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Reporters Call Foul on NRA Claim That Media "Loves" Mass Shootings
"Journalists are humans, not story-pursuing robots salivating for the death of young kids."
By Julia Conley, staff writer for CommonDreams. Published 2-23-2018
NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch, right, told CNN host Alisyn Camerota on Friday that the news media "loves" the ratings delivered by mass shootings—a remark that drew condemnation from journalists on social media. (Photo: @CNN/Twitter)
Journalists on social media pushed back on Friday against NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch's claim that the news media "loves" mass shootings because they deliver ratings boosts.
This rhetoric is dangerous, and continues the assault on journalists in an effort to paint them as subhuman. Of the thousands of people I know, including hundreds of journalists, I know zero (ZERO) people subhuman enough to "love mass shootings" https://t.co/wBo8y5DPYz
— Ryan Famuliner (@RyanFamuliner) February 23, 2018
"Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it," Loesch said Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), addressing reporters in the back of the room. "Now I'm not saying that you love the tragedy. But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media."
Loesch's comments echoed those made in a video released this week by the NRA, in which gun rights activist Colion Noir argued, "If there's one organization in this country that has a vested interest in the perpetuation of mass tragedy, it's the mainstream media."
The former Blaze host doubled-down on her comments in a Friday morning interview on CNN with Alisyn Camerota, who told her, "You're wrong on every single level," and argued against her claim that shootings provide a ratings boost for news programs.
"Americans have reached saturation level," said Camerota. "They're so sick of it and it's so heartbreaking that they actually often turn away."
Alisyn Camerota to NRA spokeswoman: "You think we love mass shootings? … It's just malicious, actually, that you would say that. I don't know anybody in the media who likes mass shootings… We pray that there's never another one." https://t.co/qzE1DxoncO https://t.co/a0QY03VTYU
— CNN (@CNN) February 23, 2018
Many in the news media have pushed to refine how news stations cover mass shootings, urging journalists to focus less on the perpetrators of attacks. Much of the ongoing coverage of the shooting in Parkland, Florida last week has focused on efforts by survivors to achieve gun control legislation in order to prevent more shootings—a push that is strongly opposed by the NRA.
On social media, many reporters reminded Loesch and her supporters that journalists are members of their communities whose families are put at as much risk as any other American household by the prevalence of military-style semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15.
This an unequivocally horrifying thing to say. Journalists are humans, not story-pursuing robots salivating for the death of young kids. We don't "love mass shootings." Many of us have kids of our own. I'm floored by this. https://t.co/HmDU6G4NhG
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 22, 2018
This is a disgusting insult to journalists everywhere. NOBODY loves mass shootings. We cry and grieve and fear for our kids just like anyone else. And guess what? Our families are victims of tragedies, too. Do people believe this garbage??? https://t.co/DHNKA5gLRm
— Melissa Luck ☘ (@MelissaKXLY4) February 22, 2018
Others pointed to the emotional toll covering repeated mass killings—typically with little to no action by legislators in the wake of such attacks, to curb shootings—can take on journalists.
The idea that mainstream media loves mass shootings is idiotic & insulting. I covered the VA Tech shootings & was totally unprepared emotionally. Spent nights in hotel room crying after interviewing family & friends of victims. Still affects me. https://t.co/jRwqg6jaFu
— Kevin Manahan (@KevinCManahan) February 23, 2018
Dana Loesch's comments are so disingenuous and gross. If you really believe journalists enjoy covering mass shootings, especially those involving innocent children and teens, you should hang out at any newsroom and try to do our job for just a day.https://t.co/cCx4OPxXeF
— Andrea González-Ramírez (@andreagonram) February 22, 2018
As Catherine Woodiwiss wrote at Sojourners last July, reporters' prolonged exposure to violent and traumatic events including shootings can correspond with high levels of distress:
In 2014, a study of "frequent and prolonged exposure to deeply disturbing images" published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine found that the frequency with which a journalist watches violent content correlates with the journalist's likelihood of having anxiety, depression, PTSD, or alcoholism.
The Radio Television Digital News Association also released a statement about the NRA's new talking point.
"We are your neighbors. Your friends. We attend the same houses of worship. We go the same classes at the gym. Our children are in the same classes at school…We are deeply affected by tragedy. We are journalists and we do what we do because you have a need to know and understand the world around you."
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Editors' note: Of course, this wasn't the only news dealing with the NRA over the weekend. Ever since Thursday, companies that do business with the NRA have been dropping their support. And, in one of the more ironic moments of the week, the NRA awarded the "Charleston Heston Freedom Award" to FCC chairman Ajit Pai for his attempts to kill net neutrality.
You might have also noticed that both the Loesch speech and Pai's award happened at CPAC. We'll be summarizing what happened at CPAC sometime in the next few days; the sheer insanity exhibited there was both amusing and frightening.
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Trump's Twitter Drama Is a Massive Distraction
By Darius Shahtahmasebi. Published 7-6-2017 by The Anti-Media
Generally speaking, people can be lumped into three main categories. The first category consists of the typical apathetic, celebrity-idol worshiping citizen who watched Miley Cyrus twerk on stage at the VMA Awards in 2013 and gossiped with his or her friends for a straight week afterward. This group buys this sort of nonsense as a source of entertainment. The second category is comprised of self-proclaimed academics who wrote overly-crafted opinion pieces claiming Miley Cyrus' twerking – as one commentator put it – either "drew criticism from feminists for degrading her sex and from some pundits for 'picking the pocket of black culture.'"
Then you have the third category – a lone, isolated group of individuals who pay zero attention to the celebrity world and realize that at the same time Miley Cyrus' VMA stunt took full swing in the media, the Obama administration was attempting to bomb another sovereign nation into complete submission over unfounded allegations of chemical weapons attacks. As we now know, this military strike plan actually involved taking out Syria's air defenses and air force, a strategy that would have required approximately 70,000 U.S. troops and led to countless Syrian deaths. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Government, International Agreements, Media Issues, Military, Technology, Terrorism and tagged Atrocities, chemical warfare, Donald Trump, International Agreements, ISIS, Media Issues, Military, North Korea, Russia, Sensational media, Seymour Hersh, Social Media, Syria, technology, terrorism, Twitter on July 7, 2017 by ew.
You are the new gatekeeper of the news
Aly Colón, Washington and Lee University
Photo: Green Comma
News consumers today face a flood of fake news and information. Distinguishing between fact and fiction has become increasingly challenging.
In the past, news organizations sifted through information to try to determine its validity and veracity. Being trusted for what they reported became an important part of journalists' reputations.
You are part of the problem
Journalists like Walter Cronkite used to be gatekeepers of the news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cronkitejfkdeath.gif#filelinks
Now the gatekeeping role that the legacy media newspapers and network television news once played falls to all of us. Today, everyone assumes the position of publisher. Technology has democratized the process of making, or making up, news.
Journalists no longer decide what goes public. Information flows unimpeded and unchecked through the internet, filling a multitude of websites, blogs and tweets.
All of it flows through social media streams and into our laptops, tablets and smartphones. Everyone who posts, or reshares, a news story on Facebook or retweets a link takes on a role once held by only a powerful few media executives. The problem that emerges today stems from the fact that most social media "publishers" fail to consider the responsibility for what they post.
It's not that fake news is new. Thomas Jefferson complained in 1807, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper." Jefferson's comment represents just one of many views regarding news not only in the U.S. but in Europe. Fake news can be traced back Italy in 1475 when a priest made a false claim about a child's disappearance. Even the political battle between Marc Antony and Octavian to succeed the murdered Julius Caesar engaged the use of fake news. Octavian's use of fake news enabled him to succeed Caesar.
And it's not that the old gatekeepers were infallible or consistently apolitical. But in today's technological world, we're in the midst of an informational perfect storm. The equation I might offer would be: Velocity + Volume = Volatility. All the news on the internet moves so fast, and assaults us with so much, that the outcome becomes unpredictably dangerous.
Some people who use social media check what they publish. Others repost or retweet information without reading it carefully, much less doing any due diligence for accuracy. That plays into what those who produce fake news hope to accomplish. While some believe they hope to deceive people, press critic Tom Rosenstiel asserts, "The goal of fake news is not to make people believe the lie. It is to make them doubt all news."
Some may think that young people, with their social media savvy, might be better able to assess the information they consume.
A Stanford University study found it shocking that many of them couldn't "evaluate the credibility of that information." The study noted that more than 80 percent of middle schoolers saw "sponsored content" as actual news. High school students didn't verify photos. Most college students failed to suspect potential bias in an activist group's tweet.
Step up your game
So what are news consumers to do? How can they act as their own gatekeepers, intent on vigilance and verification like the best journalists and publishers of old?
Here's how to begin.
#1. Check out the source. This may seem basic, but it's easy to read headlines without paying attention to who wrote it. Writers and websites operate with their own perspective. Some want to offer a balanced view. Some advocate a point of view. Others hope to deceive you.
Know the "who" or the "what" of the source. Is the source, website, Twitter handle or blog familiar to you? Have you read them before? Read other work they have done. See if writers you trust link to them.
Read the "About" section of the writer/website. Use search engines to track the name. Sometimes such sites as Linkedin or Facebook turn up basic background information. The key is to know where they are coming from.
#2. Check out the information. Do other sources corroborate what you're reading, viewing or hearing? Have you used verification sites such as Snopes, Politifact and FactCheck.org?
Snopes, for example, reported that some of the "2017 inauguration photos" tweeted out of Trump's inauguration were taken weeks or years earlier. One was a photo of the Kansas Royals baseball team rally. Politifact pointed out President Donald Trump's press secretary's assertion the inauguration had the largest audience – period – was disputed by other measurements. And FactCheck.org noted that former President Barack Obama "falsely claimed that a treaty he signed with Russia in 2011 'has substantially reduced our nuclear stockpiles, both Russia and the United States.'"
Dick Grefe, a senior reference librarian at Washington and Lee University, alerted me that two professors at the University of Washington have proposed teaching a course "Calling Bullshit: In the Age of Big Data." The course would "focus on bullshit that comes clad in the trappings of scholarly discourse." What's fake isn't limited to news.
#3. Be aware of your biases. Remember that we tend to read, listen to and watch news with our own built-in prejudices. We evaluate information based on whether it supports what we already believe. It can be easy to discount that which upsets or challenges our worldview. Reports about "confirmation bias" abound. As studies and writers have noted, we basically believe what we want to believe.
The concern journalists feel about how misleading and confusing the news can be has prompted a number of them to offer their own guides to approaching biases and fake news. Journalist and media expert Alicia Shepard offers her suggestions on how to avoid being duped. Alan Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who founded the News Literacy Project, grapples with confirmation bias head on. Steve Inskeep at NPR provides a guide to facts.
Battle your own confirmation bias by expanding the sources of information you seek. Be open to thinking about different points of view. Read widely. Read counterpoints. Watch for innovations from the media. For example, one recent study published on MarketWatch placed different news sources on the "truthiness" scale. Another, older piece on businessinsider.com could help you identify the ideology underlining your favorite source of news.
There's no need to close the gate, but be sure you know what's flowing in. It matters.
Aly Colón, Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics, Washington and Lee University
This entry was posted in Corruption, Education, Media Issues and tagged "fake news", Corruption, Education, Media, Media Issues, Sensational media, Social Media on February 24, 2017 by ew.
Under Cover of Christmas, Obama Establishes Controversial Anti-Propaganda Agency
"It owns all these not-at-all-important laws are smuggled into NDAAs that are signed on Christmas Eve with basically no public debate," wrote media critic Adam Johnson
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-26-2016
Buried within the $619 billion military budget is a controversial provision that establishes a national anti-propaganda center that critics warn could be dangerous for press freedoms. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
In the final hours before the Christmas holiday weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday quietly signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law—and buried within the $619 billion military budget (pdf) is a controversial provision that establishes a national anti-propaganda center that critics warn could be dangerous for press freedoms.
The Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act, introduced by Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, establishes the Global Engagement Center under the State Department which coordinates efforts to "recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United Sates national security interests." Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Elections, Government, Human Rights, International Agreements, Media Issues, National Security vs Police State, Social Justice and tagged "fake news", 2017 NDAA, Atrocities, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Corruption, Donald Trump, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, Human rights, International Agreements, Media Issues, propaganda, Security, Sensational media on December 27, 2016 by ew.
5 Ways George Orwell's 1984 Has Come True Since It Was Published 67 Years Ago
By Claire Bernish. Published 6-8-2016 by The Anti-Media
United States — It's debatable whether George Orwell surmised the ominous threat of totalitarianism that inspired him to pen the dystopic vision, 1984, would extend worldwide and resurface nearly seven decades after its publication. But the novel's apt description of a world on end have undoubtedly come to pass.
Innumerable examples evidence how 1984 would better be described as a dark portent than a fascinating read, but one thing — the political language dubbed Newspeak, employed by the ruling government, Ingsoc — seems to have served as an instruction manual for the American empire. Continue reading →
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Crime Scene Becomes Media Circus as Journalists Rifle Through Shooters' Home
"Everyone responsible for this should feel deeply ashamed," said independent journalist Allison Kilkenny in reaction to bizarre episode
Written by Jon Queally, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-4-2015.
Image via MSNBC screenshot.
Disbelief and immediate criticism followed as a bizarre situation unfolded on live television Friday afternoon when numerous journalists, unobstructed by police or other agencies, streamed into the home of the two people who carried out Wednesday's mass murder of fourteen people in San Bernadino, California.
The apartment of Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik—both of whom were killed in a shootout with police on Wednesday and subsequently identified as the perpetrators of the earlier mass shooting—has been a key focus of the investigation by law enforcement agencies who have been trying to piece together the planning and motivations behind the attack as well as details about the couple's lives.
However, with the residence apparently left unguarded by law enforcement, a large contingent of journalists, including camera operators sending live footage to major outlets like CNN and MSNBC, entered the apartment and began rifling through personal belongings and rummaging through what many observers assume could be potentially valuable evidence in a high-profile criminal investigation.
Early reports indicated that it was the landlord who gave journalists access to the home, though the man identified as the landlord told the local CBS affiliate that he didn't let them in, but that they "rushed in." Footage from the scene shows at least one unidentified individual removing plywood from the front door with a crowbar.
The FBI, which has now taken over the investigation, answered questions about the incident by stating the scene had been fully processed and that authority over the property was, in fact, turned back to the landlord.
The following is a portion of what MSNBC aired lived:
The response on social media to what unfolded was nearly immediate, with many criticizing outlets for showing live shots of personal objects, including photos of children.
As the story broke, Politico reported:
Harry Houck, CNN law enforcement analyst, said on air, "Usually in an instance like this, if crime scene goes in and does the work and comes out, you will keep that scene locked up, and with the sign on board saying that you cannot come in until the police release it. The fact is, maybe they did not do that here. I am I will tell you, I'm so shocked I cannot believe it. This is detective 101 for crying out loud. And now we have what looks like dozens of people in there totally destroying a crime scene, which is still vital in this investigation."
The landlord, Doyle Miller, told CNN, "This is unreal. And I need to assess the damage. It's a lot worse than what I thought."
Despite the FBI's subsequent announcement that the scene had been clear, other agencies seemed gobsmacked that journalists had been able to wander through the house and tamper with personal property as well as possible evidence. When contacted by the online news outlet Grasswire, Deputy Olivia Bozek, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, said, "I don't know what's going on. That is not a cleared crime scene. There's still an active investigation going on."
Meanwhile, outside expert observers had a hard time believing that house should have been made available to either the owner, journalists, or the general public. The New York Daily News described how "security consultants on cable news watched the live feed in horror, slamming the moment as the destruction and contamination of a major crime scene. One even said that allowing the media to defile the scene he most 'shocking screwup in police history' and could not understand why cops on any level would have allowed such a thing to happen."
This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Human Rights, Media Issues, Religion, Social Justice, Terrorism, Uncategorized and tagged Atrocities, Civil Rights, Human rights, Islam, Media Issues, religion, San Bernandino, Security, Sensational media, social justice, Social Media, terrorism on December 5, 2015 by MNgranny.
Everything's Bigger In Texas – Especially The Crazy
Starting today, approximately 1,200 U.S. troops, mostly Special Operations forces, will participate in a two-month military training exercise named Jade Helm 15, which takes place across seven states in the American Southwest, including Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Jade Helm logo. Photo via YouTube
Normally, people would think "So what else is new?", and continue on without a second thought. Military exercises aren't anything new, after all. However, this isn't the case with Jade Helm 15. A combination of the Internet, talk radio and toxic politics have made Jade Helm 15 a conspiracy theory fan's delight. And, Ground Zero for all the insanity is the state of Texas, of course.
This shouldn't really surprise anybody. After all, Texas is the home of some of the more "entertaining" characters in modern American politics, such as James Richard "Rick" Perry (the first person to run for a major party's presidential nomination while facing a felony indictment), Louie "aspersions on my asparagus" Gohmert and, of course, Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz, who actually was born in a foreign country, yet whose eligibility for the presidency isn't questioned. Oh – and we can't forget the father of the modern libertarian movement (which is more a repackaging of John Birch Society ideals than anything else); Ron Paul. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Government, Media Issues, National Security vs Police State and tagged Alex Jones, FEMA, FEMA camps, Greg Abbott, Idiocracy, InfoWars, Jade Helm 15, Louie Gohmert, Martial law, Media Issues, Rick Perry, Sensational media, Social Media, Ted Cruz, Wal-mart on July 15, 2015 by ew.
Integrity? What Integrity?
One of the stories that our media likes to cover instead of covering news that really affects the human race reared its head again this last weekend. Yes, the incident known as Deflategate was back in the news, to the unspoken sighs of relief from media outlets all over the country who were suddenly freed of maybe having to run a story about something that mattered.
Yesterday, the penalties for those involved were announced by the NFL. They include Tom Brady getting a four game suspension, two team employees being suspended indefinitely and the team being fined a million dollars as well as losing draft picks.
There was the usual blathering from league spokesmen about how the people involved "compromised the integrity of the league and the game." We would like to ask the league what integrity they're talking about.
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This entry was posted in Corruption, Human Rights, Media Issues, Social Justice, Women's Issues and tagged Capitalism, Deflategate, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Media Issues, NFL, rape, Rape Culture, Sensational media, Women's Issues on May 12, 2015 by ew.
Is the news black and white or yellow and read?
On Monday evening, the New York Times ran a story claiming that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, and may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record..
Brian Williams. Photo by David Shankbone (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The story was treated as breaking news on the cable news networks, with the pundits wringing their hands and talking in whispered tones about the possible violation of federal law by the person commonly seen as the Democratic front runner for the 2016 presidential nomination. The story went viral on social media as well, with all the misinformed commentary you would expect.
Something didn't seem right to us about the story, though. Due to the hyper-polarization of US politics these days, we've seen the House of Representatives conduct numerous investigations of the Obama administration and their actions on September 11, 2012 and the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. We would think that this fact would have logically come up during the investigations, and, if there was anything illegal about it, that it would have been splashed all over the papers before now. So, what's the real story? Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Media Issues and tagged Consolidated Media, Media, Media Issues, Sensational media, Social Media on March 4, 2015 by ew.
Talk About A Hatchet Job!
Photo By Anonymous [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Fall River, Mass, 1892: On August 4th, reports of bodies and killings at the Borden home shocked the small community as the news of suspected Lizzie Borden began to circulate. A crime that was sensationalized swept across the nation as speculation surrounding Lizzie's guilt or innocence were tried in every venue except an actual courtroom.
On Monday, August 4th of 2014, people are still talking about Lizzie Borden and whether or not she wielded a hatchet that hit her father with 11 blows, to be followed with an attack on her stepmother involving 19 hatchet strikes. In 2014, the owner of the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast sells out tickets for 8 shows involving 17 actors from a local theater company to re-enact the grizzly 1892 slayings.
"They make their own assumptions as to whether Lizzie could have wielded a hatchet 11 and 19 times … or if the Sunday school teacher is innocent, just as her peers did at the time.
Once again, the Pear Essential Players will put on the annual re-enactment on the anniversary of the killings, this year on Monday, Aug. 4.
According to a report from The Herald, a local newspaper; The current CSI script, written by Shelley Dziedzic, is tweaked a bit each year. The cast, 17 in all, changes regularly, too. Dziedzic has written several scripts and is planning on a whole new script for next year."
Lizzie Borden was acquitted during her trial. She remained in Fall River until her death at the age of 66, on June 1in 1927.
Why are we talking about this? Because we find it reprehensible that 122 years after the crime, people today are still using the tragedy of the Borden family to pocket profits for greed. There is no longer any benefit other than the preservation of the macabre that would inspire anyone in this day and age to continue this behavior.
Is it not time for us to grow up and let the Bordens rest in peace?
This entry was posted in Human Spirit, Media Issues, Memorials and tagged Fall River MA, Lizzie Borden, RIP, Sensational media on August 5, 2014 by MNgranny.


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Sack Ayisi-Boateng now – Braimah
Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, is calling for the dismissal of Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng.
Mr Ayisi-Boateng had said that his priority as a government representative in South Africa is to serve the interest of members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) before any other Ghanaian.
Commenting on his Facebook wall on Tuesday, October 31 Mr Braimah said: "This man is not fit to be Ghana's representative in a foreign land. No. Not a dignified, respected and united country such as our motherland."
For him, Mr Ayisi-Boateng is more of an "NPP representative in South Africa" and he hopes "Ghana will have a High Commissioner in South Africa soon".
Following the comments by Mr Ayisi-Boateng, past leaders of the governing New Patriotic Party's tertiary wing, TESCON, came out through a statement to praise him saying they are "proud" of him for saying NPP members are more Ghanaian than others, thus, he would make them his topmost priority before any other Ghanaian.
"We wish to state emphatically that we are very proud of you, H.E. Ayisi-Boateng, the High Commissioner to South Africa," a statement signed by George Krobea Asante, former TESCON President GIMPA, Kumasi said.
But Mr Briamah is of the view that Mr Ayisi-Boateng "should be brought home and appointed chief patron of TESCON" instead, so that he can serve them better.
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Q: Elasticsearch 5.x as nosql data store I currently have a website with mongodb as nosql data store and elasticsearch powering the search function. The data is more or less duplicated from mongodb to elasticsearch. I have to update the search code as it is still runing on a very old version of elasticsearch.
In the process I discovered that elasticsearch in its latest iteration is already much closer to an nosql data store then before.
From a feature perspective:

*

*My data is mainly read, few updates

*The data has documents with subdocuments

*I use geo indexes in mongo, I would like to add geo information to elasticsearch in future

Does anyone have a current version of Elasticsearch as nosql data store in production? I only found very outdated information covering elasticsearch version 1.5 and before. From the documentation (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/current/index.html) I see that a lot of the issues have been fixed in 2.0 and 5.0.
Can anyone with insight and experience with version 5.x give some recommendation?
Thank you!

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Q: How can I read and output the contents of.txt file using C++? I have been assigned as a school project to check the the frequency of occurrence of 26 lowercase letters, and then they are encoded by Hoffman code. In this assignment, the basic requirement is (1)to read the given text file and open it on the terminal and (2)to output the number of occurrence of lowercase letters and their corresponding encoded Hoffman code.
I was able to accomplish the (2) task but whenever I am trying to output the text on the terminal, my code was not able to count the occurrence of the lowercase letters and output their respective Huffman code.
terminal showing only the text content
output without the inclusion of code for reading the text on terminal
Here is my code for the assignment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

int ch;
FILE  *file;

using namespace std;

struct Node
{
    // data members of each node of Huffman tree - alphabet and its frequency
    char data;
    unsigned freq;

    // pointers to left and right childs
    Node *left, *right;

    // constructor to initialize the data members of the Huffman tree node
    Node(char d, unsigned f)
    {
        data = d;
        freq = f;
        left = NULL;
        right = NULL;
    }
};

struct compare
{
    // overloading () to compare which of left,right childs have higher frequency
    bool operator()(Node* l, Node* r)
    {
        return (l->freq > r->freq);
    }
};

// recursive function to display huffman codes
void display(struct Node* root, string str)
{
    // if tree is empty return
    if (!root)
        return;

    if (root->data != '$')
        cout << root->data << ": " << str << "\n";

    // recursively call left, right childs
    display(root->left, str + "0");
    display(root->right, str + "1");
}

// build huffman tree
void createHuffmanTree(char data[], int freq[], int size)
{
    struct Node *left, *right, *top;

    // Create a min heap using STL
    priority_queue<Node*, vector<Node*>, compare> minHeap;

    // push alphabets, frequency into minheap as leaf nodes
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
        minHeap.push(new Node(data[i], freq[i]));

    // repeat until heap size becomes one
    while (minHeap.size() != 1)
    {
        // Extract two least frequent items from minheap
        left = minHeap.top();
        minHeap.pop();

        right = minHeap.top();
        minHeap.pop();

        // Create new internal node with two least frequent items as child nodes
        // frequency of internal node is equal to sum of frequency of child nodes
        top = new Node('$', left->freq + right->freq);

        top->left = left;
        top->right = right;
        // push newly created internal node into minheap
        minHeap.push(top);
    }
    // building Huffman tree is done
    // display Huffman codes for alphabets
    cout << "The Huffman codes for lower case characters: " << endl;
    display(minHeap.top(), "");
}

// reading text file
void readTxt() {

    FILE * txt;
    char ch;

    if (txt != NULL)
    {
        // open file to read english article
        txt = fopen("D:\\data3.txt", "r");
        do
        {
            ch = fgetc(txt);
            putchar(ch);

        } while(ch != EOF);

        //fclose(txt);
    } else {
        cout << "There is no such .txt file in the system." << endl;
        exit(0);
    }
}

int main()
{
    int   charCount = 0;
    int freq[26] = {0};
    readTxt();

    // reads english article from file and counts frequency of each lowercase alphabet
    while (1)
    {
        ch = fgetc(file);
        if (ch == EOF)
            break;
        if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
        {
            freq[ch - 'a']++;
            // count total number of lowercase alphabets in file
            charCount++;
        }
    }

    fclose(file);

    // display total number of characters in file
    cout << "Number of lowercase alphabets in file: " << charCount << endl;

    char arr[] = { 'a','b','c','d','e','f',
                   'g','h','i','j','k','l',
                   'm','n','o','p','q','r',
                   's','t','u','v','w','x',
                   'y','z' };

    // display frequency of lowercase characters
    cout << "Frequency of lowercase characters: " << endl;
    int freqCount = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
    {
        if(freq[i]!=0)
        {
            cout << arr[i] << " : " << freq[i] << endl;
            // count number of lowercase alphabets with frequency greater than zero
            freqCount++;
        }
    }

    char arr1[freqCount];
    int k = 0,      freq1[freqCount];

    // copy lowercase alphabets with frequency greater than zero into arr1, freq1
    for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
    {
        if(freq[i]!=0)
        {
            arr1[k] = arr[i];
            freq1[k++] = freq[i];
        }
    }

    // call method to create Huffman tree
    createHuffmanTree(arr1, freq1, freqCount);
    return 1;
}

It will be a great help if you guide me through my mistake.
TIA


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Yeh Hai Mohabbatein 16th August 2018 Episode Start With Simmi agrees to take Raman and Ishita's support in her battle. They go to the police station and tell the inspector about the whole incident. Raman tells the inspector that Simmi is ready to be a witness against Param as he's the mastermind after all those plannings. He provoked Simmi to do all those deeds. Simmi is innocent. Inspector replies that it's good that she realized her mistake. But as she participated in all these crimes… they've to arrest her. Ishita says that they agree that she was a partner in Param's deeds but as she knows government supports the people who accept their mistakes and want to improve themselves. And Simmi is doing the same. Simmi is helping them to catch such a criminal mind. Param Khurana. So will they not provide any protection to such government witness.
Inspector replies that not they…only magistrate will decide this. And at this time they must arrest her. Simmi agrees for being arrested as she wants to repent her sins. Raman replies that he'll not let her go to prison. Raman asks the inspector to wait for a while as his lawyer may come for anticipatory bail for Simmi. Inspector agrees to wait.
Raman explains Simmi that she accepted her crime that's the biggest repentance.. she doesn't need to go to prison. Raman tells her that he'll not let anything happen to her until he's there and whatever is going to happen… Will happen to Param. Raman requests an inspector to take immediate steps for arresting Param as he's a big danger for his family. Inspector asks him to not to worry as they'll take action against him.
Pihu is having fun at her campsite. Riya asks Pihu to go with them to school bus but Pihu replies that her sister will come to pick her and she'll go with her. The weather goes bad. Pihu suspects a shadow on their classroom window… But as she comes out to check she finds no one there.
Ishita. Raman and Simmi return from the police station. On the way, Ishita tries to divert Simmi's stress. Simmi asks them to stop the car on the way. She remembers Param's reality and starts crying. Ishita asks her the cause of her cry. Simmi can't get over her mistakes. She requests Raman and Ishita to apologize her. Param made her blind. She followed him and went against her own family. She went so mad for her revenge that she spoiled everyone's life. Raman and Ishita request her to calm down and not to blame herself for all this anymore. Simmi can't stop crying. Ishita tells her that they forgot everything and she also needs to do the same. Ishita asks Raman to take Simmi to home as she went more anxious.
Ruhi receives a call that said Pihu will come with them by school bus. Ishita. Raman and Simmi return home. Whole Bhalla family tries to vanish from Simmi's sadness. Simmi feels good with baby Adi in her lap. Ruhi tells Ishita that she received a call that informed that Pihu will come by school bus. Ishita goes to the kitchen to cook food for everyone.
Ishita asks Simmi for help to keep her distracted. Raman asks Santoshi to not to worry as they all are there to support her. Ishita feels concerned about Pihu and asks Ruhi to call her teacher. Ruhi calls but the number was switched off. Ishita calls Raman and tells him the whole matter. Raman calls on another number of the teacher. She asks Raman why didn't they come to take Pihu. Raman tells her that they received a call from camp that Pihu will come by school bus. She tells him that she didn't call them. Raman says that he may come to pickup Pihu. But before he could complete his words.. someone disconnects the landline. Raman suspects that Param can be responsible for all this mess. Everyone felt worried. Ishita, Raman, and Simmi rush to save Pihu. Mr. Bhalla calls the police.
Mani and Shagun are preparing for a charity event. Their doorbell rings. Two men enter in who is going to work as magician, juggler, and joker in the event for children's entertainment. But as only magician and juggler reached there. Shagun asks about the clown. A man..Sanjay…who was going to be the clown enters in and tells them that his costume is missing. He can't find it. He doubts that may be the person he met at a birthday party stole it. Shagun asks them to not to worry as they can arrange another costume. Shagun shows them the pictures of her a child's birthday party and asks them to check the costume. Sanjay saw Param in those pictures and tells them that he's the person who stole his costume. Mani and Shagun get shocked to listen that Param stole his costume.
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Likinnios ist einzig von einer Inschrift an der Unterseite eines späthellenistischen Kopfkantharos bekannt, der aus stilistischen Gründen in einen kleinasiatischen Produktionsort verwiesen wurde. Kleinasien war zu dieser Zeit eines der Produktionszentren bleiglasierter Keramik. Dabei ist nicht sicher, ob die Inschrift den Besitzer des Gefäßes meint, den Besitzer der Werkstatt, in der es geschaffen wurde, oder den Handwerker, der es geschaffen hatte. Weitestgehend wird angenommen, dass Likinnios direkt oder indirekt an der Herstellung der Vase beteiligt war. Der Kantharos befindet sich heute in der Sammlung des J. Paul Getty Museums.

Weblinks

 Künstlerporträt auf der Webseite des J. Paul Getty Museums (englisch)

Griechischer Keramiker
Grieche (Antike)
Geboren im 2. oder 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Gestorben im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. oder 1. Jahrhundert
Mann

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.....wilderness is God's preparation for restoration.
Wonderful, beautiful and amen. Loved this.
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Exhibition of Bengali film posters opens in Prague
https://english.radio.cz/exhibition-bengali-film-posters-opens-prague-8621236#player=on
A rather unusual exhibition opened in Prague's Adria Palace on Friday - a collection of film posters representing decades of Bengali cinema. Unlike the commercial song and dance extravaganzas of Bollywood, Bengali cinema is known for its bold experimentation, and the Bengali film industry is one of the oldest in India. Its most famous proponent is the director Satyajit Ray, whose 1955 classic The Song of the Road was the first Indian film to enter the international arena of art cinema. At the official launch Radio Prague spoke to the exhibition's curator, Martin Hribek.
"I'm a postgraduate student and a teacher at the department of South and Central Asia at Charles University in Prague, and I spent around three years in Calcutta altogether and I got interested and involved with Bengali cinema."
Tell me a bit about the exhibition.
"Here we have a private collection, courtesy of Ashoke Roy. We have on display about 60 posters, starting from the early 50s, and continuing to this very year."
It's a fairly big exhibition hall and there are a lot of people here - what explains the Czech interest, fascination almost, with Indian film?
"I think it's more a fascination with Indian culture in general, and perhaps in Bengali culture in particular. Interestingly enough, the Czech Indiologist Vincenc Lesny was the first European person to translate Rabindranath Tagore from the original into a European language, the first European or westerner ever. So it's a fairly long tradition of interest in literature mainly, later in the language and other aspects of culture as well."
Because very few Czechs will ever have visited India.
"That's true, but it's been changing fast since the breakup of Communism and since the floodgates opened and in recent years as the economy's been improved, I can see it very intensely, that for our students now, the floodgates are way more open now than they were for myself say six years ago. Only that five or six years' time difference is really very significant in terms of opportunities to explore Indian culture."
This exhibition comes just a few months after the Bollywood film festival, also in the centre of Prague, which is becoming more and more successful each year. You could say that Czechs have developed a love for Indian popular culture.
"I think it's the whole of Europe which has become interested in Indian popular culture and Indian popular films. Also the Bollywood films themselves are changing, and are getting closer to what is digestible for a European viewer, and at the same time this fascination with exotic and big budget movies is spreading in Europe itself. So I think the interest in Bollywood in the Czech Republic is part of that."
It might come as something of a surprise to an Indian tourist walking through Prague to stumble upon an exhibition of Bengali film posters.
"I hope there will be many surprised Indian tourists who will bump into the poster in front of the gate."
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In glorious Melbourne sunshine, a stone-cold A-League classic unfolded at Swan St.
Mark Rudan will be disappointed his in-form Wellington side were unable to hold onto their 3-1 halftime lead, but a spirited fightback from Victory – backed by a vociferous home crowd – meant the draw was probably a fair reflection of the game.
Victory were ahead after just five minutes, with Ola Toivonen's delicate chip coming way against the run of play. The lead lasted just two minutes, with Louis Fenton crossing for David Williams to restore parity.
Victory simply couldn't deal with the Wellington high press and were exposed by Josh Hope's turnover in his own box on the 20 minute mark.
The young midfielder tried to make amends, but his clumsy attempt to win the ball back tripped up Roy Krishna, and referee Jared Gillet pointed to the spot without hesitation. Krishna himself stepped up to smash the ball into the back of the net from 11m.
Phoenix sent their healthy away support into delirium eight minutes later, as another promising counter attack opened up the long range shot for Williams. Lawrence Thomas only succeeded in parrying it straight to the danger man Krishna, who struck home the loose ball for his second and Wellington's third.
Muscat brought off the rattled Hope for Raul Baena at halftime, and the change had an immediate impact. A wonderful move involving Baena, Kosta Barbarouses, Toivonen, and finally James Troisi saw Victory pull a goal back in the 56th minute.
The thoroughly underwhelming Corey Brown was also substituted, with winger Elvis Kamsoba brought on to chase the game.
However, it was the extra blue shirt provided by deputy left back Terry Antonis which led to the equaliser – Antonis' cross not cleared by the Nix backline, and Kosta Barbarouses firing into the bottom corner to set up a grandstand finish.
The winner would not come for either side, but Muscat's men will be happy enough to settle for a point after they were so humbled in the first 45 minutes.
Could have done more to push Williams' long range strike wider and away from the danger area – an error that Krishna punished ruthlessly. Otherwise could not be faulted for any of the goals.
A nervy start from the Kiwi as he gave away an unnecessary corner, which set the tone early for a hesitant performance. Should have done more to challenge Krishna for the rebound off Thomas. Better in the second half but was still beaten in one on one situations and needs to improve defensively.
Played Fenton onside in the build-up to Wellington's equaliser, and was unsure in the first half with Krishna and Singh dribbling at him. Imperious in the second, winning several crucial duels, denying Sheridan with a goal-saving challenge, and distributing the ball well as Victory chased the game.
Again deputising as a centre back, Broxham did well to hold up counter attacks, and won more headers than he had a right to. Kevin Muscat must wish he had two or three Broxhams to choose from, given Victory's current injury issues.
Caught square by the run of Fenton in the lead-up to Wellington's equaliser. A very poor performance characterised by inaccurate passing, unconvincing challenges and errant positioning. His flank was repeatedly targeted by Phoenix, and he proved a clear weak point in the lineup. Toivonen alerted the Victory bench in the first half that Brown was not at full fitness, but the change did not come until well into the second.


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Dr.Ravinder Kochar of LM Homoeo College gets National Award for contribution to Homoeopathy
Dr.Ravinder Kochar, Principal of Lord Mahavira Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Punjab was conferred with national 'Rashtriya Vidya Saraswati Puraskar 2014' by the International Institute of Education and Management, New Delhi, recently. He received the award for his outstanding achievement in the field of homoeopathic education.
Dr Kochar owns an experience of 29 years in the profession and about 20 years experience in teaching. Prior to this award, he had received many other awards, including state award by Council of Homoeopathic System of Medicine, Punjab, Chandigarh; Best Citizen of India-2000 by International Publishing House, New Delhi; Millennium Achiever Award 2000-2001 from New Delhi, Tamir Patra Award by Homoeopathic Medical Association of India, Punjab, State Branch, State Award for Best Service in Medical Profession by Shaheed Memorial Trust (Regd.), Punjab, Great Achiever of India Award by Front for National Progress-Delhi, Bharat Vikas Award by Integrated Council for Socio-Economic Progress (regd) Delhi and Rashtriya Rattan Award by Global Economic, New Delhi.
He is a life member of Indian Red Cross Society, Ludhiana, and Asian Homoeopathic Medical League (regd). He was also the chairman of Adhoc Board of Studies in Homoeopathy, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences.
Dr Ravinder Kochar showed his gratitude towards the organising committee and said such awards boost the morale of individuals to do more for the benefit of society. College management, faculty and students congratulated the principal for his success.
Source: Hindustan Times


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I am 32,000 words into a very rough first draft of Tolliver 3. New people are showing up in a different part of British East Africa than I have written about before: 1913 in Nakuru, where, in my story, the administration is about to move several Maasai villages out of the area to make way for European settlers who are pouring into the country.
Needless to say, I need to come up with names for my new imaginary friends. I like this part of figuring out a story. Naming decisions in some ways dictates the details of a character's behavior and personality.
My friend Rabbi Michael Levy once told me that in Jewish tradition, parents are given a moment of prophesy when they choose a name for their child. Do you think it's true, that what name a person carries influences who they turn out to be? I do.
And I think this is true of fictional characters as well. Once we name them, what we name them has an effect on what they do once they start moving about on their own.
Think about the names of archetypal characters. Would Lizzy Bennet seem like the same person if Jane Austen had named her Felicity Fairweather.
And Mr. Darcy? Suppose instead of Fitzwilliam Darcy, he had been called George Bacon.
Hannibal Lecter! What a perfect name! A cannibal named Rufus Jones would have been an unlikely candidate for the most memorable fictional villain of the 20th century.
Would we be as frightened of Moriarity if his name had been Mulligan?
Most of my new folks are missionaries, administrators, and Maasai tribesmen and women. My administrators have the real names of men who served in the Protectorate, unless my fictional version of them is despicable, in which case I make up a name. The missionaries, a Brit and an American woman, have made up names, although they are based loosely on historical characters. The Maasai are all figments of my imagination. Giving them names is easier now than it would have been before the Internet. There are websites that list Maasai girls and boys names, or Finnish or Tibetan ones for that matter. Easy to look up. Then, comes the choice. Since mine are characters who will be introduced to American readers, their names have to be pronounceable so they can be remembered. Many Maasai girl's names are mellifluous, but look like this example on the page: -Naisianoi. A few that I found were viable candidates, like Simu, Tigisi, and Pion. I eliminated the last one because to Americans, it sounds like an English verb and preposition. We wouldn't want that.
Simu and Tigisi? Or Tigisi and Simu?
So Simu and Tigisi they are. I look forward to finding out what kinds of people they will turn out to be.
Simu and Tigisi, together again for the very first time. Works for me! Then again, I'm easy. Just call me kiddo and I'm there.
Okay, kiddo. Dinner when I get back to NYC.
You guys have all the fun...I need a teleporter with a window to NYC.
Great post, Annamaria. I do the same thing with character names and you're right, it tells you a lot about a character before you start. A Bill is a very different person from a Billy.
I love the fact that as well as being pronounceable, Simu and Tigisi are differently shaped names. I try to avoid that, too -- no Gerry and Terry, or Tim and Jim. And when I do my initial outline for a book I jot down an alphabet and put a mark ago above each letter to denote a character with a first name beginning with that letter, and a mark below for a last name, so I don't end up with too many similarities there either.
I do something similar, Zoë - I have an alphabetized chart for my series, color-coded by book, to make sure I don't repeat names or have any characters whose names look or sound too similar. I share your liking for differently-shaped names too. It makes reading so much more interesting!
Zoe, Terry and Gerry! We ought to write a short story about them. Will they be men or women or one of each, but then will the Terry or the Gerry be the man?
Wow, Susan, you sound WAY too organised compared to the way I do it. I'm in awe. I don't think I've ever repeated a character name accidentally, although I have accidentally used a surname that I need to use for another character in the next book. My solution? They'll be related. In fact, I can work that into the plot and it fits just fine ... fortunately!
Yeah, Annamaria, the story of Terry and Gerry sounds like it might fly. Who says either can't be men who really want to be women, or vice versa?
Growing up, I knew MANY Bills and Daves and Mikes, but had never really thought about my own name. I simple was Everett, and Everett was me. I'd never met another Everett (I grew up in a small town of about 3000 people), and had only really even HEARD of a couple of people named Everett (Senator Everett Dirksen was one).
So one summer day, working in the local mobile home factory during my college years, at break, I walked up to a group of co-workers, and one of them turned to me and said, "Everett, meet Everett."
And my brain fritzed. Huh? It took what seemed like 5-10 seconds before I started thinking again, because my brain was in this weird loop trying to figure out what the guy had said, what he meant. Of course, I eventually realized he was introducing me to a new co-worker who was also named Everett, but it was only at that point (at age 19 or 20) that I realized how wonderful it had been to grow up with a name that I hadn't had to share with anyone else. I was Everett, and Everett was me.
My world has gotten a bit larger since my small-town up-bringing, but I've still met very few others with my name. Occasionally it shows up on TV (there's a new murder show on this winter, Backstrom, with a main character named Everett AND it's set in Portland, Oregon AND the main character is ... well, a wee bit off the port bow. How can I NOT watch it???
So, the short of the long is that, of course, I agree with you, AmA!
Everett, my experience was just the opposite. My given name is Patricia, chosen because I was born on St. Patrick's Day. There were Patricias everywhere I went. In my small liberal arts college there were eleven of us in a class of 99 students. My legal name, Patricia King is so common that here are 2950 of us in the US. The most famous one is a televangelist. I took my pen name not to be confused with her.
I used to have the same thing with my name, Everett -- there were just no other Zoës around when I was a kid. The first time I came over to the States, the guy at Immigration looked at my passport and said, "How the heck do you pronounce this?"
Now, of course, the name's around a lot more. I still look round when I hear it called, though, just in case.
I love naming characters - though mine have similar issues to yours, in the sense that I have to find a name that not only fits, but works in an English-speaking reader's ears.
My son and I had a long debate over my choice of "Akira" for one of the characters in BLADE OF THE SAMURAI. Although Akira is a masculine name (and very much so, in Japanese culture), he worried it might sound too feminine to Western ears. In the end, I used it - mainly because it's one of a fairly limited list of legitimate samurai names that wouldn't tongue-tie my English readers.
Also: I like Pion - and it took me a minute to figure out the verb-preposition combination you meant...but when I did, I realized immediately why it was a non-starter.
Fantastic post. I love the window into your writing process!
Susan, it never occurred to me to think Akira was feminine. It's as masculine as Akira Kurasawa!!!


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Q: NullPointExeption when try to put variable to object in Java I create object which contain feature geometry and attributes:
public class Feature {
Feature(String wkt) {
this.wkt = wkt;
}

private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap;
private String wkt;

public String getWKT() {
return wkt;
}
public void addAttribute(Column column, String value) {
columnMap.put(column, value);
}
public String getAttribute(String column) {
return columnMap.get(column) ;
}
public Map<Column, String> getAttributes(){
    return columnMap;

}
}

Wkt is a geometry. ColumnMap is object contain a attributes as HashMap:
public class Column {

private String columnName;

Column(String columnName) {
  this.columnName = columnName;
}

public String getName() {
  return columnName;
}
}

Now i says:
columnList = new ArrayList<Column>(columns);

......

Feature feature= new Feature(WKT);
for(int p=0;p<columnList.size();p++){
for(int k=0;k<=ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects).length;k++){
   if(p==k){
       System.out.println("Column  "+columnList.get(p).getName()+"  Value  "+ ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects)[k].toString());
      //feature.addAttribute(columnList.get(p), ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects)[k].toString());
   }
}
}

And get output:
Column  id  Value  22
Column  kadnumm  Value  "66-41-0707001-19"

So how i understand columnList and ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects) is not empty. After this i change :
//feature.addAttribute(columnList.get(p), ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects)[k].toString());

to:
feature.addAttribute(columnList.get(p), ViewObject.getMIDInfo(totalObjects)[k].toString());

And get exeption:
Column  id  Value  22
java.lang.NullPointerException
at objects.Feature.addAttribute(Feature.java:18)
at objects.MIFParser.findRegion(MIFParser.java:181)
at objects.MIFParser.instanceNextObject(MIFParser.java:66)
at Read.main(Read.java:40)

How i understand NullPointerException means that i try to use empty objects? Whats wrong?
P.s. Sorry my english can be terrible especially with title .
UPDATE
Okey i add this: this.columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>(); in FEature class constructor.
But now i try to do:
System.out.println(feature.getAttribute("id")+" "+feature.getAttribute("kadnumm"));

and output:
null null

What can be wrong?

A: You didnt initialize your columnMap:
private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>();

A: addAttribute tries to put something on columnMap, but you don't create columnMap anywhere. You need to add to your Feature constructor:
Feature(String wkt) {
    this.wkt = wkt;
    this.columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>(); // <=== The new bit
}

...or add an initialization to your declaration:
private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>();
//                        The new bit--- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just declaring the member isn't sufficient, the member just refers to an object, and starts off null. You need to create the object for it to refer to and assign that object to it.

A: columnMap object is not initialized when you create a new instance of Feature. So it is null when you call columnMap.put(column, value); in addAttribute

A: instead of
private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap;

do
 private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>();

A: You must initialize the map:
private HashMap<Column, String> columnMap = new HashMap<Column, String>();