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One week, two sketches, worlds apart
Exploring colors and patterns. The sketch with the whimsical lines expressing happiness; the more structured composition expressing a more stressful state of mind. One week, two sketches, worlds apart.
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It is amazing how strong feels can be represented in single lines.
My eyes gravitate towards the black and white line design. There is something in the composition that is inviting me to dissect it. It looks like a wall corner painting.
I wonder what would happen if the more structured black and white composition later received a colorful watercolor wash. Would it appear a bit less “dark”? Would it portray different feelings? ….. just wondering.
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Thank you for your comments Jan. Interesting. I will further explore the black and white composition. You are right about the wall corner. I did not realized that. Thanks.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Just two days after the Washington Monument reopened to the public, the visitor elevator temporarily stopped functioning.
Officials say the elevator broke down at 10:53 a.m. and was put back into service at 12:25 p.m. The 18 visitors in the elevator at the time of the stoppage were allowed out on the ground level, and 61 people were stuck at the observation level.
All visitors were evacuated safely, officials say.
"The elevator at the Washington Monument, like the elevators at our other sites, is heavily used and like any mechanical system is subject to breakdown," said Carol Johnson, spokeswoman for the National Mall and Memorial Parks. "Our staff is well trained to handle period outages like this one to en ensure the safety of our visitors, as they did today."
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Here is an article I wrote this time last year when our former hero Tony Craig left us to return to his first love, Millwall.
Give that the Bees travel to the New Den today to pay homage to TC and play against The Lions in his testimonial match I hope nobody minds my putting this blog up again as nothing has really changed in the year since I wrote it and we still feel exactly the same about Tony Craig. He gave us everything and we are totally indebted to him for what he did for us.
There was a universal reaction amongst all Brentford supporters to the news that broke yesterday that captain and inspiration Tony Craig had left the club and returned for yet another spell – his fourth including an earlier loan, to Millwall where he will become team captain. It was simply one of thanks and gratitude to TC for the three years of exceptional service he gave us, as well as pleasure and delight that he will now be given the opportunity to play every week, a privilege that would surely have been denied him if he had remained at Griffin Park.
Tony made his reputation at Millwall as a tough and committed central defender or left back and he led his team to promotion to the Championship. His arrival at Griffin Park in the summer of 2012 for a fee reputed to be around one hundred and fifty thousand pounds was seen as a real coup for the club and Uwe Rösler soon recognised his leadership ability and named him as captain. Tony played a prominent part in our success over the past three years. He was a real and visible presence on the field – you knew that he was in charge and he set a wonderful example as he never knew when he was beaten.
I will always remember him in the prematch huddle, with jaw set, eyes blazing and with his head bobbing up and down like a metronome as he exhorted his team mates to greater efforts and forcefully reminded them of their personal responsibilities. He made it perfectly clear who was in charge on the pitch and what winning the match meant to the club. Woe betide anyone caught shirking or falling short in his task.
Once the whistle went he was a human dynamo and set a massive personal example. He never gave up and that long left leg would sneak out to save the day when all otherwise looked lost. Not the tallest of defenders, he timed his leaps well and won more than his fair share of aerial challenges. Most importantly, he read the game brilliantly and could anticipate potential danger and snuff it out before any serious damage occurred. He was indestructible and was rarely injured and shrugged off fearsome assaults that left him covered in blood or cinder rash and would have resulted in lesser men leaving the field. He was our bionic man and a total inspiration.
No wonder that his three seasons saw the club rise to almost unprecedented heights of achievement with a promotion and two appearances in the playoffs to add to his already impressive CV. This was no accident and TC played a massive part in ensuring our promotion to the Championship and his central defensive partnership with either Harlee Dean and James Tarkowski was mean and effective.
Tony had played previously in the Championship with Millwall and initially he made a seamless transition to the higher level. He also embraced the club’s new found patient and short passing approach to the game and demonstrated calmness and a previously unsuspected and unseen skill on the ball. His left-footedness provided a much needed balance to the back four and he changed the direction of our attack by pinging any number of accurate long range passes to an appreciative and generally unmarked Jota or Odubajo on the right wing.
Tony started last season well and was consistent and competent and fully earned his contract extension. He made an inspirational return to his old stamping ground where he received a rapturous welcome from the otherwise subdued Millwall fans and he stood up bravely and brilliantly to Millwall’s aerial bombardment and helped steady the ship and cement our victory after we had conceded two quick goals.
However as the season progressed a few chinks began to appear in Tony’s armour as he came up against a seemingly never-ending series of canny, strong and experienced strikers. He struggled and came out second best in his personal battles against exceptionally talented players like Danny Graham, Grant Holt, Rudy Gestede and Daryl Murphy, looked vulnerable to balls played over the top which forced him to turn and Mark Warburton began to rotate his three central defenders as he sought to establish his best pairing. Tony finally lost his place and fittingly made his last appearance for the club in a thrilling victory over eventual Champions, AFC Bournemouth before being forced to settle for a cheerleader’s role on the bench.
This was no place for such a legend and with two new central defenders already having arrived at the club in the last couple of weeks, it was obviously best for all concerned that he was allowed to move on and it remains to be seen whether similar experienced players like Alan McCormack, Sam Saunders and Jonathan Douglas, like Craig, mainstays of the promotion team, decide to remain at the club and fight for the opportunity to play against increasingly strong competition, or also recognise that their time has time and that our levels of success and progress have overtaken them.
Tony’s disciplinary record was also good although he saw red three times during his spell at the club. An assistant referee bizarrely concluded that he had struck Dave Kitson at a crucial stage in that momentous match at Sheffield United, a decision endorsed by our old friend Keith Stroud. Despite video evidence that seemed to exonerate him, Craig received a devastating three match ban and missed the last two league matches as well as the first playoff game against Swindon. Had he been on the pitch I wonder whether we might have got over the line without recourse to the dreaded playoffs and I am certain that he would have had something to say about Marcello Trotta’s fateful decision to take that penalty kick against Doncaster Rovers!
He took one for the team with a last man red card card against Carlisle and then fell foul of Mad Madley when he got on the wrong side of Clayton Donaldson and compounded his error by clutching at his former colleague, conceding a penalty kick and earning an early bath.
The most amazing statistic about Tony is that he never scored – and barely looked like doing so in his three seasons at the club. He came the closest when his memorable rasping long-range effort was brilliantly saved by the Peterborough keeper and his header from a corner against Leyton Orient was blocked on the line. He was also clumsily pulled down by Adam Barrett, earning us a spot kick against Gillingham, otherwise his efforts were invariably high, wide and not very handsome.
He will best be remembered for his heroic defending against Oldham Athletic in Mark Warburton’s first match as manager when a swift breakaway left him alone facing five opponents as they bore down on the home goal, but Tony was calmness personified and saved the day against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Then there was his wide-eyed celebration in front of a jubilant Ealing Road terrace after scoring a perfectly taken and utterly crucial penalty kick thrashed high into the roof of the net in the Swindon playoff second leg shootout, a feat he repeated in a less frenetic atmosphere last season at Dagenham & Redbridge!
We forgave him for his lack of prowess and threat in front of the opposition goal, we even overlooked the three own goals he scored in his first season at the club, one of them a perfectly placed unstoppable header from a corner which arched beyond the reach of the helpless Simon Moore and gifted Hartlepool an unlikely last minute equaliser at Griffin Park.
Tony Craig epitomises all that is good about professional football. He gave us everything throughout his three years at the club and inspired his team mates to greater heights of achievement. He has returned to his first love and I suspect that he will lead Millwall to promotion – and I will celebrate and raise a glass to him if he does so.
Tony Craig will live long in our memory and I thank him and wish him nothing but joy and success in the future.
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Director of External Affairs - East Valley
Job Description
LOCATION: Phoenix, AZ
JOB SUMMARY
The Director of External Affairs, East Valley is responsible for leading integrated strategic initiatives, managing external community relationships and overseeing the organization’s strategic planning and dashboard.
The Director of External Affairs, EV is responsible for building strong relationships internally with staff and leaders throughout BGCMP/EVEV and externally with partner organizations, local and national legislative representatives, municipalities and school districts. Will be responsible for driving the expansion and the enrichment of East Valley programs by developing and driving its fundraising strategy, representing BGCMP/EV to external audiences and engaging a broad spectrum of funder and community leaders in BGCMP/EV mission. Working directly with the Senior Leadership Team, this position uses a
variety of systems and tools to help the organization solve complex problems, leverage business acumen, strategy and data to help steer conversations and
decision making across the organization.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
§ Owns senior level partnerships with public municipalities, school districts, collective impact groups and public officials, ensuring the Club is connected to the East
Valley and statewide youth community.
§ Collaborates with the senior leadership team to identify opportunities and pursue business planning and strategies for the Clubs
§ Works closely with the CEO to represent the organization’s voice as needed. Serves as a conduit and advisor to assist CEO by leveraging the management of major
projects, reducing roadblocks, increasing impacts and accelerating progress
§ Partners with the leadership team to manage annual and quarterly planning processes to ensure alignment with strategic plan initiatives
§ Develops, nurtures and helps maintain relationships to support organizational mission and fund raising objectives
§ Identifies opportunities for leadership collaboration, assists leadership across the organization to create better alignment, internal and external coordination and
unified approach to our community and partnerships, advocacy strategies and growth plan
§ Performs analysis and strategic consultations on major issues affecting the organization; participates as a leader or member of a variety of committees and cross-
functional task forces
§ Manages activities related to identification of new funding grants, evaluating grant projects and supports the management of grants/funds
§ Identifies opportunities to engage board on strategic issues and follows up with board members as needed
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE, LICENSURE and CERTIFICATION
§ Must possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in Business,
Communications, Political Science or related field
§ A minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership capacity with proven success
in effectively interacting with internal and external stakeholders
§ Must have and maintain a valid Arizona driver’s license
KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY and SKILLS
§ Ability to analyze and report on government/community funding and trends
§ Ability to build relationships and influence others by interacting with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
§ Must possess an entrepreneurial work style and have the ability to step "outside of the walls" to drive innovative thinking
§ Ability to interact effectively and communicate in writing and orally with a variety of youth, staff, volunteers, families, Board members and various community
§ Working knowledge of federal and state laws and company policies and procedures
§ Proficient skills in the use of Microsoft Office software, including Outlook, Word, and Excel
§ Ability to articulate for giving, serve as an ambassador, engage in relationship building and promote philanthropy
§ Ability to support the efficiency of Volunteers and future workforce needs to support volunteer program operation
WORKING CONDITIONS and DRIVING
§ Travel between Boys & Girls Club of Metro Phoenix sites as well as in the community is required. Must meet the insurance standards of
Boys & Girls Club of Metro Phoenix
§ Work is primarily performed in the Administrative Offices and within the local community Occasional evening and:
: 9/27/2019
Job Status: Full Time
Job Reference #: 1109
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Slovak music to Charleston's ears
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston residents gathered Saturday under the sycamore trees on Capitol Street to listen to two artists from the West Virginia capital's sister city perform traditional Slovak folk songs.
The sister-city partnership began five years ago and, since then, government officials, professors and medical professionals have traveled back and forth between the two countries, sharing insights and forming friendships over discussions of medicine, politics and education.
The performance Saturday offered a different channel for communication -- music.
The musicians -- Jozef Mak and Veronika Bodnarikov -- come from that sister city, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
Saturday afternoon, Mak, belted out the folk songs while whistling and gesticulating, his face grew steadily redder. Bodnarikov sang along beside him.
Both wore traditional garb worn on celebratory occasions in Slovakia -- pale yellow britches and a voluminous white shirt trimmed with intricate red ribbon for men and a pleated shirt and intricately embroidered vest for the women.
Mak pranced lightly across the stage, a round black hat on his head. They both pounded thick black boots on the stage.
A lively audience sat before them, enjoying the songs.
One song chronicled how a wife goes about her work on Saturday mornings. Another tune talked about how a man considers a lady a "gift from God."
John Biros, who hosted Mak and Bodnarikov, likened the songs to American country music -- a genre that also chronicles hard times, enduring love and hard work. He noted, though, that the Slovak tunes often appear happier than American country songs. The Slovak melodies are generally upbeat and lively as musicians holler, whistle and clap energetically.
According to Biros, shepherds sang those tunes as they protected flocks of sheep on the northern Slovakia highlands.
The songs have become an integral part of Slovakia's history and tradition, Andrea Makoua, Mak's daughter, said.
And the songs remain popular today. Biros said everyone in Slovakia knows the words. In fact, the mayor of Banska Bystrica stood opposite the stage, singing along and clutching a Slovakia flag.
Slovakia was formed in 1992 after communist Czechoslovakia dissolved amid a nonviolent revolution.
Biros said Communist rulers attempted to suppress folk music, which all but disappeared from major cities under their control. Nevertheless, he said, villagers kept the old traditions alive.
Mak and Bodnarikov are from one such village, nestled among the hills outside Banska Bystrica. It celebrated its 400th anniversary earlier this year.
That longevity amazes Chuck Daugherty, chairman of the Charleston-Banska Bystrica Sister City Alliance. Daugherty pointed out that Slovaks have been mining around Banska Bystrica for more than four centuries.
In fact, Marjorie Cooke, general manager of the West Virginia Youth Symphony, had heard from the mayor of Banska Bystrica that Christopher Columbus brought copper, mined at Banska Bystrica, across the Atlantic with him. According to Cooke, the Banska Bystrica mines had furnished copper parts to outfit Columbus' ships.
Those historical ties between America and Slovakia have continued for centuries, and many Slovaks have immigrated to the United States, Mak said.
The sister-city program has continued that exchange of people and ideas. It opens up horizons for people to understand the world outside and to see similarities between cultures, Biros said.
There also are many similarities between West Virginia and Slovakia. Makoua said Charleston and Banska Bystrica -- both initially based on the mining industry and surrounded by mountains -- even resemble each other.
Those similarities have prompted some Slovaks to regard Charleston as a second home.
"Your city is like our city," Makoua said.
A group of West Virginians had a chance to experience the same sentiment last year when the West Virginia Youth Symphony traveled to Banska Bystrica to perform alongside Slovak student musicians.
Cooke said the experience was transformative for the 24 students who went. They returned with an appreciation for European music and friendships they cherish today.
On Sunday, those students will perform with Adam Stranavsky, a 20-year-old world-class Slovak pianist they met last year. Stranavsky and the West Virginia Youth Symphony will perform at 3 p.m. in the Clay Center lobby.
Reach Laura Reston at [email protected] or 304-348-5112.
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Population Decline
As we already touched upon in a previous post, one policy that the Egyptians put in place during their domination of Canaan was its depopulation. Redford explains:.”1
This “deportation of a sizeable segment of the population” was to leave “the highlands sparsely occupied”.2 The decline in population wasn’t limited to one segment of society, or to one or two areas of Canaan. Rather, as Mazar explains,
The fringe areas were deserted, and some of the sites which had been important urban centers in MB II were either fully or partially abandoned… There was also a decline in the rural settlement, particularly in the hill country. The archaeological surveys in Samaria and Ephraim have shown that the many small Middle Bronze Age agricultural settlements in these regions disappeared in the Late Bronze Age.3
Some areas became entirely empty. Indeed, as Mazar states emphatically,
The Late Bronze Age in the Judaean Highland is a void.4
Rivka Gonen has written extensively on the subject and outlines the change in pattern as follows:
Intensive archaeological surveys in various parts of the country round out the observed pattern of a significant decline in the number of sites. Whereas 270 Middle Bronze sites were counted, only 100 Late Bronze sites were found, a decrease of more than 60 percent.5
So, the number of towns and villages people lived in declined between the Middle Bronze (2000 – 1550 BCE) and the Late Bronze age (1550 – 1200 BCE). Gonen does point out that though there had been “near abandonment of the hill country”, there had been an increase in the population of the low-lying areas, “though the sites were generally small”.6
At the end of a fascinating paper in BASOR entitled “Urban Canaan in the Late Bronze Period”, Gonen summarised the data for the changing population size between the Middle and Late Bronze ages like so:
This, no doubt, indicates both a substantially smaller population [in the Late Bronze] than in the Middle Bronze period, and a breakdown of the system of medium to large city-states that formed the backbone of Middle Bronze Age Canaan.7
Finkelstein and Na’aman, in their excellent “From Nomadism to Monarchy” provide some summary data that help illustrate the point.8 Here are two graphs that focus on the hill country. The first shows how many sites there were in the hill country in the Middle and Late Bronze ages; the second shows the number of built-up hectares across the two periods in the same area.
It’s pretty clear that compared to the Middle Bronze age, the Late Bronze age Canaanite hill country really was practically empty.
Population explosion
Starting around about the beginning of the Iron Age (~1200 BCE), everything changed. Where the Late Bronze Age Canaanite Highlands saw population decline, the beginning of the Iron Age I saw a population explosion. Where for a long time there had been only crickets, hundreds of new sites appeared – a phenomenon known as the “Israelite Settlement”. Mazar begins his section on the topic like this:.9
He then fills the next few pages with summary information about what was found in the areas listed above – it’s definitely worth a read.
The surveys Mazar refers to (“The Archaeological Survey of Israel”) were performed over a period of a few decades starting in the 1950s and involved teams of archaeologists walking every square mile of the entire country recording everything they found. During the course of these surveys many sites from the Iron 1 period were discovered bringing the Israelite Settlement to light – the archaeological evidence of the appearance and settling down of the Israelite people.
Finkelstein writes about this survey and its results in his well known book, The Bible Unearthed,.10
Finkelstein makes the important point that these Iron 1 sites were almost all new villages not built on the site of older ones. We can find reference to this point in excavation reports, for example Calloway’s summary of the Iron I discoveries found in the excavations at Et-Tell (“Ai”):
The Iron Age I settlement at Ai was one of many established in the region about the same time by people who moved in and occupied abandoned sites of cities, such as Tell en-Nasbeh and el-Jib (Gibeon), or new sites such as Mukhmas (Michmas), Rammun (Rimmon), Taiyiba (Ophrah?), Raddana (Ataroth?), el-Ful (Gibeah), and many small campsites on hilltops in the area. Bethel was the only city occupied in the Late Bronze Age, and it was destroyed at the beginning of this period, so the blame may be laid upon the newcomers. Iron Age I housing and artifacts at Bethel share the general characteristics of houses and finds at the newly established sites… We may view the settlement at Ai, therefore, as part of a considerable influx of newcomers who infiltrated the area and apparently met little or no resistance.11
Dever expands on the point that these were new sites, writing,
The new Israelite settlements… are almost all founded de novo, not on the ruins of destroyed Late Bronze Age sites, but in the sparsely populated hill country extending from Upper and Lower Galilee, into the hills of Samaria and Judah, and southward into the northern Negev.12
So, where are these Iron I sites? This map from The Rise of Ancient Israel shows their distribution across Canaan:
All that’s required is a passing knowledge of Israel’s topography to see that the vast majority of the sites are in the hill country: far from the main north-south road running along the coast, far from the centres of population, and far from the best agriculturally productive land.
Let’s get into a bit more detail and look at the numbers. Expanding on our previous use of Finkelstein’s data, here are some graphs that illustrate the population decline (as we saw above) and explosion in Iron I (followed by Iron II).13
Both graphs demonstrate quite clearly the massive increase in the number of sites from the Late Bronze age to Iron I.
A slightly more sophisticated14 and up-to-date set of numbers can be found in Lawrence E. Stager’s chapter “Forging an Identity” in The Oxford History of the Biblical World. In it we find figures not just for the Canaanite hill country but for all of Cis-Jordan and Transjordan (the lands west and east of the Jordan river respectively). For both that larger area and the highlands-specific area here’s the summary data15:
Here are a couple of graphs based on Stager’s more up-to-date data:
You’ll notice that between Stager and Finkelstein the figures are different – that doesn’t matter. Though Finkelstein’s data is older, it shows the same pattern as the latest data. And that pattern is clear – a massive increase in the number of sites in the Canaanite highlands.17
Both Finkelstein and Stager translate the number of sites and their area into population figures. Here’s the data:
Here’s a graph based on them:18
Again, regardless of the fact that Stager’s more up-to-date figures are different to Finkelstein’s, the pattern is what matters: the population in the Canaanite highlands in Iron I is three times what it was in the Late Bronze age. That’s a huge increase in population.
So, these new sites… who lived in them?
Let’s repeat a few quotes we’ve already seen, and add a couple of new ones:
The continuity between many of these sites and later Israelite towns and villages of the monarchic era legitimizes the definition of these settlers as Israelites, as I have maintained since I excavated the site of Giloh in 1978, and as have many other scholars. The term “Proto-Israelites” introduced by Dever and adopted by others to designate the inhabitants of these sites is in my view superfluous.19Amihai Mazar
Here were the first Israelites.20Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman
The new Israelite settlements, by contrast, are almost all founded de novo…21William G. Dever
That many of these villages belonged to premonarchic Israel is beyond doubt.22Lawrence E. Stager
I could go on all day. We can even find minimalists who agree, even if through gritted teeth:
This development from outlaw habiru to sedentary Israelite mountain peasants took place over a couple of centuries, and can be followed directly in the archeological record of conditions in the highlands. In the thirteenth-twelfth centuries BCE a number of village societies arose in both the Galilean mountains and in the central highland (as far as the territory east of Jordan is concerned we are as yet insufficiently informed), in regions which had not been previously inhabited, as far as we can tell.23Niels Peter Lemche
It’s rare that practically everyone is in agreement.
So, we can safely say that the archaeological record is clear: the Israelites emerged in the Canaanite highlands at the beginning of Iron I (~1200-1000 BCE) and settled down in small villages which they built from scratch.
So… what does this mean for us?
Implications
First, let’s look at the implications for those who hold to an Early Date Exodus, i.e. one that began in 1446 BCE and ended 40 years later with the beginning of the Conquest in 1406 BCE. If this is your view, you’ve got a couple of problems:
- The period in which you’d expect to see a population explosion (the last couple hundred years of the Late Bronze age, i.e. ~1400-1200 BCE) caused by the influx of a few million Israelites instead saw a dramatic population decline. Why did the population decline if millions of Israelites had just turned up?
- The population explosion you’d expect to see starting a few years after 1406 BCE happened 200 years after you expected it to happen. How do you explain the population explosion that took place in the 12th and 11th centuries?
- Even if we take Stager’s figures over Finkelstein’s (not unreasonably, given they’re more recent), a settled population of 150,000 at the end of Iron I (~1000 BCE) is miniscule compared to the expected millions of Israelites normally assumed by those who hold to an Early Date Exodus. Why did the population only grow by thousands, not millions?
Next, the implications for those who hold to a Late Date Exodus:
- Though the timing of the population explosion is less of a problem for the Late Daters than it is for the Early Daters, it still presents something of an issue: though the settlement began around 1200 BCE, it didn’t really pick up much speed until after the Egyptians had left. And, there’s no evidence anyone was around in the hill country until the time of the Israelite Settlement. So, what were the millions of Israelites doing between the time they arrived in Canaan (approximately 1220 BCE according to the Late Date Exodus) and the time the Egyptian power was practically over (approx 1150 BCE)? Hovering above the ground, conveniently leaving no trace in the archaeological record?
- The same problem of population size that causes an Early Date Exodus problems also causes problems for the Late Daters. There’s archaeological evidence of Israelites in the 12thcentury, but only in the tens of thousands. Where are your millions of Israelites?
In conclusion, the archaeological record is pretty clear that the Israelites appeared in the Canaanite hill country early in Iron I (1200 – 1000 BCE) after the area had suffered a population collapse in the preceding Late Bronze age (1550 – 1200 BCE). In our next post we’ll start taking a look at the problem of where did the Israelites come from.
Further reading
- Israel Finkelstein, “The Emergence of Israel” eds., Israel Finkelstein & Nadav Na’aman, From Nomadism to Monarchy (Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994), 150-178.
- Rivka Gonen, “Urban Canaan in the Late Bronze Period,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Winter), no. 253 (1984).
- Rivka Gonen, “The Late Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel (ed. Amnon Ben-Tor; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992), 211-257.
- Amihai Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-586 B.C.E. (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1990), 334-338.
- Lawrence E. Stager, “Forging An Identity,” in The Oxford History of the Biblical World (ed.Michael D. Coogan; Oxford University Press, 2001), 90-131.
- William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), 91–100.
Footnotes
- Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times (Princeton University Press, 1992), 208-209.
- Ibid.
- Amihai Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-586 B.C.E. (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1990), 239.
- Amihai Mazar, Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, vol. 331, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), 26.
- Rivka Gonen, “The Late Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel (ed. Amnon Ben-Tor; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992), 217.
- Ibid.
- Rivka Gonen, “Urban Canaan in the Late Bronze Period,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Winter), no. 253 (1984): 69.
-. Mazar (1990), 334.
- Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (Touchstone, 2002), 107.
- Joseph Callaway, “Excavating Ai (Et-Tell): 1964-1972,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Mar), no. 39 (1976): 29.
- William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), 99.
-. Dever (2006), 98.
- Lawrence E. Stager, “Forging An Identity,” in The Oxford History of the Biblical World (ed. Michael D. Coogan; Oxford University Press, 2001), 100.
- Quoted not once, but twice, by Dever as 687 instead of 678. See William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), 98.
- There’s a tremendous increase in the number of new sites in Moab (170 of them!) but that’s a story for another time.
- These graphs are derived from Dever’s summary of Finkelstein’s and Stager’s data found in William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), 98.
- Amihai Mazar, “Remarks on Biblical Traditions and Archaeological Evidence Concerning Early Israel,” in Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina, ed. William G. Dever and Seymour Gitin (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), 87.
- Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (Touchstone, 2002), 107.
- William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), 99.
- Lawrence E. Stager, “Forging An Identity,” in The Oxford History of the Biblical World (ed. Michael D. Coogan; Oxford University Press, 2001), 100.
- Niels Peter Lemche, Ancient Israel, A New History of Israelite Society (Sheffield Academic Press, 1988), 90.
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Christine Williams from Kool Meditations is trying to get the word out about Christmas in August and an offer by our local McDonald’s. According to this flyer, Christmas in August helps get back-to-school supplies for children in need. Bring this flyer to the Main Street Poughkeepsie McDonald’s on special days (listed on the flyer), and 10% of McDonald’s proceeds will go to Christmas in August. There’s some prizes, too. Anyway, if you’re interested you can check out the flyer. Have fun and help your community!
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(100% Spoiler Free) Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane Dehaan, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Colm Feore
Released: 16th April 2014 (UK)
Given the almost impossibly high standards set by Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I’ll freely admit that I went into The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with more than a little apprehension. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved the first movie (weird-looking Lizard and all!), and felt that it managed to perfectly nail the humour, drama and general vibe that makes Spider-Man such an enduring character. But at the same time, sequels can always be a tricky prospect, and from the moment details started to be released, there seemed to be a rising tide of negativity directed towards this film that was difficult not to get swept up in. “The clips look like a damn video game cut scene”, “Way too many villains, it’s going to turn into Spider-Man 3 all over again”,etc. etc.
Well, I’m here to reassure you all that – from my perspective at least – each and every one of my niggling doubts about this movie were proven to be well and truly unfounded by the end the 142 minute running time. All of the factors that made the original movie such a success – the breathtaking visuals, the gloriously comic book-style humour, and the sizzling chemistry between leads Garfield and Stone – made a welcome return, but the film also added a further dimension of world-building through the development and advancement of Oscorp, as well as featuring two absolutely fantastic villain performances from Jamie Foxx’s Electro and Dane DeHaan’s Harry Osborn.
While The Winter Soldier was probably my favourite movie of 2014 so far (or at the very least tied with The Raid 2), much of the praise that has been heaped onto it revolves around how it didn’t really feel like a quote-unquote ‘comic book movie’ with its tense, spy thriller approach and distinct lack of traditional ‘powers’. While that definitely helped its universal appeal, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has gone in exactly the opposite direction – this is a superhero movie through and through, and the story, dialogue and action scenes feel like they’ve leapt straight off the pages of any of the classic Spider-Man comic books. And to me, this approach works just as well as the Winter Soldier in creating an engaging, exciting and – most importantly – fun movie.
No spoilers here, as promised, but this is a movie that manages to stand on its own two feet while still building for the next chapter, and which manages to pack in a terrific amount of character and storyline development along the way. Yes, there are issues with the pacing – the movie takes quite a while to get going and seems to resolve itself rather quickly, and yes, there are the occasional moments when the CGI threatens to swallow itself up, overshadowing what’s actually happening as the set-pieces get grander and grander However, if you’re a comic book fan, or simply enjoy a good blockbuster, then The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a movie you owe it to yourself to see. It’s not a perfect film by any means, but, in my opinion, it comes pretty damn close.
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Decision Making | Farm/Risk Management Home
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Many land owners and farmers need information about leasing farms. In addition to the
actual lease process, the information most needed often deals with the actual decision to
lease. The following documents discuss those prospects. Also attached is a checklist
prepared by Asel Kennedy (Monongalia County), that will serve as a quick document for
discussion with your prospective lessee. A committee comprised of Dave Workman (Hardy
County), Asel Kennedy, Jennifer Ours (Upshur County), and Tom McConnell have started a project titled,
"Farm Lease Rates and Considerations." This work will establish an annual
lease/rental rate for West Virginia farms.
THE FARM LEASE
LEASE
PROVISIONS
VALUE
OF A WRITTEN LEASE
LEASE
REQUIREMENTS
LEGAL ISSUES
RENT
DETERMINATION
TYPES OF
LEASES
FERTILITY
MAINTENANCE
SUMMARY
5
YEAR RENEWABLE FARM LEASE
Leasing your farm is a very important decision. To many West Virginians faced with this
prospect, it means placing in someone else's care your life's work and homeplace. Emotion
is involved in making the decision to lease the farm. You are caught between the hope of
seeing the place used and not grown up and maintained, and the fear that it will be torn
up and destroyed.
After the decision is made however, it is a straightforward business deal. There is
value in what you're "selling," i.e., the use of your farm and its improvements.
You as the owner/manager, should be able to maintain the farm as you wish and still enjoy
income from it.
To get started, you must decide what you want to achieve from a lease agreement. Ask
yourself questions like: Are there operations I won't tolerate? Are there fields I don't
want plowed? Or, do I not want plowing at all? Are there enterprises I definitely want on
the farm? Should I lease the buildings and for what uses? Should I lease my machinery? You
must also decide what you want the leased farm to look like, e.g., just like it does now
or are you not that "picky"? Will it really bother you if your upland pastures
are not clipped? Do you care if round bales are stored in the field?
Early discussions with your prospective tenant can help determine your compatibility.
If possible, a visit to your prospective lessee's farm will likely answer many questions
about his or her housekeeping and management skills. Minor differences usually can be
resolved. Major differences will probably tell you that this deal will not work.
Lease Provisions
A good contract is the key to communication about and implementation of a good farm
lease. The only good lease contract is a written one. Every lease should include at least
the following items:
1. an accurate i.e., legal description of the property and specification of the
property to be excluded;
2. the names and addresses of tenant and landlord;
3. a definite term the lease is in effect and provisions for renewal or termination;
4. designation of rent amount, time, place and method (mail, delivered, etc.) of
payment;
5. important details and conditions (for example, hunting rights, posting rights and
responsibilities, fence maintenance responsibilities, driveway use, etc.); and
6. signatures.
Item 5 allows both parties the opportunity to secure previously discussed and agreed
upon management practices and conditions of use. This will avoid later disputes.
Value of a Written Lease
With the inclusion of the above mentioned items, a written lease:
1. will not only protect the original parties, but the heirs and assigns. Your wishes
will be protected in your absence.
2. has been through a process of approval and signatures. This better assures that both
parties have read and understood the lease and agree with its interpretation.
3. will preserve legally the specific date of renewal and specific provisions for
renewal.
4. furnishes the landlord proof of his share if the lease contains profit share
provision.
5. contains specific language about a termination procedure.
Probably the most important reason a written lease is so helpful is it allows both
parties the opportunity to refer to the contract/agreement so both can comply.
Lease Requirements
Your goal in leasing is to put the care of your farm in someone else's hands and still
have your needs met. So it makes sense that you want a good lease. For the tenant and the
landlord to be satisfied, however, and for the business relationship to continue, the
lease must be useful. A useful lease must meet at least these requirements:
1. arranges for a fair division of income and expenses between landlord and tenant;
2. allows the tenant to farm profitably;
3. provides assurance that the tenant will be able to continue the lease for a period
of years;
4. gives assurance to landlord that the value of his land will be preserved; and
5. provides for all legal requirements to be met, measured, and defended.
Legal Issues
Get your lawyer, banker and insurance agent involved!
The guidelines and example are to get you started. Your family attorney knows your
situation and knows how to protect your interests.
Several questions you must get an opinion on include:
1. Liability - Will you be liable for the activity with which your tenant is involved
on your farm? If so, does your farm policy liability coverage provide for this?
2. How much liability do you need? If you still have debt against your farm, how is it
affected?
3. Does your tenant have insurance to protect him, and ultimately you, if his livestock
gets out and he is held responsible for damage?
4. How does your insurance policy cover you and/or your tenant against chemical spills
and/or underground storage tank problems?
5. Will your farm policy pay for your buildings when he is doing the farming?
Rent Determination
Once you have made the decision to lease, and you have started the process in
consultation with your family attorney, you must make the second hardest decision: What is
this farm lease worth?
Issues that will have a direct bearing on the figure include:
1. the production contribution the farm can make to the tenant's operation. Is the farm
productive? Are the improvements efficient to his operation? Is there water? Are the
fences good? Answers to these questions will determine the suitability of the farm to the
tenant's operation.
2. the cash value of the farm. Does the lease amount reflect, to some degree, the
market value of the farm? At one time, corn -belt farmland cash leases reflected farm
market value based on a 20-year payback. But it must be emphasized that market value used
to be tied to yield potential. Now it tends to follow another demand curve. West Virginia
grassland enjoys great demand -- so much that an attempt to tie lease figures to farm
value would make the farm impossible to lease profitably. A relationship, however, exists
between farm value and rental/lease figures and should be factored into your final
decision.
3. comparable farm lease amounts in the area. This may require some investigation. A
quick study will reveal several different leasing relationships and costs. Careful
consideration of what each figure means will help the landowner correctly interpret the
information. The logical sequence of lease value pricing includes comparing the estimated
production value with the market value in a way to see where your farm should be priced
relative to the average paid in the area. It's logical to assume the most fertile farms
with the best improvements will cost more to lease. All of this has to be tempered with
the knowledge that a good lease must be profitable to the tenant.
Types of Leases
General leases vary as widely as the parties writing them, but fall into four basic
types.
1. Cash lease -- tenant pays a specified cash rent for use of the farm and its
improvements.
2. Crop-share cash lease -- landlord participates in decisions about land use, seed,
and fertilizer. He may share in fertility cost, crop expense and maintenance of
improvements. Rent usually ranges from a third to half of the grain yield. This agreement
can be adjusted so that cash rent can be paid for other parts of the farm and crop-share
used elsewhere.
3. Livestock-share lease -- landlord owns half of the animals, feed, and livestock
equipment, and receives half the income. Here, as in the crop-share lease, the landlord
has more involvement in the operation. He or she will see much variation in the income
received due to the price variation.
4. Labor-share lease -- landlord leases a fully equipped farm to a tenant. This
arrangement allows the landlord the opportunity to transfer the use and responsibility of
the farm to a deserving beginning farmer. Careful record keeping is very important.
All of these lease types require the landlord to "pencil it out" and make his
own decision.
Fertility Maintenance
Seldom discussed in farm leasing decisions is this last issue -- the "farm
fertility" bank. Most crop leases stipulate that the same amounts of fertilizer and
lime be applied annually. Grass farm leases often fail to include this important element.
A simple way to ensure that fertility levels are being protected is through the use of a
soil test on every field being used. This could involve a flight map or farm plan map,
matching soil tests with each field identified on the map. The landlord could specify a
regular time interval at which to run soil tests again. If levels are low, the tenant
would be required to correct the deficiency
Summary
When a landowner considers becoming a landlord, he or she must:
1. - engage the family attorney;
2. - discuss lease provisions with insurance agent and banker;
3. - arrive at lease price, knowing there are many ways to value a farm
and its usefulness;
4. - determine the lease type most appropriate to the situation;
5. - articulate special needs, desires, conditions;
6. - put it all in writing; and
7. - communicate with the tenant before and during the lease period.
5 Year Renewable Farm Lease
Asel Kennedy (Monongalia County)
This lease agreement is between ____________________________
and _____________________________ and is dated _________________.
________ acres of pasture @ ________ per acre
and/or ________ acres of meadow @ ________ per acre
This lease is for five years with an automatic one-year renewal on November 1 of each
year, unless the lessor provides written notice. If notice of termination is given, lessee
is permitted to remain on the premises until May 1.
Should the contract be terminated and the lessee has applied lime and fertilizer, the
lessor must refund a prorated share of the lime, fertilizer, and spreading expenses paid,
using this repayment schedule:
1st year....80% refund
2nd year....60% refund
3rd year....40% refund
4th year....20% refund
Lessee is required to produce sales receipts as proof of application of lime and
fertilizer.
Lessee and lessor agree to use the following checklist. The following activities listed
below are allowed or not allowed.
LESSOR ALLOWS YES NO
Use of buildings ___ ___
Plowing of ground ___ ___
Hunting by lessee ___ ___
Hunting by guest ___ ___
Fishing by lessee ___ ___
Fishing by guest ___ ___
Cutting of posts for use on farm ___ ___
Cutting of firewood ___ ___
Cutting of timber ___ ___
Maximum number of animal units ___ ___ ____head
Subletting of any approved use ___ ___
Restricted-use pesticides ___ ___
Maintain chemical use records ___ ___
Use of sewage sludge ___ ___
Temporary fencing ___ ___
Temporary structures ___ ___
Required liability insurance ___ ___ ____$
Full access to land and buildings ___ ___
Required to file with assessor for farm use ___ ___
Required to pay taxes on his possessions ___ ___
Required to maintain fences ___ ___
Required to control brush ___ ___
Required to reseed plowed fields ___ ___
Required to make minor repairs ___ ___
May graze meadows ___ ___ from____to____
Lessor _______________________________
Lessee _______________________________
Date _______________________________
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Misa Hylton Brim kicked off the career journey as a fashion designer with her lots of skills. Her fashion works appeared in publications such as Vibe, Essence, and InStyle. She also worked as a fashion editor in The Source Magazine. In addition, she designs costumes for the box office hit movie ‘The Perfect Holiday’ in 2007. Hylton established a fashion firm named ‘Chyna Doll Enterprise’. She also founded another fashion house named ‘Misa Hylton Fashion Academy’.
Personal Life & Boyfriend:
Misa Hylton Brim has been dating rapper Sean Combs for a long time. Together the couple had a child named Justin Combs born in 1993 who is a football quarterback in the UCLA team. She had a daughter named Madison and a son named Niko by her first husband Jojo. She divorced Jojo due to some personal issues.
Her boyfriend Sean Combs had a secret affair with the American model and actress Kim Porter as well as with whom Sean had four children. However, Kim passed away of a cardiac attack on November 15, 2018, in Los Angeles House remaining four children named Quincy, Christian Casey Combs, D’Lila and Jessie James.
Currently, the extremely pretty fashion designer is single although she started dating Sean Combs at 17 years old.
Money Factor:
The estimated Misa’s net worth is around $1 million US dollars, most of her income comes from her fashion-related works. Definitely, she earns a handsome amount of money by her profession.
More Interesting Facts:
- Does she smoke?: No
- Does Misa Hylton Brim drink alcohol?: Not Known
- Misa Hylton has collaborated with Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Mary J. Blige.
- She styled in the Vogue Fashion Awards in 2001.
- She launched the Misa Hylton Fashion Academy in New York City.
- In addition, the 42 years old designer teaches styling tips to the students.
- She appeared in Grammy Awards Fashion Wrap with Joan & Melissa.
Misa Hylton Brim Height Weight and Body Measurement:
Height: 5 feet 4 inches (164 centimeters)
Weight: 55 kg
Waist Size: 24 inches
Hip Size: 34 inches
Bra size: 34B
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Body measurement: 34-24-34 inches
Body Shape: Hourglass
Shoe size: 6.5
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A BREED APART: In a case of art imitating life — almost — Harvey Nichols has found itself the subject of a 1 million pounds, or $1.49 million, lawsuit from a dog owner who claims that she and her pup were manhandled by the London store’s security guards in 2010. Marianne Yvette Perkins said she entered the store with her Maltese puppy Lilly in a special carrier bag, but was quickly turned away because Harvey Nichols doesn’t allow dogs. Perkins claims that, after she left, security staff pursued, assaulted, and detained her outside the store. Harvey Nichols said Monday: “As this matter is subject to on-going court proceedings, we are unable to comment further at this stage.”
The irony is that earlier this month Harvey Nichols released its latest ad campaign called “The New Breed,” featuring images of women wearing spring fashion and accessories — and carrying dogs far larger than Lilly in their leather totes. Shot by Miles Aldridge, the campaign stars a variety of English breeds including a bulldog named Spud; a bull terrier called Dozer; and a Staffordshire bull terrier called Pepper. The spring campaign is meant to highlight the store’s more accessibly-priced fashion and accessories such as Kenzo Paris, Michael Michael Kors, and alice + oliv.
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Destination: Bethany Beach
Area: Sea Pines Village
Complex: Sea Pines Village Town Homes
Bedrooms: 2 + Other
Baths: 1 Full + 1 Half
Type: Townhome
Sleeps: 8
Location: Oceanside & Steps to Community Pool / Sleeps: 8 / 2BR, 1.5BA townhome
About this home: This affordably-priced, 1 DVD, Gas fireplace, Charcoal Grill
Community amenities: Outdoor Pool (no additional fee required).
Bedding:
- Bedroom 1: Queen
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- Living Room: Queen Sleep Sofa
Complex: Sea Pines Village: 01/05/2015
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ALLENDALE, Mich. (WZZM) - Students from schools in Kent and Ottawa Counties are gathering at Grand Valley State University on Saturday for the 30th annual Michigan Science Olympiad Regional Tournament.
The theme of this year's competition is "Bridge to the Future", and consist of events in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, computers, and technology. The events combine academic, engineering, and design challenges.
The competition starts at 9:15 a.m. and last until 3:30 p.m., an awards ceremony follow at 4:30 p.m. Winners of the regional tournament advance to the state tournament at Michigan State University on April 26th.
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Just track!
Bring your talent, your flow and your PUNCHLINES!
The prize
TWO PEOPLE will win a spot to battle it out at Battle Royale, a 16 emcee competition in Atlanta (with a +1 ticket for a friend)
PLUS
A pair of tickets to 15th anniversary A3C Festival & Conference (October 8 –13)
Battle Royale is a tournament happening at The Basement, on 9 October 2019. It will tests the skills of 16 emcees! It is a single elimination round robin tournament consisting of two 30 second rounds.
The event will be hosted by Corey Charron from MTV’s hit show Wild N Out and judged by three celebrity/special guests. There’s even a special Freestyle performance by MTV’s Justina Valentine. There’s a prize for the overall winner; annnnd maybe you’ll even get a chance to battle it out with Charron himself!
How to win
Here’s what Charron had to say about what he’s looking for:
To show off your skills at Battle Royale, all you have to do is fork the beat below and freestyle over it.
BE QUICK – this is a snap 48 hour contest, so submit your entries before 30 September 2019.
Our panel of judges will choose TWO winners by 1 October 2019 and we will reach out to you on 1 October to confirm your attendance at the event and your plus one for the conference.
Note: Travel & lodging are not included– you’ll need to make your way to Atlanta and organise accommodation.
IMPORTANT: Users found to be in violation of the BandLab Community Guidelines or contest rules during the contest period will be automatically disqualified from the winner’s selection process.
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Power Consumption
There should be no surprises about the power consumption of the Core i5-760. Its clock rate is similar to that of the Core i5-750 and it has an old core stepping. Its specified electric and thermal properties have not changed, either. However, we shouldn't forget that a year has passed since the release of early Lynnfield processors and their 45nm tech process has become far more optimized. As a result, the new CPU can work at a lower voltage even though this is not explicitly marked in its specs.
Our sample of the Core i5-760 is designed for a voltage of 1.125 volts, which should have a positive effect on its power consumption. The graphs below show the full power draw of the computer (without the monitor) measured after the power supply. It is the total of the power consumption of each.
We might have expected the Core i5-760 to be more economical than its predecessor under load. We got our test sample of the Core i5-750 processor about a year ago and it works at a higher voltage of 1.225 volts. Quad-core Core i5 series processors are generally more economical in comparison with both the Phenom II X6 and Core i7 series. However, it is the 32nm dual-core Core i5 series and, rather surprisingly, the old Core 2 Quad series that are the most economical among $200 processors.
Overclocking
Improved manufacturing process may also improve a processor's overclockability. So, we tried to accelerate our Core i5-760. Since it does not belong to the overclocker-friendly K series, it could only be overclocked by increasing the base clock rate above the default 133 MHz.
We can remind you that Core i5 series Lynnfield processors can usually work at a clock rate of about 4.0 GHz after a small increase in their voltage.
The Core i5-760 carries this tradition on. We increased its voltage to 1.4 volts (which is perfectly safe as it is within the processor's specified voltage range) and overclocked our sample to 4.2 GHz.
The overclocked CPU passed every stability check, its maximum temperature never being higher than 89°C.
To get a notion of the performance of an overclocked quad-core Core i5, you can refer to our Phenom II X6 1055T review where we compared the two CPUs at default and overclocked frequencies.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Hage’s writing never fails to seduce. His protagonist is not particularly appealing in the usual way, but I began to care for him even as he stumbles through life, seemingly unable to have normal relationships with those around him. Much of the novel takes place in a Montreal winter and our immigrant cockroach avoids the sun, stumbles along the frigid streets, bumming cigarettes and food, and stealing. He is (I believe) unnamed in the novel.
So why did I care?
Because there is some damaged core to this character. A childhood of violence and hunger in his homeland. A suicide attempt for which he is receiving free psychiatric out-patient care. Cockroach expresses his love for those around him in sometimes (very) inappropriate ways, yet we understand him, and want the best for him.
This is not a pretty story. But it is reality for those who live on the margins. Hage has captured these lives in previous novels and hits it out of the park with this one.
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NetBSD docs tarpits and kernel compiling
While my VM setup is the way to go I eventually got NetBSD-current going on the spare machines I previously mentioned. It would only be fair to mention that when NetBSD 8 comes out, it will work much better on amd64 systems.
With that said, I've been trucking along to basic usage and compiling the system. For package management, I've been just grabbing binary packages as needed with pkgin, not really interested in trying to compile big stuff with pkgsource yet.
As a beginner, I found the package management scenario presented in a burdened way. The flexibility of (having to) picking your package trees, binary versus sources, pkgsource config, pulling in CVS etc increases the cognitive load. I just needed tmux! So I only do basic pkgin usage for now.
Scan mailing lists
It's worth mentioning, even if you have no intention of running NetBSD-current or getting into the code, if you run into issues, visually scan or search the mailing list archives, someone else likely has already griped about your issue if its even remotely common.
There are actually two approaches to this, you can search GNATS, but its kinda slow to query, and you kind of have to know what you're looking for in issues. Or just check
netbsd-bugs and
netbsd-users mailing lists for a decent litmus-test.
NetBSD-bugs will be slightly exaggerated noise with GNATS auto replies, but if you're having an issue it will likely be beaten to death by faithful testers here.
Dont have link handy, just google it again
Moving on to grabbing tarballs of sources (sets as it were) and compiling the kernel, I googled and ended up at the NetBSD wikis for various things, eg:
I plodded through and things immediately went very badly and in hindsight I should have checked sooner..
long story short: DO NOT USE THE WIKI (for stuff in the guide). It's basically redundant compared to the guide, and has largely fallen to the wayside. I think the guide is in tree next to sources and was mostly up to date.
I still ran into minor issues with the current release and reported them. But overall there was no show stoppers for the kernel compiling section of the guide.
System and kernel compiling
One minor issue I had was the
build.sh instructions not working as prescribed. But looking at the error output, it was easy to figure out. For people less weathered it might not have been trivial to know to create an 'obj' folder or specify it and run as -U for non-root users. But then again NetBSD demands a bit of knowledge up front. For example (this is after you have dong
config <cfgfile>, GENERIC on amd64 here), here's how I got going. Change -j9 to number of cores in your machine +/- 1 for best results. There is a useful file,
BUILDING sitting in /usr/src once you have unzipped sets that has full explanations and useful examples. Alternatively the 'building the kernel manually' guide works fine still. I'm interested in using the excellent cross compiling capabilities of build.sh though.
$ cd /usr/src $ mkdir obj $ ./build.sh -U -u -O obj -j9 tools (this will take a while, gcc is a bear of a compile) $ ./build.sh -U -u -O obj -j9 kernel=GENERIC --- netbsd --- # link GENERIC/netbsd /usr/src/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1.2-amd64/bin/x86_64--netbsd-ld -Map netbsd.map --cref : Fri Mar 23 13:51:54 MDT 2018 text data bss dec hex filename 14223597 654556 593920 15472073 ec15c9 netbsd ===> Kernels built from GENERIC: /usr/src/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC/netbsd ===> build.sh ended: Fri Mar 23 13:51:57 MDT 2018 ===> Summary of results: build.sh command: ./build.sh -U -O obj -j9 kernel=GENERIC build.sh started: Fri Mar 23 13:49:31 MDT 2018 NetBSD version: 7.1.2 MACHINE: amd64 MACHINE_ARCH: x86_64 Build platform: NetBSD 7.1.2 amd64 HOST_SH: /bin/sh MAKECONF file: /etc/mk.conf (File not found) TOOLDIR path: /usr/src/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1.2-amd64 DESTDIR path: /usr/src/obj/destdir.amd64 RELEASEDIR path: /usr/src/obj/releasedir Updated makewrapper: /usr/src/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1.2-amd64/bin/nbmake-amd64 Building kernel without building new tools Building kernel: GENERIC Build directory: /usr/src/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC Kernels built from GENERIC: /usr/src/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC/netbsd build.sh ended: Fri Mar 23 13:51:57 MDT 2018 ===> .
Finally, I can start digging in. This compile time certainly helps! Modern computing rules! This VM is not even on a SSD. I'm hopeful if I moved it and gave it a few more cores it could build in 60 seconds. A full release build of tools, userland and X across 16 cores probably still takes 10s of minutes though.
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Monday, December 2, 2013
Successor of AMD Kaveri to Feature Excavator Cores, Set to Emerge in 2015.
AMD’s Longer-Term Roadmap Takes More Definite Shape
Thursday, October 17, 2013
AMD Returns to Profitability Thanks to Orders for Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 Chips.
AMD Posts Profit Despite Sliding Sales of Microprocessors and Graphics Chips
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
AMD Unveils “Elite” Quad-Core Chip for Hybrid PCs with 3W – 8W Power Consumption.
AMD Aims Hybrid PCs with New “Elite” Quad-Core Chip with 3W – 8W Power Consumption
Monday, August 26, 2013
AMD Further Delays Launches of New APU Products – Report.
AMD’s Kaveri Launch Slips to March, 2014; Carrizo Delayed Even
Sunday, June 2, 2013
AMD Develops NUC-Like Systems with Partners.
AMD Set to Power 4” x 4” Systems with Kabini APU
Thursday, May 30, 2013
AMD Issues Roadmap Update: No Breakthroughs Expected.
AMD’s Kaveri, Steamroller On-Track for Second Half of 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
AMD Officially Launches New-Generation APUs for Mobile Applications [UPDATED].
AMD Introduces Kabini, Temash and Richland Accelerated Processing Units
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
AMD Introduces G-Series “Kabini” SoC for Embedded Applications.
AMD Unleashes First Commercial Kabini Design with Jaguar x86 Cores, Radeon HD GCN
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G2G with MPG: Simple Tips to Improve Your Gas Mileage
Even though gas prices are still very low around the country, a trip to the pump probably isn’t your favorite thing to do behind the wheel. Filling up your tank can be disheartening, especially when you need to do it frequently. To ease the burden, you might want to try to stretch your gas further with some miles-per-gallon-increasing strategies.
Keep It Clean
According to Bankrate, one way car owners can make their tank stay full longer is by making some aftermarket changes to it.
Air flow is important to your car and how well it runs. As you might guess, a dirty air filter doesn’t allow for the greatest air flow. Additionally, your mass air flow sensor, which detects how much air is entering the engine, should also be kept clean. The amount of air in the engine determines how much fuel should be injected and also affects the ignition and transmission shifting functions. A dirty one will read information incorrectly and cause your car to use more fuel than is necessary.
To counteract both of these issues, you’ll need to keep an eye on both of these devices and change them when they’re too dirty to operate correctly. Luckily, these fixes are fairly simple, and you should be able to do them yourself.
Another easy fix you can make is changing your tires. Your tires are one of the most important factors in fuel economy. If your tires are underinflated or overinflated, they may force your car to use more energy during your everyday trips. Be sure to check this and adjust the air as needed.
It’s important to know that this problem can affect more than just your MPG. Improperly inflated tires are a safety hazard, as they can increase the chances of a blown tire.
Breaking Bad…Driving Habits
Bad driving habits are common and can be seen on any average drive to work or the grocery store. Chances are, you can identify them in other drivers and you have adopted some of them yourself. But some habits can not only decrease your safety on the road, but also reduce the number of miles you’ll get out of your tank of gas.
“Speeding is one way to drain your tank quickly, and with little reward.”
The next time you’re stopped at a red light, pay attention to how you accelerate when it turns green. If you’re taking off too strongly, you’re likely burning more gas than is necessary. Accelerate gradually to save fuel.
Alternatively, if you approach red lights and stop signs a little too quickly, you are probably braking harder than you need to. This also increases fuel consumption. Pay attention to your surroundings and stay alert to the next time you’ll need to come to a stop. By preparing early and slowing down gradually, you’ll be able to stretch your miles further.
Speeding is another way to drain your tank quickly and with little reward. According to LifeHacker, on shorter trips, the time savings is hardly worth it. For example, on a 15-mile trip where the speed limit is 55 mph, you’ll save a grand total of 2 ½ minutes by driving 65 mph.
If you’re prone to road rage, try to make a greater effort to stay calm on the road. Angry drivers tend to drive faster, brake harder and accelerate quicker, Money Talks News reported. Find a way to stay relaxed so you don’t slide back into bad habits.
Driving is often a necessary part of life, as are regular trips to the gas station. However, you can save money and reduce the number of trips you need to take by educating yourself on how to get the best mileage possible.
Hey Sara! Great article. I do alot of traveling in my mobile business and I noticed a difference in my gas milage after I got my air filtered changed. I get so much better gas milage now! I just need to work on your other tips. lol
Very nice steps to keep your car active and looks always matter, Even people judge you by your car conditions.
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PDA - 382 (9.9%)
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A growing strategy organizations of all sizes use to promote their brand and initiatives is employee advocacy.
Many businesses are using this tactic today in order to extend their reach and speak to audiences they normally wouldn’t have access to. Employee advocacy is statistically proven to result in growth, and can even help in attracting new talent. Before we get into these results, let’s answer the question, “what is employee advocacy?”
Every organization looks for ways to promote their work, their brand and their specific initiatives. Employee advocacy does exactly this through its employees. Companies put programs in place to give employees an incentive to promote their brand and its initiatives, typically through social media. Whether it’s an event, a milestone the company reached, or a special announcement, sharing this information through the individual voices of the employees, rather than directly from the company itself, is more influential to outside audiences.
Employee Advocacy By The Numbers
Company messages have 561% further reach when shared by employees than the same messages shared by a brand’s social channel, according to the Marketing Advisory Network. Additionally, brand messages are shared 24-times more frequently when employees post content.
These statistics show the broader reach of a company’s message, but employee advocacy leaves a deeper impression on the target audience. According to the same research report, 44.5% of people say they are more likely to apply for a job they saw their friend post on social media than they would if they saw the same position on a job board.
The results of a successful employee advocacy program are clear. Promoting a message to a broader audience in a more influential way is more likely to lead to the results you want. This is why companies with employee advocacy programs have a 26% increase in year-over-year revenue, according to the Aberdeen Group.
How To Do It
Almost every organization has employees who are passionate about their jobs and want to promote their place of business, but they don’t always know what to do or how to do it. This isn’t on them. This is on the organization. Businesses need to guide these employees down the right path, showing them what to promote, what the messaging should sound like and how to promote it.
These companies also need the right processes in place. Sending employees an email once a week asking them to retweet a press release is very easy to ignore. Companies need to have a well-designed, clearly communicated strategy in place, and incentives for the employees to hop onboard. Above all, they need the right processes to execute a great employee advocacy program.
This is where the right software can help. Companies can notify employees and partners to promote content, retweet or like posts, follow a specific account and more. GaggleAMP was recently recognized as the top employee advocacy solution today by customer reviews on G2 Crowd. We’d love to learn how we can help you get started.
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Fancy.
Different people may have different taste buds, although my eldest brother may disagree with me on this, but I still prefer Tian Hong’s specialty and think that they are the best in Kuala Lumpur.
Kedai Kopi Tian Hong opens daily from the morning till 3.00 – 4.00 pm. Now I would suggest you to go during lunch time at around 1.00 – 2.00pm because that’s when the Siu Yoke (Crackling Roast Pork) is served fresh out of the oven. If you’re there anytime earlier, you can still enjoy some succulent Char Siu and chicken although the latter isn’t much to shout about.
For Char Siu, the meat is typically a shoulder cut of domestic pork which is then seasoned with a mixture of honey and some other spices that turn the exterior layer of the meat dark red and gives it the characteristic caramelized glaze.
The Siu Yoke is a piece of pork with seasoning – being roasted to perfection in a charcoal furnace at high temperature. The aromatic and great tasting Siu Yoke has a crispy skin on the outer layer – with juicy and tender meat on the inner side..
Other than that, they also serve roasted and steamed chicken too. There’s even some side dishes served for the lunch crowd and soup of the day is free.
Now, it can get pricy when you’re not careful of how much food you’re ordering. Usually, it will cost us around RM10-15 each person if we go in a group. But single dishes with just Char Siu, Siu Yoke, chicken or even mixed will cost around RM5-7 per person.
Now don’t take my word for it. Give it a try yourself. So far, I’ve introduced it to many of my friends and colleagues and they all loved it as much as I do.
So if you’re ever in Salak South area, head over to Kedai Kopi Tian Hong at the address below:
Kedai Kopi Tian Hong (opposite 7-Eleven)
A82, Jalan Tuanku 2
Taman Salak Selatan
Kuala Lumpur
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SFS-Q holds third undergraduate commencement
Last Saturday, the Gulf Times reported that the Georgetown Unviersity University School of Foreign Service-Qatar had graduated its third class of undergraduates. As in previous years, University President John DeGioia delivered the commencement address to the class of 46.
In his address, DeGioia told the graduates, “When we live our lives at the frontiers, we work at the forefront of the possible. We seek out new learning and knowledge, new ways of leading and being, new ways of understanding others and ourselves. We embrace the tensions and ambiguities created by the unexplored to address the greatest challenges before us.”
Thirty-three of the graduates were majors in international politics, while 13 majored in culture and politics. These were the only majors available at the satellite campus until international economics was added this year.
Approximately 38 percent of the students hailed from Qatar, but the U.S., Canada, India, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a handful of other Arab states were also represented at the podium.
Photo: Gulf Times
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President DeGioia then flew to China, where he delivered a speech to the 17th Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Following that, he flew to England for a reciprocal meeting with Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace. He then returned to Washington, where he met with various dignitaries and heads of state. As of press time, he arrived back in Georgetown, where he had a private lunch with Jose Mara Aznar and Alvaro Uribe.
In other university news, new Franklin & Marshall President, Dan Porterfeld, was seen eating with students at F&M’s dining halls, soliciting campus opinion on Twitter, and hosting a meeting with the the Diplomatic Congress, F&M’s student government. At press time, President Porterfeld was unreachable, as he was on a several-day community service retreat with new freshmen.
Another exciting adventure for Jack DeGioia: International Man of Mystery
Three years is enough, right?
I feel like as much as the DeGioia hate is warranted in most cases, this time his travel is legitimate. Like it or not, he is the president of SFS-Q too. Clearly the other events he’s been to in the past have been less than necessary, but I feel like this falls under what it means to fulfill the duties of a university president.
Steven is right. This is one of the few good reasons Jack has for leaving the country. (Honestly, I’m not sure why he even spends so much time off campus, much less touring the globe, but whatever.) But yes, as President of Georgetown, he does play a part in the graduation ceremonies of our far-off cousin, SFS-Q.
Imagine a world where a president cared just as much about the students as the universities image…
Imagine a world where the university’s image had an impact on its students…
YOU CAN’T EAT THOUGHTS
but yeah.
F&M. I dont think DeGioia was hired to pour out his heart over a shared basket of thursday chicken fingers. I am glad he spends his time building the university’s image and building programs. Maybe VP of student affairs should be the man of the people?
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From NYC Street, Eyes Rise To High Rise, Monterey Touching Skies - IMRAN™, originally uploaded by ImranAnwar.
The Monterey, on 96th Street and Third Avenue, in the tony Carnegie Hills part of Manhattan, NY, was my home for nearly 3 wonderful years, 1992-1995.
During a recent trip to NYC I took the #6 Lexington Avenue train to the area. I was happy to see the doorman and concierge still remembered me after 15 years.
I met some of the most beautiful people and some of the most special people entered my life in this amazing building. From the beautiful, brilliant and then-beloved Beth to the amazing angel-faced and angel-hearted Allegra, from the lovable lovely Lipika to one of Revlon's "10 Most Beautiful Women" the exquisitely beautiful, funny, sweet and one-in-a-million Julie. From the awesome dude Askari, to the lucky F16 & airlines pilot and gentleman Kendall. All these and more are parts of memories from the amazing life I had at The Monterey.
Looking like a towering silo reaching into the sky, the lighting made it look even more beautiful. Taken from street level, with the busy intersection and the Islamic Center & Mosque behind me, this photo shows how the eye rises to this high-rise's peak... looking at my apartment just near the top floor. This view with the stunning bright sky that day and reddish tones of 5 PM winter NY sun show the vivid colors and the Normandie Court apartments and clouds reflecting in the glass and brick styled tower.
Being circular on the outer edge gave my large 1-bedroom luxury home the most stunning panoramic views. I could see Yankees Stadium, Mets Stadium and planes landing at LaGuardia Airport, cars on and boats under the Tri-Borough Bridge, East River, FDR Drive, Citicorp Center and if I leaned out I could at that time see the World Trade Center (but would probably fall out the window doing that).
I was the first tenant in my apartment in the new building and only left it when I built my dream home on Long Island.
I would love to go back and get an apartment there again, preferably my own again (21-H or higher) but it may not happen for a while. I was foolish enough to sublet the apartment to an African-American named Ali Yasin (Ali Yassin) who stayed there nearly 2 years but disappeared without paying 6 months rent. I am still searching for him (and the woman pastor named Ekutowsi Robinson who was his guarantor) because he caused severe financial and legal obligations with his sleazy behavior. (Caution if you ever do business with these people).
Until then, I can always look back to the memories I made in this building and know, there are others holding dear incredible memories as I do.
© 2010 IMRAN
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It has been another busy month for the teams working on Leaseweb Cloud. After toasting to the go-live of the U.S Cloud platform, we didn’t take a break. Instead we prepared for another expansion. I’m proud to announce that all the hard work has resulted in a new Cloud PoP for Leaseweb Germany in their state-of-the-art Frankfurt-based data center!
In 2010, Leaseweb Germany entered the DACH market with an extensive set of infrastructure products – ranging from dedicated servers to colocation and beyond. There has been a huge interest in these services, and numerous customers are using them for their businesses. The availability of Cloud services in Germany is something Leaseweb customers were actively asking for – they want to have their data physically located in Germany, and love the support of the Frankfurt-based staff. Following on that success, it made perfect sense to build the next Cloud platform there.
The product selection in Germany is the same as the Express Cloud offering of Leaseweb Netherlands and Leaseweb USA: a number of fixed sizes to choose from, very likeable rates, and of course a free firewall to further protect your instance. We used our blueprint-approach to build the platform on high-quality hardware and storage – always implementing redundant systems and connections to keep the product reliable and fast, like the customers on the Dutch and U.S. platforms are used to.
Next up: bringing the Leaseweb Cloud to even more data centers, and adding even more features. Keep an eye on this blog, and expect more news soon!
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Your vag needs a vacation.
It’s August, which means that it finally just might be bikini-bottom season here in the Gray Bay Area. And for the first time in a year, my inner thighs are seeing the light of day in a state that is distinctly fuzzier than the last time they made their grand, pale debut.
I stopped regularly shaving various parts of me about 10 months ago, when I realized that I was too lazy, that I didn’t value the way smooth and hairless body parts looked or felt, and no one around me really gave a shit either way. But for me, for some reason, there was a big difference between not shaving my legs and letting my bikini-thatch flourish, untamed and unfettered.
For one thing, I don’t actually mind getting bikini waxes. The whole pain-kink thing pretty much swallows most of the discomfort, and the whole process of getting pampered and eucalyptus oiled does the rest. I have actually fallen asleep while getting a bikini wax, which I can only ascribe to the fatigue I carried around with me like a backpack while I was in college.
Plus, there’s the whole courtesy-during-oral thing. Most of my dates don’t seem to mind getting chin deep in fluff now and again, but I don’t want to completely suffocate them.
However, lately, my skin has decided that it shares none of these compunctions. Every time I even think about taking a razor to my bikini line, my inner thighs erupt with ingrown hairs, convincing me on a near-fortnightly basis that I have Martian herpes.
After one particularly bad outbreak, which culminated in my problematically hot doctor having to dig a chickpea-sized mass of hardened pus out from under my skin with a needle, I decided enough was enough. I’ve still been trimming, because otherwise I feel like I’m trying to smuggle around a degu with a perm, but I’ve been letting the rest of my pubes grow wild and free.
At first, I definitely felt self-conscious about this. Even stumping around my apartment in my underwear, which I’d previously done with no hesitations, became awkward. I was incredibly aware of the inch-wide strip of sparse hair on either side of my underwear, which suddenly seemed to scream, “Naked! Naked! This person is totally naked under here!”
But you know what? According to science, not shaving is totally the #1 way to keep your crotch healthy and horror-free. In Britain, a family physician named Emily Gibson has embarked on a quest to reclaim pubic hair. On KevinMD.com, a well-known medical blog, Gibson wrote:
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Remember the whole chickpea situation? It probably came from my labia-swamp. Weirdly, my instinct tells me that more hair means a grosser environment, but Dr. Gibson says it’s not the case. Shaving, she says, carries a greater risk for the contraction of herpes and other infectious diseases. You can also develop cellulitis, labia infections, abscesses or -- get ready for this one -- boils.
I know that one, too, because before Mount Chickpea, I had a tiny boil just below my underwear line. I felt sort of fond of it after a while, but still. Vagina boil.
Regardless of medical recommendations like these, the Guardian points out, the hair removal industry was worth $2.1 billion in the U.S. alone last year. And though Dr. Gibson is only one physician, I’d love to think that missives like these would signify a sea change in pubic hairstyle trends and doctors’ responses to them.
Unfortunately, I doubt that’s the case. Women have done a lot of questionably healthy things in the name of beauty -- if forced ketosis is still a thing, I’m pretty sure the occasional vagina boil won’t be enough to deter most women from waxing.
As Gibson says, “Pubic hair does have a purpose, providing a cushion against friction that can cause skin abrasion and injury, and protection from bacteria.” If she had been channeling Eve Ensler, she could have likened it to the petals on a flower, a la The Vagina Monologues.
Instead, she continued, “It is the visible result of adolescent hormones and certainly nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about.”
Visible pubic hair, particularly on women, seems to automatically engender the immediacy of the nearby genitalia, no matter what well-meaning physicians maintain. And, as usual, female sexuality seems most palatable when it’s controllable. The hair removal industry capitalizes on that fear of the untamed: It equates pubic hair neatness with femininity and cleanliness, when it’s actually maybe a breeding ground for what appears to be the plague.
My little side-lawn circumvents that: It reinforces the fact that I’m a post-pubescent adult, and that I am totally capable of using the vagina-and-co. buried under there for my own pleasure. When you’re, say, at the neighbor’s pool with your mom, that can make things a little awkward. For me, though, the release from the threat of Martian herpes was worth it.
Kate is continuing to overshare on @katchatters.
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Ready to make the jump to a GraphQL API? If you already have a MySQL database you have an excellent starting point for creating a scalable API. In this tutorial, we will cover how to create models based on your database, create a NodeJS GraphQL API that reads the data from the database, and learn how to make relations in your GraphQL API between different tables.
In this tutorial, we will build a small GraphQL endpoint for a ticketing system. We want to create an endpoint where we can read tickets and get their associated data such as user, status, and priority.
The building blocks we will be using are:
- (An existing) MySQL database
- NodeJS
- Express (web framework for Node.js)
- Apollo (tools to create GraphQL endpoints)
- Sequelize (Object-Relational Mapping package)
- Webpack (to package the application)
- Docker (to spin up a local MySQL database, it’s optional as long as you have a MySQL instance)
Don’t worry if you don’t know every piece I just noted, I will describe every step along the way. If you want to code along, you can check out this repository and clone the start of the tutorial release with this command:
git clone <> --branch start
Step 1: database layer
First, we’ll assume that we’re working with an existing database. I’ve created an SQL file that you can import into MySQL database. I like running my MySQL database inside a Docker container, you can use the
docker-compose.yaml file (inside the repository) to start a MySQL container.
The database has four tables: tickets, priorities, status, and users. The tables have the following structure:
Tickets
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---------------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+ | id | int(11) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | subject | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | | | priority_id | int(11) | NO | | NULL | | | status_id | tinyint(4) | NO | | NULL | | | user_id | int(11) | NO | | NULL | | | assigned_to_user_id | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | +---------------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+
Users
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | name | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | | | email | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
Priorities
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | slug | varchar(64) | NO | | NULL | | | name | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
Status
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | slug | varchar(64) | NO | | NULL | | | name | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
Create your own database with the schematics above or import the SQL file into your MySQL database and we are ready to start coding. You can find the SQL file inside the repository in the directory
tutorial_assets.
Step 2: bootstrapping the application
In the repository for this tutorial, I have set up Webpack to compile the
app.js file inside the
dist directory. It serves a basic Express Hello World app. After cloning the project you need to run
npm install to install the dependencies.
Finished installing? You can run
npm run start to start the app. It will serve an endpoint on.
Let’s start building our GraphQL API!
Step 3: creating the database models
Virtually every framework uses models to interact with a database. To interact with our MySQL database we’re using Sequelize as ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) package. Let’s start by adding the packages (the mysql2 package is necessary to connect to the MySQL database).
npm install sequelize mysql2
Now we can do one of two things, we can either create the database models by hand or auto-generate with an extra package. For this tutorial creating the models by hand would not be a problem, we have just four small tables in our database. But when you are migrating a bigger database you might want something more automated. Luckily, there is a package to generate Sequelize database files based on an existing database. The package is named Sequelize-Auto and it can be installed globally with NPM.
npm install -g sequelize-auto mysql
In order to migrate the database in a more automated way, we can use the
sequelize-auto command. We need to insert our MySQL database credentials in the command to generate the models. If you are using the provided MySQL dump from step 1, I’ve created a config JSON file that you need to use.
The sequelize-auto-settings.json is located in the tutorial_assets directory. If you’re using your own database for this tutorial, check out this settings page on Sequelize API documentation to find out what settings you need.
sequelize-auto -h <host> -d <database> -u <user> -x [password] -p [port] --dialect [dialect] -c [/path/to/config] -o [/path/to/models]
So in my case:
sequelize-auto -h localhost -d graphql-mysql-tutorial -u graphql -x 123456 -p 8006 --dialect mysql -c /Users/wolthuis/Documents/websites/tutorials/graphql-migrating-mysql/tutorial_assets/sequelize-auto-settings.json -o /Users/wolthuis/Documents/websites/tutorials/graphql-migrating-mysql/app/models
And there we go! Four files appeared in app/models directory. In our file let’s start with importing Sequelize and setting up some variables.
Step 4: implementing the database models
We now need to implement the database models. In the app, directory create a database.js file. In this file, we import the database models and export them so we can use them anywhere in our app.
const Sequelize = require('sequelize') var db = {} const sequelize = new Sequelize( 'DATABASE_NAME', 'DATABASE_USER', 'DATABASE_PASSWORD', { host: 'DATABASE_HOST', port: 'DATABASE_PORT', dialect: 'mysql', define: { freezeTableName: true, }, pool: { max: 5, min: 0, acquire: 30000, idle: 10000, }, // <> operatorsAliases: false, }, ) let models = [] //
Okay so we need to do two things, fill in our MySQL database credentials and import the freshly created models. Normally you would use environment variables to safely pass around sensitive data, but for tutorial purposes, I’m just going to hard code some values inside the database.js file.
So the database.js file with credentials in imports looks something like this:
const Sequelize = require('sequelize') var db = {} const sequelize = new Sequelize('graphql-mysql-tutorial', 'graphql', '123456', { host: 'localhost', port: '8006', dialect: 'mysql', define: { freezeTableName: true, }, pool: { max: 5, min: 0, acquire: 30000, idle: 10000, }, // <> operatorsAliases: false, }) let models = [ require('./models/priorities.js'), require('./models/status.js'), require('./models/tickets.js'), require('./models/users.js'), ] //
Great, we can now import the
db variable anywhere in our app and access all of our models. In the next steps, we are surely going to use that variable to access our data.
Step 5: setting up an Apollo server
Apollo is a layer built on top of the GraphQL specification and they provide excellent developer tools. They also provide a package to integrate Apollo server into an (existing) Express application. We are going to use this package, in my experience, the best way to create a GraphQL API is to sometimes fall back on a
normal rest API. For example, when creating an authentication endpoint I prefer to keep GraphQL and the authentication routes completely separated.
To start, we first need to add two packages:
npm install apollo-server-express graphql
After installing we need to do some setup inside app.js to couple Apollo and Express. We start by importing ApolloServer:
const { ApolloServer } = require('apollo-server-express')
Then we create a new instance of the Apollo server:
const server = new ApolloServer({ modules: [] })
And the last step we apply the Apollo server as middleware on the existing Express app:
server.applyMiddleware({ app })
We can’t yet start our app, without any modules Apollo server will throw an error. So in the next step, we are going to implement our database entities into GraphQL endpoint so we can reach them with a GraphQL query.
Step 6: creating our GraphQL types and resolvers
In GraphQL, you need types and resolvers. Types describe the data you can either fetch or write via a GraphQL endpoint. Resolvers are the logic to resolve a request from a user.
Inside of the GraphQL directory, we create a new file with the name tickets.js. Inside this file we will include a variable from the
apollo-server-express package that we’ll use to create GraphQL type definitions, include our
db variable and two empty objects for our type GraphQL definitions and GraphQL resolvers.
import { gql } from 'apollo-server-express' import * as db from '../database' export const typeDefs = gql` ` export const resolvers = { }
Creating the GraphQL types
So first we’re filling the typeDefs variable. You can see that we are using the
gql variable from the
apollo-server-express package. The
gql variable lets us write type definitions that are readable for the package.
In the
typeDefs variable we need to do two things, extend the Query type and create a new type called
Ticket. The reason that we need to extend the Query type is because GraphQL always works with a top-level type called
Query. Inside that type are other types nested and that’s how GraphQL knows with types are available in your GraphQL API.
Okay so let’s extend the Query type:
export const typeDefs = gql` extend type Query { tickets: [Ticket] ticket(id: ID!): Ticket } type Ticket { } `
So in the code above we did a couple of things. We let GraphQL know we want to extend the Query with two new entities: ticket and tickets.
Tickets returns an array of
tickets:
tickets: [Ticket]
Ticket returns a single type of
Ticket. The ticket type will receive an argument called id, of type ID and can’t be null (so in other words, the argument is required). The exclamation mark in a GraphQL type symbolizes that a value can’t be null:
ticket(id: ID!): Ticket
For now our
Ticket type is empty, so let’s fill in this type:
export const typeDefs = gql` extend type Query { tickets: [Ticket] ticket(id: ID!): Ticket } type Ticket { id: ID! subject: String priority_id: Int status_id: Int user_id: Int assigned_to_user_id: Int } `
So in the above code, we described which types the ticket type is composed of. It is a 100% match with our database model. This is true for now but will change in the future when we are going to add relations between our types/models.
Creating the GraphQL resolvers
So we created our types for the ticket entity. Now let’s create the resolver. The resolver needs to more or less reflect our types. Inside the resolver object, we also start with a top-level Query object.
export const resolvers = { Query: {}, }
Inside the query, we reflect our query type so we add two keys: ticket and tickets. We use our
db (database) variable to resolve the data from the database.
export const resolvers = { Query: { tickets: async () => db.tickets.findAll(), ticket: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.tickets.findByPk(args.id), }, }
A resolver receives a couple of arguments we can use to resolve the delete request. The
obj is the root object, we will use this root object to make relations. The
args are the function arguments we defined in the types. So in case of our
tickets it’s an ID of the ticket we need to get. If you want to read more about obj, args, context, info check out the Apollo Docs.
Adding the ticket module to our Apollo server
So we’ve created a module, we just need to import it into our application inside the app.js. To do so, add the module:
const server = new ApolloServer({ modules: [require('./GraphQL/tickets')], })
Now do the same for priorities, users, and status and also import those modules:
const server = new ApolloServer({ modules: [ require('./GraphQL/tickets'), require('./GraphQL/status'), require('./GraphQL/users'), require('./GraphQL/priorities'), ], })
After starting the app again, go to localhost:5000/graphql and you will come into the Apollo GraphQL query builder environment. In this environment, you can test your API and create queries that you will use later in other applications. Also, you can explore your API with the docs button on the right side. Because GraphQL is typed, you automatically have API documentation. Pretty cool!
Step 7: creating relations between data
So this is pretty cool, but it would be nice to automatically get the users name when getting a ticket. In the current state of our application, we can only get the user id associated with the ticket. In this step, we will create a relation between the ticket and the users.
Adding the user type on the ticket type
So first let’s edit the Ticket type. We need to let GraphQL know that we want to request a user of the type user:
export const typeDefs = gql` extend type Query { tickets: [Ticket] ticket(id: ID!): Ticket } type Ticket { id: ID! subject: String priority_id: Int status_id: Int user_id: Int user: User assigned_to_user_id: Int } `
Adding an extra resolver for the user
Next, we need to add a nested resolver that will resolve the user inside the ticket. In the resolver object, we are going to add the key
Ticket.That’s how GraphQL knows to resolve nested queries when we request a type inside an other type. In this case resolver, the User type, inside the Ticket type:
export const resolvers = { Query: { tickets: async () => db.tickets.findAll(), ticket: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.tickets.findByPk(args.id), }, Ticket: { user: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.users.findByPk(obj.user_id), }, }
You see we are using the
obj to access the ticket data. In the ticket data the
user_id is set, so we can get the right user from the database.
So let’s see if our code works. I’ve created this query to see if I can get the nested user data. Take note that you also need to specify which fields you want from the user type, in my case the id, name and email field.
{ ticket(id: 3){ id subject user{ id name email } } }
Great, it works! This is what Apollo returns:
Now add the other relationships the same way: priority, status and assigned_to_user. After finishing adding the other nested resolver your tickets.js file will look something like this:
import { gql } from 'apollo-server-express' import * as db from '../database' export const typeDefs = gql` extend type Query { tickets: [Ticket] ticket(id: ID!): Ticket } type Ticket { id: ID! subject: String priority_id: Int priority: Priority status_id: Int status: Status user_id: Int user: User assigned_to_user_id: Int assigned_to_user: User } ` export const resolvers = { Query: { tickets: async () => db.tickets.findAll(), ticket: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.tickets.findByPk(args.id), }, Ticket: { user: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.users.findByPk(obj.user_id), priority: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.priorities.findByPk(obj.priority_id), status: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.status.findByPk(obj.status_id), assigned_to_user: async (obj, args, context, info) => db.users.findByPk(obj.assigned_to_user_id), }, }
Go to
localhost:5000/graphql and construct a query that gets all the tickets with their status, priorities and users. With this query:
{ tickets{ subject status{ slug } priority{ slug } user{ name } assigned_to_user{ name } } }
I get the following tickets and their attributes:
{ "data": { "tickets": [ { "subject": "My computer is on fire🔥🔥", "status": { "slug": "open" }, "priority": { "slug": "high" }, "user": { "name": "Dirk Wolthuis" }, "assigned_to_user": null }, { "subject": "MS Word is not starting, can someone help?", "status": { "slug": "doing" }, "priority": { "slug": "low" }, "user": { "name": "Chris Vogt" }, "assigned_to_user": { "name": "Dirk Wolthuis" } }, { "subject": "There is a bug in the 🛒 of the webshop, steps to reproduce are included", "status": { "slug": "doing" }, "priority": { "slug": "high" }, "user": { "name": "Andrew Clark" }, "assigned_to_user": { "name": "Dirk Wolthuis" } }, { "subject": "404 error: website not found - website down?💀", "status": { "slug": "closed" }, "priority": { "slug": "high" }, "user": { "name": "Andrew Clark" }, "assigned_to_user": { "name": "Dirk Wolthuis" } } ] } }
Conclusion
We’ve created a usable GraphQL API that you can customize any way you want. You can add multiple layers of relationships between entities. And after creating a new database table you can easily create the required Sequelize models for your application. For the sake of this tutorial, we’ve created a read-only database. Just want to check out the code? You can find it in this repository. If you want to learn more about how to manipulate data in the database, you can check out Designing Mutations or read this post about Mutations. The setup of the server is a little bit different, but the logic is the same. “From REST to GraphQL: A different way to create…”
For me I had to change the sequelize-auto-settings.json from
{
“additional”: {
“timestamps”: false
}
}
to
{
“timestamps”: false
}
Maybe Sequelize has updated the way the config works.
Mine is “sequelize”: “^5.8.9”,
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Lily was born in Hammersmith and grew up quickly, listening to punk, ska and reggae, courtesy of her parents' record collections. They moved frequently around London - Shepherds Bush, Bloomsbury, Islington, where she continue to absorb music. At 14 she was into jungle and drum and bass. After getting expelled from more than one school, she was was sent off to boarding school, while finally dropping out at age 15. Books and music held her interest, and helped her express herself.
Lily does not play an instrument, which she feels helps her focus on the vocal melody and her lyrics. Here's a sample of her lyrics from everyday life in London:, Wreckless Eric, Kate Bush, Prince, and Eminem.
Lily Allen built a solid fan base on the Internet, topping the UK singles chart in July 2006 with her song "Smile." In October she was awarded the Best Pop Artist in the Fifth Annual Digital Music Awards, London, and her debut album is being released this month in the states. The reaction to all of this has left her reeling.
Website: LilyAllenMusic.com
MySpace: myspace.com/lilymusic
Origin: U.K.
Recent Release: Alright, Still
Release Date: January 2007
Label: EMI International
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Microsoft opened up registration for their @live.xx domains today! You can head over to the Live.com site to register for your local address (in Canada that would be @live.ca). Of course, if you’re like me, you want an @live.com address too. You can sign up for that one here (click the “Get it free” button).
I can’t imagine how much Microsoft spent on the “live” domains, but they’ve got a ton of them. You can sign up for many more by following the links here, if you’re so inclined. The new “Linked IDs” feature will definitely come in handy now!
I just registered [email protected] and [email protected] and linked them. Wicked!
Also, if you’ve got a Hotmail account that you want to transition to Live.com, check out this page. You’ll have to do a bunch of migration steps, and not everything can be transferred. Personally I like the @hotmail.com address, so I’m keeping mine.
There you go, enjoy!
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I feel like you got a little personal on Aziatic, as well as affirming your stance as a legendary MC. For example, on the intro you rap, “How can I be torn from pages of history?” And on “Wanna Be There” you mention, “Open the lane up, so I can let these fuckers pay.”
Right. ‘Cause it was like, “Yo, this is a legacy we tryin’ to leave behind. Fans change and the game changes. And, the infrastructure of the business changes, but I was like, “You know what? I got to let people know I’m here to stay.” And, I think with that album, I solidified my presence. Regardless of whom or what, if I stop today, rappin’ they’ll know like, “Okay, he put his work in.”
One of the things I think that often gets unnoticed was your Grammy nod for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 45th Grammy Awards for “The Essence” with Nas. Let’s talk about how that track came about.
After Stillmatic we just locked in and do what we do all the time. That was like our eighth album we did together.
Were you two actually in the studio together recording that record?
All our songs in the studio together, as far as with me and him.
You can sort of tell because you guys share quite the chemistry on these records.
Yeah, we always in the studio together when we make our songs. I don’t think there’s no song that we ever did where we was like sendin’ it back and forth. We never did that.
What do you think it is about the two of you on a track together that just gets the critics and fans excited?
I mean we started out together. Me bein’ on his first album, like, we have that connection. We gave that feelin’; we gave that initial feelin’ to the game when we first came out. He repaid me with the same favor on my Doe or Die and then you know I was on his It Was Written, after that we did The Firm—we kept that one-two punch.
Now one of my favorite joints on Aziatic was “Fan Mail.” The record is deep, enlightening as well as introspective, but it fades out during the second verse. I know a lot of people that’s still waiting on that second verse to continue, so…
I know, right? And, that was my purpose because fan mail has never stopped; they still come. I wanted to do a part two, part three, part four, part five—
Wow.
That’s like one of those sequels because I get so [much] mail from so many different perspectives and so many different people, young kids, older people, women, peers—like, you get so many different zones, I wanted to just reflect that on all my albums, but I haven’t gotten to part two; I might do that for a mixtape.
What are some of your favorite joints off the album?
Off the Aziatic album was the intro, “Once Again” that was like I expressed myself well. “Paradise (Life)”—that was crazy.
What was it about “Paradise (Life)” that made it your favorite?
I was in Cali when I recorded that. So, it was another zone. I was in another zone. I was just expressin’ my feelings. That whole album was really expressin’ myself to the 10th power to be honest. Even with “A-1 Performance,” I liked. “Wanna Be There” was definitely one of my favorite ones. Each joint was a different zone for me. Yeah.
The “I’m Back” video was dope. You took a page out of Training Day for that right?
Yeah. We did that Training Day. So that was good right there.
On a last note—one of my favorite lines on the album was, “I give niggas a reason to sweat, it’s not a test/verbally, it’s like I’m seen as the best…” So, what’s next for the Visualiza? Upcoming projects? What’s the update on Doe Or Die II?
Oh yeah. Right now, I’m puttin’ together that Doe or Die II album. I’m workin’ right now, and like I said, lyrically, I still feel I’m one of the best lyrically. I’m definitely in that conversation, my name got to be brought up and if not, I’m still gon’ make the people believers.
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Just as the blog’s tagline implies, I tend not to publish things before I have finished them to my own satisfaction. As that rarely happens, even the pieces that might be useful to someone do often not see the light of day.
Sometimes though, I manage to get fed up enough by the time I have sunk into a particular project to publish its unpolished parts anyway, which is how this blog happens.
Today, I present you with a summary of the fun I had with the Netgear GS108 switches roughly a year and a half ago. At that point in time, the GS108v4 was the most recent version of that series. As far as I can tell, this is still the case, so everything in this post should still apply. There should be no need to dismount the heat sink to check; if the PCB looks similar enough (especially the traces to the Ethernet ports), it should be the same chip.
A while ago I was looking for some dumb (i.e. simple fan-out) switches to extend my home network. While it would have been nice to get managed ones, all of the ones I know about either suck (such as the TP-Link TL-SG3210) and/or have a questionable management interface, only do 100 MBit (such as the old Catalyst switches you find on eBay) or are perfect, but way too expensive.
Anyway, I was stuck with my current setup, abusing an OpenWRT WiFi router as a combined AP and VLAN-capable switch (it does have L2-hardware-forwarding), but as it only has a few ports, I needed a few dumb switches and ended up with the Netgear GS108:
It’s cheap (<30 EUR on Amazon), has a metal enclosure and the 8 GigE ports I was looking for. All done. Let’s move on.
However, I could not resist the temptation to look inside:
Looks reasonably fine, but what might hide under that heat sink though?
A BCM53128! While the datasheet can be found on the internet and Broadcom even semi-officially publishes it itself on their community forum, they are in my personal opinion still a bunch of jerks who historically didn’t want you to use their hardware unless you are Fortune 500 company buying millions of parts per year and would DMCA you into oblivion if you were trying as a hobbyist. This might have changed as a result of acquisition by Avago, but I’m not going to take any chances and won’t publish any documentation excerpts here. You’ll have to believe me or exercise your Google-fu yourself.
The BCM53128 is actually a pretty nifty chip, which can (among other things) also run in a managed configuration and do 802.1q-style VLANs. For configuration that goes beyond simple strapping pins in an unmanaged scenario such as this one, it also supports loading a configuration from an external SPI flash (shown below the lower right corner of the switch ASIC itself, 64k in this case). I wonder what’s inside?
The bane of my existence, of course: Firmware.
$ hexdump -Cv dump-gs108.bin | head -n 50 00000000 02 00 ef e4 7f e8 7e 03 fd fc 22 02 29 1f 7f 08 |......~...".)...| 00000010 02 01 36 02 28 f3 90 ff ff 12 08 94 ed f0 90 ff |..6.(...........| 00000020 fd 12 08 94 eb f0 a3 ea f0 a3 e9 f0 90 ff ff 12 |................| 00000030 08 94 85 22 83 85 23 82 a3 e0 fb a3 e0 fa a3 e0 |..."..#.........| 00000040 f9 4a 60 03 12 01 12 90 00 04 12 08 b8 e0 70 08 |.J`...........p.| 00000050 7b ff 7a 25 79 bb 80 22 90 00 04 12 08 b8 e0 b4 |{.z%y.."........| 00000060 01 08 7b ff 7a 25 79 c3 80 10 90 00 04 12 08 b8 |..{.z%y.........| 00000070 e0 b4 02 09 7b ff 7a 25 79 cb 12 01 12 12 01 2a |....{.z%y......*| 00000080 85 22 83 85 23 82 ef f0 e0 ff 64 0a 60 04 ef b4 |."..#.....d.`...| 00000090 0d 16 90 00 04 12 08 b8 e0 fe 70 03 ff 80 4a ee |..........p...J.| 000000a0 64 01 70 8e 7f 01 80 41 85 22 83 85 23 82 e0 b4 |d.p....A."..#...| 000000b0 1b 08 12 04 72 7f 0d 12 01 36 7f 0a 12 01 36 85 |....r....6....6.| 000000c0 22 83 85 23 82 e0 ff 64 59 60 04 ef b4 79 04 7f |"..#...dY`...y..| 000000d0 01 80 16 85 22 83 85 23 82 e0 ff 64 4e 60 08 ef |...."..#...dN`..| 000000e0 64 6e 60 03 02 00 32 7f 00 90 00 05 02 08 94 78 |dn`...2........x| 000000f0 7f e4 f6 d8 fd 75 22 a0 75 23 00 75 81 52 12 1d |.....u".u#.u.R..| 00000100 0a 02 26 3d a5 58 90 1d 9e 02 1d 00 90 1f 78 02 |..&=.X........x.| 00000110 05 4a 90 27 a1 02 05 4a 90 27 dd 02 05 4a 90 24 |.J.'...J.'...J.$| 00000120 e9 02 05 4a 90 2a 39 02 05 4a 90 1d a3 02 1d 00 |...J.*9..J......| 00000130 90 1d a8 02 1d 00 90 29 b3 02 05 4a 90 1d ad 02 |.......)...J....| 00000140 1d 00 90 1d b2 02 1d 00 90 2a 2a 02 05 4a 90 00 |.........**..J..| 00000150 03 02 05 4a 90 1e c5 02 05 4a 90 22 d4 02 05 4a |...J.....J."...J| 00000160 90 25 ee 02 05 4a 90 ea b5 02 1d 88 90 f1 f9 02 |.%...J..........| 00000170 1d 88 90 29 72 02 05 4a 90 27 62 02 05 4a 90 25 |...)r..J.'b..J.%| 00000180 44 02 05 4a 90 27 1e 02 05 4a 90 28 55 02 05 4a |D..J.'...J.(U..J| 00000190 90 26 d5 02 05 4a 90 1b af 02 05 4a 90 1d b7 02 |.&...J.....J....| 000001a0 1d 00 90 2a 33 02 05 4a 90 1d bc 02 1d 00 90 fd |...*3..J........| 000001b0 8d 02 1d 88 90 f4 ef 02 1d 88 90 de 29 02 1d 88 |............)...| 000001c0 90 ce 1e 02 1d 88 90 1d c1 02 1d 00 90 be 0e 02 |................| 000001d0 1d 88 90 b6 bf 02 1d 88 90 bf a6 02 1d 88 90 ed |................| 000001e0 09 02 1d 88 90 ec 79 02 1d 88 90 c3 a2 02 1d 88 |......y.........| 000001f0 90 e2 c2 02 1d 88 90 f5 53 02 1d 88 90 e3 78 02 |........S.....x.| 00000200 1d 88 90 a1 38 02 1d 88 90 d2 74 02 1d 88 90 fc |....8.....t.....| 00000210 ca 02 1d 88 90 f9 4e 02 1d 88 90 d0 53 02 1d 88 |......N.....S...| 00000220 90 80 ff 02 1d 88 90 d4 7b 02 1d 88 90 fa f1 02 |........{.......| 00000230 1d 88 90 1d c6 02 1d 00 90 80 fc 02 1d 88 90 f1 |................| 00000240 86 02 1d 88 90 f8 f9 02 1d 88 90 f7 92 02 1d 88 |................| 00000250 90 f9 a0 02 1d 88 90 1d cb 02 1d 00 90 1d d0 02 |................| 00000260 1d 00 90 fd 25 02 1d 88 90 fd 40 02 1d 88 90 fc |....%.....@.....| 00000270 26 02 1d 88 90 e5 8a 02 1d 88 90 e7 84 02 1d 88 |&...............| 00000280 90 e9 72 02 1d 88 90 eb e8 02 1d 88 90 ea 14 02 |..r.............| 00000290 1d 88 90 e8 29 02 1d 88 90 ba 99 02 1d 88 90 fc |....)...........| 000002a0 e9 02 1d 88 90 a3 c4 02 1d 88 90 ed 95 02 1d 88 |................| 000002b0 90 cc fc 02 1d 88 90 e1 48 02 1d 88 90 9e 1a 02 |........H.......| 000002c0 1d 88 90 1d d5 02 1d 00 90 fd c0 02 1d 88 90 f5 |................| 000002d0 b5 02 1d 88 90 fd 07 02 1d 88 90 c6 02 02 1d 88 |................| 000002e0 90 c7 31 02 1d 88 90 d8 2b 02 1d 88 90 ee 18 02 |..1.....+.......| 000002f0 1d 88 90 fb 93 02 1d 88 90 c8 5f 02 1d 88 90 a8 |.........._.....| 00000300 d4 02 1d 88 90 c9 88 02 1d 88 90 96 ca 02 1d 88 |................| 00000310 90 ee 97 02 1d 88 90 c1 0c 02 1d 88 90 d9 f9 02 |................| $ strings dump-gs108.bin | head -n 20 M`*~ MNOx { J??? (null) -PCIX ERROR: Assertion failed: (%s) at %s:%u @~B} @~B} %s Firmware Version: %u.%02u.%02u.%02u Date: %s %s 09:48:48 Oct 27 2011 Switch init failed! 53128 Gigabit PHY Driver 5464 Gigabit PHY Driver %08lX: %02bX %s [N/y]
More about the firmware in a minute. What’s also in there is a standard Broadcom configuration section, which the chip applies at boot. The config that shipped by default in my switches (SHA1:
2b8110fb53990b8be5b98251a3c1d5870f22c241) does LED, Jumbo frame and QoS configuration.
While the format is slightly underdocumented, it turns out that you can indeed also configure the VLAN settings from there. I’ve written a tool that patches an existing firmware file with a user-provided VLAN config (Head over to the README in the repo for documentation on how to use it). The whole VLAN setup logic is basically taken from the Linux kernel driver for the B53 family.
So much about the part that is working well enough that it might be of use to someone, now about the bits and pieces.
The presence of firmware in the flash image piqued my interest for two reasons:
- I was initially having problems getting my register customizations to work. I suspected that the firmware might be incorrectly taking over/interfering with the programming process.
- According to the datasheet, while mainly meant for power-saving control, the 8051 core can also access the switch’s datapath, which might allow one to implement features such as LLDP or even proper STP, which are sorely missing on these dumb switches.
I found some for the most part rather confusing register-level documentation for the 8051 side, but did not manage to find the SDK or anything else to validate the guesses I made from the documentation, so I had to reverse-engineer much of the firmware present in the flash. In the end, I managed to write an emulator that could run the firmware and emulated enough of the peripherals to show some signs of life. Alas, the memory model of the 8051, combined with extensive bank switching makes reverse-engineering this firmware a little tedious. I got fed up before figuring out whether the firmware fiddles around with the config parsing (it does however indeed touch the switch registers) or how to send packets, so I dropped the ball on this at some point.
My memory is a little hazy here, but I’ll write down some of the interesting high-level points I remember, just in case someone is interested:
- The chip supports a kind of XIP with caching where it copies a chunk of memory from the flash to an invisible internal buffer when starting to execute a given region. This is being used here.
- There is a ROM in the ASIC and the firmware calls code from there extensively. This means I also had to dump the internal ROM (done through bit-banging it out through GPIOs with a piece of custom firmware).
- The internal ROM contains an RTOS and a complete CLI for interacting with the ASIC in a number of ways. The UART interface is not documented anywhere, but it is accessed via the standard 8051 UART SFRs. I have no idea how to electrically interface with the UART on an actual chip, though. Update: I just found a reference design where pins 69 and 70 are broken out to a pin header labelled “for debug only”. As expected, those turn out to be TX and RX, respectively. (9600, 8n1. However, note this seems to change to ~16000 baud when no ethernet link is detected.)
If you have done similar research or want to continue down this path, please do hit me up!
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Thirty Merlin Rockets arrived at Chichester Yacht Club for the third Craftinsure Silver Tiller of this season. Three races, three different race winners and we lost count on how many times the black flag was flown!
Race 1 - Start the day as you mean to go on
First general recall of the day, but fortunately with the tide against the fleet they managed to get away without the black flag coming out. 2010 Grand Slam Winners Simon Blake and Alex Jackson showed the fleet they meant serious business by flying off the start line, leading round the windward mark never to be seen again. Second place went to William Warren and Sophie Mackley, who were clear ahead of the pack, which consisted of Matt Biggs crewed by Ben Hollis, Steve and Gill Leney, and Jon Gorringe crewed by Francois Fung.
Race 2 - Be consistent
Yep you got it, another general recall, followed by another but this time the black flag was out and caught some of the fleet out with four boats being sent home. A couple of these were looking for victory at the event, yet all they could do was go ashore sit in the naughty corner with a cup of tea whilst race 2 got underway. It was time for some more familiar faces to show the fleet around the course. Judith Massey and Graham Williamson sailed a very consistent race to take the victory gun holding off a chasing pack with a well deserved second place going to the Leneys, followed by Biggs/Hollis then Blake/Jackson.
Race 3 – Why change the habits of the day?
So the tide by now was really starting to ebb. All this meant was the fleet of 30 Merlins had to make sure that they had enough momentum to be up on the line or over it in this case. Yep you got it…..another general recall! Unlike the other 2 races of the day where the leader had got away it wasn’t the case here. Andy and Phil Dalby lead for lap 1, Gorringe/Fung lead lap 2 and Biggs/Hollis who had been nibbling their way back from 4th finally got to the finish line first to take the bullet. Gorringe/Fung took second, Warren/Mackley who were now back out on the water having had a breather in race 2 took third, with the Dalby sisters taking fourth.
Congratulations to Matt Biggs and Ben Hollis who took home the Nick’s Boat Trophy, with Simon Blake and Alex Jackson in second, and William Warren and Sophie Mackley in third. Thanks must go to Chichester Yacht Club for doing their best to tame the fleet, keeping them back behind the line, for their super efficient race team with time between races kept to a minimum and for the great food they put on for all competitors at the end of the day.
Overall Results:
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Station balancing
As a follow up to the blog about Clean building we have noticed that, in recent games, stations frequently aren’t balanced.
During a game it is important to have a balanced network. There are a couple of ways to make the network balanced, one of them is by building a load balancer on the mainline. However a balancer like that isn’t preferred. It is preferred to let stations entries and exits function as balancers of the traffic load over the mainline.
Image taken from Memberzone Game 6
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Two unlikely movies celebrating 25 year anniversaries today
Two diametrically opposite movies began playing in theaters on August 1, 1986, 25 years ago today.
The first movie was the infamous Howard the Duck. Featuring a woman falling in love with a duck and an early appearance of Tim Robbins. This movie nearly ruined Lucasfilm.
The second movie was Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives. This installment is arguably one of the best movies in the Jason franchise. Jason had died in the last movie, so a lightning strike would revive him and begin the reign of “zombie Jason”. Plus it features the third actor to play the character of Tommy Jarvis.
Check out the trailer for both of these movies at Held Over.
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Liver cancer incidence is increasing in the general population, and elevated rates have been found in people living with HIV/AIDS. Lesley Park (MPH 2010), a PhD candidate in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale, studies liver cancer in the HIV/AIDS population.
Lesley Park
Her previous work identified a biomarker (specifically FIB-4) for liver cancer. She is now using longitudinal studies to refine the risk model. With that new information, she hopes to provide recommendations to clinicians and patients on how to prevent the disease. Using statistical methods to quantify risk prediction and prevention, she teases out which factors are most clearly implicated: anti-retroviral therapy, hepatitis B and C, alcohol consumption, or other factors related to HIV. Patients with HIV sometimes suffer liver toxicity from the very medicines that keep them alive. Furthermore, some HIV-positive patients are co-infected with hepatitis B or C and some may have a high rate of alcohol consumption, she says. “By better treating and understanding how these issues interact, we may be able to prevent liver cancer and reduce the burden of cancers in the aging HIV-infected population.”
Lesley has been working in HIV research for about eight years, first as a statistical programmer at the Harvard School of Public Health, and now at Yale.
“My early career used my math, logic, and computing skills to organize and clean data and contribute to the design of a long-term study on HIV-infected subjects who have participated in antiretroviral therapy clinical trials. Now, in pursuing my doctorate, I’m focused more on designing and executing my own studies on cancer in people living with HIV/AIDS. With my dissertation, I’m in charge of the study, from inception to analysis to publication.”
Lesley uses data from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS). VACS is an observational study that includes HIV-positive and HIV-negative groups matched for age, race, and clinical site. The data go back to 1996, which makes this a unique source for information on diseases with long latency, such as cancer. This year she received a perfect score in a grant application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was awarded funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for her remaining years of dissertation research at Yale.
Her advisers are Robert Dubrow and Amy Justice, and she finds them “incredible. I have a standing weekly meeting, which really allows me to stay focused (especially during my dissertation writing years) and obtain regular feedback on my analyses and writing.”
Born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., Lesley attended the University of Virginia, where she majored in both French and mathematics. After graduation, she moved to France for a year and taught elementary school English. “Since I was only allowed to work twelve hours a week by French immigration law, I had an amazing year of volunteering in a small French town and exploring France and Europe,” she says.
When it came time to go back to school, she opted for a Masters in Public Health and then a doctorate. She chose Yale because “the intimate program size and accessibility of faculty are incomparable to other major research universities. In addition, only at a campus like Yale can you truly have an interdisciplinary approach to training, with access to all of the departments: medicine to MCDB to epidemiology to management to history of science/history of medicine.”
In addition to her academic commitments, she keeps busy with Yale activities and Pilates.
Lesley represents her department in the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) and was a professional ethics training facilitator for new graduate students. In addition, she is a Graduate Affiliate of Jonathan Edwards College and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Regulations and Discipline. “As a way to cope with the stress of my doctoral studies (especially the killer year before qualifying exams), I regularly practiced Pilates. It became such an important outlet from research, coursework, and teaching, that I decided to become a certified Pilates instructor!” She now teaches mat classes at Aldrich Pilates.
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all common questions that people have when their partner seems to be a bit too secretive about friends and family.
To see if you really have reason to be worried, ask yourself these other questions before moving forward:
How Long Have You Been Together?
Most people hold off on introducing partners to friends and family until the relationship has become serious, especially if it’s long-distance or otherwise a hassle.
If you haven’t met your partner’s family, but you’ve only been dating for a month, it’s not necessarily as suspicious as if you were dating for two years without ever meeting the parents.
Likewise, if your partner’s family lives very far away, it might make sense that you haven’t met them yet. The logistics are just too difficult. Your first step shouldn’t be suspicion, especially if you haven’t been dating for long.
Does Your Partner Talk About Family and Friends Otherwise?
If not, this is an indication that your partner is just generally being secretive, rather than lagging on introducing you to friends and family. Your partner should have friends outside of you, and most people still maintain some sort of connection with their family.
If you’ve never heard much about your partner’s life outside of you, that may very well be on purpose. Remember that relationships require trust, so if your partner keeps secrets from you, it’s cause for concern.
Has Your Partner Mentioned Reasons for Being Cautious?
If your partner is genuinely being hesitant about introducing you to friends and family, there may be a reason for that. Consider talking to your partner about it if you feel like this is happening. People who are being somewhat secretive but have a good reason for it will usually tell you why.
For example, if your partner never mentions family, it may just be that he or she is estranged, which can definitely be a sore subject. If your partner had a relationship that turned sour after introducing the other person to friends and family, he or she may want to hold back until the relationship has matured. Communication is key; you shouldn’t jump to conclusions.
Should You Try and Get in Contact on Your Own?
Sometimes, someone hiding friends and family from you can mean that that person’s trying to control you. Maybe your partner’s worried that you’ll learn about bad past relationships, or you’ll get a sense that something’s wrong when you meet his or her friends. If you think that this secrecy may be on purpose–especially if you can’t seem to work it out directly–it may be time to take things into your own hands. You can attempt to do that with PeopleFinders.
Want to try and get in touch with family members directly, and make sure there’s nothing fishy going on? When you use PeopleFinders, you can try to access the contact information for your partner’s friends and family.
How do you start? Just use your partner’s name to perform a people search. From there, you may be able to see a list of their relatives and other associates. Then you can search each of those names to try and find their contact information. You may be able to use that information to contact family members directly, or maybe find them on social media or elsewhere online.
Those same searches may even reveal the hidden reason why your partner doesn’t want you to meet the family. (As in, they may have criminal records.) In that case–while they should certainly be more open with their communication–your partner could actually be trying to protect you, not hiding their own bad behavior.
Conclusion
Just because a partner doesn’t seem interested in introducing you to friends and family, that doesn’t mean that something’s going on. It could just be trust issues, bad previous relationships, or a poor relationship with family. However, sometimes there’s something wrong, and it’s smart to try and find out for sure.
When those circumstances roll around, it’s important to have PeopleFinders in your back pocket, so you can use it to try and make sure everything’s okay. Checking directly is a good way to either ensure that everything is actually okay, or to confirm your worries. Either way, at least you won’t be waiting in suspense.
Image attribution: F8studio – stock.adobe.comTags: Communication, Dating, family, friends
Categorized in: Relationships
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The first time Yale played Wagner this season, the game ended in dramatic fashion. Megan Enyeart's two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted the Bulldogs to a thrilling 6-5 victory at the Rebel Games in Florida. The teams will meet again on Wednesday afternoon on Staten Island beginning at 3 p.m. (Live Stats).
Yale (18-22, 7-9 Ivy) was eliminated from the Ivy League North Division race over the weekend, despite splitting a four-game series with first-place Dartmouth. The Bulldogs still have plenty to play for. They can reach 20 overall wins for the fourth straight year and eighth time in the last nine years with a pair of wins.
Katie Edwards, who has a six-game hitting streak, was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll this week. She batted .556 (10-for-18) with a .778 slugging percentage and a .600 on base percentage in six games. Pitcher Deanna DiBernardi also had a strong week, holding the high-powered Dartmouth offense in check. The Big Green had been averaging more than six runs a game in Ivy play, but DiBernardi limited them to only two runs in 14 innings. She tossed a six-hit shutout in Yale's 1-0 win on Sunday. DiBernardi leads the Yale pitching staff in wins (8) and earned run average (2.32).
Wagner (16-26) is led by Andrea Lazzari, who was named the Northeast Conference Player of the Week on Monday. She hit .444 (12-for-27) with 12 runs scored, 14 RBI, two doubles and six home runs last week. She has 12 homers on the season, which is tied for the most in a season in school history. Kaelynn Armenta leads the Seahawks pitching staff in ERA (2.22), wins (7) and complete games (15). In 132.2 innings, she has 79 strikeouts.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity
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Making the Grade | Maple Sugar Production and Recipes
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On a mild Sunday afternoon in March, the air outside Ben’s Sugar Shack in Temple, New Hampshire, carries the late-winter fragrance of burning wood and wet earth. Visitors arrive by car, glancing around at the lean Granite State landscape. Once they head inside the weathered pine building, though, the air is so humid it’s almost tropical–steamy and dense with the scent of browned sugar.
There’s no mistaking sugar season in New England. It’s winter’s last great hurrah, spring’s first greeting. As soon as the days hit 40 degrees while the nights still dip below freezing, the bare sugar maples come to life. This species, distinguished by the relatively high sucrose level of its sap, even has “sugar” in its botanical name, Acer saccharum. The freeze/thaw/freeze temperature cycle of late winter causes that watery sap to flow, creating pressure within the tree. When someone bores into the bark, the sap runs out. With buckets and tubing, wood fires and state-of-the-art equipment, maple producers around New England are in a mad dash to boil off as much sap as the season will allow, producing our own kind of liquid gold.
At its core, the process is quite simple: reducing the sap by evaporation and caramelizing the sugar. But those classic metal sap buckets are almost a thing of the past. Many of today’s producers tap their trees with brightly colored poly plastic tubing that crisscrosses the bush, using vacuum pumps to draw the sap down to holding tanks. Then reverse osmosis removes about 70 percent of the water from the sap before it ever sees an evaporating pan, cutting back on fuel costs and reducing the carbon footprint of each shack. It’s not as picturesque as the old way, but the increased efficiency has given this flannel-and-workboots industry a boost. In 2011, New Hampshire’s production reached an all-time high of 125,000 gallons, and while favorable weather was the biggest factor in that record yield, technology let producers make syrup more efficiently and affordably.
“A lot of [the ingenuity comes from] sugarmen playing around in the backyard to find something that works,” says Ben Fisk, 24, who’s been making syrup for 19 years–since he was a kid–and is himself a fifth-generation sugarman. When Fisk’s grandparents tapped the maples, they mostly used metal buckets to catch the sap. Ben has always used tubing for the most part–about 90 percent of the maple syrup produced in New Hampshire is collected this way–and even that newer technology has improved in the last few years. Fisk now knows the ideal number of trees to pair with each line (two or three) for maximum output, and he has access to smaller “micro-spouts” that are gentler to the bark and let the tree heal faster at the end of the season.
He, too, uses reverse osmosis to squeeze water out of his sap, bringing the sugar content from 2 percent to 10 percent before it ever sees the evaporator. That way, Fisk needs just 12 gallons of reduced sap to create a gallon of syrup, compared with the 43 gallons required using the old methods. That means less time in the evaporator and less fuel burned.
But it’s not all about innovation and technology. The best sugar makers know how to read their woods and the lay of the land. They can tell by sight and smell when the sap is just right. For Fisk, maple culture was always all around. On a kindergarten field trip, he fell in love with “sugar on snow.” By his sixth birthday, his father had built a makeshift evaporator so that his son could stoke a little fire to boil his own. “He was pretty determined, sitting by that barrel,” recalls Wendell Fisk. At 14, Ben and his dad constructed a larger shack, which now holds his 4-by-12-foot wood-fueled evaporator. On a good day he can produce 600 gallons of syrup.
But in the end, Fisk knows that the best reverse-osmosis machine and the largest evaporator can’t trump unpredictable weather. Last year, a mild spring caused a short sugaring season, cutting production nearly in half. And global warming threatens the very existence of New England’s sugarbush landscape; warmer temperatures could push the maple forest farther north into Quebec, which already accounts for about 80 percent of the world’s maple-syrup supply.
But when asked about last year’s anemic season, Fisk shrugs, unruffled. “It’s all about Mother Nature,” he says, firm in his faith that cycles come and go. There’s always next spring. Meanwhile, enjoy these recipes for maple-rich meals from dawn till dusk, breakfast through dessert.
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Some Scout volunteers make the last point of the Scout Law their first priority.
The four individuals who received the 2017 National Duty to God Award are perfect examples.
The National Duty to God Award, first presented in 2016, recognizes adults who help young people better connect with their faith. In short, these Scouters make it easier and more fulfilling for a Scout to be reverent.
I blogged about the National Duty to God Award in February when the BSA’s National Religious Relationships Support Committee was looking for nominations. The committee received nearly 20 nominations, each describing the work of a deserving Scouting volunteer who has served for 10 years or more.
The award can be presented to up to four individuals per year. Here are the 2017 recipients.
Ronald L. Adolphi, Ph.D
Dr. Adolphi’s unwavering dedication to faith and Scouting has enriched the lives of thousands of Scouts and Scouters for many years. He continues to make a difference in the lives of others, setting the example and remaining loyal and committed to God through his church, community and numerous youth and civic organizations.
- Founding member of the National Lutheran Association on Scouting in 1980 and served as its first president.
- Appointed by the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) to serve on the President’s Task Force on Scouting.
- Received the Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver, and Silver Antelope awards.
- Bestowed Syracuse University’s Leonard F. Keenan Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to Young People.
The Rev. Robert J. Thornton
The Rev. Thornton’s life and ministry has been devoted to building positive relationships between individuals and groups in communities where he has served as pastor. His exemplary service and leadership has transcended race, ethnicities, genders and religious affiliation. He stands as a reminder and inspiration that, as Scouts, we are all God’s creatures united in one brotherhood to seek a worthy, purposeful life.
- Served for three decades as the director of Scout ministries for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
- Served as the interfaith chairman for two councils and has been a religious instructor at the Philmont Scout Ranch.
- Has been the church’s primary representative to several other youth agencies, including the Girl Scouts, Campfire Boys and Girls, 4-H Clubs and American Heritage Girls.
- Served as the national endorsing agent for all Disciples of Christ chaplains in Scouting, as well led the religious awards program for over 25 years.
- Received the Silver Beaver Award, the Christian Church God and Service Award, the Roman Catholic Bronze Pelican Award, and the Jewish Shofar Award.
Syed E. Naqvi
Naqvi has been passionately involved with Scouting since joining the BSA in 1979. He places a strong emphasis on community service, tolerance and world friendship. He inspires a spirit of sturdiness, self-reliance and the need for cooperation among all people.
- Established the National Islamic Committee on Scouting in 1980, as well the religious awards for youth and adults, bridging the gap between the program and the Muslim community.
- Has significantly grown the number of Scouts and units at mosques and Islamic community centers for the Monmouth Council in New Jersey.
- Serves as chairman of the National Islamic Committee and has been the Islamic chaplain at six National Scout Jamborees.
- Received the Silver Beaver Award, Greater New York Youth Council’s Professional Excellence Award, the Silver Medal Award bestowed at the World Jamboree in 2015 and the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award from the Asian American Outreach organization.
- Co-founder of the World Islamic Movement of Islamic Scouting and, in 2016, founded the first Islamic National Scout Jamboree, serving as its Deputy Jamboree Chief.
The Rev. Donald K. Hummel
The Rev. Donald Hummel is a faithful servant to God and Scouting. He has been the heartbeat of the Northern New Jersey Council for almost 60 years. His long and distinguished career as a servant of God and numerous service and leadership honors and recognitions have demonstrated his passion for faith, community, education, and outreach to youth since 1964.
- Assisted the Philmont Scout Ranch as chaplain every summer since 1992, as well serving as chaplain at many National and World Jamborees.
- Recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Buffalo, Silver Antelope, Silver Beaver, Silver Sage, and Bronze Pelican awards.
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Bullet trains, bulldozers, jackhammers, and forklifts have all augmented our capacity to accomplish once-impossible actions. Machines like these take the brunt of much physical grunt work in society, but they can’t relieve us of any of the cognitive tasks the way an intelligent entity could. Mechanical devices give us artificial strength and artificial speed, but they don’t understand what needs to be done and can’t make decisions for us about what to do next.
For enhanced information processing and data-based decision making, we need artificial intelligence. Something that is artificially intelligent can assess data and make decisions on our behalf, without constant human intervention and with minimal supervision.
Computerized algorithms can do things no human could ever even attempt without AI. Big-data is so big these days that flash-speed computations are required to make sense of information and process it to determine the best next action to take.
Intelligence means making decisions, and as time goes on and further advances and breakthroughs occur, computers will be able to make better and better decisions when it comes to the choices we ask them to make.
Inbound Marketers and Artificial Intelligence Marketing
Inbound methodology focuses on how to attract new customers by targeting their needs and personalizing their shopping experience. Artificial intelligence marketing harnesses powerful data-science computational power capable of assessing incalculable data points to decide among multiple options to determine the optimal courses of action.
Artificial Intelligence Marketing has already brought revolutionary innovations, but the change we’ve seen in just the last decade is only the beginning of a complete paradigm shift in the buyer experience and the way customers find and interact with your business.
What many consumers haven’t realized is the extent to which AI has altered the landscape of digital marketing already.
63% of consumers aren’t even aware that AI marketing is being implemented right in front of them (source)
but when they’re aware of it, people are generally comfortable interacting with and even buying from a personalized customer service chatbot. This is good news for companies aiming to scale their business without having to incur massive personnel expenditures.
Artificial Intelligence Acts Natural
Inbound marketing is subject to advances and innovations only made possible since the rise of AI. Most new customers today start with a search of the web. The new customers you attract will often begin their buyer's journey by asking a question out loud, either into their phone or at one of those increasingly common home-assistant devices like Alexa or Google Home.
Natural language processing (NLP) is the AI technology that allows computers to listen to human vocal activity, analyze and decipher it, apply the query and select the best response based on the available dataset. AI has made it possible for humans to use natural language to verbally interact with their devices, significantly broadening the popular adoption of such technologies that help funnel new customers into your business.
These Robots are Flipping the Script!
Believe it or not, AI software is already writing content all by itself. Most of the news articles you see today that are about things like earnings reports and sports statistics were written by automated algorithms. Artificial intelligence uses a technology called natural language generation (NLG) that deals with generating natural sounding language intended to replicate that of human authors.
It’s been predicted that by this time next year, one fifth of all content published online by companies and businesses will be generated entirely automatically by artificially intelligent writing software.
Companies like Acrolinx, Automated Insights, and HubSpot are all wagering on AI’s capability to automatically dole out compelling and effective content that reads as though it were composed by the human hand.
Machine of Many Talents (AI is no one-trick-pony)
Another powerful ability AI provides us with is propensity modeling. Propensity modeling is a kind of predictive analysis which is the ability of a computer to take in huge sets of data about consumers and prospective clients and customers and sort through the vast quantities of data to produce a usable model of who is likely to purchase what.
Crunching all this data makes more sense than relying on human guesswork when time could be put to better use. Predictive analysis uses machine learning to predict a wide variety of possible outcomes by combining customer data with statistical algorithms. With this tool, marketers are provided valuable insights about customer behavior and market trends, in other words iNBOUND iNTELLIGENCE.
Ad targeting is something else AI is exceptionally good at. Optimizing and displaying ads is one of the most critical processes to attract and convert buyers, so it only makes sense to use machine-learning technology to take advantage of its ability to make assessments with an extremely high degree of accuracy about what ads to show to who, and when. Even more effective is the power of retargeting to consumers who have begun the buying process but have not yet converted into a customer.
Computers excel at deciding which content is most likely to re-engage the attention of a consumer to generate a viable lead.
Insightful topic ideas can be auto-generated using cues from trending searches and other data points, resulting in incredibly intuitive topic development, and content can be automatically processed by combining specifics on the topic with a grammatical rules database synergized by personalization fed to the AI from the buyer personas your inbound marketing team has developed.
Behavioral marketing would be impossible without the decision making supplied by AI’s algorithms, and their unlimited ability to scale with the growth of your business. The advanced technology that allows for personally tailoring the experience of every one of your potential customers even before they know about you would look like magic to an earlier generation, but this technology is only going to become more advanced and the powerful profit potential of being on the forefront of utilizing these advances in artificial intelligence marketing, or AIM, ought to entice any business owner or CEO to carefully consider the long view.
They’re Takin’ Our Jobs!
The potential for AI to automate tasks dramatically reduces the amount of time marketers spend on repetitive tasks, which helps them focus more on their big-picture marketing strategy. Yes, as with chess and Jeopardy, computers can do it better.
Computers aren’t making human marketers obsolete, but their roles are gradually being redefined. Take the common example of GPS navigation. The driver has outsourced the cognitive task of navigating the streets and choosing between possible routes, saving a significant amount of mental effort. The driver is still essential to making it to the destination, but with the intelligent GPS unit now making decisions on directions, the driver has the extra brain-space to think about more abstract topics.
Sure, computers can do some things better, faster, and cheaper than we can, and even some things we can’t do at all, but there will always be those tasks and activities that only we humans can engage in. As the rise of AI continues, we become free to allocate our time and attention to the more human aspects of marketing.
The Future of AI and Inbound Marketing (the beginning of a beautiful friendship)
We expect that there will be a ten-fold expansion of marketing technology over the next 10 years. In fact, according to MIT Sloan Management Review, over 80% of executives surveyed are “eyeing the peaks,” viewing AI as a strategic opportunity for their company. It makes perfect sense, since digital marketers are limited by their humanity in their ability to conceptualize, produce, and roll out inbound marketing campaigns with minimal cost and maximum efficiency.
It’s important that you understand just how fast all this is happening. AI companies specializing in the development of programs to help marketers are among the best-funded. The artificial intelligence industry has made research and development of machine learning algorithms for the marketing industry a high priority, and businesses who adopt these technologies will have a salient edge over their competitors in the marketplace.
What is AI’s future in marketing?
What might the future hold for digital marketers utilizing advanced artificial intelligence-based data-driven content development and cutting-edge sales strategies?
If the rise of AI is the development and proliferation of the automobile, the breakthroughs in data-driven marketing capabilities we’ve already seen are just the Model T, not the F150.
Inbound marketing with artificial intelligence is bound to evolve toward being a profession of data curation, managing and optimizing the information being supplied to data-driven marketing algorithms. AI’s output is largely dependent on the input it receives. We rely on it to process and analyze the big data coming our way, but it falls upon ourselves to become deliberate and meticulous curators of the data going in.
Data needs to be kept up-to-date and be collected in real-time for an inbound marketing strategy to realize its full potential. The more accurate your data is, the more profitable your marketing campaign will be. Accumulating historical data as time goes on will lead to deeper insights, and future innovations will produce improved tactics and strategies for attracting, converting, closing, and delighting your customers.
The predictive analysis that AI supplies is increasingly crucial in an ever-competitive global marketplace. Large-scale inbound marketing campaigns wouldn’t be possible without artificial intelligence helping us do our jobs faster, and better. And since everything boils down to ROI when considering marketing expenditures, investing robustly in artificial intelligence proves to be the naturally smart choice.
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Ahh, the clean air, expansive views, and room to run wild and play—the great outdoors has always held great appeal for most, especially during the warm summer months. However, increasingly Americans are craving indoor amenities when spending time outside.
A recent trend report from the American Home Furnishing Alliance notes that 70% of people agree that they prefer spending time in their outdoor living space rather than inside. Furthermore, the activities they want to enjoy in their “outdoor rooms” are pretty much the same as those they would partake in indoors—watching TV, exercising, relaxing with friends and family, cooking and of course, eating. According to Jackie Hirschhaut, vice president of the American Home Furnishings Alliance and executive director of its outdoor division, the International Casual Furnishings Association:
“Whether enclosed or open-air, outdoor spaces have come into their own as legitimate rooms in the American home. Today’s outdoor rooms have it all – somewhere to dine, to relax and be entertained, with furnishings that function like they would for any room in the home, and with style and flair that distinctly says out-of-doors.”
The research findings also showed that 68% of people use their outdoor space several times a week in seasonal weather. And when asked what would encourage them to spend more time outdoors, the top answer was comfort, followed by spaciousness, and style.
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Aaaargh! I'm totally kicking myself right now!!! After all the effort and time Annie and the VVP gang has put into coordinating The Virtual Vegan Potluck, I totally screwed up and got my date wrong. I forgot that the post had to go live this morning at 9:31 a.m. my time and kept thinking it has to go up tomorrow. Now I see all these VVP post links being shared online and I'm feeling so guilty!
Thankfully, I have my recipe created and pictures clicked already, so even though my post is going up at the wrong time, I'm hoping it's not too terribly late since it's still early in the potluck day for most people.
This the the 3rd time I'm participating in the VVP. My first two posts were Hot Spiced Cashew-Sesame Mylk Chai and Rice Mylk Majjige. They were both beverages and this one is too. I believe beverages will be my forever VVP tradition. That is, if I don't get banned from participating in the next round. :P
Seriously, I'm really really sorry Annie. :(
Ok, without further delay, here goes my recipe for Tropical Garnet Cocktail or Mocktail
The only difference between the Cocktail and Mocktail is the booze. One has the awesomeness of Coconut Malibu in it and the other just skips it (but is awesome nonetheless).
For the Tropical Garnet Base Mix:
2 Beets - scrubbed well and washed
1 C Coconut Mylk
1 C Seltzer Water (Plain Drinking Soda)
* Cut off both the ends of the beets but don't peel them
* Chop them up roughly and grind in a blender jar until they're as fine as possible
* Add coconut mylk and blend well
* Add seltzer and pulse a few times to let the coconut and beet flavours get infused into each other
* Transfer to an airtight jar and store in the fridge
For the Cocktail/Mocktail:
Garnet Base Mix
Coconut Malibu (only for cocktail)
Seltzer Water
* Put a few spoonfuls of the garnet base mix in a glass
* Add a splash of the Coconut Malibu (if using)
* Pour seltzer water over everything
* Enjoy your fizzy cocktail/mocktail! :)
The VVP is an event where various blogs from the world participate and share a recipe at the same time. Each blog is linked to the next to form a circle, like a warm, delicious hug. :) You can find the whole list of participating blogs at the host site, Vegan Bloggers Unite.
The blog before mine shares a delicious beverage - Chocolate Protein Tonic from The Veggie Nook (do note that the honey mentioned in the recipe isn't vegan though)
The blog after mine shares a yummy bread - Garden Harvest Cornbread from Sift, Stir and Savour
Thanks for dropping by. Have a fun Virtual Vegan Potluck! :)
No worries, girl - - by the time I got here, everything was fine ;-).
Yowza! I want a cocktail now (and it's not even 10 in the morning here)! Beautiful!
Thank you so much for understanding, Annie!
Looks fabulous! Malibu and beets?!?!?!?! Heaven. Will need to have a party just to serve these.
Thanks! :) I've always loved beetroot and coconut together, so when I was deciding on which alcoholic drink I need to put into this cocktail, I just knew it had to be Malibu! :D
Fabulous colour! What a jewel of a beverage - and it's with a beet! Can't wait for a warmer day to try it! :)
Thanks. :) It's one of my favourite gemstone colours. :)
Warmer day, yeah! It's gotten so freaking cold suddenly, no?!
The VVP is such a great idea! :)
It totally is! :) You should join in next time. It'll be fun.
That looks delicious! And super fizzy, too. :)
Thanks. Yeah that fizz makes a really pretty picture. :)
I am screwup too ;) and that is why you are friend!!! I rushed to put up my post 9 hours early. AArgh.
Beautiful mocktail. I have to refrain from the other.
Haha if it had to be a screw up, early is better than late, Geegers. :)
Beautiful, Susmitha! Love the idea of coconut-creamy beets!
Thanks Kelli. :)
That looks so good! Love the fizz!! And you can never go wrong with Malibu :)
Malibu totally rocks! :D
Glad you made it! What a gorgeous cocktail!
Thanks Poppy. :)
Beautiful! I'll take the mocktail with Gigi! xx
Cheers! :D
Lovely recipe! You gave me a bit of a scare when I couldn't find your post - but I went to bed hoping that it would be up in the morning and sure enough it was :) Glad you made it to the party!
Thanks Keely. :) I had quite a scare myself too when I saw all those posts were up and mine wasn't. Almost 12 hours late!!! Thankfully I was able to publish the post before many people had woken up. :)
Lovely! I think I would have to go for the cocktail recipe :) You gave me a bit of a scare when I couldn't find your post, but I decided to just go to bed and hope that it would be up when I awoke - and it was, so no worries! Glad you could make it! :)
So good! This is so pretty and feels like a way to dress up Malibu with some healthy ingredients (and I know my girlfriends will be happy to find healthy "excuses" for great cocktails). Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks. Yeah it's a great excuse to get drunk! :D
oh my.. who would have thought of a cocktail with beets.. can I call it healhty? Loving it
Roshni, haha sure! Call it healthy and then *glug glug hic* :P
Oh hey potluck neighbour :) YUM! What an amazing cocktail! This is amazing because I can have a drink after a long day but still feel healthy- perfect!
Thank you potluck neighbour! :) Nice way to trick ourselves, huh?
i love that you made a cocktail and that too with beets! such a pretty color!
Thanks girl! :)
Oh man, I haven't had Malibu in years! Sounds like an awesome combo.
No Malibu in years?! You have got to rectify that asap, lady! :D
Ahh I had some posting issues too! I had Wordpress scheduled to post at what I thought was the correct time but for whatever reason, after quadruple checking, somehow it still failed...?! I guess it was bound to happen to a few of us! I'll take my drink with the Malibu please ;)
It makes me feel so much better each time someone says they messed up with the posting time too. Here's a Malibu-licious drink on the house, just for that! :D
so yummy! I love the colour. Very creative way to use beets!
Thanks Trish. Beets are the most beautiful vegetable! :)
You’re not the only one. My Pin It plug-in affected my buttons from going to direct links - so glad it got sorted in the early morning. Mmmmm that drink and the bubbly topping ;)
Oh phew! Good that it got sorted out early for you too. Come on over for a bubbly drink! :)
You’re not the only one. My Pin It plug-in affected my buttons from going to direct links - so glad it got sorted in the early morning. Mmmmm that drink and the bubbly topping ;) Love Malibu, too!
This is such a fun beverage! Beautiful, too. I like how you can make the base in advance and then just make drinks as friends show up. :)
Thanks Teresa. Yeah the base stays well in the fridge and it can even be poured into savoury dishes. :)
What a lovely drink!!! A great addition to the potluck!! Celeste :)
Thanks Celeste. :)
Beets and coconut? In a drink? Get out of town! Can't wait to try this one
Haha let me know how you like it, Jessica. :)
Aah I love this idea! Beets and coconut sounds like a winning boozy combo to meee!
Totally boozy. :D
Hey girl, just wanted to let you know that I included your recipe in the list of my favorites from this VVP! The post is here, if you want to see it:
Thank you for your recipe!
-Alina from Vegan Runner Eats
Thank you so much, Alina. :)
Beets just make everything such a gorgeous color, don't they? I love this, happy VVP!
Totally! I'm a huge fan of beet coloured anything! :)
I'll take mine with booze :) Love your combo!
Here you go...*hands boozy tropical garnet drink*. :)
Amazing color - looks delicious too!
Thanks Laura. :)
What a vibrant cocktail! It sounds super tasty, Susmitha!
Thanks Cadry. :)
Congratulations on winning best beverage at this potluck! :)
Thank you! :)
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Blogging Guide
Premium WordPress Themes vs. Free Themes
So, you’ve decided that you want to start blogging. You’ve registered a domain name, signed up for hosting, and picked out your niche. You may have also narrowed down the kind of blog theme that you would like to use, thanks to the previous article. Now, you are faced with another decision point.
When it comes to WordPress themes, they come in one of three types: free, premium, and custom themes. Which type of blog theme you ultimately use for your site will largely be dependent on your goals and on your budget. How much money are you willing to invest in your blog in its early days? Your ultimate goal should be to use a custom blog theme, but this may not be financially viable for many people who are new to blogging.
Starting Out with Free Themes
The appeal of free themes is obvious enough: they’re free. Any designer can submit their creations to the official Free Themes Directory on WordPress.org. There are over 1,000 different themes that are freely available for download through that official resource and they’re organized by a number of different criteria. You can search based on colors used, number of columns, included features, and other tags.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that many free WordPress themes do not offer any real support and their features may be lacking when compared to their paid counterparts. Because they are offered for free, it is also very possible that they could be buggy or otherwise result in errors. The coding may not be as “clean” and efficient as the paid professional themes. Further still, many free themes require you to include an attribution link to the theme’s creator, which can sometimes detract from the professional image you may be trying to build for your blog.
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One of the major advantages that you get from buying a good premium theme is that you are more likely to get a theme that has been coded properly and efficiently. Further still, it is generally easier to get in contact with the original developer if you have any suggestions or require any support.
These specialized premium themes oftentimes include more advanced design styles and more robust feature sets than their free counterparts. They may include a number of custom fonts, images, widgets, and other additional content that free themes typically do not include. Thesis Theme is a popular premium theme. It costs $87 for a personal license or $164 for a developer’s license.
Designing Original Custom Blog Themes
The absolute best option you can get is to hire a professional web designer to create a completely original and custom blog theme. This comes with several very important advantages. For starters, because it is a custom theme, your blog will look completely different from all the other blogs on the Internet. This is fantastic for branding and for getting more attention. You don’t want to be blend into the crowd.
Instead of shopping around for themes that can satisfy everything on your desired list of features, you can tell your hired designer everything that you need and he or she can custom code the WordPress theme to your exact specifications. It’s important to hire a good designer and coder that you can trust, of course, but this increased personalization and versatility can be greatly advantageous.
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The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 05.09.92
I was going to check out Worlds Collide, but sometimes you’re just in the mood for terrible 1992 wrestling instead, ya know?
Taped from Syracuse, NY
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Mr. Perfect. Man, the green screens are so much more obvious now than they were on our crappy CRTs.
Bret Hart v. Von Krus
Yes, it’s BIG VITO the dress-wearing goomba back in his days as a random jobber “from Germany”. Well he must be a big fan of Bret Hart, then. Bret quickly gets the legsweep and Sharpshooter at 1:10 while Shawn Michaels does a drop-in interview, building up a feud that sadly we never got a blowoff for. I still wonder what might have happened had those two clashed for the Intercontinental title. But, sadly we’ll never know. Might have been good. Seems like they’d have some chemistry.
UPDATE! WITH GENE OKERLUND!
Let us take you back to Prime Time Wrestling, as British Bulldog faces Repo Man and suffers a hanging with the rope. And then to really drive home the heat, Bulldog cuts a promo where he makes a bunch of puns about “wearing a leash” and “never being tied down”. Way to draw the money, Davey.
Kamala v. Sonny Blaze
Finkel’s disgusted introduction of “Dr. Harvey Wippleman” cracks me up every time. So yeah, Sid is gone and Kamala gets a job again as a result. I think it’s hilarious that Kamala has now been a wrestler in the WWF since 1985, in canon, and yet he’s still portrayed as a savage who doesn’t understand the basic rules of the sport. Chops and big fat splash finish at 0:48, and OH YEAH, he’s too stupid to understand that you need to have the guy on his back to pin him. Damn savages.
El Matador v. Bob Bradley
Something was cut out here, as they cut immediately from the Kamala match to this one, with commentary missing until Perfect suddenly cuts in talking about the Bossman and his issues with the mysterious Convict. So the poor guy has served his time for the parking ticket, and now he not only has to wear his prison jumpsuit in his day-to-day job, but is just called The Convict? No wonder recidivisms are such a problem. Using the Mother’s Day theme of the show as an example, what if your mom got arrested for walking the street and served her time, but then had to walk around with a nametag that said “Crack smoking hooker”? I bet YOU wouldn’t like it, either. Think about it. Tito works a headlock on Bradley, and then hits a kneelift to set up Pace with Extra Picante at 1:34.
Meanwhile, in the Event Center, we get a promo from High Energy…
Can YOU even believe that anyone would accuse Koko B. Ware of drug abuse in the 80s? I’m astonished.
The Legion of Doom v. jobbers
Totally can’t hear the names over the LOD’s music. Perfect makes a joke about stuffed LOD toys in the audience and how the LOD are “dummies” and Vince thinks that no one would ever associate them with that term. Oh, just wait. Meanwhile in the inset promo, the Beverlies continue trying to get this “Legion of Sissies” thing over and fail miserably. Doomsday Device finishes the geek in the green and purple tights at 1:20.
Money Inc. has words for the Natural Disasters, and as always IRS keeps going to the “tax cheats” well because that’s the only damn insult he knows. You know, he could always demand an audit of Earthquake for working in the US without filling out the right forms or something. Use your imagination!
Crush v. Kato
Crush overpowers him to start and no-sells some chops, then hits him with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and press slam, before finishing with a spinebuster at 1:50. Still working out the kinks, I see. I mean, his whole DEAL is that he crushes things, and no one thought to give him, I dunno, A FUCKING BEARHUG? Actually, on second thought, that wouldn’t work, because you can’t compact a Diamond any further.
Meanwhile, Papa Shango is all up in Warrior’s juju with his freaky voodoo and burning his pictures and shit.
…
Hold on, Shango is going on about raising the dead, and Warrior died between Summerslam 91 and his return at Wrestlemania 8, right? THAT’S HOW HE CAME BACK! And why he looked so different! Papa Shango brought him back from the dead and then was able to control him with his voodoo magic and make him vomit black stuff. Probably planted those drugs on him, too. Goddamn voodoo.
Rick Martel has words with Mean Gene, and his accent is getting more OUTRAGEOUS and FRENCH by the day, as he’s pretty happy about blinding Tatanka and thinks they should call him “Whining Arrow” after last week. Man’s not wrong.
Ric Flair v. Sgt. Slaughter
Slaughter quickly gets a press slam and Flair begs off while the Mountie joins us at ringside while Jimmy delivers what appears to be a large sex toy to him. Oh man, this is gonna go REALLY bad for someone. Flair whips Slaughter into the corner and he takes a bump over the top as usual and hurts his back, which allows Flair to take over in the ring. Slaughter comes back and slugs away before they manage to somehow fuck up a backdrop. What were they even TRYING for there? I mean, a backdrop, I know, but geez, both guys were moving in different directions. Flair bails and Sarge suplexes him back in and then tosses him while Mountie revs up his giant electric dildo. I can almost hear Vince in my head declaring “Dear lord, HE’S LITERALLY GOING TO FUCK HIM UP THE ASS WITH IT! HIS RECTUM WILL BE DESTROYED!” And then Bobby Heenan would be like “Rectum? Hardly knew ‘em!” Anyway, Flair then tries something I’m assuming was supposed to be a slingshot or catapult, but Sarge fails to actually, you know, take the bump, and kind of falls back instead, forcing Flair to pretend it’s a sunset flip gone wrong and then maybe a Boston Crab? Anyone buying that?
Seriously, what the fuck happened there? Did they both forget the basic laws of physics mid-move and then freak out? Regardless, the ref is distracted, probably with laughter, and Mountie slips in with the ELECTRIC DILDO OF DOOM and puts Sarge’s lights out for the pin at 6:30. Hell of a way to build up Flair for rematches with Savage right there. Clearly Savage’s strategy should be trying to lure Flair into trying a catapult on him and then falling on top for the pin when Flair forgets how to do the move.
The Nasty Boys v. Brian Brieger & Bill Pierce
The Nasties drop elbows on Brieger while Perfect denies having any knowledge of Mountie’s nefarious plan. Sags with a pumphandle slam and it’s over to Bill Pierce while Perfect makes lame “shocking” jokes about Slaughter. That’s weak sauce. If it was me, I’d say “They’ll be calling him Sgt. Slobber because he’s drooling in the back!” Anyway, the Shitty Elbow finishes at 2:24.
NEXT WEEK: Ultimate Warrior faces one of the Nasty Boys! Hopefully nothing bad and embarrassing to all wrestling fans happens to him in the process!
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The rain from hurricane Florence reached us (and sank us!) this morning while we were harvesting for Saturday’s Moon Over Drumlin—our annual farm-to-table fundraiser gala where various local chefs prepare delectable plates using our produce, eggs, and meat. If you’re planning to attend the event, get ready to be wowed by the flavors and the spectacle! The Crops team is especially excited that volunteer Anne Patterson will be receiving the Jonathan Leavy Award in recognition of her outstanding volunteer work in the fields and in the greenhouse over the years. It’s difficult to measure or put into words all that Anne has given to Drumlin—she’s part of the team, and she stands alone doing her own thing year-round, in all weather, bringing others here, teaching and delighting them with stories and brain-melting explanations of “simple” mathematical concepts. Over time, Anne has taught me to introduce her to others not as a “retired mathematician,” but as the voluntary farmer she most certainly is. Thank you, Anne.
Even though we’re continuing to pick tomatoes and beans, this past week we finally began the fall harvest thanks to three volunteer groups. On Tuesday, volunteers from the publisher Elsevier (who, Anne informed them, published her mother’s book on math!) harvested ornamental gourds. We sold some of those gourds this past Saturday here at the farm during the Fall Harvest Celebration and also at market.
Gourds for sale at the market.
Thanks Elsevier, and thanks to volunteers Susan Vecchi and Meg Ashforth, who staffed the Pick-Your-Own tent during the harvest celebration and helped visitors pick cherry tomatoes and flowers. This past Thursday morning, focused freshmen from Lexington Christian Academy weeded celeriac and rhubarb before crating up tons of winter squash.
Volunteers unloading gourds
A special thanks to the Lexington chaperones, who, for the second year in a row, worked hard and helped us load all those heavy crates onto the trucks. On Thursday afternoon, half the coders from NetApp harvested string beans for market, while the other half clipped and crated butternut squash. All but two of the NetApp volunteers had volunteered with us the previous year. They were so happy to be back that they stayed late to unload the squash into the greenhouse. Thanks to all those who helped with the fall harvest this past week! We have more winter squash to harvest before we begin work on the pumpkin patch, and then sweet potatoes are next on our list. Lots to do before the first frost!
To register for our Fall CSA, please contact our CSA Coordintor at [email protected] or 781-259-2200.
See you in the field.
Your Farmers
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As the Fargo-Moorhead community faces its third major flood in a row, researchers are studying how people there cope so well with repeated disasters.
Local researchers are teaming up with the Terrorism and Disaster Center at the University of Oklahoma to study community resilience.
Fargo psychologist Kit O’ Neill is one of the researchers. She’s part of a local group called Red River Resilience that formed after the record 2009 flood. She said national disaster organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross have noticed how well Fargo-Moorhead residents bounce back from disasters. They’re interested in learning more about why some communities are more resilient after disasters.
“We’re hoping we can not only advance the science but be in the forefront of developing resilience as a model community for the United States,” O’Neill said.
The study will start in the next week or two as researchers identify 1,000 flood volunteers who will fill out a detailed survey.
The plan is to have those same people fill out another survey after this years flood.
“That would definitely contribute an important aspect to the literature to date,” O’Neill said. “Not many communities have an opportunity to do a before and after look at community resilience.”
The science of community resilience is relatively new.
Researchers think strong community involvement, strong civic leadership, good communication and social support networks are key factors in how a community responds to disaster.
While the survey will follow 1,000 Fargo-Moorhead residents, O’Neill said other researchers are examining civic leadership and communication during the flood. It will take about a year to gather and analyze the data.
“We can’t assume what makes one community resilient is exactly the same as another community but we do believe there are common factors that will operate across the continuum and those are the factors we’re trying to identify,” she said.
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Upstream Traffic Towards Paris – Confusing Directions In French Posted by John Bauer on Aug 23, 2019 in Uncategorized
Learning le français is all about making mistakes and being at a loss for words when there’s something important to say. That can lead to some embarrassing moments, but a few uncomfortable seconds is the price to pay for free French lessons.
Being a non-native francophone (French speaker), I often hear a new word before I know how to write it or what it means. Bien sûr (of course), I have a vague idea of how to use it, but I would never be able to clearly define or spell it.
A few years ago on this blog, I told a story about hearing a word without seeing it and the confusion it can cause with Dansequâ:
French Vocabulary: Dansequâ
I was reminded of a similar lesson when a pair of relatively common mots français (French words) recently came up. I had learned and generally understood them, but would never be able to correctly define them:
En amont – Upstream
En aval – Downstream
After mixing the two words up a few too many times, I finally looked them up, but their definitions never really felt complete. I knew en amont et en aval were used well outside of the context of le flux d’une rivière (the flow of a river).
I was reminded of that confusion one morning while listening to la radio when a traffic report came on. While describing an accident on a major highway, l’animateur (the host) specified in which direction traffic was backed up:
Un bouchon s’est constitué en amont de Paris.
A traffic jam built up upstream of Paris.
For the life of me I couldn’t figure out which direction that meant and muttered to myself:
Ça veut dire vers où exactement ?!
That means towards where exatly?!
So I decided to clear things up once and for all. It was time to really learn all there is to know about the tricky pair that is en amont et en aval.
En amont does mean upstream, but how it’s used in everyday life is more complicated. Le mot français has taken on a metaphorical sense that doesn’t exist in English. En amont outside of les cours d’eau (waterways) can mean before or in advance.
En amont – Before, in advance
That means en français you can prepare for something en amont or work on a project en amont. La métaphore (the metaphor) can be extended to general directions, meaning being stuck somewhere en amont de a location that’s not connected to the flow of a river!
En amont de – Behind
Pour un anglophone (for an English speaker) like myself, it took a stretch of the imagination to understand how upstream from the source of a river could mean behind. The lack of an equivalent English expression made wrapping my head around the idea extremely difficult.
With a little patience it started to make sense and I could see how the relative nature of moving towards the source can mean somewhere before the origin. After realizing that, the early morning traffic report started to make more sense:
Un bouchon s’est constitué en amont de Paris.
A traffic jam built up in the direction of Paris.
En aval works in much the same way with the literal definition being downstream, but having taken on a broader metaphorical sense of after. In my personal experience I’ve noticed the more abstract use of en aval (after) is more common for projects and refers to things that can be done after a project is completed.
While it might seem odd to be familiar with a word without being able to know how a concise definition. In writing cet article (this article), I experienced the very same thing with un mot anglais (an English word)!
While trying to figure out how une rivière flows and which direction exactly is upstream and downstream, I saw that the mouth of a river is called l’embouchure.
Une embouchure – A mouth of a river
That may not jump out to every reader, but as someone who played a wind instrument, I can clearly remember le prof (the teacher) saying how important it is to maintain your embouchure when blowing into the instrument.
I never knew how to spell the musical word and never thought that it was actually un mot français (a French word)!
Learning from context is a great way to pick up vocabulary and is the best way to keep conversations flowing like a river. Cependant (however), sometimes nothing beats taking the time to look things up and figuring out exactly what a new word means.
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Feelings after parting ways.
By YourTango
I took the kids and left but when I left the last thing on my mind was another woman coming into the picture. Well low and behold maybe 3 weeks after I left that was the case, and he has been with this woman for 5 yrs now. I also found out just this year that he was seeing her during our marriage. During the marriage I had gained ALOT of weight and because of the stress of us parting ways hit me like a ton of bricks I lost all the weight, I just could not eat! It took a some time for me to except the fact that he had moved on and was with someone else, I was shocked and could not understand how someone could bounce as quickly as he did! After the parting of ways we did not speak to each other ( me because I was bitter) and I don't know why he could not or would not talk to me if needed, because we do have children together. OKAY getting to my question.. Just this past summer I had a close relative pass away and me and my children attended the funeral ( in another town) HE WAS THERE ! He had not spoke to or seen this relative in maybe 10-12 yrs, and he was there! And I also found out ( from our son) that he was watching my house one night just to see if I was seeing someone, (mind you he is in a relationship) .
Well since the funeral we speak when we see each other , but at my sons basketball game he told me that he thinks about me everyday, I did not ask he just volunteered the info! Honestly I know I will always love him and I have in no way made any advances toward him ( being very careful) ! He still lives with the woman, and here is the BING BANG after 5yrs we are still legally married. I cant afford a divorce and he can, and I also expected him to divorce me because after all he is in a relationship. I've tried dating and they have all been disasters and I have 3 kids ( one graduating from High School this year ) and right now dating has been put on the back burner.'ve been out of the dating scene for over a year now, but the last thing i expected was this. As much as I pray for them to go away there are still some feelings there, and now that we are finally speaking to one another and he tells me things that I've been wondering about for a while now.. Can someone explain to me how to cope with this how do I respond?
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Shannon Ball graduated from LTS in 2014 with a focus on teaching English. Her MA Project was titled Teaching Adult Community ESL through Children’s Literature and she now works full time at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Shannon is an example of someone whose MA Project focus led her directly to a position that allows her to apply what she learned and created.
Where are you working now and what are you teaching?
I work at Lane Community College as an ESL instructor, an ESL Student Services Specialist, and an ESL Assessment Specialist. I love doing all of these jobs, because I get to know ALL of the students in the program, and not just the ones in my classes. I usually teach the low-beginning levels, but am currently teaching Writing and Grammar C, which is the third level of six in our Main Campus IEP. I love every minute of it!
What do you like best about what you do?
Just one thing?! I could really go on and on about what I like best about this job. The reason I got into this work in the first place was that I have a strong desire to contribute meaningfully to my community. The people who come through our program are active members of our community, and the benefits of their enrollment in our program are innumerable. When our students learn, they help other similar members of the community (their friends and family) by teaching them what they have learned and by encouraging them to come to the program as well. They get better jobs, which helps their families and the economy. They are able to participate more fully in the English-based education of their children by communicating better with teachers and engaging and helping with their school work. The effects go on and on. Another thing that I love about teaching to this community is that they come in highly motivated. They are so eager to learn, and to share what they already know with each other. I also love watching the relationships that my students develop. I had a couple of students last year who were different in every way: age (one was 21 and the other 63), culture, country of origin, L1, etc. But they sat together and helped each other in class, studied together after class, and spent time together on weekends, and the most amazing thing is knowing they are using English the whole time because it is their only common language. It’s a truly authentic application of the things they learn in the program, and it motivates them to learn even more!
What is something you learned while in LTS that you use in your teaching (or life) now?
I think the most valuable thing I learned and honed in the program was to connect every aspect of your lessons to a common purpose or objective. Always asking, and encouraging your students to ask, why you are doing a certain activity promotes active learning. Class time seems so limited that you need to plan well and make the most of every minute!
Looking back, what advice would you give to current or future LTS students?
Take every opportunity you possibly can to volunteer, intern, or do a graduate teaching fellowship while you are in school. I know grad school is a very busy time, but this can both valuably inform your coursework and provide authentic hands-on experience. A lot of US schools tend to require a minimum of two years of classroom teaching experience, so it is also good for your resume! My other piece of advice is to make the program work for you. LTS is such a flexible program and really allows for creativity and encourages innovation. If you have an idea, go for it!
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Kristen Wiig: Male Strippers Turned 'Bridesmaids' Cast Into BFFs
Being in a wedding party isn't easy, especially if you don't really know the other women in the group. So, Kristen Wiig decided to avoid that awkwardness before she and her cast mates began filming their hilarious flick, Bridesmaids. What's a girl to do when she's in need of some serious bonding time with other women? Why, head to a male strip club, of course! 'Bridesmaids' Stars Offer Advice To Real-Life Bridesmaids
"We did have an outing one night where (co-writer) Annie [Mumolo] and I rented a party bus and filled it with stuff and went to the male strip club and had a very long night and we all have been best friends ever since," Wiig told an audience at the New York Times' Arts & Leisure Weekend, reports The Huffington Post.
How exactly does a girls' night out like this bring a group of ladies closer together? It's all in the hilarious, unforgettable and over-the-top details, Wiig claims.
"It's funny. A male strip club is very different than a female strip club. It's guys, there's a voice over, like cowboy robber looking for a fire to warm his hands, and then he comes and warms his hands. It's like a show," Wiig said. "The girls, we're going crazy, we were screaming and laughing. We bought Rose (Byrne) a lap dance and we heard her talking about traffic, she was so uncomfortable." Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Bride: Hidden Perks Of Pink Taffeta
It turns out unusual and potentially embarrassing situations can help friendships thrive! And beyond that, the cast's crazy night out fueled not only their new bonds, but also the hilarious and awkward airplane scene in the movie.
We know what we're doing the next time we're part of a wedding party!
Do you think going to a strip club is a good way for women to bond?
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This means that Sony’s new drive is capable of backing up titles protected by SafeDisc 2, including version 2. Feedback If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Would you like to tell us about a lower price? We have a computer that is used only for testing hardware. At the time of this review, this is the only official firmware available for the WH10LS
Here is the info I upgraded to lion and still does not work ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. International Shipping This item is not eligible for hl-st-st shipping. How is it that the drive worked with windows 7 before and now it doesn’t show up at all on my computer? By looking at the KProbe screenshots, you can see that the discs burned by the drive had a low number of C1 errors.
I’ve had my computer in storage for 2 years because I was overseas. After you perform the methods suggested above, reply us with the hl-rt-st of the issue. You will also want to pay special attention to the system requirements, especially if you plan to play Blu-ray movies protected by AACS.
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The WH10LS30 also has its share of logos. The same files are copied and pasted in Windows Explorer and timed. I’ll never buy another LG product dont get me started on my LG phone. After selecting your preferred language and entering your customer information, you’ll be presented with a list of components to choose from.
How satisfied are you with this response? So what I would do now, if I could edit those now what’s with the stupid time limit on editing?
Reply Helpful Thread reply – more options Link to this Post. While there weren’t any readability issues, the error rates were a bit high throughout some sections of the discs.
– LG WH10LS30 Super Multi Blue 10x Blu-ray Disc ReWriter – Reviews – all-pages
Please try again later. All it wanted to do was update my Ethernet card driver.
I have this drive installed in my Mac Pro. PowerProducer also allows you to set chapters within the video content and add your own custom menus, backgrounds, fonts and titles. For Blu-ray Disc writers, the performance tests are normally broken down hl-dt-wt six sections: To get the writing times, a 4. Once added to your production, you can use the built-in editor to trim, merge or split your video clips.
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Looks like the nitpicker here is you! The instructions cover all the basics including how to install the WH10LS30 into an empty drive bay and hook up the cables.
I then try the Microsoft download center: The manual continues on by going over the basic operation of the drive. Last but not least, it finishes up with a short troubleshooting section and a page full of specifications for the WH10LS I have the same question 5.
hl-dt-st bd-re wh10ls30 device not detected in my computer – Microsoft Community
Thanks to its 24x rewriting speed, the WH10LS30 took 2: I get the message: For testing purposes, we printed a disc using Memorex’s LightScribe v1. And yeah, obviously there are factors like needing an actual optical drive to begin with.
Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon. What are you doing: At this speed, it took the drive 18 seconds to do a quick erase and 3: The drive did not create any errors, but for whatever reason, it was not able to pass all of the on-the-fly copying tests.
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Let’s Talk About Sex
By Kate Cassidy
While communication makes for healthier relationships, it can also take your sex life to new heights. Talking about sex with your partner, even for the chattiest of us, may seem difficult at first but this conversation will often lead to instantly better sex.
Express your feelings, likes and preferences clearly. Boyfriends, husbands and fiancés can’t read minds (though we all wish they could). If you want him to do something specific, tell him! Chances are there are some things he would like to try too. Telling him what you like and where to touch you will increase your pleasure, and his as well, because he knows he’s pleasing you.
This doesn’t mean you just have to talk in the bedroom. Send him a flirty text during the day and let him know what you have in mind. Just make sure you don’t catch him in the middle of a meeting! If you usually text him throughout the day, give him a call at lunch time. Hearing his voice will excite you and he won’t expect it.
In a long-lasting relationship, you’ll find that communication about sex not only enhances your sex life, but brings you closer to your partner as well. Sex is one of the most intimate parts of your relationship, so open the communication lines and see what a difference it will make
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Revs reacquire Silva’s rights for 2018 season
Happy New Year! The York Revolution have reacquired the rights of one of its playoff heroes, landing Rubi Silva’s rights for the 2018 season while sending Chase Simpson to Sussex County of the Can-Am Association to complete the earlier deal for Silva from last September. Below is the team’s full press release. (more…)
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The Real KEY to LOVE!
By Orna And Matthew Walters
Why is self-acceptance so important in your relationships? Because how you see yourself, how you feel about yourself - self-judgment, self-criticism, etc - effects your ability to be authentic in relationship. The belief is that if you show your true self you will not be loved. The problem is if you don’t ever show your true self, then you can never be loved for who you really are.
Another problem that arises in relationship that comes from a lack of self-acceptance is that we begin to judge our partner’s behavior and become critical of them. If it is true that all judgment is self-judgment, then when we are so annoyed by our partner’s behavior we can ask ourselves “Is this a reflection of a fault within my character?”
Only by knowing what we truly need to be happy, what we truly need in order to nurture ourselves, can we feel comfortable asking our partners to love us in the way we truly can receive love. It is in the search for self-acceptance, that all parts of us are worthy of being loved, that we begin to learn to love ourselves. When we love ourselves it becomes easy to ask for what we want, it becomes easy to enforce our boundaries, and it becomes easy to receive the love we most desire. That love is what “true love” is all about.
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{{champion:10}} {{champion:92}} {{champion:157}} {{champion:67}} {{champion:517}} {{champion:8}} {{champion:238}} {{champion:25}} {{champion:120}} {{champion:24}} . And a lot of the time there are overlapping bans on Riven, Yasuo, Vayne, and even Hecarim now. It's funny how Riven isn't deemed "nerf-worthy" when she has the overall 2nd highest winrate (53.44%) coupled with the 2nd highest pickrate (11.54%) . It's funny because this is supposedly a "high skill cap champion" that requires tremendous amounts of skill to be able to pull off and win with yet, for some reason she's able to be played a ton and not have her average winrate suffer from it. I can only imagine the winrate for her one-tricks/hardcore mains. And next, Vayne. This is a joke at this point. She's rocking a 52.71% winrate in Toplane where she is absolute cancer for any melee to try to deal with and she's rocking a 52.24% winrate in Botlane with a whopping 24.2% pickrate. Her pickrate in Toplane is only 3.85% but that still adds up to Vayne being in your game over 28% of the time while winning over 52% of the time. Once again, a supposed "high skill cap" champion that takes tremendous skill to pull off but it seems her staggering playrate by nearly fucking anyone doesn't seem to have much effect at all on her high winrate. Once again, I can only wonder what winrates her mains are crushing it at when she isn't fucking banned or picked by someone else first. Those are the only two champions I'm going to pinpoint in this post because they have both been long overfuckingdue for nerfs. Going as far back as prior to the release of Firecracker Vayne where she has been buffed the last 5 fucking times she's been touched on patches. What I find the most bullshit is that you REDUCED the cooldown of her Tumble from 6/5/4/3/2 to 4/3.5/3/2.5/2 in Patch 8.18 AND THEN followed that up with the stupid ass buff to her Ultimate where she gains 50% reduced cooldown on Tumble when activated in 9.1. All the while with her ABUSING the completely gamebreaking, bullshit passive on Rageblade that is Phantom-Hit. Riot at this point us players just have to believe you don't fucking care or you're incompetent at balancing your own game. Riven literally has not been nerfed since Patch 5.21. She has either had buffs or bug fixes in any patch she has been touched in since 5.21. Must be nice to live in that safety net of not having your champion ever fucking nerfed or negatively changed over the past nearly 4 Seasons. Yes I'm salty about that. It just adds to the pile of bullshit that is Riven and how every time the community starts complaining about her, Riot makes up some bullshit or ignores her completely hoping the posts about her will quiet down. Yes, Spear of Shojin is stupid toxic on her as well as a few other champions but once again, why should Riven skirt direct nerfs and instead cause multiple other champions to be nerfed because she is disgusting on top of using a disgusting passive on an item. Hit her fucking E cooldown, base shield strength, and the scaling it has. She is so unbelievably god damn tanky with Black Cleaver and Spear giving her 650 HP and then Death's Dance giving her a bleed effect that she just passes off onto her shield to absorb. BALANCE YOUR FUCKING GAME
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