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UMNO's Incompetent Disciplinary Committee
by M. Bakri Musa
Now that UMNO elections are done with, the raging controversies over its Disciplinary Committee's decisions will soon be forgotten, until the next election season. It is a sad commentary that the party's attempt at eradicating corruption succeeded in only creating more problems and aggravating existing ones.
It reflects poorly on members of the Disciplinary Committee, made up supposedly of the party's distinguished elder statesmen. Its chairman for example, was a former foreign minister. They were given a major task and they bungled it.
Their botched performance reflects a more general theme: the dearth of competence and talent in the party's upper reaches. That, together with pervasive corruption within the party, is what ails UMNO.
The internal affairs of UMNO would not ordinarily interest me except that the party still represents a major (though fast diminishing) segment of the Malay community, and UMNO leaders are also the leaders of our country. Until this reality is altered by voters, what happens in UMNO should interest all Malaysians.
That UMNO is rotten to the core is acknowledged by all, including its leaders. Unfortunately, that is the extent of their insight. I have yet to hear any reflection on the part of the party's leaders, from Prime Minister Abdullah down to the lowest cawangan head, of how or why the party had degenerated to such a sorry state.
To date they have been content dealing merely with the symptoms of corruption. Like other human vices, corruption is infinite in its variations. Thus dealing with any one manifestation forces corruption to morph into other more sophisticated forms that would be even more destructive and difficult to detect or eradicate.
The Disciplinary Committee has been at it now for years, mechanically investigating the cases reported to it. The committee has yet to reflect on how to avoid or prevent the problems in the first place.
The committee members are like amahs busily preoccupied wiping the wet floor but never figuring what caused the problem. Had they looked up they would have noticed that the problem could have been more effectively dealt with by fixing the leaking faucet above. In fact they are worse than amahs. A maid may not know anything about sealing the leak but at least she has the common sense to call for a plumber.
The committee has dealt with literally hundreds if not thousands of alleged cases of money politics and other breaches of party ethics. Yet it has not issued any report to share their members' insight with the rest of party, like how to prevent money politics in the first place.
Even if that was not part of their mandate, I would have thought that they would have been unrestrained in wanting to share their accumulated wisdom. They must have learned something, unless of course they were content with merely being amahs busily and robotically mopping the soiled floor but never bothering to look up to see the leaking faucet.
There are two ways for the committee to discover the metaphorical leaking faucet. One is through a careful systemic analysis to determine patterns and elicit commonalities. The other is to do a "root cause analysis" and "follow the money," especially with the more egregious abuses, as when top personalities were implicated or large sums of money were involved. Examples would be the current case with Ali Rustam and the earlier one involving former Federal Minister Isa Samad.
There are definitely patterns to be discovered. One, money politics plagues UMNO only during party elections, with the worse offenders being those pursuing top positions. Ali Rustam was after the Deputy President position; Isa Samad, the Vice-President.
The other is that most of the offences were committed in the pursuit of securing the party's nominations. So why not dispense entirely with the current quota system of nominations? Let anyone who wishes to be a candidate does so without having the division nominate him or her. Further, do away with the current "tradition" of no-contest rule for the top positions. With these barriers removed, there would no longer be the need to bribe anyone just to get your name on the ballot. Such a reform would also open up the process and attract talented candidates. Under its present rule UMNO will never see its Barrack Obama emerge.
With many more candidates contesting, your members would get a better and wider choice. The election process would of course need to be changed to accommodate the anticipated bigger slate. Thus should any one candidate fail to secure a majority vote, there will be run-off elections but with the bottom candidate eliminated. This process continues until we have one who successfully secures a majority vote. Otherwise you would get the current divisiveness and rancor as seen with the recently concluded UMNO Youth election where it leaders failed to gain the confidence of the majority of its members.
A "root cause analysis" would reveal that money politics involves the trading of cash for votes (or promised thereof). Tengku Razaleigh made an eminently sensible suggestion of not only removing the nomination quotas but also having the entire membership vote for the national party leadership instead of at present, leaving it to the delegates. It is near impossible to bribe three million UMNO members; it is much easier with only 2,500 delegates.
UMNO could hire the Elections Commission to conduct such party elections. The cost would be considerably cheaper then the costs of the current "money politics." It would also be fairer and cleaner.
Incoming UMNO President Najib Razak is finally aware of this. Unfortunately he did not spell out in his recent speech how far he was willing to open up UMNO's election process.
Equally productive is to "follow the money." Where do these guys get their cash? After all it was not too long ago that they (or their parents) were stuck in the poverty of the kampong. Many are also former civil servants; we all know how much they earn (at least their legitimate income).
The other major source of money politics and outright corruption is in securing juicy government contracts. Again here, having open tenders would ameliorate this scourge. The problem would also be reduced were the government to curtail its involvement in business. Fewer contracts to dole out, fewer opportunities for corruption!
The Disciplinary Committee missed out on these sensible recommendations because its members are too busy mopping the floor. They had no time, or more likely no intellectual capacity, to think and reflect on these matters. Or perhaps they were thinking of their job security! As long as that leaking faucet is not fixed, the floor will always need to be continually mopped!
A Superior Solution
No wonder the Committee members find their task onerous and unappreciated, or in the words of its chairman, "Damn if we do and damn if we don't!" They have no clear idea of going about their work. Kampong folks have an apt phrase to describe those who bungle their work. "Tak tau buek kojo!" (They don't know what the heck they are doing!)
The Committee did not spell out its rules of evidence and the level of burden of proof required. Did it use the threshold of "beyond reasonable doubt" as with the criminal justice system, or merely the "preponderance of evidence" as with civil cases?
The Committee could streamline as well as enhance the quality of its work if it were to classify the cases it received into three categories. First would be those that were obviously without merit. The second would be the egregious abuses with more than just a hint of criminality. The third would the large number of in-between cases.
The Committee should deal only with this third group. It should quickly dispose of the first group. As for the second, those with shades of criminality, they should be referred directly to the Anti Corruption Agency (ACA). The committee should have nothing more to do beyond forwarding all the evidences to the Agency, which is equipped with the necessary investigative and prosecutorial tools.
It boggles my mind that to date the Committee has yet to make a single referral to the criminal justice system. I would have expected where the Committee imposed such severe penalties, as with Isa Samad and Ali Rustam, it must have found compelling evidence that ordinary citizens would classify as criminal. Yet even in both cases there was no referral to the ACA.
Corruption is a criminal act regardless where it is perpetrated. It does not magically be sanitized to "money politics" or "breach of party ethics" just because it is committed within the confines of UMNO.
The chair and vice-chair of the Disciplinary Committee are both lawyers; they were or perhaps still are members of the Bar. As officers of the court they are duty bound to report to the appropriate authorities if they suspect that a crime has been perpetrated. Failure to do so would be a serious breach of their professional ethics that would merit disbarment, at least in America.
Perhaps the best commentary on the Disciplinary Committee was the response from Isa Samad to a television interviewer who inquired as to the extent of money politics in UMNO today. He replied, with a straight face, it must no longer be a problem today since he was the only one the committee found guilty a few years ago!
Isa summed it well! Unfortunately it is unlikely that UMNO leaders or members of its Disciplinary Committee would grasp the subtle sarcasm of Isa Samad's sharp but accurate observation.
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#1 by Melvin on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 4:34 am
aiya.what to do?as the saying goes.a mother crab shall teach her son to walk straight but she herself not doing so.
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#2 by Taxidriver on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 6:38 am
Dr. Bakri,
When the tap root of a tree is rotten, how can you save the tree? And how can a crab teach its young to walk straight? Can parent monkeys tell their young ones not to behave like monkeys.
UMNO leaders may say or promise many things to redeem its image to stay relevant is but a fore-gone conclusion. Malaysians have made up their minds.Period.
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Can parent monkeys tell their young ones not to behave like monkeys?
UMno leaders may say or promise many things to redeem the party's image to stay relevant in Malaysian politics. Sadly, that is a fore-gone conclusion.
#4 by oct on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 7:51 am
If the discipline committee were to follow strictly to the the rule, most of the candidates won't be able to stand for nomination/election. If a candidate is found guilty of money politics, it doesn't make sense that one should be given a warning while the other is suspended. Perhaps the duration of both candidates suspension varies according to the degree of the guilt should be a better solution.
Selective prosecution has always been the day for BN to dispense. We can see it happen everyday.
Put it this way, we can't expect U m Know to clean up money politics when almost everyone is practising it. If you don't you won't be even nominated. The returns are very lucrative. Spend a couple of millions and when you are elected to the supreme council, vice president or deputy president, the contracts awarded indirectly will see your returns are multiplied many times during your term in office. Moreover the odds are favorable as it is about 50% for you to be elected to the supreme council if you are nominated.
There is one account in the bible that tells about a very prominent family whose young master is the Most Honourable Member of the household. Further down the story, we learn that the young master is also a RAPIST!
UMNO today is like that family. Every single corrupt leaders running the party MUST go before it can make a sincere and serious attempt at reforms. But I don't see this happening, nor can I expect to see it happening in the near future.
#6 by Bigjoe on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 8:17 am
Lee Kuan Yew said it best before and still is, once the core is corrupted, there is no hope. You just have to wipe it clean. There is no other choice.
#7 by k1980 on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 8:28 am
Jelapang female frog Hee Yit Foong finally surfaced to say she had no regrets abandoning DAP or helping topple the Pakatan Rakyat government in Perak.
The DAP needs to be most careful when choosing its candidates in future elections. Money can make many to turn traitor.
On Hee Yit Foong, she is just plain stupid. Did she think the fact she opened her mouth on the eve of the tri-elections is NOT going to noticed the same that she jumped ship at the worst possible time for PR in Perak? It only confirmed all the charges against her – her stupidity, self-delusion, and being used by BN. Her excuses does not make any sense at all? After decades in politics, she did not expect the strong reaction? If she was unhappy why do it with the other two corrupt guys and put herself in worst company? Did BN people not checked what she was going to say?
You wonder about BN machinery to put stupidity out front at the worst possible time. Even in time of desperation, it just kills Najib's new spin of mutual respect. How to respect with such pathetic lies?
#9 by OrangRojak on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 10:58 am
Have they made an attempt at eradicating corruption? It seems their efforts are reserved for the eradication of any public mention of their pitiful performance. They don't need another commission or committee. What they need is a liberated media that can attract customers to their publications by listing the incompetencies, failures and crimes perpetrated by those the rakyat have entrusted the care of their country to.
#10 by wanderer on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 11:33 am
Name me one thing of UMNO's Incompetency?
Total corruptions…and, LIES! ….from the mouth to the s#ithole.
sorry typo error; should read UMNO competency…
#12 by sightseeing on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 12:36 pm
Corruption is the sacred culture of UMNO and the practice is being sanitized as "money politic". The UMNO Disciplinary Committee did not report their findings to the MACC because the latter does not deal with cultural matter.
#13 by cintanegara on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:15 pm
The Super Hero strikes back to save the nation.
Negarawan Ulung, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is a truly great man- a visionary man who took Malaysia forward into the 21st century. He served the country and people well .The west might not agree with his opinions but this will not belittle his achievements or his standing with the Malaysians. A brave leader with undiplomatic attitude, never shied of making the point whatever sensitive it was
Malaysians are indebted to TDM. He will be remembered by many and future generations indeed.
Thank you national Hero, for making Malaysians and our generation confident
#14 by k1980 on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:17 pm
sightseeing, the MACC get their orders from and report their findings to the UMNO Disciplinary Committee
#15 by computation on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:24 pm
"On Hee Yit Foong, she is just plain stupid."
and repulsively ugly as well.
#16 by monsterball on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:29 pm
This Bakri bugger keep analyzing UMNO…as if without UMNO…Malaysians are doomed to hell.
This shows how democratic LKS is…allowing a 100% pro UMNO bugger's message for all to read…with no fear..voters will be sucked up by such messages.
Let me give you more good news….
1.Walk in Petaling Street…saying walking the talk. All I know….smiles are there..no police raids for few days on imitation goods.
2.13 ISA detainees released..proves they can jail or release anyone….whenever they like…with no apology. I guess the public are safe from these terrorists??
3.Squatters in Perak can stay ..until govt build houses for them?
4.Hee talking..now…why this why that..she resigned from DAP.
5."One Malaysia"….God only knows what that means…..from racialist government and party.
And few more……such such good news.
Pak Lah did that….one sentence………"People's PM"……to con Malaysians vote for him.
Najib doing much more….to kill two birds with one stone…get him trusted and like by Malaysians and win the 3 by-elections.
Sit back and THINK!!.
Is that not indirectly admitting they are liars and cheaters?
Why must Najib plead to Malaysians…."trust me"…after so long in the government?
What he meant was for Malaysians…to forget the past..forget murder girl…forget Russian submarine deal…RM500 million commission…..forget he played out Razaleigh for Mahathir..then play out Mahathir for Abdullah…and all are OK now….all shake hands forgive each other. How noble…..how gentlemen like…how wonderful human beings.
How stupid of me…..not voting for UMNO..
#17 by taiking on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:33 pm
Dear M. Bakri Musa,
But didnt umno members say that everything that happens inside umno is their own business and is none of yours or mine. The walls surrounding umno is more than 10 feet high and no one is permitted to peek in. When an amah – using your example above – can at least see the sense to engage the service of a plumber to determine the root cause of the wet floor, umno would simply tell the plumber to go to hell for the wet floor in umno is none of his business. Such attitude is actually worse than a mere failure to arrest the problem or to do so properly or effectively. And it is incorrect to describe umno as arrogant. A combination of stupidity in its purest form and arrogance at its blindest is more like it. And we as a nation is being led by such people. How horrifying it is, to say the least. And soon a certain son of Kutty will be dispensing advice to them from within the confine of the high walls. Really it does not take a lot for one to understand why Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong overtook us with such ease.
K1980 – The DAP needs to be most careful when choosing its candidates in future elections. Money can make many to turn traitor.
Strange that you forgot to include "nepotism" culture in DAP. Let's not forget this legacy……… Kindly tell the old men that Malaysians do not support nepotism….
#19 by frankyapp on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 1:39 pm
My dear M Bakri Musa ,how can you expect the Umno Disciplinary Committee to be competent when it's own tools were used. Do you use your own tool for example a hammer to hit your own thumb or hand ? Definitely not,right ?. If umno appointed you and I,to the disciplinary committee ,I can assured you,we both can do a 100% competent job. We all know that umno top leaders are power crazy and that money politic in umno is like a mother's milk to an infant.
Oi cintanegara your superhero said you and me and everyone else are one and the same malaysia. I take that to mean no nep and no special rights and no quota and no umnoputras-only glc contracts and no for-malay-only uitm and many many more. Waaa like this he will soon be my hero too. But that is ok. Because we all are one and the same malaysia and how nice to share everything including heros.
Th real Abdullah Bedawi emerged after fooling Malaysians.
The real Najib can be seen after he looses the 3 by-elections.
Now is Sugar Time ….sweet and juicy…to lure hungry ghosts.
#22 by wanderer on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 4:06 pm
cintanegara Says:
Today at 13: 15.54 (2 hours ago)
Your Super Hero is a terminal patient, it will be more rewarding for him to seek peace and repent before meeting his Maker.
Telling more lies and twisting the minds of the ignorants will not help his cause.
Super Hero…..you make me blushed!
#23 by ekans on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 5:08 pm
After seeing the kind of penalties imposed by this disciplinary committee on the Malacca CM & the MP for Rembau, isn't it beyond doubt that this party consists mostly of the disciples of 'show me the money'?
#24 by blablowbla on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 - 9:34 am
since 30 years ago,pls tell me which UMNO's MB is clean?
MB means Makan Besar,if they dont 'eat big',they feel sorry to their ancestors,and i notice that infact each one is trying to be the champion of all MBs,believe it or not,an MB from a small state like negeri sembilan was once the champ!imgaine how much the guy 'telan' from n.sembilan?
a small klang UMNO division head like deceased mat deros could be a millionaire,you imagine how much the 'Makan Besar' could 'telan'?
and the most ironic thing is,the former BPR has no reaction at all,cintanegara,could you pls explain why?
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Commas in Coordinating Conjunctions
The comma is a punctuation mark, and it appears in several variants in various languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.
In this video lesson, Ms. LaMagra will be explaining subordinating conjunctions. Subordinating conjunctions connect two parts together such as words, sentences, phrases or clauses.
In this video lesson, Ms. LaMagra will be discussing correlative conjuncation, which is working in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence.
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On a recent UK road trip, which started in Manchester, with stops in Liverpool and Chester (which were very pleasant surprises), our final overnight was in Birmingham, the UK's second largest city.
I had been once 12 years ago and I was curious to see how the city had changed and how it welcomes luxury travellers, which are beginning or ending their UK trips in Birmingham, due to its much improved international flights with American Airlines, United Airlines, Qatar Airways, Emirates, Icelandair, Air India, Aer Lingus and Turkish Airlines, amongst others.
So I thought that if you are coming to or leaving the UK – or visiting Birmingham for business or any other reason, it might be useful to share what one could do with 12 or so hours in Birmingham.
Interestingly, with Birmingham being the second largest city in the UK, it does lack in the luxury hotel front. As usual (and something I do very often), I asked readers on my Facebook page for ideas and there really was no consensus. What is the best place to stay in town?
I did a little digging, and I think I found it: the seriously fabulous Staying Cool Birmingham Rotunda serviced apartments, which offer studio (similar to a hotel room), 1 and 2 bedroom suites requiring a minimum of a night's stay. As I had my family with me, we thought a 2-bedroom apartment would be just perfect and, as luck would have it, its fabulous penthouse suite was available on that day (which is pretty rare).
The location was epic – located at the Rotunda, one of Birmingham's tallest buildings and right in the centre of town – in the middle (I think I can say this) of the Bullring, which is the heart of the city's shopping area. The apartment was spotless – the beds were great, the decor was really nice and we couldn't have asked for anything more.
I can safely say we had the best views of the city. If you are driving there, it is worth noting this: park at Selfridges car park at the Bullring and the door of the building is next door to Zara. We didn't exactly know this and had some trouble getting there, so you are welcome.
Always keen to help the local economy, I did not disappoint myself on this overnight stay in Birmingham. I have to confess I was really quite impressed with the offering – Selfridges (which is personally my favourite UK department store) was excellent and I saw two things I had never seen: a Primark concession (for real. At Selfridges.) and the most amazing La Mer treatment suite (no photos, so you have to go there). I stupidly did not buy that pair of beige Jimmy Choos there and then – and then spent weeks tracking a pair my size when I got back. Guess where the only size 36 pair was? At Selfridges Birmingham.
The city centre is really walkable, so we had a little wonder – a very nice Apple store is also worth mentioning. I did not go to The Mailbox on this occasion (I remember we stayed there on our first visit 10 or so years ago – and Harvey Nichols is still there, of course).
We had one dinner and one breakfast in town and I honestly wished we had a lunch or another dinner, because there are plenty of great choices.
Indian food is a staple in this part of the UK – I asked for some recommendations and was directed to Asha's, which really was excellent. There are quite a few modern Indian restaurants in town – and ironically this is where we had dinner 10 years before. It was packed (book ahead please) and we all loved it. Dinner was around £40-50 per person including cocktails and wine.
We had breakfast at Cafe Rouge (it was pouring down with rain the morning and it was almost next door to our apartment) – which I do recommend if you want a good Continental European-style breakfast. To my knowledge, it is the only chain where you can get a simple order of fresh bread (with butter and jam, or ham or cheese) for breakfast – something which will please my Southern European readers, and you can get also a great croque monsieur or a decent cooked English breakfast.
Where we didn't go on this occasion? To any of the San Carlo restaurants. We had a fabulous meal in Manchester the night before and in all honesty, I had not realised that they were quite a few in Birmingham. They have quite a few restaurants – and also a new cafe at Selfridges which we only found later.
Birmingham isn't exactly known or thought of as a sightseeing destination, in all honesty, so I wasn't quite sure where we should go before we left (after all the shopping). I asked my readers who actually live in Birmingham and we came up with two places: the Jewellery quarter and the Cathedral.
The Cathedral is located in what looks like a particularly nice part of town (also walkable from the Bullring – we really walked everywhere) and the Jewellery quarter was quite different. I had no idea that it existed – and although it had its heyday in the 1900's (where 30,000 people were employed here), it is still Europe's largest concentration of businesses involved in the jewellery trade, which produces 40% of all the jewellery made in the UK. It is also home to the world's largest Assay Office, which hallmarks around 12 million items a year. I learned a bit.
The other place which we only found out on the day (bad idea), is Cadbury's World, which is one of the most visited attractions in the area (it is 5 miles from the city centre). We got there thinking we could get tickets, but you really need to book way ahead. We would have had to wait 4 hours until the next available time, so we drowned our sorrows in the shop (and its outlet room!). I don't know how good the tour is, but it was nice to go there and eat (and buy) all the chocolate.
I honestly had a good time in Birmingham and as a family, we enjoyed our stopover there. If Birmingham is your gateway city into the UK, a night there could really be a pleasant surprise.
Disclaimer and fact box: I was a guest of Staying Cool apartments and I cannot recommend them enough. Prices range from £160 for the studios, to £400 for the penthouse suite, which sleeps 4.
I also undertook a social campaign for Visit Britain, similarly to what we did before on a trip to Bath and you can start planning your next UK getaway at their website – just search online for #lovegreatbritain.
The last time I visited Birmingham was 11 years ago, and I went there for the largest German Christmas Market in the UK (at the time).
I'm originally from Manchester, but I live in Berlin, but I have to say that after reading your post, I'm pretty impressed!
Victoria @TheBritishBerliner recently posted..Ryanair – A no-frills budget airline. Is it worth the plunge?
Mrs O is somewhat out of touch.
Birmingham lost its second city status many years ago.
Generally accepted that in terms of architecture culture music retail and food Manchester is second only to London.
That said most Mancunuans thinks it whacks London off the park !
I don't disagree with you at all – Manchester offers a fair bit more (in my opinion) and I have visited twice in as many months – and writing about it shortly. In fact, I think Manchester is a contender for a 'city break' – I really liked it.


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More evidence of interference from the "authorities" who patently dont understand supply & demand. If theres high demand, prices will go up. If prices are capped there will be no supply. BIG problem. If people cant afford to live in London, why do they stay there? Commute instead. Regulation is NOT what is needed.


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    prdct_name = models.CharField(max_length=17, verbose_name=_("Article "))
    prdct_category = models.ForeignKey("Category", on_delete=models.CASCADE, blank=True, null=True)
    prdct_description = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("Description"))
    prdct_img = models.ImageField(upload_to='product/',verbose_name=_("Image"), blank=True, null=True)
    # prdct_img
    prdct_price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2, verbose_name=_("Prix "))
    prdct_cost = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2, verbose_name=_("Prix promotionel "))
    prdct_weight = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2, verbose_name=_("Poid "))
    prdct_created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False, verbose_name=_("Date Creation "))
    prdct_genre = models.CharField(max_length=50, verbose_name=_("Genre "))
    prdct_matiere = models.CharField(max_length=50, verbose_name=_("Matiere "))
    prdct_titrage = models.CharField(max_length=50, verbose_name=_("titrage "))
    prdct_in_stock = models.BooleanField(verbose_name=_("in_stock "))
    prdct_slug = models.SlugField(blank=True, null=True)

the function to scrape the price from the site
def get_prixmatiere():
    # get price from cpor
    import requests
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    response = requests.get("https://www.exampl.com")
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text , 'lxml')
    product_price = soup.find_all("td",{"class" : "price"})[0].text.replace('€', '').replace(' ', '')
    # calculate price
    prixdug = float(product_price) / 4 * 3 / 1000 * 210 - 500
    prixmatiere = float(product_price) / 4 * 3 / 1000 * 210
    return prixmatiere

i need to get the price of the item
def calc_price_item(self):
    self.dailyprice = get_prixmatiere()
    item_price = self.prdct_price + self.dailyprice * self.prdct_weight
    return item_price

and then display it
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
# Create your views here.
from .models import Product, ProductImage, Category
from django.core.paginator import Paginator

# function get all product
def product_list(request):
    product_list = Product.objects.all()[:5]        # get all product in variable le model doit etre importe depuis la class

    context = {
        'product_list' : product_list,       # contexte dictionaire variable qui contien les produit = product_list pour lutuliser dans les loupe dans le views

                }

    return render(request, 'Product/product_list.html', context)  # retourne la requete + le nom du dossier(dans le templates) + context

def product_detail(request, slug, id):
    product_detail = Product.objects.get(prdct_slug=slug)
    images = ProductImage.objects.filter(prdct_product_id=id)
    cat_parent = Category.objects.filter(level='0')

    context = {'product_detail' : product_detail,
                'images' : images,
                'cat_parent': cat_parent,
                }

    return render(request, 'Product/product_detail.html', context)

def category_product(request, id, slug):
    cat_slug = Category.objects.get(cat_slug=slug)
    category_product =  Category.objects.filter(parent_id=id)
    product = Product.objects.filter(prdct_category=id)

    paginator = Paginator(product, 20) # Show 20 contacts per page.

    page_number = request.GET.get('page')
    product = paginator.get_page(page_number)

    context = {

            'id' : id,
            'cat_slug' : cat_slug,
            'category_product': category_product,
            'product': product,

            }

    return render(request, 'Product/category_product.html', context)

A: I got what I wanted by doing this
F() expressions can be used to execute arithmetic operations (+, -, * etc.) among model fields
without forgetting to import modul F
from django.db.models import F

views.py
prixmatiere = get_prixmatiere()
product_list = Product.objects.all()[:5].annotate(prixgram=F('prdct_price') + int(prixmatiere)).annotate(prixopiece=F('prixgram') * F('prdct_weight'))

Now the items in product_list have an extra column named prixgram and prixopiece contains the values

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Publication dateNovember, 2010
The Hunting of the Snark
Illustrated by Mahendra Singh
A brilliant new illustrated version of Lewis Carroll's nonsense masterpiece in heroic couplets — full of visual riddles, puns and mysteries.
Adventures in Wonderland is perhaps Lewis Carroll's most famous literary work. It has been adapted countless times in countless ways, from the recent film by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp, to the famous Disney cartoon, Alice in Wonderland, from 1951. While Alice certainly deserves the attention, she has overshadowed some of Carroll's other classic works.
Now, The Hunting of the Snark, one of Carroll's most beloved and linguistically playful poems, comes to life in this wickedly inventive new edition. Perfectly suited to the modern form of the graphic novel, Singh's illustrated adaptation compliments the timelessness of this classic poem with an edge that incorporates movements in art from Carroll's time to the present. The Snark may never be found, but the hunt for him has never been more arresting.
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a uniquely inventive literary genius, famed for three magical works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and the humorous, witty, whimsical The Hunting of the Snark
MAHENDRA SINGH is an illustrator and longstanding Lewis Carroll fan. He is a member of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and an editor for their journal, the Knight Letter. For Singh, creating the illustrations for The Hunting of the Snark "has been a labor of love—fitting Lewis Carroll into a proto-Surrealist straitjacket with matching Dada cufflinks."
Inuits in love - the winner of the 2011 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize
"Delightfully surreal…save this book for the brightest and most adventurous young word-worms on your holiday shopping list…Singh's daring illustrations will appeal to older children eager to leave the world of candy-colored cuteness behind." —The New Yorker
"At last, the legend of the brave, if peculiar, companions who set out to bag a snark (arming themselves "with forks and with hope") gets lavish treatment from [Mahendra] Singh….These may be the fittest illustrations ever created for Carroll's distinctively Victorian nonsense concoctions." —Laura Miller, Salon
"[C]hallenging and delightful." —Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness
"It is not children who ought to read the words of Lewis Carroll." —G.K. Chesterton
Singh's black-and-white surrealistic treatment of Carroll's classic poem is perfect…takes the ideology of Carroll's nonsense to new visual levels. Far beyond a simplistic, literal depiction of the poem, each panel is thoughtfully created, filled with puzzles, jokes, and allusions. —Library Journal
The Beaufort Diaries T Cooper
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Christopher Boucher
Baddies David Stromberg
Rotis Stephane Reynaud
Luminous Chaos Jean-Christophe Valtat
Open publication - Free publishing - More graphic novel


A recent study suggests that cannabis may now be the largest intoxicant for drivers. Production and sale of marijuana was only recently legalized in some states and research on these issues is relatively sparse. The study, published in De Gruyter's Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, analyzes the effects of driving under the influence of cannabis and the available options for testing Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels.
According to recent poll, 62 percent of Americans support legalization of marijuana, which has already been legalized recreationally in 10 states and medically in 33 states. The study warns that due to this recent legalization, the number of people that drive under the influence of drugs will rise, leading to increased accidents and injuries. With Americans spending approximately 15 billion hours under the influence of marijuana per year, cannabis intoxication poses a significant threat to drivers' safety.
Many marijuana users believe that THC does not impair driving. According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), THC mildly impairs psychomotor skills and slows drivers' reaction times to emergency situations, but that impairment does not significantly contribute to road crashes. The topic of whether marijuana intoxication affects driving performance is hotly debated. Some assert that it does not play a significant role in vehicle crashes while others point to its potential effects on judgment, motor coordination, concentration, and reaction time as evidence that it increases the risk of car accidents.
The study's authors posit that driving under the influence of cannabis remains less risky than driving under the influence of alcohol. However, cannabis still contributes to accident risk, especially when combined with alcohol and other drugs. It is difficult to determine an individual's level of impairment after use, which makes it difficult to determine whether and to what extent drugged driving contributed to the accident.
Breath tests, such as the ones used for alcohol, to detect cannabis have not yet been developed. Oral-fluid testing can be conducted to determine whether a person has recently used cannabis, but it cannot demonstrate that person's level of impairment. Medical professionals can perform a blood test at a medical facility to test for levels of cannabis impairment, however, even these results are not strong evidence of how recently cannabis was used or the extent of an individual's impairment. Also, blood THC levels drop significantly only a few minutes after use, making it challenging to receive accurate results.
One of the study's authors says that even if an acceptable test could be developed, drugged driving should be treated as a traffic infraction rather than a crime unless aggravating circumstances exist. The article recommends discouraging driving under the influence of cannabis by making it a traffic offense and launching campaigns to highlight the risks.
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Firstly I thought I would share these cute little gingerbread girls. My friend Jodie who is living in NZ made them for her daughter's first birthday. They are soooo sooo cute. I love the little packaging and cards.
I also need to focus on my ideas. Visiting zoe's atoz blog she had a lovely list of things to do. So I'm inspired to get my thoughts together and post my list....hey it can't get lost in my handbag or on my desk!
1a. find out how to insert word links!!!
14. Continue pattern design for free spirit.
I put a stop to all my work today and whilst the children are at family daycare, decided to get some ideas out of my head. This red satchel is one of them. This has led me to thinking about making some mini aprons for my mini friends. The thing is I don't know how to finish it. I have made a yellow and white ticking lining and it is all just hanging on by sewing pins. I need to get my mother in law down for a few days 'sew' she can help me out. I'm just not good when it comes to fiddly bits and making it all look right! I don't know why I chose red. I rarely wear red, I'm a earthy toned girl. I might have to be a present for someone.
Now I'll go and clean some of my house, do 1/2 of work and go and pick them up!
today, my friend Katrina and I did a felting class. We went to uni together and she is about to spit her first baby out. I told her that she should do something creative and fun before the baby arrives...first time mum, hasn't got a clue about the real meaning of sleep deprivation! Anyhow, it was great. Here are a few photos of us working..well I'm the one behind the camera. I'm really keen to make toys/animals/decorations of some sort, but I couldn't cut my first felted piece. So I have decided to make a pouch. Don't know what I'm going to put in it. Might be good for WIPS. Scissors, thread etc.
I took some much needed time out and spent the morning in the park with a friend of mine. It was such a lovely day. Children love spending time in the park...wouldn't it be great if we could do it everyday, we need an extra 2 hours added on to each day I think.
There are a few little things that need work, but I recently advertised in Practical Parenting Mag. and needed to get the new work up so people can see.
My next big step is to create some original artwork that I can sell that is different to the ABCme products.
I keep on pulling these three pieces out that I have been working on every now and again. I just don't know what I want to do with them. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great. Maybe make some cushions. They are in a square format about 15cm x 15cm and 20cm x 20cm....mmmm!! We are going away for a holiday in September so I might take them with me and work on them then..whilst sipping a cocktail or 2!
For sometime I have concentrated on creating artwork for my daughter's room. It seems easier for girls somehow. I try to avoid commercialism as much as I can...I know it will be unavoidable once they start to go to school!. Please no Barbie or Spiderman. Anyway, I've been struggling with ideas for my son for some time. I've been through a circus theme, a animal theme. His imagination is so wild at the moment..he is almost 4! He says fantastic and sometimes precocious sayings, like "your're a Mustard Pickle" or "you're a radio monster". Funny but naughty! I'd like to build on this idea of imagination in a visual sense. Just take a look at Sara Fanelli's book Mythological Monsters and you'll get what I mean.
I have started illustrating these Monster Birds. Maybe for posters, if I can do some more, maybe as flip books!
But I really must think about going to kindy now and dropping my sewing machine to be fixed.
Master A told Miss M today that he was going to put her in the mailbox and send you to the Melbourne Zoo. "Then you won't know your way home and you'll be lost forever" Why are brothers so mean?
Whilst reading a book tonight Master A said to me "what is responsibility?" My response was that "Mummy's responsibility is to take care of you and Miss M" To discover if he understood what I was telling him, I asked, "Do you have responsibility for anything?" His answer was "Yes. my RES.... PONS.... IBILITY is to take care of my sister". What a beautiful answer. Now if only he will stop hitting her over the head when he gets angry! I don't know if he is showing much RESPONSIBILITY in this photo!
I'm amking a quilt for my niece. Almost finished. In a couple of years she will have to leave her country property in Dirrinbandi and head to bording school in Toowoomba, Qld. I think this will be a nice gift to give her....just got to finish it!


Mathematics and statistics programs hone quantitative analysis skills that can be applied to any number of fields — or pursued simply for the expansion of human knowledge.
The Valparaiso University mathematics and statistics department offers a number of major and minor programs tailored to fit individual needs. All of the department's programs aim to sharpen students' analytical skills through rigorous coursework along with opportunities to take math outside the classroom and apply it to a variety of research questions. When students graduate, they are prepared for graduate study, professional schools, teaching careers, or work in business or government.
All students in the College of Arts and Sciences complete at least 124 total credits to earn a bachelor's degree.
Valpo's math and statistics department offers two 15-credit minors.


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Mythology (Slavic)
Shoshannah
1100027. Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:25 am
Any mythology is a treasure-trove of magic, fascinating stories and quite interesting traditions. But how much do you know of Central and Eastern European myths? Slavic beliefs were just as fascinating, if not more, as the Greek ones. And the creatures that populated their stories deserve a whole library section.
A great example of one such creature is Mamuna. It was a demon, shaped a little like a human but incredibly ugly and evil, that would steal babies out of their cribs and replace them with her own spawn. Suddenly, a sweet, plump angel would become an ugly, angry, screaming child that would grow to become a lazy, dim-witted and mean adult. The one method of trying to force Mamuna into bringing back the stolen child was for the grieving parents to take the demon's spawn outside, put it on a pile of dung and whip it with a switch. The child's crying was supposed to get Mamuna's attention, make her run back to stop the beating and bring the stolen child with her.
Gnieciuch (also known as Gniotek – both words derived from the root meaning: to squish or knead) was a small creature that lived in dark nooks of people's houses, which would leave its hiding place at night, lured by the smell of digested alcohol. It would sit comfortably of the chest of the sleeping person, who was emanating the wondrous smell and simply enjoy it all night, pressing and squishing down on its victim. The poor person, who had just happened to have a little to drink the night before would wake up sore, tired and unable to work. Obviously, Gnieciuch was to blame.
Showing clearly what used to be considered an especially vile crime was the creature called Miernik (from the word: to measure). It was a spirit of a technician whose job, before death, had been to measure the land but who would falsify the results of his measurements in favour of rich landowners, harming the poor peasants. His spirit would wander the world, carrying a border stone and repeating the falsified numbers over and over again. Miernik wasn't aggressive and sometimes would even help people by lighting their way in the dark. It was important to thank him and, if you were feeling particularly nice, you could even stop his punishment. If the demon showed you the stone it was carrying and asked what to do with it, you could say: Put it back where you found it. Those words would set him free.
Another fascinating example is the one of White People. Those were really tiny creatures, living in roadside puddles, waiting for someone to step in the water or for a cart to ride through it. When that happened, the creatures would climb up and hide in people's clothing until the night-time which was when they would climb through people's noses and mouths into their stomachs and cause disease. There were many ways of fighting sickness caused by the White People and one of them was to drill a hole in a tree, breathe into it and cork the it shut.
References: "Bestiariusz Słowiański" by Paweł Zych and Witold Vargas, BOSZ, 2012
"Mitologia Słowiańska" by Czesław Białczyński, Baran & Suszczyński, 1999
spursystarman
1218676. Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:01 pm
Shoshannah wrote:
I was very interested (should that be 'quite interested'?) in mythology as a child and came across this slavic creature called Bannik, which would, when your back was turned, scratch you horribly with his long, sharp claws. It scared the shit out of me for years!
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The National's new album I Am Easy To Find is released on May 17th on 4AD. I Am Easy To Find is the band's eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017's GRAMMY®-award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion short film with the same name will also be released with music by The National and inspired by the album. The film was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners), and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. Mills, along with the band, is credited as co-producer of the album, which was mostly recorded at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY with additional sessions in Paris, Berlin, Cincinnati, Austin, Dublin, Brooklyn and more far flung locations. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more.
3LP – deluxe red/grey/yellow vinyl set – limited edition, one pressing only.


The Vietnamese love their food - in fact, they obsessed about it all day! As soon as they had their breakfast, they will soon think about what they would have for lunch, so it's not surprising that you will find an abundance of small eatery places springing across this tiny island.
The food on Phu Quoc island is heavily influenced by the bountiful harvest of fresh seafood, herbs and vegetable - it is fresh, simple yet utterly deliciously refreshing.
Some places you come across might appear to be shabby by western standards, but do not be fooled by their appearances! With a little sense of adventure and you will soon discover some of the tastiest and most inexpensive food you've ever eaten.
Located on the white sands of Bai Sao beach, this restaurant has succulent barbecued seafood and great fish in clay pot. Tables are on the sands, a few metres from lapping waves.
Locating nearby the museum Coi Nguon, opposite the way to La Veranda resort. Serves French dishes as well as authentic Vietnanamese dishes including shrimps, crabs and fish.
Offers wide range of North Indian cuisine including Tandoor and Naan bread. Probably the only Indian restaurant on the island!
This is a tiny little tapas bar-grill located on the main road Tran Hung Do. The bites are light, so mix and match. Has a decent selection of wine in town thanks to the attached wine store.
Located in the beautiful bay of Ganh Dau beach, this family run restaurant serves authentic Vietnamese dishes including grill seafood. Try their grill cod fish dish with tumeric marinate - it is devine!
Serves a selection of tapas and European light dishes.
A local restaurant highly regarded by travelers, offering fresh seafood at very reasonable prices. Nice casual place for a bit to eat.


This is an initiative by HM Revenue & Customs in the United Kingdom to make it easier for businesses to submit their tax returns.
VAT Registered businesses whose turnover is over the tax threshold will be required to submit their VAT Returns digitally from 1st April 2019. This will have to be done by using Maxing Tax Digital (MTD) compatible software.
Omni Accounts is listed by HMRC as being compatible for MTD for VAT.
At this stage the project is still in its initial testing and the Omni Accounts Support Team as well as the HMRC's SDST (software developer support team) are available to be on stand-by for a business doing its first submission.
Other components of Making Tax Digital (MTD) such as income tax, are expected to be only implanted by April 2020 at the earliest.
It is recommended that you visit the HMRC website to obtain all the information on the MTD project.
The advantage of MTD will be an easier way of submitting VAT returns especially for smaller businesses.
If you already use Omni Accounts Vat Return function then, after the initial setup, the submission process is seamlessly built into preparing your VAT Return in Omni Accounts.
Please note that only Omni Accounts Business Pro, Enterprise or Premium bundles include this functionality.
Send an email to support@omniaccounts.co.za if you wish to learn more.


"In my efforts to use the abundance of zucchini in my garden I concocted this little cookie. I prefer my oatmeal cookies to have a little jazz, so if you are not a fan of ground cloves, they can be omitted. It's a not too sweet cake-like cookie that is perfect with your cup of coffee or tea."
Stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and cloves in a bowl; set aside. Beat the butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Add the egg and the vanilla extract. Mix in the flour mixture and oats until just incorporated.
Wring the zucchini in a clean towel to remove any excess moisture. Stir the zucchini and raisins into the dough; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Drop batter by rounded teaspoonfuls 2-inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 14 to 16 minutes or until the bottom edges turn golden brown.
YUM!! Such a great recipe! But make sure to double it if you want a lot of cookies. The cloves and cinnamon added just the right flavor.
These were too dense and cakey.


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International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
More pressure needed on Burma to take back refugees, says Bangladeshi PM
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed speaks with a reporter during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 18 September 2017. (Photo: Reuters)
LONDON — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Burma to take back Rohingya refugees, rejecting a claim by the Burmese government that it had repatriated a family of five.
"The international community needs to put more pressure on Myanmar so that they take back their own people and ensure their security," Hasina told an audience in London.
"Myanmar says they are ready to take back the Rohingya, but they are not taking the initiative."
UN officials say nearly 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh from Burma's Rakhine State to escape a military crackdown since August, amid reports of murder, rape and arson by Burmese troops and Buddhist vigilantes in actions which the United Nations has likened to "ethnic cleansing."
Burma has denied nearly all allegations, saying it has been waging a legitimate counter-insurgency operation.
Speaking at a separate event in London, Britain's Foreign Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland called for a meaningful investigation into reported atrocities.
"The [Burmese] authorities need to demonstrate that they are serious about the safety and security of the Rohingya," Johnson said.
Hasina said Bangladesh had submitted the names of 8,000 Rohingya families for repatriation to Burma, but that Burma had so far refused to take them back.
Burma and Bangladesh agreed in January to complete a voluntary repatriation of the refugees in two years.
She disputed an assertion by Burma that it had repatriated five members of a Rohingya family from Bangladesh, describing them as having been living in the no man's land between the two countries.
"They were living in the borderlands, with some of their family members in their camps. Maybe [Burma] wants to show the world they are taking them back. It's a good sign. If they want, then why only one family? We have already submitted the names of 8,000 [Rohingya] families, but they've not taken them back," she said.
In Bangladesh, some 60 babies a day born in Rohingya camps: UN
After Rohingya rape accusations, UN warns of imminent births
UN Security Council puts spotlight on Rohingya refugee crisis
Hasina also confirmed a plan to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal, dismissing fears that it would be put them at the mercy of floods.
"We are expecting to move those who are in a vulnerable place to the island. Bangladesh can always be flooding and it does. The camps are very unhealthy. We have prepared a better place for them to live, with houses and shelters where they can earn a living," she said.
"Where they are living now, the monsoon season is coming up, there can be land erosions, accidents are taking place."
Aid agencies, however, are fearful of the relocation plan and believe it would expose Rohingya refugees to cyclones, floods and human traffickers.
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If you are one of life's cynics, The Secret Law of Attraction is probably not for you.
If you spend your life knocking the successful and envying the wealthy, The Secret is probably not for you.
If, when you look around the Universe, you see most things as bad and very little as good (you may even call yourself a "realist"), The Secret is probably not for you.
The Secret is not for life's ne'er-do-wells or those with a poverty consciousness.
The Secret - Watch it? Listen to it? Read it?
Our younger daughter chimed in that that she had a recording of the book which I might find it easier to listen to in the car, so I went for that suggestion.
I listened to the recording of The Secret. I watched the film of The Secret. I read the book The Secret. I didn't swallow it whole but it resonated with me.
When you read the book, watch the film or listen to the recording, you may take different things from The Secret than I did.
But if you are open minded and you want to grow I suggest you will take something magnificent away with you.
For me the Secret Law of Attraction was a starting point. I started to research the backgrounds of many of the contributors.
I quickly discovered that Dr John DeMartini was speaking in London a few weeks later so I went along to listen to him.
My curiosity aroused, doors began to open. I saw more opportunities. I used my imagination. I created more opportunities, and life got better and better.
A pot of gold did not come flying through the window one day and land in my lap as I sat in my armchair. If you believe that, you may be sitting down for a long time!
That, in my view, is too literal an interpretation of The Secret. But it could be a turning point in your life as it was in mine.
I believe that your thoughts and feelings can, as Lisa Nicholls says, create your life. I believe you can create your own universe as you go along.
The Secret Law of Attraction - Truly a secret or common sense?
Will you discover the secret of wealth by reading the Secret? Will you uncover the secret of creating your future? So much of The Secret is common sense, but many of us don't use our common sense enough of the time.
Many of the book's contributors have made it big-time in the self-help industry. They have done so, on the whole, by applying the principles they teach.
Dr Joe Vitale writes in the book: "A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances.
The DVD film and the book of The Secret were each released in 2006. Its author, Rhonda Byrne, has twice appeared on Oprah where her work has been featured.
The film reached Number One in the Amazon DVD chart in 2007. The book reached Number One in the New York Times Best Seller List.
So read it, watch it, listen to it – or do all three, as I did. It led me to the Teachers of the Secret and to NLP … to success and happiness … and it's still leading me on.
If you want to see the Secret Law of Attraction in action, then keep your eyes on this website.
Start exploring how the Secret can change your life by reading the articles as they are posted, and see where it leads YOU.
You should have The Secret by now!
The Secret is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.


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package org.dagre.euler

import org.scalatest.{FlatSpec, Matchers}

class Euler25Spec extends FlatSpec with Matchers {

  "Euler 25" should "return the index of the first number in the fibonacci series with the given number of digits" in {
    Euler25(3) should be (12)
  }

  it should "solve the problem for the given input" in {
    Euler25(1000) should be (4782)
  }

}

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Rubber grommets. Insert these grommets into a pre-drilled hole in sheet metal or other thin material to protect from sharp edges. Click on individual items below for more detailed information. NOTE: Choose your hole size from the "Specifications" box on the left to narrow your search.


In the consulting business, it's one thing to write good code. But it's quite another to perform professionally and meet client expectations. Over the decades of database consulting, we've received accolades from customers, vendors, co-workers and even managers.
Here's a little sampling of their comments and endorsements.
The Little Wedding Chapel has been a specialty niche business in the Detroit Metro area for over 25 years. We had an Access database custom written for us in the 90s for win 98. It worked well for the better part of a decade… but with updates to hardware over the years as well as bugs slowly creeping in… and with lack of "updating our software like we should have", our "mothership database" was in shambles and crashing almost on a daily basis.
whom returned our call in a timely fashion. Without knowing anything about our business, he listened to our needs, desires, and future goals for "our vision" of our new software. The new system works like a charm and with Andy's deep knowledge of what it could "still do", we are continuing to add features to our system that we never felt possible. Andy is truly a "master of his craft". Thank heavens we found him!
If you're considering a database upgrade or a custom installation for a specialty business, we certainly would urge you to get a consultation with Andy. It will be well worth your company's time!
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To solve an intensive and very time consuming production paper process, a low cost, simple solution was needed. Andy was able to develop an Access solution when other programmers said it couldn't be done. The first step was to develop a working prototype using a touch screen. This prototype was used in production and tested by several users. The feedback was good and some recommendations were made to make the solution even easier. Andy then programmed all the extra features to make the touch screens even easier to use. Adding some cool features like displaying an on screen number pad or keyboard when the user needs one.
Andy is a HIGHLY SKILLED PROFESSIONAL. He thinks outside the box to get to solutions, while many in his field are not as flexible.
I have known and worked with Andy for over 10 years, and his skill set is excellent. I feel that his Access development skills are top notch and that anyone with need of product development would do very well by hiring Andy. December 10, 2009 Michael was with another company when working with Andy at 1st Priority Software, Inc.
CFO at Broadband Antenna Tracking Systems, Inc.