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Pompeo says he raised China's 'coercion' of Australia in talks, United States News & Top Stories
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SYDNEY • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he raised China's "coercion" of Australia and other China "actions" around the world, when he met China's top diplomat in Hawaii in a six-hour frank session.
Mr Pompeo said he confronted Mr Yang Jiechi, director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Office of Foreign Affairs, with a list of China's political moves, including slapping Australia with steep barley tariffs and banning beef exports from four abattoirs, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported yesterday.
China's actions were because Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison "had the audacity" to lead global calls for a Covid-19 probe, said Mr Pompeo at the virtual Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Friday. "We can see their actions," he said.
"I ticked through a few of them: Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, what they're doing in India, what they've done in the economic zones along the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia and Vietnam, the coercion on Australia – when they had the audacity to demand that there would be an investigation of how this virus got from Wuhan to Milan, how this virus got from Wuhan to Teheran, how this virus got from Wuhan to Oklahoma City, and to Belgium and to Spain, and decimating the global economy," APP quoted Mr Pompeo as saying.
Mr Morrison insisted on June 11 that Canberra will not surrender to "coercion" from Beijing, after China moved to curb trade and warned students not to travel to Australia due to "racist incidents".
Mr Morrison described claims of Australian racism towards Chinese students as "rubbish".
He said Australia will "never be intimidated by threats from wherever they come".
"I'm never going to trade our values in response to coercion from wherever it comes," he told 2GB radio station.
China is Australia's largest trading partner, accounting for 36 per cent of Australian exports. It is the largest buyer of Australian iron ore and the biggest source of foreign students and tourists in Australia.
China was infuriated by Australia's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus – a move that Beijing believed was targeted at it.
In recent weeks, China has barred imports of some Australian beef and imposed an 80 per cent tariff on Australian barley, though its officials denied these moves were retaliation.
ON CHINA'S ACTIONS
We can see their actions… Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, what they're doing in India, what they've done in the economic zones along the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia and Vietnam, the coercion on Australia – when they had the audacity to demand that there would be an investigation of how this virus got from Wuhan to Milan… and decimating the global economy.
US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO
Mr Pompeo told the virtual summit that China lied about the coronavirus, allowed it to spread around the world and pressured the World Health Organisation to assist in a cover-up campaign, according to the AAP.
"Even now, months into the pandemic, we don't have access to a live virus, we don't have access to facilities, and information about patients in December in Wuhan remains unavailable," he said.
"Everyone in this room knows that the Chinese Communist Party strong-arms nations to do business with Huawei, an arm of the CCP's surveillance state and it's flagrantly attacking European sovereignty by buying up ports and critical infrastructure," Mr Pompeo told the summit, according to the AAP.
Washington's top diplomat also told the summit that the United States would in future treat Hong Kong as a Chinese city rather than an autonomous one to the extent that China treats the territory as a Chinese city, Reuters reported.
Mr Pompeo said that elections due to take place in Hong Kong in September would "tell us everything that we need to know about the Chinese Communist Party's intentions with respect to freedom in Hong Kong".
He also said the US was working its way through a decision-making process over who would be held accountable over curbs to Hong Kong's freedoms, Reuters said.
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2 | A Tribe Called Quest | Can I Kick It?
5. A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
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1.	A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
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I apologize in advance, the 90s are my weakest decade, and I know very little outside of Green Day.
I have over 700 albums in my ranking system but somehow only 8 from 1990. Must be a weak year for me. Had to reach to even get to 15 with albums I like.
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3. Enigma - MCMXC a.D.
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Hate to tell you, Henry, given that I'm a big Billy Joel fan myself, but Storm Front came out in '89 so none of those songs count.
StevieFan13 wrote: Hate to tell you, Henry, given that I'm a big Billy Joel fan myself, but Storm Front came out in '89 so none of those songs count.
I'll have to make sure to include them when we do the 1980's polls.
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40. Vaya con Dios - What's a Woman?
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Good year for covers - 3 in my top 20.
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28 | Gang Starr | Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
Was released on Julee Cruise's album in 1989.
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Okay, take this off, move everything up, and add Heart - "All I Wanna Do" at the bottom. Thanks!
The decade started out on probably its weakest note (which got weaker by "Personal Jesus" being a 1989 song).
Can I also include Dreams on my '93 list since that seems to be considered its proper release date?
StevieFan13 wrote: Can I also include Dreams on my '93 list since that seems to be considered its proper release date?
Yes, but I'd rather you didn't include it on two different lists as I'll only count one of the votes towards the wild-card calculation, so one vote will be wasted.
I truly love everything on Loveless up to Soon, which always bores me, but is a favorite for some reasons here, I don't get it.
But THE favorite for whatever reason is Only Shallow which I never got. I'll take Soon over Only Shallow any day. Good songs but nothing mind blowingly spectacular about either of them. I think of a Breeders B-Side when I hear Only Shallow.
Depeche Mode wrote: I truly love everything on Loveless up to Soon, which always bores me, but is a favorite for some reasons here, I don't get it.
I think Soon is one of the greatest songs of all time. I'm surprised you say it's boring because the drum beat conveys a sense of excitement and forward movement that isn't always apparent in My Bloody Valentine songs. It's definitely repetitive, but for me, that's a plus: I'd like the song even more if it went on an additional few minutes. The ending is pure ear candy to me and has a hypnotic effect like the other great MBV songs.
Ok then I'll replace it with another song on my '90 list.
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09. Enigma - MCMXC a.D.
I read that 1991's 'Nevermind' saved rock from the then current musical malaise but while making the list it doesn't look like it to me. Heck, 1990 is better than any year in this current millennium IMHO.
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Was released on her album in 1989.
Love the diversity if your lists.
First released on his 1989 album.
1988 and 1989 releases. Generally, the dates on Acclaimed Music are a reliable guide.
Most of what I'm familiar with in this year are your standard pop hits, and though I consider myself a devoted R&B fan, My Bloody Valentine and their dreamiest "pop" moments just do things to my soul. "Soon" is a prime example of that. What a stunner.
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Maternal gestational diabetes linked to diabetes in children
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Children of mothers who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy could be at increased risk of type 1 diabetes themselves, according to a new study led by a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) that was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Early detection of diabetes is important in children and youth, as many — about 25 percent — are diagnosed when seeking care for diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes that can occur when the body starts running out of insulin.
"Although type 1 and type 2 diabetes in parents are well-established risk factors for their offspring to become diabetic, we show in this study that gestational diabetes may also be a risk indicator for type 1 diabetes in the mother's children. We found that a child or teen whose mother had gestational diabetes was nearly twice as likely to develop type 1 diabetes before the age of 22,'' says senior study author Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta, director and senior scientist of the Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at the RI-MUHC and an associate professor of medicine at McGill University.
The study of 73,180 mothers compared data from Quebec (1990-2012) on randomly selected single births from mothers with gestational diabetes to births from mothers without gestational diabetes. The incidence — the number of new cases — of diabetes per 10,000 person-years was 4.5 in children born to mothers with gestational diabetes and 2.4 in mothers without.
"Only a small number of children will develop diabetes before the age of 22, even if their mothers had gestational diabetes,'' says study co-author, Dr. Meranda Naklha, a pediatric endocrinologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC and an assistant professor of pediatrics at McGill University. "However, parents and healthcare providers should consider the possibility of diabetes if children start showing signs such has frequent urination, excessive thirst, or weight loss, particularly if their moms had gestational diabetes.''
According to the authors, the reasons for this relationship need to be examined in future studies but the evidence of the link may help to accelerate the diagnosis of diabetes in young people.
"This study is important, as we try to understand risk factors for type 1 diabetes," says Dr. Jan Hux, President and CEO of Diabetes Canada, which funded the research. "This research may result in a greater propensity for healthcare providers to promptly test children who present with typical diabetes symptoms and who are born to mothers with gestational diabetes, thereby reducing the likelihood of severe incidents like diabetic ketoacidosis. We look forward to improving the lives and outcomes of children through greater research in this area."
Diabetes: type 1 versus type 2 (source: Diabetes Canada)
Type 1 diabetes generally develops in childhood or adolescence, but can also develop in adulthood. People with type 1 diabetes aren't able to produce their own insulin (and can't regulate their blood sugar) because their body's immune system is attacking the pancreas. Roughly 10 percent of people living with diabetes have type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is most commonly developed in adulthood, although it can also occur in childhood. People with type 2 diabetes can't properly use the insulin made by their bodies, or their bodies aren't able to produce enough insulin. Roughly 90 percent of people living with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.
About the study:
Gestational diabetes associated with incident diabetes in childhood and youth: a retrospective cohort study Andrea L. Blotsky MD MSc, Elham Rahme PhD, Mourad Dahhou MSc, Meranda Nakhla MD MSc, Kaberi Dasgupta MD MSc doi: 10.1503/cmaj.181001
This study was supported by an operating grant from Diabetes Canada (principal investigator Kaberi Dasgupta; co-principal investigator Elham Rahme).
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Parents will do whatever it takes to provide a good life for their children. Being the daughter of a hardworking man, Glaidale Hibaya knows this. Recently, a Facebook post she penned about an encounter her father, a taxi driver, had with a passenger has caught fire.
The University of the Philippines Los Baños graduate said that her father shared the story to her as she was leaving for work and he was coming home after a 15-hour shift. "I don't usually post [things] like this on Facebook pero I've had enough," she starts.
Along with the narration is a photo of her father's dashboard—suspended right next to the steering wheel is Hibaya's graduation photo. "Nilagay yan ng tatay ko dyan para naman daw mas ma-inspire pa sya magtrabaho. Para maalala niya na dahil sa paghahatid niya ng mga pasahero, may napatapos siya sa kolehiyo," she writes.
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Cannot complain about a free upgrade, updating to Windows 10 in August.
I'm 'testing' it in a VM right now, looks good but how it handles the daily tasks we'll see.
Tried a earlier release on my Lenovo Ultrabook and it ran without problems. So I'm certainly upgrading on release.
I've been using it as a main OS since the RTM was pulled from an ESD update file. It's the fastest Windows OS that I've used but unfortunately, not many AV support it and if they do, it's most likely a beta. Avast is the only AV that I've tried that works 100% perfectly with it and isn't a beta. As for software, it seems to work with anything on Windows 7 and 8, as for gaming, a little faster than 7 and 8. Am I attracted to it? Yes. Especially for Xbox One.
Emsisoft Anti-malware runs fine and so is HitmanPro.
Good to know. Thanks. I haven't tried too many yet including Emsisoft products.
We all have to do the update within a year to keep the licence for windows 10, once you do the upgrade and register you will be able to do fresh install of windows 10 at any time and it will activate automatically.
the question is if after upgrade we can downgrade back to windows 7? I dont think it'll be a problem restoring an image or factory default.
I've read that you have 30 days to downgrade, but that doesn't sound long enough for one to decide to stay.
I'm pretty sure you can downgrade again if you have another spare valid license for Windows 7.
surely microsoft wont prevent you from downgrading if you bought another valid license key, that would be sad if they did.
so if I'll restore an image I will not be able to activate it? that's bad very bad.
I'm being honest, I'm not 100% sure about it at all.
That's pretty much the only details of downgrading that I found.
does anyone know if after upgrading to windows 10 I can restore an activated image of windows 7 and keep it genuine or I will lose my windows 7 product key?
I have a laptop with B940 and 4 gig of ram so I dont know how Windows 10 will work on it.
I'll detail what I did here so there isn't any confusion.
What I haven't tried was reinstalling it then putting the key back in. I also don't have a retail key to test it with, only OEM. I can't verify that you can restore and still have activated Windows 7 under these circumstances.
for now there shouldn't be a problem they will not be blocking the keys we will have to see if it will work after the 29th of July.
as far as I know there shouldn't be any problem with windows 7 because the OEM keys sitting on many computers and therefore they can not blacklist a key. for windows 8 however it might be a problem but I dont think any windows 8 will want to downgrade back to 8.
as far as I know there shouldn't be any problem with windows 7 because the OEM keys sitting on many computers and therefore they can not blacklist a key.
Just waiting for the official Windows 10 launch and proper GPU drivers.
I posit that Windows 10 is targeted more towards Windows 7 users than Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 has the Microsoft Store; Windows 7 does not.


Portoroz hosts the 13th annual HEFAT Conference. In order to help planning the leisure time, we have created a tailor-made schedule that can help exploring Slovenia while in Portoroz. As you will be able to see bellow, the tours are spread throughout the period of the Conference and will depart as scheduled. We take the bookings in advance via our web page. Please send us your request, our team will look into it in order to process your booking.
If you cannot manage to reserve your spot do not worry. During the conference, the organisers will have a desk, where you can ask for the availability.
We decided to offer a walking tour of Piran on both days in the evening. Your guide will meet you at a given meeting point within the resort and walk with you to Piran, where you will be taken on a private walking tour of 60 minutes. The return way will be on your own.
Ljubljana Walking tour – a trip to the Capital of Slovenia. Your guide will introduce you to the Slovenian heritage and take you around the city centre. Free time will be given to explore on your own. Drive each way is approx 90 minutes.
Slovenian Coast & Farmer's Market (Our Recommendation) – a tour to the coastal region of Slovenia, where the final stop is in a local village, where the local families introduce themselves with local delicacies. In exchange for coupons you will be able to taste some of the delicious wine, cakes and other seasonal specialities.
Best Of Slovenia – a full day tour to Lake Bled, where the guests can enjoy free time. Afterword's the tour makes a stop at the Slovenian Capital of Ljubljana for a walking tour and some free time, before returning to Portoroz. In one tour, you will visit two of the most recognisable Slovenian destinations worldwide.
Lipizzaner Horses – a beautiful tour in the Karst region to visit the white Lipizzaner horses. Upon arrival to the stables, you will follow the local guide for a guided tour, after which you will enjoy the horse show. Last leg of the journey will be the scenic drive back to the Hotel.
We offer the tour to the world-famous Postojna Cave and Predjama Castle for a photo stop. If the you do not fancy high temperatures, this is a perfect tour where you will enjoy the tour of the cave at a constant 10 degrees Celsius throughout the year. The Castle, is a site for its own, as it is built into the cliff.
Based on individual booking, we can provide a Salt SPA tour, starting directly form the resort. You captain will transfer you with a high-speed boat to the spa. Here you can enjoy either a 2 hour or 4 hours stay, before returning back to the resort.


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Cultural Awareness and Foreign Language Capabilities
What is it? Cultural awareness capability is the ability to understand the "how and why" of foreign cultures and the roles that culture, religion, and geography have in military operations. Foreign language capability extends beyond linguists, intelligence analysts, and interrogators to every Soldier and leader; ranging from the ability to communicate with the aid of language survival tools to high levels of proficiency in skilled linguists.
What has the Army done? The Army is pursuing a variety of initiatives to enhance its capability in cultural awareness and foreign language.
- In accordance with the Defense Language Transformation Roadmap, the Army is incorporating cultural awareness training into all levels of professional military education.
- The US Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona developed an 80-hour modular cultural awareness training program for deploying units and other branch schools. The Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas provides online training material in cultural awareness and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, California incorporates cultural awareness in its language familiarization training for deploying units. DLIFLC also provides CD-ROM language survival kits to deploying Soldiers.
- Combat Training Centers have completely transformed to replicate the sights and culture of the contemporary operational environment.
- The Army offers Soldiers a variety of ways to obtain foreign language skills and actively recruits native speakers from heritage communities. Language specialists primarily attend DLIFLC which offers online sustainment training through its Global Language Network and its Global Language Online Support System.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future? The Army continues to develop, update, and expand its offering of cultural awareness training and foreign language materials at all levels. The Army plans to expand exchange and cultural immersion programs at the US Military Academy and increase advanced civil schooling opportunities in such fields as foreign language, area studies, and anthropology.
Why is this important to the Army? The human dimension that is such a critical factor in today's complex environments demands that Soldiers at all levels possess some cultural awareness and foreign language capability. It is no longer sufficient for limited numbers of Soldiers in specialized skill sets and units to possess these capabilities.
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Kuku sabzi is one of the most popular foods in Persian cuisine. And yet few people outside of the Middle Eastern world have heard of it. You would think that with the latest protein craze and things like the Paleo diet, people would be all over kuku sabzi. But sadly, they are not. That's why I've made it my mission in this post to talk about how awesome this dish is—and how easy it is to make.
Kuku (pronounced 'koo-koo') basically refers to any sort of frittata in Persian cuisine. They're are countless different recipes, ranging from kuku sabzimineh (potato frittata) to kuku kadoo (zucchini frittata). The vegetables are sauteed in a little oil, then an egg mixture is poured over and cooked until firm. Pretty standard recipe, right?
There are a bunch of different methods as to how to cook kuku. Some cut the frittata into slices and flip each individual slice over to make sure it's cooked thoroughly. Others throw the pan in the oven for a few minutes to get the top cooked. I decided to make this kuku sabzi entirely in the oven. It's not the traditional cooking method by any means, but I find it to be the most fool-proof way to make it.
Herbs–From the spinach to the parsley, cilantro, and dill, kuku sabzi is a veggie and antioxidant powerhouse. Sure, the herbs are cooked. But evidence suggests that even when cooked certain fruits and vegetables still have a ton of nutrients, potentially even more than when eaten raw. If you're looking to meet your veggie quota for the day, then this dish is perfect for you.
Protein–If you've been following up with me, you know that I love my protein. Although you're free to disagree, I'm definitely in the camp that consumes animal proteins regularly and think they're essential to a healthy lifestyle. This recipe calls for four eggs and four egg whites, meaning you'll definitely get enough protein whether you eat it for lunch, dinner, or even breakfast.
Different–Have you gotten bored eating the same scrambled eggs or veggie egg white omelets day after day? Kuku sabzi is perfectly healthy, but also a great way to perk things up. Many of you eat eggs several times a week if you're trying to make lean gains or cut fat. This dish can totally fit in with your goals.
Simple–What's easier than chopping some herbs and adding some eggs? You can easily make kuku in about an hour. And while that sounds like a lot of time, remember this dish will last you all week. I recommend making several large kukus to eat throughout the week. After they're cooked, they can also freeze pretty well, so forget about buying any TV dinners in the near future.
One last note: This recipe makes a pretty decent sized casserole dish. Feel free to cut it in half or double it based on your needs.
While the herbs are cooking, beat your eggs with the remaining turmeric, saffron, salt and pepper.
When the herbs are fully cooked, arrange then in an even layer on a greased 9" X 11" casserole pan (I used a coconut oil spray). Allow to cool for 15 minutes so the eggs aren't scalded on contact.
Pour the egg mixture evenly over the herbs. Lightly mix with a fork to ensure the eggs are mixed in, but not too much to disrupt the even distribution of the herbs.
Bake at 350 degrees (Fahrenheit) for 40 minutes or until eggs have set. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before cutting into rectangles. Serve with bread, salad, plain yogurt, walnuts, currants, or enjoy as is!
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Stacy Keibler Plastic Surgery – The Truth
Posted by Admin on Stacy Keibler Plastic Surgery – The Truth2014-05-27T00:28:08+00:00 under Celebrity No Comment
Stacy Keibler has probably the longest pair of legs in the modelling the industry. Despite having her legs insured, the subject of the Stacy Keibler plastic surgery rumors are not about her legs.
In fact, several rumors are circulating that the actress/model has undergone rhinoplasty among other plastic surgery procedures. The plastic surgery rumors have been ongoing but created even more buzz while she was dating actor, George Clooney back in 2012.
Many associate the name Stacy Keibler with wrestling. However, while this celebrity is chiefly known as a wrestler in many circles, the star has had major success in film also. Her first brush with the big screen was in a 1998 film called Pecker. Since then, Stacy has made appearances in several TV series including George Lopez, Samurai Girl, What About Brian and How I Met Your Mother.
Keibler, who majored in Communications while at University was also Stuff Magazine's Fitness Editor and had her own column called Getting Fit With Stacy. She was regularly seen in photos for her column.
Stacy Keibler plastic surgery before and after
Stacy Keibler's nose job
Keibler has not confirmed the Stacy Keibler plastic surgery that have been circulating. Despite this, several before and after photographs of the star confirm apparent changes in the shape of her nose. Previously Stacy's nose had a bulbous shape at the tip. Now, Keibler's nose is narrower with slender tip.
The star's alleged plastic surgery may, however, not be entirely cosmetic. This is as the star reportedly said at one time that her nose was broken on several occasions while she was a wrestler. She remarked that it may need some adjustments.
Although the changes to her nose aren't glaringly obvious, it is still evident. Many of her fans may be thanking their lucky stars that Keibler didn't do any thing to her legs, which are commonly referred to as the "weapons of mass seduction". This description for her legs was given by Dancing with the Stars judge, Bruno Tonioli, during one of her performances on the show.
Other Plastic Surgery Allegations
Its not only her nose that has undergone modifications. There are also allegations that Stacy has had botox, laser peels and fillers in her face. Before and after photographs of the model, show her forehead to be much smoother now than in prior pictures.
In fact, a source close to Keibler said that while the star was dating George Clooney, she was having secret botox treatments. The source reportedly said that Keibler kept her botox treatments a secret from George, because he is not a fan of plastic surgery.
There is little, if nothing, Stacy can do to her "killer", long legs, but don't worry guys, those 42 inches legs are as authentic as they can get. Many might argue that Stacy's legs are all the distraction she could want but the actress/model seems to think otherwise.
Though her alleged nose job and botox treatments have enhanced her appearance, the question on everyone's lips is what next? Will she get carried away with plastic surgery procedures like all the other stars? Well, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Learn one of the oldest forms of art making: working with clay for stress relief, health, and well-being. Getting your hands in clay is a natural way to let go of worries, be in the present moment, and explore your creativity. The ancient techniques of hand building with coil, pinching, slab-making and smoke firing, bring you closer to your personal healing potential and awaken your creativity. No previous clay experience needed. This four-evening session will be both fun and stress reducing. You will make objects that are beautiful and functional.
There is a lab fee of $20 payable to instructor at the first class.
Did you know burning beeswax candles actually pulls toxins out of the air? Students will learn to create their own beeswax tealights, jar candles and pillars as well as learn about the health benefits of using beeswax. We are using beeswax from a local bee-keeper.
There is a materials fee of $25, payable to the instructor at the class.
Learn how to make your own natural soy candles. Soy wax is healthier and creates a longer burning candle. Using simple equipment you have at home, you will make You will make 3 container candles, 12 tealights and a wick dipper to take home. The class includes instructions, candle care info, plus all supplies. Choose from a variety of colours and scents to personalize your candles just the way you like them.
Explore the fun world of Melt and Pour Soap! We use high quality natural soap bases which are chemical free and good for sensitive skin. Choose from a variety of essential oils to scent your soap as well as a variety of botanicals. You will make chunk soap, scrubbie bar soap, cupcake soap and layered soap. Plus, you will learn why each ingredient is used and their health benefits along with witch commercial products and ingredients to avoid.
There is a materials fee of $25, payable to the instructor at the class. Please bring 1 empty 500 ml or 1 L cream/juice carton to class.
Pamper yourself by making your very own bath bombs, bath salts and bath scrubs. We use only natural ingredients and essential oils. Choose your own colours, fragrance and botanicals. Fun and easy to make. Great gifts! You will make and take home 1 jar of bath salts, 3 bath bombs and 2 jars of bath scrubs. Plus, you will learn why each ingredient is used and their health benefits, along with which commercial products and ingredients to avoid.
Learn step by step how to make a beautiful wooden rustic sign. You will have the opportunity to learn staining, sanding, painting and weathering techniques. Create a sign that looks like no other by customizing stain and paint colors.
Zentangle is a fun and easy-to-learn method of creating abstract images using simple repetitive patterns. If you can print your own name you have all the skills required for this fascinating art form! Like yoga for your soul, it can help increase focus and relaxation and decrease stress.
A lab fee of $12 is payable to the instructor at class, and includes a black .01 Micron pen, Zentangle pencil, tortillion, and 5 white Zentangle tiles in a drawstring bag.


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New York | Mumbai, December 10, 2013: As the new title sponsor for the New York City Marathon, Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, is pleased to announce that runner and volunteer applications for the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon are available on the new TCS New York City Marathon website, tcsnycmarathon.org.
The runner application window will remain open through March 18 for the more than 100,000 runners expected to apply. The application window for the approximately 12,000 volunteers who will support the race will remain open through July 31. The 2014 TCS New York City Marathon is scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 2, 2014.
The new TCS New York City Marathon website features a new look and improved user experience, as well as information that will help runners plan their race day. It includes tailored coaching plans through the official TCS New York City Marathon online training program and information about how to participate as part of a charity team, such as NYRR's Team for Kids.
In addition to the launch of the new website, NYRR is releasing new social media accounts and hashtags for runners, volunteers and fans looking to share their excitement and stories for the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon. Runners and fans are encouraged to tag Instagram and Twitter posts with #tcsnycmarathon and to visit the Twitter and Instagram handles, @nycmarathon, and Facebook page - TCS New York City Marathon – which has been updated with information on the 2014 race.
For more information and to sign up for the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon as a runner or volunteer, visit tcsnycmarathon.org.
The TCS New York City Marathon is the most popular and inclusive marathon in the world, attracting the world's top professional athletes and a vast range of recreational runners. The race began in 1970 with just 127 entrants racing four laps of Central Park. Today, more than 50,000 entrants from around the world run through New York City's five boroughs, starting on Staten Island at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and finishing in Central Park. Participants include Olympians, top age-group competitors, and many thousands who run for charity and to achieve their own personal goals. Millions of fans cheer the runners from the streets and watch the global television broadcast. The race is part of the World Marathon Majors, an alliance of the world's six biggest marathons that determines each year's top male and top female marathoner. The TCS New York City Marathon is the premier event of New York Road Runners, the world's foremost community running organization, whose mission is to help and inspire people through running.


Home Forums General General Discussion Just bought XBY. How do I get Xfuel ?
Just bought XBY. How do I get Xfuel ?
Now Ive been into crypto since about August, so I'm not super familiar with all the different components. But can someone explain to me how to get Xfuel ? Is it like NEO's Gas ?
Do I generate or get Xfuel from downloading a node wallet from the website to store my XBY? I just don't quite understand the explanations I have found about Xfuel yet .
Thanks a bunch ! Sorry if it's a noob question . All of this is so interesting to learn !
for now you can only exchange it with peers on discord or on this blog, there is a tread for it.


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What we offer	/ Agreed loans	/ Gdansk Transport Company S.A.
Poland. Gdansk Transport Company S.A.
Gdansk Transport Company S.A.
EUR 150 million
Infrastructure, transportation and telecom
The 30-year-maturity loan totalling EUR 150 million has been provided for Phase 2 of the A1 motorway in Poland. The motorway construction is being implemented as a public-private partnership (PPP) project. Gdansk Transport Company S.A. (GTC) holds the concession to design, construct, finance and operate a 152-kilometre section of the A1 motorway between Gdansk and Torun. The concession expires in 2039.
The project has been divided into two phases: Phase 1, encompassing a new 90-kilometre dual-carriage motorway from Gdansk to Nowe Marzy launched in October 2008, and Phase 2, covering 62 kilometres from Nowe Marzy to Torun. The commissioning of Phase 2 is scheduled for 31 December 2011.
The motorway is part of Trans-European Corridor No 6, which is important for Scandinavian countries in improving transport connections to central and southern Europe.
GTC is a special-purpose enterprise owned by Swedish Skanska Infrastructure Development AB (30%), British John Laing Infrastructure Limited (29.69%), Polish NDI Autostrada Sp.z o.o. (25.31%), and South African Intertoll Infrastructure Development BV (15%).
The construction of the 62-kilometre stretch of the motorway will be carried out on a mixture of new (52 kilometres) and old (10 kilometres) alignment. The motorway course will not interfere with densely populated areas. The project will cross two Natura 2000 sites. Important areas for protection are the Grudziadz Basin from the Nowe Marzy junction through the Vistula river valley and riverbed, and the Grudziadz junction to the edge of the Chelminskie Lake District plateau. Less complex problems are related to the motorway crossing of the Vistula river near Torun or the segment located in the central part of the Chelminskie Lake District. Actions have been recommended for the problem sections in order to limit the investment's negative environmental impact.
The project is in the environmental category A. In accordance with NIB's environmental policy, information about this project was publicly disclosed on the Bank's website for a period of 30 days prior to the Board of Directors making a decision on financing the project. No comments on the project have been received. The financing of the project is in accordance with NIB's credit policy.
Skanska-co-owned GTC gets new loan for A1 motorway
Nowa umowa na 150 mln euro pomiędzy
Skanska-samägda GTC får NIB-lån för motorvägsbygge i Polen
Amber One
NIB-financed 152-km motorway in Poland now in operation


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As the Barret family's peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly ...
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
Actor: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, J.K. Simmons, L.J. Benet, Rich Hutchman, Myndy Crist, Annie Thurman, Jake Brennan, Ron Ostrow, Tom Costello, Marion Kerr, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Josh Stamberg
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse ...
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Actor: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Nicky Naudé, David Selburg
Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists ...
Genre: History, Biography, Drama, Romance, Crime
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton, Geoff Pierson, Cheryl Lawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Brady Matthews, Gunner Wright, David A. Cooper, Ed Westwick, Naomi Watts, Kelly Lester, Jack Donner, Judi Dench, Dylan Burns, Jordan Bridges
Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, ...
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family
Actor: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Lorri Bagley, Jane Krakowski, Peter Ackerman, P.J. Benjamin, Josh Hamilton, Chris Wedge
Ronnie Scheib of Variety says this is writer-director Matt Sobel's, first full length film. 'Take Me to the River' unfolds in an atmosphere of mystery ...
Actor: Logan Miller, Robin Weigert, Josh Hamilton, Richard Schiff, Ursula Parker, Azura Skye, Elizabeth Franz, Ashley Gerasimovich, Grant Young, Seth Young, Amy Hostetler, Ella Jaixen, Athena Mostek
Burt Farlander and Verona De Tessant are a couple steeped in eccentricity and irregularity but are very much in love. So when they find out ...
Country: USA, UK
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Actor: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Pryor, Conor Carroll, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Bailey Harkins, Brendan Spitz, Jaden Spitz, Chris Messina
With Honors
Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he ...
Actor: Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Hamilton, Gore Vidal, Deborah Lake Fortson, Marshall Hambro, Melinda Chilton, Harve Kolzow, James Deuter, Caroline Gibson, M. Lynda Robinson, Richard Auguste, Patricia B. Butcher
Outsourced
When the call center he manages in Seattle is outsourced to India, Todd travels there to train his replacement. Housed in a new building that ...
Actor: Josh Hamilton, Matt Smith, Rudolf Rodrigues, Jai Neeraj Raj Purohit, Siddharth Jadhaw, Asif Basra, Sudha Shivpuri, Raghu Mama, Parvati, Sitaram D. Kadam, Feroz, Raja Kadale, Harish Chandra, Prashant Mahesh, Ayesha Dharker
13 Reasons Why Season 1
High school teens mourn the suicide of their classmate Hannah. Clay Jensen is particularly sad. When he gets home he receives a package, containing old ...
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Actor: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro, Alisha Boe, Brandon Flynn, Justin Prentice, Miles Heizer, Ross Butler, Devin Druid, Amy Hargreaves, Derek Luke, Kate Walsh, Brian d'Arcy James, Josh Hamilton, Keiko Agena
In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people ...
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Newton, David Kriegel, Kevin Breznahan, Sam Behrens, Illeana Douglas, Jack Noseworthy, Christian J. Meoli, Jake Carpenter, Michael DeLorenzo, José Zúñiga, Danny Nucci
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Actor: Adam Sandler, Grace Van Patten, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Emma Thompson, Danny Flaherty, Adam David Thompson, Ronald Peet, Hannah Mitchell, Judd Hirsch, Rebecca Miller, Sigourney Weaver, David Cromer, James Hamilton, Josh Hamilton
Harry Grows Up
New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Short
Actor: Elizabeth Elkins, Grace Gawthrop, Josh Hamilton, Lucas Nickelsburg, Mazzy Wiles
At Home with Amy Sedaris Season 1
Actor: Scott Adsit, Todd Barry, Peter Benson, Cole Escola, Ana Fabrega, Josh Hamilton, Heather Lawless, David Pasquesi, Miriam Tolan
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
Actor: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Daniel Zolghadri


C.RE.ED (Kindergarten – 5th Grade) meets Sundays, at 9am, in the church. Please remember that for First Communion (2nd Grade) the Diocese requires two years of attendance in the program.
The forms below may be downloaded and completed at home, but please bring with you to register. Additional forms are available from the offices in the parish hall. There is a fee of $35 per child for Creed with an additional fee of $30 for First Reconciliation/Eucharist preparation. Read the Photo & Video release form, and then place an X in the appropriate box on the registration form. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Power at 638-2651. Kindergarten through 5th Grade students meet on Sundays from 9:00am – 10:15am in the Church.


LOINTEK´s headquarters are located in Urduliz (Bizkaia). It has facilities of 40,000 sq. m dedicated to both workshops and offices.
LOINTEK is a leader in the design and manufacture of large industrial equipment using in-house technology characterised by its capacity to operate at high pressures and temperatures. LOINTEK strategy is calling for an international presence and competitiveness on a global level.
So it has committed itself towards diversifying its offer and contributing added value through the exclusive use of an in-house design in the thermal as well as mechanical aspects of the equipment.


Our goal is to provide you with a quick access to the content of the user manual for Avaya Telephone 6408D+. Using the online preview, you can quickly view the contents and go to the page where you will find the solution to your problem with Avaya Telephone 6408D+.... 7/08/2013 · Hi, I'm trying to determine how to change the display name for an extension. I noticed that there was another topic regarding this, however it didn't appear to be complete. Our phone system is an Iwatsu Adix vs system.
Avaya is a telecommunications company that specializes in business systems. Their 6400 series telephones include 6408 sets that have programmable line buttons, a display screen and standard feature buttons/keys. The 6408 has a line of eight buttons on the side of the telephone. The buttons are... Type in the number of the extension that you want to change at the "Show set:" prompt on the phone's display. Press the "Change" key to edit the name attached to the extension. Type in the name using the phone's keypad.
Andre Networking Computer and Networking Programming C Programming... Type in the number of the extension that you want to change at the "Show set:" prompt on the phone's display. Press the "Change" key to edit the name attached to the extension. Type in the name using the phone's keypad.
1/12/2009 · Hello all, im'not sure if its a known issue but is it possible to display user name on and idle 1608 phone display instead of Extension number like any other ip phone?
On the 1416 and 1616 phones, the angle of the phone display can also be adjusted as shown below. 1408/1416 Phone User Guide Page 16 IP Office 9.0... Page 17: Labels The action of each button is normally set by the system administrator.


A VDR is the new technology with the confirmed effectivity in a number of various errands. The technology is generally used for storing and distributing of the important private data, but it also gives many other benefits to the data room owners. In the recent past , business people preferred to have traditional land-based storages that could follow major business needs : keeping the data properly categorized and organized as well as processing distribution with perspective company partners .
Many of the mentioned advantages are due to the numerous capabilities of the new digital solution. To gain the competitive position in the market , providers welcome innovations and develop the already existing options . That is why virtual data rooms have won the incredible popularity in different activities.
Dealmaking always suppose the presence of the due diligence stage the one when partners study the target company`s confidential documents in order to weight the potential deal advantageousness . Proceeding with the due diligence gets best with the help of a well-chosen online solution, because it guarantees the protection of the important data from full or partial revealing and thus saves the organizational earnings. Moreover , almost all the VDR functions are more than suitable for mergers and acquisitions; including the following: extended reports (for getting knowledge about the most active deal participants), Questions and Answers section (for keeping in touch in the VDR in a convenient way ); flexible permissions ( for setting rights within the file storage ). Plenty of business people now use VDRs to make their transactions smooth , protected, and quick.
Before the clinical product enters the market, it has to be fully tested and evaluated .
All things considered, the purpose of the notice would be to raise income.
The important aspect at this stage is to protect the trade secret, for the reason that the data leakage can be fatal for the product future market sales and for the organization in general. Here is why a clinical team usually keeps its information in the secure online repository. It is also more convenient, because this kind of work involves lots of different participants; keeping in touch online is the simplest and the quickest way of interacting. With a well-chosen online data room, you can be convinced that the data does not go further than it is required.
To gain more clients, it is significant for the real estate consultant to provide the information about the real estate that is currently on sale in the most organized manner . Virtual data room users have a chance to find the suitable object quickly due to the sophisticated searching technologies integrated within the virtual data room. The greater availability and ostensiveness of all sorts of data about the estate is, the bigger the chances to succeed are. Moreover , different kinds of documents protection are very useful for this field of activity, because it is the most important duty of the real estate consultant to ensure the security of the clients` private data .
Legal practice can get significant advantages with the appearance of a VDR . First of all, it gets easier to proceed with plenty of projects simultaneously in the most organized way .
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Next , lawyers and attorneys become able to have reduced time wastes by replacing live communication with clients by the online-based one using a Questions and Answers section . Moreover, the solutions for notifying users will keep them posted about any process changes .
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Preparing the data for IPOs is time-consuming and well as important. Adopting the existing online-based tools can significantly improve the process safety and speed . Developed reporting capabilities will help to accomplish the third-party data audit, and the interaction between all the involved parties can be promptly processed in Q&A .
Virtual data room is a tool, popular for its universality . A good VDR can benefit truly any area of business it is implemented in. Consult your industry needs and select the most trusted solution !


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package filtered

import (
	context "context"

	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	labels "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
	cache "k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache"
	apissourcesv1 "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/apis/sources/v1"
	versioned "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/clientset/versioned"
	v1 "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/informers/externalversions/sources/v1"
	client "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/injection/client"
	filtered "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/injection/informers/factory/filtered"
	sourcesv1 "knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/listers/sources/v1"
	controller "knative.dev/pkg/controller"
	injection "knative.dev/pkg/injection"
	logging "knative.dev/pkg/logging"
)

func init() {
	injection.Default.RegisterFilteredInformers(withInformer)
	injection.Dynamic.RegisterDynamicInformer(withDynamicInformer)
}

// Key is used for associating the Informer inside the context.Context.
type Key struct {
	Selector string
}

func withInformer(ctx context.Context) (context.Context, []controller.Informer) {
	untyped := ctx.Value(filtered.LabelKey{})
	if untyped == nil {
		logging.FromContext(ctx).Panic(
			"Unable to fetch labelkey from context.")
	}
	labelSelectors := untyped.([]string)
	infs := []controller.Informer{}
	for _, selector := range labelSelectors {
		f := filtered.Get(ctx, selector)
		inf := f.Sources().V1().PingSources()
		ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, Key{Selector: selector}, inf)
		infs = append(infs, inf.Informer())
	}
	return ctx, infs
}

func withDynamicInformer(ctx context.Context) context.Context {
	untyped := ctx.Value(filtered.LabelKey{})
	if untyped == nil {
		logging.FromContext(ctx).Panic(
			"Unable to fetch labelkey from context.")
	}
	labelSelectors := untyped.([]string)
	for _, selector := range labelSelectors {
		inf := &wrapper{client: client.Get(ctx), selector: selector}
		ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, Key{Selector: selector}, inf)
	}
	return ctx
}

// Get extracts the typed informer from the context.
func Get(ctx context.Context, selector string) v1.PingSourceInformer {
	untyped := ctx.Value(Key{Selector: selector})
	if untyped == nil {
		logging.FromContext(ctx).Panicf(
			"Unable to fetch knative.dev/eventing/pkg/client/informers/externalversions/sources/v1.PingSourceInformer with selector %s from context.", selector)
	}
	return untyped.(v1.PingSourceInformer)
}

type wrapper struct {
	client versioned.Interface

	namespace string

	selector string
}

var _ v1.PingSourceInformer = (*wrapper)(nil)
var _ sourcesv1.PingSourceLister = (*wrapper)(nil)

func (w *wrapper) Informer() cache.SharedIndexInformer {
	return cache.NewSharedIndexInformer(nil, &apissourcesv1.PingSource{}, 0, nil)
}

func (w *wrapper) Lister() sourcesv1.PingSourceLister {
	return w
}

func (w *wrapper) PingSources(namespace string) sourcesv1.PingSourceNamespaceLister {
	return &wrapper{client: w.client, namespace: namespace, selector: w.selector}
}

func (w *wrapper) List(selector labels.Selector) (ret []*apissourcesv1.PingSource, err error) {
	reqs, err := labels.ParseToRequirements(w.selector)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	selector = selector.Add(reqs...)
	lo, err := w.client.SourcesV1().PingSources(w.namespace).List(context.TODO(), metav1.ListOptions{
		LabelSelector: selector.String(),
		// TODO(mattmoor): Incorporate resourceVersion bounds based on staleness criteria.
	})
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	for idx := range lo.Items {
		ret = append(ret, &lo.Items[idx])
	}
	return ret, nil
}

func (w *wrapper) Get(name string) (*apissourcesv1.PingSource, error) {
	// TODO(mattmoor): Check that the fetched object matches the selector.
	return w.client.SourcesV1().PingSources(w.namespace).Get(context.TODO(), name, metav1.GetOptions{
		// TODO(mattmoor): Incorporate resourceVersion bounds based on staleness criteria.
	})
}

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"You're a great guest," Stephen Colbert joked at his Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington, who was not allowed to discuss the series final season, launching April 14. That includes not being allowed to float any fabrications, Harrington said, because savvy viewers would know to rule out that fake news. "This show was a…
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The Toronto Film Festival has landed the world premiere of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Canadian director Xavier Dolan's drama starring Jacob Tremblay. The pic will screen as part of TIFF's Special Presentations program. The pic traces the story of a young actor (Tremblay) as he reminisces on the letters he…
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HBO has acquired Gunpowder, BBC's three-part thriller drama toplined by Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington. The miniseries, based on the real-life 17th century events that led to Guy Fawkes Day, will debut on HBO on Monday, Dec. 18, and will air over three consecutive nights. Gunpowder, produced by Kudos, part of…
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A trailer has dropped for MI-5, the feature film based on the hit UK series that stars Peter Firth and Kit Harington (formerly?) of Game Of Thrones. The pic actually premiered in the UK in May under the name Spooks: The Greater Good, with series director Bharat Nalluri helming and series writers Jonathan Brackley and…


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title: "Binaries"
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description: >
  How to release minikube binaries
---

## Preparation

* Announce release intent on #minikube
* Pause merge requests so that they are not accidentally left out of the ISO or release notes
* Two minikube repos checked out locally:
  * Your personal fork
  * Upstream

## Build a new ISO

* All non-patch releases require a new ISO to be built.
* Patch releases (vx.x.1+) require a new ISO if the `deploy/iso` directory has seen changes since the previous release.

See [ISO release instructions]({{<ref "iso.md">}})

## Release new kicbase image

If there are changes to the Dockerfile for the docker and/or podman drivers
(and there is a -snapshot image), you should retag it as a new version and push it to GCR, dockerhub and github packages.

For example, if you are releasing v0.0.13 and the current kicbase image tag is v0.0.12-snapshot, you should tag v0.0.13 and change [kic/types.go](https://github.com/medyagh/minikube/blob/635ff53a63e5bb1be4e1abb9067ebe502a16224e/pkg/drivers/kic/types.go#L29-L30) as well.

## Update Release Notes

Run the following script from your local upstream repo copy to generate updated release notes:

```shell
hack/release_notes.sh
```

Paste the output into CHANGELOG.md, sorting changes by importance to an end-user. If there are >8 changes, split them into *Improvements* and *Bug fixes*

- The changelog should only contain user facing change. This means removing PR's for:
  - Documentation
  - Low-risk refactors
  - Test-only changes
- Remove bots from the contributor list
- Remove duplicated similar names from the contributor list

You may merge this PR at any time, or combine it with a `Makefile` update PR.

## Update Makefile

Update the version numbers in  `Makefile`:

* `VERSION_MAJOR`, `VERSION_MINOR`, `VERSION_BUILD`
* `ISO_VERSION`:
  - beta releases use: `v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)`
  - major/minor releases use: `v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).0`
  - if the ISO was updated, a patch release may use `v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)`

{{% alert title="Warning" color="warning" %}}
Merge this PR only if all non-experimental integration tests pass!
{{% /alert %}}

## Tag the Release

```shell
sh hack/tag_release.sh 1.<minor>.<patch>
```

## Build the Release

This step uses the git tag to publish new binaries to GCS and create a github release:

* Navigate to the minikube "Release" jenkins job
* Ensure that you are logged in (top right)
* Click "▶ Build with Parameters" (left)
* `VERSION_MAJOR`, `VERSION_MINOR`, and `VERSION_BUILD` should reflect the values in your Makefile
* For `ISO_SHA256`, run: `gsutil cat gs://minikube/iso/minikube-v<version>.iso.sha256`
* Click *Build*

## Check the release logs

After job completion, click "Console Output" to verify that the release completed without errors. This is typically where one will see brew automation fail, for instance.

**Note: If you are releasing a beta, you are done when you get here.**

## Merge the releases.json change

The release script updates https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases.json - which is used by the minikube binary to check for updates, and is live immediately.

minikube-bot will also send out a PR to merge this into the tree. Please merge this PR to keep GCS and Github in sync.

## Package managers which include minikube

These are downstream packages that are being maintained by others and how to upgrade them to make sure they have the latest versions

| Package Manager | URL                                                                       | TODO                                                                                |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Arch Linux AUR  | <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minikube-bin/>                        | "Flag as package out-of-date"                                                                                |
| Brew Cask       | <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks> | The release job creates a new PR in [Homebrew/homebrew-cask](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask) with an updated version and SHA256, double check that it's created. |

WARNING: The Brew cask automation is error-prone. please ensure that a PR was created.

## Verification

Verify release checksums by running `make check-release`

## Update docs

If there are major changes, please send a PR to update <https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/learning-environment/minikube/>

## Announce

Please mention the new release https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/README.md

Other places:

- #minikube on Slack
- minikube-dev, minikube-users mailing list
- Twitter (optional!)


Hell hath no fury like a Pretty Boy scorned. Mark managed to gain power this week. As expected, it's gone to his head. He wants to continue being loyal to the Pretty Boys…to a degree. He doesn't want to take out Dane or Anthony, but it's another story when it comes to Adam.
Let's go back a few weeks ago when Sam was still in the Big Brother Canada house and in power. She nominated Kiki and Mark. Then Adam won the Power of Veto and decided not to use it. This left a nervous Mark on the block during Thursday's eviction. Kiki ultimately left that night. However, Mark hasn't forgotten or forgave. Instead, he took it out on Sam this week by not being open minded to keeping her in the game.
He plans to take it out on Adam by nominating him, and then evicting him—if he doesn't win Veto. The Pretty Boys are finally turning on each other, and of course blindly loyal Adam is paying the price. The other Pretty Boys know Mark's plan, but they're trying to keep Adam as blind to his eviction as possible.
If Adam does win Veto tomorrow, then Damien or Este will likely be the ones meeting Sam in the jury house.
Join us tomorrow to see who took home the Power of Veto. Keep it here all spring for more Big Brother Canada 7 news, spoilers, recaps, and much more. Also find us on Facebook and Twitter.


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Antonín Rükl (født 22. september 1932, død 12. juli 2016) var en tjekkisk astronom, kartograf og forfatter.

Han dimitterede fra det Tjekkiske Tekniske Universitet i Prag i 1956 og blev efterfølgende ansat i astronomiafdelingen på geodæsiinstituttet. Han blev i 1960 ansat på Prags planetarium, som han med årene blev leder af. Han havde ligeledes haft en række tillidsposter i sammenslutninger af astronomer såvel nationalt som internationalt, inden han gik på pension i 1999.

Rükl var anerkendt som formidler af sit fag for et bredt publikum og samtidig højt estimeret blandt sine fagkolleger. Han har skrevet en række bøger, og som kartograf har han ligeledes leveret illustrationer til flere af bøgerne, heriblandt Atlas of the Moon.

Faglitterære forfattere fra Tjekkiet
Astronomer fra Tjekkiet


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10/30/19: Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics
Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics
EECS Colloquium
306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium)
Petros Koumoutsakos
Chair for Computational Science
ETH-Zürich
Petros Koumoutsakos speaks on "Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics," 10/30/19
The field of fluid mechanics experiences today a shift from first principles to data driven approaches. While fluid mechanics has always involved massive volumes of data from experiments, field measurements, and large-scale simulations and despite early connections dating back to Kolmogorov, the link between Fluid Mechanics and Machine Learning (ML) has been weak. The situation is rapidly changing with ML algorithms entering in numerous efforts for modeling, optimizing, and controlling fluid flows. In this talk I will present works from our group on the interface of Fluid Mechanics and ML ranging from low order models for turbulent flows to deep reinforcement learning algorithms and bayesian experimental design for collective swimming. I hope to demonstrate that ML has the potential to augment, and possibly even transform, current lines of fluid mechanics research. I will also discuss how fluid mechanics problems and approaches may be of value to the ML community.
Petros Koumoutsakos holds the Chair for Computational Science at ETH Zurich and serves as Fellow of the Collegium Helveticum. He studied Naval Architecture (Diploma-NTU of Athens, M.Eng.-U. of Michigan), Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics (PhD-Caltech). He has conducted post-doctoral studies at the Center for Parallel Computing at Caltech and at the Center for Turbulent Research at Stanford University and NASA Ames. Petros is elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Physical Society (APS), the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Collegium Helveticum. He has held visiting fellow positions at Caltech, the University of Tokyo, MIT, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University and he is Distinguished Affiliated Professor at TU Munich. He is recipient of the Advanced Investigator Award by the European Research Council and the ACM Gordon Bell prize in Supercomputing. He is elected Foreign Member to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). His research interests are on the fundamentals and applications of computing and artificial intelligence to understand, predict and optimize fluid flows in engineering, nanotechnology, and medicine.
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09/25/19: Steps Toward Super Intelligence and the Search for a New Path
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When a child is injured outside the care of their parents, the person, business, or organization may very well be liable for the damages experienced by the child and his or her parents. A common scenario in accidents involving children is the injury on the playground. It is expected that children young enough to enjoy playgrounds will be allowed to exercise and play if being cared for any period of time. Playgrounds, while safer than they once were, can pose unreasonable danger to the safety of a child if there is inadequate adult supervision or if the playground itself is unsafely designed or installed or age-inappropriate.
Individuals and organizations entrusted with a child owe a duty of care to the child to protect the child's safety and well-being. Everyone understands that children simply do not have the reasoning capacity and good judgment to look after themselves. More care is required of those watching over pre-schoolers than is required of those watching over high schoolers. Additionally, more care is expected when activities presented to the children are more dangerous. If a daycare, preschool, or school (public or private) fails to provide adequate supervision and a child falls off of the monkey bars, swings, jungle gym, or slide, it is quite likely that the organization will be liable in negligence.
Children are not held to the same level of care as adults. Adults, who through their own actions, injure themselves, most often will be held to account for their own fault, if they pursue a lawsuit in negligence. In contributory negligence states, like North Carolina, their negligence creates a complete bar to their claim, and their negligence will cause them to receive nothing. For example, if an adult were playing, in a careless manner, on a jungle gym at a preschool playground with a group of children that ought to have been supervised, the adult's carelessness would form a complete bar to recovery. In other states that follow comparative negligence, like South Carolina, the plaintiff's recovery is decreased in proportion to their level of fault, unless the plaintiff's fault is 50% or greater, in which case any recovery is barred. If a plaintiff is 20% negligent, their recovery is reduced to 80% of what it would have otherwise been. In the adult on the jungle gym scenario, so long as the preschool is more negligent that the adult in causing the adult's injury (however unlikely that scenario might be), the adult would be able to recover.
Children on the other hand are conclusively presumed to be incapable of negligence if they are are under seven. From seven to thirteen, there is a rebuttable presumption that they are incapable of negligence. Above fourteen, they are presumed to be capable of negligence. The importance of this doctrine to the child injury case cannot be overstated, especially in contributory negligence cases. Accidents involving children in the playground setting will almost always involve some act by the child that would be considered negligence if committed by an adult, which would bar any recovery in states like North Carolina and reduce the recovery in states like South Carolina.
Even given this lower standard, there are complications. In the case of playgrounds, children may very well injure themselves in a way that increased or reasonable care could not have prevented. For example, a fall from the monkey bars, if the monkey bars were age-appropriate, reasonably designed and installed, may not be preventable, even by the closest supervision. On the other hand, if the same monkey bars were on a playground shared by different age children at different times, and children under seven and too young for this particular monkey bar setup were not supervised appropriately, there likely would be actionable negligence since children under seven are not expected to know better than to climb to unsafe heights.
Another common scenario, where there may or may not be negligence, is interactions among children on the playground. It is completely reasonable that children be allowed to play together on the playground, but, as you might imagine, the amount of supervision reasonably required varies depending on the age, number, and nature of the children and the environment they are in. The younger the children, the more supervision that should be required. The more potential danger that an environment provides, the more supervision that should be required. If a child is known to have violent tendencies or other dangerous behavior, increased supervision should be expected. However, just as there are interactions between children and playgrounds that increased supervision could not prevent, there are interactions between children on the playground that increased supervision may not be able to reasonably prevent. If a child unpredictably injures another child, it may be that no reasonable level of increased supervision could have prevented the injury.
That being said, although child injury cases involving the playground can be highly fact-dependent and raise complicated legal issues, children are understandably treated favorably by the law of negligence.


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Health Canada authorizes Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine ahead of holidays
OTTAWA — Health Canada approved a second COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, paving the way for the shots from U.S. biotech firm Moderna to start arriving in the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed the move during a news conference in which he also announced that Canada will receive more doses next month of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine than previously expected, after it was approved by Health Canada on Dec. 9.
Between the early doses already in the country, and the shipments now scheduled, Canada should have at least 1.2 million doses from Pfizer and Moderna delivered by Jan. 31, Trudeau said.
Eventually in 2021, enough doses will arrive from the two companies to vaccinate 30 million people, or almost the entire adult population in Canada.
But Trudeau warned of a long road still ahead.
Speaking outside his Ottawa residence, the prime minister issued a final plea before Christmas for Canadians to restrain themselves from attending or hosting large gatherings to prevent a post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases.
"Our country has been through difficult Christmases before. There have been times when our grandparents or parents couldn't be with family or had to put traditions on hold," said Trudeau, who marks his 49th birthday on Dec. 25.
"Well this Christmas, it's our turn. It's up to us to protect each other. It's up to us to pull together to hold on and to know however dark the winter may be, spring is coming and better days will be back."
New cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in nearly all provinces Wednesday as both Ontario and Quebec also prepared to re-enter lockdown mode in a bid to curb their record high levels of cases.
The rollout of the Moderna vaccine is expected to begin within days, with Health Canada saying it expects up to 168,000 doses to be delivered by the end of December.
"After assessing all the data, we concluded that there was strong evidence that showed the benefits of this vaccine outweigh the potential risks," Health Canada's chief medical officer Dr. Supriya Sharma told a news conference in Ottawa.
While the Pfizer vaccine is being distributed in different cities across Canada, officials said the Moderna version will be distributed to more remote communities. That is because it does not need the same extreme-cold storage as the Pfizer version.
The first doses are prioritized for front-line health staff, residents and workers in long-term care, adults in remote Indigenous communities, and seniors over the age of 80 living in the community.
Long-term care facilities in Ontario and Quebec continue to struggle with outbreaks of COVID-19, and on Wednesday, Trudeau committed another $70 million to help the Canadian Red Cross respond.
The prime minister also announced that Canada was extending a ban on flights from Britain for another two weeks to Jan. 6 as the United Kingdom struggles with a new strain of COVID-19 that experts suggest is more contagious than other variants.
Sharma expressed confidence that the approved vaccines will remain effective against the new COVID-19 strain identified in the United Kingdom.
"We still are waiting for confirmation of the testing of these vaccines against that specific variant," she said. "In general, we believe that they will be ... effective."
Yukon's Health Minister Pauline Frost described the Moderna approval as the "exciting news Yukoners have been waiting for," adding immunization clinics will begin the first week of January.
Frost said delivery of 7,200 doses will be enough to allow 3,600 residents of the territory to receive the two doses needed for immunity. A similar number will be delivered to Northwest Territories, Health Minister Julie Green said.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military officer charged with overseeing the logistical challenge of distributing vaccine doses across Canada, said the first Moderna doses will be delivered to the three territories on Monday.
He also said officials are preparing to ramp up next week from 14 vaccine delivery sites to 100 to handle the expanded influx of vaccine doses from Moderna and Pfizer.
"We're building capacity and collaborating with our federal provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners to ensure that as many Canadians as possible can be safely immunized against COVID-19, and as quickly as possible," Fortin said.
Canada's deputy public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo said the plan remains to have all Canadians vaccinated by next September.
Canada is to get 40 million doses of Moderna's vaccine in 2021, enough to vaccinate 20 million people, or about two-thirds of the Canadian adult population.
The vaccine is not yet recommended for use on children as tests on adolescents only began in December and tests on children younger than 12 won't begin until next year.
People with severe allergies have been advised against getting the Pfizer vaccine after several people in Britain had reactions to the inoculation. Sharma said the same advice is being given for the Moderna vaccine and the company will have to continue to provide safety information.
Canada's doses of the Moderna vaccine are being made in Europe.
Two more vaccines are being reviewed by Health Canada, one from AstraZeneca and the other from Johnson and Johnson, Sharma said, but more information is needed before they can be approved.
British Columbia's top doctor said the province could receive its first doses of the Moderna vaccine as early as Monday, while more than 5,600 people have been immunized so far with the Pfizer vaccine.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Wednesday that COVID-19 cases in the province are levelling off after peaking in mid-November, though she warns now is not the time to relax public health rules.
—With files from Mia Rabson in Ottawa, Beth Leighton in Vancouver and Shawn Jeffords in Toronto.
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
OPINION | Ottawa needs to fight more effectively for the carbon tax
This column is an opinion from Max Fawcett, a freelance writer and the former editor of Alberta Oil magazine. Death and taxes may be the only certainties in life, but over the last few years conservatives in Canada have done their best to add misrepresenting the federal carbon tax to that list. Their latest attempt to confuse Canadians came in the form of a Jan. 5 story in Blacklock's Reporter, an Ottawa-based subscription news service, which suggested that "Canadians paid millions more in #CarbonTax than they received in rebates." The source for that claim was the first annual report produced on the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act by Environment and Climate Change Canada, one that (among other things) described the total revenues raised by the tax and the ways in which it was paid back to Canadians. The report contained a chart depicting the balance of proceeds and payments. Blacklock'sadded a helpful red box around the rebates to households to emphasize that those figures were less than the total amount Canadians paid. That image was immediately blasted out by Conservative pundits and members of parliament on Twitter, who seized on the story as another example of the federal government's apparent dishonesty around the tax. "This week, the Trudeau government released its annual report on the carbon tax, which clearly shows the federal government collected far more in carbon taxes last year than it actually rebated to households in those provinces," Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Aaron Wudrick wrote in the Toronto Sun. "It's not a small sum: of the $2.6 billion taken from Canadians' pockets, just under $2 billion was rebated," Wudrick added. Chicanery at work Some Conservative MPs went even further than that. Jeremy Patzer, the 34-year-old member for Cypress-Grasslands in Saskatchewan, tweeted his take at Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal minister of environment. "It's right there in print," he wrote. "You can't lie your way out of this one. Where did the rest of the money go?" Funny he should ask, because the answer to that question was contained in the very same chart that Conservatives were treating like a smoking gun — the part that had been selectively cropped out. The chart showed hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to small and medium-sized enterprises as well municipalities, universities and colleges, schools and hospitals. The selective cropping also excluded a line indicating that any difference between proceeds and payments would be added to the next year's Climate Action Incentive payments. That wasn't the only bit of chicanery at work here, either. Equally dishonest was the implication that the federal government had promised that the rebates would be larger than the total tax paid by all Canadians. That was never the case: instead, we were told that the vast majority of households would get more back in rebates than they paid in carbon taxes. On this matter, the Parliamentary Budget Office has been very clear: the vast majority of Canadian households will receive more in rebates than they pay in carbon taxes, and that includes indirect impacts on things like food costs. The PBO has been equally clear about the fact that the households who will benefit the most from the carbon tax and rebate are the ones in the lowest income quartile. Conservatives will continue to pretend that the burden of the carbon tax falls most heavily on working class Canadians, but the facts simply don't bear this out. But no matter: for an already confused public, the cropped chart and accompanying conservative outrage will almost certainly overwhelm any attempts to rationally explain the policy. And while said Conservatives are certainly to blame for this — Philip Lawrence, the CPC shadow minister for national revenue, even sent out a press release trading in the latest deceit — the federal government deserves its share of the blame as well. That's because while the policies that underpin its climate plan are well designed, they've done a far worse job of communicating with Canadians about them. In fairness, even climate policy wonks can struggle at times to explain the nature of the federal backstop, especially how it applies to large industrial emitters. But when it comes to helping Canadians understand what they pay and whether they're coming out ahead financially, the federal government has done a predictably lousy job. Confusion reigns According to a September 2020 Leger poll that was conducted for Clean Prosperity, fewer than one-in-three Canadians living in the 905 region knew that carbon tax revenues were rebated to households. That's partially a function of the way it's distributed, which is in the form of a tax credit called the "Climate Action Incentive rebate." That name might have pleased the public servant who came up with it, but it invites confusion in a public that is accustomed to hearing it described in very different language. And because millions of Canadians don't actually do their own taxes, its very existence may have escaped their notice — especially if their tax preparer wasn't particularly anxious to tell them about it. The federal government has signaled its intention to move to quarterly deposits rather than annual tax credits by 2022, but this could be too little, too late. Even then, they'd be repeating a lesser mistake that Alberta's NDP made in their own rebate program, where the funds were deposited automatically in people's bank accounts — and therefore often overlooked. If the federal government wants to fix this error, they'll need to take a page out of their opponent's playbook. In Ontario, Doug Ford forced gas stations to put stickers purporting to show the cost of the carbon tax on their pumps. And while the stickers were poorly made and politically crass (and eventually ruled unconstitutional), they still effectively communicated his government's side of the story in simple and straight-forward terms. That's why, rather than allowing people to claim a tax credit or depositing money into their bank accounts, the federal government should send Canadians actual, physical cheques — and make it clear who's sending it to them. Would they be accused by the opposition of bribing people with their own money? Probably. But that's a cost they should be willing to pay, especially when the price of failure here is so high. In an environment where misinformation thrives, and where one side has repeatedly shown its willingness to spread it about the carbon tax, the Trudeau Liberals may have to fight fire with something other than wood. This isn't just a political consideration, either. As Canada tries to repair its balance sheet and grow the economy in the wake of COVID-19, it will need all the investment it can get. And according to Michael Berends, a managing director with ClearBlue Markets, a firm that helps companies understand and manage their carbon costs, the continued uncertainty around carbon pricing's future in Canada is getting in the way of that investment. "If you look at the cap and trade program that Ontario had in place in 2017, which was removed by the conservative government, it had over $2 billion in proceeds from auction — money that was going to be rolled out to clean initiatives, including a significant portion to large emitters," Berends told me. Certainty more important than price For those large emitters, he adds, policy certainty might be more important than price. "I'm not here to say that all emitters are happy with the $170 per tonne price, but they first want to know if it's really going to be there or not." And that lack of certainty — in Ontario, for example, large emitters have had to learn about and understand three different programs in five years — could drive capital into more stable markets. "For emitters that have plants in other locations outside of Ontario or the rest of Canada, if there's more certainty in those places, then the money might be moving there instead — because you know what you're facing," says Berends. That's something that all Canadian politicians should be eager to avoid. But that may require one of two things to happen: either Conservatives stop misrepresenting the nature and impact of carbon pricing, or Liberals start fighting for it more effectively. For both sides of the political spectrum, that is almost certainly an unpleasant idea. But losing out on billions of dollars in potential investment in low-carbon projects should be even less attractive. "The acceptance of carbon pricing is here now in Canada, at least on the emitter side," Berends says. "Now it's up to the politicians to deliver that certainty and give a clear path forward." This column is an opinion. For more information about our commentary section, please readour FAQ.