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Q: An exception of type 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException' occurred in MySql.Data.dll but was not handled in user code I keep getting the following error message:

An exception of type 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException' occurred
  in MySql.Data.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: There is already an open DataReader associated
  with this Connection which must be closed first.

at da.Fill(dtCounts); each time I run my code. Does anyone know the reason for it?
For some reason, S/O won't let me paste my code, so I've uploaded it here: http://pastebin.com/LCnTBVY4
Edit: Here is it:
public static void RefreshPlot()
{
    string query = "SELECT Count(*) AS count, plot_id FROM booking WHERE postcode=@postcode AND " +
                   "status='open' GROUP BY plot_id";
    var cmd = new MySqlCommand(query, DbConnect.Connection);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(("@postcode"), DbConnect.Plot);

    var da = new MySqlDataAdapter(cmd);
    var dtCounts = new DataTable();
    da.Fill(dtCounts);

    if (dtCounts.Rows.Count > 0)
    {
        query = "UPDATE plot SET jobs = @jobCount WHERE plot_id = @plotID AND postcode=@postcode;";

        query += "UPDATE plot " +
                 "LEFT JOIN booking " +
                 "ON plot.plot_id = booking.plot_id " +
                 "SET plot.jobs = 0 " +
                 "WHERE plot.postcode=@postcode " +
                 "AND booking.plot_id IS NULL;";

        query += "update plot p " +
                 "inner join " +
                 "(select sum(case when status = 'Open' then 1 else 0 end) cnt, plot_id " +
                 "from booking group by plot_id) p2 on p.plot_id = p2.plot_id " +
                 "set p.jobs = p2.cnt;";

        cmd = new MySqlCommand(query, DbConnect.Connection);
        foreach (DataRow row in dtCounts.Rows)
        {
            cmd.Parameters.Clear();
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(("@postcode"), DbConnect.Plot);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@jobCount", int.Parse(row["count"].ToString()));
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@plotID", int.Parse(row["plot_id"].ToString()));
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
        }
    }
    else if ((dtCounts.Rows.Count == 0))
    {
        query = "UPDATE plot SET jobs=0 WHERE postcode=@postcode;";
        cmd = new MySqlCommand(query, DbConnect.Connection);
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(("@postcode"), DbConnect.Plot);
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
    }
}

A: Try to use the using statement on every new MySqlCommand and Adapter to dispose the resources.
For example:
var dtCounts = new DataTable();
using (var cmd = new MySqlCommand(query, DbConnect.Connection))
{
     cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(("@postcode"), DbConnect.Plot);

     using (var da = new MySqlDataAdapter(cmd))
     {
          da.Fill(dtCounts);
     }
}

You have an open datareader in your connection which is not closed.
Maybe you have some code elsewhere which uses the same connection.
Use the using statement on commands everywhere, then they should be closed.
To be safe you could create a new connection.

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So far I have worked on it for about 6 hours, but I still have a lot of time to go between making the stone stand thicker and terraforming as well as decorating the stream and deep hole I dug, but so far its looking pretty good!
I wouldn't doubt if someone is go to do /rtp and destroy that. It would be a shame because it looks like it took long to build. Good luck on not getting it destroyed.


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Q: R using rdist to generate results in a data table I am trying to speed up a calculation involving a distance matrix.
The following code snippet works in the script it came from, but is slow. It selects a particular country, year, and scenario combination, calculates MFAD, and writes the combination information, including the MFAD result and rbinds it to MFADHolder.
MFADHolder <- data.table(scenario = character(0), region_code.IMPACT159 = character(0), year = character(0), MFAD = numeric(0))
for (k in yearList) {
  for (l in scenList) {
    for (n in ctylist) {
      dt <- dt.main[ year == k & scenario == l & region_code.IMPACT159 == n,]
      itemlist <- unique(dt$IMPACT_code)
      dt[,c("scenario", "region_code.IMPACT159", "year", "IMPACT_code") := NULL]
      d <- as.data.table(rdist(dt))
      data.table::setnames(d, old = names(d), new = itemlist)
      MFAD <- sum(d)/20
      newRow <- as.list(c(l,n,k,MFAD))
      MFADHolder <- rbind(MFADHolder, newRow)
    }
  }
}

Using Rstudio's new profiling tool, I found that the line
dt <- dt.main[ year == k & scenario == l & region_code.IMPACT159 == n,]

takes up the bulk of the computation time, presumably because of all the copying of the dt. I thought I'd be able to do it all within the data table. The line of code below could in principle replace all the code above, except it doesn't work.
dt.main[, MFAD := sum(rdist(dt.main[,!(c("scenario", "region_code.IMPACT159", "year", "IMPACT_code"))]))/20,
by = c("scenario", "year", "region_code.IMPACT159")]

The idea is to run rdist on just the relevant columns in dt.main, replacing the dt copy code above, then sum all the element in the distance matrix, divide by 20 and write all the results into the MFAD column.
When I run it, it never completes and R dies because my mac runs out of system memory and/or its hard drive runs out of space.
Here is complete code to demonstrate the problem
library(data.table)
library(fields) # needed for rdist function
dt.main <- readRDS("dt.main.rds")
dt.main[, MFAD := sum(rdist(dt.main[,!(c("scenario", "region_code.IMPACT159", "year", "nutrient"))]))/len.nutlist,
        by = c("scenario", "year", "region_code.IMPACT159")]

And here's a link to an RDS data file for testing - https://github.com/GeraldCNelson/nutmod/commit/c06b51478223bdc3226cccbe9498df0472a57465#diff-21615ea67b6aed07b31f6c21e89a810b

A: John Smith's code was basically exactly what I needed, but didn't run as written.
The version below does and is extremely fast!
cols <- setdiff(colnames(dt.main), c("scenario", "region_code.IMPACT159", "year", "nutrient"))
system.time(dt.main[, `:=` (MFAD = sum(rdist(.SD)) / .N),
           by = c("scenario", "year", "region_code.IMPACT159"), .SDcols = cols])


The welfare effects of bankruptcy legislation are not correctly understood. Policymakers and the general public think, for the most part, that laws that protect borrowers in the event of default are beneficial to consumers. In practice, however, those laws have negative effects on the households that need credit most — and, ironically, those whom the legislation was intended to protect.
Traditionally, Chapter 7 has been the most popular type of bankruptcy filing. Under that section of the Bankruptcy Code, a filer relinquishes her assets, minus a certain exempted amount, and in return is discharged from her unsecured debt (credit card debt, personal loans, student loans, etc.).
State law sets those exempted amounts. In Illinois, for instance, exemptions are: $7,500 for home equity, $1,200 for motor vehicles, $750 for tools of the trade, and $2,000 for any other generic property. So suppose that you file for bankruptcy in the "Land of Lincoln," and that you have $20,000 worth of home equity, and a car with a market value of $600. Then you can sell the house and keep $7,500 of the proceeds, and sell your car and keep the $600 (since that's below the $1,200 limit).
Since 1978, with the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act (BRA), there's also a federal exemption. Some states allow filers to choose between the state and the federal amounts. Obviously, if given the opportunity, filers use whichever is highest.
There is an enormous disparity of bankruptcy exemptions across states, even after accounting for the existence of the federal limits. For example, in 2006 the states of Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia, all allowed for an unlimited homestead exemption. In the states of Ohio and Virginia, at the other extreme, the limit is set at $5,000 (and those states don't allow for the application of the federal exemption). The map below shows the maximum exemption that a married homeowner could claim in 2003, after combining homestead and non-homestead amounts, and taking the highest of the state and federal limit (where the federal limit is available). The limits also vary over time, although high-exemption states tend to remain the same over the years.
The amount of the exemption provides insurance for the debtor's consumption. Suppose that a debtor suffers a setback, such as illness or unemployment, and that she is forced to default on her credit card debt and student loans. In the absence of any exemption, creditors would take a blanket security interest in all of the debtor's possessions. The existence of an exemption means that she is left with at least a small amount of assets after filing for bankruptcy. Legislators see it as a way to provide a "fresh start." An alternative view is that a certain amount of assets, and hence consumption, are insured against negative events.
On the other side of the coin, lenders are hurt by this form of consumer protection. Higher exemptions reduce the payments received by the lender in the event of default, and increase the probability of bankruptcy, since the borrower's punishment for doing so becomes smaller. Creditors rationally respond to higher exemptions by raising interest rates and rationing credit. This rationing may take the form of fewer households with access to debt, smaller loans, or both. Fewer and smaller loans reduce the amount of consumption that households can finance with debt in times of low income.
In theory, then, bankruptcy exemptions have an ambiguous effect on consumption smoothing. Higher exemptions allow bankrupt households to keep more assets; but those same higher exemptions reduce the supply of credit. It is, therefore, an empirical matter whether higher limits enhance or detract from the role of debt as a consumption insurance mechanism.
To answer that question, I put together data on consumption and lay-offs of American households (from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics), as well as bankruptcy exemptions, for as many years as I could get consistent data for. (In practice, that is 1976 through 2003, with the exception of 1994-1997.) The idea is to estimate by how much a family's consumption is reduced when its main income earner gets laid off, and see how much the hit to consumption changes with the bankruptcy exemption.
My interpretation of the results is that consumer debt is an important mechanism of consumption insurance. People use loans and credit card debt not only to finance big-ticket items, but also to make ends meet when disaster strikes. Legislation that makes it harder to obtain debt, such as bankruptcy exemptions or interest rate caps, ends up punishing the weakest: people with low wealth, who could make the most use of credit as an insurance device.
Don't get me wrong: this is not a call to eliminate bankruptcy exemptions. There is a place for them as a means to provide safety to people who have been struck by unexpected events. A zero-exemption policy would probably expand credit supply — at the cost of leaving thousands of families destitute and without a chance to recover. But exorbitant homestead exemptions go way beyond providing a chance for a "fresh start." Likewise, there's no reason why people should be allowed to keep $60,000 worth of personal property, as they can do in Texas.
Surely, medical expenses can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But that's a reason to reform health insurance. Limiting the enforceability of credit contracts is a bad way to lay out safety nets.
This post was based on my own research. The write-up of the paper is still in the making. It will be available on my website by January 28. In the meantime, you can have a look at the slides I prepared for a presentation this Friday.
How is your comment related to this post? Please explain, I'm genuinely curious.
Which would the bankrupt actually prefer though, keeping assets or smoothing consumption? Which should the state prefer? More, tail of the dog may not be the best result. Punishing the bankruptee and bankruptor alike may make some sense. Is there any difference in success rates post-bankruptcy? Recurrence would be a strong point against a lack of exemptions.
Perhaps I didn't express myself correctly, but a household that files for bankruptcy and keeps her assets is smoothing her consumption: she can sell those assets and use the proceeds to consume. Once the filing happens, there's no choice between keeping assets and smoothing consumption: they're the same thing.
Could you explain how and why punishing lender and borrower alike "may make some sense"?
As far as I can see, recurrence of bankruptcy filings would support ELIMINATING exemptions (at least insofar as the recurrence is the result of a moral hazard problem).
Moral hazard goes in both directions. Someone borrowed money they couldn't repay and someone lent it to them. It may have been extraordinary circumstances or poor planning, bad judgment or greed. Both have created a problem the state must remedy. It is in the state's interest to see the problem remedied and for it not to occur again, insofar as reasonably possible. If no exemption led to more numerous and repeated bankruptcies, no learning is taking place.
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Considerable progress has been made in the municipal sector over the past decade in terms of the rollout of basic services, with key measures of service delivery and living standards having improved across all of South Africa's geographies, particularly in larger urban areas.
As such, he says the infrastructure backlogs remain significant. "While this is true across the country, performance by smaller municipalities in terms of operational efficiencies and infrastructure developments has been worse, as they are more acutely affected by funding constraints and the lack of skilled personal."Shevel told Service that further compounding this situation is the sluggish economic growth over the past two years.
"Unemployment levels remain high and even within the employed sector of the economy, an increased level of financial distress is being reported."While the social welfare grants are distributed by national government, Shevel says most of the burden of providing everyday services such as water, sewerage and electricity to indigent populations falls on the municipalities.
"The national government does provide grants to cover much of this expenditure, but municipalities also need to rely on internally generated revenue through the provision of services."Shevel says municipalities have become increasingly proactive in respect of their debtors' administration, but affordability issues are likely to affect both the debtors' performance and the demand for indigent services.
According to Shevel, municipalities are increasingly expected to be self-sustaining in terms of servicing other residents and the rollout of new income-generating fixed assets/infrastructure. "Municipalities are also being forced to seek alternative sources of funding and borrow off their own balance sheets. The diversity of funding available to them has been bolstered by strong appetite from capital markets investors for different fixed income instruments, as well as from commercial banks seeking to lend to lower risk clients.
"To date, bond issuances have only been undertaken by four metros, but at least two more Metros are looking to inaugural bond issuances during 2014," explains Shevel.
Apart from the other benefits, accessing bank or capital market funding has exposed municipalities to the more rigorous reporting standards required in the private sector.
Responding to the question of how the current economic climate is affecting consumers and municipalities – and what impact this is having on municipal debtors' books – Shevel told Service that in some ways municipalities are affected by the economic environment to a greater extent than businesses. Firstly, the amount they bill residents and business for services such as electricity and water declines, as will the number of businesses paying rates.
However, the greater impact is with regard to debtors, with non-payment of municipal accounts (particularly rates) rising during difficult economic times, as there is little immediate impact for the consumer of non-payment, unlike with other service providers (cellphones, Telkom, electricity, DStv) where they can just discontinue one's service.
"On the expenditure side there is an impact too because, as jobless numbers start to increase, so does the number of indigent residents.Municipalities are obligated to provide a certain amount of free services to indigent residents, increasing the amount of non-billable expenditure at a time when cash flows are also coming under pressure," he says.
Regarding funding challenges, and which alternatives municipalities have been looking into, Shevel reminds us that funding for a municipality comes from three main sources: internally from the provision of services and collection of rates, from the national government through grants, and through access to debt funding.
"Aside from the challenges to internal funding listed above, there has been some margin pressure emanating from the provision of electricity and water (traditionally accounting for around 50% of revenue). In this regard, National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has permitted Eskom to increase tariffs by a greater percentage than the increases allowed to the municipalities. Thus, while the real amount of income from electricity and water provision has been growing, the net margin earned has been decreasing.
"National Treasury has also been battling declining income and growing expenditure on social services. Thus there is less money available to provide to municipalities to cover their operating and infrastructure investment needs. As a result, National Treasury has indicated that municipalities cannot rely entirely on grants form infrastructure projects and has prompted them to seek ways to self-fund projects.
"Self-funding is really only available to the metros, and a few of the larger municipalities where there is a fairly diverse economic base from which to generate income. Smaller municipalities remain almost entirely dependent on grant funding. Traditionally, municipalities have relied on facilities from development agencies for the majority of debt funding. While this remains a critical component for larger municipalities with diverse sources of income, private sector sources have become available.
All the major banks have sought to lend to stable municipalities. "From the banks' perspective, a municipality provides a relatively low risk client, especially as they have cut back in lending to the private sector."He says strong demand from the capital market investors has made bond issuances a viable option for larger municipalities.
The major benefit to municipalities is that these loans often have long dated maturities, and bonds need only be settled on the maturity date, as opposed to amortising loans typical of bank funding. In addition, competition by asset managers for bonds has maintained interest yields at relatively low levels.
According to Shevel, to date only three metros have issued bonds, but more are expected to do so.
The biggest challenge is the scale. The need for services is so widespread and continues to grow at a faster rate than infrastructure can be developed. In some way, success in infrastructure development has exacerbated the problem by enticing rural people to move into the large cities, placing great strain on the existing infrastructure, which has not been able to cope with the volumes. This divergence between expectation and the inability of infrastructure to maintain pace with the actual volume is often behind the service delivery protests.


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Adaptive Reuse, Ascension Parish, Bernadette's Restaurant, Burnside, Burnside Station, Dornier House, Gas station, Helvetia Plantation, Historic Preservation, ideas, Louisiana, Louisiana history, microbrewery, Moving buildings, Plantations, Restoration, River Road, The Cabin Restaurant, weddings
This year is The Cabin Restaurant's 40th anniversary. A lot has happened at The Cabin over the last four decades. Six buildings have been moved onto the property (not including The Cabin itself!), including the Schoolhouse, two slave cabins from Helvetia plantation, Bernadette's Restaurant, and the Dornier House. All these buildings support the restaurant/wedding/event operations at The Cabin in one way or another. However, one building that often gets overlooked is the old Burnside Station.
The Burnside Station, featured in the picture above, was the first building on this property, which sits at the corner of Hwy. 44 and Hwy. 22. Built in the early 1950's, Burnside Station was originally a gas station and auto shop. The station operated for about 30 years, but was eventually closed in 1984, which is when the property really became oriented around The Cabin and its restaurant activities.
Today, Burnside Station sits empty. We plan to begin restoration of the building soon, but first we need to find a proper use for it. So I am reaching out to you, blogging community, for help in finding the best use for the Burnside Station. I had considered a microbrewery, but we are limited by the space in the building (the building is about 950 sq. ft., with an additional 625 sq. ft. of space in the courtyard behind it).
I look forward to your brainstorming and your ideas. This is very neat building that has been a landmark in the Burnside/River Road community for the last 60 years. It deserves to be adaptively reused in its own, unique way. Thanks for your help!
Front of the station
Right side of the station, closest to The Cabin
Inside of the car bays (we've been using them for storage)
A photo of Burnside Station and The Cabin, circa 1984

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package org.axonframework.common.jdbc;

import org.junit.*;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import static org.axonframework.common.jdbc.ConnectionWrapperFactory.wrap;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

/**
 * @author Allard Buijze
 */
public class ConnectionWrapperFactoryTest {

    private ConnectionWrapperFactory.ConnectionCloseHandler closeHandler;
    private Connection connection;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        closeHandler = mock(ConnectionWrapperFactory.ConnectionCloseHandler.class);
        connection = mock(Connection.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void testWrapperDelegatesAllButClose() throws Exception {
        Connection wrapped = wrap(connection, closeHandler);
        wrapped.commit();
        verify(closeHandler).commit(connection);

        wrapped.getAutoCommit();
        verify(connection).getAutoCommit();

        verifyZeroInteractions(closeHandler);

        wrapped.close();
        verify(connection, never()).close();
        verify(closeHandler).close(connection);
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_WithWrapper() {
        final Runnable runnable = mock(Runnable.class);
        Connection wrapped = wrap(connection, Runnable.class, runnable, closeHandler);

        assertFalse(wrapped.equals(connection));
        assertTrue(wrapped.equals(wrapped));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_WithoutWrapper() {
        Connection wrapped = wrap(connection, closeHandler);

        assertFalse(wrapped.equals(connection));
        assertTrue(wrapped.equals(wrapped));
    }

    @Test
    public void testHashCode_WithWrapper() throws Exception {
        final Runnable runnable = mock(Runnable.class);
        Connection wrapped = wrap(connection, Runnable.class, runnable, closeHandler);
        assertEquals(wrapped.hashCode(), wrapped.hashCode());
    }

    @Test
    public void testHashCode_WithoutWrapper() throws Exception {
        Connection wrapped = wrap(connection, closeHandler);
        assertEquals(wrapped.hashCode(), wrapped.hashCode());
    }

    @Test(expected = SQLException.class)
    public void testUnwrapInvocationTargetException() throws Exception {
        when(connection.prepareStatement(anyString())).thenThrow(new SQLException());

        Connection wrapper = wrap(connection, closeHandler);
        wrapper.prepareStatement("foo");
    }

    @Test(expected = SQLException.class)
    public void testUnwrapInvocationTargetExceptionWithAdditionalWrapperInterface1() throws Exception {
        WrapperInterface wrapperImplementation = mock(WrapperInterface.class);
        when(connection.prepareStatement(anyString())).thenThrow(new SQLException());

        Connection wrapper = wrap(connection, WrapperInterface.class, wrapperImplementation, closeHandler);
        wrapper.prepareStatement("foo");
    }

    @Test(expected = SQLException.class)
    public void testUnwrapInvocationTargetExceptionWithAdditionalWrapperInterface2() throws Exception {
        WrapperInterface wrapperImplementation = mock(WrapperInterface.class);
        doThrow(new SQLException()).when(wrapperImplementation).foo();

        WrapperInterface wrapper = (WrapperInterface) wrap(connection,
                                                           WrapperInterface.class,
                                                           wrapperImplementation,
                                                           closeHandler);
        wrapper.foo();
    }

    private interface WrapperInterface {

        void foo() throws SQLException;
    }
}

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Magician David Blaine is making a comeback, launching a new UK tour this year. Here's everything you need to know - including dates and ticket information.
For the first time ever, American magician David Blaine is launching a tour in the UK and Ireland.
Known for his illusions and death-defying acts, David Blaine, 45, has achieved international fame.
He first became a household name when his TV series, Street Magic, hit our screens. His laid-back manner and inconspicuous nature gives him a unique stage presence, and fans across the world praise him for his entertaining spectacles.
Promising an interactive experience, David Blaine's new UK tour is full of intrigue and dazzling stunts that are bound to leave audiences stunned.
The magician and illusionist will be hitting up six cities across the nation this summer, and is coming to London's Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on Tuesday 18th June.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 29th March at 9am.
You can get yours on Live Nation or by visiting David Blaine's website directly.


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TAYLOR: 10 victories are within reach for Wildcats
Published 7:00 am Tuesday, August 31, 2021
By Keith Taylor
The expectations are high at Kentucky as Mark Stoops enters his ninth season and the second longest-tenured coach in the Southeastern Conference. He needs just one more win to tie Fran Curci for the most wins in school history. Curci won 100 games in his eight seasons with the Wildcats from 1973-81.
During an unprecedented pandemic campaign with an All-Southeastern Conference schedule, Stoops led the Wildcats to a postseason appearance for the fifth straight season as the Wildcats edged North Carolina State 23-21 in the Gator Bowl, giving Kentucky its third straight bowl victory.
Kentucky is poised to make a move in the SEC East after three divisional foes — South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt — hired new coaches, giving UK an opportunity to climb the proverbial ladder and reach the plateau that Georgia and Florida have claimed on what seems like an alternating basis since divisions in the league were formed nearly three decades ago.
Growing weary of not achieving balance on offense, Stoops hired a new coordinator and added a new offensive line coach to replace the late creator of the Big Blue Wall, John Schlarman, who passed away last year following a lengthy cancer battle. Liam Coen took over as offensive coordinator and Eric Wolford is Kentucky's offensive line coach.
The schedule features seven home games and five away contests, which gives the Wildcats the potential to achieve a double-digit winning season for the first time since the 2018 season and the final year of the Benny Snell era.
At first glance, 10 victories are within Kentucky's reach, depending on the team's start, which includes three home games in the first month of the season. The Wildcats should win at least eight games and earn a sixth straight bowl berth.
• Sept. 4 — Louisiana-Monroe: Terry Bowden is back, but it will take the Warhawks time to rebuild. Kentucky 48, ULM 13.
• Sept. 11 — Missouri: Many see Missouri as a must-win for the Wildcats to open the SEC schedule. Not a make-or-break, but a win to open the SEC will be a good thing. Kentucky 38, Missouri 35.
• Sept. 18 — UT-Chattanooga: Kentucky will play three teams from Tennessee this season and the Mocs won't be as much of an issue as Tennessee or Vandy. Kentucky 42, UT-Chattanooga 24.
• Sept. 25 — at South Carolina: The Gamecocks are starting over with a new coach and Kentucky's first league road game in Columbia should be easier than past experiences. Kentucky 30, South Carolina 17.
• Oct. 2 — Florida: The Gators are reloading, but that doesn't mean things will be any easier for the Wildcats. Florida 34, Kentucky 28.
• Oct. 9 — LSU: The Tigers didn't have much success a year removed from winning a national title, but coach Ed Orgeron added some new faces in the off-season to help speed up the recovery process. Kentucky 34, LSU 30.
• Oct. 16 — at Georgia: The Bulldogs are tough to beat anytime, especially at home. Georgia 28, Kentucky 21.
• Oct. 30 — at Mississippi State: Last year, Kentucky had no problem defending Mike Leach's Air Raid offense and the Wildcats know what to expect this time around as well. Kentucky 38, Mississippi State 31.
• Nov. 6 — Tennessee: The Volunteers are starting over again with a new coach and a revamped roster that's unproven as a unit. Kentucky 24, Tennessee 21.
• Nov. 13 — at Vanderbilt: The Commodores have a new coach and have always given the Wildcats trouble no matter the circumstances, Kentucky 21, Vandy 10.
• Nov. 20 — New Mexico State: The Aggies will be just what the Wildcats need after close calls against Tennessee and Vandy in back-to-back fashion. Kentucky 49, New Mexico State 10.
• Nov, 27 — Louisville: The Governor's Cup returns after a one-year hiatus, which is good news for the Commonwealth. It's still bad news for the Cardinals. Kentucky 32, Louisville 28.
Prediction: 10-2. Worst-case scenario: 8-4. Flip wins to LSU and Louisville.
Keith Taylor is sports editor for Kentucky Today. Reach him at keith.taylor@kentuckytoday.com or Twitter @keithtaylor21.
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Q: Query meta field using between I'm trying to Query some lattitude and logitude and then I get some long numbers and apperently the Query dont like that.
Let says I have these in the database
Meta-key: lat
Meta-value: 54.3415000
Meta-key: lng
Meta-value: 10.1254100

and do a query like this:
$args['meta_query'] =
        array(
            'relation' => 'AND',
            array(
                'key'       => 'lat',
                'value'     =>  array( '53.82659686199116', '54.946076335668714' ),
                'type'      => 'NUMERIC',
                'compare'   => 'BETWEEN',
            ),
            array(
                'key'       => 'lng',
                'value'     =>  array( '8.429260683593725', '11.889954042968725' ),
                'type'      => 'NUMERIC',
                'compare'   => 'BETWEEN',
            )
        );

Then it works, BUT, when it looks like this:
$args['meta_query'] =
        array(
            'relation' => 'AND',
            array(
                'key'       => 'lat',
                'value'     =>  array( '54.10933293482647', '54.66906633195788' ),
                'type'      => 'NUMERIC',
                'compare'   => 'BETWEEN',
            ),
            array(
                'key'       => 'lng',
                'value'     =>  array( '9.294434023437475', '11.024780703124975' ),
                'type'      => 'NUMERIC',
                'compare'   => 'BETWEEN',
            )
        );

Then it does not work, even it is still between the 2 numbers.
Anyone have a clue what is going on here ? Must be some MYSQL stuff.
EDIT:
Here is what a mysql request looks like:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON
(wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id)INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON
(wp_posts.ID = mt1.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'branchenbuch'
AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'future'
OR wp_posts.post_status = 'draft' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'pending'
OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') AND ( (wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'lat'
AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) BETWEEN '54.1833340338'
AND '54.4636527622')AND (mt1.meta_key = 'lng' AND CAST(mt1.meta_value AS SIGNED)
BETWEEN '9.76272625977' AND '10.6278995996') ) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10

A: Your problem is this:
CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED)

Run a simple SQL query (command line or PhpMyAdmin, whatever you like) like SELECT CAST('1.2' as SIGNED) and you will see that the value returned is 1. What causes that cast is 'type'      => 'NUMERIC',.
You can pass DECIMAL to meta_query instead of NUMERIC but I don't see a way to pass parameters to DECIMAL that would actually make it useful. SELECT CAST('1.2' as DECIMAL) is also 1 unless you also pass arguments to DECIMAL like this SELECT CAST('1.2' as DECIMAL(20,10)). The first number is 'precision'-- the number of decimal places used in the math-- and the second is the number of decimal places returned. The second appears to me that the second value needs to be at least 2 less than the first or you get odd rounding issues. Obviously the second needs to be at or greater than the maximum decimal places in your number.
Your best approach would be to use 'type'      => 'DECIMAL', and apply a filter:
function add_decimal_params($sqlarr) {
  remove_filter('get_meta_sql','add_decimal_params');
  $sqlarr['where'] = str_replace('DECIMAL','DECIMAL(20,16)',$sqlarr['where']);
  return $sqlarr;
}
add_filter('get_meta_sql','add_decimal_params');

Add the filter immediately before your query and it will remove itself.
You may be able to get this to work by left-padding your numbers to the same length and not using a type argument at all, but I didn't test that.

A: I used something similar a couple of years ago, I finally used raw sql (can't remember why) but the main difference I see from your raw sql and mine is this row:
AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) BETWEEN '54.1833340338'

in my case it is casted to DECIMEL and values are numbers (not strings):
AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS DECIMAL(20,10)) BETWEEN 54.1833340338

and the actual lat/lng are without single quotes -> so they're are actual numbers.
Try running this:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON
(wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id)INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON
(wp_posts.ID = mt1.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'branchenbuch'
AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'future'
OR wp_posts.post_status = 'draft' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'pending'
OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private')

AND ( (wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'lat'
AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS DECIMAL(20,10))
BETWEEN 54.1833340338 AND 54.4636527622)

AND (mt1.meta_key = 'lng'
AND CAST(mt1.meta_value AS DECIMAL(20,10))
BETWEEN 9.76272625977 AND 10.6278995996))

GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10


Wanna find out what Police Officers are really all about? All the negative press lately does not do our officers any justice. To the contrary, it is an injustice to our men and women who protect us.Portrayed as something they are not is upsetting to those of us who respect and appreciate what these men in blue do every day. Without them our world would look very different.
They are the first responders to an accident victim, they are the first once to respond to a crime like robbery and break in, they jump into situations like rivers, lakes and fires to save lives, they deliver babies when the hospital is not an option, they rescue animals in need and the list goes on and on.
These men and women risk their lives to keep us safe every day. Their job is one of the toughest one in todays world. Having to watch over their backs every minute they're on the job, they never know if they will go home to their families after the shift is over. Unbelievably an enormous number of US citizens have started siding with criminals. These people don't condemn what criminals do or what leads up to a police response, they are upset that officers actually do the job they are paid to do.
Incredibly people in power like Bill de Blasio, Eric Holder and Obama lead the charge and fuel the fire. With too many Public Figures not backing up and supporting police, the very people complaining would be in a pretty dire position of police was not there to protect them? Ever think about that?
No that we set the record straight, let's look at the other side of the very people, the men and women, who go after criminals who rob and steal from us, sell drugs to our kids, shoot innocent people and have no intentions to be law abiding citizens. Watch what the police does when you are not watching 🙂 Shake it Officer – Taylor Swift Confessional.


Around Thanksgiving, I started seeing a fair amount of traffic to my WGN-TV Family Classics Movie List page and it continues. I've been moving that page around from blog to blog since at least 2004 and a few weeks ago I moved it here.
If you are a late Baby Boomer and grew up in the Chicago television area you will know about the WGN Family Classics movies. More info on that page.
I think Thanksgiving and Christmas bring a lot of reflection on the past and our childhood memories which causes people to search the web for this list of old classic movies.
I think Family Classics might still be on TV, but the specific movies have changed as old contracts finally ran out, so this list matches what my generation enjoyed.
Anyway I thought I would share, just in case you are of a certain age, grew up watching Chicago television and want to amaze you cousins with your trivia knowledge at Christmas dinner.


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< Electronic Editions
< Wanderings of Cain
Parallel Text: Canto II
Electronic Editions
Wanderings of Cain
Prefatory Note
Canto II, 1828
Canto II, 1828 (Bijou)
Verse, 1815
Notebook Fragment
Folio Fragment (recto)
Folio Fragment (verso)
Parallel Texts: Verse
Reading Text
Mary, the Osier-Peeler
Anna Letitia Barbauld Letters to Lydia Rickards, 1798–1815
The Collected Writings of Robert Bloomfield
The Griffin (1820) and Other Works
A Description of the Valley of Chamouni, in Savoy
The Works of Catherine Upton
Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes
An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome
Fables Ancient and Modern by Edward Baldwin, Esq.
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
Nobody: A Comedy in Two Acts
The Gipsy Prince
Robert Southey and Millenarianism
Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature, 1760-1830
Thoughts in Prison
The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
The Brides' Tragedy
The Temple of Nature
Alroy
British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815
Wat Tyler, A Dramatic Poem
The Sceptic: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue
The Oceanides
Sporting Sketches During a Short Stay in Hindustane
Presumption: or, the Fate of Frankenstein
A Rediscovered Letter by John Keats
L.E.L's Verses and The Keepsake for 1829
A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
The Political House that Jack Built
The Devil's Walk
The Mortal Immortal
On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
Parallel Texts: Canto II
Poetical Works (1828)
"A little further, O my father, yet a little further, and we shall come into the open moonlight:" Their road was through a forest of fir-trees; at its entrance the trees stood at distances from each other, and the path was broad, and the moonlight, and the moonlight shadows reposed upon it, and appeared quietly to inhabit that solitude. But soon the path winded and became narrow; the sun at high noon sometimes speckled, but never illumined it, and now it was dark as a cavern.
"It is dark, O my father!" said Enos, "but the path under our feet is smooth and soft, and we shall soon come out into the open moonlight."
"Lead on, my child!" said Cain: "guide me, little child!" And the innocent little child clasped a finger of the hand which had murdered the righteous Abel, and he guided his father. "The fir branches drip upon thee, my son." "Yea, pleasantly, father, for I ran fast and eagerly to bring thee the pitcher and the cake, and my body is not yet cool. How happy the squirrels are that feed on these fir trees! they leap from bough to bough, and the old squirrels play round their young ones in the nest. I clomb a tree yesterday at noon, O my father, that I might play with them, but they leapt away from the branches, even to the slender twigs did they leap, and in a moment I beheld them on another tree. Why, O my father, would they not play with me? I would be good to them as thou art good to me: and I groaned to them even as thou groanest when thou givest me to eat, and when thou coverest me at evening, and as often as I stand at thy knee and thine eyes look at me?" Then Cain stopped, and stifling his groans he sank to the earth, and the child Enos stood in the darkness beside him.
And Cain lifted up his voice and cried bitterly, and said, "The Mighty One that persecuteth me is on this side and on that; he pursueth my soul like the wind, like the sand-blast he passeth through me; he is around me even as the air! O that I might be utterly no more! I desire to die—yea, the things that never had life, neither move they upon the earth—behold! they seem precious to mine eyes. O that a man might live without the breath of his nostrils. So I might abide in darkness, and blackness, and an empty space! Yea, I would lie down, I would not rise, neither would I stir my limbs till I became as the rock in the den of the lion, on which the young lion resteth his head whilst he sleepeth. For the torrent that roareth far off hath a voice; and the clouds in heaven look terribly on me; the mighty one who is against me speaketh in the wind of the cedar grove; and in silence am I dried up." Then Enos spake to his father, "Arise my father, arise, we are but a little way from the place where I found the cake and the pitcher." And Cain said, "How knowest thou?" and the child answered—"Behold the bare rocks are a few of thy strides distant from the forest; and while even now thou wert lifting up thy voice, I heard the echo." Then the child took hold of his father, as if he would raise him: and Cain being faint and feeble rose slowly on his knees and pressed himself against the trunk of a fir, and stood upright and followed the child.
The path was dark till within three strides' length of its termination, when it turned suddenly; the thick black trees formed a low arch, and the moonlight appeared for a moment like a dazzling portal. Enos ran before and stood in the open air; and when Cain, his father, emerged from the darkness, the child was affrighted. For the mighty limbs of Cain were wasted as by fire; his hair was as the matted curls on the Bison's forehead, and so glared his fierce and sullen eye beneath: and the black abundant locks on either side, a rank and tangled mass, were stained and scorched, as though the grasp of a burning iron hand had striven to rend them; and his countenance told in a strange and terrible language of agonies that had been, and were, and were still to continue to be.
The scene around was desolate; as far as the eye could reach it was desolate: the bare rocks faced each other, and left a long and wide interval of thin white sand. You might wander on and look round and round, and peep into the crevices of the rocks and discover nothing that acknowledged the influence of the seasons. There was no spring, no summer, no autumn: and the winter's snow, that would have been lovely, fell not on these hot rocks and scorching sands. Never morning lark had poised himself over this desert; but the huge serpent often hissed there beneath the talons of the vulture, and the vulture screamed, his wings imprisoned within the coils of the serpent. The pointed and shattered summits of the ridges of the rocks made a rude mimicry of human concerns, and seemed to prophecy mutely of things that then were not; steeples, and battlements, and ships with naked masts. As far from the wood as a boy might sling a pebble of the brook, there was one rock by itself at a small distance from the main ridge. It had been precipitated there perhaps by the groan which the Earth uttered when our first father fell. Before you approached, it appeared to lie flat on the ground, but its base slanted from its point, and between its point and the sands a tall man might stand upright. It was here that Enos had found the pitcher and cake, and to this place he led his father. But ere they had reached the rock they beheld a human shape: his back was towards them, and they were advancing unperceived, when they heard him smite his breast and cry aloud, "Wo, is me! wo, is me! I must never die again, and yet I am perishing with thirst and hunger."
Pallid, as the reflection of the sheeted lightning on the heavy-sailing Night-cloud, became the face of Cain; but the child Enos took hold of the shaggy skin, his Father's robe, and raised his eyes to his Father, and listening whispered, "Ere yet I could speak, I am sure, O my father, that I heard that voice. Have not I often said that I remembered a sweet voice. O my father! this is it:" and Cain trembled exceedingly. The voice was sweet indeed, but it was thin and querulous like that of a feeble slave in misery, who despairs altogether, yet can not refrain himself from weeping and lamentation. And, behold! Enos glided forward, and creeping softly round the base of the rock, stood before the stranger, and looked up into his face. And the Shape shrieked, and turned round, and Cain beheld him, that his limbs and his face were those of his brother ABEL whom he had killed! And Cain stood like one who struggles in his sleep because of the exceeding terribleness of a dream.
Thus as he stood in silence and darkness of Soul, the SHAPE fell at his feet, and embraced his knees, and cried out with a bitter outcry, "Thou eldest born of Adam, whom Eve, my mother, brought forth, cease to torment me! I was feeding my flocks in green pastures by the side of quiet rivers, and thou killedst me; and now I am in misery." Then Cain closed his eyes, and hid them with his hands; and again he opened his eyes, and looked around him, and said to Enos, "What beholdest thou? Didst thou hear a voice my son?" "Yes, my father, I beheld a man in unclean garments, and he uttered a sweet voice, full of lamentation." Then Cain raised up the Shape that was like Abel, and said. "The Creator of our father, who had respect unto thee, and unto thy offering, wherefore hath he forsaken thee?" Then the Shape shrieked a second time, and rent his garment, and his naked skin was like the white sands beneath their feet; and he shrieked yet a third time, and threw himself on his face upon the sand that was black with the shadow of the rock, and Cain and Enos sate beside him; the child by his right hand, and Cain by his left. They were all three under the rock, and within the shadow. The Shape that was like Abel raised himself up, and spake to the child; "I know where the cold waters are but I may not drink, wherefore didst thou then take away my pitcher?" But Cain said, "Didst thou not find favour in the sight of the Lord thy God?" The Shape answered, "The Lord is God of the living only, the dead have another God." Then the child Enos lifted up his eyes and prayed; but Cain rejoiced secretly in his heart. "Wretched shall they be all the days of their mortal life," exclaimed the Shape, "who sacrifice worthy and acceptable sacrifices to the God of the dead; but after death their toil ceaseth. Woe is me, for I was well beloved by the God of the living, and cruel wert thou, O my brother, who didst snatch me away from his power and his dominion." Having uttered these words, he rose suddenly, and fled over the sands; and Cain said in his heart, "The curse of the Lord is on me; but who is the God of the dead?" and he ran after the Shape, and the Shape fled shrieking over the sands, and the sands rose like white mists behind the steps of Cain, but the feet of him that was like Abel disturbed not the sands. He greatly outrun Cain, and turning short, he wheeled round, and came again to the rock where they had been sitting, and where Enos still stood; and the child caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and he fell upon the ground. And Cain stopped, and beholding him not, said, "he has passed into the dark woods," and he walked slowly back to the rocks; and when he reached it the child told him that he had caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and that the man had fallen upon the ground; and Cain once more sat beside him, and said, "Abel, my brother, I would lament for thee, but that the spirit within me is withered, and burnt up with extreme agony. Now, I pray thee, by thy flocks, and by thy pastures, and by the quiet rivers which thou lovedst, that thou tell me all that thou knowest. Who is the God of the dead? where doth he make his dwelling? what sacrifices are acceptable unto him? for I have offered, but have not been received; I have prayed, and have not been heard; and how can I be afflicted more than I already am?" The Shape arose and answered, "O that thou hadst had pity on me as I will have pity on thee. Follow me, Son of Adam! and bring thy child with thee!"
And they three passed over the white sands between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
"A little further, O my father, yet a little further, and we shall come into the open moonlight." Their road was through a forest of fir-trees; at its entrance the trees stood at distances from each other, and the path was broad, and the moonlight and the moonlight shadows reposed upon it, and appeared quietly to inhabit that solitude. But soon the path winded and became narrow; the sun at high noon sometimes speckled, but never illumined it, and now it was dark as a cavern.
"Lead on, my child!" said Cain: "guide me, little child!" And the innocent little child clasped a finger of the hand which had murdered the righteous Abel, and he guided his father. "The fir branches drip upon thee, my son." "Yea, pleasantly, father, for I ran fast and eagerly to bring thee the pitcher and the cake, and my body is not yet cool. How happy the squirrels are that feed on these fir-trees! they leap from bough to bough, and the old squirrels play round their young ones in the nest. I clomb a tree yesterday at noon, O my father, that I might play with them, but they leaped away from the branches, even to the slender twigs did they leap, and in a moment I beheld them on another tree. Why, O my father, would they not play with me? I would be good to them as thou art good to me: and I groaned to them even as thou groanest when thou givest me to eat, and when thou coverest me at evening, and as often as I stand at thy knee and thine eyes look at me?" Then Cain stopped, and stifling his groans he sank to the earth, and the child Enos stood in the darkness beside him.
And Cain lifted up his voice and cried bitterly, and said, "The Mighty One that persecuteth me is on this side and on that; he pursueth my soul like the wind, like the sand-blast he passeth through me; he is around me even as the air! O that I might be utterly no more! I desire to die—yea, the things that never had life, neither move they upon the earth—behold! they seem precious to mine eyes. O that a man might live without the breath of his nostrils. So I might abide in darkness, and blackness, and an empty space! Yea, I would lie down, I would not rise, neither would I stir my limbs till I became as the rock in the den of the lion, on which the young lion resteth his head whilst he sleepeth. For the torrent that roareth far off hath a voice: and the clouds in heaven look terribly on me; the Mighty One who is against me speaketh in the wind of the cedar grove; and in silence am I dried up." Then Enos spake to his father, "Arise, my father, arise, we are but a little way from the place where I found the cake and the pitcher." And Cain said, "How knowest thou?" and the child answered—"Behold the bare rocks are a few of thy strides distant from the forest; and while even now thou wert lifting up thy voice, I heard the echo." Then the child took hold of his father, as if he would raise him: and Cain being faint and feeble rose slowly on his knees and pressed himself against the trunk of a fir, and stood upright and followed the child.
The scene around was desolate; as far as the eye could reach it was desolate: the bare rocks faced each other, and left a long and wide interval of thin white sand. You might wander on and look round and round, and peep into the crevices of the rocks and discover nothing that acknowledged the influence of the seasons. There was no spring, no summer, no autumn: and the winter's snow, that would have been lovely, fell not on these hot rocks and scorching sands. Never morning lark had poised himself over this desert; but the huge serpent often hissed there beneath the talons of the vulture, and the vulture screamed, his wings imprisoned within the coils of the serpent. The pointed and shattered summits of the ridges of the rocks made a rude mimicry of human concerns, and seemed to prophesy mutely of things that then were not; steeples, and battlements, and ships with naked masts. As far from the wood as a boy might sling a pebble of the brook, there was one rock by itself at a small distance from the main ridge. It had been precipitated there perhaps by the groan which the Earth uttered when our first father fell. Before you approached, it appeared to lie flat on the ground, but its base slanted from its point, and between its point and the sands a tall man might stand upright. It was here that Enos had found the pitcher and cake, and to this place he led his father. But ere they had reached the rock they beheld a human shape: his back was towards them, and they were advancing unperceived, when they heard him smite his breast and cry aloud, "Woe is me! woe is me! I must never die again, and yet I am perishing with thirst and hunger."
Pallid, as the reflection of the sheeted lightning on the heavy-sailing night-cloud, became the face of Cain; but the child Enos took hold of the shaggy skin, his father's robe, and raised his eyes to his father, and listening whispered, "Ere yet I could speak, I am sure, O my father, that I heard that voice. Have not I often said that I remembered a sweet voice? O my father! this is it:" and Cain trembled exceedingly. The voice was sweet indeed, but it was thin and querulous, like that of a feeble slave in misery, who despairs altogether, yet can not refrain himself from weeping and lamentation. And, behold! Enos glided forward, and creeping softly round the base of the rock, stood before the stranger, and looked up into his face. And the Shape shrieked, and turned round, and Cain beheld him, that his limbs and his face were those of his brother Abel whom he had killed! And Cain stood like one who struggles in his sleep because of the exceeding terribleness of a dream.
Thus as he stood in silence and darkness of soul, the Shape fell at his feet, and embraced his knees, and cried out with a bitter outcry, "Thou eldest born of Adam, whom Eve, my mother, brought forth, cease to torment me! I was feeding my flocks in green pastures by the side of quiet rivers, and thou killedst me; and now I am in misery." Then Cain closed his eyes, and hid them with his hands; and again he opened his eyes, and looked around him, and said to Enos, "What beholdest thou? Didst thou hear a voice, my son?" "Yes, my father, I beheld a man in unclean garments, and he uttered a sweet voice, full of lamentation." Then Cain raised up the Shape that was like Abel, and said: — "The Creator of our father, who had respect unto thee, and unto thy offering, wherefore hath he forsaken thee?" Then the Shape shrieked a second time, and rent his garment, and his naked skin was like the white sands beneath their feet; and he shrieked yet a third time, and threw himself on his face upon the sand that was black with the shadow of the rock, and Cain and Enos sate beside him; the child by his right hand, and Cain by his left. They were all three under the rock, and within the shadow. The Shape that was like Abel raised himself up, and spake to the child: "I know where the cold waters are, but I may not drink, wherefore didst thou then take away my pitcher?" But Cain said, "Didst thou not find favour in the sight of the Lord thy God?" The Shape answered, "The Lord is God of the living only, the dead have another God." Then the child Enos lifted up his eyes and prayed; but Cain rejoiced secretly in his heart. "Wretched shall they be all the days of their mortal life," exclaimed the Shape, "who sacrifice worthy and acceptable sacrifices to the God of the dead; but after death their toil ceaseth. Woe is me, for I was well beloved by the God of the living, and cruel wert thou, O my brother, who didst snatch me away from his power and his dominion." Having uttered these words, he rose suddenly, and fled over the sands: and Cain said in his heart, "The curse of the Lord is on me; but who is the God of the dead?" and he ran after the Shape, and the Shape fled shrieking over the sands, and the sands rose like white mists behind the steps of Cain, but the feet of him that was like Abel disturbed not the sands. He greatly outrun Cain, and turning short, he wheeled round, and came again to the rock where they had been sitting, and where Enos still stood; and the child caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and he fell upon the ground. And Cain stopped, and beholding him not, said, "he has passed into the dark woods," and he walked slowly back to the rocks; and when he reached it the child told him that he had caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and that the man had fallen upon the ground: and Cain once more sate beside him, and said, "Abel, my brother, I would lament for thee, but that the spirit within me is withered, and burnt up with extreme agony. Now, I pray thee, by thy flocks, and by thy pastures, and by the quiet rivers which thou lovedst, that thou tell me all that thou knowest. Who is the God of the dead? where doth he make his dwelling? what sacrifices are acceptable unto him? for I have offered, but have not been received; I have prayed, and have not been heard; and how can I be afflicted more than I already am?" The Shape arose and answered, "O that thou hadst had pity on me as I will have pity on thee. Follow me, Son of Adam! and bring thy child with thee!"
Bijou Literary Annual (1828)
"A little further, O my father, yet a little further, and we shall come into the open moonlight!" Their road was through a forest of fir-trees; at its entrance the trees stood at distances from each other, and the path was broad, and the moonlight, and the moonlight shadows reposed upon it, and appeared quietly to inhabit that solitude. But soon the path winded and became narrow; the sun at high noon sometimes speckled, but never illumined it, and now it was dark as a cavern.
"It is dark, O my father!" said Enos, "but the path under our feet is smooth and soft, and we shall soon come out into the open moonlight. Ah, why dost thou groan so deeply?"
"Lead on my child," said Cain, "guide me, little child." And the innocent little child clasped a finger of the hand which had murdered the righteous Abel, and he guided his father. "The fir branches drip upon thee my son."—"Yea, pleasantly, father, for I ran fast and eagerly to bring thee the pitcher and the cake, and my body is not yet cool. How happy the squirrels are that feed on these fir trees! they leap from bough to bough, and the old squirrels play round their young ones in the nest. I clomb a tree yesterday at noon, O my father, that I might play with them, but they leapt away from the branches, even to the slender twigs did they leap, and in a moment I beheld them on another tree. Why, O my father, would they not play with me? Is it because we are not so happy as they? Is it because I groan sometimes even as thou groanest?" Then Cain stopped, and stifling his groans, he sank to the earth, and the child Enos stood in the darkness beside him; and Cain lifted up his voice, and cried bitterly, and said, "The Mighty One that persecuteth me is on this side and on that; he pursueth my soul like the wind, like the sand-blast he passeth through me; he is around me even as the air, O that I might be utterly no more! I desire to die—yea, the things that never had life, neither move they upon the earth—behold they seem precious to mine eyes. O that a man might live without the breath of his nostrils, so I might abide in darkness and blackness, and an empty space! Yea, I would lie down, I would not rise, neither would I stir my limbs till I became as the rock in the den of the lion, on which the young lion resteth his head whilst he sleepeth. For the torrent that roareth far off hath a voice; and the clouds in heaven look terribly on me; the mighty one who is against me speaketh in the wind of the cedar grove; and in silence am I dried up." Then Enos spake to his father, "Arise my father, arise, we are but a little way from the place where I found the cake and the pitcher;" and Cain said, "How knowest thou?" and the child answered—"Behold, the bare rocks are a few of thy strides distant from the forest; and while even now thou wert lifting up thy voice, I heard the echo." Then the child took hold of his father, as if he would raise him, and Cain being faint and feeble rose slowly on his knees and pressed himself against the trunk of a fir, and stood upright and followed the child. The path was dark till within three strides' length of its termination when it turned suddenly; the thick black trees formed a low arch, and the moonlight appeared for a moment like a dazzling portal. Enos ran before and stood in the open air; and when Cain, his father, emerged from the darkness the child was affrighted, for the mighty limbs of Cain were wasted as by fire; his hair was black, and matted into loathly curls, and his countenance was dark and wild, and told in a strange and terrible language of agonies that had been, and were, and were still to continue to be.
The scene around was desolate; as far as the eye could reach, it was desolate; the bare rocks faced each other, and left a long and wide interval of their white sand. You might wander on and look round and round, and peep into the crevices of the rocks, and discover nothing that acknowledged the influence of the seasons. There was no spring, no summer, no autumn, and the winter's snow that would have been lovely, fell not on these hot rocks and scorching sands. Never morning lark had poised himself over this desert; but the huge serpent often hissed there beneath the talons of the vulture, and the vulture screamed, his wings imprisoned within the coils of the serpent. The pointed and shattered summits of the ridges of the rocks made a rude mimicry of human concerns, and seemed to prophecy mutely of things that then were not; steeples, and battlements, and ships with naked masts. As far from the wood as a boy might sling a pebble of the brook, there was one rock by itself at a small distance from the main ridge. It had been precipitated there perhaps by the terrible groan the earth gave when our first father fell. Before you approached, it appeared to lie flat on the ground, but its base slanted from its point, and between its points and the sands a tall man might stand upright. It was here that Enos had found the pitcher and cake, and to this place he led his father. But ere they arrived there they beheld a human shape; his back was towards them, and they were coming up unperceived when they heard him smite his breast and cry aloud, "Wo, is me! wo, is me! I must never die again, and yet I am perishing with thirst and hunger."
The face of Cain turned pale; but Enos said, "Ere yet I could speak, I am sure, O my father, that I heard that voice. Have not I often said that I remembered a sweet voice. O my father! this is it;" and Cain trembled exceedingly. The voice was sweet indeed, but it was thin and querulous like that of a feeble slave in misery, who despairs altogether, yet can not refrain himself from weeping and lamentation. Enos crept softly round the base of the rock, and stood before the stranger, and looked up into his face. And the Shape shrieked, and turned round, and Cain beheld him, that his limbs and his face were those of his brother Abel whom he had killed; and Cain stood like one who struggles in his sleep because of the exceeding terribleness of a dream; and ere he had recovered himself from the tumult of his agitation, the Shape fell at his feet, and embraced his knees, and cried out with a bitter outcry, "Thou eldest born of Adam, whom Eve, my mother, brought forth, cease to torment me! I was feeding my flocks in green pastures by the side of quiet rivers, and thou killedst me; and now I am in misery." Then Cain closed his eyes, and hid them with his hands— and again he opened his eyes, and looked around him, and said to Enos "What beholdest thou? Didst thou hear a voice, my son?" "Yes, my father, I beheld a man in unclean garments, and he uttered a sweet voice, full of lamentation." Then Cain raised up the shape that was like Abel, and said, "The creator of our father, who had respect unto thee, and unto thy offering, wherefore hath he forsaken thee?" Then the Shape shrieked a second time, and rent his garment, and his naked skin was like the white sands beneath their feet; and he shrieked yet a third time, and threw himself on his face upon the sand that was black with the shadow of the rock, and Cain and Enos sate beside him; the child by his right hand, and Cain by his left. They were all three under the rock, and within the shadow. The Shape that was like Abel raised himself up, and spake to the child; "I know where the cold waters are, but I may not drink, wherefore didst thou then take away my pitcher?" But Cain said, "Didst thou not find favour in the sight of the Lord thy God?" The Shape answered, "The Lord is God of the living only, the dead have another God." Then the child Enos lifted up his eyes and prayed; but Cain rejoiced secretly in his heart. "Wretched shall they be all the days of their mortal life," exclaimed the Shape, "who sacrifice worthy and acceptable sacrifices to the God of the dead; but after death their toil ceaseth. Woe is me, for I was well beloved by the God of the living, and cruel wert thou, O my brother, who didst snatch me away from his power and his dominion." Having uttered these words, he rose suddenly, and fled over the sands; and Cain said in his heart, "The curse of the Lord is on me—but who is the God of the dead?" and he ran after the Shape, and the Shape fled shrieking over the sands, and the sands rose like white mists behind the steps of Cain, but the feet of him that was like Abel disturbed not the sands. He greatly outrun Cain, and turning short, he wheeled round, and came again to the rock where they had been sitting, and where Enos still stood; and the Child caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and he fell upon the ground; and Cain stopped, and beholding him not, said, "he has passed into the dark woods," and walked slowly back to the rocks, and when he reached it the child told him that he had caught hold of his garment as he passed by, and that the man had fallen upon the ground; and Cain once more sat beside him, and said—"Abel, my brother, I would lament for thee, but that the spirit within me is withered, and burnt up with extreme agony. Now, I pray thee, by thy flocks and by thy pastures, and by the quiet rivers which thou lovest, that thou tell me all that thou knowest. Who is the God of the dead? where doth he make his dwelling? what sacrifices are acceptable unto him? for I have offered, but have not been received; I have prayed, and have not been heard; and how can I be afflicted more than I already am?" The Shape arose and answered—"O that thou hadst had pity on me as I will have pity on thee. Follow me, son of Adam! and bring thy child with thee:" and they three passed over the white sands between the rocks, silent as their shadows.
Bijou (1828)
"Wanderings of Cain"


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The City of Macon is located in the north-central region of Missouri and currently boasts a population of around 5,500. In 1863, the county seat was moved from Bloomington to Macon, and the historic Macon County Courthouse sits at the northern edge of the downtown area.
Macon was designated a DREAM community in the fall of 2008 and work on the task items began in 2009 with a focus on building revitalization, streetscape enhancements, and improving the mix of uses within Downtown.
For more information about the Missouri DREAM Initiative activities in Macon, please contact Allan Muncy at (660)385-6421.


How to apply in Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) ( आवेदन कैसे करे ) : Applications on plain paper with full bio-data should be sent to email id (shriramsonawane@gmail.com) of Dr. Shriram S. Sonawane, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, South Ambazari Road, VNIT, Nagpur 10. e-mail: shriramsonawane@gmail.com, Application should reach on or before 15 th April 2018 to above email id.  Interview will be scheduled on 16 th 2018 Monday. Selected Candidates will be informed by mail personally. The guidelines, emoluments and general service rules for the staff sanctioned will be as per the DST (http://www.dst.gov.in) Short-listed candidates will be intimated by E-mail only. These students will have to attend the Interview at their own cost. TA/DA is not admissible for attending the interview or for joining the post.
Most of the employment type are on Contract basis, Please check the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) website for details.


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