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NCAA Roundup: October Recap
It was a successful month for many BCHL alumni now plying their trade for NCAA Division I schools. Several former players from the league earned weekly and monthly awards due to their strong play on the ice. We recap it all below.
National Collegiate Hockey Conference
Taylor Ward (F) – Senior – University of Nebraska-Omaha (Penticton Vees)
Player of the Week (Nov. 1)
Player of the Month (October)
Hockey Commissioners Association Player of the Month (October)
Ward tallied a point in all eight games Omaha played in October, leading the Mavericks to a 7-1-0 record. The assistant captain scored an NCAA-best 10 goals in the month and totaled 16 points, which leads the NCHC and ties for second nationally. Eight of his 10 goals came on the power play, including one game-winner, while he also dished out six assists. Ward averaged 2.00 points per game in October, which tied for the NCAA lead among players with more than two games played.
The son of former NHL player Dixon Ward, Taylor played three seasons for the Penticton Vees from 2015 to 2018, putting up 77 points in 162 games along the way.
Massimo Rizzo (F) – Freshman – University of Denver (Penticton/Coquitlam/Chilliwack)
Co-Rookie of the Week (Oct. 11)
Rookie of the Month (October)
Rizzo started his NCAA career on fire, tallying eight points in Denver's six October games, tying for the NCHC rookie lead. He recorded four multi-point games and two multi-goal games, averaging 1.33 points per game, again tops among NCHC freshmen and second among all NCAA rookies. Rizzo racked up five goals, which leads all NCHC freshmen and tied for first among all college freshmen. He also dished out three assists and went 32-24 in the faceoff circle (57.1 per cent) in October.
The 20-year-old from Burnaby, B.C. started his BCHL career with the Penticton Vees where he played for two years. He moved on to the Coquitlam Express the following season and joined the Chilliwack Chiefs during his final year, but missed the pod season due to injury. He notched 123 points in 132 games over his career in the league.
Brett Chorske (F) – Freshman – Colorado College (Wenatchee Wild)
Rookie of the Week (Nov. 1)
After not dressing for Colorado's first seven games of the season, Chorske made the most of his collegiate debut, tallying the first two points of his career to help lead the Tigers to a win over rival Air Force on Saturday. Chorske scored his first collegiate goal on the power play late in the second period to make it a 5-0 game, before tallying his first assist on CC's seventh goal in an 8-1 win.
Chorske played the 2018-19 campaign with the Wenatchee Wild, finishing in a tie for second in team scoring with 39 points in 58 games. He is the son of former NHLer Tom Chorske.
Atlantic Hockey
Carson Brière (F) – Sophomore – Mercyhurst University (Trail Smoke Eaters)
Player of the Week (Oct. 18)
Coming off his freshman year where he was named to the Atlantic Hockey 2nd-Team All-Conference as well as the All-Rookie Team, Brière picked up where he left off, piling up nine points in seven games through the first month of his sophomore season.
The 22-year-old joined the Trail Smoke Eaters midway through the 2019-20 season and contributed 12 points in 24 games down the stretch.
Carter Wilkie (F) – Freshman – Rochester Institute of Technology (Chilliwack/West Kelowna)
Rookie of the Week (Oct. 11, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1)
Wilkie was on fire to start his college career, earning conference Rookie of the Week in the first week of play and then again two more times later in the month. Naturally, he was also named the conference's Rookie of the Month for October. He put up four goals and two assists for six points in his first eight games this season.
The Calgary, Alta. native played three seasons in the BCHL, split between the Chilliwack Chiefs and West Kelowna Warriors. Over his career, he notched 87 points in 127 games.
Kolby Matthews (G) – Junior – Rochester Institute of Technology (Coquitlam Express)
Goaltender of the Week (Oct. 11 and Nov. 1)
Matthews won the conference's Goaltender of the Week award twice in the month of October. He wraps up the first month of his junior season with a record of 4-0-2, a .938 save percentage and a 1.94 goals-against average, putting him in second in the conference in both categories.
Matthews played the 2018-19 season with the Coquitlam Express where he went 14-16-2 in 34 appearances.
Willie Reim (F) – Junior – Air Force Academy (West Kelowna Warriors)
Reim posted a career-high three points on a goal and two assists in the Falcons' win at Michigan State on opening weekend. The North Oaks, Minn., native was involved in all three goals in Air Force's 3-2 overtime win to open the series. He posted assists on the first two goals of the evening before netting the game-winner in overtime. The goal was his fifth career game-winner and third OT goal of his career. Reim also added an assist on the Falcon's lone goal on Saturday and won 11 faceoffs over the two games.
Reim played two seasons with the West Kelowna Warriors from 2017 to 2019. He finished in the top-20 in league scoring his final year when he notched 58 points in 57 games.
Drew Bavaro (D) – Sophomore – Bentley University (Wenatchee Wild)
Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 25)
Bavaro had a goal in each game of the Falcons' home-and-home series against Holy Cross that weekend. In a 4-2 road win, the Bradenton, Fla., native scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal 46 seconds into the second period to break a 2-2 tie. At home that Saturday, Bavaro netted a power play goal at 3:26 of the second period.
The 6-foot-3, 194-pound defenceman played the 2019-20 season with the Wenatchee Wild and led the team in points from the blueline with 33 in 51 games.
Hunter Sansbury (D) – Freshman – Sacred Heart University (Salmon Arm Silverbacks)
Rookie of the Week (Oct. 18)
Sansbury tallied five blocked shots and four shots on goal in the Pioneer's two-game series at Boston University. The Lomita, Calif., native led the Pioneers in blocked shots that weekend. On the year, he has one assist in seven games.
The 21-year-old spent two seasons with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, totaling 37 points in 74 career games.
ECAC Hockey
Zach Metsa (D) – Senior – Quinnipiac University (Merritt Centennials)
Metsa averaged a point-per game in October, helping the Bobcats to a 5-1-2 record, which included four games against nationally-ranked opponents. The senior had three multi-point outings, including a three-assist night in a 5-2 win over North Dakota. He played a part in both goals in the final game of the month, a 2-1 win over AIC. The blueliner was also outstanding defensively, boasting a +10 on-ice rating in the month.
Metsa suited up for the Merritt Centennials in 2016-17 and had 27 points in 57 games.
Skyler Brind'Amour (F) – Junior – Quinnipiac University (Chilliwack Chiefs)
Brind'Amour recorded three points in the opening weekend Icebreaker Tournament. In tournament's first game, a 2-2 tie against Boston College, he assisted on the first tally before scoring the game-tying goal in the third. He added an assist the next game in a win over Northeastern, and as a result was named to the 2021 Icebreaker All-Tournament Team.
The son of Stanley Cup champion and current Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour, Skyler spent two years with the Chilliwack Chiefs from 2017 to 2019 and won a National Championship with the Chiefs in 2018.
Linden Marshall (G) – Senior – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Trail Smoke Eaters)
Goalie of the Week (Oct. 25)
Marshall sent aside 28 of the 29 shots he faced at the University of Vermont that weekend. He was tested early the contest, facing 14 shots in the opening frame, all of which he turned away. He was less than 30 seconds from his second career shutout before Vermont score an extra attacker goal late in the 2-1 win for the Engineers.
The 23-year-old from Victoria, B.C. played with the Trail Smoke Eaters for two seasons from 2015 to 2017, suiting up for 49 games and posting a record of 20-15-0.
Nick Poisson (F) – Sophomore – Providence College (Prince George Spruce Kings)
Poisson recorded a hat trick and an assist, all in the third period, during Providence's 6-5 come-from-behind victory over previously undefeated Denver that weekend. After the first month of play, he has 10 points in nine games.
Poisson played two seasons with the Prince George Spruce Kings from 2018 to 2020. He was a key part of their 2019 Fred Page Cup championship team that went all the way to the finals of the National Championship tournament.
Max Newton (F) – Graduate – Merrimack College (Trail/Cowichan Valley)
Newton had a massive week at Colgate to pace the Warrior offense with four points. He scored the team's lone goal in their opener, then added two more tallies and an assist the following night, including the game-winning goal, to complete a 5-3 comeback road win.
The 23-year-old played two seasons with the Trail Smoke Eaters and one with the Cowichan Valley Capitals. Over his three-year BCHL career, he had 123 points in 153 games.
Matt Crasa (F) – Freshman – UMass-Lowell (Cowichan Valley Capitals)
Player of the Week (Oct. 5)
Crasa led the River Hawks on opening weekend with four points (3G, 1A) in a road split at Arizona State. In UMass Lowell's season opener, the freshman tallied his first collegiate goal to help get the River Hawks on the board against the Sun Devils. Later that weekend, Crasa continued his scoring run, leading the team to a 4-2 victory with a pair of goals and an assist.
The 20-year-old New York native played the 2019-20 campaign with the Cowichan Valley Capitals and led the team in goals with 25. He also finished third in team scoring with 44 points in 51 games.
Darion Hanson (G) – Graduate – University of Connecticut (Vernon Vipers)
Goaltender of the Week (Oct. 12)
Hanson got his first Hockey East win of the season that week, making 29 saves in a 5-1 road victory, keeping Boston University off the scoreboard in the second and third periods. Over two games of work, Hanson stopped 72 of 75 shots faced. The night before, in a loss, the graduate student stopped a season-high 43 of 45 shots.
Hanson played the 2016-17 campaign with the Vernon Vipers, joining the team midseason. In 21 games after joining the club, he posted a 14-4-0 record, a .945 save percentage and a 1.84 goals-against average with two shutous.
Cody Monds (F) – Freshman – Providence College (Victoria Grizzlies)
Monds recorded three points across two victories for the Friars that week as the Providence offense exploded for 10 goals. The freshman notched the game-winning goal and added an assist in Providence's 5-2 win over Merrimack to open the 2021-22 Hockey East league schedule before adding an assist the next night in a 5-1 win at AIC.
Monds played for the Victoria Grizzlies in 2019-20 and finished in a tie for 11th in league scoring and tops on his team with 59 points in 57 games played.
Kevin Wall (F) – Junior – Penn State University (Chilliwack Chiefs)
1st Star of the Week (Oct. 26)
Wall led the Big Ten that week with five goals over the weekend in a sweep over Niagara University. He opened the scoring for Penn Sate in the first game of the week, netting the eventual game-winner, before adding a second tally in a 4-0 victory. The next night, he registered his first-career hat trick during a 6-2 win to complete the sweep.
The 2019 sixth-round draft pick of the Carolina Hurricanes played the 2018-19 season with the Chilliwack Chiefs where he finished eighth in league scoring and was named to both the 1st-Team All-Star squad and the All-Rookie team.
Jack LaFontaine (G) – Graduate – University of Minnesota (Penticton Vees)
2nd Star of the Week (Nov. 1)
LaFontaine backstopped the Gophers to a weekend sweep of Notre Dame to start the Big Ten season 2-0. He turned aside 28 shots in Friday's 4-1 win and followed up with 26 saves in Saturday's 3-2 victory. The 2021 Mike Richter Award winner finished the series with a save percentage of .947 and a 1.50 goals-against average. This is his fifth career Big Ten weekly award.
The 23-year-old Carolina Hurricanes draft pick played the 2018-19 season with the Penticton Vees after transferred from the University of Michigan. In 45 games with the Vees, he went 30-13-1 and posted a .923 save percentage, a 2.19 goals-against average and three shutouts.
Matthew Galajda (G) – Senior – University of Notre Dame (Victoria Grizzlies)
3rd Star of the Week (Oct. 26)
Galajda stopped all 22 shots he faced to backstop the Irish to a 6-0 shutout victory over RIT on Oct. 22. He turned aside 12 shots in the second period and five in the third to preserve the shutout and helped Notre Dame go 4-for-4 on the penalty kill. After transferring from Cornell University, this was his first shutout with the Fighting Irish and the 20th of his career.
Galajda played for the Victoria Grizzlies for two seasons from 2015 to 2017, finishing his BCHL career with a .918 save percentage, a 2.52 goals-against average and seven shutouts in 83 appearances.
CCHA
Akito Hirose (D) – Sophomore – Minnesota State University (Salmon Arm Silverbacks)
Defenceman of the Week (Nov. 1)
The reigning WCHA Rookie of the Year recorded a four-point weekend and was plus-4 as Minnesota State opened CCHA action last weekend with a two-game home sweep over Northern Michigan. Hirose had an assist and was +1 in last Friday's 4-2 victory and a goal and two assists in Saturday's 7-0 win over the Wildcats. Hirose assisted on Brendan Furry's game winning goal Saturday.
The 22-year-old was a longtime BCHLer, playing four seasons with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks from 2016 to 2020. During his final year in the league, he led all defencemen in scoring with 51 points, was named a First-Team All-Star and won the league's Top Defenceman award.
Trevor Zins (D) – Junior – University of St. Thomas (Trail Smoke Eaters)
Defenceman of the Week (Oct. 25)
Zins scored his first collegiate goal that weekend in the first of two games against Ferris State. He then scored a goal and added two assists the next night in a 5-2 victory, which was his team's first ever NCAA Division I win. After not getting into any game action the past two seasons at St. Cloud State University, Zins now has six points in his first 10 games with St. Thomas.
The 23-year-old from St. Michael, Minn. played with the Trail Smoke Eaters from 2017 to 2019 and was the league's fourth-highest scoring defenceman during his second and final season, after he put up 46 points in 58 games.
Dawson Tritt (F) – Freshman – Lake Superior State University (Alberni Valley Bulldogs)
Tritt recorded a goal and an assist in the Lakers sweep over St. Thomas that weekend. He notched the secondary assist on the empty net goal in a 3-1 win over the Tommies and followed with a highlight-reel goal the next night.
The Spokane, Wash. native spent two full seasons with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs from 2018 to 2020. He put up 32 points in first year in the league and another 31 the following campaign.
Tagged: Akito Hirose, Brett Chorske, Carson Briere, Carter Wilkie, Cody Monds, Darion Hanson, Dawson Tritt, Drew Bavaro, Hunter Sansbury, Jack LaFontaine, Kevin Wall, Kolby Matthews, Linden Marshall, Massimo Rizzo, Matt Crasa, Matthew Galajda, Max Newton, Nick Poisson, Skyler Brind'Amour, Taylor Ward, Trevor Zins, Willie Reim, Zach Metsa
Wood, Eddy & Rhéaume named FortisBC 3 Stars of the Month
Nadeau, Wood get Team Canada U17 call
DeBrouwer, Galajda, Hanson, Perets on Watch List for Richter Award
NCAA Roundup: Nine alums earn weekly, monthly NCAA honours
NCAA Roundup: Friedmann and Crasa earn weekly conference honours
NCAA Roundup: Dec. 9


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Lorsqu'on ajoute un paquet dans le nouveau dépôt créé qui est `/var/www/lighttpd/centos/stable` :

On l'ajoute au niveau des répertoires qui contiendront les paquets : **i386** ou **x86_64** .

Le paquet doit étre signer , pour signer un paquet on utilise la commande suivante:

```bash
rpm --addsign chemin_vers_le_paquet

```

On met à jour le dépôt pour qu'il prenne en compte le nouveau paquet :

```bash
createrepo --update  chemin_vers_le_dépôt

```

##CLIENT:

* Récupérer la clé du dépôt et l'ajouter à la base de donnée de RPM:

```bash
rpm --import http://132.227.76.24:8081/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY

```

* Créer un fichier dans `/etc/yum.repo.d` , dont le nom sera **nom.repo** (nom : représente un nom quelconque), qui aura la forme suivante:

```bash
 [nom-repo]
 name=centos repository
 baseurl=http://132.227.76.24:8081/centos/stable
 gpgcheck=1
 gpgkey=http://132.227.76.24:8081/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY
 enabled=1

```

* Mette à jour :

```bash
yum clean expire-cache

```

* Afficher la liste des dépôts disponibles:

```bash
yum repolist

```

On verra que le nouveau dépôt est disponible .

##Paquet lighttpd :

Pour pouvoir installer lighttpd sous centos on a d'abord besoin d'installer le paquet suivant:

```bash
yum install epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

```
Puis:

```bash
yum install lighttpd

```

##Clés GPG
Pour voir la liste des clés importé dans la base de donnée RPM:

```bash
rpm -q gpg-pubkey --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\t%{SUMMARY}\n'

```

Pour supprimer une clé importée:

```bash
rpm-e gpg-pubkey-numéro_clé

```

Pour voir la liste des clés générées sur la machine :

```bash
gpg --list-keys

```

Pour supprimer une des clés générés:

```bash
gpg --delete-secret-key id-key
gpg --delete-key id-key

```

## Signer les paquets automatiquement:

Pour pouvoir entrer la passPhrase automatiquement à chaque signature d'un paquet :

On doit d'abord installer le paquet expect :

```bash
yum install expect

```

On donne les droit d'execution au fichier **rpm-sign.exp** :

```bash
chmod 755 rpm-sign.exp

```

On execute ce fichier en lui passant en argument le chemin vers le répertoire contenant les paquets:

```bash
./rpm-sign.exp /var/www/lighttpd/centos/stable/x86_64/*.rpm

```

Dans mon exemple le mot de passe donné à la clé est: **PAQUITO**

Pour finir on crée une crontab pour pouvoir executer ce script toute les heurs , et on redirige les logs vers le fichier `var/log/sign-rpm.log` :

Pour ajouter une crontab:

```bash
crontab -e

```

Ajouter la ligne suivante dans le fichier:

```bash
00 * * * * /chemin_vers_rpm-sign.exp  /var/www/lighttpd/centos/stable/x86_64/*.rpm >> /var/log/sign-rpm.log 2>&1

```

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And that's why we're the ultimate solution in brewery 'hosery'. Brewflex is a high quality, butly lined hose designed specifically to convey beer. It disrupts the brewery hose marketplace by being affordable yet remains high quality.
Flextech might only be a young company, but our team is formed of people with a wealth of industry experience. Over the years that we've invested into the hose industry, we've built up an extensive library of knowledge and understanding when it comes to the topics of quality and hygiene with regards to hoses and so it's fair to say that we know what we're talking about. Since 2012 we've supplied our high quality, hygienic, butyl lined, rubber Brewflex® beer hose assemblies into over 400 breweries in the UK and Europe.
As a buyer, when it comes to purchasing something you expect the seller to know what they're talking about, and for most industries this is probably the case – however, in the hose industry it is quite a different story. Decades of price wars eroded any need to understand the true value of a hose (unless you were passionate about quality) and the properties it's unique materials and construction offer. And so, what we have is an industry saturated with hose suppliers whose knowledge on; "what hose is most suitable for an application", "how does this material react with that media" and "why is the hose liner important" etc. is severely lacking. The truth is, most hose suppliers in the UK do not know their hoses like you know your beer and as a result they sell you cheap, low quality, imported hoses, manufactured in dirty environments, yet still branded and sold as "food quality", making them completely unfit for purpose.
Big businesses understand the importance of; hose quality, hose hygiene, hose health checks and hose maintenance due mainly to the fact that at one time, they didn't understand, and it was costly – because losing a batch of beer to contamination through a faulty or low-quality hose was overlooked, because obviously, a hose is just a hose… or is it?
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If there's one thing I will say it is this: The hoses, that you use to brew your beer with are important. Although they might be an after-thought once the brewery has been kitted out with pristine stainless-steel tanks, this doesn't negate the fact that the hose you choose will impact the beer you produce. Initially, this amount may be nil or negligible but why take the risk? Even the most expensive of brewery hoses is a minuscule cost when compared to the grand stainless-steel vats that gloriously shine inside a brewery. A cheap rubber hose import with jubilee clipped end connections is a hygiene and bacterial contamination risk waiting to happen and it doesn't make sense to compromise the integrity of these expensive hygienic vats with a cheap low-quality rubber hose, let alone PVC.
A beer hose should not; smell of rubber or glue or plastic, it should not have an NBR liner and it should not use jubilee clips to fix the end connections onto the hose. A beer hose should; be smell and taste free and it will not taint your beer, it should ideally have a butyl liner or an EPDM liner at the least and it should have permanently swaged hygienic end connections. The consequences of using the wrong hose usually results in premature hose failure, batch contamination, compromised health and safety and production line deficiency to name a few. The aim of this website and accompanying catalogue is to give an overview into all thing's brewery hoses and associated brewery equipment as well as hose health checks and maintenance. We're not the only company in the UK to offer high-quality hose solutions but we are one of only a handful.
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public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args){
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Asian-Pacific stock markets fell Friday, with Japan's Nikkei hitting a three-month low, pressured by overnight weakness on Wall Street after days of solid gains.
An attack in Barcelona, in which at least 13 people died, as well as political uncertainties in the U.S. and simmering geopolitical tensions had nervous investors shifting their money from global risk assets to safer havens.
"We can now see a reversal in fortunes and sentiment deteriorating," said Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG Group. Overnight in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.42% experienced its biggest decline in three months, while Wall Street's "fear gauge," the CBOE Volatility Index VIX, -4.05% , jumped more than 30%.
The Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.43% dropped 1.2% after falling to its lowest level since May. There was added pressure from the advance of the yen against the dollar—it also gained on the euro and the British pound, hitting multiweek—as that hurts Japanese exporters. The yen JPYUSD, +0.055400% was last up 0.1% versus the dollar.
But the Nikkei pared its loss, with analysts saying that strong corporate earnings were providing some support.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.54% fell 1.1%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.05% narrowed its loss to 0.6%. Korea's Kospi SEU, +0.26% was off 0.1%. In China, the Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, +0.20% ended less than 1 point higher.
Financial shares were among the region's biggest decliners. In Tokyo, life insurers led the way down: Dai-ichi Life Holdings 8750, -1.22% fell 2.7% while T&D Holdings 8795, -1.21% dropped 2.6%. In Australia, three of the country's four biggest banks — Westpac Banking WBC, +0.07% , National Australia Bank NAB, +0.12% and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group ANZ, +0.22% — each fell at least by 1.2%.
Friday's declines reflect investors' increasingly downbeat attitude about stocks, said Soichiro Monji, general manager of economic research at Daiwa SB Investments. More investors fear returns are falling due to slower growth, he said, while risks remain abundant.
"Profit-taking kicks in when stocks make some advance," Monji said.
Meanwhile, further woes in the Trump administration risk hurting market confidence and business sentiment globally, analysts say. Overnight, U.S. government-bond prices briefly surged on rumors that the director of the U.S. National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, was resigning after President Donald Trump's remarks on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
White House aides later told The Wall Street Journal that Cohn hadn't resigned and didn't plan to, but the market response showed how closely traders are following events at the White House. Prices for most U.S. government bonds have since declined with yields higher in Asian trade.
Given the run-up in U.S. valuations following the presidential election, "it is better to look for opportunities outside of the U.S., where there is better momentum for growth or reform," said Paul Flood, a multiasset portfolio manager at Newton Investment Management, which manages 90 billion Australian dollars (US$71 billion) in assets.


Decoding baby talk is probably one of the many skills a new mom has to learn to be able to provide her little one with the utmost possible care and nurturing that the baby deserves. How else can you give in to his every whim if you are not able to understand his demands in the first place? When your little one started to communicate verbally, whether with coos or aahs, or grunts perhaps, there are some tips you can follow to make sure he will be uttering his very first word in no time at all!
Firstly, make sure you provide him with baby toys that will encourage him to learn how to communicate. wooden toys, including wooden instruments and books, are perfect examples. You will help widen his vocabulary by letting him browse at pictures and images in books, making sure to tell him what those things in the picture are. Remember that babies learn through playing, and playing shapes his attitude towards himself and other people later on in life, too, so make sure he enjoys his time of play thoroughly.
Remember to speak to your child like he is all grown up. Refrain from baby talking him as he is most likely to mimic those words instead of the correct ones. Speak to him as if you are talking to someone who can fully understand you. This will encourage him to learn the actual words and not the baby talk equivalent. This way, you will be surprised that your child will skip this phase and utter his very first word clearly like a grown up would.
Another fool-proof way to encourage your child to talk is by reading to him. Read as much as you can. Read him bedtime stories or articles on baby magazine. Apart from being enjoyable and having a perfect alternative to watching TV, reading to him this early will instill in him a love for books and reading at a younger age that will work well for him when he grows up.
This entry was posted in Boost your kids' development and tagged baby talk, baby toys, baby vocabulary, baby's first word, child's development, educational toys, learning to talk, wooden toys on October 22, 2011 by Yami.
Those are some good tips for any new mother to follow to understand her baby better. It is definitely necessary to know what the baby wants to take care of their needs.


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Czech Philharmonic • New Year's Concert
Czech Philharmonic
New Year's Concert of the Czech Philharmonic
Subscription series M
The Marriage of Figaro, overture to the opera, K. 492
Un'aura amorosa, aria from the opera Così fan tutte K. 588
Romance in F Major for violin and orchestra No. 2, Op. 50
Com'è gentil, aria from the opera Don Pasquale
Tornami a dir, aria from the opera Don Pasquale
Antonio Bazzini
La ronde des lutins for violin and orchestra
Una furtiva lagrima, aria from the opera The Elixir of Love
Ecco ridente in cielo, cavatina from the opera The Barber of Seville
George Bizet
Symphony in C Major
Finale. Allegro vivace
Italian Serenade in G Major
La mia letizia infondere, cavatina from the opera The Lombards on the First Crusade
Dance in the Old Style
Károly Goldmark
Magische Töne, aria from the opera The Queen of Sheba
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski
Valse-Scherzo in C major for violin and orchestra, Op. 34
Adolphe Adam
Mes amis écoutez l'histoire, aria from the opera Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Petr Nekoranec
Jan Mráček
Josef Špaček
Rudolfinum — Dvorak Hall
1 Jan 2019 Tuesday 8.00pm
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A woman who was asked to stay on as her husband's housekeeper after he moved his mistress into their home is entitled to half his fortune, a court has ruled.
The wealthy couple lived in London, the Telegraph reports. They married in the 1970s and divorced in the 1990s, but still continued living together, seeing the divorce, in the words of Mr Justice Bodey, as "just a piece of paper".
When he then asked his wife, in her 50s, whether she would stay on "as some sort of housekeeper", she found the idea "demeaning and upsetting".
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Q: Logstash cannot consume from Kafka My structure is like this: Logfiles > Filebeat > Kafka > Logstash > Elasticsearch > Kibana
But I am stuck at the Kafka to Logstash part.
First, Filebeat can produce the message to Kafka and i can check it by using:
kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic {topicName} --from-beginning

And it can also be consumed by command:
kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic {topicName}

However, when I try to use logstash to consume the topic, nothing can be retrieved and Zookeeper keep throwing:

2017-11-13 16:11:59,205 [myid:] - INFO
  [NIOServerCxn.Factory:0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxnFactory@215] -
  Accepted socket connection from /127.0.0.1:53201
2017-11-13 16:11:59,207 [myid:] - WARN
  [NIOServerCxn.Factory:0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:21 81:NIOServerCnxn@383] -
  Exception causing close of session 0x0: null
2017-11-13 16:11:59,209 [myid:] - INFO
  [NIOServerCxn.Factory:0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@1040] -
  Closed socket connection for client /127.0.0.1:53201 (no session
  established for client)

Also, the port number in this statement keep increasing"Accepted socket connection from /127.0.0.1:53201". Is it scanning the port?
Below are some background.
Version:

zookeeper-3.4.11
kafka_2.10-0.10.2.1
logstash-5.4.0
(Plugin)logstash-input-kafka (5.1.6)

And here are my config:
Zoo.cfg (zookeeper)
tickTime=2000
initLimit=10
syncLimit=5
clientPort=2181

server.properties (Kafka)
listeners=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
zookeeper.connect=127.0.0.1:2181

logstash.config (logstash)
input {
    kafka {
        bootstrap_servers => "localhost:2181"
        topics => "test"
    }
}

I guess the problem is due to the config between zookeeper and kafka but i have no idea how to figure it out. Pls help.

A: You need to use localhost:9092 for configuration parameter bootstrap_servers - you're pointing Logstash to Zookeeper, but you need to point to Kafka itself.
Another error is that topics requires an array, so it should be ["test"] instead of "test"


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This book compiles documentation for two unrealized projects by the legendary duo of Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009): "The Mastaba," a project conceived in 1977 for the United Arabic Emirates, and "Over the River," a project recently conceived for the Arkansas River. "Mastaba," Arabic for "bench," is proposed as a sculpture of approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked and variously colored oil barrels. Trees and shrubbery would be planted around the Mastaba as a windbreak against the sand and windstorms; the area adjacent to the walkways approaching the Mastaba would resemble an oasis with flowers and grass. "Over the River" consists of a succession of fabric panels to be suspended above the Arkansas River, for a period of two weeks sometime between mid-July and mid-August of any given year in the future (2013 at the earliest). Both projects are fully illustrated with preparatory drawings and photographs of the proposed locations.
"Fabric panels suspended horizontally clear of and high above the water level will follow the configuration and width of the changing course of the river during a period of two consecutive weeks to be selected between mid-July and mid-August of any given year in the future, in 2012 at the earliest."
Jonathan Henry describes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Mastaba River project in Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Mastaba / Over the River, from which this preparatory image is repdoduced.
Edited with text by Germano Celant. Text by Christo, Jeanne-Claude.
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World Figure Skating Championships pairs, men's start orders
By Nick ZaccardiMar 25, 2014, 10:28 AM EDT
The World Figure Skating Championships begin with pairs and men's short programs in Saitama, Japan, on Wednesday, which means overnight viewing for U.S. followers tonight.
To minimize sleep deprivation, here's a list of key skaters and when they're scheduled to take the ice:
Pairs — Tuesday night/Wednesday morning ET
9:41 p.m. — Felicia Zhang/Nate Bartholomay (2014 U.S. Olympians)
12:07 a.m. — Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (2014 Olympic silver medalists from Russia)
12:28 a.m. — Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (four-time world champions from Germany)
12:35 a.m. — Marissa Castelli/Simon Shnapir (2014 U.S. Olympians)
Here's the full pairs short program start order.
Men — Wednesday morning ET
6:17 a.m. — Jeremy Abbott (two-time U.S. Olympian)
6:30 a.m. — Max Aaron (2013 U.S. champion)
6:50 a.m. — Tatsuki Machida (2014 Olympics, fifth place, from Japan)
7:17 a.m. — Yuzuru Hanyu (2014 Olympic champion from Japan)
7:30 a.m. — Javier Fernandez (2013 world bronze medalist from Spain)
Here's the full men's short program start order.
Previews: Men | Women | Pairs | Ice Dance
World Figure Skating Championships daily schedule


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Merdigera is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.

Species
Species in this genus include:
 Merdigera invisa 	Kijashko, 2006
 Merdigera obscura (Müller, 1774) - the type species of the genus Merdigera

References

 Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

External links
 Held, F. (1837-1838). Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. Isis (Oken), 30 (4): 303-309 (1837); 30 (12): 901-919 (1838). Leipzig
 Merdigera at AnimalBase

Enidae
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To bring you news direct from the Congress, and to reflect Brian Negus' new role as ITS Australia Ambassador, we've asked him to be our 'voice' at the Congress. Over the course of the next 5 days, he'll be speaking with luminaries and newbies of the ITS world and reporting back to our members in Australia.
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With 10,000+ ITS and aligned industry professionals, the 25th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems will be the largest global gathering of intelligent transportation professionals in 2018. ITS Australia will continue to have a large presence at the World Congress and will once again host the Australia Pavilion at stand #C1-085, along with hosting high profile networking functions, multiple speaking spots, and hold positions on both the ITS World Congress International Program Committee and the ITS Asia Pacific Board of Directors to advocate for members and ensure Australia's agendas remain front of mind in this highly competitive and fast developing industry.
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Paul Scholes reacts to Manchester United's draw vs Southampton
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Manchester United legend-turned-pundit Paul Scholes has sent a stern warning to his former club after they claimed their third straight Premier League draw of the season.
The Red Devils have had a woeful run during the festive period, and Scholes is fearful that the club could find themselves outside of the top-four, should they fail to regain their winning momentum.
Speaking on BT Sport h/t The Express, he said: "They need to liven up this team. Top four is not guaranteed for me at this stage, there's some good teams in there; Tottenham, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea. They've got to concentrate, they've got to liven up, the managers got to lift them."
United started the month with an impressive 3-1 win at Arsenal, but they have since been very inconsistent with no victories in the last four games across all competitions.
As a result, the club find themselves in third spot for the first time since the start of the campaign, and the title hunt is pretty much over with Manchester City likely to fancy extending their 14-point lead with a victory over Crystal Palace.
Despite showing signs of dominance in the first period, United struggled to replicate the showing in the second-half, where they were pegged back on numerous occasions by the Saints attack.
With Romelu Lukaku potentially out for a considerable period after his head clash, Mourinho faces a huge test of his managerial skills with a key away test at Everton on New Year's day followed by a FA Cup third round tie against an in-form Derby County.


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When I was younger I used to write in journals pretty frequently. I also used to write poems, and even songs, but those are (embarrassing) stories for another day.
In 8th grade a friend gave me a really beautiful journal.
It is still empty to this day.
I felt like it was so special and pretty that I needed to wait until I had something really, really important to write about in order to start using it.
That is kind of how I feel right now.
I have been neglecting this blog lately. It has been an intense month and many things have fallen by the wayside, unfortunately. But I want to start writing on here again. …if anyone is still here reading?
Well, until some other readers come back eventually: Mom, this one's for you. I am hoping you are at least still reading.
In any event, since I haven't been excellent about posting on here, now I feel like in order to start up again I have to have a really, really special, excellent and hilarious post.
I haven't peed in any diapers lately.
Or peed behind any dumpsters in front of my Mother-in-Law.
Or even peed through the specially designed 'pee hole' in my special utilitarian Spanx.
That is a lot of urine.
Perhaps I should lay off the coffee and water.
Or find some other way to be funny.
Because I know you aren't promised readers, you have to urine them.
Yeah, okay. I'll work on it.
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Still here too, and yes we DID miss you! If you can't think of anything funny, I suggest asking your 3-year old to tell you a joke. I have it on good authority that he is HILARIOUS!
glad you are back! You have had an overwhelming month so no surprise you needed a break. I guess we might expect peepee jokes from someone who hangs with little boys !
I am still here by the way. Because I think you and your blog are awesome!!
Welcome back! I've missed your humor, insights, and recipes.
Thanks, fine ladies. Thanks very much.


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Matildas legend: Semi-finals is our World Cup marker
Optus Sport expert and Matildas legend Heather Garriock has revealed her expectations of the current crop's Women's World Cup hopes, saying anything other than a semi-finals appearance at least would make for failure.
The Matildas' prospects for France 2019 were made clearer on Tuesday morning when Ante Milicic named his 23-woman squad for the tournament, along with two standby players.
Teenage sensation Mary Fowler was included in the squad, while the more familiar faces of Kyah Simon and Alex Chidiac were notable omissions. Simon is part of the standby list alongside Melbourne Victory's Kyra Cooney-Cross.
But plenty of mainstays and experienced players made the squad, including Levante's Aivi Luik, as well as the star-studded named a la Sam Kerr, Caitlin Foord and Elise Kellond-Knight.
Garriock, who will appear on Optus Sport's coverage of the tournament, told Tuesday's Daily Football Show there is enough quality in the squad to reach the last four.
"From a realistic point of view, what we expect as pundits… we expect nothing less than the semi-finals and if we haven't made that, then I think it's a failed campaign, especially with the quality we have," she said.
"People are calling it the golden generation – there are some golden players, most definitely."
However, Garriock expressed concerns over defensive depth, as well as a lack of game time for at least two key names: Emily Gielnek and Lisa De Vanna.
"The thing that I'm fearful of is there's been so much hype about the Matildas," Garriock added.
RELATED: Ante Milicic reveals 23-player squad for Australia's World Cup quest
"There is that preparation factor, and then you bring in a new coach who has his own philosophies and new playing style, then there's the pressures of a World Cup and the players need to perform.
"Our depth defensively is our biggest concern because you've got someone like Steph Catley who's had a soft tissue injury and hasn't played for many weeks, and she's a crucial part of our squad.
"Less than a semi-final I think is a failed campaign, but I think with our potent attack … I think it's great.
"We've got plenty of depth up top. We may concede goals, but we'll score goals as well."
The Matildas kick off their campaign in France against Italy at the Stade Du Hainaut on Sunday, 9 June, before taking on Brazil and Jamaica.
Before that, they will face the Netherlands in a friendly at PSV Eindhoven's Phillips Stadion on 2 June.
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The hundreds of attendees who hit last week's BEST Fest's series of clean-tech symposium and other events also encountered a handful of pre-revenue companies that'll provide tomorrow's sustainable jobs.
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Did Jennifer Lopez really star in and produce 'Hustlers' for free?
Jennifer Lopez says in a new interview that she didn't get paid for her highly-praised role as Ramona in Hustlers.
"I didn't get paid a whole bunch of money for Hustlers," Lopez, who is GQ's 2019 Icon of the Year, said in an interview for the magazine. "I did it for free and produced it. Like Jenny From the Block — I do what I love."
In Hustlers, Lopez starred alongside Constance Wo, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Cardi B, Lizzo, and more.
"It became a movement," the Puerto Rican singer and actress continued. "This is our movie, where we run shit. They know it's all women producers, woman director, woman writer, all women starring in it. We've been watching men take advantage of women in movies for a long time, so it was a fun ride to see the tables turned."
While promoting the film, J.Lo previously elaborated on Hustlers, saying the overall meaning of the movie is to have control over your life. "This was a real labor of love," she said on Good Morning America. "It took us a minute to get it made. The movie goes deeper than what you think it does. Being in those conversations is super exciting for me."
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Quick Answer: How Can You Changing A Non Modifiable Alimony?
1 What is non modifiable spousal support?
2 What can change alimony?
3 Can non modifiable alimony be modified in Florida?
4 Can permanent alimony be modified?
5 Can my wife take everything in a divorce?
6 Does a husband have to support his wife during separation?
7 Does living with someone affect alimony?
8 What happens to alimony if ex loses job?
9 How do you get around alimony?
10 Can ex wife come after new wife's income?
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12 Can durational alimony be modified in Florida?
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14 What states have permanent alimony?
15 What is nominal alimony?
What is non modifiable spousal support?
If you're negotiating a spousal support agreement, you can state spousal support is "non-modifiable," which means the amount cannot be changed at all, no matter what happens. The paying spouse might agree to this if the likelihood of a downward reduction seems slim (as where employment is secure or assets are high).
What can change alimony?
If your settlement agreement or alimony order doesn't address the issue of when alimony can be modified, then either spouse is free to ask for a change to alimony by filing a request with the court. If a court accepts the reduced amount, a judge will issue a new alimony order.
Can non modifiable alimony be modified in Florida?
Alimony in Florida is normally modifiable in amount and sometimes duration. That can change according to the specific type of alimony that was awarded. Some agreements may specify " non-modifiable " alimony. That changes the alimony to something that cannot be changed at any time.
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Can permanent alimony be modified?
Many recipients or obligors of spousal support ask the question, "Can a "permanent" spousal support order be modified?" The answer is generally yes. Permanent spousal support orders are subject to modification if the court that originally issued the order reserved jurisdiction over that issue.
Can my wife take everything in a divorce?
She can't take everything from you, but only her share of community property that is acquired during marriage. Your separate property won't go to her unless in some specific cases like family businesses.
What happens to alimony if ex loses job?
A job loss can sometimes reduce your spousal support obligations depending upon the circumstances. If the recipient spouse is not in agreement that the job loss should reduce spousal support, then you must convince the court that a change is reasonable in light of your current financial circumstances.
How do you get around alimony?
Following are nine tactics you can use to keep more of the money you earn – and avoid paying alimony.
Strategy 1: Avoid Paying It In the First Place.
Strategy 2: Prove Your Spouse Was Adulterous.
Strategy 3: Change Up Your Lifestyle.
Strategy 4: End the Marriage ASAP.
Strategy 5: Keep Tabs on Your Spouse's Relationship.
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Can ex wife come after new wife's income?
Since California is a community property state, the parent must include one-half of the couple's community property on his or her tax return. The new spouse's income could push the ex-spouse's salary into a higher tax bracket, which could affect the after-tax income and thus the amount of child support owed.
Can you go to jail for not paying alimony in Florida?
Consequences of Failing to Pay Alimony You could face several serious consequences like these for failure to pay court-ordered alimony. The judge may find you in contempt of court, which could result in a fine, a brief stay in jail, or both. You may also be ordered to stay in jail until you pay what you owe.
Can durational alimony be modified in Florida?
Durational alimony will continue to run its course until the court-ordered expiration date. Nevertheless, courts may modify durational alimony awards on a case-by-case basis under certain circumstances.
What states have permanent alimony?
States that still have permanent alimony are New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, North Carolina, West Virginia, Florida, and Oregon. In some of these states, bills and motions have been presented to end the practice of permanent alimony—in favor of modifications in rehabilitative, temporary, or reimbursement alimony.
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What is nominal alimony?
Nominal alimony is usually a very insignificant amount such as a dollar per month. Courts have held by awarding nominal alimony, the court retains jurisdiction to modify an alimony award should there be a substantial change of circumstances in the future which would warrant it.


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Q: Restore Windows 7 But Raid1 I have a remote pc running win7 with RAID setting; RAID1.
Am I able to do system restore as right now user complaint newly installed application slows down the system.
As my friend suggest, need to pull out one of the sata cable and change mode to IDE. Is this true the only way?

A: No, that isn't true.
My primary home computer is a desktop that was installed with Windows 7 in a RAID 1 configuration (two 1 TB hard drives) for several years, and I used the System Restore function without any problems.


Ladybug: Wow! Did we get hit hard this past week in the tri-state area. We were with out power for 3 days and the internet finally came back on today. Lots of people are still without power. As far as we know everyone on the team affected by Sandy is safe.
1. I noticed that you changed the name of your shop. What was the motivation behind the name change?
Well I wanted a name that fully reflected my love of drawing, and the name delecto is a Latin word meaning "to take delight in something". Since I take such delight in drawing I felt that Delecto Art was the perfect choice.
2. Do you take custom orders in your shop?
Yes, I do. Sometimes I have a customer who requests a specific drawing or even a specific style of drawing. I will spend some time with them to get a better understanding of what they are looking for and then I will draw up several samples for them to aprove before I start on their order.
Also available for purchase in her shop is a $25.00 gift certificate.
Ladybug: Did everyone remember to send your DIY project along with your classified ad and coupon to Joanna.
Hope is everyone working hard on your Gift of the Month Club projects. I can't wait to unveil mine. Remember the deadline is January 2013.
We are so happy that our members are safe from the aftermath of Sandy. Please keep us posted on your condition and if you need anything.
Who wants to win a Gift Certificate from Delecto Art?
Become a customer and you just could be our winner!
I like the prize you are giving. A gift certificate is wonderful. And there are great items in your shop.
Congrats to Cynthia!!! You won the $10 Gift Certificate from Delecto Art!


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Why JFK Believed His Bold Moonshot Could Actually Happen
President John F. Kennedy speaks before a joint session of Congress, May 25, 1961. In this address, the president announced that the United States would aim to put astronauts on the moon by the end of the 1960s. (Image credit: NASA)
Apollo 11 was truly a giant leap, but it was no miracle.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special session of Congress that the United States planned to put people on the moon, and return them safely to Earth, before the end of the decade.
At the time, the nation had a mere 15 minutes of human-spaceflight experience — and that had been accrued just three weeks earlier, when NASA launched astronaut Alan Shepard on a brief jaunt to suborbital space. Still, JFK had confidence that the agency could deliver on his bold promise.
Related: Apollo 11's 50th Anniversary: Complete Coverage
"I think he thought it could happen," said Roger Launius, who served as NASA's chief historian from 1990 to 2002 and wrote the recently published book "Apollo's Legacy (opens in new tab)" (Smithsonian Books, 2019).
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"That formed the basis of NASA telling Kennedy, 'If you commit the resources, Mr. President, we think we can do it [a crewed lunar landing]," Logsdon, a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., told Space.com.
"So, the NASA leadership had a relatively high degree of confidence in the basic doability of a lunar-landing program, even though the way they thought it would happen at the time was not the way it happened," he added.
Getting the money, of course, was a big part of pulling the moonshot off. And JFK had a big advantage there: his vice president was Lyndon Johnson, a former majority leader of the U.S. Senate with a long history of pulling strings on Capitol Hill. (Robert Caro's famous biography of Johnson is called "Master of the Senate.")
The 1969 goal "was doable, and, politically, Johnson had Congress lined up to support it," Launius told Space.com.
A large part of that support, of course, was rooted in a desire to best the United States' Cold War rival, the Soviet Union. JFK's announcement came just six weeks after the Soviets had pulled off the first-ever human spaceflight, launching Yuri Gagarin on an orbital mission (something the U.S. wouldn't achieve until February 1962).
Gagarin's flight was the second high-profile space race victory for the U.S.S.R., which launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, in October 1957.
"In general, Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States 'catch up to and overtake' the Soviet Union in the 'space race,'" officials with the NASA history office wrote in a description of the moonshot announcement. (The May 1961 address to Congress, by the way, does not contain the line about choosing to go to the moon because it is hard. JFK said that in another speech, in September 1962 at Rice University in Houston.)
Conversations with NASA chief James Webb and others convinced JFK that the U.S. perhaps had a lead over the Soviets in the nascent moon race, despite these prior setbacks, the NASA historians added.
And that proved to be the case. NASA notched milestone after milestone in a stepwise fashion, working up to Apollo via the Mercury and Gemini human-spaceflight programs.
The Soviets continued to beat the U.S. to the punch through the mid-1960s. For example, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk in March 1965, three months before NASA's Ed White ventured outside his Gemini capsule.
But some of these Soviet firsts were rushed, somewhat smoke-and-mirrors affairs, Launius said, and the U.S.S.R. couldn't keep it up. The nation shot for the moon and failed; it built a huge moon rocket called the N1 but never launched it successfully. And the United States claimed the greatest space-race victory of all on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his first small step on the lunar surface.
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Q: Difference between static IP and elastic IP address? With Amazon's EC2, to assign an IP address I create an "Elastic IP", however it seems to just give me a static IP address. What is the difference between a static IP and an elastic IP? Or is it the same and just part of AWS's branding?

A: Amazon Guides are always a good reference to understand better the entire infraestructure. In Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses you can read:

Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. Unlike traditional static IP addresses, however,
  Elastic IP addresses allow you to mask instance or availability zone
  failures by programmatically remapping your public IP addresses to any
  instance associated with your account. Rather than waiting on a data
  technician to reconfigure or replace your host, or waiting for DNS to
  propagate to all of your customers, Amazon EC2 enables you to engineer
  around problems with your instance or software by programmatically
  remapping your Elastic IP address to a replacement instance.


WILL I REACH ONE HUNDRED?
Edging closer to three quarters of a century, having said goodbye to my 93 year old Mom, aware of the genetic influences governing my life and chances, what are my chances to reach 100? Depending on a whole sack full of circumstances, the chances may be better than I think. While not a gambler, I am not sure I am willing to bet on it.
Life Expectancies By Nationality: Can Your Genes Help You Live Longer?


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The bedroom is spacious and features wall-to-wall carpeting. At night, let the flicker of the electric fireplace (with optional heat setting) lull you to sleep in the queen oak sleigh bed. Full dresser, desk, chaise, reading nooks, pressed-back oak rocker, separate electric heat zone. Located over the owner's suite (we're very quiet) on the north end of the house near the intersection of Bolger Road and the guest parking area.
Off of the bedroom is a large private bathroom with multi-drawer vanity, hair dryer, and shower.
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Because the only thing funnier than pants is the absence thereof, student group the Knighthood of Buh (the same patriots who campaigned to change the Longhorns to the "Tropicana Pure PremiumHorns") has been dropping trou on the first Friday of May for the last few years. (They claim, however, not to be the originators of the holiday, only its most vocal advocates.) The 2003 celebration was the most successful yet – bare-thighed revelers enjoyed a number of No Pants Day celebrations downtown, forcing local establishments to expand their "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. With a few other cities joining in on the fun this past year, it's only a matter of time before the joys of public pantslessness sweep the nation.


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Putin says has no fear over his position amid financial crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia on Dec 18, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Dec 18, 2014, 8:06 pm SGT
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MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that his grip on power remains secure as Russia grapples with the worst financial crisis of his 15-year rule.
"As for palace coups, calm down," Putin said during his annual end-of-the-year news conference in response to a question about whether he could lose the support of the elites and be ousted in a so-called palace coup.
"We don't have palaces therefore we cannot have a palace coup. We have the Kremlin official residence, it's well-protected, and this is also a factor of our state stability." Putin said the most important factor ensuring stability was support of ordinary Russians.
"On main directions of foreign and domestic policies such support exists," he said.
The country is grappling with a shock rouble collapse, with Russians rushing to exchange their savings and the authorities spending billions of dollars to prop up the beleaguered currency.


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Thanks to everyone who submitted bug reports, patches, testing, and feedback. All of these contributed significantly to this release.
This version was built at SVN change 291405.


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Global Legal Responses to Prenatal Gender Identification and Sex Selection
Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming
43 Pages Posted: 21 Dec 2012
See all articles by Seema Mohapatra
Seema Mohapatra
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Date Written: December 19, 2012
Over one hundred million women in the world are estimated to be "missing" from the world's population due to some form of gendercide. Gendercide exists on almost every continent and affects every class of people. Gendercide has traditionally taken the form of sex-selective abortion, infanticide, or death caused by neglect. Sex-selective abortions occur when a pregnancy is terminated due to the sex of the fetus. In the last few decades, technological advances have allowed potential parents to identify the gender of their baby early in the first trimester. Recently, with the advent of newer technology that allows one to choose a baby's gender, such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis ("PGD") and MicroSort, it is possible for those who can afford it to select their child's gender instead of resorting to getting rid of a fetus of an unwanted gender. This Article examines the issue of gender selection technology. If the technology is available to choose a child's gender, is there any reason to restrict access to such technology? Does the answer depend upon how the technology is being used? Many countries have attempted to curb this issue through legislation restricting sex-selective abortions, and some have even gone further to restrict access to ultrasound and other gender identification technology. This Article provides a global overview of such restrictions and examines their bioethical implications. Part I of this Article discusses the practice of sex selection and its impact worldwide. This part examines the impact of sex-selective practices on birth rates in various countries, including the United States. Then, Part II outlines the technological methods available to identify or even choose a child's gender and what this means for the practice of sex selection. Part III discusses legal efforts to restrict sex selection in India, the United States, and other countries around the world. Part IV analyzes these legal efforts through a bioethical lens, specifically giving consideration to autonomy, justice, and class issues. Although the practice of sex-selective abortion or sex selection is certainly disturbing, this Article concludes that restricting access to the technology that allows sex selection is not an effective answer.
Keywords: sex selection, gender selection, Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act, Sex Selectice Abortion, MicroSort
Mohapatra, Seema, Global Legal Responses to Prenatal Gender Identification and Sex Selection (December 19, 2012). Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2191683
Seema Mohapatra (Contact Author)
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law ( email )
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Adventure Time Quotes
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.
— Grace Kelly
Devotion Adventure Time quotations
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
— Winnie-the-Pooh
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
— Ibn Battuta
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
— Mircea Eliade
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
— John Muir
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
— Marshall Berman
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
— T. S. Eliot
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
— Lawrence Block
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
— Chief Seattle
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
— Lewis Carroll
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
— Sayings
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history.
It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.
— John Taylor Gatto
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
— Esther Perel
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
— Roy Bennett
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
— Rosalia de Castro
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not;
but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I guess Satan was the first superhero [.
..] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.
— Joe Hill
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
— Earl Nightingale
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
— Clifton Fadiman
A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy.
Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.
— Luci Swindoll
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
— Edith Wharton
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure.
The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
— Alain Badiou
This world demands the qualities of youth;
not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
— Robert Kennedy
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
— Alan Bennett
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.
— Harun Yahya
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
— Bill Bryson
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
— Ray Bradbury
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
— Joseph Campbell
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Let your memory be your travel bag.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
— Richard Rohr
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5.
This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Old-timers dealt bad hand
By Pierce O'Reilly
A club formed to provide a social outlet for Irish pensioners in the spring of 1937 is now facing its final days. On Feb. 28, the 30 members of the Woodlawn Horseshoe Club are getting the boot from their meeting place at 278 East 239th St. and Katonah Avenue.
Horseshoe Club members come together every afternoon to chat and play cards. For many, it is their only pastime.
Club president Maurice O' Donnell said that the cause of economic development has robbed the members of their lifeline.
"Landlords don't care about families or friends," he said. "This present group has being meeting for over 20 years now and we're gutted to hear that we're going to be evicted. Economic development and financial gain is all people care about nowadays."
Last week, the Horseshoe Club was issued a lease-termination notice telling the members they had to be out of the building before the 28th. The landlord, Katonah Reality Co., is terminating the month-to-month lease because the club cannot afford to pay increased rent.
"We're a small club of old timers that meet every day and basically look after each other," O'Donnell said. "We don't bother anyone. If we lose this place, however, the club is more than likely finished."
The club moved to its present location about five years ago and paid $500 a month rent until recently. The small, damp room with no hot water and with its radiators bolted to the ceiling is all the club could afford. It doesn't hold fund-raisers or have financial backers. Rather, members put their $1 card winnings into a small kitty for Con Edison bills and the rent. When the lease expired last year, the owner informed the club he wanted to increase the rent to $900, according to O'Donnell.
"We tried to bargain with him and offered $750," he said. "In the past, the Knights of Columbus shared the rent with us, which was a great help, but they left a few years back."
Of late, the Woodlawn Meals on Wheels program has helped out. It meets every morning at the Horseshoe Club and delivers up to 60 hot meals to housebound residents in the area. That organization is now also looking for a new home.
One long-time member of the club, Jimmy Cotter, from Knocknagoshal, Co. Kerry, said he is devastated.
"We worked hard in construction and other areas of the city all our lives and it's hard to be treated in this way when we retire," he said. "I just hope that someone out there will take up our case."
The Horseshoe Club has considered contacting a lawyer, but, according to the members, they can't afford it.
"We'd be as well off heading for the nearest bar and drink the last few dollars in the account," said Tom McGovern, from Blacklion, Co. Cavan. "We can't afford a lawyer, and if we could, what's the point in giving him the few dollars we have saved?"
Anna Rodriguez of Katonah Reality said it all comes down to development.
"We couldn't enter an agreement that was satisfactory to both parties, so we're terminating the lease," she said. "We don't have anything against the Horseshoe Club or its members. We're in business to make money and the rent must go up."