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Mr. David Afugani is the Head of Commercial Business overseeing Enterprise Business, Customer Care, Marketing, and Sales & Distribution.
Mr.David Afugani is the Head of Commercial Business overseeing Enterprise Business, Customer Care, Marketing, and Sales & Distribution.
Mr. Afugani has over 16 years of work experience from 8 multinational organizations having worked as Area Sales Manager at BAT Ghana, Sales Operations Manager at Diageo Ghana Plc, and National Sales Manager at Airtel Ghana Limited. He has also held strategic and top management roles in Ghana and West Africa for Rlg and KickStart International. Prior to joining Surfline, David worked as Head of Commercial for Lebara Ghana, Chief Commercial Officer for Inesfly Africa and Head of Commercial for Ghana Post. He also has a lot of experience in Africa, working as full time employee with various multinational companies and as a consultant on strategic projects across the continent.
He is also the founder of David Afugani Foundation and Managing Partner at Anteagle Equity Concepts where he specializes in startup, distribution, brand and turnaround management.
David is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast Business School where he worked as Teaching Assistant and Senior Research Assistant between 2001 and 2003. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the University of Leicester School of Management and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, both in the UK. David is a member of Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG)
Jacob Plange-Rhule
HR & Admin Director
Mr. Jacob Plange-Rhule is the Director of HR & Administration Department of Surfline Communications Limited. He also has oversight management responsibility on the Health, Safety Security and Environment Unit.
Mr. Jacob Plange-Rhule is the Director of HR & Administration Department of Surfline Communications Limited. He also has oversight management responsibility on the Health, Safety, Security and Environment Unit.
He has over 11 years of work experience from over twelve (12) organizations having worked in various strategic management roles such as; Business Operations Manager -Planmor Company Limited, Managing & Associate Partner- Asare Odometa Plantations Limited, Managing Partner-SW Logistics, Ag. Greater Accra Regional Sales Manager- Kasapa Telecom, Head: Human Resources/ Ag. Executive Business Operations – Expresso Telecom, HR Consultant - KESAL Company Limited, HR & Operations Director - Chafal Company Limited, and Executive Director of Dabreau Research Limited.
Mr. Plange-Rhule is a product of the University of Ghana; Legon, Australian Institute of Business, and Achimota School with numerous certifications in Human Resources Management; Strategic Management, Project Management, Actuarial/Statistics, Strategic Marketing, Customer Care & Investment Portfolio Advisory. He is currently a processed PhD candidate in International Business.
Mark Anthony Made
Legal and Regulatory Affairs Director
Mr. Mark Anthony Made is the director for Legal and Regulatory Affairs. He has oversight on all legal and regulatory/government dependencies for the business.
Mr. Mark Anthony Made is the Director for Legal and Regulatory Affairs of Surfline Communications Limited. He has oversight on all legal and regulatory/government dependencies for the business.
Mark is a Solicitor and a Barrister at Law who joined the business with a wealth of experience in Finance, Government and Telecommunications.
Prior to joining Surfline, he was Head of Legal and Regulatory at Helios Towers Ghana Limited, where he was responsible for facilitating land acquisitions for tower erections, ensuring legal and regulatory compliances as required, litigations and management of internal staff legal dependencies. He also worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he held two crucial positions as the Ag. Head, Legal and Enforcement and then Counsel/Board Secretary. In these capacities, he managed and supervised the Legal and Enforcement department in providing general legal advice, served as board secretary and played a pivotal role in the amendment of the Securities Industry Law, PNDL 333. He also acted as Legal Counsel for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, where he processed all Cabinet and Parliamentary approvals of government loans. In collaboration with the Attorney General's department, he handled litigation cases and provided key legal inputs for private sector reforms and financial institutions.
Mark also worked with the Ghana Commercial Bank and Law Trust as Legal Officer and Associate Practitioner respectively.
Mark holds a Master of Law degree from Erasmus University in Netherlands, a post-graduate Certificate in Corporate and Investment Law from London Guidhall University.
Eric Akwei
Network Planning Director
Mr. Eric Akwei is a product of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
Mr. Eric Akwei is currently the Head of Design and Planning for Surfline Communications Limited; bringing, over seven (7) years of experience in wireless systems, IP services and Packet-Switched technologies.
He manages two (2) functional units that are responsible for day-to-day activities associated with network rollout planning, enterprise project planning, network security, network mapping & HLD, traffic management, capacity planning and capacity management process, growth planning, technology Capex budgeting.
Prior to joining Surfline he was a packet-switched core network engineer with Glo Mobile Ghana with extensive onshore and offshore trainings in data networks.
He joined Surfline as a planning engineer to coordinate deployment of EPC equipment and integration to third-party Billing and provisioning systems. He was promoted to product and core-planning manager in charge of development of new product and services and subsequently, to Director of Network Planning.
Eric has multi-vendor experience and certifications in radio planning, IP/Transmission and core networks such as:
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Eric is a product of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Additionally, he has extensive onshore and offshore trainings in data networks.
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Three projects in Norfolk have been given the go-ahead after winning a total of £230,000 from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) that will create jobs, apprentices and businesses across the region.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council has received £98,000 of the sum to establish the Norfolk and Suffolk Offshore Wind programme. This will go towards creating a campaign to put Norfolk and Suffolk as the world-leader in offshore wind. The project itself will create 24 new business and comes just after the government announced a sector deal with the energy sector that states by 2030 30% of all UK energy will come from wind. Norfolk and Suffolk will be a huge part of this, and another 6,000 jobs and apprenticeships are expected to result from the new offshore wind development.
Norfolk County Council were also awarded £22,000 out of the pot to develop a project that will build the East of England's supply chain capacity in the offshore wind industry. This project, working alongside offshore wind giant Vattenfall and the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, will communicate contract availability to local SMEs and help them bid for the place. The project is expected to create 15 jobs, 47 learners and 40 apprenticeships, as well as increasing the opportunities for local SMEs to scale up and grow.
As discussed in our latest blog post the skills gap is currently costing the UK £1.5 billion per year and it is high time that government and local authorities do something about it. The funding awarded from the Innovative Growth Fund will help to do this, working across public, private and industry sectors. Doug Field, Chairman of the New Anglia LEP, commented 'we set out clear ambitions for the fund to help deliver the aims of the Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy and supercharge economic growth in our two counties'.
This blog post originally appeared on the NAAME website. NAAME is Hethel Innovation's Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering network.
NAAME (New Anglia Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering) aims to develop a network which will create opportunities and drive the growth of manufacturers and engineers through collaborative working, allowing New Anglia businesses to shape their own future.


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POR2CORE – ZCT: Signing ceremony of construction contract
Upgrade of the Rijeka Port infrastructure – Zagreb pier container terminal
"Reconstruction of the cargo part of the railway station Rijeka and construction of an intermodal terminal at the Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal"
The signing ceremony of construction contract on the project "Upgrade of Port infrastructure – Zagreb pier" was held on Thursday, July 4, 2019, at 4 pm in the Marble Hall of the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka. The event was attended by the Minister of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butković, Deputy County Prefect of Primorsko-goranska Marina Medaric and Deputy Mayor of the City of Rijeka Marko Filipovic
Construction contract worth 199.402.960.51 Kn (159.522.368,41 kn without VAT) was signed by investors Denis Vukorepa, director of the Port of Rijeka Authority, and Ivan Kršić, President of HŽ Infrastrukture Ltd., with selected contractor, company Ž – Železniško gradbeno podjetje Ljubljana j.s.c. represented by Tine Svoljšak.
The grant agreement for the project was signed on November 18, 2016 between the Innovation and Networking Agency, the Port of Rijeka Authority and HŽ Infrastruktura Ltd. The project was granted with 85% co-financing by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The total value of the project is 31.6 million euro, of which the maximum EU contribution amounts to 26.8 million euros.
Works on the reconstruction of the cargo part of the railway station Rijeka and the construction of the intermodal terminal at the Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal will be performed in three stages:
• Reconstruction of the cargo section of the railway station Rijeka, which includes the reconstruction and extension of 12 tracks and drainage, cable drainage and installation of telecommunication cables, power and lighting cables as well as works on the contact grid and works on the lower structure in order to improve bearing capacity and drainage (investor HŽ Infrastruktura Ltd.)
• Construction of conveyor belt connections and construction of cable sewerage in the area of reconstructed railway freight train terminals and terminals to the existing condition (investor Rijeka Port Authority).
• Construction of four 400 m long tracks on a new part of the container terminal and two tracks for portal cranes (investor Lučka uprava Rijeka).
Works will implement the project objectives by removing the bottleneck and adapting the railway infrastructure at Rijeka Railway Station and by building an intermodal terminal at the new Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal, which will enable the improvement of intermodal infrastructure of the port of Rijeka, the relocation of transport by modal shift from the road to the railway and the accomplishment of a more quality transport connection Rijeka with the Core Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
This joint project of Port of Rijeka Authority and HŽ Infrastruktura Ltd. contributes to the development of the port of Rijeka as one of the main ports in the Mediterranean Trans-European Transport Corridor by achieving a high level of efficiency in freight transport in line with contemporary European interoperability and intermodality requirements.
Executive director of the Port of Rijeka Authority Denis Vukorepa stated that the project is one of the four essential segments necessary for the entire functioning of the Zagreb Deep Sea Container terminal along with its construction, the upcoming construction of the D403 road and the concession granting of terminal (procedures are in progress). "All of these four segments will be completed in two to three years, and the port of Rijeka in 2022 will become the port with the largest container capacity in the northern Adriatic," Vukorepa said.
"This project will stimulate the development of the competitiveness of the port of Rijeka," said CEO of HŽ Infrastruktura d.o.o. Ivan Kršić, stressing that documentation for the construction of the bridge Škrljevo – Rijeka – Jurdani is under construction. Deputy Mayor Marko Filipovic welcomed with his speech, expressing hope that in the next seven-year financial period of the European Union Rijeka will be a place to invest in major development projects, while Minister Oleg Butković noted that the efforts of the Port of Rijeka Authority and the HŽ infrastructure have shown that good co-operation and coordination and funding from EU funds can successfully implement large projects.
Tine Svoljšak, director of the company SŽ – Železniško gradbeno podjetje Ljubljana d.d. emphasized that the signing of the construction contract on the project "Upgrade of Rijeka Port infrastructure – Zagreb pier container terminal" represents an important milestone in business and business development for the company SŽ – Železniško gradbeno podetje Ljubljana j.s.c. This is not the first project the company undertakes in the Republic of Croatia, but it is certainly the largest and the most important.
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Join us to honor our distinguished award recipients!
Come and celebrate with us to honor our distinguished award recipients at the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting Awards Ceremony. Awards include the Innovation in Materials Characterization, Mid-Career Researcher, MRS Impact, Outstanding Young Investigator, MRS Postdoctoral, Graduate Student Gold and Silver, and the Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award.
Stig Helveg, Haldor Topsoe A/S
Electron Microscopy Advances in Catalysis
The Innovation in Materials Characterization Award honors an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under outside stimulus, electronic behavior, or other characterization feature, of materials. It is not limited to the method of characterization or the class of materials observed.
"for pioneering atomic-scale transmission electron microscopy under reactive gas environments, leading to groundbreaking insights in catalysis, crystal growth and corrosion."
In recent years, electron microscopy has progressed significantly for studying nanostructured catalysts at the atomic level. In particular, atomic-resolution electron microscopy of catalysts immersed in reactive gas environments has become available by advances of differentially pumped electron microscopes and closed gas cells. Hereby, electron microscopy opens up for monitoring catalysts at the atomic scale during the exposure to gases at pressures of up to atmospheric levels and temperatures of up to several hundred centigrade, and for correlating time-resolved observations with concurrent measurements of the catalytic functionality. These emerging in situ/operando electron microscopy capabilities make information about surface dynamics and reactivity accessible and establish a foundation for "live" observations of dynamic processes and functional behavior at the atomic level. In this contribution, I will outline such electron microscopy advances in catalysis research and discuss how the dynamic observations can help uncover the role of gas-surface interactions on the working catalysts.
About Stig Helveg
Stig Helveg received a PhD degree in physics from the Aarhus University in 2000. He then joined Haldor Topsoe A/S as a postdoctoral researcher to later become a staff scientist in 2003. Today he serves as a Fellow at Haldor Topsoe A/S, where he leads the company's activities on in situ electron microscopy in catalysis R&D. Helveg's research focuses on understanding dynamic processes and functions in catalysis at the atomic scale. He has contributed to developing instrumentation, methodologies and applications of transmission electron microscopy for in situ/operando studies of catalysts under relevant reaction conditions and at the atomic level. He has worked interdisciplinarily with international leading experts to integrate advances from electron microscopy, catalysis, chemical engineering, surface science and microelectromechanical system technology. Helveg is an affiliated professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and received the Berzelius Prize in 2012 and the EliteForsk Prize in 2018.
Stig Helveg discusses his MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award talk, "Electron Microscopy Advances in Catalysis."
MRS acknowledges the generosity of Professors Gwo-Ching Wang and Toh-Ming Lu for endowing this award.


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Autonomy Partners With DigiSure to Deliver First-of-Its-Kind Embedded Insurance for Car Subscriptions
SANTA MONICA, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--Autonomy™, the nation's largest electric vehicle subscription company, has entered the insurance category and has partnered with DigiSure, the only software company providing screening, insurance management, and claims, as its insurance platform partner.
The platform partnership with DigiSure provides Autonomy with the ability to digitally onboard, evaluate, and qualify a subscriber for month-to-month auto coverage that Autonomy will launch in mid-August.
"Being able to provide Autonomy subscribers with fully digital auto coverage that's month to month, without them having to buy annual insurance, and is tailored to their needs is core to delivering on our promise of providing easy and affordable access to electric vehicles," said Scott Painter, founder and CEO of Autonomy. "We need proven partners, like DigiSure, with tested capabilities that allow us to provide a simple, intuitive, and frictionless customer experience."
Autonomy's subscription model offers the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to get a Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, and soon other models and brands. Autonomy provides an easy and affordable option for those seeking an electric vehicle that does not require the long-term debt or commitment that comes with buying or leasing. Autonomy drivers have the flexibility to subscribe month to month after a three-month minimum hold period. Today, Autonomy customers can subscribe to an electric vehicle entirely in app (Google Play Store or Apple App Store) and customize their monthly payment to meet their budget.
"Autonomy is inventing a completely new way for people to enjoy EV ownership, and we believe that requires a new kind of insurance experience as well. We are excited to collaborate with Autonomy to embed auto insurance and protection products seamlessly into their offering for subscribers," said Mike Shim, CEO and co-founder of DigiSure.
ABOUT AUTONOMY
Autonomy is a technology company on a mission to make access to mobility easy and affordable through car subscriptions. The company was founded by auto retail, auto finance, and auto insurance disruptors Scott Painter and Georg Bauer, who founded Fair, the first-ever used-vehicle subscription offering, pioneering the Car-as-a-Service (CaaS) category. Building upon that experience, Autonomy has created a turnkey vehicle subscription platform for consumers and the automotive industry that enables vehicle subscriptions to scale profitably and become a mainstream alternative to traditional car buying. Autonomy is innovating through technology, finance, and insurance to power car subscriptions for the battery, electric vehicle, and zero-emissions vehicle sectors. Autonomy relies on partnerships with automakers and brick-and-mortar car dealerships to provide benefits to both consumers and the industry. Autonomy represents freedom from long-term debt, freedom from long-term commitments, and even freedom from fossil fuels. It means new choices and more control over your financial well-being. Autonomy is based in Santa Monica, California.
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DigiSure is the only Protection-as-a-Service company that provides a complete solution, from screening to insurance management and claims handling for mobility and sharing platforms. Founded in 2018 by engineers, insurance experts, and mobility veterans, DigiSure acts as your own data-driven insurance team. DigiSure empowers partners, large and small, to get the most from their insurance programs, to grow revenue, reduce cost, and provide a better experience for their customers. For more information, visit www.digisure.ai.
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NY advisory group considers forest role in fighting climate change
Hemlock trees on Lake George. Photo by Gwendolyn Craig
By Gwendolyn Craig
An advisory panel to New York's Climate Action Council is considering how forests, forestry and harvested wood products could play a role in meeting the state's climate goals. A broad discussion on Monday could be the jumping off point to significant policy recommendations affecting the Adirondack Park.
The effort stems from the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, legislation passed in 2019 that requires the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and 85% by 2050. To achieve these milestones, the Climate Action Council is charged with developing a planning document filled with strategies.
But with a number of industries and sectors involved in this work, the council has several advisory groups focused on specific topics. One is the Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel, chaired by Richard Ball, commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Markets.
The panel zeroed in on forests during a virtual meeting on Monday. Ball told panelists to consider "cost, policy, incentive structures, workforce development and threats and barriers to adoption of those ideas."
Michelle Brown, a conservation scientist with the Nature Conservancy, said there are about 18.6 million acres of forest in the state, about 75% of which is privately owned. About 190,000 forest owners have at least 10 acres. New York's forests sequester about 24.5 million metric tons of carbon per year, Brown said, but that number does not consider harvesting wood products.
A discussion about renewable energy projects in the Adirondack Park, hosted by Adirondack Explorer.
Brown gave an overview of an ongoing study that she, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the University of New Hampshire and other partners are working on to project carbon storage and sequestration based on a harvested ecosystem like the Adirondacks. The study will project 50 years into the future and 140 years in to the future, accounting for changes in carbon stocks and emissions for forests and forest products. It will also account for the exchange of fossil fuel emissions.
Overall recommendations Brown suggested to the panel include protecting existing forests, increasing the productivity of forestlands and restoring and establishing new forests. Within those categories, Brown provided more detailed suggestions like:
Developing incentives and regulations to keep forests from being converted to something else;
Reducing barriers for landowners to enroll in tax relief programs;
Addressing threats to forests including deer, invasive species and improper management;
Focusing forest harvests on durable wood products, which are better at sequestering carbon for longer periods of time; and
Expanding the use of reforestation programs.
John Bartow, executive director of Empire State Forest Products Association, said many of his colleagues believe projected declines in carbon sequestration are due to aging forests, which they believe don't take as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as new trees.
Brown pointed to data from the Forest Inventory Analysis, which is a program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.
"FIA data do show that reducing biomass from where we are now will not increase the rate of sequestration," Brown said. "I think there's data out there that shows going backwards, reducing stocks on our forests, are not going to increase rates the way we think."
Ned Sullivan, president of the environmental group Scenic Hudson, asked Brown how much of a threat herbivores are to carbon storage and sequestration, as well as pests and pathogens.
Brown said since New York is a global trading hub, the state has one of the highest rates of pest infestations, which are doing significant damage to trees. She referenced the latest find of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, a bug from Asia, currently feasting on at least 250 acres of hemlocks on the eastern side of Lake George.
"On the herbivory front, deer are having a major impact on our forest," Brown added. "A full 15% of FIA (Forest Inventory Analsysis) plots had no seedlings or saplings, which is a large number. So yes, deer are a problem, and I think there's a variety of strategies we could talk about."
Peter Innes, natural resources supervisor for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, also presented proposed strategies to the advisory panel.
One of the biggest deterrents to owning and maintaining forests, Innes said, is taxes. While there are several programs focused on forestry stewardship, Innes and others on the panel said many landowners don't know about them. In addition to increasing public knowledge about what is available, Innes suggested reforming real property tax assessments statewide, increasing financing options for improved forestry and monetizing forest carbon on private and publicly owned forests.
Other points Innes suggested included:
Developing regulations and incentives to ensure no new loss of forestland;
Developing regulations and incentives to report harvests and harvested wood products;
Creating incentives for manufacturing state-grown wood products; and
Increasing tree cover in urban areas.
Tom Gerow, general manager of Wagner Lumber Co., said he understood the group needs to consider all options, but "anytime regulations are brought up, the hairs on the back of my neck go up."
Gerow also pointed out to the group that a "forester" is not a state licensed position. Members of the group talked about how it can be difficult to describe the benefits of hiring a forester to a property owner, when there's no consistency and no state program.
The group also discussed doing more with wood waste like chips, sawdust and bark. Gerow said chips and pulpwood are used to heat facilities. The DEC, State Police and Adirondack Park Agency, for example, heat some of their offices in Ray Brook with wood pellets.
"All of those are displacing the use of fossil fuels," Gerow said.
Innes said using wood product waste will be an important aspect to consider.
"It has multiple benefits because you have to utilize it to have a viable forest economy, but it also supplements, mitigates the fossil fuel aspect."
Ball said there were "a tremendous number of ideas here." The panel is divied up further into sub-groups and will continue to discuss ideas.
To learn more about the advisory panels, view meeting minutes and presentations, go to https://climate.ny.gov/Advisory-Panel/Meetings-and-Materials.
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Nothing new here, sad to say. I've been a forest owner and active woodland manager for 50 years and a leader in forest-protection organizations until sidelined by illness, and have seen every scheme to encourage maintenance or improvement of forest land stagger or fail. The 480-a program (of which I am a member and proponent) is considered burdensome by most; certification systems are designed for commercial owners and deemed too costly by others; carbon-sink plans were buried in paperwork, with the added burden of high fees for sponsors.
I don't think the problem is insoluble, but the solution will require that everyone involved give up their short-term interests, be they money, control or political clout.


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I know her quite well as she sposored me at my Second Holy Communion at Easter 1942 in Stanley Camp, presided by Canadian Bishop.
She had missioned to Hong Kong in 1933. She did not return to Canada but instead elected to go to Canton in December 17, 1942. Sister St. Stanislas passed away in Canton on September 3,1945, a victim of T.B.
Clipping from The Montreal Gazette - Dec 1, 1945:
Local Missionary Nun's Death in Canton Told
Rev. Sister St. Stanislaus of Kostka, nee Germaine Gonthier, of Montreal, died on September 3 at Canton, China, according to word received here.
The missionary nun entered the Society of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception on September 8. 1914. In 1933, she was sent to the Chinese mission of Hong Kong. She survived the hectic days which followed the capture of the city by the Japanese in 1941 and experienced military internment in Stanley Camp from January 20 to December 17, 1942. Liberated with three of her companions, she was transferred to the mission at Canton, where she worked until her death.
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The implementation of geographic districts for Illinois prep football teams is one step from becoming part of the Illinois High School Association's constitution and by-laws.
The IHSA's 818 member schools will have a two-week window starting Monday to vote on the proposal. The IHSA's eight-person football advisory committee supported it in May, and the 35-member legislative committee voted earlier this week to put it on the ballot for schools to decide. The final vote total will be announced on Dec. 18.
Getting a simple majority of votes cast, however, won't be easy.
Nearly 73 percent of schools participated in straw votes at 28 town hall meetings held throughout the state this month. IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson has said about 53 percent of the votes cast did not support the proposal.
However, that also means 27 percent of schools either cast a "no opinion" vote at the town hall meetings or didn't cast a vote at all. Do the math, and approximately 200 votes are waiting to be swung.
A similar district football proposal was on the ballot in 2014, and it failed by a vote of 395-212. The recent town hall meetings show that support for district football has grown.
Rushville-Industry principal Brad Gooding is a member of the legislative committee, representing Hancock, Brown and Adams counties. He says if the proposal passes, "it's going to be by the narrowest of margins."
Asked what the feeling in the room was like when the advisory committee met on Wednesday, Gooding said, "Different parts of the state were highly in favor of it, and other parts were like, no, we need to stay where we're at.
"The first time we met (about ballot proposals) on Nov. 5, just based on our first vote, there was overwhelming support to put it on the ballot. Then we came back (Wednesday), and we had all been to the town hall meetings, and the gap narrowed to some degree."
After talking with people around the state who have followed this issue, this much is clear. The concept of district football is not popular in Chicago, but it has much more support downstate and among smaller schools.
Scheduling problems caused by unbridled conference swapping is at the root of why schools would support district play. Teams have swapped conferences to either join a league where it would be easier to earn five victories to become playoff eligible, or they've joined to large conferences to make sure their nine-game schedules are filled every fall.
Quincy Notre Dame, West Hancock and Macomb can't find a spot in any of those conferences, so they are forced to travel all over the state (or to other states) to find games. QND Athletic Director Bill Connell says it's a problem he's dealt with for more than 20 years.
"As an old coach, if you run the same play three times and you've lost 12 yards, hopefully the fourth time you run it, you try to do something different," he said. "If what you do doesn't work, you have to change it at some point, and I'm telling you, it's not working for the state. So change it to something different.
"I don't hear people in Missouri (where district play is used) complaining they can't find football games. It's gotta be better than what we're doing."
The number of schools facing scheduling problems is growing. However, many schools appear to be content with their conferences. As an example, Chicago-area experts say members of the 15-team Chicago Catholic League and the 10-team East Suburban Catholic Conference aren't likely to vote for district football. They're content with the schedules they've created against each other.
And in a projected Class 8A district created by Steve Soucie, sports editor of the Joliet Herald-News, Catholic powerhouses like St. Rita and Mount Carmel were lumped into an eight-team district with six Public League teams, creating multiple blowout games that would see implementation of a running clock.
The loss of conference play is a concern for Scott Douglas, athletic director at Quincy High School. The Western Big Six is celebrating its 50th year, and the league is adding Sterling and Geneseo for the 2019-2020 season.
"I'm really torn," Douglas said. "I totally get it. (District play) makes sense to me in a lot of ways, especially for those teams that are struggling outside of a conference. That's a big deal. But on the flip side, I love conference play. (District play) will be really bad for conference play or even destroy it.
"It's still a discussion topic for us. We don't talk about it every day, but we talk about it often. Honestly, I don't know where we stand."
The proposal doesn't answer all of the questions schools have.
"Right now, there's a lot of unknowns, and that's what scares people," Gooding said.
The IHSA opted not to create sample districts as part of the discussion process, figuring that an sample produced in 2018 would not reflect potential co-ops that are created before 2021. More and more schools are considering 8-man football, which also would affect the number of teams playing 11-man football. However, sample districts might have helped schools better understand the proposal.
District play based on geography would have little effect on, or possibly improve, travel for many teams. However, in the only "downstate" Class 7A district projected by Soucie, Moline and Quincy would be paired with four teams in the St. Louis area. That wouldn't bother Quincy, but it's not likely Moline will be in favor of losing games with Rock Island, Galesburg, Alleman and East Moline to travel nearly four hours south.
Some schools are concerned that the two non-district games will become little more than meaningless scrimmages because they don't count toward playoff qualification. Other schools like the non-district games because it will allow them to play rivalry games against other schools in other classes.
Any reason that makes the proposal enticing to one school can also be why another school will vote no.
Maybe the proposal needs a little tinkering.
District play allows for only 64 schools (or a few more in some instances) in each class, so reducing the number of classes might help provide more schools available to schedule. Schools that don't like the two non-district games might like 10-team districts better. Schools that want to maintain conferences might like four-team districts.
District football appears to be coming closer to reality in Illinois, and that would be a good thing.
But maybe it will take another year of discussion to get most of the state to agree.


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Paul Wyman Blount, 62, of Jackson, passed away Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at the Thomasville Nursing Home. He was born September 4, 1956 to Henry Lloyd Blount and Catherine Miles Blount, both of whom preceded him in death. An employee at The Arc of Clarke County for 42 years, he was passionate about the care of his clients. A family-oriented man, he adored his nieces, great nieces and nephews. He enjoyed visiting historical sites, especially battlefields and was an automobile enthusiast.
He is survived by his sister, Janet (Terry) Poole; nieces, Catherine (Jeremy) Overstreet, Lauren (Lance) Mayhair, Mallory Poole; great nieces and nephews, Aiden Overstreet, Adyson Overstreet, Sarah Kate Overstreet, Brantley Mayhair; numerous cousins, other relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Monday, January 21, 2019 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Jackson with the Rev. David B. Powell officiating. Visitation will begin a half hour prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the The Arc of Clarke County in his memory would be appreciated.
Sending prayers, and wishing comfort and peace for Jan, family and friends on this day of remembering Paul.
Sorry about your loss know Paul is catching David up n the ARC.
God bless this family & Prayers for the family during this difficult time !
We did well to call our Paul, friend. He did well by us to be our friend. Friend and companion, closer than a brother. God bless his passing. God bless our having known him.
Sending prayers of comfort to the family and friends of Paul. He was a loyal and devoted employee of The Arc of Clarke County for 42 years, he will be missed.
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Hugo Blogging: Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Posted on April 17, 2018 by Andrew Hickey
This year I am again going to try to blog about the finalists for the Hugo Awards. I might not cover all of them (I haven't in previous years) and in particular I might not be able to cover the novelists decently — I normally rely on the Hugo Packet, and this year almost all of the finalists in that category are with Orbit Books, who don't normally allow their books to be included in full. I'll read the excerpts they provide, but I may well not manage to read the full books if I have to buy copies and the excerpts are unappealing.
But oddly this year I have experienced all of the Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form candidates — most of them even before the nomination list came out. I have *opinions* about all of them, and as always I will rank them below in the same order in which I'm ranking them on my ballot…
To start with, we have the two episodes of The Good Place, which is my favourite TV series of recent years, and which may well be a candidate for the best TV series ever:
The Good Place: Michael's Gambit
It's very difficult for me to talk about this episode without SPOILERS… and even the fact that there *is* a spoiler is, in some senses, a spoiler, so my apologies for that. I'll try to keep it as vague as possible, but I apologise in advance if you've still not seen all of season one of The Good Place and this acts as a spoiler for you. If it helps, it's still *definitely* worth watching even when you know what's happening.
But that said, the twist here is so good that there's actually a viral video of the cast members discovering what the twist is and their expressions of shock. So, you know, it's a good one.
Both of the two episodes of The Good Place included on the ballot are the two episodes I would choose as the standout episodes of the series as a whole. I'm planning on writing a *lot* more about this series soon, but "Michael's Gambit", the season one finale, is one of the best episodes of television ever made (although it relies a lot for its impact on having seen the rest of season one — *SERIOUSLY*, voters, *WATCH THE WHOLE SEASON BEFORE WATCHING THIS ONE*. It's about six hours of TV, but otherwise this will episode will MASSIVELY spoiler everything before, as it's a pivotal episode which turns the whole premise of the series on its head.
But with that proviso… this is the most astonishing piece of television I've seen in years, perhaps even in decades. It's so good that I seriously considered nomination *one twenty-second snippet* of it for the award. The scene where Michael smiles (those of you who have seen the episode know the scene I mean, and the smile I mean) is so good that that scene — that shot — deserves an award in itself.
(I've said that before, and people who haven't watched the episode thought I must be exaggerating. And then several of them have independently told me that after watching it they had to rewind and rewatch that shot seven or eight times in a row. I'm not exaggerating).
The Good Place has continually pulled a rug out from under itself and destroyed its own premise, and it took something that could easily have been the premise for multiple seasons of TV and threw it away completely after a handful of episodes, but up until this point there was still the possibility that there was going to be some kind of reset button, and there was also the possibility that the series makers had not rigorously examined their premises.
Instead, it *did* hit a reset button — not the only reset button to be hit in the latter part of season one, some of them actually literal reset buttons — but in doing so it showed us that the programme we thought we'd been watching all along wasn't the programme it actually was. It's brilliant, diabolical, and it instantly turned The Good Place from an interesting, mildly amusing, way to pass the time into a masterpiece which stands with the best things the television medium has ever done.
I cannot say enough good things about this episode, or about The Good Place as a whole.
The Good Place: The Trolley Problem
In any series which *hadn't* produced "Michael's Gambit", this would have been the best episode of the year if not the decade. It's The Good Place at its most Good Place — making the most both of the show's SFnal conceit and of the fact that one of the things the show exists to do is to explain and discuss philosophy at great length.
In this case, the whole episode is largely devoted to a discussion of the trolley problem, and to actually acting out the emotional drama of the philosophical concept. I've talked in the past about how much TV has fallen over the decades — how in the 60s the BBC could commission Jonathan Miller to produce an adaptation of Plato's Symposium, as a TV drama to be shown in the evening to a casual audience. This is essentially the same kind of thing — this is a philosophy lecture given dramatic form, and even with the names of philosophers and books to check out given so that viewers can do further reading. Yet it's also ridiculously funny, advances the series plot, and manages to be one of the most entertaining things I've seen.
I've seen people criticise The Good Place as being only "philosophy 101", and it is — but at the same time, it's not an exaggeration to say it *is* philosophy 101, in that it actually does cover the topics you might expect from a university-level but undergraduate philosophy course. It's a series that's had plot points depend on the characters' shared understanding of the works of Kant and which is willing to have characters discuss, however superficially, the resemblance between David Hume's ideas and Buddhism.
It's a flawed series — the humour is of a particular US sitcom type which not everyone will find particularly funny, and to my mind it works better as a drama (and in particular as a textbook on how to do cliffhangers) than as a sitcom. But compare this to literally anything else on the list and you'll see instantly why I get so disappointed with the majority of modern TV. When it's possible to do *this*, why settle for *that*?
This episode manages to do real character development, to have the humour come out of the characters, and yet also to have a strong plot and most important of all to deal with ideas. Most TV programmes do everything they can to avoid dealing with ideas, and those that occasionally have to, such as modern Doctor Who, try to play it down and say "this is all so confusing and only for nerds, am I right?"
While Eleanor sometimes says things like that, the fact is that this series is on the side of Chidi more than anyone else. It says that ideas *matter*, that they *change people*, that actually thinking about both abstract ideas and one's own actions is an unambiguously good thing. And this episode epitomises that more than any other. You'll never find a funnier lecture on consequentialism.
Star Trek: Discovery: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,"
Discovery is a series that I think has been doing a lot of interesting things, but which I don't think was necessarily doing them intentionally. There are whole plot strands that appear to have been created by Bryan Fuller when he was showrunner, and which appear to have been kept in after Fuller's abrupt departure, but by people who don't fully understand what it was he was doing with them. It's a show in tension with itself, which doesn't appear to know what its own strengths and weaknesses are, and it will be very interesting to see what happens in season two when Fuller's initial plot arc is over and the current team have the ability to create something with a unified creative voice. I suspect it will be much less interesting, but probably more coherent.
In the first series, though, "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" is the closest thing to a non-arc episode, and so probably the one that makes most sense to include in the Hugo nominations. It's the episode which, as an individual episode, sticks most in my mind, as it's the closest thing to an old-style Star Trek one and done — the Discovery is trapped in a Groundhog Day style time loop by Harry Mudd, and the characters have to break out of it despite having no memory after each reset.
(I might place this higher had The Good Place not also done an episode with that theme last year — the season two premiere — and also done it much, much better).
The Deep by Clipping
This is more or less an arbitrary placement, as I simply don't have the aesthetic ability to judge this. "The Deep" is a hip-hop track, which can be found online easily enough, and I know less than nothing about hip-hop as a form. It's not to my taste, and I don't understand it at all. I don't have the tools to tell what counts as good or bad in that genre, and my judgment of its musical merits would be made from a place of complete ignorance. I'm not competent to judge what it's doing, so I'm just sticking it in the middle — it wouldn't be fair to leave it off the ballot because of a fault in me, but nor would it be fair to place it particularly high when it could be crap for all I know.
I was quite tempted to give it a higher place just for the concept, though — it's taking Lovecraftian horror and making the implicit racism even more explicit, linking the origins of the creatures coming from the depths to the slave ships and the founding horrors of American society — the Lovecraftian horrors here are the children of pregnant African women thrown overboard. I can appreciate that, even if not the music — and as with The Good Place, but so rarely in the Dramatic Presentation categories, this is something that's actually dealing with an idea, and an important one, rather than just going for whizzbang action.
But fundamentally, it's not something I like, but that dislike isn't the fault of the music. So, right in the middle it goes.
Black Mirror: "USS Callister,"
I'm not a massive fan of Black Mirror, even though I admire it quite a bit — there's a bit much of the "what if phones, but bad?" as Daniel Ortberg so memorably put it, and it's also, in general, just a bit grim. I tend to like pitch-black comedy — I loved Four Lions, for example — but Black Mirror is just that little bit too cynical for me to love, even though I can fully see that it's very good.
This episode, in particular, I thought was not even particularly good by its own lights, though it's certainly not *bad* — it just repeatedly pulled its punches. The work environment, which was meant to be somewhat creepy, unpleasant and soulless, was in fact much, much more pleasant than many tech jobs, to the point where I half found myself thinking "I wonder if they're hiring?" — having a digital clone of oneself forced to play-act at Star Trek at the whim of a mad CTO is still, frankly, less toxic than several workplaces I've had in the past, and considering it's a games company (notoriously the worst places to work even by the dreadful standards of the tech industry) it seems frankly amazing. People being given time to do the work that's necessary! Release dates being put off in order to have a bug-free release! Where is this utopia?
And the relaxed, fun, atmosphere of the place is reflected in the diversity of the people working there. I saw more women in technical roles in this hour-long episode of a TV show than in the five years I worked at a large multinational tech company whose name you definitely know. A workplace where only *one* person in management is creepily inappropriate with the female staff? Oh Charlie Brooker you sweet summer child.
Callister, if you're hiring, I'll ping you my CV.
There's another decision made that seems to pull punches, for what I think is a rather better reason. The kidnapped digital slaves being put under the control of an angry god-programmer are very explicitly *not* being sexually violated by him. This is, frankly, a *good* decision to make, given the dominance of rape as a theme in genre fiction generally, but it's… it's doing something strange with asexuality and stereotypes of nerds that I'm not entirely sure I like, even though I definitely appreciate the motivation. (I still would *definitely* not recommend that anyone who has experienced gaslighting or emotional abuse ever watch this episode though).
It also gets the science wrong, but then again, what SF show doesn't?
But on a deeper level, I have a serious problem with this as a piece of television. Well, two problems. The first is the style of storytelling. The episode itself is seventy-six minutes long. There is no more story in it than in the forty-five minute Discovery episode, and frankly less than in either of the two twenty-five minute episodes of The Good Place on the ballot. Now that's not to say that story density is everything, but Black Mirror in general goes for a soporific pace which is televisual shorthand for "this is all very serious now", but which frankly makes it dull. You could easily trim twenty-five minutes from this without losing anything at all.
The other thing is that… well, the plot line itself is so Star Trek in its essence (people trapped in a world run by a malevolent idiot god is about the only idea Gene Roddenberry ever actually had) that one could have easily spent some of that twenty-five minutes parallelling the story the characters are in with the Star Trek-esque TV series their virtual reality is based on. Instead, the events that are shown in their Space Force world are… well, not really very Star Trek-esque, to be honest. There are all sorts of things you can do with the idea of "Star Trek fan traps people in a Star Trek world, and behaves like a Star Trek villain", but the episode doesn't seem to be as interested with playing with the idea as with just sort of laying the idea in front of you and saying "look! An idea!"
This episode could, with a bit more work at the scripting stage, have been really, *really* good. From the same basic premise, and in the same running time, you could produce something that was a devastating critique of toxic nostalgia, of tech culture, of the assumptions of Star Trek… something that paralleled the multiple narrative strands, something that dealt with questions of identity and humanity… but as it is, this is basically Redshirts remade as a Tharg's Future Shock, and then stretched out to an hour and a quarter by someone who read a Philip K Dick book once and has seen The Matrix.
The sad thing is, that still makes it merit a place on the Hugo shortlist. We're so starved of televisual and cinematic SF that deals with ideas *at all* that even a style-over-substance piece like this, which takes an overused idea and doesn't even begin to explore its potential, has a reasonable enough claim to be one of the six best pieces of dramatised SF of the year, so this still places above No Award.
No Award
Doctor Who: Twice Upon A Time
I've made no secret of the fact that I dislike much of the Doctor Who that's been broadcast over the last thirteen years — I find much of it ethically reprehensible and aesthetically dodgy, and I think it has few of the things I love about the series as broadcast from 1963 through 1989. That said, Steven Moffat has on occasion actually produced good work — both the original TV version of Day of the Doctor and the more recent novelisation are Quite Good, Actually — and I'd hoped that given the brief of not only leaving the show himself but also writing Peter Capaldi's last story as the Doctor (and Capaldi has been horribly served by his scripts — there's a great performance in there struggling to get out from under the drivel he's been performing, and the same could also be said for his predecessor in the role), *and* writing a story which would, in its last moments, introduce the first female incarnation of the Doctor, we might get something worth watching.
Sadly, what we got instead was a repetition of something Moffat has done all too often — an attempt to overwrite the Hartnell era of the programme, and get Moffat's fingerprints all over it. An attempt that is made worse by the fact that Moffat himself clearly doesn't actually understand the Hartnell era on any real level. If you're going to try to rewrite something, you'd better understand what it was doing in the first place before you try to improve it, and Moffat doesn't.
Frankly, this story is a total mess, and its only appeal is to people like myself who think that "oh, it's a clip from The Tenth Planet" or "look, the Mondasian Cybermen!" are in themselves selling points. To people who *haven't* watched a fifty-two-year-old black and white serial whose last episode is missing from the archives, these are not selling points at all.
Unfortunately, for people who *have* watched that story, and who understood it, and who watched other stories containing William Hartnell's Doctor and understood them, there is nothing to appeal in this story either, because it shows that Steven Moffat doesn't understand who Hartnell's Doctor was, and wants to make his ignorance known to all of us. It's a story that's *about* nothing other than Doctor Who, but it doesn't even understand what Doctor Who is. And the use of the 1914 Christmas truce to make a point about Doctor Who is simultaneously something close to sacrilege and also just crushingly banal.
Andrew Rilstone's review of the episode describes it better than I ever could, but to me this epitomised pretty much everything I loathe in modern TV, and indeed in modern storytelling practices. I hear Paul Cornell's novelisation is much better than this, but the only good thing about this was Jodie Whitaker appearing at the end, showing the possibility of another fresh start, even if it will likely be just as awful. Such a shame about Capaldi — he's so good in the role, I just wish he'd been given a chance to show it in his last episode.
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1 Response to Hugo Blogging: Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Tilt Araiza says:
>people trapped in a world run by a malevolent idiot god is about the only idea Gene Roddenberry ever actually had
Do you know if anything like that ever cropped up in his Have Gun Will Travel episodes?
> There are all sorts of things you can do with the idea of "Star Trek fan traps people in a Star Trek world, and behaves like a Star Trek villain"
qv. that Futurama episode


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Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats and rhythms centered around drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals and synthesized basslines. While house displayed several characteristics similar to disco music, it was more electronic and minimalistic, and the structured music's focus around a repetitive rhythm was more important than the song itself. House music today, while keeping several of these core elements, notably the prominent kick drum on every beat, varies a lot in style and influence, ranging from the soulful and atmospheric deep house, to the more minimalistic microhouse. House music has also fused with several other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as Euro house and tech house.
House music, after enjoying significant underground and club-based success in Chicago from the early 1980s onwards, emerged into the UK mainstream pop market in the mid-to-late 80s. Popularity quickly followed in the rest of Europe, and it became a global phenomenon from the early-to-mid 90s onwards. It proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-basedvariation grew increasingly popular. Artists and groups such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Björk, and C+C Music Factoryincorporated the genre into their work. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of Progressive House (1999–2001). The genre still remains popular and fused into other subgenres which are popular, as the DJ mag poll has been dominated by House DJs since the beginning of the polls. In Europe, the genre remains highly popular into the 2000s, with groups and artists such as Daft Punk and Justice performing in the genre, and obtaining commercial success and critical acclaim. In the 2000s, a house subgenre known as electro house achieved popularity. Today, house music remains popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene.
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4. Be systematic on working on your muscles. Your muscles should be working harder over time. Repeating the same sets of exercises and same weight without getting your muscles to work harder will not give satisfactory results. You can record your daily results and make the progression based on your previous data. A daily log will also motivate you since you are able to track how far you have gone. It builds confidence since there is a written proof something that was successfully accomplished.
5. Perform a set of exercises in 10 repetitions. Every number that was accomplished is called a repetition. Try to make every repetition with less momentum as much as possible. The lesser the momentum, the harder your muscles work. And the harder they work, the bigger they become. To check if there is much momentum when lifting, see if the arm is floating. If the arm does float, then there is much momentum.
6. Be flexible and perform a variety of exercises. Every exercise program should have a variety. You can change your exercises, goals and sets every month to keep you motivated and on the go. Doing this will help you prevent being bored and losing energy physically and mentally.
7. Be Motivated! The best way to keep the energy levels of trainees is to allow a healthy competition and allow them to have a sense of control. Having control is having the sense ownership where everybody gets a part in implementing a program. To do this you also need to be consistent in demonstrating your skills.
Not all programs work for all types of people. There is no workout that is best for everyone. But you learn from experienced people. Learn to acknowledge blocks and demonstrate self-discipline, keep yourself motivated and work harder everyday and add variety. Doing these things, you will discover that a lot of programs will work for you.


Massa: visit the south of Agadir (not quite in the Sahara) Massa, the Dunes of Resmouka lunch in Massa walk along the Massa river that flows into the Atlantic stop at the beach of Sidi R 'bat . This is not an easy place to reach as the terrain is sandier and requires a 4×4.
The Atlas Mountains to see spectacular views; Tafraout to visit full of beautiful house in the rock, besides of the come the name of Tafraout it is at the beginning a fortified attic.
Essaouirra (aka Mogador) Ancient picturesque fishing port worth a visit see "goats" on the way visit the production plant Argan oil see the Atlantic and the surrounding islands from the ramparts includes the visit of the medina to see artisans making aromatic Thuja wood products. A nice place with a lot of character and very relaxing.
Very easy to do yourself by getting a car rental agency in Essaouira or from the airport of Agadir.


I'm new to the forums and wanted to start a discussion regarding a topology that I have in mind for a new office. Planning on having a single MX250 for the firewall/L3 and stack of MS250 switches underneath. I an planning to bring in 2 ISP's that will provide an RJ45 handoff. That will terminate at an arbitrary port on one of the MS250 switches. My idea was to set a vlan (let's say 1000) on that port and make sure its an access port. Patch that port into the MX250 WAN1 port, from what I can tell, Im allowed to tag a wan port. Repeat the same with ISP2 (vlan 1001) and WAN2 port.
At this point, I should be able to communicate to the cloud, either by statically configuring an IP or getting via dhcp.
When I configure a port on the MX for the local LAN, on a completely different port with a completely different vlan, do I need top make sure that port is able to carry vlans 1000//1001 or does the Meraki somehow automagically mask that requirement and builds a routing table that will provide connectivity?
Another reason to terminate at the core is flexibility in my opinion and please feel free to poke holes in this as much as you please....If we ever have to swap out the firewall and go to a completely different vendor (long shot), we'd be able to set up the devices along side production and failover somewhat seamlessly. Possibly down the line, if this tiny branch office network expands, I could potentially enable L3 and involve my core in some routing decisions (again, long shot).
My last question for you If I may, is regarding the routing table and the default route. At this point, I should have 2 direct routes, both default, from each of the ISP's and another direct route from the LAN interface(granted there is only a single flat VLAN for local) In order to be able to manipulate traffic, I believe I would modify the Primary WAN option within the MX interface to change the metric for which route traffic would be going out of. Do I need to setup any static routes? How do I specify the default route config or is that automatic and handled by the MX?
Is this an MPLS WAN or DIA ISP connection? if DIA connection why don't you just plug the ISP's RJ45 handoffs directly into the WAN 1 and WAN 2 ports of the MX250? Assuming you're getting a single handoff for each ISP.
Does anyone see any issues with the above design/statements?
There isn't an issue with that, but a few things to be aware of. I typically turn off RSTP just so I'm not putting this onto the ISP network - but be careful you're not making any loops.
On top of that, if you set port 48 as access into VLAN 1000 which has your ISP link into it, you can just make port 47 access on VLAN 1000, and plug that into the MX on WAN 1 without having to tag a VLAN on the MX.
As WANKiller said, if you only have one MX250 you don't really need to do this, and you can plug the ISP link directly into WAN1. People usually go with this design when they need to split that one RJ45 handoff into 2 different edge MX250's for warm spare.
You don't want to do this. Keep the WAN & LAN side separate. When you configure a trunk link between the MX LAN and your downstream switch you'll want to only allow certain VLAN's on that trunk - basically all VLAN's except 1000 & 1001. On the MS port when you set the link type to trunk, just specify the specific VLANs and list all the VLANs between the MX and MS (and again don't include 1000 or 1001 in that list).
Cable 2: MX WAN 1 interface into Port 47 on MS250 - MX default configuration, MS250 port 47 configured access VLAN 1000 disabled RSTP.
Cable 3: MX LAN 1 interface into Port 1 on MS250 - trunk on both sides, allowed VLANS: 1,5,10,15 (or whatever VLANs you've created on the MX - don't include 1000 or 1001).
@Vlad that will work fine. Personally I would make the ports towards the MX250 access ports in the correct VLAN. Then you wont have to configure anything on the local status page of the MX250's. The MS250's will work "out of the box". If you need to use tagging towards the ISP I would make only that port a trunk port with only that VLAN allowed.
These are both DIA links. The immediate issue that I would run into with the MX250 is that the WAN interfaces are SFP+. Both of the ISPs are giving me RJ45 handoffs because we are taking the poor man's approach to getting out to the web and will be ordering two cheap "business grade" providers. I am taking precautions and will be getting SFP to copper modules just in case, but the plan is to definitely be weary of the costs involved. Eventually, the plan is to get a redundant MX as a warm spare in which case, we'll have go with the vlan-off-the-WAN approach or introduce a "dirty" switch.
One of the reasons the idea of terminating at the "core" stuck with me is because eventually (hopefully), i'll be deploying a second MX250 as a warm spare and I wanted to build a foundation/standards for the way we'll be doing WAN links.
Yeah it's a very common approach, good to put some forethought into it now. Also yes, totally forgot the MX250 has SFP+ WANs so you'll need to convert the media.
At this point, I should have 2 direct routes, both default, from each of the ISP's and another direct route from the LAN interface(granted there is only a single flat VLAN for local) In order to be able to manipulate traffic, I believe I would modify the Primary WAN option within the MX interface to change the metric for which route traffic would be going out of. Do I need to setup any static routes? How do I specify the default route config or is that automatic and handled by the MX?
Not sure I entirely follow, but let me just over answer it and hope I cover your questions.
The core switch if it's L2 will just use the trunk up to the MX where the MX will hold the gateway for all the VLANs you've created. If the core switch is L3 you'd probably have one transit VLAN between the MX and the Core and you'd put a 0.0.0.0/0 route on the core up to the other end (MX) of the transit VLAN, so that all traffic goes back to the MX. You'd have no routes configured on the MS250 if you're running it in L2 mode, and only one configured if you ran it in L3 mode (route to the MX).
The MX then would have it's two WAN links which come through the MS250. The MX will NAT the traffic for any private addresses into the two public addresses from each ISP by default. The MX by default is going to not load balance those links, but make WAN1 it's primary. Within Security Appliance > Traffic Shaping in dashboard you're able to turn on load balancing if you want the MX to utilize both internet links, you can make WAN 2 primary, or you could even define certain local VLANs take different internet links based on source or destination. But no default route configuration on the MX is required, by default it will send any traffic it doesn't know about out the WAN interfaces.


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Q: Read MIPS String if String Contains an Integer I'm trying to create an assembly-language program (in MIPS) that reads user-input values that are separated with newlines. I want to read a string that has an integer in it (for example, "A4" ,but instead, MIPS reads the string as "A" and the integer as "4". How do I make MIPS read the string as "A4" with syscall? Here's the bit of my code that I have so far, which is supposed to read a String on one line, and an integer on the next line.
buffer: .space 2
.text
.globl main
main:
li $v0, 8
la $a0, buffer
li $a1, 2
syscall
move $s0, $a0

li $v0, 5
syscall
move $s1, $v0

A: System call 8 reads at most $a1-1 characters, because it always NUL-terminates the string. So by setting $a1 to 2 and then inputting "A4" you will get the string "A\0" in buffer. If you want to be able to read 2 characters plus the NUL-terminator, set $a1 to 3 instead.

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What is flakka?
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - A designer street drug called flakka, which looks like crystals, is similar to so-called bath salts and can cause psychotic behavior.
Police in Florida say that, one minute, Austin Harrouff, a 19-year-old Florida State University student, was having dinner with his family at a restaurant. Suddenly, he became agitated and stormed off. Forty-five minutes later, Harrouff stabbed a couple to death at their home, police said. He had never met them. When police arrived, they found Harrouff biting one victim's face. Cops had to pull the teenager off the victim. Authorities said Harrouff was "exhibiting abnormal levels of strength.
That is a side effect of the designer street drug called flakka.
Dr. Robert Glatter is an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital. He said the drug can cause psychotic behavior and hallucinations.
In April, a Florida man got impaled on a 9-foot fence after trying to climb it. Another man was caught on video trying to break into the Fort Lauderdale police station.
Dr. Glatter said flakka can make the user feel superman. He said a user can smoke or inject it and that it is very addictive. Sometimes it takes months of rehab to get clean.


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I was the only child born to a wonderful and loving mother and father. Growing up, I didn't have any sisters to steal skirts from or any brothers to pass along their hand-me-downs. For a long time, my only style inspiration came from the people who dressed me when I was too young to do it myself: my parents. I was not immune to the sticky fingers that young children get for their siblings' wardrobes, but without any sisters or brothers to swipe from, I was left to peruse my parents' closets.
Whether I'd like to admit it or not, it goes without saying that much of my style is modeled after my mother. My mom's closet is chock full of treasures. She loves shopping our local, trendy thrift stores and she's always on the hunt for the next hidden gem. Growing up, I always admired her collection of vintage sweaters. She had fabulous retro pullovers dotted with funky shapes and fuzzy cardigans with big fun buttons that I was forever stealing from her wardrobe. Thanks to her influence and much of her own generosity, I have now begun my own collection of fabulous vintage sweaters, perfect for throwing over a statement tee.
I also credit my mother for my love of shoes. She has a crazy footwear collection, and as I grew into my own, I was lucky enough to land at her exact size seven. Naturally, this resulted in lots of shoe swapping. My mom even thrifts shoes, which prompts plenty of people to turn up their noses, but she always snags the coolest pairs. I follow in her footsteps quite literally as I build on my collection with all sorts of strappy sandals, slip-on sneakers, and pointy-toed pumps.
My dad's closet, however, was the spot for comfy clothes. I've snagged all of my favorite oversize sweatshirts from him over the year. He has cozy quarter zips for when I attempt to put together a sporty-chic ensemble, and he has the coolest vintage green and gold Packers sweatshirts from old Super Bowls that I can dress down for at-home wear or style for a retro, everyday 'fit.
I find myself imitating both of my parents when I throw on my go-to look: an oversize button-down with jeans. Both my dad and my mom incorporate button-downs into their wardrobes, and their influence on my style is evident just by peering into my closet and seeing what I wear on a daily basis. I would happily throw on a thrifted flannel any day of the week, I pull my denim shirt over a sweatshirt when I want that comfy casual look, and I can even accessorize a casual plaid shirt with hoop earrings and a pair of heels to wear on a night out.
Although my parents definitely dress how parents are often expected to dress—my mother struts her stuff in the quintessential mom jeans and my dad is always rocking the most ridiculous sneakers—I still owe much of my own style to their funky retro wardrobes. As an only child, it's safe to say that I'm very thankful to have had two totally trendy parents to serve as my style inspo. Here's to many more years of shopping and swapping with my favorite dynamic duo.
Who has had the biggest influence on your personal style? Let us know in the comments below!
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Such a sweet story! I can totally relate to this. I'm constantly wearing things that remind me of my parents and make me think wow, I am definitely my mother's daughter. Loved this!


The soul is bubbling over with joy and gratitude, and the mouth cannot help but give vent to the spiritual feelings of holy ecstasy welling from the depths of the soul.
"I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together" (vv. 1-3).


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Home Missed the Mark?
Alyssa Graham: Precisely what you're missing
TOPICS:Alyssa GrahamARCurrent.comArticles by Mark LewisConcertHotel UtahiTunesMark LewisSan Francisco
Alyssa Graham and her band perform in front of a packed Hotel Utah on March 17.
By Mark Lewis April 8, 2012
Alyssa Graham hit San Francisco's Hotel Utah on March 17 to perform for an intimate crowd of 50 people lucky enough to be granted the privilege of listening to one of music's best unknown artists.
In 2008, powerhouse online music retailer iTunes named Graham, a soulful singer-songwriter, as their "New and Noteworthy" artist additionally listing her 2008 debut album "Echo" as one of their "Top 10 Vocal Albums of the Year."
Graham captivated the small crowd (which included the legendary Tracy Chapman) in the city by the bay with a 12 song set lasting close to 90 minutes.
Sonically, Graham is a purist, who was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her multi-octave voice is unique in today's crowded music scene.
Graham was accompanied by her band that included the "love of her life", husband and lead guitarist Doug Graham, guitarist Chris Bruce, acoustic bassist Meshell Negeocello, pianist Keefus Ciancia and drummer Michael Jerome.
The Hotel Utah is unique in that it serves as both a concert venue and thriving local bar.
Despite the raucous St. Patrick's Day bar crowd, Graham managed to mesmerize the paying audience at the small site with a set chock full of love songs.
The purity of Graham's voice rang most clearly during "I Know" off of her latest album "Lock, Stock and Soul." If you love Norah Jones – get to know Alyssa on a first name basis because if the music industry has any kind of a justice system – her career would continue on its current upward trajectory.
Graham treated the audience to a trio of previously unreleased songs including the stand-out "Cathedral Plains." The new track featured a Neil Young/Willie Nelson tempo during which Graham expertly sang an enchanting melody while allowing her husband to deliver the guitar riffs that made the track both mellow and complex.
During another brand new song entitled "River Man," Graham's band filled the venue with a grandiose country jam that eventually led into a repetitious chorus of "Oh, River Man" sung in tandem by Alyssa and Doug.
Without question, the cute and quirky interplay between the Grahams was sweetly noticeable and unforgettable.
Not since Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova took independent cinema by storm in 2008's "Once" have I seen the remnants of pure, unbroken love displayed unadultered before an audience be it screen or live.
Graham's best showcase of her vocals occurred when she performed the title track off of her latest album "Lock, Stock and Soul." With a guitar strung around her neck, Graham allowed her pipes to infiltrate the Hotel Utah as she sang the entire song with eyes closed and hands clutched around the microphone.
While it was a charismatic performance you likely missed – don't despair because Graham is one of those musical entities that will outlast many of her contemporaries just like Whitney did for her generation.
Alyssa Graham
Stand-out songs: "He's a Lover," "I Know," "Ain't My Type of Boy" and "Round and Round."
My final verdict: Loved it? Loathed it? Missed the Mark? – Loved it!
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There are growing concerns that the UK's e-commerce sector may be disrupted if the country leaves the EU on 29 March without a deal in place.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is asking the government to change the rules, which will leave freight forwarders acting on behalf of overseas parcel senders, rather than established UK buyers.
The problem for freight forwarders is that they consolidate parcels into loads for air or ocean freight for delivery to the UK on behalf of parcel operators, but are made responsible for the senders' Customs and VAT payments under the new rules that designate them as Indirect Representatives by UK Customs.
Parcel operators in the Business to Consumer space have direct business relationships with both the sender and the customer of the parcel.
This has led to BIFA demanding the UK Government reviews the new rules to take into account the difference between parcel operators and freight forwarders.
The UK Customs has announced that new rules on parcels will be introduced after Brexit. Following this change in regulations, sellers outside of the UK will have to pay VAT (Value Added Tax) on goods with a value below £135 (US$180) sold to UK buyers.
When the value for all goods in the parcel exceeds £135, UK buyers will need to pay the import VAT, customs and/or excise duty on these goods. The parcel delivery company will apply any necessary charges to the parcel and seek the payment directly from the UK buyer.
Sellers outside the UK include those in the EU, outside the EU, and the Channel Islands. This will include individual items worth £15 or less as they will no longer be eligible for the existing tax relief.
For excise goods – import VAT, Customs and Excise duty is applicable regardless of value and will be collected directly from the UK buyer by the parcel operator.
There will be two ways for sellers outside the UK to pay the UK import VAT on parcels to the UK HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Sellers can register for the UK HMRC new online service and are encouraged to do so to be ready to use it if the changes are introduced on 29 March 2019. They can also authorise a parcel operator to pay the UK import VAT to HMRC on the sellers' behalf.
If sellers do not follow the new UK import VAT rules, parcels may be delayed or stopped from entering the UK. In addition, the UK buyer may have to pay extra tax and fees, and the seller may have to pay a penalty of £1000. More information about these potential changes, and others in the event of a hard Brexit can be found on GOV.UK.
BIFA is lobbying the Government on behalf of their Members in an effort to obtain a policy change, which will create a more sensible and balanced approach.
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98 Degrees Alive@Five concert moved indoors
By Jim Shay
Updated 11:26 am EDT, Thursday, July 18, 2019
Rain showers have moved Thursday night's Alive@Five concert by 98 degrees indoors. The concert will now be held at the Palace Theatre at 61 Atlantic St.in Stamford on Thursday, July 18, 2018.
STAMFORD - Rain showers have moved Thursday night's Alive@Five concert by 98 degrees indoors.
The concert will now be held at the Palace Theatre at 61 Atlantic St.
Admission is $20, cash only.
First come, first served.
The concert was originally planned outdoors at Columbus Park
Boy band 98° gets sympathy (and cake) from Stop & Shop, Sen. Murphy after tour bus debacle
In five years — from 1997 to 2002 — 98° sold a staggering 10 million records, scored a chart-topping single, "Thank God I Found You," with Mariah Carey and Joe, and collaborated with their collective idol, Stevie Wonder, on "True to Your Heart," for the 1998 animated Disney film, Mulan.
Their four-million-selling album, 98° and Rising (1998, Motown), spawned the top-5 favorites "Because of You," "I Do," and "The Hardest Thing," while 2000's Revelation (Universal Records), which sold two million copies, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and yielded a trio of hits, "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)," "My Everything" and "The Way You Want Me To."
The male-harmony group, which includes Jeff Timmons, Justin Jeffre and brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, emerged at a time when teen-oriented acts such as the Spice Girls, The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC were just hitting the top of the charts around the world. They differentiated themselves from many of the other teen bands at the time as they wrote much of their own material, which reflected their own R&B influences.
Shaggy kicked off the first Alive@Five of the season in downtown Stamford on July 11, 2019. Were you SEEN?
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Wall Of Power Power Hour – July 8th, 2017- Host Paul Metsa has a great conversation with legendary bar and restaurant man Kieran Foillard. Kieran shares his story of growing up in Ireland, working for his dad and his old man's wisdom that has sustained his life and work, boxing with his dog Blackie as a kid, how he came to Minneapolis in 1987 as well as the how he founded the original Kieran's Pub, then the Local Pub in downtown Minneapolis, and eventually how he founded 2 Gingers Whiskey in 2011. The man is a born storyteller and we think you will really enjoy the show!


a)Cut lengths of Shrinkin'Sleeves to be tested.
b)Sleeves under test, shrunk on appropriate mandrel.
Cut lengths of sleeves/sleeved mandrels progressively exposed to various temperatures, durations in the oven. The results observations are tabulated after removal of test samples from oven.
Expose test samples to following parameters.
100oC x 1000 hrs. Long duration testing at higher temperature : 110oC x 24 hrs.
a) The shrinkage should be even from all sides.
c) The sleeving should not develop any crack.
d) The sleeving retains all its properties after cooling.
Shrinkin'Sleeves can be used at an elevated temperature of 100oC for 1000 hours.
Shrinkin'Sleeves have got a capacity to bear a heat shock Upton 110oC for 24 hours.
Sample Description : Cut lengths of "Shrinkin'Sleeves".
1. Ignition chamber : Corning / Pyrex glass, dia. 75 mm x 450 length.
2. Ignition source : Bunsen burner, placed in a fume cupboard.
a) Clamp an appropriate size & length of "Shrinkin'Sleeves" in a holder & fix it into the ignition chamber.
b) Light the ignition source under normal Oxygen conditions.
c) Bring the test sample in the ignition zone.
a) After shrinkage test sample gets ignited in the ignition zone.
b) There is no droppage of any melt during ignition.
c) Test sample withdrawn out of ignition zone or the ignition source put off, the ignition of test sample ceases immediately.
d) The ignited material leaves granular ash.
"Shrinkin'Sleeves" are self extinguishing with no droppage of any melt during ignition.