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January 7, 1999 - Newsletter #10
G O O D I E S T O G O ! (tm)
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Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors
I had lunch with a colleague the other day. He's like me in that he tries to keep up with all of the new advancements coming across the World Wide Web.
"So, are you keeping up with all of this stuff?" he asked.
"What stuff?"
"You know, all that DHTML, XML, Script stuff that people are now running. I'm happy I got HTML down to a bit of an art." "I have to," I replied.
"It's getting away from me. I'll tell you that," he said lifting his Biggie Coke to his mouth.
Do any of you feel that way? Do you feel that the Web is getting away from you? Well, it isn't.
I still remember sitting in my first "New Technologies" class looking at this new thing called the WWW (it was still text- based then). We used this program called LYNX to "surf," if you could call it that, and I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever tried. True story: I leaned over to the guy next to me and said, "This thing would really take off if they could get it to show pictures." I really said that! No one ever believes me. (I also once called out three numbers before the nightly lotto drawing and they came up. I'm not lying! But you probably don't believe that one either.)
So then the images hit and boom! The World Wide Web exploded into the hands of you and me, the Weekend Silicon Warriors. HTML was a great language that the average Joe could actually get his brain around, advancements were just a free download away, anyone could write and post a Web page, major sites were started in people's basements!
Then the first kick in the pants came down the line: A major computer company decided that the 16-bit PC operating system was not good enough and that we needed to go to a 32-bit system. What's more, these new things called "Applets" were available, but you had to have the 32-bit system to see them.
This, in my opinion, was the first dent in the Web armor. A professor of mine, who still boggles my mind with his ability to predict what's next, said "The computer companies are starting to take back the Web."
You see, Java, the language used to write those Applets, is rough. It's not something a buddy can show you in an after- noon. It's as cryptic as you believed it would be. So, there was the first Web element that stood up and out of the weekend user's grasp. Then came scripting language, then image animation, then DHTML, XML, SGML... who gives an ML?
"Ugh! I can't do all of this! I'll never learn all of these languages!"
You're right, you probably won't. The thing is, you don't have to. Stay with me here.
There was a great commercial that showed a young man (the computer wizard) and an older man, sitting at a computer screen looking at various home pages. The young man proclaimed that their company logo could be on fire! He could make the page dance around! He could perform even more phenomenal visual tricks!
The older man said it would be great if they could just set up the site so customers could find what they wanted easily and quickly.
And that's the heart of it all. That's why the Web works. All the bells and whistles are great. I love pages that jump, dance, and spin around, but that's not the point.
Above all, the Web is a form of communication. It is not static, like a printed book, it is not a one-to-many form of mass media like television and radio, and it is not even as much the Information Super Highway as people would like it to be. The Web is a computer-mediated form of human communication. It's people talking to people.
The Web allows us to keep the good stuff, like information gathering and interaction, while losing some of the bad stuff, like face-to-face confrontation. You don't know the other person as a set of stereotypes. You know them as another voice. Now, some feel this type of communication is lacking because it deletes the social interaction required of all of us. I do agree there. The Web should just be part of your human communication process, not the end-all.
So what is my point? My point is the same one I made to my lunch partner: The Web will never get away from you because the hardware, the colors, the animation, and the new languages will never be the point of it all.
The Super Bowl is coming up and I don't know why, but the big thing to do is to watch the Super Bowl on a big-screen TV. Why? Is the game going to be any more exciting because it's bigger? No. The big screen is simply the delivery device. If the game is boring, it's just going to be boring bigger. The big screen doesn't attract attention. It does attract your friends. That's the point.
You are listening to the radio and your favorite song comes on. Does it matter whether you're hearing it from a $5000 multi-speaker system or in your car? No. The song is great. That's the point.
You are surfing along looking for information regarding the upcoming Grammy awards. One site has flying DHTML images, multiple frame pages, new windows opening, color gradation, and XML tricks to beat the band. Another is a simple text- based site that lists the nominees as links to other text- based pages with short histories. There are also text links to short WAV format clips of the music. When all is said and done, the pages that offer the best content will be the winners. Yes, your page may have 20 animations, 15 JavaScripts, and whirling lights that practically blind the reader. Now, don't get me wrong, I think that's really cool, but if the flash is all there is to itthen I won't be back. That's the point.
Content is king. It always will be. All the fancy stuff is just support.
If you never learn anything past HTML version 3.2, you're up to speed. If your pages are text alone, but offer what people want to read, success.
So, should you take the time to learn XML, DHTML, and all that fancy stuff? Sure, if you have the time and feel it will be useful to you. You'll never do yourself wrong by learning something new. Just don't start to feel that if you don't learn it you'll somehow be left behind. You won't!
This past Christmas Eve, I spent the better part of an hour searching the Web for a baklava recipe. The one I chose was on a text page. It wasn't even an HTML page.
Man, that was good baklava.
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That's that. Thanks for reading. See you next week with an idea that'll help kill an afternoon.
And Remember: The reason there are no letters on the number 1 of a telephone key pad is because of a law (no longer in use), that stated there could be no public telephone number that started with 1. Thus the letters, used to help people remember phone numbers, started on the number 2. Buttons 2 through 9, with three letters apiece, add up to 24, yet there are 26 letters in the alphabet. Something had to go: Q and Z paid the price. Archive Home Page.

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It is the culmination of his two decades of research into how the language, once the lingua franca of the Middle East used by Babylonian kings in Mesopotamia, Egyptian pharaohs and Near East potentates, was spoken and pronounced.
Dr Worthington has pioneered teaching spoken Babylonian because he believes it is the best way to understand and "get under the skin" of a language. "It enables students to enjoy the magic of authenticity and connect through words to a world that is lost and far away," he said.
He believes educated Babylonians would understand today's speakers as the language is semitic like Hebrew and Arabic which replaced it as the dominant language in the Middle East.
Spoken Babylonian died out by the time Jesus was born. The last known written tablet dates from 75AD. It effectively remained extinct until 1857 when a learned Victorian society decided to test whether it was a distinct language by asking four academics to analyse the script.
They agreed it was, giving a huge filip to the study of Assyriology. It encompasses the Assyrians and Babylonians, two peoples who ruled modern-day Iraq, respectively controlling areas north and south of Baghdad for some two millennia.
Interest in Babylonian history was further fuelled in 1872 when The Daily Telegraph sponsored an expedition by the renowned Assyriologist George Smith to return to Iraq to see if he could find any further fragments of the so-called Gilgamesh Epic tablets.
The 11th tablet of the Epic - which is in the British Museum - describes Noah's flood, when the Gods were said to have sent down the waters to destroy the world.
"Amazingly, George Smith did find the second half of the fragments," said Dr Worthington, who also speaks Assyrian and Sumerian as well as French and Italian.
For his film, he has used a relief from the British Museum of two murderous dagger-wielding cat demons to depict the three beatings of the mayor by the poor man of Nippur. He said they did not want to have students acting out the fight in the film so used the relief with the sounds behind it.
In modern terms, Dr Worthington suggested it could be read as an allegory of how "middle management" might be out to get you, but that there was a superior being who was good and would look after you, as the King does in the tale by providing the poor man with a chariot.
The film, which is now available on YouTube, is opened by the world's oldest Assyriologist James Kinnier Wilson, 97, who taught at Cambridge University for 34 years.
The main funders were the Philological Society and the Thriplow Charitable Trust, Cambridge University, and several Cambridge Colleges.
The next conference for sixth-formers interested in studying Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt will be held in March next year. They are not A-level subjects but are available at universities including Cambridge, Cardiff, Liverpool, Oxford, Reading, SOAS, UCL, UEA, and UW-TSD.


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Even if you're working with a home contractor – there is still a lot of effort required for a kitchen renovation. We will guide you through the process and decisions as much as possible. However, we will expect you to be part of the process for crucial decisions. Things like determining a budget, timeline, thinking about potential needs or materials are all things a homeowner should do. Knowing what you want in a kitchen remodel will help you appreciate the finished result that much more.
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Many individuals feel kitchen renovations can be too expensive of an undertaking. These individual aren't exactly wrong. But if you factor in some of the other things we've covered on our blog – it can very well worth it. Improvements in quality of life don't have a price tag. More often than not, kitchen remodeling will increase the value of your home. Looking at it your kitchen renovation from this angle, you should think about it as an investment in your future.
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Honestly, when a Gopher player hits the ice the way Wehrs did the first thing out of my mouth is typically "Shoot him like a horse."
Matt Mother *ing Frattin should be deported and beaten with Guitar Hero guitar.
I remember back in the 90's when the gophers had plenty of studs, chirs mcalpine being one of them and I remember a feeblekorn that was pretty monstrous too. lucia has fallen in love with all the guys with great hands, but you need a good mix of players that represent the physicality of the game, at any level. frattin might have let his emotions get ahead of him a bit, but for all the talk about the sioux's reputation and all the off the ice incidents, the original location of the sioux players, etc, doesn't even get an emotional response out of me, its just dumb. the location is just stupid, i have never heard denver, michigan, boston college, unh, boston u fans say anything about where their players are from, in fact, most are composed of players through north america, minus mexico.
The first game the sue play in the NCAA, with a real ref not from the WCHA, this will end, the sue will lose, because they will not be able to play without the cheap stuff. and then, the Red River will overflow due to the whining and crying.
Silly Happy, the Red River is going to overflow whether the sioux fans cry into it or not!
I just love how the Gerbil fans have blamed one hit on waisting an entire season. However you want to twist it boys. Your problems lay much deeper than that.
I could only expect a puke like you to find a quote like that and be proud of it. No fan base should ever be proud of something like that. I feel bad for players that get hurt, including people like Robbie Bina and Chay Genoway. If I was Frattin I would have been looking for a rock to crawl under last night and today and not giving out quotes or saying anything.
Most Gopher fans are not blaming the loss or the season for that matter on Frattin's hit but feel free to keep making things up.
You went 3-2-2 against one of the worst scoring Gopher teams in the programs history...... it's not that big of an accomplishment.
Maybe you should change your name to bison7 because you don't know what you are talking about.
This fact seems to be lost on them.
Of course that's what us St. Cloud fans are going to say when all we heard for months from Sioux fans is that Marvin is a cheap/dirty player. Would you honestly expect different? I wonder how many Sioux fans would be calling for a 1 game suspension of Frattin had they cried so much about Marvin all year. My guess is not many but now they have to in order to stay somewhat consistent. The Sioux have always been my 2nd favorite team but this year has been a tough one to cheer for them.
Watched the video and Frattin knew exactly what he was going to do as soon as he saw Wehrs coming around the corner. He didn't even make an attempt at the puck, he was too busy lining up the hit.
Now i am not saying the hit was legal/illegal but you do not have to make an attempt at the puck. You are allowed to play the body first.
not after you stole all my cupcakes, by god.
Watched that entire game last night...wow! I must say, that was a hell of a game by both teams. I've been doing the PA for Bowling Green for the last 5 years, and I can tell you, if that hit would have happened in a CCHA game, it would have been a 5 min major and a Game DQ, period. There would have been no discussions. I saw many hits in CCHA games this year that weren't even close to that end up 5 min majors and a Game DQ. I would assume the officiating in the WCHA and the CCHA are a bit different?
you forgot to add they had 5 home games. too.


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Q: How to Generate a -complete- sudoku board? algorithm error I'm trying to generate a complete (ie, each cell filled with a number) Sudoku-like board. It's for something else that has nothing to do with sudokus, so I am not interested in reaching a sudoku with white squares that can be solved, or anything that has to do with sudokus. Don't know if you know what I mean.
I've done this in java:
private int sudokuNumberSelector(int x, int y, int[][] sudoku) {

    boolean valid = true;
    String validNumbers = new String();
    int[] aValidNumbers;
    int squarexstart = 0;
    int squareystart = 0;
    int b = 0;                          // For random numbers
    Random randnum = new Random();
    randnum.setSeed(new Date().getTime());

    // Check numbers one by one
    for(int n = 1; n < 10; n++) {

        valid = true;

        // Check column
        for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
            if(sudoku[i][y] == n) {
                valid = false;
            }
        }

        // Check file
        for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++) {
            if(sudoku[x][j] == n) {
                valid = false;
            }
        }

        // Check square
        switch (x) {
        case 0: case 1: case 2: squarexstart = 0; break;
        case 3: case 4: case 5: squarexstart = 3; break;
        case 6: case 7: case 8: squarexstart = 6; break;
        }

        switch (y) {
        case 0: case 1: case 2: squareystart = 0; break;
        case 3: case 4: case 5: squareystart = 3; break;
        case 6: case 7: case 8: squareystart = 6; break;
        }

        for(int i = squarexstart; i < (squarexstart + 3); i++ ) {
            for(int j = squareystart; j < (squareystart + 3); j++ ) {
                if(sudoku[i][j] == n) {
                    valid = false;
                }
            }
        }

        // If the number is valid, add it to the String
        if(valid) {
            validNumbers += n;
        }
    }

    if(validNumbers.length() != 0) {

        // String to int[]
        aValidNumbers = fromPuzzleString(validNumbers);

        // By this random number, return the valid number in its position
        Log.d(TAG, "NUMBERS: " + validNumbers.length());

        // Select a random number from the int[]
        b = randnum.nextInt((aValidNumbers.length));

        return aValidNumbers[b];

    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

This method is called from this piece of code:
int[][] sudoku = new int[9][9];

for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
            for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++) {
                sudoku[i][j] = sudokuNumberSelector(i, j, sudoku);
            }
        }

But it is not as easy as it seemed! When the algorithm has generated a part of the board like this one, and the loop is on the cell on bold:
|||164527389|||
|||983416257|||
|||257938416|||
|||719352648|||
|||3256791**0**0|||
|||000000000|||
|||000000000|||
|||000000000|||
|||000000000|||

There are no numbers to put in this cell, because all the numbers according to the rules of sudoku are already on the column, row or square!
It is a nightmare for me. Is there any way to this to work? If not, i guess I have to redo everything as if I were making a Sudoku game.

A: The problem is that it is not possible to generate a complete board using random numbers in most cases, you have to use backtracking in cases when it is not possibe to fi the next cell.
I have once written a sudoku game, so here's the piece of code that generates filled board.
This is the Cell class.
 public class SudokuCell implements Serializable {

    private int value;
    private boolean filled;
    private HashSet<Integer> tried;

    public SudokuCell() {
        filled = false;
        tried = new HashSet();
    }

    public boolean isFilled() {
        return filled;
    }

    public int get() {
        return value;
    }

    public void set(final int number) {
        filled = true;
        value = number;
        tried.add(number);
    }

    public void clear() {
        value = 0;
        filled = false;
    }

    public void reset() {
        clear();
        tried.clear();
    }

    public void show() {
        filled = true;
    }

    public void hide() {
        filled = false;
    }

    public boolean isTried(final int number) {
        return tried.contains(number);
    }

    public void tryNumber(final int number) {
        tried.add(number);
    }

    public int numberOfTried() {
        return tried.size();
    }
 }

Here's the Field class (it's really handy to keep all data in just one object).
 public class SudokuField implements Serializable {

    private final int blockSize;
    private final int fieldSize;
    private SudokuCell[][] field;

    public SudokuField(final int blocks) {
        blockSize = blocks;
        fieldSize = blockSize * blockSize;
        field = new SudokuCell[fieldSize][fieldSize];
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < fieldSize; ++j) {
                field[i][j] = new SudokuCell();
            }
        }
    }

    public int blockSize() {
        return blockSize;
    }

    public int fieldSize() {
        return fieldSize;
    }

    public int variantsPerCell() {
        return fieldSize;
    }

    public int numberOfCells() {
        return fieldSize * fieldSize;
    }

    public void clear(final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].clear();
    }

    public void clearAllCells() {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < fieldSize; ++j) {
                field[i][j].clear();
            }
        }
    }

    public void reset(final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].reset();
    }

    public void resetAllCells() {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < fieldSize; ++j) {
                field[i][j].reset();
            }
        }
    }

    public boolean isFilled(final int row, final int column) {
        return field[row - 1][column - 1].isFilled();
    }

    public boolean allCellsFilled() {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < fieldSize; ++j) {
                if (!field[i][j].isFilled()) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public int numberOfFilledCells() {
        int filled = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= fieldSize; ++j) {
                if (isFilled(i, j)) {
                    ++filled;
                }
            }
        }
        return filled;
    }

    public int numberOfHiddenCells() {
        return numberOfCells() - numberOfFilledCells();
    }

    public int get(final int row, final int column) {
        return field[row - 1][column - 1].get();
    }

    public void set(final int number, final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].set(number);
    }

    public void hide(final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].hide();
    }

    public void show(final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].show();
    }

    public void tryNumber(final int number, final int row, final int column) {
        field[row - 1][column - 1].tryNumber(number);
    }

    public boolean numberHasBeenTried(final int number, final int row, final int column) {
        return field[row - 1][column - 1].isTried(number);
    }

    public int numberOfTriedNumbers(final int row, final int column) {
        return field[row - 1][column - 1].numberOfTried();
    }

    public boolean checkNumberBox(final int number, final int row, final int column) {
        int r = row, c = column;
        if (r % blockSize == 0) {
            r -= blockSize - 1;
        } else {
            r = (r / blockSize) * blockSize + 1;
        }
        if (c % blockSize == 0) {
            c -= blockSize - 1;
        } else {
            c = (c / blockSize) * blockSize + 1;
        }
        for (int i = r; i < r + blockSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = c; j < c + blockSize; ++j) {
                if (field[i - 1][j - 1].isFilled() && (field[i - 1][j - 1].get() == number)) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public boolean checkNumberRow(final int number, final int row) {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            if (field[row - 1][i].isFilled() && field[row - 1][i].get() == number) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public boolean checkNumberColumn(final int number, final int column) {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            if (field[i][column - 1].isFilled() && field[i][column - 1].get() == number) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public boolean checkNumberField(final int number, final int row, final int column) {
        return (checkNumberBox(number, row, column)
                && checkNumberRow(number, row)
                && checkNumberColumn(number, column));
    }

    public int numberOfPossibleVariants(final int row, final int column) {
        int result = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= fieldSize; ++i) {
            if (checkNumberField(i, row, column)) {
                ++result;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    public boolean isCorrect() {
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < fieldSize; ++j) {
                if (field[i][j].isFilled()) {
                    int value = field[i][j].get();
                    field[i][j].hide();
                    boolean correct = checkNumberField(value, i + 1, j + 1);
                    field[i][j].show();
                    if (!correct) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public Index nextCell(final int row, final int column) {
        int r = row, c = column;
        if (c < fieldSize) {
            ++c;
        } else {
            c = 1;
            ++r;
        }
        return new Index(r, c);
    }

    public Index cellWithMinVariants() {
        int r = 1, c = 1, min = 9;
        for (int i = 1; i <= fieldSize; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= fieldSize; ++j) {
                if (!field[i - 1][j - 1].isFilled()) {
                    if (numberOfPossibleVariants(i, j) < min) {
                        min = numberOfPossibleVariants(i, j);
                        r = i;
                        c = j;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return new Index(r, c);
    }

    public int getRandomIndex() {
        return (int) (Math.random() * 10) % fieldSize + 1;
    }
}

And finally the function that fills the game board
private void generateFullField(final int row, final int column) {
    if (!field.isFilled(field.fieldSize(), field.fieldSize())) {
        while (field.numberOfTriedNumbers(row, column) < field.variantsPerCell()) {
            int candidate = 0;
            do {
                candidate = field.getRandomIndex();
            } while (field.numberHasBeenTried(candidate, row, column));
            if (field.checkNumberField(candidate, row, column)) {
                field.set(candidate, row, column);
                Index nextCell = field.nextCell(row, column);
                if (nextCell.i <= field.fieldSize()
                        && nextCell.j <= field.fieldSize()) {
                    generateFullField(nextCell.i, nextCell.j);
                }
            } else {
                field.tryNumber(candidate, row, column);
            }
        }
        if (!field.isFilled(field.fieldSize(), field.fieldSize())) {
            field.reset(row, column);
        }
    }
}

The point is that you save the numbers you've already tried for each cell before moving on. If you have to the dead end, you simply need to try another number for the previous cell. If none are possible, erase that cell and step one cell back. Sooner or later you will get it done. (It actuay takes tiny amount of time).

A: Start out with a solved Sudoko like this:
ABC DEF GHI
329 657 841 A
745 831 296 B
618 249 375 C

193 468 527 D
276 195 483 E
854 372 619 F

432 716 958 G
587 923 164 H
961 584 732 I

And then permutate it by switching columns and switching rows. If you only switch within the following groups ABC, DEF, GHI, the Sudoku is still solved.
A permutated version (switching columns):
BCA DFE IGH
293 675 184 A
457 813 629 B
186 294 537 C

931 486 752 D
762 159 348 E
548 327 961 F

324 761 895 G
875 932 416 H
619 548 273 I

And after some more permutation (switching rows):
BCA DFE IGH
293 675 184 A
186 294 537 C
457 813 629 B

931 486 752 D
548 327 961 F
762 159 348 E

875 932 416 H
619 548 273 I
324 761 895 G

A: Your problem is you are using Strings. Try a recursive algorithm using integers. This algorithm will be useful for a sudoku of any size. While choosing random numbers within each call does work, it'll take much longer. If you choose a set of random numbers to go through if the next cell doesnt work, then you will not use the same number again. This algorithm will create a unique puzzle every time.
public class Sudoku {
    //box size, and game SIZE ==> e.g. size = 3, SIZE = 9
    //game will be the game
    private int size, SIZE;
    private int[][] game;

    public Sudoku(int _size) {
        size = _size;
        SIZE = size*size;
        game = generateGame();
    }

    //This will return the game
    private int[][] generateGame() {
        //Set everything to -1 so that it cannot be a value
        int[][] g = new int[SIZE][SIZE];
        for(int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
            for(int j = 0; j < SIZE; j++)
                g[i][j] = -1;

        if(createGame(0, 0, g))
            return g;
        return null;
    }

    //Create the game
    private boolean createGame(int x, int y, int[][] g) {
        //An array of integers
        Rand r = new Rand(SIZE);

        //for every random num in r
        for(int NUM = 0; NUM < size; NUM++) {
            int num = r.get(NUM);

            //if num is valid
            if(isValid(x, y, g, num)) {
                //next cell coordinates
                int nx = (x+1)%SIZE, ny = y;
                if(nx == 0) ny++;

                //set this cell to num
                g[x][y] = num;

                //if the next cell is valid return true
                if(createGame(nx, ny, g)) return true;

                //otherwise return false
                g[x][y] = -1;
                return false;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean isValid(int x, int y, int[][] g, int num) {
        //Rows&&Cols
        for(int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
            if(g[i][y] == num || g[x][i] == num) return false;
        //Box
        int bx = x - x%size;, by = y - y%size;
        for(int i = bx; i < bx + size; i++) {
            for(int j = by; j < by + size; j++) {
                if(g[i][j] == num)return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}

public class Rand {
    private int rSize;
    private int[] r;
    public Rand(int _size) {
        rSize = _size;
        r = new int[size];
        for(int i = 0; i < rSize; r++)r[i] = i;
        for(int i = 0; i < rSize*5; r++) {
            int a = (int)(Math.random()*rSize);
            int b = (int)(Math.random()*rSize);
            int n = r[a];
            r[a] = r[b];
            r[b] = n;
    }
    public void get(int i) {
        if(i >= 0 && i < rSize) return r[i]; return -1;
    }
}

A: You're going to have to implement a backtracking algorithm.

*

*For each of the 81 locations, generate the set 1 through 9.

*Repeat until solved

*

*Solve one location.  Pick one number from the set.

*Remove that number from all the sets in the same row, column, and square.

*If a conflict arises, backtrack to a known good position, and solve a different location.

You will probably have to use recursive functions so that you can backtrack.

A: You have at least few ways to do that, but usually you will need recurrence  / backtracking. It would be great to have the solver also, just to check if partly filled puzzle has solution (and the unique one - for stoping criteria  - if you want the real sudoku).
While performing backtracking / recurrence you will need:

*

*to randomly select available empty cell (you can optimize this step by measuring digidts still free on the given cell, and then sorting)

*to randomly select still available digit in that cell

*you fill the cell and check if the solution exists, if yes - go further, if not - perform the step back.
Starting points:
- starting with completely empty puzzle
- starting with partially filled puzzle
- starting with solved puzzle (there are a lot of transformations not changing the solution existence, but making the puzzle different - i.e.: reflection, rotation, transposition, segment swapping, columns / rows swapping within segments, permutation, etc.)
I was recently using the Janet Sudoku library which provides solver, generator and puzzle transformation methods.
Janet Sudoku website
Please refer to the below source codes available on the GitHub
Sudoku Solver
Sudoku Generator
Sudoku Transformations
Library usage is pretty simple, ie:
SudokuGenerator g = new SudokuGenerator();
int[][] puzzle = g.generate();
SudokuSolver s = new SudokuSolver(puzzle);
s.solve();
int[][] solvedPuzzle = s.getSolvedBoard();

Best regards,

A: Just generate some random number between 1 to 9 and see it it fits the given cell[i][j] it promises you a new set of numbers every time as every cell number is generated randomly based on the current system time .
public int sudokuNumberSelector(int i, int j, int[][] sudoku) {
    while (true) {
        int temp = (int) ((System.currentTimeMillis()) % 9) + 1;//Just getting some random number
        while (temp < 10) {
        boolean setRow = false, setColomn = false, setBlock = false;
            for (int a = 0; a < 9; a++) {
                if (sudoku[a][j] == temp) {
                    setRow = true;
                    break;
                }
            }

            for (int a = 0; a < 9; a++) {
                if (sudoku[i][a] == temp) {
                    setColomn = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            for (int a = i - (i % 3); a < i - (i % 3)+ 3; a++) {
                for (int b = j - (j % 3); b < j - (j % 3)+3; b++) {
                    if (sudoku[a][b] == temp) {
                        setBlock = true;
                        a = 3;
                        b = 3;
                    }
                }
            }
            if(setRow | setColomn | setBlock == false){
                return temp;
            }
            temp++;
        }
    }
}

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Tag Archives: Alan Watts
December 2, 2020 by gozzter
To hold, as it were, a mirror up to Nature
Who am I? No, really -where do I stop and something else begins? That's not really as silly a question as it may first appear. Consider, for example, my need to remember something -an address, say. One method is to internalize it -encode it somehow in my brain, I suppose- but another, no less effective, is to write it down. So, if I choose the latter, is my pen (or keyboard, for that matter) now in some sense a functional part of me? Is it an extension of my brain? The result is the same: the address is available whenever I need it.
Ever since my university days, when I discovered the writings of the philosopher Alan Watts, I have been intrigued by his view of boundaries, and whether to consider them as things designed to separate, or to join. Skin, was one example that I remember he discussed -does it define my limits, and enclose the me inside, or is it actually my link with the outside world? I hadn't really thought much about it until then, but in the intervening years it has remained an idea that continues to fascinate me.
Clearly Watts was not alone in his interest about what constitutes an individual, nor in his speculations about the meaning of whatever identities individuals think they possess by virtue of their boundaries. There was an insightful article in Aeon by Derek Skillings, a biologist and philosopher of science at the University of Pennsylvania entitled 'Life is not easily bounded': https://aeon.co/essays/what-constitutes-an-individual-organism-in-biology
'Most of the time the living world appears to us as manageable chunks,' he writes, 'We know if we have one dog or two.' Why then, is 'the meaning of individuality … one of the oldest and most vexing problems in biology? … Different accounts of individuality pick out different boundaries, like an overlapping Venn diagram drawn on top of a network of biotic interactions. This isn't because of uncertainty or a lack of information; rather, the living world just exists in such a way that we need more than one account of individuality to understand it.' But really, 'the problem of individuality is (ironically enough) actually composed of two problems: identity and individuation. The problem of identity asks: 'What does it mean for a thing to remain the same thing if it changes over time?' The problem of individuation asks: 'How do we tell things apart?' Identity is fundamentally about the nature of sameness and continuity; individuation is about differences and breaks.' So, 'To pick something out in the world you need to know both what makes it one thing, and also what makes it different than other things – identity and individuation, sameness and difference.'
What about a forest -surely it is a crowd of individual trees? Well, one way of differentiating amongst individuals is to think about growth -a tree that is growing (in other words, continuing as more of the same)- and contrasting it with producing something new: as in reproduction. And yet even here, there is a difficulty. It's difficult to determine the individual identities of any trees that also grew from the original roots -for example from a 'nurse' tree lying on the ground with shoots and saplings sprouting from it.'
But it's not only plants that confuse the issue. If reproduction -i.e. producing something new– counts as a different entity, then what about entities like bacteria? 'These organisms tend to reproduce [albeit] by asexual division, dividing in half to produce two clones… and, failing mutation and sub-population differentiation, an entire population of bacteria would be considered a single individual.' -whatever 'individual' might therefore mean.
And what about us, then? Surely we have boundaries, surely we are individuals created as unique entities by means of sexual reproduction. Surely we have identities. And yet, what of those other entities we carry with us through our lives -entities that not only act as symbiotes, but are also integrated so thoroughly into our metabolism that they contribute to such intimate functions as our immune systems, our weight and health, and even function as precursors for our neurotransmitters and hence our moods? I refer, of course, to the micro-organisms inhabiting our bowels -our microbiome. Clearly 'other' and yet essential to the functioning person I regard as 'me'.
And yet, our gut bacteria are mostly acquired from the environment -including the bacteria colonizing our mother's vagina and probably her breast milk- and so are not evolutionarily prescribed, nor thereby hereditarily transmitted. So, am I merely a we –picking up friends along the way? Well, consider mitochondria -the powerhouse of our cells. They were once free-living bacteria that adapted so well inside our cells that they, too, are integral to cell functioning but have lost the ability to survive separately; they are transmitted from generation to generation. So they are me, right…?
Again I have to ask just who is me? Or is the question essentially meaningless put like that? Given that I am a multitude, and more like a city than a single house, shouldn't the question be who are we? The fact that all of us, at least in Western cultures, consider ourselves to be distinct entities -separate individuals with unique identities- makes me wonder, about our evolutionary history.
Was there a time when we didn't make the distinctions we do nowadays? A time when we thought of ourselves more as members of a group than as individuals? When, perhaps sensing that we were constantly interacting with things outside and inside us, the boundaries were less important? Is that how animals would say they see the world if they were able to tell us?
Does our very ability to communicate with each other with more sophistication, create the critical difference? Is that what created hubris? In Greek tragedy, remember, hubris -excess pride and self-confidence- led inexorably to Nemesis, retributive justice. Were poets in that faraway time, trying to tell people something they had forgotten? Is that what this is all about?
I wonder if Shakespeare, as about so many things, was also aware of our ignorance: 'pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride, for supple knees feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.'
Plus ça change, eh?
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January 30, 2018 by gozzter
Eternity Gazing at Itself
We see what we think others see; we see what the mirror sees. And yet, I prefer to see what Kahlil Gibran sees: Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Body image is such a mutable thing. So mood-dependent, so soul-laden, it sometimes seems to defeat all words and define us -despite our pleas for mercy, our hope for acceptance in a world gone mad with self. And beauty is what satisfies the fickleness of the group. There is no objectiveness to allure, no criteria to fulfil; it is a feather that flutters briefly through the landscape like a butterfly in the wind. "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes," says Alan Watts. You are the magic that is you –unique, and special.
But for some of us, the strangeness of our difference is hard to bear. It is something to be hidden, not celebrated. A BBC article I found a while ago told the story of a woman's courage to change –she couldn't alter the permanent damage from a previous life-threatening accident, so, instead, she decided to change who she'd become in the intervening years. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40862546
'Sylvia had spent 'most of her life trying to conceal the extensive scars which cover her body –the legacy of a childhood accident. […] at the age of 48, she decided it was time to stop hiding and come out into the open. […] My mum was boiling water in saucepans for our bath. She would pour the water into bowls and she put the bowls on the bathroom floor. We were just playing around, me and my siblings, and I ran into the bathroom and shut the door. We were told not to go in there. I went in there and my sister pushed the door, and that's when I fell backwards into the bowl of boiling water, causing very bad burns.'
The scars from her third and fourth degree burns were extensive: '"There's not actually any part of my body apart from my face that is normal. My burns start from the top of my neck all the way down to the top of my bottom, and then around the front of my stomach and down my left leg. And then on the rest of my body I've got lots of little pinprick holes all down my arms and my legs from where they took skin. […]I went into shock and was having fits. Then the ambulance arrived. They gathered my family together and told them that I wasn't going to make it through the night. They baptised me and I had my last rites.
'"When I was growing up a lot of people used to tell my mum, "Oh, she's beautiful, she's pretty." But in my head I always thought, "Why are they saying, 'You're pretty'? I'm not. Underneath my clothes I'm burned.
'I always felt ugly, so it's affected me mentally as well as physically. Children would call me different names like "witch" and "snakeskin", and they were really nasty. I was told that I would never have boyfriends, never get married, never have children. Showing my back was always going to be a negative thing.
'I loved swimming – once I was in the water I was in a different world, it was great – but I was terrified about people seeing my body. When everybody got out of the water I'd wait until they went to change and be the last one to sneak out.
'I got to a point where I was attacking everybody around me and it was the only way that I could deal with my emotions. I'd literally call people up, like my sisters, and be really nasty to them, a really vile, nasty, horrible person."'
But Sylvia did eventually find a loving partner, and yet her fear of others seeing her scars persisted. One day, after being photographed at the swimming pool with her mother like an animal at the zoo, they decided to leave and go to the beach instead. But her mother seemed so upset, Sylvia decided to do something she'd always been afraid to do.
'At that moment something just clicked in my brain and I decided that I was going to draw a line and make her happy. I took my dress off and I walked down to the edge. People were looking at me and I looked at my mum and I smiled, and I went, "Mum! Look! Look at me!"
And she started to smile. I put my hands on my hips and I started to pose on the water's edge and she was so happy. I went over to her and I said, "From now on I'm going to let people take pictures, and every time they do I'm going to smile and I'm going to pose."
'I think that moment on the beach was just a turning point where I realised that no counselling, nothing on Google, was going to help me. It was time for me to help myself. I went out and bought a swimming costume – it had a big hole in the back – and then I set up my swimming classes at my local pool in Highbury, north London. I invite people with disfigurements to come and swim. When I'm in the water and I'm swimming I just feel at peace, I feel calm, and I can think of lots of wonderful things. […]
'It's been such a long journey. It's like taking off a coat and saying, "This is me now, and I don't care what people think." I've noticed a big change in my life and I've been able to accept the way I look.'
As Jean Cocteau said, 'Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.' And so should people. It seems to me that there are at least two types of courage. The first, and most obvious, is the type that risks bodily harm –soldiers in combat, firefighters, and so on. It's the one we can all see, the one that makes newspaper headlines, and wins awards. Medals. Accolades… And yet perhaps that's really just the outward trappings of the other type –the inward struggle to overcome the fear that we are not who we want to be –need to be, with whatever hand Fate has dealt. Both require bravery –and while one may confront an external challenge, the other, no less brave, defies far more nebulous and malicious ghosts.
But the triumph over unseen odds, however unfortunate they may have been to the recipient, is seldom met with applause, or acknowledged with praise. It is an inner contest, a silent war that few can see, let alone appreciate. It is an unrecognized philanthropy of self to self, and so perhaps its rewards are even greater, although they may pass, unnoticed in the larger scheme of things. The determination to act, and the bravery to succeed, need no commendation really. It is enough to have succeeded in accepting oneself, and reveling in the affirmation of all around. It is no small thing, although it may seem so.
Sylvia may never receive a decoration, nor mention on the local evening news, but in a way, she already has her medal –she can wear herself on her lapel at last.
To measure you by the smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam – Khalil Gibran again.
Tagged Alan Watts, BBC news, Beauty, body image, bravery, burns, courage, Jean Cocteau, Khalil Gibran, scars, self, skin grafts
Presume Not that I am the Thing I Was.
We are all stories, aren't we? But as I slip further down the years, I wonder about my story. Some of it I suppose I don't remember, and yet what I do might still be suspect –a revision I make even as I think about it. Memory doesn't reproduce the past so much as create it. And therein lies the problem. There was a time when historical validity was only accredited to its witnesses –a first-hand account told by someone who was actually there, someone who experienced it. But we're long past that now…
When we are dead, we become fictions; when we can no longer speak for ourselves, what we might have thought, what we might have been, is merely interpreted, as the historical fiction writer Hilary Mantel has said. And even modern historians, scrutinizing the same evidence, will often differ in their explanations of the past. Who is to choose among them –and why?
So, history isn't fixed, as we often assume, and it certainly isn't static –it changes with new evidence, or transmogrifies according to the prevailing Weltanschauung. As Mantel sees it, history is not the past –it's a method we've evolved to organize our ignorance of it. It's what's left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it.
I think that what occasioned this reminiscence was a short feature in the BBC news about a fifteen-year old toilet sign found in Italy at a farmhouse B&B: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40936110. The sign was attempting to use emojis to indicate that the toilet was not restricted to any particular sexual orientation. It had three symbols –one of a man, one of a woman, and one of a gay person. Unfortunately, the latter is depicted as a rather flouncy individual who is clearly neither male nor female, but rather an amalgam of them both, I suppose. Why it was felt necessary to suggest that 'gay' belonged to neither group is unknown. At any rate, the LGBTQ community reasonably complained of the sign's confusion of sexual orientation with gender identity and the (new) owners obligingly removed it, even though it had apparently been covered up when they bought the property, and had remained so. They had meant no offence.
Things change. Sensitivities change. And signs are expected to reflect that… I, too, am caught up in the current ethos and find the sign unfeeling, and ill-informed, but things were different then, I think. The world was a different place for sure; the Umwelt itself was less evolved. But nonetheless, it makes me wonder whether we can ever understand the lived-world of another era. Whether even I can ever understand my own historical self, and so continually amend what I can remember of him –and continually rewrite the story…
I was waiting for a bus on the outskirts of town the other day, and sought the tiny shade afforded by a small wooden bench. Two older ladies arrived and seemed more in need of shade and rest than me, so I offered them the only gift I had –the bench. But it was in a covered structure and under a tree, so I stayed nearby in its cooling shadow.
They were both in their eighties, I would think, and both wore loose floral-print cotton dresses like I think my mother would have favoured. They wore their hair like her, too –short and manageable under almost identical blue hats. In fact, the more I looked, the more like her they seemed –they could all have been sisters, although my mother was an only child and died many years ago. It's strange how often older women seem similar. Men do too, I suppose, but I notice the women more. Age homogenizes their faces, and memory standardizes their appearance… Blends them together into vague familiarity like apples in a crate. Fish in a tank.
I contented myself with leaning against the tree and staring idly down the street lost in thought… Okay, I was listening to them; I can't resist an argument and they'd been going at it even before they sat down –some sort of family thing.
"You have to admit that father was ahead of his time, though, Thea…" The only difference between them I could detect was the colour of the flower pattern on their dresses. It was the red flower who was talking.
Thea, the blue-flower, sighed loudly. "What on earth makes you say that, Flo?"
Flo promptly crossed her arms and glared at her sister. It was hard to tell from where I leaned, but I think she rolled her eyes because it pulled her lip upwards and something rattled in her mouth. "Remember? He encouraged her to work outside the home, and told everybody about how women should have the same rights as men. Nobody thought like that in those days."
"What house did you grow up in, Flo? He wouldn't even let me work in that restaurant, remember?"
Flo shrugged at the memory. "You were too young, Thea. He was protecting you…"
"Then why didn't he protect Ronny? He had a paper route when he was even younger." Thea seemed pout for a moment. "And anyway, he didn't encourage mom to work until he lost his job that time. And even then, she had to clean the house and cook the dinners for us when she got home." She stared at Flo. "That's not equal rights and it's certainly not ahead of the times…"
Flo stared at her sister with a slight tilt to her head. "Well, how about when Ronny came out? Father welcomed him back into our house…" I could sense that Flo was a bit hesitant to speak about her brother, though.
Thea sighed loudly again, but this time contemptuously. "Only after five years, Flo! And even then, it was because mom kept phoning Ronny and inviting him over. Father had nothing to do with it! And remember, the only reason Ronny agreed to come was because it was a family dinner –their anniversary- and yet, Father wouldn't even speak to him at first. He totally ignored him at the table." She shook her head sadly and looked at her sister. "Ronny was so hurt. Remember he even left the table and went to sit in the living room until mom convinced him to come back? And then, years later, Father had the gall to tell everybody that he'd never harboured any grudges against homosexuals? That he'd always accepted them?"
"Father's last boss was a homosexual, wasn't he?"
Thea glanced my way and her eyes strayed onto my face for a second, as if fleeing from her sister's naïveté. "Father always pretended to move with the current, Flo. But deep down, he was a man of his time. That was the way things were when he was growing up. There's no sense in applying today's values to another era. It took slow and painful steps to get here…" She touched her sister gently on the shoulder. "It'd be like blaming the doctors in his day for not having discovered penicillin."
Flo looked down the street and saw the bus approaching. "You certainly remember a different Father from me, Thea…"
Thea shrugged as she fished around in her purse for the fare. "We've always seen the world through our own eyes, Flo. It's a puzzle, eh?" she added as they both boarded a bus that was not mine.
I moved to the bench, now in deeper shade, and thought about what Thea had said about their differences being a puzzle. I remembered fragments of a thought Alan Watts, had written back in the sixties. It was something about there being a difference between puzzles and mysteries: puzzles are meant to be solved, but mysteries are meant to be enjoyed. Wondered about. Tasted. I think I'd prefer to think of the past as a mystery, you know. That we each taste the world with different eyes; there's no one history that satisfies us all… And therein lies the wonder.
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While others hustled about shopping and preparing for the holidays, Marty Lanier was focused on completing a very important year-end gift to the Coastal Land Trust, the gift of a perpetual landowner agreement (also known as a conservation easement) over his 57+ acre property in Brunswick County.
"I grew up camping, playing, and hunting on this property and have a deep appreciation for forest land. I inherited this land from my father who took care of it, now I am taking care of it, and I plan to pass it on to my son and daughter to do the same. The longleaf pine forest is part of our southern heritage," said Marty Lanier.
Mr. Lanier's property along Slab Branch, a Town Creek tributary, is a conservation gem and fits in perfectly with Coastal Land Trust's efforts to protect a forested corridor along this alluring and ecologically significant waterway. What makes this property particularly impressive is its stunning longleaf pine forest expertly managed through the years by Mr. Lanier not only for the forest, but also for the many wildlife species that depend on it, including the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
The Lanier family property is a perfect example of the extraordinary conservation values found in the Town Creek/ lower Cape Fear Corridor, a focus area of the Coastal Land Trust from its founding almost 25 years ago. Town Creek's headwaters rise at the edge of Green Swamp, and flow some 30 miles east to its confluence with the Cape Fear River. Its waters, wetlands and forests all supply rich habitat for wildlife, and the lands along its banks are equally rich in historic, cultural, and recreational values.
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The Lanier property, like Orton Plantation, and most of the other lower Cape Fear River's conservation lands, is privately owned; its wildlife and conservation values are protected from development and are regularly monitored by the Coastal Land Trust. A perpetual conservation easement donation, like the one made by Mr. Lanier, can qualify as a federal income tax deduction. As noted by Mr. Lanier, "Placing a conservation agreement on my land made sense to me as it met both my economic and land use objectives."
A grant from the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund provided funds for the Coastal Land Trust's expenses associated with this conservation transaction.
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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For an unprecedented third year in a row, Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) was ranked by the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) as the mining industry's overall leader in sustainability. Newmont's inclusion on the index also marked the 11th consecutive year the company has been selected for the DJSI World. This year, 942 companies participated in RobecoSAM's Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), which evaluates and ranks the highest-scoring companies on the DJSI – one of the most rigorous and highly regarded sustainability indices in the world. Newmont was the first gold company named to the index in 2007, and has been included on the DJSI North America Index every year since 2006.
"This recognition reflects our team's deep commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement, which translates into safe working conditions and good jobs for employees; sustainable economic development for our host communities; responsible environmental management; and strong returns and growth prospects for our stakeholders," said Gary Goldberg, President and Chief Executive Officer.
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David Benyamine – Competitive Drive to be Successful
"Napoleon"
David Benyamine was born on July 5, 1972 in Paris, France.
He still lives in France where he enjoys spending time with his daughter, but now alternates his time between France and Henderson, Nevada in the USA where he is based for his poker career.
This gentle side does not take away from his intense professional poker career, where he has reached 4 World Poker Tour final tables winning 1 title and added a World Series of Poker Bracelet to his list of achievements as well as numerous high profile tournament finishes.
David was born in Paris, France
Tennis, Billiards and Poker
Benyamine learned to play poker at the tender age of twelve. When he became a tennis star, poker took a back seat. He was a very successful professional tennis player at the top of his game for a time. However, a shoulder injury suddenly ended his career in tennis.
Next he turned to billiards and his competitive drive once again lead him to become one of France's top players reaching the top 10 in the national rankings.
David started playing poker at the world famous Aviation Club in Paris
Yet, he heard poker's call. He took to playing poker at the Aviation Club in Paris. He started out in small limit games and worked his way up. In 2000, he won first in the Euro Finals of Poker Pot Limit Hold 'em/ Omaha Championship. His latest career, one in poker, was starting to take off.
Taking Poker more Seriously
In 2002, David Benyamine took second in the Euro Poker Pot Limit tournament. He finished off 2002 with a win in the Euro Finals of No Limit Hold 'em. While Benyamine is not primarily a tournament player, he started to have some noted success starting from early 2000.
Benyamine really came into his own when he won the 2003 Grand Prix of Paris World Poker Tour event. He took the top prize of $411,000 from a final table that included Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu. This was the event that made a name for him around the world and within poker circles.
He won over $132,000 with a 6th place cash at the Season 2 World Poker Tour Los Angeles Classic in 2004. When he attempted to come to the Bellagio WSOP tournaments, he had a problem entering the United States. He ended up staying the year in Europe, playing poker online from his home in the south of France.
David Benyamine's Major Title Record
Benyamine returned to the United States in 2005 to continue his poker success. He won the World Poker Tour Battle of Champions II invitational event. Other players in the event were Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, Mel "Silver Fox" Judah, Phil "Unabomber" Laak, and "Cowboy" Hoyt Corkins.
As if this fantastic win was not enough for one year, he also won the Full Tilt Poker Global Poker Challenge in 2005. He continued his wins, and by the end of 2006, his total winnings from live tournaments were over $1 million.
In 2008, Benyamine added a World Series of Poker Bracelet to his achievements by winning the $10,000 Omaha Hi Low Split event for a prize of $535,687.
David Benyamine wins his WSOP Bracelet
Known as a playboy of sorts, David Benyamine has no interest in reading books or magazines on poker. His focus is on learning more about himself. This comes from a perpetual need for self improvement.
One of Europe's Best & Team Full Tilt
David Benyamine is one of Europe's top players, with career winnings of $7 million, some say he is in the top two. He prefers to play high stakes cash games and can often be found playing online poker at Full Tilt Poker. His speciality is pot limit Omaha Hold 'em.
He was a former member of Team Full Tilt, but is no longer sponsored by them.
David Benyamine has no superstitions about poker. He plays a smooth game and plays to win. He is a great online player, and anyone who wishes to learn from a pro should try to get into a game with him at Full Tilt Poker or take some time out to watch and observe him, you will learn quite a bit!
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So I found out through Facebook that there is going to be another convention in Sacramento called Kintoki-Con, and it'll be held June 18-19, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. Yeah, it's sandwiched in between FanimeCon and Anime Expo (assuming that I go to both in 2011), but I can always cut the costs down by commuting to and from the con each day and knowing all the cheap eateries in downtown Sacramento, plus it's not a con where I would be buying merchandise.
This is their website if you want to check out more information, as well as the Facebook Event page.
I will be checking out their press registration information at the beginning of 2011, and I look forward to pressing at the 1st ever Kintoki-Con.
cons are great because they can pop out at anytime, like Kintoki.
I am planning on pressing for AM2 which runs at the same time as AX but my other team will still do Anime Expo.
Let's not forget about comic con right after Anime expo.


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Sherwin ChuaNovember 17, 2017
Beating the 404 death knell: Singapore news startups struggle to cover costs and find their footing
Political news reporting doesn't seem to be holding up well as a business in the city-state. And it's even harder when you're seen as "alternative" media.
Yunita OngOctober 3, 2017
This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia's appetite for a member-funded journalism service
New Naratif, modeled loosely on the successful Dutch site De Correspondent, has started a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of signing up 3,500 members.
Ong, Yunita. "This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia's appetite for a member-funded journalism service." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Oct. 2017. Web. 17 Jan. 2020.
Ong, Y. (2017, Oct. 3). This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia's appetite for a member-funded journalism service. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 17, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/this-singapore-based-startup-tests-southeast-asias-appetite-for-a-member-funded-journalism-service/
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The Institute for the History of Science was established in 1954 as an institution of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland.

Overview
The Institute is located in the Staszic Palace in the center of Warsaw, near the Copernicus monument. Among its founders were professors: Bogdan Suchodolski and Aleksander Birkenmajer. In the mid 1970s, it was renamed to the Institute for the History of Science, Education and Technology. Since 1994, the name has been shortened to the Institute for the History of Science, but with its previous research scope. The head of its present Academic Council is Leszek Zasztowt.
Since 2011 the Institute has taken the official name of Ludwik Birkenmajer and Aleksander Birkenmajer: L & A Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science (Polish: Instytut Historii Nauki PAN imienia Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów).

Structure
The Institute consists of two departments: the Department of the History of Social Sciences, History of Education and Scholarly Institutions (Sections: History of Social Sciences, History of Education, History of Scientific Organizations), and the Department of the History of Exact Sciences, Natural Sciences and Technology (Sections: History of Exact Sciences and Technology, History of Medicine, History of Chemistry and Pharmacy, History of Mathematics).

Field of interest
The Institute conducts research focused on the history of science, both humanities and social sciences as well as natural and exact sciences, and the history of technology. The history of culture and history of education and pedagogical thought are also main research fields, equally with the history of ideas and its philosophical milieu.

Notable academics
 Aleksander Birkenmajer
 Paweł Czartoryski
 Tadeusz Kowalik
 Jerzy Michalski
 Jerzy Osiatyński
 Bolesław Skarżyński
 Ryszard Terlecki
 Bogdan Suchodolski
 Leszek Zasztowt

Series editions
 Nicolaus Copernicus, Opera omnia, Vol. I–IV, 1973–2007;  editor Aleksander Birkenmajer and Paweł Czartoryski, and successors.
 History of Polish Science (Historia nauki polskiej, in Polish, Vol. I–X, 1970–2015; and continuation, editor Bogdan Suchodolski and successors.
 Studia Copernicana, Vol. I–XLI, 1970–2009; and continuation, editor Paweł Czartoryski and successors.
 Monographs on the History of Science and Technology.
 Monographs on the History of Education, editor Leszek Zasztowt.
 Fontes Rerum ad Historiam Scientiae Spectantium (Sources to the History of Science).
 History of Education Archives, Vol. I–XIII and continuation.

Journals
 Analecta. Studies and Materials for the History of Science ("Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki", semi-annual journal published in Polish with English summaries).
 Quarterly Journal for the History of Science and Technology ("Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki").
 Dissertations on the History of Education ("Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty", annual journal publishing articles in Polish, English and Russian).
 Organon, annual journal founded in 1936 and published in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Bibliography
 Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk w latach 1953–2003. Księga jubileuszowa z okazji pięćdziesięciolecia działalności, edited by Joanna Schiller and Leszek Zasztowt, Warszawa 2004.

External links
 Official website
 Electronic catalog of the Library of the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
 Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Polish Science database

Educational institutions established in 1954
History institutes
History of science organizations
Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences
1954 establishments in Poland
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Q: Is there a way to improve a large if/else or switch/case block? I'm refactoring some javascript to use jQuery and one of the events looks something like this
document.onkeyup = function keyUp(e) {

if (e.keyCode == 70) { // 'f'
    //Do something
}
else if (e.keyCode == 78) { // 'n'
    //Do something else
} ...

Unfortunately the things done in the cases aren't as similar or as simple as those in this question. Is there a better way to write this instead of a massive hard-coded if/else or switch/case statement?

A: I don't know if it's really better but you could list all of the possible values as keys of an object in some other dedicated file that you include. For example:
var keyHandlers = {
    "70": function () { /* Do something */ },
    "78": function () { /* Do something else */ }
};

Then, in your keyup event handler, you can simply refer to the appropriate property of this object:
document.onkeyup = function keyUp(e) {
    keyHandlers[e.keyCode]();
};

One notable disadvantage of this method over a switch statement would be that it'll look much messier if you want multiple keys to perform the same function. With a switch, you could just let those cases fall through. Here, you'll have to perform some other assignments after the inital keyHandlers declaration.

A couple of other points... you should use addEventListener rather than the on... properties, and is there a reason you've named the function you are assigning to onkeyup currently? The only reason to name it would be if you needed to refer to it from within itself.

A: Use an object to map key codes to functions:
var keyTable = {
  70: function () { ... },
  78: function () { ... },
  ... etc ...
}

Then your event handler becomes:
document.onkeyup = function keyUp(e) {
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Santa Claus Shares Favorite Memories from Valley West Mall
Posted 12:11 am, November 29, 2018, by Laura Barczewski
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Santa Claus has been coming to town to gather the Christmas lists from children at Valley West Mall for 23 years.
He asks the same question to every child that sits on his lap, "What would you like for Christmas?"
This is one of his favorite responses:
"He says, 'Well you know what I want for Christmas, mom said it costs too much money so santa do you have a lot of money?' Well I said, 'I don't know how much you need.' He says, 'Well if it's too much, I'm just going to go see Grampa, Grampa will get me that for Christmas he will always get me big presents," Santa said.
After hearing thousands of stories from children over the years, Santa made his list and checked it twice and turned it into a book of the naughty and nice.
The book is titled, "Kids say What?"
"And what we are doing with that book is we are leaving all that money here in the local area for Blank hospital for kids for cancer and so that's what it's for. That's my fun and I just have fun," Santa said.
Many children at the mall said they are excited to see Santa.
When Channel 13 asked young Ronald Parkhill what he wanted for Christmas he said, "Well I have a big list, but I can think of one thing: the Pie Face Cannon game."
This is Parkhill's fourth year in a row coming to see Santa at Valley West Mall and his mom, Amber Douglas said it's special for their family.
"It means everything. It just makes me feel like a kid again, when he believes," Douglas said.
Santa said there is a reason kids from one to 92 come to see him every year.
"It's the spirit of Santa. They still remember what they got when they were a little child. They still like presents now, but they still like the good camaraderie that we have at Christmas," Santa said.
Santa's book is available in the winter wonderland photo area for $15.
Santa is available for pictures Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Topics: Santa Claus, valley west mall
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How Toumani Diagouraga has gone from vital Plymouth Argyle cog to a 'passive, unassertive gentle giant' at Fleetwood Town
Since Diagouraga joined Fleetwood they have lost all but one game
Jak BallReporter
When it was announced that Toumani Diagouraga had decided to leave Home Park, Plymouth Argyle fans were concerned that the season was going to come crashing down.
The Pilgrims upturn in form started when they signed the former Leeds United midfielder, who was available on a free transfer.
Derek Adams offered the 30-year-old a short-term deal and he quickly became popular with the Green Army.
Uwe Rosler has been dismissed by Fleetwood just a month after signing Toumani Diagouraga from Plymouth Argyle
But in January it was announced that Diagouraga wanted to move back to the north of England to be nearer his family.
He was offered a new deal by the Pilgrims but rejected it in favour of a move to fellow League One side Fleetwood Town.
Diagouraga knew then manager Uwe Rosler from his time at Brentford but his arrival there coincided with an opposite run of form to what he experienced in Devon.
He made a scoring start to his life with Fleetwood, netting the opener in their 2-1 win over Southend United.
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But in the five games since then the Lancashire based side have been defeated, Rosler has been sacked and the side are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference.
In that time Argyle's rise continued and they now sit just on point outside of the play-offs.
So where did it go wrong for the man that had an almost ceremonial send off after making his last appearance for Argyle, against Bury?
Toumani Diagouraga applauds the home fans as the team walk out before the League One match between Plymouth Argyle and Bury on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at Home Park (Image: Dave Rowntree/PPAUK)
Jeff Weston wrote a piece entitled The Mystery of Fleetwood Town's Toumani Diagouraga ( which can be read in full here ) which looked into what has happened to the former Pilgrim.
In it he said: "To look at the 6' 2", leggy 30-year-old and central midfielder is to see an imposing ebony wall, a blockade of sorts, a stopper and simple distributor of the ball.
"He clearly has two good feet, the required calmness in such a role and the physical stature of a Mali god. And yet, teaming up with his boss of four years ago – Uwe Rösler, whilst at Brentford – has so far failed to yield any noticeable dividends."
Rosler has since been shown the door but Diagouraga has continued to be seen as 'an observer' rather than the influencer people know he can be.
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Weston continued: "If Toumani Diagouraga (such a poetic, pronounceable name once you get the hang of it) is to be that core, that linchpin, hub and vital component then he needs to find his self-belief once more – something which Warburton referred to in relation to his consistency and dominance.
"He needs to remember one of the proudest weekends of his life (2-3 May 2015) when Brentford made the Championship play-offs and he was named Supporters' Player of the Year.
"But he also – quite crucially – needs to replace such memories, such award-filled lustre (glass trophies weighing down his arms and shimmering against his slick, three-piece suit and spotted tie) with thoughts of Fleetwood Town and what he can bring to this precocious club.
Toumani Diagouraga celebrates scoring for Fleetwood Town at Southend United on January 13, 2018 in League One (Image: @ftfc)
"So far, he has been five yards away from the action. An observer. A twitcher. The soft-hearted General reluctant to rip into the opposition. One could argue that if you're the 'pick up man', the second ball winner, then that's exactly where you should be.
"But that would be disingenuous. That would insult the man that Diagouraga was at previous clubs: Hereford United; Peterborough United; Brentford; Leeds United; Plymouth Argyle.
"Toumani needs to be involved. He needs to show the Highbury faithful that he is the action, a script writer instead of the passive, unassertive gentle giant we have seen thus far.
"He needs to settle, get Plymouth out of his head – a clearly enjoyable chapter in his footballing career and a club three times bigger than Fleetwood in terms of fans."
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Weston added: "Diagouraga has sacrificed a lot by moving up north. He has jettisoned Home Park (capacity 17,800) for Highbury (5,327).
"He has admirably put family first in what is a challenging and lonely profession at times. In slowly coming to terms with such magnanimity and largesse, however, he must now start to produce.
"For this beautiful club in the north west of England. For this tiny, yet impressive outlier on the footballing map.
"He must close that gaping hole in the middle of the park and home in on the opposition. For five yards in football is the equivalent of John o'Groats to Land's End."
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