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package com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.states;

import static com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.SaltClientType.LOCAL;
import static com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.SaltClientType.LOCAL_ASYNC;
import static com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.SaltClientType.RUNNER;
import static org.hamcrest.collection.IsCollectionWithSize.hasSize;
import static org.hamcrest.collection.IsIterableContainingInAnyOrder.containsInAnyOrder;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.eq;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.Captor;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.SaltActionType;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.SaltConnector;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.target.Compound;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.target.Glob;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.client.target.Target;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.ApplyResponse;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.Minion;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.NetworkInterfaceResponse;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.PingResponse;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.RunningJobsResponse;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.SaltAction;
import com.sequenceiq.cloudbreak.orchestrator.salt.domain.StateType;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class SaltStatesTest {

    private SaltConnector saltConnector;

    private Target<String> target;

    @Captor
    private ArgumentCaptor<Set<String>> minionIdsCaptor;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        Set<String> targets = new HashSet<>();
        targets.add("10-0-0-1.example.com");
        targets.add("10-0-0-2.example.com");
        targets.add("10-0-0-3.example.com");
        target = new Compound(targets);
        saltConnector = mock(SaltConnector.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void addRoleTest() {
        String role = "ambari-server";
        SaltStates.addGrain(saltConnector, target, "roles", role);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run(eq(target), eq("grains.append"), eq(LOCAL), eq(ApplyResponse.class), eq("roles"), eq(role));
    }

    @Test
    public void syncGrainsTest() {
        SaltStates.syncGrains(saltConnector);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run(eq(Glob.ALL), eq("saltutil.sync_grains"), eq(LOCAL), eq(ApplyResponse.class));
    }

    @Test
    public void highstateTest() {
        String jobId = "1";
        ApplyResponse response = new ApplyResponse();
        List<Map<String, Object>> result = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, Object> resultMap = new HashMap<>();
        resultMap.put("jid", jobId);
        result.add(resultMap);
        response.setResult(result);
        when(saltConnector.run(any(), eq("state.highstate"), any(), eq(ApplyResponse.class))).thenReturn(response);

        String jid = SaltStates.highstate(saltConnector);
        assertEquals(jobId, jid);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run(eq(Glob.ALL), eq("state.highstate"), eq(LOCAL_ASYNC), eq(ApplyResponse.class));
    }

    @Test
    public void jidInfoHighTest() throws Exception {
        String jobId = "2";

        InputStream responseStream = SaltStatesTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/jid_response.json");
        String response = IOUtils.toString(responseStream);
        Map responseMap = new ObjectMapper().readValue(response, Map.class);

        when(saltConnector.run(eq("jobs.lookup_jid"), any(), any(), eq("jid"), any())).thenReturn(responseMap);

        Multimap<String, String> jidInfo = SaltStates.jidInfo(saltConnector, jobId, target, StateType.HIGH);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run("jobs.lookup_jid", RUNNER, Map.class, "jid", jobId);

        assertThat(jidInfo.keySet(), hasSize(1));
        assertThat(jidInfo.entries(), hasSize(3));
        String hostName = jidInfo.keySet().iterator().next();
        Collection<String> hostErrors = jidInfo.get(hostName);

        assertThat(hostErrors, containsInAnyOrder("Source file salt://ambari/scripts/ambari-server-initttt.sh not found",
                "Service ambari-server is already enabled, and is dead",
                "Package haveged is already installed."));
    }

    @Test
    public void jidInfoSimpleTest() throws Exception {
        String jobId = "2";

        InputStream responseStream = SaltStatesTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/jid_simple_response.json");
        String response = IOUtils.toString(responseStream);
        Map responseMap = new ObjectMapper().readValue(response, Map.class);

        when(saltConnector.run(eq("jobs.lookup_jid"), any(), any(), eq("jid"), any())).thenReturn(responseMap);

        Multimap<String, String> jidInfo = SaltStates.jidInfo(saltConnector, jobId, target, StateType.SIMPLE);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run("jobs.lookup_jid", RUNNER, Map.class, "jid", jobId);

        assertThat(jidInfo.keySet(), hasSize(1));
        assertThat(jidInfo.entries(), hasSize(3));
        String hostName = jidInfo.keySet().iterator().next();
        Collection<String> hostErrors = jidInfo.get(hostName);

        assertThat(hostErrors, containsInAnyOrder("Source file salt://ambari/scripts/ambari-server-initttt.sh not found",
                "Service ambari-server is already enabled, and is dead",
                "Package haveged is already installed."));
    }

    @Test
    public void jobIsRunningTest() {
        String jid = "3";
        RunningJobsResponse runningJobsResponse = new RunningJobsResponse();
        List<Map<String, Map<String, Object>>> result = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, Map<String, Object>> resultMap = new HashMap<>();
        resultMap.put(jid, new HashMap<>());
        result.add(resultMap);
        runningJobsResponse.setResult(result);
        when(saltConnector.run(eq("jobs.active"), any(), eq(RunningJobsResponse.class))).thenReturn(runningJobsResponse);
        boolean running = SaltStates.jobIsRunning(saltConnector, jid);
        assertEquals(true, running);

        resultMap.clear();
        running = SaltStates.jobIsRunning(saltConnector, jid);
        assertEquals(false, running);
    }

    @Test
    public void networkInterfaceIPTest() {
        SaltStates.networkInterfaceIP(saltConnector, target);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run(any(), eq("network.interface_ip"), eq(LOCAL), eq(NetworkInterfaceResponse.class), eq("eth0"));
    }

    @Test
    public void pingTest() {
        SaltStates.ping(saltConnector, target);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).run(any(), eq("test.ping"), eq(LOCAL), eq(PingResponse.class));
    }

    @Test
    public void stopMinionsTest() {
        Map<String, String> privateIpsByFQDN = new HashMap<>();
        privateIpsByFQDN.put("10-0-0-1.example.com", "10.0.0.1");
        privateIpsByFQDN.put("10-0-0-2.example.com", "10.0.0.2");
        privateIpsByFQDN.put("10-0-0-3.example.com", "10.0.0.3");
        SaltStates.stopMinions(saltConnector, privateIpsByFQDN);

        ArgumentCaptor<SaltAction> saltActionArgumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(SaltAction.class);
        verify(saltConnector, times(1)).action(saltActionArgumentCaptor.capture());

        SaltAction saltAction = saltActionArgumentCaptor.getValue();
        assertEquals(SaltActionType.STOP, saltAction.getAction());

        assertThat(saltAction.getMinions(), hasSize(3));

        Set<String> minionAddresses = saltAction.getMinions().stream().map(Minion::getAddress).collect(Collectors.toSet());
        assertThat(minionAddresses, containsInAnyOrder("10.0.0.1", "10.0.0.2", "10.0.0.3"));
    }
}

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Зелимхан Хаджиев (20 мая 1994, с. Солнечное, Хасавюртовский район, Дагестан, Россия) — французский борец вольного стиля, призёр чемпионатов Европы, победитель и призёр международные турниров, единственный представитель Франции в программе спортивной борьбы на Олимпиаде 2016 года в Рио-де-Жанейро.

Биография
Чеченец. Вырос и занимался борьбой в чеченском селении Солнечное Хасавюртовского района. В 2004 году его семья покинула родину. Из-за проблем на границе их не пустили в Норвегию и семье пришлось отправиться во Францию. Глава семьи, работавший на родине ветеринаром, из-за того, что его учёная степень не признавалась во Франции, был вынужден работать строителем. Мать, бывшая учительница, вынуждена была работать горничной.

Занимается борьбой в клубе LUTTE CLUB de NICE (LCN) (Ницца). Многократный чемпион Франции среди юношей и юниоров. Чемпион мира среди юниоров 2014 года.

На чемпионате мира 2015 года занял 5-е место, тем самым завоевав право выступать на Олимпиаде 2016 года. На Олимпиаде занял 8 место.

В Каспийске на чемпионате Европы 2018 года завоевал серебряную медаль, уступив в финале турецкому борцу Сонеру Демирташу.

На чемпионате Европы 2019 года в Бухаресте завоевал серебряную медаль, уступив в финале итальянскому борцу Франку Чамисо.

На чемпионате мира 2019 года в Нур-Султане завоевал бронзовую медаль, но был дисквалифицирован из-за нарушения антидопинговых правил.

Спортивные результаты
 Чемпионат Европы по борьбе среди кадетов 2010 года — ;
 Чемпионат мира по борьбе 2015 года — 5 место.
 Летние Олимпийские игры 2016 года — в 1/8 финала проиграл борцу из Японии Сосукэ Такатани;
 Чемпионат Франции по борьбе 2017 года — ;
 Первенство Европы по борьбе среди молодёжи 2017 года — ;

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Борцы на летних Олимпийских играх 2016 года
Чемпионы Франции по борьбе
Борцы, дисквалифицированные за нарушение антидопинговых правил

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This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
The holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was recommended to Lincoln by Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor. Her letters to Lincoln urged him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."
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A Proclamation.
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
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William H. Seward,
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GEMAK has to close (click here to find out about the reasons why) and therefore organizes its final event on Friday 4 December 2015, a farewell in the spirit and ambition of GEMAK (and the Vrije Academie Foundation) focusing on artistic practice, experiment, diversity in art disciplines and the connection between art, society and politics.
We hope to make it a special and memorable farewell event including a one-day exhibition (open from 2 pm), performances, a special publication and a farewell party that coincides with the 43rd edition of Hoogtij, for which GEMAK always functioned as starting point. In this way we will say goodbye, together with the artistic field and accessible to all; as always with an open mind and an inquisitive attitude towards art and artistic practice and their relationship to the world around us.
Philip Akkerman, Siamak Anvari, Ehsan Behmanesh & Arefeh Riahi, Justin Bennett, Harold de Bree, Paul Bruininckx, Claudie de Cleen, Nicole Donkers, Laura van Eeden, B.C. Epker, Melissa Cruz Garcia, Anne Geene, Hannah Dawn Henderson. Jonquil, André Kruysen, Dana LaMonda, ligteringen/derooij, Euf Lindeboom, LUSTlab, Sylvain Mazas, Marjolijn van der Meij, Andries Micke, Ingrid Mol, Pendar Nabipour, Nishiko, POTL- Hans Demoed & Geert de Rooij, Arjan de Nooy, Zeger Reyers, Pascal Schilp, Petra van der Schoot, Philip Schuette, Willem Spekenbrink, Yvo van der Vat, Pim Voorneman, Teun Voeten, René Vullings, Lenny Waasdorp, Mark de Weijer, Wouter Willebrands, Jean van Wijk, Gerjanne & Marijke van Zuilen.
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Innovative Approaches to Curriculum Changes in Medical Schools in Japan
Junichi SUZUKI
1996	Volume 27	Issue 3	Pages 145-153
Released: August 11, 2011
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11307/mededjapan1970.27.145
I briefly summarized major innovative movements and events in medical education in Japan during the last 25 years. We recognized that constant efforts have been exerted and resulted in changes in manyaspects of medical education in our country.
Traditional medicine is rapidly changing, developing and expanding to more sophistication and integration. The world is changing, thus the needs for medicine and medical care are different from even those several years ago. To update medical education in order to meet social needs and demands, we have to install a device which constantly renews ourselves in each school and in the government. Both governmental and non-governmental approaches in cooperation seem to be necessary in our country. I have shown our non-governmental efforts from various sources. We recognize that our thinking and discussions in an environment of freedom have contributed a great deal to national decision making.
Survey of Curriculum in the Medical Humanities at Japanese Medical Schools
Chuzo MORI, Toshikazu NISHIO
This report provides information on curriculum in the medical humanities in Japanese medical schools. We sent a questionnaire to the same eighty medical schools in 1988 for the first survey, and again in 1994 for the second survey.
Seventy-eight medical schools (98%) responded in the first survey, and all eighty medical schools (100%) responded in the second survey. A curriculum in medical humanities was offered at 67 medical schools (86%) in the 1st survey, and at 71 medical schools (89%) in the 2nd survey. Courses in medical humanities were required subjects in 63 medical schools (91%) in the 1st survey, and in 62 medical schools (87%) in the 2nd survey. These courses were taught in the 1st grade at 47 % of schools in the 1st survey and at 60% of schools in the 2nd survey. Total teaching time was 30hours in 33% of schools in the 1st survey and in 36% of schools in the 2nd survey. Subjects included in the medical humanities course included death, communication between doctors and patients, the bioethics of birth, organ transplantation, the history of medicine, and early exposure in the hospital. According to our survey the teaching of medical humanities has become popular at the new national medical schools. At present, it is one of the most important courses in medical education.
Student Evaluations of Didactic Lectures by One Instructor
Hiroaki KAHYO
The 2nd year student evaluation of didactic lectures by one instrustor was carried out anonymously in 1991 in order to establish the most appropriate set of questionnaire items (including 11 types of questions with 5 choices of responses each and space for a free answer). The study was repeated 11 times, with a total of 286 responses collected. There was a certain amount of variability in the means and standard deviations in the data. Mutivariate analysis, such as multiple regression, was appled and three principal components (students' concern and lecturer's attitude, utilization of visual aids, and preparation and clarity of lectures) were extracted out 11 items by means of principal component analysis. In concluding, the author stresses the necessity of the further studies.
Evaluation of the Interview Skills at the Opening of the Medical Interviewing
Hiroki SASAKI, Tsukasa TSUDA, Nobutaro BAN, Ryuki KASSAI, Noriaki OCHI ...
We evaluated the interview skills of 46 sixth year medical students (32 men, 14 women) in our outpatient clinic. Six items were evaluated, including the manner in which students responded to patients, the number of times students interrupted patients' statements with closed-ended questions, and the extent to which students maintained eye contact with patients. We found that students interrupted patients every 46.2 seconds on average, and often did not make eye contact with tha patients. It became clear that, although we teach medical interview skills to students, students do not learn these skills very well. We suggest that in order to properly educate medical students, close cooperation between departments is needed.
Evaluation of Medical Records Written by Students During Pediatric Bedside Learning
Mitsuoki EGUCHI, Toshiharu FURUKAWA, Takeshi UMINO, Kenichi SUGITA
Participation of students in the management of patients was evaluated by analyzing medical records written by the students. Sixty-four percent of the students wrote in the medical chart everyday, however the amount of data was on average only 5.6 lines per day. Descriptions of subjective data were scant. Physical complaints were described for 65% of patients, but were insufficient in detail. Psychic and social complaints were rarely described. Objective data on the physical examination comprised the main body of chart notes recorded by the students, although only 37% of these were judged to be sufficient. Laboratory and radiological data were described less thoroughly than data from the physical examination, and were completely absent from 64% of charts. Assessments were incomplete, and patient problems were not clearly elucidated for most patients. These undergraduate students failed in their assessment of patient problems during their one week of bedside learning.
Cardiology Case Conferences for Residents in Internal Medicine, with a Particular Focus on History Taking and Physical Examination
Kanji IGA, Kazuhiro HATTA, Satoshi NISHIMURA, Takanobu IMANAKA, Reizo ...
With the development of sophisticated medical technologies, there has been a tendency to belittle the taking of the "history and physical, " even in the field of cardiology. We have been holding cardiology case conferences for general medical residents, with the main focus on history taking and physical examination since 1992, so that all residents are able to provide a certain level of primary care for patients with cardiac diseases regardless of his or her future sub-speciality. We present our methods and the educational effect of these conferences.
Evaluation of Postgraduate Clinical Training
Takanobu IMANAKA, Kazuhiro HATTA, Satoru NISHIMURA, Kanji IGA, Makoto ...
Based on 20 years of experience with an unique postgraduate clinical training program, consisting of "g eneral wards " and "inninr-residents in general medicine" at Tenri Hospital (Nara, Japan), we have identified the following points for the successful evaluation of residents: 1) unlike undergraduate teaching, item-based evaluations do not fit teaching in the clinical setting, 2) evaluation of residents' attitudes should be emphasized, 3) comprehensive evaluation in regular meetings by the teaching staff is practical and useful, 4) mechanisms to reflect patients' opinions should be included in the evaluation process.
An Opinion on the Significance of the Oral Lecture
Shogo MASUDA
Recently, course lectures have been divided up into many pieces given by different lecturers with narrower but deeper knowledge. This is in contrast to the older style of all lectures in a course being delivered by a single lecturer. The lectures today are thus overflowing with too much content for students to handle. As a result, oral lectures have lost popularity as educational tools, since their utility is diminished by information overload. The original function of the oral lecture as a method of transmitting knowledge should be reinstated, with the strong support of various educational materials and computers.
Edited and published by : Japan Society for Medical Education
Produced and listed by : Shinoharashinsha,INC


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One Thousand Members
What stuck in the memories of participants was the sight of Peres and Arafat spontaneously joining hands and walking up to the Congress Hall stage together to thunderous applause.
The World Economic Forum welcomed its 1,000th member. At the same time, the Forum decided as a strict policy to maintain exclusivity not to exceed this record high in the future. In coming years, the focus would be on substantially improving not only the quality of membership benefits and services but also regional and industrial diversity.
At the Annual Meeting, which was co-chaired by Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the focus of attention was inevitably on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In recent years, the Forum had already welcomed discreetly – in parallel with the so-called Oslo Process – Israeli and Palestinian representatives. Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were in Davos for talks. They drafted an agreement on Gaza and Jericho, which moved the peace process forward significantly.
The negotiations conducted in Davos by Foreign Minister Peres and Chairman Arafat encouraged the Forum to organize the first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Summit in Casablanca. The event, which took place at the end of October, was organized in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, under the patronage of His Majesty King Hassan II of Morocco and with the support and endorsement of President Bill Clinton of the United States and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin. For the first time in history, Arab and Israeli leaders came together in a comprehensive programme of discussion and exchange.
The MENA Summit forged groundbreaking partnerships between the public and private sectors and signalled a new era of diplomacy through the creation of mechanisms designed to advance economic development and cooperation. Two thousand top leaders from government and business from virtually all the MENA countries attended the Summit, which concentrated on the economic dimension of the so-called Madrid Process for peace in the Middle East.
Earlier in the year, in a conversation with Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during a banquet at the third East Asia Economic Summit, Klaus Schwab raised the idea of complementing the strong transatlantic alliance through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the deepening links across the Pacific through the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC, with a third regular mechanism bringing together Asia and Europe.
Schwab's idea of an Asia-Europe forum eventually led to the creation of the biennial Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of heads of government, which Prime Minister Goh would announce in Davos in 1996. The first ASEM was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in March that year.


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Q: Trying to use array method to help display message I'm trying to replace my display message to instead of showing "too low", "correct", it will take it from the array function to help display my message. For example, "Your guess number 1 is 2 and it is too low", "Your guess number 2 is 30 and it is too high", something like that, but I'm not sure how to implement the array function into my RandomNumber() function.
function RandomNumber()
        {
            var guessed = document.getElementById("textbox").value;
            var value4 = document.getElementById("guess").value;

           count++;

           if (guessed==value4){
               document.getElementById("correct").innerHTML +="correct
"
           }
            else if(guessed>value4){
                document.getElementById("correct").innerHTML +="wrong
"
            }
            else if(guessed<value4){
                document.getElementById("correct").innerHTML +="too low
"
            }
            else if(guessed>value4){
                document.getElementById("correct").innerHTML +="too high
"
            }
            if(count===5) {
                document.getElementById("correct").innerHTML +="max try
"
                document.getElementById("guessing").disabled=true;
            }
        }

This is my array function which holds the output display I want
function getMessage(correctNumber, guess, guessNumber)
{
    const highOrLow = guess > correctNumber?"too high.":"too low.";
    return `Your guess number ${guessNumber} is ${guess} and it is ${highOrLow}`;
}

A: I am not sure if this helps or not, but I think that you can tweak it as follows,
remove all the if else statements and use the main if statement to print correct if the guess is equal to the value entered. Any other value will be incorrect, which can be handled with the else statement. The else statement calls the getMessage function which validates if the value is more or less than the correct value and returns the correct answer.

let count = 0;
let value4;
let checkGuess = document.getElementById('checkGuess');
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => {
  value4 = Math.floor((Math.random() * 100) + 1);
  checkGuess.addEventListener('click', RandomNumber);
});
let RandomNumber = () => {
  let guess = document.getElementById("textbox");
  let correct = document.getElementById("correct");
  //validate that the user entered a guess
  if (!guess.value) {
    alert('Please enter a guess');
    return;
  }
  count++;
  if (guess.value == value4) {
    correct.innerHTML += "correct
"
  } else {
    correct.innerHTML += `${getMessage(guess.value)}<br>`;
  }
  if (count > 4) {
    correct.innerHTML += `max try, correct number is ${value4} <br/>`;
    guess.disabled = true;
  }
}

function getMessage(guess) {
  const highOrLow = guess > value4 ? "too high." : "too low.";
  return `Your guess number ${count} is ${guess} and it is ${highOrLow}`;
}
<input type="text" id="textbox" name="textbox">
<button type="button" id="checkGuess">Check my guess!</button>

A: You could create an object to keep track of the state, especially the attempt count, because that also has to exist outside of the function (but is tied to a series of guesses).
Using OOP is a little more advanced and would be preferable, but this works too. Also note that this function does 2 things ( create a message and modify the guess-object, which is frowned upon ). Finally your code isn't generating a message for the correct answer, which may cause issues.

let guess = { correct: 5, guess: 2, attempt: 0 };

function getMessage(guess)
{
    const highOrLow = guess.guess > guess.correct?"too high.":"too low.";
    return `Your guess number ${++guess.attempt} is ${guess.guess} and it is ${highOrLow}`;
}

console.log( guess );
console.log( getMessage( guess ) );
console.log( guess );
guess.guess = 10;
console.log( getMessage( guess ) );
console.log( guess );

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\section{Introduction and Related Work}
\label{submission}
Most networks display some level of hierarchical topology \cite{barabasi2016network}; examples include actor networks, the semantic web and the internet at the autonomous system level \cite{PhysRevE.67.026112}.

The defining feature of hierarchical network topology is how the clustering coefficient, $C_{i}$, of the $i$-th node scales with its degree, $k_{i}$; namely,
\begin{equation}
    C_{i}(k) \propto k_{i}^{-1}.
\end{equation}
Nodes with high degree and low clustering coefficient are those that connect different communities. Nodes with low degree and high clustering coefficient are those that connect within the community more than to different communities. Another distinct characteristic of hierarchical networks is that the clustering coefficient is independent of the number of nodes and that they show scale-free topology \cite{barabasi2016network}.

In this work, we present and explore a novel architecture operating on the graph domain which attempts to utilise the intrinsic hierarchical topological information that is embedded in a wide range of datasets. Graph neural networks, a booming field of deep learning, was built on the assertion that intrinsic graph structure in datasets was underutilised \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1812-08434}. However, the field of multiscale graph neural networks effectively does not exist, despite the fact that the evidence supporting the claim of hierarchical underutilisation is just as strong as for graph structure underutilisation \cite{PhysRevE.67.026112}.

Limited work has been done in the area of multiscale graph neural networks. Luzhnica, Day \& Liò \yrcite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1904-00374} introduced clique pooling; however cliques (complete subgraphs) are more restrictive than clusters (dense subgraphs) --- it is more likely that hierarchical networks consist of clusters rather than cliques (beyond triangular cliques). The work on multiscale graph convolutions by Haija \textit{et al.} \yrcite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1802-08888} is the closest piece of work to ours; however it does not use hierarchical clustering algorithms.

In terms of applications; Lu \textit{et al.} \yrcite{lu2019molecular} used a hierarchical level-by-level treatment of quantum interactions in molecules, Zitnik \textit{et al.} \yrcite{zitnik2017predicting} used hierarchical multiplex graphs for multiple spatial scales of brain tissue and Kim \textit{et al.} \yrcite{san2019graph} developed a temporal multiscale graph convolutional neural network for analysing bike-sharing demands. Our multiscale decomposition was loosely inspired by the multiscale neural network using hierarchical block matrices, by Fan \textit{et al.} \yrcite{fan2019multiscale}, however it was designed to solve partial differential equations and does not operate on the graph domain.

\section{Architecture}

\begin{figure*}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[scale=0.142]{Architecture_0805_0312.png}
    \caption{Our architecture which exploits hierarchical information through a multiscale decomposition. A dendrogram is produced by a Girvan-Newman hierarchical clustering algorithm, as shown on the left. It is segmented and fed through graph convolutional layers, shown in the middle, allowing the architecture to learn multiple scale latent space representations of the network, from fine to coarse grained. These representations are then combined, shown on the right, and fed through a fully connected layer which outputs the model's node classification predictions.}
\end{figure*}

The architecture is shown in Figure 1. We input an unweighted, undirected, graph, $\mathcal{G}=(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{E})$, where there are $N$ nodes, $\mathcal{V} \in \{\mathcal{V}_1, \dots, \mathcal{V}_N \}$, and $M$ edges, $\mathcal{E} \in \{\mathcal{E}_1, \dots, \mathcal{E}_M \}$. We construct $\hat{A}=A+I$, where $I \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times M}$ is the identity matrix and $A\in \mathbb{R}^{N \times N}$ is the adjacency matrix given by,
\begin{equation}
    A_{ij}=A_{ji}= \begin{cases}
    1   &\text{if node $i$ links node $j$} \\
    0   &\text{otherwise}
    \end{cases}.
\end{equation}
A multiscale decomposition, $f$, is taken through hierarchical clustering,
\begin{equation}
    f(\mathcal{G}) = \{\mathcal{G}_1, \mathcal{G}_2, \dots, \mathcal{G}_L \},
\end{equation}
and hence,
\begin{equation}
    f(\hat{A}) = \{\hat{A}_l \} \text{ where } l\in \{1, \dots, L\}.
\end{equation}
We pass this and the input feature matrix, $X \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times F}$, with $F$ features per node, through the first convolutional layer, with $F$ input nodes, obtaining the set over $l$,
\begin{equation}
    \left\{ H_{l}^{(1)} \colon  H_{l}^{(1)} = \sigma\left( \hat{D}_{l}^{-\frac{1}{2}}\hat{A}_{l}\hat{D}_{l}^{-\frac{1}{2}} X W_{l}^{(0)}\right) \,  \right\},
\end{equation}
where $H_{l}^{(1)} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times F^{'}}$, $F^{'}$ is the number of input nodes to the second layer, $W_{l}^{(q)}$ is the weight matrix for the $q$-th neural network layer on the $l$-th scale, $\sigma$ is a non-linear activation function and $\hat{D}_{l}$ is the $l$-th diagonal node degree matrix. The Kipf \& Welling \yrcite{DBLP:journals/corr/KipfW16} propagation rule was used in equation 5. We then pass through the second convolutional layer,
\begin{equation}
    \left\{ H_{l}^{(2)} \colon  H_{l}^{(2)} = \sigma\left( \hat{D}_{l}^{-\frac{1}{2}}\hat{A}_{l}\hat{D}_{l}^{-\frac{1}{2}} H_{l}^{(1)} W_{l}^{(1)}\right) \,  \right\},
\end{equation}
where $H_{l}^{(2)} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times C}$, with $C$ being the number of classes. We then vertically concatenate the latent feature matrices from each scale, obtaining
\begin{equation}
    H^{(3)}=H_{1}^{(2)} \oplus H_{2}^{(2)} \oplus \dots \oplus H_{L}^{(2)}.
\end{equation}
Here, $H^{(3)} \in \mathbb{R}^{(N \cdot L) \times C}$. Finally this is fed through a fully connected (FC) layer, resulting in the node classification probability matrix as output,
\begin{equation}
    Y = \sigma ( W H^{(3)} + b) ,
\end{equation}
where  $Y \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times C}$, the weight matrix $ W \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times (N \cdot L)}$ and $b$ is a bias matrix $ Y \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times C}$. In our implementation of this architecture, we chose $F^{'} = (F + C) / 2$.

We used a graph convolutional network (GCN) layer depth of two here but this architecture can easily be generalised to any GCN layer depth. Ensembling, as we have done here, has significant literature demonstrating its power as an architectural choice \cite{xibin2020survey}.

\section{Experiments}

\begin{figure*}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[scale=0.55]{accuracy_plots_2_labelled_cropped.png}
    \caption{Node classification accuracy of the architecture when the GCN layer depth, number of decomposition scales and number of hidden nodes is varied. Accuracy upon corrupting the training set with random binary valued feature vectors is also shown, where the noise is altered. There is an optimal depth, shown by (a). Accuracy peaks at a threshold scale shown by (b), but this trend is somewhat weak. Robustness to noise is demonstrated by (c) and a threshold neural network width is required from observing (d).}
\end{figure*}

Tests were conducted on a truncated version of the Cora dataset (\url{https://relational.fit.cvut.cz/dataset/CORA}). Its properties are detailed in Table 1. Code can be found at [link removed for review].

\begin{table}[t]
\caption{Key properties of the truncated Cora dataset, used in the experiments.}
\vskip 0.15in
\resizebox{0.49\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\toprule
Truncated Cora Dataset   &                                     \\ \midrule
Type                     & Machine learning citation network   \\
Task                     & Semi-supervised node classification \\
Number of nodes          & 2708                                \\
Number of labelled nodes & 140                                 \\
Number of edges          & 5429                                \\
Number of classes        & 7                                   \\
Feature vector length    & 1433                                \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
}
\label{Table 1}
\vskip -0.1in
\end{table}

\subsection{Hyperparameters}
Prior to performing the following experiments, the Cora network was put through a Girvan-Newman clustering algorithm. It produced 528 usable networks (excluding the last one which contained no edges, hence graph convolutions could not be performed properly). The non-linear activation function used was ReLU. Adam optimization was used with a learning rate of 0.01 and weight decay of $5 \times 10^{-4}$. The number of epochs used to train the convolutional layers was 300 for each graph. The number of epochs used to train the FC layer was 10. Given that this was a multi-class classification task with no major skew to the dataset, accuracy was deemed to be a sufficient performance metric. Two tests were performed for each data point, with error bars given by the standard deviation. The strategy for assigning the number of hidden nodes for a given GCN layer was to take the arithmetic mean of the number of nodes in the directly neighbouring layers, ensuring consistency. Each data point took approximately 10 minutes on a Nvidia GTX Titan X. Figure 2 summarises the results. Overall, the architecture achieved accuracies of 77\% using only 5\% of the truncated Cora dataset for training.

\subsubsection{Depth}
Three graphs were used. Graphs 0, 200 and 400 were used. That is, the coarse-grained representation, an intermediate scale and the finest scale  respectively. The number of FC hidden nodes was 30. The layer depth was varied from one layer to five layers.

The results are shown in Figure 2(a). We note that the accuracy increases initially to its highest at layer depth 2, then drops steadily as more layers are added. This is consistent with a well-known phenomenon where below a problem specific threshold, the performance of the neural network is poor, but beyond that, more depth again leads to poor performance \cite{Loukas2020What}. It is speculated that a neural network that is too shallow is unable to learn more complex and abstract non-linear features, whereas a network that is too deep is liable to overfitting. Overly deep networks can also incur the vanishing gradient phenomenon \cite{ghosh2019exploring}.

\subsubsection{Scales}

Each graph from the multiscale decomposition can be interpreted as a different scale of the original network. GCN depth was kept at two. The number of FC hidden nodes was 7. We note this is less than for the layer depth experiment and we note the drop in accuracy. The number of scales used, $L$, was varied from 3 to 176.

Figure 2(b) displays the results. There seems to be no strong trend. The highest accuracy was achieved with 8 scales. This was higher than the two lower number of scales, supporting the claim that multiscale decomposition does improve performance, but only up to a certain threshold number of scales. This is similar to the behaviour when altering the layer depth.
\subsubsection{Hidden Nodes}
The GCN layer depth was kept at depth two. Three graphs were used: number 0, 200 and 400. The number of hidden nodes in the FC layer was altered from 5 to 45. The FC network always had 7 input nodes and 7 output nodes.

The results are shown in Figure 2(d). The accuracy increases sharply when increasing from 5 to 20 hidden nodes, but then a plateau is reached, where increasing the number of hidden nodes does not significantly increase the performance. Individual more extreme tests, not plotted here, were performed at 100 and 1000 hidden nodes, both still returning approximately 76\% accuracy, confirming the plateau. Loukas \yrcite{Loukas2020What} suggests that the product of GNN width (number of hidden nodes) and depth has to exceed (a function of) the graph size to be performant. The neural network must be either deep or wide. This could explain the initial increase in accuracy as the number of hidden nodes is increased.
\subsection{Noise}

This experiment was conducted using standard hyperparameters: a GCN depth of two; the same three graphs from the depth and hidden node experiments; and 30 hidden nodes in the FC layer. The other experimental parameters detailed at the beginning of the hyperparameter section also apply here.

The method for noise addition selected $140p$ nodes, out of 140 in the training set, where the noise parameter, $p \in [0.1, 0.9]$. It then replaced the feature vectors corresponding to those nodes with a random vector of binary values, maintaining the original dimensions. The values were sampled from a uniform probability distribution.

The effect of varying the noise parameter on accuracy is shown in Figure 2(c). As should be expected, the accuracy decreases as the noise is increased. The model shows robustness.

\section{Discussion}

\subsection{Limitations}
There are three main limitations to the approach taken in the architecture described. First, there is added computational complexity due to the addition of a hierarchical clustering algorithm. The Girvan-Newman \yrcite{girvan2002community} algorithm scales as $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$ for a sparse network. The algorithm needs to be invoked anytime a new network is input into the model. It is therefore important to choose the optimal hierarchical clustering algorithm. Second, more RAM is needed to store the graphs produced by the multiscale decomposition. A memory efficient way of storing these could be devised, such as deserializing individual disk stored graphs, from the multiscale decomposition, each time one of the scales of GCN layers is trained, then removing them before training the next scale. Third, it is computationally more expensive to train many graph convolutional networks than training only one.  The performance benefit should outweigh the extra computation time.

\subsection{Future Work}
Performance could be compared across multiple datasets: a model artificially generated hierarchical network, a perfectly non-hierarchical network such as a random Erdős–Rényi \yrcite{erdHos1960evolution} graph and a stochastic block model network \cite{karrer2011stochastic} to understand the impact of adding communities. A neural network approach to hierarchical clustering could be implemented \cite{tian2014learning, yang2017graph}. Assessing performance while varying the distribution of scales, other than the linear spacing used here, may be informative.

Architecture changes could include condensing nodes in each community to one node, rather than using graphs with different numbers of edges. The decomposition would produce graphs with different numbers of nodes; each cluster represented by a node with a feature vector obtained from averaging all the node features in that cluster. They would be pushed through graph convolutional layers, then the nodes would be unpacked by expanding each node into its original cluster nodes; this time the child nodes would all have the same feature vector from the parent node. This would be performed on all graphs and would allow the graphs to have the same number of nodes again which allows the usual flattening and FC layer.

\subsection{Applications}
First, the architecture would be well suited for quantum molecular property prediction using the QM9 or QM7b datasets \cite{blum, 1367-2630-15-9-095003, ramakrishnan2014quantum, ruddigkeit2012enumeration}. This is because of its hierarchical nature as demonstrated by the improved performance of a multilevel architecture by Lu \textit{et al}. \yrcite{lu2019molecular}. Quantum molecular property prediction can aid drug discovery. Second, the protein interface prediction network by Fout \textit{et al}. \yrcite{fout2017protein} could be augmented with our architecture, perhaps realising performance gains. This is a prime target for our architecture due to the hierarchical nature of protein interactions.

Lastly, the graph element network by Alet \textit{et al}. \yrcite{alet2019graph} could be extended with our architecture. Graph element networks aim to be the neural network version of finite element analysis by using graph neural networks as computational substrates. Multiscale finite element analysis already exists where different scale meshes are used, from coarse to fine. Multiscale graph element networks do not exist, despite being a clear extension.

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New Samurai Warriors 4 Screenshots Reveals Warriors, Stages, Event Scenes, and Battle Modes
NewsPS4PS3PS Vita
Christian Chiok
July 9, 2014 9:23 PM EST
Tecmo Koei just released today a new batch of screenshots for Samurai Warriors 4, the latest installment in the series. The new screenshots show 12 characters including three new warriors, six stages, scenes from both the Legend of the Oda and Legend of the Takeda events, and the character and battle modes in the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions.
Samurai Warriors 4 is scheduled to release on October 21 in North America for PlayStation 4 via retail and digital while the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita versions will be available digitally only. Here is the game's full features below released by Tecmo Koei:
55 New and Updated Characters— Nobuyuki Sanada and Yoshitsugu Otani join the fray, along with Takatora Todo, Naotora Ii and Munenori Yagyu (previously only available in Japanese releases of Samurai Warriors) along with major overhauls of appearance and rearrangements in battle moves for fan-favorite characters such as Yukimura Sanada and Nobunaga Oda adding to the diverse range of more than 50 playable characters
Disseminate the Enemy Ranks— Battles are more thrilling than ever with new maneuvers including Hyper Attacks which allow for rapid moment on the battlefield combined with high powered attacks, a powerful Rage Attack which can be reached when the Spirit Gauge is full, deadly finishing moves with Mighty Strikes and the ability to mount and dismount horses seamlessly, additionally existing moves have all been powered up from their previous iterations
New Battle Modes— Enhancements and newly implemented gameplay systems create a deeper and more satisfying combat experience, including the all-new ability to switch between two characters in real-time, adjustments to morale, Officer development and the return of the popular portable item system found in Samurai Warriors 3 are just some of the features players will find to gain the advantage in combat
Unfold the rich tapestry of the Warring States era— The Story Mode portrays the tales surrounding the battles by faction, deepening the relationships between characters and is separated into two parts, regional stories, which tell the tales of the officers of various regions around the land such as Kyūshū and Shikoku, and the story of unification, which details events up to the end of the Warring States era
Leave a mark on history— In the new "Chronicle Mode", while completing various quests, meeting new officers and collecting items, players discover the world of Samurai Warriors through their own design with more ways to customize than ever before including a vastly upgraded Create Character system
Living World— PlayStation 4 players will experience an even more engaging saga with highly detailed landscapes and breathtaking skies that reflect true to life lighting and shadow effects and battlegrounds packed with significantly more enemies on screen
Cooperative Play and Cross Save functionality— All modes can be played cooperatively via Network Play across the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PS Vita system, additionally save data can be shared across all three systems
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Crown Health Care Laundry Services leads the industry in the Southeast of the United States. Due to tremendous growth, we are adding a Production Supervisor position in our Quitman, Georgia plant. This busy plant opened in February 2009. It requires an energetic, experienced, hands-on floor supervisor to work with our collaborative teammates to meet production goals, work safely and meet quality standards.
Consequently, preferred candidates will have at least 3 years production supervision or strong lead experience in an industry that required measuring production and meeting short-term production goals. Therefore, exceptional communication skills and solid analytical skills are required. We are looking for candidates who believe that production is their career niche and they want to grow with a solid company. Candidates must also have good computer skills.


This week I've been mostly trying to draw the actual NSView contents into the attached CALayer, and have it rendered via CARenderer.
Last week I had a proof that this is possible using the work from previous phases - I've managed to draw some custom graphics into a CALayer, which is then drawn into a NSView-managed OpenGL context using a CARenderer. You can read that report here.
The concept is relatively simple. In the drawLayer:inContext: method on the NSView, we need to draw its contents into the given context. However, the issue is that CALayer is given a Core Graphics context, while NSView knows how to draw itself only into a NSGraphics context.
There is a neat solution for this - the graphicsContextWithCGContext:flipped: method, which takes a CGContext and returns a subclass of CGContext that has the interface of a NSGraphics context. We then pass the created context into the displayRectIgnoringOpacity:inContext: method on the NSView, which causes it to draw itself into the context.
But it doesn't work. What doesn't work? Is the graphicsContextWithCGContext:flipped: method broken, or is it somewhere else?
While it is ugly, a huge NSButton is what I was trying to draw. So that works. The issue isn't in the drawing of the NSView into a context, it is somewhere else.
Where? Who knows. It's somewhere in Opal backend. There are a couple of remaining candidates. I've been digging through callstacks and am working on finding the culprit, with some help of Ivan, who knows Opal.


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Environmental issues in Hawaii
The majority of the environmental issues affecting Hawaii today are related to pressures from increasing human and animal population in the limited separation space of the islands.
Superfund sites
A number of plant species are now extinct due to grazing livestock, and aggressive non-indigenous species taking over the land. Almost 40% of the endangered species in the United States are Hawaiian species, while nearly 75% of all U.S. extinctions have occurred in Hawaii.
The native flora comprises 89% endemic species, but the flora of Hawaii now includes more than 1044 introduced plant species; more than 100 of these are likely to be invasive in natural areas. Species such as the strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum), and christmasberry (Schinus terebinthifolius) have spread across wide areas, competing with native species and altering the natural ecosystem. Recent invaders like miconia or velvet tree (Miconia calvescens) and Himalayan raspberry (Rubus ellipticus) are now permanently established over large areas. These species are predicted to decrease watershed function.
Prior to the arrival of non-natives, some bird species were made extinct, or pushed to near extinction from the collection of feathers by Native Hawaiians. With the arrival of James Cook in 1778, a new set of environmental threats emerged. Alien species such as cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, and rats affected a number of indigenous species. Hawaii is known as the "extinction capital of the world" with the extinction of nearly half (140) of its historically recorded native bird species. Some of the alien species that are currently affecting Hawaii include cane toads, mongoose, coquí frogs, gall wasps, Mediterranean, Oriental, and melon flies that damage crops, ants that destroy native insects, and bacteria that infect waters.
Compared with the mainland United States, Hawaii's rating on the air quality index is ranked among the best. Approximately 47% of all emissions are caused by burning fossil fuel for electricity production. Ground transport is the second biggest contributor with 22%, while air transport contributes 19%.
The waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands are affected by effluents generated and released from the islands themselves. Floating plastic garbage is a problem, and refuse from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is affecting beaches in Hawaii, such as Kamilo Beach. The U.S. military used the ocean as a dumping ground for munitions from 1919 to 1970, cite news |title=Old Weapons Off Hawaii Should Stay Put, Army Says |publisher=Associated Press |accessdate=August 2010 |location=Honolulu, Hi. and the U.S. army dumped 16,000 mustard gas bombs in deep water (south of Pearl Harbor after World War II.)
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World Bank: Economic Digitalization in Middle East Can Generate $1.6 Trillion in Gains
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The World Bank said that the adoption of digital technologies in MENA countries would achieve enormous social and economic gains. (Photo: Reuters)
The World Bank said the full digitization of the economy in the Middle East and North Africa could raise GDP per capita by at least 46 percent over 30 years, or long-term gains of $1.6 trillion.
In a new report entitled, "The Upside of Digital for the Middle East and North Africa, How Digital Technology Adoption Can Accelerate Growth and Create Jobs," the World Bank said that during the first year of digitization, the region's GDP per capita could reach $300 billion.
According to the report, this increase will be more pronounced in lower-income countries in the region, which will witness a minimum of 71 percent increase as the gains are driven by closing the gap in access to digital technologies.
The World Bank added that the adoption of digital technologies in MENA countries would achieve enormous social and economic benefits amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars annually, emphasizing that extensive use of digital services, such as mobile services and digital payments, would boost economic growth.
Ferid Belhaj, World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, said: "The gains from increasing the transformation to a digital economy are enormous, and governments should do everything they can to remove the obstacles to this transformation."
He added: "The sooner and faster this push, the greater the gains...Digital transformation would provide job opportunities in a region where unemployment rates are unacceptably high, especially among young people and women. With coordinated efforts, this situation can change."
The World Bank report said that the Middle East and North Africa region suffered from a "digital paradox": the region's population uses social media more than expected for its level of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita but uses the internet or other digital tools to make payments less than expected.
For example, digital payments in the MENA region's developing countries (i.e. countries that are not members of the Gulf Cooperation Council) account for 32 percent of total transactions, compared to 43 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Moreover, the report presented evidence that the socioeconomic gains of digitalizing the economies of the region were huge: "GDP per capita could rise by more than 40 percent; manufacturing revenue per unit of factors of production could increase by 37 percent; employment in manufacturing could rise by 7 percent; tourist arrivals could rise by 70 percent, creating jobs in the hospitality sector; long-term unemployment rates could fall to negligible levels; and female labor force participation could double to more than 40 percent."
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"Targeting underserved populations and areas can accelerate the achievement of universal access, while fostering competition and improving the functioning of financial and telecommunications sectors can encourage the adoption of digital technologies," according to the report's summary.
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To avoid holiday delays, airlines add flights — but Mother Nature doesn't care
Travelers at Gatwick Airport in London on Dec. 22, 2015
Image: Rex Features via AP Images/Associated Press
By The Associated Press 2015-12-24 00:21:35 UTC
DALLAS — Airlines are shifting the timing of thousands of flights, even adding dozens of redeyes, as they try to avoid delays while hauling millions of passengers from now through the Christmas weekend.
Success or failure could all depend on the weather and Mother Nature isn't making it easy on airlines.
Rain and fog in the Northeast caused delays and cancellations Wednesday in Boston, New York and Washington — the busiest part of the country's airspace. Rain in Chicago and Atlanta caused some delays in those cities too. Severe storms that ripped through Mississippi and Alabama, however, had little impact on air travel since no major airports are in those states.
See also: Dangerous severe storms, including tornadoes, tear across South, Midwest
Weather wasn't the only culprit for travel headaches. A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis blocked roads around the airport and access to one of the two terminals.
#BlackXmas2 #BlackXmas #MOASueMeToo pic.twitter.com/0HRx9xxkjB
— try me (@punchbuggiez) December 23, 2015
There were about 3,600 delays and 300 cancelations by 4 p.m., according to flight tracking site FlightAware. More than 28,000 flights were scheduled for Wednesday and a typical day sees about 150 cancelations and 4,000 delays.
The catch: Flights are extremely full over the holiday period, with most travelers unable to make changes in their schedule.
Airlines expect about 38 million passengers over a 17-day period spanning Christmas and New Year's, an increase of about 3 percent, according to an industry trade group, Airlines for America. The group says the average flight could be 90 percent full.
Crowds like that mean that any hiccup in the system — delays at a major airport, a technology glitch — can ripple across the country and leave tens of thousands of passengers standing in airport lines.
"The biggest factor is always weather," said American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein.
Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut ran out of fuel at one point Wednesday due to multiple planes being diverted from New York City due to low clouds. Six flights after 4 p.m. ET were delayed, authorities told WFSB 3, and a glitch at the fuel pump in New Haven elongated the wait time for travelers itching to get off the ground.
Waiting for our 4:15 Southwest flight to take off..Long Story short — Bradley Airport was out of fuel .. All planes waiting to refuel and take off!!! Really??? On a holiday?? What's up with this???
Posted by Nancy Shuss on Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Seeing multiple reports that BDL (Hartford, CT) has run out of fuel for aircraft after taking in so many NYC diverts https://t.co/Wfial4gdWr
— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) December 23, 2015
Back in New York, travelers at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports also took the brunt of weather problems. As did the international airports Chicago O'Hare and Chicago Midway, which saw roughly hour-long delays for eastbound flights, according to WGN 9.
Flying for the holidays? Right now there's a 90 minute delay at #Laguardia in #NewYork. #LGA #WTAE pic.twitter.com/HnjW8dfPKE
— Ray Petelin (@Ray_WTAE) December 23, 2015
Misery at NYC airports ain't over. Fog replaced by heavy rain & low clouds. AA1390 went around 2x, diverted to JFK. pic.twitter.com/gsBxdwEq8O
Meanwhile, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. was getting ahead of the weather, warning passengers to plan ahead on Twitter.
Weather may cause delays. Allow extra time. #FlyReagan #HappyHolidays
— Reagan Airport (@Reagan_Airport) December 23, 2015
At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, a 45-minute closure of security lines following the Black Lives Matter protest likely caused delays Wednesday for Sun Country and Southwest airlines, Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan told the Associated Press. Multiple arrests were made, but Hogan did not disclose an exact figure. The protest began at Mall of America and continued to the airport, where demonstrators blocked roads and terminal entrances, prompting the shutdown of security checkpoints.
Officers are blocking protestors from entering the airport. https://t.co/iGFcHD1TKO
— Mukhtar Ibrahim (@mukhtaryare) December 23, 2015
MOA protest a "decoy" says press release from #BlackLivesMatter MSP airport protest part of 6 city national action. pic.twitter.com/cWrouvKaQx
— UpTake MN Coverage (@uptakemn) December 23, 2015
Back-to-back storms led to more than 4,300 canceled flights around Christmas 2012. This time the Northeast corridor not only should be free of snow and ice, it should be relatively balmy with temperatures on Christmas Day in the 60s from New York to Boston. But rain and snow are forecast through Thursday in parts of the West, and the South and Ohio Valley could see severe storms before Christmas.
Airlines have been helped recently by the El Niño pattern that has brought above-average temperatures to northern states. "We saw that through the Thanksgiving holiday season, and we've seen that through November and December," said Steve Hozdulick, Southwest Airlines' managing director of operational performance.
United posted its lowest flight-cancellation rate ever for a Thanksgiving week, and Southwest had its best on-time performance ever for the day before the holiday, which helps reduce other problems such as lost or delayed bags.
From 9% to 19% of flights were delayed over the peak five-day Thanksgiving period, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. A year earlier, when the weather was worse, delays ran between 12 percent and 31 percent.
Expect high volume of travelers today. Arrive 2 hours early for domestic flights, 3 hours for international #happyholidays #holidaytravel
— Boston Logan Airport (@BostonLogan) December 21, 2015
Besides the vagaries of weather, airlines in recent years have done a better job of adjusting schedules for peak holiday periods.
According to Mark Duell of FlightAware, U.S. airlines added up to 700 flights a day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, compared with the same days last week. They cut about 4,400 flights on Christmas Eve and 5,700 on Friday, Christmas Day, when fewer people want to travel, he said.
Delta Air Lines and its Delta Connection affiliate scheduled 5,253 flights next Sunday, compared with fewer than 5,000 on a typical winter Sunday. Southwest expected Wednesday to be its busiest day, with more than 3,800 flights.
Give yourself plenty of time at the airport. See suggested arrival times here: https://t.co/7fQp1NtzqH pic.twitter.com/NMEhgl6YcI
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) December 22, 2015
The peak day was last Friday for American, with 6,900 flights, and United, nearly 5,000, but both will also operate increased flights each of the next two Sundays.
Some of the additional flights are late at night, which gives travelers more options — and sometimes a lower fare. American and United successfully used the redeye tactic over Thanksgiving.
"Hubs like Houston, Chicago and Denver will see large increases of flights departing after 10 p.m. — very similar to what we did over Thanksgiving," said United Airlines spokesman Charles Hobart. American added night flights at Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix and Charlotte.
At Delta, some extra flights will connect big cities that get heavy traffic all the time, while others will go to warm-weather destinations, said spokesman Morgan Durrant. Delta will occasionally use bigger planes. Through Jan. 3 there is an Atlanta-Salt Lake City round trip using a 293-seat Airbus A330 instead of smaller planes such as Boeing 737s with just 160 seats.
The airlines say they will have enough employees on hand to handle the extra passengers.
The Transportation Security Administration is also adjusting staffing, said spokesman Mike England. Wait times at security checkpoints have increased this year, and passengers can expect longer delays during the holidays, he said. Holiday travelers slow the process when they overstuff carry-on bags, which makes them harder to screen.
Many travelers are bound to be stressed out. Patience will be a valuable commodity. Along with portable chargers for phones and other gadgets.
Additional reporting by Mashable.
Topics: airliines, flight, Holidays, Travel, Travel & Leisure, World


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St. Gianna as model and tool for evangelization in medicine
Thomas McKenna, founder and president of the St. Gianna Physician's Guild, spoke at the luncheon sponsored by the local chapter of the Catholic Medical Association following Saturday's White Mass. He is a leading authority on St. Gianna Molla, a 20th-century wife, mother, and physician whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 2004.
McKenna gave an overview of her remarkable life, and explained how she is a great patron for all Catholic laity, especially health care providers.
Leon Suprenant with the Catholic Key caught up with McKenna to learn more about the work of his organization.
Key: What is the St. Gianna Physician's Guild?
McKenna: It's an organization founded five years ago to inspire physicians and others in health care to practice their faith better and to stand up for their faith. We live in a secularized world where doctors are pressured to check their religion at the door when they put on their white coat. We help them retain their Catholic identity, helping them recall that they are Catholics first and physicians second.
Key: How do you go about implementing this vision?
McKenna: First, we encourage physicians to learn about St. Gianna. Then the physician can enshrine in his office or clinic a picture of St. Gianna that contains a relic. The enshrinement ceremony was written by Cardinal Raymond Burke. He helped me establish the Guild and remains closely involved with the organization.
The physician puts this picture in their office and invites their family, friends, and other doctors to come to this event. It's a way of bringing up the faith in the setting of a physicians' office where it's not foreign or odd. Many doctors feel uncomfortable putting up a crucifix, but they're often willing to put up a picture of a woman holding a child who was a doctor and a saint.
I tell them when you put that on your wall people are going to ask, "Who is that woman?" Since they are asking the question, you aren't pushing anything; you are simply answering their question and have an opportunity to tell St. Gianna's heroic story. Many, many doctors have called me back to request more literature, because the picture generates so much interest.
Key: How did you get to know St. Gianna's family?
McKenna: I met them when I had the idea to create an organization for physicians. I wanted their support if I was going to make her our patron. So I got in touch with some pro-life friends in Italy who knew the family and asked them to arrange a meeting. I met the family, including Gianna's husband, who has since died. I asked them what they thought of my idea, and they supported it enthusiastically and wanted to be a part of it. So they are very pleased and active in supporting the organization and glad to have their mother honored in this way.
Key: For those who may not know the story, could you explain the circumstances of Gianna Molla's final pregnancy?
McKenna: St. Gianna had three children, and then she suffered two miscarriages. Then she became pregnant again. Two months into her pregnancy, they discovered a benign fibroid tumor in her uterus. It was not cancer. Nonetheless, the tumor posed a potential threat to her life and the life of the child, so the doctors recommended a hysterectomy.
St. Gianna asked if there were other options. The doctor said they could try to remove the tumor and see if she would carry the baby to term, but it was very risky and she could miscarry anyway. St. Gianna basically said, "If that's an option, then that's what I want, because the child in my womb has the same right to life as my other three children."
So they did the operation and it was successful. Gianna took the baby to term. They had to deliver the baby by caesarean section. Her newborn daughter was healthy, but as a result of the C-section, St. Gianna developed an infection and died one week later.
Key: I've heard people mention of "Gianna babies." Can you tell me a little about that?
McKenna: A couple years ago I was in Italy and asked St. Gianna's brother about miracles attributed to St. Gianna, and he said by far the most miracles were couples who were infertile or not able to have babies, who then prayed to Gianna and were able to conceive and give birth. That phenomenon is taking place all over the world, and we're talking about medical cases where it was thought clinically "impossible" for the couples to have children.
Key: Do you have any plans to come back to the KC area?
McKenna: Yes, we are actually planning a conference on end-of-life issues that will take place in July. Cardinal Burke will be coming to chair the conference. St. Gianna's daughter, Gianna Emanuela, who was named after her mother, will also be here for that. In October, St. Gianna's son will be visiting Kansas City to participate in a 4-day special exhibition on the life of St. Gianna that will be held at St. James Academy.
Key: Why is Gianna a saint for our time?
McKenna: She was a person who practiced virtue to a heroic degree in the 20th century. She drove a car, she went to medical school, and she faced many challenges we face today. She did things that you or I do; she endured trials that you or I do. When you learn about the life of St. Gianna, you find a life filled with suffering, suffering that she overcame with her Catholic faith. Her husband used to say that Gianna's compass was her Catholic faith. She measured everything by faith and that's what we as Catholics need to do. That's why we say, "St. Gianna, pray for us."
For more information on the St. Gianna Physician's Guild, visit www.stgiannaphysicians.org.
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Ashes of Honor, by Seanan McGuire
Publisher: DAW
This is the sixth book in the October "Toby" Daye series by Seanan McGuire, and the books have greatly improved since the first few hit the shelves. Seanan has settled into the characters and the world.
The premise of this one is that Etienne, one of the knights of Toby's liege lord who hasn't exactly been one of Toby's greatest supporters, has fathered a changeling. Except he didn't know about it until now, when the changeling is manifesting teleportation powers that are far too powerful for her handle. And now she's vanished. Etienne comes to Toby asking if she can find the missing teenager, before everyone finds out, including their liege lord. But even if Toby succeeds in finding the missing girl, she's old enough now that Toby will be forced into making the Choose--between fairy and humanity. One will rip her away from the other parent the child has ever known . . . and the other may mean her death.
I've thought the book in this series have been steadily improving. The first few were a little loose and not always cohesive. The world didn't feel settled and the characters were often making decision that made little to no sense. That shifted around the fourth book, with the plot threads becoming much more coherent and the world and characters much more grounded. I felt the fifth book was by far the best, and couldn't see how Seanan would best that one.
And Ashes of Honor isn't "better" than One Salt Sea . . . but it comes damn close. The plot thread in this book is easy to follow and the steps that Toby takes to find the girl all make sense (unlike some of the first few books, where it felt more like she was just stumbling around and fumbling in the dark until something happened to her). Here, she's making things happen herself, following leads, seeking help from allies, etc. In other words, she's being the detective that she's expected to be. And of course the plot opens up into something more significant and serious than a changeling simply running wild.
It turns out that the changeling's portals opening up hither and yon, uncontrolled, are actually tearing apart the foundations of fairy. In fact, she's opening holes into realms of fairy that have been sealed off and blocked. Toby isn't just trying to save the girl from herself, she's now trying to stop her from ripping the fairy realm apart.
And that's just the main plot thread holding the book together. We also have some significant character development with Toby and her friends, in particular, the long anticipated potential relationship with Tybalt comes to the fore here. I won't ruin how everything plays out, but I know many readers have been waiting for this subplot to take a more central role in the books, and it finally does. I'm certain the romance enthusiasts will mark this book their favorite in the series just because of that.
So, overall, one of the strongest books in the series so far. I hope that all of the future novels with Toby and this world retain the strength of these last few. If they do, I'll be reading about Toby Daye's adventures for a long time to come.
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Susan Granger: Top movies, performers of 2011
Updated 4:44 pm EST, Friday, December 30, 2011
The newly released movie, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," is one of the year's best, according to reviewer Susan Granger.
Photo: Contributed Photo
Following are reviewer Susan Granger's selections for the top movies of 2011, as well as the best film performances, direction and technical achievements.
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (Warner Bros.)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" (Warner Bros.)
"Hugo" (Paramount Pictures)
"Midnight in Paris" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Moneyball" (Columbia)
"The Artist" (Weinstein)
"The Descendants" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
"The Help" (DreamWorks)
"The Tree of Life" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
"War Horse" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Woody Allen for "Midnight in Paris;" Stephen Daldry for "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close;" Michel Hazanaviciius for "The Artist;" Terrence Malick for "The Tree of Life;" Bennett Miller for "Moneyball;" Alexander Payne for "The Descendants;" Martin Scorsese for "Hugo;" Steven Spielberg for "War Horse;" Tate Taylor for "The Help," and David Yates for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2."
Antonio Banderas for "The Skin I Live In;" Demian Bichir for "A Better Life;" George Clooney for "The Descendants;" Leonardo DiCaprio for "J. Edgar;" Jean Dujardin for "The Artist;" Ralph Fiennes in "Coriolanus;" Joseph Gordon-Levitt for "50/50;" Brad Pitt for "Moneyball;" Michael Shannon for "Take Shelter," and Owen Wilson for "Midnight in Paris."
Berenice Bejo for "The Artist;" Glenn Close for "Alfred Nobbs;" Viola Davis for "The Help;" Kirsten Dunst for "Melancholia;" Elizabeth Olsen for "Martha Marcy May Marlene;" Britt Marling for "Another Earth;" Saoirse Ronan for "Hanna;" Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady;" Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin," and Michelle Williams for "My Week With Marilyn."
Jessica Chastain for "Take Shelter," "Tree of Life," "The Help" and "The Debt;" Marion Cotillard for "Midnight in Paris;" Judi Dench for "J. Edgar;" and "My Week With Marilyn;" Charlotte Gainsbourg for "Melancholia;" Melissa McCarthy for "Bridesmaids;" Janet McTeer for "Albert Nobbs;" Vanessa Redgrave for "Coriolanus;" Alexandra Roach for "The Iron Lady;" Octavia Spencer in "The Help," and Shailene Woodley for "The Descendants."
Jim Broadbent for "The Iron Lady;" Kenneth Branagh for "My Week With Marilyn;" Albert Brooks for "Drive;" Armie Hammer for "J. Edgar;" Jonah Hill for "Moneyball;" Christopher Plummer for "Beginners;" Alan Rickman for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2;" Seth Rogen for "50/50;" Andy Serkis for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," and Max von Sydow for "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close."
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"A Separation," "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu," "Certified Copy," "Of Gods and Men," "The Skin I Live In," and "The Trollhunter."
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"Arthur Christmas," "Happy Feet Two," "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss in Boots," "Rango," "Rio," "The Adventures of TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn," and "Winnie the Pooh."
BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT
J.J. Abrams for "Super 8;" Woody Allen for "Midnight in Paris;" Dustin Lance Black for "J. Edgar;" Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist;" Tom McCarthy for "Win Win;" Mike Mills for "Beginngers;" Abi Morgan for "The Iron Lady;" Jeff Nichols for "Take Shelter;" Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig for "Bridesmaids," and Will Reiser for "50/50."
BEST SCREEN ADAPTATION
Pedro Almodovar for "The Skin I Live In;" John Banville and Glenn Close for "Albert Nobbs;" George Clooney and Grant Heslove for "The Ides of March;" Richard Curtis and Lee Hall for "War Horse;" Emilio Estevez for "The Way;" John Logan for "Hugo;" Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash for "The Descendants;" Eric Roth for "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close;" Tate Taylor and Kathryn Stockett for "The Help," and Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin for "Moneyball."
Manuel Alberto Claro for "Melancholia;" Janusz Kaminski for "War Horse;" Emmanuel Lubezki for "The Tree of Life;" Phedon Papamichael for "The Descendants;" Robert Richardson for "Hugo;" Guillaume Schiffman for "The Artist;" Eduardo Serra for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2;" Steven Soderbergh for "Contagion;" Dante Spinote for "Tower Heist," and Adam Stone for "Take Shelter."
"Captain America: The First Avenger," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," "Hugo," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Take Shelter," "The Tree of Life," and "The War Horse."
BEST USE OF MUSIC
Ludovic Bource for "The Artist;" Alexandre Desplat for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2;" Alexandre Desplat for "The Tree of Life;" Clint Eastwood for "J. Edgar;" John Powell for "Happy Feet Two;" Howard Shore for "Hugo," and John Williams for "War Horse."
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