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The #ArtForArmenia charity online auction launched in favor of Insurance foundation for servicemen and Vahe Meliksetyan foundation and will last on 11-18 December 2022, for only one week!
The Auction generated funds will support Armenian servicemen and their families who suffered from the hostilities in Armenia and Artsakh – more than 4,400 families of those deceased or missing in action and more than 600 disabled war veterans. The auction format assumes the highest transparency: winners of the auction will transfer the amount directly to the fund depending on whose artwork they purchase.
This is the 2nd charity auction #ArtForArmenia which will take place on a new online platform The Artfor's. The 1st #ArtForArmenia Auction was held in November 2020 with proceeds over $42,000 in favor of Servicemen and their families.
The online auction features more than 50 works by artists from all over the world who donated their graphics and drawing from classics to abstract art, as well as monumental and small paintings and sculptures. The auction features works by Yuri Grigoryan, Harutyun Dzhinanyan (Jino), Ekaterina Rozhkova, Galina Bystritskaya, Aram Danielyan, Rafael Manukyan and others. Most of the works can be viewed live at the ArtKvartal Gallery in Yerevan on 11-14 December 2022.
A unique art object of Arthur Vardanyan – traditional Armenian lavash with the face of Christ miraculously burnt out – is an unconditional phenomenon of current auction. "I am the living bread" is one of the limited edition items in which only 33 lavashes were baked with the blessing of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Another such lavash is presented in the Sergei Parajanov Museum in Yerevan. The work from the series is put up for public sale for the first time.
Become part of the Auction. You have a unique opportunity to get a unique art piece for the benefit of our Servicemen and their families. The full catalog is available on the auction website theartfors.com. Bidding will last until December 18.
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Insurance Foundation for Servicemen (IFS) was established in 2017 to provide stable, equitable compensation for the well-being of fallen, missing, and disabled soldiers and their families while defending the homeland and its borders for the peace and security of future generations. It is a unique foundation in the region where every resident in Armenia and Artsakh makes mandatory contributions. Diaspora Armenians support IFS through donations. IFS values are transparency, accountability and integrity. IFS website provides information on all mandatory contributions and donations received, as well as compensation paid out. To date, IFS has 5,054 active cases, where 4,637 cases were received after the recent war in Artsakh. IFS has paid out over $176 million in compensation.
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About Vahe Meliksetyan Foundation
Vahe Meliksetyan Foundation was founded in memory of the clinical pharmacist Vahe Meliksetyan, who fell in the 2020 war in Artsakh, in order to continue his work dedicated to the development of clinical pharmacy in Armenia. For two years, the foundation has provided scholarships to pupils and future clinical pharmacists in the amount of 7 million drams ($17,500). The entire amount from the auction will be directed to the creation of the "Pharmacy Development Center after V. Meliksetyan. For the first stage of the creation of the center, 20 million drams are needed, of which 9 million have already been collected.
The mission of the Foundation is the development of clinical pharmacy in the Republic of Armenia
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package br.com.devbus.acesseme.datastore;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreService;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreServiceFactory;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.EntityNotFoundException;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Key;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.PreparedQuery;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Query;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Query.FilterOperator;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Transaction;
import com.google.appengine.api.memcache.MemcacheService;
import com.google.appengine.api.memcache.MemcacheServiceFactory;

/**
 * This is the utility class for all servlets. It provides method for inserting,
 * deleting, searching the entity from data store. Also contains method for
 * displaying the entity in JSON format.
 *
 */
public class Util {

	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Util.class
			.getCanonicalName());
	private static DatastoreService datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory
			.getDatastoreService();

	private static MemcacheService keycache = MemcacheServiceFactory
			.getMemcacheService();

	/**
	 * Add the entity to cache and also to the datastore
	 *
	 * @param entity
	 *            : entity to be persisted
	 */
	public static void persistEntity(Entity entity) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Saving entity");
		Key key = entity.getKey();
		Transaction txn = datastore.beginTransaction();
		try {
			datastore.put(entity);
			txn.commit();
		} finally {
			if (txn.isActive()) {
				txn.rollback();
			} else {
				addToCache(key, entity);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Delete the entity from persistent store represented by the key Also
	 * delete it from cache
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            : key to delete the entity from the persistent store
	 */
	public static void deleteEntity(Key key) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Deleting entity");
		Transaction txn = datastore.beginTransaction();
		try {
			datastore.delete(key);
			txn.commit();
		} finally {
			if (txn.isActive()) {
				txn.rollback();
			} else {
				deleteFromCache(key);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Delete the entities represented by a list of keys Delete the entitites
	 * from cache also
	 *
	 * @param keys
	 *            : keys for the entities that are to be deleted
	 */
	public static void deleteEntity(final List<Key> keys) {
		datastore.delete(new Iterable<Key>() {
			public Iterator<Key> iterator() {
				return keys.iterator();
			}
		});
		deleteFromCache(keys);
	}

	/**
	 * Search and return the entity from the cache . If absent , search the
	 * datastore.
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            : key to find the entity
	 * @return entity
	 */
	public static Entity findEntity(Key key) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Search the entity");
		try {
			Entity entity = getFromCache(key);
			if (entity != null) {
				return entity;
			}
			return datastore.get(key);
		} catch (EntityNotFoundException e) {
			return null;
		}
	}

	/***
	 * Search entities based on search criteria
	 *
	 * @param kind
	 * @param searchBy
	 *            : Searching Criteria (Property)
	 * @param searchFor
	 *            : Searching Value (Property Value)
	 * @return List all entities of a kind from the cache or datastore (if not
	 *         in cache) with the specified properties
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	public static Iterable<Entity> listEntities(String kind, String searchBy,
			String searchFor) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Search entities based on search criteria");
		Query query = new Query(kind);
		if (searchFor != null && !"".equals(searchFor)) {
			query.addFilter(searchBy, FilterOperator.EQUAL, searchFor);
		}
		PreparedQuery pq = datastore.prepare(query);
		return pq.asIterable();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the list of children from a parent key in the entity group
	 *
	 * @param kind
	 *            : the entity kind of the children that is to be searched for
	 * @param ancestor
	 *            : the parent key of the entity group where we need to search
	 * @return iterable with all children of the parent of the specified kind
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	public static Iterable<Entity> listChildren(String kind, Key ancestor) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Search entities based on parent");
		Query query = new Query(kind);
		query.setAncestor(ancestor);
		query.addFilter(Entity.KEY_RESERVED_PROPERTY,
				FilterOperator.GREATER_THAN, ancestor);
		PreparedQuery pq = datastore.prepare(query);
		return pq.asIterable();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the list of keys of all children for a given entity kind in a given
	 * entity group represented by the parent key
	 *
	 * @param kind
	 *            : Entity kind of the children that needs to be searched for
	 * @param ancestor
	 *            : Parent key of the entity group that needs to be searched for
	 * @return an iterable with keys of children
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	public static Iterable<Entity> listChildKeys(String kind, Key ancestor) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Search entities based on parent");
		Query query = new Query(kind);
		query.setAncestor(ancestor).setKeysOnly();
		query.addFilter(Entity.KEY_RESERVED_PROPERTY,
				FilterOperator.GREATER_THAN, ancestor);
		PreparedQuery pq = datastore.prepare(query);
		return pq.asIterable();
	}

	/**
	 * List the entities in JSON format
	 *
	 * @param entities
	 *            entities to return as JSON strings
	 */
	public static String writeJSON(Iterable<Entity> entities) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "creating JSON format object");
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		int i = 0;
		sb.append("{\"data\": [");
		for (Entity result : entities) {
			Map<String, Object> properties = result.getProperties();
			sb.append("{");
			if (result.getKey().getName() == null)
				sb.append("\"name\" : \"" + result.getKey().getId() + "\",");
			else
				sb.append("\"name\" : \"" + result.getKey().getName() + "\",");

			for (String key : properties.keySet()) {
				sb.append("\"" + key + "\" : \"" + properties.get(key) + "\",");
			}
			sb.deleteCharAt(sb.lastIndexOf(","));
			sb.append("},");
			i++;
		}
		if (i > 0) {
			sb.deleteCharAt(sb.lastIndexOf(","));
		}
		sb.append("]}");
		return sb.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieves Parent and Child entities into JSON String
	 *
	 * @param entities
	 *            : List of parent entities
	 * @param childKind
	 *            : Entity type for Child
	 * @param fkName
	 *            : foreign-key to the parent in the child entity
	 * @return JSON string
	 */
	public static String writeJSON(Iterable<Entity> entities, String childKind,
			String fkName) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO,
				"creating JSON format object for parent child relation");
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		int i = 0;
		sb.append("{\"data\": [");
		for (Entity result : entities) {
			Map<String, Object> properties = result.getProperties();
			sb.append("{");
			if (result.getKey().getName() == null)
				sb.append("\"name\" : \"" + result.getKey().getId() + "\",");
			else
				sb.append("\"name\" : \"" + result.getKey().getName() + "\",");
			for (String key : properties.keySet()) {
				sb.append("\"" + key + "\" : \"" + properties.get(key) + "\",");
			}
			Iterable<Entity> child = listEntities(childKind, fkName,
					String.valueOf(result.getKey().getId()));
			for (Entity en : child) {
				for (String key : en.getProperties().keySet()) {
					sb.append("\"" + key + "\" : \""
							+ en.getProperties().get(key) + "\",");
				}
			}
			sb.deleteCharAt(sb.lastIndexOf(","));
			sb.append("},");
			i++;
		}
		if (i > 0) {
			sb.deleteCharAt(sb.lastIndexOf(","));
		}
		sb.append("]}");
		return sb.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Adds the entity to cache
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            : key of the entity
	 * @param entity
	 *            : Entity being added
	 */
	public static void addToCache(Key key, Entity entity) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Adding entity to cache");
		keycache.put(key, entity);
	}

	/**
	 * Delete the entity from cache
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            : Key of the entity that needs to be deleted
	 */
	public static void deleteFromCache(Key key) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Deleting entity from cache");
		keycache.delete(key);
	}

	/**
	 * Delete entities based on a set of keys
	 *
	 * @param keys
	 *            : list of keys for the entities that are to be deleted
	 */
	public static void deleteFromCache(List<Key> keys) {
		keycache.deleteAll(keys);
	}

	/**
	 * Search for an entity based on key in the cache
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            : key of the entity that is searched for
	 * @return the entity
	 */
	public static Entity getFromCache(Key key) {
		logger.log(Level.INFO, "Searching entity in cache");
		return (Entity) keycache.get(key);
	}

	/**
	 * Utility method to send the error back to UI
	 *
	 * @param data
	 * @param resp
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public static String getErrorResponse(Exception ex) throws IOException {
		return "Error:" + ex.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Utility method to get the datastore service in entities
	 *
	 * @return datastore
	 */
	public static DatastoreService getDatastoreServiceInstance() {
		return datastore;
	}
}

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These thoughts and more came rushing in as I began reading In Praise of Love in the aftermath of Sandy Hook. I have much more to work through and get down on paper or keyboard. In the meantime, here is a snippet from my recent post over at www.gospelhusgands.com. It is very hard to keep Advent at bay when considering the need for a world set right.
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Hunting Badger is the fourteenth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, first published in 1999.

Armed robbers at a Ute Indian gambling casino shoot two security guards, one fatally. Sgt. Chee gets involved in the hunt for the robbers, while retired Lt. Leaphorn gets drawn in by one who will not go to the FBI or local police. Chee and Leaphorn work together again.

One reviewer considers this to be "Hillerman at his best." while another calls it a "Pleasing lesser work from the doyen of the regional mystery." The novel "continues to hold a high place on every national best-seller list." The basics of the plot were inspired by the "intensive manhunt that followed the murder of Officer Dale Claxton on May 4, 1998. . . only with more satisfying results." Most reviewers praised the descriptions of the dramatic landscape ("the scenery spectacular", "the most picturesque country in the Southwest", "the scenic Southwest's beauty") and one notes "several new insights into the mysteries of Navajo culture and a story with enough twists and surprises to make readers glad they checked in."

Plot summary

Sophisticated robbers shoot the security guards at the Ute Casino, turn off the electricity and then steal the cash bagged and ready to be picked up for deposit to the bank. Cap Stoner is killed outright, while young Teddy Bai is severely wounded, but immediately suspected by the FBI as the "inside man" for the robbery. Chee returns from a long vacation in Alaska to be drawn into the investigation at the request of Officer Manuelito, who does not believe Bai is guilty. Roy Gershwin draws Leaphorn into the investigation by saying that he knows who did it, leaving a list of three names with Leaphorn. Why does he choose Leaphorn, and not the police or the FBI? The FBI announces that the perpetrators fled in an airplane stolen from Mr. Timms.

Chee and his friend Cowboy Dashee revisit the site where the escape vehicle was found with two sets of footprints, and visit the Timms place nearby. They track the aircraft to the second landholding of Timms, so the criminals are still on the loose. Leaphorn travels with Prof. Bourebonette, who is working near where the men on Gershwin's list live. Leaphorn finds Everett Jory in his house, shot dead, leaving a suicide note on his computer screen. The note names his two confederates in the crime, George Badger Ironhand and Alexander Buddy Baker, who misled Jory as to the use of the money. The pick-up truck parked at his place is the second seen at the Casino. The FBI gets active in the case again. The officer in charge, Mr. Cabot, directs a huge systematic search of the area near Jory's home (near the border of Arizona with Utah), with the local police forces doing the searching. Prof. Bourebonette interviews a Ute woman with Leaphorn in company. The woman relates the story of Ironhand from the early 20th century, a man who fooled the Navajos in pursuit of him. He had a son who was a skilled fighter in the Vietnam War, still alive. About the same time, Chee visits his uncle Frank Sam Nakai, finding him mistakenly in a hospital. Once he and Manuelito move Nakai back to his home, Nakai warns Chee of Ironhand and the coal mine, and gives Chee his final lesson on the Nightway ceremonial. Then Nakai dies of lung cancer.

Leaphorn learns from retired FBI agent Kennedy (the start of the retired cops group) that the broken radio found in the abandoned vehicle had wires cut inside, like a careful sabotage. He realizes that the robbers are hidden where they get no news, so will be appearing soon; one of them fishes for old newspapers at a gas station and drives off just as Chee drives in to fill up his gas tank. The station owner gives enough description to indicate it is Ironhand. The vehicle, stolen like the first one, is found abandoned near Gothic Creek Canyon. In the second day of searching, Chee sprains his ankle. After talking with Leaphorn, he calls on the head of the EPA project at the airport that is using a helicopter to scan for uranium, which is usually found in or near old coal mines. They agree to an extra bit of flying, and Chee finds the long mine shaft likely built by Mormons in the prior century, since abandoned, not visible from the search area, and once used by the original Ironhand. Cabot is scornful of this information, claiming they searched that place already, finding no signs of habitation.

Roy Gershwin meets with Leaphorn again, claiming to be afraid he will be killed as an informer. Chee calls to report the success in finding the mine shaft while Gershwin is present, and Gershwin sees Leaphorn mark it on a map. Chee falls on his injured ankle, so Manuelito takes him to the clinic and then home, where Leaphorn meets them with his new theory of the crime. Leaphorn learned that Jory had lawsuits against both Timms and Gershwin, and that Gershwin is in poor financial condition, worse if Jory's lawsuit prevails. Gershwin likely typed that suicide note after killing Jory. They visit Timms, learning that Gershwin is just ahead of them. They proceed to the top of the mine shaft, finding Gershwin's vehicle there. They position themselves out of sight, with Leaphorn directing their actions. They hear gunshots from the mine. Gershwin walks from the old structure and Leaphorn confronts him, holding a rifle. Gershwin admits to shooting at both Baker and Ironhand, saying it was self-defense. Baker lies dead. Leaphorn introduces Chee, while Manuelito radios for support. Gershwin goes for his own pistol, so Chee tells Gershwin to drop it, which he does. Ironhand shoots Gershwin from beneath the plywood over the mine shaft. Gershwin lies dead. When Cabot arrives, Leaphorn tells him to look in Gershwin's truck for the casino money, which he finds intact. Riding away from the crowded scene, Chee begins to realize that Leaphorn likes him, and that he is beginning to like Bernadette Manuelito.

Characters
Joe Leaphorn: Retired lieutenant of the Navajo Tribal Police, widower, who lives in Window Rock, Arizona.
Jim Chee: Officer in the Navajo Tribal Police, recently returned from a trip to Alaska. He is again based in Shiprock, New Mexico as a sergeant, having had enough of being an Acting Lieutenant.
Emma Leaphorn: Deceased wife of Joe, about whom we learn through his memories of her and his life with her, and comparisons between her and Leaphorn's friend Louisa.
Louisa Bourebonette: Professor of cultural anthropology, friend of Leaphorn, who was introduced in Coyote Waits. She is now interviewing Utes for their old story, and uses Leaphorn's guest bedroom as a base for reaching her interviews.
Teddy Bye: Deputy Sheriff in Montezuma County who works a second job as security for the Ute Casino. He is engaged to be married. He is shot multiple times by the thieves, yet considered by the FBI as the inside man of the sophisticated robbery as he recovers in the hospital.
Cap Stoner: Retired police captain who works as security for the Ute Casino. He is killed by thieves who steal the casino's cash.
Bernadette (Bernie) Manuelito: Young officer recently transferred back to Shiprock from Tuba City office of Navajo Tribal Police, so she can more easily care for her ill mother; she was introduced in The Fallen Man.
Captain Largo: Superior officer for both Chee and Manuelito at the Shiprock office of the Navajo Tribal Police.
Albert "Cowboy" Dashee: Hopi man, friend of Chee, and Deputy Sheriff in Apache County. He was introduced in The Dark Wind.
Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai: Hatalii and uncle to Chee, who is dying from lung cancer. He gives Chee the last lesson in the Nightway ceremony, so that Chee can decide whether he is strong enough in himself to help others in the Navajo ceremonials. He appeared in Sacred Clowns and The First Eagle.
Jay Kennedy: Retired FBI agent who Leaphorn calls when deciding how to handle the information shared with him by Roy Gershwin. Leaphorn worked with Kennedy many times before his own retirement. He was introduced in Skinwalkers.
Roy Gershwin: Politically oriented man who selects Leaphorn as the one to learn the names of three culprits in the murder and thievery at the Ute Casino. He is threatened with a suit by Jory that would deprive him of his grazing lease near Montezuma Creek. He murders Jory, and is fatally shot by Ironhand in the final scene.
Alice Deal: New Mexico state police dispatcher who directs Chee as to where Bye took flying lessons.
Jim Edgar: He works at Farmington, New Mexico airport where Teddy Bye took flying lessons from Four Corners Flight, and where the DOE helicopter is based.
Mr. Timms: Owner of an old airplane (50-year-old model L-17) who claims his plane was stolen by the thieves, leading the FBI to declare the robbers used it to flee. He made a false insurance claim for theft. He owns two grazing leases.
George (Badger) Ironhand: Decorated Vietnam War veteran, sharpshooter, and a Green Beret, in a local militia group, son of a well-known Ute of the early 20th century (in Ute lore), who stole from the Navajos and baffled them by his method of escape in Gothic Creek canyon. He is part of the team persuaded by Gershwin to carry out this robbery.
Alexander (Buddy) Baker: Third man in the original group to carry out the Ute Casino robbery, in a local militia group. He once worked in the casino, the "inside man" assumed essential for this heist. He is murdered by Gershwin while in hiding.
Everett Jory: Man with strong political views, once had his own radio program. Jory is a lawyer and a man fond of legal suits, with one pending against Gershwin. Leaphorn finds him dead. Thought at first to be a suicide, he was murdered by Gershwin who also typed a suicide note on Jory's computer leading the police to know the names of the two in hiding.
Damon Cabot: FBI agent-in-charge of the Ute Casino case, newly arrived from Philadelphia.
P. J. (Pattie) Collins: EPA staffer who leads the project to identify exposed uranium, which is often tied with old coal mines; she allows Chee to ride along the day they scan Gothic Creek canyon. (based on a real person per Author's Note.)
Tom McKissick: Pilot of helicopter owned by the US Department of Energy, which is equipped specially to detect and image the radiation, who conducts the survey of lands with uranium on the Navajo Reservation for the EPA. He, the co-pilot and the tech are based on real people per the Author's Note.
Rosemary: Engaged to Teddy Bye.
Janet Pete: Lawyer in federal Department of Justice. She is half Navajo and grew up in the cities of the East Coast. She returns to work in the Four Corners area after being home in Washington DC. She had been engaged to Chee, but that connection is over. She is assigned to defend Teddy Bye. She was introduced in Skinwalkers.

Allusions to real persons and events

In the interviews that Professor Louisa Bourebonette holds with an old Ute woman, old enmities began to upset Joe Leaphorn. Besides the murdering thief of the current story, he reflects on the history in the 19th century, when Utes joined with the U.S. Army under Kit Carson to put the Navajos down and ultimately to drive them out of their homeland. From the time of the Spanish, the Utes and Paiutes had been enemies to the Navajos, though all living in the same large area of the Colorado Plateau.

In the Author's Note, Hillerman explains that the EPA team and the helicopter pilot and co-pilot were based on real people conducting the project to map exposed uranium on the Navajo Reservation, as a start to remediation from the uranium mining done for federal government projects.

Geography
In his 2011 book Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries, author  has listed the following 48 geographical locations, real and fictional, mentioned in Hunting Badger.

Aneth, UT
Aztec, NM
Beclabito, NM
Black Creek Valley, AZ
Blanding, UT
Bluff, UT
Bluff Bench, UT
Casa Del Eco Mesa, UT
Chinle, AZ
Chinle Wash, AZ
Chuska Mountains, NM & AZ
Colorado River, CO, UT, & AZ
Comb Ridge, AZ & UT
Cortez, CO
Desert Creek, UT
Dinétah, NM
Durango, CO
Farmington, NM
Flagstaff, AZ
Four Corners, NM, AZ, UT, & CO
Gallup, NM
Glen Canyon, AZ
Gothic Creek, UT
Gothic Creek Canyon, UT
Jicarilla Apache Reservation, NM
Lake Powell, UT & AZ
Lukachukai, AZ
Manuelito Plateau, NM
Mexican Water Trading Post, AZ
Montezuma Creek, UT
Mount Taylor, NM
Narbona Pass, NM
Nokaito Bench, UT
Recapture Creek, UT
Red Mesa, AZ
Red Mesa Chapter, AZ
Rough Rock, AZ
San Juan River, CO, NM, & UT
Shiprock (Community), NM
Sleeping Ute Mountain, CO
Southern Ute Reservation, CO
Toadlena, NM
Towoac, CO
Tuba City, AZ
Two Grey Hills, NM
Ute Casino (fictitious establishment)
White Mesa Ute Reservation, UT
Window Rock, AZ

Reviews

Kirkus Reviews finds this a lesser work from Hillerman, but pleasing, and with the best tricks at the end:

On May 4, 1998, a Colorado police officer was shot and killed when he pulled over a stolen water truck. One of the three thieves killed himself soon thereafter; the other two remain at large despite the FBI's scorched-earth (and, Hillerman hints in a brief introduction, insensitive) search tactics. But what if Sgt. Jim Chee and retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn, of the Navajo Tribal Police, had been on the job? Hillerman (The First Eagle, 1998, etc.) here reimagines the crime as a Ute Casino holdup that leaves the security chief dead and one of his rent-a-cops, whom the police wrongheadedly assume to have been the inside man, wounded. Chee, back in Shiprock to investigate the theft of an ancient Cessna presumably used in the robbers' high-country getaway, soon finds his path crisscrossing that of Leaphorn, called back into action still again by old rancher Roy Gershwin's insistence that he can name the perps. Nosing around among his friends, acquaintances, former colleagues, and former adversaries, Leaphorn soon walks in on a suicide scene that confirms Gershwin's confidence. But how can even a wily old veteran like Leaphorn track down the surviving thieves, especially the one dubbed —Badger— who's reputed to be a witch? Pleasing lesser work from the doyen of the regional mystery—a master who, like his hero, keeps his best tricks till last.

Publishers Weekly says there are new insights into Navajo culture and many twists and turns in first class writing:

Picking up a new Hillerman book has the high comfort level of revisiting a favorite old Western hotel like the Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe or the Ahwani at Yosemite--the accommodations will always be first class and the scenery spectacular. Not that Hillerman ignores the passage of time: his two Navajo cops, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, age and change as we all do. There's a moment in the novel when Chee meets with his retired former boss at the Anasazi Inn dining room in Farmington, N. Mex. "He had looked right past the corner table and the stocky old duffer sitting there with a plump middle-aged woman without recognizing Joe Leaphorn.... He had seen the Legendary Lieutenant in civilian attire before, but the image he carried in his mind was of Leaphorn in uniform." As for the prickly Sergeant Chee, he has to contend with physical problems as well as with the end of one romance and the beginning of another--not to mention the very real possibility of being picked off by a sniper during the search for the men who robbed a casino owned by the Ute tribe. In a rare author's note, Hillerman talks about an actual 1998 case in which the FBI turned the killing of a Colorado police officer into a gigantic fiasco. The shadow of that failed investigation hangs over the search in this book, leading to many anti-FBI jibes (If the Federal Bureau of Ineptitude says it, it must be true, another retired cop tells Leaphorn). As usual in recent Hillerman books, the action goes on mostly inside the minds of his two lead characters. But there is one splendid helicopter ride into Gothic Creek Canyon that should speed up the calmest heart, several new insights into the mysteries of Navajo culture and a story with enough twists and surprises to make readers glad they checked in.

Nicholas Allison remarks that all the cardinal virtues of Hillermn's writing are evident, including pellucid prose and characters who seem to rise off the page:

The marvellous Hunting Badger is Tony Hillerman's 13th novel featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Here the two cops (who appeared in separate books early on but whose paths now routinely cross) are working two angles of the same case: Catching the right-wing militiamen who pulled off a violent heist at an Indian casino. Hillerman serves up plenty of action and enough plot twists to keep readers off balance, leading up to a satisfyingly tense climax in which Leaphorn and Chee stalk a killer in his hideout. But through it all, the cardinal Hillerman virtues are in evidence: Economical, pellucid prose; a panoply of Indian-country characters who seem to rise right up off the page; vivid evocations of the Southwest's bleak beauty and rich insights into Navajo life and culture. (Hillerman once told an interviewer that the highest compliment he'd ever received was hearing that many Navajo readers assumed that he himself was Navajo--he's not.)

While first-time readers will find plenty to enjoy in Hunting Badger, it holds special pleasures for long-time fans. There's more and deeper contact between Leaphorn and Chee and we continued to see deeper into the prickly Leaphorn's human side (though presented without fuss or sentimentality). Chee finally begins to get over Janet Pete (it took about six books) and inch toward a new love interest. And in a moving section involving Chee's spiritual teacher Frank Sam Nakai, the shaman provides a key insight into the case.

In a world teeming with "sense of place" mysteries--set in Seattle, Alaska, the Arizona desert or Chicago--it can be a shock to return to Hillerman, who started it all, and realise just how superior he is to the rest of the pack.

Library Journal recommends this mystery, weaving Navajo and Ute myths into the fabric of an action-packed story:

Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn (ret.) and Jim Chee are united again, this time in an effort to catch heavily armed right-wing militiamen who robbed an Indian casino and who may or may not be involved in a previous mishandled manhunt. Navajo and Ute myths and history are successfully woven into a modern mystery. Insights into Leaphorn's and Chee's personalities are unveiled against the backdrop of the scenic Southwest's beauty, other interesting characters, and peeks into Navajo life. The tale, which is well-read by George Guidall, also contains plenty of action and surprises, along with dynamic central characters struggling to live in the modern world without sacrificing their culture. Recommended.

In an interview with the author about his writing style and method for devising plots, Jeff Guinn (of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram) says that "Hunting Badger . . . continues to hold a high place on every national best-seller list. It moves at a brisk pace and is characterized, as always, by the author's insights into tribal culture. It bespeaks the care Hillerman took to make it at least a little different from previous Leaphorn/Chee adventures."

Gary Dretzka, writing in the Chicago Tribune, notes that the "novel was inspired by the intensive manhunt that followed the murder of Officer Dale Claxton on May 4, 1998, near Cortez, Colo., and the subsequent wounding of three other police officers. . . . To this day, Navajo tribal police shake their heads in wonder at how badly botched the whole thing was. That scenario is repeated in Hunting Badger, only with more satisfying results." Dretzka explains
that "Hillerman stages the manhunt in some of the most picturesque country in the Southwest and, as usual, easily transports the reader to the edge of a high mesa from which to observe the mayhem. Besides introducing a few new legends and colorful residents of the Nation, the author also has a good bit of fun playing matchmaker. This is Hillerman at his best."

References

Bibliography

External links
Hunting Badger at Tony Hillerman Portal

1999 American novels
Novels by Tony Hillerman
HarperCollins books
Novels set in Arizona
Novels set in New Mexico

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Q: Estimate confidence in multiple choice test There is multiple-choice test and for every possible answer option my algorithm gives some score of how much it is likely to be the right one and  picks the one with the maximal value as the answer.
If there are 4 options A B C and D and the corresponding scores are for example 3.34, 4.01, 2.78 and 3.01 then the answer should be B. On the other hand, if score are, say, 3.34, 100.01, 2.78 and 3.01 then the answer is still B but the algorithm looks more "confident"
I was wondering how to numerically capture this confidence so that I can for example debug the algorithm and see if it is improving. Like for example the maximal one minus the second biggest value or something like that for one question - and the average of this value for the whole set of questions.
So I wanted to ask if there is some "standard" commonly-used approach for this.

A: I use a system for estimating confidence of my students in multichoice exams.  I use a risk return system, such that there are 3 options for the grade of a question. Thus the student gives that answer and also a confidence, eg a,3  or b,2.  The three levels are 1 = +1 for a right answer and 0 for a wrong answer. 2 = +1.5 for a right answer and -0.5 for a wrong answer, and 3 = +2 for a right answer and -2 for a wrong answer.  If you used this marking system, and used roulete wheel selection of the answer from you AI. ie sum the total of your confidence and then select a random number from the total range.  for the first one B would be 4 our of about 15 and for the second B would be 100 our of 105. If you then answer with the confidence the algorithm generates based on <50% is guessing, 50%< answer < 80% is middle confidence and <80% is full confidence you should be able to have it learn from its lack of confidence in the answer.

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Bet Of The Day Tips, Tuesday 10th July 2018
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France vs Belgium, International – World Cup, At Saint-Petersburg Stadium. Time: 19:00
It's been a month of almost non-stop football in Russia, but we finally enter the last week of action, with the climax coming in Moscow on Sunday as two teams contest for the grandest prize in football.
The first of two semi-finals sees France, who last won the tournament on home soil in 1998, face off against a golden generation of Belgian players who are already guaranteed to equal their best ever World Cup performance.
The last and only time Belgium made it to the semi-finals came in Mexico in 1986, where they were eliminated by Argentina before losing to none other than France in the 3rd place playoff.
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Things have changed an awful lot in the 32 years since then. In fact, the majority of both teams' starting lineup has been born, raised, and have progressed to the pinnacle of the sport. France possesses one of the most potent attacking forces on the planet, but they face a Belgium side filled to the brim with their golden generation of talent.
It's Belgium who has looked the better side so far this summer. They were poor in the second half of their quarter-final against Brazil, but the first half saw them go 2-0 up against the footballing powerhouse. They showed real determination to come back from 2-0 down against Japan in the last 16 and won all three of their group stage clashes.
France deservedly beat an Uruguay side without Edinson Cavani on Friday, but in all honesty, it could have gone either way, after a flurry of missed chances in the opening stages. Their 4-3 win against Argentina was a thrilling encounter, but once again highlighted some major potential issues in their back line. And while Belgium was at times scintillating in the group stages, France was lucky to beat Australia and Peru and played out a dreadfully dull draw against Denmark.
One thing we can expect is goals though. France's seven-goal thriller against Argentina highlighted Didier Deschamps' glaring problem, and while they did keep a clean sheet against Uruguay, they could have conceded three or four if the South Americans had taken their chances.
Belgium is similarly troubled at the back, conceding five goals so far and seeing a total of 19 goals in their five matches so far. This makes a bet of Over 2.5 Goals look a great choice, but in the end, we think Belgium will emerge triumphantly.
They have been very impressive so far and their counter-attacking ability tore Brazil to shreds in the quarter-finals. They have won seven matches on the bounce now and are unbeaten since Roberto Martinez' first match in charge almost two years ago, so we're also backing a Belgium Win.
Romelu Lukaku may have failed to find the net against Brazil, but he was undoubtedly one of the star players that evening. He dropped deeper to help his teammates out and his pace and power is likely to cause the France backline some serious problems. The Manchester United striker has scored four goals in his four World Cup games this tournament, so we're backing him for our anytime goalscorer predictions. However, our main prediction is "Over 1.5 goals" at fulltime.
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Linking emotional distress to unhealthy sleep duration: analysis of the 2009 National Health Interview Survey
Azizi A. Seixas, New York University
Joao V. Nunes, CUNY City College
Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, Pennsylvania State University
Natasha J. Williams, New York University
Seithikurippu Ratnas Pandi-Perumal, New York University
Caryl C. James, University of the West Indies
Girardin Jean-Louis, New York University
Objective The objective of the study was to examine the independent association of emotional distress with unhealthy sleep duration (defined as <7 or >8 hours). Methods Data from the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a cross-sectional household survey, were analyzed to investigate the associations of emotional distress with unhealthy sleep durations, adjusting for sociodemographic factors, health risks, and chronic diseases through hierarchical multiple logistic regression analysis. Participants A total of 27,731 participants (age range 18–85 years) from the NHIS 2009 dataset were interviewed. Measures Unhealthy sleep duration is defined as sleep duration <7 or >8 hours, whereas healthy sleep is defined as sleep duration lasting for 7–8 hours. Emotional distress is based on the Kessler 6 Non-Specific Distress Battery, which assesses the frequency of feeling sad, nervous, restless, hopeless, worthless, and burdened, over a 30-day period. Results Of the sample, 51.7% were female; 83.1% were white and 16.9% were black. Eleven percent experienced emotional distress and 37.6% reported unhealthy sleep. Adjusted logistic regression analysis revealed that individuals with emotional distress had 55% greater odds of reporting unhealthy sleep (odds ratio [OR] =1.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] =1.42, 1.68, P<0.001). Conclusion Emotional distress, an important proxy for poor psychological health, was a significant predictor of unhealthy sleep, independent of the influences of several factors including demographic (age, education, sex, race/ethnicity, and family income), health risks (alcohol consumption and smoking status), and chronic diseases/conditions (diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and arthritis).
Seixas, A. A., Nunes, J. V., Airhihenbuwa, C. O., Williams, N. J., Pandi-Perumal, S. R., James, C. C. & Jean-Louis, G. (2015). Linking emotional distress to unhealthy sleep duration: analysis of the 2009 National Health Interview Survey. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 11, 2425-2430. doi:10.2147/NDT.S77909.


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Eddie Hackett has long been considered Ireland's foremost golf course designer yet he was in his mid-late fifties before designing his first eighteen-hole course. Eddie started out as an amateur at the Hermitage Golf Club before taking up golf as a professional career. Eddie started as and apprentice/assistant to Fred Smyth, the famous clumaker, in Dollymount and spent five months in Belgium with Henry Cotton at Waterloo and nearly a year with Sid Brews in South Africa. Eddie succeeded Willie Nolan as professional in Portmarnock in 1939 from his position as professional at Elm Park. Eddie's assistants included Jimmy Doran (renowned clubmaker), Joe Nagle, Cecil Connolly and Christy Greene who was attached to Portmarnock between 1946-1950 before moving to Milltown.
He wrote a newspaper column in both the Irish Press and later the Irish Independent. During the war Eddie would arrange exhibitions matches and reportedly accumulated £300, no small sum during the war years, for donation to good causes.
As a professional his successes were limited to the Michael Moran matchplay competition, being runner-up for two years in the 1940s, and the Irish Professional Championship in 1942 when he was runner-up to Harry Bradshaw. As a result of his training he was considered an expert clubmaker but it was for his instruction and knowledge on the theory of the game and the mechanics of the golf swing where his expertise was most in demand. In 1948 he was made honorary secretary of the Irish Professional Golfers' Association but one of his first acts was to deny an up and coming youngster from a place in the national championship being hosted by his home club, Galway Golf Club as later told to John Redmond in his autobiography, Christy O'Connor (Snr).
J.P. Rooney had chosen Eddie, after witnessing his play, to provide instruction for the brassy (the modern equivalent of a two wood) in his book, 'Play Good Golf' which shows him in different poses wielding a brassy. His instruction basically espoused the easy three quarter- full swing with equipment suited for the purpose (whippy shaft, regular length and weight best suited to the golfer, male or female). The book includes photographs of Eddie in various stages of the swing to illustrate the proper execution of a brassy shot.
When he left Portmarnock in 1950 he joined the amateur ranks retiring from professional golf as a result of illness and was made an honorary member of Portmarnock. Ironically he had taken the game up because of ill health. The Irishman's Diary reported: "Eddie Hackett has no superior as a teacher of the game of golf in this country……There is little that he does not know about the theory of golf". However he left his mark when his protege Christy Greene who at the time was moving to Kilcroney as another player, Harry Bradshaw, was taking up his position at Portmarnock. Christy won the Irish Professional Championship in 1956 and he gave no small praise to Eddie Hackett for his achievement. As a re-instated amateur Eddie played out of Foxrock Golf Club. In the early 1960s he was hospitalised with Meningitis as was advised by Bill Menton who was Secretary of the GUI (Golfers Union of Ireland) to take up golf architecture.
In 1963 he announced his return to the professional ranks but as he was not affiliated to a golf club he made his services available under the Golfing Union's Temporary Professional Scheme allowing clubs to avail of his services for short stints. They started a free coaching project whereby Eddie would offer free coaching to the boys and girls of club members, while there was a lower limit of eight persons per group this didn't seem to be an issue, by way of example, sixty people turned up when Hackett visited Belturbet.
Eddie was offered a position at Foxrock which had lost Ernie Jones and was on the verge of losing their assistant 'R. J. Browne' but Eddie chose to continue with his coaching. By October 1963 he was considered Ireland's leading teaching professional and the Irish equivalent of John Jacobs. In October 1963 he opened a golf school at the Old Belvedere Rugby and Sports Club, setting up mats and netting in their clubhouse. Also night courses were held between 7-10pm Mon,Wed and Fri. Eddie was also teaching at the Leopardstown school twice a week and coached the UCD Ladies members at their college gym in Earlsfort Terrace. It was around about 1965 when he appears to have first got into golf design in ernest as he was already coaching at Clongowes and Rockwell and the presumably asked him to lay out a number of holes in or near their college grounds.
Since the mid-sixties his efforts were focussed in the area of course design which he appeared to have a natural aptitude for given his ability to weave a route through previously unchartered golfing terrain to produce a challenging golf course with the minimum of interference with the contours and topography of the area. It was a time when golf course architects were few and far between on the Emerald Isle and his reputation for being both reasonable from a cost perspective, a factor which can't be underestimated in Ireland and the time and his ability to produce a quality product made his the architect of choice for new and re-designed golf courses.
Eddie's seeming pact with Mother Nature to design courses with the minimum of disruption to her existing creation led to his involvement in nearly a third of the links courses in Ireland which represents nearly ten percent of all links courses in existence. His dedication to his work is reflected in the story where he offered a cash-strapped Ballyconeely club to mark out the tees and greens for the course for a pittance so they could produce the most challenging course possible. Although some of his courses have been tweaked or redesigned it is testament to his skill as a course designer that many are still listed on the top 100 courses in Ireland.
His greatest creation is considered by many to be Waterville Golf Links, currently ranked sixth best in Ireland albeit with some alterations from Tom Fazio, but his work can be viewed at all points of the compass on the island of Ireland as he has never strayed beyond its shores.
One of the best insights into Eddie Hackett as a man and architect is detailed in the classic book 'Links of Heaven' when Richard Phinney tried to get to know Ireland's own "National Architect", when he interviewed Eddie first hand and witnessed his approach to designing golf courses as they traversed the virgin territory that was to be an additional nine-holes at the Connemara Golf Club. Eddie Hackett died in the year the book, a seven-year long adventure, was published and the authors partially dedicated the book to him. (source)
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So the same people need to qualify and redo the exact same thing again?
Not sure I get the point.
As the dungeons and affixes to qualify change every week, the eligible teams may vary week-to-week, as well as the seeding.
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Q: Convert 'Hel\x6co wor\x6cd!' to Hello World! in C# Consider this answer.
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This is the JavaScript code:
alert('Hel\x6co wor\x6cd!')//alert hello world

What I got when I converted to C#
Console.WriteLine("Hello w\x6fr\x006cd!");//write hello world!

How does compiler know convert the code to hello world!?

A: you see Character, hex, octal, decimal in this URL
http://defindit.com/ascii.html

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Q: Element implicitly has an 'any' type because expression of type 'string' can't be used to index type '{property: string, property: string }' My first day building something with React + TS.
I'm trying to make use of a 'dictionary' to convert a string into another.
import { eventDictionary } from '../utils/eventDictionary'

type Props = {
    id: string
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}

const GameCard: React.FC<Props> = ({id, type}) => {
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}

And this is the dictionary:
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}

But I'm getting:
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What am I doing wrong?

A: Change the prop type to explicitly be a key in the object.
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}

If the object keys aren't known in advance, and such a solution isn't usable, I'd recommend using a Map instead. Maps are a lot easier to manipulate than dynamically keyed objects in TypeScript.
import { eventDictionary } from '../utils/eventDictionary'
const eventMap = new Map(Object.entries(eventDictionary));

{eventMap.get(type)}

A: Extending on @CertainPerformance s answer a more dynamic way would be
type Keys = keyof typeof eventDictionary;
type Values = typeof eventDictionary[Keys];

type Props = {
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}


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Abbott, in trying to pass the bill, had called two different special legislative sessions to pass the voting legislation. In July, 57 of the 66 Democrats in the House fled the state for the nation's capital to take away the two-thirds present quorum to conduct any type of business.
"Under the House rules, two-thirds of the chamber's members must be present to meet quorum, the number of lawmakers needed to move legislation," The Texas Tribune noted.
After the legislation passed the Senate, Abbott said he looks forward to signing the bill into law and explained the importance of the legislation":
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package pl.org.tomaszjaneczko.mouproject.math.test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Map;

import org.junit.Test;

import pl.org.tomaszjaneczko.mouproject.math.ParametrisedPolynomial;
import pl.org.tomaszjaneczko.mouproject.math.Polynomial;

public class ParametrisedPolynomialTest {

    @Test
    public void testGetParams() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B"}; // Ax + B
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        assertTrue(Arrays.equals(params, poly.getParams()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetParamValuesForDegree() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B", "C"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        Map<String, Double> x2degreeMap = poly.getParamValuesForDegree(2);
        assertEquals(new Double(1.0), x2degreeMap.get("A"));
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), x2degreeMap.get("B"));
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), x2degreeMap.get("C"));

        Map<String, Double> xDegreeMap = poly.getParamValuesForDegree(1);
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), xDegreeMap.get("A"));
        assertEquals(new Double(1.0), xDegreeMap.get("B"));
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), xDegreeMap.get("C"));

        Map<String, Double> noDegreeMap = poly.getParamValuesForDegree(0);
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), noDegreeMap.get("A"));
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), noDegreeMap.get("B"));
        assertEquals(new Double(1.0), noDegreeMap.get("C"));

    }

    @Test
    public void testGetParamValuesForDegreeAsArray() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B", "C"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {1.0, 0.0, 0.0}, poly.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(2));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 1.0, 0.0}, poly.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, poly.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void testAdd() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B", "C"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly2 = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        ParametrisedPolynomial poly3 = poly.add(poly2);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {2.0, 0.0, 0.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(2));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 2.0, 0.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 0.0, 2.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMultiplyByScalar() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B", "C"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        ParametrisedPolynomial poly3 = poly.multiplyByScalar(18.0);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {18.0, 0.0, 0.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(2));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 18.0, 0.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 0.0, 18.0}, poly3.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMultiplyBySingularPolynomial() {
        // Test singular case - multiplying by 1
        Polynomial simplePoly = Polynomial.getSingularPolynomial();
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial paramPoly1 = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        ParametrisedPolynomial resultPoly1 = paramPoly1.multiplyByPolynomial(simplePoly);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {1.0, 0.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 1.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));

    }

    @Test
    public void testMultiplyBySingleArgumentBinomial() {
        // Let's multiply by x
        Polynomial poly = Polynomial.getSingleArgumentPolynomialOfDegree(1);
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial paramPoly1 = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        ParametrisedPolynomial resultPoly1 = paramPoly1.multiplyByPolynomial(poly);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {1.0, 0.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(2));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 1.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 0.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMultiplyByBinomial() {
        // Let's multiply by x
        Polynomial poly = new Polynomial(new Double[] {2.0, 1.0});
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B"}; // Ax^2 + Bx + C
        ParametrisedPolynomial paramPoly1 = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);

        ParametrisedPolynomial resultPoly1 = paramPoly1.multiplyByPolynomial(poly);

        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {2.0, 0.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(2));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {1.0, 2.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(1));
        assertArrayEquals(new Double[] {0.0, 1.0}, resultPoly1.getParamValuesForDegreeAsArray(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetParamMatrix() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial simplePoly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        Double[][] paramMatrix = simplePoly.getParamMatrix();
        assertTrue(paramMatrix[0][0] == 1.0);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix.length == 1);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix[0].length == 1);

        String[] params2 = new String[] {"A", "B"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial poly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params2);
        Double[][] paramMatrix2 = poly.getParamMatrix();
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2[0][0] == 1.0);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2[0][1] == 0.0);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2[1][0] == 0.0);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2[1][1] == 1.0);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2.length == 2);
        assertTrue(paramMatrix2[0].length == 2);

    }

    @Test
    public void testSimpleDifferentiation() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial simplePoly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        ParametrisedPolynomial diffedPoly = simplePoly.differentiate();
        Double[][] paramMatrix = diffedPoly.getParamMatrix();

        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), paramMatrix[0][0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testDifferentiation() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial simplePoly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        ParametrisedPolynomial diffedPoly = simplePoly.differentiate();
        Double[][] paramMatrix = diffedPoly.getParamMatrix();

        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), paramMatrix[0][0]);
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), paramMatrix[0][1]);
        assertEquals(new Double(1.0), paramMatrix[1][0]);
        assertEquals(new Double(0.0), paramMatrix[1][1]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testBiggerDifferentiation() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A", "B", "C"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial simplePoly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        ParametrisedPolynomial diffedPoly = simplePoly.differentiate();
        Double[][] paramMatrix = diffedPoly.getParamMatrix();

        assertEquals(new Double(2.0), paramMatrix[1][0]); // 2*A*x
        assertEquals(new Double(1.0), paramMatrix[2][1]); // B
    }

    @Test
    public void testPolynomialEvaluation() {
        String[] params = new String[] {"A"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial simplePoly = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params);
        Polynomial evaluatedPoly = simplePoly.getPolynomialForParameterValues(new Double[] {3.0});

        assertTrue(new Polynomial(new Double[] {3.0}).equals(evaluatedPoly));

        String[] params2 = new String[] {"A", "B"};

        ParametrisedPolynomial poly2 = new ParametrisedPolynomial(params2);
        Polynomial evaluatedPoly2 = poly2.getPolynomialForParameterValues(new Double[] {3.0, 2.0});

        assertTrue(new Polynomial(new Double[] {3.0, 2.0}).equals(evaluatedPoly2));
    }

    @Test
    public void testDefaultParamsCreation() {
        String[] expectedParams1 = new String[] {"a1", "a2"};
        String[] params1 = ParametrisedPolynomial.getDefaultParamsOfCount(2);
        assertTrue(Arrays.equals(expectedParams1, params1));

        String[] expectedParams2 = new String[] {"a1", "a2", "a3", "a4"};
        String[] params2 = ParametrisedPolynomial.getDefaultParamsOfCount(4);
        assertTrue(Arrays.equals(expectedParams2, params2));
    }
}


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Q: Using hex string as Map key best performance way I am getting MongoDB ObjectIds, which are 12 bytes and their hex string looks like this: 62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e.
I want to use the object id as a map key like this:
new Map().set(ObjectId('62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e'),"value")

That doesn't really work because each ObjectId object is unique so two with the same id are not equal objects.
There are a few ways I can think of:

*

*Use the hex string as map key:

new Map().set("62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e", "value")

*

*Use a buffer / Uint8Array, and use some special Map which works with arrays as keys

new Map().set(Buffer.from("62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e", "hex"), "value")

*

*Turn the buffer into a 12 byte string which looks like b�K���H�m[�\x0E
new Map().set(Buffer.from("62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e", "hex").toString(), "value")

*

*Turn the buffer into a number (this turns a 12 byte buffer into a 16 byte number so it seems a little wierd)

new Map().set(Buffer.from("62d34be4f8cd489f6d5b8e0e", 'hex').readInt16BE(), "value")

Which method has the best performance?


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