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Watch: Steve Forbes destroys the GOP tax plan — and explains how Republicans 'betrayed' Trump
Steve Forbes explains how Republicans have "betrayed" Trump on tax reform. (Image via Twitter @FoxBusiness screenshot)
Economist Steve Forbes bashed the Republican tax plan in an interview on Fox Business Friday, while explaining how it was a "betrayal" of President Donald Trump.
What did he say?
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Fox Business host Trish Regan that despite differences in tax reform bills in the House and Senate, everyone was "on the same page" and called the differences "minor." Forbes, however, didn't buy that, and went on to slam the reform effort.
"You've got more complexity now, you've got huge differences...it really is a betrayal of President Trump. The Republicans should have had a simple tax cut if you weren't gonna do a flat tax, instead of getting all of these things, they've got everyone upset, so they should go back to basics," Forbes said.
Forbes went on to offer some advice on how to make a better bill.
"Do the 15 or 20 percent corporate rate, cut rates on the personal side across the board immediately, make it effective immediately," he suggested.
Forbes, a former presidential candidate, ended by labeling legislators working on the bills "inmates at the asylum" and said that more could have been accomplished if Trump weren't in Asia on a 12-day trip. In the end, Forbes predicted the bill likely to be agreed upon by both chambers will be "bad — the worst of both sides."
.@SteveForbesCEO on the GOP tax proposals: It really is a betrayal of President Trump. pic.twitter.com/SYxuJDL2vb
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) November 10, 2017


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Ten Years in the Doghouse
Doghouse was founded by accident in May 2003 when it was suggested to the founders that they edit an anthology of writers who had read at Poets' Corner, Tralee to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the readings series.
A shed which used to house greyhounds was donated and converted for office space, hence the name Doghouse. The anthology, Heart of Kerry, was launched in January 2004 and after announcing that "manuscripts were welcome" the floodgates opened
To celebrate the anniversary Doghouse has compiled an anthology of new work by twenty nine poets published over the last ten years and entitled it Ten Years in the Doghouse. I'm delighted to have three poems included.
Doghouse will hold a number of launches for the anthology. The first is on Sunday 4 August at 4.30pm at the Forge Inn & Restaurant, Fermoy, Co. Cork during the Fermoy Poetry Festival.
Two days later, on Tuesday 6 August, the anthology will have its Limerick launch at the On The Nail Readings in the Locke Bar, Limerick at 8pm. The Tralee launch will be in Stoker's Lodge, Tralee on Bank Holiday Monday 28 October at 5pm.
Labels: Doghouse; poetry anthology; Tralee; Fermoy poetry festival; On the nail poetry reading; limerick
Fifth Anniversary Celebration of iYeats Poetry Competition
The Hawk's Well Theatre Sligo, has organised a 5th anniversary celebration of the iYeats Poetry Competition in the theatre on 3 August, at 8pm. This event, entitled ALOUD will also include the announcement of this year's winners.
The celebration will include readings from Mary Branley, Gerald Dawe, Katie Donovan, James Harpur, Paula Meehan, Niall McMonagle and Enda Wyley all distinguished poets and past judges of the iYeats online international poetry competition.
The readings will be complemented by invited musicians including American Kyle Alden, a San Francisco based singer/songwriter best known for his award winning folk music settings of W.B. Yeats' poetry.
This is a Tread Softly Yeats Festival Season event. Tickets can be booked on the website.
As a commended poet in the iYeats Competition in 2010 I was invited to attend but unfortunately cannot as I will be attending the Fermoy Poetry Festival at that time. I will be attending the Poets Parlour event in the Yeats Memorial Building later that week on the Friday 9 August, at 1pm.
Labels: 'ALOUD';iYeats Poetry Competition; Sligo; Yeats Summer School; Mary Branley, Enda Wyley, Gerald Dawe, James Harpur, Katie Donovan, Niall McMonagle, Paula Meehan
Yeats International Summer School
The 54th Yeats International Summer School begins tomorrow, Sunday 28 July at 2.30pm. The school will be formally opened by Mark Patrick Hederman OSB (Abbot of Glenstal Abbey) in the Hawks Well Theatre on Sunday at 2.30pm. Mark Patrick will also speak at Evensong in Drumcliffe Church at 5.00pm. All Welcome.
The school lectures will take place at 9.30am and 11.15am in the Hawk's Well Theatre each weekday morning. Lectures are open to the public at a cost of ϵ10.00 per lecture or ϵ15.00 for two.
George Bornstein will speak about 'September 1913' on Tuesday morning and Padraig Yeates will speak about the 1913 lockout on Friday morning.
Other lecturers during the two weeks include Helen Vendler, Alexandra Poulain, Hedwig Schwall, Geraldine Higgins, Gwinn Batten, Madeline Callaghan, Alex Davis, Maureen McLane, Emilie Morin, Jahan Ramazani, Tom Walker, Warwick Gould, Deirdre Toomey and Susan Wolfson.
Other events during the week include:
A round table on the role of the Seanad, convened by Senator Susan O'Keeffe will take place in the Methodist Church, Wine street at 8.00pm on Tuesday 30th July. Tickets are available at the door.
Poetry readings at the Methodist Church, Wine Street with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading on Wednesday 31 July at 8.00pm and Paula Meehan reading on Friday evening at 8.00pm. Tickets are available at the door.
Swift Hour, Megan Sexton's first poetry collection, will be launched on Thursday 1st August at 1.00pm in the Methodist Church, Wine Street.
The week will finish with Seamus Heaney reading from his work on Sunday 4 August in the Hawks Well Theatre.
Labels: Yeats International Summer School; Sligo; Hawk's Well Theatre; Mark Patrick Hederman OSB; Seamus Heaney; September 1913; Megan Sexton
New Writer of The Year Competition
In 2013 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual New Writer of The Year Competition. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide who have not had a book published.
The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300.
One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2013.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet. Closing date: Wednesday 7 August.
This year's competition judge is Sarah Clancy (above). Sarah Clancy has been shortlisted for several poetry prizes including the Listowel Collection of Poetry Competition and the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her first book of poetry, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull, was published by Lapwing Press Belfast in December 2010 and a further selection of her work was published in June 2011 by Doire Press.
For further details e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com or see the website.
Labels: New Writer of The Year competition; Over the Edge; Galway; Charlie Byrne's Bookshop; Sarah Clancy
The Penny Dreadful Launch
The Penny Dreadful literary magazine is about to publish its second issue. The launch details are as follows:
Dublin: Friday July 26th - The Twisted Pepper, Lower Abbey Street - 7:30-10:00
Galway: August 2nd - Charlie Byrne's Bookshop - Time TBC
Cork: August 19th - The Roundy, Patrick Street - 20:30 till late
I hope to attend the Dublin launch to read my poem about 1916. This was written in response to a LitLab exercise. "Write" might be the wrong word as this is what is called a "found poem", the text is not mine but the arrangement is.
If you can't attend one of the launches you can purchase online on the website.
Labels: Penny Dreadful; literary magazine;
Ledwidge Day - Sunday 28 July 2013
The annual Ledwidge Day event takes place this year on Sunday 28 July in Tankardstown House, Slane at 3.30pm.
This afternoon of music, poetry and song will include the Dublin Shakespeare Society in a drama, Letters of Love and Loss. This will be followed by a reading by poet John F. Deane from his recently published collection Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill.
More information on the Francis Ledwidge Museum website. Free parking. Come early to avoid disappointment.
Labels: Ledwidge Day; Tankardstown House, Slane; John F Deane; Dublin Shakespeare Society; Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill
RSPB/The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition
The RSPB is working in partnership with leading independent UK poetry magazine, The Rialto, which will showcase the winning entries. As well as offering poets the chance to win considerable cash prizes and publication of their poems, the competition will raise money for conservation and poetry.
Prizes: 1st £1000: 2nd £500: 3rd A Place on a Creative Writing Course at Ty Newydd in 2014 (worth £540). Additional prize, a personal tour with Mark Cocker of his most cherished wild life places in East Anglia. Mark is one of Britain's most celebrated writers on nature.
The judge is celebrated poet, writer and broadcaster, Ruth Padel. Ruth is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Council Member for the Zoological Society of London.
Her latest collection, The Mara Crossing, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize, explores human and animal migration in poetry and prose. She writes and presents BBC Radio 4 'Poetry Workshop'. Ruth will read all the poems entered in the competition.
The entry fee is £6 for the first poem and £3 for each subsequent entry. Full details and the facility to enter online can be found on The Rialto website. Closing date for entries is 30 September 2013.
They are anxious to stress that the term 'Nature Poetry' will be given a wide interpretation by the judge and they refer to this mention of the competition in an editorial for The Rialto:
So what is Nature Poetry? As the flier says, the judge will give this a wide interpretation. I'd imagine it won't have to be just poems about creatures and beings that share the planet, or about 'environmental concerns'. We are all air and water, everything we eat comes from the earth or the sea, most people know the roughness of a leaf or the heft of a stone can change a mood or express a feeling. I asked a 16 year old, What is nature? and she said, insects and grass: I asked a 32 year old the same question and she said, the sun and the moon and the stars and flowers and fruit and babies. You might just have to write your poems and take a risk.
Labels: RSPB; The Rialto; Nature Poetry Competition; Ruth Padel
Cara Quilt a Poem Competition
LitLab, organisers of the Bailieborough Poetry Festival 4-5 October 2013, have announced the Cara Quilt a Poem Competition. Full details are on the website. The competition is sponsored by Cara Pharmacy and Beauty.
Poems must be about, or inspired by, any of the quilts exhibited on the competition page. Closing date for entry is Friday 13th September. First prize of €250.
All shortlisted poems will be featured at a reading at Bailieborough Poetry Festival on Saturday 5th October 2013, and authors will be invited to attend. If the author is unable to attend the short-listed poem will be read by a LitLab member. The winner will be announced at that reading and will be published on the website.
Each poem must not exceed 50 lines, and should be typed, single-spaced. Up to three poems may be submitted per entry. A fee of €5 per entry (3 poems) is payable. Payment can be made via PayPal on the website. Submissions should be emailed to quiltcomp@bailieboroughpoetry.com. Postal entries will also be accepted.
I have been asked to judge this competition and look forward to the responses to the wonderful quilts on show on the webpage. These quilts will also be on exhibition in Bailieborough Library during the Bailieborough Poetry Festival.
Labels: Bailieborough Poetry Festival; Cara Pharmacy; Quilts;
Bailieborough Poetry Festival & Competition
My "other" writers group is LitLab which began in 2006 as an initiative by Meath and Cavan Arts Offices to provide mentoring for new and emerging writers in the two counties.
The initial workshops were held in Kells Library under the guidance of John McAllister, author, from Armagh. The group continues to meet fortnightly, in the Library in Bailieborough, County Cavan.
LitLab is publishing an anthology of the members' work in October. The anthology is being edited by well-known poet and performer, a fellow-Doghouse poet, Barbara Smith.
In connection with the launch of the anthology the group is organizing a weekend of readings, workshops and a poetry competition in Bailieborough on the weekend of 4th and 5th October this year - a Poetry Festival.
Visiting poets will include; Nessa O'Mahony, Barbara Smith, Heather Brett, Rebecca O Connor and Noel Monahan. The venues will include the town library in the old Market Square, Bia restaurant and the Wesleyan Church.
In conjunction with the poetry festival there will be a quilt exhibition hanging in the arts space of the library and the poetry competition, sponsored by Cara Pharmacy and Beauty, is based on responses in poetry to these quilts.
The festival website has just been put online. It has details of the competition. A full programme for the festival will follow soon.
Labels: Bailieborough Poetry Festival; Poetry Competition; LitLab; Quilts and poetry; Cavan arts Office; Meath Arts Office
John Hewitt International Summer School
A week of poetry (and much, much more) in Armagh: Monday 22 July– to Friday 26 July 2013.
A fantastic programme of poets at the Marketplace Theatre in Armagh City including Simon Armitage, Medbh McGuckian, Penelope Shuttle, Julian Stannard, James Byrne, Orfhlaith Foyle, Pat Boran, Noel Monahan, Jean Bleakney and Conor O'Callaghan, plus a choice of seven creative-writing workshop groups running throughout the week, with the poetry sessions led by James Byrne and Eoghan Walls… plus lectures, talks, drama, music, visual arts, discussions, exhibitions & a creative-writers' reading event.
Other guests include Shirley Williams, Salley Vickers, Pat McCabe, Diljit Rana, Anne Enright, Suleiman Abdulahi, Carlo Gebler, Andy Pollak, Heather Richardson, Nessa O'Mahony, Deirdre Madden, Jan Jedrzejewski: plus Ian Sansom and Wireless Mystery Theatre in The Play of the Book, and the Lurig Players' prizewinning production of David Mamet's Duck Variations.
All part of the five-day festival of culture and creativity that is the 26th John Hewitt International Summer School, with this year's lectures and discussions themed around Living Among Strangers: the lost meaning of home. Full programme online.
Come for the week, a day, or a single event, or dip in and out through the week as you discover this great ancient city & the stunning countryside that inspired poets Paul Muldoon and John Hewitt….
Labels: John Hewitt International Summer School; Marketplace Theatre; Armagh;
A Book for Mary Lavin's Centenary
The centenary of Mary Lavin's birth occurred last year and there were a series of events organised in Meath where the writer lived for many years.
Now Irish Academic Press has published a collection of essays honouring her, one of the leading figures of the Irish short story tradition.
Throughout her lifetime, Mary Lavin's writings were recognised and celebrated both at home and abroad.
Her first collection of stories, Tales from Bective Bridge, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1943 and she won two Guggenheim awards in 1959 and 1961.
In this book leading critics examine the main themes and stylistic features of Lavin's novels and short stories from a variety of perspectives. Heather Ingman explores the themes of masculinity and gender in Lavin's writing;; family and community are the main themes analysed by Elke D'hoker.
Aspects of her own turbulent life are examined as her critics aim to understand her multiple meanings, contexts and concerns. This book is a poignant and significant study of the life, work and writings of one of Ireland's most prolific female writers of the twentieth century, Mary Lavin.
The editor is Elke D'hoker, Associate Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and the foreword is written by Colm Tobin.
The book is available in paperback, priced at €24.95 from good bookshops or from the publisher's website.
Labels: Mary Lavin; Irish Academic Press; edited by Elke D'hoker; Colm Tobin; Tales from Bective Bridge
Skylight 47 Launch
The July Over The Edge Writers' Gathering at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street on Thursday, 11 July, 6.30-8pm will see the launch of the second issue of Skylight 47, with special guests Eamonn Wall and Patrick Kehoe.
All contributors to this issue of Skylight 47 are invited to come along and read their poem from the magazine. All are welcome. There is no cover charge. Copies of the magazine will be on sale on the evening and can also be purchased here.
Eamonn Wall, Professor of Irish Studies/Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Wexford native, will officially launch the new issue and read some of his own poems. Poet Patrick Kehoe will also read from his debut collection, It's Words You Want.
I was lucky to be included in Issue One of this poetry newspaper and I'm delighted that my collection, Asking for Directions, is being reviewed in this issue.
Labels: Over The Edge Writers' Gathering; Skylight 47; Eamonn Wall; Patrick Kehoe; Asking for Directions; Poetry newspaper.
President Michael D Higgins at Swift Satire Festival
The Swift Satire Festival closed this afternoon with President Michael D Higgins delivering the inaugural Swift Lecture to a large, appreciative audience in Trim Castle Hotel.
Before the lecture the President unveiled an information panel beside Trim Castle about the film Braveheart, made in Trim at a time when Michael D Higgins was the minister in charge. He spoke of the importance to the film industry in Ireland of films such as Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan.
His lecture was entitled Jonathan Swift, savage indignation, contradictions, vulnerabilities and a lesson for our times. It was a comprehensive, wide ranging discussion of Swift, his times, his writings and the relevancy of his ideas. A fascinating overview for those who knew little about Swift with keen insights for those who were familiar with the writer.
One of his main themes was Swift's rage at the realization that rationality was not sufficient. It is this rage in Swift which is sometimes mistakenly labelled as misanthropy. Human nature, Swift said, was not rational but rather was capable of being rational.
The President drew a parallel with current affairs suggesting that we had been led to believe that financial structures, institutions and markets were rational but have been disappointed. He also pointed out that one of Swift's best known satires, Drapier's Letters, published anonymously, was against a financial scheme.
And so much more! All delivered with great enthusiasm. Makes you want to go back and read Gulliver's Travels again. It is possible that the text or video of the lecture may appear on the website of the President at a later date.
Labels: President Michael D Higgins; Swift Satire Festival; Swift Lecture; Braveheart; Trim Co Meath;
The Great Gulliver Gathering
Scenes from the Great Gulliver Gathering, the reading of the whole of Gulliver's Travels in just over six minutes at the Swift Satire Festival.
All 302 pages of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels were read by over 100 people in the largest simultaneous reading event ever undertaken in Ireland.
Top: The scene beside the castle where registration took place. Sunshine, stalls, bouncing castle, the comedy tent - a glorious setting.
Below: Part of the crowd of readers near the Sheepgate just before the reading commenced.
The Festival continues when one of the highlights should be the inaugural Swift Lecture to be delivered by the President of Ireland. This takes place in the Great Hall at Trim Castle Hotel at 4pm on Sunday, 7 July.
All the details are on the website.
Labels: Great Gulliver Gathering, Gulliver's Travels; Swift Satire Festival; Jonathan Swift; Swift Lecture; President Michael D Higgins
Some pictures from Friday's Poetry in Motion, poetry reading in the main street in Trim before lunch. Some passers-by startled by Yeats, Kavanagh, Auden, Holub, Shakespeare, Heaney, Kipling and work by the visiting group from Bradford.
Poetry in Motion is on again tomorrow, Saturday, in the Castle Grounds near the Garda Station at 11. Remember registration for the Great Gulliver Gathering takes place there from 11.30.
All 302 pages of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels will be read by 302 people (one page per reader) in the largest simultaneous reading event ever undertaken in Ireland. The reading will start at 1pm sharp. It's free to participate, will take only three or four minutes and you will get a certificate.
Labels: Meath; Great Gulliver Gathering, Poetry in Motion; Swift Satire Festival; Trim
Swift Satire Festival - A Good Start
The Festival was officially opened last evening in the Trim Castle Hotel. A large crowd heard praise for the festival committee and the local community, some thoughts on Swift's regard for Trim and what he might have to say were he to return.
Then the first event which was, appropriately enough, a local satire competition. Boyne Writers Group and Meath Writers Circle fought the Battle of the Books and we came out victorious in the end. This victory maintained the 'every second year' pattern of victories.
A large crowd attended, the judges were great, joining in the satire themselves and even introducing an X Factor element. Should I be delighted to have been described as "the Susan Boyle of Swift Satire"?
Paddy Smith was the MC and his dreadful puns at the expense of the contestants went down very well; OK maybe just went down well.
It was nice that the late Tommy Murray was well remembered at the event and that some family members were present. Also nice to see our friends from Bradford there and former Battle of the Books judge and key festival committee member, James Ward.
There should be some photos on the Festival Facebook page later, one already on Boyne Writers FB page. Watch also for the blogs of Orla Fay and of Frank Murphy, captain of the Meath Writers Circle team.
The Festival continues until Sunday night. Today sees our Poetry in Motion reading of poetry in the streets of Trim and tonight has the Swift Round Table with Barry Murphy, Alan Shortt and Colm O'Regan in the Knightsbrook Hotel.
Lots of events on Saturday and Sunday. Full programme on the website.
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Labels: Swift Satire Festival; Trim; Battle of the Books; Meath Writers Circle; Boyne Writers Group;
Battle of the Books, Swift Satire, Trim 2013
The Swift Satire Festival, Trim starts tomorrow, 4 July, with the official opening and the Battle of the Books. This is the fifth year of this satire competition between the two Trim-based writers groups. The holders are Meath Writers Circle and the pattern so far is a different winner every second year. So the pressure is on Boyne Writers Group this year.
The format has been changed. Previously the contest was held as part of the Bite of Satire lunch which featured some other entertainment as well as the contest. This year it is a stand alone event taking place at 9pm this Thursday immediately after the official opening in the Trim Castle Hotel.
The teams of three submit their satire scripts in advance to the judges who will be familiar with the material before the event. Contestants take turns to deliver their satire, maximum time allowed five minutes, and receive an immediate judgement and score.
The teams have been given a general definition of satire which includes:
In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
It is still difficult to be definitive as regards what is or is not satire so every year the judges query if a particular piece is satire or not.
This year of course we will miss the late Tommy Murray who captained the Meath Writers Circle in previous years and who died suddenly at the end of last year.
Frank Murphy is their captain this year, a worthy successor to Tommy. Frank has participated in each contest so far and has usually scored highly.
So let the battle commence. I should however mention a few excuses in case we are beaten. The weather is against us. Every year we won the sun was splitting the stones. One of our members has come down with a bad cold. Cough! Cough! Our team is entirely composed of amateur satirists unlike the opposition.
My own satire for this year? I got this great idea one day while thinning turnips but the finished satire is pretty poor. As usual it pokes gentle fun at a few sacred bulls, is very innocuous, not designed to upset anyone. Complete rubbish! Not!!
Swift Satire Festival on Facebook.
Picture above: Festival patron Noel Dempsey presenting last year's trophy to the winning side, Meath Writers' Circle; from left, Michael Shiels, the now sadly deceased Tommy Murray, and Frank Murphy.
Labels: The Swift Satire Festival; Trim; Meath Writers Circle; Boyne Writers Group; Noel Dempsey; Tommy Murray; Frank Murphy
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Q: InputStream and BufferedReader I'm doing a chat application between mulitples clients in C# who connects a single Java Server.
So I send a message by one of users to the server, and the server sends this message to all others connected users.
Each client has a different Thread in the server, and in the thread I have;
public class ServerThread extends Thread {

private Server server;
private Socket sck;

InputStream receive;
OutputStream send;

public ServerThread(Server server, Socket s) {
    this.server = server;
    sck = s;
}

public void run() {
    try {
        handleClient();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private void handleClient() throws IOException {
    receive = sck.getInputStream();
    send = sck.getOutputStream();

    byte[] b = new byte[1024];
    receive.read(b);
    System.out.print(new String(b));

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(receive, "UTF-8"));
    String line;

    while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        if(line.equalsIgnoreCase("quit"))break;
        List<ServerThread> clients = server.getClients();
        for(ServerThread allClients : clients) {
            allClients.send(line);
        }
    }
}

private void send(String message) {
    try {
        send.write(message.getBytes());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

}
And my problem is:
when a client send something to the server, I can read it with;
byte[] b = new byte[1024];
receive.read(b);
System.out.print(new String(b));

I get the correct String I sent, but the BufferedReader doesnt receive anything.
The program never goes into the while loop because
line = reader.readLine();

doesnt read anything, so I dont have any idea what's wrong. Why "InputStream#read(byte)" works but "BufferedReader#readLine()" doesnt work.. ?
Here is what I send by the C# app;
byte[] text = System.Text.Encoding.UTF-8.GetBytes("test1212");
sck.Send(text);

Is something wrong with this message? :v
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Even with "\r\n" at the end of the message I send the Buffered doesnt read it.. How i'm supposed to add the carriage return to the message?
Hope somebody find what's wrong.
Thanks for trying to help me.
(Sorry if i made mistakes, I'm French :l)

A: Read javadoc: BufferedReader.readLine()
"... Reads a line of text. A line is considered to be terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed. ..."
Your line does not have end of line. BufferedReader waits for it.

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Indigo Jazz and Blues Festival is een internationaal jazz- en bluesfestival, dat gehouden wordt in Bengaluru, India.

Op het eendaagse festival, dat plaats heeft in december, spelen zowel Indiase musici als 'buitenlandse' artiesten. Het wordt georganiseerd door Radio Indigo en werd in 2016 voor de vierde keer gehouden.

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We finally - finally! - got a bounce in the stock market on Friday. The only question is whether it will hold up now and how it will handle some of the key levels these indices broke down from. We also got some big earnings reports from the banks, which kick off our must-see stock trades list. Read on to find out the best stocks to invest in Monday morning.
A big earnings beat and very solid results fromJPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM ) make the post-earnings fall rather disappointing for bulls.
The fact that it comes after several down days is more disappointing, and even more so on a day where U.S. stocks are actually sporting some gains. Finally, it's coming at a time where rates are rising and the yield curve between long and short rates are improving rather than flattening.
All of that makes this a tough pill to swallow and while this type of earnings reaction isn't unusual for JPM and the banks, it will become concerning if the banks continue to tumble lower.
We should know soon enough whether that will be the case. JPM is approaching range support between $102 and $104. Further, the backside of prior downtrend resistance (blue line) comes into play in this range. This downtrend has played a significant role since March, so failing to hold this level as support would be a big concern.
On a rebound, we need to see JPM get back above the 200-day. A rally to the 200-day and fail would be a bad sign as well.
Citigroup (NYSE: C ) also beat on estimates and reported pretty good quarterly results .
We saw C initially pop, then fail at its 200-day and essentially hit its prior day lows. Short-term bulls need C to stay above these lows now (little orange line on the chart). Below that and the bottom of its range is in play, likely near $65.
Like C and JPM, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC ) reported earnings on Friday morning, but unlike JPM and C, WFC missed on earnings per share expectations .
Surprisingly - or maybe not for this type of market - we're seeing the stock rally as a result. Shares bounced perfectly off that uptrend support and that's great for bulls. It creates a very easy-to-spot line in the sand.
Above $51 and we can stay long, while using a stop-loss at or just below the 2018 lows (dashed line).
Box (NYSE: BOX ) has been absolutely decimated. That's despite its low market cap, A.I. in the cloud product benefiting from secular growth, +20% annual revenues and its turn to profitability and positive free-cash-flow.
Shares have fallen from $29 to $19 very rapidly and it's still one of my favorite long-term small caps. I really can't explain the rapid decline other than to say that BOX simply got caught up in this week's carnage.
For longer-term investors, I would feel comfortable dipping a toe in the water near these levels. It would be more encouraging to see BOX over $19.50, but at the very least a return to its 20-day moving average - currently north of $21.50 - should be in the cards.
Sustained downside below its March lows (dashed line) would be a concern. But just look how fast it bounced back from that decline.
People are calling me crazy about liking iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ ) lately and even looking for a "spec play" in this environment seems nuts. Sort of likeCanopy Growth (NYSE: CGC ) though, look at how well "the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) of China" has been doing.
Sure it broke below $25 support the other day, but it recovered the level quickly and just hit $26. This name, despite the poor reputation of Chinese stocks right now, continues to trade pretty darn well.
I wouldn't leverage my IRA into it, but for those who have the capacity for a small speculative play, IQ might be worthwhile.
Guessing on the entry is not advisable. Instead, look to see if IQ can break over the 20-day and then the 50-day moving average. If so, a rally toward $30 could be in the cards.
Conversely, investors can buy near $25 support but realize that the stock is being squeezed lower. That means either support or resistance needs to give way and those investors who don't want to guess should wait for one or the other to happen first before making their move.
Bret Kenwell is the manager and author of Future Blue Chips and is on Twitter @BretKenwell . As of this writing, Bret Kenwell is long BOX, IQ and JPM.
The post 5 Top Stock Trades for Monday Morning - Trading the Big Banks appeared first on InvestorPlace .


The lift at work is very small - it claims to fit 9 people - but frankly I wouldn't want to be stuck in there with more than 4 others. And I speak from experience having spent an hour stuck there this afternoon.
It all started off like a really good idea. A group of people were visiting the office for the first time. We'd had a good meeting and I said I'd take them upstairs to see the other office before they went off to catch their train. There was a short debate about whether they had time to do this - but decided they had - little knowing that the quick trip up the lift was going to take up the rest of the afternoon.
Now I'm no lover of confined spaces so when the lift jolted and ground to a halt I was about to lose it -until one of the others in there with me said she was scared - so I decided to keep calm and let her lose it instead. I rang the alarm - three times - then got through to a dialing tone and guess what - hold music. A disengaged voice told me I was third in the queue. Not quite the reassuring words I wanted to hear to be honest. Finally a human answered.
"We're stuck in the lift" I said. "Stuck in a lift" they said, amazed. It was as if I'd been put through to a wrong number. Eventually, after being passed onto some else they took the details down and said they would get an engineer to come. I asked them how long this would take and was told to call back in 5 minutes. We couldn't get through to them again.
Fortunately, one of my fellow captives had a mobile on her. So we rang our colleagues and they called the fire brigade. After about 30 minutes of captivity we could hear the sirens wailing. They were marvellous. Fortunately we were almost on a floor so they prised open the outside doors and managed to open the main doors enough to pass through cups of water and reassuring words. One chirpy fellow asked if we could squeeze through the two inch gap. Not at the moment, we said, but leave us here for a couple of weeks and we'll try.
By this time, 45 minutes into the ordeal, we were sensing freedom in sight and started to get hysterical. Photo's were taken - I took a good one of fellow captives, one took an interesting shot of partly opened lift doors.
Then in the way many things end, things had to get worse before they could get better. The lift engineer turned up, assured us all would be fine - then made the ceiling fall down. We later found out he had to stand on the lift to press some button or other. We did a bit of hysterical screaming, lift door opened and nice fireman lifted us to safety.
It's the stairs for me in future..
...), and voila! your site (among others, but yours looked more interesting from the get-go) popped up. I want you to know that I absolutely LOVE what you wrote. You made me smile, snigger and laugh outright. Thank you. And besides that, IMO you are one heck of an intellingent woman. I ought also to thank the "bun blasting" flipflop set, for giving me the impetus to discover your highly interesting "thoughts, ramblings and occasional rantings". If this is you disorganised, Ma Chere, then I pray you continue to so well to enjoy that state (and, being the mother of near-grown spawn, er, I mean children, I can assure you that you likely will, for many days to come).
p.s. I catagorised myself with your website host as "Anonymous", as I am not prepared to "Choose an identity" today. What freedom ;o) But I'd love to stay in touch with you. I promise to follow your discourse regularly.


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They effectively besieged the building before eventually smashing their way through the glass facade.
They effectively besieged the building, as a large crowd of several hundred watched from a distance, before eventually smashing their way through the glass facade.
Inside Legco, protesters smashed computers and spray-painted "anti-extradition" and slurs against the police and the government on chamber walls.
Inside the building, the atmosphere is a mix of cheering and destruction, as demonstrators smash everything in sight while chanting "add oil.
Windows have been smashed.
Tensions are growing outside the Hong Kong government headquarters, known as the Legislative Council (LegCo), where protesters have smashed multiple windows and torn down barriers, so far without any reaction from police.
The angry demonstrators gained access to a small lobby area inside LegCo earlier this evening by smashing a hole in the glass entrance doors.
The neighbour reported hearing the sound of plates smashing as well as screams.
Up until mid way through the third quarter of Sunday's smashing of the Queensland Firebirds, when Maddy Proud ruptured her ACL, it was tempting to think that no other team was going to get close to the Swifts this year.
The victory was achieved through Guedes, the Valencia winger smashing in from the edge of the area following Bernardo Silva's clever cutback, though Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen will be disappointed he did not keep the effort out.
In the next few days the song I Know climbs to the top of the charts, and stays there for a record-smashing 17 weeks.
Trump stormed out of a scheduled White House meeting with Democratic leaders and gave an angry news conference in the Rose Garden, sounding very much like a child who smashes his toy against the wall because he keeps losing.
The basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and lowered it down.
They smashed windows, threatened to kill the Roma, and set their homes on fire, burning to the ground their belongings and leaving the lives they had built here in ruins.
"I tripped and fell and the cop tackled me to the ground and smashed my head into the sand," she wrote.
Vinicius was replaced by Bale in the second half and the Welshman smashed a low shot beyond Oblak for his landmark Real goal in his 217th game.
One Paris resident, teacher Francesca Testi, tweeted a video of "gilets jaunes" protesters smashing up what appeared to be a cafe.
Homes destroyed after Hurricane Michael smashed into Florida's northwest coast in Mexico Beach, October 11, 2018.
The Paris St-Germain star, 26, smashed a shot in off the bar after a slick move involving Chelsea's Willian and Barcelona's Philippe Coutinho.


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John L. Bove (August 14, 1924 – August 29, 1997) was a Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1951. Bove previously attended West Virginia University and played football for the West Virginia Mountaineers.

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Under Trump, the lines are drawn for a battle over resources in the West
Signal Peak Energy's Bull Mountains mine, the largest underground coal mine in the West located near Billings, Montana.
(Keith Schneider / For The Times)
By Keith Schneider
Reporting from ROUNDUP, Mont. —
Signal Peak Energy operates the West's newest and largest underground coal mine. As recently as 2013, it employed more than 300 people, produced nearly 9 million tons of coal and was helping to revive a regional coal industry that had been dormant for 50 years.
The last four years have seen a sharp reversal of the plant's fortunes. Production is less than half of what it was. Layoffs have reduced the workforce by over 80 people. This month the company, which declined requests for interviews, said it might have to close more of its operations.
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An earlier version of this report referred to the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the Sabin Center for Environmental Law.
The rolling highlands of Musselshell County, close to Montana's Bull Mountains, have quickly become a fiercely contested front line in the Trump administration's campaign to achieve what it calls "American energy dominance."
Nobody doubts that Signal Peak's Bull Mountains mine, like nearly every other large coal mine in the United States, is in trouble. The disagreement arises over why. Answering that question motivated the Trump administration to mount an unbridled multi-agency attack on decades of policy and practices for overseeing land, water and natural resources, especially in the West. It also spurred environmentalists, courts, select industries, and state and federal lawmakers to form a powerful opposition coalition.
Nearly a year after the 2016 election, a momentous 21st century confrontation is building over coal mining that is serving as a proxy for upcoming skirmishes over the West's rural extractive economies. The issue for both sides, as it was in the 1980s under the Reagan administration, is whether hard-rock mining, oil and gas, timber harvesting and irrigated agriculture will thrive or fade away.
For the time being, fossil fuel development commands the playing field. In his first major policy speech, delivered in late September, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke laid out the contours of the administration's perspective for an audience at the Heritage Foundation.
"There are two versions of our future in energy," he said. "One side believes we should retreat into a fortress of regulation and red tape."
"This administration, the president, believes in American energy dominance," Zinke added. "Our goal is an America that is the strongest energy superpower this world has ever known. I can assure you today that the war on American energy is over."
Signal Peak Energy's Bull Mountains coal mine near Roundup, Mont., in 2009.
(Matthew Brown / Associated Press )
Not quite, say environmental legal groups and an array of supporters. The Trump administration, they assert, is fighting an unwinnable battle to sustain 20th century fuels and industrial practices against a tide of much more powerful 21st century trends in technology, energy markets, public sentiment, science and law.
The battled-tested legion of administration opponents is much larger, better financed and much better organized than it was during the Reagan years.
"Bring it on. We're ready," said Derf Johnson, staff attorney with the Montana Environmental Information Center in Helena. "Economically, what this president wants makes no sense. It's like they want to walk back to the 1960s. Natural gas and renewable energy are replacing coal as a fuel for electricity."
Derf Johnson, staff attorney at the Montana Environmental Information Center in Helena, which filed the case to reconsider the Interior Department's environmental assessment.
(Keith Schneider / For The Times )
Johnson acknowledged that Trump's arguments had struck a chord with many voters. "It's hard to hear that a way of life is being challenged by a really big change in the economy of energy. The president is playing to his base," he said.
The skirmish unfolding here in a central Montana county of 4,600 residents, where the president won more than 80% of the vote, illustrates several dimensions of a larger battle waged by politically influential but financially troubled resource industries, a sympathetic administration, and opponents allied to open the West to more environmentally sensitive economic sectors.
In 2008, four years before U.S. coal production peaked at nearly 1.2 billion tons, Signal Peak purchased a mine 30 miles north of Billings. The company installed modern mining machines, drilled 8,000-foot-deep water wells for a coal-washing station, built a rail-car loading facility and a 30-mile rail link to main trunk lines in Broadview, near Billings.
The company, which touts its coal as among the highest quality in the country, is ambitious. Twice it sought leases and permits to expand the mine. In 2012, Signal Peak paid $10.75 million and was awarded the federal lease to mine 100 million tons of coal that lay below 2,700 acres, doubling the mine's size and turning it into the nation's sixth-largest underground coal mine.
The American comeback story has waited too long to be written. With President Trump in office, our country is winning again.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
The same year, when coal prices were still robust and before China, India and the United States began to pivot away from coal-fired electrical generation, Signal Peak applied to state authorities to expand the mine by nearly 7,200 acres and add 176 million tons to its reserves.
It also asked the Interior Department for permission to modify its mining plan. Signal Peak anticipated being able to serve international export markets — its primary customers — with 11 million tons of coal annually, making it the largest underground mine in the United States.
In 2015, President Obama's Interior Department approved Signal Peak's expansion plan after ruling it would not have significant environmental consequences. The Montana Environmental Information Center and two other state environmental organizations sued in federal district court, arguing that such a conclusion lacked scientific validity and that the agency should prepare a full environmental impact statement.
Signal Peak Energy's Bull Mountains mine, the largest underground coal mine in the West, north of Billings
One particular weakness in the Interior Department's decision, said the center, was that it did not carefully assess the consequences of an increase in coal production on climate change.
In mid-August, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy ruled in the center's favor. His order vacated Signal Peak's mining plan, directed the Interior Department to strengthen its analysis, and blocked the company's expansion pending a new federal review of its environmental consequences.
Initially, Signal Peak's executives said the decision would not affect its operations. But in mid-September, Bradley Hanson, the company's president, said in a court filing that because the mine is close to exhausting its existing reserves, 30 employees could be laid off by the end of this month and 50 more by March.
Signal Peak asked Molloy to reconsider, and aided by Trump administration lawyers, the company also filed an appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Molloy has scheduled a hearing to consider the company's motion for Tuesday.
The Signal Peak case was the seventh time environmental groups had successfully sued the government for not carefully evaluating the consequences of its decisions on the climate, according to research by Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Most of the cases challenged federal coal leases.
Among his first acts in office, Zinke sought to break through the federal leasing impediments and curb the legal strategy. On March 29, he lifted a moratorium on leasing established by the Obama administration in 2016. One week later, the White House canceled the Obama administration's guidance document for helping federal agencies to more thoroughly consider climate effects in their decisions.
The two actions are among more than 40 policy changes taken this year by the president to tilt American energy policy in favor of the fossil fuel sector. Each has drawn active support and vigorous opposition.
They include withdrawing the United States from the 2015 international climate agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan to regulate greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, adjusting land-use practices on public lands, ending a rule that prevented strip mines from dumping debris in streams, proposing to shrink the boundaries of national monuments, and intervening in a multi-state plan to conserve millions of acres in the West for the threatened sage grouse.
The administration also has proposed a rule to disrupt electricity markets and allow big coal-fired plants to stay open, and is considering a decision by the International Trade Commission to establish tariffs on imported solar panels.
"The American comeback story has waited too long to be written," Zinke said in his speech. "With President Trump in office, our country is winning again. Energy, quite frankly, is driving the bus."
The region's mining history is illustrated by a United Mine Workers of America cemetery just south of Roundup.
In Montana and other fossil-fuel-producing states, the administration's message and its actions are celebrated. "The war on coal must stop," said Sandra Jones, an evangelical minister and mayor of Roundup, the Musselshell County seat that is 20 miles north of the Signal Peak mine. "Regulation is killing us here. We're losing jobs. People are getting hurt. Coal pays for a lot of services in Montana."
Environmental attorneys say they are sensitive to the personal pain and civic fragmentation occurring across the rural West. They assert, though, that the president's campaign for "energy dominance" is an economic strategy that defies the law and no longer makes economic or environmental sense.
Global coal production peaked in 2013 at 8 billion metric tons and has been falling 1% to 2% annually in the years since. In the U.S., coal production fell to 743 million tons in 2016, almost 40% lower than the nearly 1.2-billion-ton peak in 2012, according to the Energy Information Administration, a Department of Energy data office.
In the meantime, investments worldwide in new generating capacity from wind and solar energy reached $286 billion in 2015, twice as much as investments in fossil-fuel-generated electricity, according to a study by the United Nations Environment Program.
Trump's inaction on climate change carries a big price tag, federal report finds
China is now looking to California – not Trump – to help lead the fight against climate change
Reviving debate over Bears Ears National Monument also revives racial tension in a remote corner of Utah
3:50 PM, Oct. 29, 2017: An earlier version of this report referred to the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the Sabin Center for Environmental Law.


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7 Genius Ways To Bring More Luck Into Your Life
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By Carolyn Steber
While it might feel like some people have all the luck, those #blessed folks likely understand that it takes a lot of effort when it comes to how to have more luck in life. Sure, from the outside it might seem like the universe is handing them great jobs, tons of success, and wonderful partners on a silver platter. But rest assured — it's all happening because they're making it happen.
And that's good news, really, because it means the rest of us can be lucky, too. "Luck is preparation meeting opportunity," psychotherapist Amanda Stemen, MS, LCSW tells Bustle. "I believe that what we want is always there in some form, but we often aren't aware of it because we're focused on something else — often the lack of [what] we want. So it's simply a matter of refocusing our attention on what we want and then looking at the world through an open lens. In looking at it like that, we all have access to 'luck.'" It really can be as easy as that. By knowing what you want, and being ready to receive it from the universe (on a silver platter), you can have all the luck you want. Here's how to do it.
Keep Your Eyes Open
Ashley Batz/Bustle
It can be tough to spot good opportunities when you aren't present, and keeping your eyes peeled for them. And it's even tougher when you're expecting bad things to happen, since that focuses your attention on the negative, instead of the positive that's often right there in front of your face.
So try to be more mindful, as well as open and receptive to the world around you. As Stemen says, "I think the luckiest people are those who are always open ... and that allows them to seize opportunities as they happen."
Hit The Pavement
Andrew Zaeh for Bustle
You can sit in your room and send out positive vibes to the universe, and dream about what you want. But in order for any of it to come true, you need to get out there and make moves.
"Luck is about ideas and connections," Benjamin Hardy, author of the upcoming book, Willpower Doesn't Work, tells Bustle. "It's about putting yourself in the right place at the right time. How do you get into the right place? You invest in yourself and your relationships so that you can be in rare environments where only certain kinds of luck, inaccessible 'luck' to most people, can strike."
Maybe that means going back to school and filling in gaps in your education. Interning. Or going to networking events. If you're out in the world making things happen, things will happen.
Put In The Hours
Hannah Burton/Bustle
Think of someone you know who has achieved an incredible goal, or someone who has a lot of talent and success. Sure, a small amount of the world is born with raw talent. But everyone else has to put in the hours necessary to get on that level.
"What people often fail to see when someone appears to have a lot of 'luck' it is the countless hours [they] put into making something work," chief empowerment officer Brandyce Stephenson tells Bustle. "We are so used to instant gratification. In my experience, luck actually takes work. Yes, there is being in the right place at the right time, for instance, but you have to show up to be in that right place at the right time. Taking consistent action toward your goals and being persistent in pursuit of those goals is just one way someone can increase their luck. "
Surround Yourself With Positive People
Most people achieve success by knowing the right people. And that can be achieved by anyone, simply by getting out there and networking. Oh, and making sure that you have a solid support group.
"Surround yourself with happy, positive, empowering people," psychic and spiritual counselor Davida Rappaport tells Bustle. "Shift your circle of friends if they are toxic. You want your energy and the energy around you to reflect positivity and success."
Make Room In Your Life
In order to have good things coming into your life, there has to be physical, mental, and emotional room. So go ahead and clear the space. "This means physically clear your space (at home, in the car). Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually clear and cleanse," certified life and mentor coach and intuitive consultant Julie Cusmariu tells Bustle. "Clear and shed what no longer serves you and your intention and heart's desire." A therapist or loved one can help you shed past emotions hanging around, so new, great things can enter into your brain. But there's something pretty magical about simply cleaning up your living space, too.
It's easier to get ahead if people are on your side, so be kind whenever you can. If others regard you as someone who is helpful, a good listener, and easy to relate to, you will stick out in their minds, psychotherapist and author Jeffrey Von Glahn, PhD tells Bustle. "In having an engaging personality and an openness to your experience and to your surroundings, rather than the opposite, you are creating an environment in which you are taking in more information than most others do. All of this increases the chances, the probability, that a 'surprise' will happen." And that surprise can be new connections for your dream job, or a potential partner.
Know Exactly What You Want
Above everything else, you need to know what you want, and be able to express it clearly, in order for it to come your way. "You can increase your luck in life by being crystal clear about what you want," happiness coach Susan Rose tells Bustle. "When you are focused on what you want rather than what you don't want — or worse, what you would settle for — you put yourself into a mindset of receiving that."
But by knowing what you want (and hey, maybe even creating a vision board so you can physically see it every day) good things'll happen. "Your subconscious starts looking for it everywhere and finds it, which some people call luck and those in my line of life coaching call manifesting. The key is to be clear and specific about the desire so you aren't putting out mixed messages."
By following these guidelines, you'll increase the luck in your life, and have a better shot at getting and achieving all the things that are most important to you.


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All the wet, cool weather has not completely hampered some amazing things in my backyard! First, the hail seems to have missed destroying this lovely glass sculpture that decorates the yard.
And our short-lived blast of hot weather allowed the veggies to actually, you know, grow as though it were late spring and just a few days shy of summer! Here are the first of the cherry tomatoes.
Along with the tomatoes are the peppers. Mmmm!
And finally, it has been a while since I posted a gratuitous cat shot, so here is one more of the lovely Nala.
I bid a warm welcome to Summer!


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Q: How can I efficiently query "change of value per day" with TimescaleDB? Question
I have the following table with PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB:
create table heatingElectricityMeter(
    time timestamptz(0) not null,
    import real not null
);

select create_hypertable('heatingElectricityMeter', 'time', chunk_time_interval => interval '1 month');

"import" is the total energy consumed since the energy meter was produced. Thus "import" is monotonically increasing. About once every 10seconds I insert a value to that table (however currently I have much less then one value for every 10s in the DB).
Now I would like to create a bar-chart that shows energy consumed per local day for the last X days. Let's say... The last 90 days.
What I have tried so far
Here is my first attempt:
select
    time_bucket(interval '1 day', time::timestamp) "day",
    first(import, "time"),
    last(import, "time")
from heatingelectricitymeter
where time between '2021-07-28T02:00:00Z' and '2021-10-28T02:00:00Z'
group by "day"
order by 1

This query takes roughly 2.5seconds on my Raspberry Pie 2 with ~85K data points in the queried time frame. Not really a "problem" but... It could be faster. My next attempt:
select
    time_bucket(interval '1 day', time::timestamp) "day",
    max(import) - min(import)
from heatingelectricitymeter
where time between '2021-07-28T02:00:00Z' and '2021-10-28T02:00:00Z'
group by "day"
order by 1

The effect should be the same and I kind of expected this to perform the same. However to my surprise this is quite a lot faster: It just takes ~1.5 seconds.
(Side note: Not casting to ::timestamp speeds up the queries to 1.7seconds and 1.0seconds respectively. However I eventually want to use midnight-midnight in local time and if I understand the manual correctly that means that I will need to do this cast)
Now one thing is that the docs say:

The last and first commands do not use indexes, and instead perform a sequential scan through their groups.

This does not really answer why min and max are faster. They can't use an index either. At the same time using and index seems to make sense. We just need the first and last value for each group.
My next attempt is to gather the required values directly and not use grouping:
select "day", "import" - lag("import") over (order by "day") from (
    select ('2021-10-28'::date - v) "day"
    from generate_series(0, 90) s(v)
)x
join lateral (
    select time, import from heatingElectricityMeter where time >= day order by time limit 1
)y on true

BINGO! Down to 0.7 seconds!
The result is not exactly the same as min/max/first/last, as in this query I will always compare the first value of each day with the first value of the previous day. In my opinion this is actually better though, because data might land on the wrong day, but it won't be lost. (In a perfect world I'd get the interpolated values at exactly midnight for each day, however I am putting that off for simplicity. For my use case I can life with the slight inaccuracy).
However it feels like I am doing it in a way to complicated fashion. To me it seems like something which is perfectly normal task to do with a time database. Is there a simpler way to efficiently do this query?

A: Sometimes there is still some work you have to do to optimize this, the lateral query will use indexes and will only have to do index scans on one side, and then the lag will get the previous value looked up by the index scan.
Note that you are getting slightly different values with the last query, instead of getting the min and max in a given day you're subtracting the last value of the previous day from the last value of the current, which is a slightly different thing. As long as you are okay with that, you're fine.
Now - min and max can, in fact, use indexes, they get optimized differently and can be made to use index scans depending on what indexes you have, so that might be why that's faster.
Not sure if that's a good enough answer or explains enough, but it is what I think is going on here.
Note: we added some functionality in TimescaleDB around this, I'd recommend reading this post in our forum that addresses this problem in more detail if you're interested: https://www.timescale.com/forum/t/dear-eon-measuring-deltas-correctly-for-energy-meters/1266


If you love freebies, and who doesn't, then Election Day is the day for you, as numerous transportation agencies are offering free rides to voters.
What a brilliant way to shake apathetic and/or uncommitted voters out of their stupor. If you're a voter who is somehow not convinced that your vote makes a difference, perhaps you can be persuaded simply to satisfy your appetite for free stuff. Free stuff is a powerful motivator.
Capital Metro is offering free rides throughout Election Day, November 6, on all MetroBus, MetroRapid, MetroExpress, MetroRail, and MetroAccess services. Go here to find your polling location and here to figure out the best (free!) route.
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Some of those riders will surely be employed by Alamo Drafthouse, which has canceled its first round of shows to allow all employees time to vote. No early matinees on Election Day for us.


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This Day in History: Dec. 9
On this day, Dec. 9 …
1965: "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the first animated TV special featuring characters from the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premieres on CBS.
1608: English poet John Milton is born in London.
1935: The Downtown Athletic Club of New York honors college football player Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago with the DAC Trophy, which would later become known as the Heisman Trophy.
1958: The anti-communist John Birch Society is formed in Indianapolis.
1962: The Petrified Forest in Arizona is designated a national park.
1975: President Gerald R. Ford signs a $2.3 billion seasonal loan-authorization that officials of New York City and State say will prevent a city default.
1984: The five-day-old hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner that claims the lives of two Americans ends as Iranian security men seize control of the plane, which is parked at Tehran airport.
1987: The first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, begins as riots break out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response.
1990: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa wins Poland's presidential runoff by a landslide.
1992: Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation. (The couple's divorce would become final in Aug. 1996.)
2000: The U-S Supreme Court orders a temporary halt in the Florida vote count on which Al Gore pins his best hopes of winning the White House.
2008: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is arrested after prosecutors say he is caught on wiretaps scheming to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for cash or a plum job for himself in the new administration. (Blagojevich would be convicted of wide-ranging corruption in 2011 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.)
2008: NBC announces that "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno would be moving to prime time.


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Finnair is increasing traffic volumes in July after flying the minimum network for three months. Pilots are preparing to return to the upper air through training and flight simulator training.
Finnair trains pilots during the recruitment and entry phase and during their careers. Pilots undergo transition training, for example, when training from co-pilot to captain or changing aircraft type. Most of the trainings organized are refresher trainings, which are attended by every 1,000 Finnair pilots every six months for two days. According to authorities' requirements, each pilot must have completed at least three take-offs and landings, either in an airplane or in a flight simulator, within 90 days in order to fly the aircraft.
The training center near Helsinki Airport has simulators for each Finnair aircraft type: one simulator for the A330 and Embraer aircraft, and two simulators for the A320 and two for the A350 aircraft, one of which was introduced in June this year. The cockpits of the simulators are identical to the cockpit of a real aircraft, and thus the simulators make it possible to model the flight and practice, for example, exceptional and fault situations.
"Our training concept today is based on competence thinking. These competencies are strengthened through training. We practice for example decision-making, communication in the cockpit and the technical side of flying such as manual flying. Flying requires a lot of knowledge, technical skill, as well as good communication and decision-making skills. In the simulator, for example, instrument flying is practiced, in which case the control of the aircraft is based on information obtained from the instruments in a situation where there is no visibility outside" says Juho Sinkkonen, Finnair's Training Manager.
In addition to simulator flying, e-learning platforms are utilized when studying theory. The competence of pilots is assessed both in the simulator and in the aircraft. Finnair has 160 trainers, each of whom is also actively involved in operational flight work.
Aki Vihavainen (left) and Tuomas Laiho were in the A350 simulator with the trainer Ilkka Pesonen.
"Although I have experienced ash clouds and other exceptional situations, I haven't had such a long break from flying during my 32-year career as now. Next, I'm going to a cargo flight to China. During the spring I have practiced my saxophone and guitar playing skills, "says Aki who also plays in Finnair Big Band.
Tuomas also flew cargo flights to Bangkok in May: "The next cargo flight is to Singapore. During this spring, I have been maintaining my physics on a golf course and learned a new kind of everyday life with my kids who had attended school remotely" Tuomas says.
"Cargo flights have usually been flown by two flight crews, so we have also got to know the work tasks of cabin crew while learning, for example, how to use an oven in an aircraft," the pilots say.
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Louisiana has a flair and flavor all its own. But in the age of COVID-19, much of the joie de vivre — or at least the public opportunities to put it on display — was denied to the masses due to social distancing restrictions, stay-at-home orders and a healthy fear of spreading a contagious virus.
Organizers for some of the activities we used to take for granted have already announced their return in 2021. Others are still waiting for the vaccination roll out to create enough immunity for large crowds to again gather safely. Either way, the lack of musical, gastronomic and cultural input has made the return of culture to the Teche Area one of the most anticipated aspects of 2021.
Here's a sampling of the things we missed last year and hope to enjoy again in the coming months.
1. BAYOU MARDI GRAS
The 2020 Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans was blamed for the spread of COVID-19 across a large swath of the region, so it's no surprise that the festivities were cancelled there this year.
In New Iberia, though, the Bayou Mardi Gras Association did run in 2020, in early February. But in 2021, festivities were sidelined across the region due to the ongoing pandemic.
Although only in existence for a few years, the BMGA krewe has managed to ignite the carnival fever along the Bayou Teche, a flame that krewes in Grand Marais, Baldwin, Franklin and Loreauville have kept lit for years. Hopefully the coming year will mark the resurgence of those festivities as the coronavirus issues are put behind us.
2. WORLD GUMBO COOK-OFF
One of New Iberia's signature events, the World Gumbo Cook-Off, took its act into the virtual world during the pandemic. Unfortunately, a virtual cookoff has a lot of the trappings of the cookoff, but the overall flavor is missing.
Already the organizers have announced that the event will return to Bouligny Plaza in 2021, which will be a boon to local gourmands and even those who only want to enjoy the sights and sounds that come along with the flavorful happening.
3. SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL
A recent announcement from the board of the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival announced the plan to bring the event back in the fall of 2021 after cancelling the 2020 shindig. Along with its parades and pageants, the Sugar Cane Festival is an opportunity for the local farmers to make their presence known as the largest single industry in Iberia Parish.
The Sugar Cane Festival building has also undergone a bit of a facelift during the pandemic due to vandalism that occurred after Hurricane Laura. So hopefully the festival will return to a better space for its 2021 run.
4. PLEIN AIR PAINTING COMPETITION
One of the first Teche Area events to fall by the wayside due to the coronavirus was the Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Painting Competition.
It has already made its return, albeit with a thinner crowd, in 2021. Along with other Shadows events, like the biannual arts and craft fairs, children's Halloween events and symphony performances, it'll be nice to see a sense of normalcy return.
Speaking of which,
5. SYMPHONY SUNDAY IN THE PARK
The Iberia Cultural Resources Association has announced that its annual live event on the grounds at Shadows-on-the Teche is a go for 2021 after cancelling its appearance last June.
The event is a wonderful opportunity to hear live music in an outdoor setting, along with a sampling of foods and drinks from local vendors.
It is one of four ICRA shows each year, several of which were cancelled in 2020. If all goes well, 2021 will bring a much-needed dose of musical culture to inoculate attendees after a terrible drought of live performances.
6. BOOKS ALONG THE TECHE LITERARY FESTIVAL
One of the last-minute casualties of the state's stay-at-home order last year was the Books Along the Teche Literary Festival, which had been seeing some strong growth over the last few years.
The event is already slated to continue in 2021, with a warning that any increase in COVID restrictions could mean a modification of some events. But the early schedule shows the usual mix of tours, symposia, cultural events and opportunities for readers and authors alike to enjoy time speaking about their love of the written word and helping to guarantee its continued survival in the digital age.
7. A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
The annual Bayou Teche Museum is one of the jewels of downtown New Iberia's social calendar, with a lively crowd of patrons sampling the wares of local restaurants, cocktails from area bartenders and the experiences of the Bayou Teche Museum all while donating to a good cause.
The 2020 event was postponed due to weather, but did eventually occur right before the state instituted its first set of stay-at-home restrictions. The 2021 event, however, was eliminated. Instead, the museum held its annual auction as an online only event. It is hoped that 2022 will see a return of the live party and all of the fun that goes with it.
8. ERATH FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
For years, one of the earmarks of the July Fourth holiday in the Teche Area was the annual firefighter battles in Erath, where members of local fire departments faced off to try to hose the other team down and take home bragging rights for the next year.
That didn't happen in 2020. Neither did the street fair and concerts that have stretched to fill most of the week around the holiday.
The Erath Fourth of July Association announced in March that it will be back this year with the fireworks, music, food — and yes, even water fights — that have made the event a big draw over the years.
9. NEW IBERIA CHRISTMAS PARADE
The year after New Iberia saw its first Christmas Festival debut downtown, COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the city's Christmas parade and a downsizing of the festival. Although no announcements have been made yet, the diminishing toll of the disease will hopefully allow both events to return in 2021.
10. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was celebrated, but in a much more muted fashion than in previous years. Instead of the indoor events that could not be held due to social distancing restrictions, a small crowd did gather for an outdoor celebration on Hopkins Street. As the vaccination rate among the population increases and the infection rate of COVID-19 decreases, hopefully the day of service and reflection can return to its previous scale.
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