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Supply Chain Madness is Here to Stay
Will major industries continue to insulate themselves from the climate crisis, or will they be made to address their own contributions to it?
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Congestion at U.S. ports has caused supply chain disruptions, driving up prices and leading to a growing shortage of goods.
In the United States—where just acknowledging the existence of climate change has been enough for companies to earn kudos from liberals—the fact that the major institutions of capital now appear to be taking rising temperatures more seriously than before can seem like a reason for optimism. But these seeming-blessings may not be broadly shared. Yes, business leaders and major firms are acknowledging the climate crisis and its impacts. That doesn't necessarily portend good news for the planet.
For instance, industry reports on climate change that typically look at the risks worsening weather and rising seas pose to supply chains tend to pointedly eschew the many ways supply chains themselves fuel this cycle of deterioration. Like the airline industry, the shipping industry is officially excluded from the Paris Agreement, its emissions ostensibly governed by a secretive U.N. agency comprised of logistics industry veterans.
The recent pandemic-induced hype-cycle fueling news stories about supply chain trouble has tended to focus on troubles at ports. But the freighters and hulking, multicolor containers that these reports evoke are just one link in any one company's supply chain and the emissions they generate. Climate change is indeed a grave threat to port infrastructure, but the wine or khakis transiting through them face deeper challenges than trucking and ship queues, much of which is understated by traditional economic modeling on climate change. From scalding fields and unair-conditioned warehouses in the Pacific Northwest heatwave this past summer to flooding in China that knocked out coal-fired power plants in the fall, climate change is already putting pressure on sprawling supply chains engineered over decades to operate on the thinnest of margins. These strains will only grow as temperatures rise.
But there's a pattern to how major sectors of the economy are addressing these threats. The U.S. military—perhaps the world's largest public-private partnership, with its own extensive supply chains—has published exhaustive reports about climate change for well over a decade. Its efforts, however, are primarily focused on the risks that floods, fires, and other disasters pose to defense operations around the world, from bases to training activities.
That's the thrust of the craze around Environmental, Social, and Governance investing, or ESG, as well: It's principally a means for banks and asset managers to assess various risks to their portfolios while bolstering their reputations, accounting for climate policies that might tank fossil fuel stock values or real estate holdings which could be underwater soon. While there's been a growing interest in climate-related financial regulation, including from the White House, even that is still mostly limited to making companies disclose the risks that climate change poses to financial institutions, not the effects of the projects they finance on the atmosphere.
The trouble is in conflating self-interested risk assessment with a plan for reducing emissions within what are in some cases fabulously carbon-intensive industries. If they formed a country, the world's 18 largest banks and asset managers would be the world's fifth-largest emitter, according to a study from the Center for American Progress and the Sierra Club. In the five years after the Paris Agreement was first brokered in 2015, major banks now cashing-in on sustainable investment trends have financed $3.8 trillion worth of fossil fuel projects. Just eight supply chains—for fashion, automobiles, electronics, construction, food, freight, "fast-moving consumer goods," and professional services, including consultants—account for half of greenhouse gas emissions. The bulk of those emissions aren't produced in final manufacturing (say, assembling a car), but are embedded in agriculture, source materials, and shipping that typically fall under the purview of several different contractors and subcontractors that rarely share emissions data with one another.
The U.S. military is the world's single largest institutional emitter of fossil fuels and the federal government's biggest consumer of fossil fuels. Conveniently, it was also excluded from the White House's recent executive order mandating the federal government work toward net-zero goals. And just a handful of countries have opted to include military emissions in their nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement; they're voluntary under that pact. So the gargantuan, $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 that passed with broad bipartisan support in the House and Senate, and which President Biden signed this week, could carry a carbon footprint larger than a slashed version of Build Back Better might ever hope to cancel out. As The Boston Globe's Dharna Noor reported, the only climate provision included in the defense budget is one requiring the Defense Department to submit annual reports on how it intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The sectors most critical to the climate fight are also those most central to the functioning of the global economy. Through a combination of political expedience and economic necessity, carve-outs exclude the very industries whose emissions need to be most drastically reduced. More often than not, their voluntary responses to cutting carbon don't examine the ways they're actively fueling the crisis: Airline and shipping, for instance, have each leaned heavily on carbon offsets. Finance has trumpeted its token green funds while continuing to invest in fossil fuels, something that isn't a problem considering the lack of rules around what fits under the widening ESG umbrella. The question is whether these critical sectors will be made to account for their contributions to the climate crisis or deemed too critical to have to make cuts after the current wave of supply chain–hype has subsided.
Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff
Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic.
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Jefferson Morley | May 10, 2019
Venezuela's Descent: From Shopping Mall to Torture Prison
El Helicoide (The Helix), once a shopping mall in Caracas, is now headquarters of the country's notorious intelligence service, SEBIN. (Credit WikiMedia)
El Helicoide, The Helix, is part of the DNA of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. Dreamed up by three architects in the 1950s, El Helicoide was supposed to be a drive-through shopping mall for the country's aspiring petro-oligarchy. Built on a hill in the heart of Caracas, the dramatic ocean liner-like edifice "embodied Venezuela's dreams of modernity, power and influence."
So said The Guardian in 2017.
Today, its crumbling concrete shell houses the headquarters of Venezuela's intelligence services and the country's most notorious political prison. It has become a symbol of national decay, bankrupt dreams and faltering democracy.
El Helicoide is home to the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, known as SEBIN.
Hundreds of political prisoners are held In a prison on the lower floors known as La Tumba, or The Tomb. Torture is routine, according to the testimonies of those who have passed through it and emerged alive. In June 2018, U.N. investigators concluded some of the worst human rights abuses in Venezuela "took place on the premises of the SEBIN."
Ill-treatment and torture documented included electric shocks, severe beatings, rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffocation with plastic bags and chemicals, mock executions and water deprivation.
In February, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned three senior SEBIN officials, including director-general Manuel Figuera. According to opposition sources, Figuera oversaw "mass torture, mass human rights violations, and mass persecution against those who want democratic change in Venezuela."
But that doesn't mean the United States won't do business with him. During last week's failed uprising, Figuera declared his support for opposition leader Juan Guaido and fled the country. His successors remain in power.
This BBC interactive graphic takes you inside El Helicoide today.

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It is recommended consuming two 100 gram servings of fish, especially oily fish, each week. This is because fish is a major source of omega-3 fatty acids. If a person does not regularly consume fish, they may not be getting enough DHA or EPA. Hemp is a plant-based source of concentrated omega-3 fatty acids. However, the fatty acids that hemp contains are alpha-linolenic acids (ALA), which are poorly converted to DHA and EPA in the body at a rate of only about 2 to 10 percent. Despite this inefficient conversion rate, hemp is one of the richest sources of ALA, and so still represents a very good source of healthy fat, particularly for those who do not consume fish or eggs. Hemp contains a specific omega-6 fatty acid called GLA and hemp oil contains an even higher percentage of GLA. Hemp seeds also contain phytosterols, which help in reducing the amount of cholesterol in the body by removing fat build-up in the arteries.
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Magnesium plays an important role in over 300 enzymatic reactions within the body, including the metabolism of food and synthesis of fatty acids and proteins. Magnesium is involved in neuromuscular transmission and activity and muscle relaxation. Magnesium deficiency — which is especially prevalent in older populations — is linked to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, coronary heart disease, and osteoporosis. Nuts and seeds like hemp are some of the best sources of magnesium.
Research suggests that people experiencing premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may be able to alleviate symptoms such as bloating, insomnia, leg swelling, weight gain and breast tenderness by ensuring an adequate intake of magnesium. Magnesium combined with vitamin B6 appears to be most efficacious in these instances.
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Sonny Bowser is Vice President/Regional Planning Consultant in his 14th year with Fidelity. In his time with Fidelity, Sonny has had multiple responsibilities as he started with the firm as a Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund trader for all their retail clients. In the past 11 years he has spent time as a Financial Consultant advising over 300 households and helping them with their wealth and family legacy planning to more recently in the past 8 years traveling on a regular basis to Boston to spend time with Fidelity Mutual Fund Managers as well as their Money Management and Asset Allocation Research Teams. He is responsible for ensuring that Fidelity's Financial Consultants in The Triangle are fully aware of and coached on these topics to better help our clients.
Sonny was born and raised a Buckeye but considers himself a Southerner for life now. When not with his wife of 15 years, Jen, or at his daughters Sydney and Penelope's dance or swim events, you will find him on his home golf course in Holly Springs or watching a Liverpool soccer game.
IRT is an educational forum for the presentation and exchange of financial, economic and business information to assist private investors in the management of their individual financial assets. IRT is not an "investment club" and speakers are not making sales presentations. Monthly meetings (9 per year) are held at the Country Club of Landfall. Lunch is served at noon, followed by the featured speaker and a question-and-answer period ending by 1:30pm. Our presenters, recognized leaders in their respective fields, speak on subjects relevant to the current investment and economic environment. New members and guests are welcome and encouraged at all meetings. If you would like to attend, please contact us at roundtable477@gmail.com at least one week before the meeting.


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How to find the confidence interval of the proportion in the TI-84 calculatorHi Guys, this video will teach you how to find the confidence interval of the proportion in the TI-84 calculator.
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A confidence band is used in statistical analysis to represent the uncertainty in an estimate of a curve or function based on limited or noisy data. Confidence bands are closely related to confidence intervals, which represent the uncertainty in an estimate of a single numerical value. The simultaneous coverage probability of a collection of confidence intervals is the probability that all of them cover their corresponding true values simultaneously. In nearly all cases, a simultaneous confidence band will be wider than a pointwise confidence band with the same coverage probability.
Confidence bands for simulated data depicting the proportion of voters supporting a given candidate in election, as a function of the voters' ages. Confidence bands commonly arise in regression analysis.[2] In the case of a simple regression involving a single independent variable, results can be presented in the form of a plot showing the estimated regression line along with either point-wise or simultaneous confidence bands.
For example, confidence bands can be constructed around estimates of the empirical distribution function. Prediction bands are related to prediction intervals in the same way that confidence bands are related to confidence intervals. Similarly, a prediction band is used to represent the uncertainty about the value of a new data-point on the curve, but subject to noise. For example, f(x) might be the proportion of people of a particular age x who support a given candidate in an election. Pointwise 95% confidence bands, and simultaneous 95% confidence bands constructed using the Bonferroni method are shown. Confidence and prediction bands are often used as part of the graphical presentation of results of a regression analysis. If x is measured at the precision of a single year, we can construct a separate 95% confidence interval for each age.
The goal of a prediction band is to cover with a prescribed probability the values of one or more future observations from the same population from which a given data set was sampled. It would be possible to construct a simultaneous interval for a finite number of independent observations using, for example, the Bonferroni method to widen the interval by an appropriate amount.
This lesson describes how to construct a confidence interval for a sample proportion, p, when the sample size is .In statistics, a binomial proportion confidence interval is a confidence interval for a proportion in a statistical population.
Each of these confidence intervals covers the corresponding true value f(x) with probability 0.95.
Just as prediction intervals are wider than confidence intervals, prediction bands will be wider than confidence bands. Taken together, these confidence intervals constitute a 95% pointwise confidence band for f(x).
A 95% simultaneous confidence band is a collection of confidence intervals for all values x in the domain of f(x) that is constructed to have simultaneous coverage probability 0.95. A confidence interval is an interval in which a measurement or trial falls corresponding to a given probability.
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Our picturesque, golf course neighborhood, featured in this Claiborne County Economic Partnership video, includes both long-time residents of East Tennessee and transplants from across the country. We welcome new neighbors with our unique mix of Southern hospitality and Appalachian charm.
The living here is easy, but it's active, too. From world-glass golf to mountain hiking to fishing, boating, kayaking, and other water sports, Woodlake offers abundant opportunities for an active lifestyle. Community activities and clubs, as well as arts, cultural, and educational opportunities in Knoxville (home to the University of Tennessee) and Harrogate, Tennessee (home to Lincoln Memorial University), enhance the quality of life of our residents and visitors.
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The Woodlake Lodge, Golf & Country Club offers a clubhouse, a popular lounge and steakhouse, hotel accommodations with a range of complimentary amenities, a grill room, pro shop, outdoor pool, tennis courts, and a fitness center. Plus, the Woodlake community offers a picnic pavilion and deeded boat slips for quick and easy access to Norris Lake.
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/// </summary>
public class PaymentRequestDescriptor
{
    /// <summary>
    /// true if debug mode enabled
    /// </summary>
    public bool Debug { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Url to send request to
    /// </summary>
    public string Url { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Request data
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    public PaymentRequest Request { get; set; }
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Bob Sferra
Community Change category
Bob Sferra wanted to expand his future LGBT Youth Program Culinary classes, which allow an otherwise disenfranchised LGBT youth population to learn skills, build self-esteem, and possibly gain a mentor. Bob pitched this idea at Accelerate 2015.
After earning prize money as a runner-up at the event, his vision to launch a culinary kitchen to build esteem among LGBT youth received another boost when the LGBT Center of Cleveland received a $1.8 million anonymous donation to build a new community center. The building will include a state-of-the-art kitchen that can house his project. The center also received a $500,000 endowment match challenge from the Maltz Family Foundation, and Bob is chairing the capital campaign to raise the balance of $300,000 by the end of 2016.
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package io.quarkus.vertx.http.deployment.devmode.tests;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;

import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
import io.quarkus.deployment.IsDevelopment;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildProducer;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.ExecutionTime;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LaunchModeBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ShutdownContextBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor;
import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestClassResult;
import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestListenerBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestRunResults;
import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestSupport;
import io.quarkus.dev.spi.DevModeType;
import io.quarkus.devconsole.spi.DevConsoleRouteBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.devconsole.spi.DevConsoleTemplateInfoBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.deployment.NonApplicationRootPathBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.deployment.RouteBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.devmode.DevConsoleRecorder;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.devmode.Json;
import io.vertx.core.Handler;
import io.vertx.core.MultiMap;
import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
import io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext;

public class TestsProcessor {
    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    public DevConsoleTemplateInfoBuildItem results(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) {
        Optional<TestSupport> ts = TestSupport.instance();
        if (testsDisabled(launchModeBuildItem, ts)) {
            return null;
        }
        return new DevConsoleTemplateInfoBuildItem("tests", ts.get());
    }

    @Record(ExecutionTime.RUNTIME_INIT)
    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    public void setupTestRoutes(
            DevConsoleRecorder recorder,
            NonApplicationRootPathBuildItem nonApplicationRootPathBuildItem,
            LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem,
            ShutdownContextBuildItem shutdownContextBuildItem,
            BuildProducer<RouteBuildItem> routeBuildItemBuildProducer,
            BuildProducer<TestListenerBuildItem> testListenerBuildItemBuildProducer) throws IOException {
        DevModeType devModeType = launchModeBuildItem.getDevModeType().orElse(null);
        if (devModeType == null || !devModeType.isContinuousTestingSupported()) {
            return;
        }

        if (TestSupport.instance().isPresent()) {
            // Add continuous testing
            routeBuildItemBuildProducer.produce(nonApplicationRootPathBuildItem.routeBuilder()
                    .route("dev/test")
                    .handler(recorder.continuousTestHandler(shutdownContextBuildItem))
                    .build());
        }

    }

    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    DevConsoleRouteBuildItem handleTestStatus(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) {
        Optional<TestSupport> ts = TestSupport.instance();
        if (testsDisabled(launchModeBuildItem, ts)) {
            return null;
        }
        //GET tests/status
        //DISABLED, RUNNING (run id), RUN (run id, start time, nextRunQueued)
        //GET tests/results

        return new DevConsoleRouteBuildItem("tests/status", "GET", new Handler<>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(RoutingContext event) {
                jsonResponse(event);
                TestSupport testSupport = ts.get();
                TestSupport.RunStatus status = testSupport.getStatus();
                TestStatus testStatus = new TestStatus();
                long lastRun = status.getLastRun();
                testStatus.setLastRun(lastRun);
                if (lastRun > 0) {
                    TestRunResults result = testSupport.getResults();
                    testStatus.setTestsFailed(result.getCurrentFailedCount());
                    testStatus.setTestsPassed(result.getCurrentPassedCount());
                    testStatus.setTestsSkipped(result.getCurrentSkippedCount());
                    testStatus.setTestsRun(result.getFailedCount() + result.getPassedCount());
                    testStatus.setTotalTestsFailed(result.getFailedCount());
                    testStatus.setTotalTestsPassed(result.getPassedCount());
                    testStatus.setTotalTestsSkipped(result.getSkippedCount());
                }
                //get running last, as otherwise if the test completes in the meantime you could see
                //both running and last run being the same number
                testStatus.setRunning(status.getRunning());
                event.response().end(JsonObject.mapFrom(testStatus).encode());
            }
        });
    }

    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    void toggleTestRunner(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem, BuildProducer<DevConsoleRouteBuildItem> routeProducer) {
        Optional<TestSupport> ts = TestSupport.instance();
        if (testsDisabled(launchModeBuildItem, ts)) {
            return;
        }
        routeProducer.produce(new DevConsoleRouteBuildItem("tests/toggle", "POST", new Handler<>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(RoutingContext event) {
                if (ts.get().isStarted()) {
                    ts.get().stop();
                } else {
                    ts.get().start();
                }

                Json.JsonObjectBuilder object = Json.object();
                object.put("running", ts.get().isRunning());
                event.response().putHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8").end(object.build());
            }
        }));
        routeProducer.produce(new DevConsoleRouteBuildItem("tests/toggle-broken-only", "POST", new Handler<>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(RoutingContext event) {
                boolean brokenOnlyMode = ts.get().toggleBrokenOnlyMode();
                Json.JsonObjectBuilder object = Json.object();
                object.put("brokenOnlyMode", brokenOnlyMode);
                event.response().putHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8").end(object.build());
            }
        }));
    }

    private boolean testsDisabled(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem, Optional<TestSupport> ts) {
        return ts.isEmpty() || launchModeBuildItem.getDevModeType().orElse(null) != DevModeType.LOCAL;
    }

    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    DevConsoleRouteBuildItem runAllTests(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) {
        Optional<TestSupport> ts = TestSupport.instance();
        if (testsDisabled(launchModeBuildItem, ts)) {
            return null;
        }
        return new DevConsoleRouteBuildItem("tests/runall", "POST", new Handler<>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(RoutingContext event) {
                ts.get().runAllTests();
                event.response().setStatusCode(204).end();
            }
        });
    }

    @BuildStep(onlyIf = IsDevelopment.class)
    DevConsoleRouteBuildItem toggleTestOutput(LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) {
        Optional<TestSupport> ts = TestSupport.instance();
        if (testsDisabled(launchModeBuildItem, ts)) {
            return null;
        }
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Location of Sri Lanka. Source: CIA World Factbook.
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The Centrality Of Economics In Sri Lanka – Analysis
December 5, 2014 August 26, 2018 SAAG 0 Comments
By SAAG
By Dr. Parasaran Rangarajan
The focus of this paper is to highlight the need for economic independence combined with political support of India when seeking autonomy in the context of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
In the quiet of an international storm of human rights brewing at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which started an investigation into alleged violations of international law this past March where hearings have begun in Geneva1 and Presidential Elections, Sri Lanka has been able to sustain its economic growth which is a testament to its strength.
Proponents of increased autonomy for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka must realise that it will be quite difficult without the support of the dominant power in this region- India. The government of India and most nations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) either abstained or voted against the U.N. investigation with the rationale that matters should be handled regionally or internally and so smaller nations are not to be targeted by superpowers at such forums.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Sri Lanka recently met the newly elected government of India including the External Affairs Minister of India Smt. Sushma Swaraj and Prime Minister Modi to request this support. De-militarisation, implementing the 13 Amendment of the Constitution of Sri Lanka, and implementation of the 1987 Indo-Lankan Accord were all topics discussed by the parties.
The 13th Amendment is of special importance as it devolves power from the central government to the Provincial Councils but Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa is hesitant to implement it as it is the last card he has to offer for the Tamils of Sri Lanka in negotiations for autonomy. The opposition candidate for the Presidency, Maithripala Sirisena has declined to offer any sort of federalism for the Tamils as well2. Furthermore; the Provincial Councils do not become fully autonomous such as other federal arrangements such as Quebec of Canada as a Military Governor appointed by the President of Sri Lanka still has to clear all bills before becoming law in the Provincial Councils so in this way; the autonomy is very limited.
However, the promise of abolishing the Executive Presidency to pave way for constitutional changes has been promised by the opposition candidate in Sri Lanka's Presidential Elections and has also been advocated by the government of India to give Tamils equal rights.3
In this context, the TNA' link with the Sri Lankan Muslim Congress (SLMC) which holds power in the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) will be beneficial as the SLMC realises they are not going to be given the election perks such as the chair of the Chief Minister of the EPC which the President promised them.
The NPC currently enjoys a large amount of aid coming from India and the central government of Sri Lanka. However, the NPC is seeking international intervention as there is absolutely no trust between the central government and the Tamil community. In the UNHRC Resolution passed this past March, there was a clause giving Sri Lanka a one year deadline to implement the 13th Amendment and it is very unlikely that Sri Lanka will meet this.
In addition to international pressure, there must be steps taken by the NPC to seek the autonomy which is guaranteed to them. First, there must be a policy of self-reliance in economy and this policy must be implemented at the earliest. The only other option to reduce and eliminate reliance is a Marxist style revolution in regards to the philosophy of poverty.
However, the key to Sri Lanka maintain its position in the world and perhaps what would prevent the findings of a UNHRC investigation from proceeding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it is referred to the U.N. Security Council is the veto power of China. This is not because China and Sri Lanka are historical friends but because much of the world still has vested economic and strategic interests in Sri Lanka.
The economic centrality of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean is likely to be unchallenged as it is the only nation able to attract high amounts of foreign direct investments (FDI) while being investigated for genocide. It is also a reason why the government of India is unable to take a stronger stand on the issue of human rights of Tamils on that island. India is the number one exporter of goods to Sri Lanka standing at 20% and where the number one importer of goods from Sri Lanka is the United States (U.S.) accounting for 21% and United Kingdom (U.K) at 20% of all Sri Lankan exports4.
The amount of income India makes from exporting goods petroleum, cars, wheat, etc is approximately $3.6 Billion USD according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and most recently stated at $4 Billion USD according to the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka.
The 14 year old India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISLFTA) has provided massive boosts for trade between the two nations and India is the most stable trading partner of Sri Lanka according to the Indian High Commissioner5. Since the launch of the ISLFTA, Sri Lankan exports have increased 10 fold to India as well6. Many European nations have expressed interest in investing in Sri Lanka such as France7 and Belarus8. This is not to mention the $6.4 Billion USD China has strategically invested in creating ports, military bases, and other installations in Sri Lanka which is expected to rise to $12 Billion in 3 years.
However, while there is a larger regional attempt to outdo the U.S. dollar with the Brasil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) Development Bank, Sri Lanka has implemented a program through its Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) titled the "Ceylon Dollar Bond Fund" for investors looking to invest in U.S. dollars. In fact, Sri Lanka's Dulindra Fernando, Managing Director of Ceylon Asset Management stated that he looks to nations such as Singapore and Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who hold trillions in USD in their foreign reserves as a model for Sri Lanka. This serves western investors well who want to keep the dollar as the primary trading currency after the abolishment of the Bretton-Woods System but is in conflict with the BRICS and South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Development Bank.
While some European nations have proposed larger investments and nations such as Vietnam calling for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)9, sanctions on Sri Lanka which have been proposed by the United Kingdom (U.K.) to the European Union (E.U.) to cooperate with the U.N. probe. This may play into the hands of India who can do business with Sri Lanka via other nations as Chinese investments on the island are halted.10 On the other hand, it may be strategic for India to have Sri Lanka in this capacity to facilitate the dollar trade and make economic gains but it be worth to trade this for hegemony over China in the island.
In addition, the Sri Lanka has opened its doors to international investment for the re-development of the former war zone of the Northern Province as Sri Lanka has invested $3.2 Billion USD11 which will be balanced by foreign trade with nations such as India who have also invested in the Northern Province to keep up with Chinese influence in Sri Lanka. Therefore, Sri Lanka is serving the economic interests of India precisely.
To reverse this trend for the interests of Tamil autonomy, there must be measures taken by the NPC in being able to attract investment on their own from other countries than India or China. There must be the will for the NPC to create its own export economy with western nations while serving the interests of India by attending to the BRICS Development Bank while Sri Lanka is against it.
The process of Tamil economic autonomy can be assisted by Tamil Nadu in India to facilitate trade backwards meaning instead of Tamil Nadu exporting goods, they must offer some of the goods to the Northern Province at a lower price to export it through bi-lateral negotiations. This is because exports from Tamil Nadu are more than $33 Billion USD12 and the Northern Province only needs a marginal percentage of that amount to outdo the government of Sri Lanka.
It might be strategic for the Northern Province to hedge its economy on Tamil Nadu of India if it is willing to play a part rather than the Rajapaksa Administration which is being investigated for genocide by the U.N. In other words, the NPC must become the number one economic hotspot in Sri Lanka for those looking for international development investments.
The NPC economy is mainly made out of natural resources such as rubber, tea, textiles, minerals, fishing, and an investment climate for machinery must also be set up as it can be a mini-China towards this end. In essence, there is almost $6.8 Billion USD per year to be made up for with regards to investments if Tamils in the Northern Province are to achieve economic freedom and as mentioned, more than $3.6 Billion USD with India itself.
Dr. Seshadri Chari who is the National Convener of the Foreign Policy Cell of the ruling party in the government of India has also stated that the Tamil issue is an internal one of Sri Lanka despite the non-implementation of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord calling for the merger of the North and East Provinces as trade is more preferential13.
Therefore, if Tamils are to achieve greater autonomy from the government of Sri Lanka, it must begin with economic freedom. This was the strategy used by the founding father of India Mahatma Gandhi, in other words called the "self-reliance strategy" or better known now as the "import-subsidization-industrialization" (ISI) policy to achieve independence from the British Empire.
Without economic freedom from the central government of Sri Lanka, it will be difficult to for Tamils to achieve their goal of self-determination and autonomy of any other kind as the centrality of economics in the Indian Ocean will remain with Sri Lanka.
1."UN Investigation On Sri Lanka Begins – Email Open To Make Submissions." Colombo Gazette, 5 Aug. 2014. Web. <https%3A%2F%2Fwww.colombotelegraph.com%2Findex.php%2Fun-investigation-on-sri-lanka-beg….
2."Sri Lankan Candidate Rejects Tamil Federalism Plan." ABC News. ABC News Network, 2 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sri-lankan-candidate-feder….
3. "Give Tamils Equal Rights, Venkaiah Tells Sri Lanka." The Hindu, 1 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/give-tamils-equal-rights-….
4.. "The Observatory of Economic Complexity." OEC: Sri Lanka (LKA) Profile of Exports, Imports and Trade Partners. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, n.d. Web. <http://atlas.media.mit.edu/profile/country/lka/>.
5."Sri Lanka : India's New Government Stresses Enhanced Economic Engagement with Sri Lanka." Colombo Page, 3 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.colombopage.com/archive_14B/Aug03_1407074637CH.php>.
6."Sri Lanka's Exports to India Grow 10-fold." Hiru News, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.hirunews.lk/business/88743/sri-lankas-exports-to-india-grow-1….
7."French Businesses Keen on Investing in SL." Lanka Business Today, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.lbt.lk/news/business/7379-french-businesses-keen-on-investing….
8."Historic Lanka-Belarus Trade Talks Begin in Colombo." Asian Tribune, 10 July 2014. Web. <http://www.asiantribune.com/node/83745>.
9."Vietnam Wants FTA with Sri Lanka." Lanka Business Online, 1 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/vietnam-wants-fta-with-sri-lanka….
10."UK MPs Propose Sanctions on Lanka." Colombo Gazette, 27 Nov. 2014. Web. <http://colombogazette.com/2014/11/27/uk-mps-propose-sanctions-on-lanka>.
11."Reconstruction And Resettlement In The Northern Province – See More At: Http://www.businesstoday.lk/article.php?article=7454#sthash.JIa44whm.dpuf." Business Today, n.d. Web. <http://www.businesstoday.lk/article.php?article=7454>.
12."Exports from Tamil Nadu Cross $ 33.50 Billion." The Hindu, 12 May 2012. Web. <http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/exports-from-tamil-nadu-cross-3….
13."Tamils Issue an Internal Matter of Sri Lanka: Seshadri Chari." The Economic Times, 30 July 2014. Web. <http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-30/news/52237951_1_….
1 "UN Investigation On Sri Lanka Begins – Email Open To Make Submissions." Colombo Gazette, 5 Aug. 2014. Web. <https%3A%2F%2Fwww.colombotelegraph.com%2Findex.php%2Fun-investigation-on-sri-lanka-beg….
2 "Sri Lankan Candidate Rejects Tamil Federalism Plan." ABC News. ABC News Network, 2 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sri-lankan-candidate-feder….
3 "Give Tamils Equal Rights, Venkaiah Tells Sri Lanka." The Hindu, 1 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/give-tamils-equal-rights-….
4 "The Observatory of Economic Complexity." OEC: Sri Lanka (LKA) Profile of Exports, Imports and Trade Partners. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, n.d. Web. <http://atlas.media.mit.edu/profile/country/lka/>.
5 "Sri Lanka : India's New Government Stresses Enhanced Economic Engagement with Sri Lanka." Colombo Page, 3 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.colombopage.com/archive_14B/Aug03_1407074637CH.php>.
6 "Sri Lanka's Exports to India Grow 10-fold." Hiru News, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.hirunews.lk/business/88743/sri-lankas-exports-to-india-grow-1….
7 "French Businesses Keen on Investing in SL." Lanka Business Today, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://www.lbt.lk/news/business/7379-french-businesses-keen-on-investing….
8 "Historic Lanka-Belarus Trade Talks Begin in Colombo." Asian Tribune, 10 July 2014. Web. <http://www.asiantribune.com/node/83745>.
9 "Vietnam Wants FTA with Sri Lanka." Lanka Business Online, 1 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/vietnam-wants-fta-with-sri-lanka….
10 "UK MPs Propose Sanctions on Lanka." Colombo Gazette, 27 Nov. 2014. Web. <http://colombogazette.com/2014/11/27/uk-mps-propose-sanctions-on-lanka>.
11 "Reconstruction And Resettlement In The Northern Province – See More At: Http://www.businesstoday.lk/article.php?article=7454#sthash.JIa44whm.dpuf." Business Today, n.d. Web. <http://www.businesstoday.lk/article.php?article=7454>.
12 "Exports from Tamil Nadu Cross $ 33.50 Billion." The Hindu, 12 May 2012. Web. <http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/exports-from-tamil-nadu-cross-3….
13 "Tamils Issue an Internal Matter of Sri Lanka: Seshadri Chari." The Economic Times, 30 July 2014. Web. <http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-30/news/52237951_1_….
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Web content can be divided into two categories: static content and dynamic content. Static content does not change from request to request. The content that gets returned to the web browser is always the same. Examples of static content include HTML files, JPG or GIF files.
The other is dynamic content. This is the response that gets generated for dynamic content changes with every request. Examples include ASP.NET or PHP content.
There is a big range between these two categories which includes semi-dynamic content. Imagine a dynamic ASP.NET page that executes a database query. There is no reason to execute this query on every request if the underlying database tables change infrequently.
The IIS Output Caching feature targets semi-dynamic content. It allows you to cache static responses for dynamic requests and to gain tremendous scalability.
For this walkthrough, you need IIS 7.0 or above on Windows® Vista SP1 or on Windows Server® 2008 Beta 3 or later. This walkthrough also uses ASP.NET 2.0 which must be installed as an optional component in the IIS Setup.
In the following walkthrough, we use the IIS extensibility interfaces to add language-specific copyright messages to JPG files.
First, we do this by adding a managed handler. Dynamically inserting a copyright message into every JPG file comes with a cost however, because now managed code must be executed for every JPG file.
Next, we install WCAT, an IIS performance analysis tool, to measure the throughput of our JPG copyright handler.
Then we add Output Caching to regain performance degradation incurred by adding our copyright handler.
Due to the high Internet Explorer security settings on Windows Server 2008, you might get a security dialog box telling you that the web site is blocked. To download the IIS wallpaper, add wallpaper.iis7.org to the list of trusted sites.
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd add app -site.name:"Default Web Site"
Open Notepad and paste the following code into it.
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config "Default Web Site/pictures"
Browse to the pictures application by typing in the Internet Explorer address bar: http://localhost/picures. Click the link to your JPG file in the IIS directory listing. You should see the JPG image with the inserted Copyright message.
Open the "Tools" Menu and click "Internet Options".
Click the "Add…" button and add "es" for Spanish or "de" for German.
Move the new language to the top of the list via the "Move Up" button.
Browse to http://localhost/pictures/%3cyour_jpg_file%3e.jpg. The Copyright message has changed to the language you configured.
Do not forget to go back into the "Languages" dialog box and reset-- otherwise you might wonder later why you get Spanish or German web pages.
Download the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools and install them. Do a custom install and install only the Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT). WCAT is the only feature of the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools we need to do our performance tests.
Due to the high Internet Explorer security settings on Windows Server 2008, you might get a security dialog box telling you that the web-site is blocked. To download the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit, add *.microsoft.com to the list of trusted sites.
A configuration file that configures the parameters of a particular performance run, e.g. the duration of the tests, how many HTTP clients to simulate, etc.
URL = "http://localhost/pictures/<your image name>.JPG"
Replace the <your image name> entry with the names of your JPG files. If you have more JPG files, you can add a new transaction. Make sure you give each transaction a new ClassID.
The distribution file tells WCAT how it should weigh requests. With the two URLs above, we do an even 50/50 distribution. Each ClassID gets requested 50% of the time.
As soon as all clients are connected, the perf test will start.
To do this with more clients, set NumClientMachines in config.cfg to a higher number, and connect clients to the controller via the wcclient command by specifying the name of the controller machine.
> If you do this on a 64-Bit version of Windows, WCAT is installed in the "program files (x86)" directory and you must use `%programfiles(x86)%` to start WCAT.
The important number to look at is the requests per second. In this case, we get 14 requests per second.
A word of caution - the bigger your JPG files, the fewer requests you will see. It is likely that your machine is network-bound: IIS will not be able to handle more requests because the network is saturated with the data you are sending. You see the best results with JPG files in the 200-300 KB range.
Navigate to "Administrative Tools" and select "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager".
Use the tree view on the left side to navigate to the "pictures" application.
Select the "Output Caching Rules" menu item.
Click "Add…" in the "Actions" menu.
Add JPG as the "File extension" to cache.
Select "At time intervals" in the "Monitor cached files" section and enter 00:00:10 as the time interval.
Check the "Headers" check-box and enter "Accept-Language".
The Output Cache User Interface is not available in versions before Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Repeat the performance run to see what and how the configuration settings change.
> If you do this on a 64-Bit version of Windows, WCAT is installed in the `program files (x86)` directory and you must use `%programfiles(x86)%` to start WCAT.
To ascertain the performance in the output cache, look at output cache counters in the "Reliability and Performance Monitor". There are many interesting counters. Here is one example of how to use the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" together with the output cache.
On Windows Server 2008, start PERFMON via the Start menu. Go to "Administrative Tools" and click "Reliability and Performance Monitor". On Vista, you find "Administrative Tools" in the Control Panel.
Select "Performance Monitor" in the tree view on the right and click the big "+" sign in the toolbar.
Navigate to the "Web Service Cache" counter and click it to open.
Add the "Total URIs Cached" counter.
You see that the number of cached URIs increases depending on how many items you request during the performance test.
The IIS output cache supports two cache policies. The regular output cache policy takes advantage of a cache that resides in an IIS worker process. The other cache policy is a kernel mode cache policy, in which case the cache resides in HTTP.SYS, a kernel-mode driver.
You see that we do not use the varyByHeaders attribute anymore. This is because the kernelModeCache does not support some of the features that the user mode output cache supports.
There are two significant differences between user mode and kernel mode output cache.
Kernel Mode Output cache does not support modules and features that must run in user mode, such as authentication or authorization. Example: If authentication schemes like Basic or Windows authentication are enabled, the cache policy will not work. The content is served but not cached. See "Troubleshoot Caching" on how to find out if the content gets cached. More details on why responses might not get cached in kernel-mode is found in this Knowledge Base article.
The Kernel Mode Output Cache supports the varyByHeaders attribute but not varyByQuerystring.
Failed Request Event Buffering (FREB) is the best way to find out whether or not your request gets cached. FREB tells you why something does not get cached. Here is a sample of a FREB log. In this case, the HTTPSYS_CACHEABLE event tells you that the request does not get cached because the kernel-mode cache is not enabled.
For more detailed information on how to work with FREB, see this IIS.NET article.
Even if you enable Output Caching, IIS does not immediately cache a request. It must be requested a few times before IIS considers a request to be "cache worthy". Cache worthiness can be configured via the ServerRuntime section described in this MSDN article.
The two properties that determine cache-worthiness are frequentHitTimePeriod and frequentHitThreshold. A request is only cached if more than <frequentHitThreshold> requests for a cacheable URL arrive within the <frequentHitTimePeriod>.
The default setting for frequentHitTimePeriod is 10 seconds.
The default setting for frequentHitThreshold is 2.
Click "Content View" at the bottom of the page.
Select your default document, e.g. default.aspx page.
Click "Switch to feature view" in the "Actions" menu on the right. Every setting that you configure will now only be applied to the default document.
Open the "Output Caching Rules" setting.
Add ".aspx" as a file extension.
Select "kernel-mode caching" then we can select "At time intervals" and enable "Monitor cached files" and enter 00:00:30 as the time interval.
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Topic: Art › Comedy
The movie Life is beautiful is about a man named Guido, who marries a gorgeous woman named Dora. Everything all seems great and joyful in the beginning but that would later change.
Later in the movie they get a son together and continues to live happily until the occupation of Italy takes place by the German forces. Guido and his wife unfortunately gets divided into two different parts of the concentration-camp. Guido imagines that the concentration-camp is a game and the major price is a tank. Hi is doing this just to make his son believe that everything is okay. He didn´t want his son to recognize the reality. I would say that this movie is both a comedy and a tragedy due to the fact that in the beginning of the movie everything seems great and there was a lot of happiness and laughter however later in the movie everything changes when the occupation of Italy takes place. Moving on to the scene that I found most endearing. This scene took place when Guido should translate the rules in the concentration-camp.
He is doing this even though he could not understand a single word soldiers told him. He pretends to translate everything making it sounds like a game. He is doing this to hide the horrible truth of the concentration-camp from his son. He informs every tiny detail to his son about how the game works and that you need to collect 1000 points to win the grand price.
A tank. The strong connection between Guido and his son makes me really happy despite all the horrible things going on around them, they just don't think of it because of the true love they have to each other. It really makes me think about something other than the horrible things in the movie. Furthermore, to the scene that I think is the most horrid in the movie. This scene is when Guido gets shot to death the day before everyone gets free. He works so hard to protect his son when he realizes that all other Jewish children already has been killed. Together they both search for a hideout for his son, in the middle of all the soldiers.
When they finally find a hideout, he told his son that he would soon be back but he never returned and I thought that it was really heartbreaking. His highest wish was to meet and save his wife before it would be too late. When he tries to get to the women's side he dresses up as a woman but he gets caught and gets chased down and gets killed. I think it was really awful when Guido never returned to his son. It is really hard to understand that the military is so harsh and heartless. They didn´t see the humans in the camps as humans.
They did not show any mercy. Guido was a very strange man. He was crazy and had a lot of luck by his side. He was even a litle bit childish now and then. This made him a very special man. One thing that was utterly lovely about him was his loyalty to his family. He was always willing to stand up for those he loved regardless the situation he was in.
During the film the bonds between the family members become stronger and stronger which is truly endearing. Unfortunly his luck will fade away and come to an end. The closer the film comes to an end the less lucky he gets which would result in his death.
I think that this is a movie that changes from the comic to the tragic. To a beginning the movie looks bright but as the movie moves along it becomes more tragic. To sum up the movie I would say that it was a tragedy. The title suits the movie because Guido always sees things from the bright and beautiful side on life regardless of which situation he was in.
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In Ukraine, the pensioner opened fire on the children of self-made weapon, three people were injured. About it reports the UNIAN.
It happened in the urban village of the New Odessa the Nikolaev area on Sunday, September 9. Around 17.00, the police received a report that 68-year-old local resident shot at the playing children from a homemade weapon. Injured 12-year-old boy and two girls aged 9 and 5 years. The gunman also injured.
All the victims were taken to the hospital, the remains of improvised weapons are directed on expert research.
A criminal case under article "Premeditated murder", the issue of the detention of the men. He faces imprisonment for the term from seven till fifteen years.
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Q: Firebase Android offline performance When storing approximately 5000 sub nodes under a single node, initialising firebase becomes very slow when making use of the offline capabilities. It takes ~30 seconds before the first query is executed. Once initialised, executing subsequent queries (e.g. listing the first 25 sub nodes) takes less than a second.
I'm making use of the following properties to enable the offline capabilities:
    Firebase.getDefaultConfig().setPersistenceEnabled(true);
    firebase.keepSynced(true);
My structure looks like this:
<root>
 |-my-app-name
   |-<uid>
     |-node
       |-sub node 1
       |-...
       |-sub node 5000

Keep synced is set on the <uid> node. The sub nodes are presented in a Recycler View. Preferably, I would like to list all (instead of 25 per page) but I understand that this is not possible since there is no Cursor like mechanism (as Android provides for SQLite) available for working with Firebase.
Is this by design and do I revise my data structure? Or can I reduce initialisation time in another way?
I provided some logging below. As you can see, a lot of garbage collection is going on. Does Firebase evaluate the whole database when initializing?
Thanks!
Niels
04-01 15:59:12.029 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 43005(1717KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 4% free, 31MB/32MB, paused 5.674ms total 57.402ms
04-01 15:59:13.415 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 6.600ms
04-01 15:59:13.424 2222-2245/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 9.339ms
04-01 15:59:13.433 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 7097(281KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 0% free, 32MB/32MB, paused 11.175ms total 27.105ms
04-01 15:59:13.821 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 101674(5MB) AllocSpace objects, 18(530KB) LOS objects, 35% free, 28MB/44MB, paused 3.400ms total 152.664ms
04-01 15:59:15.107 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 394024(15MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 20% free, 30MB/38MB, paused 1.865ms total 152.182ms
04-01 15:59:15.817 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 218328(8MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 19% free, 31MB/38MB, paused 1.711ms total 112.325ms
04-01 15:59:16.451 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 27.786ms
04-01 15:59:16.465 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 190591(7MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 18% free, 31MB/38MB, paused 1.832ms total 107.416ms
04-01 15:59:16.472 2222-2245/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 6.823ms
04-01 15:59:17.084 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 178714(6MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 15% free, 32MB/38MB, paused 1.717ms total 105.529ms
04-01 15:59:17.629 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 163584(6MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 14% free, 33MB/38MB, paused 1.743ms total 110.764ms
04-01 15:59:18.941 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 5.078ms
04-01 15:59:19.691 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 95627(3MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 8% free, 35MB/38MB, paused 7.190ms total 86.171ms
04-01 15:59:19.961 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 18.208ms
04-01 15:59:20.965 2222-2245/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 5.254ms
04-01 15:59:20.990 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 55899(2MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 5% free, 36MB/38MB, paused 6.799ms total 66.923ms
04-01 15:59:22.495 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 45.180ms
04-01 15:59:22.509 2222-2245/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 14.254ms
04-01 15:59:22.562 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 198174(6MB) AllocSpace objects, 3(487KB) LOS objects, 32% free, 33MB/49MB, paused 16.949ms total 215.369ms
04-01 15:59:23.811 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 392437(15MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 18% free, 35MB/43MB, paused 1.936ms total 168.222ms
04-01 15:59:24.480 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 22.464ms
04-01 15:59:24.497 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 227043(8MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 18% free, 35MB/43MB, paused 1.723ms total 117.855ms
04-01 15:59:25.173 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 203910(7MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 16% free, 36MB/43MB, paused 1.694ms total 112.618ms
04-01 15:59:25.181 2222-2245/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 7.301ms
04-01 15:59:25.784 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 185627(7MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 14% free, 37MB/43MB, paused 1.719ms total 115.362ms
04-01 15:59:26.345 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 167066(6MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 13% free, 37MB/43MB, paused 1.651ms total 106.055ms
04-01 15:59:26.865 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 154535(6MB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 11% free, 38MB/43MB, paused 1.644ms total 104.888ms
04-01 15:59:28.357 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 151375(5MB) AllocSpace objects, 33(671KB) LOS objects, 9% free, 39MB/43MB, paused 2.740ms total 104.176ms
04-01 15:59:29.006 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 19.232ms
04-01 15:59:29.060 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 133554(5MB) AllocSpace objects, 29(580KB) LOS objects, 10% free, 39MB/43MB, paused 1.563ms total 100.220ms
04-01 15:59:30.173 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 131062(4MB) AllocSpace objects, 31(637KB) LOS objects, 9% free, 39MB/43MB, paused 1.653ms total 102.705ms
04-01 15:59:31.245 2222-2245/abcdef I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 122085(4MB) AllocSpace objects, 26(522KB) LOS objects, 8% free, 39MB/43MB, paused 2.380ms total 100.776ms
04-01 15:59:32.024 2222-2240/abcdef W/art: Suspending all threads took: 20.662ms

PS: This is a cross post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/migEAwv26ns

A: Initializing means setValue to that node right? So, initializing 5000 sub nodes under a single node taking ~30s seems very unusual to me. I've worked with almost same size of data under a single node with a far better performance. So I'm not sure about how much attributes you are putting under a single sub-node, but anyway, I guess you need to check the performance again. I think you're using onCompleteListener on setValue to calculate the time spent to initialize the data, as the UI view doesn't provide you the exact time and often slower than the actual operation time.

Preferably, I would like to list all (instead of 25 per page) but I
  understand that this is not possible since there is no Cursor like
  mechanism (as Android provides for SQLite) available for working with
  Firebase.

I'm not quite sure about your purpose though, but what I could suggest for these type of cases is to maintain both Sqlite and Firebase database. Let me clarify.
The idea is to maintain the same copy of the Firebase database for a specific user in the user's phone. So that the local database can serve your purpose fully whenever needed. You can query the database and can use CursorLoader with which you've handful experience.
It has some other advantages too. You can handle the offline sync with your own mechanism. When the internet is down, store the data you want to sync afterwards in your local Sqlite database and then when the connection is up, you'll get a callback in your BroadcastReceiver. You can easily setValue the offline data to Firebase then. Firebase makes this simpler of course, but anyway, as you're very much concerned about the performance, you can give this a try.
The behaviour of GC you posted is usual when your application is doing too much work. Firebase basically uses WebSocket to maintain the connection to the remote database. So I think you need to check if you're keeping unnecessary connections to the Firebase database. Try to use removeListener when the listeners are no longer necessary.

Does Firebase evaluate the whole database when initializing?

I'm not sure yet what you've meant by initializing, but yes, if you're taking the same node again for setValue to that node, it replaces the previous data with the new set of data.

A: So sharding the data so one root node contains at most 200 sub nodes seems to be the answer for now. I'm setting .keepSynced(true) on the shards and this results in much better performance.
In order to present the sharded list in a single recycler view, I created a class FirebaseArrays which is a collection of FirebaseArray that aggregates multiple arrays into a single observable collection.
https://gist.github.com/ndefeijter/2191f8a43ce903c5d9ea69f02c7ee7e9
I also adapted the FirebaseRecyclerAdapter to use a FirebaseArrays as underlying data structure instead of a single FirebaseArray. The interface is extended using some methods to add additional Firebase paths (i.e. shards).
https://gist.github.com/ndefeijter/d98eb5f643b5faf5476b8a611de912c1
These paths are added upon a 'load more' event (e.g. in case endless scrolling).
private void loadMore() {

    final View view = getView();
    if (null != view) {
        final RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view);
        final FirebaseRecyclerAdapter2<Visit, VisitViewHolder> adapter = (FirebaseRecyclerAdapter2<Visit, VisitViewHolder>) recyclerView.getAdapter();
        adapter.addQuery(nextQuery());
    }
}

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Wednesday (2022, Netflix)
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Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is no average teenage girl. With her pallid complexion, black attire, matching pigtails and a personality overflowing with misanthropy, she's every parent's nightmare, except for Morticia and Gomez. They love their little viper, storm cloud, etc. and would do anything for her, including keeping her out of trouble when she exacts revenge on her brother Pugsley's high school tormentors. When Morticia confronts her with the possibility of having attempted murder on her record, Wednesday replies, "Terrible. Everyone would know I failed to get the job done." If you love droll humor, Wednesday (character and series) has plenty more where that's coming.
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In the day's twilight, a group of obnoxious super-rich types take a boat to a remote island for dinner. This isn't just any dinner, though. It's a $1,750 per head dining experience by Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). Among the guests are Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy), a couple that doesn't quite fit. After they arrive, they are welcomed by hostess Elsa (Hong Chau), whose every smile and glance forebodes something devious is afoot. Then, when everyone is seated, Chef Slowik appears. With a firm clap and a voice tinged with growing condescension, he announces a progression of courses that bring delight and unease. Unlike the rest of the clueless patrons, Margot can tell something isn't right. Each course, while immaculately prepared, brings recriminations from the Chef. Then, shockingly and unexpectedly, things turn violent. What does Chef Slowik have planned for everyone? Will they survive until the meal's final course?
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In Halloween Kills (the previous entry in this series), Michael Myers escaped certain death when some unwitting firefighters rescued him from Laurie Strode's burning home. He then proceeded to lay waste to the entire firefighter squad without breaking a sweat. While Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Deputy Frank (Will Patton) recovered from their injuries at the hospital, Michael made mincemeat out of a self-styled vigilante mob led by survivors of the original. Last but not least, Michael shockingly killed Laurie's daughter Karen (Judy Greer). Ends picks up the story one year later. Michael has not been seen since the prior year, and the town has shifted back towards normalcy. (Sorry Haddonfield, IL, your town will never be "normal".)
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Is mental illness contagious? Is suicide driven by emotions like guilt or an unseen demon? Those questions are the foundation for Smile, a brutally efficient horror film by first time director Parker Finn. The movie stars Sosie Bacon as Dr. … Continue reading Smile
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Barbarian is a welcome new member of a group of horror movies that makes you think while it scares you. This subset of the genre includes movies like Freaky, Get Out and It Follows and doesn't have an official designation that I'm aware of. I collectively refer to them as "brainy horror", which is lame, I know. (Impale me on a spike if you must.) Like those movies, Barbarian is first and foremost a top-notch horror movie, filled with scares and enough disturbing images to fuel nightmares. It's also incredibly devious in how it uses your familiarity with the genre to subvert your expectations at every turn. Most importantly, it earns its place alongside the other noteworthy brainy horror movies by being a very entertaining film from beginning to end.
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How to make a movie about Dracula feel new, or at least new-ish? The Invitation addresses this by telling a very familiar story about a very familiar character through the eyes of Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel), an African American toiling away in the States as a waitress. Her job sucks and with her mother's recent death, misses having connection to a family. The answer to her ennui arrives when she completes a DNA test and discovers she's actually a long-lost relative to the white-as-can-be Alexander family in England. Her best friend Grace (Courtney Taylor) cautions her not to go, but nobody ever listens to their best friend's advice in these movies.
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The flying saucer movie has been a staple for over seventy years. The first movie to feature a UFO, appropriately titled The Flying Saucer, came out in 1950. Since then, the genre has primarily been about a flying saucer, or flying saucers, showing up on Earth causing problems for hapless humans. There have been some great ones over the years, including The Day The Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET. However, this category of science fiction mostly exists to provide cheap thrills. Oh no, a big-headed alien has just abducted our helpless heroine! Send in the Army and all of its tanks, jets and men with machine guns!
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Set in 1978, a child killer nicknamed The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) has been terrorizing a Colorado suburb. Under the guise of a hapless magician, he snatches kids in broad daylight, spraying an intoxicant into their faces before cramping them into his black van. A middle-schooler named Finney (Mason Thames) eventually becomes his target and finds himself trapped in a soundproofed basement. When Finney is alone, a phone on the wall rings. This is curious as the phone is disconnected. On the other end is the voice of another boy Finney knew. Subsequent calls are from the other boys who've gone missing, five in all. Initially they give Finney advice on how to not play The Grabber's "game", which has been lethal for them. They then proceed to coach him on things he can do to try to escape.
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If director Alex Garland had any sense of humor at all, he would have titled the movie "Fear and Loathing in Cotson". As it is, Men is about how badly men behave, particularly when they are rejected by women. Jesse Buckley plays Harper, a woman suffering in a marriage with the violent and emotional James (Paapa Essiedu). When she says she wants a divorce, he threatens her with committing suicide. He figures she would prefer to stay married over having to deal with the guilt of his death, but Harper is determined. James dies suddenly, and it's unclear whether it was intentional or an accident. Some time afterwards, Harper decides to take a vacation. She rents a house in the English countryside. Once there, Harper meets proprietor Geoffrey, an overly polite English type. On a walk, she's stalked by a naked man. Shortly afterwards, she is confronted by an angry child, an oily vicar, a dismissive policeman and assorted male dullards, all played by Rory Kinnear. ("The Many Faces of Rory Kinnear" would also have been a better title.)
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Antlers is a micro-budget horror movie that aspires to be much more meaningful than it is. In a perpetually rainy town in Oregon, a young boy named Lucas (Jeremy T. Thomas) is trying to keep his family together while his meth-cooking father is in the throes of something that is turning him into an animal. Lucas's teacher Julia (Keri Russell) believes that Lucas' disheveled state and withdrawn behavior are tell-tale signs child abuse, because she was abused as a child. Her monosyllabic brother Paul (Jesse Plemons), the town sheriff, warns her not to intervene, but you know how this will turn out. Graham Greene cameos as former Sheriff Warren who reveals that Lucas's father was bitten by a Wendigo, a creature based in Native American legend. From here on out, danger signs go unheeded, people get eaten and the movie's big confrontation wraps up surprisingly quickly.
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"The opposition is united.... In 2019 BJP will be finished," Banerjee, who invited the leaders of the opposition parties as well as Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to her January 19 rally in Kolkata, told reporters.
"We are all for all. We will take a decision on collective leadership. If all opposition political parties can join hands and work together in Parliament, then why not fight unitedly outside," the TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister told reporters after her nearly half-an-hour long meeting with the Gandhis at 10, Janpath, the residence of Sonia Gandhi.
On the Congress' indication of its willingness to accept her candidature as opposition's PM face, she said, "I am not for any chair, our aim is to defeat the BJP."
"We discussed the political situation. We discussed how the opposition can together take on the BJP because it knows that it will not come back to power," she said.
Asked about the prime ministerial candidate of the proposed anti-BJP front, she said, "it will be decided later. The first priority is to defeat the BJP. The BJP has to be defeated first."
To a query on Amit Shah's criticism of her on the NRC issue, she said, "I am not his servant. Why should I reply to his comments."
"Gali ka jawaab hum gaali se nahin denge. Yeh hamari parampara hai. (We will not reply to an abuse with an abuse, that is our tradition)," she said.
"The BJP is scared and nervous politically due to the unity of opposition parties. The BJP knows what will happen to them in 2019 as they will not come back to power. That is why they are trying to create such an atmosphere and doing all this," she said.
On her meeting with leaders of various political parties, she said, "We know every political leader. I am happy to meet all of them."
Attacking the Centre on Assam's National Register of Citizens final draft, she said, "People whose names have been kept out are from Bihar, UP, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal. We want them to live peacefully. Some of them are living for 100 ears for five generations in Assam. How can you do this to them?"
"I do not know what the BJP wants -- a civil water or a blood bath. But we do not want it," she said today.
"I cannot interfere in the Congress' decisions. We believe that the strongest in a state should take on the BJP," she said.
She also met Advani at his chamber in Parliament House ."I went to meet him and enquired about his health," she told reporters.
Suspended BJP member of parliament Kirti Azad hailed her as a great leader and said that her efforts to consolidate all opposition parties are "commendable".
Banerjee also appealed to all the opposition parties to send a joint delegation to the Election Commission against EVM tampering and to press for holding polls on ballots. "All opposition parties should go to EC on this matter," Banerjee told the leaders.


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Q: qooxdoo XHR Firefox return NS_ERROR_FAILURE I am using qooxdoo 3.0.1 for a web application.
In current state the application works fine in google chrome but in iceweasel 17 and firefox 23
the problem occurs when I am sending xhr using qx.bom.request.Xhr()
in the console I am getting the following message
Exception... "Failure"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"
location: "JS frame :: http:// localhost:8000/qooxdoo/framework/source/class/qx/bom/request/Xhr.js ::
.members.send :: line 387"  data: no]
in firefox I have disable the safe browsing and the strict origin policy because the requests are not made in the same server, I even try to use the Force CORS plugin in firefox but with no results.
any suggestions ?

A: Do you see a response in the browser console of Iceweasel 17 / Firefox 23 when you run this playground sample?
http://tinyurl.com/oaky63o
Within this sample I'm using jsontest.com [1] and it's echo service [2] which responds with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header (the value is *), so hopefully you should be able to verify that this code snippet also runs within your aforementioned browser versions.
I'm assuming that you are using GET and sending no data, so please correct me here if that's wrong.
Okay, so what can you do about your development environment that is apparently missing something for CORS to work properly:
Are you in control of the server? Can you add custom headers? If the answer is "yes", then make sure that your server responds with this header (you should not use the wildcard symbol
for production only within your development environment - see [3] and [4]) - just like the services from jsontest.com:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
This is the easiest and the preferred approach and doesn't require any browser configuration.
If you are not in control of the server then the "Force CORS" Firefox Add-on [5] you've mentioned should do the trick. Just append ?alloworigin=false to the http://echo.jsontest.com URL I've used in the playground sample to prevent jsontest.com from sending the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. After installing and manually enabling "Force CORS" I could see the expected response in the browser console too.
So my assumption is that while you disabled "the safe browsing and the strict origin policy" you maybe messed something up. Can you restore the original settings and try out just the server config adaption or the "Force CORS" Add-on? Did you enable the "Force CORS" Add-on manually in the Add-on bar?
See also:

*

*[1] http://www.jsontest.com/

*[2] http://echo.jsontest.com/key/value/one/two

*[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS#Simple_requests

*[4] http://enable-cors.org/server.html

*[5] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/forcecors/