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Japanese cuisine inspires beer, wine, and shochu creativity
Japan imported 2,458,013 cases of sparkling wine during the first nine months of 2014. That's a 10% increase over the same period last year, and overall craft beer sales were up seven percent through August. This is no doubt splendid news for consumers, but these trends represent tart slices of a migraine pie for Japan's brewers and distillers.
Izakaya revelers and grocery cart pushers alike are enjoying an agreeable selection of wine and whiskey at bargain prices, and the craft beer selection is perpetually at an all-time high. That's all well and good, of course, but don't expect manufacturers to quietly cede territory to alcoholic upstarts and recently arrived, exotically labeled tourists.
Indeed, maturity in all segments of the market is inverting old marketing principles and allowing restaurants and bars to more carefully cater to discerning palates. Japanese food, drink, and advertising companies have reacted to the changing landscape in varied ways, with equally varied success.
Big trends in the drinks industry this year? Well, it seems that one of them is creating the perfect mealtime beverage.
Suntory, makers of one of the pricier macro-brewed beers in Japan, tried earlier this year to market a product that pairs well with washoku, or traditional Japanese dishes. "Wazen," Suntory's watery attempt at home-cooked food and beer harmony, has since disappeared from most store shelves, so we may not know until next year whether Wazen sixers were able to steal shopping cart space from Asahi's bestseller, Super Dry.
Earlier this year the Westin Hotel in Ebisu hosted a sushi and white wine pairing to show off a collaborative effort by Australia's Jacob's Creek winery and Ginza Sushiko Honten. The tandem created a white wine that pairs well with sushi, and "Wa," the label released in 2013, makes a good argument for inclusion in any sushi establishment's drinks list.
Guests were not only treated to several plates of Ginza Sushiko's finest sushi, but also to head chef Sugiyama's commentary on the process of blending the perfect wine to complement different types of fish and soy sauce. Participants started with spoon sushi, before being treated to everything from squid and sea urchin to tuna and halibut.
The white wine was inspired by Sugiyama's desire to find new pairing possibilities for the sushi that he serves in Ginza which averages US$200-300 per head. He collaborated with winemaker Rebekah Richardson to create a drink that would accentuate his shop's well-regarded menu. The result is a white wine that feels at ease next to the flavors of a well-crafted sushi meal.
And here's another new drink that you should try with your raw fish. According to Shochu Pro, Satsuma Shuzo recently released a soft sweet potato shochu that was produced specifically with a fish dinner in mind. The mild-mannered "Jan," which works wonders served oyuwari, straight, and on the rocks, is especially suited to red (fish) meat, and you know what that means–maguro!
Shochu and awamori have always been at ease cozying up to sushi, sashimi, and grilled fish, but Shochu Pro reports that the Kagoshima Sushi Association reached out to Satsuma Shuzo for something new. The makers of the well-traveled Shiranami and Kannoko brands responded with "Jan," and although the new kid on the block has yet to be featured heavily outside of Kyushu, it has been well-received at home.
You may recall that UNESCO recognized washoku as an Intangible Cultural Heritage last year, so it's no wonder that all corners of the drinks industry are clamoring to find a steady perch beside it.
With the 2020 Olympiad looming, prepare yourself for a swarm of drinks begging to accompany your meal. Here at Japan Eats, we'd encourage you to give them all a fair shot.
But take it slow. Leave the headaches to Japan's alcohol industry.
Book Review: "Drinking Japan"
Garrett DeOrio reviews Chris Bunting's Drinking Japan
I tend to approach tomes of this genre with a fair dose of skepticism as they often fall into one of two categories, even when they're not bad: a. strong on one drink or area, weak on the others, or b. written by authors who don't know the turf and focus on spots tourists would find anyway.
Thankfully, my skepticism was dispelled within moments of cracking the cover on Chris Bunting's attractive new release. He included a few places I know and love (which shows he has good taste!) and listed many more I either didn't know or hadn't tried. What better way to give a drink or travel book a fair shake than to road test it?
Bunting's motivating premise, as he sets forth in his introduction is, simply, that "Japan. . . [is] the best place to drink alcohol in the world."
He allows that the denizens and partisans of other capitals might be irritated by his proposition and grants them their due. He's being too nice – those who put forth other locales, especially other cities against Tokyo (where the majority of the bars Bunting includes are located), simply don't get it, which is why his book is so welcome.
Drinking Japan reads like a travel book – not a touring handbook, mind you, but a travel book, replete with anecdotes and impressions, which not only gives the reader a better idea of what they might be getting into, but also allows Bunting to establish a voice. And that voice is one that will make most readers feel like having a beer, or a whisky, or a glass of wine, or shochu, or awamori, or sake, or even makkori, with the man.
After a brief introduction to Japan's drinking culture, complete with both a few warnings for the neophyte (or for those who just haven't yet learned their lessons) and some history, Drinking Japan is divided up into chapters based on the sort of drink each of the 112 establishments he includes specializes in or is most-worth going for. These being: Sake, Shochu, Awamori, Beer, Whisky, Wine, and then others. Each of the seven drink-centered chapters is preceded by an introduction to the drink and its history and place in Japan's tippling milieu.
The drink chapters are followed by a chapter on liquor stores and other retail establishments and a brief appendix on "Bar Japanese".
Drinking Japan is focused on the good stuff and written for people who are interested in drinking, as opposed to people who just drink. While not every place he includes is pricey, this is far from a guide for the budget traveler. If you believe that you get what you pay for or don't mind paying more for better drinks and good atmosphere, Bunting has something you'll like, if not 112 things. On the other hand, if a cheap happoshu nomi-hodai is all you want out of your drinking life or don't care how knowledgeable the bartender is or how friendly the clientele might be, you probably won't get much from his work.
As with any effort of this breadth, Drinking Japan has a handful of minor shortcomings. First and foremost is geography: Of the 112 establishments included, 75 are in central Tokyo and a further nine are lumped together in "West Tokyo". Yokohama, Japan's second-largest city, rates only two entries – both beer bars. The entire Tohoku and Chubu regions merit just one each: Sendai's Isshin and Takayama's Pub Red Hill, which means Japan's fourth-largest city, Nagoya, is overlooked entirely. Likewise, the entire island of Kyushu is represented only by two shochu bars in Kagoshima – nada for the Fukuoka metropolis – and lovely Shikoku is passed by.
Being centered on the drinks themselves, the book also omits a number of neighborhoods known for their charm more than their pure liquid gourmet appeal, although he does include the venerable Lion Ginza 7-chome (the old one) solely for its mosaic and its place in history. Similarly, the inclusion of the cheap izakaya Kaasan – a chain shop for the cheap gourmand and notable for its ability to host sizable parties seems odd. Nothing wrong with the place, and its branches tend to have a more relaxed atmosphere and fewer screaming kids than other chains, but it does raise a question: Why Kaasan and not any of the numerous more worthy entries of the same sort?
That said, I still eagerly took a number of Bunting's recommendations and largely agreed with him. He doesn't mind spending a bit at times, but he knows whereof he speaks, gets the details right, and won't steer you wrong.
If you're unfamiliar with Japan, especially Tokyo (and that seems to be the target audience), Drinking Japan is a great place to start. If you live here, you'll still find some new gems.
If you pick it up and decide to try it out, let us know. If you have a beloved haunt Bunting missed, let us know about that, too. Heck, invite us to try it out with you sometime. (We bark a lot, but we rarely bite. Except for that one time, and Pellegrini is really sorry about that.)
Drinking Japan
by Chris Bunting
Tuttle, US$24.95/2,130 yen (may vary), 272 pgs.
Recipe: Apple compote with red wine and vanilla ice cream
How bout them apples?
Most people are familiar with the pear compote. A simple dish consisting of pears slow cooked in sugar, water, wine and spices, it's a dessert which never goes out of date.
What people may not know, however, is that apples work just as well as pears. Here, we'll be preparing a version which makes use of Japanese apples.
These come in many varieties: Fuji, Kogyoku, Tsugaru and Jona gold. For the purposes of this dish, use a Fuji apple. Its sour flavor will better compliment the sweetness of the syrup and whatever creamy goodness you serve alongside it.
Ingredients (serves two people)
- 1 apple (400g)
- 100g sugar
- 250 ml water
- 100 ml red wine
- 1 clove
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/2 liter water
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- ice cream/yogurt/marscapone
Peel the apple and then slice it into 4 – 6 wedges, disposing of the core. Add the teaspoon of salt to the half-liter of water, then place the apple pieces into the liquid.
Pour the sugar into a pan together with 250 ml of water. Place the pan on a low heat so that the sugar dissolves. Next, put the apples into the pan, and gently cook for 15 – 20 minutes.
Add the clove, the cinnamon and the red wine and stir. Cook the mixture for a further 3 minutes.
Turn off the heat and allow the mixture to cool. After 12 to 24 hours, the apples should have absorbed the red wine and changed color. When you're satisfied the apples are ready, take them out of the pan and slice them again (optional).
Place the an back onto a low heat and warm it slowly. Once it has thickened, it can be used as a sauce.
Plate the apples and serve with a dollop of ice cream, yogurt or marscapone. Pour a tablespoon of the sauce over the apples.
Bar review: La Cave Idéale (Kagurazaka)
This wine shop doubles as a standing wine bar and is open from 11:00 to 24:00 every day. Three round tables in the center of the shop allow customers to gaze at the bottles in the glass cases while drinking a glass from the ever-changing lineup displayed on the 'tachinomi counter'. Wine is typically 500-2,000 yen per glass.
Finger food are also available for purchase with a small variety of cheeses, olives, and other snacks (mostly 300 yen) being peddled from the glass cooler perched on the counter. A small two-piece pack of bread is 50 yen, and don't be afraid to use the toaster located on the wall opposite the register.
As mentioned before, the wine selection changes periodically as this shop imports directly from vineyards
and dealers in France. That means that they often have wine that you can't get in most other places.
The "Domaine des Chênes — Le Mascarou 2005" was dry enough for my liking and was priced at 900 yen per
glass. Another wine that I tried was the "Domaine du Pas de L'Escalette — Ze rozé 2008" (700 yen/glass) which is apparently one of their monthly featured wine selections and will be replaced soon.
This shop is very well-lit, so it's often a quick stop on the way somewhere else for business people and small groups of friends. The staff is very cheerful and helpful, and the paintings on the wall would be in my living room if they were up for sale.
Directions: From exit two of Kagurazaka station (Tozai subway line) go left and walk for about 30 seconds. La Cave Idéale is on the left just after "M's". You can also take exit one of the station and turn right. The wine shop will be on your right before "M's".
April '10 Magazine Roundup
This month three of Japan's top culinary magazines focus their attention on things Italian. Also, Dancyu tells aging ramen lovers it's time to go back to basics and Otona no shumatsu presents yet another lengthy best-of list. Its all here in this month's magazine roundup.
When Hollywood studios simultaneously release similar films (think Deep Impact vs Armageddon) its difficult not to suspect nervous producers spy on each other in search of original film ideas. Similarly, when three of the major Japanese food magazines decide to feature Italian cuisine on their April covers, one has to wonder if it's more than a coincidence.
This month's Syokuraku (860 yen) features what the editors describe as "Italian food and restaurants from a man's perspective". They posit that Italian restaurants are not just places for dates and quiet conversation, but can be places for guys to get together and hang out. Our advice: ignore the cultural analysis and enjoy the food porn.
Ryori Tsushin (980 yen) also stretches the bounds of thematic credibility with an edition focusing on the role flour plays in Italian food. Put differently, the magazine's editors want to discuss pasta and pizza, and to hell with that other stuff.
April's Cuisine Kingdom (970 yen) is the last in our trio, the magazine exploring "the Italian mode". More cultural background than recipes, this issue covers luxury brands as well as restaurants. The editors also ask where Italian cuisine is headed.
Ramen nerds rejoice! Dancyu (850 yen) has you in its sights. The April edition of the magazine is a veritable cornucopia of ramen, specifically aimed at self-appointed ramen experts in their 40s and 50s. April's issue features 14 ramen shops – 12 in Tokyo, 1 in Osaka and 1 in Kobe. Urging readers to go back to basics, the magazine also discusses Tokyo's trademark soy-sauce ramen and recommends 10 restaurants in which to sample the dish.
And where would we be without another best-of list? Otona no shumatsu (580 yen) lists the magazine's "best 102 restaurants in the past 5 years". The editors claim to have visited some 18, 000 restaurants in the past 5 years, and to have introduced 3600 in the magazine. Of these, they write, 350 were rated highly . After what must have been much soul-searching at the Kodansha offices, they finally whittled this list down to a (curiously unrounded) 102. All were tested in secret and come recommended for taste, price and great service. They are in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya.
And also…
Nakameguro is Tokyo's version of Little Italy? So say our friends at Shokuraku. They map 25 Italian restaurants within walking distance of Nakameguro Station. Worryingly, this figure includes the local Saizeriya. What do you think? Is Nakameguro Tokyo's answer to Mulberry Street? Leave your thoughts below in the comments.
March '10 Magazine Roundup
Sake, seafood and… sumo? It's time once again to take a look at the month's food and drink magazines.
Another month, another ambitious 'best of list'. This time it's Syokuraku (860 yen) with their "42 best restaurants in Tokyo". Dividing restaurants into 7 categories (yakitori, Japanese cuisine, tempura, shabushabu, rice bowls, tonkatsu and okonomiyaki) the magazine's editors award marks for "the quality of food, cost performance and service".
Syokuraku takes a more radical approach toward ranking sake, doing so by comparing various types of rice wine to sumo rikishi (come on… what could be more obvious!) It's east versus west, with the sake divided into yokozuna, ozeki, sekiwake, komusubi, maegashira and jyuyo. The magazine also features 10 Tokyo restaurants which make creative use of nihonshu.
This month's dancyu (860 yen) continues the sake theme. The magazine introduces upcoming sake breweries in places such as Akita, Tochigi, Hiroshima and Saga. And for those who love seafood but also think cooking fish is difficult, dancyu offers a selection of quick and easy seafood recipes. Dishes include Japanese, Western and Chinese otsumami.
Coffee is flavour of the month in Cafe-Sweets (1300 yen), the editors noting that the cafe scene in Japan is rapidly becoming more sophisticated. In particular, they note that coffee schools are growing in popularity – students can take classes for beginners through to advanced. The March issue features a number of coffee schools, from industry giants Starbucks and Tully's through to small privately-owned cafes such as Tokumitsu Coffee in Hokkaido and the mail order coffee beans shop Unir in Kyoto.
Ryori Tsushin (980 yen) meanwhile dedicates its March edition to what they are calling "The age of Women". The editors introduce women who are active participants in the Japanese culinary scene. The magazine features restaurants where all meals and service are provided by women, those restaurants which are owned by women as well as female innovators in areas traditionally dominated by men – sausage and ham artisans, coffee roasters and pizza chefs.
The Wine Kingdom (1500 yen) offers a list of "The best 30 winter reds from Italy". There's also a special feature on Sauvigon Blanc and a pull-out section of the magazine introducing 50 brands of wines from Washington. The booklet has information about each winery, their products and personalities.
And also…
The March issue of dancyu sees the announcement of a sake tasting event to celebrate the magazine's anniversary. 74 different sake breweries will present their wares at the Grand Prince Hotel, Shintakanawa on March 27th from 13:00 to 15:30. Tickets are 5000 yen per person. See the dancyu's March issue for further details.
Boozehound: Beaujolais Nouveau 2009 hits shelves today!
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and what a nice coincidence that the young wines of Southern Europe have just arrived!
Released on the third Thursday of November every year, French distributors such as the inimitable Georges Deboeuf and Mommessin, Beaujolais Nouveau has been a marketing sensation around the world for a number of years now. Tastings, club parties, and high-priced dinners abound, and it wasn't too long ago that customers would wait in line to sweep bottles of the fruity red wine off the shelves of their local retailer.
Such was certainly the case here in Japan, the land of 'if it's French, then we naturally understand and will pay through the nose for it'. During the height of the craze, well over 12 million bottles of the stuff were purchased at an average price of around 2,000 yen (US$20, give or take). That was back in 2004 when the marketing machine had everyone enthused that Japan was among the first to taste these young wines due to a simple advantage afforded by geographical location.
But this is 2009. Less than five million bottles are slated for sale this year, and many of them will be sold in plastic PET bottles (cork or screwtop?). The price has also dropped considerably with supermarket group, Aeon, slashing prices to less than 1,000 yen (around US$10).


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Barely a day goes by that we don't see more indications of the anxiety that pervades our current economic climate. Polls continue to find high percentages of adults in the US, UK and other countries who do not feel they will be better off in five years than they are today. Nor do they believe their children will be better off than they are.
This anxiety shakes the very foundation of a path to prosperity that for generations has been believed possible in Western nations.
Governments are looking for ways to respond to this anxiety and the factors that contribute to it. But, in today's environment where most economic conversations continue to revolve around macro-strategies, like deficit reduction and tax reform, families are left wondering where that next well-paying job – their path to prosperity – will come from.
Just as it is currently being debated in the UK, the American government is also discussing the minimum wage as a way to increase this prosperity and economic opportunity. While both countries have different ways of deciding the rate and how best to help those on the lowest wages, the experience of small employers is an important part of the discussion.
As governments look to the future, their plans have to centre on growth, and the primary currency should be well-paying jobs. With that, any conversation focused on jobs must include a role for small business and entrepreneurship.
In the US more than 99pc of all businesses are small. More than half of the US workforce either owns or works for a small business. And, in the 15 years leading up to the recession in 2008, some two-thirds of the net new jobs in the US were created by small businesses.
When the economic crisis hit, knowing those statistics, President Barack Obama's administration took an aggressive approach to supporting small firms. Yes, the situation was dire for all businesses, but for small firms it was worse. Credit was frozen, which meant for many the question of creating new jobs was not on the agenda – rather, they were focusing on survival.
I took over as administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) in April 2009, in the middle of this crisis. With the support and collaboration of the president's economic team, we quickly got to work.
This included deploying SBA's powerful loan guarantee programme. We incentivised lenders to unlock frozen credit by raising the guarantee on their loans up to 90pc and we eliminated fees to make borrowing less costly to small business owners and lenders.
These bold steps had almost immediate results, with SBA-backed loan volume rising almost immediately, a trend that would lead to two record years of SBA lending.
Additionally, we expanded the reach of SBA-funded counselling services to help businesses adapt their plans to the new economic reality, and help budding entrepreneurs find a stable footing in that turbulent time.
We also leveraged the need all federal agencies have for goods and services, redoubling our efforts and driving hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts into the hands of small businesses.
Fast forward to today – as the recovery has taken hold and the conversation turns to long-term growth – and that agenda must be centred on creating jobs. And small businesses must be central to it.
But this means also digging deeper into how jobs are created and acknowledging that not all small businesses are the same. There are the main street businesses – restaurants, dry cleaners, car repair shops and others. And, while there are millions of these firms, and they employ millions of workers, the reality is that most of the net new job gain is going to come from a small number of what are often referred to as high-growth businesses – and we're not just talking technology firms.
To be clear, government needs to support main street firms and help ensure access to capital and counselling, so they can provide well-paying jobs, and with that stability and growth in our local economies.
However, it is critical that government strategies recognise the real potential of high-growth firms to drive job creation.
To do this we need new economic strategies – strategies that create entrepreneurial ecosystems that leverage both public and private support, and create the resources to foster enterprise, innovation and the tools needed for growth.
In the US, I believe we have a successful model for this. While I was SBA administrator, we worked across the government to leverage programmes from multiple agencies and focus on support for high-growth firms.
We launched StartUp America and other public-private partnerships to create a vibrant ecosystem for entrepreneurs across the country.
The key components of these ecosystems generally fell into three categories: providing access to capital, people and skills, and creating regional institutions such as innovation clusters and accelerators.
Most important to ensuring the success of this model is that small business had a seat at the table. The SBA administrator is a member of the president's Cabinet and National Economic Council.
This means that when these economic discussions happen, the role of small business is always a part of that discussion. This is a model and a structure that is necessary because today's economy is very different from the way it was 50 years ago. Then, the formula was that big businesses created jobs. Literally, major manufacturers would provide the jobs that promised a "middle-class lifestyle" to millions of families.
That's not a formula for today. The growth challenges are different, and the opportunities are greater.
Today's economy is driven by innovation, and when we talk about nations and their competitiveness, we are increasingly recognising the importance of small businesses and entrepreneurs. Look no further than the current export strategies of most developed countries.
Over the past few years, these strategies have all begun to include a significant focus on expanding opportunities for small businesses to sell in markets outside their own country.
Yes, the economic game has changed. The strategies of the past – even those that got us out of the recession – are not the ones that will fully drive long-term economic growth in the future.
If we are truly going to tackle the anxiety that exists today, we have to focus on the core component of the path to prosperity: a well-paying job. If that's our goal, then we will focus on the critical role of small business and entrepreneur-ship. In fact, it will inform the entire economic strategy.
Karen G. Mills was administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet and National Economic Council. She will speak at the Federation of Small Businesses Policy Conference in London on January 27


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So I decided a while back that it would be a good idea for me to start backing up stuff from my computer. In addition to all of the written material there are tons of images (scans from old family photo albums) and scads of music files. The closest I've come to saving anything at all was the time I zipped up all of the reviews drafts and mailed the file to myself. Yeah, it's not enough.
There are a ton of online backup solutions, but being the technophobe that I am, making that step to figuring out what might be the right solution was something that "I should do this weekend." I've been saying that for several years. After my work laptop bricked this past summer, it seemed that maybe I should get on the ball backup-wise. That was (of course!) nearly six months ago and I've done nothing. Not so smart.
So a couple of days ago, I took the step of going with the premium version of Amazon's cloud player. For a mere twenty-five bucks a year, I would have five gigabytes of storage space plus the ability to upload up to 250 thousand mp3 files to their cloud servers. The music is available for streaming from pretty much anywhere, via a web browser or smartphone app. In addition to that, you can re-download the files back from the cloud. I don't have my entire collection ripped (not even close), so this would be for the stuff that I have ripped over the years plus the review material that arrives on a daily basis. Playback via an Android app would be perfect for late night listening and reviewing sessions.
I bought the software, installed the uploader program (twice, actually because…well, I don't know, it just wanted me to), pointed the uploader to my directory of music, and clicked "Go." It is now Thursday evening and my (sadly small) collection (not quite 5,000 mp3 files) is not yet fully loaded. It's been a stunningly slow process. Also, somewhat horrifying. And by that I mean that I can't believe they wrote this software relying only on the meta-data embedded in the files. If you've ripped your own music and neglected to give the correct information, you'll get things like albums split into a pile of separate albums, one per song. Oops.
In the middle of all of this, my copy of the Oxford American's Southern Music issue arrives in the mail. As it's centered on the music of Louisiana, I'm expecting it to be full of Cajun stomps and whatnot. So much for my weak knowledge of that region of the country. Sure, there's some butt-shakin' Zydeco, but that's on top of the garage rock, country, rock and roll, R&B, funk, soul, and even some hip-hop and whack jazz. The highlight to my ears is "Hanging Johnny," done by the Valparaiso Men's Chorus…freaking chorus of Tom Waits-inspired madness and doom, is what. The freshness and good times vibe of the album pushed my anxiety about this nutty cloud experience right out of the picture.
I notice in the late afternoon that the imported song count in the Amazon cloud player is stuck. I figured that we'd had a power glitch at home, causing my laptop to power cycle (because yes, this Luddite can't be bothered to replace the battery that hasn't held a charge in a couple of years). I get home to discover that the uploader window has gone black, is unresponsive, and is now sucking up nearly a gig of memory. Awesome, eh? So I kill the process and restart it, wondering why a program doing something with such single-mindedness of purpose could suddenly go off into the land of memory leaks and frozen behaviors.
Well, here's the answer: the uploader application uses Adobe Flash. I have no idea why they're using it, but it's causing trouble. C'mon Amazon, really? Flash? We're in the year 2012 and you're using the potato battery of web software. One wrong move and an electrode falls out, spoiling everybody's fun. There's no reason to consider that bug-ridden piece of junk unless there's some kind of serious reciprocal agreement action going on.
Hopefully, the online potato battery will not spoil my fun. I've got some serious listening to do.
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Gameguru Mania - cheats
African Safari [cheats]
While playing in 3D mode, activate the following cheats by typing in the corresponding code.
Code Result
spawnall Create a Herd of Animals
vulture Flight Mode
hugeguns Infinite Ammo
hgwells Make Party Invisible
flagall Mark All Unlicensed Animals
gps Mark Current Position
xray View Kill Zones
flagall Mark All Unlicensed Animals
flagevery Mark All Animals
license1 Hunting License (Eland)
license2 Hunting License (Zebra)
license3 Hunting License (Elephant)
license4 Hunting License (Kudu)
Change Villager's Clothes
When you are in Africa and can go to the shop, inn and the small village, click on the village. It should take you to a screen that shows a man. Click on him about 4 times. He should talk about hunting and his shorts will turn black. Click on him 4 more times and he will put a shirt on.
Free Money
For some free money, move the cursor to the upper left-hand corner and press Ctrl-4. Be sure the mouse is all the way in the corner or it won't work.
Poaching on the Plains
Normally, poachers are arrested as they attempt to smuggle spoils out of the country. But the savvy hunter can take home poached animals by retiring to their hut (and sleeping) for the reminder of the expedition!
When you are at the map hit r to find rhino, b for buffalo, c for crocodile, i for impala, l for lion, z for zebra.
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In July (2013) I partnered with Good Hood and not-for-profit food rescue organisation, FareShare on a mural for Australia's largest charity kitchen.
The mural, Meggs' most significant solo undertaking to date, took over ten days to complete. The artwork splices Meggs' technically layered aesthetic with his animated pop cultural bravura and was a response to FareShare CEO, Marcus Godinho's brief to encapsulate – in a non literal representation – the energy, responsiveness and innovative nature of how the organisation operates.
"Working with FareShare was a really positive experience for me" said Meggs. "Knowing that not only was I creating one of the largest solo murals I have ever completed, but also helping to beautify and promote such a worthy organisation for such positive, generous people was an incredible feeling. As a street/mural artist we spend a lot of unpaid hours creating our work for the community, so it was awesome to partner with people doing the same thing, but in a different way."
View the Meggs x FareShare x GoodHood Video Here.
FareShare is an innovative, energetic organisation, fighting hunger and food waste by rescuing surplus food and delivering it to people in need.
Since 2001 FareShare has given away healthy, nutritious meals to the hungry and the homeless in Victoria, Australia, using food donated by businesses. By 'rescuing' food, FareShare saves food that would otherwise end up as landfill, helping cut methane pollution and reducing demand for new food products.
In 2013 alone, FareShare has recued 470 tonnes of food and given away 1,105,926 meals to those in need. In May, FareShare moved into Australia's largest charity kitchen significantly increasing their capacity for growth within the sector.
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ALIVE Ottawa is an adult day program that is community based. Its aim is to promote self advocacy, develop and enhance Life Skills and work towards independence. It is based at Dovercourt Recreation Centre, but runs throughout the community.
It is a volunteer and social enrichment program which provides the opportunity for adults diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities to learn volunteer work-related skills through fun, interactive learning activities. By introducing our apprentices to real life volunteer work and community recreation settings, we can make a significant difference in their quality of life and independence in life.
This new program will focus more on providing a wealth of opportunities for apprentices, including:
Promoting self advocacy, self care and independence, ALIVE Ottawa offers instruction in arts, literacy, laundry, self monitoring, hygiene, fitness, health, cooking, social awareness, communication skills and other essential 'life' skills. It utilises numerous modalities to develop communication skills including P.E.C.S. and sign language.
It runs Monday to Friday, from 9am to 3pm, and it is intended to operate year round (48 weeks of the year). This is dependent upon demand. During the summer the program will be more focused on recreation and outdoor activities. Preference will be given to those apprentices who sign up for the program full time, but there are opportunities for single days when the supervision ratios permit.
The current price is $55 per day.
For more information, please contact email@example.com
Self Advocacy– championing your own needs, wants and thoughts for the future, for example
Life Skills, including real life experiences, such as:
Volunteer Work
Social and Health Enrichment
Look at the video below to see what we got up to in the Summer of 2015...
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Tiger Provided option for getting various Thread States
NEW A Fresh thread that has not yet started to execute.
RUNNABLE A thread that is executing in the Java virtual machine.
BLOCKED A thread that is blocked waiting for a monitor lock.
WAITING A thread that is wating to be notified by another thread.
TIMED_WAITING A thread that is wating to be notified by another thread for a specific amount of time
TERMINATED A thread whos run method has ended.
The folowing code prints out all thread states.
public class ThreadStates{
public static void main(String[] args){
Thread t = new Thread();
Thread.State e = t.getState();
Thread.State[] ts = e.values();
for(int i = 0; i < ts.length; i++){
JPC Project
JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. It runs anywhere you have a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile phone, set-top box, possibly even your refrigerator! All this, with the bulletproof security and stability of Java technology.
JPC creates a virtual machine upon which you can install your favourite operating system in a safe, flexible and powerful way. It aims to give you complete control over your favorite PC software's execution environment, whatever your real hardware or operating system, and JPC's multilayered security makes it the safest solution for running the most dangerous software in quarantine - ideal for archiving viruses, hosting honeypots, and protecting your machine from malicious or unstable software.
JPC has been developed since August 2005 in Oxford University's Subdepartment of Particle Physics. It can be run on a number of devices, from PC's to mobile phones, and you can see some of the results of JPC in action (more soon!). Some might see JPC as part of a nefarious plot by mad scientists who want to harness every last CPU in the world for their research - but we prefer to see JPC as Java-hardened protection against their buggy programs.
Faster Deep Copies of Java Objects ( Shallow Copy and Deep Copy )
Faster Deep Copies of Java Objects
java.lang.Object root superclass defines a
clone() method that will, assuming the subclass implements the
java.lang.Cloneable interface, return a copy of the object. While Java classes are free to override this method to do more complex kinds of cloning, the default behavior of
clone() is to return a shallow copy of the object. This means that the values of all of the origical object's fields are copied to the fields of the new object.
A property of shallow copies is that fields that refer to other objects will point to the same objects in both the original and the clone. For fields that contain primitive or immutable values (
float, etc…), there is little chance of this causing problems. For mutable objects, however, cloning can lead to unexpected results. Figure 1 shows an example.
import java.util.Vector;
public class Example1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Make a Vector
Vector original = new Vector();
// Make a StringBuffer and add it to the Vector
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer("The quick brown fox");
// Clone the vector and print out the contents
Vector clone = (Vector) original.clone();
System.out.println("A. After cloning");
printVectorContents(original, "original");
printVectorContents(clone, "clone");
// Add another object (an Integer) to the clone and
// print out the contents
clone.addElement(new Integer(5));
System.out.println("B. After adding an Integer to the clone");
printVectorContents(original, "original");
printVectorContents(clone, "clone");
// Change the StringBuffer contents
text.append(" jumps over the lazy dog.");
System.out.println("C. After modifying one of original's elements");
printVectorContents(original, "original");
printVectorContents(clone, "clone");
public static void printVectorContents(Vector v, String name) {
System.out.println(" Contents of \"" + name + "\":");
// For each element in the vector, print out the index, the
// class of the element, and the element itself
for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) {
Object element = v.elementAt(i);
System.out.println(" " + i + " (" +
element.getClass().getName() + "): " +
Vector contents after cloning
In this example we create a
Vector and add a
StringBuffer to it. Note that
StringBuffer (unlike, for example,
String is mutable — it's contents can be changed after creation. Figure 2 shows the output of the example in Figure 1.
> java Example1
A. After cloning
Contents of "original":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox
Contents of "clone":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox
B. After adding an Integer to the clone
Contents of "original":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox
Contents of "clone":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox
1 (java.lang.Integer): 5
C. After modifying one of original's elements
Contents of "original":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Contents of "clone":
0 (java.lang.StringBuffer): The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1 (java.lang.Integer): 5
In the first block of output ("A"), we see that the clone operation was successful: The original vector and the clone have the same size (1), content types, and values. The second block of output ("B") shows that the original vector and its clone are distinct objects. If we add another element to the clone, it only appears in the clone, and not in the original. The third block of output ("C") is, however, a little trickier. Modifying the
StringBuffer that was added to the original vector has changed the value of the first element of both the original vector and its clone. The explanation for this lies in the fact that
clone made a shallow copy of the vector, so both vectors now point to the exact same
StringBuffer instance.
This is, of course, sometimes exactly the behavior that you need. In other cases, however, it can lead to frustrating and inexplicable errors, as the state of an object seems to change "behind your back".
The solution to this problem is to make a deep copy of the object. A deep copy makes a distinct copy of each of the object's fields, recursing through the entire graph of other objects referenced by the object being copied. The Java API provides no deep-copy equivalent to
Object.clone(). One solution is to simply implement your own custom method (e.g.,
deepCopy()) that returns a deep copy of an instance of one of your classes. This may be the best solution if you need a complex mixture of deep and shallow copies for different fields, but has a few significant drawbacks:
- You must be able to modify the class (i.e., have the source code) or implement a subclass. If you have a third-party class for which you do not have the source and which is marked
final, you are out of luck.
- You must be able to access all of the fields of the class's superclasses. If significant parts of the object's state are contained in
privatefields of a superclass, you will not be able to access them.
- You must have a way to make copies of instances of all of the other kinds of objects that the object references. This is particularly problematic if the exact classes of referenced objects cannot be known until runtime.
- Custom deep copy methods are tedious to implement, easy to get wrong, and difficult to maintain. The method must be revisited any time a change is made to the class or to any of its superclasses.
A common solution to the deep copy problem is to use Java Object Serialization (JOS). The idea is simple: Write the object to an array using JOS's
ObjectOutputStream and then use
ObjectInputStream to reconsistute a copy of the object. The result will be a completely distinct object, with completely distinct referenced objects. JOS takes care of all of the details: superclass fields, following object graphs, and handling repeated references to the same object within the graph. Figure 3 shows a first draft of a utility class that uses JOS for making deep copies.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
* Utility for making deep copies (vs. clone()'s shallow copies) of
* objects. Objects are first serialized and then deserialized. Error
* checking is fairly minimal in this implementation. If an object is
* encountered that cannot be serialized (or that references an object
* that cannot be serialized) an error is printed to System.err and
* null is returned. Depending on your specific application, it might
* make more sense to have copy(…) re-throw the exception.
* A later version of this class includes some minor optimizations.
public class UnoptimizedDeepCopy {
* Returns a copy of the object, or null if the object cannot
* be serialized.
public static Object copy(Object orig) {
Object obj = null;
try {
// Write the object out to a byte array
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
// Make an input stream from the byte array and read
// a copy of the object back in.
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(
new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()));
obj = in.readObject();
catch(IOException e) {
catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
return obj;
Unfortunately, this approach has some problems, too:
- It will only work when the object being copied, as well as all of the other objects references directly or indirectly by the object, are serializable. (In other words, they must implement
java.io.Serializable.) Fortunately it is often sufficient to simply declare that a given class
implements java.io.Serializableand let Java's default serialization mechanisms do their thing.
- Java Object Serialization is slow, and using it to make a deep copy requires both serializing and deserializing. There are ways to speed it up (e.g., by pre-computing serial version ids and defining custom
writeObject()methods), but this will usually be the primary bottleneck.
- The byte array stream implementations included in the
java.iopackage are designed to be general enough to perform reasonable well for data of different sizes and to be safe to use in a multi-threaded environment. These characteristics, however, slow down
ByteArrayOutputStreamand (to a lesser extent)
The first two of these problems cannot be addressed in a general way. We can, however, use alternative implementations of
ByteArrayOutputStream and
ByteArrayInputStream that makes three simple optimizations:
ByteArrayOutputStream, by default, begins with a 32 byte array for the output. As content is written to the stream, the required size of the content is computed and (if necessary), the array is expanded to the greater of the required size or twice the current size. JOS produces output that is somewhat bloated (for example, fully qualifies path names are included in uncompressed string form), so the 32 byte default starting size means that lots of small arrays are created, copied into, and thrown away as data is written. This has an easy fix: construct the array with a larger inital size.
- All of the methods of
ByteArrayOutputStreamthat modify the contents of the byte array are
synchronized. In general this is a good idea, but in this case we can be certain that only a single thread will ever be accessing the stream. Removing the synchronization will speed things up a little.
ByteArrayInputStream's methods are also synchronized.
- The
toByteArray()method creates and returns a copy of the stream's byte array. Again, this is usually a good idea: If you retrieve the byte array and then continue writing to the stream, the retrieved byte array should not change. For this case, however, creating another byte array and copying into it merely wastes cycles and makes extra work for the garbage collector.
An optimized implementation of
ByteArrayOutputStream is shown in Figure 4.
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
* ByteArrayOutputStream implementation that doesn't synchronize methods
* and doesn't copy the data on toByteArray().
public class FastByteArrayOutputStream extends OutputStream {
* Buffer and size
protected byte[] buf = null;
protected int size = 0;
* Constructs a stream with buffer capacity size 5K
public FastByteArrayOutputStream() {
this(5 * 1024);
* Constructs a stream with the given initial size
public FastByteArrayOutputStream(int initSize) {
this.size = 0;
this.buf = new byte[initSize];
* Ensures that we have a large enough buffer for the given size.
private void verifyBufferSize(int sz) {
if (sz > buf.length) {
byte[] old = buf;
buf = new byte[Math.max(sz, 2 * buf.length )];
System.arraycopy(old, 0, buf, 0, old.length);
old = null;
public int getSize() {
return size;
* Returns the byte array containing the written data. Note that this
* array will almost always be larger than the amount of data actually
* written.
public byte[] getByteArray() {
return buf;
public final void write(byte b[]) {
verifyBufferSize(size + b.length);
System.arraycopy(b, 0, buf, size, b.length);
size += b.length;
public final void write(byte b[], int off, int len) {
verifyBufferSize(size + len);
System.arraycopy(b, off, buf, size, len);
size += len;
public final void write(int b) {
verifyBufferSize(size + 1);
buf[size++] = (byte) b;
public void reset() {
size = 0;
* Returns a ByteArrayInputStream for reading back the written data
public InputStream getInputStream() {
return new FastByteArrayInputStream(buf, size);
getInputStream() method returns an instance of an optimized version of
ByteArrayInputStream that has unsychronized methods. The implementation of
FastByteArrayInputStream is shown in Figure 5.
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
* ByteArrayInputStream implementation that does not synchronize methods.
public class FastByteArrayInputStream extends InputStream {
* Our byte buffer
protected byte[] buf = null;
* Number of bytes that we can read from the buffer
protected int count = 0;
* Number of bytes that have been read from the buffer
protected int pos = 0;
public FastByteArrayInputStream(byte[] buf, int count) {
this.buf = buf;
this.count = count;
public final int available() {
return count - pos;
public final int read() {
return (pos < count) ? (buf[pos++] & 0xff) : -1;
public final int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) {
if (pos >= count)
return -1;
if ((pos + len) > count)
len = (count - pos);
System.arraycopy(buf, pos, b, off, len);
pos += len;
return len;
public final long skip(long n) {
if ((pos + n) > count)
n = count - pos;
if (n < 0)
return 0;
pos += n;
return n;
Figure 6 shows a version of a deep copy utility that uses these classes:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
* Utility for making deep copies (vs. clone()'s shallow copies) of
* objects. Objects are first serialized and then deserialized. Error
* checking is fairly minimal in this implementation. If an object is
* encountered that cannot be serialized (or that references an object
* that cannot be serialized) an error is printed to System.err and
* null is returned. Depending on your specific application, it might
* make more sense to have copy(…) re-throw the exception.
public class DeepCopy {
* Returns a copy of the object, or null if the object cannot
* be serialized.
public static Object copy(Object orig) {
Object obj = null;
try {
// Write the object out to a byte array
FastByteArrayOutputStream fbos =
new FastByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(fbos);
// Retrieve an input stream from the byte array and read
// a copy of the object back in.
ObjectInputStream in =
new ObjectInputStream(fbos.getInputStream());
obj = in.readObject();
catch(IOException e) {
catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
return obj;
The extent of the speed boost will depend on a number of factors in your specific application (more on this later), but the simple class shown in Figure 7 tests the optimized and unoptimized versions of the deep copy utility by repeatedly copying a large object.
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Date;
public class SpeedTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Make a reasonable large test object. Note that this doesn't
// do anything useful — it is simply intended to be large, have
// several levels of references, and be somewhat random. We start
// with a hashtable and add vectors to it, where each element in
// the vector is a Date object (initialized to the current time),
// a semi-random string, and a (circular) reference back to the
// object itself. In this case the resulting object produces
// a serialized representation that is approximate 700K.
Hashtable obj = new Hashtable();
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
Vector v = new Vector();
for (int j = 0; j < 100; j++) {
v.addElement(new Object[] {
new Date(),
"A random number: " + Math.random(),
obj.put(new Integer(i), v);
int iterations = 10;
// Make copies of the object using the unoptimized version
// of the deep copy utility.
long unoptimizedTime = 0L;
for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Object copy = UnoptimizedDeepCopy.copy(obj);
unoptimizedTime += (System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
// Avoid having GC run while we are timing...
copy = null;
// Repeat with the optimized version
long optimizedTime = 0L;
for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Object copy = DeepCopy.copy(obj);
optimizedTime += (System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
// Avoid having GC run while we are timing...
copy = null;
System.out.println("Unoptimized time: " + unoptimizedTime);
System.out.println(" Optimized time: " + optimizedTime);
A few notes about this test:
- The object that we are copying is large. While somewhat random, it will generally have a serialized size of around 700 Kbytes.
- The most significant speed boost comes from avoid extra copying of data in
FastByteArrayOutputStream. This has several implications:
- Using the unsynchronized
FastByteArrayInputStreamspeeds things up a little, but the standard
java.io.ByteArrayInputStreamis nearly as fast.
- Performance is mildly sensitive to the initial buffer size in
FastByteArrayOutputStream, but is much more sensitive to the rate at which the buffer grows. If the objects you are copying tend to be of similar size, copying will be much faster if you initialize the buffer size and tweak the rate of growth.
- Using the unsynchronized
- Measuring speed using elapsed time between two calls to
System.currentTimeMillis()is problematic, but for single-threaded applications and testing relatively slow operations it is sufficient. A number of commercial tools (such as JProfiler) will give more accurate per-method timing data.
- Testing code in a loop is also problematic, since the first few iterations will be slower until HotSpot decides to compile the code. Testing larger numbers of iterations aleviates this problems.
- Garbage collection further complicates matters, particularly in cases where lots of memory is allocated. In this example, we manually invoke the garbage collector after each copy to try to keep it from running while a copy is in progress.
These caveats aside, the performance difference is sigificant. For example, the code as shown in Figure 7 (on a 500Mhz G3 Macintosh iBook running OSX 10.3 and Java 1.4.1) reveals that the unoptimized version requires about 1.8 seconds per copy, while the optimized version only requires about 1.3 seconds. Whether or not this difference is signficant will, of course, depend on the frequency with which your application does deep copies and the size of the objects being copied.
Comparing Arrays, Lists, and Maps
For example: if we know there will be 10 objects that we need to store and iterated every time. Given the fancy of API we normally tend to use ArrayList / Vector irrespective of thinking of Array which is more powerful and very good implementation for known size.
There are several other parameters we might need to understand as developers which implementation that we need to choose based on the requirements. Some of them could be
1. Insert elements at the end of a list
2. Insert elements in the beginning of a list
3. Insert elements at random positions in a list
4. Access elements from the first to the last
5. Access elements from the last to the first
6. Access elements in random order
7. Update elements in random order
Here is an excellent article that explains the collection on a case to case basis
XML as database
try {
//Load the DB2 JDBC Type 2 Driver with DriverManager
}catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
Getting connection:
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass);
the prepare statement:PreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
Result Set:
option 1:ResultSet resultSet = stmt.executeQuery();
option 2:InputStream inputStream = resultSet.getBinaryStream(1);
option 3:DB2Xml db2xml = (DB2Xml) resultSet.getObject(1);
Selecting a XML value:String sql = "SELECT PID, DESCRIPTION from XMLPRODUCT where PID = ?";
PreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);stmt.setString(1, "100-105-09");
ResultSet resultSet = stmt.executeQuery();
String xml = resultSet.getString("DESCRIPTION"); // orInputStream inputStream = resultSet.getBinaryStream("DESCRIPTION"); // orReader reader = resultSet.getCharacterStream("DESCRIPTION"); // orDB2Xml db2xml = (DB2Xml) resultSet.getObject("DESCRIPTION");
you can use other methods available in java too..!
getString( )
getBinaryStream( )
getCharacterStrem( )
getObject( )
Inserting in XML file:
String sql = "INSERT INTO xmlproduct VALUES(?, ?)";
PreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
stmt.setString(1, "100-105-09");
File binFile = new File("productBinIn.xml");
InputStream inBin = new FileInputStream(xmlFile);
stmt.setBinaryStream(2, inBin, (int) binFile.getLength());stmt.execute();
XML database driver
DWR - Easy AJAX for JAVA
It allows code in a browser to use Java functions running on a web server just as if it was in the browser.
DWR consists of two main parts:
Java is fundamentally synchronous where Ajax is asynchronous. So when you call a remote method, you provide DWR with a callback function to be called when the data has been returned from the network.
The diagram shows how DWR can alter the contents of a selection list as a result of some Javascript event like onclick.
DWR dynamically generates an AjaxService class in Javascript to match some server-side code. This is called by the eventHandler. DWR then handles all the remoting details, including converting all the parameters and return values between Javascript and Java. It then executes the supplied callback function (populateList) in the example below which uses a DWR utility function to alter the web page.
Generics FAQ
Generics FAQ
Tomcat Vs OC4J
Tomcat (Xerces): doc.getElementsByTagName("SOAP-ENV:Envelope") is valid. It treats the namespace as if it were just part of the tag name.
OC4J (oraclexmlparserv2): doc.getElementsByTagName("SOAP-ENV:Envelope") is not valid
Solution: Use doc.getElementsByTagNameNS(). To use this method, you must make sure to call setNamespaceAware(true) on your DocumentBuilderFactory.
Tomcat (Xerces): Defaults to false
OC4J (oraclexmlparserv2): Defaults to true (which contradicts the documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilderFactory.html#setNamespaceAware(boolean))
Tomcat: Always Throws ClassNotFoundException if the class isn't found
OC4J: Throws NoClassDefFoundError in some situations if the class isn't found
Are generics fully functional...?
Vector <String>strObject = new Vector <String>();
Now adding an int or any other type of object into this collection would throw a compile time error, which sounds good...!
//strObject.add(12) -- Compilation error
On the other hand,
Vector newVector = strObject;
This doesn't throw any compilation errors rather, you see a warning to recompile with -Xlint, which many a times we ignore....!
What does this mean to Gosling's tool..?
It's used when deSerializing an object, to determine whether that object is compatible with that object's class file in the JVM doing the deserialization. If the serialVersionUID of the class file doesn't match the serialVersionUID of the deserialized object, you'll get an InvalidClassException. If the class file doesn't explicitly declare a serialVersionUID, then the serialization runtime has to compute it, which is a relatively expensive process.
So what makes the Object that was serialized and its class incompatible?
1. Deleting fields from the class
2. Changing the type of a field
3. Changing a class from Serializable to Externalizable or vice versa
Keep the Pandoras box closed by adding a serialVersionUID to the class file.
Firefox killer Application - All Peer
It's a simple peer-to-peer file-sharing app. Set it up, select files you want to share, and who you want to share them with, and the person gets a notification. He can then grab them. It's that simple.
For the moment, AllPeers runs only under Firefox, but expect it to work with Internet Explorer some time in the future. If you've ever had a problem with sending a file via email, it's worth a look..!
Singleton Pattern
A singleton pattern can be used to create a Connection Pool. We can have connection object as singleton to avoid wastage of
Steps to create a singleton pattern,
- We need to have default constructor of the class as private, which prevents instantiation of the object by other classes.
- Define a static method that returns singleton object, If object doesn't exists new object is returned otherwise existing
object would be returned.
- To avoid the object being cloned, override the clone method of the Object class.
- If a application is going to be Multithreaded one then there can be chances wherein two therads at the sametime can access the static method which may create more than one instance of the singleton class. To avoid the above scenario we need to have this static method as synchronized.
class Singleton {
private static Singleton singletonObject;
private Singleton{
public static synchronized Singleton getInstance(){
if (singletonObject == null){
singletonObject = new Singleton();
return singletonObject;
public Object clone()throws CloneNotSupportedException{
throw new CloneNotSupportedException();
public class SingletonObjectDemo{
public static void main(String args[]){
//Singleton obj = new Singleton(); Would cause Compilation error.
//create the Singleton Object..
Singleton obj = Singleton.getInstance();
NoClassDefFoundError Vs ClassNotFoundException
I always wonder, why Java is not intelligent enough to fix problems in the code when it knows something goes wrong; rather than throwing just exceptions? May be Gosling wants it that way, saving donuts for him!
Now read on...
1 public class A{
3 public static void main(String []s) throws classNotFoundException{
4 B obj = new B();
5 // class.forName("B).newInstance()
6 }
8 }
1 public class B{
2 }
javac A.java
java A
This would throw a NoClassDefFoundError. Comment out line 4 and uncomment line 5. Now it would throw ClassNotFoundException.
ClassNotFoundexception is thrown when an application tries to load in a class through its string name using:
Otherwise NoClassDefFoundError is thrown.
The interesting fact is that, this behaves differently when your application runs in OC4j Oracle application server. i.e. your application would throw a NoClassDefFoundError to ClassNotFoundException.
If you dont want to miss your donut, add two catch blocks in your code...I already missed one..:(
}catch(ClassNotFoundexception e1){
}catch(NoClassDefFoundError e2){
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Further I also see of there are issues with class initialization, there could be NoClassDefFoundError.
Once there is an initialization failure, JVM marks the class as bad, and subsequent attempts to use or access the class result in NoClassDefFoundError
Web 2.0 in 5 minutes
Google Maps @ Work..!
Getting started with the Google Maps API is easy. There is nothing to download; you just need to sign up to obtain a key to use the API. There is no charge for publicly accessible sites (for more details, see the Sign up for the Google Maps API page). You need to provide the URL of your website, and, when your application is deployed on a website, your key will only work from this URL. One annoying thing about this constraint is that you need to set up a special key to use for your development or test machines: for the sample code, I had to create a special key for http://localhost:8080/maps, for example.
Once you have a valid key, you can see the Google Maps API in action. Let's start off with something simple: displaying a map on our web page.
The full code listing of our first Google Map is shown here:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Our first Google Map</title>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=MYKEY"
<script type="text/javascript">
function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(-41.5, -185), 5);
<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">
<div id="map" style="width: 420px; height: 420px"></div>
The first thing to notice here is the code that fetches the actual JavaScript code from the Google Maps server. You need to supply your key here for the code the work.
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=MYKEY"
Next comes the code that actually downloads the map from the server.
<script type="text/javascript">
function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(-41.5, -187.5), 5);
Finally, in the body, we display the map. The size and shape of the map are taken from the corresponding HTML element. The map is initialized when the page is loaded (via the onload event). In addition, when the user leaves the page, the GUnload() method is called (via the onunload event). This cleans up the map data structure in order to avoid memory leak problems that occur in Internet Explorer.
<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">
<div id="map" style="width: 420px; height: 420px"></div>
Panning and Zooming
Now that we can successfully display a map, let's try to add some zoom functionality. The Google Maps API lets you add a number of different controls to your map, including panning and zooming tools, a map scale, and a set of buttons letting you change between Map and Satellite views. In our example, we'll add a small pan/zoom control and an "Overview map" control, which places a small, collapsible overview map. You add controls using the addControl() method, as shown here:
function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(-41.5, -187.5), 5);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.addControl(new GOverviewMapControl());
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A MOTHER has been slammed in an online parenting forum for answering a personal question that her son had asked her about her sex life.
Posting in UK parenting forum, Mumsnet, the woman recounted the conversation that had taken place between her and her son, who is 12 years old.
"Mum this is kind of a weird question and I don't know about asking it," the boy began.
The mother responded by asking what the question was - and the boy came right out with it.
"How often do you and dad have sex?"
The woman says that she double checked, asking her son if he was sure he really wanted to know, to which he replied 'yes'.
So she answered him openly and honestly.
"Once or twice a week I guess," she said.
And then her son responded with what seems to be maybe a bit of embarrassment with a touch of humour to end the conversation.
He said, "Oh. Now NEVER say that again."
She went on to say how she encouraged her son to ask her any questions he felt curious about, leaving the lines of communication open and the ball in his court. Many would call this "good parenting" but it seems that others would not.
People instantly posted responses suggesting that the woman should not have discussed her sex life with her son.
"I would have told him it wasn't his business," wrote one person.
"I'm happy to answer general questions but I don't know about ones so personal," added another.
And the flow of negativity continued.
"Questions like that are inappropriate and answering them is even more inappropriate!"
"It is inappropriate for anyone to inquire about your sex life, unless it's a HCP. Be that your parents, children or friends. Some things just are private."
"Why didn't you tell him that was private he is 12 do you really think he doesn't know that is a really cheeky question?"
"Very inappropriate question. No matter the age!"
"It's not funny, or 'mortifying'. It's concerning. You should not have answered."
"WTH! I would have said, 'That is none of your business. That is a very inappropriate question'!"
One person recalled wondering a lot of things about her own parents but not being able to ask. "When I was learning about sex I wondered a lot about things like this and how much people were having sex. I'd say it's a credit to you that he feels comfortable to ask you the question, even if he didn't."
Another wrote, "Tbh he asked and you felt OK in answering. It's not as if you casually mentioned it to the cashier at Tesco or something."
"At least your son knows his parents have a good relationship. I don't think it's that bad that you told him. I'm just impressed you do it so much!" said another.
Someone else complemented the mother on the way she handled it, saying that her son is likely realising that she is not just a mother, but a woman, adding that it is "better for him to have a realistic concept of sex rather than see porn as the norm."
And one told the original poster to ignore the comments that were not supportive as those were unhelpful. "You were open, honest and it's an absolute credit that your little boy feels comfortable enough to talk to you. It's not too late to have the 'boundary' talk. Ya doing a great job generally, I can tell. Put it under the rug or have another talk but DO NOT feel guilty," they wrote.
And another with words of wisdom, "I think it's an amazing credit to you he asked and also that you checked first and then answered. What's the big secret? Adults have loving sex. Bravo."
A few were just shocked at the response.
"I'm impressed with once or twice a week!" wrote one.
And another simply wrote, "A WEEK?!"


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Boomer helps set the idea that Ahab is suffering from a mental condition.Explain.
Does this question relate to Chapter 100? I've found mention of Captain Boomer but haven't yet found any mention of an allusion to Ahab's mental state.
Chapter 100:
"Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's," cried Bunger, stoopingly walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing; "this man's blood—bring the thermometer!—it's at the boiling point!—his pulse makes these planks beat!—sir!"—taking a lancet from his pocket, and drawing near to Ahab's arm.
"Avast!" roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks—"Man the boat! Which way heading?"
"Good God!" cried the English Captain, to whom the question was put. "What's the matter? He was heading east, I think.—Is your Captain crazy?" whispering Fedallah.
But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle towards him, commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.


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For bankers, there are scary parallels between the IRS' failure to protect sensitive personal information and their own such struggles.
There's the need to accommodate a wide range of users ranging from tech-savvy to tech-avoiding. The use of static data to verify identity. The need to cope with slow-moving bureaucracy. The well-intentioned efforts to improve security that only open new doors for clever hackers.
So while it's tempting to roll your eyes and crack jokes when a government agency slips up, the IRS breach may hold some useful lessons for the financial services industry.
The tax agency acknowledged recently that the number of taxpayers whose information has been stolen by hackers through its systems is 724,000 — more than double the agency's previous estimate. And reports say some of the same taxpayers are getting targeted twice, through the very mechanism set up to protect them.
How the Breaches Happened
Cyberthieves broke in through the IRS's Get Transcript program, which taxpayers use to obtain copies of their federal income tax returns from previous years. Often people need to provide an old tax return when applying for a mortgage or seeking tuition aid, or starting with a new accountant. (The IRS suspended Get Transcript online in May 2015 and is working to restore it with enhanced security.)
To check the identity of the person applying for a tax return, Get Transcript asked for the applicant's name, date of birth, Social Security number and filing status. After that data was provided, the IRS asked four knowledge-based authentication questions.
"The problem is that, in many instances, this information can be gathered by a diligent hacker from public databases, social media where people provide this information, and [from] data breaches," said Steven Weisman, a professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass. who has written several books about identity theft and scams.
Some of the stolen data was used to file fraudulent tax returns in the victims' names. The IRS said in May that it had paid more than $50 million to criminals filing fake tax returns. The number of acknowledged victims has doubled since then; logically, the losses must have grown also, although the agency has not shared new numbers. (The IRS did not respond to requests for an interview by deadline.)
The targeted taxpayer doesn't lose money — once she re-proves her identity she can file her return and receive a full refund. But she'll have to wait — it takes an average of 278 days for the IRS to investigate income tax identity theft and return a refund to the correct taxpayer. The ultimate victims are all of us taxpayers who gradually refill the IRS's coffers.
To compound the problem, some of the original victims have been scammed again. To protect victims of income tax identity theft, the IRS began letting them set up a six-digit Identity Protection PIN when filing their returns.
However, the Identity Protection PIN program is protected by that same knowledge-based authentication that hackers broke into in the first place.
The IRS shut down its Identity Protection PIN program on Tuesday and said it's looking to improve security.
To make matters worse, hackers have latched onto this situation and unleashed phishing campaigns targeting taxpayers who may be confused. (More on this in my next post.)
Milan Patel, who until May was the FBI's cyber division chief technology officer, said the IRS is doing its best.
"They're a quite capable organization," said Patel, who is now managing director of the cyberdefense practice at K2 Intelligence. "The challenge is that you have a lot of data, you have a lot of people in the organization who are not cybersecurity experts. How do you educate tens of thousands of people whose main job is to check finances and not worry about cybersecurity?"
He also points out that the IRS has to deal with people all over the country with a wide range in degree of computer literacy.
"They have to balance accessibility with changing technology such that they don't alienate a huge population of the United States that's not tech-savvy," Patel said. "If my father was doing something with his taxes, he would probably call. If he tried to interact with a website with two-factor authentication, he'd be lost."
There are a few takeaways for banks from this mess.
1. Rethink knowledge-based authentication.
Because so much personal data can be found on the Internet, identity thieves sometimes can answer questions better than their victims can.
"This is one of the unintended byproducts of the oversharing economy," said Al Raymond, specialist leader for privacy and data protection at Deloitte (until recently, he was senior vice president and head of privacy and social media compliance at TD Bank). "By putting out so much information about ourselves in social media, fraudsters can easily piece enough of our lives together" to commit fraud of all kinds.
2. Don't let bureaucracy kill a good security idea.
In a report issued last year, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported that the year before, the IRS wanted to be able to compare W-2s to tax returns before issuing refunds. "While there is no 'silver bullet' for combating [identity theft] refund fraud, IRS officials told us that pre-refund W-2 matching could prevent billions of dollars in estimated [identity theft] refund fraud," the GAO said.
Sounds like a no-brainer. But the GAO said this would be too expensive and nixed the idea. It insisted the IRS do a study on the costs before undertaking this change.
"The fact that employers file W-2s with the Social Security Administration, which does not get around to sending them to the IRS until July, at which time the IRS starts matching the employer-sent W-2s with those sent by taxpayers, including identity thieves sending counterfeit W-2s long after refunds have been sent, is absolutely ludicrous," Weisman said.
Yet banks sometimes face similar budget and resource dilemmas.
"Everything is a risk management decision in one way or another," Raymond said. "Banks have thresholds of fraud that are acceptable and they will live with those numbers because it's not worth the effort to get down to a level of 0% fraud."
3. Teach customers to protect their Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable data.
"For bankers, this is a tremendous opportunity to educate your clients, to provide them with information, maybe even seminars, to alert them to best practices they can take," Weisman said. They should explain, for instance, that the Social Security number is the key to identity theft.
Weisman recently went to the eye doctor and was asked for his Social Security number. "They don't need it," he said. He offered his driver's license instead, and the doctor's office was fine with that. "You teach people about limiting those things."
4. Try stronger authentication technology.
The IRS is exploring ideas for preventing identity theft. One is to track device identification numbers to determine when multiple returns are filed from the same device, a possible indicator of fraud.
Similarly, "I think financial institutions should not shy away from the more assertive authentication procedures," Raymond said. Banks can point out that the extra layer of authentication is for the customer's safety and peace of mind, he noted. "I kind of enjoy getting a text from my credit card company asking me if I just bought a big-screen TV in Romania," he said. "I usually didn't."
Weisman said this is an argument for better systems such as dual-factor authentication in which a code is sent to the user's smartphone when she needs to access an account.
Data security is an ongoing battle for all organizations, with hackers typically a step ahead of IT departments. Banks have an advantage in that they can, in theory at least, implement new security technology and procedures faster than a large government agency can.
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In addition to the standard COM API, easyConverter SDK is also available as a native .NET API. The API layer is written in 100% managed (verifiable) C# code, without using any native function calls. It does not rely on any COM objects, p/invoke, or managed-native interop.
The native .NET API works by launching an external worker process (also known as a sandbox), which is not a .NET application, but rather native x86 machine code. However, this external process is completely isolated. Named pipes are used for communication in between the 100% .NET world and the x86 sandbox.
There are numerous advantages to using this new native .NET API, instead of the older COM objects:
PDF2Word object launches its own
independent worker process.
ConvertToWord3 no longer returns an
but a
byte[]. Exceptions thrown are native .NET as
There are no known disadvantages to using the native .NET API versus the COM interop API.
The native .NET API is very similar to the COM API, with only a few distinct differences.
First, you need to add
If you are targeting .NET 4.x, you need to add a reference to
BCL.easyConverter.Word.dll assembly, which is
c:\Program Files\BCL Technologies\easyConverter SDK
If you are targeting .NET 3.5, you need to add a reference to
BCL.easyConverter.Word-NET35.dll assembly, which
is under
c:\Program Files\BCL Technologies\easyConverter SDK
If you are targeting .NET Core, you need to add a reference to
BCL.easyConverter.Word.NetCore.dll assembly, which
is under
c:\Program Files\BCL Technologies\easyConverter SDK
COM exceptions were replaced by the new
class is inherited from
IDisposable, which means it
really needs to be deterministically disposed. Relying on the
garbage collector is not recommended, because each
PDF2Word object launches a separate worker process.
Even though these worker processes are sleeping while not executing
a function, they are still in the memory, and only really quit when
PDF2Word object is disposed.
PDF2Word object should be treated as if it were
an expensive resource, such as a file, mutex, or a database
connection. If you would like to know what really is inside
PDF2Word, it is just a named pipe. However, the worker
process is programmed to only quit when the pipe is closed.
If the customer's application crashes, the system automatically closes all pipes belonging to the process, which means all related worker processes automatically quit as well.
The minimal C# sample code looks like this:
(Note: all Native .NET sample code and declarations have a light yellow background color)
using(PDF2Word pdf2word = new PDF2Word())
pdf2word.ConvertToWord(@"c:\temp\input.pdf", @"c:\temp\output.doc");
The key here is the
using keyword, which gives
PDF2Word a deterministic behavior.
An alternative solution, especially if you are catching exceptions, is the try/finally idiom:
PDF2Word pdf2word = new PDF2Word(); try { pdf2word.ConvertToWord(@"c:\temp\input.pdf", @"c:\temp\output.doc"); } catch(PDF2WordException ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } finally { pdf2word.Dispose(); }
The key here is the
finally block, which calls
PDF2Word's constructor is designed to never throw
exceptions. That's because it does not launch a worker process and
does not create a named pipe, it merely initializes a few variables
to their default values. In other words, creating a
PDF2Word object is extremely lightweight, like
creating a Color object.
However, as soon as you do anything else, even getting a property, it instantly launches a worker process.
Notification events in the native .NET API are slightly
different than in the COM object. Here is an example that catches
OnPageStart, which is called before converting each
using(PDF2Word pdf2word = new PDF2Word())
pdf2word.OnPageStart += new PDF2Word.OnPageStartEventHandler(OnPageStart);
pdf2word.ConvertToWord(@"c:\temp\input.pdf", @"c:\temp\output.doc");
You would then create your own handler method as follows:
cnvResponse OnPageStart(int pageNumber, int pageCount, string fileName) { Console.WriteLine(pageNumber); return cnvResponse.CNV_CONTINUE; }
What's different here from COM is that event handlers return
cnvResponse, instead of
PDF2Word does not require easyConverter Loader, so it is not used by default. However, some users might want to force the use of Loader. This is mainly done in order to gain permission to special directories.
Forcing Loader is very simple, but it needs to be done as first
thing, immediately after the
PDF2Word object is
using(PDF2Word pdf2word = new PDF2Word())
pdf2word.LoaderSettings.UseLoader = true; // use Loader
pdf2word.ConvertToWord(@"c:\temp\input.pdf", @"c:\temp\output.doc");
If you do anything at all with the
PDF2Word object,
LoaderSettings has no effect whatsoever
anymore. That also means you can't change
LoaderSettings in the middle.
LoaderSettings should be treated as if it were part of
the constructor.
Loader is a BCL-provided service that requires special setup.


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To become a member of the AOA's Code of Practice (now OliveCare®) you need to:
- Be a financial member of the AOA.
- Download the COP Manual (below) and read it.
- Download the COP application form and checklist (below) and complete with reference to the Guide to completing the checklist.
- Submit this information to the AOA Secretariat either by email, fax or post.
It normally takes around 2 weeks to process your application. If successful we will send you a confirmation letter, certificate, POS order form and COP procedures manual.
Responsibilities of COP Signatories
- Being financial – paying all membership fees in full preferably before the due date.
- Undertake product testing annually meeting AS 5264-2011 requirements for true classification for each product to be certified under the Code of Practice.
The minimum test requirements are NIR analysis of:
Free Fatty Acids (FFA), Peroxide Value (PV), Ultra-Violet Absorption (UV) – (deltaK, K232 &K270)
plus sensory assessment undertaken by – NSW DPI or Modern Olives (or through participation in a recognised EVOO Competition).
- Providing copies of all product labels to be certified – these need to be compliant with AS 5264-2011, Australian Consumer Law Export market and Code requirements. Ref: AOA Labelling Guide
Also a good idea to send the Code Administrator a draft of any proposed label changes for approval prior to printing.
- Providing evidence of having a HACCP style food safety / food quality plan – either 'in-house' or as part of a third party certification arrangement.
AOA provide a Risk Assessment tool and HACCP Style Food Safety / Food Quality Plan Template that Signatories can adapt to suit their enterprises.
- Providing evidence of having a product traceability system including the use of unique batch codes, supply chain records and a product recall system in place.
Highly Recommended:
- Evidence that your product Best Before Dates (BBD) values are supported by technical evidence.
Note: Product BBDs may not exceed 24 months.
Potential BBD is best determined from the lowest value derived from Rancimat® (Induction time), PPP and DAG testing, whereby:
- IND predicted BBD hours = months
- PPP predicted BBD =(17-PPPs)/(7/12) months
- DAG predicted BBD =(DAGs-35)/(20/12) months – when FFA is less than 0.40%
- DAG predicted BBD =(DAGs-35)/(25/12) months – when FFA is greater than 0.40%, and less than 0.60%
- DAG predicted BBD =(DAGs-35)/(30/12) months – when FFA is greater than 0.60%
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OliveCare® Application Form & Agreement
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NIGA Chairman Endorses Egghart LLC's First Scholarship For Native American Accounting Students
Jan 09, 2013, 03:05 EST
RENO, Nev., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chairman Ernie Stevens of the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) has endorsed the Egghart Certified Public Accountants Scholarship for Native American Accounting Students, a new scholarship offered by the Reno, Nevada-based accounting firm.
"I'm thrilled to announce that Egghart is investing in a new generation of Native accountants and auditors," said Chairman Stevens. "This is a wonderful opportunity for Native youth to pursue higher education and help protect tribal sovereignty."
The Egghart Certified Public Accountants Scholarship for Native American Accounting Students provides three awards of up to $5,000 each for the 2013 academic year. A competitive, merit-based scholarship, it was established to assist Native American students who plan to enter the accounting profession. Chairman Stevens will serve on the scholarship committee and help select awardees.
"Ultimately, we hope this scholarship helps build infrastructure and human capacity in Indian Country," said Egghart Partner and Director of Audit and Assurance Ryan Burns. "It's our way of giving back to the communities we work so closely with."
Egghart has long provided audit, consulting and training services to Native American Tribes and Casinos nationwide, as well as educational services that advance Tribal self-reliance. For more information about the firm, visit http://www.egghart.com/.
To apply for the Egghart Certified Public Accountants Scholarship for Native American Accounting Students, download an application at http://www.egghart.com/scholarship.
All documents must be submitted online no later than February 1, 2013, to email@example.com by 5:00 P.M. PST on the deadline date.
For assistance with completing the application, please email email@example.com.
About Egghart Certified Public Accountants
Egghart LLC, is a Nevada based CPA firm providing audit, consulting, and training services to Native American Tribes and Casinos nationwide to assist them in providing accountability to their membership, while protecting economic sovereignty.
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