Please call your Senator and urge them to support SB 1576, and then call your Representative to urge them to take up the Springs bill (which will be amended onto a bill that is moving in the House) and pass it without any amendments. This link will give you the contact information for your State Senator and State Representative. Remember, phone calls are more effective than emails which can easily be deleted.
For a long time the environmental community has had to play nothing but defense. This session was different because we had S 1576 Springs by Sen. Dean to work for. We haven't gotten everything we asked for in the bill, and we've had to compromise along the way, but the bill is a good product. If we can get it passed without being weakened at the last minute, it will be an important step forward for Florida's springs.
Florida's springs are in trouble. Over pumping for power plants, lawn watering, agriculture, etc. combined with drought and a rapidly increasing population have caused springs to shrink or to disappear altogether. And nutrient pollution from lawn fertilizer, agriculture fertilizer and manure, wastewater treatment facilities, septic tanks, and stormwater runoff has gotten into the aquifer that is the source of our springs and most of Florida's drinking water supply. It's causing algae to foul our most important springs and damaging both our environment and economy.
What do you ask prospective property management companies for when your business outgrows its space?
Project Director Chris Sharek at Atkins presented a request property management companies didn't expect: that the property have an electric vehicle charging station. Osprey Property Management won Atkins over by installing a charging station, making the Paramount Drive location in their new Sarasota office and the first commercial building in Sarasota County with such an amenity.
As author of The Electric Vehicle rEVolution, and owner of a 2011 Chevy Volt, Sharek is one of a handful of innovators in the region rallying for greater electric vehicle (EV) adoption and infrastructure to support it. Friend Ken Stokes and Sharek were instrumental in bringing the 1st and 2nd Annual National Plug-In Day events to Sarasota. Stokes with his eV Edge enterprise, coupled with his planning and civil engineering background, has been responsible for helping numerous businesses install charging stations throughout the region. Sarasota County Government jumped on board and provides workplace charging stations at ten (10) sites, as well as adding a plug-in electric vehicle to their fleet.
Rising interest in EVs sparked the creation of the Suncoast Electric Vehicle Collaborative (SEVC); supported by Sierra Club's Clean Air Campaign and Beyond Oil Campaign and comprised of local EV drivers, community, and government partners. Encouraging businesses to install charging stations is just one of the goals of the SEVC. Workplace charging incentivizes employees, complements sustainability efforts, signals corporate leadership as well as boosts patronage of businesses within the vicinity of charging stations.
The Suncoast Electric Vehicle Collaborative is partnering with Sarasota County Sustainability to present their findings and recommendations, including workplace charging, to the Sarasota County Commission on Tuesday, May 6 at 9:00 am, at the Robert L. Anderson Administration, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice, FL 34293. RSVP here to attend the Commission meeting.
After several hours of deliberation yesterday, the Big Cypress Swamp Advisory Committee voted 4:1 to recommend denial of the Department of Environmental Protection Agency's (DEP) permit to allow an exploratory oil well in Golden Gate Estates.
The committee convened the meeting in Naples, Florida after an administrative challenge was filed in response to the DEP issuing intent of approval of the permit. They are an extension of the DEP, which ensures compliance of permits within the Big Cypress region.
The decision to recommend denial came as a surprise to those in attendance, as the meeting began with a 4:1 vote to recommend approval of the permit. But as numerous residents and environmental representatives finally had the chance to speak, the committee had a change of heart.
Issued raised by the committee included the need for a cumulative effects analysis on the environment (the Dan A Hughes Company has been granted a lease of 115,000 acres for drilling), accident preparedness, concerns with traffic, and increasing the bond the oil company is required to post.
The Sierra Club's concerns with the well include impacts to Florida panthers ranging from incidental take of the species, a lack of peer-reviewed science to back up official's statements, increased traffic, the destruction of panther primary habitat, and the cumulative impacts from oil drilling.
There have been no studies conducted analyzing the impacts to wildlife behavior and life history from oil drilling. Increased traffic in an area where panthers are found increases the likelihood that panthers could be hit by cars – the number one killer of the species. Behavioral studies on panthers are few and far between, so making statements that drilling will not impact behavioral patterns has not been verified.
Saying that "panthers and oil wells can coexist" is unacceptable without peer-reviewed studies to support the claim.
Telemetry data clearly identifies a tremendous amount of panther activity in the area, including telemetry points on top of the proposed well site. Previous statements by the Dan A Hughes Company, that no panthers have been found on the property is a blatant lie.
Given the knowledge of cumulative impacts, increased traffic, and destruction of primary panther habitat, a "take" (harm, harass, kill, etc.) for the species will be hard to avoid. No reasonable and prudent measures, the actions believed necessary and appropriate to minimize impacts, and mandated by the Endangered Species Act, have been proposed. This permit cannot be approved without the proper scientific review of a biological opinion under the ESA.
A video of Sierra's statements can be found here.
Jon Arthur, a geologist with the DEP and chairman of the committee, stated of the committee's decision, "I get a feeling that approving this permit is pulling our finger out of the dike."
The public sway on the committee's vote shows just how powerful a concerned group of citizens can be. Without our voices being heard, this victory would never have taken place. Inspiring work by all the groups and citizens involved!
The Committee first met on March 11th, in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) public hearing at the Golden Gate Civic Association. After a public outcry for the EPA to hold a hearing in Naples, more than 300 activists came out to have their voices heard. Issues ranged from public safety and watershed impacts to concerns for increased traffic and panther habitat destruction.
The EPA made the decision at that meeting to extend their public comment period to March 31st. And as of yesterday, the deadline for public comments to the EPA, the Sierra Club had gathered over 115,000 signatures in a petition against the oil well!
The EPA now will address all public comments submitted and return with a decision on whether or not to deny or approve the underground injection well permit. Given the amount of comments received, there is no time frame for their decision - it could be months.
These small victories could not have taken place without the numerous concerned citizens of Florida! Thank you to everyone involved!


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.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "AbsSpinner.java"

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x0
    name = "RecycleBin"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field private final mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "Landroid/util/SparseArray",
            "<",
            "Landroid/view/View;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation
.end field

.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;

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.method constructor <init>(Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;)V
    .locals 1

    .prologue
    .line 441
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->this$0:Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 442
    new-instance v0, Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    invoke-direct {v0}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;-><init>()V

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    return-void
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.method clear()V
    .locals 6

    .prologue
    .line 461
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    .line 462
    .local v2, "scrapHeap":Landroid/util/SparseArray;, "Landroid/util/SparseArray<Landroid/view/View;>;"
    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->size()I

    move-result v0

    .line 463
    .local v0, "count":I
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    .local v1, "i":I
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    if-ge v1, v0, :cond_1

    .line 464
    invoke-virtual {v2, v1}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->valueAt(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v3

    check-cast v3, Landroid/view/View;

    .line 465
    .local v3, "view":Landroid/view/View;
    if-eqz v3, :cond_0

    .line 466
    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->this$0:Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;

    const/4 v5, 0x1

    # invokes: Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;->removeDetachedView(Landroid/view/View;Z)V
    invoke-static {v4, v3, v5}, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;->access$100(Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner;Landroid/view/View;Z)V

    .line 463
    :cond_0
    add-int/lit8 v1, v1, 0x1

    goto :goto_0

    .line 469
    .end local v3    # "view":Landroid/view/View;
    :cond_1
    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->clear()V

    .line 470
    return-void
.end method

.method get(I)Landroid/view/View;
    .locals 2
    .param p1, "position"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 450
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    invoke-virtual {v1, p1}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v0

    check-cast v0, Landroid/view/View;

    .line 451
    .local v0, "result":Landroid/view/View;
    if-eqz v0, :cond_0

    .line 453
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    invoke-virtual {v1, p1}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->delete(I)V

    .line 457
    :cond_0
    return-object v0
.end method

.method public put(ILandroid/view/View;)V
    .locals 1
    .param p1, "position"    # I
    .param p2, "v"    # Landroid/view/View;

    .prologue
    .line 445
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/tencent/qrom/widget/AbsSpinner$RecycleBin;->mScrapHeap:Landroid/util/SparseArray;

    invoke-virtual {v0, p1, p2}, Landroid/util/SparseArray;->put(ILjava/lang/Object;)V

    .line 446
    return-void
.end method

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Monica Furlong
12:03AM GMT 16 Jan 2003
Monica furlong, who died on Tuesday aged 72, was one of the foremost religious writers of her time.
She had a considerable following among those who found the Christian faith interesting, and possibly significant, but had difficulty with its orthodox presentation and its expression in the mainstream churches. She herself enjoyed a love/hate relationship with the Church of England, and played a leading role in the movement that led to the ordination of women to the priesthood in 1994; but all the time she avowed that their ordination was of small import in comparison with the general emancipation of women in society.
Her writing, like her religious faith, was of a deeply personal character and made considerable use first of Jungian, then of Freudian, insights. She had the capacity to penetrate beneath the surface to a much deeper level of understanding, often with uncomfortable and sometimes devastating results for the evaluation of individuals and the religious institutions they served. Yet Monica Furlong's skill with words made her always readable, and her combination of wit and compassion was unequalled in the religious field.
Her work was inseparable from her own experience of life, much of which was painful. Until well into middle age, she was afflicted with a stammer which made public speaking difficult and broadcasting virtually impossible. An unfulfilling marriage, tolerated for 24 years until her children had grown up, also caused deep emotional pain; and other personal relationships took their toll of her sensitive nature, while at the same time equipping her for the wise and tender counselling of many others in distress.
Three important biographies were the vehicles of her special interests and insights. Merton (1980) investigated the life of a Trappist monk who had been a best-selling author on the spiritual life, but had then become a radical social and political reformer. This was a sympathetic portrait of a cult figure, but was not without serious questioning of his methods and motives. It was highly acclaimed in Britain and America, and won the Winifred Mary Stanford Prize in 1982.
Genuine Fake (1986) was a similar examination of the life of the Californian Alan Watts, who oscillated between Anglicanism and Buddhism, and later became renowned in the 1960s for his advocacy of "free love".
Altogether different was Monica Furlong's earlier Puritan's Progress (1975), in which she suggested that John Bunyan is best regarded as an artist - a genius who voiced universal aspiration and need.
Before these biographies, Travelling In (1971), Contemplating Now (1971), and The End of Our Exploring (1973) were concerned with the intersection of prayer and psychology. Her first novel, The Cat's Eye (1976), was about psychological projection; the next, Cousins (1983), concerned a sculptress whose illicit love for a married theologian ended in disappointment but illumination for her.
A later biography, Therese of Lisieux (1987), portrayed the young French saint as severely neurotic but courageous in making the most of her limitations. Wise Child (1987) was a children's novel that made extensive use of mythology - a subject to which she was to become increasingly attracted in her later years - and, in God's a Good Man (1974), she tried her hand at poetry.
Monica Furlong was born at Kenton, near Harrow, on January 17 1930. She attended Harrow County Girls' School, where she showed much academic promise. But she lacked parental encouragement to obtain the university place for which she was more than adequately equipped. Instead she went to a secretarial training college, and her first job was as a secretary to a BBC talks producer.
This did not last long, as her stammer made it impossible for her to deal with the telephone. So Monica Furlong moved to Fleet Street and secretarial posts, first with a group of provincial newspapers, then with Benn Bros publishing group.
During this time she embarked on freelance journalism, and her writing talent was spotted by Bernard Levin, who assured her a regular column on the Spectator.
Greatly influenced by the then vicar of Greenhill, Harrow, Joost de Blank (later a notable Archbishop of Cape Town), Monica Furlong wrote mainly on religious subjects. But in 1961 she moved to the Daily Mail, contributing two or three features a week on a variety of subjects, all of which she approached from an individual, feminine angle and expressed in an engaging style.
This was a demanding assignment which occupied her for the next seven years, and enabled her to support her husband, whom she had married in 1953 and whose health problems precluded regular employment at that time. She also became deeply involved in the religious reforming movement of the 1960s, enjoying the friendship of Bishop John Robinson and of its other leaders, and wrote her first book, With Love to the Church, in 1965.
This was a sharply critical evaluation of much of the current ecclesiastical policy, and at the same time outlined her own vision of a liberal Church open to all, including homosexuals, for whose acceptance by both Church and society she was always an ardent campaigner. Thirty-five years later, a more substantial volume, C of E: the State It's In (2000), brought her analysis up to date, and concluded by suggesting that, instead of worrying about the members it lacks, the Church should instead concentrate on ensuring that the million it does have experience the best quality of Christian life that can be managed. This book won high praise from the former Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, who was then on his deathbed.
After spending a few years in Norfolk, Monica Furlong returned to London where, from 1974 to 1978, she was a producer in the BBC's Religious Broadcasting Department. The nuts and bolts of production were not really to her liking, but she was full of ideas, and drew the best from her contributors.
She then returned to full time writing, and for a time also studied Philosophy at University College, London. She also became involved in the formation of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, serving as its Moderator from 1982 to 1985. Her leadership was not to everyone's liking, for she belonged to the movement's radical wing, believing that women would find their place in the priesthood only if they refused to accept the cautious counsel of most of the bishops.
In Dangerous Delight (1991), and Feminine in the Church (edited by her in 1984), Monica Furlong provided more ammunition. Confined to a wheelchair with her leg in plaster, following a walking accident, she was among the demonstrators outside Church House, Westminster, when the General Synod voted for women priests in 1992.
More recently, and until the end of her life, she campaigned vigorously for the appointment of women priests to senior posts in the Church, and for the ending of the system of "Flying Bishops", which enables objectors to women priests to reject the ministry of their own diocesan Bishop if he ordains them.
Bird of Paradise (1995) was a revealing and candid autobiography in which Monica Furlong related her personal experiences to a deeply religious, albeit unconventional, view of life. She then published The Flight of the Kingfisher (1996), an unusual book about Aboriginal spirituality, a subject which had fascinated her during an extended visit to Australia.
The General Theological Seminary, New York, awarded Monica Furlong an Honorary DD in 1986, and Bristol University conferred an Honorary D Litt in 1995.
The courage displayed during her final illness was no less great than that which had characterised her whole life. She is survived by a son and a daughter.
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title: ChefConf 2018 CFP - Application Automation Track
date: 2017-12-11
author: Nathen Harvey
tags: community, events, ChefConf
category: community
classes: body-article
---
ChefConf is the largest Chef community reunion and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team!

[ChefConf 2018](https://chefconf.chef.io/) will take place May 23-26 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! [The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open](https://chefconf.chef.io/cfp/).

ChefConf will cover topics across the entire Chef ecosystem.  This includes [Chef Automate](https://www.chef.io/automate/), [Chef](https://www.chef.io/chef/), [InSpec](https://www.inspec.io/), and, of course, [Habitat](https://www.habitat.sh/)!

One of the tracks you might consider proposing a session for is the Application Automation track.

## Application Automation

The cries for digital and cultural transformation can be heard from every corner of the business world. Everyday technologists are becoming more concerned with delivering customer and business value. How are your teams empowered to deliver this value to production? Teams are adopting the tooling and practices necessary embrace cloud-native technologies, move into the brave new world of containers, orchestrations, cloud infrastructure, and serverless solutions. In the meantime, some legacy applications are being lifted out of the data center and shifted to the cloud. Habitat is a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage modern distributed applications.

Application automation is the term we use to describe the processes used to build, deploy, and manage these applications.

Share your story of using Habitat and related technologies to manage the lifecycle of your team's applications. Below are some ideas and questions to consider.

### Understanding distributed systems

Topologies, service discovery, consistency, availability, partitioning, and more! Working with distributed systems means learning about new concepts and terms. The Habitat ecosystem addresses many of these concerns making it easier to implement and leverage them within applications.

* What does everyone getting started with distributed systems need to know?
* How does Habitat address and enable each of these concepts?
* Can you demonstrate how your application uses one or more of these?

### Containers, containers, containers!

Containers provide many benefits to modern application teams. Being able to run the same artifact in many different environments simplifies delivery pipelines, increases confidence, and allows teams to deliver value faster. But containers alone may not be enough. Scaling out containers and running production workloads often requires additional technologies like a container scheduler or platform as a service. Habitat provides the capability to export artifacts into a number of different formats including Docker images, Cloud Foundry images, and more. Using the Habitat builder service, you can automatically publish these containers to Docker Hub or Amazon's Container Registry.

* How has Habitat's application-first approach changed your container build process? The size and shape of your container?
* How are you understanding the provenance and lineage of your containers? In other words, "what's in the container?"
* Which export formats are you utilizing for Habitat? Why and how?
* What container orchestrators, schedulers, or platforms are you utilizing? Why and how?
* Have you considered building a custom export format? What formats would you add? How would you approach building that?

### A better habitat for ...

Many applications frameworks have mature notions of packaging applications. Java applications, for example, are often packaged as .jar or .war files that are ready to be run inside of a java runtime. In other frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, the idea of building an artifact is foreign to most of the community. Habitat allows you to create packages and simplify the deployment and management of any application framework. Not everything we build or run is an application framework, either. What about persistent data stores or other services?

* Share your story of packing specific application frameworks with Habitat (Java, Rails, Node, PHP, Python, etc).
* Share your story of packaging and running distributed databases with Habitat (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc).
* How has a common packaging format impacted your delivery platforms across various application frameworks?

### Putting the "Dev" in DevOps

The word "DevOps" has always started with "Dev" yet many participants in the community have a deep background in operations.  Habitat aims to bring better automation capabilities to developers and make the DevOps tent larger so that everyone has a place. This also means more and closer collaboration between teams!

* How is Habitat impacting your development process?
* How has Habitat improved collaboration between dev and ops?
* As a developer, what are the things you love, or hate, about Habitat?

### Getting Started

Application automation with Habitat is a relatively new practice and the tools available are quickly evolving. How are you getting started with Habitat? Have you started with core packages or are you building your own? You do not need to be an expert to help others get started. Your experiences getting started with Habitat are worth sharing, even if as cautionary tales. ChefConf is a great place to help fellow community members get started on the right foot.

* What do you wish you knew when you first got started?
* How are you helping people across your organization get started with application automation?
* Which use cases are well-suited for getting started with application automation?

### Other Tracks

The ChefConf CFP is open for the following tracks:

* [Infrastructure Automation](https://blog.chef.io/2017/11/21/chefconf-2018-cfp-infrastructure-automation-track/)
* [Compliance Automation](https://blog.chef.io/2017/11/29/chefconf-2018-cfp-compliance-automation-track/)
* Application Automation
* [People, Process, and Teams](https://blog.chef.io/2017/12/13/chefconf-2018-cfp-people-process-and-teams/)
* Delivering Delight
* Chaos Engineering
* Don't Label Me!
* Share Your Story

Your story and experiences are worth sharing with the community. Help others learn and further your own knowledge through sharing. The ChefConf CFP is open now. Use some of the questions posed here to help form a talk proposal for the application automation track.

[Submit your talk proposal now](https://chefconf.chef.io/cfp/)! The deadline is Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 11:59 PM Pacific time.


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How to View the UK and Brexit?: Using the Lens of John Le Carré
Paris – Britain sees no problem in breaking international law and reneging on a withdrawal agreement with the European Union, to allow goods to be shipped inside what the Boris Johnson administration calls the UK internal market.
The bill to set up that internal market won Sept. 14 a majority of 77 votes, allowing the draft legislation to steer its politically divisive passage through parliament.
Such an intended breach of the rule of law surely would not surprise John Le Carré, the master of the novel on British spies, whose intelligence operations unveil the power play in Whitehall corridors as agents pit their wits against Russian counterparts.
Of course, Le Carré writes fiction, not facts. This is a cultural dissection, not current affairs.
The spies are a means of examination and inspection of British political ethos, while telling a tale of espionage and subterfuge.
There is a return of George Smiley, that quiet character of integrity, in A Legacy of Spies, published in 2017, one year after the referendum which committed the UK to leaving the EU.
Here is Smiley speaking to Peter Guillam, formerly a close colleague in the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service:
"I'm a European, Peter. If I had a mission — if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it was to Europe.
"If I was heartless, I was heartless for Europe.
"If I had an unattainable ideal, it was of leading Europe out of her darkness towards a new age of reason.
"I have it still."
In the novel, it is noteworthy that Guillam has retired to Brittany, northwest France, and has been recalled to London for an MI6 inquiry, in which he undergoes effectively a hostile interrogation.
That thoughtful voice of Smiley speaks of an unusually committed character, in a plot which picks up a story line from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carré's third novel and a commercial success which prompted him to leave MI6 and to become a full time writer.
In the latest Le Carré novel, Agent Running in the Field, published last year, the calm, considered comments of Smiley give way to anger against a government — and an unnamed foreign secretary — bent on a self-destructive path to leaving the EU.
Here is Nat, the narrator and principal protagonist:
"Brexit had long been a red rag to me.
"I am European born and bred, I have French, German, British and Old Russian blood in my veins and am as much at home on the Continent of Europe as I am in Battersea."
Here is Arkady, a Russian double agent, who has worked for the MI6 and knows what makes the British tick:
'You walk out of Europe with your British noses stuck in the air: ¨We're special. We're British. We don't need Europe. We won all our wars alone. No Americans, no Russians, no anyone. We're supermen."
And as Nat seeks to uncover a Russian plan to tap into British and American intelligence, here is a description of the unnamed foreign secretary:
"Etonian narcissistic elitist without a decent conviction in his body bar his own advancement".
At the time Le Carré was writing, Johnson was foreign secretary before ousting Theresa May as prime minister, and taking over the keys to drive Britain out of the EU.
Le Carré, pen name for David Cornwell, is a mysterious character who went through private education, whose father was a confidence trickster, and taught at Eton college, the most exclusive institution which has produced more prime ministers than any other private school.
Le Carré's espousal of Europe is striking not least because he has seen the inside of the British establishment and worked for both MI5, the domestic intelligence service, and MI6.
The UK, led by Johnson and his hardline Brexit team, signed the withdrawal agreement, which set the terms of exit from the EU.
That agreement included Northern Ireland effectively staying in the EU single market, following EU standards, and charging EU tariffs on goods arriving from Britain from across the Irish sea.
Northern Ireland stayed within the UK customs area under the agreement. That was intended to avoid putting a customs barrier between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which would divide the island of Ireland.
The agreement included a joint EU-UK committee to discuss the goods that could move from mainland Britain to Northern Ireland.
The internal market bill seeks to undo that Northern Ireland protocol by extending Britain's rights over the territory.
Failure to reach agreement means the UK will leave the transition period at the end of 2020 without a trade deal with the EU.
Former Conservative prime ministers David Cameron, John Major and Theresa May, and former Labor prime minister Tony Blair have called on Johnson to drop that breach of international law.
What would Smiley say?
The featured photo: 2011 photo shows British author John Le Carre at the UK film premiere of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," in London. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
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'Gene-edited' babies' doctor sought fame, evaded oversight - China
He Jiankui's research has been met with criticism. Credits: Video - CBS; Image - Reuters
A Chinese scientist who said he made the world's first "gene-edited" babies intentionally evaded oversight and broke national guidelines in a quest for fame and fortune, according to a government investigation quoted in state media.
He Jiankui said in November that he used a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the embryonic genes of twin girls born that month, sparking an international outcry about the ethics and safety of such research.
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Hundreds of Chinese and international scientists condemned Mr Jiankui and said any application of gene editing on human embryos for reproductive purposes was unethical.
He had "deliberately evaded oversight" with the intent of creating a gene-edited baby "for the purpose of reproduction", according to the initial findings of an investigating team, Xinhua news agency reported.
He had raised funds himself and privately organised a team of people to carry out the procedure in order to "seek personal fame and profit," Xinhua said, adding that he had forged ethical review papers in order to enlist volunteers for the procedure.
The safety and efficacy of the technologies Mr Jiankui used are unreliable and creating gene-edited babies for reproduction is banned by national decree, the report said.
He defended his actions at a conference in Hong Kong in November, saying that he was "proud" of what he had done and that gene editing would help protect the girls from being infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.


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A Day Was 18 Hours Long Millions of Years Ago, Study Finds
The length of a day 900 million years ago was only about 18 hours, according to a study in the July 5, 1996, edition of the journal Science. The study, authored by planetary scientists and geologists from the University of Arizona in Tucson, the Indiana Geological Survey in Bloomington, the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, inferred from the geologic record that the moon has receded from the earth at an approximately constant rate over millions of years. The study results were based on records of ancient tidal patterns left in sedimentary rock in the United States and Australia.
Astronomers have known for many years that the moon and earth are moving apart. The United States Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 provided the means to collect direct evidence of this recession by placing a laser-beam reflector on the moon. By sending a laser beam from earth to the reflector on the moon, scientists could measure precisely how long it took for the laser beam to travel and thereby measure the precise distance between the earth and the moon, knowing that the laser beam traveled at the rate of 300,000 km/sec (186,000 mi/sec), the speed of light.
The reflector measurements indicated that the earth and moon are moving apart at a rate of about 3.82 cm (about 1.5 in) per year. Astronomers had previously deduced from the dates of lunar eclipses that the distance between the earth and moon has changed over time.
A geologic record of the changing relationship between the earth and moon has been more difficult to find, however. In the recent study, the investigators examined deposits known as tidal rhythmites or tidalites (rock formed from the sand and mud deposits of ocean tides) in four rock formations of various ages. The rock deposits studied included the Big Cottonwood Formation in Utah (900 million years old); the Elatina Formation in Australia (650 million years old); the Pottsville Formation in Alabama (312 million years old); and the Mansfield Formation in Indiana (305 million years old). A rock formation is a grouping or layering of rock deposits similar enough to be considered as a unit.
The very thin layers found in tidalites are records of daily tides. The two strong tides and two weak tides of each lunar month—the time it takes for the moon to revolve once around the earth—are called spring tides and neap tides, respectively, and show up as distinct bands. These bands in tidalites are typically spaced a few millimeters apart. These patterns provide information about the interaction between the earth and moon because tides are caused by the moon's gravitational pull on the earth (and to a lesser extent the sun's), particularly on the earth's oceans.
The gravitational pull on the earth's oceans and the outward centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the earth and moon system combine to form high tides on the sides of the earth closest to and farthest from the moon. As the earth turns on its axis, the tides move across the surface of the planet, creating two high tides each day at any given location on the earth's oceans. The weaker neap tides and stronger spring tides each lunar month are a result of the moon's changing alignment with the sun as the moon orbits the earth.
The researchers, led by planetary scientist Charles P. Sonett, a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, examined the rock samples to determine seasonal patterns within the tide cycles that would indicate the passage of a year. The researchers could then count the number of lunar cycles each year, giving the speed at which the moon was orbiting the earth. As expected, the moon was found to revolve around the earth more quickly millions of years ago than it does at the present time.
The lengthening of the lunar cycle on earth and the moon's recession are directly related: As the earth and moon rotate more slowly, the moon moves farther from the earth. In mechanical terms, the total momentum of the two bodies remains nearly the same (some energy is lost to friction through the tides), but potential energy—energy based on position in a mechanical system rather than movement—is being transferred to the moon.
Based on the changing length of the lunar cycle over time, the scientists calculated the rate of lunar retreat over hundreds of millions of years. They found this rate to be comparable to the contemporary rate found by the Apollo program experiment, suggesting that the retreat of the moon has progressed steadily over time.
Based on this rate of lunar retreat and the orbital mechanics of the earth-moon system, the study authors found that a day on earth about 900 million years ago, near the end of the Proterozoic Eon, lasted about 18 hours. The study indicated that in the late Proterozoic, one year—one complete circuit of the earth around the sun—equaled 481 days.
Tracing earth-moon dynamics back through geologic history can provide valuable information to planetary scientists who are trying to determine the origin of the moon. Scientists have proposed several theories to explain how the moon originated. One theory holds that the moon split off from the earth, another that it was formed at the same time as the solar system and other planets, and a third maintains that the moon was formed by a cataclysmic impact of the earth with a planet-sized object.


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Veterinary Medicine at CEU UCH, the first faculty of its kind to include a course on One Health in its Bachelor's Degrees
Veterinary Medicine undergraduates at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University will be able to choose a new elective course entitled "One Health: connecting humans, animals and the environment". The course will provide them with a greater understanding of One Health concepts, taking an interdisciplinary perspective and highlighting its importance in today's world.
The Dean of Veterinary Medicine made the announcement to coincide with the celebration of One Health Day.
"At the CEU Cardenal Herrera's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, we aim to provide our students with a comprehensive, up-to-date and multidisciplinary education. That's why we want to go beyond nice words about One Health and take action, by encouraging our future veterinarians to learn more about this approach," said the Dean of Veterinary Medicine, Joaquín Sopena, as he announced that a One Health course would now form part of the Bachelor's Degree in Veterinary Medicine.
This means that, next year, Veterinary Medicine students at CEU UCH will be able to choose an elective course, entitled "One Health: connecting humans, animals and the environment".The course will provide them with a greater understanding of One Health concepts, taking an interdisciplinary perspective and highlighting its importance in today's world.
"It means that our faculty will become the first in the whole of Europe to provide a course like this to its undergraduates."
Joaquín Sopena, Dean of Veterinary Medicine
This decision is also a response to the assessement criteria established by the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) in its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the accreditation of veterinary faculties.
"In the future, we hope to be able to make this elective course a compulsory one, and even for it to be included in all the degree programmes at the University," said the Dean. This is something which is already happening in some medical and veterinary schools in the USA, in which trainee medical doctors and veterinarians receieve training in this area side by side. This enables them to meet and discuss the issues together and take onboard the importance of One Health at an early stage of their education and of how an interdiscplinary, coordinated approach is required.
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The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at CEU UCH has led the way in One Health, by including this issue since 2009 in different courses and and enabling students to carry out end-of-degree projects in this area. There have also been a series of conferences, seminars and workshops on One Health, with prominent guest speakers highlighting the importance of the issue from different disciplinary perspectives.
The CEU UCH professor in animal health, Santiago Vega, who has organized many One Health activities at the faculty, will be the course coordinator. Professor Vega, together with Federico Mayor Zaragoza and Fernando Fariñas, co-authored the only book which exists in Spanish on this theme, entitled "One Health. Cambio Climático, Contaminación Ambiental y el impacto sobre la salud humana y animal", and he is Spain's representative on CYTED's thematic network concerning health, climate change and loss of biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean ("Una salud en Iberoamérica y el Caribe frente al Cambio Climático y pérdida de Biodiversidad", USCC).
"In today's globalized world, the old diseases are still out there and new ones are able to spread more quickly than ever, due to the closely connected ecosystems and links between humans and animals. The One Health perspective sheds light on this relationship, and it means that human and animal health concerns need to be addressed in a closer and more coordinated fashion," Vega said.
For Vega, the aim of One Health is to improve the health and well-being of human beings, animals and the environment through an innovative, interdiscplinary and systematic approach.
"One Health is not just about getting people from different scientific disciplines involved: it means we need a coordinated approach, with smooth communication, data sharing and joint action of everyone involved."
Prof Santiago Vega
The COVID-19 pandemic, a health crisis caused by a virus of probable animal origin, has underlined "the importance of One Health as a concept when we consider the health issues and risks affecting the whole world" said Professor Vega.
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The European Union has agreed to extend the U.K.'s March 29 withdrawal deadline.
On Thursday, EU leaders agreed to postpone Brexit until May 22, but only if Britain's Parliament approves Prime Minister Theresa May's deal next week.
If Parliament rejects it, the U.K. will have until April 12 "to indicate a way forward before this date for consideration by the European Council." This is the same deal that Parliament voted down earlier this month.
May agreed to the EU's conditions despite not getting exactly what she asked for .
She originally requested an extension until June 30. Politico reports EU leaders took issue with that date because European Parliament elections are scheduled for May 23.
The U.K. would have to participate in those elections if were still in the EU by that time, but it's insisted it doesn't want to take part.
May said in a press conference she'll now head home to try to persuade Parliament to back her deal ahead of next week's vote.
"I hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision.
And I will make every effort to ensure that we are able to leave with a deal and move our country forward," she said.
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Personally, Gary, when it comes to rationale musings a science teacher should whatsoever not take any source of teaching other than that of professional credentials granted to him. Else, that would cause a big amount of absurdity in understanding pure science with [unscientific] spiritual liturgy, for lack of a better word.
Eventhough there's what so-called subjective consciousness in everyone's mind, Mr. Cowan has apparently been 'jiggling' at the wrong side of a playground.
I've just had a very well argued email from one of his former pupils that strongly suggests that this picture of Mr Cowan might well be a little misrepresentative. Based on how he presented himself in this documentary and on the BBC website, however, I still feel very much the same. I can only ever have concerns about someone who wants to introduce intelligent design material into "debates" concerning evolutionary theory.
I think that it is telling that most sites (that allow comment upon such articles) contain some random posting in defence of Nick Cowan – as now does this one. Yes he is a bit nutty some time, but is a first rate chemistry teacher, and intellectual enough to teach a balanced class on the pros/cons of creationism. He's one of the (positive) reasons I chose a career in science, studying as it happens genetics.
Dawkins has let too much of the fame get to his head, and now just turns out bulk fodder – a place though that does have. He's essentially a utopianist, something that evolution itself clearly couldn't achieve. Its as boring listening to him as Nick talk about Stoke city, but it'd be much more fun having with Cowan to discuss your research. And ultimately that's what Dawkins preaches, fun, no?
And therein lies the problem; there are no pros where creationism is concerned, only cons. When science is involved, there is no place for creationism in the classroom — even in the context of a debate regarding the controversy surrounding the issue. By all means discuss it in religious studies, but it cannot be given validity by any kind of suggestion that creationism/intelligent design has any scientific relevance.
Really? I somehow doubt it.
I think that Dawkins has actually bought into the idea that a 'post-religious age' would be largely harmonious and progressive. He really has stopped thinking – too busy with the pop-sci stuff.
There are plenty of pros with creationism if you look at it from the right angle. I dont believe in them, but I'm not going to prevent somebody else from discussing them in whichever context they feel appropriate. If they are shouted down so be it – consensus tends to serve the world well in that way.
Science (as a vague discipline/framework for understanding the world) 'works' because it is on the whole merit driven. The more wrong you are, the less attention that is paid to you. There is a place for religion within this so long as it continues to offer some practical advice for many people, a role that it has been perfecting for thousands of years. There is a place for actively bashing that, and for actively opposing science – both are necessary for the framework to remain effective.
I would certainly agree that Dawkins is of the view that a world without religion would be an improvement. Whether he believes it would be largely harmonious and progressive, however, I can only guess. I tend to feel that he is not quite so naive as to buy into such a simplistic understanding.
There are plenty of pros with creationism if you look at it from the right angle. I dont believe in them, but I'm not going to prevent somebody else from discussing them in whichever context they feel appropriate.
Firstly, I'm speaking about creationism from the position of science. As far as I'm concerned, as I'm sure you've already worked out 😉 , that is the right angle. Secondly, we are talking specifically about the science classroom. In this situation, it simply cannot be deemed appropriate — whatever the teacher might believe. By all means, discuss the subject and its controversy in religious education but leave it out of the science classroom. As I've already said.
There is a place for actively bashing that, and for actively opposing science – both are necessary for the framework to remain effective.
I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but I do certainly take your point. Maybe religion, in some way, helps keep science "real". I don't know. But I am reminded of something that Christopher Hitchens once said. I can't remember the exact quote but, essentially, he said that he wouldn't want to live in a world without religion because, in effect, he enjoyed the sport. Sometimes, I suppose — most of the time, in fact — opposition is needed, however wrong it may be. It promotes rigour and accountability so… yes, I definitely take your point.
Clearly this sort of discussion has been beaten to death across the www, but returning to the specifics of Nick Cowan, my memory is that maybe 5% of the kids he taught took an interest in the creationism aspect. Another 10-15% actively pursued a 'real' science career in part due to his influence, and almost everybody in his class achieved better grades in chemistry for being there.
I think maybe 2 of the 5% that listened to the creationism angle actually believed it – and they were probably more religiously inclined from their upbringing anyway. The point (there was one) that I am trying to make, and relate to the previous post, was that Nick's teaching methods – the wacky bits included – contributed more to the 'real' scientific education of his students than would have been achieved by sticking to the text book. Rigourous scrutiny is beneficial almost irrespective of the source, and there are more scientist out there doing 'real' science as a result of Nick's effort. That's why his students past and present respect him so highly.
Nick's pupils are very quick to defend him — and that says a hell of a lot about his teaching credentials. I can't help feeling that it's a bit of a shame that he presented himself — or, if I'm being especially generous, allowed himself to be presented — in this way. He clearly is a very able, excellent, even, teacher judging by your comment and others I've received.


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All those phrases are apt for my second featured cheese of the week, Tome d'Aquitaine. Also known as Clisson, this French goat's-milk cheese takes cheese worship to a whole new level. Its paste is light, floral and salty, with a smoothness that makes it easy to inhale. During the dog days of August, Tome d'Aquitaine is a breath of fresh air – perhaps a breeze blowing off the Atlantic. I don't meant to get all poetic – it's just that good.
Tome d'Aquitaine is another example of how cheesemakers can work in tandem to create tantalizing cheeses that neither could fully develop on its own (see Clothbound Cheddar, Cabot and Jasper Hill, and Grafton and Faribault Dairy). This cheese begins its journey in the Loire Valley (a premier goat-cheese-producing region) at the Union Laitiere de la Venise Verte, a dairy cooperative that produces cheese, butter and baby formula. Later on the wheels of Tome d'Aquitaine travel to Bordeaux, where renowned affineur Jean d'Alos washes the rind in brine and Sauternes. The result – total cheese bliss. Serve it up with a dry white wine, like a Muscadet from the Loire Valley.
Psst…this cheese also makes a great birthday gift, and I'd share it with a certain birthday girl today if we didn't live 1,000 miles apart. Happy birthday, Colleen!
There are blue cheeses, and then there are blue cheeses, and Persille de Malzieu, from the Langeudoc-Rousillon region of France, definitely falls into the latter category. See all that marbling in the cheese's paste? That means it doesn't skimp on sharp, spicy blue flavor. When Colleen and I did our taste test/photo shoot with the cheese a few weeks ago, I thought it may have tasted so strong to us because our pregnancy-altered palates are a bit sensitive, but no, apparently it tastes like that to everyone!
You may not have heard about Persille de Malzieu before. I certainly hadn't before embarking upon this project. Availability can be spotty (hence, our ordering it from Murray's rather than buying it at a Minneapolis or D.C. area cheese shop), and it's a raw sheep's-milk cheese, which often results in smaller production because sheep make far less milk than cows. But if you're a blue-cheese lover and can get your hands on it, jump at the chance. Pesille de Malzieu is very moist and salty with a fantastic tang to it. It's not as creamy as C+C favorite Roquefort, but with a good whole wheat cracker (we love Carr's) and something sweet on the side, like a raisin chutney or dates, it would be a very satisfying dessert. Wine pairings tend toward the sweet as well – look for a Sauternes or Port.
I consider Stilton to be the grand dame of blue cheese. It's not quite as old as some of the French blues, like Fourme d'Ambert, but it's one of the first cheese that comes to mind when I think "blue cheese," and it just has the regal quality about it. It is first thought to have been made in early 18th-century England, and even though it wasn't made in the town of Stilton, many travelers en route from London to Scotland would stop here and purchase the cheese, thus the moniker.
•There are just six dairies in the world licensed to make Blue Stilton cheese — Colston Bassett Dairy, Cropwell Bishop, Long Clawson Dairy, Quenby Hall, Tuxford & Tebbutt Creamery and Websters.
•Stilton is a "protected name" cheese and by law can only be made in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire.
•It takes 136 pints milk (78 litres) to make one 17 lb (8kg) Stilton cheese.
•More than 1 million Stilton cheeses are made each year.
•More than 10 percent of output is exported to some 40 countries worldwide.
•Every cheese is graded before leaving the dairy to ensure only cheese of the highest quality is marketed under the Stilton name.
•White Stilton is also a protected name cheese and is made in a similar way to its blue cousin – except that no mold spores are added and the cheese is sold at about 4 weeks of age. It is a crumbly, creamy, open textured cheese and is now extensively used as a base for blending with apricot, ginger and citrus or vine fruits to create unique dessert cheeses.
OK, enough with the facts. How does Stilton taste? It's on the stronger side of the blue-cheese spectrum, with a meaty, almost smoky flavor that fills your mouth. Though pasteurized, this cow's-milk cheese offers enough oomph for even a raw-milk purist. I, of course, would be perfectly happy eating it straight from the wrapper, but it would also pair nicely with fresh fruit, such as apples and pears. The Stilton Web site also suggests plum bread and mango chutney, which would be intriguing to try.
Blue cheese=Port in many wine-and-cheese enthusiasts' minds, and it's certainly a good match, but keep an open mind when purchasing an accompanying wine. A sweet dessert wine or a full-bodied red would also work nicely. Artisanal Cheese and many other sites recommend a Sauternes if you're not a fan of Port or are looking for a change from the usual wine.
Have you had enough French blue cheeses this week? I hope not because we've got one more – Fourme d'Ambert – and it's an oldie but goodie.
Production of this raw, cow's-milk cheese reportedly dates back to Roman times, and its appearance does bring about a vision of ancient, craggy rocks, I suppose. Fourme d'Ambert's crumbly texture and blue molding make look unappealing to non-blue lovers, but it's a fantastic cheese to try even if blue isn't your thing. It has a distinctively blue taste but is still easy on the palate, and I love the way the cheese coats the mouth without becoming too overwhelming. Fourme d'Ambert would be wonderful crumbled on a salad, but try it as part of your dessert course with some dark chocolates.
You won't go wrong pairing Forume d'Ambert with a port, but other wines are just as suitable. Artisanal Cheese recommends a sweet Sauternes if the cheese is serving as your dessert. Other suggestions (fr0m Fromages.com) include Vouvray, Côte d'Auvergne or Banyuls.
Still unsure about playing matchmaker with cheese and chocolate? Check out the great article on cheese and chocolate pairings in this week's Serious Cheese column.


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The LUMINA industry series offers a unique combination for processing panels: Two systems for perfectly invisible joints. The Glu Jet glue application system for standard use of PUR glue and the LTRONIC, the new laser edging unit from HOLZ-HER, are unbeatable in terms of speed and cost efficiency.
The LUMINA 1596 premium model with two cutter units allows processing of solid wood edging with thickness up to 15 mm (optional 20 mm). The LUMINA 1596 grooving serves for fully automatic grooving in the vertical and horizontal direction. With this machine, the groove position and groove depth can be set fully automatically on two NC servo-axes. The standard equipment on the LUMINA 1596 flex includes a corner buffing unit for perfect edge finishing without any subsequent work.
Small feed angle thanks to nozzle design - easy feeding of solid wood edging up to 15 mm (20 mm as optional feature).
Cut edging often has small tears in the top layer. The jointing cutter unit ensures perfect glued surfaces and prepares the panels for the gluing process. Equipped with ProLock quick-change flange, diamond tipped cutters (dia. 70 mm).
With the Glu Jet, you can process standard commercial 2 kg PUR glue cartridges, which are significantly more economical than conventional PUR granules or the smaller 300 g PUR glue cartridges. This investment amortizes itself quickly for companies using more than approx. 500 kg of PUR glue per year, i.e. customers with an average glue consumption of approx. 2 kg per day. This corresponds to a processing quantity of approximately 100,000 running meters per year. The savings for glue costs alone already amortize the machine during the second year.
As accustomed from the Glu Jet, the heat-up time is unbeatably short - now only 3 minutes for the Glu Jet.
The new glue station is designed as a changing station with HSK adapter. This allows the station to be removed easily using a change-over carriage, making it even easier to clean the glue application nozzle.
The control continuously indicates how many more meters of edging can still be processed with the current filling.
The station can be precisely cleaned at the touch of a button with the right purging volume as well as correct temperature and purging timing.
High performance cutter unit for edge thickness up to 15 mm Two NC servo-axes for cutting with and without edge protrusion.
Heavy duty floor-mounted machine with shock-absorbing mounts and large sensing rollers for perfect results even at high feed rates.
Unit adjustments on linear guides with central lubrication. With standard blast nozzles in front of sensing rollers to blow away chips in front of sensing areas. Including shelf program for optimum processing of shelves with rounded edges.
100% repetition accuracy at the touch of a button based on zero-clearance mechanisms and 6 high precision NC servo-axes.


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Q: Exchange 2003: new user name could not be resolved I create a new user on our SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003.
The setup went well, the new user can logon, also the exchange setup has worked - access to the mailbox over OWA is working.
Now I'm setting up the user's Win XP computer. Starting and setting up Outlook 2003 with the exchange server name and new username, I'am getting the error

The name could not be resolved. The name could not be matched to a name in the address list.

If I use the username of another, previously existing user, the name resolves correctly. This means that the communication from PC to Exchange server is working OK (DNS etc).
On the server, the new user appears correctly in Active Directory Users and Computers.
Do I need to "publish" the new user somehow?
What should I do, so that outlook finds the exchange mailbox?

A: Thanks to user joeqwerty for the tip. I checked the global address list and in fact the user was not listed.
In the AD User Properties, on the organization tab, I had to complete the "Company" field (which was needed in the one global address list filter).

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The Nazgul: do you feel they made them look weak?
What does the TWO TOWERS symbolize??
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What did you think of the LotR movie. Newcomers invieted.
A short review, a little perspective, and a few gripes.
Has anybody thought what I have thought?
And as movie time rolls around, Ionia huddles in fear, sobbing.


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Edgeware has announced its first container-based software packages in time for demonstration at IBC 2018, enabling the firm to offer its technology on a SaaS (Software as a Service) basis.
The Swedish firm Edgeware has revealed plans to migrate the its software into containers, including CDN selection, repackaging, ad insertion and watermark embedding.
Containers evolved as a solution to the software portability problem by providing an insulating layer that deals directly with the specific protocols and hardware dependencies of a given system. To achieve this, containers are isolated from each other and have their own tools, libraries and configuration files bundled in, communicating among themselves through well-defined channels. These containers can then be used to move software between hardware running different operating systems and in particular to virtual machines running in the cloud on COTS (Common Off The Shelf) systems for example to bring agility and scalability at optimal cost.
Docker has emerged as a popular way of creating and then deploying software within these containers. It comprises open source tools that help achieve the mantra of "Build, Ship, and Run Anywhere".
However, for contemporary cloud-based services, whether in video distribution or other sectors, Docker is just a starting point. Demand for faster more flexible and responsive development of enhancements, updates and features, as well as more major service releases, has led to evolution of microservices where applications are broken into smaller more manageable components. It requires some way of running multiple containers across different machines to provide the required diversity and this in turn calls for a higher-level platform capable of coordinating these and ensuring each container is invoked at the right time. This is where Kubernetes comes in as an open source container orchestration platform, allowing large numbers of containers to work together hopefully in harmony.
Kubernetes was developed by Google and introduced in 2014 including tools for deploying, maintaining and scaling inter-operable software components within an open cloud service. To conform with the requirements for flexible microservices the components were designed to be loosely coupled so that they could operate within as wide a variety of services as possible, as well being extensible to new functions as they come along.
The containerized solutions can be deployed in combination with Edgeware's own purpose-built TV servers, data center deployments and COTS hardware. The firm claims this allows customers to 'mix and match' deployment platforms and capitalize on values such as an agile cloud deployment, along with distributed edge servers for best possible viewing experience.


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Kaple Panny Marie se nachází na pozemku parc. č. 3067 v k.ú. Hlučín, na rohu ulic Písečné a Cihelní. Je to jeden z mála dochovaných objektů drobné sakrální architektury ve městě, jako kulturní památka je tato kaple evidovaná od roku 2006 pod č. 101813.

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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight 9 he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. 11 In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, 12 so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory.13 In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; 14 this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory.


Having two daughters means that I get to experience the fun playtime activities that I enjoyed as a child all over again! Being just a "grown-up girl" myself, it has been easy to come up with ideas for entertaining our children. Here are some of our favorite things to do.
1) Have a tea party. We pull out one of our tea sets (the Belle Princess teapot is a favorite since it makes noise), set and decorate the table, fill the various cups and pitchers with water or juice, eat small crackers and/or fruit for our snack, and invite a host of dolls or stuffed animals to be our guests. We have held these parties inside at a table as well as outside on a blanket.
2) Dress-up. A large basket in the playroom holds shoes, hats, purses, scarves, jewelry, and anything else that can be "imagined" into an elegant outfit. We do own several princess dress-up dresses along with some fancy nightgowns I bought on clearance at Target.
3) Play with baby dolls. We have a variety of dolls, from Cabbage Patch to dollar store to Our Generation. I saved a few of the girls' actual baby things like blankets, socks, bibs, baby spoons, and cups to use with the baby dolls. We also have some clothes, baby carriers, and strollers to use if we want to take the babies on an outing!
4) Paper dolls. We've collected an assortment of paper dolls, including those from Little House on the Prairie, Madeline, Felicity from American Girl, and several collections of magnetic paper dolls. In spite of this, one of the girls' favorite pastimes lately is cutting the pictures of the dolls out of the free American Girl catalogs we get in the mail and using them as paper dolls. That's cheap entertainment!
5) Play house. Now that my girls can do real chores around the house and actually help me bake in the kitchen, we don't do this quite as often. However, they've enjoyed cooking with their little kitchen set and making a meal for us, or using a little broom and dustpan, pretending to help clean up around the house.
I'm a bit sad to realize that my girls are now outgrowing some of these activities. Let me know how you and your daughter(s) like to spend your playtime!
There are several free downloadable paper dolls out there (I have them saved for when my daughter is older) that you might like.
I'll have to check into the downloadable paper dolls – thanks for the suggestion!
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This is a weekly column consisting of letters to my perspicacious progeny. I write letters to my grandchildren (who exist), and my great-grandchildren (who don't) — the Stickies — to haunt them after they become grups or I'm deleted.
Warning: This column is rated SSC — Sexy Seasoned Citizens — Perusal by kids, callowyutes, and/or grups may result in a debilitating intersectional triggering
Erratically Appearing Hallucinatory Guest Star: Dana — A Gentlerreader
"We have the ultimate reason to be anxious. We know that we're vulnerable and we know that we're going to die." -Jordan Peterson
[Due to the fact I'm in Australia fighting the bushfires this column is a—New & Improved!—version of a column originally published on 5.5.18.]
An anxious and slightly depressed human and his Vulcan friend are sharing a joint in a cargo hold of the Starship Calvin Coolidge.
"Life is just one damn thing after another."
"Yes, there is no doubt about that," his Vulcan friend replied, "Assuming we share the same space-time continuum, it's logically irrefutable."
"Huh?"
"Life is obviously one thing and then another, and then another, and..."
"I'm speaking metaphorically my bat-eared buddy. Note that the phrase is just one damn thing after another. That is to say, one unpleasant thing after another."
"I get that, we Vulcans are logical, not stupid. Here, hit this, perhaps you'll feel better. I scored this Tralfamidorian Tan because I thought it might cheer your whiny human butt up. For the record, your statement still makes no sense.
Life is no more likely to be one damn thing after another than it is to be one awesome thing after another. Life just is. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but, mostly, just another day on the starship CalCool."
"So what you're saying is..."
"I'm saying it's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another." (HT: G.A.)
"Geez, I hate Vulcan humor."
I, being me, went looking for the source of life is just one damn thing after another and discovered it's attributed to multiple people (including, of course, Mark Twain) by multiple people.
[Aside: The National Bureau of Literary References recently received a significant budget increase from Congress to fund an expansion of their Mark Twain department. The volume of quotes attributed to Mr. Twain continues to rise at a pace that parallels the growth of the National Debt.]
I did find an attributable variation on the theme. "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another—it's one damn thing over and over." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
Setting logic and logic jokes aside both quotations still ring true. In spite of Johnny Mercer's advice, we do seem to accentuate the negative. Science calls it the negativity bias. Hang on a sec' and I'll go find a respectable looking source I can link to...
That was easy. From Psychology Today (and Rick Hanson, Ph.D.), "The alarm bell of your brain—the amygdala...—uses about two-thirds of its neurons to look for bad news: it's primed to go negative." Why? Well, as you've probably already guessed my highly perceptive Stickies and Gentlereaders, survival.
"...humans evolved to be fearful—since that helped keep our ancestors alive— so we are very vulnerable to being frightened and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and 'paper tigers.'"
Considering we've risen to the top of the food chain it's hard to argue with success.
BIG BUT
Beware the downside. Paper tigers are not on the endangered species list. In fact, the web/cable news/social media/etceteria has created a population explosion.
When I was a callowyute, locally-based news (and threats), via newspapers and local TV, were all the rage.
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Merriam-Webster: apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill.
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Q: Google Services Version conflict I am trying to fix this google services version error. I have been using Google services version 10.2.4 before for Google Sign in. Now since I want to integrate the Geofencing API into my application, as per what I have researched, it requires at least a minimal version of 11.0.0. But, I am not able to figure out what exactly the issue is. Please find below the error I get
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugGoogleServices'.
Please fix the version conflict either by updating the version of the
google-services plugin (information about the latest version is available at
https://bintray.com/android/android-tools/com.google.gms.google-
services/) or updating the version of com.google.android.gms to 10.2.4.

Please find below my app build.gradle file
build.gradle(app)
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion '25.0.2'
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.project.group.projectga"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 25
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        resValue "string", "google_maps_key",
                (project.findProperty("GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY") ?: "")
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile('com.mikepenz:materialdrawer:5.1.6@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }

    //Added this for Visual Gallery implementation - Start
    //Added this for Visual Gallery implementation - End

    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:10.2.4'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.satsuware.lib:usefulviews:2.3.6'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:10.2.4'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:10.2.4'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:11.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.0.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:8.5.1'
    compile 'com.mikepenz:google-material-typeface:2.2.0.1@aar'
    compile 'com.mikepenz:fontawesome-typeface:4.4.0.1@aar'
    compile 'com.github.medyo:fancybuttons:1.6'
    compile 'com.mikhaellopez:circularimageview:3.0.2'
    compile 'com.github.yesidlazaro:GmailBackground:1.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    annotationProcessor 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.5.1'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

And also my build.gradle(Project) file.
build.gradle(Project)
    // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.1.0'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

I followed a lot of Stack Overflow answers, and they said to add the plugin of the google services at the end. I have the plugin added right from the start and it seems not to work for this. I am trying to integrate the Geofencing API which requires the Google services version to be at least 11.0.0, but I couldn't do that.

A: Move your firebase and com.google.android.gms modules to the same version and at least 11.0.0 :
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.0.2'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:11.0.2'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:11.0.2'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.0.2'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:11.0.2'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.0.2'


We recently asked Chuck Ramsey, Co-Chair of the President's 2014 Task Force on 21st Century Policing as well as Benchmark Founding Board Member, what it takes to thrive as a police officer. He boiled it down to two fundamental yet critical qualities. The first—you need to have a service mentality. Makes sense, since we'd all be hard-pressed to identify a career that is more focused on the well-being of its fellow citizens and the community as a whole. Every day as a police officer is a commitment to the choice they made and pledge they took to protect and serve.
The second qua lity Ramsey identified is resiliency. Policing is a profession that comes with inherent risks, challenges and obstacles. Some you can train for and some are completely unforeseen and unimaginable. As an officer, it's critical to be able to bounce back or recover from the trauma . . . from the crises . . . from the extreme and unsettling situations that they'll be exposed to while carrying out their responsibilities as police officers.
Many agencies across the U.S. are taking creative measures to attracting the best possible recruits for their open positions. Take San Diego, for example, where the city is in the planning stages of offering home-buying incentives to officers, where they could receive as much as $50,000 toward a down payment or closing costs when they buy a home and agree to join or stay on the force.
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Other agencies are turning to tactics typically utilized by more traditional business enterprises. For example, some larger agencies in Maine are offering signing bonuses as high as $10,000, as well as matching vacation or sick time that recruits may have had accrued at previous positions. And in Cleveland, they're turning to social media with video appeals to consider a career in law enforcement with the Cleveland PD.
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