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Rackley, Beasley, Medlin & Parris Win Achievement Awards
Lewis Realty Associates, Inc is proud to announced that on Friday, April 28, 2017 - Chris Rackley, President was awarded the Topsail Island Chamber of Commerce's Man of the Year award.
The award is given each year with the winners being selected from chamber and community nominations. The strict criteria includes but is not limited to community, chamber and business involvement in the Great Topsail Island area that enhances an already great community.
Rackley, also a past Realtor of the Year, said afterwards, "I am very proud to have this award and bring it back to the main Lewis Realty office to share with the staff. This award truly is also for them as well with all the great support and time they have given to the company's and community's goals. Without them, this would not have been possible".
Jean Beasley, the director and founder of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital in Surf City, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award. Rackley said, " Ms. Beasley is a living legend and always comes to mind when thinking of Topsail Island. She has done much for the community and the endangered sea turtles."
Doug Medlin, the current mayor of Surf City and owner of East Coast Sports, also won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Medlin has been a life long resident and local business owner of several businesses throughout the year and also served on the Town Council for many years. Rackley said, "I was very pleased to hear Mr. Doug received the Lifetime Achievement Award not only is he a great asset to the community he is a man of values and treats everyone more than fair."
Tammie Parris won the Woman of the Year award for her tireless efforts with the Woman's Connect Program, The Topsail Island Chamber of Commerce and recently earning her college degree all the while having personal challenges of her own. Rackley said, "I did not have the pleasure of knowing Tammie personally but after hearing her story and her efforts she is very deserving of this award and others. She has amazing drive!"
The Topsail Island Chamber of Commerce is located at 13775 Hwy 210, Surf City, NC. It hosts many events and promotions throughout the year including the Topsail Island Jeep Week, Tag Party, Business After Hours and more. It also serves as a one stop shop for people interested in visiting, relocating or starting a business in the area.
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This week's guest on Famous Failures is Isaac Lidsky.
Isaac Lidsky is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, and coveted speaker. But that brief description doesn't do justice to his remarkable resume.
Lidsky was a child television star, appearing as series regular "Weasel" on NBC's "Saved By The Bell: The New Class." Lidsky left his acting career and went on to graduate from Harvard at 19 with an honors degree in mathematics and computer science. He returned to Harvard to study law and became the only blind person to clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court (for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg). He later took charge of a struggling construction company and grew it tenfold.
Lidsky was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative disease of the retina. From age 12 to 25, he slowly lost his sight. Using insights from his experiences, he authored the New York Times bestseller, Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly. He founded a nonprofit organization to fund the development of treatments for blinding diseases and within five years grew it to a dozen cities nationwide.
What follows is an edited version of our conversation. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
What have been some of the most valuable failures you've had in your life and what makes them valuable?
I'm reluctant to talk about them as failures, because I think failures and successes are really one and the same—opposite sides of the same coin. People far smarter than me have talked about how failure is fertile soil for progress and growth. It's largely cliché, but I think it's cliché for a good reason. Many of the "successes" you would point to included plenty of failures along the way, or mistakes, or accidents, or setbacks.
The construction business that I currently own with two partners, which I serve as chief executive officer, is an incredibly successful, thriving, growing business. It's blessed with a great team of people, a compelling vision, and a reputation of excellence in our industry.
The business began when my college roommate and I acquired the assets of a small, humble, residential construction company in Orlando. We meticulously analyzed the data and pored over spreadsheets. We went into the deal with the best intentions, and we certainly did our best based on what we knew at the time.
But looking back, we had no idea what we were doing. It was all but certain to be a disastrous mistake. We bought a company that wasn't treading water like we thought, but was sinking like a stone. It was hemorrhaging money. We clearly didn't do a very good job in our due diligence process.
That was a really tough moment in my life. About three months in, suddenly [my wife] Dorothy and I were talking about going through bankruptcy and moving in with her parents with our one-year-old triplets. It was a really dark time.
We were able to pull the team together and turn it around, and take some emergency measures. It's tempting to look back at this experience, adopt a revisionist history, and say, "Wow, we were really ahead of the curve with this buy. We had a great vision, and we did a great job."
I refuse to do that. Buying the business was a huge mistake, certainly given the price we paid for it. But having bought the business, we had to do what we had to do to turn it around.
Three months in, you were almost going through bankruptcy. How did you find the motivation to persist? Instead of quitting, what made you decide to forge ahead?
That's something that I cover in detail in my book, particularly in chapter three. When I think about our fear of failure and ongoing struggle in the face of big challenges, I think about Teddy Roosevelt's brilliant remarks about the critic and the strong man. To my mind, Roosevelt's critic embodies our fear of failure, a very pernicious force, this nasty voice in our mind that tells us what we can't do. It tells us what other people are going to think and say about us, and it can be really debilitating.
On the other hand, I'm convinced to my core that we are all born strong men and women. So when you read Roosevelt's remarks about the attributes of a strong man, I think that's who we are at our core. I think that is the profound truth that underlies the Nietzsche quote, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Our very existence is a series of moments of opportunity. The challenge is to silence that nasty critic in your mind—or at least, do your best to ignore it—and at the same time you harness your strength within, listen to that strong man inside you, and believe him.
I fought very hard to do that. As the business was collapsing around us, I was having panic attacks and quite frankly wanted desperately to throw in the towel. But I had a zealous commitment to accountability in my thoughts and my actions and a logical assessment of the situation. The opportunity we had gotten so excited about was as compelling as ever. The problem was that we had bought the wrong business, and certainly paid too much for it. So what? We decided to give it a go. It took a lot longer than we had hoped, and it was far more work than we had hoped, but eventually we were able to turn the business around.
The idea of the critic and the strong man goes well with another concept that you talk about in your book, which is the idea of the backward swimming fish. I'd love to hear a little bit more about that and how fear of failure can be a backward-swimming fish, and how that fits into the paradigm that you set up in the book.
With sincerity and no drama, I'll say that going blind really was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I mean it in a very specific way. As my sight progressively deteriorated, producing all these bizarre visual effects, I literally got to see firsthand the awesome power of the human mind to create a reality that we perceive as objective truth, as something that's out there beyond us.
But it's nothing like that. It's the imagination of the mind. This idea extends far beyond sight and into all aspects of our lives. This is the profound insight that I gained as I lost my sight. And it's been incredibly rewarding for me.
The circumstances that we confront in our lives do not dictate the reality we experience. How those circumstances manifest themselves in our lives, in our realities, is entirely within our control. It certainly doesn't always feel that way, and it's very hard to do, but it's important. [Controlling our realities] is a noble pursuit and it engenders a lot of great rewards. If you listen to the critic in your mind long enough and if you're not careful, you will believe him. Then the criticism becomes self-fulfilling. Once you believe him, it brings about the result you hoped to avoid in the first instance.
Think about someone who's a dancer, let's say, who loves their craft and finds joy in it, but is so terrified of the nasty reviews of both that internal critic and external critics, that it keeps them off the stage. They lose the joy in dancing and stop doing it altogether. To me, that's the allegorical heart-breaking example of this dynamic at work.
Taking control of your reality is understanding that these nasty messages you're getting from yourself, and this barrage of cues you're getting from what you see around you about what success should look like and what you should be doing, are really just noise. They don't need to govern your life, your behavior, or your decisions, unless you choose to let them do so.
I think fundamentally it is all choice. We choose in every single moment how we want to live our lives and who we want to be.
Yet that choice is so difficult to make when you're going through a catastrophic failure. Do you have any particular strategies that you use for viewing the inner critic more objectively and seeing the critic for what it is, which is, as you put it, just noise.
The critic really overwhelms us with scale. The critic presents this lofty, idealized view, soaring high above it all. It's a view in which the paths of progress are too small to see. The rate of progress appears painfully slow. You can take in the towering magnitude of your greatest aspirations, and it's overwhelming. For me, that's how the critic wins, with this lofty, idealizing perspective. What I try to do to quiet that critic is to focus on two pretty simple questions.
The first question is, what is it that I want to accomplish? Only you can define your success. When we let our critic do it for us, or anyone else for that matter, we cannot succeed, by definition. It's very easy to become confused by what it is we're even trying to do. What is important to you? How do you want to spend your time? What kind of an employee do you want to be? What kind of a parent do you want to be? What matters to you? What is your stake in this?
The second simple question is, what is my best immediate next step? It's obviously important to think long term and about strategy, but it's far too easy for us to get lost in that scale. You will never get from A to Z if you don't get from A to B. And the world is going to change a million times on your way from A to Z.
Momentum is an overlooked asset in life. Figure out the best next step and take it.
I like that a lot, especially the importance of momentum. Progress is the best motivator, as you said. If you put one foot after the other, before you know it, the distance behind you is longer than the distance ahead of you.
Absolutely. It's shifting your focus on what's important. The critic insists upon perfection, and lives in a world of comparison, of relative merit. The strong man values only effort, growth, and progress.
If you look at life that way, it starts to get a lot more fun.
Aside from the near failure with the construction company, are there any other failures that stand out to you?
There's a series of failures on the way to every success. I clerked for Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg. I had long been fascinated by the Supreme Court, and I applied four years in a row. I was rejected four times by all of the justices, except for one justice who accepted me the fourth time.
I used to joke that I was going to keep applying until I was older than the youngest justice. Again, you could say, "Oh, well, those weren't failures because it ultimately worked out." But I'll tell you, year three was tough and year four was even tougher. Again, I relied on those two simple questions: What am I trying to accomplish and what's my best next step?
You've made some pretty significant career pivots at different points in your life. You started out as an actor, and then you went into Math and Computer Science. You founded a tech company with one of your roommates, and then you pivoted into law and from law into entrepreneurship. What's the driving force? What's motivating you to make these pivots in your life?
Living and leading with eyes wide open really begins with zealous introspection as to who you want to be, how you want to live your life, how you want to spend your time, what you want to be doing, and what's important to you. Those things naturally change and evolve as we go through life. They change as we learn more about ourselves and about the various pursuits that we were once inclined to undertake. I understand that one can look at my "career path," and it seems very slap-dash.
As matters evolved for me, it was never about trying to fit pieces together linearly; it was more of a commitment to being honest and open with myself.
I always knew I wanted to go to law school. My father is a lawyer, and I loved the idea of studying law as a way of learning a new mode of thinking. Math is very similar. It's a different approach, to be sure, but it's also an analytical framework for how you view the world.
The Internet start up was an opportunity that presented itself, so I did that for a couple of years. When that became a "real job," so to speak, when we hired our own bosses, and it became more of a nine to five, I was no longer excited about it. So I left.
I had a great time in law school, and I had a phenomenal four or five year run in the public sector between the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, and absolutely loved it. I took the obvious next step of working for a huge international law firm. While there are people who enjoy it, and find it rewarding—and that's great for them—I wasn't one of those people. I was miserable. I had to do something about it, and so I did. That is what led to my current business pursuit.
As for my book, I feel so enormously blessed and lucky that I've had these insights of blindness. They've been so positive in my life, and I've long wanted to share them with others. A couple of years ago, my construction business had gotten to a point where our chief operating officer had earned the right and the opportunity to run it day in and day out. I stepped back from the day to day running of the business, at a time when a lot of folks thought that was an odd moment to make this choice. Bigger, better, and faster seemed to be the obvious choice. But I spent a good deal of time writing this book exactly the way I wanted to write it, and that was huge.
The book has led to, particularly after my TED talk, doing a lot of speaking. I spend most of my time traveling to give keynote addresses to corporations and organizations. I'm in the midst of what you could call another career. It's more of a passion project, a labor of love for me, but it is at the same time a whole new business that I'm in.
Do you have any parting thoughts on failure that you'd like to share?
Failure is perspective. Much like we grossly misperceive the force of luck in our lives, and misperceive all sorts of machinations of our mind, we also misperceive failure. In two very similar people, who are in exactly the same circumstances, the exact same event can produce completely different results. It can be the beginning of a demise for one, and a flourishing for the other.
The difference is choice and perspective.
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China might have its citizens internet and media mostly under control, but they've been having problems recently with cannabis entering their country through the mail, and they say Canada is partly to blame.
As quoted recently by CNN, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, called the influx of North American weed a "new threat to China," and has blamed both the federal adult-use legalization in Canada and the state-level legalization in the US as the cause.
The number of cannabis users in the country as also risen. Yuejin says that cannabis users in China grew by more than 25% in 2018, to a total of 24,000 people. CNN notes that he did acknowledge how small a portion of this is compared to the population at large.
If you consider that UN figures peg the population of the People's Republic of China at over 1.4 billion, the government's estimation means only 0.001% of the country partake in cannabis use. To put that in perspective, Stats Canada estimates that 17.5% of the Canadian population has used cannabis in the past three months.
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In total, Lou says that 155 packages were discovered to contain the green contraband, reaching a total of 55 kilograms (1,940 ounces) of cannabis and cannabis products.
The CNN report says the Chinese government is largely blaming foreign students or Chinese students returning home from working abroad. Yuejin did not comment on how much, only that a majority of the drug came from North America.
"They usually bought cannabis on the internet from overseas drug dealers, then transported it by international express delivery," he is quoted as saying in China Daily.
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As a Gavi donor since 2006, Germany contributes to Gavi through direct contributions via both the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the KfW Development Bank. The 2013 Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi marked Germany's first multi-year commitment to Gavi by a pledge of EUR 90 million over 2013-2015. As patron of Gavi's replenishment conference in Berlin in January 2015, Chancellor Merkel pledged EUR 600 million for Gavi over the 2016–2020 strategic period – an impressive milestone in Germany's history of support for the Vaccine Alliance.
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Mathilde Fossey était une actrice, chanteuse lyrique et demi-mondaine connue sous le nom de Geneviève Lantelme. Sa disparition mystérieuse à l'âge de vingt-huit ans lors d'une croisière sur le yacht de son second mari, Alfred Edwards, richissime patron de presse, contribua à sa légende. Réputée pour sa beauté, elle avait une foule de courtisans et d'amants dans le Paris de la Belle Époque, dont le banquier Henry Poidatz, commanditaire du tableau.

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Boldini représente Geneviève Lantelme en pied, comme si elle était sur scène, vêtue d'un robe Jacques Doucet en satin noir, coiffée d'un grand chapeau à nœud, un châle semblant flotter autour d'elle.

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Le portrait restitue toute l'arrogance et la fierté de cette femme, dont le charme se conjuguait avec un caractère séducteur, avide et manipulateur. Plantée sur ses longues jambes, les mains posées sur les hanches, fixant le spectateur, elle reprend la pose du Portrait de Georges Goursat, dit Sem que Boldini avait réalisé cinq ans plus tôt. Cette similitude crée un lien entre ces deux personnages d'effrontés.

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Member of Jamaat Ansarullah sentenced to 12 years in Tajikistan
ISTARAVSHAN, Tajikistan -- An Istaravshan court has sentenced a Tajik to 12 years in prison for belonging to the banned terrorist organisation Jamaat Ansarullah (JA), Akhbor.com reported Monday (August 12), quoting Ayubjon Kodirzoda, the chief judge of the trial.
The defendant, Khairiddin Yakubov of Sepula village, was found guilty of joining JA in 2005. He journeyed to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan in 2007 to attend a terrorist training camp, according to the court.
Yakubov, 37, said he had quit JA in May 2013, but the court found his claims unconvincing. He was an active JA member in Tajikistan, Russia, Afghanistan and Pakistan who enabled other JA members to commit serious crimes in Tajikistan, according to investigators.
JA, which took responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Khujand in 2010, has been banned in Tajikistan since 2012.
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Is there a building users guide explaining all aspects of how the building is best used to achieve green objectives? If not, when will there be one available?
Has an a air tightness test been carried out showing leakage rate of less than 15 cub m/hr/sqm at relative pressure of 50 Pa?
Is 95% (or more) of the usable area is naturally ventilated in accordance with SANS 10400-O (minimum 5% openable area)?
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The thing is……each of the trusses is not level with the next, so we have to fit purpose built "spacers" to each top cord before we can place the purlins. This takes a lot of time and effort. My arms are tired. My legs are tired. But my spirit is soaring!
Young volunteers stripping the Roof of the south room today. A lot more of this timber will need to replaced than was the case on the north room.


To me the most patriotic thing anyone can do is fight for our country. John McCain fought for our country as part of what turned out to be a wholly misguided war in Vietnam. He was held as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese, who abused and tortured him over many years. While I did not agree with the war, I honor and respect John McCain's patriotism. Unquestionably, John McCain is a patriot. The same is true with John Kerry. Granted not all soldiers put their lives in danger but those that do unequivocally demonstrate their patriotism, even if sometimes they do not feel particularly patriotic for having done so. Anyone who would criticize John McCain or John Kerry's patriotism because they do not wear an American flag lapel pin is a damned fool.
It appears to some that unless your actions conform to some strange right-winger's idea of patriotism then you are not really a patriot. It is curious that many of those criticizing Senator Obama and others for not wearing an American flag lapel pin have done little to nothing to demonstrate their patriotism other than wave the flag. Few of the people who led us into an unnecessary war with Iraq served in our armed forces. President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard but it was widely understood that he did so in order to avoid being drafted. He ended up in the Texas Air National Guard only because of his father's influence. Vice President Cheney had "other priorities" during the Vietnam War. He successfully dodged five draft attempts using educational deferments. Condoleeza Rice never came close to serving in the military. Richard Perle, who served on the Defense Advisory Board, which advocated the war, never served in the military. Nor did his special assistant Douglas Feith, who ran the Defense Department's controversial Office of Special Plans, which advocated for the war. Most of those who shrilly promoted the war for the media did not serve either. Rush Limbaugh managed to attain 4-F draft status based on a football knee injury. Many of those who had, such John Kerry and Colin Powell, were at least grounded in the magnitude of these actions, and worked to prevent them.
Which brings up something else that annoys me about these lapel pins. The real statement is that unless patriotism is reflexive, it is not real. If you are not a mouth organ for the state, particularly at a time of national crisis, you are not patriotic. Capitol Hill was awash with faux patriots in the days after 9/11. Politicians overwhelmingly marched in goosestep with the President when he said we had to invade Iraq. I did not. I worked like hell to prevent this war.
I learned everything I needed to know about Obama from his recent speech in San Francisco. We have nothing in common.
Pandering to change, with no substance is a Jimmy Carter routine.


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Theophilus London and Tame Impala Share New "Only You" Video: Watch
A reimagining of Steve Monite's iconic 1984 single
By Trey Alston
Theophilus London and Kevin Parker in "Only You" video
Theophilus London and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker have shared a new video for "Only You." Watch the Frankie Latina-directed video below. The track, from the collaborators informally known as "Theo Impala," reimagines Steve Monite's 1984 single of the same name. "Only You" premiered on Virgil Abloh's Beats 1 radio show "Televised Radio" on October 20.
Parker and London performed new collaborative tracks together at a sold-out show in West Hollywood earlier this month. The pair last collaborated in 2016 on "Whiplash."
Read Pitchfork's feature "Cosmic Neurotic: The Heady Perfectionism of Tame Impala's Kevin Parker."
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Police log: Subjects shining flashlights into Penn Township home
Kaitlin Greenockle
Hanover Borough Police
6:51 a.m. Criminal mischief was reported in the 900 block of Carlisle Street where graffiti was spray painted on a building.
9:43 a.m. Criminal mischief and criminal trespass charges are pending against a 40-year-old man, of Hanover, following an incident reported in the 1000 block of Keith Drive.
9:58 a.m. Billi Jo Connors, 37, of Hanover, was arrested for public drunkenness following an incident reported in the 600 block of Broadway.
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11:52 a.m. Disturbance involving a verbal argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 100 block of East Chestnut Street.
5:26 p.m. Harassment between a man and a woman was reported in the 100 block of South Railroad Street.
9:02 p.m. No injuries were reported and towing was not required following a crash in the 400 block of West Walnut Street. A 2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue operated by Patricia Williquette, of Hanover, struck a parked 2002 Honda CRV owned by Corey Davis, of Hanover, a parked 1998 Chevrolet Malibu owned by Erma Hoy, of Hanover, and a utility pole owned by Met-Ed.
9:16 p.m. A charge of DUI is pending against a 69-year-old woman, of Hanover, following an incident reported in the 400 block of W. Walnut Street.
10:29 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported to be occupied and parked in the first block of Jeremy Drive was located and checked out OK.
Penn Township Police
11 a.m. Police began a scattering rubbish investigation after a subject found bags of trash in their yard in the first block of Bankert Road.
12:30 p.m. Report of a truck trailer stolen from business in November in the 100 block of North Blettner Avenue.
7:52 p.m. A 30-year-old woman is to be cited for shoving a family member during a domestic in the 500 block of Hammond Avenue.
11:32 p.m. Report of subjects shining flashlights into a residence in the 1500 block of Baer Avenue.
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Coalition Works to Help Pittsburgh Restart In-Person Classes
The Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals, seeks transparency in plans for a return to in-person instruction so the community can help it work toward specific goals.
by Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / December 15, 2020
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(TNS) — A coalition of education equity advocates wants to know what it will take for the Pittsburgh Public Schools to consider reopening as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
The Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals, seeks transparency from the district in its plans for a return to in-person instruction so the community can help it work toward specific goals.
"Is a 5% positivity rate threshold your target? Will there be a phased in approach to in-person learning starting with younger and more at-risk learners? Is the internet bandwidth sufficient at schools for teachers and students to be able to participate online? If not, is there anything the community can do to help fix that problem?" said James Fogarty , executive director of the organization A+ Schools, which spearheads the collaborative.
Mr. Fogarty was among several members of the collaborative who addressed the school board during a community comment session Monday evening. They noted that data suggests schools have not contributed to the spread of the pandemic in the United States. They also raised concerns about student achievement as well as the social and emotional well-being of children.
Maria Cohen , executive director of the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition, said the district should allow some students — specifically elementary school students and those with disabilities — to return to in-person instruction as soon as possible.
"Families with elementary school students face serious challenges if we continue online learning for the rest of the school year," she said. "It is a burden for families with working parents to support young students with their online learning. Students are falling behind at astronomical rates, and parents are struggling to hold everything together."
Another member of the coalition, Dr. Braveen Ragunanthan, encouraged the district to think ahead.
The pediatrician said the district should rally members of the school community to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.
"We need to start planning for our next steps proactively in 2021," Dr. Ragunanthan said. "Furthermore, adult unmasked gatherings have always been the drivers of this pandemic — not schools. Thus, a key strategy for us will be PPS having an aggressive campaign encouraging PPS staff and our PPS parents and adult family members to all get vaccinated to be protected from COVID-19 in 2021."
In the meantime, the coalition asked the district to set aside $2 million to support beyond the end of the year the learning hubs that hundreds of city students have attended during the fall semester. The $2 million would ensure that the hubs can operate into early 2021.
The 24 learning hubs with 64 locations across Pittsburgh and Allegheny County serve about 700 city school students and are funded by the county and community organizations.
Many students who attend the hubs have parents who are essential workers and can't stay home to help with schooling. The huPropertiesbs give those families a place where their children can be cared for and have some assistance during the school day.
"They have a role to play in maintaining and keeping our economy going, feeding us," Mr. Fogarty said. "And so we want to make sure that those families are taken care of."
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Marianne Williamson put a spell on me
Marianne Williamson speaks during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami
Of all the low-profile candidates vying for national attention in the Democratic debates this week, Marianne Williamson stood out.
In coverage immediately before, she was derided for simply being an 'author and activist': descriptors, it's worth noting, that could be applied to everyone else standing.
The 66-year-old was placed at the far edge of the Thursday debate stage and only got four minutes and 58 seconds of speaking time. But she made those seconds count.
First, she struck out against her arch-nemesis: plans. 'I'll tell you one thing, it's really nice if we've got all these plans, but if you think we're going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you've got another thing coming,' she said. 'Because he didn't win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying "Make America Great Again." We've got to get deeper than just these superficial fixes, as important as they are.'
When asked which foreign leader she would contact on her first day on office, she said, 'My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said her goal was to make New Zealand the place where it's the best place in the world for a child to grow up. And I will tell her, "Girlfriend, you are so on."'
And in her 45-second closing statement, she took on President Trump directly:
'This man has reached into the psyche of the American people and he has harnessed fear for political purposes. So, Mr President, if you're listening, I want you to hear me please — you have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out. So, I sir, I have a feeling you know what you're doing. I'm going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field and, sir, love will win.'
I checked IMDB, and apparently Marianne Williamson is not a David Lynch character (though apparently she used to room with his favorite actress Laura Dern). But her Lynchian cosmic outlook and laid-back demeanor turned her from political nobody to Twitter darling and gay icon in a matter of moments.
Pete Buttigieg goes to shake Marianne Williamson's hand but she's already disappeared. On her lectern sits a lone origami crane
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) June 28, 2019
marianne williamson threw the first crystal at stonewall https://t.co/ZTjZfQpXnk
— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 28, 2019
I know nobody wants political content on this account but it's 2:30am and I am awake and putting Marianne Williamson's speech to Twin Peaks music pic.twitter.com/fSjP5wzrnR
— I will meet you on that field. (@BoxrecGrey) June 28, 2019
After the debate I approached her in the spin room to try and learn more of her ways. Other reporters from China and Germany were similarly entranced as they asked for her thoughts on their countries. She made prolonged eye contact with me repeatedly and it felt as if she was looking through me, into someone else my soul had inhabited in a previous existence. Before I asked to move into her commune, I thought I'd better get the interview out of the way.
I began by pointing out how she'd had to wait over 25 minutes before getting the chance to answer a question.
'Oh, d'ya notice?', she intoned.
What was going through her head as she watched the debate unfold before her in that time?
'I almost couldn't believe it. I didn't expect it to be that bad…and in the second hour it was even worse. It was an aggressive energy of "why are you here" and "we are not going to talk to you." It was pretty shocking.'
Some of the candidates, such as Swalwell and Harris, adopted a more confrontational style. Williamson did not.
'Well I would try, I'd say things like "ah-ah!" and I need to learn, that's what my plot has to be for the next time. "I'm talkin'! Did you hear me? I'm talkin'!" I gotta learn how to do that.'
Democrats have stood out this campaign when they've run directly against Donald Trump and ignored the primary field. Was that the thought behind her closing statement?
'There was no thought behind it, but I did wonder…I thought we needed to talk about how to defeat Donald Trump and so…perhaps people didn't know me well enough yet to know where that came from, but the reason I am the candidate to defeat Donald Trump is because I have an idea of what the man is doing. He has inspired masses with fear, and I have inspired masses with love.'
Back to love again. What is the secret to harnessing it to defeat the incumbent president?
'Well, my 35-year career has given me access to that skill set. I have helped build movements. I have talked to millions of people about how principles of righteousness, principles of love, principles of compassion, actually repairs your life. And all that a nation is, is a group of people. So the same psychological and emotional principles that prevail within the life of one person, prevail within the life of a nation.'
Did she feel that she got the springboard to communicate that message?
'No…no…but tomorrow is another day.'
See the full story of Marianne Williamson put a spell on me on Spectator USA.
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Does smoking marijuana increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Donald P. Tashkin
CMAJ April 14, 2009 180 (8) 797-798; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090142
Marijuana is the second most commonly smoked substance worldwide after tobacco.1 The constituents of marijuana smoke are qualitatively and, to a large extent, quantitatively similar to those of tobacco smoke, with the exceptions of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), found only in marijuana, and nicotine, found only in tobacco. Given these similarities, there is concern that the health risks of regular marijuana smoking may be similar to those of habitual tobacco smoking. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is associated with high morbidity and mortality, is among those risks.
Over the past 2 decades, studies have addressed the possible relation between smoking marijuana and COPD by systematically assessing respiratory symptoms and measuring lung function in smokers and nonsmokers of marijuana or tobacco.2–8 These cross-sectional2,3,6 and longitudinal4,5,7 studies have used convenience sampling, random or stratified random sampling or birth cohorts from the general community. One study examined lung structure using thoracic high-resolution computed tomography to identify macroscopic emphysema.8
In this issue of CMAJ, Tan and colleagues report the findings of a cross-sectional population-based study of the possible association between smoking marijuana and risk of COPD.9 Whereas previous studies have consistently reported an association between use of marijuana and chronic respiratory symptoms even in the absence of concomitant use of tobacco,2,3,6,8 Tan and colleagues did not report a similar finding for marijuana only. However, they found that the concurrent use of marijuana and tobacco appeared to synergistically increase respiratory symptoms and risk of COPD.
An association between using marijuana and COPD has been suggested by evidence of proximal airway injury (i.e., increased erythema, edema and mucous secretions) observed during bronchoscopy in both marijuana-only and tobacco smokers.10 Such an association has also been suggested by histopathologic evidence of goblet cell metaplasia, loss of ciliated columnar epithelial cells and inflammatory changes in the bronchial mucosa of smokers of marijuana and smokers of both marijuana and tobacco.10,11
The evidence for an association between use of marijuana and abnormalities in lung function, however, is inconsistent. In a convenience sample of young men (mean age 33 years) in Los Angeles, United States, who were habitual, heavy smokers of marijuana or tobacco and nonsmoking controls (n = 446), smoking only marijuana was not associated with abnormalities in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), ratio of FEV1 to FVC, various measures of small airway function or single-breath diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide.2 However, a modest decrease in specific airway conductance was observed in those who smoked only marijuana. This decrease was consistent with endoscopic observations of slight narrowing of the central airways and edematous changes in the tracheobronchial mucosa in this subgroup.10 An 8-year longitudinal extension of this study did not show an age-related accelerated decline in FEV1 among participants who smoked only marijuana compared with participants who did not smoke marijuana or tobacco. There was a significant accelerated decline among those who smoked tobacco.5
By contrast, an epidemiologic study in Tucson, United States, involving participants aged 15–40 years (n = 585) found a slight but significant decrease in the ratio of FEV1 to FVC and in a measure of obstruction of the small airways among participants who used marijuana independent of tobacco.3 A related longitudinal study in Tucson involving 856 participants aged 15–60 years showed slight decreases in FEV1 and in the ratio of FEV1 to FVC among those who had previously smoked marijuana but not among those who currently smoked marijuana.4 In a birth cohort of 1037 participants aged 21 years in Dunedin, New Zealand, a reduced ratio of FEV1 to FVC (using a threshold of < 80%) was found in a significantly higher percentage of participants who showed signs of marijuana dependency and did not smoke tobacco than in participants who smoked neither marijuana nor tobacco (36% v. 20%) (p = 0.04).6 In the same cohort, longitudinal observations of participants up to 26 years of age showed a nonsignificant trend toward a dose-dependent relation between cumulative use of marijuana and a decreased ratio of FEV1 to slow vital capacity after adjustment for smoking tobacco and other covariates (p = 0.082).7 The results of this study also suggested an additive influence of marijuana and daily use of tobacco.
In a convenience sample of 339 residents of Wellington, New Zealand, aged 18–70 years (mean age 43.4) comprising nonsmokers and smokers of either marijuana only, tobacco only or both substances, the authors reported that there was no association between use of marijuana and abnormalities in lung function (including lung volume and diffusing capacity).8 However, regression analyses with marijuana as a continuous variable showed significant associations between lifetime cumulative use of marijuana and airflow obstruction (measured by both the ratio of FEV1 to FVC and specific airway conductance) and between use of marijuana and hyperinflation (measured by total lung capacity). The same study did not show an association between smoking marijuana and evidence of macroscopic emphysema, as shown by high-resolution computed tomography.
These studies, involving mainly younger individuals, have provided inconsistent but suggestive evidence that smoking marijuana only may lead to modest airflow obstruction and hyperinflation that could predispose the individual to COPD later in life. The findings of Tan and colleagues9 add to the limited evidence of an association between use of marijuana and COPD because their study focuses on an older population (aged 40 or older) that is at greater risk of COPD. Their finding that concurrent smoking of marijuana and tobacco is associated with a greater likelihood of COPD than smoking only tobacco implies a possible additive effect of the 2 substances on lung health. An additive effect was also suggested by Taylor and colleagues,7 whose study involved a younger population. By contrast, Aldington and colleagues8 concluded that concurrent smoking of marijuana and tobacco attenuated the association between smoking tobacco and a reduced ratio of FEV1 to FVC and respiratory symptoms.
Firm conclusions cannot be drawn about the association between use of marijuana and COPD based on the limited and inconsistent data available. The studies that address this topic are limited by their small numbers of participants and by the uncertain accuracy of self-reported use of marijuana, particularly in view of its illegality and the difficulty of accurately recalling amounts previously used. Some of these studies are also limited by their cross-sectional design, and most are limited by the young age (40 years or younger) of participants. Nevertheless, the consistency of some aspects of the available data allows us to more firmly conclude that smoking marijuana by itself can lead to respiratory symptoms because of injurious effects of the smoke on larger airways. Given the consistently reported absence of an association between use of marijuana and abnormal diffusing capacity or signs of macroscopic emphysema, we can be close to concluding that smoking marijuana by itself does not lead to COPD.
See related research paper by Tan and colleagues, page 814
Given the increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among smokers of tobacco, there is concern that a similar risk may exist among smokers of marijuana.
A limited body of evidence suggests an association between regular marijuana smoking and adverse effects on respiratory health. Studies that address this possibility have many limitations, however.
The finding by Tan and colleagues that smoking both marijuana and tobacco is associated with a greater risk of COPD than smoking only tobacco suggests an additive effect of the 2 substances on lung health. This study involved an older population that is more at risk of COPD.
Marijuana smoking by itself probably does not lead to COPD.
Competing interests: None declared.
World drug report 2006. New York (NY): United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 2006. Available: www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2006/wdr2006_volume1.pdf (accessed 2009 Mar. 18)
Tashkin DP, Coulson AH, Clark VA, et al. Respiratory symptoms and lung function in habitual, heavy smokers of marijuana alone, smokers of marijuana and tobacco, smokers of tobacco alone, and nonsmokers. Am Rev Respir Dis 1987;135:209–16.
Bloom JW, Kaltenborn WT, Paoletti P, et al. Respiratory effects of non-tobacco cigarettes. BMJ 1987;295:1516–8.
Sherrill DL, Krzyzanowski M, Bloom JW, et al. Respiratory effects of non-tobacco cigarettes: a longitudinal study in general population. Int J Epidemiol 1991;20:132–7.
Tashkin DP, Simmons MS, Sherrill DL, et al. Heavy habitual marijuana smoking does not cause an accelerated decline in FEV1 with age. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997;155:141–8.
Taylor DR, Poulton R, Moffitt TE, et al. The respiratory effects of cannabis dependence in young adults. Addiction 2000;95:1669–77.
Taylor DR, Fergusson DM, Milne BJ, et al. A longitudinal study of the effects of tobacco and cannabis exposure on lung function in young adults. Addiction 2002;97:1055–61.
Aldington S, Williams M, Nowitz M, et al. Effects of cannabis on pulmonary structure, function and symptoms. Thorax 2007;62:1058–63.
Tan WC, Lo C, Jong A, et al.; for the Vancouver Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) Research Group. Marijuana and chronic obstructive lung disease: a population-based study. CMAJ 2009;180:814–20.
Roth MD, Arora A, Barsky SH, et al. Airway inflammation in young marijuana and tobacco smokers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998;157:928–37.
Fligiel SE, Roth MD, Kleerup EC, et al. Tracheobronchial histopathology in habitual smokers of cocaine, marijuana, and/or tobacco. Chest 1997;112:319–26.
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Q: Wired Network (eth0) disappears on a Lenovo Z570 I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 yesterday. I am running a BSNL Broadband DSL conenction. The wired network suddenly dissapears and the computer stops detecting the ethernet card after sometime. However, after rebooting, it again becomes alright.
$ lspci | grep Ethernet
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

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A: sudo dpkg --configure -a

This solved the problem for me. All configuration files were rewritten including the ones for network-manager. I must add that I have a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG on a Dell XPS M1530.

A: The problem is with your network driver .Ubuntu default network drivers are not supporting.
you can fix this by installing a network driver ."compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc" tis will solve the problem.
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CEVA, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2018 Financial Results
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- May 9, 2018 -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors for smarter, connected devices, announced today its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. Starting in fiscal year 2018, CEVA will report its earnings under the new revenue recognition standard, ASC 606.
Total revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was $17.6 million, a 17% decrease compared to $21.3 million reported for the first quarter of 2017. First quarter 2018 licensing and related revenue was $10.1 million, an increase of 6% when compared to $9.5 million reported for the same quarter a year ago. Royalty revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was $7.5 million, a decrease of 36% when compared to $11.8 million reported for the first quarter of 2017.
Under ASC 606, CEVA's royalty revenue represents actual or best estimates of customer shipments during the first quarter. Revenues for the first quarter of 2017 was reported under ASC 605, the old revenue recognition standard, where royalty revenue was reported one quarter in arrears. Under ASC 605, CEVA's first quarter 2018 royalty revenue was $10.0 million, a decrease of 15% year-over-year compared to $11.8 million reported for the first quarter of 2017. As required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, throughout 2018, CEVA's quarterly financials will be provided under both revenue recognition standards to allow a more aligned year-over-year comparison.
Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA, stated: "Our licensing business continues to perform very well, with fourteen deals signed, including two lead customers each for our new CEVA-NeuPro AI processors and our CEVA-ClearVox noise suppression and beamforming technologies. In our royalty business, the market experienced excess channel inventory in the low tier smartphone and feature phone markets, which resulted in weaker than expected baseband shipments in the first quarter. This was partially offset by continued growth in shipments and revenue from our non-handset baseband customers, increasing 58% and 39%, respectively, over first quarter 2017 actual shipments."
Of the fourteen license agreements completed during the quarter, eight were for CEVA DSP and AI products, and six were for CEVA connectivity IPs. All of the licensing agreements signed during the quarter were for non-handset baseband applications and three were with first-time customers of CEVA. Customers' target markets for the licenses include smart cameras and vehicle-to-vehicle communications for ADAS, surveillance cameras, cellular IoT, Bluetooth headsets, car infotainment systems and advanced consumer cameras. Geographically, four of the deals signed were in China, two were in the U.S., two were in Europe and six were in the APAC region, including Japan.
GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2018 was $2.2 million, as compared to a net gain of $4.1 million reported for the same period in 2017. GAAP diluted loss per share for the first quarter of 2018 was ($0.10), as compared to diluted earnings per share of $0.19 a year ago.
Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2018 were $0.8 million and $0.04, respectively, down from the $6.3 million and $0.28 reported for the first quarter of 2017. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2018 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expense, net of taxes, of $2.6 million, and (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.4 million associated with the acquisition of RivieraWaves and an investment in NB-IoT technologies. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2017 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expense, net of taxes, of $1.8 million, and (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.3 million associated with the acquisition of RivieraWaves.
Under ASC 605, total revenue was $19.5 million. GAAP net loss and diluted loss per share were ($0.5) million and ($0.02), respectively. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2018 were $2.5 million and $0.11, respectively.
Yaniv Arieli, Chief Financial Officer of CEVA, stated: "During the quarter, we invested in new cellular IoT technologies to strengthen our position and value-add to customers in this burgeoning market segment. Additionally, the company repurchased approximately $1.5 million of its common stock under our existing share repurchase program. At the end of the quarter, our cash balance, marketable securities and bank deposits totaled $183 million, with no debt."
CEVA Conference Call
On May 9, 2018 CEVA management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the operating performance for the quarter.
The conference call will be available via the following dial in numbers:
U.S. Participants: Dial 1-844-435-0316 (Access Code: CEVA)
International Participants: Dial +1-412-317-6365 (Access Code: CEVA)
The conference call will also be available live via webcast at the following link: https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/984/25277. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing 1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 (access code: 10118895) from one hour after the end of the call until 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on May 16, 2018. The replay will also be available at CEVA's web site www.ceva-dsp.com.
About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the leading licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors for a smarter, connected world. We partner with semiconductor companies and OEMs worldwide to create power-efficient, intelligent and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, industrial and IoT. Our ultra-low-power IPs for vision, audio, communications and connectivity include comprehensive DSP-based platforms for LTE/LTE-A/5G baseband processing in handsets, infrastructure and machine-to-machine devices, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For artificial intelligence, we offer a family of AI processors capable of handling the complete gamut of neural network workloads, on-device. For connectivity, we offer the industry's most widely adopted IPs for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax up to 4x4). Visit us at www.ceva-dsp.com
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Our Saturday in Iquitos was full of fun and activities! We started off the morning by going to the area of Belen to play with the children. Belen is the poorest area of Iquitos. It floods just about every year and we could see the water line from this past year's flood-it was halfway up the houses [that were already built about 10 feet off the ground]. Walking through the streets of Belen reminded me of those natural disaster commercials you see where the houses are falling apart, clothes are hanging out and blowing in the wind, there's trash everywhere, except, this is every day NORMAL life for these people. I have heard of poverty, and even seen poverty in the US, but nothing compares to the way these people live. I'll share a little more about their home life in a post later because a small group of us spent the day with a family in Belen.
So for our fun day, we walked the streets and hollered for the children to come out and play with us! It was amazing to me how they just flooded out of homes and followed us. It was rare for me to see a child ask their mom or dad if they could come; most of them just left without asking. That was shocking to me! It was a ton of fun. We all got in a HUGE circle, and one-by-one we introduced ourselves and did something silly for them to have to mimic.
It was amazing to me how these children would just look at you, and as soon as you smiled, their face lit up! A lot of them are taken care of the best that the parent(s) can, but you can tell that they still long for that love. I've heard the stories of what some of these children have seen and live with, and it's heart-breaking. Right now, Abundant Life is wanting to buy a house down there and open what they will call the Hope House, or House of Hope. This will be a great way for them to have a 24/7 presence in Belen. Please be praying for the funds to come and God to continue to soften the hearts of the people of Belen to what this ministry is trying to accomplish.
It was, I think, 107 steps that we had to walk down to get to Belen. You can see from the pictures how the houses are built up. After our trip to Belen, we headed back to the mission for lunch. We split up that afternoon into guys and girls. The guys went to the Safehouse to play soccer and the ladies went to a hotel to swim with the ladies from the Jessica House. It was a ton of fun and a great way to relax after our busy morning. It was also a great opportunity for us to get to know the men and women that are currently living in the Safehouse and Jessica House. I know that we had more pictures than this taken of us swimming, however, I haven't been able to get them off of Facebook yet, but I'll add them once I can.
We finished off our day with a youth service at the mission's church. It was so awesome to see the people there just worshipping and praising Jesus without any care of what others thought, and without any agenda. I'm pretty sure that we could have worshipped all night and nobody would have complained! God is so good! My husband, Lance, was able to share his testimony with everyone, while Michael translated for him. It was an amazing experience!
A side thought: I've never been around so many MEN who openly shouted and sang to God as loudly and boldly as the men of Iquitos. It blew my mind to hear them singing and to see them dancing. They were probably more bold than the women in their worship! When the music quieted down, it was male voices that you heard all across the building ringing out. This was so cool to experience!
*A lot of these pictures were taken by other people on the trip. I'm very thankful to them for allowing me to use these pictures to share our experience with you!


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OpenSearch Is Now Generally Available!
#Elasticsearch
#OpenSearch
Dotan Horovits
I'm thrilled to say that OpenSearch has reached general availability (GA) with the release of version 1.0. This release represents a significant milestone and noteworthy accomplishment for a new open source initiative that was only launched a few months ago.
I vividly remember that moment at the beginning of the year when we all woke up to Elastic's announcement that it would take Elasticsearch and Kibana off the Apache 2.0 OSS license. We all learned the hard way on that fateful day that a vendor-owned open source project can turn on you.
At Logz.io, our service has traditionally relied heavily on the open source ELK stack, and while I believe that it took some courage, I'm proud to say that we remain steadfast in our commitment to the open source community. That's why we have continued to push to keep these important projects open source. We were also one of the first to try out OpenSearch on our own system.
With the release of OpenSearch v1.0 and its broader availability for use by organizations similarly committed to open source monitoring, we all owe AWS a great deal of gratitude for leading the charge. The AWS team has put significant engineering effort into forking the project to reach this important milestone, and we're proud to have taken our part in this journey.
First and foremost, the GA release offers a pure Apache 2.0 open source equivalent of the Elasticsearch and Kibana projects (v7.10.2) we all know and love, without any intermingled proprietary bits. On top of this baseline, the GA release contains the rich suite of plugins from Open Distro for Elasticsearch, which were merged into OpenSearch. It also contains support for building new OpenSearch plugins.
In addition, the GA provides a number of new capabilities around data stream support for OpenSearch Dashboards, ARM64 support, plugins for distributed tracing analytics, and for scheduling and tenant reporting, to name a few. Geared towards production deployments, the release comes with artifacts for deploying in production as a standalone tool as well as for embedding into other products.
With that said, OpenSearch reaching GA status is merely the beginning of the open source journey. Beyond v1.0, the roadmap plan includes a v1.1 minor release on August 30th, with additional capabilities around cross-cluster replication, anomaly detection, unified notifications, bucket-level alerting, plugins, and more. We plan to release two more minor versions later this year around October and November 2021 timeframe, with the next major release, v2.0, expected in early 2022.
If you want to learn more about how the project started, where it's heading, and how you can get involved, check out my recent post OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch.
It's an exciting time to be a member of this community!
Additional Reference
OpenSearch GA: Official Announcement
Announcing OpenSearch: Doubling Down on Open Source
OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch
LISTEN: OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch?
My First Steps in OpenSearch Plugins
Enhancing Support for Zeek (Bro) in Logz.io Security Analytics
Webinar – DevOps Best Practices for CI/CD and Observability
ELK Stack
Shipping Multiline Logs with Filebeat


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