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Q: Big O time complexity of "Merging 2 Packages" problem On one of these coding interview prep websites, I was given this question:

Merging 2 Packages Given a package with a weight limit limit and an
  array arr of item weights, implement a function
  getIndicesOfItemWeights that finds two items whose sum of weights
  equals the weight limit limit. Your function should return a pair [i,
  j] of the indices of the item weights, ordered such that i > j. If
  such a pair doesn't exist, return an empty array.
Analyze the time and space complexities of your solution.
Example:
input:  arr = [4, 6, 10, 15, 16],  lim = 21
output: [3, 1] # since these are the indices of the
                 # weights 6 and 15 whose sum equals to 21

Initially I was thinking of a solution which iterated over the the array, then an inner loop to iterate over the remaining array to check if the compliment exists (limit - elementA = elementB).
Here's my code:
def get_indices_of_item_weights(arr, limit):
    for idx, i in enumerate(arr):
        diff = limit - i
        if diff in arr[idx+1:]:   # constant lookup
            for idx2, j in enumerate(arr[idx+1:]):
                if j == diff:
                    return [idx+idx2+1, idx]
    return []

The website explained that a solution like this is still O(N^2) time complexity.  But isn't it diminishing in time complexity since the remaining array becomes smaller?  i.e. O(log N).
Can someone help explain why that approach is not O(log N)?

A: For each of the first half the packages, you have to look at all of the second half of packages.  That right there gives a lower bound of (n/2) * (n/2) = n^2 / 4 = O(n^2) comparisons.

A: You are enumerating all pairs (i, j) where j > i. There are N * N numbers (i,j) with no restrictions. Subtracting off (i,i) we have N * N - N numbers. Now each pair occurs exactly twice as e.g. (1,2) and (2,1) so divide by two to find the number of all pairs (i,j) with k > i as (N*N - N) / 2 which is still O(N*2).
Check N=4 expect (4*4 - 4) / 2 = 6
1,2 1,3 1,4
2,3 2,4
3,4

A: Sorting the array is O(n log n).  Finding a suitable pair is O(n) using a sorted array, as may be found by walking inwards from the ends of the sorted array.  Starting with (1, n), then, for each pair (j, i), with j < i: Unless the target was found, or the target was not found and i = j + 1, then if the sum is less than the target, add one to j, and repeat, else the sum is greater than the target, add subtract one from i, and repeat.  The time is either O(n log n) or O(n), depending on whether the array is initially sorted.  The space needed depends on the sort algorithm.  Finding the pair on a sorted array has constant storage required.

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The history of Thanksgiving presents parents and teachers with a wonderful opportunity to explain the relevance of the Thanksgiving traditions in a contemporary context. In addition, an understanding of Thanksgiving history can explain the more universal human need to give thanks to a higher being for the good things in our lives.
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The ancient Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Egyptians all had their own versions of Thanksgiving celebrations, giving thanks to the various deities that directed their lives. Today, Christians across the globe celebrate Thanksgiving with prayers, religious feasts, Thanksgiving plays, skits and other activities. Twenty-first century Thanksgiving activities vary from community to community, but all focus in one way or another on the importance giving thanks in a modern and turbulent world.
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The Pilgrims were confused and alarmed until the stranger explained that, although he was of Indian origin, he had mastered the English language by talking to English fishermen and crew members around the coast.
The following day, Samoset returned to the settlement with a fellow Indian called Squanto, who also spoke English. Squanto had picked up the language when visiting England and Spain. According to Thanksgiving history, the Plymouth Pilgrims would not have survived without the help of Squanto. He taught them how to cultivate the local terrain as well as which plants were poisonous and edible or medicinal.
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I have to say, life is pretty damn good right now. Despite the economy, recent celebrity deaths, and overall glum state of the world, my life and my friend's lives seem to be picking up. I am currently at Heathrow airport on my way back to Chennai. I just had the best week in London: I was invited to come for work, was put up in a decent hotel in a really cute part of town, I met some new friendly people, saw an old friend, and most importantly, I got to know my boss.
I'll start at the beginning. My original flight back to Chennai was supposed to be on July 8th from SF to Singapore to Chennai. I got an email from AR at the last minute asking if I would like to stop in London on my way to India for work. Sure! I said. Although I knew I was going for something work related, I really had no idea what I was going to be doing there. The whole thing was oh so Mission Impossible: a strange vague request to fly to a different continent.
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I got a mysterious email saying "We will pick you up at 2 pm. Please be ready." So I was. They came for me at 4. Where did we go? To AR's honorary graduation at Middlesex University! They presented AR with an honorary doctorate degree. We got there and I was shocked to see the police had been called. We walked in as a group, but immediately after we did so, someone literally shoved me out of the way and started clawing at AR. I've never seen such hysteria up close. People were crying, taking pictures, hugging him, screaming, shaking etc. etc. It was a crazy experience. He accepted his degree graciously and gave a heartfelt and moving speech.
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After hitchhiking to Daehan Dawon during the early hours of an autum morning, I set up and captured the fabled mists of Boseong. This wasn't my only attempt at the shot, the weather let me down on the other occasions; and so it was incredibly gratifying to finally get the shot I envisaged.
It's nearing 3 a.m. here in Busan, and my bags, books, and beach mat are almost fully packed. Five months after landing in Korea, and immediately embarking on a full-time, Monday-Friday gig teaching short-vowel sounds to tykes– the week-long summer vacay has arrived. About a month ago I splurged on The Rough Guide to Korea (I highly recommend) and have enjoyed every second getting lost in its maps, descriptions, and region-by-region highlights. In the end, deciding how best to spend eight days cruising around the country wasn't hard–I'm an island girl at heart.


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Sarasota Florida real estate sales ended Year 2014 at a record level with 11,550 properties changing hands during the year. The 2014 total exceeded the previous record established back in 2004 when 11,482 home and condominium sales were recorded.
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Curious about Google's new TV platform? See how the new service stacks up on key features with Apple TV, the Boxee Box, Tivo and other potential competitors.
Beginning this fall, select home entertainment devices will bring Google into your living room. The appropriately named "Google TV" Internet-enabled TV platform will come preloaded on some Sony HDTVs and Blu-ray players, and a set-top box from Logitech will also feature the service. Think of the platform as an Android-like solution for television watching. It won't be sold directly by Google, but if the company has its way, Google TV will be making its way to a much wider variety of home entertainment products in the not-so-distant future.
There's nothing revolutionary about Google's new television platform, announced yesterday at the Google I/O developer conference, but the company aims to standardize the platform used by Internet-connected TV manufacturers, creating an integrated solution for popular services like Hulu and Netflix Watch Instantly. If successful, Google TV might mean an untimely death for standalone devices like Roku's HD XR and the Boxee Box, while more versatile solutions like TiVo Premiere and gaming consoles like the Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Sony PlayStation 3 will either adopt portions of the platform or return to being dedicated devices, as they were just a few years ago.
With Google on every TV, there's no need to adjust component settings just to watch your favorite show on Hulu or update your Twitter feed. You'll also only need to worry about getting one device online—your television—rather than adding (and paying for) extra peripherals. It's important to recognize that while Google TV will be initially available through a set-top box from Logitech, Google's ultimate intention is to simplify your Internet-connected living room, by decreasing the number of devices you need to buy and use, not by adding more.
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Ronald J. Madigan
Abstract: Flight test experiments were carried out, in an H-19 helicopter, to establish the level of performance improvement which could be realized by updating an on-board inertial navigation system. Testing was accomplished in two parts. The first was pure inertial to establish the guidance system performance in the aircraft environment, and the second part established system performance in a position/velocity up-date mode. Simulations were carried out to include position/velocity/attitude up-date mode. Typically, tests were performed to examine total system position error as a function of flight profile, flight time, o flast up-date and frequency of up-date. The equipment used for the experiments (approximately sixty flights) included an inertial navigation system, a data transmission system, a digital command system and a radar system as the external navigation aid. Data will be presented in graphical form.
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Assuming ROFL wins this weekend, 2 teams are eliminated?
And if they win again next weekend MWC is over?
Correct. It looks like it could be a very short mwc. I had anticipated 6-7 weeks, but with the massive upset of Berserkers over Dragon Army (and props to them) then it cuts it a week shorter, so it could be 5 weeks now. Which actually works out great in a way because I started mwc roughly 3 weeks early, so anyone can host the very next tournament right after the 4th of july weekend when the prime mything season still has plenty of time left. Any haters who want to run a tournament differently can do so right after and do it however they want to their heart's content.
P.S. - to any teams that are eliminated, I will still try to organize another match with the other team if your teams still want to play for fun, even if it doesn't count for the tournament anymore.
troll harder akira. I can look forward to you hosting the next tournament immediately after this one, right?
Giant Killer General wrote: troll harder akira. I can look forward to you hosting the next tournament immediately after this one, right?
Doubtful, I barely have enough time to beat you trowing these days much less time to run a tourney. Definitely looks like there will be a TWDS18 tho.


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Almondvale South Retail Park
This page shows businesses on Almondvale South Retail Park. Click on a business to bring up its details and a map showing its location.
Babies 'R' Us
Babies 'R' Us is a retailer of baby products including furniture, toys, cots, car seats, clothing and bedding.
Address: Unit 2, Almondvale South Retail Park, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6XG
Frankie & Benny's
Frankie & Benny's is a chain of Italian-American 1950s themed restaurants with numerous outlets across the UK.
Home Bargains is a discount home store with a chain of shops around the UK selling a variety of branded household items such as toiletries and cleaning products at bargain prices.
Address: Unit 4, Almondvale South Retail Park, Livingston, Wes Lothian, EH54 6XG
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a chain of fast food restaurants specialising in chicken meals such as chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches.
Sainsburys is one of the UK's largest supermarket chains with hundreds of stores around the country. Sainsburys sells thousands of groceries including fresh produce, frozen foods, processed foods, dairy produce and a wide range of household goods.
Sports Direct is a sporting retailer selling a variety of sports clothing, footwear and equipment from its stores around the UK.
Toys 'R' Us is a toy megastore with shops around the UK and the rest of the world selling a range of toys for boys and girls.
Map showing Almondvale South Retail Park in Edinburgh.


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Lads in Latex? Why young heter…
Lads in Latex? Why young heterosexual men don't use condoms
Wed, 27 May 2009 - 11:13
Addressing heterosexual men's roles is critical in HIV prevention. New research documents the understanding which inform men's unsafe sex.
Global research on HIV/AIDS has established that gender and sexuality are key factors in explaining patterns of HIV transmission. But heterosexual men's role in the sexual transmission of HIV has rarely been addressed.
Few studies have focused on men's involvement in safe and unsafe heterosexual sex, far more research on the heterosexual transmission of HIV centres on women than on men, and very few education campaigns are aimed at straight men. There are good and bad reasons for this. On the one hand, this reflects feminist achievements in identifying AIDS as a women's issue. On the other hand, men's absence reflects the status of maleness as normative and invisible and perpetuates the allocation of responsibility for safe sex only to women. Women's inclusion in AIDS policy and education is a valuable achievement, and there are sound feminist reasons for directing attention also to heterosexual men.
When it comes to HIV/AIDS, men are part of the problem, but they are also part of the solution. Growing recognition of this is reflected in recent international efforts to involve men in HIV prevention, such as the UNAIDS campaign "Men: Make a Difference". Research too is shifting, and a small body of scholarship focused on heterosexual men's roles in safe and unsafe sex has emerged. My PhD research (Flood 2000) joined a handful of Australian studies in the area. I conducted in-depth interviews with seventeen men aged between 18 and 26 in Canberra, examining men's sexual practices and the meanings and sociosexual relations through which these are organised.
WHY MEN DON'T USE CONDOMS
Feminists writing on HIV/AIDS argue that there are constraints to women's and men's practice of safe sex at every level of social interaction and social structure, from the broad structuring of heterosexual culture and gender inequalities, to the micro-politics of sexual negotiation in heterosexual relationships, to the organisation of sexual practices. Gender inequality is a key barrier to HIV prevention. Unequal power relations limit the adoption of effective risk-reduction strategies, or produce the adoption of ineffective strategies (Doyal 1994, p. 17). Women's inferior economic and social status increases their vulnerability to HIV and limits their ability to control their sexual and social lives and protect themselves. At the same time, both women and men's vulnerability to infection is heightened by common constructions of gender and sexuality.
There has been strong agreement across the literature on AIDS and heterosexual men about which aspects of heterosexual men's understandings and practices limit their adoption of safe sex. Condom use is seen to run counter to six central aspects of the enactment of masculinity and heterosexual men's sexuality. I summarise these here, before exploring the results of my own research among heterosexual men.
First, sexual control and knowledge are constructed as male, while condom use involves the man's agreeing to a woman's request to change his sexual behaviour (Wilton 1997, p. 34). Masculinity is equated with sexual activity and knowledge, while femininity is equated with passivity and innocence (Foreman 1998, p. 31).
Second, male sexual pleasure is the defining principle of heterosex and is prioritised. Penis-in-vagina intercourse and male intravaginal ejaculation define 'real sex', and men's sexual pleasure is focused on the penis. Condom use involves men deprioritising their own sexual pleasure in the interests of sexual safety, while adopting non-penetrative sex poses an even further risk to masculine identity (Wilton 1997, p. 34). Third, male sexuality is understood to be an uncontrollable or barely controllable force, typically through the notion of "male sex drive" (Kippax, Crawford & Waldby 1994, p. S318). In contrast, condom use involves men demonstrating a degree of control over their sexual behaviour.
Fourth, responsibility for prophylactic (and contraceptive) safety is allocated to women while masculinity is associated with risk-taking. Women rather than men are seen to be the gatekeepers and guardians of sexual safety (Waldby, Kippax & Crawford 1991, p. 40). Safe sex involves men accepting or taking responsibility for their partners' and their own sexual safety, rather than engaging in risk-taking which is masculine and thus masculinising (Wilton 1997, p. 34).
Heterosexual men's adoption of safe sex is further limited by their risk perceptions and strategies of risk management and, in particular, their basis in assumptions about women's sexual histories. Heterosexual men are said to distinguish between two types of women, "clean" and "unclean", on the basis of their appearance, behaviour and resistance or otherwise to sexual overtures, and men perceive the need to take precautions only with the latter (Waldby, Kippax & Crawford 1993; Wight 1993).
Heterosexual men's homophobia is a sixth factor limiting their adoption of safe sex. Heterosexual men may feel distant from the epidemic and unconcerned about its effects and they may see themselves as at low risk of contracting or transmitting HIV. Because of homophobic fear, they may try to disassociate themselves from AIDS and thus not respond to safe sex education (Campbell 1995, p. 207).
LUST, TRUST AND LATEX
How do heterosexual men themselves understand safe and unsafe sex? My own research finds that young heterosexual men emphasise five themes in accounting for their non-use of condoms. Some of the configurations of sociosexual meaning and practice documented are at odds with the depictions of masculinity and masculine sexuality in the literature described above. This suggests that a more thorough engagement with heterosexual men's sexual lives is necessary in order to understand and influence both women's and men's roles in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Greater detail on my study's results can be found elsewhere (Flood 2000, 2003).
First, men stress the risk of pregnancy rather than the risks of HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and they deal with the risk of pregnancy by relying on their partners' use of the Pill. The young heterosexual men in my study spoke of being unwilling to become fathers, especially at this stage in their lives, and some emphasise the financial and emotional burdens of unwanted fatherhood. As one man said, "18 years of paying for a kid, you'd be screwed and getting nowhere in life."
When heterosexual men use condoms, often they do so to prevent pregnancy rather than the transmission of STIs. However, in long-term or regular relationships, young men (like young women) commonly rely on the contraceptive Pill.
I found three problematic features to young men's reliance on the Pill. Some men simply assume that women are using the Pill — because they are sexually active, because Pill use is seen to be common, or even because the woman did not ask them to wear a condom. Some men ask or pressure their female partners to go on the Pill. Some men move from condoms to the Pill very early in their sexual involvements, too early to have established that both people were free of diseases. And some men started having intercourse without condoms after they and their partners had decided to use the Pill but before it had become effective.
Second, men emphasise that condoms decrease their penile sensation and are difficult to use. This represents that popular idea that having intercourse with condoms is like 'taking a shower in a raincoat'. Condoms do have a material effect on men's sensate experience of intercourse: some men take longer to reach orgasm, and some men lose their erections. However, men's bodily experience is shaped by cultural meanings, including the widespread idea that condoms are desensitising.
Heterosexual men's complaints about 'showers in raincoats' demonstrate a privileging of the penis as an important site of sexual sensation and erotic pleasure. To the extent that these complaints inform heterosexual men's reluctance to use condoms, they privilege men's pleasure over prophylactic and contraceptive safety.
Men also remark that condoms are difficult to use. Some men experience difficulties in unwrapping the condom and putting it on while still erect, and in keeping it on and sustaining an erection throughout the session of intercourse.
I found that three other aspects of heterosexual men's understandings of sexual practice further hinder safe sex, particularly the option of minimising the risk of HIV transmission (and pregnancy) by avoiding intercourse. For many heterosexual men, penis-in-vagina intercourse is the most important and defining practice constituting 'sex'. Intercourse often is seen as the inevitable and natural endpoint of a sequence of other sexual practices. And some men in my study emphasise that intercourse represents intimacy and intimacy requires intercourse. This understanding again makes it harder to forego intercourse, but also to use condoms for intercourse because they are seen to block the closeness expressed through the practice.
Third, men emphasise that condoms "kill the moment" and interrupt the "heat of the moment" of sexual episodes. For many of the men in my research, sexual encounters involve a particular ambience or "moment" that is passionate, sexually and emotionally intense, verbally silent, and unable to accommodate calm considerations of prophylaxis or of the possible consequences of the episode. The significance of the "heat of the moment" is particularly in thwarting awareness or reflection about condoms or the prevention of disease transmission.
The "heat of the moment" is 'hot' because it is sexy — it involves the literal heat of two bodies in physical contact, and both participants are 'hot' in the thrall of sexual passion. Condoms kill this moment: either condoms cannot be incorporated into the episode, or they are unwelcome intrusions which interrupt and spoil the moment.
Several aspects of contemporary Western ideologies of sexuality help sustain heterosexual men's allegiance to the "heat of the moment". Sex is seen as a fundamentally irrational and ecstatic domain, such that condoms represent the intrusion of the practical, responsible and mundane into a space that is impractical, irresponsible and ethereal. Sexual relations in general and heterosexual relations in particular are constituted through discourses of the 'natural' and the 'biological'. While the "heat of the moment" and similar notions are not exclusive to heterosexual men, they are underpinned by the construction of heterosexual desire as spontaneous and irresistible.
Fourth, men rely on notions of trust and monogamy to abandon condoms in favour of the Pill (or other contraceptive methods) in regular relationships. Many of the interviewees represent trust, monogamy and closeness as intertwined meanings which rule out condom use in a regular relationship. They quickly define sexual involvements with a particular woman as a "relationship", and relationships signify trust and monogamy, again rendering condom use redundant. This may show a "gender convergence" in the meanings young men and women give to sex and relationships.
I found that a sense of trust and sexual safety can be established very quickly, even over the course of a single night. Thus the fact of having sex can itself create trust, and trust means sex without condoms.
Fifth, young heterosexual men believe that they are very unlikely to contract HIV because they see their social circles, institutions, the heterosexual community or heterosexual sex per se as safe and free of HIV/AIDS, so there is no need to wear condoms. Such boundaries of imagined safety are constituted by widely available discourses of AIDS as gay and heterosexuality as safe, and by the protection granted by particular institutions' regimes of HIV-testing and exclusion, but also by the actual low prevalence of HIV and AIDS. As one man said, "in the heterosexual community it's pretty rare that you'll catch a disease. […] clean sex, acts, in, just normal circumstances, very low chance of catching something." It is not merely an imagined 'heterosexual community', but the very sexual practices which constitute it, which are rendered AIDS-free in this construction.
Education and prevention efforts directed at the heterosexual transmission of HIV must engage with the sexual cultures of heterosexual men. My study reveals that while there are important understandings and practices among men which constrain condom use, there are also significant resources in men's lives for safe sex.
Given the small number of men on which the analysis is based, it cannot be claimed that the patterns established can be generalised to all young heterosexual men in Australia, let alone to men in the UK or elsewhere. But the possibility that these configurations of meaning and practice are present in similar forms in the lives of other men deserves further investigation.
Effective approaches to HIV prevention will need to be gender-sensitive. They will need to empower both women and men to challenge unequal power relations and narrow constructions of gender. And they will need to transform the wider gender and sexual relations within which HIV transmission occurs.
Campbell, Carole A. (1995) Male Gender Roles and Sexuality: Implications for Women's AIDS Risk and Prevention. Social Science and Medicine. 41(2), pp. 197-210.
Doyal, Lesley (1994) HIV and AIDS: Putting Women on the Global Agenda. In Lesley Doyal, Jenny Naidoo, and Tamsin Wilton, (eds) AIDS: Setting a Feminist Agenda. London: Taylor and Francis.
Flood, Michael (2000) Lust, Trust and Latex: Why Young Heterosexual Men Don't Use Condoms. PhD thesis, Women's Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. URL: http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20011205.151419/index.html
Flood, Michael (2003) Lust, Trust and Latex: Why Young Heterosexual Men Do Not Use Condoms. Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 5.
Foreman, Martin (ed.) (1998) AIDS and Men: Taking Risks or Taking Responsibility?. London: Panos Institute and Zed Books.
Kippax, Susan, June Crawford, and Catherine Waldby (1994) Heterosexuality, Masculinity and HIV. AIDS, 8 (suppl. 1).
Waldby, Cathy, Susan Kippax, and June Crawford (1991) Equality and Eroticism: AIDS and the Active/Passive Distinction. Social Semiotics, 1(2), pp. 39-50.
Waldby, Cathy, Susan Kippax, and June Crawford (1993) Cordon Sanitaire: 'Clean' and 'Unclean' Women in the AIDS Discourse of Young Men. In Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, and Graham Hart, (eds) AIDS: Facing the Second Decade. London: Falmer Press, pp. 29-39.
Wight, Daniel (1993) Constraints or Cognition? Young Men and Safer Heterosexual Sex. In Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, and Graham Hart, (eds) AIDS: Facing the Second Decade. London: Falmer Press, pp. 41-60.
Wilton, Tamsin (1997) Engendering AIDS: Deconstructing Sex, Text and Epidemic. London: Sage.
michael.flood[at]anu.edu.au
[Citation: Flood, M. (2003) Lads in Latex? Why young heterosexual men don't use condoms. Impact, London-based journal of the National AIDS Trust, October, No. 4, pp. 10-11.]


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Primary School Literacy Standards Should Be Higher, Warns Ofsted Inspector
March 24, 2012 (PRLEAP.COM) Education News
Ofsted has warned that pupils in England are falling behind other countries and that the reading standards in primary schools should be higher.
The chief schools inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has admitted that literacy progress has stalled and that standards have not improved for seven years.
The examiner has cautioned that one in five 11-year-olds do not make the grade, which equates to around 100,000 pupils not reaching the standard expected at the end of primary school each year. And furthermore, those learners who are making the grade are still not guaranteed to achieve a good GCSE grade in English.
The comments have been criticised by teaching unions who dispute the claims. They say that big improvements have been made over the past 20 years and that the government is merely putting a spin on international data.
Sir Michael told BBC Newsnight that literacy and reading standards rose between 1995 and 2005 but have since stalled; and that England is being overtaken by other leading nations. In a speech, he said that the comparison with international counterparts showed a "worrying picture."
In 2009 the UK ranked in 23rd place in a global assessment of literacy and countries that are reportedly improving faster than England include Norway, Japan, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Ofsted advises that the secret to boosting children's reading and writing abilities and therefore overall academic performance, is to nip errors in the bud early on and get things right when children are young. What is more, the present target for 11-year-olds is also coming under fire as whether or not it is challenging enough.
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package org.apache.spark.sql

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream

import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkFunSuite}
import org.apache.spark.serializer.{JavaSerializer, KryoSerializer}
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.InternalRow
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{UnsafeProjection, UnsafeRow}
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.util.GenericArrayData
import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
import org.apache.spark.unsafe.Platform
import org.apache.spark.unsafe.memory.MemoryAllocator
import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String

class UnsafeRowSuite extends SparkFunSuite {

  test("UnsafeRow Java serialization") {
    // serializing an UnsafeRow pointing to a large buffer should only serialize the relevant data
    val data = new Array[Byte](1024)
    val row = new UnsafeRow(1)
    row.pointTo(data, 16)
    row.setLong(0, 19285)

    val ser = new JavaSerializer(new SparkConf).newInstance()
    val row1 = ser.deserialize[UnsafeRow](ser.serialize(row))
    assert(row1.getLong(0) == 19285)
    assert(row1.getBaseObject().asInstanceOf[Array[Byte]].length == 16)
  }

  test("UnsafeRow Kryo serialization") {
    // serializing an UnsafeRow pointing to a large buffer should only serialize the relevant data
    val data = new Array[Byte](1024)
    val row = new UnsafeRow(1)
    row.pointTo(data, 16)
    row.setLong(0, 19285)

    val ser = new KryoSerializer(new SparkConf).newInstance()
    val row1 = ser.deserialize[UnsafeRow](ser.serialize(row))
    assert(row1.getLong(0) == 19285)
    assert(row1.getBaseObject().asInstanceOf[Array[Byte]].length == 16)
  }

  test("bitset width calculation") {
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(0) === 0)
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(1) === 8)
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(32) === 8)
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(64) === 8)
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(65) === 16)
    assert(UnsafeRow.calculateBitSetWidthInBytes(128) === 16)
  }

  test("writeToStream") {
    val row = InternalRow.apply(UTF8String.fromString("hello"), UTF8String.fromString("world"), 123)
    val arrayBackedUnsafeRow: UnsafeRow =
      UnsafeProjection.create(Array[DataType](StringType, StringType, IntegerType)).apply(row)
    assert(arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getBaseObject.isInstanceOf[Array[Byte]])
    val (bytesFromArrayBackedRow, field0StringFromArrayBackedRow): (Array[Byte], String) = {
      val baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
      arrayBackedUnsafeRow.writeToStream(baos, null)
      (baos.toByteArray, arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getString(0))
    }
    val (bytesFromOffheapRow, field0StringFromOffheapRow): (Array[Byte], String) = {
      val offheapRowPage = MemoryAllocator.UNSAFE.allocate(arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getSizeInBytes)
      try {
        Platform.copyMemory(
          arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getBaseObject,
          arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getBaseOffset,
          offheapRowPage.getBaseObject,
          offheapRowPage.getBaseOffset,
          arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getSizeInBytes
        )
        val offheapUnsafeRow: UnsafeRow = new UnsafeRow(3)
        offheapUnsafeRow.pointTo(
          offheapRowPage.getBaseObject,
          offheapRowPage.getBaseOffset,
          arrayBackedUnsafeRow.getSizeInBytes
        )
        assert(offheapUnsafeRow.getBaseObject === null)
        val baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
        val writeBuffer = new Array[Byte](1024)
        offheapUnsafeRow.writeToStream(baos, writeBuffer)
        (baos.toByteArray, offheapUnsafeRow.getString(0))
      } finally {
        MemoryAllocator.UNSAFE.free(offheapRowPage)
      }
    }

    assert(bytesFromArrayBackedRow === bytesFromOffheapRow)
    assert(field0StringFromArrayBackedRow === field0StringFromOffheapRow)
  }

  test("calling getDouble() and getFloat() on null columns") {
    val row = InternalRow.apply(null, null)
    val unsafeRow = UnsafeProjection.create(Array[DataType](FloatType, DoubleType)).apply(row)
    assert(unsafeRow.getFloat(0) === row.getFloat(0))
    assert(unsafeRow.getDouble(1) === row.getDouble(1))
  }

  test("calling get(ordinal, datatype) on null columns") {
    val row = InternalRow.apply(null)
    val unsafeRow = UnsafeProjection.create(Array[DataType](NullType)).apply(row)
    for (dataType <- DataTypeTestUtils.atomicTypes) {
      assert(unsafeRow.get(0, dataType) === null)
    }
  }

  test("createFromByteArray and copyFrom") {
    val row = InternalRow(1, UTF8String.fromString("abc"))
    val converter = UnsafeProjection.create(Array[DataType](IntegerType, StringType))
    val unsafeRow = converter.apply(row)

    val emptyRow = UnsafeRow.createFromByteArray(64, 2)
    val buffer = emptyRow.getBaseObject

    emptyRow.copyFrom(unsafeRow)
    assert(emptyRow.getSizeInBytes() === unsafeRow.getSizeInBytes)
    assert(emptyRow.getInt(0) === unsafeRow.getInt(0))
    assert(emptyRow.getUTF8String(1) === unsafeRow.getUTF8String(1))
    // make sure we reuse the buffer.
    assert(emptyRow.getBaseObject === buffer)

    // make sure we really copied the input row.
    unsafeRow.setInt(0, 2)
    assert(emptyRow.getInt(0) === 1)

    val longString = UTF8String.fromString((1 to 100).map(_ => "abc").reduce(_ + _))
    val row2 = InternalRow(3, longString)
    val unsafeRow2 = converter.apply(row2)

    // make sure we can resize.
    emptyRow.copyFrom(unsafeRow2)
    assert(emptyRow.getSizeInBytes() === unsafeRow2.getSizeInBytes)
    assert(emptyRow.getInt(0) === 3)
    assert(emptyRow.getUTF8String(1) === longString)
    // make sure we really resized.
    assert(emptyRow.getBaseObject != buffer)

    // make sure we can still handle small rows after resize.
    emptyRow.copyFrom(unsafeRow)
    assert(emptyRow.getSizeInBytes() === unsafeRow.getSizeInBytes)
    assert(emptyRow.getInt(0) === unsafeRow.getInt(0))
    assert(emptyRow.getUTF8String(1) === unsafeRow.getUTF8String(1))
  }

  test("calling hashCode on unsafe array returned by getArray(ordinal)") {
    val row = InternalRow.apply(new GenericArrayData(Array(1L)))
    val unsafeRow = UnsafeProjection.create(Array[DataType](ArrayType(LongType))).apply(row)
    // Makes sure hashCode on unsafe array won't crash
    unsafeRow.getArray(0).hashCode()
  }
}

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Rebekah Jackson-Gravely is an Advanced Rehabilitation Therapist at the Regional Rehabilitation Centre at Hamilton General Hospital. She has worked at Hamilton Health Sciences for 24 years, and also volunteers as co-chair of HHS Smart Commute.
What are your roles at HHS?
I have two roles at HHS. As an Advanced Rehabilitation Therapist, I work with acquired brain injury (ABI) survivors in their homes. We see clients up to a 90 minute drive from Hamilton. Working with clients weekly in their homes gives me a better understanding of what their challenges and strengths are. We educate our clients on acquired brain injury and provide them with strategies for managing their brain injury related challenges, from teaching them how to cook again, to facilitating a successful transition to employment, or returning to their post-secondary education on a modified basis.
My other role is a volunteer role, as co-chair of HHS Smart Commute. Our goal is to educate, encourage, and facilitate HHS staff to use more sustainable ways of commuting to work, such as carpooling, cycling, or taking public transit. This reduces emissions in our hospital communities, and frees up more parking places for patients and families. HHS Smart Commute has built secure bike shelters at four of the main sites, has secured dedicated carpool parking spots, provides an online carpool matching site, provides staff with the Emergency Ride Home program along with other incentives and initiatives.
Another alternative to driving to work is telework. Many staff members within my department and others are able to telework, which provides us with higher job satisfaction, less time in traffic, less wear and tear on our vehicles, and more time and energy for our hospital work. I also believe it has the potential to reduce staff sick time, and increase staff retention. This year HHS Smart Commute won the Employer of the Year Award by Metrolinx, which covers employers east of Oshawa to Niagara Falls.
When you tell people what you do, how do they usually react?
People often think that working with ABI survivors must be difficult. However, I find it very rewarding, and interesting, since no two clients have the same challenges.
I have always been interested in how the brain works, and why people act the way they do. I also wanted to help people, and make life better for them. My role at Smart Commute also allows me to pursue my passions, by doing what I can to help our environment, by reducing emissions, and promoting sustainable commuting to HHS.
I love being able to brighten people's lives, give them hope, and be creative. The brain doesn't typically heal the way other parts of the body heal. Clients are often left with long-standing cognitive, memory, fatigue and pain issues. These challenges often prevent patients from being able to return to work, and many other activities that brought them meaning in their lives. This can be very difficult for them. I'm grateful that I can provide them with strategies that help them manage their challenges, and get some of their former life back.
I feel grateful that I initiated getting the secure bike shelters for HHS. Our hospitals used to be hot spots for bike thieves. Now staff can cycle to work and know their bike will be there at the end of the day. I also love hearing from past ABI clients that they have continued to make gains after being discharged from our program.
What might your patients or colleagues be surprised to learn about you?
Outside of work, I help my husband restore old homes, and I write music. I enjoy writing in many genres. I'm currently working on writing the music for a musical.
I had planned to become a neuropsychologist, but when I started in my current role, I appreciated having the time to enjoy life, and not having to study all the time. I'm contemplating returning to school part time in a few years to get my Master's degree in counselling, so I can counsel ABI survivors.


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Farm tractors in North Dakota
Marvin Baker
Local Columnist
We all know North Dakota is an agricultural state and it takes an awful lot of farm machinery to take this state from seeding through harvest every year.
And when we get out in the country, we'll see all kinds of machines and colors moving slowly but methodically through fields.
We like to think that farm machinery for the most part is American made, but after a check of some brand names, it turns out American made tractors are and have been the exception, not the rule.
Perhaps most familiar to all of us is John Deere. These tractors and combines are expensive, but they are arguably the most durable tractor on the market and they hold their value better than any other.
For any of us who purchase John Deere products in this part of the nation, we find they are built in Moline, Ill., and Waterloo, Iowa, with some other plants in Georgia and Tennessee.
Case IH tractors are built right here in North Dakota at a Fargo plant. They are also produced in a plant in Racine, Wis.
Once in a while, we'll see a Steiger. They too, were made in Fargo, but have since merged with Versatile, a Canadian company that builds its tractors in Winnipeg and has them shipped to Fargo where the transmissions are put in them.
Anything beyond those brands and you are reaching if you think they are American made.
Kubota is a popular tractor and you see them all over, especially in landscaping and in ranching. Kubota is a Japanese company, but some of its tractors are made in the United States in Georgia.
Just like the Steiger, there might be some Belarus tractors still around. This was probably the cheapest tractor on the market, but it was bare bones. It had just the minimum just to make it operational.
Those tractors were made in Minsk, Belarus and shipped to the United States. You could buy a Belarus for about a third of what you would pay for a John Deere. But, like the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.
Rhino International is a Chinese company that makes a tractor that looks like it's made in China.
And speaking of Chinese, New Holland tractors have kind of a sketchy route to the farm in North Dakota.
Some of their tractors are made in Pennsylvania, while others are made in China and Cambodia. The company that owns New Holland is a partnership with two Chinese companies and one in Italy called Fiat.
Once in a while we'll see a TV commercial or magazine ad for Mahindra. "I love my Mahindra," is part of the commercial.
This is a fairly reasonable tractor for what you are getting, but it stands to reason. Mahindras are built by cheap labor in India
Next on the list is the Branson tractor. This has an American name, but you guessed it, it's made overseas, this time in Korea.
There's one more tractor to highlight here and that's Fordson. There are still a few of these in North Dakota.
Originally made by Ford, the ownership of this tractor was changed 300 times until finally, it stopped production So now, if you want parts, you'll have to cannibalize another Fordson.
Anyway, in the beginning, they were made by Ford. Actually they were always made by Ford, but ownership changed hands frequently.
In the 1920s and 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Fordsons went to China to compete with inferior machinery there.
Finally, in the past approximately 15 years of its existence, Fordson was a British tractor.
All of these tractors were or are operating in North Dakota. It's just that so many we're familiar with, are either made overseas in their entirety or partially.
When you look at these machines, you have to choose which one you want based on your own personal situation.
It's obvious that John Deere sells more than any other, but it would be interesting to see what percentage of tractor and combine sales do go to John Deere.
Case-IH and Versatile are other good choices, especially having a Fargo connection and not some crazy place like Cochabamba, Bolivia or Sarajevo or something.
Caterpillar should also be listed here because Cat is an American company, but manufacturers its products all over the world.
There are plenty of those in North Dakota also, but they are mostly made for the industrial segment.
Bobcat skid-steer loaders are similar. Made here in North Dakota with a Korean ownership.


If someone told me a few months ago that there was an idea for an anime about Batman in feudal Japan, I'd think they were crazy…crazy like a fox! To be honest, it sounds like one of the coolest concepts ever. Let us introduce you to Batman Ninja. In the trailer we see the Dark Knight transported from what appears to be a modern-day setting, back to the time of samurai in feudal Japan. Like any classic Batman story, he must battle against his maniacal nemesis, the Joker.
Joining in the fray will be a host of DC characters from the Batman universe that include: Nightwing, Robin, Red Hood, Red Robin, Alfred, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Penguin, Clayface, Gorilla Grodd, Deathstroke, and Two-Face.
Jumpei Mizusaki, who is known best for his work on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, is directing this animated feature. Alongside him will be Takashi Okazaki, whom is the creator of the acclaimed Afro Samurai series. He'll be behind all of the character designs, which look phenomenal from what we can see in the trailer.The screenplay is written by Kazuki Nakashima, the same lead writer from the anime series Kill la Kill.
Batman Ninja will release early in 2018.


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Failure is the biggest fear that business owners have. But failure comes in all shapes and sizes, which mean that failure happens all the time. Business is not measured by how little failure they go through, but as to how they can surpass each of them.
Some of the biggest challenges that entrepreneurs can face are the lack of capital, and the inability to make sales. Both of these, if left unaddressed, can be the end of one's business. It is therefore crucial that an entrepreneur comes up with a quick solution to solve these two before they lead to serious troubles.
Among the many business processes that require funding, marketing can be one of the most demanding. And while it does aim to bring in sales, marketing cannot always guarantee that it can bring back the huge money.
That's where Facebook can help regarding marketing. A lot of marketing campaigns that would cost a massive amount of money when done through other channels can be done for free on Facebook. For example, TV commercials which are very costly to finance can be published for free on your Facebook page. Of course, there are also premium Facebook advertising that would need payment, but this is still a lot cheaper than traditional media.
But Facebook is not only cheap, but also very useful. Doing marketing through Facebook can be rewarding.
Among the most significant benefits that Facebook has its vast reach. Facebook is known for its massive user base. But tapping all of them might not be the most efficient way to do it. What's great is that you can target your campaigns to the right audience.
While targeted advertising is a premium form of Facebook advertising, the result is more effective. The idea is that you will be able to push your campaigns to Facebook users who are more likely to be converted into actual customers, as compared to regular Facebook advertising which presents your promotions to simply everyone you are connected to.
By investing a relatively small amount of money as compared to what is needed for traditional marketing channels, targeted Facebook advertising allows you to match your ads' audience with your target market. By doing this, your campaigns will have higher success rates, which means that your efforts are more efficient, and can bring in more money.
Using Facebook, you can communicate with your potential customers. This is not just through your posts, but also through Facebook messenger. This opens a whole new way to communicate with your customers.
A lot of good can happen if you maintain excellent communication with your customers. And by communicating with your customers, you are enabling your business to have a better relationship with them, which fosters loyalty to your brand, helping you secure a brighter future for your business.
Always make sure though that when you communicate with your customers, you should never sound like you're pushing them to buy. You should always keep in mind that you have to be subtle, and you should never appear to be hard-selling. You should appear to be very serious in helping them out. And it should not just be for the show; you should give a lot of importance in sincerely addressing all the concerns that your customers have so that you will be able to earn their trust and patronage, helping you earn loyal customers.
Among the biggest goals of marketing is to help spread the word of your brand. When your brand recognition is high, then your business can make a lot of sales. Facebook is a great platform to do your marketing campaigns that are aimed to improve your brand awareness. There are numerous ways for you to do your marketing geared for brand awareness through Facebook, and these can all bring about the desired results.
Word-of-mouth has always been one of the most effective marketing strategies, and it has transcended to digital platforms such as Facebook. It is effortless to go viral on Facebook, and it should be for the right reason. When a lot of good messages about your brand has spread, you will be able to realize a lot more sales than ever before.
You should also capitalize on sharing feedback from your satisfied customers so that your other customers would be at more ease. When their doubts and hesitations are addressed, then the probability of them buying is higher. This is especially important for first-time buyers who had no prior experience transacting with you. With feedback from other customers, they are more likely to trust your brand better.
Facebook users are given the option to check-in to where they are located. For Facebook users, this means that they can see where their friends are. But for businesses, this means that you will be able to offer your products and services to possible customers who checked-in nearby.
Facebook Places allow business to offer deals that will be visible to users who are within the vicinity. If you do this, you have more chances of being seen by customers who are near you. And with a winning offer, they are more likely to come to you.
While it is true that failures come and go, some faults may bring about catastrophic consequences to your businesses, especially when referring to your inability to make enough sales to keep the business running.
Effective marketing can help you address that, but without enough funding, you will be unable to do campaigns that are big enough to bring in substantial results. The good thing is that Facebook can help you do that with both free and paid campaigns, the latter even being a lot cheaper than traditional platforms. So maximize your use of Facebook marketing now to save your business.
Kevin Urrutia is the founder of Voy Media, a Facebook Advertising Agency in New York. He helps businesses maximize the benefits of Facebook Advertising, leading to a dramatic improvement in sales while pushing down costs. Voy Media thoroughly studies each client and comes up with tailor-fit solutions to bring about the best results.
Time To Take Your Website To The Next Level!


Okay, so you have been reading blogs and watching Youtubers for a while and you think that maybe you would be a good blogger. It all adds up, you love to write, you love to read and you think you would be super successful, what else could you possibly need?
First and foremost, you need a website, a place where you will post said blog posts, I mean it's a pretty important part of having a blog. If you are adventurous as heck then of course you could go self hosted, but this is usually an option for those far more advanced in website building and hosting.
My biggest recommendation is that you host your blog on Blogger or WordPress, there are more websites available, but these are the two most popular and used by other bloggers. You can switch from one to the other, but it is a time consuming and boring process that no one likes doing so it is best to chose one from the outset that you're going to like.
So why pick Blogger? Like most people I opted for Blogger, the website is free, easy to use and navigate. With Blogger there is a lot on the web about how to edit html, get your own domain and there are many, many templates to buy online so you have a lot to choose from. It is also ran by Google meaning SEO tends to be pretty good.
Why would you pick WordPress then you ask? Well I personally am not a fan of WordPress, many people love it or move from Blogger to WP. A lot of bloggers sat that once you get to grips with WP it actually becomes quite easy to use. A Downfall to WP is that you have to pay for certain things, such as editing your blog layout, but then I am biased.
There are other options out there, but Blogger and Wordpress seem to be the most popular websites to start your blog on. Like I said you can switch, but it can be chaotic so it is best to make an informed decision when you are starting your blog, but you don't have to worry too much about possibly changing your mind down the line.
You have picked the website you want to start your blog on, now the next step is to actually give that blog a name. For some, this is the hardest part of starting a blog, for me, it was easy. The name of your blog can be anything from your name to words that relate to your topic or some words that describe your personality.
Again, you can change your blog's name down the line, but if you're up for buying a domain and losing the ".wordpress"/".blogspot" down the line it is best you start how you mean to go on and pick a name that you will still like down the line. Don't make it anything like your early 2000's email address.
You're blog's name doesn't have to correlate to the topic, mine for one doesn't. What you should do is come up with something unique and don't copy other people's blog names, it is totally fine to take inspiration from the blogs you love, but try not to have almost the exact same name, not only does it look bad for you, but it also means their blog isn't as unique as it once may have been.
Now, it is quite nice to have a trial period with your blog before you buy your domain, but I do wish I hadn't waited so long to purchase my domain. I was blogging about six months before I got mine, which means all of my comments deleted and I had to go around changing all the links in my social medias... it was a time consuming process. So what you should do is purchase your domain as quickly as you can, making the process easy and simple. GoDaddy is your go to website and it only costs about £1-£3 for the first year.
The layout of your blog is super important if you want to be taken seriously. Having a blog layout that isn't completely newbie-esque results in you being taken more seriously as a blogger. You look much more professional and hard working thus gaining more credibility as a blogger. You don't have to spend hundreds of money on a layout, Etsy has some absolutely beautiful templates for as little as £5, yes £5. If you are into HTML you could try switching up your layout yourself.
You can write about anything you please; beauty, fashion, lifestyle, blog tips, parenting... anything! I like to think my blog is very much centred around beauty, but I also love writing blog tips and tricks posts as well as a good couple of lifestyle posts. You don't have to pick one specific niche subject and stick to only writing about that topic, but it is nice to have one topic you reguarly post about that you're remembered for doing.
A lot of people like to create new social media channels when they start a blog; Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook. Doing this keeps all of your social media channels connected, for example all of my accounts are 'heythererobyn' continuing the branding of my blog through to my social media channels. This means it is easier to find your social media accounts.
I didn't start a new Twitter or Instagram, I was actually heythererobyn on them both before my blog which is where my blog name came from. Instead I decided that my private accounts would be both private accounts and blogging accounts, I would neglect one of the accounts if I had to have more than one on each social media channel.
You should create a Bloglovin account however, Bloglovin is a website that makes it easier for other bloggers to keep track of your post updates, and it allows you to keep up with you favourite blogs. A Facebook page is also a good idea for non-blogger readers to keep up-to-date with your posts.
Once this is all up and running you can start sharing your posts on social media. Share your Facebook page on your private Facebook to gain some likes, start sharing your posts in the blogger hashtags; #lbloggers, #bbloggers, #fbloggers, #blogginggals etc, find out more on blogger hashtags on my Blogger A-Z post.
If you want to gain some readers and followers a great way to do this is to get involved in blogger chats, each day a blogger chat is happening and you can take part, chat with fellow bloggers and share your posts. More information on blog chats on my Blogger A-Z post too, click here to read more.
It is so important if you are going to start a blog and take it seriously to create a schedule. When creating a schedule for when you're going to post it is important to take into account all the days you will be able to write up posts. When you're just starting to blog you will most likely not be writing your posts too far in advance.
Having a schedule makes it so much easier for your readers to keep up-to-date with your posts because they will know which days to check out your blog. It also gives you a deadline for when you want to have your posts finished and scheduled. All in it keeps you organised and your readers updated on your blog.
If you have gotten this far you are most likely going to be a long-term blogger. The best thing to do now is to start learning from fellow bloggers. There are so many bloggers out there with so much information to share on how to blog and how to do things that are helpful for bloggers.
Some of my favourite bloggers to learn from are cocochicblog, Media Marmalade, inthefrow, lydiaelisemillen, and A Girl Obsessed. I also have a couple posts on HTML and blog tips.
Have I missed any points? What do you think is an important part of starting a blog?


Responsible Wealth to Congress: Tax US!
More than 400 wealthy and upper-income taxpayers have signed a letter calling on Congress to reject the Republican tax plan that gives tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, especially any plan that is not revenue neutral, which would lead to deep cuts in services and critical investments, such as Medicaid, Medicare, and education.
"As you consider changes to the tax code, we urge you to oppose any legislation that further exacerbates inequality. Tax reform should be, at a minimum, revenue neutral—without using gimmicks like dynamic scoring. We are deeply concerned that revenue loss would lead to deep cuts in critical services such as education, Medicare and Medicaid, and would hamper our nation's ability to restore investments in our people and communities.
The letter also explicitly objects to repeal of the estate tax, which already affects only the wealthiest 2 out of every 1,000 estates, and exempts estates with taxable assets of less than $10.98 million per couple.
Read the complete letter at http://www.responsiblewealth.org/read_the_letter.
Read all the media coverage of this letter so far.
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/**
 *  @file   main.cpp
 *  @author Naohisa Sakamoto
 *  @brief  Example program for kvs::KMeansClustering class.
 */
/*****************************************************************************/
#include <kvs/Application>
#include <kvs/Screen>
#include <kvs/ValueTable>
#include <kvs/ValueArray>
#include <kvs/MersenneTwister>
#include <kvs/KMeansClustering>
#include <kvs/TableObject>
#include <kvs/ScatterPlotRenderer>
#include <kvs/ResizeEventListener>
#include <kvs/Axis2D>

/*===========================================================================*/
/**
 *  @brief  Creates value table.
 *  @param  nrows [in] number of rows
 */
/*===========================================================================*/
kvs::ValueTable<kvs::Real32> CreateValueTable( const size_t nrows )
{
    kvs::Real32 xmin = 2.0f;
    kvs::Real32 xmax = 6.0f;
    kvs::Real32 ymin = 2.0f;
    kvs::Real32 ymax = 6.0f;

    kvs::ValueArray<kvs::Real32> x( nrows );
    kvs::ValueArray<kvs::Real32> y( nrows );

    kvs::MersenneTwister R;
    for ( size_t i = 0; i < nrows / 4; i++ )
    {
        x[i] = -( R() * ( xmax - xmin ) + xmin );
        y[i] = +( R() * ( ymax - ymin ) + ymin );
    }

    for ( size_t i = nrows / 4; i < nrows / 4 * 2; i++ )
    {
        x[i] = -( R() * ( xmax - xmin ) + xmin );
        y[i] = -( R() * ( ymax - ymin ) + ymin );
    }

    for ( size_t i = nrows / 4 * 2; i < nrows / 4 * 3; i++ )
    {
        x[i] = +( R() * ( xmax - xmin ) + xmin );
        y[i] = -( R() * ( ymax - ymin ) + ymin );
    }

    for ( size_t i = nrows / 4 * 3; i < nrows; i++ )
    {
        x[i] = +( R() * ( xmax - xmin ) + xmin );
        y[i] = +( R() * ( ymax - ymin ) + ymin );
    }

    kvs::ValueTable<kvs::Real32> table;
    table.pushBackColumn( x );
    table.pushBackColumn( y );

    return table;
}

/*===========================================================================*/
/**
 *  @brief  Layout event class.
 */
/*===========================================================================*/
class LayoutEvent : public kvs::ResizeEventListener
{
private:
    int m_margin;

public:
    LayoutEvent( const int margin ): m_margin( margin ) {}

    void update( int width, int height )
    {
        this->update_margin_original( width, height );
        this->update_margin_random( width, height );
        this->update_margin_smart( width, height );
        this->update_margin_auto( width, height );
    }

private:
    void update_margin_original( int width, int height )
    {
        auto* renderer = kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "Original" ) );
        auto* axis = kvs::Axis2D::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "OriginalAxis" ) );

        const int left = m_margin;
        const int top = m_margin;
        const int right = width / 2 + m_margin;
        const int bottom = height / 2 + m_margin;
        const kvs::Margins margins( left, top, right, bottom );
        renderer->setMargins( margins );
        axis->setMargins( margins );
    }

    void update_margin_random( int width, int height )
    {
        auto* renderer = kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "Random" ) );
        auto* axis = kvs::Axis2D::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "RandomAxis" ) );

        const int left = width / 2 + m_margin;
        const int top = m_margin;
        const int right = m_margin;
        const int bottom = height / 2 + m_margin;
        const kvs::Margins margins( left, top, right, bottom );
        renderer->setMargins( margins );
        axis->setMargins( margins );
    }

    void update_margin_smart( int width, int height )
    {
        auto* renderer = kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "Smart" ) );
        auto* axis = kvs::Axis2D::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "SmartAxis" ) );

        const int left = m_margin;
        const int top = height / 2 + m_margin;
        const int right = width / 2 + m_margin;
        const int bottom = m_margin;
        const kvs::Margins margins( left, top, right, bottom );
        renderer->setMargins( margins );
        axis->setMargins( margins );
    }

    void update_margin_auto( int width, int height )
    {
        auto* renderer = kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "Auto" ) );
        auto* axis = kvs::Axis2D::DownCast( scene()->renderer( "AutoAxis" ) );

        const int left = width / 2 + m_margin;
        const int top = height / 2 + m_margin;
        const int right = m_margin;
        const int bottom = m_margin;
        const kvs::Margins margins( left, top, right, bottom );
        renderer->setMargins( margins );
        axis->setMargins( margins );
    }
};

/*===========================================================================*/
/**
 *  @brief  Main function.
 *  @param  argc [i] argument count
 *  @param  argv [i] argument values
 */
/*===========================================================================*/
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    kvs::Application app( argc, argv );
    kvs::Screen screen( &app );
    screen.setTitle( "k-means clsutering" );
    screen.setSize( 600, 600 );
    screen.create();

    const size_t nrows = 1000;
    const float min_value = -7.0f;
    const float max_value =  7.0f;
    auto data = CreateValueTable( nrows );
    auto* table = new kvs::TableObject();
    table->setTable( data );
    table->setMinMaxValues( 0, min_value, max_value );
    table->setMinMaxValues( 1, min_value, max_value );

    kvs::ColorMap cmap( 4 );
    cmap.addPoint( 0, kvs::UIColor::Red() );
    cmap.addPoint( 1, kvs::UIColor::Green() );
    cmap.addPoint( 2, kvs::UIColor::Yellow() );
    cmap.addPoint( 3, kvs::UIColor::Indigo() );
    cmap.create();

    // Original
    {
        auto* renderer = new kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer();
        renderer->setName( "Original" );
        renderer->setPointSize( 4.0 );
        renderer->setPointColor( kvs::UIColor::Gray() );

        auto* axis = new kvs::Axis2D();
        axis->setName( "OriginalAxis" );
        axis->setTitle( "Original" );
        axis->xAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );
        axis->yAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );

        screen.registerObject( table, axis );
        screen.registerObject( table, renderer );
    }

    // Random Seeding.
    {
        const int nclusters = 4;
        auto* kmeans = new kvs::KMeansClustering();
        kmeans->setClusteringMethod( kvs::KMeansClustering::FastKMeans );
        kmeans->setSeedingMethod( kvs::KMeansClustering::RandomSeeding );
        kmeans->setNumberOfClusters( nclusters );

        auto* object = kmeans->exec( table );
        auto* renderer = new kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer();
        renderer->setName( "Random" );
        renderer->setPointSize( 4.0 );
        renderer->setColorMap( cmap );

        auto* axis = new kvs::Axis2D();
        axis->setName( "RandomAxis" );
        axis->setTitle( "Random Seeding" );
        axis->xAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );
        axis->yAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );

        screen.registerObject( object, axis );
        screen.registerObject( object, renderer );
    }

    // Smart Seeding.
    {
        const int nclusters = 4;
        auto* kmeans = new kvs::KMeansClustering();
        kmeans->setClusteringMethod( kvs::KMeansClustering::FastKMeans );
        kmeans->setSeedingMethod( kvs::KMeansClustering::SmartSeeding );
        kmeans->setNumberOfClusters( nclusters );

        auto* object = kmeans->exec( table );
        auto* renderer = new kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer();
        renderer->setName( "Smart" );
        renderer->setPointSize( 4.0 );
        renderer->setColorMap( cmap );

        auto* axis = new kvs::Axis2D();
        axis->setName( "SmartAxis" );
        axis->setTitle( "Smart Seeding" );
        axis->xAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );
        axis->yAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );

        screen.registerObject( object, axis );
        screen.registerObject( object, renderer );
    }

    // Auto-estimation
    {
        const int max_nclusters = 10;
        auto* kmeans = new kvs::KMeansClustering();
        kmeans->setClusteringMethod( kvs::KMeansClustering::AdaptiveKMeans );
        kmeans->setNumberOfClusters( max_nclusters );

        auto* object = kmeans->exec( table );
        auto* renderer = new kvs::ScatterPlotRenderer();
        renderer->setName( "Auto" );
        renderer->setPointSize( 4.0 );
        renderer->setColorMap( cmap );

        auto* axis = new kvs::Axis2D();
        axis->setName( "AutoAxis" );
        axis->setTitle( "Auto-estimation" );
        axis->xAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );
        axis->yAxis().setNumberOfTicks( 3 );

        screen.registerObject( object, axis );
        screen.registerObject( object, renderer );
    }

    const int global_margin = 30;
    LayoutEvent layout( global_margin );
    screen.addEvent( &layout );
    layout.update( screen.width(), screen.height() );

    return app.run();
}


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Tobias Michael Karel Asser (Amszterdam, 1838. április 28. – Hága, 1913. július 29.) holland jogtudós, 1911-ben Alfred Frieddel együtt Nobel-békedíjjal tüntették ki. A díjat az első hágai békekonferencián végzett munkájáért érdemelte ki.

Életútja
Asser az Amszterdami Egyetem nemzetközi kereskedelmi- és magánjog professzora volt 1862 és 1893 között. 1869-ben lapot indított Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée címmel. 1873-ban az alapítója volt  a Nemzetközi Jogi Intézetnek. 1891-ben nagy szerepe volt abban, hogy a holland kormány szervezett egy konferenciát a nemzetközi magánjog egységesítése céljából. A konferencia először 1893-ban ülésezett, majd később állandó intézmény lett. 1911-1912-ben Asser a nemzetközi váltójogi törvények egységesítését tárgyaló konferenciákon elnökölt. 1893-ban a holland Államtanács tagja lett. Az 1899-es és 1907-es hágai békekonferencián Hollandia képviselője volt.

Művei
 Le duché de Limbourg et la Confédération Germanique (Hága,  1863)
 Schets van het nederlandsche handelsrecht (9. kiadás, Haarlem 1901)
 Schets van het internationaal privaatregt (uo. 1879; németül Berlin 1880)
 Studien op het gebied van recht en staat (Haarlem,  1889)
 La codiflcation du droit international privé (1901)

Jegyzetek

További információk
 T.M.C. Asser Instituut (holland)
 Jewish Encyclopedia (angol)
 Nobel-békedíjasok: Tobias Michael Carel Asser (angol)
 Tobias Michael Carel Asser–Biográfia (angol)

Nobel-békedíjasok
Holland jogászok
1838-ban született személyek
1913-ban elhunyt személyek
Holland Nobel-díjasok
A Román Akadémia tagjai

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Items St. John's Cathedral.
St. John's Cathedral.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Image ID G90F039_023ZF
High Res (TIF format)
Free to use without restriction
Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
Stereoscopic views of Denver, Colorado.
Additional title: View of interior of St. John's Cathedral, Denver, Colo.
Date Created: 1850 - 1930 (Approximate)
Shelf locator: MFY Dennis Coll 90-F39
Denver (Colo.)
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG90-F39
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7f721030-c535-012f-03d2-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "St. John's Cathedral." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-66da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "St. John's Cathedral." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-66da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 1930). St. John's Cathedral. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-66da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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