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Chapter 62 - Underground Holy Spring
Yu Ang’s diligent cultivation was for himself. Even if his father, Mu Zhuoyun, had arranged a Magic Duel for him an year from now, Yu Ang genuinely did not put this matter in his heart.
“Why don’t you head over, I’ll be right there with you,” Mu He told him.
Yu Ang nodded as he walked toward the Master’s house.
After going through an artificial garden, Yu Ang stepped into an unusual little courtyard.
In an European-styled Mansion like this, having an antique tea house was extremely strange.
“Father, I don’t understand why you have arranged a boring duel for me.” Yu Ang sat down to the side as he addressed Mu Zhuoyun.
“If we were to only invite high-class people, family members, and people of your age on your Coming-of-age Ceremony, then that would be extremely dreary. The opportunity of gathering the most important and well-known people of Bo City into a single place is quite difficult. If there was be a duel during your Coming-of-age Ceremony, then I’m sure a lot of people would have a more positive opinion of you. There are certain matters which older generations like me just cannot interfere with; thus, you need to use your own superior strength to subdue the seniors and peers watching you; this way you will also gain prestige. Having that will assist you greatly when you control the city later on.” Mu Zhuoyun sipped the tea as he talked about his plans.
“Then you should arrange for me a more suitable opponent,” Yu Ang replied.
“In the beginning, I also thought that having a small character like this would be a child’s play for you during your Coming-of-age Ceremony, so I was also considering about whether I should’ve arranged for someone more appropriate. However, now it doesn’t seem that way anymore. After all, it’s essentially a battle between me, Deng Kai, and Principal Zhu.” Mu Zhuoyun said.
“What do you mean?” Yu Ang was confused as he asked.
“Your opponent, Mo Fan, has already grasped the second level of Fire Burst. The progress of his cultivation has exceeded everyone’s expectations. Being able to achieve this kind of result in just a short year means he’s not just some minor character. Presently, he is the most outstanding student of Tian Lan Magic High, and he has gained the attention of Deng Kai, Zhan Kong, and Principal Zhu. Now, if I wanted to pull anything on this kid, I believe the others most likely wouldn’t let me do it… This really has caught me by surprise. The cultivation of the son of a driver is actually not any slower than the preeminent disciples of our ancestral families. If he was more discreet, than you wouldn’t have to know anything about the matters between Deng Kai and I,” Mu Zhuoyun explained with a cold smile.
“In that case, there might be some interesting things happening.” Yu Ang looked greatly relieved.
If a weak opponent were to appear at his Coming-of-Age Ceremony, then that wouldn’t be earning himself any prestige; instead, it would be giving this scoundrel his spotlight, as well as not being able to demonstrate the strength that exceeded his peers of the same age.
The Mu Family regarded the younger generations’ Coming-of-Age ceremonies as their most important, and it could be said that the Coming-of-age Ceremony was their grandest ceremony. If the youths were strong, then the family clan was strong; this would allow them to claim power within Bo City at an early age. Having the older generations jumping out and showing off their strength wasn’t always appropriate. If they were to have their younger generations of disciples demonstrate their overwhelming dominance to their peers, wouldn’t that be demonstrating the Mu Family’s absolute power?
Mu Ningxue was at the Imperial Capital, which was at an even higher domain.
Bo City would also need an outstanding young Magician who could carry the banner, right?
Yu Ang was an excellent successor for controlling the city. Mu Zhuoyun wanted to meticulously nurture him so that he could stand at the peak of Bo City.
Whether the path of the future would be smooth would naturally depend on the beginning. Other disciples’ Coming-of-age Ceremonies could be arranged in a small manner. However, Yu Ang’s Coming-of-age Ceremony needed to be grand. It had to have grandeur, it had to have guests, and it had to amaze the world!
That brat Mo Fan does indeed exceed our expectations. However, he is only a stepping stone for the growth of an elite youngster like Yu Ang!
However, would this scheming Mu Zhuoyun tell Yu Ang that he was allowing the young man to be nurtured with a large amount of resources, so that when he reached a high position and held a large power, he would only be someone else’s stepping stone? That person would be Mu Zhuoyun’s biological daughter, Mu Ningxue!
Mu Ningxue is the most perfect successor for Mu Zhuoyun. Since Bo City was too small, his only choice was to nurture another trusted aide so he could properly control Bo City and the native lands of the family.
“Don’t worry, after the end of the Coming-of-age Ceremony, I will open up the Underground Holy Spring of Bo City for you. You will have a week’s worth of cultivation time in there. This one week will be enough to allow your cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds; then your peers in Bo City will no longer be placed in your eyes!” Mu Zhuoyun said calmly.
“Father, is that Underground Holy Spring really that magical?” Yu Ang’s eyes glistened as he asked this.
“Of course. You know of a Stardust Magic Tool right? This Underground Holy Spring is equivalent to a Stardust Magic Tool that reinforces your strength by countless times. It doesn’t just simply ease your fatigue, it is also a Holy Ground for the nurturing of your cultivation speed! Whether it is meditation or ‘Control’, the spring is the most perfect place for it. The Underground Holy Spring isn’t something you can open at will; thus, once you enter, you will have to put your entire mind into cultivation. This is because this could possibly be the best opportunity for you to attack the Intermediate level!” Mu Zhuoyun said.
“Int.. Intermediate? Aren’t I still quite a bit far from that??” Yu Ang was a bit startled.
“If you didn’t enter the Underground Holy Spring, then you would still be quite far from it. However, if you were obtain the opportunity this time, then that would be different,” Mu Zhuoyun said as he rubbed his mustache.
“Father, just how did this Underground Holy Spring of Bo City come to be? How can it have such an incredible effect?”
“The Underground Holy Spring has a long history, there is no need for you to know it. All you need to remember is that the Underground Holy Spring is an amazing cultivation opportunity that you only get once in your life.” Mu Zhuoyun no longer said anything else.
Yu Ang nodded several times in understanding.
Assuming that it was able to allow a person to break through the Primary level and tread upon the Intermediate level which many yearned for, this Underground Holy Spring of Bo City was indeed extremely important!
Translator: Tofu
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On the 100th day since the arrest of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the National Press Club of Australia joins its counterparts in clubs throughout Asia calling for their immediate release.
The two journalists were engaged in normal reporting activities, and had not committed any wrongdoing. All charges against them should be dropped.
Their lawyers have raised concerns that their health has deteriorated at Insein prison in Yangon. The relevant authorities should ensure that this issue is properly addressed given the notoriously bad conditions in Myanmar’s outdated penal system.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while reporting on the killing of 10 Muslim men buried in a mass grave in Rakhine state. They have been prosecuted under the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, and have appeared in court 10 times since they were arrested on Dec. 12. They are charged with possessing secret government papers, and are being held alongside criminals convicted of serious crimes.
The two reporters had been invited by police officers to a meeting at which they were handed the documents. They have told family members they were arrested almost immediately afterwards, and before they had a chance to review their contents.
Their lawyers say numerous inconsistencies over the facts of the arrest and evidence of breaches in police procedure have been revealed in the testimony of prosecution witnesses. One police officer told the court that information in the documents they are accused of possessing had already been published in local media.
A verdict is possible in the coming weeks, and the outcome will have repercussions for Myanmar and the entire region, where press freedom is increasingly under attack.
The professional membership of the FCCT joins calls on State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government to act to defend press freedom. It is in the interests of all that Myanmar respects the beneficial role of a free and independent media, and ensures that journalists are able to work without threat of retaliation.
“We are not doing anything wrong,” Kyaw Soe Oo told reporters after the pair were formally charged. “Please help us by uncovering the truth.”
Those wishing to support press freedom and the release of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe can sign an online petition at
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How Airline Workers Learn to Deal With You
EVANSVILLE, Wyo. — The father who fell under suspicion for human trafficking while traveling with his daughter. The couple accused by United of self-upgrading who were downgraded right off their flight. An American Airlines employee who confronted a mother with a stroller. And Dr. David Dao, dragged and bloodied, who earned a place in aviation history that he probably did not want.
To many travelers, these and other onboard incidents from just the past couple of weeks represent an airline industry out of control, with power-hungry personnel who bring down the hammer if they sense even a whiff of wrongdoing.
People who work on the industry’s front lines, however, consider themselves first responders of the airport and the skies, awkwardly embracing the newfound expectation that they’re as responsible for passenger safety as those who pilot the jets. They do so, many say, without proper staffing or resources, and amid managerial suspicion and passenger disrespect.
So what exactly are they thinking as they eyeball every one of us? This past week, I tried to find out, offering to enroll in any and all conflict de-escalation courses that American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United offered to their employees. No airline would sign me up, and neither would the International Air Transport Association.
Instead, I did the next best thing and hopped a couple of United flights to Wyoming for a seven-hour Verbal Judo class, which I completed alongside 20 mild-mannered court clerks from around the state and one soft-spoken security officer. Taught by Joel Francis, a two-decade veteran of the New York Police Department, the class involved no physical grappling.
Instead, Mr. Francis billed his discipline as a martial art of the mind and mouth — a curriculum that has put thousands of airline workers, corrections officers and a handful of Chicago Cubs security guards in a better position to persuade customers and members of the public to follow rules without feeling as if they were losing face.
The tactics are not new. In fact, they echo common-sense practices that flight attendants and training specialists described to me all week. But getting inside the heads of airline workers can go a long way toward understanding the particular stresses they face — and help passengers avoid provocations that can lead to those rare instances of viral meltdown.
Worrying about all of this was not always necessary. Flight attendants were nurses first, given the somewhat primitive nature of pressurized cabins back in the day. Then they were more like waitresses who had to graduate from “charm farms.” By the 1970s, hot-pants-wearing Southwest hostesses were flying in and out of Love Field in Dallas, and the airline’s stock symbol was LUV.
The romance ended abruptly after the terrorist attacks in 2001, and a tumultuous decade followed. Demand for air travel wavered, pricing came under pressure, fuel costs spiked, and the industry endured a wave of bankruptcies. Airlines cut staff, costs, legroom and amenities, even as security hassles grew and confusion reigned.
“Never was the need for better customer service greater, and never was the money more scarce,” said Tom Murphy, a veteran trainer of airport and airline workers.
All that cost-cutting got very expensive, since the employees who endured it were not always particularly happy when they showed up for work. Neither were passengers once seats narrowed and the space between rows disappeared. Perhaps they were worried about missing their cruise ship’s departure. Or maybe they were sick, or stressed out, or scared of the hostile passenger staring at them. Or perhaps they let their little-bit-racist minds wander to the intentions of the darker-skinned person minding his own business while scribbling math equations in a notebook.
Whatever it was, once passengers were packed in a narrow tube six miles high, it was only natural that many of them would lose their patience. Not long ago, passengers knew that airlines didn’t care about their comfort, but at least those carriers abused their front-line employees, too.
“In many ways, there had been this common bond,” said Sara Nelson, a United flight attendant and international president of the Association of Flight Attendants. “But since the airlines started making money again, the empathy is not necessarily there.”
The Voice
Mr. Francis cut his professional teeth on New York City subway trains, not planes, and often lacked any backup when he worked underground as a transit officer starting in 1981. He used his fists for self-defense when necessary but found his words much more useful. His own experience learning Verbal Judo led to full-time work as a roving instructor after he retired from the New York Police Department.
On Thursday, in front of a hotel conference room here filled with women nibbling clementines and brownie bites, he cut an imposing figure, with his physique still fit from actual martial arts, his booming voice and his skill with a well-placed swear word.
But one of his first lessons for pupils is vocal modulation. “Can you start a fight just by being sarcastic?” he asked. Then he answered by demonstrating just how easily people can perceive a profane insult at the end of the phrase “Have a nice day!”
So when gate agents or flight attendants slow down dramatically, lower their voice or get down on one knee to address you, it’s probably on purpose. And you’ll probably calm down, lest you feel utterly hysterical and completely ridiculous.
The Explainer
“Working for an airline is almost like being in Scientology, because the language they use is one that people don’t understand,” said Heather Poole, an American Airlines flight attendant and the author of the best-selling book “Cruising Attitude.” “I kind of wonder whether it was a way to keep passengers from understanding.”
It’s the kind of thing you don’t notice until you aim to notice. On my United flights to Wyoming, there was an unexplained delay, chirpy insistence that an obviously delayed flight would leave on time, a failure to explain how easy it was to make up time en route when so much padding is added to the actual flight time and, finally, the seeming foolishness of forcing frazzled people to stuff wheelie bags that will fit in the overhead bins (with room to spare) into a gate-side sizer (where they may not).
“What is the most American question of all?” Mr. Francis asked his court clerks on Thursday. “Why!” they shouted in unison, as if they’d taken the class before.
He learned from his mentor that 70 percent of people will do what you ask them to do as long as you explain why you want them to do it, and the women in the room — who deal with far more criminals than airline staff members do — did not challenge him on the statistic.
It’s not clear that every airline employee has figured out how to anticipate the whys, however. Passengers are often in the dark about why employees need to bump people off a flight or whether there is any good reason not to bribe them with more money before forcing them off.
“What are we doing when we explain why?” Mr. Francis said. “We are showing people respect.”
Many flight crews do quite well at this, and some extremely frequent fliers don’t want to be bothered. Then, however, there are the employees who don’t want passengers challenging their authority and resent innocent questions born of ignorance created by the silence from those very employees.
Mr. Francis has no patience for such people or the managers who muzzle them. “My job is to create a situation where people can comply with me and still save face,” he said. “If they do, I won just because they got an explanation.”
The Choice (Is Yours)
This bit of context setting is part of a five-step process that begins with an employee’s ask and ends with a confirmation and the requested action. After the why, there may need to be a set of options if someone is not satisfied with the explanation and proceeds to do his own thing in spite of the ask.
Take the airplane standers who defy the sit down-seat belt sign and threaten the on-time departure that is the subject of so much management attention. Ms. Nelson, the flight attendant union president, knows just what to do with them.
“‘Sir,’” she demonstrated for me in a phone interview. “‘If you don’t sit in your seat, you are going to be removed. You have a choice here, and I want to give you that choice. But I want you to be really clear about what your options are.’”
Mr. Francis endorses this, sort of, but he likes his students to present a positive choice first. Someone who jumps at that choice straightaway may not need to experience the ill will that a threat might sow.
This was something I struggled with as Mr. Francis and I acted out role-playing parts in front a room with cattle-branding irons on the mantel of a stone fireplace. My instincts, apparently, were a tad too confrontational: I kept wanting to threaten him with arrest for staying in an imaginary park in Brooklyn for too long rather than shooing him off to a nice diner down the street. He kept calling me “Rookie.”
The Switcheroo
While there are fewer flight attendants on many flights than there once were, those on a team will sometimes substitute for a colleague stuck with a hard case.
Gary Leff, whose trenchant blogging about the airline industry gives some executives fits, witnessed one save two years ago that was particularly memorable. His seatmate in first class turned up with her own wine, having dumped her drink from the airport club into a to-go cup.
A flight attendant, who had clearly seen this transgression before, moved in for the confiscation, since it’s against the rules to uncork your own booze on a commercial flight. But the passenger refused to give it up, even though she was offered a positive choice in the form of replacement wine post-takeoff.
At that point, the flight attendant had had enough and threatened to call in the police. “It would not have been wrong,” Mr. Leff said. “But there was an easier way to solve it.”
Indeed, before anyone picked up the phone to call the people with the handcuffs and the guns, a role switch took place and a calmer member of the team swooped in to defuse the situation.
The Bum Pincher
Yes, these people are still out there. Most flight attendants have at least one story.
When it happened to Ms. Poole not so long ago while she was up in the air, she had a choice to make. Drawing a hard line might mean alerting the captain, diverting the flight or at least having the police waiting upon landing to file charges. At that point, she might miss her connection or not get enough rest and then not be able to legally work flights the next day, which would have threatened her livelihood.
So she told the man to sit down, but later he pinched her again. “If someone is a jerk to me, I am probably not going to see them again the way I would if I worked in a bank and someone pinched me,” she said. “It is a little easier in my industry to let that go.”
Verbal Judo may fail the airline worker here, since the violation of personal space is normally a sign that words have failed and that you need to take action. Mr. Francis, who has two daughters, had an instinctive reaction: What about all of Ms. Poole’s colleagues who will be subject to the passenger’s future advances if nobody teaches him a lesson?
“But that’s easy for me to say, because I’m not the one who has to get called in,” Mr. Francis said, nursing a glass of tequila after our day with the court clerks. “And depending on how the company handled it, it could be humiliating. Who am I to say what she should have done? It’s her choice. It has to be.”
Anyone intent on committing assault miles above the police, however, shouldn’t necessarily count on other flight attendants to make the same choice.
The Security Threat
The lady in 3B having a do-it-yourself happy hour was certainly breaking the rules. And no one should jump to the defense of the man with the wandering hands.
But were either of them an actual security threat such that they deserved to be tossed off the plane or isolated and handcuffed while still in the air?
Mr. Leff has been vocal about how airlines have watered down the definition of potential security risks — and not in a good way. “They’ve created a space in which you’re asking crew to evaluate what constitutes a threat,” he said. “Which could include refusing instructions, whatever those may be, which gradually gets interpreted as talking back to a crew member or just being rude, which may be unintentional.”
Here, he points to another blogger who was asked to leave a flight for taking pictures of the seat back in front of him. His eviction was based on a very loose reading of a no-photographing-the-crew rule and a reportedly false accusation that he did not comply with a flight attendant’s order to put down his phone camera.
Mr. Leff also has a friend, he said, who ran into a flight attendant recently who threatened to summon law enforcement when the friend asked the flight attendant to be careful of the delicate items she had placed in the overhead bin.
Hogwash, said Ms. Poole, the flight attendant for American. She would never come close to removing a passenger without careful consultation with colleagues to make sure everyone reads the situation the same way. Besides, she said, nobody wants to come in on a day off to have the inevitable talk with managers about an incident, let alone become an unwitting YouTube star. “We put up with a lot more than someone would put up with in any other job just to avoid those things,” she said.
Mr. Leff was quick to note that he does not know precisely which borderline passenger behaviors should be declared removal-worthy. “But I also think that airlines have allowed consideration of the question to take a back seat,” he said, “where they are too quick to tell people to call law enforcement and don’t draw a line in the right place or invest enough in the customer-service element.”
The union president, Ms. Nelson, agrees with that last point. One possible solution, she said, is to have more employees on the plane. If there are not enough eyes to see how a conflict began, it can be hard to adjudicate it. “If we’re not right there,” she said, “it’s either too late, or has become a really big problem by the time we can get there.”
The Mile-Making Machine
Things go awry. No airline is perfect, and no single flight is, either. Not everyone wants a free drink for the trouble, however, and airlines have typically had little else to offer angry people in the moment.
Enter Delta’s hand-held mile-making machine, which it uses for “service recovery.” Did your tray table fall apart in your hands as you attempted to use it? That will be 5,000 SkyMiles into your account. A Delta spokesman could not provide a menu of points possibilities for people who qualify for said recovery but said that flight attendants have flexibility in distributing them.
Ms. Nelson said any additional tools like this are a good start, but there will still be people who feel as if airline personnel are dismissing their concerns. Maybe they just want to be heard further. “Any parent would understand it,” she said. “It’s not going work every time to just offer the child a toy. Sometimes the child wants to cry and be picked up and held.”
Which is not to say that she wants to infantilize us all. It’s just that when they are up in the air with the scared and the sad and the glad and the mad, there may be only so much they can do when words fail utterly. “There isn’t one tool,” she said, “that will satisfy every single person’s concerns.”
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- Sight reading all styles of pop and jazz music.
- Warm-up techniques, dynamics, rhythm (eighth note interpretations, syncopation, triplets, etc.), and various styles (ballads, shuffle, swing, show tunes, vocals, and Latin-American: rumba, beguine, bossa nova, mambo, samba).
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> I am creating Web pages that include a glossary. I'd like users to be able to > move the cursor over a highlighted term and have a glossary item for that term > appear in a particular frame. > > This all works fine except that the only way I can make an item responsive to an > onMouseOver event is to make the item a link. Is there any way to make a > sequence of characters responsive to an onMouseOver event without making the > item a link? Try to use the link without defining 'url', i.e., <A [NAME = whatever name] ONMOUSEOVER = function()>your_character_sequence</A> You might even be able to run it without defining a name for it. I have not tried it, so let me know if it worked. - Edas | https://www.obscure.org/javascript/archives/msg00218.html | 2018-10-15T17:30:40 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
The City Council will continue to discuss at its next meeting a proposed ordinance that aims to bring more transparency to city labor negotiations.
Despite a majority of the council saying they had reservations about such an ordinance at their last meeting, the council agreed to have the city attorney come back with more information in September.
“My view is that we’re going to be going into very tough budget times, and we’re going to have to make tough decisions that the public should understand why we’re making,” said Councilman Fred Whitaker, who proposed the ordinance.
Right now, labor negotiations are held behind closed doors. For the past couple years, Orange has used an outside negotiator. The final contracts are generally approved on the consent calender, a group of items typically considered noncontroversial, approved in one vote and usually not discussed.
Under Whitaker’s proposal, offers and counteroffers made during contract negotiations would be published for the public to see. When a deal is struck, it would require two separate approvals.
Other potential aspects could be requiring an outside negotiator each year and having independent audits of the deals.
Labor contracts should get the same scrutiny as the city’s other financial deals, such as trash or information technology contracts, Whitaker said.
In Orange County, Fullerton and Costa Mesa have versions of the ordinance, dubbed COIN, for Civic Openness in Negotiations.
While the rest of the Orange City Council said they support transparency, they all expressed concerns about the proposal. One of the main concerns is that publishing each offer and counteroffer could lengthen negotiations. They also worried that requiring an outside negotiator could be costly.
“As much as I want disclosure,” Councilman Mike Alvarez said, “it seems as though we’re inviting more of a fight more than a negotiation.”
Contact the writer: 714-704-3771 or rkheel@ocregister.com | https://www.ocregister.com/2014/08/19/orange-city-council-to-further-analyze-transparent-negotiations-proposal/ | 2018-10-15T18:10:23 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Plainville Police Department, Massachusetts
End of Watch Friday, November 2, 2001
Michael Maher
Officer Michael Maher was struck by a dump truck and killed while directing traffic at a paving project at the intersection of Routes 1 and 152.
The dump truck was backing up when it struck and ran over him.
Officer Maher had been employed with the Plainville Police Department for 16 years, and is survived by his two grown daughters and two grandsons.
Bio
- Age 66
- Tour 16 years
- Badge Not available
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- Cause Struck by vehicle
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Mike, We'll never forget the horror of that day. We think of you on special days, we think of you on random days, and will remember you always.
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“Horses are a confidence barometer. In general, they relax when a strong, sure being is present. Confidence is contagious with them...” – Tom Moates, Author and Equestrian
I love watching riding instructor Natasha Aalthoff on YouTube and last week her video entitled “Affirmations” challenged me.
The title first brought to mind that smarmy Saturday Night Live character from the nineties who got Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan to smile at himself in the mirror and say “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” There’s nothing smarmy about Natasha though, and in her strong, determined manner, she defined affirmations as “...a positive ‘I am’ statement that may or may not be true for you right now.” She went on to say, “When I ask my clients to do this, amazing things shift in their world.”
It’s true that a lot of us girls need a shift in the way we talk to ourselves. That same day a fellow blogger said to me, “I am my own worst critic. I work so hard at my writing but sometimes when I look it over I’ll say, ‘You suck and should give up.’”
“That’s crazy, you’re a great writer,” I assured her. “Stop talking to yourself like that. If anyone else told you that, you would never listen to them again, but I hear that same mean voice and keep listening too.”
It made all the sense in the world to try to rewire my brain with positive talk. Even when I said out loud on my drive to the barn: “I have been riding and taking riding lessons for years and I’m a good rider,” my inner bully immediately said “No you’re not. You’re not as good as...” and I stopped the negative voice right there.
Then I said, “My horse is comfortable with me,” and the bully started to say, “Not as comfortable as Mary’s horse is with her...” I interrupted that thought by saying “We love to canter,” and right away heard “No, you can’t pick up the right lead all the time...” So I repeated my affirmations and realized by saying them aloud as if they were true, they have more authority than the bully whispering in my head. My brain was both speaking the words and hearing the words, so maybe I could believe the words.
I got to the stables with a stronger feeling of confidence. Call it a coincidence, but I did ride well, Tara was comfortable, and we had fun cantering. The power of positivity.
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Hilary Duff's sister Haylie confirms she's expecting a baby girl
HAYLIE Duff is going to add another daughter to her family.
Haylie Duff has confirmed she's expecting another daughter
Hillary Duff’s sister Haylie Duff has confirmed that she is expecting a baby girl.
The 32 year old actress, who has appeared in film including Napoleon Dynamite and Material Girls, announced her pregnancy in January revealing that she is expecting her second child.
Now a representative for the star has confirmed that she and fiancé Matt Rosenberg are expecting a little girl together.
Haylie Duff announced her pregnancy earlier this year with the help of daughter Ryan [Haylie Duff/Instagram]
Rather than announce the news in a boring fashion Haylie enlisted the help of her two year old daughter Ryan.
She wrote on Instagram last month: "Round 2! Ryan thinks our new baby is growing in HER belly! #FamilyOf4"
A source close to Haylie added: "Haylie is so excited to have another baby and for Ryan to be a big sister!"
Becoming a mother and saying goodbye to her previous party lifestyle has been something that Haylie has embraced.
Sister Hilary Duff also has a child, son Luca Comrie
She was previously quoted as saying she doesn't miss the life she had before she became a parent.
Haylie said: "There was part of me, even when I was pregnant, that was like, 'Gosh it would be nice to go to Vegas for the weekend,' or kind of do the things I normally did before I came a mother.
“I think that's probably the biggest surprise is I feel such fulfilment with my family and with my child, I don't miss that 'old life' stuff."<<
Haylie and her fiance have been together for five years [Haylie Duff/Instagram]
She continued: ." | https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1304091/haylie-duff-baby-girl-hilary-duff-pregnant-sisters-mother-disney | 2018-10-15T18:07:09 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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BRIT Awards exclusive OK! TV video: Celebs let loose at Haiti appeal afterparty
OK! TV speaks to Lady Sovereign, Bianca Gascoigne, Katia Ivanova and Janice Dickinson
But it was at the afterparties that celebrities really let loose. Leona Lewis, double BRIT winners JLS, Alexandra Burke, Ke$ha and Boy George attended Sony's bash at the Aubrey Bar and Restaurant. Meanwhile their fellow partygoer Geri Halliwell managed to make an appearance there, as well as at Universal's afterparty at the Mandarin Oriental. Now that's hardcore. Fortunately OK! TV was on hand to capture all the action as the stars let their hair down.
We mingled with all your showbiz favourites at the iRock4Haiti BRITs afterparty at the Altitude 360 nightclub in London. The bash was hosted by Lindsay Lohan. In our exclusive video a worse-for-wear Lady Sovereign nominates Bianca Gascoigne for a BRIT Award, a lively Vanessa Feltz munches on candyfloss and Janice Dickinson declares her love for Lily Allen. We also speak to former Coronation Street star and musician Richard Fleeshman and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Katia Ivanova, who admits to having just one hour's sleep the night before.
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Gaga lands in top 10 on Vanity Fair's New Establishment List
Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg tops the list for the second year in a row, while the co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are placed second in the countdown, which notes people who are "an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs".
But the stars of the New Establishment List aren't all technical geeks - Gaga scores her second consecutive appearance just inside the top 10.
She is the highest-placed female, ahead of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling at 16 - and the 25-year-old singer is also the youngest person to make the cut.
Other celebrities featured among the top leaders of our time include director Judd Apatow (20), rap superstar Jay-Z (21), actor/producer Mark Wahlberg (29), Ashton Kutcher (43) and Justin Timberlake << | https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/370567/gaga-lands-in-top-10-on-vanity-fairs-new-establishment-list | 2018-10-15T18:14:23 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Cheryl fears a secret tape could be released, exposing secrets of her marriage to Jean-Bernard
CHERYL and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini were granted a divorce this week.
Cheryl Fernandez Versini Spotted At The LOreal Party In Paris [FameFlynet]
But it appears that their official split has not put the days of married life behind them.
It was reported Cheryl left her husband after just five months of marriage and they have been recorded having an explosive argument – where the Girls Aloud member can apparently be heard telling Jean-Bernard to leave her home.
The Sun On Sunday have reported that the former X Factor judge fears that the recording will go public, exposing their marriage woes.
The publication have claimed the tape reveals that Cheryl ended their relationship earlier than first believed, and apparently the restaurateur demanded she quit The X Factor.
Cheryl and Jean-Bernard got divorced this week[Getty]
A source allegedly explained that Jean-Bernard “hated” Cheryl being on the show and that he was apparently “so possessive, he told Nick Grimshaw to ‘get his hands off her backside’”.
The source continued: .”
Cheryl and Jean-Bernard looked totally loved-up when they first got together[Splash]
The supposed 45-minute recording captured Cheryl ordering Jean-Bernard to leave the couple’s home, but when he refuses a row is said to proceed, and Kimberly Walsh’s pal apparently has no idea their argument was being recorded.
The source continued: “Both of them had hoped that, now the divorce is happening, they could leave the day behind.
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“But the fear now for them both is that the recording somehow makes its way into the public domain and everyone can see how bad things really got. That would be devastating for both of them.”
OK! Online have contacted reps for Cheryl and Jean-Bernard for a comment.
Cheryl moved on with Liam Payne[Xposure/Getty]
The drama appears to be far from over for the pop star – just this week she reportedly hit back at the Frenchman after he demanded she return his late mother’s ring.
A source told the Daily Mail that the 33 year old was “baffled as to why the request was made via a newspaper”.
They went on to add that the singer would return the family heirloom “immediately”.
It is thought the businessman gave his former partner the ring in question to mark their one year anniversary.
The new couple often gush about one another on social media[Imagesport]
“He gave her the jewellery to celebrate 12 months together,” a source told the publication.
“It belongs to his mother. It is now the 10-year anniversary of her death and he desperately wants it back, but Cheryl still hasn’t posted it and has made no effort to return it.
“He is pretty upset and would like it back.”
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Hey Youth Leaders!
We realise you're busy. There's always a lot going on and feelings of being spiritually drained, ill-equipped or unsupported can unfortunately be too common place for Youth Workers and volunteers around the country. That's why we want to help by providing training days and weekends just for you! Our vision is that by running various training events, alongside other Christian organisations, Youth Workers around Ireland will feel empowered, inspired and equipped to continue with the amazing work they’re already doing in the local church and in their communities.
If you would like to add your name to our distribution list, email youth.ie@om.org We will send you regular updates about any training events that are coming up. Otherwise, keep checking this page - we'll be posting info about training events on our calendar.
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Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, Mar 19: The Ordnance Factory Tiruchirapalli (OFT), in association with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed four new varieties of ultra-modern futuristic weapons for the Indian Armed Forces.
OFT sources told UNI that the new variety of weapons were a 14.5 MM and 20 MM Anti-Material Rifle (named as Vidhwansak), a 40 MM Multi-Grenade Launcher (MGL), a 38 MM Multi-Shell Launcher and a 40 MM Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL).
The new products would meet the requirements of the armed forces at a cost much lower than the imported weapons, they said.
Giving the details of the new weapons, the sources said the Vidhwansak weapon (14.5 MM caliber) had a maximum range of 1800 metres, while the 20 MM caliber version had 1300 metres. The weapon had the capability to blast the enemy bunkers and radar systems in the battle field.
The production of the two varieties (14.5 MM and 20 MM) began last month and the Border Security Force (BSF) had placed an order for 100 pieces.
Some more trials would be carried out for the Indian Army, who would be a major buyer, they added.
The 40 MM Multi-Grenade Launcher, named UGRA-40, had a high firing rate of 12 rounds per minute, and a range greater than rifle-fired grenade. It had a maximum range of 375 meter and could pierce even a one feet cement concrete wall. It is an ideal weapon for counter insurgency and low intensity conflict operations, the sources said.
The Army and Navy had placed orders for the new weapons and the production would begin next year, they added.
Another weapon developed by the OFT was 38 MM Multi-Shell Launcher, capable of firing rapidly while being easy to operate and carry.
The weapon, with a maximum range of 135 metres and designed to fire Tear Smoke
shells and rubber bullets to long ranges is an ideal weapon for riot control.
The SLR, known for its sturdiness and robustness was the mainstay of Indian Armed Forces for over three decades.
It also received wide patronage across all the Central para-military and state police forces.
The factory, under technical collaboration with erstwhile Soviet Union, came out with a good number of new sophisticated weapons like the 12.7 MM Anti-Aircraft Gun, the 14.5 MM Sub-Calibre Device, the 23 MM Ghasha Aviation Gun and the 30 MM Auto Cannon, between 1988 and 1992.
The year 1999 was significant in the history of OFT, as it took up large scale production of the prestigious 5.56 MM rifle, popularly called as Indian Small Arms System (INSAS Rifle), considered more sophisticated than the popular AK rifles.
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Five Things You Need to Do Before Running Your First Payroll for 2017
With the new year upon us, adjusting to writing 2017 on your personal checks is simply a matter of habit and routine. But for your company’s first payroll run of 2017, preparations are a little more involved.
We rounded up a think tank of OneSource Virtual Payroll experts to provide you with a checklist of five crucial things you’ll need to do, or keep in mind, before processing your first payroll of the year. Some of this may be second nature to you and your team. Some of this could accidentally be overlooked in the scramble between year-end and starting year activities. Either way, you want to make sure these things are done and done right to ensure your first payroll run of 2017 is a smooth one.
1. Review payroll period schedules to ensure they exist for the 2017 calendar year.
“The period schedule is pretty much like the skeleton of payroll,” says OSV Payroll Services Supervisor Cory Milligan.
“If you don’t have a payroll period schedule in Workday,” explains OSV Payroll Supervisor Amber Windell, “you essentially don’t have anything mapped out for 2017. You need to make sure every period schedule you want to use in 2017 has a start, end and pay date.”
In addition to identifying these dates and inputting them in Workday, you also need to coordinate your calendars or work with your service provider to verify that none of your upcoming pay dates fall on banking holidays, as this can prevent employees from receiving their paychecks on time.
Understandably, keeping up with so many dates can prove difficult sometimes. One of the many advantages of having a Managed Payroll service provider such as OneSource Virtual deliver services and support from within your Workday Payroll application is that we have the capability to monitor and identify anomalies before they become serious issues. As OSV Payroll Supervisor Esther Agosta notes, “We’re that extra fail safe for the customer. If something doesn’t seem right, we can say, ‘We’re your partner. We’re going to make sure your payrolls are done correctly.’”
2. If applicable, review any forward accruals on the period schedule for accuracy.
“Forward accruals take into consideration the remaining pay dates for the rest of the month,” says Esther. “A forward accrual is going to estimate how many wages still need to be paid out or considered for that month.”
To minimize potential complications with forward accruals calculations, you should review them well before payroll is processed. “Make sure that you’re doing it at least a day ahead,” Cory says.
Verifying forward accruals is simple. Customers can simply log into Workday and go to the same area that houses their payroll period schedules. “They just need to go in and verify that everything is set up correctly,” Esther says.
“Some companies may not use the Workday system for forward accruals,” she adds. “But for those that do, they definitely want to review them and make sure all the dates they’re using are accurate.”
3. Ensure ledger periods are open for 2017.
Esther recommends that customers set up their ledgers as they are reviewing their payroll period schedules and forward accruals because “they’re all tied into each other.” By ensuring that the appropriate rules are in place for ledgers, you are also ensuring that your accounting rules are set up properly.
“From my experience,” she says, “you want to make sure that ledgers are set up for the entire year, and then go from there if anything needs to be changed or updated.”
4. Review and confirm company level changes, such as state unemployment rates, obsolete tax accounts, and additions to any new required locals.
Regarding payroll taxes, Esther says, “You want to input any kind of rates for taxes as soon as you have them. The later you wait, the more likely it is to cause accounting issues.”
While most payroll software and systems such as Workday perform much of the heavy lifting around payroll taxes by updating federal and state taxes on behalf of their users, it’s still the responsibility of the end user to make sure tax tables are updated and accurate.
“You still want to review that information to make sure there’s not an error,” says Amber.
“You want to make sure all your numbers are correct,” adds Esther. “Especially your EIN numbers and addresses, because they play a part at the end of the year for W-2s.”
Workday Payroll users who receive their Payroll services and support from OneSource Virtual are able to receive help with this, especially in regards to state taxes. “We have a team of specialists who are able to see if these taxes are set up correctly in the system for the company,” Cory says.
Regarding unemployment rates, most states will provide that information, though not always by the first payroll of the year. Those rates can be added to Workday later, but “you want to make sure that you’re inputting those rates as soon as possible,” Esther says, “so our Payroll Tax team can go in and make sure everything’s accurate.”
5. Employees with W-4 exempt elections are required to submit a new election annually. New forms must be submitted by Feb. 15, 2017 or an employee will be setup with a filing status of Single with zero exemptions.
“Typically, if you’re not filing exempt, your form will continue to go forward into the next year,” says Amber. “But if you’re filing exempt, that means no federal taxes are being withheld from your paycheck, so you have to submit new paperwork to claim your status again.”
Amber clarifies that “you should only claim exempt if you didn’t have any federal tax liabilities for the previous year.” Some employees, however, will decide that they’d rather take home a bigger paycheck, even if it means paying more in taxes during tax season.
At the start of a new year, companies are required to notify employees who have claimed this status and let them know that they must file as exempt again.
“Payroll can run a report and see who is marked as exempt and let those employees know they have to submit a new form,” says Esther. “If employees don’t do this by the Feb. 15 deadline, that’s when Payroll has to jump in and change those employees to the status of single with zero exemptions, meaning they will have taxes taken out.”
However, employees who miss the Feb. 15 deadline shouldn’t worry too much. “You can submit a new W-4 anytime,” Amber says. But as with so many leading practices related to Payroll, sooner is always better than later. Payroll problems aren’t just a headache for HR, they can be a headache for your entire team, too. If you haven’t done so yet, make the payroll process headache-free for everyone in your organization by following these steps to prepare your payroll for the new year.
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- Sep 1 KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 2 The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
- Sep 3 Final episode of "What's My Line?" hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS TV
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Sep 3 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
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- Sep 4 Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5
- Sep 5 -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas
- Sep 5 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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- Sep 8 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
- Sep 8 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
- Sep 8 The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
- Sep 9 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
- Sep 9 Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
- Sep 9 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
- Sep 10 Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
- Sep 10 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
- Sep 10 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
- Sep 10 Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
- Sep 10 KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
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- Sep 11 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
- Sep 11 Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England
- Sep 11 French president De Gaulle visits Poland
- Sep 11 Indian/Chinese border fights
- Sep 11 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
- 14 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
- Sep 14 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx
- Sep 15 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 16 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
- Sep 16 KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 20 Benin separates from Nigeria
- Sep 20 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland
- Sep 20 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
- Sep 20 WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 20 WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 22 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
- Sep 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 23 Greek Colonels' regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou
- Sep 23 Radio Malta stops testing
- Sep 24 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
- Sep 25 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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Sep 26 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Violin concert premieres in Moscow
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- Sep 27 Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
- Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 28 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Sep 29 -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
- Sep 29 Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
- Sep 29 Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
- Sep 29 Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater
- Sep 29 American boxer Emile Griffith regains his world middleweight crown on points in a brawling re-match with Italian Nino Benvenuti at Shea Stadium, NY; second of famous trilogy of fights
- Sep 30 BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1)
- Sep 30 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
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Palestinians vow revenge for kids’ deaths
Hundreds of mourners shouted for revenge Wednesday at the funeral for three Palestinian children killed in a botched Israeli missile strike. Israelis, meanwhile, debated the effectiveness of targeting wanted militants from the air as Palestinian civilian casualties mounted. Gunmen fired in the air as the three bodies, draped in Palestinian flags, were carried from the hospital morgue to their families’ homes, and from there, to burial services. Full Story | https://www.oodaloop.com/realnews-items/2006/06/21/62491/ | 2018-10-15T17:30:54 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
As usual the proposed forum offended the Muslims. It should be added that Anani have received 'death threat' for his plan to participate in the event. Speaking about the danger of radical Islam is also a form of hate to the Muslims:
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When that didn't wash, the group switched to questioning whether it's possible to reform a terrorist. "If they were once terrorists", the ADC said, "they should always be treated as terrorists" [DetNews.com]. The strangest fact is that ADC head, Hamad himself . [Digital50.com]
Little did the organizers know that they cannot disregard the concerns and discontent of the Muslims so easily! About 300 local Arabs and Muslims from the neighboring what other issues across the Western world that did not offend the. Also dubbed as the 'uncovered meat' Imam after he had raised another outcry last year by calling the liberally dressed Australian women as 'uncovered meat' who tempts men to raping them, he further slammed the Australian as the "biggest liars" who are bent on "bringing the Muslim community on its knees" referring to the uproar over his 'uncovered meat' comment. [Reuter; 12 Jan, 2007]
The replacement cleric at Mufti Hilali's Lakemba mosques, Yahya Safi, gave the last Friday's sermon, stirring his own controversy. Hilali's understudy, as reported offered prayers "for our brothers in Iraq", appealing to God to destroy the enemies of Islam. "God destroy the oppressors, destroy the aggressors, destroy the hypocrites, destroy the despotic tyrants," read the sermon [Sydney Morning Herald; 27 Jan, 2007].
Within a week, another firebrand Islamic top Imam, Lebanese-born Sheikh Feiz, was found to preach violence and hatred in DVDs which were in sale in Muslim shops in Australia. The Cleric called the children to violent Jihad against infidels, urged Muslims to kill the enemies of Islam and praised the dead in Jihad as the martyrs. He further describes "the inmates of Guantanamo Bay as better Muslims than those in Australia, who would not forsake their lifestyles for martyrdom." [Townsville Bulletin; 20 Jan, 2007]].
Yet again another Indonesian firebrand cleric, Dr Ismail Yusanto, outlined his plan for instituting Sharia laws, the absolute form of Islam, to a crowd of about 500 Muslims gathered at the Islamic Khilafah Conference in Lakemba. He urged his audience that violent Jihad or civil war may be necessary to institute such an Islamic superstate (caliphate). Spilling blood on the streets would be necessary. "No pain, no gain", he said. [News.com.au; 28 Jan, 2007]
Then over in Europe, undercover cameramen of UK's Channel 4 recorded video statements of top Imams, known to promote moderate Islam, preaching extreme hatred towards the British people and culture [Channel 4 Dispatches, 15 Jan].."
Such preaching of extreme hatred and violence by the respectable Islamic clerics against the people and society that have offered them a "good life" across Australia and Europe did not offend the Muslims at all. Only after a media outcry, some meek condemnations were widely circulated in the Media which is nothing but a tactical damage control exercise by some deceptive Muslims. We have never seen a big group of Muslims heading to the hate-preaching Imam's mosque to stage a demonstration, submit a letter for the Imam's resignation or stage walkout from prayers or abstain from taking part in it in any of the mosque. Neither any demonstrations nor protests were held at the residence of the concerned clerics.
Let us recall here that the first Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, who created a storm by demanding and persisting on taking oath by the Koran, had the excited the same Muslims of Dearborn last month (Dec'06) in his mission of instituting justice in America.
Mr. Ellison, who thinks that America does not have justice and equal protection to citizens, addressed a Muslim conference in Michigan (23-24 Dec, 2006):
"Muslims can help teach America about justice and equal protection", suggesting that Muslim activists may be part of God's plan.
In his firm plan to institute Allah's justice and truth in the American soil, he exhorted the Muslim crowd:
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Mr. Ellison exhorted the Muslim audience to strive hard with faith in Allah to institute the perfect justice:
"You can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim."
The same Dearborn Muslims, ecstatic with inspiration, roared: "Allahu akbar" (Allah is great).
The latest incidence in Michigan University campus is probably the first sign of how the Muslims are going to the bring justice and equality to the American soil as espoused by Keith Ellison. The Congressman, who firmly believes Muslims came here with a mission from Allah, must be delighted about the fact that his Muslim foot-soldiers undertook the cause of his mission almost forthwith.
The 'Three ex-terrorists' should not grudge about failing to hold the talk smoothly. They should, instead, hope for more such botched programs to send their message to Westerners much more effectively. | https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_alamgir__070131_keith_ellison_s_offe.htm | 2018-10-15T18:19:19 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Old man Dinesh goes to consult with his village doctor.
When he gets to see him, he complains about a pain in his leg that doesn’t heal and wants a diagnosis and explanation.
The doctor checks out the old man’s leg, but can’t find anything wrong. So he gives the old guy a full physical exam, and still can’t come up with any possible explanation for the pain.
Finally, the doctor hands the patient his bill and says, “I’m sorry but the pain in your leg is caused by old age, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
Dinesh replies with a look of disbelief, “That is not possible! That cannot be!”
The doctor says, “What do you mean? I’m the expert here; if you know so much, how can you say it’s not old age?”
Old Dinesh grumbles, “I’m not a doctor but it doesn’t take a medical degree to tell that your diagnosis is wrong. You are very clearly wrong. After all my other leg feels just fine.”
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Land campaigns in region for Michigan Senate seat
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As she gears up for a run for the U.S. Senate, Terri Lynn Land was in Clare on Friday to renew friendships and garner support for her candidacy.
“We’re looking forward to this campaign,” she said. “The folks in Michigan know me. They know what I’ve done in government. They know my experience in business. They know that I will listen and be someone that cares about Michigan and takes those values to Washington, D.C. and be their voice so Washington understands that we are hurting here in Michigan and we need to have the support to be economically a giant that we should be.”
Speaking before Michigan’s 4th Congressional District Roundup at the Doherty Hotel and then afterward sitting down with the Daily News, Land stated how critical Michigan was for control of the 100-member U.S. Senate.
“This is a huge race in Michigan,” she said. “If we win Michigan it will be the 51st senate seat. We have the opportunity across the nation where (ex-presidential hopeful Mitt Romney) won and there are open seats, if we can win those and then win Michigan it’s 51.”
Land brings lot of governmental experience to the senate race, including serving as Kent County Clerk from 1992-2000 before being elected Michigan Secretary of State (SOS) from 2003-2010. As head of SOS, from 2003-2010, the department went through a downsizing of over 25 percent, from 2,100 employees to 1,500.
“When I was at SOS, we had tough economic times and looked at every operation, whether we needed it or not,” said Land. “Instead of laying off people, when that position came open, we didn’t fill it. Then we eliminated it if we didn’t need it. We also looked at the technology of going on line and doing it that way. That is what we need to provide in the federal government.”
As she plans for the November general election, Land sees her business background as an advantage over Democratic opponent, U.S. House Rep. Gary Peters. That business background began long before Land was born, when her grandfather, Henry Land, immigrated from the Netherlands as a 3-year-old.
“He came over to find a better life, a better way and a place where they could grow as a family and be successful,” said Terri. “They started out in farming like a lot of families did. But, he decided he wanted to be his own business owner.”
That desire saw Henry venture out.
“So he built a little motel,” stated Land. .”
Land believes it is those values that would serve her well in Washington as she seeks the seat formerly held by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, who announced he would not seek reelection after serving in the Senate since 1979.
“We worked all week together but we didn’t always agree all week long, but when Grandma made Sunday dinner, where we all came, everybody smiled and we got along and made it work,” she said. “I think that is the kind of quality and skill we need now in the U.S. Senate and Congress.”
As with most Americans, Land is concerned with the economy.
“Michigan has been hit hard with the auto industry and manufacturing,” she said. “We’re coming back because we have a great governor, who is giving what most businesses want and that is predictability. They want to know if their taxes are going to be raised, or not, and what the regulations are so they can predict so that they can grow their business and hire folks. We need to balance the budget like they have done here in Michigan.”
That predictability includes a revised tax system.
“You need a tax system that is fair and that works,” said Land. “That was great when the Congressman (Dave Camp) said it would be great if a small business could do their own taxes. I want to go down to Washington and get that done.”
Also there is the obvious disagreement between Land and Peters over the Affordable Care Act as Land referred to the ACA as, “having a new Cadillac payment without getting a Cadillac.”
“He supported Obamacare,” said Land. “As most Americans agree, Obamacare has been a disaster. Some may even call it a train wreck. (Obama) promised us that you could keep your doctor. That it is going to be affordable and it’s not, costs have gone up. The promise was you could keep your healthcare if you wanted.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Land-campaigns-in-region-for-Michigan-Senate-seat-6926818.php | 2018-10-15T16:47:34 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Earthquakes to Host Media Day on Wednesday, January 24
January 22, 2018 - Major League Soccer (MLS) - San Jose Earthquakes News Release
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose Earthquakes will host their annual Media Day on Wednesday, Jan. 24. The team's first training session of 2018 will be open to the media, followed by player and coach availability.
MEDIA DAY
WHO: Earthquakes players and coaches will be available for interviews immediately following the team's training session. It marks the first opportunity for media to speak with new head coach Mikael Stahre and recent player signings such as forward Magnus Eriksson, midfielder Eric Calvillo, defender Joel Qwiberg, goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski and many more.
WHEN : Media are invited to attend the club's training session by arriving at 11 a.m. Training is expected to conclude between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Film crews and photographers are welcome.
WHERE: The Earthquakes Training Facility immediately adjacent to Avaya Stadium located at 1123 Coleman Ave. in San Jose.
PARKING: Parking for Media Day will be in the VIP lot on the south side of the stadium. The VIP lot is accessible by turning onto Earthquakes Way from Coleman Ave.
LUNCH: Media in attendance will be treated to lunch inside Avaya Stadium after all interviews have been conducted.
CONTACT: For more information or to RSVP, please contact communications manager Jake Pisani at jpisani@sjearthquakes.com .
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FONTANA – A pilot with several years of experience walked away with only minor injuries after making an emergency landing Saturday between the 210 Freeway and West Casmalia Street.
A call of a plane down came in at 10:47 a.m. The Cessna Skymaster departed Rialto Municipal Airport and was doing demonstrations.
The male pilot, who has 30 years of flight experience and 600 hours of flight time in this particular plane, noticed a loss in power and altitude and began making preparations to land.
The pilot, whose name was unavailable, shut off both fuel valves before the twin-engine plane crash-landed on a strip of land sandwiched between the 210 and Casmalia just east of Sierra Avenue.
“This was the only logical place he could land,” said Richard Campos, a battalion chief with the San Bernardino County Fire Department. “He walked away with a small bruise.”
“He is a very lucky guy,” said Rialto police Sgt. Richard Royce.
“He should play lottery today,” said police Cpl. Robert Muir.
“Everything worked out for the better,” Campos said. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2009/02/14/pilot-walks-away-from-emergency-landing/ | 2018-10-15T16:59:32 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
SAN BERNARDINO – The second day of the City Council and Mayor’s retreat was dedicated to long-range thinking as top officials jotted down wish lists for the kinds of improvements they want to see by 2025.
Whereas the retreat’s Thursday evening session was something like a college class on local government, Friday’s gathering was more like an all-day brainstorming session. In their second consecutive day together, the City Council and Mayor Pat Morris attempted to articulate a vision for what San Bernardino should become by 2025.
City Manager Charles McNeely has convened the retreat in an attempt to find a focus for city policymaking and potentially propose reforms to restructure San Bernardino government. Thursday’s meeting, led by guest facilitator and part-time University of Virginia faculty member A. Tyler St. Clair, began to transition from the general to specific before the session’s end as the conversation moved towards how council members want to define their interactions with each other and city administrators.
The city’s elected officials generally agreed on the kind of city they want the future San Bernardino to be, although it may not be too surprising that the council and mayor were of an accord that prosperity and civic tranquility are good things. The more difficult part of politics is figuring out how to attain such goals, and Saturday’s final session of the retreat may feature some meatier conversations as the city’s top officials are scheduled to spend more time on the issue of reforming San Bernardino government.
Despite the competing personalities and viewpoints that are often on display among the mayor and council when they meet the dais to debate specific issues, San Bernardino’s top leaders had many goals in common.
“In 90 percent of the cases, you could say ‘ditto,'” 7th Ward Councilwoman Wendy McCammack said before presenting a long list of ideas.
The city’s officials catalogued their ideas by breaking up into smaller groups. McCammack and Morris, who often have very different ideas on what city government should do, were in the same group that considered long-term objectives.
The council’s and mayor’s long-term objectives included such desires as having San Bernardino establish a reputation as a “destination place,” foster a thriving business environment, preserving local landmarks and traditions, a safe and beautiful city and a family friendly environment.
Saturday’s agenda includes a review of the 2007 audit of city government, and about one-third of the 192 policy recommendations made in that audit have been implemented. That leaves a lot of work for the council and city administrators to consider, including auditors’ recommendation to clarify City Hall’s chain of command by increasing the authority of the City Manager’s Office while decreasing that of the Mayor’s.
The current City Charter has occasionally been the source of differing interpretations over the proper roles of the mayor and city manager. Most Inland Empire cities empower their city manager to run government while their mayors act as a first-among-equals within their city councils.
San Bernardino, however, has an elected mayor with power to appoint the city manager. The two officials share supervisory duties over the Police and Fire departments.
Morris and McNeely have yet to propose any specific alterations during the retreat, although the mayor signaled that there is room for improvement, noting the duplication of duties between his office and McNeely’s.
“That sometimes creates some confusion. We need to drill down on that issue,” Morris said.
Another issue that may arise during today’s session is whether the council wants to continue the city’s practice of having voters choose the city attorney, city clerk and city treasurer.
The firm that authored the 2007 audit, Management Partners, is scheduled to deliver a presentation during Saturday’s meeting. City Manager Charles McNeely is scheduled present his own recommendations for reorganizing city government.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. today in the L’Orange Room at National Orange Show Events Center.
The meetings held Friday and the previous day have drawn minimal audience members from the public, and two former city council candidates – Joe Arnett and John Valdivia – have criticized the retreat’s format, which they do not believe was designed to collect opinions from the city’s voters and taxpayers.
“The public isn’t getting to provide input and be a part of what’s happening here,” Arnett said.
Arnett took the liberty of providing city officials with his own list of ideas to enhance the relationship between government and the governed. His expectations included aggressive police and fire protection, better customer service at City Hall and complete governmental transparency. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2010/03/26/san-bernardino-officials-brainstorm-but-have-yet-to-deal-with-nitty-gritty-of-reforms-2/ | 2018-10-15T17:53:24 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Los Angeles, reacted to an opinion item and editorial that appeared in this newspaper by sending a letter of concern to the head of the California Public Utilities Commission.
The editorial was about the failure of NRG Energy Inc., which gouged Californians during the electricity crisis of more than a decade ago, to live up to the terms of a legal settlement with the PUC that requires the company to build a statewide network of charging stations for electric cars.
NRG is obligated to have 1,040 stations up and running by now, but only 104 are ready, Associated Press reported. The company agreed in the settlement to install 10,200 stations by the end of 2016, but is off to a very slow start on that commitment.
Congresswoman Hahn’s letter decries the PUC’s cavalier attitude toward the shortfall in stations, noting that she’s offended by NRG’s being allowed to take advantage of Californians for a second time.
As the owner of a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, she cites the “range anxiety” of EV drivers who too often can’t find a charging station to help them get back home. And she urges the PUC to enforce the settlement with NRG in order to help California reach its environmental goals. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2013/12/05/rep-janice-hahn-joins-our-call-for-installation-of-electric-car-charging-stations-opinion/ | 2018-10-15T17:16:42 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Astrology Neptune Retrograde
Neptune Transiting Retrograde
Neptune is named after the Roman god of the seas, and like the sea its depths are difficult to plummet and its quality tricky to quantify. For Neptune is a higher vibration of Venus and with that in mind it is no surprise its energy is boundless, being all around us externally and internally. Therefore, when it goes retrograde once a year for several months, it is not so much that the Planet dramatically changes us, but that we are more attuned with its vibrations. You will find at this time that you will go through a particularly creative stage, feeling full of ideas and inspiration. Thus, those involved in the Arts will discover this to be an especially gratifying period. Playwrights will create great works and Songwriters hit the correct note, and under this transit the idea may have seem to have come from out of nowhere.
This transit is also favourable for gaining enlightenment into your life’s purpose and spiritual growth, as you can make considerable advances under this retrograde motion. Your psychic ability may be enhanced, dreams can be visionary and there is even the possibility of déjà vu experiences, particularly as Neptune now visits the comfortable Sign of Pisces. However, individuals should not abuse this higher octave planetary energy and use it in a beneficial and imaginative manner. For at its worst Neptune being the planet of self-delusion and confusion can cause individuals to be plagued by self-doubt, even verging on paranoia, or to be consumed in not always positive escapist tendencies.
Neptune Natal Retrograde
Many individuals are born with Neptune retrograde and due to it taking fourteen years to travel through each Sign, these individuals share a similar Neptune retrograde experience. Thus, they will usually feel the subtle undercurrents of this transit. However, those with a strong Piscean influence resonating through their chart or powerful aspects to Neptune will no doubt be more aware of Neptune’s retrograde station. For them a spiritual awakening is possible or questioning of their beliefs, but at the same time there is susceptibility to deceptions of some kind present here. This maybe due to others being deceitful, as you see others in a too idealist way, or if you have this placement, watch that you are not just fooling yourself concerning a matter. | https://www.patrickarundell.com/astrology/retrograde-planets/neptune | 2018-10-15T18:04:48 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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The Japan Institute of Architects is honored to host 18th Asian Congress of Architect (ACA 18) in Tokyo on September 2018. Our theme for ACA 18 is “Simplicity | Multiplicity”, and discourses on Design, Urbanism, Technologies and SDGs are planned with key note speeches, symposiums with prominent architects and designers, and various night events. This congress held in ever evolving city of Tokyo should certainly stimulate international guests and people in domestic architectural society.
One of the night events held in The National Art Center is “Design Talk”. It is a networking event with a short talk session by about 10 architects from ARCASIA, Japan and other regions of the world. We are seeking to bring prominent architects to liven up the event. They will be asked to talk about “MY FAVORITE CITY”
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"Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have just unveiled a new image and the teaser trailer for their fantasy action adventure Seventh Son. The latter may be viewed here at.
"The film’s international starring cast includes Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges (Iron Man), Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia films), Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington (HBO’s Game of Thrones), Olivia Williams (Hanna), Antje Traue (Man of Steel), two-time Oscar® nominee Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) and Oscar® nominee Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours).
"In the film,.
“Seventh Son is directed by award-winning filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, director of the Oscar®-nominated foreign language films Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan and Prisoner of the Mountains. The screenplay is by Matt Greenberg, Charles Leavitt and Aaron Guzikowski, based on the book The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney.
"Opening across the Philippines in January 2014, Seventh Son is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.". | https://www.pep.ph/guide/at-a-glance/12218/ben-barnes-trains-under-jeff-bridges-in-fantasy-tale-seventh-son | 2018-10-15T17:30:01 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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"All throughout my career, na medyo mahaba-haba na rin, I've always let my work speak on my behalf," says Rico Blanco about showbiz intrigues.
After more than a decade of wearing a musician's hat, Rico Blanco tries another field in show business by taking the role of a vampire named Lucas in ABS-CBN's new fantaserye Imortal.
Rico used to be the frontman of the local band Rivermaya, who later on decided to pursue a solo music career. Under his name are awards and distinctions including Vocalist of the Year by NU 107 Rock Awards in 2008 and Best Performance by a Male Recording Artist by Awit Awards in 2009.
Although he's just a newbie in acting, the rock star is confident that his experiences in the music industry already prepared him for this newfound career. The 37-year-old music artist also mentioned that he was once offered an acting job for a teleserye but he declined because he thought he was not ready that time.
Rico, who did a small role in the independent film Nasaan Si Francis, related, "In terms of preparedness, I think naman this is as prepared as one can get, di ba? I've been honored na naalok ng projects in the past. Pero we felt it wasn't the right time.
"Ngayon, feeling ko tama ang panahon in terms of where I am in my career. Medyo nagawa ko na ang nagawa ko sa music so may flexibility ako na magawa ito [Imortal]. No one can be as prepared pa than that.
"Although, at the same time, nothing can prepare you for the actual thing. So, pagtapak ko, I'm still learning. Madami talaga akong natutunan. Pero this is the most preparation na siguro one can have, e."
Instead of worrying too much about his job as an actor, Rico is more interested in learning how the people work on the set.
"Kinakapa ko po 'yong process," said the musician. "Parang, 'Ano ba ang nangyayari? Gaano katagal ba itong paghihintay?' Hindi 'yong acting part kung hindi yung process like, gaano ba katagal maghihintay, kailan ba kakain, kailan ba ako magbibihis."
Does he get help from his co-actors?
Rico replied, "Everyone is so helpful and welcoming. They all give me tips, big tips, small tips. Mostly 'yong small tips ang very helpful sa akin, e—get a nice chair, comfortable chair, bring your own tumbler."
Since doing a TV series is very demanding, does this mean Rico will spend less time with music now he's doing Imortal?
The singer-composer answered, "I assured everyone na music will always be there."
Rico also pointed out, "Acting is not the only thing I'm doing. Aside from music, marami akong ibang ginagawa. Doing other things in life makes your music richer—mas marami kang masusulat, there are more things for you to sing about. If all you do is music, it becomes parang empty."
"I'M NOT INTERESTED." Unlike the music industry, the movie industry is noisier especially when a celebrity is being intrigued. Is Rico ready to be part of this culture?
"Contrary to general perception na that's the only thing to do things, I believe na one can have good relationship with the media that will give artists, you know, options on how they want to market themselves.
"I don't want to offend 'yong artists who enjoy talking about their personal life because that's their thing, e, to each his own. But I believe na it's possible to have a working with journalists na mag-o-offer ng other way of doing things."
As an actor, Rico said he wants to adapt whatever he is doing in the music industry.
"All throughout my career, na medyo mahaba-haba na rin, I've always let my work speak on my behalf. So, hopefully now, the acting, with your help."
What if Rico gets a project that will require him to work with ex-girlfriend KC Concepcion?
"I'm not interested po," he briefly answered.
When the question was reiterated, the newbie actor indirectly answered, "There are many avenues naman if you want to market something. I believe we have more than enough channels. I don't think naman na that's needed. If it's up to me lang naman, I'd rather not. It's a personal preference lang."
What if the ABS-CBN management requires him to promote the show on KC's daily talk show Simply KC?
"I don't think they can require that from me," Rico replied before he was pulled out from the interview by the staff of Star Cinema for the taping of Imortal. | https://www.pep.ph/lifestyle/23519/rico-blanco-on-possibility-of-working-with-kc-concepcion-im-not-interested-po | 2018-10-15T17:22:59 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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What.
Step 1
Collect the necessary materials.
You will need the Cyclo polisher, Nuvite polish, the cotton FleeceWraps and microfiber towels for final buffing.
As explained in the following steps, the FleeceWraps are used to apply the Nuvite via the Cyclo polisher and work the surface. This is followed by using the microfiber towels to remove any residual polish and buff the surface.
Step 2
Get the Cyclo polisher set up. The Cyclo polisher is fitted with our Black Foam polishing pads which are covered with the Navy-colored Pad Covers that help keep the pads clean. This is the standard polishing setup.
Using FleeceWraps: Our FleeceWraps cloths shown here are pre-cut to the optimum size and have slits cut into the corners and sides.
These slits fit over the motor housing or front handle of the Cyclo polisher. The tail of the fabric is rolled up and clamped in front of the motor housing using the blue hand-cuff type ratcheting clamp shown in the next photo.
One of the blue clamps is furnished with each 10-pack of FleeceWraps.
The cloth stays in place while you polish. You don’t have to pay constant attention to keeping the cloth properly positioned under the heads of the polisher.
Visit the Polishing Cloth page for more information on FleeceWraps.
Not Using FleeceWraps: Use this method for wrapping the cloth around the Cyclo polisher if you’re not using our pre-cut FleeceWraps.
Grab the polishing cloth and wrap it around the front handle of the polisher, gripping it tightly.
Pass the cloth under the polishing heads and grab the other end of the cloth and wrap it around the rear handle of the polisher.
Step 3
Apply a dab of polish to each head of the polisher. Use about 1/4 teaspoon (a dab about half the size of an M&M candy) on each head.
Step 4.
Do not push down on the polisher. The weight of the polisher is all the pressure that is required. If you push down you may get hockey-puck sized scuff marks.
Keep polishing until there are only bits of residual polish around rivet, in gaps, etc. This should be the only black left on the metal. It will be removed with the microfiber buffing towels.
Important: The most common mistake is using too much polish. It is just human nature to think that more is better. Use only enough to get the surface lightly black, with lots of metal showing through. If the surface turns opaque black, you’re using way too much polish. This is true for all the grades of Nuvite, and equally applicable when using the Compounding Polisher..
Step 5
Next, hand buff using the microfiber towels. Work around the rivet heads to remove all traces of residual polish. Any polish left on at this stage will dry on and become almost impossible to remove later.
Corn starch or flour can be sprinkled on the surface or added to the towel to aid in removal of residual polish..
The microfiber towels have a real affinity for the polish and will remove virtually all residual polish from around rivet heads. Plus they won’t scratch no matter how hard or long you buff. Note: The threads that are used to bind the edges of the towels can scratch so buff using the center of the towels.
Step 6.
Step 7
After polishing maybe 50 square feet, the polishing cloth will have become thoroughly caked with polish with no clean areas left.
At this point discard the polishing cloth.
Cleaning Tips.
This page is available as a printer-friendly Adobe Acrobat .pdf file. Click here to open the .pdf file. | https://www.perfectpolish.com/using-the-cyclo-polisher/ | 2018-10-15T18:01:25 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
The roll of the ship as we travel across the South Pacific
ABOARD THE RESEARCH VESSEL BRAVEHEART— Being surrounded by this vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean with no land in sight for days is a humbling experience. It drives home just how much of our planet is covered in ocean: 71 percent.
I tend to think that these waters are still, but being out here for days as our expedition crew travels from New Zealand to French Polynesia reveals they are anything but. We have had good weather, but the ocean still moves constantly. Waves and swells push us about and make the ship pitch and roll.
The roll of the ship as we travel across the South Pacific
More broadly, large-scale oceanic currents never stop moving, driven by the wind and the spinning of the Earth.
Here in the South Pacific, one large current circles counterclockwise, connecting everything and everyone it touches. Known as the Peru Current, it starts as an eastern boundary current—meaning it is on the eastern side of the South Pacific Ocean basin—and then moves in a south to north direction up the coast of South America.
As the Peru Current nears the equator, it begins to move west—thanks to the southeast trade winds—to become the South Equatorial Current, which crosses the entire Pacific. Once this current reaches the western boundary of the South Pacific, the landmasses of Indonesia and Australia force it south toward New Zealand. As the current moves south, the Earth’s spinning and the winds known as the Roaring Forties—the Southern Hemisphere “westerlies”—begin to push it back across the South Pacific basin in the south. This circulating effect is known as a gyre.
Ocean surface currents of the world
The currents of the South Pacific gyre flow past the many islands and reefs in these waters and serve as the great connectors within the region. Many species that live on coral reefs do not move far from their “home” reef. Marine animals such as corals are fixed in one place.
When these same species are found at different reefs or islands far from one another, they must have had some means of transport. Most have had a pelagic stage in their life history, meaning they were either free-swimming or could drift in open ocean away from their home. Many have a pelagic larval stage, during which eggs or larvae are released into the ocean. They get caught in the currents and carried far away. This pattern explains why the same species can be found at different islands far from one another, across vast stretches of ocean.
We are nearing French Polynesia and will soon start documenting the life in island waters there. The great connectivity caused by the currents among different islands in the South Pacific is one of the reasons we are undertaking this trip.
Amelia Connell is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and works on Pew’s Global Ocean Legacy campaign to create a marine reserve in the Kermadec Islands. | https://www.pewtrusts.org/research-and-analysis/articles/2014/10/10/a-vast-ocean-always-in-motion | 2018-10-15T16:48:07 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
QMobile is kept on introducing elegant and beautifully designed multimedia phones. QMobile Introduces A Low Price Phone N275. QMobile N275 is a bar phone with multiple specifications available at very low price of Rs. 2500.2.4″ Display will give you a brighter image. You can entertain yourself with its FM radio, Video and audio recording with Audio and Video player. With its 3.5 mm audio jack, you can enjoy unlimited music as well.
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We first talked about the Wayland Display Server back in 2008 as a project that was conceived by Kristian Høgsberg to build a lightweight display server around the modern needs of the Linux desktop while leveraging all of the latest and greatest components in the Linux graphics stack (e.g. kernel mode-setting) and doing away with all of the cruft that has built up in the X.Org Server over the years. Wayland still is very much under development, but it hasn't received much traction yet. Part of the reason why is that as it's riding on all of the bleeding edge software bits with some of the code not even being in the mainline code-bases, there are a few hurdles that interested users first need to overcome.
Intel's kernel mode-setting and GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) support has been in the kernel now for over a year, but the Wayland Display Server needs the KMS page-flipping ioctl for tear-free rendering, which just landed with the Linux 2.6.33 kernel. Wayland now no longer needs any out-of-tree kernel bits, but up to this point it's also depended upon another uncommon package called Eagle.
Eagle is another Kristian Høgsberg project that was started with Wayland to provide EGL support as Mesa's EGL implementation wasn't sufficient for the needs of this new display server. Eagle hasn't reached a release state and cannot be found elsewhere, which has posed another obstacle for those wanting to try out Wayland. Fortunately, this barrier is being taken down.
As the first commit for 2010, Kristian has just made a large code commit that is using FBOs instead of the Eagle-specific API. With Wayland now using OpenGL FBOs (Frame Buffer Objects) and not any Eagle-specific bits, it should now be possible (or soon) to run the Wayland Display Server with Mesa or Gallium3D's new EGL support. It was back in July that Kristian originally talked about merging the Eagle EGL loader into Mesa.
We have yet to test out this latest Wayland code and Kristian hasn't communicated anything yet in regards to whether Wayland will now properly work with Mesa/Gallium3D, but today's commit is good news for those wanting to more easily test out this new display server.
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Speaking of the office. If you run a business of any kind and you want to ensure your employees are as productive as possible, you can make that happen by placing a standing order for them. With a comprehensive offer and corporate prices, you will know your workers aren’t distracted and you will create a much better working atmosphere.
To ensure that you get access to the widest range of meals and that your diet isn’t monotonal, you will see that the Dah Makan chefs cook different dishes every day. This way, if you don’t have the time to prepare the meals yourself, you will have a choice that cannot be found anywhere else. If you know that your food order will not be one-off, you can try Prime, a program in which you pay for a specific number of meals. You won’t have to worry about paying each time, and you won’t have to carry the cash every time. This is a perfect solution for those who need to travel or want to order food for each working day of the month.
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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Postal Service Reform Bill; Would Minimize Rate Increases for Now
“The Postal Reform Act of 2018: Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency” was introduced in the U.S. Senate yesterday as a bipartisan bill that would make sweeping changes to current rules and regulations that have led, in large part, to the dire long-term financial situation of the U.S. Postal Service, including 11 straight years of net losses.
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Tanzania Trans Initiative (TTI) is a trans* led initiative that aims to advance the rights of trans*, gender non-conforming and/or intersex people.
Trans*, intersex or gender non-conforming person in Tanzania are faced with violence, discrimination, stigma and seclusion.
In order to bring change and improve their social environment, Tanzania Trans Initiative will organize activities that will bring the community together and increase their self awareness, like sports and cultural activities and focus group discussions. | https://www.planetromeofoundation.org/tanzania-trans-initiative/ | 2018-10-15T16:57:58 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Naughty Dog Explains What Went Wrong With the E3 2015 Uncharted 4 Demo Last Night
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On the PlayStation LiveCast today, Straley and Creative Director Neil Druckmann were interviewed by Sid Shuman. The very first topic they addressed was last night’s “interesting” demo.
Also See: Uncharted 4 Preview – Cinematic Gunslinging Evolved
After saying he “almost had a heart attack,” Straley talked about how he didn’t attend any of the dress rehearsals or run throughs and couldn’t find a DualShock 4 when he got on stage. Digging around, he finally found a lit up controller, but when Nathan appeared on-screen and he tried to move around, “nothing happened!”
Grabbing a back-up controller, nothing happened again, but that’s when the whole thing restarted.
As Straley explains, he hit the PS Button on the DualShock 4 and saw the OS of the secondary back-up unit popping up. Pointing at the secondary unit, the people behind-the-scenes realized what happened and switched to the back-up unit and “luckily he moved.”
You can check out the full LiveCast interview with Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley above, which includes another look at the gameplay from last night, the reveal that you’ll be able to use the Jeep at other points in the game, Straley talking about how the Jeep is an Uncharted Jeep that can go over mud and boulders, and more.
If you want to see the Uncharted 4 demo issue play out live again, skip ahead to 1:34:45 of the press conference:
Are you still amazed by the Uncharted 4 gameplay we saw last night? | https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/06/16/naughty-dog-explains-went-wrong-e3-2015-uncharted-4-demo-last-night/ | 2018-10-15T17:59:04 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Electric vehicles represent an invaluable resource to the American electricity system, especially as it transitions into the ultimate vision of a so-called “Smart Grid.” Far from being a risk or a burden on our electrical system, EVs are a massive storage resource waiting in the wings—ready to provide valuable new services and reduce costs for grid operators, utilities, and ratepayers alike.
You’ve probably heard the term “Smart Grid,” but what is it? The Smart Grid is a next-generation electricity network equipped with communications and control systems. Those added controls make it possible to efficiently and dynamically manage energy supply and demand. The key is to be able to fine-tune how much energy is generated, and how much energy is needed at any given moment. An electric vehicle is critical because it can communicate with the grid, and respond to calls for storing and discharging energy.
Technologies that play a role in the Smart Grid can be grouped as follow::
Widespread deployment of EVs on the Smart Grid will, however, not be easy:.
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We are the first supplier in the world to offer the dry cabinet with H/T tracing function which allows the users to be aware of the storage condition for a period of time. Further more, it is easier to calculate the floor life of the MSD with Humidity Manager V3. The floor life is no more a mysterious number by random guessing.
2. H/T Data acquisition: can acquire data directly from the controller with RS232 cable or from Data Logger & Reader.
3. Data interval can be set from one second to 99 minutes.
4. Software runs under windows operating system.
5. Automatically calculate the time intervals and percentage that exceed the 10%RH or 5%RH which leads to the estimation of the MSD floor life.
6. Automatically calculate the total period and the expired date of the Data Logger.
How does MSD floor Life counter-clockwise and reset to zero point ?
▲According to IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033B standard. For moisture sensitivity Level 2, 2a, 3 with floor life exposure not greater than 12 hours, a minimum desiccating period of 5X the exposure time is required to dry the SMD packages enough to reset the floor life clock.
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Gastronomy entrepreneur Gianpaolo ‘Giapo’ Grazioli joins Paul Spain in the Podcasts NZ Studio to discuss his Auckland based Haute Ice Cream shop, Giapo. He talks of his challenging and successful journey and the results of his determination that have produced the unique and impressive treats that are garnering Giapo international attention.
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Police Report for Teofilo Antonio Lopez
Police Arrests Record ID: 1634071
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Police in the area of Hennepin, Minnesota arrested Teofilo Antonio Lopez on September 23, 2013. All criminal suspects including Teofilo Antonio Lopez are innocent until proven guilty. More information on this incident is available from the following police agencies: Hennepin County Law Enforcement.
DISCLAIMER: Arrest records of Teofilo Antonio Lopez are public documents and are provided here for informational purposes only. Publication here does not mean that Teofilo Antonio Lopez has committed a criminal offense, it is only a record of arrest. This information may not be used to determine Teofilo Antonio Lopez's eligibility for credit, employment, housing or other business transactions. Contact the law enforcement officials in Hennepin, Minnesota for further information on Teofilo Antonio Lopez Teofilo Lopez arrested?
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Pool Safety Nets by Pool Guard Pensacola, Florida
Black Pool Safety Net.
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Pool Safety Cover with additional Pool Safety Net.
A Pool Safety Net makes your pool safe for Children.
A Pool Safety Net does not block your view.
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A house with an incredible view to the pool with the backdrop as the ocean is seldom a view that the homeowner would want interrupted with a solid fence. A removable pool safety fence is a good option in this situation due to the transparency of the mesh. Many homeowners with this type of view prefer a pool safety net.
Pool Guard of the Gulf Coast offers pool safety nets manufactured by Pool Guard in several colors. Blue (by far the most popular), Beige and Black. The color selection truly depends on what color components are coinciding with the backyard (swimming pools with dark blue bottoms coordinate better with a black pool net and swimming pools with aqua blue bottoms coordinate better with blue pool safety nets).
Pool Guard in Pensacola, Florida uses pool safety nets that are made from polypropylene. Depending on the size and shape of the pool, one or two CTS (Central Tensioning Systems) may be required. The CTS is the pulley system that is built into the net in key locations to optimize the ability to pull the pool safety net tight. Pool Guard uses Barton™ () as a supplier for pullies on their CTS system. These pullies are designed to be on or near water and are truly built to last. The anchors used to hook the pool net to in the deck are polypropylene as a standard and Pool Guard of Gulf Coast offers the option of a brass anchor in the event the customer would prefer that as their anchor system option. Each pool safety net comes with a “key” as well as the pulley system to set the CTS on the net. Once the system is set in place, the net is “piano string” tight.
Storage of your pool safety net can be done using the pool net roller. We recommend this tool (available for purchase) as it makes taking off the pool safety net and putting the pool safety net back on much simpler.
The time that it takes to install a pool safety net by Pool Guard of the Gulf coast depends on the complexity of the pool (if there is a waterfall, ladders or a grotto) however the average time is usually 6 hours. Once it is installed, the owner of the pool can take the pool safety net off and put it back on in a matter of 15-20 minutes. | https://www.poolfencegulfcoast.com/poolsafetynets.php | 2018-10-15T17:15:41 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Some people would say electronic music is having its moment. Acts like the Chainsmokers are squeezing hit after hit out of a little tube of drops and even the hip figures of the old guard like Daft Punk are topping the charts and Giorgio Moroder is recording with Britney Spears and Sia. Others would say the bubble for that already bust, like, last year.
Which is why one of the low-key rising stars of the scene has been in it for a while. Marius Lauber, who records under the monicker Roosevelt, has been a rising star since old man Larry Fitzmaurice profiled him for p4k in 2013. Back then, he couldn't feel the difference between electronic and pop and was nervous about the idea of playing live festivals, worrying they would "feel like a techno amusement park." Since then, the Sweedes have taken over pop and Lauber's taken his game to Euro festival grounds and late night clubs in Seattle alike.
But where the dance explosion has allowed many a festival slot to look like a fancy display of laptops, Lauber brings out the full band. Where Flume soundalikes rule the EDM circuit, Lauber put out a debut smartly informed by old school Balearic; more Technique than Joytime.
I had the chance to catch up with Lauber before he hits the Big Apple stage on Friday. We talked about today's electronic scene, what acts are still able to surprise him and what he looks for in a remix.
Popdust: Gov Ball! You're playing it! Are there any acts playing the festival that you're excited to see, besides your own?
Marius Lauber: There are a lot! I think it's one of the best line-ups this summer and I hope we will have some time to walk around and see other bands. We are all looking forward to see Chance the Rapper especially.
PD: In an early profile, you described feeling wary of "open air raves," saying that they were "not very inspiring." What do you plan on bringing to the festival crowd on Randall's Island that will keep you inspired?
ML: Oh.. I didn't mean music festivals in general - I'm just more than often disappointed by the commercialization of underground electronic music and how all these outside summer raves in cities like Berlin usually feel uninspiring and bland to me. Which doesn't mean that I don't like music festivals - I'm actually really looking forward to this summer as I'm playing a lot of great places i haven't been before.
PD: In interviews, you've also talked about the importance of connecting with audiences as a performer. What things do other electronic acts do wrong, live?
ML: I don't think there's a "right" and "wrong," a lot of acts play solo laptop shows and are absolutely amazing, like Four Tet or Jon Hopkins, but for me, it just made sense to build a band around me and perform the songs live. I don't really see myself as just an electronic musician, so that's the only thing that feels right to me when performing live.
PD: You've also talked about the influence of visuals on your music, especially movies. Is there anything you've seen recently that's inspired you?
ML: I loved Nocturnal Animals, the cinematography was incredible.
PD: What's the last song you've listened to that surprised you? Why?
ML: I just listened to the new Washed Out track, which is amazing. It has a really strong house vibe, which I didn't expect of him.
PD: When you started out, you were one of the few people genuinely interested in both dance and pop music. Now, almost every hit has at least one drop. Do you feel more at home in the pop world?
ML: I never saw such a strong line between pop and dance music and I don't think in these categories when I'm writing or listening to music. I also don't think that the strange popularity of EDM and "drops" is the first time electronic music is happening in pop music - pop music in the early '80s was getting a lot more electronic and synthesizer-heavy.
PD: You're also an avid remixer, putting your touch on indie heavyweights and some of the hottest names in house. Are there any songs out now that you're dying to remix?
ML: I'd love to do a '70s disco remix of one of Adele's tracks. I listened to her album and the vocals would fit in great in a diva-esque disco production.
PD: Are there any songs you wouldn't want to touch?
ML: Yes, as I'm quite picky with my remixes; there are a lot of tracks I wouldn't want to remix. I'm only working on things that have a good vocal line and where I think i can add something with my own sound.
Intrigued? You can catch Roosevelt at the Big Apple Stage this Friday at 12:45 or that night at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar.
Andrew Karpan is known to jam on the ivories at certain hours at Washington Square Park. He's not that guy but he's close enough. Follow him on Twitter. | https://www.popdust.com/roosevelt-gov-ball-2429911524.html?utm_campaign=post-teaser&utm_content=ecu3a72z | 2018-10-15T17:53:33 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Ceuled Lemwn Portmeirion Lemon Curd
Ceuled Lemwn Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Lemon Curd. Pwysau / Weight: 312g
Jam Bricyll Portmeirion Apricot Jam
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Jam Ceirios Portmeirion Morello Cherry Jam
Jam Ceirios Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Morello Cherry Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
Jam Cyrens Duon Portmeirion Blackcurrant Jam
Jam Cyren Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Blackcurrant Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
Jam Eirin Duon Portmeirion Damson Jam
Jam Eirin Duon Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Damson Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
Jam Eirin Mair Portmeirion Gooseberry Jam
Jam Eirin Mair Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Gooseberry Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
Jam Mafon Portmeirion Raspberry Jam
Jam Mafon Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Raspberry Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
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Jam Mefus Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Strawberry Jam. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
Marmaled Toriad Man Portmeirion Thin Cut Marmalade
Marmaled Toriad Man Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Thin Cut Marmalade. Pwysau / Weight: 340g
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Mêl pur a naturiol wedi'i glustnodi gan wenyn o gymysgedd wych o flodau, o bob rhan o Brydain. Maint: 227g Anaddas i blant dan 12 mis oed Pure & natural honey gathered by bees from a wonderful mix of blossoms, from all over Britain. Size: 227g Unsuitable for children under 12 months
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Siytni Bricyll a Sinsir Cymreig o'r safon uchaf. Finest quality Welsh Apricot & Stem Ginger Chutney. Pwysau / Weight: 300g
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Siytni Llysiau gyda Chwrw Casgen A vegetable Chutney with Real Ale Pwysau / Weight: 320g
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Siytni Marmaled Nionod o'r safon uchaf. Cymysgedd melys o Nionod gyda Finegr Balsamig. Finest quality Onion Marmalade. A sweetened blend of onions with Balsamic Vinegar. Pwysau / Weight: 330g
Siytni Moethus ardal Mor y Canoldir Portmeirion Rich Mediterranean Chutney
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'Captain Cat's Mor Seasoning' Seaweed Spice Blend 70g
Made by The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company, this seasoning is blended with warm spices, herbs, citrus notes and seaweed, perfect for seafood. Try it to season grilled fish, crab cakes, chowder etc..
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A unique box of luxury and seasonal chocolates carefully selected, handpicked and packed in Portmeirion Village. These quality chocolates contain subtle blends of ingredients, creating the very best in fine flavour. Please note: Packaging and chocolate selection may vary by time of year Approx weight of chocolates 250g Allergy Advice: Chocolates may contain milk, soya and may contain traces...
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Welshman's caviar is handpicked laver seaweed from the Pembrokeshire coast which has been dried and toasted to bring out its unique depth of flavour. Try it sprinkled on scrambled eggs!
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Merlyn Welsh Cream Liqueur is a combination of cream and the finest Welsh malted barley spirit from the Penderyn Distillery. Merlyn is a premium quality cream liqueur produced to uncompromising standards at our Penderyn Distillery. Our copper pot still is charged with the finest malted barley to produce just one cask of spirit per day. It is this spirit combined with pure fresh dairy cream that is... Nosing Glass Pack
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Updated: Sat, 02/21/2015 - 00:00 By admin INDEX FOR FAITH'S CHECKBOOK Part 1 January - March Part 2 April - June Part 3 July - September Part 4 October - December C H Spurgeon (See How To Handle Fear),Kings (See How To Handle). (See How To Handle Fear)).(Spurgeon's commentary). (Spurgeon's personal testimony - Isaiah 45:22). (cf John 3:14-15ff). (cf Ref on knowing God)! (see "Covenant in the Bible") - see note).).(Spurgeon's commentary on this verse). Spurgeon's devotional on Ps 47:4 from Morning and Evening: - see note).. (See also Nave's Topic on "Liberality") April 22 Power to Raise "The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous" (Psalm. (See also Spurgeon's comment in "Treasury of David") April 23 No Fear of Death "'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes (present tense = continuously! carries off the victory, who hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes, and temptations and persecutions) will not be hurt by the second death." (Revelation 2:11 - see note) (See How To Handle Fear) "A righteous man who walks in his integrity -- How blessed are his sons after him" (Proverbs 20:7). (Torrey's Topic "The Blessed" his list of Scriptures is worth taking some time to ponder! You will be BLESSED!) "It shall not seem hard to you when you set him free, for he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man; so the LORD your God will bless you in whatever * you do." (Deut. (See Torrey's Topic "Masters") April 27 God Finished His Work "The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Thy hands." (Psalm 138:8). (See also Spurgeon's comment in "Treasury of David") He who has begun will carry on the work which is being wrought within my soul (Phil 1:6 - see note).! April 28 It Becomes Mutual "Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. " (2Cor. Spurgeon devotional on 2 Corinthians 6:16 from Morning and Evening…. April 29 Forget and Forgive "Do not say, "I will repay evil"; Wait for the LORD and He will save. (See Torrey's Topic "Waiting Upon God") April 30 The Overcomer's Reward - see note).. (See Torrey's Topic "Warfare of the Saints") May 1 Full of Song "For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will. (See Torrey's Topic on "Joy") May 2 Spiritual Sowing "For Torrey's Topic "The Reward of the Saints") May 3 Listen for the Signal "It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then you shall act promptly, for then the LORD will have gone out before you to strike the army. See another Spurgeon devotional on 2 Samuel 5:24 from Morning and Evening. May 4 Victory in Reverses "Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for. (See Torrey's Topic "Afflictions Made Beneficial") May 5 Why Remain Captive "then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you." "Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD always. Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut. (See Torrey's Topic "Godly Fear") May 7 Let No Evil Remain "Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the LORD may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your. (Ro 8:13 see note) "They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'" rejoices in Him, because we trust in His holy name." (Psalm 33:21). (See Spurgeon's Treasury of David, See Spurgeon's Devotional). Spurgeon's Devotional from Morning and Evening on Ps. May 10 Fear Only God: So that we confidently (boldly) say "THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?" (Hebrews 13:6 see note). (Note: In NAS, words in all capital letters identify a direct quote from the Old Testament). (See How To Handle Fear). (See Torrey's Topic "God (See How To Handle Fear). (See Torrey's Topic "Holy Boldness") May 11 Wait for the Finals "As for Gad, raiders (a troop) shall raid (invade, attack) him, but he will raid (overcome, assault) at their heels. (Amplified adds "assault them victoriously") (Genesis 49:19). Some of us have been like the tribe of Gad. (Torrey's Topic) Gad, "He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, & he who cares for his master will! (Torrey's Topic on "Servants") May 13 Day Is at Hand "And I will give him the Morning Star." (Revelation 2:28 - note)., let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal (Hebrew = rapha see Jehovah Rapha) us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. ? (See How To Handle (Refs, Spurgeon #1, #2, Torrey's Topic "Consolation Under Affliction"),. (Torrey's Topic "Afflicted Saints") May 15 God's High Places "Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name." (Psalm 91:14). (Spurgeon's "Treasury of David") - see note).! May 24 One a Majority! "One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you, as He hath promised you" (Joshua 23:10). - see note).? (See How To Handle Fear)footed l (Ed: frank as a transitive verb means to enable to pass or go freely or easily) (See How To Handle Fear).). (See How To Handle Fear) (See How To Handle Fear),. (See How To Handle Fear)! | https://www.preceptaustin.org/faiths_checkbook_-_april-june | 2018-10-15T16:49:00 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Do You Need A Prescription For Progesterone Supplements
Hi, I had a misccarige in March and am preg again but worried, of course, about miscarriage. Can you buy progesterone at the pharmacy without a prescription? I'm not able to see my doc to tell him I'm pregnant for another week and I'm scared I'll lose this one before then.
I bought progesterone cream from Walmart, but I believe it's synthetic, and it says it's for menopause. But it would probably hold you until you see the dr. I guess natural progesterone is the best.
As far as I know you need a prescription, but I have not checked out drug stores. Maybe go to the pharmacy and ask. Also, I would call the doctor to ask if there are supplements that you could use that are safe until you see your Dr.
You can buy Natural prodesterone at health food store I believe or off line But NOT anything else.....synthetic could cause birth defects
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Too Soon For Symptoms
My br___ts are so sore I can barely stand it, I feel so sick to my stomach too, i keep falling asleep at work. But if I am pregnant I'm only about 2-3 weeks. Is this too soon to be having symptoms? I don't know who to ask because I can't tell anyone I know or they would freak out. Please help me!!
Hi Tish-I had symptoms 2 weeks after conception. Hope this helps. Good luck!
No Tish I don't think it's too early for you to be having symptoms, if it is, you and I are both crazy! I think I concieved on the 23rd, IB on the 26-27...I think. Anyways no period for the whole month of October(due on the 22nd) and no AF yet for November! Around the 1st I went for a blood pregnancy test b/c 2 hpt came back negative, blood test came back negative too. I started feeling suddenly exhausted on the 1st, my b___bs have gotten so sore I cant't not wear a bra! I think I just tested to early because I don't know my cycle very well, but I do have 2 children and I do know when something is different about my body, and something definitely is, I had symptoms early with my other 2 too, so no your not crazy, when is AF due?
Tish, anymore updates?
I took a HPT today but it was negative. I still think it is too soon though. I have a doctors appt. the 17th and I should start my cycle anyday now so I will know for sure soon. At first I kept hoping I wasn't b/c I'm only 19, but I'm bout to graduate w/ my a__soc. degree so I'm not too woriied plus, I've gotten myself really excited so if I'm not I'm gonna be let down. Impatiently waiting...
Congrats on your a__sociates!!!! I hope everything works out for you. I know what it feels like to get your hopes up and then be let down.
hey guys hw u doing well i dnt know for me its a bit rticky am due on 13-15th well my cycles changes a lot but this month has been horrible for me i satrted having back pains on the 3rd and nipples been sore especially the day b4 yesterday and tdy hmm i cnt help it no stomach pains @ ol but back pains , increase in cm but since yesterday its getting better so im so confused i dnt know what to think anyone who can help me plz do so
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Trey Minter has his work cut out for him in his upcoming Junior season. Butler just graduated 8 seniors off a team that was ranked in the Top 25 for nearly the entire season. Trey should step into a leadership role on and off the court and will have to carry an increased scoring burden for Coach KC Goodin’s Bears after averaging 6.1 points per game as a sophomore.
Minter is a 6 foot point guard who is a big time shooter and passer. Trey can create off the dribble for himself and others but has struggled to finish through contact due to a lack of upper body strength that he is working on improving in the weight room. Minter’s sophomore season at Butler was cut short with a broken hand. Butler went 27-4 on the year but ended their season on a two game losing streak with losses to Doss (in the district title game) and PRP (in the regional opener). Coach KC Goodin had much praise for Minter, “Trey is a really good teammate who can really shoot the ball! Trey’s savvy and his willingness to take and make the big shot and big plays is what separates him. He’s a 4.0 student and I expect a big Junior season out of him!”
Trey is currently playing AAU with Team Vision 2020 and having a high scoring and successful season. Minter says they have been playing some good competition and winning big games. Last weekend they knocked off the Louisville Legends at the Under Armour Classic before eventually falling to the Ohio Rebels in the quarterfinals. Minter says the AAU season is teaching him how to take over games and preparing him to carry a larger scoring load at Butler this season. While Trey hasn’t had any college interest yet, he looks and plays the part of a scoring combo guard at the next level. If he can accomplish his Junior season goals of winning the 6th region and leading Butler to Rupp, he will certainly work his way on to the radar of college coaches. | https://www.prephoops.com/2018/06/prospect-spotlight-trey-minter-2020/ | 2018-10-15T16:48:41 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Welcome to Prime One Mortgage Corp. We are glad you stopped by to check us out. Prime One Mortgage is a full-service Mortgage Broker offering home loans for purchase and refinance transactions in Washington and Idaho. Our company has provided mortgage loan services to thousands of satisfied people since 1997. We know you have many options when choosing a lender and we consider it an honor to provide you with exceptional service. Our company is not looking to provide you with a “one-time service”, but be your lender for life. Our greatest compliment is your repeat business and your referrals of family and friends. At Prime One Mortgage our goal is to serve you and make your home loan experience as smooth as possible.
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Cartons: a perfect example of the Circular Economy
The concept of the Circular Economy is to optimise the use of natural resources by encouraging recycling, eco-design and waste prevention, among other measures. The paper industry, including cartonboard packaging, is at the forefront of putting these aims into practice.
In early July, the European Commission published “Towards a Circular Economy: a zero waste programme for Europe”. It explains that since the industrial revolution, waste has constantly grown. This is because our economies have used a “take-make-consume -dispose” pattern of growth – a linear model which assumes that resources are abundant, available and cheap to dispose of. We recognise today, that resources needed to be husbanded and this means re-using, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products. What used to be regarded as ‘waste’ can be turned into a resource and all resources need to be managed more efficiently throughout their life cycle.
This initiative accords admirably with the current actions of the paper based industry whose products including cartons, are easily recyclable and made from a naturally renewable resource.
Paper can be recycled up to six or seven times in theory, with an average rate of 5 times. Over 50% of the raw material for Europe’s pulp and paper industry is from paper for recycling (the rest is from wood fibres) and almost 58 million tonnes of paper are recycled within Europe. In 2012, 71.7% of paper which was used in Europe, was recycled which means that Europe is the global paper recycling champion. Also, paper packaging including cartons, is the most recycled packaging material in Europe at 81.3%. (source: European Recovered Paper Council).
Good recyclability depends on good eco-design of paper and board products and auxiliary materials. For example: Ink manufacturers are increasingly using renewable and recyclable resources such as soy, vegetable oil and starch. They are also helping printers to recover and recycle inks and solvents. Eco-design aims to reinforce the recyclability of cartonboard packaging, and leads to environmental benefits including optimising the use of resources and reducing waste and unrecyclable components.
Cartonboard cannot be recycled indefinitely as fibres eventually get too short and worn out to be useful. The cycle must therefore be constantly replenished with new virgin fibres. New virgin fibres in Europe for cartonboard packaging come from wood from sustainably managed forests. Not only are these forests a renewable resource, but new growth exceeds the wood harvested by an area equivalent to 1.5 million football pitches per annum. (source: Confederation of European Paper Industries) To achieve this, European forest owners and operators follow a combination of national, European and international regulations. In addition, they can prove forests are sustainably managed through Forest Certification Schemes, such as FSC® and PEFC™.
The European Commission believes that moving towards a more circular economy is essential to deliver the resource efficiency agenda established under the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The life cycle of cartonboard packaging shows that it is at the core of a circular economy, as it is an industry that recycles, using “waste” as a resource and also uses new fibres from renewable, sustainably managed forests to continue the loop.
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Located on the residential street N Natchez, UNO Galewood Elementary School, is certainly one of the best-looking schools in the city of Chicago. Designed by Urban Works Ltd, an architectural company from the same city, the school has 18 classrooms and educational facilities for 600 students.
The design is full of contrasts between glass, metal, concrete and of course wood, which is responsible for giving color and a natural feel to this building. The ProdEX wooden panels, in pale color, cover the east and west walls, and fall like an amazing waterfall by the curved wall on the southern part of the facade, both inside and outside of the building providing the inside of the building with a warm feel perfectly harmonized with the side windows.
This part of the building appears to reach the sky and is a clear example of the infinite possibilities that this material provides, giving the students the opportunity to enjoy an open, and versatile space using the latest architectural technology, and inspiring students to explore, learn and create the knowledge of tomorrow.
'A' For Architecture: Lee Bey at WBEZ features UNO Galewood in an article, October 3, 2012 | https://www.prodema.com/en/project/uno-galewood-elementary-school | 2018-10-15T16:43:49 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Fling open the farm gate to bridge divide with consumers by Kathy Hammond 15 April 2015 Open Farm Sunday is on a mission to connect with even the youngest consumers Matthew Grindal from Manor Farm in Leicestershire says growers benefit from consumers understanding the value of their work Community engagement and building public trust are at the heart of LEAF objectives There are a host of safe activities for Open Farm Sunday visitors from pick-your-own potatoes… …to holding freshly harvested celery aloft Barely a month goes by without one report or another coming out to remind us of how disconnected we have become as a nation from the food we eat. But happily there are initiatives that are helping the supply chain to bridge that gap with consumers. Produce Business UK looks at one – Open Farm Sunday - and the connections it is making to help support the fresh produce industry in the UK When farms nationwide fling open their gates on June 7 this year, Open Farm Sunday (OFS) will mark its 10th edition. During its first decade, the initiative has welcomed thousands of visitors to UK farms and now OFS is looking to broaden its reach further to schools and pull in more partners along the length of the supply chain. It is a move that OFS organisers believe will ultimately boost UK fresh produce sales. The event has seen its popularity enjoy a steady climb since its inaugural outing in 2006, when a very creditable 300 farms welcomed 30,000 visitors, not least due to the number of retailers and supply chain partners that have come on board to support a growing number of farms. This year, the retailers backing the initiative, which is organised by Linking the Environment And Farming (LEAF), are Asda, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Tesco and for the first time, Aldi. The discount retailer is clearly delighted to get the behind the initiative and this willingness to muck in on the part of retailers has played a huge role in the success of OFS. It’s reciprocal of course, as their involvement garners very positive public relations at a time when their relationships with suppliers are often the subject of negative press. “At Aldi we work closely with our British farmers and we’re extremely proud to support them,” says a spokesperson for the retailer. “We know high quality, locally-sourced produce is just as important to our customers and our farmers… We’re delighted to sponsor Open Farm Sunday 2015. We fully support its aims in generating awareness of where food comes from and how it is produced, as well as the vital role farmers have in caring for the countryside.” Long-time partner Tesco is sponsoring again in 2015, but this time through its Eat Happy Project; the retailer’s long-term commitment to help children develop a healthier and happier relationship with food. “We believe that if children understand more about food and where it comes from, they can make better decisions about what they put on their plates when they grow up,” Tesco explains in a statement. “We want to help children see, up close, where their food is grown and hear about how it’s made – from the experts who produce it.” Growing numbers In a landmark anniversary year, LEAF hopes to get 500 farms involved in 2015 and build on last year’s total of 207,000 visitors to 375 farms. During the course of the last nine editions, the scale and nature of activity by individual growers and farmers has already developed, according to Annabel Shackleton, who heads up events at LEAF, including OFS. “Over the years we have seen some farmers group together to offer events or take it in turns to open their farms and support each other or work together with contractors, agronomists or vets for example,” she explains. “That is one of the core messages; getting people to work together and it has come from the farmers themselves.” Now Shackleton is hoping to see relationships with supermarkets develop further and is encouraged by the target that Asda has set for 50 of its suppliers to open on OFS. There are also some great examples of teamwork via OFS; with one grower amalgamating the event with a local vintage vehicle display, while another has seen his farm day grow from 12 people in 2006 to 3,000 in 2014. Farm visitors can pick their own potatoes at one OFS farm or even go on a Malteser Safari in Norfolk to find out about how malting barley and sugar beet are grown. “Some growers are involving chefs too and encouraging simple cooking skills,” says Shackleton. “For example, pizza making – how fabulous to be able to tell the whole story from the wheat that makes the dough through to the peppers and tomatoes in the topping.” Building on the feedback The concept of OFS grew out of one of LEAF’s charitable objectives to build public trust and understanding, and represents one of the nine different elements of integrated farm management to foster community engagement. One of the most valuable aspects of OFS is the feedback and research generated around it. In the past, OFS has teamed up with the Royal Agricultural University to produce a report after the annual event. While studies often show a worrying lack of knowledge among UK consumers, the level of feedback from OFS both via paper and online forms is high – 2,000 participants – therefore giving valuable statistical information on the success of the events. “We pride ourselves on our research among farmers and visitors and we get great feedback,” says Shackleton. “Last year 97% thought the event was good or excellent and although 20% said they had never been to a farm before, 85% said they had experienced a significant increase in knowledge and that they learnt something they did not know before their visit,” says Shackleton. These figures are encouraging, but Shackleton is under no illusion; stressing that it shows the need to educate the public. Now she is hoping that more elements of the supply chain will get involved and encourage their grower-suppliers to sign up too. “It is not too late for this year and it can be hugely rewarding to help out,” she says. “For example, Produce World Group and BerryWorld support their grower suppliers, and we would love to see relationships develop with wholesale markets, foodservice suppliers and more supermarkets.” Now the OFS team is working on Open Farm School Days which has emerged from the success of OFS and sees growers and farmers open their operations on various days in June for organised school visits. “It is so important for the public to know where their food comes from and how much work goes into producing it,” says Shackleton. “It is good for the retailer and their relationship with their customers too; it helps them to value what they buy and understand the price they pay so farmers and growers will get a good price for their produce.” Case study: Produce World Produce World Group sends a team to one of its grower-suppliers to help on Open Farm Sunday. In 2014 they headed to Russell Smith Farms of Duxford in Cambridgeshire – a LEAF demonstration farm that grows mainly potatoes and onions over some 2,000 acres. Visitor numbers were high, with an estimated 1,000 people experiencing the farm on the day. Andrew Burgess, director of agriculture at the Produce World Group, is personally involved in taking visitors on trailer rides around the farm, with the trailer hitched to the back of a tractor specially decorated with leeks, cauliflowers and a wrap-a-round of potatoes. He explains to visitors the farming stages throughout the year and the different crops that are in the ground at the farm. Burgess also explains the role of LEAF in modern, sustainable agriculture. Visitors also get the chance to feel different vegetables and guess what they are without seeing them. “It is so encouraging to see people wanting to engage with farming,” a company spokesperson says. “We love welcoming people to our farms to gain an idea of what our work involves and the children really love our potato tractor.” To sign up for Open Farm Sunday 2015, click | https://www.producebusinessuk.com/supply/stories/2015/04/15/fling-open-the-farm-gate-to-bridge-gap-with-consumers | 2018-10-15T16:59:25 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Buttery Launches Alcohol Delivery in AustinAustin's market is flooded with easy ways to get beer, wine and liquor delivered to your doorstep. Now, a new Boston-based competitor has entered the market and is trying to differentiate and win over more sophisticated drinkers. Buttery, founded in 2015 as a competitor to Drizly, another Boston-based booze delivery service, is now available in Austin through its iPhone and Android apps.
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Braxton Huff 🙌🏻@3raxton · Creator traveling the world 🙌🏻
This is interesting, I am intrigued. Any plans for an iOS version?
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Gaurav MehtaMaker@gauravdmehta · CEO, Buttery
@3raxton Thanks! Buttery for iOS is already available in the App Store. You can get it here. Let us know if you have any feedback and what we could do better there.
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Gaurav MehtaMaker@gauravdmehta · CEO, Buttery
Hey @chrismessina Thanks so much for hunting Buttery and howdy Product Hunters! For those who don't know, Buttery is an app to discover, find and order local, craft and unique beers, wines and spirits at local stores and be get delivery in 60 mins. Until today, customers could use Buttery's website or iOS app () but we are thrilled to to launch the Android app of Buttery here. This is a completely native app and has taken us about 3 months from development to production. On Buttery, customers are shown all liquor stores that we partner with in a given area and you are able to browse and search their entire inventory in real-time and order drinks for delivery in 60 mins or reserve for pick up. The shopping experience on Buttery is just as if you were standing inside your local liquor store but now you are doing it from the comfort of your couch. You pay the same price in the store and there's a small delivery fee! We focus heavily on making it easy for you to discover local, craft and hard-to-find beers, wines and spirits and we do that by highlighting trending breweries, distilleries and also enabling the stores to recommend you products through the Buttery App. In addition, we heavily personalize your liquor shopping experience through "Buttery Concierge" which is a free service available in our iOS and Android apps. Through Buttery Concierge, a customer is able to chat with our drinks expert in real-time and get product recommendations for food pairing, help in finding the perfect gift or simply assist you placing large corporate orders. For retailers, the Buttery platform is the fastest way to enable online and mobile e-commerce, start reaching new customers and increase sales. Unlike our competition, we create branded web and mobile storefronts that our partners can use as their primary channel of doing commerce. Our team will be here all day and answer any questions you may have! Happy Sipping!
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Chris MessinaHunter@chrismessina · Product designer & entrepreneur
@gauravdmehta congrats on the launch!
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Gaurav MehtaMaker@gauravdmehta · CEO, Buttery
@chrismessina thank you 🙏
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Microsoft Stock: 3 Reasons to Be Bullish on Microsoft Corporation
In a turbulent market, buying stocks can be met with much trepidation. But for the smart investor, a market correction such as the one we are experiencing now can be an excellent buying opportunity. With Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock down about 10% for the year, investors might want to consider taking a second look at Microsoft stock, as it has some potential catalysts for investors.
First, Microsoft is financially healthy.
The company has a very strong balance sheet that will stand any economic downturn. Its current total assets are almost double its total liabilities and during the last quarter, MSFT stock recorded revenue of $23.8 billion on non-GAAP earnings of $6.3 billion. Microsoft also boasts an “AAA” credit rating.
Microsoft’s core businesses are still strong. “Windows 10” is now on more than 200 million active devices. That makes it the fastest adoption rate the platform has experienced.
The strength of Windows 10 is vital, as it has many potential add-on monetization opportunities. In the latest quarter, for example, Microsoft has partnered with Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE:P) and Uber. These partnerships contribute to a stellar balance sheet.
Microsoft has moved in tandem with the S&P 500 during the current stock market correction, which is down about 10% for the year—a good sign that investors have confidence in Microsoft, given the current negative sentiment in the market.
Next, investors can count on the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella.
Since Nadella took the helm of Microsoft two years ago, he has rapidly taken the company’s core technologies and shifted them to the cloud. Microsoft’s cloud-based “Office 365” has a customer base of 20.6 million users, up from 124% over the previous year. (Source: “How Microsoft Corporation’s Cloud Business Is Doing In 4 Numbers,” The Motley Fool, February 3, 2016.)
That growth rate suggests that Microsoft’s plan to transition Office to an evergreen subscription model is starting to reap rewards. It also suggests that fears that Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) free productivity apps would take away Microsoft customers were exaggerated. Alphabet’s “Google Drive for Work” has about one million paying customers as of last October—hardly a threat to Microsoft. (Source: Ibid.)
Nadella also opened up Microsoft’s cloud services to other devices outside of the Windows phone, such as Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) “iPhone” or phones powered by Alphabet’s “Android” operating system (OS), increasing its market base.
Lastly, “Azure,” Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure platform, is booming.
Microsoft recently reported that in its latest quarter, Azure revenue rose 140% annually over last year. Forrester Research estimated that Azure had an annual run rate of $1.6 billion, which would put it second behind Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) “Amazon Web Services” (AWS). Amazon’s AWS reported an annual revenue run rate of about $10.0 billion last quarter.
Yes, Azure is well behind AWS, but Azure is growing almost twice as fast as AWS’s 78% growth rate. (Source: “This one chart gives you an idea of how crazy Amazon’s cloud growth really is,” Business Insider, December 15, 2015.)
BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman recently suggested that Azure has the potential to grow 55% annually for the next three years, accounting for five percent of total revenue by 2018, which is an increase from two percent for the last quarter. (Source: “BMO Likes Microsoft, Skyworks And Nokia Amid Tech Earnings Season,” Benzinga, January 26, 2016.)
Altogether, Microsoft’s cloud-based services—Office 365, Azure, “CRM Online,” and others—reached an annualized revenue rate of $9.4 billon. Microsoft management expects that number to double to $20.0 billion by 2018. (Source: “Microsoft Corporation Surges as Demand for Cloud Services Continues to Rise,” The Motley Fool, January 28, 2016.)
The Bottom Line on Microsoft Stock
MSFT stock is in a position to have a great 2016 and beyond, even if the current market turmoil persists. At its current price, Microsoft stock is not expensive, sporting a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 16. With much growth left, investors might want to take a look at MSFT stock. | https://www.profitconfidential.com/stock/microsoft-stock-3-reasons-to-be-bullish-on-microsoft-corporation/ | 2018-10-15T18:03:38 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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If you’ve read the title of this blog post you’re probably going:
“No… is this really possible?” or
“This must be some kind of a joke, right?” or even
“Yeah right… who do you think you’re fooling with this!”
I understand. Truly.
And I would be feeling the same way if I didn’t know for a fact that potty training a child in 1 day can be done.
If you came here to read about how potty training is a huge nightmare and that most parents are completely overwhelmed and frustrated with the training process – forget it! I’m not going to tell you that.
What I’m going to do instead is introduce you to a potty training method I’ve had the chance to test out recently and it’s called The One-Day Potty Training Party.
The person behind this toilet training method is Teri Crane, a best selling author who’s already!).
Teri teaches the potty training party method in her book Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day: Proven Secrets of the Potty Pro, which you can find on Amazon.
But enough about her, here’s what the potty party method is all about.
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Why the “Potty Training Party” method works so well?
It may seem hard to believe but Teri’s potty training method works and it works well.
If you really think about why shouldn’t it work?
I mean it’s a party and that means fun, games, candy, cake and of course prizes, lots and lots of prizes.
For a toddler it doesn’t get any better than this, I’m I right?.
How to prepare for the potty training party
Every minute spent on planning saves 10 minutes in execution
The potty party is most likely the fastest way to toilet train your child, but it won’t be that fun and rewarding process unless, #1 you carefully prepare for the big day and #2 you follow all the steps in the correct order.
If you think about it, even if it’s a one-day job, potty training is no different than a marathon.
…and the “secret” to successfully finishing a marathon is, yep you guessed it, preparation.
Now, before planning anything you need to make sure that your child is physically, mentally and emotionally ready to start potty training.
But if you’re waiting for your toddler to say -I want to use the potty- you’re gonna wait forever. That’s just like waiting for a teenager to say -I want to clean my room-. Not gonna happen.
What you need to do instead is keep a close look for signs. These are signals through which your child let’s you know that he or she is ready to be potty trained. And here’s a quick video to show what exactly you need to be looking for.
Ok, so once you’re confident that your child is ready to be potty trained, all you have to do is plan the party and you do that just like planning any other party for your child, but with a little twist.
Part of the planning process involves shopping for the essentials, like real underwear, a potty chair, potty training board books or DVDs are also very welcomed and the most important item, a doll that wets.
Before picking the date make sure that everyone who’s onboard is free and will be able to make it. I’m talking about close family friends, grandparents, in-laws and older siblings.
PARTY TIME!
The potty party is broken down into 3 parts, each of them with it’s own goal and purpose.
Part 1 – To Teach is To Learn Twice
The first part of the potty party stars you, your child and his brand new doll. In her book, Teri encourages parents to nicely gift wrap the doll and present it to their child while in the bathroom on the morning of the potty party.
Moving on.
The party begins. You, with the help of your child teach the doll how to use the potty.
You do this while playing games, watching potty training DVDs, and other fun and entertaining activities.
The purpose of all this is to teach your child about the potty and how to use it, but without the usual pressure that comes with having to use it himself.
Normal potty training is all about you telling your child to do this or do that. To teach is to learn twice.
So by helping you teach the doll how to use the potty, your child is already learning without even realising it. Powerful stuff, right?
Also, accidents are normal so make sure the doll has 1 or 2 of her own. Your child will understand that they happen to everyone and will feel less stressed when it will happen to him.
Part 2 – Pulling the Ol’ Switcheroo
The party continues, but now your child is the star.
After helping you all morning to potty train his doll, it’s now his turn to go through the routine.
For this part to work you need to find your child’s “dangling carrot”.
This means finding that one thing, he or she would do anything to get it. If you’ve been involved in your toddler’s learning activities, finding the ultimate reward will be an easy task.
Your child may hesitate at first. It’s important you maintain a positive attitude and keep with the program.
Part 3 – Happy Pottyday
The 3rd and final part of the potty party begins after your child has successfully completed the potty routine. So everyone comes to congratulate him for his success potty training his doll and for using the potty.
The 3rd part is the one that comes closest to a real party. All the family and close friends are cheering on your toddler who now pees and poops like a big kid.
Have your child throw away all his diapers while everyone is cheering for him, let him make a big show out of it. In most cases this helps solidify the commitment to only using big kid stuff.
Wrapping everything up
The potty party is one of the least complicated potty training methods available for parents and it’s one with some of the highest success rates I’ve heard about.
Hopefully, reading this post has made you a smarter and more prepared parent, and potty training does not scare you anymore.
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This High School Projects programme is designed to give you an unparalleled overview of physiotherapy in Nepal. Based in the beautiful city of Chitwan and close to one of Nepal's national parks, volunteers will spend time in the Physiotherapy Department of the large local hospital and in a local centre for the disabled. These are always inspiring placements thanks to the fantastic work that goes on there.. | https://www.projects-abroad.com.au/projects/high-school-projects/medicine-and-healthcare/physiotherapy/volunteer-in-nepal/ | 2018-10-15T16:55:12 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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When asked which technical skill sets were most in demand in their IT departments, 76 per cent of CIOs cited desktop support. Network administration (LAN, WAN) and Windows administration followed closely, with 75 per cent and 74 percent of the responses, respectively. (Note: CIOs were allowed multiple responses.)
Help desk/technical support was the job area experiencing the most growth, cited by 15 per cent of CIOs. Data/database management and networking followed closely, each receiving 12 per cent and 11 per cent of the response, respectively.
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New Landlord Association seeking pledges8:30 AM, 3rd October 2018
About 2 weeks ago 324
9:14 AM, 20th November 2014
About 4 years ago
I’ve just acquired my first BTL property which will provide me with an additional income in retirement. My plan is to retire in the next 4-5 years, downsize the family home and use the residual equity to acquire a second BTL and take this income too. I’m happy to let the capital growth look after itself as I intend to pass these properties on to my kids.
I need to formulate a strategy to acquire a third property as I have 3 kids and want to give them one property each but I’m not sure how this can be achieved.
I’ve always thought I should be mortgage free in retirement but the more I read I see that this isn’t always the best strategy, although I’m sure lenders put a ceiling on the age of borrowers.
I’d welcome any advice you can give. My first property is on a 57% LTV.
Thanks in advance.
Phil:22 AM, 20th November 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi Phil,
In building a strategy the devil is in the detail.
What is the value of your first BTL and what is the rental income?
How much net profit are you making?
How much does the mortgage cost per month and is it interest only or repayment?
How much working liquid capital do you currently have?
If you did down size how much equity would this release?
How much capital growth do you think you will get in your area over the next 4-5 years and how much rental appreciation.?
How many properties will you need in total?
How much income would you need from the portfolio?
All these question will help you start to formulate a strategy.
Carol Thomas
13:05 PM, 20th November 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi Phil, it is also very important to look at the arrangements for your rental properties in respect of your will.
Mark Alexander
14:08 PM, 20th November 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi Phil
Once you have answered Neil's questions I will be in a better position to provide some suggestions too.
.
Phil Ireland
22:04 PM, 21st November 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi,
I'll answer your questions in the order raised:
1. £280,000 with a monthly rental income of £1,100
2. Net monthly profit is approx. £630 (after mortgage payments and letting fees)
3. £380 monthly mortgage payment on interest only
4. Approx. £4,000
5. Approx. £250,000
6. Capital growth estimated at £60-80k over 4-5 years and rental increases in line with RPI
7. Two in total, so only one more ( I already own outright a holiday
home in Spain which can be sold at some future date so that I can give one to each of my 3 kids)
8. I estimate approx. £20-£25k per annum from the two combined.
Another factor is that my wife doesn't work and so has unused tax allowances. The BTL property has been established on a tenancy in common basis with a 90/10 split in favour of my wife to minimise our tax liability.
By the way, I'm 58.
I hope this additional info helps.
Phil.
Phil Ireland
6:55 AM, 26th November 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi guys
Any feedback or suggestions yet?
Phil.
Jonathan Clarke
22:56 PM, 2nd December 2014
About 4 years ago
Hi Phil
If you have 250K equity after you have downsized I would be buying more than one property to achieve your goal of 25K pa income .
I would buy say 10 x 125K properties at 80% LTV
Mortgage at 5% = £416 pcm
Rent @ 675 pcm
Gross cash flow £259 pcm x 10 x12 = 31K pa income
You would then have a 1.25 million portfolio increasing at say 5% pa = 62.5K pa
62.5K + 31K = 93.5K pa gross return . That`s a gross return of around 37% on your 250K investment . Keep for say 10 years then sell off ( if you must ) one a year to maximise your CGT relief until you have the 3 you want for your kids.
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It all seemed like a bad April fool’s joke at first but the
campaign to free Coronation Street’s Deirdre Rachid carries on apace,
even garnering cross party support in the Commons. However, one
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Fans of the Street will be shocked to hear that DWRC director Ross
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’It was just a bit of 1 April fun. We gave out a genuine postal address
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Before Super Bowl LII, Sam Sampere, an Instructional Lab Manager in the Physics' Department, discussed the science and physics behind the game with News Chanel 9. He joined the Bridge Street team to talk about all facets of the game, including injuries and the best way to prevent them.
'Football helmets have evolved to help protect them [the players] from these jarring blows to the head,' Sampere said of the ongoing concussion and CTE issue within the game. He also talked about hits in the game and the everyday necessity of pads, because, as he says, 'if those forces were exerted over small areas, bones would be broken over every play.' | https://www.publicnow.com/view/BD17AD633BA3EF24B0950D65845723342EC0DF94 | 2018-10-15T17:19:07 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Qantas Airways Delivers The Best In-Flight Entertainment In The Sky
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“Discriminating travelers expect choice and flexibility, especially when it comes to entertainment onboard,” said Wally R. Mariani, senior executive vice president of Qantas Airways, The Americas and Pacific. “As part of our ongoing commitment to our passengers, we continue to invest in our onboard amenities and are pleased to offer the best and most robust entertainment packages in the industry,” he added.
Qantas’ award winning, non-stop entertainment system highlights:
- Brand new, state-of-the-art Total Entertainment system recently recognized with the highest Avion Award
- Personal seatback video screen with a choice of new release movies, TV shows, Q Games and Q Radio
- The latest trend in entertainment with Audio Visual On Demand (AVOD) giving passengers control of their own entertainment options is being progressively introduced
- Economy Class passengers can choose from a variety of movies, television programs, Q radio channels and games
- Business and First Class passengers have a choice of additional new release movies and all-time favorites to enjoy
For the third time in four years, Qantas Airways was named the world’s No. 1 airline for in-flight entertainment by the World Airline Entertainment Association’s annual Avion Awards. Also recognized were Qantas The Australian Way for best in-flight magazine, Q as best in-flight entertainment guide and The Making of “I Still Call Australia Home” as the best special purchase video.
Each year, the Association acknowledges innovation in in-flight entertainment for 35 of the world’s leading airlines. A 25-member expert panel rates airlines and awards the honors for in-flight audio, video, print and interactive media. Sweeping the top four awards this year, Qantas continues its streak of award winning onboard services and products.
Qantas will offer three non-stop weekly services on the San Francisco-Sydney route, operating three-class Boeing 747-400 aircraft, also featuring the luxurious, award winning new Skybed sleeper seat.
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Two Ariel Procaccia, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the creators of Spliddit, a free online tool that provides fair-division algorithms for tasks like dividing chores or rent among roommates.
Over the past 50 years, many mathematicians and computer scientists, including Procaccia, had convinced themselves that there was probably no bounded, envy-free algorithm for dividing cake among n players.
“This is the very problem that got me into the subject of fair division,” said Walter Stromquist, a mathematics professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania who proved some of the seminal results on cake cutting in 1980. “I have thought all my life that I would come back to it when I had time and prove that this particular extension of the result was impossible.”
But in April, two computer scientists defied expectations by posting a paper online describing an envy-free cake-cutting algorithm whose running time depends only on the number of players, not on their individual preferences. One of the pair — 27-year-old Simon Mackenzie, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon — will present the pair’s findings on Oct. 10 at the 57th annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of computer science’s pre-eminent conferences.
The algorithm is extraordinarily complex: Dividing a cake among n players can require as many as n^n^n^n^n^n steps and a roughly equivalent number of cuts. Even for just a handful of players, this number is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. But the researchers already have ideas for making the algorithm much simpler and faster, said the other half of the team, Haris Aziz, a 35-year-old computer scientist at the University of New South Wales and Data61, a data research group in Australia.
For the people who study the theory of fair division, this is “definitely the biggest result in decades,” Procaccia said.
Pieces of Cake
Aziz and Mackenzie’s new algorithm builds on an elegant procedure that mathematicians John Selfridge and John Conway independently came up with around 1960 for dividing a cake among three people.
If Alice, Bob and Charlie want to share a cake, the algorithm starts by having Charlie cut the cake into three slices that are equally valuable from his perspective. Alice and Bob are each asked to point to their favorite slices, and if they like different slices, we’re done — they each take their favorite, Charlie takes the remaining slice, and everyone goes home happy.
If Alice and Bob have the same favorite, then Bob is asked to trim a little cake off that slice so that what remains is equal in value to his second-favorite slice; the trimmed bit is set aside for later. Now Alice gets to choose her favorite piece from among the three slices, and then Bob gets to choose, with the requirement that if Alice didn’t choose the trimmed slice, he must take it. Charlie gets the third slice.
At this stage, none of the players envy each other. Alice is happy since she got to choose first; Bob is happy since he got one of his two equally preferred top choices; and Charlie is happy because he got one of his three original pieces, all of which are equal in his eyes.
But there’s still the trimmed bit to be divided. What makes it possible to divide this bit without creating still more trimmings, and getting into an infinite cycle of trimming and choosing, is the fact that Charlie is more than merely satisfied with the cake he has gotten so far; he would not feel cheated even if the player with the trimmed slice gets all the cake that’s waiting to be allocated, since the trimmed slice plus the trimming equals one of the original slices. Aziz and Mackenzie describe this relationship by saying that Charlie “dominates” the player who got the trimmed slice.
Now if, for example, Alice was the one who got the trimmed slice, the algorithm proceeds as follows: Bob cuts the trimmings into three pieces that he values equally, and then first Alice gets to choose a piece, then Charlie, then Bob. Everyone is happy: Alice because she got to choose first, Charlie because he gets a slice he likes better than Bob’s (and he didn’t care how much Alice took), and Bob because the three slices are equal in his view.
Brams and Taylor used the notion of domination (without calling it that) in designing their 1995 algorithm, but they couldn’t push the idea far enough to get a bounded algorithm. For the next 20 years, neither could anyone else. “I don’t think it’s for lack of trying,” Procaccia said.
Rookie Cake-Cutters
When Aziz and Mackenzie decided to tackle the problem a couple of years ago, they were comparative newcomers to the cake-cutting problem. “We did not have as much background as people who have been intensely working on it would have,” Aziz said. “Although that is mostly a disadvantage, in this case it was somewhat of an advantage, because we were not thinking in the same way.”
Aziz and Mackenzie wet their feet by studying the three-player problem from scratch, and their analysis eventually led them to find a bounded envy-free algorithm for the four-player case, which they posted online last year.
They couldn’t immediately see how to extend their algorithm to more than four players, but they dived feverishly into the problem. “After we submitted our paper for the four-agent case, we were really keen that we should try it before someone much more experienced, much more clever would generalize it to the n-agent case,” Aziz said. After about a year, their efforts succeeded.
As with the Selfridge-Conway algorithm, Aziz and Mackenzie’s complicated protocol repeatedly asks individual players to cut cake into n equal pieces, then asks other players to make trims and choose pieces of cake. But the algorithm also carries out other steps, such as periodically exchanging portions of players’ cake stashes in a carefully controlled way, with an eye toward increasing the number of domination relationships between players.
These domination relationships allow Aziz and Mackenzie to reduce the complexity of the problem: If, for example, three players dominate all the others, those three can be sent away with their slices of cake — they’ll be happy no matter who gets the remaining trimmings. Now there are fewer players to worry about, and after a bounded number of such steps, everyone has been satisfied and all the cake given out.
“Seeing, in retrospect, how complicated the algorithm is, it’s not surprising that it took a long time before somebody found one,” Procaccia said. But Aziz and Mackenzie already think that they can simplify their algorithm considerably, to one that doesn’t need the cake exchanges and takes fewer than n^n^n steps. They are currently writing up these new results, Aziz said.
Even a simpler such algorithm would be unlikely to have practical implications, Brams cautioned, since the cake portions that players receive would typically include many tiny crumbs from different parts of the cake — not a feasible approach if you’re dividing something like a tract of land.
But for mathematicians and computer scientists who study cake cutting, the new result “resets the subject,” Stromquist said.
Now that researchers know it’s possible to fairly divide cake in a bounded number of steps, the next goal, Procaccia said, is to understand the huge gulf between Aziz and Mackenzie’s upper bound and the existing lower bound on the number of cuts needed to divide a cake. Procaccia had previously proved that an envy-free cake-cutting algorithm will require at least about n2 steps — but that bound is minuscule compared to n^n^n^n^n^n or even n^n^n.
Researchers now have to figure out how to close this gap, Aziz said. “I think there can be progress in both directions.”
This article was reprinted on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Best Practices for Hadoop in the Cloud
Are you considering Hadoop in the cloud? Are you currently facing big data challenges? Are you looking for tools to make your big data operation more efficient?
In this webinar, Matt Aslett of 451 Research and Ashish Thusoo of Qubole (founder of Apache Hive) will outline the benefits of Hadoop implementation, examine common use cases for big data projects of various size and scope, and explain how Hadoop-as-a-Service removes complexity while adding much-needed functionality.
Webinar Transcription
Ali: Hello, everyone. Welcome. My name is Ali Haeri from Qubole. First of all, thank you for setting out the time to tune into today’s webinar. We’re really excited about the content that we have ready for you today.
Today we have a webinar in partnership with our friends over at 451 Research. The webinar is entitled “Hadoop in the clouds – how to make an elephant fly.” It’s going to be quite informative.
I’d just like to introduce the speakers in a moment. First I’d just like to say that the materials will be made available to everyone tuning in today after the webinar. We’ll provide the slides. We’ll have a full video on-demand to view this whole presentation whenever you wish, as well it will be distributed to everyone attending after the actual webinar, so please stay tuned for that.
To introduce our panelists, I’m very excited to have both of these guys here with us today to speak on Hadoop. They’re both experts on the topic.
First we have Matt Aslett. He’s a research director of data management and analytics within 451 Research’s information management practice. His overall responsibility is for the coverage of operational and analytical databases, data integration, data quality and business intelligence. His own primary area of focus specifically is on relational/non-relational databases, data warehousing, data caching, and specifically, the reason why we’re all here today, Hadoop.
We also have Ashish Thusoo on the line, who’s the co-founder and CEO of Qubole. Most notably, before Qubole, Ashish ran the data infrastructure team at Facebook where under his leadership the team created one of the largest data-processing analytics platforms in the world. In the process, he helped drive the creation of tools, technology and templates for successful big data deployments. Most notably, he is the co-creator of Apache Hive.
Without further ado, I’m going to pass this along to Matt Aslett first to give us an overview of Hadoop, specifically from the perspective of research. Matt, please take it away.
Matt: Thanks, Ali, and again, thank you from us at 451 Research for joining us today. I’m just going to give a general introduction, 451 Research’s perspective on Hadoop and in particular the drivers behind the adoption of Hadoop, including, of course, Hadoop in the cloud. I’m also looking at some of the cost implications of running Hadoop in the cloud versus on-premises deployments, looking at also some of the barriers to adoption of Hadoop both on-premises and in the cloud, and in particular how we believe they’re being overcome by the emergence of new managed service offerings and providers.
Before we get into that, just very briefly, I wanted to give you an introduction to 451 Group and 451 Research a way that not everybody’s come across the company before.
The 451 Group is the parent company. 451 Research is part of that along with two sister companies, the Uptime Institute, which is focused on the data center industry in particular, and also Yankee Group, one of a number of acquisitions we’ve made over the years, you can see along the bottom here.
Overall, we’ve got about 270 people and about 1,500 client organizations. In 451 Research, in particular, so that’s kind of the original part of the business, industry analysts focus particularly on the emerging technology market segments.
As you can see here, we’ve got about 800 company subscribers, about 8,000 individual subscribers, and one of the most important numbers in relation to the firm, 2,000-plus what we call “enterprise IT network members.” Those are people within enterprises and other organizations that are working with these technologies day to day and who engage with us as part of our ongoing research.
Ali’s already given an introduction to myself, but here are details again, and in particular, the details you can contact me if you have any further questions obviously beyond the Q&A and anything about 451 Research.
To get into the presentation itself, I’m starting at a high level. Of course, I’m sure a lot of people on the call have a fairly good understanding of Hadoop, but there may be some who just heard the phrase and are interested to learn more.
What is Hadoop?
It’s obviously a distributed data storage and processing platform. There’s three core components. There’s the HDFS distributed file system, the MapReduce distributed processing engine that runs on top of that, and then more recently, we’ve seen the emergence of YARN, which actually enables mixed workloads to run on the HDFS file system at the same time, and in doing so means that MapReduce becomes one of multiple engines that might run on top of HDFS rather than the primary processing engine.
In terms of the key benefits, and I’ll go into these in more detail, we certainly see that low cost is a significant one. Hadoop itself is open source and it also runs on commodity scale-out infrastructure, as we’ll talk about, definitely a low-cost option for running new and emerging datasets. Also what we see as important is its flexibility, particularly in terms of the schema-on-read approach to data processing and analytics. As I said, I’ll go into more detail on that as well.
To start with cost. Here’s a quote. This is from a presentation from the global head of architecture at a global bank, one of the major financial services organizations, definitely a company you would know well. As you can see, the key part of why I picked out this quote was the description of the cost that Hadoop comes in as being transformational.
This financial services firm is still actually in the process of assessing where Hadoop fits within the organization, but what they are convinced by is that the cost enables them to do new things and to bring through new projects and to analyze their data in a new way that is really potentially transformational not just for the IT organizations but for the business as a whole in terms of, as you see here, driving down operational cost and also improving resource efficiency.
To get an example of the kind of figures that we’re talking about, this comes not from that global bank but from another organization, in particular, a company that provides real-time information and analysis to the media and communications industry.
They’ve disclosed during this year that they have moved from storing 1% of their data to 60 days in a traditional enterprise data warehouse environment at a cost of $100,000 per terabyte to now storing 100% of their data for a year in Hadoop at a cost of $900 per terabyte. By migrating to Hadoop and open source databases, this company identified over $4 million in cost savings over two years.
Of course, not everybody can necessarily achieve those same cost savings, and I think one of the most important factors in these figures is actually the 1% and the 100%. It’s actually about that that level of cost savings enables an organization to really think about saving data that they previously discarded because it wasn’t necessarily immediately identified as value in storing and processing it.
Hadoop gives organizations a platform to be able to store that data, assess it, and analyze it, and that generates potentially new business opportunities, new business intelligence based on data that was previously discarded.
The other key point here is that both these organizations, one already adopted Hadoop, one in the process of evaluating Hadoop, both either retained or looking to retain the use of traditional database/data warehousing technology. Hadoop doesn’t necessarily, and indeed in our view, in most cases, it doesn’t replace those technologies, but as I said, Hadoop and other big data technologies do add cost-effectiveness and flexibility, particularly for taking advantage of data that wasn’t necessarily suitable for storing and processing and analyzing in the data warehouse.
The second point, as I said, is flexibility. The key to this is the idea about applying structural patterns when the data is analyzed rather than when it’s loaded into the database.
In a traditional schema-on-write approach that we see data warehousing environments make use of, the application produces a data, and then you store that data based on a schema that you define based on queries that you know you want to ask of that data. What that means is actually those ones can be very, very efficient at providing responses to those queries, but only those queries you wanted to ask when you define the schema, so they’re pretty inflexible in terms of both asking new questions and also about enabling new data sources to come into that environment.
In Hadoop, and indeed there are other technologies that adopted the schema-on-read approach, this is where you just store the data and you don’t worry about can you schema until you want to ask the question. It’s maybe not as efficient as certain queries, but what it does give you definitely is a much more flexible approach where you can bring in new data, you can explore your data in different ways, you can ask new questions and you can combine data from multiple sources as well and don’t have to be restricted by whether it fits that schema and the structure of the data when it was first stored.
The other side of flexibility is we see organizations looking to store and process and analyze data in its entirety, in multiple formats, and Hadoop enables the storage and processing not just of relational structured data from traditional mainstream applications but also non-relational, semi or unstructured data from sources like weblogs, server logs, maybe even social networking data, documents, video, audio. It depends on the nature of the business and obviously the business case which you bring in, but the key point is this flexibility to not be restricted to structured relational data.
Those are definitely the positive aspects to Hadoop and some of the reasons we see people showing a lot of interest in it. Clearly, as with anything, there are certain barriers to adoption, and one of those is the issue that Hadoop is relatively complex to configure, deploy and manage.
It certainly is an environment where we see that organizations need to have those skills in-house and those are relatively hard to come by at this point, and certainly they do come at a premium. We see organizations that are wanting to dip their toe into the water with Hadoop and try it out, but it’s difficult to do so if you don’t have the skills in-house and you can’t necessarily justify paying a high wage for somebody just to come in and prove that concept. It’s definitely a barrier that we see some companies are struggling to deal with.
Also, we see that a lot of enterprises obviously have made significant investments in existing SQL analysis tools and in particular in staff, analysts themselves and database administrators, etcetera that have skills that run relational databases and SQL analysis tools and databases, and they want to make use of those and they want to bring them to those environments.
That’s something that I think the Hadoop ecosystem is responding to, but at this point still we see organizations trying to understand where Hadoop fits in their data management landscape, what is it for, how does it complement the data warehouse, what kind of applications make sense.
Looking specifically at Hadoop in the cloud, it’s important, I think, to recognize that there’s multiple ways in which you can run Hadoop in a cloud environment. They’re not all the same. Certainly you can spin up Hadoop resources yourself on an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. Also, there are packaged Hadoop-as-a-service offerings available and they’ve been available for multiple years.
Both of those we see, at this point at least, mainly used for development and test environments. As I say, a lot of people dip in that kind of water wanting to figure out where Hadoop fits. Also, of course, with a lot of emerging new businesses, everything they do is on the cloud, so if you’re running Hadoop, it will just be natural to run it in the cloud.
In terms of more mainstream adoption, it is definitely early stages, and I think there is still the issue of the complexity of large-scale deployment and configuration. Just because you’re running from the inter-cloud environment doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to configure and deploy. There is also the issue of cost-effectiveness with large-scale Hadoop adoption. I’ll touch on those in more detail in a moment.
The third option, though, is what we’ve seen emerging in the last year, 18 months, which is more some managed Hadoop-as-a-service providers, organizations that actually offer not just the Hadoop environment but also the configuration and deployment and management of that environment and really potentially take the complexity away from the end user. We’ll talk about how we see those fitting in as well.
The first thing I want to zero in on here is the cost considerations and Hadoop in the cloud. There’s a question we’ve seen coming up a lot recently: when does it make sense to run Hadoop in a cloud environment versus an on-premises environment?
One of the things we have seen over the years is that companies often, well, not often, we’ve certainly seen them in a number of examples of this, companies start off in the cloud environment that’s very good for proof of concepts, as I say, spinning up your own resources on an infrastructure-as-a-service offering, but actually, if you’re using that service to a significant degree, arguably, it begins to make more sense to actually invest in the on-premises infrastructure.
What we see is that if Hadoop workloads are sporadic, on-premises implementations are likely to be underutilized. That’s when the cloud makes sense. On the other hand, if you’re looking at a more regular usage with the cloud implementation, you never actually gain from that theoretical advantage of being able to scale back resources and so potentially your costs go up.
This whole issue of cloud versus on-premises deployment is actually something that we as an organization are looking at in great detail at the moment beyond the Hadoop just cloud in general. We’ve recently published a report, I’ve provided the details here but happy to provide those also after if anyone’s looking for that, a report looking at cost and risk in assessing cloud value.
Certainly, what we see from our research is the key to getting the best value here really lies in forecasted demand, and that in itself is something actually we could put a whole different webinar on that, but just at a high level, these are some of the things we’ve been looking at in terms of the report.
This is a comparison here looking specifically at private and public virtual machine costs, but it translates equally into if you’re running Hadoop on those environments. The target in this example was, theoretical, a user who’s wanting to justify private cloud investment. When we look at best-case scenarios versus worst-case here in the charts, bear in mind that from the perspective of the individual, the best case was to justify private cloud investment.
What we see, as we said, if usage demand is low, so the worst case in this scenario, the private cloud is over-provisioned and the cost will be higher than public cloud. If usage demand is high, in this case the best-case scenario, the public cloud cost will be higher than private. That probably is what you would expect.
What we’ve seen here from the research is the numbers actually do bear this out and not only do they bear it out in terms of the cost but what we found is that that forecast can potentially have a direct impact also on potential revenue and profit generation as well. These are significant choices being made here. It isn’t just an act of finding out which is the most cost-effective. It does have a significant impact on the revenue of the company and the profit generation as well, or at least has the potential to do so.
What we saw, as I mentioned, managed Hadoop providers are acting as almost … protecting the end user from things in terms of the complexity of configuration and management. What we also see is that managed Hadoop providers, what they can do is they take on that risk of under- or over-utilization, so protecting the consumer’s cost impact. You engage with a managed Hadoop service provider and use their service, they have to worry about forecasting how much in a cloud resource they don’t want to use. That’s definitely something we see that potentially organizations are going to be very interested in.
I’ve mentioned deployment and management complexity a couple of times. What we do see, and I mentioned it earlier and will say it again, is that Hadoop is complex to configure, deploy and manage, at least at this stage. That will certainly improve over time, but at this point, it is.
The Hadoop distributions clearly reduce that complexity in terms of dealing with the multiple moving parts and also Hadoop appliances available that help in terms of also the deployment complexity as well in terms of masking some of that configuration complexity.
Where do we see Hadoop in the cloud fitting in here? We certainly see it’s easier to spin up Hadoop resources in the cloud. You could just spin up anything in the cloud, that’s definitely true, but it’s not necessarily easy to configure and manage those resources in the cloud. You still need that skill set to be able to do that.
Also, what we see that’s potentially a challenge is that if you’re on a cloud environment, you as an end user don’t necessarily have control over the resources that are also in that environment and the network traffic. It’s something that people have to be cognizant of and attempt to plan for.
A good example, I think, when we start talking about Hadoop in cloud environments and some of the challenges, one of the things that often happens is people say, “Well, what about X company?” Netflix being a prime example of a company that does definitely run Hadoop in the cloud, and pretty much everything they do is in the cloud, and so it is worth looking at how they do that and seeing what lessons can be learned. They’ve got this 500-node query cluster, a 500-node production cluster, and they’re able to dynamically resize as required and access the same data without replication. It’s a very sophisticated environment.
The important thing, from my perspective looking at this, is why it’s a very sophisticated environment is that this thing I’ve circled here called Genie, which is responsible for job execution and resource configuration and management, it’s a custom Hadoop platform-as-a-service interface. It’s something that Netflix developed themselves and they would completely rely on this.
It is important and it’s interesting to learn from this, but as an end user organization, it’s also important to think about, is this something that you could replicate? It is available as open source, but is it something that you’d be able to configure and manage and deploy yourselves? Could you replicate that?
A lot of the mainstream organizations would be looking at an environment like this and perhaps thinking that that wasn’t where their skill set lies. It’s part of a number of areas that we think need attention, as we say, when you’re thinking about Hadoop in cloud environments. Qubole recently published this document, “Five Areas that Need Your Attention.” I think it’s a really interesting document and one that we show a lot of value in. I just want to give perspective on a couple of the points here.
Elasticity is one of the things that was referenced, and I’ve mentioned it myself. It’s important to note that I think that scalability and elasticity are not the same thing. Cloud certainly enables rapid expansion and elasticity, but contraction needs to be really properly planned.
We had an event recently where the number of organizations running in the cloud and it was quite interesting that the consensus emerged that, yes, you can scale up very, very easily.
Scaling down is getting more difficult. There’s technically reasons, and actually, there’s kind of emotional reasons. You have to have the confidence that you don’t need that resource anymore, so you end up potentially paying for resources you don’t really need just in case you might need them.
Reliability obviously is a significant factor. We see availability as a service as kind of a measure of reliability and trust. It’s important to note, while we look at Netflix as a prime example of a company that’s very successful in terms of running almost everything they do on a cloud environment, even Netflix can’t avoid failures, and famously, on Christmas Eve last year, suffered a significant failure to their service, not necessarily in their control but it was partly to do with their environment, partly to do with the cloud environment, and just the point that that can have a significant impact on the way the organization is viewed in terms of its ability to deliver service and be seen as a reliable supplier or partner.
Self-service is another point and this, I think, is really important when we think about managed Hadoop-as-a-service environment. Key to a lot of the potential opportunities from the whole big data trend is about empowering business analysts and giving them access to new data sources, as I’ve previously discussed, and enabling them to do that without necessarily needing the deep technical skills, write Java programs or whatever it might be.
We see Hadoop as a service as being really key in terms of providing an interface to enable those users to configure environments and analyze data on a self-service basis and also to collaborate, to send the results to their peers and collaborate on analysis of that data.
The final two are monitoring and open source. Monitoring is clearly important. Unfortunately, the cloud doesn’t run itself, and it is important for organizations to monitor those environments and ensure that they are able to meet their service-level expectations.
Again, I think this is an area we see that managed service providers have a key role to play in terms of taking that away from the end user, managing for them and providing alerts obviously and giving them an element of control and knowledge about what’s happening, but doing so based on predefined service-level agreements rather than just bombarding them with information.
Finally, open source. As I mentioned earlier, open source is definitely a benefit of Hadoop in terms of reduced cost. We see that people are concerned about lock-in, and open source can help with that, but we are now going to see that keeping up with that open innovation can be a challenge.
I mentioned the three main components of Hadoop earlier. There’s many, many applications and projects that go to actually make up a Hadoop distribution, and keeping all those moving parts operating together can be a significant challenge. That again is where we think that some of the managed service providers can help take that away from the end user and just present them with an environment that they can gauge with to get up and then very quickly analyze data.
Hence this is where we see managed Hadoop-as-a-service provider fitting into this grid I presented earlier. In particular, what they bring to the table is things like cloud orchestration, automated provisioning, configuration and management, query analysis and visualization tools, the self-service element, and also application development and test environment, so provide an environment which people can quickly get up and running in terms of developing the applications.
As I said, allow the users to concentrate on the analytics instead of keeping that Hadoop environment up and running and mask also that financial risk, as I mentioned earlier, of forecasting the usage of that environment, so take that risk away from the end user and just enable them to get on and engage with the platform.
To conclude, we definitely see increasing demand for Hadoop as a low-cost, flexible data storage and processing platform. We’ve been covering it for a long time. The interest is significant. It’s absolutely very, very real. It’s still early stages, but it is definitely growing.
Interest in Haddop in the cloud is definitely growing as well. Again, even earlier stages, perhaps, we see a lot of primarily for development and test environments, as I say, that it is definitely something that is significant.
The cost and complexity of configuring and deploying Hadoop, particularly in the cloud, can limit large-scale deployments. As we said, Hadoop in the cloud requires provisioning, configuration, job-execution capabilities, and those can be in addition to running on-premises. As we saw with the Netflix example, they had to develop that themselves.
We think that managed Hadoop as a service providers really do have the potential to mask that complexity of adopting Hadoop, particularly as we look at more mainstream organizations without the skills in-house to configure and deploy that. The releaser will be looking for partners to help them do that, and managed Hadoop-as-a-service providers can certainly play a part in that, but they also, as we said, have a significant role to play, we think, in terms of the potential to reduce the cost risk of deploying Hadoop in the cloud and having to forecast the usage levels upfront.
That’s our perspective. I’m happy to answer questions obviously towards the end of the presentations, but for now, I’m going to hand it over to Ashish, who will provide you with Qubole’s perspective on best practices for Hadoop in the cloud based on some of what I’ve already discussed today. Thanks very much.
Ashish: Thanks, Matt, for the great perspective from 451 Research on Hadoop and also Hadoop in the cloud. Hello, folks. My name is Ashish. I’m the CEO and Co-founder of a company called Qubole.
For the past two years, Qubole has been building and running a service in the cloud around Hadoop, and a lot of this presentation is around what we have learned during those two years about what are the best practices of running Hadoop in the cloud.
As you know, Hadoop emerged at a time when people would kind of cluster themselves and cloud was not an option at all. A lot of Hadoop development was geared towards those environments, and over the last two years at Qubole, while developing the service, we have discovered that cloud was very different from running Hadoop on-prem, and a lot of this presentation is going to cover that.
At Qubole, we run today about 8 terabytes of data processed every month, running clusters all the way from four-node clusters to thousand-node clusters for our clients. This perspective distills all that we have learned while running these clusters both at small as well as very large scale in a cloud environment, and specifically the cloud where we operate is the Amazon cloud, so a lot of this perspective is from our learnings on AWS running both small as well as very large scale deployments off Hadoop on the cloud.
Let me dive right into the content of the presentation. There are five key differences between the capabilities of what the cloud provides and what a fixed machine data center or fixed asset data center provides. These are the dimensions which I’ll be covering in this presentation and telling you how Hadoop on the cloud differs from the perspective of each of these dimensions when it comes to cloud vis-à-vis signing up your own clusters.
Cloud has elasticity. We all know about that. That is a big winning point of the cloud. You can grow and shrink your resources depending upon your usage.
Cloud also has multiple mechanisms of provisioning machines. For example, on the Amazon cloud, you can provision machines on the on-demand price or you can even provision machines to the spot market, where you can control the amount that you understand on your machines.
Admittedly, on the spot market, things are much cheaper, but at the same time the tradeoff there is that the machines can be taken away from you if somebody else bids a higher price. In that perspective, how does Hadoop work? It’s a different environment. How do you take advantage of operating and running Hadoop in that environment?
The third part where cloud and on-prem data centers differ are that in the cloud, the architecture as compute and storage are separate. On Amazon, you have S3 as the storage layer, which is separate from EC2, which is the compute layer, whereas if you think about what Hadoop was built for, it was primarily built for environments, and the whole thesis around the building of Hadoop was ‘Let’s keep compute and storage together.’
That was how it was in on-prem environments, but on the cloud environment, things are very different. Storage is really separate from compute and there are advantages of keeping it back there on the cloud. What needs to be done with Hadoop in order to take advantage of that environment, we’ll cover that subsequently.
The fourth part is that most of the object stores on the cloud around storage are eventually consistent, which means that once you write data there, the data will eventually get there, but you may not be able to see the data even after the writer has returned for a period of time. This also has strong implications of how you run and operate Hadoop in an environment like that.
The fifth part is security. There are a lot of features around security which are cloud-specific such as virtual private cloud and so on and so forth. Running Hadoop or a big data infrastructure in that paradigm is also different from what you would see on an on-prem deployment.
Let’s talk about elasticity first. The biggest implication of elasticity is that you can provision machines on demand and you can get them very quickly. In an on-prem environment, provisioning machines itself might take months whereas on the cloud you can provision machines in a matter of minutes.
This basically means that instead of thinking about running clusters all the time, you have an option of running Hadoop clusters on demand. You have an option of even running long-running clusters but sending the files of those clusters as your demand over a period of time.
As was mentioned in Matt’s presentation, Hadoop needs to be augmented with capabilities which allow this to be done in an automatic manner. It brings a lot of benefits with it if you have automatic auto-scaling and self-management of clusters wherein clusters come up on demand in response to query workloads, they scale up and scale down on demand in response to jobs and transformations.
Benefits of Running Hadoop in the Cloud
The big benefits here are that you can of course get rid of the machines which are done, and at the same time you can make sure that your cloud resources are being used to an optimal manner and you are not paying for resources that are idle there. These kinds of capabilities are just not available in an on-prem sort of a setting.
For Hadoop, the implication is this is some of the work that people have also done around auto-scale Hadoop, which is by far the only auto-scale Hadoop which is available as a service that we know. With auto-scaling, all this is taken care of by the software itself and you can really be sure that cloud resources are being used in an optimal manner.
That is about elasticity. Moving on to spot pricing. Amazon cloud has the ability to procure machines in different ways, and one of the most interesting ways which we see across the board used by a lot of our clients, including companies like Pinterest and Quora and so on and so forth, use or have used spot market very heavily, primarily because you can get the machines that are the fraction of the cost. Sometimes the cost fraction is 1/10th of the cost of an on-demand machine.
The tradeoff there is that these machines can be taken away at any time without any heads-up from Amazon. Primarily, the spot market, the way it works is a lot of people bid for machines, and if somebody’s bid goes above your bid, they can take the machine and give provision to them. Of course, after cleaning out everything, all the excess stack have been used by the current client.
Now, different implications of how you trade off the cost benefits of spot machines. How do you evolve your surfaces of Hadoop to make sure that it doesn’t fall apart when the machines are taken away at any time?
Best Practices
Some of the best practices that we have seen emerge is, depending upon workloads, you can play a certain split of percentages between on-demand and spot nodes within the clusters. By controlling the split, you can trade off between the unpredictability of machines being taken away as well as the cost benefits of using the spot market.
In order to minimize the effects of predictability, there are significant implications within Hadoop. For example, the Hadoop clusters have to be aware of what are the spot nodes and what are the on-demand nodes. They have to be aware of making sure that all their replicas are available on the on-demand node so that even if the spot nodes are taken away, the whole cluster doesn’t fall apart.
These are all things that have to be built into Hadoop in order to take advantage of the spot market, and this is, again, something different on the cloud, a very different environment than what you would get on an on-premises sort of a data center approach.
Moving on, the compute and storage is separate on the cloud. This is one of the biggest implications that it has for Hadoop. On the cloud, the best practice is to store the data on object stores and not HDFS. The primary reason for this is that object stores such as S3 are cheaper and more cost-effective as opposed to running your clusters and paying for the CPU for any of those clusters in order to just keep HDFS up and running.
Because of these cost benefits, most of the bulk data, such as log data that is being collected on the cloud and so on and so forth, is dumped into object stores such as S3 on the Amazon cloud. Also, the is much higher. They promise something like eleven 9’s in terms of data durability as compared to HDFS. There’s benefits from that angle as well, the primary benefit, though, being that you can scale your storage independently of your compute, and that gives you a lot of cost benefits as well.
Now in order to really operate in this particular environment, there’s the performance scale, because once the storage and compute are separate, even though the raw performance within the S3 and HDFS which we have found in our internal tests will be similar, there is a lot of variance in performance in S3 versus the performance in HDFS.
Hadoop deployment working in this environment needs to build this gap in order to mask cloud experience, and some of the techniques that we have come up with at Qubole in order to mask this gap is to build caches in between the clusters that we bring up on demand and S3 so that this latency, so the data can be cached into HDFS as it is being guarded into S3, and the experience and latency can be masked.
This also is a very, very different environment from this perspective from how Hadoop has been an on-the-cloud infrastructure such as AWS versus how it can be run on on-premises.
The fact that object stores are used heavily also means that you have to live with the fact that many of the object stores are eventually consistent, meaning that once you write to those stores, the data may not be available immediately to be read.
There are mechanisms to minimize the … The eventual consistency is also a separate assumption that Hadoop makes. For example, HDFS is a strongly consistent file system. An S3 bucket, especially if we use the US-East region or the Standard region, is an eventually consistent object store.
Emerging Techniques
There are techniques that have emerged in order to make sure that in the worst case the effects of this are minimized. Those techniques include running the clients in the same zones as your object stores, especially the clients which are spawning off jobs or running queries and so on and so forth.
To a more advanced degree, the techniques around writing the metadata of the objects that are being created into a strongly consistent system as well. For example, Netflix has the DynamoDB. You could also do that in HDFS itself, comparing and storing this metadata with the metadata that is pushed into S3, just to make sure that Hadoop and its components can mask out these effects of eventual consistency. That, again, is very different from what you will get on-prem versus what you get on the cloud.
Security in the Cloud
Finally, let’s talk about security a bit. On the cloud, on HDFS for example, there are lot of security features such as being able to provision virtual private clouds, being able to encrypt on the data on the object stores, and lately, coming up with hardware security modules to give the key management control to their clients and so on and so forth.
In order to take advantage of these features, you have to also think through how Hadoop installations need to be deployed and how they have to be integrated with some of these features. For example, if you have implemented caches, for example on HDFS, do those caches also keep data encrypted, how do you integrate this with HSM and cloud HSM and so on and so forth.
These are other features which are available to the cloud. Security in the cloud fundamentally looks somewhat different from what you would see on an on-premises data center where frankly the parameter is a lot more … since it’s not a very multi-integrated system, the security features are a lot simpler as compared to what you would get on the cloud.
5 Best Practices Overview
In conclusion, I will just go over the five best practices that we have listed here. First, use on-demand clusters to scale up and down with your workloads. That is the scenario where you can really take some benefits of what a cloud provides. Second, use the spot market to procure machines, but tradeoff, the predictability and unpredictability of the spot market versus the cost benefits that you’ll get and dial it into the style of your clusters and the percentage of the clusters that you want to get on the spot market.
Third, use object stores versus storing data in HDFS, primarily from the cost benefit side, so that’s from the durability benefits that you incur from giving object stores. Fourth, protect against eventual consistency of object stores, and fifth, integrate with cloud security in order to get a secure environment while running Hadoop in the cloud.
With that, I’ll conclude my presentation and pass it back to Ali to carry on with the Q&A.
Question and Answer Session
Ali: Thank you to the both of you, first of all, very insightful, and I really appreciate all of the thought that went into this presentation.
Yes, as mentioned, we have a Q&A session now, and we’ve already received quite a few questions. We’ll try to get to as many as we can here, starting with the first one we’re asked: What’s the typical resource allocated to a VM in this instance, and to be more particular, resources referenced saying how much vCPU and the memory is assigned to a VM with regards to Hadoop? Would either one of you like to tackle that one first?
Ashish: Sure. I don’t know whether this is pertaining to Matt’s numbers or if it’s pertaining to Hadoop in the cloud question, but we see a lot of different types of machines being used for bringing up Hadoop clusters. By default that is being used is m1.xlarge machines, which correspond to full vCPUs and about 15 GB of memory. However, there are workloads which go much higher than that: c1.xlarges are higher than CPUs; cc2.8xlarges are really higher machines which have 32 vCPUs and around 64 GB of RAM with 10-gigabit network.
There are a lot of options in terms of what you can choose to run your clusters on. It really depends a lot on the workloads. In our experience, m1.xlarges provide the biggest coverage for most of the types of workloads, but specialized workloads can go higher on the CPU.
Ali: Great. Thank you.
Matt: That wasn’t in specific relation to the data I’ve presented. That actually was taken from a much larger report that we have that was actually just published today, which discusses various kind of configurations and options. Unfortunately, I don’t have at hand the details of what that specific example related to, but obviously if we can get the details we can make that report available.
Ali: Great. The next question actually is directed backs to you, Matt, and it’s simply, what is the operational database? Can you provide an example of an application running operational database running on cloud infrastructure?
Matt: Yes. I don’t use that so much. Let me talk about operational databases. I guess we’re talking about non-analytic databases, essentially, what people would traditionally have referred to as kind of transactional databases, but we tend to use the phrase “operational” because, particularly if we’re looking at NoSQL kind of database environments, we’re not necessarily talking about transactional applications but we are talking about operational versus analytic.
Those could be web-facing applications, could be retail environment, it could be session data. We’re talking about operational data, not necessarily transactional, although, again, it could be that transactional part of the application as well.
Ali: Great. Thank you. Ashish, this next one is for you. It’s, how useful is managed Hadoop-as-a-service for power users? How easy or difficult is it for power users to customize their deployment of Hadoop deployment, and in essence, while it is easy to see the advantage for managed Hadoop on less power users, again, how useful is it for power users?
Ashish: I think it is very useful for power users as well. Of course, the big benefit …
It depends upon what you define as power users. If you power users from the perspective of the users of Hadoop, it makes all the more sense because with a managed Hadoop as-a-service, all the infrastructure parts of Hadoop are completely taken care of.
You can still write complex MapReduce programs, you can write your own scripts, you can do exactly the same type of things that you can do with an on-prem Hadoop deployment, except that you don’t have to keep running to your operational teams to provision more loads or you don’t have to keep running to your operational teams to figure out if your Hadoop clusters are down or up.
Irrespective of the abilities of the users in terms of whether they’re power users or they are simple SQL users or they’re coming to other interfaces such as ODBC or so on and so fort, the fact that a big simplification of the infrastructure takes place somewhere, so that’s why that makes it very relevant to use managed Hadoop as-a-service even for power users.
Of course, on the managed Hadoop-as-a-service side, enough flexibility has to be provided so that all the benefits in terms of running specific codes and so on and so forth that people can do with on-prem Hadoop are also provided as part of the managed Hadoop-as-a-service paradigm.
Ali: Great. Thank you again for the question and for the answer. The next question is for Matt. Can you provide any information on where to find detailed use-cases that suits Hadoop in the field of specifically telecommunications and insurance services? It’s an awfully detailed question.
Matt: Yeah. There’s a fair amount of information out there, I think. Obviously if you look around the Hadoop venders, distributors themselves and service providers themselves that you can find some good information. Particularly, obviously telecommunications and insurance are areas that we see a lot of adoption.
Also, if you look at some of the Hadoop meet-ups and Hadoop user group events, you can find a lot of good information there. Obviously we’ve got some sources of information ourselves, so, again, that’s something to follow up rather than to provide you with links and stuff here, but yes, if you want to follow up with us, we can point you in the right direction offline.
Ali: Great. Thank you for that. Again, that is from the firm 451 Research. The next question is back to Ashish. Our question asks: If I understand it correctly, you are hosting Hadoop instances on AWS infrastructure; is it possible to integrate other tools, open source tools, into Hadoop instances?
Ashish: Right. If the question is being able to provide open source libraries for … making open source libraries available to Hadoop jobs and Hadoop instances, then yes, it is completely possible to do that. In Qubole, we have things like boot scripts that can be run in order to provide open source tools to be available … or the libraries to be available to Hadoop jobs. A lot of flexibility is maintained through that mechanism.
On the very bottom of … at the level of Hadoop itself, the machines themselves are also launched in the AWS accounts of the clients, so they have full control of all the machines as well. In case of specific instances, we can also enable even trying to gain control of the machines itself.
There’s a lot of flexibility built into the Qubole platform which allows you to run your own libraries and other open source libraries as well within the instances of your Hadoop jobs.
Ali: Great. Moving on to our next question, it asks, are there any numbers or limitations for I/O operations on the block storage? Have you done some performance testing on the cloud? So a performance question.
Ashish: We have done a bunch of performance-testing on the cloud, and I think there are a few blog posts also written about that on Qubole itself. Typically, it’s been primarily, especially Hadoop, since it’s a use-case which does a lot of sequential processing as opposed to random lookups, the [tuple 00:54:59] numbers become the most important things to look at.
The tuple numbers are definitely … On S3, just raw tuple numbers are usually slower than what you would get because of an attached disk. However, what we find interestingly in the Hadoop stack is that a lot of work mix is on the upper part of the compute stack.
For example, we had done some benchmarking with Hadoop running on EC2 using HDFS and Hadoop running on EC2 using S3 as storage, and we found that there was not much difference in terms of raw tuple performance between the two. That means the bottleneck was not there. The bottleneck was primarily in the stack because they are doing most of the computation.
Ali: Great. Two more questions here. The next question is asking, when you need to upload data to Hadoop in the cloud, what is the best practice? Is it possible to use Apache Flume?
Ashish: Sure. We get asked this question quite a lot. Interestingly, yes, there are a bunch of projects that people use. Flume is certainly one of them. Sky was another one.
However, recently, Amazon also announced this project called Kinesis. I believe that’s still in beta, it’s not completely available, but people definitely check that out on the Amazon cloud. That could become a way of dumping data into S3. Once you get data into S3, then Hadoop on the cloud becomes very easy.
It’s basically how you get your data into S3, whether you do it through a bunch of S3 utilities, whether you do it through tools such as Apache Flume, or with Kinesis, I believe that could be a much stronger and reliable service where you don’t have to do any operational management off that infrastructure and could use that just as a log collection service, which dumps that data into S3 and then Hadoop can get that from S3.
Ali: Great. Our final question is directed towards Matt, but Ashish, feel free to jump in. It’s asking, is there a rule-of-thumb default recommendation for database technology specifically for flexible analytics? An example given is HBase versus Cassandra. Any recommendations on that? Matt, are you still on the line?
Matt: Yeah. Sorry, I was muted and also thinking.
Ali: No problem.
Matt: I think one of the things we definitely see around the choices in this environment, it actually very much depends on the individual organization, the skills they have in-house, the technology they’ve used before. Obviously, there are certain workload applications that perhaps lend themselves more towards HBase or Cassandra, or some of that Riak for that matter, but often it’s actually tied up in what the company has in-house, where their skillset lies.
We definitely see HBase. I think HBase has the adoption that’s grown considerably in the last couple of years that we’ve seen because it is obviously part of the Hadoop stack, but Cassandra, still going strong. As I say, it very much depends on the individual use-case. It’s perhaps something to issue to organizations, they are going to make a choice there, actually download them, play around with them, figure out what matches both the technology case and the skillset that you have in terms of being able to manage those technologies.
Ashish: If I may interject there, I see …
Ali: Please.
Ashish: … HBase and Cassandra as great technologies for two types of workloads. One is serving. They’re great for point lookups. If your analytics are around point lookups, then they are great tools to actually use.
A lot of analytics which is around finding patterns with large sets of data, that I think is more tailor-made for just plain old Hadoop, because there are no point lookups there, you’re aggregating vast quantities of data, and there, I think Hadoop plays a much, much bigger role, whereas HBase and Cassandra play a lot more bigger role in analytics such as point lookups or if you are serving OLTP workloads and things like that. Around search sort of applications, there are a lot of point lookups. That’s what I have seen in the past.
Ali: Great. Thank you for the answers, and thank you to everyone attending and for these awesome questions. Everything was very insightful.
That concludes our webinar here. I just wanted to say, again, a bit of a reminder: After this webinar, stay tuned. You’ll be receiving an email with a link to an on-demand version of this webinar, as well as the slides that you saw in today’s webinar. | https://www.qubole.com/resources/deploying-hadoop-bare-metal-cloud/ | 2018-10-15T17:07:15 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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The tale of Michael Rotondo, the 30-year-old man whose parents took him to court to evict him after he refused to get a job or help around the house, is by all accounts the tale of a deadbeat — but who is at fault?
Rotondo’s parents gave him five notices that they were evicting him after he lived in their house rent-free for eight years, according to CNN. Based on the documents provided to the court, Rotondo’s parents were more than reasonable with him, giving him money to help him get started and offering to assist him in finding his own place. It was only after he continued to come up with excuses to not find a job, remained unwilling to leave and ignored multiple warnings from them that they finally took him to court, where a judge on Tuesday sided with them and told him he had to get out.
In this version of the story, the younger Rotondo deserves no sympathy.
What makes the breathless coverage of the Rotondo story ever so uncomfortable is that it seems perfectly designed to reinforce pernicious stereotypes about both liberals and millennials. Take these posts from a comments section under the Fox News article covering this incident.
“Do any of you also think this Family votes for the Democrat Party?!? I think it would be safe to say that they do. LMMFAO”
“Rotondo the Junior could be a poster boy for the Democratic Party.”
“Claims he runs a successful business but claims poor status so he doesn’t have to pay court fees… hmmm… there you have it, a 30 year old basement dwelling liberal..”
“Typical liberal snowflake mooch.”
“This is a perfect example of liberal parenting gone amok!!! They are getting exactley what they deserve!! If you sow evil seeds, you will reap rotten crops!!! I find this completely hilarious!!! I remember when I was 18 or maybe 19 I was living at home, we had a 4500sq’ house so my parents didnt really care. As long as I followed THEIR rules, and worked (I was saving money for college) I quit my job because I hated it. My dads comment? ‘I would like to commend you for saving so much you dont need to work I guess you have your tuition saved?”
One commenter also joked that “maybe Bernie will come save him … LOL,” employing one of the most popular stereotypes that liberals want handouts from the government and others in society rather than having to work for a living.
When people say that liberals support mooching, they are using a straw man argument. Because moochers do exist in this world, however, the laws of probability dictate that some of them will wind up being liberal, just as some won’t. The fact that Rotondo happened to be a liberal doesn’t prove liberals are moochers anymore than the existence of a conservative racist confirms the left-wing stereotype that all right-wingers are bigots.
I was recently able to interview Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver about his book “How Bernie Won,” a text that sheds some light on what American liberals actually believe. Specifically, the book argues that modern American liberalism is really an attempt to return to the political ideals embodied in President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union address. The section excerpted below is colloquially referred to as the “Second Bill of Rights” and argues not that people should be able to live off others, but rather that anyone who is willing to work should be able to find a job and support himself or herself off of their.
The mischaracterization of millennials at play with the coverage of Rotondo is equally problematic.
While liberals are no more likely than other people to be moochers, millennials are indeed much more likely than previous generations to continue living with their parents when they’re still in the 25-to-35 age range. As of 2016, 15 percent of millennials within that group still lived in their parents’ homes, by far the highest that number has been in more than 50 years. It’s why the term “The Boomerang Generation” has become a thing.
For this, we can thank the Great Recession.
As a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis pointed out earlier this year, Americans born during the 1980s were uniquely vulnerable when the Great Recession began in the late-2000s and have consequently faced unique hardships in coming to their own as adults. People who were in their late 20s or early 30s in 2016 were the only age group that continued to lose financial ground after the recession ended.
“This represents a missed opportunity because asset appreciation is unlikely to be as rapid in the near future as it was during the recent period,” the study pointed out. Another section near the end of the report deserves to be quoted in full: 1980s cohort was unique in falling even further behind its wealth benchmark between 2010 and 2016. Given the prospect of lower asset returns in the future than in the recent past, 1980s families face a formidable challenge in building wealth rapidly enough to reach benchmark levels set by earlier generations.
Despite these economic facts, people who were lucky enough to not come of age during the nadir of the Great Recession still continue to heap unrealistic economic expectations on millennials born in the 1980s.
Earlier this month, MarketWatch became a target of ridicule when it wrote that by the age of 35, millennials should have twice their current salary saved up. This may have been the norm during the Baby Boomer era or for members of Generation X, but for millions of Americans who entered the economy in 2008 or the years immediately thereafter, the notion that this would be feasible is downright ludicrous.
So by all means, throw your metaphorical tomatoes at Michael Rotondo. If it makes you feel better about yourself, poke fun at his shameful laziness and his brazen sense of entitlement. But if you’re clicking on this story and lapping it up because it confirms your assumptions about liberals and millennials, you may want to ask, “who is really at fault?” | https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/deadbeat-millennial-michael-rotondo-walking-stereotype-story-misleading/ | 2018-10-15T17:36:06 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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