Oakland's Grand Lake Theater on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 7pm. Tickets are available here. There will also be a screening on Nov. 10 at The African American Museum and Library at Oakland.


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The humanitarian crisis is deepening in northeastern Nigeria, where 10.6 million people need help
The humanitarian crisis that is rocking northeastern Nigeria has intensified in recent months at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and the UN is already estimating that more than 10.6 million people will need help this year, a number with no precedent in a region with 13 million inhabitants.
Northeast Nigeria has lived in uncertainty for more than a decade due to the activities of groups like Boko Haram who claim the establishment of an Islamic state. Rising violence and restrictions due to COVID-19 have made the situation worse in the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
According to the United Nations, four out of five people will therefore need humanitarian aid, an increase of 50 percent over the 2019 data. The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Edward Kallon has warned that the numbers are already "the" recorded in five years of joint response "by various organizations.
"If we don't act immediately, we should prepare for increasing conflict, hunger and poverty," complained Kallon, fearing the "devastating" effects the health emergency could have on an already vulnerable population.
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Trump 'Deportation Force' Just Shot A Legal Resident
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Trump's immigration crackdown chalked up another casualty today, and it may have all been a big mistake.
A 53-year-old Chicago man was shot in the arm by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempting to make an arrest after they burst into his home at 6:20 a.m. in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the city's Northwest side, according to the Chicago Tribune.
ICE put out a statement saying that they shot Felix Torres because he aimed a weapon at them. The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility will review the case.
However, there are conflicting reports. Torres daughter told NBC 5 Chicago that her father didn't own a gun and that the ICE agents never identified themselves. They were apparently trying to arrest Torres' son, also a legal resident.
Torres daughter said her father and everyone else in the house, which included eight people from three generations of the family, were in the U.S. legally. That was confirmed by a group called the People's Response Team who said, "the family has lived in the home for at least 30 years."
The wounded man was taken to a local hospital listed in serious condition.
The Chicago Police were not involved in the ICE raid, but have now put Torres and his son into custody while they investigate.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has declared Chicago a "sanctuary city," but ICE can still conduct raids, and is supposed to communicate and coordinate what they are doing with the local police. In this case, police are still investigating.
New Homeland Security report details torturous conditions at border concentration camps
It appears that, once again, a family in the U.S. legally who were longtime residents of a neighborhood were targeted in one of the immigration raids that have ramped up since Trump took office promising a crackdown on illegal immigrants who are criminals.
There is still an investigation to be done, but this appears to be another incident of overreach by ICE fueled by Trump's anti-immigrant policies.
Benjamin Locke March 27, 2017


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Freddy Rodriguez (* 9. Februar 1931 in Denver, Colorado; † 25. März 2020 ebendort) war ein amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Alt- und Tenorsaxophon).

Leben und Wirken
Rodriguez lernte ab 1942 an der Baker Junior High School seiner Geburtsstadt Klarinette; bald wurde er  von Artie Shaw beeinflusst. Unter dem Einfluss von Coleman Hawkins und Lester Young stieg er in der West High School auf das Alt- und Tenorsaxophon um. Er besuchte Konzerte der durchreisenden Jazzgrößen im Rainbow Ballroom und begann eine Karriere als Profimusiker. 1948 wurde er Zeitsoldat und spielte in einem Militärorchester, das bei Seattle stationiert war. Daneben trat er mit zahlreichen Musikern auf, die auf Tournee waren.

1958 zog er mit seiner Familie nach New York City, konnte aber dort in der Jazzszene nicht rasch Fuß fassen. 1960 zog die Familie angesichts der prekären Lebensverhältnisse nach Los Angeles. 1962 und 1963 spielte er neben Charles Lloyd in der Bigband von Gerald Wilson. Er arbeitete mit Horace Tapscott sowie mit Harold Land und begleitete Nancy Wilson. Dann gehörte er zu Tommy Peltiers Jazz Corps, das im Lighthouse Cafe von Hermosa Beach auftrat; mit ihm veröffentlichte er Platten auf dem Label Pacific Jazz, zuletzt mit Roland Kirk. Tom Lord listet vier Aufnahmen von Rodriguez zwischen 1963 und 1965.

1968 erlitt Tommy Peltier einen Leistenbruch, der seine Jazzkarriere beendete, und sein Jazz Corps löste sich auf. 1973 kehrte Rodriguez mit seiner Familie nach Denver zurück, wo er auch in anderen Berufen tätig war. Daneben machte er weiterhin Musik. 40 Jahre lang trat er dort jeden Mittwoch in Clubs auf – für 20 Jahre im El Chapultepec, zuletzt drei Wochen vor seinem Tod. Rodriguez schrieb den Choral We Lift Our Hands.

Nach einer Infektion mit dem Corona-Virus SARS-CoV-2 wurde er ins Krankenhaus eingewiesen, wo er nach zehn Tagen an den Folgen von COVID-19 starb.

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Anonymous, 28 Jul 2010Just wanna know if all Nokia phones for Asian release China made? I wanna buy this phone so ba... moreu said u found a sole distributor of c6 in the philippines that said the unit was made in china... did u ask how much it was?
Can we use Skype in the model?
Why hasn't GSMARENA come up with the review of C6? Or did I miss it? If the review is available please guide me there. If it's not, when is it coming???
its a good phone. equalent to any phone like apple, galaxy etc. but to make it affordable nokia used low quality body plastics. quality of camera could have been slightly better. but then cost will increase.
naman, 28 Jul 2010Rs 12000 where do u get it for 12k ?
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I leave the house with no particular plan. I walk through crowded streets. All the people look the same, like shadows, or ants. I cross a stone bridge so old that it is entirely worn smooth. I walk under an arch with words written in a language no people can read. I reach a large building with double doors twice my height, made of marble and trimmed with gold. I pull on the door on the left; it opens smoothly and silently.
I nod to the clerk. I wash my hands in the first bowl, rinse my hands in the second bowl, and dry my hands on the towel. The clerk nods to me, then she opens the smaller, inner door.
Sunlight shines through large colored windows and bathes the whole room in shades of blue, red, and yellow. I look around at shelves full of books and rows full of shelves and floors full of rows. I am struck, this time as always, by how carefully people save their history, by how much they honor their stories. So many stories to read. So many life times it would take to read them all. But none of them hers.
I take the time to breathe in the books—smell the dust, and paper, and death. I go to a section I have not been to yet, far away in a corner where the sun can't quite reach through those large windows. I run my hand over the tops of the books, feeling the peaks of leather and the valleys of paper, each book the same height, each cover a different shade of rich brown.
My hand stops on something different: a cover of a soft light brown, the color of a dusty sheep. I take the book down and admire the exotic color and rough texture. I turn to a page at random and inhale deeply of must and ink and iron. And then I start at the beginning, and I read.
I read the story of a man born in another place, one far away, but under the same Sun. He traveled the world. He found adventure and misfortune and also a wife, which turned out to be both. They moved here when their son was born. But they both died, the wife and the son, before the man wrote his story. I sit with the story, my hand on the cover letting it sink in through my skin. There's no rush.
I replace that book and choose another. It has a very dark, but fine leather cover, unworn by time or use. A woman–she wrote her story very young. She was born to a wealthy family. She had many things growing up, but no friends. Her parents mostly ignored her, left her for the servants to deal with. She doesn't say, but I think she wrote her story to shock her parents. Maybe it worked. Maybe one of them is even in here somewhere. Regardless, she is among equals now.
Claire was sitting on the ground under a tree on the edge of campus. She had books all around her and a gray slate in her lap. She was writing equations in a neat, small script on the board; the rasp and scratching of the chalk mixed with the birds' chirps above her and the pecks of birds around her. The birds didn't bother her, but nor did they please her, they were just background noise as she looked carefully through her books and did her calculations.
"What are you up to?" The voice that asked was low, but sweet, like syrup.
I have to hold the book very close to the lantern while sitting on the floor. The dim light is barely enough for me to keep reading. The sun has gone down and my body is becoming insistent. I need to eat, sleep, move, live.
I open another book. It's a big book. The cover is weathered, thin, delicate; the brown is almost gray. But inside the writing is vibrant, beautiful. It has loops and whorls. Every line of ink is a statement to the world, announcing its strength and presence, shouting for everyone to read it. I am so mesmerized by the writing I barely even take in the words.
The writer lived a happy life. She worked hard. She accomplished much. She lived, she loved, she rarely lost. She had five children, twenty-three grandchildren, and at the end, when she felt she had experienced everything she wanted to, she told the world.
The book was long, despite its simplicity, and elegance. By the end I can't ignore the demands of my flesh any more. I leave the books and the shelves. I nod goodbye to the clerk. I open the right half of the double doors. I pass under the arch, which has no meaning. I cross the bridge, which bears no marks. I walk the streets, which have only shadow. I reach my empty house.
Nobody greets me at the door. No one is upset that I am getting home so late. Dinner is bare. The bed is cold. I sit in the dark, thinking nothing, before laying down and sleeping.
Claire was sitting in Mitzlek's lap. She placed a small piece of cheese in his mouth. His lips closed on the tips of her fingers. His teeth scraped very gently along them when she withdrew them. He smiled at her, and leaned over, his chest to hers, to a small plate with cheese and bits of fruit. He delicately selected half a fig, perfectly ripe and exceptionally moist. When he popped it in her mouth, juice squirted on his fingers. Claire laughed, mouth half full of fig. She slowly licked his fingers clean, one finger at a time.
He used the smile she couldn't resist. The smile that promised the world. The smile that promised eternity.
In the morning I head back to the Hall. Through the streets, over the bridge, under the arch. But I don't go to the big double doors. I don't greet the clerk. I don't wash my hands. I don't open a book, or feel its cover, or taste its life.
Instead I go to a small door on the side, with no writing, and no gilding. Inside there are no books, just a clerk sitting behind a desk, an empty chair by the wall, and a single glass lantern hanging from the ceiling. The clerk looks at me expectantly.
The clerk nods and gestures to the chair by the wall. I sit down to wait while the clerk leaves. I do not know how long she waits, but when she returns I follow her into the depths. We walk through branching hallways and past closed doors. We pass people, but we don't stop or greet them. We come to a hall that ends in a door just like all the others, inside is a bare room, just three people and a table.
The first person steps forward and offers me a pill in one hand and a cup full of water in the other. I hold my hand up and shake my head.
"It will be harder," she say.
She bows and leaves the room. The second person steps to the side. There is a simple wooden chair behind her. I sit down and raise my right arm. The needle pinche as it slides into my arm. Blood fills the tube and mixes with a thick black ink before flowing into a small ink pot. She steps back from the table, bowd, and leaves.
The third person steps forward. She places a single sheet of pure white paper in front of me, and steps back, holding more paper in her arms. I pick up the pen, dip it in the red-black ink and begin.
In the beginning there was everything. And it was me. My awareness extended to all things because all things were me. It was crowded and so I created space where there was none before. And in that space I made things. I pushed up, strained against the sky, and where I pushed, that became the land. And as I worked I sweated and I cried and the tears mingled with the sweat and became the ocean. I worked up a great thirst while working and when I slaked that thirst I pissed, and those became the rivers. And now I had much space but I was alone. And so I made more things to accompany me and to each of these things I gave them parts of myself. To the plants I gave some of my patience, so they would be still. And to the animals I gave some of my restlessness, so they would move. But some of the animals complained. They could not hide with light being everywhere. They could not rest, even when they were tired. And so I gathered the light and I created the Sun and set it moving around the world. But I held a little light back and with it made the stars and the moon, so it wouldn't be too dark, even at night.
And it was good. And I spent much time exploring this world that I created from myself. But as I explored, a great loneliness grew within me. And so I created man, from my seed and from my blood. And I placed within man my desire to create, and I gave them my wisdom so they could use it to build, and I put within each of them a small piece of my loneliness, so that we might share it and thus make ourselves less lonely. And when I was finished it was hard to tell myself from them, but I said to them "I am Mitzlek, the Creator," and they knew me.


Although the Four Seasons sounds much better in Italian, it doesn't hide the fact that this is yet another recording of the inevitable old favourite. Despite there being squillions of other recordings available, a new one will probably guarantee good sales, not least because people do seem to like what they know. And they do know the Four Seasons, even if the CD title of Le Quatro Stagioni might confuse them a little. Vivaldi wrote more than 200 concertos for violin and orchestra, For the more discerning listener, there has to be something distinctive to separate any new recording out from the competition. And, boy, haven't some people tried something distinctive. Rachel Podger and her Brecon Baroque avoid the 'distinctive' route and instead focus on intelligent music-making, aided by sensitive articulation, sensible speeds and appropriate accompaniments.
Alongside Podger are two violins, viola, cello, and a continuo group of violone, theorbo, and harpsichord or chamber organ – all period or period influenced. Despite many competing recordings, this is all you need, the clarity of the ensemble bringing a freshness and sparkle to the sound. Another thing that sets this recording apart from most others are the three additional violin concertos, Il Riposo per Il santissimo Natale, L'Amoroso, and the expansive Il Grosso Mogul, all given fine interpretations. The recording acoustic is a little resonant for the essential chamber nature of the music, but acceptable nonetheless.
I opened my review of Rachel Podger's concert during the 2015 Tage Alter Musik Regensburg thus – "Before she started playing, she wandered around the entire audience giving everybody a huge hug. She didn't, of course, but it felt like that, given the warmth of her broad grin and inclusive approach to her audience. Here was a player who wanted us all to feel involved." So perhaps it is appropriate that, amongst the huge variety of digital formats available (see here) is an MP3 version that "includes a free virtual hug"! The booklet can be downloaded from the same website.


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