"DS" has never really stood for anything. Well, that's not entirely true - it's stood for Drill Spirits, Dual Strike, Dawn of Sorrow, Deadly Silence, Dal Segno, Dermatan Sulphate - but in the grander sense it's never really been given a purpose.
From the Wii's perspective though (and you'll excuse me if I apportion sentience to it within two paragraphs, but it makes me feel better when I'm hugging it), DS must seem like a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its phenomenal, delightful success paints Nintendo as a company admirably determined to innovate and capable of doing it. But on the other hand, its phenomenal, delightful success took a while to justify itself, with a slack launch line-up remembered more for novelties than imagination in depth.
And so to the Wii, where initial expectations are similar. Wii Sports, for one, has been devalued by the preponderance of pre-launch pondering, and instead of rescuing the game, Nintendo has only amplified its perceived slightness, bundling it with the console to capture the interest of gamers outside traditional channels, and failing to demonstrate any depth during celebri-tedious presentations featuring Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski and Germany's own Mystery TV Man.


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A chassis is the car's internal framework that supports the body and other parts like the wheels, engine, transmission, driveshaft, differential, and suspension. A weak or damaged chassis will translate to a weak car. To have a strong and properly working vehicle, have your car's chassis checked for defects. At Westmoreland Transmissions, there are experienced undercar service providers who can work on your chassis.
The differential is a car part that compensates for the difference in travel distance between the inner wheels and outer wheels when the vehicle is turning. Due to the differential's position in most non-four-wheel-drive (FWD) vehicles (located at the rear and under the car), it does not get any of the star treatment the engine gets. The one thing that every car owner needs to know is that failure of the differential will mean failure of the car. To save the differential from failure, you need to have differential fluid changed every 30,000 to 50,000 miles. Changing the oil on the differential is as important as changing the car's engine oil. Although checking and changing differential oil is pretty easy, you need to visit an auto shop to get a comprehensive differential flush. For differential flush services, visit or call Westmoreland Transmissions in Arlington, TX 76015 today.
The differential transfers the engine power to the wheels. One important function of the differential is to pass on power to the wheels while allowing them to rotate at different speeds - thus the name differential. When turning, the outer wheels travel a larger distance than the inner wheels do (also the front wheels travel a longer distance than the rear wheels). This means that all four wheels travel at different speeds during a turn and this is where the differential comes in to help. To make sure your vehicle's differentials are working properly, have them checked regularly. Contact Westmoreland Transmissions today for differentials examination and servicing.
A driveline is a part of your motor vehicle that connects the engine and the transmission to the wheel axles. The driveline consists of the parts of the powertrain less the engine and transmission. Failure of the driveline means that the car would not move since energy cannot be transmitted from the engine to the wheel axles. Therefore, make sure that your car's driveline is regularly inspected and serviced. And, at Westmoreland Transmissions, you can have the driveline serviced by experts.
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What is Choices' role in our community?
Choices specializes in care coordination. It is our role to partner with the family and youth, service providers, system partners, and community supports to create a community team focused on the success of that family and youth. Through this partnership, a Choices care coordinator works closely with the each community team to establish a highly individualized "plan of care" and determine what services and supports are needed to meet the team's goals. Choices develops strong community provider networks to ensure each plan and its related services are built upon each youth and family's unique strengths and needs. Choices does not provide services such as therapy, counseling or behavioral support. In doing so, Choices ensures that all services identified by the team are done so within a conflict-free and unbiased team environment. When youth and families are equal partners, and help drive their care, we can assure that we are not just providing individualized care, but providing a venue for families to grow and become their own coordinators of care.
members of the child and family team work together to meet the goals of the youth and family.
increasing family driven care to ensure individualized treatment planning.
An initial child and family team meeting may be held within 10 days of referral, and again every 30 days, or more frequently as needed. This may also vary by state, program, and child.
What is the role of a family member?
dispute the treatment plan and be told what that might mean for the child's health.
What are the roles of providers and community members?
participate actively in the care coordination process.
The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) is a multi-purpose tool developed to support team decision making, including service planning and levels of care. The CANS is also used to monitor outcomes of service and facilitate quality improvement initiatives. Versions of the CANS are currently used in 25 states, in child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and early intervention programs.
What is a system of care? What is a wraparound?
A system of care is a framework for providing a wide array of strengths-based supports to individuals and their families. This framework is centered on family and youth empowerment, evidence based/informed practice, cultural responsiveness, and requires multi-agency collaboration to provide support in an individualized, flexible, and least-restrictive manner.
Wraparound is a process of individualized care planning for youth with complex needs and their families. The wraparound process is strengthened when a system of care is in place to support the needs of youth and families. Wraparound is not a service.
At Choices, we believe everyone is capable of success. The center of our approach is based on the system of care and wraparound philosophies, and supported by strong company values and a wealth of experience in serving youth with mental, emotional and behavioral needs.


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Acro 1, 2 & 3- Ages 4+
Acro is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with acrobatics. We are inspired by the beautiful professional dance performances of Cirque du Soleil and want to harness that joyful movement in our Acro classes!
Unlike conventional gymnastics, we do not use an apparatus in this class. The tricks performed in this class are typically taught on mats and eventually move to the floor. Students in this class will improve their strength and flexibility to execute the moves demonstrated in an Acro routine safely. This fun and dynamic class is a favourite for kids who are always on the move and is offered at several levels to accommodate the various degrees of expertise and strength.
Accelerated Ballet A, B & C
By invitation only, these ballet classes are for students who show the potential to train at a higher level, are focused and self-disciplined, and are interested in working hard to improve at an accelerated pace. The accelerated ballet program gives students who are ready to be challenged the opportunity to train in a more professional environment, alongside other talented and hard-working dancers.
Adult Ballet – Ages 18+
All adult ballet participants train at the barre and in the centre, executing a series of classical ballet exercises designed to develop coordination, strength, proper posture, and musicality. These classes are a fun and creative way to stay in shape, move to music, and build long, lean muscle definition.
Beginner Level: Our introductory class is for those who have always wanted to dance but never had the chance. Begin your dance journey in a fun and welcoming environment!
Intermediate Level: These classes are great for those who have previous experience and want to stay or get back into dance.
Ballet – Ages 4+
Ballet offers students a sense of discipline and achievement and is an excellent foundation for all dance styles! Our students will become familiar with training at the barre and in the centre, gaining confidence by executing a series of classical ballet exercises. Our class focuses on developing strength, posture, coordination and musical awareness.
A vibrant and entertaining class suitable for all beginners, this Bollywood class offers an expressive form of movement inspired by popular Indian films. Fusing classical Indian steps with folk, Latin and hip-hop styles, this engaging class is fast-moving and fun!
Creative Movement - Ages 2-3
Fun songs and images fill our Creative Movement pre-ballet classes, and young children are guided towards understanding and enjoying the fundamentals of ballet. These classes are open to both boys and girls and are a wonderful introduction to structured dance training.
Drama 1 & 2 - Ages 6+
It is not uncommon to walk past drama classes and hear roaring laughter. We encourage students to step outside of their comfort zones to try this fun, interactive class! No previous experience necessary.
Our Drama classes encourage students to gain confidence with public speaking and promote body awareness by developing skills through reading and interpreting dramatic literature, analyzing characters, listening critically, and speaking effectively.
Drama provides group and individual activities in body control, voice, diction, and pantomime. Students will build on their skills by creating characters, projecting and interpreting their ideas and emotions, and preparing and acting in various scenes.
Hip Hop - Ages 4-Adult
Hip hop is a high-energy class that infuses the latest styles of street dancing, breaking, popping, and locking. Classes will encourage students to step outside the box by bringing their style and personality to the movements. The class includes upper and lower body conditioning and a rigorous warm-up to help prepare the students for more intense movements.
Jazz - Ages 4+
Jazz is a lively and expressive dance form that combines contemporary moves with classic ballet technique. This is a high-energy class loaded with fun that encourages rhythm, coordination, strength, and flexibility. We typically divide our jazz class into three parts: warm-up, across the floor, and choreography.
A jazz class's pace is much quicker than a ballet class and is conducive to high-energy dancers who like to jump and move. Many of the entertaining moves taught in jazz classes are commonly seen in Broadway shows and musicals. Music in this class ranges from the current top 40 tunes on the radio to classic rock, pop, and jazz songs with an upbeat tempo.
Junior Company
By invitation only, this group of dancers has a keen interest in many dance disciplines. The schedule consists of four classes a week minimum in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and/or musical theatre. Our Junior Company dancers enjoy spending several hours each week honing their skills. If you have a dancer aged 5-7 years who you think might be a good fit, please contact us. We love to encourage dedication and enthusiasm in our promising young dancers!
Lyrical - Ages 8+
Express yourself! Lyrical dance combines elements of ballet, modern, and jazz techniques. We set the dances to music with vocals and let the choreography tell the story. Lyrical dance uses gestures, emotions, and drama. The method in a lyrical class is more contemporary than conventional and is very expressive.
Since this class focuses primarily on choreography, it is recommended for dancers who have had training in other dance disciplines or are currently taking additional dance classes.
Mighty Movers (Pre-Hip Hop) - Ages 2-3
If your little one just loves to move and shake it up, this class is for them! We set our high-energy dance steps to age-appropriate music during this class. Watch your child develop strength and coordination and improve their motor skills, sense of rhythm, and musicality, all while enjoying the songs and beats that energetic kids love most!
Modern - Ages 6+
Modern is an expressive form of dance that explores the movement of the body and the expression of emotion through dance and the elements surrounding us. These classes will focus on contractions, spirals, basic floor work, and elemental concepts of space, time, and force to develop technical proficiency, musicality, and rhythmic accuracy. By not teaching one specific modern technique, we aim to educate our students on multiple professional methods and encourage them to express their creativity and grow their movement vocabulary through improvisation.
Musical Theatre - Ages 4+
Musical theatre is a comprehensive triple threat program combining the art of singing, acting, and dancing. Drama games and exercises are used to promote improvisation and trust, ensuring that all of the dancers develop greater self-confidence when performing. We emphasize learning performance skills, such as connecting with the audience and telling a story through dance and facial expressions. Skills, including theatre dance, partnering, acting, character development, and chorus singing, will be additional.
This entertaining class is fun for everyone but might be best suited for performers with big personalities or those who are eager to break out of their shell!
Each year, we select ballet students to take their training to the next level (literally!). Pointe students must take more than one ballet class per week and must first complete the proper "pre-pointe" training period, which includes extensive strengthening of the feet, ankles, and lower legs.
In this class, exercises emphasize turnout, pointing of the toes, and maintaining general ballet technique while on pointe.
Each fall, new pointe students are accompanied by the studio director or their teacher to the Shoe Room at Canada's National Ballet School to be correctly fitted for their first pair of pointe shoes. This is a huge step and a very memorable occasion in a ballet dancer's life!
Tap - Ages 4-Adult
Tap classes are designed to develop rhythm, style, and sound. Students will learn a variety of tap styles from Broadway to Rhythm tap. Exercises focus on building flexibility of the knee and ankles, coordination, and speed of movement. The class emphasis is on developing proper tap technique, producing clear tap sounds, and having fun. As students progress through each level, the curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
Tiny Tappers - Ages 3-4
Calling all tiny tap dancers! Our introductory tap classes are designed to give children the opportunity to develop rhythm and the sounds of basic tap progressions.
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Marines' LS3 robotic mule is too loud for real-world combat
Five years and $42 million later, the robodog project is shelved.
Andrii Degeler - Dec 29, 2015 2:48 pm UTC
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The kickable "robotic mule," also known as AlphaDog or LS3, created by Alphabet-owned Boston Dynamics under a contract with DARPA, has proved too loud to fight alongside the US Marines. Following an extended test period during the "Rim of the Pacific" military exercise last year, the project has been suspended.
The Legged Squad Support System (LS3) was created to carry heavy equipment for the Marines during marches, bearing a load of up to 400 pounds (180kg). This would have provided much-needed relief for the fighters: the average soldier is supposed to carry no more than 72 pounds (32kg) when marching and 48 pounds (22kg) when fighting, but paratroopers fighting in Iraq in 2003 carried up to 101 pounds (46kg). In total, about $42 million (£28 million) was awarded to Boston Dynamics to develop the robodog.
Unfortunately for those over-laden soldiers, however, the military exercise clearly showed that LS3 in its current state is not suitable for real-life use by the US Marine Corps, Military.com reports.
"As Marines were using it, there was the challenge of seeing the potential possibility because of the limitations of the robot itself," said Kyle Olson, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. "They took it as it was: a loud robot that's going to give away their position."
The mule's engine can be heard from far away.
The robotic mule is fitted with a petrol-powered engine that produces significant noise when working; some have likened it to the sound of an angry swarm of bees. Under the same contract with DARPA and the Warfighting Lab, Boston Dynamics built a quieter, electrically powered and hydraulically actuated robot known as Spot. However, the mule's little brother could only carry about 40 pounds (18kg), which is clearly not enough for the marines.
"I see Spot right now as more of a ground reconnaissance asset," captain James Pineiro, the Ground Combat Element branch head for the Warfighting Lab, told Military.com. "The problem is, Spot in its current configuration doesn't have the autonomy to do that. It has the ability to walk in its environment, but it's completely controller-driven."
In addition to that, it is unclear how both robots could be repaired if they break down on the move.
For the time being, both the LS3 and Spot projects have been put on hold. The developers don't plan any future experiments or upgrades unless the Marines give the Warfighting Lab a new contract. Instead of that, the lab is experimenting with unmanned vehicles, including drones for reconnaissance and medical resupply purposes.
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==2017 Spring== Tuesday 2:25pm, B211 1/31, 2/7: Fan I will talk about the Hanson-Wright inequality, which is a large deviation estimate for random variable of the form X^* A X, where X is a random vector with independent subgaussian entries and A is an arbitrary deterministic matrix. In the first talk, I will present a beautiful proof given by Mark Rudelson and Roman Vershynin. In the second talk, I will talk about some applications of this inequality. Reference: M. Rudelson and R. Vershynin, Hanson-Wright inequality and sub-gaussian concentration, Electron. Commun. Probab. Volume 18 (2013). 3/7, 3/14 : Jinsu Title : Donsker's Theorem and its application. Donsker's Theorem roughly says normalized random walk with linear interpolation on time interval [0,1] weakly converges to the Brownian motion B[0,1] in C([0,1]). It is sometimes called Donsker's invariance principle or the functional central limit theorem. I will show main ideas for the proof of this theorem tomorrow and show a couple of applications in my 2nd talk. Reference : https://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/ps-pdf-files/donsker.pdf ==2016 Fall== 9/27 Daniele Stochastic reaction networks. Stochastic reaction networks are continuous time Markov chain models used primarily in biochemistry. I will define them, prove some results that connect them to related deterministic models and introduce some open questions. 10/4 Jessica 10/11, 10/18: Dae Han 10/25, 11/1: Jinsu Coupling of Markov processes. When we have two distributions on same probability space, we can think of a pair whose marginal probability is each of two distributions. This pairing can be used to estimate the total variation distance between two distributions. This idea is called coupling method. I am going to introduce basic concepts,ideas and applications of coupling for Markov processes. Links of References http://pages.uoregon.edu/dlevin/MARKOV/markovmixing.pdf http://websites.math.leidenuniv.nl/probability/lecturenotes/CouplingLectures.pdf 11/8, 11/15: Hans 11/22, 11/29: Keith Surprisingly Determinental: DPPs and some asymptotics of ASEP I'll be reading and presenting some recent papers of Alexei Borodin and a few collaborators which have uncovered certain equivalences between determinental point processes and non-determinental processes. ==2016 Spring== Tuesday, 2:25pm, B321 Van Vleck 3/29, 4/5: Fan Yang I will talk about the ergodic decomposition theorem (EDT). More specifically, given a compact metric space X and a continuous transformation T on it, the theorem shows that any T-invariant measure on X can be decomposed into a convex combination of ergodic measures. In the first talk I introduced the EDT and some related facts. In the second talk, I will talk about the conditional measures, and prove that the ergodic measures in EDT are indeed the conditional measures. 2/16 : Jinsu Lyapunov function for Markov Processes. For ODE, we can show stability of the trajectory using Lyapunov functions. There is an analogy for Markov Processes. I'd like to talk about the existence of stationary distribution with Lyapunov function. In some cases, it is also possible to show the rate of convergence to the stationary distribution. ==2015 Fall== This semester we will focus on tools and methods. [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/images/a/ac/Reading_seminar_2015.pdf Seminar notes] ([https://www.dropbox.com/s/f4km7pevwfb1vbm/Reading%20seminar%202015.tex?dl=1 tex file], [https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg7kcgyf3nsukbx/Reading_seminar_2015.bib?dl=1 bib file]) 9/15, 9/22: Elnur I will talk about large deviation theory and its applications. For the first talk, my plan is to introduce Gartner-Ellis theorem and show a few applications of it to finite state discrete time Markov chains. 9/29, 10/6, 10/13 :Dae Han 10/20, 10/27, 11/3: Jessica I will first present an overview of concentration of measure and concentration inequalities with a focus on the connection with related topics in analysis and geometry. Then, I will present Log-Sobolev inequalities and their connection to concentration of measure. 11/10, 11/17: Hao Kai 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15: Chris : 2016 Spring: 2/2, 2/9: Louis 2/16, 2/23: Jinsu 3/1, 3/8: Hans ==2015 Spring== 2/3, 2/10: Scott An Introduction to Entropy for Random Variables In these lectures I will introduce entropy for random variables and present some simple, finite state-space, examples to gain some intuition. We will prove the MacMillan Theorem using entropy and the law of large numbers. Then I will introduce relative entropy and prove the Markov Chain Convergence Theorem. Finally I will define entropy for a discrete time process. The lecture notes can be found at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~shottovy/EntropyLecture.pdf. 2/17, 2/24: Dae Han 3/3, 3/10: Hans 3/17, 3/24: In Gun 4/7, 4/14: Jinsu 4/21, 4/28: Chris N. ==2014 Fall== 9/23: Dave I will go over Mike Giles' 2008 paper "Multi-level Monte Carlo path simulation." This paper introduced a new Monte Carlo method to approximate expectations of SDEs (driven by Brownian motions) that is significantly more efficient than what was the state of the art. This work opened up a whole new field in the numerical analysis of stochastic processes as the basic idea is quite flexible and has found a variety of applications including SDEs driven by Brownian motions, Levy-driven SDEs, SPDEs, and models from biology 9/30: Benedek A very quick introduction to Stein's method. I will give a brief introduction to Stein's method, mostly based on the the first couple of sections of the following survey article: Ross, N. (2011). Fundamentals of Stein's method. Probability Surveys, 8, 210-293. The following webpage has a huge collection of resources if you want to go deeper: https://sites.google.com/site/yvikswan/about-stein-s-method Note that the Midwest Probability Colloquium (http://www.math.northwestern.edu/mwp/) will have a tutorial program on Stein's method this year. 10/7, 10/14: Chris J. [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~janjigia/research/MartingaleProblemNotes.pdf An introduction to the (local) martingale problem.] 10/21, 10/28: Dae Han 11/4, 11/11: Elnur 11/18, 11/25: Chris N. Free Probability with an emphasis on C* and Von Neumann Algebras 12/2, 12/9: Yun Zhai ==2014 Spring== 1/28: Greg 2/04, 2/11: Scott [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~shottovy/BLT.pdf Reflected Brownian motion, Occupation time, and applications.] 2/18: Phil-- Examples of structure results in probability theory. 2/25, 3/4: Beth-- Derivative estimation for discrete time Markov chains 3/11, 3/25: Chris J [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~janjigia/research/stationarytalk.pdf Some classical results on stationary distributions of Markov processes] 4/1, 4/8: Chris N 4/15, 4/22: Yu Sun 4/29. 5/6: Diane ==2013 Fall== 9/24, 10/1: Chris [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~janjigia/research/metastabilitytalk.pdf A light introduction to metastability] 10/8, Dae Han Majoring multiplicative cascades for directed polymers in random media 10/15, 10/22: no reading seminar 10/29, 11/5: Elnur Limit fluctuations of last passage times 11/12: Yun Helffer-Sjostrand representation and Brascamp-Lieb inequality for stochastic interface models 11/19, 11/26: Yu Sun 12/3, 12/10: Jason ==2013 Spring== 2/13: Elnur Young diagrams, RSK correspondence, corner growth models, distribution of last passage times. 2/20: Elnur 2/27: Chris A brief introduction to enlargement of filtration and the Dufresne identity [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~janjigia/research/Presentation%20Notes.pdf Notes] 3/6: Chris 3/13: Dae Han An introduction to random polymers 3/20: Dae Han Directed polymers in a random environment: path localization and strong disorder 4/3: Diane Scale and Speed for honest 1 dimensional diffusions References:
 Rogers & Williams - Diffusions, Markov Processes and Martingales
 Ito & McKean - Diffusion Processes and their Sample Paths
 Breiman - Probability
 http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~beresty/Articles/diffusions.pdf 4/10: Diane 4/17: Yun Introduction to stochastic interface models 4/24: Yun Dynamics and Gaussian equilibrium sytems 5/1: This reading seminar will be shifted because of a probability seminar. 5/8: Greg, Maso The Bethe ansatz vs. The Replica Trick. This lecture is an overview of the two approaches. See [http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2267] for a nice overview. 5/15: Greg, Maso Rigorous use of the replica trick.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday that users of the company's new mobile payments system, Apple Pay, registered 1 million cards on the service in its first three days. That's bad news for two of the nation's top drug stores, CVS and RiteAid, which are disabling the already-installed register technology upon Apple Pay relies.
Why wreck a tech that's already installed in your stores? Because CVS and RiteAid are part of a group of companies that also includes heavy-hitters like Walmart working on a mobile payment system of their own called CurrentC.
From a retailer's perspective, CurrentC has several advantages over Apple Pay. Most importantly, it's designed to sidestep the fees that retailers have to pay credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard every time a customer makes a credit card purchase, marking their latest move to duck those charges. Apple Pay, meanwhile, has the support of credit card companies because it keeps those fees intact. CurrentC also keeps customers' data in the hands of retailers, while Apple Pay encrypts customers' purchases, making it impossible for the retailers to track shoppers and advertise to their interests. If CurrentC has an advantage over Apple Pay from a customer's perspective, it's that it works with older phones that lack Near-Field Communication (NFC), a necessary ingredient for Apple Pay that's only found in the newest iPhones and higher-end Android devices.
By disabling NFC (which also affects Android owners using Google Wallet), CVS and RiteAid are essentially trying to stamp out Apple Pay before it gains millions of users, further institutionalizing Visa and MasterCard's fees. The problem? They're too late. To disable a service that's already showing such staggering popularity is a profoundly consumer-unfriendly move. If Apple Pay users love the service as much as Cook's early figure suggests, they could be willing to change their shopping habits to match — goodbye CVS, hello Duane Reade.
It's also a bold gambit that retailers have a better shot than one of the world's most successful technology companies of succeeding where so many have failed before: convincing shoppers it's easier to pay with the flash of a phone rather than the swipe of a card. Given its very early success here, the smart money's on Apple. Still, whether Apple Pay will crush the competition or simply open a door for rivals — by getting customers used to paying with a phone — remains to be seen. As consumers, though, we're in for a long platform battle.


Singapore has a fine airport and port already. But this is a country that is always moving forward, so it is not surprising that government leaders think they can do better.
Singapore is transforming its infrastructure to fend off competition from the seas to the skies.
The island-city plans to begin operating its fifth terminal at Changi Airport, Asia's second-busiest international aerodome, by 2030 to cater to growing travel demand, Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Transport Lam Pin Min said in parliament Thursday. A new shopping and retail attraction named Jewel, housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall, will open next month at Changi.
Singapore has been investing to expand its airport, port and overall transport infrastructure as a swelling middle class in the Asia Pacific region allows an increasing number of people to fly and more trade crosses its borders. Air-passenger traffic in the region is expected to more than double in the next two decades, the International Air Transport Association said.
Jewel Changi Airport will offer early check-ins, dining options as well as retail therapy for travelers and shoppers alike when it is open to the public in mid-April. Walking trails, canopy mazes and slides at the top level of the facility will open later this year. Changi is also revamping existing terminals to allow it to handle more passengers and increase automation for its baggage system.
Changi Airport handled a record 65.6 million passengers last year, 5.5 percent more than in 2017.
Where ships are concerned, Singapore expects to begin operating a new port in the western part of the island in 2021 when the first phase of construction is completed. The government is moving the port facilities to Tuas from its current prime location in a waterfront area near the central business district to free up space for development.
Singapore is also preparing to provide liquefied natural gas as fuel to vessels at its port by 2020, Minister Lam said. That's when shipping companies will be required to meet more stringent global rules set by the International Maritime Organization to cut sulfur emissions, mostly through the use of cleaner fuel or by installing exhaust-cleaning equipment on board vessels.
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Two weeks into the season, former Tar Heels from 1998 to 2017 are making strong plays and shooting big shots.
The North Carolina women's golf team tied for ninth place out of 18 teams over the weekend with a 42-over par at The Landfall Tradition in Wilmington.
It still hasn't settled in for sophomore Ryan Gerard.
85 minutes and 17 seconds separated the No. 3 UNC women's soccer team's (10-2-1, 5-0-0 ACC) two goals in its 2-1 win at Notre Dame on Thursday night.
For the North Carolina men's cross country team, it was good to be back. The men's team got its feet back on the ground, placing fifth out of 23 schools and beating out No. 12 Campbell. The women placed 14th out of 23 teams.
The No. 2 North Carolina women's soccer team lost on the road to No. 1 Stanford 2-1 in overtime on Sunday night. The loss puts the team at 5-2-1 on the season, and is its second loss in a row. With the win, Stanford improved to 6-0 on the season.
Once upon a time, major league baseball players thrived in Chapel Hill. Author Anne R. Keene recently released a book, titled "The Cloudbuster Nine," about a team of MLB players who played while at a Navy training school at UNC in 1943. The team of fighter pilots never had their story told until now, by Keene, the daughter of their bat boy.
The Carolinas clashed on Tuesday night as the North Carolina softball team fell to No. 24 South Carolina, 5-0, in Columbia, S.C. It was the first of the Tar Heels' six road games. The Tar Heels fell to 5-5 after their third loss in a row.
On Feb. 17, 1974, UNC's Tony Waldrop set an indoor mile world record of 3:55. Forty-four years later, the 2018 North Carolina men's and women's track and field teams set some records of their own. In the UCS Invitational this past weekend in Winston-Salem, UNC took first place in two events and second in two others. It was the team's final event of the indoor regular season before the ACC indoor track and field championships.
Redemption isn't only important in basketball. The women's lacrosse team looks to a rigorous season with top-rated first-years and key returners.


You'll find funny images posted online, called 'memes'. However, this word has been used far longer in the scientific world. So, what is a 'meme' then?
This photo of Turkish grill chef Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae, is one of the most popular memes of the year. Photo: Instagram.
The internet is a social world in itself. Just like in real life, you'll find countless trends on the web. They can vary between funny pictures such as Salt Bae (look above), to Rick Roll jokes. There's also trends that equally find place both in real life and on the web, like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. This is when someone is filmed having a bucket of ice thrown over their head, and this film is shared online with friends so that the challenge gets passed on. All these things fall under the category of 'memes' within cyber culture. However, that word was already in use long before the internet even existed!
The word 'meme' was first thought up by British biologist, Richard Dawkins, when he used it is in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. He aimed to recognize how elements of culture spread from person to person, similar to trends on the internet. Dawkins intentionally searched for a word that would be similar to 'gene', the term used to describe a unit of DNA. In actuality, he realized that culture behaves just like genes in our DNA, usually following the same laws of biological evolution.
Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution states that all life on the planet develops according to a particular pattern. First and foremost, all living creatures differ in a variety of ways, ranging from their bodies to specific features ('variation'). Furthermore, all living things find themselves in an environment where only those individuals with the most useful traits survive ('natural selection', also referred to as 'survival of the fittest'). Those creatures that survive pass their traits onto their young ('heredity'), and as result, life on Earth differs with every following generation.
It is obviously not the case that only living creatures share these three properties of variation, natural selection and heredity. You could also apply them to elements of culture. Take for instance, language. We constantly make up new words (variation) that spread from person to person (heredity). However, only the words that actually have the right traits, because they are perhaps quite funny or are easy to use, are the words that become popular (natural selection). A word is therefore a nice example of a 'meme': an element or part of culture that spreads according to the laws of evolution.
Memes that we find online, are not exactly the same as the memes that Richard Dawkins introduced in his book. The big difference, according to Dawkins, is that memes on the web are made intentionally by people. This means that variation doesn't happen randomly, which is the case by genes.
But is this correct? Usually people don't really know whether or not a meme is going to be funny in the cyber community. The majority of jokes online are incredibly far-fetched (or 'random').
It's definitely true that many online users feel strongly about needing to be heard. Almost everyone has tried to create a funny image or pun (i.e. wordplay or double meaning), and sometimes the joke is a hit and goes viral. So, was that really the point? Of course! But by the time the creator has realized how popular their meme has become, they've already lost the battle against evolution.
This blog was written by Jeroen. Edited: Mahur. Translated: Marpessa.


Any thing that has to do with the spirit world or realm of another level and powers of covens, spirits, magic its all supernatural. The Supernatural world does not just stop with witches, but with other mythological creatures and the world of Divination. Here are the foundations of the supernatural realm to the top. Within each page you will find the next level in the basics of Magic, so blessed be and Merry part!


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States Get Extensions On Real ID Act
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted extensions to every state as well as the District of Columbia and all five U.S. territories.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has eased the pressure on states to comply with its controversial Real ID requirements.
DHS announced this week that it has granted Real ID extensions to every state in the country, as well as the District of Columbia and all five U.S. territories.
The 9/11 Commission stressed the need for secure identification documents and Congress issued mandates in the Real ID Act of 2005. It requires states to incorporate information and security features in identification cards and drivers' licenses, obtain proof of identity and U.S. citizenship or legal status of applicants, verify the source if applicants' documents, and set security standards for the offices that issue the cards. Congress imposed a May 11 deadline for state compliance.
Several states, including Maine, Arizona, Minnesota, South Carolina, and Washington, opposed the Real ID Act because of costs and privacy concerns. The National Governors Association, the American Bar Association, the American Conservative Union, the Council of State Governments, Gun Owners of America, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and other groups also opposed the Real ID Act.
Maine was the first state to pass a bill opposing the act and the last state to meet the requirements for an extension. This week, the state agreed to plan for secure identification. If the state had not acted, DHS would have barred airport workers from accepting Maine drivers' licenses from people wishing to board commercial aircraft and security officers would have prevented use of the driver's licenses for access to some federal buildings and property after May 11.
Maine Governor John Baldacci promised to try and pass a law stopping the state's practice of issuing licenses to illegal U.S. residents. He also took steps to pass state laws that would bring Maine closer to an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policies and use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to verify documents presented by noncitizens. Baldacci's legislation would also cause licenses issued to legal noncitizens to expire when the alien's legal status ends.
He also said lawmakers and state officials would evaluate methods, like using facial recognition or similar technology, to ensure that people don't have more than one Maine ID.
Earlier this year, DHS realized that many states could not meet the requirements of the Real ID Act by May 11. The extensions give states until Dec. 31, 2009, to implement the requirements.
By Dec. 1, 2014, people who are 50 years old and under will be required to present compliant identification to board commercial aircraft or access certain federal facilities. By Dec. 1, 2017, all state-issued licenses and identification cards must be Real ID-compliant.
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Another influenza season seems to have begun. Have you and your loved ones been vaccinated yet?
In many countries with *temperate climates, there is a sharp rise in the *incidence of flu in winter. But why do flu viruses thrive during the coldest season? Some scientists *attribute the spread of these *microbes to cold and dry air. Interestingly, however, in equatorial countries, where people suffer from the flu throughout the year, the number of cases peaks during the monsoon or rainy season - in other words, during the wettest time of the year. As *renowned Japanese biologist Dr. Shin-Ichi Fukuoka puts it, viruses, unlike bacteria or germs, should be categorized as "between organic matter and inorganic matter." Therefore, they behave *in peculiar ways. In fact, their true nature is yet to be fully known.
温暖な気候の多くの国では、冬のインフルエンザの発生率が急激に上昇しています. しかし、インフルエンザウイルスは、なぜ寒い時期に活発になるのでしょう?一部の科学者は、これらの微生物の広がりは、寒くて乾燥した空気の所為だと考える科学者もいます.しかしながら、興味深いことに、1年を通してインフルエンザに罹患している赤道諸国では、モンスーンや雨季にピークを迎えるのです. - 言い換えれば、最も湿った時期に、です. 著名な日本の生物学者の福岡信一博士は、ウイルスは、バクテリアや細菌と違って、「有機物と無機物の間」に分類されるべきであると考えています. ですから、奇妙な状態を呈するのです. 実際、それらの真の性質はまだ完全に知られていません.
Talking about health problems reminds me of another *ailment known to some as "stomach flu." While I lived in the US, I often heard this term mentioned among my friends in winter. According to their explanation, stomach flu, such as norovirus, causes sudden stomachaches and extreme *nausea. At that time, I could not think of any Japanese name for it. Later, I found out that *pathologically speaking, these symptoms suggest *gastroenteritis, which can be either a bacterial or viral infection of the stomach and *intestines and *has nothing to do with the influenza virus. Somehow, people in the US customarily refer to it as a kind of flu.
健康上の問題について話をすると、「胃インフルエンザ」と呼ばれる別の病気が思い起こされます. 私は米国に住んでいるうちに、冬には私の友人の間でこの言葉をよく聞きました. 彼らの説明によると、ノロウイルスのような胃のインフルエンザは、突然の腹痛やひどい吐き気を引き起こすのです. その時、日本での病名は思いつきませんでした. その後、私は病理学的に言えば、これらの症状は胃腸炎の症状を示しているのです. 胃腸炎は胃や腸の細菌感染やウイルス感染のいずれかであって、インフルエンザウイルスとは関係ありません. どういうわけか、米国の人々は習慣的にそれをインフルエンザの一種と呼んでいるのです.
When I talked with one of my British friends about "stomach flu" recently, she said she had never heard of it. She added that in the UK, you often hear people say "stomach bug" instead. I guess people in each region have their own conventions regarding illnesses and their names.
Although medical science and technology have revealed and solved many disease-related mysteries, traditional beliefs *tenaciously survive in the everyday lives of general people. I suppose such ideas may well be found in Japan, too.
「三四郎」の1節に、里見 美穪子が小川 三四郎に「迷子」の英訳が、「ストレイシープ」: "stray sheep"だと教える場面を思い出しています.


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UK's Prime Minister Switching To A Nissan LEAF? UK Government Agencies Adding 140 ULEVs To Fleets
James Ayre
The UK's Ministry of Defence, Home Office, Foreign Office, and Commonwealth Office are set to add at least 140 ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) to their fleets as part of a broader £5 million cross-departmental push to move away from "gas guzzlers," according to recent reports.
As the headline implies, the Government Car Service — which is the provider of vehicles for ministers in the UK — will reportedly be adding 4 ULEVs. It's not yet clear what models these will be.
With regard to the total "140 vehicles" figure above — there will be Nissan LEAFs, Toyota Priuses, Kia Soul electric vehicles (EVs), Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), and Volvo V60 hybrids, amongst other models, according to a spokesperson from the Department of Transport.
This mass addition of ULEVs is intended as the beginning of an initiative to demonstrate the substantial benefits of such vehicles to the general public — setting an example, essentially. The aim of this demonstration also being to inspire public sector fleets and businesses to embrace the technology over the coming years.
The Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, noted that the adoption of ULEVs was "the right thing to do" — with regard to representing tax payers, being a steward of the environment, and supporting the UK auto industry.
"This is an important step. These cars will save taxpayers money on running costs and will bring low emissions benefits to our fleet. Today's announcement proves that Britain is leading the electric charge while supporting the growth of this important industry."
The broader push for ULEVs will also see the installation of numerous electric vehicle charge-points all throughout the country.
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What's on at Wadestown Library?
Nau mai haere mai, welcome to the Wadestown Library webpage. Here you will find information about our branch, the programmes we run and our special events. Thanks for visiting. We hope to see you in the library soon!
Local Wadestown PIN group (Plunket in the Neighbourhood) Coordinator, Anna O'Meeghan, says it's a real bonus having the lounge area at the local library as it allows new parents the chance to get out of the house to meet others and their babies in a pleasant and relaxed setting.
New PIN groups are set up on a regular basis and are one of a number of services offered by the local Wellington Plunket Committee which covers Wadestown, Wilton, Thorndon, Te Aro, Kelburn ,Northland and Highbury.
The committee is always keen to welcome new members and if you are interested in being involved with Plunket activities would love to hear from you - please contact Anna on 499-2092.
Wadestown Community Centre Advocate, Louise Davies, along with the branch Library staff, enjoys welcoming such groups into the library and provides free tea and coffee for parents who are able to use the area on a regular basis.
Bookings can be made through the Community Centre Advocate on Phone 499-1825.
Wadestown Community Coordinator Louise Davies is based at Wadestown Library.
Her office hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30am - 3:30pm.
Wadestown Library has a dedicated community space available for group meetings and events. This is a comfortable area with some kitchen facilities available. There is also a selection of fun board-games available for use in the Community Space including Scrabble, Monopoly, Cranium, SkipBo, Uno and Connect 4.
To book the space or for more information please contact the Community Coordinator.
Wadestown Library is a relaxing and friendly community space where you can enjoy reading or socialising. Please contact us if you'd like to know more.


SANTA FE, N.M. — We've already told you how San Francisco conceptual artist Tom Marioni has brought his concept of drinking beer with friends as an installation to SITE Santa Fe.
Now we discover that drinking beer with friends is not just art — it's also anthropology!
Paul Hooper and Simon DeDeo, research fellows at the Santa Fe Institute, along with other colleagues have studied how drinking beer socially expresses patterns of reciprocity. In other words, you buy me a beer, I'll buy you one. Invite me over to your house for a brew, and I'll soon invite you to mine.
Hooper and his partner Ann Hooper Caldwell recently kept track of who invited whom over to drink chicha in Bolivia. Their findings, reported in the journal "Entropy": People related to each other drank beer together more often, but etiquette did not require them to return hospitality as quickly as when they drank beer with unrelated people.
Wait a minute — inviting people over to drink this is actually considered a favor?


The Wood Energy Interest Group (WEIG) maintains this website as a portal to all information on the use of wood energy in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
The Bioenergy Association represents the Oceania bioenergy and biofuels industry. We provide assistance and a wealth of bioenergy information to support members' business and promote their expertise and capabilities in the New Zealand, Australian and Pacific bioenergy sectors.
The Association is a collective of people who believe that by working as a group we can make more progress than by acting individually. A quarter of membership fees is a pooled fund of money to undertake activities to grow the sector and develop best practice standards. If you want to work with others to ensure that bioenergy solutions contribute to a sustainable future you should join the Association.
By working collectively we have a bigger voice for the sector and putting a strong case for bioenergy and biofuels. As a member of the collective you shape the messages and the actions to make bioenergy and biofuels relevant.
The WEIG is the operational arm of the Bioenergy Association responsible for the Association's wood energy programmes, policies, standards and advocacy.
The WEIG supports members' wood energy business activities by undertaking advocacy for the use of wood energy, provides independent information on wood energy to the public and investors, and assists the Association establish and maintain best practice standards.Through a programme of information sessions, workshops and other events, the WEIG promotes the supply and use of quality wood fuel. Its members include leading providers of wood fuel and suppliers of heat plant technologies as well as asset owners who want to ensure there is a reliable supply of quality wood fuel for their facilities.
The WEIG focuses on the development of sector technical guides and other resources promoting quality wood fuel standards, along with the Association's Wood Fuel Supplier Accreditation and Wood Energy Adviser Registration schemes. Membership is open to any Bioenergy Association member with an interest in wood energy.
The WEIG Committee has reviewed the assumptions for growth in the use of wood energy over the next two decades and summarised this in Information Sheet 32: GHG reduction using wood energy for heat.
The WEIG has also developed a series of recommendations on what would assist the switch from fossil fuels to wood energy for heat production. If you would like to participate in this work contact the Executive Officer.
Members of the Bioenergy Association are welcome to discuss any bioenergy or biofuels matter on a confidentual basis with the Executive Officer. The Executive Officer is independent and has a wealth of sector knowledge and experience which members can tap into for free.
The WEIG has formed dedicated sub groups where members address specific wood energy sector issues.
The Air Quality Sub group is addressing the inconsistencies and barriers to installation of wood fuelled heat plant across the regions. If you are aware of problems with the air quality plans and policies in in any region or wish guidance on any air emission matter contact the Executive Officer.
Wood pellet producers and retailers of residential wood pellet heaters are working together to address the installation standards across different jurisdictions in New Zealand and Australia. An installation standard and guide for installation best practice are being developed. This will lead to development of training courses and establishment of an installer accreditation scheme.
A market development plan is under development.
The Training and Professional Development sub group oversees a suite of short courses which are open to members and non members. New courses are continuously being developed and if you have a topic that you think needs greater attention you are encouraged to contact the Executive Officer.
The Wood Fuel Supply sub group is curently preparing a projection of the likley wood fuel supply across all regions for the next 20-30 years. This projection will be updated annually and published on this website.The sub group has a programme of work to provide assurance to wood energy facility owners that adequate wood fuel will be available for the economic life of their facility.
Joining the Wood Energy Interest Group of the Bioenergy Association is quick and easy. The sooner you join, the sooner you'll begin to enjoy member benefits. Download and complete the Bioenergy Association membership application form (includes fees). As a member of the Association you are then elegible to be a member of the WEIG for free. Contact the Executive Officer to discuss how you can benefit from Bioenergy Association membership.


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Q: install docker-ce on redhat 8 I try to install docker-ce on redhat 8 but it failed
first, I try
# systemctl enable docker
Failed to enable unit: Unit file docker.service does not exist.

So, I want to install docker-ce for the daemon
# yum install yum-utils
# yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
# yum repolist -v
# yum list docker-ce --showduplicates | sort -r
# yum install docker-ce

but in this step, I have got this :
# yum install docker-ce
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:58 ago on Fri 26 Jul 2019 02:11:48 PM UTC.
Error:
 Problem: package docker-ce-3:19.03.1-3.el7.x86_64 requires containerd.io >= 1.2.2-3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - package containerd.io-1.2.2-3.3.el7.x86_64 is excluded
  - package containerd.io-1.2.2-3.el7.x86_64 is excluded
  - package containerd.io-1.2.4-3.1.el7.x86_64 is excluded
  - package containerd.io-1.2.5-3.1.el7.x86_64 is excluded
  - package containerd.io-1.2.6-3.3.el7.x86_64 is excluded
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

I create a redhat account, but I have got this problem :
# subscription-manager register --force
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: xxxxxxxxxxx
Password:
The system has been registered with ID: 6c07b574-2601-4a84-90d4-a9dfdc499c2f
The registered system name is: ip-172-31-11-95.us-east-2.compute.internal
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 566, in load
    ret = self._repo.load()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libdnf/repo.py", line 503, in load
    return _repo.Repo_load(self)
RuntimeError: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhui-client-config-server-8'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 173, in update_check
    self._sync_with_server(uep, consumer_uuid)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 477, in _sync_with_server
    combined_profile = self.current_profile
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 430, in current_profile
    module_profile = get_profile('modulemd').collect()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/profile.py", line 347, in get_profile
    profile = PROFILE_MAP[profile_type]()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/profile.py", line 54, in __init__
    self.content = self.__generate()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/profile.py", line 76, in __generate
    base.fill_sack()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 400, in fill_sack
    self._add_repo_to_sack(r)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 135, in _add_repo_to_sack
    repo.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 568, in load
    raise dnf.exceptions.RepoError(str(e))
dnf.exceptions.RepoError: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhui-client-config-server-8'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sbin/subscription-manager", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('subscription-manager==1.23.8', 'console_scripts', 'subscription-manager')()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/scripts/subscription_manager.py", line 85, in main
    return managercli.ManagerCLI().main()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 2918, in main
    ret = CLI.main(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cli.py", line 183, in main
    return cmd.main()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 506, in main
    return_code = self._do_command()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 1368, in _do_command
    profile_mgr.update_check(self.cp, consumer['uuid'], True)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 457, in update_check
    return CacheManager.update_check(self, uep, consumer_uuid, force)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 183, in update_check
    raise Exception(_("Error updating system data on the server, see /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log "
Exception: Error updating system data on the server, see /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log for more details.

A: Disabling the container-tools module (installed by default) resolves the conflict: dnf module disable container-tools
However, you first need to install the container-selinux dependency, which is provided by the same module:
[root@centos8-2gb-hel1-1 ~]# yum install container-selinux
...
[root@centos8-2gb-hel1-1 ~]# yum module disable container-tools
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:02 ago on Mon Feb 10 16:31:17 2020.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================================
 Package                     Architecture               Version                     Repository                   Size
======================================================================================================================
Disabling modules:
 container-tools

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Complete!

The docker-ce package can now be installed normally with the previously installed container-selinux version and the new containerd.io depdency:
[root@centos8-2gb-hel1-1 ~]# yum install docker-ce
Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:26 ago on Mon Feb 10 16:31:17 2020.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================================
 Package                           Arch        Version                                    Repository             Size
======================================================================================================================
Installing:
 docker-ce                         x86_64      3:19.03.5-3.el7                            docker-ce-stable       24 M
Installing dependencies:
 libcgroup                         x86_64      0.41-19.el8                                BaseOS                 70 k
 tar                               x86_64      2:1.30-4.el8                               BaseOS                838 k
 containerd.io                     x86_64      1.2.10-3.2.el7                             docker-ce-stable       23 M
 docker-ce-cli                     x86_64      1:19.03.5-3.el7                            docker-ce-stable       39 M

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================
Install   5 Packages

Total download size: 108 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

RHEL/CentOS 8 excluding the containerd.io package is related to the runc provide conflicting with the runc package from the container-tools module: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1756473
[root@centos8-2gb-hel1-1 ~]# yum provides runc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:21 ago on Mon Feb 10 16:31:17 2020.
...

containerd.io-1.2.10-3.2.el7.x86_64 : An industry-standard container runtime
Repo        : docker-ce-stable
Matched from:
Provide    : runc

runc-1.0.0-60.rc8.module_el8.1.0+237+63e26edc.x86_64 : CLI for running Open Containers
Repo        : AppStream
Matched from:
Provide    : runc = 1.0.0-60.rc8.module_el8.1.0+237+63e26edc

A: yum install docker-ce --no-best worked for me
( Installed:  docker-ce-3:18.09.1-3.el7.x86_64 and Skipped: docker-ce-3:19.03.1-3.el7.x86_64)

A: There is a dependency issue in Centos 8 which references the containerd from Centos 7.
Just install the containerd package manually, and it will work
yum install -y https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/7/x86_64/stable/Packages/containerd.io-1.2.10-3.2.el7.x86_64.rpm

A: My guess, due to a missing subscription you cannot download packages from repositories the docker-ce package needs. So first register for a development account with redhat, then subscribe your host using the subscription Manager (remember, no production usage allowed then) and then retry the installation.
Edit: Here are the subscription commands
subscription-manager register --username <yourname> --password <pw>
subscription-manager role --set="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
subscription-manager service-level --set="Self-Support"
subscription-manager usage --set="Development/Test"
subscription-manager attach

Edit: sorry i answered too fast. Just tried on a new rhel8. docker-ce-18.06.3.ce-3.el7 is the most current Version for rhel 8 and installs fine

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Treasurer Keating was on the 10-week campaign trail in the run-up to the December 1984 Federal Election. He was visiting Perth and promoting deregulation of the banking system.
This has an element of public humiliation – I was a journalism student but not a TV journo. I was very sing-songy and totally inexperienced. Am the one with crimped ginger hair – it *was* the 80s!
After the interview he sincerely asked us what we thought the ALP's chances were of winning the election and how their campaign was going.
He is much nicer when dealing with young people. Also the journalists were polite! It must have made his day.


Google's authoritative it easier for anybody — abnormally ability Google Docs users who absorb their canicule in the company's appointment software — to bound alpha new projects appropriate from the Chrome browser.
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Polar Code may be applied to smaller Arctic vessels
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A cargo ship sails through multi-year ice in the Northwest Passages. (Timothy Keane / Fednav)
At a recent Arctic Council shipping forum in London, the International Marine Organization said it's looking at expanding the Polar Code to smaller vessels.
"The entry into force of the Polar Code marked only the first phase of our effort to protect the pristine Arctic and Antarctic environments," said IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim to the recent Arctic Council shipping forum, held in London in early June.
The IMO, a United Nations agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution, is now putting attention on vessels that fall outside its mandatory regulatory regime, due to their size, Kim said.
In 2017, more than 20 smaller vessels and yachts transited the Northwest Passage, according to online sources. Apparently, none made it through the ice-choked waters last summer.
"We are well aware of the increased number of fishing vessels and pleasure yachts sailing in polar waters that do not fall under the provisions of the Polar Code," Kim said.
[New book on polar shipping offers key guidance to mariners]
The IMO was recently approved as an Arctic Council observer.
That will further strengthen the two organization's efforts in support of sustainable Arctic shipping, Kim said.
"From Theory to Practice" was the overall theme of the forum, which included presentations on implementing the Polar Code, with a focus on successes, impediments, and remaining challenges, a news release from the Arctic Council said.
Those at the forum also looked at a new website, which offers a one-stop, online source of information to support safe and environmentally sound Arctic shipping.
The website, accessible at www.arcticshippingforum.is, provides links to what shippers need to know about the implementation of and compliance with the Polar Code.
[A new Arctic Council database to offer clues about shipping yet to be]
For example, on the website, shippers can find links are available on the hydrographic, meteorological, and ice data information needed to plan for navigation in the Arctic.
Arctic States, intergovernmental organizations, classification societies, the shipping industry, marine insurers, and non-governmental organizations regularly contribute information to the website, the release said.
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Q: Send data on key 'Enter' - React I'm trying to send my fieldset when I press Enter, but my function does not return my console.log
Here is a fragment of my component :
{formIncomes === false && (

                            <form onSubmit={handleAddIncome} className="m-auto">

                                <input className="w-38 bg-gray-50 shadow-inner italic p-1 m-1 text-gray-500 text-xs" id="newIncomeName"
                                    name="newIncomeName"
                                    type="text"
                                    value={incomeCall}
                                    onChange={(e) => setIncomeCall(e.target.value)}
                                    onClick={handleClearIncomeCall}
                                />

                                <input className="w-38 shadow-inner italic p-1 m-1 text-gray-500 text-xs" id="newIncomeAmount"
                                    name="newIncomeAmount"
                                    type="text"
                                    value={incomeNum}
                                    onChange={(e) => setIncomeNum(e.target.value)}
                                    onClick={handleClearIncomeNum}
                                />
                            </form>

                    )}

Here is my function :
    const handleKeyPress = (e) => {
        if (e.key === 'Enter') {
            console.log('Enter pressed')
        }
    }

Why is my console.log not responding when I press enter on my page ?

A: You're almost there, just replace onKeyPress with onKeyDown and it should work.
For enter, the keyCode will return 13. So you could
const handleKeyPress = (e) => {
    if (e.keyCode === 13) {
        console.log('Enter pressed')
    }
}

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/keypress_event

A: Use <form>and remove this function! :)
const handleSubmit = (data) => {
   console.log(data);
};

...

<form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
   <fieldset>
      <input ... />
      <input ... />
   </fieldset>
   ...
</form>

And when you to press enter will work ;)


Choose from a selection of mugs, prints, stationery, homeware & cards that are decorated with Anna's bird illustrations.
Lunching with the ladies, strutting on Friday night, hanging with the crew …birds do it best!
An assortment of unique and vibrant bird artwork featuring exotic and classic British birds in a flock of colourful designs. When it comes to finding something unusual and exciting in bird artwork these certainly come high up in the pecking order.


The subwoofer that we have is old and does not work very well, it does not have a very good acoustic range. For example, if we turn the volume up too loud, it starts to reverberate very bad. There are lots subwoofers on the market that we could choose from that would work great with our stereo and our sound requirements.


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An album cover being proclaimed as "groundbreaking" is a rarity in today's musical landscape. But when Lil Yachty unveiled the artwork for his major label debut "Teenage Emotions" — which is released today (May 26) on Quality Control/Motown/Capitol Records — it was met with that adjective.
The cover photograph shows the rapper flashing his rainbow grills while seated amid a spectrum of individuals that includes two young men kissing in the corner of the frame. Reactions across the Internet were mixed: many praised Yachty for depicting a gay couple on the cover of a major hip-hop release, while others took to Yachty's Instagram comment section with homophobic remarks.
Photographer Kenneth Capello, who shot the cover, tells Variety that while he knew the image was special, he didn't expect it to be so controversial. "I think hip-hop has changed quite a bit from the '90s going into the 2000s, with rap becoming so obsessed with [fashion] designers and this and that," he says. "You have all these designers who are gay, and [rappers] are aware of this, so maybe they cut the [gay] f-word out of some of their songs.
"I just didn't think it would be a big deal because [hip-hop] was much more homophobic 10 years ago,"Capello continues. "I'm going to credit the Internet and what I just spoke about that's changing it. But when it dropped on his Instagram and I looked through the comments, I was seeing all this anti-gay sh-t. It made me go, 'Oh, that's still where we're at.'"
Capello, who shot magazine covers for Yachty in the past and has worked with artists like ASAP Rocky and Pharrell Williams, explains that while the cover was conceived with designer Mihailo Andic, the idea came from Yachty himself. Capello cast the teens who appear in the image, as well as Yachty associates Erron Vercetti, Earl the Pearl, Mitch and Big Brutha Chubba, and set up the shoot at Yachty's high school gymnasium in Atlanta. While the assortment of individuals in the photo is diverse — including an albino man and a woman with vitiligo — the gay couple was actually two friends who knew each other and agreed to kiss for the photo.
"When I would cue them to start kissing, I could feel this funny energy," says Capello. "The principal and basketball coach were there and some of the mentors from high school were there and people were watching like, 'Huh?' But Yachty wanted it. When I did the casting, I was like, do you want the so-called outcasts growing up as a teenager? He was like, 'Yeah, I want the punks, the nerds, the gay kids. 'Teenage Emotions,' what you go through as a teenager.'"
Yachty, 19, previously explained his intention for including the rainbow of teens in the image. "I wanted to have all of these different aspects of teenage life," he said. "I thought about all the things I saw in high school for the first time that I had never experienced before. I had never seen two dudes kissing until high school. The topic of obesity was never that serious until high school. I had never seen vitiligo until high school. I'd never seen albino kids until high school. I'd never seen emo kids until high school. Then I just put my homies in the back. Everybody trying to say I put the black people in the back, I don't understand that. Those is my n—as and they just wanted to be in the picture, so I put them in the back."
Selena Gomez's "Rare" came in at No. 1 to top the Rolling Stone albums chart this week, debuting with 108,600 units. In a narrow victory, that put it just a hair ahead of Roddy Ricch's still powerful December release "Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial," which landed at No. 2 with 106,600 album units for [...]
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Michael Jackson's estate and BMI have renewed their pact for the publishing rights organization to represent the late singer's songwriting catalog, as it has since 1979. The length of the new deal was not announced, but it was last reupped in 2014. "The influence of Michael Jackson's revolutionary music is undeniable," Mike O'Neill, BMI's president [...]
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Though his latest few films haven't fared well at the box office, John Travolta can still crank out a hit on the residential front. The still-busy veteran actor and his wife Kelly Preston have secretly sold their longtime estate in L.A.'s prestigious Brentwood neighborhood for a whopping $18 million, as was first uncovered by the [...]


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South Dakota bans TikTok from government-owned devices
Governor Kristi Noem said the Chinese government is using TikTok data to 'manipulate the American people.'
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Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has signed an executive order prohibiting government employees, agencies and contractors from downloading and using TikTok on state-owned devices. In her office's announcement, Noem said she issued the order due to growing security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using the social media app to gather information from American users and leveraging it to manipulate them. The order is already in effect and also prohibits government personnel from visiting the TikTok website on browsers.
"South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us," Noem said. "The Chinese Communist Party uses information that it gathers on TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they gather data off the devices that access the platform."
US officials have been raising security concerns about TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, over the past few years over the belief that the Chinese government is using it to gather data. In 2020, then-President Trump attempted to block TikTok and WeChat in the US. While that didn't quite go anywhere, nearly the entire US military had banned the app on government-issued devices, calling TikTok a "cybersecurity threat." A couple of Republican Senators also introduced a bill in the same year that would ban all government employees from using TikTok on work-issued smartphones.
More recently, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr asked Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores after a BuzzFeed News report came out that China-based ByteDance employees repeatedly accessed US users' private information. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew assured Republican Senators in a letter after the report came out that the company is working with Oracle to protect the data of its users in the US "with robust, independent oversight." He also said that TikTok is working towards fully pivoting to Oracle cloud servers in the US to be able to delete US users' data from its own systems.
But Chew's assurances weren't enough to assuage officials' fears: FBI Director Chris Wray warned US lawmakers earlier this month that the Chinese government could use TikTok to launch "influence operations" through its recommendation algorithm or to "technically compromise" millions of devices. A TikTok spokesperson told Reuters that the "FBI's input is being considered as part of [the company's] ongoing negotiations with the US government." They added that TikTok is confident that it is "on a path to fully satisfy all reasonable US national security concerns" after working with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States over the past few months.
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HALLOWEEN Reboot with David Gordon Green and Danny McBride Actually a Sequel
Posted by Kyle Anderson on February 9, 2017
UPDATE—Friday, February 10: Applause to Danny McBride for setting the record straight right away. Less than 24 hours since the news broke about he and David Gordon Green co-writing a new Halloween movie, McBride explained to CinemaBlend the movie they're making is a sequel, NOT a remake as was previously believed. His full quote as follows:
"You know, it's not a remake" he said. "It's actually, it's gonna continue the story of Michael Myers in a really grounded way. And for our mythology, we're focusing mainly in the first two movies and what that sets up and then where the story can go from there."
So, just as Halloween: H20 completely ignored entries 4,5, and 6 in the series, Green and McBride's take will ignore Halloween: Water (a shame) and Halloween: Resurrection (probably for the best). So, then, will this be the fourth film to ACTUALLY be Halloween 3? (I'm counting Season of the Witch in this count)
Halloween II was a direct continuation of John Carpenter's 1978 classic and followed the Shape as he tried to finish off Laurie Strode after she's brought to a hospital. Dr. Loomis followed to finish off his former patient and we got a lot of backstory of Myers, including some interesting Samhain stuff. Will the new movie be set in the '80s? Will it now take place 40 years after the original and be about a 60-something year old Michael Myers? These are the questions.
See the original story, and John Carpenter's initial announcement, below!
PREVIOUS: If I were a betting man, and had the foresight to put money on who would be rebooting the Halloween franchise for the third time, I'd be a billionaire if I bet on the people who are apparently actually doing it. The odds must have been astronomically against the duo David Gordon Green and Danny McBride taking a stab at Michael Myers' story, but here we are, and John Carpenter himself is way on board. As relayed by The Tracking Board, Carpenter shared the news on his Facebook page, and heaped praise on the traditionally comedic pair.
So there you have it. Carpenter will be executive producing the movie along with Malek Akkad (whose father Moustapha Akkad produced the original films), Jason Blum of Blumhouse Pictures, and Green and McBride. Green will direct the picture from a script by both him and McBride. Seems strange for the guys behind things like Your Highness and Eastbound & Down to be going into horror? Well, not really; McBride said on an episode of the Nerdist Podcast that he used to write horror scripts all the time before making it big. And Green has directed many great and tough dramas, including All the Real Girls, George Washington, and Joe, which McBride also executive produced.
We're in a time now where comedians are getting more and more into non-comedic horror, as Jordan Peele's Sundance hit Get Out can attest, and a fresh and unique take might be just the thing for the franchise, which hasn't been riding very high in a good long while. TheRob Zombie reboot from 2007 and its 2009 sequel were certainly a direction to go with the property, but when you explore too much of Michael's family history, you lose the mystique of the character. If what Carpenter says is what I think he means–"They get it."–I think we're going to go back to the Shape well and truly just being a cipher onto which all of our fears and dread can placed. And if they could not do a scene-for-scene remake of the original, that would also be pretty cool.
Possibly the most exciting piece of this news is the prospect of Carpenter tackling the music. He's been primarily a musician for the past few years, with his Lost Themes albums and a world tour (one of my favorite concerts I've ever been to), so to see how he could do new music to a new vision of his classic horror movie something I want in my life.
This new take on Halloween is slated for October 19, 2018.
Are you excited? Are you ready to see the Shape stalk Haddonfield again? Let us know in the comments below!
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The Hilton Hotels HHonors points program is about to be devalued. Beginning January 15, 2010, points will be worth about 20% less than they are today, meaning it will take 20% more points to book a free hotel room at a Hilton property. The announcement has created quite a stir among Hilton HHonors program members and among hotel industry analysts.
Hilton did not send out a press release on the change, but says that members of the program were notified by either email or mail and that the changes were posted on their website, as well. Some members of the program received one free night voucher in the communication from Hilton, as well. In addition, the current point requirements will hold until Jan. 14, 2010, which means that you can book a stay for 2010 by that date. If you change your reservation after Jan. 14, the new rates will apply, the site says.
It seems that such a change will hit the most frequent travellers the hardest. Many business travellers belong to reward programs and choose their business hotel stays based on the points they can earn. They then redeem those points for personal vacation travel. According to Forrester Research, 35% of business travellers belong to a hotel loyalty program, and of that group, 27% use loyalty programs to earn free personal hotel stays.


All the while, many of these same students have never really played the piano. That is, they have spent their time practicing in preparation for the moment when they can "perform" for others.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if instead of learning how to play other peoples music, we could feel confident enough to create our own? Why is it so daunting a task for most of us? I think it's because we've been taught that only a very few gifted individuals are capable of producing music from scratch - whatever the genre. Rock, jazz, classical etc. Unfortunately, this belief is enough to stop most dead in their tracks and for those, whose spark of interest was lit in childhood, it soon turns cold and lifeless.
Now, playing the piano is entirely different than learning the piano. Here we are at home. Why? Because we are playing. So different an approach it is too! Children are allowed free-play and are even encouraged to do so. But as we grow up, we decide we must "make something worthy of performance." What a tragic error in thinking! Yet one that pervades the music world.


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El Torneig de Bogotà 2015, conegut oficialment com a Claro Open Colsanitas 2015, és un esdeveniment de tennis femení sobre terra batuda que pertany als International Tournaments de la WTA. La 23a edició del torneig es va celebrar entre l'11 i el 19 d'abril de 2015 al Club Campestre El Rancho de Bogotà, Colòmbia.

La tennista brasilera Teliana Pereira va guanyar el primer títol de la seva carrera, el primer per Brasil des de feia 27 anys, pocs mesos abans que la mateixa Pereira nasqués.

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