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American Renaissance's 2008 Conference: Thank You, Loonies!
Jared Taylor, VDARE, January 21, 2008
Every two years since 1994, the magazine I edit, American Renaissance, has held a conference. Every two years, assorted loonies do us the favor of trying to shut it down. Which is to say that every two years, they both ensure splendid press coverage and reveal the true goal of the tolerance-and-diversity crowd: utter intolerance of diverse views.
American Renaissance takes the position that racial differences are real, that racial solidarity is part of human nature, and that multi-racial societies will always have racial conflict. All this is obviously true, which is why the lefties fly into such a rage when someone says so. Since the people at AR conferences are among the most thoughtful, persuasive people who have ever said so, their rage is intense.
This year the raging started earlier than usual. Last November, no less than three months before the 2008 conference, a group of living-dead who call themselves Students for a Democratic Society put out the word that "neo-nazis and racist bigots will be planning more racist terror at the American Renaissance Conference," where they would "vent their hatred and spew their racist venom towards communities of color." (This isn't satire; those were their words.) They called for "a day full of actions (in many forms)" to "shut these racists down by any means necessary." (NY Protest Calendar (Beta) » white supremacist conference, D.C., February)
This is the sort of thing we hear every two years. So what can we expect from their "day full of actions"? Perhaps a dozen shaggy, braying, throwbacks to the 1960s, who will divert conference-goers and passing motorists alike with quaint slogans and eccentric attire. Nothing could be more edifying than the contrast between the detritus on the sidewalk and the crisp, good manners in the conference hall.
The braying also ensures excellent media coverage, which promotes our message and brings more people to the next conference.
I am therefore deeply grateful to the loonies for three reasons: They entertain, they show the other side up for what it really is, and they are the best PR agency I ever worked with. I wish 200 would show up rather than only a dozen.
The loonies, you see, have the magic touch with the media. This year, we are particularly indebted to a web page and an answering machine known as the Jewish Defense Organization. This obscure offshoot of the Jewish Defense League phoned up the newspapers in Northern Virginia, where we will hold the conference, to announce "Operation Nazi-Kicker," the silly name for their plan to shut us up. Sure enough, the Washington Post, Washington Jewish Week, Herndon Observer, the Fairfax Times, and the Herndon Connection all sprang into action and wrote up the conference. We couldn't have gotten that kind of advance publicity if we had sent out press releases promising a Storm Trooper rally, a cross-burning, a lynching, and free beer. Thank you, JDO! [ White Nationalist Group's Meeting Prompts Protest | Jewish Defense Organization Urges Herndon Hotel to Halt 'Neo-Nazi' Conference in February, By Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post, December 13, 2007]
The left is always claiming to have spotted Nazis, but everyone knows it's mostly wolf-crying. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center, when sufficiently pressed, will concede that American Renaissance, though fearfully loathsome, is hardly Nazi.
This Jewish Defense Organization, however, may believe its own foolishness. "Taylor is a Nazi pig," its spokesman explained to the Fairfax Times, claiming that the many Jewish speakers we have had over the years were all tricked. One of those Jewish speakers wrote to tell them that if they were looking for Nazis, they were barking down the wrong hole — and was met with a blast of insults. Even the Anti-Defamation League calls these people "extremist," so they must be pretty far gone.
In any case, thanks to volunteer press agents, the 2008 conference has attracted even more attention than usual. But we will always make space for VDARE.COM readers. How could we not admire people who read the second-best website on the entire Internet?
Our full lineup of speakers — including Philippe Rushton, Fred Reed, Michael Walker, Paul Gottfried, Bruno Gollnisch, and other prominent figures — is described at our website, along with registration details.
Please join us for a most stimulating and memorable conference, with the bonus attraction of an authentic troupe of performing loonies. It will be a weekend not to be missed.
Topics: Activism, AR in the News, Censorship, Racial Identity, White Racial Consciousness
About Jared Taylor
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Jared Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance and the author of Paved With Good Intentions, White Identity, and If We Do Nothing.
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"Referrals are over 35% of our hires in terms of the source for us and I anticipate that will continue to grow, so being able to have all of the Grant Thornton jobs posted on the alumni side of theGrid as well as enabling our alumni to post jobs in their current company which is marketplace jobs and we've recently launched TalentVine which is a new product that SelectMinds has developed and we're really excited about it... it's going to make it really easy for alumni to refer potential candidates using their other social networks, be it LinkedIn and Facebook." Deborah Campdera
Welcome to an Talent Acquisition Channel's special edition of TotalPicture Radio recorded at the SelectMinds 2010 Annual Client Conference in New York. Joining us is Deborah Campdera, National Alumni Relations at Grant Thornton, the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.
Complete Transcript: Interview with Deborah Campdera
Welcome to an Inside Recruiting Channel special feature on TotalPicture Radio, recorded at the SelectMinds Annual Client Conference in New York City. SelectMinds enables companies to revolutionize the way they acquire talent, by leveraging the social networks their current and former employees have already built to generate high-quality referral and rehire candidates.
The SelectMinds product suite, AlumniConnect and TalentVine leverage an organization's most valuable asset – their people. With SelectMinds technology, companies can recruit top talent not only from within their employees' social networks but also from their own private secure employee and alumni networks. These referral-based environments drive recruitment, new business development, brand evangelism, and ultimately — business growth.
Peter: Welcome to an Inside Recruiting Channel's special edition of TotalPicture Radio recorded at the SelectMinds 2010 annual client conference in New York. Joining us is Deborah Campdera, National Alumni Relations at Grant Thornton, the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.
Deborah, thank you for speaking with us today on TotalPicture Radio. You joined Grant Thornton in 2000 as a regional recruiting manager, tell us about your history with the firm.
Deborah: Thank you for having me, Peter.
Peter: Thank you.
Deborah: I've been with Grant Thornton for about 10 years and I joined – I had been in search and talent acquisition prior to joining and joined in our Dallas office during a really exciting time, the firm was growing and changing and I came in to really help them find talent. Those people who are familiar with the public accounting industry would know that it really significantly changed in about 2002 with Arthur Andersen closing their doors, so we grew significantly and we still are; it's just been a wild ride.
Peter: Tell us a little bit about Grant Thornton. Are most of your people in the US concentrated around the Dallas area?
Deborah: We are a global firm. We operate in most of the major countries in the world but the US firm is we've got about 50 offices, about 5,000 employees, headquarters are in Chicago, but again we have large markets – we've got seven large markets that we really focus and then a number of other offices as well.
Peter: Your current role is director of national alumni relations, tell us a little bit about what your responsibilities are.
Deborah: I, again, have been with the firm for quite a while and I had been in recruiting and my position prior to this was the director for national experienced hire recruiting. Under that, it fell alumni relations and I came back after a short leave in January and decided to focus strictly on alumni relations. This is an growth for us and a strong area of interest for the firm.
What we're really trying to do is strengthen and deepen our relationships with our alumni and that includes our retired partners as well as employees that have left the firm.
Peter: You have alumni network which is called theGrid, which was created by and for current and former Grant Thornton employees and retired partners. That is of course, powered by SelectMinds. How long has theGrid been online?
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Deborah: We have been a client of SelectMinds since about 2004 and in 2008, we started talking about coming up with a way to connect our employees with our alumni. We wanted our employees to be able to be empowered to build stronger relationships with their colleagues that had moved on to other opportunities and/or retired, so we work with SelectMinds. We brought employees up with a separate portal and we re-branded the entire site, theGrid, and this was we launched in 2009, so we have a portal for alumni, a portal for employees. Employees can also go to the alumni portal or door if you will, so it really enables them to keep connections with their former colleagues.
Peter: What was the reaction of the alumni having all of a sudden all the current employees being able to access their information?
Deborah: It's been extremely positive. The first six months after the launch, which was in 2009, it was just incredible participation. We had people filling out their profiles, adding their photos, connecting with one another, and we really internally branded this as a way to stay engaged. It's also a way for our employees because we do have offices spread throughout the United States. It's a way for them to connect with each other on a more personal level, so theGrid is corporate social networking site, so we certainly have knowledge management where we have our technical information and it's business focused and this is really on a more personal social way to connect.
Peter: Deborah, talk to us a little bit about – I mean we're talking that this has been very well accepted, but what about the adoption rate from employees joining up with theGrid and your alumni?
Deborah: Again, the first few months after we launched and re-branded this as theGrid, we had, I think some of the numbers were, out of a total population of alumni, I think over 30% signed up right away. That's in around 5,000 alumni and then on the employee side, its part of our onboarding process, number one, so anybody that's joining, this is part of what you do your first few days. You fill out your profile and we have really 100% participation.
Peter: What are the benefits to the employees of being on theGrid?
Deborah: It's kind of multi-prong, so you've got the ability, number one, to connect with alumni and former colleagues and to stay in touch, and that really helps from a number of different ways. It helps create from a business networking standpoint, referral standpoint for when we're looking for new hires, and for employees, it also benefits them. We have affinity groups and this is where we really encourage our employees to join affinity groups. We have over 120 affinity groups that employees have created themselves. It's very user-driven on theGrid and it's been fantastic, a way for us to encourage and enable them to do that and also, it enables them to learn a little bit more about their colleagues on a personal level, because the profile that we have up for employees is personal interests. It's "do you like movies or books, do you…" – describe what you do at Grant Thornton in your own words. Again, it's getting to know people on a more personal level.
Peter: Now, do you mine any of that data, like for instance to find out who speaks Mandarin?
Deborah: That's fabulous information for us and because it's – there are certain – we have everyone agreed to the terms of use, so it needs to be appropriate information that people share. We have not had any problems with inappropriate information or anything else on there, so it's been terrific.
Peter: When your originally launched theGrid, how did you get the word out to your alumni network and what was the benefit to them?
Deborah: When we re-launched and re-branded the site in 2009, we did a campaign where we sent out a very nice branded email announcement about theGrid and then we also sent out, because we did not have everyone's email address, we also sent a very nice card through snail mail. With the URL, it encouraged people to register and really kind of talk to them about the benefits, and we will be rolling out other benefits.
The other thing that we offer are CPE classes for our alumni at no cost. CPE is continuing education that accountants and CPAs must satisfy every year. This has been very well received. We have a calendar on of what's coming up, how to register. And then every once in awhile, we do special events for our alumni and this is how we sent all our invitations through the site.
Peter: In 2009 you re-launched theGrid, I'm very happy that year is in our rearview mirror as for most organizations, most businesses, it was a terrible year, so how did you get your senior management to agree to invest in pretty substantial implementation of this network?
Deborah: Again, we had had the alumni site for a number of years.
Peter: Right, so you had seen some benefits from this.
Deborah: We had seen some benefits and even though you have a down economy, one of the things particularly in our business is that we want to keep our good people and this was really seen – we had done an employee survey the year before in 2008, and the employee service is called Voice Your Experience and in that survey, what we got back was people really felt like they were disengaged and it was hard for them to keep connected to the firm and in our business, our people work out at clients 80% to 90% of the time, so they go to the client site and they perform a lot of their work onsite, so they're not in an office every day where they feel connected to other employees. They're not going to lunch with fellow employees every day and so, we really needed to come up with a way.
Again, we've got 50 offices across the US and we needed to come up with a way for them to feel like they were part of Grant Thornton and what is their experience in our culture and this was really presented to senior leadership to talk about how we could do that in a virtual way.
Peter: Put your recruiting hat on for just a minute and tell me what you have found since you've re-launched? What kinds of positive things or negative things have you seen as far as your recruiting efforts?
Deborah: Referrals are fabulous.
Peter: We all love referrals, yes.
Deborah: Yes and referrals are over 35% of our hires in terms of the source for us and I anticipate that will continue to grow, so being able to have all of the Grant Thornton jobs posted on the alumni side of theGrid as well as enabling our alumni to post jobs in their current company which is marketplace jobs and we've recently launched TalentVine which is a new product that SelectMinds has developed and we're really excited about it. It's only been two weeks that it's been live, but it's going to make it really easy for alumni to refer potential candidates using their other social networks, be it LinkedIn and Facebook.
I think we're going to see a major uptake in our referrals, but it's also going to be easier for us to manage, because our recruiters don't have to do as much work to get the word out to our alumni.
Peter: That's certainly been a challenge for the recruiting industry with integration of all these systems out there. The ETS System with other systems that HR is running and especially if there has been mergers or something and you're trying to integrate all of that data and then you put the layer of social networks on top of that and that has been the big stumbling block with all of this, right?
Deborah: It's just huge and I remember when I was recruiting, you sit there and you have all these things to do, all this paperwork, all these resumes you need to review and you sit down and you think when am I actually going to talk to potential candidates and interview them. That suddenly became how am I going to find time to do that and actually that's the main thing that recruiters should be doing with their day, so coming up with a way to make this easy is – and alumni are going to be our best brand ambassadors out there and certainly as part of this, it's an entire process. It's everything from – it's the employment continuum. It starts with recruiting. They start as a prospect. They come to the firm. They leave the firm as an alumni, but we need to treat them the same from start to finish and that's – our chief human resource officer is very focused on that. She's very, very good at really understanding the employee experience and the employee continuum.
Peter: What kind of metrics does your senior management – I mean you're an accounting firm, you guys are dealing with numbers, that's your job, so I imagine they like numbers. What kind of numbers are you able to extract from TalentVine and from theGrid and your other recruiting efforts to show the ROI on doing this stuff.
Deborah: That's really important and you're right. I mean they're very focused on numbers, so having a dashboard where we can get reporting is critical. Having the ability to measure our messaging in terms of how many people opened the message, how many people clicked through to see something as critical, which of the SelectMinds product gives us the ability to do. TalentVine has very robust reporting. Again, we've just implemented that two weeks ago, so I want to give it a month.
Peter: Sure, of course.
Deborah: I want to give it some time to really see what it looks like, but we're going to be able to get very strong, how many alumni looked at the job, how many alumni referred it on to their network through LinkedIn or through Facebook.
What we've been looking at in terms of metrics is how many new registrations are we getting, how many people are reading the messages and as long as we continue to see solid improvement and that arrow going up and we know that it's about the content that put on there. We've got to keep fresh content. It has to be interesting and there has to be a "what's in it for me" for our alumni to stay engaged, so we are constantly looking at – I'm looking at a number of different things right now to offer our alumni that are benefits to them, be it news ahead of time, giving them press releases earlier than the market, given them mass purchasing opportunities. Certainly Grant Thornton, for our employees, we have good deals on different IT-related products or travel, so extending those benefits through our alumni, so that's all really important to keep our alumni engaged and really value. I mean they helped build the firm. We wouldn't be where we are today without our alumni.
Peter: Okay, so again, mainly from talent acquisition recruiting standpoint, rank the social networks for me: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter; what is most valuable for you? What do you use? What do you get the most return?
Deborah: I would have to say that the recruiters – absolutely, if we're just talking about the social networks, LinkedIn has been the most valuable.
Peter: Do you have a LinkedIn group?
Deborah: We do. We also have LinkedIn licenses that our recruiters have, so that they have extra tools that they can use in terms of sourcing and I think that's a very valuable tool for them, so I think that I'm very excited about some of the additional functionality that SelectMinds is going to be rolling out in Q1 next year in terms of a lot more integration with the social networks.
Peter: Yeah, especially LinkedIn.
Deborah: Yeah, that's going to be really terrific for us and from a recruitment standpoint and I think that it will be really interesting to look at the referral possibilities. Right now, we just have TalentVine for our alumni. I think it will be a very powerful tool for our employees as well to make it easy for them because we are always struggling with how to keep our open jobs front and center.
Peter: Do you incentivize them for referrals?
Deborah: We do, yeah, significantly.
Peter: How about Twitter, do you use Twitter at all to push out jobs or have you been experimenting with that at all?
Deborah: Some of our folks use Twitter. Twitter has not caught on in our industry, in our space. We're very traditional. Certainly this industry, I think we're very innovative and progressive within the industry but I think that everyone is struggling with okay, there are all these social networks, we have a lot of regulatory, technical information that CPAs have to keep up with and it's like oh my gosh, it's one more thing.
Peter: It's almost a ying and a yang kind of a thing when you look at the amount of regulatory compliance that firms such as yours have to contend with and then you look at social networks which are open and free and everybody's having a nice time in discussing all these stuff and the reality is you really can't go there in some sense, right?
Deborah: It can be really tricky but again, I think that I've really seen our firm, anyone that's involved in business development within the firm which are partners or senior managers, certainly our sales team, our marketing folks, they've really embraced LinkedIn but Twitter is just a little bit, so it's not happening yet.
Peter: Do you have an articulated social media policy in-house?
Deborah: We do.
Peter: Are your employees allowed to blog? Are they allowed to participate in Facebook and LinkedIn and all these social networks?
Deborah: Yes and we recently opened up. Our leadership is very open to be in progressive, but they opened up so the people within the firm on the network could access their LinkedIn, their email, their Facebook accounts.
Peter: They don't have to do it on their mobile devices anymore.
Deborah: Right, it's not blocked.
Peter: Is there a war for talent in your industry?
Deborah: A huge war for talent.
Peter: There is.
Deborah: Yeah. It's very tough. The specialty and the niche areas that we need, it's a very tough market. There are a finite number of people that do it. We typically know who those people are so it's really about telling them about Grant Thornton and why they should work with us. We are always looking for good talented people.
Peter: Is there anything I haven't asked you that you'd like to share with the audience about your experiences especially with using alumni networks in connecting with your alumni and recruiting?
Deborah: We're very optimistic. We're very excited. I also think that we're going to see Grant Thornton, our new CEO who came into his position in January of this year. He's a very progressive, very open minded and very global thinking and I'm very excited about the scalability with SelectMinds and the ability to open this up globally for our alumni.
Peter: Are you just using it in the US right now?
Deborah: Currently, you're only seeing in the US but I think we'll see in pretty short order that we'll be opening it up with more countries and corporation.
Peter: Right, because they're each individual businesses, right?
Deborah: We are. We operate individually in a global network but we are a global firm with global capabilities but I think it's going to be really powerful to able to have our AlumniConnect with alumni from all over the world.
Peter: Thank you very much for talking with us today on TotalPicture Radio. It's been great meeting you here.
Deborah: Me too. Thanks again Peter.
We'd like to thank SelectMinds' client Grant Thornton and Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Deborah Campdera for her participation in today's conversation. Visit Deborah's feature page in the Inside Recruiting Channel on TotalPicture Radio. That's TotalPicture.com to voice your opinion.
Working with the world's biggest brands to acquire top talent and manage alumni, SelectMinds leverages the promise yet simplifies the complexity of doing business on the social web. It's social networking with a purpose. Visit SelectMinds.com to learn more or call 877-276-3978.
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import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.document.*;
import org.apache.lucene.index.*;
import org.apache.lucene.search.*;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
import org.influxdb.InfluxDB;
import org.influxdb.dto.BatchPoints;
import org.influxdb.dto.Point;
import org.influxdb.dto.QueryResult;

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import java.time.Duration;
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    public InfluxDbRepository(InfluxDbConnectionManager connectionManager, String indexDir, boolean enableReading) throws IOException {
        this.connectionManager = connectionManager;
        this.indexDir = indexDir;
        if (enableReading) {
            this.indexReader = openIndexReader();
        }
    }

    private IndexWriter openIndexWriter() throws IOException {
        // TODO: correct analyzers
        Directory directory = FSDirectory.open(Paths.get(indexDir));
        StandardAnalyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer();
        IndexWriterConfig iwc = new IndexWriterConfig(analyzer);
        iwc.setOpenMode(IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode.CREATE);

        return new IndexWriter(directory, iwc);
    }

    @Override
    public void store(Collection<ItemListings> listings, long timestamp) throws IOException {
        BatchPoints points = BatchPoints
                .database("gw2trades")
                .retentionPolicy("default")
                .consistency(InfluxDB.ConsistencyLevel.ALL)
                .build();

        try (IndexWriter indexWriter = openIndexWriter()) {
            for (ItemListings listing : listings) {
                PriceStatistics buys = createStatistics(listing.getBuys());
                PriceStatistics sells = createStatistics(listing.getSells());

                int fixCosts = (int) Math.floor(((float) sells.getMinPrice()) * 0.15f);
                int profit = (sells.getMinPrice() - buys.getMaxPrice()) - fixCosts;

                if (listing.getItem() != null) {
                    Point dataPoint = createPoint(listing.getItem(), buys, sells, profit);
                    points.point(dataPoint);

                    Document doc = createStatsDoc(listing.getItem(), buys, sells, profit);
                    indexWriter.addDocument(doc);
                } else {
                    LOGGER.error("The listing {} has no item.", listing.getItemId());
                }
            }

            InfluxDB influxDB = connectionManager.getConnection();
            influxDB.write(points);

            indexWriter.commit();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public SearchResult<ListingStatistics> listStatistics(Query query, Order order, int fromIdx, int toIdx) throws IOException {
        IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(this.indexReader);

        org.apache.lucene.search.Query luceneQuery = createLuceneQuery(query);
        Sort sort = createSort(order);
        if (sort == null) {
            sort = defaultSort();
        }

        TopDocs docs = searcher.search(luceneQuery, Integer.MAX_VALUE, sort);
        List<ListingStatistics> allStats = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = fromIdx; i < toIdx && i < docs.scoreDocs.length; i++) {
            Document doc = searcher.doc(docs.scoreDocs[i].doc);
            ListingStatistics stats = toStatistics(doc);

            allStats.add(stats);
        }

        return new SearchResult<>(allStats, docs.totalHits);
    }

    private org.apache.lucene.search.Query createLuceneQuery(Query query) {
        org.apache.lucene.search.Query luceneQuery = null;
        if (query != null) {
            if (query.getName() != null && !query.getName().trim().isEmpty()) {
                String[] words = query.getName().split(" ");
                BooleanQuery.Builder booleanQuery = new BooleanQuery.Builder();
                for (String word : words) {
                    booleanQuery.add(new TermQuery(new Term("name", word)), BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
                }

                luceneQuery = booleanQuery.build();
            }
        }

        if (luceneQuery == null) {
            luceneQuery = new MatchAllDocsQuery();
        }

        return luceneQuery;
    }

    private Sort defaultSort() {
        return new Sort(
                new SortedNumericSortField("profit_score", SortField.Type.DOUBLE, true),
                new SortedNumericSortField("profit", SortField.Type.INT, true)
        );
    }

    private Sort createSort(Order order) {
        if (order == null) {
            return null;
        }

        SortField sortField;

        switch (order.getField()) {
            case "name":
                sortField = new SortField("name", SortField.Type.STRING, order.isDescending());
                break;
            case "highestBidder":
                sortField = new SortedNumericSortField("buys_max", SortField.Type.INT, !order.isDescending());
                break;
            case "lowestSeller":
                sortField = new SortedNumericSortField("sells_min", SortField.Type.INT, !order.isDescending());
                break;
            case "avgBidder":
                sortField = new SortedNumericSortField("buys_avg", SortField.Type.DOUBLE, !order.isDescending());
                break;
            case "avgSeller":
                sortField = new SortedNumericSortField("sells_avg", SortField.Type.DOUBLE, !order.isDescending());
                break;
            case "profit":
                sortField = new SortedNumericSortField("profit", SortField.Type.INT, !order.isDescending());
                break;
            default:
                sortField = null;
                break;
        }

        if (sortField == null) {
            return null;
        }

        return new Sort(sortField);
    }

    private String createInfluxQuery(int itemId, LocalDateTime fromDate, LocalDateTime toDate) {
        // Stretch the dates a little bit to avoid single-data-points and cut-off lines.
        fromDate = fromDate.minus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
        toDate = toDate.plus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
        String fromTime = INFLUX_QUERY_DATE_FORMAT.format(fromDate);
        String toTime = INFLUX_QUERY_DATE_FORMAT.format(toDate);

        Duration duration = Duration.between(fromDate, toDate);
        long days = duration.toDays();
        if (days < 4) {
            // Display all points without grouping them.
            return "select time, " +
                    " buys_avg, buys_max, buys_min, buys_total," +
                    " sells_avg, sells_max, sells_min, sells_total," +
                    " profit" +
                    " from item_" + itemId +
                    " where time >= '" + fromTime + "'" +
                    " and time <= '" + toTime + "'";
        }

        String groupByDuration;
        if (days < 7) {
            groupByDuration = "1h";
        } else if (days < 14) {
            groupByDuration = "4h";
        } else if (days < 30) {
            groupByDuration = "8h";
        } else {
            groupByDuration = "1d";
        }

        return "select " +
                " mean(buys_avg), max(buys_max), min(buys_min), sum(buys_total)," +
                " mean(sells_avg), max(sells_max), min(sells_min), sum(sells_total)," +
                " min(profit)" +
                " from item_" + itemId +
                " where time >= '" + fromTime + "'" +
                " and time <= '" + toTime + "'" +
                " group by time(" + groupByDuration + ")";
    }

    @Override
    public List<ListingStatistics> getHistory(int itemId, LocalDateTime fromTime, LocalDateTime toTime) throws IOException {
        InfluxDB influxDB = connectionManager.getConnection();
        String queryStr = createInfluxQuery(itemId, fromTime, toTime);
        org.influxdb.dto.Query query = new org.influxdb.dto.Query(queryStr, "gw2trades");
        QueryResult results = influxDB.query(query);
        List<ListingStatistics> allStats = new ArrayList<>();

        for (QueryResult.Result result : results.getResults()) {
            if (result.getSeries() == null) {
                continue;
            }

            for (QueryResult.Series series : result.getSeries()) {
                List<List<Object>> values = series.getValues();
                List<ListingStatistics> seriesStats = values.stream()
                        .filter(obj -> obj.size() > 1 && obj.get(1) != null)
                        .map(obj -> {
                            PriceStatistics buys = new PriceStatistics();
                            PriceStatistics sells = new PriceStatistics();
                            ListingStatistics stats = new ListingStatistics();
                            stats.setBuyStatistics(buys);
                            stats.setSellStatistics(sells);

                            stats.setItemId(itemId);
                            stats.setTimestamp(parseDateString((String) obj.get(0), INFLUX_DATE_FORMAT));

                            buys.setAverage(influxDouble(obj.get(1)));
                            buys.setMaxPrice(influxInt(obj.get(2)));
                            buys.setMinPrice(influxInt(obj.get(3)));
                            buys.setTotalAmount(influxInt(obj.get(4)));

                            sells.setAverage(influxDouble(obj.get(5)));
                            sells.setMaxPrice(influxInt(obj.get(6)));
                            sells.setMinPrice(influxInt(obj.get(7)));
                            sells.setTotalAmount(influxInt(obj.get(8)));

                            stats.setProfit(influxInt(obj.get(9)));

                            return stats;
                        })
                        .collect(Collectors.toList());

                allStats.addAll(seriesStats);
            }
        }

        return allStats;
    }

    private long parseDateString(String str, DateTimeFormatter parser) {
        int msecDelim = str.lastIndexOf('.');
        if (msecDelim > 0) {
            // Cut off msecs
            str = str.substring(0, str.lastIndexOf('.'));
        } else {
            // Cut off the 'Z' at the end.
            str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
        }
        try {
            LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(str, parser);
            return ldt.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC).toEpochMilli();
        } catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
            // ignore, try next parser.

            LOGGER.warn("Could not parse date string {}", str);
            return 0;
        }
    }

    private double influxDouble(Object v) {
        return ((Number) v).doubleValue();
    }

    private int influxInt(Object v) {
        return ((Number) v).intValue();
    }

    @Override
    public ListingStatistics latestStatistics(int itemId) throws IOException {
        IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(this.indexReader);

        TermQuery query = new TermQuery(new Term("itemId", Integer.toString(itemId)));
        TopDocs docs = searcher.search(query, 1);
        if (docs.totalHits < 1) {
            return null;
        }

        Document doc = searcher.doc(docs.scoreDocs[0].doc);
        return toStatistics(doc);
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        if (indexReader != null) {
            indexReader.close();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void reopen() throws IOException {
        close();
        this.indexReader = openIndexReader();
    }

    private IndexReader openIndexReader() throws IOException {
        return DirectoryReader.open(FSDirectory.open(Paths.get(indexDir)));
    }

    private ListingStatistics toStatistics(Document doc) {
        ListingStatistics stats = new ListingStatistics();
        stats.setItemId(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("itemId")));

        Item item = new Item();
        item.setItemId(stats.getItemId());
        item.setLevel(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("level")));
        item.setIconUrl(doc.get("iconUrl"));
        item.setName(doc.get("name"));
        item.setRarity(doc.get("rarity"));
        item.setType(doc.get("type"));
        stats.setItem(item);

        ItemDetails details = new ItemDetails();
        details.setType(doc.get("details_type"));
        details.setMinPower(intIfNotNull(doc, "min_dmg"));
        details.setMaxPower(intIfNotNull(doc, "max_dmg"));
        details.setWeightClass(doc.get("weight_class"));
        List<ItemAttributes.Attribute> attributes = new ArrayList<>();
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_COND_DMG, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_FEROCITY, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_HEALING, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_POWER, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_PRECISION, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_TOUGHNESS, attributes);
        attrIfNotNull(doc, ATTR_VITALITY, attributes);
        ItemAttributes attrContainer = new ItemAttributes();
        attrContainer.setAttributes(attributes);
        details.setAttributes(attrContainer);
        item.setDetails(details);

        PriceStatistics buys = new PriceStatistics();
        buys.setMinPrice(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("buys_min")));
        buys.setMaxPrice(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("buys_max")));
        buys.setTotalAmount(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("buys_total")));
        buys.setAverage(Double.valueOf(doc.get("buys_avg")));

        PriceStatistics sells = new PriceStatistics();
        sells.setMinPrice(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("sells_min")));
        sells.setMaxPrice(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("sells_max")));
        sells.setTotalAmount(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("sells_total")));
        sells.setAverage(Double.valueOf(doc.get("sells_avg")));

        stats.setBuyStatistics(buys);
        stats.setSellStatistics(sells);

        stats.setProfit(Integer.valueOf(doc.get("profit")));

        return stats;
    }

    private int intIfNotNull(Document doc, String fieldName) {
        String value = doc.get(fieldName);
        return value != null ? Integer.valueOf(value) : 0;
    }

    private void attrIfNotNull(Document document, String attributeName, List<ItemAttributes.Attribute> attributes) {
        String fieldName = "attr_" + attributeName.toLowerCase();
        String valueStr = document.get(fieldName);
        if (valueStr != null) {
            int value = Integer.valueOf(valueStr);
            if (value > 0) {
                ItemAttributes.Attribute attr = new ItemAttributes.Attribute();
                attr.setAttribute(attributeName);
                attr.setModifier(value);
                attributes.add(attr);
            }
        }
    }

    private Document createStatsDoc(Item item, PriceStatistics buys, PriceStatistics sells, int profit) {
        Document doc = new Document();
        doc.add(new TextField("name", item.getName(), Field.Store.YES));
        doc.add(new SortedDocValuesField("name", new BytesRef(item.getName())));

        doc.add(new TextField("rarity", item.getRarity(), Field.Store.YES));
        doc.add(new SortedDocValuesField("rarity", new BytesRef(item.getRarity())));

        if (item.getDetails() != null) {
            if (item.getDetails().getAttributes() != null && item.getDetails().getAttributes().getAttributes() != null) {
                for (ItemAttributes.Attribute attr : item.getDetails().getAttributes().getAttributes()) {
                    String fieldName = "attr_" + attr.getAttribute().toLowerCase();
                    doc.add(new IntField(fieldName, attr.getModifier(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
                    doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField(fieldName, attr.getModifier()));
                }
            }
            doc.add(new TextField("details_type", Strings.nullToEmpty(item.getDetails().getType()), Field.Store.YES));
            doc.add(new TextField("weight_class", Strings.nullToEmpty(item.getDetails().getWeightClass()), Field.Store.YES));
            doc.add(new IntField("min_dmg", item.getDetails().getMinPower(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
            doc.add(new IntField("max_dmg", item.getDetails().getMaxPower(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        }

        doc.add(new TextField("type", item.getType(), Field.Store.YES));
        doc.add(new StringField("iconUrl", item.getIconUrl(), Field.Store.YES));
        doc.add(new IntField("level", item.getLevel(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new StringField("itemId", Integer.toString(item.getItemId()), Field.Store.YES));

        doc.add(new IntField("buys_min", buys.getMinPrice(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("buys_min", buys.getMinPrice()));
        doc.add(new IntField("buys_max", buys.getMaxPrice(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("buys_max", buys.getMaxPrice()));
        doc.add(new IntField("buys_total", buys.getTotalAmount(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("buys_total", buys.getTotalAmount()));
        doc.add(new DoubleField("buys_avg", buys.getAverage(), DOUBLE_FIELD_TYPE_STORED_SORTED));

        doc.add(new IntField("sells_min", sells.getMinPrice(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("sells_min", sells.getMinPrice()));
        doc.add(new IntField("sells_max", sells.getMaxPrice(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("sells_max", sells.getMaxPrice()));
        doc.add(new IntField("sells_total", sells.getTotalAmount(), IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("sells_total", sells.getTotalAmount()));
        doc.add(new DoubleField("sells_avg", sells.getAverage(), DOUBLE_FIELD_TYPE_STORED_SORTED));

        doc.add(new IntField("profit", profit, IntField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new NumericDocValuesField("profit", profit));

        double profitScore = calculateProfitScore(profit, sells, buys);
        doc.add(new DoubleField("profit_score", profitScore, DoubleField.TYPE_STORED));
        doc.add(new DoubleDocValuesField("profit_score", profitScore));

        LOGGER.info("Indexed {} with profit_score={} having sells_min={} and profit={}", item.getItemId(), profitScore, sells.getMinPrice(), profit);

        return doc;
    }

    private double calculateProfitScore(int profit, PriceStatistics sells, PriceStatistics buys) {
        /*
            The algorithm is:
            - 0% to 100% revenue are in focus. These numbers are linear scaled between 0.5 and 0.8.
              Additionally a small bonus for the quantity is added (0.0 to 0.2) in order to push items with less revenue but high demand.
            - Everything over 100% revenue is ordered by their revenue. These are quite unrealistic, yet better than a loss.
            - Everything with a loss is ordered to the end.
         */
        if (profit == 0) {
            return 0.0;
        }

        // Cap the profit at 30g. Everything higher requires too much of invest. People that search for such risky
        // trades can manually sort by the profit and pick out such items.
        profit = Math.min(profit, 30_000);
        double revenue = ((double) profit / (double) (sells.getMinPrice() - profit));
        double profitScore;
        if (revenue > 0.0 && revenue <= 1.0) {
            double singleTradeScore = scale(revenue, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.9);
            double quantityScore = scale(Math.min((double) buys.getTotalAmount(), 100.0), 0.0, 100.0, 0.0, 0.1);

            profitScore = singleTradeScore + quantityScore;
        } else if (revenue > 1.0) {
            profitScore = scale(Math.min(10.0, revenue), 2.0, 10.0, 0.1, 0.5);
        } else {
            profitScore = scale(Math.min(Math.abs(revenue), 1.0), 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.1);
        }

        return profitScore;
    }

    private double scale(double x, double origMin, double origMax, double min, double max) {
        return
                (
                        ((max - min) * (x + origMin))
                                /
                                (origMax - origMin)
                )
                        + min;
    }

    private Point createPoint(Item item, PriceStatistics buys, PriceStatistics sells, int profit) {
        return Point.measurement("item_" + item.getItemId())

                .field("buys_min", buys.getMinPrice())
                .field("buys_max", buys.getMaxPrice())
                .field("buys_avg", buys.getAverage())
                .field("buys_total", buys.getTotalAmount())

                .field("sells_min", sells.getMinPrice())
                .field("sells_max", sells.getMaxPrice())
                .field("sells_avg", sells.getAverage())
                .field("sells_total", sells.getTotalAmount())

                .field("profit", profit)

                .build();
    }

    private PriceStatistics createStatistics(List<ItemListing> listings) {
        int minPrice = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int maxPrice = 0;
        int priceTotal = 0;
        int amountOfPrices = 0;

        for (ItemListing listing : listings) {
            minPrice = Math.min(minPrice, listing.getUnitPrice());
            maxPrice = Math.max(maxPrice, listing.getUnitPrice());
            priceTotal += listing.getUnitPrice() * listing.getQuantity();
            amountOfPrices += listing.getQuantity();
        }

        int avgPrice = (amountOfPrices == 0) ? 0 : (priceTotal / amountOfPrices);
        if (minPrice == Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
            minPrice = 0;
        }

        PriceStatistics stats = new PriceStatistics();
        stats.setAverage(avgPrice);
        stats.setMaxPrice(maxPrice);
        stats.setMinPrice(minPrice);
        stats.setTotalAmount(amountOfPrices);

        return stats;
    }
}

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Q: Node.js: Send e-mails using AWS SES Is there a stable module for Amazon SES in Node.js?
Thanks

A: There is a new official AWS SDK for Node.js providing an API for every services. You should give it a try :
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkfornodejs/

A: Here's what worked for me (optional parameters are commented out; constructed from the AWS JavaScript SDK SES Documentation):
var SES = require('aws-sdk/clients/ses');
var ses = new SES({
  accessKeyId: "MY_ACCESS_KEY_ID",
  secretAccessKey: "MY_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
  apiVersion: '2010-12-01',
  region: "us-east-1",
});

var params = {
  Destination: {
    // BccAddresses: [
    //   'STRING_VALUE',
    //   /* more items */
    // ],
    // CcAddresses: [
    //   'STRING_VALUE',
    //   /* more items */
    // ],
    ToAddresses: [
      'MY_PERSONAL_EMAIL@gmail.com',
    ]
  },
  Message: {
    Body: {
      Html: {
        Data: '<b>hello world</b>',
        Charset: 'utf-8'
      },
      Text: {
        Data: 'hello world',
        Charset: 'utf-8'
      }
    },
    Subject: {
      Data: 'hello subject',
      Charset: 'utf-8'
    }
  },
  Source: 'MY_EMAIL_REGISTERED_WITH_SES@MYDOMAIN.COM',
  // ConfigurationSetName: 'STRING_VALUE',
  // ReplyToAddresses: [
  //   'STRING_VALUE',
  //   /* more items */
  // ],
  // ReturnPath: 'STRING_VALUE',
  // ReturnPathArn: 'STRING_VALUE',
  // SourceArn: 'STRING_VALUE',
  // Tags: [
  //   {
  //     Name: 'STRING_VALUE',
  //     Value: 'STRING_VALUE'
  //   },
  //   /* more items */
  // ]
};
ses.sendEmail(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
  else     console.log(data);           // successful response
});

A: This one is your best bet
https://github.com/livelycode/aws-lib

A: Use the Official aws-sdk node module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-sdk
The API docs are good: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/SES.html
But, if you need a complete step-by-step example, we wrote one:
https://github.com/dwyl/sendemail
(we are using this in several projects and it works well for us)

A: var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

var smtpConfig = {
    host: 'email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com',
    port: 465,
    secure: true, // use SSL
    auth: {
        user: 'userName',
        pass: 'password'
    }
};
var transport = nodemailer.createTransport(smtpConfig);

app.get('/sendMail', function (req, res) {
    transport.sendMail({
    from: 'youremail@localhost.com',
    to: 'recipient@localhost.com',
    subject: 'My Amazon SES Simple Email',
    text: 'Amazon SES is cool'
  },function(error, data){

      if(error){
          res.status(403).json({message:error});
      }
      if(data){
          res.end('mail sent');
      }
  });

})

var server = app.listen(8081, function () {
   var host = server.address().address
   var port = server.address().port

   console.log("Example app listening at http://%s:%s", host, port)
})

A: You could also try AwsSum which gives you a lot more help than the other libraries.

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*https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum/
Note: I'm the author of AwsSum and again, it's actively maintained, unlike some of the other AWS libraries out there for Node.js. :)

A: For reference, widely used NodeMailer module can be used to send SES email. Can check out this gist to send email with zip attachment: https://gist.github.com/munim/02e1bc10bf4e0fbb17c5bf6689906a8a

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Reuters discusses the Subway class-action settlement with Ted Frank.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class-action settlement intended to resolve claims that the Subway sandwich chain deceived customers by selling "Footlong" subs that were less than a foot long.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago called the settlement "utterly worthless," even as it rewarded the customers' lawyers for convincing Subway it was better to make the case go away than fight.
A settlement approved by a Wisconsin federal judge in February 2016 required Subway to adopt quality control measures, consistent with "the realities of baking bread," to ensure that its six- and 12-inch sandwiches were that length.
But a prominent class-action critic, Ted Frank, said this merely codified practices Subway adopted soon after Corby's photo went viral.
He said it made no sense to award $520,000 to the customers' lawyers, plus $5,000 of "incentive" awards to 10 plaintiffs, for settling.
The 7th Circuit has jurisdiction in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Frank said he hoped courts elsewhere will apply its lessons.
"This is exactly the opinion we were hoping for," Frank said in an interview. "It affirms the principle that when attorneys bring class actions to benefit only themselves, it's an abuse of the system, and courts should not tolerate it."
Read the full article at Reuters.
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