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Halal meat creating controversy in Quebec
By Andrew ChungQuebec Bureau
Thu., March 15, 2012timer3 min. read
MONTREAL—Following in the footsteps of France, some Quebecers are starting to worry that halal meat is increasingly being sold to consumers without their knowledge.
Framing the issue once again within the divisive debate over how far Quebecers must go to accommodate religious minorities, the Parti Québécois on Wednesday complained that people should know if the meat they're buying has been slaughtered according to Islamic ritual.
Quebec is "losing control" over this issue, the PQ's agriculture critic told reporters.
"Religious slaughter is legal, but it must remain the exception," André Simard said. "However, it has become the rule."
Simard, in a statement, added, "This type of slaughter collides head on with Quebecers' values."
The politician denounced the fact that the province's food inspection agency had no information on the volume of halal and kosher production, the amount consumed, imported and exported.
Halal meat comes from animals that have been killed according to Islamic norms. The animal is bled by cutting its throat, accompanied by an Islamic prayer.
Abdelhamid Aouchiche, owner of the Montreal's Boucherie Tassili, a halal butcher, was furious with the PQ for creating a "polemic" on halal meat.
"It's not becoming the norm in Quebec," said Aouchiche, also the founder of an association that certifies butchers and meat packers as halal — something the government doesn't do.
"What (the PQ) is doing is simply creating discrimination," he said. "They are following France, and what's happening in France? Racism."
Halal meat has become a major issue in the French presidential election. A recent public television documentary there raised questions when it claimed all meat in the region of Paris is halal. The extreme right party quickly took up the cause.
The controversy in Quebec has been mounting as media reports unearthed instances where halal meat has become the norm.
In one case, halal meat is served to all children at a daycare even though only a minority are Muslim in order to save from having to buy two types of meat. And it's been reported that meat packers have sold unlabelled halal meat or poultry to the general public.
It can save producers money to simply make all their meat halal even if only some of it is labelled as such and marketed to Muslims.
Olymel, a major Canadian poultry and pork company based in Saint-Hyachinthe, has had its poultry plant in Saint-Damase, Que., certified halal. The chickens are desensitized with an electric shock and then "mechanically" bled, said spokesperson Richard Vigneault. Save for the religious prayer, the process is the same in the company's other plants, he said.
Olymel sells the fresh chicken to distributors, some of which label the meat as halal, some of which do not, Vigneault explained.
"It's the same chicken, the same quality, the same meat," he maintained.
Olymel produces "millions" of chickens that aren't halal, he said.
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, there are 17 federally registered meat establishments in Quebec that practice ritual halal slaughter. Another 17 are in Ontario.
The federal government has no intention of forcing meat processors to label their products halal. "Given that all the slaughtered animals in the federally-registered establishments are done so according to the regulations, the government does not plan to impose new and costly red tape in managing the slaughterhouses and processors," the CFIA said in an emailed response.
The province of Quebec's registry lists 47 businesses featuring halal processing.
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It's Time to End the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers
Alex N. Press
This week, workers filed discrimination charges against Darden Restaurants, one of the largest restaurant companies in the US. Forcing workers to rely on tips violates the Civil Rights Act, advocates say. They're calling for a single minimum wage for tipped and non-tipped workers alike.
With a twenty-four-foot wooden statue of "Elena the Essential Worker," activists from One Fair Wage hold a demonstration in Times Square to demand a fair wage for tipped workers during coronavirus and beyond, on August 31, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
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On Tuesday, September 29, Jeffrey Jean-Louis, who works at the Capital Grille in New York City, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against his employer's parent company, Darden Restaurants, Inc. Darden, which includes chains such as Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, and the Capital Grille, is one of the largest restaurant companies in the United States, with $8.5 billion in revenue. In the complaint, Jean-Louis alleges facing racial discrimination.
"There's a system in place where they're trying to put a certain type of server up front, that being a white male," says Jean-Louis. "All the white gentlemen get work, whether they can handle it or not."
On the same day, Pamela M. Araiza, who works at the Capital Grille in Washington, DC, filed her own EEOC complaint against Darden, alleging both racial and gender discrimination. In her complaint, Araiza says that she was "consistently assigned to sections of the restaurant known to generate less in tips, which management referred to as 'Section 8' or 'my low-income world.'"
The complaints are part of a litigation strategy brought by One Fair Wage, a nonprofit that advocates for an end to the subminimum wage. The same day that Jean-Louis and Araiza filed their complaints, One Fair Wage filed a federal EEOC charge, arguing that Darden's practice of paying tipped workers a subminimum wage leads them to experience more sexual harassment than non-tipped workers, and causes employees of color to make less money than their white coworkers.
Drawing on a growing body of research on tipping and discrimination, One Fair Wage's complaint argues that Darden's practices "cause disparate impact against Darden employees based on race and sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
"Workers of color are segregated into lower-tipping restaurants, but even when they get to the same restaurant, same shift, and same section, they're tipped less because of implicit bias," says Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage. As for the connection between tipping and sexual harassment, Jayaraman describes the evidence as "irrefutable." When women live off tips, she says, "there's a power dynamic that results not just in customers harassing women, but managers telling women to dress sexier, show more cleavage, in order to make more money in tips, and that makes them vulnerable to manager and coworker harassment because they have to subject themselves to objectification every day."
"This litigation is saying that it's not about bad managers, or racist companies, it is a policy and a system that inherently violates equal protection," says Jayaraman.
Previous research conducted by Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United, a nonprofit workers' center, finds that "women restaurant workers living off tips in states where the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 per hour are twice as likely to experience sexual harassment as women in states that pay the same minimum wage to all workers." Further, the report shows "all workers in states with a $2.13 sub-minimum wage, including men and non-tipped workers, reported higher rates of sexual harassment."
Once a complaint is filed, the EEOC investigates. If the agency finds the One Fair Wage complaint has merit, it will issue the organization and the servers who filed complaints a right-to-sue letter, enabling them to bring their cases to court.
Jayaraman expects the complaint will be found to have merit, but One Fair Wage isn't limiting itself to a legal strategy. In addition to lobbying for an end to the subminimum wage at the legislative level, the organization organized a one-day walkout in several cities, including Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC, on September 30, the day after filing the EEOC charges. Jayaraman estimates forty to fifty workers struck at each location. The walkouts, which targeted Darden restaurants, featured speeches from workers, along with "Elena the Essential Worker," a giant strike mascot that Jayaraman describes as a "modern-day Rosie the Riveter."
"It's within the realm of possibility for Darden to do the right thing here," says Jayaraman, who hopes Darden can be pressured to voluntarily change their wage policy. She notes that the company "fought sick leave for so long and when the pandemic started, they announced they'd implement it." Should Darden change its position on subminimum wage, it could pave the way for other chain restaurant companies to do the same.
The Status Quo Can't Survive
There's no better time than now to end the two-tiered minimum wage system. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the estimated ten million or more people who work in US restaurants are facing a raw deal. Servers are now taking on the duties of health and safety marshals — monitoring customers' mask usage, their social distancing, and in some cases, their temperatures — on top of their regular duties. And this is at a time when tips have declined drastically as fewer customers dine at restaurants.
Restaurant workers are faced with an impossible choice: risk their health for a diminished income and greater work duties, or lose their job and face hunger, eviction, and poverty. According to Jayaraman, despite the hardship of unemployment, thousands of workers are refusing to return to work. (Millions of restaurant workers who apply for unemployment are denied the benefit, often being told that this is because their subminimum wage is too low for them to qualify.)
"I have never, in my twenty years of organizing service workers, experienced a moment like this. Thousands of workers across the country are saying 'We're not going to do it, we're not going to go back and risk our lives without one fair wage,'" say Jayaraman. She says One Fair Wage is increasingly hearing from employers across the country that they can't get their workers to return without a full minimum wage.
"With the pandemic, they have our lives in their hands," says Jean-Louis of his employer, who he says hasn't communicated with all its workers about the limited reopening of indoor dining that began this week in New York City. "They play with your shifts," he adds, speaking to the racial discrimination that led him to file the EEOC claim. "They know they're playing with your life."
The pandemic isn't the only thing that has mobilized restaurant workers — Jayaraman and several servers spoke of the murder of George Floyd this summer and the explosive protests that followed Floyd's death as a wake-up call that inspired them to push for an end to discriminatory practices in the restaurant industry.
Damani, a server who has worked in restaurants for over twenty years, likens the industry's racial segregation to Jim Crow.
"How you pass the test of whether you're lighter or darker than a brown paper bag determines where you work in the restaurant. It's as simple as that," he says, adding that in his decades in restaurants, he has "never worked with another man of color, not my color."
Some progress has already been made toward ending the subminimum wage. So far, seven states have legislated an end to the practice. While there's movement in other locales, it is plagued by carve-outs that exclude certain tipped workers (in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo's order excludes restaurant workers, the largest group of tipped workers in the state). In Washington, DC, Initiative 77, which would have gradually ended the two-tier minimum wage system, passed as a ballot measure in 2018 only to be overturned by the city council, with the city's Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, signing the repeal legislation.
Despite these obstacles, Jayaraman says an increasing number of independent restaurant owners are switching sides on the issue, realizing that the status quo can't survive.
As for the argument that restaurants — an imperiled venture in the best of times — can't afford increased labor costs as they struggle to survive the economic crisis that has accompanied the pandemic, Jayaraman emphasizes while losing a restaurant is hard, losing the ability to feed one's family or pay one's rent is even harder.
Total economic devastation "is what ten million restaurant workers are going through right now, and that's why they're rising up," she says. "It's time for legislators and big companies like Darden to follow suit."
Alex N. Press is an assistant editor at Jacobin. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post , Vox , the Nation , and n+1 , among other places.
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#ifndef _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_MUTEX_H_
#define _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_MUTEX_H_ 1

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/noncopyable.hpp>

namespace apache { namespace thrift { namespace concurrency {

#ifndef THRIFT_NO_CONTENTION_PROFILING

/**
 * Determines if the Thrift Mutex and ReadWriteMutex classes will attempt to
 * profile their blocking acquire methods. If this value is set to non-zero,
 * Thrift will attempt to invoke the callback once every profilingSampleRate
 * times.  However, as the sampling is not synchronized the rate is not
 * guranateed, and could be subject to big bursts and swings.  Please ensure
 * your sampling callback is as performant as your application requires.
 *
 * The callback will get called with the wait time taken to lock the mutex in
 * usec and a (void*) that uniquely identifies the Mutex (or ReadWriteMutex)
 * being locked.
 *
 * The enableMutexProfiling() function is unsynchronized; calling this function
 * while profiling is already enabled may result in race conditions.  On
 * architectures where a pointer assignment is atomic, this is safe but there
 * is no guarantee threads will agree on a single callback within any
 * particular time period.
 */
typedef void (*MutexWaitCallback)(const void* id, int64_t waitTimeMicros);
void enableMutexProfiling(int32_t profilingSampleRate,
                          MutexWaitCallback callback);

#endif

/**
 * A simple mutex class
 *
 * @version $Id:$
 */
class Mutex {
 public:
  typedef void (*Initializer)(void*);

  Mutex(Initializer init = DEFAULT_INITIALIZER);
  virtual ~Mutex() {}
  virtual void lock() const;
  virtual bool trylock() const;
  virtual bool timedlock(int64_t milliseconds) const;
  virtual void unlock() const;

  void* getUnderlyingImpl() const;

  static void DEFAULT_INITIALIZER(void*);
  static void ADAPTIVE_INITIALIZER(void*);
  static void RECURSIVE_INITIALIZER(void*);

 private:

  class impl;
  boost::shared_ptr<impl> impl_;
};

class ReadWriteMutex {
public:
  ReadWriteMutex();
  virtual ~ReadWriteMutex() {}

  // these get the lock and block until it is done successfully
  virtual void acquireRead() const;
  virtual void acquireWrite() const;

  // these attempt to get the lock, returning false immediately if they fail
  virtual bool attemptRead() const;
  virtual bool attemptWrite() const;

  // this releases both read and write locks
  virtual void release() const;

private:

  class impl;
  boost::shared_ptr<impl> impl_;
};

/**
 * A ReadWriteMutex that guarantees writers will not be starved by readers:
 * When a writer attempts to acquire the mutex, all new readers will be
 * blocked from acquiring the mutex until the writer has acquired and
 * released it. In some operating systems, this may already be guaranteed
 * by a regular ReadWriteMutex.
 */
class NoStarveReadWriteMutex : public ReadWriteMutex {
public:
  NoStarveReadWriteMutex();

  virtual void acquireRead() const;
  virtual void acquireWrite() const;

private:
  Mutex mutex_;
  mutable volatile bool writerWaiting_;
};

class Guard : boost::noncopyable {
 public:
  Guard(const Mutex& value, int64_t timeout = 0) : mutex_(&value) {
    if (timeout == 0) {
      value.lock();
    } else if (timeout < 0) {
      if (!value.trylock()) {
        mutex_ = NULL;
      }
    } else {
      if (!value.timedlock(timeout)) {
        mutex_ = NULL;
      }
    }
  }
  ~Guard() {
    if (mutex_) {
      mutex_->unlock();
    }
  }

  operator bool() const {
    return (mutex_ != NULL);
  }

 private:
  const Mutex* mutex_;
};

// Can be used as second argument to RWGuard to make code more readable
// as to whether we're doing acquireRead() or acquireWrite().
enum RWGuardType {
  RW_READ = 0,
  RW_WRITE = 1
};

class RWGuard : boost::noncopyable {
  public:
    RWGuard(const ReadWriteMutex& value, bool write = false)
         : rw_mutex_(value) {
      if (write) {
        rw_mutex_.acquireWrite();
      } else {
        rw_mutex_.acquireRead();
      }
    }

    RWGuard(const ReadWriteMutex& value, RWGuardType type)
         : rw_mutex_(value) {
      if (type == RW_WRITE) {
        rw_mutex_.acquireWrite();
      } else {
        rw_mutex_.acquireRead();
      }
    }
    ~RWGuard() {
      rw_mutex_.release();
    }
  private:
    const ReadWriteMutex& rw_mutex_;
};

// A little hack to prevent someone from trying to do "Guard(m);"
// Such a use is invalid because the temporary Guard object is
// destroyed at the end of the line, releasing the lock.
// Sorry for polluting the global namespace, but I think it's worth it.
#define Guard(m) incorrect_use_of_Guard(m)
#define RWGuard(m) incorrect_use_of_RWGuard(m)

}}} // apache::thrift::concurrency

#endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_MUTEX_H_

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Q: Looking for "Longest Common Substring" solution I'm looking for robust code to solve the "Longest Common Substring" problem:
Find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two or more strings.
I can just code it up from that description, but I'd thought I'd ask here, first, in case someone knows of an implementation either distributed with Mathematica or available from an open source.  I found a hint here that a solution might be part of the (huge) Combinatorica package, but a quick search of the documentation did not disclose it.

A: Preamble and motivation
While I am much late to the party here, I hope this answer will not be totally useless. This is a first in a series of posts where I will advocate a wider use of Java in our workflow, and present/describe certain toolset to reduce the mental overhead of this. So, my motivation here is not to provide a faster or more elegant solution, but to show that often, we can mindlessly reuse existing (found on the web or elsewhere) Java code, and the process can be made easy and painless.
Simplistic Java reloader
Here I will present a simplistic Java class reloader, which takes a string of Java code, attempts to compile it, and, upon success, load the resulting class into Mathematica via JLink. Note that I only so far tested it on Windows, but hopefully soon will test on other platforms as well (edit by Jacob: There is also a working OSX version, see this comment below).
Note that it is not my intention to present and describe a full workflow involving the reloader, in this post - I will save this for a future one. Here, I just present the code and an example of how it is useful for the case at hand.
Code
BeginPackage["SimpleJavaReloader`", {"JLink`"}];

JCompileLoad::usage =
"JCompileLoad[javacode_,addToClassPath_] attempts to compile a Java \
class defined by  a string javacode, optionally adding to Java compiler classpath \
files and folders from addToClassPath, and load the resulting class into
Mathematica";

Begin["`Private`"]

JCompileLoad::dirmakeerr = "Can not create directory `1`";

$stateValid = True;

$tempJavaDirectory =  FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Temp", "Java"}];
$tempClassDirectory = FileNameJoin[{$tempJavaDirectory, "Classes"}];
$tempJavaLogDirectory = FileNameJoin[{$tempJavaDirectory, "Logs"}];
$tempCompileLogFile =   FileNameJoin[{$tempJavaLogDirectory, "javac.log"}];
$jrePath =
     FileNameJoin[{$InstallationDirectory, "SystemFiles", "Java", $SystemID}];
$javaPath = FileNameJoin[{$jrePath, "bin"}];
$jlibPath = FileNameJoin[{$jrePath, "lib"}];
$classPath = {$tempClassDirectory, $jlibPath};

Scan[
   If[! FileExistsQ[#] && CreateDirectory[#] === $Failed,
      Message[JCompileLoad::dirmakeerr, #];
      $stateValid = False
   ] &,
   {
     $tempJavaDirectory,
     $tempClassDirectory,
     $tempJavaLogDirectory
   }];

(* determine a short name of the class from code *)
Clear[getClass];
getClass[classCode_String] :=
  With[{cl =
     StringCases[classCode,
       "public" ~~ Whitespace ~~ "class"|"interface" ~~ Whitespace ~~
         name : (WordCharacter ..) :> name
     ]},
    First@cl /; cl =!= {}];

getClass[__] := Throw[$Failed, error[getClass]];

(* Determine the name of the package for the class *)
Clear[getPackage];
getPackage[classCode_String] :=
  With[{pk =
      StringCases[classCode,
          ShortestMatch["package" ~~ Whitespace ~~ p__ ~~ ";"] :> p
      ]},
    First@pk /; pk =!= {}];

getPackage[classCode_String] := None;

getPackage[__] := Throw[$Failed, error[getPackage]];

ClearAll[getFullClass];
getFullClass[classCode_String] :=
   StringJoin[If[# === None, "", # <> "."] &@
      getPackage[classCode], getClass[classCode]];

(* Note: So far, tested on Windows only. Some specifics of quoting are
   tuned to work around some bugs in Windows command line processor *)
Clear[makeCompileScript];
makeCompileScript[sourceFile_String] :=
  StringJoin[
    "\"",
    "\"", FileNameJoin[{$javaPath, "javac"}] , "\"",
    " -g ", sourceFile,
    " -d ", $tempClassDirectory,
    " -classpath ", "\"", Sequence @@ Riffle[$classPath, ";"], "\"",
    " 2> ", $tempCompileLogFile,
    "\""
  ];

Clear[getSourceFile];
getSourceFile[javacode_String] :=
   FileNameJoin[{$tempClassDirectory, getClass[javacode] <> ".java"}];

Clear[JCompileLoad];

JCompileLoad::invst =  "The loader is not on valid state. Perhaps some temporary \
     directories do not exist";

JCompileLoad::cmperr = "The following compilation errors were encountered: `1`";

JCompileLoad[javacode_String, addToClassPath_: {}]/; $stateValid :=
  Module[{sourceFile, fullClassName = getFullClass[javacode]},
     sourceFile = getSourceFile[javacode];
     With[{script =
        Block[{$classPath = Join[$classPath, addToClassPath]},
           makeCompileScript[sourceFile]
        ]},
       Export[sourceFile, javacode, "String"];
       If[Run[script] =!= 0,
         Message[
            JCompileLoad::cmperr,
            Style[#, Red] &@Import[$tempCompileLogFile, "String"]
         ];
         $Failed,
         (*else*)
         ReinstallJava[];
         AddToClassPath @@ Join[$classPath, addToClassPath];
         LoadJavaClass[fullClassName]
       ]
     ]
  ];

JCompileLoad[_String, addToClassPath_: {}] :=
  (
     Message[JCompileLoad::invst];
     $Failed
  )

End[]

EndPackage[]

Notes
Note that you can either put this into a separate package file, or simply copy and paste into the FrontEnd, and run from there, for a quick test.
The package works by saving the string with your Java code into a temporary file, and then invoking Java compiler which comes with the JRE bundled with Mathematica, to compile this class. The compiled class is stored in another temporary location, from where it is then loaded by JLink. In case if compilation errors were encountered, the message generated by Java compiler is printed, and $Failed is returned.
One important limitation is that ReinstallJava is called to recompile / reload any class.
The case at hand
We will now apply the above to our case. First, we need the solution for the longest common substring problem in Java.
Stealing code from the web
I won't stay noble and code that myself. The whole point is - why doing so if we can steal it from someone :)? I get the one from here (the second one). In the simplified workflow I am presenting now, we need a string of Java code, so we define:
jlcsCode =

"import java.lang.*;

 public class LCS{
    public static String longestCommonSubstring(String S1, String S2) {
         int Start = 0;
         int Max = 0;
         for (int i = 0; i < S1.length(); i++){
            for (int j = 0; j < S2.length(); j++){
               int x = 0;
               while (S1.charAt(i + x) == S2.charAt(j + x)){
                  x++;
                  if (((i + x) >= S1.length()) || ((j + x) >= S2.length()))
                     break;
               }
               if (x > Max) {
                  Max = x;
                  Start = i;
               }
            }
         }
         return S1.substring(Start, (Start + Max));
    }
 }";

Compiling and running
First, we have to compile and load this code:
JCompileLoad[jlcsCode]

 JavaClass[LCS,<>]

We are now ready to use the function, no other preparation needed! For example:
LCS`longestCommonSubstring["AAABBBBCCCCC","CCCBBBAAABABA"]

  "AAAB"

Note that, since the function longestCommonSubstring is a static method of the LCS class (meaning that the method belongs to the class rather than specific instance of it), we have to use the syntax className`method[args], and we don't have to create a class instance with JavaNew to use this. The class itself has to be loaded prior to being used, by JCompileLoad does that for us.
Now, some benchmarks:
s = StringJoin@RandomChoice[{"A", "C", "T", "G"}, 10000];
t = StringJoin@RandomChoice[{"A", "C", "T", "G"}, 10000];

Here we use the Mathematica's built-in function:
LongestCommonSubsequence[s,t]//AbsoluteTiming

{0.3232421,TCCACACGGGTAG}

Now our function:
LCS`longestCommonSubstring[s,t]//AbsoluteTiming

{1.1269531,TCCACACGGGTAG}

We see that our function is about 4 times slower, but, given that the Mathematica's built-in function was written in C and heavily optimized, while I just picked the first code snippet on the web I found, I think that the pain/gain ratio is pretty good.
Conclusions
I tried here to make a case for using Java in our workflow more frequently. The good thing about Java is that, in contrast to MathLink/LibraryLink, the JLink interface brings us pretty much all the way there, so there is no preparation at all necessary. The Java class reloader I presented here is very simplistic, but it nevertheless "closes the circle", and now we can protptype everything exclusively from Mathematica. I will expand on this in some future posts, and illustrate the workflow more fully. Note that I don't consider the reloader as anything complete - this is rather a proof of concept at this point.
For the case at hand, it took me literally 5 minutes from start to finish to get this working (the Java reloader I already had), and that includes finding the code on the web, pasting to Mathematica, compiling and using it. Given that there are many cases when Mathematica built-in functions are not available, while Java implementations are ubiquitous, I think this option can significantly expand our possibilities. Of course, to use this one needs some knowledge of Java, but let this not put you off: the things about Java you really need to know for such cases can be picked up in a day or two, especially if you have any experience in C/C++ (but even if not).

A: Mathematica supports two related functions, LongestCommonSequence[] and LongestCommonSubsequence[]. The first one finds the longest (contiguous or non-contiguous) sequence common to the two strings given as arguments to it:
LongestCommonSequence["AAABBBBCCCCC", "CCCBBBAAABABA"]
"AAABB"

while the second function is constrained to give the longest contiguous sequence:
LongestCommonSubsequence["AAABBBBCCCCC", "CCCBBBAAABABA"]
"AAAB"

These functions became available only in version seven; if you need to do this in an earlier version, István's routine is useful.

A: Also, using pattern matching,just in case:
{{a, b, c, d, e, f, g}, {x, a, r, b, c, j}} /. {{___, Longest[y__], ___}, {___, y__, ___}} -> {y}
(*
-> {b, c}
*)

Edit
With this approach you can do one thing that seems not trivial by using the faster LongestCommonSequence[] function: finding the maximal common subsequence among several lists:
{{1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8}, {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8}, {3, 4, 7, 5, 7, 8}} /.
                {{___, Longest[y__], ___}, {___, y__, ___} ...} -> {y}
(*
->{7, 8}
*)

A: These things I have coded up before Mathematica 7 and the introduction of the built in function LongestCommonSubsequence. The built-in version is of course faster, though still this implementation might be of interest as it has a bit wider functionality. Also, with some fine-tuning and compilation the performance can be surely increased.
longestCommonSubsequence[s, t] returns a set of the longest common continuous subsequences that can be found in lists s and t. longestCommonSubsequence lists all distinct continuous subsequences (one thing the built-in LongestCommonSubsequence is not capable of).
longestCommonSubsequence[s_List, t_List] := Module[
   {m = Length@s, n = Length@t, longest = 0, l, set = {}},
   l = Table[0, {m + 1}, {n + 1}];
   Do[
    If[s[[i]] === t[[j]],
      l[[i + 1, j + 1]] = l[[i, j]] + 1;
      If[l[[i + 1, j + 1]] > longest, longest = l[[i + 1, j + 1]];
       set = {}];
      If[l[[i + 1, j + 1]] === longest,
       set = Union[set, {Take[s, {i - longest + 1, i}]}]];
      ];
    , {i, m}, {j, n}];
   set
   ];

Or you can just calculate the length, which is faster:
longestCommonSubsequenceLength[s, t] returns the length of the longest common continuous subsequence that can be found in lists s and t.
longestCommonSubsequenceLength[s_List, t_List] :=
  Module[{m = Length@s, n = Length@t, l, longest = 0},
   l = Table[0, {m + 1}, {n + 1}];
   Do[
    If[s[[i]] === t[[j]], l[[i + 1, j + 1]] = l[[i, j]] + 1];
    longest = Max[longest, l[[i + 1, j + 1]]];
    , {i, m}, {j, n}];
   longest
   ];

Example usage:
s = RandomChoice[{"A", "C", "T", "G"}, 200];
t = RandomChoice[{"A", "C", "T", "G"}, 200];

LongestCommonSubsequence[StringJoin@s, StringJoin@t]

"CATATTG"

longestCommonSubsequence[s, t]

{{"C", "A", "T", "A", "T", "T", "G"}, {"G", "T", "C", "A", "A", "T", "G"}}

Note that longestCommonSubsequence has found all instances of common subsequences.
longestCommonSubsequenceLength[s, t]

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If we want to see God's ruling power then we first need to allow Him to rule internally in our hearts and lives. Our submission to His ways and His leading should produce, a sensing of peace and joy that is not based upon the outward situations but upon our Lord and His Spirit ministering within us. Christ's rulership within us is the key to His rulership outside of us. Take a moment to allow our Lord to rule within you, then all the rest will come into place.


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Q: unable to read files from geopandas read_file method I'm not being able to use the read_file method of geopandas. below is the code and the stack trace
import geopandas as gpd
path_to_data = gpd.datasets.get_path("nybb")
gdf = gpd.read_file(path_to_data)

error trace:
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [5], in <module>
      1 path_to_data = gpd.datasets.get_path("nybb")
----> 2 gdf = gpd.read_file(path_to_data)
      4 gdf

File ~/Desktop/Udemy_projects/multiple/lib/python3.9/site-packages/geopandas/io/file.py:166, in _read_file(filename, bbox, mask, rows, **kwargs)
    104 def _read_file(filename, bbox=None, mask=None, rows=None, **kwargs):
    105     """
    106     Returns a GeoDataFrame from a file or URL.
    107
   (...)
    164     by using the encoding keyword parameter, e.g. ``encoding='utf-8'``.
    165     """
--> 166     _check_fiona("'read_file' function")
    167     filename = _expand_user(filename)
    169     if _is_url(filename):

File ~/Desktop/Udemy_projects/multiple/lib/python3.9/site-packages/geopandas/io/file.py:80, in _check_fiona(func)
     78 def _check_fiona(func):
     79     if fiona is None:
---> 80         raise ImportError(
     81             f"the {func} requires the 'fiona' package, but it is not installed or does "
     82             f"not import correctly.\nImporting fiona resulted in: {fiona_import_error}"
     83         )

ImportError: the 'read_file' function requires the 'fiona' package, but it is not installed or does not import correctly.
Importing fiona resulted in: dlopen(/Users/junaid/Desktop/Udemy_projects/multiple/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fiona/ogrext.cpython-39-darwin.so, 0x0002): Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/proj@7/lib/libproj.19.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gdal/3.4.1_1/lib/libgdal.30.dylib
  Reason: tried: '/opt/homebrew/opt/proj@7/lib/libproj.19.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libproj.19.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libproj.19.dylib' (no such file)

It looks like geopandas is referening an older version of PROJ. I used to have proj 7.2 but now have 8.2.1 installed.
Also I have the following versions of fiona and gdal
fiona 1.8.19
GDAL 3.3.3
any help would be much appreciated

A: Have you tried to install the Fiona package? Because it requires this package from your error.


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Q: Fraction exponential limit in complex plane Let $n$ be an integer.  I need to compute the limit $$\lim_{z\rightarrow 2n\pi i}\dfrac{e^z-1}{z-2n\pi i}$$ for complex number $z$. I think I can't use L'Hospital here since $z$ is complex. How can I do it?

A: Hint: use the definition of the derivative at a point.

$$ f'(z_0) = \lim_{z\to z_0}\frac{f(z)-f(z_0)}{z-z_0} .$$

A: By the Taylor series of $e^z$
$$e^z=e^{z-2n\pi i}=1+(z-2n\pi i)+(z-2n\pi i)^2\sum_{n=2}^\infty \frac{1}{n!}(z-2n\pi i)^{n-2}$$
So
$$\frac{e^z-1}{z-2n\pi i}=1+(z-2n\pi i)\sum_{n=2}^\infty \frac{1}{n!}(z-2n\pi i)^{n-2}.$$
You can check that if $|z-2n\pi i|<1$ then
$$\left|\sum_{n=2}^\infty \frac{1}{n!}(z-2n\pi i)^{n-2} \right|\le e-2$$
so
$$\lim_{z\to 2n\pi i}\frac{e^z-1}{z-2n\pi i}=1.$$


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Массовое отравление метанолом — отравление метанолом в вине, произошедшее  в марте  1986 года в Италии. Погибли 23 человека, 90 человек стали инвалидами.

Отравление
Метанол был обнаружен в вине от компании Ciravegna di Narzole,владельцами которой являлись Джованни и Даниэль Чиравенья. Для увеличения содержания спирта и удешевления вина добавляли токсичный метанол. За это владельцы в 1992 году были приговорены судом к 14 годам заключения. Это был крупнейший метанольный скандал в Италии.

Последствия
Скандал привёл к немедленному резкому сокращению экспорта итальянского вина (примерно на треть, с 18 до 11 миллионов гектолитров). Последовали изменения законов о сертификации вина (DOC и DOCG) в 1992 году. Поворот к качеству произошёл в 1994 году с началом действия закона: виноделы начали активно участвовать в программе сертификации VQPRD. К началу XXI века производство вина в Пьедмонте достигло новых высот в терминах экспорта и оценок качества.

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Me: Yeah I know, this queue was just much emptier.
IO: Well this is for non-EU people.
Me: I know, but there's no one behind me anyway, so I thought I'd just dash through.
IO: Well, don't do this again. This is for non-EU people - you have to go in the EU queue, every time.
It is very rare (in my experience) for the non-EU lines to be emptier than the EU lines. But if they are indeed emptier, then there is no rule or otherwise that I am aware of that would enable the immigration officer to turn you away or make you go to the EU line. If that happens, I would seriously raise this with the chief immigration officer.
UPDATE: Second time just now, this time getting it on video. Regret not telling him why he misunderstood the meaning of being subject to immigration control. Guess I didn't want to drag it out further. Now I'll definitely write a letter to the Border Force and ask for clarification regarding this.
First hand experience of this being allowed in Eurostar queues.
You can use either queue. The IO you spoke with was likely annoyed because you made more work for him. Ignore it. Or speak with the duty CIO. (per comments above).
See also the Chief Inspector's report "An inspection of border control at Manchester Airport"
Related answer saying the same thing but covering more scenarios: Non-EU citizen travelling to UK with EU citizen friend, which queue to use?
Related answer regarding non-EU family members and queues: Which queue for a EU/non-EU couple travelling through UK Immigration Control together?
Yet another related answer: Other passports queue arriving in UK?
Vaguely related (i.e., no queue): What happens when someone inadvertently enters the UK without a landing interview?
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I almost wrote "It's Hans tea."
Why not 'This is his tea." as well?
That would be "Det här är hans te."
I am assuming that often "det är" would merge together in spoken swedish and sound more like "dayr" correct?
More or less. It will often fuse together to /de: e:/, without the silent R of är.
How do you tell the difference between "hans" and "hennes"?
hans = his, hennes = her(s).
Oh, okay, I couldn't tell from your question what you meant. The audio and pronunciation is pretty distinct for both of them: hans is pronounces like the english huns, or the genitive form of Han (as in Han Solo). The first sylable of fenes on the other hand is more like the english word hen (as in the female chicken) and the es also carries the same e sound. As you see, the A and the E in swedish have their own distinct sound. It's kinda hard to explain how things sound in a certain language, it's probably best if you either listen to the adios Duolingo provides or to the ones on Google Translator.
What is the difference between "sitt" and "hans"?
"Sitt" specifically means something belongs to the subject. I don't know what the exact rule for when to use which, but it can help avoid confusion about who exactly something belongs to. To give an example, "Han älskar sitt husdjur" always means "He loves his pet", his own pet. "Han älskar hans husdjur" on the other hand means "He loves his pet" in the sense that he loves a pet belonging to another male person.


Can you retrieve Telstra SMS messages sent while your SIM was out of your phone . Or is there another way to see them ?
"To answer your question about re-delivery, the Network will hold an SMS for delivery for up to 7 days before the SMSC discards the message.
It should also be noted that messages are delivered sequentially, so if the message at the head of the queue is delayed all messages queued up behind this message will also be delayed."
Is this by any chance related to this thread https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Billing-Payments/Overseas-charges/td-p/778349 ?
Adding on to ForensicsGuru, there is no remote access system for the Telstra Mobile SMS service. The text messages can only be retrieved by the mobile with the sim card inserted into it. This means you can put the sim into another mobile if your main one is faulty and be able to retrieve any queued text messages.
Can receive texts. Can send and receive MMS. Can call and receive calls.


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Halifax és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Virgínia. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 1.389 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Halifax tenia 1.389 habitants, 523 habitatges, i 348 famílies. La densitat de població era de 141,1 habitants per km².

Dels 523 habitatges en un 24,1% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 51,1% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 14% dones solteres, i en un 33,3% no eren unitats familiars. En el 31,2% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 13% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,29 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,83.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 18,9% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 8,2% entre 18 i 24, un 28,2% entre 25 i 44, un 25,6% de 45 a 60 i un 19,1% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 42 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 99,6 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 34.871 $ i la renda mediana per família de 46.250 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 26.538 $ mentre que les dones 21.167 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 18.571 $. Entorn del 10,4% de les famílies i el 8,4% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població de Virgínia


I Want to Use My Magic Wand!
Recently Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin, with the help of the agile and testing community, took a stab at defining "agile testing". Their definition starts with the word "Collaborative", and uses collective terms like "whole team". Although these phrases are common in the agile testing world, collaborative and whole team practices don't seem to be as common as you would think. In this keynote, Janet will take her magic wand and sprinkle a bit of magic around to help you understand what these words really mean. You'll take away ideas to help your organization spread the whole team approach to building quality in, as well as some practices to enhance collaborative practices between teams.


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Headed to D.C. for Obama's inauguration? Fairmont Hotel offers $100,000 "Presidential Detail Package" including use of new BMW 7-Series
Hotel offers BMW 7 Series car service for Obama's inauguration
BY Josh Max
Monday, January 14, 2013, 9:38 AM
The Fairmont Hotel's "Presidential Detail Package" includes car service in a BMW 7 Series, among other high-end bonuses.
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In D.C., a Presidential swear-in is the equivalent of a Times Square ball drop on New Year's Eve. Out-of-towners flood the streets, POTUS tschotskes fill stores, and hotel room rates go through the roof. You can't get much more over-the-top, though, than the Fairmont Hotel's "Presidential Detail Package," which, for $100,000, allows a couple – a man and a woman, or two guys or two gals, they say - to participate in what can best be described as an Obama Fantasy Camp.
Your 100 G's buys you four nights in the Fairmont's ultra-luxe Presidential Suite, and includes two "Fairmont Presidential Detail" agents – faux-secret service guys decked out in black suits and shades who whisper into their sleeves while standing guard outside your digs. You'll be carted around town in a new BMW 7-Series, about which I wrote in the Daily News: "…a perfect blend of upscale class and comfort accompanied by healthy power and above-average road characteristics." First stop is a $5,000 Shopping Spree at SAKS Fifth Avenue in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where you'll be welcomed by a personal shopper with champagne at the store's 5th Avenue Club and treated to lunch in the new SAKS Café. At some point during your stay, you'll also be presented with matching Presidential Rolex watches in 18k gold.
Got your own Bo, Checkers, Fala? Bring him or her along. Your Presidential detail's duties include walking your pooch, who, for the duration, will be known as the "first dog" and who will also enjoy a Presidential dog bed with matching collar and leash as well as gourmet dog food prepared by the hotel's executive chef.
Other goodies - humans only - include:
• A visit to "First Ladies Exhibit at The Smithsonian" exhibit with Fairmont Presidential Detail
• Daily American breakfast served at the dining room table in your suite
• In-room hair provided by Georgetown's Roche Hair Designs
• A private consultation and make-up provided by SAKS 5th Avenue's partner Giorgio Armani Beauty
• A midnight buffet for "President's" family and closest advisors after returning from any inaugural balls they may be attending, including champagne and caviar for up to 20 people.The First Lady's favorite floral arrangements throughout the Presidential Suite
• His-and-her bathrobes embroidered with the Presidential Seal.
For more information visit www.fairmont.com/washington, and for reservations, call (202) 429-2400.
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Helena Won The Christmas Light Decoration Contest in Little Rock.
I haven't posted much here recently, but I really should have mentioned that Helena won the Little Rock Holiday Lights contest. She did all the work this year decorating the house. I was busy with work and other things. But I was around to submit her entry to the contest.
We were pleased enough when we were named finalists. Then we both went to work asking our Facebook and Twitter friends to vote.
A year's membership to the Zoo.
Again we want to thank all of you who voted for us and helped us win this honor.


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AIG Elects Former GE Exec To Board
Mr. Dammerman spent 38 years at GE, including serving on the GE board since 1994, as chairman and chief executive officer of GE Capital Services since 1998, and as a director of GE Capital Services fo
By Staff Writer | November 13, 2008 at 07:14 AM
Dennis D. Dammerman, a former General Electric executive, has been elected a director on the American International Group Inc board, AIG announced.


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Nexus S the New Android "It Phone"
Mon, 12/06/2010 - 08:43 by
This morning Google announced the new Nexus S (built by Samsung but branded Google). Eric Schmidt showed it off at the recent Web 2.0 event in San Francisco.
It's the new Android "it phone" and is the first to feature the new version of the OS: Gingerbread (2.3). The phone is intended to offer "the pure Google experience" on a phone. According to Google:
Gingerbread is the fastest version of Android yet, and it delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, NFC support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support.
The Nexus S will be available (unlocked) from retailer Best Buy next week in the US and in the UK after 12/20 from Carphone Warehouse. Take a look at the site and how Apple-influenced the look and feel are (at least in the "features" area).
Here are the Nexus S specs from Samsung. Most noteworthy perhaps is the inclusion of NFC, which makes it mobile-payments ready.
Google doesn't really have its own play in mobile payments and I would expect the company to make a fairly significant acquisition in the near term accordingly. But that's a matter for another day.
This phone looks pretty "sexy." The question is how much will it cost?


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package com.example

import akka.stream.{ActorMaterializer, Materializer}
import com.typesafe.scalalogging.LazyLogging
import play.api.libs.json.Json
import play.api.libs.ws.ahc.AhcWSClient
import play.api.libs.ws.{WSRequest, WSResponse}

import scala.concurrent.Future
import scala.util.Try

object Hello extends LazyLogging {

  // There should only be one actor system created for a given application.
  // Terminate it if you want to stop the process - it is long-lived.
  implicit val actorSystem = akka.actor.ActorSystem()

  // this sets up the actual wsclient we will be using. Make sure to close it when you're done.
  implicit val wsClient = AhcWSClient()(ActorMaterializer()(actorSystem))

  import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global

  def cleanUp() = {
    logger.debug("cleaning up, closing wsClient and actorsystem")
    wsClient.close()
    actorSystem.terminate()
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    logger.debug("Hello, world!")

    val organizationsUrl: String = "https://api.github.com/users/jschaul/orgs"

    val request: WSRequest = wsClient.url(organizationsUrl)

    val responseFuture: Future[WSResponse] = request.get()

    responseFuture.map { response =>
      // the inner part of "map" happens when
      // 1) the future completes
      // 2) it is successful (i.e. doesn't throw an exception)
      logger.info(s"response: ${Json.prettyPrint(response.json)}")
      cleanUp()
    }

    responseFuture.onComplete { f: Try[WSResponse] =>
      // this adds a second callback to the future created above
      // and cleans up resources irrespective of whether the request completed successfully or with an exception
      cleanUp()
    }

    logger.debug("finished Hello.scala")
  }
}


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whiskey rebellion essay research paper whiskey rebellion
Towards the terminal of the sixteenth century, the United States authorities experienced uninterrupted alterations in Torahs ( revenue enhancements ) and several jobs ( combating and remotion of Indians ) associated with westbound enlargement. Conflict was created in response to the lifting revenue enhancements issued by the authorities on goods such as whisky. Most affected by the heavy revenue enhancement were the Godheads and distributers of whisky – the mean hapless white husbandman. An incident that occurred in 1794 affecting enraged husband mans in western Pennsylvania, threatened the revenue enhancement aggregators lives every bit good as the authorization of the authorities. This incident came to be known as the Whiskey Rebellion.
In chapter 7 in Deverell and Hyde, historical histories illustrated by Alexander Hamilton's orders to Governor Lee of Pennsylvania, and Henry Brackenridge's "Dreadful Night" demo different positions of the eruption of the Whiskey Rebellion. Hamilton's orders to Governor Lee involved the suppression of resistance to the Torahs and doing the Torahs to be executed through military force or/and by bench . Besides, objects of the military force were to get the better of any armed resistance which may be and to visage and back up the civil officers in the agencies of put to deathing the Torahs . Alexander Hamilton was highly concerned with this rebellion because he wanted to chiefly stamp down the rebellion and the set an illustration of authorities authorization. Permiting the rebellious husbandmans to expose that behaviour would be like an act of lawlessness and accordingly, an onslaught on the federal authorities.
The issues that involved and caused the Whiskey Rebellion was due chiefly to major economic and political concerns westward enlargement and a underdeveloped authorities. At the clip, mom New York of people were in hunt of land, and belongings they could settle on that the late dismissed British and French could no longer busy. Available land in the E was decreasing and so in bend, the population get down traveling westward. Besides, after the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and accordingly the terminal of the American Revolution, created many alterations. Lack of authorization and resources to confirm authorization ( Ex. no more aggregate British ground forces to contend off Indians ) , had its effects. About 80 per centum of the federal budget was spent battling and taking American Indians from the lands along the Ohio River, the most late settled land by Americans . In order to counterbalance for this, Congress passed the revenue enhancement on whisky stills which affected chiefly hapless white husband mans. Therefore, westbound enlargement and the elimination of the Indians, brought forth the ill-famed Whiskey Rebellion.
Henry Brackenridge was one of the leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion besides revealed his position of the event. Brackenridge recorded the reaction of the authorities to the rebellion as "flooring". As he stated, the military military personnels dragged husband mans from their beds in the center of the dark and kept them in unfastened pens for years, and merely two ended up being convicted (. This type of behaviour from the armed forces raised considerable involvements about the power of authorities and the rights of citizens. They knew in fact the articles of alliance, at the clip was a weak attack to centralised authorities, and questioned the right of the attack of the authorities in managing such issues, as stated by Brackenridge: "With few exclusions these apprehensions were made with entire neglect of amnesty … contrary to the express bid of Washington in the general orders signed by Hamilton …"
States in the West, Deverell & A; Hyde


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Q: Backgroundworker with recursive DirectorCopy function I spent almost three days with this below, so I finally ended up here.
I have a function (from MSDN) which copies a folder with it's every file and subfolder. First it copies the main folder's files, then calls itself on each subfolder.
Here it is:
private void DirectoryCopy(string sourceDirName, string destDirName)
    {
        // Get the subdirectories for the specified directory.
        DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(sourceDirName);
        DirectoryInfo[] dirs = dir.GetDirectories();

        if (!dir.Exists)
        {
            throw new DirectoryNotFoundException(
                "Source directory does not exist or could not be found: "
                + sourceDirName);
        }

        // If the destination directory doesn't exist, create it.
        if (!Directory.Exists(destDirName))
        {
            Directory.CreateDirectory(destDirName);
        }

        // Get the files in the directory and copy them to the new location.
        FileInfo[] files = dir.GetFiles();
        foreach (FileInfo file in files)
        {
            string temppath = System.IO.Path.Combine(destDirName, file.Name);
            file.CopyTo(temppath, false);
        }

        // Copying subdirectories and their contents to new location.
        foreach (DirectoryInfo subdir in dirs)
        {
            string temppath = System.IO.Path.Combine(destDirName, subdir.Name);
            DirectoryCopy(subdir.FullName, temppath, copySubDirs);
        }
    }

The problem is that it could take a long time therefore I tried to use BackgroundWorker, but I don't know how to place it in it's DoWork event.
If I place the first DirectoryCopy call in the DoWork event, can't handle the Cancel event:
private void worker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        if (worker.CancellationPending)
        {
            e.Cancel = true;
            return;
        }
        DirectoryCopy(sourcePath, destPath, true);
    }

sourcePath and destPath are members of my class.
Any tips how can I handle the worker's Cancel event in the DirectoryCopy?
Or any other tips to make it working?
Thanks!

A: Although I haven't worked with BackgroundWorker yet, looking at your question - a quick ( might be ill-logical ) suggestion would be to pass  DoWorkEventArgs e inside the DirectoryCopy method
like
DirectoryCopy (sourcePath, destPath, true, worker , e)
where BackgroundWoker worker , DoWorkEventArgs e
and handle it whatever way you want it inside.
Example :
if (worker.CancellationPending)
     {
        // your code
        e.Cancel = true;
     }

Hope this  helps!

A: The best and easiest approach here is to use Directory.EnumerateDirectories(,,).
This remove the recursion from your code and makes it easier to stop.
foreach(var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(sourceDir, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
{
   foreach(var file in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(dir, "*.*")
   {
     if (worker.CancellationPending)
     {
        e.Cancel = true;
        return;
     }

     // copy file
   }
}


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Sally Struthers And Carter Calvert Begin Rehearsals For Always Patsy Cline
Duo to Star at Algonquin Arts Theatre for Six Performances Across Two Weekends from Jan. 25 to Feb. 3
IMAGE: http://www.algonquinarts.org/cc/Carter-Calvert-and-Sally-Struthers-Always-Patsy-Cline.jpg
Caption: Sally Struthers, right, and Carter Calvert star in Always Patsy Cline from Jan. 25-27 and Feb. 1-3 at Algonquin Arts Theatre. (Photo Courtesy of Ogunquit Playhouse)
MANASQUAN, N.J. (Jan. 22, 2013) � Emmy Award winner Sally Struthers and Broadway star Carter Calvert have been rehearsing on the Algonquin Arts Theatre stage this week in advance of "Always Patsy Cline," which opens Friday, Jan. 25, for a six performance run through Feb. 3.
"These are the two biggest stars to appear on this stage together," said William Whitefield, Executive Director of Algonquin Arts Theatre. "We always pride ourselves on presenting high-quality performances, but this is a big leap for us. From the set and the production team to the live band and, obviously, the resumes of these actors, we're excited to showcase such a great production."
Struthers plays the role of Houston housewife and Patsy Cline superfan Louise Seger � a role for which she recently won Best Actress at the Los Angeles Artistic Director Theatre Awards. Calvert shines as Patsy Cline, expertly and beautifully singing favorites including "Crazy," "Anytime" and "Walkin' After Midnight."
Tickets are available online at algonquinarts.org, by calling 732-528-9211 or by stopping in to the box office (12-6 p.m. weekdays, 12-4 p.m. Saturdays) at 173 Main Street. Tickets start at $28 for adults, $26 for seniors and $18 for students. All tickets are subject to $2 processing fees.
Struthers won two Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for her performances in the groundbreaking TV series "All in the Family." She's also starred in the Fox television series "9 to 5," her own CBS series "Gloria" and the CW network's highly acclaimed "Gilmore Girls," where she played the neighbor, Babette.
Struthers was also heard in prime-time on ABC as the voice of the teenage dinosaur "Charlene Sinclair" in "Dinosaurs." For anyone too young to remember "All in the Family," they may recognize Struthers as the voice of "Pebbles Flintstone" on the Pebbles and Bam-Bam cartoon series and the lead female character on the popular Disney cartoon "Tailspin."
Often recognized for her work helping the hungry and uneducated children everywhere, Struthers appeared in numerous public service announcements and documentaries.
Starring alongside Manasquan High School alumnus Jack Nicholson in the feature film "Five Easy Pieces," Struthers' has a long list of stage credits including Broadway appearances in the Tommy Tune production of "Grease" and in Neil Simon's version of "The Odd Couple." She took the role of Miss Mamie Lynch in "Grease" on tour, as she did with the coveted role of Miss Hannigan in the 20th Anniversary National Tour of "Annie."
Calvert has earned critical acclaim throughout her career, originating her role in the Tony nominated "It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues" on Broadway. She has also toured extensively in Europe in "Smokey Joe's Café" and featured in the lead role of Grizabella in the Broadway national tour of "Cats." She still appears around the country in "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway."
Calvert is an accomplished voice-over artist and can be heard in numerous national commercials including Wendy's, Voom, MTV, Charles Schwab and the Amazon Kindle Fire.
Roger Cohen, Calvert's husband, and his trio back Carter on her most recently record "Carter Calvert and the Roger Cohen Trio" that debuted at No. 13 on the jazz charts. Cohen plays the drums in this production of "Always Patsy Cline."
Calvert has appeared on television on "The David Letterman Show," "Rosie O'Donnell Show," and "The Today Show," and in concert has opened for Liza Minnelli, The Temptations, Chubby Checker, Marilyn McCoo and others.
Downbeat Magazine named her Best Female Jazz Vocalist while she was still in high school and in 1993 was named Best Female Vocalist of the Year by Starsong Records. Of her latest album, The New York Times said: "Carter Calvert effervesces: her voice echoes chimes in the night."


The Malone family took a trip to Costa Rica which prompted them to open a bar that reminded them of the laided back atmosphere they found in local bars of Hermosa/Jaco. Monkey Bar has turned out to be a primo music venue and favorite hang out for locals. Play pool and games, use it for a party. It's the perfect beachside location.


I posted about my homemade Asian dressing, and someone asked what I put in the salad I dressed it with. Although I am sure you can put the dressing on just about anything you want, this is what I included in my salad.
The nice thing about this salad is that you can make it a few times, usually because a head of cabbage is so large. I also bought a 5 pound bag of carrots, so I had more than enough. I plan to make it again later in the week and will probably use left over chicken.


A recent survey conducted by a global cancer care website has revealed that over 83 per cent of cancer patients in India are getting wrong treatment. According to recent statistics by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India is likely to have over 8,80,000 cancer-related deaths and over 1.73 million new cancer cases by 2020. The survey, thus, shows that a large number of lives are in danger due to wrong drugs and lack of complete tests required.
The survey, conducted on 365 patients, revealed that 15 per cent of the patients were getting completely wrong treatment, 27 per cent were not being given the right chemotherapy drugs, and 41 per cent did not undergo complete tests. This leaves only 17 per cent of patients are on the right treatment path as per the International scientific guidelines.
"Cancer is a complex disease and requires a multi-disciplinary and evidence-based approach. While this is followed in developed countries, in developing nations like India, patients do not get access to multi-disciplinary care. Taking the second opinion in the form of a multi-disciplinary review by a team of doctors from three specialities – surgical, medical and radiation oncology – can dramatically improve outcomes for cancer patients by preventing mistreatment. Today, less than 10 percent of cancer patients in India get the second opinion. Most do not have access to multi-disciplinary care," said Dr Amit Jotwani, a senior oncologist.
While doctors at the National Cancer Institute, country's largest Cancer Institute which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, are on a mission to eradicate cancer from the country in the coming 15 years, and bringing cutting edge technology, including the 'proton therapy' and 'robotic core clinical laboratory' in a government facility, the survey numbers highlight the shocking facts.
"A multi-disciplinary panel is a novel concept among developing countries. For every patient, we form a team of cancer specialists – typically a medical oncologist, a surgical oncologist, and a radiation oncologist. This ensures that our patients receive a complete picture of their cancer, and take treatment decisions accordingly," said Rashie Jain, co-founder of onco.com, the website that conducted the global survey.


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第 198 頁 - And all their echoes, mourn: The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays : — As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear When first the white-thorn blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear.
第 140 頁 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
第 191 頁 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
第 182 頁 - Where the great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.
第 26 頁 - FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.


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Cover Theme: Making the Difference
Mikki Singhal - Mrs. NRI Global 2005
By Sunil Sharma
Software engineer Mikki Singhal tries to do something different, like winning Mrs. NRI crown
When you think about a software engineer from IBM in Austin then the image of a beauty queen probably would not come into your mind, but that is what Mikki Singhal is. She had heard about many women who won such competitions and then went on to do wonderful things in their life. So she took the challenge. It sounded like a great idea but as she says it�s not an easy task. �I had to put in lot of preparation before I went in�, says Mikki and then adds, �[but]� it was a wonderful experience.�
While growing up in Zambia and Botswana, Mikki has had similar experiences like that Rennu had and, as she says, she also has to dispel this notion about people living in trees in Africa. She also had to travel to far away places looking for better quality of education, including for high-school to England and for graduate degree to USA, though, she skipped going to South Africa for under-graduate degree preferring to stay with her parents and doing it in Botswana.
Mikki says that she always had an urge to do something different. She picked up badminton in Zambia and became ladies champion in Botswana competing at the international level. Then she became the first woman to top engineering college. Now she is also trying her hands at acting making use of Austin�s active independent movies industry. �
is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Mood Indico magazine, a niche publication for the affluent South Asians living in the north America


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Working on the Road
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Income Tax in WA
washington income tax
By BettyRocket,
July 13, 2015 in Working on the Road
BettyRocket
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I am a little confused about income tax in Washington state. I know that there isn't an income tax in Washington- but as a full-time consultant would I be considered a 'business' and have a business tax? I noticed that the government website refers to an income of less than $50K- I would be making less then that in this calendar year.
JRP
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Correct there is no personal or business "income tax" in Wa state.
But yes, there is a "Business & Occupation" Tax, sometimes referred to as a B&O Tax. It is a Gross Receipts Tax and applies whether you're based in Wa state or just doing business there part time or business in many different states. As a gross receipts tax, it applies to all your gross income generated in Wa state. There are no deductions, if you sell $20,000 in services to Wa state clients, then the tax applies to that total amount. The tax percentage rate varies depending on your product or service being sold. I've no idea what $50,000 comment you refer to. As I understand it your level of Wa state sales may change how you report & calculate the tax, but everyone doing business in Wa state owes the tax. I did see a note that if your Wa state income was less than $12,000 you didn't have to pre-register with the Wa state treasurer, but you still owed the tax. It is a very complicated tax and if you intend on doing business within Wa state, you should seek professional guidance. When I was subject to this tax, it was as an out of state construction company and they have different rules than other businesses within Wa state.
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