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Luzon: Primary Sources: Operational Documents (Military Unit Records)
Introduction to Operational Documents (Military Unit Records)
Allied forces during World War II created, produced, and distributed a prodigious amount of paper records. Units wrote, typed, reproduced, and distributed all kinds of documents before, during, and after operations. These include written plans, orders, unit histories, periodic records of activity during operations in the field, and after action reports. These are among the most important documentary primary sources for the operational history of the U.S. Army in World War II. Even before the war was over, the U.S. Army, the War Department, and other government agencies began plans to preserve these records. Efforts to preserve and make them available continue and likely will for a long time to come. Today they are available from a number of different sources. Your instructors have gathered some for you to use, and some of the links below can lead you to others.
Even a cursory study of the contents of the repositories listed below will reveal overlap among holdings. That is, one may discover the same or similar records held in more than one institution. In some cases, the overlap is not complete, nor is the extent of the overlap readily apparent. The sheer amount of records produced and extent of their distribution -- necessitated by the size of the war effort itself -- belies any easy effort to identify precisely which records exist only in one place.
While this reality offers many advantages for the researcher, it also calls for additional effort -- you must scrutinize the contents of each digital archive carefully, read bibliographic citations, summaries, and descriptions carefully so that you can identify and select which sources you believe will be most relevant for your research. Do not hesitate to consult your section instructor or library staff with any questions.
Operational Documents from the National Archives
During semesters when the Luzon campaign is the subject of the HI 302 History of the Military Art research paper, the History Department faculty may make available to you digital copies of archival records from various U.S. Army units involved in Liberation of Luzon that are now held in the National Archives of the United States. When this is the case, consult your course documents.
Operational Documents at the Donovan Research Library
Donovan Research Library
The US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence is the successor to both the U.S. Army Infantry School and U.S. Army Armor School, and operates the Donovan Research Library. Some records here MAY overlap closely, or duplicate, records provided in the HI 302 shared folder but see above for caution on this matter. You will have to examine them carefully to see determine whether they are different or, if there is an overlap, to determine the nature of that overlap. Doing so is just part of the research process.
Unit records originally on paper and digitized by the Donovan Research Library
Unit records originally on microfilm and digitzed by the Donovan Research Library
There are many useful unit records here, but of special interest may be:
37 th Infantry Division G-4 Journal 1943-1945
[Part D covers January - June 1945; see description of contents on first page, etc.]
Operational Documents at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Digital Library (CARL)
The Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library contains a great deal of primary source material on the campaign in Luzon. Holdings are subdivided into several collections: CARL's World War II Operational Documents includes after-action reports, training memoranda, and other records created during and shortly after the campaign to liberate the Philippines. Although it contains many documents available in the sources provided on the Gemini Drive, do NOT discount its value. Careful searching can reveal additional unit records that could help a researcher further shape an argument. Keyword searching by "Luzon", by "Manila", "Corregidor" or other geographic locations, etc. or by unit names [or a keyword search combining such terms] may be useful. (Consult an order of battle to identify particular subordinate units of a larger formation whose operations you are studying, and search by those unit names.)
World War II Operational Documents from the Combined Arms Research Digital Library
Orders of Batttle for the United States Army in World War II
When searching for unit records, make certain that you understand the hierarchical organization of the various units involved in the liberation of Luzon. For example, if your topic requires you to examine some phase of the operations of the 11th Airborne Division, you should learn which subordinate units were assigned to it and to which higher-level organizations it belonged. Then search collections of unit records for documents related to those subordinate units. To learn this kind of information, consult an Order of Battle. Two examples are listed below (the first avaiable online).
Order of Battle Of The United States Army Ground Forces In World War II: Pacific Theater Of Operations. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1959.
World War II Order of Battle U.S. Army (Ground Force Units)Forces from Battalion Through Division, 1939-1946, rev. ed. by Stanon, Shelby L.
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1st Cavalry Division records on microfilm at USMA Library [partially digtized]
The USMA LIbrary holds a large body of operational documents (after-action reports, periodic reports, journal files, et. al.) of the 1st Cavalry Division from World War II on microfilm. These are valuable archival sources documenting the unit's service in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II, including the campaign in Luzon.
Microfilm is a type of photographic format that was used during the mid and late twentieth centuries to store large amounts of paper documents. Microfilm is usually in the form a long strip of photographic exposures stored on reels, that one views with the use of a microfilm reading/printing machine consisting of an assembly of lens and lights. Today many historical documents that were formerly microfilmed have been digitized. A great many, however, have not been digitized yet, making microfilm as a format for historical documents still relevant. Owing to the move to remote teaching and temporary limitations of on-site services, the microfilm version of the 1st Cavalry Division records is available by appointment only until further notice. The catalog record describing it, however, is still of use to researchers as it can acquaint them with the contents of the collection (see below).
The USMA Library is in the process of digitizing its microfilm holdings of the 1st Cavalry Division records. Many records relevant to the division's service in the Luzon campaign are already available digitally.
For a description of the overall collection of 1st Cavalry Division records, consult the catalog record of the collection as a whole: In the catalog record you will find a link to the reel-by-reel inventory of the microfilm, which you can in turn use to learn which individual documents are available digitally.
For the ones that are not yet digitized, you must use the physical microfilm. For assistance, make an appointment using the link below.
Schedule Microfilm Appointment
Some of these materials are only available on microfilm. Once you have identified the sources you would like to access on microfilm, you can make an appointment with a librarian who can explain how to access the microfilm you need for your paper. Please use this tool to schedule an appointment.
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▼ Case in point: these daredevils.
One Japanese family was recently shocked to find their cat had gone one step above and beyond peering through paper doors, when they discovered the animal up in the elaborate ranma, the traditional transom panel found between the ceiling and the sliding doors. According to @pon_afro, who snapped this photo and shared it on Twitter, the cat, called Ponko-chan, simply woke up one morning and then got itself stuck in this unusual place.
Ranma are used in traditional Japanese homes to allow air flow and light to circulate between rooms, not curious kitties, so the tiny space the feline had squeezed into became a snug fit.
The puzzled cat was immediately rescued by a family member, despite the fact that the kitty was determined to make it out to the other side on its own.
After fending off its owner a few times, Ponko-chan finally realised it might be best to let its human handle this situation.
After being gently eased out of the hole, Ponko-chan seemed unfazed by the incident, curling up in between two cushions for a much-needed catnap.
Surprisingly, a number of fellow cat-owning Twitter users mentioned their own experiences with felines getting stuck in ranma, which suggests Ponko-chan isn't the only cat with an insatiable attraction to the traditional Japanese feature. According to @pon_afro, Ponko-chan had climbed up on some nearby furniture in order to reach the high ledge, in an apparent attempt to get into the other room while the sliding doors were closed. Following the incident, however, the tall furniture has been moved well away from the transom, and @pon_afro urges other cat owners to do the same in their houses too.


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Following requests from a number of supporters regarding the possibility of purchasing 2013/14 season tickets early, the directors have agreed to a very special seasonal offer.
Whilst traditionally the club has depended on season ticket sales to generate income at a time when there are no games, everyone connected with Bury Football Club realises how important it is for us to start to climb the table and secure League One status for next season.
We have a new, ambitious manager who wants to improve the squad. If we can bring in some funding to help him at this time we feel it could go a long way to making sure we go into 2013 in a much stronger position.
The directors have agreed to release a strictly limited 200 season tickets at reduced cost, which we hope will be seen as excellent value.
We realise that not every supporter is able to take advantage of this offer but the directors wanted to try to help those who have indicated they would like the opportunity to purchase season tickets now. Some supporters indicated they wished to buy season tickets as Christmas presents whilst others pointed out they wished to use cash they will receive at Christmas to secure their season ticket, especially if they could also receive a 'seasonal discount'.
The tickets will be on sale until January 1st, unless the allocation is taken up earlier, and must be paid in full.


Over the same time period, JCPenney's stock value fell from $18.1 billion to $1.2 billion (-94%) and Macy's, worth $24.2 billion in 2006, is now worth $9.3 billion (a 62% drop). Less dramatic but still significant price declines can be found at Kohl's (-54%), Nordstrom (-28%), Best Buy (-25%) and Target (-20%). Diamandis notes that in 2017, over 6,700 physical stores closed their doors.
Meanwhile, the premier online retailer, Amazon, has seen its total market share value rise from $17.5 billion in 2006 to $726.3 billion in 2018, a rise of more than 4,000 percent.
It's anybody's guess whether Amazon will continue drawing sales and market value from the bricks-and-mortar retailers, but Diamandis points out that this remarkable shift has been accomplished despite e-commerce only accounting for 10% of total retail sales in 2017.
It seems like a sure bet that this number will continue to grow, although the actual trajectory is uncertain. Diamandis does, however, see some hope for physical retailers on the horizon, as custom 3D printing will make it possible for people to walk into a store, log onto a terminal and custom-order clothing or other items that will then be physically created on-site. And he notes that the so-called "experience economy" will extend to retail purchases, as people don virtual reality glasses and create their own custom kitchen redesign or map out their upcoming vacation trip to Prague.


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Q: Remove Breaks from start and end of the paragraph using Regular expression I have my html snippet like below

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Web developer can also use Regular Expression in JavaScript. Now I describe some simple examples of using Regular Expression in JavaScript.

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. how can I do that using a javascript regular expression.

A: If there's exactly 5:
var str = "...";
str = str.replace(/(
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The 2017 Thomas Fire burns in Ventura, California. Forest Service photo by Stuart Palley (CC BY 2.0).
When wildfires swept through Northern California last October, humans weren't the only ones affected. San Francisco State University biologists are now surveying the fires' impact on the natural world, too, looking for insights into basic biology and lessons for how to manage our precious natural resources in the wake of a disaster.
"The fires were devastating, but they provided this opportunity for study — and maybe a way to pull something positive out of them," said Molly Hayes, a biology graduate student at SF State.
Hayes has been surveying bee populations in eight Napa and Sonoma county sites, half of which burned last year. Her advisor, Professor of Biology Gretchen Lebuhn, studied the same sites 15 years ago, providing the perfect baseline for comparison. Comparing the before-and-after may lead to insights for those responsible for managing post-fire landscapes, possibly identifying which seeds to plant to encourage the growth of healthy ecosystems with a full complement of important pollinators, for instance.
A Petaluma resident herself, Hayes spent days worrying about a possible evacuation last October. She says that experience was part of what motivated her to study the wildfires. "Even though I wasn't personally affected, having this huge event right in my backyard made me a lot more interested in how fire affects ecosystems," Hayes said.
Some of Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Swei's field research sites were also endangered by the fires. Swei uses long-term study sites in parks throughout the Bay Area to study the population booms and busts of ticks and their mammal hosts. Last fall she kept her eyes glued to the maps provided by California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, hoping her sites wouldn't go up in smoke. None did, but one site came close to burning.
For both Swei and Hayes, the fires put a new spin on their research. But for Professor of Biology Tom Parker, it was nothing new. For over 40 years, Parker has been studying plants that are shaped by fire — producing seeds that lie in wait in the soil to sprout in the post-fire landscape, which provides abundant space, light and nutrients for new growth.
This summer, Parker is out in field sites in Napa and Ventura counties to see how varieties of manzanita plants with different-sized seeds fared after 2017 wildfires. Large seeds buried in the soil are more likely to survive a blaze, he explains, but their size also makes them a target for rodents. "If you have a bigger seed, you have a bigger chance of establishing, but you have a bigger chance of being eaten. You're easier to find," Parker said.


Here's a picture of the C++ gang that i mentor at Kilmer MS.
Here's a picture with me.
John and Sam opened store called Billy's Wisdom World. I thought i would plug their web site here.
Sam is wearing the white frog shirt. John is in a black shirt with hello writing. This shirt says something like "You don't know this, but after you leave I'll be making fun of you.".
Well done. Keep cultivating them. In these photos, I see hope and promise for a new generation of thinking humans.
Due to the snow, the late buses came even later, so i had an extra 20 minutes with the kids today. We're working on our first project. It's a thing manager. So for some students it will be a CD manager, for some a movie manager, for some, a class manager, etc. See the parent of this comment for pictures.
Our first hurdle was this.
If your command is not a number, you have an infinite loop.
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Hampton Court was the memorable location used during the second half of the first series of Survivors. A total of seven episodes were filmed here between April and June 1975 [from Starvation to A Beginning].
This page features Hampton Court then and now, drawing together memories of cast and crew, publicity and production photos and finally information about visiting the location today.
Below: Hampton Court in June 2001.
"We based ourselves in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire because the two counties weren't heavily overflown and a silent countryside was a necessary prerequisite for the series. Once again we had to consider the best use of our facilities. Since we had to videorecord at least twelve minutes of material a day (at a time when the output of the average filming day was around three minutes of cut film), the only way we thought we would be able to achieve this was by parking the scanner in one spot for the greater part of each episode."
"Hampton Court was brought to our attention by one of the local estate agents in the summer of 1974, and in its almost derelict state it certainly held some interesting pictorial possibilities for us, with its extensive gardens and grounds. By the time we actually came to shoot there, following the deferral of the series, it had changed hands and the developers had to move in wanting to refurbish the house into a business centre. We were forced to agree a very strict schedule with the developers - 'please don't touch that bedroom until we've completed episode eight and please don't start on the kitchens until we've finished episode ten', etc.'"
"The house was convenient for the actors in that there was plenty of shelter when it was cold and wet, and very pleasant lawns to lounge about on when the weather was fine. The house wasn't, of course, available to us for the second season as by 1976 the face-lift was complete and had completely changed character."
Picture 1: Pennant Roberts with Tanya Ronder [Lizzie] and a member of the production team. Pennant directed three of the seven Hampton Court episodes including: Starvation, Law and Order and A Beginning.
Picture 2: Ian McCulloch [Greg] and Carolyn Seymour [Abby] relax during the filming of The Future Hour.
"I didn't like the place very much, no. It was very gloomy and a bit spooky. It was all right when you were outside though."
Below: Lucy Fleming and Ian McCulloch relax between takes in the kitchen at Hampton Court during production of Starvation.
"I enjoyed [Hampton Court] very much. It gave us a permanence. That's when the children came up and we ended up being able to have a sort of life as well as the work. We had cottages close by, I had a farmhouse that I lived in."
"You tell me that Lucy found Hampton Court rather spooky. I never found it spooky. It never bothered me at all. I know that it was supposed to be haunted and we had lots of rumours flying around on that and I think that a couple of people even refused to work there! But Hampton Court was fine, not only did we have somewhere to sit down, rest and get warm, but mostly because you knew where you were going to be all the time, you weren't constantly running around and I find that that's the most difficult part about location work; never knowing how you were going to find it and so on. Certainly with Survivors you had someone to drive you wherever, but I like being in one place and I don't like moving around a lot. It was a great location."
Below: BBC publicity photo of Ian and Carolyn.
1: Greg and Jenny. One of the many official BBC publicity photos taken during recording of Starvation, used to promote the series both in the UK and abroad.
2: Jack Ronder [who wrote two 'Hampton Court episodes': Starvation and Revenge] pictured here with Anne Christie.
3: Ian McCulloch plays with Tanya Ronder in front of the castle. Eileen Helsby [Charmian] is also visible in the background along with the caravan from Spoil of War.
4: Christopher Tranchell [Paul] in a BBC publicity photo also taken during Spoil of War.
5. BBC photo of Emma and Wendy taken at Hampton Court.
Caroline Burt [Laura] and Ian McCulloch during filming of The Future Hour.
8: Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch and 'Ben' during recording of Revenge.
9: Lucy Fleming with Tanya Ronder [Lizzie] and Stephen Dudley [John].
10: Filming underway, presumably during Starvation, given the presence of the Commer van and Julie Neubert sitting in the grass in her white outfit. This is most probably the close up of Carolyn when she sits in the van after having pulled up at the entrance.
The Hampton Court estate is now owned by an American based charity. They have employed a skilled workforce to revive the ancient gardens; previously laid out by George London in the 17th century and then Humphrey Repton a hundred years later.
There are many different types of garden on the site including a Flower Garden which has an ordered layout with ornamental water steps and canals.
The Kitchen Garden, which produces organically grown vegetables and fruit and cut flowers, was the setting for scene in Something of Value in which Abby and co. try to salvage some crops after the flood.
The Herbaceous Borders beyond lead to the beautiful Wisteria Arch. This arch was planted in the 19th century and is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the gardens. This can be seen 'out of season' during an early scene of Spoil of War [see below]. The scene towards the end of Starvation in which Tom and Barney discover some carrots and potatoes [also below] was also shot next to the Wisteria Arch.
The other highlight of the gardens is the Maze with its impressive central tower, which mirrors the gothic style of the castle's towers. The centre of the Maze provides access to a secret passage to a luxurious Sunken Garden with a waterfall and a large pool. Stepping stones lead up the stream to the vast lawns that lie behind the castle, where many more Survivors scenes were filmed.
Below: The castle viewed from the back lawns in June 2001.
The scenes filmed at the back of the castle are too numerous to list here in full but they include: the closing scenes of Starvation, Jenny and Abby's failed attempt at ploughing, their first meeting with Paul and his subsequent tour of the grounds in Spoil of War. The harvesting party in Revenge, the sawing accident in A Beginning and of course the final scene of the first series, in which Abby returns and hears news of Peter from Jenny [all below].
The corner of the castle, which was derelict when Survivors was filmed, is known as the Orangery [pictured on the left above]. This is now a restaurant, from which a very reasonable cream tea can be purchased. The unmissably large tree beyond the other back corner is where Greg utters the classic "I think we're home" line to Abby at the end of Starvation.
One feature of the gardens which is no longer present is the ornamental fountain, at which Abby and Greg talk at the start of Law and Order. The photo below right was taken in 1994 by Bob Meade before the fountain was removed from the lawn.
A River Walk can be enjoyed at the perimeter of the grounds. This takes you past the place where Abby and Jenny discuss the latter's pregnancy in A Beginning. If you follow the path further along the river so you can see the front of the castle, you will notice the large pond between the river and the castle, at which Greg showed John and Lizzie how to fish at the start of Something of Value, before they were approached by Jim Buckmaster.
The only part of the castle which visitors can enter is the Orangery, the rest is unfortunately 'out of bounds'. The impressive drive leading up to the castle is also private, but this won't stop you getting a good photograph of it from the impressive entrance gateway, which is also a new addition to the estate. A flag does fly atop the castle but as yet not a 'GP' one.
Below left: Abby, Wendy and Emma arrive at 'the Grange' in Starvation.
Below right: Anne Tranter leaves 'the Grange' in Revenge.
Hampton Court is situated on the A417 near Hope-under-Dinmore between Leominster and Hereford.
Hampton Court can be visited from 13th April to 28th October 2002 on every day of the week except Mondays and Tuesdays, but including Bank Holidays. Charges are as follows: Adults - £4.00, Children - £2.00, Senior Citizens - £3.50, Family Ticket - £10.00.
Above: Yours truly at the entrance gates last June.


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Q: Python: Find the longest word in a string I'm preparing for an exam but I'm having difficulties with one past-paper question. Given a string containing a sentence, I want to find the longest word in that sentence and return that word and its length. Edit: I only needed to return the length but I appreciate your answers for the original question! It helps me learn more. Thank you.
For example: string = "Hello I like cookies". My program should then return "Cookies" and the length 7.
Now the thing is that I am not allowed to use any function from the class String for a full score, and for a full score I can only go through the string once. I am not allowed to use string.split() (otherwise there wouldn't be any problem) and the solution shouldn't have too many for and while statements. The strings contains only letters and blanks and words are separated by one single blank.
Any suggestions? I'm lost i.e. I don't have any code.
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm sorry, I misread the exam question. You only have to return the length of the longest word it seems, not the length + the word.
EDIT2: Okay, with your help I think I'm onto something...
def longestword(x):
      alist = []
      length = 0
      for letter in x:
             if letter != " ":
                     length += 1
             else:
                     alist.append(length)
                     length = 0
      return alist

But it returns [5, 1, 4] for "Hello I like cookies" so it misses "cookies". Why? EDIT: Ok, I got it. It's because there's no more " " after the last letter in the sentence and therefore it doesn't append the length. I fixed it so now it returns [5, 1, 4, 7] and then I just take the maximum value.
I suppose using lists but not .split() is okay? It just said that functions from "String" weren't allowed or are lists part of strings?

A: You can try to use regular expressions:
import re

string = "Hello I like cookies"
word_pattern = "\w+"

regex = re.compile(word_pattern)
words_found = regex.findall(string)

if words_found:
    longest_word = max(words_found, key=lambda word: len(word))
    print(longest_word)

A: Finding a max in one pass is easy:
current_max = 0
for v in values:
    if v>current_max:
        current_max = v

But in your case, you need to find the words. Remember this quote (attribute to J. Zawinski):

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Besides using regular expressions, you can simply check that the word has letters. A first approach is to go through the list and detect start or end of words:
current_word = ''
current_longest = ''
for c in mystring:
    if c in string.ascii_letters:
        current_word += c
    else:
        if len(current_word)>len(current_longest):
            current_longest = current_word
            current_word = ''
else:
    if len(current_word)>len(current_longest):
        current_longest = current_word

A final way is to split words in a generator and find the max of what it yields (here I used the max function):
def split_words(mystring):
    current = []
    for c in mystring:
        if c in string.ascii_letters:
            current.append(c)
        else:
            if current:
                yield ''.join(current)
max(split_words(mystring), key=len)

A: Just search for groups of non-whitespace characters, then find the maximum by length:
longest = len(max(re.findall(r'\S+',string), key = len))

A: For python 3. If both the words in the sentence is of the same length, then it will return the word that appears first.
def findMaximum(word):
    li=word.split()
    li=list(li)
    op=[]
    for i in li:
        op.append(len(i))
    l=op.index(max(op))
    print (li[l])
findMaximum(input("Enter your word:"))

A: It's quite simple:
def long_word(s):
    n = max(s.split())
    return(n)

IN [48]: long_word('a bb ccc dddd')
Out[48]: 'dddd'

A: found an error in a previous provided solution, he's the correction:
def longestWord(text):

    current_word = ''
    current_longest = ''
    for c in text:
        if c in string.ascii_letters:
            current_word += c
        else:
            if len(current_word)>len(current_longest):
                current_longest = current_word
            current_word = ''

    if len(current_word)>len(current_longest):
        current_longest = current_word
    return   current_longest

A: I can see imagine some different alternatives. Regular expressions can probably do much of the splitting words you need to do. This could be a simple option if you understand regexes.
An alternative is to treat the string as a list, iterate over it keeping track of your index, and looking at each character to see if you're ending a word. Then you just need to keep the longest word (longest index difference) and you should find your answer.

A: Regular Expressions seems to be your best bet. First use re to split the sentence:
>>> import re
>>> string = "Hello I like cookies"
>>> string = re.findall(r'\S+',string)

\S+ looks for all the non-whitespace characters and puts them in a list:
>>> string
['Hello', 'I', 'like', 'cookies']

Now you can find the length of the list element containing the longest word and then use list comprehension to retrieve the element itself:
>>> maxlen = max(len(word) for word in string)
>>> maxlen
7
>>> [word for word in string if len(word) == maxlen]
['cookies']

A: This method uses only one for loop, doesn't use any methods in the String class, strictly accesses each character only once.  You may have to modify it depending on what characters count as part of a word.
s = "Hello I like cookies"
word = ''
maxLen = 0
maxWord = ''
for c in s+' ':
    if c == ' ':
        if len(word) > maxLen:
            maxWord = word
        word = ''
    else:
        word += c

print "Longest word:", maxWord
print "Length:", len(maxWord)

A: Given you are not allowed to use string.split() I guess using a regexp to do the exact same thing should be ruled out as well.
I do not want to solve your exercise for you, but here are a few pointers:

*

*Suppose you have a list of numbers and you want to return the highest value. How would you do that? What information do you need to track?

*Now, given your string, how would you build a list of all word lengths? What do you need to keep track of?

*Now, you only have to intertwine both logics so computed word lengths are compared as you go through the string.

A: My proposal ...
import re
def longer_word(sentence):
    word_list = re.findall("\w+", sentence)
    word_list.sort(cmp=lambda a,b: cmp(len(b),len(a)))
    longer_word = word_list[0]
    print "The longer word is '"+longer_word+"' with a size of", len(longer_word), "characters."
longer_word("Hello I like cookies")

A: import re

def longest_word(sen):
  res = re.findall(r"\w+",sen)
  n = max(res,key = lambda x : len(x))
  return n

print(longest_word("Hey!! there, How is it going????"))

Output : there
Here I have used regex for the problem. Variable "res" finds all the words in the string and itself stores them in the list after splitting them.
It uses split() to store all the characters in a list and then regex does the work.
findall keyword is used to find all the desired instances in a string. Here \w+ is defined which tells the compiler to look for all the words without any spaces.
Variable "n" finds the longest word from the given string which is now free of any undesired characters.
Variable "n" uses lambda expressions to  define the key len() here.
Variable "n" finds the longest word from "res" which has removed all the non-string charcters like %,&,! etc.
>>>#import regular expressions for the problem.**
>>>import re

>>>#initialize a sentence
>>>sen = "fun&!! time zone"

>>>res = re.findall(r"\w+",sen)
>>>#res variable finds all the words and then stores them in a list.

>>>res
Out: ['fun','time','zone']

>>>n = max(res)
Out: zone

>>>#Here we get "zone" instead of "time" because here the compiler
>>>#sees "zone" with the higher value than "time".
>>>#The max() function returns the item with the highest value, or the item with the highest value in an iterable.

>>>n = max(res,key = lambda x:len(x))
>>>n
Out: time

Here we get "time" because lambda expression discards "zone" as it sees the key is for len() in a max() function.

A: list1 = ['Happy', 'Independence', 'Day', 'Zeal']
listLen = []
for i in list1:
          listLen.append(len(i))
print list1[listLen.index(max(listLen))]

Output - Independence


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Tunnel vision? Brunel's Thames Tunnel and project narratives
Nicholas Marshall, Mike Bresnen
Looking at historical projects has much to offer our understanding of project management, for both research and practice. However, there are important challenges in how alternative narratives about such projects are reconstructed and related to each other. To explore these challenges, this paper uses the example of the Thames Tunnel project, completed under the direction of Marc Brunel in 1843, and reputed to be the first tunnel to be built under a major river. In telling the story of the project, we focus on five alternative discourses: technico-rational; practice; networks of people, things, and ideas; politics; and society. The common response to such variety is either to attempt to construct an overarching meta-narrative, or to explore the differences as a way of highlighting the localized and contingent nature of knowledge about projects, or adopt some intermediate position somewhere on the spectrum between these two extremes. Instead we seek a different route grounded in a sociology of knowledge that acknowledges simultaneous, provisional, and contested processes of division and stabilization in the ways that epistemic communities constitute knowledge through their own narratives and practices. These have implications for the stories that are told about project management and, crucially, the activities and interests that both shape and are shaped by such narratives.
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The weekend of May 13-14, 2017 was an amazing experience for participants in a songwriting workshop led by singer-songwriter Leomile and songwriter-composer Zweli Mthembu at The Hub.
Some of the exercises included discussions about the participants' favorite artists and songs, and thinking about messages in the lyrics of the songs. Participants also group wrote one song together.
On Saturday the participants' homework was to write lyrics, which they got to work on with Leomile on Sunday. They then recorded a melody to their songs with Zweli and ended with each participant performing their own song, backed by Leomile and Zweli.
We hope to bring them back to facilitate another session soon! Huge thanks for leading such a great workshop, and to Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa for supporting The Hub's weekend workshops.
Leomile is a singer-songwriter whose music ensnares all who encounter it with its blend of curious mysticism, modern sound and storytelling. Leomile's music is infused with lyrics that address important issues of identity and womanhood wrapped in soulful music with a funky-jazz edge. 2016 saw the rise of Leomile with the release of her debut album "Pula-Molomo" and her continued appearances at high profile festivals, she is gaining impetus and continues to hypnotise audiences.
Zweli Mthembu is a songwriter-composer from The Brother Moves On – a self proclaimed art movement and a ever-evolving performance art collective. Their sound has been described as a "tradition-trouncing, trans-Atlantic Afrocentric, futuristic ancient fusion that jack knifes between off world spectral dub-metal, hyper rhythmic rock psychedelia, indie-township and astro-afro-free-jazz." They embrace this classification and the one that says that they are a multi-genre, multimedia aesthetic, art project that incorporates historical, political, and sociological perspectives.


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If you are going to take a fundy approach then every company you research gets a bond and an equity sniff before it gets round filed or added to the port. Crunch the numbers and if "ew too expensive for equity risk" run an Etrade scan and see what the debt is trading for, does that pay you enough for the risk you are taking?
While you are waiting for a few fat pitches you will spin up pretty quickly. You can flip the process and scan the bonds screens and tag a list and if the debt is not attractive switch over and see if the equity is worth a trip.
My theory is that if you do your homework and legwork you are most likely going to buy the right quality priced at the right risk most of the time. It does not really matter if you hold X% of anything as long as your bottom up process told you it was a go. Buy enough of properly priced quality/risk and portfolio diversification takes care of itself. The real risk hedge is that you know what you bought, why you bought it and have bracketed its likely results. You are likely to win more often than you lose. A near 10% compound return over the last 5 years is quality equity work and the types of skills you are currently using cross over pretty well.


Hey all. New to this and new to triathlon. Quick background. August I was 18 stne, now 14 stone, all through doing running and alot of fitness classes. I an do 5k in 23mins, 10k in 54 mins. I run 4 times a week, 2 gym session for strength and 2 early morning fitness classes. Running wise I love. So to get me up to sprint race what will I need to change and what would I need to put. I k ow I need swimming and cycling but where? Can I run and swim in same day? All help please as I really want to do this.
Well done so far, great change to weight and run sounds good.
Swim: do you have a swim background/can you swim? If you can´t swim you´re best trying to find a GOOD TRIATHLON coach who can hopefully help you do the right things rather than learning to swim like a swimmer. You need to try to swim 3 times per week if possible - 30min per time is fine, frequency is important.
Run: cut it down to 2 runs per week - you have made gains in running but you need to focus on swim and bike, and the fitness you get from these will help running anyway.
Stop the 4 gym sessions (unless you have enough time to do these ON TOP of the suggested swim, bike and run sessions) - focus on doing what you need to do.


Figures released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) show an increase in reported hate crimes in Kent during 2017/18 compared to the previous year – but also reveal the south east has one of the highest conviction rates in the country.
The CPS hate crime annual report, published this month, shows that CPS South East, which is responsible for these types of prosecutions in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, had the third highest conviction rate out of 14 CPS areas.
Between April 2017 and March 2018, there were 787 prosecuted hate crimes across the three counties and defendants were convicted in 685 of these cases, an 87% conviction rate.
For racially and religiously aggravated crimes, which make up the majority of hate crimes in the South East with 635 cases dealt with during the year, there was an 88% conviction rate.
The South East also saw improvements in the conviction rates for disability hate crime, up from 75.6% in 2016-17 to 80.5% in 2017-18 and for crimes against older people, which rose from 75.7% in 2016-17 to 84.2% in 2017-18.
The conviction rate for homophobic and transphobic hate crimes decreased, remaining just under the national average at 83.8%.
In Kent during 2016/17 there were 289 prosecuted hate crimes and 247 successful convictions. In 2017/18 there was a rise to 346 hate crimes, with 298 convictions.
There were 243 racially and religiously motivated prosecuted crimes in Kent during 2016/17 with 209 convictions. For 2017/18 this was 289 crimes and 251 convictions.
Homophobic and transphobic crime in Kent saw 30 Kent cases with 26 successful prosecutions in 2016/17. For 2017/18 this rose 10 38 cases and 31 convictions.
Disability hate crimes in Kent saw 16 cases and 12 convictions in 2016/17 and 19 cases with 16 convictions in 2017/18.
Crimes against older people in Kent saw 112 cases and 92 convictions in 2016/17 and 119 cases and 102 convictions in 2017/18.
Defendants responsible for hate crimes motivated 'wholly or partly' by hostility based on perceived religion, race, sexual orientation or disability can also be given stiffer sentences by the court.
These "uplifted" sentences can range from extended prison terms to longer community punishments, depending on the crime. During 2017-18, 69.3% of all hate crime convictions received such an uplift, higher than the national figure of 65.2%.
The Birchington teenager was jailed for carrying out a homophobic attack in Margate.
On Sunday 6 August two women were walking in Grosvenor Hill in Margate when they were approached by a group of people.
One of the group, Tyler Crane, confronted the victims with homophobic abuse before swinging a wooden plank with embedded nails at them.
The group closed in on the victims and assaulted them. Crane was seen to drag one of the victims along the ground by her hair before punching her.
She suffered bruises as a result of the attack.
Crane also stole the other victim's bag which contained a mobile phone, bankcard, glasses and other personal items.
Following an investigation by Kent Police, Crane was identified by local officers as being the main suspect and he was arrested.
At Canterbury Crown Court, Crane, of The Parade, Birchington, admitted the charges of the hate crime-aggravated assault by beating, affray, possession of an offensive weapon, and theft.
Crane was sentenced to 18 months in a youth offenders institute on Friday, November 17, 2017.
Friend went on a rampage racially threatening and assaulting almost a dozen young people in Margate. He was jailed for two years.
The 30-year-old, previously of Ingoldsby Road in Folkestone, racially abused a security guard at a shop in Margate High Street on Tuesday 20 June. The court heard how he then went on a rampage shouting racial abuse at a number of people, including pupils from Hartsdown Academy, and physically assaulting some of them in All Saints Avenue that same day. He is reported to have slapped a 12-year-old boy with autism and pushed a 15-year-old into a bush.
He then visited the address of a previous partner and assaulted her along with a neighbour before being arrested by Kent Police officers. Once in custody Friend also assaulted a male police officer.
He pleaded guilty to affray, two counts of common assault, racially aggravated public order and assault on an officer and was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday 27 September, 2017.
One of his victims was 14-year-old Amira Newton. The teenager filmed Friend for police to use as evidence, having been advised to do so by officers after a previous racial abuse incident.
Her shocked mum Ayaan Bulale took the video straight to police.
Friends' sentence consisted of 22 months for affray and two months for breach of a suspended sentence.
There were concurrent sentences for three assault charges. No extra penalty was given for the racially aggravated public order charge.
Chris Solly, was convicted and sentenced at Margate Magistrates' Court on September 3.
Gareth Morgan, from the CPS, said: " We understand victims of hate crime are often the most fearful of coming forward and can suffer the abuse they are experiencing in silence for months and sometimes years, believing that there is nothing that can be done about it.


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Not every tech purchase can be a more-than-satisfactory home run and many of us will have gadgets and gizmos stashed away in cupboards and pockets that we don't like to own up to, whether that's because of company reputation, device function or some other reason.
We're always bringing you a steady supply of top tech round-ups and so to provide balance here's a list of kit that's less than stellar. If you happen to have one of these gadgets in your possession it might be best just to quietly sell it on eBay... under a fake name, of course.
Try as it might, Microsoft just hasn't been able to turn the fortunes of Windows Phone around - and it doesn't look like Windows 10 Mobile is going to move the needle on that any time soon. In many ways it's a shame, because the Lumia line is for the most part well-built and reliable, and the handsets usually bring fantastic cameras to the party too.
The big downside has always been the app selection, and unless you're particularly invested in Windows software (Office, Outlook and so on) then iOS and Android are much more appealing. Can you remember the last time someone took out their brand new Windows Phone handset to show off to present company? No, nor can we.
It's not that Glass is a bad product per se, but the now-discontinued (and soon to be re-launched) augmented reality headset is embarrassing for its owners for a number of reasons: it costs too much, it makes you look smug and superior, and it tends to give off the impression that you're constantly spying on everyone around you.
If that wasn't bad enough, it started giving some people headaches too. Nowadays walking down the road wearing Google Glass is likely to attract a mugging rather than envious looks - but your assailants won't bother taking the bounty with them afterwards. Let's hope Google's next attempt at a next-generation wearable fares a lot better than this one did.
There's just no way to make these ridiculous dongles look cool - answering a call with a device shoved in your ear may be convenient and safe (especially while driving) but it makes you look like you've just arrived from the 1980s. A pair of sensible-looking headphones with a microphone attached in the cord is a much better (and more fashionable) proposition.
Still, these gadgets continue to exist, and not just among the employees of taxi firms. Don't be that guy (or gal) walking through the train station looking as though you're talking to yourself: we know you're on the line to Domino's rather than your accountant. Another cringe-worthy bit of kit that we suspect most users would be wary of owning up to buying.
It can certainly get you from point A to point B but you're in danger of getting laughed off the street if you try and tootle around town with a Segway, great engineering and build quality notwithstanding. The fact that you really should be wearing a helmet while you're driving one doesn't really add to the appeal either, even if it does keep you safe.
We've never seen anyone boasting about owning a Segway down at the local pub and we suspect that we never will - these transport gadgets are more suitable for mall supervisors and police officers rather than the general public. Still, if you are a current Segway owner, we have to admire your bravado in going out and buying one in the first place.
Still hanging on to those worn-out Miss Marple videos? Nothing says stuck in the past like a VHS player, and if you've not already digitised your home movie collection then it should go straight to the top of your to do list. You don't see many of these around any more, probably because they've been hidden under stairs and at the back of wardrobes.
We have to give VHS players their dues though: they were cutting edge tech for their time, fought off the challenge of Sony Betamax, and changed television viewing habits in the home for good. In an age of Netflix and iTunes, however, VHS' time has come and gone - get rid of your old player and put something far more useful and modern in its place.
There weren't many people who bought into BlackBerry's vision of tablet computing, but they are out there - in fact at this stage buying any tablet that isn't an iPad is a somewhat shameful decision. Few tablets have sunk quite as swiftly as the PlayBook did, however, and if you picked one up in the past we can't imagine why you're still hanging on to it.
If we were being really harsh we could include BlackBerry phones as well, but we think the company's well-built handsets are going to benefit from the recent switch to Android. The PlayBook is definitely beyond salvation though, and if there are some of these tablets still knocking around they're unlikely to be proudly on display in the living room.


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Home Sections Health and Medicine Filipino Nurse to Appear in Court July 1
Filipino Nurse to Appear in Court July 1
Sections	- Health and Medicine
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA
(© 2013 Fil Am Extra Exchange)
C HICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – A Filipino nurse accused of raping a minor and infecting her with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is due to appear for status hearing before the Superior Court of New Jersey in Hackensack on July 1.
Roland L. Densen, 39, single, a registered nurse residing at Bergenfield, New Jersey, will be appearing before Superior Court Judge James J. Guida, according to Assistant Prosecutor Demetra A. Maurice, Assistant Chief of the Special Victims Unit of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office in Hackensack.
Densen was employed as a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, prior to his arrest.
Densen, who is detained at the Bergen County Jail in lieu of a $75,000 full bond, has been indicted of first count, second degree, sexual penetration; second count, second degree, sexual assault, sexual penetration; third count, fourth degree, intentional masturbating and/or touching his own sexual organ in front of the minor "for the purpose of degrading or humiliating the victim or to sexually arouse or gratify" himself; fourth count, third degree, for engaging in sexual conduct, which would impair or debauch the morals of a child under 16 years old; fifth count, third degree, "knowingly infecting the child with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) or any other related virus as probably causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome commit the act of sexual penetration without the minor's informed consent; and sixth count, third degree, causing harm to a child under 16, as "abused or neglected child."
Densen was also ordered not to contact the victim, a 14-year-old girl, by phone, mail, personal or other means.
PLEADED NOT GUILTY WHEN ARRAIGNED
When Densen was arraigned on May 22, 2012, he pleaded not guilty.
Densen was arrested at Paramus, New Jersey, on May 18, 2012, two months after the victim narrated the sexual assault to her mother, who immediately contacted the Bergenfield police under Chief Michael Monaghan and the Bergen County Prosecutors Special Victim's Unit under Steven Cucciniello.
According to court records, Densen allegedly sexually assaulted the girl identified only as K.D. between March 1, 2012, and March 31, 2012, while K.D. "was at least 13 years old but less than 16 years old while defendant Densen was four years older than K.D." He was accused of engaging in oral and anal sex with K.D. in violation of New Jersey law as a second-degree crime, impairing and debauching the morals of a 14 year-old child.
Densen was initially charged with one count of sexual assault, second degree crime; one count of endangering the welfare of a child, third degree; and one count of diseased person committing an act of sexual penetration, third degree crime.
A press release provided this reporter by Executive Assistant Prosecutor Frank Puccio quoted Prosecutor John L. Molinelli as saying that the charges against Densen "are merely accusations and that the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." This reporter obtained records of this case thru a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Densen's defense lawyer, Marc Sapin, refused to comment when reached by phone by this reporter. (lariosa_jos@sbcglobal.net)
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China-owned TikTok app might be a national security threat
Edward G. | January 22, 2020
The US government suspects TikTok is a potential national security threat, according to Reuters. A couple of US senators are concerned TikTok might be exercising heavy censorship and collecting users' data.
What is TikTok?
TikTok is a social platform dedicated to sharing short lip-sync or comedy clips. The majority of their users are young people – 66% of them are under the age of 30. TikTok's user base has been growing rapidly: over the past year, people downloaded it more than 750 million times. To understand how big of a deal that is, consider people downloaded Facebook 715 million times. Or, that Instagram had only 450 million downloads. Are these people uploading fun, innocent clips are actually putting their data into risk?
Data security issues with TikTok
There a few potential security issues with the TikTok application. First of all, TikTok is a former Musical.ly app – ByteDance, a China-based company bought it in 2018. Yet, the deal was never approved by a dedicated US authority. TikTok has never explicitly asked them for clearance.
As well, TikTok requests access to your sensitive data. According to their policies, it stores your location, IP address, and information about your device. TikTok may share this information with their business partners or advertisers. Although this app is owned by a company based in Beijing, it isn't available in China. ByteDance claims data from American users is stored in the US and Singapore as a backup.
Finally, The Guardian investigated whether TikTok is censoring content that doesn't please the Communist Party of China. One of the proof points was a recent makeup tutorial. It starts as any other beauty clip would – a girl with an eyelash curler in her hand, giving some beauty tips. A few seconds later, Feroza Aziz says to pick up your phone and search up what's happening in China right now. She then briefly explains how Muslim Uyghurs are being abused by Chinese authorities. They're being sent to concentration camps, families are getting separated, people are kidnapped, raped, murdered, forced to eat pork. Although the video wasn't removed, TikTok suspended Feroza's account from posting.
TikTok's response
Even if TikTok stores US citizens' data in US-based servers, the fact stands still: the app is owned by a China-based company. And, it must comply with China's law on handing out user's browsing information to the government. TikTok stated they have "no higher priority than earning the trust of users and regulators in the U.S". They confirm users' data isn't managed according to China's regulations: a dedicated team based in California reviews content under U.S. policies.
TikTok also denies censoring any anti-Communist China content. They say China's government has never requested to remove any politically sensitive content. Even if they would ask it, TikTok would not oblige.
Currently, the US government is investigating the data practices of TikTok. This could mean TikTok will have to sell its US business to a non-Chinese company. At the same time, TikTok hired a team to create moderation guidelines, so they don't get accused of censorship.


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namespace {

const char *kLoadingFaieldLabelName = "loadingFailedText";

enum {
    INDEX_LOADING_VIEW = 0,
    INDEX_LOADING_FAILED_VIEW,
    INDEX_LOGOUT_VIEW,
    INDEX_REPOS_VIEW
};

} // namespace

ReposTab::ReposTab(QWidget *parent)
    : TabView(parent)
{
    createRepoTree();
    createLoadingView();
    createLoadingFailedView();

    //createLogoutView
    logout_view_ = new LogoutView;
    static_cast<LogoutView*>(logout_view_)->setQssStyleForTab();

    filter_text_ = new QLineEdit;
    filter_text_->setPlaceholderText(tr("Search libraries..."));
    filter_text_->setObjectName("repoNameFilter");
    // This property was introduced in Qt 5.2.
#if (QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(5, 2, 0))
    filter_text_->setClearButtonEnabled(true);
#endif
#ifdef Q_OS_MAC
    filter_text_->setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect, 0);
#endif
    connect(filter_text_, SIGNAL(textChanged(const QString&)),
            this, SLOT(onFilterTextChanged(const QString&)));
    QVBoxLayout *vlayout = (QVBoxLayout *)layout();
    vlayout->insertWidget(0, filter_text_);

    mStack->insertWidget(INDEX_LOADING_VIEW, loading_view_);
    mStack->insertWidget(INDEX_LOADING_FAILED_VIEW, loading_failed_view_);
    mStack->insertWidget(INDEX_LOGOUT_VIEW, logout_view_);
    mStack->insertWidget(INDEX_REPOS_VIEW, repos_tree_);

    RepoService *svc = RepoService::instance();

    connect(svc, SIGNAL(refreshSuccess(const std::vector<ServerRepo>&)),
            this, SLOT(refreshRepos(const std::vector<ServerRepo>&)));
    connect(svc, SIGNAL(refreshFailed(const ApiError&)),
            this, SLOT(refreshReposFailed(const ApiError&)));

    refresh();
}

void ReposTab::createRepoTree()
{
    repos_tree_ = new RepoTreeView(this);
    repos_model_ = new RepoTreeModel(this);
    repos_model_->setTreeView(repos_tree_);

    filter_model_ = new RepoFilterProxyModel(this);
    filter_model_->setSourceModel(repos_model_);
    filter_model_->setDynamicSortFilter(true);
    repos_tree_->setModel(filter_model_);
    repos_tree_->setItemDelegate(new RepoItemDelegate(repos_tree_));
}

void ReposTab::createLoadingView()
{
    loading_view_ = new LoadingView;
    static_cast<LoadingView*>(loading_view_)->setQssStyleForTab();
}

void ReposTab::createLoadingFailedView()
{
    loading_failed_view_ = new QWidget(this);

    QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout;
    loading_failed_view_->setLayout(layout);

    QLabel *label = new QLabel;
    label->setObjectName(kLoadingFaieldLabelName);
    QString link = QString("%1").arg(tr("retry"));
    QString label_text = tr("Failed to get libraries information
"
                            "Please %1").arg(link);
    label->setText(label_text);
    label->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);

    connect(label, SIGNAL(linkActivated(const QString&)),
            this, SLOT(refresh()));

    layout->addWidget(label);
}

void ReposTab::refreshRepos(const std::vector<ServerRepo>& repos)
{
    repos_model_->setRepos(repos);
    onFilterTextChanged(filter_text_->text());
    filter_text_->setVisible(true);
    mStack->setCurrentIndex(INDEX_REPOS_VIEW);
}

void ReposTab::refreshReposFailed(const ApiError& error)
{
    qDebug("failed to refresh repos");

    if (mStack->currentIndex() == INDEX_LOADING_VIEW) {
        mStack->setCurrentIndex(INDEX_LOADING_FAILED_VIEW);
    }
}

std::vector<QAction*> ReposTab::getToolBarActions()
{
    return repos_tree_->getToolBarActions();
}

void ReposTab::showLoadingView()
{
    filter_text_->setVisible(false);
    mStack->setCurrentIndex(INDEX_LOADING_VIEW);
}

void ReposTab::refresh()
{
    if (!seafApplet->accountManager()->hasAccount() ||
        !seafApplet->accountManager()->accounts().front().isValid()) {
        mStack->setCurrentIndex(INDEX_LOGOUT_VIEW);
        return;
    }
    filter_text_->clear();
    showLoadingView();
    RepoService::instance()->refresh(true);
}

void ReposTab::startRefresh()
{
    RepoService::instance()->start();
    RepoService::instance()->refresh(true);
}

void ReposTab::stopRefresh()
{
    RepoService::instance()->stop();
}

void ReposTab::onFilterTextChanged(const QString& text)
{
    repos_model_->onFilterTextChanged(text);
    filter_model_->setFilterText(text.trimmed());
    filter_model_->sort(0);
    if (text.isEmpty()) {
        repos_tree_->restoreExpandedCategries();
    } else {
        repos_tree_->expandAll();
    }
}


text:
Special ID is a 2013 Chinese action film directed by Clarence Fok and starring Donnie Yen.

Plot
Yen takes on the role of Dragon Chan, a Hong Kong undercover police officer deep within the ranks of one of China's most ruthless underworld gangs. The leader of the gang, Hung (Collin Chou), has made it his priority to weed out the government infiltrators in his midst. Struggling to keep his family together and his identity concealed, Chan is torn between two worlds.

Upping the stakes, as Chan's undercover comrades are being dealt with, one by one, Chan fears his days are numbered. Now, he must risk everything to take down the organization and reclaim the life he lost when he took on this perilous assignment. As the action mounts, Chan must do everything he can to protect the SPECIAL IDENTITY he wishes he never had before it's too late.

Cast
Donnie Yen as Dragon Chan
Jing Tian as Fang Jing
Andy On as Sunny
Zhang Hanyu as Blade
Ronald Cheng as Captain Cheung
Collin Chou as Hung
Paw Hee-ching as Sister Amy, Chan's mother
Yang Zhigang as Captain Lei Peng
Rain Lau as Mary
Ken Lo as Brother Bao
Frankie Ng as Mahjong player
Qi Daji
Terence Yin as Sunny's assistant
Evergreen Mak Cheung-ching as Brother Kun

Critical response
At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 46, based on 6 reviews indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Andrew Chan of the Film Critics Circle of Australia writes, "The good news is that "Special ID" remains largely entertaining for most of the duration, but in many ways it remains a huge pile of mess."

Accolades

References

External links

2013 films
Chinese crime action films
2013 crime action films
Mixed martial arts films
Police detective films
Triad films
2010s Cantonese-language films
Films directed by Clarence Fok
Films set in Hong Kong
Films shot in Hong Kong
2010s Mandarin-language films
2010s Hong Kong films


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Kelley, Edgar Stillman
American composer of great talent and brilliancy; was born at Sparta, Wisconsin. His mother, a well trained musician, began his piano education when he was eight years old, and continued to teach him until he was seventeen. He gave up work at college on account of ill health, and in 1874 went to Chicago to study counterpoint and harmony under Clarence Eddy, and piano under Ledochowski. After two years in Chicago he went to Stuttgart, where he studied composition and orchestration with Max Seiffritz, organ with Finck, and piano with Kruger and Speidel. In 1880 he returned to America and went to San Francisco, where he soon became known as one of the leading musicians and musical critics of California. Here he wrote his first large composition, the music to Macbeth, a piece full of originality and intensely interesting as descriptive music, but too daring and unconventional ever to become popular. His next work was a comic opera, which, however, was not staged. It was followed by the capital music for the comic opera, Puritania, brought out in Boston in 1892, where it ran for over a year, during a part of which time Mr. Kelley himself conducted. This was followed by Gulliver in Lilliput, a most graceful and charming symphony. After this he wrote the Chinese suite, Aladdin, unique because of the employment in it of the Chinese scale of five tones and Chinese idea of harmony. Mr. Kelley's conscientiousness and musical thoroughness may be seen by the fact that in connection with this composition he studied Chinese music and harmony from the Chinese themselves. Mr. Kelley's thoroughness is shown not only in Aladdin, but also in music for an adaptation of Prometheus Bound by George Parsons Lathrop. For this composition he carefully studied the theory of Greek music. Another important piece of work is his arrangement of music for the stage production of General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur. In this, too, there are evidences of careful study, and in several places the use of Greek scales and progressions and even of Arabic scales has lent it an interest and appropriateness not to be denied. The song of Iras is particularly beautiful and has an unusually fine accompaniment. Among Mr. Kelley's smaller works, two of the best are settings of Foe's poems, Eldorado and Israfel. Another wellknown one is the quaint Lady Picking Mulberries. His setting of Walt Whitman's beautiful poem, O, Captain, My Captain, is well worthy the words, and is becoming known as a patriotic song. Beside his work as a composer, Mr. Kelley has worked at journalism and proved himself an able and conscientious critic, and has entered the lecture field in University Extension work. At present he is professor of composition in the New York College of Music.
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text:
#include <utils/headers.h>
#include "pbft.h"
#include "consensus_msg.h"

namespace bubi {
	ConsensusMsg::ConsensusMsg(const protocol::PbftEnv &pbft_env) :pbft_env_(pbft_env), block_seq_(-1) {
		type_ = "pbft";
		seq_ = Pbft::GetSeq(pbft_env_);
		block_seq_ = Pbft::GetBlockSeq(pbft_env_);
		values_ = Pbft::GetValue(pbft_env_);
		node_address_ = Pbft::GetNodeAddress(pbft_env_);
		hash_ = utils::Sha256::Crypto(pbft_env_.SerializeAsString());
	};

	ConsensusMsg::~ConsensusMsg() {}

	bool ConsensusMsg::operator < (const ConsensusMsg &msg) const {
		return memcmp(hash_.c_str(), msg.hash_.c_str(), hash_.size()) < 0;
	}
	bool ConsensusMsg::operator == (const ConsensusMsg &value_frm) const {
		return type_ == "pbft" &&
			type_ == value_frm.type_ &&
			hash_ == value_frm.hash_;
	}

	int64_t ConsensusMsg::GetSeq() const {
		return seq_;
	}

	int64_t ConsensusMsg::GetBlockSeq() const {
		return block_seq_;
	}

	std::vector<protocol::Value> ConsensusMsg::GetValues() const {
		return values_;
	}

	PeerMessagePointer ConsensusMsg::ComposeNewPeerMessage() const {
		if (type_ == "pbft") {
			PeerMessagePointer peer_msg = PeerMessage::NewPbft();
			((protocol::PbftEnv *)peer_msg->data_)->CopyFrom(pbft_env_);
			peer_msg->hash_ = utils::Sha256::Crypto(peer_msg->GetString());
			return peer_msg;
		}

		return NULL;
	}

	const char *ConsensusMsg::GetNodeAddress() const {
		return node_address_.c_str();
	}

	std::string ConsensusMsg::GetType() const {
		return type_;
	}

	protocol::PbftEnv ConsensusMsg::GetPbft() const {
		return pbft_env_;
	}
}