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Q: Reordering variables in stacked bar chart according to value ggplot2 Updated with sample data:
mydata <- read.table(header=TRUE, text="
Item    Value   Site
                     A  96  site1
                     B  1   site1
                     C  2   site1
                     A  1   site2
                     B  62  site2
                     A  19  site3
                     B  1   site3
                     C  11  site3
                     D  9   site3
                     ")

What I'm trying to do is plot a stacked bar chart and reorder the item variable differently for each site, sorting it by the value column. So for each site, the item with the biggest percentage value is at the bottom of the stacked bar, followed by the next largest percentage value and so on. However, I've tried different methods and had difficulty arranging by the stacked bars using the value column.
Edit with solution:
follow the link marked as the answer above, plot each bar individually using geom_bar and add in the reorder function - aes(fill=reorder(Item, +Value))

A: Typically when I need to reorder a character variables for display, its easiest to convert the variable to a factor. Factors are a bit notorious in R for causing problems, but many of these can be easily overcome with help from the forcats package.  In fact, the entire purpose of the package is to more easily handle working with factors in R.
The function forcats::fct_reorder is for reordering a factor by another variable (based on median values by default).  In this particular instance, we are converting the substrate column into a factor, and reordering the substrate factor based on percentage...all in a single call.
library(ggplot2)
library(forcats)

ggplot(data = mydata,
       aes(x = site,
           y = percentage,
           fill = fct_reorder(substrate, percentage))) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
guides(fill = guide_legend(title = "substrate"))

Which gives the following:

I prefer to call the fct_reorder call within my ggplot call, as this will not require changing the underlying data frame.
If you would like to read more about forcats, I suggest this tidyverse site, or if you want to learn more about factors within R in general, start with the chapter on factors in R for Data Science.

Note
This question has since changed since my original response.  I believe an adequate answer can be found to the linked question here

A: I think that forcats is a great way, but before we had that - or when you want to just use base R without libraries, this is more of the traditional approach:
mydata$substrate <- factor(mydata$substrate, levels = unique(mydata$substrate[order(mydata$percentage)]))

ggplot(data=mydata, aes(x=site, y=percentage), fill= Substrate) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity",aes(fill=substrate))

A: This will work for you
ggplot(data=my_data, aes(x=site, y=percentage, fill=reorder(substrate, percentage))) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", position="stack")

by using reorder command in the fill argument.

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package atg.tools.dynunit.adapter.gsa;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Properties;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * Unit Test for the GSATestUtils class.
 *
 * @author adamb
 * @version $Revision: #4 $
 */
public class GSATestUtilsTest {

    private static final Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(GSATestUtilsTest.class);

    @Test
    public void testInitializeWithMinimalConfigPath()
            throws Exception {
        String[] defFiles = {
                "atg/adapter/gsa/rep1.xml", "atg/adapter/gsa/rep2.xml"
        };

        File root = new File("target/test-classes/".replace("/", File.separator));
        File propFile = new File(
                root.getAbsolutePath() + "/foo/bar/Repository.properties"
        );
        if (propFile.exists()) {
            propFile.delete();
        }
        assertFalse(propFile.exists());
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put("driver", "org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");
        props.put("URL", "jdbc:hsqldb:mem:testdb");
        props.put("user", "sa");
        props.put("password", "");
        GSATestUtils.getGSATestUtils().initializeMinimalConfigpath(
                root, "/foo/bar/Repository", defFiles, props, null, null, null
        );
        assertTrue(propFile.exists());
        log.info(propFile.getAbsolutePath());
        GSATestUtils.getGSATestUtils().cleanup();

    }

}

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Q: Center text in css with before tag In a table I have this code:
...

...

My Css is:
td.new:hover { background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.05); }
td.new:hover:before { content: "+"; text-align:center; }

How center my text in my td ?
Thanks.

A: You just have to add text-align:center; to your .new class like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/Sg5BB/37/
td.new{text-align: center;}
td.new:hover { background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.05);}
td.new:hover:before { content: "+"; text-align:center; }


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Reader: People Should Stop Acting Like They're Too Good to Take the Bus
Michael Roberts | February 29, 2016 | 2:57pm
A recent Comment of the Day found one reader maintaining that riding the bus in Denver is a great way to be asked on dates.
This anecdote spurred more. For instance, a former bus driver shared the story of a couple that met on his bus and are planning to get married.
Also weighing in was the following reader, who senses a certain superiority among Denverites when it comes to using RTD.
Here's her take.
Reader: Riding the Bus in Denver Is a Great Way to Get Asked on Dates
Lydia Cabrera writes:
It's funny how people think Denver RTD is for people who are less than themselves. My sister in law is a dean at UCDenver and she rides the bus everyday. Hmmmm, she saves a lot of money this way. Americans, we are far to attached to our cars, which are a big waste of money.


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Q: SQL Server Make Tracks or Path of Parent has many child I have an Activity table :
ActivityID       ActivityName
-----------------------------
 1                A1
 2                A2
 3                A3
 4                A4
 5                A5
 6                A6
 7                A7
 8                A8
 9                A9
 10               A10

and related it in another table with parent child relationship as:
ParentActivityID     ChildActivityID
-------------------------------------
 1                     2
 1                     3
 2                     4
 2                     5
 3                     6
 4                     7
 5                     7
 6                     8
 7                     9
 8                     9
 9                     10

I want to write a SQL query which will make it in tracks depend on how many childActivity in one parentActivity  like :
ActivityID    TrackGroup
-------------------------
 1             1
 2             1
 4             1
 7             1
 9             1
 10            1
 1             2
 2             2
 5             2
 7             2
 9             2
 10            2
 1             3
 3             3
 6             3
 8             3
 9             3
 10            3

using sql sever 2008 r

A: This may be the slowest query on the planet depending on your table sizes, but it does what you're asking for and I have no way of testing the performance really.
But create test data.
CREATE TABLE Activity
    ([ActivityID] int, [ActivityName] varchar(3))
;
INSERT INTO Activity
    ([ActivityID], [ActivityName])
VALUES
    (1, 'A1'),    (2, 'A2'),    (3, 'A3'),    (4, 'A4'),    (5, 'A5'),
    (6, 'A6'),    (7, 'A7'),    (8, 'A8'),    (9, 'A9'),    (10, 'A10')
;
CREATE TABLE RelatedActivity
    ([ParentActivityID] int, [ChildActivityID] int)
;
INSERT INTO RelatedActivity
    ([ParentActivityID], [ChildActivityID])
VALUES
    (1, 2),    (1, 3),    (2, 4),    (2, 5),    (3, 6),    (4, 7),
    (5, 7),    (6, 8),    (7, 9),    (8, 9),    (9, 10)
;

Just assumed you might run this for 1 activity so I created a variable and set it to the first ActivityID
DECLARE @ActivityID INT = 1

I then used a recursive cte to get me the hierarchy.  I add a "Path" field which just concatenates the current ID with the previous IDs.
Then using the ROW_NUMBER function in SQL 2008 and ordering by the PATH, I can get the next PATH.
Then i can compare the LEN of the current path and the LEN of the next path to see if a new path will start next, if so then give me the current path.  Or if the next PATH is NULL also get it.
Then i use a string split function to convert the remaining paths into rows.
--Get hierarchy
;WITH cte AS
(
    SELECT  [ActivityID], NULL ParentActivityID, CAST([ActivityID] AS VARCHAR(255)) [Path]
    FROM    Activity WHERE [ActivityID] = @ActivityID
    UNION ALL
    SELECT  ra.[ChildActivityID], ra.[ParentActivityID], CAST([Path] + '.' + CAST(ra.[ChildActivityID] AS VARCHAR(255)) AS VARCHAR(255))
    FROM    Activity a
    JOIN    RelatedActivity ra ON a.[ActivityID] = ra.[ChildActivityID]
    JOIN    cte ON ra.[ParentActivityID] = cte.[ActivityID]
)

SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY [Path]) Rn
INTO #tempHierarchy
FROM cte

SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(m.n.value('.[1]','varchar(8000)'))) AS ActivityID,
       Rn AS TrackGroup
FROM
(
    SELECT  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY [Path]) Rn,
            CAST('<XMLRoot><RowData>' + REPLACE([Path],'.','</RowData><RowData>') + '</RowData></XMLRoot>' AS XML) AS x
    FROM
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Q: Wrong output on XML namespace in element I recently asked a question about an XML output that was wrong, this turned out to be because the namespace was put in an element.
Now I have looked further into this and unfortunately I am still getting stuck on the output, because I don't know exactly what to give the prefixes with now.
Hopefully you can help me.
Below the files as I have them now and the output that I would like to have.
My input XML:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <soapenv:Body>
      <ns2:readAllAMDResV04 xmlns:ns2="http://main.jws.com.hanel.de">
         <ns2:return>

               <articleNumber>Aadrapot99900</articleNumber>
               <articleName/>
               <inventoryAtStorageLocation>2</inventoryAtStorageLocation>

               <articleNumber>Aadrapot99900</articleNumber>
               <articleName/>
               <inventoryAtStorageLocation>7</inventoryAtStorageLocation>

               <articleNumber>Ae13963</articleNumber>
               <articleName/>
               <inventoryAtStorageLocation>128</inventoryAtStorageLocation>

               <articleNumber>PCM11512050E</articleNumber>
               <articleName/>
               <inventoryAtStorageLocation>68</inventoryAtStorageLocation>

            <ns1:returnValue xmlns:ns1="http://main.jws.com.hanel.de/xsd">0</ns1:returnValue>
         </ns2:return>
      </ns2:readAllAMDResV04>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

My XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:abc="main.jws.com.hanel.de/xsd"
exclude-result-prefixes="abc"
version="1.0" >
    <xsl:key name="key" match="article" use="articleNumber"/>
    <xsl:template match="/articles">
        <result>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="article[generate-id() = generate-id(key('key', articleNumber)[1])]"/>
        </result>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="article">
        <count>
            <articleNumber><xsl:value-of select="articleNumber"/></articleNumber>
            <totalQuantity><xsl:value-of select="sum(key('key', articleNumber)/inventoryAtStorageLocation)"/></totalQuantity>
        </count>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

My Output so far:
      Aadrapot99900

       2

       Aadrapot99900

       7

       Ae13963

       128

The output i'm looking for:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<DataSet>

       <articleNumber>Aadrapot99900</articleNumber>
       <totalQuantity>9</totalQuantity>

       <articleNumber>Ae13963</articleNumber>
       <totalQuantity>128</totalQuantity>

</DataSet>

I think i have to add the abc prefix somewhere but don't know where exactly, and i'm not sure about the match on the key results.
Thanks in advance!

A: This:
<xsl:template match="/articles">

cannot work because there is no element named articles in your input - and certainly not the root element.
Try changing it to:
<xsl:template match="ns2:return">

after adding a xmlns:ns2="http://main.jws.com.hanel.de" declaration. And you'll probably want to add:
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

at the top of the stylesheet.

This:
xmlns:abc="main.jws.com.hanel.de/xsd"

is wrong. The actual namespace is different. It needs to be:
xmlns:abc="http://main.jws.com.hanel.de/xsd"

Once you have fixed that, change all references to article to abc:article. Likewise for its descendants articleNumber and inventoryAtStorageLocation.
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Corporate Responsibility Report 2011: Deutsche Post DHL improves CO2 efficiency index by two index points
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CO2-neutral shipping service GOGREEN grows by approximately 1.9 billion shipments; more than 270,000 tons of CO2 emissions offset since 2006
International education partnerships with Teach For All and SOS Children's Villages expanded to 11 countries
"Get Airports Ready for Disaster" prevention program implemented at 4 airports in Asia"
Frank Appel: "We want to create a balance between economic success and social objectives."
Bonn, 05/03/2012, 09:00 AM CEST – Simultaneously with the publication of the Corporate Responsibility Report 2011, Deutsche Post DHL is holding a Corporate Responsibility Day.
Deutsche Post DHL presented its annual Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 today to coincide with Corporate Responsibility Day. The wide-ranging measures of the three core programs GoGreen, GoHelp and GoTeach once again proved effective under the motto "Living Responsibility." For example, the company took another step toward its long-term climate protection goal by improving its CO2 efficiency by two index points. By 2020, Deutsche Post DHL aims to improve its CO2 efficiency and that of its service partners by 30 percent.
The company already reached its interim goal of a 10 percent efficiency improvement – originally targeted for 2012 – two years ago. Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL , was correspondingly pleased about the further improvement in the company's environmental balance: "One of our central tasks as a globally operating, stock-market-listed company is to create a balance between economic success on the one hand and social objectives on the other hand."
Last year a total of 134,000 tons of CO2 emissions were offset by the CO2-neutral shipping service GOGREEN. The company has thus offset some 270,000 tons of CO2 emissions for its customers since 2006. The GOGREEN offering was further expanded in 2011, and now also includes CO2 reports and consultancy. Through its GoTeach activities, furthermore, Deutsche Post DHL last year intensified and expanded its cooperation with international organizations such as Teach For All and SOS Children's Villages. Through the GoHelp program, employees of Deutsche Post DHL were deployed following natural disasters in New Zealand and El Salvador.
Employee engagement increased
In addition, the prevention program "Get Airports Ready for Disaster" was implemented last year at four airports in Bangladesh and Indonesia. Employee participation in charitable projects also increased in 2011: some 60,000 employees in 120 countries around the world took part in "Global Volunteer Day" in September 2011, volunteering their time to support social and environmental projects.
"Companies that do not embrace corporate responsibility as an integral part of their business model will not be as successful in the long run," added Appel.
"We continuously evolve our company programs – GoGreen, GoHelp and GoTeach – as part of our 'Living Responsibility' strategy and attempt to integrate as many employees as possible. The importance of corporate responsibility has increased further in our company. Customers, investors and international organizations recognize this, too," says Rainer Wend, Executive Vice President Corporate Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility.
Focus on demographic change
Simultaneously with the publication of the Corporate Responsibility Report 2011, Deutsche Post DHL is holding a Corporate Responsibility Day for the second time at its headquarters in Bonn. In panels and workshops, prominent experts are discussing the relevance, trends and challenges in the area of sustainable corporate management. The focus of last year's event was on energy-efficient management and equal opportunity. This year's activities centered around the challenges presented by demographic change and a differentiated approach to the current discussion surrounding capitalism.
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Alvin Gibbs – 'Your Disobedient Servant' get Blood Red Re-press
One of the albums of the year gets a re-press on Blood Red vinyl for those who missed out on the initial press. RPM reviewed it Here and we urge you not to sit on your hands a second time as this will sell out as the first run did. Go Go Go!
Alvin says, "For all you vinyl junkies that missed out on obtaining my solo album 'Your Disobedient Servant' on 12 inch vinyl earlier this year due the initial 300 being sold out in short order, Time & Matter Records have manufactured a new batch of 300, this time on blood-red vinyl and minus the accompanying CD and download code. This release will, therefore, be sold at the lesser price of £17 (the first pressing was priced at £22) and can be ordered from this Here"
It features twelve songs written by yours truly and an array of very talented guest musicians that reads like this: Brian James – The Damned / Lords Of The New Church; Leigh Heggarty – Ruts DC; Mick Rossi – Slaughter & The Dogs; James Stevenson – Generation X / Chelsea / The Cult / The Alarm; Barry 'Barrington' Francis – The Saints; Timo Kaltio – Johnny Thunders band/Hanoi Rocks / Cheap 'N' Nasty; Mel Wesson – Keyboard player & Ambient music designer – TV Smith's Explorers/The Verve 'Bittersweet Symphony' / U.K. Subs 'Diminished Responsibility' LP / Films Mission Impossible 2, Batman Begins, Hannibal etc; Steve Crittall – The Godfathers; Jamie Oliver – U.K. Subs.
"I would advise interested parties to get their orders in sharp to avoid what occurred last time, which was a lot of people missing out due to the speed that the original batch sold at. In fact it was due to so many people voicing their disappointment at not being able to get a vinyl copy in time that persuaded T & M Records to go with this colour-altered second run. For those of you that are not so disposed to a bit of vinyl, there is also a CD version of the album available from the same link. Ta! A x"
Twelve days of Christmas – A look back at 2018 with RPM – June
Not Just your regular summer, no sir, this one is hot! and its only getting hotter!
Whilst May was relatively quiet (slang) June was positively bristling with releases and live shows for the RPM crew and the beginning of the festival season was open. But we couldn't mention June 2018 without a few tributes to fallen comrades in Rock and Roll.
Firstly, Heavy Drapes frontman Garry Alexander Borland passed away the first week after returning from Holland after a really successful show at Rebellion over there. Garry's passing was a huge shock to people close to him obviously but his passing was also felt in the wider alternative community with his band on the verge of much bigger and better things what with the up and coming decent billing at Rebellion UK and their debut album ready to go so its only right we record this moment and pay tribute to Garry. May he rest in peace.
Another sad passing was that of DJ Fontana who was Elvis Presley's drummer for many a year, Dominic Joseph Fontana was responsible for laying down the backbeat on almost 500 songs with the king which is no mean feat and a really impressive CV by any standard also it's only right we recognise his contribution to music. Rest in Peace DJ.
Sadly a third influential musician passed away in June this year, none other than Nick Knox the second but longest-serving Cramps drummer. Nick joined the band from the Electric Eels and occupied the drum stool from 1977-1991, Knox toured with the band and appeared on some of the Cramps' best recordings, 'Songs The Lord Taught Us', 'Psychedelic Jungle' and 'A Date With Elvis'. Rest In Peace Nick Knox the man behind Lux and the man behind the shades.
Sadly the fourth person to pass away in June was none other than West coast punk rock legend Steve Soto of The Adolescents. Steve was originally the bass player in Agent Orange back in '79 he then served as bass player in the Adolescents until passing. the most recent album 'Cropduster' being his final piece of work and easily one of 2018 finest albums. The band went on to tour the summer around Europe with stand-in player and dedicated the set each night to Steve where they had a backdrop replacing the band's logo and replacing it with SOTO at Rebellion in August Tony Reflex dedicated the show to his bandmate in a touching speech and subsequent performance that was electric and memorable, Rest In Peace Steve 54 is way too young.
Right hopefully onto much happier matters for the month of June 2018. With Festival season in full swing Fraser headed to Download and watched The Bronx, The Hives and Turbonegro show the festivals other acts how Rock and Roll was meant to be delivered to the people. elsewhere it seemed like the world and his Mrs were off to see the Rolling Stones play some enormadome or should that be a field?
IT might have cost the GDP of some countries to get close enough to see the band measure up to the size of a subbutteo player but it has to be said nobody was disappointed in either the performance or the setlist the band was knocking out on this leg of the tour. Jagger was ever his peter pan like self careering from one side of the huge stage to the other like he was a child with more energy than most performers more than half his age and some.
Nev decided he'd bowl darn London way and take in what Camden Rocks had to offer. Basically, all the pubs of any note and the dive bars, as well as the more famous landmarks such as Dingwalls, Electric Ballroom etc throw, open their doors to live Rock and Roll for the day and if you have a wristband and there's room at the inn then uh, you're in! Just wear some comfortable shoes and a stage planner. You might just happen across your favourite new band or someone you've been meaning to catch and hey presto there they are. (Deep Breath time) This year Nev caught The Ramonas at the Dublin Castle – Dirty Thrills at The Underworld Talia Dean in Brew Dog then back to the underworld for Sonic Boom Six and some knees up skanking ska which went down rather well with Nev. It wouldn't have been right had our roving scribe not caught Urban Voodoo Machine down at the lock where the place to be was indeed Dingwalls then to finish off a marathon of live entertainment it was Camden Assembly for some Ryan Hamilton & The Traitors before the Rifles was a curtain call for Mr Brooks but he wasn't banking on bumping into Paul-Ronny Angel either so his night wasn't quite over!
Not wanting to be a party pooper Nev still had to take in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds playing the All Points East Festival along with an impressive support cast of Patti Smith, St Vincent and Courtney Barnett.
Ben went to Rambling Man Fair and enjoyed the performances of such heavyweight rockers as The Cult and also managed to catch RPM favourites Jim Jones and The Righteous Mind as well as the real mock rockers Steel Panth..Nah I can't type it sorry folks I'd be doing RPM a disservice even mentioning them. anyway, Ben also managed to take in the large club gig of the month that was the triple-headed Britrock Must Be Destroyed touring carnival that featured a rotating line up of Reef, The Wildhearts, and Terrorvision. there were multiple dates to be fair and it was decided on the day how the running order would play out. I reckon each band made new fans on the night as reports were coming in of all three raising each others game and an excellent way to tour. The night Ben had in Leeds also saw Dodgy added to the lineup.
Our intrepid European correspondent or one of them Craggy got to see Repetitor live at Kabinet Muz, Brno I said Craggy got to see Repetitor in Brno…oh forget it he enjoyed it anyway said it was one of his highlights of the year to be fair.
Now with a sharp intake of breath June was positively overflowing with album releases that would bother top tens come the end of the year. Just a few of those contenders has to be The Interrupters with their 'Fight The Good Fight' that saw them leap up the rankings with a fantastic collection of tunes that was shaking up not just fans of the bands previous two albums but new music fans who heard one of the many potential hits on the radio or tv with the album set to just keep on selling and selling we are looking at the next big thing as they won't be playing clubs for much longer.
Getting Tim Armstrong in to produce the record is a great move as the guy oozes class and knows his way around a ska-punk record and if he had a hand in any of the songwriting or arranging then boy pat yourselves on the back because the infectious 'A Friend Like Me', 'Shes Kerosene' and the awesome 'Got Each Other' are three reasons why this record will deservedly be in many ends of year top 3's and rightly so..
Elsewhere June saw the release of London Towns Portuguese legends The Parkinson's return with the LP 'The Shape Of Nothing To Come' that confirmed that these gentlemen still had it and it was a fine return to the fold in every way. Now expanded to a five piece you can take the boys out of punk rock but you can't ever take the punk rock out of the boys and that boys and girls is a fact. the Parkinsons still have the chops.
Another couple of worthy mentions in the albums released in June has to be Smash Fashion and their 'Rompus Pompous'. Which has gone down a right storm at RPM as they've really hit their stride on this one and joioning them would have to be Nottingham's The Speedways with the fantastic slice of power pop that is 'Just Another Regular Summer' the brains behind the idea to write an album was Matt former guitarist of The Breakdowns he's since formed a band after the success of the record and has played a number of shows and next year they've already planned some shows in Spain and London. It really is power pop perfection and a record we highly recommend.
The old school shouldn't be forgotten either because June was also the month when the phrase you can't teach an old dog new tricks was debunked because The Uk Subs once again released a new album 'Subversions' of some of their favourite songs by other people – sure a cover album. there might well be some you could see coming but there are others on the album that you would never have seen coming.
Over in NYC the birthplace of hardcore and home to some of the best bands around Madball made a new record they put out in June 2018 and the brutal 'For The Cause' was unleashed on the world and immediately felt at home with the RPM crew.
Finally a mention of records released in June this time for the magnificent London power poppin' punk rockin' Los Pepe who released their long playing Greatest Hits on Snap Records! it came with a CD of the album and they also got to knock out a single this month as well which was nice. Don't get me started on singles that appeared this month because ther were plenty with my pick of the pack coming from the Randy Savages who were 'Guilty Of Nuthin' .
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One way you can touch the hearts of others through a kind act is to send a letter, expressing comfort, support, love or gratitude to someone in need.
Letter writing is a dying art. Many of us are now sending so many emails, SMS texts, tweets and messages via Facebook or Skype each day that the thought of sitting down and writing a more formal letter is too long-winded or tedious. It may even be a forgotten or never-used skill.
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'The Holiest Place in Rome'
Keats' Grave
On February 23rd*, 1821, the English poet John Keats died in Rome. He was only twenty-five years old. Keats was buried in the city's cemetery for non-Catholics, the Cimitero Acattolico, also known as the Protestant or English Cemetery.
Keats' tombstone is engraved with the following lines: 'This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who, on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies, Desired these words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. Feb 24th 1821'.
Shortly before he died, Keats, believing that his poetry would not live on, requested that his gravestone should simply bear the words: 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. However, Charles Brown, a literary friend of Keats, and one of his executors, felt very bitter about the poet's treatment at the hands of the critics and suggested the extra lines.
Above the inscription is an image of a lyre, symbol of Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of poetry. The missing strings symbolise a life cut short.
The headstone was designed by Keats' friend, the artist Joseph Severn (1793-1879), who is buried next to him. Severn, who nursed the poet through the last months of his illness, lived to the grand old age of 85.
On a nearby wall is a plaque bearing a relief of Keats and a short acrostic verse spelling out the poet's name. The plaque was added to guide visitors to an otherwise unnamed grave. The not terribly good verse reads:
K-eats! if thy cherished name be "writ in water"
E-ach drop has fallen from some mourner's cheek;
A-sacred tribute; such as heroes seek,
T-hough oft in vain - for dazzling deeds of slaughter
S-leep on! Not honoured less for Epitaph so meek!
The young Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), on a visit to Keats' grave in the spring of 1877, described it as 'the holiest spot in Rome'. However, he was less impressed by the plaque, writing: 'I do not think this very ugly thing ought to be allowed to remain'.
*Keats died an hour or so before midnight on February 23rd, but it was then the practise in Rome for a new day to start shortly after sunset (and evening prayers), hence the date February 24th on his tombstone.
Graves of John Keats and Joseph Severn
Plaque to Keats


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Dell defends its controversial new laptop memory
If you were triggered over word that Dell is pushing a proprietary memory standard, take a chill pill. Dell's new memory design isn't really proprietary and may actually lead to benefits for performance laptops.
The controversy kicked up last week when images of Dell's new CAMM, or Compression Attached Memory Module, leaked out. This immediately lead tech sites to declare that Dell was taking a path to "lock out user upgrades"and warning laptop users who like to upgrade their memory that they were"out of luck."
In an interview with PCWorld, however, both the person who designed and patented the CAMM standard, as well as the product manager of the first Dell Precision laptop to feature it, assured us the intent of the new memory module standard is to head-off looming bandwidth ceilings in the current SO-DIMM designs. Dell's CAMM, in fact, could increase performance, improve reliability, aid user upgrades, and eventually lower costs too, they said.
Not proprietary
Most of the internet hot takes last week, however, reacted to CAMM being proprietary, which is typically viewed as a method to lock people into buying upgrades only from one company. Dell officials, however, insist that's not the case at all.
"One of the tenants of the PC industry is standards," said Dell's Tom Schnell, the Senior Distinguished Engineer who designed much of it. "We believe in that; we put standards into our products. We're not keeping it to ourselves, we hope it becomes the next industry standard."
Schnell said that Dell isn't making the modules and has worked with memory companies as well as Intel on this. In the future, a person with a CAMM-equipped laptop will be able to buy RAM from any third party and install it in the laptop. Yes, initially, Dell will likely be the only place to get CAMM upgrades, but that should change as the standard scales up and is adopted by other PC makers. The new memory modules are also built using commodity DRAMs just like conventional SO-DIMMs.
In fact, Dell points out, it's not even "proprietary" on its own laptops. The first Precision workstations that come with CAMM will also eventually be offered with conventional SO-DIMMs using an interposer. Mano Gialusis, product manager for Precision workstations, said the interposer option goes into the same CAMM mount, too.
This is Dell's SO-DIMM interposer which will be used in Precision workstations for those who still want to buy laptops with SO-DIMM rather than the company's new CAMM design.
With CAMM now a reality, Dell's next step is to get it in front of JEDEC, the memory standards organization, to make it available to others, he said.
Why not create a standard from scratch? Schnell said its far easier to get a standard minted once it's proven to work rather than trying to simply create something anew every time.
But what about Dell's patents?
Dell does indeed hold patents on the CAMM design and there will be royalties, but the company says it's too early to discuss royalties. It also points out that when building a typical laptop, so many different PC companies have patents that most of it is simply cross-licensed in the end. One final point Dell makes that should soothe any concerns: JEDEC itself requires any standards it blesses to follow Reasonable and Non-Discretionary, or RAND, terms. That basically means no standard can go forward through JEDEC unless the licensing is not anti-competitive, is reasonably priced, and cannot discriminate against a company.
This is the backside of a 32GB CAMM module. The gold section is where the module is compressed onto a connector.
Here's why CAMM is needed
So why do we need CAMM anyway? Dell's Schnell said that SO-DIMM, or Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module, is headed for a glass ceiling within a generation of design. SO-DIMMs, which were first introduced almost 25 years ago, haven't changed much in all that time besides moving to newer and faster DRAM methods.
Much of SO-DIMM's problems come from its relatively convoluted design, which elongates the wires or "traces" that have to connect the CPU with the RAM module. You can see that illustrated below in the route that wires take to get from the CPU to a four-SO-DIMM design, in the upper left. That distance is significantly shortened with Dell's CAMM design, which you can see on the lower right. As we know, a shorter distance a wire has to run means less power needed as well as higher potential speeds. With CAMM, the distance to the CPU can be 1.5 inches, versus 3 inches on a SO-DIMM design.
An illustration from a Patent Dell applied for in 2020 shows the convoluted path the memory traces takes to get from the CPU in a SO-DIMM (upper left) versus the company's new CAMM (lower right.)
RAM is built using parallel interfaces, which means multiple wires leaving the CPU going to the memory. Because of the intense signal timing and integrity requirements, that also means every wire must be exactly the same length and also have enough spacing to reduce interference. Schnell said that for most applications, SO-DIMM hasn't hit its limit yet, but by the time DDR6 arrives, the design of SO-DIMM will be well past its prime.
In fact, we're already seeing a practical use for CAMM today. In a 12th-gen Intel laptop using two SO-DIMMs, for example, you can reach DDR5/4800 transfer speeds. But push it to a four-DIMM design, such as in a laptop with 128GB of RAM, and you have to ratchet it back to DDR5/4000 transfer speeds.
With CAMM, however, you can reach 128GB of density and reach DDR5/4800 transfer speeds. Schnell doesn't get into the nitty-gritty performance details of how much better CAMM is over SO-DIMM but he did say that, in general, a compression connector such as the one Dell uses in its graphics card, called DGFF, can hit 20GHz, which is more than four times that of the rough clocks of a DDR5/4800 module's megatransfer speeds.
Dell's new CAMM design can increase performance and reliability, and even aid upgrades.
CAMM will be more reliable, smaller, and even cooler
Beyond the performance advantage, Schnell said CAMM will improve reliability, improve thermals, and save space, which can make it possible to make a thinner laptop.
If you look back at the image above, it's obvious how thick a SO-DIMM design can be, especially when four modules are used. Since four modules require four sets of traces that must all be the same length, many laptop makers mount them on both sides of a motherboard. That's all good until you want to access the RAM on the other side of the motherboard. For the average person, that doesn't mean just pulling off the bottom of the laptop, but also removing the motherboard from the laptop. That's certainly not impossible, but removing the motherboard from a laptop means fiddly and delicate ribbon cables for the track pad, keyboard, display, and other components. And the more things you mess with, the greater the odds of breaking something.
When you have four physical DIMMs, you also exponentially increase the odds of a module being jostled loose. With CAMM, the compression design sandwiches in the connector, giving it more protection than a SO-DIMM's contacts, which are more exposed to air. This improves reliability, said Schnell.
Finally, the CAMM design can actually help dissipate more heat since the connector can act as a heatsink. With a SO-DIMM, the heat can be trapped within the convoluted layers.
Dell said it simply believes it's a better design and to prove that, it's putting it into its new Precision 7770 mobile workstation. Dell's Gialusis said industrial customers of the Precision 7770 demand performance and reliability, so putting CAMM into the lineup tells you the faith Dell has in the standard.
Dell's new CAMM modules from 16GB (upper left) to 32GB (bottom left) and 128GB (upper right) and 32GB (lower right).
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Resistance is your only obstacle to success.
For all the banter and talk about external obstacles, it is the internal obstacles you must command. Master the internal and you can overcome almost any external obstacle.
The barrier to success lies hidden in that twinge of resistance you feel about putting yourself out there, making that call, pressing publish.
But here's where the understanding of resistance gets confused by people.
The "Path of Least Resistance" IS NOT the path of "no" resistance.
There is no path of "No Resistance". The resistance is the struggle every entrepreneur, athlete and parent feels every day.
When you use your talent and skill, resistance is lessened. With passion and inspiration, resistance takes a back seat. But it never goes away.
Resistance is that inertia we feel when starting out, when trying something new.
Like pushing a broken down car, the first few steps are the hardest. But once you get going, it all gets easier. As momentum builds, inertia wanes. But resistance still lingers.
Possessing talent, experience and skill is like pushing a small car.
Building a business in your areas of weakness is like trying to move a truck. The inertia and resistance is so strong, you may never get the momentum. And it's not the trucks fault. Use your talents and passions and any great artist can push a truck downhill. But uphill is reserved for the unhappy capitalist. The schmuck enticed by financial opportunity and blinded to unhappy tasks.
And why does happiness matter when it comes to resistance?
Because to win, you must endure. To endure, you gotta love it enough to stick at it. And the time element is where unhappy people ask "why am I doing this?". People happy doing what they are doing, resistance and all, never ask that question.
You must keep pushing even though the excitement of the first movement has passed. it was wonderful going from nothing to something.
But now, you are now entering the long push. That place where boredom and repetition becomes a new form of resistance. Another internal obstacle designed to prevent you from winning.
A clear focus on the progress you have made, how far you have come, how close you are to the finish line can be enough to keep pushing on.
Finish what you start. Knowing you CAN complete it, adds a new resistance too. You are now beyond the doubt of "will I?" and you are edging closer to the end. Everyone wants the finish line. That satisfying moment where you cross the line. But it's so fleeting.
And with each finish line, a new resistance is coming. The next challenge.
Remember this, all the talent, skill and experience in the world can be combined with a passionate crusade to set you on the path of "least" resistance.
There is no path of "no resistance". You will always be asked to "bring it".
Your job is to bring the effort required to overcome the resistance that stops you from achieving your goal. If you just do that, nothing can stop you.
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Fast away the old year passes. And, you're running out of time to make New Year's Eve plans. Here are five blog posts we love that talk about New Year's Eve.
Confused about what to wear? Lauren Conrad gives her Guide to New Year's Eve Party Dressing.
U.S. News and World Report offers 6 Ideas for a Fun and Frugal new Year's Eve.
You don't have to spend a lot to ring in 2016.
While it's a post from 2014, Somerton Dwelling Still has some ideas for a Memorable New Year's Eve Party.
It might be a little late for 2015, but this blog talks about celebrations and opportunities to bring in the New Year all around the world.
And, if you're in the Central Virginia area, we can't help but remind you about this unique New Year's Eve event like none other. Fairies and Gentlemen is a game within a party within a play. Tickets are still available.


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How Successful is Jeff Bezos?
Jeff Bezos is an Entrepreneur, e-commerce visionary, chairman and CEO of Amazon, publisher of The Washington Post as well as the owner of Blue Origin space technology venture. His successful tech projects rendered him one of the world's wealthiest men.
Based in New Mexico in 1964, Bezos had early internet appreciation. And even at Princeton University, he pursued computer science as well as electrical engineering. He served on Wall Street since he was in school. But in 1990, he had become the youngest executive vice president at the venture capital firm, D.E. Shaw.
4 years later, Jeff Bezos left his lucrative career for launching Amazon.com, an internet retailer that would become one of the greatest success stories over the years. Bezos acquired The Washington Post in 2013, and Amazon purchased Whole Foods in 2017.
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On 12 January in 1964, Bezos was born in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Mrs. Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, a young mother, with his adoptive father named Ted Jorgensen. While Bezos was 4, his mom remarried to a Cuban immigrant named Mike Bezos.
In 1986, Bezos graduated with both a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. Bezos displayed an early curiosity in how things work, converting the garage of his parents into a workshop and installing electrical machines around his childhood home.
He relocated with his family to Miami where he established a passion for computing and then graduated from his high school as somewhat of a valedictorian. During high school, he began his first company, the Dream Institute, a fourth, fifth, and sixth graders summer education camp.
After graduation from Princeton, Jeff Bezos found a job on Wall Street at several companies including Bankers Trust, Fitel, as well as the investment company, D.E. Shaw. Bezos became the D.E. in 1990, which made him the youngest vice president at Shaw's.
Although his banking future was immensely profitable, Bezos decided to make a bold move into the emerging e-commerce sector. He left his official job in 1994, relocated to Seattle and then launched an online bookshop to exploit the immense potential of the Wireless market.
Bezos launched Amazon.com on July 16, 1995, after getting 300 peers to beta test the platform. Which was named as per the initials of the meandering South American river, Amazon? A few workers started developing apps with Jeff Bezos in his workshop in the days before the release, and they decided to expand these activities in just a two-bedroom home with triple Sun Microstation.
The company's initial success had been rapid. Only through the coverage of the public, Amazon.com had sold books under 30 days throughout the United States as well as in 45 foreign lands. Sales hit $20,000 each week within just two months. Growing much faster than Bezos and his business team had ever expected.
Amazon.com became popular in 1997, causing other industry analysts to wonder whether the business would be able to keep its popularity as established stores introduced their very own e-commerce websites. 2 years later, this start-up had not just kept up its originality but also exceeded competition and became a pioneer in e-commerce.
With both the launch of DVDs and films in 1998, including clothing, appliances, toys and much more shortly afterward, Bezos started to diversify Amazon's products across major retail alliances. While many early nineties dot.coms were losing a lot of money. Amazon grew with annual sales rising from US$510,000 in the year 1995 to over US$17 billion in 2011.
The retail tycoon has said that the organization reached 100 million registered users of Amazon Prime as a part of Jeff Bezos' 2018 Annual stakeholder report. Amazon was estimated at more than $1 trillion by September 2018. The second corporation ever to reach the milestone only weeks following Apple.
Amazon confirmed that it was increasing the minimum salary to $15 an hour for its employees at the close of 2018. The organization is, however, yet to be blamed for its employment conditions and grueling speed. Which is evident from the staff demonstrating in July 2019 throughout Prime Day.
Amazon.com introduced the Video-on-Demand business in 2006. It was originally labeled on TiVo through Amazon Unbox. Which ultimately became re-branded to Amazon Instant Video. In 2013, with the opening of Amazon Studios, Bezos launched many original shows. In 2014, the company made it big with the highly acclaimed "Mozart and Transparent in the Jungle". The business also produced and distributed its first exclusive screenplay, "Chi-Raq" by Spike Lee, during 2015.
Throughout 2016, Bezos walked up to crowds dressed as an alien for guest appearances throughout the "Star Trek Beyond" promos. A Star Trek enthusiast since childhood, he mentioned in IMDb's film credits as one of the Starfleet Officials. The Seattle Times later reported in early 2018 that Amazon had streamlined its online business operations to concentrate on growing regions like entertainment content and Alexa. A digital assistant to Customers.
Since August 2019, Bloomberg and Forbes measured Jeff Bezos's net worth at US$110 billion. Which is more than 1.9x percent of the median family income throughout the United States. In both 2018 and 2019, Bezos ruled Forbes' list of top richest people.
Each year since 1998, Bezos has won the same US$81,840 compensation at Amazon and he never received a portfolio bonus. But Amazon's investments rendered him a quite wealthy man. A review of Bezos's portfolio revenue for 2018 showed that he takes US$260 million home around each day.
As per Bloomberg, Bezos had narrowly crossed Microsoft creator Bill Gates in July 2017. And become the world's wealthiest man before slipping back on number two. Then in October, the Amazon boss reclaimed the top spot. In January 2018, according to Bloomberg, Bezos had surpassed Gates' previous record in assets at a net value of US$105.1 billion.
To conclude, the riches of Bezos would exceed the vast assets of American business tycoons Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. So, we can only imagine how successful he would have to be to ascend to such a pinnacle.
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Vintage McCoy USA Pottery Christmas Tree Cookie Jar w/ Silver Star and Trim Great preowned condition. Green paint knick on tree star tip. Measures approx 11.5″ tall and bottom base 8″ in diameter. The item "Vintage McCoy USA Pottery Christmas Tree Cookie Jar with Silver Star and Trim" is in sale since Friday, October 19, 2018. This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Pottery & China\Art Pottery\McCoy". The seller is "arattac" and is located in Barnesville, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.
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