Yesterday we went to Niamh's open house, and by we I mean me and all three but no Lars. It was not the easiest thing I've done and I tell myself often that basically nobody pays much attention to other peoples kids and even if they do notice it is in passing. That is to say that behavior was not what I wanted exactly but I blame myself for some of it.
– Fiona was in daycare for the day and we went directly from picking her up to the open house so she was riled up and clingy all at the same time.
We did better then survive, we met Niamh's teacher and also Zoe's preschool teacher. I didn't yell at anyone and only had to bribe a little. We had all the things we needed and it was way easier then last year.
Yesterday was a perfect example of how we are winding up summer with one last outing, one last lazy morning and winding up the fall with open house and seeing school and school friends.
– Niamh to 1st grade! She does not know any of the girls in her class but most of the boys.
I also made the big step of cutting off the bedtime feeding with Fiona 2 days ago. She is not taking it too well but given she is instantly 'ok' when I offer her a Dora or something I think that it is mostly just the loss of the routine. I am hopefully that by next Thursday she won't be fussing about it anymore. Unless she gets way fast on potty training I think we have a winner for that race. I never felt like breast feeding was a 'loss' of my body and now I have it 'back' but I do appreciate that I can wear a ton of things again that have been off rotation since they were not nursing friendly. It is a step further away from the baby time in my life but I think that is ok since I'm moving toward a ton of fun things and most importantly, the possible get-away weekend child free!
September is always a time for me to find new beginnings so I guess I'm looking for them and as August is dwindling I feel ready for September.
All of us mothers and caregivers of children share a common bond of having to bring our mini people into the bathroom with us. For those of you who are not with me here there are many valid reasons to take kids into the bathroom and you just kinda get used to it. I don't think it is the favorite part of anyones motherhood but it is a common bond.
Yesterday I had a flash of how worse it would be if your kid(s) did not follow you in and instead waited for you to be indisposed and then went for maximum premeditated mayhem while you were stuck in one place. That, I think, is worse….
ps. I did have the first positive use for extra kids in the bathroom over the weekend, the bathroom stall door did not have a lock so I detailed a child to lean and be useful.
For the past two weeks I've gotten to run in the morning. This is a team effort; Lars wakes up, Fiona acknowledges that I can leave the house without her, and Niamh and Zoe sleep. Timing on this circus is in constant flux because it is really really hard to get up before 7am when nobody is awake yet. I tell myself it is because I would have to wake up Lars to tell him I was leaving and he had to get Fiona when she woke up and shouts cheerfully calls out "I in my Bed!", and waking others up seems mean. So, start time is largely decided by when Fiona wakes up +10 min for Lars to get conscious enough to be the responsible adult +2min for me to finish getting stuff ready. This means I'm out sometime after 7 but back by 9 so Lars can get to work. The goal is for Lars to work out too, tag team style, but he has had a tad less luck getting out the door (but sometimes is still better then never).
This 2 hour zone thing will not fly once we start back to school. I either have to get going at 7, or…. I don't know, wait and see I guess because over planning is a recipe for disaster and disappointment.
6. Lots of people going to work making a few of the roads more dangerous then I wish.
Things I don't tend to see between 7:45 and 9 are other joggers or dog walkers. Running in the early evening it is like a dog parade but not in the morning. There are very few people out, maybe when I move to 7am I'll see more, who knows. Today I did see an older woman and she glanced back at me running up on her and I smiled and encouraged her to 'run to the corner'. She did it, and, actually kept running a bit more. It was really nice to do a little something nice while I was out there (she was obviously exercising).
Arguing with the bank about the value of our house. I just hate PMI and we should be clear of it but no….. However there is a dispute process and in the middle of that I am. It is a pain in the but process and they make it that way so people don't fuss at them. They just don't know how long I will fill out forms.
Working with MOMS club to do end of year stuff. Being president is not a day to day task exactly but there is a report at the end of each year to make. I actually completely forgot about this and it goes to show when something is important to someone else they will call and remind you. I hate to have it come to that but nice to know the net is there. Anyway, while certainly not a war this was a battle because of all the odd bits of things I had to gather. There was even a fun surprise with our books and I had the joy of accusing my treasure of being…. the WORST EMBELLEZER EVER! We were $200 over what she thought and once we got all the details together we found some of the problems and I can give a very good guess about the remaining mystery. The nice thing here is that we got all sorts of kudos for fixing the mess we found, apparently most people just pretend it does not exist and dump it. Nice to be winning this one and I think it is just about done – just need to hear back.
And then finally, this picture is my win for the summer. All playing, outside, together and grazing in the garden. Good thing because tomorrow is my unofficial end of the summer… Wednesday we are starting early wake up and early bedtimes because however nice it is that the kids are sleeping til 8 or 9 or even 10 they need to be ready for the bus.
Baby timer up, Fiona wants to be rescued from her nap!
Just missing my normal time at the computer due to lots of kid running around. All good things really but the 'nap' zone of 12:30 to 2:30ish has been bisected by camp drop off at 1:30 (meaning I need to leave here at 1:15 and at 1 need to start getting them into dance outfits, shoes, water bottles, and a snack). Getting back by 1:45 means I might have 15 min before Fiona wakes up again and that is only on the days she actually goes down on time. The past few days have been extra crazy with out being out all morning and then going directly to dance with a slap-happy Fiona who then needs to be fought into a nap way too late. On the bright side they love dance, great teacher and I think we might look into more for the fall.
That has been my every day for the week 🙂 To let you know how busy I really am, today was the very first day I went in the hot tub in weeks because I have used the fleeting nap time I have to either write a bit here, or, work on the work that needs more than 4 brain cells and fewer than 4 hands to handle.
Next week, the 'unplanned' week, is getting full full full, but, I should at least be back on a nap schedule! Except maybe Tuesday because Lars's boss said "take a day off, your doing great and have been putting in a ton of overtime". What are we doing? I don't know, I just found out about it 10 min ago.
My other good happening is the running mornings have persisted. I've gone out 4 out of 5 mornings and today I not only ran but still went to the gym.
The final thing is semi crazy – I'm trying to write something in the category of JV fiction. My final kick was a friends daughter who is really sick with a chronic illness and her mom asked everyone to send mail because she loves to get mail. (who doesn't!) I sent my letter and Niamh too and so did dozens of others so RIGHT NOW she is flooded with happy mail opening goodness. The thing is, she has a CHRONIC illness that lands her in a hospital far too often and I know I can't keep writing little 'get well' notes and I'm fairly sure most of the other adults will be the same way so I had to think of some way to keep writing so she can keep opening. Short of printing out my blog, I think sending her a chapter at a time is the best I can do for her. I don't expect that it will go any further than her and her mom reading it but I've had so many narratives in my head for so long this is the push, reason, cause, person that got me rolling. But hey, you never know, I might be writing brilliance here but I just hope I'm making her happy.
Weekend next, funny thing is that I never have any idea what we are doing really because I don't take the lead since I want to include Lars. We are going to a birthday party and I told Lars he needs to come to the gym and help me with making a weights circuit I can do since I'm actually really shy and don't like braving new things like a million hard looking machines with no labels and no stats and no data so no way for me to know if I should be using 20 or 40lb or what for how many reps etc. I tried today but got overwhelmed and went back to the stairmaster and climbed the great pyramid.
I will not write angry post about former employer and the annoying and secret financial decisions they make for their employees and how their HR spun a bunch of lies. I miss about 3 things from there and this taints even that….
oh well. Next time I will know more, ask more, and not accept fairy tales.


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Holmlea Primary School is a Category B listed former school in Glasgow. It was built in 1908 and closed in 2005. The building lay empty for several years after the school's closure but has now been renovated and converted into affordable housing.

History
It was built in 1908 from red Dumfriesshire ashlar in a 17th-century domestic style, and the architect was Andrew Balfour.

In June 2005, facing an estimated repair bill of £5m, the school closed and the pupils transferred to Merrylee Primary School.

Glasgow City Council placed the building up for sale in 2006 after declaring it surplus. Glasgow Community Education Association (GCEA) made a bid to buy it with plans to open a private Islamic school. They later abandoned the bid and the property was put back on the market.

In June 2014, the Buildings at Risk Register noted, "External inspection finds the building unmaintained and with vegetative and damp penetration set in further. Condition moved to Poor and Risk to Moderate. The site does not appear to currently be under marketing for sale."

The building was left unused until 2018 when it was purchased by Home Group, who worked closely with Glasgow City Council and Cathcart & District Housing Association to carry out a sympathetic restoration. The building was converted into 49 affordable homes, which were occupied by residents in 2020.

The mechanical engineer and industrialist Thomas Leith was educated there.

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Category B listed buildings in Glasgow
Defunct schools in Glasgow
Edwardian architecture
Sandstone buildings
1908 establishments in Scotland
Listed schools in Scotland
2005 disestablishments in Scotland
Educational institutions established in 1908
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Аrtistically crafted weapon made in Italian renaissance sword style.
forging, etching, polishing, engraving, nickel plating, gold plating, blackening.
Blade of 440C stainless steel type with engraved and gilded ornamental decoration.
Handle completely made of metal elements. Decorative ribbed rings of brass and then gold covered. Two figures, reminding a drapery of Italian doge palace put close to the guard and the pommel. Shaped as an Italian renaissance hat pommel with ball ending. Gem inlay on the guard and the pommel. Downwards curved crossguard quillions in typical for the Italian Renaissance sword style.
Scabbard is all-metal forged with decorative locket and chape. Brass casted and then gold coated figure of Italian Rnaissance soldier on guard embbeded on one side. Decorative hanger on the opposie side. Midway situated heraldic sign, composed of a shield with cross, two spears and two solemn wreaths sideways. A chape with brass carved and then gilded down faced figure of a crown. Drapery decorated with ball ending. Additional decoration with ornamental egraving, gilding, blackenning and gems inlay.
Dirk "Emperor and Autocrator. Alexander II"


The Upper Delaware Inn has been part of the Hancock scene for decades. Formerly the Capra Inn, the motel was purchased in 2016 by John Rajoppi and Mike Argiros. Previous owners included John's father, Don Rajoppi, and the recent purchase brings the business back into the family. In addition to the new name, the motel is being updated and refurbished, inside and out.
The Upper Delaware Inn is located on the former site of Collette Manufacturing, a football manufacturer that operated in Hancock during the early 20th century. Just next door is the Larimer & Norton building, the former Louisville Slugger baseball bat factory. It is said that Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams all set records with bats that started out in the Hancock mill.


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Stock : GOOG | Stock Recommendations : Buy
Sector : Computer Services Industry | First resistance : 534.00
Stock Name : Google Inc | Second resistance : 570.00
Buy Near : 428.00 | Third resistance : 616.00
StopLoss : 407.00 | First Support : 428.00
Posted date : 3/31/2008 12:00:00 AM | Second Support : 370.00
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Futures: Earnings season is the the next test for the hot stock market rally. Netflix and Texas Instruments earnings are due Tuesday night.
Macron, Trump May Have Tariff Truce in 2020 Digital Tax Fight
(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump agreed to a truce in their dispute over digital taxes that will mean neither France nor the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs this year, a French diplomat said."Great discussion with @realDonaldTrump on digital tax," Macron said Monday in a tweet. "We will work together on a good agreement to avoid tariff escalation."Trump, on Twitter, responded "excellent!" to Macron's post, without providing any more details. Trump is en route to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.A White House readout of the call was notably more muted, saying only that the "two leaders agreed it is important to complete successful negotiations on the digital services tax" and "discussed other bilateral issues." And neither a White House spokesman nor officials with the U.S. Trade Representative's office would confirm that the U.S. president had called off his announced tariffs.Still, the possible respite may defuse transatlantic tensions that had been building between Washington and Brussels along another potential trade war front. Last week, Trump signed a cease-fire with China in phase one of a broader deal aimed at balancing trade between the world's two largest economies.The European Union is an even bigger U.S. trading partner than China and supply chains between the two economies, particularly in automotive and financial services industries, are intertwined in ways that would make a tit-for-tat tariff dispute even more harmful to the world economy.France and the U.S. will continue negotiations along with their European partners until the end of 2020 to agree a global framework that ensures tech companies pay an appropriate amount of tax, the French diplomat said.Macron's government still hopes to find a solution that fits within discussions at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's work on the issue, the official added, asking not to be identified in line with French government rules.European finance ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday will discuss progress of the OECD talks. While the OECD is still working on its proposal for taxing tech companies around the world, France pushed ahead with its own levy last year that hit U.S. internet giants like Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.The U.S. objected, alleging on Dec. 2 that the French tax discriminates against American technology companies, citing Section 301 of a 1974 American law that Trump has thus far reserved to justify tariffs against China. That opened the door to the U.S.'s threat to hit $2.4 billion of French goods with tariffs in retaliation.Among the French products targeted with duties of as much as 100% were luxury items like wine, cheese and makeup. One American wine merchant called it the biggest threat to the industry since Prohibition a century ago.For its part, the French government had warned that the EU would retaliate if the U.S. imposed additional tariffs.The dispute was another headache for European trade officials scrambling to expand their policy arsenal as the U.S. takes aim at a rules-based system for global trade that Trump argues is outdated and tilted against America. It also coincided with a change in leadership at the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan visited Washington last week for the first time in the job, partly to plead for talks rather than tariffs in disagreements like the French digital tax. At stake, he said, was transatlantic trade in goods and services valued at more than $3 billion a day."Sounds like a fairly healthy relationship to me," Hogan said Thursday in the U.S. capital. "So why put tariffs on these EU products to make them more expensive for your people?"The truce follows weeks of discussions between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, the alpine resort town where government officials and business leaders gather during the winter to discuss whatever is ailing the global economy.U.S. and EU trade relations started to sour in 2018 when the Trump administration invoked national-security considerations to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum from Europe. As a U.S. military ally, the EU was infuriated and promptly retaliated with levies on iconic American brands such as Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles and Levi Strauss & Co. jeans.A subsequent U.S. threat to wreak significantly more economic damage by targeting the European auto industry with duties on the same security grounds led to a hastily agreed truce and a pledge by both sides to work toward reducing industrial tariffs across the board.Since then, the Trump administration has refused to start the tariff-cutting negotiations unless Europe includes agriculture in them. Also, it imposed levies on EU products in retaliation over government aid to Airbus SE that was deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization, and disabled the WTO's appellate body,The EU, meanwhile, is pressing ahead with a plan for tariffs against the U.S. in a parallel WTO case over unlawful subsidies to Boeing Co.Trump, scheduled to speak Tuesday in Davos at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, on Sunday reiterated his frustration with Europe as a trading partner."Europe has had tremendous barriers to us doing business with them. All those barriers are coming down. They have to come down," he told a conference of farmers in Austin, Texas. "If they don't come down, we're going to have to do things that are very bad for them."He added, "Europe was, in many ways, more difficult -- and is more difficult -- than China."(Adds Trump comment on Twitter in third paragraph)\--With assistance from Jonathan Stearns, Justin Sink and Chelsea Mes.To contact the reporters on this story: Ania Nussbaum in Paris at anianussbaum@bloomberg.net;William Horobin in Paris at whorobin@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Brendan Murray, Wendy BenjaminsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Key Levels for Alphabet Stock in the First Half of 2020
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Alphabet stock keeps reaching new highs even though the internet content giant missed earnings estimates on Oct. 26.
The 'Best Job in America' Pays $105,000
"Because of the stiff competition to recruit and retain this talent, more companies are investing in their employees' experiences at work," says Amanda Stansell, senior economic research analyst at Glassdoor.
Alphabet CEO backs temporary ban on facial-recognition technology over misuse worry
The chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet on Monday backed an EU proposal to temporarily ban facial-recognition technology because of the possibility that it could be used for nefarious purposes. "I think it is important that governments and regulations tackle it sooner rather than later and gives a framework for it," Sundar Pichai told a conference in Brussels organised by think tank Bruegel. The European Commission, which acts as the EU executive, is taking a tougher line on artificial intelligence (AI) than the United States that would strengthen existing regulations on privacy and data rights, according to an 18-page proposal paper seen by Reuters.
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JSSI Adds Second Private Equity Partner
by Jerry Siebenmark
- November 11, 2022, 10:02 AM
Neil Book, CEO of Jet Support Services Inc. said the investment from Genstar Capital will fund the company's next phase of expansion (Photo: JSSI)
Business aviation maintenance services provider Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) has added a second private-equity partner with a "significant" investment from Genstar Capital, the companies announced today. Details of the investment were not disclosed, but JSSI CEO Neil Book said it will fund the company's next phase of expansion.
"As we start this next chapter, Genstar is an ideal partner, with a tremendous track record, to support our ambitious growth plan," said Book, whose family is among JSSI investors that also includes private equity firm GTCR. "My team and I are appreciative for the ongoing collaboration with GTCR, which has been a fun and rewarding partnership since 2020," he added.
San Francisco-based Genstar focuses its investments on financial services, health care, software, and industrials. Genstar partners Eli Weiss, Ryan Clark, and Rob Clark said their firm has a rich history of investing across software, insurance, and industrial distribution businesses and will bring that perspective to help JSSI. They added that JSSI is well positioned to further its position in the private aircraft maintenance sector based on its 30-year history in the industry.
This investment follows Chicago-based JSSI's acquisitions last year of aircraft maintenance-tracking companies Traxall and SierraTrax, and prior to that, GTCR's investment in 2020.
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Ending corruption, improving forest governance: why it matters
Fern campaigner, Marie Ange Kalenga was invited to produce a blog for Transparency International's 20th anniversary. Beyond obvious criminal implications, corruption is an assault on people, forests and the environment. It can be stopped.
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The Amazon and the Congo Basin: the same threats, the same battles
Catholic bishops speak out on protecting indigenous communities and rainforests in the Amazon and worldwide and says it is time to listen to the cry of people and of nature.
Here's how CAFI's $65 million can help save Congo's forests
On 3 September 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron (on behalf of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), as France holds this year's presidency) and President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo signed a ground-...
Stronger democracy means stronger forests
Corruption and illegal deforestation go hand in hand. The best way to tackle them is through bolstering community land rights and democracy.
The fate of the Congo Basin forests must lie with its people
A light breeze of democratisation is blowing through the Congo Basin – and it is being driven by civil society.In the Central African Republic (CAR), civil society is playing a key role in rebuilding a nation torn apart by civil...
Guest blog: Can forests help revive war-torn Central African Republic?
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package kafka.tools

import kafka.common._
import kafka.message._
import kafka.serializer._
import kafka.utils.{ToolsUtils, CommandLineUtils}
import kafka.producer.{NewShinyProducer,OldProducer,KeyedMessage}

import java.util.Properties
import java.io._

import joptsimple._
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig
import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils

object ConsoleProducer {

  def main(args: Array[String]) {

    try {
        val config = new ProducerConfig(args)
        val reader = Class.forName(config.readerClass).newInstance().asInstanceOf[MessageReader]
        reader.init(System.in, getReaderProps(config))

        val producer =
          if(config.useOldProducer) {
            new OldProducer(getOldProducerProps(config))
          } else {
            new NewShinyProducer(getNewProducerProps(config))
          }

        Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
          override def run() {
            producer.close()
          }
        })

        var message: KeyedMessage[Array[Byte], Array[Byte]] = null
        do {
          message = reader.readMessage()
          if(message != null)
            producer.send(message.topic, message.key, message.message)
        } while(message != null)
    } catch {
      case e: joptsimple.OptionException =>
        System.err.println(e.getMessage)
        System.exit(1)
      case e: Exception =>
        e.printStackTrace
        System.exit(1)
    }
    System.exit(0)
  }

  def getReaderProps(config: ProducerConfig): Properties = {
    val props = new Properties
    props.put("topic",config.topic)
    props.putAll(config.cmdLineProps)
    props
  }

  def getOldProducerProps(config: ProducerConfig): Properties = {
    val props = producerProps(config)

    props.put("metadata.broker.list", config.brokerList)
    props.put("compression.codec", config.compressionCodec)
    props.put("producer.type", if(config.sync) "sync" else "async")
    props.put("batch.num.messages", config.batchSize.toString)
    props.put("message.send.max.retries", config.messageSendMaxRetries.toString)
    props.put("retry.backoff.ms", config.retryBackoffMs.toString)
    props.put("queue.buffering.max.ms", config.sendTimeout.toString)
    props.put("queue.buffering.max.messages", config.queueSize.toString)
    props.put("queue.enqueue.timeout.ms", config.queueEnqueueTimeoutMs.toString)
    props.put("request.required.acks", config.requestRequiredAcks.toString)
    props.put("request.timeout.ms", config.requestTimeoutMs.toString)
    props.put("key.serializer.class", config.keyEncoderClass)
    props.put("serializer.class", config.valueEncoderClass)
    props.put("send.buffer.bytes", config.socketBuffer.toString)
    props.put("topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms", config.metadataExpiryMs.toString)
    props.put("client.id", "console-producer")

    props
  }

  private def producerProps(config: ProducerConfig): Properties = {
    val props =
      if (config.options.has(config.producerConfigOpt))
        Utils.loadProps(config.options.valueOf(config.producerConfigOpt))
      else new Properties
    props.putAll(config.extraProducerProps)
    props
  }

  def getNewProducerProps(config: ProducerConfig): Properties = {
    val props = producerProps(config)

    props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, config.brokerList)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.COMPRESSION_TYPE_CONFIG, config.compressionCodec)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.SEND_BUFFER_CONFIG, config.socketBuffer.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.RETRY_BACKOFF_MS_CONFIG, config.retryBackoffMs.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.METADATA_MAX_AGE_CONFIG, config.metadataExpiryMs.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.MAX_BLOCK_MS_CONFIG, config.maxBlockMs.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.ACKS_CONFIG, config.requestRequiredAcks.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS_CONFIG, config.requestTimeoutMs.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.RETRIES_CONFIG, config.messageSendMaxRetries.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.LINGER_MS_CONFIG, config.sendTimeout.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.BUFFER_MEMORY_CONFIG, config.maxMemoryBytes.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.BATCH_SIZE_CONFIG, config.maxPartitionMemoryBytes.toString)
    props.put(ProducerConfig.CLIENT_ID_CONFIG, "console-producer")
    props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ByteArraySerializer")
    props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ByteArraySerializer")

    props
  }

  class ProducerConfig(args: Array[String]) {
    val parser = new OptionParser
    val topicOpt = parser.accepts("topic", "REQUIRED: The topic id to produce messages to.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("topic")
      .ofType(classOf[String])
    val brokerListOpt = parser.accepts("broker-list", "REQUIRED: The broker list string in the form HOST1:PORT1,HOST2:PORT2.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("broker-list")
      .ofType(classOf[String])
    val syncOpt = parser.accepts("sync", "If set message send requests to the brokers are synchronously, one at a time as they arrive.")
    val compressionCodecOpt = parser.accepts("compression-codec", "The compression codec: either 'none', 'gzip', 'snappy', or 'lz4'." +
                                                                  "If specified without value, then it defaults to 'gzip'")
                                    .withOptionalArg()
                                    .describedAs("compression-codec")
                                    .ofType(classOf[String])
    val batchSizeOpt = parser.accepts("batch-size", "Number of messages to send in a single batch if they are not being sent synchronously.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("size")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(200)
    val messageSendMaxRetriesOpt = parser.accepts("message-send-max-retries", "Brokers can fail receiving the message for multiple reasons, and being unavailable transiently is just one of them. This property specifies the number of retires before the producer give up and drop this message.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(3)
    val retryBackoffMsOpt = parser.accepts("retry-backoff-ms", "Before each retry, the producer refreshes the metadata of relevant topics. Since leader election takes a bit of time, this property specifies the amount of time that the producer waits before refreshing the metadata.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(100)
    val sendTimeoutOpt = parser.accepts("timeout", "If set and the producer is running in asynchronous mode, this gives the maximum amount of time" +
      " a message will queue awaiting sufficient batch size. The value is given in ms.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("timeout_ms")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(1000)
    val queueSizeOpt = parser.accepts("queue-size", "If set and the producer is running in asynchronous mode, this gives the maximum amount of " +
      " messages will queue awaiting sufficient batch size.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("queue_size")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(10000)
    val queueEnqueueTimeoutMsOpt = parser.accepts("queue-enqueuetimeout-ms", "Timeout for event enqueue")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("queue enqueuetimeout ms")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(Int.MaxValue)
    val requestRequiredAcksOpt = parser.accepts("request-required-acks", "The required acks of the producer requests")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("request required acks")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(0)
    val requestTimeoutMsOpt = parser.accepts("request-timeout-ms", "The ack timeout of the producer requests. Value must be non-negative and non-zero")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("request timeout ms")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(1500)
    val metadataExpiryMsOpt = parser.accepts("metadata-expiry-ms",
      "The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven't seen any leadership changes.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("metadata expiration interval")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Long])
      .defaultsTo(5*60*1000L)
    val maxBlockMsOpt = parser.accepts("max-block-ms",
      "The max time that the producer will block for during a send request")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("max block on send")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Long])
      .defaultsTo(60*1000L)
    val maxMemoryBytesOpt = parser.accepts("max-memory-bytes",
      "The total memory used by the producer to buffer records waiting to be sent to the server.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("total memory in bytes")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Long])
      .defaultsTo(32 * 1024 * 1024L)
    val maxPartitionMemoryBytesOpt = parser.accepts("max-partition-memory-bytes",
      "The buffer size allocated for a partition. When records are received which are smaller than this size the producer " +
        "will attempt to optimistically group them together until this size is reached.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("memory in bytes per partition")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Long])
      .defaultsTo(16 * 1024L)
    val valueEncoderOpt = parser.accepts("value-serializer", "The class name of the message encoder implementation to use for serializing values.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("encoder_class")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.String])
      .defaultsTo(classOf[DefaultEncoder].getName)
    val keyEncoderOpt = parser.accepts("key-serializer", "The class name of the message encoder implementation to use for serializing keys.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("encoder_class")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.String])
      .defaultsTo(classOf[DefaultEncoder].getName)
    val messageReaderOpt = parser.accepts("line-reader", "The class name of the class to use for reading lines from standard in. " +
      "By default each line is read as a separate message.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("reader_class")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.String])
      .defaultsTo(classOf[LineMessageReader].getName)
    val socketBufferSizeOpt = parser.accepts("socket-buffer-size", "The size of the tcp RECV size.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("size")
      .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Integer])
      .defaultsTo(1024*100)
    val propertyOpt = parser.accepts("property", "A mechanism to pass user-defined properties in the form key=value to the message reader. " +
      "This allows custom configuration for a user-defined message reader.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("prop")
      .ofType(classOf[String])
    val producerPropertyOpt = parser.accepts("producer-property", "A mechanism to pass user-defined properties in the form key=value to the producer. ")
            .withRequiredArg
            .describedAs("producer_prop")
            .ofType(classOf[String])
    val producerConfigOpt = parser.accepts("producer.config", s"Producer config properties file. Note that $producerPropertyOpt takes precedence over this config.")
      .withRequiredArg
      .describedAs("config file")
      .ofType(classOf[String])
    val useOldProducerOpt = parser.accepts("old-producer", "Use the old producer implementation.")

    val options = parser.parse(args : _*)
    if(args.length == 0)
      CommandLineUtils.printUsageAndDie(parser, "Read data from standard input and publish it to Kafka.")
    CommandLineUtils.checkRequiredArgs(parser, options, topicOpt, brokerListOpt)

    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
    val useOldProducer = options.has(useOldProducerOpt)
    val topic = options.valueOf(topicOpt)
    val brokerList = options.valueOf(brokerListOpt)
    ToolsUtils.validatePortOrDie(parser,brokerList)
    val sync = options.has(syncOpt)
    val compressionCodecOptionValue = options.valueOf(compressionCodecOpt)
    val compressionCodec = if (options.has(compressionCodecOpt))
                             if (compressionCodecOptionValue == null || compressionCodecOptionValue.isEmpty)
                               DefaultCompressionCodec.name
                             else compressionCodecOptionValue
                           else NoCompressionCodec.name
    val batchSize = options.valueOf(batchSizeOpt)
    val sendTimeout = options.valueOf(sendTimeoutOpt)
    val queueSize = options.valueOf(queueSizeOpt)
    val queueEnqueueTimeoutMs = options.valueOf(queueEnqueueTimeoutMsOpt)
    val requestRequiredAcks = options.valueOf(requestRequiredAcksOpt)
    val requestTimeoutMs = options.valueOf(requestTimeoutMsOpt)
    val messageSendMaxRetries = options.valueOf(messageSendMaxRetriesOpt)
    val retryBackoffMs = options.valueOf(retryBackoffMsOpt)
    val keyEncoderClass = options.valueOf(keyEncoderOpt)
    val valueEncoderClass = options.valueOf(valueEncoderOpt)
    val readerClass = options.valueOf(messageReaderOpt)
    val socketBuffer = options.valueOf(socketBufferSizeOpt)
    val cmdLineProps = CommandLineUtils.parseKeyValueArgs(options.valuesOf(propertyOpt))
    val extraProducerProps = CommandLineUtils.parseKeyValueArgs(options.valuesOf(producerPropertyOpt))
    /* new producer related configs */
    val maxMemoryBytes = options.valueOf(maxMemoryBytesOpt)
    val maxPartitionMemoryBytes = options.valueOf(maxPartitionMemoryBytesOpt)
    val metadataExpiryMs = options.valueOf(metadataExpiryMsOpt)
    val maxBlockMs = options.valueOf(maxBlockMsOpt)
  }

  trait MessageReader {
    def init(inputStream: InputStream, props: Properties) {}
    def readMessage(): KeyedMessage[Array[Byte], Array[Byte]]
    def close() {}
  }

  class LineMessageReader extends MessageReader {
    var topic: String = null
    var reader: BufferedReader = null
    var parseKey = false
    var keySeparator = "\t"
    var ignoreError = false
    var lineNumber = 0

    override def init(inputStream: InputStream, props: Properties) {
      topic = props.getProperty("topic")
      if(props.containsKey("parse.key"))
        parseKey = props.getProperty("parse.key").trim.toLowerCase.equals("true")
      if(props.containsKey("key.separator"))
        keySeparator = props.getProperty("key.separator")
      if(props.containsKey("ignore.error"))
        ignoreError = props.getProperty("ignore.error").trim.toLowerCase.equals("true")
      reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))
    }

    override def readMessage() = {
      lineNumber += 1
      (reader.readLine(), parseKey) match {
        case (null, _) => null
        case (line, true) =>
          line.indexOf(keySeparator) match {
            case -1 =>
              if(ignoreError)
                new KeyedMessage[Array[Byte], Array[Byte]](topic, line.getBytes())
              else
                throw new KafkaException("No key found on line " + lineNumber + ": " + line)
            case n =>
              new KeyedMessage[Array[Byte], Array[Byte]](topic,
                             line.substring(0, n).getBytes,
                             (if(n + keySeparator.size > line.size) "" else line.substring(n + keySeparator.size)).getBytes())
          }
        case (line, false) =>
          new KeyedMessage[Array[Byte], Array[Byte]](topic, line.getBytes())
      }
    }
  }
}

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For 50 years there has been an effort to find an alternative to or discredit Keynesianism in economics but more so in politics. Despite that, when the sh*t hits the fan we turn to the same tried and true methods to fix it and it becomes clear we're still, and maybe will always be, living in a Keynesian world.
In other words, yes, the market will fix itself and reflect the factors of production eventually, but 25% of the workforce cannot be unemployed for 10 or 15 years, because they will starve to death. A generation won't be fed or educated well. In the worst case, the factors of production are then altered and you're permanently worse off.
One part of Keynes' theory was a framework for macroeconomics, rather than assumptions from microeconomics. He concluded that recessions are primarily a lack of demand. Prices do not adjust perfectly, there is not perfect information, and people are not completely rational and self-interested. Prices are sticky and sometimes people are run by "animal spirits." Occasionally, and inevitably, the market will be thrown out of whack.
Let's for a moment consider demand. Demand is everything. Supply is also important but supply will always follow demand. If a product is demanded, or a service, it will appear. It will be provided. On the other hand, if you make something nobody wants to pay for, demand will not simply appear for it.
This is ultimately the huge flaw in supply side economics. It sees jobs as given, or provided by the CEOs, board members, and ownership, rather than the clients or customers these jobs serve. It is better to spread money to enable purchases than to push it to the top to allow investing because you can invest in the wrong thing, but what you purchase is inherently an accurate reflection of the market. While investing serves a useful and important purpose in a modern capitalist economy it is merely its speed that is truly useful to what is being invested in. Given time purchases would provide that same income, and more accurately reflecting the market.
Consider also marginal propensity to consume. A person with less money will spend a higher percentage of their money because they have to on necessities. If you make minimum wage you probably do not, and can not, save money. It all keeps flowing in the economy. While if you make a million per year you spend 40,000 on what you really need, half a million on what you don't, and do nothing with the rest, perhaps invest, but we've already discussed why that half a million being spread through the market via purchases is more useful. But I digress, back to Keynsianism.
When demand is shrinking, you push it back up with money by running a deficit and printing money. When demand gets going again, you make up for the efforts you made to get it there by taking a little bit back and running a surplus and printing less money.
To back up the claim of a Keynesian world, it is useful to look at how the world's largest economy, the U.S., has used it. Then how, despite a neoclassical opposition, it is still a Keynesian world.
Since the 80s a growing number of academics and particularly politicians began to question Keynesianism based on Friedrich Hayek criticisms and theories among others. 13 What was once monetarism in the 70's, turned to supply side in the 80's, and through the 90's became libertarianism and a renewed belief in lasseiz-faire as expressed in the Washington Consensus and politicians claiming "Keynesian economics is done." 14 However, when the scope of the late 00's recession became apparent, nations across the globe showed it is still a Keynesian world.
The arguments against Keynesianism have always left me unsatisfied. The issues I have, and when their backs are against the wall, most policy makers have are as follows. First, there are no alternatives provided. At least Milton Friedman mad some effort at an alternative with suggesting we lean more on monetary policy. Hayek just seems to only criticize. There is no alternative. You simply cannot look to a starving populous and say keep waiting, eventually it will come around. Maybe pray to the market gods, sacrifice a goat? That's what Herbert Hoover said pretty much and FDR won the next 4 presidential elections.
Second, most of the objections are of the "Ya, but…" variety. By that I mean they dwell on possible side effects. Very few, or perhaps no, serious people suggest that Keynesianism does not do what it claims to do. Of course you'll get the odd politician saying things like WWII ended the great depression, but they're just hoping you're critical thinking skills are as bad as theirs. It was not the blood of Germans that fueled our recovery but the incredible amount of money we spent making boats and bullets. We could have dumped all those tanks into the ocean and it would have had the exact same impact on our economy. But back to that "Ya, buts". They're concerned that it might alter the market. It might risk a bubble, or waste some money on an unneeded project. To me this is a bit like if someone's heart stops, being concerned about the defibrillator burning the skin on their chest. Yes, maybe, but let's worry about that when he's alive. There's plenty of time to heal from most anything, so long as you're not permanently damaged by something like your heart stopping or the Great Depression.
So when the sh*t hit the fan in 2008 what did we do?
The rest of the world followed suit. The G20 committed to "use fiscal measures to stimulate domestic demand to rapid effect, as appropriate, while maintaining a policy framework conducive to fiscal sustainability." 16 The combined effect of the G20 stimulus was nearly 1.75 trillion dollars. The amount that tax breaks made up the stimulus averaged one-third of the new deficit spending. 17 The figure accounts for only the officially labeled stimulus package and does not account for various financial and industry specific assistance.
This was largely successful. Furthermore, states that were timid about it or did not engage in Keynesianism, several states in the EU for example, are experiencing more sluggish growth. On top of that was the mess with the IMF where it's been discovered that the very un-Keynesian policies they've been forcing states that required their assistance to go through have not only been unsuccessful but were based on an excel spreadsheet error.
At least for now it appears there is no other acceptable alternative to dealing with potentially large recessions. When things fall apart, states still turn to Keynesianism. The opposition is loud, but its still a Keynesian world, like it or not.
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Growing up I didn't necessarily have the worst diet… but it was far from great.
Since I was a little girl, my nutrition education has been an ongoing contradiction.
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Then in the early 90′s, the tried-and-true food groups were replaced with a confusing Food Pyramid, heavily weighted with all things grain. While I was happy to oblige with massive servings of bread and pasta, these guidelines always felt a bit off.
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Contributing Partnership with the Native Northeast Collaborative
In an effort to further its goal of increasing public access to primary source materials and enhanced academic discourse regarding Native American history in the Atlantic Northeast, the Native Northeast Research Collaborative seeks to form partnerships with interested holding institutions, cultural heritage organizations, or Native communities. These partnerships can take a number of forms and often are tailored to the specific needs and concerns of the prospective partners. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions regarding such partnerships.
Is there a cost to join the NNRC partnership?
No, membership in the Collaborative's Contributing Partnership Program is free.
Does my institution need to be a partner in order to gain access to material in the Portal?
No, access to the Native Northeast Portal database is free and not contingent on partnership.
Does partnership affect my institution's copyright over our material?
No, partnering institutions retain the copyright of their material and any associated images. The Collaborative retains copyright of value added transcriptions, annotations and commentary.
Is copyright information readily available with each image?
Information regarding copyright and use, as well as, a link to the partnering institution, cultural heritage organizations or native communities is associated with each record .
How does partnership benefit my institution?
Partnership provides your institution with the opportunity to be an integral part of a dynamic, international scholarly editing and digital humanities project. By including your materials in the Collaborative's Native Northeast Portal, the public and research community becomes more aware of your institution's valuable collections. Links associated with the images direct researchers to your institution's website.
The Collaborative is exploring the ability to provide partner institutions, cultural heritage organizations, or Native communities with a link to a document's image and transcription to be put on the partner's online catalogue. Users there can seamlessly view a document and read it on the Collaborative's Portal and then continue browsing the partner's catalogue.
Furthermore, your institution website can be linked to the Collaborative's online Contributing Partnership roster now in development. (The database is presently linked to the internet research resource pages of websites like Colonial Williamsburg, Harvard's History of the Atlantic World, The Newberry Library's Consortium in American Indian Studies, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition Portal, and Yale's American Indian Studies homepage, as well as on a growing number of online academic course syllabi.)
Should the Collaborative be involved in the creation of digital surrogates, a digital copy of the material will be provided to your institution.
What happens when researchers want a copy of an image they see on the Portal website?
The Portal's instructions directs requests for images to the partnering or holding institution. Email requests are directed similarly.
Does my institution need to include all of our Native American related materials in order to be a partner?
No, contributing institutions can decide to include all or only a portion of their Native American material.
How does my institution's partnership with the Collaborative benefit Native American research?
Inclusion of your institution's Native American materials enlarges and enriches the corpus of information on Northeast Indians. A document you provide may complement one in another cooperating institution. For example, a letter you have may be the reply to one that is already in our database. Or, a person, place, or incident mentioned in your document may be mentioned or associated with other documents in the Portal.
On a larger scale, the Collaborative's Portal represents a scholarly critical edition of Northeast Native American primary source materials gathered presently from the partner institutions into one robust virtual collection, where digitized items are, transcribed, annotated, and edited to the highest academic standards and then made freely available over the Internet, using open-source software. By providing annotated transcriptions, the Collaborative's editors provide the Portal's users with useful information within a well-researched and balanced context necessary to understand the complexities of the historical record. Thus, the Portal offers students, educators, researchers, Native American tribal members, and the general public, visual and intellectual access to significant historical knowledge for the purposes of teaching, scholarly analysis, and research. In doing so, it furthers the Collaborative's mission and the missions of its cooperative partner institutions to encourage new scholarship, and promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the Northeast's earliest culture among a broader segment of the general public.
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Comment Of The Day: "The Obama-Farrakhan Photo"
January 31, 2018 January 31, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 15 Comments
I don't think I agree with this comment regarding the post about how a photograph of Senator Obama smiling next to Louis Farrakhan came to be hidden from public view until now, and how its reappearance has launched speculation on the Right that Obama was elected by a public unaware of his radical, anti-white proclivities. It is a very interesting comment, though, and raises several excellent issues about how actions, motives and truth interact. I may author a detailed rebuttal in the comments, but the core question this raises is this: To what extent does the fact that an action was taken to hide something serve as material evidence that there that something that needed to be hidden?
The results of the Ethics Alarms poll asking what the photo proved, incidentally, was that 86% of those voting believed that it proved nothing regarding Obama's feelings to toward Farrakhan at all.
Here is johnburger2013's Comment of the Day on the post, The Obama-Farrakhan Photo:
Methinks our faithful ethics blogger is being, according to our friends across the pond, a bit "cheeky", hoping to inspire a lively debate, knowing fully well that a photo of Trump with David Duke would be conclusive evidence that the present Chief Executive Officer of the US is merely waiting for his hood to come back from the cleaners so that he can don it and go out for a fun night on the town.
For me, the real ethics issue is not the photo, but that Congressional Black Caucus leaned on a journalist to kill its publication and the journalist capitulated. Other Bill, VPJ and Charles Marschner are correct: publication of the photo (probably) would not have changed the 2008 election results.
But, let's ask the bigger question: Why kill it?
First, who is Askia Muhammad? According to Wikipedia, he is a poet, journalist, radio producer, commentator, and a photojournalist. He has served as the editor of Muhammad Speaks and as the head of the Washington office of The Final Call, the official newspapers of the Nation of Islam, which incidentally, is the organization headed by the right-honorable Louis Farrakhan, from Chicago, IL. (Who else was from Chicago? Might it have been a little-known senator but rising star in the Democrat party? Hmmm.) Continue reading →
Trevor Noah's Critics
January 31, 2018 February 1, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 31 Comments
Trevor Noah, the current Daily Show host who is more thoughtful than funny, made the same points Ethics Alarms did regarding Hillary Clinton's weasel-like response to the New York Times exposé revealing that she protected a top adviser of hers, Burns Strider, Clinton's faith adviser and founder of the American Values Network, when he was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing one of Clinton's young subordinates during her 2008 campaign.
"Hillary's Grammy cameo came at a weird moment for her," Noah said, referring to the "Fire and Fury" skit at the Grammys Sunday that featured Clinton reading excerpts from the book. "Because last night's theme was #MeToo, Time's Up, which is a message Hillary found herself on the wrong side of over the weekend. Look, there's a few areas where I don't necessarily expect Hillary Clinton to nail it," Noah continued, "managing emails, visiting Wisconsin, you know, weaknesses. But I won't lie, I expected standing up for a woman on her staff to be one of her strengths. So the story is disturbing."
"It's possible that Hillary Clinton had a good explanation for why she kept this guy on over the objections of her top campaign advisers but instead of an explanation, all we got was this," Noah said, regurgitating Hillary's nauseating tweet,
"A story appeared today about something that happened in 2008. I was dismayed when it occurred, but was heartened the young woman came forward, was heard, and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed…I called her today to tell her how proud I am of her and to make sure she knows what all women should: we deserve to be heard,"
"Yeah, 'women deserve to be heard,' and then quietly reassigned," Noah said in reaction to this. "'Thank you for speaking up — now into the closet…It feels like Hillary's not only trying to dodge all the blame, she wants to present herself as having always been on this woman's side, which doesn't fly, because not only did the woman get reassigned, but this guy, Burns Strider, he went on to get another job in Democratic politics, where he got fired for doing the same thing to other women," Noah said, correctly. "So you could argue that if Hillary had fired him, she would have been protecting many women, instead of just herself."
I almost gave Noah an Ethics Hero for this, but thought better of it. The fact that none of his All-Trump-Bashing-All-The-Time comic colleagues, like Colbert, Kimmel, Samantha Bee, Bill Maher and Saturday Night Live lack the integrity to criticize Clinton doesn't make him a hero. It's a little like giving a medal to the only soldier who doesn't run away as soon as the shooting starts. We should respect consistent standards and integrity instead of hypocrisy, not treat them like they are qualifications for sainthood.
However, the criticism Noah received on Twitter for stating the truth was an education in how people delude themselves and pollute their values with rationalizations to avoid facing uncomfortable facts: Continue reading →
Ethics Observations On MSNBC Host Joy Reid's State of the Union Tweet
I would like to ignore MSNBC's racist, vicious African-American host Joy Reid. She deserves to be ignored. Sometimes, however, I can't help myself, as with the her tweet above from last night. If someone respectable wrote that, my head might explode. The tweet's not so far from Reid's usual warped point of view that it prompts that reaction, thankfully. Still, I am forced to observe and ask…
1 Who is she tweeting to? What kind of Americans regard religion, family, law enforcement, the military, and love of country outdated and obsolete values?
2. This increasingly appears to be to be the attitude of the majority of the Left. If it isn't, then Democrats certainly gave the impression it is, based on their studied contempt when such institutions and values were evoked in the President's speech. If they were communicating what they don't really believe, then they were lying. If they really oppose those values that they scowled about, then Republicans should remind voters of who is running against them this year: people who think like Joy Reid.
3. Since when is "nationalism" a sinister word and concept, especially when it is defined as Reid defines it: religion, family, rule of law, national defense, and love of America? Reid labeling those Fifties values is just false history: Every President up to Obama made those same values essential to the vision of America they projected.
Wrote Ann Althouse in part on her blog, regarding the New York Times Reidish critique,
Was Trump's SOTU theme "nationalism"? Was it devoid of values?…Individualism is a value, and the whole speech was expressive of the value of individualism….
Freedom is a value. Trump spoke of it in connection with our kinship with freedom-loving people in foreign countries: We "stands with the people of Iran in their courageous struggle for freedom"… Freedom is a universal value that we share with good people all over the world and that "gave birth to a special place called America."…Self-government is a value. The "yearning… to live in freedom" led to "a revolutionary idea: that [Americans] could rule themselves." By instituting a system of self-government, Americans "light up the world."
All old-fashioned, irrelevant, defunct, discredited values from those racist Fifties, right, Joy? Continue reading →
The Emotional Support Peacock And The Tragedy Of The Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons is a term originating in ancient economic theory describing a situation in which a shared-benefit system is destroyed by individual users who selfishly behave contrary to the common good by depleting or spoiling the resource involved. Ignorance or denial of this principle, which is based on centuries of observing the human race, is core to progressive and liberal ideology, unfortunately. Another way of expressing the tendency is the old adage, "Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile."
Federal regulations over the last decade–I'm assuming under Democratic auspices, but I don't care to check, it doesn't matter to the post—have required airlines to accommodate passengers with not just seeing eye dogs but "therapy animals" and "emotional support animals" that supply the passengers who own them with relief from anxiety. These creatures must fly at no cost and uncaged, and so far, no discrimination regarding species have been set. It's a nice regulation, don't you think? I think its nice.
However, if there ever was a policy that guaranteed the Tragedy of the Commons, this was it. Many passengers exploit the rules by calling their pets "therapy animals"—and really, aren't they all?—to save money and hassle. The number of animals flying in the cabin with passengers doubled, and doubled again. Some passengers were bitten by dogs. Some animals defecated in the aisles. Some of the passengers flew or attempted to accompanied by comfort turkeys, goats, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes, reptiles, spiders, and even more exotic companions. Continue reading →
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 1/31/18: The State Of The Union Speech Didn't Stink Edition
January 31, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 104 Comments
1 About the President's speech. In yesterday's Warm-up, I yearned for the honesty of Gerald Ford, who had the courage to by-pass the usual State of the Union happy talk and admit that the nation was not in a good place. Now that President Trump has delivered his first State of the Union message, I have to admit that being positive, or as my late father would have said, quoting his favorite poem, keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, is a good approach too.
The President has managed to find an excellent speechwriter. That is an admirable and responsible thing. These were not, unlike his Inaugural speech was, Trump's own words, but he gets credit for them, or should, just as much as Ronald Reagan got credit for Peggy Noonan's soaring rhetoric and Jack Kennedy deserved the accolades he received for Ted Sorenson's justly famous scripting. [The full text of last night's speech is here.] The SOTU was also well-delivered. I know a lot of people would say that any speech this President delivers was horrible and he looked like an ass even if it was the equivalent of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and delivered with the skill of Tom Hanks, but that's their problem. Not to be repetitive, but such people need to understand the effects of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance if they are going to venture outside their little bubbles and echo chambers.
In fact, this is a good test of your Trump-hating friends', or your own, integrity. If you can't concede that the speech was at least pretty good, then you are no longer able to perceive reality where this President is concerned. In no way can that be a good thing. Fix it. Continue reading →
The Obama-Farrakhan Photo
A photo has emerged showing former President Barack Obama, then a U.S. Senator, posing with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the black nationalist Nation of Islam. Obama and the anti-white, anti-Semitic demagogue are beaming at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting in 2005. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls his organization a hate-group, but then they call a lot of organizations hate groups. I'd call the Nation of Islam a racist group that peddles hate.
Journalist Askia Muhammed, who took the photo, is publishing it in a new book called "The Autobiography of Charles 67X." He says that after the event, the Congressional Black Caucus contacted him and demanded to have the disk. "I gave the original disk to him and in a sense swore myself to secrecy because I had quietly made a copy for myself," Muhammad told Fox News, adding that the CBC was concerned that a photo with Farrakhan could hurt the Obama's Presidential prospects.
The conservative news media is writing about this, while the mainstream news media, with a few exceptions like the New Yorker, is ignoring it. Writes Vinson Cunningham, in that publication,
"[Askia] Muhammad, that anonymous C.B.C. functionary, and Farrakhan, with that faux-harmless smile, all knew it: if that picture spreads in 2007 or 2008, a whole different history ensues."
If that's true, then the fact that the photo was buried is news, right? But is that true? Why should it be true? Why would such a photograph mean anything at all? Continue reading →
Now THIS Is An Unethical Judge! (Plus An Important ProEthics Announcement…) [UPDATED!]
Judge Jack Robison, a state district judge in Comal County, Texas, interrupted jury deliberations to announce that God had informed him that a woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex should be be found not guilty. Robisonapologized to jurors for the interruption, but explained "when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it." To their credit, the jury found Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of trafficking anyway.
Mysteriously, 12 perfect pillars of salt were later discovered outside the courthouse.
Judge Robison recused himself before the trial's sentencing phase, for which he deserves some credit. Says a local news source, "Robison's actions could trigger an investigation from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct." COULD trigger? COULD TRIGGER??????
This, following the unethical sentencing performance by the judge in the Larry Nasser trial, is the tipping point for me. Although I have an excellent and constantly updated judicial ethics seminar that I will customize for different jurisdictions (I will soon be adding, "Don't take messages from God mid-trial to the Texas version, for example), I almost never have the opportunity to teach it. Judges, unlike lawyers, don't have ethics requirements other that the local Codes of Judicial Conduct. They don't have to take regular classes in judicial ethics either, and many of them—like,oh, just to pull a name out of the air, ROY MOORE–couldn't tell a tenet of judicial ethics from a cross-eyed echidna. Most judicial organizations don't budget for ethics training.
Thus I am announcing, here and now, that henceforth my ethics training and consulting company ProEthics, LTD., will provide me, my judicial ethics course and the extensive materials it includes for any judicial group of any size anywhere in the country at no cost, save for my travel and, if necessary, lodging.
This will be offered as a public service throughout 2018, and we will evaluate the policy at the end of the year.
UPDATE: This, from the ABA…
Few federal judges face consequences as a result of misconduct complaints, and few of the complaints become public, according to a CNN analysis.
CNN reviewed nearly 5,000 judicial orders related to misconduct complaints and found that the documents "are remarkably short on details." Since 2006, fewer than 10 cases a year were referred to a special committee for a closer investigation, and in six of the past 11 years no judges were sanctioned for misconduct. In some high-profile cases, judges facing misconduct complaints retire, putting an end to the investigation and preserving access to their pensions, the CNN investigation found…
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One of the panel sessions at the 'Mercury 2013' International Conference in Edinburgh (28th July – 2nd Aug) "will be highly contentious and should result in a heated debate," says Prof. K. Clive Thompson who will be chairing the session with Eric Uram from SafeMinds.
Taking place on Tuesday 30th July at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, the panel session will explore topical public concerns about mercury and health. Experts in this field will discuss the toxicological significance of mercury exposure from dental amalgams, vaccines and fish consumption for vulnerable groups, and will debate whether current concerns are scientifically justified.
The benefits of eating a diet high in oily fish will be weighed against the risk from ingesting elevated amounts of methylmercury. A large number of comprehensive studies has been carried out and to-date there is no agreed consensus.
Finally, the panel will discuss whether mercury amalgam fillings cause harm. Alternative, tooth-coloured materials are being used to replace mercury amalgam fillings. These vary in composition and properties, and include composites, cements, and sealants. The panel will examine the degree of assessment that has been undertaken on these replacement fillings, and whether mercury fillings should be withdrawn.


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Q: how to protect an API in fastapi using SAML SSO I am writing a fastapi web app which gets authenticated using OKTA iDP with SAML 2.0 SSO. I want to protect my APIs in web app. I know fastapi has only Oauth2/token based API protection instead of cookie or session based. However, we receive only session info(session index) from IDP after successful authentication. How can I protect api in my web app by using this session index info? Is there any way to convert received session into token and save this in fastapi app to use for protection? Or please suggest me other way?
from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

@app.login("/sso/login")
async def login():
    # got sessionindex from Okta IDP
    return session

@app.logout("/sso/logout")
async def logout():
    # delete session received from Okta IDP on logout
    return

@app.get_graph()               <----------------------
async def get_graph():
    # how can i protect this api. so that i can access only
    # on successful authentication?
    return

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(1430?–1479). One of the first artists to introduce the new technique of oil painting to Italy, Antonello da Messina successfully combined Flemish pictorial techniques with mid-15th century Venetian style to produce breathtaking portraits of luminous, layered colors. His practice of building form with color rather than line and shade greatly influenced the subsequent development of Venetian painting.
Antonello was born in about 1430 in Messina, Sicily. Although little is known of Antonello's early life, it is clear that he was trained in Naples, which was then a cosmopolitan art center. In Naples, he studied the work of Provençal and Flemish artists, especially that of Jan van Eyck. Antonello's earliest known works, a Crucifixion (circa 1455) and St. Jerome in His Study (circa 1460), show his already successful combination of Flemish technique and realism with traditional Italian modeling of forms and clarity.
In 1457 Antonello returned to Messina, where he worked until 1474. His works of this period are relatively conservative altarpieces commissioned by the church; but the Salvator Mundi (1465), intended for private devotions, is bold and simple, showing a thorough understanding of the human form and the depiction of personality. It was a short step from the Salvator Mundi to such incisive characterizations of human psychology as seen in Portrait of a Man (circa 1472), a work that foreshadowed the uncanny vitality and meticulous realism of such panels as Portrait of a Condottiere (1475), which established his reputation in northern Italy.
From 1475 to 1476 Antonello was in Venice and possibly Milan. Within a short time of his arrival in Venice, his work attracted so much favorable attention that he was supported by the Venetian state, and local painters enthusiastically adopted his oil technique and compositional style. In his most mature work, St. Sebastian (circa 1476), Antonello achieved a synthesis of clearly defined space, monumental, sculpture-like form, and incandescent color, which was one of the most decisive influences on the evolution of Venetian painting down to Giorgione's day. In 1476 he again returned to Messina, where he completed his final masterpiece, The Virgin Annunciate (circa 1476). Antonello died on Feb. 19, 1479, in Messina.


Ok so after a year I finally got my pvr 250 working with KnoppMyth. I just figured I'd share this incase anybody else is having the same type of problems.
The card was not being detected on startup. A message saying something like, No Multimedia devices found.
"ivtv: Timeout waiting for data!"
Solution: Swap the ram. I took the unknown 512MB stick of pc2700 and replaced it with an elixir 512MB stick of pc3200. Ever since then it has been running completely fine.
While it is very good news that you got the PVR-250 working in your system and your advice may well help someone, it does not seem like this is a true "Tier 3" topic. The Tier 3 forum is for hardware that won't under any circumstance work with KnoppMyth. I think the PVR-250 is pretty far from being in that category!
Post subject: RE: On topic!
As the non-name brand ram is the issue here, Tier 3 is where it belongs.
1. Have you ran memtest86 on the bum ram stick? It would be nice to know if it was due to simply bad ram, or generic ram.
2. had you tried tweaking the bios ram settings?
And to defend him one more step; this post may have saved my bacon too, I made the mistake of not memtesting some ram I put in a box setup for a bunch of a/v stuff with knoppixmyth. I'll memtest the box tonight and see if it's the ram.
I am having a similar issue i do also have a geforce mx 200 is there a way around this without getting a new graphics card?
Anyway, in the course of my wrestling I did have to physically remove the 250 from the board, and/or remove power from the machine several times, to solve a variety of problems from a non-responsive keyboard to a total freeze-up. I'm talking actually removing the card and actually removing the power jack. It could be that these cards are finicky when they're being "messed with," but I've been running this same hardware for a couple years with prior versions so I know it works.
I'll post more details in Tier 1 after I've had some more time with it.
My congratulations, and gratitude, to the developers!


Cooking your oats on the stovetop is the most traditional method, and it's pretty easy. For each portion of oats, you'll need a cup of water, milk or some combination of the two.
Enjoy tasty and healthy Quaker Oats recipes!! … Watch your way to delicious and inspiring recipes the whole family will love.
Add oats to the boiling water. For one serving add 1/2 cup of oats, for two servings add 3/4 cup of oats and for three servings add 1 1/2 cups of oats.


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Q: Installing R dependencies in Linux Mint install.packages('xml2')

For example, if I try to install the above package, I get this error message:
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libxml-2.0 was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libxml2-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: libxml2-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * csw: libxml2_dev (Solaris)
If libxml-2.0 is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libxml-2.0.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
--------------------------------------------------------------------

I think I need to fix the path. How do I do that? I have the latest version of Linux Mint.

A: You have two basic choices:
First, you follow the advice of the error message you quoted and do
sudo apt install libxml2-dev

as your distribution is in fact a Debian/Ubuntu derivative.
Second, you could just install the existing binary from the distro
sudo apt install r-cran-xml2

Also, the r-sig-debian list is a good place to lurk and learn and ask questions.


Jeff is a very well deserving recipient of this award and is an asset not only to SWMetro students, but our staff members as well.
"Role models are people who inspire greatness in others and nominees for this award must represent just this. Please show an example of how the nominee demonstrated being a positive role model."
Jeff will be presented with this award at the MN Juvenile Officer's Association Annual Conference this Thursday in Duluth.
Congratulations, Jeff, and Thank you for all you do.


Ralph Hasenhüttl has been a revelation for Southampton since his arrival.
The Austrian has been in the dugout for 15 Premier League fixtures, collecting 21 points during that time.
However, despite Hasenhüttl's impressive tenure in charge of the Saints, the club are just two points clear of the relegation zone with eight games left to play.
Southampton's league finish will also have a huge impact on any potential summer transfer business.
One area Hasenhüttl will surely look to strengthen in the summer is in midfield.
The Saints are short of numbers in the midfield department and could do with bolstering their options in the summer.
So here at Read Southampton, we've decided to take a look at five midfielders the Saints should consider bringing to St Mary's this summer.
A key member of the Fulham squad, Cairney has proven he can compete at Premier League level.
And with Fulham staring down the barrel of relegation back to the Championship, Cairney may well be tempted with a move to Southampton in the summer, if the Saints remain in the Premier League.
Box-to-box midfielder Demirbay is an important member of the Hoffenheim squad. The 25-year-old would bring plenty of energy and also has an eye for goal.
Perhaps Huddersfield Town's best performer in the Premier League, Mooy would definitely be a realistic option for the Saints.
The Australian will surely leave the Terriers in the summer and could be a man in demand across the Premier League.
A man Hasenhüttl knows well – RB Leipzig midfielder Demme worked under the Austrian in Germany.
The 27-year-old, who has an impressive range of passing and won't shy away from a tackle, has been with the Bundesliga outfit for five years and may well be open to a move to the Premier League.
Motherwell midfielder David Turnbull was linked with a move to Southampton back in December.
The teenager has impressed in Scotland this season, scoring nine times in 24 appearances, and could well be a shrewd investment for the future.


If you take a good look at your legs, chances are you may find tiny red, blue or purple veins in a delicate web across your thighs, calves and and the backs of your knees. These thin little veins are known as spider veins, and although they are frequently confused with varicose veins, they are completely different. Understanding the differences between spider veins and varicose veins can help you know when to seek treatment for your veins from Advanced Radiology.