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Slowly but surely I'm crossing things off the list of stuff to fix. Today I got stuck in and hid the sharp stabby thing that calls its self the driver's door.
I know the whole game with a soft top car is to have the top down all the time, but having the roof come unlatched when going over bumps is just one step too far.


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日本文化論の歴史
鹿野 政直
During the 1970's there has been a boom in the number of commentaries written about Japanese culture. But, this phenomenon is by no means new, as its roots can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration. In the intervening one hundred years from then up to now there has been a great deal of commentary on Japan, the Japanese people, and Japanese culture. During these hundred years the successive booms in commentary on Japanese culture have passed through seven stages. The first stage saw a spate of comments seeking to bring enlightenment (文明開化) to Japanese culture. in the 1870's. Aimed at the westernization of Japan, these critiques attacked quite harshly the excessive authoritarianism that ran throughout Japanese society. The second stage was the nationalistic stage of the 1890's, which re-evaluated truth, goodness, and beauty in traditional Japanese terms. The third stage came around 191O, and it recognized Japan to be a "one-family state" while also seeking to understand Japan from the viewpoints of "region," "people," and "everyday life" as in folklore and Okinawan studies. The fourth stage arose in the 1930's with the fascist concept of "returning to the essence of Japan" and with all sorts of theories that opposed this concept. The remaining three stages came after World War II, with the fifth stage of commentary on Japanese culture starting in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The world of journalism was as warm with articles about a modernistic understanding of Japan, and then later there came some other articles arguing for the impurity of Japanese culture. The sixth stage came in the 1960's with commentaries on Japanese modernization (these originated often in America) and the revival of the Japanese conception of a national polity. However, other studies sought to penetrate deeply into the traditions of the Japanese people. The most recent stage, that of the 1970's contains comments on the indulgence (甘さ) of the Japanese people and also opposing comments, based on the viewpoint of the outlying districts, which have now become popular. During the modern history of Japan the periods when a lively debate on Japanese culture existed were when the foreign impact on Japan was strong (stages one and five) and When popular movements subsided (stages two, three, four, six, and seven).
明代挙人層の形成過程に関する一考察 : 科挙条例の検討を中心として
和田 正廣
u-ren who passed the xiang-shi (郷試) exams in the Ming dynasty had not only the qualification of being able to take the Hui-shi (会試) examination all their lives but also the social status of one who has entered the National University (国子監) and thus the chance of being appointed to office. The aim of this article is to verify, from a legal point of view, 1that from the mid-Ming the Ju-ren, even before their appointment to office, had, while living in the countryside, been forming a new status stratum among the local elite. In the Hong-wu and Yong-le eras (i.e., 1368-1424) a few Ju-ren returned home without entering the National University even though they had a chance of being appointed to office. Most Ju-ren who failed in the Hui-shi exams were Ju-ren jian-sheng (挙人監生) attending the National University. But, in the first half of the fifteenth century Ming fiscal difficulties compelled Ju-ren attending the National University to return temporarily to their permanent place of residence. After the Cheng-hua and Hong-zhi eras (i.e., 1465-1505) most Ju-ren refused to re-enter the National University, and in spite of penal rules they chose to return home in face of the difficulty they had in acquiring an official post and in meeting the requirements of the Hui-shi exams. From the second half of the fifteenth century most Ju-ren stayed in their native area regardless of whether or not they entered the National University. Certain examination system regulations were applied to them, because they were politically very active. They pressed illegal demands on influential people inside and outside of the local yamens in rural society. In 1605 the proscription forbidding those punished for violations involving entrance or return to the National University from taking the Hui-shi exams took effect. The emperor did away with regulations compelling Ju-ren to enter the National University, and he allowed them to stay in their local area while he adopted new regulations for recommendations and evaluation of their merits. At the same time he tried to use the Xun-an yu-shi (巡按御史) to strengthen management of the Ju-ren. But by the end of the Ming such management of Ju-ren residing in their local area was no longer functioning.
欧米諸国における大正・昭和史研究の近況
ゴードン バーガー M., 渡辺 昭夫 訳
弓削 達 伊藤貞夫編『古典古代の社会と国家』
新村 祐一郎, 新田 一郎
松岡文平解説『今井嘉幸自叙伝五十年の夢』(神戸学術叢書五), 神戸学術出版, 一九七七・六刊, A5, 二四九頁
伊藤 隆
マーイシャ・アブドッラハマーン著 徳増輝子訳『預言者の妻たち』, 日本サウディアラビア協会・日本クウェイト協会, 一九七七・八刊, A5, 二六九頁
後藤 晃
山本幹雄著『アメリカ帝国主義の形成』, ミネルヴァ書房, 一九七七・四刊, A5, 二九三頁
西川 純子
原稿種別: 文献目録等

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ArrayList sort() method sorts the list according to the order induced by the specified Comparator instance. All elements in the list must must be mutually comparable.
The sort() method accepts an instance of Comparator implementing class which must be able to compare the elements contained in the arraylist.
Internally, the sort() method uses Arrays.sort() method to compare and sort the elements in the list.
Method parameter – Comparator implemetation.
Method throws – ConcurrentModificationException if list is modified while sort() method is not finished.
Comparators are most useful when we want to sort a given list of objects – but not in natural order. For example, a list of employees should be sorted on their employee id, naturally.
Another usecase of comparator is that when objects in the list are not implementing Comparable interface. Also, we may want to sort objects list in different ways in different scenarios.
For example, an employee list can be sorted by their name, age or their any other such field. Comparator are best fit in these types of requirements.
Let's create a simple employee class with only 3 fields to make this example cleaner.
Comparator to sort the employee list by name alphabetically.
Comparator to sort the employee list by age in ascending order.
Comparator to sort the employee list by id.
Now let's use the comparator classes to sort a list of employees by name.
Now let's use the comparator classes to sort a list of age.
That's all for the ArrayList sort() method in Java.


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Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. The Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, created by President Bush, is designed to provide recommendations on issues regarding spectrum management, reform and policy. The Committee members represent a balanced cross-section of stakeholders and will act as liaisons to the federal government.
SanDisk appointed Juha Raisanen as senior vice president. Raisanen, who has over 20 years of industry experience in demand management and supply chain operations, will be responsible for the company's worldwide operations and supply chain and will report to Dr. Randhir Thakur, executive vice president of technology and worldwide operations. To manage SanDisk's global manufacturing that includes locations throughout Asia, Raisanen will be stationed in Shanghai, where he will be responsible for managing end-to-end supply chain and overseeing the worldwide manufacturing operations organization.
DBL Distributing announced the addition of Tom Greger to DBL's team of operations, logistics and distribution professionals. As vice oresident of operations, Greger will lead all functions related to DBL's national distribution model including shipping, receiving, returns, quality control and inventory control. Prior to joining DBL, Greger held a variety of senior management positions in the areas of operations and high-volume distribution, bringing a breadth of knowledge and experience to his position. Greger was recently director of distribution for PetSmart, where he was accountable for 4 distribution centers, employing 800 associates. There he was responsible for the selection, design and implementation of the warehouse management system and was responsible for the procurement, design and build of an 877,000 SF distribution center in Atlanta, Ga.


Wellbeing: Let's address it more than just one day a year.
It's that time of the year when the phone starts ringing and emails begin pinging. A lot of these are asking me to speak to staff in schools and organisations about 'Wellbeing'. As a former personal trainer, athlete, fitness instructor, massage therapist and now adventurer, and Leadership speaker, coach, facilitator and Roche Martin's Emotional Intelligence Trainer for NZ, I deeply know the importance of such work.
The suicide rate is getting worse; a record 606 died by suicide in 2016-17, up from 579 the previous year. Our suicide rate for young people is among the worst in the OECD. The greatest loss of life through suicide occurs among people older than 24, particularly males aged 25–44.
Any one of us can be affected: over 50–80% of New Zealanders will experience mental distress or addiction challenges or both in their lifetime.
Addiction to alcohol and other drugs is causing widespread harm in New Zealand communities. Harmful use of alcohol and other drugs is significantly implicated in crime – around 60% of community-based offenders have an identified alcohol or other drug problem and 87% of prisoners have experienced an alcohol or other drug problem over their lifetime. Well over half of youth suicides involve alcohol or illicit drug exposure.
A pattern I have found however, is that schools and organisations only tend to formally address 'Wellbeing' one day a year; and usually at the beginning of the year when everyone has had a well earned break. This is great at informing people around what to look for, how to maintain their wellbeing and strategies to navigate through times of disrupt, but it needs to be coupled with a more strategic approach to make a sustained difference.
It is during the year when people are under pressure and tired that they also need support. This is the time when they may need someone to talk-with to remind and reinforce previously learned strategies and help them navigate through tricky situations.
Furthermore, organisational systems, processes and culture need to be reviewed. In my work, I notice much of the stress people feel at work is related to poor systems or lines of communication. A deep review of everything that helps or hinders organisational wellbeing, supports organisations to become strategic about supporting and sustaining Wellbeing.
What are you doing to create a culture of care within your organisation?
How proactive and strategic are you being around Wellbeing?
Finally, it is no longer OK to offer Wellbeing lip-service - we have done that for decades, and it hasn't worked!
As leaders, are you going to be part of the problem, or the solution?
Want to know more? Check out my Wellbeing at Work offerings.
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You will need Node, Golang 1.10+ and Docker set up on your machine.
In this tutorial, we will be implementing a service discovery using Pusher Channels. To demonstrate this, we will be building two services - both of them a unique ID generator. They will be implemented in both NodeJS and Golang. This is done so as to depict a real-life microservices scenario where services are built in multiple languages. In our use-case here, the NodeJS application will be version 1 while the second iteration will be in Golang. As said earlier, both of them are unique ID generators and basically all they do is generate a UUID. The Node service generates a UUID V5 while the Golang service will generate a UUID v4.
Microservices are an interesting pattern but they usually present a new class of problems. An interesting problem this pattern presents is communication between the bulk of services that make up the entire mesh. These services are run in multiple replicas - depending on scalability needs - and dynamic environments. Take Kubernetes as an example, deploying a container might run in server A, stopping and running it again might deploy it to server. For both of them, you'd obviously get an IP address but then again, you cannot guarantee it won't change. At this rate, it is clear maintaining a hardcoded list of all service targets wouldn't make any sense.
Even if we assume Kubernetes is not used and the application is being deployed pre Docker style - a single host, multiple instances. It is still hard to keep an updated list of all running instances. Just try to think of having to keep track of all ports you have assigned to an instance and the pain of having to update them manually.
To solve the communication problem within microservices, a pattern called service discovery emerged. With service discovery, each service when started would inform a central registry of its reachable IP address (8.8.8.8) and port (53). Also whenever it is being shut down, maybe as a result of CTRL+C, it deregisters itself from the registry. Popular implementations of service discovery include Consul and etcd.
We will also build another service - the API gateway - which will listen to connections from our unique ID generator services. This API gateway will be the public facing program as it will proxy request to an available instance of services registered with Pusher Channels.
Docker. We will be using this to run multiple copies of the services.
Standards rule literally everything and we need to define the data structure our registry requires. Below is an example of what needs to be sent to the channel in order to successfully process its inclusion as a service backend.
"address": "172.17.0.4", // The IP address where this service is reachable at.
This backend will make use of the Channels server SDK for Node. We will use it to send a register event to the central registry, in our case a channel.
Switch to your terminal app and navigate to the directory you created above - cd path/to/nodejs-channel-discovery. You then need to run the following command to install the dependencies needed to build this service.
Next, create an index.js file in the root of the folder you created earlier and paste the contents below into it.
/ - This is the root handler of the application. This endpoint returns basic information of the service.
/health - This endpoint allows the application to notify others about its internal state.
/generate - This endpoint is meant for the generation of a UUID. It generates a version 5 UUID. This endpoint expects an ID from the caller which it then uses to compute the UUID.
Since we will be needing to run multiple copies of this service, let's set it up to run as a container. To do that, we create a Dockerfile. Create the file and paste the content below into the file.
You need to save the file and build the image for this service. To do that, you should run the following command. Please note that this has to be done in the root of the nodejs directory.
$ docker build -t pusher-channel-node .
You can then run the service. But to do that, you need to use the credentials from the Pusher Channels application you created at the start of the tutorial.
We have decided to build another iteration of our Unique ID generator since the first version written in Node used UUID version 5 and we would prefer to use something much more random. UUID 5 is basically a way of hashing some value into 128 bits. So if you try generating multiple UUIDs with the same id value in your request, you keep on getting the same UUID. While that behavior is easy to change, let's assume we have tons of users and production code relying on that service already, we don't want to change behavior but wouldn't mind doing it right again. Hence the version two rewrite that uses UUID 4, which ensures complete randomness.
To start with, you need to create a directory that houses this service. You can go ahead to create one called golang. This directory needs to be created in a directory in accordance to the structure laid out at the beginning of the article .
You will also need to run go mod init in the newly created directory. This will make the project a Golang module.
We need to create a file called registry.go. Since we also have to properly structure the code into packages, it should be in a directory called registry. After which you should paste the following code into the registry.go file.
Defined multiple data types to conform to the channel registry structure defined above.
Implemented a Registrar type that triggers event to a channel. You can find those in the Register and DeRegister methods.
Our main goal is to generate unique IDs, we need to build an HTTP API that will allow for that.
We would be needing an HTTP router to help build our endpoints. For this, we would need a library called chi. To install it, run go get github.com/go-chi/chi. Since we would also be needing to generate unique IDs, it is safe to also install a UUID library. You will need to run go get github.com/google/uuid.
/generate - This endpoint is responsible for creating the UUID. Unlike the first iteration written in NodeJS, it doesn't require any ID of any sort as it generates purely random UUIDs.
$ docker build -t pusher-channel-go .
An API gateway is an application that provides a single entry point for a selected group of microservices. This plays hand in hand with service registration as it needs to be able to pull up information about those microservices so as to proxy requests to them. This part is called service discovery. You can read more about this pattern here.
We will implement this in NodeJS as we assume it already existed when we had only the first ID generator service. What we are building here is basically a reverse proxy. We subscribe to events published by the services we have built above and include the service in the routing table. Whenever we receive a request, we interpret the URL to determine what service is being requested. We use the prefix property defined above - in Pusher Channels registry - to achieve this.
We define a domain constant. This defaults to localhost: PORT if the DOMAIN environmental value is not available.
We create a connection to Pusher channels and subscribe to the mapped-discovery channel.
We then bind a callback the register event. The callback picks out some critical data from the data it has received and uses that to update its routing table.
We also do the above for the exit channel. But in the instance, we remove the service from the routing table.
$ docker build -t pusher-channel-api-gateway .
Shutting down the NodeJS service should produce something similar but with an Unregistered a route message.
All that is left for us to do now is to test that our requests are being proxied to the right services. I will be showing examples with curl.
I have included the -i option as it will be useful for us to inspect the X-Server headers to also validate the request is being served by the right service. It will also be useful when we need to validate that requests are being proxied among multiple instances of a service. You need to run multiple instances of the NodeJS service, just open two or three terminal windows where you run the above docker command in each of them.
Once done, you should make requests to the API gateway and watch the value of X-Server change as requests are proxied in a round robin manner to all available instances.
You can also try shutting down one or more instances of the available services and see what happens. Spoiler, requests are no longer proxied to them.
In this tutorial, we have leveraged Pusher Channels to implement service discovery and registration when dealing with microservices.
You can find the source code to this tutorial on GitHub.


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Ozzie Newsome's departure as G.M. influenced Terrell Suggs' decision
Charean Williams
ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports• March 23, 2019
Ravens coach John Harbaugh expressed surprise over Terrell Suggs' departure in free agency. But the seven-time Pro Bowler said Ozzie Newsome's departure as General Manager played a role in his leaving.
"It was probably hands down the most difficult decision I ever had to make it my life," Suggs said on FOX's Undisputed this week, via Lisa Redmond of NBC Sports Washington. "Through and through, I'm an Ozzie Newsome guy. Once I knew Ozzie was going to step down as G.M., you know, I kind of had to question my future in a Ravens uniform."
Suggs said other veterans' departures also led to him choosing a one-year deal with Arizona rather than a return to Baltimore for a 17th season. But Suggs said he would have finished his career with the Ravens if Newsome had remained as G.M.
Suggs finished his Ravens career with 132.5 sacks.


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Red House Painters Return
by James Moore January 24th, 2001
The band will release their first album in four years via Sub Pop
A spokesperson for the band said that 'Old Ramon' was originally recorded
two years ago, but not released after Supreme Recordings closed. The release
date for the new album has yet to be confirmed but the the provisional
release date is the 16th April.
'Old Ramon' will be followed by Mark Kozelek's solo album of AC/DC covers
'What's Next To The Moon', released via Badman Records on the 5th March.
The Painters' frontman also appears in the forthcoming Cameron Crowe film
'Almost Famous' as a bassist in the fictional band Stillwater.


Chris began his career as a clerk on the American Stock Exchange in New York, where he became a member and broker. After relocating to Los Angeles he worked for a Beverly Hills real estate law firm. He became involved in their internal marketing efforts and later moved to paid search at Dex Media, handling the firm's largest national client, as well as several SMBs. During his time in paid media Chris has served a handful of large enterprises including CenturyLink, Transamerica, and most recently The Walt Disney Company, where he oversaw all paid search efforts for Disneyland and Aulani. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Miami University.


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At Sterling College, your classrooms include the fields, farms, woodlots, sugarbushes, watersheds, and mountains of Vermont's beautiful Northeast Kingdom. You'll dig your hands into the soil, grow food, cut lumber, map invasive plants, care for horses, spin fiber, and track wildlife. Here, you can tap into your passion for the natural world and cultivate a life of environmental stewardship.
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The Echo time zone (E) is the fifth zone to the east of the Greenwich or Prime Meridian, with an offset of UTC + 5:00. This means that it is five hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The US Military, Chinese Military, and several others have adopted a unique list of names for the time zones across the world. The names use the NATO phonetic alphabet which calls for the 26 letters of the alphabet to be designated by easily recognizable words. The Echo time zone is one of these.
The Echo time zone is primarily used in aviation and military operations.
Other time zones that include the same offset are Armenia Summer Time (AMST), Aqtobe Time (AQTT), Azerbaijan Summer Time (AZST), Mawson Time (MAWT), Maldives Time (MVT), Oral Time (ORAT), Pakisan Standard Time (PKT), French Southern and Antarctic Time (TFT), Tajikistan Time (TJT), Turkmenistan Time (TMT), Uzbekistan Time (UZT), Yekaterinburg Time (YEKT).


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資料結構與演算法 ( 下 ) PowerPoint Presentation
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資料結構與演算法 ( 下 ) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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資料結構與演算法 ( 下 ). 呂學一 (Hsueh-I Lu) http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hil/. Today. Shortest path and cycle Shortest-Path Tree Bellman-Ford Lawler Dijkstra. The graph G = ( V , E ) is directed with edge length w . The length of each edge could be negative. The setting. u. 3. 2. 2. 1.
資料結構與演算法(下) 呂學一 (Hsueh-I Lu) http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hil/ Shortest Path Tree
Today • Shortest path and cycle • Shortest-Path Tree • Bellman-Ford • Lawler • Dijkstra Shortest Path Tree
The graph G = (V, E) is directed with edge length w. The length of each edge could be negative. The setting u 3 2 2 1 1 3 -3 1 2 v Shortest Path Tree
Shortest path and cycles Shortest Path Tree
Question • Can a shortest path between node u and v contain a cycle? u v Shortest Path Tree
Observation • If the graph admits a shortest path from u to v, then the graph admits a shortest path from u to v that has no cycle. u v Shortest Path Tree
Shortest-path tree problem Shortest Path Tree
The problem • Input: • A directed graph G = (V, E) with edge weight w. • A node r of G • Output: • A tree T rooted at r such that the path of T from r to each node u of T is a shortest path from r to u in G. Shortest Path Tree
Without loss of generality • We may assume that each node in the graph is reachable from r. • Why? • Unreachable nodes can be removed in linear time. Shortest Path Tree
Single-source shortest-path problem The root ris the "source". Also known as 6 3 1 4 2 2 r 7 3 5 6 Shortest Path Tree
Question • Such a shortest-path tree always exists? Shortest Path Tree
Perhaps not.. A negative cycle -3 1 r 1 1 1 Shortest Path Tree
As a matter of fact • The input graph G has a shortest-path tree if and only if G does not contain any negative cycle. • The only-if direction is "obvious". • If a node u belongs to a negative cycle, then there is no shortest-path from r to u. • Q: how about the other direction? Shortest Path Tree
G has no negative cycle • Removing cycles from a path does not increase it length. • For each node u of G, there has to be a shortest path from r to node u that do not contain any cycle. • The union of all these n shortest paths has to be a shortest-path tree of G rooted at r. Shortest Path Tree
An equivalent problem • The shortest-path tree problem is equivalent to finding the distance from r to each node u in graph G. • The distance from r to node u in G is the length of any shortest path from r to u in G. • By "equivalence" we mean that a solution to either problem can be obtained from a solution from the other problem in linear time. • Why? Shortest Path Tree
The rest of the slide • Let d(u) denote the distance from r to u in graph G. We focus only on computing the distance of each node u from r. • Without loss of generality, we may assume that the distance of each node from r is finite. • That is, each node is reachable from r, since we can remove unreachable nodes in linear time. Shortest Path Tree
Bellman-Ford Shortest Path Tree
Richard Bellman, 1920~1984 • Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, 1970 • Dickson Prize, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1970; • John von Neumann Theory Award, 1976. • IEEE Medal of Honor, 1979, • "For contributions to decision processes and control system theory, particularly the creation and application of dynamic programming." • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975. • Membership in the National Academy of Engineering, 1977. Shortest Path Tree
Lester R. Ford, Jr. 1927~ • A important contributor to the theory of network flow. Shortest Path Tree
[ ] ( ) d d h d f F W i i t t t t t e u s e u o e s m a e u e s a n c e o u , f r o m r . l F I i i i i t t n a z a o n [ ] d f h d f L G t I e u 1 o r e a c n o e u o = . [ ] d L 0 t I e r = . h f l l f f ¯ l F R i i t t t t e p e a e o o w n g s e p o r s u c e n y n u m - b f h e r o p a s e s . [ ] ( ) h d f d I i t t t I m p r o v e e e s m a e u o r u . Sketch of Bellman-Ford Shortest Path Tree
( ) l d F R i e a x n g e g e u v : ; [ ] [ ] ( ) f d d h I t + I > v u w u v e n ; [ ] [ ] ( ) l d d t + e v u w u v = ; . h f F A i t p a s e o m p r o v e m e n : ( ) h d f d F G I o r e a c e g e u v o o ; ( ) l d r e a x e g e u v ; . Improving the estimate Shortest Path Tree
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[ ] ( ) h h h d d h l d F T i ¸ t t t r o u g o u e e x e c u o n v v o s , f d o r a n y n o e v . b h h f F L P t t t t t e e a s o r e s p a r o m r o s . d h b h f f F P P t t I o r a n y n o e u o n e s u p a o r o m , h b h h f t t t t t t r o u a s o e a s o r e s - p a r o m r o u . ( ) [ ] ( ) d f d d b f F P i I o r a n y e g e u v o n u u e o r e = ; , h f h f h i t t t t t s o m e p a s e o m p r o v e m e n e n a e r a , [ ] ( ) h f d d l h l d i t p a s e o m p r o v e m e n v v a s o o s = . Observations Shortest Path Tree
( ) l d F R i e a x n g e g e u v : ; [ ] [ ] ( ) f d d h I t + I > v u w u v e n ; [ ] [ ] ( ) l d d t + e v u w u v = ; . h f F A i t p a s e o m p r o v e m e n : ( ) h d f d F G I o r e a c e g e u v o o ; ( ) l d r e a x e g e u v ; . Q: Need how many phases? Shortest Path Tree
A: n – 1 phases suffice! • If G contains no negative cycles, then each node u has a shortest path from r to u that has at most n – 1 edges. • Observe that after the first i phases of the improvement via relaxation, the estimate d[u] of d(u) for the first i + 1 nodes u in the path is precise. Shortest Path Tree
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l F I i i i i t t n a z a o n ( ) l T O i i t [ ] d f h d f m e c o m p e x y m n L G t = I e u 1 o r e a c n o e u o = . . [ ] d L 0 t I e r = . F R i 1 t t ¡ e p e a n m e s : ( ) h d f F G I o r e a c e g e u v o ; [ ] ( [ ] [ ] ( ) ) d d d L i t + e v m n v u w u v = ; ; . Bellman-Ford Shortest Path Tree
Existence of negative cycles • Question: • How do we know G has negative cycles? Shortest Path Tree
Using another phase of improvement via relaxation • Run another phase of improvement of the estimate d[u] of d(u) for each node u of G via relaxing all edges of G. • If in the n-th phase, there are still some d[u] being modified, we know that G has negative cycles. Shortest Path Tree
i t n e g a v e b l f k d L C i t t e e a n e g a v e c y c e s o n o e s v v v k 1 2 ; ; : : : ; . [ ] l b l f h d f F I i i t t t t t o r n o a o n a r e v y e v v e v o r = k i 1 1 + , . l l k h d h f i i t t a v a r e n o c a n g e n a p a s e o m p r o v e m e n i , h t e n [ ] [ ] ( ) d d · + v v w v v i i i i 1 1 + + ; h l d f h k l l k l S i i i 1 2 o s o r e a c u m m n g a n e q u a - = ; ; : : : ; . k h h f d h f C i i i i t t t t t e s w e n o w a e s u m o e g e w e g s o s , d h h C i i i i i t t t t t t t n o n n e g a v e c o n r a c n g e a s s u m p o n a s , l i t a n e g a v e c y c e . Why? Shortest Path Tree
Summary • Bellman-Ford • Time: O(mn) • Detect whether the input graph has negative cycle. • If the input graph does not contain any negative cycle, the algorithm outputs d[u] = d(u) for each node u of G. • A shortest-path tree of G can be obtained from d(u) for all nodes u in O(m + n) time. Shortest Path Tree
If G is acyclic Can we speed up Bellman-Ford? Shortest Path Tree
i t n e g a v e No negative cycle! • Since the input graph has no cycle, it has no negative cycle. Shortest Path Tree
Eugene Lawler • 1933-1994 Shortest Path Tree
One phase suffices • We first perform a topological sort on the input directed acyclic graph. • For i = 1 to n • Let vibe the i-th node in the above order. • Relax each outgoing edge (vi, u) from vi. • The running time is O(m + n). Shortest Path Tree
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Correctness Shortest Path Tree
Summary • If the input graph is a DAG, then it takes linear time to compute d(u) of each node u. • Therefore, it also takes linear time to compute a shortest-path tree for G. Shortest Path Tree
If w is non-negative Can we speed up Bellman-Ford? Shortest Path Tree
No negative cycle! • Since the input graph has no negative edge, it has no negative cycle. Shortest Path Tree
Edsger W. Dijkstra • Dutch, 1930 ~ 2002 • Turing Award, 1972 • "Goto is considered harmful." • Inventor of P/V semaphores • to resolve the "dining philosopher problem" Shortest Path Tree
Dijkstra's algorithm (sketch) • We cannot rely on topological sort, since G may contain cycles. • Still, one phase suffices! • Same initialization for d[u] for all nodes u. • The algorithm has n iterations: • Each iteration relaxes the outgoing edges of an unprocessed node u whose d[u] is smallest among all unprocessed nodes. Shortest Path Tree
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Nestled between the mighty Ventura River and the Santa Clara River Valley, near the base of the majestic Mount Pinos, Ventura is a vibrant city with plenty of beach-town charm, natural beauty, and relaxed SoCal vibes. Though Ventura may be small in size, it definitely isn't lacking in appeal. With a variety of things to do in Ventura, this city offers you the best of both worlds. Affordability, friendly locals, and cool shops and restaurants ensure you have more than enough opportunities to create a lifetime of memories.
"I believe Ventura is the last true Southern California beach town," says Ken McAlpine, the communications coordinator for Visit Ventura. "We're a town of people who are here because they love the natural beauty. We're a town pretty much without pretension."
So, come experience the idyllic scenery and laid-back ambience of Ventura. Whether you're looking to learn about history, explore local eateries, or enjoy the surf, sand, and sun of Ventura—something on our list will make you want to pack your bags right away for an unforgettable weekend in the coastal haven of Ventura.
Fun things to do in Ventura
Surf to your heart's content at Surfers Point Beach. You'll soon see why Ventura is a favorite destination among local surfers.
Ride the Waves at Surfers Point Beach
Surfers Point at Seaside Park is a local hot spot that attracts surfers of all levels from around the Golden State. This is a south-facing beach, which means right-hand waves consistently roll in from the west, taking surfers down towards Ventura Pier. A lagoon can also be found where the river backs up behind the beach at Surfers Point, making this destination great for bird watching. Other fun things to do at this Ventura beach include hiking, swimming, picnicking, biking, and watching a beautiful sunset in Southern California.
Ventura's downtown is quite charming. Check out the local eateries, unique shops, and bustling nightlife destinations.
Explore Main Street
Ventura's downtown area oozes with charm. Unique homes, museums, boutiques, restaurants, and churches adorn the palm tree-lined streets of this laid-back SoCal town, so it's easy to lose track of time. Ventura's appreciation of all things eclectic (as well as its sensibility in preserving its heritage) is apparent to anyone taking a stroll down Main Street for the first time. Whether you decide to get a cappuccino at a local coffee shop, pick out seasonal vegetables and fruits at the local farmers market, or grab a bite at one of Ventura's 65-plus restaurants, one thing's for sure: You won't run out of things to do in downtown Ventura.
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Shop for Antique souvenirs
Why take home a regular souvenir if you can browse through an antique store and find a one-of-a-kind memento? For a truly captivating experience, head to Antique Adventures on Ventura Boulevard, where you'll find over 80 individual antique vendor collections. Everything from Native American artifacts to fine jewelry can be found here. Whether you're looking for the perfect statement piece to complete your home makeover or a unique gift for a special someone, chances are you'll find it here. This weird thing to do in Ventura isn't on everyone's bucket list—yet. So, discover this SoCal hidden gem before it becomes the most popular stop for everyone heading to Ventura.
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Meander through the Ventura Botanical Gardens and enjoy the scenic views. Photo courtesy of Ventura Botanical Gardens.
Take a romantic Stroll through the Ventura Botanical Gardens
Looking to add Ventura to your romantic winter getaway itinerary? Exploring the Ventura Botanical Gardens is an absolute must. Located behind the architecturally pleasing Ventura City Hall, this elegant and awe-inspiring display of plants and flowers is fitting for a romantic stroll with your beaux. Traverse the trail that leads to a landscaped summit overlooking the ocean or take a leisurely walk with your partner, crossing over into Grant Park. Here, you'll find the famous Serra Cross, which was originally erected in 1782. (For the ultimate romantic thing to do in Ventura, consider making the beautiful gardens your backdrop for a romantic proposal in California.)
Walk through the charming Ventura Harbor Village and check out the specialty boutiques and various restaurants.
Visit Ventura Harbor Village
Carousel rides, boat rentals, beautiful lodging, and beach volleyball courts—a romantic retreat to Ventura Harbor Village is a guaranteed good time. Simply walking along the promenade, eating ice cream, and enjoying the coastal atmosphere of the village is enough to make anyone fall in love with Ventura. The assortment of waterfront restaurants, shops, and bars (open under normal circumstances) make sure you never run out of things to do and explore in Ventura. The best part? Despite making you feel like you're in another world, this oceanfront complex is very close to Ventura's downtown area.
Things to do in Ventura with Kids
Rent a Duffy boat and bond with the kids as you glide across the glimmering Pacific waters.
Sail a Duffy Boat
Enjoy the sea breeze, gain a new perspective of Ventura, and put your sailing skills to test while piloting a Duffy boat. You don't need to be a professional sailor to handle one of these boats—they are battery-operated and very easy to maneuver. (Fun fact: Duffy boats are also a California creation, which makes this a truly local experience.) You don't want to miss out on spending a relaxing afternoon out on Ventura's pristine waters; this unusual thing to do in Ventura makes for one of the best boat tour experiences you can have in SoCal.
Skip along the historic wooden pier in Ventura with the youngsters. Make sure to stick around for golden hour.
Play at the Ventura Pier and Promenade
The Ventura Pier extends 1,600 feet out to sea and is one of the best attractions in town. Built in 1872, the pier attracts families, fishers, and tourists year-round. Kids will have a wonderful time running around the pier and exploring the area. Underneath the pier, you'll find a sandy playground that's bound to be a hit if you're traveling with young children. In the mood to stroll further? The Ventura Pier connects to the Ventura Promenade, which meanders along the coast and gives you a whole new set of things to do in Ventura.
"The Ventura Pier is far from hidden, but I think it's often overlooked," says McAlpine. "The Ventura Pier is one of the last wooden piers in California and it was integral to our history. Now, it's a quiet place that may be one of the best places I've ever been for taking in a sunset or just the sea breeze."
Get historically acquainted with the city and head to the Museum of Ventura County.
Learn about the history of the city at the Museum of Ventura County
The Museum of Ventura County (open under normal circumstances) began as the private collection of a local doctor who accepted objets d'art instead of payments at his clinics. The doctor's first private collection was showcased in 1913. By 1977, the collection expanded greatly, becoming known as the Museum of Ventura County. Today, the museum spans over 15,000 square feet and is one of the best things to do in Ventura for those interested in local history. You'll find over 30,000 pieces in the fine art and historical artifacts collection alone. The museum is home to several other collections, some of which hold items that date back to the earliest residents of Ventura.
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Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Transformers To The Basement 2014 — fairplaythings @ 11:31 pm
So with limited adieu, here we begin our new segment, Transformers of the Basement, Week One: The New Recruits.
Day 1 - Construct-Bots Hound, 2013
Day 1's Construct-Bot Hound arrival on my door step on January 1, 2014, signaled the arrival of a new toy year. When Construct-Bots were unveiled at Botcon 2014, they dominated a Hasbro new product presentation that otherwise looked like the end of Kre-Os and a return to simpler but less articulate Deluxe priced Transformers for the 30th Anniversary. In my mind, they are a fun fusion of our popular robot characters onto Bionicle-style bodies. Given the previous year's initial push by Hasbro to encroach on Lego's turf, Construct-Bots seemed to be an effort to keep the momentum going.
Originally I was going to skip this line altogether. Too many toy robots in the basement already to cede precious real estate to, once again, Bionicles by another name. Too lanky in both forms to be of interest. But curiosity killed the cat and I picked up Starscream in the summer, which weakened my resolve. "Oh I'll only grab the key Decepticons and be done with it" has morphed into catching them all and really it's all because of two factors - fun construction play and one adorable mug shot.
On the play side of things, I must attest that it is pretty satisfying to open a box of Construct-Bot and put it together in front of the television. All the Construct-Bots acquired so far have had similar assembly so, other than the occasional reference, the nevertheless well constructed instruction manual is just so much paper (that said, Hasbro really could have made a nod to the anal collector in us and run a title of each book down the spine). The robots do transform and, unlike their Kreon brethren, do not require complete dis-assembly to do so. That said, they really don't turn into anything other than an oddly coloured skeleton car with rolling wheels or jet with crazy weapons. But as robots, they have a certain esthetic charm, and the bright colours really pop - bright, clearly defined character colours are in fact one of the reasons I am a Transformers fan after all (and one of the exceptions I take with the Michael Bay films).
There are a couple of other factors in their favour. First, the price point has come down significantly at some locations following their launch - from $12 to around the $6-$8 range for the basic cardboarded versions and and $18 to $10-$13 for the ones with the fancier reusable plastic casing. The ability to grab a hero and a villain for around $15 for my cousins' children was a huge incentive to grab a handful for Christmas presents, which in turn encouraged me to grab some for myself as well. But like I said, the terrible tipping point for me was seeing Hound, a not-overly toyified Transformer to begin with, with that loveable smile on his face. One look and I was mush. Apres Hound, as they say, le deluge.
Day 5 - Construct-Bot Wheeljack, 2013
So, in a long winded way, review of the toy line kind of way, that's the story of how Hound (and Day 5's Construct-Bot Wheeljack ended up on my doorstep on a day when all the stores were otherwise closed in Ottawa. I don't want to leave the line with the impression that it is a perfect toy line. The higher-still Triple Changing price point (including one of two Bumblebees for the line) were disappointing in that they could not handle all their various parts for their duel modes all at once. And there really isn't anything other than differing character that seems to deviate significantly between the basic and deluxe price points other than the generic plastic case, hardly a $4-$6 value. But there is a lot that is right about this line, and I'm interested to see what 2014 holds in store for it.
Day 2 - Botshot Bumblebee with Launcher, 2013
It was sales that led me to Day 2's Botshot Bumblebee with Launcher. New Year's Eve saw a number of Botcon purchases afforded by significant sales at Target, including three-piece box sets (possibly mispriced) for $3.49. Launchers price dropped to $6.49 from $12.99 led to my acquiring of Optimus Prime, Cryo-Scourge and the absolute winner of the group, Warpath. It was only on January 2, on an mission to find a new iron, that the final launcher made its way home.
Botshots was an instant favourite for me. Cute little auto-transforming characters based around an updated version of rock-paper-scissors, I love grabbing the little guys the first year they came out. The second year, the folks in Transformersland, Providence decided to retool a number of the characters so they had more action-oriented poses and more complicated transformations. For me, both features seemed to take the lustre off the line to some extend, but they were still cute enough for the most part to come home on a regular basis. Bumblebee with his launcher is quite possibly the sixth or seventh Bumblebee of the line and, while the transformation looks good, I hate that egotistical face. Still, a completist is a completist, and home he came to join his fellow botshotters.
Day 3 - Reissue Razorclaw, 2013
I am over the moon for Day 3's Razorclaw. With his brothers, he arrived on Christmas Eve from Amazon.com, purchased at the amazing price point of $62.99 plus shipping. The total package came to $82, more than $20 cheaper than Toys 'R Us Canada's offering before shipping. This is an impressive figure. Whereas the old 1986 Predacons came in both plastic and die-cast versions, all five figures come with die-cast parts. But rather than the old yellow plastic, the colouring has been updated to a very shiny gold, with additional stickers provided for you to apply. The set also comes with an additional sword, seemingly taken from the Voyager class Beast Hunter Optimus Prime's Star Sabre, likely in recognition that (a) Razorclaw's sword alone doesn't cut it for a gestalt (combined form of a Transformer special team) of the stature of Predaking, (b) they had it lying around so why not throw it into the mix, and (c) folks were willing to hand over $16.99 for a proper sized sword on the third party market. It's still not really big enough but it's the thought that counts, right?
What's truly incredible about this figure is the price point. According to Steve's incredibly extensive research over at the Vintage Space Toaster Palace, the original Razorclaw retailed at between $13.97 and $17.97 in the United States. That's compatible to my own more limited research of the time of Canadian retailers as Canadian Tire and Consumers Distributing. That means a lucky so-and-so could have picked up (likely) a plastic version of Predaking for between $70 and $90 in 1986, or between $29.25 and $37.66 in 2012 adjusted dollars. Twenty-eight years later, the same set, albeit die-cast metal construction, with superior colouring, box art and extra sword, would be $149.99 through Toys R' Us Canada, and $119.99 through Amazon.com in the U.S., or a mere $24 to $30 per figure. On sale, it works out to be about $12.50 per figure, or a third of the adjusted for inflation price.
For fear of using Razorclaw to begin an academic piece about broader economic and societal changes that have afforded so much consumption in North America and elsewhere without corresponding increases in salaries, I'll just say heck of a deal and leave it at that.
Day 4 - Masterpiece Streak, 2013
Day 4's Masterpiece Streak was a purchase made back at the Ottawa PopExpo in early December. Unlike his brother Prowl, Streak (formerly Bluestreak and more recently Silverstreak) has somehow managed to not only linger upstairs longer than so many of his fellow bots but acquired a Buzzsaw to keep him company. I don't know why Streak of the three Datsun brothers (rounded out by the yet-acquired Smokescreen) makes me so happy but he does. He looks fantastic.
Day 6 - Mighty Mugg Prowl, 2010
For Day 6's Mighty Mugg Prowl, I decided to move away from new acquisitions (pretty much the theme for the week) and feature a figure that has not only been a welcomed addition to my collection but, egad!, actually on proper display.
Mighty Muggs in general was initially a mixed emotional bag for me. I love the cutesy super deformed look for my beloved Transformers, but Hasbro was clearly taking a run against KidRobot's Munnies in doing so. With Munnies having outlasted the Muggs (so much so that they are now producing Marvelized versions), my conscience is a little clearer for liking them, and I can regret a bit not having more of the Transformers Mighty Muggs for the collection. Despite my initial reservations, I really believe it was an underdeveloped line, and I'm envious of the numbers and variety of figures produced for Star Wars (36 regular and 8 exclusive) and Marvel (25 regular and 9 exclusive). Heck, even Indiana Jones got nine figures, including the three exclusives, which is 50 percent more than G.I.Joe received (a situation made worse knowing that four more figures died on the development vine).
For Transformers, in some regards we were lucky to get ten regular releases. Wave One consisted of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for the Autobots and Megatron and Soundwave for the Decepticons. Wave Two featured two new characters shipped with existing characters, and featured Grimlock and Starscream. Wave Three was an all new wave consisting of Jazz and Shockwave, as well as Movie Optimus Prime and Movie Bumblebee. And then in 2009, SDCC received as an odd exclusive choice a metallic repaint of the standard Optimus Prime.
But like G.I.Joe, there are two known Muggs that failed to get out the door before the line came to an end. That didn't stop some industrious person at Hasbro from using SDCC 2010 as a venue to release Prowl. His Wave companion, Ironhide, unfortunately has yet to see the light of day, which may be an indication that Prowl was not a barn burner for SDCC or that Hasbro just didn't want to waste more time on Muggs (although it would later produce a line of 4″ Muggs for the Avengers for SDCC). Given that the Mugg Joes were so easily forgotten, I should be grateful we ever got Prowl, and I am. Frankly, he's one of my favourite Muggs, and I'm happy to show him off.
Day 7 - Botshot Inferno, 2013
Which brings us to Day 7 and Botshot Inferno, a curiously coloured version of the character. I say this because Inferno is typically red across the Transformers multiverse, which makes me wonder why yellow? Grappler is orange so it's not a name screw up. Possibly, someone was thinking of the time Optimus Prime was a fire truck that was repainted as an exclusive. Or maybe they were thinking Movie Mudflap. Or maybe they just decided that making him red would make him too much like the Sentinel Prime Botshot that first used the mold (probably the case but speculation is fun!) Whatever the case, his significance is really that he was a Botshot that had managed to elude me at previous sales, while made me covet him more so than normal. He was one of the NYE finds which makes him ideal to close out week on.
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Effexor affects various neuro chemicals in the body which are responsible for nervous system regulation. It inhibits specifically norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake, and also weakly inhibits dopamine reuptake. The net result is more neuro chemicals circulating in the nervous system.
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Q: Undelete utility that preserves folder structure I did a dumb thing and now need to undelete some files.  In fact, I have already recovered the files using Glary Undelete, which has served me well on the other rare occasions where this has been necessary.  So I have the files.
The problem is that Glary and the other undelete options I've looked at don't preserve the original folder structure.  In this case I have about 3,000 small files that I must match to their original locations in a complex nested folder hierarchy.  I could see the full folder paths in Glary before the restore, so I know the information is there; it's just not using that information and copying everything to root of my designated destination, rather than relative to the original location.

A: I was able to preserve the folder structure with Pandora Recovery.

A: No.  Files are deleted by removing their reference from the directory index.  The file still exists on the disk (until the space it occupies is overwritten) but there is no longer a reference to tell the restore software which directory it was in.
The trash/recycle bin of modern OSes remembers where the file was before it was moved so it can be restored correctly.
Backup utilities like TimeMachine store a mirrored copy of the file system so that they know were each file was.

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The Canadian Drift !
What's very alluring about the sport of kitesurfing is the fact that it has a multi-faceted appeal. Sports like snowboarding, skating, gymnastics, wakeboarding, and paragliding combine to give kitesurfing a penchant that is addictive to the core.
"What's the real danger involved in kitesurfing?" I asked Joseph, who is an experienced kite surfer from Canada.
"The real danger?" he laughed, "Well, it is a very, very addictive sport."
Joseph taught me the basics of kitesurfing—pumping air into the kite, laying out the lines, attaching the lines to the kite using a slip knot, setting up the harness, and launching the kite. Once inflated, the kite becomes highly unstable and one has to be careful with moving it around. A slight misstep can land the kite in an unsteady position, and the strong winds at the shore can fly it away never to be retrieved again. Once the lines were attached to the kite, Joseph adhered to the board, and with a swift launch, he was in the middle of the sea!
Within a matter of seconds, Joseph was away from the shore, nearing the distant island which was an exclusion zone. With a calculated maneuver, he could easily change his directions and control the kite. It was amazing to watch him ride the rough waves at the nearby reef.
Joseph is a kite fanatic in true sense of word. A successful businessman, he likes to travel around the world, chasing the wind. It was his pursuit that had brought him here to the extreme southern end of India on the island of Pamban. He describes the place as a paradise for kite surfers, but at the same time, admits that it would be unfair to publicize the beauty of this place to protect it from the effects of commercialization.
The Demon Fish !
An Energizing Ocean Bath!


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There's fierce competition for the title of the "worst crisis in Africa". Most Africa-watchers will list Darfur, eastern Chad, northern Uganda, eastern DRC, noting in passing the last month's violence in Kenya and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe. But Steve Bloomfield makes a persuasive case that the current situation in Somalia is the worst catastrophe currently unfolding in Africa… and one of the most avoidable.
December 7, 2006 – UN Peacekeepers in Somalia – Is that a good thing?
January 4, 2007 – A historic opportunity for what?
December 14, 2007 – Somalia spirals out of control. Or it's completely peaceful. Depends on who you ask.
Somalia has been without a central government since 1991 – it's been run by somewhat functional governments in northern provinces Somaliland and Puntland, and by competing groups of warlords in the south. There have been thirteen unsuccesful attempts to create national unity governments for Somalia, all of which have failed. Attempt #14 – the Transitional Federal Government – has support of the UN, the US and has been able to occupy southern Somalia with the backing of the Ethiopian army. The TFG, backed by the Ethiopian Army, supported by US military assistance, chased out the Union of Islamic Courts, a group of warlords who managed to bring some semblance of stability to Mogadishu and its environs by introducing a form of sharia law.
Ethiopia got involved because it sees a strong Islamist Somalia as a threat – specifically, it is fighting a civil conflict in its eastern Ogaden region, which shares a border with Somalia and which some Somalis see as a part of Greater Somalia. Eritrea may have gotten involved on the side of the UIC, as a way of opposing their enemy Ethiopia… with whom they are threatening to resume fighting the world's stupidest war. The US got involved because it feared that a UIC-controlled Mogadishu would become a haven for Al-Qaeda. Got all that?
Ethiopia invaded in late 2006, with intelligence, training and logistical support from the US, rapidly routed UIC, which dispersed, a common tactic in guerilla warfare. Since then, it's become increasingly clear that Ethiopia is trapped in its own "Vietnam", an unwinnable guerilla war that's sapping its strength. The US has bombed Somali targets several times with limited success. The AU is on the ground as a peacekeeping force, but only 1600 of a promised 8,000 troops have shown up. Meanwhile, violence is increasing and spreading north into previously stable Puntland.
All of this is set-up for Bloomfield's must-read article. He's followed the situation very closely and has several assertions in his article that I've not seen elsewhere.
– The US government not only trained but armed the Ethiopian forces that currently occupy Somalia.
– The Ethiopian/US invasion has strengthened the hand of hardline, international Islamists, and weakened the more moderate forces that had helped stabilize Mogadishu. Invading to Somalia to unseat Al Qaeda may have become a self-fulfilling prophecy – if they weren't there before the invasion, they are now.
– Contractors are building Africa's third-largest airstrip in Bosasso, a small port city that serves as the capital of Puntland. Speculation is that the airstrip is designed to allow major airlifts of troops and materiel.
I'm obsessed with the situation in Somalia not because of the humanitarian dimension – obviously, there are half a dozen crises in sub-Saharan Africa that demand more international attention and aid, and I'd prefer to avoid the argument about which is most important or most undercovered. I'm obsessed because I fear that Somalia is how America will fight wars in the future, if its citizens don't demand we stop fighting this way.
But the dangerous thing about Somalia is that no one is paying attention. Mention a "third front" in the perpetual, aimless war on terror and the vast majority of Americans will respond with a blank gaze. We've read countless words about Bill Clinton's accusations that Obama wasn't really against the Iraq war, but I've yet to see a journalist ask either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama their opinion on US involvement in Somalia. "Senator, do you believe that using other country's military forces as a proxy for US aims, as we've done in Somalia with the Ethiopian military, is a legitimate foreign policy option for the US?" should do it. Let me know how that goes.
Okay, rant over. You're off the hook for another two months, dear readers, assuming nothing dramatic happens.
This was a fascinating read as always, I have your linked post on the topic open in tabs next to this one and am looking forward to reading them.


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Q: Translating variables into english I have recently came across some code where the variable names are in french, I could not use google translate because only part of the code needs translated, and it would not be that practical to copy and paste each of the variables into the translator.
How can i easily translate the variable names? what translator could i use?
Here is some french that i tried to translate.
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    unsigned int nombre;
    unsigned int diviseur;
    unsigned int reste;

    for (nombre = 2; nombre != 0; nombre++)
    {
        for (diviseur = 2, reste = 1; (diviseur < nombre) && (reste > 0); diviseur++)
        {
            reste = nombre % diviseur;
        }
        if (reste > 0)
        {
            printf("%d\n", nombre);
        }
    }

    return;
}

But when i tried to translate the code using google translate i got this bad translation.
# include stdio.h

int main ()
{
    unsigned int number;
    unsigned int divisor;
    unsigned int left;

    for (count = 2, number = 0;! number + +)
    {
        for (divisor = 2, left = 1, (divisor <number) && (rest> 0) + + divider)
        {
            remainder = number% divisor;
        }
        if (left> 0)
        {
            printf ("% d \ n", count);
        }
    }

    return;
}

A: Depending on your language, parsers or some sort of static checking tools may be available, letting you to extract the list of variables.
For example, PHP has a tokenizer, while for JavaScript, one can use jslint. For C#, there is StyleCop which will, with minor configuration changes, highlight every variable written in a language other than English (or containing spelling errors).
Once you get the list of variables, use a translator tool of your choice and get a translation as a table where the first column is the Russian name, and the second one — the English translation.
This step would be done mostly manually. I don't know any automated translator which will be able to deal with the variable name such as iCountActivations. Regular expressions can help to get rid of prefixes or translating camel case into separate words.
Then use refactoring tools to rename the variables. Refactoring tools will take care of renaming the variable in every place where it is used, and rename only this variable.
Finally, use search to check manually that there is anything left.
Warning: be prepared to obtain meaningless variable names because of a bad translation. If code quality matter, prefer to translate the source code by a person who knows both Russian and English and who is also a programmer and is able to understand the source code to translate. Such people are easy to find, I believe (I'm one of them and know a lot of developers who know languages other than English), but very probably, they wouldn't do it for free.


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Home >Elections 2019 >Assembly Elections 2019 >Two sides of same street: AAP camp wears a jubilant look, BJP and Congress sombre
BJP's national headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg wore a desolate and forlorn look on Tuesday. Photo: Mint
Two sides of same street: AAP camp wears a jubilant look, BJP and Congress sombre
2 min read . Updated: 11 Feb 2020, 11:11 PM IST Shaswati Das
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg is home to offices of all three main political parties that contested the Delhi election
AAP workers believe that the division of votes between the party and the Congress in certain constituencies has benefited the BJP
NEW DELHI : The mood of the city-state was apparent on Tuesday on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, home to offices of the three main political parties contesting the Delhi assembly elections.
One entire side of this arterial passage connecting some of central Delhi's busiest roads was sombre and sullen. That's the side with the Delhi Congress office on one end and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) national headquarters on the other.
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The Delhi Congress office on Tuesday (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)
On the opposite side of the road, in the middle, is the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP's) head office. The road in front was dotted by jubilant party workers, a wedding band, a flash mob, and hundreds of paramilitary and Delhi Police personnel, immediately after the Election Commission's numbers made it clear that the new kid on the block had returned to power with a thumping majority. As slogans hailing chief minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal sounded through loudspeakers, senior party leader and Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Sanjay Singh said, "Today once again in Delhi AAP has achieved a historic mandate under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal. The people of Delhi have chosen their leader and no one can defeat him."
"(Home minister) Amit Shah and his entire team tried their level best to hijack the narrative by talking about Shaheen Bagh and other such issues. What have you done for the people? People want to see those results and their decision is clear in their mandate," Singh told the media at the party's office. "Politics of hate make no difference to the people. Don't practise hate politics. People want to see issues being resolved and that is what Arvind Kejriwal has done," he said.
AAP workers believe that the division of votes between the party and the Congress in certain constituencies has benefited the BJP.
Party workers also asserted that though votes had been split in a select few constituencies, religion was not an issue in the elections.
"AAP has never been in favour of politics of religion, which is what BJP practises. Shaheen Bagh and Jamia are not issues. So in some of the constituencies, votes have been split between AAP and the Congress and that has in turn benefited the BJP. Otherwise it is clear that people have rejected the BJP," said AAP party worker Hasibul Hasan.
The Delhi office of the Congress, which failed yet again to win even one seat in the Delhi assembly elections, wore a desolate and forlorn look, with neither party workers nor any party leader making an appearance. A lone guard stationed at the premises said that "no one has come".
The BJP won just eight seats and it too kept a low profile. Not a single party worker could be seen at the BJP office, situated about a kilometre from the Congress office, which was witness to massive celebrations after the results of the 2019 general election were announced.
Kejriwal's appearance with his wife, who was marking her birthday, and children, rounded up celebrations and lessons on both sides of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg on Tuesday.
"This is not my victory. It it is the victory of every family that thought of me as their son. This is the victory of every family that gets electricity, whose children get education, whose family members get subsidized healthcare and treatment in hospitals. This is the birth of a new form of politics," Kejriwal said in his victory speech.


Thomas Hailer advises the Festival Director in all questions pertaining to the programme and in synchronising all programme-related communication sequences across the sections and departments of the Berlinale. In addition, he advises the Festival Director in the artistic positioning and structural development of the Berlinale, with special emphasis on the dovetailing of all individual sections with the European Film Market.
He was section head of Berlinale Generation from 2002 - 2008, a period marked by the introduction of the 14plus competition, the expansion of the programme to include young adults.
Thomas Hailer is a dean at the Akademie für Kindermedien, a training initiative by the Förderverein Deutscher Kinderfilm (German Children's Film Development Association). His activities as dramatic adviser have included project supervision in the children's film funding department at the foundation "Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film" until 2008.


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Social inequality is pandemic!
On 18. april 2021 23. april 2021 By Mette Hafstrøm KirkegaardIn demokrati, Kreativitet, Lige nu
The millionaires volunteering for higher taxes are urging governments on both sides of the Atlantic to increase taxes on the wealthiest….
"Informal groups of multimillionaires in the US and Europe warn that the Covid-19 pandemic has created huge public debts and brutally deepened social inequalities that were already entrenched before the crisis struck….
The pandemic has starkly shown up the wealth differences between the haves and the have-nots. The total wealth of the world's billionaires shot up from $8.04tn in March 2020 to $12.39tn last month — a 54 per cent rise, according to research by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive American think-tank, using data from Forbes, Bloomberg, and Wealth-X.
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Dear Miss Manners: When my mother passed away, I inherited her lovely diamond engagement ring. As I already have a beautiful diamond ring, the only value to me is sentimental. I would like it to remain in the family; but, if possible, I would like to see the ring worn, as opposed to simply locked up in a safe deposit box.
Since my daughter is already married and also possesses a lovely diamond ring, I have informed my son that I would like to give my mother's ring to him to give to the woman he might decide to marry one day.
As far as I know, my son is not dating anyone seriously at this time but, if the time should come when he would like to propose, is there a proper manner in which he could give a family ring with the explicit understanding that if the engagement did not result in marriage, the ring would be returned to my son?
Further, if there were to be a later divorce, would the ring then belong to my son's ex-wife or be returned to him? Even if there were a divorce, if there were children from the marriage, I would have no problem with her keeping the ring to pass on to my grandchildren one day.
Gentle Reader: One way to ensure that this theoretical marriage does not take place is to persuade your son to offer a lady a ring with visible strings attached. Neither "My mother wants this back if things don't work out" nor "This ring stays in the family even if you don't" is likely to sweep her off her feet.
Anyway, there is an invisible string attached to any engagement ring. If a marriage does not take place, for whatever reason, the lady is supposed to return it. Miss Manners does not promise this might not be a struggle.
She has heard of those from whose hands it had to be legally pried. And even that doesn't help after the marriage takes place, when it becomes hers.
Let this not discourage you from your plan. It is just that you, like your son should he marry, will have to take your chances.
Dear Miss Manners: My pregnant wife of 2 1/2 months just had a miscarriage. Most friends and family members knew of the pregnancy.
When we announced the miscarriage, most expressed their sorrow through religious overtones. Though my wife is religious, I am not. I found it offensive that the loss of our baby gave way to people's own religious opinions on why we lost the baby. I even had one relative tell me it was because I didn't believe enough that this happened.
Outside a church, what should be the proper way to express one's sorrow without getting on one's own religious soapbox and assuming everybody has your same beliefs?
Gentle Reader: Was this person aware that religion has something to say about compassion, kindness and humility?
Not that Miss Manners recommends telling him. Surely the less conversation you have with such people the better. All it was necessary to say to you was "I'm so sorry."


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Rema Shares New Song "Peace of Mind": Listen
"In the song, I talked about how much I yearn for peace because of the thoughts and voices in my head due to what I'm facing personally and what my people are facing as well"
By Quinn Moreland
Rema, photo by Deeds Art
Rema has released the new single "Peace of Mind." He explained in a statement, "In the song, I talked about how much I yearn for peace because of the thoughts and voices in my head due to what I'm facing personally and what my people are facing as well." Rema continued, "So many bad things have happened, and I know many people can relate." Listen to "Peace of Mind" below.
This year, the Nigerian artist shared the songs "Woman," "Ginger Me," and "Alien." He also appeared on a track with DJDS called "Simple Things."
Read Pitchfork's feature interview "Rema Is Leading the Next Generation of Nigerian Pop."
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Whose going to watch the E3 Convention. I Know I am. I'm Exited To See The Game-play For Assassin Creed 3 for PS3 And PS Vita.
I'll watch Ubisoft, Sony and Nintendo's conferences. I expect Sony and Nintendo to show next gen consoles. Nintendo almost certainly will.
Sony better show us some gameplay footage of The Last Guardian this time around. The Last of Us and Ni no Kuni should be awesome. Also looking forward to know more about their upcoming game streaming service and Vita price cut.
Vita's AC looks very interesting, featuring the first female protagonist in the franchise. The main ACs are always good. Hope Ubi shows Beyond Good & Evil 2.
Also, Square Enix, what happened to FF13 Versus?
FF13 V. may become FF15, is what I heard.
I'm not going to watch any of the presentations, I'll just read up on them later... and then maybe watch game-specific videos that I find interesting.
I think I will be doing something like backstab when i get the time.
Although the gameplay is supposed to be completely different from any FF before (any RPG for that matter). Not sure if that's a good thing, probably not. Just curious.
The video looks pretty legit. Seems like the PS3 lost another exclusive, but it's all good. At least it's not cancelled like I thought.


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Remarks at a National Black Republican Council Dinner
Toasts of President Reagan and President Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland at a Luncheon Honoring the Icelandic President
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India at the State Dinner
Remarks at a United States Olympic Committee Dinner Honoring August A. Busch III in St. Louis, Missouri
Toasts of the President and United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar at a Luncheon in New York City
Toasts of the President and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a Luncheon Honoring the President in London
Toasts of the President and Queen Elizabeth II at a Dinner Honoring the President at Windsor Castle in England
Toast at a Luncheon Meeting With Italian President Alessandro Pertini in Rome
Toasts of President Reagan and French President Francois Mitterrand at a Dinner Honoring the French President in Paris
Remarks in Los Angeles at a California Republican Party Fund-raising Dinner
Toasts of President Reagan and President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo of Brazil at the State Dinner
Toasts of the President and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at the State Dinner
Remarks in Bridgetown, Barbados, Following a Luncheon Meeting With Leaders of Eastern Caribbean Countries
Toasts of the President and Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Philip George Seaga at a Working Dinner in Kingston, Jamaica
Toast at the State Dinner Honoring President Alessandro Pertini of Italy
Remarks of the President and Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey of Ireland at a Luncheon Honoring the Prime Minister
Toasts at a White House Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors
Remarks at a White House Dinner Honoring the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions
Toast at a White House Dinner Honoring the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions
Toasts of President Reagan and President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt at the State Dinner
Remarks at a White House Luncheon Celebrating the Centennial of the Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Toasts of the President and President Luis Herrera Campins of Venezuela at the State Dinner
Toasts of the President and King Hussein I of Jordan at the State Dinner
Exchange of Remarks at a Luncheon Hosted by President Francois Mitterrand of France in Yorktown, Virginia
Toasts at a Dinner Honoring President Francois Mitterrand of France in Williamsburg, Virginia
Toasts of the President and King Juan Carlos I of Spain at the State Dinner
Toast at a Luncheon Honoring Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda of Thailand
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Menahem Begin of Israel at the State Dinner
Toasts of President Reagan and President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt at the State Dinner
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister J. Malcolm Fraser of Australia at the State Dinner
Toasts of the President and President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico at the Luncheon Honoring the Mexican President
Toasts of the President and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the Federal Republic of Germany at the State Dinner
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki of Japan at the State Dinner
Toast at a St. Patrick's Day Luncheon Hosted by the Irish Ambassador
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom at the Dinner Honoring the President
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom at the State Dinner
Toasts at a Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors
Toasts of the President and President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Edward Philip George Seaga of Jamaica
Toast at the Inaugural Luncheon