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Like Hillary Clinton, Colin Kaepernick has turned out to be a turd that just won't flush.
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And to keep his pockets full of entirely undeserved cash.
Kaepernick this week managed to net a cool $1 million in such a way that you're going to be hearing his name for some time to come.
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According to Page 6 of the New York Post, Kaepernick has secured a $1 million book deal with Random House imprint One World.
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And we wrote Deployinator, which is our in-house tool that we use to deploy code, and we open-sourced it because one of our principles is we want to share with the community. Rackspace at one point took Deployinator and rewrote a bunch of stuff and they were using it as their own deploying tool. I don't know if they still are today, but that was back in the early days when it first launched.
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As other people are considering adopting these methods of work, what kind of questions should they ask themselves to see if it's really for them?
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The most famous (and last known of record) heavyweight, bare-knuckle boxing champion is Boston's John L. Sullivan (1858 - 1918).
While growing up in Boston's South End neighborhood, Sullivan's Irish immigrant parents had committed their aspirations to his ascension into Roman Catholic priesthood. Instead, Sullivan turned to baseball after a short session at Boston College. As a semi- professional baseball player, Sullivan earned $40 per week and claimed to have been offered a contract with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, though unsubstantiated. Through baseball, Sullivan drifted into pugilism. At the time, Boston tendered an illicit culture of violence and gambling in the underground boxing scene and was incredibly popular. Sullivan was arrested several times in areas where the sport was outlawed and often traveled paying people to fight him. With friends like Teddy Roosevelt and fans like Jesse James, Sullivan was one of the most popular figures in American pop culture at the turn of the 20th century.


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In 1994, CAS underwent substantial changes in its structure and procedures. From 1983 until 1994, CAS was monitored and solely funded by the IOC. In 1994, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) was formed to administer and fund CAS. This change secured the independent status of CAS. The creation of ICAS and the changes in the structure of CAS were finalized in a document called the Paris Agreement. For a printed version of this agreement, see Digest of CAS Awards II 1998-2000 (Mattieu Reeb, ed. 2002), page 883 located in the Wolff Library at K3702.C68 2002.
The Code of Sports-related Arbitration spells out the two divisions of CAS: the Ordinary Arbitration Division and the Appeals Arbitration Division. The Ordinary Division functions as a court of sole instance. The Appeals Division hears cases brought to it on appeal from the various IFs and other sports organizations. CAS also has the power to issue advisory opinions. In rare instances, CAS decisions can be appealed to the Swiss Federal Tribunal. In addition to ordinary and appeals divisions, CAS forms special ad hoc divisions to hear urgent cases that arise during the Olympic Games. The turn-around time for arbitration decisions made by the ad hoc division is as short as 24 hours.
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St George's Hall murder mysteries challenge you to solve 'whodunnit'
Real-life historic crimes to be re-enacted by actors fr guests
Lovehistory's Murder at St George's Hall. Credit: Rhian Askins
Liverpool's most notorious historic crimes are set to be replayed in a murder mystery "whodunnit" at St George's Hall.
A team of 12 professional actors representing characters from real-life Liverpool murder cases will do their best to misguide, deceive and obscure the truth for guests at the event in September.
The guests meanwhile will meet both the accused, who will protest their innocence, and also the victims who will reveal the details of their murder.
It is their decision whether to send the accused to the gallows or grant them a reprieve.
Lovehistory has teamed up with the Grade I listed building in Lime Street to run the evening on Friday, September 13.
Up to 250 people will be treated to a three course meal in the Great Hall while witnessing Liverpool's most high-profile killings of the Victorian era and whose accused were tried in the hall's courts.
James Maybrick a Liverpool Cotton Merchant and his young wife Florence Maybrick
Each section of the hall will be named after a fictional detective including Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Phillip Marlow and Columbo.
Lovehistory's Judy McLean said: "St George's Hall will witness the return of some of Liverpool's most notorious murderers – Florence Maybrick, accused of poisoning her merchant husband; Elizabeth Berry, the infamous child killer; John McCrave, convicted of the brutal murder of Richard Morgan; the Black Widows of Liverpool, who poisoned for profit, and a number of other uninvited 'guests'.
"One of these departed souls has returned to commit murder – again! As the drama unfolds and the plot thickens, guests will dine in the splendour of the grand hall and will be asked to assist in a murder investigation that will reveal Liverpool's dark and disturbing history."
St George's Hall manager Alan Smith added: "The hall's historical past will be revealed and interpreted in a completely new and dynamic way. Charles Dickens would be delighted!"
Murder at St George's Hall is on September 13. Tickets are £38 including dinner. For further information visit www.lovehistory.co.uk


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The new school year is all set to begin and students all around are gearing up to face a fresh beginning to a new year. While students are anticipating the usual challenges of math, science, and reading along with the fun of PE, art, and music, the students of Queen of Apostles Elementary School are also expected to meet the Schoolwide Learning Expectations (SLEs) based on the school's mission. These expectations consist of being a Caring Christian, an Active Learner, a Self Confident and Responsible Individual, and a Healthy Individual. A Caring Christian is someone who is actively involved in his/her community. An Active Learner takes pride in all of his/her work and gives his/her best through his/her education. A Self-Confident and Responsible Individual is someone who takes responsibility for his/her actions and displays a "Never Give Up" mentality. A Healthy Individual aims at being healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
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The Tottenham, Chelsea, Everton, WBA and QPR giants who fired my youth
March 24, 2015 by Colin Randall
Jimmy Greaves
Peter Bonetti
Jeff Astle
Dave Mackay
Alex Young
Rodney Marsh (see footnote*)
Ken Gambles is Sunderland through and through. But the recent death of Dave Mackay got him thinking back to some of the giants of English football seen in his student days. Let Ken reacquaint older readers with – and introduce younger ones to – some of the players who gave him such pleasure without ever pulling on the red and white stripes of Sunderland …
One of the many unfortunate aspects of being in one's 60s is that every month seems to bring news of the death of a footballer who was a big part of growing up.
The most recent is the passing away of Dave Mackay, a terrific player for the Spurs side which, before it became relatively commonplace, achieved the elusive double by beating Leicester City 2-0 at Wembley in 1961 (watched on telly in good old black and white).
Ken Gambles: 'wishing Jimmy Greaves and Rodney Marsh had been Mackems'
He, of course, went on to play and manage with distinction at Derby County. I suppose from the early years of life to becoming a young adult we are at our most impressionable and emotional, and recently I've begun to realise just how much I admired some of the players for teams other than Sunderland. I certainly would never place them above my real heroes like Monty, Charlie Hurley and Neil Martin nor in later years Marco, Superkev or Sir Niall, yet looking back some players were a genuine pleasure to watch.
Probably the best goalscorer I ever have seen is Jimmy Greaves. Being at university in the late 60s and living in north London, I was able to watch Spurs fairly regularly. At that time they had some fine players, although the crowd could be a bit fickle.
Greaves was an absolute delight, skipping around defenders' tackles, hurdling the keeper and finishing off moves with precision. I can almost forgive him the four he scored against us in a 5-1 defeat all (if memory serves) from inside the box. I wasn't pleased at the time though, I can assure you.
I am sure he never dived or simulated injury or tried to con a penalty "a la Premiership" but stayed on his feet, as scoring was foremost in his mind.
There is a story that when he was playing for Chelsea youths and scored seven, his coach at the time, Ted Drake, who had himself hit seven for Arsenal first team in the 1930s, told him to remember the day as he would never score seven again. The next week Greaves scored eight!
Possibly my most vivid recollection is getting in late to White Hart Lane. Just as I caught m first view of the proceedings, Greaves collected a ball, skipped past about five Leicester defenders in and around the box then slotted it neatly past Peter Shilton in goal. Wonderful. What a really marvellous player he was.
At this period the quality of England goalkeepers was very high which prevented Jim Montgomery from gaining the cap I always felt he deserved, being behind Banks and Shilton in the pecking order.
Another keeper I greatly admired though was Peter Bonetti "the cat" of Chelsea. Sadly his performance in Mexico in the World Cup quarter-final 3-2 defeat to West Germany coloured most people's opinion of him, yet week after week he turned in superb performances in goal for Chelsea, being almost balletic in the way he leapt for crosses, catching them cleanly.
This was in the days of cotton gloves, no Sepp Maier-type "shovels" and less protection from referees. Not a huge keeper, he would acrobatically fling himself bravely at the feet of forwards in a mudbath of a penalty area. He was a superb shot-stopper and it's a shame he became tarnished by one bad game. What stays with me is not that game, but his consistently heroic performances season after season for "The Pensioners" (remember that nickname?).
This leads neatly onto another player whose reputation also suffered after the 1970 World Cup.
Jeff Astle was your typical old-fashioned centre-forward, peerless in the air, always a real handful for defenders and a lethal finisher.
He led the West Brom line with distinction and I always relished his hard but fair approach to the game, except when he was playing against us, of course. He was rightly capped by England but unfortunately is remembered by many for his miss against Brazil.
As with Peter Bonetti it seems unjust that years of excellence can be forgotten when set against one bad game, or even one bad miss. He gave memorable service to the Baggies and was always a pleasure to watch.
Another forward who stood out in this era and was one to admire was Alex Young of Everton. He played in the fine Everton side that won the League in 1963 and played at Wembley where a 3-2 win saw off Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup Final of 1966.
Young was readily noticeable for his blond hair but more so for his silky skills and reading of the play. He was a totally different leader of the line than Jeff Astle, but just as impressive, at times making the game look easy with his sublime skills. It was a privilege to watch him play.
Danny Blanchflower coined the sobriquet for Young, "The Golden Vision", which summed up concisely his impact on football and on Toffees fans in particular. In fact there was a TV drama from the late 60s called The Golden Vision, an entertaining hour or hour and a half about fictional Everton fans on a day out for a match in Newcastle. I think it was written by Jack Rosenthal.
My final choice in some ways surprises myself for I've never been a fan of the brilliant yet cocky and arrogant sportsman such as Gazza or Kevin Pietersen or Jimmy Connors, but I'll make an exception for Rodney Marsh.
For sheer unadulterated enjoyment (the exact opposite of current fare at the SoL), a trip to Loftus Road in the late 60s was unforgettable. It was football with a smile on its face and being Division 2 (the present Championship) meant that results had no bearing on Sunderland's progress.
Marsh was entertainer supreme, hamming it up for the crowd with his skilful tricks, yet his ball control, vision and finishing were first class. I imagine it must have been similar to watching Shackleton at Roker, although this was before my time.
With today's wall-to-wall coverage it's easy perhaps to get sated with football, seeing too much of players, with cameras covering every angle and every goal, whereas years ago it was more special to watch footballers in the flesh or in brief highlights on television.
There certainly seemed more engagement then and more allure. Or more likely I'm just growing too old.
* The photographs are taken from Nigel Mercer's fascinating Australian website, Nigel's WebSpace. Nigel has kindly given me permission to use examples from his site,which you the check out. It is a goldmine for anyone interested in football history.
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Steve, I've just read an article in this month's 'Backpass' magazine that suggests Stan 'threw' a final for QPR in the Daily Express 5-a-side final in the seventies.
Steve Colwell
Wouldn't surprise me at all, but he certainly could play football, and would probably have got more £s from the owner by playing well and scoring goals, so I suggest it's just fanciful thinking 😉
You are right Tony, it was a trip to Arsenal and the play was written by Gordon Honeycombe (newsreader. Remember him?) Ken Loach was the director. Google is great isn't it ? As for Stan Bowles, he was an exciting player but an inveterate gambler. Didn't he win a bet by knocking the FA Cup off its pedestal at Roker in the game just after the Cup Final ?Thanks for the comments .There aren't too many of us oldie footy fans left.
Yes, Ken, he did, and apparently upset a few Mackems to boot, sorry about that! 😉
A lovely article Ken, which resonates with others of a certain age.
Yes Steve, Stan Bowles was a huge favourite of mine as a lad. Football and footballers were so different in those days.
Nice one! In my yoof, I was a big fan of Jimmy Greaves (I played inside right for my primary school team, hopefully emulating him!), he could sure score the goals, I was OK…
And Dave Mackay could sure stop inside rights! Strong, hard as nails, but not dirty. Broke his leg twice, I seem to remember, yet kept coming back.
Significantly, for my first ever football match, I was taken to the Chelsea v Spurs match on 21st September 1963, shortly after my 8th birthday. My mum took me, and my older brother (Chelsea fan, and still a season ticket holder there, but I wont hold that against him) and a mate of his. We stood up in the 'Shed' (I sat on a stanchion) and Spurs and Chelsea fans just passed banter to and fro, no trouble… Spurs won 3-0, and Blanchflower played too, of course, and the legendary John White, the year before he sadly died, a great footballer too.
And, of course, I have to mention Rodnee, me being a QPR fan since I started going to football with mates rather than with family, certainly a great entertainer, and we were blessed with Stan Bowles shortly after Rodnee left for Man City.
However, the 1970s were more of an exciting memory for me, despite QPR being the first team to win the League Cup at Wembley in 1967 etc etc, because we had THAT team for the 1975-76 season, when we came so close to being champions, which I can't see ever happening again in my lifetime.
Anyway, I loved the article, and it brought back great footballing memories, cheers!
Tony Ateman
Great read Ken,
It was better in those days!
The programme "The Golden Vision" was about Everton fans going to an Arsenal game in a "borrowed" removal van as I remember.
Thanks for appreciating Alex Young.
As an Everton fan I certainly remember and appreciate Charlie Hurley, not so much when he (and his team mates) beat us 3-1 at Roker in the Cup one year!
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package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.Druid;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.collections.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Areas.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Behaviors.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.CharClasses.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Commands.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Common.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Exits.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Items.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Locales.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.MOBS.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.interfaces.*;

import java.util.*;

@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public class Chant_Worms extends Chant implements DiseaseAffect
{
	@Override public String ID() { return "Chant_Worms"; }
	private final static String localizedName = CMLib.lang()._("Worms");
	@Override public String name() { return localizedName; }
	private final static String localizedStaticDisplay = CMLib.lang()._("(Worms)");
	@Override public String displayText() { return localizedStaticDisplay; }
	@Override public int classificationCode(){return Ability.ACODE_CHANT|Ability.DOMAIN_ANIMALAFFINITY;}
	@Override public int abstractQuality(){return Ability.QUALITY_MALICIOUS;}
	@Override public int abilityCode(){return 0;}
	@Override public int spreadBitmap() { return 0; }
	@Override public int difficultyLevel(){return 1;}

	int plagueDown=5;

	@Override
	public String getHealthConditionDesc()
	{
		return "Internally infested by numerous worm-like parasites.";
	}

	@Override
	public boolean tick(Tickable ticking, int tickID)
	{
		if(!(affected instanceof MOB))
			return super.tick(ticking,tickID);

		if(!super.tick(ticking,tickID))
			return false;
		final MOB mob=(MOB)affected;
		mob.curState().adjHunger(-100,mob.maxState().maxHunger(mob.baseWeight()));
		if((--plagueDown)<=0)
		{
			plagueDown=5;
			if(invoker==null) invoker=mob;
			final int dmg=((mob.phyStats().level()+(2*super.getXLEVELLevel(invoker())))/4)+1;
			CMLib.combat().postDamage(invoker,mob,this,dmg,CMMsg.TYP_DISEASE,-1,"<T-NAME> feel(s) <T-HIS-HER> innards being consumed by worms!");
		}
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public void affectCharStats(MOB affected, CharStats affectableStats)
	{
		super.affectCharStats(affected,affectableStats);
		if(affected==null) return;
		affectableStats.setStat(CharStats.STAT_CONSTITUTION,affectableStats.getStat(CharStats.STAT_CONSTITUTION)-1);
		affectableStats.setStat(CharStats.STAT_STRENGTH,affectableStats.getStat(CharStats.STAT_STRENGTH)-1);
	}

	@Override
	public void unInvoke()
	{
		// undo the affects of this spell
		if(!(affected instanceof MOB))
			return;
		final MOB mob=(MOB)affected;

		super.unInvoke();

		if(canBeUninvoked())
			if((mob.location()!=null)&&(!mob.amDead()))
			{
				spreadImmunity(mob);
				mob.location().show(mob,null,CMMsg.MSG_OK_VISUAL,_("<S-YOUPOSS> worms disease is cured."));
			}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean invoke(MOB mob, Vector commands, Physical givenTarget, boolean auto, int asLevel)
	{
		final MOB target=this.getTarget(mob,commands,givenTarget);
		if(target==null) return false;

		if(!super.invoke(mob,commands,givenTarget,auto,asLevel))
			return false;

		final boolean success=proficiencyCheck(mob,0,auto);
		if(success)
		{
			// it worked, so build a copy of this ability,
			// and add it to the affects list of the
			// affected MOB.  Then tell everyone else
			// what happened.
			final CMMsg msg=CMClass.getMsg(mob,target,this,verbalCastCode(mob,target,auto)|CMMsg.MASK_MALICIOUS,auto?"":_("^S<S-NAME> chant(s) at <T-NAMESELF>!^?"));
			final CMMsg msg2=CMClass.getMsg(mob,target,this,verbalCastMask(mob,target,auto)|CMMsg.TYP_DISEASE,null);
			if((mob.location().okMessage(mob,msg))&&(mob.location().okMessage(mob,msg2)))
			{
				mob.location().send(mob,msg);
				mob.location().send(mob,msg2);
				if((msg.value()<=0)&&(msg2.value()<=0))
				{
					invoker=mob;
					maliciousAffect(mob,target,asLevel,688,-1);
					mob.location().show(target,null,CMMsg.MSG_OK_VISUAL,_("<S-NAME> feel(s) very sick in the stomach!"));
				}
				else
					spreadImmunity(target);
			}
		}
		else
			return maliciousFizzle(mob,target,_("<S-NAME> chant(s) at <T-NAMESELF>, but nothing happens."));

		// return whether it worked
		return success;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Last week, Modern Musings: On the Creative Life touched on a few ideas that have been circulating online and on conversations on airplanes. I began by discussing the popularity of a Canadian professor of psychology at my alma mater, The University of Toronto. I mused on some of the contraries he presents in his lectures and touches on in the excerpts of writing I'v read: chaos and order, feminine and masculine, left brain and right brain. I introduced another approach to the philosophy of contraries referring to W.B. Yeats "Amongst School Children." I emphasized how play and discipline shape learning.
One reason I chose to leave Jordan Peterson name out of last week's musing was that I'd grown fatigued at hearing it. I refused to read his book, not out of any fear of his ideas, but because I simply grew tired of engaging with the name and the prominence of his ideas. I'd hit breaking point. Everyone was asking abroad if I knew him. From teenagers denouncing feminism to heteronormative men telling me how much they admired Jordan Peterson's position at the university in his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns, I had heard enough. What's more, I couldn't open a newspaper without seeing his face.
To be clear, I do not know this man personally, so this is not an ad hominem attack on Jordan Peterson. But much of my resistance to Jordan Peterson has to do with his his views on transgenderism. He misrepresented Canada's Bill-16, an amendment to the Canadian Human Rights Act. He exaggerated the consequences of not honouring the rights of transgender people to choose to be referred to by a non binary pronoun.
"I prefer not to" announces Bartleby to his boss in Herman Melville's "Bartleby: The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street." Peterson preferred "not to" use gender neutral, trans-friendly pronouns if he was asked to at U of T. He refused to be legislated to do so. Peterson suggested to the public that he risked being fired by his employer. He conflated the bill with a kind Stalinism, ironically engendering his own red scare, similar to McCarthyism.
His representations of the bill were inaccurate.
In response, I refused to engage much with his ideas, even as they spread like wildfire in the wake of this controversy. Why? "Just because." Or, "I prefer[red] not to."
Employed as a clerk on Wall Street, the scrivener Bartleby politely but firmly defies the instructions of his employer. When asks him to leave the office, Bartleby says: "I prefer not to." Eventually, his employer leaves. The building is left to Bartleby, still in state of polite protest. His employer sets up his office elsewhere. And Bartleby stays, continually "prefer[ring] not to" move an inch.
Is Bartelby a model of civil disobedience? Or just a stubborn scribe? The scrivener ends up in prison. But Bartleby has freed himself of writing copy for Wall Street.
Is JP his own Bartleby, a man who, in his own form of civil disobedience, says: "I prefer not" to use transgender pronouns?
Or is JP a man who "prefer[s] not to" be legislated to oblige others' wishes?
His job is not threatened. In Canada, unless our tongues lash hate speech, we have basic freedom of speech in this country. People can speak their minds and misgender someone in speech without fear of retribution or threats to their employment.
However, unlike Bartleby, Peterson said a lot more than "I prefer not to."
Bartleby stays rather silent in his protest of the legislation of his employer. Peterson, on the other hand, has spoken ad infinitum in public about the necessities of maintaining the order of feminine and masculine pronouns.
Sometimes if I wonder if that emphasis in the cultural currency of his ideas comes back altogether to his views on transgenderism, and his resistance to use non-binary pronouns. That said, he's free to share his ideas.
To be factual, Bill C-16 acknowledges the rights of transgender people to identify and request to be referred to as "they" or "zie" or "zir." But it implies absolutely no risk of imprisonment nor termination of employment should someone "prefer not to" use those pronouns. But Peterson widely represented himself as threatened. Maybe he was afraid?
In response to the wave of readers of his theories, all those who tell me I ought to read his book, for now I adopt the words of Bartleby, the scrivener: "I prefer not to." "I prefer not to" read what the dominant culture uses as a reference point.
One of the reasons "I prefer not to" is that if I mention his name, that is Jordan Peterson's, I am constantly called out for not knowing what he is actually saying. That said, since I'm no longer an academic, my purpose now lies less in writing thesis-style sets of arguments with meticulously referenced and sourced dialogues with a texts. Perhaps now and again, if fancy calls, I will attend a conference or two in Malta, LA, or Ireland, but for now, I'm all for fancy and trivial words. My cerebral cortex needs a breather, a freedom not to engage with theorists I don't fancy.
What are those trivial words? Children's stories, lyrics for the guitar, scripts and screenplays. It's time to call on my inner dilettante and give her the freedom to write paper bag prose, poems with poor line breaks, ruptured choreographies. When I find the time, I'll transcribe travel journals, copy-and-paste text from ticket stubs to museums, collate and reference, archive and imagine, all in artful ways. I write what I want to read, which these days is full of play. Because I figure there just must be people like me out there with a thirst for non-binary cross-disciplinary dance between ideas, languages, forms--and genders. After all, it is summer.
For my last musing, I preferred not to read Peterson's bestselling book 12 Rules for Life cover-to-cover. That said, I have a new conceit for this series. By the time I finish writing The Map is Not the Territory, that is, these interconnected articles on mythology, the imagination, neuroscience, archetypes, and how all those ideas might intersect in historical consciousness, contemporary culture and in the minds of individuals, I will read, in its entirety 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. I will do so having dabbled in the source texts that Mr. Peterson admires and references for his theories.
Should the fates bring us together, that is JP's and mine, I will be better equipped to have an intelligent conversation on chaos and order, masculine and feminine, mythology and neuroscience with that professor. Or, I will use JP's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos as a creative constraint write my first pop-psychology long poem: 12 Fools for Love: An Antidote to Order. It promises to offer readers evidence-based ways to use writing and the imagination to free up the constructs of their biases in their writing. It will give the reader ways of viewing the heart of writing, moving away from its hierarchies and towards astonishment. It may help readers adopt a beginners' mind. Why get stuck in the cliches of our Western culture of masculine and feminine, chaos and order, brain and body? The book will use the breath and the mind and the skin to interrupt neurological biases towards negativity, or any negative chatter that is destroying our brains.
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Umair Hoodbhoy – Enterprise Networking and Cloud
Cisco UCS Manager – Orchestration Done Right
November 28, 2012 Umair Hoodbhoy	Leave a comment
Earlier this month Cisco announced General Availability of UCS Central – a manager of managers. Given Cisco's string of failures when venturing outside its comfort zone (think Flip and Cius), few expected anything different when Cisco entered the servers market in 2009. But instead it has been a resounding success. UCS has become the fastest growing business in Cisco history with over fifteen thousand customers and over a $1 billion annual revenue. It is already the #2 blade server market share leader in North America. Why has it done so well?
I believe one of the main reasons is that its management software, UCS Manager, delivers one thing that SDN also promises – High Level Orchestration. Before UCS Manager, administrators, such as Chris Atkinson, had to write their own scripts to configure and maintain BIOS configs, RAID configs, and firmware configs. With UCS Manager, this information is kept in a Service Profile. When a blade dies, the blade does not need to be removed and ports do not need to be updated. Just move the Service Profile to a new blade via software. Need to repurpose a physical server for a different department? Just create a new Service Profile and reassign the blade server to that Service Profile without recabling or moving metal, all within a matter of seconds. You would expect such agility with moving virtual machines, not physical machines!
In one of my past lives I used to work very closely with CiscoWorks. UCS Manager does a far better job at managing servers than CiscoWorks did at managing routers and switches. CiscoWorks was rigid and far too dependent on CLI (Telnet/SSH) and SNMP MIB modules for accessing and managing devices. UCS Manager, with its single-wire management and XML API, is more flexible and integrates with third party systems management tools, which allows for more agile deployments. My understanding is that the same APIs are opened up in UCS Central. Let's see whether it can be as successful as UCS Manager.
Death to the CLI
November 22, 2012 Umair Hoodbhoy	2 Comments
One of the selling points of Cisco's Nexus 1000V virtual switch is that it provides network administrators with a familiar way of configuration, namely the CLI. The Nexus 1000V is built on NX-OS and is accessible via SSH. This was intended to give network engineers the familiar look and feel to perform their duties that they didn't have with the hypervisor's native vSwitch.
I understand the need for separation of duty and that is what any dedicated management interface of switch provides. And I appreciate that the Nexus 1000V offers many rich features that most soft switches don't, such as L2/L3 ACLs, link aggregation, port monitoring, and some of the more advanced STP knobs like BPDU Guard. What I don't appreciate is clinging on to an archaic mode of configuration.
When I took my CCIE lab, Cisco provided a single reference CD-ROM, known as UniverCD or DocCD. Many tasks required knowledge of esoteric commands. One of the first steps any competent test-taker would take would be to use the alias command to define short cuts. For example, show ip route might become sir. Network engineers often take great pride in the aliases they define and the Expect/Perl/Python scripts they've written to automate tasks. They rave about the amount of time saved. Of course all of this would break when new CLI commands were created by the vendor that conflicted with existing aliases.
In one of my past roles I was one of five engineers who used to frequently make firewall rule changes to ASAs. All of us were CCIEs, but none of us used the CLI to make the changes. Instead we preferred to use ASDM, the GUI element manager. Sure it was buggy and handled concurrent changes poorly, but at least the changes made were accurate. Adding a single rule isn't as simple as adding a single line. In most cases you have to edit object groups and make sure there are no overlapping or conflicting rules. Trusting a human to do this accurately every time is like trusting someone to have a 5-hour daily drive for work and never get into an accident.
There is a smarter way to do configuration management. Make the network programmable. Offer APIs to developers that are stateful and intelligent. Obviously, the rebuttal from Nexus 1000V loyalists is that engineers are familiar with NX-OS and would therefore be more comfortable with the CLI. But that's a step in the wrong direction. When I look back at how much time gets wasted by network engineers in creating simple automation tasks such as macros, I realize this is one of the reasons networking has lagged behind compute technologies. Network engineers should not have to write their own scripts to make their own lives easier. Applications should be doing this for them. Let the network engineers focus on their job, which is optimizing how packets need to get sent from source to destination – as quickly, reliably, and securely as possible.
SDN – What's in a Name? Part 3
This is the third part of my series of posts on trends of vendors to latch on to the SDN bandwagon. For more information, refer to parts 1 and 2. In this post I discuss how a few of the services vendors have responded to the buzz around Software Defined Networking.
Riverbed claimed it was riding the SDN wave at VMworld 2012 when it announced its latest release of Cascade. However, they went by the second definition I used in Part 1, which says that SDN decouples physical and virtual networks or overlays (not Control Plane and Data Plane as the other definition emphasizes). The difference is subtle. Riverbed partnered with VMware to develop the IPFIX record format that can provide VXLAN tenant traffic information as well as VLAN tunnel endpoint information. Thus, they claim, Cascade is SDN-ready because it is VXLAN-aware.
Silver Peak also pumped its chest at VMworld 2012 with its Agility announcement, which is a plug-in for VMware vCenter. Agility allows administrators to enable acceleration between workloads within vCenter using the vSphere interface that server administrators are familiar with. This requires Silver Peak's Virtual Appliance to already exist within vCenter. Almost three months after the announcement, details are extremely thin. Silver Peak has been drooling about Nicira ever since the SDN champion was acquired by VMware. Indeed, all you have to do is Google Nicira and Silver Peak and observe all the enthusiasm that Silver Peak has shown for Nicira. But the feelings are not mutual. Silver Peak claims it is working with Nicira and leveraging Nicira's Open vSwitch, but Nicira/VMware have made no such announcements. In fact, there are no further details about this relationship on Silver Peak's own website.
Exinda is so far behind on the SDN learning curve that the only mention of SDN on its website is a hyperlink to the SDN Wikipedia page in a blog post written by the VP of Marketing that reported his observations from Interop 2012. Clearly Exinda has a long way to go before its SDN strategy can be taken seriously.
As of VMworld 2012, F5's Big-IP products can support native VXLAN functionality and will be have VXLAN virtual tunneling endpoint capabilities in the first half of 2013. What that exactly means is vague at this time. The press statement I linked to is the only mention of Big-IP's current SDN capabilities. My guess is that they've opened up some APIs to VMware to allow programmability.
Embrane uses an under-the-cloud approach of offering cloud providers a platform that delivers elastic Layer 4-7 network services to their customers. The services include Load Balancer, Firewall, and VPN. Embrane's heleos architecture is a radical solution that comprises the Elastic Services Manager (a provisioning tool) and the Distributed Virtual Appliance, the latter being a logical network services container instantiated across a pool of general-purpose x86 servers. The issue likely to raise eyebrows is that each service that is part of their platform is a wrapper around an open source distribution. I haven't heard of too many providers willing to vouch for ipchains as a Firewall.
Palo Alto Networks earned its stripes by making its firewall appliances with merchant silicon. To stay ahead in the SDN era, it announced a technology partnership with Citrix in October 2012, but has not yet released a product offering.
Big Switch Networks, a leading SDN player, announced, on November 13, 2012, its ecosystem of Technology Alliance Partners that included Palo Alto Networks. However, Palo Alto Networks has not mentioned this on their website, which is odd given that partnerships are what have made Palo Alto the hugely successful company it is today. One would expect them to be on top of it.
So there are no SDN-friendly firewalls currently on the market other than Cisco's Nexus 1000V portfolio, which includes VSG and ASA 1000V Cloud firewall.
It appears, from these observations, as though partnerships are key to ousting incumbents in the SDN world. Much of SDN support at this time is just hype, but sellable products will come out soon. The industry also needs the open source movement to challenge the VMware-centric ecosystem to enable a higher level of interoperability and allow for more flexible orchestration and programmability. OpenStack is that approach. More to follow in future posts.
November 9, 2012 Umair Hoodbhoy	2 Comments
In Part 1 of this series I outlined two of the more commonly accepted definitions of SDN. In this post I discuss how pure play networking vendors have tried to create solutions and package them as SDN.
Cisco announced onePK, a developer kit for their new Open Network Environment (ONE), which, in turn, they announced at Cisco Live this year. onePK is yet to actually be released as of this post. It essentially is a set of APIs that developers can use to interact with their Cisco gear instead of the Northbound and Southbound APIs that I referred to in Part 1. In the onePK APIs, an Open Flow agent can run in IOS, IOS XR, or NX-OS as speak with an Open Flow controller on the 'north' side and the openPK API on the 'south' side. As you can surmise, this leaves the Control Plane and the Data Plane still in the Cisco device. The reason for Cisco to do this are quite clear: Cisco feels threatened by SDN's potential.
The biggest networking news item in 2012 was VMWare's $1.26 billion acquisition of Nicira. Nicira was, after all, the pioneer of Open Flow and the SDN movement. People began to realize that after a decade of slow progress, networking was finally growing up. It manifested the networking industry's readiness to keep up with server virtualization. However, that didn't mean that VMWare started outselling Cisco overnight. Contrary to popular belief, the biggest revolution to hit the networking industry in the past five years is not Software Defined Networking. It is the advent of merchant silicon.
Merchant silicon is the reason why firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks, WAN Optimization Controllers such as Infineta, and data center switches such as Arista can exist. By using off-the-shelf silicon, they can deliver superior value by focusing on software. Pure-play giants like Cisco, who have invested a lot time and money in custom ASICs, are seeing their margins plummet because competitors can offer comparable value for much lower prices. Recently, Alcatel-Lucent outbid Cisco by $100 million to win a network infrastructure refresh project with the 23-campus California State University. Clearly trends like SDN, VM mobility, or DCI are not high priorities for everyone.
The insecurity that Cisco feels from SDN is the reason they want to to remain at the center of the ecosystem. With Cisco onePK, control remains on the Cisco device as Omar Sultan of Cisco describes. Thus, the controller that communicates with an Open Flow agent is quite different than the centralized controller envisioned by the Open Network Foundation (ONF). Cisco will make several announcements of other environments, platforms, and products that are iterative changes in reality to demonstrate that they are playing along. However, they will not release control of their market share by, for example, making a dumb switch running an Open Flow agent, and whose forwarding tables can be manipulated by standards.
In October 2012, Cisco acquired vCider as part of their SDN strategy, specifically to enhance their involvement in OpenStack. Of course, there is also a Cisco spin-off Insieme, now rumored at over 150 employees dedicated to building SDN solutions and platforms from ground up.
Brocade, another pure play networking giant, claimed their November 2012 acquisition of Vyatta was an SDN win. Brent Salisbury agrees. However, as Greg Ferro put it, the products are not SDN today.
In Part 3, I will wrap up this series of posts on vendors who have claimed SDN compliance by discussing some vendors that focus on Services, such as WAN Optimization, Firewalls, and Load Balancers.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been around since 2011 or so and, along with network virtualization, is the networking industry's response to server virtualization, which has been around for much longer. Despite being such a hot topic in forums, there is unfortunately a lot of uncertainty as to what SDN actually means, let alone what vendors promise to deliver. What SDN is depends on who you ask. It is comforting to know that at least the acronym is defined as the Security community has been calling for Security Defined Networking!
One of the more commonly accepted definitions of SDN is that it is the separation of the Control Plane and the Data Plane enabled by a centralized Controller. Under this definition Southbound APIs are needed between the Controller and the switches. Well known examples are OpenFlow and NETCONF. Likewise, Northbound APIs are needed between the Controller and the users. However, as Ivan Pepelnjak mentions, there are no Northbound APIs defined yet. Commercial (e.g. HP, NEC, and IBM) and Open Source (e.g. NOX and POX) Controllers already exist today. Whether they are actually shipping or have only been announced are defined on SDN Central.
Another way of thinking of SDN is that it is a programmatic way of isolating Virtual Overlay Networks from each other and from physical networks. In other words, SDN extends Virtualized Data Centers and Virtual Overlay Networks, thereby ensuring VM mobility in a scalable manner. (Overlay networks themselves are not new. The Internet itself started as an overlay layer to PSTNs. Ironically, fast forward a couple of decades and now VoIP is overlaid on IP networks.) Virtualized networks need overlays to support multi tenancy and VM mobility (elastic demand of virtual machines). Under this definition, the programmability that SDN offers can enable VM mobility in a flexible and agile manner. Common use cases of VM mobility are bringing up entire Data Centers during rolling brownouts, and being able to launch Dev Test environment on the fly.
As you can see, the definitions have nothing to do with each other. However, people try to find commonalities in them. In parts 2 and 3, I will detail the approach taken by some networking vendors to claim their SDN compliance.
October 16, 2012 Umair Hoodbhoy	Leave a comment
I have been planning, designing, building, implementing, analyzing, operating, and supporting networks since 1996. Not to mention the things they glue together. I have worked for networking vendors, been a customer of networking vendors, and delivered professional services to customers of networking vendors. I am CCIE #11857 and rubbed shoulders with Milton Friedman apologists while earning my MBA at Chicago Booth. (I personally subscribe to the Richard Thaler libertarian paternalism school of thought, better known as Nudging.)
With this varied background, occasionally I feel the need for an outlet when I sense déjà vu in the networking industry or process an acquisition announcement or learn about a cool new feature or something along those lines. Hence I've started this blog.
I hope you find my musings interesting, informative, and perhaps even helpful. I look forward to discussing topics related to LANs, WANs, SDNs, Data Centers, IPv6, and yes, even Cloud. Moreover, I will try to make it more than just about the technology.
And in case you were wondering, No, my next post will not be entitled SYN-ACK. Unless there has been a man-in-the-middle attack.
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Q: Transform a list of lists into another format I have a list of lists that looks like this:
names_list = [
["first='Katie'", "last='Beckett'"],
["first='David'", "last='Seal'"],
["first='Eric'", "last='Swartz'"]
]

I want to transform it into this format:
object.filter(first='Katie', last="Beckett') | object.filter(first='David', last='Seal' | object.filter(first='Eric', last="Swartz')

This is what I've been trying:
def convert(list):
    for i in list:
        return reduce(lambda x,y: objects.filter + '(' + x + ', ' + y + ')' , i)

map(lambda i: convert(i), names_list ))

A: The "programming by accident" approach (ie trying anything aphazardly without the slightest understanding and hoping it will magically "kind of work") won't take you very far. You need to understand what you're doing and why.
First point: your target is a Python expression, not data, so what you want is not to "transform" your source data "into another format" but to dynamically build (and eval) the expression from your source data.
Second point: your source data format is just plain wrong, you don't want litteral "first=<...>" strings here but very obviously a list of dicts ie:
names_list = [
    {"first":'Katie', "last":'Beckett'},
    {"first":'David', "last":'Seal'},
    {"first":'Eric', "last":'Swartz'}
    ]

This allow you to use dict unpacking in a function call, ie:
 target = names_list[0]
 result = object.filter(**target)

Third point: objects.filter + '(' + x + ', ' + y + ')' doesn't mean anything - trying to add a function and a string just won't work. Don't try to build Python expressions as string anyway, Python is expressive and dynamic enough to let you solve those kind of problems without such dirty hacks.
What you want here is to 1. build a sequence of calls (well results of the calls that is) to object.filter() then 2. "or" these results together.
The first step is quite easy:
items = [object.filter(**target) for target in names_list]

The second step is to "reduce" this sequence using the "biwise or" operator (|). reduce() is indeed the right function for this, you just need a function taking two of your items and "or'ing" them. The naive approach is to use a lambda:
result = reduce(lambda y, x: x | y, items)

but this is a case of reinventing the wheel since Python's operators (well, most of them) exist in a function version in the operator module:
import operator
result = reduce(operator.or_, items)

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Hemispheric specialisation in normal and disturbed development
Several studies were performed to search for the mechanisms and principles underlying the functional capacities of the two hemispheres. The studies performed both on patients with brain lesions and normal subjects showed that a variety of functions (e. g. perception of faces, stereoscopic depth, spatial frequency, visual illusion, tilt effects and other visual-spatial patterns) is mediated primarily by the right hemisphere. Moreover, they provided evidence that hemispheric differences may emerge at relatively early stage of processing. This changed the widely accepted view, which attributed the functional brain asymmetry to processes that occur at a higher cognitive level. Our data pointed to the importance of callosal communication. The accumulated data allowed to formulate a new dynamic model in which hemispheric specialisation is conceptualised as a complex system of different asymmetrically represented modules tied by callosal pathways that serve to integrate the operations carried out by those modules The research concerned also a controversial issue of the relationship between handedness and cerebral organisation. We have found that this relationship is modified by the sex factor.
Grabowska A, Nowicka A, Szymańska O, Szatkowska I. Subjective contours illusion: sex related effect of unilateral brain damage. NeuroReport, 12: 2289-2292, 2001
Grabowska A, Nowicka A, Szymańska O. Sex related effect of unilateral brain lesions on the perception of the Mueller-Lyer illusion. Cortex , 35: 231-241, 1999
Nowicka A, Grabowska A, Fersten E. Interhemispheric transmission of information and functional asymmetry of the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 34: 147-151, 1996
Grabowska A, Nowicka A. Visual-spatial model of cerebral asymmetry: A critical survey of behavioural and electrophysiological studies. Psychol. Bull., 120: 434-449, 1996
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In Pennsylvania's Lopsided Gubernatorial Race, A Study In Contrasts
By Katie Meyer | October 18, 2018
HARRISBURG, PA (WSKG) – With under a month until the general election, Democratic Governor Tom Wolf and his Republican challenger Scott Wagner appear to be locked in an uneven contest.
Their latest financial disclosures show Wolf with $8.9 million on hand to Wagner's $1.8 million. The incumbent is also leading by almost 17 points in an average of recent independent polls.
And the candidates' divergent campaign styles are reflecting that divide.
It was, perhaps, never more clear than on a recent Friday morning, when a shaky, live video went up on Scott Wagner's campaign Facebook page.
He was standing on a roadside under a billboard. On it was a picture of Wagner's face, and a caption message saying his trash-hauling company has sued 6,979 Pennsylvanians–something Wagner doesn't deny.
"Well hey Governor, I don't know whether you know this or not, but if you have a company and you render a service, you want to get paid for, you want to get paid for that service," Wagner said, addressing Wolf even though the billboard had been paid for by an unaffiliated, left-leaning nonprofit.
After speaking for about two and a half minutes, Wagner upped the ante.
"You better put a catcher's mask on your face," he told Wolf, "because I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes, because I'm going to win this."
Democrats quickly denounced the "golf spikes" line as a threat. Wagner's campaign said it was a metaphor. Whatever it was, it made national news.
Wolf's campaign capitalized–putting out a supercut of incredulous anchors and late-night comedians.
The episode epitomizes a campaign that's been marked by profoundly different strategies. Wagner, as Muhlenberg College pollster Chris Borick noted, is trying to find some traction with voters.
"He's a little bit desperate right now," Borick said. "He's way down in the polls, he's having trouble raising funds, he's called out donors in this cycle, and he's looking for something to kickstart his campaign."
And Wolf?
He's keeping about as low a profile as is possible when you're running for reelection–while using his cash advantage to help him paint Wagner as an erratic, irresponsible option.
"Scott Wagner's definitely got a big personality, but I'm just not sure, without the advertising, enough people have seen it. They've heard one side of the story, which is basically Tom Wolf's," said GOP strategist Mike Barley.
Barley is a number of congressional bids, but he's extra familiar with Wolf.
Four years ago, he managed former governor Tom Corbett's reelection campaign, which ended with Wolf's victory.
In that race, Wolf had to show Pennsylvania who he was, and why he was different from the increasingly unpopular Corbett. But now, with a stronger national economy and more cash in state coffers, Barley said the smartest thing Wolf can do is lean on his inoffensive record.
"He's run a smart campaign by the fact that they haven't put themselves in any positions, really, to make any unforced errors," Barley said. "They've done what they needed to do in a climate that's favorable to position him for election day."
Wolf touts his expansion of Medicaid–which technically started under the Republican Corbett. He notes he's resisted efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and has pushed lawmakers to put more money into education. He also signed the bill that medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.
His campaign hits on Wagner are targeted. He stresses his fellow York countian's refusal to share his tax returns, and has publicized a video of Wagner, from an Erie town hall, explaining why.
"If I disclose those tax returns," Wagner had argued, "union representatives get ahold of my tax returns, go around to my employees' homes at night."
Of course, the governor hasn't been able to fly under the radar completely. For instance, a decision from his administration's Department of Corrections to hike prison security has caused some campaign headaches.
A recent fundraiser at a Philadelphia brewery ended up featuring dozens of protesters, who said the heightened security is cruel. A few were forcibly removed from the building.
Protesters spent hours outside one of Wolf's campaign fundraisers, trying to get the governor's ear so they could express their dismay with his new prison policies. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Wolf didn't involve himself with the rally. He entered and left from a back door.
A spokeswoman said Wolf stands by the tighter prison security because it's designed to protect corrections officers and inmates from exposure to synthetic drugs that are sometimes smuggled into facilities.
One of Wagner's recurring talking points is Wolf's reluctance to engage. In the pair's only debate, the former GOP state senator repeatedly accused his opponent of failing to make himself accessible to voters.
Wagner has pushed to hold a debate in every county.
"I've been to all 67 counties," he told Wolf and moderator Alex Trebek. "I was in a county the other evening, I was told I've been there seven times…The people of Pennsylvania want to hear from the governor. They want to talk about issues. And there are a lot of issues."
Wolf dismissed the 67-debates idea as a stunt.
"I have been, also, in every county in Pennsylvania," he said. "The issue, I think, that Scott has is not that people aren't listening…people are listening to both sides, they're drawing their conclusions, they're understanding the contrast…They don't like what they're hearing from you, but they are listening."
When it comes to policy, Wagner has presented himself as a Republican in the mold of President Donald Trump.
He supports stripping the state budget down to essentials and wants to study school funding to avoid waste. He's pitching promises to get rid of school property taxes and pay off Pennsylvania's massive pension debt–both huge goals that recent governors – from both parties — have deemed unfeasible.
About six hours after Wagner's golf-spike-stomping video went up, he took it down, and released another video in which he said he might have made a poor word choice, before refocusing on his campaign pitch.
Wolf's staff, meanwhile, were busy sending out statements calling Wagner "unhinged" and unfit to be governor.
The governor himself was characteristically quiet.
In a meeting with the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board later that day, he gave his only in-person answer to the golf spikes comment:
"I think that would hurt," he said. "I'm not sure I'd like that."
The midterm election is November 6th.
Seward Will Not Seek Re-Election In NY Senate
VESTAL, NY (WSKG) - New York State Senator James Seward won't run for re-election. The Republican represents the sprawling 51st State Senate district, which includes Otsego and Cortland Counties, along with part of Chenango, Delaware, Tompkins and Cayuga Counties.
Ahead Of 2020 Election, Seneca Falls Hosts Another Women's March
ITHACA, NY (WSKG) - Women's Marches took place across the country this past weekend, including a few in upstate New York. In Seneca Falls, home of the first Convention on Women's Rights, the march was held for the fourth year in a row.
Attorney Says Ithaca Police Investigator Asked For, Never Got Help With Cases
ITHACA, NY (WSKG) - The attorney for Ithaca Police Investigator Christine Barksdale said his client is being used as a scapegoat. Barksdale is accused by the City of mishandling dozens of cases, including sex offenses.
CDC To Screen For New Strain Of Coronavirus At JFK, Other U.S. Airports
Updated Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. A new strain of coronavirus — named 2019-nCoV — has been discovered in China.
Governor Releases Budget Proposal Tuesday As New York Faces Largest Deficit In A Decade
ALBANY, NY (WSKG) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo releases his state budget plan Tuesday afternoon, and he's expected to detail how he will close a $6 billion budget gap. With resistance in the State Legislature to new taxes and spending cuts, the governor may have to get creative to thread that needle. The budget gap is largely due to overspending on Medicaid beyond Cuomo's self-imposed 2% per year spending cap.


I have been dying to do a post on Hildegard von Bingen since I saw a wonderful movie on her life called Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen. If you click on the link you can see a trailer and read some reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. It does have subtitles but I had no trouble following it.
Lori Erickson, aka The Holy Rover, has just posted a wonderful article on Hildegard. Hildegard was a true Renaissance woman: 12th-century mystic, writer, composer, counselor, leader, the list goes on and on. She is a saint and Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.
Click here to read the rest and see the photos.
Thank you, Susan! I could have guessed you are a Hildegard fan. She was absolutely remarkable, I agree. I'll be posting more about Bingen in the next couple of weeks, too.
Awesome! I actually have a CD of her music and I heard it for the first time when my daughter performed with her college choir. Have you seen the movie of Hildegard's life? I was excited to see that one had been made.


About Us – Frye Electronics, Inc.
Frye Electronics is a family company located in Tigard, Oregon (just outside of Portland). We specialize in the design and manufacture of testing equipment for hearing health care professionals. Since our incorporation in 1973, we have built the FONIX line of hearing aid analyzers and associated software and accessories. We manufactured the FONIX 8000 Hearing Aid Test System, the FONIX FP35 Portable Hearing Aid Analyzer and the FONIX Colt, an Android tablet-based Clinical Audiometer. Our instruments have had a major impact on the hearing aid industry in the United States and have come to play a considerable role in the hearing aid industry around the world.
We had created a partnership with National Acoustics Laboratories in Australia to produce a cortical measurement analyzer called the HEARLab System. This device conforms to the EU Medical Device Directive and available for marketing in the United States and other countries.
Currently, Frye Electronics decided to discontinue manufacture of medical devices in early 2017 because of the continuing escalation of regulatory costs. However, we are still building accessory items used with analyzers and audiometers.
We will be able to continue to serve our customers with needed items like control encoders for the FA10 audiometer, the electrodes used on the HEARLab, microphones, couplers, probe tubes, printer paper, battery pills and other accessories.
Many repair parts for instruments that we have produced in the past will also be available, including the popular FA10 audiometer, the HEARLab and the FP35, 8000, 6500 and 7000 hearing aid analyzers.


Signing: To sign get The generic sign "GET" starts with your hands in loose, open, claw shapes held away from the body. Pull your hands back towards your body and change them so they become "S" hands.
Usage: You can use get when you introduce your baby to the idea of self sufficiency. start with small and nearby objects as your child becomes more adept in grasping the concept begin asking for objects located in different areas of the house. You can teach this concept by playing scavenger hunt with your little one.


If you enjoy playing games at home then no doubt you would enjoy playing them while waiting for a train or bus, fortunately there are many devices that allow you to do this these days.
For example the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS are great portable gaming consoles, however phones are also a great option for anyone looking to game on the go. With many innovations in the portable gaming world people are now starting to take these smaller games more seriously, with some of the biggest titles and industry coming out of a possible games consoles such as Mario games and uncharted for the PS Vita the portable gaming industry is no longer a small one.
The great thing about these games consoles is just how much innovation goes into making them as in order to get an interactive and different experience out of the consoles they have thought of many different ways in which you can use the consoles play the games. For example both of the PS Vita and the 3DS have touchscreens that let you control the games as well as tilt sensitive gyroscopes inside. All of this together makes for an interesting and fun gaming experience on the go.
But if you don't want to put out one of these expensive game consoles then your mobile phone is the tool that you need to play games. If it is a modern smartphone like the Sony Xperia Z then no doubt you have an inbuilt App Store that allows you access to thousands of games instantly. If you don't however then shops such as Phones4U will be more than helpful in your search for a new phone. Modern smartphones have touchscreen functionality built straight into them so many game developers use the same techniques on these as they would on the bigger portable gaming consoles.