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Cassville Intermediate students who mastered their math facts were honored last week with a celebration with their peers and ice cream sundaes.
After completing their monthly math exams, intermediate staff evaluated the test results and celebrated third grade students that were able to correctly complete 20 addition facts in one minute and 20 subtraction facts in one minute. Fifth grade students had to correctly complete 25 addition facts in one minute, 25 subtraction facts in one minute, 25 multiplication facts in one minute and 25 division facts in one minute.
Cassville Intermediate School third graders who mastered their mathematics facts are pictured above, from left to right: Carlos Barrientos, Rylen Holman, Shane Harvey and Harley Madison.
Cassville Intermediate School fifth graders who mastered their mathematics facts are pictured above, from left to right: Kyle Bailey, Elizabeth Butler and Evan Butler.


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Royal Australian Mint Simplifies Manufacturing Systems and Processes
The Royal Australian Mint is a listed entity within the Commonwealth Government portfolio of the Treasury and is the sole supplier of Australia's circulating coinage. Since its establishment, the Mint has produced more than fifteen billion circulating coins and now has the capacity to produce two million circulating coins per day. The demand for uncirculated coins has led to the expansion of the Mint's manufacturing capability of high-quality and innovative collector coins.
One of the main reasons we chose Epicor was that the solution met our organisational goals of flexibility and simplicity. The user interface—which was delivered out of the box—fit perfectly with the Mint's strategy of not having to customise significantly.
Ricardo Alberto
chief technology officer | Royal Australian Mint
In addition to producing Australia's coinage, the Mint produces coins for other countries—along with medals, medallions, tokens, and seals for private clients both national and international.
The Royal Australian Mint is also a tourist attraction. It educates students and visitors on the history of Australian coinage, and it explains how technology is being used in its modern manufacturing environment.
In 2010, the Royal Australian Mint implemented a manufacturing resource planning solution to facilitate the production of circulating coins and numismatic coins. The solution was designed to provide integrated manufacturing, sales, dispatch, financial, maintenance, HR, and document management capabilities. As the solution was reaching its end of life, a significant investment was required to upgrade.
The business of the Mint had also changed since the solution's initial implementation—driven by the requirement to increase production efficiencies, improve process maturity, and the need for greater information sharing across the business. The original solution had been significantly customised, making it difficult to update regularly. This meant the solution became outdated and difficult to use, hindering the Mint's ability to improve business processes.
Ricardo Alberto, chief technology officer at the Commonwealth Treasury, said, "We are seeing a decline in the amount of circulating coins in Australia. Because this part of the business is funded by the government, we needed to grow the commercial side of the business to cover the shortfall. To do this, the Mint had to become more commercially focused—something that is unique for a government agency."
Alberto explained, "We needed to find efficiencies across the business to deal with the increasing demand for collector coins. This was a big challenge, as the collector market has lots of different coins which are higher in value."
Consequently, the Mint needed an adaptable and flexible manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that could drive production efficiencies and improve processes. The solution also needed to enable information sharing across the business, real-time reporting, and online capabilities so the Mint could have visibility across its entire operations.
Alberto said, "Every efficiency that we can get out of manufacturing workflows and financial reporting translates into a significant benefit for the business. We needed a solution that would effectively address business process efficiencies."
Flexibility and simplicity needed
After identifying its challenges, the Mint needed to decide on the right approach to solve them. The business knew it could either upgrade its legacy system or test the market and look for a new manufacturing ERP solution.
The Mint wanted a simple and user-friendly solution that was preconfigured and would deliver value almost immediately.
Alberto said, "We didn't want to spend 12 months writing specifications, designing, and building the solution. Typically, these projects take 12 to 18 months just to start the implementation phase. We were looking for something that was known within the industry, with standard setups to complete basic manufacturing and financial functions, and with a user-friendly interface.
"The Mint has a diverse workforce, and the chosen solution would be used by factory staff, as well as administrative, finance, and senior executives. It needed to be a simple solution, as we would need to explain how to use the system to approximately 240 of our employees across all branches."
The Mint went through a thorough evaluation process before finally selecting Epicor ERP.
As Alberto explained, "One of the main reasons we chose Epicor was that the solution met our organisational goals of flexibility and simplicity. The user interface—which was delivered out of the box—fit perfectly with the Mint's strategy of not having to customise significantly.
Epicor also demonstrated its expertise and experience in the manufacturing industry. We wanted a specific manufacturing solution, and it was evident that the Epicor technology has been designed with all the intricacies associated with manufacturing in mind. Using an out-of-the-box solution, the team hasn't come across any instance where additional functionality is needed to complete tasks. There are multiple options to choose from, allowing the team to map work practices to at least one of those options.
For example, the costs of the different parts in the manufacturing process are aligned with the correct financial accounts. The system can be configured and integrated without having to apply any additional code. Thanks to the Epicor solution, we didn't need to code any specific workflows."
Integrating across the business
The Mint now has an ERP system that manages its daily operations across the entire business. The solution lets the Mint manage quotes, sales orders, packing, and dispatching orders, as well as manufacturing processes—including planning, scheduling, purchasing of raw materials, and labour. The ERP system also allows all costs to be recorded so reporting can be completed accurately.
The Epicor ERP system is integrated with the Mint's retail sales channel—including its eShop and its customer relationship management (CRM) system. It is also integrated with Australia Post's eParcel system to track shipping deliveries recorded in the system.
The Mint worked with Precise—an Epicor partner—to implement a point of sale (POS) system in the retail store, which integrates with the Epicor ERP software.
Alberto noted, "Previously, the Mint did not have any integration with the POS system. The time it took to do reconciliations between the retail store and roadshow sales has been significantly reduced thanks to the Epicor solution. We save up to several days per month on reconciliations for the mobile coin fairs and a few hours per week in the retail store."
Reflecting business operations
Alberto continued, "The prime benefit for the Mint has been in dispatching orders. Before the implementation of the Epicor ERP solution, the process of dispatching orders was not efficient—especially when we were experiencing a period of high sales, such as when a new product was released. Epicor has provided an electronic way to sort through orders, providing greater efficiencies and allowing customers to receive orders in a timely fashion.
Simplicity and reliability have been the key themes throughout this project. One of the greatest advantages of using the Epicor ERP system is that we can track and trace everything. For example, if we are questioned about an inventory transaction, we are able to track all actions that have occurred with that inventory.
Using the Epicor best-practice manufacturing solution to drive change management, our employees have become really engaged, and the project has challenged staff to think about business processes. It has put the whole business on a new footing, and employees are taking responsibility for these processes. The Epicor solution has proven to be a powerful support tool for our employees, and the easy-to-use user interface meant that the employees have adapted to the new technology quickly.
We are confident that the Epicor ERP system reflects what is happening in the business, in every area, every step of the way," he stated.
In terms of supporting the company's future growth, the Mint now has the flexibility to accommodate new ideas and new ways of approaching the market.
Alberto concluded, "Epicor offers the flexibility to support the business wherever we want to expand because we don't need to customise the solution. This means we can use native processes to deliver solutions and stay up to date and regularly upgrade the solution."
Location—Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Industry—Manufacturer of Precious Metal Products
Website—www.ramint.gov.au
Limited efficiency across business processes
Complex legacy system was not flexible or easy to use
Provided employees a system that is easy to use, scale, and manage
Increased production efficiencies
Improved business processes, visibility across operations, and information sharing
Increased customer satisfaction
Tell us about your unique goals and challenges so we can show you why Epicor software is a better fit. Contact us by phone, chat, or email. If you're an existing customer, please log in to EpicCare.

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Guru Purab 2019: Sikh pilgrims celebrate 550 birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev in Nankana Sahib in Pakistan
Updated: November 12, 2019 6:41:42 PM
An arrangement of 550 kinds of sweets and other items were made for devotees at one of the 'langars' (community kitchen). At the event organised by the Punjab government at Sultanpur Lodhi, the 'Bhog' (completion) of the 'Sehaj Path' (recitation of complete Guru Granth Sahib with intervals) was performed.
The historic city was decked up with flowers, hoardings and several colourful gates to welcome pilgrims. (PTI photo)
Braving the early morning chill, lakhs of devotees flocked to the gurdwaras in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to offers prayers on the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev as hyms of Gurbani reverberated in the air. President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita were among the devotees who paid obeisance at the historic Gurdwara Ber Sahib in Sultanpur Lodhi, where Guru Nanak Dev spent 14 years of his life and attained enlightenment. Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur, Golden Temple in Amritsar and Nada Sahib in Haryana's Panchkula were equally crowded.
The main highlight of the celebrations was the events organised at Sultanpur Lodhi, where a cake weighing 550 kg was also cut to mark the occasion.
An arrangement of 550 kinds of sweets and other items were made for devotees at one of the 'langars' (community kitchen). At the event organised by the Punjab government at Sultanpur Lodhi, the 'Bhog' (completion) of the 'Sehaj Path' (recitation of complete Guru Granth Sahib with intervals) was performed.
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A separate event was organised by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). Notably, the Punjab government and the SGPC has been at loggerheads over the issue of joint celebrations of 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. The SGPC set up a separate stage at a stadium near Gurdwara Ber Sahib to hold the main event while the state government set up its own 'pandal' to hold the function.
The historic city was decked up with flowers, hoardings and several colourful gates to welcome pilgrims. "I am feeling blessed to be a part of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations," said a devotee who had come here from Raipur. People from different faiths offered early morning prayers on Gurpurab and took part in 'langars' and listened to 'shabad kirtans' at gurdwaras.
Devotees also took a dip in 'sarovars' (holy tanks) in gurdwaras. Tight security arrangements were put in place by Punjab police in the wake of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations. In Haryana, devotees thronged gurdwaras at various places, including Karnal, Ambala and Yamunanagar, while there was huge rush of devotees at Sector 34 Gurdwara in Chandigarh, which is the common capital of the two states.
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Selena Gomez Hijacked New York Square Screens as Clocks Turned 12 on New Year, Crowd Slurs in Anger
Selena Gomez has been a busy woman ever since her Disney days. However, the singer has truly peaked in the past few years. The starlet has been on television ever since she was a toddler appearing in not just the most popular children's show but also the most prominent children's studios, Barney & Friends and Disney, respectively. And lately, Gomez has been on a mission to spread the message of Rare Beauty. The singer in 2020, released her chart-topping album titled Rare and even launched her makeup brand, which is now the best in the market.
Oscars shortlisted, GRAMMY, EMMY and Golden Globe nominee Selena Gomez had her most important year of her career in 2022. pic.twitter.com/v9bmjJXvao
— Selena Gomez Charts (@SGchartupdate) January 4, 2023
Toward the end of 2022, Selena Gomez looked back on her journey over the years with her tell-all documentary My Mind and Me. The documentary became viral for all the right reasons. Given all that she has done, it does not come as a shock that Selena Gomez is on the biggest billboard at New York's Time Square. However, no one expected her to pop up instead of the iconic Happy New Year ball drop at the New York Times Square that thousands gather to see.
Fans were confused to see Selena Gomez instead of the iconic ball drop on New Year's eve
The lighting at Burj Khalifa or the ball drop at New York Times Square is the best New Year's eve celebration. Therefore, thousands gather to bid goodbye to 2022 and welcome the new year at Times Square. Fans all counted down with excitement to see the giant billboard at Times Square read Happy New Year. But in a shocking turn of events, the countdown gave way to a poster of Selena Gomez's mental health documentary.
Casually seeing my face on the giant @beatsbydre billboard in Times Square… ahhhh!! #HandsToMyself vid coming soon! pic.twitter.com/t2xkGhD6mV
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) December 12, 2015
And fans were left confused. Selena Gomez has definitely come a long way from fangirling about her billboard at Times Square to become the poster everyone sees as they welcome the new year.
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While fans of the Loose You to Love Me singer took it as a blessing, others were left bewildered. However, there is one thing that everyone could agree on: Selena Gomez's marketing agent deserves an exorbitant raise.
They way Selena Gomez pops up after the countdown finishes 💀😂😂 pic.twitter.com/eVmuLIawgx
— Kalvin 🌪 (@sexlikerare) January 2, 2023
The documentary has caused trench warfare in the pop culture community as Gomez looked back on some of her most talked about moments.
Her publicist ate that!!! 💅🏿
— STREAM SO FEMININE (@calidequan) January 3, 2023
And also let fans in on the physical and mental state she had been on in during all those times. Many considered the My Mind and Me documentary poster as a sign to take care of their mental health in 2023.
What would have been your reaction, had you been there? Let us know in the comments below.
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The principal activity of the company is to provide, maintain and operate a community centre for the benefit of the residents of Drum and surrounding areas which will provide facilities for training courses, cultural activities, recreational and educational activities and meeting rooms for charitable organisations.
Covid-19 – Limited re-opening September 2020
From 13 September 2020, Drum Community Centre will re-open for some bookings.
Booking Form and Instructions for groups/clubs returning to / using Drum Community Centre
Contact Tracing Form – must be filled by all visitors and users prior to attending
There will be no bingo until further notice.
Stay Safe – you are urged to use your own judgement and take personal responsibility for protecting yourself, your friends, your family and our community.
Further information and advice is available from the Government website and the HSE website.
Bookings and Enquiries
Please contact us via Messenger or by email or text 0858712222
On 14 February 1984 the people of the South Roscommon community of Drum held a public meeting to decide if there was need for a community centre in the locality. A committee was formed at that meeting, and some of those first members remain involved today.
The centre opened its doors to the public in March 1988, and continues to serve the people of the greater Athlone area by offering affordable amenities in a convenient location. In a region that has experienced substantial growth in recent years, the centre provides sports facilities to local clubs, schools and various groups in the area, as well as providing a venue for other social meetings, such as weekly bingo.
We also host the Drum.ie website
Your community centre…
As a voluntary organisation, the need for people to support the centre is as great now as it was when the facility was first proposed back in the early 1980s. We are always looking for new volunteers to become involved in running the centre. This can include helping out at the weekly bingo, and also the general management of the centre.
Please do not hesitate to make contact with us if you are interested. Even just come along during bingo some Friday night. We'd love to see you.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the company, please make contact with a member of the Board of Directors (details above). As many of the current members of the company.have been involved since the beginning, we feel it is now time for new people to participate in the company. Members who are elected to the Board of Directors are then responsible for making decisions about the operation of the centre. As a member of the board you will also be involved in making important decisions about the future of the Centre. Board meetings usually number no more than about seven in any year, but members are expected to commit to attend as many as possible. We need people from different backgrounds, who can bring their experience and knowledge to the Centre. If you are interested or would like to know more, please do not hesitate to contact us.
It's your community centre, it's up to you to be a part of it.
Find out more about our facilities
Chairperson: Padraig Seery
Vice Chairperson: Liam Doyle
Company Secretary: Aidan McEvilly
Assistant Company Secretary: Gerard Mulligan
Joint Treasurers: Liam Doyle, Aidan McEvilly
Registrar: Pat Glynn
Other Directors: P.J. McEvilly, Fred Carney.
Company Registration Details
Registered in Ireland, No. 107549
Registered Office: Crannagh, Summerhill, Athlone, Co. Roscommon, N37 T298
Booking Form and Instructions to groups/clubs returning to / using Drum Community Centre


Lucky Lanka Milk Processing Company Ltd.
Mr.Lal Keerthi Gunwardhana (Chairman of the Lucky Lanka Group of Companies) was winning the 2015 - Achiever of Industrial Excellence Award - National Merit Award From Ceylon National Chamber of Industries.
Mr.Lal keerthi Gunwardhana (Chairman of the Lucky Lanka Group of Companies) was winning the 2015 – National Green Award - Merit Award from Central Environmental Authority.
Lucky Lanka Milk Processing PLC launched a new product "Lucky Cow Cheese" on the month of December 2015.It was a valuable moment to Lucky Lanka PLC .because it helps to make powerful product portfolio under brand of Lucky Lanka Milk Processing PLC.
Lucky Lanka Milk processing PLC launch a "It's my lucky yoghurt promotion" campaign to promote the lucky yoghurt and give a chance to win a alto car and many other gifts.
According to Australian Dietary Guidelines eating diary foods are important as they are the rich sources of Calcium, protein, Vitamin B12, Iodine and etc. For kids, calcium is really important for the body development and to have strong, healthy bones.
This Prospectus has been prepared by Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka PLC (MBSL) on behalf of Lucky Lanka Milk Processing Company Limited (the Company) from the information supplied by the Company, its Directors, its management and information publicly available.


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Q: Installation hangs while installing data I tried to install magento 2 and it hangs while loading module Module 'Magento_CustomerSampleData':
Here is my Environment:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ngix
MySQL
I have attached a screen for reference.

A: Try to increase value of max_execution_time in PHP to 1800 (30 minutes).

A: Installing sample data takes time.
If installing sample data blocks your installation process, you can install Magento without sample data and then install sample data separately using this manual http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/install/sample-data-after-magento.html
Also try to increase value of max_execution_time.
This link can be also helpful:
Sample data for Magento 2 - PHP memory problem while installing from Composer
UPD. http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/trouble/php/tshoot_70pct.html

A: if you are using Apache+PHP-FPM like myself this might work for you:
<Proxy "fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/opt/rh/httpd24/root/var/www/m2">
    ProxySet min=0
    ProxySet timeout=1800
</Proxy>

<LocationMatch "^(.*\.php).*$">
    ProxyPass fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/opt/rh/httpd24/root/var/www/m2
</LocationMatch>

The reason it stopped for me was that apache stopped talking to php-fpm proxy.
here is the error I got in my apache log:
[proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 7698] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: [client 178.79.164.65:36691] AH01075: Error dispatching request to :, referer: http://54.153.44.88/setup/

I fixed the problem my setting proxy timeout as shown above.

A: Try to resume your sample data entry again by using teminal -
be in your root folder of installation
root@sys:/var/www/html/magento2#
use below command -
php -f bin/magento sampledata:deploy

A: This may also be caused by a missing .htaccess file. (In my case, the . Systemfiles were missed when copying the data)
After adding the .htaccess the installation worked perfectly

A: Are you in developer mode?
1 first get the M2 without sample data and unzip it hosting.
2 get in developer mode
3 create the database
4 change folders and files permissions.
5  create a folder and copy all the files right now in the public
    folder in there (is like a emergency folder)
6 unzip the designs and components you plan to use.
7 install.
it should work

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The wolf OR-7 stands on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwest Oregon's Cascade Mountains. The wolf and its pack apparently is no longer wary of the "Air Dancer" inflatable tubes that have watched over Ted Birdseye's cattle the past two months on his remote ranch near Oregon's Boundary Butte.
Birdseye discovered a 400-pound calf dead from a wolf attack March 23 morning just minutes after seeing at least two adult wolves walking through part of his 276-acre ranch.


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Biden Has No Answers on Chain of Custody for Classified Documents from His Time as VP Discovered in His Residence and Penn Biden Center Offices
January 19, 2023 January 20, 2023 Laura Baigert
President Biden has failed to provide an explanation for the chain of custody for classified documents from his time as vice president discovered at three locations in his private residence in Wilmington, Delaware – in his library, in a room adjacent to the garage, and in a box and his garage where he keeps his Corvette–and at the Penn Biden Center offices in Washington, D.C., his base of operations during 2018 and 2019.
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Supreme Court Says Cannot Identify Who Leaked Draft Opinion That Led to Overturning of Roe v. Wade
January 19, 2023 Zachery Schmidt
The Supreme Court said Thursday it cannot identify who leaking the draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., the landmark case that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The Supreme Court marshal investigating the leak "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence," the court said.
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Why We March: Historic 50th March for Life, First in Post-Roe Era
January 19, 2023 Susan Berry, PhD
Thousands of pro-life Americans and advocates from other nations will gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Friday to celebrate the 50th March for Life, the first since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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DA: Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in Fatal 'Rust' Shooting
January 19, 2023 January 19, 2023 Just the News
Actor Alec Baldwin faces two involuntary manslaughter charges for the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico film set of "Rust," prosecutors announced Thursday.
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Speaker McCarthy Ends Pandemic-Era Proxy Voting in the House of Representatives
January 19, 2023 Just the News
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday ended pandemic-era proxy voting, delivering on a promise to require chamber members to vote in person.
National, NewsProxy Votes, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican majority, COVID-19, pandemicLeave a comment
Ohio House Republicans Call on New Speaker to Reconsider Megan Fitzmartin as Communications Director
January 19, 2023 January 18, 2023 Hannah Poling
In a letter dated Monday, state Representative Derek Merrin (R-Monclova Township) and his leadership team urged new House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) to rethink hiring Megan Fitzmartin as the taxpayer-funded position of the House GOP policy and communications director because she was "a chief campaign operative" of former Speaker Larry Householder, whose corruption trial is set to begin next week. The letter claims that Fitzmartin's appointment is "extraordinarily ill-advised and demonstrates questionable judgment" and that a "sizable number" of House Republicans are unlikely to cooperate with her.
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Ahead of the 50th Anniversary of Roe, 61 Percent of Americans Identify as Pro-Choice: Poll
January 19, 2023 January 19, 2023 Ohio Star Staff
A new poll found that 61% of Americans self-identify as pro-choice just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. The Knights of Columbus (KC), a Catholic charity organization designed to "bring financial aid and assistance" to those in need, released an annual poll Wednesday concerning Americans' opinions on abortion alongside Marist College (MC), a private liberal arts college in New York. The 2023 poll found that 61% stated that they identified as pro-choice, a 6% increase from 2022 before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that abortion was not a Constitutional right.
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Poll: Americans Say Critical Race Theory Dividing Young People
January 19, 2023 January 18, 2023 M.D. Kittle
More than two-thirds of American voters believe the tenets and teachings of Critical Race Theory are only serving to further divide young people, according to a recent national poll. Conducted for Summit Ministries by nationally renowned polling firm McLaughlin & Associates, the poll shows 69 percent of respondents with an opinion on the issue believe CRT curriculum further divides ethnic groups and races among American youth. Less than one-third (31%) say CRT promotes racial healing and reconciliation among America's kids.
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Biden's DOJ Is Still Fighting to Reimpose Mask Mandates on Airline Flights
President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) continued its fight to implement a nationwide mask mandate on airplanes and other forms of transportation in federal court Tuesday, according to Reuters. The DOJ asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a federal judge's April 2021 decision striking down the mask mandate, according to Reuters. Biden declared that "the pandemic is over" Sept. 18, 2021, and all 50 states and most localities had dropped their own mask mandates by early 2022.
National, NewsDepartment of Justice, Mask Mandates, Airline FlightsLeave a comment
Ohio Senator Vance and Arizona Representative Biggs Send Bicameral Letter Opposing Biden's Illicit Misuse of Immigration Parole
Wednesday, U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote a bicameral letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, requesting an explanation of the Department's careless decision to drastically expand immigration parole programs in the face of a historic border crisis. According to Vance, the American people have a right to know the reasoning behind the Biden Administration's decision, as well as, more significantly, the legal basis for it.
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Parents Sue Hilliard School District over Indoctrination and LGBTQ 'I'm Here' Badges
The removal of staff-worn LGBTQ badges is being demanded by a number of parents from central Ohio who are suing Hilliard City Schools in federal court because teachers are engaging in "intimate sexual conversations" with pupils as young as 6 years old. In the case, Ohio Republican Council of Clubs' attorney Joshua Brown said he represents parents who claim activist instructors are conducting private conversations with their children about sexuality and mental health while keeping those conversations hidden from parents.
State News, News, The Midwest, OhioJoshua Brown, Ohio Parents Rights in Education, National Education Association, David Stewart, Hilliard Education Association, Alliance Medical Center, Ohio Board of Education, WEA LGBTQ Caucus, GLSEN, President Jo Biden, Hilliard City Schools, Lisa Chaffee, Ohio Republican Council of ClubsLeave a comment
Commentary: The Biden Classified Documents Fiasco
What do we know—so far, at least—about the Biden classified documents situation? The information provided to the public has come from people who work for, or are otherwise close to, President Joe Biden and has been filtered selectively through a media largely predisposed to protect the president.
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Producer Prices Fell in December
January 19, 2023 The Center Square
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' released its latest Producer Price Index data Wednesday which showed prices dropped 0.5% in December after rising 0.4% in October and 0.2% in November. In December, final demand goods dropped 1.6%.
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Pfizer, Fauci Staffers Sign Off on Research Finding mRNA COVID Vaccines Produce Worse Antibodies
Less than a month after the CDC marked the two-year anniversary of the first administered COVID-19 vaccine by telling Americans to get a bivalent booster, two peer-reviewed German studies have found that mRNA vaccines — the vast majority of the U.S. market — induce worse antibodies compared to traditional adenovirus vaccines. The first paper, published in Science Immunology Dec. 22, focused on mRNA boosters, while the second, published in Frontiers in Immunology Jan. 12, found the same association with the two-dose primary series.
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Pentagon Still Can't Account for Roughly $220 Billion in Equipment, Gov't Watchdog Says
The Department of Defense (DOD) has neglected to address its inability to keep track of at least $220 billion in equipment provided to government contractors, according to a Tuesday report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Auditors first reported the Pentagon's failure to account for government-owned equipment or material offered up for use to contracting agencies, also called government furnished property, in 2001, according to the report. DOD has made little improvement since then, increasing the risk that the Pentagon could accidentally overlook errors in the books.
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Commentary: Mike Gallagher's China Committee Has Its Work Cut Out for It
A new House select committee on China chaired by U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) can potentially expose the vast scope of the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to undermine the United States at home and abroad. It's vital work that comes at a perilous time. The Gallagher committee has an enormous task before it. It will have to investigate the CCP in the diplomatic, economic, military, and technological realms. But that is just the start. The committee will need to show how Beijing influences U.S. domestic politics, American media, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and our colleges and universities.
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After Seattle Defunded Its Police, Local Business Owners Say Crime Is Worse than Ever
Two years after Seattle slashed its police budget, local business owners say crime has skyrocketed, with police unable to deal with thefts, homelessness and open-air drug use that plague the city. Seattle and broader King County had more than 13,000 homeless people within its boundaries in 2022, more than every other similar area except Los Angeles County and New York City, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, while the Seattle Police Department (SPD) lost more than 130 officers, KOMO News reported, as homicides, shootings and motor vehicle thefts increased. Local business owners say law enforcement is failing to effectively deter the rampant drug use and theft disturbing their livelihoods.
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THAT Conference 2019
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THAT Conference is the "Summer Camp for Geeks" that combines technology, networking, social events, and exposure in an inspirational, family-friendly environment. Over four days, folks of diverse backgrounds and expertise levels gather to take advantage of multiple learning mediums to maximize one's community and career advancements. Engage with true practitioners, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs while enjoying the perks of summer camp at a giant waterpark.... Read more Read less
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Introspection and Mindfulness
This pair of courses center on the cloud.
THAT Conference '19: Cloud Journey - All You Need to Know You Learned in Kindergarten
by THAT Conference
Sep 6, 2019 / 33m
This is CUNA Mutual's story about becoming a cloud-enabled IT organization. How are they approaching their transformation? Where are they in their journey? What did they think when they started, and what have they learned along the way? CUNA Mutual had some surprises, but if they just remember what they learned in kindergarten, they'll be fine. Come and hear why from Jennifer Ilk.
Cloud Journey - All You Need to Know You Learned in Kindergarten
THAT Conference '19: Azure DevOps: From Source Code to Production
Azure DevOps enables teams to store and manage source code in Git, define automated builds and releases, and store artifacts. With a recent change to YAML based build files, it's easier to get started. In this talk, George Frick quickly introduces Azure DevOps before working through examples.
Azure DevOps: From Source Code to Production
In these talks, you'll encounter creative tools, user experience design, augmented reality, and animation.
THAT Conference '19: The Psychology of Consumer and User Experience CX/UX
In this session, Damon Sanchez explains key concepts around a customer's experience (CX), the synergy between a user's experience (UX), and how both CX and UX together galvanize a product and brand. The content expressed in this session is applicable to any industry and is a cornerstone for any individual or team to understand and internalize.
The Psychology of Consumer and User Experience CX/UX
THAT Conference '19: Hololens 2: Building Mixed Reality Apps for Your Enterprise
An increasing percentage of companies will be adopting global augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies to do everything from employee training and hands-on guidance for assembly, maintenance, and troubleshooting enterprise products to education and team collaboration. Join Lance Larsen, a Microsoft MVP whose focus has been on Mixed Reality since the first Hololens, in exploring the Hololens 2 (HL2). The HL2 is the latest wearable mixed reality device targeted to the enterprise.
Hololens 2: Building Mixed Reality Apps for Your Enterprise
THAT Conference '19: Let's Build an Augmented Reality Campfire with JavaScript
With the introduction of Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities on both iOS and Android, developers can start using AR APIs to create a new wave of innovative and engaging mobile apps. Rob Lauer takes a brief look at the history of AR, some prime examples of AR in use today (the good and the bad), how the ARKit and ARCore APIs work, and how you can use NativeScript to build cross-platform AR apps with JavaScript and Angular or Vue.js.
Let's Build an Augmented Reality Campfire with JavaScript
THAT Conference '19: Animation in UI: The Subconscious Influence of Motion
If you're not leveraging interface animations to influence your users, you are missing a critical component of UX design. Like body language, motion design supplies a rich, often-subconscious layer of meaning and personality to every micro-interaction. In this session, Katie Swindler describes the right animation styles for your brand, users, and product.
Animation in UI: The Subconscious Influence of Motion
These conference sessions dive into data, from artificial intelligence, machine learning, Kafka, and GraphQL to the fundamentals of data science, data visualization, and graph databases.
THAT Conference '19: Event-driven Architecture with Kafka and Containers
Enterprise architectures are changing. They are becoming more real-time, more agile, and more complex. Tracey Barrett explores these new patterns and their supporting tools.
Event-driven Architecture with Kafka and Containers
THAT Conference '19: Scary Stories About AI Gone Wrong (Let's Get Ethical)
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a bigger part of life, it's time to examine the dangers. It is easy to see the negative impacts of failing to evaluate ethical consequences in retrospect, but often much harder when initially developing intelligent systems. In this talk, Amanda Sopkin examines 3 separate examples of the application of AI to various systems.
Scary Stories About AI Gone Wrong (Let's Get Ethical)
THAT Conference '19: Using Machine Learning to Eliminate Meetings
In this session, Ivan Eisenberg walks through constructing a basic neural network from scratch in JavaScript to better understand the underlying concepts. Ivan explores a practical application of machine learning in everyday developer life, creating a story point estimating bot using TensorFlow.js.
Using Machine Learning to Eliminate Meetings
THAT Conference '19: Using the Apollo GraphQL Client to Break on through to the REST API
In this talk, Jeremiah Billmann discusses the powerful features that the Apollo Client offers for JavaScript application state management. You will gain a surface level understanding of GraphQL in addition to the ability to describe motivations for using a GraphQL client with a REST API server.
Using the Apollo GraphQL Client to Break on through to the REST API
THAT Conference '19: GraphQL, More Like GraphQWOW
Sep 6, 2019 / 1h 4m
GraphQL is the hottest kid on the block in the web development community. Released as an API specification white paper by Facebook in 2015, back end and front end engineers sunk their teeth into the concepts over the past 4 years. New and exciting open-source, such as the Apollo project, and GatsbyJS utilized GraphQL to both ease development of GraphQL APIs, and generating entire static websites using GraphQL at compile-time, respectively. Join Jonathan Kupcho to learn more.
GraphQL, More Like GraphQWOW
THAT Conference '19: What Is Data Science, and How Do I Get Started?
Have you ever wondered how data professionals got to where they are? In this session, Jason Groom briefly explains what data science really is, why it is important to your business, and the journey to becoming a data scientist.
What Is Data Science, and How Do I Get Started?
THAT Conference '19: Modern Data Visualization
Big Data, IoT, and Machine Learning provide more data than ever before. You can find significant trends, influence the direction of a company, predict customer behaviors, or guess whether a photo is a cat or a dog. What do you do with all of this data? In this session, Ashley Dzick presents a few examples of both good and bad data visualizations, examines data visualization practices that are still relevant, and discusses how animation, inclusive design, and UX are shaping modern data visualization.
Modern Data Visualization
THAT Conference '19: Introduction to Graph Databases
John Ptacek looks at the lay of the land for graph databases as they continue to explode in popularity. Graph databases are a NoSQL database that focuses on the relationships in data. Systems are composed of vertices, which is the entity you are concerned with, such as a person, place, or an edge, which defines the relationship between these vertices. Systematizing data this way can have many benefits, one of the biggest being how we define data as humans. These databases are great for modelling social interactions and domains where connections can be more important than rigidity of data and they can solve issues where the complexity of the interactions between objects are not easily solved in a traditional SQL world. In this presentation, you will encounter various players in the graph database world, such as Neo4j and Gremlin databases. You will also write a simple program, take a look at the Cypher query language, and examine the power of this platform compared to traditional approaches.
Introduction to Graph Databases
THAT Conference '19: ML and the IoT: Living on the Edge
Machine Learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) are a match made in heaven. However, leveraging ML with IoT has historically meant backhauling all your sensor data to the Cloud. When the cloud is involved, security is a concern and, in the realm of IoT, security is often a "dirty" word. But modern embedded systems, microcontrollers, and single-board computers are becoming more powerful and more sophisticated, and it's becoming increasingly possible to bring Machine Learning closer to sensors and IoT devices. Edge ML enables quicker insights, tighter security, and even true predictive action. In this session, Brandon Satrom explores the state of the art in Edge ML and IoT and talks about practical ways that developers can get started with both.
ML and the IoT: Living on the Edge
IT Infrastructure and Ops
From Docker to DevOps, these sessions take you into the world of IT infrastructure and Ops.
THAT Conference '19: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Docker
In this session, Jonathan Turner takes an absolute beginner's guide approach to Docker. You will go over a little about what Docker is, the difference between images and containers, a few quick ways to use Docker in a dev environment, and briefly talk about creating your own images.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Docker
THAT Conference '19: Docker Is the New Package Manager
The days of Googling an obscure error message after running brew install are behind us. Docker has entirely replaced local installs of dependency services for many developers and become a staple for building things. In this session, Eddie Zaneski explains how you can make your life easier by accepting Docker as your package manager. You'll learn everything you need to use Docker for local development and how you can ensure you're as close to production as possible.
Docker Is the New Package Manager
THAT Conference '19: Feature Flags for Better DevOps
Feature Flags provide a set of patterns that can help your team deliver new functionality to users rapidly and safely. In this session, Mickey Gousset covers the what of feature flags, or feature toggles. You'll learn some use cases for feature flags, like separating code deployments from feature releases, doing canary launches, and testing in production. You'll also learn how the Azure DevOps team uses feature flags and see how you can add feature flags to your own apps with examples using ASP.NET and custom code as well as a commercial product, LaunchDarkly, which offers features flags as a service.
Feature Flags for Better DevOps
THAT Conference '19: CI/CD for the Beginner Developer
Did you recently become a developer? Do you struggle with CI/CD? What do those acronyms mean? Why can't you ignore them and write more code? Fear not: This is a common experience for new devs. In this session, Kate Catlin provides an overview of what CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) are, why they are important to your life, and how they can bring you joy (or at least less pain). This session focuses around onboarding junior devs.
CI/CD for the Beginner Developer
THAT Conference '19: Infrastructure as Code: Don't Forget How to Build Your Canoe
Whether a platform is a monolith or microservices, servers or serverless, SQL or NoSQL, it runs on infrastructure. If the worst happens and your servers get deleted, you lose access to them. If they go down for a few days, wouldn't it be nice to instantly spin up an entirely new stack with the click of a button? In this talk, David Hauck goes through the process of creating infrastructure as code using AWS Cloud Formation. This session will cover how you can create an entire application, including the database, API, and UI. using only code. It will also cover best practices on using infrastructure as code. By the end of the session, you should be able to create your own infrastructure as code to deploy full services with ease.
Infrastructure as Code: Don't Forget How to Build Your Canoe
Professional Development and Business Professional
This group of courses focuses on building or refining soft skills in addition to covering topics that will help you be more successful as a business professional.
THAT Conference '19: Retrospectives: Not Just for Agile Teams
Retrospectives are meetings where a team reflects on how members work together and considers ways to improve their process. They are typically practiced on agile teams, but any team can reap the benefits of 1 hour spent reflecting on previous work.Rachel Krause provides you with the information you need to incorporate these meetings into your existing process or to finesse existing retrospective meetings.
Retrospectives: Not Just for Agile Teams
THAT Conference '19: How to Win Friends and Influence Better Developer Estimates
Creating estimates for tasks is not an exact science. Whether it is points, hours, level of effort, or whatever else the next fad is, it all boils down to what feels like a shot in the dark. Join Brian McKeiver's session to find out a few lessons learned, tips, tricks, and strategies for creating accurate and timely estimates on your developer tasks. At the end of the day, if you can create better estimates, maybe your project managers will become long time friends.
How to Win Friends and Influence Better Developer Estimates
THAT Conference '19: Feedback Is a Gift
We all have blind spots. Most of us want to be better in some way, whether it is in our jobs, our relationships or our hobbies. We need feedback from others to help us get better, but both giving and receiving feedback is hard. In this talk, Maureen Botoman discusses strategies for creating constructive feedback and techniques for hearing feedback that will enable us to be receptive to feedback and get the most from those experiences.
Feedback Is a Gift
THAT Conference '19: Salary Negotiation Doesn't Have to Be Scary
Do you find job offer negotiations stressful or awkward? Money is uncomfortable to talk about and it's tough to know what to ask for. Amanda Daering has spent over a decade as a recruitment and Human Resources (HR) professional at both large and small companies. In this session, Amanda shares insights into the employer perspective including the typical internal process and tips for handling negotiations. You will learn how to evaluate compensation as a whole package, set future compensation targets, and negotiate with a current or prospective employer.
Salary Negotiation Doesn't Have to Be Scary
THAT Conference '19: Using Our Powers for Good: Tech and Social Impact
There are a number of ways you can use your tech-industry skills to create positive change in your community and yourself. Hilary Stohs-Krause explores the why, how, and where for sharing skills, both technical and non-technical. You'll learn more about the breadth of ways to give back and feel prepared to reach out in your own community and start making connections.
Using Our Powers for Good: Tech and Social Impact
THAT Conference '19: Burning out and How to Deal with It
Many people experience burnout. In this session, Gary Keeler discusses the signs of burnout and how to deal with it once you've been "burned."
Burning out and How to Deal with It
THAT Conference '19: Don't Let Assumptions Kill Good Ideas
In this talk, Lauren Liss helps you find methods to challenge assumptions and uncover better ideas. These quick workflow fixes can help you address where you should ask more questions, find different answers, work better as a team, and, ultimately, create better products and services.
Don't Let Assumptions Kill Good Ideas
THAT Conference '19: Leadership in Fully Remote Teams
Remote working, or telecommuting, has existed since the 1970s, but it has only made a measurable shift to adoption in the past ten years. Technological advancements in communication and security make it possible for people to work from any location at any time. Remote workers need guidance and leadership like traditional co-located employees. You must use different leadership methods to be a successful remote leader. In this session, Aaron Douglas presents methods for managing remote workers in ways that will support them to be productive and prevent you from coming across as a micro-manager.
Leadership in Fully Remote Teams
THAT Conference '19: Turn Your Development Side Hustle into a Viable Business
When launching a new idea or solving a new problem, it is easy to build based on assumptions. You need to put the right mechanisms and systems in place to monitor your blind spots and build a truly valuable product. Jon Kinney has worked with over fifty startups not just building apps but also carving out their place in the market and managing post-launch growth post-launch.
Turn Your Development Side Hustle into a Viable Business
THAT Conference '19: Fear
In this session, Jeff Blankenburg looks at the many ways fear shapes everyday life and how you can control it to make rational decisions. Don't let fear shut you down, make it an opportunity for success.
THAT Conference '19: Camping Mindfully
Mindfulness focuses on training your mind, learning to be focused on the present, and accepting your thoughts and emotions as they arise rather than "thinking about thinking." In this session, Damon Payne discusses the science behind mindfulness, how to apply mindfulness to your day to day life, and conducts a guided meditation session.
Camping Mindfully
THAT Conference '19: Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader
Regardless of the technology you know and the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond. In this talk, David Neal shares a few candid stories of career failures/learning opportunities. David debunks the myth that leadership equates to management and discusses some attributes, behaviors, and skills of good leaders. You'll walk away with essential leadership skills and encouragement to be more awesome.
Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader
THAT Conference '19: I Was Nearly Fired; It Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened
After fifteen years as a professional developer, Andrew Kerr may not call himself an expert, but he has learned a lot of lessons the hard way! In this session, you'll hear stories that Andrew likes to share with new hires.
I Was Nearly Fired; It Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened
THAT Conference '19: Tap, Tap, Tap. Is This Thing Even On?
In this session, Angela Dugan rumbles with some touch topics and shares some of her own embarrassing and enlightening stumbles. This talk includes delivering "bad news" to clients and/or managers and feeling good about it, managing conflict with team members in healthy and productive ways, and delivering feedback.
Tap, Tap, Tap. Is This Thing Even On?
THAT Conference '19: How to Work from Home without Living at Work
In the ever-changing world of talent hiring, perks are king. To lure the best and the brightest to join their firms, more and more companies are giving their employees the option to work from home. This allows the individual to better control their work-life balance. Though it sounds amazing at first, over time your professional responsibility can drift into your home life, causing issues around work/life balance. Every person that works from home takes the risk of working more and more. Isaac Levin's work from home story has highs and lows. After this discussion, learners will have a new understanding of how people who work from home can be successful.
How to Work from Home without Living at Work
THAT Conference '19: Networking Your Way to Your Next Role
A hardworking, eager, amazing candidate can submit 1,000+ resumes with the right buzzwords, beautiful projects, a solid education, and still not make it to the phone interview. Rhia Dixon will walk you through how she used an unexpected networking opportunity during her coding boot camp to land her first tech role before she was even looking for a job. She will also share what she has learned about networking - what it is and isn't, when and where to network, and how to do it effectively. Learn networking tactics to get you on the radar and in the door.
Networking Your Way to Your Next Role
THAT Conference '19: Leading Engineers to Water: The Art and Science of Developer Coaching
Software engineering may be difficult, but fostering a working environment that enables skilled engineers to perform their best can sometimes seem downright impossible. Every day, many engineering teams battle a whirlwind of forces, like unmovable deadlines, impostor syndrome, psychological safety issues, personnel/leadership conflicts, fierce technological preferences, and more. As a software engineering coach, Michael Migliacio's job is to not only introduce new technology to software teams but also strengthen their working relationships within their organization. Coaches aren't simply technical instructors. Rather, they are change agents that guide a team towards better outcomes for their project as well as their interactions with one another. Michael will discuss tips, tricks, and techniques that technical leaders and managers can utilize to better coach engineering teams, including concepts like the definition of empathy, the trust-influence cyclic relationship model, and a 5-step process to provide teams with confidence to own their solutions.
Leading Engineers to Water: The Art and Science of Developer Coaching
THAT Conference '19: How to Onboard Junior Devs Like a Boss: A Guide for Senior Developers
One of the hardest things to do as a developer is to onboard new people. Sometimes, companies have "standard onboarding procedures," but most of those involve sitting in a boring meeting, reading boring documentation, or attending boring mandatory training. None of these practices lead to the successful onboarding of developers. Devs want their hands on the keyboards, devs want to write code and push to master, and devs want to have their minds engaged. Devs don't want to be bored! Join Izzi Bikun in this session on how to successfully make developers fully functional members of the team in as little as two months.
How to Onboard Junior Devs Like a Boss: A Guide for Senior Developers
THAT Conference '19: How to Start a Software YouTube Channel
In this session, you will learn how to start and grow a software YouTube channel. Beau Carnes started a channel as a new programmer; it eventually lead to multiple job offers and running one of the top programming channels on YouTube. Join Beau as he shares his story, uncovers tips and tricks for growing a software channel and developing a personal brand, discusses planning and recording videos, outlines tools to use, and describes how to master the YouTube algorithm.
How to Start a Software YouTube Channel
These security-centric sessions give you a look into OAuth 2.0, cryptography, and secure coding.
THAT Conference '19: OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (In Plain English)
In this session, Micah Silverman explains OAuth and OpenID Connect standards in simple English.
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (In Plain English)
THAT Conference '19: Useful Cryptography: An Introduction
In this talk, Randall Degges discusses useful cryptographic primitives and how to practically apply them in your development projects. You'll learn about hashing, HMACs, encryption, TLS, and more. You'll gain a strong foundational knowledge of cryptographic principles and an understanding of how to make use of various algorithms to secure your applications. You'll also know what to look out for when building secure applications and where to be careful during implementation.
Useful Cryptography: An Introduction
THAT Conference '19: Demystifying Front-end Security
Web technologies conquered the world. JavaScript development is not about building web-applications anymore. Now, JavaScript can be used for building native mobile and desktop applications. It brings bigger responsibilities to front-end engineers to ensure that applications are secure. Do you think that building a static website will solve all your security problems? In the following session, Ilya Verbitskiy talks about the modern front-end security landscape, tools and techniques used by "bad guys" to compromise your applications, why web framework usage is not a "silver bullet," and how you can fight back and mitigate security risks.
Demystifying Front-end Security
These sessions put the spotlight on front end web development, mobile application development, languages, frameworks, and numerous developer tools.
THAT Conference '19: Get Off My Grass: Weeding Out Logic with Presenters
In this talk, Mike Schutte covers the theory behind the presenter pattern, explains why it's useful, and breaks down a real-world example where a presenter was the proverbial "right tool for the job." You will learn how to use presenters to allow controllers to focus on integration and views on displaying data.
Get Off My Grass: Weeding Out Logic with Presenters
THAT Conference '19: WebAssembly: The Swiss Army Knife of Browser Apps
WebAssembly, or Wasm, is a stack-based virtual machine that runs on existing browser engines. It is a cross-platform binary portable target for language compilers. Web developers use Wasm to build high-performance single-page applications (SPAs) without relying on JavaScript and/or other front-end frameworks. In this talk, Jeremy Likness presents what Wasm is and provides examples written in Rust, Go, and C#.
WebAssembly: The Swiss Army Knife of Browser Apps
THAT Conference '19: Electronics for Programmers
Developing programs for IoT devices, embedded computers, and other "smart" devices that connect to the "real world" has become a commonplace activity. Some of the concepts, language, and tools may seem entirely foreign to even the most skilled programmers/developers. In this talk, Harold Pulcher highlights some of these less familiar terms, components, principles, and techniques.
Electronics for Programmers
THAT Conference '19: Apps, Stacks, and Frameworks: Avoiding "Shiny Object" Syndrome
In this talk, Angel Rivera explores how and why teams are easily lulled into believing that shiny objects will independently solve their stack deficiencies. Angel also discusses experiences with "Shiny Object" frameworks/tools and the true impact they had in solving problems.
Apps, Stacks, and Frameworks: Avoiding "Shiny Object" Syndrome
THAT Conference '19: 7 Guaranteed Ways to Fail with Microservices
The tech giants are moving from monoliths to microservices architectures and many are praising it. In this session, Mike Acord teaches you how to torpedo your microservices project and make it an utter failure with 100% guaranteed ways to fail. With the knowledge gained in this session, you will be able to turn your microservices project into an epic fail and move back to your familiar monolith project.
7 Guaranteed Ways to Fail with Microservices
THAT Conference '19: UI Development in a Microservices World
You figured out how to split up your backend services into microservices and scale your teams to the moon, but what about the front-end? Are you still building monoliths for your UI? In this session, Matt Raible demonstrates techniques for complementing your microservices with micro UIs and showcases how large companies are developing UIs on top of their microservice architectures.
UI Development in a Microservices World
THAT Conference '19: Postman: An Incredible Tool for API Development and Testing
Working with HTTP API calls is an everyday occurrence for most developers. Postman is an exceptional and flexible tool for testing and understanding these API calls. Join Ryan Niemeyer as he demonstrates the many features of Postman beyond making simple API calls. You will look at setting up collections of calls and using environments to target different deployments. Additionally, you will dive into the scripting features that you can use in Postman to automate tests or workflows, including using variables and chaining requests together. Let Postman help you wrangle your API into an organized, tested, and documented star.
Postman: An Incredible Tool for API Development and Testing
THAT Conference '19: Unit Testing as a Philosophy for Success
For developers, unit testing is an easy task to skip as they race toward deadlines. Skipping this vital task could cost you. In this session, Elizabeth Groom shares her personal unit testing philosophy, how she approaches the task, and tools for use in different environments.
Unit Testing as a Philosophy for Success
THAT Conference '19: All the New Things! Using MVVM, Flow-coordinators, and RxSwift to Create a Completely Dynamic UI
It seems like everyone is talking about reactive programming and architecture, but it can be difficult to figure out how or why to use these tools to benefit your work. Faced with the challenge of creating an app with a completely dynamic UI under ever-changing scope and deadlines, Ellen Williams' team used MVVM, flow-coordinators, and RxSwift to adapt to change, manage risk, and tame the chaos. In this talk, Ellen discusses the specific problems that each of these frameworks and patterns helped to solve, lessons learned from implementing numerous new tools on a single project, and what to consider before using these tools in your own projects.
Using MVVM, Flow-coordinators, and RxSwift to Create a Completely Dynamic UI
THAT Conference '19: Building Screaming Fast Websites on the Cheap Using Gatsby.js
Every year, computers and networks get a little faster, but your favorite websites, not so much. We have cars that can drive themselves, but it takes 20 seconds to load up certain websites. We can do better without breaking the bank. Enter Gatsby.js. With Gatsby.js, you can spin up a website in about 10 minutes that loads instantly. Gatsby excels at content-heavy sites, like blogs, but since it's built on React.js, you can also hook it up to APIs and use it to build your next great startup idea. In this talk, Dustin Ewers teaches you to build your own website using Gatsby.js.
Building Screaming Fast Websites on the Cheap Using Gatsby.js
THAT Conference '19: Get to Green: How to Safely Refactor Legacy Code
For many people, legacy code is a fact of life. You need tests to safely make changes, but you can't add tests without changing the code. It is a chicken-and-egg problem. How do you turn legacy code into code you can change confidently? Slowly, one step at a time. Join Gene Gotimer as he shares his experiences working with a monolithic codebase that was so bad it made national news. He'll go over the steps he and his team used to refactor the code safely by using mocking frameworks, mutation testing, and patience to build an understanding of how the code worked so that they could change it confidently. This talk is for anyone that has inherited legacy code that they aren't confident in and wants to make it something they can work on and improve. You'll leave with some tools and techniques that will help you change your legacy code into something maintainable.
Get to Green: How to Safely Refactor Legacy Code
THAT Conference '19: What's New in C#8
C# is an open-source, mature object-oriented language used by many .NET developers, yet its evolution is still underway. In this session, Jason Bock covers the latest features that have been added to C#8 and how they work in detail so you'll know when to use them effectively in your new .NET projects.
What's New in C#8
THAT Conference '19: Developer Tools for AI and Machine Learning
Getting started with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be daunting. Greg Levenhagen discusses several different valuable tools find valuable. Some of the tools covered in this session include Google's Cloud Machine Learning Engine, AWS SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning Studio, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras.
Developer Tools for AI and Machine Learning
THAT Conference '19: Intro to Progressive Web Apps
In this talk, Chris Lorenzo demonstrates how to create a reliable, fast, and engaging Progressive Web App (PWA).
Intro to Progressive Web Apps
THAT Conference '19: Learn to Slay the iOS UI Testing Beast in an Hour
Developers, fear not! UI testing your iOS app is not nearly as tedious or time-consuming as you think it is. Xcode comes with XCUITest, an incredibly powerful native UI testing tool with screenshotting, reporting, and CI/CD features built in. In this talk, Elysia Lock explains why you should automate, how to write great UI test code right in XCode in Swift, where to get reports, how to run tests on different devices and iOS versions, and tactics for selecting specific tests to run in your CI/CD pipeline (for smoke testing).
Learn to Slay the iOS UI Testing Beast in an Hour
THAT Conference '19: Wicked Fast Mobile Web
Mobile has outpaced desktop, especially in emerging markets. At the same time, the size of mobile apps has ballooned. Large applications fail to serve the majority of mobile users, who have low-powered devices and unreliable network connections. Progressive web apps (PWAs) can serve mobile users better. In this session, Abraham Williams and Pearl Latteier show you how to make PWAs that download almost instantly and work offline while still providing the functionality of native apps.
Wicked Fast Mobile Web
THAT Conference '19: Creating iOS and Android Apps in C# Using Xamarin
Xamarin gives C# developers access to 100% of the native Android and iOS APIs, allowing .NET developers to create fully native iOS and Android apps. Join Brandon Minnick and learn the secret sauce behind how Xamarin works and creating your first Xamarin app.
Creating iOS and Android Apps in C# Using Xamarin
THAT Conference '19: State of Mobile Development
In this session, Sam Basu talks about mobile development. It's 2019 and developers have a lot of choice in how to build mobile apps. However, mobile strategy needs to be driven by the type of app, platform reach, developer expertise and need for code reuse. Is the Cordova hybrid route still an option? Have PWAs matured enough to prove the web as a distribution medium? What are the key factors that demand native mobile apps for iOS/Android/UWP? Developers also want to leverage preferred technology stacks - .NET or JavaScript. Is Xamarin the solve-it-all for .NET mobile development? How do NativeScript & React Native fare for JS Native apps? How does WebAssembly play in the mobile space? What about Flutter or Uno?
State of Mobile Development
THAT Conference '19: Level up Your Business Web App with SVG Animation
In this session, Benjamin Felda converts simple forms into interactive and fun experiences with the use of subtle and natural SVG animations. Benjamin also briefly discusses the importance of purposeful animation for UX and the structure of SVG on the web. You will learn techniques for animating SVG using native JavaScript and CSS in addition to realizing what libraries are available for animating SVG.
Level up Your Business Web App with SVG Animation
THAT Conference '19: Vue and ASP.NET Core: Better Together
Vue.js is a light-weight, versatile, and performant front-end framework for developing user interfaces. One reason Vue is so popular is that it can be used within existing applications or as a full SPA framework. In this talk, Matt Millican analyzes the basics of Vue and presents two ways that you can use Vue.js and ASP.NET Core together.
Vue and ASP.NET Core: Better Together
THAT Conference '19: Web Components and Design Systems
HTML Web Components are the holy grail of building web-based UIs. Progress has been slow, but 2018 saw an explosion for support across all major browsers. Polymer released its 3.0 version and Angular Elements were introduced. Without a doubt, HTML Web Components are now a reality. What does this have to do with Design Systems? Everything! In parallel with the hunt for framework-agnostic reusable UIs is the capturing of repeatable styles and interaction patterns. While there are some amazing examples in the wild to reference, there has been limited success in really delivering on the dream until now. In this talk, Dale Sande addresses much of the confusion surrounding web components and busts many of the myths that surround this technology.
Web Components and Design Systems
THAT Conference '19: Immutable All the Way Down
React is a front-end web framework based on immutable state. If you are used to thinking in React, then immutability and functional programming are a way of life. The spread operator is your favorite tool. Reducers are second-nature. It's immutable all the way until you get to the API. Then, you find yourself in the land of updates. You read objects from the database, transform them, and write them back. The database is designed for mutability. The data transfer objects are almost like your beautiful Redux store, but just different enough to force you to stop and think. The mental shift is jarring. So, what do you do? Let someone else take care of the back end? No! You are a full-stack developer, by gosh! You want to take your love of immutable state all the way down to the database. In this session, Michael Perry places an emphasis on Jinaga, an application framework based on immutability. It works beautifully with React to help you create gloriously collaborative web applications, use the same set of patterns on both sides of the client/server divide, and build the full application without ever leaving the realm of immutable, reactive, functional programming.
Immutable All the Way down
THAT Conference '19: Unit Testing in Sass
In this session, you'll learn how unit testing is applied to Sass, how it can benefit your large project, and how to set it up in your own codebase. Lindsey Wild shares her experience of unit testing an enterprise-level design system and how it prevented unexpected UI changes. You should consider this session if you work on large projects heavily relying on a consistent UI, such as a design system, if you are passionate about code quality and testing, and if you've worked with unit testing before and you're curious about whether it could translate into a styling language.
Unit Testing in Sass
THAT Conference '19: A Hike through Hooks and Suspense in React
In this session, Tony Gemoll digs further into Hooks and Suspense. His goal is to show what patterns exist today, what is ready for production, and which are not fully baked. Above all, you will be given context around how these features work in order to show how to use them effectively. By the end of this talk, Tony will answer the questions of where to go from here and whether you should use Hooks and Suspense.
A Hike through Hooks and Suspense in React
THAT Conference '19: Going Fast: The Art of Delivering Quality Software Quickly
Building software is a tricky business and the demands are higher than ever. Agile was meant to free you from the confines of red-tape driven software, but most people can't help but feel something is off in their software process. Do you wonder why startups can launch an entire product in a few months, but it took your team 6 months to get that new feature into production? Do you get tired of hour-long meetings with 16 people to talk about having another meeting to talk about the color of a button to use? Are you stuck building a bunch of features "just in case" instead of getting something working in front of a user? Does it take you more time to plan, document, and release a simple change than it does to actually make the change? If any of these questions resonate with you, Josh Carroll has a simple question that you, your team, and your company can ask that will help cut through the bloat in your software process and start delivering value like never before.
Going Fast: The Art of Delivering Quality Software Quickly


Sibling Newborn Baby Photo Shoot Manhattan Beach - Los Angeles based photo studio, The Pod Photography, specializing in maternity, newborn, baby, first birthday cake smash and family pictures.
When siblings join for their brother or sister's newborn photo shoot, it adds so much to the session. Now, the pictures are no longer just about the baby – but it has become a more meaningful family affair. I always love to picture the family years in the future reflecting back and looking at the baby pictures we take. Will they pull them out to embarrass someone in front of a new boyfriend? Reminisced upon fondly? Remark at how young their parents looked? I know how meaningful the images we capture for families are, and it is comforting to know that our work is cherished and kept in the family for generations.
Along the lines of newborn photography, I wanted to share a Yelp review from a different client, Cheryl R. that she posted. I think this five star review sums up the baby photo shoot experience at our Manhattan Beach newborn photo studio.
"After an extensive search for newborn photographers (via Yelp), I decided that The Pod Photography had the look, style, and quality that I was looking for. Plus their glowing reviews don't hurt either!
When I called in, I spoke with Erika, who covered what they offered and what we could expect. She followed up with a more detailed e-mail with information and pricing and we ended up booking an initial visit and a photo shoot for my 9 day old baby!
For my initial visit, I was showed around the studio and got to see the various outfits and accessories they have for the babies. We reviewed sample pictures and styled our photo shoot based off the colors, props, and outfits that I liked. I also got to meet the rest of the team and everyone was really sweet.
The day of the photo shoot, my mom came with me to provide moral (and creative) support. We got to relax a little bit in the back room to start things out, as I needed to feed and change my baby girl before we got started. The atmosphere is warm and cozy, and we weren't rushed to get started. Erika made sure that we (especially my baby) were all comfortable before we started our session. All the sets were pre-staged for when we arrived, which was great and a huge time saver.
During my baby's photo shoot, my mom and I got to sit on a comfy couch, were offered cookies and water, and just sat back and watched the magic happen. Erika has a special way with newborns…seriously! She positioned my baby girl with ease and little fuss…I have no idea how she does it. Halley was Erika's partner-in-crime for our session and she helped keep my baby positioned and camera-ready. Oh! and the studio has a bunch of small portable heaters that keep the little models nice and sleepy.
After the photo shoot, the team is great with follow up and communication, up until your follow up appointment to review the pictures.
If you live in Manhattan Beach or not, our top newborn photographer is happy to custom create the perfect pictures for your family. Give us a call at 310-391-4500 to chat about your baby's newborn photography.


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I created a new section on my homepage that I want to display recent posts. I used the shortcode [recent-posts show="4″]. A gray box appears above the post, how do I change this gray box into a thumbnail pic?
Hmm. Kindly show me the website url/link and i can figure out how to do it.
Those are default images if you don't set up featured image in your post.


Bright abstract painting of a fish on a dark background. Painted with acrylics and pen on canvas, edges are also painted.
This artwork is sold and shipped to you by Lee Proctor, and will be packaged in a reinforced envelope. Artworks are dispatched within 4 working days from United Kingdom.


The DVD for Resident Evil Extinction is out shortly in the UK and Sony have just launched the mother of all viral marketing campaigns.
You sign up at their website (which can be seen in the video below) and register your own Zombie character. Then at 09.00 GMT on 18th February the zombies are released to different advertising units on various websites throughout the Internet. There they will wait for Alice to find them and destroy them.
You can increase your Zombie's chances of survival by training him, and even receive updates about what website he is on and how he's fairing.
Naturally there are prizes to be won too. Watch the video, create a Zombie and try to survive Alice.


Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a diagnostic procedure used to investigate lumps or masses. In this technique, a thin (23–25 gauge), hollow needle is inserted into the mass for sampling of cells that, after being stained, will be examined under a microscope (biopsy). The sampling and biopsy considered together are called fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) or fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) (the latter to emphasize that any aspiration biopsy involves cytopathology, not histopathology). Fine-needle aspiration biopsies are very safe minor surgical procedures. Often, a major surgical (excisional or open) biopsy can be avoided by performing a needle aspiration biopsy instead, eliminating the need for hospitalization. In 1981, the first fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the United States was done at Maimonides Medical Center. Today, this procedure is widely used in the diagnosis of cancer and inflammatory conditions.
Routine blood tests (including clotting profile) must be completed two weeks before the biopsy.
A physician's hands are seen performing a needle biopsy to determine the nature of a lump, either a fluid-filled cyst or solid tumor.
For biopsies in the breast, ultrasound-guided fine-needle biopsy is the most common. The biopsy is advised.
FNA of pancreatic tissue. An adenocarcinoma is seen on the left, normal ductal epithelium on the right.
As with any surgical procedure, complications are possible, but major complications due to thin-needle aspiration biopsies are fairly uncommon, and when complications do occur, they are generally mild. The kind and severity of complications depend on the organs from which a biopsy is taken or the organs gone through to obtain cells.
A study published in 2004 showed that in one case, a needle biopsy of a liver tumor resulted in the spread of the cancer along the path of the needle and concluded that needle aspiration was dangerous and unnecessary. The conclusions drawn from this paper were strongly criticized subsequently.
FNA Mapping, an application for the assessment of male-factor infertility.
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GERMANY: A contract for Alstom to supply 27 four-car Class 1440 Coradia Continental electric multiple-units for use on Nürnberg S-Bahn services was signed by DB Regio Bayern Chairman Hansrüdiger Fritz on March 29.
The units are to be supplied from Alstom's Salzgitter plant for use from 2020 on Nürnberg S-Bahn routes S3, S4 and S5. DB is to operate the services for 12 years from December 2018 under a contract which was signed in January following a disputed tendering process originally won by National Express, which subsequently withdrew its winning bid which had included plans to order Škoda Transportation RegioPanter EMUs.
The 160 km/h Coradia Continental EMUs ordered by DB Regio will have 230 standard class seats, a toilet, power sockets, dynamic passenger information, CCTV and extending footborards to cover the gap between the train and platform edge. The units will work in pairs to provide increased capacity at peak times.
Maintenance will be undertaken at DB-Regio's Nürnberg-Gostenhof depot.
'DB Regio Bayern has many years of experience with the use and maintenance of the predecessor Class 440, and is therefore well prepared for the new trains', said Fritz.


The model posted a photo on Instagram with her longtime boyfriend, short time fiancé, and now hubby Joshua Kushner.
Eighty guests attended the small Jewish wedding ceremony, which was held in upstate NY, according to People. They will reportedly host a larger celebration for friends and loved ones in the spring. Kloss walked down the aisle in a custom Dior dress. Kloss posted a photo of her in a wedding dress and Kushner in a tuxedo - both of them beaming - on Instagram and Twitter Thursday night, October 18, 2018.
"The wedding was intimate and moving. The couple was beaming with happiness", a friend close to the couple told the publication.
Kushner and Kloss announced their engagement back in July, weeks after Kushner popped the question during a romantic weekend in upstate NY.
Yesterday, Karlie Kloss, 26, married her boyfriend Joshua Kushner in a private Jewish ceremony in NY. They have been together since 2012. I can't wait for forever together.