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This kit has everything you need for in cabin flight. I will be flying with my 2 cats in the summer of next year and after purchasing this kit and researching the airlines, I have no worries about flying from Japan to the US. Thanks DryFur!!
We are taking our 2 9 month old kittens on their first airplane trip and I have been searching for a more comfortable harness for them. While no cat truly likes to wear anything except its own fur, our two are very happy to be in the harness included in the in cabin kit. The are glad that it that does not bind them. I am also glad to have the collapsible dishes, identity tags and the document storage information to put on their crates!
Todd and I met when my cat Patches was about 17 years old. Three years later she was in failing health and we had to put her down right before we were married. We honeymooned in Bermuda at an inn with a house cat named Tinsel who visited us every day and we knew we had to have a cat in our life again. After our honeymoon we visited the Upper Valley Humane Society and a beautiful tortoise kitten jumped into my arms. We took her home and named her Tinsel. She lived with us for 18 years giving us joy and pleasure while we treated her like an only child princess! March 2nd, 2012, she had a seizure and we had to put her down very quickly since she was in a lot of pain. It was a very sad experience for both of us. By July we realized we had to have "cat love" in our lives. I started casually looking on PetFinder.com for young cats in our area. One night I was scrolling through the young kittens at Second Chance Animal Rescue in Littleton, NH and the name "Tinsel" popped up. I clicked on the link and it opened to a cute picture of "Tinsel and her brother, Patches." We were stunned and knew we had to have them! We adopted them in July and they have been two bundles of joy in our household. We do not doubt we were meant to find them. We have kept their names, but added "Jr." to each.
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The Eastern Suburbs is the eastern metropolitan region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Location
The Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the greater sense refers to the residential, commercial and industrial areas that are situated to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district, around the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to the Pacific Ocean beaches and continuing on to the port at Botany Bay and La Perouse. The region includes all of the suburbs within local government areas of the Municipality of Woollahra, Waverley Council and City of Randwick as well as eastern parts of Bayside Council and City of Sydney.

In the traditional sense the Eastern Suburbs only refers to the suburbs directly east of the CBD within the Woollahra Council and Waverley Council districts as well as The Centennial Parklands and occasionally also includes the east side of City of Sydney. City of Randwick and the eastern portion of Bayside Council. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) limits its definition of the "Eastern Suburbs Statistical Subdivision" to comprising just the Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick local government areas. As at the , this ABS region had an estimated population of , up from 249,546 in the .

For descriptive purposes, the Eastern Suburbs can be grouped into three parts:

Upper Eastern Suburbs

The Eastern Suburbs from a more narrow, conservative perspective are all the suburbs within the Waverley Council and Woollahra Council districts as well as the Centennial Parklands. This begins with all suburbs east and north of the parklands starting with Paddington, Waverley and Bronte then continuing north as far as Watsons Bay. Postcodes of the Upper Eastern Suburbs start at 2021 with Paddington and The Centennial Parklands then continue to 2030 with Vaucluse, Dover Heights and Watsons Bay. The Upper Eastern Suburbs roughly correspond with the cadastral Parish of Alexandria as well as the Federal Division of Wentworth.

South-Eastern Suburbs

The South-Eastern Suburbs are the suburbs directly south-east of the CBD falling in the City of Randwick council and eastern side of Bayside Council. This is all the suburbs south of The Centennial Parklands and east of the Eastern Distributor starting with Kensington, Randwick and Clovelly then following south down to La Perouse. The postcodes begin with 2031 in Randwick and Clovelly then end in 2036 with La Perouse and surrounding suburbs with the addition of Botany and Banksmeadow being 2019 and the eastern non-residential side of Eastlakes having the postcode 2018. The University of New South Wales postcode is 2052. The South-Eastern Suburbs roughly correspond with the cadastral Parish of Botany as well as the Federal Division of Kingsford Smith.

Inner East

The inner east are suburbs which surround the eastern and south-eastern border of Sydney CBD and fall within the City of Sydney. They are often referred to as both inner city and eastern suburbs. These suburbs include Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Woolloomooloo and Rushcutters Bay with the postcodes of 2010 and 2011.

The inner southern suburbs of the City of Sydney and Bayside Council which are south of Central station, west of The Eastern Distributor and north of the Airport Starting with Redfern and ending in Mascot are sometimes included in this region as well as part of South-Eastern Sydney or the Eastern Suburbs overall however strictly speaking these suburbs are not east nor south-east of Sydney CBD.

Landmarks
The largest commercial areas in the Eastern Suburbs are found at Bondi Junction, Randwick, Maroubra and Double Bay. The Eastern Suburbs features some of Sydney's well-known beaches such as Bondi Beach, Bronte Beach, and Coogee Beach. The University of New South Wales is located in Kensington. The major hospitals serving the region are St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst and Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick. The Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub lie on the coastal areas of the region, albeit in fragments.

Transport
The Eastern Suburbs railway line opened in 1979 with stations at Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction. The CBD and South East Light Rail opened to Randwick in 2019 and Kingsford in 2020.

Transdev Sydney Ferries operate services to Darling Point, Double Bay, Rose Bay and Watsons Bay. Bus services are operated by Transdev John Holland and Transit Systems NSW.

Major roads include Anzac Parade, Bondi Road, the Eastern Distributor, New South Head Road, Old South Head Road, Oxford Street and Syd Einfeld Drive.

Gallery

Sporting teams

In the National Rugby League, the Eastern Suburbs is represented by the Sydney Roosters playing out of the Sydney Football Stadium. For the South-Eastern Suburbs in City of Randwick and Bayside Council, the South Sydney Rabbitohs are supported. South Sydney Rabbitohs has a juniors club at Kingsford, Maroubra and Malabar.

In the Australian Football League, the Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club. The Swans' headquarters and training facilities are located at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the club's playing home ground since 1982.

The NSW Blues are a professional first class men's cricket team also based at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The team competes in the Sheffield Shield Australia's first class interstate cricket competition.

The Sydney Sixers are a NSW professional franchise men's cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League.

The Eastern Suburbs Football Association (ESFA) is the delegated authority governing soccer in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. ESFA offers women's competitions including AAW Premier League running from April through to August.

Suburbs in Eastern Sydney

Upper Eastern Suburbs

Woollahra Council

Waverley Council

Centennial Parklands

 Centennial Park
 Moore Park
 Queens Park

South-Eastern Suburbs

City of Randwick

Bayside Council (Eastern Side)

Inner East

City of Sydney (Eastern Side)

References

External links

SYDNEY.com – Sydney East
 Australian Bureau of Statistics - 2016 Census - Sydney - Eastern Suburbs

Regions of Sydney

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Things have been pretty rough here at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP). A prisoncrat-orchestrated racial riot has put me in administrative segregation since July. KVSP's "A" yard (the only general population, non-honor yard) has been, more or less, on a constant lock-down since the beginning of the year. This lock-down is due to racial tensions that have been exacerbated by the prison's state-sponsored security threat group, also known as the goon squad, or simply the gooners.
The best way for the prison oligarchy to remain in power and thwart any organizing or political dissent is to keep us all fighting amongst ourselves. Of course this is nothing new for many of us, but for some reason we all find ourselves locked down time and again, pointing fingers (and unfortunately, knives) at one another instead of using our minds of reason to see that clearly this whole war/mess has been instigated by the very pigs that always have the most to gain. It's extremely frustrating to sit here watching the same pattern of senseless fighting and rioting occur while the pigs laugh, crack jokes, and generally play us against each other for their sick jollies and political agenda.
This madness on "A" yard at KVSP and elsewhere in the state is definitely part of a much bigger political agenda. One of the results of the 2013 general hunger strike is that, slowly but surely, a lot of those guys have been returning to the main lines after spending ten, fifteen, or twenty years back there in the SHU. Well, CDCR can't just let those beds remain empty so we've been seeing the gooners dropping fallacious gang validation packets on people for all kinds of erroneous reasons. And the best way to "prove" gang conspiracy or activity is to run us all into these stupid racial riots. The fucked up thing about it is that it's working. Every time we all go out to the yard and fight each other is another victory for the pigs, and another bus load of "gang members" heading to the SHU torture units and thus, the very "evidence" CDCR points to as justification in keeping those control units open and full.
This white vs. Black violence needs to stop for the benefit and health of both our people. Let's stop and remember that it should always be blue vs. green! It's time for peace on these yards. Don't forget who the real enemy is.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This comrade's call for peace on the yards underscores the importance of the United Front for Peace in Prisons. We need organizations to come together behind bars to stop the pigs and the imperialist system in general. A United Front is comprised of groups with different views and goals, that have a common enemy. It doesn't require everyone to agree on everything, and in the case of the UFPP there are just five key principles around which groups have unity: Peace, Unity, Growth, Internationalism and Independence. If your organization is interested in putting an end to the fighting amongst the oppressed and ready to take a stand against the oppressor get in touch for more information about the UFPP.


Memory. 2018 Apr;26(4):574-579. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1383434. Epub 2017 Oct 2.
This time it's personal: the memory benefit of hearing oneself.
a Department of Psychology , University of Waterloo , Waterloo , ON , Canada.
The production effect is the memory advantage of saying words aloud over simply reading them silently. It has been hypothesised that this advantage stems from production featuring distinctive information that stands out at study relative to reading silently. MacLeod (2011) (I said, you said: The production effect gets personal. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1197-1202. doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0168-8 ) found superior memory for reading aloud oneself vs. hearing another person read aloud, which suggests that motor information (speaking), self-referential information (i.e., "I said it"), or both contribute to the production effect. In the present experiment, we dissociated the influence on memory of these two components by including a study condition in which participants heard themselves read words aloud (recorded earlier) - a first for production effect research - along with the more typical study conditions of reading aloud, hearing someone else speak, and reading silently. There was a gradient of memory across these four conditions, with hearing oneself lying between speaking and hearing someone else speak. These results imply that oral production is beneficial because it entails two distinctive components: a motor (speech) act and a unique, self-referential auditory input.


I have created jekyll site. Regarding the deployment I don't want to host on github pages. To host private domain I came know from documentation to copy the all files from _site folder. That's all wicked.
Each time I add new blog post, I am running cmd>jekyll build then I am copying newly created html to hosted domain. Is there any easy way to update without compiling each time ?
If you don't want to use GitHub Pages, AFAIK there's no other way than to compile your site each time you make a change.
But of course you can script/automate as much as possible.
I can do this with a single click (okay, a single double-click).
Note: I'm on Windows, so the following solution is for Windows.
But if you're using Linux/MacOS/whatever, of course you can use the tools given there to build something similar.
I'm using a batch file (the Windows equivalent to a shell script) to compile my site and then call WinSCP, a free command-line FTP client.
WinSCP allows me to store session configurations, so I saved the connection to my server there once.
Because of this, I didn't want to commit WinSCP to my (public) repository, so my script expects WinSCP in the parent folder.
echo If the build succeeded, press RETURN to upload!
The synchronize remote ... line (in the script file) uses the synchronize command to sync from the local folder (saved in %uploadpath%, the environment variable from step 2) to the server.
IMO this solution is suitable for non-technical persons as well.
If the technical person in your case doesn't know how to use source control, you could even script committing & pushing, too.
Since you mentioned that it will be updated by a non-technical person, you might try something like rack-jekyll to automatically rebuild when new files are FTP'd.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged ruby jekyll github-pages jekyll-bootstrap or ask your own question.
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TRICARE is moving forward with revising its payment methodologies for long term care hospitals (LTCHs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). The changes are consistent with the statutory requirement that TRICARE inpatient care "payments shall be determined to the extent practicable in accordance with the same reimbursement rules as apply to payments to providers of services of the same type under Medicare." Each revised reimbursement methodology will be phased in over a three year period.
For both LTCHs and IRFs, the final rule creates a gradual transition from TRICARE's current payment policy by phasing in Medicare's reimbursement rate as follows: Allowing 135 percent of Medicare's LTCH or IRF prospective payment system (PPS) amounts in the first 12-month period after implementation, 115 percent in the second 12-month period after implementation, and 100 percent in the third 12-month period after implementation and follows Medicare policies during subsequent fiscal years.


Nothing helps cure the mid-winter décor blahs like a little color. And for great style and color inspiration for myself or my house, I take cues from Kate Spade.
After the Christmas decorations came down, I pulled a few colorful and sparkly things together to style our bar cart, and it makes me smile to look at it, so I guess my mission was accomplished!
I love using books to decorate, and I've been known many times to use a little wrapping paper to cover them to fit the mood of a space. Black and white stripes are always my favorite, and an absolute must when it comes to Kate Spade style.
Sitting in here in the family room with the bright sun shining in, I almost forget it's freezing cold out there! How do you freshen up your winter house?
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Love your cart and Kate Spade-I have a a black and white wallet like your books form her!
Oh Love it, great cart and great Kate Spade inspirations. Such a pretty room.
I absolutely love how you styled the barcart, i think I'm going to have to hunt one down for my living room!


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Landon D. Huffman (born January 30, 1996) is an American stock car racing driver. Huffman has raced in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and CARS Tour. He is the son of Robert Huffman.

Racing career

Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Huffman drove in two races in 2017. He made his Truck Series debut in Bristol, driving the No. 63 truck for MB Motorsports. There he finished 20th. Later that season, he returned at Martinsville, driving the No. 83 truck for MB Motorsports. He improved on his last result, finishing 17th on the lead lap.

On January 22, 2018, NextGen Motorsports announced that the team would like to have Huffman drive between ten and fifteen races in the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. However, the deal fell through.

On October 12, 2018, it was announced that Huffman joined Niece Motorsports' No. 38 truck at Martinsville.

In August 2019, Huffman replaced an injured Spencer Boyd in the No. 20 of Young's Motorsports at Eldora.

Xfinity Series
On January 22, 2018, NextGen Motorsports announced that they would like to have Huffman drive for the team in five 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series events, starting at Bristol in April. However, the deal never came to fruition.

Late models
Huffman won the track championship at Hickory Motor Speedway in 2022.

Spotting
Huffman previously was the spotter for Zane Smith and his MDM Motorsports team in the ARCA Racing Series, and Anthony Alfredo's MDM entry in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.

Esports
In 2019, Huffman founded esports team Total Advantage, which competes in Call of Duty games and iRacing Road to Pro.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Gander Outdoors Truck Series

 Season still in progress
 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

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Living people
NASCAR drivers
People from Catawba County, North Carolina
1996 births
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Racing drivers from North Carolina


For years, Ken Fleck, husband, father and consummate grandfather, planned to spend forever in eternal love and joy with Christ. It was God's plan too, and He called Ken to eternal joy on Feb. 27, 2015.
Ken planned futures for himself, his family and professionally. It's not surprising that his favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11, which begins, "I know the plans I have for you …" Even today, while his loving wife, Susan Fleck (ne Dornacher) and his three children, Jason (and his wife Amanda, who live in Port Washington), Melissa (who lives in Cedarburg) and Ryan (and his wife Samantha, who live in West Bend), wrestle with God's plan, they realize how Ken's faith and planning had prepared them for this moment.
Kenneth Marvin Fleck was born May 26, 1957, in Port Washington. He grew up in Menomonee Falls, where he attended high school. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. Ken joined God's family in baptism at Calvary Lutheran Chapel in Madison during his undergraduate years there. When Ken believed in something, you knew it.
Everyone saw how he adored Susan, whom he married on June 4, 1983.
Their love and commitment was palpable, a real example to their children.
Anyone who has visited his home would know it contains a veritable museum of pinball machines, a passion that woke the boy, the curator and the competitor in him.
Ken believed in the sanctity of life – that the unborn life matters and should be protected. In 1993, he founded Eyewitness for Life in Milwaukee, a nonprofit organization that educates pregnant woman about their child's development with free ultrasound imagery.
Ken was also passionate about Faith Endowment – helping ministries plan their futures and create strong endowments to sustain their ministry.
But Ken's love and passion were most evident when he was with his grandchildren, Ellie, Nolan and Liam. He couldn't say no to them, couldn't put them down, couldn't spend just a few minutes with them.
He was terrible at rationing time or love for them, and they flourished in his love with laughter and hugs.
Ken was preceded in death by his mother, Patricia Fleck (nee Rogers), and survived by his wife, his children, grandchildren, his dad, James Fleck Sr. (of Weatherford, Texas) and his brothers and sisters, James (and his wife, Roxanne) Fleck Jr. (of Watauga, Texas); Cheryl (and her husband Michael) Conway (of Aurora, Colo.); Penny (and her husband, Larry) Hertel (of Menomonee Falls); Jennifer (and her husband, Ronald) Kumferman (of Hartford); and Diana (and her husband Mark Adler) St. James (of La Canada, Calif.).
Funeral Services will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, 2015, at First Immanuel Lutheran Church, W67 N622 Evergreen Blvd., in Cedarburg. Rev. Randy Raasch will preside the service. The family will receive visitors prior to the service at the church from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Eernisse Funeral Home in Cedarburg is assisting the family with arrangements.
If you'd like to memorialize Ken and his life, please direct your gift to Eyewitness for Life (eyewitnessforlife.org).


Alexey Marfin is a director and filmmaker, with a professional background in visual effects and an academic background in architecture from the Architectural Association. he is interested in speculative fiction at the intersection of contemporary digital culture and new social interactions. He explores cinematic storytelling as a process of world-design: using fictional worlds as a lens with which to look at our own present-day realities.
Alexey's work has been screened at festivals and venues worldwide, including the Brooklyn Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Berlin 'Interfilm' Short Film Festival, the British Film Institute (BFI), and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has been featured in media such as VICE, The Creators Project, and Motherboard. Alexey has lectured internationally, including the Royal College of Art, Princeton University and the Architectural Association, and now teaches the M.A. in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc with Liam Young, as well as his own Visual Studies course.


I went back to college this week. LOVE getting to see my friends and begin learning more about the field I love so much. Working with children is a huge passion of mine and I'm always excited to be around people who share that passion. Also, I get to watch baby Nóra (from a few posts ago) two days a week. It makes me super happy.
So before I tell you about my WIPs, I want to pre-apologize if I'm having trouble keeping up with everything on here. I think either my WIP Wednesday will have to become a monthly post with pictures every time or keep it weeekly and pictures as I can. My WIP pics are never great because I often take them at night, when I am home and have time to crochet, which will be less now that I'm back in school 😑 Thank you to anyone who is actually reading these posts. I do like the accountability of this blog and at least writing my weekly progress. But, school hast to be my priority. Thanks for understanding. Also, if you don't, you should follow my instagram. I post in stories a lot about my day to day and I try to post pics of what I'm working on. 😉 As a little surprise though, I have TWO new posts coming this week featuring some projects I did earlier this year including my first amigurumi and c2c. If you follow my Insta, you've seen it all before but I do tell a more detailed narrative.
I didn't work on the doll project or espadrilles this week.
Project Ice Cream Coozies is still ongoing. Nothing new there this week, just making some simple bases while I commute. I am delivering them on September 23rd so I have time. I don't have a goal number but I'll probably have about 20 if I had to guess.
I spent my last day of summer break with my beautiful blanket. I finished the first skein of mandala yarn and it came out to approximately 10.5 inches. Based on that, it will be about 8 feet 9 inches with the 10 skeins I have. I bought the only 6 at Walmart over the weekend! My WM is carrying several kinds of the Lion Brand Mandala yarn as well as Bernat Pop. Love! Anyway, this beauty is just so lovely. It will be tricky to try to make the colors line up but I'm going to really really really try not to let my OCD get the better of me with it. I think I'm going to love this blanket though.
The baby blanket is looking so good. I am really happy I went back and made the change to HDC and added a chevron to make it an even eight. When I fold it in quarters, it just looks so much nicer. I've been debating what I want to make with it. There are so many super cute hats and booties out there. I love Repeat Crafter Me's hat she made when her daughter Zoe was born. It has a little tie on top like the ones at the hospital. I alos love Ashleigh at Sewrella's set she did for her son, Parker. She uses either a front or back post DC to give a ribbed effect around the border fo the hat and on the booties. I may end up doing two hats. One for when he's first born and a second for him to grow into. I'm so indecisive I'm just like let's just do all of them, lol. If anyone knows any cute beanie or bootie patterns, please email me the link! I'd love to see what you'd reccommend!


Students who choose to minor in Italian will be interested in learning the language and literature of Italy, but also in gaining an interdisciplinary knowledge of the Italian culture which allows them to view the country, its language, and its people in a global context.
In order to graduate with an Italian minor, students need to successfully complete 20 semester hours with a minimum of 6 hours of 300 and 400-level courses earned on this campus. A 2.0 grade point average in the minor is required for completion of the degree.
Students are expected to formally declare a minor before or during the third year of full-time enrollment. To declare a minor in Italian, students complete the change of Minor Application online under the Student tab of myBama.


Welcome to Tony's Tech Tip! Each month our Operations Manager, Anthony Clifton, will be giving insights into more technical aspects of the web. This week we will be discussing how to use Twitter effectively.
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Slovakia hosts first EU institution
The ELA will have its headquarters in the centre of Bratislava.
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Slovakia has lost its bid to host the European Medicines Agency, but it will become the headquarters of the European Labour Authority (ELA).
The Commission for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion made the decision in Luxembourg on June 13. The ELA will be the first EU institution based in Slovakia.
The bid was preferred to those of other EU countries, including Romania, Latvia, Cyprus and Croatia. V4 countries and some Scandinavian countries supported Slovakia in the fight for the ELA.
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Headquarters in Bratislava
The ELA will have its headquarters in the building on Landererova Street 12 in the centre of Bratislava. This is the only building that meets the strict technical conditions defined by the European Commission and is available from October 2019.
The government is preparing an assistance programme for the employees of the authority that will help arrange all the official affairs.
When confirming Bratislava's candidacy, Labour Minister Ján Richter stated that Slovakia is among the last of the countries to join the EU in 2004 and also part of the Schengen and Eurozone that does not have a European agency or institutions in its territory.
Aim of the authority
The main aim of the authority will be to improve the implementation of EU rights in the field of cross-border labour mobility and coordination of the social security scheme.
It will provide information to citizens and companies on their rights and duties linked to mobility, coordinating cooperation between member states, especially in cases of common inspection. The authority will also act as the mediator in cross-border disputes between member states.
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by marc June 17, 2009
Two days ago I riffed off of the American Declaration of Independence and wrote that all people, in every nation around the world, are born with the inalienable right to elect their own government. Those familiar with this document – arguably the greatest piece of political writing ever – know that it also emphasizes this essential language:
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
This right to dissolve the state, as Jefferson well knew, is foremost in men's relationship with the government. Elections are meaningless without that final, terminal authority, for what does a vote matter if it can be disregarded or canceled out by stuffing that ballot box?
A government's rejection of the verdict of its people is its worst possible offense, far worse than mere corruption or incompetence, because such a refusal to bow to its citizens' authority in an explicit rejection of every single man and woman's right of self-determination.
This is why so many of the Iranian people are still in the streets, despite the arrests, beatings, and killings that are taking place among them, because the government in power now has actively defrauded them in order to retain that power.
Understand that I realize the demographics in Iran are not as clear-cut as the massive protest makes them seem. A large percentage of Iranians support the authoritarian rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the fundamentalist councils that exercise control over the elected officials. It is therefore quite possible that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually did win the election, albeit by a much closer margin than was officially reported. If I were betting, that's where I'd place my money.
It's also irrelevant that Ahmadinejad probably did win. The Iranian government's blatant rigging of the election demonstrates its illegitimacy. Too harsh? No other word fits a government that rejects the people's right to exercise control over it. Indeed, the very structure of Iran's government, dominated as it is by an unassailable religious cadre, denies the Iranian people the essential right that Jefferson crystallized for posterity in his Declaration.
(Parenthetically, recall that, during the 2008 U.S. primaries, far-left radicals postulated loudly that President Bush would reject voters' authority and retain power. Ridiculous asses, these, as Mr. Bush proved by going above and beyond to ensure that Mr. Obama's transition was seamless. That's how it's done.)
There is no respect for the rights of the people in the Iranian government. The best proof of this comes from the mouth of one of it's public officials in what passes for its justice department, Mohammadreza Habibi, senior prosecutor in the central province of Isfahan:
We warn the few elements controlled by foreigners who try to disrupt domestic security by inciting individuals to destroy and to commit arson that the Islamic penal code for such individuals waging war against God is execution
This is the voice of the Iranian government and it does not deserve to rule. The government is not God. Ahmadinejad is not God, Khamenei is not God, nor, I dare say, are they of God. Islamic law exists to serve the people, as Ahmadinejad and Khamenei hold their positions to serve, not to rule. As Jefferson said, when a government and its laws become a hindrance to the people they are to be set aside. Moreover, the government is obligated, should it wish to retain its legitimacy, to step aside on request of the majority.
Instead of doing so, however, Khamenei seems to be following the dictator's handbook by importing foreign mercenaries to maim and murder the opposition in the streets, thus proving my point rather neatly, I think.
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Alright, Peter Puppy, let's just face facts: You have got to be the world's...no, the galaxy's worst father. I don't know how you let six hundred of your kids get captured by one giant bird in the first place...but you let it happen again! I went looking at PetCo to see if they have a mug for, like, "World's worst puppy father", and they don't! And it probably wouldn't sell very well, because it would only sell to you!
—Phiggle, in a Let's Play of Earthworm Jim 2
Santa in a bullet-proof vest wielding a huge gun. Welcome to life in 1924.
—Let's Play Alone in the Dark 2, part 4
''Watch out for that Beamos."
—Diabetus, in a Let's Play of The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds
Josh: Ok, so next episode... Hopefully there will be less rage-filled discussions about how much Bethesda deserves to die in a fiery pit.
Rutskarn: I don't know, why change the formula now?
Shamus: I know; we've got a good thing going here. The worst thing they could do is put a good game now: They'd put us right out of business.
—Spoiler Warning: Let's Play Fallout 3 (Episode 20)
Mess with me, you mess with omnipotence. And by omnipotence, I mean a giant hand that can carry shit.
—Cheeseball IV's Let's Play of Black & White
"DANCE MR. SATAN, DANCE!"
—Helloween 4545's Let's Play of Penumbra
"He fell into the ankle-deep water and died. Happy ending! Sunshine and puppies for all!"
—R.L. Yoshi's Let's Play of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
John opens his inventory to reveal a lockpick, a book of spells, and a formerly salty bear.
John: So wow, this is all I have for, uh—
Rick: That is all you have now.
John: Good.
Brandon: At least she left you the bear.
John: Yeah, took the stick, but they left me the salt-covered bear?
Steve: No salt, just the bear. They cleaned the bear.
Brandon: You can't even lick the bear for sustenance!
—The D-Pad: Let's Play 5 Days a Stranger, Part 8 — "Yeah, No, That Didn't Work"
"I feel like this is the only profession other than assassin where "Caleb kill the bitch!" Is something your boss tells you to do."
—Ryan Haywood
"GIVE ME YOUR MILK!!!""
Momentum, momentum, momentum...
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Jay: Log the roll.
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Jay: Rog the...
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"Okay. So then. Okay. Good evening. Good mor— Good afternoon. As you all know, I'm Akira Otoishi. Alright! This time, uh, I'm gonna do games for the first time. So then. Insta-death Mega Man. If I medicate, I'll be str—st... If I'll meditate, I'll be stronger. So I'm going to try insta-death Mega Man. So, you know, the start is like..."
—Akira Otoishi attempting to do an intro of a fictional blind Let's play of Insta-death Mega Man on Vaguely Recalling JoJo
Um... Also, uh, my name is raocow, and, you know, sometimes, in the morning, usually around, uh... oh, I'd say 11, 11:30 AM, I-I-I-I take out, like, my Super Nintendo emulator, and I'm all like, 'Oh, well, looks like I'm gonna be playing a Mario hack, and, oh no, I've got Camtasia open by accident! Well, might as well use this accident to say some crazy things!' And, you know, uh, the day afterwards, when I wake up; can be just about anytime, usually... anywhere between 6 and 8 AM, basically. I, like, wake up and go, like, 'Hmm, well, I've got this video file, you know, on my computer. Might as well upload it to... uh, a video sharing service, called, you might have heard of it, it's called YouTube'. Then, afterwards, I put the link to the video... I embed it on my website, called, uh, raocow.com, but it's not the name of the site, but, uh, it is the address.
—raocow, here
"What if our entire universe was just a game being played by beings of incredible power... and then there were beings watching those beings play their games instead of actually playing the games themselves?"
—Tal'darim Ascendant, Starcraft II Legacy Of The Void
"You of all people must know how liberating it is to act this way. At least we're better than those sickos that stand around and WATCH it happen... Those pathetic people that want to see it, but are too weak to do it themselves. I bet someone like that's watching right now, aren't they...?"
—Flowey, Undertale
I mean, that's fair I put just my marathon-safe [savestate] there now, so now I don't have a cheaty cape that let's me do, like just skip everything. I actually, like, [have to] watch things, and play the game, and like all that stuff, that, we try "oh so hard" in out daily lives not to do. Like that's my job as a Let's Player is that, I play video games, you know, so you don't have to go out of your way, out of your busy daily schedule to play video games. Like, no one wants to do that, you know. You don't got the time for that kind of nonsense. That's why you get someone else to play it for you. You can just enjoy them on the side, lik-like you were meant to, like how they were designed. I think it's [an] incredible system that society has devised. Ooh, what a nightmare world we live in, don't we: where we don't have time to play, so we get other people to play for us, and we play precariously.
—raocow, doing a split-path room cleanup for the first half of "Bowser's Castle" in his VIP 5 2019 replay Let's Play
You're so old you actually play video games instead of watching other people play them on YouTube!
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I'm baaack. It's been a while (a whole month actually) since my last post, but I decided that I needed to take a summer break…only unlike summer break in school, I still had to go to work everyday. Honestly, I've been so busy this summer (told you all about that here) that I felt like my blog was becoming more of a chore to keep up with, and I don't ever want to feel that way. I want to enjoy this blog and never feel obligated or rushed to put out a new post. And I knew August was going to be another busy month, so that's where the summer break came in.
And now September is here which means fall is right around the corner. Even though we've recently had some of our hottest weeks here in Southern California, with temperatures in the 100s, I am already getting sucked into the fall spirit. I plan on using the upcoming (and much needed) long weekend ahead to kick off the season. Isn't Labor Day just like Memorial Day anyway? Not technically summer but we treat it like the start? Well I'm treating Labor Day like the beginning of autumn even though it won't technically be here until the end of the month. Besides, it's not like it's going to feel like fall anytime soon for me anyway.
Zack and I are planning to head out of town (more on that in a future post) as long as he is able to get off work (fingers crossed but looking good so far!). If you're planning to keep it local (or even if you don't), I've got a recipe for you today that is simple enough that it won't interrupt your weekend plans (even if those plans are doing nothing), but is tasty enough to impress whatever crowd you serve it to: Crockpot Pork Carnitas.
These tacos will melt in your mouth and will probably find a way into your recipe rotation. If you're making these for a group, set it up buffet style with a build-your-own taco bar, so everyone can create their favorite mix of flavors. I went with grilled corn, avocado, fresh cilantro, shredded cheese and a squeeze of fresh lime, but there are plenty of toppings to choose, so don't limit yourself. I will say a batch of homemade guacamole, chips, and salsa pair perfectly with this plate. Enjoy!
1. Place pork in the crockpot, and add chopped garlic.
2. In a small bowl, combine the dry spices (cumin, chili powder, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, salt, & pepper), and add to the crockpot. You can either rub the spices into the pork, or just throw it in the crockpot.
3. Next, add juice from the limes and orange, then add the beer and salsa.
4. Cook on low for 8 hours. Shred the pork and let cook for 30 more minutes before serving.
5. Serve in a warm corn tortilla with you favorite toppings.
Courtney, Pork tacos are my very favorite at the place we go!! Love it with fresh pico de gallo too! Your recipe seems really easy, I'm going to try it!


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Novice Newcastle struggling
by John Davidson on Jan 05, 2013
Despite a blistering start the Newcastle Jets are struggling and their season is on the line.
An Emile Heskey-inspired Jets fired out of the blocks early in 2012-2013, registering four wins in the first six rounds. A poor season-opening 2-0 loss at home to Adelaide became a distant memory after Newcastle went on a three-game winning streak. They then unluckily went down 3-2 away to Perth, but bounced back with a 2-1 win over the Wanderers at Parramatta Stadium. In that period their new marquee signing from the UK bagged five goals in six games. Heskey's potency as a striker was no longer the source of a punchline.
Heading into round seven the Jets had a comfortable position on the table and the signs were good. Since then the Hunter outfit has claimed just four points from a possible 24. That's just one victory and one draw from the past eight matches. It makes for dire reading.
So where has it all gone wrong for Gary van Egmond's young side?
The fact is that their impressive start to the season was a bit of false dawn. A number of factors have conspired to fashion Newcastle to its current position of eighth on the ladder, with 16 points, just three points ahead of bottom-placed Sydney FC. Injuries have played their part, but that is a problem that every A-League club can lay claim too.
So has the constant chopping and changing of the line-up, something that van Egmond must be accountable for. Rarely have the Jets fielded the same XI week-in-week out when possible. Meanwhile a number of Newcastle's new recruits have failed to live up to their billing. Josh Mitchell was brought over from Perth and has struggled. Dominic Ritter arrived from Switzerland but has been inconsistent. Brazilian Bernardo Ribeiro and former Gold Coast tyro James Brown have been unable to stake strong claims on the number 10 jersey.
It has not, of course, been all bad. Despite a broken cheekbone, goalkeeper Mark Birighitti has been a standout. Craig Goodwin has gone to another level this season and is surely a future Socceroo. James Virgili is developing nicely and has the pace to trouble defenders. Ruben Zadkovich has stepped up and taken the captain's armband with aplomb. And big Heskey has not only brought in the crowds at Hunter Stadium but snagged seven goals – one in every two games he has played.
But this has not been enough. van Egmond's rookie A-League side has lacked consistency and, crucially, quality, too often this season. Their lack of experienced players seems to have played a role. They have rarely controlled games and have always looked vulnerable at the back. Using three different goalkeepers and many different central defender combinations over the 14 rounds will do that to you. Partnerships take time to build.
The questions are mounting for 'Dutchy' and there are just 13 rounds to find some answers. He needs to make a decision on Michael Bridges – play him or punt him. He needs to find a new home for the likes of Tiago, who has largely been ineffective. He needs to get the best out of Brown, who has huge potential but is struggling, and he needs to settle and stick with his best XI when he can. He needs to find regular spots for Virgili and Goodwin, two of his best young charges, and he needs to get his side to find a style that gets the best out of Heskey all, not just, some of the time. Playing direct and high always to the former England forward may have reaped awards early on in the season but it is failing now. Other teams have cottoned on to this long ball tactic. There must be a plan B.
The Jets, one of the youngest squads in the A-League, can still make the semi-finals. After a run of one win in the past eight matches, that is a miracle in itself. It demonstrates the closeness of the ten-team competition and the fact that any club can beat any other on their day. Newcastle needs to be empowered by this notion and inject some life into their 2012-2013 season before it is too late.
A freelance journalist who has written about everything from advertising to beer, travel and sport, John Davidson contributes regularly to the likes of Inside Sport, FourFourTwo and TheRoar.com.au. The globe-trotting writer has watched the beautiful game in far-flung locations such as Jalan Besar Stadium, Bramall Lane and Birmingham Gardens, and maintains strong support for the mighty Blades and Kotara Tigers. Follow him on twitter @johnnyddavidson


Study: Large car market withering away... will it survive?
Study: Large car market withering away… will it survive?
Autoblog has an interesting take on a recent study into the decline of large (big) car sales. Will we see a drop in the large sedan market?
To look at automakers' lineups these days, it would appear that America's large car market is enjoying something of a resurgence. After all, Chevrolet has invested in a new Impala, Toyota has its new Avalon, Hyundai fielded an all-new Azera for 2012, and Nissan is presently working on a next-generation Maxima.
Yet, according to the industry forecasters at Polk, the market for mainstream big sedans is cratering. According to Polk's data, the large mainstream sedan segment has plunged from a 5.8-percent share of the US car market in 2008 to just 3.5 percent in 2012. That sales drop is enough to put this most American of car bodystyles behind the minivan segment, a market whose own sales slide has been comparatively well documented.
According to Polk, part of the reason for the shift is America's increasing appetite for smaller and more efficient vehicles, along with increased automaker emphasis on the midsize sedan segment, where more frequent redesigns and new technologies are becoming commonplace. In fact, Polk hypothesizes that at some point, family sedans like the Ford Fusion and Honda Accord may be subject to "re-definition" as America's largest non-luxury automobiles.
Despite the grim outlook, the firm's analysts believe that the "large car category will survive in the near term" thanks to forthcoming entries like the Chevrolet SS, Kia Cadenza and Volkswagen Phaeton, which Polk expects to return in 2015. On the premium side of the street, the picture looks somewhat better, with the number of big luxury players staying pretty much the same. Even so, sales of cars in the class from automakers like BMW and Mercedes-Benzhas slipped from .76-percent to .46-percent of the total US sales market.
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Darren has been asked to edit the BBC World Snooker Championships for the second year running, on location in Sheffield.
Online Creative have just delivered a promo for broadcast supplier Thomson/Grass Valley showcasing their products in use on the latest feature film from Red Union Films, 'Powder'. We filmed in Manchester and Liverpool during March and post produced the content at our studios in Brighton. Keeping with our philosophy of trying to keep as much in Brighton as possible we called upon the services of local DoP Laurie Rose, who shot Brighton based film 'Down Terrace' and local composer Richard Brincklow for the original score.


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Celebrate! 35 years at CSU: James Klett
By Lauren Pittman
When the University acquired the old Fort Collins High School with plans to turn it into the University Center for the Arts, it came with a 2.5-acre park in front of the school. James Klett and an advisory committee worked to move and expand the Annual Trial Gardens into the space.
Over the past 15 years the trial gardens have become one of the top tourist attractions in Fort Collins during growing season. This last year more than 1,000 varieties of plants, and 400 of them new variations, were planted and studied to see how they grow in the unique conditions of the Rocky Mountain West.
"It's a lot of research, not just me but with the graduate and undergraduate students," said Klett, professor of Landscape Horticulture, Ornamentals, and Nursery Management in the College of Agricultural Sciences. "We also looked at outreach for the community and tying it in with the museum over there. We're looking to better plants that both consumers and the industry people can grow."
Klett has spent the last 35 years at CSU dedicated to the search for better plants. Hailing from Cincinnati, he earned his bachelor's degree at Ohio State University and his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. After six years of teaching and outreach at South Dakota State University in Brookings, Klett learned of an open position at Colorado State University, in a much larger industry.
"I thought there was a greater opportunity here for me to expand my career options," he recalled. "So I made the move to deal with the challenges here, with developing an arboretum and annual trial gardens."
Passion for plants
Coming from an urban area, Klett spent his childhood learning about plants and how to garden from his uncle. He had a passion for it. "I remember growing plants and taking them to the fair and earning blue ribbons on some of the better flowers. I always had an interest."
In January 1980 Klett expanded coursework in Plant Materials, then only a two-credit course, into its current four-credit format. Klett also developed courses in herbaceous plants, and rebuilt Nursery Production and Management.
Working with the development of the Plant Environmental Research Center, the Trial Garden, the Arboretum, the development of new trees off Centre Avenue and adding perennial trials to the Gardens, all while teaching courses, Klett has certainly made an impact that spreads further than the Front Range. Klett has even played roles in legislation helping the State House with issues such as drought regulation.
"I've seen the green industry really mature an awful lot over the last 35 years and feel that I have been somewhat helpful in a lot of that growth," he said. "I remember some of the original meetings that I've gone to where we'd just meet as six or seven people in a restaurant, and now they have offices and executive directors full time, and staff, to just see those associations grow over time."
One of Klett's favorite challenges is helping students create their careers and succeed in an industry that is constantly changing. Every year the premier Rocky Mountain Regional Green Industry Conference meets at the Denver Convention Center, and the department displays all of the research and outreach it has conducted. It's also where Klett gets an opportunity to see his former students. "It's a very rewarding experience to see them be successful," he said. "To see, at least I've helped them somewhat shape their life and their career."
New phase
Klett is looking forward to the next phase of his career, which will include working on the relocated Plant and Environmental Research Center and new Horticulture Center, updating the Perennial Garden, and to make sure the Plant Select program is on a solid pathway.
When Klett first joined Colorado State University, the green industry and the University kept fairly separate. Now they work together to solve common problems.
"It hasn't only been myself to get a lot of these things done. It's been working with other industry people and students and faculty to achieve some of these accomplishments that have come over the last 35 years," Klett said. "I hope that the administrators and so forth will see the value of our Plant and Environmental Research Center and the new CSU Horticulture Center and the Annual Trial Gardens, and that that can continue for all for the citizens Fort Collins, the state of Colorado and elsewhere."
When Klett isn't on campus catching up on work, he enjoys gardening in his own yard, collecting antiques and pottery, and enjoying the better restaurants Fort Collins has to offer.
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package rolling

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	"testing"
	"time"

	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/diff"
	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/fake"
	clientgotesting "k8s.io/client-go/testing"

	appsv1 "github.com/openshift/api/apps/v1"
	strat "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/apps/strategy"
	appsutil "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/apps/util"
	appstest "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/apps/util/test"
)

func TestRolling_deployInitial(t *testing.T) {
	initialStrategyInvoked := false

	strategy := &RollingDeploymentStrategy{
		rcClient:    fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		eventClient: fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		initialStrategy: &testStrategy{
			deployFn: func(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int, updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error {
				initialStrategyInvoked = true
				return nil
			},
		},
		rollingUpdate: func(config *RollingUpdaterConfig) error {
			t.Fatalf("unexpected call to rollingUpdate")
			return nil
		},
		getUpdateAcceptor: getUpdateAcceptor,
		apiRetryPeriod:    1 * time.Millisecond,
		apiRetryTimeout:   10 * time.Millisecond,
	}

	config := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(1)
	config.Spec.Strategy = appstest.OkRollingStrategy()
	deployment, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(config)
	strategy.out, strategy.errOut = &bytes.Buffer{}, &bytes.Buffer{}
	err := strategy.Deploy(nil, deployment, 2)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
	}
	if !initialStrategyInvoked {
		t.Fatalf("expected initial strategy to be invoked")
	}
}

func TestRolling_deployRolling(t *testing.T) {
	latestConfig := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(1)
	latestConfig.Spec.Strategy = appstest.OkRollingStrategy()
	latest, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(latestConfig)
	config := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(2)
	config.Spec.Strategy = appstest.OkRollingStrategy()
	deployment, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(config)

	deployments := map[string]*corev1.ReplicationController{
		latest.Name:     latest,
		deployment.Name: deployment,
	}
	deploymentUpdated := false

	client := &fake.Clientset{}
	client.AddReactor("get", "replicationcontrollers", func(action clientgotesting.Action) (handled bool, ret runtime.Object, err error) {
		name := action.(clientgotesting.GetAction).GetName()
		return true, deployments[name], nil
	})
	client.AddReactor("update", "replicationcontrollers", func(action clientgotesting.Action) (handled bool, ret runtime.Object, err error) {
		updated := action.(clientgotesting.UpdateAction).GetObject().(*corev1.ReplicationController)
		deploymentUpdated = true
		return true, updated, nil
	})

	var rollingConfig *RollingUpdaterConfig
	strategy := &RollingDeploymentStrategy{
		rcClient:    client.CoreV1(),
		eventClient: fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		initialStrategy: &testStrategy{
			deployFn: func(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int, updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected call to initial strategy")
				return nil
			},
		},
		rollingUpdate: func(config *RollingUpdaterConfig) error {
			rollingConfig = config
			return nil
		},
		getUpdateAcceptor: getUpdateAcceptor,
		apiRetryPeriod:    1 * time.Millisecond,
		apiRetryTimeout:   10 * time.Millisecond,
	}

	strategy.out, strategy.errOut = &bytes.Buffer{}, &bytes.Buffer{}
	err := strategy.Deploy(latest, deployment, 2)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
	}
	if rollingConfig == nil {
		t.Fatalf("expected rolling update to be invoked")
	}

	if !reflect.DeepEqual(latest, rollingConfig.OldRc) {
		t.Errorf("unexpected rollingConfig.OldRc:%s\n", diff.ObjectGoPrintDiff(latest, rollingConfig.OldRc))
	}

	if !reflect.DeepEqual(deployment, rollingConfig.NewRc) {
		t.Errorf("unexpected rollingConfig.NewRc:%s\n", diff.ObjectGoPrintDiff(latest, rollingConfig.OldRc))
	}

	if e, a := 1*time.Second, rollingConfig.Interval; e != a {
		t.Errorf("expected Interval %d, got %d", e, a)
	}

	if e, a := 1*time.Second, rollingConfig.UpdatePeriod; e != a {
		t.Errorf("expected UpdatePeriod %d, got %d", e, a)
	}

	if e, a := 20*time.Second, rollingConfig.Timeout; e != a {
		t.Errorf("expected Timeout %d, got %d", e, a)
	}

	// verify hack
	if e, a := int32(1), rollingConfig.NewRc.Spec.Replicas; e != *a {
		t.Errorf("expected rollingConfig.NewRc.Spec.Replicas %d, got %d", e, a)
	}

	// verify hack
	if !deploymentUpdated {
		t.Errorf("expected deployment to be updated for source annotation")
	}
	sid := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", latest.Name, latest.ObjectMeta.UID)
	if e, a := sid, rollingConfig.NewRc.Annotations[sourceIdAnnotation]; e != a {
		t.Errorf("expected sourceIdAnnotation %s, got %s", e, a)
	}
}

type hookExecutorImpl struct {
	executeFunc func(hook *appsv1.LifecycleHook, deployment *corev1.ReplicationController, suffix, label string) error
}

func (h *hookExecutorImpl) Execute(hook *appsv1.LifecycleHook, rc *corev1.ReplicationController, suffix, label string) error {
	return h.executeFunc(hook, rc, suffix, label)
}

func TestRolling_deployRollingHooks(t *testing.T) {
	config := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(1)
	config.Spec.Strategy = appstest.OkRollingStrategy()
	latest, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(config)

	var hookError error

	deployments := map[string]*corev1.ReplicationController{latest.Name: latest}

	client := &fake.Clientset{}
	client.AddReactor("get", "replicationcontrollers", func(action clientgotesting.Action) (handled bool, ret runtime.Object, err error) {
		name := action.(clientgotesting.GetAction).GetName()
		return true, deployments[name], nil
	})
	client.AddReactor("update", "replicationcontrollers", func(action clientgotesting.Action) (handled bool, ret runtime.Object, err error) {
		updated := action.(clientgotesting.UpdateAction).GetObject().(*corev1.ReplicationController)
		return true, updated, nil
	})

	strategy := &RollingDeploymentStrategy{
		rcClient:    client.CoreV1(),
		eventClient: fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		initialStrategy: &testStrategy{
			deployFn: func(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int, updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected call to initial strategy")
				return nil
			},
		},
		rollingUpdate: func(config *RollingUpdaterConfig) error {
			return nil
		},
		hookExecutor: &hookExecutorImpl{
			executeFunc: func(hook *appsv1.LifecycleHook, deployment *corev1.ReplicationController, suffix, label string) error {
				return hookError
			},
		},
		getUpdateAcceptor: getUpdateAcceptor,
		apiRetryPeriod:    1 * time.Millisecond,
		apiRetryTimeout:   10 * time.Millisecond,
	}

	cases := []struct {
		params               *appsv1.RollingDeploymentStrategyParams
		hookShouldFail       bool
		deploymentShouldFail bool
	}{
		{rollingParams(appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort, ""), true, true},
		{rollingParams(appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort, ""), false, false},
		{rollingParams("", appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort), true, true},
		{rollingParams("", appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort), false, false},
	}

	for _, tc := range cases {
		config := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(2)
		config.Spec.Strategy.RollingParams = tc.params
		deployment, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(config)
		deployments[deployment.Name] = deployment
		hookError = nil
		if tc.hookShouldFail {
			hookError = fmt.Errorf("hook failure")
		}
		strategy.out, strategy.errOut = &bytes.Buffer{}, &bytes.Buffer{}
		err := strategy.Deploy(latest, deployment, 2)
		if err != nil && tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Logf("got expected error: %v", err)
		}
		if err == nil && tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Errorf("expected an error for case: %#v", tc)
		}
		if err != nil && !tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Errorf("unexpected error for case: %#v: %v", tc, err)
		}
	}
}

// TestRolling_deployInitialHooks can go away once the rolling strategy
// supports initial deployments.
func TestRolling_deployInitialHooks(t *testing.T) {
	var hookError error

	strategy := &RollingDeploymentStrategy{
		rcClient:    fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		eventClient: fake.NewSimpleClientset().CoreV1(),
		initialStrategy: &testStrategy{
			deployFn: func(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int,
				updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error {
				return nil
			},
		},
		rollingUpdate: func(config *RollingUpdaterConfig) error {
			return nil
		},
		hookExecutor: &hookExecutorImpl{
			executeFunc: func(hook *appsv1.LifecycleHook, deployment *corev1.ReplicationController, suffix, label string) error {
				return hookError
			},
		},
		getUpdateAcceptor: getUpdateAcceptor,
		apiRetryPeriod:    1 * time.Millisecond,
		apiRetryTimeout:   10 * time.Millisecond,
	}

	cases := []struct {
		params               *appsv1.RollingDeploymentStrategyParams
		hookShouldFail       bool
		deploymentShouldFail bool
	}{
		{rollingParams(appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort, ""), true, true},
		{rollingParams(appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort, ""), false, false},
		{rollingParams("", appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort), true, true},
		{rollingParams("", appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicyAbort), false, false},
	}

	for i, tc := range cases {
		config := appstest.OkDeploymentConfig(2)
		config.Spec.Strategy.RollingParams = tc.params
		deployment, _ := appsutil.MakeDeployment(config)
		hookError = nil
		if tc.hookShouldFail {
			hookError = fmt.Errorf("hook failure")
		}
		strategy.out, strategy.errOut = &bytes.Buffer{}, &bytes.Buffer{}
		err := strategy.Deploy(nil, deployment, 2)
		if err != nil && tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Logf("got expected error: %v", err)
		}
		if err == nil && tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Errorf("%d: expected an error for case: %v", i, tc)
		}
		if err != nil && !tc.deploymentShouldFail {
			t.Errorf("%d: unexpected error for case: %v: %v", i, tc, err)
		}
	}
}

type testStrategy struct {
	deployFn func(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int, updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error
}

func (s *testStrategy) DeployWithAcceptor(from *corev1.ReplicationController, to *corev1.ReplicationController, desiredReplicas int, updateAcceptor strat.UpdateAcceptor) error {
	return s.deployFn(from, to, desiredReplicas, updateAcceptor)
}

func mkintp(i int) *int64 {
	v := int64(i)
	return &v
}

func rollingParams(preFailurePolicy, postFailurePolicy appsv1.LifecycleHookFailurePolicy) *appsv1.RollingDeploymentStrategyParams {
	var pre *appsv1.LifecycleHook
	var post *appsv1.LifecycleHook

	if len(preFailurePolicy) > 0 {
		pre = &appsv1.LifecycleHook{
			FailurePolicy: preFailurePolicy,
			ExecNewPod:    &appsv1.ExecNewPodHook{},
		}
	}
	if len(postFailurePolicy) > 0 {
		post = &appsv1.LifecycleHook{
			FailurePolicy: postFailurePolicy,
			ExecNewPod:    &appsv1.ExecNewPodHook{},
		}
	}
	return &appsv1.RollingDeploymentStrategyParams{
		UpdatePeriodSeconds: mkintp(1),
		IntervalSeconds:     mkintp(1),
		TimeoutSeconds:      mkintp(20),
		Pre:                 pre,
		Post:                post,
	}
}

func getUpdateAcceptor(timeout time.Duration, minReadySeconds int32) strat.UpdateAcceptor {
	return &testAcceptor{
		acceptFn: func(deployment *corev1.ReplicationController) error {
			return nil
		},
	}
}

type testAcceptor struct {
	acceptFn func(*corev1.ReplicationController) error
}

func (t *testAcceptor) Accept(deployment *corev1.ReplicationController) error {
	return t.acceptFn(deployment)
}


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FOX 9 Town Ball Tour: Town ball in Howard Lake all about community
By Jeff Wald and FOX 9
HOWARD LAKE (FOX 9) - It takes a community that has a passion for baseball to make town ball work, and there's not a better example than Howard Lake.
It's not a Minnesota summer night without taking the family to the ballpark watching the local amateur team.
Week 3 of the Fox 9 Town Ball Tour brings us to Memorial Park in Howard Lake, also known as "The Orphanage." It's the home of the Howard Lake Orphans, a name the team has embraced since its start in 1995. Howard Lake is a small-town about an hour west of the Twin Cities with a little more than 2,000 residents, and they love their amateur baseball.
The Orphans have been to 11 of the last 13 Class C State Amateur Baseball Tournaments, and have made a run to the Final Four in two of them. They've finished their season at the state tournament the last two seasons. It's a community tradition that goes all the way back to the 1920s.
"The thing about it here is like most town teams, it's dedication. Some of these ballplayers on this team, at one time there was a lot ballplayers that played 10, 15, some even up to 20 years," said Dan Fogarty, who spent 21 years as the team's play-by-play announcer at Memorial Park. "You've got to be dedicated to do that."
Every Minnesota amateur ballpark has its signature, and it's no different in Howard Lake. That signature piece is the lake itself, which wraps around the entire outfield of the ballpark. It's a similar setup to McCovey Cove with the San Francisco Giants. They've also got a perfectly-placed American flag in dead center field, and seats right behind home plate that came from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
The ballpark has had a series of renovations, all with helping hands from members of the team itself and community volunteers.
They were also truly Orphans from May 2002 to June 2003. The Howard Lake area was drenched with more than 16 inches of rain over about a week. Memorial Field became part of the lake, and it was unplayable for more than a year.
The Orphans got their start in the 1920s as the Howard Lake Blue Sox. The team came to an end in the 1930s due to World War II. Don Mitchell brought the team back in 1947, but they didn't have a home field they regularly played at. Several players called themselves "The Orphans," and the nickname stuck.
The team disbanded in the 1960s, and returned in 1995 with the help of baseball-lifers Mike Gagnon, Kevin Gruenhagen and Bob Heber. It coincided with a work stoppage in Major League Baseball from August of 1994 to April of 1995.
"The thing about is it's small-town USA. You have to have something to do. The Twins were on strike so there was no baseball," Fogarty said. "The Orphans kind of started up and people were hungry for baseball and this is what they did, they came to the park and we've always had good support with the community."
Gagnon, Gruenhagen and Heber blended a mix of experienced players with a group that had just graduated high school.
"I think the community was excited about it. The Orphans had a proud tradition in the 40s, 50s and early 60s and I think there were some old timers that had fond memories of that era. There was support from the old veterans, so I think the community was ready for it," Gagnon said.
The Orphans are in the Northstar League, which includes Dassel-Cokato, Cokato, Loretto, Hutchinson, Delano, Maple Lake, Maple Plain, Buffalo, Litchfield and Waverly. Delano leads the league at 10-1, and Howard Lake is currently third at 7-4. The Orphans' opponent Wednesday, Cokato, is 5-4 on the season.
Gagnon's No. 10 was retired before Wednesday night's game against the Cokato Kernels, and he threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
For the Howard Lake Orphans, amateur baseball is all about the community. Like many Minnesota town teams, they're run largely by volunteers. City workers help maintain the field, and family of the players run the concession stand. They also have life-long fans who live just blocks from the ballpark.
"It's been a family thing. My wife has been real supportive. She was the leader of the concession stand, but both of us admit it takes a lot of people. It takes a lot of dedicated people behind the scenes that are willing to put in the volunteer hours," Gagnon said. "We certainly couldn't' do it by ourselves, it was that support that we felt from a lot of people."
Howard Lake is a gorgeous backdrop for an amateur team that now has had a place to call home since 1995.
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Two Indian technology companies – Synowledge and Aditi – are to create 75 jobs between them, it emerged as Ireland's Jobs Minister Richard Bruton, TD, leads a trade mission to India. Indian companies are understood to employ more than 3,000 people in the Republic of Ireland.
Aditi Technologies, a 'Cloud First' technology services company, is to establish its European Services and Business Development Centre in Dublin, with the creation of 40 local jobs.
Aditi has helped more than 150 companies run and transform their business with cloud platforms like Windows Azure, Salesforce.com, and Amazon Web Services.
"The Europe business of Aditi has been growing more than 50pc year-on-year, and from a standing start in 2007, is now 30pc of the business, with customers in retail, travel, and online betting and gaming," said Kaushik Banerjee, VP Europe, Aditi Technologies.
Synowledge, specialising in the provision of drug safety and regulatory affairs services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device sectors, is to establish an international headquarters in Dublin with the creation of 35 new high quality jobs.
Sankesh Abbhi, president and CEO of Synowledge, said: '"Having grown exponentially since we began operations in 2009, we were proud to be recognised recently as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Our growth is based on our focus on excellence, our people and our clients.
"We are able to manage such dynamic change because of our agility and ability to locate strategically to best serve our clients. Ireland was a logical choice for our international base to seamlessly connect with our US HQ and our delivery centres in Europe, India and Japan.
"This announcement by Synowledge that it is to establish its international headquarters in Dublin with the creation of 35 new high quality jobs is further endorsement of our ongoing efforts to attract new and innovative companies to invest and grow their business in Ireland," Bruton said.


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Health December 31, 2021 News
From Arizona Republic | Science
In Arizona, one thing is clear: omicron cases are trending upward, and fast. Compared with reports from other parts of the country, though, there has been a delay in the predominance of omicron in the mountain West, said David Engelthaler, director of the pathogen & microbiome division at TGen. But while there might be a lag between Arizona and other parts of the country, Engelthaler believes that more omicron cases are coming.
In Arizona, the variant's takeoff has not quite reached the levels of states like New York and California.
As the world waits for more data, Lim stressed the importance of genomic researchers staying vigilant so that leaders have a better sense of what lies ahead.
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