It's Friday night and I'm ready to drive to Berkeley for dinner and theater. I get cash from the ATM; return to my car, turn the key in the ignition and nothing. I mean nothing. No sound. After three attempts to start, I proceeded to mitigate. First, I called my friend whom I was meeting in Berkeley to say I can't make it. Even if my car starts, I don't trust it to travel the 40 miles and not leave me stranded in Berkeley at midnight.
Call completed. Try to start the car again. Nothing. Next step, call another friend for rescue and look for my roadside assistance card from Infiniti. And so went my plans for a nice evening to a night that involved: roadside assistance operator, a tow truck, bad sushi, 15 hours of self-induced stress and $895 for labor and a new starter.
The point is that I had to declare my planned evening a failure, which was out of my hands, and start to mitigate quickly. Otherwise, I'd still be in the parking lot cranking on the ignition. Don't get me wrong. There was a moment of denial when the roadside assistance guy said to me, "You know. Turning the key harder in the ignition isn't going to make the car start." Knowing with a previous vehicle I had actually broken the key off in the ignition without actually getting it to start up, I conceded his point.
It reminded me of how further damage can result when trying to fix something or a situation in a panic that has clearly failed. And if you let people know in time, while not an ideal situation, everyone can prepare and put into motion their contingency plans. In business, if there is an issue, tell people. You have a hard drive crash or, as I did earlier this year, lose all your data to Crypto Locker, let people know as soon as possible that things will be delayed so they can do what they need to stem the damages on their end. On Friday night, my friend had time to call someone else so that her night wasn't completely ruined.
When something is broken and not working, while you may be surprised by it and hoping something will miraculously work, the rest of us are looking at you a little sideways thinking, "Move on. It ain't working B.O.O."(Basically Oblivious to the Obvious). The same way you see someone trying to ride a bike with the chain off, you have to know when it's just not going to happen and start mitigating.
Let's understand wishes and hopes. While you may try a few things and hope something will work, don't leave the rest of wishing you had told us sooner. Things happen, just acknowledge it. In failure, keep calm and carry Om.
P.S. Hope you have a Happy Birthday CDOT! You will not get a birthday card from me on Monday because I failed to mail it. Your Sister, same as she ever was.


I was at The Twisted Oak in Tarrytown, waiting for a friend and sampling some of their highly rated dishes on Yelp. I have mixed review on the below dishes. But before I begin, I must say that the Twisted Oak needs a new website. They don't have a full menu online which is frustrating for a blogger like me. I searched and searched.
Fried Chickpeas: This is a popular dish and highly rated on yelp. It's finger food and not that much better than a bag of Saffron Road's Falafel Crunchy Chickpeas.
Seared Sea Scallops on top of arugula. This was great. High quality scallops seared to perfection. The bitterness of the arugula contrasted well with the slightly sweet scallops and carrots. Wonderfully delicious.
Panna Cotta – This was enjoyable, rich, sweet, tasty, and lush. I wish I had the menu to show you the ingredients of the dessert. I was really happy. Worth the calories.
Will return but will carefully select the right appetizer. A bonus – the bartender was in the Peace Corps in Africa for two years helping small business, which made a captivating conversion at the bar.


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UN peacekeepers move against kidnapping in Haiti
The United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, taking action to reduce criminal activity in the capital's sprawling Bel-Air district, secured the releases of two kidnapped people, arrested more than two dozen people and seized false papers, munitions and illicit drugs, the mission has said.
UN mission in Haiti defeats first effort to infiltrate a base
For the first time since the peacekeeping United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) arrived in the Caribbean country in mid-2004, bandits attempted today to infiltrate a mission base, but were defeated and lost one life, the mission said.
Mission in Haiti needs capacity for urban operations, UN peacekeeping chief says
The United Nations mission in Haiti is making slow headway on the many challenges it faces, but lacks specialized capabilities for the urban confrontations it experiences daily, the head of UN peacekeeping said today.
UN supports Haiti in trying to create a 'culture of dialogue' among opponents
With general elections scheduled for October, the interim Government of Haiti and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today wrapped up a two-day workshop bringing together all political factions and civil society to discuss the environment, the budget and anti-poverty strategies, with a view to making a peaceful transition, the UN mission said.
In robust fight against Haiti's gangs, UN peacekeepers seek to avoid civilian casualties
With the security situation in parts of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, remaining very tense, the United Nations peacekeeping mission has taken a robust posture to disrupt the activities of armed gangs and bring them to justice, while taking all possible measures to reduce the risk of civilian casualties.
With UN support, Haitian women mobilize as election candidates
Following up on a United Nations seminar, a group of Haitian women have launched a support network for women candidates in the upcoming elections in the impoverished Caribbean country.
UN mission to Haiti condemns murder of journalist as attack on society
The United Nations mission in Haiti has condemned the "brutal and vile" murder of a journalist in Port-au-Prince, the capital, as a crime against society at large and pledged its full support for efforts to track down the assassins.
UN mission official in Haiti praises Government-donor cooperation on projects
Two Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), international football stars Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane of Real Madrid, have raised $120,000 for humanitarian projects in a Haitian shanty town, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said.
UN peacekeeping mission raid slum district in Haiti to end gang violence
United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti have raided two areas of a slum district in an operation designed to rout gangs that have been active in Port-au-Prince, the Caribbean country's capital, and have killed or wounded several gang members, a mission spokesman said.
UN mission routs members of armed gang in Haiti
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, tipped off about the presence of armed men in a poor district of the country's capital, mounted a security operation that resulted in the deaths of six gang members, the wounding of four and the arrest of 13, as well as the freeing of a kidnap victim.
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StudioBook 2017: Selected Artists
After an unprecedented amount of applications from across the UK, we are proud to announce the 12 artists who will be participating in this year's StudioBook programme:
Anna Columbine
Anna Columbine's practice is process-based, centred around image and object making through photography, drawing and installation. Working in a mostly analogous way, Columbine blends strategies of creating artwork that considers the numerous platforms and spaces that we exist in, including the virtual, the imaginary and the atmospheric.
Her work often surrounds the idea of ambiguity, suggesting a number of themes and ideas that play with space, light, form and colour.
www.annacolumbine.com
Image: Colour/I like my colour, Anna Columbine, 2017. 35mm film. Courtesy of the artist.
Charlie Franklin
Charlie Franklin's practice is rooted in the language of materials, and collapsing the distinction between sculptural form and the painted surface. She approaches her work as a series of experiments, where knowledge is gained through doing, to see how colour, material and scale communicate. The act of covering is important to this process, transforming the skin surface of pre-existing forms such as cardboard boxes or off cuts of canvas. These core materials become masked and misshapen as they are coated, collaged, painted or gilded. Transmuting and slipping between categories is central to her research, negotiating the shifting positions between experimentation and ritual, presence and absence, and Minimalism and the Baroque.
www.charliefranklin.org
Image: SEA SLIP, Charlie Franklin, 2017. Dutch metal, oil, tarpaulin, nylon. Image courtesy of the artist.
Clare Holdstock
Clare Holdstock's works dissect urban spaces. From these spaces she selects objects – such as kerbs, road signs, discarded rubbish – transmuting them into abstract forms. Holdstock is fascinated in the dichotomies as well as the corporeal connections between these objects and high Modernist architectural design.
www.clareholdstock.co.uk
Image: Periphery series, Clare Holdstock, 2016. Air pillows in Bauhaus colours, ciment fundue and fibreglass. Image courtesy of the artist.
Claire Tindale
Claire Tindale's practice is underpinned by a desire to create work which communicates with an audience; the aim being to promote understanding and empathy around a particular subject, or theme. Often site-responsive, Tindale employs variations in scale to explore physical and psychological spaces in connection with aspects of the human condition, and associated vulnerabilities that this can entail. Resultant pieces are, at times, playful, while at others they can be emotive or thought provoking.
www.clairetindale.co.uk
Image: In Those We Trust, Claire Tindale, 2013. Plastic, wood, paint, rubber, display case. Courtesy of the artist.
Elizabeth Kwant
Kwant's work is an ongoing exploration of the politics of representation. As a multi-disciplinary artist she frequently employs layering techniques; such as incorporating screen-printing and collage into her paintings that re-present and reinterprets the original narrative. For the past five years her work has focused upon migration, and the socio-political effects of displacement. Working directly with asylum seekers and with appropriated media images, her socially engaged practice explores the relationship between the built environment, communities and our personal migration stories.
www.elizabethkwant.com
Image: Fare Thee Well, Elizabeth Kwant, 2017. Household paint, screen print, fabriano paper. Image courtesy of the artist.
Jilly Morris
Jilly Morris' practice is concerned with marks that tell a story in the landscape, or moments that retain a physical presence in the human condition; a mapping of memories or moments. Jilly is primarily interested in creating work that is response led to a place, or process driven and researched.
www.jillymorris.co.uk
Image: The Writing on the Wall, Jilly Morris, 2010. Stitched newspaper installation. Image courtesy of the artist.
Lada Wilson
Lada Wilson's practice is permeated by language and words. Incorporating elements of culture, language and audience, their interweaving explores not only the meaning of words but also their spatial connotations by reworking them as sculptures, performances, artist books and exhibitions. Wilson is strongly influenced by the spaces where her artworks are located. The reconfiguration of space, often not a typical white cube gallery space, is as crucial as the artwork placed within it.
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Image: Engraved. Memory. Flow., Lada Wilson, 2017. Still from performance. Image courtesy of the artist.
Libby Scarlett
Libby Scarlett's practice investigates her own and other's relationship to home, freedom, movement, change, escape, waiting, aloneness, being held [back], being drawn [back].
Through these themes, she looks at how we connect with others and the environment around us to feel belonging, intimacy and identity. She investigates through participation and experimentation, exploring interventions and gestures to promote interaction with each other and the space around us.
www.libbyscarlett.com
Image: Twizzle Hard, Libby Scarlett, 2016. Still from video. Image courtesy of the artist.
Lucy May Schofield
Drawn to isolated places, spaces that are at once remote or time extending, Schofield is interested in exploring how spaces impact on our sense of dislocation or belonging. Her practice explores language, impermanence, vulnerability and belonging in terms of the cultural narratives we inhabit. Responsive to emotional and geographical landscapes she is currently
developing research examining notions of time, light and space in relation to self-imposed routine and ritual in a series of works relating to imprints of natural phenomenon which, while dictating everyday life, are intangible actions: the move from darkness to light. She is interested in the conversation between the temporary and the permanent, the familiar and unfamiliar, the awkward and the intimate.
www.lucymayschofield.com
Image: The moon and the sledgehammer, Lucy May Schofield, 2016. 15 collages combining silkscreen and mokuhanga (water based woodblock) printing form the portfolio. Japanese kozo and gampi on Stonehenge paper. Image courtesy of the artist.
Mandy Payne
Mandy Payne is a painter/ printmaker whose work is largely inspired by landscape, particularly the urban and edgeland areas of Sheffield, where she lives. Payne is particularly attracted to locations that are often overlooked or neglected and for the past 4 years she have been exploring Park Hill; the Grade II* listed council estate and one of Britain's largest examples of Brutalist architecture. Payne is interested in the spaces people inhabit, the traces they leave and the capacity of places to absorb memories and experiences.
www.mandypayneart.co.uk
Image: Brutal, Mandy Payne, 2014. Aerosol spray paint and oil on concrete. Image courtesy of the artist.
Susan Gunn
Susan Gunn's paintings reveal a sculptural physicality that reflect an enquiry into the fragility of their existence.
Gunn's practice is concerned with the phenomenology and exploration of paint on canvas. She works with raw, natural earth and mineral pigments, and base substances such as chalk, coal, marble dust and organic waxes that are made using her own formulas.
A pre-occupation with the origins and anthropology of colour and naturally occurring substances are intended to trigger notions of life, death and evolution. The works that survive the play of materiality and process are held together in a broken state of suspension.
Her paintings are a contemporary monument to the history of the materials, the 'objet petit' of memory, and painting itself.
www.susangunn.co.uk
Image: Lamp Black: Ground, Susan Gunn, 2016. Natural earth pigment & gesso on canvas & museum grade aluminium stretcher. Image courtesy of the artist.
Suzanne O'Haire
Suzanne O'Haire's work is a process of defragmenting and re-assimilating the order of the mundane and discarded; creating permanent structures out of impermanent matter. Mixing this with personal narratives informs new objects that contain metaphorical elements. What O'Haire finds – or what finds her – plays with notions of chance and codified puzzles.
www.suzanneohaire.co.uk
Image: micronation 1, Suzanne O'Haire, 2016. Rubble, cast concrete and snowcrete, card, mirror, glitter and found objects. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Pop artist Julia Michaels has announced the track list to her upcoming EP, Inner Monologue Part 1 that is to be released January 25th, 2019.
Michaels' most recent song was a collaboration with LAUV called There's No Way, and her latest EP was Nervous System, which also features 7 songs such as hits like Uh Huh and Issues.
Inner Monologue Part 1 will be available to listen to on Friday, January 25th. We can't wait to hear all the new music.
What is your current favorite song by Julia song? Will you be listening to her new EP? Let us know on Twitter using @CelebMix.


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Procurement - a dying profession?
When the study 'Future-Proof Procurement' was published in 2016, it caused a sensation. The team of authors described four possible scenarios for procurement in the year 2035 ranging from its creative reinvention to the demise of the entire profession. Recently, two of the study's co-authors, Hannah-Mareen Zühlke and Dr Marcus Schüller, spoke about the two scenarios that are gathering pace on the market. Ironically, these two scenarios are at the opposite ends of the spectrum. They present procurement with a stark choice between all and nothing: purchasers will either become a creative driving force with a networking role – or be replaced by algorithms.
A future without procurement?:
A 2016 study outlined four possible scenarios for the future of procurement
Two of them are emerging as front-runners – including the creative reinvention scenario
Co-author Dr Schüller discusses what this means for purchasers
"The four future procurement scenarios in brief:"
The procurement function disappears In the first scenario, humans are relegated to the sidelines. AI assumes the purchaser's role in a fully networked company, handles operational procurement, and prepares strategic partnerships on the basis of data. Human employees merely monitor and steer the processes in this data-driven environment to make sure things run smoothly.
Procurement becomes the centre of power in a company The second scenario describes procurement as the hub of all important decisions in an organisation. However, it has not yet emerged as the predominant future of procurement. Although algorithms can play a supportive role and in some cases can even participate equally in decision-making, innovation throughout the value chain comes primarily from purchasers. And anyone who wants to become a CEO needs to start out in procurement.
Procurement is procured Purchasers become freelancers who are temporarily brought into a team by project managers for specific assignments. They purchase products and services and are judged by the savings they make. However, innovations and creative thinking are left to project managers.
Procurement becomes a creative agency The procurement department becomes an agency for business model development and trend management as well as a creative service provider in its own right. Purchasers know their company's products and services inside out. And since they also have a very good knowledge of their suppliers, they can work with them on joint innovations. Procurement reinvents itself and develops creative, innovative solutions in the same way as an in-house agency.
At the 7th Mercateo Executive Summit, two of the study's authors, Dr Marcus Schüller and Hannah-Mareen Zühlke, spoke about how the world of procurement had developed in the meantime. Zühlke stressed that purchasing departments don't tend to follow one of the scenarios to the letter. True, one scenario often predominates, but aspects of all four can be seen. According to the co-authors, the main trends observed on the market are the focus on efficiency and automation (Scenario 1) and the reorganization of the entire procurement silo with strands of innovation (Scenario 4). The shades of grey in between remain grey, yet companies seem to prefer an approach which is black or white.
"We will work with AI"
However, all four future scenarios have two things in common: digitalisation and scrutinising purchasers' role in the organisation. Marcus Schüller is confident that "we will work with AI". It's already plain that procurement will be asked to explain how it contributes to the company's profitability and success. "Cutting costs, providing services and maintaining quality are typical responses – and these are jobs which aren't going to disappear," says Marcus.
However, there are also many other demands which don't have much to do with placing orders or finding solutions, but focus on collaboration, networking, and relationships with suppliers. According to Marcus Schüller, procurement departments in organisations of all sizes currently spend 70–80 per cent of their time on operational tasks like ordering and forwarding, etc. But these are jobs which only appear in this form in the third scenario – one which businesses are largely rejecting.
Who writes here?
My name is Julia Rau and I work as an editor at Mercateo. As a trained journalist, I spent several years poking my nose into all kinds of things for daily newspapers and, among other things, wrote a series on digitalisation. My inexhaustible curiosity drives me time and time again towards all those topics for which the Federal Government has included a "4.0" in the title.
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- The Study "Future-Proof Procurement" - Ein Vortrag von Mercateo Vorstand Dr. Berns Schönwälder zu Thema Technologieagentur vs. Kreativagentur - praktische Tipps für Einkäufer in der Inside Business von Dr. Marcus Schüller)
A lecture by Mercateo board member Dr. Berns Schönwälder on technology agency vs. creative agency
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The bite-sized bucket shape of chocolate Rolos makes them perfect for cooling caramel before being packaged, which gives the chocolate a richer flavor and the caramel a creamier texture... we assume.
Ok, none of that is technically scientific fact, but have you ever tasted a Rolo? There must be some sort of formula behind a flavor combination that amazing. These chocolaty caramel treats have inspired everything from Rolo doughnuts and cakes to Rolo ice creams and yogurts. So join the craze and grab a bag of the original candy that started it all!
Resealable bag contains 8 ounces of Rolo Minis Candy.


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Synonyms may be treated equally in search results but they produce different mental associations, thus sales conversion differs by keyword. (Example: duvet, cover, quilt and blanket suggest different connotations of craftsmanship and expense).
Avoid using intentional misspellings. The eBay search engine compensates for popular variations in spelling as well as differences between plural and singular forms of a keyword. Misspelled keywords in the title can appear unprofessional to shoppers.
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Carol Laverne Alongis, a resident of Gadsden County, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Tallahassee, Florida. She was born on August 27, 1937, in Sycamore, Florida to Clyde and Inez Bentley. Carol lived in Gadsden County for most of her life. She retired after 35 years of dedicated service to the State of Florida working in Food Service at Florida State Hospital. Carol met and married the love of her life, Johnny Alongis and together raised four children–John, Donna, JoAnn and Dianne. Carol was a kind, generous person who loved cooking for family and having gatherings for family fellowship. She also enjoyed reading and playing a hand or two of cards. She loved her friends and family, but most of all her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Carol always enjoyed a gospel sing whether it was all weekend on the Suwannee River or the "all night" sing in Bonifay. She was a woman of faith and member of Sycamore United Methodist Church who lived life serving others. Carol was an inspiration to all who knew her, and she will be missed greatly.
Carol is survived by one son, John Alongis (Tammy); three daughters, Donna Maria Alderman (Ron), JoAnn Spears (Kenny), and Dianne Alongis (Dan); one sister, Lucille Newsome; eight grandchildren, Amanda, Ashley, Matt, Basia, Lydia, Kenny, Jr., Kristen and Aidan; as well as eight great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family members.
Carol was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Johnny Alongis; a brother, David Bentley and two sisters, Pat Reeves and Betty Porter.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff at Big Bend Hospice and a special thank you to a very special caregiver, her niece, Tammy Porter for their loving care and support during such a difficult time.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorial donations be made in Ms. Carol's name to Big Bend Hospice, 1723 Mahan Center Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32308.
A graveside service will be held at Sycamore Cemetery on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time with Rev. Jim Lemieux officiating and McAlpin Funeral Home directing.
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Pay people what they're worth, not what you can get away with. What you lose in expense you gain back several-fold in performance.
Take the time to share your experiences and insights. Labels like mentor and coach are overused. Let's be specific here. Employees learn from those generous enough to share their experiences and insights. They don't need a best friend or a shoulder to cry on.
Tell it to employees straight, even when it's bad news. To me, the single most important thing any boss can do is to man up and tell it to people straight. No BS, no sugarcoating, especially when it's bad news or corrective feedback.
Manage up ... effectively. Good bosses keep management off employee's backs. Most people don't get this, but the most important aspect of that is giving management what they need to do their jobs. That's what keeps management away.
Take the heat and share the praise. It takes courage to take the heat and humility to share the praise. That comes naturally to great bosses; the rest of us have to pick it up as we go.
Delegate responsibility, not tasks. Every boss delegates, but the crappy ones think that means dumping tasks they hate on workers, i.e. s**t rolls downhill. Good bosses delegate responsibility and hold people accountable. That's fulfilling and fosters professional growth.
Encourage employees to hone their natural abilities and challenge them to overcome their issues. That's called getting people to perform at their best.
Build team spirit. As we learned before, great groups outperform great individuals. And great leaders build great teams.
Treat employees the way they deserve to be treated. You always hear people say they deserve respect and to be treated as equals. Well, some may not want to hear this, but a) respect must be earned, and b) most workers are not their boss's equals.
Inspire your people. All the above motivate people, but few bosses have the ability to truly inspire their employees. How? By sharing their passion for the business. By knowing just what to say and do at just the right time to take the edge off or turn a tough situation around. Genuine anecdotes help a lot. So does a good sense of humor.
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2. If you know what DNS server you want to use, pick it from the drop-down menu or type it in the boxes at the bottom. If not, hit the "Fastest DNS" button on the left. It'll check a number of different servers to find out which one is the fastest for you.
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Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell. Rick is an ex-Armgy Ranger, West Point Academy graduate, ex-boxer, ex-Chief Torturer slash CIO at Wal*Mart, and is a big genial scary man who used the word "hardened interface" a lot. Rick was a walking, talking hardened interface himself, so needless to say, everyone made LOTS of forward progress and made sure Rick knew about it.
Over the next couple of years, Amazon transformed internally into a service-oriented architecture. They learned a tremendous amount while effecting this transformation. There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street. Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way. A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.
- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker. Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.
- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.
- if you have hundreds of services, and your code MUST communicate with other groups' code via these services, then you won't be able to find any of them without a service-discovery mechanism. And you can't have that without a service registration mechanism, which itself is another service. So Amazon has a universal service registry where you can find out reflectively (programmatically) about every service, what its APIs are, and also whether it is currently up, and where.
- debugging problems with someone else's code gets a LOT harder, and is basically impossible unless there is a universal standard way to run every service in a debuggable sandbox.
That's just a very small sample. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically. There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think. Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
Dilbert on handling meeting suggestions
https://dilbert.com/strip/2011-10-09
Dilbert on management help
Dilbert on investing
Making Facebook Self-Healing
Business as usual for UBS in FX | Euromoney FX News
Plex flexes media server pecs • The Register
Sonos Play:3 network music player • reghardware
Symphonious » Background Logging with the Disruptor
A Pair of (somebody else's) Concurrency Bugs by Dr. Cliff Click | Azul Systems: Blogs
Mechanical Sympathy: Single Writer Principle
Dependency Analysis and the Modularisation of Java Programs | Javalobby
Cassandra Write Performance – A quick look inside Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture – The dynaTrace Blog
Elixir 2 • reghardware
For me, the option to put widgets into the status bar is the killer feature. It's a great way of saving screen real estate and means you have instant access to a vast selection of important stuff just by pulling down on the bar.
Practical Introduction into Code Injection with AspectJ, Javassist, and Java Proxy | Javalobby
Software Version Control Visualization - Gource | Javalobby
How Can I Get an iTunes-Like Experience for My Android Phone?
Skifta • reghardware
Five Best Screencasting or Screen Recording Tools
Run tasks in parallel and set your own time out | Javalobby
Google Guava Libraries Essentials
Google Guava Libraries Essentials - Java Code Geeks
r to preconditions in a way that they can restrict what values are added to a collection. T
MemoryImage
[JavaSpecialists 194] - trySynchronize
Sonatype Expands the World's Primary Repository of Open-Source Software Components with Addition of Java.net Projects
Sonatype Expands the World's Primary Repository of Open-Source Software Components with Addition of Java.net Projects / Press Releases / News / About Sonatype Sonatype.com
Five Best Phone Recovery Tools
NOSQL Patterns | Cloud Zone
Mike's Tech Ramblings: ALL of the hotspot flags
Pit mutation testing
PIT is an interesting tool. It modifies your code and then checks if the test passes. This is repeated many times to get a score, like you might use a code coverage measure.
Contrasting Performance : Languages, styles and VMs – Java, Scala, Python, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript | Javalobby
Freud: interesting approach to static analysis
Example of Freud
Freud home page
Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: Why you don't steal from a hacker
So during the London riots I return home the next morning to find my flat ransacked and my Macbook Pro laptop stolen!
Police showed up, took a report and dusted for prints, performed typical forensics... One thing they did not expect was that I had installed the amazing open source tracking software from http://preyproject.com
Lessons in Software Reliability | Agile Zone
Hire good developers and give them enough time to do a good job, including time to review and refactor.
Make sure the development team has training on the basics, that they understand the language and frameworks.
Regular code reviews (or pair programming, if you're into it) for correctness and safety.
Use static analysis tools to find common coding mistakes and bug patterns.
Design for failure
Failures will happen: make sure that your design anticipates and handles failures. Identify failures, contain, retry, recover, restart. Contain failures, ensure that failures don't cascade. Fail safe. Look for the simplest HA design alternative: do you need enterprise-wide clustering or virtual synchrony-based messaging, or can you rely on simpler active/standby shadowing with fast failover?
Attack complexity: where possible, apply Occam's Razor, and choose the simplest path in design or construction or implementation. Simplify your technology stack, collapse the stack, minimize the number of layers and servers.
Test… test… test….
Testing for reliability goes beyond unit testing, functional and regression testing, integration, usability and UAT. You need to test everything you can every way you can think of or can afford to.
One of the best investments that we made was building a reference test environment, as big as, and as close to the production deployment configuration, as we could afford. This allowed us to do representative system testing with production or production-like workloads, as well as variable load and stress testing, operations simulations and trials.
Stress testing is especially important: identifying the real performance limits of the system, pushing the system to, and beyond, design limits, looking for bottlenecks and saturation points, concurrency problems – race conditions and deadlocks – and observing failure of the system under load. Watching the system melt down under extreme load can give you insight into architecture, design and implementation weaknesses.
Failure handing and failover testing – creating controlled failure conditions and checking that failure detection and failure handling mechanisms work correctly.
Get the development team, especially your senior technical leaders, working closely with operations staff: understanding operations' challenges, the risks that they face, the steps that they have to go through to get their jobs done. What information do they need to troubleshoot, to investigate problems? Are the error messages clear, are you logging enough useful information? How easy is it to startup, shutdown, recover and restart – the more steps, the more problems. Make it hard for operations to make mistakes: add checks and balances. Run through deployment, configuration and upgrades together: what seems straightforward in development may have problems in the real world.
Build in health checks – simple ways to determine that the system is in a healthy, consistent state, to be used before startup, after recovery / restart, after an upgrade. Make sure operations has visibility into system state, instrumentation, logs, alerts – make sure ops know what is going on and why.
When you encounter a failure in production, work together with the operations team to complete a Root Cause Analysis, a structured investigation where the team searches for direct and contributing factors to the failure, defines corrective and preventative actions. Dig deep, look past immediate causes, keep asking why. Ask: how did this get past your checks and reviews and testing? What needs to be changed in the product? In the way that it is developed? In the way that is implemented? Operated?
Vanilla Java: Collections Library for millions of elements
Chameleon Folder and Window Manager
Chameleon Folder and Window Manager are quite useful
DeskSMS Is the Best Phone-to-Desktop SMS Solution We've Seen Yet
DeskSMS Is the Best Phone-to-Desktop SMS Solution We've Seen Yet. Looks good, but don't use the "remove DeskSMS contacts" option, it will delete a lot of your contacts as opposed to removing DeskSMS email entries.
Lifehacker Pack for Windows: Our List of the Best Windows Downloads
Technology Radar July 2011 | www.thoughtworks.com
Chameleon Window Manager Snaps Windows, Minimizes Them to Tray with Extra Buttons in the Windows Title Bar
10 Mistakes That Software Team Leads Make | Agile Zone
Vanilla Java: Synchronized vs Lock performance
Mechanical Sympathy: Memory Barriers/Fences
Mike's Tech Ramblings: Now Offically an OpenJDK Contributor
Mechanical Sympathy: Processor Affinity - Part 1
Mechanical Sympathy: Let The Caller Choose
Accessing the class object in a static context « Otaku, Cedric's blog
disruptor - Concurrent programming framework - Google Project Hosting
Bad Code: The Invisible Threat | Javalobby
The LMAX Architecture
LMAX is a new retail financial trading platform. As a result it has to process many trades with low latency. The system is built on the JVM platform and centers on a Business Logic Processor that can handle 6 million orders per second on a single thread. The Business Logic Processor runs entirely in-memory using event sourcing. The Business Logic Processor is surrounded by Disruptors - a concurrency component that implements a network of queues that operate without needing locks. During the design process the team concluded that recent directions in high-performance concurrency models using queues are fundamentally at odds with modern CPU design.
Command line tools for windows - coreutils
If you are used to using cygwin on windows you may also find it useful to install CoreUtils for Windows and place it on your path. That way you can use many *nix commands from a normal dos shell.
Comparison of Protobuff, Thrift, Avro, etc : Pure Danger Tech
neo4j open source nosql graph database »
Design Meeting Patterns/Antipatterns | Javalobby
Understand the Problem vs. Jump to the Solution
Assume the Worst vs. Assume the Best
Basing Decisions on the Current Situation vs. Basing Decisions on History
Shooting for the "Best" Solution vs. the "Easiest" Solution
Present Possible Solutions Objectively vs. My Solution is the Best
Validating from Code vs. Validating from Memory
Rambo Architecture
Amazon's EC2 & EBS outage | Cloud Zone
I just read a post in Coding Horror which refers to a year old post in Netflix's blog called "5 lessons we've learned using AWS [Amazon WebSevices]". Netflix, in case you're wondering survived Amazon's outage and indeed, in lesson #3 they explain that if you want to survive failures you have to plan and constantly test for it:
3. The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly. We've sometimes referred to the Netflix software architecture in AWS as our Rambo Architecture. Each system has to be able to succeed, no matter what, even all on its own. We're designing each distributed system to expect and tolerate failure from other systems on which it depends. If our recommendations system is down, we degrade the quality of our responses to our customers, but we still respond. We'll show popular titles instead of personalized picks. If our search system is intolerably slow, streaming should still work perfectly fine.
That's a great quote. You got to build systems that expect dependencies to fail and test those scenarios.
Rooting Nexus S problems
Anyone who has rooted their Nexus S using 1.0-XXJK8-nexuss-superboot and found that their camera and wifi stops working. Its because you need to use the correct version of superboot. Instructions can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-882333.html. You can correct the problem by rerooting with the correct version. Also anyone who finds that on windows, the cmd line stays in "waiting for device" during fastboot mode, installing PDANet for Android fixes the problem as per http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875580. Hope this saves you some time and heartache :)
Source code comment funnies
Very funny. What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - Stack Overflow
[JavaSpecialists 191] - Delaying Garbage Collection Costs
In modern JVMs, the autoboxing cache size is configurable. It used to be that all values from -128 to 127 were cached, but nowadays we can specify a different upper bound. When we run the code with -XX:+AggressiveOpts, it simply increases this value.
The Business and Technology of Low-Latency Trading « A-Team Group
Interesting talking at the A-Team conference, this week. Lots of focus on equities but managed to squeeze a little FX in there ;). Enjoyed a presentation by Corvil discussing the art of measuring latency.
The Five Traits That Get You Promoted to CEO
# Passionate curiosity: Relentless questioning and being infectiously fascinated with everything around you, human nature in particular
# Battle-hardened confidence: Overcoming—and even relishing—adversity. CEOs most often ask job candidates how they've dealt with failure in the past.
# Team smarts: More than just being a team player, understanding how teams work and getting the most out of the team (in sports terms, being a playmaker)
# A simple mindset: Being concise, simple, and clear in your communications
# Fearlessness: Comfort with the unknown and taking calculated, informed risks; also, seeing opportunities and being proactive about positive change
Labels: business, systems development
Touch Calendar
Touch Calendar • reghardware
100% Code Coverage! | Javalobby. The fundamental point is you need to look at more than just code coverage. If you haven't though hard enough about your test cases you could have a system that is well covered (in the code coverage sense) but is not well tested.
If you have 100% coverage you don't know if your system works, but you _do_ know that every line you wrote does what you thought it should.
Thus, code coverage and test are completely different things. Taken to the extreme, we could code-cover the entire application, that is achieve 100%, and not test a single line because we have no assertion!
Not all of our code is neither critical nor complex. In fact, some can even seen as downright trivial. Any doubt? Think about getters and setter then. Should they be tested, even though any IDE worth his salt can generate them faithfully for us? If your answer is yes, you should also consider testing the frameworks you use, because they are a bigger source of bugs than generated getters and setters.
Solace Systems Launches High-Performance Internet Data Streaming Capability « A-Team Group
http://www.solacesystems.com/solutions/web-messaging
ScaleBase Database Load Balancer
ScaleBase makes some bold claims about transparent sharding, no single point of failure and complete transparency to the application layer. I wonder what happens if you need a transaction between data on different shards?
Java Floating-Point Number Intricacies Summary
Java Floating-Point Number Intricacies, nice short synopsis.
The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.6. Major changes in CentOS 5.6 compared to CentOS 5.5 include:
ext4 is now a fully supported file system
libvirt was updated to 0.8.2
bind was updated to 9.7 and supports NSEC3 now.
ebtables was added
php53 is available as a php replacement.
System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) has been added.
Other upgrades include newer version of several wireless drivers, Samba3x, ghostscript, LVM, mod_nss, subversion and gcc, plus others.
Update process from 5.5:
yum update glibc\*
yum update yum\* rpm\* pyth\*
yum update mkinitrd nash
yum update selinux\*
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CrashPlan - advanced backup to cloud from windows/mac/linux
IntelliJ IDEA Static Analysis: Custom Rules with Structural Search & Replace | JetBrains TV
IntelliJ IDEA Static Analysis: Custom Rules with Structural Search & Replace | JetBrains TV. Wow IDEA is powerful.
Java Performance Tuning Tips March 2011
Sparkly Quartz 2.0 Release | Javalobby
101: What is Latency? « A-Team Group
Latency, n. The delay between the receipt of a stimulus and the response to it.
Network Latency
Whether local area, wide area, or metropolitan, owned or managed, lit or dark, your network is the piece that physically joins your components together, transporting bits from A to B. Networks and their associated components (switches, routers, firewalls and so on) tend to introduce three types of delay between stimuli and responses: serialisation delay, propagation delay, and queueing delay.
Serialisation delay is the time it takes to put a set of bits onto the physical medium (typically fibre optic cable). This is determined entirely by the number of bits and the data rate of the link. For example, to serialise a 1500 byte packet (12,000 bits) on a 1Gbit/second link takes 12 us (microseconds, or millionths of a second). Bump the link speed up to 10Gb/s and your serialisation delay drops by an order of magnitude, to 1.2 us.
But serialisation only covers putting the bits into the pipe. Before they can come out, they have to reach the other end, and that's where propagation delay comes into play. The speed of propagation of light in a fibre is about two-thirds that in a vacuum, so roughly 200 million kilometres per second (which is still pretty fast, to be fair!). To put it another way, it takes light in a fibre about half a microsecond to travel 100 meters.
Pause and think about the relative sizes of serialisation and propagation delay for a moment. Over short distances (e.g. in a LAN environment) the former is much larger than the latter, even at 10 Gb/s link speeds. That's one of the reasons why moving from 1 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s can have a big impact on network latency in LANs. This advantage diminishes significantly with distance, however – on a 100km fiber, propagation delay is going to be on the order of 500 us, or half a millisecond. At 1Gb/s link speeds serialisation plus propagation delay for a 1500 byte packet is about 512 us; moving up to 10 Gb/s reduces this to about 501.2 us – hardly a massive improvement.
There's not a lot you can do about propagation latency – it's a result of physical processes that you can't change. The only real option is to move your processing closer to the source of the data – basically what's happening with the move towards collocation. Even this has challenges though – if your trading strategy depends on data from multiple exchanges, where should you collocate? An interesting recent study from MIT suggests the optimal approach may be a new location somewhere between the two!
The final contribution to network latency is queuing delay. Consider two data sources sending data to a single consumer which has a single network connection. If both send a packet of data at the same time, one of those packets has to be queued at the switch which connects them to the consumer. The length of time for which any packet is queued is dependent on two factors: the number of packets which are in the queue ahead of it, and the data rate of the output link – this is the other reason why increasing data rates helps reduce network latency, because it reduces queuing delays. Note that there's a crucial difference between serialisation delay, propagation delay and queuing delay – the first two are deterministic, the latter is variable, being dependent on how busy the network is.
Protocol Latency
Network links just provide dumb pipes for getting bits from A to B. In order to bring some order to these bits, various layers of protocols are used to deal with things like where the bits should go, how to get them in the right order, deal with losses, and so on. In the vast majority of cases these protocols were designed with the goal of ensuring the smooth and reliable flow of data between endpoints, and not with minimising the latency of that flow, so they can and do introduce delays through a variety of mechanisms.
The first such mechanism is protocol data overhead. Each protocol layer adds a number of bytes to the packet to carry management information between the two endpoints. In a TCP/IP connection (the most common type of connection) this overhead adds 40 bytes to each packet. This is additional data that is subject to the serialisation delay discussed above. The relevance of this overhead is very much dependent on the size of data packets – for example, if data is being sent in 40-byte chunks, the TCP/IP overhead will double the serialisation delay for each chunk, whereas if it's being sent in 1500-byte chunks, TCP/IP will only increase serialisation delay by around 3%.
It is possible to enable header compression on most modern network devices. This can have a significant impact on packet sizes, reducing the 40-byte TCP/IP header down to 2-4 bytes – for small data payloads this might halve the packet size. However, in latency terms this is unlikely to have much impact as the reduction in serialisation delay would be offset by the time taken to compress and decompress the header at each end of the link.
Clearly, then, if you have a lot of data to send it's preferable to send it in one large packet rather than lots of small ones. However, it obviously doesn't make sense from a latency perspective, to delay sending one piece of data until you have more available, just so you can fill a larger packet. Unfortunately, that's exactly what TCP does in some configuration - using a process called Nagle's algorithm, a TCP sender will delay sending data until it has enough to fill the largest packet size as long as it still has some data waiting to be acknowledged by the receiver. Thankfully for those with latency-sensitive applications this option can be turned off in most implementations.
One of the uses of data that contributes to protocol overhead is to implement a mechanism called congestion control. In order to prevent networks becoming congested with data that can't be delivered to a destination, each TCP connection has a data 'window' which is the number of bytes that the sender is allowed to transmit before it must wait for permission from the receiver to send more. This permission flows back from the receiver to the sender in the form of acknowledgement or ACKs, which are typically sent when a packet is correctly received. In a well-functioning network, with constant data flow in both directions, this mechanism works extremely well.
There are circumstances, however, where it can introduce problems. Imagine a window size set to 15,000 bytes, and a data producer sending 1,500 byte packets. If the producer is able to send ten packets before the consumer receives the first packet (that is, if the 'pipe' can accommodate more than ten packets at a time), then it will have to stop after the tenth and wait until it gets permission to go again. This can add significant latency to some packets. In order to avoid this 'window exhaustion' it is necessary to configure the parameters of the TCP stack to align with the network connections – specifically, the window size has to be greater than the delay-bandwidth product, the number you get when you multiply the one-way propagation delay by the data rate.
As an example, a 100 Mb/s link from New York to Chicago with a one-way latency of 12 ms (milliseconds) requires a TCP window size of 1.2 Mbits, or 150 KB. If you had a connection like this, and were using a more standard window size of 64 KB, then your data transfer could stall due to window exhaustion every 5 ms (time taken to send 64 KB at 100Mb/s), with each stall introducing 12 ms of additional latency.
The final way in which protocols can introduce latency is through packet loss. As mentioned earlier, there are occasions when packets need to be queued at switches or routers before they can be forwarded. Physically, this means holding a copy of the packet in memory somewhere. Since network devices have finite memory, there is a limit to the number of packets which can be queued. If a packet arrives and there is no more space available, it will be discarded. In this situation, TCP will eventually detect the missing packet at the receiver, and a re-transmission will occur; however, the delay between original transmission and re-transmission is likely to be on the order of a least three round trip times (RTTs), or six times the one-way propagation delay. As a result, packet loss can be one of the biggest contributors to network latency, albeit on a sporadic basis.
In a network which you own and control the likelihood of packet loss can be minimised by ensuring appropriate capacity is provisioned on all links and switches. If your network includes managed components, especially in a WAN, this is much more difficult to achieve, although your service provider will likely provide some SLAs on packet loss.
It's worth noting that all of the preceding discussion is focussed on TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol. This protocol was designed to ensure guaranteed delivery of data between applications, rather than timely delivery. Many trading applications use UDP (the User Datagram Protocol) as an alternative to TCP. UDP does not guarantee delivery, so it doesn't use any of the windowing or retransmission discussed above. As a result, UDP is less latency sensitive, but it is subject to unrecoverable packet loss – if data is discarded due to queuing, there is no way for it to be re-transmitted, of the for the sender to be aware that this happened.
Operating System (OS) Latency
When you're deploying a trading application, the code has to run on something. That something is typically a set of servers, and those servers have operating systems that sit between your code and the hardware. These OSes are typically designed to provide functionality which makes it easy to run multiple applications on almost any type of hardware; in other words, like TCP, they're optimised for flexibility and resilience rather than speed. As a result, they can introduce latency through a number of mechanisms.
All modern operating systems are multi-tasking, meaning they can do multiple things 'simultaneously'. Since servers generally have more things to do than CPUs to do them on, this generally means that any running code can be suspended by the OS to allow another piece of code can be run. This pre-emptive scheduling can introduce variable delays into code. Note that this can be a problem even if your server is only running one application. The reasons is that the application still depends on various inputs and outputs (to users via a keyboard/monitor, to databases, to other servers via the network), and the OS has to make sure the drivers that manage all that I/O get some CPU time. In addition, the OS occasionally has to do some housekeeping work and in some cases this work is non-preemptable, which locks your application out of running until the OS has finished. All told, these types of OS operations can add tens of milliseconds latency to transactions being processed by your application. And, to make matters worse, this latency can be highly intermittent, making it very difficult to address
There are some things you can do to alleviate the problem of OS latency, but most of them are OS-specific – for example, in Windows processes can be set to Realtime priority, or in Linux the kernel can be compiled to allow pre-emption of OS tasks. Neither of these approaches will completely remove OS-latency, but they can reduce it to the millisecond or sub-millisecond region, which may be acceptable for your application. To get beyond this really requires the use of a real-time operating system (RTOS) such as QNX or RTLinux – these are more typically found in embedded systems and are beyond the scope of this article.
Many trading applications are written in programming languages that are executed in a runtime environment that creates yet another layer of complexity between the code and OS. These runtime environments include, for example, Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) for code written in Java, and Windows .Net Common Language Runtime (CLR) for code written in C#. These environments are designed to make code more stable and secure by, among other things, eliminating common programming problems. One of the most common functions of these runtime environments is automatic memory management or garbage collection. This refers to a mechanism whereby the runtime environment monitors the memory being used by an application and periodically tidies it up, reclaiming any memory which the application no longer needs. While this process improves program stability (memory management being one of the most common categories of coding defects), it has a latency cost because the application must be temporarily suspended which garbage collection takes place.
Some work has been done in these environments to minimise the impact of garbage collection, and the Java community has gone as far as creating a separate Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). However, all other things being equal, code that is running in a managed environment will tend to incur more latency problems than code that is directly under OS control. In this case you need to make a trade-off between the improved stability (and possibly faster development cycles) provided by Java/C# and the improved latency of something like C/C++.
Application Latency
Phew – all that latency already in the system and we haven't even talked about your application yet! Thankfully, application latency is one piece of the equation that's mostly within your own control, and it also tends to be introduced through a small number of mechanisms.
One common theme in IT systems is that things slow down by at least an order of magnitude when you have to access disks rather than memory – database access is a prime example of this. The reason is simply down to the mechanical nature of disks, as opposed to electronic memory. Designing applications to minimise disk access is therefore a common pattern in low-latency systems – in fact, most high-frequency or flow-based applications will have no databases in the main flow, deferring all data persistence to post-execution. This also tends to mean that applications are very memory hungry – data has to be stored somewhere while it's being processed, and you don't want it hitting the disk. Where database access is required and latency has to be minimised many developers are now turning to in-memory databases which, as the name suggests, store all of their data in memory rather than on disk. The increasing penetration of solid-state disks (SSDs – devices which appear to the computer to be a standard magnetic disk, but use non-volatile solid-state memory for storage) provides a possible compromise between in-memory DBs and standard DBs using magnetic disks.
Inter-process communication (IPC) is another area that can have a substantial impact on application performance. Typically, trading applications have multiple components (market data acquisition, pricing engines, risk, order routers, market gateways and many more) and data has to be passed between them. When the processes concerned are on the same server this can be a relatively efficient exchange; when (as is often the case) they are on different servers, then the communication can incur significant latency penalties, as it hits all the OS and protocol overheads discussed previously. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a combined hardware/software approach that bypasses all of the OS-related latency penalties by allowing the sending process to write data directly into the memory space of the destination process.
Overflow detection during java arithmetic
Joda's FieldUtils class has code that attempts to detect overflow
Chronon... A 'flight data recorder' for Java programs
Introducing Chronon: The Time Travelling Debugger for Java | Javalobby
Chronon is a revolutionary new technology that consists of:
* A 'flight data recorder' for Java programs which can record every line of code executed inside a program and save it to a file on the disk. The file can be shared among developers and played back in our special time travelling debugger to instantly find the root cause of an issue. This also means that no bugs ever need to be reproduced!
* A Time Travelling Debugger, with a novel UI that plugs seamlessly into Eclipse, which allows you to playback the recordings. It not only step back and forward but to any point in the execution of your program.
Chronon marks the begining of the end of 'Non-Reproducible bugs'. A Chronon recording can be shared among all the members of your team and they can debug an issue in parallel. We see Chronon being used all the way from Development, QA to ultimately running full time in Production.
Custom AST transformations with Project Lombok
Custom AST transformations with Project Lombok describes an interesting hybrid between practices such as build-time code generation and runtime bytecode enhancement. Probably wouldn't use it in production myself but interesting nonetheless.
...Lombok doesn't just generate Java sources or bytecode: it transforms the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), by modifying its structure at compile-time...
...By modifying (or transforming) the AST, Lombok keeps your source code trim and free of bloat, unlike plain-text code-generation. Lombok's generated code is also visible to classes within the same compilation unit, unlike direct bytecode manipulation with libraries like CGLib or ASM...
Test Readability
When over half your codebase is composed of unit-tests its important to apply good coding practices to your unit-tests as much to non-test code.
Making Test Driven Development Work: Test Readability | Javalobby
A key characteristic of TDD that works is test readability. By focusing on test readability, a developer is forced to think about the object under test in a way that will promote good design and provide valuable documentation for the components of the system.
Dilbert Big Picture Guy :)
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Brooklyn's Barren Island: A Forgotten History
By Miriam Sicherman
Unbeknownst to most of the city's inhabitants, a rural community of garbage workers once existed on a now-vanished island in New York City. Barren Island was a swampy speck in Jamaica Bay where a motley group of new immigrants and African Americans quietly processed mountains of garbage and dead animals starting in the 1850s. They turned the waste into useful industrial products until their eviction by Robert Moses, in the name of progress, in 1936. Barren Islanders built businesses, fought fires, demanded a public school and worshipped at churches as they created a quintessentially American community from scratch. Author Miriam Sicherman tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost in the annals of New York City history.
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Miriam Sicherman is a public elementary school teacher in New York City. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, Bank Street College of Education and Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.
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Modern, trendy, luxurious self-catering accommodation on the Wild Coast of South Africa. Located in the small coastal village of Chintsa East, Purple Haze Eco Lodge provides unparalleled views across the Indian Ocean and flowing hills of the Eastern Cape. Beautiful, safe, almost deserted beaches that stretch for miles, exciting outdoor activities, a championship golf course complete, wildlife viewing, tranquility and silence all assure an unforgettable experience.


An 8km conversion between the Glanbaiden junction at Gilwern and the Brynmawr roundabout will see the road upgraded to two lanes in each direction.
SSE Enterprise's lighting team has been awarded a contract to upgrade lighting and signage along the 8km stretch.
The project is joint funded by the European Union and the Welsh Assembly and will see approximately 500 new street lights with LED lanterns installed on the A465 dualling.
SSE Enterprise's Welsh lighting services team will fit the new lights along 8km of the dualling over a two-year period.
SSE Enterprise, lighting delivery manager Chris Wallis, said: "SSE Enterprise is very proud to be chosen to work on such an influential project in this area. The works on this road will improve access to jobs, services and markets in the area and result in significant regeneration of the Heads of the Valleys.
The upgrade is part of a wider Government scheme to turn the whole of the A465 from Abergavenny to Neath into dual carriageway by 2020.


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Talk about climate change 'heats up' with Percolator exhibit
Photo by Richard Gwin
Nicholas Ward preps a painting by Lori Hasselman for a new exhibit called "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change," on display now at the Lawrence Percolator, 913 Rhode Island St. The exhibition is part of a month-long series of cultural and educational events devoted to fostering community conversations about climate change.
By Joanna Hlavacek
Nearly a year ago, the city of Lawrence was abuzz — pun intended — with talk of cicadas. Entomology enthusiasts had waited 17 years for the precious few weeks in late spring 2015 when tens of millions of periodical cicadas would crawl out from underground to mate, make a lot of noise in the process, and die.
But not before laying eggs inside the grooves of young twigs, which in less than a dozen weeks would hatch, delivering us a new generation of cicadas to burrow and re-emerge in another 17 years.
"I had a conversation with an older friend of mine who's in his 80s," Sara Taliaferro remembers. "He and I both realized he might not be there to witness the next one."
"I thought, what will the cicadas experience when they emerge in 17 years? Or if the emergence occurs just fine, what will happen 17 years after that?" asks Taliaferro. "I imagine them emerging into a very droughty situation or not emerging at all."
What the next generation of periodical cicadas might find above the surface in 2032 — and beyond — is the subject of Taliaferro's watercolor "Extinction Emergence." A scientific illustrator by trade, Taliaferro is one of nearly two dozen local and regional artists participating in the Lawrence Percolator's "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change."
Nicholas Ward preps a painting by Lori Hasselman for a new exhibit called "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change," on display now at the Lawrence Percolator, 913 Rhode Island St. The exhibition is part of a month-long series of cultural and educational events devoted to fostering community conversations about climate change. by Richard Gwin
The exhibition, which opened Friday, is part of a monthlong series of cultural and educational events scheduled throughout March and April. Sponsored by the Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability (LETUS) and Lawrence field office of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, "Heating Up" has been more than a year in the making, says Taliaferro, who co-chaired the planning committee with fellow Lawrence artist Lora Jost.
The pair wanted to foster a sense of inclusion with the programming, inviting everyone — even those who might not feel knowledgeable on the subject, or who may have been intimated by "intellectualized" lectures or talks in the past — to join in.
"I think there's a nuance to this conversation that isn't in the broader conversation happening right now. It's not black or white. Our hearts are in it too," says Taliaferro. "Bringing it into your heart or your intuition or your guts or maybe making it sexy — that's a conversation that has the potential to include everyone."
Because art isn't data-driven or objective by nature, an exhibition like "Heating Up" offers room for different voices and different ways to engage the viewer in an often-politicized issue, program organizers say.
Or, as Jost puts it, "You don't have to be a scientist to speak out about climate change."
"Pathetique," a painting by Geraldine Emily Walsey is among the works displayed at a new exhibit called "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change," open now at the Lawrence Percolator, 913 Rhode Island St. The exhibit is part of a month-long series of cultural and educational events devoted to climate change scheduled throughout March and April. by Richard Gwin
Artists of varying experience and training, among them professors and students, have contributed works varying from paintings, prints and drawings to sculptures, handmade books and installations.
When asked to describe his "Heating Up" piece, Washburn University professor of art Marin Abell references a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered."
His 9-foot flat-bottomed trolling motorboat is partially made with Eurasian Watermilfoil, an invasive species that he started researching during a residency at upstate New York's Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in the summer of 2014.
In the Finger Lakes area, communities were spending millions of dollars in efforts to eradicate the species, Abell learned, at times dousing water bodies with herbicide, sending in scuba divers to remove the plant by hand or mowing with WeedWacker-boat hybrids that would bail the weed on deck and transport it by ton to the city dump, where it would decompose for a year to be used as soil fertilizer.
"Sun Hive: Kansas" is a collaborative piece by Kansas University associate professor of sculpture Matthew Burke and students Samuel Balbuena, Cameron Pratte, Vin Stenzel and Cortney Wise, on display now as part of the "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change" exhibition at the Lawrence Percolator. Last fall, Burke led a class devoted to sustainable art practices, which had groups of students working together to build Sun Hives, a German design that mimics nests found in nature and promotes healthy bee colonies over honey production. by Richard Gwin
When Abell moved to Topeka not long after, he discovered Eurasian Watermilfoil had also become a problem at nearby Lake Shawnee, and that herbicides were being used to beat back the thick stem entanglements and vast mats of vegetation that covered the water's surface.
So, he decided to offer an alternative solution.
"I'm using a material that's considered a menace and treating it as something productive," Abell says of his creation. "In my own life, I think of certain things as wasteful, and I think as a culture we do that too, which to me seems a very narrow-minded way to classify the world. Weeds are different — they disregard our agenda."
The "H.M.S. Hydra," as he's calling it, is crafted from a resin-sealed fiber made out of Eurasian Watermilfoil. Produced in consultation with Topeka's All Grain Brewing Specialists, the boat runs on distilled Eurasian Watermilfoil ethanol.
The name of the boat, of course, comes from the Greek myth of the Hydra water monster, whose many heads would only regenerate if any hero dared to chop them off. When sliced by boat propellers, the fragments of Watermilfoil stems will disseminate and grow into new plants even faster.
"Ogallala Siren," by local artist Nancy Marshall, is among the pieces on display now in "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change" at the Lawrence Percolator, 913 Rhode Island St. The exhibit is part of a month-long series of educational and cultural events devoted to climate change scheduled throughout March and April. by Richard Gwin
"In this Greek mythology, the Hydra is a feminine figure that's slain by a male figure," Abell says. "Instead of trying to slay it, I'm trying to embrace the perspective of the other."
While weeds like the Eurasian Watermilfoil continue to "disregard our agenda," Kansas City artist David Titterington explores a similarly lopsided relationship between humans and the environment in his "Pearl Gate" painting.
"My philosophical discussion is how we are not part of the landscape — the landscape is part of us," says Titterington, who teaches painting and drawing at Kansas University and Haskell Indian Nations University. "Because we depend on the landscape like we depend on part of our own body, but the landscape doesn't really depend on us."
"If humans don't survive this catastrophe," he adds, referring to climate change, "the world will go on without us."
In "Pearl Gate," Titterington has created ambiguous imagery of either a polluted gut complete with swollen intestines or a polluted bit of nature surrounded by craggy bluffs and tree stumps — or some blend of the two.
What appears to be sewage flows from a pipe into a brown pool of liquid. It's all pretty bleak, but just off the shore of the sewage pond glows a clean white pearl. "Pearl Gate" refers, initially, to pearly gates of heaven as described in the New Testament's Book of Revelation. So, there's some hope in this yet, Titterington says.
"And that out of that maybe will come wisdom," he adds, "Like the pearl coming out of the clam."
"Pearl Gate," by Kansas University and Haskell Indian Nations University painting and drawing instructor David Titterington, is among the pieces on display in "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change." The exhibit, open now at the Lawrence Percolator (913 Rhode Island St.), is part of a long-month series of educational and cultural events devoted to climate change scheduled throughout March and April. by Richard Gwin
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For more information on these happenings, visit the "Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change" Facebook page.
Hang12 "Effecting Climate Change" Coordinated by the Hang12, the Lawrence Arts Center's youth curatorial board, this current exhibit at the Watkins Museum of History includes art made by teens from repurposed materials. "Effecting Climate Change" will remain on display at Watkins, 1047 Massachusetts St., through April 22.
"How Can We Work Together on Climate Change?" This panel discussion, slated for 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 10 in Room 110 of Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 E. Indian Ave., features five local panelists: Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Spencer Museum of Art; Thad Holcombe, retired Ecumenical Christian Ministries campus minister at KU and LETUS moderator; Eileen Horn, sustainability coordinator for Douglas County and the city of Lawrence; Jay T. Johnson, associate professor and associate chair of geography and atmospheric science at KU and director of KU's Center for Indigenous Research, Science and Technology; Dan Wildcat, Haskell professor and director of Haskell's Environmental Research Studies Center. The event is free and open to the public.
"Mrs. Noah in Poetry and Dance" The Lawrence Percolator, 913 Rhode Island St., will host this collaborative performance by poet and KU professor emerita of English Elizabeth Schultz and retired KU dance instructor Joan Stone with performances at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. April 15.
Eco Ambassadors "Haskell Wetlands Restoration Day" The public is invited to join in from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 16 during this workday of seeding and planting led by Haskell students of the Haskell Wetlands. Guests are encouraged to bring gloves and gardening/landscaping tools.


Today marks the 100th episode of 2014.
We're already 100 days into the new year, can you believe it?
$50,000 in debt and contemplating suicide.
Today Zach is earning over $50,000 A MONTH!
All because he burned the boats.


Initially assigned to VX-1 at Quonset Point, RI.
Accident; Marble Point, Victoria Land, Antarctica. 03-Jan-1959. On take-off, following a re-supply flight the right wing of the aircraft clipped a small knoll and the aircraft cart-wheeled and crashed. The two crew were killed and the three passengers seriously injured.
Total time: 373 hours at time of accident.
Otter 163 was delivered to the United States Navy on 24th October 1956 with BuAer serial 144673. It was one of a batch of six Otters delivered to VX-6 Squadron during September/October 1956 and was flown initially to the Squadron's base at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island. All six Otters were transported to the Antarctic, some by ship and some on board USAF C- 124 Globemasters.
On 3rd January 1959 144673 flew from its base at McMurdo on a re-supply flight and photo mission to Marble Point. On take-off from Marble Point for the return to McMurdo, instead of turning to the left which would have routed the flight over open water, the Otter turned to the right, towards mountainous terrain. The aircraft made a steep turn towards a glacier, the wing hit a small knoll, and the Otter cart-wheeled and crashed. The pilot and co-pilot were killed and the three passengers seriously injured. At the time of its destruction, 144673 had flown 373 hours in Naval service.


Obituary for Gerald A. Eldridge | Quest Cremation Services, Inc.
Gerald A. Eldridge, 70, of Winnebago, passed away Saturday, March 30, 2019. He was born August 16, 1948 in Beloit, Wisconsin to Robert and Barbara (Boss) Eldridge. Jerry spent over 18 years working, fishing, vacations and family life of ups and downs with Kathy Hauser. They were wed on March 17, 2005 in chapel at Midway Village in Rockford. They resided in Winnebago mostly surrounded by caring neighbors, too numerous to mention. He owned and operated R.E.A.L Precision Grinding. Jerry took pride in his business and had a passion for it. Thank you to Lloyd (Red) Medlar and Josh Weir. They were a great help to him his last years he had the shop. He also enjoyed fishing with the Hauser brothers, golfing with close friend, Red Medlar, cribbage with Bill Hauser, playing pool with Al Gable and spending time with his family.
Survivors include his wife, Kathy Hauser-Eldridge; children, Stephanie (Gini) Bergner, Julie Eldridge, Jennifer (Troy Ogden) McGee and Viola Hauser; grandchildren, Mikayla, Adrianna, Tyler, Andrew Gerald, Alex, Ryleigh, Andrew, Aydan, Zayne and Keenan; numerous great-grandchildren; brothers, Robert (Gloria) Eldridge, Duane (Bronda) Eldridge and Ricky Eldridge; sister, Diane (Larry) Musser; special friends, Dorothy and Lou Hilstad and Bonnie and Harold Watson. Predeceased by his parents; brothers, Tom and Michael Eldridge; best companion, Buck the Magnificent.
Special thank you to Wendy and Paula from Palliative Care and Elizabeth, Tamika and entire Hospice team for helping keep him comfortable at most important times.
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2019 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Pow-Wow Club in Tullocks Woods, 4500 Stage Coach Trail, Rockford, Illinois 61101. For more information regarding the service, please contact Kathy.


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VIKTÓRIA HEDVIG DEÁK, CONSILIA SAPIENTIS AMICI. Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Foundation of the Evangelical Counsels in Theological Anthropology
In modern theological discourse, and more particularly, in theological anthropology, the evangelical counsels are rarely presented as integral parts of the human person's vocation in grace. Rather, theology after the Council of Trent preferred to speak about the counsels as optional obligations, taken up over the commandments, as an area of the greater generosity of those who strive for more perfection. This is why the fundamental question this work poses is: how can we formulate an instrinsic bond between poverty, chastity and obedience, and the human person's vocation in grace? This is a question addressed to Saint Thomas Aquinas, as the first theologian to offer a systematic theology of religious life, whose theological vision predates the modern separation between human and divine, and between the different branches of the theological science.
The Angelic Doctor situates the counsels into the dynamism of the virtue of charity which is not a static entity but implies a spiritual development. The counsels are identified as a stage of spiritual generosity and a sign of growth in charity: in a certain way, they concern every Christian. Then, according to Aquinas, the proper context of the counsels is the New Law of graced freedom: the counsels arise from the wisdom and love of Christ, the wise friend, who invites everyone to the perfection of love. These two aspects allow for a remarkably different perception of the counsels than merely optional obligations.
SR. VIKTÓRIA HEDVIG DEÁK, OP, (b. 1972) is a member of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Margaret of Hungary, since 1991. She received a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology in 2000 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. After years of teaching at Sapientia College of Theology of Religious Orders in Budapest, she completed her doctoral studies at the same university in 2012. Besides teaching, she currently serves as the superior general of her Congregation.


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BENCHMARK LITIGATION NAMES GIBBS & BRUNS LEADING LITIGATION FIRM
Benchmark: Litigation 2009, published by Legal Media Group and Euromoney, named Gibbs & Bruns a Leading Litigation Firm in Texas. The firm was one of only seven firms ranked in the "Highly Recommended" category for Texas.
Phil Bruns, Robin Gibbs, and Kathy Patrick were highlighted as "Litigation Stars," and Andi Gulley was named a "Rising Star," a new category for up-and-coming lawyers in this directory.
The firm was praised by a client who shared, "I've dealt with many New York firms, and Gibbs & Bruns is as good as it gets."
The directory is distributed to Fortune 500 CEOs and general counsels throughout the United States.
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