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Q: Not-So-Lazy Fetching of Transitive Associations I've been experiencing a problem with excessive select statements bogging down our database, and I'm curious if anybody can shed some light on the situation. The code I've provided below shows the basic structure of the relationships that seem to be giving us the problem.
We use a @MappedSuperclass to provide @Id and @Version for all of our classes. Class A and class B have a many-to-many relationship managed through OccurrenceOfB, but there is also extra information (not shown) associated with each OccurrenceOfB instance (hence why we are not merely using a JoinTable).
The problem becomes manifest when we attempt to create a string representation of A. In this case, I'm actually constructing JSON, but I've excluded the bulk of that here. The pertinent code, included below, involves iterating over all OccurrenceOfBs in the A and getting the ID of each. However, when we do this (and specifically, when the iteration begins), Hibernate is retrieving all of the OccurrenceOfB objects. This is just as I would expect. However, at the same time, it is also retrieving all of the corresponding B objects, and the C objects associated with each B. In other words, when it lazily retrieves the OccurrenceOfBs, it is then eagerly fetching the rest of the entity graph and not honouring the FetchType.LAZY annotations (which are admittedly, according to the documentation, merely a hint). This is not what I would expect--and is causing some significant performance hits when the size of A.occurrences is in the thousands. (Our actual objects are slightly more complex than this, but serializing one A with 1500 OccurrenceOfBs results in 10502 select statements in our system.)
Curiously, the opposite does not hold true. If I have a B that occurs in 1500 As, converting the B to a string (which likewise iterates over the occurrences collection and retrieves the ID of each) does NOT perform all of the excessive select statements.
And now, at long last to the actual question: How can I improve performance in my database in this scenario? Setting the default batch fetch size provides some relief, but it seems to be a band-aid on the underlying problem. Ideally, how can I convince Hibernate to actually honour lazy fetching for transitive associations?
@MappedSuperclass
public class PersistentObject
{
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @Column
    protected Long id;

    @Version
    @Column
    protected Long version;
}

@Entity
public class A extends PersistentObject
{
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "a",
               fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
               orphanRemoval = true,
               cascade = { CascadeType.ALL })
    private final Set<OccurrenceOfB> occurrences = new HashSet<>();

    // Other columns here

   @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        // ...
        List<Long> ids = new LinkedList<>();
        for ( OccurrenceOfB occurrence : occurrences )
        {
            ids.add(occurrence.getId());
        }
        // ...
    }
}

@Entity
public class OccurrenceOfB extends PersistentObject
{
    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
               cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST,
                           CascadeType.MERGE },
               optional = false)
    private A a;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
               cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST,
                           CascadeType.MERGE },
               optional = false)
    private B b;

    // Other columns here
}

@Entity
public class B extends PersistentObject
{
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "b",
               fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
               orphanRemoval = true,
               cascade = { CascadeType.ALL })
    private final Set<OccurrenceOfB> occurrences = new HashSet<>();

    @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
              cascade = { CascadeType.ALL },
              optional = false)
    @JoinColumn(name = "c",
                nullable = false)
    private C c;

    // Other columns here
}

@Entity
public class C extends PersistentObject
{
    @OneToOne(mappedBy = "c",
              optional = false)
    @JoinColumn(name = "b",
                nullable = false)
    private B b;

    // Other columns here
}

Follow-Up:
So, with some more investigation I think I've identified the problem--and it wasn't in any of the code I had mirrored here.  It was actually a faulty implementation of equals/hashCode.  Because OccurrenceOfB is pretty much defined by the A and B to which it references, both values were being referenced in equals/hashCode.  As a result, the mere act of iterating over the collection was triggering a fetch.  Because B had a similar implementation (that referenced C), it was performing yet another transitive fetch.
I've removed the implementations entirely and saw that my 10502 select statements was reduced to 3--and that's an improvement I can get behind.  Obviously a proper implementation of equals/hashCode will be required (and will be fun given the caveats indicated in https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core.old/reference/en/html/persistent-classes-equalshashcode.html), but that is beyond the scope of this post.
Thank you very much for your help and thought on this!


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Dlouhá cesta (v anglickém originále A Walk to Remember) je americký romantický film z roku 2002 natočený podle v originále stejnojmenného bestselleru úspěšného amerického spisovatele Nicholase Sparkse (česky vyšel jako Nezapomenutelná cesta). Děj filmu je zasazen do poloviny 90. let 20. století do Beaufortu v Severní Karolíně (na rozdíl od předlohy, která se odehrává na tomtéž místě, ale na konci 50. let). Téma filmu se zabývá problematikou lásky mezi dvěma původně nepříliš kompatibilními mladými lidmi (v kolektivu úspěšným, ale značně neukázněným a povinnosti zanedbávajícím chuligánem a konzervativní, zbožnou a slušně vychovanou dcerou pastora). Silná láska je zde motorem, který napravuje, ukázňuje, učí víře a toleranci a překonává náboženské a povahové rozdíly.

Filmu se celkově dostalo převážně negativní či rozporuplné kritiky (recenzentům se často nelíbila "kýčovitost a přeslazenost filmu", "nahrubo a nedomyšleně zpracovaný děj", "chyby ve střihu a zpracování scén" či "ideologické vyznění filmu"), u diváků však byl poměrně úspěšný a představitelka hlavní dívčí postavy, Mandy Moore, získala několik ocenění a nominací za svůj herecký výkon. Mimo USA, kde byl kladně hodnocen zejména v konzervativních křesťanských kruzích, získal film mimořádnou oblibu zejména na Filipínách, v Singapuru a Polsku.

Je ironické, že někteří recenzenti a diváci kritizovali děj a jeho hrdiny jako vzdálené realitě, protože to vše bylo vytvořeno podle skutečnosti. Předobrazem pro hlavní dívčí postavu byla Sparksova sestra Danielle († 2000). Podrobněji viz v článku Nezapomenutelná cesta.

Od knižní předlohy se film výrazně liší i tím, že je v něm explicitně řečeno, že hrdinka zemřela (kniha byla napsána ještě před smrtí Sparksovy sestry, film byl natočen až po ní).

Obsazení

 Shane West jako Landon Carter
 Mandy Moore jako Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan-Carter
 Peter Coyote jako reverend Hegbert Sullivan
 Daryl Hannah jako Cynthia Carter
 Lauren German jako Bellinda
 Clayne Crawford jako Dean Thomas
 Al Thompson jako Eric
 Paz de la Huerta jako Tracy
 David Lee Smith jako Dr. Carter
 Jonathan Parks Jordan jako Walker
 Matt Lutz jako Clay Gephardt

Přijetí

Tržby
Film vydělal 41,2 milionů dolarů v Severní Americe a 6,2 milionů dolarů v ostatních oblastech, celkově tak vydělal 47 milionů dolarů po celém světě. Rozpočet filmu činil 11,8 milionů dolarů. Za první víkend docílil třetí nejvyšší návštěvnosti, kdy vydělal 12,1 milionů dolarů.

Recenze
Na recenzní stránce Rotten Tomatoes získal ze 103 započtených recenzí 27 procent s průměrným ratingem 4,1 bodů z deseti. Na serveru Metacritic snímek získal z 26 recenzí 35 bodů ze sta. Na Česko-Slovenské filmové databázi snímek získal 73 procent.

Ocenění a nominace
Mandy Moore si za roli odnesla Filmovou cenu MTV v kategorii objev roku. Film získal tři nominace na cenu Teen Choice Awards: objev roku, nejlepší chemie, nejlepší polibek. Nakonec získal dvě ceny ze tří (kromě nejlepšího polibku).

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Nezapomenutelná cesta
 Nicholas Sparks

Externí odkazy
 Official site
 The A Walk To Remember Fanlisting

Americké romantické filmy
Filmy z roku 2002
Filmy natočené podle knižní předlohy
Filmy Adama Shankmana
Filmy s tématem rakoviny

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Remains of fallen soldiers repatriated from Cambodia
The remains of 98 voluntary soldiers who died in Cambodia while saving the neighbouring country from genocide have been found and repatriated, according to Col. Nguyen Thanh Binh from the southwestern Binh Phuoc Province's Military Command.
A ceremony to rebury soldiers' remains (Photo: VNA)
Another 13 sets of remains of war martyrs were found in the province, Binh said, adding that only two of the total 111 sets of remains have been identified.
The steering board for the search of fallen soldiers' remains (Steering Board 1237) of Binh Phuoc province coordinated with relevant agencies of Cambodia's Kratie and Kampongthom provinces to organise a ceremony to hand over the remains of Vietnamese soldiers.
Board 1237, in coordination with the provincial Department of Labours, Invalids and Social Affairs, has identified 858 war martyrs of Binh Phuoc, whose remains have been buried in local cemeteries, and compiled a list of 4,059 soldiers who hailed from the province but died in other localities.
According to Binh, the remains of around 205 local soldiers are still in Cambodia. The province will continue to cooperate with Cambodian authorities to search for and repatriate the remains./.
http://en.vietnamplus.vn/remains-of-fallen-soldiers-repatriated-from-cambodia/99575.vnp
Cần Thơ University commends the 5-good deed students
100% of the winter – spring rice crop area have been transplanted
The 3rd founding anniversary of Hòa Hảo – Cần Thơ general hospital
Model of "treating composting compose from organic waste"
× 7 = forty two

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Children under 16, Secondary and Tertiary students, University of Auckland staff, and Gold Card / Community Services Card holders.
Jazz Pianist Kevin Field marks the release of his new album 'The A List' with this special concert. Featuring guitarist Dixon Nacey, drummer Stephen Thomas and other guests.
Concessions are available to children under 16, Secondary and Tertiary students, University of Auckland staff, and Gold Card / Community Services Card holders.
Valid ID must be presented on arrival where applicable.
The School of Music sits within the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland.
Our diverse faculty is made up of the School of Music, School of Architecture and Planning, Elam School of Fine Arts and the Dance Studies Programme.


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2018 Box Office Draft- Group 2 stuffp takes the lead
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Re: 2018 Box Office Draft- Group 2
The only valid excuse he's allowed if he's working on part 3.2.
zwackerm
Hold the door!
1. nghtvsn (Avengers Infinity War,Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, Mission: Impossible 6, The Nun, Fifty Shades Freed, The Equalizer 2, Night School
2. i.hope (The Incredibles 2, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, Rampage, Game Night, Smallfoot, Holmes & Watson, Mortal Engines,
3. stuffp (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Ready Player One, Venom, Ocean's 8, Creed 2, Skyscraper
4. Rev (Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ant-Man and the Wasp, A Wrinkle in Time, Alita: Battle Angel, Jungle Book:Origins, The Predator, Pacific Rim Uprising
5. Jack Sparrow (Deadpool 2, Aquaman, Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Tomb Raider, Red Sparrow
6. zwackerm (Black Panther, Mary Poppins Returns, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Hotel Transylvania 3, Halloween, Bumblebee, Peter Rabbit, Goosebumps 2
Why is the rum gone???
5. Jack Sparrow (Deadpool 2, Aquaman, Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Tomb Raider, Red Sparrow, Maze Runner: The Death Cure
nghtvsn
Location: Warren Theatre Oklahoma
I thought about Maze Runner but I think it's moment has passed though I will check it out just to see how it finishes up. Can it really match the 80 million from Part 2, btw?
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Look to the Animation department for the future of Star Wars
I don't see First Man doing much unless it's a comedy.
Algren
now we know
The Death Cure is in a bit of a predicament. It's the last in a series in which people don't care about anymore. The last one did make $80m, so perhaps the finale factor will neutralise the fatigue and it can still make $70-80m.
3. stuffp (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Ready Player One, Venom, Ocean's 8, Creed 2, Skyscraper, The Meg
I like Rev's First Man pick, should be lined up to be a great film, so might do equally great box office wise.
And The Death Cure, yeah, it should be a pretty safe 8th rounder here. It will get a crowd, but I expect a decrease. We're less than 2 months away and I don't feel a buzz, something like 26/69 I think.
You are a fool for taking The Meg. That's a $35m grosser at best.
Idk what The Meg is about but it's a coin flip. The director's films actually do average way more than 35 but Jason Statham being the lead has a consistent box office ceiling.
Film has a 150 million budget! This is supposed to be some tentpole flick?
It could disappoint but I have a very hard time seeing less than $50m for it, that would not be great, but I'm expecting around a $70m gross and the rest is just hoping for more.
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nghtvsn wrote:
It is made for Chinese audiences. Will be lucky to make $35m in the US.
It's hard to say about the appeal without a trailer, but I'm happy with the presumed calculated risk I'm taking here.
You know those Asylum Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus movies? Well, add Statham and you get The Meg. It is 2018's Snakes on a Plane.
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Location: Classified
People love sharks though. And August is as dead as usual. So it could do something like $35/100m ala Annabelle: Creation. Though I think $20/55m is more likely.
I kneel with Magnus.
Wakanda Forever. X
I have a couple things on the radar after i.hope finally moves.
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3. God Particle
8. The War With Grandpa
9. Alpha
11. Strangers: Prey at Night
15. Sherlock Gnomes
21. Slenderman
22. A Star is Born 18
23. Untitled LAIKA Film
29. Sicario 2: Soldado
30. The Purge 4
36. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
39. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral
41. Scarface
43. The House with a Clock in its Walls
44. Robin Hood
47. The Girl in the Spider's Web
59. Bohemian Rhapsody
61. Widows
62. Barbie
63. 12 Strong
64. Den of Thieves
65. A Quiet Place
66. Blockers
67. Extinction
68. The 15:17 to Paris
70. Love, Simon
71. Action Point
72. Paul, Apostle of Christ
73. Midnight Sun
74. Overboard
75. Super Troopers 2
76. Truth or Dare
78. The Spy Who Dumped Me
81. Crazy Rich Asians
82. The Darkest Minds
83. The Kid Who Would Be King
85. Bed Times at the El Royale
86. Overlord
88. Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built
89. Samson
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i.hope
Defeats all expectations
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Such a difficult choice. Hopefully the animated Spider-Man makes a blast at the box office. It looks different from other superhero movies.
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I've been wanting to get Blockers for a while. A stupid fun movie with an easy-to-grab concept should do no wrong.
Blockers should win the weekend. The Blunt film will probably tank and Chappaquidick seems misplaced.
I wish there was some images of the Animated SM. I have no idea what to expect. Could tank like that SW Clones Wars pick way back or actually make some money.
It's written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed the first LEGO movie. Also, it features a Spider-Man not named Peter Parker. Sounds like something fresh.
It features a black Spider-Man. Say it like it is!
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Tag Archives: dead
Interviews: A Zombie
Turns out, zombies are real. And we have one in captivity.
Mr. Nibbles struggles with a brain addiction and chronic back pain
This is an interview with an actual zombie, who was born, raised, died, and raised in Haiti. On Sherman Avenue's latest manatee-hunting excursion, we found a zombie, named him Mr. Nibbles, and took him home to be our new pet. This interview was conducted through the bars of his cage (in the bedroom of Sir Edward Twattingworth III), as we fed him centipede brains from Plex and Cheerios from Hinman.
Sherman Ave: Tell us, Mr. Nibbles, how did you become a zombie?
Nibbles: Well, it started out when I went to the Bokor to get some pot.
SA: What's a Bokor?
Nibbles: Our resident witch doctor. You know how whenever American thugs want to cut a bitch, they cut the bitch? Haitians just go see the Bokor and he curses the bitch. He also deals things.
SA: So what was different when you went to buy from him this time?
Nibbles: Well, I told him that my last trip had been more painful than teaching wildcats to play sports. So he gave me something new to try. Said it came from pufferfish.
SA: What did the pufferfish stuff do?
Nibbles: It knocked me out. I apparently looked pretty dead.
SA: How long did this go on?
Nibbles: Long enough to be buried alive. Can I have some more Cheerios?
SA: Not until you're done with the interview. What was being dead like?
Nibbles: I wasn't dead, I was just unresponsive.* When I eventually came to, I felt worse than freshmen sorostitutes on a post-Keg Tuesday morning, and I had a mad case of the munchies. Basically, the Bokor had knocked me out and then given me a dose of datura, which is just your run-of-the-mill potentially toxic hallucinogen.
SA: Can you describe the effects of datura?
Nibbles: Well, it walks a foggy, fucked-up line somewhere between hallucinogen and near-death experience. I'd done it before I was zombified on it. You kinda mumble around tripping massive crusty balls. Side effects are extreme suggestibility, amnesia, diaphragm paralysis, and sometimes aggression. There are Youtube videos of state school Motherfuckers immortalizing each other's bad decisions on datura. But essentially, you've just been roofied by the Bokor.
SA: So in a stereotypical zombie, the drooling, moaning, slurring, limping, and aggression is probably because of the datura.
Nibbles: Exactly. And because zombies are pretty complacent most of the time, they usually get put to work in the field. But I'm sure there are Bokors who get more creative with their zombie slaves.**
SA: Do you identify with the common stereotype of a zombie?
Nibbles: I mean, in some ways. I definitely lost a lot of brains due to asphyxiation while I was buried alive, as a lot of zombies do. I think that oftentimes that disappointment that you've just died a little on the inside manifests itself in the aggression caused by the datura. You just want your brains back in whatever way you can, and you end up trying to nom on anyone normal in the area.
A huge part of zombification is the mental adjustment. When you've been buried alive and you wake up feeling more fucked up than the lovechild of Tom Cruise and Charlie Sheen, a common question to ask is, "What's wrong with me?" But the question never comes out right. You end up with something like, "Hn wclch trchk blm nnnnng?" And when the answer from your friends and family is "HOLY FLYING FUCK, I THOUGHT YOU DIED," at some point you do start believing you're a zombie. It's like your crotchety black uncle who's convinced he's a Democrat because he's a minority, despite his right-wing stance on every fucking issue on the platform. It's like having anorexia and participating in the Stanford prison experiment. There's this impossibly perfect standard of what a zombie should be, and you have zombies becoming someone else to try to fit into those roles.
SA: So what you're saying is that you felt pressured by the cultural expectations of zombies.
Nibbles: Yeah. I started hanging around graveyards, I lumbered around slower than the frustrating Motherfucker in the dining hall who's obliviously in your way when you're hauling ass to the cookie bar line, I didn't say anything but "NNNNNGGG" for a year or two. I mean, what kind of a word is "Ng"? The stereotyping and idealization of zombies in the media is a dangerous cultural phenomenon, and it goes unquestioned and unreported. Every time you watch a George Romero film, I beg you to please remember that not every zombie can tear the limbs off of a pair of dumbass lovers trying to make a kamikaze run for their lives. And not every zombie wants to.
SA: Are there any portrayals of zombies in movies that you'd like our readers to watch?
Nibbles: Yeah. There's a Spanish foreign film*** called Rec, off of which the American piece of shit Quarantine was based. If you're going to watch a zombie movie, Rec is significantly more heinous. Please honor Latin America with the concession that this movie might be the one thing we don't do as well. Also, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Hanna-Barbera gets enough zombie facts right to be legit.
SA: Thank you. Nibbles, I think this concludes our interview. We really appreciate your input on the subject. It's been a heinous time.
*Like the side door of Annenberg.
**Interactive question for readers: What would YOU do with a zombie slave?
***There are subtitles. Get over it, you're reading things right now. But apparently they mistranslate the foul language, so whenever you hear the word "mierda" you'll have to either get off your lazy ass and onto Spanishdictionary.com, or rely on whatever AP Spanish remains accessible behind the stacks of quotable South Park episodes in your brain. See? You knew being bilingual was good for something. You can power trip over your ability to point out inconsistencies in the translation of profanity.
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Badasses in History: Rasputin
When someone uses the phrase "historical figure" you can usually make two assumptions. First, that the person is probably complaining about a paper they have to write (complaining makes everything better); and second, that the "historical figure" in question is probably dead.
We only tend to refer to people as "historical figures" if they've been dead for at least half a century or so (sorry Amy Winehouse, but you'll have to wait). Unfortunately, we can't be so sure about this week's Historical Badass. You see, our guy has this thing about cheating death.
Looks like an unholy cross between Steve Buscemi and Marilyn Manson
That's right, I'm talking about Rasputin, the Mad Monk. Before we get into the whole "this-guy-just-won't-die-he's-the-devil-save-us-Jesus" bit, it's time to provide some background.
But first check out his picture.
Yeah, this dude was one crazy motherfucker. Look into those eyes and tell me you don't see a gateway to nightmares and years of serious trauma therapy. I don't think we ever get to see a dementor's eyes, if it even has them. But if it does, that's what I think they look like.
I think I'm going to need a drink before this article is over, but we'll keep going for the moment.
*Deep breath*
Alright. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in the small town of Pokrovskoye, Siberia. Upon exiting the womb, he reportedly cackled and wrote up a pact with the Devil then and there. His parents, understandably concerned, tried to enroll him in the local preschool, but historical texts tell us the effort stalled slightly when the school was inexplicably sucked into another dimension while little Cthulhu sat nearby baking muffins.
Years went by and the wee lad Grigori prospered, and by prospered, I mean got way scarier. Like the kid in that movie The Omen, or a teenage Tom Riddle, Rasputin seemed destined for a pale complexion and dead, soulless eyes with a presence that made small children cry and grown men shit themselves with terror.
Eventually, Rasputin joined a monastery and "found God"—I don't know what god he found, but it sure wasn't a happy one—at which point events elsewhere conspired to bring him into the limelight.
Rasputin modeling how to properly smize
As it turned out, the family members of the Czar Nicholas II often sickened and died at fairly young ages, and the Czar understandably wanted to see if someone could fucking do something about it. Shamans, old ladies with "homeopathic medicine," and even real doctors tried to find out why and affect a cure, but all failed.
As history informs us, the problem was hemophilia, but since today's pharmaceutical clusterfuck of drugs was unavailable at the time, there wasn't much that could be done. Making matters even more interesting, bleeding was a common treatment at the time. Yep. Perhaps the one thing that couldn't possibly make things worse was being used to treat the Czar's family.
Here it is expressed as a formula: Bleeding+Hemophilia=Lots of Dead People
Rasputin however, claimed to have the answer. And thanks to his deal with the Devil, he soon became a close confidant for the Czar's family, especially Czar Nicholas' wife, Alexandra, who grew to regard Rasputin as her closest adviser after he affected "miraculous" cures. She had so much belief in his powers that she believed God spoke through him.
You can guess how that went over.
His immense influence on the family, and thus on Russia's ruling policies, was not well regarded by a number of men who thought they could do a far better job of fucking things up than Rasputin, so — doing what all Russian politicians do in a time of upheaval and doubt — they decided to kill the guy they felt was responsible.
Strangely, the animated Rasputin looks slightly more human than the real Rasputin did
Things got started when the former prostitute Khionia Guseva attacked Rapustin as he was exiting a church. She stabbed him and cut open his stomach. Eyewitness accounts tell us that Rasputin looked at the wound, flipped off the sky, then healed up Wolverine-style and went out to lunch at the Russian version of Denny's.
It was then that Rasputin received a lovely dinner invitation from Prince Felix Yusupov, who totally wasn't going to try to kill him. For some reason Old Grigori accepted the invitation and arrived wearing a batman cape. Taking him down to the cellar, the nobles fed Rasputin tons of food, all laced with cyanide, better known to us today as a rat poison.
Now, this would kill fucking anybody. Rasputin however, shrugged it off like nothing, all the while telling his favorite knock-knock jokes. They must have been bad ones to, because one guy got so pissed off that he shot Rasputin in the back.
The dude blinked less than even Dick Cheney
Relieved that he was finally dead, the nobles started to go off to their coaches, when one idiot realized he'd forgotten his coat. When he went to grab it, Rasputin leaped off the floor like that possessed chick in The Exorcist. Freaked the fuck out, the bastards shot Grigori three more times.
Was he dead?
Nope. The crazy fucker still kept trying to go after them, so they all grabbed clubs and gave him a prison-style beatdown. They then wrapped his body in a sheet and tossed it in the icy — actually, all rivers in Russia are icy — Neva River.
Days later, when Rasputin's body was found, full of poison, bullet holes, and clubbing wounds, the mortician determined the cause of his death.
Take a guess about what finally killed this preposterously insane fucknut. No really, I'll wait.
Yep. The cause of death was drowning. He had even broken out of the sheet and tried to swim… with four gunshot wounds and broken bones.
By the way, one of the shots was through his forehead. Yeah.
To be fair, autopsy reports differ, and several were done on Rasputin with different conclusions, but this is the one I'm going with because, frankly, it's that badass.
–Josh Kopel
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Danube Region
Sports and motion
Castles, fortresses, palaces
Brigdes
The taste of Danube Region
Mobil app for the Danube region
Iža
Patince
Moča
Kravany nad Dunajom
Svodín
Statue of György Klapka and the Town Hall
Today's square was created at a place of a small lake, which was formerly protecting by the walls of the medieval city. A marketplace was created there later.
On the north side of it, at the end of the 17th century, there was a town hall for council meetings. In 1725 it was rebuilt. After major damage caused by the earthquake in 1763, it was restored in 1766 and supplemented in the following year by a fire guard tower. After a fire in 1848, the building was renovated again, but it was necessary to enlarge it, so in 1875 it was updated by a new watchtower, creating a town hall in the way we know it today.
The building still serves as the seat of the town hall. A figure of a hussar from 1848/49 appears in the window of its tower from New Year's Eve 1999, every day between 10 am and 4 pm, and Klapka's march, composed by the music conductor of the local garrison Béni Egressy after the last victorious battle of the Komárno fortress defenders in August 1849, is heard.
The statue decorated the space in front of the Town Hall until the end of World War II. In October 1945, soldiers from the Czechoslovak army removed the statue from the main square and then lay in the Komárno fortress for twenty years. Finally, in 1965, on the 700th anniversary of the proclamation of Komárno as a city, it was re-established, but not in its original location in front of the Town Hall, but in the England Park. It returned to its original location, the city's main square, in 1991 after the change of regime.
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Tropical Cyclone Alcide dissipated over the weekend of Nov. 11 and 12 in the Southern Indian Ocean.
However, when it was near peak intensity, the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided a look at the rain falling within.
The GPM core observatory satellite, a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, had an excellent view of tropical cyclone Alcide on November 8, 2018 at 10:59 a.m. EDT (1559 UTC) after it had moved to a location northeast of Madagascar. At that time Alcide had reached its peak intensity with winds of about 95 knots (109 mph) making it the equivalent of a strong category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
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GPM's radar data (DPR Ku Band) were used to create an image to probe the 3D structure of precipitation within tropical cyclone Alcide. The well-defined eye of the powerful tropical cyclone is revealed with this simulated view from the southwest. GPM's DPR found that the most powerful convective storms were located in tropical cyclone Alcide's western eye wall. A few of these tall storms were found by GPM to reach heights above 16.0 km (9.92 miles).
On Nov. 11, Tropical cyclone Alcide dissipated near 12.3 south latitude and 51.9 east longitude, about 529 miles north-northwest of St Denis, La Reunion.
Tropical Cyclone Alcide continued to linger just northeast of the Island nation of Madagascar in the Southern Indian Ocean when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured an image of the storm.
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On Nov. 9, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC noted that animated multispectral satellite imagery showed that Alcide has lost much of its deep convection (rising air that forms the thunderstorms that make up a tropical cyclone) but maintained its spiral banding, and convection is newly flaring over the low level circulation center.
On Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC), Alcide's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 80 mph (70 knots/129.6 kph). It was located approximately 487 nautical miles north-northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius. Alcide is moving southward at 1.1 mph (1 knot1.8 kph) and is expected to curve to the northwest.
Because of the storm's slow movement, it is bringing up cooler waters from below the ocean's surface, which will in turn, weaken the storm.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center now expects Alcide to move to the northwest and pass just north of the northern point of Madagascar over the next several days.
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and analyzed the rainfall occurring in pre-season Tropical Cyclone Alcide.
Tropical cyclone Alcide (03S), the first tropical cyclone of the 2018-2019 South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season, has formed in the South Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued its first warning for 03S on Nov. 6, 2018 at 0000 UTC (Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. EST) when the tropical cyclone was located about 1,313 km (709 nautical miles) west of Diego Garcia. This is a little early for a tropical cyclone to develop in that part of the world. The South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season doesn't officially begin until November 15, 2018.
The GPM core observatory satellite had a good view of tropical cyclone Alcide on November 6, 2018 at 11:09 a.m. EST (1609 UTC). At that time Alcide had maximum sustained winds of about 35 knots (40.3 mph). GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and GPM's Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments collected data that showed the location and intensity of precipitation within Alcide. GPM's GMI indicated that strong convective storms northwest of Alcide's center of circulation were dropping rain at a rate of more than 44 mm (1.73 inches) per hour. GPM's radar (DPR Ku Band) probed Alcide in a swath through the eastern side of the tropical cyclone. Those data revealed the locations of precipitation within feeder bands spiraling into the southeastern side of the intensifying tropical cyclone.
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a 3D animation was created from the data that showed a simulated flyby above Tropical Cyclone Alcide. Measurements of the relative heights of precipitation within tropical cyclone Alcide were made possible using GPM's radar data (DPR Ku Band). DPR's Ku Band radar enables three dimensional measurements of precipitation within a 152 mile (245 km) wide swath. The heights of precipitation over a larger area were estimated by blending measurements from GPM's radar (DPR Ku band) with heights based on the Meteosat satellite's infrared temperatures. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.
On Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC), Alcide had achieved peak wind speed when maximum sustained winds were near 95 knots (110 mph/178 kph). A weakening trend is now expected, according to the JTWC. Alcide was centered near 12.1 degrees south latitude and 53.6 degrees east longitude, about 528 nautical miles north-northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius. Alcide was moving to the southwest.
Satellite data on Nov. 8 showed that the eye had become ragged and cloud-filled.
The JTWC forecast calls for Alcide to loop. Alcide is expected to remain well northeast of Madagascar. Alcide is then expected to move into an area of increasing vertical wind shear and lower sea surface temperatures causing the tropical cyclone to gradually weaken.


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New GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence
Our research group is involved in a new Centre of Excellence: GOVTRUST
GOVTRUST studies the dynamics, causes and effects of trust between actors in multi-level governance. It combines the expertise of UAntwerp's law, social science and business and economics faculties to study trust in government, trust between governments and trust between public and private entities from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking into account the increasing integration of governments into multilevel systems such as the EU (see our mission statement).
GOVTRUST is comprised of researchers from the following units:
Research group Government and Law (Faculty of Law)
Research group Politics and Public Governance (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society (Faculty of Social Sciences)
The Antwerp Center for Evolutionary Demography (ACED) (Faculty of Business and Economics)
Link: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/govtrust/blog/05-05-2020-onderzoek/


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Q: Is Docker an alternative for 'virtualenv' while develping Django project? A virtual environment is required when creating an application and now I am using 'virtualenv' for creating a virtual environment while developing my Django application. I heard of Docker about its virtual environment. Am I able to use Docker as an alternative to virtualenv?

A: Managing Python versions and dependencies with virtualenv (or pipenv) will likely be your method of choice for your app running on localhost.
You can of course run your app exclusively in a Docker container, where you won't have the need for any separate environments and will manage dependencies via the Dockerfile (and perhaps pip).
I'd suggest the following approach: run an instance of your app on localhost and simultaneously a production version in a Docker container. Also, run your database in a Docker container alongside (both managed via docker-compose.)
For a detailed walk-through on how to set this up (shameless plug), see this post or this GitHub repo

A: While in practice, you could, you really shouldn't. Docker should in most cases be a method of distribution, rather than a way of isolating your development environment. That is to say that your final product -- the Django project you produce -- could be distributed as a docker image so it's easily deployed (and scaled via Kubernetes), but distributing an image just to handle the development environment is definitely nonstandard and I wouldn't recommend it.
Instead, consider Pipenv which neatly combines pip and venv into a human-digestible package. Store all that in your code repository, and setting up a development environment is as simple as
git clone
pipenv install --dev

A: Yes docker can be used as an alternative.
virtualenv just sets a fresh python installation in path which can be used to install dependencies particular to your project without polluting global python installation and thus managing versioning as well.
Docker is a step further and gives a complete OS - linux image and OS level isolation. Not just one can have a isolated python installation but can also have other os specific dependencies installed like ffmpeg, lapack, arpack etc. A new developer can spin up a container from docker image having all dependencies (python and OS) installed.

A: The usage of virtualenv or docker depends on your requirement or use case.
Docker container encapsulates an entire OS and provides isolation of OS whereas a virtualenv only encapsulates Python dependencies which enables switching between Python versions and dependencies, but you are dependent with your host OS.
Virtualenv can be used in case if you have two different projects on your machine that require two different versions of the same package with python. Typically, the virtualenv provides abstraction from OS's use of python.
Docker enables portability from one machine to another whereas with virtualenv you will have to do the installation in another place.  Docker isolates all of the additional system dependencies too and provides a completely isolated environment.  It is containerization platform which is used to package your application and all its dependencies together in the form of containers so to make sure that your application works seamlessly in any environment which can be development or test or production. It helps to ensure that the Dev and Production environment are completely same.

A: DOCKERFILE
FROM python:3.9
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
WORKDIR /code
COPY requirements.txt /code/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . /code/

DOCKER-COMPOSE
version: '3.8'
services:
  backend:
    build: .
    command: python manage.py runserver
    volumes:
      - .:/code
    ports:
        - "8000:8000"

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I remember the first time I heard "delayed obedience is disobedience". My first response was "ouch!". Many times I knew the Holy Spirit was prompting me to do something but my first response was to make excuses or to put it off until later. These promptings by God can come in many differnt forms. Sometimes God places a thought or idea in our minds, He puts a person on our hearts, we see or hear about a situation (perhaps a cause or a crisis) and get a "gut feeling" we are supposed to get involved and sometimes He speaks very clearly to us through scripture, other people or through a quiet whisper. But we wait. We don't feel like it, we're too busy, it would be something uncomfortable for us to do or we surmise that we must have not heard right because it just doesn't fit into our plans. When we don't respond immediately to clear direction from God then we are walking in disobedience. Now before you go feeling all guilty like I did when I first heard that concept, keep reading. When you hear from God to take action, it doesn't always mean that whatever God is telling you will happen immediately. He may tell us we are to move to another city, quit a job that we really enjoy, go on a mission trip, adopt a child, or even begin writing a blog. So you don't have to run out and put a For Sale sign in your front yard or turn in your 2-week notice. You don't always have to take immediate action, but you are to respond immediately. That may mean that you simply acknowledge God's direction by beginning to pray about what your next step in the process will be. Many times God tells us to take action that He does expect us to act upon immediately (give of your time/resources to a cause like helping tornado victims, sign up to volunteer for an event or organization, send someone an email to let them know you're thinking about them) but there are times when God calls us to action for something that will take time and there will be steps toward reaching the final destination. In those instances, simply respond right away. Let Him know that you will do what He's calling you to do and you will trust in Him to guide your steps along the way. It's that first step of obedience of saying "yes Lord" that will cause, in time, the next step to be revealed. Right now you may know that God has revealed to you something He wants you to do but you are feeling overwhelmed because you don't know where to even begin. Obedience doesn't always require immediate action but it does require an immediate response. And all He's asking for right now is your willingness to take that first step of faith by responding. Simply say "yes, Lord" and you'll be amazed at how He begins to orchestrate the plans He has for you!
In the words of a dear friend "here we go……." and thus the adventure begins.


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Q: Adding assocation to CSV import from form I want to add the current_user.id to each field of a CSV import, on import.
I have the CSV files importing successfully but when I try the following:
model:
def self.import(file)
  CSV.foreach(file.path, headers: true) do |row|
    product_hash = row.to_hash
    product = Product.find_or_create_by!(sku: product_hash['sku'])
    product.update_attributes!(product_hash)
  end
end

controller:
  def create
    user = current_user
    Product.import(params[:product][:file], user_id: user.id)
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to '/', notice: 'Products successfully imported.' }
    end
  end

form:
<%= form_for @product, url: product_upload_create_path do |f| %>
  <%= f.file_field :file  %>
  <%= f.submit %>
<% end %>

(also tried adding hidden field for user)
error:

ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)):

Since I can't call (or, from what I have read, is a bad idea) the current_user in the model.  How else would I be able to append the current_user.id onto each CSV import row?

A: The model is a fine place, if your actions are that concise (for longer preprocessing your might choose to use a service instead, but for a only a few lines, the model is fine).
While you can't get access to the current_user in the model (its a helper action available to the views and controller because it's session dependent) you are almost there with passing it to the model, which is perfectly acceptable.
Assuming that you're uploading the file directly (not possible with certain hosted solutions where you aren't allowed to accept file uploads), then your method will work, if you change it to allow both the file name and the user object as well.
I would change the model method to:
def self.import(file:, user_id:)
  CSV.foreach(file.path, headers: true) do |row|
    product_hash = row.to_hash.merge(user: user_id)
    product = Product.find_or_create_by!(sku: product_hash['sku'])
    product.update_attributes!(product_hash)
  end
end

And change the implementation to
Product.import(file: params[:product][:file], user_id: user.id)

FYI, the notation of def method_name(param:, param_2:) means that both arguments are required.  If you needed only one to be required you can do def method_name(param:, param_2:nil) which makes the second argument optional


What Does It Mean to be a Black Canadian?
It's a short and inconspicuous question. It slips off the tongue quickly, and leaves a little shine in the eyes. It's so small, seemingly so meaningless, but yet so powerful. Each time I have been asked this little conversation starter, I freeze.
Where do I begin? Where am I from?
I know what they want to hear; they want me to tell them about my dad, who immigrated here at the tender age of nine from Jamaica. They want to hear a stunning narrative about the struggles and triumphs of the immigrant. I give them the cliff-notes version of my paternal family's ascension to Canada, and hope they do not ask for more. Yet, that little question grows and grows something like a tapeworm in the belly of their mind, and they inquire further: But what about your mother, where is she from? Now, I ready myself for battle.
What does it mean to be me? What does it mean to be a Black Canadian? Growing up it was simpler for me to respond to the question of my mother's ancestry – that is mainly because no one ever asked. I grew up playing Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, "What time is it Mr. Wolf?" and "Ding-Dong Ditch" on Barclay. Cote-des-Neiges was my first home and playground. Everyone knew us. They knew my mom and her sisters; they knew my Papa and my Nanny. They definitely knew Papa and Nanny were Scotian. That was enough for them, and it was more than enough for me. I belonged, and all the older ladies on my block, Aunt Dorothy and the like, knew I had roots where they had roots. But as I got older, those roots were unrecognizable to everybody living outside my Barclay bubble. They didn't understand what it was to be Scotian, so I got used to saying "from Nova Scotia." Still, they had trouble understanding how my mother and her family could be Black and from Nova Scotia. Basically, how could my family be both Black and Canadian? Where did they come from?
I decided to adopt that line. I didn't know much about Canada's history of slavery and racial inequality, but I knew that there was slavery in Canada. I knew that people who were slaves – Black people who were slaves – came to Canada sometimes as property, sometimes as free citizens, and sometimes escaping the tight grasp of hell hoping for salvation.
Ever since I adopted this answer and offered it on a silver platter to those who would inquire ever so innocently about my "background" I would watch their eyes with my own smiling. The confusion I would find was a brief satisfaction for me, but those two questions continued to plague me. I guess I loved to watch them be just as confused as I was.
What does it mean to be me? What does it mean to be a Black Canadian? These were questions I couldn't answer. I had no referents for being Black and Canadian. All the history I knew was "White"; it wasn't explicitly my history. Then I remembered the first day of my grade ten Canadian and Québec history class. My teacher handed out 30 or so textbooks covered in a hard, plastic and resin-like material. The cover came in solid colours, either black, navy blue or gross green, and on the front it read Mon histoire (French for "My History"). Mr. Lapierre was sure to mention to our class, a group of students more likely to be identified as almost everything but francophone or Québecois, that this was not our history. Well he was kind of right. As a Montréal native, it kind of was my history, but he was mostly right that it really wasn't my history. And for years to come, I would remain ignorant of my history not knowing there was really any history to retrieve, to remember, to commemorate. I foolishly thought: if there were important moments of Canadian history involving Black Canadians then they would be around somewhere right? Kind of right. I would have to find them. I would have to make my history more important than the same old narrative about Europeans making a great, new nation. My history would have to be meaningful by itself and possibly call into question all that other history I had eaten up so easily.
So what now? I read. I decided to put on my history cap and read up on the "Black Canadian Experience." The first stone in the pond is Graham Reynolds' Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Discrimination in the Promised Land.
As I read Reynold's historical account of the experiences many of my ancestors lived, I am finding myself. What I am discovering is still so new that I do not have the words for it just yet, but the expression of myself, of my history, is changing, is deepening, is taking on a true form. The confusion is transforming into an understanding.


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Home » Tanzanian Agri-business to grow: Foreign bonded warehouses to increase sales
Tanzanian Agri-business to grow: Foreign bonded warehouses to increase sales
By Giza Mdoe on May 5, 2021 Countries, Tanzania
The government of Tanzania is working on a blue print to increase sell of the country's agro-produce by setting up bonded warehouses in foreign markets in a bid to boost sells.
The bonded warehouses will for starters be piloted in China and Saudi Arabia and are expected to ease access to markets for agro-produce.
Well first things first. What is a bonded warehouse? These are building or other secured areas in which dutiable goods may be stored or even manufacturing without payment of duty.
Agricultural storage silos aim to enable storage facilities for Tanzanian produce when exported abroad.
Bonded warehouses provide specialized storage services such as deep freezers for perishables as well as bulk liquid storage. They also allow for commodity processing and make up an integral part of the global supply chain by giving the importer opportunity to bring in raw goods, process, package and then sell the final product all under one roof with no duty charged.
Further still, bonded warehouses may be managed by the government or by private sector in which case, a customs bond must be posted with the government. The customs bond here refers to a contract between three parties (government, the importer and a surety) to ensure that all the duties and fees associated with the rules and regulations of importing or other Customs activities are paid to Customs by the importer.
So by setting up a bonded warehouse say in China for instance, the government of Tanzania will in effect be opening a cost-effective mall. With less costs to incur compared to opening a shopping area in the traditional way, the government will be able to take the agro-products close to the market allowing for easy access and as such increase sales.
Detailing about the plan recently in the country's capital Dodoma, the Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe told legislators that the plan will serve to increase market reach for small-scale farmers.
He explained that currently, Tanzania products are facing high competition from cheaper imports in these target markets. So by finding this cost-effective option, the government can sell the produce at lower prices and still reel in top dollar.
He also cited other countries where the bonded warehouse will be set up to include but not limited to in Vietnam, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. Notably, between July and December 2020 Tanzanian farmers were able to sell some 89,725.35 tonnes of maize to Kenya, Burundi and the DRC and it is expected these figures will double with the establishment of the bonded warehouse system.
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Setting Precedence: The warehouse receipt system
It is also expected that by setting bonded warehouses for farm produce, Tanzania will be able to increase exports and that way increase sell of produce that would otherwise be stuck in warehouses back at home. The main hurdle to expanding farming in Tanzania is a limited market, not that demand is small but rather the ability to reach that market and be competitive.
To ensure small-scale farmers sell their produce as soon as they harvest (and even while the crop is still in the field) Tanzania also uses what is referred to as the Warehouse Receipt System. This is a setting where by, the small scale farmer can take his produce to a registered warehouse (within the country) and deposit their produce and in turn get a receipt which bares the monetary value of the produce that he or she has deposited at the warehouse.
The receipts are accepted by banks to secure loans and are also transferable from person to person. This is to say, the farmers are immediately empowered to secure bank loans or if they choose, to sell the produce in the warehouse to a third party by transferring ownership of their receipt.
The receipt that is issued by the warehouse serves as evidence that specified commodities of a stated quantity and quality, have been deposited at particular locations by named depositors. Another key part with the warehouse receipt system is that it accepts produce deposit not only from farmer but also from farmers' groups, traders, exporters, processors or any individual who so chooses to deposit produce that is in their possession.
Also, the warehouse operator is liable for any loss of value of the goods deposited at the warehouse. This guarantees no loss of value for the depositor. In other words the warehouse is legally liable to make good any value lost through theft or damage.
The Warehouse Receipt System in Tanzania was introduced in September 2000 in the horticulture hub of Arusha. A project was signed between the then Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for the trade of coffee and cotton as pilot products to try out the system.
Serving as a pilot project, with the two main cash crops (coffee and cotton) the WHS was run for a period of 36 months in which only the said cash crops were accepted by the registered warehouses. Since then, the system has expanded to accommodate almost any, other cash crop.
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Liftoff: Tanzania's top agro exports
In Tanzania, coffee remains the number one agro-produce for export and at 16.3 percent of total exports, cotton comes in second as the top export cash crop. These two are followed by cashew nuts (12.7 percent), tobacco (6.4 percent), tea (2.9 percent), and sisal (0.7 percent).
In Zanzibar, the major cash crop remains to be cloves, 90 percent of which are produced on the island of Pemba; it is no wonder the archipelago is referred to as the Spice Islands.
The sector's contribution to GDP has more than tripled in the last 10 years, supported by rising cash crop production, an emerging agro-processing segment and strong domestic demand for processed food.
Coffee is the largest export crop in Tanzania, producing Robusta and Arabica with the latter accounting for 70 percent of the country's production. As of October last year, Tanzania coffee exports were valued at 17.6 million U.S. dollars, a considerable increase compared to the previous month.
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Giza Mdoe is an experienced journalist with 10 plus years. He's been a Creative Director on various brand awareness campaigns and a former Copy Editor for some of Tanzania's leading newspapers. He's a graduate with a BA in Journalism from the University of San Jose.
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An effective physical "presence" is accomplished through a combination of diverse factors. Posture, physical attitude, quality and frequency of movement through the room, use of gestures, handling items, eye contact, and facial expression, are the most critical elements of what we commonly refer to as "body language." In order to project your desired physical image its important to make certain physical adjustments a regular part of your preparation process.
Spinal Drop - Slowly curl your spine down towards the floor by beginning with the head. Remember to keep your knees unlocked and your neck loose. Hang as long as is comfortable letting the weight of your body do all the stretching 'work.' Slowly curl back up beginning at the base of your spine and restacking each vertebrae one at a time.
Body Neutral - Is a centered, grounded, energized and relaxed body position. Stand straight with your feet a comfortable distance apart, weight slightly forward on the balls of your feet, arms hanging by your side...everything energized and ready and free to move.
Shake it up or Shake it out - release excess tensions, locked muscles or awaken limp and lazy parts of your body by giving them a gentle and invigorating shake.
Purpose Practice - This helps to focus your physical energy and is especially useful for people with a tendency to pace or wander. Practice by moving around a room while talking. Never move anywhere without first deciding to go to that place. Use the structure that already exists in your presentation. Try to have your movement from place to place flow in tandem with changes in thought. Keep practicing until you are able to move with intention and can refrain from wandering without distracting yourself.


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Commuters satisfied with cleanliness at Pune stn
गुरुवार, 18 मे 2017
Passengers visiting the Pune railway station are happy with the cleanliness there.
PUNE: Passengers visiting the Pune railway station are happy with the cleanliness there.
On Thursday, Pune station of Central Railway was declared 9th in the 10 Cleanest 'A1' category stations in Indian Railways.
When Team Sakal Times visited the Pune railway station and interacted with the passengers, many stated that they were happy with the cleanliness at the station.
A passenger, Rohit Sharma said, "Earlier, Pune railway station used to be very dirty. Over the past few years, a lot of improvement can be seen in cleanliness. Now Pune station has been ranked as the 9th cleanest station in the 'A1' category and it feels very good but still, a lot can be done to bring it in the top five."
Another passenger Rehma Singh too shared similar views.
"The cleanliness of platforms 1 to 4 has always been very good. But platform number six remains neglected. In recent times the cleanliness of all the platforms has gone up which is a good thing and it would be great if this cleanliness is maintained," she added.
Sources at Pune railway station said that in recent times a lot of cleanliness drives have been carried out at the station under the guidance of Divisional Railway Manager BK Dadabhoy. They added that strict action is being taken against those found littering station premises. They stated that passengers must also see to it that they do not litter the station and for this garbage bins have been provided at every corner of the station.


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Q: How to get best of three columns from five columns? I have a table like below
ID     M1    M2    M3   M4  M5
121    3      5     6    8   4
122    5      2     1    9   6

For each row, I need to get the three columns with the maximum values, and the other values should be NULL.  For the table above, the output should be:
ID     M1    M2    M3   M4  M5
121          5     6    8
122    5                9   6

Can anyone help me how to do it in Oracle or MySQL?

A: If you are trying to get maximum value from the table you can use sub-query like this:
SELECT ID
,(CASE WHEN M1 = MM1 THEN M1 ELSE '' END) AS M1
,(CASE WHEN M2 = MM2 THEN M2 ELSE '' END) AS M2
,(CASE WHEN M3 = MM3 THEN M3 ELSE '' END) AS M3
,(CASE WHEN M4 = MM4 THEN M4 ELSE '' END) AS M4
,(CASE WHEN M5 = MM5 THEN M5 ELSE '' END) AS M5
FROM Table1
JOIN
(
SELECT MAX(M1) AS MM1
      ,MAX(M2) AS MM2
      ,MAX(M3) AS MM3
      ,MAX(M4) AS MM4
      ,MAX(M5) AS MM5
FROM Table1
) A

Output:
|  ID | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 |
--------------------------------
| 121 |    |  5 |  6 |    |    |
| 122 |  5 |    |    |  9 |  6 |

See this SQLFiddle

A: Try this (aaabbb is the name I gave your table in the fiddle):
with p as (
select *
from aaabbb
unpivot
(
v for c in (m1,m2,m3,m4,m5)
)
), max_v as (
select p1.id,  max(p1.v) v1, max(p2.v) v2, max(p3.v) v3
from p p1
join p p2 on p1.v > p2.v and  p1.id = p2.id
join p p3 on p2.v > p3.v and  p2.id = p3.id
group by p1.id)
select ab.id,
case when m1 in (mv.v1, mv.v2, mv.v3) then m1 end  m1,
case when m2 in (mv.v1, mv.v2, mv.v3) then m2 end  m2,
case when m3 in (mv.v1, mv.v2, mv.v3) then m3 end  m3,
case when m4 in (mv.v1, mv.v2, mv.v3) then m4 end  m4,
case when m5 in (mv.v1, mv.v2, mv.v3) then m5 end  m5
from aaabbb ab join max_v mv on ab.id = mv.id

results are:
ID     M1    M2    M3   M4  M5
121          5     6    8
122    5                9   6

Here is a sqlfiddle demo

A: In oracle ::
 I am not sure about the certain rule you are trying to invoke here:
select id,
decode(m1,1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,M1) M1,
decode(m2,1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,M2) M2,
decode(m3,1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,M3) M3,
decode(m4,1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,M4) M4,
decode(m5,1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,M5) M5
from tab order by id;

A: Try this query -
SELECT
  id,
  IF(t1.m1 = t2.m1, t1.m1, null) m1,
  IF(t1.m2 = t2.m2, t1.m2, null) m2,
  IF(t1.m3 = t2.m3, t1.m3, null) m3,
  IF(t1.m4 = t2.m4, t1.m4, null) m4,
  IF(t1.m5 = t2.m5, t1.m5, null) m5
FROM
  m_table t1,
  (SELECT
     MAX(m1) m1, MAX(m2) m2, MAX(m3) m3, MAX(m4) m4, MAX(m5) m5 FROM m_table
  ) t2


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Two careers that require a bachelor's degree are personal financial advisor and insurance underwriter. Personal financial advisors give clients advice on finances, including mortgages and investments. Insurance underwriters determine whether or not they should accept a client for insurance, as well as what premiums and coverage they should give them.


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Harvard University Awards Derek Bok Public Service Prize to Vision-Aid Founder Ramakrishna M. Raju
Ramakrishna M. Raju (Center)
CAMBRIDGE, MA–On May 30th, Ramakrishna M. Raju became the first Indian American to receive the prestigious Derek Bok Public Service Prize.
This prestigious award is given at Commencement each year and carries a medal, a citation and a cash prize of $3,000. The award recognizes creative initiatives in community service and long-standing records of civic achievement.
The Derek Bok Public Service Prize was instituted in honor of the former President of Harvard University, Derek C. Bok, for his interest in encouraging public service by all Harvard students.
Ramakrishna (Ram) Raju came to the United States from India over two decades ago. In India, Ram earned his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi, India.
Ram was selected by the Rotary International Foundation as an ambassador scholar, and with this scholarship he successfully completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University. Subsequently, he has been working in the high tech industry in the Boston area, with most of his work being in the field of Information Technology Architecture, Design and Planning for the United States Department of Transportation space.
He works for a leading Engineering Services firm in the Cambridge area, and has successfully led several cutting edge modernization projects in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other transportation domains, and has publications to his credit. Ram began his journey at Harvard, with a Master's degree in Information Management Systems at the Harvard Extension School in 2014, and graduated in May 2019.
In addition to his work and academic pursuits, Ram and his wife founded a non-profit organization, Vision-Aid in 2004 to rehabilitate individuals with significant visual impairments ranging from partial low vision conditions to blindness.
Vision-Aid, which started in Ram's home town Visakhapatnam in 2004, now runs programs in 10 locations across India and has helped to enable, educate and empower thousands of visually impaired adults and children since its inception. With support from many in the community, it continues to gain momentum, and in the past year alone has added several leading organizations in its service network including the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, the world's largest eye care system, where underprivileged patients are provided high quality services and devices completely free of cost.
Ram also volunteers his time right here in Boston working with the Boston Accessibility Group to help organize annual conferences on disability and accessibility, and with Our Space, Our Place – a Boston based NGO which helps visually impaired students in Boston public schools, as well as with Inclusive STEM an NGO which empowers visually impaired students succeed in STEM and Computer Science by providing opportunities for advanced training and participation in hackathons. In his free time, he enjoys meditation, gardening and playing the guitar.
This is not the first major award for Vision-Aid. In fact, Vision-Aid was in the news just recently because a panel of 9 judges voted for Ram's wife, Revathy Ramakrishna as India New England Woman of the Year for 2019.
Vision-Aid is a non-profit organization founded in 2004, a US 501(c) (3) not-for-profit, public charity, based in Lexington, MA, supporting programs that enable, educate and empower the visually impaired. Vision-Aid's counterpart in India is Vision-Aid Charitable Services Society Visakhapatnam. Vision-Aid's mission is to identify and enable individuals with vision impairment and empower them with tools, skills and resources to achieve their full potential, and to live with independence and dignity.
Vision-Aid accomplishments include:
Over 700 blind and low-vision students have gone through computer training classes earning certificates and diploma in computer applications
Over 900 sighted Teachers taught skills in Access Technologies to enable them to computer train the vision-impaired
Over 2,500 patients have gone through low-vision screening through our vision screening camps
Over 5,000 devices (including 1200 low cost electronic assistive devices) have been distributed for the vision-impaired.
Books and Know-how packages published relating to Management of Vision Impairment, Enabling the Vision Disabled.
Awards: Vision-Aid's innovative low-cost assistive devices that received National Level awards, and these include:
Vision-Aid for its work received eight National and International awards that include:
-NASEOH BJ Modi Award
-India NGO Award
-NCPEDP Universalized Award
-IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Service Award (given to Vision-Aid India President Mr. M.S.Raju)
-Rockefeller Bellagio Award
-NASSCOM Finalist Award(s)
-DSIR TePP Innovator Award
-DSIR PRISM Innovator Award
Harvard University Derek Bok Public Service Prize 2019 (given to Vision-Aid founder Ram Raju)
India New England Woman of the year 2019 Award (given to Vision-Aid's co-founder- Revathy Ramakrishna)
In 2018, Vision Aid launched its 32X Digital Magnifier in Indian markets at a fraction of the cost (30%) of comparable devices
In 2017 , 2018, and 2019 Vision-Aid Co-sponsored inclusive hackathons for the visually impaired – in IIT Madras (2017) and IIIT Bangalore (2018)
In 2017 and 2018 as part of its advocacy and awareness programs, Vision-Aid co-hosted, "The 2017 Boston Accessibility Conference".
Vision-Aid services are offered at India's (also some of the worlds) largest eye care facilities – including the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai and Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai. More information about Vision-Aid cna be found at www .VisionAid.org.
Ramakrishna M. Raju
Vision Aid
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University Type Public
University Motto The Welfare of the State Depends upon the Morals of its Citizens
President W. Kent Fuchs
Address 341 Tigert Hall 300 SW 13th St, Gainesville, Florida 32611
City Gainesville, Texas
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906.
The University of Florida is one of sixty-two elected member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the association of preeminent North American research universities, and the only AAU member university located in Florida. The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It is the third largest Florida university by student population, and is the eighth largest single-campus university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester.
Since our founding over 160 years ago, we've continually pushed the boundaries of knowledge forward. With our finger on the pulse and an eye on the horizon, we've pursued the greatest heights of research and innovation, always together and always for the betterment of Florida and the world.
A Univesrity united for a greater purpose. At UF, our students utilize more than 200 research, service and education centers, bureaus and institutes. With some of the most future-focused facilities led by some of the best minds in their fields, it's no wonder UF is consistently ranked among the nation's top universities.
Whatever you have your sights set on, that's merely the beginning. At UF, we help great students achieve greater. Rankings like 4th among AAU publics and 3rd in Kiplinger's "Best Values in Public Colleges" are a result of UF's commitment to provide the highest quality education at the best value.
The University of Florida Online is a Public university located in Gainesville.
The University of Florida Online was founded in 1853.
The current president of University of Florida Online is W. Kent Fuchs.
According to verified online sources, the University of Florida Online enrolls a total of 105038 students.
According to the main website, the University of Florida Online has a total student population of 52519 undergraduate students and 52519 graduate students.
Location of University of Florida Online
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