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This is how holiday rental owners described Egio
ideal stop opposite to the Korinthian bay for those of you who wish to
explore the wider region of Achaia. Gero - Fotis residence and the Country house, located to the
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show more Lakka is welcoming you to offer you some true moments of
calmness in its rooms, all decorated with old-style items and furniture
taking you years back. Enjoy the warm hospitality of Vassiliki.
Local Interest
The mountain village Lakka is built at an elevation of 500 meters and at a
distance of 9 km from Egio, between mountain and sea. There you may also
find a traditional coffee shop and a tavern.
The wonderful beaches of Akoli and Selianitika are 9 km away. Starting from
the village we suggest you take some nice walking tours towards the
The wetland of Aliki, at a distance of 10 km, is considered as a shelter for
more than 200 rare species of birds. Do not miss to visit Egio and its two
museums, the Archeological and Folklore museum.
At a distance of about 15 km you will find Diakofto, a village where from
departs the train to Kalavrita. The train passes through some picturesque
scenes, from the canyon of Vouraikos and the journey lasts for about 1 hour.
Half way you will find the Monastery of 'Megalo Spileo' which is worth
Next to Kastria, 16 km away from Kalavrita, you mat visit the Cave of Limnon
(guided tour).
During winter time, the lovers of ski will make a stop to the ski center of
Kalavrita and the slopes of Chelmos to practice their favorite sport (60km).
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Woman who claimed abduction allegedly changes story
The Attorney General's office and the Criminal Investigation Division with the Department of Public Safety are considering filing criminal charges against a 21-year-old female for making false statements to police. The woman, who went missing for more than six days, told police that she had been kidnapped and drugged.
Commander of the CID, Captain Lavata'i Ta'ase Sagapolutele told Samoa News that an around the clock investigation was launched after police received the missing persons report on May 8, five days after she had disappeared. When the girl returned to her family on May 9, the CID Captain said she claimed that a man held her captive, whom she alleged had tied her hands while she was blindfolded and performed sexual acts upon her.
He added that the missing persons report filed with police by the family said the girl went to the movies on May 3, 2012 and did not return home. However, five days later, on the same day the missing person's report was filed, the girl's mother received a call from her daughter claiming she had been abducted and the next day the daughter turned up at home.
The CID Commander said, "The CID conducted a thorough investigation into the allegations and the investigation is now complete." He said while the girl was in the hospital detectives interviewed her and visited every possible site the officers believed could be where the incident started, however everything "hit a brick wall."
Police officers were keen on getting the suspect after the girl claimed she was blindfolded when she was taken into the vehicle and later dropped off near her residence.
He added that after going through the evidence multiple times, the officers then started to suspect the girl's story was false.
"All the evidence that was gathered led to a non substantial claim," said the CID Commander.
"We took every step we could with this investigation and we went back and forth to determine if we had missed any evidence. However, after going back and forth with this case, we approached the complaining witness again."
The CID commander said that the officers questioned her again, and it is alleged that she told them that she had made the story up because she was scared of her family, after being gone five days. She allegedly told the officers she had been staying at a friend's house in the eastern district.
Captain Sagapolutele said it's illegal to file a false police report or falsely report an incident that warrants a police response.
"This is a particularly heinous crime if someone reports a false complaint, because police officers also put their life at risk when responding to calls or fulfilling their duties."
"Filing a false report with police is also a diversion technique to cover up your own crime," Sagapolutele said.
However police officers are responsible for checking out the validity of each complaint and prosecuting those behind it.
Sagapolutele explained that if an officer is dealing with a false accusation, that's one less cop patrolling for real criminal activity.
He also said that when the alleged victim files a complaint with police, the suspect's name might appear in a police report, which can be especially damaging if the person is accused of a sex crime.
He added that the initial complaint could be reported in the media with no guarantee that readers will see the next report, noting that the alleged suspect had been falsely accused, or that the suspect's accuser was subsequently charged.
These are the consequences anyone who files a false complaint has to know, he said.
Deputy Attorney General Mitzie Jessop Folau told Samoa News they are looking into this case, however it is a delicate situation. Efforts to obtain a statement from the girl in question were unsuccessful as of press time.

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Charges in slaying of Chicago teen
Two men were charged with murder Monday in the death of a 15-year-old Chicago honor student who was shot just days after returning from Washington, where she performed during President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities.
The two young men, ages 18 and 20, were described by police as "persons of interest" when they were taken into custody early Sunday, a day after first lady Michelle Obama and other dignitaries attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton.
Chicago police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said late Monday that both young men are now charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm. Their names haven't been released.
Pendleton, a popular high school majorette, was with a group of friends who took cover during a rainstorm under a canopy in a park about a mile from the Obama home on the city's South Side. Police said a man hopped a fence, ran toward them and opened fire with a handgun.
Pendleton was struck in the back and died later that day. Two others were injured.
Police have said none of the people in Pendleton's group were affiliated with gangs but that the gunman apparently mistook one for a member of a rival gang that had encroached on his gang's turf.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade.
But it was her background, her ties to the president's inauguration and the location of the park that thrust her death into the national headlines and put Chicago at the center of a national debate over gun control.
Not only did the first lady attend the teen's funeral, but the girl's parents were set to sit with Michelle Obama during the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Obama is scheduled to return to Chicago three days later to discuss gun violence.


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Extended Atlas for advanced users: Climate zone results at different scales Extended Atlas for advanced users: Climate zone results at different scales
Aggregations to the climate zone level at national, continental and global scale
To derive long-term yield indicators at climate zone level (Y climate zone), results at weather station level are aggregated to the climate zone level by calculating their area weighted average:
where Y station i is the long-term yield indicator at weather station level of station i, Area station buffer zone i
the harvested area in the buffer zone around weather station i and w the number of weather stations located within the climate zone.
A specific climate zone with the unique characteristics may be situated in different countries and in different continents. Consequently, climate zones can cross borders of neighbouring countries or may feature in different continents. This implies different options for aggregation:
- Consider climate zones per country: aggregate results from all weather stations that are located within a specific climate zone and within a country. This will result in climate zone results at a national scale.
- Consider climate zones per continent: aggregate results from all weather stations that are located within a specific climate zone and within a continent. This implies that climate zones that occur in multiple countries of a continent will have the same value (i.e. Yp, Yw, Ya and Yg).
- Aggregate all existing weather stations that are located within a specific climate zone, to obtain climate zone results at the global scale. So, each climate zone will have one value that reflects the global average of Yp, Yw, Ya and Yg.
In the extended Global Yield Gap Atlas for advanced users these three scales for cllimate zone results are all included. The default Global Yield Gap Atlas provides results for climate zones at national scale.
If you click on a climate zone, you will see its value and a table with all contributing weather stations and their values. For the climate zone results at national scale, the list consists of weather stations from one country. For the climate zone results at continental scale, the list shows all contributing weather stations from one continent. And finally for the climate zone results at global scale, the table provides a worldwide overview of all contributing weather stations.
Note that a climate zone in a certain country only gets coloured if this climate zone holds a weather station that has been used to simulate yield potentials for the crop of interest.
Go to the Atlas for advanced users
This year the mapviewer will be updated.
For now please enable Flash in your browser.
More indicators for rainfed crops More indicators for rainfed crops
Besides different climate zone aggregation levels the extended version for advanced users provides extra indicators for rainfed crops:
- Potential yield and related indicators:
- Potential yield (Yp)
- Yield gap based on potential yield (Yp - Ya)
- Relative yield ( Ya / Yp x 100% )
- Relative yield gap ( (1 - Ya / Yp) x 100% )
- the relative Water Productivity (Actual WP/Potential WP)


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BlackRock, manager of the iShares ETFs, released five ETFs that select stocks by using quantitative screens.
The first group of funds, the iShares Enhanced ETFs, uses BlackRock's proprietary research rather than tracking an index.
The iShares Enhanced US Large Cap ETF (IELG) and the iShares Enhanced US Small-Cap ETF (IESM) use multiple factors such as quality, value and market size to determine what stocks will be included within the portfolio.
According to BlackRock, its "Enhanced ETFs" were designed in partnership with registered investment advisors (RIAs) and institutional investors, specifically public pensions, to provide a broader range of solutions to help manage equity exposures and risk.
Factors are a set of investment characteristics that explain the risk and return behavior of an asset or stock. Factor investing offers an alternative approach to traditional market-capitalization investing by aiming to cut market volatility.
The other three funds launched are the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM), iShares MSCI USA Size Factor ETF (SIZE) and the iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE). The iShares MSCI Factor ETFs were designed at the request of institutional investors, such as Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS), who want exposure to a specific individual factor—value, size or momentum—so they can overweight or hedge a single factor that has historically explained a significant part of companies' return and risk over the long-term.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. In Two Volumes (Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1847). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1874,
A mid-19th century 2 volume collection of Milton's most significant prose works.
The text is in the public domain.
This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit.


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Billed as a way to bring back the romance of the darkroom in the smartphone era, Enfojer is an indiegogo project which promises to make your smartphone into an enlarger to create real prints. Part app and part hardware, Enfojer enlarges the image displayed on a smartphone's LCD, projecting it onto real photo paper. The paper is then processed as usual in traditional black and white chemistry. The resulting black and white prints are expected to last around 70 years when processed properly.
Though iPhones are shown above, the plan includes apps and cell phone templates for several popular Android and Windows Phone 8 models as well.
With Enfojer, users can print up to 20x20cm prints (7.8×7.8 inches). The company plans to offer Ilford photo paper, but users will have to provide their own chemistry, due to complications of shipping chemicals internationally.
Because the source image displayed on an LCD is of a comparatively low resolution, Enfojer's lens is a 'polycarbonate toy camera style meniscus lens,' according to the FAQ, which 'blurs the image just right so you don't see the pixels on your print.' Enfojer can also print negatives, again using the smartphone's LCD as the light source. Later posts mention their intention to include an M39 lens mount due to popular demand. This will allow use of higher-quality enlarger lenses, which would have to be purchased separately.
As an indiegogo project, Enfojer is funded by contributions, with sponsorship levels ranging from $10 up to $450. Those contributing $200 get just the enlarger, while those funding at the $250 level get a nearly full kit, including enlarger, trays, the safelight, and 100 sheets of Ilford black and white photo paper. If fully funded, the product is expected to ship in February 2014; a note on the site says the project will still receive funding even if it does not reach its goal.
Enfojer was created by FOJO, a Croatian team of four: Vanda Voloder, Ilija Stjepic, Daniel Bakotic and Leo Gavranic. Having raised just under $12,000 of their $100,000 goal, they have less than a month to go.
Source: ENFOJER indiegogo site
Source Article from http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5297127597/enfojer-project-aims-to-create-smartphone-enlarger-for-b-w-prints


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News from the world of Maths
May 8, 2007
Economists reveal that your neighbours significantly impact on your well-being.
April 24, 2007
How to win with quantum uncertainty
April 16, 2007
Why do the rich and popular get richer and more popular?
April 10, 2007
We may not have found life out there, but there is a hexagon on Saturn.
April 2, 2007
This year's prize goes to Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan


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Home & Family Finance
Resource Center
Comparing your earnings against your spending, also known as a debt-to-income ratio, is one of the most popular approaches for evaluating if you have too much debt.
For years, lenders have looked at debt-to-income ratios to get a better grasp on a persons current financial picture to determine credit-worthiness.
Use this calculator to calculate your debt-to-income ratio.
Now that you have calculated your debt-to-income ratio, understanding what it means to you is the next step.
If you're concerned about your credit management, ask someone at your credit union for guidance or for referral to a credit counseling agency.
Provision of this calculator is not an offer of credit. Its use in no way guarantees that credit will be granted. This calculator is solely for informational purposes and provides reasonably accurate estimates; the calculations are not intended to be relied upon as actual loan computations.


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Mr. Sleepless: "Hi, I take Compazine for nausea, and wanted to know if it's safe to take with my epilepsy?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Haven't you taken it as needed for several years? It's never caused you to have a seizure before, has it?"
Mr. Sleepless: "No, never had a problem before, and I've been using it here and there since the mid-90's"
Dr. Grumpy: "Then it shouldn't be a problem."
Mr. Sleepless: "Oh good. Sorry to bother you, but I couldn't sleep, so I started googling all my medicines, and saw that Compazine could do this."


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What Does It Mean to Be a First-Time Home Buyer?
Being a first-time home buyer can be an exciting but anxious time. A home mortgage is the largest contract most of us will ever sign. Add to that the unfamiliar terminology and the endless stacks of legal documents, and it's not surprising that many people are confused by the whole process. Buying a home doesn't need to be a headache, educating and preparing yourself about buying your first home is the best way to calm those nerves, and to do that, you don't have to look any further!
A first-time home buyer is an individual who meets any of the following criteria:
- An individual who has hasn't owned a home in the last 3 years.
- A single parent who has only owned with a former spouse while married.
- An individual who has only owned a property that was not in compliance with state, local or model building codes and which cannot be brought into compliance for less than the cost of constructing a permanent structure.
Visit our Home Buyer Resource Center for more information on buying your first home, available down payment assistance programs and more! Click Here


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?uestlove's special guest at Bonnaroo…D'Angelo (and damn, Jesse Johnson, Pino Palladino…it's not like this was just any ol' backing band either).
Questlove – drums
Kirk Douglas – guitar
James Poyser – keys
Frank Knuckles – percussion
Pino Palladino – bass
Eric Leeds – saxophone
Jesse Johnson – guitar
Kendra Foster – vocals
D'Angelo – vocals, guitar, keys
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If you want to get away from it all, this scenic holiday region in northern Germany with its quaint villages, wide open meadows, idyllic lakes and pretty walking trails is for you.
The northernmost nature park in Schleswig-Holstein is the perfect place to enjoy a slower pace of life. Take the time to savour the beauty of the landscape, go walking, cycling or sailing and leave your everyday cares behind.
Towns, countryside and river scenery
To discover the beauty of the Schlei region on foot, you need nothing more than some sturdy shoes and a rucksack. Passing through fields, woods and meadows, you'll come across idyllically situated Schlei villages and attractions such as Haithabu Viking Museum with its large open-air exhibition. Be sure to always allow a little extra time: you might like to relax a while on a beautiful natural beach or in a secluded swimming bay. If you want to embark on a longer walking tour, the 109km North Sea-Baltic Trail is close by.
Get pedalling
If cycling is more your thing, the Schlei Estuary Nature Park offers a number of cycle paths. Among the most popular are the Baltic Coast Cycle Route, which runs through the park, and the 15 themed tours with imaginative names such as the Herring Trail and Viking Trail.
By the water
In the town of Kappeln the cutters and sailing boats create a wonderful maritime atmosphere. But if you fancy taking to the water yourself, you can see the nature park from a new perspective in a canoe, kayak, sailing boat or pleasure cruiser.
Schlei Estuary Nature Park
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Far West Songs
Clementine (Traditional)
From " A Song-book of Folk and Pop Music"
by Mario Papa & Giuliano Iantorno, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1977
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt (1) a minor, forty-niner (2)
And his daughter Clementine.
Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling Clementine!
You are lost and gone for ever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.
Chorus: Oh mv darling, etc.
Drove she duklings to the water
Every morning, just at nine;
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell finto the foaming brine.
Chorus: Oh my darling, etc.
Saw her lips above the water
Blowing bubbles mighty fine
But alas! I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.
Chorus: Oh rny darling, etc.
In a dream she still does haunt me
Robed in garments, soaked in brine;
Though in life I used to hug her,
Now she's dead I'll draw the line.
Chorus: Oh my darling, etc.
How I missed her, how I missed her,
How I missed my Clementine!
But I kissed her little sister
And forgot my Clementine.
Chorus: Oh my darling, etc.
1. Dwelt: lived.
2. Forty-niner: Fortyniners were the men who went to west in search of fortune during the gold rush of 1849. When gold was found out in California, thousands of people rushed there. They travelled by boat, on foot, on horseback, to reach the gold fields where they hoped to make their fortunes. Towns were built overnight and San Francisco grew from a small town to a city of 25,000 in a year.
Later, other gold fields were found out in Colorado as well as in the Klondike district of the Yukon. Not ali the people became rich. Many died along the way from cold, hunger, or disease, but some probably made as much as 5,000 dollars in three days.
San Francisco
The city of San Francisco lies on a peninsula between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. It is linked to Marin County to the North, through the famous Golden Gate Bridge, and to Oakland, one of the largest cities- in California, through the San Francisco¬ Oakland Bay Bridge, which is more than eight miles long. In 1848, when the Gold Rush started, San Francisco was a little village with no more than 800 residents. But, since then, many events such as the Gold Rush, the Opening of Panama Canal in 1914 and World War Il have contributed to make of this city a place with about 1,000,000 residents. During the years people from different countries have settled in San Francisco, and the city is now really cosmopolitan. San Fran¬cisco has a unique charm of her own, and her two famous bridges as well as the charac¬teristic trams, or cable cars, as they are usually called there, add certainly a lot to this charm. Especially the trams, which are convenient and practical and clang loudly as they transport thousands of passengers daily up and down the steep ascents and dis¬cents of this city of hills.


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In Binary Search Trees I, and II, we considered methods for efficient searching of an ordered collection by using key comparisons. While these methods were indeed very fast, they were limited to O(log N) performance due to the comparison tree inherent in the data structure. Binary search trees are also somewhat complicated, especially when the chance of encountering a degenerate tree is minimized, or removed entirely.
An alternative method for searching uses they key itself an an address into the data structure, thus breaking the O(log N) barrier and allowing searches to be performed with an expected time complexity of O(1), which is as good as it gets when it comes to searching, and algorithms in general.
Unfortunately, not all keys are easily used as a table address. Strings, for example, are not suitable, because array subscripting requires an integer. Even when using integers, if the value is outside of the range of the array, using it as an index will cause an out of bounds access. Hashing is the solution to this problem.
The simplest case when it comes to converting a key into a table address is when you have an integer key. In that case it is a simple matter of forcing the integer into the range of the table, most commonly with the remainder operator:
unsigned index = key % N;
Unfortunately, this is insufficient most of the time for two reasons. First, keys are more likely to be strings than integers. There has to be some way to convert a string into a table address, or hashing would die a quick death. Second, by forcing the integer into a smaller range, there is a good chance that unique keys will have the same table address after the conversion. This is called a collision, and collisions are the bane of hash function designers.
Hashing a string into a table address is more complicated because instead of a single numeric value there are several, and a good hash function should take them all into account when constructing a table address. Fortunately, hashing strings can be generalized into hashing a sequence of memory blocks, so it is possible to avoid having to develop a different hash function for different key types. The rest of this tutorial will assume that this generalization has been made and we will look at several general hash functions.
Uses for hashing
By far, the most well known use for hashing is to convert a key into an array index for table lookup. Such data structures are called hash tables, and they are incredibly useful for a wide range of fields. For example, in a compiler, a hash table will likely be used for keyword and identifier storage because a compiler needs quick access to this information. A compiler may (should!) also use a hash table for optimizing switch statements, and a number of other purposes. A hash table is also surprisingly well suited to the implementation of a cache, and many web browsers and operating systems will use a hash table for just that.
Probably the second most well known use for hashing is in cryptography, where algorithms that are geared more toward security are used to create digital fingerpints for authentication and data integrity. While lookup hashes are not as complicated or as powerful as cryptographic hashes, adherence to many of the design principles for a cryptographic hash will typically result in a very good lookup hash, so even though there is a clear distinction between hashing for lookup and hashing for cryptography, one can encourage improvement in the other.
This tutorial will focus on hashing for lookup.
Pigeonhole Principle
When hashing a key so that it can be used as an array index, it should be immediately obvious that the size of the array should be at least as large as the input collection. This observation is simple, and some might think that it goes without saying, but it is actually a specialization of the Pigeonhole Principle, where if M items are placed in N buckets, and M is greater than N, one or more buckets contain two or more items. This is one of the two principles that pave the way toward understanding collisions.
A collision is when two keys hash to the same index. The pigeonhole principle proves that no hashing algorithm can hash every key to a unique index if the possible keys exceeds the size of the array. Since most uses of hashing for lookup involve trying to take keys in a broad range and force them into indices for a smaller range, it stands to reason that no hash algorithm can perfectly hash a sequence of unknown keys into unique indices.
Perfect hashing
After having told you that collisions are a necessary evil, and dashing your hopes that there could be a "perfect" hash function, I will now contradict myself and say that there is such a thing as perfect hashing! However, despite the existence of perfect hash algorithms, they are dreadfully difficult to discover for all but the smallest inputs where the number of keys and the exact construction of every possible key is known. As such, while a perfect hash algorithm exists for every input, it is unreasonable to expect that it can be found, so instead of searching for a perfect hash function, it is better to simply build a hash function that minimizes collisions instead of denying them completely.
Constructing a perfect hash
A perfect hash can be created if the number and construction of the keys are known factors. For example, a perfect hash for a list of ten product numbers that are sure to differ in their 4th and 5th digits can be easily constructed:
unsigned hash(unsigned pid) { return pid / 1000 % 100; }
However, notice that even though there are only ten product numbers, a table of 100 buckets must be created because the resulting hash values are at least two digits. This is a terrible waste of space, but if the range is forced into an array of 10 buckets, the right digit of the hash values may cause a collision. In such a case, the pigeonhole principle applies, and we can no longer guarantee that this hash algorithm is perfect.
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Minimal perfect hashing
A minimal perfect hash algorithm maps every key to every bucket, without any unused buckets. Unlike the perfect hash function above, a minimal perfect hash function would not have any collisions when hashing the 4th and 5th digits of the product numbers and placing the result in an array of 10 buckets. Discovering this function is considerably more difficult, and we are still only dealing with two digit numbers.
A minimal perfect hash algorithm can only be found manually with a great deal of work, or in exceptionally simple cases. For example, hashing ten single digit integers into an array with 10 buckets is trivial, but by adding another digit to the integers, the problem becomes much harder. In general, a minimal perfect hash function can only be found through an exhaustive search of the possibilities.
Algorithms have been devised that will exhaustively search for perfect and minimal perfect hash functions. If one is needed then these tools will be a much better option than trying to discover an algorithm manually. Many of these tools are freely available on the web.
Properties of an ideal hash
With the understanding that collisions will be inevitable in all but the most specialized of cases, a primary goal in developing a hash function for lookup is to minimize collisions. This typically means forcing a uniform distribution of the hash value, much like a random number generator. However, unlike a random number generator, the process must be repeatable so that the same key hashes to the same index, while different keys do not. This goal can be broken down into two general properties of an ideal hash.
An ideal hash will permute its internal state such that every resulting hash value has exactly one input that will produce it. Any hash function that uses every part of the key to calculate the hash value will typically meet this requirement, so general hash functions that only process a part of the key will almost always be very poor because the differing parts of the key may not be the parts involved in creating the hash value. A good example of this is only hashing the first four or five characters of a string, and then using the algorithm to hash URLs that start with "http://".
A hash function is said to achieve avalanche if the resulting hash value is wildly different if even a single bit is different in the key. This effect aids distribution because similar keys will not have similar hash values. A hash function that distributes the hash values in a uniform manner will minimize collisions and fill the array more evenly. Avalanche is a concept derived from cryptographic hashing, and it offers a way to ensure that a hash function is good when used for table lookup.
Often you will see hash functions that claim to be "best for strings" or "best for integers". These functions should be avoided because if a hash function is not good for all types of data then it is probably a poor algorithm in general. Sometimes, on the other hand, a hash function may be optimized for a single type for performance reasons. It is good to learn to tell the difference between the two, but a safe practice is to only use general hash functions that are known to be good. This tutorial offers several examples of good general hash functions.
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Using existing hash functions
Designing a hash function is a black art. As such, it is always better to use a known good algorithm than to try and invent one. Hash functions are similar to random number generators in many ways, and just as with random number generators, it is easier to design a very poor hash function than to design even a mediocre one. This tutorial will describe several good hash functions so that you can avoid the temptation to write an ad hoc algorithm when the time comes. We will also look at a few not so good hash functions so that you will be able to recognize them in the real world.
Additive hash
Probably the simplest algorithm for hashing a sequence of integral values (such as a string), is to add all of the characters together and then force the range into something suitable for lookup with the remainder of division. I will give an example of this algorithm only because books commonly suggest it in their rush to get past the topic of hash functions on their way to collision resolution methods. This algorithm is very bad:
unsigned add_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h += p[i]; } return h; }
Generally, any hash algorithm that relies primarily on a commutitive operation will have an exceptionally bad distribution. This hash fails to treat permutations differently, so "abc", "cba", and "cab" will all result in the same hash value.
Despite the suckiness of this algorithm, the example is useful in that it shows how to create a general hash function. add_hash can be used to hash strings, single integers, single floating-point values, arrays of scalar values, and just about anything else you can think of because it is always legal to pun a simple object into an array of unsigned char and work with the individual bytes of the object.
XOR hash
The XOR hash is another algorithm commonly suggested by textbooks. Instead of adding together the bytes of an object as the additive hash does, the XOR hash repeatedly folds the bytes together to produce a seemingly random hash value:
unsigned xor_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h ^= p[i]; } return h; }
Unfortunately, this algorithm is too simple to work properly on most input data. The internal state, the variable h, is not mixed nearly enough to come close to achieving avalanche, nor is a single XOR effective at permuting the internal state, so the resulting distribution, while better than the additive and multiplicative hashes, is still not very good.
Rotating hash
unsigned rot_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = (h << 4) ^ (h >> 28) ^ p[i]; } return h; }
The rotating hash is identical to the XOR hash except instead of simply folding each byte of the input into the internal state, it also performs a fold of the internal state before combining it with the each byte of the input. This extra mixing step is enough to give the rotating hash a much better distribution. Much of the time, the rotating hash is sufficient, and can be considered the minimal acceptable algorithm. Notice that with each improvement, the internal state is being mixed up more and more. This is a key element in a good hash function.
Bernstein hash
Dan Bernstein created this algorithm and posted it in a newsgroup. It is known by many as the Chris Torek hash because Chris went a long way toward popularizing it. Since then it has been used successfully by many, but despite that the algorithm itself is not very sound when it comes to avalanche and permutation of the internal state. It has proven very good for small character keys, where it can outperform algorithms that result in a more random distribution:
unsigned djb_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = 33 * h + p[i]; } return h; }
Bernstein's hash should be used with caution. It performs very well in practice, for no apparently known reasons (much like how the constant 33 does better than more logical constants for no apparent reason), but in theory it is not up to snuff. Always test this function with sample data for every application to ensure that it does not encounter a degenerate case and cause excessive collisions.
Modified Bernstein
A minor update to Bernstein's hash replaces addition with XOR for the combining step. This change does not appear to be well known or often used, the original algorithm is still recommended by nearly everyone, but the new algorithm typically results in a better distribution:
unsigned djb_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = 33 * h ^ p[i]; } return h; }
Shift-Add-XOR hash
The shift-add-XOR hash was designed as a string hashing function, but because it is so effective, it works for any data as well with similar efficiency. The algorithm is surprisingly similar to the rotating hash except a different choice of constants for the rotation is used, and addition is a preferred operation for mixing. All in all, this is a surprisingly powerful and flexible hash. Like many effective hashes, it will fail tests for avalanche, but that does not seem to affect its performance in practice.
unsigned sax_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h ^= (h << 5) + (h >> 2) + p[i]; } return h; }
FNV hash
The FNV hash, short for Fowler/Noll/Vo in honor of the creators, is a very powerful algorithm that, not surprisingly, follows the same lines as Bernstein's modified hash with carefully chosen constants. This algorithm has been used in many applications with wonderful results, and for its simplicity, the FNV hash should be one of the first hashes tried in an application. It is also recommended that the FNV website be visited for useful descriptions of how to modify the algorithm for various uses.
unsigned fnv_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 2166136261; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = (h * 16777619) ^ p[i]; } return h; }
One-at-a-Time hash
Bob Jenkins is a well known authority on designing hash functions for table lookup. In fact, one of his hashes is considered state of the art for lookup, which we will see shortly. A considerably simpler algorithm of his design is the One-at-a-Time hash:
unsigned oat_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h += p[i]; h += (h << 10); h ^= (h >> 6); } h += (h << 3); h ^= (h >> 11); h += (h << 15); return h; }
This algorithm quickly reaches avalanche and performs very well. This function is another that should be one of the first to be tested in any application, if not the very first. This algorithm is my personal preference as a first test hash, and it has seen effective use in several high level scripting languages as the hash function for their associative array data type.
JSW hash
This is a hash of my own devising that combines a rotating hash with a table of randomly generated numbers. The algorithm walks through each byte of the input, and uses it as an index into a table of random integers generated by a good random number generator. The internal state is rotated to mix it up a bit, then XORed with the random number from the table. The result is a uniform distribution if the random numbers are uniform. The size of the table should match the values in a byte. For example, if a byte is eight bits then the table would hold 256 random numbers:
unsigned jsw_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 16777551; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = (h << 1 | h >> 31) ^ tab[p[i]]; } return h; }
In general, this algorithm is among the better ones that I have tested in terms of both distribution and performance. I may be slightly biased, but I feel that this function should be on the list of the first to test in a new application using hash lookup.
ELF hash
The ELF hash function has been around for a while, and it is believed to be one of the better algorithms out there. In my experience, this is true, though ELF hash does not perform sufficiently better than most of the other algorithms presented in this tutorial to justify its slightly more complicated implementation. It should be on your list of first functions to test in a new lookup implementation:
unsigned elf_hash(void *key, int len) { unsigned char *p = key; unsigned h = 0, g; int i; for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { h = (h << 4) + p[i]; g = h & 0xf0000000L; if (g != 0) { h ^= g >> 24; } h &= ~g; } return h; }
Jenkins hash
The dreaded Jenkins hash has been thoroughly tested and passes all kinds of tests for avalanche and permutations. As such it is considered to be one of the best and most thoroughly analyzed algorithms on the market presently. Unfortunately, it is also ridiculously complicated compared to the other hashes examined in this tutorial:
#define hashsize(n) (1U << (n)) #define hashmask(n) (hashsize(n) - 1) #define mix(a,b,c) \ { \ a -= b; a -= c; a ^= (c >> 13); \ b -= c; b -= a; b ^= (a << 8); \ c -= a; c -= b; c ^= (b >> 13); \ a -= b; a -= c; a ^= (c >> 12); \ b -= c; b -= a; b ^= (a << 16); \ c -= a; c -= b; c ^= (b >> 5); \ a -= b; a -= c; a ^= (c >> 3); \ b -= c; b -= a; b ^= (a << 10); \ c -= a; c -= b; c ^= (b >> 15); \ } unsigned jen_hash(unsigned char *k, unsigned length, unsigned initval) { unsigned a, b; unsigned c = initval; unsigned len = length; a = b = 0x9e3779b9; while (len >= 12) { a += (k[0] + ((unsigned)k[1] << 8) + ((unsigned)k[2] << 16) + ((unsigned)k[3] << 24)); b += (k[4] + ((unsigned)k[5] << 8) + ((unsigned)k[6] << 16) + ((unsigned)k[7] << 24)); c += (k[8] + ((unsigned)k[9] << 8) + ((unsigned)k[10] << 16) + ((unsigned)k[11] << 24)); mix(a, b, c); k += 12; len -= 12; } c += length; switch (len) { case 11: c += ((unsigned)k[10] << 24); case 10: c += ((unsigned)k[9] << 16); case 9: c += ((unsigned)k[8] << 8); /* First byte of c reserved for length */ case 8: b += ((unsigned)k[7] << 24); case 7: b += ((unsigned)k[6] << 16); case 6: b += ((unsigned)k[5] << 8); case 5: b += k[4]; case 4: a += ((unsigned)k[3] << 24); case 3: a += ((unsigned)k[2] << 16); case 2: a += ((unsigned)k[1] << 8); case 1: a += k[0]; } mix(a, b, c); return c; }
For details on how this algorithm works, feel free to visit Bob Jenkins' website.
Designing hash functions
Designing a hash function is more trial and error with a touch of theory than any well defined procedure. For example, beyond making the connection between random numbers and the desirable random distribution of hash values, the better part of the design for my JSW hash involved playing around with constants to see what would work best.
I would also be lying if I said that the choice of operations was not almost completely random trial and error by pulling from a pool of combinations of XOR, OR, AND, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The biggest design element of JSW hash is using the table of random numbers keyed on each byte of the input to act as a mixing step. Then it was simply a matter of choosing a less complicated hash algorithm to paste that addition onto, and finally the fiddling and testing to get the algorithm performing well.
I will not claim that hash function design is always like that, but the evidence certainly suggests it. If you design hash functions in a deterministic way, I would love to hear from you.
Testing hash functions
The most important test for a hash function is distribution on a sample of the expected input. No hash function is best for all possible inputs, which is why I introduced a large number of algorithms in this tutorial. Sometimes one of the good hash functions will work better than the others, and that one should be used. Other times they will all be fairly equal and you can choose at random. The key here is that a hash function should never be used blindly without testing it, no matter how good the author says it is. Often, hash tests are designed around a hash function, and that introduces a bias in favor of that function.
A test for distribution is a simple affair. Just take a sample of the expected input and insert it into a chained hash table with the chosen function. Work out the statistics of chain length, and you can determine how many collisions were detected. Alternatively, a quick test for collisions can be performed without the use of a hash table by simply taking a sample input with no duplicates and counting collisions with an existence table:
function collisions: file, n begin table[n] = {0} while get ( file, buffer ) do table[hash ( buffer ) % n] +:= 1 loop for i := 0 to n do println table[i] loop end
Another alternative is to plug the hash function into my jsw_hlib library and run it with a few files of sample input. This saves you the trouble of having to work out a collision test, or designing and implementing a working hash table while calculating several more useful measurements than just collisions.


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S Voice
One of the stand-out features of the GS3 is Samsung's S Voice. Like Apple's Siri, it is a voice-controlled assistant for the GS3. Double tap the home key and S Voice launches, asking you what you want help with. You can search for contacts, dictate SMS messages, check the weather, see alarms, and so on. It definitely has limitations. You can't use it to start and address an email, for example, but you can dictate the text therein. You can have it start the media player, but not to automatically open the camera and take a picture.
S Voice's performance was mixed at best. At times, it was very fast and very accurate. Other times it was fast but inaccurate. Samsung is not marketing S Voice as a beta product, like Apple's Siri is, but it feels less refined over all. Even so, once you get the hang of it, I am sure plenty of GS3 users will be pleased with it.
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S Memo
S Memo is basically a trimmed down version of the same S-Pen software that came with the Galaxy Note — but without the actual pen (AKA, stylus). Perhaps this is why the app has been renamed to S Memo.
S Memo is pretty much what the name implies, a note-taking application that works with your finger rather than a stylus. Using S Memo, you can write notes on a picture, erase portions of it, crop anything (not just squares or circles, but really fine-tuned cropping), rotate the image, and share it via a social networking and so on.
S Memo also lets you take notes. You can fire up a new note and compose a message — either by writing the note yourself as you would on paper, only with your finger instead. (I will admit that Swype works WAY better with the S-Pen than with your thumb, as the S-Pen allows you to be much more precise.) Notes can be multiple pages long, and S Memo includes handwriting recognition software to try to figure out stuff you write yourself. You can import images, clip art, or maps, you can skip the pen and keyboard entirely and dictate notes, and of course you can send the notes to others via email, social networks, etc.
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The idea behind Buddy Photo Share is to instantly share photos with a group of people at once. The way Samsung pitched it is as follows: say you're at a party with a bunch of other Samsung GS3 users. If everyone sets Buddy Photo Share on, all the photos taken that evening by all the attendees will automatically be synced and shared with the other participants. This means everyone in the group gets to see all the photos captured by the entire group. It's a cool idea, but certainly something which requires a bit of discretion. It's easy to set up, and it even automatically tags people in the photos.
One last photo-sharing app on the GS3 is a bit more personal. Essentially, you set up a connection with a single other user by tapping phones, and transfer an image directly from one phone to another (over Wi-Fi.) It basically lets people share photos immediately without the need to send the file via email, SMS, or Dropbox, etc.
The last bit of tech Samsung stuffed into the GS3 is TecTiles. TecTiles are programmable NFC stickers that will interact with the GS3. Using an app, GS3 owners can set up each tag to perform one of about a score of actions. For example, use one at work to turn on the Wi-Fi radio and automatically connect to your corporate network. Or use one to initiate a phone call to your significant other when you get home. Or set checkin on FourSquare, or send a Tweet, or your Facebook status. Programming the TecTiles is a cinch. Samsung is selling the stickers in packs of 5 for $15, which I feel is horribly overpriced. The entire exercise, however, is to teach consumers how to use their device's NFC capabilities. This way, when more advanced features, such as making automated payments, become available, the user behavior and familiarity with how it works is already there.
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Pierce Brosnan knows he's not the best singer, but halfway through an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival he spontaneously breaks into song.
"Lemon tree very pretty…" he begins, in his now infamous tenor, before a broad smile curls across his rugged features.
Granted, he's no Harry Belafonte, but after howling through Mamma Mia! to both cheers and jeers, he was confident enough to offer Danish director Susanne Bier the option of a brief musical exchange in her latest film, Love Is All You Need.
A romantic comedy that also includes the dark cloud of cancer and mortality, Love is All You Need features Brosnan as an uptight widower working in Copenhagen. He's a produce trader with a penchant for lemons, and over the course of the bittersweet saga set in Southern Italy, he falls for a hairdresser recovering from chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
The Oscar-winning director of In a Better World politely turned him down on his Calypso, but the man who inhabited the persona of James Bond for the better part of a decade says he's still got a proverbial song in his heart, and a lust for living in the moment.
It's a conscious thing, he says.
"Some things will give you pain one way or another, but on a professional level, this is a nice place.
"I love being an actor," he says. "I wanted to be in movies. I wanted success, fame, fortune and all the grand things in life — and I got it."
The tough part is to figure out what to do next, he says, because fame and fortune come and go. Everything is uncertain.
"But that's why I love it," he says. "It's a constant challenge. And you can lean into that drama, or not lean into it and be subdued and befuddled by it, and have huge resentment about it," he says.
"I've had good success. I got to be centre-stage as James Bond, and I got away with it, one way or another. And that's a gift that keeps on giving in many respects. It's a small group of men who have played the role, and now is a time to do interesting work and have the unexpected surprises and really, just play," he says.
"My wife calls it legal cheating: The whole Bond experience of it all let me play it all out as a man and as an actor, and then go home to my wife and my family. It's what we all strive for in a way. But sometimes, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," he says.
"Hopefully, you have a sense of humour about yourself, and can exercise some grace under pressure, but in the end, for me, it's about the joy of making movies and being in a situation like this, where I get to work with a director like Susanne Bier to make a story of life, love and middle age —- and a son who doesn't know if he is coming or going…"
Brosnan is wearing an azure jacket that looks like denim, but seems to be made of raw silk. His watch is one of those rose-gold timepieces that silently ticks away the seconds of a good life, and his entire demeanour suggests a man who's eaten the world's oyster raw and saved the pearl.
"I am happy," says Brosnan, who turns 60 next May. "But there's a fragility to it."
Perhaps it's this awareness that makes his lemon-man in Bier's film so charming, and so convincing.
"Well, I know something about loss," he says of his portrayal of a widower. Brosnan lost his first wife, Cassandra Harris, in 1991. The former sister-in-law to Richard Harris and a Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only lost her battle with cancer, leaving Brosnan with three children.
He remarried a decade later, and started a new family.
"I also know something about cancer and I know something about being a father, and I know there are times in your life when you end up with romance and affairs of the heart," he says.
"But then somebody truly captivates you, and so, it can be as simple as that, and as complex as that."
Brosnan says when he can, he prefers to keep things simple rather than complex. "I've always been grounded by my Irishness. I'm the same person I was when I started out. And I have a wonderful wife and children."
Working with Bier let Brosnan explore the details of the everyday tragi-comedy called life through the lemon-man as he turns all the bitterness in his life into lemonade.
The key to squeezing it all out, he says, is love.
"Love is a very hard thing… and a very gorgeous thing. To feel something so strong in your heart and in your belly when you see someone who makes your world happy, it's beautiful. I think Susanne captures it in the film," he says.
"He finds someone who makes him feel alive again."
Brosnan doesn't think there are enough movies like Love Is All You Need, a romantic comedy laced with dark threads of mortality and sexual identity. Most films in a lovey-dovey vein turn away from the pain.
"Life is harsh and getting harsher, and there is a lot of confusion and bleakness. Susanne understands that, but she has such humanity, so that when you see a movie like this, it's a breath of fresh air."
Love is All You Need will be released in Canada by Mongrel Media in 2013.
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Last week, an online buddy of mine told me that he'd use Linux more often if he could run Windows Live Writer in it. I had to agree, there are many different blog editors in Linux, but once you've gotten used to using Live Writer, you've been spoiled and won't want to use anything less satisfying.
After a bit of searching around online, I finally figured out that the best solution might be to run a full copy of Windows inside a virtual machine. Then I'd have the best of both worlds within easy reach. After trying it, I discovered that it works quite well. In fact, this article was posted from Xubuntu Linux, using Windows Live Writer.
I decided to use VirtualBox as the virtual machine server, because it's open source, but mainly because it's already in the Ubuntu Software Center. Installing it was as easy as searching for VirtualBoxand marking it for installation.
An old, unused copy of Windows XP was my choice for a guest operating system. I was familiar with the steps needed to set that up, but if you need help, you can find a great tutorial on installing XP in VirtualBox at Linux Journal.
After I had XP running the first time, I did have a few problems. I kept receiving warnings that I didn't have the Automatic Updates enabled. Since this was virtual machine, I really didn't want it to update. If I had any problems, I could always use VirtualBox's snapshots to return to an older state when needed. I finally opened XP's Services manager and turned off the Automatic Updatesand the Security Center.
You can launch the Services manager by clicking Start, Runand then typing services.mscinto the run box (without quotes).
I also noticed that I couldn't copy and paste between Linux and Windows. I found out that I needed to install the Guest Additionsin XP. You can find these in the VirtualBox Devicesmenu while the virtual machine is running.
There are two versions of Windows Live Writer. One version is for XP, while the most current version is for Vista and Windows 7.
Once you have Live Writer installed this way, you are ready to blog with ease, no matter what flavor of Linux you're using. If you have your own favorite blog editor, let us know in the comments below.


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As California struggles to close its budget gap, officials and analysts are worried the state won't be able to find the money to finance measures to comply with the US Supreme Court order this week to downsize the state's prison population by 33,000 inmates.
As the state's chief executive, Gov. Jerry Brown is taking the lead on California's response to the Supreme Court ruling that the overcrowding in state prisons violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The 5-to-4 decision upheld a 2009 ruling by a three-judge panel in California ordering the state to reduce its prison population to 110,000, or 137 percent of capacity.
Anticipating such a ruling, Governor Brown last month signed a measure (AB 109) that would shift thousands of low-level offenders to county jails and other community-based programs and facilities. But the shifts are contingent on voter approval of a constitutional amendment that would pay for moving the prisoners by hiking income, sales, and vehicle taxes.
Brown must file a report in two weeks advising the three-judge panel that originally ruled in the case whether the state has obtained necessary legislative approval for compliance, and file another report in 30 days setting forth the additional funds that counties may require from the state and what steps have been taken to implement a plan.
"Without the funding mechanism we can't do it," says Steve Whitmore, chief spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, one of scores of sheriff's departments statewide that would be tapped for the transfers. He says L.A. County is still reeling from $128 million in budget cuts that have resulted in the closing of several prison facilities, leaving open about 5,000 empty beds because there is no staff.
Sheriff Lee Baca said publicly on May 23, the day of the Supreme Court ruling, that under Brown's plan, more than a third of the state's 33,000 prisoners would be relocated to L.A. County.
L.A. sheriff: Show me the money
"We may be the one county that can't take that kind of influx," he said on KCRW's "To the Point" radio show. Currently, county jails hold about 14,000 inmates, down from a high of 22,000 a few years ago.
"It all boils down to how to pay the $27,000 annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner," Sheriff Baca said. "I believe the governor knows this, and [the Department of Corrections] knows this, and we are working closely with them so we can get that money."
Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, says other options are available that include electronic surveillance and home detention.
But California's goal "is not to release inmates at all," says state corrections secretary Matthew Cate, answering concerns from dissenting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who warned, "terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order" and from (separately dissenting) Justice Samuel Alito, who added, "the court's majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California."
Brown's realignment plan provides that nonviolent, non-serious and non-sex criminal offenders serve time in county jails instead of state prison. Joan Petersilla, a law professor at Stanford and co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center in Palo Alto, says local agencies, if properly funded, can supervise and treat such criminals better than the state.
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"With this plan, California will have a less crowded prison system, which would go a long way toward meeting the concerns of federal judges," Professor Petersilla wrote in an op-ed piece on SFGate.com. She notes that California spends nearly $9 billion on corrections annually – about $50,000 per prisoner, more than twice the national average – and that two-thirds of state prisoners are returned to prison within three years, nearly twice the national rate.
"Indeed, a silver lining in California's budget crisis is that it created a consensus between factions in the 20-year debate over correctional practices in California – that we must both spend more wisely and promote rehabilitation to start closing that revolving prison door."
Budget cutbacks in recent years have hurt jails at the local level. In 2004, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department began the release of over 300 low-level criminals per day. While the offenders were nonviolent – drunken drivers, shoplifters, car thieves – the early releases stirred controversy over whether the savings in tax dollars was worth what many saw as a threat to public safety. So-called "quality-of-life" crimes began to soar.
"For misdemeanor offenders our system has come to a grinding halt," Sheriff Baca said at the time. "With thousands being freed after having paid less than 10 percent of their sentence, there simply is no sense of deterrence whatever. This is no way to run a criminal-justice system."
Brown appeals for public support
Governor Brown has already started making his appeal for public support to fund his measure. In a statement the day of the ruling he said, "We must now secure full and constitutionally guaranteed funding to put into effect all the realignment provisions contained in AB 109. As we work to carry out the court's ruling, I will take all steps necessary to protect public safety."
But some political observers say Brown's approved realignment plan might meet with severe opposition because of the state's economic troubles. Officials are still looking to trim $11.4 billion out of a $26.4 billion budget deficit for the current fiscal year.
The realignment plan "solves the immediate problem but passes it off to counties without funding to pick up the burden in jails, social services, or mental health," says Barbara O'Connor, director emeritus of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at California State University, Sacramento.
She and other observers note that private prisons, particularly in other states, might relieve some of the burden, but they cost as well.
"[Former] Gov. Schwarzenegger tried this and met with much opposition from [law enforcement professionals] and others and that was when money was not as short as it is now," Ms. O'Connor says. "This [ruling] is not a surprise. It has been coming, so the bill tried to anticipate it. It is still the worst time possible, fiscally."


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The first thing you notice about the San Francisco Mission District home of Laura Jo Wegman and Donovan Corliss is that there seems to be an awful lot of space. Wall space, counter space, floor space. It's as if something is missing. Like TVs, video games, laptops, smartphones, and iPads. That's because Wegman and Corliss have designated their home a technology-free zone. Their kitchen boasts a basic fridge, dishwasher, and stove—all with no LED interfaces. The phones are rotary dial, and even the clocks are analog, like the 1940s schoolhouse clock they restored with sons Lev, 4, and Ezra, 6, before displaying it in the kitchen.
"I've never been into screens and displays and flashing lights. I find them distracting from the things I really care about," explains Wegman, design director of the organic home-textiles company Coyuchi.
"I think TV and Internet and phones become such a time suck that people feel that they don't have time for anything else," says Corliss, a developer for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. "They don't have time to do artwork with their kids or read books or have a conversation with one another."
Corliss and Wegman always tended toward a low-tech lifestyle but became even more invested after Ezra's birth. Since minimizing technology in their home, Corliss says that he feels restored. "I feel like I can be more present and that I'm more refreshed." He says he even sleeps better.
Sure, maybe they get "some eye rolls" when people come over, but what they also get is time. Time to read The New Yorker in its entirety every week; time to bake bread from scratch; time to take their kids hiking and biking.
Wegman and Corliss are at the purist edge of a technology backlash that has been gaining momentum over the past few years. The idea? Unplug yourself and reconnect with an analog way of life. Oddly, the epicenter of this movement is the San Francisco Bay Area, also home to the tech-saturated Silicon Valley, where a smartphone is practically a requirement for residency.
But what "unpluggers" like Corliss and Wegman have decided is that technology, despite its promises to improve our lives and make it more efficient, often distracts us from more meaningful interactions. At the heart of the unplugging movement is a desire, à la Thoreau, to get back to a purer way of living: to rediscover hobbies, use your hands, get outdoors, have a conversation that isn't mediated by bits and bytes.
Although technology frees us up, it does so almost to a fault. It actually takes us away from the physical act of doing anything, Wegman says. So, for example, she and Corliss grind their own flour for pancakes, then flip through a print edition of the newspaper over a hot breakfast.
The most visible manifestation of the unplugging movement has been the National Day of Unplugging, which started in 2009; and the related Technology Shabbat movement, which advocates a 24-hour digital hiatus every week. Filmmaker and Mill Valley, California, resident Tiffany Shlain started using the phrase "Technology Shabbat" in 2008; in 2010, she decided she wanted to practice it more deeply, after realizing she was inundated with technology. At the time, her father was dying and alert only one hour a day. "During that hour, I would turn off my phone and focus on him," she recalls. "I began to think a lot about how to be present with the people we live with."
Every Friday night, Shlain's family now powers down all their cell phones, laptops, and TVs. Where Saturday mornings used to be fragmented and solitary—the kids watching TV, the parents consuming email with their coffee—it's now their favorite day of the week, filled with gardening, hiking, and writing (longhand) in journals.
"It's a deliciously long day," Shlain says. "Technology speeds up time, and time is relative to your state of motion. When you are moving so quickly with all these devices, time passes really fast."
Three years into her experiment, Shlain has motivated thousands of others nationwide to start their own Technology Shabbats, many interpreting the term with their own rules and boundaries. But the common refrain that she hears from everyone? "They feel they got their balance back."
Many unpluggers, like Shlain, begin the technology power-down after having kids, concerned about the impact of ubiquitous technology on developing minds. This was also true for the Corliss/Wegman family. They wanted their kids to have a tactile and immersive childhood. Instead of video games, the family plays board or card games. Ezra and Lev enjoy classic toys like marble runs and wooden trains. In the kitchen, they experiment with old-fashioned cooking gadgets like flour grinders, a hand-crank ice cream maker, and a handpress juicer. Upstairs are two "art studios"—one for the kids, one for Wegman—crammed with imagination-inspiring supplies, the fruits of which decorate every wall of their house.
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You can stay, but you get no pay!
First let me say that I am hardly a novice in the industry, Carole Manto placed me on my first yacht which was managed by Bob Saxon, so I've been at this for a while. I know things have been hard in the industry before, but I have never seen crew treated so poorly. I agree that working for room and board is better than saying pack your bags and go. But give your crew a little notice and leave them with a shred of their dignity. It just seems so harsh. I think a lot of owners are harboring some hostility about how much they have paid their crew over the past few years, and some of the stories I am hearing makes it sound almost like they are enjoying firing their crew. Like when someone stubs their toe and kicks the dog to make themself feel better.
I worry about precisely what the last post said. How much work will satisfy the rent? Will the crew be allowed to interview for other jobs or have they been reduced to indentured servants? And is this something we are going to see more of? It's bad enough when crew have to unclog the owner's toilet and spot treat the bedding stains and spend every holiday making sure the guests are having the time of their life while they don't even have a minute to call their own family. That's fine, we sign on for that, but at least acknowledge the sacrafices and the loyalty. It's not our fault their bank failed.
I don't think this is a "shit industry" . I have been on my current boat for 4 years, my boss is a good man and financially secure, I have nothing to be bitter about. But I think there are some shitty things happening to hard-working people and I think someone needs to open up the lines of communication to figure out what crew can do to be prepared for these things.
I was just talking about this with a friend tonight who said he knows a boat where the owner told the crew he was cutting everyone's salary by 30% and if they chose to leave there would be no hard feelings. But no one quit. They all agreed to stay.
Life is pain, get used to it.
Tiffany, you are right to complain. It's a JOB. Not a lifestyle. Its real easy to tell the anonymous captains here; PYA, Protect Your Arse. You are pathetic; you look after a rich man's toy - servant; get used to it.
Of course you should be paid.
J22 bloke - actually you do pay for health insurance for your volunteer crew. Or at least you should do, otherwise your boat isn't insured and you're playing a game with another's life. 3rd party liability insurance covers accidents onboard too.
I had a really, I mean really bad accident 10 years ago and if the boat didn't have accident insurance I would be dead today.
PYA captainz (small "c" on purpose)
Join us; our name is Legion, for we are many.
It was K3
you walked up to me in the street and asked me if life was good with jade at your side. I remember that bit!
Without more knowledge of the owner, other crew and past experiences it s hard to say if this was a lousy deal or meant as a nice jesture, but perhaps poorly executed.
If the owner has always treated the well, with respect and professionally, then I believe this was a case of the owner not having enough funds (crew first, boat second) and just not handling the situation correctly. He/she could ahve easily said, "Please leave", but it seems there was an offer to have shelter. This sounds like a decent and honorable offer and much more than most layed-off workers in other professions would get.
However, if the crews experience has been that the owner has previously operated in a devious manner, then yes I think theywere shafted.
Only the crew can detemrine which this was.
On a point of perception - EVERY industry has good bosses and bad bosses. I believe that in the yachting world, there are far greater good ones than bad ones!
Just my two cents worth
Reading some posts on this forum makes me angry.
Stand up for yourselfs.
Want to stop it from happening, 3 things to cover your ass in the first place...
1. Ensure you have a CREW AGREEMENT signed BEFORE starting work. (YES THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT)
2. Join the UNION (yes, the same maritime union for the merchant navy protects us to..... i'll refrase.... protects those of us who ask for money to work all day, at sea and away from familys)
3. Dont be scared to request legal advise and assistance from the union, they will provide it. I disagree with those who are too frightened to stand up for there basic right to work and be paid.
When I was hired..it was an ok offer, and the owner treated us allright...now he asked us to help him with bringing the boat to its base but he cannot pay our salary anymore. He consider us "friends", he loves us so much..he never wanted this to hapend.
...I don't mind delivering the boat I enjoy it... He cannot keep it. He cannot pay for his crew...he has financial problems. Fine, but he doesn't get rid of his 5 Fearraris and porches, motorcycles, etc.
I don't understand that kind of frienship..Do you?
Well said BN. But then again only a BN has the experience and knows how to set themselves up on the favored side of the course, only a BN is wise enough to understand that if the boats a pig....find a new owner. This talk about unions crack me up....imagine the rules, maximum rail time , only two inside outside takedowns per week, no Jibe sets in the rain...... grow up gang....aspire to be a BN
Dude you're speaking an old language! No night peeling, no masthead drops at night! Who knows about that these days?
But one point about unions, one of my deckies broke his back on another boat. His life is ruined. What does an ex-bowman do for a living. The poor bugger lives in pain and no union to help him. I pay his rent, another BN pays his medical bills, we all visit him on Friday night. Yet we can't offer him the compensation that a union could.
For those of us that have taken the time to go to college and get tickets - do some research into the Nautilus Union, membership provides comprehensive insurance cover for liability should you ever have to present in court after an (god forbid) accident or incident..... Protecting your C.o.C's and giving you upto $150K of income protection if your ticket is suspended etc ..... for those "brought up before licencing", that means Certificate of Competency...
.... and to target the guy who thinks that this can be resolved my networking at parties?? yeah, champion mate... thats the way forward. ((?))
The yachting industry is far from unregulated, as most officers and captains on code vessels could tell you. Why should this change with Pay??


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Award winning artists, Anne Doane and Barbara Beaver, will show their artwork at "Steilacoom Fireside Gallery" through October, 29th, 2018. Both award winning artists are members of Pacific Gallery Artists. The fine art show features watercolor, oil and mixed media paintings. "Steilacoom Fireside Gallery" is located inside Steilacoom Community Center, 2301 S Worthington St., Steilacoom, WA. Hours: Mon. –Thurs. 9am – 7:30pm; Friday 9am – 4:30pm, (closed weekends and holidays). – The "Guest Artist Series" is hosted by The Town of Steilacoom.


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This is probably my favourite from the desserts in the Savoy Truffle so far. It was the perfect mixture of dark chocolate and strong coffee flavours, with a firm crust and dreamy creamy topping. I think next time I make it I'll firm it up a little more by using more agar and letting it simmer a bit longer but it was lovely as-is.
A Coffee Dessert (Yes, You Know It's Good News)
Mocha Dream Bars
3 cups finely crushed cookies, any kind (I used Country Choice organic chocolate creme cookies)
1/4 cup finely ground chocolate covered espresso beans
1/2 cup chocolate syrup (storebought or homemade)
2 packages (about 16 oz) vegan cream cheese substitute
1 box firm, silken tofu, blended smooth
1 cup sugar
30 grams bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup espresso or VERY strong, black coffee, room temperature
1 tbsp agar agar powder/granules
1 tsp vanilla
pinch salt
cocoa powder and chocolate covered espresso beans for garnish
To make the crust, line a 9″ x 13″ baking pan with a piece of foil or parchment that is long enough that it extends over the short sides slightly. Mix the ground cookies and chocolate covered espresso beans with the chocolate sauce and press firmly, in an even layer, into the prepared pan. Set in the freezer.
To make the filling, pour the espresso or coffee into a small saucepan and sprinkle with the agar agar powder. Let rest for 5 – 10 minutes, then place over low heat and cook just until it begins to simmer. Remove from heat and set aside. Set the chopped chocolate to melt in a double boiler. While it is melting, beat the cream cheese with the sugar until it is creamy. Add the whipped tofu, the coffee-agar mixture, and the melted chocolate and beat until combined. Mix in the vanilla and salt. Pour this over the prepared crust, and let set in your fridge for four hours, or overnight.
To serve, carefully grasp the extra foil or parchment you have left hanging over the edges of the pan and lift the uncut bars onto a cutting board. Chop into 16 squares and garnish with cocoa powder (tapped over the chopped bars with a sieve) and some extra chocolate-covered espresso beans.


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After 5 years away, The Moth Mainstage returns to The Harris Theater with a grand homecoming event! Join us for a powerful evening of storytelling featuring Phyllis Bowdwin, Suzanne Burton, Journey Jamison, Omar Qureshi, and more!
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Clinic Program Overview...
Clinic is open to all boys between the ages of 5 & 6.
The primary purpose of the Clinic program is to expand the fundamentals the boys were taught in Pockets while reinforcing fundamentals of the game (scooping, throwing & catching) with a basic introduction to offensive and defensive techniques.
The main difference between Pockets and Clinic is that the boys begin to wear pads (helmet, shoulder, arm pads, gloves, mouth piece & athletic cup) while playing. The boys will use real sticks, begin with a soft lacrosse ball then move to a real ball as the season progresses.
Clinic begins early March and will run through the weekend before Memorial Day. You can expect one weeknight practice and one Saturday morning practice, with each lasting about 1 hour. Exact weeknight schedules will be posted shortly, once we have final field assignments from the rec council.
Similar to Pockets, you can expect to begin the season primarily with practices, and then you will move to a practice/scrimmage format as the season progresses. We do not keep score, there is no body checking, but stick checking will be introduced slowly as the coaches feel the boys are ready.
Expect additional details to be posted on our website as we near the beginning of the season.
As always, if you have any questions thoughts or concerns please send us an email to:
Enjoy your season!
Equipment Requirements - Clinic...
Just wanted to send a quick reminder on the equipment requirements for each of our younger age groups.
The Clinic program is designed to make the transition from no pads to regular lacrosse a little easier. The boys will wear full pads in Clinic, and checking will be slowly introduced.
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