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We continue to study the teachings of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, while Michael’s favorite book series might be the Twilight series, Joe blames his squeak toy chewing habit on his dogs, and Allen might be a Belieber.

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  • Increased load is a common reason for degradation of reliability.
  • Scalability is the term used to describe a system’s ability to cope with increased load.
  • It can be tempting to say X scales, or doesn’t, but referring to a system as “scalable” really means how good your options are.
  • Couple questions to ask of your system:
    • If the system grows in a particular way (more data, more users, more usage), what are our options for coping?
    • How easy is it to add computing resources?

Describing Load

  • Need to figure out how to describe load before before we can truly answer any questions.
  • “Load Parameters” are the metrics that make sense to measure for your system.
  • Load Parameters are a measure of stress, not of performance.
  • Different parameters may matter more for your system.
  • Examples for particular uses may include:
    • Web Server: requests per second
    • Database: read/write ratio
    • Application: # of simultaneous active users
    • Cache: hit/miss ratio
  • This may not be a simple number either. Sometimes you may care more about the average number, sometimes only the extremes.

Describing Performance

  • Two ways to look at describing performance:
    • How does performance change when you increase a load parameter, without changing resources?
    • How much do you need to increase resources to maintain performance when increasing a load parameter?
  • Performance numbers measure how well your system is responding.
  • Examples can include:
    • Throughput (records processed per second)
    • Response time

Latency vs Response Time

  • Latency is how long a request is waiting to be handled, awaiting service.
  • Response time is the total time it takes for the client to see the response, including any latency.

What do you mean by “numbers”?

  • Performance numbers are generally a set of numbers: i.e. minimum, maximum, average, median, percentile.
  • Sometimes the outliers are really important.
    • For example, a game may have an average of 59 FPS but that number might drop to 10 FPS when garbage collection is running.
    • Average may not be your best measure if you want to see the typical response time.
  • For this reason it’s better to use percentiles.
    • Consider the median (sort all the response times and the one in the middle is the median). Median is known as the 50th percentile or P50.
      • That means that half of your response times will be under the 50% mark and half will be over.
      • To find the outliers, you can look at the 95th, 99th and 99.9th percentiles, aka P95, P99, P999.
        • If you were to look at the P95 mark and the response time is 2s, then that means that 95% of all requests come back in under 2 seconds and 5% of all requests come back in over 2s.
          • The example provided is that Amazon describes response times in the P999 even though it only affects 1 in 1000 users. The reason? Because the slowest response times would be for the customers who’ve made the most purchases. In other words, the most valued customers!
  • Increased response times have been measured by many large companies in regards to completions of orders, leaving sites, etc.
  • Ultimately, trying to optimize for P999 is very expensive and may not make the investment worth it.
    • Not only is it expensive but it’s also difficult because you may be fighting environmental things outside of your control.
  • Percentiles are often used in:
    • SLO’s – Service Level Objectives
    • SLA’s – Service Level Agreements
    • Both are contracts that draw out the expected performance and availability of a service.
  • Queuing delays are a big part of response times in the higher percentiles.
    • Servers can only process a finite amount of things in parallel and the rest of the requests are queued.
    • A relatively small number of requests could be responsible for slowing many things down.
      • Known as head-of-the-line blocking.
        • For this reason – it’s important to make sure you’re measuring client side response times to make sure you’re getting the full picture.
        • In load testing, the client application needs to make sure it’s issuing new requests even if it’s waiting for older ones. This will more realistically mimic the real world.
  • For applications that make multiple service calls to complete a screen or page, slower response times become very critical because typically the user experience is not good even if you’re just waiting for one out of 20 requests. The slowest offender is typically what determines the user experience.
    • Compounding slow requests is known as tail latency amplification.
  • Monitoring response times can be very helpful, but also dangerous.
    • If you’re trying to calculate the real response time averages against an entire set of data every minute, the calculations can be very expensive.
      • There are approximation algorithms that are much more efficient, such as forward decay, t-digest, or HdrHistogram.
      • Averaging percentiles is meaningless. Rather you need to add the histograms.

Coping with Load

How do we retain good performance when our load increases?

  • An application that was designed for 1,000 concurrent users will likely not handle 10,000 concurrent users very well.
    • It is often necessary to rethink your architecture every time load is increased significantly.
  • The options, simplified:
    • Scaling up – adding more hardware resources to a single machine to handle additional load.
    • Scaling out – adding more machines to handle additional load.
  • One is not necessarily better than the other.
    • Scaling up can be much simpler and easier to maintain, but there is a limit to the power available on a single machine as well as the cost ramifications of creating an uber-powerful single machine.
    • Scaling out can be much cheaper in hardware costs but cost more in developer time and maintenance to make sure everything is running as expected
    • Rather than picking one over the other, consider when each makes the most sense.
  • Elasticity is when a system can dynamically resize itself based on load, i.e. adding more machines as necessary, etc.
    • Some of this happens automatically based on some load detecting criteria.
    • Some of this happens manually by a person.
      • Manually may be simpler and can protect against unexpected massive scaling that may hit the wallet hard.
  • For a long time, RDBMS’s typically ran on a single machine. Even with a failover, the load wasn’t typically distributed.
    • As distributed systems are becoming more common and the abstractions are being better built, things like this are changing, and likely to change even more.

“[T]here is no such thing as a generic, one-size-fits-all scalable architecture …”

Martin Kleppmann
  • Problems could be reads, writes, volume of data, complexity, etc.
    • A system that handles 100,000 requests per second at 1 KB in size is very different from a system that handles 3 requests per minute with each file size being 2 GB. Same throughput, but much different requirements.
  • Designing a scalable system based off of bad assumptions can be both wasted time and even worse counterproductive.
  • In early stage applications, it’s often much more important to be able to iterate quickly on the application than to design for an unknown future load.

Resources We Like

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (Amazon)
  • Grokking the System Design Interview (
  • HdrHistogram: A High Dynamic Range Histogram (
  • Performance (Stack Exchange)
  • AWS Snowmobile (
  • Monitoring Containerized Application Health with Docker (Pluralsight)

Tip of the Week

  • Get back into slack: Instead of typing in your slack room name, just click the “Find your workspace” link and enter your email – it’ll send you all of the workspaces linked to that email.
  • Forget everything Michael said about CodeDOM in episode 112. Just use Roslyn. (GitHub)
  • The holidays are the perfect time for Advent of Code. (
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Going back to school as an adult?

What do you do? It is often one of the first questions asked when meeting somebody new. In the United States, careers seem to define us. The reality is many people dread answering this question. What if you’ve hit a wall in your professional life or feel like your career has plateaued? One way to achieve new professional goals is by completing your bachelor’s degree or earning a master’s degree.

Are you ready to advance in your career? Or, are you ready to focus on something completely new? If going back to school as an adult intrigues you, ask yourself these four questions.

Do I have the time/energy to go back to school as an adult?

Developing a healthy work-life balance is often difficult. Juggling family responsibilities, a social life or hobbies/volunteer work on top of going back to school can be a challenge.

When exploring your educational options, research different programs and their time commitments. Some programs are full time and require adult students to quit their jobs or work part time. However, many programs are designed specifically for working adults.

In general, a three credit hour class requires 3-6 additional hours each week outside of class for reading assignments and class projects. Do you have time during your lunch breaks to work on assignments? Can you devote one morning each weekend to reading? Do you have family/friends who can walk your dog or help with childcare when life gets hectic? Will your loved ones understand if you need to miss an occasional get-together?

Making a plan, developing a support system and finding a routine will make going back to school much easier to manage. It’s all about prioritizing what is most important to you!

Can I afford to go back to school?

Money can be a big hurdle to achieving many goals in life including going back to school as an adult. However, there are often ways to mitigate some of the costs. First, check with your employer to see if your company offers tuition assistance. Some companies also have discount agreements with specific colleges and universities.

If you’re completing your bachelor’s degree, make sure you submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You may qualify for aid you never anticipated. Explore private and federal loans so you don’t have to pay for all of the costs upfront.

Meet with the university’s financial aid staff once you find a program you’re interested in pursuing. They can help you navigate the financial aid process and inform you of additional aid the college may provide.

Will I be able to continue working while going back to school?

It depends on the type of program you pursue and the college or university you are interested in attending. Working 40-plus hours a week and trying to take a full course load of classes in a traditional college setting is not possible for most working adults.

However, many degree-completion, MBA or other master’s degree programs are designed to meet the needs of working adults. Some programs are offered exclusively online and a student progresses in the program independently. Other programs are offered one-night-a-week either in person or through videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Some colleges and universities offer classes specifically for teachers during the summer months.

Explore a variety of programs, reach out to admissions counselors to learn about your options, and talk to somebody who has gone back to school.

Will advancing my education make me overqualified?

Explore the careers you are interested in pursuing. Do you want to pursue a management position in your field? Many degree completion or master’s programs including an MBA will certainly cover managing employees, leading teams and financial management. Are you looking to go into a completely different career? Find out what qualifications are typically needed. While on the job hunt, we suspect being overqualified may be a better problem to have than being underqualified.

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Bluffton University offers a variety of programs designed specifically for working adults. Degree-completion programs are available in business management, accounting, and RN to BSN. MBA, MAOM (Master of Arts in Organizational Management), and MAEd (Master of Arts in Education) graduate degrees are obtainable.

Admissions counselors and financial aid staff are available to answer all of your questions/concerns and faculty seek to create a community where you feel supported and challenged. One of the best features of Bluffton’s adult and graduate degree programs is that class discussions and assignments often directly relate to the problems/situations you are actively dealing with in the working world. From day one, you can apply the knowledge and skills you are gaining in class to advance your career.

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US weighs sweeping travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members

The Trump administration is considering a sweeping ban on travel to the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, according to people familiar with the proposal, a move that would almost certainly prompt retaliation against Americans seeking to enter or remain in China and exacerbate tensions between the two nations.

The presidential proclamation, still in draft form, could also authorize the United States government to revoke the visas of party members and their families who are already in the country, leading to their expulsion. Some proposed language is also aimed at limiting travel to the United States by members of the People’s Liberation Army and executives at state-owned enterprises, though many of them are likely to also be party members.

Details of the plan, described by four people with knowledge of the discussions, have not yet been finalized, and President Trump might ultimately reject it. While the president and his campaign strategists have been intent on portraying him as tough on China for re-election purposes, Mr. Trump has vacillated wildly in both his language and actions on the Chinese government since taking office in 2017. He has criticized China on some issues, particularly trade. But he has also lavished praise on President Xi Jinping, pleaded with Mr. Xi to help him win re-election and remained silent or even explicitly approved of the repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.

There are practical issues as well. The Chinese Communist Party has 92 million members. Almost three million Chinese citizens visited the United States in 2018, though the numbers have plummeted because of the coronavirus pandemic and the current ban on most travelers from China. The U.S. government has no knowledge of party status for a vast majority of them. So trying to immediately identify party members to either prevent their entry or expel those already in the United States would be difficult.

The presidential order would cite the same statute in the Immigration and Nationality Act used in a 2017 travel ban on a number of predominantly Muslim countries that gives the president power to temporarily block travel to the U.S. by foreign nationals who are deemed “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” The 2017 ban was fought in the courts and expanded this year.

Such a broad ban would be the most provocative action against China by the United States since the start of the trade war between the two countries in 2018. It would further poison U.S.-China relations, even after several years of open clashes over economics, technology and global influence have led some diplomats and analysts to draw comparisons to a new Cold War.

Officials at the White House, State Department and Department of Homeland Security have been involved in the discussion over the ban. Spokesmen for the White House National Security Council and the State Department declined to comment on Wednesday, and one for the Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment.

Officials at those agencies also continue to debate a variety of formulations for banning Chinese travel to the United States short of barring all party members, such as targeting only the 25 members of the ruling Politburo and their families.

In recent months, top administration officials have tried to draw a distinction between party members and other Chinese, saying the party must be punished for its actions — and its global ambitions must be thwarted. They have loudly denounced what they call the evils of the Chinese Communist Party, pointing to the role of its officials in the cover-up of the initial coronavirus outbreak, the detentions of one million or more Muslims in internment camps and the dismantling of civil liberties in Hong Kong.

The Communist Party is both a powerful and mundane part of life in China. While its leaders maintain control of domestic and foreign policy, those on lower rungs do everything from supervising schools to managing neighborhood-level governance. In recent decades, many citizens joined to get a leg up in a wide range of sectors: business, academia and even the arts. Many party members do not conform to official ideology; some are Christians who attend underground churches, for example.

Many Chinese outside the party praise the top leadership but complain about corruption among local officials.

Counting party members as well as their families, the ban could technically bar travel to the United States for as many as 270 million people, according to one internal administration estimate. (Courtesy New York Times)

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Mitch Turner of Fort Meyers, FL.

Six years ago My dad was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer and from that very moment he spent all his time keeping a positive attitude for us and himself. He would say everyday that he was going to hang in there until they found a cure. He took 5fu chemo treatments and never complained. When they gave him 16 months off, he worked, putting a 12X8 bathroom on my home and other construction projects, played golf and traveled.

Dad wrote a letter to the editor of his newspaper about discovering he had colon cancer. He told his story from his profession. The story was about replacing a room in a man’s home that was ravaged by termites. Dad related colon cancer to the termites and urged everyone to get checked for colon cancer. It was a very powerful story and many said they got checked because of this story. He would be proud to save just one life. He donated his body to science so that maybe he could still be of some help after he was gone. His letter to the editor is below.

Illness not always apparent

While I was on my daily three mile walk, which I do in an attempt to build up my body and blood for my pending chemotherapy treatment, I started thinking about how everything in your life can be so drastically altered in a few minutes. Just a few days before my appointment for a routine colonoscopy, I had finished a job to repair some extensive termite damage. The homeowners discovered the problem when the corner of a room dropped down a couple of inches. Although I have been involved in several of these jobs, this one was one of the worst I had seen. It started me thinking how incredible these harmless looking little creatures are. Unless someone discovers them by making a visual inspection, there is likely to be a lot of problems before you know they are there. You won’t see them and they make no sound or smell. Much more incredible than that is that basically the same thing can be going on in your body.

I went to the hospital on Dec. 1, thinking that this little deal will take about an hour and after a short recovery period I would resume a project I was working on at home. I got back home on Dec. 6 with a big scar, a section of my colon missing, and an appointment with an oncologist. Fortunately, like the folks with the termites, I had a sign. I had, just by chance -by pure, blind luck- seen some blood in a place that there should not be blood and made an appointment for my annual physical. If not for the blood, I probably would have gone another two years before I got the exam. The doctor confirmed the blood, but thought it was simply from another small problem I had for a long time. He said I should have the test anyway, since I had never had one. The diagnosis was colon cancer that had spread into the lymph nodes, thus the reason for the aforementioned chemotherapy.

If you’re still reading, you may be wondering about the reason for this letter. Let me assure you that I am not soliciting money, gifts, sympathy or anything else that would be deemed personal gain. Nor am I trying to drum up business for a ridiculously overpriced medical industry. A couple of people have told me that because of my experience, they are going to have themselves checked, and that’s the reason for me speaking. Just like the termites, I saw nothing, heard nothing, smelled nothing, and felt no pain. If reading this causes someone to get a problem fixed in time to avoid going through what I have, which is small stuff compared to what thousands of other people have had to endure, then I’ll be glad I wrote it. If you would check your house for termites, why shouldn’t you check your body for things that do the same thing to your organs?

E.M. Turner
Martinsville, VA

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July 17, 2018

States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Shield On Preexisting Conditions Were Axed

By Harriet Rowan, Kaiser Health News

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If the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with preexisting medical conditions are struck down in court, residents of the Republican-led states that are challenging the law have the most to lose.

“These states have been opposed to the ACA from the beginning,” said Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “They’re hurting their most vulnerable citizens.”

Twenty Republican state attorneys general and governors challenged the constitutionality of the ACA in federal court in February. Last month, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice made the unusual decision not to defend key portions of the law against this legal challenge.

The states’ lawsuit argues that because Congress eliminated the Obamacare tax penalty for not having insurance coverage, effective next year, the entire law is unconstitutional. By extension, the suit calls on federal courts to find the health law’s protections for people with preexisting conditions unconstitutional — and Sessions agrees.

Nine of the 11 states with the highest rates of preexisting conditions among adults under 65 have signed onto the lawsuit to strike down the ACA, according to data from insurance companies and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2015 data, the most recent available, were analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2016. (Kaiser Health News, which produces California Healthline, is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)

Those who support the lawsuit contend that there are other means of protecting people with preexisting conditions.

“If a court strikes down the constitutionality of the ACA, there are ways to repeal and replace without Arizonans with preexisting conditions losing their coverage,” said Katie Conner, a spokeswoman for Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Conner said her boss, who is party to the lawsuit, believes preexisting conditions should “always be covered.” In Arizona, more than 1 in 4 adult adults under 65 have a preexisting condition, according to the data.

The state with the highest rate of adults with preexisting conditions is West Virginia — 36 percent of those under age 65. That means that about 1 in 3 of them could have a hard time buying insurance through the individual marketplace without the ACA protections.

The office of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who joined the legal challenge against the ACA, declined to comment. But a spokesman for Morrisey’s re-election campaign told PolitiFact last month that “help should be provided to those who need it most, including those with preexisting conditions.”

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit “are paying lip service to these critical protections for people, but they are in fact engaged in a strategy that would get rid of those protections,” said Justin Giovannelli, an associate research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “Frankly, it’s hard to square what they’re saying on the one hand and what they’re arguing in the courts on the other.”

According to a poll released in June, also by the Kaiser Family Foundation, three-quarters of Americans say that maintaining protections for people with preexisting conditions is “very important.” This includes majorities of Democratic, Republican and independent voters.

Before the health law was adopted, insurance companies routinely denied coverage to millions of people with preexisting conditions who purchased insurance through the individual marketplace. If they didn’t deny coverage outright, some health plans charged consumers exorbitant premiums, or offered policies that excluded coverage for pricey conditions. (Although many people got insurance through their employers or public plans that covered preexisting conditions, they could have been left vulnerable if their employment status or other circumstances changed.)

The ACA ended those practices.

Common conditions that led insurance companies to deny coverage included high blood pressure, cancer, obesity, diabetes and depression, among many others. Some people were denied for having acne, asthma or for being pregnant.

The KFF analysis estimated that at least 27 percent of adults under 65 — more than 50 million Americans — had at least one preexisting condition that would have jeopardized their coverage pre-ACA. The foundation said its estimates were an undercount because some diseases that insurers cited when declining coverage are not in the survey data. Also, each insurance company set its own rules and conditions for denials, making accurate counts of those who could be affected hard to nail down.

Less precise estimates by other researchers and the Department of Health and Human Services show that up to half of all adults under age 65 have at least one preexisting condition.

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Yes, we have trails on the ground that lead to our tree platforms, and we’re happy to provide you with a map at our Welcome Center desk.

What should I wear?
Dress for the weather! That might mean a raincoat, winter jacket, or shorts and a t-shirt. Remember that you’ll be wearing a full-body harness. Harness webbing can be uncomfortable against bare skin, so avoid short shorts or tank tops. Also, wear close-toed, close-heeled shoes, such as tennis shoes. You’ll be on your feet for about 3.5 hours, so comfort and support is key!

Can I bring my GoPro?
You can bring a GoPro along with a strap to attach it securely to the helmet you will be wearing.

Can I bring my phone?
We invite you to unplug for a few hours and leave your phone in the Welcome Center or in your car. We’ve had participants lose phones on tour, slipping out of pockets. It really is refreshing to connect with your friends and loved ones without texts and notifications distracting you, and to take in the beauty of the forest, without filters or emojis! And if you’re thinking about capturing your experience in photos, your guides will be taking photos throughout the tour, so there’s no need to risk dropping your smartphone into a river!

Do you offer a group discount?
Yes! We offer 10% off for groups of 8 or more. Since our cap on tour size is 8, special arrangements need to be made to accommodate large groups. Give us a call at 440-707-2044.

Do kids need to be supervised?
Yes, children ages 10-15 must be accompanied by an adult.

Should I tip my guides?
Your hard-working guides would certainly appreciate it, so feel free to bring some cash to tip them after the tour! The industry standard is 10%.

Are there health restrictions?
The tour requires light-to-moderate physical activity, including climbing stairs, crossing bridges, and walking over uneven terrain. If you have further questions, we’re happy to talk in detail about some of the physical requirements of the tour. If you are unsure whether you are able to participate, please consult a doctor.

Is it safe?
There are inherent risks in everything we do, from driving a car to ziplining. Our course was built according to industry standards developed by the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) and is inspected regularly by industry professionals. All guides have been trained and then verified through Project Adventure along ACCT guidelines.

The weather is calling for rain..what do I do?
We are rain or shine! Our canopy helps form a leaf umbrella over us that keeps off most of the rain, and on a hot day it can really help us cool off. Of course, we cannot zip with lightning storms nearby, high winds, or monsoon-level rain. If any weather requires us to cancel your tour, we will provide you with a raincheck to join us on a nicer day!

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After a release has been added to MB, just use a-tisket to search for its UPC or Deezer/iTunes/Spotify link. It will give you a hint that the release already exists and provide a link to the complementary links page:

If there are no disallowed countries than it is Worldwide. However, there are more than 216 “countries”. Remember, places like Guam, US Virgin Islands, American Somoa, etc. are recognized as different countries. Same goes with many other areas that are technically part of a larger country. This is why you get more than the 195 nations. However, if a release is every country, except the US (of which there are many by Rhino compilations), how can you say it technically is worldwide, if it’s not even in the US? You can say it’s Worldwide, but if someone wants to add all separately, there is nothing wrong with that. Now if there are truly no restrictions, than yes, it’s Worldwide.

Bandcamp, Beatport, etc. are not worldwide. Bandcamp now has label restrictions as well as the others.

From what I remember from the thread talking about this, these restrictions are optional (i.e. they must be implemented by the artist or label). Unless there’s another angle to this I don’t know about, e.g. if Bandcamp is not available in say, China…

I’m still researching this stuff… But I checked MusicBrainz’s own database…
There are 257 rows in the musicbrainz_db.country_area table…
And 258 rows in the musicbrainz_db.iso_3166_1 table…

249 of those are the countries listed in ISO 3166-1:2013
3 of those are the special purpose areas “XE: Europe”, “XK: Kosovo”, and “XW: [Worldwide]
6 of those areas are these countries:

  end_date_year |         name
           2010 | Netherlands Antilles
           2003 | Yugoslavia
           2006 | Serbia and Montenegro
           1991 | Soviet Union
           1990 | East Germany
           1992 | Czechoslovakia
 (6 rows)

I haven’t looked at what Spotify thinks about geography yet… I’ve mostly been seeing lists with only 216 countries… and I don’t know if that’s just all that Spotify has, or if the other 33 countries are where Spotify is never available.

Also, “XK: Kosovo” is the one row missing between 'musicbrainz_db.iso_3166_1` and ‘musicbrainz_db.country_area’, I don’t know what’s up with that.

I’m going to use https://musicbrainz.org/release/b07273cc-8e61-4180-81d1-c57f9723427d as an example, because it has 222 releases (although the MusicBrainz UI shows 3 and hides “218” more under a link, that only adds up to 221. I think it may be a MusicBrainz UI bug.)

So… I want to know: Where is this release NOT available. There’s 27 additional countries in ISO 3166-1:2013

>                      name                     | code
> ----------------------------------------------+------
>  Aruba                                        | AW
>  Faroe Islands                                | FO
>  French Guiana                                | GF
>  French Polynesia                             | PF
>  French Southern Territories                  | TF
>  Gibraltar                                    | GI
>  Greenland                                    | GL
>  Guadeloupe                                   | GP
>  Guyana                                       | GY
>  Haiti                                        | HT
>  Martinique                                   | MQ
>  Mayotte                                      | YT
>  New Caledonia                                | NC
>  Puerto Rico                                  | PR
>  Réunion                                      | RE
>  San Marino                                   | SM
>  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | SH
>  Saint Pierre and Miquelon                    | PM
>  Suriname                                     | SR
>  Vatican City                                 | VA
>  Wallis and Futuna                            | WF
>  [Worldwide]                                  | XW
>  Europe                                       | XE
>  Åland Islands                                | AX
>  Guernsey                                     | GG
>  Isle of Man                                  | IM
>  Jersey                                       | JE
>  Saint Barthélemy                             | BL
>  Saint Martin (French part)                   | MF
>  Kosovo                                       | XK
> (30 rows)

Well… Isle of Man only has 25 releases total in all of MusicBrainz… I’m guessing that Spotify doesn’t even recognize it…

Jersey only has 13 releases total in MusicBrainz…

Vatican City only has one release! I don’t think that this is because of regional licensing by record labels…

I don’t think Spotify considers Puerto Rico to be a separate licensing area from the United States…

Oh, I just looked up that singular release at the Vatican… https://musicbrainz.org/edit/65051708 That data came from Deezer

Anyway, I don’t think these countries are explicitly licensed such that these releases are explicitly not available… They’re just not explicitly included in the lists being returned by Spotify and Deezer… because they’re effectively worldwide, but Deezer doesn’t include or exclude the US Territories or the United Kingdom Overseas Territories… or the French département et régions d’outre-mer… at all

This release actually should be Worldwide. The only place disallowed according to Deezer is AN, which is no longer a country.

So, I would mark this one Worldwide. But, I’m not going to go undue something someone else edited if it’s technically correct.

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The bug has already been fixed and is in beta testing now. The next release will be on Monday.
When you view your example release on https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/b07273cc-8e61-4180-81d1-c57f9723427d it already displays (show 219 more).

Now that I’ve used this for a bit, here are some major UI Improvements which I would like:

  1. At the bottom of the “Complementary Links” page, where it says “Artist relationships”, and there’s a list of whichever artists were on this release, in a tiny font… and next to the tiny print, are a set of even smaller icons for Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer. Moving the mouse pointer, precisely onto one, and then right-clicking, and selecting ‘copy link’, takes a lot of time an fine manual dexterity.
    Presenting those links in a larger, easier to select size, will make it much easier to cut and paste the fields into the MB Artist editor form.
    1b. If it would be possible to just directly open up the edit page, and have the three URLs already filled in, so that the editor just has to read/verify/comment and click “Enter edit”, that would be ideal.
    1c. The tiny pen icon next to the artist name isn’t that obvious for going to the artist’s edit form.
  2. When you do “Search again” after a previous search, it has cleared the Deezer, Spotify, and iTunes ID numbers, but the UPC field hasn’t been cleared, so the user needs to clear it manually before searching again.
  3. Actually everything in the UI is very small and hard to read, and you need to find very small icons to click on to do most tasks. And, it’s difficult to select things, if you just want to cut and paste them.
  4. Additional services to query: Discogs, Google Play, Amazon, PsyShop, Beatport, Juno Download, Soundcloud, um… Beatspace… TraxxSource… Qobuz… there’s a few more… Bandcamp doesn’t really do queries by EAN/UPC… and neither do some of these others… but even just a link to the search page with the artist name and track/album title pre-filled in would save a lot of time. (Amazon does search by UPC I know. And Discogs too, if anyone has actually put the EAN/UPC into discogs for the thing.)
    You can pull the search terms (artist names, catalog numbers, ISRCs, etc.) out from the results from other services, which were queried by EAN/UPC.

Not sure this has been reported, but the logo for this script/page doesn’t load for me. Here is what Brave/Chromium reports:
This page contains the following errors: error on line 5 at column 67: xmlns:ns: '&#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;ns_sfw;' is not a valid URI Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Something I’ve noticed: If a release is only available for streaming on Apple Music (as opposed to purchase in the iTunes Store), querying it via the seeder (via the iTunes API) will return a release with no tracklist. @marlonob, are there any plans to add Apple Music support in the future?

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The logo doesn’t work in Safari 13.1, I get this error:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 5 at column 67: xmlns:ns: '&#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;ns_sfw;' is not a valid URI

I get the same error for the favicon as well:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 5 at column 59: xmlns:ns: '&#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;#38;ns_sfw;' is not a valid URI

Also, as other people have mentioned, the image in the upper left corner of the page doesn’t load.

So, thinking about #2 above, clearing the fields automatically may not actually be a good idea after all, because on quite a few occasions I’ve needed to re-run the exact same query as before… but several minutes later after I’ve added a release on MusicBrainz to get the new MB release to show up on the page… because…

  1. The page of “Complementary links”, doesn’t have a link appear unless there is already a release in MusicBrainz with the same UPC/EAN.

So, most of the time, there’s already a release in MB, but without a UPC… so I look it up manually on MB, and then I use A-Tisket to lookup the Spotify/Deezer/etc. links and UPC… and then I cut and paste those into the existing digital release. (Usually it’s from Bandcamp)

But the link to the page of “Complementary links” doesn’t appear until after there’s something in MB already with a matching UPC, so I need to “Search again” for the exact same thing, again. And then I can get to that page…

  1. On the complementary links page, If the release album artist is “Various Artists” the edit icon goes to the edit page for that special artist… which most editors can’t edit.

As a general UI workflow note, with Chrome on OSX, if I have A-Tasket’s Complementary links page open in one window, and the MB Artist edit form open in another window. I can drag and drop the links from the tiny icons on one window, into the URL fields of the other window. It requires much less dexterity than right-clicking on everything and selecting things while trying not to click them, etc. etc.

Is the code available via Git yet? I’d love to take a look and help out, maybe host another version if your Spotify API key is getting too much use. I’d love to contribute to this project as well. Thanks

Unfortunately the detection of missing artist relationships on the complementary links page has stopped working correctly. It has started to suggest links for all(?) involved artists, regardless whether they are already linked on MB or not.
Can you please fix this @marlonob? An alternative would be to provide the current version of your source code (ideally via Git), because I guess there are a lot of people who love your tool and would like to help improving it. Thank you.

Maybe a bug in relation with recent change made by Apple (iTunes change alert).

No results could be retrieved for this 3 iTunes id:

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I think that bug may have something to do with the release being an Apple Digital Master. I tried looking up this ID via the seeder, but it didn’t work:

The link, if you open it, shows a release, and the “Also available in the iTunes Store” link works, but running it through the seeder doesn’t.
Fortunately I had already imported a UPC for that release, and I was able to get results by feeding that into the seeder. So if you run into this issue again, you could try searching using the UPC, if you or someone else has already managed to extract it.

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Anyone have the code that was posted? It seems this link is broken. I’m interested in hosting it on github.

I found a couple of streaming services we could potentially add support for:

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Spotify has updated their country list again.

If editors have noticed the past couple of days of a blank country being added by the seeder, that is Kosovo. Which isn’t on the country availability pull down list on MB. That needs to be added. I reopened (https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/AREQ-269), but I’m not sure if area request is where this change comes from as that is typically just places for relationships.


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Hi Everyone,

I will go with my girlfriend in Scotland soon : March 13rd to March 26th
I've some questions about the available of some different touristic tours inside our trip.
(sorry for my English, I'll try to do my best :smile: )

I've already search on web and books, but I want to be sure before buying tickets, could you help us ?

The Jacobite Steam Train will be closed during this trip ?
The Staffa (Fingal's Cave) too ?

By the Ferry /

Could we'll go to Ullapool to Stornoway on March 19th ?
Could we'll go to Tarbert to Uig on March 21st ?
Could we'll go to Oban to Isle of Mull on March 23rd ?
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Local entrepreneurs sell through big retailers

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Like many independent business owners, Christine Trice has a product she believes in and plenty of potential customers. Trice, the owner of Sacramento-based Brown Bag Botanicals, also has a limited marketing budget to reach those customers.

So when Whole Foods Market contacted her in June about her organic skin-care products, the retail chain didn’t have to wait long for an answer.

“It was a huge ego stroke,” she says. “I said, ‘Let me think about it … yes!’ Then I did a couple of cartwheels.”

Trice says that while landing a deal with a major retailer provides valuable exposure and increased sales volume, the process isn’t easy and the results aren’t certain.

Olivier Rubel, an assistant professor of marketing at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, echoes these sentiments. When products from small businesses and entrepreneurs are picked up by major chain stores, it can be “both a blessing and a curse.”

It can lead to greater exposure and, potentially, new markets. Selling to large retailers is proof that these small businesses are selling competitive products and able to manage larger orders.

But these deals aren’t without risk, he says.

For one, large companies have more bargaining power.

“The small company is in a weak position that will force it to accept concessions in terms of margins,” he says.

Stacy Paragary, part owner of Paragary Restaurant Group, which operates 12 locations in the Sacramento area, can attest to this. About five years ago, her company was among the first of a few local businesses to sell discounted gift cards through Sacramento-area Costco stores.

Costco buys gift cards from the restaurant group at a steeply discounted price and sells them for $79.99 for $100 in cards at five locations.

But, while the per-meal profit is less, the trade-off in volume is worth it, Paragary says, adding that her company sells Costco more than $100,000 in gift cards a year. “We’ve always looked at that discount as marketing dollars,” she says.

She knows there are plenty of Costco customers who have never dined in her restaurants, but they will be browsing for holiday gifts and could pick up one of those cards.

“How many of us go to Costco and we have a list, but we end up buying 10 times what’s on the list because you’re standing there and think, ‘Hey, this is a good deal,’” Paragary says.

Likewise, the recipient of that gift card may also be a new customer. If someone sees the name Paragary’s on the shelf, she says, that’s advertising.

With an increasing number of customers buying gift cards at Costco, it means far fewer are buying cards at the restaurants. And when cards are sold at the restaurants, customers tend to expect similarly priced incentives. The restaurants compensate by offering their own specials.

This is partly why she has opted to sell the company’s cards only to Costco during the holiday season. The other reason is a spike in workload.

While landing a deal with a major retailer provides valuable â?¨exposure and increased sales volume, the process isn’t easy and the results aren’t certain.

“It keeps us on our toes,” Paragary says. “(Costco) is usually sending purchase orders daily a week before Christmas. … They want them FedExed overnight and in the store the next morning at 8 a.m. They don’t want to purchase them too far in advance and be stuck with them.” Other times, an employee has had to physically drive to Costco because they needed them the same day.

“You don’t tell them ‘no’ because then you might not be in their stores the next year,” Paragary says.

Trice also has seen the pros and the cons of dealing with big business. She says it’s imperative to prepare for the worst and know how to bounce back when things don’t go well. Almost three years ago, Trice’s products were picked up by the high-end maternity retailer, Babystyle.

“In the blink of an eye after getting that account — which to me was the Holy Grail — they filed for bankruptcy and went out of business,” she says.

So she picked herself up and changed directions. “With the way that the market is, I just had to reposition,” she says.

She realized that making products for wealthy celebrity moms-to-be wasn’t her company’s goal. “I had to get in touch with my core values of why I started Brown Bag Botanicals,” she says. So she shifted her focus to the green-products market, which is in part what attracted the attention of Whole Foods.

This time around, the results look much more promising, but still the experience has required patience, perseverance and impeccable organizational skills. “It was supposed to be a two- or three-week process — and here we are months later,” she says.

After countless phone calls and e-mails with people from the local and corporate levels and stacks of paperwork, she’s hoping for a launch date before Christmas. “I just want a purchase order, so I can sleep,” she says.

Not that she’s complaining. One reason it’s taken so long is that her distribution has expanded from just the Roseville store to possibly all of Northern California, she says. And, she adds that her time and effort will pay off when her line of shea butters finally hits the shelves.

She has plenty of advice for other small businesses who hope to land similar deals with major retailers. It’s important to be proactive, responsive, available and flexible, especially in this economy, she says.

And be visible. Her simple willingness to give back to the community gave her valuable exposure. About two-and-a-half-years ago, she was teaching a class through Borders “trying to empower people to read labels and make educated purchases in skin and body care, regardless of the brand.”

 A couple of Whole Foods buyers just happened to be at Borders during one of her classes.

Rubel agrees with Trice’s advice to prepare for the unexpected and be flexible. One of the biggest risks for a small business would be becoming too reliant on one gravy deal, he says.

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The schedule report shows forecasted release dates, and lets you break work down, based on projects, teams, team members.

You can configure the following settings when viewing the schedule report:

  • Line — By project, to view project-specific issues in dedicated swimlanes or lines per project, or global, to view all issues without project-specific swimlanes
  • Grouping — Group issues by team, person, label, or component
  • Coloring — Display issues in a single color or by theme color
  • Zoom — Zoom in or out on the issues displayed in the report
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Website Design trends are constantly changing. Every year brings new standards. This year’s website design trends include unique typography, flat design, large hero areas, mobile, videos instead of text, long scrolling sites, simple color schemes, simple content, no sidebar, and new technology. Some of these website design trends will stay and others will go but this post gives you the scoop on what we predict the top ten website design trends will be in 2014.

1. Unique Typography

For many years websites have used standard serif and san-serif fonts like Helvetica.  In 2013 there was a shift to more unique fonts with personality. This trend is definitely going to continue in 2014.

2. Flat Design

You can thank Apple for this one. With the release of iOS7 came the design aesthetic most commonly known as “flat design.” While eliminating drop shadows and gradients might seems like a good idea in some cases to give a more updated look to things, Apple took it to a whole other level by dropping pretty much any design element it could.

Apple has for a long time been a trendsetter, and what Apple does, the rest of the world seems to follow. iOS7 has been out for a while and already there are a flood of sites coming online every day with new “flat” designs.

3. Say Goodbye to Sliders and Hello to Large Hero Areas

Large hero areas (the “intro” area, often an image with a little amount of text, at the top of a website – a borrowed term from print design) on website home pages are very popular right now. Look at Line25’s Sites of the Week for the first week of January and you’ll see that almost all of them reflect this change in design.

4. Greater Focus on Mobile

Now that responsive web design is more commonplace, developers and designers are focusing more attention on the mobile audience (which is growing constantly). Integration with social media, asking for email subscriptions, long scrolling sites (see below), and fast loading sites all help make the mobile Web a more friendlier place in 2014.

5. Videos in Place of Text

Why read about something when you can watch it? In 2014, you will start to see websites with large videos in the hero area. The cost of video production is going down and they are increasingly easier to share online and on social media.

6. Long Scrolling Sites

Sometimes these are called one-page sites. This is a design feature that has come full circle. Websites used to have way too much content on long scrolling pages and then there was a shift to more complicated menu structures and additional pages. Responsive design and designing for a mobile audience has led us back to the idea that it’s actually comfortable to scroll down through content. The difference that 2014 brings is a greater attention to design – look for long scrolling sites with plenty of white space, unique layout, and fonts.

7. Simple Color Schemes

In 2014, we will see a lot more website with very simple color schemes. And by simple, we mean really only one or two colors.

Take for instance the UIKit site above. That site has only one hue: blue (in design and art, white and black aren’t considered colors, but neutrals). The use of a more simple color scheme seems to come with flat design (discussed above), but not always. The site above uses blue predominantly throughout the design, but it is the only color you see.

Some websites being launched now are using very little color, or even forgoing color all together. White, black, and everything in between are popular color schemes now, and adding just a hit of another color, such as red, adds drama and impact – all things that garnish attention when used in the right way.

8. Simplified Content

Simplified content means short bursts of content, a la Twitter style. Over the years as a population, our attention spans have become shorter, so designers have compensated for that by putting content in short bursts instead of long narratives. Not many areas (aside from blog posts) have more than 250 characters. This is because readers are scanning as a new way to consume content.

9. Dropping the Sidebar

You see this more in magazine and news sites, but many are experimenting with dropping the sidebar altogether. This allows for a more visual with content.

10. Manipulated Imagery

In 2014, we are going to see sites with images that have color overlays, blurred images, or even images that are reminiscent of Instagram images with filters.

11. Bonus – Cool New Website Technology

We are going to continue to see websites experiment with cool new HTML5-driven technology. For example, Tobi’s Story’s website is a great use of really cool things done in a great way.

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Ella Flagg Young

In the biography of Chicago’s Ella Flagg Young written by her former colleague John McManis, there’s a story from her childhood that anticipates her later interest, as a leader in the nation’s second largest school system, in manual training programs. She was fortunate, she told McManis, at being able to learn about mechanics and applied math at the knee of her father, a noted metalworker who would frequently have his curious daughter accompany him to his place of work.

Young at her desk as superintendent of Chicago schools

So, though Young’s writings about the benefits of manual training programs in the schools of her day are not so well-known as those of her colleague John Dewey, they are all infused with her strong belief in the importance of this practical experience. From 1887, when she became a deputy superintendent, until her retirement nearly 30 years later, Young advocated for vocational as well as academic education for all students — so long as it was in accord with her equally strong belief that schools should encourage all students to choose their own path through life, rather than be constrained by the circumstances of their birth.

Listed at right are Young’s known comments on manual training and its value, particularly in secondary schools. Her thoughts on the subject in reports to the Chicago board of education have not yet been compiled.

  • “Address to Chicago Women’s Club,” given 1899; excerpt in McManis, Ella Flagg Young, page 82 (see below for full reference).
  • Isolation in the School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1901. (Though Young addresses manual training mainly by implication in this work, its themes throughout are the need for greater cooperation between and among all elements of the school system and education’s role in preparing students for their future as citizens in a democracy.)
  •  “Handwork and Manual Training,” Educational Bi- Monthly 1, 4 (June 1907).
  • “The Proper Articulation of Technical Education within the System of Public Education,” Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association, 1907, 1037-1041.
  • “Reciprocal Relations between Subject-Matters in Secondary Education,” Educational Bi-Monthly 3, 1 (October 1908): 75-84 (originally an address at Oberlin College, June 19, 1908).
  • “The Public High School,” School Review 18, 2 (February 1910): 73-83.
  • “New Demands on High Schools,” Journal of Education 72 (November 1910): 453-54.
  • “Children Should Have Industrial Education Unless They Go to College,” Journal of Education 74 (November 16, 1911): 514.
  • “Educational Notes,” Catholic Educational Review 5 (1913): 161-162.
  • “Industrial Training” (McManis referred to this as “Vocational Training for Girls.”) Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association, 1915, page 125-127.
  • “Los Angeles Schools: Ten Years in Advance of the Times,” Journal of Education 84 (February 24, 1916).
These two pages, from the Appendix to the McManis book, describe CPS manual training programs while Young was superintendent.

Writings about Young

Young was the subject of my 2005 dissertation; her distinguished career has also been the subject of papers by Jackie Blount, who is working on the definitive biography of Young (she also has a website dedicated to Young under construction). Given below are references to some of the most significant work on Young – two recent articles Blount has written, another written by Ellen Lagemann over 20 years ago, the book by John McManis, and my 2005 dissertation. Also on the list is an unpublished paper I wrote, which indirectly at least led to my interest in manual training programs, particularly as a means to address the ills of urban schools.

Among Young’s outstanding traits was her ability to raise differences about ideas and practices to a “higher plane of thought”; her motto, from the McManis book, attests to this.

Eventually, this page will include references to manual training programs established in Chicago either by Young (and Dewey) or while she held leadership positions in the Chicago schools.

  • Jackie M. Blount, “The Mutual Intellectual Relationship of John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young,” in Antonette Errante, Jackie M. Blount, and Bruce Kimball, eds., Philosophy and History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); and “Ella Flagg Young and the Gender Politics of Democracy and Education,Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16 (2017): 409-423.
  • Rosemary Donatelli, “The Contributions of Ella Flagg Young to the Educational Enterprise (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1971).
  • Connie Goddard “Ella Flagg Young’s Intellectual Legacy: Theory and Practice in Chicago’s Schools, 1862-1917 (Ph.D. diss, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005); and “Democratic Schools for an Isolated Community: Interactions among the Educational Programs of Ella Flagg Young, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois (unpublished paper, University of Illinois at Chicago, Summer 2003).
  • Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, “Experimenting with Education: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago.” American Journal of Education 104, 3 (May 1996): 171-185.

Credits: Picture of Young, from the Chicago History Museum; others from the McManis biography.

  • John McManis,. Ella Flagg Young and a Half-Century of the Chicago Public Schools. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1916. (Of interest is that McClurg, a noted progressive-era publisher and bookstore owner in Chicago, also urged W.E.B. Du Bois to compile the essays that appeared in 1903 as The Souls of Black Folk.)
  • Jane Dewey, “Biography of John Dewey,” in Paul Arthur Schilpp and Lewis Edward Hahn, eds., The Philosophy of John Dewey. LaSalle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, reprint 1970. (In this piece, Dewey wrote about her father’s reliance on Young for her ability to make concrete through her experience his ideas about schooling.)
  • John Dewey, “Significance of the School of Education, Elementary School Teacher 4 (1904): 441-453; also Middle Works 3: 273-284. (In this paper, Dewey described the relationship among the several K-12 schools for which he was responsible in his last two years at the University of Chicago; it included the Chicago Manual Training School.)
  • Joan K. Smith, Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader. Ames, IA: Educational Studies Press, 1976.


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Many families lose wealth after the death of a family member. More specifically, these families often don’t timely claim Texas inherited real property. This inaction makes the inherited real property vulnerable to loss.  Further, banks and opportunists commonly take vulnerable inherited property through adverse possession or foreclosure. For this reason families should timely claim Texas inherited property. This blog post provides  information on how to claim Texas inherited property.

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Heirs and Beneficiaries Should First Determine Their Inherited Ownership Interests In Texas Real Property

After a family member dies, their heirs and beneficiaries need to claim inheritance. To begin, the  heirs and beneficiaries should determine their inheritance interests.  Unfortunately, this first step is not always easy as Texas probate law allows many different types of inheritance including Wills, trusts, and intestate succession.

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