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accommodation in sevilla
Discover the city / Offers / Art & culture / Where to eat / Museums / Leisure / Parks & gardens / Shopping /
From the mild winter you can appreciate the special way of life of its people, for whom culture, religion, cuisine and party is everything. An incredible historical heritage takes you back to the decisive centuries in our history: the Giralda tower, the Alcázar fortress, the Archivo de Indias (archive of the Indies) and the Torre del Oro (golden tower). Culinary temptations entice you on every corner of the districts of Triana, whilst during Holy Week or the universal Feria de Abril (April festival) you'll find expressions of popular fervour. Seville has that special colour that makes you feel so good and a magnificent 4 star hotel which we invite you to discover.
A comfortable hotel for travel. The Ayre Hotel Sevilla is two steps away from the (100 metres) railway station and also very close to the points of interest of the city. You expect opposite Santa Justa Station, a few steps from the shopping and business area of Nervion. The historic centre of the city can be accessed by various means of transportation but is sufficient for a pleasant walk of no more than 20 minutes.

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Q: Show that four points given by vectors lay on a circle I'm stuck on problem 2.10 from Vector Analysis and Cartesian Tensors by Kendall:

Show that the four points with position vectors $\vec{r_1}$, $\vec{r_2}$, $\frac{r_2}{r_1}\vec{r_1}$, $\frac{r_1}{r_2}\vec{r_2}$ , where $r_1\neq0$ and $r_2\neq0$, lie on a circle.

I tried supposing that there exists some vector $\vec{d}$ which gives the position of the circle centre and then trying to prove that the distance from each point to this centre is equal. But I just arrive at the condition that $\hat{r_1}=\hat{r_2}$.
Any suggestions for another strategy, am I just messing something along the way?

A: Let $\vec{OA}=\vec{r_1},$ $\vec{OB}=\vec{r_2},$ $\vec{OA'}=\frac{r_2}{r_1}\vec{r_1}$ and  $\vec{OB'}=\frac{r_1}{r_2}\vec{r_2}$ then
$$OA\cdot OA'=r_1\cdot r_2$$
$$OB\cdot OB'=r_1\cdot r_2$$
therefore by Circle Power the four points belong the a circle.

A: Hint:   $|\vec r_1| = r_1 = \left|\frac{r_1}{r_2} \vec r_2\,\right|$ and $|\vec r_2| = r_2 = \left|\frac{r_2}{r_1} \vec r_1\,\right|$, so the four points define an isosceles trapezoid.

A: The cases $\vec{r_1}||\vec{r_2}$ and $|\vec{r_1}|=|\vec{r_2}|$ they are obvious.
Let $\vec{OA}=\vec{r_1},$ $\vec{OB}=\vec{r_2},$ $\vec{OB'}=\frac{r_2}{r_1}\vec{r_1}$ and  $\vec{OA'}=\frac{r_1}{r_2}\vec{r_2}.$
Thus, $BB'||AA'$, $AB'=BA'$, which says that the trapezoid $AB'BA'$ is cyclic.

A: WLOG, consider $2$-D. Let $\vec{r_1}(x_1,y_1)=\vec{OA},\vec{r_2}(x_2,y_2)=\vec{OB}$. Then:
$$\frac{r_2}{r_1}\vec{r_1}=\vec{OB'}\left(x_1\sqrt{\frac{x_2^2+y_2^2}{x_1^2+y_1^2}},y_1\sqrt{\frac{x_2^2+y_2^2}{x_1^2+y_1^2}}\right),\\
\left|\vec{OB'}\right|=\sqrt{x_2^2+y_2^2}=|\vec{r_2}|=\vec{OB}\\
\frac{r_1}{r_2}\vec{r_2}=\vec{OA'}\left(x_2\sqrt{\frac{x_1^2+y_1^2}{x_2^2+y_2^2}},y_2\sqrt{\frac{x_1^2+y_1^2}{x_2^2+y_2^2}}\right),\\
\left|\vec{OA'}\right|=\sqrt{x_1^2+y_1^2}=|\vec{r_1}|=|\vec{OA}|.$$
Refer to the graph:
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Note that $AA'||BB'$, therefore $AA'BB'$ is an isosceles trapezoid, hence cyclic.
If $\vec{r_1}$ and $\vec{r_2}$ are collinear and directed in the same direction, the four points are still cyclic, however, if they are oppositely directed (except being equal), then the four points are cocentric.

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Here is your chance to experience Citizen Burger Bar like you never have experienced it before, while helping to feed the area's hungry. It's The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions, presented by McGuireWoods. Along with all of the other restaurants in The Charlottesville 29, Citizen has created a signature experience available to whoever pledges the highest donation to The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Citizen is generously donating the entire experience, which means the winning bid goes directly to the food bank. Each dollar donated is enough to provide four meals to the area's hungry. So, a winning bid of, say, $5,000 would mean not just a wonderful meal for the winner and their guests, but also 20,000 more meals for the area's hungry.
There is no better place in town to watch football than Citizen Burger Bar. And, it's a great place to talk football, too. The auction winner and five guests will enjoy dinner with special guest UVa Football Coach Bronco Mendenhall and his entire coaching staff. Help yourselves to as many burgers and beverages as you like while getting up close and personal with Coach Mendenhall and his staff. To preserve the memories of this dream meal for a lucky Hoo fan, acclaimed photographer Justin Ide will capture images of it all, including an 11 x 14 group shot of the auction winners and coaches, signed by Bronco Mendenhall. As if that's not enough, Coach Mendenhall will bring the auction winner a football, personally signed to commemorate the evening. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the ultimate UVa football fan.
Note: The auction winner will schedule the dinner at a time that is mutually convenient for Citizen and the coaching staff. NCAA rules prohibit anyone under the age of 25 from attending the dinner.
Bidding for the Citizen auction ended on July 10, 2016.


An original California bungalow superbly updated and expanded over the years to delight the contemporary buyer, this four-bedroom home with deluxe bungalow is a truly unique and enchanting offering in Mt Martha.
Defined by high ceilings, polished Baltic pine floors, sash windows and an array of French doors opening to the lush gardens, the surprisingly spacious floorplan flaunts three living zones and a vast outdoor entertaining patio beneath a high pergola with an adjoining shed, which would make the perfect bar-room to boost your summer barbecues.
Encased in three sets of French doors, the expansive living and dining area in the rear of the home is a highlight of this captivating classic, while both a parents' lounge and separate family meals area ensure abundant room for growing clans.
A dishwasher and recently purchased Smeg double oven complement the modernised kitchen in the heart of the home, with the three lovely bedrooms serviced by a sleek new family bathroom with walk-in rain shower, deep freestanding soaker tub and separate toilet off the laundry.
Unfurling an immaculate new refurbishment, outside a stunning two-room bungalow with cathedral ceiling, timber floors and superb natural light offers an additional living space, studio, guest accommodation or office for those who work from home, with French doors opening to a private courtyard.
An easy walk to Bentons Square Shopping Centre, public transport and moments to Osborne Primary School and the beach, among the inclusions of "Cranleigh Cottage" are an office nook, toasty wood heater with ducts, split-system, ceiling fans, veggie boxes, wood shed and tandem carport on a low maintenance 635m2 (approx) allotment.


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Angular 2 is released and it is time to start building your new apps with it. We will do an introduction to Angular 2 CLI by creating a new web application and explore how the tool can help you in your development. Depending on the audience there will be room for some more advanced stuff.
Sasha Vincic is a a Digital Viking who spends many hours of his developing Angular applications and these days the main focus is on his new startup Servitant. The Uber for the "IT-support i hemmet". Sasha has developed Angular 1 for two years and Angular 2 application during the last year.


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Q: Don't understand output order of thread constructor, start and run methods Why does this code always print this?
in start oops
in ctor oops

And doesn't call the run method even though the thread already has been started. when thread started firstly start method called then run.
class MyThread extends Thread {
    public MyThread(String name) {
    this.setName(name);
    start();
    System.out.println("in ctor " + getName());
  }
  public void start() {
    System.out.println("in start " + getName());
   }
  public void run() {
    System.out.println("in run " + getName());
  }
}

class Test {

   public static void main(String []args) {
            new MyThread("oops");
            }
 }

A: This is because Thread.start is overriden and is never actually called. Try to add super.start(); to MyTread.start

A: First of all you have not started a Thread as such rather you have just created an instance of the class MyThread which extends Thread.
To start a method you need to invoke start() method from Thread class. Here you have overridden the method but did not call the actual method from super class. So you need to fix this as:
public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Thread myThread = new MyThread("oops");
        myThread.start();
    }
}

class MyThread extends Thread {
    public MyThread(String name) {
        this.setName(name);
        this.start();
        System.out.println("in ctor " + getName());
    }
    public void start() {
        super.start();
        System.out.println("in start " + getName());
    }
    public void run() {
        super.run();
        System.out.println("in run " + getName());
    }
}

On a side note you should always prefer implementing Runnable (or Callable) for multi-threading requirement.


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Q: Is it secure for PHP to access files above the document root? I have seen many questions like this but I have come across something which looks very simple and I'm wondering if it is secure.
As I understand it, my document root is a folder called public_html on my host (rochen). I am looking to implement a database for the first time and need to secure the user and password etc. From what I have read, this info needs to be outside of the document root.
One very simple example is to create an ini file at the same level as the public_html and use this line in my PHP to access it (assuming my php file is directly below public_html):
$config = parse_ini_file('../config.ini');

The dot dot thing I know from DOS is the old "up one level" trick.
The database would then use the ini file contents like so:
$connection = mysqli_connect('localhost',$config['username'],$config['password'],$config['dbname']);

My ini file with the sensitive information is above the document root and according to what I have read, is secure. This seems a much simpler way of achieving the result compared to many of the other answers I have read. Is this correct or do I have some massive security hole I am missing please?

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One very simple example is to create an ini file at the same level as the public_html and use this line in my PHP to access it (assuming my php file is directly below public_html).

This thinking—in and of itself—won't secure anything.
If any of your scripts need to read that file, that file is potentially at risk. So the key is not to come up with elaborate file system scheme store the configuration file, but rather understand how you can effectively block access to the file with a few simple steps.
For example, this is your configuration file:
$config = parse_ini_file('../config.ini');

And you are in PHP and worried about prying eyes, correct? Well if this is a custom PHP codebase and you are free to name the file whatever you want, then just make it an .ini.php file like this:
$config = parse_ini_file('../lembasts_config.ini.php');

The key idea being most hacking attempts come from malicious robots attempting to access commonly named files. So config.ini is something some script kiddie has already coded to look for. They don't know what lembasts_config.ini let alone lembasts_config.ini.php is. So making the configuration name idiosyncratic to your needs will help "cloak" your config.
Then what is the .php version of lembasts_config.ini.php for exactly? Well its named PHP so you can something like this within the file itself:
;<?php
;die();
;/*

username="[your username]"
password="[your password]"
dbname="[your dbname]"

;*/

;?>

The idea is that parse_ini_file will parse the ini values as expected. But because of the .php extension, the die(); will run if someone attempts to open it in a web browser.
The key to web security is simple: The vast majority of incursions come from automated scripts looking for common holes. Plug up the common holes with simple techniques like this and you make your codebase more secure.

A: It's fine.
What does cause trouble is dynamic filenames that include "..", eg http://site.tld/page?param=value does a include "..".$_GET['param'];


Here is my process for a final page for January 2018. I've managed to fit a month into 5 spreads and hoping next month can be even smaller to try and do as few albums for this year as possible so that i can actually finish it!
Kitty cuddle time - love living in places with lots of pets around!
Every January there is an Elvis Festival in Parkes, which is 2 hrs from where i live. I sometimes travel there for work and i did so this week - lots of Elvis' out there!
I tried to use up the leftover acetate pieces for backgrounds on some cards.


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git clone https://github.com/glfw/glfw
cd glfw/
mkdir build
cd build/
if [ "$1" = "--shared" ]; then
	cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ..
else
	cmake ..
fi
make -j4
sudo make install

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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The World's Nuclear Guardrails Are Vanishing
The thin hope of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons may be gone. Plus: "I know the man well enough to know that's something he dreamed up all by himself."
Saahil Desai and Christian Paz
It's Thursday, January 9. 176 people died in a downed civilian airliner leaving Tehran on Wednesday. Details are still emerging.
In today's newsletter: The dawning of the age of … nuclear proliferation? Plus: Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment, and a theory of Trump's thinking on Iran.
« TODAY IN POLITICS »
Anti-war activists protest in front of the White House. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / GETTY)
The decades-long era of nuclear nonproliferation might meet its stark end this year.
Among the most dangerous of the possible outcomes in the U.S.-Iran conflict is the emergence of another nuclear-weapons state, in a dangerous new nuclear age. The thin hope of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities may have been destroyed.
"We've gone from the first decade since the advent of the atomic age to not yield a new nuclear-weapons state to, in the first days of 2020, the brink of war between the world's leading nuclear power and a nuclear aspirant," my colleague Uri Friedman writes.
Here's how we got here—and what comes next.
1. The arms race of the atomic era calmed in the last decade. Nine countries ended up developing nuclear weapons (John F. Kennedy had predicted that there would be "15 or 20" countries by 1975). And the total number of nuclear weapons in the world plummeted from 70,000 in 1986 to fewer than 14,000 today.
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2. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 seemed to gesture at the end of the country's nuclear ambitions—at least in the short term. That agreement was dying even before the Qassem Soleimani strike, after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of it, leading Iran to renege some of the commitments it made under the deal. Now Iran may be a matter of months away from a working nuclear bomb.
3. It's not just Iran. North Korea is also helping bring about this new era. Trump's presidency began with name calling (Kim Jong Un was "Rocket Man;" Trump, a "dotard"). Then the two heads of state seemed to develop a better relationship ("he wrote me beautiful letters"). The relationship has since broken down spectacularly: North Korea has tested more missiles since May than perhaps any other year in its history.
Now experts predict a slew of countries may be pondering nukes as well.
« SNAPSHOT »
Supporters of the ERA in Richmond, Virginia today. (Steve Helber / AP)
The Equal Rights Amendment is back in the news. When an off-year election in Virginia flipped the state legislature blue last November, buzz revived around the concise amendment that's struggled for decades to conjure up support from enough states.
Virginia is the 38th and final state needed to sign off on a constitutional revision "that was first proposed shortly after women won the right to vote but has, until recently, been dormant for decades," Russell Berman wrote last fall.
« IDEAS AND ARGUMENTS »
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1. "With some exceptions, a consensus appears to be emerging among war-powers scholars that the Soleimani strike was illegal."
Though the Constitution grants Congress the power of declaring war, the executive branch has spent the last few decades swallowing up new war powers. Legal scholar Rebecca Ingber outlines the ways Congress can use its power of the purse and reform a 1973 law called the War Powers Resolution to wrestle back control.
2. "Far from being given an exhaustive record on which to make a determination, the Senate has received only part of the story from the House."
Unlike the Clinton impeachment process, the Trump impeachment has seen no strenuous criminal investigation into Trump's dealings with Ukraine—and neither Trump nor key witnesses have testified under oath. That's where the Senate comes in. That's what trials are for, Paul Rosenzweig writes.
3. "In the near future Democrats will likely need to offset any Republican gains in the Rust Belt by winning more elections in Sun Belt states."
If 2020 Census projections hold steady, this century will see a swing in power from the Rust Belt states that many Democrats have been focused on winning over, to the southern Sun Belt states they are mostly neglecting, Ron Brownstein writes.
« EVENING READ »
Donald Trump is seen on a television screen in the Pentagon briefing room as he delivers a statement about Iran at the White House. (ALEXANDER DRAGO / REUTERS)
Inside the Mind of Trump
In a span of a few days this week, Trump went from blasting off a tweet vowing to target cultural sites in Iran—which would be a war crime—to delivering a statement urging for de-escalation.
Our White House correspondent Peter Nicholas has three theories about how the president arrives at the ideas he arrives at, based on extensive reporting from the past week.
I posed the cultural-sites question to Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump confidant who was briefed in advance on the Soleimani drone strike during a golf trip with the president at Mar-a-Lago over the holidays. Graham told me that he didn't know where Trump got the idea."I understand it's an emotional time and he wants to create maximum deterrence. In my view, this doesn't create deterrence. The goal is to divide the Iranian people from the regime. They're already divided. I wouldn't want to do anything to unite them.
A former White House official, who, after insisting that no one in the national-security establishment could possibly have advised the president to demolish, say, the ruins of Persepolis, told me: "I know the man well enough to know that's something he dreamed up all by himself."
Read the rest.
Today's newsletter was written by Saahil Desai, an associate editor on our Politics team and Christian Paz, a Politics fellow. It was edited by Shan Wang, who oversees newsletters.
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Albright in Lebanon: Trump candidacy 'dangerous'
Merriell Moyer
merriellmoyer@ldnews.com
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stopped by the Lebanon County Democratic Committee Sunday to give a morale boost to volunteers who were ready to go out canvassing in the waning days of the election.
"This has been a very long campaign," Albright said during her speech at the office at 608 Cumberland St., which local Democrats are sharing with the Clinton coordinated campaign. "We are finally coming to the end of it, and therefore this is where you all come in. The part about connecting this incredible candidate to the act of going out and voting and actually making it happen is so important."
Out of the many campaigns she has followed over the years, Albright said this one is unique.
"I have never seen anything like this one, or the lack of competence in the other candidate" she said. "I think it is stunning. I spend a lot of time to this day going abroad – I have a lot of friends in high places abroad, and they call me up regularly and say, 'Are you people crazy?' Because they know Hillary, and they've listened to some of the really ludicrous stuff Trump says. He is dangerous even in running for president."
Lebanon County election official prepared for large turnout
That danger stems mainly from Trump's attitude toward international affairs, according to Albright.
"Trump has undermined America's alliance structure in saying that NATO doesn't matter, and that has some countries questioning whether we will live up to our obligations," Albright said. "He has suggested that the South Koreans and the Japanese should have nuclear weapons and any other number of things that are absolutely crazy. I teach at Georgetown University – I teach a course on foreign policy – and he would flunk it."
Trump's ideas on foreign policy, and his habit of speaking off-the-cuff, do not make him an ideal choice for president, according to Albright.
"He kind of just talks off the top of his head without understanding the seriousness of the issues, and the fact that foreigners hear him and are wondering what is going to go on," Albright said in an interview after her speech. "And then, frankly, the totally outrageous things he has said about immigrants and what he has done to our relationship with Mexico for instance, and so he does not have the temperament to be president of the United States, that is for sure."
Albright, the first female secretary of state, told those in attendance about the traits she has seen in Hillary Clinton that prove she is the better choice for president.
"The more I go over her resume, it makes me realize that each of the things that she has done brings out some aspect of her experience, character and traits," Albright said.
She began by pointing out Clinton's involvement with the Children's Defense Fund.
"Her work with the Children's Defense Fund shows that she cares about giving a voice to those who can't speak for themselves," Albright said.
Albright then moved on to Clinton's early involvement with international concerns when she was first lady.
"There were a lot of people who kidded about the fact that she was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt when she would come up to the United Nations headquarters in New York," Albright said. "Hillary wanted to meet with the different ambassadors and find out what was going on in their countries and how they viewed the United Nations."
While acting as an ambassador with the United Nations, Albright got to see Clinton on the international stage first hand while at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
"We've all been to conferences where there are meetings going on along the sidelines, but when Hillary spoke, there was silence, and she totally electrified the whole place," Albright said. "When she said women's rights were human rights and human rights were women's rights she set the agenda for women's issues internationally in a way that continues to be important."
That shows that Clinton not only speaks her mind, but that she never gives up on anything because she followed up with those nations that made promises to improve women's rights on the recent anniversary of the Beijing event, according to Albright.
Albright then pointed out that another of Clinton's traits is that she listens.
"When I was secretary of state, I asked her to be a sort of super ambassador and travel around the world to see what she could do as far as representing America's values. She really was fantastic, and that is another of her traits – she listens," Albright said. "She definitely had to have her share of meetings in fancy rooms, but she really enjoyed going out and talking to people, listening to them, seeing what they were interested in and seeing what we could do for them."
Clinton's knowledge of domestic issues, and her work as a senator – the way she would work across the aisle on important issues, and her willingness to join coalitions and worry about what is best for the country – points to her ability to take care of American concerns not only in the international realm, but at home as well, Albright said.
"There are very few people who have the ability to deal with domestic as well as foreign policy questions. I am good on foreign policy, but I'm not as good on healthcare," Albright said. "Bottom line is that she can combine it – she understands the domestic sources of our policy, and she does listen. She is going to be a great commander-in-chief, and I think the issue now is how to make that happen."
Albright's presence inspired more people to come out and volunteer, according to Cornell Wilson, county vice chair of the Lebanon County Democratic Committee.
"Getting someone big name like that to come to Lebanon is always a plus," Wilson said. "It brought a lot of people out volunteering to go knock on doors and canvas for the last two days."
And Albright's speech seemed to invigorate the assembled volunteers.
"She was very well-spoken, and she said good things about Hillary – nothing we didn't know already about Hillary – but it was nice to hear it directly from somebody who has worked so closely with her, and it was really inspiring," Monica von Dobeneck, a volunteer, said. "It has been a difficult election with so much negativity, and she concentrated on the positive – what Hillary had done, and can do."
Volunteer Jonathan Weschler agreed.
"She is one of the greatest secretaries of state we have ever had. I'm pumped," he said. "She focused on the fact that Hillary is one of the most qualified candidates we've ever had, and the other guy would flunk her course in foreign policy."


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Density-dependent immigration promotes population stability in a long-distance migratory bird
Wilson, Scott
McKellar, Ann E.
Reudink, Matthew W.
Marra, Peter P.
Ratcliffe, Laurene M.
The spatial structure of populations determines the relative importance of reproduction, survival and movement on population dynamics. However, the mechanisms by which local individuals and immigrants interact and the subsequent effects of immigrants on productivity are poorly known. We developed an integrated population model (IPM) to study the extent and consequences of immigration on the dynamics of a neotropical migrant (American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla) over an 11‐year period in Ontario, Canada. New immigrants represented the majority of the study population each year with higher immigration rates for males than females and for first‐year breeders than breeders in their second year or older. Immigration was negatively density dependent, with immigrants replacing previously established breeders in a compensatory manner following their death or emigration. Because of the tradeoff between immigration and apparent survival, neither had a strong influence on population growth and reproductive output was most strongly correlated with a change in abundance between years. However, if immigration ceased, the study population would become locally extinct within 7 years and thus immigrants were essential for local population persistence. We found no evidence for reduced breeding success when immigrants represented a higher proportion of the study population. Our research highlights the importance of movement in the stability of open populations and the strong correlation between the fates of local breeders and the number of immigrants entering the population. We recommend the use of IPMs to address the spatial scale over which immigration occurs and how different scales influence its contribution to population dynamics.
Study area and sampling methods
We conducted field work for this project at the Queen's University Biological Station (QUBS), near Chaffey's Lock, ON, Canada (44°34′N, 76°19′W) from May–July 2001–2011. American redstarts were monitored in a mixed‐deciduous forest consisting primarily of sugar maple (Acer accharum) and Eastern hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana). The approximately 100 ha study area consists of a 25 ha campground and a largely undisturbed 75 ha forest separated by a two lane country road (for a detailed description see McKellar et al. 2015). The study site is nested within a broader area of heterogeneous habitat consisting of forest, wetlands, lakes, agriculture and urban areas. Hereafter we refer to the individuals in the 100 ha study area as the 'study population'. American redstarts exhibit protandry, with males arriving on the breeding grounds several days before females. Upon arrival, males begin singing and establish territory boundaries. From May 1–31, we surveyed the study population from 0600 to 1200, mapping territory boundaries of males, recording whether females were present on territories and identifying any previously banded individuals that returned. The abundance of males and females provided our annual count estimates that were used in the IPM. We also recorded pairing dates and the location of the nest, which we monitored to record laying date, number of eggs laid, hatching success, and fledging success (see McKellar et al. 2014).
Birds were captured as soon as possible upon arrival using mist nets and simulated territorial intrusions consisting of song playback and a decoy or fledgling distress calls. All captured individuals were banded with a single Canadian Wildlife Service‐issued aluminum leg band and a unique combination of 2–3 colour bands. Nestlings were banded with a single aluminum band, generally between days 5 and 8 after hatching. Age classes for males were determined based on plumage coloration. Males exhibit delayed plumage maturation, with second‐year (SY) males exhibiting female‐like grey and yellow plumage and after‐second‐year (ASY) males exhibiting black plumage with orange patches on the wings, tail, and flanks, and a white underside. Female age can only be reliably determined in the hand and was based on retrix coloration and wear, and molt limits when individuals were captured (Pyle 1997).
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Best of ND 2011: Cosplay: The Good, the Bad and the UGH!
Cosplay: because your regular is far too normal.
By Nintendojo Staff. Posted 12/28/2011 12:00 Comment on this	 ShareThis
This story was selected as one of our best from 2011. It was originally published on May 10, 2011 during Issue 49: OMG! I'm Your Biggest Fan.
Though this article is mostly an opinion piece, it is also a work full of facts that should be thought provoking and, yes, even terrifying for all of us. I know from personal study of the very real defacement to humanity posed by the particular breed of fanboy who is eagerly willing to mutilate his own pride for the sake of the fictional characters he loves.
There has been much attention given, since the late 80s, to the wide variety of ways to openly express ourselves and our own personal interests as we embark upon the world stage but few in society have considered (let alone opposed) the grave threat to mental stability known as cosplay, shorthand for "costume play."
In the following article I will explain in abbreviated detail, using unclassified pictoral evidence, exactly how this art form works and how it will visibly manifest itself when it is brandished by both the right hands and the wrong ones. But I must warn you – many of these revelations are not for the faint of heart. (Nor are they to be taken too seriously.)
The first battle is, interestingly enough, between two Smash Bros. contenders. The two men portraying them have honestly come to believe that they are respectfully representing their respective gaming mascot. The sad part is, only one of them is right. Captain Falcon is so incredibly enacted that he makes me feel like I'm playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl every time I look at him. Sonic, on the other hand, is a feeble attempt at best, a detrimental defamation of character at worst.
But hey, maybe the guy did that on purpose. Either way, Captain Falcon wins this round in a landslide.
Wow… where do I begin?
Samus appears to have jerry-rigged a helmet from Halo, Donkey Kong appears to have taken a Mega Mushroom to the head, and that Mario is as homemade as cosplay comes. Despite these disturbing discrepancies, the cool light thingamajig shining from within Samus' blaster gives the space heroine just enough edge to blast her way to victory.
Though DK does get bonus points for the barrel. Nice touch.
It has always been my personal conviction that cosplay choices should be selected based upon body type, general similarities and gender; and the Honda pictured above (assuming he's male) certainly fits those bills to perfection. However, due to the gag factor his crime against humanity generates within my being, I am unable to deem him the winner of anything besides the "Most Likely to Invoke Bile" award.
Which reminds me, when I was younger, I had the unfortunate displeasure of attending Anime Weekend Atlanta – a giant geekfest convention held annually in the capital of Georgia. As you would expect, this three-day event beckoned many a fanboy and fangirl to rise from their basements and surface temporarily under the guise of a cosplay façade.
Anyways, I'll never forget the moment I passed this chubby dude in overalls who was killing one of my favorite cartoon characters with his costume. Every time he moved, his headlights threatened to pop out and blind me… if you know what I mean. I don't recall whether they did or not, because I was too preoccupied with the horrors of his unkempt back; which, in retrospect, I suppose was really a blessing in disguise.
I guess this is kind of my roundabout way of saying that both he and Honda seriously should've wore a T-shirt. And for that reason, and because of my love for good mascot costumes, I crown King Dedede the champ of Round 3.
The fourth confrontation took place many years ago on the silver screen, but the winner was ultimately unresolved, what with that darn, meddling kid stepping in and stopping the fight. But today, Mewtwo and Mew have returned to clash once again for total supremacy. (How exciting!)
As you can see, Mew has grown much during the long intermission, and apparently torn one of its leg ligaments as well, while Mewtwo has begun to shed his skin from the shoulder line, thus exposing his pink Mew DNA to the public. In other words, the two of them have really let themselves go.
Nonetheless, for the sake of science we will temporarily assume that they are not the real Mewtwo and Mew and are merely humans wearing cheap costumes of them. That would obviously signal Mewtwo as the superior life form.
None of these contests highlights the rights and wrongs of cosplay better than this one does. The first pic is a Link fan; the second is Link. The first got his sister to dress up as Zelda; the second is on a mission to rescue Zelda. The first is in his backyard; the second is in Hyrule. The first embraces painted cardboard over steel; the second pulled his sword from the Temple of Time. The first is in serious need of a haircut; the second could be used to sell haircuts.
Need I say more? I think not.
The closest bout of the day is right here. Both costumes are superbly excellent. I really don't feel I can pick a winner. If it were based solely on effort, Midna would probably win; but if it were based on natural similarities and a closer resemblance to the original proportions of the character being portrayed, Pit would definitely win.
But since we can't have two winners, I suppose the only thing I can do is flip a Lincoln.
If it lands on heads, Midna wins. If it lands on tails, Pit wins.
Okay, here we go! *flip!*
*thwack!* It's tails. Pit wins.
I'm sorry, but this one is just too obvious. The dude in the Mega Man costume is wearing a diaper, for crying out loud! Sure, the Fox is a bit cock-eyed and has the wrong color nose; but regardless, he still tromps Mega Man in every way. (Sadly, when I asked Fox if he would take the trophy, he said "Oh no, sir. We prefer doing things our own way," and nonchalantly walked away – which means the Blue Bomber wins by default.)
The last battle is between two of the longest-winded series in modern anime history – Pokémon and Naruto. On the left, we have Ash, Pikachu and Misty; on the right, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke. These three-man cells are inarguably some of the most popular and most important personalities from their corresponding fictional universes. But both parties have their problems.
For starters, Ash is missing his ziggy cheeks, and his pet Pikachu (which screams "bear costume!") looks more like the legendary Longchu. The Misty, as frugal as her outfit appears, is admittedly the best of the set.
Naruto's Team Kakashi is larger-than-life and quite perfectly captures my view of how the majority of cosplayers act. Just because their costumes are excellent they think we won't notice the lack of any honest resemblance. As for a winner… I can't decide. And since I don't feel like pulling politics into this one, I'll just leave it up to you.
Well, there you have it, folks. The world of cosplay is certainly an unusual one, filled with bizarre wonder. For some, it epitomizes imagination; for others, it serves as a surefire trigger for indigestion. I would warn anyone interested in taking part in it to be wary of their own mental contamination and bewitchment towards this darker side of fandom.
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Best of ND 2011: Hidden Mythology of Ōkami: Part III by Katharine Byrne
Best of ND 2011: Hidden Mythology of Ōkami: Part II by Katharine Byrne
Best of ND 2011: Hidden Mythology of Ōkami: Part I by Katharine Byrne
Best of ND 2011: Revealing... The Nintenphone! by Andrew Hsieh
Best of ND 2011: Dropping the Ball by Mel Turnquist
Best of ND 2011: Killer App by Kevin Knezevic
Best of ND 2011: The Heroine of Time by Adam Sorice
Best of ND 2011: Capcom, Disney and the NES: The Golden Age of Licensed Games by Nintendojo Staff
Best of ND 2011: The Many Worlds of Majora's Mask by Kevin Knezevic
Nintendo Heartcast 003: Droughts & Backlogs by M. Noah Ward
Best of ND 2011: Interview: David Wise by Lewis Hampson
Best of ND 2011: The Capcom Five: Requiem for a Dream by Adam Sorice
Best of ND 2011: Cause and Epic Effect by Katharine Byrne
Best of ND 2011: A Walk Down 8-Bit Lane to Viridian City by Mel Turnquist
Best of ND 2011: Professor Layton and the Lingering Question by M. Noah Ward
Poll: Whatcha Get? by Andrew Hsieh
Best of ND 2011: Why is Mario so Popular? by Andrew Hsieh
Best of ND 2011: Top Ten: SNES RPG Themes by Lewis Hampson
Issue 82: The Best of Nintendojo 2011 by Andrew Hsieh


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Die Vertreibung der Hindus aus Kaschmir begann, als am 20. Januar 1990 die meisten Hindu-Familien aus dem Kaschmir-Tal  gezwungen waren wegen Terroranschlägen zu fliehen. Es wird geschätzt, dass über 100.000 Hindus aus Kaschmir geflohen sind.

Über 60.000 Familien sind in Indien als Kaschmir-Flüchtlinge registriert. Die meisten Familien wurden in Jammu und anderen indischen Gebieten angesiedelt; viele flohen nach Delhi.

Geschichte

Bereits im 15. Jh. wurden Nichtmuslime in Kaschmir teilweise diskriminiert und verfolgt, besonders auch während der Herrschaft von Sikandar Butshikan (1394–1417).

1984 beschloss der Politiker Ghulam Mohammad Shah eine große Moschee, die Shah Masjid, auf dem Platz eines alten Hindutempels im mehrheitlich von Hindus bewohnten Jammu zu bauen. Diese Entscheidung führte zu Protesten in Jammu, und Ghulam behauptete daraufhin, der Islam sei in Gefahr. Als Folge wurden kaschmirische Hindus von Muslimen angegriffen, es gab Vorfälle, in denen Hindus getötet und hinduistische Tempel zerstört wurden. In Vanpoh, Lukbhavan, Anantnag, Salar und Fatehpur plünderten oder zerstörten muslimische Mobs Tempel und Häuser der Hindus. Viele Hindus verließen das Kaschmirtal aufgrund dieser Situation.

1988 begann die 'Jammu-Kaschmir-Befreiungsfront' (Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front) einen separatistischen Aufstand für die Unabhängigkeit Kaschmirs von Indien. Am 14. September 1989 wurde der Hindu Tika Lal Taploo, ein Anwalt und prominenter Politiker der Bharatiya Janata Party, in Kaschmir getötet. Die Hindus begannen zu erkennen, dass sie im Kaschmirtal nicht sicher waren. Viele weitere Kaschmirihindus wurden von Islamisten getötet, darunter auch viele Prominente. Am 4. Januar 1990 veröffentlichte die lokale Urdu-Zeitung Aftab eine Pressemitteilung der Hizb-ul-Mudschaheddin, die alle Pandits aufforderte, das Kashmirtal sofort zu verlassen. Eine weitere Lokalzeitung, Al Safa, wiederholte diese Aufforderung, und Hetzreden in Moscheen wurden häufig. Am 19. Januar 1990 eskalierte die Situation. Tausende aufgehetzter Muslime begannen in den Straßen anti-indische, anti-Hindu- und anti-Sikh-Slogans, wie Ralive, Tsaliv ya Galive ("schließe dich uns an [d. h. konvertiere zum Islam], verschwinde oder sterbe") zu skandieren.

Kashmirihindus kämpfen weiterhin für ihre Rückkehr ins Kashmirtal und viele von ihnen leben bis heute als Flüchtlinge. Die meisten Flüchtlinge sind nicht zurückgekehrt, weil die Situation im Tal weiterhin instabil ist und sie um ihr Leben fürchten. Viele von ihnen verloren ihr Hab und Gut nach der Flucht.

Am 19. Januar 2017 verabschiedete die Legislativversammlung des Bundesstaats Jammu und Kashmir einstimmig eine Resolution, in der die Flüchtlinge zur Rückkehr in das Kaschmir-Tal aufgefordert wurden. Nach offizieller Statistik gab zu diesem Zeitpunkt etwa 60 000 registrierte Flüchtlingsfamilien aus Kaschmir. In Jammu waren 38 119 Familien registriert, in Delhi 19 338 und in anderen Gebieten Indiens 1995.

Literatur
Koul, M. L. (1994). Kashmir, past and present: Unravelling the mystique. New Delhi: Manav Publications and Sehyog Prakashan.
Sahagala, N. (1994). Converted Kashmir: Memorial of mistakes. Delhi: Utpal Publications.
Koul, M. L. (1999). Kashmir, wail of a valley. Delhi: Gyan Sagar Publications.
Koul, M. L. (1999). Kashmir, wail of a valley. Delhi: Gyan Sagar Publications.
Madhok, B. (1992). Kashmir: The storm center of the world. Houston, Tex: A. Ghosh.
Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
Narender Sehgal: Converted Kashmir
Pandit TN Kashmiri Pandits: A Contemporary Perspective
Raina, D. N. (1996). Kashmir - distortions and reality. New Delhi: : Reliance Pub. House.
Pandit, K. N. (2013). Baharistan-i-shahi: A chronicle of mediaeval Kashmir. Srinagar: Gulshan Books.
Teng, M. K. (2002). Kashmir, Article 370. New Delhi: Anmol Publications.
Teng, M. K., Gadoo, C. L., & Joint Human Rights-Committee for Minorities in Kashmir. (1996). White paper on Kashmir. Jammu: Joint Human Rights Committee for Minorities in Kashmir.
Toshakhānī, S., Kaul, B. L., & Raina, M. L. (1990). Kashmir: The crisis in perspective. Gurgaon, Haryana: Indian Research Institute for Kashmir Affairs.
Bose, Sumantra (1997), The challenge in Kashmir: democracy, self-determination, and a just peace, New Delhi: Sage Publications, in association with The Book Review Literary Trust, ISBN 978-0-8039-9350-1
Metcalf, Barbara; Metcalf, Thomas R. (2006), A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxxiii, 372, ISBN 0-521-68225-8.
Rai, Mridu (2004), Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir, Princeton University Press/Permanent Black. Pp. xii, 335., ISBN 81-7824-202-8

Einzelnachweise

Vertreibung
Menschenrechte in Indien
Diskriminierung
Flüchtlingsthematik
Kaschmir-Konflikt
Geschichte (Jammu und Kashmir, Unionsterritorium)
Religion (Jammu und Kashmir, Unionsterritorium)

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BEIRUT — Pope Benedict urged multi-faith Lebanon on Saturday to be a model of religious peace for the Middle East, as a civil war raged in neighboring Syria, deepening sectarian divisions.
"Lebanon is called, now more than ever, to be an example," he told political and religious leaders on the second day of a visit that coincided with violent protests across the Muslim world against a U.S.-made film insulting Islam.
Lebanon — torn apart by a 1975-1990 sectarian civil war — is a religious mosaic of over four million people whose Muslim majority includes Sunnis, Shiites, and Alawites. Christians, over one-third of the population, are divided into more than a dozen churches, six of them linked to the Vatican.
The German-born pontiff, 85, delivered his morning speech in French at the presidential palace after meeting President Michel Suleiman, a Maronite Christian, Sunni Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite.
At a rally later in the day, he told thousands of cheering young people not to let discrimination, unemployment, and instability drive them abroad and reminded young Syrian Christians in the crowd that "the Pope has not forgotten you."
Addressing young Muslims also there, he said "together with young Christians, you are the future of this fine country and of the Middle East in general. Seek to built it up together!"
Peace between warring factions and among the many religious groups in the Middle East has been a central theme of Benedict's visit, along with his call to Christians not to leave the region despite war and growing pressure from radical Islamists.
Amira Chabchoul, a Muslim onlooker outside the palace said: "We came to support the Pope and also get support from him, because our experience has been that when we listen to him, we are touched and we are helped in our lives."
On Friday, protesters against the anti-Islam film dodged gunfire and tear gas to hurl stones at security forces in Lebanon's Tripoli where one demonstrator was killed. Protesters chanted "We don't want the Pope" and "No more insults"
A Vatican spokesman said the Pope was being kept informed of protests against the film, circulated on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims."
Benedict began his visit on Friday with a call for an end to all arms supplies to Syria, where the tiny Christian minority fears reprisals if Islamists come to power at the end of the bloody insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad.
He also described the Arab Spring movement as a "cry for freedom" that was a positive development as long as it ensured tolerance for all religions.
Coptic Christians, about 10 percent of Egypt's population, have come under repeated attack by Islamists since the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak. They worry the new government will strengthen Islamic law in the new constitution.
In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, hardline Salafis have brought a new religious intolerance against fellow Muslims such as Sufis, whose shrines they are destroying as heretical.
"If we want peace, let us defend life," Benedict said. "This approach leads us to reject not only war and terrorism, but every assault on innocent human life."
The Pope held a private meeting with leaders of the Sunni, Shiite, and Alawite Muslim communities and of the Druze, an offshoot of Shiism with other influences.
Chief Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, the supreme Sunni leader, praised him for visiting "in these fateful circumstances that Lebanon and the region are living through" and stressed the common goals of both faiths "in the whole Arab world."
"The flight of Christians hurts us Muslims because it means we cannot live with others," he said. Emigration, wars and a low birth rate have cut Christian ranks to 5 percent of the Middle Eastern population compared with 20 percent a century ago.
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai told the Pope that young Christians in the Middle East were suffering political and social crises that tested their faith.
"Their concerns grow in the face of . . . rising religious fundamentalism that believes neither in the right to be different nor in the freedom of conscience or religion, and that resorts to violence as the only way to reach its goals," he said.
At a youth rally outside the Maronite Patriarchate on a mountaintop overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Benedict said Middle Eastern Christians had the honor of living in the region where Jesus was born and Christianity began.
Benedict urged the region's young Christians not to "taste the sweet bitterness of emigration".
About 250 Chaldean and Syriac Christians from Iraq waved Iraqi and Kurdish flags as the Pope arrived with Rai in his gleaming white Popemobile. A giant rosary made of balloons floated above the waiting crowd.
"We flew here three days ago to see him," said Nuhaya Bassam, 33, from Baghdad. "It's definitely worth the hassle, to us, he's God's representative on Earth."
"If anyone needs him right now, it's the Christians of the Middle East," said an Irbil man named Hani, 24.
A Syrian student priest, Khudr Samaan, said he was thrilled to see the Pope and he wanted to tell fellow Syrians not to be afraid.
"My family couldn't make it here because of the difficult conditions," he said. "I don't think I could make it back to them if I tried, either, so I'm stuck here a while."


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What's that doing there? Motorists baffled by Welsh road sign that appeared in Hampshire suburb
By Emma Clark
Residents of an English town were more than a little surprised to see warning signs in Welsh erected on their roads - some 130 miles from the country's border.
The suburb of Waterlooville, in Hampshire, got a lesson in the Celtic language this week when the bilingual road signs were used during roadworks.
Welsh born resident Adele Mallows, 65, saw the funny side of the 'No road markings' sign in English and Welsh.
What's that doing there? Drivers in an English town were amazed when road signs appeared in Welsh (file picture)
She said: 'I was born in Wales but I've lived here so long I consider myself Hampshire by adoption.
'I thought the sign was amusing - it tickled me.
'I can't read Welsh myself but I think it's a straight translation of the phrase 'no road markings'.
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'But I'm not sure a bilingual notice is altogether necessary in these parts."
The English and Welsh sign - a more common sight in the border towns between the two countries - was put up after a road was resurfaced.
Contractors had to wait to repaint the road markings so used the signs to warn pedestrians and motorists.
Hampshire County Council, whose Winchester offices are pictured, has asked for the signs to be replaced
Welsh road signs baffled residents in Andover, in Hampshire, which is about 130 miles from the Welsh border
Hampshire County Council has asked for the signs to be replaced, following comments from residents.
The amusing situation is thought to have arisen because the contractor works throughout the United Kingdom and English-only signs were not available at the start of the project.
Councillor Mel Kendal, Hampshire County Council's executive member for environment and transport, said: 'Of course, Hampshire does not require dual-language signs and this would not be acceptable on a permanent sign.
'But the signs in question were only temporary and the important message was clearly visible in English and could be understood.'


30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet.
and told him the good news about Jesus.
Again, So What Is The Good News About Jesus?
[Peace with God–that is what we need first and foremost! Our sin–our rebellion against the LORD Himself–has made us tractors and enemies of the State, as it were: we need to have peace with God Almighty before we worry about improving our manners/behaviors!
And in Christ we can then boast in the hope of the glory of God, we can enjoy the magnificence of His power and glory and presence and beauty and compassion and justice, where before we hid from Him like Adam & Eve in the Garden, not desiring the LORD to come near but wanting Him to stay away and leave us alone to be in charge of our little kingdom (life).
Just like when the Lord Jesus returns in power, not to die again but to judge the world: those who have not received the Lord Jesus as their Savior thru repentance and faith–that is, those who do not have peace with the Father–will see Christ returning and cry out to the mountains to cover them and provide a physical barrier between themselves and the wrath of the Lamb!
Revelation 7:9-17: please click HERE.
Oh loved one reading this now–which group are you in?
or hiding from Him in rebellion and denial?
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath thru him! 10 For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved thru his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also boast in God thru our Lord Jesus Christ, thru whom we have now received reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21: We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Galatians 5:11: Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
showing us the depths of our sinfulness…this is utterly offensive to our pride!
The love of God is offensive to our sinfulness, just as light is offensive to darkness!
not personally transformed by it!
instead of surrendering & submitting to the Lord Jesus Christ's|total heart-transplant surgery (repentance & faith).
Ezekiel 36:25-27: I will sprinkle clean water on you, &you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27& I will put my Spirit in you&move you to follow my decrees&be careful to keep my laws.
If you haven't flossed in a long time (or ever!), flossing can actually make your gums sore, can make your gums bleed, can cause pain…even though it is one of the healthiest & best things you can do for your health, getting out old food that has been lodged where it shouldn't be. Though flossing hurts, to not floss and to leave those food particles stuck leads to tooth decay, gum disease, increased dental bills and increased pain!
God & His Truth are like spiritual flossing—He sometimes leaves us sore and bloody and tender…but it is the best thing for us. To not floss with the Truth of our condition apart from the Lord Jesus—to not believe & accept & agree with it—leads to much worse results!
And so we must talk about this Gospel amongst ourselves and non-Christians.
Why? Why not focus on the parts that people are most likely to like & enjoy & accept?
1 Corinthians 4:1-2: This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed [the Gospel!]. 2Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Do You Realize That This Is Why You Are Still Alive On Earth?
School isnt primarily about getting good grades but proclaiming the Gospel thru your words & deeds. You meet people in your schools that other Christians never will.
Work isnt primarily about earning money so you have a house & food but proclaiming the Gospel thru words & deeds. You meet people at work other Christians never will.
The place you live isnt primarily about good schools, safe neighborhood, house with the features you want, etc. but proclaiming the Gospel thru words & deeds. You meet people in your neighborhood that other Christians never will.
Your weekends aren't yours—they are the Lord Jesus'.
My time isn't mine—it's God's.
19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things.
you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.
Ephesians 5:15-17: Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 7Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
He also leaves no faint pencil marks of what was written—Oh the glorious Gospel!
because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the Lord.
sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
We can stop…because King Jesus said, "It is finished." Paid in full.
No more debt to God, just the eternal riches of His grace & mercy!!!
the complete set of your encyclopedia of sinfulness (A to Z!)?
of His eternal eraser thru His cross & empty tomb? Oh the glorious Gospel!
as He continues to change the eternities of others!!!


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Vol. 68/No. 24 June 28, 2004
Jew-hatred, red-baiting: heart
of claims of 'neocon' conspiracy
BY SAM MANUEL
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Over the past year there has been a spate of articles by liberal and middle-class radical commentators, as well as by rightists, that attack the Bush administration by claiming that today U.S. foreign and military policy is being orchestrated by a small group of "neoconservatives" in the Defense Department. They often point to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Pentagon advisor Richard Perle, and other high-ranking officials.
Some of these commentators go further, pointing to officials with Jewish names and implying or saying that a Jewish "neocon cabal" is involved.
All variations of these conspiracy theories are false and reactionary. They divert attention from the fact that the problem facing workers and farmers is capitalism, and that state power is in the hands of a class of billionaire families that exploits the labor power of working people. U.S. government officials—Democrats and Republicans alike—are simply servants of this ruling class and carry out policies in their interests.
For example the May 12 issue of New Yorker magazine ran an article by liberal journalist Seymour Hersh about the supposed "neocon takeover of the Pentagon," which he blames for manipulating evidence "regarding Iraq's possible possession of weapons of mass destruction and connection with Al Qaeda" as a justification for invading Iraq.
"They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal—a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans," Hersh wrote. He claims that in the past year "their operation, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has brought about a crucial change in direction in the American intelligence community" and that they "have helped to shape public opinion and American policy toward Iraq."
Hersh's "exposé" relied in part on information from a retired Air Force intelligence officer. The same officer was cited as a source by Democratic senator Edward Kennedy in a March 5 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. Based on information from this "intelligence source" Kennedy charged, "What happened was not merely a failure of intelligence but the result of manipulation and distortions of the intelligence and selective use of unreliable intelligence to justify a decision to go to war."
Reactionary conspiracy theories
Hersh and Kennedy's source is Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski. After her retirement from a Pentagon intelligence job, she gave an interview to Executive Intelligence Review a publication of the fascist outfit headed by Lyndon LaRouche and authored several internet articles in which she alleges a "neocon" conspiracy in the Bush administration seeking to "leverage the full might of the United States to build a greater Zion."
Related conspiracy themes are being promoted both on the ultraright and among layers of left-liberals, Stalinists, and other middle-class radicals—from Patrick Buchanan and his magazine, The American Conservative, and the Buchananite web site antiwar.com, on the right, to the liberal magazine The Nation in the United States and the daily Guardian and weekly New Statesman in the United Kingdom, on the left.
This campaign finds a resonance among Jew haters and sectors of the wealthy ruling classes in the United States and Europe and of their officer corps whose positions and chances for advancement are threatened by the policies being led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to transform the U.S. armed forces into a lighter, more mobile force to wage Washington's wars around the world. It also finds an echo among remnants of the Stalinist bureaucracy still interlacing the officer corps and "intelligence" agencies across Eastern Europe; insecure layers of the middle classes and better-off workers squeezed by the capitalist crisis; and Stalinist-influenced liberals and petty-bourgeois radicals worldwide.
The claim by Kwiatkowski, the fascist LaRouchite outfit, and others that U.S. officials who are Jewish are involved in a conspiracy on behalf of Israel is a classic anti-Semitic smear. It is related to claims of a "cabal" promoted by Anglo-American capital—often involving the British crown and, since the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks.
One variant of the conspiracy articles that have appeared over the last year seeks to link a "Jewish neocon cabal," at least in its historical origins, to Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky and those who trace their political continuity to the communist movement he fought to build. U.S. liberal writer Michael Lind, for example, in an article in the New Statesman in April 2003, asserts that U.S. foreign policy is dominated today by a layer of "neoconservatives" who are "products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s which morphed into an anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history."
Lind claims this alleged group is part of an "Israel lobby" in the U.S. government whose ideology is "Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism," referring to the Israeli Likud party. His liberal diatribe was picked up in the pro-Buchanan web site antiwar.com.
Buchanan, in a March 24, 2003, article in The American Conservative, describes what he calls the first generation of "neocons" as "ex-liberals, socialists, and Trotskyites…who rafted over to the GOP at the end of conservatism's long march to power with Ronald Reagan in 1980."
Versions of this intermixed poison of Jew-hatred and Trotsky-baiting have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and numerous other publications and internet sites. They feature headlines such as: "Trotskycons?" "Bush-Trotsky Links: Let's Count the Ways," "Now It's Trotsky's Fault?" "Trotskyism to Anachronism: the Neoconservative Revolution," and "Trotsky's Ghost Wandering the White House."
This kind of smear against Trotsky and the communist movement, including the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, is not new—from the opening days of the Bolshevik Revolution it has been used against communists by imperialist reaction, Social Democrats, and later the Stalinists. Such slanders and reactionary arguments will become more frequent as the capitalist crisis and conflicts between imperialist powers sharpen, heightening class tensions, political polarization, the politics of resentment, restrictions on rights, and the coarsening of bourgeois political discourse.
Smears about "Trotskycons" to the contrary, the fact is that no prominent figure among the so-called neoconservatives has ever been a member of the Socialist Workers Party. A few from the oldest generation—none of whom ever held government posts—were around the youth group of an organization led by Max Shachtman in the 1930s and 1940s. Shachtman and his supporters split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1940, breaking with Marxism. As they evolved, they dissolved their group into the Socialist Party in 1958, and accelerated their course by backing the Henry "Scoop" Jackson wing of the Democratic Party and filling the staffs of AFL-CIO unions.
It is also worth noting that in the current administration, the central architects of U.S. military policy, from the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to Washington's policies toward Israel, are above all Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush. They are not Jewish, and are as conventional in their records as capitalist politicians as anyone could be.


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Odpowiedzialność cywilna – ujemne konsekwencje ponoszone przez podmioty prawa w związku z zaistnieniem zdarzeń negatywnie ocenianych przez prawo. Jest to możliwość zastosowania przymusu państwowego w postaci egzekucji majątkowej, wobec określonej osoby fizycznej lub prawnej, celem realizacji ciążącego na niej obowiązku.

Odpowiedzialność najczęściej występuje w powiązaniu z długiem, chociaż mogą zdarzyć się przypadki, gdy dłużnik nie ponosi odpowiedzialności (zobowiązanie naturalne), jak również sytuacje, gdy określona osoba odpowiada mimo braku długu (np. dług gruntowy w prawie niemieckim). Na gruncie polskiego kodeksu rodzinnego i opiekuńczego istnieje możliwość zaspokojenia wierzyciela z majątku wspólnego małżonków lub majątku osobistego dłużnika (art. 41).

Źródła odpowiedzialności
 odpowiedzialność deliktowa – za szkodę wyrządzoną czynem niedozwolonym,
 odpowiedzialność kontraktowa – z tytułu niewykonania lub nienależytego wykonania zobowiązania, które powstało na skutek dokonania czynności prawnej, najczęściej umowy.

Rodzaje odpowiedzialności
 odpowiedzialność osobista (majątkowa) – dłużnik odpowiada całym swoim majątkiem teraźniejszym i przyszłym za wyrządzoną szkodę; jest w zasadzie nieograniczona, nie zależy od stanu majątkowego dłużnika i nie uznaje (co do zasady) przywilejów na korzyść jednych wierzycieli przeciwko innym;
 ograniczona odpowiedzialność osobista (np. art. 1030 i 1031 kodeksu cywilnego):
 cum viribus patrimonii – odpowiedzialność dłużnika sprowadza się do pewnej wyodrębnionej masy majątkowej dłużnika, traktowanej w jego majątku jako osobna całość;
 pro viribus patrimonii – dłużnik odpowiada za dług wprawdzie całym swoim majątkiem, jednakże tylko do pewnej wysokości ograniczonej liczbowo, np. do wysokości aktywów spadku.
 odpowiedzialność rzeczowa – niezależna od osobistej – dłużnik odpowiada jedynie określoną rzeczą – zastaw albo hipoteka; gwarancję zaspokojenia wierzyciela daje oznaczony przedmiot majątkowy, którym zabezpieczono wierzytelność.
Uprawnienie wierzyciela rzeczowego w razie zbiegu w toku egzekucji z wierzytelnościami osobistymi innych wierzycieli uzyska przywilej pierwszeństwa co do zaspokojenia się z przedmiotu obciążonego przed tymi wierzycielami.


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Hosted by Good Morning America's Robin Roberts
LaTorsha and LaDainian Tomlinson Bestowed Changemaker Award
Good Morning America's Robin Roberts hosted the 10th Annual Emmitt Smith Celebrity Invitational presented by title sponsor Healthcare Highways in celebration of ten years of service, philanthropy and positive community impact for Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities in North Texas. Guests began the evening, sponsored by Dee Lincoln Prime, at the Omni Frisco Hotel with a red-carpet arrival and cocktail hour sponsored by Brown-Foreman Herradura, followed by dinner sponsored by E Smith Advisors, and a live auction. Legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback and real estate icon Roger Staubach and his wife, Marianne, served as Honorary Chairs with Mahisha and John Dellinger serving as the 2019 Event Chairs.
Each year, the highlight of the evening's program is the designation of awards bestowed upon community leaders who are leveraging their platforms to support others. The Roger Staubach Award recognizes sports and or entertainment professionals who positively impact the lives of children by living courageously and creating opportunities for today's youth. This is the only award to be named in Staubach's honor other than the one established at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy. Roger Staubach personally presented this year's honor to Jessica and Dirk Nowitzki in acknowledgment of the amazing work they have done through The Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, which lifts up children who are affected by illness, poverty, abuse and neglect through proper channels of guidance and directs them on a path to success.
The Changemaker Award was given to LaTorsha and LaDainian Tomlinson for their efforts to enhance the lives of deserving families through education, social and culture awareness, and positive self-esteem through their organization, Team America. Team America aims to provide an environment where we are not forced to choose sides, but instead motivated to stand together and determine the best way forward –emphasizing inclusion for all. Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities also recognized long term donors and friends who have stood by them since the beginning: Dee Lincoln, David and Tina Craig andLamonte Thomas for their unwavering support over the past ten years with the All Star Partner Award.
This star-studded soiree included sports icons and entertainment luminaries such as Eric Dickerson, Eddie George, the new Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris, Torii Hunter, Christopher "Kid" Reid of Kid 'N Play, John Rocker, Melissa Rycroft Strickland, Bruce Smith, Joe Torry and Everson Walls. Local notables in attendance included Tina and David Craig, Dawn and Jon Mellon, Dee Lincoln and husband, Mike Ruley, Cheryl "Action" Jackson, Donna Richardson, Claudia and Tony Habeeb, and Joyce and Jerry Morrison. The evening was a huge success raising $1.1 million dollars that will benefit Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities.
The gala ushers in the Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament on Saturday, May 4 hosted at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, TX. Players were paired with celebrities to create foursomes to vie for bragging rights and prizes. Now in its 10th year, the Emmitt Smith Celebrity Invitational has raised more than $9.2 million in support of Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities and supported over 150 charities in North Texas, including 10,000 DISD students and families through their annual back to school program.
Proceeds from the weekend go to Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities, (PESC), a 501(c)(3) public charity that creates and funds unique educational experiences and enrichment opportunities for underserved children.
Please credit: Ada Lee Photography, Marcy Meeks and Axxess.
Amber Laign, Robin Roberts
Bruce Smith, Emmitt Smith, Torii Hunter, tim Brown
Dee Lincoln, Mike Ruley
Elijah Smith, EJ Smith, Rheagan Smith, Pat Smith, Skylar Smith, Jasmin Lawrence and Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith, Dirk Nowitski
Emory Smith, Seema Sadaakar, David Mosely, Eugene Walker and Rowdy
Jessica and Dirk Nowitzki
Lacy and Billy Dawson
LaDainian Tomlinson, Rocky Turner (Rock – T), Emmitt Smith
Mahisah Dellinger, Cheryl "Action" Jackson
Marianne and Roger Staubach, Dirk and Jessica Nowitzki, Pat and Emmitt Smith
Michael Rasa, Marcus Allen, Brad Rasa and Paul Rasa
Team 22 students


What makes a cult actor? One possible answer is a two-worded one: 'Steve McQueen'. Perhaps the ultimate method is to make a few iconic films, establish a definitive person and to die young…a feat that Steve McQueen sadly managed to achieve. From the modern perspective, cult actors' images are everywhere, drawing a distinction between an actor such as McQueen and his compatriot Paul Newman- a great performer but with a longevity that transforms his cult status into that of fully-matured Hollywood great. One problem with a cult actor is preserving their status and not letting the stardom be tarnished by a host of less than credible biographies plumbing the depths from a variety of obscure angles. In terms of Steve McQueen, one angle that had not previously been thoroughly explored is his later years, when, according to the flyleaf of his wife, Barbara,'s book, the actor 'wanted to scale back his visibility'. Now, almost thirty years after his death, in an ironic twist, those final years are more visible than ever.
Steve McQueen- The Last Mile is an intriguing yet vast book, its appearance suggesting the panorama of Widescreen that many of its subject's films were shot in. Its 237 pages lay bare the three and a half year relationship between McQueen and Barbara, whose 400 photographs of the actor illuminate the pages, bringing the legend alive- the personal legend, as opposed to the star of numerous films in the period 1953-80. Perhaps appropriately, the first part of her book focuses on Barbara's own life, thereby paving the way for her meeting with McQueen on Independence Day 1977 and the burgeoning of their relationship soon after. What is most refreshing about this whole section is its absence of pretension, the anecdotes being warm, witty and fascinating in their ordinariness, told with an air of loving appreciation. The approach is not focused on developing a clear chronology but instead about developing a thematic portrait of McQueen- far more useful in its avoidance of the ground already covered in other biographies.
Perhaps it is this thematic coverage that, above all, that makes Steve McQueen- The Last Mile such an entrancing read, for the book's sheer size might be daunting were it not for its seven true chapters being further sub-divided into bite-sized chunks that deal with particular instances or occurrences. Though the text (and its cavalcade of charming stories) draws the reader in, the other major selling-point for the book is its vast array of Barbara's own photographs of her former husband, some posed, some candid. These capture the true essence of the man away from the Hollywood glamour machine- McQueen seems relaxed and happy; the photographs having in retrospect an aura of sadness about them for this very reason. One of Barbara's own favourites appears on page 103, and it shows a man at ease with himself and with his career. Barbara's pictures document this transformation- focusing in detail on the final 18 months of McQueen's life and his penultimate film Tom Horn.
Although it occurs almost half way through her book, Barbara McQueen's section on the preparations for Tom Horn is a particularly fine one, and centres around the magnificent photograph that completely fills page 122. This paves the way for Barbara's almost tangible and poetic account of the intricacies of how she and Steve balanced their relationship whilst still building up to filming. The photograph of McQueen with the dog Junior on page 131 is another fine one- it captures the actor looking less 'movie-starry' than ever, but it is none the worse for that. A hundred pages later, and McQueen's illness is evident- he looks significantly older, even though the photographs were taken only a year or so apart. Ultimately, this is the over-riding sadness in Steve McQueen- The Last Mile, as its subject is captured in middle age but simultaneously at the end of his life, a facet not possible in a book about James Dean, for example. There is also added poignancy in McQueen's happiness in his final years, the way he "found" himself and the way this laid-back lifestyle was abruptly cut short.
In Steve McQueen- The Last Mile, Barbara McQueen has provided a fitting eulogy for her late husband, 'a true artist whose work has stood the test of time and will continue to do so' (p.111). Books like this are important, not just to act as a catharsis for their author but to both preserve the legacy of their subject and enhance it. This particular volume succeeds by simply being itself- it is an intimate memoir yet a far-reaching panorama, and, above all, a specialist book with widespread appeal.
'Steve McQueen- The Last Mile' is published by Dalton Watson Fine Books.


Brown County Human Services is in need of foster homes like never before. In the past years Brown County was challenged with placing 30 children in 20 available foster care homes. The number of foster children needing placement in Brown County has increased to 40 children and the number of non-relative foster care homes has decreased to 14.
Brown County also incorporates the help and assistance from relative families of the children but this is not always possible. More children are being placed in foster care than ever before and a shortage of foster parents means there are more children than homes to place them in. Part of the reason for the increase is due to an increase in drug abuse with Meth addiction topping the list. Meth addiction treatment can take months; it leaves the children in need of temporary homes.
Foster homes provide temporary care for children who are unable to remain in their own homes. The foster home helps the child cope with the separation from his or her parents, providing safety in a nurturing environment and helps develop a plan for the future of the child. The primary benefit foster parents can experience is the joy of providing a child with a home and watching them grow. Parents also receive a subsidy for children placed in their home.
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Amber Heard Poses for GQ Russia; a Political Pawn in Ukraine Conflict?
Amber Heard should spend less time taking selfies and pay more attention to current events. The "Rum Diary" star poses in the Russian edition of GQ magazine, apparently oblivious to Russia's role in the Ukrainian conflict.
The Obama administration and other Western nations have imposed economic sanctions on Russia because of its annexation of Crimea and aid to Russian separatists.
The sanctions do not specifically prohibit her involvement with the magazine. But politically, her appearance is embarrassing propaganda victory for Russia.
Aside from taking the lives of hundreds of Ukrainians and Russian separatists, the conflict also led to the downing in July of a Malaysia Airlines MH17 airliner in airspace over the former Soviet republic.
The plane is believed to have been downed by a Russian surface-to-air missile. All 298 people aboard were killed, including dozens of women and children.
Most recently, Russian tanks and troops have been seen moving into the conflict area in Eastern Ukraine to aide rebels, even though Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied direct involvement.
Heard graces the cover of the Russian magazine, which is published under a license from Conde Nast, the U.S.-based publisher of Vanity Fair and other magazines.
The question arises whether Heard is being used as a political pawn to create the impression that relations between the U.S. and Russia are normal. In fact they are at their lowest level since the Cold War.
Heard isn't the first celebrity to be used for political reasons. Kim Kardashian appeared on the cover of the Turkish edition of Cosmopolitan magazine the same month as Genocide Remembrance Day.
The occasion marks the years during and following World War I, when the Turks murdered millions of Armenians in a genocide that mirrors in many ways the Nazi Holocaust in World War II.
It's unknown whether Heard was aware of the political implications of her appearance. Her reps have not returned calls.
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O algoritmo de Dijkstra, concebido pelo cientista da computação holandês Edsger Dijkstra em 1956 e publicado em 1959, soluciona o problema do caminho mais curto num grafo dirigido ou não dirigido com arestas de peso não negativo, em tempo computacional  onde V é o número de vértices e E é o número de arestas. O algoritmo que serve para resolver o mesmo problema em um grafo com pesos negativos é o algoritmo de Bellman-Ford, que possui maior tempo de execução que o Dijkstra.

O algoritmo considera um conjunto S de menores caminhos, iniciado com um vértice inicial I. A cada passo do algoritmo busca-se nas adjacências dos vértices pertencentes a S aquele vértice com menor distância relativa a I e adiciona-o a S e, então, repetindo os passos até que todos os vértices alcançáveis por I estejam em S. Arestas que ligam vértices já pertencentes a S são desconsideradas.

Um exemplo prático do problema que pode ser resolvido pelo algoritmo de Dijkstra é: alguém precisa se deslocar de uma cidade para outra. Para isso, ela dispõe de várias estradas, que passam por diversas cidades. Qual delas oferece uma trajetória de menor caminho?

Algoritmo de Dijkstra

 1º passo: iniciam-se os valores:

 para todo v ∈ V[G]
      d[v] ← ∞
      π[v] ← -1
 d[s] ← 0

V[G] é o conjunto de vértices(v) que formam o Grafo G.
d[v] é o vetor de distâncias de s até cada v.
Admitindo-se a pior estimativa possível, o caminho infinito.
π[v] identifica o vértice de onde se origina uma conexão até v de maneira a formar um caminho mínimo.

 2º passo: temos que usar o conjunto Q, cujos vértices ainda não contém o custo do menor caminho d[v] determinado.

 Q ← V[G]

 3º passo: realizamos uma série de relaxamentos das arestas, de acordo com o código:

 enquanto Q ≠ ø
          u ← extrair-mín(Q)                     //Q ← Q - {u}
          para cada v adjacente a u
               se d[v] > d[u] + peso(u, v)          //relaxe (u, v)
                  então d[v] ← d[u] + peso(u, v)
                        π[v] ← u

peso(u, v) é o peso da aresta que vai de u a v.

u e v são vértices quaisquer e s é o vértice inicial.
ffd
extrair-mín(Q), pode usar um heap de mínimo ou uma lista de vértices onde se extrai o elemento u com menor valor d[u].

No final do algoritmo teremos o menor caminho entre s e qualquer outro vértice de G. O algoritmo leva tempo O(m + n log n) caso seja usado um heap de Fibonacci, O(m log n) caso seja usado um heap binário e O(n²) caso seja usado um vetor para armazenar Q.

O algoritmo de Dijkstra é um exemplo de algoritmo guloso que gera a solução ótima em tempo polinomial.

Exemplo de código em c++
// Implementação do algoritmo de Dijkstra
// Teste: http://br.spoj.com/problems/ENGARRAF/

#include <iostream>
#include <list>
#include <queue>
#define INFINITO 10000000

using namespace std;

class Grafo
{
private:
	int V; // número de vértices

	// ponteiro para um array contendo as listas de adjacências
	list<pair<int, int> > * adj;

public:

	// construtor
	Grafo(int V)
	{
		this->V = V; // atribui o número de vértices

		/*
			cria as listas onde cada lista é uma lista de pairs
			onde cada pair é formado pelo vértice destino e o custo
		*/
		adj = new list<pair<int, int> >[V];
	}

	// adiciona uma aresta ao grafo de v1 à v2
	void addAresta(int v1, int v2, int custo)
	{
		adj[v1].push_back(make_pair(v2, custo));
	}

	// algoritmo de Dijkstra
	int dijkstra(int orig, int dest)
	{
		// vetor de distâncias
		int dist[V];

		/*
		   vetor de visitados serve para caso o vértice já tenha sido
		   expandido (visitado), não expandir mais
		*/
		int visitados[V];

		// fila de prioridades de pair (distancia, vértice)
		priority_queue < pair<int, int>,
					   vector<pair<int, int> >, greater<pair<int, int> > > pq;

		// inicia o vetor de distâncias e visitados
		for(int i = 0; i < V; i++)
		{
			dist[i] = INFINITO;
			visitados[i] = false;
		}

		// a distância de orig para orig é 0
		dist[orig] = 0;

		// insere na fila
		pq.push(make_pair(dist[orig], orig));

		// loop do algoritmo
		while(!pq.empty())
		{
			pair<int, int> p = pq.top(); // extrai o pair do topo
			int u = p.second; // obtém o vértice do pair
			pq.pop(); // remove da fila

			// verifica se o vértice não foi expandido
			if(visitados[u] == false)
			{
				// marca como visitado
				visitados[u] = true;

				list<pair<int, int> >::iterator it;

				// percorre os vértices "v" adjacentes de "u"
				for(it = adj[u].begin(); it != adj[u].end(); it++)
				{
					// obtém o vértice adjacente e o custo da aresta
					int v = it->first;
					int custo_aresta = it->second;

					// relaxamento (u, v)
					if(dist[v] > (dist[u] + custo_aresta))
					{
						// atualiza a distância de "v" e insere na fila
						dist[v] = dist[u] + custo_aresta;
						pq.push(make_pair(dist[v], v));
					}
				}
			}
		}

		// retorna a distância mínima até o destino
		return dist[dest];
	}
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	Grafo g(5);

	g.addAresta(0, 1, 4);
	g.addAresta(0, 2, 2);
	g.addAresta(0, 3, 5);
	g.addAresta(1, 4, 1);
	g.addAresta(2, 1, 1);
	g.addAresta(2, 3, 2);
	g.addAresta(2, 4, 1);
	g.addAresta(3, 4, 1);

	cout << g.dijkstra(0, 4) << endl;

	return 0;
}

Problemas relacionados
O algoritmo de Dijkstra não consegue encontrar o menor caminho em um grafo com pesos negativos. Para esse propósito, pode-se usar o algoritmo de Floyd-Warshall, que consegue descobrir a menor distância entre todos os pares de vértices de qualquer grafo sem ciclos com peso negativo em uma complexidade de tempo O(V³). Se o problema não exigir o cálculo da distância entre todos os pares de vértices pode-se aplicar o algoritmo de Bellman-Ford, com complexidade de tempo O(V*E).
Em uma árvore, é possível encontrar a distância entre um vértice inicial e todos os outros vértices em tempo O(V+E), utilizando busca em profundidade (também conhecida como DFS). Em um grafo cujas arestas têm todas o mesmo peso, pode-se encontrar a distância entre um vértice inicial e todos os outros vértices, para um grafo qualquer, em O(V+E), utilizando busca em largura (também conhecida como BFS).
O processo utilizado no algoritmo de Dijkstra é bastante similar ao processo usado no algoritmo de Prim. O propósito deste último, entretanto, é encontrar a árvore geradora mínima que conecta todos os nós de um grafo. O BFS pode ser visto como um caso especial do algoritmo de Dijkstra em grafos não dirigidos, onde a fila de prioridade assume o comportamento FIFO.

Ver também
 Algoritmo de Floyd-Warshall
 Algoritmo de Bellman-Ford
 Algoritmo A*
 Busca em profundidade
 Busca em largura

Ligações externas
 Artigo explicativo sobre o algoritmo
 Artigo e Implementação do Algoritmo de Dijkstra em C
  Algoritmo de Dijkstra em C#
  Simulação do algoritmo de Dijkstra

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