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The Third vision "In Heaven"
Commentary on Revelation — E.W. Bullinger
H3, xi.15-19-.
THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET.
The Seventh Trumpet brings us back to Heaven and to the Third Vision seen there by John. For it is "in heaven" that the Trumpet is sounded.
After it is sounded, we again hear the heavenly utterances which tell us of the design of this sounding. In xix.1-16, heavenly voices again tell us of the completion of its effect. After it is sounded, and its object unfolded, there is a break; and an episode occupying chaps. xii., xiii. and xiv.; the effects of the sounding not being resumed till chap. xvi.1, and occupying chaps. xvi., xvii., xviii.
The Seventh Trumpet thus embraces the whole of the seven Vials, or last seven plagues, which make up the "Third Woe."
The Seventh Trumpet, therefore, really reaches from chap. xi.15 to xviii.24, or even to xx.5, for it takes in the whole of the remaining judgments, and consists of the remaining five pairs of Visions "in heaven" and "on earth," and occupies about one half of the whole Apocalypse. This shows us the importance of the Scripture on which we are now about to enter. It tells us also why the heavenly utterances, which follow on its sounding, anticipate the end, including the setting up of the throne of earthly dominion, the raising of the dead, "small and great," and the final judgment. All is anticipated by these heavenly voices, which are answered by the concluding utterances of chap. xix. in the seventh and final Heavenly Vision.
In chap. xi.7, the mighty angel declared that "in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall sound, the secret of God should be finished": i.e., that it will be finished during the days covered by his sounding (embracing, as we have seen, the whole of the seven Vials, and bringing us down to xx.15). The whole of God's secret purposes, the details of which were known only to Himself, will be accomplished.
The whole of this great division, therefore, opens with the small section (xi.15-19-), concerning the acts of sounding the Seventh Trumpet. The structure is as follows: --
H^3, chap. xi.15-19-.
THE THIRD VISION "IN HEAVEN."
The Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. (3rd WOE)
H^3 A xi.15-. The sounding of the Seventh Trumpet in heaven. B a -15-. Loud voices in heaven.
b -15. Their utterance.
B a 16. The 24 Elders.
b 17, 18. Their utterance.
A 19-. The opening of God's Temple in heaven.
xi.15. And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and there were loud voices in heaven;] Each seventh Seal, Trumpet and Vial is marked off from the preceding six by unmistakable signs, sufficient to show us that they are resumptive rather than continuous. Each going over the same ground to give particulars not contained in the others, bringing us to a crisis; and giving the other events in the corresponding period, but from a different point of view.
This is called the "seventh" Trumpet, and it is the "last" of this special series. But it does not follow there will be none after: or, that a trumpet sounding before it may not also be called the "last," relatively to another subject. In 1 Cor. xv.51, 52, we read of "the last trumpet: for a trumpet shall sound." In 1 Thess. iv.16, we read that the Lord "shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel's voice, and with the trump of God." This is the "last" Trumpet as regards the church of God, but not the last absolutely. It will be sounded long before these judgments begin, in order to raise His sleeping saints, and take them up with the living saints, to be with Him for ever. There will be another great trumpet after the great Tribulation, immediately connected with the Lord's Apocalypse. See Matt. xxiv.31. This is subsequent to this "seventh Trumpet," for that Apocalypse is recorded in Rev. xix. So that the seventh Trumpet in Rev. xi.15 is not the "last Trump," absolutely, but only relatively; for it is only the last of this series of seven. Moreover, this is neither called "the last": nor is it necessary for us to call it. The Trump in 1 Cor. xv.51, 52, is called the "last" with reference to the church of God. It is the Trump which shall close our connection with the earth; it will end up all longing expectation, and therefore there is a true sense in which it is our last Trump.
The Trump of 1 Cor. xv.51, 51, is the same that is mentioned in 1 Thess. iv.16. We have had so many positive proofs that these "Seven Trumpets" belong to another Dispensation altogether, that we cannot read this into our "calling on high" (Phil. iii.14), where no trump at all is even mentioned, and confuse it with the trumpet which shall bring on the last of God's plagues and end up His judgment of the earth.
The sounding of this Trumpet produces great activity and stir in Heaven, where it is sounded. It is nothing less than the proclamation of the coming Coronation of earth's rightful king (compare 2 Sam. xv.10, 1 Kings i.39). It is the signal that, at length, the hour has come to herald the glorious news of the setting up and establishing of God's kingdom on earth. It is the announcement that the prayer of the ages -- "Thy kingdom come" -- is about to receive its wondrous answer. For this is the subject of the loud voices in heaven.
saying "The sovereignty [245] of the world is become the sovereignty [246] of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." (Ex. xv.18. Ps. x.16. Dan. ii.44; vii.14).
The whole subject is one of sovereignty. This is the whole matter which has been in question. And this question is now about to be settled by these final judgments of the seven Vials. The result is celebrated in this Vision "in heaven" by anticipation. It looks forward to the close of the whole book of Revelation. It is not till the events of chap. xx. have taken place that this change of sovereignty is consummated. "The kingdoms of the world" are represented as wild beasts, knowing no master and having no owner. This is God's view of all earthly governments. Government in the world, committed, for the present, to man, has never yet been exercised for God. Not only is His sovereignty not recognised, but even His suzerainty is rejected. It is folly to talk about "Christian kingdoms" or "Christian nations;" and it is worse than folly for ministers of the Gospel to occupy themselves with the taming of these wild beasts, instead of warning all of the coming judgments, which will destroy them altogether; and meantime witnessing of the "grace of God" to lost and helpless sinners. We are not referring to any lawful acts which we may do (as it were, in passing) to improve the condition of things, or to remove crying evils; but we are speaking of laying ourselves out for these things and making them our great aim; and especially of ministers of the Gospel so doing. What is wanted is, not a "Citizen Sunday," but a Sunday for God, when men will be told of what God's verdict is on all these things; of what His remedy for them is; and of what means He is going to take to set right all that is so wrong. A Sunday when men will be told that there can be no Millennium without Christ; and that there is no hope for the world until it comes under the direct sovereignty of God and of His Anointed.
The very laws which God gave on Sinai, and the Divine Ritual of the Tabernacle and the Temple did not keep Israel from Religious Apostasy and political ruin. It ought therefore to be perfectly clear that there is no hope for the world in human laws or religions.
Righteous government is the one great want of the whole world. The obtaining of this is the mighty spring of all political movements for Reform; and of all national conspiracies, and revolutions. It is this that give Anarchists the motive for their crimes. But man does not know or see (and there are so few to tell him) that there can be no righteous government for the world until the Righteous one shall come "whose right it is" (Ezek. xxi.27) to rule in righteousness: and no peace for the earth until the Prince of Peace, whom man hath foully murdered, shall return to establish it. When he came, His object was angelically heralded as "Peace on earth" (Luke ii.14); but when He had been rejected, His disciples knew there could be no "peace on earth" while the blood of the Prince of Peace cried for vengeance, and hence they sang of "peace in heaven" (Luke xix.38). That is where our peace now is (Eph. ii.14-17); and peace is now preached to sinners and rebels.
All this, and more, is involved in this heavenly utterance. The coming kingdom is not "from this world" (John xviii.36). It is not "from hence." It comes from heaven, and from thence we look for the coming King. Here will be the fulfilment of the second Psalm and many other similar scriptures.
To the general utterance of the loud voices is added the special utterance of the twenty-four elders, which fills out the former with the details embraced in it.
16. And the twenty-four elders, who, in the presence of God sit upon their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, (17) saying,
"We give thanks to thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, [247] because thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned. (18) And the nations were wroth (Ps. ii.1; xlvi.6), and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name (i.e., Thee), the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth"]
There are seven things here celebrated by anticipation. And the seven is divided into four and three. The last three are marked off by their belonging to the special appointed season in which they are to take place. The first four relate to four actions on the part of God, and their effects.
The first act of taking His power is seen in the seven Vials (chap. xv.8), where the temple is filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power. The wrath of the nations, and of God, are both mentioned in Ps. ii.1, 5. In connection with this we may read many of the Psalms, which are proleptic, and therefore in like manner celebrate by anticipation: e.g., Ps. xciii. -- xcix., Ps. lvii., and others, which ought all to be read carefully through with reference to the particular time referred to in this utterance of the twenty-four elders. There are other Scriptures which refer to this time of wrath. Read Isa. xxvi.20, 21 (RV.): --
"Come, my People, enter thou into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors about thee,
Hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast: For behold, the Lord cometh forth out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: The earth also shall disclose her blood,
And shall no more cover her slain."
(So, Isa. xxiv.17-21; xxx.27, 28, 30-33. Ezek. xxxviii.16-23. Zeph. i.2, 3, 14-16; iii.8).
In these judgments, under the seventh Trumpet, amendment or repentance is no longer looked for. All is wrath and vengeance. Jehovah at length replies to the reiterated cry of his people: "Arise, O God" Ps. iii.7; vii.6; xliv.26. The time has come when the appeal of Ps. lxviii.1-3, &c., shall be answered:
"Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered:
Let them also that hate him, flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
As wax melteth before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice."
The last two great Witnesses of God will have finished their testimony, attested by miraculous evidences. Now, all further testimony is to be withdrawn, and vengeance is to take its course.
The last three statements of the Elders' utterance relate to the appointed season ((...), kairos), which has come for their fulfilment.
(1) "The time of the dead to be judged." This connects, therefore, the events of chapter xx. with the sounding of this Trumpet (see xx.12, 13). Resurrection also is included, for the dead, "small and great," stand then before God for this judgment. Here we have more than mere avengement of the martyrs; or, righteous government.
(2) To give the Reward (a) "to thy servants the prophets," as stated in chap. x.7 (compare 2 Kings ix.7). We have the same phrase in Dan. ix.6, 10, as well as in 2 Kings xvii.13, 23; xxi.10; xxiv.2, &c. The Old Testament prophets have a pre-eminent place in the coming kingdom (not in the Church of God). See Luke xiii.28. Matt. v.10-12.
(3) "And to the saints." This is a special term for the Old Testament saints, and is not to be confused with the usage of the word in the Pauline sense, where it is applied to the members of the Body of Christ; or with angels, or whom the word is also used in such passages as Deut. xxxiii.2. In Ex. xxii.31 it is used of holy men under the Law, as also in Ps. xvi.3; xxx.4; xxxi.23; xxxiv.9; l.5.
The "saints" here are those spoken of in Daniel vii.18: "the saints shall take the kingdom" (see verses 22, 27). These are the "saints" against whom the Wild Beast will "make war" (Dan. vii.21, 25). These are the "elect" of Matt. xxiv.31; Luke xviii.7; and the "saints" elsewhere spoken of in the Apocalypse. (See xiii.7, 10; xiv.12; xv.3; xvi.6; xvii.6; xviii.24; xix.8; xx.9). These have their reward under this seventh Trumpet, and we see it actually bestowed on them in chap. xx.4. This is the reward referred to in the Gospels, in such passages as Matt. x.41, 42; xvi.27; xxv.34. Rev. ii.23; xxii.12.
(c) "Them that fear Thy name, the small and the great." Note, that the Elders do not say "us." They again distinguish themselves from human beings. It was the special character of saints under the Law, to fear the Lord. See Josh. xxiv.14.1 Sam. xii.24. Ps. xxxiv.9. But the words here probably include Gentiles (as distinct from Israel, who, as the "holy nation," are called "saints").
They are so distinguished in Ps. cxv., where we have first "Israel" (verse 9); then the "house of Aaron" (verse 10); then "ye that fear the Lord" (verse 11). Then in verse 13: "He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great."
The seventh Trumpet includes as its last object:
(3) "to destroy them that destroy the earth." This involves the destruction of Babylon, and of those who worship the Beast and receive his mark. It would also include the great destruction of the armies of Satan and the rebels who join it, in Rev. xx.9. (Compare Isa. xxiv.21).
With the destruction of these God's judgments end, and the "mystery (or secret) of God is finished" (x.7), as well as "the mystery of Iniquity."
This third vision "in heaven" closes with the words:
xi.19. and the temple (Naos) of God which is in heaven was opened, [248] and there was seen the ark of his covenant in his temple:] We have already seen that heaven is a place of grand and glorious realities; and not a place of airy nothings, as popular theology pictures it. There is a heavenly Temple, and heavenly worship, and a heavenly priesthood, on the pattern of which the earthly was modelled (See Ex. xxv.40. Heb. ix.23).
The Apocalypse is the book of unveiling and of opening. Seven great openings characterise it.
In iv.1: A Door is opened in heaven.
In vi.1-9: The Seals are opened.
In ix.2: The Abyss is opened.
In xi.19: The Temple of God is opened.
In xv.5: The Tabernacle of Testimony is opened.
In xix.11: The Heaven is opened.
In xx.12: The Books of judgment are opened.
The opening of the Heavenly Temple discloses the Ark of the Covenant, and speaks of the Covenant-keeping God redeeming His pledges of blessing to His People; and tells of judgment on His enemies.
It is from this Temple that the judgments which follow, proceed forth (xiv.15, 17; xv.5, &c.; xvi.17).
This tells us that those judgments have respect to the restoration of His People Israel, and of the fulfilment of all His covenant promises, concerning the Land (Gen. xv.) and the throne (2 Sam. vii.), which were unconditional and therefore certain and sure. The Ark of the Old Covenant was concealed: this is revealed, and it is displayed as a token of Israel's salvation and of their enemies' destruction. The "secret" of God is finished (x.7) because the Temple is laid open, and the Ark revealed.
The Ark of the Old Covenant had stood closely connected with the Tabernacle and Moses; with the Land and Joshua; with the Kingdom and David; and with the Temple and Solomon. All are united here in connection with this Heavenly Ark of which the Earthly Ark was only a copy and a figure.
Under this covenant is at length to be fulfilled all that was announced in the Song of Zacharias (Luke i.68-79); but which, owning to Christ's rejection, has been since in abeyance:
A "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel:
For He hath visited and redeemed His people,
B And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David;
C As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, Which have been since the world began:
D That we should be saved from our enemies,
And from the hand of all that hate us;
E To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;
E The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
D That he would grant unto us, that we being
delivered out of the hand of our enemies
Might serve him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the
days of our life,
C And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest;
For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to
prepare his ways;
B To give knowledge of salvation unto his people By the remission of their sins,
A Through the tender mercy of our God;
Whereby the Day-spring from on high hat visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death
To guide our feet into the way of peace."
The words printed in thicker type show us the great subject of each member. They may be more clearly seen if presented thus:
A 68. The visitation of God.
B 69. Its subject: Salvation raised up.
C 70. Foretold: by all His Prophets.
D 71. Its result: Destruction of Enemies.
E 72. Its basis: The Covenant.
E 73. Its basis: The Oath.
D 74, 75. Its result: Worship of Delivered
Ones.
C 76. Fulfilled: The Fore-running prophet.
B 77. Its object: Salvation known.
A 78, 79. The Visitation of Christ.
Thus, beautifully, has God the Holy Ghost emphasised for us what is included in His Covenant, of which the manifestation of the Ark of His Covenant, seen in His opened Temple in heaven, is at once the token and assurance. The revelation of the Ark of the Covenant is at once answered on earth by signs which betoken its meaning for the earth.
That we reach a great crisis here, is evident. It anticipates the end, including the judgment of the great white throne in chap. xx. This Third Vision in heaven is followed by a Third Vision on earth, which fitly answers it. Before all that it involves and includes is fulfilled, we are taken back to the foundation of the world, in order to have various matters explained to us; and we are shown how the End is connected with the Beginning; and what the great Crisis really means.
This is why the Third Vision in Heaven is so solemn in its anticipation; and this is why the Third Vision on Earth is so brief in its response.
[245] G.L.T.Tr.A. WH. and RV. read singular instead of plural.
[246] or "is become our Lord's and His Anointed's."
[247] G.L.T.Tr.A. WH. and RV. omit "and art to come." The text was altered here by some later scribe to make it agree with i. 4, 8 and iv. 8. But here the actual coming is celebrated, and therefore it forms no part of the original Text.
[248] So L.T.Tr. WH. RV. add (...) (ho), which makes the Text read as above, and not as in the AV.


Choosing Truth Ministries is a multi-denominational resource ministry with an outreach to all Christian denominations. We operate within guidelines, counsel and prayer covering provided by several support ministries under pastoral authority who are assisting to bring freedom to the Church.
Our primary focus deals with Freemasonry and how to obtain freedom from the effects of Freemasonry. This includes the individual, the family and the Church. How the generational curse brings about destruction due to its occult heritage and Luciferian worship. God's Word says that there is a 'curse to the 3rd and 4th generations.' In looking at what this curse looks like we see why it destroys church unity to hinder the Gospel by placing itself as a barrier to God in our Church bodies.
To help facilitate freedom in this area, in accordance with Ephesians 5:11, "Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them." Choosing Truth Ministries will endeavor to make contact with every Christian Church. This will be accomplished through use of the Internet, assistance from other ministries and by those in all levels of Church authority seeking freedom for their Churches.
Choosing Truth Ministries offers the audiotape – Freedom from Deception, as well as a list of materials and resources and contact information on other like ministries.
We have added audio files to our site and will be adding more as they come in. The first is a testimony from an ex-Mason and an interview that another like ministry did a few years ago. We have also added a testimony page and will be adding to that as well.
We have our Booth Presentation available for viewing for those who are interested in having Choosing Truth Ministries come and set up and speak/teach. We would need a space for an 8' x 2' table and an electrical outlet for video and an overhead projector.


Note that what follows relates only to vehicles arriving at Brisbane (Queensland) in early 2010. Other states and territories can be significantly different.
There seem to be two schools of thought about the best way of getting your vehicle out of the clutches of the port and onto the road. You can deal with the port authorities, customs, AQIS and the vehicle cleaning companies yourself or you can pay an agent to do it for you.
We used Kuehne + Nagel as our agent (Recommended). We contacted their Brisbane office before Man was shipped and nominated them as our receiving agent with Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (our shipping company). As soon as we received our electronic Bill of Lading (Sea Waybill) we forwarded this to Kuehne + Nagel. On our arrival in Brisbane Kuehne + Nagel's representative (Colin Brame) called at our hotel to collect our Carnet (which was returned two days later when Man had cleared customs).
Customs did not query any of the equipment or spare parts within Man , neither did they question the value of Man on the Carnet.
Colin sent us text (SMS) updates on Man's progress (or lack of it) during the next five days.
As we had been warned it was AQIS, not customs, that proved difficult. In spite of 130 hours of cleaning AQIS were not satisfied and required that a section of the chassis rail be re-cleaned. This had to be done by an approved cleaning company within the docks. Man had be transported (not driven) between AQIS and the cleaning company. If you use an agent they will take care of these arrangements and make all the payments for you.
It is worth noting that AQIS inspected Man very thoroughly, unpacking all the equipment, tools and spare parts.
One thing you must get sorted out before you take delivery of your vehicle is insurance.
Australian vehicle insurance is significantly different from most European insurance. You will probably end up with two insurance policies.
In Australia you must have Compulsory Third Party Insurance (always called CTP). CTP covers personal injury to everyone other than the driver at fault. Note that it does not cover damage to third party property, and is thus considerably more restrictive than normal UK third party insurance.
CTP is sold by half a dozen insurance companies. The cost for 12 months insurance of a campervan (in 2010) is $347.00Aus (about €234.00). You can phone up most of the companies, give your vehicle details (including your VIN number rather than your registration number), pay by credit card and have your certificate sent to you by email or fax within a few minutes. We used SunCorp and had the insurance certificate printed out by our hotel. Note that although the owner's name is on the CTP certificate, we are assured that it covers all drivers of the vehicle.
After all this paperwork has been accepted you can phone and make payment by credit card.
Another thing you can at least get started with before you get your vehicle is your Overseas Vehicle Permit .
Before you can drive your vehicle on Queensland's roads you need to get an Overseas Vehicle Permit . You get this document from a suitable Queensland Government Customer Service Centre. You need a centre that is able to deal with motorhomes (most of them only deal with cars). After calling the vehicle registration help line (132380) we eventually found someone who seemed to know a little about registering overseas vehicles and she sent us to the centre at Chermside. Luckily we first went there by taxi, rather than wait for Man to be released.
The Chermside centre was efficient and helpful. Although the person we dealt with had never heard of an Overseas Vehicle Permit she found the documentation on her system and worked her way thru the required documents (passport, stamped Carnet, UK registration and CTP). However she then came to the inspection requirement and told us Chermside was unable to inspect anything larger than a car. So she sent us on to Zillmere (69 Pineapple St., Zillmere, Qld 4034).
The Zillmere centre was equally efficient and helpful, but again had no experience of issuing Overseas Vehicle Permits. After consulting their system they also asked for, and copied our passport, stamped Carnet, UK registration, driving licence and CTP. They also confirmed that the vehicle must be inspected at the adjacent inspection centre. It was not necessary to make an appointment, just turn up and drive in between 08:30 to 16:30. But there was one problem. We were told Man had to be transported to Zillmere, it could not be driven there!
A phone call to Colin was all that was needed to arrange this!
In summery: Man arrived on Saturday. Colin collected our Carnet and a full set of keys at 09:00 on Monday and Man was delivered to us at Zillmere on a transporter at 09:30 on Friday.
With all the paperwork already completed it took just an hour for Man to be inspected (only lights, seat belts, windscreen wipers) and for the VIN and engine numbers to be checked.
We were then free to drive to the excellent nearby camp site (Big4 Brisbane Northside Caravan Village - S27.35579 E153.01969) and start re-stocking Man for our Australian adventure to begin.


This July 20, 2011, photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows Pacific walruses resting on an ice flow in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska.
Pacific walrus males grow to 12 feet long and up to 4,000 pounds — more than an average midsize sedan. Females reach half that weight. Walruses dive and use sensitive whiskers to find clams and snails in dim light on the sea floor.
This Aug. 30, 2018 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows hundreds of Pacific walruses gathered together on a barrier island in Alaska.
Since 1981, an area more than double the size of Texas — 610,000 square miles — has become unavailable to Arctic marine mammals by summer's end, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Winter at the top of the world wimped out this year.


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NOW & THEN: 2016 & 2017 rocked with votes for women events, NEWS, and observances!
Marguerite Kearns March 3, 2019
2016 had lots of events and celebrations for women's suffrage history! on Vimeo.
Now and then. Here at Suffrage Wagon News Channel during Women's History Month (March), we're honoring the past and the present, with our eye on the future. The year, 2017, was busy as well. That's when New York State commemorated its 100 years of women voting. One book that's part of our library is the Votes for Women catalog commemorating New York State's role in being the "cradle" of the women's rights movement in the US. Here are some highlights—
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"Choose it and Use it" is a video reminding us of how the past is linked to what we do today and its impact on the future.
Get a copy of the NYS Museum publication featuring the "Spirit of 1776" suffrage wagon from SUNY Press.
The "Spirit of 1776" campaign suffrage wagon will be on exhibit in 2020 at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. We'll keep you posted about exhibition information. SuffrageWagon.org
Image: From the catalog, Votes for Women, Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial. By Jennifer A. Lemak and Ashley Hopkins-Benton, 2017. SUNY Press.
A great gift for special occasions and holidays.
Audio: Reading from 1915 book about being the husband of a suffragette
MARCH is a good month for writers! Greetings for Women's History Month!. . .

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The Socialist Labour Network: A Step Forward for the Left
Consistent Democrats Uncategorized February 9, 2022 February 9, 2022 14 Minutes
On 14th January the inaugural meeting of the Socialist Labour Network took place, in a virtual meeting online on Zoom, which allowed attendance from all over the country and indeed from as far afield as Australia. The SLN is the name that was chosen by the membership of the unifying group at the meeting in a democratic vote, in which many possibilities were put forward. The 140-or-so attendees also voted to elect a new steering committee, as expected.
The new organisation represents a merger of Labour Against the Witchhunt (LAW) with the Labour In Exile Network (LIEN). This was simply a logical progression, as the Starmer leadership had proscribed both organisations (along with the Resistance Movement founded by Chris Williamson) as their campaign against the left grew more and more frenzied last year. It is not even possible to campaign openly against the witchhunt in Labour due to its domination by far-right Zionist racists, led by Starmer: therefore, the perspective of running a network of expelled and driven-out Labour ex-members (and others) won out over the idea of pretending to be able to propagandise 'against the witchhunt' within Labour when the leadership no longer permits such advocacy. In this situation the only realistic way to punish Starmer and his cohorts is through external war against them, supplemented by internal guerilla actions when possible.
There are plenty of grounds for socialists and anti-racists to wage a public war against Starmer. He has conspicuously abandoned virtually every mendacious promise he made to get elected, lyingly claiming to be for 'unity' with the supporters of Corbyn, including promises to demand nationalization of privatised utility companies, promises to increase taxes on the wealthy, reversing cuts to corporation tax, to repeal anti-Union laws (not even all of Thatcher's laws but just the most recent), all of which have been junked. They were mild social-democratic reformism in any case, but in a neoliberal Tory Party mark 2, they are no-nos.
Instead of this, Starmer has launched the biggest war against the party's left in its entire history, targeting for expulsion not merely small groups of 'Trotksyists' and the like but the mainstream Labour left, all the way to Jeremy Corbyn himself, who has been effectively expelled from the PLP as a way to try to stop him from standing for parliament in the next election. Coupled with this, Starmer has elevated Jewish and white supremacists above oppressed ethnic minorities in his supposedly 'anti-racist' party, creating a hostile environment for blacks and Muslims, left-wing Jews and indeed anyone who is not prepared to grovel to the far-right racists and 'former' Israeli intelligence operatives and paid advocates such as Ashraf Kaplan, Luke Akehurst and Wes Streeting who now have a commanding role in Labour.
The 'Labour' leader has publicly stated his support for Zionism "without qualification" – that is, for the ideology of violent Jewish racists who expelled three quarters of the Palestinian Arab civilian population from their homeland in the 1948 war. This was accompanied by massacres such as Deir Yassin and Tantura, where Zionist troops have now admitted to murdering many Arab civilians and burying them in a mass grave on a beach, after decades of denial and smearing of those who said that a massacre took place at all. To Starmer and his handlers/minions, for members to raise such things is simply an opportunity for Starmer to throw them out with the increasingly bizarre and discredited accusation of 'anti-Semitism'.
Labour Against the Witchhunt was a prominent and quite prestigious campaigning body that was founded at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018 in the context of accelerating purges of prominent left-wing Labour members, such as Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Tony Greenstein, and many more, whom the Corbyn leadership refused to defend in a politically cowardly appeasement of Zionists, despite Corbyn's previous long history of often outspoken advocacy of equality and democratic rights for Palestinians. Once he became leader, he became preoccupied with maintaining 'unity' with his enemies in the PLP, and so one left-wing victim after another was thrown under the bus by Corbyn, who simply refused to defend these people, even when he himself became a target of mendacious allegations, as when the affair of the Mear One mural, originally in 2012, was taken up by the Jewish Chronicle. This led to the calling of a Zionist demonstration against Corbyn that mobilised notoriously racist and bigoted figures like Norman Tebbit and David Trimble to demonstrate against the left while pretending in some way to be opposing racism. A sick joke.
Derelictions of LAW: Roots of the Current Situation
But even as it began to get underway, LAW showed fatal weakness. Another prominent leftist excluded from the Labour Party quite early on was Gerry Downing of Socialist Fight, which was our political predecessor. He was initially excluded at towards the end of 2015 by the early inquisition against alleged 'entryists' in the Labour Party because his Twitter profile had highlighted his position as a worker -Trotskyist who sought the overthrow of capitalism. In common with others, he was then reinstated as part of the Corbynites' early counterthrust. But then his case was picked up by the Tories and he was denounced by David Cameron in the House of Commons for an article he had written that refused to condemn the anti-imperialist motives of the 9/11 hijackers. Cameron then picked up on this formulation and sought to scandalize the Labour Party as having an Al Qaeda apologist in their midst. In fact, the comrade's article did not support terrorist actions at all but was a polemic in favour of trying to win militants away from such methods to Marxism, while showing empathy with the motives that impelled them to such errors in the first place. But at that denunciation by Cameron the LP apparatus panicked and re-excluded him within hours.
Shortly afterwards, Socialist Fight's analysis of Zionism and the Jewish Question was picked up by the right-wing Tory blogger Guido Fawkes (Paul Staines) and caricatured in classic Zionist manner as an attack on Jewish people. Instead of what it is and was, a historical materialist analysis of the roots of disproportionate Zionist power in the old imperialist countries, characterizing the Zionist lobby/caste as representing an independent imperialist faction loyal to Israel based on racist, ethnocratic and racial supremacist politics. The factual basis of this is simply irrefutable: the numerical overrepresentation of Jews in the bourgeoisie is simply a linear consequence of the well -documented and theorized role of Jews over more than 1000 years of existence, as a commercial people-class in medieval society before capitalism. But with the rise of Zionism to dominance among Jewish politics, this has provided the material basis for a powerful faction within the West European and North American imperialist states whose main loyalty is to Israel as their 'own' transplanted imperialist state. This explanation of the power of the Israel lobby to force often virtually uncritical support for outrageous Israeli crimes against the Palestinians as policy of Western powers, and to attack the democratic rights of defenders of the Palestinians in the West, is not refutable by debate for the factual basis of it is clear and easy to prove beyond all doubt.
But for Zionists, to mention these facts is anathema, even worse than the capital crime in the IHRA fake definition of 'anti-Semitism' of saying that Israel is a 'racist endeavour'. The hysterical smear is that merely to mention such facts is the same as echoing the Protocols of Zion. But in fact, the Protocols of Zion are a malicious caricature of Zionism concocted by genuine anti-Semites. They falsely portray the manipulative activities of early Zionists to try to secure for Jews the chance to join the colonial-oppressor fraternity, as some sort of all-encompassing plot involving all Jews in a plan for world domination. Whereas in fact Zionism at that point was the creed of a tiny minority of Jews, and its activities were limited to lobbying the great powers to allow them to steal a piece of land from a colonized people, preferably in Palestine but at one point part of what is now Kenya was mooted. This was conceived of as a place to build their own imperialist enclave in a parallel manner to the racist conquests of the likes of Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa. Such an enclave is what Israel has been from its creation.
The response of the leadership of LAW, particularly the CPGB but also its then ally, Tony Greenstein, when this full-blooded Marxist critique of Zionism was lambasted by the bourgeoisie and its minions, was similar to that of Corbyn. They tried to throw our comrades under the bus and expel us from Labour Against the Witchhunt. But they had a hard time doing this and it has caused them problems ever since. The CPGB underline their third-camp politics every time they justify our January 2018 expulsion from LAW, but actually they lost the vote when the issue was first discussed at an LAW meeting in December 2017. They had to engage in a national mobilisation of all the capitulationist forces they could gather from the left to defeat us. Including elements such as supporters of the United Secretariat who are so soft on imperialist 'humanitarian intervention' that they applauded the imperialist 'liberation' of Libya and urged similar things in Syria. And in fact, the upshot was that the CPGB and its allies unconvincingly won the vote by approximately 2-1, against an obviously smaller and newer group, which is no moral victory at all. More an embarrassment.
The problem they have is that many members and ex-members of the Labour Party under Corbyn have extensive and bitter experience of the Zionist lobby and its poisonous influence and are not inclined to rubbish a materialist analysis such as ours that explains how it acquired the power to wreck such a left-wing development in the British labour movement as Corbynism. So, our views on Zionism get a hearing and a considerable echo among the more serious anti-Zionists among the ex-Corbynite diaspora, who are trying to create a new left formation in various ways in difficult conditions after some defeats, not to mention the pandemic. Comrade Greenstein, who is organically part of that ex-Labour militant layer, has had to adapt to that and in fact invited us to join electronic forums of Labour Against the Witchhunt in 2021 that he had had our predecessor group thrown out of more than three years earlier. His strong anti-Zionism, although flawed, always sat uneasily with the third-campism of the CPGB in any case, expressed in such things as the CPGB's refusal to defend the elected Hamas-led Palestinian government against the Israeli-backed coup by the stooge Abbas in 2007, or its refusal to back Iraqi resistance to the US/British invasion in 2003, both motivated by crude Islamophobia. Such things sit uneasily with Tony's politics, to say the least.
The CPGB, on the other hand, have expressed in their paper considerable hostility to the strong anti-Zionist sentiment that permeates the left-Corbynites (see letter, below), and logically this, and not any bullshit about 'principles' regarding supporting Labour (which contradicts what they did 20 years ago in the last – Blair – period of openly neoliberal Labour leadership), explains their cowardly and sectarian running away from engaging with the formation of the SLN, which logically will find itself allied with militants in the Resistance Movement and others seeking to create an alternative to Starmer's Labour.
SLN and Shadow CLPs
Roger Silverman
The fused organisation does have a strategy and tactics of a sort. It involves splitting the labour movement from the neoliberals and refounding a labour party based on basic class independence. It leaves open the question of what happens to the official Labour Party and treats that as secondary to creating a real mass labour party. It is not a strategy for a revolutionary party, but it could be a step towards that. Its main theorist is Roger Silverman, a leading member of the 'Shadow CLP' in Newham, East London, which has gained the support of many left-wing activists from Labour when the Starmerites suspended the local Labour Parties because of the strength and defiance of the left. This local 'Shadow' Labour Party has maintained its activism and acts in complete defiance of the local Starmerite hacks and stooges. This is a correct strategy and tactics and poses defiance without running away from the battle with the enemy. He summarized his thinking in a recent Facebook post:
"The long-overdue historic split in the Labour Party is taking place at an unusually slow, uneven pace due to the paralysis of the official left, but it's happening all over at a local grass-roots level. It's not enough to take a snapshot and say: "what split?"; we have to see the process in perspective.
"An alien Tory clique now has the party by the throat. The official party membership, finances and voting figures are haemorrhaging. Only a couple of years ago, Labour was a mass party of half a million people, most of whom enthusiastically supported the socialist policies of Corbyn; most of those have dropped away from active involvement – but they have not disappeared.
"In my borough Newham there are now two quite separate Labour parties: the MPs, councillors and mayor on the one side, and the active campaigning membership on the other, now constituting itself as Newham Socialist Labour. And the same class split is taking place, albeit slowly and unevenly, in many areas all over the country. Inevitably, we'll see similar groups springing up and establishing a network which will be the embryo of a mass socialist movement.
"A crucial factor in the mix is the explicit intention of the leadership to weaken or cut outright the trade union link; it is significant that several major unions have already drastically cut their financial contributions to the party.
"Autonomous socialist Labour groups are springing up; the unions are paring down their affiliation fees. The split is tortuous and protracted due to a lack of central leadership, but at a certain point there will inevitably be cracks at the top too. When the party regime engineers the deselection of some left MPs, that will spur them into bolder action. And if Jeremy Corbyn runs as an independent candidate at the next election, with thousands of enthusiastic canvassers he'll win a landslide victory. That too would further encourage the development of a mass left breakaway.
"The situation is buzzing with opportunities."
This is a reasonable and viable tactical option, that does not shrink from confronting the Starmerites in the electoral arena, and gives the mass of left activists in, around and formerly of Labour, a means to get organised politically. It logically dovetails with the activities of the Resistance Movement, and other fragments of the Labour left such as Breakthrough who are also seeking to organise politically, and who recently formed the Peoples Alliance of the Left (PAL) with Left Unity and TUSC as part of their own attempt to unify the ex-Corbynite left movement with other leftists to fight Starmer. All these initiatives deserve a sympathetic approach and critical though firm support, as they point in a direction that takes the labour movement forward. What they lack, as do all organisations that organise left-reformist socialists in struggle against the neoliberal right, is a coherent revolutionary socialist programme to counterpose to the reformism whose failure to deliver reforms is at the root of the neoliberal takeover of reformist Labour Parties in the first place.
Tony Greenstein at LIEN demonstration, July 2021
Obviously, the task of communists in this situation are twofold – to work alongside those seeking to implement this progressive and necessary perspective, and through patient argumentation and educational work, to win support for a revolutionary programme within this movement, to be the revolutionary 'fish' who can swim in the 'sea' represented by the movement and safeguard the historic interests of our class by seeking to advance both. Not to run away from this with pseudo-radical right-wing sectarian excuses as the CPGB have done, pulling their people out and misleading others to do so, and absurdly bad-mouthing those who fail to endorse their capitulation to Starmer as 'liquidators'. As our letter published in WW pointedly makes clear, it is the CPGB who are acting as liquidationists in this situation.
Letter to Weekly Worker
'Liquidationism' and the Socialist Labour Network
The allegation against Tony Greenstein of 'liquidiation' of Labour Against the Witchhunt into the Labour In Exile Network (the unified group is now known as the Socialist Labour Network), is a fetish. LAW is not a revolutionary party. It is meaningful to talk of liquidating a programme or a revolutionary party, but 'liquidating' a single issue campaign is a nonsense. LAW was conceived originally as a united front of different forces to oppose the witchhhunt within the Labour Party under Corbyn.
Jack Conrad is making a fetish of LAW simply because it is a political status symbol. In fact they did not run LAW as a genuine United Front even within the Labour Party. They did not seek to unite all victims of the witchhunt, they expelled some who did not fit in with their third campist politics.
One manifestation of this was the exclusion of Socialist Fight, and also Peter Gregson for supposed 'anti-Semitism'. Despite admitting that neither of these individuals/trends actually hated Jews, so their exclusion could only be justified with the self-contradictory characterization of these as 'politically but not personally anti-Semitic'.
A foolish and self-contradictory formulation that denies human agency and in reality is an excuse for political cowardice. It really signified that LAW became, not a united front, but a 'front' for the CPGB and its third camp politics in the manner that Stand Up To Racism is a front for the SWP's politics.
But now it has come apart because of its own contradictions, as the bulk of its hoped for constituency has been radicalized by experience far to the left of these third camp politics, and the Labour Party leadership is destroying the Left in the party in a manner going way beyond Blair, and destroying the party itself as an alternative for workers.
This has led to a change in Tony, and a breakdown in his relations with the CPGB. So I was excluded from LAW by the CPGB and Tony in 2018, but I was invited to join in LAW discussions online a few months ago by Tony. That is a change from 2018 and in Tony, which is to be welcomed.
Derek James' recent article in Weekly Worker bemoaned this.
"Thus, whilst correctly identifying the politically motivated exaggeration of the nature and extent of anti-Semitism, some comrades enter into a sterile game of competitive oppression, in which racism directed towards black people or Muslims is contrasted unfavourably with the rather different contemporary experience of the Jewish population. Such denialism is ultimately rooted in the 'beggar my neighbour' politics of identity: it is not only politically wrong on all counts, but is also totally counterproductive, as it only gives further ammunition to the witch-hunters in the Labour bureaucracy and the media. It also adds further grist to the mill of those who provide the 'intellectual' cover for the big lie identifying the left with anti-Semitism, such as the ex-leftist turned conservative commentator, Brendan O'Neill, or the social-imperialists of the misnamed Alliance for Workers' Liberty."
The truth is that contradictory to Jack Conrad's profession of opposition to 'confessional sects', he is building a confessional sect around Draperism and Kautskyism.
This rightist element is manifested in the denunciation of David Miller in WW. Reluctant defence of him and the allegation that he is a propagator of conspiracy theories.
Another manifestation of this is the idea of the Labour Party as a united front of a special kind. This is the old Chartist group's position, the Labour Party as a soviet, in effect. A real liquidationist position. A soviet is a united front of a special kind.
LAW-LIEN is similar in some ways to the Socialist Alliance but on a higher level, not dominated by sects. More open to an intelligent revolutionary group that seeks to persuade and educate, not dominate. The CPGB was involved in the SA and other similar things like Left Unity, only not involved in RESPECT for third campist and Islamophobic reasons, but actually both RESPECT and LU have or had similarities with this.
This is where left activitists are at today, there is nothing unusual about this. You have to work alongside them to win influence for your programme. The CPGB fear them because subliminally they fear that this left-Corbynite milieu, because of their experience of Zionist witchhunts and its linked Islamophobia, will be spontaneously to the left of the CPGB's third campism.
There is no coherent Marxist justification for the CPGB's abstention from movements like LAW-LIEN other than this cowardly fear of the left-Corbynite layer. Not entirely different to the hostility that is seen to it from Andrew Coates and the AWL, but given a more superficially leftist phrasemongering.
This is ironically justified by a position of Labour Party fetishism that is similar to things the CPGB denounced in the early 2000s in the SA. The kind of thing that Socialist Appeal and Bob Pitt did in those days , support Blairities against the left. Will the CPGB support Starmer against, say Chris Williamson today if Labour is challenged? That seems like the logic of the argument.
Ian Donovan
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Survey: what's the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production?
Paul Randal
In this survey I'd like to know what the oldest version of SQL Server is in your environment – it has to be an instance that's being used for a production workload in some way (even just occasionally).
I'll report on the results next week.
10 thoughts on "Survey: what's the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production?"
Randolph West says:
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Tammy Cravi says:
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Christopher Estep says:
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Paul Randal says:
The survey is embedded in the post. Shows up on Chrome and IE – older versions of browsers might not show it.
I'm runnin' Interweb Explorer 10 on Winders 8.
Seriously though I'm on IE 10. Hmm…
I just tried Firefox 17, and there's no survey there either.
Is it provided by a 3rd party and embedded in a iframe or something like that? Wonder if our network security hardware is blocking it.
Yup – that's exactly how it's set up. My guess is your security. Try at home to see if you can see it?
It worked at home. However, the bottom half of the Vote and Results buttons are cut off in IE 10.
http://imgur.com/gallery/yMkRc
Yup – IE has all kinds of weird problems. I moved to Chrome earlier this year because I was sick of it. I don't ever test in IE.
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Q: Hadoop Reduce input records=0 I am new to Hadoop, my map-reduce code works but it does not produce any output. Here it is the info of map-reduce:
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient: Job complete: job_201609081210_0078
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient: Counters: 28
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:   Map-Reduce Framework
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Spilled Records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Map output materialized bytes=1362
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Reduce input records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Virtual memory (bytes)   snapshot=466248720384
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Map input records=852032443
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     SPLIT_RAW_BYTES=29964
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Map output bytes=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Reduce shuffle bytes=1362
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Physical memory (bytes) snapshot=57472311296
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Reduce input groups=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Combine output records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Reduce output records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Map output records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Combine input records=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     CPU time spent (ms)=2375210
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Total committed heap usage (bytes)=47554494464
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:   File Input Format Counters
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Bytes Read=15163097088
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:   FileSystemCounters
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     HDFS_BYTES_READ=15163127052
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     FILE_BYTES_WRITTEN=13170190
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     FILE_BYTES_READ=6
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:   Job Counters
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Launched map tasks=227
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Launched reduce tasks=1
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     SLOTS_MILLIS_REDUCES=759045
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Total time spent by all reduces waiting after reserving slots (ms)=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     SLOTS_MILLIS_MAPS=1613259
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Total time spent by all maps waiting after reserving slots (ms)=0
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Data-local map tasks=227
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:   File Output Format Counters
16/09/20 13:11:40 INFO mapred.JobClient:     Bytes Written=0

Here it is the code for the code that launches the mapreduce job:
import java.io.File;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;

public class mp{

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    Job job1 = new Job();
    job1.setJarByClass(mp.class);
    FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job1, new Path(args[0]));
    String oFolder = args[0] + "/output";
    FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job1, new Path(oFolder));
    job1.setMapperClass(TransMapper1.class);
    job1.setReducerClass(TransReducer1.class);
    job1.setMapOutputKeyClass(LongWritable.class);
    job1.setMapOutputValueClass(DnaWritable.class);
    job1.setOutputKeyClass(LongWritable.class);
    job1.setOutputValueClass(Text.class);
}
}

And here it is the mapper class (TransMapper1):
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.DoubleWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;

public class TransMapper1 extends  Mapper<LongWritable, Text, LongWritable, DnaWritable> {

    @Override
    public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

        String line = value.toString();
        StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line);
        LongWritable bamWindow = new LongWritable(Long.parseLong(tokenizer.nextToken()));
        LongWritable read = new LongWritable(Long.parseLong(tokenizer.nextToken()));
        LongWritable refWindow = new LongWritable(Long.parseLong(tokenizer.nextToken()));
        IntWritable chr = new IntWritable(Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken()));
        DoubleWritable dist = new DoubleWritable(Double.parseDouble(tokenizer.nextToken()));
        DnaWritable dnaW = new DnaWritable(bamWindow,read,refWindow,chr,dist);
        context.write(bamWindow,dnaW);
    }
}

And this is the Reducer class (TransReducer1):
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;

public class TransReducer1 extends Reducer<LongWritable, DnaWritable, LongWritable, Text> {

@Override
 public void reduce(LongWritable key, Iterable<DnaWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

ArrayList<DnaWritable> list = new ArrayList<DnaWritable>();
double minDist = Double.MAX_VALUE;
    for (DnaWritable value : values) {
            long bamWindow = value.getBamWindow().get();
            long read = value.getRead().get();
            long refWindow = value.getRefWindow().get();
            int chr = value.getChr().get();
            double dist = value.getDist().get();
            if (dist > minDist)
                continue;
            else
            if (dist < minDist)
                 list.clear();
            list.add(new DnaWritable(bamWindow,read,refWindow,chr,dist));
            minDist = Math.min(minDist, value.getDist().get());
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++){
            context.write(new LongWritable(list.get(i).getRead().get()),new Text(new DnaWritable(list.get(i).getBamWindow(),list.get(i).getRead(),list.get(i).getRefWindow(),list.get(i).getChr(),list.get(i).getDist()).toString()));
        }
    }
}

And this is the DnaWritable class (I didnot put import section to short it little bit):
public class DnaWritable implements Writable {
    LongWritable bamWindow;
    LongWritable read;
    LongWritable refWindow;
    IntWritable chr;
    DoubleWritable dist;

    public DnaWritable(LongWritable bamWindow, LongWritable read, LongWritable refWindow, IntWritable chr, DoubleWritable dist){

    this.bamWindow = bamWindow;
    this.read = read;
    this.refWindow = refWindow;
    this.chr = chr;
    this.dist = dist;
}

public DnaWritable(long bamWindow, long read, long refWindow, int chr, double dist){
    this.bamWindow = new LongWritable(bamWindow);
    this.read = new LongWritable(read);
    this.refWindow = new LongWritable(refWindow);
    this.chr = new IntWritable(chr);
    this.dist = new DoubleWritable(dist);
}

@Override
public void write(DataOutput dataOutput) throws IOException {
    bamWindow.write(dataOutput);
    read.write(dataOutput);
    refWindow.write(dataOutput);
    chr.write(dataOutput);
    dist.write(dataOutput);
}

@Override
public void readFields(DataInput dataInput) throws IOException {
        bamWindow.readFields(dataInput);
        read.readFields(dataInput);
        refWindow.readFields(dataInput);
        chr.readFields(dataInput);
        dist.readFields(dataInput);
    }
}

Any help would be really appreciated.. Thank you

A: Can you change your DnaWritable class to and test the same.(handle NPE)
package com.hadoop.intellipaat;

import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

public class DnaWritable implements Writable {

    private Long bamWindow;
    private Long read;
    private Long refWindow;
    private Integer chr;
    private Double dist;

    public DnaWritable(Long bamWindow, Long read, Long refWindow, Integer chr, Double dist) {
        super();
        this.bamWindow = bamWindow;
        this.read = read;
        this.refWindow = refWindow;
        this.chr = chr;
        this.dist = dist;
    }

    @Override
    public void write(DataOutput out) throws IOException {
        out.writeLong(bamWindow);
        out.writeLong(read);
        out.writeLong(refWindow);
        out.writeInt(chr);
        out.writeDouble(dist);
    }

    @Override
    public void readFields(DataInput in) throws IOException {
        this.bamWindow = in.readLong();
        this.read = in.readLong();
        this.refWindow = in.readLong();
        this.chr = in.readInt();
        this.dist = in.readDouble();
    }

}

A: I don't think you have submitted your job at all to the cluster. there is no job1.submit() or job1.waitForCompletion(true) in your main class.
////submit the job to hadoop
if (!job1.waitForCompletion(true))
return;

also there is a correction required in your main method.
Job job1 = new Job();  //new Job() constructor is deprecated now.

below is the correct one to create a job object
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
Job job1 = Job.getInstance(conf, "Your Program name");

A: I think you have not properly implemented write(DataOutput out) and readFields(DataInput in) methods in your DnaWritable class.

A: Consider also implements ComparableWritable as follows, also add the no-args constructor.
public class DnaWritable implements Writable WritableComparable<DnaWritable>  {

 //Consider add a non-args constructor
 public DnaWritable(){
 }

    //Add this static method as well
 public static DnaWritable read(DataInput in) throws IOException {
        DnaWritable dnaWritable = new DnaWritable();
        dnaWritable.readFields(in);
        return dnaWritable;
 }

 @Override
 public int compareTo(DnaWritable dnaWritable) {
      //Put your comparison logic there.
 }

}

If that still failing, I the log4.properties so you can see if there is any underlying error you are not seeing.
src/main/resources
hadoop.root.logger=DEBUG, console
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout

# Direct log messages to stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

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With a bouquet of fresh spring tulips you simply cannot go wrong. Why not add a tasty gift to your flowers? Colourfull tulips with chocolates or wine make a fine combination that will leave a great impression on the receiver! Order before 13h00 and your tulip bouquet will be delivered today!


Cosmetic acupuncture Melbourne- we provide a health-focused, natural approach to healthy aging that's founded on thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine wisdom.
What results can I expect from cosmetic acupuncture, and how does it work?
Why should I choose cosmetic acupuncture over other treatments?
What's involved in a course of treatment?
A brief explainer video below on cosmetic acupuncture.
What are the benefits of undergoing cosmetic acupuncture in our Melbourne clinic?
Cosmetic acupuncture can combine a facial treatment and the treatment of an underlying condition (such as muscle pain or stress) into one. In a cosmetic acupuncture treatment very fine, smooth specialised facial needles are placed in specific areas of the face, in addition to traditional acupuncture points on the body.
Cosmetic acupuncture may stimulate groups of facial muscles which may affect muscle tone. The desired effect when combined with acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (such as herbal medicine, lifestyle advice) is to affect positive change in the body and face, which may have a positive impact on your overall health and vitality.
The ancient Chinese were clever at discerning health issues which were manifesting as disharmony on the face as a part of Chinese face reading; lines, facial colouration, and even the shape of your mouth and nose, were taken into account during a reading session. Some elements of the face were seen to reflect your state of health, and best treated with a combination of acupuncture, herbal medicine, dietary therapy, exercises, and meditation. It was theorised that when the body was back in harmony, health radiated from the face.
The registered doctors of Chinese medicine at Qi Medicine use Chinese face reading as a diagnostic tool during sessions and may be able to help you get a better understanding of what your facial features signify. Our personalised treatments serve to nourish you from the inside out, with a gentle, holistic approach.
What results can you expect from cosmetic acupuncture?
There is ongoing research to suggest that Chinese herbal medicine, skin needling, and acupuncture may be useful in a number of dermatological skin conditions.
In addition, acupuncture on the face may help to stimulate relaxation in the small muscles and layers of fascia in the face. There are 43 muscles in the face alone and every one of them could benefit from a relaxing treatment to help them unwind (just like any other muscle in the body!). Treating facial muscles may influence the level of tension in your facial muscles– such as those found around the mouth and between the eyes- as it is in part the underlying muscles structure which determines the level of tension or relaxation in your expression.
Sessions may help address problems at period time. If you have ever found that your skin gets worse with stress during your cycle, or you experience chronic cramping or lower back pain during your period, then sessions may help alleviate pain and bring you gently back into a state of balance. Our therapists pay special attention to hormone imbalances and women's health when performing cosmetic acupuncture.
What set's Qi Medicine apart from other cosmetic acupuncturists is the inclusion of skin needling. Skin needling creates very fine micro tears in the deeper layers of the skin. These small tears initiate a healing response with the immune system, encouraging the laying down of new collagen and other skin cells.
Skin needling was developed in the late 20th century so is still a relatively new field, with ongoing research into its usefulness with skin conditions. A recent study has found micro- needing to be considered a treatment option for those with skin of colour 2 .
Skin needling is not overly painful (with more of a slight prickly feeling) with minimal bleeding when using with the specific rollers used in the clinic.  You will be able to walk out of your session and get on with your day, without several days of downtime to heal. Unlike other treatments which peel off the top layer of skin, skin needling can help keep this top protective layer intact.
Healing does take time- but we think you will enjoy every session. At Qi Medicine we make each treatment a nourishing experience, considering any stress and pain you may have accumulated through the week. Each individual will have different needs so the number of treatments needed will differ. As a general rule with acupuncture (but not with every single case) a series of treatments are needed relatively close together (ideally weekly) to gain therapeutic benefit.
Generally, cosmetic acupuncture sessions are far less painful than chemical peels and laser resurfacing. The body acupuncture is often felt as a dull ache; however, not an unpleasant sensation. For the needle-phobic, the body acupuncture may be skipped upon request.
Skin needling usually creates a prickling sensation as it is rolled over the face. It is a very quick procedure and all care will be taken to avoid any discomfort during the session. During skin needling only 0.5mm rollers are used, no anesthetic cream is needed and minimal bleeding will occur.
There is no current evidence that suggests skin needling with a long needle (longer than the 0.5mm to 1.5mm for thick acne scarring- used at Qi Medicine) produces better results, so always think carefully about undergoing a 'medical needling' session offered by other salons or clinics, with a 2mm or 3mm long needle. These sessions are often performed with a general or local anesthetic and result in substantial bleeding, lengthy downtime and often carry a much higher price tag as an anesthetist is usually employed.
Why should I choose natural facial rejuvenation over other cosmetic treatments?
Cosmetic acupuncture is considered less invasive than many other skin rejuvenation procedures available today, such as injections or fillers. Cosmetic acupuncture is founded in Chinese medicine which will always take into account your underlying health during diagnosis and treatment; gut issues, long-standing stress, hormonal imbalances, lifestyle, and diet. The goal of therapy is to heal and repair the body as naturally as possible from the inside out.
Do you feel that there is a deeper connection between how you look day to day and your emotional state? Do you resent the fact that it seems that fillers and injections are touted as the 'best' go-to skin solutions out there? If this is you then Qi Medicine may be able to help you.
Performed by a fully qualified and registered Doctor of Chinese medicine in a clinical setting.
Minimal side effects (see potential side effects and contra-indications below).
Utilises the body's own natural healing properties for rejuvenation.
Natural results, no fake expressions or risk of paralysis from injections.
May lead to improvements in well-being as each treatment is based on Chinese medicine principles to balance the Qi (energy) of the body and mind.
Can address underlying issues such as stress and muscle and joint pain.
A session will involve an initial health assessment, a discussion about which areas you would like to target and what outcomes we can expect. Following this, you will get to relax under warm, fluffy towels in a calming environment. The initial skin needling lasts for about 10 minutes whereby a single, sterile dermal roller will be used on the face. This will be followed by a gentle facial acupuncture session to further address muscle imbalances.
After the initial acupuncture and skin needling treatment, you will enjoy a jade stone facial treatment using organic anti-aging serum, to further tone and relax the muscles in the face. To round off your session you will receive a soothing neck and head reflexology massage.
Sessions will address energy blockages throughout the system, often leaving you feeling refreshed and revitalised with a heightened sense of well-being, certainly the best part of a treatment! Each session is cumulative and will build on the last. You may detect small changes after the first treatment and more lasting changes after several sessions.
If you are experiencing any of the following, you are generally not advised to undergo treatment. Contact the clinic if you are unsure about your individual circumstances.
By Sheena Vaughan. Follow Us on Google Plus and Facebook and stay up-to-date with all the latest news and deals with Qi Medicine.


In this video The Jewellery Editor highlights her selection of the best three white pearl jewels from Autore, Glenn Spiro and Mizuki that she has seen on her travels around the world so far this year, from Baselworld to the Couture Show in Las Vegas.
The white pearl is regaining its rightful role as the queen of gems and, thanks to celebrity followers like Angelina Jolie, we are seeing more of them on the Red Carpet. I think what we are appreciating is the fact that these are created by a living creature and therefore a reflection of our delicate eco-system. Here is my selection of the top three white pearl jewels that I have seen on my travels around the world so far this year.
My first choice comes from pearl house Autore of Australia, which was founded in 1991. Autore has won many awards for its design, including one at the Couture Show this year in Las Vegas. Autore is one of the largest names in South Sea pearls because they operate in Broome in Western Australia as well as in the tropical shores of Indonesia and, working with other farmers, handle some 300,000 pearls a year.
Founder and CEO Rosario Autore told us about the magic of white South Sea pearls and why they are different. The perfect white pearl, Rosario Autore tells us, is identified by its excellent lustre or shine, where the reflection in the pearl is mirror-like and creates an iridescent reflection. Rosario Autore tells us to look out for an intense lustre, diversity of shape and a wild spectrum of colour palettes.
Take this Vanda cuff, which shows just how creative Autore can be. Inspired by the blue Vanda orchid native to Australia, here some 44 very rare, large Keshi pearls from Autore's Australian farms are combined with 7,000 diamonds and both rough and faceted sapphires. Rosario Autore tells us that he is very much attracted to the Keshi pearlbecause of their unique shapes, and no two are alike. Rosario also tells us that these baroque shape pearls have an intense lustre as the pearl is 100% nacre.
My second choiceis a rare treat because this is in fact a natural pearl and it sits at the centre of this brooch made by Glenn Spiro in the form of an Indian turban ornament. The droplet-shaped natural pearl once belonged to one of India's royal families in the 18th century.
At the other end of the price spectrum is my third choice and it's Mizuki's choker, which I have chosen because it brings a fashion element to pearls. New York-based Mizuki says she likes to infuse her jewels with a fashion feel and loves the organic shapes that create contrast with her minimalist designs.
You can imagine how hard it was to narrow down my choice to just three. I have seen so many amazing pearl jewels this year and I think what we're seeing is a greater appreciationof the organic and very natural beauty of the pearl, which is inspiring these designers to ever-greater heights of creativity.


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using Hanoi.Serialization.Extensions.UserMood;

namespace Hanoi.Xmpp.InstantMessaging.PersonalEventing
{
    public sealed class UserMoodEvent : UserEvent
    {
        public UserMoodEvent(Contact user, Mood mood)
            : base(user)
        {
            Mood = mood.MoodType.ToString();
            Text = mood.Text;
        }

        public string Mood { get; private set; }
        public string Text { get; private set; }
    }
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How to build a bike: The revival of a British craft
By Catherine Wynne
Business reporter, BBC News
There is a six-month waiting list for Peter Bird's made-to-measure bicycles, which start at about £3,500
Sales of bikes in the UK are up. But not everyone is content with buying a mass-produced bicycle. Some are looking for something different, which is helping the revival of a traditional British craft.
Peter Bird likens himself to a tailor. At his workshop at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire he takes his clients' inside-leg measurements and finds out their exact needs.
But the tools of his trade are not a needle and thread, they are a brazing torch and steel tubes. His creations are not bespoke suits, but bespoke bicycles.
"One of the main reasons many people don't ride much is because their bicycles don't fit them very well. Our job is to get the fit right," says Mr Bird, who has been building bikes under his Swallow brand for 30 years.
"We make it comfortable, make it light and then add this whole thing about what it looks like. So you end up with something that is totally unique and is a joy to ride."
Mr Bird is one of the exhibitors at a show in Bristol devoted to independent bike builders, Bespoked. "This is a jewellery show for bicycles," the former goldsmith says, "a place to see gorgeous product, and where no mass manufacturer is allowed."
Now in its third year, the event's success represents the resurgence of interest in handmade bikes in the UK.
"We've been waiting for this kind of momentum for 30 years," Mr Bird says, smiling, as he looks at the bike fans filling the hall.
Anna Collins, a climate campaigner from London, is here looking for her dream bike. But it will be far from an impulse buy.
"I think I will spend more time planning a bike than I would a wedding dress," she says, laughing.
"When you get a bike that fits, there is nothing better. It is like having a custom pair of trousers or a custom dress," she says. "The other thing is beauty. It is like having a work of art, too."
At one time, every town in the country had at least one frame builder, but the craft largely disappeared over the past couple of decades as cheap, mass produced bikes were imported from Asia.
It is now being revived in workshops, sheds and garages dotted across the country partly thanks to a new generation of young makers like Tom Donhou.
There is a year-long waiting list for the bikes he constructs at his workshop in Hackney Wick, a former industrial area of East London which has been colonised by young artists and craftspeople.
Tom, a former product designer, allows two weeks for each one.
He starts by building and painting the all-important frame, whose geometry determines that the seat, handlebars and pedals are in the correct position for each cyclist and the sort of riding they do. He then adds on the customer's chosen components - such as gears, brakes and chainset - which complete the bicycle.
"For me, the reason to buy a made-to-measure bike is you know where your money is going. You are supporting an independent person who loves what they do," he says.
"Aside from the fact that it is tailor-made to fit you exactly, it is about the ethics of the whole thing. It is built in the UK. It has not been outsourced to China or the Far East."
The revival of bespoke bicycles in the past couple of years has come hand-in-hand with some very straitened economic times. And with so much work going into each bike, they don't come cheap.
Prices typically start at £2,500 for a full bike, way above the few hundred pounds regular cyclists spend on average. In extreme cases this can climb to £10,000 with the inclusion of some very high-spec components.
Far from hitting sales, the downturn may even have played a part in the industry's success, says Phil Taylor, organiser of Bespoked.
"People in a recession tend to buy wiser and invest their money in something that will last longer. If you have a bicycle that is especially made for you, you are investing in something that will last you forever."
No one is saying that this will ever be more than a niche sector. Many workshops produce only a few dozen bikes a year. Some even fewer.
And the vast majority of bikes sold in the UK are made overseas and sold through a handful of national chains such as Halfords to customers content to buy standard-sized frames.
Mr Taylor is hopeful that the recent success will continue as people recognise the quality of what is being made. But he has a warning, too, for the growing numbers wanting to learn the craft.
"It takes a long time and it is hard work," says Phil Taylor, himself a bike builder. "No-one in there selling bikes is rich."
Field Cycles make 15 bikes a year at their workshop in Sheffield
Tough times
One experienced bike builder, who does not want to be named, says you have to be driven by passion, not money: "It has been bloody hard and I have never really made much money."
He is sad that even as a skilled craftsman, in all his years in the industry he has never been able to earn the average UK yearly wage of about £25,000.
"We are involved in an industry where people assume you earn good money because you are dealing with expensive bikes," he says.
"But most of the expense is the bits you buy to build them. If you work out the profit on things, it is not that great."
The four friends involved in the new Sheffield-based Field Cycles, are all having to do other paid jobs too.
"If you make things by hand, one by one, you are never going to be rich," says Harry Harrison, who is juggling building bikes with teaching fine art at Sheffield Hallam University. "I would probably make more money stacking shelves at Tesco."
Each of Field's steel-framed bicycles is marked Handmade in Sheffield, something that has already attracted overseas buyers from Germany and Japan.
The city's industrial heritage is something of which Harry is proud to be a part. The plan is to both continue the tradition of making desirable products in steel - and make a living from it.
"I might be naive, but I think that if you make a really good object and you really try to take care of the people who are buying it off you, then I think there is a way to make it work."
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By 2020, advances in medical surgery, hormone therapy and ligament replacement could see men given their own artificial wombs - capable of caring for a fertilised embryo.
Earlier this month, Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, USA, announced it would be performing revolutionary surgery on women born without wombs or whose uterus had been damaged. It's hoped that the introduction of artificial wombs will help these women conceive - a process that's already been proved theoretically successful by a Swedish team, resulting in four live births from transplanted wombs.
But experts believe that this form of surgery could also be used to introduce a womb to male bodies - and soon.
"My guess is five, 10 years away, maybe sooner," Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation programme at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, told Yahoo! News. "Male and female anatomy is not that different. Probably at some point, we'll figure out how to make that work."
There are a whole host of complications for "male pregnancy" that medical science is yet to overcome: in addition to the risks of taking anti-rejection drugs throughout the pregnancy, which leaves the infant/parent open to infection, men are unable to produce all the hormones required to grow and sustain an embryo - and there's the tricky matter of transplanting an embryo grown in vitro into a transplanted womb.
"It's doable, it just hasn't been done," said Chung.
So, expect the path to gender equality to take an interesting turn in the next five years.


If your family is anything like ours, then pasta salad is always a hit no matter what time of year it is.
For some it seems pasta salads are only served during the summer when a cool dish is needed. But pasta salads are a delicious dish no matter what the weather is outside. In fact, a pasta salad can be a refreshing treat in the winter when most meals are hearty and hot.
Begin this salad by cooking a 16 ounce box of Rotini noodles according to the package directions.
While the pasta is cooking, seed and dice two Roma tomatoes and chop up broccoli florets making 2 cups. In a small bowl mix two packages of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix with 16 ounces of sour cream and 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of milk. Mix well until completely smooth.
When the pasta is done, drain, rinse with cold water, drain again and place in a large bowl. Add the chopped tomatoes, chopped broccoli and 5 ounces of cooked bacon pieces. Pour over the prepared dressing mix and combine well.
The pasta salad can be served immediately while still warm or refrigerated. It stores well in the refrigerator for several days when kept in an airtight container.
This tasty dish can be a meal all on its own or served as an accompaniment to a main course.
Thanks for stopping by today. Do you enjoy pasta salad year-round or only in the summer? What do you like in your pasta salad?
While the pasta is cooking, seed and dice two Roma tomatoes and chop up broccoli florets making 2 cups. In a small bowl mix two packages of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix with 16 ounces of sour cream and ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons of milk. Mix well until completely smooth.