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exec > >(tee /var/log/user-data.log|logger -t user-data -s 2>/dev/console) 2>&1

sudo yum -y install wget
sudo yum -y install vim

# install apache
yum -y install httpd
sudo service httpd start

# install Oracle JDK
wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u92-b14/jdk-8u92-linux-x64.rpm"
sudo yum -y localinstall jdk-8u92-linux-x64.rpm

cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/datastax.repo

[datastax]
name = DataStax Repo for Apache Cassandra
baseurl = http://rpm.datastax.com/community
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 0
EOF

sudo yum -y install dsc20
sudo service cassandra start
sudo systemctl enable cassandra.service

# install mysql
wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install mysql-server
sudo systemctl start mysqld

# creare db
MYSQL_HOST="localhost"
MYSQL_DBNAME="wasabi"

mysql -s -N -h $MYSQL_HOST  --execute="create database $MYSQL_DBNAME;"
mysql -s -N -h $MYSQL_HOST --execute="create user 'readwrite'@'localhost' identified by 'readwrite';"
mysql -s -N -h $MYSQL_HOST --execute="grant all privileges on wasabi.* to 'readwrite'@'localhost' identified by 'readwrite';"
mysql -s -N -h $MYSQL_HOST --execute="flush privileges;"

# install runit
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/imeyer/runit/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo yum -y install runit-2.1.2-3.el7.centos.x86_64


So last Friday I went and got myself a Polaroid 100 back for my Hasselblad — basically making Dashiell instant-film-ready. The resulting images are tiny — just the size of a regular 120 negative, so not much larger than 2×2 inches (i've blown them up here for your viewing pleasure) — but there's something gorgeous and dreamy about them: not quite capturing the focusing capabilities of the Zeiss lens, but still taking in all the proportions of a Hasselblad shot, slightly blurry and mesmerizing, evocative but still fully present, all at once. It's been great fun, taking the images and pulling the polaroids out of the back of the camera, and waiting the requisite 1-4 minutes for the film to develop. Or at least it's been fun for me; I can't speak for my photographic subjects/companions, who may have looked upon this entire endeavour with bewilderment. But hey! , look at how everything turned out: like a dream, nudging ever so willfully into the real.
Also, I'll take this over the Hipstamatic app any day. Just sayin'.
← eleanor, recently and blurrily.
I like the softness of the photos.


Just outside of Florence there is this mysterious castle filled with fantastical, colorful rooms. I am pretty sure I first learned about it from a picture on Pinterest. I had done a little research, figured out where it was, liked the Facebook page and forgotten about it. Until a few weeks ago when a notice popped up in my feed. The Sammezzano Castle would be open for one day in October and there would be a signup form posted online at exactly 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon. The whole process was a little ridiculous and drawn out, like snagging a table at Noma or Septime. I held out little hope I would actually get a spot, no less the four that I wanted. I set an alarm in my calendar and hoped for the best. Lady luck and good internet were on my side and a few days later I found out our visit was a go. The 750 places were booked in 55 seconds and my name was near the top of the list.
The day of our visit our slot was at 11:30 am so it was an early start from Rome. We had a quick cappuccino (and maybe a quick stop at Prada to try on shoes)at The Mall and started the adventure with a thirty minute walk up to the castle grounds. We checked our names off the list and waited our turn in the back of the castle where there were tables set up, sausages on the grill and cold beer on tap. Groups of 75 people were guided through the castle rooms for about an hour. Our guide had a thick Tuscan accent and I was too bewitched by the light and colors that I have to admit I paid little attention to what I am sure was lots of really interesting information about this curious place.
Castello Sammezzano was created by Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona over forty plus years on an existing structure that dated back to the Roman era. This Florentine born Spanish nobleman was quite an interesting character. He was very involved in local area politics and quite outspoken about his views on the church. He resigned from his elected post deputy of the Italian kingdom in 1867 over his dissatisfaction with Italian unification and how the new government dealt with church property. He poured his energies into creating his Moorish style whimsy in the Tuscan countryside.
A passionate botanist as well as designer, architect, and engineer, Ximenes d'Argona brought California sequoia trees to Italy. Now 150 years later they still thrive. We took a different path back to the car so that we could see the most famous of these special trees The Gemella which soars 50 meter tall and with a trunk circumference of 8 1/2 meters.
There are 365 rooms in the castle, one created for every day of the year. Some are richly decorated in a rainbow of colors and some are almost entirely white with intricate plaster work. There is stained glass, glazed tiles, fresco style painting and carved wooden detail. Virtually nothing is left undecorated. All of it remarkably intact. The whole place appeals to my sense of style; a little bit ramshackle and slightly overdone.
The castle has stood abandoned and empty since the late 1990's. An investment group has a website that claims the property will soon be a luxury hotel. I am very happy that I got to see it as it is now in it's slightly shabby, but still enviably chic state and not all buffed and shined. The non-profit group Comitato FXPA that organizes visits a few times a year. Like their Facebook page and watch it like a hawk for the next opening and maybe luck will be on your side too.
So enchanting ! Thank you for sharing !
I highly recommend this place if you are thinking about to find a place for your wedding. We had our wedding party yesterday at this place and it was such a wonderful event. The wedding reception site is classy, the dining area is amazing, and the view is just icing on the cake.
Oh believe me I know! It is one of the most remarkable places I have ever seen. I just saw today that the castle will be up for auction on May 24. Let's hope that the foundation that has been taking care of it can raise the funds to buy it.
Who owns the castle and got it sold and when yes: to whom???????
Such an amazing building. Not at all practical, but maybe that is part of it's specialness. I would love to see it some day and hope it has not been destroyed.


If you are trying to have a serious online presence, chances are that you have heard of search engine optimization. Also known as SEO, this practice helps to bring in the traffic. It also helps Google to rank your website and its influence. If you are new to SEO, however, this practice may seem extremely confusing. You can always hire a white label partner like 51 Blocks to help! However, we understand the desire to do the job yourself and do it well. We havee compiled a list of outdated tactics and strategies that can hurt your SEO.
Most website owners view their Home page as their start. Because of this, they mistakenly try to link everything to their Home page. This practice is outdated. Your Home page does not need to be the single focal point. It creates a mess of keywords and hurt your ranking. This is due to the fact that most of the Home page content will not actually be relevant to those keywords. Instead, you should build links to well-developed pages that feature relevant content. Why? If your webpage captures your visitor's attention, they will logically and organically explore your website.
You might have a lot to say. However, before you publish your content, take the time to plan it out. You may have heard the phrase "quality over quantity." This applies to your content as well as many other things in life. Search engines, like Google, are constantly evolving. As they do, their analytics become smarter. Today, Google can easily identify when a site is using irrelevant content and keywords just to bring in traffic. Known as "content farms", these websites will rank rather low. Because of this, it is better to have less, but better thought out content on your website to attract quality visitors.
If your visitors are not happy, your SEO ranking will suffer. Visitors like an easy-to-use website. This means, if the internal links on your website are slow or full of errors, you are likely to see a drop in your SEO rank. Whether you have developed a new website or have recently undergone a redesign, it is important to check your site's internal links regularly.
An inexperienced web developer may want to build a website first, and then incorporate SEO. Steer clear of this practice! For SEO to occur naturally within your content, you need to incorporate it as your develop the page. As with keyword stuffing, irrelevant titles, meta descriptions and content hurt your SEO rankings. The best way to avoid this is by developing the website to incorporate SEO from the start.
Backlinks are those that occur when an outside website links back to one of your webpages. Some feel that gathering up large quantities of backlinks are vital to SEO ranking. This is actually untrue. As with your content development, you should focus on quality backlinks over the quantity. In fact, Google judges your backlinks based on authority, diversity and quantity, in that order. This means having fewer high-quality backlinks from industry authorities gives you a higher ranking that mass amounts of low-quality ones.
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Music - The Last Shadow Puppets
As soon as I heard this album I knew I was going to have to write about it in my next blog. Released last week, I heard previews of the songs on this album the day before it came out and still couldn't wait the 24 hours to see the full thing for myself.
The Last Shadow Puppets is a band consisting of Alex Turner, frontman of mega record selling band the Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane of the Rascals. Their First album 'the Age of Understatement' has been eagerly awaited by many (even though I admittedly only heard of it the day before it came out) and it has not failed to disappoint. Since the day it was released it has been at the top spot of the itunes album downloads, knocking off the kooks (frankly disappointing) new album.
At first listeners might be expecting to go in and just listen to a remixed version of the Arctic Monkeys, and indeed some songs definitely carry that familiar distinctive sound, but to dismiss it as such would be to sorely underappreciate what has been done here. There is enough here to satisfy any fan of any music even vaguely rock-like; faster arctic monkeys-esque indie rock, dark and moody tracks, and slow melodic tunes, all of which are of a consistently good quality. More than that, this is a more consistently listenable affair than either of the Arctic Monkeys albums, both of which sold shedloads, and one can only hope that Alex decides to lend his considerable talent to more melodic songs such as these more often.
Like any album there are one or two great tracks and a bunch of good, but less good songs. So here are the ones you need to go check out.
Must Listen:
Standing Next to Me
Also Worth a Go:
My Mistakes Were Made for You
The Age of Understatement
How to - Get Your Computer to Start Up Faster
Just to clarify: i dont write these 'how to' guides about anything unless I know what I'm talking about, which generally means they are formulated through a healthy mix of common sense, my own experience and a good deal of research. But of course I welcome anyone who wants to ask how I know about such things, and on all occasions am more than happy to answer such queries :)
Now on to today's how to guide. We've all been there where your windows computer (it doesn't happen with macs as far as I've seen, which is one of the many reasons I switched) starts to age badly, take long periods of time to start up when you switch it on, and lets face it, it sucks. Fortunately in most cases this is just one of those stupid things that Windows does, and can be easily fixed with only a few minutes' effort.
The biggest problem is that so often when you install new software, it adds itself to the boot list, that is, programs which load when you start up your computer. To see what is loading now and to pick and choose in Windows XP click on your Start Menu. Go to Run. Type: msconfig. You'll be presented with tabs. You're probably operating under Normal Start Up which loads all device drivers and services. Choose Selective Startup instead. Under Selective Startup I've checked Process System.INI file, Process Win.INI.file, Load System Services, Load Startup Intems and Use Original Boot.INI. If you are an advanced user and you know what you are doing you can select or deselect these boxes as you choose. If you click everything except Services and then click disable all, followed by OK, you'll end up booting in Safe Mode. Our goal here is to cut back on the Start Up programs. Click that tab. There you'll find a long list of applications like ALCMTR and hpsysdrv. I took the time to enter each of them in Google to search for what they did. Sites like processlibrary.com proved useful in determining whether or not I should enable or disable the applications on booting. Right now I've only selected about a third of those listed. My machine boots faster and I've notice no lack of performance.
While you are in MS Config, look under the "BOOT.INI" tab. You will see a box labeled "Timeout." It is typically set to 30, which adds a half a minute delay. Feel free to change it, but do not set it to less than 3 seconds. Close that tab, Click OK and reboot in order for the changes to take place. The first time you restart you'll probably have a window pop up saying you're in selective boot mode. You can disable the window while preserving your changes.
Then make sure that you are not loading Trojans or ad ware when you boot. Not only should you keep your anti virus software like McAffee or Norton up to date, or if you want a free program try AVG, but you should also load and install an adware remover like Lavasoft's Ad Aware 2007 which is free for private use and is damn good.
Finally, at least once a month, clear out your Internet temp files through your browser, empty your recycle bin, move unneeded files to a back up drive and perform a disc defragmentation. In My Computer, right click on your boot drive. Click on Properties, Go to Tools then defragment. This will take time, so don't run any applications including screen savers while performing this task. When your files are closer together they'll load faster. You can also go through your cookies folder, deleting those you don't need.
Roundup - 25th April 2008
song of the day: "Hospital Beds" by "Cold War Kids"
thing you're going to do today: get psyched up for the second half of a crucial week in football... then realize that the first half was boring as hell
pic of the day:
the Arctic Monkeys
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (relatively)
Avram Grant
Music - Artist Spotlight: the Red Hot Chili Peppers
As a new feature I will occasionally be running specific artist spotlights. These are intended to educate and provide basic commentary on the chosen band, and listing their biggest hits, as well as the hidden gems they've recorded.
This week the spotlight is on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a classic band.
It's always impressive when a band comes along who can record songs and maintain popularity over multiple decades. RHCP have been doing so for over 20 years and going strong. What impresses more about the band however is the wild variation in their music. This is a band that has recorded high charting hits which range from heavy metal to soft, almost pop-rock, leaning more towards the latter as the band matures it's sound in recent years.
Of particular note for me is their album By The Way, in my mind one of the best album's made. This album focuses on their more melodic ballad-like side, producing some of their softer songs, which I like very much. It is also their best selling album to date. Literally, the entire first half of that album are all amazing songs, go give it a listen.
And now on to the fun bit, the recommended songs:
Biggest Hits:
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Noteworthy Efforts:
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fortune Faded- Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Universally Speaking - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hidden Gems:
Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Especially in Michigan- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
How to - Feed Your Kitten a Healthy Diet
First some basics:
-Cats are carnivores, they do not eat vegetables, grains, fruits or anything like that. They eat meat, that's what they want.
-Kittens need more nutrition than cats as they are developing and growing, so make sure any food you buy for your kitten is specially marked as 'for kittens'
-Wet food > Dry food
Now about that last point. Cheap vets and many amateur pet shops will tell you that dry food is what your cat should be eating. They will say it is 'good for their teeth'. While that may be arguable, the fact is the only real benefit of dry food is for owners, making it much easier for them. It's easier to store, leaves less mess and upsets cat's tummies less. It is, however, completely unnatural. Cat's don't have dry food in the wild, they just eat meat, wet meat.
What you want is a natural canned meat. Look at the ingredients, chicken or fish should be near the top, and the protein percentage must be high. I highly recommend Natures: Menu which has a whopping 70% meat content and Didier loves the taste, laps it up very quickly.
The aim should be to ease your kitty onto wet food, or give a mix of both. What I do is give him dry food during the day, and then a bigger meal of wet meat at night before bed, at least until he's more used to it.
As a final note, avoid cheap 'big' brands like whiskas and felix, the all natural brands are far healthier and tastier.
Personal - Meet Didier
Well I suppose a lot has happened since the last time I spoke to some of you, so quickly I'll just say all is well; i'm not driving myself insane about work like so many others, i'm continuing my writing, and I had a very enjoyable encounter with a certain someone the other day :)
Best of all, however, is the new addition to the family, Didier. Didier differs from my other family members in that he is a small kitten. He's amazing and adorable and you can't spend 5 minutes with him without falling in love. He also has some pretty sweet football skills, better than half the players on Chelsea right now let me tell you.
In other glorious news, it appears Arrested Development, aka the greatest tv show ever written, is finally achieving some level of deserved appreciation in the general public. I say this based on the fact that it can now be seen on british tv, 3 episodes every night. Indeed this appears to be pretty typical, where great underappreciated tv shows which get cancelled or on the verge of cancellation (see family guy, futurama, scrubs) fail in America, but then achieve some real success in England (clearly we recognise quality tv much better than Americans). In the aforementioned examples, family guy and futurama have since been un-cancelled, and scrubs has suddenly achieved mass recognition and has also been un-cancelled.
The other pleasant sign of appreciation is that this show can now be found on itunes, where it is also on the top downloaded tv shows charts, and rightly so. Looks like it's finally being appreciated.
Also Pushing Daisies is now available in the English itunes store. Go buy it, it's one of the best new tv shows in many many years.
song of the day: "Jenny" by "I'm From Barcelona"
thing you're going to do today: go on itunes and buy the arrested development tv seasons, all of them.
How to - Set up a Shopping Cart for your Website
This is another one for all you out there trying to get some form of online business going. Last week I posted a guide for ways in which you could find advertising for your site, now on a more practical matter I will tell you how you can go about setting up shopping cart software on your website, as all professional ecommerce websites do.
At the end of the day, when you look around you will find that there is one leading brand that offers the best mix of flexibility and customisation, easy setup, and packed full of features to suit anyone's needs. On top of this it is also veryy affordable when compared to other similar examples of ecommerce software. This is Ashop Commerce, a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software. It offers a complete solution for merchants to sell online. Head on over to their website and take a look at the extensive features list and you will agree that this the solution to all your ecommerce software needs.
Travel - Suvretta House in St Moritz
This year, as it turns out, I was given a bumper long 6 week Easter holiday. Even though I was supposed to use this time to study hard and cram my head full of as much medical knowledge as possible, I figured I needed a good week completely off to relax and tune out. To that end I took a week of skiing in Switzerland, where I stayed at the Suvretta House resort near St Moritz. It has been a long time coming and a number of you have asked what has been taking me so long (i'm busy and i've been sick so nyah) but without further ado, I present to you the massive write up of a week's stay in snowy paradise.
First of all, I'm not a big fan of these short flights, just over an hour and a half in length. There's nothing to do on them and the food is much cheaper and the whole thing just smacks of lack of effort. Also i really pity the guys who pay an extra couple of thousand for a first class ticket for such a short flight, only to find that it's time to go as soon as they've settled in. None the less it was a good trip in, and after a 3 hour train ride, I got to the town of St Moritz, situated high in the mountains with a view of the Alps to die for. Now this town has become pretty much a playground for public school boys and old people with too much money. It is swarming with old Etonians and Harrovians and people from even my prep school (and it wasnt even too fancy like Eton!). As it so happened I even ran into old friends from the Eton ski team. As such the area now has more of a 'disneyland' kind of feel to it. To match this, the town has transformed in the past 10 years or so, filling up now with designer clothes shops, bars/clubs and expensive chocolate shops, which are awesome. But then, the insult of all insults, the town was covered in advertising for Euro2008, which is being held in Switzerland this summer (for which England have not qualified). For a place so densely populated by English people, Im sure it couldn't have been accidental. There are also plenty of lovely restaurants in St Moritz, but I would have no time to sample them this time around as I will soon explain.
Now onto the Suvretta Resort itself. This place is essentially a utopian paradise, for people generally a hell of a lot richer than I am. But seeing as I may not be back skiing for a good few years thanks to medical school I figure I may as well go all out this time. The building is massive and majestically beautiful, reminiscent of the giant lodge in the film 'the Shining' except far prettier and a lot less haunted (I suppose that depends on what you dislike most between ghosts and dentists, more on that in a minute). The lobby is huge and ornate, with an even bigger lounge full of tables and sofas, all with a view out of the giant floor-to-ceiling windows across the simply spellbinding mountains and forests. Here, one can sit at any point during the day or night, listening to live piano music and being waited on by an extensive staff that surely must equal the guests in size. These members of staff are all charismatic and helpful, from affable old swiss gentlemen who speak little english, to younger Italian trainees who teach me pickup lines in Italian when I'm about to go off and hang out with various other guests I meet. The rooms are huge, well kept and feel expensive and luxurious. The hotel has it's own shops and ski shop. It has a full spa and large indoor swimming pool, as well as an outdoor hot tub (and let me tell you, you haven't lived until you spend an hour sitting in a steamy hot tub in the middle of a snow storm). Indeed this pool area/hot tub is where many of the younger guests migrate during the day after some tiring skiing or snowboarding, so it is a good place to meet people of your age.
I suppose that brings us on to arguably one of the best things about this place, the restaurant. In fact there are two restaurants, one being an über fancy 'wear a tie and jacket' affair, and the other being a more smart casual country style restaurant, aptly named the 'Stube' German for 'lounge'. They are both very good, but really, special praise has to be given to this main restaurant. They have a completely different menu each night, consisting of two courses and a soup course, followed by dessert. There are some restaurants which fill their menus with strange, random sounding stuff, chocolate and wasabi mousse, pigeon with cocoa beans, bacon and eggs ice cream, and the mark of a truly genius chef is when you find a place that does these dishes well, somewhere which instils you with the confidence to eat everything they make, no matter how strange it sounds. This is one of those places, and indeed every single dish I had this week was brilliant. And if a different selection of dishes for each course every night was not enough, the chef is also prepared to take requests. You can ask for any dish you like, anything in the world and they will make it for you. They seem to be able to manage it more often than not too, that must be one bloody huge kitchen.
As for the skiing itself. When we got there it was pretty damn windy and foggy and cold and as such the first day or two were approached with a bit of trepidation and daring more than childlike enthusiasm. However this quickly passed and the remaining days of the trip were subject to some of the most blissfully perfect conditions I've seen in many years, perfect soft snow and lovely warm sun in a big clear sky.
But all was not perfect. The tv, for a start was a bit baffling, in that the channels we got seemed to be changing every day, and never agreed with the channel listings provided by the hotel. Fortunately I didn't exactly go there to do a lot of tv watching, the only time I wanted it was to watch the England game, which I then found on French tv anyway. Worse though was how crowded the hotel was. And why was this? Dentists! every year this time of year they have some massive dentist gathering at the hotel and the place is packed full of them and their familes. Bloody dentists. They steal all the good breads from the massive buffet breakfast too.
Things I have Learned from this trip
Bellinis rock
Merlot from the south of Switzerland is very good
Dentists REALLY suck
Roundup - 4th April 2008
song of the day: "This River is Wild" by "The Killers"
thing you're going to do today: rick roll someone
Good commericals, like the sony tv one with jose gonzalez
Bad commercials, like the cringeworthy Eastenders 'jackson 5' one. Ugly, talentless, annoying cockney women singing in their cockney accent trying to sound like Michael Jackson. Please don't.
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Music - Artist Spotlight: the Red Hot Chili Pepper...
Appreciated Links
The Fox with Dots
SugarPlumToothfairy's Blog
Charlotte's Nest
Jenny Hao's Blog
Nate Silver's Blog
Swiss Ramble


Every pie I baked in 2018.
Maintaining the trend of frequent updates: I've made a handy list of Ramen Restaurants in Amsterdam. There is a place in Utrecht as well that I have visited buut since it's the only one I feel it doesn't deserve it's own listing.
I played an Amonkhet draft recently on MTGO and had a pretty ridiculous deck! This was a league draft, meaning you draft in a pod and play anyone in the league. I had played one other draft before in person and both times red and green seemed really deep.
1 Heart-Piercer Manticore. A decent creature but you only rarely use the sacrifice effect. Embalm is the real value here. I first picked this, but I probably won't again.
1 Warfire Javelineer. Even in a spell light deck like mine this did work. There are anough 1 thougness creatures like Blighted Bat to kill. I've also played this after combat to deal a final point of damage.
2 Nimble-Blade Khenra. I was expecting these to be filler, but Prowess matters for making blocks awkward and they hold -1/-1 counters well.
2 Minotaur Sureshot. Also filler, but a good mana sink and they tend to trade up late game or just push extra damage.
2 Shed Weakness. I consider this an all star combat trick. The pump is great, the cost is right and the counter removal often relevant.
This format leads to strange combat because of the power/thoughnesses of the creatures. There are many aggresive creatures on a low place on the curve (2,3,4 drops) that put your opponent on a short clock, but then they often have low toughness or trades happen with mediocre stuff that comes back mummified. Combat tricks can be pretty devastating and really take some playing around.
We were thinking Latvia would be high up there (pop 1,990,351, trees 4,773,925,376, tpc 2,399) but it's 24th. The Netherlands ranks 170. Russia has the most trees at 698,338,508,800 and the saddest place is Vatican City with 0 trees. I do seem to recall a few trees in the central courtyard of the Vatican museum, but I assume they are excluded because they only look at trees in forest or otherwise natural growth. The definition used for tree by the way is "plant with 10cm diameter trunk measured at the base".
Last week skiing in Val Thorens we did a tour with a stop at every single chalet in the valley.
It took us about 7 hours, though you could do it more efficiently I'm sure!
I've been craving dumplings lately and watching a ton of videos on YouTube (shoutout to Maangchi and Brothers Green). I made some myself over the weekend and they were really delicious!
I thought it would be nice to review the courses I've been doing on Coursera. I usually go for things in Computer Science or Biology and I prefer the ones that are a more in depth and that include actual practice when possible.
Reasonable interesting, thought not very in depth. I feel that as soon as you understand that bactia form biofilms you've pretty much learned everything in this course. Teachers are calm and informative and I felt like I learned some stuff. I didn't end up excited though. Suitable for anyone who knows what bacteria are.
I was hugely disappointed. There were some interesting pictures, models and renders of dinosaurs and the lecturers were obviously very engaged. There was very little depth. In the forums people commented they had a great time doing this course with their elementary school age child and I agree that is about the level required for this one. Fun for 8 year olds who are into dinosaurs!
Amazing, 5/5, would study again. The lectures are wonderful, the teachers knowledgeable and the material both in depth and broad. Recommended for everyone, given you at least now basics about DNA.
A very fun course where you learn to put parallel programming in practice (the excercises are all on a GPU on EC2). This does not use any fancy libraries but aks you to write your stuff in C and really learn how this works. Recommended for everyone who wants some hands on practice and is proficient writing C.
5/5 would do again. Professor is fantastic and the material is great and very in depth. Some of the programming assignments were actually challenging and I actually learned many new things that come in handy often! The assignments are checked based on output so you can do any language. I used mostly Perl and that was no problem (though many forum people struggled to optimize their programs so they would finish in reasonable time, but that was all just going for brute force versus a good solution).
Quite a nice course and something I imagine in a first year university biology course. You need some background, but this is essentially a very engaging overview of, well, Life.
I'm doing an online course on Coursera on Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression which is very cool if you are into that sort of thing. It's definitely much more in depth than most offerings on Coursera.
If you are not into that sort of thing, I would still recommend looking at this animation of X Inactivation. This means an X chromosome in a female cell is silenced, since female cells have 2 copies of X.
It's possible for DNA to be transcribed in both directions!
Kinderen die tafels leren hebben soms behoefte aan makkelijk en veel oefenen. Het is prettig als je zelf niet steeds sommen hoeft te verzinnen of op hoeft te letten. Deze Reken-oefen-pagina helpt je om eenvoudig een reeks tafels of deelsommen te oefenen. Werkt in Firefox en Safari (geloof ik).
Meer info via het GitHub Huiswerk repo.
I don't have a CV anymore as I haven't applied for jobs in years, but I keep track of things more or less on LinkedIn.
This website runs on a VPS from Ramnode which was very convenient to setup.
Gotta have your Twitter to make those funny tweets.


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Q: I am pretty much new to sql server, I am trying to do this... Not sure what I am doing wrong I am pretty new to SQL Server, I am trying to do this... Not sure what I am doing wrong
Here is my schema:
CREATE TABLE [Product_AGGREGATION](
[Product_ID] [int] NULL,
    [ITERATION] [int] NULL,
    [EQUIPMENT_USED] [varchar](8) NULL,
    [MODEL_USED] [varchar](25) NULL,
    [SERIAL_NUMBER] [varchar](14) NULL
)

CREATE TABLE [Product_MERGE](
    [Product_ID] [int] NULL,
    [EQUIPMENT_USED] [varchar](8) NULL,
    [MODEL_USED] [varchar](25) NULL,
    [SERIAL_NUMBER] [varchar](14) NULL
)

INSERT INTO [dbo].[PRODUCT_AGGREGATION]
     VALUES
           (6,1,'X10', '302000','005'),
           (6,7,'X10' ,'310355','007'),
           (3,1,'A12' ,'NULL','NULL'),
           (3,4,'A10' ,'35205','002'),
         (7,2,'A10' ,'37545','002'),
         (7,4,'A10' ,'NULL','005')

Here is my stored procedure that I am using
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SP_ProductMerge]
BEGIN
    DECLARE @v_product_id          INT
    DECLARE @v_iteration           INT
    DECLARE @v_equip_used          VARCHAR(8)
    DECLARE @v_model_used          VARCHAR(25)
    DECLARE @v_serial_num          VARCHAR(14)
    DECLARE @c_Pid             INT
    DECLARE @c_iteration           INT
    DECLARE @c_equip_used          VARCHAR(8)
    DECLARE @c_model_used          VARCHAR(25)
    DECLARE @c_serial_num          VARCHAR(14)

    DECLARE  c_PID CURSOR FOR
    SELECT DISTINCT Product_id
        FROM   [Product_AGGREGATION]
        ORDER BY Product_id
    OPEN c_PID

    FETCH NEXT FROM c_PID INTO @c_Pid
    WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
    BEGIN
        SET @v_product_id         = @c_Pid
        SET @v_equip_used           = NULL
        SET @v_model_used           = NULL
        SET @v_serial_num          = NULL

        DECLARE c_ProductMerge CURSOR FOR
        SELECT iteration, EQUIPMENT_USED, MODEL_USED, SERIAL_NUMBER
            FROM   [Product_AGGREGATION]
            WHERE  Product_id = @v_product_id
            ORDER BY iteration
        OPEN c_ProductMerge
        FETCH NEXT FROM c_ProductMerge INTO @c_iteration, @c_equip_used, @c_model_used, @c_serial_num
        WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
        BEGIN
            IF RTRIM(LTRIM(@c_equip_used)) IS NOT NULL AND @v_equip_used IS NULL
            BEGIN
                SET @v_equip_used = @c_equip_used
            END
            IF RTRIM(LTRIM(@c_model_used)) IS NOT NULL AND @v_model_used IS NULL
            BEGIN

                 SET @v_model_used = @c_model_used
            END
            IF RTRIM(LTRIM(@c_serial_num)) IS NOT NULL AND @v_serial_num IS NULL
            BEGIN
                SET @v_serial_num = @c_serial_num
            END

             FETCH NEXT FROM c_ProductMerge INTO @c_iteration, @c_equip_used, @c_model_used, @c_serial_num
        END
        CLOSE c_ProductMerge
        DEALLOCATE c_ProductMerge
        INSERT INTO [dbo].Product_merge
            VALUES (
                @v_product_id, @v_equip_used, @v_model_used, @v_serial_num
               )
     FETCH NEXT FROM c_PID INTO @c_Pid
    END
    CLOSE c_PID
    DEALLOCATE c_PID

 END

GO

Expected result in Product Merge
 6 , 'X10', '302000' , '005'
 3, 'A12', '35205', '002'
 7,'A10'.'37545' , '002'

I am not getting the expected result for product 3. Also I need help in writing this without cursor or at least with one cursor instead of nested ones.
SQLFiddle of the above

A: First, 'NULL' is not equal to NULL. Based on your data,  you need replace your code IS NOT NULL WITH <> 'NULL'.
I think what you need can be replaced by this query.
SELECT
  a.Product_ID
  ,EQUIPMENT_USE =(SElECT TOP 1 p.EQUIPMENT_USED FROM Product_AGGREGATION p WHERE p.Product_ID = a.Product_ID AND p.EQUIPMENT_USED <> 'NULL' ORDER BY ITERATION)
  ,MODEL_USED =(SElECT TOP 1 p.MODEL_USED FROM Product_AGGREGATION p WHERE p.Product_ID = a.Product_ID AND p.MODEL_USED <> 'NULL' ORDER BY ITERATION)
  ,SERIAL_NUMBER =(SElECT TOP 1 p.SERIAL_NUMBER FROM Product_AGGREGATION p WHERE p.Product_ID = a.Product_ID AND p.SERIAL_NUMBER <> 'NULL' ORDER BY ITERATION)
FROM Product_AGGREGATION a
GROUP BY a.Product_ID

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Can I use nonstick pans with a clean eco-conscience?
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Q. Dear Umbra,
You addressed nonstick cooking ware in 2014. How about an update that addresses aluminum or anodized cookware? What's the latest?
Bill C.
Annandale, Va.
A. Dearest Bill,
But of course. I love any excuse to saunter over to the kitchen, especially one that allows me to cook myself an omelet and call it "very important work-related testing." Preliminary results indicate high levels of deliciousness.
But you're concerned about nonstick cookware, not my culinary endeavors. You're right that I gave anodized aluminum pots and pans rather short shrift the last time I looked into kitchen accoutrements. That's not because I don't think they can be a nice choice for the eco-conscious cook — I do. It's just that my love for cast iron and stainless steel is so encompassing. I still recommend those materials above any others. But the cookware aisle is full of options, and I don't want to restrict your freedom to (safely) stir-fry, simmer, and sauté as you see fit.
As you may or may not know, Bill, aluminum and anodized aluminum are not exactly the same thing. Plain old aluminum, aka element 13, in its natural form is one of the most abundant elements on the planet. It's in our soil, drinking water, and food, and is added to products like medicines and makeup. It's also used to fashion some affordable skillets and other cookware. The rub here, though, is that these types of pots and pans can melt (what an unfortunate dinner party that would make), and they can also leach aluminum into your food.
We're not talking large amounts. And remember, our own CDC advises, "You cannot avoid exposure to aluminum because it is so common and widespread in the environment." Furthermore, the scariest rumors about aluminum — that it causes Alzheimer's disease — have never been scientifically verified over decades of studies. Both the Alzheimer's Association and the Alzheimer Society of Canada agree that the risk posed by aluminum cookware is slim to nil. So I don't think we need to panic about this particular material. Still, though, the stuff is associated with some health risks; it's also less likely to last than some other, hardier metals, and it has a tendency to react with highly acidic or alkaline foods. Therefore, I can't give it the Umbra seal of approval.
Anodized aluminum, on the other hand, has been zapped with an electrochemical process that "seals" the metal with a very durable nonstick surface. This version of our friend Al is highly conductive, scratch- and rust-resistant, and quite strong. It tends to be more expensive than the untreated metal, but anodizing keeps the aluminum bound up nicely in your pots, not your pot roast. Not only that, it just plain works better for cooking and lasts longer. True, virgin aluminum is very resource-intensive to produce (hence my preference for steel and uber-long-lasting cast iron). But if a nicely made anodized cookset comes into your life — inheritance from a long-lost great uncle? 90-percent-off sale? — I think it can also be a good choice to grace your stovetop.
I hope that helps, Bill. Although I'm not totally sure I've examined every possible aspect of this matter. I'd better hop back into the kitchen and whip myself up some hot cocoa. You know, just to be thorough.
Boronically,
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This 10 day course gives a thorough general introduction to kinesiology with emphasis on the technique of careful, objective and respectful muscle monitoring of 42 muscles. Students learn to give a full body balance by assessing and correcting 14 circuits, using techniques drawn from "Touch for Health", plus a few finger modes and other techniques in each of the electromagnetic, emotional, nutritional and structural areas. The Touch for Health manual and the Holistic Foundation manual are both supplied and no prior experience is necessary to benefit from these hands-on classes, which are informal, relaxed, and combine a generous mix of demonstration, practise, theory and background. This foundation course is a pre-requisite for the Advanced Holistic Course.


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A prominent legal scholar gave an interesting analogy for how the case against Rolling Stone may play out
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.
AP Photo/Steve Helber
University of Virginia (UVA) fraternity Phi Kappa Psi brought a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone.
The suit was filed in response to the now-discredited article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA," which told the story of a gang rape that apparently never happened.
The story drew national outrage but was discredited following an investigation by Columbia Journalism School and was retracted by Rolling Stone.
At the center of the defamation case is the issue of libel, one of the areas of free speech not protected by the First Amendment. Proving statements written in Rolling Stone were libelous, however, isn't necessarily clear cut.
To start, Phi Psi will need to prove that the defamatory statements were about the fraternity specifically and not just the individual fraternity brothers implicated in the story.
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh provided an interesting analogy in the Columbia Journalism Review about Phi Psi's role in the story:
"If someone said, '[There's this] bar, people routinely get raped in this bar.' Is that libel of the bar? You're not accusing the bar of rape, to be sure, but you are accusing the bar of being a dangerous place that maybe allows dangerous patrons or dangerous employees. And the likely consequence of that is that the bar will lose business."
Perhaps more importantly, a judge will first rule on the issue of whether Phi Kappa Psi is a public or private figure. The 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan established that the standard for proving defamation in libel cases differs depending on whether the plaintiff is a public or private entity.
With a private entity, the publisher must only be proven "negligent," while public entities must prove malice — a much higher burden of proof.
The Phi Psi lawsuit against Rolling Stone isn't the only case currently pending against the magazine for their retracted story.
Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia associate dean of students, also filed a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine. Earlier this year, a lawsuit filed by three individual fraternity members was dismissed by a judge, though it's unclear if the plaintiffs will appeal.
You can read the full Columbia Journalism Review story here >>>
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The Optica collimators are intended for integration with radiography and fluoroscopy systems. Al l our collimators are equipped with a long-life LED light source that minimizes any maintenance because no adjustment of the field projection lamp or the mirror is required over time.
The beam size of the Optica 30 is smoothly controlled with motorized shutters and, when turning the knobs, the light field is automatically switched on. Centering of the detector under the X-ray beam is assisted by a laser line. An interface for remote control (CAN bus) is standard included. The Optica 30 includes motorized additional filters that can be selected via CAN bus.
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The kilogram is the unit of mass in the International System of units (SI) and has been defined as the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) since 1889. In the future, a new definition of the kilogram will be based on precise measurements of the Planck constant. The new definition will occur in a vacuum environment by necessity, so the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a mass calibration system in which a kilogram artifact in air can be directly compared with a kilogram realized in a vacuum environment. This apparatus uses magnetic suspension to couple the kilogram in air to a high precision mass balance in vacuum.


I'm one of those weirdoes that actually loves Valentine's Day! I've always loved it; boyfriend or not I loved the day full of hearts and red and pink. I just love love and I'm an incurable romantic so V-Day was made for me. One of my favourite sweet treats are red velvet cupcakes and of course it's perfect for this special occasion.
I use the Georgetown Cupcakes recipe with a couple of minor changes. I love their cream cheese frosting but I find that it's soupy for me and just not pipeable. I've read that part of the problem is not to use spreadable cream cheese, which is an easy fix if you're in North America. Unfortunately I can't get block cream cheese in Spain and all you can get here is the spreadable stuff. I found this great post on making stiff cream cheese frosting and I use her technique with my recipe. It makes a very thick, stiff frosting so if you're looking for a different texture then this is not the recipe for you. I like to pipe my cupcakes with a Wilton 1M tip and you need a stiff icing or else your frosting just falls and becomes a blob.
A great recipe for red velvet cupcakes and the perfect pipeable cream cheese frosting.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Line a cupcake/muffin pan with cupcake liners.
Sift the flour and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.
In the bowl of your stand mixer, add the butter and start creaming on medium speed and then add the sugar and cream everything together until it becomes light and fluffy (approx. 5 minutes).
Add the eggs one at a time and mix slowly after each egg until incorporated.
Add the red velvet emulsion, pure vanilla extract, and the cocoa powder and mix until well incorporated.
Add one third of the flour and then one third of the milk and mix just until incorporated and repeat these steps ensuring you end with the milk.
In a small bowl, mix the baking soda and the vinegar together until thoroughly mixed. Add this to the mixture making sure to scrape all the baking soda from the small bowl. Mix this until it's just incorporated.
Fill your cupcake liners two thirds of the way. I like to use an ice cream scoop to fill the liners and don't be tempted to fill them up to the top because you'll get a funny cupcake top which doesn't look as nice.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes. Make sure to start checking at minute 15 because they go from raw inside to cooked in no time and then check every two minutes or so. Mine took 18 minutes.
Let stand on a baking rack until cool and remove from the cupcake mold and decorate with the cream cheese frosting.
Add the butter and vanilla to the bowl of your stand mixer and mix on low (I used speed 2). Slowly add the icing sugar and mix until it's well incorporated and you have a crumbly, sandy mixture.
Add the cold cream cheese and mix on the lowest speed for 1 to 2 minutes. You don't want to over mix at this point because your icing will start to get runny.
For more info on the cream cheese icing and the technique I used, check out this blog.
Whether you love or hate V-Day make sure to take a bite out of love, a red velvet bite is best! Happy V-Day everyone!!!
You'll just have to move to Madrid to become the second LLK official taste tester!!!
You are just amazing and too funny!!! These cupcakes are making me hungry.
BTW, I just read your blog once again and I too am a big fan of instant coffee and "Taster's Choice" was all I drank until about 1 year ago when I finally bought a new coffee maker…but the truth of the matter is, I still like "Taster's Choice".
Don't ever change and keep up the excellent work.
Thanks! I have a great coffee maker but I will forever be a Taster's Choice girl and I still drink it every morning and twice on weekends! I'm definitely not a coffee snob!
You are amazing! Mom and dad are real proud of you.
Thanks for the icing tips Mike!
I am such a fortunate soul that I got to eat one of these for valentine's day. DELICIOUS! Thank you!!!
You are the official LLK taste tester, so naturally you had to try these!


Berkes, F. 2010. Devolution of environment and resources governance: trends and future. Environmental Conservation 37:489-500.
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How sick is the long-term care insurance industry?
In August 2000, regulations were passed that removed the profit incentive for any premium increase an insurer requests on long-term care insurance. Most of the premium increases we read about are for policies that were sold before these regulations took effect.
It's true that a few insurers like Met Life, Prudential, and UNUM have stopped selling long-term care insurance. However, other long-term care insurers have had double-digit growth each year, which is a remarkable feat in this economy. In fact, today, nearly twice as many people own long-term care insurance as did in the year 2000.
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, only two insurance organizations have had an increase in their financial ratings by A.M. Best from "A" to "A+". Both of those companies are top long-term care insurers.
What industry is not in a state of flux right now? Every industry has been turned upside down since the internet was opened to the public in the early 90's.
Yet, in the Spring of 2012, after one of the larger long-term care insurers announced that it would stop selling long-term care policies, "experts" concluded that the future of the long-term care insurance industry was "in doubt".
IBM made a simple business decision in 2004. They concluded they were not nimble enough to profit from low-margin, price-sensitive, computer manufacturing. Insurance companies also make simple business decisions. There are significant overhead expenses to create, market, and underwrite long-term care insurance.
These expenses are incurred regardless of how many (or how few) policies are actually sold. If sales are too low, the overhead costs per policy make it unprofitable for the company to sell new policies.
Not only are some LTC insurers growing, but some that had gotten out of the business have decided to get back into the business. One highly-rated insurer that sold long-term care insurance for nearly 20 years, and then stopped selling new LTCi policies, started selling new LTCi policies again after significantly reducing their overhead and streamlining their business processes.
Healthcare reform does not provide any long-term care benefits.
The "CLASS Act" is dead.
Medicaid is not the solution for the middle class or the wealthy.
Long-term care insurance policies are not the perfect solution. But, a well-designed long-term care policy, especially a government-approved long-term care partnership policy, may be the best way to prepare for the "long-term care tsunami" headed our way.
If you still have questions, or would like to speak with a long-term care insurance specialist, please click here or visit our video library.


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why Under Armour Inc. [UAA] is a Good Choice for Investors After New Price Target of $10.69
Under Armour Inc. [NYSE: UAA] slipped around -0.28 points on Monday, while shares priced at $9.39 at the close of the session, down -2.90%. The company report on November 11, 2022 that MARYLAND GOVERNOR-ELECT WES MOORE STEPS DOWN FROM UNDER ARMOUR'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA, UAA) today announced that Wes Moore has stepped down from its Board of Directors effective immediately due to his election as governor of the state of Maryland.
"On behalf of the entire team, I'd like to congratulate Wes, and thank him for his dynamic leadership as well as the significant contributions he made as a member of Under Armour's board of directors," said Kevin Plank, Executive Chair and Brand Chief. "We wish him well as he embarks on this next chapter as the leader of the great state of Maryland.".
Under Armour Inc. stock is now -55.69% down from its year-to-date (YTD) trading value. UAA Stock saw the intraday high of $9.70 and lowest of $9.37 per share. The company's 52-week high price is 24.91, which means current price is +47.18% above from all time high which was touched on 01/04/22.
Compared to the average trading volume of 8.39M shares, UAA reached a trading volume of 7806062 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
What do top market gurus say about Under Armour Inc. [UAA]?
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for UAA shares is $10.69 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on UAA stock is a recommendation set at 2.60. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
BofA Securities have made an estimate for Under Armour Inc. shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Neutral, with their previous recommendation back on November 01, 2022. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Telsey Advisory Group raised their target price from $12 to $8. The new note on the price target was released on October 21, 2022, representing the official price target for Under Armour Inc. stock. On August 04, 2022, analysts decreased their price target for UAA shares from 12 to 10.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Under Armour Inc. is set at 0.44, with the Price to Sales ratio for UAA stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 0.68. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 2.35, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 2.05.
How has UAA stock performed recently?
Under Armour Inc. [UAA] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -1.47. With this latest performance, UAA shares gained by 31.15% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -9.19% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -60.84% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for UAA stock in for the last two-week period is set at 60.36, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 59.45, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 59.03 for Under Armour Inc. [UAA]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 7.90, while it was recorded at 9.45 for the last single week of trading, and 11.03 for the last 200 days.
Under Armour Inc. [UAA]: Deeper insight into the fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Under Armour Inc. [UAA] shares currently have an operating margin of +9.62 and a Gross Margin at +50.58. Under Armour Inc.'s Net Margin is presently recorded at +6.33.
Under Armour Inc.'s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 1.40 and a Current Ratio set at 2.10.
Earnings analysis for Under Armour Inc. [UAA]
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for UAA. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Under Armour Inc. go to 4.38%.
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Insider trade positions for Under Armour Inc. [UAA]
There are presently around $1,435 million, or 81.40% of UAA stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of UAA stocks are: BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 16,901,026, which is approximately 3.122% of the company's market cap and around 0.28% of the total institutional ownership; VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 16,347,918 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $153.51 million in UAA stocks shares; and STATE STREET CORP, currently with $87.19 million in UAA stock with ownership of nearly 29.741% of the company's market capitalization.
Positions in Under Armour Inc. stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of November and at the time of the November reporting period, where 147 institutional holders increased their position in Under Armour Inc. [NYSE:UAA] by around 31,847,624 shares. Additionally, 206 investors decreased positions by around 38,232,368 shares, while 109 investors held positions by with 82,706,256 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 152,786,248 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. UAA stock had 47 new institutional investments in for a total of 9,143,735 shares, while 75 institutional investors sold positions of 12,019,505 shares during the same period.
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Imagination, creativity and value added service to the society are the quintessence of technological education. In this perspective the role of the teachers is of paramount importance, who through their knowledge and experience inculcate of such values in the building technician. Through education students gather information, their outlook converts it into knowledge; their experience transforms it into wisdom and ultimately offers it for the benefit of the society.
The natural constitution of every student comprises a variety of compositions other than fundamental intelligence. Those facets may be in the form of management, art, literary skills, games & sports to name few. If proper platform comprising good ambience coupled with motivation is not provided many a times all such inner strengths go unnoticed. Such talents are like light rays and platform is like a prism when it is held in the rays reveals the innermost spectrum of human personality. It is therefore imperative provide such facility other than curriculum infrastructure.
This will help in developing not only technical ability but also literary, artistic, managerial and other curricular skills for overall personality development generally for all and like a kaleidoscope for an individual student. We should keep our mind open to acquire the latest state of art and be student all through. We should be content with merely retrieving and perceiving information but to demonstrate our creative ability supported by analytical, logical, technical and managerial skills.
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As many of you, devs, I have more than one coding spot: work, home, laptop… And it always bothers me the configuration of the IDE.
I'm really fond of my coding snippets in Xcode and it was a big bother to keep them up to date, so I had to think of something… why don't use a shared folder in Dropbox?
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Q: pybind11 STL autoconverter breaks std::list pointers I have a C++ library that manipulates (among other things) a list of wrappers that I have been working on converting to Python using pybind11. The rest of the library operates on a pointer to a list of pointers: std::list<Symbol*>*. The problem is that when attempting to autocast a Python list to this C++ list and then initializing a ParamMap, an object that holds the list on the C++ side, the pointers of the list get all messed up. Inspection in GDB reveals that the "next-object pointers" of all the objects are invalid, and this leads to segfaults when traversing the list.
There is no sign of the objects being deallocated on the C++ side, as neither the destructors for the list container ParamMap nor the list objects Symbol are called. I've deduced that the issue might be Python hyperactively deleting objects C++ is still using, but I've tried object terms like py::return_value_policy::reference and py::keep_alive, and they haven't fixed the problem. What is going wrong here? Unfortunately, changing the list type on the C++ side is not an option, but I would really appreciate some help in making this work on the Python side. Thank you!
Here is some minimal reproduction code:
Symbol.hpp
#include <string>

class Symbol {
private:
        std::string val1;
        int val2;

public:
        Symbol(std::string con1, int con2) : val1(con1), val2(con2) {}
};

ParamMap.hpp
#include <list>
#include "Symbol.hpp"

class ParamMap {
private:
        std::list<Symbol*>* lst;
        int otherData;

public:
        ParamMap(std::list<Symbol*>* symbolList, int dat) : lst(symbolList), otherData(dat)  {}
        std::list<Symbol*>* getSymbols() { return lst; }
        int getOtherData() { return otherData; }
};

Query.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "ParamMap.hpp"

#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
#include <pybind11/stl.h>
namespace py = pybind11;

void getSymbolListSize(ParamMap* map) {
        std::cout << "Entering query method" << std::endl;
        auto sz = map->getSymbols()->size(); // SEGFAULT OCCURS WHEN GETTING SIZE
        std::cout << "Got size successfully. Size = " << sz << std::endl;
}

PYBIND11_MODULE(list_test, handle) {
        handle.def("getSymbolListSize", &getSymbolListSize);

        py::class_<ParamMap>(handle, "ParamMap")
                .def(py::init<std::list<Symbol*>*, int>(), py::keep_alive<1, 2>())
                .def("getOtherData", &ParamMap::getOtherData)
                .def("getSymbols", &ParamMap::getSymbols);

        py::class_<Symbol>(handle, "Symbol")
                .def(py::init<std::string, int>());
}

test.py
import list_test as p

# Creating a list of some random symbols
symbol_list = []
symbol1 = p.Symbol("Hello", 1)
symbol_list.append(symbol1)
symbol2 = p.Symbol("World", 2)
symbol_list.append(symbol2)

# Creating a parammap and passing it the symbol list
pm = p.ParamMap(symbol_list, 71)

print("Symbol list and ParamMap init'd successfully")

# Here, calling Query.cpp's only method
sz = p.getSymbolListSize(pm)
print(sz)

A: I don't know a lot about how pybind11 works its magic and therefore I can't help you understanding what is going on. However, I have the feeling that pybind attempts to build the list even though your code only uses a pointer to the list. If I were you I'd consider this a pybind bug and post it as an issue on their github page.
As per your code, doing something like this seems to work (although it's not very clean):
#include <list>
#include "Symbol.hpp"

class ParamMap {
private:
    std::list<Symbol*>* lst;
    int otherData;

public:
    ParamMap(std::list<Symbol*> *symbolList, int dat) : lst(symbolList), otherData(dat)  {
      lst = new std::list<Symbol *>;
      for(auto s : *symbolList) {
        lst->push_back(s);
      }
    }

    ~ParamMap() {
      delete lst;
    }

    std::list<Symbol*>* getSymbols() { return lst; }
    int getOtherData() { return otherData; }
};

I don't know who's supposed to manage the lifetime of the pointed list, so you may want to remove the destructor in case someone else is supposed to deallocate the list.