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Well, until it gets fixed. I have literally no idea what's causing that to happen. It's kind of exciting.
So is there a plan or has anyone talked to the owners about the server being on the super slow side? I can't imagine it's going to get better now that TFN is gonna explode again with all the new Star Wars new.
We're working on it, there are a couple of routes in the mix but nothing's been settled on just yet. I know Grimby is doing some tweaking to see if that'll help, too.
In the meantime should this be brought up in the RPF somewhere? I can do it if you'd like since I'd rather you worked on figuring out the problem, I just don't know where exactly I should post about it.
Speaking of tags, I just got the following error message when I tried to tag someone: "You don't have permission to tag people in messages." Huh?
Upgrading accidentally disabled it for everyone by way of the new extension setting all usergroup's permission level to "zero tags". It's fixed now.
I'm kind of sick of the cloistered feel of the Community section. This latest issue with formerly JCC-only mods locking a Senate thread. It's annoying and needs to end or the areas need to split again. Frankly the JCCification of the Senate is also bothersome. So yeah, work on that.
Hi FID, If this is about the Election thread, the existing thread was locked and discussion redirected to a brand new thread at the request of Senate users/thread regulars rather than by my own initiative. As far as "JCCification" goes, an imminent election is something that everybody is willing to discuss and I'm sure you won't have to put up with JCCers as soon as the actual event is over. We tried a separate JCC election thread and a Senate election thread on the temp boards, but the Senate mods didn't like that and preferred to have all the discussion in their thread. So if all political discussion is going to occur under a Senate tag, it's only fair that you let others participate as well. You can share, it doesn't hurt. All prior JCC media threads now have an Amph tag and the users get along just fine. As for moderation, we're an integrated mod team, and Arena mods have modded Amph threads, etc. We all know the basic rules and standards embraced under each tag.
Others can participate. It's just pathetic that all of these various forums have been absorbed into the crap 'Community' label when the reason they were originally created was because the JCC sucked mightily for the discussions that take place.
That might be your view, but we had a discussion where users of each board chimed in and mod squad as a whole discussed it. We went over it at considerable length, and while there were costs, the benefits of an integrated board outweighed that because different threads were getting exposed to different users and points of view than they had when the forums were separated. There was an adjustment period, but we've gotten used to it. I don't see the merge being revisited at this time. Regardless, this thread is for issues related to the new board software and things of that nature.
The title says, 'We're Back! Post questions and issues here'. It does not say: 'questions and tech issues here' This is a big issue. One that hinges on really weak justifications. Where was this discussion? Were users informed? I'm hearing conflicting stories on how agreeable this situation is. So either you're BS'ing me to stifle discussion (which I don't put past you) or you're talking out of your bottom with the royal 'we' as if some sort of hive mind. Which is also an amusing thought. Either way your reasoning isn't sound. The areas have their own culture and their own attitudes towards discussion. The JCC is the goof-off factory for people who have no interest in real discussion (much like your reply, so good to see that you're consistent). The Senate and the Arena are for more specific discussions. So you're not only screwing their posters by JCC'ing everything, but you're also destroying what made them unique to begin with. Normally this is a silly issue considering it's an online forum, however, given that the individualized areas were around for a lot longer than this crappy layout I'd say you're short-changing your users who wanted things separate and feel they don't belong in the 'Community' area which sounds like a urinal area, by the way, which kind of fits with what it's become.
Yes, it was discussed. It was discussed in a 1,190 post thread with 17,922 views over the span of almost four months. You may not have been personally consulted, but that doesn't mean it wasn't discussed. The movement to merge the boards, in fact, came out of a thread where the users of the temporarily combined forum expressed pleasure at the amount of interaction and cross-pollination that was going on -- so far from the mods imposing some sort of tyrannical policy without consulting the users, the reality is that the merge came at the behest of the users. It was discussed, and it was discussed ad nauseum. You're not purveying a unique, never-considered position.
Welcome to six months ago. The entire community had a long, intense discussion (that Jello just linked you to) and in the end the powers that be decided to go with the current system in the Community forum. Has there been some problems? Yeah. But on the whole I think it's a good thing as it doesn't create closed, stagnant communities. Just because you weren't around/didn't participate in the previous discussion doesn't mean it didn't happen. And it doesn't mean you can cloak yourself as some champion of the Senate forum, (or the Arena forum, where I don't recall ever seeing you) trying to "fight the good fight" for specialized discussion. Because you're very late to the table with that attitude, and you come off as an attention whore. An extremely condescending, hostile one to boot who's using past issues with Jello to make ridiculous claims about the forums as a whole.
I see the tag was changed and the previous election thread was unlocked. Two threads on the same topic. Great idea. Worked so well on the temp boards.
There are some threads that might happen to overlap - it's not that big of a deal. Jay tried to help consolidate things based on input from Senate regulars but he changed it back. So there's a thread for more in depth discussion and one for general reactions. It's fine, two threads won't break the internet. FID, we had a massive discussion that ran the course of pretty much the entire time we were at the temp boards. I'm sorry that you don't like the outcome but, at this point, it's been working rather well. Yes, there are different cultures, but, at the same time, it's afforded people so many more opportunities to interact with each other. That just didn't happen when we had three different forums. We've had a minimum of issues and, up to now, you're the only one that's had any major complaint. I enjoy seeing Senate and Amph posters showing up in JCC threads and I think it's good to have everyone in the same place.
So can the Arena and C&G go back to being on their own since they aren't included in your statement there?
I can certainly edit them in there. It wasn't my intention to make Arena people feel left out. But the Amph/Senate/JCC has usually been the sticking point in terms of 'discussion threads' in the past.
Actually Inty and I pushed a huge part of that discussion that took place on the Temp boards from the Arena standpoint so it does feel like you're belittling the fact that the Arena existed as a forum. I also think you're trying to minimize what was done by saying only three forums were impacted and that isn't the case.
Again, it was not my intention to belittle Arena. Arena is included in the Community group. Please don't put assumptions where there don't need to be any. I left out Arena. My mistake. I apologize for leaving Arena and Census out of my previous post.


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After my stint in the backstage press room at the Golden Globes, I headed into the night for a round of Beverly Hilton parties. (I scored 8 out of 9 on my Globe predictions.)
First I crossed the forlorn red carpet to the tented Fox party in the parking lot. There Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman was having an intense confab with Searchlight co-president Nancy Utley; they were planning the next phase of their assault on "The Punisher" Harvey Weinstein, who had dominated the Globes with six wins including three for current Oscar front-runner "The Artist." Even the guys at UK foreign sales company Hanway were impressed with how The Weinstein Co. worked "The Artist" on their side of the pond with the BAFTAs (their nominations come out Monday night).
Searchlight co-president Steve Gilula reminded me that "The Descendants," which gets a boost from winning two Globes, for best drama and actor George Clooney, has more than $47 million in the box office till and will go wide after the nominations next week. But also plotting their battle against Harvey is Sony Pictures Classics, which looks to dominate the foreign category, per usual, and has high hopes for Woody Allen's Globe screenplay-winner "Midnight in Paris." (Original screenplay may be its only Oscar win too.)
My favorite moment at the Fox party was watching "Homeland" star Damian Lewis boogying down with his actress wife Helen McCrory; he was good! While the Fox party was going strong, my pal Dan Lupovitz and I ventured back to the halls of the Hilton to check out the Weinstein celebration at Trader Vic's, with stars packed into booths. "It's all good," Harvey Weinstein said when I told him troops were massing on his borders. Harvey was introducing folks to each other, from Ewan McGregor, Jason Statham and Gerard Butler to Viola Davis and Cameron Diaz. As Leonardo DiCaprio headed out a side door, he whispered the location of the CAA party to Diaz. (Listening to DiCaprio on the red carpet explain what "J. Edgar" was about you could feel eyes glazing over worldwide. It was a hopeless cause.) In the lobby, Warners chief Jeff Robinov was on his way there too, as CBS honcho Leslie Moonves was getting his TWC wristband.
Heavy security was the issue at the HBO poolside party, where Robinov said even he had trouble getting in; so did producer Jerry Weintraub. (You do not mess with Jerry Weintraub.) "Thelma & Louise" star Christopher MacDonald introduced me to "The Good Wife" star and tall drink of water Chris Noth (Mr. Big). The most disastrous thing you can say to talent is "I'm a huge fan"–that's what every idiot says. "Tell him I can be articulate," I begged MacDonald. At which point Noth scooped me into his arms for a kiss. It almost happened. But it didn't.
In a near swoon, I sailed off to meet "Mad Men" star Jared Harris, who confessed to my bud Doug Stewart that he had pitched duelling Warhols to Saturday Night Live, but was rejected. "You can do it when you host the show," I said. He looked at me, like, "that's never going to happen." The other issue at these parties is knowing how to break into a tight circle surrounding people everyone wants to talk to, like Judd Apatow and Adam Shankman. We didn't.
On our way out we passed Penny Marshall with James Marsden on their way in. But we were flagging and I was sticking to my Globe tradition: dancing with HFPA member Alessandra Venezia to the pulse-pounding disco beat at the dark Warner/Instyle party–where they give out stacks of Godiva chocolates– at evening's end.
On the shuttle bus I read @AlbertBrooks' tweet: "Just found out on Twitter that I lost. Shit." And @markharrisnyc wrote: "Oscar-predictive value of Globes: Zero. But the wins for Streep and Scorsese suggest interesting races are ahead."

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Now, decades later, after possibly taking out the trash many thousands of times, my methods have evolved. A second trash can emerged on the scene. It was strange at first, but with age comes respect for life and where we all live together, so I decided to do my part to lower the impact of waste on this planet. I learned to recycle.
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When I first started reading Davy Rothbart's new essay collection, My Heart is an Idiot, I was worried. It begins, "When I was a kid, I had a friend down the street named Kwame whose older brother was mentally handicapped. This gave Kwame license, he felt, to make fun of other mentally handicapped folks he encountered. If anyone gave him grief for it, he'd say, 'Hey, I'm just playin' around—my brother's a retard.'"
Not to sound like the PC police, but this seemed like a risky opening for a book. Deliberately offensive jokes always seem less funny than intended. It's not that rude jokes can't get a laugh; they just seem tougher to execute well, like a diving routine with a few extra twists and somersaults.
As a result, I read that opening essay, "Bigger and Deafer", a little skeptically. Kwame would "dropkick retard jokes" to his brother since it's fine to mock your own kin, although "if anyone else unleashed the same kind of jokes, they'd get their ass beat quick." Young Davy took the cue from Kawme and decided that it was okay to make fun of his deaf mother, loudly calling her a bitch in front of stunned neighborhood kids. None of this bode well for the book, I thought, but the storytelling was entertaining enough, so I went with it. I'm glad I did. I got used to the style, and the book improved with each passing tale.
If the essays seemed a little brash at first, I probably should've expected it. Like the stories in Rothbart's The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas and the rouge notes in his Found magazine, My Heart is an Idiot offers a delightfully random slice of humanity including scrappy kids, scam artists, convicts, working-class guys just trying to keep a roof over their heads, and dream girls wasting away in food service jobs. The book is dedicated to "the townies". It doesn't go out to the white girls from Connecticut. It's not terribly polite.
Rothbart is known for his work on WBEZ's This American Life and for Found, which is filled with notes, lists, letters, and other funny, heartfelt, and illuminating scraps found in gutters across America. My Heart is an Idiot includes the kind of diverse souls who probably wrote the Found notes—funny things like "it was a lizard—in response to what's the awful smell in my trunk?" and "Be Right Back -Godot".
The short stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas have similarly quirky characters, but they seem maybe a little too precious in their oddness; sometimes the truth really is stranger (and better) than fiction. My Heart is an Idiot combines the best of Found and The Lone Surfer; it brings an array of real, hard-living Americans to life on the page in a way that seems true and relatable, and it gives readers reasons to think, feel, and on more than a few occasions, to laugh out loud at Davy's shocking sense of humor. (Don't read this book on the train, or if you do, be prepared to call attention to yourself.)
"Bigger and Deafer" didn't dazzle me at first, but "Human Snowball" did, chronicling one crazy night when Davy collected a posse of new friends including a Canadian car thief, a 110-year-old man, and a family that runs a local Chinese restaurant. The whole tale hammers home the power of solidarity, the notion that we can accomplish more together than we can on our own, and the truth that most people, despite our prejudices and first impressions, are pretty good, at heart.
Of course, goodness is a relative concept. The crew celebrated surviving the evening by drinking at this kind of bar: "People shouted over the deafening thump of a jukebox and the thunderous rattle of empty bottles being tossed into a metal drum. Directly overhead, two hockey games roared from a pair of giant TVs. It smelled like someone had puked on a campfire. All of which is to say, just the way I liked it."
The way "Human Snowball" is written, we're never really asked to judge Canadian Chris for his car thievery. He's too cute, too generous. But as the story progresses, the moral ambiguity thickens. The characters become shadier, and the stories grow suspenseful. Who is Nicole of "What are You Wearing?" and what is Lon Hackney up to in "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Pee on the Wall" up to? (And for that matter, what is Davy up to in that story?) Things grow darker in "Tarantula", and by the time "The Strongest Man in the World" comes around, My Heart is an Idiot becomes truly impossible to put down.
Rothbart writes about these messy lives with humor and generosity, and even when I disliked them, I was curious about them. There's a familiar relationship between Davy and the characters he meets in each essay. If he's gently (or not-so-gently) mocking them, it might be in a brotherly way, the way Kwame jabbed his brother in the first story. And the author is just as quick to portray himself as rough around the edges, dopey heart and all.
Comparatively, Davy's dream girls are some of the least compelling characters. They're prizes at the end of the quest, or else they're mirages vanishing in the desert. But that's okay; they're the impossible dreams that push the guy into these incredible situations, meeting these far less lovely but more immediately absorbing people populating his adventurous life. He never suggests that these girls don't have their own messy inner lives; only that his heart can't truly recognize them. (Davy even misreads his mother in the first book, thinking he's in control of the pranks, when really, his mother is playing her own, knowing game.)
In the end, My Heart is an Idiot really is a fascinating lesson on how to live: with an open mind and heart, willing to travel dusty roads through small towns, mixing with the people most folks rarely meet, learning from them, and embracing the adventure of life. It isn't the only way to live a fulfilling life, but it's certainly one way. And it's very convincing.
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Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo
Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental
October 20, 2010
Pedro Cayuqueo is a Mapuche journalist who has worked for a number of newspapers and outlets. He is a founding director of Azkintuwe (azkintuwe.org), "the newspaper of Mapuche country". The country encompasses part of Argentina and Chile: the newspaper, the important political issues affecting the Mapuche. From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era "anti-terrorist" legislation. The hunger strike ended after 89 days with the government acceding to the strikers' demands. Pedro Cayuqueo was in Canada on a cross-country tour, meeting with indigenous peoples and others (including attending an event commemorating Dudley George at Ipperwash). We met him in Toronto on October 14, 2010.
Justin Podur (JP): Let's start with a little bit about you.
Pedro Cayuqueo (PC): I am a Mapuche from the town of Temuco, which is in the 9th region of Chile according to Pinochet's military numbering system. I studied journalism at the Universidad de la Frontera, and I studied law before that. In October 2003 I founded the Mapuche newspaper Azkintuwe. Before that I was a hardcore internet writer activist, working for the Colectivo Lientur (Lientur is the name of a famous Mapuche warrior) in "counter-information". That wasn't classic journalism, but more written activism.
JP: But Azkintuwe is more like classic journalism?
PC: Yes. We are trying to reach another public with Azkintuwe.
JP: And have you been successful?
PC: Over the past 7 years we have distributed a total of 500,000 copies. We are the only print media of the Mapuche. There are some bulletins, zines, and so on, but we're the biggest one regularly in print. We distribute across the cordillera, from Buenos Aires to the south in Argentina and from Santiago to the south in Chile.
JP: Give us some context about the hunger strike. We followed the strike with a lot of concern for the lives of the political prisoners, but I think people will want to know the context that the strike took place in. What are the longer term elements of the struggle that brought these prisoners to a strike?
PC: The strike took place in a context of repression by the state against Mapuche struggling for their territory. We estimate that about 1000 have gone through Chilean jails as part of the Mapuche struggle over the past 10 years. There were 106 at the beginning of this year, 58 of whom were being tried under this Pinochet-era "antiterrorist" legislation. Ironically, the law was designed to persecute the left under Pinochet. Perversely, it was used by ostensibly left-wing governments against the Mapuche. The prison struggle had process-oriented demands, but it was completely immersed in the wider struggle.
To understand the Mapuche struggle there are two key antecedents. First, the Mapuche struggle in South America did not have very much to do with a struggle against the Spanish Crown. It had a lot more to do with a struggle against the Republic. This tells you something – the colonization is more recent than in other parts of the America. The loss of Mapuche territorial autonomy is not something that happened 400 or 500 years ago – it happened in my great-grandfather's generation. My great-grandfather died in the war with the Chilean Republic, 3 generations ago. My grandfather was a child and remembered being expelled from their lands. The history of colonial violence is a recent history. That has influenced the character of the struggle – not that it has made it better or worse, easier or harder, but it is different from other struggles.
Perhaps because the colonial history is recent, the Mapuche feel a very strong sense of cultural unity. There is a wide diversity of political opinion among the Mapuche, a wide diversity of religious views, but the cultural affinity, the cultural identity, is wide and deep. Traditional ceremonies, rituals, the cultural elements are shared even among people who would come to blows over politics. The recent nature of the loss of land means that the sense of identity is very strong. That's the first point.
The second point is that in recent decades, the conflict has focused against transnational corporations, the state, repressive forces, police, and private guards. A new generation of Mapuche, raised in a strong cultural tradition, are forming a political, national identity which is under construction. This has been the case since the dictatorship in 1973.
The development model imposed by the dictatorship, the political and social model, was one designed to benefit the elite and it was one in which the Mapuche were an obstacle. It's important to note the distinction here, between an elite model and a right-wing one. This was an elite model, not a right wing model. So when the right-wing dictatorship left, and democracy was instituted, the model didn't change, it was now an elite democracy. So we could say that the dictatorship worked – it strengthened the elite and allowed the impoverishment of the majority. Chile is now a very unequal society – that doesn't just affect the Mapuche, doesn't just affect the indigenous, but everyone.
JP: Can you go back over this with a timeline? And take us to today's conflict?
PC: The first phase was between 1900-1935, when the territory of the Mapuche was being invaded by force. This phase was about taking Mapuche land and sharing it out to outsiders, Chileans, Germans, Swiss, other Europeans, colonizing the Mapuche zone. My grandfather lived this.
In the 1960s, there was an agrarian reform, which gave the Mapuches back some land – not as Mapuche, but as peasants. Chile's left, including Allende, didn't recognize or understand indigenous rights or claims. Indigenous people could make demands as peasants, but not as indigenous. One of the effects of this agrarian reform though was to lower pressure on the land and reduce the strain on the Mapuche.
In the 1970s, though, the seeds of today's conflict were created. Among the first acts of the dictatorship in 1974 was to reverse the agricultural reform. The counter-reform had the clear intention of transforming southern Chile from an agricultural zone to a wood production zone. In 1974, Canadian, Australian, and US capital joined Chilean capital to turn Mapuche territory into a forest production zone. The Mapuche lands were quickly surrounded by pine and eucalyptus plantations taken by multinational corporations.
Chile was the laboratory of neoliberalism on the planet – it was the zone where the Chicago Boys and Milton Friedman got to try out all their theories because Pinochet opened it up absolutely – no environmental regulations, no labour rights, no protectionism. The resources of the country were open for any takers.
Pine and eucalyptus take about 20 years to reach maturity in Chile's climate. As the trees grew, the conflict grew, and by the time the trees were ready to harvest, the conflict was ready to explode. In 1999-2000, the current phase of the struggle, with direct actions and land occupations, began.
The plantation economy brought a daily round of humiliations and problems to life. The insecticides and herbicides, like glyphosate, affected people's health, through air and water. The private forest guards abused community members and gradually became a kind of armed paramilitary force, committing arbitrary arrests, beatings, and killing animals in the name of "protecting" plantations. Communities were totally surrounded by plantations, which were deemed private property – so people were basically trapped, having to break the law to leave their community. There were huge camps of forest workers from other parts of Chile – these workers, like the 33 rescued miners, were being exploited at low wages. The Mapuche were frustrated that they wouldn't see even these jobs – their lands were being lost with absolutely no benefit at all. So when the struggle was launched through the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) organization in 1998, the basic demand was for the forest companies to leave.
CAM didn't believe in waiting for the government. Its policy was one of direct action, land occupation, and self-defence against paramilitary and police aggression. And it has been 10 years of constant struggle, first against forest capital, and recently against mining and hydroelectric projects, as well as some agribusiness and aquaculture. In all these cases, transnationals take advantage of the model and laws set up under the dictatorship to avoid regulations they might have to face in other countries.
JP: How would you summarize the model?
PC: Free trade, free markets, no regulations, no welfare rights or subsidies. The dictatorship was successful in Chile. It ended when it was no longer necessary. The criminals were never judged. It was a polite transition, not an overthrow by a rebellion. Pinochet's 1982 Magna Carta has held. There were some modifications, but the model has carried over from the dictatorship. The ideologue of that era, Jaime Guzman, designed the electoral system to exclude any force the dominant 2 parties see as "minoritarian".
JP: And what has been the balance of the 10 years of struggle? What have been the victories? The lessons learned?
PC: One victory has been that in Chile, there is at least some questioning about the economic model, the model of the state in Chile. We are at the bicentennial and people are asking about how Chile was constructed. This is a symbolic victory but it's important. We are strengthening autonomy, the recognition of identity, reaching out to sympathetic Chileans and building relationships in Chile. There is a consciousness of collective rights. Where Mapuche spoke of land in the 1970s and 1980s, since the 1990s we have spoken about territory – territory implies a collective, as opposed to an individual concept. As in Ecuador and Bolivia, where they are talking about 'buen vivir' ("living well"), there are also these concepts of coexistence and development. It's an ideological victory to get out from under the hand on us, the idea that even the left in Chile endorsed, that indigenous rights aren't distinguishable from peasant or worker rights. We now have our own conception and that gives us a chance at our own political project, which is under construction. There are multiple visions for moving forward.
As for the lessons learned, I would say we have seen that the Mapuche can't limit the struggle to a rural struggle against multinationals (forest, mines, hydro). It's a reactive model. Now it's necessary to react, but we also need to propose. And we need to propose along with all those who are affected by the model. We need to include all in a platform. Chile's movements – unions, students, middle classes, politics, aren't very strong right now. The state's legitimacy is low and abstention is very high in elections. The future of the struggle has to recognize changes in society. Our struggles have been rural but 70% of Mapuche live in urban areas. Urban issues are Mapuche issues now. These ideas weren't present in the 1999 movement when the demand was for the forest companies to get out of our communities. So we are reflecting. My impression is that in places like Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, indigenous intellectuals might be more advanced in thinking about these things. We have been in the fighting mode so long, we are not in the mode to propose, to build coalitions.
Manuel Rozental (MR): You pointed out how perverse it was that a left-wing government used Pinochet-era laws to persecute indigenous people. Other countries followed Chile into neoliberalism, and other movements followed the Mapuche in resistance. It seems like one thing that's unique about Chile is that free trade policies and neoliberalism are built into the constitution by the dictatorship. Whereas elsewhere the global institutions try to impose the policies and people resist, in Chile it's illegal to resist. What happened in Chile raises another issue, I think, that has been present for the past several years throughout Latin America where progressive governments have been elected: the contradictions between left governments and social movements.
PC: The strike was confusing to many in Chile at first. Why would a left government do this to indigenous people? Until last year, the government was a left government and it criminalized the Mapuche just like right wing governments had before and since. We were asked, while being criminalized, to support the left in the elections out of fear of the right. But those governments helped the right by criminalizing us.
MR: What was so powerful about the hunger strike for those watching outside Chile, in places like Colombia, was that it was a stand for dignity. It was a statement that in all the negotiations between movements and governments, among all the confusion and co-optation, here were the Mapuche who were saying that dignity was non-negotiable and they were willing to die to show it.
PC: They were in real danger of death and they were willing to die. The Mapuche in Argentina had an alliance with the progressive government of Cristina Kirchner. We wondered what they were getting out of the alliance. They argued that they were getting a progressive media law. But that media law wasn't something won by struggle, it was an elite, internal decision. So, the government was getting more out of the deal than the Mapuche. Meanwhile in Chile, the government was criminalizing the people.
MR: It seems to come down to this decision for movements in a lot of places where progressive governments are in power – do you get in and try to get stuff, even when the government is betraying its progressive mandate, or do you resist.
PC: That is the moment we are in.
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer. Manuel Rozental is a Colombian surgeon and activist. Both are members of the Pueblos en Camino collective (www.en-camino.org).


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USAT's Davidson and Hansen Treat Growing Hospital Staff Cuts As 'Surprising'
The healthcare sector, particular hospitals, is hitting a wall. In a Sunday morning writeup, USA Today reporters Paul Davidson and Barbara Hansen considered this news "surprising," because Obamacare is supposedly going to bring hospitals so much new business.
Well, guys, that new business needs to be profitable. Odds are it won't be. The staff cuts also appear to foreshadow the rationing so many people have predicted would result, and which has resulted under state-run healthcare in U.S. states like Massachusetts and other countries, if Obamacare passed. Of course, the USAT pair didn't recognize that possibility. Excerpts follow the jump (bolds are mine):
A job engine sputters as hospitals cut staff
Hospitals are cutting thousands of jobs, undercutting a sector that was a reliable source of job growth, even through the recession.Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and inpatient visits.
The payroll cuts are surprising because the Affordable Care Act (ACA), whose implementation took a big step forward this month, is eventually expected to provide health coverage to as many as 30 million additional Americans.
"While the rest of the U.S. economy is stabilizing or improving, health care is entering into a recession," says John Howser, assistant vice chancellor of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Health care providers announced more layoffs than any other industry last month — 8,128 — largely because of reductions by hospitals, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. So far this year, the health care sector has announced 41,085 layoffs, the third-most behind financial and industrial companies.
Total private hospital employment is still up by 36,000 in the past 12 months, but it's down by 8,000 since April, and more staff reductions are expected into next year.
... There are myriad reasons for the cuts, which are affecting administrative staff as well as nurses and doctors:
• Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies are all reducing reimbursement to hospitals. The federal budget cuts known as sequestration have cut Medicare reimbursement by 2%, the American Hospital Association says.
• As more Baby Boomers turn 65, their services will be reimbursed at Medicare rates that are lower than those of private payers, putting further pressure on hospital revenue.
Seasonally adjusted data from the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics shows only 7,000 jobs added at hospitals during the first eight months of this year.
So hospitals are cutting staff, and they expect an influx of patients who will now be able to utilize their services and that many Americans, as they age, will need more of their services. The combination of more customers, customers requiring more treatment, and less ability to serve customers due to inadequate reimbursements means that more Americans will experience longer waits for treatments and more aggressive attempts to talk them out of receiving those treatments, i.e., de facto rationing.
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Title | Sea Piece | |
Collection | University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection | |
Artist | Attributed to school of Mulier, Pieter, the elder (Dutch painter, ca. 1615-1670) Previously attributed to Blanckerhoff, Jan Theunisz. (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1628-1669) Previously attributed to Dutch School Previously attributed to Porcellis, Jan (Dutch painter and printmaker, ca. 1584-1632) Previously attributed to Ruisdael, Jacob van (Dutch painter and draftsman, born 1628 or 1629, died 1682) |
Date Earliest | about 1625 | |
Date Latest | 1670 | |
Signed | yes | |
Description | This work has been previously attributed to various artists such as Adriaen van de Velde, Jacob van Ruisdael and, most plausibly, to Jan Porcellis. However, it bears a striking similarlity to the work of Pieter Mulier the Elder (1605-1670) who was a follower of Jan Porcellis. The dark band of foreground, regular peaks of the waves and the tilt of the ship are all charactersitic of his work. Mulier was a member of the Haarlem Guild in 1640. His pupils included Frederick Cornelisz and Christian de Hulst. | |
Current Accession Number | EU 711 | |
Former Accession Number | NGS no. 27 | |
Inscription | front (on spar in foreground) 'A.V.V.' (?') | |
Subject | marine | |
Measurements | 40 x 56 cm (estimate) | |
Material | oil on canvas | |
Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Sir James Erskine, third Baronet of Torrie 1835. | |
Principal Exhibitions | The Torrie Collection. An Exhibition to mark the Quatercentenary of the University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Art Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 1983, cat. no. 11. | |
Publications | Waagen, G. F., Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, vol. 3, p. 274 as by Ruisdael; Hoofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Scholtland' , Oud Holland, 11.3 (Part I), 1893, p. 134; Catalogue of Portraits and busts of Benefactors, Principals, Professors and others and of the Torrie Collection of Paintings and Bronzes. The Property of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1909; The Torrie Collection. An Exhibition to Mark the Quatercentenary of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1983, cat. no. 11, p. 21; ; Macmillan, D., A Catalogue of the The Torrie Collection, Edinburgh, 2004, p. 40. | |
Notes | The initials 'AVV' which have been read on the painting in the past but are now illegible have suggested an attribution to Adriaen van de Velde (1636 - 72), who is known to have executed some beach scenes. However, this is most unlikely. Waagen attributed the work to Jacob van Ruisdael; Hoofstede de Groot to Jan Porcellis. J. T. Blanckerhoff has also been suggested. Emilie Gordenker (National Gallery of Scotland, 2007) has very plausibly suggested a similarity with the work of Pieter Mulier the Elder (1605 - 1670). The turbulent waves painted in rather sharp, regular peaks and the dark foreground in this painting are very similar to features seen in Mulier's work. Furthermore, Mulier frequently signed his works with a 'PM' monogramme on a spar in the foreground. A very faint monogram is painted on such a spar in the foreground of this painting. It has been formerly read as 'AVV'. However, it could just as easily be read as 'PM'. However, Emilie Gordenker considers that the treatment of the sky is rather different to that of Mulier. The painting is likely to be by a follower of Mulier - perhaps, even, an early work of his son's, Pieter Mulier the Younger (1627 - 1701). | |
Rights Owner | Torrie Collection | |
Author | Dr Patricia Smyth |
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Odd though it sounds it's unusual to find a chef who's really knowledgeable about wine let alone one who's involved in creating his own list. Sam Harris of Zucca is one of the rare exceptions and the other day showed me some of the wines he's excited about.
One was an intense, pristine 2010 Greco di Tufo from Pietracupa in Campania - a bright minerally white with a lovely citrussy zing that Sam reckoned would go well with simply prepared shellfish.
To illustrate his point he got one of his chefs to peel a couple of prawns that had just arrived from Sicily and served them with a sprinkle of seasalt and a trickle of fresh, fruity olive oil. The combination was perfect. (Note: if he'd added a squeeze of lemon to the prawns it wouldn't have been as good. The wine did that job for him.)
We reckoned it would also be great with grilled swordfish and seabass.
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...I Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine Oh I heard it through the grapevine Oh I'm just about to lose my mind Honey, honey yeah ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine," words and music by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong)
Depending on your generation and your geography, you may be visualizing a line of animated clay figures in the shape of raisins.
"This was an assignment to use sheer creativity in order to get people to look at a TV commercial and have a good feeling about shriveled fruit—raisins. We could have told people ways to eat raisins and incorporate them into recipes, but that was not very compelling or interesting." (Adams, 2000)
The job of bringing the Raisins to life on screen was given to Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, using their Claymation® technique. Each Raisin's armature was made of lead wire, brass tubing, steel, wood, and styrofoam, covered with polymer clay (aged Van Aken plasticine for the moveable areas, Sculpey (or wax) for non-moving parts (eyeballs, teeth, shoes)). The front of the Raisins were cast, and the backs were sculpted, allowing an armature to be inserted without worrying about air pockets. With the puppets between 6 and 8 inches tall, characters and reference objects (furniture, lunchboxes, etc) were built to make the Raisins appear the correct scale (approximately-- to my eye, the dancing raisins appear appear prune-sized).
The first television commercial of the campaign, "Lunchbox," appeared in 1987. It won Clio Awards (the advertising equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Commercial of the Year in three categories: Animation, Foods, and New Adaptations of Music. It also won two first place Andy Awards in the same category, and the Silver Lion at the Cannes Film Festival. The spot also appears in the Top Television Commercials of All Time in two separate lists, one from USA Today and one compiled by Entertainment Weekly.
The success of the campaign not only boosted raisin sales (by some accounts up to a 20% increase in domestic sales), but created an ancillary business of the animated raisins themselves. They were instantly recognizable. In a national contest, names were chosen for the raisins: Ben Indasun, Tiny Goodbite, and Justin X. Occasionally other names (other raisins?) such as Sugar E. Treat, Rye Stack, and Delicious appeared. But by the time the California Raisins were appearing in their own television shows, their official names were Stretch, Beebop, A.C. and Red.
The Raisins appeared in three prime time television specials: A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987), which won an Emmy, the award-winning Meet the Raisins (1989), and its sequel, Raisins - Sold Out! (1990). In 1989-1990, there was even a Saturday morning cartoon series (The California Raisins Show) featuring the raisins-- only this time animated with paint on cels, not clay.
They were singing raisins, and they managed time in their busy schedule to record and release two albums: 1987's California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs (Priority Records #9706), and 1988's Christmas with the California Raisins (Priority Records #7923)-- both of which feature the wrinkled fruit's Motown stylings, and both of which are still in print (available at Amazon).
The raisins were so popular that even Michael Jackson and Ray Charles agreed to lend their likenesses and voices to lookalike raisins that appeared in commercials. Then, of course, there was the marketing tie-in products: both included free with breakfast cereals (Post® Raisin Bran) and in toy stores and restaurants. Paraphenalia can still be found on eBay: stickers, keychains, t-shirts, lunchboxes, bendable action figures, a board game, plush toys, etc. (The State of California via CALRAB shared marketing rights for the characters with Will Vinton Studios, thus, the animated raisins began making cameo appearances in other Vinton produced commercials for pizza and fried chicken).
Capcom even had Radiance Software create a side-scroller video game for them, for Nintendo, entitled "California Raisins: the Grape Escape," in which you are a California Raisin travelling through four levels of a warehouse, throwing jelly and spear-wielding apples and grapes and collecting musical notes which will unlock the penthouse in which your friends have been locked. Can you rescue the Raisins so they can get to a concert on time? The game was never released.
The Spanish missionaries of the 18th century introduced the grape to California agriculture, but they were interested in making wine (necessary for Catholic mass), and by the early 19th century, French immigrants were planting French varieties of grapes, but again, for making wine. The raisin industry began, apocryphally, in 1873, when a heat wave dried the grapes on the vine, and farmers were stuck with wrinkled, dried fruit. Although the first raisins produced were from the Muscat grapes favored by the Spanish, it was William Thomson, a Scottish immigrant, who introduced a seedless variety of grape to California in 1872.
Currently 95% of California raisin production comes from Thomson variety grapes, a green variety which naturally darkens when it dries (and sold as "natural seedless"). About 5% of the Thomson harvest are mechanically dried and treated with sulfur dioxide to preserve a golden color-- these are sold as golden raisins (Other varieties of grapes grown in California for other types raisins include Muscat, Sultana, Flame seedless, and Black Corinth-- the latter's raisins known as Zante Currants). Most raisins are grown on family farms on small acreage (50 acres or so)-- raisins are currently harvested by hand, using lots of temporary labor. Growers sell their raisins to packers and handlers-- either privately-owned agricultural businesses, or cooperatives (the largest cooperative is Sun-Maid).
Currently, the United States is the world's largest producer of raisins, and 99% of U.S. raisins are grown in California's San Joaquin Valley: it's got a long, hot growing season, an (artificially) abundant water supply, and a tradition of viticulture extending back to the Armenian immigrants of the 19th century. So if you're eating a raisin in the United States, it is likely a California raisin.
Although the raisin market in California is regulated under a 1949 marketing order (designed to help stabilize market conditions), California currently faces a glut of raisins. (In 2000-2001, for example, the United States ended the year with enough unsold raisins to supply world and domestic demand twice over.) Not only are there no longer cheery commercials to encourage the nation to consume more of this tasty (and musical) fruit, increased demand for premium California wines means grape growers who previously sent their crops of Thomson seedless to wineries (to make cheap wine) now are unloading their supply into the raisin market. Surplus raisins can be diverted to distilleries, farm animal feed producers, and the Federal government's school lunch or international food aid programs, but the price of raisins remains below the cost of production for some farmers. The Raisin Administrative Committee, which implements the raisin marketing order, has been trying to trim production.
In 1999, the Raisin Marketing Board launched a new print campaign, replacing Stretch, Beebop, A.C. and Red with a non-dancing, non-singing raising character, named on the California Raisins web site (<www.calraisins.org>) only as "The California Raisin Guy." Although the state of California still owns the rights to the original California Raisins characters, marketing dollars for raisins now goes overseas. California raisins (the fruit, not the band-- although, you never know) hope to make their way to China, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, but in this they are competing against other raisin producers, notably Turkey.
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For most of the 90 minutes Newcastle United looked far from invincible against a tidy Wigan Athletic side seeking an end to a five-game losing streak and a first ever win on Tyneside. But then, with nine minutes remaining, Yohan Cabaye dispatched the winner.
A first-time finish from the right edge of the penalty area, it was the French midfielder's first goal for Newcastle and it kept the Magpies flying high in fourth place, level on points with Chelsea and unbeaten in 11 League and cup matches this season.
It sent the biggest Newcastle crowd of the season home happy, chanting the manager's name for the first time with a chorus of "Alan Pardew's black and white army".
"I'm very pleased with the result," a relieved Pardew said. "The goal was special. It was worth the admission fee just for that."
As much as last Sunday's contest against Spurs, when Pardew's side twice came from behind to draw 2-2, it was a litmus test for the new Newcastle. Could they cope with being overwhelming favourites, and with the tension if they struggled to roll over the opposition?
They were given an early test of nerves by a Wigan side playing with freedom and a "nothing to lose" look about them. Five minutes in, the home defence parted like a black and white sea and Victor Moses smacked a left foot volley that would have furnished the perceived makeweights with the lead had Tim Krul not produced a reflex save out of the top-drawer.
Ten minutes later the Magpies were in a flap again. Fabricio Coloccini failed to cut out a long punt up field from Ali Al Habsi and David Jones fed the loose ball through for Hugo Rodallega, who steered a low drive narrowly wide from the right edge of the box. The natives were increasingly restless and so was Pardew, stationed arms-folded on the apron of the pitch with a look of concern set upon his face.
His Magpies were crowded out by Wigan's central midfield trio and stretched out wide by Moses and Albert Crusat. It took them 33 minutes to muster a threat of their own and Wigan could hardly believe their good fortune as the unmarked Leon Best met a cross from the left by Jonas Gutierrez with a downward header that allowed Al Habsi to palm it clear on the rise.
At half-time Best made way for Hatem Ben Arfa. The Frenchman schemed away from a withdrawn position, leaving Demba Ba in not so splendid isolation up front. Still, a cross from deep on the left by Ryan Taylor found Ba unmarked on the six-yard line four minutes after the restart, but the Senegal striker's downward header was gathered by Al Habsi.
Wigan continued to look the more comfortable side and came close to striking on the break in the 65th minute. A long ball from Maynor Figueroa found Rodallega on the right edge of the Newcastle box and the big Colombian trapped the ball with his chest before smacking a right foot drive into the side netting.
It signalled the arrival of Shola Ameobi from the bench but it was only after the introduction of Newcastle's third substitute that they managed to break through. Sylvan Marveaux – a 77th minute replacement for the ineffectual Gabriel Obertan – teed up the winner. A free transfer signing from Rennes, the French Under-21 winger chested down a ball fromthe left by Ryan Taylor and rolled it back for Cabaye to pull the trigger.
Pardew said: "Yohan is a really class player and he brings an elegance to us that everybody really appreciates. He's hit a real cracker."
Newcastle (4-4-2): Krul; Simpson, S Taylor, Coloccini, R Taylor; Obertan (Marveaux, 77), Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez; Best (Ben Arfa, h-t), Ba (Shola Ameobi, 68).
Wigan (4-5-1): Al Habsi; Boyce, Caldwell, Alcaraz, Figuera; Moses, Jones, Diame, Watson (McArthur, 82), Crusat (Sammon, 82); Rodellega.
Referee Neil Swarbrick.
Man of the match Victor Moses (Wigan).
Match rating 5/10.
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Affect version: Moodle 1.9.13+ (Build: 20110928)
To reproduce:
1. create a Moodle course "A"
2. create a couple of meta courses "M1" and "M2" and enroll course "A" in the two meta courses
3. now in course "A", add two resources "Link to file or web site", pointing to the Moodle URLs of the two courses "M1" and "M2". (for example, http://www.yourdomain.tld/course/view.php?id=XX)
4. verify you can access the correct link (ak, course M1 and M2) using the resources
5. now backup and restore the course "A" in a new course "B", in the same site.
6. in the newly created course "B", check the resources pointing to the course M1 and M2: resource links are now broken and points to the home page of course "B".
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Robertson, Janet and Emerson, Eric and Gregory, Nicky and Hatton, Chris and Turner, Steve and Kessissoglou, Sophia and Hallam, Angela (2000) Lifestyle related risk factors for poor health in residential settings for people with intellectual disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 21 (6). pp. 469-486. ISSN 0891-4222
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Little information is available on the prevalence and determinants of lifestyle related risk factors for poor health (obesity, poor diet, physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol abuse) among people with intellectual disabilities. This study reports the prevalence of these risk factors for 500 people with intellectual disabilities living in different forms of residential provision in the UK. Variables which predict the presence of these risk factors are also identified. While levels of smoking and alcohol abuse were low, the prevalence of poor diet, obesity in women and physical inactivity was high. Analyses of predictors of risk factors present a mixed pattern with regard to participant and service characteristics, with greater ability and less restrictive residential settings being associated with poor diet, smoking and obesity, but physical inactivity being associated with lower ability and more restrictive settings. It is argued that increasing levels of moderate or vigorous physical activity among people with intellectual disabilities would be the single most effective way of improving the health of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Journal or Publication Title: | Research in Developmental Disabilities |
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Departments: | Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research |
ID Code: | 14416 |
Deposited By: | Mr Richard Ingham |
Deposited On: | 17 Oct 2008 11:07 |
Refereed?: | Yes |
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This article presents a code library for generating combinations. A "combination" is a subset of the input sequence with a certain length. For example, given an input of {1, 2, 3, 4}, requesting all the length-2 combinations gives {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {1, 4}, {2, 3}, {2, 4}, and {3, 4}. The number of combinations of size r drawn from an input of size n is referred to as nCr, which is equal to n! ÷ [r!(n-r)!]. However, this formula is only correct if the input is actually a set (all the elements are distinct). I needed an algorithm that would properly handle duplicates in the input, and the code in this article does just that. By coincidence more than by design, each combination's elements are returned in sorted order, and the combinations themselves are also returned in order.
{1, 2, 3, 4}
{1, 2}, {1, 3}, {1, 4}, {2, 3}, {2, 4}, and {3, 4}
To generate all the length-3 combinations of integers from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}:
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
int[] input = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; Combinations<int> combinations = new Combinations<int>(input, 3); foreach (int[] combination in combinations) { // Do something with "combination". }
This will result in the body of the foreach being run with combination set to each of the following values: {1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {1, 2, 5}, {1, 3, 4}, {1, 3, 5}, {1, 4, 5}, {2, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 5}, {2, 4, 5}, and {3, 4, 5}.
{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {1, 2, 5}, {1, 3, 4}, {1, 3, 5}, {1, 4, 5}, {2, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 5}, {2, 4, 5}, and {3, 4, 5}
Note that the input need not be an array; it can be any implementation of IEnumerable, including most of the standard collections classes. Also, the input need not be ints; simply by changing the generic type parameter on the Combinations object, any data type can be used.
If the inputs contain duplicates, they will be handled properly. For example, the following code:
int[] input = new int[] { 1, 2, 2, 3 }; Combinations<int> combinations = new Combinations<int>(input, 3); foreach (int[] combination in combinations) { // Do something with "combination". }
will yield the following values of combination: {1, 2, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 2, 3}.
{1, 2, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 2, 3}
It is possible to use an alternative IComparer for equality and sorting. For example:
string[] input = new string[] { "alpha", "ALPHA", "beta", "gamma" }; Combinations<string> combinations = new Combinations<string>(input, StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase, 2); foreach (string[] combination in combinations) { // Do something with "combination". }
results in combination taking on the following values: {"alpha", "alpha"}, {"alpha", "beta"}, {"alpha", "gamma"}, {"beta", "gamma"}. "alpha" and "ALPHA" are considered equivalent, and whichever version appears first in the input list (in this case "alpha") is considered canonical; only that form will appear in the output.
{"alpha", "alpha"}, {"alpha", "beta"}, {"alpha", "gamma"}, {"beta", "gamma"}
Certain procedures can be carried out when the algorithm only knows the n value (the set of inputs), but before the r value (the output size) is known. These procedures are actually carried out in the ElementSet class. An ElementSet is constructed internally by the two Combinations constructors which accept IEnumerables, but it is also possible to construct an ElementSet separately and pass it into a Combinations constructor. This is useful if the same input will be processed for more than one output length. For example:
int[] input = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; ElementSet<int> elements = new ElementSet<int>(input); for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++) { Combinations<int> combos = new Combinations<int>(elements, i); foreach (int[] combo in combos) { // Do something with "combo". } }
This code will efficiently generate all the subsets of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. Any processing which does not depend on the length of the subsets is done outside the loop. Also, this example demonstrates that the corner cases of r=0 and r=n are handled properly. In the r=0 case, a single array of length zero is returned; in the r=n case, a single array containing the entire input is returned.
It is possible to use both a custom IComparer and a preconstructed ElementSet. The IComparer must be passed into the ElementSet constructor along with the input data. The IComparer is not passed to the Combinations constructor in this case.
For this discussion, n is the size of the input, r is the size of the output, and m is the number of "distinct" elements in the input.
ElementSet constructor
Assuming the IEnumerable passed to the constructor can enumerate its contents in insignificant time, the constructor operates in O(nlog2n).
Combinations constructor
O(1), given an already-constructed ElementSet; otherwise, O(nlog2n).
IEnumerator.Current (get)
Only large quantities of storage are mentioned here.
This class has no significant storage requirements.
The source archive contains a solution with two projects and three configurations. In the "Test" configuration, only the "Combinations" project will be built, and 13 NUnit tests will be compiled into the assembly. In the "Debug" and "Release" configurations, the "Combinations" project's test cases will not be compiled, while the "Benchmark" project will be compiled, which provides a simple console-mode benchmarking program that exercises the library. My benchmarks on a 1.7GHz processor in release mode range from over four million combinations per second for sets of 3 integers from a set of 10 distinct down to 66,571 combinations per second for sets of 700 integers from a set of 1000 with 10% duplicate entries. The input and output sizes impact the benchmarks much more than the percentage duplicates. Benchmarks for constructing ElementSets are also provided, passing in arrays of integers in both ascending and random order. My figures range from about 1.5 million input elements per second for a dataset of 10 integers to about 500,000 elements per second for an input of 1000 integers. Sorted-vs-random ordering is insignificant.
The ElementSet constructor first gathers all the input elements. A SortedList<T, int> is populated such that each key maps to the number of times it occurs. Actually, a SortedDictionary is populated first, then copied to a SortedList, as this method yields better complexity. Also, the ElementSet calculates a cumulative sum backwards over the elements, storing the values into an int[], such that one can, in O(1), determine how many elements (not distinct elements) exist at and after a given position in the list. This is needed later.
SortedList<T, int>
The Combinations class does very little except to contain an ElementSet and the r value. All the work happens in the IEnumerator.
The IEnumerator uses "indices" to generate combinations. Imagining all the input elements lined up from left to right, with duplicates stacked above each other, the indices are initially "pushed" as far to the left as possible, such that each index points to its own element (not distinct element). Moving to the next value consists of sliding an index to the right. If it falls off the edge or hits another index, the next index is advanced one element to the right, and the current index is then pushed back to the left until it hits another index. Once all the indices have moved as far to the right as possible, there are no more combinations to generate. Other code is dedicated to making sure that an index never moves so far to the right that it doesn't leave enough room for other indices which reside to the right of it; this is what the backwards cumulative sum is used for. Once the indices have settled on their positions, a combination is generated in the Current property-getter by simply indexing the SortedList<T, int>.Keys collection with each index in turn, storing the values into an array.
SortedList<T, int>.Keys
There is already a Combinatorial Algorithms in C# article which contains a combinations algorithm (as well as others), but that algorithm apparently fails when presented with duplicates in its input. For my purposes that was a problem. Also, that article's code implements IEnumerator, while mine implements IEnumerable; hence my code can be used in a foreach but the other article's cannot. gybrush's explanation is that "If you have requested enumerator over the same sequence previously it must not become invalid, because it still may be in use. This is impossible with the current implementation of the Combinatorial classes and I don't see a way to easily modify this." My algorithm, on the other hand, presents a very clear division of code which makes supporting multiple IEnumerators easy. Finally, my code is generic, so it generates combinations in a typesafe way.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
int[] Elements = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 }; Combinations<int> C = new Combinations<int>(Elements, 20); Random RNDGen = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond); long RNDCombination = (long)Math.Floor(RNDGen.NextDouble() * 3535316142212174320);
int[] RNDComb = C.ElementAt(RNDCombination);
#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<conio.h> int nCk(int n,int loopno,int ini,int *a,int k) { if(k==0) return 1; static int count=0; int i; loopno--; if(loopno<0) { a[k-1]=ini; for(i=0;i<k;i++) { printf("%d,",a[i]); } printf("\n"); count++; return 0; } for(i=ini;i<=n-loopno-1;i++) { a[k-1-loopno]=i+1; nCk(n,loopno,i+1,a,k); } if(ini==0) return count; else return 0; } void main() { int n,k,*a,count; printf("Enter the value of n and k\n"); scanf("%d %d",&n,&k); a=(int*)malloc(k*sizeof(int)); count=nCk(n,k,0,a,k); printf("No of combinations=%d\n",count); getch(); }
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string[] inputStrings = new string[]{"A", "B", "C"}; int[] deepLevels = new int[]{0, 1, 0}; int[] indices = new int[inputStrings.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < indices.Length; ++i) { indices[i] = i; } Combination<int> combinations = new Combination<int>(indices, 2); foreach (int[] combination in combinations) { string[] outputStrings = new string[combination.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < combination.Length; ++i) { outputStrings[i] = inputStrings[combination[i]]; } int[] outputLevels = new int[combination.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < outputLevels.Length; ++i) { outputLevels[i] = 0; } for (;;) { // OUTPUT YOUR RESULTS HERE! // Variables "outputStrings" and "outputLevels" contain the strings and the numbers. bool carry = true; for (int i = 0; carry && i < outputLevels.Length; ++i) { if (outputLevels[i] == deepLevels[combination[i]]) { outputLevels[i] = 0; carry = true; } else { ++outputLevels[i]; carry = false; } } if (carry) { break; } } }
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