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What Are Replica Set Members in MongoDB?
Among the several database concepts out there, one of the most important ones is replication. Replication involves data copying between multiple systems so each user has the same type of information. This allows for data availability which in turn improves the performance of the application. Likewise, it can also help in backups, for instance when one of the systems is damaged by a cyberattack. In MongoDB, replication is achieved with the help of grouped mongod processes known as a replica set.
What Is a Replica Set?
A replica set is an amalgamation of multiple mongod processes which are combined together. They are the key to offering redundancy in MongoDB along with ensuring strong availability of data. Members in the replica set are classified into three categories.
Primary member.
Secondary member.
Arbiter.
Primary Member
There can only be one primary member in a single replica set. It is a sort of "leader" among all the other members. The major difference between a primary member and other members is that a primary member gets write operations. This means that when MongoDB has to process writes, then it forwards them to the primary member. These writes are then recorded in the operation log (oplog) of the primary member. Afterward, the secondary members look up in the oplog and use that recorded data to implement changes in their stored data.
In the case of read operations, all the members of the replica set can process them but the read operation is first directed to the primary member due to default settings in the MongoDB.
All members in a replica set acknowledge their availability through a "heartbeat". If the heartbeat is missing for the specified time limit (usually defined in seconds), then it means that the member is disconnected. In replica sets, there are some cases when the primary member gets unavailable due to multiple issues, for instance, the data center in which the primary member resides is disconnected due to the power outage.
Since replication cannot operate without a primary member, an "election" is held to appoint a primary member from the secondary members.
Secondary Member
A secondary member is dependent on the primary member to maintain its data. For replication, it uses the oplog of the primary member asynchronously. Unlike primary members, a replica set can have multiple secondary members—the more the merrier. However, as explained before, write operations are only conducted by the primary member and thus, a secondary member is not allowed to process them.
If a secondary member is allowed to vote, then it is eligible to trigger an election and take part as a candidate to become the new primary member.
A secondary member can also be customized to achieve the following.
Made ineligible to become the primary member. This is done so it can be utilized in a secondary data center where it is valuable as a standby option.
Block the contact of applications from the secondary member such that they cannot "read" through it. This can ensure that they work with special applications which necessitate detachment from the standard traffic.
You can modify a secondary member to act as a snapshot for historical purposes. This is a backup strategy which can aid as a contingency plan. For example, when a user deletes a database by mistake, then the snapshot can be utilized.
An arbiter is distinct due to the fact that it does not store its own data copy. Likewise, it is ineligible for the primary member position. So, why exactly are they used? Arbiters provide efficiency in the elections; they can vote once. They are added so they can vote and break the possibility of scenarios where it is a "tie" between members.
For example, there are 5 members in a replica set. If the primary member gets unavailable, then an election is held where two of the secondary members bag two votes each, so it is not possible for either of them to become the primary member. Therefore, to break such standoffs, arbiters are added so their vote can complete the election and select a primary member.
It is also possible to add a secondary member in the replica set to improve the election but a new secondary member is heavy as it stores and maintains data. Since arbiters are not constrained by such overheads; therefore they are the most cost-effective solution.
It is recommended, that arbiters should never reside in sites which are responsible to host both the primary and secondary members.
If the configuration option, authorization, is enabled in the arbiter, then it can also swap credentials with members of the replica set where authentication is implemented using the "keyfiles". In such scenarios, MongoDB applies encryption on the entire authentication procedure.
The use of cryptographic techniques ensures that this authentication is secure from any exploitation. However, since arbiters are unable to store or maintain data, this means that the internal table—which has information of users/roles in authentication—can not be owned by the arbiters. Therefore, the localhost exception is used with the arbiter for authentication purposes.
Do note that in the recent MongoDB versions (from MongoDB 3.6 onwards), if you upgrade the replica set from an older version, then its priority value is changed from 1 to 0.
What Is the Ideal Replica Set?
There is a limit on the number of members in the replica set. At most, a replica set can contain 50 members. However, the number of voting members must not cross the 7-member limit. To configure voting and allow a member to vote, the members[n]. votes setting of a replica set must be 1.
Ideally, a replica set should have at least three members which can bear data: 1 primary member and 2 secondary members. It is also possible to use a three-member replica set where with one primary, secondary, and arbiter but at the expense of redundancy.
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Roy's still not sleeping, which is affecting his training with Oliver, Laurel has inner rage she has yet to confront, which is affecting her training with Ted Grant, Thea has used Malcolm Merlyn's money to buy a new apartment, which is affecting her relationship with Oliver, and Felicity Smoak's past is about to start affecting everyone.
Felicity, in her pyjamas, is disturbed in her morning routine by Ray Palmer who wants to talk about giving the city its energy back for free when Felicity's mother, Donna, arrives unannounced. Felicity is not as pleased to see her as you might have expected her to be, but Ray welcomes her by gifting her the prototype of a new Smartphone Watch he's been developing. There is a city wide blackout followed by an announcement from the mysterious Brother Eye that Starling City is going to suffer one problem after another. When Felicity tries to investigate the source, she realises she actually wrote the super-virus that is being used.
Flashback five years and we see a dark haired goth looking Felicity with her boyfriend Cooper Seldon and their roommate Myron Forest playing Hacktivist and using Felicity's code to hack the government. Cooper goes too far and starts deleting student's loans which means the F.B.I. can back trace the source of the hack and he is jailed, where apparently he commits suicide before sentencing.
Back in the present day and Felicity is no closer to finding Brother Eye and even a visit by Roy and Oliver to Myron leads nowhere. An angry Laurel, left in temporary charge of the District Attorney's office, sends a riot team to the bank which just escalates the chaos. Felicity has a big row with Donna but Donna stands her ground and admits that, whilst her father gave her all her intelligence, she had actually always been there even after Felicity's father left them. After becoming really upset, Oliver tells Felicity that family is important and makes her go to her mother to make peace. Donna tells Felicity that she wishes she had never won the round trip to Starling City and Felicity realises, albeit too late, that someone had made sure her mother was there. They are kidnapped and taken to a warehouse where Brother Eye reveals himself as the very much alive Cooper Seldon, who had faked his suicide and joined the N.S.A. instead of completing his prison term. He uses Donna as leverage to make Felicity hack into the treasury and re-route the money trucks to his location.
Donna reminds Felicity of the Smartphone Watch she is wearing and Felicity manages to contact TeamArrow who rush in to save the day. After the ordeal Felicity and Donna make up and spend some time together, making Oliver realise he had been treating Thea unfairly and goes to watch a film at her new apartment, under the watchful eye of Malcom Merlyn, and the sleeping issue for Roy is unveiled as a memory or a dream that he is the one who murdered Sara.
Whilst this episode was light on Arrow involvement, and the flashbacks were Felicity's and not Oliver's, it was incredibly entertaining seeing how Felicity became who she is. I have fallen in love with her character and can't ever imagine the show without her now, so the screen time and family explanation was very pleasing, plus Ray Palmer hanging around like a goofy loner added some hilarious moments. I am sure pretty soon we will go back to the darker storyline involving Merlyn, Ra's Al Ghul and the like, but this was a fantastically welcome sidebar.


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How to secure the Bulgarian pensioner against the inexorably ticking hell pension machine
Behind a technical viewpoint such as pensions, there are questions about the relationship between the generations and about the confidence in the stability of the world in which we live.
The pension system is facing a severe crisis not only in our country.
The World Economic Forum two years ago came up with a study according to which the pension "hellish machine" is inexorably: in 2050 the deficit of six of the largest economies (US, China, India, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan) would be $ 400 trillion , i.e. four times more than the entire world economy today.
The crash that emerges may be just what we are doing to climate change.
And the reasons here are even clearer. On the one hand, we have the demographic transition phenomenon, where the birth rate decreases in parallel with the lifting of the standard. On the other hand, human life is prolonged thanks to the fantastic advances in medicine.
Take a simple account: if, in the 2050 year in question, a person in the developed world lives on average 105 years (very likely, according to experts) and if he started work at 25, 65 would have worked as long as he would have the right to receives a pension.
Add to this the growing number of children themselves, on whom the pension for two parents will lie, as well as for four ancestors (the trend is most visible in China due to the restrictive demographic policy for one child 1979-2015).
Add the growing number of people who are not insured due to the non-fluid labor market and the shadows in the global economy.
The latter concerns most people in India, but we know that this problem is also experienced by Bulgaria, where they are likely to return to retirement age, very uninsured, working abroad.
Refusal for ideological reasons
In Bulgaria, the problem has long been discussed; it is increasingly clear that, for ideological reasons, we are abandoning the only solution, namely to stimulate immigration of suitable populations ready to work and give birth to children.
In Japan, too, they do not want migrants, but they at least rely on robots that will not appear here soon.
The gradual lifting of the retirement age was swallowed, albeit after a number of battles; people in us retire not to lie on their backs but to be able to work in a situation of certain security.
I might fantasize, but it seems to me that a step-by-step form of getting insurance supplements would have a great effect, and would motivate people to make much more money into the system (thus transforming workplace allowances, for example, that would be an alternative to unconditional basic income ...).
But the theme of the day is the private forms of insurance from the so-called second pillar, which had to support the alleged state insurance.
Everyone understood the difference between the solidarity system where the state makes contributions and then gives pensions by redistributing to the most disadvantaged; as well as the liberal "cricket and ant" model introduced with this "extra" assurance: everybody gets what he has saved himself, that is. the rich and the prudent - more, the poor and the carefree - less, maybe and nothing.
The reason for this duality is the contradictory nature inherent in our ideas of justice. If only the state is responsible for pensions, there will be no incentive to import more. If it is private, however, it is bad, because if tomorrow people start dying around us without a penny, we will not survive and we will change the pattern again.
Pension insurance (first introduced by Bismarck in 1889) does not release the old; it removes young people from the moral duty of caring for their parents - they can pick up the hammer and seek happiness in the modernizing mobile world. The goal is for every generation to get some security and get rid of dependence. However, sharp changes put this security under increasing pressure. The state, the guarantor of the solidarity model, has proved to be quite ephemeral, especially on the periphery of the developed world: who has taken pensions in the 1990s, will understand what I mean. Then, in the euphoria of globalization, the liberal model seemed far more secure. Why were not American pension funds the safest investor?
Unexpectedly, however, it turned out that such funds did not earn much. Whether the problem is in the financial crisis that has led to almost zero interest rates and the impossibility of winning without risk (these funds are forbidding risky investments, they should guarantee existential security of society!). Whether there is malice, incompetence, high fees - I do not know. After media scandals, many insured went back to the state where too much ink was poured, and legislative decisions were made; today we learn that mandatory (private) insurance will ensure that citizens do not lose the money they have invested at least. Which makes the liberal branch of pension insurance itself a little strange - first mandatory (for the born
How to secure the Bulgarian pensioner against the inexorably ticking hell pension machine / Attorney Iulia Danova
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The Lord told Jonah again the second time, Get up and go to Nineveh, that great big city, and yell out to them the words I tell you.
So Jonah got up and went as the Lord told him.
Nineveh was so big that it took 3 days to walk from one side to the other side. Jonah walked into big city for a day and then stood still and yelled, In 40 days Nineveh will be ruined.
The people believed what Jonah said and stopped all their bad stuff and turned to the Lord God their Maker, all the people did this, even the king.
The king said, Don't anyone eat or drink anything, both people and animals, but just pray hard to the Lord God. Let everyone stop hitting people and hurting people to get what you want. Maybe God will stop His plan and not let us be ruined.
The Lord God saw that the people turned away from their bad stuff and so He didn't let them be ruined for all the bad they did.
But Jonah was not happy about this. He got mad.
He talked to the Lord and said, Isn't this just what I said you'd do when I was back in my own country before I ran away to go across the sea far away from You?
Because I knew that You are kind and full of love and would turn away from spanking them if they turned back to You.
So now, please, just kill me. It is better for me to die than to live.
The Lord said to Jonah, Is it the right thing for you to be mad about this?
Jonah stomped off and went outside the city on the east side and made a little hut to sit under its shade. Then he sat there to watch what would happen to the city.
The Lord God made a big plant with gourds on it grow up over Jonah's head to make him cool. Jonah was real happy about the plant.
But the next day the Lord God send a big fat worm to eat the plant and the plant shrunk up to nothing.
Then when the sun came up God sent a strong, hot wind from the east and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he got weak and wanted to die again. He said, It is better for me to die than to live.
The Lord said, Is it right for you to be mad about the plant?
Jonah yelled, IT IS RIGHT until I die!
The Lord told Jonah, You liked the gourd plant a lot very but you didn't make grow. It came up one night and then was gone the next.
Shouldn't I care about Nineveh, the great city, that I made, that has more than 120,000 little kids in it, too little to know their right hand from their left and many, many animals I made are there too.


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Q: How to reference an id with brackets in jQuery I'm painfully new to jQuery and I need to grab the value on change of a text input box with an id of id[2][t] and display that text in a div to be styled later on (also styled with jQuery).
This is the input box code:
<input id="id[2][t]" name="id[2][t]" maxlength="20" type="text">

This is the div I am trying to display it in:

This is what I have tried, among other variation with no success:
$(document).ready(function() {

$('#id\\[2\\]\\[t\\]').change(function() {
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});

});

I know the brackets are a problem but they need to remain for other reasons.
Any ideas?

A: You might consider revising your IDs (though I'm guessing they might be auto-generated). According to this question your IDs are invalid against the spec

A: $( document.getElementById( "id[2][t]" ) ).change( function(){
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} );

A: Use the attribute selector instead:
var sel = $("[id='id[2][t]']");
sel.change(function() {
  $("#textpreview").val(sel.text());
});

A: Plain Old JavaScript:
var elem = document.getElementById('id[2][t]');

elem.onchange = function()
{
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    elem.removeChild(elem.firstChild)
    elem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(this.value));
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Ahhh... now doesn't that feel better?

A: You can try using the attribute selector instead of the id selector.
$('[id="id[2][t]"]')

A: You have val and text backwards.  Swap them:
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val is used to get the value of the textbox.  text to set the text within the div.
You can further simplify the code by using this instead of re-querying the element.
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Florence City Tour
Private Tours of Florence
Discover Florence
Usury and Bonfires
San Marco, San Lorenzo & Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Cosimo the Elder and The Medici Patronage
Site visited: Convent of San Marco, Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Basilica of San Lorenzo*
Price for a group of 1-4pax: €225
Additional price for headsets from 5-10 pax: €30
*Entry fees: not included
NB. Churches require a dress code. Please dress appropriately with covered shoulders and knees.
Usury & Bonfires
The 3 main sites we will explore on this tour are connected in many ways but also by the fact that that they all received copious investments from Cosimo il Vecchio, the patriarch of the Medici family. This extraordinary politician and banker was also known as Cosimo Father of the Nation. These churches allow us to follow his patronage and understand the many interesting facets of the mind and society of Renaissance Florence.
In the 14th and 15th century, Florence was one of the most important banking centres of Europe, with the Medici family and bank, one of the richest and most powerful. But one of the main purposes of a bank, lend money with the payment of interest, was in those times considered usury, a cardinal sin. So, aside from benefiting the city states and advancing the status of the Medici family, one of the main motivating factors of their religious patronage was the fear of the after-life.
...a little more
From 1437, the Convent of San Marco will be subject to a period of architectural transformations commissioned by Cosimo and undertaken by one of his favourite architects, Michelozzo. The cloister and the library of the convent represent beautiful examples of Renaissance architecture. The convent also conserves Cosimo's personal cell where he came to pray and meditate. The library also allows us to follow the contradictory thread that ties Humanist ideals to Religion leading to that extreme moment in history instigated by the fiery sermons of the great orator, Girolamo Savonarola, still known today as the Bonfire of the Vanities.
In the 15th century, San Marco was also home to the Dominican artist, Fra Angelico, who will be responsible for an incredible cycle of frescoes throughout the convent followed by Fra Bartolomeo in the 1600s. Today the museum, not only houses their paintings but it also conserves the works of Suor Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588), the first known woman artist of Florence.
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, commissioned in the 1440s by Cosimo and also designed by Michelozzo, holds one of Florence's less visited treasures: the chapel decorated by Benozzo Gozzoli representing a surprisingly rich and intriguing Procession of the Magi where we recognize members of the family and other notables of the time. The palace will not only be the home of Cosimo, but also that of his grandson, Lorenzo il Magnifico, and among others, Michelangelo.
Basilica Of San Lorenzo, one of Florence's oldest churches consecrated in the 4th century, was rebuilt in the 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi whose proportioned design we still read today. Cosimo il Vecchio is buried in a pillar of the Basilica in front of the main alter as to remind posterity of his position and prestige. The complex of San Lorenzo houses the work of other remarkable artists: Donatello, Andrea del Verrocchio, Filippo Lippi, and Michelangelo. This is, after all, the Pantheon of the Medici family.
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ORCHESTRA Music by John Jeffreys
John Jeffreys (1927-2010)
Though John Jeffreys was born on the Isle of Thanet in 1927, his parents were Welsh and his earliest influences were the songs his mother sang to him and the poetry in his father's library. After studying at Caterham School and Exeter and service in the RAF, he enrolled at Trinity College of Music in London to study musical philosophy and counterpoint. He wrote an immense amount of music during the 1950s and 1960s including a symphony, three violin concertos and a cello concerto and about two hundred songs. However, the avant-garde-obsessed British musical establishment of the time would not give encouragement to a composer with lyrical gifts and a penetrating insight into English poetry, and John destroyed a great deal of his own writing. Fortunately, some was preserved by accident or on tape and has since been resurrected and recorded, including a fine violin concerto written for his wife, Pauline. Pauline's promising musical career was cut short when at a young age, she contracted multiple sclerosis. Confined to bed for her last 35 years, she was looked after by John and numerous carers, in their cottage in Suffolk. Pauline died at the end of August 2010 and John followed just three days later. John's orchestral music is unmistakably English, often pastoral, sometimes with darker moods - if you are not familiar with it, listen! Some have described him as one of the foremost writers of English Song in the twentieth century.
John Jeffreys - Bickleigh Idyll Pack (String Orchestra)
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John Jeffreys - Elegy for A Conductor Pack (Orchestra)
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John Jeffreys - Elegy for John Fry Pack (String Orchestra)
John Jeffreys - Pieces from Otten Pack (String Orchestra)
John Jeffreys - Serenade for Strings Pack (String Orchestra)
John Jeffreys - Two Sketches Pack (String Orchestra)
Overture for Christmas Flute 1
Evening Prayer Clarinet 1 & 2
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Empire March Bass
Do I Love You by Paul Carr
Bolero (arr.Andrew) Score by Maurice Ravel


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Fluorescent Tags: More Than Innocent Bystanders
05 Jun, 2014Fluorescent Tags: More Than Innocent Bystanders
Written by: James Sanchez
Published In: Discovery & Innovation
A fluorescent tag, also known as a label or probe, is a molecule that is chemically attached to a biomolecule such as a protein, antibody, or synthetic compound, in order to aid in labeling and detection. Scientists have been using tags for well over a century as research tools, but here we discuss some of the latest research that demonstrates that tags are not innocent pretty colored labels, but active chemicals that can alter the course of the experiment.
Fluorescent tags are beautiful, but don't forget they are chemicals, too. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Imagine a scenario where a researcher is working with a small molecule, and he has reason to believe it has potential as an interesting anti-cancer drug. He suspects that the molecule enters cells, then continues on into the nucleus to shut down a detrimental gene. So this researcher makes a new molecule, just like the original one except that it is now attached to a fluorescent label. He places this compound a dish of cells, put the cells under a fluorescent microscope, and voila! The cells' nuclei light up fluorescent green. The researcher has proven that the original small molecule enters cell nuclei.
Actually…he hasn't. Fluorescent tags are not just splashes of color that are along for the ride. Like the small molecule, it too has atoms and covalent bonds. Many times, the tag is a hefty percentage of the overall molecular weight. With chemistry of its own, it might influence what a cell decides to do with the molecule, whether to incorporate it or exclude it. In other words, a labeled and an unlabeled molecule may travel quite differently.
A similar pitfall can affect proteins under scrutiny, as well. Proteins are commonly tagged with other, relatively small, proteins, most notably Green Fluorescent Protein. It is ubiquitous in research, earned some of its discoverers/developers a Nobel Prize, and has been a crucial part of many important discoveries.
Such tags were used to visualize bacterial proteins called Clp proteases. Research had revealed that labeled Clp proteases show up as a single spot within a bacterium. That suggested that, unless bacteria managed to divide right in the middle of the speck, only one daughter was the owner of this important spot, and the other got none!
However, a careful investigation unveiled the real story: In a strain in which these proteases were untagged, researchers found that the Clp protease they were studying was nearly evenly distributed between daughters.[1] It turned out that the fluorescent tag strengthened the protease's tendency to self-associate. Further studies suggested that this type of confusion is not limited to Clp, as these same researchers demonstrated that five other bacterial proteins that had been determined to form clumps in fact only did so in large part because of their fluorescent tags.
Of course, researchers should not to give up on fluorescent tags. They are truly powerful methods to conduct groundbreaking research. And to provide a wider body of support for your hypotheses, studies using fluorescence tags can be combined with label-free technologies such as surface plasmon resonance, an area of expertise for many CROs listed on Assay Depot. In order to truly understand the data, researchers need to remember that fluorescent tags often have side effects that are more than just their color.
1. Landgraf, D. et al. 2012. Segregation of molecules at cell division reveals native protein localization. Nature Methods. 9:480-482.
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No primary for Governor Gary Herbert, wins nomination in second round of voting
By Lisa Riley Roche@lisarileyroche Apr 21, 2012, 2:47pm MDT
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Governor Gary Herbert
Brian Nicholson, Deseret News
Related: Decision 2012: Utah GOP, Democratic state convention coverage, delegate information
SANDY — Gov. Gary Herbert will be the Republican Party nominee for governor in November.
Herbert won 63.3 percent of the vote in a second round of balloting over former state lawmaker Morgan Philpot, more than the 60 percent needed to avoid a party primary in June.
The second round of voting came after the other four candidates, Utah tea party leader David Kirkham, Rep. Ken Sumsion, R-American Fork, Lane Ronnow and William Skokas, failed to advance.
Kirkham, who came in a distant third in the initial balloting, threw his support behind the governor in the second round, which was needed after Herbert fell just short of the 60 percent needed in the first round.
"Make no mistake, I support local control not federal control of education," a forceful Herbert told the delegates before the second round of voting started. "Do not be misled on this issue."
The governor said he doesn't just talk about parental control, he stands up for it, citing his veto of the 2012 Legislature's controversial sex education bill.
And while Herbert said the fight against federal control should continue, he said Utahns should not lose sight of need to continue the state's economic recovery.
"Let's not take our eye off the ball," he said.
Philpot had told the delegates that "leadership is not taking credit, it is taking responsibility" and accused the Herbert administration of "making promises it has already broken."
He urged delegates not to back "politicians who do not deliver when they have the chance." A former state lawmaker, two years ago Philpot nearly defeated the state's only Democratic member of Congress, Rep. Jim Matheson.
His message centered on standing up to the federal government on many issues, especially public lands and education.
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Mexican president backtracks on military-led National Guard
Associated Press• January 11, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's public security secretary says the new administration has listened to the public's concerns about the proposed National Guard and will place it under civilian authority.
Alfonso Durazo told lawmakers in Mexico's lower legislative chamber Friday that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has changed his mind about the formation of the new crime-fighting force. Originally, Lopez Obrador had said the military would command the new National Guard.
Critics have argued that the administration is giving up on reforming civilian police forces in favor of a strategy that would keep the military in the street. Having the National Guard answering to the Public Security Ministry appears to be an acknowledgement of that criticism.
Mexico's congress is debating the proposal and constitutional reforms would be required for its formation.


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Q: How to get the values from tags based on position dynamically in Xpath? I think I have stuck in sever issue where I am parsing the XML using Xpath...while parsing the XML I may have multiple repeated tags but with different data lets take an example....
<note>
<to>Tove 1</to>
<from>Jani 1</from>
<heading>Reminder 1</heading>
Don't forget me this weekend One!
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<note>
<to>Tove 2</to>
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Don't forget me this weekend Second!
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//note/to/text() to get text from <to> tag --> My Xpath

But the issue is I don't know how many tags may be there, in the above Xpath I get the first not value everytime...
NOTE: I know I can use [1],[2] if I know the number of tags but how to do dynamically

A: You just need to use // for relative xpath as below :-
//note//to/text()

Refer:-
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/xpath/xpath_relative_path.htm
Hope it will help you :)

A: If you want to get the elements quantity:
count(//note//to/text())
If you want to get a cell based on a text:
//note//to/[text() = 'Jani 1']/text()


First, a note to thank all those of you who have taken the time to send us feedback on the new PBS NewsHour broadcast, and our new Web site. Your comments – the bouquets and the brickbats – are all deeply valued here, as we continue to roll out the latest iteration of "MacNeil/Lehrer" journalism. Please keep your reactions coming – you can always send them to us on our feedback page. If you're one of our many regular viewers who usually records the program on your Tivo or DVR, you may have found that your machine failed to record yesterday's broadcast. If that's the case, there's a fast fix: simply search for us in the electronic program guide under our new official name – "PBS NewsHour" – and then order up a new season pass to record the broadcast each night. And don't forget you can always find the full broadcast online by clicking right here. Now for tonight: we're currently planning to lead this evening's broadcast with details of today's co-ordinated bombings in Baghdad which killed more than 125 people and wounded at least 390. Reporter Jane Arraf will update us from the Iraqi capital.
We'll bring you extensive coverage of the latest Congressional hearings about Afghanistan – today, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told House and Senate panels that he expects to know within 12 months whether the Obama administration's new Afghan strategy is reversing the Taliban's momentum. Then, Jim Lehrer interviews two members of the House of Representatives: Rep. Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, and Rep. James McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts. Then, the first of Margaret Warner's in-depth reports from Europe on the mood there toward the Afghan war. Tonight, Margaret reports from Britain on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's difficulties securing public support for his decision to send another 500 troops to the warzone. President Obama was talking about the economy here in Washington today. He unveiled new proposals aimed at boosting public spending on infrastructure projects and aiding small businesses. Judy Woodruff will moderate a debate on the administration's proposals between New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, and Bruce Bartlett, a former U.S. Treasury Department official. Finally on the program tonight: Patchwork Nation, our online and on-air collaboration with the Christian Science Monitor that is painting a weeklong portrait of the recession's impact on communities nationwide. Tonight, Ray Suarez reports from Ann Arbor, Mich. – a "campus and career center" that, as you'll see, is literally buzzing with activity. All that, plus Hari Sreenivasan with the other headlines of the day from our newsroom, and, at the end of the program, a tour of what's on the website. New features include a makeover of Paul Solman's Making Sen$e series: you can watch a preview of his upcoming story about older workers in search of jobs, and ask him questions about the economy on the Business Desk. Ray Suarez has two video postcards from Ann Arbor, Michigan, one on Zingerman's Deli, and the other on the rise of digital media. And on Jeffrey Brown's Art Beat blog, NewsHour correspondents pick their favorite books, movies and performances of 2009.
For Jim Lehrer and the rest of the team, I hope you'll join us.


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I just added this sweet summer clutch pattern, the Picnic Purse, to my Ravelry Store and Etsy Shop.
In case you couldn't tell, this design was inspired by summer picnics. One of the things I loved about living in NY was going to central park and lazing about with friends for a potluck picnic! It's just getting warm enough to do that in Bozeman, too. The yarn I used (Cascade 220 Heathers) reminded me of a picnic basket and I used some silky stash yarn to add the extra summery flowers. The pdf is a whopping 8 pages long and includes step by step photos for lining the bag and inserting the zipper. I'm not fond of knit/crochet bags without a lining and closure (unless they are totes) so I wanted to include all of that information for interested parties.
I had some wonderful pattern testers this time around, and if you're on Ravelry you can see their variations on the Project Page. I thought it was extra cool how international my testing team was- I had a tester each from Canada, Sweden, India and the USA. I love the internet!!
I also wanted to show you this rendition I made with my Lacy Shells Hat Pattern. I squeaked it out with one skein (109 yds) of Noro Silk Garden. I love how it worked up and contrary to what I thought, the yarn does seem bearable to wear (and I'm a no-itch snob!). I'll be teaching this pattern in my beginning crochet class at the yarn shop, if any locals are interested.
I have a couple more finished projects to show you this week. It seems that all of a sudden this has turned into a bona fide crochet blog! I'm still trying to think of my next crochet project, but don't worry, I still sew buy fabric. I struggle with wanting to design more patterns and wanting something totally mindless. It's important to me to balance designing with making things from other people's patterns so I can still keep my "hobbies", see. There are so many more wonderful crochet patterns now than there were even a few years ago, and I can't help but try them out.
Such cute projects you are making! I know what you mean about balancing the job part and the hobby part. Sounds like you're doing it and having fun too.


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Q: what is the difference between jtype (of JNI) and type of C/C++? In JNI there are jtypes. Like jint for int and jboolean for boolean. I understand the latter types are c/c++ types . But type is a jtype ? In books they mention this type also a native type. What is meant by that ?
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What is the use of jtype ?

A: From jni.h,
typedef unsigned char   jboolean
typedef unsigned short  jchar
typedef short   jshort
typedef float   jfloat
typedef double  jdouble
typedef long    jint
typedef jint    jsize

By native types they don't mean native to Java language, they mean native C or native machine equivalents. The j versions, aid to  map Java types to native C types. The advantage of this mapping is, a Java programmer familiar with basic Java types can continue using the same names with the just the added j. He need not bother how are they mapped into the machine's basic type. It will be taken care by the typedefs. Also if the underlying machine architecture changes, still you need not bother, just chaging the typedefs will do
Addressing your concerns in comments, _jstring is a class. And jstring is a pointer to this class
class _jstring : public _jobject {};
typedef _jstring *jstring;

Just like we have the String class in C++


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First music: Edgar Winters Group.
What was the first music you ever bought with your own money?
The Edgar Winter Group album that featured the songs "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride." I was in the eighth grade.
Any reaction from your parents?
My father came into the room and discovered the album cover with Edgar Winter in full glam rock mode, blindingly white bare-chested skin, over-the-top makeup, I think a feather boa or some such thing. He calmly took the album out of the cover, took a pair of scissors, and cut the album cover to shreds.
What did he do then?
He replaced the cover with another from his own collection and put a piece of white tape on it, carefully transcribing the title on the tape. Then he turns to me and says, "I know you spent your own money on this, and therefore you can listen to any garbage you want, but I'll be damned if I'm going to have you turn to cross-dressing over your musical tastes."
Do you remember the next music you bought?
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. I would say at least 70% of the music I've bought since then has been classical.
(Tim Cook, Vermont)
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Timothy Cook says:
Of course, I don't know if developing a fondness for kilts counts as cross-dressing. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Thank you for inspiring me to reflect upon that memory. I lost my father three years ago and I miss him every single day. I miss them for the quirky/funny times when he could be something of a lovable curmudgeon as I do any other time.
My parents didn't allow us to have any rock 'n roll music in the household up to the time that my brothers started coming home from Middlebury College in the early 70s. By then it was kind of hard to not let them experiment with their eardrums.
Prior to that, the house was filled with classical music. And jazz standards. The good stuff — Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong. I'm eternally grateful to them for setting the stage for my musical tastes in this way. I feel quite bad for children growing up never knowing what it's like to experience these other, more classical modes music. I think that like a lot of things, if you don't have the taste for it early in life, it's difficult to develop it later on.
Having said that, I very clearly remember the first time I would sneak into my brother David's room when he was out of the house, slip in one of those 8 track tapes, put those humongous earphones with the the telephone-type cord on over my head, and have the first sounds of the Mick and the Rolling Stones, or Creedence Clearwater, or Eric Clapton running through my head. I've never been interested in illicit drugs, but I have to believe that the dopamine surge would be pretty much analogous to what happened in my brain at that time.
Funny thing about 8 track tapes. Because they served as my introduction to a lot of music, and they had this tendency to switch from track to track in mid-song, and given how a lot of the music from that time had very long songs, for a while I can remember thinking that there were two separate songs when in fact it was one continuous song broken up into two pieces. This even happened with the classical music I would listen to. It wasn't until I would buy the same music in album form for myself that I would realize that it was one continuous song.
Thanks again for the memories!
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Today marks seven years. Seven years since we lost our beautiful boy Josiah Nathaniel Wilson to a congenital heart defect. It is amazing how time marches forward whether we are ready to do so or not. Grief shapes us. Loss changes us. But it has been my experience that God sustains us.
Grief shapes us. There is no question that at the age of 35, no other event has shaped me in the way that losing my son did seven years ago. Grief came between my wife and I where nothing and nobody else has ever been able to do so. Grief connected me to a fraternity I never asked to be a part of. A fraternity in our case specifically of parents who outlive their children. This isn't what we wanted.
Loss changes us. I walk through hospitals differently now. I'm reminded of the regular faces of security guards, cleaning staff, hospitality teams and of course; doctors and nurses. The faces are different now, but familiarity still exists. I find myself leaning in and listening if I meet someone at a coffee shop with a family member who is ill, or a friend who recently passed. I've grown a desire to listen intently, and honor someone's story with my attention. This isn't who I used to be.
God sustains us. Although grief gave our marriage a rough "shake" God's love has brought us togetherness that we would never have experienced without the pain. While loss has given us some battle scars, we have found our story to be an on-ramp to meaningful conversations with many different people, from all walks of life, and births hope through the Gospel for living another day.
While a twinge of guilt creeps in when I realize I haven't thought of him as often, or when I realize on days like today that the memories aren't as vivid as they used to be, I can still smile. Josiah's legacy lives in me. His half-a-heart still beats in my chest. I might be the only one to see his picture on my wall every morning, but his imprint on my life can be seen by everyone.


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i have a sub menu with 12 items. i'm trying to move the last 6 over into a 2nd column at the right.
i've used your code above (i had to change the .sub-menu class used above to match my CSS IDs and classes).
i have successfully moved my last 6 items over to the right of the (now) double-wide column, but for some reason they are offset BELOW the first 6; so they are moved over properly into the space, but this 2nd list of 6 items does not start up at the top, parallel to the first 6 items. it sits down below at the same height it was before moving to the right into the wide column space.
i've tried making my first 6 's float left, but that is not working.
My initial thought would be that your CSS has too much padding/margin/etc causing the right column to be too wide to fit side by side and thus causing it to pop down to the bottom.
Do you happen to have a link to your menu?
As per your reply, i just tried making the 700px wide and set padding and margins to 0.
The answer is even simpler than using CSS3.
Just specify the submenu UL width to let's say 300px and then specify the submenu LI elements width to 150px and set float: left.
Adjust the numbers, if you have any border, paddings or margins on the elements so 2 LI fit into one UL side-by-side.
You're absolutely right. I just wanted to highlight the CSS3 option that we will have access to when it is reliably implemented across browsers.
demo site is not working for, can you please show me a working demo ?
Thanks Daniel so much for your great tutorial.
The sub-menu looks cool, but the tabs look large. How to make it smaller.
Hey Azhar, I am glad you liked the tutorial. When you say the tabs look large, what do you mean? If they are too wide, you could just reduce width of your sub-menu items from 350px to a smaller number until you find a more ideal width.
Another option is that your menu items might have some extra padding added somewhere else in your CSS that you could possibly reduce.
Is it possible to split the drop down menu into 2 columns on a specific menu item rather than every dropdown?
Oh man, I missed a few comments. Sorry. But to answer the question, yes. You could do it a few ways but I would probably try using the nth-child CSS pseudo-class and apply the column styling only to the one you wanted.
How can use an if statement to decide whether or not it will use 2 columns ?
I am using a theme with the following code for the menu.
Could you please tell me how to split it in 2 columns?
I don't suppose this is a site that is viewable online by chance is it?
Great tutorial, nice trick of using nth child id, its help me a lot in my project.. thanks.
Glad you found it useful! Thanks for visiting.
Thanks for posting this! I don't use WordPress, but was able to easily modify the code to add columns for my drop down menus.
Works great, but when I try to make it a 3 column it does nothing. I changed the li to 33% but still not working.
I am using the Hueman theme and I too need to split the menu into three columns but not getting as how to do. Can you guys please help me out.
Waao it worked in seconds. Thanks.


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Following the recent closure of entries for the 2013 Off-Grid Energy Challenge by the General Electronics (GE) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), winners are set to emerge on November 21 in a ceremony in Lagos, NaijaAgroNet reports.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that the challenge was recently launched in Kenya and Nigeria thereby commencing the judging process in anticipation of the announcement of this year's winners from both countries.
Investigations by NaijaAgroNet reveals that over the next three years, some 20 individuals and indigenous African companies who come up with innovative solutions that address the energy challenges of African communities and businesses stand a chance of winning up to USD 100,000 in grants to support their initiatives.
According to NaijaAgroNet searches, the judges are looking out for off-grid energy solutions that have created innovative approaches to metering, payment, collections, or transmission.
"They will also look out for entries that deliver sustainable energy to underserved marginal populations without degrading the environment," a source told NaijaAgroNet.
The President and CEO, GE Africa, Jay Ireland expressed excitements that the Off-Grid Energy challenge is generating increased awareness about the plight of communities that are either underserved by the national grid or are not connected at all.
"We have no doubt that great solutions will emerge from this initiative, which will ultimately provide some insight to how to tackle some of the off-grid energy challenges in Africa" he said.
USADF President and CEO, Shari Berenbach said the initiative will help leverage more marginalized and underserved communities into positions where they could engage in and benefit from inclusive economic growth.
NaijaAgroNet equally recollects that the Off-Grid Energy challenge is the initiative of global infrastructure giants, General Electric (GE) and the United States Africa Development Agency (USADF), which rides on the back of the Power Africa initiative announced by President Barack Obama during his recent visit to Africa.
The Power Africa initiative seeks to drive growth in Africa by increasing access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable power and by helping to ensure responsible, transparent and effective management of energy resources on the continent.


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\index{absent ClassAd}
\index{ClassAd!absent ClassAd}

By default, HTCondor assumes that resources are transient:
the \Condor{collector}
will discard ClassAds older than \Macro{CLASSAD\_LIFETIME} seconds.
Its default configuration value is 15 minutes,
and as such, the default value for \Macro{UPDATE\_INTERVAL} will
pass three times before HTCondor forgets about a resource.
In some pools, especially those with dedicated resources,
this approach may make it unnecessarily difficult to determine
what the composition of the pool ought to be,
in the sense of knowing which machines would be in the pool,
if HTCondor were properly functioning on all of them.

This assumption of transient machines can be modified by
the use of absent ClassAds.
When a machine ClassAd would otherwise expire,
the \Condor{collector} evaluates the configuration variable
\Macro{ABSENT\_REQUIREMENTS} against the machine ClassAd.
If \Expr{True},
the machine ClassAd will be saved in a persistent manner and
be marked as absent;
this causes the machine to appear in the output of
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When the machine returns to the pool,
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invalidate the absent machine ClassAd.

Absent ClassAds, like offline ClassAds,
are stored to disk to ensure that they are remembered,
even across \Condor{collector} crashes.
The configuration variable \Macro{COLLECTOR\_PERSISTENT\_AD\_LOG}
defines the file in which the ClassAds are stored,
and replaces the no longer used variable \MacroNI{OFFLINE\_LOG}.
Absent ClassAds are retained on disk as maintained by
the \Condor{collector} for a length of time in seconds defined by the
configuration variable \Macro{ABSENT\_EXPIRE\_ADS\_AFTER}.
A value of 0 for this variable means that the ClassAds are never discarded,
and the default value is thirty days.

Absent ClassAds are only returned by the \Condor{collector} and displayed
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UK - The European agricultural sector does not need more regulation, but better implementation of current legislation.
Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness said that there is enough regulation already but it has been ineffective because of the way it has been implemented across Europe.
She said that there is a need for better and more effective implementation of the rules.
Ms McGuinness said that the uneven implementation of the laws was often caused in some member states because of a lack of resources.
And she added that it was up to the European Commission to ensure full implementation of the directives and it is up to the European Parliament to put pressure on the different countries in order to ensure even handed implementation.
However, in her speech to the conference Ms McGuinness said that it was not the job of the politicians to micromanage farms.
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"It is our job to look for new ways to get the policy framework right and leave the farmers makes the all-important management decisions in conjunction with their advisors and taking into account the economic and environmental concerns."
Ms McGuinness' call for more pressure to ensure regulations are enforced evenly across Europe was echoed by chairman of Quality Meat Scotland, Jim McLean.
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He added that the new sow stall ban that the UK had imposed more than a decade ago, had come into effect at the beginning of the year, but pig meat from systems that had not implemented the system was still coming into the UK.
"You have to have sanctions on those countries that do not implement the regulations," he said.


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DPP bill calls for poll on cross-strait agreements
By Rich Chang
Thursday, Oct 16, 2008, Page 1
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday proposed a draft bill that would require any cross-strait agreements on issues concerning "critical national interests" be put to a referendum and decided on by Taiwanese voters.
"The proposed bill prohibits the government from authorizing civil groups to sign agreements between Taiwan and China on issues that concern national defense, diplomacy, finance and economics," DPP caucus whip William Lai (賴清德) told a press conference.
Under the proposed bill, before the government signs any agreements with China, the Executive Yuan must submit drafts of the agreements to the Legislative Yuan. Those drafts must then be negotiated and passed by respective legislative committees and the agreements could only take effect after gaining the approval of Taiwanese voters in a referendum.
"The spirit of the bill is to make sure that Taiwan's future is decided by its 23 million people," Lai said, adding that such major agreements as the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) with China must first obtain the approval of Taiwanese voters via a referendum.
DPP Legislator Chen Chi-yu (陳啟昱) said the proposed bill was also aimed at strengthening the Legislative Yuan's monitoring system and supervising cross-strait agreements undertaken by the Executive Yuan on national issues.
As an example of why the bill was needed, Chen said that this June after an agreement on cross-strait charter flight services was signed by Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and its Chinese counterpart, "[President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) government] was oblivious to the legislature's supervision but only informed the legislature later via an administrative directive."
On agreements to be signed by civil groups authorized by the Mainland Affairs Council, the proposed bill said that the Executive Yuan must agree to the items and talk them over with the legislature before the agreement is signed.
Lai yesterday said that the caucus would send the proposed bill to the legislative Procedure Committee for approval next week.
When asked for comment, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus secretary-general Chang Sho-wen (張碩文) dismissed the need for such a bill. Chang said the Legislative Yuan should deliberate over the content of the proposal as it might constitute a legislative interference in the executive branch.
Chang added that he would urge the Executive Yuan to propose its own version of the bill.
Beijing orders sweeping dairy product tests
BLANKET WITHDRAWAL: China's quality watchdog ordered all milk powder and liquid milk produced before Sept. 14 pulled from shelves and tested for melamine
AP, BEIJING
China sought to reassure Taiwanese consumers that its dairy products were safe yesterday, a day after authorities confirmed that a toddler in Hong Kong developed kidney stones from consuming milk and cookies laced with melamine. Beijing has ordered that all milk products more than a month old be pulled for testing.
Spokesman Yang Yi (楊毅) of China's Taiwan Affairs Office said at a news conference in Beijing that authorities were very concerned about the scandal, in which contaminated infant formula killed four babies and sickened tens of thousands of children nationwide.
"We have taken a serious approach," Yang said. "China has launched a thorough investigation into this issue to help restore the trust of Taiwanese consumers."
After China's melamine scandal broke last month, Taiwanese authorities launched a sweeping inspection of milk powders and related food items. More than 160 products containing Chinese milk and vegetable-based proteins have been removed from stores.
Taiwanese and Chinese food safety authorities have agreed to set up a hot line to inform each other of food safety emergencies.
China has ordered all milk products more than a month old pulled from store shelves for emergency testing, the largest blanket product withdrawal since the scandal first came to light.
All milk powder and liquid milk produced before Sept. 14 must be tested by manufacturers nationwide, China's chief quality watchdog said in an announcement reported by the Xinhua news agency on Tuesday and posted on its Web site yesterday.
"Regardless of the brand or the batch, they must be taken off shelves. Their sale must be stopped," the order from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.
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The Cairo Declaration, 65 years on
The 65th anniversary of the Cairo Declaration (Dec. 1, 1943) approaches and I have always wondered at its rhetoric as well as how often this simple declaration is used by some to justify China's claim to Taiwan, which was called Formosa at the time.
Let us grant that the declaration was made in wartime, and that it would require rhetorical wording to rally the troops to the righteousness of a cause. Granted, it was a statement and not a treaty. It had no legal force; there were no binding commitments. It was also made at a time when, although the darkest hour of the war was past, there was much more to come. For some, the concern that Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) might sign a private peace treaty with Japan and opt out of the war remained. Look past that, however, and focus on one simple, neglected aspect: the rhetoric involved and the problems that arose from this.
The declaration states: "The three great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China."
A quick check reveals that Japan secured Formosa in the legitimate Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) at the end of a war with the Qing Dynasty. It was a war that both countries entered because each wanted a controlling influence in Korea. The primary issue in 1895 was control over Korea; Formosa was given away to keep Korea free. The Republic of China was not yet formed, nor the People's Republic of China.
Questions arise from this. Did Japan actually steal Formosa? Do all treaties represent or involve stealing? If so, who did Japan steal Formosa from? Did it steal Formosa from the Chinese or was it the Manchu Qing Dynasty that had conquered China as well as Manchuria, Tibet and parts of Formosa? Did the Chinese ever own Formosa? Who were the Chinese on Formosa?
Certainly there were Chinese people that had come to Formosa, but many of them, aside from Qing bureaucrats, came illegally to escape their lives under the Qing. In addition, no country had controlled the whole island of Taiwan before the Japanese.
The western half of Taiwan was governed by the Qing and that half became a province in 1885 — 10 years before the 1895 treaty — but the other half was Aboriginal territory. The Qing surely had designs on the lands of those "uncooked savages" and acquiring that land would clearly be stealing.
Even on the land governed by the Qing, history records a tenuous rule there with an uprising every three years and a rebellion every five. In the treaty of 1895, the Qing government was getting rid of its troublesome half of the island. The remaining land was not the Qing government's to give. It didn't mind Japan "stealing" it.
The Cairo Declaration has additional nebulous aspects; unfortunately in all of this no one ever asked the Taiwanese and Aborigines what they wanted. Even if one thinks that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was trying to do the right thing, one needs only to look at the Tehran Conference immediately following, when Roosevelt agreed to let Stalin redraw the borders of Poland so that he could "steal" some Polish territory.
Wartime rhetoric yes, but more than a half century has passed. The Treaty of San Francisco never stated who Japan should give Taiwan to.
A faint ray of hope appears when you force the US government into a corner and ask what the status of Taiwan is: The answer is that it is still "undecided." Even the "one China" mantra that the US State Department constantly trots out simply means the US acknowledges that China thinks it owns Taiwan.
But that mantra leaves unsaid that the official US position is that Taiwan's fate is undecided.
Undecided? Isn't it time to end this circuitous rhetoric? Here we are, some 63 years after the end of World War II, and the fate of 23 million people in a thriving, hard-won democracy is still "undecided." Ironically, after that war, the UN charter states that all people have the right to self-determination. All, that is, except 23 million Taiwanese.
One can excuse the rhetoric of the Cairo Declaration as a result of the circumstances. But now it is time to see it for what it was and to right its results. It is a great shame for the US and the rest of the world community not to recognize Taiwan's right to self-determination. It is also time to recognize that the real greed and threat to stability in the Taiwan Strait is from China, and not the freedom-loving people of Taiwan. It is time to give Taiwan a place in the UN — not in the kow-towing, mealy mouthed, fawning approach of the Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) government, but in the simple straight-forward recognition that free people deserve the recognition of their freedom and their land.
If there is anyone that wants to steal Taiwan from its people, it is the PRC. Taiwan belongs to the Taiwanese. Taiwan is Taiwan, China is China. That is not rhetoric, that's fact. It is time the world acknowledges this.
Jerome Keating is a writer based in Taipei.


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Zimbabwe's long legacy of diamond exploration and mining had all but vanished during the many years of economic isolation under President Robert Mugabe's political regime. Following Mugabe's downfall in November 2017, and on the back of the new government's favourable stance on foreign investment, investors' interest has been rising steadily. Recent amendments to the country's mining bill have reaffirmed the new government's intention to open up to foreign investors. The controversial indigenisation policy which had caused concern among foreign mining firms has been amended. The requirement for 51% local ownership of foreign mining companies continues to be applicable to diamonds and platinum mining entities, where the government or one of its entities must own a majority stake. Notwithstanding this, the indications are clear that Zimbabwe is indeed open for business and that the local ownership requirements for diamonds and platinum may soon be amended.
In May 2018 BOD signed a MoU with Vast, an AIM listed exploration company. In terms of the MoU, the two companies would be exchanging past exploration information and forming a special purpose vehicle ('SPV') to jointly develop the diamond potential of Zimbabwe. The initial focus of this agreement is on the Marange Diamond Fields ('MDF') of eastern Zimbabwe. Vast holds exclusive access to key diamond concessions within the MDF ("Heritage Concession") through an agreement with a community organisation.
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The initial MoU has since matured into a formal agreement over the MDF, which includes the following terms:
An SPV between BOD and Vast to develop diamond resources in the MDF.
Initial shareholdings will be BOD – 13.33% and Vast – 86.67%.
Vast will contribute up to US$1 million as initial funding.
If any additional funds are required, this will be via an equity raise.
BOD and Vast may contribute to any future equity raise on a pro rata basis. If either party does not take up its allocation, the other may contribute further and increase their relative shareholding.
A separate agreement between BOD and Vast will cover the joint development of diamond properties outside of the MDF in a 50/50 joint venture model.
Preliminary results from a due diligence review of Block T1A have highlighted potential for modern alluvial placers and the possibility for older conglomerates. Next steps will be to investigate the potential of the modern alluvial diamond deposits and older conglomerates on the property. Assuming positive results, field work will be closely followed by drilling, pitting and bulk sampling which will form part of a pre-feasibility study. This may entail further funding beyond the initial US$1 million committed to the programme by Vast.