Hugh Heclo's superbly crafted new book promotes what he admits to be an unfashionable idea: the institution. The past half-century has been most unkind to those discrete cohering entities, both formal and informal, that "represent inheritances of valued purpose with attendant rules and moral obligations." Today, Americans almost universally denigrate institutions, including those of which they are members. Whether it is marriage, Congress, Rotary clubs, lawyering, or chivalry, the institution is under siege.
The reasons are numerous. Heclo provides a litany of malfeasance within presidential administrations and Congress since the late 1950s. Although the rest of American history is hardly devoid of similar episodes, he argues that mass communications and our interconnectedness exacerbate the public impact of such events and, having been spun by corporations and politicians for the last seventy-five years, we are innately skeptical of the mea culpas and attempts to account for failure that inevitably follow. Cumulatively, these kinds of things help explain the "performance-based" source of our pervasive distrust of institutions.
Attacks on institutions are "culture-based" too. They come from our hyperdemocratic politics that do not respect any kind of differentiated social role. They stem from the Enlightenment with its obsessive focus on the self, its unshakeable confidence in human reason, and its belief that an institution has no value beyond that which an individual can squeeze from it for personal gain. They have roots in our education system that has designated institutions as, at best, annoying encumbrances and, at worst, oppressive tools of the past. Students are taught to believe what they like and express themselves as they see fit. Even people understood to be conservatives—at least in the way we conceptualize political ideology today—assail institutions. Freemarket economics places a premium on self-interest and assumes institutions stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. Indeed, one of the most interesting implications of Heclo's book is a somewhat novel understanding of the principal cleavage in today's conservative movement. It is the esteem in which its adherents hold institutions that can be used to distinguish them from one another.
Despite today's inhospitable environment, institutions are indubitably worth supporting. They provide reference points in an uncertain world. They tie us to the past and present and oblige us to think about others. They furnish personal assistance and institutionalize trust. They give our lives purpose and, therefore, the kind of self-satisfaction that only the wholesale rejection of them is supposed to provide.
How do we protect and promote them? Heclo says that first and foremost we must learn to think institutionally. This is very different from thinking about institutions as scholars do. It is not an objective and intellectual exercise. It is a more participatory and intuitive one. What is more, it is not quixotic. To think institutionally you do not have to live slavishly by an institution's rules, become an institution's chief supporter, or heroically buffer an institution from the vicissitudes of the outside world. Instead, thinking this way means something less, perhaps something easier. You should "distrust but value." To think institutionally you need a "particular sensitivity" to or an "appreciative viewpoint" of institutions. To be more specific, the exercise moves our focus away from the self and towards a recognition of our debts and obligations to others.
Heclo writes with particular reverence about many of the Founders of this country when fleshing out the idea of thinking institutionally. He provides an interesting analysis of Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's thoughts on usufruct, for example. Whereas Jefferson believed strongly that neither those who lived in the past nor those who will live in the future can bind the decisions of a community's current inhabitants, Madison addressed the issue of generational independence using institutional thinking. To him, past, present, and future are woven into the same fabric.
Heclo also rejects arguments made by scholars like Charles Beard who believed the Framers of the Constitution wrote the document to advance their own economic interests. Instead, he asserts, they were acutely aware of the assistance they had been provided by those who had pushed for liberty before them—especially those Greeks, Frenchmen, and Englishmen who forged the canonical thought about freedom. They knew that what they were doing would influence tremendously the lives of millions of people who would be born well after their deaths. They understood their actions would influence millions of their contemporaries across the Western world. In other words, there was a vibrant sense among the Framers that their actions had significant implications beyond the time and space they occupied.
Heclo is highly critical of rational-choice theory's understanding of institutional foundation and development. This school of thought—believed by many to be regnant in the social sciences—views institutions as the product of the interests of a few of the powerful or a majority of the weak. Institutions are adapted because they no longer maximize these interests in the current state of the world. Rational choice, therefore, clearly undercuts institutional thinking and the normative ramifications that come with it. But it is more problematic than that. As a matter of theory, Heclo sees it as too reductionist. As an empirical matter he views it as frequently just plain wrong.
Moreover, rational-choice theory has always been presented with the conundrum of institutional service. Why do institutions survive when all of their members are self-interested? Why would someone join an institution when its interests will often be at odds with his own? Why would an individual powerful enough to establish an institution permit it to serve the interests of others? The stock answers have been that institutional membership and particularly leadership are incentivized. Seniors join AARP not for the purposes of fellowship and participating in public debates about Social Security and Medicare policy but for the insurance, pharmacy, and other subsidies and benefits members enjoy. Professors' academic careers must essentially be suspended when they assume the administrative tasks that a department needs to have performed if it is to survive. In return, they are paid more than their colleagues of similar rank and ability. The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairs of the body's committees are better positioned to raise campaign money, run for higher office, and get their bills through the legislative process. This is payoff for serving the institution and protecting its powers and prerogatives from competitors. To think institutionally, then, is to do something much more than provide individuals with incentives to be part of and promote institutions. It calls on them to modify their behavior. In this way, Heclo challenges rational choice's assumptions about institutional maintenance vigorously.
The second way institutions are supported is by acting institutionally. One can only act institutionally if one first thinks institutionally. Heclo argues that acting institutionally has three components. The first, "profession," involves learning and respecting a body of knowledge and aspiring to a particular level of conduct. The second, "office," is a sense of duty that compels an individual to accomplish considerably more for the institution than a minimal check-list of tasks enumerated within a kind of job description. Finally, there is "stewardship." Here Heclo is getting at the notion of fiduciary responsibility. The individual essentially takes the decisions of past members on trust, acts in the interests of present and future members, and stands accountable for his actions.
Heclo is not particularly optimistic that we will change and begin thinking institutionally in a systematic way. Thinking institutionally is a lonely pursuit. Its practitioners are unappreciated and considered naive. They expect to be taken advantage of by those who care nothing for institutions, only for themselves. But that does not mean we should not do it. Heclo makes it very clear. A world where more people think and act institutionally would be a much better place.
On the day I finished reading this book, the New York Times published an article about Wootton Bassett in southern England. The village is on the road from the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham to a morgue in Oxford. Every now and then, hearses drive down its High Street carrying the bodies of British soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a spontaneous but conscientious manner, villagers and the local chapter of the Royal British Legion have taken to informing the community about the date and time of these repatriations—the official term for the return of these servicemen to the United Kingdom. Hundreds of people then drop what they are doing and stand along the road, in complete stillness and silence, as the coffins go by. Participants say they are there to express their gratitude to their fellow citizens and reflect upon the sacrifice made by members of the armed services. They do not want any attention. According to the Times reporter, they believe they are behaving as any decent person would. In Hugh Heclo's words, they are thinking, and acting, institutionally.
ANDREW TAYLOR is Professor of Political Science at North Carolina State University. He teaches courses in American politics and is currently finishing a book about the floor in Congress.
This article appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Modern Age, a journal published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). ISI is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to further in successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and humane society. Copyright 2009 by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.


Gevity HR is the nation's leading provider of outsourced human capital management solutions that help businesses find, develop, and manage their people, retain their best employees, manage the paperwork, and protect their businesses. These services are provided through specific offerings, such as recruiting assistance, training, benefits administration, payroll processing, and related paperwork management and regulatory compliance. Through its long relationship with Gevity's CEO, Erik Vonk, Harvey & Company initiated a $30 million, minority, non-control investment in the publicly traded company by a Chicago-based equity fund. The investment provided capital to acquire stock from a significant shareholder and to support the company's growth. In 2004 and 2005 the investment was sold in two highly successful secondary offerings.


In a Farid Rasulov installation, you're surrounded by the familiar — chairs, tables and rugs, rugs, rugs — and yet there's something wonderfully off and fantastical about the experience. Can an interior bewilder and beguile? Rasulov's do — and have throughout his nearly decade-long career. The Azerbaijan artist — who was formally trained as a doctor before switching to contemporary art a year after med school — is known for taking simple everyday interiors, often done in Occidental styles, and covering every inch in traditional Azerbaijan carpet patterns, from floor to ceiling to chandeliers, cushioned sofas to kitchen counters to bookshelves, right down to the individual books. The only point of contrast in these works are the minimal all-white sculptures of living creatures, like dogs and cats, that he places within. The result is a cool collision of East and West, foreground and background, the mundane and the decorative….


Legalizing online gambling in a country is a very difficult obstacle to do since a government must take actions on how to control such gambling activities, how to limit, control, what law should be applied when they do legalize it, what are the effects and many more. But as new years eve came in and 2010 ends, Greece has proud on its feet to announce that they are legalizing online gambling in their own country.
The UIGEA bill, enacted in 2006, whose sole purpose is to regulate laws about online casino gambling in countries of America, was a big break for such online casino to closed, or stop from admitting casino players that wage real money in their game. And up until now, the federal law has kept its vision to regulate such online casino site in their own jurisdiction.


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Postcard from Chile
Sunday, March 03 2019 @ 11:46 am ACDT
Contributed by: Wesley Hull
Lia Timson is Deputy Foreign Editor at Fairfax Media. The following story from Lia at www.theage.com.au looks at how the "Santiago Saints get their kicks in very Aussie way". Her story brings the Santiago Saints back into the international spotlight after playing an almost secondary role to the Bogota Bulldogs in recent years as Colombian footy has grown.
This story also touches on the mechanics of a club behind the scenes and how they develop and exist many miles from the Australian Rules football heartland in Australia – how the ex-pat Aussies drive the game with the help of people from all over the world and locally in Santiago.
Santiago: What's uniquely Australian but becomes global as soon as a bunch of Aussies get together on the other side of the world?
If you said AFL, welcome to the Chilean capital, where Australian rules is proudly played by expats from all states Down Under, as well as from France, the United States and Colombia. Locals join in too.
Here the Santiago Saints, a local institution since 2000, has been welcoming not only mining and banking employees working for Australian companies in the country, but also their families.
"This year we've had a number of foreigners, French players, some Americans, Chileans too," says club president Jeff Chittock.
His day job is director of outsourcing for giant KPMG. He is one of hundreds of Aussie expats working in Chile for an increasing number of Australian companies, among them government agencies, mining giants and technology providers. He has lived in Santiago since 2013 and seen Australia's interest in South America increase along with the region's economic maturity.
"The economies of Latin America are growing and as a result there's diversification which gives rise to opportunities," Chittock says.
He says that 20 years ago our interest in the region was solely focused on mining – Chile is the world's No. 1 copper producer – but it now extends to technology, products and services in several other industries. His own group within KPMG focuses on accounting, payroll, tax compliance and business development services for international clients.
The Australian embassy in Santiago says there are more than 230 Australian companies in Chile, operating also in infrastructure, health, tourism, wine making and defence among other sectors.
Chittock laughs when I ask him if home rivalry is forgotten on the oval when the team gets together. Aussie players come from Victoria, NSW, Tasmania, Western Australia and even Alice Springs.
"Yes it is. I don't know how or why, but AFL became the sport of choice of the community and it has continued on that basis. There are not many clubs available to Australians, and I suppose AFL is quintessentially Australian, so it's a group new arrivals [to the country] tend to go to."
He tells me the team has always been self-supporting, but after a fire damaged the club house last year, the Victorian government helped rebuild it. (Victoria has an office in Santiago, part of an effort to double its trade with South and Central America in the next decade.)
Although the Saints are only big enough for one official mixed team – it has up to 40 members who play against each other in training – there are others on the continent willing to take them on. The Bogota Bulldogs, in Colombia, have several sides and their own domestic competition started last year.
The Bulldogs are Colombia's first AFL team and boast of playing and training at an altitude of 2600 metres, "which is basically playing on top of Mount Kosciusko". From that, we take it, they must be very fit.
"Each year we play against them in the GF," Chittock says of the Andes Cup, which kicked off in 2016 and saw the Bulldogs claim the title of South American champions for the third time last year.
But knowing who your opponent is every time doesn't bother the Saints – they get plenty of opportunity to exercise and socialise regardless.
There's always a choripan – chorizo sandwich – and a beer after Sunday training sessions, and plenty of professional AFL to watch on TV at the local pub together.
And as the 2019 season sign-up ad says, "Todos son bienvenidos" (All are welcome).
To read the original story by Lia Timson, go to: https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/postcard-from-chile-santiago-saints-get-their-kicks-in-very-aussie-way
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Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement – 2021 2022
TBC Conversions takes its social responsibilities very seriously and conducts its business in accordance with its core values of integrity, trust, respect and commitment.
TBC Conversions is committed to acting ethically in all our business dealings and relationships.
TBC Conversions has a zero tolerance approach to acts of modern slavery and human trafficking within both its business and supply chain and requires the same standards from its suppliers.
Business practices and responsibilities can continually be improved and TBC Conversions is committed to understanding more about modern slavery and human trafficking.
Group Organisational Structure
TBC Conversions is part of the Donnelly Group with Donnelly Bros. Garages (Dungannon) Limited being the parent company. The full list of group companies can be found at Appendix 1.
TBC Conversions head office is in Dungannon, Co Tyrone with trading companies located across Northern Ireland and the UK.
TBC Conversions principal activities are the sale of converted new passenger cars and commercial vehicles from over 18 global manufacturers as well as the following functions;
Retail of used vehicles
Arranging finance & leasing of vehicles
Providing vehicle aftercare including servicing and repair
Retailing of parts and accessories
Vehicle conversions to special purpose vehicles
Our supply chains
The supply chain in the automotive industry is one of the most complex business sector supply chains, there could be up to ten levels of suppliers between a car dealership and the source of raw materials that make up all the various parts of the vehicle. The breadth, depth and interconnectedness of the supply chain can make it challenging to manage business and sustainability issues.
The group procures a wide range of vehicles, parts for vehicles and other accessories as well as other goods and services from a wide variety of suppliers.
Our supply chains currently support the following activities:
Vehicle Manufacturing
Vehicle retail
Product manufacturing & import
Recruitment and training
Operations & infrastructure support
Accident Management
We have adopted a risk based approach to the assessment of our business and supply chain, which has involved taking industry and market factors into consideration in order to identify categories of supply that may present a higher risk of modern slavery being present.
Due Diligence – Supply Chain standards and Actions to Address Risk
TBC Conversions prohibits all areas of its business and supply chains from engaging in slavery and human trafficking. The main protection against slavery is to ensure that all business activity complies with minimum wage and national living wage legislation; this is a fundamental requirement for all of our contractors.
TBC Conversions also requires that all contractors only employ staff with a right to work in the UK. Suppliers/Contractors are required to declare on the 'Contractor Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality (SHEQ) Questionnaire whether they have a Modern Day Slavery policy.
TBC Conversions are progressing an approved supplier listing to ensure that only suppliers on this list can be used to supply goods and services throughout the group.
Respecting human rights and environmental issues in the supply chain is ultimately the responsibility of our suppliers. As customers in that supply chain we will also play an active role in supplier development and we will adopt various means to clearly communicate our expectations to our suppliers. We reserve the right to terminate any relationships with suppliers if there are any issues of noncompliance with our policies. Due diligence checks will be preformed.
We also intend undertaking the following actions;
Introducing contractual obligations that reflect Modern Day Slavery legislation and Ethical Trade Base Code in our employee manual by inserting a Code of Conduct surrounding the following;
Prohibition of child labour
Prohibition of forced labour & human trafficking
Prohibition of physical disciplinary abuse
Prohibition of any infraction of the law
Basic working conditions
Freedom of association and
TBC Conversions policy on the above will ensure that it clearly states that we will not tolerate forced labour (including human trafficking) or child labour in our operations and we will conduct regular checks to ensure
TBC Conversions have historically favoured suppliers that operate with ethical codes of conduct that include regular compliance audits and we only work with companies that contractually commit to complying with applicable laws and
TBC Conversions have appointed a whistle blowing champion who will be the designated person who all employees can report any concerns
Reviewing and assessing existing suppliers and in particular their sourcing policies in key risk
All Managers will be given training on Equality and Dignity at work and the general staff will have awareness training at on
Assessing whether a formal supplier code of conduct and supplier terms and conditions similar to those for our sales process would be effective tools for areas of the business where a modern slavery risk is
TBC Conversions clearly communicates to employees the values, actions and behaviours expected of them when representing the TBC Conversions strives to maintain the highest standards of employee conduct and ethical behaviour when operating both on-site and off-site and while managing its supply chain.
Recruitment and selection policy- TBC Conversions is registered as an Equal Opportunities employer and applies a fair recruitment
The aforementioned policy and code of conduct will be owned and administered by the Human Resources Manager at Donnelly
Primary responsibility for identifying risks and implementing process around prevention of modern slavery in our supply chain will lie with all Managers in TBC Conversions who have a procurement responsibility.
We will train our Managers who have direct responsibility in recruitment with our policies on anti slavery and human trafficking and to act at all times in a manner compliant with these. We include Modern Day Slavery awareness at Company on boarding.
Further steps and training
Constant review of group processes for identifying, assessing, mitigating and reporting specifically on modern slavery risks in the business, as well as continuous development and staff training on the modern slavery policy throughout the group.
This statement is made in line with Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our Group's slavery and human trafficking statement for the year 2021 2022. It will be reviewed and updated annually.
The Board of directors delegated approval of this statement on its behalf to the Managing Director of TBC Conversions, David Donnell on 3rd September 2021.
Adapted Slavery Statement PDF


We received our first miracle from St. Jesse when USAID announced that we won. It was with the grace of God and with the intercession of Sec. Jesse.
Like you, We miss him so much and we wish he were here. But his passing away to a new life should not end in sadness. He left us a great legacy. He left us a great life. He was our great inspiration.' He was our great Leader.
In Honor of Secretary Jesse, we are committed to make his work on education governance a national movement.' We will use his examples to make the work of Local School Boards transparent, collaborative, and effective.' On his last meeting with Synergeia mayors, he spoke to them as if they were his disciples. 'Go around schools.' Understand your own terrain and adopt solutions.' Ang dulo, makatapos ang lahat ng bata at maging marunong siya.' Isama ninyo ang pamayanan.' Mas maganda na pinagkakasunduan ang ating programa. Hindi ito pang-mabilisan. Kailangang pagtiyagaan. Ang mahalaga, maalala kayo na kayo ang nag-umpisa.
Our dearest Mayor and Secretary Jesse, you started this movement, and we give you our promise that we will carry out your mission in education governance. And just like you, we will try to pursue this work with excellence, with honor, and in the service of God and country.


An ongoing legal battle over which managed-care plan should be picked by the state to provide care to low-income AIDS and HIV patients in South Florida has triggered a new round of litigation that pits two competitors.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation this week asked a circuit judge to order competitor Simply Healthcare to stop communicating with the foundation's Medicare patients.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Miami Dade County circuit court, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation accuses Simply Healthcare of providing Medicare patients with false information, advising them that they are required to drop their current coverage and enroll in Simply Healthcare.
"By contacting AHF's patients and disseminating false information to them, Simply is intentionally and unjustifiably interfering with (AIDS Healthcare Foundation's) business relationships," attorneys for the foundation argued in the complaint.
Simply Healthcare did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has participated in recent years in the Florida Medicaid program, which offers health care to poor, elderly and disabled people. It also participates in the federal Medicare program, which mostly serves seniors. Some people —- the dual eligibles —- qualify for both.
Florida recently negotiated new, five-year Medicaid managed-care contracts with health plans. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation was not chosen to be a Medicaid managed-care provider in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, essentially precluding it from participating in the program for the next five years. Simply Healthcare was awarded contracts to serve patients with HIV and AIDS.
The foundation has legally challenged the contracting decisions by the Agency for Health Care Administration, with an administrative law judge siding with the foundation. But the agency did not go along with the judge's decision, leading to the foundation filing an appeal.
In the meantime, the state is moving ahead with transitioning Medicaid beneficiaries from the foundation's Medicaid managed-care plan to Simply Healthcare.
In the lawsuit, the foundation argues Simply Healthcare has been contacting dual eligibles and advising them they have to switch health plans by March 1 because the foundation no longer has Medicaid managed-care contracts.


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Q: CPU error messages shown in console during boot -- "CPU1: Stuck ??" I recently installed a second CPU into a server. The CPU is identical to the first and I verified that the CPU is in good working order prior to the installation.
The server booted up and I installed CentOS 6 without issue.
The POST screen recognizes both CPUs -- screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/bOY8M04.png
However, upon first boot I noticed a strange error message on the console showing "CPU1: Stuck ??" -- screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/bOWvk1c.png
Upon digging through the /var/log/messages, I found more debug output on this error:
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D    ---------------    2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 #1
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8152873c>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8152ca74>] ? oops_end+0xe4/0x100
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff81010e0b>] ? die+0x5b/0x90
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8152c552>] ? do_general_protection+0x152/0x160
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8152bd25>] ? general_protection+0x25/0x30
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8103eb79>] ? native_write_cr4+0x9/0x10
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff81050a2e>] ? syscall32_cpu_init+0x6e/0x80
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8151bea2>] ? xsave_init+0x31/0x48
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8151be45>] ? fpu_init+0x7e/0xaa
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff8151df1b>] ? cpu_init+0x309/0x35f
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff81521fcd>] ? start_secondary+0xd/0x2ef
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: [<ffffffff81521fc0>] ? start_secondary+0x0/0x2ef
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: CPU1: Stuck ??
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: #2 #3
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: last sysfs file:
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: CPU 3
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: Modules linked in:
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel:
Sep 13 18:01:58 customer kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D    ---------------    2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 #1 Supermicro X7DWT/X7DWT

Here is a full output of the /var/log/messages during boot: http://pastebin.com/b3wfmLX6
After the system boots, if I run a cat /proc/cpuinfo only four cores are shown.
Does anyone know what could be causing these errors?

A: Hmm, looks like a Supermicro. Are you sure your hardware is healthy?
This just requires troubleshooting steps.

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*Try booting without the new CPU.

*Try swapping the physical CPUs.

*Eliminate the CPU socket as the cause.

*Take the appropriate actions based on these results.

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Discussion in 'Buying Tips and Advice' started by Bilalo, Aug 17, 2012.
Hello everyone, i wanna buy a new laptop that will stay with me for the next 3-4 years without feeling so behind tech. I need it for uni as well as gaming and so on so ofcourse i'm thinking about the macbook pro 15" retina display with full graphics, ram, so on. Is there anything that i do not needs to upgrade while customizing the retina? Like GhZ or so on and i wanted to ask ive read alot of negative things about the new laptop regarding speed of mountain lion as well as problem with the frequency of scrolling on web pages and so on. Id usually wait for 2nd generation retina but i have no time and need a new lappy within a month or two. So any advice?
Either MBP should suit you for the next 3 years. I'd worry less about being behind the technology and more about the performance being acceptable.
The clock rate that you can upgrade an MBP (2.3 to 2.7) is such that you'll not really feel a major difference between the base and fastest.
I'd upgrade the ram to the maximum since you cannot upgrade that alter and be sure the SSD is sized properly for your needs.
Laptop/Desktop hardware performance isn't increasing as exponentially as it used to. Consumers are more interested in mobile/tablets these days, and want lower prices, so computer manufacturers don't have much incentive to revolutionize as often. Any Mac you buy today will last you through 4 years of college for sure.


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Virginia's Democrats decide to raise the stakes with firearms.
By Petrarch | December 28, 2019
With choruses of "Merry Impeachmas" ringing in America's ears, once-marginal concerns over a possible civil war are now fully mainstream. It's widely observed that the bi-coastal and elitist Left live in an entirely different reality from the "Real Americans" in flyover country, and it's becoming harder and harder to see how we can continue to live together.
The Left, clearly, refuses to be ruled by a Trump administration and its policies; equally clearly, the rest of America is not going to tolerate a regime that attempts to ban (or tax out of existence) hamburgers, air conditioning, automobiles, ammunition, paper cups, and straws.
Yet seeing the precise steps leading to an actual split marked by armed conflict has always eluded us. In our first Civil War, state governments declared their independence, took control of their militia and armories (the equivalent of today's National Guard), occupied any Federal installations on their soil such as the famous Fort Sumter, and events proceeded from there.
How, exactly, is that supposed to take place in our integrated globalized world of instant communication, fantastically costly weapons platforms that take the entire country to produce from parts sourced all over the world, and military units that are intentionally comprised of soldiers from all across the nation to prevent exactly that sort of thing from happening again?
Thanks to the results of November's election, the state of Virginia is starting to paint a clearer picture of how this will take place given current trends.
The Blueing Process
It wasn't that long ago that Virginia was considered a mostly-red state. Like all red states, its cities were pockets of bright blue, but there was more than enough hinterland to ensure that Republicans always held a lot of state-level power and generally most of it.
Being adjacent to 100%-Democrat Washington, D.C. and solid-blue Maryland, Virginia occupied a special position. When political types came up in the world and moved inside the Beltway, the young singles liked the urban core, but folks with families generally sorted out onto opposite sides of the river: Democrats in Maryland, and Republicans in Virginia. Over the years, bureaucrats and government contractors tended to follow suit, with social-services types in Maryland and defense sorts in Virginia. Of course there were exceptions, but the overall tendencies were clear and the politics followed accordingly.
In recent years, this has changed: more and more people moved from other places into Northern Virginia (NOVA) to take well-paying government jobs, all of which tend to thrive on Big Government and thus to lean Democrat. At the same time, the industries surrounding Norfolk and its naval bases, being largely unionized, government-related, and riddled with minority set-asides, also both attracted and created Democrats. Lastly, Richmond, as both a city and the home of state government bureaucrats, also stayed solid blue.
Thus, the blue areas in Virginia's right-side corners grew, as did Democratic power. The Rest of Virginia (often called ROVA) stayed Republican. The county color map didn't change too much - only a bit, as suburban counties surrounding the cities went blue - but the blue zones grew vastly in population as did their representation in the state legislature.
In 2019, this decades-long demographic shift finally came to maturity: Democrats already held all the top state executive offices and finally took control of both houses of the state legislature. Republicans are now entirely shut out of effective state-level power, even though they control the bulk of the territory of the state.
Striking While the Iron Is Hot
Given that the top state executives, all Democrats, have all been hammered by personal scandals that would sink any Republican, one might think they'd at least govern in a somewhat humble way. Not so! Before the newly Democratic legislature has even been seated, its goals have already been announced:
Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam vows it's "a new day and a new landscape" in Virginia. He says when Democrats take over the state legislature for the first time in a generation at the start of the new year, passing gun violence prevention laws will be a top priority... Northam unveiled a series of gun control measures, including universal background checks, a ban on assault-style weapons and outlawing sound suppressors like the one the Virginia Beach shooter used.
On the issue of banning assault weapons, [NPR interviewer] Kelly asked Northam what he will do about the ones Virginians already possess. "Will you confiscate them?" Kelly asks.
"No ma'am, not at this stage," Northam said, "We're looking at banning the sales of assault weapons ... that would be what we would start with." [emphasis added]
Gov. Northam spoke the truth - as of the time of the interview, he indeed wasn't planning on confiscating any guns, because the laws to do that didn't (and still don't) exist. He said "not at this stage" which makes it pretty obvious which way the wind is blowing, though, and the Republican politicians in ROVA and their voters were taking no chances:
Though the 2020 legislative session has not yet begun, more than 40 counties have adopted Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in opposition to those potential gun control bills. Dozens of other county boards are slated to discuss similar resolutions in the coming weeks... [emphasis added]
The resolutions contain similar language and outline counties' concern with and intent to oppose any laws they believe would infringe on Second Amendment rights. Some allude to how the county would push back in practice against future laws: A resolution passed by Gloucester County, for example, notes the county's intention to "use such legal means at its disposal to protect the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms, including through legal action, the power of appropriation of public funds, and the right to petition for redress of grievances." In another case, passage of a resolution led to a sheriff vowing to deputize "thousands" of citizens to protect their gun rights.
This is called "nullification," when a lower level of government passes laws declaring that a higher level's law is invalid. We saw exactly this in the run-up to the Civil War, as the South tried to nullify various antislavery laws and the North did the same regarding capturing runaway slaves. More recently, many liberal cities and counties have nullified enforcement of our immigration laws, to the massed applause of the liberal mainstream media. Of course, when conservatives do the same thing, it's the second coming of Hitler.
Take note of the numbers involved. We aren't talking about a small backwoods redneck Hazzard County run by Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco. We're talking about nearly the entire geographic state of Virginia rejecting the plans of its elected legislature, the big cities excepted of course - since the above article was published, the number of such counties is now nearly 100.
Some of the resolutions merely express disapproval; some declare the intent to wage lawfare. But an increasing number of sheriffs, as mentioned in the article, are making plans to grant local legal authority to ordinary citizens in an attempt to preserve their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms against, in their view, a tyrannical government opposed to that right.
The Governor's Oath
The situation is made more interesting by the oath which a new Governor of Virginia swears as a condition of taking office:
The oath of a Governor. "I ____, elected Governor of Virginia, by the representatives thereof, do solemly promise and swear, that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, execute the said office diligently and faithfully, according to law, without favour, affection, or partiality; that I will to the utmost of my power, protect the citizens of the commonwealth in the secure enjoyment of their rights, franchises, and privileges, and will constantly endeavour that the laws and ordinances of the commonwealth be duly observed, and that law and justice, in mercy, be executed in all judgments; and, lastly, that I will peaceably and quietly resign the government, to which I have been elected, at the several periods to which my continuance in the said office is or shall be limited by law, and the constitution. So help me God." [emphasis added]
The governor vows to do his utmost to protect the citizens of Virginia in the enjoyment of their rights, franchises, and privileges. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which is binding on all states, says:
Bearing arms is not a mere privilege like getting a drivers' license, it's a longstanding right. How can the new anti-gun laws which the governor has promised to sign be consistent with his oath to protect his citizens in the secure enjoyment of their rights?
There has been debate whether the right to bear arms was recognized individuals or only to members of a "well regulated Militia." The US Supreme Court declared that this was an individual right, and barring some future amendment to the contrary, that's that.
To be on the safe side, however, some sanctuary counties are instituting well-regulated county militias so that gun owners who join cannot be denied the right to keep and bear arms. In other counties, sheriffs plan to deputize licensed gun owners on the ground that law enforcement officers cannot be denied the right to bear arms.
Regardless of whatever promises might have been made to the anti-gun PACs which funded the Democrats' campaigns, it would appear that the governor will be in violation of his solemn oath of office if he signs a law taking away his citizens' rights.
There is an old Chinese curse, "May you have a lawsuit where you know you are right." Compromise is difficult when both sides are totally convinced of the utter rightness of their respective causes and of the blinkered idiocy of the other side.
Actions and Opposite Reactions
Given all the pro-gun ferment all across the state, even the most foolhardy government official ought to sit down and carefully consider the best course of action. If subordinate jurisdictions and large numbers of citizens are publicly stating their intention to arm themselves to resist your new law, you have to ask yourself: do I feel lucky? Or at the very least, do I feel so powerful politically and militarily that I can afford to disregard their views entirely and force my will on them at the point of a gun?
Abraham Lincoln wrestled with this decision. He did not want to have a Civil War. He didn't feel particularly strongly about ending slavery, as we now know:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
However, the choice wasn't his. The South had decided that they wanted out, and southerners weren't willing to accept any compromises. Given that, Lincoln's choice became: let them go? Or use force to save the Union?
We all know the result: he chose to use force to save the Union, and did so at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. Along the way, he also freed the slaves, which was certainly well worth doing in its own right but was not his primary objective.
The government of Virginia would appear to be presented with a similar choice: Is it worthwhile to use deadly force to strip American citizens of the longstanding Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms that their forefathers fought and died to earn for them?
It would seem that at least some of Virginia's political masters have reached a decision. Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin suggested:
Ultimately, I'm not the governor, but the governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law. That's his call, because I don't know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that's obviously an option he has.
We should all thank God he's not the governor! The fact that such a man holds elective office should scare us to the soles of our boots.
He's not entirely wrong, though. One of the major reasons that we have a National Guard is to suppress domestic insurrections - that is, a situation where a local district rejects higher state authority, which is exactly what's happening here.
We could hope and pray that wiser heads of the ruling Democrat party prevail and they step back from their announced legislative plans. We'll wait a moment while you recover from your choking fit of hysterical laughter at the thought of politicians acting in a reasonable manner.
On the Road To Combat
It's becoming dismayingly easier to see how this plays out: Virginia's Democrat-held legislature bans guns, or some significant subset of guns. All of Virginia outside the cities refuses to participate in enforcing the laws, nullifying them in their localities, so for a time nothing changes outside the cities regardless of what the law says on paper.
Eventually, Democratic Governor Northam must make a choice: Should he admit that his laws are a laughingstock and his power doesn't extend beyond urban boundaries? Not very many politicians are willing to do that. Indeed, his Attorney General already promised they would be enforced by whatever means necessary.
If local police refuse to enforce his laws, he can send in the state troopers, but there we encounter a problem. Most state troopers don't live in the cities, and even most of those that do tend to like firearms. They may not be willing to disarm their fellow innocent citizens, particularly if a significant fraction of their fellow citizens are willing to resist violently. Many may refuse or resign, making the governor look ever weaker. In any case, there aren't nearly enough of them to do the job if the sheriffs and local police refuse to cooperate.
That leaves the National Guard, and once again, we run into similar realities. Would the leadership of the Guard enforce such laws? As commissioned officers, they can resign, but that would simply mean that the only leadership left would be those that support gun confiscation. And make no mistake, confiscation is where this is going - if not immediately from individuals, certainly from any vendors of guns.
Enlisted Guardsmen don't have the option of resigning; like all serving members of the military, they need to do as they're told or else. The "or else" isn't pretty, but if they obeyed, the results would be even less pretty.
Messiness is inevitable because soldiers are very different from police. Policemen are trained to "serve and protect," on the assumption that most of the people they meet are innocent of any crime.
Soldiers, on the other hand, are trained for armed combat, where the world consists of your side and The Enemy, and your job is to make The Enemy dead as expeditiously as possible. They're untrained, unskilled, and inexperienced in de-escalation, negotiation, or compromise; it would be totally unfair as well as unrealistic to expect them to be able to do it.
This is no hypothetical. On May 4, 1970, after several days of increasingly vehement protest, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on an unarmed crowd of Kent State University students who had gathered to protest the Vietnam War. When the students started throwing rocks and caught the guardsmen between the mob and a fence, nearly 70 shots were fired in a 13-second period. Four students were killed and nine were injured. Much later, the official report said:
Some of the Guardsmen on Blanket Hill [where the shooting occurred], fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were in danger. Hindsight suggests that another method would have resolved the confrontation.
It's totally clear that "another method would have resolved the confrontation," but military units aren't trained in "another method." That's why we have a long tradition of not using our military for law enforcement; they're activated only when civilian government has broken down entirely. The situation we're describing would be far worse: the local civilian government wouldn't have broken down, it would be organized and highly motivated to be active on the other side, just as during the Civil War.
If the National Guard gets involved, it is not merely imaginable but inevitable that a televised bloodbath would ensue. What will happen when National Guard units encounter the county sheriff in uniform, backed up by a throng of deputized, armed citizens, many of whom are former military who took a solemn oath to defend the Constitution with their lives, their liberty, and their sacred honor? What would happen when they start breaking down doors and confiscating guns?
It is inconceivable that the defenders of the Second Amendment would peacefully back down - that's the whole point of the Second Amendment, after all - and thus far, Democratic rhetoric doesn't seem to leave much room for backing down either.
No Such Thing as Limited War
Shall we go one step further? We're now watching the smoke rising over what amounts to a small-scale battlefield between the Virginia National Guard and the sheriffs and deputies of one or more counties along with however many gun rights advocates stream in from adjacent states to augment the flash mob. Unlike the slaughter of 1861, this will be broadcast live and in living color.
Of course, the National Guard has tanks and most sheriffs don't. Odds are, they'll win, but only by slaughtering large numbers of Trump voters - and yes, obviously, it will be Trump voters lying dead at the hands of, ultimately, Mr. Trump's political enemies.
What would the President do? Well, what could and should the President do? Legally, he can nationalize the National Guard and order them to stand down, but by that time the Guard officers who might have obeyed his orders to stand down would have long since resigned.
He could order in the regular army. Now we have a battle between two trained, equipped armies - yes, literally, that is a Civil War by definition, assuming the regular army was willing to obey such an order and fire on their colleagues.
Would other governors stand idly by? Dare we imagine what Congress would do? Might there be a 25th Amendment coup, as the media and the bureaucracy have been agitating for since before Mr. Trump took office? How would the half of the country that voted for Mr. Trump respond to that? Don't forget that Trump would either be in the midst of running for re-election, or recently re-elected to office.
Or, he could just suck it up and let the Democrat National Guard destroy "his" people and the Constitution by force. This, too, has happened before. Paul Hindenburg, while President of Germany, let Nazi stormtroopers effectively take control of the country and suppress opposing voters and politicians until, in short order, Germany was a Nazi one-party state.
Does this sort of passive compliance seem characteristic of what we've seen of Donald J. Trump thus far? Let's just say it doesn't seem yuuuuugely likely that he'd let his supporters be gunned down without doing something about it.
Beyond this point, there are far too many unknowns to make any sort of solid predictions. Wars never go the way people who start them intend, and the end result is almost always something nobody predicted and few wanted at the beginning. Novelists could write any number of vaguely plausible scenarios, and we'll leave that job to them.
For now, though, we can clearly see what we didn't before: the first steps of escalating our longstanding war of words and starting our "United" States of America on the path to armed conflict. The decision lies with Virginia Democrats, just as it did 150 years ago.
One of the dumbest things a leader can do is give an order that will be disobeyed. Have southern Democrats learned any of the lessons of the past? Have they forgotten that the American Revolution came about when the government ordered soldiers to march from Boston to Lexington to confiscate guns?
Or are they just as secure and confident in their own rightness and power as they were when they started the first Civil War in 1861?


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Crossing the Atlantic in Stormy Weather: Coinsquare Expands to Europe
Coinsquare CEO Cole Diamond told Bitcoin Magazine that this is a major move for the young exchange and it makes good business sense to enter a market that has a GDP 12 times the size of Canada's.
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Coinsquare Exchange, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, took its first trip outside its Canadian base to extend its operations to Europe. On November 15, 2018, the exchange enabled euro deposits and trading, in what the startup sees is a promising market for future expansion.
"Europe is a huge market. Expanding there has expanded our market opportunity 12-times over. It's also a market that our community has been demanding for awhile, so we're very excited to be live," said Diamond.
Coinsquare is the largest exchange (by volume) based in Canada according to CoinMarketCap.
Diamond refers to Coinsquare as a digital asset management company with $60 million in funding. His long-term goal for the company is to expand its services for crypto beyond trading to other investment and financial services.
Coinsquare Chief Digital and Growth Officer Thomas Jankowski talked to Bitcoin Magazine about the company's plans for expansion into Europe and the company's vision as a future global banking and financial centre. They're aiming for 1 billion clients by the end of 2019.
"We are working to build a 21st century financial institution, which means so much more than just a trading platform. As we grow in Europe to meet the demands of our European community, that's what we're thinking about. The first step in this process? Offering trading in Euros, which went live when we opened in Europe," said Jankowski.
The company says they are seeing increasing market demand for a variety of coins. The exchange trades in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash (both), Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple and Squarecoin and recently added Ethereum Classic.
Regarding the recent Bitcoin Cash fork, Jankowski said:
"I'm pretty happy to say we already carry all three bitcoins and were one of the first platforms in Canada to announce support of all three through the fork. Coinsquare also caused the transaction that triggered the fork — you can see the note we left in the ScriptSig. We have no preference for which coin will 'win' and will support whichever the community decides, since that's the true spirit of blockchain.
"There's definitely some confusion about the coins, but we hope the community comes together. We respect the decision they make, and once the community has made its choice then we think the confusion will naturally die down as people learn more."
Managing Complex Regulatory Environments
Cryptocurrency businesses in Europe are governed by complex anti-money laundering and securities trading rules in different countries, but Coinsquare plans to tackle each country's laws separately.
In Canada, there is growing recognition that the federal government will likely not be bringing forward previously proposed regulations for cryptocurrency businesses, including exchanges, until after the next election in October 2019.
There is some concern in the community about this uncertainty but Coinsquare's Jankowski sees this as a positive:
"We believe that the government should continue down the path of removing obstacles in order to allow fintech companies, especially in the digital currency space, a fast-track lane toward regulation.
"Canada is an uncontested leader among the G8 countries for getting fintech innovation started, but we stop short of getting those startups past the finish line. To make getting regulated easier would deliver a bold message that we're not just ready for change, but also ready to lead by example."
Coinsquare claims they are leading the industry with their anti-money laundering measures and are using AML D5, the most recent update to global anti-money laundering legislation coming into effect in January 2020, intended specifically to target loopholes that terrorists have used in the past for international money laundering.
Canadian Banks Aren't Banking on Cryptocurrencies (Yet)
One of the big ongoing issues in the Canadian crypto community is shaky to no access to banking services with new concerns about the current court case with QuadrigaCX exchange and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Coinsquare has lobbied hard to develop working relationships with Canadian banks and has signed an agreement with one of the major banks.
Jankowski sees a thawing in the chilly relations with Canadian banks:
"We think banking in Canada is slowly changing its attitude toward crypto. Our banks are careful and that carefulness is what got them through the crisis of 2008. Our Canadian bank has been an amazing partner and we're happy they put us through a due diligence 'hell' so that they could be sure of our practices. But now we've got U.S. and EU banks knocking on our doors and we know that transparency matters in finance. We're looking forward toward more of this in Canada and the rest of the world moving forward."
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How to connect with your inner wise self.
In our minds, there stirs a voice, often like a whisper that speaks to our spirit.
You know that voice, especially after hearing a catchy tune and that song repeats itself in your head for the rest of the day. External stimuli can activate that voice positively or negatively. I believe that is why people are just a bit nicer in December when all the positive, happy, and fun Christmas songs are broadcasted into the general public almost everywhere.
However, the wisdom that I speak of originates from the soul of an individual.
It is a deep internal whisper that you hear only when you are sitting quietly in prayer and/or meditation. The inner wise self may also surface while you participate in solo activities like swimming, painting, playing a musical instrument, or many other individual pursuits or interests. Physical and creative activity, as well as, spiritual pursuit can rouse our inner wisdom. The key is to learn how to actually listen to it over the mindless chatter that may be stuck in your head due to external pressure and distraction.
You know that nagging voice.
The one that won't let you enjoy the moment because it is screaming, "Pay the bills, pick up the kids, make the meals, register to vote, complete the paperwork, file the taxes, clean the house, gas up the car, take out the garbage, renew your driver's license, get the groceries, meet with the boss, meet with the teacher, do the laundry, schedule that long overdue appointment, go to that appointment…" You get the idea. The best way to lower the volume of that chatter and eventually eliminate it is to focus on your breathing and/or your heartbeat.
You do this by closing your eyes and breathing slowly, deliberately and deeply.
Focus only on the breathing, the air going in and out of your lungs. In through your nose and out through your mouth with a sigh or a hum. If the mindless chatter is still stirring and distracting you, vocalize in your thoughts these words, "Breathe in (as you inhale); breathe out (as you exhale)." You can create a chant or mantra to help ground you in the moment and allow you to release the nagging to-do list in your mind; for example: "This is my time (on the intake of your breath); this is my moment (on the release of your breath)." Do this several times.
Moreover, before you partake in any solo activity, engage in the aforementioned deep breathing activity, which will allow you to cherish and savor your personal pursuits. Also, you will be clearing a channel for the voice of your inner wise self to connect with you. Not only are you able to hear your inner wisdom with clarity, but you will also be able to relish your personal pursuits and activities with profound contentment and serenity. Then be prepared and open to receive any newfound wisdom that comes to you. This is where great ideas are born. Are you listening?


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A long time ago in an office far, far away… a young George Lucas signed a contract with a small toy company named Hasbro, giving them the tools to encase his strange, imaginative characters in plastic.
Forty years later and everyone still wants a Boba Fett action figure! (Or, in the above case, Jango Fett)
Standing tall and proud in the center of the main floor of Comic-con this year was the Hasbro booth. Their shelves were lined with the latest in Transformers, My Little Pony and, of course, Star Wars.
It was here that the company eagerly to showcased their latest entry into the franchises toy line: the Black Series. This new line included six-inch figures, nearly twice the size of the original 3-3.25 inch figures. Also drawing the crowds were figures for the popular Rebels animated series.
As the new figures were showcased, fans who weren't squishing themselves in line to buy exclusives, were frantically taking pictures.
We were lucky enough to talk to Joe Ninivaggi of Hasbro about the new line and what Episode 7 will mean for the franchise. The big day? September 4th, Force Friday!
You can check out what he had to say in the video above.
Also check out TheAllience.com and Starwars-figuren.com to see more Hasbro swag!
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I recall reading somewhere that the vessels which took part in the D-Day landings were largely powered by Nottingham oil. Some claim to fame that.
Interesting stuff. I was also amazed to read that 2m barrels were produced there, Frazer. I had thought it much more of a 'cottage industry' than that.
That is fascinating. Must organise a home ed visit there some time. I haven't been to Nottingham in a long time.
Hi Shell, well if you ever do let me help you identify one or two sites for you and the kids to visit.
The same to you and your family, have a lovely Easter.


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Q: OO1B character when running example code of quickfix I am trying to use an example code of the Quickfix library. I compiled the code with:
g++ -o main tradeclient.cpp Application.cpp -std=c++11 -fexceptions -finline-functions -lquickfix -lpthread -lxml2 -lz

it compiles perfectly!
When I run the program with the corresponding config settings that the broker provides for the FIX protocol, I am unable to get a succesful LOGON. Instead it logouts, and the FIX message I try sending is printed by the program with a bunch of OO1B characters. Here's a screenshot of the output:

What could be the problem? I have downloaded all the dependencies to compile and run the program (all the libraries to compile the program as well as glibc libxml2).
This is the example code I am compiling:
https://github.com/quickfix/quickfix/tree/master/examples/tradeclient

A: That is just SOH, it separates each field of FIX message.
See link SOH


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", courier, monospace">I decided to create my very own texture pack based on ancient Roman-style materials. I did not change a lot, since I wanted to keep the game similar to its original format. The look of the game hasn't changed much, except for building material, so that cobblestone is now Roman (Germanic) Cobblestone, brick is now Roman brick, et cetera. I aimed to be historically-minded, so much of the textures resemble materials or items available to the ancient Romans, with a Minecraft twist!
THE FOLLOWING IMAGES REPRESENT AN OLDER VERSION OF ROMECRAFT (Pre Version 16)! Images to be updated soon.
PLEASE tell me any errors/suggestions you have for me. I cannot improve without second opinions!
I have been looking for this for a very, very, very long time! THANK YOU!
This would be a good skin for the roman based clan I'm in. I smell a offical skin!
Minecraft: why would I tell you that?
Does whatever a Creeper pig does.
Added pictures of armor! Also note I made a gladius.
Well done! I like this a lot!
Location: The Bat Falcon, my starship.
You may not have picked up on it, but I want.
Ohm i want. Are you gonna skin mobs too?
*Edit* Wow, I forgot about this, it's come along way 0.0 Great work man.
I may change the zombie, but I think creepers and skeletons will be the same or similar.
Excellent themed texture pack! The first pic looks epic at the 16x16 res you're using. Very well done indeed and the character skins are perfect.
I am really looking forward to this to make my dreams of a GRAND Rome true! Will you do the items too?
Most of the items were replaced. More to do later once I figure out what I want to do with them.
Also, Beta is out in a few minutes.
Ready for download and testing.
I'm gonna go test it out! First one to do so. By the way, I'm running Ubuntu so you'll know it runs fine on Linux.
Awesome, remember to provide any suggestions you may have!
Legions of blocky Romans marching through the forum (the building, not the forum) on their way to defeat the evil gaul blocks. I like the sound of that!
Link at top of thread is new. Redownload it!
- Got rid of ugly half-tile texture, improved it!
I must say Ace, this isn't half bad!
The thing I like most about it is that it actually feels roman, and it stays constant with the theme. Well done.
Half-tiles = fail. New set are too dark and I overrode the old ones by accident. Sooo I made new ones. Still not happy, give me suggestions for textures!


Will you be able to detox on your own, or will you need some treatment assistance?
Heroin and prescription opiates cause such severe and uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms that most people need assistance to avoid a return to opiate use. Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms can be fatal in severe cases, and so medical attention (a medical assessment, at minimum) is always necessary.
Although these drugs do not cause dangerous withdrawal symptoms and although no medications are FDA approved for the treatment of cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana withdrawal symptoms, these withdrawal symptoms can still be quite uncomfortable and some people require an observed detoxification for stabilization.
These tests may help you to gain a better understanding of your situation but they should not substitute for a professional diagnosis. Withdrawal symptoms can be very dangerous and you need to speak to a medical professional about your best course of action.
Too many people endure the discomforts of a detox period without committing to further participation in addiction treatment – and these people almost invariably relapse back to abuse.
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th Edition, published 2008, page 96.


One of the Founder Member of the Company.
Exposure in banking for 22 years.
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Privilege of being elected 5 times as one of the directors on the Governing Board of Karachi Stock Exchange Limited.
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Served on Board of Directors of Reliance Insurance Company Limited for 6 years.
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Exposure comprises of 38 years of banking experience.
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He is currently Director in First Paramount Modaraba.
Craftsman of our IT infrastructure.
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Leading system for enhancing product development arena of the company.
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Has represented the Company at various platform through media representation.
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I specialise in reportage or documentary style photography and capture your wedding in its most natural form. My style appeals to the couple who like less formal wedding photography, like myself I don't enjoy posing. On your wedding day I capture the special moments, details and create a story that you will cherish for a lifetime. Working discreetly you will have time to relax and enjoy your wedding day with your family and friends. The focus is on natural photography, capturing the day as it unfolds. 90% of the time you will not be looking at the cameras, these are the photos that I love to capture and that you will love for a lifetime.
As a Documentary Wedding Photographer, I am most creative when left to roam around the wedding capturing those shots of you and your guests enjoying your wedding. The moments you may never even have noticed happening during the wedding day itself. I appreciate that most weddings have some form of formal photography, and that's fine, but I will try and keep that to a minimum. Its your wedding day and its important that you get to spend the day with your family and friends, rather than attend a photoshoot.
I cater to all types of weddings and ceremonies in Northern Ireland and believe in equal marriage. Matt and myself are fun, friendly, opened minded people and capturing the love between two people through photography gives us great pleasure. We are truly honoured when someone chooses us to share in their special day.
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Porphyrins are a class of organic molecules that show up a lot in biology. But it's not just their biological properties that are interesting. They also have really fascinating physical properties. Those are exactly what I studied this summer. There's one kind of porphyrin (TPPS4) that self-assembles into long and skinny cylinders called nanorods. Complicated things happen when you shine light on them and run electricity through them at the same time. So many complicated things happen, in fact, that you probably don't want to hear about all of them. I'll just tell you about the one interesting thing that I worked on.
If you shine light on a freshly made nanorod, not much happens. But if you run electricity through the nanorod for a little while beforehand, it will produce its own electricity (called a "solar current") when you do finally shine a light on it. It probably produces the solar current for a reason similar to the reason that other solar cells—like the kind that people put on their roof—produce electricity when you shine light on them. The unusual thing it is that you can control which direction the nanorod will produce an electric current in by changing the direction in which you run electricity through it beforehand. The direction of the nanorod's own electricity will be the opposite of the direction of the electricity you ran through it. The process of running electricity through the nanorod beforehand is called training. The whole phenomenon is, appropriately enough, then called the trainable solar cell effect.
This summer, I worked some on the theory behind the trainable solar cell effect. A couple of years ago, Katherine van Aken—another student working in the same lab—helped come up with a tentative theory to explain the effect. The idea is that training must produce some asymmetry between the two ends of the nanorods, and then that asymmetry is what allows the nanorods to produce their own current. Van Aken proposed that maybe the asymmetry is in the amount of oxygen sticking to the two ends of the nanorod. Maybe the end that was positive during training ends up with more oxygen on it than the other end. That would become the end that the nanorod's own current flows out of.
One of the things I did was to make predictions using the model. The more predictions we have, the better we'll be able to design experiments to test the model. In the rest of this post, I will detail the most interesting of these.
Suppose a lot of oxygen is adsorbed on the nanorods and is acting as a p-type semiconductor. Then there will be concave-down band bending. It will be symmetric prior to training because there is roughly the same amount of oxygen adsorbed on either side.
When a photon of the proper frequency is absorbed, an electron is promoted to the valence band, and a hole is left in the conduction band. Both of these species move about randomly, sometimes moving into one of the electrodes. The asymmetry of the barriers does not produce a very large asymmetry in the rate at which electrons move into the two electrodes: The Schottky barriers are just downhill slides for the electrons. The holes, on the other hand, can only pass through the barriers by thermally assisted tunneling. The rate of tunneling is highly dependent on width. Thus the rate at which holes tunnel into the left electrode is higher than the rate at which they tunnel into the right one. The solar current is just the movement of charge through the external circuit to fill the extra holes.
In order to test the adsorbed oxygen model, it is necessary to make predictions from it. This requires a more detailed analysis of the entities and processes that play a role in the theory. The oxygen could accumulate on the left side either by sliding along the surface of the porphyrin or by the equilibrium constant for adsorption becoming position-dependent. I will assume that it is primarily by the equilibrium constant for adsorption becoming position-dependent.
Recall how the solar current exhibits asymptotic growth during training. The model makes predictions for how the magnitude of that asymptote depends on the partial pressure of oxygen in the sample's environment. The fraction of adsorption sites that are filled is positively correlated with the pressure of oxygen. In fact, the limit as the pressure goes to zero is zero, and the limit as the pressure goes to infinity is unity (Webb 2003, eqn. 5). If none of the sites are filled, then there can be no asymmetry, and hence there can be no solar current. If all of the sites are filled, then there can be no asymmetry either. The density of sites does not depend on position, nor does the function that always returns unity. Multiply these two together, and you find that the amount adsorbed is the same everywhere. Therefore, the solar current approaches zero both as the pressure approaches zero and as the pressure approaches infinity.
The plot will increase up to some pressure, and then it will start to decrease. This prediction would be confirmed if letting the solar current asymptote at a variety of pressures revealed both an increasing section and a decreasing section. Myint (2012) found a decreasing section. His data suggest that the maximum is located at a pressure below 0.16 Torr. An increasing section remains to be found.
The question of whether oxygen adsorption on the nanorods is reversible or irreversible is not yet settled. There is some evidence on both sides. All predictions already discussed hold in both cases. The only qualification is that irreversibility would require one to refresh the sample by exposure to lots of oxygen in between trainings.
The irreversible adsorption hypothesis permits the model to make some further predictions that it does not make with the reversible adsorption hypothesis. Training has been conducted successfully both in constant illumination and in the dark, under about 0.8 torr of oxygen (Schwab 2004). It has only ever been attempted under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) in constant illumination. The reversible adsorption hypothesis predicts that training in the dark would work at any pressure—it would just be a bit slower than training under illumination. The irreversible adsorption hypothesis, on the other hand, predicts that training in the dark under UHV would not work at all. This is because photodesorption (see Morrison p. 345) is required for any change to occur in the amount of oxygen adsorbed.
Irreversible adsorption also predicts that a solar current which is trained under illumination will decay faster under illumination than in the dark. The fraction of sites filled starts out much higher than the equilibrium fraction under UHV. During training, photodesorption removes oxygen from the negative end. Symmetry can best be regained by removing oxygen from the positive end—requiring light.
Van Aken, K. L. "Trainable Solar Cell Effect in TPPS4 Nanowires." Undergraduate Thesis. Haverford College. Spring 2012.
Lower, S. "The Road is Downhill: Free Energy and Equilibrium." In Thermodynamics of Chemical Equilibrium: All About Entropy and Free Energy. Virtual Textbook. Accessed June 2, 2016. Last Updated 2007. URL = <www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/thermeq/TE5.html#SEC2>.
Morrison, S. R. The Chemical Physics of Surfaces, Second Edition. New York: Plenum Press, 1990.
Myint, P. "Trainable Solar Cell Effect in TPPS4 Nanorwires [sic]." Unpublished Typescript. Haverford College. August 23, 2012.
Riley, C. K., E. A. Muller, B. E. Feldman, C. M. Cross, K. L. van Aken, Danvers E. Johnston, Y. Lu, A. T. Johnson, J. C. de Paula, and W. F. Smith. "Effects of O2, Xe, and Gating on the Photoconductivity and Persistent Photoconductivity of Porphyrin Nanorods." J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 114, pp. 19227-19233. Autumn 2010.
Schwab, A. D., D. E. Smith, B. Bond-Watts, D. E. Johnston, J. Hone, A. T. Johnson, J. C. de Paula, and W. F. Smith. "Photoconductivity of Self-Assembled Porphyrin Nanorods." Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1261-1265. Summer 2004.
Webb, P. A. "Introduction to Chemical Adsorption Analytical Techniques and their Applications to Catalysis." MIC Technical Publications. Norcross, Georgia: Micromeritics Instrument Corp., January 2003. Accessed May 28, 2016. URL = <www.particletesting.com/Repository/Files/introduction_to_chemical_adsorption_analytical_techniques.pdf>.
Wang, T. "Trainable Solar Cell Effects of Self-Assembled TPPS4 Nanorods." Undergraduate Thesis. Haverford College. Spring 2016.
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Q: replacing certain expressions in file but only one time I extracted some expressions from a file and I want to insert these expressions in the same file but under different format, like between brackets. My problem is that I want for every expression only one replacing.
the file looks like this
file = """he is a good man
she is a beautiful woman
this is a clever student
he is a bad neighbour
they are bad men
She is very beautiful"""

and the expressions are like this
ex = """ good, clever, beautiful, bad,"""

the code used is
adj =  ex.split(",")
for a in adj:
  if a in file:
     file = file.replace(a, ' ' +'[[' + a + ']]')
print file

this gives the following output:
he is a  [[good]] man [[
]]she is a [[ beautiful]] woman [[
]]this is a [[ clever]] student [[
]]he is a [[ bad]] neighbour [[
]]they are [[ bad]] men [[
]]She is very [[ beautiful]] [[
]] [[
]]

while the expected output is
he is a  [[good]] man
she is a [[ beautiful]] woman
this is a [[ clever]] student
he is a [[ bad]] neighbour
they are bad men # so here "bad" will not be replaced because there is another 'bad' replaced
She is very beautiful # and here 'beautiful' will not be replaced like 'bad'

A: If file content is stored as string
the replace method of a string also takes in a third optional argument called max.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_replace.htm
This will allow you to choose the occurrence of a word that you want to replace.
for instance,
>>> "he is a good man, and a good husband".replace('good', '[[ good ]]', 1)
'he is a [[ good ]] man, and a good husband'
>>>

Hang on, im working on your example now.
Example 2 : Read from a file, one line at a time.
In the above method, I will assume that you have read the file and store its content as a single string . In the 2nd answer below, I will show you how you may implement your code to solve your problem
Assuming you have a file testfile.txt with the following content :
he is a good man
she is a beautiful woman
this is a clever student
he is a bad neighbour
they are bad men
She is very beautifu

Here is your python code
#!/usr/bin/env python

# your expression
ex = """ good, clever, beautiful, bad,"""

# list comprehension to clean up your expression,
# first by spliting it by comma and then remove anything that is just a empty
wanted_terms = [x.strip() for x in ex.split(',') if x.strip() != '']

## read file using with statement
with open('testfile.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        line = line.strip()
        ## for each wanted terms check if they exist in the line
        for x in wanted_terms:
            if x in line:
                ## I prefer to use string format here.
                #replacement = "[[ %s ]]" % x
                #line = line.replace(x, replacement, 1)

                ## if term exist, do replacement. Use max =1 to ensure it replace only the first instance.
                line = line.replace(x, '[[' + x +']]', 1 )
                ## remove it from term list so that in future, it will replace any new occurence
                wanted_terms.remove(x)

Let me know you find this useful or if there are any other comments,
Cheers,
Biobirdman

A: biobirdman seems to have a good solution, so use that for the correct thing.  My post here is just to explain what went wrong.  When you did:
ex = """ good, clever, beautiful, bad,"""
adj =  ex.split(",")

You got something other than what you thought
print adj
[' good', ' clever', ' beautiful', ' bad', '']

I don't know if you mean to have a space before each one string, but you almost certainly don't mean to have a '' at the end.  In fact, I think you didn't have this for your example, otherwise you'd get a different bad behavior.  What I think you had was a new line character at the end of ex.  So that '' that's showing up was actually a newline in your attempt.
So it matched all the ones you expected, plus all the newlines for you.  For anyone using the code you posted, they'll get a match between every pair of characters.
[[]]h [[]]e [[]]  [[]]i [[]]s [[]]  [[]]a  ........

TO fix: get rid of the newline.  Eliminate the extra spaces.  How?  Take a look at strip.

A: Two changes to your code. Avoiding a empty string in adj and removing leading whitespaces when you replace word with [[word]]. word has values like " beautiful", " clever" in your code.
file = """he is a good man
she is a beautiful woman
this is a clever student
he is a bad neighbour
they are bad men
She is very beautiful"""

ex = """ good, clever, beautiful, bad,"""

adj = filter(None, ex.split(","))    # removing empty strings from list
# SO ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3845423/remove-empty-strings-from-a-list-of-strings

for a in adj:
    if a in file:
        file = file.replace(a, ' ' +'[[' + a.strip() + ']]')    # strip() removes leading or trailing whitespaces

print file


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Ritu Kumar on her exhibition 'Kanaat' and why recycling is the way forward for sustainable fashion
Now, textile revivalist Ritu Kumar is turning our attention to India and its rich heritage, through "Kanaat", a two-day exhibition that is being showcased at her store.
Written by Ektaa Malik | Updated: December 11, 2019 6:31:57 pm
Designer Ritu Kumar
Last year she took us to Uzbekistan and central Asia through a curated exhibition of textiles, weaves and weaving paraphernalia. Now, textile revivalist Ritu Kumar is turning our attention to India and its rich heritage, through "Kanaat", a two-day exhibition that is being showcased at her store in South Extension. The scenography and text for the exhibition has been put in place by textile designer Mayank Mansingh Kaul.
Excerpts from a conversation:
If you could discuss the significance of kanaat in Indian textiles.
The word kanaat refers to textile panels that were used to create walls, screens and tents over the centuries in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, many of these were meant for furnishings, interiors and architecture and would form travelling palaces, garden pavilions and sacred spaces. They reflected the outstanding genius of Indian dyers, artists and printers. At a time when Indian contemporary textile print designs have lost connection with the excellence of the past, this exhibition is a reminder of their various schools and regions which flourished over time.
Each developed its distinct design identity, while sharing a common sub-continental artistic sensibility — from Serampore in Bengal to Masulipatnam in south India, Kutch in Gujarat, Sanganer in Rajasthan and Farukkhabad in Uttar Pradesh. Kanaat is also a result of cosmopolitan cultural encounters, through trade and migration, that enabled a vibrant artistic dialogue through fabric, bringing unprecedented wealth to the subcontinent. We have tried to recreate large kanaats to mirror their actual size, and referred to painted and printed textiles rather than miniatures.
Why do you think we have forgotten this exquisite craft?
It has mostly been a natural progression. As the British came, the kanaats slowly perhaps lost their importance because the armies never travelled that much. Earlier, wars were fought over many months and it came down to almost nothing when the British took over. Since these fabrics were not very durable, with the heat they must have dissolved or thrown away. Now, if at all they exist, it is in museums overseas.
You also started your home furnishings line earlier this year.
Home was always something we had in mind to do. In fact, in the brand's early years, there were some explorations in silk razais and those pieces are still in my home and those of our early customers. So it was only a matter of time that we started developing this collection.
There is a lot of talk about recycling/upcycling and to make fashion sustainable. Your thoughts?
I think we can go right back to doing what we always did in the yesteryears; recycling old fabrics. In Bengal, torn Kantha sarees were used one over the other with a running stitch and they were revived as bed covers. Nothing was ever really thrown away and that happened because we were using a lot of natural fabrics. Now, with fast fashion, we have to change our thinking. Fashion needs to be far more durable in its aesthetics so that it lasts longer.
The exhibition will take place at Ritu Kumar Home, South Extension II, on December 12, 5-8 pm
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