WOW! I have never been treated so bad by a company being a new customer. I placed a order for $167 and had signed up for emails for a 15% off discount. First the discount didn't work when I placed the order which it plainly stated 15% off ANY order over $49. That was any! So I called and the lady assured me that when my order shipped they would then refund me back for the discount which would have been $26.80 with tax. Ok I placed the order on the 4th and was so tickled that it shipped right out and was supposed to be delivered on the 5th.
Well the order arrived and one of the $82 sets of skin care was not in the box. So of course I was upset because I had been SAVING for month's to order this stuff and they had a promotion for 10 free items if you made a certain amount of purchase which I did. So I called and the lady apologized and said it would be shipped right out. Well that was on the 5th and I got my order on the 9th and as you can see in the photo I still did not get my $82 skin care set but a torn up box with a bottle of makeup in it. Upset ain't the word. So I called back and explained what happened and was apologized to again and was told it would be shipped right out.
So while I had the person on the phone I ask when I was going to get my refund since I was told I would get it when the order first shipped. Well I was told, "NO sorry. You won't be getting that refund because of the promotion that you got." I told him that the lady I talked to had looked at my order and had assured me I would get my refund for the discount. He said, "No I'm sorry but you won't get a refund because that 15% was not supposed to go TOWARD the order I made." So I ask then why was I lied to. He said, "I don't know why she told you that." The discount states as I said for any. That's any order made over $49.
So BASICALLY no I didn't get any free items. They cost me nearly $27. So now I'm waiting again to see if I get what I ordered and paid for. I can't believe how this company works and has the business they do if other people which I can see here are treated the way I was. I expect when I pay HARD EARNED money for something to get what I paid for and treated decently. So if and when I do receive the rest of my order I will be calling back and demanding my refund that I was told I would get. So anyone out there if you don't get what you was promised you need to call and call again and then give reviews on every site you can find on how badly you was treated so HOPEFULLY these companies will get their act together and quit lying to people.
So I get an email from Lancome offering me 15% off a $49 purchase and a "free deluxe sample." I am a longtime loyal customer and a fan of their products, and they rarely offer percentage discounts, so I figure, sure. The code I was given did not work, and I found out only DURING A CHAT that one of the items I had chosen was not qualified (gift set). What kind of BS is this? It's OK to have rules, but you gotta tell your customers about them somewhere! I wasted 45 minutes of my day on this nonsense and ended up buying nothing. (The exclusions were not in the fine print of the email or anywhere on the site -- not even in the T&C).
The company was sold out of more items than it had in stock, which is super annoying and unprofessional. And get this: six weeks into 2019, it is still promoting Christmas and New Year's Eve looks. It's called quality control, Lancome! For God's sake hire an intern to update your site! I am gratified to see that I am not the only one extremely unhappy with their service. It looks like sometime after 2017, this company started seriously going downhill. The reviews from that year are generally positive, then things take a dark turn in 2018. Thank you, next, Lancome!
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I received an email from Lancôme stating that they were running a promotion for 20% off your online order if placed from 1/28/2019 12:00 pm EST to 2/3/2019 3 am EST. When I tried to place the order on 2/2/2019 9:30 am EST with the promo code FLASH, I received the response "Sorry, promo code FLASH is not an active promotion." I called Customer Service and was told that Lancôme changed the end date to 1/30/2019. The Lancôme email was false advertising at its best.
I have ordered from their official website for a few years. I trusted that I could keep my credit card on file with them. Today I discovered two fraudulent charges charged to that credit card on their site... One for $400+ and another for over $800. Clearly their site is not secure. Whoever stole my information ordered all this perfume and had it shipped to my name but at an address in another state. Shouldn't this set up red flags within Lancôme? If shipping is to a different address than on file perhaps it should generate an email to the email address that has been on file asking for confirmation of this different shipping address... especially with suspicious orders of several bottles of the same perfume.
I had to cancel my credit card which is a huge pain. Now I have to wait for a new card and give it to everyone I do automatic payments with. Very disappointed with their lack of security. Furthermore they should file criminal charges against the person living at the address all this fraudulently purchased product was shipped to. But they won't. They will probably say it isn't worth the effort... Yet they've lost me as a customer and I suspect others had their accounts compromised. Be careful if you order from them... Their site is clearly NOT secure!
I made the order online. After a week I did call them to find out about my stuff. I was told that they need to clarify my address and after the order will be send!!! If I would not call them I might wait for the next winter. :) They should get proper training, service is really disorganized and pure!
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I have been using Lancome for several decades and I am done using their products. Their customer service is the worst I've experienced in my life. They are not there to help you. I am done with them. I recommend everyone to not to order any Lancome products online ever.
I have been the customer of this company for over 20 years. No more. It was getting worse and worse every year. Products are not bad, but overpriced. Service is terrible. Mistakes in processing, mistakes in the mailing, no samples or gifts that were promised.
Such a web of lies this Lancome has become. The most incompetent company. They truly don't care about their products that are full of alcohol and burn your face! They took my elite points away Sept 2 over Labor Day 444 then Sept 8 more again 4000 after lying saying they won't take anymore. Called them today and it's useless. I had like 16,000 points. No more Lancome after 25 years.
Beware of their so called gifts with purchase. Once you receive it in the mail there will be missing items and lancome.com will not replace them arguing they ran out. They'll offer you a small percentage off your next purchase which won't amount to the retail value of the product they cheated you out of and if you try to return your full purchase you're stuck with the shipping cost because even if it was their fault they won't pay for it. In addition they'll treat you as a beggar when all you are asking for is what they promised you in their offer and they failed to deliver. Their customer service people mocked me and dismissed me, even after many years of being a loyal customer to their brand and having spent a lot of hard earned money on their products.
I am a longtime customer of Lancome - I had over 10,000 elite points in my account and in the month of September, they took over 6,000 points as they had "expired" - I was NEVER notified of this. I contacted them to express my dismay (pure anger, actually) and was told that I had been sent an email (Lie) and that there was nothing they could do.
Then, I just now logged in to my account today (10/14/18) to possibly use my remaining points and lo and behold, they took those too! I am now at 0 points. Hmmm, odd that they didn't inform me of this "expiration" coming up while we were talking about the point expiration in September. I also find it odd that once again, no email was received, nor was there any banner or notification on the website whatever upon logging in that such an "expiration" is forthcoming. They are a fantastic product, they truly are. I am just sorry that they are so backhanded in the way that they treat their loyal customers.
After being a loyal Lancôme customer for 40+ years, I am dismayed about the decision to wipe out nearly 9000 elite rewards points from my account. Customer service told me "we sent you an email to let you know that we were changing our system and your rewards would expire September 1st". I not only didn't receive that email (I checked my junk mail folder as well) but I did get an email in June telling me that I was retaining my elite status for being a loyal customer. This is pure deception. I have visited the website multiple times this year, had many "chats" regarding products, don't you think I would have redeemed my points one of these times if I thought you were going to take them from me?
Also, why didn't you put a banner online so then when customers logged in they would be informed about this "change" and give them the opportunity to redeem them before you swiped them? I was told that someone would reach out to me regarding this issue, that also didn't happen. Also said they would pass on my comments to the "decision makers". If you have been saving up your points for a long time, I would suggest you check out your points balance, you may be in for a nasty surprise. Shame on you Lancôme.
Lancome products are good but DON'T EVER ORDER FROM LANCOME.COM! I typically order Lancome products through department stores but the last couple of months I decided to give in and order directly from Lancome because I really liked the gifts.The first time I ordered was in October 2017 and the gift with purchase wasn't adding to my cart even though my order qualified. Contacted live chat and was given a link that did absolutely nothing and was told to call in the order. Called to order over the phone and was told that promotion ended even though the live chat rep told me it's in effect for a couple more days. Eventually I got a rep who said place the order and then call customer service to ensure the gift is added. So I did that.
A few weeks later, I decided to give Lancome.com another chance and ordered for my mom and my aunt. Since they are technologically challenged, I ordered through my account. The website had a gift with purchase where you were able to choose 7 or 10 gift items depending on how much you spend. For the 10 items, you had to spend at least $95. The order I put in for my mom was about $240 which qualified for the 10 items. She selected her 10 items and this time they were added to the cart. And I checked out thinking it was ok. The next day my aunt hears from my mom about the gift with purchase and asks if I can place an order for her and she ends up spending almost $100 and also qualified for this gift with purchase. My aunt also got to select her 10 items.
When the shipments arrived, only the items ordered were in the box and the gift with purchase items were not included. I check the site and status of these orders show as "processing" so I thought oh, they're still processing the gift. However when I called customer service yesterday, the rep tells me no, the order was completed 2 weeks ago even though as of today, over 2 weeks laters, it still shows as "processing" in my order history.
I ask about the gift items and the rep had to go check with her team lead/supervisor where they tell me that the promotion I'm saying the order qualified for was not the promo in effect and something to the extent that they don't give that many gift samples out. And that for me to get the 10 item gift, that I pretty much had to prove it. Not only is that ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS, it is also EXTREMELY INSULTING.
For me the gift with purchase is just a bonus. But for my mom and my aunt who don't make very much money, the gift with purchase is something they really look forward to when they make their Lancome purchase. It's the only thing they ever splurge on and having to explain this incident to them... well how do tell them Lancome.com falsely advertise, then pretty much calls you a liar when you call to ask and that's why you're not getting your gift with purchase? How is the computer software of a multimillion dollar company not capable of showing what was really ordered including what was selected as a gift? How is there no record of it at all that I, the customer, have to prove it?
Apparently I'm not the only person they've scammed with their gift with purchase. Just look up Lancome.com complaints because I wish I had before making this mistake of ordering directly from them. The experience I've had with Lancome.com has left a bitter taste. I'm definitely going to consider using a different brand after I use up my products. Maybe I'll convince the rest of my family too. Why support a company that doesn't deliver what they promise?
I have never had a worse experience with any other website. I tried ordering twice on the same day and the order didn't go through because Lancôme's system fail to send my CVV2 verification to my bank. The result? My money got held back and has not yet been released back to me. Alright, maybe they got blasted during the holidays, I'll just use another payment method. I successfully completed this order and got an order confirmation. The next day I got an email stating that my order has been cancelled for no reason. I called their customer services and they said "There was no apparent reason why we cancelled your order so yeah, I don't know". And they never offered me an advice on what to do next. They basically just said, "Screw you, we will cancel anything for no reason if we want". Yup, this will be the last time I ever use Lancôme.
I like to use Lancôme products because they are high quality and stand up well. I use their mascara and although it is more expensive than others, it is worth it. Their mascara stays on and I like the color as it accents my eyes and makes my lashes look longer. I like their makeup as it doesn't cake and settle in the wrinkles on my face but diminish them so I have a nice smooth look overall and is more natural looking and lasts a long time.
Lancôme has many different colors available to choose from so that anyone can find a shade that looks good on them. It makes my skin look smooth and visibly clear. It also helps to moisturize my skin so that my skin stays hydrated, youthful and it makes me feel good. In addition, it helps to control any blemish outbreaks. Their products typically last the majority of the day for me but I would be happier if the pressed powder stayed on a bit longer as I live in a very hot and humid state. Lastly, they have a good to high-quality product, but can be quite expensive. I'm not at all sure the product is worth its purchase price and if I will continue to use it.
Lancôme has a lot of varieties in its shades and/or colors. Most of the time you cannot find the selection in the cheaper versions of makeup. This makeup makes my skin so soft and it doesn't dry my skin out or affect it the way some makeup does. That is the reason why I buy this brand of makeup the most. I have never had any problems with this makeup not staying put or coming off easily. I use it sparingly and for that reason I also use cheaper makeup with it to make it last for a longer period of time. It is a fair value for what you have to pay for it.
I like all the different products Lancôme has and the different levels of pricing for their products. Good prices for their products, wish it was cheaper though. They have great shades and different colors. I like to look at their different products and see what they have based on colors. I like all the options and different colors they offer. I like the way their products go on my skin and how it looks and feels. Their makeup really stays well on my skin, and for a long time. I never have had any negative effects from using their products or any discomfort to my skin. I am very satisfied with that aspect of their products.
Ever worry about your make up washing away from sweat or rain? Worry no more, Lancôme is here! Their makeup doesn't sweat off for a full day of makeup wear. They have such a variety of makeup that I find it extremely easy to match to anyone's skin tone from extremely fair to dark brown. It is also extremely gentle on skin and it doesn't matter if your skin is dry or oily. It does not dry out or cause breakouts and fits everyone's skin care needs. In addition, they have very fair prices and they make makeup that lasts and truly highlights people beauty. I would recommend them to almost anyone looking for high-quality makeup for an affordable price.
Lancôme is a great product and you pay for what you get. It is a little higher than some products but worth it. It is high quality and therefore cost a little more. They have any shade that someone would want. They have one for every skin shade and type. If you want a shade for work they have it and one for evening also. It is lightweight and feels comfortable on my skin. It doesn't feel heavy or make your skin oily. You can freshen it up if you feel the need. It last all day and still looks and feels the same after 10-12 hours not like some other brands.
I find some things from Lancôme to be a little overpriced, like the makeup remover and the lotions, but I love all the makeup. I love the mascara compared to other brands. I have always been able to find the right shade for me and they come in every shade you can imagine. I have so many different blues, purples, greens as well as the basics, browns, golds and black. I love that the powders are all light and you can choose to have a scent or unscented. I sometimes have a little bit of irritation with some makeup, but I can wear Lancôme with no irritation. Sometimes the powder foundation needs to be reapplied, but the mascara has great staying power as well as the eye liner.
I love these waterproof eyeliners. I have been looking for some true long lasting, waterproof liners for a long time and they have great staying power even with my occasional watery eyes. They have really gone beyond my expectations. Also, they are cheaper than Chanel makeup. I'm extremely happy with my purchase!!
Lancome has many shades and colors available. I like that I can find many shades and great prices. Money is tight and it is great that I am able to save money since it's less expensive. It lasts all day long and lasts longer than the most than the expensive ones out on the market. Also, it does not dry out like others. I do not see my skin breaking out and it shows on my face. I hope it keeps up the great work.
This stuff is absolutely worth the money! If I didn't find Lancôme I'd still be using the same irritating skincare products. This is genuinely calming and good. The foundation, concealers, and powders come in marvelous range shades! Me being in between light and dark it can be hard to find the right fit for foundation.
Considering it's oil-free and water-based it's less likely to cause zits and unwanted breakouts. I've never had trouble with this foundation. It's a good foundation and goes on smooth. Just dampen the application if you're using a sponge then apply. It stays for a while. I'd recommend using a primer with though for extra staying power!


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* The city of Guelph according to Chairman Piper
* Some Adult truths to tickle your fancy
* The city reserve funds are on life support
* Life aboard Liz Sandals' submarine
Leanne Piper bares herself as a Farbridge loyalist
Coun. Leanne Piper has a bagful of opinions and has become the defacto leader of the elected Farbridge Gang 0f Seven (FGOS) who currently dominate city council. It is a group dedicated to carry on the Farbridge agenda that more than 48 per cent of electors rejected last October.
Here we are a year later, and the bloc voting of FGOS is paralyzing the people's business. They include: Leanne Piper, Cathy Downer, Karl Wettstein, June Hofland, Mike Salisbury, Phil Allt and James Gordon, the godfather of the Farbridge agenda.
The remaining councillors include Mayor Cam Guthrie, Dan Gibson, Bob Bell, Andy Van Hellemond, Christine Billings and Mark MacKinnon.
Leanne Piper posted a message June 3, 2014 with the heading, "Mayor Karen Farbridge Recognized for Leadership."
Piper went on to say that "we don't recognize how well regarded our city and our Mayor are until we leave the city limits. The Canadian Urban Institute knows that great cities are no accident. Leadership at all levels – politicians, staff and community – work together to develop and achieve great things. Congratulations, Karen!"
Now it's appropriate for a councillor to support the mayor. But the date of this pronouncement from Chairman Piper suggests adoration and responsibility do not mix. Especially when the city has been found guilty of wrongful dismissal of Urbacon Buildings Group Corp., the general contractor of the new City Hall. The cost of this decision made in September 2008 is currently $23 million. That's above the original project cost of $44 million totaling $67 million plus HST.
The city set aside no funds in the event it lost the lawsuit initiated by Urbacon. There was no admission of responsibility by neither Mayor Farbridge nor any of her majority of supporters including Leanne Piper, Karl Wettstein, June Hofland, and Mike Salisbury. These councillors are part of the FGOS dominating city council today.
The Farbridge legacy is a hangover of mismanagement of personal environmental projects, ego, and lack of financial control of public funds. It has left the city with a multi-million dollar shortfall in reserve funds, critical condition of our aging infrastructure and a dysfunctional staff.
Yes Leanne, you are to be congratulated for being a key player in creating the irresponsible actions of a Farbridge-led council gone wild.
It will take years to return Guelph into a fiscal condition to repair the handiwork of your leader.
Time for a rethink, Leanne.
Some adult truths to tickle your fancy
* Sometimes I'll look down at my watch three consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
* Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
* There is great need for a sarcasm font.
* Was learning cursive really necessary?
* Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
* Bad decisions make good stories.
* I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
* I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Molson Export than Kay.
* I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
* How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
* I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front.
* The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet in hockey was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Whatever happened to all those reserve funds?
The city hired a consultant group from Hamilton to conduct an operations review. BMA reported that the city's reserve funds, except the water reserve, were in a "red flag cautionary" mode.
What does this mean to the average citizen? Not much really except that it will drive taxes and fees up to replenish the under-funded reserves.
There are three reserves that were raided by the former administration to pay the $8.96 million settlement costs to Urbacon Buildings Group Corp as a result of losing a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.
There was a recent report that the reserves' shortfall was due in part because of the Urbacon settlement. However in the past eight years of the Far bridge administration, the reserves were often used to provide internal capital to cover mistakes, cost overruns, pet projects, and a number of other issues.
In short, the administration used the reserves as an ATM to conduct the city business; spending money outside the budget.
They did it because staff had the backing of the leadership, both elected and senior staff. In eight years, the city staff has been stocked with Friends of Farbridge (FOFS) and senior staff. Many of these employees do not live in Guelph. Yet they are making decisions that affect not only the tax and user fees rates but have done it with immunity.
One of the problems that got us into this mess was the lack of a Chief Financial Officer who could provide the necessary checks and balances required in a $500 million corporation.
The Farbridge Gang of Seven is still blocking necessary reforms to restore fiscal responsibility to the city.
Liz Sandals is in her submarine as the system crumbles
It's hard to imagine why Liz Sandals is still Minister of Education. While the Ontario education system is in tatters, Liz submerges beneath the ocean of discontent.
Her public comments reveal a Minister without common sense, respect for the students, the parents and the taxpayers.
Some classics:
When questioned by reporters following the Globe and Mail revealing the secret $2.5 million pay off to three teacher unions to cover extra negotiating costs, she said it was "nothing about anything."
When asked if the unions supplied receipts to back up the payments, Sandals replied that it wasn't necessary because she was familiar with the added costs. She said, " you don't have to see every bill when you're doing an estimate of costs."
Premier Wynne later jumped in and said the unions had to supply receipts for fear that the Sandals statement would cause a wave of expense account manipulations when receipts were not required.
The Minister refused to say how much the government spent on its own negotiating costs.
Under her leadership, Sandals has caused major disruption in the everyday operations of Ontario's Schools. It has been going on for 18 months and still going on as unions remain engaged in work to rule, obstructing the normal operations of thousands of Ontario Schools.
Even the principals of those schools are powerless to properly operate the institutions that are responsible for educating future generations. Union-ordered cancelled field trips, report cards, extracurricular activities and only allow parent consultations if they feel like it.
The teacher unions have to step back and let the process continue as it should without the cheesy, obstructionism that is out of control. It's that way because the Wynne government allowed it to happen. The convoluted "new" two-tiered system of negotiating with the union and the school boards has been an unmitigated disaster.
And next year, the negotiating process starts all over again.
This isn't about politics, it's about responsibility to keep labour peace and supply our children with a quality and productive education.
Time to say goodbye Liz. With you in charge nothing will change.
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By Christina O'Neill ( Prog ) published 29 August 16
Watch promo for Glass Hammer's upcoming concept album Valkyrie, due out on September 27
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Glass Hammer have issued a trailer for their forthcoming 18th album, Valkyrie.
The nine-track follow-up to last year's The Breaking Of The World is due out on September 27 and can be pre-ordered on the band's website.
Vocalist Susie Bogdanowicz has also moved up to front the band, replacing Yes man Jon Davison, whose role has diminished since joining the prog giants in 2012.
Multi-instrumentalist Steve Babb told Prog: "Our fans have been begging for Susie to have a bigger role in our music for years. We're happy that she'll be fronting the band, with Fred and I in supporting roles."
He said of Valkyrie: "We rehearsed for months and approached the production as if we were preparing for a live concert. The goal was to capture the energy and edge we have on stage. We essentially recorded it live, as one performance."
Describing it as a concept album in the vein of 2002's Lex Rex and 2005's The Inconsolable Secret, Babb added: "It's the story of a soldier's struggle to return home from the horrors of war, to the girl who loves him and must ultimately find her way to him.
"Of course, it goes much deeper than that – and that's why I've dedicated the lyrics to those battling the long-term effects of trauma, and those who care for them. It's a serious subject for a serious album."
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Q: Why does Java use UTF-16 for internal string representation? I would imagine the reason was fast, array like access to the character at index, but some characters won't fit into 16 bits, so it wouldn't work...
So if you have to handle special cases anyways, why not just use UTF-8?

A: Because it used to be UCS-2, which was a nice fixed-length 16-bits. Of course, 16bit turned out not to be enough. They retrofitted UTF-16 in on top.

A: For the main part, for the sake of plain and simple future-proofing. Whether it was a misguided reason and the wrong way to go about it is a different question.
You can see some reasons behind some of their design decisions in this document about the 2004 switch to Java 5 and UTF-16, which explains some of the shortcomings as well: Supplementary Characters in the Java Platform, and see Why does the Java ecosystem use different encodings throughout their stack?.
For more details on the pitfalls of using UTF-16, and why UTF-8 is likely to be a better option in general, see Should UTF-16 be considered harmful? and the UTF-8 Everywhere manifesto.

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Do Bitters Go Bad? How Long Do Bitters Last?
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Are you curious how long do bitters last? Stick around as we discuss the answer in this article…
Almost everyone loves a drink after a long and tiring day at work, especially with friends and family. After all, who better to share your life with than those nearest and dearest to you, right? One of the best ways to do so is, of course, enjoying a couple of cocktails in the comforts of your own home, many of which are made with bitters.
If you're a cocktail aficionado, chances are you're well-acquainted with bitters and their ability to add depth and dimension to just about any drink. With a renewed interest in this additive, it seems they have made their way into many aspiring bartender's toolkits.
Because of their potency, bitters tend to linger on the shelves and bars, leaving one wondering about their shelf life. To learn more about these flavorful liquids and if they go bad, make sure to read through this article.
What Are Bitters?
Bitters are flavor extracts infused in alcohol. These extracts are made from infused botanicals, such as flowers, berries, aromatic herbs, roots, bark, and other pieces of plants. Pure and potent in form, most drink recipes use them in drops and dashes, kind of like an additional flavor boost. As such, they come in small bottles.
There is a wide range of bitters in existence today, with perhaps the most famous one being Angostura. You can find aromatic bitters that help engage the senses with their strong smells and intense flavors, as well as citrus bitters made with orange, lemon, yuzu, or grapefruit peels.
Herbal bitters, in contrast to the previous, hold a stronger taste and flavor, such as those containing tarragon, thyme, or even mint, Meanwhile, the spice variety, such as those made with cinnamon, has a tendency to impart warmth.
Nut bitters also exist, with coffee and chocolate varieties under the roster. Meanwhile, fruit bitters tend to err on the sweeter side.
Angostura, on the other hand, was created as a digestive bitter designed to help food digest better. It was reportedly created in the 19th century to alleviate digestive problems and help combat Venezuelan parasites. Today, however, you will most commonly find it in a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned.
Bitters and Their Shelf Life
Bitters are less likely to go bad because the alcohol base acts as a natural preservative to the botanicals. The higher the alcohol by volume (ABV), the more shelf-stable they are. Most have an ABV rating of more than 40 percent, almost the same as bourbon or vodka, thereby effectively preserving the aromatics and botanicals within.
Experts say that bitters retain their condition for up to five years, while some can last even longer.
Beyond this, their flavor and aromatics tend to break down, resulting in a slightly mellow and less potent taste. Oxidation, evaporation, and other chemical reactions happening within the bottle cause this change.
For them to retain their stability, store them away from sunlight and instead, place them in a relatively cool and dry place.
Do Bitters Go Bad at All?
Technically no, given that the alcohol content preserves them for a long time. As a matter of fact, the shelf life is considered "essentially indefinite." While chemical reactions or oxidation may take place, they won't spoil the product or harm you in any way when consumed.
There are, however, some types of bitters that tend to go bad over time. This includes fruit bitters dissolved in glycerin rather than ethanol. Glycerin has a shelf life of only one to two years. Beyond that, they can spoil. Case in point: the fruit bitters that come from Fee Brothers. Some argue that the use of glycerin, also referred to as sugar alcohol, does not make 'true' bitters.
Some signs that these types have gone bad include the smell and taste. If they have a slightly sour or tangy odor, much different from the originally sweet liqueur you know, this may indicate that you should toss them out. The taste will likewise be affected.
While a spoiled bottle of fruit bitters won't necessarily kill you or harm you, consuming it and doling it out in your drinks may produce a bad aftertaste.
Now that you know the shelf life of bitters, you can rest easy knowing they'll last you for years at a time. Do what you want with this information. Who knows, you might be able to enjoy a drink or two with these bitter and potent liquids.
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Christopher Nolan May Be Involved In Rumored 'Akira' Trilogy
Posted September 15th, 2015 by Ben Silverio
After gaining critical acclaim for 'Memento' in 2000, Christopher Nolan became a bona fide hit-maker for Warner Bros. The studio has distributed all his projects (either solely or jointly) since 2002, including 'The Prestige', 'Inception', 'Interstellar', and his Dark Knight Trilogy. But now a rumor has surfaced saying that WB is bringing him in on yet another one of their biggest properties: 'Akira.'
Once they acquired the rights to create a live-action remake of the cult classic anime in 2002, Warner Bros. tried time and time again to get the project off the ground. However, each attempt was plagued with all sorts of issue. After going through a number of writers, directors, and stars as recently as last year, the studio's latest attempt at an adaptation is being written by 'Daredevil' season two co-showrunner Marco Ramirez, but no director has been named yet.
But according to a new report from Den of Geek, WB's new approach to this apparently uncrackable property is to turn it into a trilogy and enlist the help of Nolan to develop it. Not only that, the filmmaker may have a hand in selecting who will helm the project as well. Apparently, Nolan "has met with a previously attached filmmaker (who we can't name here) within the past three months to talk about the project."
Before anyone gets their hopes up, just because Warner Bros. scheduled Nolan's next film for July 2017 doesn't mean that it will be 'Akira.' First of all, the epic sci-fi action thriller based on Katsuhiro Otomo's iconic manga has barely started pre-production. In the long journey to the big screen, this film hasn't even gone to the bathroom one last time before everyone gets in the car. Secondly, a film of this magnitude will likely need more than a little over twelve months to be written, shot, and edited. Not even someone like Christopher Nolan can work on a major motion picture such as this in that amount of time.
A more likely scenario is that Nolan will join forces with Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way in producing the film. He could also take a consultant/godfather sort of role similar to what he was rumored to have done for the new DC Cinematic Universe. That would explain why he's talking to filmmakers regarding 'Akira.'
That being said, if WB is planning a trilogy, who's to say that Nolan couldn't take on the second or third installment? He definitely has the star-power and the talent to reinvigorate this production that has been stuck in developmental hell for over a decade and get audiences excited for it once again instead of rolling their eyes every time it pops back into headlines after long periods silence.
But at the end of the day, it's probably best not to get your hopes up until Warner Bros. or Christopher Nolan himself drops some kind of official word. Until then, what do you think about Nolan potentially working on 'Akira'? Do you think that he could be the one to finally bring the project back from the dead? Let us know in the comment section.
Ben Silverio
Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand.
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I pushed the stroller with my sleeping granddaughter up a steep, Vermont road and stopped at the top to catch my breath.
I heard a gentle breeze wrap around the mountainside and head straight toward me. I sensed something special about to happen.
"just make art" the wind whispered, sweeping across my face and on to the next mountain.
When I returned to my studio, I lit my torch and created playful pieces with that wind as my guide.
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Which one improves accuracy the most : fitting match barrel and bushing? Or tightning frame and slide fit ?
Barrel fit. It will remove majority of vertical play and some horizontal. Frame to slide is very small percentage of accuracy. In my opinion less than 10%, much less.
Jon would know. He built my gun and guns for many other shooters. Tack drivers all of em.
loose guns can still shoot well. poorly fit barrel or bushing and it will group like crap. Sprung barrel vertically string.
Barrel to slide, especially if you have slide mounted optics, which virtually everyone has these days. If you have a frame mounted optic, well then slide to frame is pretty important too.
In most cases you will need EVERYTHING right to see any inprovement in accuracy. I have done a lot of 1911 accuracy work and I feel guilty taking a person's money for "just a bushing". It all works together as 1 piece. I have seen some guns shoot with a loose slide to frame fit, but normally those guns have a steel compensator to pull the barrel to the same spot in battery. Bullseye guns tend to be more sensitive to slide to frame fit.


As recently shown in [quant-ph/1108.5541], any quantum error-correcting code can be converted into a perfect "hybrid" quantum secret sharing scheme by allowing the sharing of extra classical bits between the dealer and the players. An advantage of this scheme is that it allows the players' quantum shares to be of smaller dimension than the dimension of the encoded secret, which is impossible for regular perfect quantum secret sharing protocols. Whenever the underlying quantum error correcting code is a stabilizer code (this being the case for the vast majority of known quantum error-correcting codes), I provide a general scheme of reducing the amount of classical communication required, then prove that my scheme is optimal for the stabilizer code being used. The optimality proof is based on the fact that the correlations between the dealer and the players can be fully described by an "information group" [Phys. Rev. A 81, 032326 (2010)]; the symplectic structure of the information group effectively gives the minimum number of classical bits required. Finally I provide an explicit protocol that achieves this minimum by employing the notion of "twirling" (or scrambling) the information group. The results are general and valid for any stabilizer code. I will illustrate the results by simple examples.


TOPEKA, Kan. — The counting of the last ballots in the tight and contentious Republican primary for Kansas governor will stretch out over the week and still might not settle the race.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Gov. Jeff Colyer were locked in a tight race after late mail-in ballots from all 105 counties were added to totals from advance voting and ballots cast at the polls on Aug. 7. The state's 105 counties still must review nearly 9,000 provisional ballots and determine how many of them were cast in the Republican primary — and how many will be counted. They have until Aug. 20 to finish that process and certify their local results.
The Legislature last year changed the state's law on mail-in ballots so that they were to be counted if they were postmarked Tuesday, the day of the primary, and arrived by Friday. Previously, they had to arrive by Election Day, and in the 2016 general election, more than 500 arrived afterward, said Bryan Caskey, the state elections director in the secretary of state's office.
While Kobach's office provides guidance on the handling of ballots and supervises the counting, the work is done by the counties.
The chief elections officer in each county appoints a bipartisan board of election workers to handle the individual ballots.
The secretary of state appoints an election commissioner in the state's four most populous counties — Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte — and the chief elections officers in the other 101 are elected clerks.
The elections chiefs present their workers' recommendations on whether provisional ballots should be counted to the county commission, which then decides and certifies the final results.
Voters receive provisional ballots at the polls when election workers are not sure they are eligible to vote at that location, or at all. Those ballots are sealed in envelopes and set aside to be reviewed later, with notes about the issues involved. The eligibility of the voters is determined before workers unseal the ballots. Once a ballot is unsealed, workers can see whether it was cast in the Republican or Democratic primary before counting any relevant votes.
Kobach said based on past elections, it's likely that about two-thirds of 9,000 provisional ballots that were filled out Tuesday were cast in the Republican primary and that a majority of them will be counted.
State law says counties can begin their canvassing Monday. Seventy-six counties plan to start then, including Johnson and Sedgwick.
An additional 14 plan to start Tuesday, two on Wednesday and six on Thursday, including Shawnee and Wyandotte counties. Rooks County in northwest Kansas has scheduled its canvassing for Friday, and six counties have set it for Aug. 20, the deadline to finish.
Under a Kansas law specific to statewide races, a candidate must ask for a recount by 5 p.m. Friday. State law has no provision for an automatic recount, no matter how close the race.
A candidate can ask for a recount no matter how large the margin, but he or she must put up funds to cover the full cost of the recount. If the recount changes the result, the candidate seeking it gets his or her money back, and the counties and state cover their costs.
The candidate can seek a recount in only one or a handful of counties, dozens of counties, or statewide. Also, the candidate chooses whether the recount will be machine re-scanning of paper ballots or a hand count of those ballots.
The cost of the recount is determined by the secretary of state's office. Caskey said the office would survey the counties involved in a recount for their estimated costs, then add "a small amount" to cover the state's administrative expenses.
There's no frame of reference for what a recount would cost because there hasn't been one in a statewide race in at least several decades.
A recount must start the day after the candidate requests one, even if the work would start on a Saturday. Counties involved have five days to finish, meaning all of it would be done by Aug. 22 at the latest.


From August 2003 through October 2004, I didn't do much in the way of design and usability work.
I had some short-run consulting gigs, but mostly it was just providing opinion on direction. From August 2003 through July 2004 I was working on IT risk management activities. August 2004 through October 2004, I didn't have much to do at all.
That is the way of things, even in a corporate environment; feast of famine. So now I am feasting again. Someone left the company and I got all their projects. Six of them. Woo! And one week prior to being assigned those six, I was assigned to one. So I am at seven.
To be honest three of the projects are in monitor mode. That is I will attend meetings now and then and keep up on issues and UI-related defects. But that still leaves me with four large projects, three of which I am jumping into the middle of. I have been trying to get my bearings over the last week and a half. So far so good.
It's nice to be back designing again. I enjoyed the risk management stuff. I learned a lot. I am even the risk coordinator for one of my new projects. But design is where my heart is. This time around I will be doing paper prototyping and using that paper during informal usability sessions. I am trying to speed up the design process from what I used to do. The longer I am in this field, the more I realize that as long as the big problems are found, the little ones tend not to be a problem in production.
So if you can find as many usability issues with a paper test, why spend the time and money to build a prototype that is so advanced it might as well be an app? I can't think of a reason. For brand new apps, or total redesigns i think I will do web-based design still. That way I can build the CSS file and hand that off to the developers. Something that has worked well in the past.
But for existing systems, where we are adding fields or something else that doesn't require much in the way of visual design changes, I am going to stick with paper. And when I say paper, I think I will still mock up screens in Fireworks (Macromedia's answer to Photoshop) and print those out to use.
Seriously though. It's not a bad thing. Just a change in pace. I find myself much more relaxed in scheduling meetings and talking to people who are freaking out about what's due when. Since I had the past year to myself, I think it affected the way I approach work. It is nothing at all like laziness. Just laid back. I have been able to explore what precisely is needed to get the work done, and following that path has been successful.
So, some adjusting going on. But I look forward to approaching my design work with this new state of mind. As we look for efficiencies for our users, so should we look for efficiencies in our way of working.
And with that *rolls up sleeves* let's get back to it. *Looks at calendar* Uh, starting next week.
Note: Cross-posted from my main site. This is job related so I wanted to track it here too.


#IAmAWitness "aims to stop bullying by activating the "silent majority" of kids who witness it each day, transforming them from passive bystanders into an active collective that speak up against bullying." The collaborative effort brought nearly 20 organizations together to stop bullying, including Disney, Paramount Pictures, WWE, Facebook, Twitter, and After School.
After School, the largest teen-focused social network in the United States, partnered to raise awareness of the campaign and continue its efforts to promote kindness and prevent bullying. "The campaign immediately stood out as a movement with the ability to impact millions and further the conversation centered around bullying prevention," said After School Co-founder and COO Cory Levy.
Shortly after the Ad Council and partners launched the campaign in October of 2015, Levy and the After School team worked to incorporate the all seeing eye emoji into the app, allowing users to use it to show support for fellow teens. After School soon officially joined on as a partner and created an in-app video alongside the Ad Council to promote #IAmAWitness.
"We were honored to be part of #IAmAWitness and we look forward to extending the reach of pro-kindness and anti-bullying messages like this campaign," Levy continued. "We would like to thank the Ad Council and Laurie Keith (Ad Council's Director of Business Development) for their dedication to this cause and for partnering with After School to get this great message out to a wider audience," Levy concluded.
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Apple's iPhone sales disappoint
by Heather Kelly @heatherkelly January 29, 2014: 1:28 PM ET
Apple posted record iPhone sales, but they were still far weaker than analysts' expectations.
Apple sold a record number of iPhones in the last three months of 2013, but the company's stock tumbled as investors were expecting a significantly larger haul.
The tech giant sold 51 million iPhones during the quarter, up from 47.8 million a year earlier. But Wall Street analysts were expecting closer to 57 million iPhones, after Apple launched its new iPhone 5S and 5C smartphones in China simultaneously with the United States and Western Europe for the first time this fall.
But China wasn't the problem. Chinese sales soared 29%, even though Apple hadn't yet inked its landmark deal to sell iPhones and iPads to customers of China Mobile (CHL), by far the world's largest wireless carrier. The impact of the China Mobile deal is expected to deliver a huge boost to Apple's overall numbers in the coming year. North American sales actually fell 1% year-over-year.
On a conference call with investors, Apple CEO Tim Cook said cell phone companies' longer upgrade cycles were partially to blame for weak American sales. He also noted that orders for the iPhone 5S were stronger than expected, so it took some time for Apple to make enough of the smartphones to meet customer demand.
Related story: Carl Icahn gives Apple product advice
Apple's outlook also disappointed. The company said it expects to bring in sales between $42 billion and $44 billion in the current quarter, far lower than the $46 billion analysts had forecast.
As a result, Apple (AAPL) shares fell 7% Tuesday.
Tim Cook was predictably cagey about any future product plans, but confirmed that the company was still working on new product categories for the end of 2014. That could mean anything from wearables to a full TV.
Mobile payments is a category ripe for Apple, especially with the addition of the Touch ID fingerprint sensor to the iPhone 5S. Cook would not confirm any plans for mobile payments but noted a large amount of commerce already goes through the iOS platform and that customers have embraced using Touch ID to purchase content from the App Store and iTunes.
While Apple has been going strong on its existing categories for years. Some investors don't think smartphone and tablet sales alone can sustain such high levels of growth and are hungry for something new.
It wasn't all bad news for Apple. The company sold 4.8 million Macs, up 17% from a year earlier. And Apple sold a record 26 million iPads during the quarter.
And the company's profit came in far better than expected. Apple reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $13.1 billion or $14.50 per share, essentially even with a year ago. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected earnings of $14.07 per share.
Sales rose 6% to $57.6 billion. That just edged out the $57.5 billion in revenue that analysts had expected.
CNNMoney (New York) First published January 27, 2014: 5:01 PM ET


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Laut Volkszählung 2006 lebten 6.339 Menschen in 1.708 Familien in Royan.

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Q: Pandas - Multiple iterations over same column based on criteria I'm working on a basic trading algo but my question has more to do with pandas.
See code:
import pandas_datareader as pdr
import datetime
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import talib as ta

###########################################GETTING DATA###################################################

#Download Data
aapl = pdr.get_data_yahoo('AAPL', start=datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 1), end=datetime.datetime(2017, 11, 8))

###############################################STRATEGY###################################################

#Initialize the `signals` DataFrame with the `signal` column
signals = pd.DataFrame(index=aapl.index)
signals['signal'] = 0.0

# Add price/Currently using Open Price
signals['Open'] = aapl.Open.values

# Create 10 MA moving average
signals['10 MA'] = ta.SMA(aapl.Close.values,10)

# Create 25 EMA moving average
signals['25 EMA'] = ta.EMA(aapl.Close.values,25)

# Remove Nan rows
signals = signals.dropna()

# Create Buy Signal
signals['signal'] = np.where((signals['Close']>signals['25 EMA']),1.0,0)

#Create Sell Signal
#I want to hold the stock as long as its 1)above the price I paid for it and 2) if it ever gets above the 10 day moving average and later closes beneath it I want to sell

print (signals)

I've got a pandas dataframe (see below) and for each time the signal column = 1 (my buy signal) it means my buy criteria has been met, however, although this is just a snippet of the data and the signal appears to always be 1, it is not the case as we move further out in the data set.
Eventually, the buy criteria is no longer met and the signal column = 0, but there are instances where I would want to still hold the stock and identify that holding as a 1 in the signal column:
1) If it's above the price I entered the trade at
2) but If it has gone above the 10 day moving average since I bought it and as closed beneath it that would incite me to sell
All I'm trying to do is to figure out when to buy/hold/sell the stock and express that in the signal column so I can later analyze the returns.
If anyone has a better way of keeping track of these transactions, I'm all ears!
               signal   close       10 MA      25 EMA
Date
2010-10-06     1.0   41.369999   40.995285   39.372343
2010-10-07     1.0   41.477142   40.999571   39.521943
2010-10-08     1.0   41.672855   41.024571   39.713331
2010-10-11     1.0   42.105713   41.084571   39.904174
2010-10-12     1.0   42.201427   41.251428   40.115282
2010-10-13     1.0   42.885715   41.433857   40.327732
2010-10-14     1.0   43.098572   41.699000   40.547687
2010-10-15     1.0   43.919998   42.159285   40.887315
2010-10-18     1.0   45.495716   42.721571   41.236643
2010-10-19     1.0   43.342857   43.015142   41.465582
2010-10-20     1.0   44.142857   43.319999   41.688339
2010-10-21     1.0   44.622856   43.609999   41.882863
2010-10-22     1.0   44.152859   43.801428   42.039895
2010-10-25     1.0   44.155716   43.993999   42.199903
2010-10-26     1.0   43.838570   44.129856   42.338922
2010-10-27     1.0   43.950001   44.239714   42.464829
2010-10-28     1.0   43.992859   44.281571   42.552589
2010-10-29     1.0   43.461430   44.084999   42.586786


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Q: jQuery: Waiting for callbacks to return before continuing I have a page which uses a fair bit of ajax to load its contents when various things are clicked and right now I am working on being able to link to the different parts of the page by reading the incoming hashes in the url as a sort of path. I figured that I could just go through the different sections of the hash that comes in and trigger the right clicks using jQuery's .trigger(). The problem in doing this is that the next second trigger will be called before the contents of the section is actually loaded (as it is being loaded via ajax) meaning the thing it is trying to trigger doesn't exist. Is there a good way to set sort of a flag or something to know when all the callbacks complete and all of the content is loaded before I use the next trigger? Or am I approaching this the completely wrong way? Just looking for some general strategy on how to get this done.

A: You want to create a success callback.  As the name implies, this code will be executed once your load has completed successfully.
$.ajax({
  url: 'ajax/test.php',
  success: function(data) {
    // your code to execute after load is complete
    // data parameter contains any information returned from test.php
  }
});

See "Callback Function Queues" on http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

A: how about using the
$.ajax({
  url: 'ajax/test.php',
  async:false
});

to wait until request is loaded


A reveller attacked a friend who refused to buy him any more drinks during a party.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Thursday, May 14, how Connor Bothamley, 19, of King Street, Alfreton, grabbed his friend in a headlock during a Christmas party at Lightwood Road working men's club, in Buxton.
Prosecuting solicitor John Cooper said: "The party was for service users from the Peak Dales Advocacy.
"The complainant had two pints of Strongbow and he bought the defendant a couple of pints of Strongbow too and then they went for a smoke.
"The defendant asked the complainant for more alcohol but he was refused.
"Bothamley did not take that kindly and became aggressive and he grabbed the complainant around the throat and put him in a headlock for about 30 seconds.
"While trying to break free the grip was not enough to choke the complainant but he was restrained and the defendant said do you want a fight?
The court heard how the victim stayed inside the club while the defendant was taken outside by a care worker.
Mr Cooper explained the incident was witnessed by several people.
Bothamley told police he had pushed the complainant after they had fallen out over alcohol and he denied the headlock saying the complainant had been mistaken because he had just had his arm around him.
The defendant pleaded guilty to assault after the incident on December 19, last year.
Defence solicitor David Gittins said: "This was a Christmas party for young and vulnerable adults and they were invited with various care workers and guests.
"Since this incident there have been no further problems and the defendant and complainant have seen each other at other events.
"On this day, alcohol was involved even though it was not a lot of alcohol but when people do not drink regularly there can be problems.
Magistrates fined Bothamley £37 and ordered him to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
They opted not to impose a compensation order because they understood that there were no lasting injuries involved and the defendant and complainant were now friends again.


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Q: Deploying Site Solution EDIT to add more detail about what I'm trying to do:
This is the first SP project I've worked on, so I might be making a very basic mistake with how the project is set up. The project consists of a custom list for configuration data, which is modified via two custom application pages. There are also a couple of other application pages for custom functionality accessible by any user. There are also a couple of web services through which an outside website will access the data from that custom functionality.
The production web application contains a single site collection with multiple sites. Each element of the project should be installed to every site within that site collection, so the application pages and web services on each site are specific to that site only.
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I have a SharePoint solution within VS which contains two custom web services, several application pages, and a feature event handler. I'd like the feature to be available in every sub site within a site collection, with different data for each. My single feature is scoped to Site, and iterates through each web within the site collection in the FeatureActivated event to perform certain processing (adding of menu items linked to the application pages). The feature contains the two web services, but there's no option to include the application pages as "items in the solution".
The entire solution works fine when I deploy through Visual Studio. However, this was on a development machine and I now need to move to test. My understanding is that I should be able to do this using the WSP file through Powershell and/or Central Admin. This is where I'm running into issues.
Running Add-SPSolution works just fine (Add-SPSolution "C:\featurepackage.wsp"), but Install-SPSolution (Install-SPSolution -Identity FeaturePackage.wsp -WebApplication http:// nameofserver -GacDeployment) gives me an error on scope - there are no web application scoped items. Which makes sense, since my feature is Site scoped. I couldn't find any information on PS commands to install a solution that is Site scoped.
After some searching, I figured out that the solution was listed in the Farm solutions page of Central Admin. The only options I was given were to deploy it globally. On test and prod, there's only a single web application, so although I would've preferred to deploy just to the single web application which contains my site collection, that would work.
I received no errors once I'd deployed through Farm Solution Management, but when I checked the site settings for any of the sites (one menu inserted during feature activation is under site settings), there were no new menu options. I also get a 503 (service unavailable) error when trying to go directly to one of the new application pages. So it doesn't seem to actually be deployed. Am I missing a step here, or completely off-target? Any help would be very much appreciated.
Here's the solution screenshot:

Here is the manifest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Solution xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" SolutionId="4e02717b-9a15-4a9c-9e05-a7575163aeca" SharePointProductVersion="14.0">
  <Assemblies>
    <Assembly Location="Newtonsoft.Json.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" />
    <Assembly Location="Feature.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" />
  </Assemblies>
  <RootFiles>
    <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService1.svc" />
    <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService2.svc" />
    <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService3.svc" />
  </RootFiles>
  <TemplateFiles>
    <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Config\Configuration.aspx" />
    <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Config\Mappings.aspx" />
    <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\script.js" />
    <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\Add.aspx" />
    <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\View.aspx" />
  </TemplateFiles>
  <FeatureManifests>
    <FeatureManifest Location="Feature_Configuration\Feature.xml" />
  </FeatureManifests>
</Solution>

And Feature.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" AutoActivateInCentralAdmin="TRUE" Description="Adds custom content in order to configure Feature" Id="4bd05979-61b2-4ca1-8f4f-ac929816cbeb" ReceiverAssembly="Feature, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6bf86656d0472a39" ReceiverClass="Feature.Features.Configuration.ConfigurationEventReceiver" Scope="Site" Title="Configuration"></Feature>

A: It would seems that your problems are caused by some common misconceptions about SharePoint projects structure and deploy steps.
Let me start from the end. The add-solution / install-solution step.
As you may have guessed, adding a solution just "uploads" the solution to SharePoint (there are actually some deeper implication, but let's keep it simple). To start using it you must "deploy" it to some target.
Now, you may believe that "deploying" a solution to a specific web application means that the solution components will be available only to that web application - for example, only site collection in that web applications will show a feature in the solution. This isn't true*: only a subset of solution artifacts are specific to the web applications you deploy your solution to - most of the solution components are available to all app.*
This implies that if you deploy a solution to web app A any feature available in the solution will still be visible in sites in web app B. This also explain your first issue:

Install-SPSolution (Install-SPSolution -Identity FeaturePackage.wsp -WebApplication http:// nameofserver -GacDeployment) gives me an error on scope - there are no web application scoped items. Which makes sense, since my feature is Site scoped. I couldn't find any information on PS commands to install a solution that is Site scoped.

Your solution do not contain items that are web application scoped (for example: a resource file deployed to the app virtual directory) so it doesn't make sense to deploy it to a specific app.
Second question:

there's no option to include the application pages as "items in the solution".

Your "application pages" are pages that reside in the "Layouts" folder in the /14 folder of your SharePoint installation. You can access them with the virtual url "_layouts". Since they are deployed to the layout folder, they are visible EVERYWHERE in your SharePoint solution, just like "settings.aspx" or any other of the pages available in that folder (see above point).
But... how does that files end up included in the solution package and then deployed to the Layouts folder? you didn't add them to a feature, didn't you? Actually, the response is in the "Layouts" folder in your Visual Studio solution. You see the little symbol on the folder - the world like icon? That means that that folder is a "mapped folder" ie that that folder is mapped to a folder in the 14 root dir: any item under that folder in the visual studio solution will be included in the solution package to be copied to the mapped position on the SharePoint server. This explain why the solution manifest contains the following rows:
<TemplateFiles>
   <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Config\Configuration.aspx" />
   <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Config\Mappings.aspx" />
   <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\script.js" />
   <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\Add.aspx" />
   <TemplateFile Location="Layouts\Feature\View.aspx" />
</TemplateFiles>

So... why are you receiving an error when you try to access the above pages? I cannot be sure, but based on the error types I have some theories:

*

*you try to access the page during an app pool recycle?

*the application pool is down?

*your pages try to access one of the web services - which in turn does not exist? (see below)?

*are you using a wrong url?

As you see, pretty wild guessing here. I can just suggest that you have a look at the SharePoint ULS log  - maybe you can find something more specific.
There is one last thing that brother me though. Your solution manifest contains
<RootFiles>
   <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService1.svc" />
   <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService2.svc" />
   <RootFile Location="ISAPI\WebService3.svc" />
</RootFiles>

What are those file doing there? Based on your screenshot, the web services .svc file have different names. Also - there is no sign of the actuals .svc files begin deployed somewhere. Are you sure that your web service are begin deployed correctly? Can you access them?
Last notice: you also mention using a feature receiver to configure "links" in the site collection. I don't get what you are doing specifically... but just in case, have a look at custom actions definition and the publishing infrastructure. I have the felling that your solution could be simplified somehow.

A: Try with this powershell. It works for my deployments.
#$SolutionPath is the path to your .wsp file
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath $SolutionPath

$SolutionToInstall = Get-SPSolution -Identity "Your_Solution_without_path.wsp"
Install-SPSolution -Identity $SolutionToInstall -GACDeployment -Force

This will install to all web applications
Try this for a single web application
Install-SPSolution -Identity $SolutionToInstall -WebApplication $Url -FullTrustBinDeployment -Force  -WarningAction Ignore

Good Luck


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Searching for superspreaders of information in real-world social media
Authors: Sen Pei, Lev Muchnik, José S. Andrade Jr., Zhiming Zheng, & Hernáan A. Makse
Publication, Year: Scientific Reports, 2014
Searching for superspreaders of information in real-world social mediaOverview and Major FindingsBackgroundGeneral approach taken in this studyaverage influencerecognition rateResultsLocal Proxy
Overview and Major Findings
Utilizing real-world social network data, the authors compare the performance of common topological measures in order to identify the best way to locate the most influential users within a network.
Metrics compared:
k-core/k-shell: see the wikipedia page for a quick crash course or this paper for more details.
PageRank: Wikipedia for details
Degree: the degree of a node in a network is the number of connections it has to other nodes. Wikipedia for details
Networks examined:
LiveJournal.com connections
Scientific publishing in American Physical Society (APS)
Twitter mention networks
Facebook friend/post networks from a regional network corresponding to the city of New Orleans, LA, USA
For all of these networks they show that k-core does the best job of identifying superspreaders of information
They also develop a "local proxy for influence" which appears to perform similarly to k-core — the sum of the nearest neighbors' degree
Central motivation for this research: previous work seeking to develop methods for identifying superspreaders of information did not look at real-world data and instead rely on simulations based on models of infection and or rumor spreading such as SIR.
As a result, they highlight numerous times that the conclusions within this work is model dependent and has led to conflicting results
Thus, they collected large real-world network data to test the methods most commonly utilized (PageRank, k-core, degree)
General approach taken in this study
Essentially, what they then do is calculate the average influence and recognition rate for each of the three network topology metrics, for all of the different networks.
average influence
The average influence, , is calculated for nodes with a given combination of (k-core) and (in-degree) as:
is the collection of all the users participating in a diffusion of information
is the number of those users
recognition rate
The recognition rate is defined as
Where and are sets of nodes ranking in the top fraction by influence and predictor, respectively, and is the number of nodes in .
So, basically what they do is:
Create a ranked list of all nodes from highest to lowest influence.
Figure out which nodes are identified as the most influential by a specific predictor (i.e., k-core, in-degree, or PageRank) above some specific fraction
Take the intersection of the top fraction of the influential list () and the predicted list
Take the number of nodes in this intersection and divide it by the total number of nodes within the top fraction of the most influential nodes
Thus, if and were the exact same set of nodes, they value would equal .
They illustrate a number of different ways that k-core does the best for all networks in pretty much all ways. I simply paste the figures and their descriptions below to illustrate the results.
Local Proxy
Since k-core is a global measure it's usefulness is quite limited — rarely to we have a full picture of all the connections within a social network.
Thus, the authors offer a local proxy which seeks to stand in for k-core by utilizing only partial network information.
Because k-core appears to not only take into account the degree of an individual node but also the degree of those around it, the authors create and test two simple metrics:
— Node 's is the sum of the degree of all the nearest neighbors of node .
— Is the same as except it now accounts for the nearest-neighbors of node 's nearest neighbors. Thus, this measure takes the sum of node 's nearest neighbor as well as the next nearest neighbor.
We can see below that performs on-par with k-core and doesn't add much additional value.
Note: While this would certainly require much less Twitter data than reconstructing the entire network, gathering this data on just the nearest neighbors for even a small sample of Twitter users (say a few hundred) is still extremely temporally expensive and can require days to simply gather that data.


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Exploring Differential Obliviousness
Amos Beimel, Kobbi Nissim, and Mohammad Zaherix. 10/2019. "Exploring Differential Obliviousness." In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques, APPROX/RANDOM 10/2019. Publisher's Version
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In a recent paper, Chan et al. [SODA '19] proposed a relaxation of the notion of (full) memory obliviousness, which was introduced by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [J. ACM '96] and extensively researched by cryptographers. The new notion, differential obliviousness, requires that any two neighboring inputs exhibit similar memory access patterns, where the similarity requirement is that of differential privacy.
Chan et al. demonstrated that differential obliviousness allows achieving improved efficiency for several algorithmic tasks, including sorting, merging of sorted lists, and range query data structures.
In this work, we continue the exploration of differential obliviousness, focusing on algorithms that do not necessarily examine all their input. This choice is motivated by the fact that the existence of logarithmic overhead ORAM protocols implies that differential obliviousness can yield at most a logarithmic improvement in efficiency for computations that need to examine all their input. In particular, we explore property testing, where we show that differential obliviousness yields an almost linear improvement in overhead in the dense graph model, and at most quadratic improvement in the bounded degree model.
We also explore tasks where a non-oblivious algorithm would need to explore different portions of the input, where the latter would depend on the input itself, and where we show that such a behavior can be maintained under differential obliviousness, but not under full obliviousness. Our examples suggest that there would be benefits in further exploring which class of computational tasks are amenable to differential obliviousness.
See also: Computing over Distributed Sensitive Data: Publications


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Q: SQL Query (complex) I have the following table structure e.g.
id  |  group  |  parent  |  value
1       123        1         10
2       123        1         25
3       224        1         12
4       224        1         22
5       225        2         18
6       225        2         10
7       326        2         18
8       326        2         35

Now i need to grab the highest number of each group and combine the result per parent column so the wanted result would be like the following:
group  |  parent  |   value
123         1          47
225         2          53

I can group them by parent but don't know how to group them additionally by group within the parent.
Thank you

A: use a nested query like this:
select
    parent,
    sum(max_of_group_value)
from (
    select
        parent,
        group
        max(value) as max_of_group_value)
    from

    group by
        parent,
        group
) t
group by
    parent;

Alternatively, use a CTE for the subquery thus:
;with t as (
    select
        parent,
        group
        max(value) as max_of_group_value)
    from

    group by
        parent,
        group
)
select
    parent,
    sum(max_of_group_value)
from t
group by
    parent;

Now look closely at whatever presentation of the query you prefer; isn't the code written exactly as you described the problem in your (question and comment combined)?  That is the key to writing code that is obviously correct, and readable.


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Home Op-Eds Fundamentalism's bait-and-switch
Fundamentalism's bait-and-switch
by Ruth Conniff
The more I read about the radical Islamic reaction to the Danish cartoon controversy, the more I think our government has in common with Islamic states.
An article by Fareed Zakaria in the current Newsweek discusses the rebirth of radical Islamic movements in the Middle East.
"Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives," Zakaria writes. "For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country."
Or, as the New York Times points out in a Week in Review piece on Sunday, it is no coincidence that the Danish cartoon controversy gained a great deal of media coverage in Egypt right after the government's criminal negligence was on display in the recent ferry-sinking disaster.
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The reflexive hostility to the United States and Israel--and now Denmark and Norway, of all places--is part of an increasingly scary, violent extremism that goes beyond legitimate opposition to the war in Iraq, or other recent events, as Zakaria points out. Race hatred and intolerance are cynically fanned by regimes from Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan that would just as soon keep the focus off their own shortcomings.
Talking about the evils of the United States and Israel is really "God, Guns, and Gays," Islamic-style.
If Karl Rove were working for the governments of Egypt or Saudi Arabia, he would focus relentlessly on Danish depictions of Mohammed and American soldiers in Baghdad, and keep the news off internal repression and incompetence.
Defenders of real American values--not colonialism, cheap oil, and raw power, but democracy, free speech, and individual rights--should take a different view.
It would help us, of course, to stop producing recruiting videos for Al Qaeda in Iraq.
But we also need to talk about the rights of oppressed peoples to responsive, democratic government.
Zakaria concludes his piece by writing: "Give Bush his due. He has correctly and powerfully argued that blind assistance to the dictatorships of the Middle East was a policy that was producing repression and instability. But he has not yet found a way to genuinely assist in the promotion of political, economic, and social reforms in the region.. . . We have not yet managed to forge a real partnership with Middle Eastern societies."
Zakaria is no ingenue. But it seems naive to describe Bush as being on a genuine, if incomplete, campaign to nurture democracy in the Middle East. This Administration has no intention of pressuring Saudi Arabia to stop repressing women and guest workers, or to genuinely wean our dependence on foreign oil. U.S. calls for "democracy" abroad sound as cynical as election-year focus on abortion and gay marriage, while Baghdad still burns.
If we are going to reverse the dangerous trend of an increasingly hostile and divided world, we are going to need a government that has some credibility when it talks about democracy, and stops catering to the fundamentalists and zealots on all sides.
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Ruth Conniff
Editor-at-large for The Progressive magazine.
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