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Tag Archives: France
I Get That My Mom Has Alzheimer's But I Just Can't
Alzheimer'€™s is a devastating disease for everyone but it seems especially cruel when its victim is someone whose memory was especially sharp.
This entry was posted in and tagged aging, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Elderly, France, House, memory, mom, mother, pear tree, river, steel trap on June 28, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Blue No Matter Who
Some Democrats say that they are "blue no matter who." Trump, they say, is such an existential threat that they will vote for anyone who winds up as the Democratic nominee for president. But is it really wise to extend such a blank check to a party that has disappointed us so many times before?
This entry was posted in and tagged Al Qaeda, allies, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Europe, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Lies, Militarism, NATO, Shia, Sunni, trying, War on June 26, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Brittle: It's Like the Nazis Are Still Killing My Mother
Americans often downplay the long-term effects of traumatic experiences, expecting victims to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and move on after a disaster. But as my mother's experience as an elderly French-American shows, often the negative effects never go completely away.
This entry was posted in and tagged Alzheimer's, brittle, dentistry, dentists, Disaster, falls, France, mom, mother, Nazi occupation, nutrition, posttraumatic stress syndrome, poverty, PTSD, root canal, senior citizens, teeth, Tornado, trauma on May 24, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Broke? Declare Yourself a Church and Burn
After a devastating fire laid waste to much of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, three spectacularly wealthy French industrial families pledged 700 million euros to re-build the iconic structure. It was a generous gesture. But it was disconcerting that purse strings would open so quickly to repair a damaged building while so many actual living breathing human beings in France were suffering that the so-called "yellow vest movement" was rioting in the streets of Paris just a few weeks earlier.
This entry was posted in and tagged Cathedral, Catholic Church, Charity, Fire, France, Hypocrisy, incendiary, Income Inequality, Notre Dame, Paris, priests, Reconstruction, yellow vest movement on April 22, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Liberals Used to Feel Your Pain. Now They Inflict It.
Liberals are supposed to feel other people's pain. Now they seem more intent on inflicting it.
I noticed the de-empathification of the Democratic Party during the implementation of Obamacare. I lived in one of many counties with zero or one plan on offer. Low supply and high demand—hell, the ACA required you to buy one or get fined—allowed insurers to gouge patients with sky-high rates. The one plan in my county's ACA sucked. It charged a $1400-per-month premium with a $10,000-a-year deductible—and featured no doctors within network within a 90-minute drive.
On Facebook I complained about the paucity of affordable plans in my online health insurance marketplace. "I don't know what you're going on about," one of my friends snarked. "I found an excellent, affordable plan."
My friend lives in Manhattan.
When I pointed out that residents of big cities like New York had far more competition than residents of more sparsely populated areas, he acted as if I hadn't said anything, continuing to sing the praises of the ACA. "Obamacare is a Godsend for me," he continued. "So many great options!"
This conversation-without-communication went on and on like that. It was like a variation of the old book "I'm OK, You're OK." Now it's "I'm OK, You're—Who Cares About You?"
People often ask me for political predictions. Many people I know are Democrats of the Third Way/DLC/Clinton variety and so were understandably upset when I told them I was sure Donald Trump would win. "I grew up in Dayton, Ohio," I explained. "The major swing states in this election are full of hollowed-out depopulated deindustrialized Rust Belt cities like Dayton. Free trade agreements like NAFTA killed those cities and destroyed their residents' quality of life and crushed their American Dream. Hillary and the Democrats supported that globalization garbage. Trump will win because he's the only one who talks about their problems, the only one who acknowledges they exist, and Democrats are too obsessed with identitarian symbolism."
"But Trump is an idiot," they said.
"Not so much of an idiot that he said nice things about free trade," I said, referring to Hillary Clinton.
"But he's a bigot," they continued.
"True," I agreed. But these people desperate and angry and he's the first presidential candidate to admit that free trade isn't awesome. It's a chance to send a message, a cri de coeur."
The vacant disconnected look in my liberal friends' eyes was every bit as dumbstruck as that of a MAGA supporter who realizing that big tax cut wasn't for him. They weren't from the Midwest, had never been to the Midwest, didn't know anyone from the Midwest. The devastation and dysfunction I described—substance addiction, generation after generation on disability, systemic un- and underemployment, plunging housing prices, cash-starved local governments so unable to keep up with the mayhem that ODed corpses piled up at the morgue—was as foreign to them as a drone strike in Afghanistan.
Globalization was inevitable. Why didn't those stupid Ohioans accept it?
Democrats like FDR used to look at dispossessed voters and see electoral opportunity, a chance to grow the party. Today's liberals are poorer than Roosevelt yet more elitist; they see a bunch of irrelevant old white guys who ought to hurry up and die.
The latest case study is France's "Yellow Vest" movement. For over a month angry motorists, many middle-aged men from rural and suburban areas of the country, have converged on cities like Paris to protest President Emmanuel Macron's hike of the gas tax. As in Britain less populous areas have been left behind economically and neglected by the central government. People say they're barely making it to the end of each month after paying rising bills on fixed incomes, and they're pissed.
No doubt echoing their well-heeled counterparts in the 4ème arrondissement, my liberal Democratic friends were gobsmacked by France's most violent Days of Rage since May 1968. "It's a carbon tax," one explained helpfully. "We have to reduce consumption of greenhouse gases." Her attitude is typical: don't those conservative hicks understand that the planet is dying?
True, we should reduce air pollution. (Though it's probably too late to slow down climate change.) But a tax designed to reduce consumption only serves one purpose if consumers have no choice but to consume: to increase government revenue while making citizens miserable. Yellow Vesters who live in the sticks don't have a mass transit alternative. They can't carpool. They've got to drive and, with a carbon tax, they have to pay. No wonder they're angry. Wouldn't it make more sense to tax shareholders whose portfolios include stocks with big carbon footprints?
In the 1970s right-wing Republicans like Richard Nixon promoted the cliché of the "limousine liberal": self-righteous, hypocritical, privileged and disconnected from Joe and Jane Sixpack. I don't know if it was true then. It certainly is now.
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, is the author of "Francis: The People's Pope." You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged ACA, carbon tax, deindustrialization, empathy, France, healthcare marketplace, ObamaCare, Rust Belt, sympathy, yellow vest movement on December 19, 2018 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Trump Voters' Message: We Exist
I think it was over Thanksgiving dinner. My mother's best friend, a dear woman who has never been other than good to me and my mom, decided to poke some gentle fun, Dayton Ohio-style, at me.
Actually, let me be more specific. It wasn't Dayton. The conversation took place in Kettering. It's a suburb of Dayton. A small suburb called Oakwood separates Dayton and Kettering.
"Ted," my mom's friend began, "what's with these terrible descriptions of our city? The way you write, you'd think this was some bleak post-industrial wasteland." She motioned out the window to her manicured lawn, punctuated by a set of perfect flowers. As were those of her neighbors. As if to drive home her point, a bird chirped.
I held my ground. "What about down by Route 4? Rusted-out factories, meth houses. It's like a war zone."
"But that's" — she searched for the word — "downtown. That's not here."
"It's five or six miles, at most," I pointed out. "You can walk there!"
And you can, if you don't much care about personal safety.
Dayton is a mess. Once a booming manufacturing city, its population is plunging, having shrunk by half in 50 years. Its housing stock, including historical buildings, have been gutted. After decades of factory and corporate closures accelerated by free trade deals like NAFTA, the local economy sucks. Crime, driven by my hometown's status as Ground Zero of the national opiod epidemic that has turned so many young men into corpses that the morgue ran out of room, has made Dayton even more dangerous than Chicago. The 2008-09 housing crisis left countless homes abandoned (but cheap! you can buy one for four figures). Fearing eviction in 2009 but receiving no help from a government who instead gave $7.77 trillion to the banks with no strings attached, one poor guy hanged himself; a kid found his mummified body five years later. He should have stuck around. The banksters never bothered to foreclose on his modest house.
So much misery, so little help from the government. Four out of five Ohioans who lost their jobs receive zero unemployment benefits.
Downtown Dayton, and its citizens, were dead to my mom's friend. But not to me. I used to take the bus there to look at record stores and attend meetings at Democratic Headquarters. Sometimes, yes, I walked. After I left Dayton for New York, the road from the Dayton airport to my mom's house sometimes took me through downtown. Downtown was real. Downtown existed.
If downtown Dayton was less than afterthought to suburbanites a hop, skip and jump away, it was a black hole as far as the national media and the political strategists were concerned. Daytonians didn't donate to presidential campaigns. (They couldn't afford to.) More than 40% black as the result of postwar "white flight" to suburbs like Kettering and Oakwood, downtown was reliably Democratic. Republicans didn't bother; Democrats took Dayton for granted.
You've probably already figured out that this essay is a parable about the Rise of Trump. Downtown Dayton was far from unique. There were downtown Daytons all over the post-industrial Midwest: ignored, forgotten, taken for granted. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — states Hillary Clinton ought to have won, and was so sure she was going to win that she hardly showed up, but went Republican in 2016.
Dayton Congressman Tony Hall (disclosure: I worked for one of his campaigns) watched the growing chasm between his working-class — and unemployed poor — constituents and the national Democratic Party, in thrall to the Clintons, free trade, and Wall Street contributors. "A lot of Democrats in the Midwest feel that they didn't leave the Democratic Party — they feel like the Democratic Party left them," Hall says. That was me, for sure. "As long as we had our 10 or 12 auto plants, we were pretty good, but we felt that the NAFTA deal made it a lot easier for companies to go to Mexico — and they did. They shut down our factories," remembers Hall. Young adult voters "saw their moms and dads lose their jobs and they didn't think anyone did anything for them."
Day after day, the citizens of Dayton and Flint and Milwaukee opened their newspapers and flipped the cable news channels. Never, ever was there anyone talking about, much less interested in solving, their problems. As far as the elites — and that included Democratic politicians like Hillary — were considered, victims of rapacious global capitalism didn't exist and didn't matter.
Until Trump.
Trump didn't offer credible solutions. He hasn't lifted a finger to help Rust Belters as president. What he did do was acknowledge their existence.
Writing about the French election, Édouard Louis wrote that a similar cri de Coeur motivated many Marine Le Pen voters. Louis grew up poor: "In the minds of the bourgeoisie…our existence didn't count and wasn't real." That was the message of many Trump voters to the op-ed writers of The New York Times: we know he isn't perfect, but at least he knows we exist.
Despite Bernie (and Trump), the Hillary Clinton Democrats still don't get it. When Trump mentioned "mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation" in his inaugural address, my liberal New York friends shook their heads. Like my mom's friend, they had no idea what Trump was talking about.
The misery is real.
They exist — sometimes they exist five or six miles away.
"They" are us.
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall) is author of "Trump: A Graphic Biography," an examination of the life of the Republican presidential nominee in comics form. You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Crime, Dayton, Donald Trump, France, French election, Marine Le Pen, National Front, opiod epidemic, poverty, Rust Belt, Unemployment on May 9, 2017 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: The 3 Rules of Resistance to Donald Trump
To the French, it felt like the end of the world. 1940: defeated in six weeks, surrender, subjugation, overrun by German soldiers whose power of life or death were absolute and absolutely capricious. Fascism triumphant; organized resistance as yet unimaginable.
Simone de Beauvoir, who dedicated herself to the study of ethics, struggled to adjust to everyday life in Nazi-occupied Paris. On the Metro, a German soldier — Wehrmacht, low-ranking and therefore a conscript? — asked for directions. Seemed like a nice kid. Besides, refusal was dangerous. But he was an invader. What was the right thing to do: a little treasonous help, or send him to some dangerous neighborhood?
On a macro level, the French had to decide to what extent to cooperate with the terrifying new regime.
On one extreme were the collaborators and war profiteers who exploited their fellow citizens, welcomed every chance to advance their personal fortunes and thereby legitimized the Nazis and the Vichy-based puppet regime led by Philippe Pétain. Many were executed by extrajudicial tribunals after liberation in 1944.
At the opposite end of the behavioral spectrum were the Communist résistants de la première heure and the men and women of the maquis. Abandoning jobs and families, these people of principle lived rough lives underground, risking everything to terrorize the Germans and their French fascist allies. Many were tortured and murdered.
Though it's premature to draw a direct comparison between Nazi Europe and Trump's America, it's never too early to start thinking about the ethics of resistance in a United States whose government whose repressiveness is likely to feel unacceptably severe to a significant portion of the population.
What is the correct way to behave after January 20th? Should one Keep Calm and Carry On? (Given that those now-clichéed posters were supposed to have been plastered on walls by a retreating British government in the face of a Nazi occupation of the UK, my inclination is to say no.) Ought one take to the hills and practice shooting down drones?
Like the French during World War II, most Americans opposed to/afraid of Trump will muddle through some murky middle ground. In times that try souls, ambiguity abounds.
We Americans may not be familiar with them, but there are standards. Everything does not go. There are clear rights and wrongs. Now, as we plunge into the moral abyss, it is important to learn, spread and enforce the Rules of Resistance for people who want to be able to hold their heads high when their children ask "what did you do during the war, daddy/mommy?"
Rule 1: Anything for survival.
As a teacher, Beauvoir would have lost her food rations, ID papers and livelihood if she hadn't signed an odious Vichy-required certificate swearing that she wasn't a Jew. Though she was appalled, she signed. You're not required to starve to death over a principle.
Rule 2: Nothing for Trump.
Even though Jewish writers were banned from publication, Beauvoir submitted her novel for a literary prize. "If I had been awarded the Prix Goncourt that year I should have accepted it with wholehearted jubilation," she recalled. Disgusting. Her participation legitimized the regime's anti-Semitism.
The Rockettees and the singer Jackie Evancho will perform at Trump's inaugural. "I just kind of thought that this is for my country," Evancho said. Jennifer Holliday initially said she'd do the gig as well: "I'm singing on the mall for the people," said Holliday. "I don't have a dog in this fight." They are wrong: it is precisely for their country that they ought to have opted out, as Ice-T and Elton John did. The one thing Trumpism offers is ideological clarity; at times like this, everyone has a dog in the fight, ostriching not allowed.
When you're considering whether or not to participate in something Trump-y or government-y during the next few years, get educated. Then ask yourself: what would I think if I were one of the people being targeted by Trump and the Republicans? How would an immigrant awaiting deportation feel about Jennifer Holliday while watching Jennifer Holliday croon on TV in a nasty ICE prison? How will someone dying of a disease because she can't afford treatment after losing Obamacare feel about the Rockettes?
Normally, when your president calls, a patriot heeds his call. But Trump isn't normal and these aren't normal times.
Rule 3: Ignorance is no excuse.
Whether you live under Nazi occupation or Trumpian oppression, refusing to keep informed is no longer acceptable.
To her credit, Jennifer Holliday backed out of her scheduled inaugural performance in response to a social media firestorm, explaining that she had been "uneducated on the issues." She continued: "Regretfully, I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act against my own personal beliefs and be mistaken for support of Donald Trump and Mike Pence…I HEAR YOU."
Everything is always a political act. Now the stakes are even higher.
If you're a member of the armed forces or the police, you are morally required to resign and find another job.
If you work in a political post within the federal government — the diplomatic corps, for example — or a post that has policy implications, like the NSA or CIA, a morally upright person has no choice but to quit in protest.
If you have the opportunity to expose wrongdoing from within, you must act as a whistleblower.
If you have the chance to resist Trump's protofascist policies, you must do so. You must hide the undocumented immigrant on the run. You cannot submit a bid to construct the Wall. You must, if you work for an insurance company, try to avoid enforcing rules that deny healthcare.
One of the things people overseas tell me they like about Americans is that we're happy-go-lucky. That has to change.
It's time to get serious.
(Ted Rall is author of "Trump: A Graphic Biography," an examination of the life of the Republican presidential nominee in comics form. You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Donald Trump, Ethics, France, Germans, inaugural, Jackie Evancho, Jennifer Holliday, legitimization, Morality, Nazis, normalization, resistance, Rockettes, Simone de Beauvoir, World War II on January 14, 2017 by Ted Rall.
Hillary Clinton to keep, and apologized for, calling half of Donald Trump supporters "a basket of deplorables." Setting aside the lousy optics of criticizing a quarter of the voters, what's up with that weird phrase? What American would ever use it?
This entry was posted in and tagged American, Americanisms, Baseball, Basket of deplorables, crowd, D-Day, France, Hillary Clinton, History, James Cagney, Language, Linguistics, New York Yankees, Normandy, Ohio, spies World War II, St. Louis Cardinals, test, vocabulary, World Series on September 14, 2016 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Who's Really To Blame for Brexit (and Trump)
At this writing, securities markets and the international community are reeling at the news that British voters have opted to leave the European Union. The "Brexit" has provoked angry reactions from the pro-Remain camp, who accuse Leave voters of stupidity, shortsighted ignorance and, worse, thinly-disguised racism and nativism posing as nationalism.
Political analysts point out that British voters were divided geographically – Scotland wanted to stay, England wanted to leave – as well as demographically. One chart that managed to go semi-viral online displayed high support for the Brexit among older voters, opposition among the young, alongside the actuarial average years remaining that each age group would have to live with the consequences of the vote. The smartest of these pundits focus on the class divide between shiny expensive youth-oriented cities like London, where pro-European sentiments are strong, and England's version of the Rust Belt, abandoned hellholes where citizens barely subsist in a ruined landscape of shut down factories and widespread unemployment.
"If you've got money, you vote in," a voter in Manchester told The Guardian. "If you haven't got money, you vote out," she said.
Amid all the concern about a collapsing British pound and the possible dissolution of not only the European Union – looks like France and the Netherlands may have a similar plebiscite in the near future – but also the United Kingdom, everyone's out to cast blame. However, no one is pointing at those who are most responsible if (and it's far from certain) Brexit leads to an economic downturn and/or a political debacle: the West's incompetent political class, and its idiotic enablers in the corporate media.
The postwar order began to fray during the 1970s, when business leaders and their allies in government started to push aggressively for policies that encouraged the transfer of manufacturing industries to the developing world away from what was then called the First World in preparation for what we now call the information economy. Globalization is the shorthand term for deindustrialization – some call it outsourcing, others prefer the simpler "shipping jobs overseas" – and digitalization of culture and intellectual property.
This essay isn't about whether globalization is good or bad. It's about the way a trend that has been consistently declared irreversible has been poorly managed. That mismanagement led to the Brexit, and may elect Donald Trump.
Even during the 1970s, globalization's downward pressure on wages was easy to foresee. Capital was becoming increasingly fluid, crossing borders with incredible ease in search of places and people where the production of goods and services could be done as cheaply as possible. If you own a factory in Michigan, and you can figure out a way to transport your product to market at reasonable cost, doing the patriotic "made in USA" thing feels like leaving money on the table when you consider what your expenses would look like in Vietnam or Indonesia.
Workers, on the other hand, are confined by international borders, linguistic and cultural limitations, family ties, and just plain inertia, to the nations — and often the regions within those countries — where they were born. If the highest wages in the world are paid in the United Arab Emirates, you can't just hop on a plane and expect to find a job, much less a work permit. Workers are stuck; capital moves freely. This economic imbalance between labor and management is a significant contributing factor to the decline in real median wages in countries like Great Britain and the United States since the 1970s.
Now let's say that you're a high-ranking member of the ruling class: a Fortune 500 CEO, a head of state, a congressman, the publisher of a big-city newspaper. You don't need a major in history or political science in order to anticipate that subjecting tens of millions of people to long-term unemployment and underemployment is a recipe for social dysfunction and the kind of class resentment that can be exploited by a demagogue or radical populist movement.
You can do one of two things with that knowledge. You can ignore victims of economic dislocation. Or you can help them.
If you ignore them, if you greedily grab up every dollar and pound and euro you can while city after city slowly collapses into alcoholism, drug abuse and rising crime, you know you're setting yourself up for a future of political instability. It may take a long time, but the chickens will come home to roost. When things turn ugly, it could cost you a pile of cash you amassed during your orgy of greed.
That's what happened during the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan dismantled the post-World War II social safety nets. Precisely at a time when the UK and the US needed more welfare, national healthcare and public education programs, they slashed them instead. Those austerity policies continued under Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, David Cameron, and – against reason and common sense – under Barack Obama after the 2008 economic meltdown.
The British and American political classes made a conscious decision over the last 40 to 50 years not to lift a finger to help those who lost their jobs to deindustrialization and globalization. Go back to college, they say. Get retrained. But most Americans can't afford college tuition — the jobless least of all! We need(ed) a GI Bill for the dispossessed.
Even this week, many establishment types continue to criticize aging pensioners and unemployed workers over age 50, denigrating them as selfish, clueless, unwilling and unable to adapt themselves to the new – brutal – world in which we find ourselves.
No doubt: nativism and racism played a role in the Brexit vote. England is an island nation with an island mentality. Though only a few thousand Syrians entered the UK last year, with nary a passport check, images of refugees riding the roof of trains from France through the Chunnel felt like an invasion to some Britons. But bigotry shouldn't let us ignore the economic factor. When jobs are plentiful and salaries are rising, no one minds immigration. Xenophobia grows in the soil of scarcity.
What did the elites think? Did they really believe it was possible to make so many people so desperate and so angry for so long without a risk of them lashing out?
Donald Trump is not a brilliant man. But the political classes could learn a lesson from him. He knows that an awful lot of people are angry. And he knows why.
(Ted Rall is the author of "Bernie," a biography written with the cooperation of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. His next book, the graphic biography "Trump," comes out July 19th and is now available for pre-order.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Brexit, Class Warfare, demagoguery, dissolution, Donald Trump, Economics, education, EU, euro, European Union, France, Great Britain, Greed, Nativism, Netherlands, political classes, Populism, racism, Rust Belt, Scotland, social programs, Unemployment, United Kingdom, welfare state, xenophobia on June 27, 2016 by Ted Rall.
ISIS, Full-Fledged Nation-State
The Islamic State wants to be a full-service nation-state. What would ISIS look like if it governed like a legitimate nation-state like the United States? Let's take a look.
This entry was posted in and tagged Beheading, dog, Donald Trump, electoral politics, France, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Metternich, Nation-State, road construction, Video on December 6, 2015 by Ted Rall.


Authored by inglorion on Jan 4 2019, 2:37 PM.
This seems fine to me, but I think we can do better if we want to. How about: call TryCreateTempFile() N times, and check that it succeeds exactly 16 times. Pick N such that the probability of it failing to find all 16 possible file names (given that it has 128 retries for each call) is astronomically small. (Right now the test should fail somewhere around 0.03% of the time; if we made, say, 32 calls, the probability of a flake would be significantly lower than the probability of a flake due to spontaneous hardware failure (in order to flake, we must find only 15 of the 16 filenames with at least 17 * 128 + 15 guesses, the probability of which is 1 in 3.9x10^62).
Is there a missing ! here? It looks like this test would pass if at least one call succeeds rather than if at least one call fails.
Agreed with @rsmith, running 32 times and collecting the amount of successes == 16 should be a fine way to do this.
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Kristin has done great with miles so far this month. It is the 18th, and she is past 30. She will most likely set a personal best.
We both ran tonight, and we were stopped by the dark. My run was the best I've had lately as far as stamina, breathing, and just plain feeling good. Had darkness not set in, I probably would have gone another mile or two beyond the five I had planned.
Michigan Apple Fun Run is this Saturday. I plan to attempt the 15k. I've never gone past 7 miles, so I don't know if I'll be able to run the whole thing. But I will go as far as I can. I believe Kristin plans to do the 10k.


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Al Musaherati Tradition المسحراتي
"My parents reminisce about their childhood days in Hyderabad, where a man holding a lantern would come around in the wee hours before dawn calling 'Uthoooooo, Sahre Karoooooo!' (meaning, Wake up, do Suhoor!). "
-Arva Ahmed, Author of the blog I Live In a Frying Pan
and owner of the food tours company Frying Pan Adventures
The Old and forgotten story of Sohoor
Let me tell you a little story about an old old tradition, that seems to have gotten lost in the folds of history. A story about generosity and giving selflessly. One about community, which was always brought to the forefront throughout the holy month of Ramadan and during the early hours of the morning.
Let me tell you the true, old and forgotten story of Suhoor…
I remember being very young, back at a time when in the city of Amman (Jordan) there used to be what we called 'Msahher'. Msahher is the guy who, during the Month of Ramadan, goes around the streets of a neighbourhood an hour before sunrise prayer, calling out to the sleeping people to wake up and eat before the prayer is out and the fasting starts. The same voice, everyday, goes around the streets along with a drum in hand, in a selfless act, in an act of kindness, calling out and beating on the drum to wake you to have a bite. I mean, who wants to wake up so early and walk around sleep ridden streets only to wake people to eat and pray?
I remember that if I did not hear the guy, which was very seldom, mum or dad would gently wake us to have breakfast together. Although I was too young at that time to fast, and I didn't; at our home we still gathered at the table to eat together. I remember I used to get very excited about waking up, only because mum would have a table of delicious simple foods spread out for us to eat. At those times, things were simple. It was Ramadan, people ate, prayed fasted and did good to others for nothing in return. Those were days when food was given out in Ramadan to those in need. Times, when a bakery would be open for Suhoor to give out bread for free, although ironically people could afford it back then! Times when the community was a friend, making sure its members are taken care of. In my very humble understanding, I find that those were days when we had beautiful traditions that made ours a very distinct culture and a very unique community.
I often find myself thinking about the Msahher, and especially every Ramadan. I think of the guy who used to walk our streets, and think of how he could be doing. I also find myself thinking about why this tradition hardly exists any more?! Suhoor these days is mostly a Buffet in a hotel lasting till about 2 am. It is more like the equivalent of a coffee morning these days, where the women would create a bash and guests come to celebrate, mingle, play cards and catch up! Even at home, it seems everyone is either living in another country or having a quick sandwich before they sleep.
Options are always good and change is always fine, but the Msahher tradition was profound! It should have never died, it was beautiful!
Musaherati Tradition المسحراتي
Musaherati is the person known as the 'Ramadan Drummer', who is assigned with waking people up to have their suhoor (predawn meal) throughout the holy month of Ramadan.
Back in the day, the Ramadan drummers were one of the most important markers of the holy month of Ramadan. Every year, during the Holy month, these drummers would roam the streets an hour before dawn, drumming and calling out to people to wake up and have their Suhoor meals. And usually people would wake up, greet the drummers, give them food and very small money in return for their service.
This tradition is perhaps one of the oldest Ramadan Traditions, said to have existed back since the first years of Islam.
While during those days the Musaherati did not necessarily roam the streets drumming, a few assigned people did roam the streets calling out "time for the predawn meal". In both the Ottoman Empire and Andalusia, Musaheratis would drum and recite poems created specifically for the occasion. In both cultures, the drummers used to compete against other drummers to assign the best Ramadan drummer, usually the one who says the best poems, drums the best, wakes the most people and therefore earns the most. These competitions used to be taken very seriously as the best drummer, would usually be assigned the best streets, and even assigned the job of teaching the trade to new drummers. Of course, that is besides the fact that those winners earned the most money for their service.
Due to the hardship of the job, drummers have always been limited to a few, and being such a special tradition, it was therefore usually a passed down job in the family. In most cities, drummers were usually the night guards who back in the day used to roam the streets to ensure all is peaceful while everyone is asleep, so it made sense for them to become Musaheratis and earn some extra income.
Musaherati is yet another tradition that progressively disappeared in most cities. While there are continuous efforts to keep the tradition alive in some cities, such efforts are not always successful. People no longer need a Musaherati as they have their alarm clocks, mobile apps and all sorts of other means to wake up for Suhoor, and have therefore stopped paying Musaheratis for their services, making more and more of them disappear.
Despite the fact, some drummers continue to carry out this tradition, regardless of not being paid, as they believe this is a tradition that needs to be kept alive and is one of the things that give Ramadan its unique flavour.
One of my favourite Rumi poems: 'Come, let's escape cleverness!'
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Elections: Proof of Identity
Cabinet Office written question – answered on 11th January 2021.
All Written Answers on 11 Jan 2021
Cat Smith Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Engagement
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2020 to Question 128204 on Elections: Proof of Identity, whether expired photo ID will be deemed to be a valid form of voter ID in the list of approved photographic ID.
Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 11 January 2021, cW)
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether an Irish passport will be accepted as a valid form of voter ID at the next general election.
Chloe Smith Assistant Whip, Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Electors will be required to show an approved form of photographic ID before casting their vote in a polling station across Great Britain at national UK-wide elections, and at local elections in England.
As set out in my answer of 18 December 2020 (PQ 128204), everyone who is eligible to vote will have the opportunity to do so. The list of approved photographic ID will not be limited to UK passports, a broad range of documents already in use will be accepted, including, for example, concessionary travel passes, PASS scheme cards, Ministry of Defence identity cards and photocard parking permits issued as part of the Blue Badge scheme.
We will continue to work with the Electoral Commission and other stakeholders including charities and civil society organisations to make sure that reforms are delivered in a way that is inclusive for all voters.
Yes1 person thinks so
No1 person thinks not
(Citation: HC Deb, 11 January 2021, cW)


All vangas are essentially active seekers after exposed or hidden invertebrate or vertebrate prey. In line with bill form, the species can be separated into three basic groups—gleaners, predators/substrate strippers, and other species. The gleaners include the smaller Calicalicus and Hypositta species, which take small insect prey from substrates, the latter genus directly from trunks and large branches while moving in the manner of a nuthatch. The Calicalicus vangas glean from leaves and twigs. Blue vangas have quite conical-shaped bills that they use to extract insects from the tips of narrow canopy branches. Even longer and more conical is the bill of Chabert's vanga, which is used as a gleaning instrument in the canopy as well as for catching flying insects, particularly around flowers. Ty-las vangas take larger invertebrates such as caterpillars from leaves. The heavy-billed vangas (Pollen's, Van Dam's, Lafres-naye's, rufous, white-headed, Bernier's, and hook-billed) exploit the mass of their bills to great advantage. The Xenopirostris vangas (Van Dam's, Pollen's, and Lafresnaye's) are capable of breaking off bits of dead branch, levering off mats of moss adhering to branches, opening insect cocoons, and crunching up heavily armored Gasteracantha spiders. The longer and more raptor-like bill of the hook-billed vanga is used for tearing apart small vertebrates, often through the use of a horizontal tree-fork in which to wedge the prey. Chameleons, bats, geckos, frogs, and even other birds are dealt with in this way. Rufous vangas eat rather similar kinds of food, but hunt for it in a different way. They spot prey by its movement, and so the actual species eaten are very different from those consumed by the hook-billed vanga. The Rufous vanga takes cockroaches, scorpions, and ants from the forest floor, and katydids and beetles from the undersides of understory leaves. The white-headed vanga, having a rather less substantial bill than the latter species, is more of a generalist, and while quite capable of killing and eating small chameleons, will also occasionally take fruit. Blue and Chabert's vangas have also been recorded eating fruits. The Bernier's vanga uses its triangular-shaped bill to dig into rotting masses of vegetation, especially those in the bases of Pan-danus trees, from which it then energetically flings debris in search for invertebrates.
The two odd-billed species (sicklebilled vanga and helmet vanga) provide an object lesson in the interpretation of structural adaptation. For sicklebills, the bills are used as one might predict, to probe deeply into holes and recover well-hidden invertebrate larvae. The long powerful neck of this species is a great advantage in twisting the bill around curves in holes. By contrast, the helmet vanga uses its remarkable bill for little more than crunching up medium-sized invertebrates. It often displays great dexterity in sally-gleaning some invertebrate from a leaf or branch in a manner very similar to a rufous vanga, and likewise takes much prey from the ground.


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France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
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Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
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Q: Multiple object detection on android using OpenCV I'm trying to develop an application that detects certain objects such as people, vehicles and trees. As a start I tried to port the OpenCV pedestrian sample but I get a very low frame rate with a lot of false positives.
I may have made incorrect interpretations and costly computations since I'm just starting OpenCV and don't understand C++ much either.
@Override
public Mat onCameraFrame(CvCameraViewFrame inputFrame) {
    Mat frame = inputFrame.rgba();

    float minScale = 0.4f, maxScale = 5;    /* minimum and maximum scale to detect */
    int totalScales = 55;                   /* preferred number of scales between min and max */
    int threshold = -1;                     /* detections with score less then threshold will be ignored */

    HOGDescriptor hog = new HOGDescriptor();
    hog.setSVMDetector(HOGDescriptor.getDefaultPeopleDetector());

    MatOfRect foundLocations = new MatOfRect();
    MatOfDouble foundWeights = new MatOfDouble();

    Mat tempMat = new Mat(frame.rows(), frame.cols(), CvType.CV_8UC3);
    Imgproc.cvtColor(frame, tempMat, Imgproc.COLOR_RGBA2RGB);

    hog.detectMultiScale(tempMat, foundLocations, foundWeights, 1.5, new Size(8,8),
            new Size(32, 32), 1.05, 2, false);

    Vector<Rect> foundLocationsFilteredList = new Vector<Rect>();
    filterRects(foundLocations.toList(), foundLocationsFilteredList);

    for (Rect foundLocation : foundLocationsFilteredList) {
        Core.rectangle(frame, foundLocation.tl(), foundLocation.br(), new Scalar(0, 255, 0), 3);
    }

    tempMat.release();
    return frame;
}

private final void filterRects(List<Rect> candidates, List<Rect> objects) {
    for (int i = 0; i < candidates.size(); ++i) {
        Rect r = candidates.get(i);

        int j;
        for (j = 0; j < candidates.size(); ++j) {
            if (j != i && r.equals(candidates.get(j)))
                break;
        }

        if (j == candidates.size())
            objects.add(r);
    }
}

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*Would the frame processing be faster if done using JNI? Or would it be better to go for a different approach?

*How should I proceed for multiple object detection

A: JNI definitely accelerates the process. And there's a JNI example in OpenCV4Android bundle. I've written some programs on Android using OpenCV and JNI just works great for me. It's a face detection example. Replace the detector with your own object detector.
For various detectors, detecting multiple or single object is specified in the parameters. Go to the document. Most of the time, the detector returns multiple results by default.
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Here's an example of JNI using OpenCV. The original tracker is in C++ and I adapted it to Android. Welcome fork.
Link to Project

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For years, doctors and researchers have turned to the world around them to try and find cures for diseases, to alleviate pain and provide all kinds of services to patients. In fact, there is a branch of the scientific world known as ethnoentomology that studies the relationship between insects and humans.
That means that scientists in this area study the ways insects can be used as food and in religious rituals, as well. However, one particularly fascinating area of et no entomology is the study of medical uses for insects.
Wasps – the Brazilian social wasp which is known by its scientific name as Polybia paulista is a fierce predator and protector of its nest. The wasps are powerful and very effective against predators.
The venom that they inject is known as MP1 and scientists have discovered that it has some rather amazing properties. The most important being: it kills cancer cells.
More importantly, when the venom was tested it killed ONLY cancer cells, leaving the healthy cells around it – healthy.
The venom appears to attack parts of the membrane that comprises the cancer cell, known as lipids. This leaves holes in the cancer cells, causing vital fluid those cells need to survive to leak out and the cancer cell dies.
Although much of this is in the early testing phases, it also seems that the venom contains substances that have so far shown to greatly inhibit the growth of cancer such as prostate and bladder cancer.
Exactly why the venom attacks only cancer cells and not the healthy ones is not really understood at this point, but further studies are already happening and scientists are looking for a way to manufacture the peptide in the venom that appears to be doing all of the work.
Blister Beetles – Blister Beetles have been used medicinally for centuries. It was the blister beetle that was part of the original recipe for "Spanish Fly" which was legendary for being an aphrodisiac. However, in later years, it was discovered that the beetles secreted a substance known as cantharidan which helped alleviate pain for people experience kidney stones, urinary tract infections and burns.
Further studies showed that cantharidan contains something known as a protein blocker. Protein blockers are used to fight infections, and appeared to attack only the infected cells. Then scientists discovered it also attacked viral cells.
Now studies show that the blister beetle secretions attack hostile cells – including cancer. There are studies that indicate blister beetles might be used to battle tumors and in chemotherapy treatments.
Bees – you might have seen holistic and natural remedies that use bees and substances produced by bees as treatment for a number of things. Some studies done have claimed to show that processed bee venom used in the style of acupuncture can reduce swelling and alleviate the pain of people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Many of the studies used standard pain medication with the bee venom for faster results. Most of the studies are controversial and this is still not a wholly accepted treatment, but signs have been encouraging.
Silkworms – a bacteria that lives in the digestive system of silkworms contains a substance known as serrapeptase. This substance appears to offer tremendous pain relief for people with things like back injuries and back pain. There are studies underway to see if they can also help with arthritis and with sports injuries.
Grasshoppers – it turns out that their nervous systems are remarkably similar to humans. This has been known for a long time by scientists and grasshoppers have been used for study purposes in labs for years. These days, scientists are studying toxins produced by grasshoppers that may offer pain relief. In some cultures, poultices made of ground grasshoppers have been placed on the heads of those suffering from migraines for years and offer relief.
Ants – one species of ant that has been given the name "devil's ant" appears to produce chemicals that can help with arthritis sufferers. The ants are very ancient, so much so that they don't have a name yet and the exact nature of the toxic compound they produce is not entirely understood. The toxin has to be very diluted and injected into the patients, but so far studies are encouraging according to those who have experienced the treatment.
Throughout much of history if you suffered an infection or injury to your skin, the doctor would not prescribe an antibiotic. Instead, your doctor was likely to pour maggots on you.
It's true. Maggots eat necrotic (dead) flesh and leave the healthy flesh alone. The effects of how this can help people with serious injuries were first studied in the battlefields of World War I, but the treatments fell out of fashion when penicillin and other antibiotics were developed.
These days maggots are being used again to help people who suffer from flesh-eating bacteria or who are not responding to standard antibiotic treatment. Staph infections and burn treatments are also helped by maggots that will eat away dead and dying tissue and allow new and healthy tissue to grow.
In the world of crime, every bit of evidence helps. When a dead body is found, it's important to know how long that body has been there. That's why scientists often study blow flies to determine a time of death.
Blow flies are often one of the first creatures to set up their homes in dead bodies. They often lay their eggs within just a few hours after they die. The life cycle of the average blow fly is so predictable and easy to follow that crime scene investigators can use them and their colonies to help determine a time of death.
Of course, for many in the medical world using insects in any capacity is still considered "alternative" medicine and most of the information above is still in a study phase. No one is suggesting that if you have some arthritis pain that you should run out and get stung by bees.
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Gabriel Jesus off the mark as Manchester City rout West Ham again
Dominic Fifield at the London Stadium
Wed 1 Feb 2017 16.48 EST Last modified on Mon 27 Nov 2017 00.54 EST
Manchester City's Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus celebrates scoring his first goal for the club to make it 3-0 against West Ham. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
If this was a glimpse of Manchester City's future then the Premier League, other than perhaps West Ham United, should rejoice at the thrill that is to come. A team who had run riot in the FA Cup at this expansive venue a little under a month ago merrily put the same opponents to the sword again to surge to within a point of second place. Their authority was hardly tested, their brilliance on the ball illuminating the Olympic Park. How they must crave visits to this corner of the capital.
Pep Guardiola had initially paced his huge technical area here but, once his team had allied rhythm with incision, he chose to sit back and relax. A few seats along shivered Sergio Agüero for all but the last 17 minutes of play, the Argentinian descending deeper into his bench coat while a new star rose to prominence out on the pitch. Gabriel Jesus, recently arrived from Palmeiras for £27m, was at the heart of everything City mustered, tormenting befuddled West Ham players at will until Sam Byram belatedly determined that the only way to stop the teenager was to clatter him. He had left a lasting impression by then.
Already the Brazilian looks the successor in waiting to Agüero, the very notion that he will improve in the years ahead enough to reduce defenders to gibbering wrecks. He operated as the nominal central pivot in what felt like a front five here, sporting gloves and a short-sleeved shirt with the ball almost invariably glued to his instep. He was utterly irrepressible on his first Premier League start.
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"You never know [how a player will adapt]," said Guardiola. "It's like a water melon. You have to open it up and see. But we knew the potential was good, he's talented and so aggressive about wanting to be a good player, and that helps a lot. He has dreams about what he wants to do in his future career. He wants to become something in world football and we're going to try and get it [to be] for us."
There was snarl in his tackling, energy in his tracking back and jaw-dropping skill in his forays forward. The forward schooled at Palmeiras already looks an inspired signing. Agüero, a world-class talent, will believe he still has plenty to offer this team but his cameo at the end seemed an afterthought. It is not quite a changing of the guard yet but there have not been many occasions over his own City career where the Argentinian has played second fiddle.
"Sergio remains such an important player for us," stressed Guardiola. "We cannot achieve our goals without his contribution. But those three guys – Leroy [Sané], Gabriel and Raheem [Sterling] – are the future for this club. The average age is around 20. You don't see strikers as young as that at big European clubs at the moment."
West Ham looked in awe of that front trio, supplied eagerly by David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne from slightly deeper berths, and disintegrated from the moment they were first pierced. Sané almost matched Jesus at every surge, dispossessing dawdling West Ham players whenever they had the temerity to take a breath in enemy territory and humiliating Byram and José Fonte whenever he could isolate them one on one. He had nutmegged the former and glided away from the Portuguese midway through the first half, Fonte reduced to a trudge as Sané's centre flicked off Darren Randolph and was tapped in by David Silva at the far post.
Manchester United fall short of José Mourinho's demands in goalless draw
That reward came four minutes after City had gone ahead, Aaron Cresswell's aimless pass in-field collected by De Bruyne who sprinted downfield, exchanged passes with Jesus, then side-footed in beyond the static goalkeeper.
The teenager was never likely to be denied his own reward for long. He had just summoned a gloriously paced pass inside Cresswell for Sterling to collect – De Bruyne air-kicked at the resultant cross – when Pedro Obiang surrendered the ball wastefully to Sané. The rat-a-tat exchange which ensued led to the German and Sterling slicing West Ham apart, with Jesus converting at the far post. Throw in Yaya Touré's penalty, after Fonte had capped a dismal debut by tripping Sterling, and this was a thrashing every bit as comprehensive as that inflicted in the FA Cup a little under four weeks ago.
Not that Guardiola considered it the prelude to a renewed title challenge. The gap from Chelsea, represented by their manager, Antonio Conte, in the directors' box here, remains a gaping 10 points. "Only Chelsea can lose the Premier League," added the City manager, who had dropped Claudio Bravo to the bench.
"Look at how many they've lost in the last 16. They're not going to lose four or five in the games they have left. It's a mistake to think about them when you are 10 points behind. We've been inconsistent and to qualify for the Champions League and fight until the end, you have to make a good run of victories, otherwise it will be impossible. We are not thinking about big goals because the gap is too much."


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Q: Endomorphisms in a symmetric monoidal category Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a symmetric monoidal category generated by one element $X$ such that $End(X)=G$ where $G$ is a finite group. Is it true that, for any object $A \in \mathcal{C}$, $End(A)$ is isomorphic to a wreath product $G \wr S_n$, $n \in \mathbb{N}$ ?

A: No. Take the category whose objects are vector spaces of dimension $2^n$ over $\mathbb{F}_2$ for $n \in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$ and whose morphisms are all isomorphisms. The object $X = \mathbb{F}_2^2$ generates this category under tensor product (I assume this is what you meant) and $\text{End}(X) \cong \text{GL}_2(\mathbb{F}_2) \cong S_3$. It should be straightforward to verify that $\text{End}(X^{\otimes n}) \cong \text{GL}_{2^n}(\mathbb{F}_2)$ has order larger than $S_3 \wr S_n$ for sufficiently large $n$.


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Check this blogpost on embedding images into QR codes. The Japanese Louis Vitton code is a work of art in and of itself.
The only other suggestion I can make is, if you are after a mobile QR reader, use i-nigma. Of all the free readers that I have tested, it is by far the easiest to use. That said, the Kaywa app isn't available for the iPhone.
QR codes are massive in Japan. Will be interesting to see if they catch on in Australia and the US.
Thanks for this, Jonathan. I LOVE the Louis Vitton one.
Be cool if we could customize one for each show or theatre company. I, too am very interested to see if they catch on….


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Highlights from the Royals' defeat at the hands of Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Emirates FA Cup.
Two goals in the opening quarter of an hour set Manchester United on their way into the Fourth Round of the Emirates FA Cup this afternoon with Marcus Rashford adding some gloss to the scoreline with a brace late in the game.
Wayne Rooney struck first, stabbing Juan Mata's dinked ball into the box beyond a helpless Al Habsi. And the lively Anthony Martial added a second with a placed right-footed finish into the bottom corner. Ali Al Habsi produced some heroics to prevent Jose Mourinho's men adding more but he could do nothing to stop Rashford adding a third and then the pacy forward found a close range fourth following a mistake at the back.
Jaap Stam made two changes to the side that came from behind to stun Bristol City last Monday, bringing in George Evans and Liam Kelly to play against a strong Manchester United side. Chris Gunter captained the Royals in the absence of Paul McShane who missed out with his hand injury, while John Swift started on the bench at Old Trafford. Jose Mourinho meanwhile named Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford in his starting eleven.
The home side signalled their intentions with two chances in the opening couple of minutes, Marcus Rashford placing a shot just wide of the bottom right corner, before Rooney got in behind the back line and forced Al Habsi into a fine save low to his left.
And Jose Mourinho's men had the opening goal with six minutes gone through skipper Wayne Rooney. Martial cut inside from the left and pulled the ball back for Juan Mata, whose dink into the penalty box was toed past Al Habsi by the lurking Rooney. It meant the 31-year-old moved level with Sir Bobby Charlton as Manchester United's all-time leading goalscorer.
Reading's first attack of note came through a Liam Kelly burst down the left. Smalling came across to pass the ball back to Romero but Kermorgant closed the keeper's clearance down, the ball flying out for a throw by the corner flag.
The hosts were very much on top and threatening a second, which came from a clever run and placed effort from Martial on the quarter hour mark, sliding the ball into the bottom right corner for 2-0.
Joey van den Berg brought the ball out from the back with 20 minutes gone and gave McCleary a first chance to stretch his legs down the left. He found the space to cross to the far post, where Beerens' first time volley almost fell for Liam Kelly on the edge of the six yard box.
Al Habsi safely gathered in a Martial effort on the break soon after, but a fleeting but good chance to pull one back passed Liam Moore by at the other end. A deep corner from the right was met by a well struck volley from Van den Berg and as it fizzed into the box, Moore stuck out a leg in hope of a touch which would have called upon Romero to make a reflex save. But he didn't get the touch and it fizzed behind for a goal kick.
United could have made it 3-0 soon after when Rashford sprung the offside trap, rounded Al Habsi but from a narrow angle rippled only the side netting. At the other end, Reading continued to try to create and a sublime ball from Evans found Kelly racing down the right. His low cross was intercepted by Romero at his near post.
Al Habsi was quick off his line to narrow the angle and save from Rashford again with ten minutes of the first half remaining. Then the wall did it's job against Mata's curling set piece.
A sliding block from Evans denied Mata at half-time drew closer, and the Spaniard arced a left-footed effort harmlessly over the bar from the edge of the box as the home side broke dangerously once more.
Everything was going Manchester United's way and a Liam Kelly tackle spiralled kindly into the path of Rashford down the right, whose low cross was met by Martial but arrowed over at the near post under pressure from Gunter.
Jordan Obita came on at half-time for the Royals but the opening opportunity of the second half fell United's way, Jones winning the ball in midfield and finding Rashford racing down the right side. He crossed into the box and a stretching Rooney couldn't quite connect.
Al Habsi produced a smart save to push Michael Carrick's right-footed effort wide of his bottom right corner. Then Ashley Young was booked for a nasty looking challenge on Obita.
The Royals stopper was in action again ten minutes in when he smothered a Fellaini shot and then deflected Rooney's follow up with an outstretched leg to keep the scoreline at 2-0.
Romero had to race out of his area to prevent a long ball over the top finding Beerens, then a brilliant toe poke from Van den Berg took Rooney's low cross away from the counter attacking Rashford in the middle to prevent a certain goal.
Romero had to be alert once more, sliding in to stop McCleary creating something in the United box and conceding a corner in the process.
Reading's sights of goal were few and far between, but McCleary's burst down the right ended with a pass into the feet of Kermorgant who took aim but saw his shot charged down before Romero could be troubled.
With 15 minutes left, United did make it 3-0. Rashford capitalised on a ball forward that Moore failed to cut out, racing through one on one and finishing well past Al Habsi this time.
Swift took aim from range soon after, but his shot was dragged harmlessly wide of the left upright. And as Stam brought on Dominic Samuel, Mourinho introduced Bastian Schweinsteiger and Tim Fosu-Mensah.
And moments after the restart a pass back to Al Habsi saw Rashford pounce on a mistake from our Omani and smash home his second of the afternoon from yards out.
Reading kept looking for a consolation that would have given the travelling 5,000 something to cheer and Gunter was blocked off by Blind as he overlapped for McCleary. Kelly delivered a cross that beat a stretching Romero but Moore at the far post could only place a difficult downward header wide.
And in two minutes of injury time, Obita stung Romero's palms with an effort from distance. But the FA Cup adventure was over the the Royals and the reigning cup holders were well worthy of their win and a place in the Fourth Round.
Manchester United: Romero, Rojo (Jones 19), Smalling, Blind, Young, Carrick (Fosu-Mensah 78), Fellaini, Rooney (c), Martial, Mata (Schweinsteiger 78), Rashford.
Subs: Pereira, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Ibrahimovic.
Reading: Al Habsi, Gunter (c), Blackett (Obita HT), L.Moore, Van den Berg, Evans (Swift 58), Kelly, Williams, McCleary, Beerens, Kermorgant (Samuel 77).
Subs: S.Moore, Watson, Cooper, Meite.


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package org.devgateway.ocds.web.rest.controller.excelchart;

import com.mongodb.DBObject;
import io.swagger.annotations.ApiOperation;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.validation.Valid;
import org.devgateway.ocds.web.rest.controller.CostEffectivenessVisualsController;
import org.devgateway.ocds.web.rest.controller.request.LangGroupingFilterPagingRequest;
import org.devgateway.toolkit.web.excelcharts.ChartType;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

/**
 * @author idobre
 * @since 8/19/16
 *
 * Exports an excel chart based on *Cost effectiveness* dashboard
 */
@RestController
public class CostEffectivenessExcelController extends ExcelChartOCDSController {
    @Autowired
    private ExcelChartGenerator excelChartGenerator;

    @Autowired
    private ExcelChartHelper excelChartHelper;

    @Autowired
    private CostEffectivenessVisualsController costEffectivenessVisualsController;

    @ApiOperation(value = "Exports *Cost effectiveness* dashboard in Excel format.")
    @RequestMapping(value = "/api/ocds/costEffectivenessExcelChart", method = {RequestMethod.GET, RequestMethod.POST})
    public void costEffectivenessExcelChart(@ModelAttribute @Valid final LangGroupingFilterPagingRequest filter,
                                            final HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
        final String chartTitle = translationService.getValue(filter.getLanguage(),
                "charts:costEffectiveness:title");

        // fetch the data that will be displayed in the chart
        final List<DBObject> costEffectivenessTenderAwardAmount =
                costEffectivenessVisualsController.costEffectivenessTenderAwardAmount(filter);

        final List<?> categories = excelChartHelper.getCategoriesFromDBObject(getExportYearMonthXAxis(filter),
                costEffectivenessTenderAwardAmount);

        final List<List<? extends Number>> values = new ArrayList<>();

        final List<Number> tenderPrice = excelChartHelper.getValuesFromDBObject(costEffectivenessTenderAwardAmount,
                categories, getExportYearMonthXAxis(filter),
                CostEffectivenessVisualsController.Keys.TOTAL_TENDER_AMOUNT);
        final List<Number> diffPrice = excelChartHelper.getValuesFromDBObject(costEffectivenessTenderAwardAmount,
                categories,  getExportYearMonthXAxis(filter),
                CostEffectivenessVisualsController.Keys.DIFF_TENDER_AWARD_AMOUNT);
        // use trillions for amounts
        for (int i = 0; i < tenderPrice.size(); i++) {
            if (tenderPrice.get(i) != null) {
                tenderPrice.set(i, tenderPrice.get(i).doubleValue() / 1000000000);
            }
            if (diffPrice.get(i) != null) {
                diffPrice.set(i, diffPrice.get(i).doubleValue() / 1000000000);
            }
        }
        if (!tenderPrice.isEmpty()) {
            values.add(tenderPrice);
        }
        if (!diffPrice.isEmpty()) {
            values.add(diffPrice);
        }

        // check if we have anything to display before setting the *seriesTitle*.
        final List<String> seriesTitle;
        if (!values.isEmpty()) {
            seriesTitle = Arrays.asList(
                    translationService.getValue(filter.getLanguage(),
                            "charts:costEffectiveness:traces:tenderPrice"),
                    translationService.getValue(filter.getLanguage(), "charts:costEffectiveness:traces:awardPrice")
            );
        } else {
            seriesTitle = new ArrayList<>();
        }

        response.setContentType("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
        response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + chartTitle + ".xlsx");

        response.getOutputStream().write(
                excelChartGenerator.getExcelChart(
                        ChartType.stackedcol,
                        chartTitle,
                        seriesTitle,
                        categories, values));
    }
}

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USS Flasher (SSN-613), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flasher, a member of the fish family Lobotidae, which have an unusual placement of the second dorsal and anal fins, posteriorly located on the body, close to the tail.

Construction history
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 9 June 1960 and her keel was laid down on 14 April 1961.

Originally laid down as the eleventh submarine in the Thresher-class building program, Flasher was extensively modified during the construction period.  These modifications consisted of lengthening the hull, lengthening the sail, and upgrading the watertight integrity of the sea water systems.  The SUBSAFE Program was developed as a result of the loss of , the first submarine of the class; Flasher became the first submarine certified as SUBSAFE.  This contributed to the lengthy delay between being laid down and commissioning.

In the nation's only simultaneous twin launching Flasher and  were launched on 22 June 1963. Flasher was sponsored and christened by Mrs. Paul F. Fay, Jr., wife of the Under Secretary of the Navy. Vice Admiral Elton W. Grenfell, then Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (ComSubLant), delivered the principal address.  She was commissioned on 22 July 1966, with Commander Kenneth M. Carr in command.  The principal speaker at the commissioning was US Representative George W. Grider of Tennessee, who had commanded  during World War II.

Service history

1966–1969
After commissioning, Flasher arrived at new her home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 23 September 1966, under command of CDR Kenneth M. Carr. On 7 October 1966 she received a visit from the Director General of the Japanese Defense Agency Mr. Elkichi Kambayashiyama, in company with COMSUBPAC Rear Admiral John H. Maurer.

In late January 1968 Flasher deployed with the fleet assembled after the USS Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans. Her station was in the Sea of Japan off the harbor of Wonsan, NK. While patrolling she encountered a small ice flow that snapped off the top of a periscope. Flasher proceeded to Guam for 9 days to have the periscope replaced and then proceeded back to her station off North Korea. After leaving station Flasher obtained permission to have a port call at Yokosuka, Japan before sailing for her home port of Pearl harbor Hawaii. For this deployment Flasher was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Korean Defense Service Medal.

Flasher sailed for her first Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment on 25 April 1969, and was awarded her first Battle Efficiency "E" for overall combat excellence on 4 July 1968. Flasher was awarded her second consecutive Battle Efficiency "E" on 1 July 1969. On 2 December 1969 Flasher was awarded her first Meritorious Unit Commendation for her service during the period March 1967 through August 1968.

1970–1979
On 15 June 1970 Flasher commenced her first major overhaul at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, which was completed by 12 June 1971. In November 1971 Flasher commenced another WESTPAC deployment, visiting Guam, Mariana Islands; White Beach, Okinawa; Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines, and Hong Kong, before returning to her home port in June 1972. On 1 July 1972 Flasher was awarded her third Battle Efficiency "E" for overall combat excellence, and on 13 July 1972 received a visit from Secretary of the Navy John Chafee. On 19 August 1972 Flasher was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, at a ceremony, where CDR R.F. Bacon assumed command. Bacon would later go on to become Vice Admiral and Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Undersea Warfare. Flasher then participated in the RIMPAC 72 exercise that September.

On 2 March 1973 Flasher was awarded a Navy Unit Commendation for her operations in 1970–1971. She commenced another WESTPAC deployment in early 1973, visiting Yokosuka, Japan, Guam, and Hong Kong before returning to Pearl Harbor on 24 December 1973. During this tour, on 1 July 1973, she was awarded her fourth Battle Efficiency "E" for overall combat excellence. In June 1974 Flasher completed a two-month special operation.

Flasher commenced her second overhaul (Refueling and Overhaul) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 11 January 1975, changed homeport to Mare Island, and shifted administrative command to Submarine Squadron 3. The overhaul completed on 16 December 1976, she changed homeport to San Diego, California, on 22 December 1976.

In August 1977 she attended the Seattle Seafarer Festival.

"Flasher" completed a 3-month Mid-Pac / special operation April to June 1978.

In January 1979 Flasher commenced a Selected Restricted Availability (SRA) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which was completed on 29 March 1979. In June 1979 she attended the Portland Rose Festival. On 1 July 1979 she was awarded her fifth Battle Efficiency "E".

1980–1992
On 12 November 1980 she was awarded her second Meritorious Unit Commendation for the period November 1979 through May 1980, and on 5 November 1982 was awarded a third Meritorious Unit Commendation for the period July 1981 through January 1982.  The crew earned the Navy Expeditionary Medal for actions taken during this period.

"Flasher" completed a 3-month Mid-Pac / special operation August to November 1982.

Flasher commenced her third overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 9 May 1983, which was completed on 26 March 1985, and she shifted homeport back to San Diego, California.

In March 1986 Flasher began another WESTPAC deployment, and visited Yokosuka, Japan; Guam; and Subic Bay, completing the voyage in August 1986.  The crew earned the Navy Expeditionary Medal for actions taken during this period.

Flasher completed her last WESTPAC deployment, with visits to Guam; Yokosuka, Japan; Korea; and Hong Kong, in April 1990.

Flasher completed a two-month special operation in August–October 1990, and another in March–May 1991.

Flasher was awarded her Fourth Meritorious Unit Commendation in 1991 for the ship's last two-month special operation, and on 18 June 1991 an Inactivation Ceremony was held at the Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, California.

Fate

Flasher was decommissioned on 26 May 1992 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 September 1992. Ex-Flasher entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington.  Recycling was completed on 11 May 1994.

Awards
Flasher was highly decorated, receiving five Battle "E"s, four Meritorious Unit Commendations, a Navy Unit Commendation, and a Presidential Unit Citation during her 25-year career.  She is one of only eight submarines to receive the Presidential Unit Citation since World War II.

Presidential Unit Citation – 1970

For extraordinary heroism and outstanding performance of duty as a member of the Submarine Force, United States Pacific Fleet, during the spring of 1970.  USS FLASHER successfully accomplished an extremely difficult, demanding, and most sensitive operation of exceptional value and lasting significance to the readiness posture of the United States.  The outstanding courage, resourcefulness, professional competence and inspiring devotion to duty displayed by the officers and men of USS FLASHER reflected great credit upon themselves and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

Ship insignia
The insignia of the Flasher was adapted from the insignia of the original , commissioned on 25 September 1943. Popular lore was that this insignia was designed by Walt Disney. However, other sources indicate that the logo was designed by a graphic artist who also worked for Disney, and that at best Walt Disney merely looked over his shoulder and provided some suggestions.  During the final days of construction on the SSN-613, the crew developed several designs based on the original.  The two ships' numbers were added and the electron orbits added to symbolize nuclear power. The insignia became official in 1965.

References
 The article includes text from the Inactivation Program for the USS Flasher (18 June 1991).
 McCants, William R., War Patrols of the USS Flasher
 USS Flasher at the Portland Rose Festival 1979 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19790609&id=-9ozAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5188,2714027&hl=en

External links

Ships built in Groton, Connecticut
Permit-class submarines
Cold War submarines of the United States
Nuclear submarines of the United States Navy
1963 ships

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Q: I have a segmentation error in C I have a Segmentation error, maybe a lot more after I run it, but I can't check anything else now because of that.
The program should work like this:

*

*When user types in 5 numbers, they should print out in ascending order

*If the user enter the number already exit, then remove the original value

*If the user enter a native value, print List Backwards

This is my code so far:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct element {
int i;
struct element *next;
};

void insert (struct element **head, struct element *new)
{

struct element *temp;
temp = *head;

while(temp->next != NULL)
{
    if((*head==NULL))
    {
    head = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
    //temp->i = i;
    temp->next = new;
    new = temp;
    }
    else if(temp->i == new->i)
    {
        new = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
        free(new);
        //purge(&head,&new);

    }
    else if(temp->i < new->i)
    {
        temp->i = new->i;
    }
    else if(temp->i > new->i)
    {
        new = new->next;
    }
}

}

void purge (struct element *current, struct element *predecessor)
{

predecessor->next = current -> next;
free(current);
}

void printList (struct element *head)
{
while(head)
{
    printf("%d", head -> i);
    head = head->next;
}

}

void printListBackwards (struct element *ptr)
{
if(ptr == NULL)
{
    printf("list is empty \n");
    return;
}
if(ptr->next != NULL)
{
    printListBackwards(ptr->next);
}
printf("print %p %p %d\n", ptr, ptr->next, ptr->i);
}

int main()
{
int n = 0;
int count = 5;
printf("enter a Number: \n");
scanf("%d",&n);
struct element *new;
new = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
struct element *head = NULL;
new->i = n;
while(count!=0)
{
    insert(&head,new);
    printList(head);
    count++;
}

}

A: In the main() function, you only allocate and create one element with malloc(); you then try to add it to your list 5 times.  This is going to cause confusion.  You should allocate a node once for each element you add to the list.
struct element *head = NULL;

while (count!=0)
{
    printf("enter a Number: \n");
    if (scanf("%d", &n) != 1)
        break;
    struct element *new = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
    if (new == 0)
        break;
    new->i = n;
    new->next = NULL;
    insert(&head, new);
    printList(head);
    count--;
}

Note that the revised code checks the result of both scanf() and malloc().  It also sets the new element's next pointer to NULL.  And it counts down rather than up; this is likely to use less memory.
I've not tested this so there could be (and very probably are) other problems, but this is likely to work better (fix some of the problems, but not all of the problems).
You do need to learn how to use a debugger, at least enough to get the stack trace so you know which line of code is causing the crash.

A: Do you really need a linked list? It seems the problem statement says that user can enter only 5 numbers... if so, why not just use an array of 5 elements? Following are some ideas.
enum { N = 5 };
typedef struct Element {
    int number;
    bool present;
} Element;

Element elements[ N ];

Init:
for( i = 0; i != N; ++i ) {
    elements[i].number = 0;
    elements[i].present = false;
}

Insert "inputNumber":
for( i = 0; i != N; ++i ) {
    if( elements[i].present == false ) {
        elements[i].number = inputNumber;
        elements[i].present = true;
    }
}

Remove "removeNumber":
for( i = 0; i != N; ++i ) {
    if( elements[i].number == removeNumber ) {
        elements[i].present = false;
    }
}

Print Backwards:
for( i = N; i != 0; --i ) {
    printf( "%d\n", elements[i].number );
}

A: In main, you should set new->next = NULL; [or somewhere in the beginning of insert]
This bit of code is just messed up:
head = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
//temp->i = i;
temp->next = new;
new = temp;

You should, probably, set
*head = new;

But you also need to set *head->next = NULL;
This bit is complete nonsense:
    new = malloc(sizeof(struct element));
    free(new);
    //purge(&head,&new);

You would want to free new.
else if(temp->i < new->i)
{
    temp->i = new->i;
}
else if(temp->i > new->i)
{
    new = new->next;
}

This is also quite wrong. I think the last one should do
   temp = temp->next;

Do yourself a favour, draw up on a piece of paper, boxes
  HEAD
   !
   v
 +-----+
 ! i=3 !
 +-----+     +-----+
    !------->! i=4 !
             +-----+
                !-------->NULL

And then walk through it and see how your code inserts, removes, etc.
[Can I also suggest that you don't use C++ reserved words in your code - new is a C++ reserved word. It means that your code CERTAINLY won't compile in a C++ compiler, which is a bad thing to prevent. Sure, there are several other things that may need changing, but a simple thing like "not calling a variable new" shouldn't be one of the things it fails on].