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Q: Profiling WebSphere with hprof for CPU SAMPLES output I'm trying to profile WebSphere using hprof over IBM stack (J9 JVM on AIX / Linux). Specifically, I'm interested in the CPU samples output from hprof, and particularly, the startup time (from the time WS is started until it is "ready for business").
The problem is, I can't get the CPU samples output in the hprof result file.
I'm using the following JVM argument for configuring hprof: -Xrunhprof:cpu=samples,file=path-to-hprof.txt, for dumping hprof output in ASCII format. According to the generated hprof output, the CPU SAMPLES output is only generated at program exit:

HEAP DUMP, SITES, CPU SAMPLES|TIME and MONITOR DUMP|TIME records are generated
  at program exit.

So, for shutting down WebSphere gracefully after it successfully started, I'm using the stopServer.sh script, and expecting the CPU SAMPLES output to be present in the result java.hprof.txt file after shutdown completes, but it isn't.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a better method for using hprof with WebSphere and generating CPU profiling output? Any help will be much appreciated!
Edit: I'm running WebSphere version 8.0.0.11 over IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 20150619_253846) on RHEL 7.5.
P.S.: I also looked for a way for closing WS from the management console GUI, but couldn't find any.
P.P.S.: In the meanwhile I'm using the very nice jvmtop tool with the --profile <pid> option, but that provides only partial insight, and as opposed to hprof, has to be attached on the fly, so some parts of the execution are lost.

A: Thanks to @kgibm's helpful hints, I realized I was on the right track, and went back the next day to try again. Surprisingly, this time, it worked! The hprof file was generated with the expected WebSphere CPU samples output.
I kept experimenting to figure out what I got wrong in the first place. Here's what I think has happened:

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*At first, I had a couple of native agents specified in WebSphere JVM arguments. The combination of these agents caused WS to run much slower. When I killed WS, there were a few seconds between the Server server1 stop completed message was printed and hprof.txt being completely written. I believe I was too quick to view hprof.txt, before the CPU samples output was actually written.

*Then, for troubleshooting this issue, I added the doe=n parameter to the hprof argument. doe stands for Dump On Exit, and defaults to y. Only later I realized that this is probably wrong, since as quoted, CPU samples output is only generated at exit.
I think that these two issues together contributed to my confusion,  so when I started clean, everything was OK.
Perhaps it is worth clarifying in hprof documentation that the doe=n option is conflicting with cpu=samples, and possibly with the other options that write on exit as well (I didn't see such an indication in the docs, but it's possible I've missed it).


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An interview and discussion with Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Yaël Eisenstat. Over the last two decades, YAËL EISENSTAT has been a CIA Officer, a U.S. Diplomat, and a special advisor to Vice President Biden. Noticing that more and more Americans were having a hard time finding common ground, she switched her focus from counter-extremism overseas to the dangers back at home—starting with Silicon Valley. Eisenstat's national security expertise landed her at Facebook, working inside the company playing a major role in one of the biggest threats to our democracy. Today, Eisenstat helps us navigate the choppy intersection of ethics, technology, society, and politics to create a better future. The breakdown of civil discourse is the biggest threat to our democracy, says Yaël Eisenstat. After leaving the White House for the world of corporate social responsibility, the former CIA analyst became increasingly concerned with how the Internet was contributing to political polarization, hate, and division. "It was easier for me to sit down and have open discussions with suspected terrorists, than it was for me to engage in any sort of political or hot-button discussion with Americans on the opposite side of the fence from me," Eisenstat explains. Still believing that the Internet could be harnessed for good—connecting, rather than dividing us— she took a job as the Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations at Facebook. There, she dug into misinformation in political advertising, and came to the conclusion that Facebook needed to change its business model. "As long as Facebook prioritises profit over healthy discourse, it can't avoid damaging democracies," she says. While the company continues to struggle with how to handle political content in the midst of another presidential election, Eisenstat has gone on to be a public advocate for transparency in tech. As a speaker, Eisenstat brings a wealth of experience, as well as a genuinely hopeful vision for the next era of technology. In her brilliant, strategic talks, she discusses everything from information warfare and the future of media, to political and social inequality, international affairs, and national security. Following a period as an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, Eisenstat is now a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative, where she explores technology's effects on civil discourse and democracy. Once named one of Forbes "40 Women to Watch Over 40," Eisenstat founded and runs Kilele Global: a consulting firm working with mission-driven organizations to tackle our most complex global challenges. She is also a Global Policy Adviser at the Center for Humane Technology and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Eisenstat regularly provides context and analysis on national security, political, and foreign affairs in the media. She has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, and WIRED, and has appeared on CNN, BBC World News, CBS News, and C-SPAN. Eisenstat earned an M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Left to right: Olivia Patterson Maura - Program Coordinator, Cha Boyce - Executive Director and Cassandra Abraham - Education Officer.
In early October, Cha Boyce took over from Kristin Williams as Executive Director at Friends of the Environment (FRIENDS). Boyce shared her immediate goals for the non-profit environmental agency, including keeping focused on educational programs and continuing to build on what was already planned.
Schools are invited to participate in ongoing programs and to benefit from features of the FRIENDS Education Centre such as the Mary E. Albury Nature Trail, solar demonstration site, and bush medicine and pollinator gardens.
As a former event coordinator for the organization, Boyce intends to continue to plan fundraising events to pay for environmental educational programs which are provided to the community at minimal cost and sometimes no cost at all.
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By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Aug. 6, 1998 , 8:00 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.--In a move that has dismayed primatologists and animal rights activists, the U.S. Air Force announced today that it would hand over most of its chimpanzee colony to a research organization rather than retire the chimps. The chimp colony, which includes more than 140 animals, was used for research ranging from the effects of heat and acceleration to hepatitis and HIV. More than 90 of the chimps are infected with either HIV or hepatitis.
Although the Air Force discontinued its own research on the chimps in the 1970s, it has since allowed the private Coulston Foundation, the new custodian of 111 of the chimps, to conduct experiments on the animals. The foundation plans to continue studying the effects of aging and HIV on the chimps, now housed at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The other 30 chimps, which are not infected, will be turned over to Primarily Primates, a retirement sanctuary in Texas.
In determining who should win custody of the chimps, the Air Force says it considered factors such as financial resources and past experience in dealing with the animals. But "the Air Force had no preference as to whether the animals were retired or used for further research," says Colonel Jack Blackhurst, the associate deputy assistant secretary for science, technology, and engineering.
The decision has angered some chimpanzee experts. Twice, they note, the Coulston Foundation has been cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for violating the Animal Welfare Act and causing chimp deaths. The first incident, an overheating accident in 1993 that killed three animals, resulted in a fine and renovation of the Coulston facilities; the second remains under investigation, says Ed Curlette, a USDA public affairs spokesperson.
That record should have set off "alarm bells," says Roger Fouts, co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. It's time, says Fouts, to "start treating [chimpanzees] as fellow beings rather than furry test tubes." The Coulston Foundation responds that it treats its wards with care and dignity. "We take our chimp care very, very seriously," says Coulston spokesperson Don McKinney.
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ForgeServe the specialists in IP Endpoint provisioning and management have certified the newly released Polycom VVX range of business IP phones.
Manchester UK – 4th September 2018. ForgeServe's recent certification of Polycom's new VVX Business IP Phones endorses the already large list of benefits the solution has to offer to the customers looking to balance affordability and features. Polycom, now a part of Plantronics, is an industry leader well-known for helping organisations to leverage maximum investment in their unified communication solutions with their innovative hardware solutions. Their latest range of VVX Business IP Phones amplify those solutions by providing an enterprise grade sound quality coupled with reliable performance.
Patricia Finlayson, Senior Products and Solutions Marketing Marketing, Polycom, explains the value ForgeServe certification will bring.
The VVX x50 Series are designed to enhance business processes and, coupled with ForgeServe, the process and costs associated with deployment and device management can be further tailored to suit different types of affordability ranges. The ForgeServe solution will equip providers of the VVX series with single pane estate management, zero-touch provisioning and real-time critical service information on top of a host of other features.
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Swoop Datacom are the developers of ForgeServe and their CEO John Bennett, is incredibly enthused about their latest certification award, and the ability to extend their offering to Polycom customers and other suppliers.
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Monetary Imperialism
Art by Skam | Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair
In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and "foreign aid" (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, not stripping their assets and imposing austerity. The reality since World War I is that the United States has taken the lead in shaping the international financial system to promote gains for its own bankers, farm exporters, its oil and gas sector, and buyers of foreign resources – and most of all, to collect on debts owed to it.
Each time this global system has broken down over the past century, the major destabilizing force has been American over-reach and the drive by its bankers and bondholders for short-term gains. The dollar-centered financial system is leaving more industrial as well as Third World countries debt-strapped. Its three institutional pillars – the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and World Trade Organization – have imposed monetary, fiscal and financial dependency, most recently by the post-Soviet Baltics, Greece and the rest of southern Europe. The resulting strains are now reaching the point where they are breaking apart the arrangements put in place after World War II.
The most destructive fiction of international finance is that all debts can be paid, and indeed should be paid, even when this tears economies apart by forcing them into austerity – to save bondholders, not labor and industry. Yet European countries, and especially Germany, have shied from pressing for a more balanced global economy that would foster growth for all countries and avoid the current economic slowdown and debt deflation.
Imposing Austerity on Germany After World War I
After World War I the U.S. Government deviated from what had been traditional European policy – forgiving military support costs among the victors. U.S. officials demanded payment for the arms shipped to its Allies in the years before America entered the Great War in 1917. The Allies turned to Germany for reparations to pay these debts. Headed by John Maynard Keynes, British diplomats sought to clean their hands of responsibility for the consequences by promising that all the money they received from Germany would simply be forwarded to the U.S. Treasury.
The sums were so unpayably high that Germany was driven into austerity and collapse. The nation suffered hyperinflation as the Reichsbank printed marks to
throw onto the foreign exchange market. The currency declined, import
prices soared, raising domestic prices as well. The debt deflation was much like that of Third World debtors a generation ago, and today's southern European PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain).
In a pretense that the reparations and Inter-Ally debt tangle could be made solvent, a triangular flow of payments was facilitated by a convoluted U.S. easy-money policy. American investors sought high returns by buying German local bonds; German municipalities turned over the dollars they received to the Reichsbank for domestic currency; and the Reichsbank used this foreign exchange to pay reparations to Britain and other Allies, enabling these countries to pay the United States what it demanded.
But solutions based on attempts to keep debts of such magnitude in place by lending debtors the money to pay can only be temporary. The U.S. Federal Reserve sustained this triangular flow by holding down U.S. interest rates. This made it attractive for American investors to buy German municipal bonds and other high-yielding debts. It also deterred Wall Street from drawing funds away from Britain, which would have driven its economy deeper into austerity after the General Strike of 1926. But domestically, low U.S. interest rates and easy credit spurred a real estate bubble, followed by a stock market bubble that burst in 1929. The triangular flow of payments broke down in 1931, leaving a legacy of debt deflation burdening the U.S. and European economies. The Great Depression lasted until outbreak of World War II in 1939.
Planning for the postwar period took shape as the war neared its end. U.S. diplomats had learned an important lesson. This time there would be no arms debts or reparations. The global financial system would be stabilized – on the basis of gold, and on creditor-oriented rules. By the end of the 1940s the Untied States held some 75 percent of the world's monetary gold stock. That established the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, freely convertible into gold at the 1933 parity of $35 an ounce.
It also implied that once again, as in the 1920s, European balance-of-payments deficits would have to be financed mainly by the United States. Recycling of official government credit was to be filtered via the IMF and World Bank, in which U.S. diplomats alone had veto power to reject policies they found not to be in their national interest. International financial "stability" thus became a global control mechanism – to maintain creditor-oriented rules centered in the United States.
To obtain gold or dollars as backing for their own domestic monetary systems, other countries had to follow the trade and investment rules laid down by the United States. These rules called for relinquishing control over capital movements or restrictions on foreign takeovers of natural resources and the public domain as well as local industry and banking systems.
By 1950 the dollar-based global economic system had become increasingly untenable. Gold continued flowing to the United States, strengthening the dollar – until the Korean War reversed matters. From 1951 through 1971 the United States ran a deepening balance-of-payments deficit, which stemmed entirely from overseas military spending. (Private-sector trade and investment was steadily in balance.)
U.S. Treasury Debt Replaces the Gold Exchange Standard
The foreign military spending that helped return American gold to Europe became a flood as the Vietnam War spread across Asia after 1962. The Treasury kept the dollar's exchange rate stable by selling gold via the London Gold Pool at $35 an ounce. Finally, in August 1971, President Nixon stopped the drain by closing the Gold Pool and halting gold convertibility of the dollar.
There was no plan for what would happen next. Most observers viewed cutting the dollar's link to gold as a defeat for the United States. It certainly ended the postwar financial order as designed in 1944. But what happened next was just the reverse of a defeat. No longer able to buy gold after 1971 (without inciting strong U.S. disapproval), central banks found only one asset in which to hold their balance-of-payments surpluses: U.S. Treasury debt. These securities no longer were "as good as gold." The United States issued them at will to finance soaring domestic budget deficits.
By shifting from gold to the dollars thrown off by the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit, the foundation of global monetary reserves came to be dominated by the U.S. military spending that continued to flood foreign central banks with surplus dollars. America's balance-of-payments deficit thus supplied the dollars that financed its domestic budget deficits and bank credit creation – via foreign central banks recycling U.S. foreign spending back to the U.S. Treasury.
In effect, foreign countries have been taxed without representation over how their loans to the U.S. Government are employed. European central banks were not yet prepared to create their own sovereign wealth funds to invest their dollar inflows in foreign stocks or direct ownership of businesses. They simply used their trade and payments surpluses to finance the U.S. budget deficit. This enabled the Treasury to cut domestic tax rates, above all on the highest income brackets.
U.S. monetary imperialism confronted European and Asian central banks with a dilemma that remains today: If they do not turn around and buy dollar assets, their currencies will rise against the dollar. Buying U.S. Treasury securities is the only practical way to stabilize their exchange rates – and in so doing, to prevent their exports from rising in dollar terms and being priced out of dollar-area markets.
The system may have developed without foresight, but quickly became deliberate. My book Super Imperialism sold best in the Washington DC area, and I was given a large contract through the Hudson Institute to explain to the Defense Department exactly how this extractive financial system worked. I was brought to the White House to explain it, and U.S. geostrategists used my book as a how-to-do-it manual (not my original intention).
Attention soon focused on the oil-exporting countries. After the U.S. quadrupled its grain export prices shortly after the 1971 gold suspension, the oil-exporting countries quadrupled their oil prices. I was informed at a White House meeting that U.S. diplomats had let Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries know that they could charge as much as they wanted for their oil, but that the United States would treat it as an act of war not to keep their oil proceeds in U.S. dollar assets.
This was the point at which the international financial system became explicitly extractive. But it took until 2009, for the first attempt to withdraw from this system to occur. A conference was convened at Yekaterinburg, Russia, by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance comprised Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. U.S. officials asked to attend as observers, but their request was rejected.
The U.S. response has been to extend the new Cold War into the financial sector, rewriting the rules of international finance to benefit the United States and its satellites – and to deter countries from seeking to break free from America's financial free ride.
The IMF Changes Its Rules to Isolate Russia and China
Aiming to isolate Russia and China, the Obama Administration's confrontational diplomacy has drawn the Bretton Woods institutions more tightly under US/NATO control. In so doing, it is disrupting the linkages put in place after World War II.
The U.S. plan was to hurt Russia's economy so much that it would be ripe for regime change ("color revolution"). But the effect was to drive it eastward, away from Western Europe to consolidate its long-term relations with China and Central Asia. Pressing Europe to shift its oil and gas purchases to U.S. allies, U.S. sanctions have disrupted German and other European trade and investment with Russia and China. It also has meant lost opportunities for European farmers, other exporters and investors – and a flood of refugees from failed post-Soviet states drawn into the NATO orbit, most recently Ukraine.
To U.S. strategists, what made changing IMF rules urgent was Ukraine's $3 billion debt falling due to Russia's National Wealth Fund in December 2015. The IMF had long withheld credit to countries refusing to pay other governments. This policy aimed primarily at protecting the financial claims of the U.S. Government, which usually played a lead role in consortia with other governments and U.S. banks. But under American pressure the IMF changed its rules in January 2015. Henceforth, it announced, it would indeed be willing to provide credit to countries in arrears other governments – implicitly headed by China (which U.S. geostrategists consider to be their main long-term adversary), Russia and others that U.S. financial warriors might want to isolate in order to force neoliberal privatization policies.[1]
Article I of the IMF's 1944-45 founding charter prohibits it from lending to a member engaged in civil war or at war with another member state, or for military purposes generally. An obvious reason for this rule is that such a country is unlikely to earn the foreign exchange to pay its debt. Bombing Ukraine's own Donbass region in the East after its February 2014 coup d'état destroyed its export industry, mainly to Russia.
Withholding IMF credit could have been a lever to force adherence to the Minsk peace agreements, but U.S. diplomacy rejected that opportunity. When IMF head Christine Lagarde made a new loan to Ukraine in spring 2015, she merely expressed a verbal hope for peace. Ukrainian President Porochenko announced the next day that he would step up his civil war against the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine. One and a half-billion dollars of the IMF loan were given to banker Ihor Kolomoiski and disappeared offshore, while the oligarch used his domestic money to finance an anti-Donbass army. A million refugees were driven east into Russia; others fled west via Poland as the economy and Ukraine's currency plunged.
The IMF broke four of its rules by lending to Ukraine: (1) Not to lend to a country that has no visible means to pay back the loan (the "No More Argentinas" rule, adopted after the IMF's disastrous 2001 loan to that country). (2) Not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors (the rule originally intended to enforce payment to U.S.-based institutions). (3) Not to lend to a country at war – and indeed, destroying its export capacity and hence its balance-of-payments ability to pay back the loan. Finally (4), not to lend to a country unlikely to impose the IMF's austerity "conditionalities." Ukraine did agree to override democratic opposition and cut back pensions, but its junta proved too unstable to impose the austerity terms on which the IMF insisted.
U.S. Neoliberalism Promotes Privatization Carve-Ups of Debtor Countries
Since World War II the United States has used the Dollar Standard and its dominant role in the IMF and World Bank to steer trade and investment along lines benefiting its own economy. But now that the growth of China's mixed economy has outstripped all others while Russia finally is beginning to recover, countries have the option of borrowing from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and other non-U.S. consortia.
At stake is much more than just which nations will get the contracting and banking business. At issue is whether the philosophy of development will follow the classical path based on public infrastructure investment, or whether public sectors will be privatized and planning turned over to rent-seeking corporations.
What made the United States and Germany the leading industrial nations of the 20th century – and more recently, China – has been public investment in economic infrastructure. The aim was to lower the price of living and doing business by providing basic services on a subsidized basis or freely. By contrast, U.S. privatizers have brought debt leverage to bear on Third World countries, post-Soviet economies and most recently on southern Europe to force selloffs. Current plans to cap neoliberal policy with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) go so far as to disable government planning power to the financial and corporate sector.
American strategists evidently hoped that the threat of isolating Russia, China and other countries would bring them to heel if they tried to denominate trade and investment in their own national currencies. Their choice would be either to suffer sanctions like those imposed on Cuba and Iran, or to avoid exclusion by acquiescing in the dollarized financial and trade system and its drives to financialize their economies under U.S. control.
The problem with surrendering is that this Washington Consensus is extractive and lives in the short run, laying the seeds of financial dependency, debt-leveraged bubbles and subsequent debt deflation and austerity. The financial business plan is to carve out opportunities for price gouging and corporate profits. Today's U.S.-sponsored trade and investment treaties would make governments pay fines equal to the amount that environmental and price regulations, laws protecting consumers and other social policies might reduce corporate profits. "Companies would be able to demand compensation from countries whose health, financial, environmental and other public interest policies they thought to be undermining their interests, and take governments before extrajudicial tribunals. These tribunals, organised under World Bank and UN rules, would have the power to order taxpayers to pay extensive compensation over legislation seen as undermining a company's 'expected future profits.'"[2]
This policy threat is splitting the world into pro-U.S. satellites and economies maintaining public infrastructure investment and what used to be viewed as progressive capitalism. U.S.-sponsored neoliberalism supporting its own financial and corporate interests has driven Russia, China and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization into an alliance to protect their economic self-sufficiency rather than becoming dependent on dollarized credit enmeshing them in foreign-currency debt.
At the center of today's global split are the last few centuries of Western social and democratic reform. Seeking to follow the classical Western development path by retaining a mixed public/private economy, China, Russia and other nations find it easier to create new institutions such as the AIIB than to reform the dollar standard IMF and World Bank. Their choice is between short-term gains by dependency leading to austerity, or long-term development with independence and ultimate prosperity.
The price of resistance involves risking military or covert overthrow. Long before the Ukraine crisis, the United States has dropped the pretense of backing democracies. The die was cast in 1953 with the coup against Iran's secular government, and the 1954 coup in Guatemala to oppose land reform. Support for client oligarchies and dictatorships in Latin America in the 1960 and '70s was highlighted by the overthrow of Allende in Chile and Operation Condor's assassination program throughout the continent. Under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the United States has claimed that America's status as the world's "indispensible nation" entitled it back the recent coups in Honduras and Ukraine, and to sponsor the NATO attack on Libya and Syria, leaving Europe to absorb the refugees.
Germany's Choice
This is not how the Enlightenment was supposed to evolve. The industrial takeoff of Germany and other European nations involved a long fight to free markets from the land rents and financial charges siphoned off by their landed aristocracies and bankers. That was the essence of classical 19th-century political economy and 20th-century social democracy. Most economists a century ago expected industrial capitalism to produce an economy of abundance, and democratic reforms to endorse public infrastructure investment and regulation to hold down the cost of living and doing business. But U.S. economic diplomacy now threatens to radically reverse this economic ideology by aiming to dismantle public regulatory power and impose a radical privatization agenda under the TTIP and TAFTA.
Textbook trade theory depicts trade and investment as helping poorer countries catch up, compelling them to survive by becoming more democratic to overcome their vested interests and oligarchies along the lines pioneered by European and North American industrial economies. Instead, the world is polarizing, not converging. The trans-Atlantic financial bubble has left a legacy of austerity since 2008. Debt-ridden economies are being told to cope with their downturns by privatizing their public domain.
The immediate question facing Germany and the rest of Western Europe is how long they will sacrifice their trade and investment opportunities with Russia, Iran and other economies by adhering to U.S.-sponsored sanctions. American intransigence threatens to force an either/or choice in what looms as a seismic geopolitical shift over the proper role of governments: Should their public sectors provide basic services and protect populations from predatory monopolies, rent extraction and financial polarization?
Today's global financial crisis can be traced back to World War I and its aftermath. The principle that needed to be voiced was the right of sovereign nations not to be forced to sacrifice their economic survival on the altar of inter-government and private debt demands. The concept of nationhood embodied in the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia based international law on the principle of parity of sovereign states and non-interference. Without a global alternative to letting debt dynamics polarize societies and tear economies apart, monetary imperialism by creditor nations is inevitable.
The past century's global fracture between creditor and debtor economies has interrupted what seemed to be Europe's democratic destiny to empower governments to override financial and other rentier interests. Instead, the West is following U.S. diplomatic leadership back into the age when these interests ruled governments. This conflict between creditors and democracy, between oligarchy and economic growth (and indeed, survival) will remain the defining issue of our epoch over the next generation, and probably for the remainder of the 21st century.
This article is adapted from the German edition of Super-Imperialism (2017).
[1] I provide the full background in "The IMF Changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia," December 9, 2015, available on michael-hudson.com, Naked Capitalism, Counterpunch and Johnson's Russia List.
[2] Lori M. Wallach, "The corporation invasion," La Monde Diplomatique, December 2, 2013, http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta. She adds: "Some investors have a very broad conception of their rights. European companies have recently launched legal actions against the raising of the minimum wage in Egypt; Renco has fought anti-toxic emissions policy in Peru, using a free trade agreement between that country and the US to defend its right to pollute (6). US tobacco giant Philip Morris has launched cases against Uruguay and Australia over their anti-smoking legislation." See also Yves Smith, "Germany Bucking Toxic, Nation-State Eroding Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership," Naked Capitalism, July 17, 2014, and "Germany Turning Sour on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership," Naked Capitalism, October 30, 2014.
Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics. He can be reached at mh@michael-hudson.com


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Q: sklearn / CountVectorizer : fit then transform with different input corpus I am using CountVectorizer from sklearn python lib to vectorize a corpus from files with input='filename' option to init CountVectorizer
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
corpus1=['file_name1','file_name2',...]
count_vectorizer = CountVectorizer(input='filename')
MAT1 = count_vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus1)

Then I need to use the model to transform a new corpus but in numpy.array(['str1','str2'])
corpus2 = numpy.array(['str1','str2'])
# ideally
MAT2 = count_vectorizer(input='content').transform(corpus2)

this can be ususaly done when CountVectorizer is initialized with input='content' but I don't know how I can specify a new type of input.
Any idea to do that or workaround solution ?
Thanks !

A: A simple workaround might be to write each item in your list in a separate file and then pass the list of names of files to the CountVectorizer object.

A: You can change count_vectorizer.input value after training.
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer

corpus1=['file_name1','file_name2',...]
count_vectorizer = CountVectorizer(input='filename')
MAT1 = count_vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus1)

count_vectorizer.input = 'content'
corpus2 = numpy.array(['str1','str2'])
MAT2 = count_vectorizer.transform(corpus2)

I don't know if there are any implications of doing so, but, since it is a public attribute, I think you can change its value.


Google Reader was spotted on my computer at work and I got asked if I liked using it. My initial thought was that I love it, but I've thought about it and here are my pros and cons.
1. It follows me whichever computer I'm using.
2. Easy subscription process built into Firefox/Google Toolbar.
3. Although I haven't used the sharing feature, I think it's pretty cool.
4. The view is clean and easy to read, however, see con #2.
5. The stars like in gmail are a good way to bookmark great articles, or longer articles you want to go back and read later.
1. It seems to have quite a lag in updating feeds. In Sharpreader, as soon as I would post something it would show up, in Google it could be hours.
2. It bypasses traffic counters, so people who read my blog via Google reader don't show up in my stats…people who's blogs I read via Google Reader don't know I've stopped by.
3. It's not easy to go back and read something again, once you read something it pretty much disappears, you have to click all feeds/all items to view read items.
Sharpreader's notifier was great, and new items came in fairly instantly. Maybe a Google Reader blinker built into Gtalk that you could chose which feeds to notify you when new items come in.
Bloglines' feature of seeing who is subscribed to a feed and what other feeds they're subsribed to was a great feature. I'm sure there's some level of this built into Google Reader, but if it's not in the top of the feed, I'm not going to look too far to find it.


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The natural wood, shingle-style colonial house at 943 Kings Highway West, in the Southport section of town, offers that and more. It adjoins the Kings Highway West/Sasco Creek Marsh Open Space area, where the homeowners can canoe or kayak down to Southport Harbor and Long Island Sound just over a mile away.
Along the route, they also access the Westway Road Open Space and then the Aspetuck Land Trust/Southport Beach property.
The location of this house puts its owners within walking distance to the Southport train station, Southport Village, and local eateries including the Gray Goose Cafe and Artisan — the restaurant in the luxurious Delamar Hotel. It is also a minute away from the Post Road (Route 1), the entrance to Interstate 95, the Pequot Library, Equinox fitness club, the Wakeman Boys & Girls Club, and to a large grocery store in Westport.
This 10-room house stands in the footprint of a home that was originally built on this property of just under half an acre in 1931. It was totally rebuilt in 2006; the updating and renovating project conducted by the current owners created what is virtually a newly constructed house perfectly suited to today's lifestyle.
It comprises 3,957 square feet of living space on three finished floors. The walk-up heated attic could be finished to create additional living space, if necessary. It contains a roughed in bath.
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I'm level 37 at the moment. Finally managed to ascend Phenol Thoxian (the jelly cube) so that he gets a taunt ability, so using him instead of stone fist as my tank now which is much better since his AOE is great.
Willow Swift has been fully ascended and is close to 4 star now, Chief Nub Nub has been ascended once and is 3 star, Lady Nimriel is close to 4 star and Tsume [when I'm running all DPS] has been ascended once and is 3 star.
I think I'm up to chapter 16 in the campaign and it's getting a bit tougher now.
I started playing this again after I got back from Europe. I'm level 51 now and still running a team of Willow Swift, Lady Nimriel, Tsume and Phenol Thoxian.
My team is all 4 stars and I'm closing in on 5 stars on some of them. Willow and Tsume are both fully ascended but I'm still working on the last ascension for Phenol and Nimriel.
PvP is a lot more difficult now since people are matched based on their player level so there isn't a whole bunch of easy wins anymore. It's mostly more difficult in a 'this is frustrating' way rather than requiring skill. Hopefully they decide to actually balance some things soon as some characters are far too powerful (Tsume is probably the worst offender).
They've added some good upgrades to the game such as 'Quick Loot' which allows you to receive the rewards from a dungeon in one click rather than having to sit through the auto-play of the dungeon. To qualify for quick loot you just need to beat that dungeon once without any of your characters dying.
Sounds like the quick loot is pretty sweet! I deleted this game a while back though.


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H.M.S. General Craufurd (1915)
Pendant Number: M.05 (Apr 1915)
M.03 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast[2]
Laid down: 9 Jan, 1915[3]
Launched: 8 Jul, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Aug, 1915[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]
Craufurd's First Lieutenant and Gunnery officer from July, 1918 was Lieutenant Frank Henderson Pegram.
On 8 August 1918, Gorgon collided with General Craufurd. Captain Scott of Gorgon was subjected to a Court of Enquiry, but no undue fallout affected him, however, and he remained in command of the monitor until 30 July, 1919.[7]
The monitor paid off at Chatham on 17 May, 1920.[8]
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Commander Edward Altham, 20 June, 1915[9] – 29 April, 1918
Captain Ralph S. Wykes-Sneyd, 29 April, 1918[10] – 14 September, 1919[11]
Captain Neston W. Diggle, 2 May, 1918 – 24 June, 1918 (temporary)
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
↑ Scott Service Records. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/203. f. 207.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 779.
↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393z.
↑ Wykes-Sneyd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 164.
Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)
Lord Clive Class Monitor
Earl of Peterborough General Craufurd General Wolfe Lord Clive
Prince Eugene Prince Rupert Sir John Moore Sir Thomas Picton
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Two people have been charged with the murder of a 55-year-old woman who was stabbed to death at her flat on the Chalcots estate.
Lucy Casey, 43, and James Whitaker, 28, are accused of murdering Hannah Leonard at her 10th-floor flat in Bray on Friday.
The pair, who are both from Kilburn, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court today (Tuesday). They were arrested on Sunday and charged last night.
It is understood that the body of Ms Leonard was first spotted by contractors who were working on "mast climbers" on the outside of the building. She was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.
The tower block was evacuated in June along with four others after it was discovered that they were wrapped in flammable cladding and had a number of internal safety defects.
Teams of construction workers have been at the estate for the past seven months working to correct the failings.


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Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the second anti-drug Working Group meeting of Heads of Drug Control Agencies of BRICS here today. The aim of the meeting is to evaluate the drug abuse situation in the member countries and analyze the legislations of BRICS member states as well as devise modalities to share the best practices of enforcement and demand reduction being followed in the member countries.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Rajnath Singh said that it is a subject which is posing a serious challenge to the global community today. He said that during the BRICS Ministerial Meeting on Combating the Drug Threat at Moscow on April 22, 2015, it was decided to create a BRICS Anti-Drug Working Group and the first Meeting was held on November 10, 2015, in Moscow. He said that the Anti-Drug Working Group was established with an aim to address the issue on counteracting the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors. He expressed his happiness over the fact that this forum has flagged plethora of issues for discussions and also expressed belief that BRICS nations will be able to identify methodologies to address them. He also informed that India has taken over the chairmanship of BRICS this year and will be organizing a series of meetings, conferences & workshops, which will culminate in the 8th Summit of Heads of the States on October 15-16, 2016, in Goa.


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Another change that comes with the new legislation is the length of time between the ticket having been issued and the appearance date given. Some appearances would be given for a month, maybe even two months later, whereas now there is a maximum of 20 days to be between the date of issuance and the date of appearance. This does also mean that you will have a maximum of 20 days to discuss these charges with an attorney before your first court appearance. If you find yourself in a situation like this, there is still time for our experienced New York criminal defense attorneys to aid you in gathering a defense to these charges.
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In the process of doing some work I came across this problem, and after searching / googling the usual suspects did not find a resolution, until I remembered how I done this in the past. I'm going to document my solution as a aid to other and for the next time I have a brain freeze.
This works for Lotus Notes Domino R5.x.
Which would do ordinarily do exactly that, but this time blows up and doesn't remove the document. ACK!
So, I'm SOL, right? Not so fast….
<br /> Set sessionDoc.Status = "DeleteMe"
The Documents can either be manually deleted (from a Lotus client and special view, by the appropriate user) or you can create a scheduled agent to do a search for document marked for deletion and zap them. Like this….
. Run the actual delete agent as often as needed or a server resources allow.
I don't like the above solution because I need to worry about the showing up where it shouldn't or going though any views might show the document. For a existing application, there is a risk that a deleted document will be visible. The other reason I don't like it is because It requires an higher level user to remember to open a view to manually delete (and I'm busy enough as it is) or the server resources to run yet another scheduled agent (and the servers are the only thing busier than me).
Command and the DocumentContext property.
Rather, Launch the agent via it url (either building a HREF or using @URLOpen("pathtoMyAgent/MyAgent?OpenAgent&ID=123"), pass on the url line a ID to the document, then within Agent, parse the url to get the Id and do a look to get the NotesDocument which is then removable.
I'll post some code to parse the url line paramters shortly. A quick google failed to find anything useful. Hopeful this will save the life of some newbie.
Update : here that promised code: Very simple LotusScript function to parse value on url line. enjoy.
I can't believe you actually went thru all this trouble.
The context document is the in-memory representation of the web page. it's the CGI-post-data represented in a notes document dress. The context is not saved to the database unless you explicitly save it in the agent (context.save()) or by formula (@Command(FileSave])).
First obtain the UniversalID or the NoteID, and save it in a variable.
then lookup the document by its noteid or universalid from the db, and this should make it safe to delete it..
Sam, DocumentContext is read only.
There is another workaround: call another agent by method Run and pass document NoteID as parameter. This agent would delete doc.
If it's a newly created document you cannot pass document NoteID as parameter, cause there's NO NOTEID, rather than DocUNID.
1 step: call doc.ReplaceItemValue ("VisibleItem", False) ' to make it unvisible for users and appear in some closed view (can also be Authors field mpdification).
2 step: Create an agent, run through the view, Delete/Encrypt your docs and make 'em visible.


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TCS delivers steady performance in Q3, maintains industry-leading momentum
Revenues at $3.93 billion; up 14.3% Y-o-Y
Constant currency revenue growth of 2.5%
Significant addition of customers across all revenue bands
Net Income at $ 873 million up 4.4% Y-o-Y
MUMBAI, January 15, 2015: Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm reported its consolidated financial results according to IFRS US Dollars for the quarter ended December 31, 2014.
Financial Highlights for Quarter Ended December 31, 2014
Operating Profit at $ 1,063 million up 3.9 % Y-o-Y
Business Highlights for Quarter Ended December 31, 2014
Gross employee addition: 16,561
Total headcount: 318,625
Utilization: 86.7% (excluding trainees) & 82.1% (including trainees)
No of $100m+ clients increases by 1; No of $50m+ clients increase by 3; No of $5M+ clients increase by 20
Commenting on the Q3 performance, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, N Chandrasekaran said: "We have maintained our momentum in a traditionally weak quarter for the IT industry. In constant currency terms, we have seen significant growth in USA, Europe as well as emerging markets like Latin America and Middle-East Africa. Our diversified industry portfolio and presence across key markets have helped us overcome soft seasonal demand in some sectors."
Mr Chandrasekaran added: "Based on our progress this quarter, we are well on our way to post industry-leading growth for FY15. In areas like Digital, Simplification and Governance, we continue to partner closely with customers to help them prepare their businesses to succeed in an economy where the default is digital."
Rajesh Gopinathan, Chief Financial Officer, said: "Sharp cross currency movements have impacted dollar revenues, but we continue to manage operations with discipline and rigour while investing in people, capabilities and infrastructure on an ongoing basis.
Growth in Q3 was driven by industries like Telecom, Hi Tech and Life Sciences. Europe led growth, driven by the investments made in that market, while North America also grew during the quarter. Among emerging markets, Latin America and MEA registered strong growth. Among service lines, Global Consulting, Asset Leveraged Solutions, Infrastructure Services and Assurance Services were the leaders.
Select Key Wins
Selected by a leading beverages company to manage and build a private Cloud for their global Infrastructure operations
Chosen as preferred technology partner by a leading British mutual financial institution to manage their applications portfolio
Chosen as the Strategic Partner by a leading pharmaceutical & healthcare company for deployment of their SAP transformation initiative globally
Selected by a large Indian Financial Institution to implement full service digital banking using TCS BaNCS
Engaged by a leading European airline to manage its business integration platform that will transform the way the airline will operate in the future
Selected as a strategic partner by one of North America's leading property and casualty insurers to modernize, rationalize and simplify its application portfolio that supports several of its business capabilities
Selected by one of the largest banks in Latin America as its strategic partner for its payment digitization and regulatory compliance initiative
Key Wins in Digital Services and Solutions
Selected by a leading UK based bank to build a collaborative social platform allowing integration of internal and customer provided data and to derive inferences using Artificial Intelligence
Won an engagement from a leading insurance company to increase awareness of their employees around risks and reduce claims using social learning and gamification
Selected by one of the largest power generation and water equipment companies to provide consulting services to accelerate their Cloud adoption and maturity
Engaged by an American financial services group for transform enterprise infrastructure to an application programming interface based model to enable easy adaptability for rapidly changing consumer needs
Won a multi-million dollar multi-year engagement from a global Hi-Tech firm to manage its Big Data and Mobility program landscape
Chosen by a leading European airlines as a preferred partner for their customer experience lab to provide multi-channel customer experience, personalization and targeted marketing
Selected by a leading Australian financial services provider to enable hyper connected social collaboration using the TCS Knome™ product
Engaged by a leading North American Bank to augment their Centre of Excellence for Creative Design
Selected by global retailer for enabling unified view of customer analytics across multiple channels
Selected by a leading UK based banking customer as their prime mobility and user experience partner to build next generation consumer mobile applications
Chosen by a leading bank to build a Big Data hub based on Hadoop to simplify their cards interchange solution
Innovation and Intellectual Property:
As of December 31, 2014, the company has applied for 2081 patents including 121 applied during the quarter. Till date, the company has been granted 175 patents
The company continued to hire to support business growth. There was a total gross addition of 16,561 people (net addition of 4,868 employees) taking the total employee strength to 318,625 employees on a consolidated basis. The utilization rate (excluding trainees) was at 86.7% and that including trainees was 82.1 %. The attrition rate (LTM) was at 13.4 %.
"Our efforts to push the bar on utilization continues with the rate crossing 86% without trainees and 82% with trainees. Our hiring continues to support strong business growth, we are likely to exceed our hiring target for the current financial year," said Ajoy Mukherjee, Executive vice president and Global Head, Human Resources.
Awards and Recognition:
Business Leadership:
'Company of the Year' at Economic Times Awards 2014
Top Workforce honor at the 2014 Diversity and Inclusion (DANDI) awards held in New York
Excellence in Information Security in the IT Service (Large) by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI)
Honored for outstanding contribution to the Germany-India economic relationship
Australian Service Excellence award
Gold Stevie winner for 'Best Human Resources Department of the Year' at the 2014 International Business Awards (IBA)
TCS UK & Ireland won the 'Corporate Responsibility Award of the Year' for its IT Futures Programme at the 8th Annual HR Network National Awards 2014.
TCS UK recognized for investment in talent and HR excellence
Achieves Gold level recertification from Investors in People
Wins 'Best Rewards and Benefits Initiative' category at Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Awards
TCS BaNCS won Global Custodian award for Best Custody second time in a row
India's 'Top Telecom Software, Solutions & Consulting Company Award' for 2014 at XXI ICT Business Awards
'Best Use of Technology' honor at the Canadian HR Awards
'Export Excellence Award – IT & ITES' by Cochin Special Economic Zone
Won three awards from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) APAC GSI Summit 2014
Won the 2014 Oracle Excellence Award for 'Specialised Partner of the Year – Middle East'
Won the 'Best Supplier for Indirect Services' from NXP Semiconductors
Named the Leading Vendor Award for Quality Assurance(QA) and Testing services at TESTA 2014 services
TCS recognized as the world leader for its corporate action on climate change in The A List: The CDP Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014
Leadership:
N Chandrasekaran:
Won the Best CEO award and also Best CEO of IT & ITES - Large Companies by Business Today
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
For the three-month periods ended December 31, 2013, September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2014
(In millions of USD, except per share data)
Three-month period ended December
Three-month period ended September 30, 2014
Cost of revenue
SG & A expenses
Other income (expense), net
Income after income taxes
Earnings per share in USD
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
As of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2014
(In millions of USD)
As of March 31, 2014
Intangible assets and Goodwill
Unbilled Revenues
Other current assets
Other non current assets
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity
Shareholders' Funds
Long term borrowings
Short term borrowings
Other non-current liabilities
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 276,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 44 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $11.6 billion for year ended March 31, 2013 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com
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Email: Pradipta.bagchi@tcs.com | shamala.p@tcs.com | h.ramachandra@tcs.com
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Fifth Sunday of Lent For the 11:00 a.m. service on Sunday, the Rev. Dr. G. Malcolm Sinclair is calling his sermon "Lights, Camera, Action." "We can put things off for a long time, misreading them, denying them, or just hoping against hope for the best, but at some point comes the time to act, to face the threat, to take the stand. When something is essential, and we are an instrument, hard choices must be made." The Bible readings are Jeremiah 31:31-34 (a new covenant), Hebrews 5:5-10 (Jesus the great high priest), and John 12:20-33 (some Greeks wish to see Jesus).
The Bible readings are Jeremiah 31:31-34 (a new covenant), Hebrews 5:5-10 (Jesus the great high priest), and John 12:20-33 (some Greeks wish to see Jesus).


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Cubanna
About Robert:
Our reimagined Derby shoe combines clean lines, five blind eyelets and a shallow profile created through a single leather sole and storm welt. Robert has all the looks of a classic country shoe, yet none of the weight; at Tricker's we call this group of shoes 'Ultra-flex.' Our Ultra-flex range has unlined uppers and single leather soles to provide flexible, slipper-like comfort but without compromising on quality and durability.
As with all of our shoes and boots, each pair of Robert shoes are handmade within our Northampton factory in England by craftsmen and women using traditional methods, and to the same exacting standards that first established our reputation. There are 260 processes used to make each pair from start to finish.
Our uncompromising standards of craftsmanship, and use of honest materials, are values that have been preserved and developed through five generations and are observed as resolutely today as they were in 1829. When you choose Tricker's, you never have to choose between practicality, durability and style.
This Edition:
We are reintroducing the Castorino Seuede in Cubanna and Denim.
Castorino Suede is a high-quality, full reverse suede. Reverse suede - also known as full-grain suede - is better quality than split suede which some shoemakers use. In Castorino Suede the full-grain leather and skin of a hide are left intact and the flesh side is the suede.
Castorino is extremely lightweight and features a very fine nap.
Built To Last:
LAST No: W2298
The size (length fitting) of Tricker's footwear made on this last is true to a regular UK size. If you are unsure of your UK size, use the conversion chart below to convert your known size to a UK size. So if you normally take a UK size 8 (equivalent to US size 9, Japan size 27 and EU size 42), we recommend you order a size 8.
MEN'S WIDTH FITTINGS
Most Tricker's men's shoes and boots are a Tricker's Width Fit 5. These are suitable for most men, as they are a standard width. In the UK this standard width is also known as an F fitting; in the USA it is known as a D fitting; in other parts of the world, it is known as an M (medium) or R (regular) fitting. Examples of Fit 5 styles include our iconic Stow country boot, Bourton country shoe and Robert town shoe collections.
Some of our styles are a Tricker's Width Fit 6. These shoes are suitable for wider feet. In the UK this wider fit is known as a G fitting; in the USA it is known as an E fitting; in other parts of the world, it is known as a W (wide) fitting. If a shoe or boot is a Tricker's Width Fit 6 it will be labelled as such in the product details. Examples of Fit 6 styles include a Malton country boot and a Keswick country shoe.


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You've been lied to
So at Field Day last year, with Underworld up on stage, pelvic thrusts and all, there was this one song where I thought he was saying "You've been lied to" over and over and over and over again. But it turns out that those aren't the words.
But that doesn't matter. I just keep on thinking of those words as scary-continuous-techno soundtrack to the current administration.
Here's a NYT Op-Ed piece about the Abu-Ghraib "trophy shots" explaining the thumbs-up at misery by the "Other" factor.
"It is conceivable that such events might have occurred in a war in which the enemy looked like us �certainly, there are Americans to whom all foreigners are irredeemably Other. Still, it is striking how, in wartime, a fundamental lack of respect for the enemy's body becomes an issue only when the enemy is perceived as being of another race... Treating those we deem our equals as game animals, however, has been out of fashion for quite a few centuries."
Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd also have nice word-work today.
Soundtrack for the Real World
linkstastic!
woolf and bed-ridden
These are just a couple of my cravings
best speaker ever
Speaking of Dreams Deferred


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Q: Where is the default browser on Android 4 derived from? Question:
Where is the default browser on Android 4 derived from ?
The user-agent string only contains Safari, not Chrome.
If I go into android-market, and download and install Chrome, Firefox and Opera Mobile, then my website displays well in them.
It also displays well on Safari, Internet Explorer (9+8), and on the iPad (on the iPad only after much work).
But it looks horrible in the Android 4 default browser.
And what's worse, I can't do anything about it:
I can't debug on the android device, I can't install a USB driver for remote debugging (I have no admin rights on the corporate laptop), doing anything in the android emulator is impractical because it is far too slow, and the fact that it doesn't take input from the computer keyboard, which means I have to use the mouse and type each character separately with the mouse on this horrible keyboard is just the tip of the iceberg.
The default browser also seems to not contain any kind of developer tool, where I could look at styles or a JavaScript script console.
I have not found any type of standalone browser or emulator so that I can run that horrible thing on Windows or Linux natively, so I could actually debug the LAYOUT (not the javascript).
When I look at the browser process, it says:
com.android.browser

which looks like a Java namespaces to me.
Is this horrible thing derived from a Java rendering engine ?
If yes, which one, and does there exist a Java browser using this engine that I could run ?

A: Every version of Android has a "android browser" that uses a cut of the WebKit rendering engine. Also, the Android Browser that lives in the AOSP v4.4 (kitkat) is based on the same code as Chromium v30.0.0. Applications that use WebViews use this Android Browser (not the user's default browser).

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview http://decadecity.net/blog/2013/11/21/android-browser-versions

A: The default Android browser uses the WebKit render engine and the V8 JavaScript engine.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/4271/android-browser

A: I think you are limited in your options for debugging (or I haven't found a great solution).  The best I've found is looking at the page in your browser on your device/emulator and in Chrome/browser of your choice at the same time, and make educated guesses about what is different and why, manipulate things, refresh, start over.
To get your Android 4.x emulator to not be a huge bummer, you can install the Intel x86 System Image and then create a new emulator using that.  If you're using Eclipse just:

*

*open up your Window > Android SDK Manager.

*find "Intel x86 Atom System Image" under each version of Android (4.1 and 4.0.3, there's also a 2.3.3 one I think)

*check boxes, install packages, agree to terms, all that fun stuff.


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The Temple Emanuel Men's Club is much more than a social organization. The Temple Emanuel Men's Club promotes fellowship through its various social, educational, religious, recreational and community service activities. We are committed to working together with the entire congregation and clergy to benefit the community, our synagogue, and ourselves as individuals. The Temple Emanuel Men's Club meets on a regularly monthly basis throughout the school year. These meetings provide an informative and entertaining forum to discuss a myriad of men's issues. These speakers have covered topics relating to men's health from physicians, financials issues including tax, higher education, and estate planning, Israeli experts and diplomats, an annual Men's Seder, sports topics and trivia, art and cultural programs, and other topics of interest. We also participate in JAG, the Jewish Athletic Group, which allows our Men's Club to compete against area synagogues' Men's Clubs in a host of athletic activities.
Temple Emanuel's Men's Club welcomes all male members of our congregation to join and participate. We also invite all female members to take advantage of our Sunday morning speaker series.
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Myrtle Beach Bowl helps Myrtle Beach economy
by: Julia Kennedy
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) –The Myrtle Beach Bowl activities have already kicked off.
UConn and Marshall's football teams have been experiencing everything Myrtle Beach and Conway have to offer.
The Myrtle Beach Bowl started in 2020, but they had to limit fans due to the pandemic. Now in its third year, it is looking to raise attendance numbers and continue to add growth to the area.
Last year's attendance number was right around 6,500 fans. This year, 7,000 fans are expected.
The increased number of fans coming to the area means a direct increase in customers for local businesses.
"We have a number of local businesses that are sponsors for the game and they do see an increase in business," said Rachel Quigley, executive director of the Myrtle Beach Bowl. "For example, the kids are here at Ripley's this morning, that's a group of almost 50 people here from each of the schools. Then the group of student athletes is about 125 to150 going to all these venues in the area."
Last year, the city generated about $3 million in revenue from hosting the bowl game. This year, they are looking to exceed that number by keeping as many expenses as local as possible.
"The players will be coming back to Broadway tonight for Dave and Busters and the pro-football hall of fame," Quigley said. "We also have them staying in hotels locally, so that will have a huge impact on the area and on the city of Myrtle Beach."
There will also be a pep rally held at the Hangout at Broadway at the Beach. Residents will have the chance to meet the players and coaches before the game on Monday. If residents can't make the pep rally on Sunday, they always have the opportunity to watch a bowl game right on their home turf.
"You know the bowl game is also a great opportunity for our local residents," said Jonathan Paris, the executive director of sports tourism for the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. "Folks that are college football fans, there's only a limited amount of bowl games out there, so it's a great opportunity for the local residents. Now you've got an opportunity for them to experience a college football bowl game in their backyard."
The Myrtle Beach Bowl Game will be played at Brooks Stadium in Conway on Monday. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
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Counsellor II
3 May 2009 – Ann & Mick Kiely
Thank you to Doris and her son Natty Nat for a delicious lunch in celebration of HimSuan & Karl's 9th anniversary.
Ann and I attended Mr Quinlan's Latin tuition in Dublin, 1965. Tonight she & her husband Mick will be arriving and looking forward to seeing them. We have kept in contact over the years and it will be fun showing SIN off during their 2 days visit. The last time we met was in 2004, at Brother Joseph McNally's (1923-2002) Inauguration of Counsellor II, a bronze sculpture erected by the people of SIN in his memory (last row 1st picture: Mick, Brendan Lyons SIN 1st Irish Ambassador, myself & Ann).
The sculpture measuring 2.9m is situated on the grounds of the National Museum of Ireland-Country Life in Co Mayo, Ireland is a tribute to all the Irish De La Salle Brothers who by their life work in SIN have helped to transform SIN from a 3rd World to a 1st World country.
I know that the arts are an expression of spiritual values – Brother Joseph McNally


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Сайт: https://crozdesk.com/

Crozdesk - это веб-сервис, запущенный в 2015 году, который соединяет покупателей и продавцов бизнес-программного обеспечения и предлагает алгоритм для оценки платформ и присвоения баллов. Его основателем является Николас Хоппер, немецкий предприниматель из Лондона.

Хоппер показал, что Crozdesk привлек шестизначный раунд посева от швейцарского инвестора.

В июле 2016 года Crozdesk объявила о партнерстве с платформой для поиска приложений и программного обеспечения Softonic.

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