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Q: Can't see infinite loop I am trying to write a webcrawler but I am stuck because I cant see infinite loop somewhere in my code.
class Crawler(object):
    def __init__(self, url, query, dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)):
        self.start_url = url
        self.start_parsed = urllib3.util.parse_url(url)
        self.query = re.compile(query, re.IGNORECASE)
        self.dir = dir
        self.__horizon = set()
        self.log = []

        self.__horizon.add(url)
        self.log.append(url)
        print("initializing crawler....")
        print(locals())

    def start(self, depth= 5, url = '/'):
        print(url, depth)
        self.log.append(url)
        if depth > 0:
            pool = urllib3.PoolManager()
            data = pool.request("GET", self.start_url if url == '/' else url).data.decode('utf-8')

            valid_list = []
            self.add_horizon(parser_soup.get_links(data), valid_list)

            if re.search(self.query, parser_soup.get_text(data)):
                self.output(data)

            for u in valid_list:
                self.start(depth = (depth-1), url = u)

    def output(self, data):
        with open(os.path.join(self.dir, get_top_domain(self.start_parsed.host) + '.' + str(time.time()) + '.html'), 'w+') as f:
            f.write(data)

    def add_horizon(self, url_list, valid_list = []):
        for url in url_list:
            if get_top_domain(url) == get_top_domain(self.start_parsed.host)  \
                    and (not str(url) in self.log or not str(url) in self.__horizon):
                valid_list.append(str(url))

        self.__horizon.update(valid_list)

It runs forever. How should I ensure that I eliminate duplicate links?

A: Adapted from Giogian's code:
class Crawler(object):
    def __init__(self, url, query, dir=os.path.dirname(__file__)):
        self.visited = set()
        # Rest of code...

    def start(self, depth=5, url='/'):
        if url in self.visited:
            return True
        self.visited.add(url)

defaultdict is a dictionary that has a default which is used if the index doesn't exist. This however, is the wrong solution. A set would be more memory efficient and elegant, as shown in my code.
A set uses O(1) time - just as fast as @Giorgian's answer.
Use Ctrl-C to interrupt your program when it's in an infinite loop. This will print a Traceback showing the command that was being executed when the program was interrupted. Do this a few times and you should get a good idea of where it happens. Alternatively, use a debugger and pause when it's in the infinite loop and use the "step" feature to run to the next line of execution so you can follow the program's execution. PyCharm is a great editor that includes a debugger. It has good autocompletion and is just good all-around. It's free, check it out.

A: Add a visited property inside your crawler.
from collections import defaultdict
class Crawler:
    def __init__(self, url, query, dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)):
        self.visited = defaultdict(bool)
        # Rest of code...

    def start(self, depth= 5, url = '/'):
        if self.visited[url]:
            return True
        self.visited[url] = True
        # Rest of code...

To be honest though, I can't see the infinite loop either. It would help if you posted some output.
EDIT: Note that in above answer I wrote that using a defaultdict is the wrong solution. I meant to say that using a list is the wrong solution!
EDIT 2: @Jona Christopher Sahnwald made a point more valid than mine (see his comment under the OP's question). It might be more productive to add a max_visit and current_visit property in your class (set to like 1000 or so). Start with current_visit at 0, and every time you visit a site, increment current_visit. When current_visit is greater than max_visit, abort the crawl. Note that instead of using recursion to recurse over visited web sites, it might be better to implement some kind of stack so you can pause/resume the crawl rather than aborting. Like so:
from collections import defaultdict

class Crawler:
    def __init__(self, url, query, dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)):
        self.visited = defaultdict(bool)
        self.current_visit = 0
        self.max_visit = 1000
        self.to_visit = []
        # Rest of code...

    def start(self, depth=5, url = '/'):
        self.to_visit.append((url, 1))
        while len(self.to_visit) > 0:
            url, current_depth = self.to_visit.pop()
            if current_depth > depth:
                continue
            elif visited[url]:
                continue
            elif self.current_visited > self.max_visited:
                break

            self.current_visited += 1
            visited[url] = True

            # Code that does something for each page (like download it, etc)

            # Code that finds links on page...

            for link in links_on_page:
                self.to_visit.append((link, current_depth + 1))

That way, you can pause the crawl once current_visit exceeds max_visit, allowing you to crawl in batches of max_visit.


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Born July 5, 1907, Kharkov (Ukraine), Russian Empire; died August 30, 1978, USSR
Naum Pavlovich Karpovskii was a noted Soviet painter and a graphic artist from Kharkov. Until 1941, he lived and worked in Kharkov but during World War II, he moved to Alma-Ata (Almaty), the capital of the Kazakh SSR. From 1925 to 1931, Karpovskii studied at the State Art Institute of Kharkov where he later served as an instructor. By the 1930s, he was designing political posters. When the threat war loomed over the Soviet Union during the late 1930s and early 1940s; Karpovskii (along with other artists of his era) concentrated his designs on military themes and morale-lifting subjects. During the war, he contributed to the TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) Studios in Kharkov and he designed for TASS KazIZO (Creative Association of Artists of Kazakhstan) in Alma-Ata.
During the post-war era, Naum Karpovskii moved to Moscow where he collaborated with Izogiz (State Publishing House), Iskusstvo ("Art") publishing and Ugletekhizdat (State Scientific and Technical Publishing House of Coal Industry Literature). He also worked in the production workshop of Agit-plakat, the poster cooperative. Karpovskii designed illustrations for the periodicals Pravda [Truth], Izvestiia [News], Literaturnaia gazeta [Literature Newspaper], Sovetskaia kul'tura [Soviet Culture], and other titles. His illustrations appeared in monthlies such as, Ogonek [Campfire] and Partiinaia zhizn [Party Life].
Naum Karpovskii's 1948 painting, "Stalin rewards heroes in the Georgievsky Hall of the Kremlin" was subsequently made into a poster. In addition, he designed the poster titles: "Each grain of the harvest is a projectile against the enemy!" (1941), "Glory to the Soviet troops who hoisted the banner of Victory over Berlin!" (1945), and "Are you fulfilling your obligations in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR" (1945), and more.
He exhibited professionally in the following shows: the 6th Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists (1935), the Anniversary of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR (1937), the exhibit of Fine Art in honor of poet T.G. Shevchenko (1940), the Exhibition of Soviet Poster Artists (1948), the Exhibition of Soviet Posters (1950), Soviet Artists in the Struggle for Peace (1952), Portrait Art of Artists of Kazakhstan (1954), the All-Union Poster Exhibition (1957), in addition to a host of other exhibitions.
Naum Pavlovich Karpovskii was awarded the State 1st and 2nd degree prizes for his artwork. He was awarded diplomas at the All-Union Competition of Political Posters of 1948, 1957, 1959, and 1969. He also was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and, he was bestowed the title of Honored Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR.
Koloskova, T. G., et al. (2001). Simboly epochi v sovetskom plakate. Moskva: Gosudarstvennyi istoriceskii muzei. (p. 209)
Aloian, Z.R., et al. (1989). Personal'nye i gruppovye vystavki Sovetskikh khudozhnikov, 1917-1947 (Sporavochnik 1). Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik. (pp 172, 245)
Demosfenova, G., et al. (1962). Sovetskii politicheskii plakat. Moscow: Iskusstvo. (pp. 109, 139, 142, 204)
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Sentence Spacing
A typographic counter-revolution.
(A great place to start if you're new here is my Wide Spacing Roadmap.)
French Spacing
The term "French Spacing" is best avoided altogether.
Printing in English-speaking countries almost universally used very wide sentence spacing throughout the 18th and 19th centuries (and earlier also, although I haven't researched the 17th century as thoroughly). In France however, the common practice was to use standard word spacing between sentences. Or at most, an en quad, half as much as the em quad used in English texts. In my casual review of French texts from the 19th century, I find that the most typical space is word spacing, but upon close examination I see that it is often used inconsistently within a single text. What I assume they did is attempt to have even spacing, but during justification, if the spacing couldn't be made perfectly even, they would prefer to add the extra space between sentences. This is a perfectly reasonable approach.
English references on typography during the 19th century hardly mention this at all. One reference that does is "American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking," by Wesley Washington Pasko in 1894. Even here though, in a long section on the differences between English and French printing, it makes absolutely no mention of sentence spacing. It's only in the section on the em quadrat that he mentions this practice: "This quadrat is not used in France at the end of complete sentences, but the period is there followed by an en quadrat or by the space of the rest of the line."
Example of word-sized spacing between sentences in a French publication. From "Essai sur la Typographie" (1854), Ambroise Firmin-Didot.
Notice that in that description, the term "French spacing" is not used at all. Nor does it appear as an entry in Pasko's dictionary. The same is true of John Southward's Dictionary of Typography and it's Accessory Arts. There is no entry at all about "French spacing". In fact the earliest reference I can find at all to this phrase is another Southward book, Modern Printing Volume 1, published in 1915 (I have not been able to see the 1899 edition of this book). In this book, the index does in fact list "French spacing". But when you refer to the page in question, that phrase is not used at all. Again in the context of the em quad and it's use between sentences, Southward simply says "French book printing forms an exception to this."
It isn't until 1939 that I find this phrase used in a text. The Complete Desk Book, by Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson and John William Robson describes French versus American spacing:
"French spacing and American spacing refer to the amount of space between sentences. In the former only a spaceband follows the period. In the latter there is an en quad plus the spaceband."
Note that "spaceband" refers specifically to Linotype's automatically justifying space element, i.e. a word space. The timing of this term appearing is interesting because in 1939 the transition to "French" spacing in America was in full swing, and would be mostly the norm in books, magazines, and newspapers within ten more years. This makes sense when you think about it. When wide sentence spacing was so ubiquitous in English language printing, you'd hardly need a phrase to differentiate between different styles. Only when both styles were common in our culture was it necessary to have phrases to describe one or the other.
And this sowed the seeds of confusion.
Fast forward thirty or more years, and people in America are so used to seeing "French" spacing that it no longer makes sense to refer to it as French. And so, inevitably, the term flip-flopped, or at least it tried to. The first chink in the armor that I can find is in 1977. In "Don't Call It Cold Type" by Frank J. Romano, he describes French spacing as using a thin space after sentences in addition to the word space. This would be slightly wider, although nowhere near as wide as was common in English texts. This is almost factually correct, since the French would traditionally use a thin space before the period where English texts did not. However it seemed that Mr. Romano meant that in English we use only a word space, where the French used a word space plus a thin space.
Mr. Romano accelerated things in 1984, in "The TypEncyclopedia". Here his error is more explicit:
"Additional space at the ends of sentences is called French spacing, a very old practice, commonplace in books up through the nineteenth century."
He's completely reversed the meaning of French spacing, relative to English/American spacing. Still, this was an isolated mistake. It was repeated again in 1986 by Printing Abstracts, Volume 41:
"'French spacing' is the typographic equivalent of placing two spaces after end-of-sentence punctuation. It adds to reader comprehension and legibility, but is currently somewhat out of vogue."
Another isolated event. But in 1994, I find three separate references by different authors, all making this same error: "Glossary of Typesetting Terms," Richard Eckerseley; "The Best 1001 WordPerfect Tips Ever," Mary V. Campbell, and "Step-by-Step Graphics, Volume 10". To be fair, the majority of references still get it right relative to the original meaning and history. But after 1994, the floodgates seem to be open, and the reversed meaning appeared in numerous books.
This reversal was probably inevitable. Americans tend to sneer at the French, and anything "French" besides French Fries tends to be frowned upon. So how could standard practice here ever be described as "French". It's culturally inconsistent. Calling the more alien practice of wide sentence spacing "French" feels more correct.
So where does that leave us now? Modern references are a complete mess, with many still describing the original meaning, while many others use the reversed definition. It's difficult to tell who is "winning" at this point.
In my opinion, we should simply stop using the words "French" and "English" in describing spacing. They were never really used at all during the period of time where they were descriptive of common practice. And there's very little chance of successful communication when using them. For "English spacing" (the original meaning), "wide sentence spacing" is a nice drop-in replacement. There's no clear winner for "French spacing", although "narrow sentence spacing" isn't awful, but it doesn't really clarify that the sentence spacing matches the word spacing. Another option is "word-spaced sentences". Or just explain in a complete sentence that you mean that sentences do not have extra space.
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What became known as St. Louis Lesbian & Gay Pride Celebration Committee was born in 1979, but the first St. Louis Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration didn't occur until 1980. This event was sponsored by the Magnolia Committee - named for the street where the majority of the members lived and had their meetings. Their combined effort with a second organization resulted in a weeks worth of activities held in April of 1980. At the end of the week hundreds gathered for "The Lesbians and Gays Walk for Charity" which went down Lindell Boulevard in the Central West End to Washington University's quadrangle. These two combined groups then became the St. Louis Lesbian & Gay Pride Celebration Committee.
At the same time, writer Jim Thomas invited representatives from organizations around town to a meeting to begin discussions for an annual celebration. It was to be held in June as a tribute to the Stonewall Riots which occurred the last weekend of June in 1969. Each participating organization, still able to keep their identity in individual events, would form a larger group – creating a greater whole. At the time, the celebration consisted of a picnic in the beginning of the week and a march at the end.
Thus began a tradition which is still strong today in St. Louis. June is now known as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, and since the first PrideFest in 1981 this event has grown in size, attendance, and scope. A Pride Festival takes on a huge importance for our community because it allows, if even for one brief weekend, for people to feel proud of who they are. We provide them a safe place to be who they wish to be, and that empowerment can be a life-altering experience.
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Aidan Murphy (born 17 September 1967) is an English former professional footballer who made 123 appearances in the Football League. He is now a youth soccer coach in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

Player
Murphy, a midfielder, signed a professional contract with Manchester United on his 17th birthday. He was part of the FA Youth Cup team that played Manchester City in the 1986 FA Youth Cup Final. In October 1986 he spent a month on loan with Lincoln City, making his league debut in the 4–1 home defeat to Hartlepool United on 5 October 1986. In February 1987, he linked up with Oldham Athletic, again on a one-month loan deal, but failed to make a league appearance.

In the summer of 1987, Murphy was released by Manchester United and joined Crewe Alexandra where he was to spend the next five seasons. He had 113 league appearances. A short spell with Scarborough at the beginning of the 1992–1993 season signalled the end of his league career and he dropped into the non-league ranks to enjoy short spells with Woking, Mossley and Witton Albion.

In 1993, he emigrated to America and joined the Greensboro-based Carolina Dynamo for their inaugural season. He went on to spend three seasons in their team before moving on to spells with Minnesota Rampage and Raleigh Flyers. On 19 March 1998, he joined the Minnesota Thunder. He retired at the end of the season.

Coaching
Murphy moved into coaching, becoming a staff coach with Greensboro Youth Soccer in 1998. In 2001, he was appointed Boys Youth Development Director for GYS. He has also been on the staff of the NCYSA Olympic development program since Spring 2000. He moved to the South Charlotte Soccer Association in May 2006 but returned to Greensboro in October 2006 due to a family illness. He is currently a coach with Greensboro United Soccer Association.

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If your users are scattered at many locations, this Netgear VPN firewall provides an inexpensive and secure link back to the district office.
The Netgear ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit Firewall FVS336Gv2 provides excellent security, networking and remote-access features for a district or larger school that might need more than a simple router. It's also ideal for a distributed environment in which a number of facilities need to be connected for an affordable price.
The authentication can use local authentication, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or a native connection to Microsoft Windows Active Directory. Teachers, administrators and staff can use the same user name and password combinations they regularly use to log in. How's that for single sign-on service?
This firewall has a lot of features for an appliance the size of an eight-port switch and that retails for just less than $250. The usual networking features you'd expect from a firewall router are there, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Domain Name Service proxy services are included to manage your client-networking configuration.
Site-to-site VPN tunnels also are easy to set up. Within minutes, I had an IPsec pre-shared key tunnel set up with another firewall even though it was of a different brand. The latency along that connection was just 13 milliseconds, pretty reasonable considering the packets were being encrypted and decrypted on the fly.
It might seem odd to say, but Netgear might have included too many features. The graphical user interface – while extensive, with built-in wizards to help you along – feels somewhat cumbersome and complex. And if you aren't a network pro, you'll probably want to have one nearby.


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Care2 Healthy Living | Victory! Federal Court Orders EPA to Ban Toxic Pesticide
Victory! Federal Court Orders EPA to Ban Toxic Pesticide
By: Michelle Schoffro Cook
Follow Michelle at @mschoffrocook
There's a new victory for environmentalists, health advocates and anyone who cares about their health: a federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos.
The decision puts an end to the EPA's lengthy history of stall tactics and seeming unwillingness to protect people or the environment from this nasty toxic chemical.
The EPA's History of Stall Tactics and Non-Protection
The EPA banned the brain-damaging pesticide from household use almost two decades ago in 2000. But, the so-called "environmental protection" agency continued to allow the toxic chemical to grow food and for other agricultural purposes.
Additionally, the EPA had planned to completely ban chlorpyifos over a year ago but then mysteriously reversed its decision after meeting with the CEO of Dow Chemical, Andrew Liveris. Scott Pruitt, the then EPA administrator. Instead, they decided to keep the brain-damaging insecticide in use and to reverse the ban.
While the court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the toxic pesticide, a spokesperson for the agency said that the agency "is reviewing the decision." That sounds like still another stall tactic by the agency that has already been court-ordered to immediately ban the chemical. Interestingly, and not surprisingly, as part of the decision, the judge admonished the EPA for "having stalled on banning chlorpyrifos," and ordered that all commercial registrations for chlorpyrifos be cancelled or revoked within 60 days.
Chlorpyrifos—A Serious Brain Toxin
Also known as CPF, or Dursban, the pesticide is an established nerve agent that has been linked to disruption of the brain messenger acetylcholine which is involved in memory and motor function and poor coordination, interference in the formation of brain cells and communication between brain cells, hyperactivity, learning impairment, depression and other social and emotional changes. It has also been linked to headaches, blurred vision, unusual fatigue and other health issues.
Children are the Most Vulnerable
Research published in the journal Neurotoxicology found that the developing brains of children, especially those who are two years old and under, are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of these toxic pesticides.
Research published in the journal Pediatrics found that children with high exposures to this herbicide are more vulnerable to attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other developmental disorders. Yet, children are often the ones who are most exposed to the chemical because it is still sprayed on schoolyards and playgrounds. Another study published in Pediatrics found that fetal exposure may be linked to developmental problems.
In a study published in the journal Environmental Health, researchers labelled chlorpyrifos exposure as the "Silent Epidemic" that is destroying our brain and neurological health.
How to Minimize Your Exposure to Chlorpyrifos
While the chemical will remain in the environment long after the ban is officially implemented, there are still things you can do to limit your exposure, including:
-Eat organic food as much as possible. Organic food is not sprayed with harmful pesticides; however, it may still come in contact with them during transportation or in grocery stores. Ideally, choose organic food at your local farmer's market from a farmer that you know is exclusively growing organically.
-Avoid grass or parks that have been sprayed. And, definitely do not let your children play in the grass of parks or lawns that have been sprayed with pesticides. If you're not sure about the area, assume it has been sprayed.
-Avoid spraying your lawn, flower, fruit or vegetable gardens with chemical pesticides of any kind.
-Don't spray any chemical insecticides in your home.
-Grow your own sprouts. Not only is it the best example of eating locally, as long as you use organic seeds and pure water, they'll be pesticide-free. Learn more about how to grow your own sprouts here.
-Place a "Pesticide-free" yard sign to encourage others to do the same and to contribute to the increasing number of yards that are pesticide-free.
-Write to the EPA telling them to follow the court order and insisting that they not employ further stall tactics or waste more taxpayer money by appealing the decision. You can reach them by mail at: Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460. You can also make your opinions known on their Facebook page, Twitter page, Instagram page or Flickr page.
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Dr. Michelle Schoffro Cook, PhD, DNM is the publisher of the free e-newsletter World's Healthiest News, the Cultured Cook, co-founder of BestPlaceinCanada, and an international best-selling and 20-time published book author whose works include: The Cultured Cook: Delicious Fermented Foods with Probiotics to Knock Out Inflammation, Boost Gut Health, Lose Weight & Extend Your Life. Follow her work.
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Q: could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 2 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation I got this error when I did "sqoop import ..." to hive.
namenode log
java.io.IOException: File /input/xxxx/_temporary/1/_temporary/attempt_1492073551248_0012_m_000002_1/part-m-00002 could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1).  There are 2 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation.

datanode logs
slave1 :2017-04-13 19:58:59,444 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.clienttrace: src: /192.168.149.141:50010, dest: /192.168.149.141:42764, bytes: 451, op: HDFS_READ, cliID: DFSClient_attempt_1492073551248_0012_m_000001_2_785964301_1, offset: 0, srvID: f274418e-04b6-4109-9521-e3c384c21ad0, blockid: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742751_1927, duration: 160511

datanode logs
slave2: 2017-04-13 19:58:02,389 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.clienttrace: src: /192.168.149.141:34576, dest: /192.168.149.142:50010, bytes: 127362723, op: HDFS_WRITE, cliID: DFSClient_attempt_1492073551248_0012_m_000000_0_-417808976_1, offset: 0, srvID: 7f9110ab-8a1d-4a32-8219-aff6e3cd29b2, blockid: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742761_1937, duration: 64254909353
2017-04-13 19:58:02,389 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: PacketResponder: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742761_1937, type=LAST_IN_PIPELINE, downstreams=0:[] terminating
2017-04-13 19:58:11,269 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.clienttrace: src: /192.168.149.141:34588, dest: /192.168.149.142:50010, bytes: 134217728, op: HDFS_WRITE, cliID: DFSClient_attempt_1492073551248_0012_m_000002_1_-2031862368_1, offset: 0, srvID: 7f9110ab-8a1d-4a32-8219-aff6e3cd29b2, blockid: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742762_1938, duration: 63824306914
2017-04-13 19:58:11,270 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: PacketResponder: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742762_1938, type=LAST_IN_PIPELINE, downstreams=0:[] terminating
2017-04-13 19:58:15,441 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Slow BlockReceiver write data to disk cost:349ms (threshold=300ms)
2017-04-13 19:58:15,769 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Slow BlockReceiver write data to disk cost:328ms (threshold=300ms)
2017-04-13 19:58:28,675 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.clienttrace: src: /192.168.149.142:51700, dest: /192.168.149.142:50010, bytes: 134217728, op: HDFS_WRITE, cliID: DFSClient_attempt_1492073551248_0012_m_000003_1_-395038848_1, offset: 0, srvID: 7f9110ab-8a1d-4a32-8219-aff6e3cd29b2, blockid: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742763_1939, duration: 52247885321
2017-04-13 19:58:28,675 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: PacketResponder: BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742763_1939, type=LAST_IN_PIPELINE, downstreams=0:[] terminating
2017-04-13 19:58:28,689 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Receiving BP-219683118-192.168.149.138-1491539013447:blk_1073742764_1940 src: /192.168.149.142:51718 dest: /192.168.149.142:50010

Any idea to fix this error? Thank you!

A: Check https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/CouldOnlyBeReplicatedTo,
I faced this same error when executing a large number of queries in a short span of time, so increased the threads on datanode and it fixed the problem by setting "dfs.datanode.handler.count". This exception is thrown for multiple reasons, visit the link to see is your case mentioned.

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Are you worried about the information gathered about you on the net? That is a dual sided problem. Absence of information can reveal as much as the info you are worried about. I am always rather careful about how I post info on social medias such as Facebook and other places. But if you are a frequent poster lest say at least once a day, then you should start worrying about what you should do when its vacation time. If you post about your vacation you reveal that you are not home, if you don't post anything, you reveal that something is going on that is not normal. Could it be vacation time, or have you had an incident leading to hospitalization?
Working with sensitive issues demands that you have thought these issues threw. If you post pictures on Instagram of your children frequently, and suddenly you see in the surrounding environment in the background that you are not at home. It will not take much effort to find out how long your last vacation was, and when you could be expected home. Thinking security is not something you should do when you are about to change something. It is a way of life you should live!
Living in Sweden everyone knows that access to information is rather easy. Finding out who is the owner of a car is done within seconds if you have the right app installed on your phone. And at the same time your phone can be giving away far much more info than you wanted.
So, spending some time in the settings questioning why it is so, isn't such a bad idea. In fact, you should do this frequently and really question your self is this setting needed as it is?


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Q: Cannot callback NSError in block in release mode framework I have build a framework called myTool.framework only in Release Mode.
In this framework there is a function with a block callback:
// myTools.h
- (void)initServiceWithKey:(NSString * _Nullable)accessKey
                  complete:(void(^)(NSError *error,  NSInteger roomType))complete;

// myTools.m
@property (nonatomic, copy) void (^complete)(NSError * error, NSInteger roomType);
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSError *error;

- (void)initServiceWithKey:(NSString * _Nullable)accessKey
                  complete:(void(^)(NSError *error,  NSInteger roomType))complete {

    balabala...

    if (somethingWrong) {
      self.error = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"Error Domain" code:-1 userInfo:nil];

      if (self.complete) {
          self.complete(self.error, -1);
          return;
      }
    }
}

Then I use it in a demo like this:
[myToos sharedInstance] initServiceWithKey:@"123key" complete:^(NSError * _Nonnull error, NSInteger roomType) {
    if (!error) {

      #error always is nil here when run demo in release mode, roomType is fine.

    }
}

When running demo in Debug I can get error normally, but error is always nil in Release as NSInteger is fine.
I already save the error and block as a singleton's property, It didn't work.
Why this and How can I solve this? Thanks


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Judicial sales on the rise in Calgary
Steve McLean
While David Campbell has worked in Calgary commercial real estate for more than 25 years, the broker/owner of D.C. & Associates Realty became involved with a new specialization in 2010: judicial sales.
"The judicial sale process is set up to allow lenders to get paid on debt that has fallen into arrears," said Campbell. "It provides protection to the property owner insofar as the property is not owned by the bank like a foreclosure.
"The property is placed on the open market at a price that is set by the court. This allows for an orderly sale, with the property being offered to the market for a reasonable time. The market determines the end value and any equity that remains after the sale goes to the owner.
"It is a fair process that respects the rights of all parties involved, including creditors behind the lender that has applied for the sale to go through the court. Once the court accepts a price and orders the sale to occur, the title is cleared for the new buyer."
An increase in judicial sales
It's not surprising that there's been an increase in judicial sales in Calgary and Alberta over the past two years as a result of the province's slowing economy due to a drop in oil and gas prices. The increase isn't as large as many would think, however, though Campbell is "a little concerned" that it could become more dramatic in the coming year.
"Judicial sales are always happening across all asset classes. However, it appears as though there are more challenges in the land development sector because cash flow is down as a result of slow sales. Well-funded developers are able to weather the difficult times and are now looking at the softening market as an opportunity to acquire distressed properties that offer future upside."
Triovest buys rundown property
Campbell recently closed the $12.27-million sale of a 19,474-square-foot piece of heritage property in downtown Calgary at 119-129 7th Ave. SW that fronts on to a light rail transit line. The property was valued at $14.9 million.
"The buyer, Triovest, is a very well-known Calgary developer who will turn what is a rundown part of downtown Calgary into a new and vibrant location," said Campbell. "We are very proud to have been involved in this first step of its revitalization."
The property Campbell sold is a block of five buildings on the 100 block of 7th Avenue SW that has been assembled by Triovest for redevelopment, according to a recent story in the Calgary Herald.
Campbell is working on two other judicial sales in Calgary.
One is a vacant 13.14-acre property in the well-established residential neighbourhood of Royal Oak at 10110 Rocky Ridge Rd. NW that would allow for the development of about 110 multi-residential units. It's listed at $5.9 million.
The other is a partially serviced 71.7-acre parcel of land in the Stoney Industrial Park at 11575 14 St. NE that's listed for $10.3 million.
"It is just minutes from the airport," said Campbell. "The zoning allows for industrial business and commercial/retail development. It's a great opportunity."
Concern for residential owners
Campbell is somewhat worried that there will be a rise in residential judicial sales, as people who've been laid off from the oil patch begin to run out of their savings.
"The best advice I can offer those sellers would be that they should be realistic about the value of their home. An overpriced property with an owner who has unrealistic expectations causes more problems to the seller than they often think."
Despite all of these issues, Campbell remains optimistic about the Calgary real estate market since it has gone through slow periods several times before and both residents and people in the business have proven to be resilient.
"They typically use the tough times as a time to plan for the future, find efficiencies and jump on opportunities."
The downtown office market is experiencing particularly difficult times, and Campbell believes that it will take years for that to change. But there appears to be a fair amount of optimism in most other commercial areas, and he senses a feeling that the market has experienced the worst of this downturn and that things can only go up from here.
Steve is a veteran writer, reporter, editor and communications specialist whose work has appeared in a wide variety of print and online outlets. He's the author of the book Hot…


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Get useful information about Zamboanga City and Tacloban City to organize your journey.
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1.00 EUR = 59.32 PHP
Euro Philippine Peso
1 PHP = 0.02 EUR
Trains in Tacloban City are 56% cheaper than in Zamboanga City.
A meal in Tacloban City is 27% cheaper than a meal in Zamboanga City.
Taxis are 13% more expensive in Tacloban City than in Zamboanga City.
Coffee is 32% more expensive in Tacloban City than in Zamboanga City.
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Is Tacloban City more expensive than Zamboanga City to visit?
Looking at the price of taxis, a ride in Tacloban City costs an around 0.77 EUR euros, 13% more expensive than Zamboanga City, with a fare of 0.68 EUR euros, while train tickets cost 56% less in Tacloban City: 0.15 EUR euros against 0.34 EUR euros in Zamboanga City. Comparing the price of a meal, they range from 0.94 EUR euros in Tacloban City, 33% less than the 1.40 EUR euros in Zamboanga City. The price of a coffee is approximately 32% more expensive in Tacloban City, with an average of 1.79 EUR euros, while in Zamboanga City the coffee costs 1.36 EUR.
What is the weather like in Tacloban City compared to Zamboanga City?
The average temperature in Zamboanga City the average temperature is 35.0 degrees in summer, with precipitation around 3.0 mm , Tacloban City's temperatures reach 32.78 during the hot season, with 6.0 average of rain rate . In winter, however, weather indicators show around 21.9 degrees in Tacloban City, compared to the 21.71 average degrees reported in Zamboanga City. During the winter period, Zamboanga City can register 3.0 mm precipitation, while Tacloban City have an average of 9.0 mm rain level.
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Construction output is forecast to fall by more than 5% this year and remain flat throughout 2013 according to the latest forecasts, published today by the Construction Products Association. It will be 2014 before the industry is expected to see any significant signs of recovery, by which time output will be 12% lower than at its peak in 2007.
Commenting on these forecasts, Michael Ankers the Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association said: "For the construction industry to return to growth there needs to be a strong private sector recovery, but this is just not happening. Continuing uncertainty about the future of the euro zone and a lack of consumer confidence in the UK are holding back important investment decisions. As a result the largest area of construction activity – private commercial work – is forecast to fall by a further 5% in 2012 and remain at that level in 2013.


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Greek PM forecasts 'happy end'; Eurogroup chief cites progress in talks
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras forecast a happy end soon to fraught negotiations with creditors on a cash-for-reform deal, and the chairman of euro zone finance ministers said talks were making progress, though not enough for a deal next Monday.
However, with Greece's cash reserves dwindling, EU officials said there was no breakthrough in talks with the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank on sticking points such as pension and labor market reforms and budget targets.
"The organization and structure of the talks has improved, compared to what it was before, but we are still quite some way away from a situation that you could describe as a final agreement being well in sight," a senior euro zone official said.
Greece's leftist-led government, which was elected earlier this year on promises to end austerity policies, has dragged its feet on accepting unpopular reforms promised by a previous government under the country's EU/IMF bailout program.
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Offering new products as they become available helps keep the small-animal department exciting.
Retailers can leverage people's love for playful felines with a well-curated cat toy category.
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Q: Oracle PL/SQL: A SELECT statement replicating the START_DATE of the first record with END_DATE NOT NULL This is the starting situation:

If END_DATE is NOT NULL, then the previous empty records (= records with NO START_DATE and NO END_DATE) have to be filled with the START_DATE referred to that END_DATE.  The final situation has to be the following:

How can I achieve this with a simple SELECT statement, using Oracle analytical functions?
Thank you very much for considering my request.

A: With sample data you posted (didn't feel like typing everything):
SQL> with test (id_activity, code, start_date, end_date) as
  2    (select 4, 'A00', null             , null              from dual union all
  3     select 7, 'A01', null             , null              from dual union all
  4     select 6, 'A02', null             , null              from dual union all
  5     --
  6     select 3, 'A03', date '2001-01-10', date '2002-06-30' from dual union all
  7     select 4, 'A04', date '2001-10-04', date '2004-07-31' from dual
  8    )

first_value analytic function might help:
  9  select id_activity,
 10         code,
 11         nvl(start_date, first_value(start_date) ignore nulls over (order by null)) start_date,
 12         nvl(end_date  , first_value(start_date) ignore nulls over (order by null)) end_date
 13  from test
 14  order by code;

ID_ACTIVITY COD START_DATE END_DATE
----------- --- ---------- ----------
          4 A00 01/10/2001 01/10/2001
          7 A01 01/10/2001 01/10/2001
          6 A02 01/10/2001 01/10/2001
          3 A03 01/10/2001 06/30/2002
          4 A04 10/04/2001 07/31/2004

SQL>


Neighbors of the Schulz family in St. Paul agreed that their little dog Spike was a smart pooch. Part pointer, part beagle, with black spots on white fur, Spike could ring doorbells. He fetched not just the newspaper but potatoes from the cellar. Spike seemed to have a mind, a soul, a purpose. That boy who owned him, however. . .
Charles Schulz seemed made of the Midwest. Quiet and morose, he later called himself "a nothing young man." His only ambition was "to be as well-liked as my father," a barber. World War II made him a sergeant, but he came home to St. Paul with just some vague dream of being a cartoonist. Then on October 4, 1950, Spike and the boy who loved him stepped forth in newspapers and Snoopy was born.
It's easy to be jaded about Snoopy these days. The damn dog is everywhere. Entire generations know him only as a shill for greeting cards and life insurance.
"Peanuts" was just another fledgling strip when Snoopy strode in, holding a flower. But he was silent, skinny, and nameless. Schulz wanted to call him Sniffy, but the name was taken by another cartoon. So the dutiful Midwestern son used a name his mother once suggested for a dog.
Schulz's book "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" sold millions and made Snoopy a commodity. Early fans lamented the commercialization, but Snoopy soon rebelled. "My mother didn't raise me to be a heating pad," he thought in one strip. In 1965, he stepped into his own and saved "Peanuts" from its own cuddliness.
For five wonderful years, Snoopy was America's Everydog. His small doghouse had no limits and the dog sleeping atop it seemed equally unbounded. Characters stepping inside the doghouse marveled. Apparently Snoopy had a pool table, a cedar closet, a stereo, a Van Gogh. Meanwhile, Snoopy imagined himself a life. A master of imitation, he used his ears and teeth to become a piranha, a gargoyle, a vulture. . .
Then one day, Schulz's son Monte wandered into his dad's drawing room carrying a World War I model airplane. Schulz recalled the flying ace movies he'd seen as a boy, and Snoopy's doghouse became a Sopwith Camel chasing Germany's Red Baron. The comic world watched in wonder.
Suddenly Snoopy was more than a commodity. He was a national treasure. His plump face appeared on fighter planes. On a Macy's Parade Balloon. Approaching the moon. NASA's Apollo 10 lunar module was dubbed Snoopy, and when astronaut Gene Cernan, en route, held up a drawing of Snoopy, a billion people saw it.
Snoopy now has his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Tokyo has a Snoopy Museum. But those who consider him just another pop icon should go back to the old strips, back to the days when a brilliant little beagle captured the imagination of an embattled America.


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This library implements Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) actions in agent code.
Note AWSRequestV4 must be included before the AWSSNS library.
This method performs a specified action (eg. publish) with the required parameters (params) for the specified action type.
Verifies an endpoint owner's intent to receive messages by validating the token sent to the endpoint by an earlier Subscribe action. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Returns an XML list of the requester's subscriptions as a string in the response table. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Returns an XML list of the subscriptions to a specific topic as a string in the response table. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Returns an XML list of the requester's topics as a string in the response table. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Sends a message to an Amazon SNS topic or sends a text message (SMS message) directly to a phone number. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Prepares to subscribe to an endpoint by sending the endpoint a confirmation message. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
Deletes a subscription. Please view the AWS SNS documentation for more information.
See the ConfirmSubscription example to see how to get a value for SubscriptionArn.
The AWSSNS library is licensed under the MIT License.


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Mission Log – A podcast review
Mission Log is a long running Star Trek podcast ably helmed by Jon Champion and Ken Ray.
Starting out as an independent re-watch of Star Trek Jon and Ken added a twist to the usual format of commenting on each episode in sequence. As well as detailing each episodes plot they delve deeply into the morals and meanings of the show.
Having started in around 2012 they have reviewed every Star Trek episode and film in release order and are currently on Season 2 of Deep Space Nine. The two hosts are engaging and knowledgeable. They know and love trek and that comes across in all that they say. They are fans of the show but are not above calling out the shows failings and questioning its direction.
By examining the moral choices made in Star Trek they give a greater depth of understanding to the material and help give the episodes are wider context. The hosts have built up a wealth of contacts within the Roddenberry family and Star Trek alumni which contribute greatly to the shows weight and enjoyment.
Mission Log has expanded and expanded, they are now part of the Roddenberry Podcast Network, run Facebook Live shows, review the latest Discovery episodes and run quizzes at Sansar.
Mission Log is an ambitious project and Ken and Ray must be lauded for their work thus far. There are are 6 series and over 700 episodes in total with more on the way, to take on such a mammoth task is admirable and to do it with professionalism makes the task even more commendable.
To try the podcast for yourself visit Mission Log
Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell: A book review
Enterprise – a reappraisal


Only very rarely over the past year have I stayed in one place for more than a few days. The last time I stopped moving for a full week was when I met my parents in Buenos Aires. But I felt more than ready for a break from campsites and cheap motels, and spending another week with my parents – this time at their home in Prairie Village, Kansas – sounded perfect.
It was fantastic to catch up with Mom and Dad, my sister Ann and her husband Dan, and my nieces Elizabeth and Kate. I ate extremely well – many unbeatable Mom-cooked meals (and travel-themed cookies), a burger at Winstead's with my dad, a second trip to Winstead's with my friend David, and a great lunch with Elizabeth.
I also had a chance to see Ed, my boss at the job I left to take this trip. The fact that I really enjoyed working with Ed was one of the things that made it difficult to choose nomadic wandering over gainful employment, and he and I have kept in touch. Ed let me know that over Labor Day weekend he and his family would be in Kansas City (where one of his sons had a baseball tournament), so we arranged to meet at Gates for some old-school BBQ. It was a lot of fun to reconnect with Ed and meet his wife Hope and their three sons.
At my parent's house I spent hours watching the action outside the kitchen window. Over the years my mom's careful management of a birdbath (heated in the winter, of course) and a dizzying array of feeders has turned their back yard into the premiere hotspot for suburban Prairie Village wildlife. At any given time the view at the window might include chipmunks with stuffed cheeks, dive-bombing hummingbirds, a family of squirrels, a male and female cardinal, finches, rabbits, and belligerent blue jays. Occasionally a hawk will pass overhead and cause the feeder crowd to scatter as quickly as teenagers who realize a cop has just shown up at their house party.
Lately Mom had been throwing peanuts out the back door so regularly that the squirrels and chipmunks have come to expect it. As I watched from the kitchen one morning a particularly demanding squirrel literally flung itself against the window in a brash attempt to trigger Peanut Time. "There's never a dull moment around here," my dad likes to joke.
Before hitting the road again I caught a Royals game with David. We headed over to the ballpark on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and, with the Cleveland Indians in town for a meaningless series, we had no problem picking up last-minute tickets. It was my first visit to Kaufmann Stadium since the renovations were completed in 2009, and I liked the new look.
What a fun and relaxing week – just what I needed. Thanks again Mom, Dad, Ann, Dan, Elizabeth, Kate, David and Ed!


You know the lyrics to "Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes." You also know you've got a heart, a liver, a stomach, and a brain. You might even know the names of most of your bones and muscles. But for most of us, the human body is just so complex that a few of the minor characters get forgotten. Here are five important body parts you probably didn't know you have.
Your thymus is a small organ located beneath your breastbone, and while you may not have heard of it, it plays a pivotal role in keeping you healthy. It's part of both the lymphatic system, which transports immune cells throughout your body, and the endocrine system, which deals with the chemical messengers known as hormones. The thymus is the source of T-cells (the T stands for thymus), which are a type of white blood cell that regulates your immunity and hunts down any illness-causing invaders.
Ever wonder where your tears go? The lacrimal puncta (singular: punctum) are four tiny holes on the inside of your eyelids, one at the inner corner of each upper and lower eyelid, that help drain the tears that keep your eyes moist. You can even see these tiny holes if you want to — just gently push up on the lower corner of your eye to see the inner edge of the eyelid, and it'll be there.
Your skin, bones, and muscles hold your organs in — but what holds them up? Meet the mesentery, an organ we once thought was just a disparate collection of membranes but now know is one continuous structure. It's responsible for attaching your intestines to the wall of your abdomen and keeping your guts from sloshing around when you ride a roller coaster or take the stairs.
You don't need one tiny muscle attached to every single hair on your body to help it stand up straight when you're cold or Adele starts singing, but evolution thought you might like to have 'em anyway. Your skin's arrector pilli muscles and the involuntary reflex that makes them contract are leftovers from when your ancestors had long fur. Our fuzzier brethren benefitted from the ability to puff their fur out in chilly temperatures (to help them stay warm) and when facing an adversary (to make them look bigger).
It wasn't until this year that scientists realized that not only were there fluid-filled cavities surrounding everything inside your body — around your lungs, your blood vessels, your muscles, your bladder, you name it — but these cavities were all part of one huge organ. They called it the interstitium, after the interstitial fluid that fills it. That fluid drains into the lymphatic system and, like the thymus, plays a role in immunity. It may be new to us, but it's been keeping you healthy all your life.
Correction 9/27/2018: A previous version of this article stated that the lacrimal puncta are a source of tears, when in fact, they drain tears. The article has been updated to reflect this.
Learn more about little-understood organs in "Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ" by Giulia Enders. We handpick reading recommendations we think you may like. If you choose to make a purchase, Curiosity will get a share of the sale.


While attempting to clean up my studio (and organize my life enough to begin tending this blog again), I ran across a set of knitting samples I made earlier this year. They are fun but useless, so I decided to throw them away. But had to take pictures first.
The patterns are all modern of course, though most knitting patterns today are based on historical precedents. Except maybe giraffe print jacquard.


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Q: JOIN two tables but only return rows with unique values in one field I have a table of Currency CHAR(3) : StressValue (FLOAT) pairs.
It has 6 rows.
The 6th row's 'Currency' value is 'GRP' which represents a group of currencies that are specified in a second table of Currency : StressValue pairs.
I want to joing the two tables on 'Currency' but I don't want to return those rows in the 2nd table that have the same 'Currency' value contained in any of the 5 rows in the first table.
For example if row 2 has the combo 'GBP' : '0.05' and the 2nd (ie. 'GRP') table has the row 'GBP' : '0.10' then I want the result set to show only one 'GBP' row - the one being '0.05'.
Please, can someone suggest the best way to do this in SQL Server 2008 R2?
EDIT:
Below are the two tables in a simple LEFT JOIN of Dimension1=GroupName.
The problem is I have 'ES' with two values: -0.04 and -0.045 and I only want to keep the -0.04 one.

EDIT 2:
Left table, Right table and Desired Result set:

Note that the row for GroupName='PE' AND 'MemberName='ES' has been excluded from the desired result set as 'ES' already appears in the Left table.

A: Assuming I understand you right:
select * from
Currency as c
left join StressValue as s on c.Diemention1 = s.GroupName AND s.MemberName <> (
  SELECT s.MemberName
  from Currency as c
  join StressValue as s
  on c.Diemention1 = s.MemberName)

see FIDDLE


I don't often write advice, especially spiritual advice. I am not what you would call an adamant, proclaim it to the world, tell you how to live Christian sort of person. However, I recently read a somewhat humorous blog post in which an acquaintance divulges his struggle over figuring out where God wants his family to live.
This caused me some real concern. Mainly, because this poor guy suffers from the delusion that Chicago is a bad place (and apparently, his poor wife has spent most of her life suffering from the delusion that Chicago is less "safe" than St. Louis – it is not).
I am concerned because I have seen so many of my Christian friends and family fret over trying to figure out what God wants them to do and where God is calling them. I have seen people make some pretty dumb choices that wind up making them miserable because they somehow got it in their head that God called them to do it.
Personally, I don't think God cares about most of this stuff. I don't think God really "calls" as often as people say he does. I don't think God cares where you live, what city you prefer, or really any of those things. God probably cares less about whom you marry than your parents do. He probably doesn't really care very much about what career you choose among most available careers out there. All God really cares about is WHY you do the things you do. I think God is more concerned with the purity of your heart and how you treat other people than what kind of personal preferences you make big life decisions on. God wants to bless your life and work through you wherever you choose to live,whatever career your choose to pursue, whatever car you buy, person you marry, team you root for, etc.
It was almost as I heard God laugh, then almost right away as I read about loving my enemies I felt God tell me to begin to love this city as he loves this city…. God wants me to come to love the city I hate so badly and wanting me to love the people there so that gospel transformation might take place.
I would love it if someone did a verse by verse survey of the Bible to compare how much of it is about HOW to make wise choices on your own vs. abdicating decision making to God. My inclination is that the Bible is mainly filled with guidelines about how to make our own decisions.
I think Christians fall into a very dangerous habit of abdicating their decision making to God. Not letting their decisions be directed by God's wisdom, but by God himself. It is hyper-spiritualism run amok. It is also a little bit narcissistic to think God has an opinion about such trivial decisions in your life. Yes, where you live is, in the grand scheme of things, a trivial decision (so is who you marry). In general, most people live, love, and thrive in MOST of the habitable places of the world. There are very few moral implications related to the geographic location of your domicile.
There are several spiritually harmful implications to abdicating your decision making to God.
A healthy response is to recognize that many of the decisions we fret about don't matter as much as we think they do. An unhealthy response is to come up with gimmicks in order to avoid serious thought. Some people might flip a coin or roll dice. I used to shoot free throws. This is okay if you truly recognize the triviality of Choice A over Choice B. But this is not okay if you are doing it to avoid the hard work of making a wise decision.
Much of the occult and mystic beliefs are centered around "divining the fates." People look to astrological charts, tea leaves, bone fragments, tarot cards, and signs in nature to make their decisions. This is called divination, and it is rooted in the Latin word for prediction. When people use divination to make decisions, they are seeking a safe prediction that a decision they make will turn out okay. Unfortunately, there are no safe predictions. Life is full of randomness and calamity. When people pray to God to make a decision for them or to "guide them spiritually" in their decision making, often times they are really just looking for a safe and confident feeling about whatever choice they end up going with. After all, who can argue with the will of God?
Again, going back to the math problem example. God has given us the tools to work out these problems on our own (the analogy fails in that most math problems we are familiar with only have one right answer, whereas many choices we face have an abundance of right answers). He also gave us the tools to deal with the random tragedies and hardships that inevitably follow many of the good faith choices we make. He gave us those tools for an reason. Why would we reject them and join the rest of the lost and confused world that is desperately looking for security through signs and wonders?
Praying to God for help making a decision may not seem like demanding a sign or a prediction about how the future is going to turn out. Where do you expect to hear the answer? In your head? In something you happen to read in the Bible that day? In some other random phenomena? Asking God to make our decisions for us and then reveal what the right decision is can be nothing but demanding a sign because a sign is the only observable way we can receive the answer. Even an unexpected "peace of mind" or calm about a choice is more likely than not just a psychological phenomena misattributed as a sign from God. If our heads are full of so many irrational thoughts and communicating to us through "a feeling" is such a crapshoot, do you really think God would choose to communicate to us in this way?
There is no way to predict the future. And I don't think God intends to give us peace of mind about the future by telling us what he wants us to do. In fact, if anything, God tells us that the future will be fraught with suffering. Our peace of mind should come in knowing God is in control, not from knowing we unlocked the code to making the correct choice about which path we should take in the game of life.
The thing is, God has already communicated to us. He gave us his complete word. And upon examining that word, we can see that it is full of allegories, historical stories, divine revelation, proverbs, and philosophy all designed to aid us in figuring out how to live our lives. The word was given so that we could know the mind and heart of God. And the word was given so that we could evaluate our own decision making processes and make wiser choices.
I am not saying your choice between what kind of car to buy, which job offer to accept, or which city to move to is cryptically hidden in the pages of the Bible waiting for the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to it. But the Bible has a lot to say about vanity and wealth. The Bible has a lot to say about which uses of our time God rejoices in and blesses. The Bible as a lot to say about the deceptive desires of our heart. The Bible has a lot to say about what is valuable in God's eyes and what is not.
The Bible is full of wisdom that can guide us. But when it comes to choices, that wisdom is often directed towards right or wrong choices, not choosing between morally neutral options such as which city to live in. There is plenty of wisdom in the Bible that can help us examine our motivations and values which is helpful in making a choice, but at the end of the day if all your motivations and values are in check the Bible never directs us to ask God to make choices for us.
It is a little bit like the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." God already gave us all the answers he intended: They are in the Bible. Anything beyond that, he has left up to us. Rejecting this and "asking God for the answer" is, I believe, a dishonor to the intent and complete nature of the Word.
God created us with frighteningly high intelligence compared to the rest of nature. We have the ability to intuit, deduce, and logically evaluate decisions. We also have the ability to experience awe, deep emotions, and be moved by visual beauties, music, and experiences. All of these human capabilities come into play when we make decisions. And they should! That is how God created us. He set us in motion. He gave us the ability to use logic. He gave us the desire to form preferences.
And yet, for some reason, I am amazed at how often Christians want to supplement or in some cases downright reject those capabilities in order to have the answer handed to them from God. For example, the decision of living in Portland vs. Chicago could simply be a matter of personal preference. Guess who created you with the ability to form personal preferences? God did! You could also decide based on cold hard logic. Guess who created you with the ability to use logic? God did! You could also decide based on a mixture of the two. Guess who created you with the ability to weight your decision making processes in a way that is unique to you? God did!
With all these beautiful means of making decisions already at our fingertips, already handed to us directly from God, does it make any sense that God would want us to reject the tools he gave us and ask him to do all the heavy lifting? To me, it does not. In fact, not fully utilizing and rejoicing in our ability to establish personal preferences and make decisions, to me, is a rejection of God's gifts and dishonors ourselves as creatures "fearfully and wonderfully made" by a God who loves us and gave us what we need to not only survive, but truly thrive in this reality.
The Bible gives us several guidelines on prayer, but none are more complete and ideal than The Lord's Prayer found in Matthew 6. It reveals prayer to be, at its root a form of praising God, accepting God's will, recognizing and thanking God for his blessings, seeking forgiveness, and acknowledging God's place in the universe. Nothing more.
Because God exists outside of time, every decision we will ever make is already made in God's eyes. God's "plan for our lives" as interpreted by the seemingly big, but ultimately trivial preferential choices we make (where should I live? what kind of career should I have? what kind of person should I marry?) is less of a plan to God than a "it has already happened" viewpoint. We think we can change the future because of the illusion of time passing, but God sees the reality: The future has already happened. And that is God's plan. Everything that happens is within God's divine will. We literally can't screw this up.
God set us into motion and gave us the ability to form personal preferences. I think that is because he wanted us to. So you strongly prefer blondes over brunettes. Is that immoral? No. Might that limit the kind of person you date? Probably. Are you going to miss out on "the one" God intended for you because you were only looking at blondes? I doubt it.
I doubt it because I think that what God intended for you was to pick "the one" out on your own. God didn't pick someone for you. God doesn't have a career in mind for you. God doesn't want you to live in a specific place. He put a lot of drives and tools for making evaluations in your head. He gifted you with a book of wisdom and instruction manual on morality in the form of his complete Word. I don't think God has any more planned out for you that you need to ask him to clue you in on. Sometimes amazing or horrible things just happen because they happen, not because of a particular decision you made that God chose to bless or curse you for.
Gods set you into motion with the ability to plan your own life. And now you have arrived at this point of decision with everything you need to make it own your own. It is okay to make a major life decision and say, "I chose this because that is what I preferred, not because God told me to." And you know what? I think it will be a good choice, whichever choice you decide.
And you will too. Because God also gave you this silly thing called choice-supportive bias so that in the end you can have some irrational peace of mind.
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Q: Integrating a B-Spline basis function with respect to the standard normal PDF I am looking for ways to evaluate exactly (i.e. analytically or semi-analytically) integrals of the type:
$$
\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}B_{i}^k(u)e^{-\frac{(u-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}}du,
$$
where $B_i^k$ is a spline of order $k$, an element of the B-Spline basis for the linear space of splines of order $k$ on knots $\{t_i\}$, defined as usual recursively by:
$$
B_i^k(x)=\frac{x-t_i}{t_{i+k}-t_i}B_i^{k-1}(x)+\frac{t_{i+k+1}-x}{t_{i+k+1}-t_{i+1}}B_{i+1}^{k-1}(x),
$$
with
$$
B_i^0(x)=\begin{cases}
      1 & x\in [t_i;t_{i+1}) \\
      0 & \text{otherwise  }
   \end{cases}
$$
Of particular interest would be the case of $\mu=0, \sigma=1$.
I am aware of the Gauss-Hermite quadrature :
$$
\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}f(x)e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}}\approx \sum_{i=1}^n w_i f(x_i),
$$
where $x_i$ are the roots of a Hermite polynomial of order $n$ and $w_i$ are the associated weights. Importantly, the approximation sign can be replaced by an exact equality when $f$ is a polynomial of degree $\leq 2n-1$. (There are versions where the integral is with respect to $e^{-x^2}$ instead of $e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}}$, by changing the type of Hermite polynomial employed).
My question is : is there such an exact equality formula for B-spline basis functions?
I am looking to express the integral at the beginning of this question as a sum analogously to the Gauss-Hermite quadrature.
EDIT: The problem seems to be that even though $B_i^k$ is known to have finite support, it is not itself a polynomial: each of the restrictions $B_i^k|_{(t_j;t_{j+1})}$ is a polynomial, without the full function being a polynomial. Otherwise, the answer would have been a trivial application of the Gauss-Hermite quadrature. Is is possible that there is a Gauss-Hermite-type quadrature for integration domains that are compact intervals (as opposed to integration domains that are $\mathbb{R}$) ?


This article will take you through the short process of how to create a web page within Contensis. We assume you have created a project and have the relevant content types and templates assigned to the folders where you want to create web pages.
From the dashboard press the New Page button in the I Want To... section.
The Create New Content window will appear. Start typing the name of the folder you want to create a page in to bring up a filtered list, click on the folder name.
The Create New Content in folder window will appear. Start typing the content type you want to create to bring up a filtered list, click on the content type. Or drag and drop files to upload in the dotted area.
The wysiwyg page editor will appear. Here you can edit your new page, give it name and use the metadata and properties tab to add further detail to the page. Click Save.
Bring up the context menu by clicking on the folder name. Select the New Content option.


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Editor: Hansy Schekahn Photos: See credits under article In database since June 21, 2018
"Young Gun" Richard Leeke from South Africa heads to the Botswana Toyota Kalahari 1000 Desert Race with a new co-driver alongside him in the Speedglas Welding Helmets BMW X3, regular partner Henry Koehne sidelined by a motorcycling accident. While the other Young Gun recovers from a broken collarbone, the skilled and experienced Danie Stassen has been drafted in to navigate for Leeke on the Desert Race, the longest event of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), which takes place in Botswana from June 22 to 24. Stassen, a multiple champion in the Specials Vehicle class and with nine consecutive Desert Races starts, was the obvious choice.
"Henry's accident was really unfortunate, but the good news is that he'll be okay and the likelihood is that he'll miss only the one Cross Country event and one rally," explained Leeke. "Clearly, in this instance, the co-driver wasn't looking where he was going..."
Stassen has an impressive record and first co-drove (in a rally car) in 2002, moving to off-road in 2009 and later teaming up with Evan Hutchinson to take his first of three championships in 2012. He's renowned for having a cool head and patience, and with three wins in the desert he's in the perfect position to add value.
"I'm really excited to team up with Richard in the Speedglas BMW, he's a young guy who is obviously highly motivated," says the 34-year-old, whose day job is running a Subaru dealership in Nelspruit. "I've done a lot of time in Specials, so I'm looking forward to the relatively dust-free environment of the X3 not to mention being much warmer on freezing June mornings!" Leeke added: "I've no doubt there's a lot to learn from Danie, so I'm going to be all ears – his record as a co-driver speaks for itself."
While the start and event HQ is at the Jwaneng Sports Complex as usual, the 2018 route includes a number of changes. But the overall format is the same: There's a short time trial on Friday to determine starting positions, then two laps of an eastern loop on Saturday (much of which is new) and then two runs through a western loop on Sunday. It all adds up to approximately 1 000 kilometers of racing, throwing all the characteristics that define the Desert Race in the path of competitors. That said, the organisers warn that good rains have resulted in dense ground cover, making it even more important than usual to stay on the track.
"This is always a gruelling event so while you can't hang around, it is one on which if you finish, you'll often finish well," says Stassen. "The strategy will be to take it day by day, to not overwork the vehicle, and keep it smooth. If there is the realistic chance of making up some places later on, then we'll push!"
"There is no question Danie and I will be pretty familiar with one another come Sunday afternoon but what is more important is to make sure we click from the get-go, but so far I have a very good feeling about this relationship," concluded Leeke.
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A superb Ultrasuede body specifically designed for Mia is also included as standard.
The Ultrasuede doe suede material body has cotter pin joints in the arms and legs and is strung through the neck, arms and legs with colour co-ordinated cord. This body is firm yet snuggly and is perfectly proportioned.


This route starts at the train station in Stoke-On-Trent and follows National Cycle route 5 to Northwich. From the start point you head north passing through the lovely Hanley and Central Forest Parks on your way to Bruslem. A mixture of off road paths and short on road sections take you to Kidsgrove where you can enjoy a short stretch along the Trent & Mersey Canal.
The route continues through the countryside on quiet roads to Sandbach, following the canal and the off road Wheelock rail trail. More country lanes then take you onto Middlewich where you join the Shropshire Union Canal for another pleasant waterside stretch. A short on road spell then brings you to the Weaver Valley Cycleway at Winsford, which takes you along the Weaver Navigation Canal to Northwich, finishing by the canal at the tourist information centre.