Bob Somerby said that was wrong, a couple of my commenters disagreed, and today Bob took up the subject again. So what really happened?
Based on Bob's posts and a review of the Nexis archives, here's the basic chronology starting on Wednesday, August 31. There's an odd twist at the end, though, so read the whole thing.
Wednesday evening: The mob scene at the convention center gets its initial coverage on cable news.
On MSNBC at 10 pm, Michelle Hofland tells Joe Scarborough that "it is absolute chaos" at the Convention Center.
Thursday morning: The scene at the Convention Center is all over the news.
Thursday morning/afternoon: DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff tells NPR, "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." This is an especially clueless statement since it was made literally at the same time that the Convention Center mob scene was blanketing the airwaves. It is undoubtedly the source of all subsequent reporting about DHS and FEMA being out of touch with what was happening in New Orleans.
So who's right? There was coverage on CNN throughout Wednesday evening, and Chertoff didn't know anything about the situation on Thursday morning ? even though there was loads of coverage by then. For his part, Brown said repeatedly on Thursday that FEMA had only learned about the situation at the Convention Center that day.
"I just absolutely misspoke." In fact, he said, he learned about the evacuees there from the first media reports more than 24 hours earlier, but the reports conflicted with information from local authorities and he had no staff on the site until Thursday.
Huh? On Thursday the 1st, Brown said at least three times that he hadn't learned about the Convention Center until that day, but now he says he "misspoke" on every one of those occasions. And regardless of whether the reporting on Wednesday evening was thin or not, Brown now says FEMA had been following it after all. They just didn't do anything about it because it "conflicted with information from local authorities" ? a statement he doesn't back up at all.
Bottom line: I don't know whether this really counts as an urban legend or not. In general, Brown and Chertoff really were pretty ignorant about what was going on, so the general charge of cluelessness seems fair to me. On the other hand, they hadn't been ignoring blanket coverage for 24 hours, either.
Draw your own conclusions. But if you're planning to write about this incident, regardless of what you plan to say, at least now you know the chronology of what really happened.
Corrections and updates welcome, of course.


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Q: Java - Trying to establish a connection with a remote SQL Database I'm trying to connect to a remote SQL database that I can access via web through http://smart.ihu.edu.gr/phpmyadmin/. The database inside that is awesomedb/pwndoes'. That's where the tables that I want to use are.
The thing is, I'm completely new to Database/mySQL connectivity in applications and even though I've tried working through the examples posted here: Connect Java to a MySQL database I've been unable to connect to the DB yet.
Here's my code:
package thesistest;

import java.sql.*;

public class ThesisTest {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    //-------------------------------------
    //  JDBC driver initialisation
    //-------------------------------------
    try
    {
        System.out.println("Loading driver...");
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        System.out.println("Driver loaded!");
    }
    catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
    {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot find the driver in the classpath!", e);
    }

    //-------------------------------------
    //  Driver loaded, let's try establishing a connection.
    //-------------------------------------
    String url = "jdbc:mysql://smart.ihu.edu.gr/phpmyadmin/awesomedb/pwnodes";
    String username = "root";
    String password = "[redacted]";
    Connection connection = null;
    try
    {
        System.out.println("Connecting database...");
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
        System.out.println("Database connected!");
    }
    catch (SQLException e)
    {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot connect the database!", e);
    }
    finally
    {
        System.out.println("Closing the connection.");
        if (connection != null) try { connection.close(); } catch (SQLException ignore) {}
    }

}   //end of main

}   //end of class ThesisTest

I'm convinced that the URL I'm typing in is wrong.
Note that the database is remote and I do not have an instance of any mySQL software running on my machine. Is it possible to just connect a simple java app with a remote DB this way?
Note 2: I have tried putting :3306 at the end of the smart.ihu.edu.gr link, to no avail. Thanks for the headsup, @NickJ
By the way, here's the result of the build+run:

(Full resolution here: http://i.imgur.com/qlj6jJC.png)

A: Java returns Unknown Database because it´s searching for a database on /awesomedb/pwnodes but the path you give is a table.
You have to give Java the path to your awesomedb and connect to it.
After that you send something like:
INSERT INTO pwnodes (col_name,...)

Code for connecting:
package theistest;

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

   public class ThesisTest {

 public static void main(String[] argv) {

System.out.println("-------- MySQL JDBC Connection Testing ------------");

try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
 } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {

System.out.println("Where is your MySQL JDBC Driver?");
    e.printStackTrace();
    return;
}

System.out.println("MySQL JDBC Driver Registered!");
Connection connection = null;

try {
    String url = "jdbc:mysql://smart.ihu.edu.gr:3306/awesomedb";
    String username = "root";
    String password = "[redacted]";
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);

} catch (SQLException e) {
    System.out.println("Connection Failed! Check output console");
    e.printStackTrace();
    return;
}

if (connection != null) {
    System.out.println("You made it, take control your database now!");
} else {
    System.out.println("Failed to make connection!");
}
}
}

A: I don't think you have to go to phpmyadmin URL path.
My assumption is that MySQL runs on port 3306 on that server, but you don't need to reach phpmyadmin.
So I'd try the following URL: jdbc:mysql://smart.ihu.edu.gr:3306/awesomedb/pwnodes

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Q: Better algorithm to riffle shuffle (or interleave) multiple lists of varying lengths I like to watch my favorite TV shows on the go.  I have all episodes of each show I'm following in my playlist.  Not all shows consist of the same number of episodes.  Unlike some who prefer marathons, I like to interleave episodes of one show with those of another.
For example, if I have a show called ABC with 2 episodes, and a show called XYZ with 4 episodes, I would like my playlist to look like:
XYZe1.mp4
ABCe1.mp4
XYZe2.mp4
XYZe3.mp4
ABCe2.mp4
XYZe4.mp4

One way to generate this interleaved playlist is to represent each show as a list of episodes and perform a riffle shuffle on all shows.  One could write a function that would compute, for each episode, its position on a unit-time interval (between 0.0 and 1.0 exclusive, 0.0 being beginning of season, 1.0 being end of season), then sort all episodes according to their position.
I wrote the following simple function in Python 2.7 to perform an in-shuffle:
def riffle_shuffle(piles_list):
    scored_pile = ((((item_position + 0.5) / len(pile), len(piles_list) - pile_position), item) for pile_position, pile in enumerate(piles_list) for item_position, item in enumerate(pile))
    shuffled_pile = [item for score, item in sorted(scored_pile)]
    return shuffled_pile

To get the playlist for the above example, I simply need to call:
riffle_shuffle([['ABCe1.mp4', 'ABCe2.mp4'], ['XYZe1.mp4', 'XYZe2.mp4', 'XYZe3.mp4', 'XYZe4.mp4']])

This works fairly well most of the time.  However, there are cases where results are non-optimal--two adjacent entries in the playlist are episodes from the same show.  For example:
>>> riffle_shuffle([['ABCe1', 'ABCe2'], ['LMNe1', 'LMNe2', 'LMNe3'], ['XYZe1', 'XYZe2', 'XYZe3', 'XYZe4', 'XYZe5']])
['XYZe1', 'LMNe1', 'ABCe1', 'XYZe2', 'XYZe3', 'LMNe2', 'XYZe4', 'ABCe2', 'LMNe3', 'XYZe5']

Notice that there are two episodes of 'XYZ' that appear side-by-side.  This situation can be fixed trivially (manually swap 'ABCe1' with 'XYZe2').
I am curious to know if there are better ways to interleave, or perform riffle shuffle, on multiple lists of varying lengths.  I would like to know if you have solutions that are simpler, more efficient, or just plain elegant.

Solution proposed by belisarius (thanks!):
import itertools
def riffle_shuffle_belisarius(piles_list):
    def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
        args = [iter(iterable)] * n
        return itertools.izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
    if not piles_list:
        return []
    piles_list.sort(key=len, reverse=True)
    width = len(piles_list[0])
    pile_iters_list = [iter(pile) for pile in piles_list]
    pile_sizes_list = [[pile_position] * len(pile) for pile_position, pile in enumerate(piles_list)]
    grouped_rows = grouper(width, itertools.chain.from_iterable(pile_sizes_list))
    grouped_columns = itertools.izip_longest(*grouped_rows)
    shuffled_pile = [pile_iters_list[position].next() for position in itertools.chain.from_iterable(grouped_columns) if position is not None]
    return shuffled_pile

Example run:
>>> riffle_shuffle_belisarius([['ABCe1', 'ABCe2'], ['LMNe1', 'LMNe2', 'LMNe3'], ['XYZe1', 'XYZe2', 'XYZe3', 'XYZe4', 'XYZe5']])
['XYZe1', 'LMNe1', 'XYZe2', 'LMNe2', 'XYZe3', 'LMNe3', 'XYZe4', 'ABCe1', 'XYZe5', 'ABCe2']

A: A deterministic solution (ie not random)
Sort your shows by decreasing number of episodes.
Select the biggest and arrange a matrix with the number of columns corresponding to the number of episodes of this one, filled in the following way:
A   A   A   A   A   A  <- First show consist of 6 episodes
B   B   B   B   C   C  <- Second and third show - 4 episodes each
C   C   D   D          <- Third show 2 episodes

Then collect by columns
{A,B,C}, {A,B,C}, {A,B,D}, {A,B,D}, {A,C}, {A,C}

Then Join
{A,B,C,A,B,C,A,B,D,A,B,D,A,C,A,C}

And now assign sequential numbers
{A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2, A3, B3, D1, A4, B4, D2, A5, C3, A6, C4}

Edit
Your case
[['A'] * 2, ['L'] * 3, ['X'] * 5])

X  X  X  X  X
L  L  L  A  A

-> {X1, L1, X2, L2, X3, L3, X4, A1, X5, A2}

Edit 2
As no Python  here, perhaps a Mathematica code may be of some use:
l = {, , ,};                                 (* Prepare input *)
l[[1]] = {a, a, a, a, a, a};
l[[2]] = {b, b, b, b};
l[[3]] = {c, c, c, c};
l[[4]] = {d, d};
le = Length@First@l;

k = DeleteCases[                              (*Make the matrix*)
   Flatten@Transpose@Partition[Flatten[l], le, le, 1, {Null}], Null];

Table[r[i] = 1, {i, k}];                      (*init counters*)
ReplaceAll[#, x_ :> x[r[x]++]] & /@ k         (*assign numbers*)

->{a[1], b[1], c[1], a[2], b[2], c[2], a[3], b[3], d[1], a[4], b[4],
   d[2], a[5], c[3], a[6], c[4]}

A: My try:
program, play = [['ABCe1.mp4', 'ABCe2.mp4'],
                 ['XYZe1.mp4', 'XYZe2.mp4', 'XYZe3.mp4', 'XYZe4.mp4',
                  'XYZe5.mp4', 'XYZe6.mp4', 'XYZe7.mp4'],
                 ['OTHERe1.mp4', 'OTHERe2.mp4']], []
start_part = 3
while any(program):
    m = max(program, key = len)
    if (len(play) >1 and
        play[-1][:start_part] != m[0][:start_part] and
        play[-2].startswith(play[-1][:start_part])):
        play.insert(-1, m.pop(0))
    else:
        play.append(m.pop(0))

print play

A: This will ensure true shuffle i.e. a different result each time, with no contiguous items as much as possible.
The one you ask probably could return a few (1, 2) results limited by your requests.
from random import choice, randint
from operator import add

def randpop(playlists):
    pl = choice(playlists)
    el = pl.pop(randint(0, len(pl) -1))
    return pl, el

def shuffle(playlists):
    curr_pl = None
    while any(playlists):
        try:
            curr_pl, el = randpop([pl for pl in playlists if pl and pl != curr_pl])
        except IndexError:
            break
        else:
            yield el
    for el in reduce(add, playlists):
        yield el
    raise StopIteration

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample = [
        'A1 A2 A3 A4'.split(),
        'B1 B2 B3 B4 B5'.split(),
        'X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6'.split()
        ]
    for el in shuffle(sample):
        print(el)

Edit:
Given episodes order is mandatory just simplify randpop function:
def randpop(playlists):
    pl = choice(playlists)
    el = pl.pop(0)
    return pl, el

A: This would ensure that there is at least 1 and no more than 2 other episodes between two successive episodes of a show:

*

*While there are more than 3 shows, chain two shortest (i.e. having least episodes) shows together end-to-end.

*Let A be the longest show and B and C the other two.

*If B is shorter than A, pad it with None's at the end

*If C is shorter than A, pad it with None's at the beginning

*Shuffled playlist is [x for x in itertools.chain(zip(A,B,C)) if x is not None]


Is there anything better then a good old fashioned homemade pumpkin pie for dessert on Thanksgiving!? Personally, I'm a sucker for apple pie and actually never had pumpkin pie as a child. My wife on the other hand grew up with pumpkin pie, and is one of her favorite Fall desserts.
This year I was tasked with baking pumpkin pie for a big family dinner, so the pressure was on! Having never baked a pumpkin pie before, I had to do a little research, so I dug out the cookbooks and got to work.
Tips For Making The Best Pumpkin Pie Ever!
I was actually surprised at how easy baking pumpkin pie from scratch really was. There where just a few tips and trick I picked up along the way, that will make the process that much easier for anyone else making this recipe.
The end result is this incredibly silky smooth pumpkin pie, which everyone (including my two year old daughter) gobbled up without complaint.
Do I Need To Blind Bake The Crust For Pumpkin Pie?
As always, I recommend making everything from scratch, including the pie dough. If you plan ahead and make the pie dough the night before, everything is ready to go the day you plan to bake! Making your own pie dough really only takes about 10 minutes!
Should You Use Pumpkin Puree or Pumpkin Pie Filling?
Hands down, go for the pumpkin puree. Sometimes there seems to be some confusion whether to use the puree, or the filling in a recipe. The pumpkin pie filling needs no extra ingredients and is a ready to go filling that is added right to a blind baked pie crust.
Trust me though when I say that making your own pumpkin pie filling with puree pumpkin simply tastes better. If your making this recipe, use pumpkin puree.
You can even make your own pumpkin puree if you want to make this pie as 'from scratch' as possible!
Can I Make Pumpkin Pie Without Sweetened Condensed Milk?
You can, and I would recommend using this dairy free pumpkin pie recipe instead. You'll notice the method stays the same, but the ingredients are just slightly different.
Absolutely not! While using a stand mixer to mix the pumpkin pie filling definitely makes things easier, you can just as easily mix the filling in a regular mixing bowl with a whisk.
The same can be said for the pie crust. Many recipes call for the use of a food processor to blitz the ingredients together. My pie dough recipe does it the old fashioned way though. All by hand, and its even done in under 10 minutes!
Is there anything else to know before starting? While the recipe is fairly easy to make, there are a few things you can do to stream line the process.
If making your own pie dough from scratch, I highly recommend making it the night before. Giving the pie dough a chance to rest and chill will result in a flakier crust and prevent the crust from shrinking while blind baking.
Take the time to properly blind bake the crust. If you made the pie dough the night before, it's no problem at all to pullll out the crust and blind bake it for 30 minutes while you prepare the filling.
Multitask! As the crust blind bakes, make your pumpkin pie filling with the recipe below and then assemble and bake the pie once the crust is ready to go.
1 9″ unbaked pie crust. You can make your own pie crust with these instructions, or purchase one at the store. Either way the crust will need to be blind baked before filling.
Start by pre-heating your oven to 375F. You'll need to blind bake the pie crust first, so roll out the dough on a floured surface and then transfer the pie dough to a greased 9″ pie pan.
Gently press the dough into the corners of the pan, and then crimp the edge with your fingers or a fork.
Once the oven is pre-heated, blind bake the pie crust until the crust is just starting to turn golden brown at the edges.
As the pie crust blind bakes, mix the pumpkin pie filling.
In a large bowl or stand mixer, lightly whisk the eggs until they are light and foamy. Add the pumpkin puree and sweetened condensed milk to the eggs and mix until fully combined.
In a separate bowl mix together the, brown sugar, flour, and spices.
Mix the dry ingredients into the wet pumpkin mixture and beat with a which until no lumps remain.
Once the pumpkin pie crust has finished blind baking, remove it from the oven, and remove the pie weights. Turn up the oven to 400F.
Pour the pumpkin pie filling into the blind baked pie crust, and return the pumpkin pie to the oven. Ideally bake the pie on a middle oven rack.
Bake the pumpkin pie for 40- 50 minutes. The center of the pumpkin pie should still be slightly jiggly, but not liquid.
Remove the homemade pumpkin pie from the oven, and let it cool completely on a wire rack for about 2 hours. Refrigerate the pumpkin pie once it has cooled to the touch for a minimum of one hour and then slice it into even pieces.
Garnish the pie with some freshly whip cream and serve!
Step-by-step instructions make this homemade pumpkin pie surprisingly easy to bake for even the most novice baker. A true holiday favorite.
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2 cups pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling!
Start by pre-heating your oven to 375F. You'll need to blind bake the pie crust first. Roll out the dough on a floured surface and transfer the pie dough to a greased 9" pie pan.
Pour the pumpkin pie filling into the blind baked pie crust, and return the pumpkin pie to the oven. Bake the pie on a middle oven rack.
Bake the pumpkin pie for 40- 50 minutes. The center of the pumpkin pie should still be slightly jiggly, but not liquid when done.
Remove the homemade pumpkin pie from the oven, and let it cool completely on a wire rack for about 2 hours. Refrigerate the pumpkin pie, (once it has cooled to the touch) for a minimum of one hour and then slice it into even pieces.


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The first piece that I fell in love with was this soft plaid shirt. It looks September stylish. I'm in Seattle right now, and apparently the weather hasn't caught up with the fact that fall is approaching. Everyone is thrilled. So as the sun was setting, I just threw it on over a pair of shorts that I bought at Nordstom earlier this summer, and headed off to a bonfire party at the beach.
When the clouds gather, I'll trade my shorts for T&B skinnies in washed denim. This medium blue color has been popular throughout the summer and a Nordstrom stylist told me that it will be a staple this fall.
Then when leaves begin to turn, I'll keep cozy by layering-on a sweater.
After making my T&B selections, I couldn't help dancing in them. So I created this 30-second video showing how you can transition from summer to fall with this classic, cool brand. I bet you can guess what song I chose to dance to! Run the World (Girls)…of course!
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Q: Extended Euclidean Algorithm for Modular Inverse I'm currently learning how to find the inverse of a modulo with the Extended Euclid Algorithm and I stumbled upon a problem when finding an inverse when
the $m>p$ as for $m \equiv 1 \pmod{p}$
For example, in
$$
240x \equiv 1 \pmod{17}
$$
what is the inverse? What are the steps to find it?

A: You have to write
$$
1 = 240x+17y
$$
so
$$
240x\equiv 1\pmod{17}
$$
The Euclidean algorithm applied to $240$ and $17$ gives
\begin{align}
\color{red}{240} &= \color{red}{17}\cdot 14 + \color{red}{2} \\
\color{red}{17} &= \color{red}{2}\cdot 8 + \color{red}{1}
\end{align}
The successive remainders are colored red. Now start from the top:
$$
\color{red}{2}=\color{red}{240}-\color{red}{17}\cdot 14
$$
Go one line down:
$$
\color{red}{1}=\color{red}{17}-\color{red}{2}\cdot 8
$$
Substitute the value you have for $\color{red}{2}$:
$$
\color{red}{1}=\color{red}{17}-(\color{red}{240}-\color{red}{17}\cdot 14)\cdot 8
=\color{red}{17}\cdot(1+132)-\color{red}{240}\cdot 8
=\color{red}{240}\cdot(-8)+\color{red}{17}\cdot 133
$$
Thus you can take $x=-8$, or else $x=9$ since $-8\equiv 9\pmod{17}$. Indeed
$$
240\cdot9=2160=17\cdot127+1
$$
or
$$
240\cdot 9\equiv 1\pmod{17}.
$$
Just remember operating on the "red numbers" as if they were letters. Express each remainder in terms of the previous ones and substitute in the equations below the first. Only terms with $\color{red}{240}$ and $\color{red}{17}$ multiplied by integers will remain.

A: There is no fast, efficient way of finding an inverse. A general tip is to reduce as much as possible first to get everything between $0$ and $p-1$ when taking $\pmod p$. So, $240x \equiv 2x \pmod {17}$ and the inverse of $2$ is just $9$ so $x \equiv 9 \pmod {17}$.

A: In this case, m > p. So find the remainder of m/p. m mod p = 240 mod 17 = 2.
so the inverse of 240 and the inverse of 2 (mod 17) are the same. The above answer stating the inverse is 9 is correct (2 * 9 = 18 and 18 mod 17 = 1)


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What was the single best book you read in 2013?
It could be fiction or nonfiction. It could be a new book that released this year, or some great book from prior years that you just discovered. But I'd like to know what your best read was in 2013.
Heartbreaker, by Susan Howatch — A fascinating look at the good and evil that resides in us, told through the story of a young woman raising money for a healing center who meets a male prostitute looking for meaning in life. Perhaps the best book I read all year.
Lost Girls, by Robert Kolker — A gritty, clear-eyed look at four victims of a still-at-large serial killer on Long Island. Great research and writing.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer — The moving story of a nine-year-old boy who lost his father on 9/11, and who is determined to find out why and how. I was in awe of the writing.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson — I love a book that makes me laugh out loud, not just smile and nod. This book by a longtime blogger will make you snort coffee through your nose. Hilarious.
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(I'm taking a break from all-things-marketing for the rest of 2013…so if you're here for posts on platforms and promotions, stay tuned…they'll come with the new year).
They say (okay, maybe 'they' don't say it, but I've heard it on occasion) that the best way to get to know what an agent or editor likes is to find out what they read. What books they cherish. What authors they drool over. The thought is that if you can find an agent or editor who loves books and authors that are similar to what you write, you're that much closer to getting picked up.
I don't know how much truth there is in this. Fact is, most industry professionals tend to enjoy literary fiction…and yet as an agent I'm lucky if I get to sell one lit fiction book a year. I think I had somewhere around twenty books come out last year that I had agented. None of them were literary fiction. In fact in my three-year career, I've sold one literary fiction title. One.
BUT still. The idea stands. I love literary fiction. I love great speculative fiction. I love gothic fiction. Show me a book that fits these categories and I'm that much more likely to consider it.
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Depth is found when multidimensional characters who I can relate to, who I care about, face the timeless questions of life in the midst of complex circumstances, then make decisions that are open to interpretation. Their choices may not be right, but as a reader, I get to go through the experience with the characters. I see people in your story I have come to care about facing big decisions, making choices that I may or may not agree with, and I get to go through that season with them, and see the results of their choices, then measure them against my own life. THAT'S what causes me to learn, helps me to understand myself, and leaves me thinking about your book. And this can't be faked – any bright reader will figure out when you're faking depth or artificially trying to gin up emotion. So you can't write with an agenda. Nothing is more boring than to read a polemic masquerading as a novel.
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Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay current with her wheelings and dealings as an agent.
Each week I try to tackle the big, bad topic of how to build an author platform. We've looked at Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, blogs, websites, and more, and the backlist of posts has become quite daunting and difficult to search.
SO to put an end to the madness and help all of you navigate the tips, rules, and tricks we've discussed on our Thursdays get-togethers, I've released an ebook.
THE EXTROVERTED WRITER: An Author's Guide to Marketing and Building a Platform is a compilation of my Thursdays with Amanda posts PLUS a bunch of great new content (new content includes LinkedIn, strategies for building a Twitter following, how to identify your audience, and more). All in a shiny digital package! Categorized, organized, and hopefully quite navigable, this little ebook is perfect for those who have come to love my weekly blog posts.
All right, enough theory. Let's get practical. How do you take a book that is loved by everyone and your mother and find its basic readership—those who are most inclined to shell out fifteen dollars to buy it (or those who are most inclined to get their parents to shell out fifteen dollars)?
First, you must identify other movies or books or plays that are similar to your work. So, go to the bookstore or get online and put on your researcher jeans.
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What are the best books of all time?
Classics (the classic books that every writer should probably be familiar with): Augustine's CONFESSIONS; Dante's DIVINE COMEDY; Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES; Shahrazad's THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS; Machiavelli's THE PRINCE; Miguel de Servants' DON QUIXOTE; Shakespeare's COMPLETE WORKS; John Donne's SELECTED WORKS; Galileo's DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE TWO CHIEF WORLD SYSTEMS; Hobbe's LEVIATHAN; Descarte's DISCOURSE ON METHOD; Milton's PARADISE LOST; Moliere's PLAYS; Blaise Pascal's PENSEES; Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS; John Locke's SECOND TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT; Daniel Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE; Jonathan Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS; Voltaire's CANDIDE; Henry Fielding's TOM JONES; Laurence Sterne's TRISTRAM SHANDY; James Boswell's LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON; Thomas Jefferson's BASIC DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY; Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's THE FEDERALIST PAPERS.
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What do I need to know about writing my memoir?
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Marie Prys provides administrative support to MacGregor Literary's agents as well as overseeing contracts and informational databases. She hails from the Northwest, lives in Richmond, VA, and enjoys a blessed life with her husband and four children. Reading is a favorite pastime she is always trying to find more time for.
When it comes to favorite books, I would be remiss if I didn't cover Children's fiction. As a child I was sometimes punished with having whatever book I was reading be taken away until a misdeed had been rectified—such as completing neglected chores. (This was, by the way, very effective, as I was always reading.) As an adult I am again re-reading old favorites with my children, or sometimes just living vicariously through them as they find my old favorites, and together we've even discovered new reading gems. Reading in this way creates communion, interaction, and special memories, but it also teaches.
When my daughter got hooked on the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it was an addiction for me to ask her where she was in the series and what was going on. I relished her enjoyment of the descriptions of sisterhood (Laura is going to be Mary's eyes now), her disdain for Nellie Olson (She deserved the leeches!), and her anticipation of what would happen when Almanzo Wilder came on the scene. And as she was reading, she learned geography, American pioneer-era history, and about the intricacies of family relationships.
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What really happened in Piccadilly Gardens?
Yeah funny, and might be close to the truth given the rivalry.Not keen on the anti catholic/Irish songs yesterday !
Good one. Now at last I understand.
now now dont be getting any scousers or city fans minds working overtime!
City Centre Resident - PiccadillyMay 15th 2008.
Jonathan, as Editor do you really think this helps the situation?On a website that otherwise has articles that are well written and fair about the issues last night - I don't think this image fits. You always claim to have the 'upper hand' over the MEN and not being tabloid based - and then you do this.Aren't all journalists and the media the same? Put more things controversially online or in the press to sell more issues/get more readers so can make more money from adverts?
Dear me. But it's funny. This sort of thing is exactly why Confidential is different from the MEN.
Och, by nessy I knew'd it!
Kevin @ M4May 15th 2008.
City Centre Resident (or should it be despondent)? Wind your neck in. It is in the spirit of Manchester Confidential, and I'm sure Rangers fans would find it funny. They would be able to take the joke, expecialy as the majority of them had a great day out, except for the few individuals who let the side down. Go on, laugh damn you!
Dear po-faced City Centre Resident this isn't controversial it's just a laugh. And what 'situation' are you talking about?
hoohohohohohohohohohohohooooo - black humour is always the best !
Very funny. One must be able to have a chuckle even in dire circumstances. I lifted it for my blog. http://freshlegs.blogspot.com/Gave you props, don't worry, boys.


We trust the Bible for spiritual truth. Events, people and nations in the Bible have been corroborated by extra-biblical historians. The Bible has been confirmed by prophecy, archaeology, and geography. Do we trust the Bible when it makes scientific statements? There are many biblical references in different disciplines of science. The authors refer to nature and natural processes using everyday language. Their statements are amazingly accurate and often anticipate scientific insights that were not discovered by scientists until the last few centuries. The Bible is authoritative in all matters that it addresses. In fact modern science is founded on the biblical worldview.
The Apologetics Symposium takes place the 1st and 2nd Wednesdays each month at Cedar Park Church in Bothell WA. The programs feature presentations from educators and scientists who are dedicated to defending the Bible. They are free to attend, and also available for viewing through live webcast or the recordings archived on our website.


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GenerateAddresses generates N new addresses from the given seed, indices and security level.
> **Important note:** This API is currently in Beta and is subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

## Input

| Parameter       | Type | Required or Optional | Description |
|:---------------|:--------|:--------| :--------|
| seed | Trytes | Required | The seed used for address generation.  |
| start | uint64 | Required | The index from which to start generating addresses.  |
| count | uint64 | Required | The amount of addresses to generate.  |
| secLvl | SecurityLevel | Required | The security level used for address generation.  |
| addChecksum | ...bool | Optional | Whether to append the checksum on the returned address.  |

## Output

| Return type     | Description |
|:---------------|:--------|
| Hashes | The generated addresses. |
| error | Returned for any error occurring during address generation. |

## Example

```go
func ExampleGenerateAddresses()
	seed := strings.Repeat("9", 81)
	var index uint64 = 0
	secLvl := consts.SecurityLevelMedium
	addrs, err := address.GenerateAddresses(seed, index, 2, secLvl)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("unable to generate addresses: %s", err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Println(addrs)
	// output:
	// [
	// 	GPB9PBNCJTPGFZ9CCAOPCZBFMBSMMFMARZAKBMJFMTSECEBRWMGLPTYZRAFKUFOGJQVWVUPPABLTTLCIA,
	//  GMLRCFYRCWPZTORXSFCEGKXTVQGPFI9W9EJLERYJMEJGIPLNCLIKCCAOKQEFYUYCEUGIZKCSSJL9JD9SC,
	// ]
}

```

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If you think Jeremy Corbyn is a man of principle for opposing air strikes on Syria, you need a history lesson
It may well be that many of you agree with his stance on Iraq. But do you also agree with his stance on Kosovo? On Bosnia? On Kuwait? (For an alternative view on the Syrian air strikes, click here.)
Paul Renteurs
Saturday 21 April 2018 14:25
Syria air strikes: How events unfolded
Not usually one for lengthy expositions of my own views, I find that I'm increasingly frustrated with quite a lot of nonsense that quite a lot of people are bandying around about what was done in Syria earlier this week.
First: the purpose of the air strikes. Nothing Theresa May has said about the decision she took has indicated, or even thinly suggested, that she or any of our allies have intervened to change the regime in Syria, or tip the balance in the long and brutal civil war there, or show Russia who's boss.
It wasn't even claimed that this strike would prevent Assad from launching further chemical weapon attacks. All that the strike is intended to achieve is to ensure that if –perhaps when – Assad thinks about using these weapons again, he won't be under the impression that he can do so without consequence. We reserve the right to punish tyrants, dictators, criminals and madmen like Assad from behaving in this way. Full stop.
Second: the legality of this action. Humanitarian intervention is an increasingly widely recognised basis for armed intervention. It was the basis for intervention in Kosovo in 1999 to stop the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of people there (Jeremy Corbyn opposed this action too, you shouldn't be surprised to hear).
It was the basis for intervention in Sierra Leone to rescue UN peacekeepers and bolster the UN mission in that country.
As for the role of parliament, it's worth adding two further points. First, as a matter of international law, it matters not a jot whether parliament is consulted. Either the use of force is a breach of Chapter VII of the UN Convention or it is not, and it isn't any more or less a breach if parliament has voted for it.
And in the absence of a written constitution, it's perfectly clear that there is no custom which dictates that parliament is the body that decides on military intervention.
Third: are we the ones to be doing this? A lot of people are shouting about imperialism and hypocrisy. We are, after all, still selling weapons to the Saudis which are being used to slaughter innocent people in Yemen.
I happen to agree that we should stop selling these weapons. But does anyone want to say to the mother of a child whose lungs have just been melted out with chlorine gas, "I'm terribly sorry for your loss. This really is horrific. But I'm afraid we can't do anything about it because we have an interest in selling arms to Saudi Arabia"?
You're not just spectators in this, folks. If you want to have a say in this then you had better be prepared to think about these things as though you are the one making that decision and give that explanation.
Surfers enter the sea as the sun rises over Tynemouth on the North East coast
Bonhams' Danny McIlwraith holds a Nigerian polycrome carved wood mask during a photocall for the sale of the Jim Lennon Collection at Bonhams in Edinburgh
The moon rises above the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, Hampshire
Demonstrators outside Downing Street during a 'Kill The Bill' protest against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in London
Riders compete during the Veterans Men's race at the UK Cyclo-Cross National Championships 2022 in Ardingly, south of London
Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan, bursts 'Boris' bubble' held by colleague Tim Farron, as she celebrates following her victory in the North Shropshire by-election
People queue outside a walk-in Covid-19 vaccination centre at St Thomas's Hospital in Westminster
People release balloons during a tribute to six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes outside Emma Tustin's former address in Solihull, West Midlands, where he was murdered by his stepmother
Workers put the finishing touches to the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree ahead of the lighting ceremony later in the week
Fourth: Jezza. Jeremy Corbyn has said before how his opposition to Iraq, though it achieved nothing at all, was one of his proudest moments in politics. And it may well be that many of you agree with his stance on Iraq. But do you also agree with his stance on Kosovo? On Bosnia? On Kuwait?
How about the first Gulf war, when we intervened to respond to Saddam Hussein's attempt to annex a neighbouring state by force? Of course, it wasn't just us that intervened. The UN mandated that armed intervention.
Did Jeremy, who now says we need to work through the UN and get UN authority before intervening, honour that resolution by the UN? Nope. In fact, not only did he not support the use of force on that occasion, he tabled motions in parliament to condemn the resolutions that had been passed by the UN!
Of course, this was all a long time after Corbyn's opposition (before he was elected) to the "Tory plot" that was the mission to the Falkland Islands to prevent the British citizens there being invaded by a country run by a military junta. Look over his career and you will not find any tyrant, sadist, despot or psychopathic madman who Jeremy Corbyn has supported military action against. In that context, what does being a "man of principle" really mean?
Not every armed intervention is Iraq, and the fact that Trump happens to be doing it as well isn't a good enough reason for not doing it. Saying we need a political solution is easy, and almost meaningless. Do I feel safer with more missiles flying in the air? No. But that's not the point. I do feel that the rules against torturing your own people are stronger now than they were last Monday. For now, I'll take that.
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Monument to the children of Russian Tsar Nicholas II was solemnly unveiled on the territory of the Orthodox monastery of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers on Ganina Yama on November 16, 2011. Besides, it is the site of a mine in which the remains of the royal family and their confidants were discovered.
The author of the bronze monument – Igor Vladimirovich Akimov, Ural sculptor, teacher at the Ural State Architectural Academy. The height of the monument is about three meters, and the weight is almost three tons. According to the author's intention, counted to the rank of holy martyrs, the royal children Princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Prince Alexei as if descending from heaven with crosses in their hands on an inclined stone slab that serves as a pedestal. However, not exactly.
Meanwhile, before that, there had been already installed busts of the royal couple: Emperor Nicholas who was destined to be the last The Russian emperor (2009), and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna (2010). Both are also performed in bronze by Igor Akimov. All monuments – connected by one alley leading to "mine number 7" and to the temple of the holy Royal Passion-Bearers.
In addition, in 2000-2003, in Yekaterinburg, on the spot where the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family were shot on the night of July 16, 1918, on July 17, 1918, local authorities built the Temple-Monument on Blood in the name of All Saints in the Russian Land. Authors: architects VP Morozov, V. Yu. Grachev and chief architect of the region GV Mazaev.
Also the ensemble of the temple includes a monument to the royal family. It is the work of sculptors Konstantin V. Grunberg and A. G. Mazaev. The seven-figure composition represents the tragic moment of the descent of Nicholas II and his family to the basement of the Ipatiev house for execution. Seven figures settled around the big cross so that the princess with two daughters is higher than the emperor holding the crown prince and the other two daughters. According to the authors' idea, the monument meets on the way everyone entering the church and involuntarily reminds of the sad events that took place here.


Small but mighty Pateley Bridge shows where a healthy dose of community spirit can get you.
When the last shop in Darley closed, villagers decided it was time for a spot of DIY.
The small town of Pateley Bridge is blessed with enviable good looks, sitting as it does amid some of the most beautiful countryside in Yorkshire.
This wonderful walk makes good use of the Nidderdale Way to explore three charming villages.


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Q: Hot partition problem in DynamoDB gone with the new on-demand feature? I read the following announcement with great interest.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-amazon-dynamodb-on-demand/
The new "on-demand" feature really helps with capacity planning. Reading the documentation, I can't really see if they do some "magic" to resolve the problem of hot partitions, and partition key distribution.
Is partition key design just as important if you provision a table "on-demand"?

A: Yes, partition key design is just as important. That aspect has not changed.
Since you mentioned adaptive capacity in a comment, one thing to make sure is clear. Once it is on for a table, it is on and DynamoDB is monitoring your table.

A: There are two features at play here:
* On-demand capacity mode
* Adaptive capacity
On-demand capacity mode allows you to pay per each request to DynamoDB instead of provisioning a particular amount of RCUs/WCUs (this is called provisioned capacity). The benefit is that you only pay for what you use (and not for what you provision), but the downside is that if you receive a constant flow of requests, you would end up paying more if you provisioned the right amount of RCUs/WCUs. The on-demand capacity mode is the best suit for spiky traffic, while the provisioned mode is better for applications with a constant, predictable stream of requests
Adaptive capacity is a different feature, and it can work with either on-demand or provisioned capacity modes. It allows to "borrow" unused capacity from other partitions if one of your partitions receive a higher share of requests. It used to take some time to enable adaptive capacity, but as for now, adaptive capacity is enabled immediately.
Even with adaptive capacity, a good key design is still important. It only helps with cases when it is hard to achieve a balanced distribution of requests among shards. A single partition in DynamoDB can only handle up to 3K RCUs and 1K WCUs. So if a single partition receives more than that even with adaptive capacity requests will be throttled. So you have to design your keys to avoid this scenario.

A: As of 5/2019 the answer to this question has changed.  I'd like to preface my answer by saying I have not validated this against a production workload.  Also my answer assumes you, like the OP, are using on-demand pricing.
First a general understanding of how DynamoDB (DDB) adaptive capacity works can be gleamed by reading this. Adaptive capacity is on by default.  In short, when a hot partition exceeds its throughput capacity, DDB "moves the rudder" and instantly increases throughput capacity on the partition.
Before 5/2019 you'd 300 seconds of instant burst capacity, then you'd be throttled until adaptive capacity fully "kicked in" (5-30 minutes).
On 5/23/2019 AWS announced that adaptive capacity is now instant.  This means no more 5-30 minute wait.
Does this mean if you use DDB on-demand pricing, your hot partition problems go away? Yes and no.
Yes, in that you should not get throttled.
No, in that your bank account will take the hit.  In order to not get throttled, DDB will scale up on-demand (now instantly).  You will pay for the RCUs and WCUs needed to handle the throughput.
So the moral is, you still have to think about hot partitions and design your application to avoid them as much as possible.  You won't be paying for it in downtime/unhappy customers, you'll be paying for it out of profits.

A: @Glenn First of all thankyou for the great question, after some research i have reached to the conclution that hot partition problem is still important but only for 5-30 minutes as soon as dynamo db will detect you are having hot partitions it will use the mechanism like adaptive capacity and automatic resharding, dynamo db has improved a lot since its launch and now AWS handles hot partitions by something called automatic resharding, i think automatic resharding works in both on demand and provision model but i could not find any proof for that i will update the answer as soon as i find it for reference you can watch this keynote.
AWS reinvent 2018 keynote


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What is more gorgeous than a heap of colorful carrots, with their tops and wispy roots in tact, caramelized golden brown in spots, tumbling rustically on a platter? Maybe adding sticky honey, crunchy sea salt, a sprinkle of Pecorino cheese, and a handful of chopped candied nuts?
Scrub carrots and remove all but 1 inch of the carrot tops. I like the carrots unpeeled because it feels more rustic, but you can peel them. Slice carrots in half, lengthwise.
Heat olive oil, bay leaf, thyme, and garlic in a large pan, over medium heat. When the oil is hot, add the carrots and cook for about 10 minutes, tossing occasionally, until carrots tender but not soft.
Add honey and toss to coat the carrots, and transfer to a platter. Sprinkle sea salt, black pepper, and Pecorino Romano cheese all over the carrots. Sprinkle candied nuts on top of the roast carrots to finish.
This is so beautiful, I can't wait to to try it!


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Egmont are delighted to reveal the new cover and synopsis for Peril in Paris, Katherine Woodfine's hotly anticipated upcoming novel.