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Danny and I were sitting on the porch after a hard day's planting (for me anyway, bit of a spectator sport for Danny), when I was very gratified to see this Lubbock visitor flit around the yard and finally settle on one of the Basket Flowers.
Not the best photo as it was across the yard, but I was happy 🙂 Brings my 2012 butterfly and moth species list to 8, although there are some I'm still trying to identify from my blurry photos.
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I like your solution for putting more of Matlab's unique features to use. For large N, I have a suspicion that the matrix based approach will become a bit of a memory issue, but I it'll be much faster for smaller N, taking advantage of the fast matrix/vector operations in Matlab. The code above is the trivial solution of forming all combinations of points in sequence, measuring the distance and keeping track of the minimum (eliminating the case where both chosen points are the same point).
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Alternatively, we can use bsxfun to build up the distance map.


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Q: Redux-saga not picking up action dispatch I am using redux-saga in a new create-react-app react project with redux and for some reason it seems redux-saga is not picking up the dispatched action. A console log statement in the reducer shows the action does reach the reducer. The odd thing about all this is that I've based this project off other projects where I have successfully used redux-saga (but are not create-react-app's). I'm wondering if it is a versioning issue or some support package is required that I am missing. Below is a full code snippet.
From my package.json file:
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.19.0",
    "connect-history-api-fallback": "^1.6.0",
    "connected-react-router": "^6.5.2",
    "react": "^16.9.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.9.0",
    "react-google-login": "^5.0.5",
    "react-redux": "^7.1.1",
    "react-router-dom": "^5.0.1",
    "react-scripts": "3.1.1",
    "redux": "^4.0.4",
    "redux-actions": "^2.6.5",
    "redux-immutable-state-invariant": "^2.1.0",
    "redux-persist": "^5.10.0",
    "redux-saga": "^1.0.5",
    "shortid": "^2.2.14",
    "styled-components": "^4.3.2",
    "styled-modern-normalize": "^0.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-hot-loader": "^4.12.11",
    "history": "^4.9.0"
  },

the outer most index.js file (entry point for my app):
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import App from './components/App';
import store from './store/config';

const render = (Component) => {
  ReactDOM.render(
    <Provider store={store}>
      <Component />
    </Provider>,
    document.querySelector('#root')
  );
};

render(App);

the app.js file is basically a container component with a connected router from connected-react-router which has the app header and then a switch with the app routes. I'm not showing it because it is actually a few nested components and it may just confuse.
I create my store like this:
import {
  applyMiddleware,
  compose,
  createStore,
} from 'redux';
import createSagaMiddleware from 'redux-saga';
import rootReducer from '../root/rootReducer';
import sagas from '../root/rootSaga';

const sagaMiddleware = createSagaMiddleware();
const initialState = undefined;

const store = createStore(
  rootReducer(history),
  initialState,
  applyMiddleware(sagaMiddleware),
);

sagaMiddleware.run(sagas);
export default store;

Next is the root reducer:
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { connectRouter } from 'connected-react-router';
import authReducer from '../auth/authReducer';
import { stateKeys } from '../../types';

export default history => combineReducers({
  [stateKeys.ROUTER]: connectRouter(history),
  [stateKeys.AUTH]: authReducer,
});

and root saga:
import {
  watchRegister,
  watchSignin,
  watchSignout,
} from '../auth/authSaga';

const root = function* rootSaga() {
  yield [
    watchRegister(),
    watchSignin(),
    watchSignout(),
  ];
};

export default root;

My auth Saga:
import { call, put, takeEvery, takeLatest } from 'redux-saga/effects';
import api from '../../services/api';
import * as actions from '../root/rootActions';

function* signInSaga({ payload }) {
  try {
    console.log('saga hit...');
    // console.log('email: ', email);
    // console.log('password: ', password);
    // yield put(actions.signinRequested());
    // const response = yield call(api.signin, { email, password });
    // console.log('response: ', response);
    // yield put(actions.signinSucceeded(response));
  } catch (error) {
    console.log('saga failed...');
    yield put(actions.signinFailed());
  }
}

export function* watchSignin() {
  yield takeEvery(actions.signin.toString(), signInSaga);
}

auth actions:
import { createAction } from 'redux-actions';
export const signin = createAction('auth/signin');
export const signinRequested = createAction('auth/signin_requested');
export const signinSucceeded = createAction('auth_signin_succeeded');
export const signinFailed = createAction('auth_signin_failed');

finally the signin component:
import React, { Component, Fragment} from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { Link, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';
import * as actions from '../../store/root/rootActions';
import * as selectors from '../../store/root/rootSelectors';

class Signin extends Component {
...

  onSubmitClick = (event) => {
    event.preventDefault();

    this.setState({ loading: true });

    const { email, password } = this.state;
    const user = {
      email,
      password
    };
    // dispatching the action
    this.props.signin(user);
  };

  renderSigninForm() {
    const { email, password } = this.state;
    return (
      <form className="ui large form">

              <input onChange={this.handleChange("email")}  type="email" placeholder="john.smith@gmail.com" value={email} />

              <input onChange={this.handleChange("password")}  type="password" placeholder="Password" value={password} />

Log in

      </form>
    );
  }

  render() {
    if (this.state.redirectToReferer) {
      return <Redirect to="/" />;
    }

    return (

Signin

          {this.renderSigninForm()}

    );
  }
}

const mapStateToProps = state => ({
  auth: selectors.getAuth(state),
});

const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
  signin: user => dispatch(actions.signin(user)),
});

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Signin);

I apologize for the epic length of this post but it's hard to provide a complete code snippet without everything. Any suggestions are welcome :) Thanks in advance

A: Seems that your root saga file is not calling a saga method to start your sagas. As the documentation says: you should call all() method to run your saga setup. (e.g https://redux-saga.js.org/docs/introduction/BeginnerTutorial.html).
so your refactored rootSaga.js would look like this:
import { all } from 'redux-saga/effects'
import {
  watchRegister,
  watchSignin,
  watchSignout,
} from '../auth/authSaga';

const root = function* rootSaga() {
  yield all([
    watchRegister(),
    watchSignin(),
    watchSignout(),
  ]);
};

export default root;

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With harvest completed and, as hard as it is to believe, the end of the year in sight, I thought it would be a good time to talk about some on-going issues and look forward to the next legislative session which convenes on January 3, 2018.
Many of you have expressed your concerns over the limited availability of reliable, affordable broadband service, especially in the rural portions of the state. In a number of places, even if service is available, it is slow and struggles to meet the demands of today's modern technology. I see this as a tremendous problem not only for individuals who need ready access to the Internet but for our communities as they try to attract new businesses and keep the ones they have.
The Transportation & Telecommunications Committee, which I chair, will be holding several hearings in November and December to talk about broadband issues. The hearings are intended to gather information about things as they currently stand, and perhaps more importantly, to get ideas and suggestions from the public about how we can move forward creating the capacity that we need. With government dollars tight, we have to come up with innovative strategies on how the public and private sectors can work together to meet this challenge.
Hearings will be held in McCook on November 28, Central City on November 30, and Lincoln on December 1. The hearings are open to the public and I encourage you to come and give us your thoughts or just come and listen. The times and locations for the hearings are posted on my legislative web page.
The biggest issue facing the legislature continues to be the state's fiscal condition. Much of the 2017 legislative session was devoted to budget issues and the 2018 session is shaping up to be more of the same. Revenue receipts are significantly below projections and with the ag sector still depressed that is unlikely to change anytime soon. This shortfall almost certainly means additional and sometimes unpopular budget cuts ahead.
I am still committed to fighting for property tax relief as I have been throughout my previous three years in the Legislature. Last session I introduced several bills to cut property taxes which unfortunately did not advance. There is a slim chance some of these bills may come up again next year but I am also considering additional legislative options to introduce in 2018.
In conclusion I want to tell you what a great privilege it has been to serve as your state Senator. The time since my election in 2014 has flown by. I think there is still important work to be done and I have decided to run for reelection in 2018.
One of the things that has surprised me as I think back over my time in the Legislature is how often policy decisions are influenced by emotion rather than facts. As I decide how I'm going to vote on an issue I try to stay focused on the facts and what I believe will be good for my constituents and the state. I think that's what you sent me here to do. I really appreciate it when you take the time to let me know your opinions on the issues with which we are dealing. Your input is an important factor in my decision making.
From time to time people ask me why I decided to run for office in the first place. What I tell them is that I firmly believe that complaining in the coffee shop rarely results in meaningful change. If you want things to change you can't stay on the sidelines and wait for someone else to do it. I saw some important policy issues that weren't being addressed such as how to fund our public schools in a more fair and equitable way and rather than complaining about it thought I would try to do something about it. I wanted to be a strong voice for rural Nebraska. Thank you for that opportunity.
In December I will be working on bills to introduce when we convene in January. If you have any ideas for legislation please contact me or my staff. My email address is cfriesen@leg.ne.gov and our telephone number is 402-471-2630.
With the beginning of the school year less than a month away and summer rapidly winding down, I thought it would be a good time to give a brief update on some of the things that have happened since the Legislature adjourned at the end of May.
I must admit I was definitely ready for a little down time from politics. The final weeks of the last legislative session were grueling, to say the least, as we debated the budget for the next biennium. Faced with the reality of the state's increasing revenue shortfall, we had to make difficult choices on spending cuts. In the end, an $8.9 billion budget package was passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor.
Final state tax receipt figures for Fiscal Year 2016-17 have just been released and continue to be down. Revenues for the year totaled $4.266 billion, approximately $34 million short of earlier projections. I still think it is unlikely we will need to convene a special session but if revenues continue to be down, it is not out of the question.
Of course even though it's down time from politics, it's still a busy time on the farm. I always look forward to getting back to working around the farm. Spending time by myself in the tractor is one of the best stress reducers I can think of.
My wife Nancy and I have been enjoying attending some of the many parades, city celebrations, and county fairs throughout District 34 this summer. As part of the Hall County fair, I had my first opportunity to take part in a watermelon eating contest. Competition was fierce, especially between my team and that of Senator Dan Quick of Grand Island. In the end our two teams tied for first place. Senator Quick and I have agreed to share the first place trophy; it will be proudly displayed in our offices in the State Capitol.
One of the best things about getting out into the communities is having the chance to talk with constituents. If you see me at an event I hope you will come up and visit with me about any concerns you have on how things are going in the state or the district, or ideas for legislation for next session.
I am planning to be at the Nebraska State Fair at the end of August and encourage you to stop by and say hi.
After Labor Day the Transportation & Telecommunications Committee will start holding hearings on our interim study resolutions. My top priority is how to improve broadband telecommunications services in the state. We are planning to hold several public hearings outside of Lincoln to get input on this critical topic. I am especially interested in finding ways to incentivize private industry and/or public-private partnerships to deliver more and better services to rural areas. Hearing dates and locations have yet to be determined.
Over the summer I will be attending several out-of-state legislative conferences including the Midwest Council of State Governments conference in Des Moines and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference in Denver. Conferences such as these are excellent sources of information on current trends in state government and public policy issues. In addition, they provide an opportunity to informally network with legislators and policy makers from similar states to discuss like problems and creative solutions.
As a reminder, even though the Legislature has adjourned for the year my office in the Capitol is open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please feel free to contact me and my staff about your legislative concerns or other issues you would like to discuss. My email address is cfriesen@leg.ne.gov and our telephone number is 402-471-2630.
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Did you ever have one of those days where it all seems to go wrong? That question is fairly rhetorical, as I am sure we all have. Today I was having one of them. Yes, even a man who writes on the subject of happiness and living an amazing life can find himself in a funk. The medical bills from my dislocated shoulder have been flowing in, my car is one step away from falling apart and needs to be replaced, and my vacation is quickly coming to an end. They all just came to a head in my mind today. The reason those words are in italics is to remind us that is where we can begin to control the issues. The feelings exist in my mind and that is where the fight to change that needs to begin.
The question most people ask, and is a very useful question to ask, is how can I change how I feel without changing the outside circumstances? In my case, I do not have the money at this moment to buy a new car, pay all the medical bills, or go on a permanent vacation. Without fixing the outside how can you fix the inside? This is a million dollar question! It is where a lot of people stumble using the law of attraction and just trying to develop a positive mental attitude which is crucial for success.
The answer can be found in one word FOCUS. If I were hearing this concept for the very first time my question would be "How on earth can I not focus on how terrible calls and letters from bill collectors feels? How can I not be bummed out about my car as I am waiting in the rain for the bus?" These are very good questions and to this day I, on occasion, fall victim to this kind of thinking. One of the first things to do is remember someone always has it worse than you. It was Gandhi who said "I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet." Imagine telling your car troubles to someone who is seriously ill? Maybe someone who has just lost a family member? It feels almost a little foolish.
Another way to change focus is to start to focus on where you want your emotions to be instead of where they are. How on earth can we accomplish that? Here is a quick little quote to remember, "Where focus goes, energy flows." What does that mean and how does it affect what we are talking about here? When I was focused on my troubles earlier today that is what I saw. Then, my savior appeared. A golden retriever in line at the pet store. For a split second I focused on something good. It was followed by the cashier and I fumbling over exchanging pleasantries with each other.
When you feel down get firm with yourself! Take a step back and a deep breath and say to yourself "Hey, this feels terrible! I don't want to feel like this anymore!" This may seem fairly obvious, but sending that message to your brain will let your subconscious mind know you wish to change focus. If you follow it with something like "From now on, I want to feel good." You will let your mind know where you want your emotions to be. You may have to do this several times especially if those negative feelings have already built themselves up inside your head. If you are able, shout these out loud in your car or somewhere private. If you are not able, at least close your eyes and say them in your head.
Focusing on what our inner conversation is can really change our outlook on ourselves and life in general.
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Hiring Staging Help? Are they an employee or Independent Contractor?
Are you ready to expand your staging business and add on more help? Do you need an Independent Contractor or an employee? You better know, or the tax man may hit you with HUGE fines.
Today I was on the phone with someone about our Market Read Real Estate online home staging consultation program. They are expanding their staging business (in the US) and asked if there was a portal that they could use for their Independent Contractors, so that they didn't know that it was our program. You see, they were concerned that the contractors would eventually get good at what they are doing and consider leaving, taking the technology that they taught them to use with them.
Immediately I saw red flags jumping up in front of my face. Since I'm an educator at heart, and don't want to see this very nice entrepreneur fined out of business I thought I would give a little education. As soon as I hung up I knew that it might be time for a blog about this.
Are your home stagers independent contractors or employees?
The first part of understanding this is to know what the law says about it. According to the IRS, you need to address these three questions.
You see, the giant red flag for me was that she mentioned in her explanation that she had a no-compete agreement and that may be enough to protect her if they decided to go on their own.
Can an independent contractor have a no compete agreement?
Can you and should you are probably two different questions. You can ask anyone to sign a no compete agreement. If they are really independent contractors though, they are completely unenforceable.
Let's look back at the IRS guidelines. Do you see any problems?
The entire point of an independent contractor is that they are independent. They don't rely on you to control their employment. This means that they not only can, but should, get other work on their own. Sure, you can have independent contractors that work only for you, but that's their decision, not yours.
The moment you sign paperwork that say that you work for me and only me, guess what you've done? That's right, you now control their income. You control their work arrangements, and you have a written contract. Boom. You may have just created an employee, according to IRS guidelines. If you aren't paying taxes and insurance (like workers comp) on your employees and they find out, you may be heavily fined and forced to pay back taxes on all of your independent contractors since your company started.
So how do you keep independent contractors from leaving you and stealing your business?
Again, these are probably two different questions in reality.
The first part, you can't control, except to create a culture of greatness that your contractors don't want to leave. If they know they have it good, there is less of a chance they'll leave. Pay them well. Treat them well. Surprise them with bonuses and team spirit. Give them what they need to be happy working with you (not for you).
Then have a contract in place that protects your intellectual property, and your database.
Any business relationships that have been forged by your company can be yours by contract. This is legally enforceable, but not practically enforceable. Let's face it, if your contractor leaves you and your best customer likes them better than you, it doesn't really matter what the contractor signed, you've already lost that customer.
Again, the best way to protect your business is to have a great business. Be the face of your business, or make an EMPLOYEE the face of your business. Make sure that you are selling your BRAND and not any particular person. Pay attention to the relationships and business partnerships. Be the company that no one wants to leave. Leverage your business. Leverage your USP (unique selling proposition).
One last piece of advice, don't give any one person, unless they are a part owner of your company (and even then I would think twice) the ability to run your company without you. If you do, chances are they will at least try.


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Q: django_filters search on field in ManyToMany through model I have a manytomany relationship with a through model (joint table). I'd like to utilize the search_fields in DRF or other custom Filter to filter on a field in the through model.
model 1:
class Company(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=False, null=False)
    source = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=False, null=False)
    ein_number = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True, null=False)
    record_keepers = models.ManyToManyField(
        'record_keepers.RecordKeepers', through='record_keepers.CompanyRecordKeepers',
        related_name='record_keepers')

model 2 (through model):
class CompanyRecordKeepers(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    filing_year = models.IntegerField(blank=False, null=False)
    company = models.ForeignKey('employers.Company', on_delete=models.PROTECT,
                                blank=True, null=False)
    record_keeper = models.ForeignKey('RecordKeepers', on_delete=models.PROTECT, blank=True, null=False)

model 3:
class RecordKeepers(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True, blank=True, null=True)

Now in my view, I'd like to search for companies who filed in the filing_year 2019 and whose record_keeper name is contains some_value
View:
class ListCompanyView(generics.ListAPIView):
    serializer_class = CompanySerializer
    permission_classes = [IsAdminUser]
    filter_backends = (SearchFilter,)
    search_fields = ['companyrecordkeepers__filing_year']
    queryset = Company.objects.all()

Ideally I could do a GET request with some params to filter on:
?companyrecordkeepers__filing_year=2019&name=some_value
Any idea how to accomplish this?

A: If you don't specify a related_name you need to add the suffix _set whenever querying a reverse relation. Also, a SearchFilter is for simple single query parameter so for your case it's better to define them as filterset_fields. https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/filtering/#filtering-against-query-parameters
class ListCompanyView(generics.ListAPIView):
    serializer_class = CompanySerializer
    permission_classes = [IsAdminUser]
    filter_backends = [DjangoFilterBackend]
    filterset_fields = ['companyrecordkeepers_set__filling_year', 'name']
    queryset = Company.objects.all()


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Net Assets $71.9 B
Expense Ratio 0.80%
Turnover 521.00%
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Investment Style Intermediate-Term Bond
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YTD Total Return N/A
Dividend Distribution Frequency Monthly
Mihir P. Worah
The fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of Fixed Income Instruments of varying maturities, which may be represented by forwards or derivatives such as options, futures contracts, or swap agreements. It invests primarily in investment-grade debt securities, but may invest up to 20% of its total assets in high yield securities. It may invest up to 30% of its total assets in securities denominated in foreign currencies, and may invest beyond this limit in U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers.
PTTDX - Performance
PTTDX Return
YTD N/A -3.8% 13.1% N/A
1 Yr 1.5% -9.8% 7.5% N/A
3 Yr 1.3%* -4.2% 4.7% N/A
5 Yr 1.5%* -8.5% 23.6% N/A
10 Yr 4.4%* -7.3% 26.2% N/A
2020 N/A -22.2% 3.1% N/A
2019 N/A -5.1% 25.1% N/A
2018 N/A -8.5% 192.8% N/A
2016 N/A -29.8% 32.1% N/A
1 Yr 1.5% -9.8% 10.2% N/A
PTTDX - Holdings
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7785 3 17358 N/A
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3 Month Euribor Future Mar18 33.37%
US 5 Year Note (CBT) Mar18 22.90%
US 10 Year Note (CBT) Mar18 15.62%
Fin Fut Euribor Ice (Wht) 06/18/18 10.28%
Euro OAT Mar18 8.87%
Fed Natl Mort Assc 4% 7.33%
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IRS JPY 0.30000 03/18/16-10Y CME_Pay 4.98%
U.S. Treasury Bond Mar18 4.56%
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64.20% 0.00% 103.00% N/A
64.14% -74.72% 316.66% N/A
1.66% -234.33% 48.69% N/A
0.72% 0.00% 102.07% N/A
-19.32% -41.14% 244.34% N/A
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PTTDX Fees (% of AUM)
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521.00% 0.00% 2337.00% N/A
PTTDX - Distributions
Monthly Annually Monthly Monthly
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Jan 31, 2018 $0.016
Nov 30, 2017 $0.018
Oct 31, 2017 $0.017
Sep 29, 2017 $0.019
Aug 31, 2017 $0.019
Jul 31, 2017 $0.017
Jun 30, 2017 $0.021
May 31, 2017 $0.021
Apr 28, 2017 $0.022
Mar 31, 2017 $0.026
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Mr. Worah is CIO Asset Allocation and Real Return and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee, and oversees portfolio management for the U.S. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he built models to explain the difference between matter and anti-matter. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.
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Mr. Kiesel is CIO Global Credit and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee, a generalist portfolio manager and the global head of corporate bond portfolio management, with oversight for the firm's investment grade, high yield, bank loan, municipal and insurance business as well as credit research. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year in 2012 and a finalist in 2010. He has written extensively on the topic of global credit markets, founded the firm's Global Credit Perspectives publication and regularly appears in the financial media. He joined PIMCO in 1996 and previously served as PIMCO's global head of investment grade corporate bonds and as a senior credit analyst. He has 25 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Scott A. Mather
Mr. Mather is CIO U.S. Core Strategies and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee and a generalist portfolio manager. Mr. Mather also oversees ESG portfolio integration in the U.S. Previously he was head of global portfolio management. Before that, he led portfolio management in Europe, managed euro and pan-European portfolios and worked closely with many Allianz-related companies. He also served as a managing director of Allianz Global Investors KAG. Prior to these roles, Mr. Mather co-headed PIMCO's mortgage- and asset-backed securities team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1998, he was a fixed income trader specializing in mortgage-backed securities at Goldman Sachs in New York. He holds a master's degree in engineering, as well as undergraduate degrees, from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Hey, everyone. Mark Marshall for theproaudiofiles.com and guitaristmarkmarshall.com.
Today, I want to talk about stacking delays with almost identical times to create a really cool, lush, effect.
I came across this effect on a gig where I had two different delays running at the same time. I didn't realize it, I only meant to have one of them on, but somehow, they ended up with the same time settings, and when I started playing, the way that the notes were stacking on each other were really neat.
It's not uncommon for me to have two delays in my chain when I'm gigging. I'll have one set to a fast slapback delay, and then another one to a longer delay, and that way, depending on what part I'm playing in a song, I don't have to bend down and make too many tweaks to either delays.
We'll be using the UAD EP-34, as well as the Eventide H-3000. Now, the EP-34 is where I'm going to be getting some of the grit, wow, and flutter that you would get from a real tape echo unit, and the Eventide, I'm going to get that classic, 80's, clean, digital delay sound.
You can use a number of plug-ins for this. The stock plug-in within Pro Tools or Logic, or I use the PSP Analog Delay sometimes. It doesn't matter, but I think what matters is having two slightly different delays from each other. I think that's where some of the fun is, is they each kind of morph the sound in their own unique delay, instead of stacking two identical delays on top of each other.
Let's listen to this first example with no delay on it.
It's a real simple part. Let's put on both delays.
Let's just hear with the EP-34.
You can see that I'm hitting the echo pretty hard so that it saturates with a little bit of that overdrive.
Let's listen to the H-3000 now.
What's interesting is the Eventide actually cleans up the EP-34, and that's not something you would expect.
The order that you run these plug-ins is going to affect the outcome, so if you put the digital delay first, then run that into the tape echo, then that's going to alter it, because the dirty signal, the saturated signal, it's going to come at the end.
This next example is definitely in the U2 family of guitar parts.
Let's listen to it with no effects first.
Let's hear it with both effects.
Let's hear it with the EP-34 only.
Let's hear it with the Eventide only.
They both sound good individually on their own, but there's just something really exciting happening when they're both together.
For the last example, I used the tone knob on a Stratocaster to swell in chords for an ambient-like effect. The only thing I changed is I put an LA-2A before the delays, just to compress the signal a little bit. Often when you're doing swells on the guitar, it's hard to get a lot of signal out of it, because by the time you swell the chord, the attack is gone.
I'll often use an LA-2A or 1176, or any compressor for that matter, to squeeze it and get a little more sustain and volume out of it.
Let's listen to it with no effects.
Okay, let's listen to it with both delays on.
In this example, you could really hear the wow and flutter of the tape echo, and how it's feeding the other delay, because of the legato nature of the part.
I'm going to take this a step further by sending it to a reverb. I like to do this on these parts because it just expands it, and makes it sound more symphonic, but it's also going to bring out some interesting frequencies and harmonics in the upper registers.
It almost has a glacial like quality to it.
That's my tip for this week. I hope you give it a shot and have great success with it.


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Meet The Only Straight Girl In America Who Doesn't Want To Sleep With Jon Hamm
By Joanna Robinson | Pajiba Love | March 6, 2012 |
Apparently a pseudo-sequel to Mean Girls is in the works. The movie, Mean Moms, would follow a sweet suburban mom who discovers that little has changed from the Queen Bee high school dynamic. So, yes, I think we all know which 25-year-old who looks like a 45-year-old would be perfect for the part. (FSR)
On the other hand, some women in Hollywood seem to be doing keg stands from the Fountain of Youth. Our beloved and eternally teenaged Kristen Bell (she of Mars snark and sloth meltdown fame) has been cast as the "lead" in the Disney adaptation of my favorite Han Christian Anderson story, "The Snow Queen." Some sites have been speculating that Bell will voice the Queen, but I think we all know her little chipmunk voice is better suited for Gerda, the plucky girl who tracks down her missing best friend. The chicas over at The Mary Sue agree with me. (The Mary Sue)
Speaking of plucky women, check out these rad images from women working during World War II. (Buzzfeed)
And if the real thing doesn't do it for you, then enjoy this lovely image of Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope in full on Rosie The Riveter regalia. (Vulture)
What with all the slut-shaming, nudie photo leaking and homophobia sluicing around the internet recently, I've been contemplating a full-on unpluggening. Anyone want to join me in this mother*cking kickass tree house? No boys allowed. (Carnival Of The Random)
Unless they're boys who read and agree with this "Time" piece. Then climb on up, gents. (Time)
Apparently, being brain damaged makes you a better gambler. (Neatorama) So I suggest we take these 25 mentally injured individuals to Vegas. If they honestly believe Obama put a hit out on Andrew Breitbart, we are going to make a killing at the Craps table. (Buzzfeed)
Jon Hamm, you know, he of the lantern jaw, impeccable comedic timing and confirmed monogamy, is a walking dream for straight ladies and gay dudes alike. Don Draper is. . .not quite the same perfect package. That doesn't prevent the ladies from flinging their 60s mod underwear at Draper's head any chance they get. But Hamm has sworn that he and Elisabeth Moss's Peggy Olsen will never, nevah sleep together. You go Peggy. (Celebitchy)
Speaking of 1960s heartthrobs, I could watch Adam West run away from things all day. (Uproxx)
IFC has a really confusing list of Actors To Watch in 2012. These actors, they claim, are not already household names. Really? I'd bet the average person knows Jennifer Lawrence better than they know Elizabeth Olsen. But, well, point taken, these 10 performers are about to have one hell of a year. YOU GO TIM RIGGINS. TEXAS FOREVER. (IFC)
Artist Kiersten Essenpreis has crafted a loving tribute to Mitch Hedberg with these minimalistic wood etchings of her favorite quotes. I would have gone with an escalator joke. Sorry for the convenience. (22 Words)
Would you like to spend seven minutes in heaven with Paul Rudd? Of course you would.
Finally, jM sent me this video because she's a bit of a design nerd. I loved it because I'm a bookshop nerd. So if you like design, bookshops, plummy British accents, history, happy accidents, internet memes or paper lanterns, then you'll surely love this video on the origin of the "Keep Calm And Carry On" poster.
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A little pricey for a ms 64 and not vf , however it is NGC graded and the coin I received almost looked proof uncirculated I was pleased .
THE COIN WAS JUST AS DESCRIBED ON TV. SINCE IT IS AN NGC GRADED COIN THE, CONDITION OF THE COIN WAS AS DESCRIBED.
My expectations were high due to other reviews and this coin did not disappoint. Beautiful coin, every bit an MS64.
"Hot Lips" takes on new meaning. It doesn't happen very often, but once in a while an error coin is released from the United States Mint. This Morgan features doubled-up lips on Lady Liberty. Under magnification, you can see the double lip. What an interesting conversation piece for you or a friend.


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Q: gethostbyname returning ip address 127.0.0.1 I want to get the ip address of my current system through following code snippet:
if(gethostname(src_host, sizeof(src_host)) < 0)  {
    printf("Error in getting host name...\n");
    return 0;
}   else    {
    printf("Host name = %s\n", src_host);
    if((src_hst = gethostbyname(src_host)) == NULL) {
        printf("Cannot resolve host...\n");
        return 0;
    }else   {
        ip->ip_src = (*(struct in_addr *)src_hst->h_addr_list[0]);
        printf("Ip Address=%s\n", inet_ntoa(ip->ip_src));
    }

}

But in output I am getting 12.0.0.1 that is local ip address ( I am new to networing) I want 172.23.1.182 defined in eth0.
Can anyone please help?

lovebird@lovebird:~/prog/icmp$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 60:eb:69:71:7f:c0
          inet addr:172.23.1.182  Bcast:172.23.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::62eb:69ff:fe71:7fc0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1831227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1362960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1549696322 (1.5 GB)  TX bytes:296632333 (296.6 MB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:9757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:944058 (944.0 KB)  TX bytes:944058 (944.0 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 70:f3:95:b4:23:69
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

A: Use getifaddrs which will return the address assigned to the interface. gethostname is basically a DNS request, which is served by the entry from your /etc/hosts file.

A: I have a similar situation.
My /etc/hosts file contains the following entries for Dell-Laptop:
127.0.1.1   Dell-Laptop
192.168.1.8 Dell-Laptop # Tony's Dell Inspiron Laptop

A small mod to your code would get both:
if(gethostname(src_host, sizeof(src_host)) < 0)  {
    printf("Error in getting host name...\n");
    return 0;
}   else    {
    printf("Host name = %s\n", src_host);
    if((src_hst = gethostbyname(src_host)) == NULL) {
        printf("Cannot resolve host...\n");
        return 0;
    }else   {
        // ip->ip_src = (*(struct in_addr *)src_hst->h_addr_list[0]);
        // printf("Ip Address=%s\n", inet_ntoa(ip->ip_src));
        for(idx=0;src_hst->h_addr_list[idx];idx++)
        {
            printf("Ip Address=%s\n",
             inet_ntoa((*(struct in_addr *)src_hst->h_addr_list[idx])));
        }
    }

}


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Limited vs. Total War in American Military Doctrine
In 1953 General Mark Clark signed the peace document ending the Korean war, even though the official goals had pretty much been achieved he stated later "I cannot find it in me to exalt at this hour." (Clark was the first U.S. commander to agree to an Armistice without victory)…
For over 150 years the United States officially held a philosophy of warfare that emphasized total victory at all costs. War was to be avoided whenever humanly possible but once embarked upon it should be fought with crusade-like vigor; it was an all-or-nothing proposition that took on a kind of religious aura– more than just a vehicle for political gain war was instead viewed as a life and death struggle between the forces of good vs. evil. It followed that in times of war military leaders should be unencumbered by politics and left to their own devices to win by any means necessary. The politicians and civilians were expected to provide the materials and manpower and then get out of the way.
We came to think that way as a result of our geographical and political detachment from the old world– in other words our isolationism was a primary influence in dictating our military doctrine for well over a century. This strain of absolutist thinking was vastly different from the balance of power arrangement that had existed in Europe since the Congress of Vienna following the Napoleonic wars. Carl von Clausewitz was not in vogue on this side of the pond.*
As time passed it became increasingly clear that the European model was not worth emulating, it had produced a series of continental wars that finally culminated in the carnage of WWI and WWII. By the end of WWII in 1945 there was no doubt that the American approach– war as crusade– embodied in FDR's insistence that "there is no substitute for victory," provided much of the crucial resolve required for the allies to prevail (with a big assist from our massive production capacity and superior scientific ingenuity).
The defeat of Germany and Japan signaled the highpoint for America's absolutist war doctrine– it was the greatest achievement in human history and required an all out effort on all fronts. Ironically the crowning moment for the policy of total victory achieved through total war, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also signaled its fall from prominence. With the advent of the Atomic Age and the Cold War the rules of the game were suddenly altered significantly. In Korea and Vietnam the spectre of the nuclear genie forced a new kind of warfare to the forefront– limited war. Put simply, limited wars were fought because total war was no longer conceivable in the shadow of possible nuclear annihilation. Destroying communism on the battlefield in one epic confrontation was not an option.
So the US would have to do it through tough policy backed up with the threat of force. The creation of the UN ushered in a new era of collective security, weighted in favor of the west. Through ingenious foreign strategy making such as the Marshall plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the creation of NATO the US embarked on a policy of containment aimed at checking the advance of world communism. It was a strategy of attrition aimed at slowly bleeding the communists to death.
The new cat and mouse strategy eschewed the total war doctrine. As a result it was wildly unpopular at home during both Korea and Vietnam; politicians and citizens alike, especially on the Right, called the Administrations' positions everything from appeasement to outright conspiracy. That the fervent opposition was so strident should come as no surprise– after the total victories against Germany and Japan millions of Americans still clung to the absolutist view of total war for total victory (that we should use all means at our disposal to defeat an enemy, even atomic weapons). And still do today.
The argument over these competing war philosophies, balance of power vs. no holds barred, goes right to the heart of the wrenching division in opinions about the Country's war experience since Korea. The battle lines, so famously drawn back in 1951 when the confrontation between Truman and MacArthur nearly caused a crisis in the republic, persist right down to today.
Its true, if you separate the two wars from the larger context and just look at the military side of things the crusaders have a valid argument, there is no denying that we didn't prevail absolutely on the battlefield in either Korea or Vietnam. It is also true that outcomes surely would have been different had politicians made different geopolitical calculations and unleashed the full fury of the American arsenal. But looking back from the vantage point of today, the farsighted containment experiment championed by Marshall, Truman, Kennan, Acheson, Kennedy etc. has stood the test of time and has been somewhat vindicated– after all most of Asia and Europe is now democratic and solidly capitalist. These men realized that total war was no longer an option, that political considerations would frequently outweigh military ones in modern wars, and therefore the prosecution of military strategy shouldn't be left exclusively in the domain of the Generals.
In Korea and Vietnam, for the first time in American history, our wars were prosecuted in the spirit of von Clausewitz–as a powerful extension of politics by other means where advancement of national interests depended on bargaining from a position of strength, morally, militarily and most of all politically. We didn't win those wars but our soldiers' sacrifices weren't in vain– they held the battle lines and then we won the peace– who knows what would have happened had we blockaded and bombed China, or used nukes, like some were advocating?
The absolutist tradition of war, most famously personified in General MacArthur, has remained very much alive over the years– in Washington and on Main Street USA. It's a distilled view of politics and war verging on eschatology that employs a nomenclature stocked with broadly brushed generalizations and easy to remember labels. Its proponents tend to want to paint a single face on a many headed beast so the threat can be more easily defined. In Korea for example the Soviets, the Chinese and the North Koreans were incorrectly believed to be a monolithic bloc– the Communists– with all strings leading back to Moscow. The same portrayal was popular in Vietnam when Ho Chi Minh was frequently presented as a mere vassal of Peking and Moscow. With the luxury of hindsight we now know these interpretations were off the mark and may have contributed to the lengthening of both wars.
* Carl von Clausewitz in On War teaches that war is a powerful extension of politics by other means, emphasizing balance of power strategies.
Korea: The Limited War. David Rees. 1964. St. Martins. New York
The Best and The Brightest. David Halberstam. 1969. Random House. New York
The Wise Men. Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. 1986. Simon & Schuster. New York.
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Access to medical care for members of the rural Mendonoma Coast may be our greatest healthcare challenge. MHA seeks to improve our community's access to specialty care, pharmaceuticals, and other services through work with our Network partners (RCMS, CLSD, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital). Additionally, MHA recognizes that improving transportation resources and implementation of new technology, such as telemedicine, are critical in providing more healthcare options. Successful collaboration with our partners will play a key role in developing, implementing and sustaining new services.
In late 2017, MHA launched a Care Transitions program to assist local residents who have been discharged from the hospital and provide support when they come home.
Support is offered by MHA's Community Health Workers who provide individualized coordination for clients based on their needs. Some examples of how our CHWs can help include: medication adherence, transportation coordination, and booking follow-up appointments with primary care doctors or specialists. Our CHWs ensure that our clients have the food that they need, access to specific medical equipment, and that an appropriate amount of time is spent visiting and coordinating the services unique to each person.
To provide resources that lead to increased access to specialty care, MHA hired the California Teleheatlh Resource Center to complete an in-depth assessment of RCMS to evaluate its readiness for implementation of a telemedicine program for the Mendonoma community. Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology. The assessment resulted in a comprehensive document that provides the how-to for program development, implementation and sustainability of a telemedicine program at RCMS.


Originally posted on August 7, 2015 on the University of Leeds Centre for Health, Technologies and Social Practice blog.
The article goes on to highlight its efforts to "equip individuals with information" and "empower" to prevent cancer, whilst being careful not to imply blame. It also outlines the "moral duty" of CRUK to report research findings to the public, including those linking lifestyle factors and cancer.
This discussion resonates with existing research in the sociology of health and illness. It has been noted that health promotion strategies in European and American regions generally encourage individuals to keep themselves well, for example by engaging in regular exercise regimes, and following healthy diets. As Petersen and Lupton (1996: ix) describe, "individuals are expected to take responsibility for the care of their bodies and to limit their potential to harm others". Petersen and Lupton attribute this in part to contemporary forms of governance over populations, which favour free-markets and individual autonomy (1996: xiii). However, as those responding to the CRUK article (above) point out, these messages carry with them a sense of expectation that individuals will avoid 'risks' to their health, and disapproval when they do not. This is particularly marked in the areas of obesity and smoking-related illnesses (Bell et al, 2011).
These judgements, however, often do not account for the circumstances in which these behaviours take place, or the fact that complex factors, both biological and environmental, interact to make some individuals more susceptible to poor health than others. As in the article quoted above, when researchers and authors describe certain behaviours as lifestyle choices, and write about preventable causes of cancer, they downplay the constraints imposed on individual choices by their wider social contexts.
A recent article by Bell and Ristovski-Slijepcevic (2015), describes how these notions nevertheless continue to be disseminated amongst medical professionals. They noted at the cancer prevention conferences they attended that talks often focused on lifestyle factors, with cancer presented as a matter of choice: for patients and medical professionals alike. Bell and Ristovski-Slijepcevic observed that these presentations were often not based on conclusive evidence, but rife with moral and ideological claims.
Although cancer is often described as preventable, today it is also increasingly understood in terms of the complexities of genetic mutation and hereditary risk. It is important to consider during this project how discourses of guilt, blame and responsibility might be experienced by those with a cancer attributed to their genetic make-up, and thus seemingly 'unpreventable'. Existing work already explores these issues. Hallowell's (1999; 2004) research has described women's accounts of genetic counselling, testing or surgery for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). She notes that though genetic risk is constructed as 'involuntary' by biomedical discourses, this does not seem to absolve those with 'risky' genes of responsibility for their health (1999: 599). In the case of HBOC, this includes the expectation that women will endeavor to prevent an 'at-risk' status from manifesting into a cancer diagnosis. One participant in Hallowell's research described that undergoing testing was a way of "doing everything I can to give myself the best chance" (Hallowell, 2004: 558).
Similarly, Hesse-Biber (2014) argues that her participants, following identification of a BRCA mutation, were expected by medical professionals to accord with one of the courses of action they recommended. This course of action usually entailed surveillance or surgery to "eliminate" their chance of developing cancer. Blame and judgement, then, also have the potential to figure in patients' experiences of hereditary cancer. This could be the case if a patient's decision-making does not accord with medical advice. Here, the patient does not conform to the vision of the 'responsible-genetic subject' (Novas and Rose, 2000: 505), who gains as much knowledge about their condition as possible and applies this to oneself, aiming to optimise health.
Such feelings may be intensified when responsibilities to others are also introduced. The majority of women in Hallowell's (2004) work, who had experienced cancer in the past, described that their main reason for undergoing mutation testing was to "generate information that could be used by other family members" (2004: 558). This was also the main motivator for men being tested for their BRCA mutation status (Hallowell et al., 2006). With only a small risk (6%) of developing breast cancer themselves, the men Hallowell et al interviewed all claimed that they had undergone testing to determine their carrier status for their children's sake, with one describing this as a "duty" (2006: 975). Some men in her study explicitly raised feelings of blame and guilt in their accounts, should they be identified as a carrier, thus putting their child at risk.
Hesse-Biber's (2014) work also describes a notion of participants 'owing it' to relatives to get tested. This could refer to those who had died, whereby her participants wanted to take advantage of modern tests and preventative surgeries, unavailable to previous generations. Some women in Hesse-Biber's research purposefully memorialised their female relatives through the genetic testing process, for example by scheduling a test on their mother's birthday.
Though a diagnosis of cancer attributable to an inherited genetic mutation has the potential to be perceived as inevitable, and thus out of an individual's control, it is clear that responsibility, guilt and blame may nevertheless figure in patients' experiences, in multiple ways. According to Hallowell (1999), this can shape and even constrain decisions about whether or not to undergo testing and/or treatment.
To date, much genetic cancer research and clinical application focuses on testing individuals and their relatives for specific mutations, which entail a risk of developing cancer. Today, findings from biomarker research have extended testing to other signs of risk. Some biomarkers may be indicative of cancer, and can be easily collected and tested (for example in blood or urine).
In thinking about the best way to present and provide these emerging forms of testing, we need to consider forms of responsibility and feelings of guilt and blame, but also hope and optimism, that they might elicit in people offered the tests and their families. We also need to consider how other members of the public view the tests, and the people who take them.
It is also essential to explore people's understandings of the interplay between genetic and so-called 'lifestyle' factors as influencing cancer, and how guilt, blame and responsibility may be attenuated or reinforced through cancer prevention strategies. We will be tackling these concerns in our Wellcome Trust funded research on 'Transformations and Translations in Cancer Patienthood'.
Bell, K. & Ristovski-Slijepcevic, S. (2015) Communicating "Evidence": Lifestyle, Cancer, and the Promise of a Disease-free Future. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, n/a–n/a.
Childs, O. 2012. Lifestyle and cancer: against the blame game. Cancer Research UK Science Blog [Online]. Available from: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/04/11/lifestyle-and-cancer-against-the-blame-game/ [Accessed 29th June 2015].
Hallowell, N. (1999) Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility. Sociology of Health & Illness, 21(5), pp. 597-621.
Hallowell, N., Arden-Jones, A., Eeles, R., Foster, C., Lucassen, A., Moynihan, C. & Watson, M. (2006) Guilt, blame and responsibility: men's understanding of their role in the transmission of BRCA1/2 mutations within their family. Sociology of Health & Illness, 28(7), pp. 969–988.
Hallowell, N., Foster, C., Eeles, R., Ardern-Jones, A. & Watson, M. (2004) Accommodating risk: Responses to BRCA1/2 genetic testing of women who have had cancer. Social Science & Medicine, 59(3), pp. 553 – 565.
Hesse-Biber, S. N. (2014) Waiting for Cancer to Come: Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Novas, C. & Rose, N. (2000) Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual. Economy and Society, 29(4), pp. 485-513.