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The NWERC organisers have decided that they want to improve the automatic grading of the submissions for the contest, so they now use two systems: DOMjudge and Kattis. Each submission is judged by both systems and the grading results are compared to make sure that the systems agree. However, something went wrong in setting up the connection between the systems, and now the jury only knows all results of both systems, but not which result belongs to which submission! You are therefore asked to help them figure out how many results could have been consistent.

## Input Format

The input consists of:

* one line with one integer _n_ (1 ≤ n ≤ 105), the number of submissions;
* _n_ lines, each with a result of the judging by DOMjudge, in arbitrary order;
* _n_ lines, each with a result of the judging by Kattis, in arbitrary order.
Each result is a string of length between 5 and 15 characters (inclusive) consisting of lowercase letters.

## Output Format

Output one line with the maximum number of judging results that could have been the same for both systems.

## Sample Input

    5
    correct
    wronganswer
    correct
    correct
    timelimit
    wronganswer
    correct
    timelimit
    correct
    timelimit

## Sample Output

    4

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In 10th and 12th I got 95%, whereas in Graduation I got an 86%.
What have you pursued in graduation?
I have done Economics Hons. from Hansraj College, Delhi University.
Do you have any work experience? If yes, where?
Yes, I do have work experience of 11 months with Boston Consulting Group in the knowledge management department.
When did you plan to pursue MBA?
MBA was more like a natural choice after having done Eco. Hons. Other than that I really wanted corporate exposure, because that's where my interest lies.
What were your sectional and overall percentiles?
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Q: Hive : Insert overwrite multiple partitions I have a Hive table partitioned on date. I want to be able to selectively overwrite the partitions for the last 'n' days (or custom list of partitions).
Is there a way to do it without writing "INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY" statement for each partition?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: Hive supports dynamic partitioning, so you can build a query where the partition is just one of the source fields.
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dst partition (dt)
SELECT col0, col1, ... coln, dt from src where ...

The where clause can specify which values of dt you want to overwrite.
Just include the partition field (dt in this case) last in the list from the source, you can even do SELECT *, dt if the dt field is already part of the source or even SELECT *,my_udf(dt) as dt, etc
By default, Hive wants at least one of the partitions specified to be static, but you can allow it to be nonstrict; so for the above query, you can set the following before the running:
set hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;

A: Try this . This will exclude dt from * and then adding dt will set the order as required:
SET hive.support.quoted.identifiers=none;
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dst partition (dt)
SELECT `(dt)?+.+`, dt from tableName;

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The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is the ordinary of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway.
Incumbent:
Sede Vacante
Ecclesiastical province
First holder
Glasgow and Galloway
St Mary's Glasgow
Brief historyEdit
When the dioceses of Glasgow and Galloway were combined in 1837, Michael Russell, the then incumbent of Leith became the first bishop of the combined see. Initially there were only three or four congregations in the south west of Scotland.[1]
Until the establishment of St Mary's Church in Great Western Road as the cathedral of the diocese, the bishops were also incumbents of individual congregations - Michael Russell at Leith; Walter Trower at St Mary's Church in Glasgow; and William Wilson at Ayr.
The episcopate of William Harrison was specially notable for the exceptional expansion of the church in the south west of Scotland.
Bishop Reid was translated to the Diocese of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. His successor, Bishop Darbyshire, was also translated becoming the Archbishop of Cape Town in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Bishop Rawcliffe was already a bishop when he came to the diocese having previously been consecrated at the first Bishop of the New Hebrides in the Church of the Province of Melanesia between 1974 and 1980.
Bishops of the united dioceseEdit
First Bishop's Plaque in the Chancel of St Mary's Cathedral (29 July 2006) Stewart D. Macfarlane
The bishops of the combined See of Glasgow and Galloway [2][3] are listed on two plaques on the south wall of the chancel in St Mary's Cathedral. As the first plaque was filled recording the episcopate of Bishop Rawcliffe, a second plaque was installed following the enthronement of Bishop Taylor.
A gallery of portraits of the past bishops is displayed in the sacristy corridor in the cathedral.
1837–1848: Michael Russell
1848–1859: Walter Trower
1859–1888; William Wilson
1888–1903: William Harrison
1904–1921: Ean Campbell
1921–1931: Edward Reid
1931–1938: Russell Darbyshire
1938–1952: John How (Primus 1946–1952)
1952–1974: Francis Moncreiff (Primus 1962–1973)
1974–1980: Frederick Goldie
1981–1991: Derek Rawcliffe
1991–1996: John Taylor
1996–2009: Idris Jones (Primus 2006–2009)
2010–2018: Gregor Duncan[4][5]
Bishop-elect: Kevin Pearson[6]
^ A Short History of the Episcopal Church in Scotland (2nd Edition) 1974 - F. Goldie pp 115-117
^ A Short History of the Episcopal Church in Scotland (2nd Edition) 1974 - F. Goldie pp 115, 171
^ Plaques in the Chancel of St Mary's Cathedral
^ "The Very Rev Dr Gregor Duncan elected as Bishop". 16 January 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
^ "Meet the next bishop". 24 January 2010. Archived from the original on 17 April 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
^ "New Bishop elected for Glasgow and Galloway". Scottish Episcopal Church. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Glasgow_and_Galloway&oldid=936448996"


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The Spanish Ham Lawsuit and Other Muslim Problems Hitting Iberia
by Soeren Kern
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A high school teacher in southern Spain is being sued for child abuse by the parents of a Muslim student who claims that the teacher "defamed Islam" by talking about Spanish ham in class. The case is one of a growing list of recent controversies that illustrate the increasing assertiveness of Muslims in Spain at a time when Spaniards are slowly waking up to the integration challenges posed by uncontrolled immigration from Muslim countries.
Although Spanish legal scholars are divided over whether the lawsuit has real merit, nearly everyone agrees that the case has potentially major implications for free speech in Spain. They also agree that the constant threat of lawsuits will force Spanish school teachers to carefully consider their choice of words in the future.
The latest dust-up occurred at the Instituto Menéndez Tolosa, a secondary school in the town of La Línea de la Concepción in the southern region of Andalusia, where José Reyes Fernández, a geography teacher, was giving a lecture about the different types of climates in Spain. During the class, Reyes mentioned that the climate in Andalusia offers the perfect temperature conditions for curing Spanish ham (Jamón Ibérico), a world-famous delicacy.
At this point, a Muslim student in the class interrupted Reyes and, according to local newspaper reports, argued that any talk of pork products is offensive to his religion. Reyes responded by saying that he was only giving an example and that he does not take into consideration different religious beliefs when teaching geography.
The Muslim student informed his parents, who then proceeded to file a lawsuit against Reyes, accusing him of "abuse with xenophobic motivations." Article 525 of the Spanish Penal Code makes it a crime to "offend the feelings of the members of a religious confession."
The Spanish ham controversy follows several other recent imbroglios involving Spain's Muslim community, which now numbers around 1.5 million (compared to only 100,000 in 1990), and exposes the growing uncertainty in Spain over how to deal with Muslim mass immigration.
In September 2010, for example, a discotheque in southern Spain was forced to change its name and architectural design after Islamists threatened to initiate "a great war between Spain and the people of Islam" if it did not. La Meca was a popular discotheque in the southern Spanish resort town of Águilas (Murcia) in the 1980s and 1990s. After being closed for more than a decade, the club reopened in August 2010 under new management, but using the original name, La Meca. The mega-nightclub, which has been visited by more than 100,000 patrons since its reopening, features a large turquoise-colored mosque-style dome, a minaret-like tower, as well as traditional Arabic architecture common in southern Spain.
But soon after its reopening, Muslims began to complain that the nightclub is offensive and insulting to their religion; a group of Muslim radicals posted a video on the Internet calling for a boycott of Spanish goods and jihad against those who "blaspheme the name of Allah." Spain's intelligence agency, the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), warned La Meca's owners that the discotheque was being directly targeted by Islamic extremists.
In mid-September, the nightclub owners held a hastily-arranged press conference during which they – under the watchful supervision of local Muslim leaders – announced that the venue's name would be changed to La Isla (the island) "to avoid further problems and to ensure that patrons keep coming." They also confirmed plans to modify controversial features of the club's architecture, namely a minaret-like tower that will be converted into a lighthouse-like tower.
Other Islam-related controversies abound in Spain. In December 2010, for example, Spanish police raided an apartment in the northern city of Logroño to free a 25-year-old Pakistani woman who was forced to marry her cousin and was then held captive by her family and sexually assaulted for more than a month. She was freed after two passersby found a note the woman had dropped from the window of an eighth floor apartment where she was being held. Police arrested ten Pakistanis, including the woman's husband as well as her parents, on charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.
In an interview with the Madrid-based newspaper, El País, Huma Jamshed, President of the Association of Pakistani Women in Spain, says there are many such cases in Spain, although most of them do not end up with arrests. "It is difficult to understand. You have to know Pakistani culture, which is completely different from Spanish culture. This is a matter of interests. The families marry off their children to relatives in Pakistan to get the [immigration] papers here, and this is a guarantee of a future for them. Marriages between cousins are normal in Pakistan and women do not feel obliged. The problems begin when they come to Spain and are educated; they begin to work and know their rights, because then it becomes an abuse and they feel forced."
Meanwhile, the Catalan town of Lleida, where 29,000 Muslims make up more than 20 percent of the town's population, became the first municipality in Spain to ban the burqa head covering in all public spaces. Women found violating the ban, which entered into effect on December 9, will be fined up to €600 ($750). One day earlier, the Catalonian Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Watani, a local Muslim association, which had argued that the ban constitutes religious discrimination.
Also in December, an imam in Tarragona, a city in northeastern Spain, was sentenced to one year in prison for forcing a 31-year-old Moroccan woman to wear a hijab head covering. The local prosecutor had asked the judge to jail the imam and three others for five years for harassment" after the imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house for being an "infidel," but the Socialist mayor tried to get the case dismissed to prevent "a social conflict."
In November 2010, the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two enclaves in northern Africa, officially recognized the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, as a public holiday. By doing so, Ceuta and Melilla became the first Spanish municipalities officially to mark an Islamic holiday since Spain was liberated from Muslim captivity in 1492.
More than 10,000 lambs were slaughtered in conformity with Sharia rituals during the one-day festival on November 17. According to local media reports, many of the animals were imported illegally from Morocco because Muslim immigrants prefer to sacrifice lambs with long tails, lacking on lambs grown on the Iberian Peninsula.
Meanwhile, jihadists are now calling for a "crusade" to recover Ceuta and Melilla for Islam. They say they were provoked by an August 2010 border crisis between Spain and Morocco and that involves the two cities.
In October 2010, the Islamic Association of Málaga, in southern Spain, demanded that Television Española (TVE), the state-owned national public television broadcaster, stop showing a Spanish-language television series called El Clon. In an angry letter addressed to TVE Director General Santiago González, the authors express their "most energetic revulsion" against a show they describe as "not only anti-Muslim, but also attacking the basic principles of coexistence and integration guaranteed by all democratic societies." The authors accuse TVE of violating the Spanish Constitution for airing a program that criticizes certain aspects of Islam, such as forced marriages and the lack of women's rights in Muslim countries.
In September 2010, radical Muslims threatened to attack the Barcelona metro system on the day the city celebrates its annual September 24 holiday, Festes de la Mercè., which had its origins in a medieval Roman Catholic religious order established to liberate Christians from Muslim captivity at a time when the Iberian Peninsula was under Islamic occupation (711-1492).
In April 2010, a 16-year-old schoolgirl was banned from a school in Madrid after refusing to remove her hijab, a face covering, in violation of the school dress code.
In December 2009, nine Salafists in Catalonia kidnapped a woman, tried her for adultery based on Sharia law, and condemned her to death. The woman escaped and fled to a local police station just before she was to be executed by the Islamists.
In November 2009, a Muslim lawyer was ejected from Spain's high court in Madrid, where she was defending a client, because the lawyer refused to remove her headscarf.
In April 2009, Spain marked the 400th anniversary of King Philip III's expulsion of the Moriscos -- the descendants of the Muslim population who converted to Christianity under threat of exile in 1502 -- from Spain in 1609. The Spanish Socialist Party called on Spain to apologize to the Muslim world for the expulsion, which Muslims claim was the world's first genocide. Muslim leaders say Spain could right the wrong by offering Spanish citizenship to the Muslim descendants of the Moriscos, as an "apology and acknowledgement of mistakes" made during the Spanish Inquisition.
In February 2009, the Islamic Commission of Spain, the group that represents Spain's Muslims, complained to the Spanish government that there are only 11 cemeteries for the 1.5 million Muslims in Spain. The group says the lack of burial plots in Spain for Muslims makes it impossible for them to bury their dead according to Sharia law. Muslim leaders also called on the Spanish government to provide mosques for Muslim worshippers.
In October 2007, Amr Moussa, the Egyptian Secretary-General of the Arab League, asked the Spanish government to allow Muslims to worship in the cathedral of Córdoba, which had been a mosque during the medieval Islamic kingdom of Al-Andalus. Muslims now hope to recreate the ancient city of Córdoba, once the heart of Al-Andalus, as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe. Funds for the project to turn "Córdoba into the Mecca of the West" are being sought from the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and Muslim organizations in Morocco and Egypt.
In Granada, a city in southern Spain that was the last Muslim stronghold of Al-Andalus to capitulate to the Roman Catholic kings in 1492, there are now parallel societies; some Muslims want traditional Sharia law to be applied there instead of Spanish law. They are also demanding Muslim education and special Muslim schools for their children. They also want an equal share in the money made with ticket sales for the fabled Alhambra palace, which they regard as part of the cultural heritage of their Muslim ancestors.
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Flu Update: Just how bad has it been in King County?
Meredith Li-VollmerCommunicable Disease, influenza, Jeff Duchin, vaccines2018, flu, flu vaccine, H3N2, influenza, Jeff Duchin, severity
Copious media coverage has described the unusually widespread and severe flu season nationally. But what has it been like in our region? We checked in with Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer and Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization, to find out the current status of flu locally.
What's happening now and how do you determine how bad a flu season is?
JD: Influenza-like illnesses remain significantly elevated in King County, but they have begun to fall in all age groups. However, the flu season is far from over with 6-8 weeks of elevated but decreasing flu activity likely remaining.
With respect to severity, there are several things to keep in mind. Regardless of how we classify each flu season, those people who do get the flu have a miserable illness, miss school and work and more enjoyable activities, many require health care visits or need hospitalization, and some will die. So from the individual's personal health perspective, there is really no such thing as a "mild" flu season.
To describe severity from the population health level, we look at the number of people who are seen in King County emergency departments with influenza-like illnesses. We get additional information about severity by tracking what proportion of these people is hospitalized, and through reports of influenza deaths from healthcare providers. It's important to note that reported influenza deaths are "the tip of the iceberg," and actual influenza-related deaths are likely 10-20 times higher than reported.
We also track how widespread the flu is through the number of laboratory tests for influenza that are ordered and are positive, and through reporting of outbreaks at longterm care facilities and other institutions.
Although absolute cutoffs that correspond to mild, moderate, and severe seasons are not available at this time, we compare all this information from the current season to past seasons to determine the relative severity. We're in the process of developing local cutoffs based on recent research from the CDC.
Got it. So what do the measures say about how this flu season compared to previous seasons?
The main flu strain that has been spreading has been H3N2, which is a strain that is generally more severe than others. This strain was also the predominant one last year, and that was the worst flu season locally in recent times. Our measures show that the current flu season in King County hasn't been as severe as the 2016-17 season or the 2014-15 season, another bad one. I think people tend to forget from one year to the next how severe our annual flu seasons can be.
If we look at two measures, the number of deaths from flu and the number of outbreaks in long-term care facilities, this year hasn't been as bad as last year. Twenty-two influenza deaths (all in adults) and 27 long-term care facility outbreaks have been reported this season (through February 3rd) compared to 53 deaths and 81 long-term care facility outbreaks last year at this time. There have been no pediatric deaths reported in King County in the past 5 seasons. Hospitalizations for persons with influenza-like illness seen in King County emergency departments are also at lower levels then last season and the 2014-15 season.
How effective has the flu vaccine been so far?
The flu vaccine is formulated to protect against multiple strains. The H3N2 strain has been circulating most widely, and it also caused severe outbreaks last year and in 2014-15. Influenza B is also circulating and tends to increase in the latter half of the flu season. Early estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness from Canada show overall protection against any influenza virus infection of 42%, with low protection against the H3N2 strain (17%) and higher (55%) protection against type B influenza. In other words, more than half the vaccinated people who were exposed to an influenza B virus didn't get it, and 17% of the vaccinated people who were exposed to H3N2 didn't get it.
It's important to know that even in seasons when the vaccine provides relatively low protection against one of the influenza strains, it still can provide meaningful benefit in preventing hospitalizations and reducing the severity of symptoms and length of illness.
If the H3N2 part of the flu vaccine only provided low protection and that's the main flu virus circulating, why hasn't this season been worse in King County?
That's an interesting question. State and national level data may mask variability in influenza activity in smaller geographic areas such as the county level. But the county level may tell us something about influenza epidemiology and immunity. To-date, this year's outbreak locally has not been as severe or deadly as last year, particularly among older individuals. What might be reasons for that? Perhaps people who were sick with H3N2 last year had some protection against a similar H3N2 virus. It's an intriguing possibility. Also of interest is the potential impact of the severity and extent of the prior season's flu outbreak on vaccine effectiveness – an issue that has not been studied extensively.
So are you saying that last year's bad flu season may have been part of the reason why the flu wasn't worse locally this year?
It's possible, especially given that the outbreak so far has been largely due to a similar H3N2 flu strain, but we won't be able to fully characterize severity until we have all the data from this season. The flu season has many weeks left and in addition to the H3N2 virus that continues to circulate, influenza B may increase before this year's outbreak ends. Early estimates from Canada show the current vaccine provides protection against influenza infections overall although it is not performing well against the H3N2 strain. By the end of the season we should also know more about the true vaccine effectiveness.
For more information about flu: https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-diseases/disease-control/influenza.aspx
Originally posted on February 8, 2018.
Posted by Meredith Li-Vollmer
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