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Keyssar, Alexander. 2020. Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?. Learn more on the publisher's site Abstract
Alexander Keyssar, Harvard University Press, July 2020
With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.
Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains.
Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. 2019. Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism. Cambridge University Press. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Cambridge University Press, February 2019
Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a backlash fuelling support for Authoritarian-Populist parties and leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to liberal democracy.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. 2018. Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton University Press. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell & Maya Sen, Princeton University Press, 2018
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery—compared to areas that were not—are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress.
Highlighting the connection between historical institutions and contemporary political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had political and economic incentives to encourage the development of anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from parents to children and via communities, through a process called behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that can still be felt today.
A groundbreaking look at the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the present, Deep Roots demonstrates how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that created those beliefs have been eradicated.
Weil, David. 2017. The Fissured Workplace. Harvard University Press, 424. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
David Weil, Harvard University Press, May 2017
For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies and laws so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this innovative business strategy.
Gilman, Hollie Russon. 2016. Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America. Brookings. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
Hollie Russon Gilman, Brookings, 2016
Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation. This global phenomenon, which has been called "revolutionary civics in action" by the New York Times, started in Brazil in 1989 but came to America only in 2009. Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and vote on how to spend public funds.
Fung, Archon, Mary Graham, and David Weil. 2007. Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency . Cambridge University Press. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
Which SUVs are most likely to roll over? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.
Fung, Archon, Mary Graham, and David Weil. 2007. Which SUVs are most likely to roll over? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critic. Cambridge University Press. Visit Publisher's Site Abstract
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Scaling Railway: Roadmap
Introduction to Scaling Railway
If you don't know Railway, we're an infrastructure company that provides instant application deployments to developers.
The key to our platform is speed. If you want to spin up a database or a job queuing service, you can do that on Railway in a few seconds. Here's a real-time example of spinning up Postgres.
Creating a new Postgres database in under 10 seconds
Since we started two years ago, our growth has been up and to the right.
We are powering production deployments for 200,000+ people, with thousands more joining every single day.
Railway company user metrics
Reasonable minds might disagree about why we've seen such tremendous growth, but to me it's because we are absolutely hell-bent on making infrastructure — maybe THE shittiest DX of the entire application stack — feel like magic.
We're two years in and databases continue to be the most popular reason people come to Railway — and for good reason! We don't think there's ever been a faster way to provision a database on the internet.
As for the growth, we're really happy that people are taken with our approach, but we're now facing what you might call a BIG problem.
We need to take a product that is beloved for a fairly narrow use case and scale it into an essential piece of internet infrastructure.
In a series of blogposts over the next few weeks, we're going to take you behind the scenes into how we're scaling Railway to be the infrastructure company we've all always wanted — from Platform to Infrastructure, to Support and Comms, and everything else in between.
This week we're starting with the Railway Roadmap.
Railway Started as a One-dimensional Product
The Railway Roadmap in 2020 was very simple: let users spin-up a database in a few seconds. That was basically it. It didn't need to be complicated, but it had to feel like magic.
Since we founded Railway to make it trivial for engineers to deploy code without thinking about servers, we started with databases. Where else was there a stronger desire to avoid thinking about servers? It was a perfect fit.
Once we created the v0 of Railway, we started getting hammered with questions from users looking to expand their use cases.
"Can you make this deploy my Django app?"
"How do I deploy a node server onto this?"
"When can I host [insert static web framework here] on Railway?"
Good point, getting a database was just the first step. Next we needed to add a way to wire-up a service to your database.
Railway Adds One Service, What about a Second?
A few months later, in true startup fashion, we bolted a service builder onto the v0.
An early (2020) version of Railway Deployments
There was a lot of jank, but the result was what we wanted. It was now possible to spin-up a database with a service alongside. We were getting somewhere!
This is what it looked like when we first added Redis support. You might notice that we now had the concept of a Plugin, which is essentially a database with some vars.
An early (2020) implementation of adding a Redis caching service to a deployment
Once we added support for a single service, we started getting hammered by our users once again.
"This is great, but I've got a Celery worker + web server that I can't deploy"
"Now I need to add a caching service to this project, how can I do that?"
"Can you help me configure a messaging queue on top of the service I just deployed?"
Our numbers were cranking but we didn't have a great answer for our users within the product.
For a while we just told people to run multiple processes in the same service, but that was a horrible experience for a variety of reasons:
Interspersing logs from multiple processes became unreadable
Metrics became useless/blurred together
Processes couldn't scale independently
We'd planned from the beginning to let users add more than one service to Railway and it was now clear that we had to bring this capability out in a big way.
Introducing Railway Canvas
To implement multiple services, we introduced the Railway Canvas at the beginning of 2022.
A current version of a Railway Project
The Canvas allows Railway users to express increasingly more complex infrastructure concepts.
You know how before we just magically deployed your database? Now if you gave us a repo, we could magically deploy the services within it!
This is the current state of the product, more or less, and we couldn't be happier with the current level of user engagement.
Though by now it may come as no surprise, we've again been getting hammered by users since our latest release:
"We need a region in US-East/EU/Asia"
"We need to be able to deploy something complicated, like ClickHouse/Temporal/etc"
"We need different configurations of infrastructure for each of our teams/members/etc"
If you can spot the trend at this point, it's that every time we release something, our users start clamoring for more and more and more complexity.
So this is the problem we face. We exist because shipping software is too complicated. We are obsessed with keeping it simple and making infrastructure feel like magic. This approach has brought us hundreds of thousands of users who spend a lot of time asking for more complexity!
Our answer to this and many more conundrums, is Railway v2.
Railway v2: Service Unlimited
For Railway v2, which is what we're calling the next leap forward in the capabilities of our product, we're going long on three dimensions to cover all of the use cases our users demand:
Service depth - persistent storage, scaling, generalizable config
Environment breadth - regions, private networking, variable/config/dependency management
Project height - collaboratively evolving applications over time, across environments
First we supported databases, then we supported databases with a single service, then multiple services — and now we're making the jump to deploy vastly more complicated applications.
These are the big ticket items we'll be shipping in Q1 and Q2:
Private networking
Multi-plugin support
Horizontal scaling
Make it Feel Like Magic
We'll have succeeded with v2 when two things are true:
A user can come to the platform and push a button to deploy ANY service(s) or application(s) of arbitrary complexity, wired seamlessly into their existing infrastructure
Complexity isn't just "magically hidden" but provided incrementally, as layers, just in time and as the user needs it through intuitive interfaces
In Railway v2, a user needs to be able to give the command "Deploy Temporal/ClickHouse/Supabase/etc" and receive a running-and-wired version of the software alongside the company's existing infrastructure, in a few seconds.
No VPC peering, no 30-second rainbow wheel. Instantly. And with zero upfront config.
All of the power; none of the pain.
To accomplish this, not only do we need to be able to provision systems of arbitrary complexity, we need to:
Synchronize/Apply changes across environments, with overrides (prod, staging, dev, etc)
Allow users to tap into additional features such as networking + storage to express more complex applications
Scale up to millions, and eventually billions, of users
It's a tall order, but the alternative of settling for the current status quo is even more daunting.
When you look back and think of the most rewarding moments of your life, is comparing m5d.2xlarge vs n2-standard-2 one of them? What about spending an hour digging around in the IAM settings panel to find that 1-in-a-million setting you're looking for? Us neither.
Developers should spend less time on infrastructure, and more time building products.
For the next generation of great companies to be built on the internet, they need a tool that helps them do just that.
We believe Railway will be that tool.
If we do our job correctly and Railway becomes one of the best ways people build and deploy software, it will be because we've successfully figured out how to make today's infrastructure standards look massively cumbersome by comparison.
In 2023, we'll be shipping the features required to bring our vision into existence, from introducing horizontal scaling to opening our first regions to stacking persistent storage — and a lot more. We'll be blogging about it, alongside, in real-time, for the whole world to see.
In the rest of this series we'll tell you about what we're doing across the company to power Railway and our next phase of growth. We'll also tell stories from our users who have been on a tear building applications on Railway.
Thanks for riding along with us, we're happy to have you onboard.
P.S Sound interesting? We're hiring.
Your train has arrived!
Join thousands of developers deploying hundreds of thousands of applications effortlessly on Railway.
Copyright © 2023 Railway Corp.
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21 SP 541 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, FORSYTH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Pearl Hairston Fair, dated April 1, 2008, recorded on May 14, 2008, in Book RE 2832, Page 200 of the Forsyth County Public Registry conveying certain real property in Forsyth County to Paradise Settlement Services, Trustee, for the benefit of World Alliance Financial Corporation. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 6, 2022, at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Forsyth County, North Carolina, to wit: All that that parcel of land lying in the County of Forsyth, State of North Carolina, Described as follows: BEGINNING at a lot pin in the eastern right-of-way line of Claremont Avenue, the said pin located at N860,255.858, El,636,966.874, coordinates derived by field survey from North Carolina State Plane Coordinate Monuments, the northwest corner of Parcel 34n N.C. R-59, and running thence, with the eastern right-of-way line of Claremont Avenue, North 00° 18' 15" East 83.75 feet to a lot pin; then North 45° 46' 48" East 30.34 feet to a lot pin in a northern project boundary line of N.C. R-59; thence, with the said northern project boundary line, South 88° 44' 06" East 108.48 feet to a lot pin, the northwest corner of Parcel 20, N.C. R-59; thence with the western boundary line of the said Parcel 20, South 00° 19' 45" West 104.47 feet to a lot pin, the southwest corner of the said Parcel 20, and a common corner with Parcels 21 and 34, N.C. R-59; thence with the Northern boundary line of the said Parcel 34, North 89° 08' 16" West 130.06 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 13,414.48 square feet and being Parcel 36, N.C. R-59 (East Winston Urban Renewal Project No. 3), according to a plat of survey prepared by Wilbur Smith Associates. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1065 Claremont Avenue, Winston Salem, NC 27101; PIN #: 6836-70-1307 A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, payable to Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, PLLC, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30, if the highest bidder at the sale, resale, or any upset bidder fails to comply with its bid upon the tender of a deed for the real property, or after a bona fide attempt to tender such a deed, the clerk of superior court may, upon motion, enter an order authorizing a resale of the real property. The defaulting bidder at any sale or resale or any defaulting upset bidder is liable for the bid made, and in case a resale is had because of such default, shall remain liable to the extent that the final sale price is less than the bid plus all the costs of any resale. Any deposit or compliance bond made by the defaulting bidder shall secure payment of the amount, if any, for which the defaulting bidder remains liable under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS WHERE IS." There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to any and all superior liens, including taxes and special assessments. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are the Heirs of Pearl Hairston Fair. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29, in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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Spain vs. Russia Betting Picks 2018 FIFA World Cup
Via https://www.finder.com
The clash between Spain and Russia will be played at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow on July 1st. Spain showed little to convince us they are the genuine contenders for the World Cup title and they have plenty of fuel left in the tank, so we're expecting a way better displays from one of the biggest favorites to lift the trophy.
Spain vs. Russia
Three-Way: 1: Spain -164; X: +290 Draw; 2: Russia +550 (Odds provided by Delaware Park Sportsbook)
Spread -1: Spain +104; Russia -133
Total 2.5 goals: Over +114; Under -143
Spain didn't suffer a defeat in the group phase, but they won just one game, and we must say that they had a bit of luck to even be in the Round of 16, as they nearly lost to Morocco in the previous game, but the VAR system helped them to avoid a shock. While they are playing okay in the attack, the defense is a concern as the Red Fury allowed five goals in two games, and that is utterly unorthodox for the defense of such a big quality.
On the other hand, Russia pleasantly surprised many with eight goals in the opening two matches, but the reality check hit them in a tilt with Uruguay, as the Sky Blues beat them, 3-0. It is obvious that the Sbornaya doesn't have a quality to cope with better teams and wins over Saudi Arabia and Egypt doesn't reflect a clear picture of the current situation in the Russia squad. They will likely struggle with the Spaniards here, but the Russians will also be looking for their chances, mainly from the set-pieces and counter-attacks.
Diego Costa didn't experience the best of times against Morocco, but he shouldn't have any trouble to outsmart the slow Russian defense, so I expect Atletico Madrid's striker to torture the hosts and he could score a goal or two on this one.
Artem Dzyuba displayed a good form at the World Cup and not only that he scored a couple of goals so far, he proved to be the biggest threat in the opposing box. A towering striker can create a havoc in the penalty box and although Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique successfully played against much better players, they are not quite reliable at the moment, so the Russian could take advantage of Spain's defensive struggles.
Spain: De Gea; Carvajal, Pique, Ramos, Alba; Busquets, Koke; Iniesta, Isco, Silva; Costa.
Russia: Akinfeev; Fernandes, Ignashevich, Kutepov, Zhirkov; Zobnin, Gazisnkiy; Samedov, Golovin, Cherishev; Dzyuba.
Spain's chances to win the World Cup are now +450, while the Red Fury is -120 to reach the semi-finals. Russia's chances to win the World Cup are now +7000, while the Sbornaya is +800 to reach the semi-finals.
Spain is a firm favorite to get a win here, but it is not such a wise decision to back them at -1664 and risk your stake just to profit the half of it. Instead, if you are convinced in the Red Fury's victory, it is better to opt for the -1 spread, so if they record a narrow win, you'll get your money back.
The Pick: Spain AH -1 (+104)
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5th December, 2018, 12:30 pm
Brexit isn't reducing net migration. Here's four steps Labour should take on immigration
Thom Brooks
The march towards Brexit was widely expected to lead more migrants to leave. As Theresa May claims she plans to end freedom of movement for EU citizens, this was supposed to bring a new dawn ending floodgates from Europe. But yet again Tory 'conventional wisdom' got it wrong.
EU migration continues to fall, as anticipated. The latest figures show it is at a six-year low over the last year, which is still 74,000 more coming to Britain than leaving. Half come from countries like France, Germany and Ireland. Such news might be welcomed by a government with a manifesto commitment to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands. After all, it should be easier to reduce the number of migrants who can move freely than non-EU citizens. Or so you would think.
The Office for National Statistics has found that non-EU migration is growing, now at its highest since 2004. While overall net migration holds steady at 273,000, the commitment to getting this under 100,000 remains out of reach and still out of sight. Repeatedly promising the public something that cannot and will not happen does little to improve public trust in any government.
Brexit meant controlling and cutting migration for many, if not most, Leave voters. Yet ending EU membership is no guarantee that overall migration levels will change, although non-EU migrants might make up a larger share. The net migration target was about sending a message on immigration. Since her time as Home Secretary, Theresa May has clung to this target notwithstanding heavy criticism. But it is clearer now than ever that her policy is undeliverable, especially when migration is growing in groups already under May's control.
Labour can offer a new direction on immigration in four steps:
1. The net migration target should be dropped in favour of migration impact immediately. The public needs reassurance there is control, but using an arbitrary target can be counterproductive. Our level of control over immigration could be clearer and more tangible when communicated in terms of migration impact on A&E access, housing availability, school provision and public transport.
No abstract net figure will win people over more than concrete actions on the ground. This could be managed by reconstituting the Migration Advisory Committee as a small club of economists to include legal and social policy experts who can better assess impacts. Labour is already committed to dropping net migration targets and reintroducing the Migration Impact Reduction Fund.
2. Make the migration system self-funded. Immigration-related fees already bring in millions worth of profits to the Home Office. Much of this is diverted to spending in other areas. If the public knew that not £1 of taxes was spent on immigration services, this could help show that migrants are paying for themselves and not reliant on taxpayers. The high fees could be reduced while still covering full costs and provide additional funding for extra Border Force agents.
3. Make English language a priority. This should be backed up by ending the dozen-plus exemptions for non-EU nationals, introduced by the coalition government. All should be required to pass a test, and the fees would be used to provide extra support for English instruction. (We cannot require new residents to know English if programmes are unavailable or too costly.)
4. Start a national conversation about Britishness – and ensure the Life in the UK citizenship test no longer resembles a bad pub quiz. It's now a decade since this was last discussed with Sir Bernard Crick's Advisory Group on citizenship, leading to a new test, ceremonies for new citizens, and more. Yet there has never been a consultation with citizens, old or new, as to whether the system created was fit for purpose.
Deal or no deal Brexit, with or without a second referendum – whatever happens next, action must be taken to make the UK's immigration system fairer, more efficient and offer the public a reason to have renewed confidence. These four steps can be achieved in the first weeks of a new Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn following recommendations from a House of Lords citizenship select committee and my evidence to it. There is much uncertainty ahead. But sooner or later, Labour will win power, and when it does, our immigration system must be made fairer for all.
Thom Brooks is Dean of Durham Law School.
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Thom Brooks is founding director of the Labour Academic Network and professor of law and government at Durham University.
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Introducing a simple recipe for garlic roasted potatoes. With all the snow and cold weather we have been having lately I thought I would try a new twist on a traditional and much loved vegetable – the potato! These little babies go perfect with just about any meal and are actually on the menu at my next dinner party. Make sure you mince your garlic nice and small and be sure to turn the potatoes every 15 minutes or so.
Some people might think the recipe is a little salty so simply reduce the amount according to your taste. The salt does help to give the potatoes their crispy skin so keep that in mind in case you were thinking of removing the salt all together. For a little extra taste serve with some Parmesan cheese or if you are eating them as a snack in front of the television I suggest some sweet chili sauce for dipping.
This recipe also works well with sweet potatoes and for lovers of fresh herbs add some finely chopped rosemary to the mix when coating your potatoes. Overall all a very delicious and simple recipe and a perfect addition to my easy baked salmon.
Serve with a fresh salad and bon appetit.
Transfer the potatoes to a sheet pan and spread out into 1 layer. Roast in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until browned and crisp.
I absolutley love this recipe and added my own desires. I give it 4 stars !
Baking potatoes along with several whole garlic buds is a nice idea…plenty of flavour with no garlic bits.


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Q: How to find number of total consumers/listener on remote ActiveMQ queue I have one queue I.e. FastAutomationBus. Now I want to find out how many consures/listerner are listening msg in that queue?

A: You can use consumer advisories . Advisory messages can be thought as some kind of administrative channel where you receive information regarding what is happening on your JMS provider along with what's happening with producers, consumers and destinations.
You can also use JMX to monitor and control the behaviour of the broker.

A: You can find same in AMQ Management console, there is a tab called Consumers, where it lists all listeners tagged to a particular queue/topic.
You can find IP address and creation time of listener.

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Q: Problem with "Package pgfkeys Error" I am trying to create a color box using tcolorbox package.
source code is like this-
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=.5in, bottom=.5in, left=1in, right=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}

\begin{document}

\tcbset{skin=enhanced,fonttitle=\bfseries,
frame style={upper left=blue,upper right=red,lower left=yellow,lower right=green},
interior style={white,opacity=0.5},
segmentation style={black,solid,opacity=0.2,line width=1pt}}

\begin{tcolorbox}[title=Nice box in rainbow colors]

With the 'enhanced' skin, it is quite easy to produce fancy looking effects.

\tcblower
Note that this is still a \texttt{tcolorbox}.

\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

The error I am having is:
! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/upper left' and I m going to ignore it.
! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/upper right' and I m going to ignore it.
! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/lower left' and I m going to ignore it.
! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/lower right' and I m going to ignore it.

A: The shading effect needs the TikZ shadings library. tcolorbox doesn't seem to load that by default. Hence you need to load it yourself.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}
\usetikzlibrary{shadings}

\tcbset{
    skin=enhanced,
    fonttitle=\bfseries,
    frame style={upper left=blue,upper right=red,lower left=yellow,lower right=green},
    interior style={white,opacity=0.5},
    segmentation style={black,solid,opacity=0.2,line width=1pt}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=Nice box in rainbow colors]
    With the 'enhanced' skin, it is quite easy to produce fancy looking effects.
    \tcblower
    Note that this is still a \texttt{tcolorbox}.
\end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}

Note that you need to put the \usetikzlibrary call after \tcbuselibrary{skins}, because only that library actually loads TikZ (otherwise only pgf is loaded). Also note that not all PDF viewers render shadings correctly.


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I spent 2 hours with Samsung's insanely wide monitor — here's what it's like
Antonio Villas-Boas, Business Insider US
You might look at pictures of Samsung's insanely wide CHG90 monitor and think: "Who on earth needs a monitor this wide?"
I'll bet a lot of people said the same thing when square 4:3 TVs and monitors were still the standard, back in the early 2000s, and "widescreen" 16:9 TVs and monitors hadn't yet become mainstream. Now, 16:9 widescreen is the standard monitor aspect ratio.
But why stop at 16:9? Well, the industry didn't stop there – in 2015, it started producing "ultrawide" 21:9 monitors, which offered more screen real estate for work and gave PC gamers that extra layer of immersion.
It's now 2017, and Samsung thinks you need even more screen, so it made the "super-ultrawide" CHG90 monitor, which has an aspect ratio of 32:9. That's two 16:9 widescreen monitors in one.
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The question is not why Samsung made this outrageously wide monitor, but – especially for gamers – what is it like to use?
Samsung's CHG90 is incredibly wide.
The monitor you've been using so far is probably the most common type, with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Samsung's CHG90 is 32:9, which means it's incredibly wide. It's essentially two 16:9 monitors in one.
It's a 1080p monitor, which means it's not as sharp as 1440p quad-HD (QHD) or 4K ultra-HD (UHD). With that said, you'd still need some pretty serious hardware to run video games on this monitor. That's because its resolution is 3840 x 1080, which isn't too far off 4K resolution (3840 x 2160).
Even for basic productivity, like using a web browser and watching videos, you'd still need a relatively recent and decently powerful computer.
It's amazing for playing video games.
Here's me trying Samsung's new super ultra-wide gaming monitor.
Corey Protin
There are two ways the CHG90 monitor enhances videos games:
1. It fills up more of your peripheral vision with its sheer width and curve, and it immerses you more into your game than any monitor.
2. You can actively use the extra screen real estate to your advantage to see objects or enemies that you wouldn't normally see on a regular 16:9 monitor unless you moved your mouse. By allowing you to see more, you don't have to move your mouse as much, which is helpful during gaming. Leading your eyes to each edge of the CHG90 monitor actually takes some getting used to because I've never had to move my eyes so far to either side of a monitor before! And to put that into perspective, I own an ultra-wide monitor with a 21:9 aspect ratio.
It also has some under-the-hood features that makes this monitor great for gaming.
The CHG90 supports AMD's Freesync 2 technology, which makes for ultra-smooth gameplay. It basically allows the graphics card in your computer to communicate with the monitor so that they can synchronize each frame with each other. That said, AMD's Freesync technology isn't compatible with graphics cards from the other PC graphics hardware giant, Nvidia, which is arguably the more popular of the two PC graphics cards makers.
Nvidia has its own technology to make gameplay ultra-smooth, called Nvidia G-Sync. While Nvidia cards may be more popular, G-Sync technology usually adds a few hundred dollars to a monitor's price tag compared to AMD's Freesync, which doesn't usually add any extra cost.
Still, whether you use Nvidia or AMD graphics cards, the CHG90 monitor has an incredibly fast one-millisecond response time, which reduces motion blur on the screen and helps keep the picture sharp, especially with fast-paced games.
The CHG90 also features Samsung's Quantum Dot technology, which makes for gorgeous colors, brightness, and contrast. Add HDR into the mix, and the picture is fantastic. A quick note about HDR: Games have to support HDR to make use of it, and the gaming world has been oddly slow to adopt it.
A surprisingly large number of games already support such a wide monitor.
Some game developers have to update their games so they support the wide 32:9 aspect ratio. Samsung says it's usually a quick fix for most developers, and some games have already been optimized to work on the CHG90. Samsung provides a list of those games, part of which is pictured above. Oddly enough, the list is only featured on the Korean CHG90 product page. Check out the product page and scroll down towards the bottom to find the full list.
Apart from adding support specifically for this kinda of super ultra-wide monitor, games that support AMD's Eyefinity or Nvidia's Surround standards can also be played on the CHG90 and take up the full width of the screen. There are hundreds of older and newer games on this list, so it's safe to say that game compatiblity with the CHG90 shouldn't be much of an issue.
Unfortunately for console gamers, game developers aren't likely to build support for the CHG90's width into the console versions of their games. Most console games are designed to be played on TVs, which usually have a 16:9 aspect ratio.
And what would a gaming monitor be if it didn't have some flair?
It's a trend in the PC gaming world at the moment, where everything needs to glow. Samsung recognized this and added a glowing ring where the monitor's base arm meets the monitor itself, which is tastefully conservative.
This "style" of monitor is also perfect for productivity, too, but you might want to wait for cheaper super ultra-wide monitors if all you plan to do is use it for work.
As I mentioned earlier, the 32:9 CHG90 monitor is like two regular 16:9 monitors stuck together. A lot of serious productivity users already use dual 16:9 monitor setups on their desks so they can have all the apps and windows they need open at the same time. But since the CHG90 is one single monitor, the screen isn't split in the middle like it is with a dual-monitor setup.
While this monitor would be ideal for productivity, its $1,500 price tag is expensive if you plan on using it exclusively for work. You may want to wait until cheaper 32:9 monitors are released, as productivity users don't necessarily need fancy features like Quantum Dot technology and HDR. Samsung markets the CHG90 as a gaming monitor, anyway.
Here's what Microsoft's Excel looks like on this monitor, by the way.
Should you buy this outrageously wide monitor?
Personally, I'm fully on-board the 32:9 monitor train. My next monitor will absolutely be a super ultra-wide 32:9 monitor that I'll use for both PC gaming and productivity.
The CHG90 monitor is amazing, but it's also the first of its kind, and it has a huge $1,500 price tag. With that in mind, I'd like to have a wider selection of 32:9 monitors to choose from that don't necessarily have all the fancy features and cost quite as much as the CHG90.
If you're a gamer with the cash to spend, then the CHG90 is a no-brainer for the sheer immersive gameplay it offers. Just make sure your PC is powerful enough to play games in the QHD or even UHD resolution, as the CHG90's resolution is more similar to QHD and UHD than it is to its native 1080p resolution.
Otherwise, gamers with more conservative budgets should wait for less expensive 32:9 monitors.
Is this the new must-have monitor for gaming?
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No, you can still fully enjoy video games with regular widescreen 16:9 monitors, which you can buy for incredibly cheap these days, like the 24-inch $170 BenQ monitor pictured above. Samsung's CHG90 is more of a luxury at this point, especially at its price tag.
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MIL-OSI Russia: A modern canteen for 500 seats was put into operation at the military school of cooks in the Moscow Region
As part of the implementation of the program for the arrangement (modernization) of military facilities in the Western Military District, a ceremony was held to put into operation a new modern canteen for 500 seats at the military school of cooks of the Western Military District located in the Moscow Region. The celebrations were attended by the head of the (food) Department of resource support of the RF Ministry of Defense Colonel Sergey Nikhelman, the head of the food service of the Western Military District, Colonel Viktor Tarazevich, the command and military personnel of the school of cooks, as well as specialists from the military construction complex of the Ministry of Defense, who designed and erected the building.
"Every day, together with you, we are developing the educational and material base for high-quality training of junior food service specialists. And as a result, today, on this solemn day, we are opening the object of the educational and material base of the Military School of Cooks – a new dining room that fully meets modern requirements. The new canteen is a new opportunity, which will allow the school teachers to train junior food service specialists at a higher level, "said Colonel Sergei Nikhelman.
At the end of the ceremony, a festive dinner was organized in the newly opened hall for military personnel, as well as a day of Russian national cuisine.
This building was built using modern technology of block-modular construction in just 1.5 months. The constructed dining room premises are equipped with electric boilers with a total volume of about 900 liters, 50 units of modern technological equipment and devices for preparing delicious dishes.
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Slovenia National Volleyball Team Reaches the Semi-finals of the Second World League
The men's national volleyball team of Slovenia got 8 wins in the qualifying tournament for entering the elite division of the world volleyball league and got to the semi-finals where they will compete against the Dutch national team. In the second semi-final match, Australia and Japan will play.
Slovenian volleyball players defeated the Portuguese in the final match of the qualifying tournament in the second division of the World League with the score 3:1. This game was of no tournament value, so the head coach of Slovenia Slobodan Kovač gave a chance of proving themselves to those players who rarely checked in during the previous meetings.
Thus, they were highly motivated and demonstrated their zeal to win at the beginning of the match. Thanks to the productive serves by Alen Šket, Slovenia led the score 6:2. Before the second break, several accurate aces increased the gap of Kovač's trainees to 16:10. Finally, the Slovenes were able to consolidate the success, when at the score of 18:14, they managed to win 4 points in a row. A successful attack from the second line by Matej Kök summed up the first set to 22:14.
The Slovenes started the second set well and broke ahead with the score of 5:2. Then the Portuguese managed to seize the initiative and twice called the score with a minimum gap of 11:10 and 17:16, but the set end was still with the Slovenes. At the score of 20:20, Gregor Ropret's exact serves followed, and then the ace by Šket consolidate the advantage of 25:21.
Slobodan Kovač's trainees played an unsuccessful third set, but in the fourth set, they managed to get around and seized the initiative, while a 3-point dash in the fourth set tipped the beam with a score of 13:13.
If successful in the game with the Netherlands, Kovač's trainees will play with the winner of the Australia-Japan pair for the right to compete in the elite First Division of the World Volleyball League.
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Slovenia – Portugal 3:1 (16, 21, -23, 19)
Slovenia: Štern 9, Pajenk, Kozamernik, Šket 22, Gasparini, M. Kök 16, Vinčić, Štalekar 7, Koncilja 7, Kovačič, Toman, Ropret 3, Urnaut, Čebul.
Portugal: Guerreiro, Cvetičanin 4, A. Ferreira 18, M. Ferreira 1, Casas, Da Silva 1, Simoes 3, P. Martins 3, Oliveira, L. Martins 4, Sequeira 15, Rodrigues.
Egypt – Finland 1:3 (-22, -13, 18, -22)
Overall standings:
Slovenia 9 8 1 24 points
Netherlands 9 7 2 21
Australia 9 6 3 16
Japan 9 5 4 16
China 9 5 4 15
South Korea 9 5 4 12
Slovakia 9 4 5 13
Czech Republic 9 4 5 12
Portugal 9 3 6 10
Finland 9 3 6 10
Turkey 9 3 6 9
Egypt 9 1 8 4
Semi-Finals, Gold Coast
Saturday, 24 June, 9:10 a.m.: Slovenia – Netherlands
11:40 a.m.: Australia – Japan
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This example application will help you learn how to deploy a microservice to a Kubernetes cluster and install the Instana agent for monitoring.
We introduced the sample microservice application called Stan's Robot Shop in a previous post. In this article, we'll take you through deploying that microservice application to a Kubernetes cluster and installing the Instana agent. The Robot Shop code already includes any extra set up, so all infrastructure technology will be automatically discovered, and every request will be traced end to end.
First, choose your environment. I will be using Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Engine, you may also use minikube to run everything locally on your laptop. Once you have your Kubernetes cluster running, you're going to install the Instana agent; then deploy the Robot Shop application.
To work with Kubernetes, install a copy of kubectl locally on your machine. If you are using Google Kubernetes Engine, you will also need a copy of gcloud installed locally.
Great, you have a running Kubernetes cluster and you can talk to it via kubectl.
If you do not have git installed, go to the GitHub page and click on the download link on the top right. This will download a Zip file, expand this into a directory.
Under the Robot Shop project directory, there is a sub-directory named instana. This is where you will find the YAML file that describes the agent deployment. You will need to edit this to configure your unique agent key, which must be base64 encoded. Get your unique agent key from the Instana dashboard under Management Portal.
Save the changes to the deployment. Then deploy the agent.
The agent is deployed as a daemonset in its own namespace and is configured to only run on nodes with the label agent=instana. There is helper script label.sh which will label all nodes.
The agent will take a moment or two to start and then report into the Instana backend, after which it will appear in the Instana dashboard.
Excellent work, the Instana dashboard is showing the empty Kubernetes cluster. Although we have not yet deployed the Robot Shop application, you can see that the Instana agent has already discovered a number of running containers (these are system containers like system processes of an operating system). You can learn more about what goes on under the covers of Kubernetes in a previous post.
All the deployment and service definition files for deploying the Robot Shop to Kubernetes are included in the source under the K8s directory.
If you are using Google Kubernetes Engine, edit the deployment file for the web service: K8s/web-service.yaml Change the type from NodePort to LoadBalancer. No changes are required if you are using minikube.
It will take a few minutes for Kubernetes to download all the images and create the Pods to start running the application. As the Pods are created and the images start running, the Instana agent will automatically discover them and dynamically load the matching sensor to start monitoring the technology. You can watch this happen in real time on the Instana infrastructure dashboard.
If you are running via minikube, Stan's Robot Shop will be available via the IP address of your minikube instance.
The above command will print out the IP address of your minikube instance, open your browser http://<minikube ip>:30080/.
If you are using Google Kubernetes Engine, select Discovery & load balancing from the left menu, and then click on the web service. This will bring up the service details.
Click on the External endpoint link to open the shop in your browser. You're an APM Rock Star now! You have just deployed a modern containerized microservices application with Kubernetes - with full monitoring. Don't tell your boss how easy it really is with Instana; you will shatter the illusion.
You can click around the application to generate some traffic through the application ( don't worry you will not actually purchase anything). There is also a separate load generation utility under the load-gen directory. It runs locally via a Docker image: edit load-gen.sh and set the environment variable HOST to the URL of your deployed shop, save and run the script.
As some load is put through the application, Instana will automatically trace every request end-to-end and build the service map.
Monitoring a modern containerized orchestrated microservices application is not that difficult when you have Stan helping you. Watch for future posts when we cover topics such as End User Monitoring (EUM) and integrating OpenTracing spans.
As the leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana applies automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today's dynamic applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Founded by Application Monitoring veterans, Instana provides true AI-powered APM to help organizations deliver high-performance applications today and in the future. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.


"Come quickly, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I've been asked to review a mysterious sequence, whose importance I'm only now beginning to comprehend."
The unidentified stranger handed Holmes a piece of paper inscribed with symbols and said it was a map of unparalleled value.
Holmes gazed thoughtfully at the map, then slowly lifted his eyes and coldly surveyed his subject's beaming countenance. "You have an affinity for the ocean," said Holmes, "that you indulged to excess as a reckless youth. An experience as a medic in the military changed your life and gave you a reason to do more than surf. A community college graduate, you achieved positions of high power and left them just as easily. You have a thirst for recognition and a talent for achieving goals that others thought were many years away."
Dr. Venter looked stunned. "You saw all that in the sequence of my genome?" he gasped.
This is how I imagine a meeting between Watson, Holmes, and Venter might play out. Holmes would then ask, "what can we learn from Venter's genome that we don't already know?"
Watson, might be somewhat perplexed. There was certainly one thing that really puzzled me.
Aren't all human autosomes diploid?
The title of the PLoS article (2) made it seem like there was something unusual about having solved the sequence of a diploid human. This really puzzled me because we have 23 paired sets of chromosomes in addition to our mitochondrial DNA. Except for our mitochondrial DNA, all the chromosomes in women, come in pairs. In men, there are two chromosomes without partners, X and Y, but we don't hold it against them.
Anyway, so I was confused about the emphasis on Venter's genome being diploid.
It seemed by implication that Watson's genome was not or at least that there was something different about it.
It took some sleuthing this morning, but I did figure it out.
Watson's genome was sequenced with the 454 instrument. The beauty of 454 sequencing is that you don't have to clone your DNA in order to sequence it. You sequence single molecules, lots of single molecules, and use assembly algorithms, and I'm guessing a reference genome sequence, to put the sequence together.
How was Venter's genome project different from Watson's?
Understanding how Venter's genome was sequenced and put back together again was a bit challenging because the PLoS paper didn't include anything about the sequencing in the materials and methods section. (I think they were a bit remiss here, but oh well).
Anyway, I wanted a trace so I could figure out if the Venter group was using any of the next-generation sequencing technologies. Eventually, I found a trace, opened it in FinchTV, and clicked the i icon to learn about the sequencing instrument. FinchTV presents all kinds of information from chromatogram files. It told me that this trace was obtained from an ABI 3730 sequencer and that it was base-called with KB v. 1.2 (in case you're wondering about this after my obsession with base callers).
I went back to the paper and at last, I remembered. The Venter sequence was derived from large, CLONED, pieces of DNA. If they could map the sequences back to the original clones, they could reconstruct the chromosomes. This is what they did.
You can think about the two different procedures like this: in the Watson version, everything was mixed in a blender, the sequence of each little piece determined, and the entire thing reconstructed from itty bitty parts. In the Venter version, the sequence was broken into large parts. Then the large parts were broken into smaller parts, sequenced and put back together. The difference is that with Venter's genome, it was possible to figure out how the smaller parts fit into the larger parts, and to reconstruct contiguous pieces.
Of course the HapMap data helped too, but this the general idea.
Why do we care? Is this going to be on the test?
Ah, yes, the pre-med question.
Unlike Watson's data, Venter's data allows us to look much more closely at the difference between the two sets of chromosomes. The paper reports that the maternal and paternal sets are quite different and 44% of the genes are heterozygous.
Good news, Craig, your parents weren't closely related!
Venter's data provide an amazing glance at the amount of variation between the two sets of chromosomes in one individual human. The differences determine health, personality, looks, all the things that make us distinct individuals.
And that, is why we care.
1.	The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve.


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Sedona Muses On Life's Uncertainties In Gorgeous 80s New Wave Single "Drifting Days"
Posted on March 16, 2021 in NEWS
When life throws you waves, ride it
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Sedona muses on the uncertainties that life throws at you in unexpected waves in their new single "Drifting Days." It's new wave pop glossed with the nostalgic feel of 80s, giving us a warm melodic breeze that wraps us with a lush therapeutic vibe. With "Drifting Days," Sedona reminds us that even in moments of extreme chaos, we can control the way we react towards it – and they want you to react as groovy as possible:
Speaking of the new single, Sedona revealed: "They say life happens while you're busy making other plans, and that certainly rings true to how the world has felt this past year. The pandemic put a pause on everyone's plans in ways many weren't prepared to face. 'Drifting Days' is a song that aims to soothe listeners into accepting things out of their control, standing tall in the face of adversity, and learning how to make the most of moments even when they don't turn out how we expect them to. 'Life comes in waves, right when you need a drifting day.' The key is learning how to ride them. Hopefully this song helps!"
Sedona is composed of the lead singer herself as well as her bandmates Merilyn Chang (keys), Claire Gilb (guitar), Margaux Bouchegnies (bass), and Tia Cestaro (drums). The band was founded back in 2018 and named after the lead singer's alter ego. Their works have garnered buzz across the media for blending myth rock with dirty pop and has been making waves across Spotify playlists. Currently getting ready to roll out more music, you can expect to hear more from Sedona in the upcoming months.


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Poll: Is it time for Thorn to go?
Look at that face. Who could be mad at him? All relaxed in his jumper.
There's no denying the mitigating circumstances. There's no denying the endless nonsense we have to put up with from those in charge. There's no denying that no matter how bad we've been this season, we've also fallen on the harsh side of a lot of luck.
But is that enough to keep Thorn from blame?
Has Andy Thorn's own performance contributed to our demise? Is he doing the best job possible with the players he has? Or has he just been incredibly unlucky?
The mixed perspectives continue to divide the fans. We're all pretty united in our condemnation of the squad he's been left to work with, and apparent lack of backing from those darn management types. A supportive "Andy Thorn" chant will still, even now, get an outing at most games.
Yet, online, it's a different story. You only have to look at the message boards, and they're awash with criticism focused heavily at our crimson-faced leader.
Now seems like a good point to ask this question. I realise there have been similar polls recently, but as I have a far smaller readership, I'd quite like to gather your thoughts away from the hustle and bustle of the big sites.
In the interest of forcing an opinion, I shan't make it any more complex than a simple yes/no. If you have a view either way, do vote. I'm genuinely interested in what you're all thinking.
(Fantastic photo from the Coventry Telegraph. Please don't batter me.)
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Get rid of Thorn, are you having a laugh. This poor bloke has had no chance of doing what he wants. Has been given no money and has had lose players because SISU wouldnt honour what they promised when they took over the club. Thorns style of play will be good for cov when hes got the right players. THORN TO STAY
I like Thorn a lot but believe he is playing the wrong formation and it is time for a chnage. We have played his way for 4 months now and it's not working. Time for a change with the formation and if Andy won't do it then maybe a new manager who will.
Cheers. Immediately some contrasting comments, shows how there's probably not going to be a right or wrong, purely a different perspective, The formation one is an interesting argument. Is it possible that the problem stems from individuals in the formation simply not performing well enough (maybe they're just not good enough? far too many individual mistakes), rather than an inherent problem with the formation itself?
Formation hhhmmmm I agree to a certain level. Remember when you manage a team you pick a formation which suits the players you have to hand. We cannot play an attacking formation because we don't have the players to play that way. Our strongest part of the game is midfield hence the diamond, sadly the players we have are not good enough to play at the championship level and that isn't Thorns fault but the fault of the current board not adding to the current playing staff. The kids coming through are showing good signs but this league were currently in is just to string for them. Perhaps League 1 won't be a bad thing and perhaps the kids we have can play and learnt he trade at that level for a season or two. Who knows what the best formation, the best manager etc is, all I know is, get behind Thorn and back him. Remember it's not his fault its SISU's fault END OF!!
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Formation is an issue as the diamond gives us no width other than from full back, which leaves us exposed when we inevitably lose the ball. Problem is we dont have any natural wide players or any pace. Not sure there is much Thorn can do about this now as he is not allowed to bring players in, but don't forget that a lot of the guys we are having a go at for not being good enough (Bell, Baker etc) are Thorns recomendations as chief scout. Thorn needs to up his game or his time will be up. I for one like him but think he is out of his depth.
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Eight points of the pace at the end of the first half of the season does not bode well.All that anyone can hope for is that the young squad will finally gell and go on a tear in the second half.The owners are not going to take the risk and invest in a new manager and new players for the second half. It will cost too much.So lets get behind Andy and his boys.
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The drive to double Malaysia's accountancy profession by 2020
MK Lee
Malaysia's ambitions under the Economic Transformation Programme to produce 60,000 accountants by 2020 will require a concerted effort from the accountancy profession
This article was first published in the March 2018 Malaysia edition of Accounting and Business magazine.
Malaysia has its work cut out if it is to produce 60,000 accountants by 2020 as part of the profession's contribution to the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP). Launched in 2010, the ETP was part of Malaysia's National Transformation Programme, whose goal is to elevate the country to developed nation status by 2020. In order to meet that ambition, the Malaysia will need to almost double the number of accountants.
The government and stakeholders in the profession acknowledge that accountancy is one of the key areas where the country is significantly under-served, and the public and private sectors need to ensure that the demand driven by Malaysia's steady and strong economic growth is met.
There are currently just over 33,000 members registered with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), according to CEO Dr Nurmazilah Mahzan. 'As a national accountancy body, the MIA is working together with all the relevant stakeholders to ensure there is adequate supply of qualified accountants in Malaysia,' she said in April 2017. 'As the nation progresses, diversity and inclusiveness will be critical in achieving the targeted number of 60,000 professional accountants.'
Edward Ling, head of ACCA Malaysia, hopes that the 60,000 target will be met. 'Malaysia definitely needs more professional accountants, which is why we have been working with organisations such as Yayasan Peneraju Pendidikan Bumiputera (YPPB) to boost the profession in Malaysia,' he says. 'For example, last April we signed a memorandum of understanding with YPPB to help 3,000 Bumiputera students take the CAT and ACCA professional accountancy qualifications.'
ACCA is making huge strides in building the profession in the country, working closely with the government and academic partners. 'We currently have more than 43,000 ACCA trainees pursuing our qualification in Malaysia,' Ling says. 'While not all of these will end up as professional accountants, it does demonstrate the effort that is ongoing to build the profession in Malaysia.'
Datuk Tan Theng Hooi, president of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), says that there is 'definitely a large gap to fill', noting that the figure stood at 28,500 five years ago. 'Looking at the trend of growth over the years, we may need more time to achieve the target.'
However, Tan says it is clear that everyone involved – the regulators, the professional bodies, the accounting firms and employers – are doing their best to promote the accounting profession. 'And it is this continued effort towards common goals that will help the nation achieve this target. We need to keep building up the momentum,' he adds.
A key platform for growing the profession is the work of the Committee to Strengthen the Accountancy Profession (CSAP), which submitted a report to the minister of finance in 2015. The minister accepted the report and its 15 recommendations in 2016 and mandated the Securities Commission to set up an implementation committee.
Under CSAP Recommendation 3, professional accountancy bodies have to commit to producing the required number of professional accountants. The committee also proposed that an education board be set up to coordinate strategies and measures with recognised professional accountancy bodies and assess their performance to ensure the growth in supply of accountants matches the country's economic needs.
'The cumulative efforts of not just us, but the entire accounting fraternity, will help to generate a strong interest in the field and ensure that more will come into the profession,' says Tan.
Conducive environment
Second Minister of Finance Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani sees the government's target of producing 60,000 professional accountants as part of the nation's talent-building agenda. 'To build and ensure we have the right talents in the future, the government will continue to strengthen our education system to ensure our students are equipped with the right qualities and skills such as critical thinking and multitasking,' he says.
In meeting the 2020 target, Johari says that the government will continue to work with industry players and associations to create a conducive environment so that the country can not only produce more professional accountants but also attract them to work in Malaysia.
'As this goal requires collaborative efforts from all, I suggest that universities and accounting firms enhance their existing partnership to create more awareness among accounting students on the importance of getting professional certification for their long-term career,' he adds.
Acknowledging that currently there is limited number of Bumiputera professional accountants, Johari says that the government through agencies including YPPB, educational institutions and associations, have embarked on serious collaborations to fulfil the supply of accountants needed by 2020.
Speaking at the Yayasan Peneraju Accounting Symposium 2017 held in October, Johari said that even though Malaysia is progressing well in creating professional accountants, 'more time is needed to meet the target'.
He added: 'We are committed to improve the number of accountants and chartered accountants. We also need to focus on the quality of the talents that we produce.'
Overcoming the challenges
There are obviously some major challenges that may be obstacles to achieving the government's target. Ling points out that the main challenge faced in Malaysia is similar to that found in many other markets. 'It's to persuade young people that the accountancy profession is an attractive option offering excellent career opportunities, financial rewards and opportunities for personal development,' he says.
'Our task is to continually promote the profession and educate potential new entrants of these benefits – and continue to work with our partners to continually enhance access and availability,' he adds.
Tan agrees that it is always difficult to attract millennials into a profession that is known to be rigid in terms of working hours and the ability to exercise creativity.
'It's no secret that long working hours are common, what with the tight deadlines and voluminous processing that needs to be completed according to schedule. For those in audit or consulting, managing multiple engagements and clients while ensuring accuracy and quality in deliverables makes it challenging.
'We need to make the profession exciting and relevant to them. Our qualified professionals need to be proud spokespeople for the profession and promote the vast prospects and rewarding careers that it offers,' he adds.
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"The cumulative efforts of the entire accounting fraternity will help to generate a strong interest in the field and ensure that more will come into the profession"


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Q: weird error with undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass and undefined method `strptime' for nil:NilClass RoR 2.3.8 Hi I'm trying to read csv file, my code is this:
CSV.foreach(path, {:col_sep => @seperator}) do |row|
    #CSV.foreach(File.basename(path), {:col_sep => @seperator}) do |row|
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        r.contact_id = contact_id
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        r.valid_from = DateTime.strptime(row[5], @time_format)
        r.currency = @currency
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        r.rate = row[3].gsub(",", ".").to_f
        r.valid_from = DateTime.strptime(row[5], @time_format)

I get the errors: undefined method 'gsub' for nil:NilClass and
undefined method `strptime' for nil:NilClass

But I'm completely sure that row[3] and row[5] aren't nil, any idea about why is it happening? Thanks in advance!

A: The .gsub() is a String method, so it will only work when the row[3] value is a string.  It seems that some of your rows are nil. To avoid this you could add a simple checker for nil values
r.rate = row[3].gsub(",",".").to_f if row[3].nil?

Again the same error for the next line.  so you can change it to:
r.valid_from = DateTime.strptime(row[5], @time_format) if row[5].nil?

You say you are sure that the values are not nil, but that's exactly what the error is saying. It only takes 1 line with a nil value to break the entire script.
You're also hardcoding the rows 3 and 5. Perhaps you mean different rows? Try testing to make sure that row is equating to exactly what you think it is in IRB. Can you show us what row[3] and row[5] equal?


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Nanowrimo Day 10—Riot of Purple Profanity
I do know that today is Day 11, and Day 11 will be coming, hopefully before Day 12 dawns.
If you're just dropping in, this is nanowrimo with all of the draftiness of it. All of the previous disclaimers apply. 🙂
Current Word Count: 14,461
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After dinner, Phoebe, Kaden and Chloe went to the sitting room and Phoebe began unpacking the extra-padded suitcase she had brought. The items were carefully enfolded in purple velvet. When she removed a silver two-edge knife with a jeweled black handle, Kaden reached for it.
"You brought a knife on the plane?" he asked.
"It's not just any knife. It's an athame."
"So you're going to use blood?"
"Blood?" Phoebe frowned. "What do you mean?"
"That's what the knife's for, right? You're going to sacrifice something."
Chloe jabbed him in the ribs. "You if you're not careful."
"It's ceremonial. I'd never participate in any kind of animal sacrifice. That's not what we're about," she said. "We're witches of the earth and respect all living things."
"Some more than others," Chloe said.
"It sounds kind of . . . lame," Kaden said.
Phoebe frowned at him. "Lame? Why? Because I don't believe in causing suffering?"
"I wouldn't go that far, Phoebs. You've been known to make me suffer," Chloe said. "All of this holier than thou stuff makes my ears bleed."
Phoebe frowned at her sister and wondered if that's truly how she sounded. She didn't mean to. "Is that how I sound?"
Chloe nodded. "Sometimes. Hey, I get it. You like animals and nature and crap. All the do no evil. But sometimes it gets a little hard to take. It would be really awesome for the rest of us normal people to see you loosen up and damn, I don't know, take it down a notch."
"Take it down a notch."
Kaden laughed. "Once she's done this spell, I'll show her how it's done."
"Good luck with that," Chloe said. "And I mean it seriously. She could use all of the help she can get."
"Uh, still here, guys, and I can hear you. Let's get this done," Phoebe said.
Kaden watched mesmerized as Phoebe and Chloe mixed concoctions, anointed and lit candles, and performed purification rituals while softly chanting. The scent of sage rose around them bringing back memories of Phoebe removing Serena's curse from him. Even he could feel something that felt like power rise in the room. The pressure intensified.
He saw Phoebe and Chloe exchange a glance, making him think that maybe this building power was not normal. Just as it seemed they were nearing the end of the spell, the cabin began to tremble. Hell of a time for an earthquake, he thought.
The door to the deck blew open with a bang and a force threw Phoebe back into the wall behind her, her head just missing the corner of the chair rail that jutted out. The trembling stopped and whatever wind that had ripped through the room was silenced.
Kaden ran and knelt by Phoebe's side, his fingers going to her neck to feel for a pulse. It only occurred to him after he had touched her that the reaction between them, that fiery burning was gone. Although he felt her pulse, she was deathly pale and but her skin felt hot as if she were burning with fever. He couldn't understand how that could be possible.
"What the hell happened in here?" Jared asked as he and Tito ran into the room.
Chloe knelt next to Kaden, grabbing her sister's hand and squeezing. "Oh, Phoebe!" Chloe yelled. "Is she okay?"
"Phoebe," Kaden said softly. His fingers touching the cheek that they had been longing to touch for so long. "Phoebe, can you hear me?"
Her eyelids fluttered and then slowly they opened. He gasped and jerked back. He heard Chloe's sharp intake of breath near his ear.
"What have we here?" said a voice that was a little like Phoebe's voice, although sharper and without the soft rhythm of Phoebe's voice. The eyes staring back at them, however, were ebony with infinite depth as if there was a huge chasm behind them. Phoebe's hazel iris was gone.
end of Day 11, let the games begin!
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Sorry on another subject, because I've been having problems, I lost the last of the song list November, if you have a moment and can send, I'd truly appreciate it, thank you so much. Been looking, but I cant' find it until someone posts on it.
just so happened I had my browser open to that page: https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/writing-challenge-november-notes/
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Terry Riley at 80, on 20 Fingers
"That's the sort of thing that's always interested me: things where you can't quite figure out what you are hearing," says Terry Riley — and the maverick composer's curiosity hasn't abated a bit over the years.
Today Terry Riley has reached the milestone age of 80. "In addition to his artistic legacy — a long and varied creative record that includes some of the most notable works in the history of minimalism and post-minimalism — Riley must hold some kind of record as the happiest and least stress-afflicted musician now working," writes Joshua Kosman in his recent profile.
A new release from the piano duo ZOFO offers an intriguing perspective on the work of this Minimalist pioneer (who played jazz piano early in his career).
Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi — the pianists who comprise ZOFO (decoded as a visual pun for "20" plus "fingered orchestra") — started their collaboration with a performance of "Cinco de Mayo" from The Heaven Ladder, Book 5, a collection of the native Californian's pieces for piano-four-hands originally commissioned by Sarah Cahill.
"There is nothing quite like hearing the full eight octaves of a piano sounding in all its orchestral richness," according to Riley. "ZOFO realizes the full potential of four-hand playing. They think and play as if guided by a Universal mind."
Riley was so impressed by what ZOFO had done with "Cinco de Mayo" that he encouraged them to take on the rest of his four-hand piano oeuvre, which consists of the four other piece in The Heaven Ladder, Book 5: "Etude from the Old Country," "Jaztine," "Tango Doble Ladiado," and "Waltz for Charismas."
To expand this body of work into a full-length CD, Nakagoshi made arrangements of two additional pieces, consulting and collaborating with the composer: "G String" and "Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight" (both string quartets). Zimmermann meanwhile made a four-hand arrangement of "Simone's Lullaby," a solo piece from Book 7 of The Heaven Ladder originally written for Gloria Cheng. ZOFO commissioned Riley to write a short additional piece, "Praying Mantis Rag."
Regarding the role of improvisation in Riley's aesthetic, Zimmermann says: "For me to see Terry perform also played a big role in how I approached this recording session. He is so totally free when he performs, improvising over his own ideas. It's so much about the moment and the essence of the music. This is so healthy for me as a perfectionist…."
Filed under: American music, anniversary, CD review, piano


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These functions are only available if PHP was configured with --enable-bcmath.

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Veteran U.S. Senator, John McCain, who had been battling Glioblastoma brain cancer, followed by his family's order to discontinue cancer treatments, passed on at 81 on the ,25th of August.
McCain had been diagnosed last summer. This Glioblastoma brain cancer had also afflicted his long-time friend Sen. Ted Kennedy and Former Vice President of US, Joe Biden's son Beau Biden.
His daughter Meghan McCain, a political columnist had to fast-track her wedding to November to make sure that her father was present to give her away.
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His daughter, Meghan McCain also confirmed this on Twitter,
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By A N Wilson
12:01AM GMT 05 Dec 2005
Fine memories of Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was born 100 years ago (on December 21) and to mark the occasion there is a magnificent small exhibition at the Wallace Collection, the gallery which contains Poussin's masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time.
The canvas faces the visitor upon entry to the rooms, which contain a miscellany of Powelliana. Here is the typewriter on which the great novel, and so much journalism for this newspaper, was composed. Here is the stationery box and ivory-handled letter-opener. Then, there are the paintings. Henry Lamb's portrait of the young Evelyn Waugh, normally hanging at Biddesden House and invisible to the public, captures the author of Decline and Fall and of the Rossetti biography, before the nightmare Pinfold took over.
Lamb's portrait of Powell's wife Violet is less flattering and it is no surprise to learn that she did not like the painting. It is good to see some of the work of Adrian Daintrey, including a sketch of Powell. Daintrey, now recognised as the original of Barnby in the novels, is a much-undervalued artist.
Gregoire Michonze's portrait of Cyril and Jean Connolly, now in the possession of Connolly's widow Deirdre, is a truly brilliant painting. It is worth going to the Wallace just to see it. The same could be said for the collection of Powell's friend Osbert Lancaster's work, here on display.
The pen and wash sketch of Lord Longford as Saint George, dating from the 1970s, summons back that distinctive presence, and reminds us of the ambivalence, to put it mildly, of the relationship between the brothers-in-law.
Obviously, Frank Pakenham, as he was when Powell married his sister in 1934, contributes something (as did George Orwell) to the character of Erridge, but how much did he suggest the figure of Widmerpool itself? As we know from Powell's hilarious journals, kept in old age, it was a question which sometimes bothered Lord Longford himself. (One of the great sadnesses in Powell's publishing history was that Osbert Lancaster never completed his sequence of covers for the Penguin edition of A Dance to the Music of Time. He only did seven before some idiot at Penguin discontinued him, a severance which led to Powell taking the book away from that paperback house.)
Mark Boxer's drawings, which illustrate the covers of the Fontana edition, are spirited, but not in the same league as Lancaster. The masterpiece is the back-view, naked, of Billson, the Jenkins's maid, appearing in the drawing-room of the bungalow outside Aldershot at the outbreak of the First World War. But all the Lancaster drawings are sublime. In a sketch with which I was not familiar, he has depicted Mark Members and J.G. Quiggin as those two old stalwarts Peter Quennell and Cyril Connolly.
The exhibition is a superb evocation of Powell - the man, the writer, the critic. It is accompanied by a short book, Seeing Secret Harmonies. No Powell fan will want to be without this volume, which is published jointly by the Wallace Collection and the Times Literary Supplement. It contains Hilary Spurling's interesting essay on Powell's visual imagination; a full and moving account of his uncle by marriage by Ferdinand Mount; a reading of Dance by D.J. Taylor; and an excellent short introduction to Powell, man and writer, by Jeremy Warren who, as curator of this superb exhibition, deserves high praise and thanks.
Also coinciding with the Powell centenary, Timewell Press has brought out Some Poets, Artists and 'A Reference for Mellors', a collection of Powell's journalism and critiques. It is a reminder of what a good eye Powell had for paintings - he is as interesting on G.F. Watts as he is on Picasso.
It also demonstrates that Powell's genealogical obsessions pay fascinating dividends, not just in the snob department. Who but Powell, in an essay on Jean-Paul Sartre, would throw out the fascinating detail that Sartre was a cousin on his mother's side of Dr Albert Schweitzer?
Many of these essays were first published in this newspaper, and serve to remind us what a blow it was when the demon in Bron Waugh wrote a malicious piece about Powell's collected journalism, which excited the demon of preternatural touchiness in Powell to resign. Death the leveller reminds us how painfully we readers miss them both.
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Source: Agencies | February 3, 2009, Tuesday | Print Edition
COLOMBIA'S FARC rebels have freed three police officers and a soldier held hostage for more than a year, handing them over to the International Red Cross on Sunday in the country's southern jungles.
A Brazilian military helicopter, emblazoned with the Red Cross insignia, retrieved the four hostages and flew them to a provincial airport in Colombia's eastern plains.
But their handover was marred by accusations that Colombia's military interfered. A reporter who accompanied the mission, Jorge Enrique Botero, said the military hounded and delayed the mission by more than two hours with numerous flyovers.
Analysts consider the unconditional releases, the first in nearly a year, a goodwill gesture. However, chances for a peace dialogue with Colombia's government remain far off, and Sunday's alleged military interference only complicated matters.
Yesterday, the rebels were due to hand over former provincial Governor Alan Jara, 51, kidnapped in July 2001. Former provincial law maker Sigifredo Lopez, 45, is to be released tomorrow. He was grabbed in April 2002 during a raid on a state assembly.


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Vinyasa yoga comes from the same roots as Ashtanga yoga with asana sequences that flow continuously in a rhythm linked with the breath. According to Gregor Maehle, vinyasa creates "a movement meditation that reveals all forms as being impermanent and for this reason not held on to."
Vinyasa yoga brings strength, vitality, steadiness, and presence.
Most of this course integrates more passive and slower yin yoga postures held for minutes at a time with the aim to free the joints from adhesions of connective tissues - fascia, ligaments, tendons. Sportive people with stiff joints would be better served by starting with this course that leads to more joint openness and flexibility while providing greater ease to carry out its simple flowing sequences.
This style is a dynamic form of yoga which also includes passive and slow yin postures to warm up or cool down while the vinyasa sequencing of postures is carried out at a moderate level and rhythm.


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