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Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game Face the Music.
Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit Read Full BioJoseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game Face the Music.
Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a Pickle (1938) and A Midsummer Day's Work (1939). Here his colleagues included the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. He had already embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up the concert platform for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947.
Cooper made a number of successful recordings and also began broadcasting on radio. In 1954 he accepted an invitation to work on the BBC radio quiz show Call the Tune. In 1967 the show transferred to television under the title Face the Music. Transmitted on BBC2 and repeated on BBC1, it ran until 1979 and was briefly revived in 1983-4. The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaboate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent. Face the Music also featured the Dummy Keyboard, in which Cooper played a well-known piano piece on a silent keyboard and the panel had to identify it. The music was gradually faded in for viewers at home.
During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by the independent company TWW, which served South Wales and the West of England. He became known for his acerbic, rather irascible interviewing style and for the fact that he regularly played out the programme with a gentle piano piece.
Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1982. He was married twice, first to Jean Greig from 1947 until her death in 1973, and then Carol Borg, from 1975 until her death in 1996.
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Navy medical corpsman Andrew James, who is now in the U.S. Navy Reserve poses for a picture on Friday in San Diego. Gay service members from are planning to celebrate the official end of the military's 17-year policy that forced them to hide their sexual orientation with another official act - marriage. Gregory Bull / AP
July 17, 2011, 4:40 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
By JULIE WATSON
Gay service members from Army soldiers to Air Force officers are planning to celebrate the official end of the military's 17-year policy that forced them to hide their sexual orientation with another official act — marriage.
A 27-year-old Air Force officer from Ohio said he can't wait to wed his partner of two years and slip on a ring that he won't have to take off or lie about when he goes to work each day once "don't ask, don't tell" is repealed. He plans to wed his boyfriend, a federal employee, in Washington D.C. where same-sex marriages are legal.
He asked not to be identified, following the advice of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a national organization representing gay troops, including the Air Force officer, that has cautioned those on active duty from coming out until the ban is off the books.
"I owe it to him and myself," the officer said of getting married. "I don't want to do it in the dark. I think that taints what it's supposed to be about — which is us, our families, and our government."
But in the eyes of the military the marriage will not be recognized and the couple will still be denied most of the benefits the Defense Department gives to heterosexual couples to ease the costs of medical care, travel, housing and other living expenses.
The Pentagon says the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act — which defines marriage for federal program purposes as a legal union between a man and woman — prohibits the Defense Department from extending those benefits to gay couples, even if they are married legally in certain states.
That means housing allowances and off-base living space for gay service members with partners could be decided as if they were living alone. Base transfers would not take into account their spouses. If two gay service members are married to each other they may be transferred to two different states or regions of the world. For heterosexual couples, the military tries to avoid that from happening.
Gay activists and even some commanders say the discrepancy will create a two-tier system in an institution built on uniformity.
"It's not going to work," said Army Reserve Capt. R. Clarke Cooper, who heads up the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group that sued the Justice Department to stop the enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. "Taking care of our soldiers is necessary to ensure morale and unit cohesion. This creates a glaring stratification in the disbursement of support services and benefits."
Cooper said he also plans to marry his boyfriend, a former Navy officer, in a post-repeal era.
Pentagon officials have said they believe the ban could be fully lifted soon. The military for now is not discharging anyone under the policy to comply with a federal appeals court ruling July 6 that ordered the government to immediately cease its enforcement. The Department of Justice has filed an emergency motion asking the court to reconsider its order, saying ending the ban now would pre-empt the "orderly process" for rolling back the policy as outlined in the law passed and signed by the president in December.
The military's staunchly traditional, tight-knit society, meanwhile, has been quickly adapting to the social revolution: Many gay officers say they have already come out to their commanders and fellow troops, and now discuss their weekend plans without a worry.
The Air Force officer says he has dropped the code words "Red Solo Cups" — the red plastic cups used at parties — that he slipped into conversations for years to tell his partner he loved him when troops were within earshot. He now feels comfortable saying "I love you" on the phone, no longer fearful he will be interrogated by peers.
One male soldier, who also asked not to be identified, said after Congress approved repealing the law, he listed his boyfriend on his Army forms as his emergency contact and primary beneficiary of his military life insurance in case he dies in Afghanistan.
He said when he was transferred to South Korea, he and his partner had to pay for his partner's move.
"But we were able to stay together," the soldier wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press from Afghanistan. "During the move, I realized I needed to make sure my partner in life was taken care of if something, the worst, ever happened to me, especially knowing I was about to deploy."
The soldier said when he added his boyfriend's name to the paperwork as a primary beneficiary and identified him as a friend, the non-commissioned officer in charge shut his office door and told him: "Unlike the inherent benefits to being married in the Army, such as housing and sustenance allowances, our life insurance and will don't discriminate."
Same-sex partners can be listed as the person to be notified in case a service member is killed, injured, or missing, but current regulations prevent anyone other than immediate family — not same-sex spouses — from learning the details of the death. Same-sex spouses also will not be eligible for travel allowances to attend repatriation ceremonies if their military spouses are killed in action.
Gay partners and spouses also will be denied military ID cards, which means they will not be allowed on base unless they are accompanied by a service member and they cannot shop at commissaries or exchanges that have reduced prices for groceries and clothing, nor can they be treated at a military medical facility. They also will be excluded from base programs providing recreation and other such kinds of support.
Military officials say some hardship cases may be handled on an individual basis. Activists warn such an approach will create an administrative nightmare and leave the military vulnerable to accusations of making inconsistent decisions that favor some and not others.
Military families enjoy assistance from the Defense Department to compensate for the hardship of having a mother or father or both deployed to war zones and moved frequently.
"It strains a relationship when you're gone for over a year," said Navy medical corpsman Andrew James, 27, who lived two years apart from his same-sex partner, who could not afford to move with him when he was transferred from San Diego to Washington. "But straight couples have support so their spouses are able to be taken care of, with financial issues, and also they are able to talk to the chain of command, whereas gays can't. They don't have any support at all financially or emotionally, and that is really devastating."
He said he was lucky that his relationship survived and now that he is in the Reserves, they are together again in San Diego.
The benefits issue came up repeatedly during training sessions to prepare troops for the policy change.
"There are inconsistencies," Maj. Daryl Desimone told a class of Marines at Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego, after being asked about benefits for gay military personnel. "Anyone who looks at it logically will see there are some things that need to be worked out in the future."
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Juraj Pospíšil (* 14. Januar 1931 in Olmütz; † 20. September 2007 in Bratislava) war ein aus Tschechien gebürtiger slowakischer Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler und Musikpädagoge.

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Im mährischen Olmütz geboren, wuchs Juraj (tschechisch Jiří) Pospíšil in dem kleinen Ort Haňovice auf, besuchte zunächst die Musikschule im nahegelegenen Litovel und 1949/1950 das Städtische Musikinstitut "Žerotín" in Olmütz (ZUS), ehe  er 1950–1952 einen Vorbereitungslehrgang und ein Semester Komposition bei Vilém Petrželka an der Janáček-Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (JAMU) in Brünn absolvierte. Nach seiner Heirat  wechselte er 1952 an die Akademie der Darstellenden Künste, die nunmehrige Hochschule für Musische Künste Bratislava (Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave – VŠMU), wo er Komposition bei Alexander Moyzes und Ján Cikker studierte. Seinen Abschluss machte er mit der sinfonischen Dichtung  Hory a ľudia (Berge und Menschen) op. 4. Ab 1955 war er als Lehrer für Musiktheorie und in der Folge Professor für Komposition am Konservatorium Bratislava tätig. Dort unterrichtete er zahlreiche später prominente Künstler und Künstlerinnen in Theoriefächern, darunter die Mezzosopranistin Iveta Žižlavská sowie die Sopranistinnen Gabriela Beňačková und Edita Gruberová. Zu seinen Kompositionsschülerinnen und -schülern gehörten namhafte Persönlichkeiten der nachfolgenden Generation wie etwa Sylvie Bodorová, Vladimír Bokes, Peter Cón, Vladimír Godár, Stanislav Hochel, Mirko Krajčí, Miroslav Kroupa, Peter Martinček, Kristián Seidmann und Juraj Tandler.
1966 wurde Pospíšil Assistenzprofessor an der VŠMU, doch wurde ihm dieser Posten nach einigen Jahren aus politischen Gründen wieder entzogen. Anlass war seine kritische Haltung gegenüber führenden Funktionären in der Zeit der sogenannten Normalisierung, die der gewaltsamen Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings von 1968 gefolgt war und durch eine besonders restriktive Vorgangsweise gegenüber all jenen gekennzeichnet war, die sich nicht den Maßnahmen des kommunistischen Systems in der ČSSR fügten. Desgleichen wurde er aus dem Slowakischen Komponistenverband ausgeschlossen. Nach fünf Jahren wurde er wieder aufgenommen. Er nahm zudem seine eigenen Studien wieder auf und absolvierte 1979 an der Comenius-Universität Bratislava sein Doktorat. In späteren Jahren widmete er sich vor allem dem Komponieren, aber auch verschiedenen Aufgaben im Musikbetrieb. So war er etwa stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Komitees der slowakischen Urheberrechtsgesellschaft SOZA.

Obwohl er knapp mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte seines Lebens in Mähren verbrachte, fällt Jiří Pospíšils gesamtes gültiges Schaffen in jene Lebensphase, die er in der Slowakei verbrachte, weshalb er seit der Trennung der beiden Länder sowohl von den tschechischen als auch den slowakischen Musikinstitutionen als slowakischer Künstler geführt wird. Pospíšils Schaffen zeigt mehrere voneinander abgegrenzte Phasen, in denen er das Spektrum seiner kompositorischen Ausdrucksmittel jeweils um neue Aspekte erweitert. Seine Musik enthält aus der tschechischen und slowakischen Volksmusik herrührende modale Tonalität sowie Einflüsse von tschechischen Vorbildern wie Leoš Janáček, Vítězslav Novák und Bohuslav Martinů, die in den Werken bis etwa 1958 hervorstechen. Es folgte eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Wiener Schule und dem Serialismus Anton Weberns. Prägend war für ihn auch die Teilnahme am Festival Warschauer Herbst 1962, bei dem er wesentliche Anregungen erhielt, wobei er generell mit seinen der internationalen Moderne nahestehenden Tendenzen eine bewusste Gratwanderung gegenüber den vom kommunistischen System im Sinn des Sozialistischen Realismus gestellten Ansprüchen an das aktuelle Kulturschaffen in der Slowakei vollzog. Eine Sonderstellung nimmt diesbezüglich seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Elektroakustik ein, die seit der Mitte der 1960er-Jahre erfolgten Gründung des Studios für elektronische Musik in Bratislava eine vergleichsweise freie Entwicklung nehmen konnte. Ab den 1970er-Jahren weist Pospíšils Musik dann eine gewisse Hinwendung zu einer neoromantischen Ausdrucksweise auf, wie sie parallel ähnlich etwa bei Krzysztof Penderecki zu finden ist. Teilweise anerkannt, fallweise aus politischen Gründen nicht zur Publikation zugelassen wurden seine musiktheoretischen und pädagogischen Lehrwerke. Neben den Unterrichtstexten schrieb er auch Artikel und Kritiken für Fachzeitschriften.

Preise und Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 1981: Preis der Stadt Piešťany für das Streichquartett Nr. 2 op. 47
 1988: Preis des Verbandes slowakischer Komponisten und Konzertkünstler für das Streichquartett Nr. 3 op. 61
 2008: Eintrag in das Goldene Buch der slowakischen Urheberrechtsgesellschaft SOZA für das Jahr 2007 (posthum)

Werke (Auswahl)

Oper
 Inter arma. Drei einaktige Opern op. 27, Text: Juraj Pospíšil (1969/1970)
 Vzbura (Revolte)
 Starosti dezertéra (Sorgen des Deserteurs)
 Stratený nadporučik (Der verschwundene Oberleutnant)
 Manon Lescaut. Text nach dem gleichnamigen Drama von Vítězslav Nezval (1993)

Gesangsstimme(n), Chor und Orchester
 Margita a Besná nach der gleichnamigen Ballade von Ján Botto für Sopran, Alt, Bariton, gemischten Chor und Orchester op. 5 (1955)
 Bratislave nach Texten von Ján Kostra, Štefan Žáry und Ján Poničan für Bariton und Orchester op. 33 (1973)
 Sinfonie Nr. 4 nach Texten von Stefan Starzyński und Władysław Broniewski für Sprecher, Sopran, gemischten Chor und Orchester "Warschau" op. 40 (1978)
 Dna hladin. Zehn Miniaturlieder nach Texten von Alois Volkman für Mezzosopran und Kammerorchester op. 44 (1980)
 Konzert für Sopran und Orchester op. 56 (1984)
 Husitský Otčenáš (Hussitisches Vaterunser). Geistliche Kantate nach alttschechischen Texten aus dem 15. Jahrhundert für Mezzosopran, Bass, gemischten Chor, Orgel und Orchester op. 74 (1990)

Orchester
  Hory a ľudia (Berge und Menschen). Sinfonische Dichtung op. 4 (1954)
 Sinfonie Nr. 1 op. 7 (1958)
 Reflexie op. 8 (1958)
 Pieseň o človeku (Lied vom Menschen) op. 13 (1961)
 Fünf Miniaturen op. 17 (1963)
 Sinfonie Nr. 2 op. 19 "Hmlovina v Androméde" (Andromeda-Nebel) nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Iwan Jefremow (1963)
 Sinfonie Nr. 3 op. 25 (1967)
 Sinfonisches Fresko Nr. 1 op. 32/1 (1975)
 Sinfonisches Fresko Nr. 2 op. 32/2 (1975)
 Sinfonisches Fresko Nr. 3 op. 49 (1981)
 Lyrische Suite op. 52 "Krajinou detstva" (Durch das Land der Kindheit) (1983)
 Dramatische Ouvertüre op. 59 (1984)
 Sinfonie Nr. 5 op. 62 (1986)
 Sinfonie Nr. 6 op. 82 (1996)
 Sinfonie Nr. 7 op. 83 "Fin de Siècle" (1999)

Soloinstrument(e) und Orchester
 Posaunenkonzert op. 15/3 (1962)
 Violinkonzert op. 26/2 (1968)
 Klarinettenkonzert op. 31/1 (1972)
 Concerto eroico für Horn und Orchester op. 31/2 (1973)
 Kammersinfonietta für Trompete, Horn, Posaune und Streichorchester op. 35 (1974)
 Cimbalomkonzert op. 70 (1989)
 Sonate für Altposaune und Streichorchester op. 75 (1991)
 Tubakonzert op. 79 (1994, rev. 1995)

Streichorchester
 V zasnení (Träumend) op. 3 (1953)
 Sonate op. 14 (1961)
 Uspávanka (Wiegenlied) (vor 1977)

Ensemble
 Nonett Nr. 1 op. 11 "Spomienka a výstraha" (Erinnerung und Warnung) (1960)
 Nonett Nr. 2 für Bläser, Streicher und Pauken op. 16 (1962)
 Hudba (Musik) für zwölf Streichinstrumente op. 21 (1965)
 Trojveršia (Dreiergruppen) für neun Instrumente op. 22/3 (1966)

Kammermusik
 Hudba (Musik) für Blechbläserquintett op. 15/2 (1962)
 Glosy (Glossen) für Bläserquintett op. 20/2 (1964)
 Protirečenia (Widersprüche) für Klarinette und Streichquartett op. 20/4 (1964)
 Quartett für vier Flöten op. 30/1 (1971)
 Sonate für Kontrabass und Streichquartett op. 30/2 (1971)
 Fünf Fragmente für Flöte, Gitarre und Akkordeon op. 36 (1975)
 Klaviertrio Nr. 1 op. 38 (1977)
 Concertino für Cembalo und Bläserquintett op. 42 (1979)
 Sonate für Englischhorn und Streichquartett op. 53 (1983)
 Trio für Violine, Violoncello und Akkordeon op. 60 (1985)
 Streichquartett Nr. 3 op. 61 (1985)
 Melancholische Suite für Oboe, Englischhorn und Fagott op. 63 (1986)
 Bläsersextett op. 69 (1988)
 Trio für drei Posaunen op. 73 (1990)
 Sursum corda! Motto für Streichquartett (1990)
 Streichquartett Nr. 4 op. 72 (1990)
 Zimná suita (Winter-Suite) für Blechbläserquintett op. 81 (1996)

Zwei Instrumente
 Zwei Stücke für Oboe und Klavier o. op. (1952)
 Sonate für Kontrabass und Klavier op. 20/3 (1964)
 Villonská balada (Villon-Ballade) für Klarinette und Klavier op. 24 (1966)
 Rhapsodische Suite für Violoncello und Klavier op. 43 (1979)
 Fantastische Tänze für zwei Klaviere op. 51 (1981)
 Drei Duette für zwei Akkordeons op. 65 (1987)
 Gran duo (quasi una sonata) für Bassklarinette und Klavier op. 71 (1989)

Diverse Instrumente solo
 Sonatine für Klavier op. 2 (1953)
 Monologe für Klavier op. 10 (1958)
 Malé fantázie na husitské motívy (Kleine Fantasien über hussitische Motive) für Orgel op. 12 (1960)
 Passacaglia und Fuge für Orgel op. 18 (1963)
 Recitativo ed aria für Akkordeon op. 20/5 (1964)
 Sonate für Orgel op. 22/1 (1965)
 Sonate für Violine Nr. 1 op. 22/2 (1965)
 Suite für Kontrabass op. 26/1 (1967)
 Sonate für Violine Nr. 2 op. 37 (1976)
 Fünf Studien für Cembalo op. 41 (1978)
 Aquarelle für Akkordeon op. 46 (1980)
 Vier Präludien für Harfe 48 (1981)
 Suite für Cimbalom op. 66 (1987)

Vokalstimme und Instrument(e)
 Vier Lieder nach mährischer Volkspoesie für Sopran und Klavier op. 1 (1951)
 Mikropoviedky (Mikrogeschichten) nach Worten von Laco Zrubec für tiefen Sopran, Flöte, Violine und Violoncello op. 20/1 (1963)
 Oslnenie (Blendung). Drei Melodramen nach Gedichten von Miroslav Válek für Sprecher und kleines Instrumentalensemble op. 34 (1973)
 Večer na Ďumbieri. Konzert-Melodram nach einem Gedicht von Milan Rúfus für Sprecher und Klavier op. 34/2 (1975)
 Dagen svalnar (Der Tag kühlt ab). Canzona in quattro movimenti sulla poesia di Edith Södergran für Mezzosopran, Flöte, Gitarre und Violoncello op. 68 (1988)
 Stáčení podzimu (Herbstabfüllung) nach Worten von Alois Volkman für Bass und Streichquartett op. 80 (1994)

Chor a cappella
 Trávnaté steblá (Grashalme) für gemischten Chor (1958)
 Detská jeseň (Kinderherbst). Vier Chorsätze für vier Kinderchöre op. 23/2 (1967)
 Vier Etüden für gemischten Chor op. 45 (1980)

Elektroakustik
 Méditation électronique op. 28 (1970)
 Suita ad modum tympanorum op. 55 (1983)

Musik zu Dokumentarfilmen
 V záhrade je nepriateľ (Im Garten ist ein Feind), Regie: Pavel Čalovka (1957)
 Čo je najrýchlejšie (Was am schnellsten ist), Regie: Pavel Čalovka (1958)
 Mucha domáca (Stubenfliege), Regie: Pavel Čalovka (1959)

Theoretische Werke
 Hudobná teória pre konzervatóriá, I. časť (Musiktheorie für Konservatorien, I. Teil). Bratislava 1980 (slowakisch)

Diskographie (Auswahl)
 Glosy op. 20/2 – Slowakisches Bläserquintett – auf: I. Zeljenka, I. Parík, J. Pospíšil, M. Bázlik, L. Kupkovič, P. Kolman (Supraphon, LP 1966)
 Recitativo ed aria op. 20/5 – Vladimír Čuchran (Akkordeon) – auf: Stücke slowakischer Komponisten für Akkordeon (Opus, LP 1971)
 Uspávanka – Sinfonieorchester des Tschechoslowakischen Rundfunks, Dirigent: Ondrej Lenárd – auf: Od kolísky (Opus, LP 1977)
 Villonská balada op. 24 – Peter Drlička (Klarinette), Alena Ulická (Klavier) – auf: Chamber Music 1(Slowakischer Musikfonds, CD 1993)
 Sonate op. 22/2 – Milan Paľa (Violine) – auf: Violin Solo 5. Milan Paľa (Pavlik Records, CD 2013)
 Suite ad modum tympanorum op. 55 – Experimentalstudio Bratislava, Peter Janík, Ján Backstuber – auf: Experimental Studio Bratislava Series 2 (VŠMU, CD 2016)
 Concertino op. 42 – Ensemble Ricercata – auf: Ensemble Ricercta (Slowakischer Musikfonds, CD 2016)
 Trojveršia op. 22/3 – EnsembleSpectrum, Dirigent: Matej Sloboda – auf: EnsembleSpectrum. Avant-gare of the '60s (Slowakischer Musikfonds, CD 2021)

Weblinks

 Juraj Pospíšil in MGG Online
 Juraj Pospíšil: Biographie und Werkverzeichnis in der Datenbank des Slowakischen Musikzentrums (englisch/slowakisch)
 Jana Laslavíková: Juraj Pospíšil in Český hudební slovník (Tschechisches Musiklexikon), Masaryk-Universität Brünn 2015 (tschechisch)

Einzelnachweise

Komponist (Slowakei)
Komponist (Tschechoslowakei)
Komponist klassischer Musik (20. Jahrhundert)
Komponist klassischer Musik (21. Jahrhundert)
Slowake
Tschechoslowake
Geboren 1931
Gestorben 2007
Mann

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It's time to take a look at Corcoran's Quarterly Reports for Manhattan and Brooklyn for Q4 2018. If you want to check out the full reports, you can click here for Manhattan and click here for Brooklyn.
It's officially a buyer's market, but it's not just in Manhattan, as Brooklyn now has clearer signs of weakness in some places.
In Manhattan, contract signings decreased 12% year over year; closed sales decreased 7% year over year; and inventory continued to climb – up 10% year over year. The average price per square foot was actually up 3% year over year, but that was primarily due to some high end sales around Central Park. Absent these sales, it would have dropped.
Buyers are certainly using their upper hand – days on market for listings increased 5% versus last year.
While Brooklyn hasn't seen the same kinds of declines that Manhattan has, the declines are there nonetheless. The median price for the borough was down 3% to $658,000. Contracts signed decreased 2% versus Q4 2017 and closed sales were down 6% year over year.
But like the previous quarter, some areas south of Prospect Park saw continued growth. For example, South Brooklyn had a 13% year over year increase in sales and prices increased a stellar 15% versus Q4 2017.
The next couple of months are likely to see prices continue to slide a bit in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, as sellers try to "find the market" (i.e. figure out where they need to price their homes in order to get them sold). But there are anecdotal signs that more buyers are coming back into the market. And as the impact of tax reform becomes clearer, buyers will probably have a better idea of what makes sense for them to buy, given the changes in tax deductibility.
The Brooklyn market now has a bit more uncertainty thanks to Cuomo's halt of the L train shutdown. It's possible Williamsburg and Greenpoint will see a "pop" in sales in Q1 2019. But it's not likely to be a very significant one until more details about an alternative plan for the L train emerges.
Overall, the next couple of months are shaping up to offer an incredible opportunity for buyers in Manhattan and Brooklyn, especially first timers. If you want to position yourself to take advantage of it, but you're not quite sure if you're ready, then I recommend checking out my First Time Buyer Bootcamp! Click here to learn more.


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Q: Spring Boot Rabbitmq AMQP & WebSocket NULL pointer exception I'm trying to send a message with a Rabbitmq in WebSocketHandler, right after the user's connection establishes. The problem is, that the Rabbitmq producer bean is null.
Calling a producer from the Controller works perfectly fine, but when i try to call it from  the WebSocketHandler bean, if fails with NULL pointer exception:
WebSocket configuration:
@Configuration
@EnableWebSocket
public class WebSocketConfig implements WebSocketConfigurer {

public void registerWebSocketHandlers(WebSocketHandlerRegistry registry) {
    registry.addHandler(new MyWebSocketHandler(), "/connect");
}

}

WebSocket handler bean, where the NULL pointer exceptions heppens:
@Component
public class MyWebSocketHandler extends TextWebSocketHandler {
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WebSocketConfig.class);

@Autowired
QueueProducer producer; //NULL

List<WebSocketSession> sessions = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();

    @Override
    public void afterConnectionEstablished(WebSocketSession session) throws Exception {
    sessions.add(session);
    List<String> lol = session.getHandshakeHeaders().get("User-Agent");
    //Calling the rabbitmq producer
    producer.produce("Hi Mark");//NULL
}

Rabbitmq config:
@Configuration
public class RabbitConfiguration {

@Value("${fanout.exchange}")
private String fanoutExchange;

@Value("${queue.name}")
private String queueName;

@Bean
Queue queue() {
return new Queue(queueName, true);
}

@Bean
FanoutExchange exchange() {
return new FanoutExchange(fanoutExchange);
}

@Bean
Binding binding(Queue queue, FanoutExchange exchange) {
return BindingBuilder.bind(queue).to(exchange);
}

}

Rabbitmq producer code:
@Component
public class QueueProducer {

protected Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());

@Value("${fanout.exchange}")
private String fanoutExchange;

private final RabbitTemplate rabbitTemplate;

@Autowired
public QueueProducer(RabbitTemplate rabbitTemplate) {
    super();
    this.rabbitTemplate = rabbitTemplate;
}

public void produce(String message) throws Exception {
    logger.info("Storing notification...");
    rabbitTemplate.setExchange(fanoutExchange);
    rabbitTemplate.convertAndSend(message);
    logger.info("Notification stored in queue sucessfully");
}

}

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at com.ta9.common.Config.MyWebSocketHandler.afterConnectionEstablished(MyWebSocketHandler.java:43) ~[classes/:na]
at org.springframework.web.socket.handler.WebSocketHandlerDecorator.afterConnectionEstablished(WebSocketHandlerDecorator.java:70) ~[spring-websocket-5.3.8.jar:5.3.8]
at org.springframework.web.socket.handler.LoggingWebSocketHandlerDecorator.afterConnectionEstablished(LoggingWebSocketHandlerDecorator.java:48) ~[spring-websocket-5.3.8.jar:5.3.8]
at org.springframework.web.socket.handler.ExceptionWebSocketHandlerDecorator.afterConnectionEstablished(ExceptionWebSocketHandlerDecorator.java:48) ~[spring-websocket-5.3.8.jar:5.3.8]
at org.springframework.web.socket.adapter.standard.StandardWebSocketHandlerAdapter.onOpen(StandardWebSocketHandlerAdapter.java:104) ~[spring-websocket-5.3.8.jar:5.3.8]
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsHttpUpgradeHandler.init(WsHttpUpgradeHandler.java:135) ~[tomcat-embed-websocket-9.0.48.jar:9.0.48]
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:940) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.48.jar:9.0.48]
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1723) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.48.jar:9.0.48]
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.48.jar:9.0.48]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) ~[na:na]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) ~[na:na]
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.48.jar:9.0.48]
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) ~[na:na]

Thank you in advance.

A: That's expected behavior.
Let's see to your code one more time:
registry.addHandler(new MyWebSocketHandler(), "/connect");

You see you do new manually. You don't rely on dependency injection container over here. Your MyWebSocketHandler is not a bean in this case. Since it is marked as a @Component I suppose it is scanned properly and made it available as a bean into an application context. So, probably you can do like this to fix your problem:
@Configuration
@EnableWebSocket
public class WebSocketConfig implements WebSocketConfigurer {

    @Autowired
    MyWebSocketHandler myWebSocketHandler;

    public void registerWebSocketHandlers(WebSocketHandlerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addHandler(this.myWebSocketHandler, "/connect");
    }

}

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People in and around this business have long used the word "gatekeeper" when referring to those in publishing tasked with choosing which books to publish or represent.
BUT GATEKEEPERS ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK.
There is nobody in publishing whose job is to "keep you out." Are we watching the gate? Yes!—to identify authors we'd like to see published.
Each person who has a so-called "gatekeeping" role is tasked with finding authors to bring in, not authors to keep out. Anyone who acquires authors for an agency or for a publisher is totally 100% focused on bringing in books they believe they can sell.
You wouldn't call the women's wear buyer at Nordstrom a gatekeeper, because you know her job is to bring in clothes she believes her customers will like. Her job is not to keep out the bad, but to bring in the good.
Some publishers, librarians, agents, and acquisitions editors call themselves gatekeepers. Maybe they relish that role because they feel it gives them power. But regardless of what they say or how they refer to themselves, they're not gatekeepers. They're selectors. Choosers. They're salespeople. They're looking for books they can sell. Period.
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate. In the late 20th century the term came into metaphorical use, referring to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
Gatekeepers serve in various roles including academic admissions, financial advising, and news editing. An academic admissions officer might review students' qualifications based on criteria like test scores, race, social class, grades, family connections, and even athletic ability. Where this internal gatekeeping role is unwanted, open admissions can externalize it.
Various gatekeeping organizations administer professional certifications to protect clients from fraud and unqualified advice, for example for financial advisers.
A news editor selects stories for publication based on his or her organization's specific criteria, e.g., importance and relevance to their readership. For example, a presidential resignation would be on the front page of a newspaper but likely not a celebrity break-up (unless the paper was of the gossip variety).
Other people gatekeeping roles are in mental health service, clergy, police, hairdressers, and bartenders because of their extensive contact with the public.
I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?' And the answer was no.
PG will note that a gatekeeper's continued existence requires that a lot of people want what is behind the gate.
Rachelle Gardner can keep saying she isn't all she likes. That doesn't change the reality.
It's like indie authors who say they're not competing with authors. That's not true. Readers who choose one book over another deprives by necessity income to that rejected author.
What is true is that there's so many authors out there that we're not in direct competition with each other. Therefore, we can help each other because the possibility a bookbuyer will choose between us is infinitely small.
What gets me about the whole thing is that it doesn't even matter. Who says you can't help your competition? Nothing prevents a person from being kind and helpful, and if I have a competitor in any arena, I'm still willing to show a little kindness or help out if and when I can if the request is reasonable.
But yeah, agents are very much gatekeepers and I laughed a little reading this post. Choosers, LOL.
Actually, I normally agree with this (authors compete with each other) because at any discrete moment, a reader is going to pick one book over another.
However, assume a very particular genre, say, First Contact Science Fiction. While authors there compete against each other at any one time, over a period of time readers who enjoy that genre will probably sample many of the authors who write in it. Thus those authors share a pool of readers. Their competitors are also-boughts.
Ever hear them say, "Try Joe and Judy first, then me?" The further down the list one is, the lower the probability of a sale.
Given a sale today or a potential sale in a year, who picks a deferred sale?
In many rational industries coopetition is a regular practice. It is possible (and a common practice) to compete for sales while cooperating towards common goals. It is only fools (and B&N execs) who steer their businesses by how much harm they can do to competitors.
The easiest decision is when it comes to growing the visibility and/or prestige of the shared business. For authors, job one is to sell their own books (obviously) but job two is helping grow the pool of readers for their chosen genre. The same reasoning lies behind most industry-specific promotional organizations like the ones advertising to promote beef or orange juice or cotton apparel.
Good business practices apply to most fields and books ade no exception.
I have to wonder if an apparently intelligent woman actually believes the nonsense in that article.
And what perchance happens to the many not in their chosen few to 'bring in'? They are kept out.
Obviously gatekeepers pick out a few people to let in. There wouldn't be much point to the gatekeeping function otherwise. Is she lying to herself or trying to lie to us? I honestly don't know.
Any segregation of "in" and "others" is by definition, gatekeeping. Just ask any nightclub bouncer.
Ha! I was thinking about nightclub bouncers on the above comment! Gatekeepers would never keep anyone out on for superficial details, right?
There's also the fact that publishers specifically appointed agents to serve as gatekeepers: how may publishers have submission rules that require you to go through an agent? In what universe is an agent in that scenario anything other than a gatekeeper?
Ah well, and next we'll be told vanity publishing isn't.
If the OP has said 'no' to anyone at all then they are a gatekeeper.
Is there any reason why a blog entry dated 07/01/2018 has comments from 2013? No indication it is some kind of re-post otherwise.
I noted that as well. I guess nothing has changed since she originally posted the "not a gatekeeper" article in 2013. Nope. Nothing has changed at all….
Deciding who to let in–since so many publishers don't take unsolicited manuscripts and require agent subs–is a job of the gatekeeper. So, yes, agents and editors are gatekeepers. And I doubt it's just about the good. If a work is good or very good but not marketable, not what they are looking for, then screw the good. It's still a business. And if a work is crap but it will sell, they'll buy it. Still a business.
Also, agents always clarify that a lot of their choice depends on what they personally liked or got excited about. Since traditionally publishing is overwhelmingly liberal, then it's natural that stories from a more conservative viewpoint will not resonate with or excite a liberal agent. They never say it this way, of course, but that's just naturally how it will play out. That's one of the reasons I decided to go indie, the realization that I'm too conservative to hit the right buttons with most of the tradpub gatekeepers, no matter how good my story might be.
She was pretty clear that she's looking for things she thinks she can sell.
Exactly. With the added observation that many of us have already snuck in around the gate. We're already mingling with the inhabitants inside the castle behind the gatekeepers' backs.
In short, the implication that the fact of a gate/gatekeeper necessarily has anything to do with anything other than preexisting power relationships is incorrect.
Not quite clear on your point above. If the gate/gatekeeper is the barrier to "publication," then we can now simply walk around the gate to get there.
Authors keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it does.
Most authors of my generation and older would have difficulty with even counting Amazon. And so, for that matter, would Ms Gardner herself (I'm quite familiar with her agency's client base… and customer base).
Changing the meaning of "publication" or "publish" in the middle of the argument brings back not-too-fond memories of Vantage (a "legitimate" old-line vanity press)… and of Dorothy Deering, Northwest Publishing, and their ilk (the 1980s and 1990s were flush with publishing con games). Don't fall into that trap — like Ms Gardner did in her statement, which makes sense only if one changes the definition in the middle of the statement.
Each person who has a so-called "gatekeeping" role is tasked with finding authors to bring in, not authors to keep out.
Each bouncer who stands at the rope line in front of the night club is tasked with finding patrons to bring in, not patrons to keep out.
I tried to parse that sentence and failed.
If you mean the OP's sentence, she's basically denying there are gatekeepers at the same time she's admitting there are gatekeepers all over the place in Tradpub.
Agents are gatekeepers for certain. Who is she kidding with her post? Fortunately for many authors, we don't need those gatekeepers anymore. The walls are down in publishing. With the advent of self-publishing, we can put our writing in front of the readers without the gatekeepers. Hooray to Amazon! But as a result, the gatekeepers' income is dwindling, so Gardner is trying to make nice. She and the other agents might want to rethink their jobs descriptions, maybe include promotion packages for writers, instead of keeping to the antiquated mode of selling to publishers exclusively. Playing with semantics is not a solution.
Some agents with hybrid clients do help them self-publish.
It's called agent-assisted self publishing and it's a sort of halfway house for authors that don't feel competent enough to go full Indie or are unwilling to learn the ropes.
They're selectors. Choosers. They're salespeople. They're looking for books they can sell. Period.
Every one of these is just a euphemism for "gatekeeper" in the world of books. Period.
To extend the very apt nightclub bouncer analogy further, the nightclub would of course have to have a surcharge on those allowed entry to pay for the bouncers. Not perfect, but then we have to account for the fact that the costs of this gatekeeping function were, by the publishers insistence on only taking manuscripts from agents, shifted to those authors chosen for publication.
PG, the final comment of your post sums it up neatly. A different analogy illustrating this aspect better analogy would be two bridges, side by side. One is a toll bridge and has been there for many years. The other is new and has no toll. Both of course lead to the same place.
More like, someone is still trying to profit by running a toll bridge after the river dried up.
Which can still work out for the owner of the toll bridge–crossing dried-up watercourses is no picnic–but they're definitely going to see a decrease in business.
The costs aren't borne solely by the "selected" authors.
Some agents have always charged "reading fees", "submission fees", and other excuses to charge dreamers and some who didn't use to are now adopting the practice.
As their main revenue streams dry up, many agents are looking for alternatives.
@Felix. You are absolutely correct of course. I left this out because I'm not sure how widespread the practice has become. But as you say, in a declining "profession" we can certainly expect the practice to spread. I tend to think literary agents as we know them are headed for extinction. Certainly their remuneration model is. To the extent that there was any value in paying 15% of earnings to an agent most of it was in getting a foot in the door. Managerial type services and legal services, which most agents were not qualified to provide in any event, are in most industries usually provided on a fee for service basis. A good bookkeeper, accountant or even a personal assistant and a good lawyer should be more than adequate for authors making a living from their work and not wanting to do things themselves. There may remain a niche market for a one stop shop but I expect it would be on a flat fee basis rather than a percentage. After all, most people don't agree on paying their accountants or lawyers a percentage of their income for their services, nor would most lawyers or accountants want to take the risk of accepting fees on this basis.
… After all, most people don't agree on paying their accountants or lawyers a percentage of their income for their services, nor would most lawyers or accountants want to take the risk of accepting fees on this basis.
True enough. And while not exactly equivalent, one of my best friends is an entertainment attorney in Hollywood. He works on (A) flat fee or (B) hourly basis. He would never consider working for a percentage. "10% of nothing is nothing," he's told me more than once.
It's the same problem with the royalty share model for indie audiobooks.
I wonder how the 15% for agents thing got started. It seems like it could have been reasonable back in the day, when an agent really was working for the author, and they could say, "You get 15 percent of whatever the final negotiated amount I get paid is," and if it's a one-time payment, that's not so strange or problematic. Kind of like a real estate agent's fee. But what the whole agent fee payment structure is now–especially with the agent being the one to receive the payment and then cut a check to the author, which is bonkers if you think about it–is a clusterf**k of lunacy that is rife for abuse and turns the whole agent/author relationship on its head.
Someone should write up a history of how the author/agent/publisher relationship started and how it transitioned to what it is now. I think an easily referenced document like that would go a long way in giving newbie writers the correct perspective on their place in this business.
Every imprint you see in the BPHs catalog used to be a separate and distinct publisher, each with its own preferences and processes. Hundreds of them and the better agents had contacts at most of them and knew who was more likely to buy what. When they lucked into a particularly attractive title, they would hold auctions with dozens of participants.
They used to offer a necessary and useful service even with publishers that accepted unsolicited/unagented manuscripts.
Now, with the BPHs having consolidated the industry to where some 90% of the market for manuscripts has vanished there is less value in agent services. A "hot" property getting "auctioned" these days means it is offered to two or three of the BPHs who then make one lowball bid each.
Corporate publishing has become a bulk business, shoveling titles out by the thousand, hoping one of them will "make the year" all by its lonesome. No one title is particularly important so most offers are take it or leave it and they really don't care if they leave it.
As a result, over recent decades the agent's bottom line has grown more dependent on the goodwill of the publishers than the well being of their authors. Annoy one big publisher and they might end up blacklisted by the entire cartel.
There's nothing wrong with the *concept* of a literary agent — i.e. a commission-based contractee who can steer publishing deals toward an author.
What makes the old agent system so dysfunctional in practice (for 99% of authors) is the agent's demand for one-sided exclusivity. If it was mutual — i.e. if an agent was only allowed to represent a single author at a time — then business incentives would be aligned between agent and author and it might actually make sense. But that arrangement's not financially feasible for 99% of agents.
As it is, literary agents end up being not just useless but actively detrimental to 99% of author careers.
Which is why 90% of agents are slowly going the way of the dodo, leaving only the top tier.


Hip-hop on strings? Classical training remixed with contemporary beats? Black Violin does both in a distinctive kaleidoscope of sound, style, and swagger.
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Please note that the pre-show discussion before this performance has been cancelled.


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Reardan is a town in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 571 at the 2010 census.
Founded in 1882 and platted in 1889, Reardan was named for Central Washington Railroad engineer C.F. Reardan. Reardan was incorporated on April 14, 1903.
The town is home to the elementary/middle/high school serving the Reardan-Edwall School District, covering over 360 square miles (930 km2) in Lincoln and Spokane counties. The slough north of town, known as Audubon Lake, is well known among birders as a busy stop on the Pacific Northwest flyway and features public facilities for viewers. A Hutterite colony settled in the area in 1961.
Mule Days has been celebrated on the first Saturday in June for over 50, featuring a Kiddie Parade, Main Parade, entertainment and games for kids at the park, three on three basketball in front of the high school, food and craft fair at the park, Community BBQ pork luncheon, Beer Garden, and Mule Days Dance.


What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage—a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding government program. It endures because it venerates its champions and brands its opponents as supporters of social injustice, and thus as enemies of humankind. As an ideological marker, social justice always works best when it is not too sharply defined.
In Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is, Michael Novak and Paul Adams seek to clarify the true meaning of social justice and to rescue it from its ideological captors. In examining figures ranging from Antonio Rosmini, Abraham Lincoln, and Hayek, to Popes Leo XIII, John Paul II, and Francis, the authors reveal that social justice is not a synonym for "progressive" government as we have come to believe. Rather, it is a virtue rooted in Catholic social teaching and developed as an alternative to the unchecked power of the state. Almost all social workers see themselves as progressives, not conservatives. Yet many of their "best practices" aim to empower families and local communities. They stress not individual or state, but the vast social space between them. Left and right surprisingly meet.


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Q: whats the exception here? HTTP Status 500 - An exception occurred processing JSP page /serverside.jsp at line 34
type Exception report
message An exception occurred processing JSP page /serverside.jsp at line 34
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /serverside.jsp at line 34
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32: <body>
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34: Connection connection =  DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hive://localhost:10000/nikhildb","","");
35: Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
36: String country_name = request.getParameter("country_name");
37: ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery("Select * from population where country_name ='"+country_name+"'");

Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:575)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:462)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:395)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:339)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Client.sendBase(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/thrift/TBase;)V
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:916)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:845)
org.apache.jsp.serverside_jsp._jspService(serverside_jsp.java:401)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:439)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:395)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:339)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)

root cause
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Client.sendBase(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/thrift/TBase;)V
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Client.send_execute(ThriftHive.java:110)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Client.execute(ThriftHive.java:102)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveStatement.executeQuery(HiveStatement.java:192)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveStatement.execute(HiveStatement.java:132)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveConnection.configureConnection(HiveConnection.java:133)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveConnection.(HiveConnection.java:122)
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver.connect(HiveDriver.java:106)
    java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
    java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215)
    org.apache.jsp.serverside_jsp._jspService(serverside_jsp.java:119)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:439)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:395)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:339)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
    org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.68 logs.
Am a bit confused for hiveserver1 and hiveserver2.Should i anything more than       hive --service hiveserver

A: NoSuchMethod exceptions are often times caused by using an older version of a library.  Please verify your dependencies.
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Survey Straightlining: What is it? How can it hurt you? And how to protect against it.
Straightlining. It's the bane of survey writers. It happens when your respondents rush through your survey clicking on the same response every time and it's a serious threat to data quality.
More technically called non-differentiation in ratings, straightlining happens when respondents lose their motivation to engage with a survey because they're bored, don't have the mental energy, or they find the survey too complex and demanding.
More sophisticated respondents will provide these sorts of responses by alternating between two or more response options in a predictable manner across a series of questions like in the examples below.
These pattern-based responses are much more difficult to detect than perfect straightlining. As a result, the effects on your data can be even more negative because it is more difficult to identify and clean out the bad responses.
Avoid grid or matrix questions – these invite negative respondent behavior and provide a false sense of economy in questionnaire design.
Present one question per page – as a general rule, this will reduce the likelihood of straightlining. That said, placing a few questions that are highly related to each other on the same page may be acceptable.
Use response options that map directly to the subject of the question – placing many questions on the same rating scale actually makes the response task harder for respondents, and makes them more likely to straightline and otherwise engage in behaviors that produce low-quality data.
Note: In this blog post we provide a handful of examples of different forms of negative response behavior in surveys. We deliberately decided to present these examples using a BAD question type (Agree-Disagree statements) a BAD response option format (grid or matrix). Please do not use either of these in your own research if you value the quality of your data.


Suzuki Bolan 2019 have been launched by Pak Suzuki. A multi-purpose car which fulfills the travel needs of family and organizations, since it makes a perfect pick and drop van. Pak Suzuki has eventually manufactured the new model and updated the van with new innovations and technologies. Suzuki hi roof hi-roof which was first introduced in the market in 1961 soon become popular among the targeted market. However, there is not much changed in comparison to the previous version. The company did make quite a few improvements in Suzuki hi roof 2019 but there is still room for improvement.
Suzuki hi roof new shape 2019 has quite a few changes. However, at the same time, it's hard to distinguish between the new and previous version. This Minivan, Suzuki hi roof 2019 is only available in one variant. The specification of the minivan is almost same like before. It will not be wrong to say that the Suzuki hi roof 2019 new model is best to fulfill the basic needs. However, the expectations should be kept low as it is very basic. Suzuki hi roof 2019 price in Pakistan is only PKR.784000. The warranty is extendable by paying extra PKR.4100.
Moreover, if you are still not willing to pay the wholesome amount at once, you may switch to installment plans. The best part about Pak Suzuki is that most of its products are easily available in installments. The number of banks, as well as private companies, offer these minivans on easy payment options. Suzuki hi roof price on installment Pakistan may hike up a bit but that is due to the depreciating value of money. Calculating and assuming the expected price of Suzuki hi roof when the installments will add. Therefore, asking a future price of the minivan. Bank Alfalah and Habib Bank Limited are offering easy installment plans for Suzuki hi roof. The Suzuki hi roof price will reach a minimum of PKR.800000 in case of choosing to pay on installment. However, Pak Suzuki itself is not offering any easy payment method for Suzuki hi roof.
Suzuki hi roof which is more commonly known as Dabba in Pakistan. Preferred for goods transportation, pick and drop service or at times personal use specifically if individuals in the family are more. There are some changes which are made in the Suzuki hi roof interior. At the same time, there are no exceptional changes made. As always the vehicle is quite spacious but offers the average comfort of seats. Moreover, seat belt option is available for front passengers only and lack airbag options. I personally think airbags must be made mandatory feature in all the vehicles.
However, the interior of Suzuki hi roof is mainly covered in vinyl which is more plastic like. Certainly, the plastic interior will not be too pleasing in Summers. Thankfully the car does offer fabric seats. Moving on, most of the vehicles are updating in Pakistan keeping in check with technology. Mainly due to immense competition and increasing consumer demands. Yet Suzuki hi roof is basic, hardly anything have been innovatively designed in this minivan. Yes! Suzuki hi roof ac fittings are there now but rest of the features remain manual. According to the company brochure, the minivan is originally designed to seat five persons. However, it is no surprise that space is enough at least 7 individuals.
Suzuki Hi Roof is a minivan which offers an average mileage. In order to cater the market it is targeted, it is important for Suzuki hi roof to offer a minivan with exceptional mileage. However, this is not the case with Suzuki hi roof. Suzuki hi roof mileage is around 12kmph when driving in the city. The mileage goes up a little bit to 14kmpl on the highway. Moreover, Suzuki hi roof top speed is around 112kmph but the petrol average goes to approximately to 10kmpl. This is certainly not pocket-friendly.
In terms of color, Pak Suzuki made a positive change. One does not need to rely on boring plain white color anymore. Suzuki hi roof colors are now three to choose from. Suzuki hi roof colors which are available in the market are pearl red, silky silver and obviously the classic solid white. On the other hand, you might have spotted in Suzuki hi roof green rolling on the streets. In other words, Suzuki hi roof in green color which was introduced in the market for a short time. Making its way through Punjab car scheme. A project of Punjab Government offering Suzuki hi roof and Ravi to those who need the minivan for running a business. The project was named as "Apna Rozgar Scheme" and PKR. 25 billion were allocated for it.
Suzuki hi is roof one of the unique vehicles with not many competitors in the market. However, yet there do exists few names which may give the minivan competition. A Chinese brand FAW Group Communication has a minivan which can be placed next to Suzuki hi roof, FAW X-PV. More or less the minivan is like Suzuki hi roof not only in price but in other specifications as well. Furthermore, it has slightly more to offer than Suzuki Bolan.
Suzuki hi Roof is available in the market with Euro ii technology. Other Suzuki Bolan specifications include 4-stroke, 3-cylinder, water-cooled OHC and EFi engine. The minivan has 4-speed transmission. The maximum horsepower of Suzuki Bolan is 27.5/5000 (kW/rpm) and maximum torque power of 62/3000 (Nm/rpm).
Suzuki hi roof sale in the market has been consistent since forever. The reason for this consistency can be that there are not many options in the market to compete with Suzuki hi roof. However, it is necessary to mention here that Suzuki hi roof does need to have improvements now. The interior and exterior are very basic. Most of the features of this minivan have been obsolete in the market but Pak Suzuki continues to use them. There is massive need for redesigning the vehicle. At the same time, the fuel efficiency of Suzuki hi roof is not too promising either.


It is December 2008 and I am working as a Sales Assistant in Boots. I have just heard a female customer ask this question. I'm restocking some shelves in the baby department, so hear questions like this all the time. There's a pause. A pause that goes on a little too long. I turn round, to see an elderly woman pushing (what I assume to be) her grandson in a pram, smiling at me.
She is talking to me. She has looked at me in my Boots uniform, which is unflattering at the best of times and has assumed that I am with child. I go pale.
This is awkward. I genuinely don't know what to say.
I laugh it off. The customer looks absolutely mortified. She's speechless. She hurries off, red-faced. She didn't apologise but I fear her attempting one may well have just made things worse.
That incident 4 years ago was the first time anyone had thought that my being overweight was down to "eating for two". It has since happened three more times, and strangely enough, only when I've been at work.
Every time I'll laugh it off, as humour is the only way I know how to deal with awkward or uncomfortable situations.
By the time I get to the "9 months" bit of that well rehearsed speech, the person who asked has almost always shuffled off, face burning.
I've always been overweight. I got mild ribbing (amazed they could find my ribs under the fat to do it) at primary school, but never really let it bother me. I had a decent enough personality that I could always make friends, a bit of teasing was never going to be enough to shatter my cheery disposition. Anyway. Everyone needs a friend shorter and chubbier than them, as it'll make them look taller AND slimmer. What more could you want?
I've found a clothing style that I'm comfortable with, and don't really care if clothes aren't "weight appropriate". I love wearing dresses and don't think my body shape should stop me from wearing something that I love.
On the other hand however, I do need to lose a bit of weight. I'm never going to be waif like, and I'm certainly not planning on looking like a lollipop (big head, tiny body) as I actually have hips.
Enough weight so I'm not offered a seat on a crowded bus will do me just fine, thank you.
← Step Aside, Party Animals.


The metabolic deregulation associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) causes secondary pathophysiologic changes in multiple organ systems. Endothelial injury is induced by oxidative stress (OS) and inflammation. We have previously shown that DM type 2 patients are exposed to increased OS and inflammation contributed in part by primed peripheral polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs).
To characterize the effect of oral medication on PMNL priming, on PMNL-related and on systemic inflammation, in correlation to changed diabetes parameters in patient with newly diagnosed type 2 DM.
PMNLs were separated from DM patient's prior and following treatment with either metformin (Glucophage), or Thiazolidinedione (rosiglitazone) and from healthy control subjects (HC). Rate of superoxide release from phorbol ester-stimulated PMNLs and CD11b on PMNLs assessed PMNL priming. White blood cells (WBC) and PMNL counts and apoptosis reflected PMNL-related inflammation. CRP, fibrinogen, transferrin and albumin blood levels reflected systemic inflammation.
Both metformin and rosiglitazone treatments reduced significantly the high levels of glucose and HbA1c, and slightly improved lipid profile during 2 months. PMNL priming parameters, higher compared to HC, increased after 2 months of metformin treatment. Rosiglitazone treatment decreased PMNL priming. ALP, higher in DM, significantly decreased following 2 months of both treatments. Systemic inflammation markers (fibrinogen, CRP), higher in DM, decreased following both treatments. Transferrin and albumin were similar to HC. PMNL-related inflammation markers were higher in DM; however, only PMNL apoptosis decreased after both treatments. Monocyte counts, higher in DM compared to HC, decreased following both treatments. Serum insulin levels, higher in DM compared to HC, decreased following both treatments. PMNL-related priming and inflammation parameters positively correlated with HbA1c.
The present research adds new facet in evaluating anti-hyperglycemic treatment in type 2 DM patients. Despite sufficient glycemic control using both treatments, some PMNL-related parameters deteriorated. Thus, anti hyperglycemic treatment should be favored due to its combined anti-PMNL priming and anti-inflammatory effect, in addition to its anti-hyperglycemic characteristics, according to the correlation among these parameters. Such combined treatment may reduce morbidity and mortality common in DM patients.
Atherosclerosis begins during adolescence in otherwise healthy individuals; it develops earlier in type 2 diabetic patients and frequently is the leading cause of premature mortality. Whereas there is now highly persuasive evidence that glycemic control reduces the the risk of microvascular complications in type 1 diabetes, and probabily in type 2 diabetes as well, such evidence is unavailable for macrovascular complications. There is a close linkage bettween rapidly developing atherosclerosis in diabetic patients and endothelial dysfunction and insulin resistance in diabetes mellitus [1–3]. Endothelial dysfunction appears to predate the development of diabetic angiopathy and play a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetic angiopathy in man. Insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and inflammation all play a key role and participate in the development of endothelial dysfunction [4–7]. Much evidence support the presence of insulin resistance as the fundamental pathophysiologic disturbance for the clauster of metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, known as the metabolic syndrome. Oxidative stress is believed to play a role in diabetic-induced vascular complication [8–10]. Chronic exposure to increased levels of hydroxyl radicals in vivo likely plays a significant role in the origine of diabetes-associated endothelial dysfunction. Diabetic endothelium produce increase in both superoxide anion radicals and hydrogen peroxide leading to enhanced intracellular production of hydroxyl radicals that could be implicated in diabetes-induced endothelial dysfunction. Chronic treatment with a known hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethylthiourea, could prevent endothelial dysfunction in diabetes. Other indicators for the oxidative stress in diabetes the elevated levels of advanced glycation end products (AGE) that rise in parallel with the severity and complications of the disease [11, 12], as we can demonstrate this during the elevation of HbA1c in diabetes . We have previously shown that in other clinical situations known to be associated with endothelial dysfunction and accelerated atherosclerosis such as uremia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, PMN are primed, contributing to OS and inflammation [14–16]. PMNLs from diabetic patients demonstrated defects in LPS-induced apoptosis. High-glucose environment may mediate these findings. The inability of diabetic neutrophils to reduce apoptosis following LPS exposure resulted in relatively increased apoptosis. This would cause decreased functional longevity of neutrophils and increased neutrophil clearance from infectious sites, possibly contributing to the increased susceptibility and severity of infections in diabetic patients . Other inflammatory markers found in diabetes as elevated levels of sCD14 , fibrinogen and CRP that shown a significant correlation with PMNLs [19, 20]. Monocytes are the principal inflammatory cells associated with the plaque formation, adherence of monocytes to the arterial wall is an early event in the development of atherosclerotic lesions. In uncontrolled diabetes with elevated HbA1c as in hyperglycemia in vitro, the peripheral blood monocytes are preferentially recruited to the intima early in the development of atheroma, they adhere to endothelium, migrate to the subendothelial space, and trasformed into lipid-lader foamy macrophages [21–25]. High doses of vitamin E (800 IU/day) can decrease the recruitment of monocytes to endothelim and cause decrement in oxidized LDL and the level of various plasma interleukines [22, 24]. Therefore any drug that can decrease the activation of PMNLs or the monocytes, oxidative stress and inflammation should be preferable and better than drugs that treat only the hyperglycemia. Thus, in the present study we compare PMNL priming parameters in diabetic patients, treated daily with metformin for two months to those treated with rosiglitazone.
Thirty untreated DM patients patients were included in this study: All the participants in this study were in age range of 30–65 year and nonsmokers. Patients underwent medical evaluation including opthalmoscopic examination, ECG and laboratory tests. The following exclusion criteria that were applied for the diabetic patients: significant dyslipidemia – LDL-cholesterol ≥ 130 mg%, HDL-cholesterol ≤ 35 mg%, triglycerides ≥ 400 mg%; evidence for microvascular diseases (diabetic retinopathy and diabetic nephropathy) and evidence for macrovascular disease (coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease); obese, BMI ≥ 30; Blood pressure > 130/85.
The untreated DM patients were further enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study, being followed up for 4 and 8 weeks of either metformin (850 mg/day) or rosiglitazone (4 mg/day) treatment.
A group of age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HC, n = 20) were included in the study. The inclusion of HC participants was based upon a clinical examination with laboratory confirmation. Patients and subjects gave informed consent for blood sampling approved by the institutional committee in accordance with the Helsinki declaration.
Blood was drawn in the morning after an overnight fast from hyperlipidemic patients and HC for the determination of biochemical and hematological parameters and for PMNL isolation. PMNL isolation was carried out from a 20 mL heparinized blood sample as previously described [15, 16, 26]. The separated PMNLs (>98% pure, approximately 107 cells per isolation) were resuspended in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) containing 0.1% glucose. Sera were used for the determination of C-reactive protein (CRP), albumin and transferrin while plasma served for fibrinogen quantification.
The measurements of the rate of superoxide release are based on superoxide dismutase (SOD) inhibitable reduction of 80 μM cytochrome C (Sigma, St. Louis, MO., USA) to its ferrous form. The rate of superoxide release was monitored from 106 separated PMNLs at 22°C up to 90 min as previously described [15, 16, 27].
The PMNL membrane adhesion molecule CD11b was determined by flow cytometry, reflecting PMNL priming . Whole blood was treated with 0.1% formic acid to lyse the erythrocytes, and mouse anti human-CD11b phycoreythrin (PE)-conjugated antibody (Immunotech, Marseille, France) was added. Anti-human CD16 PC5-conjugated antibody (Immunotech, Marseille, France) was also used in all samples to enable gating on the PMNL population.
Counts of WBC, PMNLs and monocytes from blood drawn in EDTA were performed by an automated cell counter (Coulter STKS, Miami, Fla., USA).
Apoptosis was determined in whole blood from 20 randomly chosen hyperlipidemic patients and 20 HC by flow cytometry according to Kuypers et al. . Briefly, Annexin V kit (Bender MedSystems, Vienna, Austria) was applied to blood samples after lysis of red blood cells by Q prep (Beckman Coulter, Fullerton, California, USA). Monoclonal anti-CD16 labeled with PC5, was used for gating on PMNLs.
Fibrinogen levels were measured in plasma using the K-Assay® kit (Kamiya Biomedical Company) by chemical analyzer (Cobas Mira, Roche Diagnostics, Germany). Blood CRP levels were measured using commercial kit (Biokit, Spain) by the Hitachi 917 Automatic analyzer (Roche Diagnostics, Germany).
Blood albumin (Alb plus, Roche Diagnostics, Manheim, Germany) and transferrin (Transferrin ver.2, Roche Diagnostics, Manheim, Germany) levels were measured using the Hitachi 917 Automatic analyzer (Roche Diagnostics, Germany).
Data values are means ± SD. The two groups were compared by student t-test, using Prism version 3.0 statistical software (GraphPad software, San Diego, Ca). Correlations between different study parameters were performed using Pearson correlation coefficients. P < 0.05 was considered significant.
Table 1 summarizes the biochemical characteristics of the participants. All studied groups of patients showed similar age range, blood pressure values, serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides, and liver enzymes, without showing target organ damage. Most traditional risk factors were similar during antihyperglycemic treatment period. ALP was higher in DM compared to HC and decreased during 2 months of both treatments (Table 1). Along with its role as an hepatic enzyme, former studies have shown significantly higher blood level of this enzyme in hypertensive patients and rats, following degranulation from primed PMNLs . The present study adds DM patients to this finding, and shows ameliorating results following both antihyperglycemic treatment.
The changes in DM patients' parameters.
The diabetes characteristics over 8 weeks period of antihyperglycemic treatment is depicted in Table 1: Blood HbA1c and glucose levels significantly decreased following both treatment. Insulin levels, significantly higher in DM compared to HC, decreased following both antihyperglycemic treatment (Table 1).
PMNL priming parameters revealed different picture with each antihyperglycemic treatment; the metformin-treated patients showed significant increase in PMNL priming, as reflected by significant increase either in the rate of superoxide release from separated PMNLs or in CD11b levels on PMNLs (Fig. 1a and 1b, respectively). However, the rosiglitazone treatment inhibited significantly either the rate of superoxide release from separated PMNLs or in CD11b levels on PMNLs (Fig. 1a and 1b, respectively). It has to be emphasized that both groups of patients showed higher values of PMNL priming compared to those measured in HC subjects.
PMNL priming parameters, namely, rate of superoxide release (a) and PMNL CD11b levels (b), before and following 1 and 2 months of either metformin (blank) or combined Roziglytazone (dotted) treatment. Data are mean ± SEM. aP < 0.05, vs. HC subjects; b P < 0.05, vs. untreated DM patients.
Counts of WBC and PMNLs, significantly higher in DM compared to HC, decreased only after rosiglitazone treatment, while metformin treatment caused a rise in these cells' count (Table 2). The significant higher level of monocytes in DM patients, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments (Table 2).
The changes in DM patients' inflammation parameters.
Apoptosis of PMNLs, higher in DM, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments (Table 2).
Fibrinogen and CRP levels, higher in DM, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments (Table 2).
Albumin and transferrin levels were similar to HC and did not change following antihyperglycemic treatment (Table 2).
Blood HbA1c but not blood glucose levels were significantly positively correlated with the rates of superoxide release from PMA-stimulated PMNLs separated from all studied DM patients (R = 0.4, P = 0.004, Figure 2A; R = 0.081, P = 0.52, Figure 2B, respectively). Similar correlation was found with the second parameter of PMNL priming, namely CD11b (R = 0.4; P = 0.03). Similarly, Blood HbA1c levels were significantly positively correlated with WBC (R = 0.4, P = 0.005) or with PMNL counts (R = 0.5, P = 0.0008; Figure 3, respectively). These findings are indicative of relation between OS and the severity the disease, as reflected by HbA1c levels.
Correlation between the rates of superoxide release from separated PMA-stimulated PMNLs and either blood HbA1c (A) or blood glucose levels (B). Data refers to values from DM patients and HC subjects.
Correlation between blood HbA1c levels and either (A) WBC or PMNL (B) counts. Data refers to values from DM patients and HC subjects.
Our results show that type 2 diabetic patients are exposed to oxidative stress and chronic inflammation (partially because of the primed state of their PMNLs) before any clinical evidence of angiopathy exist . When separated, PMA-stimulated diabetic PMNLs release superoxide significantly faster than normal control PMNLs and concomitantly with a reduced level of the plasma antioxidant GSH, predisposing these patients to OS . Thirty untreated DM patients patients were included in this study: All the participants in this study were in age range of 30–65 year and nonsmokers. Patients underwent medical evaluation including opthalmoscopic examination, ECG and laboratory tests. The untreated DM patients were further enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study, being followed up for 4 and 8 weeks of either metformin (850 mg/day) or rosiglitazone (4 mg/day) treatment. A group of age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HC, n = 20) were included in the study.
Blood HbA1c and glucose levels significantly decreased following both treatment. Insulin levels, significantly higher in DM compared to HC, decreased following both antihyperglycemic treatment. Lipid profile (LDL-C, triglycerides) was also improved after two months following antihyperglycemic treatment as was described in literature . PMNL priming parameters revealed different picture with each antihyperglycemic treatment; the metformin-treated patients showed significant increase in PMNL priming, as reflected by significant increase either in the rate of superoxide release from separated PMNLs or in CD11b levels on PMNLs. However, the rosiglitazone treatment inhibited significantly either the rate of superoxide release from separated PMNLs or in CD11b levels on PMNLs. It has to be emphasized that both groups of patients showed higher values of PMNL priming compared to those measured in HC subjects. ALP was higher in DM compared to HC and decreased during 2 months of both treatments. Along with its role as an hepatic enzyme, former studies have shown significantly higher blood level of this enzyme in hypertensive patients and rats, following degranulation from primed PMNLs . The present study adds DM patients to this finding, and shows ameliorating results following both antihyperglycemic treatment. Counts of WBC and PMNLs, significantly higher in DM compared to HC, decreased only after rosiglitazone treatment, while metformin treatment caused a rise in these cells' count. The significant higher level of monocytes in DM patients, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments. Albumin and transferrin levels were similar to HC and did not change following antihyperglycemic treatment. Other inflammatory markers like fibrinogen and CRP levels, higher in DM, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments. Apoptosis of PMNLs, higher in DM, decreased significantly after both antihyperglycemic treatments. Blood HbA1c but not blood glucose levels were significantly positively correlated with the rates of superoxide release from PMA-stimulated PMNLs separated from all studied DM patients (R = 0.4, P = 0.004, R = 0.081, P = 0.52, respectively). Similar correlation was found with the second parameter of PMNL priming, namely CD11b (R = 0.4; P = 0.03). Similarly, Blood HbA1c levels were significantly positively correlated with WBC (R = 0.4, P = 0.005) or with PMNL counts (R = 0.5, P = 0.0008; respectively). These findings are indicative of relation between OS and the severity of the disease, as reflected by HbA1c levels. Likewise, multiple clinical trials show that reduction of HbA1c and blood glucose with the known antihyperglycemic treatments was optimal but all other inflammatory markers were worsen during the same treatment [21–26]. There is a great disagreement if tight control of glycaemia and decreasing HbA1c is sufficient to prevent the danger and risk for cardiovascular diseases and atherosclerosis.
Our present research adds new facet in evaluating anti-hyperglycemic treatment in type 2 DM patients. Despite sufficient glycemic control achieved using both treatments, some PMNL-related parameters deteriorated. Thus, anti hyperglycemic treatment should be favored due to its combined anti-PMNL priming and anti-inflammatory effect, in addition to its anti-hyperglycemic characteristics, according to the correlation among these parameters. Such combined treatment may reduce morbidity and mortality common in DM patients [30, 31]. Multiple other studies showed the beneficial effects of Thiazolidinediones (rosiglitazone) on cardiovascular disease in diabetes beyond improving blood glucose control [32–36]. There is a great need to complete this research with more time periods and sample to check the relation between the OS index and other inflammatory markers and the various anti hyperglycemic treatments in the reduction of mortality and morbidity.


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RIP Alexander McQueen, Marc Gets Married, And 11 Green Designers At NYFW
Story from Politics
Connie Wang
The fashion world mourns and celebrates the genius of McQueen. RIP, big guy. (WWD)
And some more uplifting news. Marc Jacobs did get married after all. Can we credit their respective trouser snakes for the love affair? (Gawker)
Here are 11 green designers showing at NYFW. Support sustainability! (ecouterre)
Sorry for all the Gaga news, but DID YOU SEE WHAT SHE WORE? (Telegraph)
A Marc Jacobs bag for only $35? Don't trample over each other on your way to pick one up! (Racked)
"In fashion terms, it's hard when you have a woman like Isabella who was so strong in her public image but couldn't stand her ground in her personal life. I know the other side. She would say that fashion killed her. But, also, she allowed that to happen in a lot of ways. She would never understand that all it came down to was: 'You just are, Isabella. And that is your commodity.' She never understood that because of her insecurities. She would let people play her, and she wouldn't play herself." Alexander McQueen to Cathy Horyn, about his friendship with and kinship toward Isabella Blow. (NYT)
Alexander McQueen • Fashion Week • Politics
written by Connie Wang
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Want to know more about the church season of Lent? Here is the description from our church body at LCMS.org.
You can join us at Messiah for Mid-Week Lenten Services every Wednesday from February 10 – March 16.
Q: What is the significance of Lent?
A: Early in the Church's history, the major events in Christ's life were observed with special observances, such as His birth, baptism, death, resurrection and ascension. As these observances developed, a period of time was set aside prior to the major events of Jesus' birth and resurrection as a time of preparation. During Lent, the Church's worship assumes a more penitential character. The color for the season is purple, a color often associated with penitence. The "Hymn of Praise" is omitted from the liturgy. The word "Alleluia" is usually omitted as well. By not using the alleluia–a joyful expression meaning "Praise the Lord"–until Easter, the Lenten season is clearly set apart as a distinct time from the rest of the year. Additionally, it forms a powerful contrast with the festive celebration of Jesus' resurrection when our alleluias ring loud and clear. Finally, the penitential character of Lent is not its sole purpose. In the ancient Church, the weeks leading up to Easter were a time of intensive preparation of the candidates who were to be baptized at the Easter vigil on Holy Saturday. This time in the Church's calendar was seen as an especially appropriate time for Baptism because of the relationship between Christ's death and resurrection and our own in Holy Baptism (see Romans 6:1-11). This focus would suggest that the season of Lent serves not only as a time to meditate on the suffering that Christ endured on our behalf but also as an opportunity to reflect upon our own Baptism and what it means to live as a child of God.
A: From the perspective of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, "giving something up for Lent" is entirely a matter of Christian freedom. It would be wrong, from our perspective, for the church to make some sort of "law" requiring its members to "give something up for Lent," since the Scriptures themselves do not require this. If, on the other hand, a Christian wants to give something up for Lent as a way of remembering and personalizing the great sacrifice that Christ made on the cross for our sins, then that Christian is certainly free to do so–as long as he or she does not "judge" or "look down on" other Christians who do not choose to do this.


I am in the thinking phase of my upcoming upgrade from Scientific Linux 7.4 (RHEL clone, based on CentOS). My qemu-kvm virtual machines are running under a really, rally out dated defunct version of qemu-kvm (1.5.3).
Paranoid question: will my VM run under Fedora's version of qemu-kvm (2.9.x) or will I need to re-create them?
It seems new features/bug fixes are regularly backported to qemu-1.5.3. Also I don't think the qcow2 disk format has changed.
Thank you. I haven't seen an update in a while. I also do not know what the RHEL kvm maintainers choose to back port as there are a lot of issues that drive me nuts, especially with USB ports, that have been fixed in Fedora. I think they mainly only fix security issues, not usability/performance issues, but I am only guessing.