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Buzz Lightyear– To Infinity and Beyond! Have a Buzz Lightyear birthday party.
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Disney Princesses – Have Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Snow White and Ariel as guests at your next birthday party.
Princess & the Frog Birthday Party– Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen star in this tale set in New Orleans about a girl that finds a frog that needs a princess to kiss him.
Tinker Bell– Tinkerbell lives with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, but she is a star on her own. Let Tinker Bell sprinkle some pixie dust on your next birthday party.
Minnie Mouse – The prettiest Mouse out there, you can have Minnie Mouse at your next birthday party.
Disney's Cars – The hit Pixar and Disney film roared into the movie theaters and into everyone's hearts. Have a Cars birthday party.
Little Mermaid – Ariel is the Little Mermaid. One of the Disney Princesses she has a theme party to call her very own.
Snow White Party – Snow White & the Seven Dwarves is a classic Disney movie complete with an evil Queen, a poisoned apple, and handsome Prince.


Carmarthenshire County Council's Chief Executive received a £20,000 cash advance last year Plaid Cymru has revealed.
Some local authority Chief Executives are paid additional fees and expenses for activities they undertake as a Returning Officer for elections. For local elections (county council and community councils) fees are paid to the Returning Officer by the respective councils. The number of electoral wards contested is a factor which determines the amount of fees paid.
Information obtained by Carmarthenshire MP Jonathan Edwards and AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas shows that the £190,000-a-year Chief Executive was paid an additional £20,000 for election activities a minimum of 5 weeks before the election took place, in a different financial year and before the number of candidates was even known.
Plaid Cymru is the largest political party on the county council with 28 councillors. However the authority has been led by a Labour and Independent coalition since 2004. For the best part of a year the Plaid Cymru opposition has lead the campaign for the authority to introduce a Living Wage for its low-paid workers.
E-mail correspondence from the Chief Executive and the Director of Resources states the payment was made in advance of the election actually taking place and because "funds were available".
Mr Edwards said the cash advance would leave county residents asking a number of questions about the priorities of the Council's Executive, especially how "funds were available" for a cash advance whilst services were facing unprecedented cuts. Constituency colleague Mr Thomas said the decision resembled the scandal at the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association (AWEMA) in which the Chief Executive awarded himself a cash advance on his expenses. Mr Thomas also expressed concern that the same people who approved this cash advance continue to sit on Council's Executive Board.
"I'm sure the residents of Carmarthenshire will be asking serious questions as to how funds were available to pay the £190,000-a-year Chief Executive a cash advance of £20,000 at a time when services were facing, and continue to face unprecedented cuts.
"More questions will inevitably follow as to how that £20,000 figure was calculated before the election took place and before knowing how many council wards were going to be contested.
"Both the Leader and Deputy Leader of the council who would have approved this cash advance continue to lead the local authority on its Executive Board. This is the same leadership which continues to deny its low-paid employees a Living Wage.
"Many county residents will be shocked to learn the £190,000-a-year Chief Executive pocketed an additional £20,000 before the close of nominations, let alone before the election itself.
"The whole affair seems remarkably similar to the scandal at AWEMA in which the Chief Executive awarded himself a £9,000 advance on expenses he claimed he would have earned at a later date.
"When so many people are relying on pay-day loans to get them to the end of the month, to learn that such a highly paid officer received an extra £20,000 weeks in advance will be a bitter pill to swallow for those struggling to make ends meet.
"There is a need to look more widely at Chief Executives receiving these substantial sums of money for election activities on top of their already large salaries when we consider that much of the work is actually carried out during normal working hours.
"I believe the role of Returning Officer should be incorporated into the existing duties of a Chief Executive and constitute part of their job description to put an end to these hefty elections fees which are paid almost every year.
I am so glad you are working on this. Diolch yn fawr.
PS. off topic, can I just add my name to the number of your constituants who is Pro Equal Marriage. I know that antis are being active. I think everyone should be able to get married without discrimination. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Many thanks Ingrid. We will be supporting moves towards equal marriage.


Leather is an ideal material for holdalls as it's durable, waterproof and stylish to boot. However, it's inevitable that your leather holdall will become damaged over time, especially if you check it in on airline flights. This isn't necessarily a negative thing, though. All the little scratches and marks that you bag accumulate will add charm and character but that doesn't mean you should neglect your holdall. Here's our guide to keeping you holdall looking in tiptop condition.
Start by gathering all the products and tools you need. You can buy specially formulated leather care products at any supermarket, shoe shop or department store. To clean your bag you will also need a small brush, a cloth and some metal polish if your bag has any hardware.
Before actually cleaning your bag, you need to ensure that the bag is completely empty. Then wipe it both inside and out with a slightly damp cloth to prepare it for the leather treatment .If your bag has a special lining that needs protecting, you can cover it with a large plastic bag, keeping it in place with some pins.
Test your leather cleanser on a small area, under a flap for example, that won't be seen before covering your holdall with the product to ensure that it will not leave a stain or affect the colour of the leather. If it's safe to continue, massage the product into the grain of the leather with a cloth. Work on stains with a separate cloth and use the brush to remove any dirt that may be ingrained into the leather.
After cleansing the bag, you can also use a leather conditioner to moisturise it and keep it soft and supple. Using a cloth or your hands, work in the conditioner using a circular motion until you have covered the whole bag. Don't forget to condition seams and folds too. With a clean cloth, wipe any residue and buff it to bring out the shine.
Finally, don't forget to polish any metal hardware as next to the clean and shiny leather the metal may look dull in comparison.
It is inevitable that your leather holdall will become scratched with use. If the scratches are light it may be possible to cover them up with a leather dye. Deeper scratches will require more immediate attention. If left, they may widen and the leather may tear. To repair these you will need a leather repair kit. Leather repair kits usually include a liquid adhesive in several colours, grain paper and a heat applicator. First of all choose a liquid adhesive that best matches the colour of your leather wallet, purse or bag and apply it evenly to the scratch. You might find it helpful to use a toothpick for this. Next choose a grain paper that most resembles the grain of your item and place it over the scratch you have repaired. Then using the heat applicator heat the grain paper. This will enable the adhesive to bond well with the surface of the leather. Finally leave it to cool.
To repair tears, you will need to use glue. First give your holdall a thorough clean with a leather cleanser and allow it to dry. This is necessary because any dirt or oil on the surface may prevent the glue from sticking properly. Apply the glue to the seam where the leather has torn. You may need someone to hold the leather taught while you apply the glue. When the glue has dried, take a piece of fine sandpaper and remove any excess glue. You will need to be very careful when doing this; otherwise you may scratch the leather. Clean the area again with a leather cleanser to ensure all excess glue has been removed then allow to dry.
Follow our advice and your neglected holdall should be looking as good as new in no time.


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Q: File content into dictionary I need to turn this file content into a dictionary, so that every key in the dict is a name of a movie and every value is the name of the actors that plays in it inside a set.
Example of file content:
Brad Pitt, Sleepers, Troy, Meet Joe Black, Oceans Eleven, Seven, Mr & Mrs Smith
Tom Hanks, You have got mail, Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Catch Me If You Can
Meg Ryan, You have got mail, Sleepless in Seattle
Diane Kruger, Troy, National Treasure
Dustin Hoffman, Sleepers, The Lost City
Anthony Hopkins, Hannibal, The Edge, Meet Joe Black, Proof

A: This should get you started:
line = "a, b, c, d"
result = {}
names = line.split(", ")
actor = names[0]
movies = names[1:]
result[actor] = movies

A: Try the following:
res_dict = {}

with open('my_file.txt', 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        my_list = [item.strip() for item in line.split(',')]
        res_dict[my_list[0]] = my_list[1:]  # To make it a set, use: set(my_list[1:])

Explanation:
split() is used to split each line to form a list using , separator
strip() is used to remove spaces around each element of the previous list
When you use with statement, you do not need to close your file explicitly.
[item.strip() for item in line.split(',')] is called a list comprehension.
Output:
>>> res_dict
{'Diane Kruger': ['Troy', 'National Treasure'], 'Brad Pitt': ['Sleepers', 'Troy', 'Meet Joe Black', 'Oceans Eleven', 'Seven', 'Mr & Mrs Smith'], 'Meg Ryan': ['You have got mail', 'Sleepless in Seattle'], 'Tom Hanks': ['You have got mail', 'Apollo 13', 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Catch Me If You Can'], 'Dustin Hoffman': ['Sleepers', 'The Lost City'], 'Anthony Hopkins': ['Hannibal', 'The Edge', 'Meet Joe Black', 'Proof']}

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As a food blogger in constant search of a new recipe to invent and make your own, you often run the risk of overloading your senses. The need to conquer new ingredients often makes life in the kitchen and in your belly a little bit complicated, a little bit chaotic. When things keep adding on to your life, the only way to restore order is to start subtracting. I find this mantra extremely wise and useful, not just in my kitchen but in every walk of my life.
Earlier this week, my heart wished for a slice of brownie. Now I have baked brownies before. A lot of different brownies. But sometimes, just sometimes … you crave simplicity like nothing else. You don't want the tea soaking hoopla or the need-to-make-it-healthier dramas. You don't want to worry about whether it is going to be gooey or whether to stud it with fruit. Sometimes, all you need is, just brownies! So I baked them. Just Brownies!
And they made me wonder Why? Oh why? Do we try so hard all the time piling on unnecessary baggage to complicate things, when the answer is so simple, just simple! Thought for the day :-). Do you sometimes rebel and simplify? How do you do it? Do you find it calming? re-energising? Would love to hear your thoughts.
A stunning brownie recipe that is quick and simple. A true classic to make for a potluck or fancy dinner, this dense and moist brownie is a crowd pleaser.
Preheat oven to 160C (320F). Grease and line with baking paper, a brownie pan (26cm x 16cm) or square tin (23cm).
Place chocolate and butter over low heat in a saucepan. Stir as it melts. Cook for a few minutes, stirring till it is smooth and glossy. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Place sugar, cocoa, flour, baking powder and eggs in a bowl. Add chocolate mixture and beat with an electric mixer for a minute until smooth. Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes until set. Cool in tin.
Dust with cocoa powder and slice as desired. Serve by itself or warmed with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.
I agree – sometimes (and by sometimes I mean MOST of the time) simple is just better. What a gorgeous batch of brownies!
Those are not just any brownies, they are FUDGY brownies! The best kind one can bake. Lovely.
How decadent, now those are brownies!
Abosolute perfection! I crave simplicity too – flavours, interior design, fashion.
so very true!!! as much as i love searching for that ingredient sometimes we do just need to go back to basics 🙂 thanks for the reminder, it looks delicious.
I've never cooked the brownies, thanks for the recipe!!!!!!
I really want chocolate now!
I do believe in simplicity, whether it 's in the kitchen or the clothes I wear or home decor. I often think of that famous quote from CoCo Chanel advising women to take off one accessory before leaving the house. These brownies are the Audrey Hepburn of baked goods, a classic beauty. No need to add more.
I feel like baking a plain chocolate now ..
I so love brownies I can eat a 12-piece box in one sitting! lol Thanks for the recipe, I hope my friend can help me bake this. I tried to bake brownies once and it was a disaster!
It's very hard to beat a simple chocolate brownie. And these ones are just beautiful.
Your brownies look just perfect and just how I like them. If you could send this recipe to a few cafes I know where they are as dry as an old chip I'd be most happy.
Oh my Sneh, I have been so busy and then when I saw that I have a few of your posts to read through in my reader it brightened ny day and this was the first one I clicked on! These look amaxing and I am am so in awe of hte beautiful light you captured. I too just want simple sometimes so that is what I have been doing and it feels good!
Love your composition. Love how little you cut these brownies into. Love the glossy look. Love the recipe.
These brownies look simply perfect. Sometimes, simple is the way to go. A perfectly ripe tomato, a slice of strong cheddar and a piece of chewy fresh bread… was there ever a more delicious lunch?
Will be making these tonight! I really appreciate your blog and your perspective. It seems so many things in life would be better if we could just simplify them, but food and the preparation of food is particularly susceptible to this dandying about with techniques and ingredients and methods. And while that's fun and certainly distracting and absolutely draining on my pocketbook, in the end, i find that the simplest approach — indeed, the one I often began with! — produces the best result. Thanks for that subtle reminder.
These brownies looks so fudgy, exactly how they ought to be! Simplicity at its best!!
Oh yes please. Sometimes the original is all you need, right? Gorgeous post, Sneh.
Simple recipes are the best! Great food doesn't need to be complex. Your photos evoke all the chocolate goodness of a classic brownie. An enjoyable post!
Thank you for sharing your recipes . Your pics are just as nice as the recipes. With scaptisism as always I thought I'd try a couple , not only they are delicious but they work and look just like your pics . I made the brownies as well as the bundt cake . My sons response / OMG !!
I've never had a fail Cook Republic recipe yet. Until now!
Religiously stuck to recipe but added a couple of raspberries to one corner.
After nearly 1.5 hrs in oven my brownies are runny inside.
Will attempt again but d'ya reckon the raspberries affected the outcome? Surely not but need to ask the expert.
Carmen, so sorry that the brownies didn't turn out well for you. A couple (2-3) raspberries in a corner should definitely not affect the brownie outcome. If you have added a handful (which would amount to roughly half a cup or 120g) then of course the flour ratio has to be increased to allow for the extra liquid from the fruit and the time would increase to about an hour. But if your brownie has been cooking for 1.5 hrs, It should be quite dry if cooked at 160C. Puzzling as to why it is still runny. Is yours a fan forced or convection? How runny are the brownies? Like raw or just wet and dense?


i know delta, us air, and southwest dont...I fly quite frequently with my child and they dont offer discounts for age if child is taking a seat they aill be charged full price for seat....if ur military they offer military disc......4got ALMOST....if ur child is 2 or under they can sit in ur lap free and fly but over 2 must have own seat and get full charge.
@AzoresAirlines_ Bom dia! Is there a discount for children on your flights? Looking to book airfare from CA to the Azores.
Am I allowed to carry my infant on my lap during flight? – Spirit Airlines.
Jan 29, 2017 - Child discounts for airline tickets can save your family real money. The trick is knowing where to look for these kid fares.
Feb 3, 2009 - Back in the day, child airfares were a standard 80 percent of what adults.The days of discounted kids' fares to Europe, the Caribbean, and .


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The Uncommon Bond Of Jaylon Smith & Myles Jack
FRISCO, Texas – Ezekiel Elliott and Jalen Ramsey aren't the only kindred spirits in this cross conference matchup.
It will always be fun to compare and contrast those two stars, taken No. 4 and No. 5 by Dallas and Jacksonville at the top of the 2016 NFL Draft. But peer just a little way down the draft board, and you'll see two other intriguing names.
They weren't taken at the top of the draft, but there might not have been two more intriguing talents in that 2016 class than Jaylon Smith and Myles Jack. Widely considered the top two linebackers in that draft, Smith said Thursday that the two definitely share a bond.
"Yeah, that's my brother. I can't wait to trade jerseys with him after the game," he said.
It's not exactly the same story, but it's remarkable how similar Smith and Jack's journey to NFL stardom has been. Coming out of Fort Wayne, Ind., Smith was the highest-ranked linebacker in his high school recruiting class before signing with Notre Dame. Jack was a four-star talent out of Bellevue, Wash., who eventually signed on at UCLA.
"We played in the Army All-America Game together, as well," Smith said.
Given Notre Dame's penchant for cross-country scheduling, the duo played a lot of the same opposition – USC and Stanford, to name a few. Jack even showcased his talent on the offensive side of the ball, tallying 68 carries for 387 career rushing yards as a running back.
The similarities really take hold in each player's junior year, though. Jack got his injury out of the way early, tearing his meniscus just three games into his junior season.
"He got hurt early during our junior year, and I hopped on the phone with him and just got a chance to chop it up," Smith said. "And we seen each other at the Combine. So it's been all love."
At the NFL Combine, at his Pro Day and in the lead-up to that draft, the injury was an issue that would dog him throughout that spring, ultimately prompting him to slide out of the first round.
For Smith, it was obviously the opposite. His final season with the Fighting Irish was a tour de force, as he racked up 115 tackles, nine tackles for loss, a sack and five pass breakups to be named a consensus All-American for the 2015 season.
As has been well-documented, it wasn't until his final college game that Smith tore both his ACL and MCL, damaging his peroneal nerve in a gruesome injury.
The Cowboys famously felt good enough about Smith's prognosis that they drafted him No. 34 overall. Two picks later, the Jaguars made Jack the 36th overall pick.
It's not necessarily a "what if." The Cowboys have never given any indicator that they thought about drafting Jack. But the stories are strikingly similar. The Jaguars used Jack sparingly in his rookie year – before he exploded for 90 tackles in 2017. Now, in Year 3, he pairs with Telvin Smith to man the middle of one of the NFL's best defenses.
Then there's Smith, who continues to blossom after taking a medical redshirt in his rookie year. Following his fantastic, 12-tackle performance last week against Houston, he currently sits second on the team with 46 tackles, three sacks and three tackles for loss.
It's quite a comeback story, on both accounts. And while Smith and Jack will be competing against each other this weekend, it's a good bet they'll continue to support each other – just as they have all along.
"It's just about the grind. It's something were I had faith in him, he had faith in me – even when the world didn't," Smith said. "It's just a matter of a comm

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We are lukcy enough to use a 445 calendar in my company.
For handle this in Tableau, we have created a customised calendar table used for all our reports.
Attached is a workbook with superstore data & our calendar table.
I am trying to calculate various time comparison, based on the period (for instance a month) that will be selected by the user.
Being a PowerBI users, I am used to playing with calendar table and the ID of each calendar fields (such as period ID, week ID, ...).
But I can't figure out an equivalence in Tableau ?
I have read multiple posts in the forum but could not find the right information.
Woudl you be able to help me or direct me to specific calculations which can handle this ?
You already have all the dates and rest of the tasks is just based on basic Tableau's table calculations.
Table calc is REALLY flexible, which means really complicated sometimes, but that's different discussion from "fiscal problem", but "Tableau calculation's problem".
In otehr words, normal calendar has similar problem.
Thanks for your reply and sorry for coming back so late.
Would you have any reference I can read on the "Table Caculation's problem" you are referring that will help me to solve my 445 problem?
I am a little bit lost and was not able to efficiently use the specific calendar built.
For instance, I am looking at comparing the last 4 weeks with the same last 4 weeks of last year.
How can I compare the weeks W07 to W11 of this year vs the same week numbers of last year ?
I am not sure what is final expecting viz, but here is an example.
"Label Week Of Year" is common across fiscal year, and you can filter these weeks.
And put "Label Year" as dimension and you will get each year's sale on these 4weeks.
Wen you put quick table calc, you will get delta from last year on same label week.


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luke 15 prodigal son
Treat me as one of your hired servants."' 20 And he arose and came to his father. Or are you one of the servants in the household, rejoicing with the father when a lost son finds his way home? Take notes, highlights, and favorites to share or document personal thoughts. 23 And bring (Q)the fattened calf and kill it, and (R)let us eat and celebrate. 17 But when he came to [f]his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here [g]from hunger! 11 And He said, "A man had two sons. 11 And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. Jesus shares the parable with his disciples, the Pharisees and others. 21 And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. Psalms, ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal, ESV Study Bible, Large Print, Genuine Leather, Black, ESV My Creative Bible for Girls, Flexcover, Pink, ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: 27-Volume Old Testament Boxed Set. Who are you in this story? Are you the rebellious son, lost and far from God? So he divided his property between them13 "Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. I have often felt this way, and so has my wife. The father is a picture of our Heavenly Father. Mary Fairchild is a full-time Christian minister, writer, and editor of two Christian anthologies, including "Stories of Cavalry. Typically, a son would receive his inheritance at the time of his father's death. Today's Bible story from Luke 15:11-24 about the prodigal son can help your students consider God's unconditional love. 16 And he (D)was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. Learn more. 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The main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of God. The parable of the Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. All rights reserved. 11:15; Eph. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and (J)ran and (K)embraced him and (L)kissed him. Bitterness and resentment keep the older son from forgiving his younger brother. The parable of the Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. What are the benefits of creating an account? 30 But when this son of yours came, (U)who has devoured (V)your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!' 31 And he said to him, 'Son, (W)you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that [a]is coming to me.' And so he divided his [b]wealth between them. 11 And He said, "A man had two sons. Deep down inside, they know when they have done wrong. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.'". Earlier this week, I met someone else online who felt the same way. With these three parables, Jesus demonstrated what it means to be lost, how heaven celebrates with joy when the lost are found, and how the loving Father longs to save people. We are studying Luke 15:11-24 for Sunday, March 17 – the first part of the story of "the prodigal son." [Study notes for the text are here.] Try it for 30 days FREE. The story of the Prodigal Son, also known as the Parable of the Lost Son, follows immediately after the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin. 32; [Rom. This section of Luke's Gospel is dedicated to the lost. Jesus loved hanging out with sinners because he knew they would see their need of salvation and respond, flooding heaven with joy. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. He takes a job feeding pigs. Are you the self-righteous pharisee, no longer capable of rejoicing when a sinner returns to God? In humility, he recognizes his foolishness and decides to return to his father and ask for forgiveness and mercy. Upgrade, and get the most out of your new account. To subscribe at our regular subscription rate, click the button below. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Advance your knowledge of Scripture with this resource library of over 40 reference books, including commentaries and Study Bible notes. English Standard Version (ESV), ver. It blinds him to the treasure he freely enjoys through constant relationship with the father. 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Lenovo posted record sales of $34 billion
Staff writer ▼ | May 24, 2013
Lenovo Group announced results for Q4 and full-year ended March 31, 2013, with record full-year sales of $34 billion, an increase of 15 percent year-over-year.
The company also saw a record full-year pre-tax income of $801 million, up 38 percent year-over-year and record earnings of $ 635 million, up 34 percent, Lenovo had a strong showing. Lenovo continued to be No1 in PCs, with a record 15.5 percent market share for the full-year. The company has a 5.9 percent share of Smart Connected Devices and global No3 ranking.
Lenovo had record revenues for the fourth quarter of $7.8 billion, four percent year-over-year growth. The company achieved pre-tax income of $166 million during the fourth fiscal quarter, a 63 percent increase over the same period last year. Compared to an overall industry decline of more than 13 percent year-over-year, Lenovo grew at a 14 point premium to the market, besting the industry for the 16th quarter in a row.
The company's gross profit for the fourth fiscal quarter grew to $963 million, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year. Gross margin was 12.3 percent. Operating profit for the fourth quarter was $169 million, up 67 percent year-over-year, while earnings jumped 90 percent year-overyear to $127 million.
Basic earnings per share in the fourth fiscal quarter are 1.22 US cents, or 9.46 HK cents. Lenovo's Board of Directors declared a final dividend of 1.81 US cents, or 14.0 HK cents per share for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
For the 2012/13 fiscal year, Lenovo's PC shipments grew 10.2 percent year-over-year, compared to an overall industry decline of 8.1 percent during this same period. Gross profit for the full year was $4.1 billion, an increase of 18 percent. Gross margin was 12 percent, while operating profit for the full fiscal year was $800 million, a 37 percent jump, and earnings grew 34 percent. ■


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New leads in 1982 disappearance of Qld man
By AAP – Wednesday 12 February, 2014
Detectives say recent tip-offs have led police to suspect hitchhiker Tony Jones, missing since 1982, was murdered in the north Qld town of Hughenden.
North Queensland police say they may now know where hitchhiker Tony Jones was murdered more than 30 years ago.
Mr Jones, who was 20 when he disappeared, last made contact with his Perth-based family on November 3, 1982, to say he planned to hitchhike to Mount Isa from Townsville.
He was reported missing about a week later and has not been seen since.
Several recent tip-offs to Crime Stoppers have led police to believe Mr Jones may have been murdered on his way to Mount Isa in the small town on Hughenden, inland from Townsville.
Officers are now appealing for those who called the anonymous police line to come forward.
Lead investigator, Townsville Detective Acting Superintendent Cheryl Scanlon, says they could hold the key to a major breakthrough in the case.
"Several of those callers have provided information that leads us to suspect Tony Jones was murdered in Hughenden," she told AAP.
"I'm appealing to these to people to again make contact with Crime Stoppers and identify yourselves if you feel that you can.
"Your information is extremely important to the investigation."
Supt Scanlon, who wouldn't reveal what new information had come to light, says it is rare for police to ask anonymous callers to come forward.
A team of detectives will spend this week in Hughenden trying to track down people who lived and worked in the town the year Mr Jones disappeared.
Previous investigations had focused on Townsville and a campsite at Cloncurry River.
The high-profile case sparked National Missing Persons Week, which last year marked its 25th year.
A coronial inquest in 2002 could only conclude Mr Jone's death was "at the hand of a person or persons unknown" and police investigations should continue.
At the request of the Jones family the state Attorney-General agreed to reopen the inquest in 2010 but no date has been set for the hearing.


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Sotiris Kovos is a Greek automobile designer born in Athens in 1965. He studied in Greece and the United Kingdom and became known after his design of Toyota Yaris, introduced in 1999. He is also responsible for a number of concept cars as well as the Lexus SC 430 (Z40) convertible. Since 2002 he has designed scooters and motorcycles for Nipponia, a motorcycle company based in Athens, Greece.

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AutoRAI 1999: the new cars, Toyota & Yaris, Ritz weblog (Last updated: 3 November 2013)

1965 births
Living people
Engineers from Athens
Greek automobile designers

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Summer Preparations For Your Yard.
Summer is the most long-awaited season. The reason is that the weather is sunny and bright. In this case, many homeowners hold events in their backyards. Nonetheless, preparations have to be made before calling friends over for the celebrations. Below are some helpful tips for preparing your yard for the summer.
You should spend ample time in the garden. Your garden needs to have a variety of flowers and ornamental plants for it to look spectacular. The plants reproduce only when pollination takes place. Insects, for example, wasps and bees are efficient pollinators and should exist in your garden. You can easily find the insects in gardens but then, it is not a must. Thus, conducting a butterfly releasing task is important. It entails ordering the insect pollinators online and request that they be shipped directly to your home. That way deliveries can be made in time. Any delays can result in the death of the butterflies causing losses to you and the distributor. The process propels your children to understand and develop a liking for nature. They will grow understanding the importance of the insects and have a passion for preserving them. You can make the event memorable by marking one day in a year as the release day and do it as a family.
Preparing your grill is vital. It is common for people to keep their grills in storage through winter and nibbling animals can destroy the wiring. More so, the moisture can settle on metallic parts resulting in rusting. Therefore, check the grills before planning a barbecue. If it is damaged, call an expert to mend your grill. Likewise, order a new grill if your old one is damaged beyond repair. You can easily find inexpensive grills that use charcoal or gas in local stores. If you have a passion for grilling, buy a commercial grade grill.
Soil water, nutrients and air are a prerequisite to robust plant growth. In this regard, soil aeration and application of fertilizer is mandatory. These practices promote robust growth of green and dense grass. You can handle the job at home if you have the know how or contract a lawn firm. Also, your lawn has to be watered frequently. You need a timer and installation of a sprinkler unit to ensure uniform irrigation. Weeds must also be controlled.
Growth of weeds can result in poor growth of the grass because of competition for water and nutrients. Additionally, they cause the lawn to look unattractive. There are various herbicides and other treatments for weed control. You should also contact weed control professionals. Also, hire professionals to handle the weeds.


In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up an architectural practice in Amsterdam, extending their theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture. The Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau has realized, amongst others projects, the Karbouw office building, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, the Moebius House and the NMR facilities for the University of Utrecht.
In 1998 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established a new firm: UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure.
Current projects include the design for Doha's Intregrated Metro network in Qatar, the Raffles City mixed-use development in Hangzhou and the Canaletto Tower in London. With UNStudio he realized amongst others the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Arnhem Central Station in the Netherlands, the façade and interior renovation for the Galleria Department store in Seoul, the Singapore University of Technology and Design and a private villa up-state New York.
Ben van Berkel has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world. Currently he holds the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor's Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Central to his teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organization and engineering constructions.


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Home / News / Dayton urges stadium authority to limit Wilfs' PSL fees
Dayton issued a letter to "strongly urge" the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority not allow Vikings team owners Mark and Zygi Wilf to pay for large amounts of their share of the stadium costs with personal seat licenses. The authority and the Vikings are negotiating the terms of the team's lease and financing for the downtown Minneapolis stadium that is expected to break ground this fall.
Dayton urges stadium authority to limit Wilfs' PSL fees
By: Charley Shaw	September 16, 2013
Gov. Mark Dayton (Staff photo: Peter Bartz-Gallagher)
On Monday Gov. Mark Dayton sent a letter to Minnesota Sports Facility Authority Chair Michele Kelm-Helgen, the state's lead Vikings stadium negotiator, to "strongly urge" her to conclude a stadium agreement that ensures the NFL team's owners will have to make a substantial investment of their own assets toward paying for the cost of the stadium.
Vikings owners Mark and Zygi Wilf are responsible for $477 million of the $975 million stadium that's planned to break ground this fall. But the Wilfs stand to tap sources of revenue other than their own assets to foot a large portion of the bill. In particular, the team is getting a $200-million grant from the NFL. They also can receive revenue to pay for the stadium from personal seat licenses (PSL) and naming rights, although the amounts are being negotiated between the team and the MSFA.
Dayton has been particularly irritated about the prospect that Vikings owners will charge premium prices for PSLs to defray most of the Wilfs' cost in financing the the stadium. He has said they conflict with his notion of the facility as a "People's Stadium" because high PSL fees would restrict the market for season tickets to corporations and wealthy individuals.
In his letter, Dayton acknowledged that the 2012 stadium legislation that he signed allows for the sale of PSLs. But he called for the MSFA to negotiate a development agreement that involves large amounts of money from the Wilfs' personal finances rather than PSLs.
"I strongly urge you," Dayton said, "to negotiate a final financial agreement, which requires the Vikings' owners to provide a significant share of their financial contribution from their own resources, and not from Vikings' fans through the sale of expensive personal seat licenses (a/k/a 'stadium builder's licenses')."
Dayton noted that the legislation places the exclusive right to sell seat licenses in the hands of the MSFA. The team is the MSFA's agent in marketing and selling the licenses. Dayton said the bill's language gives the MSFA a definite say in the terms of the licenses.
"That exclusive right certainly includes the authority to set the maximum prices, which can be charged for those licenses," Dayton wrote. "While the legislation allows stadium builder's licenses to be a component of the team's financing, those revenues were not intended to replace the need for the team's owners to make a significant equity or capital contribution."
The letter comes after the MSFA's release last Friday of the finding in an investigation of the Wilfs' finances. The investigation was launched after a New Jersey judge found the Wilfs had committed fraud and breach of contract and had violated the state's civil racketeering statute in an apartment development dispute. The MSFA's accounting and legal counsel found that the Wilfs can meet their financial obligations for the stadium regardless of the damages are awarded in the New Jersey case. In his letter, Dayton seized on the report to call on the Wilfs to go light on PSLs.
"Your financial assessment reportedly shows that the Vikings' owners could finance their share of the stadium's costs with little or no revenues from stadium builder's licenses," Dayton said. "Therefore, I strongly urge you to keep those prices at an absolute minimum. I have always said that this building should be a 'People's Stadium.' Excessive personal seat license fees conflict with that goal."
Mark Dayton Mark Wilf Michele Kelm-Helgen Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority politicsinminnesota Vikings Stadium Zygi Wilf 3:08 pm Mon, September 16, 2013 Minnesota Lawyer
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Congratulations to Lacombe High School, Junior High, Elementary and sponsors DOW Canada for a successful ten years of robotics involvement.
Having experienced such great results at the FLL and FTC levels, over 50 high school students are now ready for the challenges of FRC! At their recent celebration, MP Blaine Calkins got to see the results of all the hard work the people of Lacombe have been doing to make their robotics such a huge success.
We wish them the best of luck for their rookie season!
For the first time ever, FIRST has released a teaser trailer to the upcoming FRC challenge! The 2016 game is apparently called FIRST Stronghold, which sounds very intriguing. Check out the video below!


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A 'Prosperous' New Year? No Thanks
by Amy Lignitz Harken
May it be a year of dignity, vigorous compassion, and robust declarations of God's inclusionary vision. You may have your own desires for this new year.
So far, no one has wished me a "prosperous New Year." To be honest, I'm glad for it.
Two years ago, my stack of Christmas cards included two that wished me prosperity for the new year, in hand-written notes scrawled by the senders under warm tidings for Christmas happiness, peace, and joy.
It was no wonder the word "prosperous" made it into my 2016 Christmas cards. Over that year, the word had elbowed its way to the top of the national lexicon, as we, as a nation, elected to the presidency a wealthy man whose rhetoric included a lot of prosperity talk. We (at least some of us) were told that as Americans, prosperity was our birthright. In fact, God wanted us to be prosperous; if we weren't, we were doing something wrong.
As a word, "prosperity" is no slouch, with so many syllables and conceptually bespeaking so many layers: vigor, talent, luck, intelligence, good taste, financial success, social popularity, economic favor. Besides, "prosperous" is just fun to say. It's effervescence bubbles melodically in the mouth.
The New Year is the perfect time to wish somebody prosperity. Wishing somebody a "prosperous Christmas" sounds a little crass. We're supposed to be thinking of homely shepherds and a poor swaddled baby in a trough. Christmas words are supposed to be short and soft: hope, faith, love, peace.
But with the New Year, we get to Epiphany — another zingy word that's fun to say. And, as luck would have it, tradition has taken those scholarly Zoroastrian seekers, those magi bearing poignant religious symbols, and has transformed them into "Three Kings."
Out with the lowly, dung-caked shepherds! In with turbaned royalty bearing Faberge-style casks! It's a New Year and time to feel good about life again, and what better way than to think prosperity.
Back in 2016, amid warm wishes for seasonal peace and joy, "prosperity" resounded in my soul like a victory whoop at a funeral. To be honest, it still does. A second migrant Guatemalan child has died in U.S. custody near the Mexico border, and the government is partially shut down over the issue of building a wall on that same border. The costs of health insurance and health care are sinful and shameful, and our younger populations are suffering epidemics of drug addiction and suicide. You probably have your own list of laments.
Yet, the radio says the most significant numbers indicate a buoyant national economy, and some people say I will benefit personally. A Gallup poll headline declares "Americans Have Higher Hopes for Prosperity than Peace in 2019."
Perhaps, for me, there's the rub. I don't have anything against prosperity, as long as it doesn't come at another's expense. The problem is, it so often does.
All the layers that the word "prosperity" bespeaks — success, vigor, economic favor, etc. — imply "doing better" than the average guy. The dictionary uses the terms "well-off" and "well-to-do" and "favorable." That's better than average, or at least better than some. In this way, "prosperous" implies standing out from the crowd, even above the crowd. In this way, "prosperous" implies separation from the rest of humankind.
As human beings, we are all in it together, equally, no exceptions. The worldview from which the word "prosperous" is so often proclaimed holds that there is only so much goodie to be had. There are only so many jobs, opportunities, desirable neighborhoods and so forth. If there's only so much goodie to go around, we must compete for it with other human beings. That means my prosperity hinges on denying you your prosperity.
When it is framed to induce fear, this version of "prosperity" tells us that immigrants steal jobs from native-born Americans, women steal positions of influence from men, ethnic minorities get the best spots in the best colleges, and so forth, assigning hidden benefits and advantages to being part of a marginalized or minority group.
Of course that's not God's lens. God envisions all of us being prosperous together because there is plenty to go around for everybody to have more than enough. The Godly view is that there's always more to be had — more and better in every way than we can even conceive in our human imaginations — and none of it will harm any other creature or part of God's creation. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jer. 29:11 NIV)
That kind of prosperity — that kind of epiphany —and all those other words that pop and sparkle — rely upon some other words and ring solid in the mouth. Words like justice, righteousness, compassion, solidarity. And those words hinge on those short, soft Christmas words: faith, hope, love, peace.
The thing is, those Christmas words don't have to be so soft, and we don't have to put them away on Dec. 26.
If "hope" sounds too wimpy to support God's brand of prosperity, let's say it in Spanish. Esperanza! Now there's a fun and powerful word, with it's Zorro-like flourish.
Let's say "faith" in German: Glaube! Sounds a little like "global" doesn't it?
And for "peace?" The Hebrew "shalom" is one of my favorite words because it starts with a suggestion to be quiet, and ends with a suggestion to meditate. (Shhh … shall we "ohm?") And the word isn't just about absence of war, it's about renewed wholeness, making up for what's been wrongfully taken away.
What about love? Maybe the Swahili upendo. Isn't that what love is? Up-ending the world the way it is so that it might be all it can be?
Amy Lignitz Harken
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Mobile and digital payments will overtake physical card payments as the predominant non-cash payment mode in India in 2017, driven by demonetisation. The possibility has been expressed by Deloitte India in its report titled 'Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2017'.
"Demonetisation has forced a behavioural change in the Indian consumer. While FinTechs used the 'carrot' approach to entice customers to switch behaviour and adopt digital payments, demonetisation employs a more draconian 'stick' approach, which may prove to be more effective," the report, which was made available to ET, said.
"Demonetisation may well be the catalyst that sees semi-urban and rural markets in India skip the 'card' era and leapfrog directly to 'mobile payments' era," the report added. The firm's research also found that 43% of adult smartphone users in developed markets use their phones to check their bank accounts.
The report said mobile-based digital authentication and identity, which is now gaining popularity as "GSMA Mobile Connect", can help address the issue of multiple login IDs and passwords. "Mobile Connect supports various level of authentication methods including biometric. When used in conjunction with Aadhaar, it can address all levels of authentication," it said.
The report further said telcos in 2017 will design digital transformational programmes to enhance customer experience through more digital interaction points with a focus on customer acquisition, relationship, and value management.
The Deloitte TMT report added that telecom operators would unveil new Internet of Things (IoT) strategies or stretch the existing one to have higher level of participation in the overall end-to-end IoT ecosystem. It said that a couple of "leading operators" would make significant investments to extend their IoT capabilities.
"Though initial focus would be on providing SIMs for IoT devices and solutions, which in 2017 is expected to take off, leading to over a billion additional SIM sales in the next three years," the study said.
The study highlighted that India would be a rapidly growing hub for IoT solutions with market value expected to be $9 billion, with an installed unit base of 1.9 billion by 2020. India IoT opportunity is expected to grow almost 7 times to move from $1.3 billion in 2016 to $9 billion by 2020.


It is a Tabo for any Muslim to respect Darwin's theory, as it contradicts the Holy Quran.
However, I within my heart believe its true when it comes to Mr. Muqtada and Mr. Bush. I honestly believe that these two are Idiots, with high respect to Muqtada's father Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr who I totally respect and believe that if it wasn't for him the Iraqi Shia would have never again prayed together each Friday "Jama' ah", and his genus uncle The Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr who redefined Islam to a new age..
when it comes down to this Idiot things change... what do you mean by wanting a F***ing timetable for troops to withdraw! who's going to clean up the mess the Americans and Brits have caused? YOU? YOUR MILITA?
Ayotollah like those in Iran.
and Sistani and others must turn their backs on al-Sadr and work much harder for reconcilliation.


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Travel Destinations That Might Be Hazardous to Your Health
By Daniel Freeman
If you grew up in the last few decades, chances are you grew up with, or quickly became familiar with, the adventures of one Indiana Jones. Whether he was scouring the sands of Egypt for the Ark of the Covenant, flying from Shanghai to India to take on evil (and politically-incorrect) cults, or battling the Nazis across Europe and the Middle East for the Holy Grail whilst buddying around with his dad (Sean Connery, who else?), Indiana Jones stood for danger and adventure in exotic locales then, and he still stands for that today—
Even if those adventures are a filled with a little more CGI and physics-defying logic. (Surviving a nuclear test in a fridge that goes flying? Really?)
That being said, there are just some places and locations which would be too dangerous even for the likes of the world's most famous whip-cracking treasure hunter, largely because of the medical risks associated with these places.
What are these places, what's at issue there, why should you avoid them, and what precautions must you take if you, for whatever reason, are compelled to visit these places anyway?
Anse a Galets by Port-au-Princien / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0
Haiti has so many factors working against it it's hard to know where to begin, as every reason for Haiti's placement on this list is absolutely heartbreaking. To begin with, the story of Haiti, as with much of the Caribbean and Americas, is one largely influenced by colonialism and slavery, which was not only obviously morally repugnant, but continues to have long and far-reaching social and economic impacts on the region to this very day. As if that weren't cruel enough, Haiti was ruled for decades by dictators, and remains an area subject to military coups and general unrest. Add to that the fact that, despite sharing an island with the Dominican Republic—which, while still contending with its own problems, has done far better for itself—and the fact that it's geography relative to its neighbor means that moisture necessary for crops tends to fall more on that side of the island, leaving Haiti itself often drought-stricken, and the tsunami which devastated much of the country, and you have the perfect recipe for a perpetually-impoverished nation with severe sanitation issues.
All of this goes a long way towards explaining why malaria and other related water-borne diseases continue to infest the region. Disasters and dictators lead to poor infrastructure, that problem is only exacerbated by man-made disasters such as war and natural calamities such as the aforementioned tsunami, and all of that combines to create unsanitary conditions where water cannot be properly treated and cleansed, allowing malaria to breed in the hot, humid climate, and then spread, as with a drought, water is already scare, and so it's hard to be picky about choosing what to drink.
There are pills you can—and, in fact, must—take before leaving for Haiti that can treat the malaria, and bringing your own supply of bottled water can naturally help cut down the risk of consuming something contaminated, but on the whole, Haiti's naturally beauty is stricken by tragedy and disease, and so is, for now, sadly best avoided.
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Beach by Jeff Attaway / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
This region makes the list for reasons which are both recent and obvious.
The outbreak of the Ebola virus is today what the H1N1, SARS, and the Avian Flu were in previous years and, to a certain extent, still are to today. Ebola has led to death after death in the region, and citizens of the US, Canada, and other Western and Eastern nations have been given warnings about traveling to such a climate.
Of course, it's not just Ebola. Malaria is a major problem in parts of Western Africa, for many of the same reasons as it plagues Haiti. Dysentery and other diseases are ripe throughout the area, again, not without cause. The region is rife with mosquitoes, and all the problems related to drought and sanitation present in Haiti are present here as well. Add to that the fact that even something so simple as a mosquito net is absent from some hotels and outdoor areas, and you can quickly see how one little mosquito bite can turn your trip to West Africa into an absolute nightmare.
Industrial China
Smog by NASA [Public Domain]
China may not, at first glance, seem all too obvious to have on this list, but some of the more industrial areas are definitely hazardous to your health. A lifelong native of Los Angeles County, I can tell you that smog's definitely an ever-present issue here—but we have nothing on industrial China. There, smog levels can reach so high as to actually become actively hazardous.
Have you seen any of the pictures featuring smoggy-green Shanghai, or Chinese citizens walking around with surgical masks on their faces? That would be the reason. Keep in mind that Chinese cities can be massive, with the population of Shanghai itself topping 24 million total residents. To put that into perspective, if it were its own country, Shanghai would be the 51st most populous nation on Earth—more populous than Australia, Taiwan, Syria or Israel. Pack that many people into a city—even an exceptionally-large city—and you can bet that you're going to have some problems with air pollution.
That being said, with nearly 1/5th of the world's total population, a rich culture, and a standing as one of the true economic titans in the world, it's entirely possible that you still might be finding yourself travelling to China, for business, pleasure, or both. If you're planning on traveling to the industrial areas of China, you're going to want to take some precautions. To begin with, you're going to want to bring or purchase some of those aforementioned surgical masks, particularly if you're headed for one of the smoggier areas. There are websites online that track the overall air quality in Shanghai and other major cities on a day to day basis, and you're definitely going to want to check those out and plan both your trips and excursions outside accordingly. Finally, if at any time you feel any itchiness, irritation, or burning sensation on your skin or in your eyes, you should go get out of the air as fast as possible and seek further medical assistance as needed.
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Syria and Ukraine
Aleppo by Freedom House / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
The reason these regions are dangerous for medical reasons are pretty obvious. Infectious diseases? Not so much of a danger here. Improvised explosives and rocket-fire? Far more problematic.
It's tempting to think "medical reasons" only means diseases and the like, but it's worth remembering that war zones such as these areas can be hazardous to your health as well. What's more, war-torn areas and humanitarian crises tend to go hand and hand. In the absence of proper hospitals or sanitation, and with entire neighborhoods or towns bombed to bits, it's extremely easy for germs and medical maladies to spread quickly—just one more reason Ukraine and Syria are two vacation destinations best avoided for now.
The Danakil and Sahara Deserts
Volcano Eruption by Iany 1958 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
Vast deserts are just generally inhospitable, and these two in Africa are doozies. The temperatures there regularly top 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is, of course, extremely dry there. Whereas Western Africa has issues with mosquitoes and the spread of malaria, this region is just simply arid and, sadly, not entirely free from the ravages of war, either.
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Approximate Similarity Search
I am implementing an approximate similarity search using multi-index hashing. I have a set (T) of millions of strings (of same length) and I have a query string(P) (or set of strings) that needs to find similar strings former set. My implementation is the following (assuming length is 64 and similarity is defined as hamming distance less than 15)
Divide each string in T into 16 parts and store each part in a hash table where key is the hash value and value is a vector containing the indices of strings. Ex < 198675, {2, 7, 8, 456}> [I have 16 such hash tables for each portion of the string]
For a query string P, divide it into 16 parts and for each part collect the set of indices(if present) from each hash table and then take the union of all. That becomes a small search space.
Calculate the hamming distance between the query and the resulting set of strings.
I have implemented in C++ and it's working fine, but I am still wondering how could I make it more faster. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
strings hashing searching
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$\begingroup$ Would it be correct to assume that in this context Hamming distance means the number of characters that differ (not the number of bits that differ)? $\endgroup$ – D.W.♦ Apr 13 '17 at 23:36
$\begingroup$ There's lots of work on the harder version of this question where we use edit distance instead of Hamming distance: see e.g. cs.stackexchange.com/q/47794/755, cs.stackexchange.com/q/27539/755, cs.stackexchange.com/q/2093/755, cs.stackexchange.com/q/53299/755. I don't know what is known about the Hamming distance. $\endgroup$ – D.W.♦ Apr 13 '17 at 23:57
Your method is reasonable. There are other possibilities as well.
Randomized algorithm: locality-sensitive hashing
Here is a randomized algorithm that finds all matches with high probability (probability $1-\epsilon$ where $\epsilon$ is exponentially small, but not zero). It will probably be more efficient.
Build 100 tables. Each table is constructed as follows: Randomly pick a subset of 8 positions (out of the 64 possible positions). Now a string is hashed by keeping only the 8 characters from those 8 positions, and the string is stored in the hashtable keyed on that hash. For instance, if the positions associated with a particular table are $i_1,i_2,\dots,i_8$, then the string $S$ is hashed by hashing $S[i_1],S[i_2],\dots,S[i_8]$ and using that hash value as the key to store $S$ in the table. Each table has a different and randomly generated subset of positions.
Store each of the millions strings in all 100 tables. When you get a query string $Q$, look it up in each of the 100 tables to find all possible matches, take the union of those possible matches, and calculate the Hamming distance between $Q$ and each possible match.
This is very similar to your method, but each "part" is longer (8 characters instead of 4 characters), so there will probably be many fewer "false matches" from the hashtable.
There is no guarantee that this approach will find all valid matches, but most likely it will. The probability that a valid match is not found is
$$(1-(49/64)^8)^{100} \approx 0.0000035,$$
so missing a match is unlikely. You can tune the probability of a missed match by adjusting the number of tables, and you can adjust the parameters ($8,100$) to find the setting that gives you the best possible performance.
This is effectively a form of locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). There may be other schemes worth investigating. You could also look at MinHash.
Trie
Another approach is to store the dictionary of millions of strings in a trie data structure. Given a query string $Q$, you can start traversing the trie, doing a recursive breadth-first search to explore all paths that are at distance at most 15 from $Q$. For many paths, you'll be able to immediately terminate the search.
D.W.♦D.W.
$\begingroup$ Thanks for the answer. Yes, I have already tried LSH, minhash and simhash techniques. But I found that the execution time is still the same. I am doing some more operations after finding the similar strings, so it seems that portion might be taking more time. BTW LSH based techniques generate some false positives, so I wanted to make sure I am not missing anything. Anyway, thanks again for the answer. $\endgroup$ – viz12 Apr 14 '17 at 14:55
$\begingroup$ @viz12, it's worth telling us in the question what approaches you've already tried so we don't waste your time (or ours) telling you about something you already know about. Did you try the randomized algorithm I suggested, with many tables? Did you try tuning the parameter choices? If you'd like better answers, I encourage you to edit your question to describe what approaches you tried, why they didn't work, and what the breakdown of running time is with your current approach. $\endgroup$ – D.W.♦ Apr 14 '17 at 16:34
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Video: Sam Adams and the FU Rule
Getting Feedback, Encouraging Feedback
When you're the boss, it's really hard to get people to tell you what they really think — to be Radically Candid with you. Showing that you want feedback and genuinely appreciate it when it's given is key. The worst thing you can do is to criticize the criticism you get. In fact, it can actually be helpful to encourage people to be Obnoxiously Aggressive with you.
Here's a funny example of Jim Koch, co-founder of the Boston Beer Company (makers of Sam Adams), doing just that.
Usually when we talk about embracing the discomfort, we are talking about enduring that awkward silence when you ask somebody who works for you what they think of your performance. But sometimes you don't get awkward silence, you get an f-bomb. Now it's your discomfort, not the other person's, that you have to embrace.
Admittedly, the wording used — personalized and arguably unkind — is quintessential Obnoxious Aggression, and we don't really advise encouraging that between employees. But, as the boss, you often have to be the emotional punching bag, able to absorb the f-bombs that get hurled at you.
We also want to highlight some of the underlying, more Radically Candid aspects of this approach for getting and encouraging feedback:
Have a go-to question — To get someone to give you feedback, it can be really helpful to have a go-to question that gets the conversation started. We use examples like "What could I do differently, or more of, to make it easier for us to work together?" or "Tell me how I'm making your job harder." Getting someone to tell you "F you" is another take on this underlying goal. You want to get people to tell you what they really think.
Build a culture of feedback — By encouraging people to use this rule with each other, and especially with him, Jim is creating a built-in mechanism in the company culture to enable people to give and get feedback. He sets an example by listening respectfully to feedback and sending a message that getting things out in the open is the only way to resolve them.
Challenge Directly AND Care Personally — Jim lays basic ground rules for the "F You" rule that help it become more Radically Candid. It's a pretty direct challenge on its own, but he clarifies that it also has to be followed by specifics, so that it isn't just an unclear, hurtful phrase. He also says that it has to be given humbly. The person delivering it has to be open to hearing the other person's side, showing that they care about both perspectives.
We say Kudos to Jim Koch for making people feel free to tell him what they really think!
But what do you say? How does this approach strike you? Does it put you off? Does it seem like Obnoxious Aggression?
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Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and co-founder of the company Radical Candor. In addition to Radical Candor, she is the author of three novels and the new book Just Work: How To Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Create a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusion and co-founder of Just Work the company. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. She's also managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.
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TurboTax, YouTube TV, Library of Congress, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, December 23, 2019
ProPublica: TurboTax Tricked Customers Into Paying to File Taxes. Now Several States Are Investigating It. . "Multiple state attorneys general, including Josh Stein of North Carolina, have opened investigations of TurboTax maker Intuit, following ProPublica's reporting that the company charged millions of Americans for tax filing services they were eligible to receive for free, according to people with knowledge of the investigations."
TechHive: Make the most of YouTube TV with these 14 tips. "Although a simple interface is one of YouTube TV's best qualities, not all of its features and capabilities are obvious from the outset. Here, then, are some tips and tricks that will help you make the most of it."
Library of Congress: New Endowment to Support National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. "The Library of Congress today announced a major endowment in support of the work of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS). Established by Susan D. Diskin in honor of her late mother, the Tiby Diskin Memorial Fund will provide resources for the Library to expand its services to individuals with visual impairments and other print disabilities."
Lawfare: The Biggest Social Media Operation You've Never Heard of Is Run Out of Cyprus by Russians. "What the heck is TheSoul Publishing? I'm still honestly not sure. Here's what I do know: Measured in terms of views and subscribers, it had the third-largest reach of any group of entertainment channels on YouTube in November—outranked only by Disney and WarnerMedia. It is run by Russian nationals and based in and managed from Cyprus, with U.S. operations housed in a shared work space in New York. It funds itself with ad revenues from YouTube and Google worth tens of millions of dollars. And in 2018, it purchased a small suite of Facebook advertisements targeting U.S. citizens on political issues—and it made those purchases in rubles."
International Business Times: A YouTuber from Balochistan is petitioning against Google Translate. "Chiragh [Baloch] stated that the Balochi language is spoken by almost 10 million native speakers, making it 0.15% of the world's population. Furthermore, he stated that the Balochi language is spoken in the regions of Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Southern Turkmenistan, Oman, India and Middle East countries." Balochistan, which my spell checker insists is spelled Baluchistan, is a region in the Middle East and — it's complicated. The Diplomat has a history / overview.
Ars Technica: Congress passes legislation expanding robocall penalties. "The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Thursday that aims to end the scourge of robocalls. The TRACED Act had already passed the House of Representatives, so it's now headed to President Donald Trump's desk for signature."
Bloomberg: The Hacker Who Took Down a Country. "Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He's about to get out of prison."
CNET: Popular messaging app ToTok reportedly an Emirati spy tool. "A popular messaging app billed as a secure way to chat with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates to track the activities of those who download it, The New York Times reported Sunday. The app, which debuted only a few months ago, has been downloaded millions of times around the world." Please note that ToTok is not TikTok.
ELLE Magazine: Google Loved Me, Until I Pointed Out Everything That Sucked About It. "My last day came in May 2019, six months after the Google Walkout, during which 20,000 Googlers left their desks in a mass protest unprecedented in the tech industry. I helped to organize it after corporate documents obtained by the New York Times showed that Google paid executive Andy Rubin nearly $90 million in severance after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Little did we know it would be like waving a lit match in front of a powder keg: when people poured out of Google offices in 50 cities around the world a week after the severance news broke, it was clear this wasn't just about Andy Rubin anymore."
Phys .org: Study busts 9 to 5 model for academic work. "QUT's Professor Adrian Barnett led the research which examined more than 49,000 manuscript and 76,000 peer review online submissions to The BMJ and The BMJ Open, measuring whether the submissions were made on weekends, national holidays or late at night." Good evening, Internet…
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Amateur notes: Badgers' Lavelle named to W-League honor team
07/23/2015, 7:30am CDT
By ERIC ANDERSON
Just as she does for the University of Wisconsin, Rose Lavelle made a huge impact for the Seattle Sounders Women in the USL W-League.
The U.S. Under-23 national team midfielder earned one of the 11 spots on the All-League Team announced Wednesday after her strong summer.
She scored seven goals and set up four others in her nine appearances for the Sounders, who were 8-0-1 with her in the lineup.
Lavelle and defender Kinley McNicoll, her teammate with the Badgers and Sounders, were both named to the All-Western Conference team. McNicoll had one goal and one assist in nine appearances for Seattle this season.
However, neither UW standout was in the lineup Saturday as the Sounders' season ended with a 2-1 loss to the Colorado Pride in the Western Conference final.
McNicoll is playing with Canada at the Pan American Games in Hamilton, Ontario – they lost to Colombia 1-0 in the semifinals Wednesday night and will play Mexico in the bronze medal match Friday.
Defender Vanessa Legault-Cordisco (Marquette) and the Laval Comets will play host to the W-League Championship this weekend in Quebec. The Northeastern Conference champion Comets (9-2-1), who have allowed just 11 goals in 12 matches, are seeded third and will take on second-seeded Colorado (10-2-1) in the semifinals Friday night. The Washington Spirit Reserves (10-0-3) are the No. 1 seed and face fourth-seeded Quebec Dynamo ARSQ (8-2-2) in the other semifinal, with the final and consolation matches Sunday. All four games will be streamed live on the W-League's YouTube channel.
The Chicago Red Stars Reserves, who have nine players with state ties on their roster, won the Women's Premier Soccer League Midwest Region title Sunday in Pontiac, Mich., and advanced to this weekend's Final Four National Championships in Edmond, Okla. The Red Stars Reserves (11-0-1) rolled past Empire Revs WNY 5-1 in the semifinals Friday and blanked Motor City FC 2-0 in Sunday's regional final – it was their eighth clean sheet of the season. Chicago will face host Oklahoma City FC (12-2-1) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, with the winner advancing to play the Boston Breakers Reserves (11-0-1) or SoCal FC (9-0-2) in Sunday's 1:30 p.m. final. Goalkeeper Monica Gonyo (New Berlin/Waukesha Catholic Memorial), defender Valerie Gonyo (New Berlin/Waukesha Catholic Memorial), midfielder Mary Luba (Shorewood/Marquette) and defender Brittany Von Rueden (Milwaukee) are on the Red Stars Reserves' roster, along with five current Marquette players: defenders Jacie Jermier (McFarland) and Erin Holland, defender-midfielder Morgan Proffitt and midfielder-forwards Liz Bartels and Ashley Handwork.
UW defender Matej Radonic played all 90 minutes as the Des Moines Menace routed the Chicago Fire Under-23 team 10-0 on Friday to clinch their second straight USL Premier Development League Heartland Division title. One night later, the Badgers' Nick Jones scored his first goal of the season and college teammate Alex Masbruch (Slinger) added an assist as the Menace blanked the Fire 3-0 to close out the regular season. Des Moines (11-2-1), which also has UW defender Carl Schneider (Madison La Follette) and Marquette forward C. Nortey on its roster, takes an eight-game winning streak into Friday's Central Conference semifinal against K-W United (12-2-1) in Pontiac, Mich.
The other PDL Central Conference semifinal is between the host Michigan Bucks (11-1-2) and the Thunder Bay Chill (9-2-3). David Caban (Kenosha Tremper/UW) recorded his second assist of the season Saturday as the Bucks blanked the Dayton Dutch Lions 2-0 to win the Great Lakes Division – the defender was an honorable mention selection on the PDL Team of the Week for his performance. UW-Green Bay's Dani Alvarado has a 1.00 goals-against average and three shutouts in seven appearances for the Chill. The conference final is Saturday, with the winner advancing to the national semifinals.
Yale United and Green Bay Team Miller share the lead in the six-team Premier Division of the Northern Wisconsin Soccer League with 7-1-1 records as the league heads into a monthlong break, while Westchester United (5-2-0) tops the six-team Division I standings. League play resumes Aug. 16, with the playoffs starting Oct. 17 and the finals scheduled for Oct. 25. NWSL standings, schedules and results
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Have you ever thought that you could have your tweets appear on Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)? Do you think that this could be of any advantage to you? Is it worth all the hassle in the world? Well folks, here's a fun fact for you: Google, the biggest search engine on the world wide web, has commenced indexing tweets. The below mentioned infographic compiled by Dustin Stout portrays the methodologies by which one can get his/her tweets to appear in the SERPs.
We all know that if one wants to get access to the latest and hottest news doing rounds in the social as well as mainstream media, Twitter is definitely the place to have a look into. In consonance with Twitter's great attribute of presenting hot news, Google's actual purpose in indexing tweets is to treat the Googlers with more breaking news alerts.
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Headline CPIF inflation in August was 2.2%, unchanged from July, while core inflation fell to 1.2% (from 1.3% in July). This was lower than the consensus expectation and the Riksbank's forecast (published only last week), mainly due to core inflation coming in weaker than anticipated. This was the seventh month out eight this year that the Riksbank's core inflation forecast has proven too optimistic, despite the central bank continuously shifting its forecast downwards.
The decline in core inflation was fairly broad-based, with several components coming in slightly lower than expected. While some of the weakness can be attributed to volatile air travel and package holiday prices, which might be expected to bounce back, the broad-based move lower is concerning. Energy prices were roughly in line with expectations, but the contribution from energy is likely to start falling back over coming months as electricity prices fall (as autumn rain fills up the hydropower dams in the north, exerting downward pressure on prices) and oil price base effects kick in.
However, there are some bright spots for the Riksbank in today's data. Service price inflation increased to 1.5% (from 1.2% in July) while inflation for imported goods and services fell to 0.8 (from 1.2%). This may give some comfort to the Riksbank, which has long seen service inflation as key to sustained domestic price pressure. Given the weakness of the krona, import prices are likely to pick up over the autumn. If service prices have broken the downward trend from the past year, that suggests the Riksbank may eventually get the stronger core inflation it is looking for.
For the central bank, today's figures are a concern, in particular coming after yesterday's downward revision to GDP growth. But a couple of poor data points are not enough to shift the Riksbank away from its intention to raise interest rates in December or February, and as discussed, today's data release is not entirely negative. While a February hike now looks considerably more likely than December, it will take more negative developments to shift the Riksbank further into 2019. We still consider a first rate hike later in 2019 as more likely than not, but are waiting for the Riksbank minutes on Monday to judge how definitive the central bank's latest guidance really is.


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Depending on the fabric type you can wash or dry-clean loose covers. If you wash them, replace them before they are completely dry to re-shape and stop any shrinkage. You will need to iron them in position, using a cool iron on foam furniture (do be careful I'd hate for your to scorch your lovely cushions).
If the covers cannot be removed, have them professionally cleaned, or clean with an upholstery shampoo and spotting kit. Always test on a hidden area first and make sure you don't over wet the cloth.
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Brianna gave birth to a female calf on Saturday.
Just a few short days after her daring run down Route 80, recently rescued Brianna the cow gave birth to a female calf Saturday afternoon.
Brianna fell 8 feet out of the second level of a truck headed to a Paterson slaughterhouse around 2:45 a.m. on Thursday night. She wandered around the highway until Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue came to corral her.
The slaughterhouse decided to let Skylands keep her, so she will join another 70 cows in the sanctuary.
Mike Stura, the founder of the sanctuary, was worried about how Brianna's fall would affect her pregnancy. But her newly born female calf, christened Winter, is perfectly healthy, and Brianna is a "natural" at motherhood, Stura said.
Stura has seen plenty of crazy cow escapades during his four years at Skylands and four years previous working for other rescue organizations. He took in Freddy the cow after Freddy made headlines for escaping a Queens slaughterhouse and wandering the streets of New York in 2016.
But Brianna's story seems to have inspired people in New Jersey and abroad. Stura said Skylands, which runs off of donations, got a gift from someone in Reykjavik, Iceland, who heard about Brianna's story.
Erin Petenko may be reached at epetenko@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @EPetenko.


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require "erector/raw_string"

module Erector
  module Text
    # Emits text to the output buffer, e.g.
    #
    #   text "my dog smells awful"
    #   => "my dog smells awful"
    #
    # If a string is passed in, it will be HTML-escaped. If the
    # result of calling methods such as raw is passed in, the HTML will not be
    # HTML-escaped again. If another kind of object is passed in, the result
    # of calling its to_s method will be treated as a string would be.
    #
    # You shouldn't pass a widget in to this method, as that will cause
    # performance problems (as well as being semantically goofy). Use the
    # #widget method instead.
    #
    # You may pass a series of values (i.e. varargs). In that case, each value
    # will be emitted to the output stream in turn. You can specify a delimiter
    # by using an options hash with as the final argument, using +:join+ as the key,
    # e.g.
    #
    #   text "my", "dog", "smells", :join => " "
    #   => "my dog smells"
    #
    # You may also pass a Promise as a parameter; every tag
    # method now returns a Promise after emitting. This allows
    # you to easily embed simple HTML formatting into a sentence, e.g.
    #
    #   text "my", "dog", "smells", b("great!"), :join => " "
    #   => "my dog smells great!"
    #
    # (Yes, the initial call to +b+ emits "\great\" to the output buffer;
    # the Promise feature takes care of rewinding and rewriting the output
    # buffer during the later call to +text+.)
    #
    def text(*values)
      options = if values.last.is_a? Hash
        values.pop
      else
        {}
      end
      delimiter = options[:join]

      values.select{|value| value.is_a? Promise}.each do |promise|
        # erase whatever the promises wrote already
        promise._rewind
      end

      first = true
      values.each do |value|
        if !first and delimiter
          output << h(delimiter)
        end
        first = false

        case value
        when AbstractWidget
          # todo: better deprecation
          raise "Don't pass a widget to the text method. Use the widget method instead."
        when Promise
          value._mark # so the promise's rewind won't erase anything
          value._render # render the promise to the output stream again
          # note: we could let the promise cache its first effort, but
          # here I think it's better to optimize for memory over speed
        else
          output << h(value)
        end
      end
      nil
    end

    # Returns text which will *not* be HTML-escaped.
    def raw(value)
      RawString.new(value.to_s)
    end

    # Emits text which will *not* be HTML-escaped. Same effect as text(raw(s))
    def text!(value)
      text raw(value)
    end

    alias rawtext text!

    # Returns a copy of value with spaces replaced by non-breaking space characters.
    # With no arguments, return a single non-breaking space.
    # The output uses the escaping format ' ' since that works
    # in both HTML and XML (as opposed to ' ' which only works in HTML).
    def nbsp(value = " ")
      raw(h(value).gsub(/ /,' '))
    end

    # Returns an HTML-escaped version of its parameter. Leaves the output
    # string untouched. This method is idempotent: h(h(text)) will not
    # double-escape text. This means that it is safe to do something like
    # text(h("2<4")) -- it will produce "2<4", not "2&lt;4".
    def h(content)
      if content.respond_to?(:html_safe?) && content.html_safe?
        content
      else
        raw(CGI.escapeHTML(content.to_s))
      end
    end

    # Return a character given its unicode code point or unicode name.
    def character(code_point_or_name)
      if code_point_or_name.is_a?(Symbol)
        require "erector/unicode"
        found = Erector::CHARACTERS[code_point_or_name]
        if found.nil?
          raise "Unrecognized character #{code_point_or_name}"
        end
        raw("&#x#{sprintf '%x', found};")
      elsif code_point_or_name.is_a?(Integer)
        raw("&#x#{sprintf '%x', code_point_or_name};")
      else
        raise "Unrecognized argument to character: #{code_point_or_name}"
      end
    end

  end
end

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