The Oxford dictionary defines a 'Curse' as 'a solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something'. There are many different types of curses that we may have heard of over the years. We have seen sports stars who are allegedly cursed with a string of bad luck, families who have long runs of bad luck and are said to be cursed, but what happens when a movie is cursed?
The most famous of all cursed productions is The Poltergeist Trilogy. When making the first movie the crew used actual human remains as props which is what is believed to have caused the curse (yes, that in the picture above is a REAL skeleton – creepy, huh?). This was a case of life imitating art as the reason for the hauntings in the movies was they had built houses over an ancient burial ground. Within six years of the first movie four of the stars died. Child actress Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Ann in all three movies, died just before the release of the third instalment. In June 1987 Heather was complaining of flu-like symptoms. She became very ill and was diagnosed with a parasite she had picked up from drinking water at a campground. After a course of medication this condition seemed to have been resolved. She woke up on February 1st, 1988 with swollen feet and fingers which had turned blue. The night before Heather had got into bed with her parents with an upset stomach and still felt unwell when she woke up. Her mum brought her to the hospital. She was suspected to have bowel obstruction and was rushed to theatre but unfortunately died from cardiac arrest on the operating table at the young age of 12. Unfortunately this was not the end of the tragic deaths.
We all remember the terrifying old man (Kane) in Poltergeist 2 who sang the words 'God is in his holy temple,' - ooh I've Goosebumps just thinking of it - well, this poor man also fell victim to the Poltergeist curse. His name was Julian Beck and he died of stomach cancer at the age of 60.
Two deaths were bad enough but there is more to come. Will Sampson who played the native Indian, Taylor, died following complications of a heart and lung transplant. And Dominique Dunn, who played the eldest daughter Dana in the first movie, also came to a tragic end. Dominique was in an abusive relationship with sous-chef John Thomas Sweeney and when she ended the relationship he strangled her to death. The curse on this movie cannot be denied. All these deaths were tragic and each victim suffered.
The Superman franchise is also thought to be cursed. Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster got cheated out of the royalties for this franchise when under contract to DC Comics therefore many believe it was these two men who called down the curse on Superman. George Reeves who played Superman in the 1950s TV show was found dead on June 16, 1959. It was ruled as a suicide due to a gunshot wound to the head but Reeves' fingerprints were never found on the gun. He had been having an affair with the wife of an MGM executive and was due to be married himself which opens the door to a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding his death. Bud Collyer, who voiced the Superman cartoons from 1941-43 and again in 1966, died of a circulatory ailment at the age of 66. Lee Quigley who played the part of baby Kal-el in the 1978 movie died of solvent abuse addiction at the young age of 14. In 1995 Christopher Reeves, who played Superman in the movies 1-5, got paralysed from the neck down after being thrown from a horse, he died on October 10, 2004 following heart failure. Richard Pryor, who starred in Superman 3, developed MS and Margot Kidder who played Lois Lane in all five movies had a tragic life due to developing bi-polar. Marlon Brando, who played Superman's father Jor-el, suffered severe weight and health problems towards the end of his career and his exact cause of death in 2004 was withheld with his lawyer citing privacy concerns. Once again, the evidence speaks for itself with the tragic lives and deaths of these Superman stars.
The Omen movies were said to be cursed and a documentary was made illustrating this which can be found on the 30th anniversary DVD release. Some of the incidences proving the existence of this curse include, on the first day of shooting the main members of the crew were involved in a car crash, Richard Donner's – the director - hotel was bombed by the IRA, Scriptwriter David Seltzer's plane was struck by lightning. Star Gregory Peck was due to take a flight during filming but had to cancel, the plane in question crashed killing all aboard. On Friday, August 13th, 1976, special effects artist John Richardson was in Holland working on another movie when he got into a car crash. Richardson's car was involved in a major accident which killed and decapitated his female companion, in a way similar to David Warner's death in The Omen. It is rumoured that upon stumbling out of his car he saw a road sign that said he was 66.6 kilometres from the town of Ommen. How freaky is that??
So there you have it, just a few of the cursed movie stories I have come across. I will leave it to you to decide if it's urban legend or fact.


Craig Groeschel leads one of the largest churches in America, but that doesn't mean the journey has been easy.
In this interview, Craig talks about the hard side of life and leadership – How the early mistakes of a rookie leader can almost sink you, where to find God in the midst of it, and how Craig has experienced God in the midst of personal disappointment and suffering. This interview is a powerful and personal conversation.
Welcome to Episode 228 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes below or search for the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free.
Thank you for all the encouraging words about my latest book Didn't See It Coming. I'm grateful for all the feedback. If you don't have your copy yet, check out the reviews and grab one for you and a friend today!
Early in his ministry, a wise mentor advised Craig that as a leader "when you do more, you're going to hurt more". Leaders experience different levels of challenges – whether brought on by outside sources, the brokenness in the world, or self-inflicted pain. All are difficult to work through, but it seems the hardest to process can be self-inflicted wounds because they bring so much personal regret and shame.
Those difficult times are often the catalysts that mold incredible leaders and shape them to become who God wants them to be. God doesn't cause pain, but he absolutely can use the hurt to create a more effective leader.
Many leaders struggle with self-awareness. It is a continuous fight. Lying to yourself can be so easy and often the more people you have around you, the harder it is to be sure you're hearing honest feedback about who you are and what you're doing.
Surround yourself with people who can speak openly into your life. Honest friends will make all the difference to keep you on track as long as you remain open to listening to them.
Leaders must remember that they are children of God first and leaders of people second. When that order gets mixed up, healthy leadership deteriorates.
That order is crucial when it comes to dealing with personal hurt. Grieving publicly isn't easy for leaders, especially in ministry. Most people don't take into consideration that a pastor has to process hurt, doubt and pain just like everyone else.
Being transparent in those vulnerable times not only allows people to minister to you, but it also ministers to them. They gain a better understanding of the fact that a pastor experiences hardships in life just like everybody else. They get to see someone they respect wrestle with the same questions they have while still clinging to God when times are hard.
Larry Osborne has been in ministry for over 4 decades and at his current church for 38 years…and he loves it.
Larry talks about how to thrive, why he's never had to take a sabbatical, why he never uses an alarm clock (unless he's travelling), shepherd leadership, and why raising up gifted, talented young leaders is so wonderful but still personally hard.
Subscribe for free now and you won't miss Episode 229.
Subsequently I became so depressed and ashamed of myself, I realized he was my life coach and all, I cannot live without him. I searched and found Dr. Wakina just like others did, "Doctor please help me out, bring him back to me since he already got a new girlfriend. Not only do I have a broken heart but I have a broken soul too. I don't know if he wants to show off or take a revenge from me. Make me everything he desires." The result was presented to me as asked. The man I carelessly lost was brought back. I'm sharing this post to the public because Dr.Wakina via his email……. dr.wakinalovetemple @gmail. com wiped my secret tears and made us whole again. I'm now filled with tears of joy. All my mistakes have been forgiven and forgotten.


I learnt to look at Italy contemplating its landscape from trains, rediscovering time after time its beauty and its ruin. I have often thought about making an itinerant film that would cross the provinces to describe Italy: beautiful, yes, but lost. Leopardi described it as a woman crying with her head in her hands due to the burden of history, the atavistic evil of being too beautiful.
When I chanced upon the Royal Palace of Carditello and the fairy tale—because it really is a fairy tale—of Tommaso, the 'Angel of Carditello', a shepherd who sacrificed everything to dedicate many years of his life to look after this abandoned artistic asset, I saw a powerful metaphor for what I felt compelled to describe. Following the premature and sudden death of Tommaso, Bella e perduta—initially conceived as a 'journey through Italy' intended to touch upon other regions—became a different film, marrying fairy tale and documentary, dream and reality.
Carditello is the symbol of a lost beauty and the struggle of an individual, an orphan who refuses to surrender to a rotten mechanism of destruction and decay. And at the same time this story, deeply rooted in our country's history, examines a subject which has never been so universal: the relationship between man and nature.


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It's an increasingly common sight, but just how big of an impact on calorie burning does it have?
The first time I saw it, I wrote it off as an anomaly.
But then I saw it again. And again. And again.
Totally normal people walking around in public in totally normal clothes, save for one accessory—a large weighted vest strapped to their torso.
Totally normal people walking around in public in totally normal clothes, save for one accessory—a large weighted vest strapped to their torso.
I witnessed such a scene countless times over the summer, and perhaps you've seen it in your own neighborhood.
After digging into this phenomenon, I found the common motivation for walking with a weighted vest is an improvement in body composition. By walking around with extra weight strapped to your body, you can theoretically burn more calories and decrease body fat faster than you would by walking without one.
But is it really worth the effort? Does walking with a weighed vest actually help you lose weight?
A 2013 study from the American Council on Exercise examined how the use of weighted vests impacted calorie expenditure while walking. Participants walked at a set pace of 2.5 miles per hour on a treadmill at four different gradients: 0% incline, 5% incline, 10% incline and 15% incline. They did so under three conditions: wearing no vest, wearing a vest equal to 10% of their body weight, and wearing a vest equal to 15% of their own body weight.
Here were the mean effects of the different loads:
Ultimately, the extra calorie-burning impact of a weighted vest wasn't all that impressive.
Did it make a difference? Absolutely. But by itself, adding a weighted vest to your daily or semi-daily walk probably won't be enough to have a significant impact on your body composition.
For example, on average, participants burned 5.7 calories a minute while walking without any weighted vest. When wearing a weighted vest equal to 15% their own body weight (which would mean a 30-pound vest for a 200-pound person), they burned an average of 6.3 calories per minute.
For a 45-minute walk, that'd equal an extra 26.9 calories burned. For a weighted vest equal to 10% of the walker's body weight, it'd be an extra 17.9 calories. Not exactly earth-shattering numbers.
"I think people way overestimate how much of a difference it's going to make in their energy expenditure. If they're just wearing it while they're going out for a walk, it's not going to make that much of a difference," says James Krieger, M.S. in Nutrition and Exercise Science and owner of Weightology.
"You will burn more calories, but it's not an amount that's going to make any meaningful impact on how much fat you're losing."
It's important to note the aforementioned study was also performed with a treadmill set at a consistent pace. It's fairly reasonable to assume that wearing a weighted vest while walking outdoors would cause most people to adopt a naturally slower pace than they would sans vest, meaning the potential difference in calorie burning could be even slimmer in practice.
The growing popularity of this method as a weight loss "hack" hits on a common misconception Krieger sees among those attempting to lose weight—overestimating the impact that exercise has on fat loss while underestimating the importance of nutrition.
Physical activity only accounts for 10-30 percent of the calories we burn each day. Yet food/beverage intake accounts for 100 percent of the calories we consume. While exercise has undeniable physical, mental and emotional benefits, it's not the silver bullet for weight loss.
"Most people tend to focus too much on exercise, but it's much more efficient to establish an energy deficit through diet and maybe use exercise as a tool for a little additional help," says Krieger.
"Unless you're engaging in really high volumes of exercise, the amount of energy you expend during exercise isn't really a big factor in whether you lose fat anyway…Dietary adherence is the number one predictor of fat loss."
Translation: those calories you worked so hard to burn during your 45-minute gym workout can easily be eclipsed by one bad meal or snack.
Krieger says the only way a weighted vest could possibly have a significant impact on fat loss efforts is if you wear it for most of your waking hours and spend a lot of time walking or up on your feet throughout the day. But again, there are probably much more convenient ways to create a consistent caloric deficit.
There doesn't seem to be a real downside to walking with a weighted vest, so feel free to continue doing so or give it a try if you'd like. But if you're really looking to lose weight, what you eat is going to be the most important factor of all.
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Applications boiling are found in heat sinks for electronics cooling, nuclear and fossil fuel powered steam generators, distillation columns, concentrated solar power systems, glass melting furnaces, desalination chambers, and heat and mass exchangers. In order to increase the performance and safety margins of these applications, there is a need to develop tools that predict the thermal and fluid behavior during bubble growth. The analysis of boiling has been addressed by computer simulations, which employ methods for approximating mass and heat transfer at the interface.
However, most simulations make assumptions that could adversely affect the prediction of the thermal and dynamic fluid behavior near the bubble-edge. These assumptions include: (i) computation of mass transfer with local temperature differences or with temperature gradients at cell-centers rather than with temperature gradients at the interface, (ii) modified discretization schemes at neighboring-cells or a transition region to account for the interface saturation temperature, and (iii) interface smearing or distribution of mass transfer into multiple cells around the interface to prevent interface deformations.
The present work proposes methods to perform a simulation of nucleate boiling. The proposed methods compute mass transfer with temperature gradients at the interface, account for the interface saturation temperature, and model a sharp interface (interface within one cell) with mass transfer only at interface-cells. The proposed methods lead to a more realistic representation of the heat and mass transfer at the interface. Results of the simulation are in excellent agreement with theory on planar interface evaporation and growth of spherical bubbles in superheated liquid. In addition, numerical bubble growth rates compare well with experimental data on single bubble nucleation over a heated surface. The simulation of nucleate boiling with water and a 6.2 K wall superheat reveals large heat transfer coefficients over a 200 um distance from the interface. In addition, analyses of the wall shear stress indicate an influence region of two-times the departure bubble diameter.


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Most of them are being dubbed into regional languages as per the demand. One such movie which has been making tremendous noise is TJB, which has been adopted from a collection of stories titled 'The JB' which has been written by Rudyard Kipling. After getting published as magazines, it has been converted into a serial which has been telecasted on Sundays in Doordarshan.
The movie has now been made into a film which has been directed by Jon Favreau. The makers have taken more than two years to wrap up the pre-production work of the movie. Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johnson, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken and Neel Sethi, who dubbed for the most important roles in the movie.
Neel Sethi played the lead role as Mowgli in the film, and John Debney composed the music for the movie. Bill Pope is the cinematographer for the movie and Mark Livolsi is the editor for the film. Exclusive sets have been erected in Los Angeles, CA, and the animal characters have been completely created through computer animation.
Several remote located forests have been finalized, and the movie has been shot in some exclusive locales of India and Africa. Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Weta Digital created the film's visual effects. The film created enough buzz with the theatrical trailer which impressed the audience widely.
Jon Favreau and Brigham Taylor produced the movie on Walt Disney Pictures along with Fairview Entertainment banners. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributed the film, and The Jungle Book has been dubbed into regional languages like Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages.
The flick released in over 2000 screens across the country in all the languages and the movie received an exceptional response from the audience. The JB collected Rs 10.5 crores across the country on its first day which is huge all over.
The movie maintained strength on its second day and it collected Rs 11.8 crores, and The Jungle Book collected Rs 22.32 crores across the country in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. The talkie has been declared as a blockbuster and the movie ended up as a massive hit all over.
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Improving the Health of Women,...
Care of preterm newborn, including kangaroo mother care
We have learnt that each year there are 15 million newborns born into 4 different worlds, with very different chances of survival if born prematurely. Of these 15 million births, 1 million of these babies die due to preterm birth, and 70% of these deaths are preventable with inpatient care.1,2
The opportunities for intervention come at two critical times: just before birth, with corticosteroids, tocolysis, magnesium sulphate, and antibiotic prophylaxis; and the period just after birth, with thermal care of the newborn, and respiratory support with oxygen or continuous positive airway pressure.3 In this step we will focus closely on a key postnatal strategy: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC).
What is KMC?
KMC aims to maintain the preterm newborn's body temperature and provide good nutrition through 3 key components:
Early, continuous, and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby.
Frequent or exclusive breastfeeding.
Early discharge with adequate support and follow up.
But what does this mean in practice? Since scale up of KMC has begun, it has been applied in many ways, with variation in what is considered early, continuous and prolonged skin-to-skin contact.4 In order to be early enough to prevent the 75% of neonatal deaths which occur in the first week, skin-to-skin contact should be initiated within the first few days after birth, preferably in the first day.1 Continuous and prolonged means minimising disruption in skin to skin contact and maximising the duration, aiming to achieve 18 hours or more each day.
Figure 1 A mother sleeping with her newborn in the Kangaroo position.
The best evidence for improvements in survival with KMC is for babies born weighing less than 2500g and the WHO recommends that almost every small baby can be cared for with KMC.5,6
The mother's suitability must also be taken into consideration. Although any person can provide the skin to skin aspects of KMC, and family members are encouraged to do so to provide respite, the critical element of frequent or exclusive breastfeeding can only be provided by the mother. She must therefore be willing, healthy enough, and have sufficient family support to be able to commit to being in the hospital full time with her baby.
Once the newborn has reached at least 1500g, is in good general health, and is achieving consistent adequate weight gain, KMC may be continued in the community. Once home they should receive follow up at least weekly, with KMC carrying on at home until the newborn achieves a weight of 2500g.5
What are the benefits and how does it achieve them?
KMC reduces all-cause neonatal mortality for babies born less than 2500g by 40%.6 The skin-to-skin contact along with the resultant increased breastfeeding appears to achieve these improvements through cutting rates of hypothermia and infections, along with earlier recognition of illness.6 The early, continuous, and prolonged skin to skin contact has been shown to improve bonding, maternal responsiveness to babies' needs, and lactogenesis, and result in newborns receiving KMC gaining an additional 4 grams of weight every day compared to babies receiving normal care.6
What coverage has been achieved and what do we hope to achieve in the future?
Unfortunately, coverage of KMC has always lagged behind the evidence of its effectiveness. Thirty years after the principles of KMC were first published by UNICEF in 1984, only 44% of countries reported having a policy for KMC.7 However, some countries have made strong progress: Mali, Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda have some aspect of KMC in 95% of facilities.7 The every newborn action plan, a global strategy for reducing neonatal mortality to less than 10 per 1,000 live births by 2030, includes specific targets for KMC, highlighting its central role in reducing newborn mortality.8
In order to chart the way to achieve these goals, Vesel et al performed an assessment of health system bottlenecks which were preventing scale up of KMC across 12 low- and middle-income countries.7 They found bottlenecks for scaling up KMC in all 7 WHO building blocks for health care systems.7,9 Details of the 5 most significant bottlenecks and priority actions to overcome them are shown in the figure below.
Figure 2: Bottlenecks and priority solutions for 5 key health systems building blocks. Adapted from Vesel et al.7
What are the evidence gaps?
Facility-based KMC places a substantial demand on the mother and her family, as she may need to spend many weeks in a facility far from home in order to provide it. If KMC could be provided in the community from the outset, this could deliver the benefits of facility-based KMC while minimising these negative consequences. However, the evidence base for community KMC is lacking. The data we have displayed regarding coverage have been pulled together from several ad hoc studies. No formal international mechanism for monitoring implementation of KMC has been established. Without up-to-date information it is difficult to target technical and financial support to increase coverage in areas falling behind.
Points for discussion:
Is KMC provided in your health care system? If so, in what form is it implemented? What do you think the barriers are to increasing coverage of KMC in your own setting? How do you think they could be overcome? How could the evidence gaps be filled?
© London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2019
Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action
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Canyoning or canyoning as one says with us, what is it actually? The word describes a novel, fascinating activity in a partial untouched and magical landscape. In canyoning, watercourses are descended by descents, climbing, swimming, if possible by jumping and slipping. Here the sporting variety is combined with the challenge of rock and water in a prime landscape and offers countless adventures for everyone. To experience these challenges with pleasure, there are two possibilities.
First: Familiarize yourself with a certified and authorized canyoning and canyoning guide, who takes over the entire organization for the desired canyoning tour. The advantage of this possibility is that you can enjoy the tour and the nature experience to the fullest without having to worry about anything in advance.
The second possibility is to train for this sport, with an expert. During these training courses one learns the most important basics to move safely through a gorge. However, if you have to take this route, you have to be very slow in new tours, because canyoning needs a lot of experience.
The training for Canyoningguides is very comprehensive and covers the entire spectrum of canyoning and takes an average of up to 45 days. Here, as an example, the training route on the basis of the Tyrolean canyoning and gorge guide training.
Day 1: Here the candidates have to show whether they are suitable for the training. Only then can they participate in the legally required training. When registering, the candidates must submit a tour report, should the required tours not be available, then the applicant is not allowed to participate in entrance examinations.
Between the individual courses, the candidates have to pass some intermediate examinations, which allow an entry into the next course at all. However, the candidates must also complete a 14-day practice period with a trained and authorized canyoning guide between the first and third course parts, which must be documented by an accurate record. Furthermore the candidates must bring a prescribed tour report with 10 prepared topos for the final examination.
These subjects are taught practically and theoretically during the training. The theory lesson is always held by long-term trainers or guest lecturers.
2 days: Only persons who have fulfilled all theory tests, practical partial tests and requirements can be admitted to this examination. If a candidate does not fulfill the prerequisites for the final examination, he has to repeat the third course or the entire course.
Only if all these criteria are met, the candidate can be authorized by the competent authorities and from this point onwards is entitled to offer and conduct canyoning tours. For this reason, every authorized canyoning guide can also identify you, so ask for your canyoning guide before the start of the tour.
However, it is obligatory for every canyoning guide to undergo training at least every four years. If the canyoning guide fails to comply with this obligation, the authorization will be given to him and he is no longer entitled to lead the guests.
Where can you do Canyoning?
How do I become a Canyoning Guide?
Is Canyoning possible by rain?


It is really hard to find such a content on accessibility. Great resource for those who is interested in inclusive design. Hope you will keep releasing new episodes, especially interested in more interview type of episodes with people with disabilities. Thank you!


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Q: List of escape sequences for Postgresql string data types I'm trying to find the documentation of a complete list of escape sequences for string data types in Postgresql.  So for example, if you need to escape a quote character inside of a quoted string, you would use \".  Different DBMSs use different jargon, so I'm having a hard time finding what to search for.
I found this, but it doesn't look exhaustive to me.  In this link, search for "The following special backslash sequences are recognized by COPY FROM".
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-copy.html
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I knew it wasn't exhaustive.  See the \\ character here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
Then look at "4.1.2.2. String Constants with C-style Escapes" in this link.  Also read what's written in CAUTION.  This is making me humble, and I hope it is for others.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html

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Thanks to you, it has been a wonderful year for the mission. The work has been backbreaking, but the rewards have been great, and as we look to the future, we thank the Lord for your prayers and your financial support.
A blizzard November 19th brought the season's first two- and three-foot snowdrifts to our transmitter site, ending the chance for our emergency generator building to be completed before winter, which is already in full force! And so, we will weather another winter without emergency backup power at our remote tower site.
However, when things thaw in May or June, we'll be poised for the three or four warm days we need to complete the installation. Thank you again for your help this past year. Please hang on with us!
Full Size SITTING DOWN ON THE JOB: In June and July, volunteer Linda Raab spent days sanding copper ground strap and wire, helping Tom Busch and Les Brown, who spent days with their knees in the dirt, using gas torches to solder thousands of grounding connections.
The new transmitter building was surrounded on all six sides by a screen shield. It was a construction detail that added about $3,000 and about 250 hours of work. We're grateful for knee pads!
INSPIRATIONAL SPOT: Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
top Here is a summary of KNOM finances, for the year ending June 30, 1997.
To ensure a more realistic picture, we add $120,000 to both income and expenses under the label "Donated Labor."
This represents the additional money which the KNOM staff would cost if they were paid typical wages for the work, and represents a de facto donation by the staff.
"Interest" is high for the period, as building fund contributions had been received, but not yet spent as of June 30th.
"Fundraising" represents all costs associated with acquiring new donors.
"All Else" includes income from sources such as book and T-shirt sales, tower site rental to the National Weather Service, and program underwriting.
"Capital Improvements" represents a net "profit" for the year, all of which was dedicated to the new transmitter building fund.
Total cash income for the period: $648,020. Total cash expenses: $617,244.
If you'd like a complete income/expense sheet for FY97, or any other period, please write KNOM general manager Tom Busch and he will be happy to send it along.
You can see from the income chart how vitally important your contributions are to the mission. Without your faithful support, our award-winning service would not be possible. Thank you for keeping our mission radio station alive and active!
INSPIRATIONAL SPOT: It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die that you might live as you wish.
As we headlined on page one, that glitch due to a small goof at the FCC has been eliminated, and at press time, engineer Jack Mullaney and lawyer Christine Simpson were preparing the paperwork for Bishop Mike Kaniecki, SJ to sign for our final 25,000 Watt license. We're headed toward the higher power by the end of the year -- hurray!
THE OLD: In a photo taken earlier in the year, Ric Schmidt stands inside the old transmitter building, you can see not only the cramped nature of the building, but also the bowed ceiling, as the 1960's highway construction shed was beginning to crack apart.
AND THE NEW: Manager Tom Busch poses alongside the new Nautel 25,000 Watt transmitter inside the new building.
Thanks to you, this bright, safe, solidly-built structure will provide a reliable home for the KNOM AM transmitter far into the distant future.
Engineers are scratching their heads as to why, when we transferred to the new building August 16th, our signal became audibly louder in villages, even at the same power. Thank you, Lord!
That in His Mercy I be judged as big enough to keep.
AWARDS: Yes, 1997 was an incredible year of recognition for your mission radio station. We were honored not only by a second-in-a-row "Radio Station of the Year" Gabriel Award, but also by the Alaska Broadcasters Association's "Community Service Award," putting us at the top of all radio and television stations in the entire state.
General Manager Tom Busch was inducted into the Alaska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and other accolades went to our entertainment programming and public service announcements. We gratefully share these honors with you.
GET THE DRIFT? We sure hope that snow will blow completely through the new tower fence built by Les Brown (shown here in October). But if it decides to pile up as in the past, we'll string the 16-foot posts with rope to keep away the curious. Snow has drifted to a height of about 14 feet in past years.
INSPIRATIONAL SPOT: Unless we find beauty and happiness in our backyard, we will never find them in the mountains.
top RECEIPT: At IRS direction, we routinely send receipts in response to every contribution of $250 or more; in the third week of January, we'll also send a receipt to every contributor who has donated a total of $250 or more during 1997. If you gave less than that but would like a receipt, please write and we'll be glad to send you one. We deeply appreciate your support.
Our mission is on the air to spread God's Love throughout dozens of remote Eskimo and Athapascan Indian villages, scattered over unimaginable distances. 24 hours a day, we fill the Alaskan airwaves with inspiration, news, education and companionship. Our programming inspires the heart and battles the region's many crippling problems, the epidemic sexual abuse and family violence, alcoholism, suicide, rampant illnesses like hepatitis and tuberculosis.
Your tax-deductible contributions to KNOM join this long standing effort of the Catholic Church.
On behalf of our thousands of remote listeners, thank you for your generosity and your prayers during 1997. And please continue with us as we press into 1998. May God bless you!


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I began working on the Georgetown University Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. The hall is located in the Leavey Center on the university's campus and contains 25 bronze bas reliefs of the sports events the school participates in.
Each plaque measures 24" by 32", including the mahogany bases. A separate plaque below the sculpted bronze plaque contains the names of the individuals represented.


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Q: Win32 Static Variable link error Why does this happen?

1>------ Build started: Project: Client, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
  1>  WindowManager.cpp
  1>  Generating Code...
  1>  Compiling...
  1>  Main.cpp
  1>  Generating Code...
  1>WindowManager.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
  "private: static int WindowManager::win_stat" (?win_stat@WindowManager@@0HA)
  1>C:\Users\user\documents\visual studio
  2012\Projects\TalkToMe\Debug\Client.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
  ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

WindowManager.cpp
#include "WindowManager.h"

void WindowManager::PekMessage()
{
    if(PeekMessage(&msg, window, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }
}

bool WindowManager::isWindowOpen()
{
    return win_stat != -1;
}

HWND WindowManager::textbox(int width, int height, int xPos, int yPos, LPCSTR content, bool edit_able)
{
    int type = (edit_able) ? (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|ES_AUTOHSCROLL) : (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_HSCROLL|ES_AUTOHSCROLL);
    return CreateWindowEx(
        WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
        "EDIT",
        content,
        type,
        xPos,
        yPos,
        width,
        height,
        window,
        (HMENU)50,
        GetModuleHandle(NULL),
        NULL
    );
}

HWND WindowManager::textbox(Vector size, Vector position, LPCSTR content, bool edit_able)
{
    return textbox(size.getX(), size.getY(), position.getX(), position.getY(), content, edit_able);
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowManager::WindowProcedure(HWND winhan,UINT uint_Message,WPARAM parameter1,LPARAM parameter2)
{
    switch(uint_Message)
    {
        case 16: // exit button
            win_stat = -1;
        break;
    }

    return DefWindowProc(winhan,uint_Message,parameter1,parameter2);
}

WindowManager::WindowManager(LPCTSTR title,int x, int y, int width, int height)
{
    WNDCLASSEX wnd;
    wnd.cbSize = sizeof(wnd);
    wnd.style  = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
    wnd.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;
    wnd.cbClsExtra  = 0;
    wnd.cbWndExtra  = 0;
    wnd.hInstance   = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
    wnd.hIcon       = NULL;
    wnd.hCursor     = LoadCursor(NULL,IDC_ARROW);
    wnd.hbrBackground = GetSysColorBrush(NULL);
    wnd.lpszClassName = "TalkToMe";
    wnd.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
    wnd.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);

    RegisterClassEx(&wnd);

    window = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT, wnd.lpszClassName, title,
        WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_VISIBLE, x, y, width, height,NULL, NULL,
        GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);
}

WindowManager::~WindowManager()
{
    DestroyWindow(window);
}

WindowManager.h
#pragma once
#pragma comment(linker,"\"/manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

#include <Windows.h>
#include "Vector.h"

class WindowManager
{
private:
    MSG msg;
    HWND window;

    static int win_stat;
public:
    WindowManager(LPCTSTR title,int x, int y, int width, int height);
    ~WindowManager();
    static LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure(HWND winhan,UINT uint_Message,WPARAM parameter1,LPARAM parameter2);

    HWND textbox(int width, int height, int xPos, int yPos, LPCSTR content, bool edit_able=true);
    HWND textbox(Vector size, Vector position, LPCSTR content, bool edit_able=true);

    bool isWindowOpen();
    void PekMessage();
};

A: The part in the header
static int win_stat;

is only a declaration. You also have to add
int WindowManager::win_stat;

to the .cpp file, just like you define the member functions there.


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Our Company's DNA:
Identify technologies that will disrupt an industry.
Find the pioneers/lead customers who are early adopters and innovators.
Work closely with these "lead customers" and the emerging players who develop and adapt solutions to meet the needs of these early pioneers.
Identify customer-critical issues and context that need to be addressed to ensure widespread adoption.
Our "Parent" Company
Seybold Publications and the Seybold Consulting Group started in the early 1970s. Launched by publishing-technology visionary John W. Seybold, who was soon joined by his son, Jonathan W. Seybold. Together, they helped their clients re-invent the publishing industry--moving from hot type to cold type; from analog to digital technology; from typewriters and Linotype machines to video terminals in newsrooms driving phototypesetters. They documented the birth and maturation of the electronic publishing industry in the Seybold Report newsletters.
John Seybold had been a labor arbitrator in the printing industries before launching his own phototypesetting service bureau, Rocappi, in 1961. His approach to assimilating new technologies and pushing the envelope was always to engage ALL of the stakeholders in designing new practices and policies.
Pioneering. In order to solve a tough problem--how to tell a computer how to set type in many different formats and contexts--John Seybold introduced the use of generic mark-up for automating phototypesetting in the 1960's. This approach became codified as SGML (Standard Generalized Mark Up Language), which led to HTML, and spawned the world-wide Web.
Customer Co-Design. In the 1970s, in helping his clients at US News & World Report transition to an editorial newsroom, he and Jonathan spec'd the Atex news publishing system and worked with the company's founders to develop and successfully deploy that system (and many other such systems) in many magazine and newspaper newsrooms around the world.
Educating Entrepreneurs. Jonathan Seybold worked closely with Apple's Steve Jobs in targeting desktop publishing as the "killer app" for the new Macintosh computer. Jonathan and John held Electronic Publishing Seminars around the world to disseminate what they were learning from early adopters of these new technologies. Jonathan Seybold morphed the small seminars into major industry trade shows--Seybold Seminars in the 1970s and 1980s. (Seybold Seminars was sold to Ziff Davis in 1990).
Patricia Seybold apprenticed with her father beginning in 1975, focusing on the spread of electronic typesetting and desktop publishing into the broader business market. She applied the consensus-building form of consulting she learned from her father: including all stakeholders in the planning and decision-making processes when adopting new technologies.
Andrew M. Seybold also joined the family business. Patty Seybold's specialty area became word processing and office systems. She launched her own monthly newsletter: The Seybold Report on Word Processing in 1976. Andy's specialty was the emerging PC. He was editor-in-chief of The Seybold Report on Professional Computing, which launched in 1980.
Patricia Seybold Group Spin Out: 1985
Patty spun Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Group out of her father's company in 1985 (it was later renamed the Patricia Seybold Group) . Recognizing the revolutionary potential from distributed systems, object-oriented models and open-source software, she and her team consulted with clients who were early adopters of these technologies. The group hosted popular forums for business executives (Seybold Executive Forums) and technologists (Seybold Technology Forums) in the 1980s and 1990s. Their newsletters included: Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Report, Network Monitor, Unix in the Office, and the Distributed Computing Monitor.
Cross-Organizational Design. in 1989, several clients (Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, DEC) banded together to form the Object Management Group, which Patty Seybold helped bring to life in order to develop and promulgate distributed object computing.
Customers Co-Design Core PSGroup Offerings: Several of Patricia Seybold Group's clients (Price Waterhouse, Metropolitan Life, Arthur Andersen, etc.) were instrumental in co-designing our Notes on Information Technology (NOIT) service in 1990--the first client-interactive research service published in Lotus Notes, covering groupware, open systems, and distributed computing. .
In 1992, four key clients agreed to be living case studies: American Institute of Physics, Clorox, Mitre Labs, Young & Rubicam. Over a hundred additional clients participated in the first customer co-design workshop designed to redesign these companies' strategies around customer-impacting issues. This week-long workshop was held in Glen Cove, NY. The methodology that emerged and evolved became our core Customer Scenario Mapping methodology.
Shift from IT to Customer Experience. By 1994, The Seybold team had recognized the game-changing potential of the customer revolution that came with the rise of the Internet. In 1994, Patty shifted the company's focus to consulting and research in customer-impacting technology & business strategies.
Launch of Customers.com. In 1998, Patricia Seybold and Ronni Marshak published the book, Customers.com (through Random House). It quickly sold 40,000 copies and was translated into more than 10 languages. Its premise was revolutionary at the time: the way to win on the Internet is to make it easy for customers to do business with you!
At the same time, the company folded its various monthly electronic newsletters into a single offering: Customers.com Strategic Advisory research service, which is still our current offering. It now comes in two forms: one for technologists and technology entrepreneurs: Customers.com Technologies; and one for business executives: Customers.com Strategies. Both are published weekly.
The Customer Revolution is published in 2001. How to thrive when customers are in control? Measure what matters to customers. This book focused on the role of customer experience in creating brand loyalty. We introduced our customer metrics framework: Quality of Customer Experience (QCE) and a sample dashboard, which we dubbed the Customer Flight Deck.
Outside Innovation is published in 2006. How your customers will co-design your company's future. This book documents many of the ways in which companies have engaged with customers to co-design new products and services.
Customer Scenario Mapping Online Training. In 2008, Patricia Seybold Group first began offering an online training module for its Customer Scenario Mapping customer co-design methodology.
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The Veracity Team. 22nd August 2022. Guides.
What data does the Veracity platform capture on our website?
The Veracity platform tracks all activity carried out on your website by your website visitors, including mouse movement, interaction with page elements and navigation throughout the site.
By default, without any further action, the only personal information Veracity capture, as per the current UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the IP address of the visitor. At your specific request, the Veracity platform is also able to capture additional personal data submitted through forms on your website.
What's the precise purpose of why we're collecting the data?
The Veracity platform collects data for two purposes:
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Beaconsoft Limited is a corporate member of the Data & Marketing Association (DMA) in the UK and bound by DMA best-practice guidelines on the capture, use and storage of personal information. You can review the Beaconsoft Limited DMA corporate registration here.
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A day after the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates to 2 percent, silver made impressive gains and rose above the US$17-per-ounce mark.
After two days of monetary policy meetings, the US Federal Reserve officially announced the second interest rate hike of the year on Wednesday (June 13).
The Fed lifted the target federal funds rate by 25 basis points, from 1.75 percent to 2 percent, sending silver sailing upward, crossing over the US$16-per-ounce threshold it has been straddling for some time.
"Silver prices meantime broke to the top of their recent dollar trading range, reaching the highest dollar price since mid-April," said Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.
The Fed hike has added to the white metal's gains in June, pushing the precious metal up by 3 percent for the month.
On Tuesday (June 12), Commerzbank (OTCMKTS:CRZBY) noted that silver may draw upside momentum if it is able to break through US$17.
Since the Fed hike has pushed the white metal over that US$17 point, market watchers believe that the notion of silver outperforming gold could become a reality sooner rather than later.
Results from the meeting also suggest that the Fed will raise interest rates two more times in 2018, adding up to four hikes instead of the previously forecasted three.
Interest rates are expected to increase to 3.1 percent next year, up from the previous estimate of 2.9 percent. By the year 2020, the Fed expects interest rates to climb to 3.4 percent.
Rounding out the Fed's meeting comes the knowledge that the central bank expects US GDP to grow by 2.8 percent in 2018, with economic activity projected to expand 2.4 percent in 2019.
Overall, the economy is expected to grow 2 percent in 2020.
After his second quarterly press conference as Fed chair, Jerome Powell said that in the future he would like to meet with journalists following every meeting.
"[This] does not signal anything about the timing or pace of future interest rate changes," said Powell.
As of 10:08 a.m. EST on Thursday (June 14), silver was up 0.71 percent, trading at US$17.13 per ounce.


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#ifndef _FXIOTARGETKM_H_
#define _FXIOTARGETKM_H_

FORCEINLINE
FxIoContext::FxIoContext(
    VOID
    ) :
    FxRequestContext(FX_RCT_IO),
    m_MdlToFree(NULL),
    m_OriginalMdl(NULL),
    m_BufferToFree(NULL),
    m_OriginalSystemBuffer(NULL),
    m_OriginalUserBuffer(NULL),
    m_OtherMemory(NULL),
    m_CopyBackToBuffer(FALSE),
    m_UnlockPages(FALSE),
    m_RestoreState(FALSE),
    m_BufferToFreeLength(0),
    m_MdlToFreeSize(0)
{
}

FORCEINLINE
FxIoContext::~FxIoContext(
    VOID
    )
{
    //
    // Free the buffer allocated for the request, reset m_CopyBackToBuffer
    // to FALSE.
    // NOTE: We delay the freeing of the buffer on purpose.
    //
    ClearBuffer();

    //
    // Free the MDL allocated for the request
    //
    if (m_MdlToFree != NULL) {
        //
        // Being defensive here, MmUnlockPages should have been done in
        // ReleaseAndRestore.
        //
        if (m_UnlockPages) {
            MmUnlockPages(m_MdlToFree);
            m_UnlockPages = FALSE;
        }

        FxMdlFree(m_DriverGlobals, m_MdlToFree);
        m_MdlToFree = NULL;
    }
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoContext::ReleaseAndRestore(
    __in FxRequestBase* Request
    )
{
    FxIrp* irp = NULL;

    irp = Request->GetSubmitFxIrp();

    if (m_RestoreState) {
        irp->SetSystemBuffer(m_OriginalSystemBuffer);
        irp->SetUserBuffer(m_OriginalUserBuffer);
        irp->SetMdlAddress(m_OriginalMdl);
        irp->SetFlags(m_OriginalFlags);
        m_OriginalSystemBuffer = NULL;
        m_OriginalUserBuffer = NULL;
        m_OriginalMdl = NULL;
        m_OriginalFlags = NULL;

        m_RestoreState = FALSE;
    }

    //
    // If there was a buffer present don't free the buffer here so that
    // it can be reused for any request with the same size.
    // Similarly if there was an MDL to be freed unlock the pages but dont free
    // the Mdl so that it can be reused.
    //
    if (m_MdlToFree != NULL) {
        if (m_UnlockPages) {
            MmUnlockPages(m_MdlToFree);
            m_UnlockPages = FALSE;
        }

        m_DriverGlobals = Request->GetDriverGlobals();
    }

    //
    // Release the 2ndary buffer if we have an outstanding reference
    //
    if (m_OtherMemory != NULL) {
        m_OtherMemory->RELEASE(this);
        m_OtherMemory = NULL;
    }

    //
    // Release the other buffer and all __super related fields
    //
    __super::ReleaseAndRestore(Request);
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoContext::ClearBuffer(
    VOID
    )
{
    if (m_BufferToFree != NULL) {
        FxPoolFree(m_BufferToFree);
        m_BufferToFree = NULL;
    }

    m_BufferToFreeLength = 0;
    m_CopyBackToBuffer = FALSE;
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoContext::CopyParameters(
    __in FxRequestBase* Request
    )
{
    switch (m_MajorFunction) {
    case IRP_MJ_WRITE:
        m_CompletionParams.Parameters.Write.Length =
            m_CompletionParams.IoStatus.Information;
        break;

    case IRP_MJ_READ:
        m_CompletionParams.Parameters.Read.Length =
            m_CompletionParams.IoStatus.Information;
        break;

    case IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL:
    case IRP_MJ_INTERNAL_DEVICE_CONTROL:
        m_CompletionParams.Parameters.Ioctl.Output.Length =
            m_CompletionParams.IoStatus.Information;
        break;

    default:
        ASSERT(FALSE);
    }

    if (m_BufferToFree == NULL) {
        return;
    }

    if (m_CopyBackToBuffer) {
        FxIrp* irp = Request->GetSubmitFxIrp();

        if (irp->GetUserBuffer() != NULL) {
            //
            // UserBuffer contains the caller's original output buffer.
            // Copy the results back into the original buffer.
            //
            if (m_MajorFunction == IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL ||
                m_MajorFunction == IRP_MJ_INTERNAL_DEVICE_CONTROL) {
                ASSERT(irp->GetInformation() <= m_BufferToFreeLength);
            }

            RtlCopyMemory(irp->GetUserBuffer(),
                          m_BufferToFree,
                          irp->GetInformation());
            m_CopyBackToBuffer = FALSE;
        }
    }
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoContext::CaptureState(
    __in FxIrp* Irp
    )
{
    m_RestoreState = TRUE;
    m_OriginalSystemBuffer = Irp->GetSystemBuffer();
    m_OriginalUserBuffer = Irp->GetUserBuffer();
    m_OriginalMdl = Irp->GetMdl();
    m_OriginalFlags = Irp->GetFlags();
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoContext::SetBufferAndLength(
    __in PVOID Buffer,
    __in size_t   BufferLength,
    __in BOOLEAN CopyBackToBuffer
    )
{
    PVOID pOldBuffer;

    pOldBuffer = m_BufferToFree;
    m_BufferToFree = Buffer;
    m_BufferToFreeLength = BufferLength;
    m_CopyBackToBuffer = CopyBackToBuffer;

    if (pOldBuffer != NULL) {
        FxPoolFree(pOldBuffer);
    }
}

FORCEINLINE
_Must_inspect_result_
NTSTATUS
FxIoTarget::InitModeSpecific(
    __in CfxDeviceBase* Device
    )
{
    UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(Device);

    DO_NOTHING();

    return STATUS_SUCCESS;
}

FORCEINLINE
BOOLEAN
FxIoTarget::HasValidStackSize(
    VOID
    )
{
    return (m_TargetStackSize == 0 ? FALSE : TRUE);
}

FORCEINLINE
VOID
FxIoTarget::Send(
    _In_ MdIrp Irp
    )
{
    //
    // Ignore the return value because once we have sent the request, we
    // want all processing to be done in the completion routine.
    //
    (void) IoCallDriver(m_TargetDevice, Irp);
}

#endif // _FXIOTARGETKM_H_


Porsha meets with a matchmaker, Sheree finally tells her children about the domestic violence she experienced, and more.
NeNe and Porsha attempt to "talk out their differences" once again and it just spirals into another drama-filled combative situation.
NeNe is worried about Gregg due to his dangerously low heart rate, Sheree clashes with another wedding planner, and more.
NeNe Leakes stopped by "Watch What Happens Live" where she responded to Porsha's shade with her own shade.
The reality star got the boot after telling a heckler she hopes they get raped during a recent comedy show.
When "so nasty, so rude" is tew much.
You better think twice before you accuse Mrs. Leakes of having a roach-infested home!
The drama can't stop & won't stop.


ChefConf 2018 is coming up quickly (May 23-25 in Chicago, IL): one of the key themes of this year's conference is support for the major cloud platforms from Microsoft, AWS and Google. In the next few days I'll focus on the content at ChefConf supporting these three clouds, from migration to operations to detecting and fixing defects in your cloud and hybrid app estates. Today, I'll highlight some of the sessions for Microsoft-focused organizations. ChefConf attendees who are using or evaluating Microsoft Azure will find a deep set of sessions and content focused on automating and managing apps across your entire Microsoft infrastructure. We're excited to have Microsoft as a Pinnacle sponsor for this year's event (and the sponsoring host of this year's Chef Community Celebration at House of Blues).
If you're coming to ChefConf and looking to learn more about Chef support for Azure, .NET, Windows and more, check out these workshops and sessions.
You have likely heard about Habitat and may have seen how it adds automation to application stacks such as Node, Ruby or Java. This presentation will focus on what Habitat looks like in a Windows world. We will look at authoring a Powershell based plan and building a Habitat package inside of a Windows container based Habitat Studio. We will build a simple ASP.Net application designed to run on IIS consuming data from a Sql Server database. We will also be exporting this application to a Windows container. We will be highlighting areas where Habitat development differs on Windows, point out some possibly unexpected gotchas and introduce some Windows specific habitat plan development patterns. In the end, listeners should walk away with a clear picture of how Habitat can fit in to their Windows development workflow.
With AKS you can eliminate the complicated planning and deployment of fully orchestrated containerized applications with Kubernetes, while simplifying your monitoring and cluster management through auto upgrades and a built-in operations console.
Avoid being locked into any one vendor or resource. Continue to work with the tools you already know, such as Habitat and Helm, and move applications to any Kubernetes deployment. Integrate with your choice of container registry, including Azure Container Registry.
We'll design a globally redundant ordering application with Microsoft Azure and Habitat. Using global traffic managers, Cosmos DB, and globally distributed virtual networks we'll sketch together a hosting topology that'll allow consumers to interact with our application with relatively low latency and with a high degree of fault tolerance. Using Habitat on this infrastructure will allow for a simple test \ build \ deploy pipeline and give us global delivery orchestration for free.
We'll tell the story of building our macOS community cookbook based on input from several members of the community at Community Summit, Lunch and Learns, and ChefConf 2017. Our experiences with developing specific, internal-use cookbooks for macOS led to a need for a centralized, heavily-tested core cookbook. Since the existing community cookbooks around macOS resources were designed for user workstation needs and not build and test environments, we created our own resources targeting developer needs.
We'll also talk about the day to day workflow of using Chef to support Office for Apple platforms, from cookbook build and release on Visual Studio Team Services to deploy production systems on our on-premises Mac lab, to configuring developer workstations with Vagrant and Parallels. We'll also discuss the issues and obstacles we overcame in developing Chef on macOS, and how we've helped paved these roads to be a bit easier.
Life's too short not to live without linting, snippets and continuous integration – think of all those cat videos you're missing out on! In this session we're going to show you how you can accelerate your development with Chef, InSpec and Habitat artifacts, no matter what Cloud or platform your deploying to, by leveraging Chef Extensions for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Team Services.
Visual Studio Code is a powerful, lightweight & open source code editor that runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Visual Studio Team Services provides services for teams to share code, track work and ship software – supporting any language and any platform.
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require "rubygems"
require "rspec"
require "json"

require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "recipes", "lib", "chef_dna_parser"))
require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "recipes", "lib", "chef_cap_helper"))
require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "recipes", "lib", "chef_cap_configuration"))

class TestCapConfiguration < Object; attr_accessor :test_dna, :tasks; end
class TestCapSession < Object; end
class TestCapRole < Object; end
class TestCapServer < Struct.new(:host); end
class TestCapMockNamespace < Object; attr_accessor :configuration; end

class FakeChefCapConfiguration

  def self.create(dna)
    chef_cap_file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "recipes", "chef_cap.rb")
    chef_cap_mock_file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "chef_cap_mock_cap.rb")

    fake_configuration = TestCapConfiguration.new
    ChefDnaParser.test_dna = dna
    fake_configuration.instance_eval(File.read(chef_cap_mock_file), chef_cap_mock_file)

    Dir[File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "recipes", "*.rb")].each do |file|
      fake_configuration.instance_eval(File.read(file), file)
    end
    fake_configuration.tasks.each do |task_name, the_proc|
      fake_configuration.class.class_eval do
        define_method task_name.to_sym do
          the_proc.call
        end
      end
    end
    fake_configuration
  end

end

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.mock_with :rspec
  config.after :each do
    ChefDnaParser.test_dna = nil
  end
end


It's the second week of the school term holidays here in New Zealand at the moment. After having a few days of bliss, then a couple of drama days, I didn't ever quite get into the swing of 'holiday fun' mode.
We had an extra child over to play today (Master 10's friend), and I asked a few of my facebook friends for ideas to entertain 5 children. The ideas ranged from locking them in the car while I went for a coffee by myself (I really liked that one), glitter and glue sticks (somehow I thought the two 10 year olds might not be too keen), feeding ducks, library visits, paper mache and letting them play with matches.
Hmmmm - so many ideas to choose from.
In the end I managed to have a bit of cheap fun with the kids, and somehow even squeezed myself a coffee in along the way (but decided against locking the kids in the car while I had it).
Never actually tell your kids that the little ride on toys outside of shops move and play music. So far so good!
Visit your local pet shop... free, fun and the animals are oh so furry and cute (except for the fish).
Buy some cheap toys and hope that they last more than a few hours before breaking.
Make the most of McDonald's cones and $1 deals at the moment.
Educate your boys about frequencys on walkie talkies (and how you can pick up on other peoples) then trick your children while they are playing with their walkie talkies. I did a little 'big foot sighted in your area, all children indoors now' trick on Master 7... he was looking pretty scared for a while there!
In the end, a great day was had by all - we also visited a local park, the kids played 'cops and robbers' (not very PC these days is it), had a picnic lunch outdoors etc.
There are actually lots great things to do with kids that don't cost the earth if you take a moment to think abou it.
I might save the other ideas up for later in the week (minus the matches one)!
oh mine ACTUALLY did the matches one...now we have a trip to the fire station planned and a brown hole on our lino in the laundry.
great post and well done on your cheap day out.
Great list! We're headed for the pet shop at some stage too. Always a winner - unfortunately I always want to come home with a cute puppy.
We love going to the pet shop. Unfortunately someone fed the machine and now the girlies what to feed it too. A great bribe treat to get us through shopping.
It doesn't sound like you needed anyone else's ideas. You did great on you own.
My cousin used to play with matches quite frequently. I remember once that the fire truck had to come put out one of his fires. He grew up and became a responsible husband, father and career guy.


Buy a pre-owned or antique second-hand watch and you're buying a timeless piece of history. It's a bold statement, but only works when you make the correct purchase. The hunt for antique and pre-owned watches can be merciless and you'll face fakes or overpriced pieces. When looking for quality at the right price, always inspect before bidding on an auction or buying from a dealer.
Check for dents and scratches, the condition of the wristband, the inner mechanism, model numbers and whether the glass is original. Let's show you how perfection should work with our selection of watches available on auction right now at Sotheby's.
Time has proven pocket watches are high class no matter which century you wear them. This piece comes from the turn of the 20th century and boasts a gold cuvette and white enamel. Both Roman and Arabic numerals are featured and the watch is powered by manual winding nickel lever movement. Case number: 96118 Recommended for bluebloods and hipsters.
Cartier never goes out of fashion and this Gold and Silver masterpiece, which comes with a 24 month Cartier international guarantee (a rare sight indeed), compliments any wrist. The all Roman numerals hide a secret signature at VII and the inner minute and second divisions tell you the time straight. Best worn by men of sophistication.
This Fully-jewelled piece is what every Al Pacino gangster character would have worn. You get the class with the magnified aperture for date at 3 o'clock and reeded gold bezel and enjoy its longevity thanks to the gold and stainless steel Rolex Jubilee bracelet.
If you seek a subtle watch, then this wristwatch with cal.1001 manual winding movement from Vacheron & Constantin is the way to go. The silvered dial only makes the 18ct gold pieces shine brighter. The watch is fully jewelled and features applied baton indexes, subsidiary seconds and a circular case. The best thing an intellectual can possess.
Heuer offers a truly masculine watch with the full black dial and revolving bezel calibrated for tachometer scale. A watch can tell time in many ways and this one knows them all thanks to its outer minute and 1/5 seconds track, subsidiary dials for constant seconds, and the 30 minute and 12-hour registers. Perfect for adventurers among you.


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BAM Nuttall awarded $10.3mn contract to build Antarctic wharf
By Daniel Brightmore
BAM Nuttall has won a construction contract worth $10.3mn to build a new wharf at the remote Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The project is part...
BAM Nuttall has won a construction contract worth $10.3mn to build a new wharf at the remote Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The project is part of a major investment programme to modernise the UK's Antarctic infrastructure.
Commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) the wharf will enhance the safety and efficiency of ship operations at King Edward Point (KEP) Research Station (KEP). Construction work on site is envisaged to be undertaken between January and May 2020. Site supervision, engineering and project management support is being provided to BAS by its Technical Advisor Ramboll.
The station, owned by GSGSSI and operated by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), provides critical research to support sustainable management of the marine environment and living resources in this bio-diversity hotspot in the Southern Ocean. The wharf, concept design by Ramboll and engineered design by BAM, will see the existing structure extended to last another 50 years, and an additional 'dolphin' added – an 11m x 11m outpost off the main wharf, this will provide the extra capability required to berth the new polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
The wharf will also be compatible with the GSGSSI fishery patrol vessel Pharos SG the Royal Navy ice patrol ships. BAS researchers at KEP will use the wharf and slipway to operate Government harbour patrol boats, rigid inflatable hull boats (RIBs), scientific survey boats and workboats.
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Engineering consultancy Ramboll and construction expert BAM were chosen to partner with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to modernise UK Antarctic and other research facilities, enabling British scientists to continue delivering world class research into some of the most important issues facing our planet. This is the second South Georgia project for the companies. Last year they successfully completed the refurbishment of nearby BAS Bird Island Research Station.
Surrounded by spectacular scenery, dominated by mountains and glaciers the Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia is an important haven for wildlife. Research and monitoring conducted there helps to underpin the sustainable management of the territory's marine environment which includes ecosystem-based fisheries management with catch limits agreed internationally by the Commission for the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and protection provided by a 1.24 million km2 Marine Protected Area (MPA).
King Edward Point Research Station lies at the entrance to King Edward Cove, a small bay within Cumberland East Bay, which is situated mid-way on the northern coast of South Georgia. It is about 1,400km (860 miles) south-east of the Falkland Islands. South Georgia is around 170 km long and between 2 km and 40 km wide, with its highest point being Mount Paget (2,960m) in the Allardyce range. Access to the islands is by ship only.
The Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation (AIM) Programme will transform how British Antarctic Survey enables and supports frontier science. Commissioned by the NERC, this long-term programme will enable a world-leading capability to ensure that Britain remains at the forefront of climate, biodiversity and ocean research in the Polar regions. Together with the commissioning of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, this modernisation programme represents the largest UK Government investment in polar science infrastructure since the 1980s.
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