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We are nearing peak foliage in Maine, which means that it's time for some autumn crafts.
Wait, I hear you saying, don't you hate crafting?
It's true. I hate crafting. I especially hate crafting with children. I fully appreciate people who like to make little seasonal things of beauty with children but I…well. I'd rather be doing almost anything other than glue-gunning acorns to a styrofoam frame. The mess, the waste, the melt-downs…it's all terrible.
But. There are a few ways of enjoying autumn's beauty that I have stumbled on over the years that don't make me want to lay down on the floor in exhaustion. Some, in fact, are actually fun. Even for a crafting drop-out like me.
So, if you also don't find heart-warming joy in covering your entire house with glitter, read on! Of course, if you do like crafting with kids, these will absolutely work for you, too. Just don't show me what yours look like; I'm sure they will be much nicer than mine.
In a moment of insanity, I actually volunteered to do this craft with my son's entire pre-school class a few years ago. Trust me when I say, that if I could manage that while getting only a minimum of glue in my hair, you can do this at home with your own kids. It's super easy.
Our candle jar still livens up our table on a regular basis, proof that these things are very pretty, useful, and long-lasting. The clutter of crafts is one reason I dislike them, so making something that we will actually appreciate for more than a day is important to me.
Wipe down the surface of your jar, just to remove any dust.
Paint on a layer of Mod Podge. If your jar is very large, you may want to do one side at a time to reduce the chances of gluing your fingers together.
Arrange your leaves on the glue. You can overlap a bit, but paint on a little more glue at the overlap site. Also, be aware that layers may bubble up a bit.
Paint more Mod Podge over the leaves. It will dry clear, so don't worry about the opaque look.
Once everything has been arranged and covered, take one more minute to smooth over the whole thing with your paintbrush. This may be better handled by the adult.
Drop in your tea light and enjoy.
To which I say: Andy Goldsworthy.
Seriously, environmental art has a few wonderful things going for it. It's free, it gets everyone out into the fresh air, it stimulates creative thinking, and–you knew this was coming–it doesn't clutter up your house.
If you want to get a little inspiration, I do recommend doing an image search for Andy Goldsworthy with your child. Nils-Udo is another good one. These are awe-inspiring examples, yes, but their main attribute is the sheer creativity brought to every day materials.
Seriously, I don't know how much more complicated to make it. Just settle in and let the ideas flow. Try stuff. Rerrange. Bounce ideas off each other. Scrap it and start again. This is all about process, not about product.
Make sure talk with your kids about how you are exploring the shapes of nature. You can take it any direction you want. If you are ecologically-inclined, you can talk about plant life cycles or seed distribution. If you are artistically-minded, talk about balancing shape and color, and the basics of composition. If you are mathematicians, work out some patterns and repeats.
Do you need permission to just go nuts?
This is me giving you permission to just go nuts.
When you are done, just leave your art where it is and let nature take back its own. If your child is upset about leaving their creation, taking a picture of it to print out (or not!) can often soothe their artistic ego.
My kids did this on their own one day when I was busy. Leaves, acorns, seeds, board…beauty.
Okay, I'll admit that we haven't actually tried this one yet, but I think we will this weekend. I'm sure we all remember ironing leaves between wax paper to preserve their color. It's a classic kid craft, simple and straightforward, but then what do you do with all those wax paper leaves? You can't stick them all to the windows.
A while ago, I saw an example of where someone used their wax paper leaves to make a fall bunting or garland. Aha! A perfect solution. Of course, theirs was fancy with glue gun and ribbon. I don't own either a glue gun or ribbon, but I've got a hole punch and garden twine. That should work!
I think we will make some of these to liven up our front porch this fall.
Leaves of different shapes and colors. Try to find ones that are pretty flat.
Cover your ironing board or table with newspaper or rages to protect it from the wax. Turn your iron on high but don't add any water.
Spread out your wax paper. I find giving each person their own piece of wax paper is an excellent sibling fight reduction method.
Lay out your leaves. Because you'll be cutting this into a bunting shape, you want only a few leaves in a roughly triangular pattern. Spaces between and around the leaves are just fine. While you can certainly do a lot of triangles on a long sheet of wax paper, I think I wouldn't aim for more than two or three at a time to make ironing and cutting easier.
Lay another sheet of wax paper on top.
Put some more newspaper or rags on top and iron. As things begin to melt, you may want to press gently right on top of each leaf triangle.
Let cool, then cut out your triangles.


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Cauz: Harris, Esks must solve Calgary woes soon
Insight and Analysis September 4, 2019
Matthew Cauz
@mcauz56
I imagine if most fans people had their choice they would love to see Hamilton and Toronto square off again considering we saw 65 points, nearly 1,000 yards of offence and several player ejections. It was a wildly entertaining game with Derel Walker, Bralon Addison and Brandon Banks making plays all over the field. Sadly there is no sequel to the Labour Day Classic; you'll have to wait until the final week of the season for the final Battle of QEW.
The good news is one of the most compelling games of the season is coming this Saturday night and it does involve a Labour Day rematch. The Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos will meet up to conclude Week 13 in the CFL and the stakes could not be higher, especially for Edmonton.
I'm not going to bury the lead, this game should mean the world for Trevor Harris. Yes, I know every game is important, and one game does not make a season nor does it define a career, but this is such an important test for Harris and the entire Eskimos' offence. Let's start with the quarterback; did you know that Trevor has never beaten the Stampeders? Over his career Harris has a lifetime record of 0-8-2. No matter if he was playing for the Argonauts, the REDBLACKS or now the Eskimos, Trevor has yet to end up with a W taking on John Hufnagel's monster of a franchise.
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To be fair, there aren't many quarterbacks with a winning record over the past decade against Calgary, but the goose egg stands out considering how good Harris is. He's put up some big numbers against the Stamps' defence. In 2017 he threw for a combined 725 yards with five touchdowns and just one interception and was rewarded with a tie and a loss. He's also had some stinkers like he did last year, throwing 51 times for just 228 yards and three interceptions in two losses to Calgary.
In 2019 Harris and the Eskimos have lost to both Nick Arbuckle and Bo Levi Mitchell. The Eskimos are in real trouble as they have lost twice in a row for the first time all year, have fallen from second to fifth in the Nissan Titan Power Rankings, and most importantly they are fourth in the West and in danger of going the crossover route come playoff time. Yes, it could be worse, they could be 1-9, but no crossover team has ever made it to the Grey Cup, and the way Edmonton is playing that streak will remain intact.
One of the biggest concerns for Edmonton ironically is the offence. That might sound like an odd statement considering they're first in offensive yards generated, but so much of that yardage feels like empty calories. You know when you decide to put back a medium pizza after you've had a couple drinks and the next morning the only reminder that you consumed that caloric nightmare is an empty box? That scenario is a double whammy as you don't remember the joy of the late night snack but your waist line sure does and you suddenly have put on five pounds. That's kind of like the Eskimos' offence.
Yes, 423 yards a game looks fantastic, especially when you consider that's more than 50 yards better than the second-best team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. But what exactly do they have to show for all that real estate gained? Jason Maas' team is fifth in offensive points scored and has fewer offensive touchdowns than the Montreal Alouettes, who have played two fewer games! The blame naturally goes to everyone on the offensive unit and the coaching staff, but the first place we look is at quarterback. Just comes with the job.
On a bigger level, the Eskimos' 6-5 record looks like a paper tiger. Edmonton's only wins within their own division have come against the 1-9 BC Lions, and their most dominant performances have been at the expense of the 1-9 Argonauts. They have yet to beat Winnipeg or Calgary, and still have two games against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. It is safe to say this version of the Edmonton Eskimos is still looking for a signature win, which brings me back to this Saturday. A win against Calgary could change much of this negative narrative that I have laid out.
Then there are the Calgary Stampeders. I'm guessing I am not the only one who thinks that the return of Bo Levi Mitchell will spurn Calgary onto a monster run to end the season. The counter argument would be that Calgary has to face Winnipeg twice, Saskatchewan and the Tiger-Cats, but the counter to that argument is an easy one: did you see Mitchell last week? Any concerns Stamps fans had about his pectoral injury must have been reduced watching his effortless deep pass to Richard Sindani in the second quarter to set up the Stamps' first touchdown of the game. Then there was the beautiful touch on his 24-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Begelton to start the fourth quarter and end any chance for an Eskimos win. Mitchell not only beat the blitz on that throw but he wasn't bothered by a hard charging Vontae Diggs who was bearing down on the Calgary quarterback. An impressive throw considering this was the first live game action for Mitchell since the end of June.
Edmonton was thoroughly outplayed on Labour Day. Their answer to that Begelton touchdown, trailing 25-9, was a two-and-out. In fact, the fourth quarter saw the Eskimos' offence produce two punts and a turnover on downs. Their vaunted pass rush was held in check and they allowed Calgary to gain 200 yards on the ground. All and all this was a forgettable day for a team trying to prove it once again belongs in the conversation as a legitimate contender in the West. There is still time for the Eskimos to prove they should be taken seriously. A win in their home barn next week would not only exorcise some of the ghosts for Trevor Harris but it would be the kind of victory this group has been striving for. Looking forward to this week's rematch.
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Dionysius tells us that the greater part of the cities originally inhabited by the Aborigines in their mountain homes had ceased to exist in his time; but he has preserved to us (1.14) a catalogue of them, as given by Varro in his Antiquities, which is of [p. 1.6]much interest. Unfortunately most of the names contained in it are otherwise wholly unknown, and the geographical data are not sufficiently precise to enable us to fix their position with any certainty. The researches of recent travellers have, however, of late years given increased interest to the passage in question, by establishing the fact that the neighbourhood of Reate, and especially the valley of the Salto, a district commonly called the Cicolano, abound with vestiges of ancient cities, which, from the polygonal, or so-called Cyclopean style of their construction, have been referred to a very early period of antiquity. Many attempts have been consequently made to identify these sites with the cities mentioned by Varro; but hitherto with little success. The most recent investigations of this subject are those by Martelli (an Italian antiquarian whose local knowledge gives weight to his opinions) in his Storia dei Siculi (Aquila, 1830, 8vo.), and by Bunsen (Antichi Stabilimenti Italici, in the Annali dell' Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, vol. vi. p. 100, seq.). But the complete diversity of their results proves how little certainty is to be attained. In the following enumeration of them, we can only attempt to give the description of the localities according to Varro, and to notice briefly their supposed identifications.
1. PALATIUM from which the city on the Palatine hill at Rome was supposed to have derived its name (Varr. de L. L. 5.53; Solin. 1.14), is placed by Varro at 25 stadia from Reate; and would appear to have been still inhabited in his time. (See Bunsen, p. 129, whose suggestion of πόλις οἰκουμένη for πόλεως οἰκουμένης is certainly very plausible.) Ruins of it are said to exist at a place still called Pallanti, near Torricella, to the right of the Via Salaria, at about the given distance from Reate. (Martelli, p. 195.) Gell, on the other hand, places it near the convent of La Foresta, to the N. of Rieti, where remains of a polygonal character are also found. Bunsen concurs in placing it in this direction, but without fixing the site.
2. TRIBULA (Τρίβολα), about 60 stadia from Reate; placed by Bunsen at Santa Felice, below the modern town of Cantalice, whose polygonal walls were discovered by Dodwell. Martelli appears to confound it with TRIBULA MUTUSCA, from which it is probably distinct.
3. SUESBULA, or VESBULA (the MSS. of Dionysius vary between Συεσβόλα and Οὐεσβόλα), at the same distance (60 stadia) from Tribula, near the Ceraunian Mountains. These are otherwise unknown, but supposed by Bunsen to be the Monti di Leonessa, and that Suesbula was near the site of the little city of Leonessa, from which they derive their name.
4. SUNA (Σούνη), distant 40 stadia from Suesbola, with a very ancient temple of Mars: 5. MEPHYLA (Μηφύλα), about 30 stadia from Suna, of which some ruins and traces of walls were still visible in the time of Varro: and 6. ORVINIUM (Ὀρουΐνιον), 40 stadia from Mephyla, the ruins of which, as well as its ancient sepulchres, attested its former magnitude;--are all wholly unknown, but are probably to be sought between the Monti di Leonessa and the valley of the Velino. Martelli, however, transfers this whole group of cities (including Tribula and Suesbula), which are placed by Bunsen to the N. of Rieti, to the vallies of the Turano and Salto S. of that city.
7. CORSULA (Κορσοῦλα), a city destroyed shortly before the time of Varro, is placed by him at 80 stadia from Reate, along the VIA CURIA, at the foot of MT. CORETUM. This road is otherwise unknown1, but was probably that which led from Reate towards Terni (Interamna), and if so, Corsula must have been on the left bank of the Velinus, but its site is unknown.
9. MARRUVIUM (Μαρούϊον), situated at the extremity of the same lake. Near this were the SEPTEM AQUAE the position of which in this fertile valley between Reate and Interamna is confirmed by their mention in Cicero (Cic. Att. 4.15).
Among the cities of Latium itself, Dionysius (1.44, 2.35) expressly assigns to the Aborigines the foundation of Antemnae, Caenina, Ficulnea, Tellenae, and Tibur: some of which were wrested [p. 1.7]by them from the Siculians, others apparently new settlements. Little historical dependence can of course be placed on these statements, but they were probably meant to distinguish the cities in question from those which were designated by tradition as of Pelasgian origin, or colonies of Alba.
Sallust (Sal. Cat. 6) speaks of the Aborigines as a rude people, without fixed laws or dwellings, but this is probably a mere rhetorical exaggeration: it is clear that Varro at least regarded them as possessed of fortified towns, temples, oracles, &c.; and the native traditions of the Latins concerning Janus and Saturn indicate that they had acquired all the primitive arts of civilisation before the period of the supposed Trojan colony.
2 Holstenius, however (Not. ad Cluver. p. 114), places Tiora in the valley of the Turano, at a place called Colle Piccolo, where there is also a celebrated church of Sta. Anatolia.


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ChemMatters
Aluminum Recycling
How to Use CM
By Tom Husband
ChemMatters April 2012
Teacher's Guide
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In the Western world, recycling often feels like a chore. It is something we should do, like exercising and eating a healthy diet. This is in stark contrast to the situation in India where recycling is a livelihood for thousands of people who would otherwise have no way of making a living. The government does not run any recycling programs, and garbage is dumped in big containers outside of the cities.
Unemployed Indians often roam around the containers, looking for any material that can be recycled. The gathered waste is sold to small recycling plants that operate with basic technology and in poor conditions. Many of these plants are located in a slum town, called Dharavi, in Mumbai, the economic capital of India. Employees work long hours for low salaries, but they are grateful to have jobs in a country where unemployment is high.
Muktar Hamed works for India's informal recycling sector. He is 15 years old and earns a living by recycling aluminum scrap. Every day, he wakes up just before 7 a.m., washes, eats breakfast, and then starts his work. He has an hour for lunch and then continues working until 8 p.m. His job is to melt the aluminum scrap in a furnace all day long. At the end of the day, Muktar sleeps in a bed that is right next to the furnace.
Hamed is one of thousands of Indians who live in Dharavi, one of the largest slum towns in South Asia, and make money by recycling and reusing nearly every aluminum material they can find. Not only do these people support themselves, but they also created a multimillion-dollar industry that is changing the regional economy and is allowing people to earn money.
Aluminum recycling in Dharavi
In Dharavi, aluminum recycling involves three important steps. First, aluminum products that have been used and thrown away, especially old soda and beer cans, are collected. Second, the cans are soaked in acid, so the designs and brand names are removed. Third, the cans are crushed and melted in a furnace.
Hamed works in a plant that receives crushed cans and then melts them in a coal-powered furnace. Once the cans have completely melted, the molten mixture is poured into molds, where it cools into solid aluminum bars called ingots. These bars are then transferred to another factory in Dharavi. There, they are melted again, and a special machine turns the liquid metal into blocks that are later used to make new aluminum items.
Hamed's furnace is actually a hole in the ground, which is approximately one meter (3.3 feet) deep and half a meter (1.6 feet) wide. At the bottom of the hole is a vent, which is joined to the ground by a pipe. The purpose of the vent and the pipe is to enable oxygen to reach the lowest part of the furnace.
The furnace is filled with coal which is ignited and stoked to produce temperatures exceeding the 660 oC melting point of aluminum. Hamed places a crucible filled with the crushed scrap aluminum on the top of the furnace. The crucible is made of silicon carbide, which remains solid up to 2,730oC.
Why recycle aluminum?
Aluminum recycling is profitable because extracting this metal from aluminum ore is expensive, it pollutes the environment, and it consumes a significant amount of energy. To understand how aluminum is used to make everyday products, let's examine how an aluminum can is made (Fig. 1). When we recycle an aluminum can, we eliminate the initial steps, and the recycled aluminum becomes part of a cycle that can occur over and over again without loss of the aluminum's properties.
Figure 1. Life cycle of an aluminum can. The extraction process occurs in three steps: bauxite extraction, alumina refining, and primary smelting. The other steps apply to both extracted and recycled aluminum. [Adapted from a figure provided by Novelis, Inc.
Aluminum is extracted from an ore known as bauxite, which consists of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and other compounds that contain aluminum, silicon, titanium, and iron. Aluminum oxide is separated from the other elements using the Bayer process, which consists of three stages. First, bauxite is dissolved in a solution of sodium hydroxide at high pressure and temperature. The resulting mixture contains a solution of sodium aluminate [NaAl(OH)4] and undissolved bauxite residues containing iron, silicon, and titanium.
Sodium aluminate forms through the chemical reaction of aluminum oxide with sodium hydroxide and water, as follows:
The residues sink gradually to the bottom of the tank and are later removed.
In the second stage, the sodium aluminate solution is pumped into a huge tank and cooled, and, as it cools, the sodium aluminate decomposes to form aluminum hydroxide [Al(OH)3] and sodium hydroxide:
The aluminum hydroxide forms a precipitate that sinks to the bottom of the tank, where it is removed.
In the third stage, the aluminum hydroxide is heated to 980 oC, which forms aluminum oxide according to the following reaction:
The aluminum is then produced from the aluminum oxide through a technique called aluminum smelting. It is based on a process known as electrolysis, in which an electrical current is used to produce the constituent elements from a chemical compound. In this case, aluminum oxide is separated into aluminum and oxygen (Fig. 2).
Figure 2. Electrolysis of aluminum oxide [Adapted from a figure at: http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/onlcourse/chm110/outlines/aluminum.html]
Electrolysis can be performed only on a liquid. Because aluminum oxide does not dissolve in water, it is dissolved in a vat of molten cryolite (Na3AlF6), which consists of the ions Na+ and AlF63–. Aluminum oxide dissolves into two ions, Al2OF62– and F–, by reacting with some of the AlF63– ions from molten cryolite, as follows:
Aluminum (Al) is produced at the negative electrode, called the cathode, according to the following reduction reaction (gain of electrons):
At the positive electrode, called the anode, the Al2OF62– ions react with the anode (which is made of carbon) to form carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, for example by the following oxidation reaction (loss of electrons):
Combining the aluminum oxide dissolution reaction and the oxidation and reduction reactions gives the overall net reaction:
The next step consists of pouring molten aluminum into molds and letting the aluminum solidify into shape. These blocks of solid aluminum, or ingots, are forced through several rollers to become sheets that are less than 1-inch thick. The aluminum sheets are cut to make cans, which are sent to soft drink companies that fill and seal them. The canned soft drinks are sold to consumers who drink them.
In the Western world, the cans are usually collected and sent to a recycling center, where they are cleaned, sorted, and crushed. Then, they go to an aluminum manufacturing plant, where they are shredded, remelted and solidified again.
In India, the cans are collected from garbage dumps and sent to small private companies, where people such as Hamed clean them using acid at room temperature and normal pressure. Then, they melt the aluminum cans in a furnace at 660 oC and pour the molten aluminum into a mold, which later solidify into shape.
Recycling aluminum is much cheaper than extracting it. Aluminum extraction requires temperatures of 1,000 oC and a lot of energy. Additional material—such as cryolite and sodium hydroxide—need to be used, and a significant amount of electricity is needed.
Advantages of recycling aluminum
The key benefit of recycling is that it reduces the amount of waste that needs to be buried or burned. In the case of aluminum, there is also another advantage. If old soda cans were simply buried, new cans would have to be made from new aluminum that would have to come from aluminum ore. So, recycling aluminum has an economic advantage as well as an environmental one.
Not all materials are economically advantageous to recycle. Plastic, for example, is often cheaper to produce from raw materials than it is to recycle. So, while plastic is endlessly recyclable, it is often burned or simply buried because it is not cost-effective to recycle it.
Other constraints also make materials, such as green glass, less desirable to recycle. It is not that the glass cannot be endlessly recycled, it is because the color of glass cannot be changed—once it is green, it will be green forever. A lot of green glass is imported into the United States, containing foreign-made beverages such as wine and beer. But few products are manufactured from green glass in the United States, meaning that most of it is not recycled.
Another reason aluminum is easier to recycle is because it does not corrode, unlike other metals such as iron. If left unprotected, iron is transformed by the corrosive process of rusting into iron oxide. When that happens, the metal has to undergo expensive treatment to remove the oxygen while aluminum, which does not corrode, can simply be melted and molded into a new product.
Thanks to Dharavi residents such as Hamed, a high proportion of aluminum is recycled in India. If it were not for their efforts, nothing would be recycled at all. A big difference between India and the United States is that in India, there is no government recycling program. Indians do not have to separate their waste, while U.S. residents are encouraged to do so.
Hundreds of thousands of Indians forage for recyclable materials in public trash cans. Doing this work exposes them to several health risks because they are working in an unclean environment. Recycling plant workers such as Hamed also face health risks. They are not provided with any safety equipment, even though they work near a furnace that has a temperature of 660 oC. Hamed, for example, works 11 hours per day, enjoys very little time off, and has no chance of attending school. Although Hamed and others are working in the most appalling conditions, the alternative is having no way to make a living.
In the United States, recycling feels like a good habit that some of us try to adopt. In India, it is a lifeline for people struggling to survive. There, aluminum recycling has helped transform local economies, which serves to remind us that recycling not only can improve the environment but can change lives as well.
Sustainability and Recycling, The International Aluminium Institute
The Informal Recycling Sector in Developing Countries, Gridlines
Tom Husband is a science writer and chemistry teacher in Cambridge, United Kingdom. His latest ChemMatters article, "Recycling to Survive," appeared in the February 2011 issue.
Also in this Issue (April 2012)
What are the advantages and potential drawbacks of compact fluorescent light bulbs over regular light bulbs?
Recycling Aluminum: A Way of Life or a Lifestyle?
In the Western world, recycling aluminum helps to protect the environment. In India, it is a means of livelihood for thousands of people. Learn how recycling aluminum is changing lives and helping the environment.


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Q: Specifying compression codec for a INSERT OVERWRITE SELECT in Hive I have a hive table like
  CREATE TABLE beacons
 (
     foo string,
     bar string,
     foonotbar string
 )
 COMMENT "Digest of daily beacons, by day"
 PARTITIONED BY ( day string COMMENt "In YYYY-MM-DD format" );

To populate, I am doing something like:
 SET hive.exec.compress.output=True;
 SET io.seqfile.compression.type=BLOCK;

 INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE beacons PARTITION ( day = "2011-01-26" ) SELECT
   someFunc(query, "foo") as foo,
   someFunc(query, "bar") as bar,
   otherFunc(query, "foo||bar") as foonotbar
   )
  FROM raw_logs
WHERE day = "2011-01-26";

This builds a new partition with the individual products compressed through deflate, but the ideal here would be to go through the LZO compression codec instead.
Unfortunately I am not exactly sure how to accomplish that, but I assume it's one of the many runtime settings or perhaps just an additional line in the CREATE TABLE DDL.

A: Before the INSERT OVERWRITE prepend with the following runtime configuration values:
SET hive.exec.compress.output=true;
SET io.seqfile.compression.type=BLOCK;
SET mapred.output.compression.codec = com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzopCodec;

Also make sure you have the desired compression codec by checking:
io.compression.codecs

Further information about io.seqfile.compression.type can be found here http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/CompressedStorage
I maybe mistaken, but it seemed like BLOCK type would ensure larger files compressed at a higher ratio vs. a smaller set of lower compressed files.

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Using Mass Loss to Probe Super-Earth Populations
by Caroline Morley | May 3, 2012 | Daily Paper Summaries | 0 comments
Title: How Thermal Evolution and Mass Loss Sculpt Populations of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptune: Application to the Kepler-11 System and Beyond
Authors: Eric Lopez, Jonathan Fortney, Neil Miller
Author's institution: UC Santa Cruz
Planet Densities: Tricky to Determine
The Kepler telescope is discovering thousands of small planets with radii between the radii of Earth and Neptune. While it is great to detect all of these planets, we also want to know their compositions. Are they rocky, icy, or gassy, and what kind of atmospheres do they have? Few of Kepler's planet candidates have a measured mass, which, combined with the radius from the transit, would allow us to calculate the density. The density would give us clues about the planet's composition. If it's very dense, it must be rocky; if it has a very low density, it must have a fluffy hydrogen-helium envelope. Intermediate densities get tricky: see for example this astrobite about GJ 1214b.
We would very much like to understand planet densities for the entire population of planets. To probe this question, this team from UC Santa Cruz investigated how planets lose mass over their lifetimes, and determined how this loss will affect planet populations.
Mass Loss: a Key to Understanding the Super-Earth Population
For a planet of a given mass, if it is dense (for example, a rocky or water-based planet) it will have a small radius, and its atmosphere will be held on by a strong gravitational force. In contrast, if it has a low density (a fluffy hydrogen-helium envelope) the radius is larger and the gravitational force at the top of the atmosphere is smaller. The low-density planet then loses mass much more quickly, driven by high-energy UV radiation from the host star. By understanding this mass loss, we could constrain the density of many super-Earths: low-density planets close to their stars will not be able to hold an atmosphere during their evolution.
Modeling Mass Loss for Small Planets
In this study, the mass loss is assumed to be 'energy-limited.' This assumption means that a constant fraction (dubbed the 'efficiency') of the energy deposited into the planet by UV irradiation from the host star goes into driving mass away from the planet. The energy of UV photons is thus balanced by the gravitational energy it takes to eject mass away. The mass loss model accounts for the changing irradiation from the host star over time; this is critical, as the amount of UV flux shrinks by a factor of almost 100 from the planet's childhood to Earth's current age (4.5 billion years).
To model mass loss properly at these early times, the mass loss model must be coupled to a planetary evolution model. This is very important because the planet is born with a large internal temperature and radius, and shrinks over time as it ages and cools. Recall that a larger radius makes the planet more susceptible to mass loss, since the gravitational force at the top of the atmosphere will be smaller.
These models are applied to the system of 6 planets discovered last year, Kepler-11. The models show that these planets are probably dense and rich in water, rather than rocky with extended hydrogen/helium atmospheres.
A Cutoff in Density for Super-Earths
So far, Kepler has not found any small, low-density planets that are highly irradiated (see figure 1), suggesting that such planets are rare if they exist at all. The evolutionary models from Lopez et al. that assume an efficiency of 20% (see figure 2, upper left and bottom center panels) reproduce this observed planet population. They demonstrate that small, low-density planets that are highly irradiated lose their fluffy atmospheres, becoming denser over time.
The incident flux from the host star is plotted against the planet density. Low-mass planets less than 15 earth masses are plotted as the colored points, color coded by composition. Red points are high-density rocky planets, orange are low-density H/He planets, and blue are intermediate density planets. (Larger exoplanets are plotted as grey crosses). Dashed lines show lines of constant mass loss at a given age. Note that there are no small, low-density planets above the dashed line of constant mass loss of 1 Earth mass per Gyr at 100 Myr.
The results of population models for planets are shown. The axes are the same as in Figure 1, with density plotted against incident flux. The color of the dot shows the H/He fraction and the size of the dot shows the size of the planet. Note that for the 20% efficiency of mass loss, the population models seem to match the population of super-Earths observed so far, which a cutoff above a threshold incident flux.
This paper suggests that we can understand the population of small planets using mass loss models, and we make predictions using these models for the masses of irradiated super-Earths. However, currently there are only a dozen super-Earths with measured densities. To confirm that the flux-density threshold predicted here is real and widely applicable, we will need to measure the masses of more of these low-mass, low-density planets, for which mass loss seems to be an important part of their evolution.
About Caroline Morley
I am a third-year graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, working with Jonathan Fortney to model and characterize exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres.
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Nelson Diamondbacks' Eric Hurley slides back to first base in Tuesday's game against the Trail Reds at Butler Park.
Nelson Diamondbacks edged in thriller
The third place Nelson Diamondbacks pushed the powerhouse Trail Reds to their limit on in the West Kootenay Babe Ruth semi-finals.
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The third place Nelson Diamondbacks pushed the powerhouse Trail Reds to their limit on Tuesday night in the West Kootenay Babe Ruth semi-finals.
The Diamondbacks traveled to Trail's Butler Park riding high after an 18-7 pounding of Grand Forks the night before in the league's quarter finals. But facing the regular season champion Reds, Nelson would need a miracle if they were to advance to the finals of the 13-15 year old league.
"Going in we knew that history had it as a bit of a David and Goliath scenario," said Diamondbacks manager Larry Martel. "Our goal was to compete hard and make sure we did whatever it took to pull off an upset."
The Diamondbacks got off to a shaky start, falling behind 5-2 after the first inning.
By the top of the fourth, the Diamondbacks had clawed their way back thanks to a dropped ball on the third strike to Garnett Duplessie, which allowed Eric Hurley to hustle home for the tying run.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Reds scored two runs early and with one out had the bases loaded. A short hit went to pitcher Quin Hall who fired it home for the out and catcher Kaleb Comishin promptly threw to first for the double play.
"At this point of the season you hope the players make the right decisions and that was a big play that showed their instincts were right on," said Martel.
The game entered the seventh inning with the Reds holding a solid 10-5 lead and Nelson needing an open inning hitting spree to have a chance.
Starting with the bottom of the order, Andrew Falcone drew the walk. Nelson quickly loaded the bases and with the Trail pitcher struggling a run scored on a walk.
Nelson veteran Dylan Jacobs then came to the plate and promptly stroked a single that scored two runs and closed the gap to 10-8. With two outs, Brendan Martel kept the Diamondbacks' chances alive when he hit a single to drive in another run.
With two outs and two strikes against him, Kyle Hall hit a single through the first and second basemen to drive in two more and give the Diamondbacks the 11-10 lead.
With a deep breath, the Diamondbacks took to the field in hopes of hanging onto the slim lead and pull off the upset.
After pitching a solid two innings in the fifth and sixth, Diamondbacks ace Braeden Zarikoff took to the mound. Zarikoff struck out the first Trail batter and walked the second batter. A hard single down the third base line then scored the runner to make the game 11-11. The next batter hit a fly ball to centre field which was tracked down by Joel Aubert for the second out.
With the Trail batter stealing to third base and two strikes at the plate, an unfortunate passed ball led to the winning run for Trail.
"There is absolutely no reason for any of the boys to hang their heads," said Martel. "It was a fantastic effort and though we fell just short, it showed how much this team improved over the season.
"Nelson baseball has made up a tremendous amount of ground on Trail and we provided a hec of a scare to a really good baseball team. It was a great final game in a very good season for our Little League program. We are looking to join in with the Okanagan Baseball AA league next year for some interleague play since our skill level at all ages is greatly improved. Nelson is looking for more games at some better, higher level baseball for all of the age groups".
Nelson hosts the West Kootenay Little League Minor playoffs this weekend. Head to nelsonbaseball.ca for the schedule of games at Lion's Park and Queen Elizabeth Park.
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Articles from the June 19, 2019 edition
By Kevin Wilson Sports June 19, 2019
Tellez named Ram baseball coach
PORTALES — Portales High didn't have to go too far to find its next baseball coach, elevating assistant Ruben Tellez to the position on Monday. Tellez, a longtime Spanish and English as a Second...
By Peter Stein Sports June 19, 2019
Custom Classic set for 36th go-around
CLOVIS — The Plateau Custom Classic has become as much a part of the local summer as heat, thunderstorms and more heat. Now in its 36th year, the Classic is still as big a summer tradition than...
By The Staff of The News Sports June 19, 2019
What's happening - June 19
• The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will begin online sales June 26 of hunting licenses that were not allocated during the big game draw. The sale will begin 10 a.m. at wildlife.state.nm.us. Customers are advised to review their online acc...
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Events calendar - June 19
Today • Clovis Summer Reading Program: Tiny Tots Storytime — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • City of Portales Cultural Affairs Committee Juneteenth Historical Presentation — 10...
By David Stevens Voices June 19, 2019
Remembering the plane-train days
You could fly from Clovis to Kansas City for $47 in those days. If you were brave enough. Newspaper Editor Mack Stanton and Santa Fe railroader Charles Reichart were overheard discussing safety and he...
By Carrie Classon Voices June 19, 2019
Spring clean your life, not just your fridge
Spring came late and so, appropriately, did the annual deep cleaning of the refrigerator. A lot of stuff gets tucked into the refrigerator over the course of the winter. Obsolete condiments band together and take refuge deep in the corners. A...
By Betty Williamson Voices June 19, 2019
Long live NM's unique and beautiful yucca
If the yucca wasn't already New Mexico's state flower, its show-stopping display this year would be a good argument for designating it as such. Those tall and distinctive stalks filled with lush...
By Curtis Shelburne Voices June 19, 2019
Faith: Our children deserve better than world of selfishness
Believe me, I write this column as no sort of spiritual giant; I don't know my own weakness as well as I should, but I surely know it enough to see warning signs pop up everywhere when I'm...
By the Staff of The News News June 19, 2019
Curry alcohol sales go to November vote
CLOVIS — Two counties in New Mexico do not allow alcohol sales — Curry and Roosevelt. Curry voters will decide in November if they'll be taken off that short list. In a unanimous vote, the Curry County Commission on Monday approved a...
By David Grieder News June 19, 2019
Inmate's mom: My son would not kill himself
PORTALES - Myra Abeyta and Ray Medrano still have far more questions than answers about what happened to their son, Manuel Silva Jr., 23, who died last week in the Roosevelt County Detention Center....
Clovis to consider vacancy
CLOVIS — Ladona Clayton isn't leaving the Clovis City Commission until July 12. And when she does, the commission has 30 days to appoint another District 1 resident to fill the approximate eight months left on the term. But the commission...
By Phil Mayes News June 19, 2019
County fairs due in August
Summer time: It's simultaneously the carefree pinnacle of students' year and the Iditarod of parenthood. Unbridled freedom follows an unrecoverable nosedive to boredom and the impending zombie-child apocalypse. Still, more than any other season,...
Soapbox winner may not go to Akron
CLOVIS — John Bamforth had no idea how to race a soap box derby car a week ago, but he knew it looked fun. On Saturday, he bested the Clovis field and took the qualifier for the July 20 Great American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. "I was super...
Pages past - June 19
On this date ... 1959: The Clovis Bowling Club, at 2400 W. Seventh, was offering beginner bowlers • Free use of bowling balls • Free bowling instructions • Free use of bowling shoes. The club also promised free coffee on Mondays. The phone...
Meetings calendar - June 19
Thursday • Retirement reception for David Richards, Clovis city attorney — 3-5 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex,...
By Kevin Wilson News June 19, 2019
Unauthorized vehicle purchase resolved
CLOVIS — After two meetings and some legal wrangling, the Curry County Commission turned an unauthorized purchase into what its chairman called an opportunity. With a pair of votes Monday afternoon, the commission approved the purchase of a new...
ENMWUA representatives to present hopes for project
PORTALES — For state officials with the money, and for any in the public with the interest, representatives of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will present this afternoon on their hopes with the Ute Water Project and the Interim...
Racing commission meetings cancelled until further notice
ALBUQUERQUE — A working session, committee and regular monthly meetings this week of the New Mexico Racing Commission were canceled until further notice, while the prolonged racino award selection process remains tabled indefinitely. "At this...
New president's house to be near current location
PORTALES — It's yet to be determined if the old building will stay or go, but a location for the Eastern New Mexico University president's new residence and "public event venue" was selected Tuesday as "in the general area" of the...
Voices June 19, 2019
Firefighters serve in ways we don't expect
There is often a special relationship between communities and their firefighters. These are, after all, people willing to risk their own safety to protect lives and property in the face of out-of-control fire, something most of us find quite...
By Kent McManigal Voices June 19, 2019
Market regulated just right amount
I love watching the market work. I don't call it "the free market" because if it's not free it's not a market. Under government rules and regulations what survives is a pale shadow of a...
By Tom McDonald Voices June 19, 2019
We could all use more heroes
"My heroes have always been cowboys, still are, it seems. Sadly, in search of, and one step in back of, themselves and their slow movin' dreams." — Sharon Vaughn, songwriter SANTA ROSA — Heroes are easy to find but hard to keep. Especially...
Roosevelt road work starting
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Road department will begin work today on two segments of South Roosevelt Road 3, and hopes to finish the work by Thursday. The segments of the road being upgraded from caliche to chip seal are between U.S. 70 and...
Some Relay for Life events set
PORTALES — There's still no confirmed date for Portales' Relay for Life. But a pair of preliminary events are already set, with the first coming Saturday to the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. "We're having the Relay Relaunch, which is our...
Clovis man dies in rollover
A Clovis man was killed in a one-vehicle rollover Sunday morning in Lincoln County, according to a release from the New Mexico State Police. Sotero Acuna, 19, was driving a 2011 Toyota with a 16-year-old male passenger who was not identified by the...


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Born in United States, Sam Duke is best known for being a tiktok star. Sam is turning 24 years old in ; she was born on July 24, 1999. She first started uploading videos through TikTok in December of 2018. Her first viral hit was a Hamilton -based sketch that earned her over 30 thousand likes.
There are usually many dating news and scandals surrounding exciting celebrities. The most frequently asked questions are, is Sam Duke single or dating, and who is Sam Duke's boyfriend? We are here to clear up and debunk dating rumors surrounding Sam's love life and boyfriends.
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Sam was born in the Millennials Generation, her zodiac animal is a Rabbit, and her spirit animal is a Salmon. People born in the year of the rabbit are kind, calm, and pleasant. They are patient, clever, and fashionable. Their sense of responsibility and attention to detail lead to tremendous professional achievement. They, too, take love seriously and would never fall for someone quickly. They'll love someone to the end of the earth and back if they find the proper person.
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Police officers rescue homeless mother of four who gave birth by the roadside
May 9, 2020 | Trending
A homeless mother of four who delivered a baby girl by the roadside in Ikate, Elegushi, Lagos State has been rescued by the police.
A statement issued by the Lagos State police command revealed that the mother of four was subsequently evacuated to Eti-osa primary health care after she gave birth to a baby girl.
The statement reads;
"Our officers in Ikate Elegushi got a distress call this morning for assitance of a homesless mother of four who gave birth to a baby girl on the road.
Our officers got to the scene and evacuated the new born and mother with her four children to Eti-Osa Primary Health Care Centre."
Our officers in Ikate Elegushi got a distress call this morning for assitance of a homesless mother of four who gave birth to a baby girl on the road. Our officers got to the scene and evacuated the new born and mother with her four children to Eti-Osa Primary Health Care Centre.
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It has been another great week of beer news, and we might as well wrap things up by enjoying a Whiter Shade of Pale White IPA from Starr Hill Brewery (Charlottesville, Virginia) in this week's segment of Tasting Notes.
Whiter Shade of Pale White IPA comes to us by way of Starr Hill's All Access Series, a line of some of the most unique and exciting styles from the brewery. For Whiter Shade of Pale, Starr Hill brewers have brought together the best qualities of the American IPA (HOPS!: Falconer's Flight, Simcoe, Cascade and Columbus) and Belgian Wit (Belgian yeast and wheat malt) styles to create a refreshing hybrid ale that is perfect for summer sipping. If you would like to check this one out, this offering is available in 4-packs of 12 oz. bottles and on draft. The good folks at Starr Hill hooked me up with a bottle to try, so let's crack it open for some Tasting Notes.
Appearance: Whiter Shade of Pale hits the glass light orange in color with plenty of vibrant yellows bursting from the body once exposed to direct light. The body is lightly hazy, but mostly clear with a lazy carbonation stream running through the center of the glass. The pour yielded two fingers of bright white head in the Starr Hill branded Willi Becher glass (now available in their online store). The head falls slowly to a thin cap with just a few spots of lace clinging to the glass throughout the experience.
Aroma: Belgian yeast and wheat notes engage the nose first with fruity esters, spice, and touch of clove. Bright, juicy hop aromatics then take over with big time citrus qualities (orange, grapefruit, and lemon zest). Lovely, but not overly aggressive or overbearing. This creates a nice, harmonious representation of both the American IPA and Wit styles. I could smell this all day long.
Taste: Whiter Shade of Pale's flavors begin just as the aroma did with Belgian yeast and wheat notes. Plenty of clove, coriander, and orange zest are the highlights at this point. Just as I begin to savor these classic Wit flavors, the hops move in with citrus and tropical flavors of grapefruit, tangerine, orange, pineapple, and just a touch of pine. The brew finishes with a bit of white pepper and spice to further marry the two styles. Just a wisp of banana glides through the experience at times as a nice surprise.
Mouthfeel: This beer is medium in body with a medium carbonation level. The brew displays a bitter hoppiness on the palate with just a slight sweetness. The hops have some stick to them and this allows their flavors to linger. Coming in at 7.5% ABV, this beer does have a touch of alcohol warmth to it, but it is easily under control. Aftertaste is all citrus and tropical hops with just a touch of white pepper.
Final Thoughts: Frankly, this is a beautiful beer and it is easily the finest offering I have had from Starr Hill to date. That says quite a bit because they have yet to make a beer that has disappointed me. Whiter Shade of Pale White IPA just comes together effortlessly to highlight the best of both the IPA and Wit styles, and I cannot help but believe that this beer came out exactly as the brewer had hoped and imagined. It is no wonder why it won gold at the 2014 World Beer Cup in the American-Belgo-Style Ale category. Seriously, do yourself a favor and give Whiter Shade of Pale a try when you see it. Prost!


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Q: Implement Webhook in Client-Side JavaScript? I'm using some client-side JavaScript to make some API calls that return data to an end user. I'd like to use a Webhook (rather than polling the API) to get updated information from the API when it's available, but not sure if this is even since my JS is only client-side and has to be lightweight (e.g. I rather not rely on loading any libraries).
Would appreciate any pointers.

A: There is nothing wrong with loading libraries. Todays webpages heavily rely on libraries and albeit you can overdo it, loading a library is nothing which makes your page "heavy". You are better off doublechecking your image sizes when you optimize for size.
For webhook implementations I would recommend websockets. A nice libarary for this purpose is socket.io. With websockets you can push data from the server to the client so you dont rely on polling.


Abstract: This dissertation is about how the historical processes of structural change in economies and societies are being conceptualised and explained and about how the main concepts and forms of explanation could be improved. The starting point is an awareness that there are major methodological and conceptual weaknesses in the explanations currently provided by many historians of economic and social structures. Empirical weaknesses in explanations will always be with us in the sense that more information about present and past economies and societies is constantly becoming available as a result of research and the process of social change itself. But methodological and conceptual weaknesses may be susceptible to permanent improvement as a result of analytical thought, including examinations of conceptual systems, of the logic of enquiry and reasoning employed by particular sciences, including structural history, and of how some sciences have become more advanced than others. In particular, the crucial process of forming a coherent 'domain' of scientific enquiry for social structural history must be examined. The extended articulation and defence of historical science in this dissertation tries to design and situate its fortifications so as to deflect the attacks of advocates of hermeneutical relativism, post-structuralism, and "common sense" historiography. The fortifications are built on a prominent outcrop of the strategic territory of analytical philosophy of science, and they are constructed out of materials gathered from scientific realism. To the advocates of hermeneutical relativism and post-structuralist theory arguments for a 'science' of history are now atavistic and näive, and to the "common sense" practitioners of traditional interpretive history they are irrelevant. Conceptualising and trying to 'discover' the 'real hidden structures' of society and the 'real processes' of social structural change are unfashionable and outmoded to all these opponents. But I persist in holding that the histories of economies and societies, like the histories of the earth and the biosphere, proceed independently of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideologies, and philosophies. Theorists and philosophers only try to conceptualise and interpret the world (or even just each other's imaginative theoretical creations), the point is to 'explain' the origins and nature of the real structures of the world and their transformations. Herein I examine the underlying individualist and holist methodologies (or which are often only unexamined assumptions) for approaching the explanation of the history of economic and social structures. I argue that there exists a third alternative to individualism and holism - what I call "methodological structurism". Like the other two, this third methodology is interconnected with a concept of structure and a concept of structural change. But unlike the other methodologies, it has not been well articulated nor extensively defended. Methodological structurism, I shall argue, now exists quite widely as an unexamined assumption embedded in the explanations of many historians. I shall try to articulate it and show why it is the most appropriate methodology for approaching the explanation of structural history.


According to reports from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, DHX Media - the current owners of the Peanuts franchise - have struck a deal with Apple to produce "new series, specials and shorts" based on the Peanuts characters for Apple's yet-to-launch streaming service.
Details are scarce so far, but one component will be videos that focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) content featuring Snoopy as an astronaut.
Apple's streaming service - a planned competitor for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu - won't launch until sometime in 2019 (some reports say "first half," and some reports say "last half" of 2019). So no information about how it will be available or how much it will cost have been revealed yet, or whether the Peanuts videos will be ready and part of the service when it launches or added later on.
ABC will show A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, together with This is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers, from 8-9 PM (Eastern/Pacific) on the evening before Thanksgiving - Wednesday, November 21, 2018.
And then on Thanksgiving Day itself (Thursday, November 22), the Macys' Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature the "Charlie Brown and his kite" balloon, returning for the third year in a row. The parade airs from 9 AM - noon (all time zones) on NBC.
Get together with your sweet babboo to watch the annual Peanuts Valentine's Day pairing on Friday, February 9, 2018: ABC will be showing Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975) together with A Charlie Brown Valentine (2002) from 8 - 9 PM (Eastern/Pacific) that evening.


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Q: Hi All, Getting the below error. Does anyone have ever faced a similar issue.? Getting the below error. Does anyone have ever faced a similar issue.?
TID: [-1] [] [2018-10-11 08:10:31,330] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory} -  Error acquiring a Connection from the JMS CF : jmsEventPublisher using properties : {transport.jms.ConcurrentPublishers=allow, java.naming.provider.url=repository/conf/jndi.properties, java.naming.factory.initial=org.wso2.andes.jndi.PropertiesFileInitialContextFactory, transport.jms.DestinationType=topic, transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName=TopicConnectionFactory, transport.jms.Destination=throttleData} {org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory}
org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.core.exception.OutputEventAdapterRuntimeException: Error acquiring a Connection from the JMS CF : jmsEventPublisher using properties : {transport.jms.ConcurrentPublishers=allow, java.naming.provider.url=repository/conf/jndi.properties, java.naming.factory.initial=org.wso2.andes.jndi.PropertiesFileInitialContextFactory, transport.jms.DestinationType=topic, transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName=TopicConnectionFactory, transport.jms.Destination=throttleData}
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory.handleException(JMSConnectionFactory.java:197)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory.createConnection(JMSConnectionFactory.java:278)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory$PoolableJMSConnectionFactory.makeObject(JMSConnectionFactory.java:356)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool.borrowObject(GenericObjectPool.java:1181)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory.getConnectionFromPool(JMSConnectionFactory.java:286)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSMessageSender.send(JMSMessageSender.java:86)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.JMSEventAdapter$JMSSender.run(JMSEventAdapter.java:284)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: javax.jms.JMSException: Error creating connection: Could not open connection
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnectionFactory.createConnection(AMQConnectionFactory.java:361)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnectionFactory.createConnection(AMQConnectionFactory.java:40)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSUtils.createConnection(JMSUtils.java:387)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSConnectionFactory.createConnection(JMSConnectionFactory.java:268)
    ... 10 more
Caused by: org.wso2.andes.AMQConnectionFailureException: Could not open connection
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnection.<init>(AMQConnection.java:486)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnectionFactory.createConnection(AMQConnectionFactory.java:351)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: org.wso2.andes.transport.TransportException: Could not open connection
    at org.wso2.andes.transport.network.mina.MinaNetworkTransport$IoConnectorCreator.connect(MinaNetworkTransport.java:216)
    at org.wso2.andes.transport.network.mina.MinaNetworkTransport.connect(MinaNetworkTransport.java:74)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnectionDelegate_8_0.makeBrokerConnection(AMQConnectionDelegate_8_0.java:130)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnection$2.run(AMQConnection.java:631)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnection$2.run(AMQConnection.java:628)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnection.makeBrokerConnection(AMQConnection.java:628)
    at org.wso2.andes.client.AMQConnection.<init>(AMQConnection.java:409)
    ... 14 more
TID: [-1] [] [2018-10-11 08:10:31,332] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSMessageSender} -   {org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSMessageSender}
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.internal.util.JMSMessageSender.send(JMSMessageSender.java:88)
    at org.wso2.carbon.event.output.adapter.jms.JMSEventAdapter$JMSSender.run(JMSEventAdapter.java:284)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
TID: [-1] [] [2018-10-11 08:10:47,331] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.metrics.jdbc.reporter.JDBCReporter} -  Error when reporting timers {org.wso2.carbon.metrics.jdbc.reporter.JDBCReporter}
java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Internal Error: Underflow Exception trying to bind 2.964393875E-314
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeBatch(OraclePreparedStatement.java:10345)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatementWrapper.executeBatch(OracleStatementWrapper.java:230)
    at org.wso2.carbon.metrics.jdbc.reporter.JDBCReporter.reportTimers(JDBCReporter.java:389)
    at org.wso2.carbon.metrics.jdbc.reporter.JDBCReporter.report(JDBCReporter.java:200)
    at com.codahale.metrics.ScheduledReporter.report(ScheduledReporter.java:162)
    at com.codahale.metrics.ScheduledReporter$1.run(ScheduledReporter.java:117)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

A: It seems to me that your JMS connection is not correct because the server was unable to establish the connection. Review your entire JMS connection.
Caused by: javax.jms.JMSException: Error creating connection: Could not open connection


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Report Published: "State Bank of India - Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investment Report"
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MarketLines' State Bank of India Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments report includes business description, detailed reports on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestments, capital raisings, venture capital investments, ownership and partnership transactions undertaken by State Bank of India since January 2007.
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Federal Judge Says Aiding and Abetting Illegal Immigrants is a "Religious Liberty," Constitutionally Protected
We've been arguing all along that social justice was not just an "act" that religious people performed, but is, in and of itself, a religion. In fact, we've argued that it's a false gospel that is opposed to biblical Christianity.
Now, a federal judge has acknowledged that social justice — namely, supporting illegal immigrants — is a religion and has taken it a step further. The ruling says that it is a constitutionally-protected religious freedom.
In a HuffPo article titled Judge's Ruling Shows Religious Freedom Isn't Just For The Christian Right, the author reports,
For Scott Warren, a 37-year-old geography teacher from Ajo, Arizona, freedom of religion means making sure migrants crossing a treacherous stretch of desert along the U.S.-Mexico border don't die of dehydration.
Last week, a federal judge acknowledged in a ruling that Warren has a legal right to put these religious beliefs into practice. Experts say the decision is one of the first times that progressive religious beliefs related to immigration have been protected this way ― highlighting the fact that conservative Christians don't have a monopoly on the right to religious liberty.
Warren has been illegally aiding and abetting illegal immigrants who are crossing the border and has been fighting federal misdemeanor charges for at least two years, according to the article.
Last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Raner Collins found Warren guilty of the vehicle charge, but importantly, acquitted him of the property charge. The judge argued that even though the government successfully proved that Warren did, in fact, abandon property in the wildlife refuge, the teacher's humanitarian efforts are protected by his right to religious freedom.
"Defendant was obliged to leave water jugs because of his religious beliefs, and the Government's regulation imposes a substantial burden on this exercise of his religion," Collins wrote in his decision.
Now that the judge has acknowledged that doing this constitutes religious practice, what's to stop pro-abortion advocates from claiming "religious freedom"? After all, if we're honest, the practice of sacrificing children is absolutely a pagan religion.
New CDC Study Shows US Abortions are at Historic Low "By All Measures"
Calvary Chapel Pastor's Daughter Preaches About Her Rear-End, Brags From Pulpit About What "God Gave Her"
Loving Your Neighbor: It Doesn't Mean What Most People Think It Means
Transgenderism as the Conduit for the Persecution of the Church
The Unshakable Doctrine of the Resurrection: The Cornerstone of Christianity
Charismatic Worship Singer Sings About Snorting, Smoking, and Overating to God
Apostasy Publisher - January 25, 2023
Sick Video of Trans Daycare Teacher Using Doll to Teach Transgenderism to Preschool Kids
LGBTQ Issues January 25, 2023
James White Rebukes SBC Megachurch Pastor for Praising Queers Serving in His Church
Sola Scripture and Ultimate Standard of Truth: The Self-Attesting Authority of the Bible


The previous version of the product didn't have an educated guess on near-term pipeline because ... well, it isn't actually provided.
This omission meant that revenue would appear completely flat for the first N months of the forecast, where N = your sales cycle length.
We now guestimate your near-term pipeline based on your current organic lead volume and close rates, using industry standard averages, to fill in your short-term pipeline with a realistic flow of new deals being won.


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Sonnox Plug Ins Go ILive From Daryls House/I
New York, NY (April 10, 2008)--Pete Moshay, a Grammy-winning engineer/producer/mixer who has worked with Average White Band, Ian Hunter, Barbra Streisand, Hall & Oates and many other first-tier artists, is a confirmed Sonnox plug-in fan.
Pete MoshayNew York, NY (April 10, 2008)–Pete Moshay, a Grammy-winning engineer/producer/mixer who has worked with Average White Band, Ian Hunter, Barbra Streisand, Hall & Oates and many other first-tier artists, is a confirmed Sonnox plug-in fan.
One of Moshay's current projects is recording and mixing Live From Daryl's House, a monthly webcast created by Daryl Hall. "The show features Hall and his special guests performing in the 'Great Room' of his upstate New York house," Moshay explains. "It's made from hemlock and hard pine, and it has an amazingly distinctive sound. The show is pretty laid back, with Daryl doing classic Hall & Oates material, songs by other artists, anything that strikes his fancy. It's fun, off the cuff, and the music is always great."
A fan of Sonnox Oxford Dynamics and EQ plug-ins, Moshay also puts the Limiter to good use. "It's great for providing extra density for tracks," he says. "I'll ease it across the bus mix, very gently, and open it up with a bit of the Enhance feature. It's an incredibly musical tool and the perfect touch at the end of a chain. I particularly like the EQ," he adds. "You can get a super-tight Q and notch things out, but always remain totally musical."
Moshay captures Hall's performances with a mobile hard-disk recorder, using a combination of stage and studio mics. He then transfers the material into Pro Tools for final mixing and editing. New shows, available free online, must be ready to roll by the Fifteenth of every month.
The most recent show was recorded with KT Tunstall and Nick Lowe in Hall's home in England. The sessions mark Moshay's first experience with the new Oxford SuprEsser. "It's a very innovative de-esser," he says. "It enables you to hone in and get the vocals way out in the mix without poking somebody in the eye with sibilance.
"The level of control Sonnox has built into this plug-in provides it with much more versatility than standard de-essers," he adds. "You can change the attack and release time in the advance mode, and you can manage the compression to avoid hitting things too hard, or permitting too soft a release. You can also use it to shape sounds the way you would with the Transient Modulator."
Moshay finds the SuprEsser's visual feedback helpful. "You get instant feedback watching the FFT," he notes. "If you want to get right to that offending 6 kHz peak, you can get in there and nail it. I've been de-essing my whole career, and basically working 'by ear.' But no matter how good you may be, the ability to actually see what's going on lets you zero in and do the fix immediately.
Of the SuprEsser's automation features, Moshay says that, "If you want to go line by line on a vocal, you can automatically shift a frequency to find a specific peak. You actually see what's going on and then automate it to fit. And the instant visual feedback has no negative effect on the SuprEsser's ability to retain the music quality. This isn't just a new toy for your software collection, it's a genuine innovation, an important tool that's going to be getting a great deal of use."
Following their London trip, Moshay and Hall took Live From Daryl's House to the South by Southwest Festival where they recorded a show with Liam Finn and Chuck Profitt. On the horizon is a project with Mutlu, a new Philadelphia-based artist on Blue Note. Hall plans to work with a number of newer artists to keep the show fresh and interesting.
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I just finished reading "The No Complaining Rule" by Jon Gordon.
I think I've been fortunate to work with, and socialize with generally *positive* people, but the book resonates strongly with me. I often find myself being adversely affected by negativity in work and social settings.
2. 80% of people you complain to don't give a da#$mn, and 20% are happy that you are complaining.
3. "Venting" as people like to call it …. is bull shi#$t.
– I think people justify their complaining by saying that it's therapeutic in some way. Somehow by "getting things off their chests", they'll feel better. I simply don't believe this. Therapists used to get their clients to knock out a punching bag until they found out that the temporary satisfaction did not outweigh the long term anger and violence it generated. Complaining tends to cultivate negativity and adversely affect both the complainer AND the person being complained to.
4. There is a time and a place for complaining.
– The world isn't perfect, and one shouldn't just accept everything in an effort to avoid complaining. Don't mindlessly complain; but rather complain in an attempt to find a solution to the issue you are complaining about. Use the moment as a signal that there is a problem that needs a solution … not a problem that needs to be ranted about.
5. Allow the grass to grow instead of spraying the weeds.
– Instead of killing off all of the negative energy, foster a positive environment where positive thoughts suffocate the negative ones.
– Pause to think of all of the things that you're grateful. Recognize that no matter how bad you have it, somebody has it much worse. You can't be both negative and grateful at the same time, so focus on the positive.
– When dealt with any situation; it's YOUR CHOICE to focus on the negative of the situation; or else to take the positive path.
I suppose more than anything, I was reminded that happiness is determined 10% by facts, and 90% by presentation and selection of these facts. We all exist in a world that we could either paint to be evil, malicious, and negative … or else one that is happy, and positive. The choice is ours.


He and his wife Courtney took control of their financial lives last year after $80,000 in non-mortgage debt nearly led to disaster.
Instead of continuing down the path of least resistance, Baker and Courtney sold most of their stuff, paid off tons of debt and moved halfway around the world to Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. All of this was with their new toddler Milligan in tow.
Baker also managed to build a 5,000 subscriber personal finance blog on top of all that. He's the kind of guy who really gets sh*t done.
Baker packaged up all of the knowledge, tips and tricks he used to radically change his life over the past year into one awesome guide called Unautomate Your Finances that launches today.
Baker sent me a sneak preview of UYF last week and it had a major impact on me. I ended up spending the whole day tearing apart my finances and "getting intimate" with them again (as Baker likes to day) after reading the guide.
We're told to "automate your finances… so you can spend time doing what truly matters." The problem is that automation lets you become financially desensitized.
Once you're desensitized to how your cash is coming and going, the next step is losing control. The guide makes a convincing argument that "unautomating" your finances is the quickest path to financial freedom.
If you're not happy with your financial situation, Unautomate Your Finances is a must read. Getting control over your finances is the first step towards living your dream, and UYF will make you take that first step. Seriously, check it out. This is exactly the guide I wish had existed before I became debt-free.


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