I've been working with Java for a while now; though it's been mostly JSP/Servlets. I tried my hand at J2ME a few backs and I had a few ideas about what I wanted to try. Most of them aren't really feasible or at least will take more time than I can put into them. I have finished one though.
I have a Nokia 3120 and it's a great little phone and the calendar is great; but I always wanted a simple to-do list that just lists all tasks rather than the day-by-day layout of the calendar. So that's just what I set out to make.
The ListMaker is an application in MIDP 1.0, CLDC 1.0 so it can be used on older devices too. The ListMaker allows you add a task, set a priority ( high, normal or low ) and give an optional time and date. The date-time could be the time you enter the task or the time it should be done or whatever. The application doesn't use it. Of course, you can mark a task as done and edit existing tasks and delete a particular task, all tasks in the list or only all the ones that are complete.
With version 2 I added a 'Filter' that allows you to selectively view tasks of a particular priority. You can also chose to include those tasks of the chosen priority that are completed.
You can find the .jar file ( 24 kB ) as an attachment on this page, below. I'm not sure if you'll need it or not but just in case you do, the .jad file ( 477 B ) is also attached below.
Some functions of the application may not be immediately obvious so I've put together a short list of things you should probably know.
The list of tasks will show only the first 15 characters of the task ( not including the date-time ). You can view complete details by selecting 'View Task'.
The title of the tasks list will tell you if you're view all the tasks or a filtered list; it'll either say 'Tasks' or 'Tasks (Filtered)' respectively.
While adding/ editing you can use all characters except for the 'pipe' ( | ) since I'm using that internally, behind the scenes.
'Filter Tasks' will show you options that give you the choice to show tasks with a certain priority or all the tasks. You can also choose to include completed tasks or not.
Filtering tasks makes the behaviour a bit different for most options. If you add a task of a different priority from that which you've filtered by, the task will get added, but will not display since you've filtered for a different priority.If you edit a task after viewing the details and set it to a different priority, when you return to the list, you will not see it but it is still there. Similarly, if you chose not to show completed tasks and you mark a task as completed, it'll disappear from the filtered list.
Deletion also works a little differently; all the options work only for the currently displayed tasks. So when you choose to 'Delete All' and have filtered for high priority tasks without completed then only those tasks that have a priority of high and have not been marked completed will be deleted. Similarly, if there are no completed tasks displayed and you choose 'Delete All Checked', nothing will be deleted.
Lastly, to reduce the load on the battery and memory, the application only reads from the memory when it loads and writes back once you exit. The rest of the time, while it's running, the data is kept and manipulated in volatile memory. This means that if, for whatever reason, your phone suddenly powers off while running ListMaker, the changes you'd made and just possibly the data in storage, will be lost.
As usual, the program has been tested quite thoroughly and I use it as part of my daily routine but I still can't guarantee that you will not lose any data. Sensitive information especially should always be backed up, no matter which application/ device you use to store it.
If you do encounter any bugs, please don't send them to me! I hate those creepy, crawly things! :D Nah! Just kidding; send them over; I'll find them a nice terrarium to live in! :D Aah, just kidding again! I'd appreciate if you could send them over and with a little information about what you were doing when you encountered the problem.


Using Lion's DU. Trying to erase a Sno Leopard partition on an external HD (to clone Lion to it via CCC). The external has not been problematic.
In DU, I select the external and select the Sno Leopard partition icon. Click erase. Get the message: "Volume erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Operation not permitted".
Before trying to erase, I started CCC cloning to the Snow Leopard partition. Then thought better of that and stopped the cloning after two minutes. Then tried to erase and got the failure message. Tried again to erase, and the same failure message recurs.
Ran DW on the recalcitrant Sno Leopard partition -- but in trying to erase the contents of that partition, got the same POSIX error.
So went to the partition map and deleted the snow Leopard partition and created a replacement partition of the same size. Then using CCC, cloned Lion to the newly created partition.
My external is a FW drive and is formatted as APM (not GUID) because I have a partition on it holding a clone of an older PPC Mac. Can boot from the newly created Lion partition.
"POSIX error: Operation not permitted: usually means that the disk could not be unmounted (ejected) for some reason. Use the Finder to eject the external disk by dragging it to the Trash. It should disappear from your desktop but still be seen in Disk Utility, and you should then be able to erase it.
When I highlighted the Sno Leopard partition and clicked on "Erase", that partition dismounted. Then I got the POSIX error message. Using a menu command in DU, I could remount that partition. And I tried to erase it again with the same result.
As I reported, I then deleted that partition and recreated it using DU. I cloned Lion to it from the computer's HD using CCC. Just to test, I then used DU to erase that partition. This time DU succeeded in erasing it. So I again cloned Lion from the computer's HD to that partition.
Whatever the original glitch was, it was not DU's inability to unmount the Sno Leopard partition.
Weird. That's bizarre. I don't think I've ever seen that particular problem. Glad you got it worked out, but I'd love to have a better understanding of what the original problem was.
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Q: Cassandra SOLR Rolling Upgrade We have a cluster of 12 nodes, 6 DSE-SOLR and 6 DSE-Cassandra.  When upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 we noticed that requests through the SOLR interface were broken until all nodes had been upgraded.

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*Is this limitation still present when upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2?

*Are there any gotchas to note when making the upgrade?

*In the upgrade path docs it says to enable the old gossip protocol until all nodes have been upgraded, is this per DC or for the entire cluster?

A: Russ,
What errors are you getting when running a query during an upgrade? Is it one of the following? http://www.datastax.com/docs/datastax_enterprise3.1/upgrade/version_3_1_0 located in the solr section of expected errors?

Is this limitation still present when upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2?

There isn't one that I'm aware of.

Are there any gotchas to note when making the upgrade?
  Just the 2 mentioned here : http://www.datastax.com/docs/datastax_enterprise3.2/upgrade/version_3_2_0#dse-upgrade-version3-2-0

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*Enabling the old gossip protocol

*Altering the dse_system keyspace to use the Everywhere replication strategy

In the upgrade path docs it says to enable the old gossip protocol until all nodes have been upgraded, is this per DC or for the entire cluster?

Cluster wide, if you do not temporarily enable the old gossip protocol, the new nodes on 3.2 will not be able to talk to the nodes on 3.1 and vice versa which can lead to some nodes not seeing the rest of the cluster. Remember to remove JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Denable-old-dse-state=true" from your cassandra-env.sh on all your nodes once you've upgraded and do another rolling restart.
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Glee: The 3D Concert Movie is a teenage dream
The Gleek's will go crazy for this concert movie event.
By Katy Williamson on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:00 pm
When I first heard about Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, I thought to myself, Seriously? As if a worldwide concert tour wasn't enough of a cash cow for Ryan Murphy and Co., now they're bringing it to theaters, too? And this is an actual Glee fan talking; I can only imagine what the non-fans were saying.
Despite my misgivings, I couldn't help but get excited as the screening date approached. Glee: The Movie isn't simply the concert tour on film, or even a documentary about the concert tour with the usual behind the scenes action added. Instead, we get interviews with the members of the New Directions (as played by Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, etc.) as if they were on an actual world tour. This was irritating to me for several reasons. First of all, most Glee fans (I hope) are not delusional enough to believe these characters are real. Second, there wasn't enough of these "in character" interviews for them to add much to the movie. And third, the actors seemed halfhearted in their attempts to be "in character" during these interviews. Personally, I would have preferred interviews with the real actors, especially considering fans are as obsessed with the actors themselves as they are with Glee.
Interviews with the actors about their experiences on Glee and how it has changed their lives would have gone very well with the film's interviews of fans about how the show has affected them as well. Three very unique fans are featured in the film, and their stories reflect the values of individuality and acceptance advocated weekly on Glee. These stories, as well as shorter clips of interviews with various other fans, added a welcome amount of sentimentality and even camaraderie to the movie. One fan in particular — a little boy who has a mini Warbler outfit and knows all the choreography to their songs — steals the show and the hearts of the audience.
If the filmmakers had really wanted to drive home the idea that New Directions was on a world tour, they should have included more of the skits performed throughout the concert. The skits, I've heard from people who saw the actual concert, were one of the most enjoyable parts of the whole experience. And yet they're barely included.
As for the musical performances, Glee the show rarely disappoints, and The 3D Concert Movie is no exception. The concert includes fan favorites like "Don't Stop Believing," "Don't Rain on My Parade," and "Born this Way," as well as some smaller numbers that you might not expect. As always, some members of New Directions are featured more than others, which only makes sense because some members are more talented or charismatic than others, and some are more beloved by the fans.
Take Blaine Anderson (played by Darren Criss), for example. After just one season and one magnetic a capella performance of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, he not only earned a three-song set with the Dalton Academy Warblers during the tour, he also became one of the most beloved characters on the show.
As a fan of the show, I really enjoyed Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. Yes, the 3D is pretty much just a gimmick, as is the conceit of interviewing the "characters" instead of the actors, which adds nothing and is totally unnecessary. The movie plays like a condensed version of the show, and includes all the amazing performances (and even some of the most popular guest stars) that people love on TV, while cutting most of the BS they don't. Plus, the film finds a way to incorporate the fans, without whom Glee wouldn't be the phenomenon it is today.
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Advice to Those About to Emigr..., by Peter Kropotkin
Freedom: March 1893, p14 Advice to Those About to Emigrate In these days when Home Colonization is seriously discussed, and is even tried, in England as an outlet for the populations of our congested towns, the following letters will be of much interest to our readers. A comrade in New South Wales, writing to Kropotkin for suggestions and advice, says: "As you are probably aware, the Labor movement in Australia has advanced tremendously during the last four or five years. The reason, I believe, lies in the increased agitation in the minds of the people through the late strikes here and also in England and America. The Labor Party here got the worst of it in the last three big strikes, yet the importance of those strikes as factors in educat... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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Anarchist Community, An, by Charlotte Wilson
AN ANARCHIST COMMUNITY. (From a Correspondent.) So strong and so widespread are the pretensions of "governments" to-day, that it is difficult for any civilized community to remain anarchistic without being interfered with or "annexed" by one or the other of them. it is therefore interesting to discover from the 'Colonial Office List' (Harrison & Sons) that the British empire includes at least one successful anarchist commune. Judging train the following account it is in no need of the so-called indispensable "laws" of majority rule. We hope it may be long before busybody philanthropy imposes any such chains upon it. "Tristan d'Acunha and Gough Island are the principal of a group of islands lying in lat. 37 deg. 6 min. S. and long. 12 deg. 2... (From : AnarchyArchives.)
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From The Nineteenth Century, March 1898, pp. 494-514. SOME OF THE RESOURCES OF CANADA Last summer I received from the Toronto organizing committee the invitation to come out to Canada with the British Association. It is well known, but it gives me great pleasure to acknowledge it once more that the members of the British Association, whether British or foreign, received from the Canadians - and those of us who went to the States from the Americans - the most friendly welcome, and were treated with the utmost cordiality and hospitality. Many a standing friendship between scientific men of the Old and the New World has grown up during that visit. After the meeting of the British Association was over a most instructive trip was organized by th... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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Randolph Bourne -- from Seven Arts, 1917 To those of us who still retain an irreconcilable animus against war, it has been a bitter experience to see the unanimity with which the American intellectuals have thrown their support to the use of war-technique in the crisis in which America found herself. Socialists, college professors, publicists, new-republicans, practitioners of literature, have vied with each other in confirming with their intellectual faith the collapse of neutrality and the riveting of the war-mind on a hundred million more of the world's people. And the intellectuals are not content with confirming our belligerent gesture. They are now complacently asserting that it was they who effectively willed it, against the hesitati... (From : BigEye.com.)
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Worker and the Government, The, by Max Stirner
Governments do not let me come to my value, and continue to exist only through my valuelessness: they are forever intent of getting benefits from me, that is exploiting me, turning me to account, using me up, even the use they get from me consists only in my supplying a proletariat; they want me to be "their creature". Pauperism can only be removed when I as ego realize value from myself, when I give my own self value. I must rise in revolt to rise in the world. What I produce, flour, linen, or iron and coal, which I toilsomely win from the earth, etc, is my work that I want to realize value from. But then I may long complain that I am not paid for my work according to its value: the payer will not listen to me, and the governments like... (From : Kate Sharpley Library, http://www.katesharpleylibr....)
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Shirley Whitfield flips through a year book during a ceremony to introduce the newly created digital archive of the Metropolitan General Hospital School of nursing archives at Windsor Regional Hospital. Photo credit: Tyler Brownbridge/The Windsor Star.
UWindsor lends a hand to nursing school's digital memories project
History professor Steven Palmer recently led his students and colleagues in a project to bring UWindsor expertise to a digital archives project that will preserve the memories of some pioneering local nurses.
The Former Metropolitan General Hospital School (MET) digital archives launch held this week at Windsor Regional Hospital has made the school's yearbooks, documents and photos of a groundbreaking era in nursing education available to the public.
Dr. Palmer, Canada Research Chair in History of International Health, says MET was the first school of its kind in Canada and provided aspiring nurses with two years of academic and clinical instruction followed by a year of hospital work. This was a departure from previous nursing education which had students working in the hospital for the entire three years.
The school was established in 1954 where Windsor Regional Hospital's Metropolitan Campus is currently located. Some of the program's nurses were on hand for the event, which brought back beautiful and nostalgic memories of a long-ago time, thanks to the efforts of Kathleen Moderwell, the school's director from 1958 to 1974.
Moderwell donated and organized countless pieces of school memorabilia which were then scanned in high-resolution by Palmer and his team for posting on the web.
View the digital archives on the Windsor Regional Hospital website.
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Lancer Women's Basketball star Korissa Williams named this week among eight finalists for the 23rd annual BLG Award as CIS Female Athlete of the Year.
Lancer Women's Basketball star finalist for CIS Athlete of the Year
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and national law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), this week named Lancer Women's Basketball star Korissa Williams to its list of eight finalists for the 23rd annual BLG Award as CIS Female Athlete of the Year.
Williams helped lead her team to its fifth CIS national championship title this year and is in the running to receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship during a ceremony on May 4 at the Martha Cohen Theatre in Calgary. All finalists will return home with a commemorative gold ring and a watch.
"Each year, as we follow the past winners and hear about their accomplishments or what they are involved in, we realize how important their university sports background has been to them," said Doug Mitchell, National Co-Chair of BLG.
"We congratulate the universities who have provided the great education and athletic programs for these students to succeed in their careers."
Although recipients will be determined by the Canadian Athletic Foundation the public is encouraged to vote as part as an online-voting pilot project on the websites below:
BLG Awards
For more information including BLG Award Nominees and complete profiles, visit the Lancers webpage.
Alumni invited to celebrate Spring with coffee break
Spring may be a little late this year but the University of Windsor Alumni Association is inviting campus alumni to a special coffee break to celebrate its arrival, Wednesday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. or from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium.
There is no cost to attend, though guests are asked to pre-register by April 24 with their preferred attendance time.
The first 250 attendees will receive a gift from the Alumni Association.
Events to commemorate Rwandan genocide
A series of events to commemorate the 1994 Rwandan genocide in East Africa are being organized by the Rwandan Canadian Cultural Association of Windsor; the University of Windsor; MP Brian Masse; the T4Y and the Windsor SDA Church. Activities include:
A screening of the film, I'm Not Leaving, by Carl Wilkens, on Friday, April 24 at 7 p.m., 5350 Haig Ave.
A message about forgiveness followed by a fellowship potluck, Saturday April 25, 11 a.m., SDA Church, 5350 Haig Ave.
Main event with guest speakers Teresa and Carl Wilkens, Saturday April 25, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Ambassador Auditorium, University of Windsor.
For more information contact: Hiram Gahima: (519) 562-4899 or Francois Rugelinyange, (226) 246-5315
Curtain to rise on Jewish Film Festival
The 13th Annual Windsor Jewish Film Festival will take place this year starting Monday, April 27 at Devonshire Mall's Cineplex Odeon Theatre.
Organizer and Communications Studies Professor Emeritus Stuart Selby says the festival will present 10 Jewish-themed films from 10 countries in a variety of genres. Film themes range from drama and comedy to documentary and the Holocaust. Non-English offerings will include English language subtitles.
"After a happy career teaching film studies courses to a generation of Windsor students, this film festival is one of the volunteer activities that keeps me involved with my discipline," he says
For more information, tickets and the complete program, visit the Windsor Jewish Federation website.
Council of Ontario Universities responds to the Ontario budget
"Ontario universities accept the province's decision to maintain funding per student at current levels because of fiscal constraints, but say future strategic reinvestment will be necessary to sustain excellence for students and to fully realize the power of universities to drive economic growth." says the Council of Ontario Universities in a press release responding to Thursday's provincial budget.
"Ontario universities are committed to their role as the economic engines that deliver social and economic prosperity for individuals, communities, the province and the country," says Max Blouw, Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) and President of Wilfrid Laurier University.
"Strategic government investment in such critically important areas as the province's best minds is essential to maintain Ontario's competitive advantage and to truly mobilize universities as key players in fuelling the economic gains that are so vital for everyone."
Students will benefit from extensive changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), including the indexing of Ontario student aid levels to inflation and an end to a requirement that students report their vehicle as an asset when being assessed for aid.
Also of benefit to students is the renewal of the Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy with an additional $250 million over two years, including an extra $5 million in funding for the Postsecondary Education Fund for Aboriginal Learners and $13.8 million for new on-campus accelerators in 2015-16.
Ontario universities are facing ongoing financial pressures, including declining operating grants per student, which have been for years at the lowest per-student rate in the country.
"For universities to maintain the best possible quality of education for students, and indeed improve it in order to be nationally and internationally competitive, increased government investment in university education in the near future is crucial," says Bonnie M. Patterson, President and CEO of COU, which represents Ontario's 21 publicly funded universities.
"Universities realize that increasing funding for universities isn't possible in the government's current fiscal reality, but they will be looking to the province for strategic reinvestment in the sector as Ontario's books are balanced," Patterson says.
Universities will continue to work collaboratively with the province to review the current university funding formula to ensure stability, flexibility and predictability, along with ongoing adjustments for cost increases.
Ontario universities are proud of their efficiency in educating more students withless funding per student than any jurisdiction in Canada.
University graduates have higher employment rates, and higher income than anyother level of education.
According to Research Infosource Inc., seven Ontario universities are among theTop-15 research institutions in Canada, and 18 are placed in the Top-50.
Ontario universities provided $840 million in 2013-14 to students in non-repayable bursaries and scholarships, up from $278 million in 2000-01.
The Council of Ontario Universities is the voice of Ontario's universities, promoting the value of education, research and innovation that leads to social, cultural and economic success.
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A lot of new and positive things have begun happening for me in 2018, but my frustration about my inability to sell my house is thwarting me. And frustration overwhelms me and suffocates me.
"Where do you want to go?' was his response.
When I am hopelessly stuck. I quit caring about where I am going next–or whether I am going anywhere at all. When I am stuck, dying seems just as good as living. When I am stuck, I enter an existence mode, and art does not spring from an existence mode.
I've recently returned home, and I've realized that there is a life that is better than mere existence, and I have reached out for a rope that I trust will tug me out of my sinking sands. Relief comes in stages, however, and it begins with Belief. After years of merely hanging on, I have begun to believe that life wants more for me, and I am ready to break free and to grasp that something that is better.


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Q: Can we send a request object or keyword argument to modelformset_factory in django 1.9 I have the following view
def application(request, uuid):
    application = get_object_or_404(LoanApplication, uuid=uuid)

    partners = FirmPartner.objects.filter(application=application)
    PartnerFormset = modelformset_factory(FirmPartner, form=FirmPartnerForm, can_delete=True, extra=1)

    if request.method == 'POST':
        .........
        ..........

But i want to make some fields in FirmPartnerForm required dynamically inside init method of form by using some values from request or keyword argument that we passed in like modelformset_factory(......application=application) ?
So is it possible to send request object or any keyword argument to modelformset_factory ? as below
modelformset_factory(FirmPartner, form=FirmPartnerForm, can_delete=True, extra=1, request=request, application=application) ?

Edit
Now i upgraded to django 1.9.9 and below is my code
from .forms import FirmPartnerForm

PartnerFormset = modelformset_factory(FirmPartner, form=FirmPartnerForm, can_delete=True, extra=1,
                       form_kwargs={'request': request, 'application': application})

forms.py
class FirmPartnerForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = FirmPartner
        exclude = ['application']

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(FirmPartnerForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if kwargs.get('application', None):
            application = kwargs.get('application

            .....................
            .....................

Error Traceback
  File "/Users/name/projects/project_name/applications/views.py", line 462, in application_management
    form_kwargs={'request': request, 'application': application})
TypeError: modelformset_factory() got an unexpected keyword argument 'form_kwargs'

So after Daniel said form_kwargs has been added in 1.9, i have upgraded to 1.9.9 and still i was getting the above error ?

A: The form_kwargs parameter is what you need.
modelformset_factory(FirmPartner, form=FirmPartnerForm, can_delete=True, extra=1,
                     form_kwargs={'request': request, 'application': application})


Today, Slingshot unveiled its 2019 models, highlighted by the addition of the popular Grand Touring model.
Making its full-time debut for model year 2019, the Grand Touring comes well-equipped with features and accessories straight from the factory. Featuring quilted comfort seats, a color-matched Slingshade top and rear fender, tall wind deflector and Ride Command with navigation, the Grand Touring is the ultimate in comfort, style and technology. Starting at $29,499, the Slingshot Grand Touring is presented in Black Crystal with White Pearl metallic paint and a full body graphics package.
Each Slingshot model packs a GM Ecotec 2.4L DOHC four-cylinder engine and delivers 173 horsepower by way of a five-speed manual transmission. Starting at $19,999, the entry-level Slingshot S model comes in White Lightning with gloss black cast aluminum wheels. The SL model, starting at $25,499, is available in Black Pearl and Orion Blue. The SL comes standard with Ride Command, a 100-watt Rockford Fosgate audio system, rear view camera, a clear wind deflector, 18-inch and 20-inch front and rear cast-aluminum machined wheels. Both the S and SL feature sleek head-turning design and style ready for customization.
Rounding out the 2019 lineup is the top-of-the-line SLR. Starting at $28,999, the SLR is available in new two-tone paint schemes: Afterburner Orange and Red Pearl. Race-inspired Sparco steering wheel, shift knob and pedal covers, two-piece composite brake rotors, exclusive SLR bolstered sport bucket seats and a 20-inch 305mm rear forged-aluminum wheel deliver high performances. SLR comes standard with Ride Command with GPS navigation, phone integration, customizable vehicle display screens and more.


Food Finders Food Bank is preparing to help as the month of September kicks off Hunger Action Month.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - For some, Labor Day weekend is a time of relaxation and grilling out good food on the bar-b-que. But others in our community can't relax because they don't know where their next meal is coming from.
This is a time when the charity is focusing on education and advocacy for various hunger issues. Issues that become more urgent as the winter months approach.
"When people to have to pay heating bills, and the costs that go along with having your kids in school, it's really important for working families and those who are unemployed to have a regular source of food they can depend on," said CEO of Food Finders Katy Bunder.
She said that she wants the families they serve to be able to focus on putting their money where it's needed.
According to recent numbers, even though we are 10 years out of the recession, they are still seeing up to 400 people visit Food Finders pantry days. Nearly 30% of the 78,000 hungry people in North Central Indiana are children. And about 5,300 are 65 or older.
But Food Finders is ready to get the community involved to help fight this battle. Hunger Action day is on September 13th. Food Finders will host a volunteer day with a Purdue sorority.
This years annual Hunger Hike is scheduled for September 16th. Bunder said this event makes sure they can properly stock their shelves with the items they need, like milk and meat.
"We can buy the food that we know we need for the people we routinely serve through our pantry and other services," she said.
And seeing the whole community rally behind this cause gives Food Finders the momentum they need to make it until spring.
"It gives us a boost to last all year long," she said.
Click here to learn more about how to get involved with Hunger Action Month.


It doesn't get old waking up to views of Mount Rainier and the Cascades, but you know what does get old? Roofs, paint, sewer lines, and the list goes on?but not at this house. The list at this house is of what is new; the roof, the remodeled kitchen, all electrical (including a new panel), the sewer line, exterior paint, landscaping, and even a heat pump that provides heat in the winter and cool in the summer. Here classic character meets updates from today. Life is busy. Let home be relaxing.


PINAY HAPPY CORNER: FOR HOW LONG?
I can't explain what I am feeling today. It's just so happen that a former batchmate, teammate and a friend left the office without saying goodbye to us. We don't even had a clue that he will be resigning. I am talking about our "papang" Pedro Sarcia. We used to call him papang because he is one of the seniors (as in senior citizen) of the team. He is also an ECE graduate like me but the only difference is that he is a licensed ECE! He graduated from CCP, the school where my hubby graduated. We really have a lot in common that's why I felt so sad that he left. Things like this makes me think twice if I would still pursue my plan of sticking with my present employer for three more years especially now that my friends at the office are leaving.
My eyes were opened on the reality that nothing in this world is permanent when my first TL - TL Chrisse was transferred to one of our offices in Bacolod. Then suddenly, my friend and sisterette I vy followed and went to Dubai. Gherj, one of my closest friends also left to pursure her dream of being a programmer...then Shai, one of my teammates was forced to resign because of her failing scorecards. My batchmates are also planning to leave the company right after we've reached our second year... Julei, Paupau and Niknok (who by the way left already just a few days back) and what's worse...Ice, my closest batchmate and friend at the office is also planning to leave come December together with my gay friend Mamu.
As I mentioned earlier, I dont intend to resign for the next three years because my job pays me well... but with the negative vibes going around the office - I can't help but think twice. I plan to retire three years from now and I intend to have CVG as my last employer before I jump off to another venture which is putting up my own business and be a full time blogger.
Lord, I pray that everything will be OK. Whatever you want to do in my life for your own glory...please make it happen. I trust you and I believe that whatever decisions I may take in the future... I know its all under your will. May you be glorified in everything I do. Amen.


The start of the new school year is a critical time to start things right. Here is one list of things to consider for the first day of school.
What are you keys to getting the 2012–13 school year off to a great start in the classroom?
What is your best activity for the first 6 weeks of school?
How can online communities and networks like this one help?
Use the Post Comment button to add your ideas.
karen Aug. 18, 2012, 8:19 p.m.
Nice article on getting the year off to a good start from Rick Wormeli and others.
Tellio Aug. 14, 2012, 9:36 a.m.
I just did a very cursory search of twitter on Topsy to discover what amounted to the student perspective on the first couple of weeks of school. Usually teachers are so worried about their first impressions of their students that they fail to notice that most students (and their parents?) are trying to make first impressions, too. And they have their fears and hopes as well. So the first six weeks of school for me will in part be about a heightened awareness of my students' hopes and fears as well as how they are presenting themselves.
Sheri Edwards Aug. 6, 2012, 4:22 p.m.
Patty's suggestion is a great idea. I also found this blog post by Aditi Rao with 10 ideas with which to start the school year, one of which is the Voki Avatars. Another of her ideas is to create a Pinterest Board that summarizes themselves. Using Patty's idea, students could guess which board belongs to whom when shared through a blog post by the teacher. You don't need Pinterest accounts to do this, just use a Google Doc and the search bar of Pinterest. You may copy this Google Doc: Pin Yourself, which has the directions. It's a quick activity.
I look forward to other ideas from this group! As I ask my students, What Else?
karen Aug. 6, 2012, 11:03 a.m.
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Frozen – The Musical at Procter & Gamble Hall
Frozen - The Musical Tickets
Procter & Gamble Hall at Aronoff Center | Cincinnati, OH
EVENT RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY 26TH APRIL 2022. Originally Monday 12th January 2071. All original tickets are still valid!
Are you ready for the Broadway adaptation of one of Disney's hottest modern hits? Then come down to the illustrious Procter & Gamble Hall on Tuesday 26th April 2022 to see Frozen: The Musical. This show, directed by Michael Grandage, brings some of the hottest talent on Broadway to deliver the familiar story in a bold new way. New songs composed for this production join your favorite melodies and tunes with a flair that is sure to get you up off your seat ready to sing. Lavish set designs and a classic award-winning production all await you if you come down to the Procter & Gamble Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday 26th April 2022. Get your tickets quick by clicking the Buy Tickets button below.
This is the theatre musical that you simply could not let go of. The long-running musical "Frozen" will open the stage doors of the Procter & Gamble Hall on Tuesday 26th April 2022, to welcome theatre fans from all over Cincinnati, Ohio. "Frozen" is best-loved for its catchy musical numbers. Get heart-tugging feels as Ana sings the sorrowful strains of "Do You Wanna Build A Snowman"; or feel the chills as Elsa belts out "Let It Go". The main cast delivers captivating yet effortless-sounding sopranos that bring sparkling moments to the show. Before you know it, the whole family and the entire theatre crowd are on sing-along mode. Who would want to miss an magical event such as this? Definitely not you. Buy and lock-in your tickets now!
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Broward Aviation Director Kent George to retire
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry announced that Aviation Department Director Kent G. George is retiring later this year.
His proposed replacement, Mark E. Gale, is in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday meeting with County commissioners.
Gale is expected to take over as director of aviation for Broward County in March, including leadership of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and North Perry Airport (HWO). Gale recently left Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) after serving as the airport's chief executive officer for seven of his nearly 28 years there.
Gale graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and joined Philadelphia International full-time in 1989.
From 1996 to 2000, Gale was airport operations manager. In 2001, as deputy director of aviation for operations and facilities, he supervised managers in security, safety, maintenance, information technology, engineering design, construction, emergency plans, grounds, and snow removal. Gale also managed daily operations at Northeast Philadelphia Airport, a general aviation reliever airport. In 2009 he became the airport's chief executive officer.
Gale was named Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) Executive of the Year in 2012, received the SmartCEO Circle of Excellence Award in Hospitality in 2013, and received the Sec. Ray LaHood "Man of the Year Award" in 2015 by Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS), Philadelphia Chapter.
George began his career with Broward County in October 2007 after more than 40 years in the aviation industry. Among his accomplishments at FLL was the execution of the Broward County Commission's vision to build a new South Runway, which opened under budget in September 2014.
He added a major terminal modernization program and $2.3 billion capital improvement program at the airport. In 2015, the western portion of Terminal 4 opened with five new gates and a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design certification.
In 2012 George was honored by Airport Revenue News as Airport Director of the Year for the large airports category. In 2013 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Southern Region recognized George as its Air Carrier Airport Manager of the Year.
George is expected to work with the department through a transition period.


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Dance Production – Narnia 2018
Over 90 students from KS4 Dance took part in this year's Dance Production of Narnia. Based on the story by C. S. Lewis, 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', the cast performed four shows, including a matinée to Portway Year 5 students. Some images of the production can be viewed here.
Harrow Way Dance students took their full-house audience on a captivating journey into the fantasy world of 'Narnia' at their annual BTEC Dance Show. Each evening was a complete sell out-out with the audience wowed by the cast of Year 9, 10 and 11 dancers as they brought the C.S. Lewis' thrilling story of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to life.
Through a beautiful performance of contemporary dance the cast of 95 dancers told the story of four British children evacuated to the countryside during the Blitz. Year 11 students took on the demanding role of the lead characters Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy who find a wardrobe that leads to the fantasy world of Narnia. There they meet the friendly half human, half goat Mr Tumnus and the Lion Aslan as they battle against the force of the White Witch.
Commenting on the performance, which many have described as the school's best ever dance show, Lyndsey Walker, Harrow Way's Curriculum Leader for Dance said: "There were so many highlights – from the scene with the Year 10s as the evacuation children, which was an uplifting start to the show, the duet between Mr Tumnus and Lucy, depicting their initial curiosity about each other to friendship and the scene where the Beaver family invite the children to dinner. Through story telling movements, facial expressions and dramatic lifts the students did an incredible job, genuinely impressing everyone who saw the show".
The audience also enjoyed seeing Year 9 students as the Witch's frozen statues, commenting on a number of dramatic and intimidating scenes where the Witch kills the Lion, Aslan and the huge battle with 40 Year 11 dancers all on stage battling against each other.
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Heading out of the adult only area, there are a pair of trampolines that see you diving into a giant pool filled with spongey cubes. This was an absolute blast. It doesn't get better than this. Climbing out of the pool was a bit of a struggle but it's definitely worth it and we couldn't resist jumping right back right in again. Or rather falling back in at the gladiator arena after a duel. Once you are well acquainted and warmed up, there is a competitive, timed ninja warrior course, to test your ninja skills. There are two courses next to each other so you can race a friend. It was a pretty challenging course, requiring lots of upper body strength but was definitely worth a go.
Flip Out is a really fun, yet surprisingly tiring experience. It's great to go in a group, and starting off small and working your way up to the adult area for some of the bigger jumps. As it's indoor it's perfect come rain or shine, and a unique place to have a birthday celebration whether your 4 or 99 years old. It's a great place for a memorable hen or stag do too.


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Åmål () es un municipio de la provincia de Västra Götaland, al suroeste de Suecia. Tiene una población estimada, a mediados de 2021, de 12,429 habitantes.

Su capital es la localidad de Åmål. El municipio actual se creó en 1971 a través de la fusión de la antigua ciudad de Åmål y el antiguo municipio rural de Tössbo (este último creado en 1952).

Localidades
Hay tres áreas urbanas () en el municipio:

Ciudades hermanas

El municipio de Åmål tiene actualmente cinco ciudades gemelas:

 Gadebusch, Alemania
 Kubrat, Bulgaria
 Türi, Estonia
 Drøbak, Noruega
 De Pere, Estados Unidos

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This recipe for Dinner in a Dish (Christy Jordan), by Ruby Barnes, is from Ruby's Cookbook Project, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
Arrange ears of corn going down the length of a 9x13 pan. Place chicken strips down center of the pan. Pour green beans along the other side.
Wrap in foil and bake at 350 for 1 hour, or until chicken is cooked through and the corn is hot.


Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). "This may help to explain why even early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk that is not otherwise explained by traditional risk factors," comments Katherine R. Tuttle, MD (Providence Medical Research Center, Spokane, WA).
The study looked at the relationship between phosphorus levels and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in nearly 900 healthy adults from the Spokane Heart Study, a long-term study of heart disease risk factors. Previous studies have linked CAC an early sign of atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") to an increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) and other cardiovascular events. At the start of the study, 28 percent of the participants had CAC.
In addition, participants with lower levels of kidney function even if not below the normal range were more likely to have progressive CAC. Recent studies have linked higher phosphorus levels to increased CAC in patients with CKD as well.
Robert A. Short, PhD (also of Providence Medical Research Center) was co-author of the study. The authors reported no financial disclosures.


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The college football team that could go undefeated and not play in the College Football Playoff
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The College Football Playoff is organized by CFP Administration, LLC. While College Football Playoff games are played under NCAA football rules, the College Football Playoff is not an officially an NCAA-sanctioned national championship.
Tonight, at 6 P.M. Central Time, Western Michigan University (WMU) will face Ohio University (Ohio U; not to be confused with The Ohio State University (Ohio State), which is in a different college athletic conference) for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) college football championship. The game will be played at a neutral site, Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, and television coverage of the game will be provided by ESPN2.
2016 is looking like it could be the first year that the College Football Playoff (CFP), a four-team postseason playoff incorporating two bowl games as semi-final games and a stand-alone championship game designed to determine an unofficial NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I FBS) national champion, could be very controversial. One of the reasons why the CFP could be controversial in its third playing is that WMU could go undefeated and not be selected for one of the four spots in the CFP, which go to the top four teams in the CFP rankings after conference championships are awarded.
WMU has played an incredible college football season this year. In non-conference play, they defeated two teams from the much more prominent Big Ten Conference (specifically, teams from Northwestern University and University of Illinois), and they've won every in-conference and non-conference game that they've played this season. However, since Western Michigan plays in the Mid-American Conference, which is not considered to be one of the so-called "Power 5" conferences (Southeastern Conference (SEC), Big Ten Conference (Big Ten), Big XII Conference (Big XII), Pac 12 Conference (Pac 12), and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)), they are ranked 17th in the CFP rankings after the 13th week of the college football season. By contrast, the only other undefeated team in Division I FBS football is the University of Alabama (Alabama) team, ranked at the very top of the CFP rankings. While there's no disputing that Alabama has been the strongest team in top-level college football this year, there are a total of 15 teams with at least one loss ranked above WMU, including one team with four losses (Auburn University). WMU could defeat Ohio U by an obscenely large margin in the MAC title game and go into bowl season undefeated, yet not even come close to getting one of the four CFP spots, with at least three of the four, or, if Alabama loses the SEC title game, all four, teams being selected for the CFP getting playoff spots.
Additionally, it's very likely that Ohio State, which isn't playing for the Big Ten title, could get a CFP spot, while both of the teams playing for the Big Ten title on Saturday night (The Penn State University vs. University of Wisconsin; 6 P.M. Central Time on Fox), may not get a CFP spot despite the winner of the championship game between them being the Big Ten champion. Furthermore, if Alabama loses to University of Florida (Florida) in the SEC title game, Florida may not get a CFP spot despite being conference champion, potentially resulting in two or fewer of the CFP teams being conference champions.
If one were to regard the Electoral College as an unfair way to decide a president and a vice president, then the CFP is an even unfairer way to decide a college football national champion. However, it's the system we have, not the system that I would like to see in place, that is official (in the case of the Electoral College) or generally recognized as determining the champion (in the case of the CFP).
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Did the USGA learn from its video review mistake from last month?
AUTHOR'S NOTE #1: Since the U.S. Women's Open golf championship is one of many women's golf tournaments used to determine qualification for the women's golf tournament at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes for players in the U.S. Women's Open are noted in parenthesis following the first mention of their full names below the divider.
AUTHOR'S NOTE #2: Anna Nordqvist's last name is pronounced nord-KWIST
On the second of three holes played in yesterday's three-hole aggregate playoff for the U.S. Women's Open golf championship at CordeValle golf course in California (the playoff used holes 16, 17, and 18, in that order), Anna Norqvist (SWE) touched sand while addressing her ball, which was at rest and located in a bunker. Normally, when a player illegally grounds his/her club in a bunker or water hazard in a golf event, he/she will call a penalty on himself/herself. However, in Nordqvist's case, it was not visibly obvious to her that she had illegally grounded her club in the bunker, and, in fact, only a FOX camera showing a close-up of Nordqvist's address of the ball showed that Nordqvist had, in fact, touched sand while addressing her ball in a bunker. The USGA conducted a video review, and, after both players in the playoff had started playing the final hole of the playoff, they were both notified of the penalty assessed to Nordqvist for breach of Rule 13-4, which prohibits a player from, when his/her ball is at rest in a bunker or water hazard, touching water, sand, the ground, or loose impediments with the club, except when striking the ball itself. The penalty for breach of Rule 13-4 during stroke play, which was used for all four rounds of regulation and the three-hole aggregate playoff, is two strokes on the hole which the breach of the rule occurred. Brittany Lang (USA) went on to win the U.S. Women's Open by three playoff strokes; had Nordqvist not been assessed a penalty, Lang would have still won, but only by one playoff stroke.
Here's the video of Nordqvist grounding her club in the bunker:
Brittany Lang closing in US Women's Open title. pic.twitter.com/kyreFCY1x0
— Joe Trahan (@JoeTrahan) July 10, 2016
I believe that the U.S. Golf Association (USGA), which sanctions the U.S. Women's Open golf championship and some other golf tournaments, including the U.S. Open golf championship, did a far better job of handling the video review in regards to the Nordqvist grounded club situation in the U.S. Women's Open than the Dustin Johnson moved ball situation that occurred during the final round of regulation in the U.S. Open, which is also sanctioned by the USGA. In that scenario, Johnson's ball moved on the 5th green at Oakmont County Club in Pennsylvania, and he was initially given no penalty, since a rules official on-course ruled that he had not caused his ball to move. However, Johnson was notified several holes later that his score on the 5th hole was under video review, and it was after his round that he was notified that he had incurred a one-stroke penalty for causing his ball to move on the green without actually taking a stroke. This caused nearly everybody with an interest in golf to criticize the USGA for their handling of the Dustin Johnson moved ball scenario, and rightfully so, since Johnson was not notified of the penalty until after he had completed his round, even though the moved ball situation occurred less than halfway through his round.
If you were to ask me whether or not the USGA has learned from its video review mistake, the short answer would be yes.
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U.S. Open golf championship shaping up to be one of the most memorable in decades
Normally, I don't watch golf tournaments, but I made an exception for this year's U.S. Open championship, largely due to FOX heavily promoting their coverage of the tournament during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series automobile races that I watch on most weekends (NASCAR's top series has an off week this week).
What those watching the U.S. Open have seen over the last three days has been one of the greatest first 54 holes of a major golf championship in history.
The biggest story of the tournament hasn't been Tiger Woods missing the cut. The biggest story isn't the difficulty and physical demands of the Chambers Bay golf course, where the tournament is being held this year. The biggest story isn't Jordan Spieth trying to win the second leg of golf's grand slam (winning The Masters, the U.S. Open, the (British) Open Championship, and the PGA Championship, the four major men's golf tournaments, in the same year). The biggest story isn't FOX covering a major golf tournament for the first time.
All of those stories I listed in the above paragraph are big stories of this tournament, but the biggest story of the tournament has been Jason Day, an Australian who is 10th-ranked professional golfer in the world, collapsing from benign positional vertigo on his final hole of the second round of the tournament, then coming back in the third round and shooting a round of 68 (2 under par) to tie Spieth, Dustin Johnson, and Brendan Grace for the championship lead at 4 under par after 54 holes. Day's third round performance was absolutely phenomenal, especially when one considers that Day was not physically well throughout his third round.
Tomorrow's final round of the U.S. Open golf championship is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing final rounds of a major golf championship in a very long time. Should two or more players tie for the lead after all players are finished with their final round, an 18-hole playoff would be played by those tied for the lead on Monday.
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What is ITIL® Best Practice?
ITIL supports organizations and individuals to gain optimal value from IT and digital services. It helps define the direction of the service provider with a clear capability model and aligns them to the business strategy and customer needs.
ITIL, a professionally recognized certification scheme, provides comprehensive, practical and proven guidance for establishing a service management system, providing a common glossary of terms for businesses using IT enabled services.
ITIL is a widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), which has been adopted by individuals and organizations across the world. It provides a cohesive set of best practice, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally.
Every year, organizations invest heavily in adopting and adapting ITIL into their business practices and upskilling their workforce with ITIL qualifications.
Extensive research by AXELOS, involving a diverse group of stakeholders (+2,000), has consistently shown that ITIL is fundamental to businesses, enables transformation and helps organizations realize value.
ITIL advocates that IT services are aligned to the needs of the business and support its core processes.
The ITIL approach provides guidance to organizations and individuals on how to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth. ITIL is mapped in ISO 20000 Part 11. This recognizes the way that ITIL can be used to meet the requirements set out for ISO 20000 certification and the interdependent nature with ITIL. This is the first such mapping that ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) has allowed to be part of their standards. The ITIL ITSM Best Practice is supported by a certification scheme that enables practitioners to demonstrate their abilities in adopting and adapting the framework to address their specific needs.
ITIL 4 takes you through a service value system which provides a holistic picture of what it really means to contribute to business value. The focus is now on the co-creation of value through service relationship.
Learn more in the core publication, ITIL Foundation: ITIL 4 Edition.
ITIL has been adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including NASA, Microsoft and HSBC.
Read our case studies with The Walt Disney Company and Müller Dairy to find out how they used the ITIL framework to make improvements to their businesses and see our case studies and white papers section for more examples of companies who have used ITIL to achieve business benefits.
ITIL is currently evolving from ITIL v3 to ITIL 4. ITIL 4 expands on previous versions by providing a practical and flexible basis to support organizations on their journey to the new world of digital transformation.
ITIL explained in one thousand words This paper provides an overview of the ITIL service management approach and discusses the ITIL v3 and ITIL 4 versions of the framework.


mix or cause to mix together: [ no obj. ] : the sound of voices mingled with a scraping of chairs | [ with obj. ] : a smell which mingled disinfectant and soap.
• [ no obj. ] move among and engage with others at a social function: a chance to mingle with celebs.
look quickly or furtively: faces peeked from behind twitched curtains.
(of a place) not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private: the gardens are quiet and secluded.
an endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country. a tourist visa. the Home Office has extended her visa. an exit visa. [ as modifier ] : US visa restrictions.
1 [ reporting verb ] talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities: [ no obj. ] : she boasted about her many conquests | [ with clause ] : he boasted that he had taken part in the crime | [ with direct speech ] : Ted used to boast 'I manage ten people.'.
a non-participating observer; a spectator: a crowd of fascinated onlookers.
1 a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings: the newspaper accounts of the trial | [ mass noun ] : the editor was summoned to stand trial for libel.
2 a test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something: clinical trials must establish whether the new hip replacements are working.
• a sports match to test the ability of players eligible for selection to a team. he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial.
• a test of individual ability on a motorcycle over rough ground or on a road.
• (trials) an event in which horses, dogs, or other animals compete or perform: horse trials.
feeling or showing great pleasure: a delighted smile | [ with infinitive ] : we were delighted to see her.
1 (the limelight) the focus of public attention: the shock win has thrust him into the limelight.
2 intense white light obtained by heating lime, formerly used in theatres.
famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed: Los Angeles is notorious for its smog | he was a notorious drinker and womanizer.
a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities to get photographs of them.


I do a lot of work on websites that needs to scale fairly well, but I tend to use that mentality for every project. Part of scaling is performance, and the better your app performs (e.g. the more requests per second it can handle) the cheaper it is.
One very easy way to improve your application's performance is to add caching. If you don't currently have caching, you'll probably see a massive benefit, depending on your application architecture. There are many different types of caching, with varying degrees if difficulty to implement.
I've included some very surface level details on caching in this post. These posts aren't meant to be comprehensive tutorials, but to make you aware of various techniques used to scale your applications better.
You have HTTP accelerator style caching such as Varnish, which tend to be very easy to setup and can give you huge performance improvements if you have a lot of cacheable content (e.g. on a WordPress blog). Varnish is one of my goto resources for fast and easy scaling. Instead of having Apache or Nginx as your public facing server component, you'd have Varnish. You set Varnish to listen on port 80, and you'd change Apache/Nginx/Whatever to listen on an alternate port like 8080.
You configure Varnish with Apache/Nginx as a backend, where it will direct requests that aren't currently cached. That's all you need for a very basic setup, but it's likely you'll want to customize Varnish's caching logic to be a bit more permissive (for example, Varnish won't cache a page if there are cookies in the request). I'll leave the detailed setup instructions for another blog post, since it's a very large topic (you can search for some tutorials to get started).
Varnish can be the key to saving your website from crashing during large traffic spikes (like if you get posted to Reddit or another popular site). When properly configured, Varnish can continue serving up cached pages even if the backend is offline. Also, Varnish stores it's cache in memory and is highly optimized at what it does (for example, it does very few system calls to avoid frequent context switching, they've implemented most system calls themselves, in user space).
Then you have page caching techniques within your application. WordPress, Symfony, and Rails for example, all have mechanisms to cache the output of pages as static files and use those, skipping much of the slow parts of your application (e.g. database queries). Some systems even allow you to store page caches in memory instead of on the filesystem, using a builtin mechanism or an external application like memcached.
Page caching techniques vary wildly depending on your application or framework, so I won't go too deep into it here.
The gist of it is that if you have pages filled with content that doesn't change super frequently and isn't dynamic for every request, you can typically render it out to a static file and serve that until the content changes. This avoids the overhead of database calls and complicated application logic, but still has high overhead as most dynamic languages like Ruby/Python/PHP have a lot of overhead for every request. It's at least an order of magnitude slower for these languages to serve a cached resource than Varnish.
Also worth noting is that many systems including Varnish support something called Edge-Side Includes (similarly there are Server-Side Includes). If the majority of your page is static, but there are one or two dynamic parts (e.g. user details), you can statically cache the page and use a ESI or SSI to include the dynamic parts when the page is served. This tends to be higher performance than re-rendering the entire page (again, this varies based on your individual application).
Another very common technique for caching is using an in-memory data store like Redis or Memcached, located on the same machine as the webserver (sometimes this isn't the case though). You use these in-memory data stores to temporarily store data that is very slow to compute. Then in your application, you'd check the memory store first, and if it's not there, you fall back to the actual code. After computing the results, you should then add it to the memory store.
Examples of using this are for caching database calls (example: you have a settings table that you fetch every request. It's far faster to store it in memory than to do a database call every request), or slow computations. You shouldn't use in-memory data stores for any information you want to keep, as they are considered volatile storage (nothing persists after a restart).
Some programming languages also support shared memory built right into the language. These systems allow you to cache data in a shared block of memory and access it from any process. However, I recommend using memcached or something similar instead, as they tend to be more powerful and well optimized.
Cache busting is the action of clearing/deleting/expiring a cache item. It's commonly used when a resource has changed (for example, my blog cache busts Varnish whenever I write a new post). It's commonly a source of confusion or issues when caching is newly introduced (why can't I see my changes?). Most frameworks have libraries for dealing with this, but if you're going with a homegrown approach, it's important to consider this. You may want to hook into your models to clear relevant caches for example.
Caching is used heavily by every large website (e.g. Facebook/Google/Twitter/etc). Facebook operates one of the largest memcached clusters in the world, consisting of hundreds of terabytes of RAM. These websites save millions of dollars a year in server resources by employing a multitude of caching techniques.
Another lesson that is often learned the hard way, caching can be a nightmare if you don't design your application with caching in mind from the very beginning. Adding caching in after the fact will cause many issues (e.g. resources not being cache busted automatically when a resource is changed). Naming is the other very important part of caching. It pays off to think of a good, scalable naming scheme before you get started.


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Santa Claus, Legacy Ladies, and Brazilian music: What more could you want?
For Luminaries
Santa Claus Open set for Dec. 7-8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Palm Beach and Martin Counties will be hosting its 14th annual Santa Claus Open Golf Tournament at the Stuart Yacht & Country Club.
Community members are invited to attend the cocktail party and auction on Dec. 7 and to play a round of golf followed by lunch and awards on Dec. 8.
Treasure Coast Estate Buyers and Publix Super Markets are the 2017 Co-Signature Sponsors. Golfers will enjoy a challenging game and the chance to win exciting prizes.
All proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
Players are requested to bring an unwrapped toy for a child participating in the Big Brothers Big Sisters programs.
Registration is available online at www.mentorbig.org or in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Martin County office, 101 S.E. Central Parkway, Stuart. For more information, contact Courtney Buckel at cbuckel@mentorbig.org or 772-283-6862.
Legacy Ladies collect $3,000 for Fisher House
There's nothing more heartwarming than honoring the servicemen and women of the United States. That's just what the women of the Legacy Golf and Tennis Club did on Nov. 15 with its "Celebrate America" golf tournament.
Co-chairs of the event were Julie Anderer and Audrey Klepper.
Although the tournament was cancelled due to rain, 81 women came together to enjoy lunch and donate $3,000 in gift cards, which will be delivered to the Fisher House at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center.
Fisher Houses are part of the philanthropic work of Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher. The program began in 1990 and is a network of comfort homes where military and veteran's families can stay at no cost while a loved one is recovering from medical treatment.
Acclaimed Brasil Guitar Duo to perform at benefit concert series
The Atlantic Classical Orchestra is holding a December benefit concert series that will have guests enjoying the familiar sounds of the classical masters, but may have them tapping their feet to a different beat.
Featured guest artist, the Brasil Guitar Duo, has been captivating audiences across the globe with a unique blend of classical guitar duos from Bach, Scarlatti, and Debussy with traditional and Brazilian dance-like choro, samba, maxine, and baião.
When and where: Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m. Orchid Island Beach Club in Vero Beach; Dec. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at The Club at Admirals Cove in Jupiter; Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. at Willoughby Golf Club in Stuart.
Tickets: For tickets and more information contact the Atlantic Classical Orchestra Box Office at 772-460-0850 or www.ACO-Music.org.
Ranieri to lead Library Foundation of Martin County board
Martin County public relations and marketing professional Stacy Ranieri was installed as president of The Library Foundation of Martin County at the organization's 26th annual meeting.
Ranieri succeeds Noreen Fisher who led the board for three years.
Also installed as officers were Denise Erich as vice president, Charles Cleaver as treasurer, and Pat Ditmars as secretary. Alishia Parenteau and Xenobia Poitier-Anderson were reappointed to a second term as directors.
In addition to Fisher, Scott Konopka and Lois McGuire retired from the board.
Ranieri recapped the foundation's successes during 2017: A 12.5 percent increase in contributions; an increase in membership to 800; the Founder's Society reaching 126 people with lifetime contributions of $10,000 or more; excellent participation in the Gateway to the Arts project in Golden Gate; a sold-out Kiplinger Literacy Award luncheon; a noteworthy Literary Affair fundraising event.
The Library Foundation funds library system program needs not met through public funding. In addition to the Kiplinger Literary Award Luncheon, the foundation hosts the annual "A Literary Affair" dinner in March in conjunction with the Book Mania! Festival and a Young Literary Leaders awards event. For more information, visit http://www.libraryfoundationmc.org.


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Remembering Needleman
At the cremation.
It has been four weeks and it is still hard for me to believe Sandor Needleman is dead. I was present at the cremation and, at his son's request, brought the marshmallows, but few of us could think of anything but our pain.
Needleman was constantly obsessing over his funeral plans and once told me, "I much prefer cremation to burial in the earth, and both to a weekend with Mrs. Needleman." In the end, he chose to have himself cremated and donated his ashes to the University of Heidelberg, which scattered them to the four winds and got a deposit on the urn.
I can still see him with his crumpled suit and gray sweater. Preoccupied with weighty matters, he frequently would forget to remove the coat hanger from his jacket while he wore it. I reminded him of it one time at a Princeton Commencement, and he smiled calmly and said, "Good, let those who have taken issue with my theories think at least that I have broad shoulders." Two days later, he was committed to Bellevue for doing a sudden back somersault in the midst of a conversation with Stravinsky.
Needleman was not an easily understood man. His reticence was mistaken for coldness, but he was capable of great compassion, and after witnessing a particularly horrible mine disaster once, he could not finish a second helping of waffles. His silence, too, put people off, but he felt speech was a flawed method of communication, and he preferred to hold even his most intimate conversations with signal flags.
When he was dismissed from the faculty of Columbia University for his controversy with the then-head of the school, Dwight Eisenhower, he waited for the renowned ex-general with a carpet beater and pelted him until Eisenhower ran for cover into a toy store. (The two men had a bitter public disagreement over whether the class bell signaled the end of a period or the beginning of another.)
Needleman had always hoped to die a quiet death. "Amidst my books and papers like my brother Johann." (Needleman's brother had suffocated under a rolltop desk while searching for his rhyming dictionary.)
Who would have thought that while Needleman would be watching the demolition of a building on his lunch hour, he would be tapped in the head by a wrecking ball? The blow caused massive shock, and Needleman expired with a broad smile. His last, enigmatic words were, "No thanks, I already own a penguin."
As always, at the time of Needleman's death he was at work on several things. He was creating an Ethics, based on his theory that "good and just behavior is not only more moral but could be done by phone." Also, he was halfway through a new study of semantics, proving (as he so violently insisted) that sentence structure is innate but that whining is acquired. Finally, yet another book on the Holocaust. This one with cutouts. Needleman had always been obsessed by the problem of evil and argued quite eloquently that true evil was only possible if its perpetrator was named Blackie or Pete. His own flirtation with National Socialism caused a scandal in academic circles, though despite everything from gymnastics to dance lessons, he could not master the goose step.
Nazism was for him merely a reaction against academic philosophy, a position he always attempted to impress on friends and then would grab at their faces with feigned excitement and say, "Aha! Got your nose." It is easy to criticize his position on Hitler at first, but one must take into account his own philosophical writings. He had rejected contemporary ontology and insisted that man existed prior to infinity though not with too many options. He differentiated between existence and Existence, and knew one was preferable, but could never remember which. Human freedom for Needleman consisted of being aware of the absurdity of life. "God is silent," he was fond of saying, "now if we can only get Man to shut up."
Authentic Being, reasoned Needleman, could only be achieved on weekends and even then it required the borrowing of a car. Man, according to Needleman, was not a "thing" apart from nature, but was involved "in nature," and could not observe his own existence without first pretending to be indifferent and then running around to the opposite end of the room quickly in the hopes of glimpsing himself.
His term for the life process was Angst-Zeit, loosely meaning Anxiety-Time and suggested man was a creature doomed to exist in "time" even though that was not where the action was. After much reflection, Needleman's intellectual integrity convinced him that he didn't exist, his friends didn't exist, and the only thing that was real was his IOU to the bank for six million marks. Hence, he was charmed by the National Socialist's philosophy of power, or as Needleman put it, "I have the kind of eyes that are set off by a brown shirt." After it became apparent that National Socialism was just the type of menace that Needleman stood against, he fled Berlin. Disguised as a bush and moving sideways only, three quick paces at a time, he crossed the border without being noticed.
Everywhere in Europe Needleman went, students and intellectuals were eager to help him, awed by his reputation. On the run, he found time to publish Time, Essence, and Reality: A Systematic Reevaluation of Nothingness and his delightful, lighter treatise, The Best Places to Eat While in Hiding. Chaim Weizmann and Martin Buber took up a collection and obtained signed petitions to permit Needleman to emigrate to the United States, but at the time the hotel of his choice was full. With German soldiers minutes from his hideout in Prague, Needleman decided to come to America after all, but a scene occurred at the airport when he was overweight with his luggage. Albert Einstein, who was on that same flight, explained to him that if he would just remove the shoe trees from his shoes he could take everything. The two frequently corresponded after that. Einstein once wrote him, "Your work and my work are very similar although I'm still not exactly sure what your work is."
Once in America, Needleman was rarely out of public controversy. He published his famous, Non-Existence: What To Do If It Suddenly Strikes You. Also the classic work on linguistic philosophy, Semantic Modes of Non-Essential Functioning, which was made into the hit movie, They Flew By Night.
Typically, he was asked to resign from Harvard because of his affiliation with the Communist party. He felt only in a system with no economic inequality could there be real freedom and cited as the model society an ant farm. He could observe ants for hours and used to muse wistfully, "They're truly harmonious. If only their women were prettier they'd have it made." Interestingly, when Needleman was called by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he named names and justified it to his friends by citing his philosophy: "Political actions have no moral consequences but exist outside of the realm of true Being." For once the academic community stood chastened, and it was not until weeks later that the faculty at Princeton decided to tar and feather Needleman. Needleman, incidentally, used this same reasoning to justify his concept of free love, but neither of two young coeds would buy it and the 16-year-old blew the whistle on him.
Needleman was passionate about the halting of nuclear testing and flew to Los Alamos, where he and several students refused to remove themselves from the site of a scheduled atomic detonation. As minutes ticked off and it became apparent the test would proceed as planned, Needleman was heard to mutter, "Uh-oh," and made a run for it. What the newspapers did not print was that he had not eaten all day.
It is easy to remember the public Needleman. Brilliant, committed, the author of Styles of Modes. But it is the private Needleman I will always fondly recall, the Sandor Needleman who was never without some favorite hat. Indeed, he was cremated with a hat on. A first I believe. Or the Needleman who loved Walt Disney movies so passionately and who, despite lucid explanations of animation by Max Planck, could not be dissuaded from putting in a person-to-person call to Minnie Mouse.
When Needleman was staying at my house as a guest, I knew he liked a particular brand of tuna fish. I stocked the guest kitchen with it. He was too shy to admit his fondness for it to me, but once, thinking he was alone, opened every can and mused, "You are all my children."
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. Soon he developed a mild brain concussion. I pointed out that he could stop falling as his point had been made. He said, "No. A few more times. It's really not so bad."
I remember Needleman's seventieth birthday. His wife bought him pajamas. Needleman was obviously disappointed as he had hinted for a new Mercedes. Still, it is the mark of the man that he retired to the study and had his tantrum privately. He reentered the party smiling and wore the pajamas to the opening night of two short plays by Arabel.
Read more articles by Allen here.
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On the 12th of March, Civil Rights Defenders will co-sponsor a parallel session at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. The event will focus on the use and abuse of anti-terrorism laws in Africa which is undermining civil society, eroding human rights and leading to a situation where numerous dissidents have been imprisoned.
As Civil Rights Defenders expands its programme to include the East & Horn of Africa terrorist threats from Al-Shabab pose genuine threats to national security, human rights, regional stability, and the civilian populations across the region.
The other co-sponsors will include Civicus and the East & Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP).
This event will discuss and analyse these trends across the African continent and will include our Programme Director for the East & Horn of Africa, Mesfin Negash on the discussion panel. The broad reach of anti-terror legislation and its chilling impact on other rights and freedoms will also be one of the main threads going through this discussion.
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Tags: East & Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, and United Nations Human Rights Council.