Two genealogy presentations, three dogs, two cats, three beds, and three different counties in three days made for a great trip to Southern California.
It started out when Jan Meisels Allen of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley asked if I could come down to Ventura County to give my talk on using online newspapers for genealogy research. We worked out an arrangement with the Orange County Jewish Genealogical Society that I would also give a presentation there, this one on techniques for finding women's maiden names (a notoriously difficult thing to do).
So I flew down to Long Beach on Saturday evening and was met at the airport by Shmuel, who had generously offered to allow me to stay at his home in Fountain Valley (Orange County) that night. He and his wife were very welcoming, they had two adorable and friendly Welsh corgis, and they all made me feel right at home. On Sunday we went to Temple Bat Yahm in Newport Beach for my talk. The enthusiastic group enjoyed my talk very much and had a lot of great questions afterward.
After the presentation, Michelle Sandler, the president of OCJGS, and her husband were able to accommodate my desire to stop by the Newport Beach Public Library, where I got a library card, and now I have access to its remote databases, including the Orange County Register. They then drove me to Studio City in Los Angeles County, where I spent the night at a friend's. I had been hoping to meet up with a cousin to talk about family history (we really want to figure out a way to order her father's birth certificate from New York City), but she ended up taking a trip to India, which had to have been much more exciting than meeting with me.
After a restful night and saying hello to my friend's two cats, Jan Allen picked me up on Monday. We stopped at the Agoura Hills branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library, the Thousand Oaks Public Library, and the Oak Park branch of the Ventura County Public Library, where I collected three more library cards for my collection (Thousand Oaks has online access to the historical Los Angeles Times and the Ventura County Star; Los Angeles County has the Los Angeles Sentinel and Los Angeles Times; and Ventura County has the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Ventura County Star). In the evening we went to Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks (Ventura County), where I spoke about online newspapers to JGSCV. Jan and her husband were kind enough to have me as their guest that night, and I met their sweet West Highland terrier.
Tuesday morning saw me heading out from the Burbank airport back to Oakland, where my birds were happy to have me take them home, and the cats let me know they missed me also.
I want to again thank Michelle Sandler, the Orange County Jewish Genealogical Society, Jan Allen, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley for their hospitality and for their enthusiasm for my talks. I had a great time on my whirlwind tour down south, and maybe we'll be able to do it again sometime in the future.


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NIH-developed candidate dengue vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial
Friday, January 25, 2013, 18:00 Hrs [IST]
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developped candidate dengue vaccine which found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients. The early-stage clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the results is appeared in the January 17 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Dengue fever, prevalent in many tropical and subtropical regions of the world, is caused by any of four related viruses — DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4 — that are transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes. The World Health Organisation estimates that every year, 50 million to 100 million cases of dengue occur worldwide, resulting in 500,000 hospitalisations of patients with severe disease, many of them in children.
Infection with one dengue virus results in immunity to that specific virus but not to the other three. Research shows that the likelihood of severe disease increases when a person is subsequently infected with a different dengue virus. This observation suggests that the ideal dengue vaccine would be tetravalent—that is, protective against all four dengue viruses.
"The global burden of dengue is enormous – and it is growing," said NIAID director Anthony S Fauci, MD. "We are cautiously optimistic about these recent clinical trial results with this candidate tetravalent vaccine developed at NIAID; however, much more work still needs to be done."
The phase I clinical trial, launched in July 2010 and led by principal investigator Anna Durbin, MD, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, tested a single dose of each of four versions of the investigational dengue vaccine TetraVax-DV. The vaccine was developed by scientists in NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases. It is a live-attenuated vaccine, which means that the viruses it contains are weakened enough such that they do not cause illness but still can induce an immune response. Each of the four vaccines tested included different mixtures of components designed to protect against all four dengue viruses.
The phase I study was conducted in Baltimore; Burlington, Vt.; and Washington, DC. The final study analysis included 112 healthy men and women ages 18 to 50 years who had not previously been exposed to dengue or related viruses such as West Nile virus and yellow fever virus.
This transmission electron micrograph depicts a number of round, Dengue virus particles that were revealed in this tissue specimen. (Courtesy CDC)
Participants were randomized into four groups. In each group, 20 volunteers received a single 0.5-milliliter subcutaneous (under the skin) injection of one of the tetravalent candidate vaccine combinations, and eight others received placebo. All were monitored for immediate adverse reactions for at least 30 minutes after vaccination, and subsequently took their body temperatures three times daily for 16 days to check for possible adverse reactions. Participants also received a physical exam every other day up to Study Day 16, and then again on study days 21, 28, 42 and 180, when blood tests were also performed.
The researchers found that all four candidate vaccine combinations induced antibody responses against each of the dengue viruses. However, one vaccine combination, TV003, appeared to induce the most balanced antibody response against the dengue viruses. A single dose of TV003 resulted in an antibody response to all four dengue viruses in 45 per cent of participants and against three of the four viruses in an additional 45 per cent. Overall, an immune response to at least three viruses was seen in 90 percent of vaccinees given TV003.
"What is promising about TV003 is that it elicited solid antibody responses after just one dose," explained Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, who led the development of the vaccine candidates. "Other vaccines in development require two or three injections at higher doses to achieve similar results."
All four candidate tetravalent vaccines were found to be safe, and no participants experienced fever or dengue-like illness after vaccination. The most common side effect was a faint rash (in 64 per cent of vaccinees and none of the placebo recipients) consisting of small, non-painful bumps on the arms and torso that resolved within five to seven days. The presence of the rash appeared to correlate with being white and having a stronger immune response to vaccination, according to the researchers.
"The results of this phase I dengue vaccine study look very promising, and NIAID scientists and their partners are pursuing further development of TV003," said Kathryn Zoon, Ph.D., director of NIAID's Division of Intramural Research. The researchers are conducting studies to further evaluate the vaccine's safety and ability to stimulate an immune response in healthy volunteers and in people who have been infected previously by dengue or related viruses.
TV003's inexpensive production cost — less than $1 per dose — is critical to its potential use in developing countries, noted Dr. Whitehead. Manufacturers in Brazil, India and Vietnam — countries where dengue is prevalent — have licensed the vaccine technology for production and further evaluation. Phase II trials to evaluate the safety of TV003 and its capacity to create an immune response will begin soon in Brazil and Thailand.

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Ahhh, Spring! This season gives us a lot to look forward to – warmth, flowers, sunshine and, for the traditional Bermudian, hot cross buns and fishcakes! Thankfully, for me, one does not need to eat fish in order to enjoy this Good Friday treat — chickpeas to the rescue! This POWERHOUSE of a legume is a staple in many a vegetarian's diet and with good reason. The chickpea is abundant in proteins, carbohydrates, healthy fats, B vitamins and minerals and can aid in reducing cholesterol, avoiding constipation and calming the nerves. But if that does not excite you, hopefully today's recipes will! First, we have Chickpea Kale Cakes (or just call them fishcakes…your friends will never know!) You could exclude the kale, but I promise it is mostly undetectable! And if you fancy a salad topper or delicious snack to accompany your meal, give the Roasted Chickpeas a try!
Prepare flax/chia seed egg (1 Tbs ground flax or chia seeds plus 2.5 Tbs water, let sit for 5-10 minutes).
Place onion, kale and parsley in food processor and process until finely chopped OR chop manually.
In a large bowl, mash chickpeas. You may need to use your hands. Small chunks are okay.
Add potatoes and mash together until relatively smooth. Small chunks are okay.
Add breadcrumbs. Mix until thoroughly combined. You want to achieve a firm mouldable mixture.
Portion and shape burgers into a desirable size and coat lightly with flour.
Fry in oil on medium-high heat, approx. 3 minutes each side, until golden.
*These can also be baked (minus the flour) at 350° for 15 minutes. Flip then bake for an additional 10 minutes (Not as tasty but healthier).
In small bowl mix together dry ingredients.
Lightly spray frying pan; apply medium heat.
Pan seer chickpeas over medium heat for 2 minutes.
Remove from heat and transfer to medium sized bowl.
Immediately mix in dry ingredients.
Stir until chickpeas are covered.
Transfer chickpeas to medium shallow baking pan.
Bake on middle shelf for 30 minutes.
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Q: Take the top item from a list in power automate and then remove it from said list afterwards, advice? I'm hitting a block when building this script and I was hoping for some advice.
My script does this:

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*Takes an input from me via Display Input Dialog in the form of a question variable

*It then fires an API request with this question

*Gets a response

*Converts from JSON to Text

*Saves to a list

*Adds list to Excel

*Loops

What i'd like to do is automate part 1, i'd like to give it a list of the questions i want it to ask, if it can:

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*Read from a list of questions and take the top one

*Do steps 2 - 6

*Delete the one it just asked

*Step 1 repeats

Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks.
Added some steps above to the current script.

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Q: Why $http.delete in angularJS does not work? I try use $http.delete with Django and get HTTP 403.
My JS file below:
   var myApp = angular.module('myApp',['ui.bootstrap']);

    myApp.run(function($http) {
        $http.defaults.headers.post['X-CSRFToken'] = $.cookie('csrftoken');
    });

    myApp.controller('PostsListController', ['$scope','$http',function($scope,$http) {
      $http.get('/api/v1/posts/').success(function (data) {

      $scope.posts = data;

      });
    $scope.deletePost = function(post) {
                $http.delete('/api/v1/posts/'+ post.id + '/');
    };

    }]);

detail from console:
{detail: "CSRF Failed: CSRF token missing or incorrect."}
detail
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"CSRF Failed: CSRF token missing or incorrect."

A: i solved my problem by rewriting method .run()
 myApp.run(function($http) {
  $http.defaults.xsrfCookieName = 'csrftoken';
$http.defaults.xsrfHeaderName = 'X-CSRFToken';
});


When it comes to web development, WordPress is king – 27% of the internet is powered by WordPress. It's user-friendly which makes it easy for novice website administrators to make small updates to their site, such as text changes and blog posts. WordPress also offers a massive library of plugins to its users, making it completely customizable to any web development need. Moreover, all WordPress websites are also mobile and SEO-friendly. To stay current on the WordPress trends that will be extremely popular in 2018, take a look at our new infographic.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world not only because it's free, but also because it's an open source platform. Anyone with a little bit of skill is welcome to make improvements to the code, as well as tinker with available themes and plugins, and thus adjust them to their own needs and preferences. This is exactly what makes WordPress a great resource for building a website after your own heart. However, it's also what makes it a security risk if not protected properly.
As the biggest CMS platform in the world, WordPress has become the largest target for those who are determined to do damage. This doesn't immediately translate into it being unsecure, although there are those who will go for the kill with that argument. What it means is that while there are risks, as with doing anything really, most of the potential security issues are definitely avoidable on users' side of things or ultimately show to be unpredictable. Here are 5 biggest myths as far as WordPress security is concerned.
Here is a short history of the most revolutionary releases which have made Wordpress famous for its simplicity, user-friendliness and versatility. Those releases were given the names of iconic 20th-century jazz musicians.
That is, you should update. It is strongly recommended, as always. According to WP Core Contributor Aaron Campbell, 4.7.1 is a security release for all previous versions.


If you want the ultimate healthy food, abundantly available, high in protein, low in fat and cholesterol, cheap to produce, then look no further than bugs. We have a mental block when it comes to eating bugs, though. Worms, of course, fall into that category. They are not, strictly speaking, bugs, but I do classify them into the category of foodstuffs that have the 'eww' factor.
When I first heard about something called the 'Diet of Worms', when I was at high school, I did imagine that it was some kind of unpleasant meal. It took me some time to realize that, in fact, a 'diet' was a term for a German legislative assembly and that 'worms' was in fact a city in Germany, pronounced 'Verms'.
The Holy Roman Empire – the material successor to the Western half of the old Roman empire – was inextricably linked with the Papacy and it held vast amounts of territory (pictured in color below). It was the secular imperial wing of the Papacy, if you will. By the sixteenth century, it was being assailed by all sorts of challenges, chief among them the theological awakening which we now call 'The Reformation'.
If there is one person that, in a sense, embodies The Reformation, it is a Roman Catholic monk in Germany called Martin Luther. It is no coincidence that the Reverend Michael King, Sr., decided to change both his own given name, and that of his son, Michael Jr. to 'Martin Luther' in the 1930s.
The sixteenth century Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic monk and professor of theology had, while immersed in Catholicism, become acutely aware of the fact that his mother religion had become bloated, corrupt and detached from the way that God would want it to be. In 1517, exasperated with the situation, he compiled a list of 95 problems that needed to be addressed, and he nailed them to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, where he lived.
This, as you may recall from your history lessons, got him into quite a lot of trouble.
In 1521, Luther was summoned to an imperial tribunal to answer accusations that he was corrupting the Roman Catholic church with his upstart behavior. This tribunal was held in the German city of Worms, and since this is the term given to an imperial tribunal, this was in fact the famous 'Diet of Worms'.
Surrounded by the great and the good of the Roman Catholic church, Martin Luther was asked to give an account of himself. Luther stuck to his guns and refused to back down on his critique of the Roman Catholic church. In the end, he summed up his position in what has become one of the most famous quotes of that entire period of history.
In our first reading today, we have an account of two strong-willed men arrested and brought before the ruling religious authorities of the day. They are accused of breaking the rules of their religion; essentially, of heretical behavior. What was their crime? They had been in the Temple precincts in Jerusalem. Fair enough, they were Jews, after all. And they had seen a man there who had lost the use of his legs. They felt that the right thing to do would be to help this man, and that God would want him to be able to walk again, so they healed him through the power of the Holy Spirit.
This was an unambiguously good and kind thing to do. It made the crippled man very happy, and it enabled him to live life much more to the full.
These two men were Peter and John. We first knew them as disciples of Jesus and, now, after the resurrection, we know them as 'apostles'. 'Apostle' simply means, in Greek, 'one sent out'. In other words, they were people who had heard and seen the good news of Jesus Christ and were now being sent out to spread that good news.
They were still Jews, but they were Jews who had recognized in Jesus the Messiah. Their mission was to change the course of Judaism to accept the reality of Jesus. As we know, they failed in that aim, but they more than succeeded in spreading the good news of Christ. They wanted to reform the Jewish religion to accept this new reality but they found, instead, hostility at every turn.
Fifteen hundred years later, Martin Luther would find exactly the same thing.
I find the parallels between Luther at the Diet of Worms, and Peter and John before the Chief Priest and his associates, strikingly similar, which is why I decided to open this sermon by talking about the Diet of Worms. In particular, I was struck by the manner of inquisition, and the final position taken by Luther: "Here I stand; I can do no other". For me, that seems such a strong parallel to Peter's words to the Sanhedrin (the formal name for the Jewish ruling council that they had been hauled in front of). If Peter had, in fact, said, "Here I stand, I can do no other", we would have found it entirely consistent. Basically, this is what Peter is saying. "We healed this man", he says, "because it was a good and kind thing to do".
This man couldn't walk. And now he can. What's not to like?
If something is clearly and unambiguously good, like restoring health to someone, then it must be from God.
For some reason, the Jewish religious authorities of the time had lost sight of this. Peter and John had not followed all the prescribed rules of Judaism and, to the authorities, this was more important than the fact that something good had been done. Or, to put it another way, fulfilling the letter of the law had become more important than fulfilling the spirit of the law.
For Martin Luther, the same was true. His biggest problem was to do with a practice called 'indulgences'. This was an extraordinary practice, whereby you could, basically, make a payment to the Church and, a bit like a taxable deduction, you would get a reduction in the amount of time you would need to spend in Purgatory. It was a kind of 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. If you didn't have the money to buy your time out of Purgatory, tough luck. Martin Luther saw this as unambiguously wrong. As do we, I hope. If it walks like a duck….
And this is the point, really. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, what it in fact is, is…..
We know (perhaps better than we give ourselves credit for) if something is unambiguously right and good. Similarly, we know if something is unambiguously wrong. There are all sorts of ways in which vested interests, or willful moral blindness, or any number of other things, can stop us recognizing that something is unambiguously good, or not good. Think of something that is good and right, but which we ignore as such. Think of something which we justify but is, if truth be told, contrary to what God would really want.
Let's be like Peter and John and Martin Luther. Prepared to make a stand before the authorities and say, "Here I stand. I can do no other".


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Banishing Rude Behavior on the Internet
Apr 12th, 2012 Leave a comment
Has the Internet brought out the rudeness in people? According to one Christian Science Monitor opinion writer, the answer is decidedly yes.
"We're rude and crass and unthinking on the Internet for the same reason it's easier to blow up people when you're piloting a drone from 6,000 miles away," writes marketing expert and journalist Adam Hanft, who is also the coauthor of "The Dictionary of the Future."
Think, says Hanft, of vicious comments to blogs posted by anonymous posters, trigger-happy senders of email missives, or the rise in cyberbullying by young Internet users.
Psychologists blame our poor online behavior on a condition called "moral disengagement." Put simply – the further we are distanced from our actions, the easier it is to emotionally separate ourselves from those actions, Hanft notes.
Add to this the fact that electronic media opens the door wide to allow minor disturbances to creep into our lives and many of us are primed for a meltdown, says Hanft.
The author makes a call for the rest of us to call out boorish behavior in an effort to introduce social change, much in the way society no longer tolerates pejorative racial and ethnic epithets or inappropriate sexual comments.
"One way for Internet etiquette to become a new kind of normative activity [is] through the ostracism that comes from exhibiting embarrassing bad behavior," argues Hanft.
He also suggests several technological interventions to help solve the rudeness problem by pointing out rude behavior before it occurs and asking us to reflect on our actions before we follow through.
One idea Hanft has would be to develop a "Write and Save" feature as part of an e-mail platform. Users could opt into the feature, which would hold emails for a set period of time before they were released. Another feature would deliver a pop-up message whenever one used an expletive in an email.
We think the author is onto something important. If you agree, vow to show better Internet etiquette today. Remember — every major societal change begins with the smallest of steps.
Having the Last Word
Feb 16th, 2012 Leave a comment
Social media has done much to change the way we live. Now, thanks to a new Facebook app that lets people record their final wishes, it also can affect what happens after we die.
"If I Die" is a new Facebook app that allows individuals to post a final message to their Facebook wall for loved ones to see after they've died – with the help of three carefully selected "trustees" who are entrusted with posting the message.
App users can record videos or write messages to be published posthumously. Upon their death, their messages may be published all at once or released according to a designated schedule.
The app was created by Wilook, an Israeli company led by Eran Alfonta, who says the app responds to a basic human need. "We all have things to say and don't necessarily have the audience with the patience to hear us," Alfonta told the website Mashable. "Actually, we all want to leave something behind. We all want to leave a stamp behind us."
We at Unplug and Reconnect think the app presents a very clever way to say the things we'd like our loved ones to know. But of course, we would argue that it's better to tell our loved ones such important things – like how much they mean to us – while we are still alive.
Game Puts Cell Phone Etiquette to Test
Feb 3rd, 2012 Leave a comment
We have long been proponents of putting away the cell phone at mealtimes. So naturally, we're delighted with a new game making the rounds that challenges diners to put their cell phones away during restaurant meals . . . or else risk picking up the tab for everyone's dinner.
According to "The Atlantic Monthly," the game was developed by a group of friends in San Francisco who were looking for a way to enjoy conversations at dinner without the distraction of others talking and texting on their cell phones.
The rules are as follows:
The game starts after everyone orders
All parties must place their phone on the table face down
The first person to flip over their phone loses the game
The loser picks up the dinner tab
If no one loses, all participants pay for their share of the meal
There are, of course, opportunities for variations on this theme. For meals at home, the loser might be tasked with cleanup duty or have to forfeit the use of his or her cell phone for a set period of time.
Has cell phone usage cut into your mealtimes? Why not make a game of unplugging and reconnecting – it's a fun way to break a not-so-fun habit!
Ringing Phone Halts Symphony Performance
Jan 20th, 2012 Leave a comment
Some people apparently can't live without their smart phones. This was recently proven by an elderly gentlemen whose phone rang and rang . . . and rang, forcing the conductor to halt a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall earlier this month.
Apologizing to 2,700 concertgoers, music director and conductor Alan Gilbert explained: "Usually, when these things occur, we ignore them. But this is such an egregious disturbance that I am forced to stop."
It seems the ringing phone, set to play a Marimba ringtone, was competing with a particularly quiet moment in the emotional 82-minute Mahler work. The phone's owner is said to have sheepishly turned off his phone as fellow concertgoers shouted, "Throw him out!"
Now cell phones are a wonderful convenience, helping to keep us connected with loved ones, friends and colleagues. But as the symphony guest's behavior so egregiously demonstrated, there are times — like at a performance or when sharing a meal with others — when a cell phone should be turned off so that we can tune in to the people and events that are important to us.
Unplugging at the Library
Nov 28th, 2011 Leave a comment
American Libraries, the journal of the American Library Association, recently published a provocative thought piece by two practicing librarians who questioned whether libraries should institute tech-free zones.
What authors Amanda Wakaruk and Marc Truitt had in mind was a network of "safe harbors . . . free of external distractions of computers, cellphones, and social networking tools, allowing sustained focus and contemplation." They referred to these tech-free spaces as "Waldon zones," summoning the image of Thoreau, who withdrew from civilization in order to ponder and reflect upon nature at Waldon Pond.
Even reading rooms are no longer sacrosanct, Wakaruk and Truitt point out. Although these areas are supposed to be quiet zones, anyone who has used a reading room lately is probably all too aware of the intrusive sound of clacking laptop keys or muffled cell phones ringing in the background.
Yet, we at Unplug & Reconnect were heartened to read that there's a trend in which libraries are starting to establish such tech-free zones. The authors point to Stephens College, which recently began requiring students to deposit their cell phones at the door, as one example.
To be sure, we couldn't imagine today's modern libraries without the wondrous technology that makes searching for information so much more efficient (remember the old Dewey Decimal System card cabinets, anyone?). But we think it's a good idea for library patrons to have a quiet place to read and to reflect, as did Thoreau, once they've found the reference material the library's search system helped them to find so effortlessly.
Time will tell whether or not a movement to unplug at the library gains any traction. The idea certainly has our vote.


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Q: Deployments are failing with below MQ related errors in wildfly-19 WE are migrating the application from Jboss & to wildfly 19 , deployments are failing with below MQ related errors . I've no clue about these errors complaining about the library file missing in the server . Can some one assist me on this.
WIldfly-19
Open JDK 8
MQ adapter : wmq.jmsra.rar
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 ] [com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ$3] at:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.loadLib(LocalMQ.java:1244)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.loadLib(LocalMQ.java:1085)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ$1.run(LocalMQ.java:289)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.initialise_inner(LocalMQ.java:281)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.initialise(LocalMQ.java:244)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.<init>(LocalMQ.java:1330)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalServer.<init>(LocalServer.java:206)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getInstance(JmqiEnvironment.java:681)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getMQI(JmqiEnvironment.java:615)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getMQI(JmqiEnvironment.java:525)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.factories.WMQComponent.getImplementationInfo(WMQComponent.java:191)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.commonservices.trace.Trace.getVersion(Trace.java:1994)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.commonservices.trace.Trace.setOn(Trace.java:558)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.services.Trace.setStatus(Trace.java:101)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.connector.services.JCATraceAdapter.enableTrace(JCATraceAdapter.java:237)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 Object ClassLoader = ModuleClassLoader for Module "deployment.wmq.jmsra.rar" from Service Module Loader
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 CurrentThread ClassLoader = ModuleClassLoader for Module "deployment.wmq.jmsra.rar" from Service Module Loader
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001  Cause:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 no mqjbnd in java.library.path [java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError] at:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1860)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:871)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1124)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.loadLib(LocalMQ.java:1206)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.loadLib(LocalMQ.java:1085)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ$1.run(LocalMQ.java:289)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.initialise_inner(LocalMQ.java:281)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.initialise(LocalMQ.java:244)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalMQ.<init>(LocalMQ.java:1330)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.local.LocalServer.<init>(LocalServer.java:206)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getInstance(JmqiEnvironment.java:681)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getMQI(JmqiEnvironment.java:615)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.mq.jmqi.JmqiEnvironment.getMQI(JmqiEnvironment.java:525)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.factories.WMQComponent.getImplementationInfo(WMQComponent.java:191)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001   com.ibm.msg.client.commonservices.trace.Trace.getVersion(Trace.java:1994)
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 Object ClassLoader = null
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.840.00]  0001 CurrentThread ClassLoader = ModuleClassLoader for Module "deployment.wmq.jmsra.rar" from Service Module Loader
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001  @48998340  c.i.m.jmqi.local.LocalServer(LocalMQ)                                    !  loadLib(Adapter)<throwIndex 2>,
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 [CC=2;RC=2495;AMQ8598:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | Failed to load the WebSphere MQ native JNI library: 'mqjbnd'.
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | The JVM attempted to load the platform native library 'mqjbnd',
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | which was mapped to the filename: 'libmqjbnd.so'.
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | When attempting to load the library, the JVM reported the error
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | message:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | 'no mqjbnd in java.library.path'
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | The JVM's bit-size is: '64'
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | The library path which was used to locate this library was:
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | '*** Configured java.library.path **********************************
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |  "/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64"
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |  "/usr/lib64"
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |  "/lib64"
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |  "/lib"
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 |  "/usr/lib"
  [23/03/21 15:53:13.841.00]  0001 | ********************************************************************'

Standalone-full-ha.xml
  <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:resource-adapters:5.0">
        <resource-adapters>
            <resource-adapter id="wmq.jmsra.rar">
                <archive>
                    wmq.jmsra.rar
                </archive>
                <transaction-support>NoTransaction</transaction-support>
                <config-property name="connectionConcurrency">5</config-property>
                <config-property name="reconnectionRetryCount">5</config-property>
                <config-property name="logWriterEnabled">true</config-property>
                <config-property name="startupRetryCount">1</config-property>
                <config-property name="traceEnabled">true</config-property>
                <config-property name="traceLevel">3</config-property>
                <config-property name="maxConnections">25</config-property>
                <config-property name="reconnectionRetryInterval">300000</config-property>
                <connection-definitions>
                    <connection-definition class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl" jndi-name="java:jboss/WMQConnectionFactory" pool-name="WMQConnectionFactory">
                        <config-property name="channel">CL.SC1023AC.TIMS</config-property>
                        <config-property name="hostName">sc1023ac.domain.com</config-property>
                        <config-property name="transportType">Client</config-property>
                        <config-property name="queueManager">SC1023AC</config-property>
                        <config-property name="port">49400</config-property>
                    </connection-definition>
                </connection-definitions>
                <admin-objects>
                    <admin-object class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.MQQueueProxy" jndi-name="java:jboss/queue/PurchaseOrderExportQueue" pool-name="purchaseOrderExport">
                        <config-property name="baseQueueName">RQ.SCCO4234</config-property>
                    </admin-object>


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Q: Why Earth is not a cuboid? There must be some scientific reasons for why earth is a spheroid but what are they? If Earth would be a cuboid, Would it matter?

A: Short version: The Earth is round because it was molten once. It would definitely matter if our planet were a cube, because gravity near the points would be off from "vertical."
Longer version:
Smaller objects in our solar system are indeed more oddly shaped - they often look like a bunch of small blobs stuck together. They slowly build up in size as bits of matter in our solar system collide and stick together (or, more rarely, slam into each other and knock parts off).
Earth formed from a large number of high-velocity collisions between small pieces of matter, creating a central body whose gravity drew in even more matter at higher speeds. These high-speed collisions released a lot of energy, specifically in the form of heat. The mixture of rock and metal that makes up our planet was thus so hot that it was molten.
Because gravity pulls equally in all directions at once, and gravity was the main force shaping our planet, Earth ended up as a sphere - every point on the surface is the same distance from the center and experiences the same gravity. Gravity acts equally at every different angle, so Earth is a shape that looks the same no matter how you rotate it.
As to your second question: If Earth were a cube, remember that gravity would still be pulling toward the center of the cube. If you're in the middle of one of the faces, things would be fairly normal, and gravity would straight down... but if you were near an edge, gravity would pull quite a bit off to the side! Taking a trip to the edge of a face would feel like climbing a mountain.
Notes:
I'm simplifying slightly in all of this:

*

*We're not perfectly a sphere because Earth is also rotating, which gave us a little bulge around the equator.

*Not every point on Earth has exactly the same gravity because of that and because of local variations in the composition of our planet.

*Gravity at the edge of a cube face might not be directly toward the center of the cube; I'd have to do a bit of thinking and math to figure out the exact direction.

I hope that was helpful for you!


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Q: Question about leetcode 217: Contains Duplicate I'm doing the leetcode question #217 : Contains Duplicate.
After checking the answer, I cannot understand some parts of the code. The question is as given below:
Given an integer array nums, return true if any value appears at least twice in the array, and return false if every element is distinct.

Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,3,1]
Output: true

Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: false

The answer is the following:
class Solution:
    def containsDuplicate(self, nums: List[int]) -> bool:
        nums.sort()
        for i in range(0,len(nums)-1):
            if nums[i] == nums[i+1]:
                return True
        return False

The following is my question:
In my understanding, looping through range(0,len(nums)-1) allows us to check and compare characters in num[0:-2], but what about the last two characters?
How can we compare those two characters if we have nums like [2,14,18,22,22].
And for the last two lines, why can't we directly use return False instead of using the if...else... structure?
How is the logic been written here?
Thanks for anyone who can clarify my puzzle!

A: You are comparing the last two elements. When i == len(nums)-2, you compare nums[i] with nums[i+1]. Those are the last two elements.
You don't need if/else. As soon as you find a duplicate, you immediately return from the function. So the only way to get to the end of the loop is if there are no duplicates.

A: Python Solution:
class Solution:
    def containsDuplicate(self, nums: List[int]) -> bool:
        return len(set(nums)) != len(nums)

set() method in python takes parameters like Any iterable sequence like list, tuple, or dictionary and returns an empty set if no element is passed. Non-repeating element iterable modified as passed as argument.
Here, we are checking if the length of the list after iterating equals the length before? If yes implies there is no number repeated.

A: range(start, end, step function work from start, start+1, start+2 ... end-1, where end is exclusive and start is inclusive.
ie for range(0,100,1) it wil go as 0,1,2,3,4,5......96,97,98,99.
if your code you are checking character ith and(i+1)th character. so in at last index ie (len(num)-2), you are checking len(num)-2 and len(num)-1 character which include the last elements.
now why return directly false. it is considering that all element are distinct if the program is reached till this statement. if any duplicate is found then it will be found in the for loop.


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COVID-19 Heroes: Vietnam Veteran 'Does It All' For Team Barksdale
January 12, 2021 | Lisa Ferguson
Barksdale AFB Express Associate Wade Robinson, Jr., center, receives the Hero Award from Col. Mark Dmytryszyn, right, 2nd Bomb Wing commander, and Ellen Henderson, left, AAFES general manager assistant, Dec. 1, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant)
Wade Robinson Jr., a laborer at the Barksdale AFB Express, said he has been "on top of the world" since receiving an Exchange Hero Award during a Dec. 1 ceremony.
The award honors associates who have gone above and beyond to protect the force during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It felt really good to be recognized," Robinson said. During the ceremony, "I was speechless. All I could do was say, `Thank you.'"
Since the pandemic began, Express Store Manager Andera Godwin said, Robinson has "stepped up to make sure that everything is clean and sanitized for shoppers. Anything we ask him to do, he jumps on the task. Whether it's cleaning spills, moving items or building displays, Wade does it all."
Robinson, who served as an Army corporal during the Vietnam War, credits his strong work ethic to lessons learned from his mother, great aunt and uncle. He said he and his sister were raised "to always put forward the effort and do our best."
A self-described "military brat" (his father served in both the Army and Air Force), Robinson recalls shopping at the Exchange when growing up, but did not expect to work at an Exchange store before joining the Barksdale Express team more than five years ago.
"What I like most about my job is the fact that we work together," Robinson said. "We work hand in hand and side by side."
Although it has been a challenging year because of the pandemic, Robinson said he is "thankful to have a job and to be able to come to work every day. It's a blessing."
Wade Robinson, Jr., center, receives the Hero Award from Col. Mark Dmytryszyn, right, 2nd Bomb Wing commander, and Ellen Henderson, left, AAFES general manager assistant, at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Dec. 1, 2020. Robinson was recognized as a do-it-all staff member who has been instrumental to the Barksdale AFB Express at maintaining operations during COVID-19 and to a safe working and shopping environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant)
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Thank you for you comment. Glad you enjoyed the story.
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Cutter Master of the national cricket team Mustafizur Rahman has tied the knot with his maternal uncle's daughter.
The formalities of Mustafiz's wedding completed on Friday at Jagannathpur village of Satkhira district with Rawnaqul Islam Babu's daughter Sadia Parvin Shimu. The 'denmohor' of the marriage was fixed at 5 lakh and one taka.
Earlier with parents and brothers along with other relatives numbering 30 to 32 Mustafiz reached at the house of Bride. He wore a 'sherwani' in the program but did not wear a 'pagri'. After reaching at the wedding house he sat on the stage for bridegroom by walking.
Though Mustafiz did not talk to the newsmen but his elder brother Mahfuzur Rahman Mithu sought blessings from the countrymen for the newlywed couple.
According to the family source, Sadia Parvin Shimu is the first year student of psychology department under Dhaka University. Shimu passed the SSC examination in 2016 under Nalta High School scoring golden A plus and also passed the HSC examination from Sakhipur Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah College of Debhata in 2018 scoring A plus.
Mustafiz's another brother Mukhlesur Rahman Poltu said, the 'akd' was completed in a familial atmosphere but other wedding formalities will be completed after holding the world cup cricket tournament.


2003 saw the start of a major drive to enlist the support of the larger organisations within the food manufacturing, retailing and related industries to help the Society maximise the services it provides to members and to enhance its representation as the "voice of food hygiene". Known as supporting company members, their help and knowledge in their own specific areas of expertise are helping the Society to achieve its goals.
The food retail sector is represented by ASDA, Greggs the Bakers, Morrisons, Tesco, Tate & Lyle Sugars, Panesar Foods, IPL and M&S. Supporting the Society from the service sector are Diversey, Rokill, NSF International, Addmaster, Needlers, ISS Facility Services Ltd, SAI Global, Kiwa, Pal International, Eurofins, NT Assure and Hygiene Improvement Solutions.
Senior representatives from each of these organisations attend meetings every six months. They recognise the key role they have in the development of the Society. Asda have already hosted a major one-day seminars at their head office as part of their commitment to the Society. The role the Society does, and can play, in helping the development in food safety management across the industry has been acknowledged by these companies.
The support of these companies has enabled the Society to run more events, with additional office support both in equipment and personnel; it has run a high-profile publicity campaign; and added to its training portfolio. The focus will be to continually expand the membership base.


Figure 3: HG-wr3.4-FB source for frequency range 220-336 GHz.
The electronically driven source offers a frequency sweep which covers the 220-336 GHz band span. The following building blocks can be seen (from left to right): HG-W-FB sextupler, AM-W-FB wide-band amplifier, and TRI-wr3.4-FB tripler.


When you begin seeking rehabilitation treatment from alcohol addiction, you might come across many ads for programs, set in serene surroundings with stunning views. Although such amenities are good to have, they might come with a heavy price tag. So your focus must be on what is really important: proper licensing, the quality of care involved in the program, staff credentials and follow-up services.
Licensing and program accreditation: Ensure that the treatment program you want to choose is duly accredited by the appropriate authorities in your state. You should also make sure that the program is conducted by licensed, as also fully trained addiction specialists and mental health professionals.
How effective are the methods of treatment: Rehab clinics ought to show relevant statistics on the rates of their success, if possible from a dependable outside agency.
The kinds of aftercare services offered to avert a relapse: A good rehab clinic should have an excellent aftercare program. Ideally, it should provide you with referrals to support groups and other recovery services in the community. Ensure that a member of the staff collaborates with you, in order to initiate a discharge plan, prior to your leaving the program.
Inpatient treatment: This is essentially a residential treatment that involves your living at a rehab center during the intensive treatment. Such a treatment lasts usually for 30 to 90 days.
Partial hospitalization: This program is for those who need continued medical monitoring, although they maintain a stable living condition. Such rehab programs involves visiting the clinic for 3 to 5 days every for 4 to 6 hours each day.
IOP or Intensive outpatient program: Although not a residential treatment, this involves major time commitment. Such programs meet for a minimum of 3 days per week and 2 to 4 hours each day or even more. The emphasis is on relapse prevention. The IOP is generally scheduled around school or work.
Counseling: This works well along with other kinds of treatment or in the form of follow-up support. Therapy will assist you in identifying the core causes of your alcohol abuse, set right your relationships, as also learn improved coping skills.
Sober living: This is usually followed by intensive treatment such as residential treatment. You live together with many other recovering addicts and alcoholics in a supportive alcohol free environment. This program is useful if you are worried that going back home might end in relapse.
Brief intervention: This is designed for people who are at risk of alcoholism or alcohol addiction. This requires a number of visits to a good healthcare professional in order to discuss the detrimental effects of addiction to alcohol, as also plan a strategy for cutting back.
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Murray and his five brothers make tentative plans to open the bar inside Rosemont's Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Harold Ramis' wildly popular 1980 comedy film "Caddyshack," about the comical mishaps at an upscale country club, lives on in the popular imagination, especially Bill Murray's Carl Spackler character, a greenskeeper with a plot to destroy a meddling gopher. In the years since its release, Murray and his brothers opened a "Caddyshack"-themed restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida in 2001, and now they plan to open a second location in Rosemont, Illinois, just north of the city of Chicago.
Murray is best known for starring in a string of successful comedies in the 1980s, like "Stripes," "Ghostbusters" and "Scrooged," as well as his frequent appearances in Wes Anderson's filmography. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for his performance in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation." This year, he voiced the character of Baloo in the live-action/CGI version of "The Jungle Book" as well as making a cameo in the "Ghostbusters" reboot.


The D-21 Drone is an unmanned vehicle that was launched from the top of the M-21 Blackbird (#60-6940/#60-6941) as well as from the B-52H Stratofortress and was not used extensively. The drones were put into storage until they eventually found their way into museums. There were 38 drones produced and several were lost due to launch. The drones featured in this gallery currently include the D-21Bs at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, Beale AFB, Pima Air and Space Museum, Blackbird Airpark, the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and the Museum of Aviation.
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Extreme Scale Transaction Processing
Ripple: The Most (Demonstrably) Scalable Blockchain
Blockchain technology such as Ripple's XRP Ledger is signalling a fundamental transformation to the world's financial systems. The XRP Ledger is suitable for real-world payment workloads, in real time. After describing the contrast in technologies between Ripple's and legacy payments systems, this document will describe how Ripple's capacity was tested.
In production since January 1, 2013, the XRP Ledger has been transferring value between many cryptocurrencies worldwide at next-to-no cost and within just a few seconds. Further, the technology has been tested to support 1500 per second with machines spread across the globe.
The XRP Ledger shares the fundamental attributes of traditional core payments systems—after all, the basic requirements for electronic transaction processing have been well understood for decades. All transactions exhibit ACID properties. All operations are written synchronously to multiple sites to protect against site failure. Software upgrades and all maintenance activities happen without service disruption. In fact, the network has had no downtime throughout 2016 and to date in 2017, as well as no hacks! Ripple has implemented these features to the ledger in a radically different way than other existing payments systems to make it faster, cheaper, and easier to send money worldwide, setting it apart from other blockchain networks in the market.
Legacy payment networks are powered by proprietary software running on very specialized and expensive hardware, such as mainframe systems. Processing in these legacy networks usually happens within a primary site with transaction data replicated to a secondary facility. There are a few challenges with this: site failover is error-prone; operational procedures are complex; And legacy payment networks are centralized and extremely expensive to build and operate. Moreover, there is a patchwork of closed, expensive networks built on old technologies spanning the globe, which contributes to high cost per transaction and slow delivery times -often costing several dollars and taking many days to move funds between nations. For domestic transactions, this cost is hidden from consumers. But credit card transactions often cost merchants at least 2% per transaction, and the amount of time taken for the merchant to get their money can take days.
In contrast, rippled, the open source reference implementation of the Ripple Transaction Protocol, runs on commodity x86_64 hardware platforms. rippled nodes worldwide share all transaction data in real time and processing happens on all nodes concurrently. There are few operational requirements beyond providing sufficient hardware and network capacity. Transaction costs are paid with a digital asset called XRP and Ripple transactions usually cost the equivalent of less than one US penny. The Ripple Network does for money what the Internet does for information: makes it easy and instant to transfer. The XRP Ledger is the most scalable blockchain-based payments system and its performance rivals that of legacy providers.
Benchmark Environment
Ripple is a peer-to-peer network that implements the Ripple Protocol. Every peer independently processes transactions submitted to the network. Each node relies on a set of trusted peers, called "validators", for determining the status of the official ledger. Funds are transferred by way of submitting transactions which are then applied to the ledger. The goal of the testing described in this document was to determine the maximum throughput of a set of validator nodes.
Not all rippled nodes are validators. Some of them expose a RESTful server interface to clients for submitting transactions to the network (client handlers) and for retrieving historical data. The benchmark environment was comprised of both validating nodes and client handlers as are present in the live network. In addition, a dedicated host was used to generate test load.
Two separate environments were used to measure the XRP Ledger's throughput. These environments were both distinct from the live network. One environment tested geographically decentralized validators, and the other environment used validators within a single datacenter. These environments were both based on bare metal x86_64 servers running Centos7 Linux. All nodes ran rippled version 0.80.0-b1. These environments used faster hardware than the current production network. There is a project to migrate the production network to upgrade the hardware and to match the quantity and geographic distribution of the former test environment. Once this project completes, the performance capabilities described of the live network will be equivalent to those described in this document.
Each server in the test environment had the following specifications:
1 x Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 3.5GHz CPU. 4 cores and hyperthreading enabled.
2 x Gigabit Ethernet adapters. One adaptor used for public traffic and one adaptor used for private traffic.
1GB mirrored internal SSD storage.
For the geographically decentralized environment, there were 16 validators comprised of four hosts in each of four continents: North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. All 4 client handlers and the test driver were located in North America.
Two different topologies were tested:
Geographically decentralized: All 20 rippled hosts were configured with the same set of 16 trusted validators. The client handlers and test driver host were in a separate location in North America from the 4 sets of validators.
Single location: There were 5 trusted validators in the same location as the 4 client handlers and test driver.
Workload and Criteria
The workload consisted of sending payments of XRP between 5,000 accounts. Each second, a fixed number of transactions were submitted with a random sender giving 5 millionths of one XRP to a random receiver. This rate was sustained for twenty minutes. This workload was generated with a custom benchmark harness tool developed by Ripple. XRP is the native currency of the XRP Ledger: each transaction consumes a small amount of XRP as an anti-spam measure. Further, XRP can be used as a bridge currency to facilitate trades between any other asset types represented on the network.
Each test run was aborted by the benchmark software once either of 2 criteria failed:
Ledger stability: The Ripple ledger updates roughly every 4 seconds. The amount of latency for a specific transaction is measured by the time from submission to the time of its inclusion in a new version of the ledger. Success criteria for this testing was such that the ledger would never take more than 30 seconds for an update.
Transaction completion: If over 50% of transactions submitted within just over a minute had failed to complete, then the test aborted.
Transaction volume was ramped up iteratively until these criteria failed. There was a ramp-up period of 10 minutes where transaction volume increased linearly from 0 to 800 transactions to second. Then, each phase ran for 20 minutes before stepping up an additional 100 per second. This continued until failure of one of the above criteria.
The following table describes average latency for transactions at varying input rates and according to the two tested topologies. Input rate is in transactions per second. Latency is measured in seconds.
Rate (/s) Decentralized Latency (s) Single Site Latency (s)
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Decentralized Latency (s)
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The decentralized topology was stable for 20 minutes with up until and including 1300 transactions per second. The network ceased supporting the workload with 1400/s. Average latency from during ramp-up all the way to 1300/s varied from 7 seconds to just under 10. The single-site network had slightly better maximum throughput with 1500/s sustained for 20 minutes, but could not sustain 1600/s. Transaction latencies were very similar with both topologies for rates up until and including 1300/s. However, for the single site, transaction latencies increased noticeably beyond that point. In both cases, the network sustained well over 1000 transactions per second while remaining stable.
These results are based on a network comprised of the hardware type listed above. Nodes with slower hardware will likely sustain less traffic.
Ripple's tested throughput is in the range of capability of SWIFT, the legacy international payments provider. They recently had a peak traffic day of just over 30,000,000 messages. That averages about 347 per second. Neither their peak seconds nor tested throughput have been reported publicly. But the Ripple Consensus Ledger's 1000+ transactions per second capability puts it squarely in the running for the ability to handle the biggest international payment workloads.


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I have trying to Loop through each JSONElement to add all of the Values together to receive a Total which I have called 'gross_total'
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Using the Breakpoints, I have discovered that the 'gross' gets a value from the 1st JSONElement of 3.4 which is great, however when it tried to use the decimalNumberByAdding function to accumulate 'gross_total' the value is NOT Passed to 'gross_total'.
I cant see what I am doing wrong, and would love some help ?

A: NSDecimalNumber is an object. You cannot declare it by simply assigning a literal scalar number.
A NSDecimalNumber with a value of zero can be declared
NSDecimalNumber *gross_total = [NSDecimalNumber zero];


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HSMWorks was a Solidworks Gold Partner before the acquisition was announced, and Dassault Systemes has pulled this certification since then. Autodesk is and will continue to support Solidworks users and has released HSMWorks 2014 for Solidworks.
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