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Q: Splitting a string into words and keeping delimiter I want to split up a string (sentence) in an array of words and keep the delimiters.

I have found and I am currently using this regex for this:
[^.!?\s][^.!?]*(?:[.!?](?!['"]?\s|$)[^.!?]*)*[.!?]?['"]?(?=\s|$)
An explanation can be found here: http://regex101.com/
This works exactly as I want it to and effectively makes a string like
This is a sentence.
To an array of
["This", "is", "a", "sentence."]
The problem here is that it does not include spaces nor newlines. I want the string to be parsed as words as it already does but I also want the corresponding space and or newline character to belong to the previous word.
I have read about positive lookahead that should look for future characters (space and or newline) but still take them into account when extracting the word. Although this might be the solution I have failed to implement it.
If it makes any difference I am using JavaScript and the following code:
//save the regex -- g modifier to get all matches
var reg =  /[^.!?\s][^.!?]*(?:[.!?](?!['"]?\s|$)[^.!?]*)*[.!?]?['"]?(?=\s|$)/g;

//define variable for holding matches
var matches;
//loop through each match
while(matches = reg.exec(STRING_HERE)){
    //the word without spaces or newlines
    console.log(matches[0]);
}

The code works but as I said, it does not include spaces and newline characters.

A: Yo can try something simpler:
str.split(/\b(?!\s)/);

However, note non word characters (e.g. full stop) will be considered another word:
"This is a sentence.".split(/\b(?!\s)/);
// [ "This ", "is ", "a ", "sentence", "." ]

To fix that, you can use a character class with the characters that shouldn't begin another word:
str.split(/\b(?![\s.])/);

A: function split_string(str){
   var arr = str.split(" ");
   var last_i = arr.length - 1;
   for(var i=0; i<last_i; i++){
       arr[i]+=" ";
   }
   return arr;
 }

A: It may be as simple as this:
var sentence = 'This is a sentence.';
sentence = sentence.split(' ').join(' ||');
sentence = sentence.split('\n').join('\n||');
var matches = sentence.split('||');

Note that I use 2 pipes as a delimiter, but ofcourse you can use anything as long as it's unique.
Also note that I only split \n as a newline, but you may add \r\n or whatever you want to split as well.

A: General Solution
To keep the delimiters conjoined in the results, the regex needs to be a zero-width match. In other words, the regex can be thought of as matching the point between a delimiter and non-delimiter, rather than matching the delimiters themselves. This can be achieved with zero-width matching expressions, matching before, at, or after the split point (at most one each); let's call these A, B, and C. Sometimes a single sub-expression will do it, others you'll need two; offhand, I can't think of a case where you'd need three.
Not only look-aheads but lookarounds in general are the perfect candidates for this purpose: lookbehinds ((?<=...)) to match before the split point, and lookaheads ((?=...)) after. That's the essence of this approach. Positive or negative lookarounds can be used. The one pitfall is that lookbehinds are relatively new to JS regexes, so not all browsers or other JS engines will support them (current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge, and node.js do; Safari does not). If you need to support a JS engine that doesn't support lookbehinds, you might still be able to write & use a regex that matches at-and-before (BC).
To have the delimiters appear at the end of each match, put them in A. To have them at the start, in C. Fortunately, JS regexes do not place restrictions on lookbehinds, so simply wrapping the delimiter regex in the positive lookaround markers should be all that's required for delimiters. If the delimiters aren't so simple (i.e. context-sensitive), it might take a little more work to write the regex, which doesn't need to match the entire delimiter.
Paired with the delimiter pattern, you'll need to write a pattern that matches the start (for C) or end (for A) of the non-delimiter. This step is likely the one that will require the most additional work.
The at-split-point match, B
will often (always?) be a simple boundary, such as \b.
Specific Solution
If spaces are the only delimiters, and they're to appear at the end of each match, the delimiter pattern would be (?<=\s), in A. However, there are some cases not covered in the problem description. For example, should words separated by only punctuation (e.g. "x.y") be split? Which side of a split point should quotation marks and hyphens appear, if any? Should they count as punctuation? Another option for the delimiter is to match (after) all non-word characters, in which case A would be (<?=\W).
Since the split-point is at a word boundary, B could be \b.
Since the start of a match is a word character, (?=\w) will suffice for C.
Any two of those three should suffice. One that is perhaps clearest in meaning (and splits at the most points) is /(<?=\W)(?=\w)/, which can be translated as "split at the start of each word". \b could be added, if you find it more understandable, though it has no functional affect: /(<?=\W)\b(?=\w)/.
Note Oriol's excellent solutions are given by B=\b and (C=(?!\s) or C=(?![\s.])).
Additional
As a point of interest, there would be a simpler solution for this particular case if JS regexes supported TCL word boundaries: \m matches only at the start of a word, so str.split(/\m/) would split exactly at the start of each word. (\m is equivalent to (<?=\W)(?=\w).)

A: If you want to include the whitespace after the word, the regex \S+\s* should work.

const s = `This is a sentence.
This is another sentence.`;

console.log(s.match(/\S+\s*/g))


Finally, a good news coming from Disney. I was waiting for the return of The Clone Wars for years. This is a great news that will save the year for all Star Wars fans.
The Clone Wars was a 3D CGI animated television series and the best (to not say the only) good source about Star Wars after the prequels and before Disney take control over Lucasfilm. It is set in the Star Wars galaxy during the three years between the prequel films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, the same time period as the previous 2D 2003 TV series Star Wars: Clone Wars. Each episode has a running time of 22 minutes to fill a half-hour time slot.
The series was launched with an animated feature film, which was released in theaters on August 15, 2008. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008, and became an entry point into Star Wars for an entire generation, following fan-favorites like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Padmé Amidala, while introducing major new characters like Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex. Its stories were complex, its heroes and villains were perfectly imperfect, and its look was captivatingly beautiful. It became a multi-Emmy winner and is now regarded as essential Star Wars.
But it was never finished because on March 11, 2013, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: The Clone Wars would be "winding down"… The Clone Wars ended after five broadcast seasons – just as Ahsoka left the Jedi Order. A few post-Season Five episodes were later released as "The Lost Missions," but the story wasn't over.
Since then fans were waiting for the return of The Clone Wars, and got frustrated when none information about the series came from Disney. Until now. The wait is over. On July 19, 2018, Lucasfilm announced at San Diego Comic-Con that The Clone Wars would be revived with 12 new episodes to be released on Disney's direct-to-consumer streaming service.
At SDCC 2018, Lucasfilm unveiled a first glimpse at a surprise new project – a Star Wars: The Clone Wars revival. The audience at San Diego believed they were just attending a 10-year-anniversary celebration. Instead, they were on hand to hear Dave Filoni announce the next Star Wars project, and reveal that The Clone Wars would be returning exclusively to the Disney streaming service in 2019.
Lucasfilm released what appears to be a trailer, although it's important to note that Filoni insisted the project is currently in its early stages. That means this could essentially be a "sampler," produced by the animation team before they actually work on the finished product; consequently, we should be wary of trying to deduce specific story beats from this. At the same time, though, the designs and concepts in play do still give us an idea of what to expect, and everything has been included for a reason.
The teaser was released at the 10-year anniversary panel, and so it's fitting that the first sequence is heavily nostalgic: it feels almost like a memorial to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a celebration of everything the show was; dedicated to its original characters and demonstrating its overarching themes. This is done by showing the 501st marching away into the smoke – notably leaving their helmets behind – with voiceovers of dialogue from previous seasons.
The first batch of dialogue is all lifted from moments of peace, when characters were introducing themselves or interacting with one another. It's perfectly designed to remind viewers of the Clone Troopers they'd come to know and love over the course of The Clone Wars.
But the scenes change in a wonderfully stylish and atmospheric way, with a row of helmets that gradually transforms from those early designs seen in Attack of the Clones to the near-Stormtrooper take of Revenge of the Sith. The focus is on the evolution of the Clone Troopers, on how they became the foundation upon which the Empire itself was built. At the beginning, designs are highly individualized, with each helmet distinctive and unique. By the end, they're identical, emphasizing the crushing conformity of the soon-to-be Empire.
This sequence comes to its inevitable close with the voiceovers blending into one another until they're overwhelmed by cries of horror and pain. A rocket strikes the ground, and a wave of fire sweeps across the helmets, obliterating everything in its path. It's a beautifully symbolic way of representing the cost of war, of reminding viewers that every single one of these Clone Troopers was created to be a soldier who died on the front lines – not to be a person.
Where most of the trailer stresses continuity with previous seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the music choice is rather incongruous; it's actually the theme from trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It may be that Lucasfilm is choosing to use this music in order to reinforce the new Star Wars brand; it may also serve as a subtle cue that The Clone Wars' revival will be used to bind the trilogies together, and that plot threads will be planted that will only grow to fruition in the Sequel Trilogy. Or, it may simply be that it's highly evocative music.
Although Star Wars: The Clone Wars was successful, in March 2013 Lucasfilm announced that the series would be winding down. Season 6 episodes – called "The Lost Missions" – were made available for streaming on Netflix, and The Clone Wars Legacy project began adapting some of the unused concepts into a wide range of other mediums. Several key stories were released, some as unfinished animations that can be viewed online, others as novels or comics. Dave Filoni, who seems to dislike loose ends, did his best to tie many of them together in episodes of Star Wars Rebels. Still, it was hardly a satisfactory close to a popular and much-loved Star Wars series.
Thankfully, this line promises that Lucasfilm will actually finish the story of the Clone Wars, leading us up to Order 66 – and presumably beyond.
The teaser then moves to a long shot of a gunship arriving at a Republic outpost. Again, notice the symbolism; it's dusk, the time when the light dies. At first, it seems as though the outpost is relatively deserted, but as this sequence continues we'll see that this is the staging post for a major Republic attack upon the Confederacy – likely the Outer Rim Sieges.
We only catch a brief glimpse of Anakin and Obi-Wan, but it's clear the animation team have switched up the design a little for the return of The Clone Wars; the models are notably older, closer to the looks the characters have in Revenge of the Sith. Everything in this teaser reminds viewers how close it is to the tragic end of the Clone Wars.
Alongside Anakin and Rex at the base is a member of Clone Force 99, the so-called "Bad Batch," a ragtag group of Clone Troopers. Lucasfilm's original plans for Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 would have seen the Bad Batch star in the very first episode, tasked to retrieve the captured Echo from enemy hands. We don't know how true this series will be to Dave Filoni's original plans, so they could have a different role here, but the trailer suggests they will have a key role to play.
This shot concludes on the striking image of Republic Star Destroyers ready for battle, most likely the so-called "Outer Rim Sieges." This was a final military push for the Republic, with their forces attacking Confederacy planets including Saleucami, Mygeeto, and Felucia. Ironically, the push left the Republic exposed. With the Republic's military might committed to the Outer Rim, the Core Worlds were vulnerable. That left Dooku with an opportunity to attack Coruscant directly, leading to the events of Revenge of the Sith.
The Republic of Star Wars: The Clone Wars' revival seems only a short step away from becoming the Empire. That's particularly visible in this scene, where the officers are wearing uniforms that are Imperial in design.
The biggest reveal is saved for last: Anakin's disgraced apprentice Ahsoka is back. The original plans for season 7 saw Ahsoka discover the location of Darth Maul, who had based himself on Mandalore. With Anakin and Obi-Wan otherwise engaged, Ahsoka would be forced to lead the Siege of Mandalore, and wound up taking on the former Sith in a lightsaber duel. This particular aspect of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has already been absorbed into the Star Wars canon; the first scenes of E.K. Johnston's young-adult novel Ahsoka are lifted from it.
Regardless of how much The Clone Wars ultimately shows of this, this isn't the end of Ahsoka: she returned in Star Wars Rebels and, from that show's finale, lived past the original trilogy.
Alongside Ahsoka is Bo-Katan Kryze, a member of the Mandalorian Death Watch terrorist group. Maul's conquest of Mandalore forced the Republic into an uneasy alliance with an old enemy, and Bo-Katan and the Death Watch played a crucial role during the Siege of Mandalore. It certainly looks as though this part of the series will honor Dave Filoni's original plans.
The revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is clearly designed to be the end of the story, running right up to the beginning of Revenge of the Sith. It even seems likely some events will happen at the same time; the Siege of Mandalore, for example, had only just come to an end when Palpatine issued Order 66. Going by everything in the trailer – and the fact Anakin and Obi-Wan are now in their Episode III clothing – suggests we're going to connect right up.


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From river to tap water: A look at Great Lakes Water Authority.
DETROIT (WMYD) — There is a growing attention paid to the water we drink and bathe in following high-profile mishaps, including the Flint Water Crisis that continues to affect thousands. It's shown a light on the multi-million dollar processes that it takes to get water from its source to your home.
This month, 7 Action News went on a tour of the Great Lakes Water Authority "Water Works Plant" located on Jefferson in Detroit. It's one of five water plants run by GLWA, a system that serves more than 125 communities throughout southeast Michigan — an area that includes roughly 4 million people in our state.
"We're monitoring every minute of the day to ensure what's coming out is the quality of water we want," said Cheryl Porter, the COO of GLWA.
Porter predates the GLWA, having started with the group as a chemist back when GLWA was part of Detroit's city government under the Detroit Water and Sewerage District. In that time, she tells 7 Action News, there have been many changes to their system, including at the site we toured.
Everything starts with the water intake — this site, and two others linked to the pumps grabbing raw water, start the process with water straight from the Detroit River. Raw water flows by gravity from an intake to the treatment plant through a 10-16 foot wide tunnel under the river.
We asked Porter whether there are concerns about the source water given our own reporting on environmental concerns of sewage and toxins flowing into areas along the Detroit River and other bodies of water that feed it — Porter said their source water puts them in an enviable position because they've yet to test for the presence of PFAS and the abundance gives them flexibility.
"The biggest challenge is the change in seasons," said Porter, noting that when the river freezes over, temperature changes cause a stirring effect, which makes it harder to filter out dirt that comes into the system.
"That's the greatest challenge, but we're still in an enviable position to others because of the position that we're in — plenty of source water, it's a great source to start with."
The water that's removed from the river goes through an initial screening that stops larger debris, fish and small objects from entering the system — then water is treated with chlorine to destroy bacteria before it's pumped into the facility where it can get its first in-house treatment.
Porter walks us into a giant room filled with sedimentation basins — this area is part of a redesign that brought several steps under one roof, making it easier for engineers to oversee the process. The area looks like dozens of pools, but deep under the water are giant contraptions that look like ceiling fans meant to cause particles within the water to collide — it's a process known as "flocculation" and it's happening as chemicals are being introduced to the water which causes particles to clump together so that it's easily removed at the next stage: sedimentation.
In a room, nearby water is flowing toward specialized plates inside what's known as the sediment basin — the plates cause solids to fall off and be removed from the water. Those solids will be removed from the facility so that it doesn't re-enter the water.
Inside the sediment basin room, you can see water flowing at the top which is suddenly more clear, as various bits of dirt, clay and silt is being removed.
The next step takes the clean water and starts putting a chemical known as "ozone" in contact with the water — it's a hard-to-control gas that is essentially created and used for a short time within the system to disinfect water without the use of other chemicals. Once the water has passed through its contact with ozone, it's sent to a giant filter process that is similar to a Brita filter you'd find in a home. Any small particulate not previously addressed in the treatment process can be pulled out here.
"This is a huge change," said Porter, who notes that the new system requires just 12 giant filters as opposed to the 78 that once took up a larger amount of space in this water treatment plant. "This allows constant removal of solids through appropriate treatment so we have water of unquestionable quality."
The final step involves introducing anti-corrosion control so that water doesn't harm pipes as it flows through the hundreds of miles of pipe underground between the starting point and its final destination: your home. Additives like fluoride and chlorine are also put into the water, but throughout the entire process, there are both computers testing the quality of water and on-site chemists.
Porter said they've created redundancies to ensure safety — a job that keeps upwards of three-dozen employees on the job at all times, 24/7.

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The signing of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package labeled the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by President Obama on February 17, 2009, officially gave him ownership over our rapidly declining economy. This legislation combined with the TARP legislation, passed in November, has provided almost $2 trillion in stimulus. Additionally, another $275 billion is expected to be included in a future stimulus aimed at shoring up the housing market. The numbers are so mind boggling that most of us are having a tough time even figuring out how many zeros make a trillion, not to mention just what this all means for our futures.
Time will tell whether the stimulus package as envisaged by the Democrats will serve as the "elixir" and create the promised 4 million jobs and lift this economy out of a deep recession.
The new law provides relief to both businesses and individuals. This month's article will summarize key areas of individual tax relief. Next month we will focus on the business provisions of the tax stimulus.
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The economic stimulus also includes a package of tax incentives to promote investments in renewable energy projects. Important among these incentives are credits for making energy efficient improvements to your homes and businesses including a credit for purchase of plug-in electric vehicles.
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Ambulatory EHR freeware vendor Practice Fusion is rumored to be within days of announcing $60 million in new funding from an undisclosed New York-based investment firm.
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In the year of 2006 Samsung has been into "slim" handsets – in this field the company has established special line-ups, specifically Ultra Thin Edition, gathering three different form-factors: candy-bar, folder and slider (X820, D830 and D900 respectively). The senior model in the series, Samsung D900 doubles as the GSM-range flagship nowadays. Taking account of how many "slim" solutions have been launched by Samsung in 2006, it is next to impossible to squeeze them all into a single line-up; that is why today they offer so-called intermediate products filling the gaps between the top-notch proposals. The D840 is attributed to Ultra Edition range, being the pioneer of this line-up. In light of the handset's positioning and what is carries onboard, it is not a big deal to come to a conclusion that it was deliberately forged into the leading Samsung D900 look-alike. These two models have a lot in common, so that figuring out that the D900 and the D840 are in fact two different handsets is possible only when holding them both in hands. The manufacturer claims that the D840 measures a tiny 11.9 mm in thickness, which is even thinner than the counterpart of the flagship – 12.9 mm. But there are no miracles in this world, and that is why the junior solution is not actually that thin throughout the casing – the camera module sticks out a little, giving the handset its peak, which is 14 mm deep. The same also holds true for Samsung X820. Furthermore, these two models are brothers in arms not only in the sense of the thickness trick used, but in terms of hardware filling as well. Both handsets have been developed at Gumi and as a result boast Java-over-the-air downloads and weaker software (for example no sorting by first name and last name in the phonebook).
Measuring 98х45х14 mm and weighting 99 grams, the only gripe that the D840 allows us to have is that it is quite challenging to talk, having the phone between your ear and shoulder; however it is perfect when it comes to all other aspects, as it easily slips into any pocket and keeps low profile after, so that it's hard to tell that you have a mobile phone with you.
Look-alike models have been the major trend for Samsung in 2006 – unfortunately, Samsung D840 doesn't have a unique face either. Sharing many details and specs with the flagship brings along some benefits, but the fact that more entry-level offerings, sporting the same curves and edges are coming up, reduces the status of one of the look-alikes owner to minimum. The handset is made of matt plastic with the screen's edging being the only glossy part on the casing. The austere look is diversified by the silver framing bordering the loudspeaker's grill.
The display installed in this model is great (basically the same unit is found in the D900), it has QVGA resolution (240x320 pixels, 33x44 mm), diagonal is 2.1 inches. Display is able to show up to 262k colors (TFT), which are lively and colorful. Up to 8 text lines can fit it, with 4 lines reserved for service needs. This model is clearly superior over Nokia 6233 and Sony Ericsson K800i in terms of display. In some modes it is possible to display up to 12 text lines. Information stays readable outdoors.
Slider has auto-opening mechanism, it is easy to open handset with one had. You will see prop, on which your thumb will be placed easily. You can see the spring that opens handset on the other side of handset.
The left side houses volume rocker keys, as well as the slot for charger or headset, positioned slightly above. On the right you will find dedicated camera button and microSD memory expansion slot, which means the D840 is armed with "hot-swap" functionality.
The rear face plays host to a 2 Mpix camera module, self-portrait mirror and a LED-flash, which is no different from what we saw on Samsung X820.
The back cover (which exposes no gap) holds battery section underneath. The cover is nicely attached to case, but it is hard to open. The E900 makes use of a Li-Ion battery with 700mAh onboard. Manufacturer claims that the battery can power the phone for up to 210 hours in stand by mode and provide nearly 2.5 hours of talktime. We tested this handset in Europe and it worked for around 2.5 days with 1 hour of phone calls and alarm clock being used only. At the same time in Moscow it lasted 2 days with 1.5 hours of phone calls. This is where we can draw the conclusion that the model will be good for up to 2 days on average load, although 3 days are possible as well (miserable load). It takes around 1.5 hours for battery to charge up. No battery with bigger capacity available for this model.
MMS. Interface for creating multimedia messages is pleasant to use, you can instantly save them in different folders. There is limitation formessage size (295kb), meanwhile incoming messages are not limited at all (except for dedicated memory block). As for additional settins – there is option to disable advertisement reception, select weather messages be received during roaming or home network stay. Messages are stored in separate memory block (3.8mb), same goes for email.
Camera. Samsung E900 has a 2 Mpix camera with CMOS matrix (similar to that of X820).The camera interface is standard for the company's products - you can rotate an image vertically, turn off the shutter sound. Image compression quality is adjusted from the menu - Super Fine, Fine, Normal, Low. The ISO value may vary from 100 to 1600, but the default value is handier. White balance has several levels, and Auto is set by default.
There is no limit on the duration of the record – it's more about how much storage you have available. Though when speaking about MMS mode, the videos do have cap, which makes 100 Kb.
As for receiving part, the handset does fine, though it would be strange to find out something different considering current connectivity level of all released mobile phones. The sound provided by the loudspeaker is pure and lacks foreign noises. The 64-tone polyphony is average volume-wise, while mp3 tunes have enough of sounding to make you hear them even on the busiest street. The silent alarm is modest in terms of strength, however one couldn't have expected more from such portable device.
During an outgoing call you will not see assigned image for contact, but it will be displayed during any incoming call, taking up barely a 3/4 of the screen. Attractions also include the fact that should you fail to reach someone, the phone will call up the contact's name and scrollable list of assigned telephone numbers – a really credible feature resembling that found on Sony Ericsson's latest devices, but in its turn Samsung went even further and extended it beyond the phonebook, so that this function works when dialing a number from the list of recent calls.
Unlike the flagship, this model isn't armed with Living World feature and lacks a 3 Mpix camera onboard. To me, Samsung D840 looks pretty good as a replacement for the senior handset, owing to having a proper Java management system. On the other hand, though, absence of sorting in the phonebook is an obvious shortcoming that cannot be overlooked. And on top of that the sales package of the D900 is bigger and better, justifying the gap of 120-130 USD (add enhanced camera too). However the D840 has a replica - Samsung E900 (retailed for 460-490 USD), which measures smaller width and sports touch-sensitive buttons, functionality-wise these two offerings are totally equal.
Samsung D840 will appear on the shelves at a price of 500-540 USD, which is a bit too much for a solution having a number of rivals in Samsung's very own line-up. Going for it is fine in case you look for a fashion handset and for some reasons prefer to pass Samsung D900 by (to my mind the price gap won't be very decisive). But all in all it won't generate much buzz, being too close to the flagship both design- and functionality-wise and rivaled by too many lower-priced competitors (even Samsung D600). Basically, it's Samsung's main trait – widening the range with such high profile solutions – even Nokia cannot afford something like that. Looking back at the previous models, no dramatic price-drops will occur in the near future due to the model having stable moderate sales and lacking any direct rivals coming from other manufacturers' line-ups.


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Q: Showing the most populous products in a table? How would I show, for example, the 10 most populous products in a table?
I have a sales table for example, that contains sales for 20 beers, 10 nachos, 5 peanuts, 2 hotdogs and 4 breakfasts.
Is there a way to automatically calculate and see which is the most popular, and show them in descending order?
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My table is as follows
Tablename: sales
Fields:

*

*product (varchar)

*quantity (int)

*cost (decimal)

*saledate (date)

One sale record could count as more than one sale of a product, because of the quantity field.
I also have a guests table, which only has the fields name and country, and was wanting to show say, the top 5 most populous countries in the table.

A: Does this work for you?
select *
from(
  select count(productID) AS productCount, productName
  from products
  group by productID) Q
order by Q.productCount desc;

This counts the products in the inner query (it wasn't clear if your table already stores counts, but it's not common so I assumed you didn't) and then orders them in the outer query.This also assumes your products have a productID field.
UPDATE
If your table actually tracks sales counts you could do something like this:
select *
from(
  select sum(quantity) AS productCount, productName
  from sales
  group by productID) Q
order by Q.productCount desc;

Very similar to the previous one but you are taking the sum of products sold from multiple sales items, rather than the count of products.

A: Yep; without knowing your database structure, you'd want to utilize a SUM or COUNT aggregate to group together the like items, then in your ORDERBY clause, order by the descending value of your aggregate.

A: If you have a column with the number of times you sold the item, you could do a SELECT TOP 10 and ORDER BY NumSales. If not, you would have to do a count on the column first.
So, something like this (assuming you have the counts already stored):
SELECT TOP 10 f.Name, f.Sales
FROM Food f
ORDER BY f.Sales DESC

Otherwise,
SELECT TOP 10 COUNT(f.Name) as [Count], f.Name
FROM Food f
GROUP BY f.Name
ORDER BY [Count]

A: SELECT [...] ORDER BY sales DESC;

A: Once we know what the table(s) involved, how they relate, and what your criteria for determining how "populous" a product is, it'll be easier to provide a query.  But the crux of the issue is that:

*

*You need to order by whatever determines the populous weighting, DESCending...

*Use the LIMIT syntax to get the first/top 10 records: LIMIT 10
IE:
  SELECT ...
    FROM YOUR_TABLE
ORDER BY quantity DESC
   LIMIT 10

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Breaches go deeper than Equifax headlines
Don't forget the impact of smaller incidents
Written by Kelsey Neisen
Comments: DISQUS_COMMENTS
Next Voices millennial blogger Kelsey Neisen tracks data breach reports of all sizes and has had found some interesting revelations.
The news recently erupted with the story of the Equifax breach. Hackers compromised 143 million records, sensitive data which included people's Social Security numbers and payment card data.
Although the Equifax incident is certainly nothing to flippantly dismiss, data breach events of this magnitude are becoming increasingly rare.
So far, Equifax is the largest data breach incident of 2017, and runner up is Edmodo, a social educational platform used in schools, from which hackers stole 77 million user accounts. Only 11 data breach incidents broke 1 million compromised records this year, and only four included personally identifiable information (PII), while three compromised payment card information.
These large data breach events occur once every few months, and even then, some of them don't receive coverage beyond regional news sources. Some data breaches which compromise PII don't make it into the news at all, and I think those small events—which occur on a daily basis, by the way—are just as dangerous as the infrequent "mega breaches."
Tracking the range of breaches
For the past three years I have kept track of data breach events by gathering information from sources such as Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Identity Theft Resource Center. I place each occurrence into a spreadsheet and categorize them by name, date, type of breach (hack, ransomware, phishing, etc.), information stolen, and number of records compromised, as well as the origin of the attack, if I can find it.
So far, 2017 has seen 734 separate cybercrimes, 490 of which have resulted in the theft of PII, like Equifax.
In those 490 PII breaches, well over 155 million records were stolen. Equifax's debacle accounted for 143 million by itself, of course, so perhaps that total doesn't seem like an overly alarming number.
Would it make a difference if I told you that 327 of those 490 breached entities didn't even know how many people were affected in their incidents?
The breached entities include tax preparation firms, dentists' offices, hospitals, private practice physicians' offices, schools, restaurants, retailers, financial institutions, and even the government computers of small communities.
They were hacked, fell for a phishing scam, or had their files held for ransom. Often, these incidents never made the evening news. Victims may have received a letter, and the incident was reported to the required authorities, but nothing more.
There is no way to know exactly how many records were compromised in these small incidents. It could be a relatively insignificant, or a shockingly exorbitant number. Either way, these data breach events should not be ignored. People typically become more vigilant immediately following mega breaches, but in reality, sensitive information is stolen nearly every single day.
Fortunately, financial institutions are still among the least impacted business types, but the number of data breach events is rising. In 2017, there were 43 separate data breach events involving financial intuitions, compared to 34 in 2016, 20 in 2015, and 20 in 2014. Financial institutions were hacked, fell for phishing scams, or had criminals steal data by installing skimming devices on their ATMs.
"Small" puts you in criminals' cross-hairs
As large companies with millions of records tighten their security measures to avoid making national headlines, cyber criminals will turn to smaller organizations.
A rising trend is the use of phishing scams. In 2017, there were 240 phishing scam events, compared to 145 in 2016 and 16 in 2015. They're easy to launch, simple, and criminals love to use them on small companies. It doesn't matter how tight your cybersecurity is, if a single employee mistakes a phisher's fraudulent email for an urgent order from their CEO and sends PII records such as tax documents or employee files, you're breached.
The mega breaches are frightening and provide that momentary surge of adrenaline some organizations require in order to tighten their cybersecurity, but companies a quarter of the size of Equifax become victims of hackers nearly every day.
Pay attention. The HR Director at the paper supply company down the street from your bank fell for a phishing scam yesterday, and hundreds of your customers are at risk for identity theft while you're just calming down after the Equifax scare.
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Kelsey Neisen is junior research associate at The Copper River Group, a community bank consulting firm based in Fargo, N.D. She graduated from North Dakota State University with degrees in Anthropology and Public History. In 2011, she won The Center for Public Anthropology Award for Excellence in Writing on Public Issues. Kelsey previously worked in a variety of historical institutions, including Bonanzaville, USA and the North Dakota State University Archives, where she focused on the preservation of historical documents and making them available to the public for research.
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On Palm Sunday, each person who participates in services will be offered a palm cross that has been made by villagers near Masasi, Tanzania. This outreach project was founded by Fr. Alan Talbot, an Anglican priest, who served for six years as a missionary in Tanzania. In an effort to provide economic relief for the poor villagers,he helped to found a cottage industry in which villagers weave palm crosses to sell to churches for use on Palm Sunday.
St. Anne's is supporting the outreach project entitled, AFRICAN PALMS USA. We have purchased the palm crosses from St. John's Church in Olney, Maryland, which has been sponsoring this outreach project since 1976.
This Palm Sunday we are invited to carry palm crosses that not only remind us why Jesus came among us – to bless us with a love that includes all people – but also to reach out in a practical way to help our brothers and sisters in Africa.
You are also encouraged to support one of the humanitarian aid projects sponsored by AFRICAN PALMS USA. At the end of the Palm Sunday celebration, clergy and laity will be holding four baskets into which you may donate money for your favorite project. You may choose which project you wish to support with your financial contribution. Checks may to be made payable to St. Anne's Episcopal Church with a notation on the check for which project you are sponsoring. We will forward one check to AFRICAN PALMS USA with the designated amount collected for each project.
Communities with poor water sources and sanitation require assistance to dig wells and build filtration systems.
This project intends to increase the number of fish farmers from 34 to 200. This will occur by increasing small-scale fish farming to mitigate poverty among smallholders of wetlands. The project will also improve nutritional standards, increase household income, and reduce overall poverty level.
The goal is to enhance food production and increase income for communities through agricultural training. Training is targeted to women and youth and will teach skills to allow the project to become self-sustaining.
Helps to provide food and medical support for African street children. This project helps to meet basic needs of the street children – clean water, shelter, sanitation, education – as well as locating families to adopt these children. Your gift will feed a hungry child for a month.
For over 150 years, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East has borne, in a special way, the responsibility of sharing the cross of Jesus. By helping to maintain the Christian witness in the Holy Land, by serving all of God's people there in a variety of ministries, by proclaiming the gospel and promoting justice, peace and love, the church serves us all. Since 1922, Episcopalians in the United States have supported the ministries of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East through the Good FridayOffering. We will continue to share in this ministry. All monies collected on Good Friday will be sent to support the ministries of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem.


Welcome to another episode of Snack Time with Mike and Ant. In this episode, Mike and Ant are joined by fellow Gathering Magic writer, Magic cosplayer, and #MTGMom MJ Scott. It's the cosplay episode!
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Four hours and a bucket of white paint later . . .
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Greetings, fellow mages. MJ here, hijacking Ant's Bonus Flavor like a boss. My bonus piece of Vorthos flavor is the totally chocolate fudge-on-banana split flavorful project that I produced for Bennie Smith: The Complete Commander. It's a beautiful, comprehensive e-book on the Commander format, complete with original fiction, and it is a great way to get friends or loved ones into Magic—or for you to scratch your Vorthos itch. Check it out!
XOXO, MJ "five guys in a basement in Indiana" Scott, a.k.a. @moxymtg.


No one expects their vehicle to break down, and it usually happens at the worst time possible. Vacation season is here. We survived another cold winter and windy spring. It's time for a much-needed break; you deserve it! You made plans to enjoy the open road and cruise in your Ford to your favorite relaxation destinations. Dreams of beach-front lounging, lakeside camping, or mountainous hikes to enjoy the crisp, clear air dance through your mind during every waking moment. You paid deposits on your reservations and are oh so ready to kick back and relax. A vacation is your time to enjoy yourself. You've worked very hard! Wouldn't you know, this is when the unpredicted breakdown rears its ugly head. Your engine stalls on the road and the vacation you've planned for all year is only a week away! Luckily you purchased an Official Ford Extended Service Plan, and this official ford warranty covers your powertrain. Included in this comprehensive coverage is roadside assistance which is always available around the clock. When the unexpected happens, you have coverage!
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Find your way to the old campground where the large white canvas tabernacle stood. The specific location could not always be found, so some sites are only identified by the district in which they were located.
Kenton, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918.
52nd and Duke, 1920 'til present.
Before word of the Azusa Street revival reached Portland in 1906, there was a small black church downtown in an old converted blacksmith shop and they held camp meetings each summer at SE 12th and Division Street. Their Pastor was John Glassco. Don't look for the exact location of the old converted blacksmith shop/church at 215 2nd Ave unless you have a very old map. That area has long ago been renumbered, so 2nd and Main Street is the best we can do. Learning about the revival at Azusa, many church people opposed the new teaching about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, but not Pastor Glassco. When he learned about it he said we should be seeking the experience instead of debating the issue.
M.L. Ryan, pastor of a Salem, Oregon church, invited Sister Florence Crawford of the Azusa Mission in Los Angeles to come hold special meetings at his church. She did. Pastor Glassco's wife and children hopped on the train in Portland and headed for Ryan's Salem church to hear her. Tuesday, Christmas Day 1906, Sister Glassco and her children returned home victoriously, having received the Promised Pentecostal power, but before leaving Salem she invited Sister Crawford to come to their church in the old blacksmith shop for special meetings. She did. She came on Saturday, December 29, 1906. (These dates become confused sometimes because when telling of Sister Glassco's return, Sister Crawford said, "We had planned to come on Saturday and this was Tuesday.") After about two weeks in Portland, Sister Crawford returned home to Los Angeles.
The revival in Portland had been so very successful that Sister Crawford decided to return to Portland and help in the camp meeting in 1907. She did, but she returned home to Los Angeles before the close of the 1907 camp meeting. So why all these details? Well, if we are trying to find out when the first camp meeting was held by the Apostolic Faith in Portland, we could choose either this one in 1907 when Sister Crawford was here for most of the camp meeting, but lived in Los Angeles, or the one in 1908 after she had moved to Portland that January and accepted the keys to the church. Incidentally, someone inquired what happened to Pastor Glassco afterwards. The answer given by one who moved here in 1910 was that they heard him preach at the 1910 camp meeting.
To me, 1908 was the first AF camp meeting, but I think it is me against the rest of the world, so to make my numbers match those of everyone else when referring to the camp meetings, I will switch sides, but only temporarily.
The following information is mostly taken from a history by Elsie Ott who was at the small church at 2nd and Main Street during Sister Crawford's first visit. In the early days campgrounds were used 'by permission' so each year they had to go looking for an available place for that year.
1907: 12th and SE Division; same location as previously used by Pastor John Glassco. After camp meeting the church moved from the small quarters on 2nd and Main to larger quarters at 1st and Madison.
1909: Montavilla District; Exact location not known. The baptismal service was on Swan Island that year. During camp meeting they rented the adjacent second floor hall on Front Street and removed the foot-thick firewall between them thus doubling the size of the church to 50 by 90 feet on Front and Burnside. The church faced Front Street on the west with Burnside Street on its north side.
1910: Fulton; on the west bank of the Willamette River. Here is a history note about that location, "Our camp meeting in 1913 was held at Fulton again, the same place we had in 1910. The river was high this year, and had not gone down yet when it was time to start camp meeting. As the water was up over the place where we wanted to place the canvass tabernacle, we secured a spot above the railroad track for the tabernacle." This is guesswork, but the only location I could find that fit the description is now named Willamette Park. It is just south of Ross Island.
1911: 11th and SE Division. This was near the campground used in 1907 except that one was wooded and this one was not. It was hot with no shade.
1912: 18th and SE Holgate.
1913: Fulton; see number 4 foregoing.
1914: Alberta district; Northeast Portland. Exact location not known.
1915: Kenton District; the Kenton area is west from where N Denver Avenue and N Interstate Avenue merge before crossing N Columbia Blvd. The exact location of the campground is not known.
1916: Kenton; see number 9 foregoing.
1917: Kenton; see number 9 foregoing. 136 people received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost during this camp meeting.
1918: Kenton; see number 9 foregoing. Due to the prices and availability of canvas during World War I it was less expensive to build a temporary wooden tabernacle than buy a new, larger canvas tent that was needed.
1919: Rose City; the campground was on the "Rose City car-line at 59th Street."
1920: Woodstock; SE 52nd and Duke. A barge, Bluebird, was chartered to transport our people to Swan Island for the water baptismal service. 219 were water baptized. This was the last year a tabernacle was used for camp meeting. Although it sounds strange to us, a tabernacle is a temporary abode without a foundation. Abraham dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise, for he looked for a city which has foundations. After the 1920 camp meeting, cement foundations were poured and pillars set upon them for the building which still is used, but no one can make us stop calling that building with foundations, a tabernacle. To us it will always be "the tabernacle."
1921: Woodstock; a permanent campground with a permanent building, one with a foundation. Eighteen feet of space was added on each side of the 'tabernacle' in the spring of 1939 by building the 'wings,' the area outside the columns on either side. Following camp meeting in 1947, a further enlargement of the tabernacle was made by extending the back wall sixty feet farther back. This extension was of the main (original) building, but did not include the area under the wings.


U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivered brief remarks to reporters at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 28, 2016.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said telecommunications group Sprint and a U.S. satellite company OneWeb will bring 8,000 jobs to the United States, and the companies said the positions were part of a previously disclosed pledge by Japan's SoftBank.
SoftBank holds stakes in both companies and its chief, billionaire businessman Masayoshi Son, earlier in December said he would invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 jobs.
Sprint in January said it had cut 2,500 jobs as part of its plan to cut $2.5 billion in costs. On Wednesday it said it would create 5,000 jobs in areas including sales and customer care by the end of its fiscal year ending in March 2018.
Sprint spokesman Dave Tovar said the jobs were part of the pledge made by Son but would be funded by Sprint.
SoftBank and OneWeb had announced on Dec. 19 that the Japanese company was leading a $1.2 billion funding round.
OneWeb plans to use the funds to build a plant in Florida to produce low-cost satellites, creating almost 3,000 jobs at the company and its suppliers.
SoftBank described its $1 billion share of the funding as the first tranche of the $50 billion promised by Son in a meeting with Trump.
It is not clear whether the $50 billion SoftBank investment would be part of a $100 billion tech investment fund that the head of SoftBank and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund had announced earlier in the year.
"I was just called by the head people at Sprint and they are going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States, they are taking them from other countries," Trump told reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Shares of Sprint, which is 82 percent owned by SoftBank, were barely changed in after-hours trading.


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package putio

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"testing"
)

func TestFriends_List(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	fixture := `
{
"friends": [
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 1,
	"name": "jet"
},
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 2,
	"name": "spike"
},
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 3,
	"name": "faye"
},
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 4,
	"name": "ein"
},
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 5,
	"name": "ed"
}
],
"status": "OK",
"total": 5
}
`

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/list", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodGet)
		fmt.Fprintln(w, fixture)
	})

	friends, err := client.Friends.List(context.Background())
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	if len(friends) != 5 {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: 5", len(friends))
	}

	if friends[0].ID != 1 {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: 1", 1)
	}

	if friends[1].Name != "spike" {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: spike", friends[1].Name)
	}
}

func TestFriends_WaitingRequests(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	fixture := `
{
"friends": [
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 6,
	"name": "julia"
},
{
	"avatar_url": "",
	"id": 7,
	"name": "vicious"
}
],
"status": "OK"
}
`

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/waiting-requests", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodGet)
		fmt.Fprintln(w, fixture)
	})

	friends, err := client.Friends.WaitingRequests(context.Background())
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	if len(friends) != 2 {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: 2", len(friends))
	}

	if friends[0].ID != 6 {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: 6", friends[0].ID)
	}

	if friends[1].Name != "vicious" {
		t.Errorf("got: %v, want: vicious", friends[1].Name)
	}
}

func TestFriends_Request(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/annie/request", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodPost)
		testHeader(t, r, "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
		fmt.Fprintln(w, `{"status":"OK"}`)
	})

	err := client.Friends.Request(context.Background(), "annie")
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	// empty username
	err = client.Friends.Request(context.Background(), "")
	if err == nil {
		t.Error("empty username accepted")
	}
}

func TestFriends_Approve(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/bob/approve", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodPost)
		testHeader(t, r, "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
		fmt.Fprintln(w, `{"status":"OK"}`)
	})

	err := client.Friends.Approve(context.Background(), "bob")
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	// empty username
	err = client.Friends.Approve(context.Background(), "")
	if err == nil {
		t.Error("empty username accepted")
	}
}

func TestFriends_Deny(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/andy/deny", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodPost)
		testHeader(t, r, "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
		fmt.Fprintln(w, `{"status":"OK"}`)
	})

	err := client.Friends.Deny(context.Background(), "andy")
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	// empty username
	err = client.Friends.Deny(context.Background(), "")
	if err == nil {
		t.Error("empty username accepted")
	}
}

func TestFriends_Unfriend(t *testing.T) {
	setup()
	defer teardown()

	mux.HandleFunc("/v2/friends/lin/unfriend", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, http.MethodPost)
		testHeader(t, r, "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
		fmt.Fprintln(w, `{"status":"OK"}`)
	})

	err := client.Friends.Unfriend(context.Background(), "lin")
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}

	// empty username
	err = client.Friends.Unfriend(context.Background(), "")
	if err == nil {
		t.Error("empty username accepted")
	}
}

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text:
'Planet Earth II' gets a very early home-release date
Bring Planet Earth 2 home this month
John Stewart	March 14, 2017
Slanted > Film > 'Planet Earth II' gets a very early home-release date
You'll soon be able to put that new 4K TV of yours through a workout, BBC Home Entertainment will be releasing "Planet Earth II" on 4K UHD and Blu-ray later this month. The special event was narrated by the Sir David Attenborough, and will be available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 28, 2017 in the U.S. and Canada. The film is already available to pre-order through sites like Amazon.com.
The home-release will include some bonus content as well, including the Planet Earth Diaries. This BTS collection offers a look at the exhausting production from the point-of-view of each episode's production team. The BTS look highlights the challenges that team encountered, and their overall experiences while filming the series. The show itself was a fantastic success for BBC America, "Planet Earth II" was the highest-rated U.S. nature show among adults 25-54 in five years. "Planet Earth II" was also the most watched unscripted telecast, ever, in total viewers on the network. The show was shot in 4K resolution, and offers High Dynamic Range (HDR) and a wider color spectrum. Audiophiles will be happy to know that the series also offers 5.1 DTS-HD master audio.
"Planet Earth II" is a follow-up to the original "Planet Earth," which took home an Emmy Award ten years ago. The original Blu-Ray release of Planet Earth is still the number one selling non-theatrical home video release to date, with over five million copies sold worldwide. In total, "Planet Earth II" took over three years to create and was filmed in 40 different countries, on 117 filming trips, and took a total of 2,089 shooting days.
"This DVD is the one to get…I thought PLANET EARTH II looked pretty amazing on my HD TV but on this 4K Ultra HD our series looks so good its almost otherworldly! And for us to be the first out of the blocks with a 4K DVD is really icing on the cake!" said series Executive Producer, Mike Gunton.
The special-event offered an immersive exploration of the islands, mountains, jungles, grasslands, deserts, and cities of the world. Viewers can journey to the four corners of the globe to discover the extreme forces that shape life in each of these iconic landscapes, and the remarkable ways animals manage to overcome the challenges of surviving in the wildest places on Earth.
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Tag: Edith
A review John Williams's cult novel Stoner
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John Williams's 1965 novel Stoner documents the quiet and often painful life of William Stoner, an English professor at the University of Missouri. In a direct, lucid style, the novel follows Stoner from the time he first enters the University of Missouri as a freshman, to his old age and eventual death.
The son of poor farmers, Stoner is sent to school to study agriculture, only to become quickly bewildered by a required survey course of English literature. Obsessed by the affecting mysteries literature presents, Stoner pursues English as a major (never a smart move, young people) and in time becomes a teacher, safe in the university's protection from the bustle and toil of the real world—he even neglects to enlist to serve in the Great War.
Stoner's love of literature, learning, and the university itself cannot, however, protect him from the pain and despair of an unfulfilled life. This is a very sad book, and one made even sadder by the plainness and smallness of its tragedies. These tragedies seem all the more real in Williams's simple, unadorned style, which we see (or, more accurately, don't see—Williams's technique is never on show) here in the novel's opening paragraph:
William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and accepted an instructorship at the same University, where he taught until his death in 1956. He did not rise above the rank of assistant professor, and few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses. When he died his colleagues made a memorial contribution of a medieval manuscript to the University library. This manuscript may still be found in the Rare Books Collection, bearing the inscription: "Presented to the Library of the University of Missouri, in memory of William Stoner, Department of English. By his colleagues.'
As its beginning suggests, Stoner recounts one man's professional failures. To steal a line from Dylan Thomas, Stoner's words forked no lightning — he writes one mediocre book and is clearly no one's favorite teacher. Even worse, he's fated to teach scattered freshman composition courses for most of his career instead of the senior seminars most academics crave for intellectual stimulation. Who blocks him? His biggest professional enemy is Lomax, a vengeful hunchback who becomes chair of the English department and then makes Stoner's professional life hell. Lomax retaliates Stoner's attempt to prevent Lomax's protégé—a poseur and an intellectual hack—from completing his degree. It's the sort of dastardly, petty politics that won't be unfamiliar to teachers.
It's not just Stoner's professional life that languishes in sad, decaying inertia. Stoner's marriage is also a terrible failure, doomed from the outset. It's not exactly clear why Stoner falls so hard for Edith, a brittle, neurotic rich girl; it's even more unclear why she agrees to marry him. Their marriage is doomed before it even begins. Williams writes:
Years later it was to occur to him that in that hour and a half on that December evening of their first extended time together, she told him more about herself than she ever told him again. And when it was over, he felt that they were strangers in a way that he had not thought they would be, and he knew that he was in love.
Stoner's idealistic love for Edith matches his idealistic love for reading and study, which at times becomes his sole reason for being:
Having come to his studies late, he felt the urgency of study. Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.
Stoner's love for his subject does not translate into his being an inspiring teacher though (just as his initial love for Edith does not lead him to being a successful marriage partner):
He was ready to admit to himself that he had not been a good teacher. Always, from the time he had fumbled through his first classes of freshman English, he had been aware of the gulf that lay between what he felt for his subject and what he delivered in the classroom.
Stoner is very much a novel about that gulf between feeling and form, ideal and expression, and if Williams plumbs Stoner's frequent failures to cross that gulf, there are still small moments of triumph, ones that brought a broad smile to my face, albeit a smile tempered by irony and pained by the general tone of doom that pervades the book.
Particularly painful is Stoner's relationship with his daughter Grace. After Grace's birth, Edith becomes emotionally paralyzed from postpartum depression and even moves out of the house. Undisturbed, Stoner finds great joy in becoming his infant daughter's primary caretaker. However, when Edith returns, she slowly drives a wedge between Stoner and Grace.
The disintegration of Stoner's relationship with his only child was by far the most frustrating plot point of the book for me to endure. There were many times when I wished to grab him by his stooped shoulders, shake him hard, and cry, "Look, man, your life is passing you by! Wake up!" Stoner's inattention and Edith's neurotic behavior all but destroy their daughter, who becomes pregnant in high school, moves away from home, and eventually becomes a hardcore alcoholic. Here's a heartbreaking passage from late in the book; Grace has made a rare visit to her aging parents, and stays up to talk with her father:
They talked late into the night, as if they were old friends. And Stoner came to realize that she was, as she had said, almost happy with her despair; she would live her days out quietly, drinking a little more, year by year, numbing herself against the nothingness her life had become. He was glad that she had that, at least; he was grateful that she could drink.
It's not the great gulf between Stoner and Grace that is most painful—it is the sense of lost opportunity, of unfulfilled love that hurts the most. Stoner chooses paralysis; sure, the narrative is highly realistic, achingly aware of his limited options—but at the same time Stoner's inaction and inertia can be maddening. He doesn't even try.
Late in life, sick and approaching death — am I spoiling too much of the novel? — late in life, Stoner reflects (via Williams's impeccable and unobtrusive free indirect style):
And he had wanted to be a teacher, and he had become one; yet he knew, he had always known, that for most of his life he had been an indifferent one. He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire; he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality. He had conceived wisdom, and at the end of the long years he had found ignorance. And what else? he thought. What else?
What did you expect? he asked himself.
It's a small epiphany I suppose, and one achieved at great price—it's also crushingly realistic, even if Stoner is, say, 40 odd years late to a realization most of us make by our mid-twenties. Stoner's near-death epiphany is wrapped in futility and resignation; there's no rage against the dying of the light here. Still, Williams's depiction of the end of his character's life is one of the most stunning and moving portrayals of death that I've read in all of fiction. Here, I was reminded of Katherine Anne Porter's fantastic story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Williams's style is unlike Porter's stream-of-consciousness technique—he's far more lucid, yet keenly attuned to the changing of his protagonist's consciousness. And while I'm comparing Williams to other writers, I should point out how strongly Stoner reminded me of Harold Brodkey's sad and moving collection First Love and Other Sorrows.
Stoner's straightforward style and direct, linear plot make it an unlikely candidate for a cult novel (a status it has achieved thanks in large part to a reissue from the NYRB a few years ago). Stoner flaunts none of the stylistic innovations (or gimmicks) of its postmodern contemporaries and Modernist forbears. It does not obsess over strange or marginalized figures. Its discourse never bristles with dramatic allusion or mythical and archetypal overtones. Nevertheless, it's the sort of overlooked novel whose dedicated, vocal admirers like to press on others. And with good reason of course: this is a deeply moving, engaging, and often exasperating novel. It will make you truly, deeply sad. Highly recommended.
[Ed. note: Biblioklept originally published a version of this review on 20 April 2012].
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list.Fields.Add(field.Title + " (truncated)", SPFieldType.Note, false);

At the moment, my new column has the title "OldColumnTitle (truncated)". This is what it shows up as when selecting columns for a View, which is good. Unfortunately, this is also what it shows up as in the view itself, which is bad.
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