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With more than 30 concerts, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will once again be present at the Berlin Philharmonie in its 2022-23 season. In addition to numerous projects with its principal conductor Robin Ticciati, the DSO is regularly joined by renowned guest conductors: In addition to conductor laureate Kent Nagano and former principal conductor Ingo Metzmacher, these include Giovanni Antonini, Stéphane Denève, Manfred Honeck, Marie Jacquot, Yutaka Sado, John Wilson and many more. You can find an overview here:
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The programme also includes three casual concerts, a variety of chamber concerts at different venues, the new cabaret chamber concerts, six children's concerts, tour concerts and much more. You will find a complete overview in our calendar and subscription brochure (in German), which we will be happy to send to you hot off the press and free of charge:
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Symphony concerts with music director Robin Ticciati and distiguished guest conductors and soloists, three Casual Concerts, chamber concerts and much more – this is DSO's 2022-23 season. Find more in the season brochure!
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Concerts with Music Director Robin Ticciati
The DSO and its Music Director Robin Ticciati are embarking on their sixth joint season in
September 2022. At its heart is an important topic which runs through the entire season:
the relationship between sound and spirituality, the question of the effects of music and of
what people receive and experience through music.
One highlight is the 'Music and Healing' Festival from 18 to 26 March. Four symphony concerts in Berlin's Philharmonic Hall open up a broad musical panorama: from Hildegard von Bingen, John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach to Richard Wagner's 'Tristan und
Isolde', Alexander Scriabin's 'The Poem of Ecstasy' and Igor Stravinsky's 'Sacre du
printemps', to the present day. The aim is not to provide ready-made answers, but rather triggering further thought, clarifying and deepening perceptions, feelings and (self-)awareness. Lectures at the State Institute for Musical Research (SIM) will round out the spectrum.
The theme is already present at the official opening of the season in the scope of the Musikfest Berlin, with the last works of Morton Feldman and Jean Sibelius,
and in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, as well es in Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony.
With Anton Bruckner's Fifth symphony their joint Bruckner cycle will be continued.
During the Biennale of the Berliner Philharmoniker Ticciati will show exciting perspectives on the theme in the encounter between creation and theatrically worked up apocalypse in works by Joseph Haydn and György Ligeti.
From theatre to contemporary music
With Ticciati, the season also opens up to the theatre. This will be kicked off with the DSO debut of
the British composer, writer, suffragette and polyglot personality Ethel Smyth. Her opera
'The Wreckers' (Les Naufrageurs), inspired by haunting legends about Cornwall, will be
performed in concert version as a German premiere, deploying the libretto's original French version. On 26 February, Ticciati will then conduct Georg Friedrich Händel's splendid oratorio 'Solomon' in a staged version in the Philharmonie.
Furthermore, you can hear works by Edward Elgar on Ticciati's programmes, such as Introduction and Allegro, the Cello Concerto with Sol Gabetta and the Violin Concerto, which Vilde Frang will interpret before Christmas. On that same concert you will also find the "race to the summit", at which Richard Strauss's 'Alpine Symphony' was combined with texts from Reinhold Messner – his continuation in literary reflections to 'Heldenleben' by the
same composer.
Contemporary music continues to play a significant role for Ticciati: with Mark Simp-
son's 'Israfel' and Julian Anderson's second symphony 'Prague Panoramas', he will conduct
another German and one Berlin premiere, which he will complement with compositions by
Ondřej Adámek, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey, John Taverner and Pēteris Vask.
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Allegra Ringo is a writer and advocate for force-free dog training. In her spare time, she eats a lot of popcorn. She has a dog named Pistachio and a cat named Rick.
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Does that mean that if you have a cold, your dog could catch it from you?
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What illnesses can dogs catch from humans and other dogs?
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While the common cold isn't one of them, there are certain illnesses that dogs can catch from humans. These illnesses include mumps, ringworm, and some strains of the flu (though that's rare).
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What illnesses can humans catch from dogs?
Zoonotic diseases refer to diseases that can spread between humans and animals. These diseases can spread through direct contact with an animal's bodily fluids, or indirect contact, when a person comes into contact with a contaminated animal habitat (such as an aquarium or chicken coop, or by touching an infected food bowl).
The Center for Disease Control has a handy list of the illnesses you can technically contract from your dog. These illnesses include tapeworm, hookworm, and rabies.
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F-15B – The original F-15 coaching aircraft, the F-15B first flew in July 1973. This airplane has two pilot stations — one for an skilled instructor and one for a pilot in training. F-15C – An updated model of the F-15A, the Air Force added the F-15C in 1979. The F-15C has improved electronics, larger engine power and increased fuel capability. F-15D – That is the 2-seater coaching-airplane counterpart to the F-15C. F-15 Lively – The F-15 Energetic is a two-seater F-15 utilized in NASA analysis. The primary difference between an F-15 and an extraordinary jet is how these components are balanced. The F-15's twin engines (Pratt & Whitney F-100-PW-220s or 229s) have a very high thrust-to-weight ratio, that means they are comparatively light for the quantity of thrust they generate (they'll generate virtually eight instances their own weight in thrust). The aircraft body is relatively gentle, too, though it is extremely strong. The wing spars (the assist constructions inside the wings) are fabricated from titanium, which is lighter and stronger than steel, and a lot of the skin is manufactured from lightweight aluminum. In response to the Air Drive, every engine can generate between 25,000 and 29,000 pounds of thrust. The F-15C's regular weight is just 45,000 pounds, which suggests its thrust is definitely better than its weight! This lets it accelerate shortly, even while climbing in altitude. The F-15 additionally has very low wing loading, that means it has a whole lot of wing area for its weight. Higher wing area means better raise, which makes the plane more agile. It could take off, ascend and turn far more quickly than an strange aircraft, which has rather more weight per sq. foot of wing space.
"It penetrated two kilometers into Israeli airspace and was shot down," the army mentioned. In response to Sky News Arabia, the aircraft crashed inside southwest Syria, within the Yarmouk Basin, an space still underneath the control of the Islamic State terrorist group. One of the pilots, recognized as Col. Amran Mara'e, was killed when the airplane was shot down, a Syrian navy source advised Sputnik, a Russian authorities-backed news outlet. The fate of the other airman was not instantly identified. The official Syrian information outlet SANA claimed the airplane was inside Syrian airspace on the time it was targeted. A navy source quoted by SANA accused Israel of aiding "terrorists" within the country's southwest, where the Syrian air drive has been conducting in depth bombing raids all through the day in opposition to various opposition teams. This was the primary time that Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet since 2014, when one other Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jet entered Israeli airspace and was focused with a Patriot missile. His safety report testifies that he practices what he preaches. "In 20 years of doing this, I in all probability have more time in these planes than anyone else in the United States, accident free," he says. Salganek recalls stories of associates who've died in jet warbirds and of pilots' lives he probably saved. Throughout coaching, Salganek considers himself a spiritual advisor. "You face challenges in terms of what their skills are in flying the airplane, and what their mental outlook is toward flying the airplane," he explains. Sometimes he helps them overcome anxieties. "You've gotta get them to relax them a little" but in addition convey a sense of caution. By the end of the L-39 lesson, I handle to nail the taxiway centerline—for a second. Along with mentally staying ahead of the aircraft and flying within pre-established safety margins, Salganek says consistency can also be key. He hands me a rubber ball and asks if I can throw it up and catch it 3 times. Sure, straightforward enough. Then, he poses a hypothetical: What if he requested me to throw it up 200 times, and the first time I dropped it, I bought shot. Might I do it? Now that's a distinct proposition, one analogous to stepping as much as a jet warbird from the piston-single world. You've gotta be more than a very good pilot to fly these," he says of the significance of aeronautical choice making and stick-and-rudder skills. "You have to have the ability to say 'No, that's crazy,'" and walk away from a situation that might get you in trouble. "The phrase 'maybe' doesn't come into play right here." That's especially true of the MiG-15 that I'll fly subsequent. The Russian jet has a lot of problematic dealing with characteristics but one redeeming quality. Discover out what it's next week as I step up to the MiG-15.
The 6-x-6-in. screens on either aspect of the HLD are contact-sensitive, and there's a contact-management cursor panel beneath the HLD. One advantage of touch-display is that it offers extra glass area in the same house by eliminating the ring of bezel switches around every display. The Rafale pilot can be issued special silk-lined leather-based gloves, with no stitching on the fingertips, and a chamois insert, for wiping the screens, above the fingers. All the fighter is very automated, with a single all-electric throttle for both engines and a single begin swap. A direct-voice-input (DVI) system is integrated, with a 50-300-word vocabulary, and Sextant's Topsight helmet-mounted show will likely be included from the mid-2000s. The fused tactical display is paying homage to the F-22's, with a "god's-eye" view of the battle changing separate sensor shows. Different colours and shapes are used to tell apart hostiles from friendlies, and targets are robotically prioritized. Complementing the god's-eye view is an inset display which exhibits the relative altitude of the Rafale and its targets. The MiG that the Soviet Union had stored hidden from the world for several years was partially reassembled, after which loaded on a boat for its return to the USSR. 40,000 bill for delivery costs and the harm Belenko had inflicted at Hakodate airport. It soon became clear that the much-feared MiG was unable to intercept the US military's SR-71, one of many planes it was constructed to deal with. "The one huge distinction between the MiG and the SR-71, is that the SR-71 shouldn't be solely quick, but it's running a marathon," says Connor. "The MiG is doing a sprint. These limitations didn't stop MiG building greater than 1,200 MiG-25s. The 'Foxbat' became a prestige airplane for Soviet-backed air forces, who saw the propaganda worth in fielding the second-fastest plane on Earth. Algeria and Syria are still thought to be flying them as we speak. India used the reconnaissance model with great success for 25 years; they have been only retired in 2006 due to an absence of spare elements.
Israel has launched what it described as a big-scale air raid in Syria after one among its F-16 fighters crashed whereas below Syrian anti-aircraft fireplace. Twelve websites, together with four "Iranian targets" close to the Syrian capital, Damascus, have been destroyed within the raid, according to an Israeli army spokesman, Jonathan Conricus. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties. The Israeli F-16 was shot at as it returned on Saturday morning from a raid to destroy Iranian amenities accused of launching a drone into Israel. Both pilots managed to eject and landed in Israel. One was badly injured. It was not clear if the jet was hit or if the pilots abandoned the aircraft. Syrian state news claimed its air defences had struck not less than two jets. The Israeli navy denied a couple of plane had been hit. Saturday's violence was probably the most severe incidents involving Israel, Iran and Syria throughout Syria's seven-yr-previous civil war.
These intermediate aircraft DO have some zip, and can be impressive at air reveals or when armed might be used in low-menace environments. The US Air Pressure contributions to the "lead in" coach have been the North American T-6, the T-33, the T-37 and the T-38. How many people can remember when the Thunderbirds traded in their F-4Es for T-38s? That is 34 years in the past, so for those who remember, you're no spring rooster. And the T-37 turned the A-37 with the addition of a minigun. So was the Soviet Union far behind? But it appeared that the Russian designers who might work miracles with high efficiency and lightweight aircraft just could not get it proper when it got here to trainers. The MiG-15UTI soldiered on long after its father or mother had gone away, and it was a beast to fly. That's what Yuri Gagarin was flying when he had his fatal accident. In steps the firm of Aero Vodochody of Czechoslovakia with their L-29 Delfin coach. Apart from taxiing, a pilot barely taps the rudders throughout a full range of maneuvers, aerobatics, and speeds. The aircraft's responsive, gentle handling characteristics make what Salganek calls an "aileron airplane" really easy to fly it appears as if the aircraft's trajectory may be managed telepathically. "Now she's beginning to really feel like a fighter," says Salganek, the enjoyment evident in his voice. The bubble canopy turns aileron rolls into an unobstructed, 360-diploma tumbling view of the horizon. At 310 knots to 320 knots, the maneuver isn't effortless; I should grunt to use sufficient stick stress for the roll. "With slightly slower airspeed it shouldn't take quite as a lot force," Salganek says, having me enter a second roll at 240 knots to 250 knots. What a difference 70 knots makes! On the slower end of the speed spectrum, I check the trainer's power-off glide. As we energy again the jet, the aircraft becomes so quiet, the rate of descent simply 1,200 fpm at 140 knots, that I really feel as if I'm floating. Salganek operates at larger altitudes close enough to the airport that within the occasion of an engine failure he can all the time glide again to the runway.


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Local activists are giving peace a better chance, following the midterm election
Originally published December 20, 2018 at 7:00 am
POSTSCRIPTS: The work of grass-roots groups is having an effect, reminding people there are nuclear warheads sitting 20 miles from downtown Seattle.
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Pacific NW magazine writer
Editor's note: In Postscripts, we catch up with some of the people and places we've visited in Pacific NW magazine.
Other Postscripts
• Wish we could report road rage is cured, but saner commuting still starts with the person in the driver's seat
• The Project Search program for young adults with autism is still a work in progress
• Mackenzie Andrews' story impacts and inspires families, strangers and at least 1 university president
• Whitney Mongé follows her European tour with a new record — and a lot of emotion
•Survivors of a Mexican farmworker fatally shot by police in Pasco receive a $750,000 settlement
• No news is good news when the status quo is as idyllic as Hat Island
ELECTIONS, AS POLITICOS like to repeat, have consequences. Thank goodness, say Puget Sound residents who continue to devote their time and passion to the seeming back-burner issue of nuclear proliferation.
When we visited with members of the local anti-nuke movement in August, Lilly Adams, a young organizer of a new nuclear-watchdog coalition, Washington Against Nuclear Weapons, spoke of ongoing communications with members of Congress who seemed amenable to taking a fresh look at the nation's nuclear strategy.
Skeptics might have seen that as a longshot. But the advocacy was important, Adams said, in light of the Trump Administration's embrace of earlier plans to "modernize" the nation's nuclear arsenal — perhaps adding easier-to-use new "low-yield" weapons, which some armament experts consider destabilizing. Price tag on the full "modernization" package: about $1.7 trillion over 30 years.
One of those congressmen was U.S. Rep. Adam Smith of Bellevue. And after the midterm election, Democrat Smith stands to become the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Smith already has gone public with skepticism about the nation's expensive doubling down on nuclear weapons — large numbers of which are Trident-submarine based missiles, which routinely sit within 20 miles of downtown Seattle.
Smith's committee is likely to also serve as a check on the Trump Administration's bent toward abandoning existing nuclear treaties that collectively created the framework that reduced the number of worldwide nuclear weapons from as many as 70,000 during the height of the Cold War to around 7,000 today. President Donald Trump's stated intent to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, is the harbinger of a new arms race, warns local activist Bruce Amundson, vice president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.
The good news, Amundson and Adams say, is that grass-roots groups such as Washington Against Nuclear Weapons, formed under the Physicians for Social Responsibility umbrella, are having an effect. The broad coalition of labor, environmental, medical and social-justice organizations creates a grass-roots base that absolutely does get noticed in Congress, they say.
The key to keeping it noticed, and keeping sensible defense spending and deployment on the table, is as simple as citizens continuing to bend the ears of their congressional reps, they say.
"Not everyone is excited about calling their member of Congress," Adams acknowledges. "But it does make a difference. It really does."
OTHER POSTSCRIPTS:
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No news is good news when the status quo is as idyllic as Hat Island
The Project Search program to help young adults with autism is still a work in progress
Mackenzie Andrews' story impacts and inspires families, strangers and at least 1 university president
Whitney Mongé follows her European tour with a new record — and a lot of emotion
Survivors of a Mexican farmworker fatally shot by police in Pasco receive a $750,000 settlement
Ron Judd is a Pacific NW magazine staff writer. Reach him at rjudd@seattletimes.com or 206-464-8280. On Twitter: @roncjudd. Mike Siegel is a Seattle Times staff photographer.


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Q: How to validate comma-separated string using Regex I need to validate my c# model class.
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Comma Separated String Required")]
[RegularExpression(@"", ErrorMessage = "Invalid Comma Separated String.")]
[RegularExpression(@"", ErrorMessage = "Duplicate Code.")]
public string CommaSeparatedString { get; set; }

I just tried the following regex, but it is not working for me.
((\s+)??(\d[a-z]|[a-z]\d|[a-z]),?)+?$

In my case, CommaSeparatedString can be:
ASAEW1,ASAEW2,ASA,S4,ASAEW5,ASAEW6,ASAEW7 - Valid

ASAEW1,ASAEW2,ASA,S4,ASAEW5,ASAEW6,ASAEW7,ASAEW6 - Invalid - Duplicate ASAEW6

ASAEW1,ASAEW2,ASA,S4,ASAEW5,ASAEW6,ASAEW7, - Invalid - Comma at end

ASAEW1,ASAEW2,,ASA,S4,ASAEW5,ASAEW6,ASAEW7 - Invalid - No value between 2,3 comma

The above requirement should happen. Is there any possible way to check duplicates in comma-separated String? I need to show 'Duplicates code' error message if CommaSeparatedString consists of duplicates. How can I do this?

A: I'm not a regex magician, but puzzled together something that might work for you here:
^((([A-Z]+\d*)(?!.*,\3\b)),)*[A-Z]+\d*$

So to visualize this:

In steps:

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*^(((  - Start string ancor followed by three capture groups

*[A-Z]+\d* - Third capture group must exist out of capitals (at least one) followed by as many digits as possible

*(?!.*,\3\b) - Negative lookahead to make sure that previously found pattern will not have a duplicate further down the line.

*),)* - Closing group 2 followed by a comma and closing group 1 which then must occur * as many times as possible

*[A-Z]+\d* - The last bit is repeating the same pattern we were looking for in group 3

*$ - End string ancor

I'm not the best at explaining either but I hope it's clear enough and working (hoping backreferences are allowed within c# as I have no experience in that) =)

A: You can take a look at custom validations for your model, using either the ASP.Net (Core?) framework or the FluentValidation Nuget package.
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Reporter's Notebook
Welcome to Notes
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Chris Bodenner
11:30 PM / August 27, 2015
Hello@, and Good Night
Heads up to new visitors of the Notes section: We posted four intros you might want to check out. First, Gould heralded the return of blogging to The Atlantic, then Matt debuted our novel thread function, Krishnadev framed our approach to news, and I invited readers to throw down the gauntlet. I've been long anticipating our thread function, which is our modest attempt to square the circle of blogging in the age of social media—two things increasingly at odds. Ezra Klein said it best:
[B]logging is a conversation, and conversations don't go viral. People share things [on Facebook] their friends will understand, not things that you need to have read six other posts to understand. Blogging encourages interjections into conversations, and it thrives off of familiarity. Social media encourages content that can travel all on its own.
Thus, any of our thread-connected notes that travel around the web will carry all the related notes with them. Clicking into a note lands you at the top of the thread page, where you'll see a brief overview of the blog conversation and—pinned right below—the note you clicked to see. If other notes were published later in time, clicking on the red box will show them instantly. Now it's a fully displayed thread, with the newest notes at the top. (Clicking on an "oldest" toggle orders them chronologically, to catch up from the beginning.) This is all much easier to show than tell—and this note is currently in a thread as well, so look around.
So far we have two threads going: one on the new campus P.C. and one on the Notes launch (a thread you're currently in). We can't wait to use this function for live-blogging. Soon I'll be adding to this thread a bunch of your emails responding to the Notes launch, but for now, here's one email at the very top of our inbox for hello@theatlantic.com:
Hello, indeed!
I'm excited about what you guys are up to. The state of the blog and hubs and the stream and social media are an ongoing point of interest (and conversation) for me and several of my friends.
I'm not excited that I can't find an RSS feed for just the Notes section, though. Any chance that's a hint you guys will make happen, or do the vagaries of advertising-driven publishing simply make it not doable?
RSS is at the very top of our to-do list right now and should be live tomorrow, but we'll keep you updated.
Finally, for this first full day of blogging, some major props are needed: Frankie Dintino and Paul Nicholsen on the incredible job building Notes, Libby Bawcombe and Darhil Crooks on design, and Clarissa Matthews and Betsy Ebersole on product direction. And one more shout-out:
Thanks, Paul's mom. Now to regain a bunch of sleep ...
10:21 AM / August 27, 2015
News at The Atlantic
Hello, I'm Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic's news editor.
The return of blogging to the site presents us with a challenge: how to quickly keep abreast of what's happening in the world while at the same time keeping in mind the sensibility of The Atlantic. In other words, how to be both timely and interesting.
This, of course, will be a work in progress.
What you'll see here is a mix of what's happening in the world and what we—and, hopefully, you—find interesting. We'll start at about 6 a.m. every day with a Note on the news we're following. There will be a similar note every afternoon. This, we hope, will not only let our readers know the stories we have our eyes on, but also serve as a tip sheet for my colleagues through the day.
Some of the items on these Notes will lend themselves to quick, short stories; others will be the subject of longer, analytical pieces; and there will be still others that will live on solely in the Notes.
For more on what else we're trying to achieve with Notes, do read Gould, Matt, and Chris.
We invite you to let us know not only what you think, but also what you find interesting. Please also send us tips and stories on your radar to hello@theatlantic.com.
6:41 PM / August 26, 2015
Calling All Dissenters
Hi, I'm Chris, the reader editor. Your emails, comments, and other contributions—which I've been workshopping lately—are going to be central to Notes, so I should detail what we have in mind and how you can get involved.
First, a little on my background, since it informs so much of what this new section is about: I worked with Andrew Sullivan and Patrick Appel on a blog called The Dish for seven years, three of those at The Atlantic. About a third of our content came from reader emails, and eventually I was editing and posting about 90% of them, usually in the form of discussion threads that lasted for weeks, months, even years. The blog never had a comments section—which, as you know, can devolve into the worst kind of discourse, taken over by trolls. Instead, the Dish constantly published dissent—the toughest, smartest, most persuasive arguments from readers. (Fallows does this especially well, while Ta-Nehisi mastered the art of a moderated comments section—and one of his most engaged readers, Yoni Appelbaum, rose to become our Politics editor.)
By the time I returned to The Atlantic last April, social media had drowned out blogging and meaningful debate in many ways. I dove deep into our comments section, Disqus, for the first time. There's a lot of great discussion down there—Atlantic readers are a really sharp bunch—but it's often buried in hundreds or thousands of comments that few people want to dig through. Your best writing should be elevated for everyone to see. Your strongest critiques should be engaged by our writers. It's my job to help.
The best way to help me: Use hello@theatlantic.com, not Disqus, to voice your dissent and tell your stories. I will buttress your words with fact-checking, research, and reporting as much as I can. I will edit your contributions only for the sake of clarity and concision. If you prefer to stay anonymous, let me know. To encourage this culture of email, Notes won't have a comments section.
Over time, you'll see all your favorite Atlantic writers appear in Notes. It's meant to be a communal space for airing thoughts that, with your input, will become articles. Conversely, it's a space for bits of reporting and analysis that are left on the cutting room floor of articles. Ever miss those old-school blog debates? You'll find some here. Notes will also be a hub for breaking news and ongoing coverage, led by my colleague Krishnadev, as well as a sandbox for our 158-year-old archive. Notes will be more of a broadcast than a magazine.
And it's yours to shape. The staff and I have brainstormed all kinds of features for Notes, but we want to start things simple and evolve the section gradually, experimenting here and there, absorbing your criticism and suggestions along the way. We've already absorbed a lot of your feedback over the recent redesign and will incorporate some of it into Notes.
That's it for now. Feel free to email any questions to hello@theatlantic.com. Have any cool ideas for Notes? Email hello@. Think this section is totally lame? Email hello@. Something on TheAtlantic.com piss you off today? Email hello@. Already know me and want to say hello? Email bodenner@.
Matt Thompson
Notes: A Work in Progress
As Gould said, we're hoping Notes will feel both familiar and welcome to those of you who remember a bloggier Atlantic. But the Web's gotten more capable since, so there's also some brand new pizzazz under the hood, such as the fact that Notes flows just as nicely on a smartphone as it does on a laptop.
This page is another example of what's new: a compilation of Notes that all relate to one particular story, tied together by an overview at the top of the page. If you click on a link to Gould's note, you'll find that you come to this same page, but newer Notes like this one are compressed. This will allow you to quickly catch up on the context whenever you encounter a thread of coverage, whether it's a developing news story or an ongoing conversation.
The way we developed this feature should give you a sense of how we hope to involve you and other friends of The Atlantic in the evolution of Notes.
A month ago, we posted a message to our email lists and social feeds asking for people who considered themselves fans of The Atlantic and might be willing to beta-test a new project, with a link to a short survey (feel free to fill it out if you missed the call). More than thirty-five hundred people answered that call, and we invited a few of the local respondents to our offices at the Watergate in Washington, D.C., to spend some time with our early prototypes and share their reactions.
We were just a couple of weeks into designing Notes at this point, although we'd been planning it for months. After processing the feedback from those beta-testers, we made some adjustments to the designs, and brought in another set of fans for another test. Those early tests were deeply helpful; they gave us fresh perspectives on the designs, ideas for how to think about coverage and storytelling in this space, and even some thoughts on how to describe what Notes is. (One beta-tester likened it to the "front of the book"—the opening pages of the print magazine, where we feature letters about our coverage, shorter pieces, and bite-sized digressions.)
This process won't stop anytime soon, and if you join us on the regular, you'll be a part of it. We'll be regularly seeking your thoughts—direct and indirect—on what you love, what you'd change, and what you'd ask for. (And if you've already got thoughts, send them: hello@theatlantic.com!)
I hope you'll stick around. You never know when you'll get an invite to the Watergate.
J.J. Gould
Blogging at The Atlantic, Cont'd
Hey, look at this new thing ...
Some backstory:
A little more than five years ago, TheAtlantic.com underwent a major redesign that would give it the architecture it's built on today.
Previously, the site was made up of a range of different things—digital versions of our print journalism, supplemental material we could present here without worrying about page-count limits, ad hoc pieces that wouldn't survive monthly lead times, a few standing features. But one of the biggest draws was by then a collection of marquee blogs (Andrew Sullivan's, Ta-Nehisi Coates's, Jim Fallows's, Jeff Goldberg's, Megan McArdle's, others'), informal streams of writing that drew dedicated readerships and inspired vigorous conversations, here at The Atlantic and around the web—or around the "blogosphere," as you'd hear at the time; it was an age of weird neologisms.
The 2010 reboot preserved our blogs, but it also deemphasized them. The site was now organized around subject-matter-defined sections: Politics, Business, Culture, Technology, and so on, along later with Photo and Video sections. Our editors started to put a lot of creative energy into figuring out what our sections' coverage should look like. We cross-posted individual blog entries to these sections, but we also started to fill them out with posts from new writers. These posts didn't come from blog streams. They were just posts, written to be read on their own.
However people would end up reading our non-blog posts, it would have to be on account of discovery patterns very different from that of blogs. At first this was mostly through the steady presence of TheAtlantic.com's curated homepage or the shifting currents of Google's algorithms. Not long after—and given what you're reading right now you probably know this—social media began to dominate the web. Then among them, Facebook. And here we are.
Along the way, our posts came more and more to resemble what we'd traditionally just call articles: They have headlines framed to draw you into the story (vs. to break up a rolling blog). They have lead sentences and paragraphs written to engage you in it (vs. abrupt pivots from blunt openers like, "Glenn has a great post up on his blog today ..."). They're carefully edited. They're carefully produced. In form, they're magazine articles, just created in the cadences of new media.
A confession: Relatively early in this modest history, I declared, as emphatically as someone as rule-averse as I am could, that the word "blog" should be anathema on the site. Or, okay: If you were using "blog" as a noun, and referring specifically to a blog, and not using it as a synonym for "website," that was cool. But I figured there was no good case for using it as a verb. "To write" was perfectly good, whether you were doing it on newsprint, or on illuminated manuscripts, or in pixels. "To blog," it seemed to me, just delegitimated the act of writing on the Internet by describing it in something other than plain language—and, I figured, implicitly suppressed our ambitions for digital journalism.
But if that was a problem coded into the conflation of "blogging" with "writing on the web," it was never a problem with the ambitions of blogging itself. Blogging is awesome. At its best, it's an idiom that lets us articulate and sharpen our thoughts while being more tentative and less rigid about them. As Sullivan once put it, in our print magazine as it happens, blogging is "more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive." It's writing that closes the gap with speech and opens the connection with real conversation.
The idiom never ceased to be awesome. It just ended up out of phase with the ascendant dynamics of distribution and consumption on a bigger and bigger Internet. But this confluence of awesomeness and out-of-phase-ness may represent a special potential in blogging today. It's precisely not "socially optimized"; it establishes and develops a direct relationship with a community.
It's also, you could say, an idiom distinctively suited to the constitution of a magazine that for 158 years has looked for ways to undermine its reliance on the intellectual comforts of party or clique.
This is what we've been thinking, anyway. So we're bringing blogging back to The Atlantic—or something like what we used to call blogging. It looks different this time. Matt Thompson will tell you about how we've been 2015ing the proposition from the outset, how we've involved our readers in the process, and how we're thinking about developing this new section from here. Chris Bodenner will preview the mix of things we intend to have in play in the new section. More of us will weigh in on other aspects here and there.
I'll just touch on one discontinuity with traditional blogging, meanwhile. What you see here obviously won't be a single person's blog, but neither will it be a group blog fit in as a kind of annex at the margins of our putatively real work. This will be an integral part of our real work as a whole. It will be a hub connecting a real-time magazine with itself and its readers, where we'll process the world as it happens, test thoughts, preview stories, follow up on them, and hold debates, with each other and with you, about everything The Atlantic reaches. So welcome to the Notes section. We very literally look forward to seeing you here.
I'm the editor of TheAtlantic.com, by the way. Hello.
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At dawn this morning, workers loaded couches and tables into a moving truck parked outside the West Wing. Men wearing white coveralls and carrying roller brushes and paint cans walked across the north driveway. Inside the White House, pictures of the 45th president had been removed from the walls. Only the hooks remained, ready for a new set of portraits of the 46th.
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The president is returning to a freshly renovated White House—and it includes an unusual display.
Here's a little quiz. Take a look at the picture of the photo above, which shows the newly redecorated Oval Office that is occupied by Donald Trump. What's unusual in this scene?
As a helpful hint, here's a close-up of the area you should be looking at:
Is it the Remington bronze statue known as "The Bronco Buster" on the right, which many presidents have displayed? No. The portrait of Andrew Jackson just above the statue, which has survived the departure of Jackson-fan Steve Bannon? No. The bust of Lincoln, on the left? Beneath the portrait of Jefferson? No, and no—although it would be instructive to know the thoughts of the third and the 16th presidents as they gaze on the 45th.
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Three particular failures secure Trump's status as the worst chief executive ever to hold the office.
President Donald Trump has long exulted in superlatives. The first. The best. The most. The greatest. "No president has ever done what I've done," he boasts. "No president has ever even come close," he says. But as his four years in office draw to an end, there's only one title to which he can lay claim: Donald Trump is the worst president America has ever had.
In December 2019, he became the third president to be impeached. Last week, Trump entered a category all his own, becoming the first president to be impeached twice. But impeachment, which depends in part on the makeup of Congress, is not the most objective standard. What does being the worst president actually mean? And is there even any value, at the bitter end of a bad presidency, in spending energy on judging a pageant of failed presidencies?
Jon Key
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"The First White President," revisited
I've been thinking about Barbara Tuchman's medieval history, A Distant Mirror, over the past couple of weeks. The book is a masterful work of anti-romance, a cold-eyed look at how generations of aristocrats and royalty waged one of the longest wars in recorded history, all while claiming the mantle of a benevolent God. The disabusing begins early. In the introduction, Tuchman examines the ideal of chivalry and finds, beneath the poetry and codes of honor, little more than myth and delusion.
Knights "were supposed, in theory, to serve as defenders of the Faith, upholders of justice, champions of the oppressed," Tuchman writes. "In practice, they were themselves the oppressors, and by the 14th century, the violence and lawlessness of men of the sword had become a major agency of disorder."
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Biden can help us get it back.
What should have been a week-long celebration of the resilience of American democracy has turned into a dark circus. Instead of citizens lining Pennsylvania Avenue to cheer and greet a new president, all of downtown Washington, D.C., is an armed camp. Soldiers patrol the streets while workers clean excrement off the walls of the Capitol, a perfect tableau for the end of the short and ghastly age of Trump.
We are expecting far too much of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris if we think they can fix all of the damage Donald Trump did to the republic. Presidents and vice presidents are not wizards. They cannot rewind history. They cannot single-handedly make us better people.
However, I do believe that Biden can inspire the American people to regain one of the most important virtues Trump destroyed: seriousness, our understanding that ideas, actions, and words matter.
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An Incompetent Authoritarian Is Still a Catastrophe
Trump leaves behind a wounded nation, and it will take time to heal.
So what if he was bad at it?
The five years of the Trump era—which began with his descent down the gilded escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 and are ending with a massive military presence in the nation's capital to protect the transfer of power to his successor—brought a sustained assault on self-government. This assault was most often futile, almost always buffoonish, and, as the conversion of the seat of the federal government into an armed fortress demonstrates, unquestionably real.
Throughout the Trump era, some have argued that Trump's incompetence rendered his authoritarian aspirations inconsequential.
"Our weak, ranting, infected-by-Covid chief executive is not plotting a coup, because a term like 'plotting' implies capabilities that he conspicuously lacks," wrote the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in October, describing the president as a "noisy weakling." Douthat has since re-evaluated his position, but for a long time he was the most articulate proponent of the argument that Trump was not as dangerous as his opponents believed.
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1932, the nation was facing concentric crises: the immediate, house-on-fire disaster of rolling bank closures; the broader economic depression; and, beyond that, deeply entrenched problems that the depression had highlighted, including elderly poverty. Roosevelt's first 100 days addressed the first two crises with historic directness. He reopened the banks and directly employed thousands of Americans through measures such as the Civilian Conservation Corps. Then, near the end of his first term, he signed the Social Security Act, which has reduced senior poverty and become one of the most popular federal programs in the United States.
President Joe Biden also faces concentric crises, which move outward toward the future as you unpeel them: the biological threat of the pandemic, the economic recession, and, beyond that, the entrenched problem of child poverty. He also has to contend with the problem casting a shadow over the whole century, the existential crisis of climate change.
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I'm still confused about what our lives will be like after we are vaccinated. As I understand it, it will still be possible to get the virus, but hopefully the course won't be as severe or life-threatening. And we are going to have people who won't even get the vaccine. Do you foresee us still wearing masks for the next year or two? I hate to even type this question.
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COVID-19 diagnoses start with a barrage of grueling decisions and paralyzing worries. Did I infect anyone else? Whom will I tell? Where can I isolate? Should I go to the hospital? Will I be okay?
Millions of Americans have fallen sick with this virus, and we've seen the full kaleidoscope of ways people react and cope with illness. Some have dutifully rung up contact tracers and locked themselves in total isolation. In March, after a 63-year-old man in Los Angeles broke out in coughing fits and couldn't get hold of a coronavirus test, he spent five days quarantining in his 2009 Mercedes. Other people have been an epidemiologist's worst nightmare. Someone in southern Oregon kept going to work after falling sick, super-spreading the virus and killing seven people. A groom in Texas reportedly tested positive one day and went on with his maskless wedding party the next. "Oh, no, no, no, don't freak out," a bridesmaid told the very freaked-out photographer. "He doesn't have symptoms. He's fine."
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Lorde dedicated her life and work to confronting and addressing the injustices of racism, classism, and homophobia.
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Born on 18th February 1934 in New York to immigrant parents from the West Indies, Audre Lorde was famous for being a poet, feminist, and civil rights activist. She used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a black lesbian woman, and later, as a person suffering from cancer. She was declared legally blind as a toddler due to the degree of her near-sightedness but despite this taught herself to read at the age of 4 and began to memorise poetry, a passion that stuck with her for the rest of her life.
Lorde's activism and writings speak of the importance of liberation from oppression due to race, gender, sexual orientation, class, age, and ability. Becoming a prominent member of the women's and LGBTQ rights movements, Lorde dedicated her life and work to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, classism, and homophobia. As a professor of English, she received many honours and awards throughout her career and her writing has been published internationally, including The Black Unicorn (1978) and A Burst of Light (1988).
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, Lorde found that the ordeals of cancer treatment and mastectomy were isolating for women but more so for Black lesbian women. In an effort to combat the silence and foster connection with other lesbians and women of colour facing the same struggles, she offered a raw portrait of her own pain, suffering, reflection, and hope in The Cancer Journals (1980) which won awards and became a classic work of illness narrative. Refusing to be victimised by her disease, she considered herself, and others like her, to be warriors.
Lorde died of breast cancer in November 1992 at the age of 58, leaving a legacy through her work. Her ideas about collective identities still resonate with and inspire many different peoples and communities all over the world.
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You may have seen Erykah most recently in the comedy film "What Men Want," and her latest musical effort was in 2015, when she surprised with the release of a mixtape called But You Caint Use My Phone. In recent concert appearances, Erykah has drawn from the mixtape as well as her albums, Mama's Gun, Worldwide Underground, and Baduizm, among others.
In Atlanta recently, Erykah surprised by closing her show with a cover of "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" by Snoop Dogg. Erykah continues touring throughout 2019 with many dates in Europe, although she has scheduled a handful of US dates.
Here are some pictures of Erykah Badu performing at The Anthem on March 16, 2019. All photos copyright and courtesy of Chris Castillo.


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Umesh Dashora
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Alban Davies Huw
Chair of Diabetes Care Trust
A support network for people aged 18-30's with diabetes
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Royal college of Midwives
Abigail Kitt
Senior Quality Improvement Lead, South East Coast Clinical Network, NHS England
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Consultant Obstetrician (Retired), Darrent Valley Hospital
Diane Todd
Leicester University Hospital
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Findings of a nationwide survey of the diabetes education and training needs of midwives in the UK
Umesh Dashora, Alban Davies Huw, Shelley Bennett, Anne Goodchild, Julia Hugason-Briem, Gail Johnson, Abigail Kitt, Annette Schreiner, Diane Todd, Jennifer Yiallorous
Introduction: The incidence and prevalence of diabetes is increasing in pregnant women. Midwives manage a substantial proportion of care of these women. Currently it is not
known whether midwives have sufficient competence in managing these patients well. The Diabetes Care Trust commissioned a survey to assess the diabetes education and training needs of midwives who look after pregnant women with diabetes.
Material and methods: A freedom of information request was made to all the NHS Trusts in the UK to gather relevant information about the roles and responsibilities of midwives in the
maternity units in the UK. This was followed by a Survey Monkey questionnaire to midwives in the UK who are members of the Royal College of Midwives to assess their education and training level, needs, desires and views preceded by a test survey on nine midwives.
Results: The survey revealed considerable variation in the roles and responsibilities, current levels of training and education needs of midwives. Over 85% of midwives expressed a desire to access additional education on diabetes management in different areas. Training in insulin initiation and titration, management during labour and ability to contribute to the antenatal clinic was desired by over 85% of midwives surveyed.
Conclusions: There is an unmet need for structured education and training programmes for midwives in the management of diabetes in pregnancy. We recommend further work in producing tailored and accredited training programmes at different levels to suit the differing needs of midwives and diabetes specialist midwives in the UK.
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Dashora U, Davies HA, Bennett S, et al, on behalf of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD). Diabetes care in pregnancy. A midwife education needs analysis. http://www.diabetologists-abcd.org.uk/Research/DCT_report_final_05012018.pdf. 2018 (accessed 17 Oct 2018).
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Our U10 Hurlers competed in the Go Games Finals in a windy Nowlan Park on Saturday 10th May.
We had a 21 strong squad which was split into 2 teams.
We were playing James Stephens. The lads put in 2 great performances against the Village.
They also got to test their football skills for the final ten minutes.
They all got rewarded with medals after the game and enjoyed the experience.
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Profile: Dave McKean
By System Administrator October 20, 2005 12:00 am January 30, 2015 11:51 am
Dave McKean thinks nothing of mastering stage design, illustration and animation simultaneously, but his rigorous critiques of his own work keep him grounded. Nick Smurthwaite talks to him about his new film
Dave McKean has established quite a reputation for his distinctive posters, CD covers, graphic novels and illustrations for children's books – such as The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish – created with his long-time collaborator, the writer Neil Gaiman. But last year McKean decided it was time for a change of direction.
'I'd been doing still imagery, comics and illustration for ten years and I just needed a new challenge,' he explains. 'Both Neil and I were interested in making films. He decided to try his luck as a screenwriter in the US, while I preferred to stay at home and make some short films, just to see if I could.
'I didn't really know what I was doing,' he adds. 'I just sort of made them up as I went along.'
McKean's shorts went on to be shown at various international film festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, where one of them, N(eon), won the Grand Prix in the digital category in 2003.
It was seen by Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets), and co-chairman (with brother Brian) of The Jim Henson Company, which offered McKean £4m to make a full-length feature.
The resulting film, Mirrormask, is a startling and extravagant, visual kaleidoscope of dream-like images, telling the rite-of-passage story of a feisty 15-year-old girl's thwarted attempts to run away from the circus – where she has grown up – and join the real world. Its UK premiere takes place at the London Film Festival next week.
Like so much of McKean's graphic work, Mirrormask seems destined to attract a cult following, since it falls short of the commercial imperatives of mass market entertainment.
His own harshest critic, McKean himself says he would be happy to see it go straight to video. 'In retrospect, it's got lots of things wrong with it,' he says candidly. 'I regard it very much as a learning experience, my own personal film school – and this was my graduation film. Next time I shall be starting with a much broader platform.'
He worked with a team of equally inexperienced, though technically proficient, graduates from Bournemouth College of Art's animation course – 'We took about half the graduates from the 2003 course,' he explains – who were encouraged by McKean to give their imaginations free rein.
The availability of over-the-counter digital animation software meant that McKean and his team could achieve things in half the time it would have taken them, say, five years ago. 'I could have made the whole thing with a friend in my studio at home, but it would have taken us about 30 years to complete,' he says.
'Anyone could make a film on the scale of Mirrormask now, with a Mac and Maya software. It's as big as the jump from silent to sound pictures in the 1920s,' he explains. 'I think you will get a whole generation of people coming to film from other areas, telling stories in a variety of imaginative ways.'
The need for a collaborative process involved adjusting from the solitary nature of illustration and graphics. 'I'm used to working completely alone, without any editorial interference. Suddenly having to make 200 decisions a day, and get them right, was tough. It helps to have a strong team around you, giving you advice and telling you honestly what they think. Quite late into the shoot, I did change a sequence at the beginning of the film because everyone told me it didn't work,' he says.
Since completing Mirrormask a year ago, McKean has returned to book illustration, with two new children's books to be published soon. More recently, he made his debut as a stage designer with a vampire musical, Lestat, based on the books by Anne Rice – the first stage production to be backed by the film-making studio Warner Brothers.
It has been another huge learning curve for McKean, who not only designed sets for the show – due to open in San Francisco in December prior to a Broadway run next spring – but also animation and live action film inserts. 'The logistics of doing a stage show on this scale are mind-boggling,' he says. 'But it was still easier than Mirrormask, because you are not the one with the ultimate responsibility, and the creative team was made up of people at the top of their game.'
Mirrormask screens on 30 October and 1 November at the Odeon West End, Leicester Square, London, WC2
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Singer Katy Perry hits her fan!
Los Angeles, Nov 29: Singer Katy Perry accidentally kicked an inflatable eyeball prop at a fan's face when she performed "Roar" at a gig in Utah.
The singer was performing at the Salt Lake City show last week, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The fan managed to capture the whole moment and posted it on her Twitter account. She didn't seem to be annoyed by it as she called it the best moment of her life.
Recalling the incident, the fan, whose name is Jordan Hanks, said that she didn't realise Perry was kicking the ball right at her face.
"Some people were throwing them around, but one landed right by Katy and she kicked it. I didn't realize that she was kicking it right at my face until it was too late," she wrote.
"The ball hit me right square in the face and knocked my phone out of my hands. I was so shocked and started laughing hysterically. Everyone around me asked me if I was okay and I was just laughing uncontrollably," she added.


A quick update: We just arrived in Sydney yesterday and are busy sightseeing like good little tourists. These snapshots were taken on a day-trip to Mornington Peninsula, just outside of Melbourne. The landscape was absolutely beautiful.


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Revisiting randomized parallel load balancing algorithms
Guy Even*, Moti Medina
We deal with the well studied allocation problem of assigning n balls to n bins so that the maximum number of balls assigned to the same bin is minimized. We focus on randomized, constant-round, distributed, asynchronous algorithms for this problem. Adler et al. [1] presented lower bounds and upper bounds for this problem. A similar lower bound appears in Berenbrink et al. [2]. The lower bound is based on a topological assumption. Our first contribution is the observation that the topological assumption does not hold for two algorithms presented by Adler et al. [1]. We amend this situation by presenting direct proofs of the lower bound for these two algorithms. We present an algorithm in which a ball that was not allocated in the first round retries with a new choice in the second round. We present tight bounds on the maximum load obtained by our algorithm. The analysis is based on analyzing the expectation and transforming it to a bound with high probability using martingale tail inequalities. Finally, we present a 3-round heuristic with a single synchronization point. We conducted experiments that demonstrate its advantage over parallel algorithms for 106 ≤ n ≤ 108 balls and bins. In fact, the obtained maximum load meets the best results for sequential algorithms.
Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 16th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2009, Revised Selected Papers
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Even, G., & Medina, M. (2010). Revisiting randomized parallel load balancing algorithms. In Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 16th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 209-221). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5869 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11476-2_17
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