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The real losing dogs
Posted by ampontan on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
SEVERAL years ago, novelist Sakai Junko coined the expression makeinu, or losing dog, to refer to single people over the age of 30.
The term has other useful applications, however. Is that not the perfect descriptor for a left-of-center political party that loses the confidence of left-of-center newspapers? That's exactly what happened to the Democratic Party of Japan. This article by the Asahi Shimbun is several months old, but it explains very clearly one of the most important reasons the party lost the trust of the Japanese public, and lost it almost immediately after they took office.
Among the Democratic Party of Japan's many pledges when it came to power was to loosen the hold that bureaucrats had on policy issues and put politicians in charge.
Yet it never challenged the Finance Ministry, the bastion of the nation's bureaucratic hierarchy.
In reality, the Finance Ministry has gained more clout under successive DPJ administrations, winning over prime ministers Yukio Hatoyama, Naoto Kan and now Yoshihiko Noda.
One of the key persons appearing in the story is former Budget Bureau chief Katsu Eijiro, who I've mentioned several times on this site.
In late September of 2009 (N.B.: one month after the DPJ took power), Kan (Naoto), who was national policy minister, was irritated because the government had not been able to decide on a basic budget policy due to a lack of revenue for the DPJ's campaign policies.
Which everyone knew would happen even before the election, but then I interrupt.
Katsu, chief of the Budget Bureau, appeared. Kan asked when the basic budget policy should be drawn up if the budget was to be compiled by the end of the year.
"The DPJ has a grand manifesto," Katsu said. "If you issue a sheet of paper and tell us to compile the budget based on the manifesto, we will follow the instruction."
Kan was visibly relieved. "That makes it easy," he said.
The meeting effectively put Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, not Kan, in charge of compiling the budget under the first DPJ administration.
Fujii, 79, is a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat. He became a Diet member after Hatoyama's father, who was an administrative vice finance minister, advised him to go into politics.
"I don't think politicians can make correct judgments on details of the budget," Fujii said. "The Finance Ministry has a tradition encompassing more than a century. What is expected of politicians is to make decisions."
Fujii was instrumental in installing Noda as senior vice finance minister under him.
Doesn't that tell you all you need to know? Well, most of it, but not quite all:
Heizo Takenaka, who battled with the Finance Ministry over the initiative in budget formulation when he served as a Cabinet minister under Junichiro Koizumi, said tax increases, not spending cuts, benefit the Finance Ministry.
"The Finance Ministry derives its power by allocating money from a fat pocketbook," he said.
Twas ever thus, in every country, but particularly in Japan. That's why the relationship between the bureaucracy and the political class is always an issue here. Ending bureaucratic control of the government is one of the primary issues that has motivated the regional parties.
You know what they say about reading the whole thing? Read the whole thing.
Posted in Government, Politics | Tagged: Fujii H., Hatoyama Y., Kan N., Kasumigaseki, Katsu E., Noda Y., Takenaka H. | 3 Comments »
Posted by ampontan on Sunday, October 7, 2012
PRIME MINISTER Noda Yoshihiko's personnel reassignments for his Cabinet and party last Monday were the picture of consistency. First, his Democratic Party government remains consistent in keeping the revolving door of Cabinet positions spinning at a frequency that prevents them from performing any role other than as press secretary for the ministries they represent. Second, Mr. Noda remains consistent in his distribution of ministerial portfolios to people unqualified to receive them. Finally, an unqualified English-language news media remains consistent in its incapacity to understand and present useful explanations of the events.
Writing in Gendai Business Online, Isoyama Yukihiro reminds his readers that when Hatoyama Yukio, the first DPJ prime minister, assumed his duties three years ago, he said he wanted to maintain one intact Cabinet per administration. The law provides for as many as 14 ministers in addition to the prime minister, and Mr. Hatoyama did keep the reshuffling to a minimum. He appointed only 19 ministers, but then he lasted only nine months in office. His first finance minister, Fujii Hirohisa, lasted fewer than four months before resigning — and he was the only one qualified to serve that the party has assigned to that position. (In 1976, he was the head of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, the control tower of the Kasumigaseki bureaucracy.)
Mr. Isoyama notes there was dissatisfaction within the DPJ because not all of the victors were receiving the spoils. As a result, Mr. Hatoyama's successor, Kan Naoto, used Cabinet appointments as the front end of a quid pro quo before the party's presidential election. He went through 35 people in 15 months. Meanwhile, Mr. Noda has already tapped 38 different people in his year in office, partly because his power base in the party is weak. He also has to use the posts as gold stars and cookies to stem the flow of MPs leaving the DPJ for other parties. Altogether, 68 separate people have served as DPJ Cabinet ministers, and the overall total of appointments, reappointments, and reassignments within their Cabinets now total 152.
Your Party chief Watanabe Yoshimi compared the Noda Cabinet V.3 to an "inventory clearance sale for people seeing Cabinet posts". Azuma Shozo of the People's Life First party (the Ozawa group) called it the "Making Memories Cabinet."
This might be excusable to an extent if competent people were being appointed, but that isn't the case. Mr. Noda keeps putting people with no experience or sector-specific expertise in Cabinet positions, a tacit admission that the bureaucracy still exercises real control. Once again, he appointed as finance minister someone who knows nothing about government finance, and who has never held a Cabinet position before. Yet some in the news media still do not understand what's happening. Here's this from the AFP just before the changes:
Another highlight of the reshuffle is who will replace Finance Minister Jun Azumi, who is being propelled into a top party post.
Although Azumi has not been universally popular in financial circles, there have been concerns of a policy gap now that he is departing, although the minister has assured there will be no "political vacuum".
And here's what Reuters said after Mr. Noda made his decision:
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda plans to name senior lawmaker Koriki Jojima as the country's new finance minister in a cabinet shake-up due later on Monday, Japanese media reported.
Jojima, who has served as parliamentary affairs chief in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), would replace Jun Azumi and take charge of the world's third largest economy as it teeters on the brink of recession in the face of a global slowdown and strong yen.
Jojima would likely stick to a fiscal reform drive pursued by fiscal hawk Noda, as he has worked closely with the premier in designing Noda's signature plan to double the sales tax to 10 percent by October 2015.
But little is known about Jojima's view on monetary and currency policies.
But a lot is known about how little is known about Japanese politics by the AFP and Reuters sausage grinders. There were no real concerns of a "policy gap", because Mr. Azumi, a former TV presenter, knows nothing about fiscal policy other than what his Finance Ministry tutors spoonfed him after his appointment. Little is known about Jojima's view on monetary and currency policies because he doesn't have any. He majored in animal husbandry at university, was hired by Ajinomoto after graduation, and decided that labor union activities were preferable to working for a living.
"Fiscal reform" in Reuters-speak means tax increases, especially of the progressive variety. The media applies the term "fiscal hawk" to Mr. Noda, as they did to Kan Naoto, because they're parroting, either directly or indirectly, the Finance Ministry's talking points. Mr. Kan couldn't even explain the multiplier effect during his first Question Time session in the Diet after his appointment.
What they don't say is what everyone in Japan who pays attention knows. Here's more from a different column in Gendai Business Online. It explains who really designed the DPJ tax increase plan:
Vice-Minister Katsu Eijiro resigned in mid-August, and it is reported that negotiations are underway to replace him with Manago Yasushi, head of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau (N.B.: He got the job.) …The climate at the Finance Ministry is that achieving a tax increase (as Katsu did) is a medal for services rendered and a meritorious deed. Increases in tax revenue do not determine the evaluations of the Finance Ministry bureaucracy. That happens naturally when the economy improves. But increases in the tax rate are easily understood accomplishments. Those require amendments in the tax law, and are also proof that they twisted the "idiot politicians" around their little finger. Bureaucrats such as these are the real "kings of the Finance Ministry", because they have shown themselves to be of higher caliber than the politicians.
Here's a report a few days after the appointment:
New Finance Minister Koriki Jojima said the government must "carefully consider" whether to extend the currency swap agreement with South Korea but refused to be drawn out on whether Tokyo will propose an extension.
In other words, the Finance Ministry hasn't decided yet.
But the biggest name in the new Cabinet is former Foreign Minister Tanaka Makiko:
Noda may tap Beijing-friendly Makiko Tanaka, 68, as a new addition to the cabinet, the Asahi Shimbun daily reported on Sunday.
Tanaka, daughter of former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka who normalised diplomatic ties with Beijing 40 years ago, has warm links with China which has been jousting with Japan over disputed East China Sea islands.
Noda is considering appointing Tanaka to a ministerial post to signal to Beijing Tokyo's intention of repairing the damaged relationship, the Asahi said.
Commentator Ikeda Nobuo had only one word when he read that: "Stupid". It is stupid, for at least two reasons.
One is that the Chinese will interpret it as weakness and as a prelude to a modern form of tribute paid to a vassal. The other is that Tanaka Makiko is temperamentally unfit for any executive position in general, and a Cabinet portfolio in particular. We found that out from her spin as a daytime drama queen when she was Koizumi Jun'ichiro's Foreign Minister.
For some reason, Ms. Tanaka wound up as Education Secretary, a position for which she has shown no particular interest or aptitude. As everyone expected, she immediately demonstrated that she still doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut. One of her first bon mots was that "There are deficiencies in Japan's history education," though she didn't specify what they were.
The Chinese took it and ran with it. Here's Li Wen from the Chinese academy of Social Sciences:
"Tanaka Makiko is the daughter of former PM Tanaka Kakuei, and for her to make this statement after her appointment is significant in that it would correct the rightward tendency in Japanese society to an extent, improve Sino-Japanese relations, and ameliorate Japan's relations with its neighbors…We hope that it will expand, without ceasing, the progressive capacity to limit the rightward tendency of Japanese society, and improve its ability to act for peace in the Asia-Pacific region and the world."
"The progressive capacity to limit Japan's rightwing tendency and act for world peace?" Yeah, they've still got Reds in China. You hadn't noticed?
The Tanaka comment is the product of mixing someone who favors tilting foreign policy toward China and away from the West with the need to satisfy the "progressive" teachers' unions, one of the party's principal power bases. It might help relax the immediate tensions with China, but only in the sense that it will lead the Chinese to think that the Japanese leadership is finally showing some sense and starting to deal with those crazy rightwingers.
It won't help. Absent the arrival of a gargantuan black swan, she won't be Education Minister this time next year, the DPJ won't be in power, and there will be little change, if any, in the history curriculum.
Then there are the problems on the domestic side. She already criticized the government's nuclear energy policy when she said she doesn't think ending nuclear power by 2030 is feasible. She's right, but that's what you get when you roll a loose cannon into the Cabinet. You never know when it will go off and where the muzzle will be pointing when it does.
Makiko is also being Makiko. Another report just a day after her appointment claimed that she summoned one of the aides assigned from the Education Ministry bureaucracy into the women's restroom to give him lengthy, detailed instructions on a particular matter. The report didn't specify what she was doing in the women's restroom at the time.
Japanese pundits saw other reasons for her selection. One suggested her current strength is roughly at the level required to snatch the focus from the opposition Liberal Democrats and the up-and-coming Japan Restoration Party on the daytime TV talk/gossip shows. (Those programs juggle politics, show business, and human interest stories.)
Another thought she might have been chosen because she's one of the few politicians in the country who wouldn't flinch from doing verbal battle with Osaka Mayor Hashimoto, the head of the Japan Restoration Party. Mr. Hashimoto has thrashed the teachers unions in both the city and prefecture of Osaka, and the theory goes that the DPJ wants someone in the Education Ministry capable of standing up to him.
Unfortunately for them, however, is that Ms. Tanaka verbal skills are due primarily to her "poison tongue", as the saying goes in Japan. She's quite entertaining when she runs people down, which is another reason she's popular daytime television fare. (She once referred to former Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro as "Old Man Pomade".)
She is less successful when it comes to the give and take of debate, or persuading an audience through the power of logic and persuasion.
If Mr. Noda's intent was to have some imagined Tanaka star power refloat his Cabinet, he was mistaken. Here's one of the questions and the answer received when the Kyodo news agency polled the public from 1-2 October.
Q: How do you evaluate the selection of Tanaka Makiko to the Cabinet?
Good idea: 34.6%
Bad idea: 53.8%
No answer: 11.6%
The Kyodo poll
Speaking of the Kyodo Poll, it might be useful as a rough guide to the mood of the electorate, despite being conducted by random digit dialing (RDD).
Here are some of the other questions and answers. The numbers in parentheses are the totals from the previous month:
* Do you support the Noda Cabinet?
Yes: 29.2% (26.3%)
No: 55.3% (59.4%)
Don't know: 15.5% (14.3%)
The Yomiuri Shimbun poll had the support rate for the Noda Cabinet a few points higher, but it's not enough to make a difference. The increase was normal for a Cabinet reshuffle, and absent other factors, it will have subsided in the next month or two.
* Which party do you support?
Democratic Party of Japan (ruling party): 12.3% (12.9%)
Liberal Democratic Party (primary opposition): 30.4% (19.3%)
Japan Restoration Party (Hashimoto group): 10.7%
Putting People First (Ozawa Ichiro group): 1.9% (2.1%)
Note that the LDP supporters are more than double those of the DPJ, which in turn is barely ahead of Mr. Hashimoto's party. Note also that the voters finally seem to be getting ready to flush the toilet with Ozawa Ichiro.
* Do you approve of the DPJ leadership changes?
Yes: 23.8%
No: 69.5%
* Do you approve of the LDP leadership changes?
* How do you evaluate the Japan Restoration Party?
Positive: 50.6% (60.2%)
Negative: 43.0% (34.7%)
* For which party will you cast your vote in the proportional representation phase of the election?
DPJ: 12.3% (12.4%)
LDP: 31.3% (22.2%)
Japan Restoration Party: 13.9% (17.6%)
Putting People First: 2.7% (4.9%)
Sunrise Japan: 0.3% (1.2%)
This is important for several reasons. First, it shows that the public has written off the DPJ, which are now beyond political redemption (perhaps for good). Second, this poll was taken after the LDP selected former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo as party head. Note the month-to-month increase from last month to this. Those numbers are giving the Japanese left (and the residential foreigner left) gas pains.
These results for Putting People First again show that Mr. Ozawa is fading away. He is a man out of time, and a man out of his time.
Perhaps you've read the commentary that the Senkakus spat with China is all the fault of Tokyo Metro District Gov. Ishihara Shinto, the "fiery rightwing nationalist". Some people desperately want to believe that his influence on the relative Japanese hardline in the Senkakus is proof that he's leading the country to the right.
Lunchmeat. Sunrise Japan is the party that Mr. Ishihara was instrumental in creating. There you see in black and pale blue (on this website) the influence of his party on national politics.
The correlation of his views and that of many members of the public on a specific issue does not indicate he is at the forefront of a greater national trend. This seems to be beyond the capacity of some drive-by commentators or pundettes with an agenda (sometimes the same people) to see.
The Hashimoto slide
Further, the numbers in this and other national polls show the first significant drop in support for Hashimoto Toru since his rise to national prominence. Some attribute that to the rough patch he's had coordinating affairs with the Diet MPs who recently joined his party, or with some vagaries in the party's statement of principles.
I disagree, just as I disagree with the LDP's claim that their jump from the previous month came solely from the election of Abe Shinzo. What I think is happening is something that isn't showing up in the polls, because the news media polls are too generalized to elicit certain answers.
This was the first round of polls taken after the Chinese ran amok in their September riots, implicitly encouraged by the modern Mandarins. The Japanese public is coming to see China as an existential threat. The shift to the LDP, I suspect, is due to the public's choice of the political group they think is most capable of protecting them from that existential threat.
After being appalled by how the Kan Cabinet handled the previous episode in the fall of 2010, they know that's beyond the DPJ's capabilities. Mr. Hashimoto's deportment in the past month was not so bad (or so different) to cause the public to sour on him. Had not China and South Korea behaved as they have over the past two months, his numbers probably wouldn't have changed. The public, in general, still wants reforms of the type he is promoting. His problem is that they've already seen how one set of amateurs deals with the Chinese, and they aren't willing to entrust foreign policy now to a new group of beginners.
Finally, lower house MP Sugimoto Kazumi, a first-termer from Aichi, left the DPJ and is considering membership in Your Party. That reduced the DPJ lower house delegation to 247, down from an original total higher than 300. They also have three members from the People's New Party in their coalition, making 250. Subtracting Mr. Sugimoto and the three DPJ members who announced their intention to join the Japan Restoration Party, the DPJ's magic number for losing the outright majority is eight, as one newspaper put it.
Noda Yoshihiko's objective seems to be to put off a lower house election until the last possible minute, which is next summer. If the leakage from the DPJ continues, that decision might be taken out of his and his party's hands altogether.
Political correctness might have been a factor in the selection of Tanaka Makiko. The weekly Shukan Asahi quotes a source "close to the prime minister" as saying, "We searched for a woman to put in the Cabinet, but couldn't find a suitable candidate. Still, we had to have at least one."
They also cite a few other of the nicknames given to the new lineup: "The clean out the inventory Cabinet", and one that's not easy to translate concisely, but means "Put something good on their resume to dress them up for the election".
Mr. Noda also dismissed the idea that she was appointed to ease the strained relations with China. He said, "It's not as if I appointed her as Foreign Minister."
Maybe not tomorrow, but not too much longer
Posted in China, Government, International relations, Politics | Tagged: Abe Shinzo, Fujii H., Japanese Political Realignment, Jojima K., Kasumigaseki, Katsu E., Noda Y., Tanaka M. | Leave a Comment »
Takahashi and Hasegawa on the real Japanese prime minister
Posted by ampontan on Thursday, October 13, 2011
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
– G.K. Chesterton
THE focus of the primary political articles in the 8 October edition of the weekly Shukan Gendai is on the influence of Finance Ministry bureaucrat Katsu Eijiro on the Noda administration. The headline on the front cover just below the logo dubs him "the real prime minister who is manipulating the dojo (fish) Noda". Following the lead story is a dialogue between Hasegawa Yukihiro, a member of the Tokyo Shimbun editorial board, and Takahashi Yoichi, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat, official in the Koizumi administration, college professor, and author. They are perhaps the foremost advocates in Japan for curbing the influence of the bureaucracy, and both have been frequently cited here.
Their dialogue is an excellent précis of the issue, both in general and how it involves the Noda administration. The amount of detail in the complete dialogue is overwhelming, so I've excerpted the important points in English.
Hasegawa: A look at the personnel appointments of the Noda Yoshihiko administration shows a clear shift to a policy of tax increases. Also, the consensus of opinion is that Katsu Eijiro, the administrative vice-minister for the Finance Ministry, is the producer and scriptwriter for this administration that's making a beeline to tax increases.
Takahashi: In short, he's the backstage prime minister (laughs).
Hasegawa: …I'd like to touch on some of the Noda administration personnel appointments. First, priority was clearly given to circumstances in the Democratic Party. Former Foreign Minister Maehara Seiji was named the party's policy chief, a position that is key for the determination of policy. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Sengoku Yoshito (N.B.: a Maehara ally) was named as the acting policy chief. Finally, former Finance Ministry bureaucrat and Finance Minister Fujii Hirohisa was appointed the party's tax policy chief.
The party seems to have been allocated a rather important role during the preliminary spadework of policy formation, but that's because there are elements within the party that are either opposed to a tax increase or are hesitant about supporting them. The reason for a structure with this depth of personnel is to suppress the anti-tax sentiment (in the party) and achieve a tax increase.
Takahashi: In the normal process of policy determination, the government first creates a proposal, the (ruling) party massages it, and then it is submitted to the Diet. Absent Diet gridlock, the primary emphasis is on either the government or the ruling party.
We have Diet gridlock now, however, and the (primary opposition) LDP is in agreement with higher taxes to begin with. Therefore, for the Finance Ministry, the ideal tax increase proposals will be raised by the government, and they will be leveled down to a certain extent by the party. Then, in the Diet, they'll get the LDP involved and make the tax increase a reality. The script has already been written. In short, the key is how to weaken the anti-tax elements in the party. That's why the priority in the selection of the personnel appointments was placed on the party rather than the government.
Hasegawa: They certainly picked some lightweights for the Cabinet considering how much emphasis they placed on the party. There's Azumi Jun as Finance Minister, who knows very little about financial policy, and there's the former Finance Ministry bureaucrat, Furukawa Motohisa, as the Minister for National Policy. (N.B.: Also Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy and Minister for Total Reform of Social Security and Tax) The Finance Ministry can completely control these two. Also key is the appointment of Katsu Eijiro as administrative vice-minister.
Takahashi: That's right. The Cabinet itself consists of lightweights, but the Finance Ministry bureaucrats that were sent over are all heavyweights….
Hasegawa: Tango Yasutake as a deputy Finance Minister is a dead giveaway of Finance Ministry control….
Takahashi: …Also surprising was that a Finance Ministry bureaucrat (a former division head of mid-level seniority), was appointed as the parliamentary secretary for Ren Ho, the Minister of State for Government Revitalization. Usually, that sort of post is given to the aides of division heads at the end of their career, but the Finance Ministry sent over Yoshii Hiroshi, who joined the ministry in 1988.
Hasegawa: The portfolios of government revitalization and civil service reform given to Ren Ho are important for the bureaucracy, so it's clear their objective is to keep a lid on it. In addition, she has some star appeal for the DPJ, is a capable speaker, and attracts a lot of attention.
Takahashi: Actually, Mr. Katsu sent Mr. Yoshii over to be her secretary when she was a minister in the Kan Cabinet. He kept his post as her advisor even after she was downgraded to the job of special advisor to the prime minister, and he's been with her ever since. Mr. Katsu has perceived the value of using Ren Ho and so is keeping her marked.
Hasegawa: 1988 is also the year that Furukawa Motohisa entered the Finance Ministry. Another member of that class is Ito Hideki, the parliamentary secretary for Minister of Financial Services Jimi Shozaburo.
Takahashi: That's because Mr. Furukawa combines the functions of Cabinet minister and parliamentary secretary (laughs). These three men are a powerful trio. In addition to the normal orientation that all new employees are given when they enter a government ministry, the Finance Ministry has its own three week intensive "boot camp". This cements the ties between the people who were hired at the same time, which results in a personnel network unlike that at any other ministry.
Hasegawa: Mr. Katsu's personnel choices were well thought out, weren't they?
Takahashi:…With Ota Mitsuru of the class of 1983 as the prime minister's parliamentary secretary, and the number of parliamentary secretaries they've had assigned, the Finance Ministry can pretty much run the Cabinet. To be blunt, they don't care who the ministers are…
Hasegawa: Mr. Katsu has engineered a complete shift toward a tax increase both within the Cabinet and in the ministry…the question is now whether he'll make a headlong rush toward a tax increase.
Takahashi: That question was already answered by Prime Minister Noda during Question Time in the Diet. He was asked by the opposition whether he should take the issue to the people (in a general election) before increasing the consumption tax. The prime minister answered, "We will ask for their trust before it goes into effect." That seemed to satisfy both the public and the mass media, but there's no question that's a trap laid by the Finance Ministry. "Asking for their trust before the tax is raised" usually means holding a lower house election on that issue, but "asking for their trust before it goes into effect" means they'll hold the election after the bill for the tax increase has passed and before it is implemented. In other words, they'll submit and force through an increase in the consumption tax during the regular session of the Diet next year, as is already planned. After that, they will hold an election at what they consider to be a suitable time. That way, because the bill has passed, the consumption tax will be raised whether or not the ruling party wins the election. That is the Katsu/Finance Ministry scenario.
Hasegawa: The tax increase could be stopped by legislation freezing it before it goes into effect.
Takahashi: Not possible. Not possible. If they hold a general election just before taxes are raised, there won't be enough time to submit a bill freezing the implementation. That sort of schedule management is the forté of the Finance Ministry, and that's why they sent all those accomplished people over to the Cabinet as parliamentary secretaries. They'll also have no compunction at all over threatening the politicians by telling them that freezing the tax increase will cause a major disruption in the economy…
…One more thing we shouldn't forget is the use of the media to brainwash the public.
Hasegawa: The problem of the pet reporters who cozy up to the Finance Ministry bureaucracy. If you dig just a little deeply, you find that the Finance Ministry is really driving the government. A reporter antagonistic to their bureaucrats gets cut out of the loop. That's why the reporters themselves cozy up to the bureaucrats. Nearly every day you can pick up the newspaper and read stories about the need for all sorts of taxes — income taxes, corporate taxes, inheritance taxes, environmental taxes. The Finance Ministry lobs them fat pitches, and they're more than happy when they get converted into articles. It isn't long before the people turn numb, and that creates an atmosphere in which everyone believes tax increases are unavoidable. That's what's happening now.
Takahashi: People can only think about things based on the information they're provided. There are other revenue sources besides higher taxes, but people gradually stop looking in that direction. It really is brainwashing.
Hasegawa: That is the Finance Ministry's strategy for the masses using the media. And the person driving the Finance Ministry now is Katsu Eijiro.
(end excerpts)
Note that Mr. Takahashi said the script was already written. On the morning of the 12th, Finance Minister Azumi Jun read his lines:
"Next year, the bill for the consumption tax (increase) and the reform for integrating the tax with social security will definitely be introduced together."
Meanwhile, Deputy Finance Minister Igarashi Fumihiko said in a television interview on the 11th that based on his own calculations, a 17% consumption tax rate would be necessary in the intermediate to long-term. That same rate has already been floated by the Japanese Association of Corporate Executives, one of the country's major business groups.
In short, the problem of the alliance between Big Government and Big Business is just as serious in Japan as it is in the West, if not more so.
The hucksters of the DPJ campaigned on ending the political dependence on the bureaucracy and not raising taxes for four years.
They've been in office now just a few days more than two years.
How many more years are we going to have to let them dog us around?
Posted in Business, finance and the economy, Government, Politics | Tagged: Azumi J., Japan, Katsu E., Maehara S., Noda Y., Sengoku Y. | 1 Comment »


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Can Pilates really make you taller?
Sun | Health & Fitness
The Washington Post — Apr 18th, 2005
Twenty years ago, Liz Torbert of Washington noticed she was shrinking.
Diagnosed with scoliosis in her mid-20s, Torbert experienced no visible effects until after menopause, when her bone density decreased. Then her spine began to collapse. Throughout her adult life she had been 5 feet 51/2 inches tall; by 2000, she'd shrunk to 4 feet 111/2.
"My ribs were touching my pelvis," Torbert said. "I was leaning that far over."
Today — at 75, about six decades after most people get their growth spurts — Torbert has regained two inches, standing 5 feet 11/2 inches. She credits her new stature to three years of regular Pilates classes.
Pilates, an 80-year-old rehabilitation exercise regimen that has found a huge new audience in the past several years, has cultivated a reputation for being able to create longer, leaner muscles ... and to increase height.
"You'll be taller and slimmer, you'll lose stress and pain in your neck and back, you'll increase your ab strength and your joints will loosen up. ..." reads an advertisement for Quantum Fitness Pilates in Washington, where Torbert practices.
Other ads are peppered with similar claims that hedge a bit: that you'll "feel taller" or "stand taller"; students who have been taking the classes for some time are quoted as saying things like, "I feel taller."
But Torbert's case is the exception, experts say: A Pilates student who does not have a condition like osteoporosis or scoliosis isn't likely to gain height.
"There's no such research to prove that Pilates will make a person taller," said Moira Merrithew, founder of Stott Pilates, a national equipment and training company. "What it can do is improve the posture so that people stand taller."
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Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH)
Other Affiliations: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Campus: UMD | Building: School of Public Health | Room: 2234U
Phone: (301)314-1588 | Email: lquiros@umd.edu
By appointment.
I joined the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health at the University of Maryland, School of Public Health in 2014 after completing my postdoctoral work at the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health at the University of California at Berkeley. I also hold a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and I am Affiliate Faculty at the Maryland Population Research Center at the University of Maryland.
My research focuses on characterizing environmental exposures to endocrine disrupting agents and examining their potential health effects on highly vulnerable, low-income and minority populations underrepresented and understudied in public health research, including occupational populations, women, and children. To this end, I have examined determinants of exposure and health outcomes associated with chemicals in personal care products, cleaning agents, pesticides, and flame retardants. My research also seeks to use qualitative research methods to design and implement culturally-appropriate interventions to reduce environmental health disparities among Latino, African American, and other minority populations.
I have experience working in children's environmental health research, occupational health, science communication, working with Latino communities, and conducting exposure assessment and epidemiologic research. I welcome the opportunity to establish new collaborations and to work with talented undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs. For more information, please contact me.
Profile on the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) website.
Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA (2010)
MSc., Safety Engineering & Industrial Hygiene, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2001)
BSc., Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2000)
MIEH 780 Occupational Hygiene
MIEH 480 Introduction to Occupational Health
2014: AAAS Science and Technology Fellowship Finalist
2012-15: NIEHS Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
2012-2013: Environmental Health News Science Communication Fellowship
2011: UC San Francisco Reach the Decision Makers Science Policy Fellow
2009: International Society of Exposure Science Student Poster Competition, 2nd Place
2009, 2007: Preston Scholarship for research that impacts environmental and children's health, UC Berkeley
2008: American Public Health Association Environment Section Student Poster Award, 1st Place
2008, 2007: William Griffiths School of Public Health Alumni Scholarship, UC Berkeley
2007: Institute for Mexico and the United States Dissertation Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
2007: School of Public Health Grossman Alumni Scholarship, UC Berkeley
2005-2008: Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Doctoral Fellowship
2005: Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Student Award (occupational health research project in Nicaragua), UC Berkeley
2005: Dr. Robert T. Legge Award for academic excellence in the field of Industrial\Hygiene
2003-2005: UC Berkeley Opportunity Award (Pre-doctoral Fellowship)
2002: Brookhaven National Laboratory Spotlight Award for developing an innovative workplace injury and illness prevention program
University of California at Berkeley Center for Environmental Reseach and Children's Health (CERCH)
The John Hopkins Center for the Study of Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment
Children's Environmental Health Network
Center for Assisting Families (Centro de Apoyo Familiar)
Levy J.I., Quirós-Alcalá L., Fabian M.P., Basra K., Hansel N.N. Established and Emerging Environmental Contributors to Disparities in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Current Epidemiology Reports, In press: DOI: 10.1007/s40471-018-0149-9.
Quirós-Alcalá L., Buckley J.P., and Boyle M., Parabens and measures of adiposity among adults and children from the U.S. general population: NHANES 2007–2014. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2018 Mar 15. pii: S1438-4639(17)30869-6.
Buckley J.P., Quirós-Alcalá L., Teitelbaum S.L., Calafat A.M., Wolff M.S., and Engel S.M., Associations of prenatal environmental phenol and phthalate biomarkers with respiratory and allergic diseases among children aged 6 and 7 years. Environment International, 2018 Mar 15;115:79-88.
Gaspar F.W., Chevrier J., Quiros-Alcala L., Lipsitt J.M., Barr D.B., Holland N., Bornman R., and Eskenazi B., Levels and Determinants of DDT and DDE Exposure in the VHEMBE Cohort. Environ Health Perspect, 2017. 125(7): p. 077006.
Boyle M.D., Soneja S., Quiros-Alcala L., Dalemarre L., Sapkota A.R., Sangaramoorthy T., Wilson S., Milton D., and Sapkota A., A pilot study to assess residential noise exposure near natural gas compressor stations. PLoS One, 2017. 12(4): p. e0174310.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Wilson S, Witherspoon N, Murray R, Trousdale K, Raspanti G, and Sapkota A. Volatile organic compounds and particulate matter in child care facilities in the District of Columbia: results from a pilot study. Environmental Research, 2015 Dec, 146, 116-124.
Bradman A*, Quirós-Alcalá L*, Castorina R. et al. Effect of Organic Diet Intervention on Pesticide Exposures in Young Children Living in Low-Income Urban and Agricultural Communities. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Oct, 123, 1086-93. * Shared first-authorship
Quirós-Alcalá L, Mehta S, and Eskenazi B. Pyrethroid pesticide exposure and parental report of learning disability and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in U.S. children: NHANES 1999-2002. Environ Health Perspect. 2014; 122(12):1336-42.
Eskenazi B, Quirós-Alcalá L, et al. mSpray: a mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa. Environment International. 2014; 68:219-26.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Eskenazi B, et al. Determinants of urinary bisphenol A concentrations in Mexican/Mexican-American pregnant women. Environment International. 2013; 59C:152-160.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Bradman A, et al. Organophosphorous pesticide breakdown products in house dust and children's urine. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemio. 2012; (22): 559-568.
Bradman A, Kogut K, Eisen E, Jewell N, Quirós-Alcalá L, et al. Variability of pesticide metabolite levels in spot and 24 hour urine samples collected from young children during one week. Environ Health Perspect. 2012; 121(1):118-24.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Alkon AD, et al. Maternal prenatal and child organophosphate pesticide exposures and children's autonomic function. Neurotoxicology. 2011; 32(5):646-55.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Bradman A, et al. Pesticides in house dust from urban and farmworker households in California: an observational measurement study. Environmental Health. 2011; 10:19.
Quirós-Alcalá L, Bradman A, et al. Concentrations and loadings of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in dust from low-income households in California. Environ Int. 2011; 37(3):592-6.
Weerasekera G, Smith K, Quirós-Alcalá L, et al. A mass spectrometry-based method to measure dialkylphosphate products of organophosphorous insecticides in dust and orange juice. J. Environ. Monit. 2009; 11(7):1345-51.
Bradman A, Whitaker D, Quirós L, et al. Pesticides and their Metabolites in the Homes and Urine of Farmworker Children Living in the Salinas Valley, CA. J Expo Sci Environ Epi. 2007; 17(4): 331-49.


1. Promote the science and practice of evaluation in both the public and private sectors of society.
2. Provide a forum for professional evaluators to network, exchange ideas and knowledge, and participate in professional development activities that promote excellence in the field of evaluation.
3. Establish and maintain a pipeline for evaluators of color and underrepresented groups (e.g., low-income, LGBT, non-college enrolled youth, rural, lay, youth, and Spanish-speaking) to increase the number of underrepresented evaluators practicing throughout the state of Wisconsin.


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Hergé's Tintin adventure Tintin au pays de l'or noir (Land of Black Gold, serialized 1939–1940, 1948–1950; color album published 1950).
A militant group is sabotaging oil supplies in the Middle East — causing car engines to spontaneously explode across Europe. Hoping to prevent a second world war, Tintin, Snowy, and Thomson and Thompson set off for the kingdom of Khemed to investigate. Tintin is kidnapped by an Arab insurgent attempting to overthrow the Emir, Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab. Escaping into the desert, Tintin encounters Dr. Müller, the Buchan-esque criminal and foreign agent from The Black Island (1937–1938), who is sabotaging the pipelines of Arabex, the Emir's preferred oil company. After surviving a sandstorm and reuniting with Thomson and Thompson, Tintin arrives in Khemed's capital city of Wadesdah, only to discover that Müller has kidnapped the Emir's beloved son, Prince Abdullah! Tintin sets off to rescue the prince, who turns out to be a "Red Chief"-style spoiled brat. Thomson and Thompson, meanwhile, mistakenly ingest Formula 14, which turns out to be the substance (invented by Müller) that is causing engines to explode; the results are, shall we say, chemical-comical.
Fun facts: Captain Haddock is mobilized into the Navy, at the beginning of the story; he doesn't reappear until the end. This is because the story was originally serialized from September 1939 until the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940; Haddock wasn't introduced until The Crab with the Golden Claws was serialized in 1940–1941. When Hergé revived Land of Black Gold in 1948, he made many changes — for example, Müller was originally a Nazi agent.


I received a message from my sister Friday evening that my mama's next older sister, my Aunt Brenda, was put into hospice care. Saturday evening, I received word that Aunt Brenda was not expected to make it through the night.
Please pray for Aunt Brenda, total healing and restoration if the Lord wills it and a peaceful passing for her if He doesn't. Please also keep her five children and her grandchildren in your prayers for comfort during this time.
How sad, I am praying for her.
Thank you, Ellen. My brother and his wife are there with her now. He said that she is there physically, but non-responsive. Just breathing sounds. Thank you for the prayers.


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Q: JavaScript argument function call with unknown amount of argumnts I'm trying to create a function that loops over elements and calls a function for each class with different amount of arguments.
maybe I can bind them somehow?
obviously this code doesn't work , so it's just for reference:
function elementsLoop(className, fn, ...args) {
  let elems = document.getElementsByClassName(className);
  for(const elem of elems) {
    fn(elem, ...args);
  }
}

let a = (elem, x, y, z) => {
  //do something with 'elem' and x y ,z
}

let b = (elem) => {
  //do something with 'elem'
}
let c = (elem, t) => {
  //do something with 'elem' and t
}

elementsLoop('some-class', a, [x,y,z]);
elementsLoop('some-class', b, []);
elementsLoop('some-class', c, [t]);

Here Is my original approach and I'm just woundering how can I do It differently:
let getElements = (className) => {
  return document.getElementsByClassName(className);
}

function a(className, x, y, z) {
  let elems = getElements(className);
  for(const el of elems){
    //do something
  }
}

A: When a function is defined like so: function fun(...abc) {}, it is called like this: fun(1, 2, 3).
function elementsLoop(className, fn, ...args){
  let elems = document.getElementsByClassName(className);
  for(const elem of elems){
    fn(elem, ...args);
  }
}

let a = (elem, x, y, z) => {
  //do something with 'elem' and x y ,z
}

let b = (elem) => {
  //do something with 'elem'
}

let c = (elem, t) => {
  //do something with 'elem' and t
}

elementsLoop('some-class', a, x, y, z);
elementsLoop('some-class', b);
elementsLoop('some-class', c, t);

A: Use .apply to pass an array as argument list.
fn.apply(null, [elem , ...args]);

Also, you probably want to change the function call to:
elementsLoop('some-class' , a , x, y, z);

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PubMed RSS Feed - - Pimecrolimus cream 1% for the treatment of papulopustular eruption related to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors: a case series and a literature review of therapeutic approaches.
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Pimecrolimus cream 1% for the treatment of papulopustular eruption related to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors: a case series and a literature review of therapeutic approaches.
Dermatology. 2010;220(3):243-8
Authors: Nikolaou V, Stratigos A, Antoniou C, Kiagia M, Nikolaou C, Katsambas A, Syrigos K
BACKGROUND: Cutaneous side effects of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (EGFRIs) are very frequent and well known. The aim of our study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of pimecrolimus 1% cream in the treatment of papulopustular eruption caused by EGFRIs and to review the relevant literature on therapeutic approaches. METHODS: Twenty cancer patients being treated with EGFRIs were included in the study. Nine of the patients showed grade 1 and 11 showed grade 2 papulopustular eruption. All patients were treated with pimecrolimus 1% cream, which was applied twice daily. Patients with grade 2 eruption also received systemic minocycline 100 mg/day. RESULTS: All patients with grade 1 eruption responded to treatment, with 4/9 experiencing complete resolution of the lesions 2 weeks after the initiation of treatment. Five out of 11 patients with grade 2 eruption had more than 50% improvement in erythema and pustules, and 1 had complete resolution of the skin lesions. Two patients did not respond to treatment but were significantly improved after substitution of pimecrolimus 1% cream with metronidazole 1% cream. No side effects were recorded. CONCLUSIONS: Our case series shows that pimecrolimus cream may be an effective and safe approach in the management of papulopustular eruption related to EGFRIs.
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SolarWinds Hackers Continue Assault With a New Microsoft Breach
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
The company says the Nobelium hacking group compromised a support agent's computer and levied brute-force attacks against some of its customers.
It's still unknown how long the agent's computer was compromised and whether the attack hit a Microsoft-managed machine on a company network.Photographer: Bronte Wittpenn/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker's computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon.
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast.
The hacking group also compromised three entities using password-spraying and brute-force techniques, which gain unauthorized access to accounts by bombarding login servers with large numbers of login guesses. With the exception of the three undisclosed entities, Microsoft said, the password-spraying campaign was "mostly unsuccessful." Microsoft has since notified all targets, whether attacks were successful or not.
The discoveries came in Microsoft's continued investigation into Nobelium, Microsoft's name for the sophisticated hacking group that used SolarWinds software updates and other means to compromise networks belonging to nine US agencies and 100 private companies. The federal government has said Nobelium is part of the Russian government's Federal Security Service.
"As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealing malware on a machine belonging to one of our customer support agents with access to basic account information for a small number of our customers," Microsoft said in a post. "The actor used this information in some cases to launch highly targeted attacks as part of their broader campaign."
According to Reuters, Microsoft published the breach disclosure after one of the news outlet's reporters asked the company about the notification it sent to targeted or hacked customers. Microsoft didn't reveal the infection of the worker's computer until the fourth paragraph of the five-paragraph post.
The infected agent, Reuters said, could access billing contact information and the services the customers paid for, among other things. "Microsoft warned affected customers to be careful about communications to their billing contacts and consider changing those usernames and email addresses, as well as barring old usernames from logging in," the news service reported.
The supply chain attack on SolarWinds came to light in December. After hacking the Austin, Texas-based company and taking control of its software-build system, Nobelium pushed malicious updates to about 18,000 SolarWinds customers.
"The latest cyberattack reported by Microsoft does not involve our company or our customers in any way," a SolarWinds representative said in an email.
The SolarWinds supply chain attack wasn't the only way Nobelium compromised its targets. Anti-malware provider Malwarebytes has said it was also infected by Nobelium but through a different vector, which the company didn't identify.
Both Microsoft and email management provider Mimecast have also said that they, too, were hacked by Nobelium, which then went on to use the compromises to hack the companies' customers or partners.
Microsoft said that the password-spraying activity targeted specific customers, with 57 percent of them IT companies, 20 percent government organizations, and the rest nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, and financial services. About 45 percent of the activity focused on US interests, 10 percent targeted UK customers, and smaller numbers were in Germany and Canada. In all, customers in 36 countries were targeted.
Reuters, citing a Microsoft spokesman, said that the breach disclosed Friday wasn't part of Nobelium's previous successful attack on Microsoft. The company has yet to provide key details, including how long the agent's computer was compromised and whether the compromise hit a Microsoft-managed machine on a Microsoft network or a contractor device on a home network.
Friday's disclosure came as a shock to many security analysts.
"I mean, Jesus, if Microsoft can't keep their own kit clear of viruses, how is the rest of the corporate world supposed to?" Kenn White, an independent security researcher, told me. "You would have thought that customer-facing systems would be some of the most hardened around."
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica.
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Legal Aspects of Airport Programs
Since 2006, the ACRP Legal Aspects of Airport Programs has been focused on providing legal research on topics of interest to the airport legal community. The ACRP Legal Studies program is modeled after the successful continuing legal studies projects in the National Cooperative Highway Program and the Transit Cooperative Highway Program. The studies focus on legal and regulatory issues and challenges affecting the airport industry and their findings are published in ACRP's Legal Research Digest (LRD) series. The LRD series provides airport attorneys with a single repository of authoritative and well-researched papers on the issues affecting them and their clients.
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A panel of eight airport industry attorneys provide project oversight for ACRP Project 11-01 by selecting topics and providing technical guidance on each digest written by contractors.
These dedicated volunteers represent the various stakeholders in the airport legal community, including airport executives who are tasked with navigating through the complexities of the legal and regulatory issues.
The panel selects the topics and prepares the scope of work for which proposals are solicited. Through consensus the panel selects the proposer who they believe will best meet their research objective.
The panel then oversees and approves the research and makes a publication recommendation. The legal studies follow a defined set of tasks of which can be found in greater detail here.
Proposers and selected contractors should read our Guidance for Working on ACRP Legal Studies Projects for more information.
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The legal studies program has researched and published a variety of subject areas exploring the legal implications of a broad range of topics, including: federal, state, and local regulations; day-to-day operations and tenant activities; and airport governance. Our topics are selected by the ACRP 11-01 panel which are submitted by the industry at any time throughout the year.
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Environmental Control of Development
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Plant development is highly plastic, with major variations in form determined by the environment. An excellent example is shoot branching, where the body plan of the shoot system conferred by one genotype can range from a single unbranched stem, to a highly ramified bush, depending on the growth conditions. In recent years we have investigated the hormonal network that allows environmentally sensitive changes in shoot branching in Arabidopsis. Through the analysis of a set of monogenic mutants with clear effects on both the number of shoot branches produced and on its responsiveness to environmental inputs, we have developed a model for shoot branching control involving interactions between three systemically transported plant hormones. In collaboration with Prusinkiewicz (Calgary), we have built a computational implementation of this model, which captures the phenotypes of wild-type plants and, through the manipulation of single biologically plausible model parameters, our mutant phenotypes. While there is still much to learn about individual network components, the mechanistic framework we have established is sufficiently well developed to allow network-level investigation. We therefore propose an ambitious project to use natural allelic variation in shoot branching and its environmental sensitivity as in vivo differently parameterized versions of the shoot branching regulatory network, which can be compared with parameter space exploration in our computational model. By investigating the properties of shoot branching in diverse genotypes and in the computational model parameter space, we will identify trait correlations that will contribute to understanding the architecture of the regulatory network. This approach will simultaneously test the validity of our current model and provide new hypotheses for investigation. Furthermore, the rapidly moving genomics tools available in Arabidopsis will allow us to elucidate the genetic basis for key network properties.
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Q: Fastest Search algorithm in 2D array So, I have a 2D array, int a[X][Y];
X can go up to 10 000 000 and Y is maximum 6.
Given an array int v[Z] (Z <= Y), I have to see if I find a line in a that contains all the elements from v.
What would be the fastest algorithm for this matter and how would you implement this?
I have already tried the classic method of taking line by line and then with the 2 fors search, one for v elements and one for a elements but it takes too long.
What would be the best (fastest) approach ?
int check()
{
    int nrfound;

    for (int l = 0; l < lines_counter; l++) for each line in a array
    {
        nrfound = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // for each element in v array

            for (int j = 0; j < m; j++) // for each element in a[l] line
                if (v[i] == a[l][j])
                    nrfound++;
            if (nrfound == Z)
                return 0;
        }
    }
    return 1;
}

A: I see three things to consider:

*

*Using threads.

*If it's possible, when constructing int a[X][Y] table I would create additional array int[6][Y] which will contain:

*

*List of indexes which contain 1, 2, 3 .. 6 elements. This allows you to narrow the search.

*For each X count Hash of it's values. Then count Hash of V values.

*

*Compare Hash code, instead of each separate value.

A: For the case of reusing the same array a[] with multiple different v[]:
Sort every line of a[][] as preliminary step (executed once)
Sort v[]
Use single loop (instead of two) to get intersection of ordered v[] and every ordered line of a[]  - with approach like merge procedure of merge sort
index_v = 0
index_a = 0
while index_v < length_v and index_a < length_a:
   if v[index_v] == a[index_a]
       index_v++, index_a++
   else if v[index_v] < a[index_a]
       index_v++
   else
     index_a++
if index_v == length_v:
   return OK, a[] line contains all v elements

A: Sorting 1e7 arrays of size 6 can be easily parallelized using fixed sorting network with or without Simd/multithreading.
Sort v and compare that with same principle as merge sorting two sorted lists.
The overall worst case complexity is between 13e7..24e7 comparisons (sorting network for 6 elements requires 12 conditional swaps and merging v/a[n] requires 1..12 comparisons.

A: Your algorithm has a flaw if there are duplicate elements in the a[i][] subarrays.  A matching element of v will be counted multiple times and the count may equal Z by coincidence.
Here is a corrected version:
int check(int X, int Y, int Z, int a[X][Y], int v[Z]) {
    for (int x = 0; x < X; x++) {
        // for each line in array a
        int mask = 0;
        for (int z = 0; z < Z; z++) {
            // for each element in array v
            for (int y = 0, m = 1; y < Y; y++, m <<= 1) {
                // for each element in line a[x]
                if (v[z] == a[x][y] && !(mask & m)) {
                    mask |= m;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (y == Y)
                break;
        }
        if (z == Z)
            return 0;   // found a match
        }
    }
    return 1;   // no match
}

Unfortunately, the above code might be even slower than the posted one, but it is worth testing as the inner loop is exited as soon as a element from v is not found in a[x].

A: As you're working in C, it limits available data structures:
I would suggest :

*

*Initialize N threads, divide matrix rows X in N buckets, and run searching for each bucket in parallel.

*Depending on type of 2D input array : You can save some time with boundary conditions as you want all elements of query array maintain the order. You can also make use of (Z <= Y) Length of each line as to match if should first match the length.

*Sorting the array will add complexity to it. So better to avoid it.


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Opinion | When and how should journalists interview autocrats?
An Atlantic interview with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman drew criticism — and raised important questions about journalism.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaking last December. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)
By: Tom Jones
Last week, The Atlantic's Graeme Wood wrote about Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in "Absolute Power." Wood even talked to Salman for the story about a variety of topics with, apparently, no subject off limits.
In the story, Wood asked if he had ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. (A year ago, the Biden administration determined that the crown prince had "approved" the murder.)
Salman told Wood that it was "obvious" that he did not order Khashoggi's murder, adding, "It hurt me a lot. It hurt me and it hurt Saudi Arabia, from a feelings perspective. … I understand the anger, especially among journalists. I respect their feelings. But we also have feelings here, pain here."
Then Salman said, "I never read a Khashoggi article in my life." Then, incredibly, he said that if he did order death for those who wrote about him critically, "Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list."
There, of course, was much more to Wood's story.
But Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah heavily criticized Wood's piece in her column: "The Atlantic's elevation of MBS is an insult to journalism."
Attiah wrote, "Most sickeningly, The Atlantic gave MBS a platform to not only continue his absurd denials of having anything to do with Jamal's murder (even though it was carried out by figures in his close circle and the CIA concluded he gave the order to capture or kill), but also to present himself as the real victim."
Attiah also wrote, "It would have been one thing for the Atlantic to drill MBS on his role in Jamal's assassination. Instead, MBS was allowed to denigrate Jamal, saying he wasn't important enough to kill."
Attiah closed by writing, "'Absolute Power' is an insult to Jamal's memory and to journalism. When history looks back at this period, this Atlantic piece will shine as an example of how the path to the resurgence of brutal, global authoritarianism is paved in no small part by the worst aspects of access journalism in the United States."
The Atlantic, in a statement, told Attiah, "We encourage people to read Graeme Wood's story for themselves. The 12,000-word piece addresses issues about Saudi governance, religion, and society, and also addresses various manifestations of MBS's autocratic and repressive rule."
Even before The Post column, others had criticized Wood's piece for making Salman look sympathetic.
So Wood wrote another piece for The Atlantic: "Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats."
Wood wrote, "Any publication bragging that it is too sanctimonious to accept an invitation to interview the crown prince of Saudi Arabia is admitting it cannot cover Saudi Arabia. The Atlantic is not in the business of sanctimony, and it expects its readers to understand, without being told, that someone who dwells on his own indignities as the result of a murder, rather than on the suffering of the victim, might not be the perfect steward of absolute power."
Wood pushed back on those who criticized him for writing that Salman was "charming" and "intelligent," writing, "… if you think charm and intelligence are incompatible with being a sociopath, then your years in Washington, D.C., have taught you less than nothing."
The argument some made against interviewing the crown prince is that it's like giving him a platform to spew his ideas and lies.
But Wood wrote, "'Giving a platform' — to use the cliche that imprisons the minds of those who don't know how journalism is done, or what its purpose is — is not a favor bestowed on important people. It is an invitation to walk the boards and fall through trap doors. And that is exactly what Saudi officials themselves, whose past two days have been spent desperately fluffing pillows for a soft landing below, seem to think their ruler did."
There still isn't a consensus on this. Some believe that The Atlantic handed Salman a megaphone and didn't do enough to tamp down his lies. Others believe that The Atlantic story showed Salman for what he is, which is quite possibly a sociopath.
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Q: Display downloadable product URL for order success page for Guests Ok so i have got the page working fine for displaying the download links for the downloadable products when the customer is registered and signed in, however when checking out as a guest they are not seeing the links (emails work fine however)
This is my downloadable/block/checkout/list.php
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$items = $this->getItems();
$orderId = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getLastOrderId();
if (!$orderId) {
    return;
}
$orderItems = Mage::getModel('sales/order_item')
          ->getCollection()
          ->setOrderFilter($orderId)
          ->getAllIds();
$itemsToRemove = array();
foreach ($items as $key => $item) {
    if (!in_array($item->getOrderItemId(), $orderItems)) {
    $itemsToRemove[] = $key;
    }
}
foreach ($itemsToRemove as $key) {
    $items->removeItemByKey($key);
}

}

/**
 * Return url to download link
 *
 * @param Mage_Downloadable_Model_Link_Purchased_Item $item
 * @return string
 */
public function getDownloadUrl($item)
{
return $this->getUrl('downloadable/download/link', array('id' => $item->getLinkHash(), '_secure' => true));
}

}
If anyone can give any pointers or want to see any other code please let me know

A: Despite the fact I'm not sure what exactly you mean by

they are not seeing the links

here's my contribution to solve your problem:
There is a seperate block-class Mage_Downloadable_Block_Checkout_Success for the success page of downloadable items with a getOrderHasDownloadable() function.
The function getOrderHasDownloadable() returns false if there is a customer-session with customer-id. It seems that downloads are only available for customers, also depending on the fact, that there is customer_id stored in the downloadable_link_purchased table.
   /**
     * Return true if order(s) has one or more downloadable products
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function getOrderHasDownloadable()
    {
        ...
        /**
         * if use guest checkout
         */
        if (!Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerId()) {
            return false;
        }
        ...
    }

Try the following:

*

*check if there is a customer-session present in your block

*check if the link is already generated and saved to the downloadable_link_purchased_item table. The link to the downloadable Product gets generated within the sales_order_item_save_commit_after event in the saveDownloadableOrderItem method in Mage_Downloadable_Model_Observer.

You could try to retrieve the download-link via order-id, order-increment-id in Mage::getModel('downloadable/link_purchased') or purchased-id reference in Mage::getModel('downloadable/link_purchased_item').


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Bail set at $1M for man accused in armed courthouse standoff
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of carrying guns into a courthouse in Washington state earlier in the week, prompting a standoff and a three-hour lockdown before his arrest, had bail set Tuesday at $1 million.
Snohomish County District Court Presiding Judge Jennifer Rancourt set bail during a first court appearance for 32-year-old David Hsu, The Daily Herald reported.
Hsu's attorney, Lorcan Malone, had requested little to no bail, noting Hsu has no criminal history and wasn't accused of any violent offenses. Hsu, of Woodinville, remained jailed Tuesday afternoon.
Rancourt said she found probable cause to hold Hsu on investigation of resisting arrest, carrying a concealed weapon, disorderly conduct, and unlawful display of a weapon.
Wearing a protective vest, Hsu had entered the Snohomish County Courthouse lobby in Everett at about 12:30 p.m. Monday with guns and ammunition, the county sheriff's office said. Hsu demanded to see two judges and the sheriff to change arrangements for custody of his child, detectives said in court documents.
Hsu was immediately confronted by law enforcement officers who ordered him to drop his weapons, authorities said, adding he placed two rifles on the ground, but refused to relinquish additional firearms and weapons and leave the building.
After hours of negotiations with law enforcement, Hsu was arrested. No one was hurt.
Sheriff's office detectives said they recovered two rifles, four handguns, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, a ballistic armor vest, six knives, a hatchet and brass knuckles from the lobby of the courthouse.


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FIA VISITS VENTURI AT THE O.S.U. CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH
Posted on 29 February 2016
in Venturi Formula E Team
Dennis Dean of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) visited the Venturi VBB-3 team and facilities in Columbus, Ohio, USA on Thursday February 25th. The FIA is the organization that oversees the Land Speed Commission under which the World Land Speed record attempts are organized.
Dean seized the opportunity to see the workshop where the world's most powerful electric car (3000hp) has been designed and built. Engineers at Venturi along with the student team members at OSU CAR are testing their engines and batteries in the workshop in preparation for the next electric world speed record attempt (#EWSR). "I am really very impressed" Dean said to the team during his tour "I knew this was a very sophisticated team with a lot of knowledge, but I am really amazed by the range and depth of what you all have been able to achieve. The specialized testing fixtures, the enthusiasm and talent, it's an incredible collaboration between an automotive company and this group of students."
Dean, representing the FIA, used the occasion of his visit to present an award to Roger Schroer, the driver of the VBB-3, and the entire team in recognition of the FIA electric world land speed record achieved last August on the Bonneville Salt Flats (386.757km/h average, category VIII). "That kind of performance is wonderful and shows that this technology finally, after more than one hundred years, gets to a point where people have dreamt it could be. Electric cars can be used as day-to-day transportation without worry. We are realizing a global technology, and it speaks to the people. And as you can make these cars fun and interesting at the same time, people from the motorsports perspective look at them and enjoy them, it is a remarkable situation reversal." said Dean.
The Venturi Buckeye Bullet team will be back in Utah this summer to try to beat their electric world land speed record, 495km/h (307mph, 2010). To be able to achieve this, a fundraising campaign has been set up for supporters. So far, it has attracted companies focused on innovation and sustainable development who have made generous contributions to support the team. The latest supporter is Albanu, a Monaco based business. The fund will pay for the extensive logistics (transportation, accommodations, food, etc.) during the three weeks spent attempting the record on the Bonneville Salt Flats.


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Володимир Валентинович Голубош (нар.14 червня 1978 м. Рівне, Україна) – генерал поліції 3-го рангу, начальник Департаменту головної інспекції Національної поліції України. Кандидат юридичних наук, доцент.

Біографія
У 1998 році закінчив Прикарпатську філію Національної академії внутрішніх справ.

З 1998 по 2009 рік проходив службу в оперативних підрозділах УМВС України в Рівненській області.

2009-2014 - працював на керівних посадах в УМВС у Черкаській області.

З 2000 по 2003 рік навчався у Харківському національному університеті внутрішніх справ.

2014-2015 – заступник начальника УМВС України в Рівненській області - начальник кримінальної міліції.

2015-2016 – начальник Дубенського ВП ГУНП в Рівненській області.

У 2016 році закінчив Національну академію внутрішніх справ, здобув ступінь магістра за спеціальністю «Управління у сфері правопорядку».

2017 - центральний апарат Національної поліції України, Львівська область.

2017-2018 – заступник начальника ГУНП в Хмельницькій області - начальник кримінальної поліції.

З червня 2018 по липень 2021 року перебував на посаді начальника ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області. Період службової діяльності підрозділів ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області під керівництвом Володимира Голубоша визначається підвищенням показників стосовно ефективності розкриття та розслідування кримінальних правопорушень, розшукової роботи, забезпечення публічної безпеки і порядку, підвищення інформаційної безпеки, взаємодії з суспільством та рівня довіри громадян до поліції  в цілому. За загальними підсумками діяльності територіальних підрозділів поліції Івано-Франківської області кількість кримінальних правопорушень у регіоні за даний період зменшилася майже на 15%.

У 2019 році отримав науковий ступень кандидата юридичних наук.

У жовтні 2020 року Указом Президента України присвоєне спеціальне звання генерал поліції третього рангу.

У лютому 2021 року здобув вчене звання доцент.

З липня 2021 року очолює Департамент головної інспекції Національної поліції України.

Кандидат у майстри спорту України з кульової стрільби (2019)

Володіє іспанською мовою.

Нагороди
«Почесний знак МВС України»;

«За відзнаку в службі»;

«За сумлінну службу»;

«За доблесть і відвагу в службі карного розшуку»;

Наукова діяльність
У 2019 році захистив дисертаційне дослідження дисертаційне дослідження «Кримінальна відповідальність за злочини проти громадської безпеки, предметом яких є зброя, бойові припаси, вибухові речовини та вибухові пристрої (статті 262, 263, 263-1, 264 КК України)» на здобуття наукового ступеня кандидата юридичних наук за спеціальністю 12.00.08 – кримінальне право та кримінологія; кримінально-виконавче право.

У лютому 2021 року Наказом Міністерства освіти і науки України присвоєне вчене звання доцент. Тема дисертаційного дослідження на здобуття наукового ступеня доктора наук за спеціальністю 081 – «право»: «Духовно-ціннісні аспекти розвитку кримінологічної науки в умовах глобалізаційних викликів та сучасних реалій: міждисциплінарний дискурс та концептуалізація».

Доцент кафедри кримінального права, процесу і криміналістики Київського інституту інтелектуальної власності та права Національного університету «Одеська юридична академія».

Є автором понад 40 наукових та навчально-методичних праць, серед яких 1 монографія - «Кримінальна відповідальність за злочини проти громадської безпеки, предметом яких є зброя, бойові припаси, вибухові речовини та вибухові пристрої (статті 262, 263, 263-1, 264 КК України)».

ЗМІ
«Служба в органах внутрішніх справ стала невід'ємною частиною мого життя. Завжди стараюся зробити так, щоб колективна праця була оцінена громадськістю з позитивного боку. Це основа для мене, а також те, що кожен повинен виконувати свою роботу добре – відповідально та професійно». Володимир Голубош у рубриці ThinBlueLine

«Прикарпатська поліція працювала за основними пріоритетами, визначеними Національною поліцією. Насамперед, над підвищенням якості та оперативності реагування на кримінальні правопорушення та інші події. Так, до поліції надійшло майже 137 тисяч заяв і повідомлень, що на 2273 більше, ніж у 2018 році. Це свідчить про підвищення довіри населення та реєстрацію всіх, без винятку, заяв». Інтерв'ю начальника ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області Володимира Голубоша

«Показовим є те, що попри збільшення заяв і повідомлень громадян кількість кримінальних злочинів не зросла, а навпаки, більш ніж на тисячу зменшилася, в тому числі тяжких та особливо тяжких. Прикарпаття і надалі залишається одним із найбільш безпечних регіонів нашої держави, що є добрим результатом тісної співпраці органів поліції, місцевої влади та громадськості». Інтерв'ю з начальником ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області Володимиром Голубошем

«Розкриття кожного, наголошу кожного злочину, є пріоритетним! Не залежно від ступення тяжкості, адже ми маємо допомогти всім людям, які звертаються до нас». Володимир Голубош. Засідання колегії ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області

«Нашим спільним завданням, як поліції, так і громадськості, без якої ми не зможемо ефективно і якісно виконувати поставлені завдання та функції, є неухильне дотримання та виконання чинного законодавства, бути активними учасниками суспільних процесів, адже від злагоджених дій та зусиль залежить стабільний та прогресивний розвиток держави». Інтерв'ю начальника ГУНП в Івано-Франківській області Володимира Голубоша

«Поліцейський колектив – це велика команда професіоналів, які щоденно борються зі злом, стоять на сторожі добра і справедливості, права і моралі, людяності. Однак один у полі не воїн. У відповідності до підходу, який пропонує Community Policing, поліція повинна виконувати широке коло соціальних, не властивих їй досі, функцій, а саме діяти у тісній співпраці з органами влади, громадськими активістами, громадянами». Володимир Голубош про Community Policing

«Сучасному суспільству і поліції зокрема потрібні фахівці нової формації і типу мислення, що володіють високими професійними знаннями, такими особистісними якостями як здатність до креативної діяльності, високий рівень інтелекту і культури». Інтерв'ю з Володимиром Голубошем

Посилання

 Наукометричний профіль Голубоша В. В. в "ORCID"

 Наукометричний профіль Голубоша В. В. в "Google Scholar"

Примітки

Керівні працівники Національної поліції України
Генерали поліції 3-го рангу
Кандидати юридичних наук України
Нагороджені відзнакою «За відзнаку в службі»
Нагороджені нагрудним знаком «Учасник АТО»
Нагороджені відзнакою «Почесний знак МВС України»

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This is indeed a noble initiative and much needed action to safeguard the fast deteriorating moral values of our fast paced society. I salute each of you brave dad's who have come together to give shape to this group and strength to like minded bretheren. God Bless.
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Due to the nature of my job, I rarely travel with coworkers. A recent trip to New York was a happy exception. Not only did my coworker make the overall trip (and occasional boring meeting) much more fun, but he introduced me to a travel gadget I hadn't seen before.
I have had a Jackery Mini mobile charger for a couple of years now, and it is great. Simply charge it before a flight and it will power my phone or Kindle for hours. As someone who only discovered mobile chargers in the last few years, being able to charge my devices in-flight without a plug feels like a minor miracle. I still had to bring the cords for each device, but I was so glad to have the charger it never occurred to me to complain.
During the trip last month, on the drive to the office my coworker complained about his phone not holding a charge anymore and pulled out a mobile charger by Com-Pad. This one looked just like mine but had a bundle of cords attached to it. I watched, fascinated, as he found the right plug for his iPhone, then plugged it in to charge. The bundle of cords also included a mini-USB, iPhone 4, and Sumsung charger. He explained that not only would it charge a variety of devices, but you can plug your device directly into a USB wall outlet when you're at the hotel to charge a number of items using only one plug. Even better, to plug in the charger itself you just had to reverse the cords and plug it into a USB outlet. Genius!
So of course I bought one, and it has simplified the packing of electronics so much. Now I don't need a bunch of cords and plugs—just one wall plug, one mobile charger, and one bundle of cords. It all fits into one tiny bag, leaving more room for all the other necessary business travel gear.
Readers, how have you simplified your electronics bag over the years?
This thing looks awesome. I bought a portable battery based on your prior recommendation, so I'm not in the market for another, but you can buy just the cord, which would work the same with my existing portable battery!
ever since i discovered one of those, i never have a dead electronic. super handy for airports now too, with that new US DOT rule that you need to have laptops/cell phones that can turn "on" during the security check in process!


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Hawaii Energy - That's a wrap on our Innovation Symposium!
That's a wrap on our Innovation Symposium!
That being said, innovation isn't a lone effort. With the relationships fostered during our inaugural event and throughout your day-to-day activities, we invite you to be collaborative, learn from one another and discover fresh ways to maximize your energy efficiency.
With our Innovation Symposium, we sought to bring together business professionals, contractors, and energy experts, and offer a range of informative breakout sessions with plenty of networking opportunities. Speakers tackled important topics, including energy audits, benchmarking and peak demand, to provide attendees with vital tools and knowledge.
We also hosted a wide array of contractors at the associated trade show. In fact, many of these contractors are our Clean Energy Allies, meaning that we've already vetted them to make sure you're getting the best service for your energy efficiency project at a reasonable cost.
We'd like to send a huge mahalo to all of our attendees and exhibitors. We couldn't have hosted such a successful event without you, and we hope to see you again next year!
Click here for Innovation Symposium presentations, handouts, pictures, live polls, and session recaps.
If you missed this year's event, don't worry! Due to popular demand, we'll be hosting another symposium next year! Stay tuned for details.
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Do you worry about money, health, or the well-being of your loved ones? Well, everybody deals with these common issues from time to time. But, if you find yourself always worrying about everything and anything, then you may have generalized anxiety disorder.
This type of anxiety disorder is characterized by overly worrying about lots of issues you have no control over. Generalized anxiety disorder usually interferes with your ability to sleep or relax. One experiences a constant state of worry.
Generalized anxiety disorder makes you feel uneasy about life in general. For instance, if a loved one doesn't pick up the phone, you may start panicking that something bad has happened to them.
About 3.1% of Americans are affected by generalized anxiety disorder with women being twice as likely to suffer from it than men.
Studies have revealed that if you have generalized anxiety disorder, you have a higher likelihood of developing other mental health conditions such as stress, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity as well as irritable bowel syndrome and substance abuse.
With this type of anxiety, you simply can't shake off your concerns. The severity of generalized anxiety disorder comes and goes. When the condition is mild, it doesn't interfere a lot with your life. You're also able to hold down a job. However, when it intensifies, simple tasks become unbearable and you find it difficult to cope with everyday life.
So, how can you tell if your anxiety is excessive or just normal?
It's normal to worry about how you'll cope financially when you suddenly have to carry out major repairs in your home. It's also normal to be worried about a tough upcoming exam.
If you have generalized anxiety disorder, a report in the news about a devastating hurricane in a different country, for instance, may keep you awake all night long worried about how you and your family might also face the same predicament, even if the probability is extremely minimal. You're likely to spend the next couple of days or weeks constantly worrying about the safety of your family. You will experience excessive anxiety that's persistent, excessive, and intrusive.
Talk therapy also referred to as psychotherapy, is an effective treatment option for generalized anxiety disorder. One of the methods applied in psychotherapy is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).
In CBT, the therapist helps you understand and recognize the pattern of the negative thoughts you experience. The therapist then teaches you coping mechanisms to help you feel at ease and manage your condition.