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Negotiations over President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill go into overdrive this week as the U.S. Senate begins debate over the sweeping legislation and lawmakers jockey to include pet projects such as broadband connectivity.
Senator Angus King, an independent who aligns with Democrats, has been pushing for billions of dollars to expand high-speed broadband service in rural areas — an idea that could attract Republican support.
The Senate was due to take up as early as Wednesday the measure passed last weekend by the House of Representatives.
Democratic senators were privately discussing among themselves and with Biden ways to reallocate at least some of the huge pot of money.
The version of the bill passed by the House would pay for vaccines and medical supplies and send a new round of emergency financial aid to households, small businesses and state and local governments. It includes $1,400 direct payments to individuals, a $400-per-week federal unemployment benefit through Aug. 29, and help for those having difficulty paying rents and home mortgages during the pandemic.
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"Millions of jobs and trillions of dollars have been taken out of our economy," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. He said the bill "is designed to finish the job, to patch up the holes in our economy and lay a foundation for our recovery."
Schumer will need the support of all 48 Democrats and the two independents who caucus with them, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote to pass the measure before some jobless benefits expire on March 14.
Three centrist House of Representatives members, Democrats Josh Gottheimer and Abigail Spanberger and Republican Tom Reed on Tuesday urged congressional leadership to devote $45 billion to help local communities connect to the internet.
They want the money to come out of the $350 billion for state and local aid included in the bill.
Their argument is that those with poor or no broadband access are stymied in accessing medical services, including registering for vaccines, and getting their children plugged in to remote learning during the pandemic.
A Senate aide familiar with negotiations said there also were discussions of tightening income qualifications for people receiving the $1,400 direct payments.
Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he wants the House's $400-per-week temporary federal unemployment benefit reduced to $300. The Senate aide said there also were moves to "turn the spigot off" on the payments as state jobless rates sink below a certain threshold.
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        public void Iterators_TopWithTies_ReturnsAllRows_IfLimitIsLarger()
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        public void Iterators_TopWithTies_LimitsRows_WhenNoTies()
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        }

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        public void Iterators_TopWithTies_LimitsRows_AndBreaksTies()
        {
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        public void Iterators_TopWithTies_LimitsRows_AndStopsWhenLastRowIsInTie()
        {
            var rows = new object[] { 1, 2, 3, 3 };
            var expected = new object[] { 1, 2, 3, 3 };
            const int limit = 3;

            using var input = new MockedIterator(rows);
            using var iterator = CreateIterator(input, limit);
            AssertProduces(iterator, expected);
        }
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}


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A Productivity Ninja is not a superhero. None of us have superhero brains, either. We also know – usually from our own painful experience – that we're all too capable of forgetting important things, making bad decisions because we're swamped with other things to think about or just not finding the time to focus on the important stuff. It's time to change all that.
We're going to use the CORD model and the Organise and Review habits in particular here to develop a 'second brain'. Your second brain is designed to replace your real brain when it comes to memory (our woeful short-term memory is a major driver of stress and unproductive behaviour). Your second brain is also designed to support the good decision-making – intelligence and intuition – that our real brain is really good at already, but which we perhaps aren't currently using to its full potential or aren't as able to do unless we're in periods of proactive attention.
What Does a Second Brain Look Like?
A series of questions to help support good decision-making and force the clarity that reduces your stress; Checklists and a routine to support regular review – both daily and weekly – of everything held in the second brain.
The CORD model describes the four distinct elements of knowledge work.
These are the four things that always need to happen to add value or impact to any single piece of information. It's a model that you can use both to think about how you manage your personal workflow and also how you structure your days and weeks to remain as agile and adaptable as possible to whatever comes your way. It also gives you the confidence to know that whatever you're working on is the best possible thing you can be doing at any given moment.
The CORD model's four phases also provide the structure to separate thinking from doing in our work. Organise and Review are where the thinking happens, where the psychological heavy lifting takes place. So the Capture and the Do habits are to help you to trust that the second brain has it all under control and will be doing that thinking in due course, so that you don't have to worry about it right now.
Your aim is to focus on developing a second brain that you trust. If you trust it, you'll use it. If you use it, you'll trust it. Without that trust, you're putting time and attention into developing something that only serves as a distraction. For your real brain to relax, it needs to know that the second brain is taking care of all of those stressful decisions and things that need remembering.
Trust in your productivity systems and practices tends to work in either positive or negative bursts of momentum: either you feel on top of everything, which feels great and means you're even more likely to continue doing the things that keep you even more on top, or things have started to spiral out of control and you feel worse and worse, thinking that it's all so difficult.
Once you trust your second brain, what you're left with is a profound feeling of Zen-like calm. You're able to be present and in the moment: focused on the current thing you need to do, not worried by all the other possible things that you know you need to work on.


This Mexican Roasted Cauliflower & Chickpea Salad is hearty, yet healthy and jam packed with flavor. Loaded with shredded brussels sprouts, nutty quinoa, cumin kissed cauliflower, crispy chickpeas and a creamy avocado dressing, this is proof that satisfying salads do exist!
Helllllo there boys and girls!
Since I totally blew your diet on Monday with ALL the sky high, streusel topped muffins, today we are going to feast on SALAD. Because while jumbo lemon muffins ARE marvelous, life is all about balance.
Wait wait waaaait! Before you give me that stinky side-eyed glare and click on the X in the upper right-hand corner of your screen, just know we aren't eating any 'ole snooze fest of a salad.
Limp lettuce and bland, boring salads are for the birds.
Today we are eating a salad LOADED with almost all of my favorite things.
Minus rain drops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Obviously. I'm not sure those things would taste good in a salad. Or in anything really.
I made and shot this scrumptiousness waaaaaaay back in the day. Sometime around the last week of December, if you want to get technical.
I've TOTALLY been meaning to share it with you guys over the past couple months, but all the cozy winter eats got in the way.
However, this salad is perfect for the first week of spring (I mean, check out ALL that GREEN!).
So what matters is that I AM sharing it now.
And I'm 99.99999% sure that whole 'sharing is caring' thing doesn't come with time constraints or strings attached.
So you and I can still be friends. Right?
To be honest those words up there masquerading as a recipe title really don't do this salad justice.
I almost named this dish a 'big arse super stellar salad'. However, while that title DOES have a nice ring to it, I didn't think it was quite descriptive enough.
Then, I contemplated properly naming this salad to include allllll the ingredients, but then the title was approximately 134.278 words long.
And that is borderline obnoxious.
Anyways, suitable recipe title dilemma aside, this salad is bomb dot com and FULLY LOADED with ALL the things delicious.
Crisp, delicate strands of shredded brussels sprouts tossed with nutty, fluffy quinoa; topped with smoky, cumin kissed and Mexican spiced roasted cauliflower and crispy chickpeas. Finished with a generous sprinkle of salty queso fresco (or feta), spicy jalapenos, fresh scallions, herbaceous cilantro and salty pumpkin seeds. And lovingly drizzled with a rich, yet healthy, creamy-dreamy avocado Greek yogurt dressing.
Hearty, healthy, and jam packed with flavor, this is a salad you'll actually WANT to eat.
This recipe is pretty straightforward, because SALAD, so I'm not sure it really needs a "how to make it" section. But, I'm going to humor you. Mostly because I was watching 'Worst Cooks in America' and it came to my attention that some people (not you of course) don't even know how to boil water… ummm mind blowing.
First you toss some cauliflower florets and chickpeas with a bit of oil and spices on two sheet pans. Transfer them to the oven and roast until everything is golden brown and delicious. Just make sure you toss the cauliflower and chickpeas, AND rotate the pans, halfway through the cooking time to ensure everything is roasted evenly.
While the cauliflower florets and chickpeas are getting their roast on, whip up the dressing by combining everything EXCEPT the oil in a food processor. Process until the ingredients are creamy, and then SLOWLY stream in the oil while the machine is running. Process until silky smooth.
All that's left to do is toss some shredded brussels sprouts with a bit of cooked quinoa and top it off with the warm roasted cauliflower and chickpeas. Garnish it with desired toppings, drizzle it with plenty of dressing and devour.
Make sure you cook the cauliflower and chickpeas on TWO sheet pans. Overcrowding everything on one pan will cause the cauliflower and chickpeas to steam, and prevent them from getting crispy. To ensure even cooking, make sure you toss the florets and the chickpeas, AND rotate the pans (from top to bottom shelf) halfway through cooking.
I used red quinoa in my salad because I like the color, but you can use white or black if you prefer.
If raw shredded brussels sprouts scare you, you can add them to the sheet pans and roast them in the oven along with the cauliflower and chickpeas.
I always keep a few cups of cooked quinoa in my fridge, because it is great to have on hand. However, if you are cooking quinoa just for this recipe, ½ cup UNCOOKED quinoa = 1 ½ cups COOKED quinoa.
The dressing calls for Fage, which is just strained Greek Yogurt. I used non-fat Fage, but you can use low-fat or full fat, and you can use whatever brand of strained yogurt you would like. Or, you can strain the Greek yogurt yourself. To do so, simply suspend a fine wire mesh strainer over a bowl and line the strainer with cheesecloth. Dump the yogurt on top of the cheesecloth and cover with plastic wrap. Transfer the bowl to the refrigerator and allow the yogurt to strain for at least 1 hour, or up to overnight for best results.
I used extra virgin olive oil in the dressing, because it gives it a richer taste, but you can substitute water if you would like. If you prefer a thinner dressing, simply stream in more oil (or water), one tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is achieved.
The dressing can be made 2 days in advance and stored, covered in the refrigerator.
Fresh, fabulous and full of flavor, this is Mexican Roasted Cauliflower & Chickpea Salad is anything but boring.
Until next week friends, cheers – to seriously satisying salads.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with aluminum foil for easy clean up.
Add the cauliflower and chickpeas to the baking sheets and drizzle with 3 tablespoons of the oil. Sprinkle with cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, 1 teaspoon sea salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper. Toss to combine. Roast in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown, tossing the veggies and beans, and rotating the pans from top to bottom, halfway through.
Meanwhile, make the dressing: In the bowl of a food processor add, one avocado half, yogurt, cilantro, lime juice, and a few pinches of salt and pepper. Process until creamy. With the processor running, slowly stream in 1 tablespoon of oil and process until smooth.* Taste and adjust for seasoning. Set aside until ready to use.
To assemble the salad: In a large bowl toss the brussels sprouts with 1 tablespoon of oil, and season generously with salt and pepper. Thinly slice the remaining half of avocado.
To serve: Transfer the brussels sprouts to serving plates or a platter and top with quinoa, roasted cauliflower, chickpeas, sliced avocado and garnish with desired toppings. Drizzle with the dressing and serve. Enjoy!
1. Make sure you cook the cauliflower and chickpeas on TWO sheet pans. Overcrowding everything on one pan with cause the cauliflower and chickpeas to steam, and prevent them from getting crispy. To ensure even cooking, make sure you toss the florets and the chickpeas, AND rotate the pans (from top to bottom shelf) halfway through cooking.
2. I used red quinoa in my salad because I like the color, but you can use white or black if you prefer.
3. If raw shredded brussels sprouts scare you, you can add them to the sheet pans and roast them in the oven along with the cauliflower and chickpeas.
4. I always keep a few cups of cooked quinoa in my fridge, because it is great to have on hand. However, if you are cooking quinoa just for this recipe, ½ cup UNCOOKED quinoa = 1 ½ cups COOKED quinoa.
5. The dressing calls for Fage, which is just strained Greek Yogurt. I used non-fat Fage, but you can use low-fat or full fat, and you can use whatever brand of strained yogurt you would like. Or, you can strain the Greek yogurt yourself. To do so, simply suspend a fine wire mesh strainer over a bowl and line the strainer with cheesecloth. Dump the yogurt on top of the cheesecloth and cover with plastic wrap. Transfer the bowl to the refrigerator and allow the yogurt to strain for at least 1 hour, or up to overnight for best results.
6. I used extra virgin olive oil in the dressing, because it gives it a richer taste, but you can substitute water if you would like. If you prefer a thinner dressing, simply stream in more oil (or water), one tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is achieved.
7. The dressing can be made 2 days in advance and stored, covered in the refrigerator.
Nailed this! Love the combo of ingredients you chose for this gorgeous salad. That last shot with the dressing dripping onto the salad is just utter perfection. Drooling over here, and shoot, this is healthy. You are a magician too woman!
I wouldn't have thought to add Mexican spices to cauliflower and Brussels sprouts…you really created a nice sounding salad.
I love ALL the flavors blended in here. You really make salads sound amazing!


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Q: What mangement tools does SQL server 2008 R2 standard edition (with SBS) ship with I'm considering purchasing SBS 2008 and wanted to know the tools SQL Server Standard ships with.
Here is a MS article with all the tools. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144275.aspx
I developed an ERP on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and would migrate that into the new server. I used the "SQL Server Management Studio" and "Server Profiler" tools very frequently when developing and would still need them to do many tasks.
Are those two tools included in the Standard edition too?

A: Yes.
Check the article that's linked from the one you posted.

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An Unanswered Question from The Force Awakens
Posted on July 16, 2020 July 16, 2020 by JWM
As I as wont to do, I started thinking about Star Wars today. I mean, it's not exactly out of character. But I stumbled on another question from the saga that I wish had been answered onscreen.
This is sort of an ongoing series that I have, where I pose different questions from different films in the Star Wars franchise. I write them as the whim strikes me, and some of them are strictly for fun. Some of them are purely for giggles. All of them are worth reading!
I'd especially point you toward one about Luke's rescue attempt in Return of the Jedi that I was pondering well before it was hip to ask snarkily on Twitter. It even led to a personal favorite, Luke Skywalker: Crisis Manager.
Anyway, neither one of those has to do with today's question.
How Did Han & Chewie Lose the Millenium Falcon?
The first "big moment" in JJ Abrams' Disney®™©'s Lucasfilm™®©'s Star Wars: [Don't Say Episode VII] The Force Awakens is when Rey and Finn (two characters who lack surnames!) see the fabled Millenium Falcon. It's a big reveal, the music swells, and the movie begins its long warm soak in nostalgia.
Shortly after, they're hijacked by…Han and Chewie! As a fun fact, the moment in the trailer where Han says, "Chewie…we're home," caused me to turn to Agent Bun and say, "Oh, neat. Han lost the Falcon." (Harrison Ford's voice also caused my dog to growl, for the record.)
He talks about how they've been looking for the ship but have somehow never found it. There's a passing reference that shows he knows Unkar Plutt and they should have searched the "Western Reaches" more closely.
It's also established that the Falcon has changed hands more than once.
So how did he lose it?
"Freeze, Chewie! We're recreating a 1977 publicity still!"
Qualifiers and Extenuating Circumstances
I'm sure there's some explanation somewhere in a book, or a passing reference, but I've always been disappointed that it wasn't mentioned onscreen specifically how Han lost the ship. It would have been a quick, easy line of dialogue.
I'm also disappointed that I'm way too lazy to read all the books to find out if they say why, but then I wouldn't be writing this. Besides, the odds are you didn't read it either.
Is it necessary? No.
In fact, I could probably be convinced, if I were so inclined, to applaud that they resisted the urge to go into too much detail. As it is, franchise fans are so lazy they now "need" movies to explain everything.
It's just that it's an unanswered question in a sea of unanswered questions for the seventh chapter in an ongoing story. It adds up.
I mean, I presume that Han lost it in a card game since he won it that way. Lando also loved the ship and won it that way and he lost it that way, too. Supporting the idea of losing it in a card game, Han says later in the movie that he reverted to type once he and Leia started having relationship issues thanks to events that would have been better left unexplained, too.
So it's not necessary to say how or why Han lost the ship, I just wish they had tossed that line of dialogue since there was so much of that thirty years between films that should have been explained in some small way but wasn't. Give me something to think about besides what the hell powered Starkiller Base the first time it fired!
So that's it. Is there a different answer you favor?
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Tags: Millenium Falcon, The Force Awakens, Unanswered Questions from Star Wars MoviesCategories: Film
2 thoughts on "An Unanswered Question from The Force Awakens"
Rob Bodine #QuarantineWatchParty Fiend (@GSLLC) says:
Honestly, I'd be shocked it this weren't answered in a book (by now or in the near future). This looks exactly like the kind of seed movie franchises should plant in order to sell a book.
I don't think they have, but it's still weird. A toss off single line wouldve helped
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Q: How to obtain the target of a symbolic link (or Reparse Point) using .Net? In .NET, I think I can determine if a file is a symbolic link by calling System.IO.File.GetAttributes(), and checking for the ReparsePoint bit.  like so:
var a = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(fileName);
if ((a & FileAttributes.ReparsePoint) != 0)
{
    // it's a symlink
}

How can I obtain the target of the symbolic link, in this case?

ps: I know how to create a symbolic link. It requires P/Invoke:
[Interop.DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint="CreateSymbolicLinkW", CharSet=Interop.CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern int CreateSymbolicLink(string lpSymlinkFileName, string lpTargetFileName, int dwFlags);

A: Open the file using CreateFile, and then pass the handle to GetFinalPathNameByHandle.

A: Based on the answer that mentioned GetFinalPathNameByHandle here is the C# code that does this (since all other answers were just pointers):
Usage
var path = NativeMethods.GetFinalPathName(@"c:\link");

Code:
public static class NativeMethods
{
    private static readonly IntPtr INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = new IntPtr(-1);

    private const uint FILE_READ_EA = 0x0008;
    private const uint FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS = 0x2000000;

    [DllImport("Kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    static extern uint GetFinalPathNameByHandle(IntPtr hFile, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)] StringBuilder lpszFilePath, uint cchFilePath, uint dwFlags);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
    static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr hObject);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    public static extern IntPtr CreateFile(
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)] string filename,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] uint access,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] FileShare share,
            IntPtr securityAttributes, // optional SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES struct or IntPtr.Zero
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] FileMode creationDisposition,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] uint flagsAndAttributes,
            IntPtr templateFile);

    public static string GetFinalPathName(string path)
    {
        var h = CreateFile(path,
            FILE_READ_EA,
            FileShare.ReadWrite | FileShare.Delete,
            IntPtr.Zero,
            FileMode.Open,
            FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,
            IntPtr.Zero);
        if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
            throw new Win32Exception();

        try
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder(1024);
            var res = GetFinalPathNameByHandle(h, sb, 1024, 0);
            if (res == 0)
                throw new Win32Exception();

            return sb.ToString();
        }
        finally
        {
            CloseHandle(h);
        }
    }
}

A: You have to use DeviceIoControl() and send the FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT control code.  The P/Invoke and API usage details are quite gritty, but it Googles really well.

A: In .NET 6 you can use the property LinkTarget
bool IsLink(string path)
{
    var fi = new FileInfo(path);
    return fi.LinkTarget != null
}


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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain." -Pliny the Elder
"Not since the end of World War II has Europe seen violence and naked territorial ambition at such a scale."  -Andriy Yermak, head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has become a global crisis creating seismic shifts in nations' economies. Putin murdering innocent Ukrainian people for reasons that only make sense to him has caused a humanitarian nightmare. Europe, the U.S., the U.K., and the rest of world joined together and are standing up to him and will stop him.
This will be painful for everyone. Many Ukrainians and Russian soldiers will die needlessly because of Putin's ego. This war will be very costly in humanitarian and economic terms for Ukrainians and the entire world. However, if we don't stand united now, the cost will be immeasurably worse later. History taught us this when we didn't stand up to Hitler early.
For centuries, Russian leaders have viewed control of Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula, and access to the Black Sea as vital to the country's security and interests. Peter Zeihan, an American geopolitical analyst, said: "But unlike his predecessors, Putin's working with a terminal demography. Russia's geography certainly hasn't improved, but in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 a collapsing healthcare sector, skyrocketing alcohol and substance abuse, falling birthrates, declining life expectancies, and the ravages of disease – including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS – has left Moscow to secure vast territories with a shrunken, and shrinking, military. If Russian geography can help explain the why of recent aggression, Russian demography can help us understand the timing. It's now or never, and for Russian leaders the latter isn't an option."
Russia has a strong military, and unfortunately nuclear weapons, but it is only 2% of the world's GDP. Its main source of revenue is natural resources: oil, natural gas, aluminum, nickel, and a few other commodities. Its commodity-driven economy is now being financially choked as the U.S., European nations, and most other countries in the free world impose strong sanctions on Putin and his oligarchs. These measures will severely affect the Russian economy and people. This war has ended Russia's partnership with Europe. European nations have been energy dependent on Russia for a long time, but they will struggle to trust or depend on Russia again. Russia's only other viable economic outlet is China. But it is in China's best interest to have a world at peace considering its economy is 18% of the world's GDP and is heavily dependent on exports.
All crises end, and this will too. Just as supply chain issues taught us the importance of being less dependent on other nations, Russian aggression is teaching us to be wary of dishonest autocrats and their promises. Because of Putin's actions, Russia faces higher inflation and a severely handicapped economy as the world isolates the country financially and socially. Russia can and will use cyberattacks on the western world to "fight back." The situation is going to get ugly and we will see many currently unknown consequences.
The sanctions have caused energy and commodity prices to skyrocket. Ukraine is a very large producer of agricultural commodities, and those prices also have risen. While we will pay more for our food and energy, 44 million Ukrainians will have difficulty even finding food.
Putin overestimated the strength of his military and underestimated the response of Ukraine and the free world. Ukraine is putting up a tremendous fight and resistance to Russia. Russia has tremendous fire power and will continue its vicious attacks until it can "win" the war. Putin is willing to sacrifice whatever he thinks is necessary to win. At some point, China, his main ally, may be able to influence him to change. I believe this is the best option.
Employment and COVID-19
The shortage of labor has slowed the economy for the last 18 months. The Covid pandemic started two years ago, and the government began distributing stimulus money 18 months ago. The rapid, continuous declines in virus cases, lifted mask-wearing restrictions, and people returning to work are all good signs.
Almost 700,000 new jobs were created in February, dropping the unemployment rate to 3.8%.
Hourly wages are up 5.1% from a year ago, lagging inflation.
Hours worked are up 5.5% in the past year and are now only 0.2% off the pre-Covid peak.
There are still 1.2 million fewer people employed compared to before the pandemic. Much of this is due to The Great Resignation; I believe some of these people will now return back to the labor market due to inflation or boredom.
Covid cases have dropped sharply and the virus is transitioning from a novel, pandemic stage to endemic, where the virus is widespread but constant and predictable. Covid cases will still occur and too many people will die, but the virus will be more comparable to the flu prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. At least, I hope.
Prior to the Putin invasion of Ukraine, inflation talks focused on what the Fed was doing and if it was enough. Could the Fed thread the needle to keep inflation in check without substantially hurting the economy? Today's issues make those times look easy. The word "unprecedented" has been overused during the last 2 years but is still very relevant.
The February inflation numbers will be out around the same time as my March Insights, and they will look "good" compared to what will happen in March. The effects of the Putin war are that not only are oil prices spiking, but also prices for wheat and corn, of which both Russia and Ukraine are major producers.
The Fed's Personal Consumption Expenditures [PCE] index, which excludes energy and food prices, will start coming down as some high-cost items — like new and used cars — "look" lower priced later this year. That is because they will be compared to the price 12 months ago when new cars were in short supply and used car prices consequently spiked. My issue with using the PCE instead of the CPI is that most people see the prices of gas and food going up on a regular basis. Price changes make most people feel insecure even if their wages have gone up, impacting consumer confidence and the demand for goods and services. Small business optimism fell to a one-year low in February as businesses struggle with surging prices and inflation fears.
Shipments of "core" non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft (a key input for business investment in the calculation of GDP) rose 1.9% in January, the largest increase in 12 months. If these shipments are unchanged in February and March, they will represent a 13.2% annualized gain in Q1 versus the Q4 average. The ISM for February indicates we are still in expansion, as the index moved up to 58.8. The two most forward-looking indices, new orders and production, posted gains and remain well in expansion territory. The usual suspects of labor, supply chain, and logistics are still issues but improved slightly. The January Total National Producer Price Index, including oil, registered a monthly increase of 0.61% and an annual increase of 9.78%. The main issues will be the insane metals and energy prices. More on that later.
The ITR Leading Indicator™ index moved lower in February, marking eight consecutive months of decline. However, their forecast for U.S. industrial production points to slower growth into at least late this year. The Shapiro Nonferrous Scrap Activity Index for February was the same as January, which was down 5% from last year's average for the same accounts.
Although China's GDP was up 8.1% last year overall and up double digits in the first half of the year, its growth in the second half of the year was only 4%. China has forecasted 5.5% growth this year, which is below its normal 6% to 6.5% annual growth rate.
China's housing industry accounts for 25% of its GDP. The surplus of unsold housing is enough to accommodate 10 years of urban immigrants and enough to house the entire population of France [I would rather be in France]. Housing also represents 70% of household savings. China's housing sales have contracted close to 50% in the last eight months. This decrease will greatly impact the consumption of major housing components: aluminum, copper, and steel. The lower demand will also be a drag on prices later in the year.
Metal prices and commodity prices are being driven by the Russian invasion and a fear that Russian aluminum, copper, nickel, and energy will not be available. According to Edward Meir, "Russia and Ukraine supply more than a quarter of world wheat exports, a fifth of corn sales, 6% of the world's aluminum, 2% of nickel, 4% of copper and roughly 10% of oil. Europe depends on Russia for around 35% of its natural gas as well."
Just before Putin invaded Ukraine on February 23, copper was $4.51 per pound, oil was $91 per barrel, LME aluminum was $3,250 per ton [$1.47 per pound], and nickel was $24,400 per ton [$11.08 per pound].
This week, copper was over $5 per pound, oil was over $130 per barrel, LME aluminum hit $4,000 per ton [full price at $2.20], and nickel was over $100,000 [$45.40] per ton.
All March scrap prices are stronger. Prime aluminum scrap prices rose about 10 cents per pound, and secondary rose 5 cents per pound. All the other nonferrous prices also were up accordingly. Steel prices are substantially higher in March after falling for a few months. During my more than 50 years in this business, I have never seen anything close to this before. We continue to take the conservative approach of hedging and turning our inventory as quickly as possible and focus on our business.
The war is not only driving higher prices, but many financial funds also are buying commodities as an inflation hedge. They say the cure for high prices is high prices. With that, there will be demand destruction, further inflation, and eventually reduced commodity prices.
Bob Stein, one of my oldest and dearest friends and now on the Shapiro team, just wrote this for an organization we belong to:
"Like all of you, I am devastated by the events in Ukraine and the suffering that has been inflicted on its people by Russia. The stories are difficult to comprehend in a world that is supposed to have learned to make certain that such horrific events no longer had a place in our lives. Clearly, the message of world peace hasn't reached the Kremlin as it has yet again invaded a neighboring sovereign state, creating a humanitarian crisis that is only in its very early stages."
I have been donating to the charities that support the Ukrainian people and hope you can too.
"The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom." -Ronald Reagan
Life is good. Family and health are precious.
Bruce Shapiro
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Sukanto Tanoto has always believed in giving back. After all, he is one who, asides from relying on graft and talent, also benefitted from the opportunities and support provided by the community and those around him. And Sukanto Tanoto has put those benefits to good use, building up a natural resource empire that has help build Indonesia's image as a land where anything is possible with the right attitude, skills, and determination. Today, he helms RGE, which manages companies such as APRIL, Sateri, and Pacific Oil and Gas. With his companies collectively employing 60,000 people and owning assets worth over 18 billion dollars, he is a undoubted success.
What is even more amazing about his rise to success, has been Sukanto Tanoto's insistence on doing all of this while employing a philosophy of creating shared value for the community. Sukanto Tanoto's famed 5Cs principle, advocates doing good for the Community, Country, Climate, Customers, and Company. It is essentially an ideology espousing a view of the bigger picture. Only by doing good for everyone else, can one truly benefit. Most recently, Asian Agri, in line with Sukanto Tanoto's philosophy when they helped distributed 5000 cheap packages of food for Ramadan.
One of Indonesia's largest palm oil players, Asian Agri's actions come in support of government programmes aimed keeping prices low, to keep prices low for Adil Fitri. This year, food packages containing items such as 2kg of rice, 2kg of sugar, 2kg of flour, 2 litres of cooking oil and syrup were sold to villagers in Northern Sumatra for Rp 50,000 (USD 3.75).
According to Asian Agri's Deputy Head of SSL (Social Security and License), Ariston Noverry Fau, the programme was a show of Asian Agri's commitment to both the government and the community.
"Asian Agri has prepared as many as 5000 cheap sembako packages distributed in 4 districts in North Sumatra (North Sumatra), 3 districts in Jambi and a number of locations in Riau and DKI Jakarta," he said.


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I can understand some folks who have battled cancer being cautious of limiting soy. Andrew doesn't seem to be too concerned about it – but I can understand the reservations.
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NHS trusts charged with reducing operating costs and improving efficiency are being offered a helping hand.
Essentia is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, helping to plan estate improvements, explore ways of enhancing infrastructure, and provide IT support.
Guy's and St Thomas' has an ambitious development programme, with a £500m capital investment plan over a five-year period. Essentia project manages all major improvement works and new builds, as well as driving efficiencies across a number of departments, for example improving outpatient services through the use of technology.
The introduction of energy-efficient systems, including a combined heat and power (CHP) plant – one of the largest in the NHS - has also helped to significantly drive down costs.
Now Essentia is drawing on this experience and expertise to provide similar solutions for clients elsewhere in the NHS and in other public sector organisations, through Essentia Trading, its recently-launched commercial arm. The company is wholly owned by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and all profits are reinvested back into the trust.
"We will be looking to help trusts fund capital developments," explained Steve McGuire, chief executive of Essentia Trading and an executive director of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
The company's offering is spread across seven main areas: Strategy development, estates management, capital development, healthcare planning, property consultancy, sustainability, IT services, and software asset management.
McGuire said: "We started with two large hospitals and we had some really big infrastructure challenges. The tower at Guy's Hospital, for example, was starting to deteriorate and a complete overhaul was needed. Through Essentia, we put in a proposal to reclad it – and completed the project in 2014 on time and under budget. A number of high-profile projects are also taking place at St Thomas' Hospital.
"In addition, we introduced CHP technology. We received a government grant to do that, with an expected payback of five years on the £10m investment. The payback period was actually four-and-a-half years and now we are saving £2m a year as a result of this initial investment in CHP.
Essentia also helped the trust to make operational efficiencies. This included the creation of a new outpatient department at St Thomas' Hospital. This was built around a technology platform linked into the electronic patient record. As a result services are now better managed and the department is smaller in size, taking less resource.
"We have learned that by using infrastructure better and by changing our systems we can use less estate or use what we have to see more patients," said McGuire.
And Essentia is now looking to upgrade the Windows XP operating system across the trust so that staff will have the tools to work remotely and in a more-flexible way. It is these sorts of interventions that Essentia is now offering other trusts.
McGuire said: "In the current financial climate, considerable savings need to be made. Essentia has built up a strong team with the skills and expertise needed to tackle these challenges."
Already, Essentia is believed to employ more apprentices than any other NHS organisation in the capital.
"Last year we had a £150m turnover, and £50m of that was from organisations external to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust," said McGuire. "I feel really strongly that we can now help even more trusts to make similar efficiencies.
To date the company has worked with a number of trusts including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as well as NHS England and overseas health providers including the Department of Health in Queensland, Australia.
Essentia helped the GRIDA directorate of Guy's and St Thomas' to develop a business case for investment to integrate management, improve use of space, and achieve a centralised estates solution through a network hub.
Key objectives for the project included bringing together clinical services with academic and educational laboratories and staff at two different sites dealing with tertiary inflammatory and allergic disease.
Meanwhile dermatology, rheumatology and lupus services provided care across nine locations, so there was significant scope to improve efficiency and patient experience through centralisation.
As the service is predominantly outpatient and daycare focused, a generic shared facility, with extended clinic hours and modern technology, was deemed to provide significant increased capacity.
Essentia led the development of the business case, providing advice and support including demand and capacity planning, space utilisation, user group co-ordination, options development and appraisal, development of a clinical and functional brief, design development, and benefits realisation.
Although the initial proposition was for a phased refurbishment costing £6m over three stages, the Integrated Programme Board at the trust challenged the team to complete the project on a reduced budget of just £3m. There was also a reduced timeframe due to a commercial research opportunity.
McGuire said: "By minimising the level of reconfiguration and challenging current ways of working to improve use of space, we were able to deliver a solution within the reduced budget.


You asked me why my manager likes to beat me up. I thought about it. Here's one reason.
My manager complains I'm slow with my development projects. In this job (as in many other jobs), people don't say my code quality or design is bad. I think most of the code they write isn't great either. We are just hoping to churn out working code on time. I do hope to but won't try too hard to make my code beautiful, low-maintenance, testable, easy to change, easy to understand. Implicitly, that's the unspoken agreement with the boss. One quality where I exceed minimum requirement is error-condition handling -- i want my code to behave reasonably under any conceivable condition. I don't want "undefined behavior". I don't want surprises. Anyway, my boss only complains about how slow I complete projects, not about quality. Invariably it boils down to troubleshooting skill like googling, asking around, understanding logs, and diagnostic tools. Sometimes not easy for anyone. Most of these technical problems involve more than code complexity in my c# codebase, and now I realize that's the key.
Now I believe my c# language skill is perhaps better than the average c# developer. For eg, I'm confident taking on technical challenges involving threading, linq, complex data structures, complex delegates+events. (The toughest coding interviews on the west coast sometimes cover nothing but a little tight/dense algorithm. These can be extremely IQ-intensive, more than I can handle but I feel comfortable that I can beat most c# developers at this game.) In a nutshell, if the problem is purely about c# language, I am confident. Most real world technical problem-solving goes beyond that. There are too many of these problems to enumerate. Below are just a few examples.
When the same code works in one environment not in another environment, I feel 30% of the time it's due to some permission or security issue. Error message is usually misleading. Even worse when nothing happens, without any error msg. Can take ages to uncover the root cause.
GUI system is invariably a client to some server-side. There's always some networking involved.
Async communication might be considered a pure language complexity but in reality troubleshooting often involves some vendor-supplied infrastructure code which sets up the communication and threading.
In order to reproduce a problem, I often need to check out and build many projects, configure many modules, hunt down all the required libraries, set up all the dependencies, install a bunch of infrastructure software... The set-up can take days for the uninitialized, and is error-prone and not fully documented. This happens everywhere so I'm not complaining, but this often leads to a lot of delay and complaint from boss.


Terumo Europe is a core player in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) healthcare market by providing best in class quality products and services.
Terumo is the biggest worldwide producer of oxygenation systems.
High-performance, low prime volume oxygenators designed to meet a wide variety of patient needs.
Advanced oxygenators with enhanced flow dynamics1, resulting in lower minimum operating levels and increased maximum blood flow rates.
1 Internal testing, data on file.


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'use strict';

const HttpService = require('../HttpService');

/**
 * An implementation of {@link HttpService} that checks whether the name is available on
 * Flipboard.
 */
class FlipboardService extends HttpService {

  /**
   * Creates an instance of {@link FlipboardService} under the specified category.
   *
   * @param {string} category - the category to be used
   * @public
   */
  constructor(category) {
    super(category, 'Flipboard');
  }

  /**
   * @override
   * @inheritDoc
   */
  checkResponse(name, response) {
    return Boolean(JSON.parse(response.body).available);
  }

  /**
   * @override
   * @inheritDoc
   */
  getRequestOptions(name) {
    return {
      method: 'GET',
      uri: 'https://flipboard.com/api/flipboard/checkUsername',
      qs: {
        username: name
      }
    };
  }

}

module.exports = FlipboardService;


Anyone walking a month ago along Rothschild Boulevard, one of Tel Aviv's central streets, was probably surprised to see some 200 Arab women along with Jewish artists and intellectuals, marching to demand the right to work in dignity. Only a couple of days after the attack in Jerusalem, these women made their presence felt in Israel's capital of hedonism, carrying banners with slogans such as "Women's unemployment = poverty in Arab villages," and "Give Arab women the chance to have a job." Despite the openness we associate with this city, such a march was still a strange sight here.
This, in case you were wondering, was a march to mark International Women's Day organized by the political party Organization for Democratic Action (ODA), headed by Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka. The police gave the demonstration the go-ahead, as required by law, yet the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality was reluctant to allow it, on the grounds that a march on the Sabbath in the center of the city would disturb the residents.
Persuading the women to come was no easy task either. In addition to flyers and explanations about the importance of the event, many long conversations with the women were required to convince them to come to Tel Aviv so soon after the attack in Jerusalem. They came, finally — thanks to Agbarieh-Zahalka's unrelenting efforts.
Agbarieh-Zahalka got married six months ago at the age of 34 — relatively late. But ODA's Knesset candidate held on to her family name, a familiar name in political and social circles, and simply added her husband's. You could say that this is little more than a minor post-feminist gesture compared with her daily work in the political arena. However, for an Arab woman leading an Israeli political party — even in 2008 — this is a clear statement.
I admit that, due to preconceptions, I expected to meet a fighting woman — the extreme, angry type full of slogans and catchphrases. But Agbarieh-Zahalka is the opposite extreme. In the party's offices on Ha'Aliya Street in south Tel Aviv, I met a smiling young woman, crying out against discrimination but aware of the weaknesses in Arab society, and able to explain the crimes of Israel's leadership without resorting to the empty phrases we hear so often from politicians. Happily, this is a woman of vision whose feet are firmly on the ground.
Agbarieh-Zahalka's time is divided between Jerusalem, the Wadi Ara area, and Jaffa. In East Jerusalem she coordinates the legal assistance offered to workers by the Workers Advice Center (an NGO set up by ODA), and is responsible for work placements. In Wadi Ara and the Hadera area, she leads various courses that promote the empowerment of women, and is active in pushing for the cancellation of the so-called Wisconsin program. And in Jaffa, on those days when she remains closer to the family and home, she is the chief editor of the party's magazine, for which she also writes sometimes, and heads a project that promotes safety at work, especially in construction.
One of the most pressing issues in Jaffa today is the eviction of around 400 Arab families, most of them among Ajami's most veteran residents, on the grounds that they have built unauthorized extensions to their homes. Apart from the doubts regarding these claims, the timing of the eviction is critical. Apparently it is not by chance that the eviction notices were served now, when the municipality is planning to construct boutique hotels in Jaffa. Meanwhile, real estate entrepreneurs get the green light for countless exclusive residential projects.
How did the linguistic editor become the party's leader?
How does your family cope with your political activities?
Did you ever experience racism?
And that's despite Tel Aviv's reputation as a left-wing, open-minded city.
What is the municipality's role in these circumstances?
The practical response to poverty from the party's point of view was the founding of the Workers' Advice Center (WAC) which provides assistance to workers. Today there are six branches throughout Israel, one of which is in Tel Aviv. Recruitment to WAC began in the employment bureaus, with WAC activists offering the unemployed concrete job proposals with fair conditions.
"The workers were amazed to hear that they could work with a proper wage slip and a pension fund. At first we recruited only six workers, but since then we have recruited over 2,500 workers to organized employment.
How do you measure the extent of your success?
Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka, a socialist that announced recently her campaign for the mayor of Tel Aviv, challenges the current Labour Party mayor Ron Huldai, who made the city a haven for the rich and pushed the poor workers and the Arab city of Jaffa to the margins. The original interview in Hebrew was published in Tel Aviv, the weekly supplement of Yediot Ahronot in Tel Aviv on 4 April 2008. The English translation was circulated on Debate, a South African mailing list.


The birds in the first four studies are all members of the British Chat Family and it really isn't difficult to see their relationship. Change the colours and they all look like Robins. I call these Pencil studies but actually they are Pencil/Acrylic studies, except for the Robins which are purely Pencil.


You: OK, the product owner told us to create a new screen with that displays all of the widgets on one page.
You: Well, that way the users can see all of the widgets all of the time.
You: Well because the product owner said they need to see all of the widgets.
You: Because…. Hey, you know, that's a really good question. We should probably ask her why we want to show everything all the time. Hey, Product Owner, why are we actually doing this?
Product Owner: Because they need to get to the top five widgets easily without searching to save time.
You: Oh! Well, why don't just display the top five widgets instead?
Product Owner: Hey, I didn't think of that. OK, sounds good. Good catch guys! Go do it!
OK, so the conversation probably doesn't go like that with your average four-year-old, but hopefully you get my point. Four-year-olds want to know about everything, and why we do the things we do. They want to know how things work, and they try to understand all of the new things around them. They question everything, and make you re-examine your assumptions about the world.
This curiosity and interest is just what is needed in pair-programming; you want someone who will ask why you're doing something, why you're implementing the code the way you are. You need someone who asks the question and makes you realize it could be a bad idea. A good partner keeps you focused on business value and keeps you on your toes.
Four-year-olds love to do activities. They love getting their hands dirty and putting things together. Ever look at something a four-year-old did and think how incredibly creative and awesome it was? Yep, me too. Four-year-olds can't wait to do something cool. Just put the materials in front of them, tell them what you want, stand back, and let them go to it. In a very short amount of time they'll have the project done and they can't wait to show you what they did.
When it comes to pair-programming (and programming in general) this is just what you want. A good partner will dive right in and start working on the problem. They'll come up with creative solutions, and drive the story to completion. Then, at the end they'll help demo the solution and show off just how awesome it is.
Every parent has probably had this experience: you start cooking dinner or working on any project, and the first thing your four-year-old says is "Can I help?" They can't wait to give you a hand (even if they aren't quite ready) and they enthusiastically jump right in. If their brother or sister is helping too and they get stuck or confused the four-year-old will show them how to do it.
Another thing about four-year-olds is that they're not afraid to tell you if they think you're doing something wrong. Lord help you if you start using the "wrong" color when you're coloring something, or put the "wrong" lego in place when they know where it goes. Watch and see, they'll call you out on it.
When you're pairing you want a partner who will help you when you get stuck. You want someone who will contribute to the effort and keep the story moving. You want someone who isn't afraid to point out where you might be going wrong. Most of all you want someone who is focused on the problem and can work as part of a team to get it done.
When you and Cat pick up a user story Cat lets you ask all the questions, and they'll never ask why you're playing the story in the first place. Cat will let you blindly move forward and potentially waste your time because it's not Cat's problem, it's yours.
Ever hear Cat ask you why you wrote that code the way you did? Nope, me neither. Cat doesn't care about what you're doing. In fact Cat doesn't care about much of anything. Cat will sit right there and watch you code yourself into a corner and never say a word. You'll say "Dang it Cat, why didn't you say something and stop me before I did that?" and Cat will just sit there and yawn.
So you and Cat have paired up and you're ready to get to work. You sit down and start to fire up the IDE when suddenly Cat decides it's break time. "But we just got started!" you think to yourself. You sigh and start working on the problem at hand.
You start writing your first test followed by the production code, and after a few minutes Cat comes back to see what they missed. You start writing another test, and tell Cat "OK, Here's where we are. I just wrote the failing test. Go ahead and write the code to make it pass." Cat doesn't say anything, but they at least look at the screen and rest their paws on the keyboard. After looking at the code for a few minutes Cat decides another break is in order. You know, just to step away and just think for a few minutes before coming back. By now you're frustrated, and go ahead and just write the production code, making the test pass.
This process repeats itself throughout the day.
Cat doesn't like to work with anyone else; in fact Cat prefers to work alone. If you and Cat actually do start pairing together Cat will invariably find something more interesting at another computer. They'll become fascinated by something more shiny and fun than what you're doing. You'll work on your story and realize Cat isn't there, and hasn't been there for a few hours now. You'll look around and see that Cat has claimed another keyboard as theirs, and is currently engrossed in something else, ignoring you entirely. When you ask Cat what they're doing you'll discover that Cat has something more important to do that doesn't need two developers to work on.
If you do get Cat to sit down next to you then Cat will assume they will always have control of the keyboard and mouse. If you have an idea and reach for the keyboard then Cat will swat at your hand; only Cat is allowed to use to use the keyboard. You may observe, and enjoy watching Cat, but you may not help Cat. Cat will do whatever they fancy until they get bored, at which time you are allowed to do the part that Cat doesn't like.
Not everyone is a four-year-old (Thankfully! Most four-year-olds don't know how to program!), and not everyone is a cat, but we should think about which one we are when we pair. Are we questioning why we're doing the work, or are we just going with the flow? Are we jumping in and helping, or are we holding back and staying silent? Are we working as a team or are we being loners?
Are we the four-year-old, or the cat?


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Q: Merge two data frames in R based on strings I need to merge two data frames of unequal length by comparing two columns and if the context match (or is quite similar) then merge that specific row.
For example this is what data frame 1 looks like
Car   horse.power   price
Car1  15            NA
Car2  25            NA
Car3  55            NA

and data frame 2:
Car             price
Car1 (2014)     1234
Car2 turbo      9876

I want my final data frame to look like this:
Car   horse.power   price
Car1  15            1234
Car2  25            9876
Car3  55            NA

How would i do that???
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I do not understand how this is a duplicate to this one. In the linked question you have a fixed format for the customer ID. In my case you dont. If i apply the solution provided in the linked question I end up with this:
Car         horse.power   price
Car1        15            NA
Car1 (2014) NA            1234
Car2        25            NA
Car2 turbo  NA            9876
Car3        55            NA

A: One way to do it would be to use the levenshtein distance (using adist()):
# set up the two dataframes

df1 <- data.frame(Car = c('Car1', 'Car2', 'Car3'),
                  horse.power = c(15, 25, 55),
                  price = c(NA, NA, NA))
df2 <- data.frame(Car = c('Car1 (2014)', 'Car2 turbo', 'Car3 slow'),
                  price = c(1234, 9876, 21212))

# take the minimal distance and choose the price column
df1$price <- df2$price[apply(adist(df2$Car, df1$Car), 1, which.min)]
df1

This yields:
   Car horse.power price
1 Car1          15  1234
2 Car2          25  9876
3 Car3          55 21212


Investigations in the history of archaeology have been gaining more and more attention, across the world, due to multiple reasons. Two principal scholarly approaches — internalism and externalism — have influenced these historiographical considerations. The former posits in the validity of the 'cumulative knowledge' and tries to explore 'objective truth' about socio-cultural and natural phenomena. Contrarily, the latter situates 'knowledge production activity' in a wider socio-political context which results in subjective understanding.
The colonial archaeology of British India has also recently been approached from various theoretical standpoints. And Sir Aurel Stein and the 'lords of marches': new archival materials by Luca Maria Olivieri is a new addition to the historiography of Indo-Pakistani archaeology.
As is obvious from the title, the book presents archival research and sheds great light on some rather obscure issues of colonial archaeology of Gandhara. It comprises four main parts. The first part includes, as is common to all research works, 'list of illustrations', 'foreword', 'list of abbreviations' and 'editorial notes'. The following part, in addition to a comprehensive 'introduction', presents a 'catalogue' in summarised form of all the archival documents in sequence and chronological order. It is followed by a detailed commentary of the author giving nuanced explanations and analysis from a historical and contextual point of view about the documents.
The third part of the book deals with seven appendices while the last one is all about different types of indexes (such as of names, places and typology of documents), references and sample photographic documentation of the documents.
Sir Aurel Stein and the 'lords of marches' emerged from cataloguing the pre-1947 documents at the Malakand Fort, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Among the material, three folders containing 348 documents and spanning the period between 1895 and 1937 concerning archaeological matters and themes were isolated for further detailed analysis.
The book is not only itself an original research based on primary sources but at the same time provides new grounds and insights for further investigations.
All the documents have been categorised by the author as 'Endorsement Letters, Circulars, Notifications . . . demi-official Letters . . . notes, generally handwritten. . . '. All this material tells the story of the beginning and development of archaeological activity in the ex-state of Swat (1917-69) and Malakand Agency. A number of famous scholars such as A. Caddy, A. Foucher, L. A. Waddell and A. Stein make, all through the book, their pioneering debut in the archaeology of the area. Similarly, the role of many important British political officers at Malakand has also been brought to the fore. Not less prominent than the colonial scholars and administrators are the rulers of the ex-Swat State, Miangul Abdul Wadud and Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb. The enlightenment they have exhibited in the whole story clearly reflects in the book.
One of the issues the book is dealing with is the institutional and legal dimension of archaeological work in Malakand and Swat. Did the area, not making part of the settled provinces of British India, come under the jurisdiction of the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act 1904 and for that matter the Archaeological Survey of India? Diverse opinions and responses are found throughout the book based on personal interest or indifference of political officers stationed at Malakand.
Likewise, the issue of illegal digging and trafficking in antiquities as well as concerns for protection make another fascinating feature of the book. Such things have been rather related by the author to the overall archaeological context of the time in his commentaries.
Another important matter from a historical point of view is surfacing of the long forgotten story of Caddy's archaeological expedition to Swat-Malakand. Caddy was a painter, photographer and antiquarian. Initially, he remained associated in different capacities with the Government of Bengal. Later on, Caddy busied himself in different projects as a painter and antiquarian. And it was in this context that Secretary to the Bengal Government commissioned him to Swat and Gandhara to make a collection of Gandhara art for the Calcutta Museum. He reached Swat in 1896 and, among other activities such as photography and landscape survey, excavated the world-wide famous Buddhist site of Loriyan. The collection is lying in the Calcutta Museum and is widely known for its artistic sophistication.
The original report which Caddy had submitted to the government was unavailable to scholars till its recent discovery in the Malakand Fort material. It is carefully studied by Kurt Behrendt and makes part — as appendix 4 — of Sir Aurel Stein and the 'lords of marches'. Furthermore, a catalogue of the Gandhara collection at Malakand Fort has been prepared by P. Brancaccio as appendix 5.
Another valuable addition the book makes to our scholarship is with regard to Aurel Stein's archaeological explorations into Swat. His very first visit took place in 1926 in which he documented great many sites in Swat, Shangla and Buner. But more importantly, Olivieri's study for the first time makes it known that Stein also made attempts in 1928, 1931 and 1933 to get into Swat for seeking solutions to some crucial historical problems. However, he could not achieve that success which fortune had reserved for him in 1926.
The book is not only itself an original research based on primary sources but at the same time provides new grounds and insights for further investigations. Archaeological activities during the last years of nineteenth century in Swat require further interpretations and analysis especially in the framework of post-coloniality. Caddy's photographic documentation of the Swati landscape of the period, his collection for the Calcutta Museum and his expedition's legality in the wider framework of archaeological trends of the time present fascinating themes for further research.
Similarly, with the help of this new archival material a more defined socio-political context can be added to Stein's work in Swat. Inspiration is also provided for future research with respect to illegal digging in Swat valley, its business context and concerns in relation to heritage preservation of the area.
Excelent revieve of an excelent work! Its indeed a valuable addition to the reserach work on history of archeology! Well done!


For any businesss to thrive, financial independeceisvery key.
We've all become dependent on instant access to anyone via email but being so accessible isn't to your benefit. Instead, become more independent and check your email a handful of times a day. Don't respond immediately if you don't need to and don't answer your phone after hours. Your customers will learn your parameters of availability.
Become more independent, your business will survive without you for a few days or weeks, especially if you set it up to do so. Trust in your staff to handle things while you're gone. You'll be better for it.
Don't become dependent upon defining your company's capabilities too narrowly, you'll miss out on great opportunities. Let new ideas come to you through employees, clients and even your own inspiration. See where they take you.
When an employee quits, it can be a shock, especially if you don't have a contingency plan to replace them. Become independent and prevent this by 1.) having processes in place to make it easy to train a replacement and 2.) ensure you have enough employees to get the work done, rather than having extra strain on one person who will soon quit from the pressure.
Don't limit yourself by what you want your business to accomplish today. Instead, keep the bigger picture in your mind. Where do you want to be in five, ten or more years? Use this as inspiration for today.