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Q: Unable to use AWS CLI in Jenkins due to "Unable to locate credentials" error I am using Jenkins for CI. I need to be able to pull a file from an S3 bucket. Inside the jenkins job I do the following diagnostic from the jenkins shell:
cd ~

this takes me to /var/lib/jenkins
whoami

this returns the user jenkins
inside /var/lib/jenkins I have my .aws folder with the config and credentials file, yet when I run
aws configure list

I get this:
      Name                    Value             Type    Location
      ----                    -----             ----    --------
   profile                <not set>             None    None
access_key                <not set>             None    None
secret_key                <not set>             None    None
    region                <not set>             None    None

There is nothing there even though I have the .aws folder and the correct information in those two files. I originally tried placing the .aws folder in /home/jenkins but that didn't work either.
So, how do I get jenkins to actually work with the aws cli?

A: You can export the credentials as environmental variables:
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-west-2

See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html for more information. Depending on how you're using Jenkins you may want to use the EvnInject Plugin

A: This method worked for me:

*

*Make directory in /var/lib/jenkins that called .aws (or copy .aws folder from home directory if you already configured your aws credentials via "aws configure" command)

*Then go down to /var/lib/jenkins/.aws and write sudo shown -R jenkins ./ to change owner for files in .aws directory.

A: Kindly update you aws credentials within the the bash of the jenkins server. Run the below commands:
# sudo -su jenkins
# aws configure

Reference Link: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-ami-jenkins.html

A: There's a similar problem that jenkins can't find credential small node program running by some bat. I've solved by changing home directory of jenkins which could be edited on jenkins configuration page into where the '.aws' folder is. (I've been configured the aws setting directly via remote desktop app)

A: If you are seeing this issue within corporate network while using instance role then please make sure the proxy settings are correct.


Spare a thought for Greg Knight the former chair of the Procedure Committee who was lured away from the safe £80,000 job, perhaps by the £92,000 salary, to be No. 3 in the Tory Whips' office. Now he's a sacked whip. Reshuffled into the deck on a back bench salary (£66,000). But he has his network to fall back on. In 2007, Knight was named as one of the 50 most influential people worldwide in the Historic Vehicle Movement. Broom broom.


These days, it seems as if we are working more, sleeping less. Getting a good night's sleep is supposedly painfully simple but relaxing is an arduous, cumbersome process for most of us. Your bedroom is a haven, a place of rest. So what you can do to make your bedroom feel more relaxing, comforting and cozy? By adding a few new bedroom accessories you can quickly turn a boring room into your favourite hideout.
You will agree that your bedroom is the most important spot in your home. It is where you lay every night, so it is important that it is as conducive as it should be. In most cases you when you are in bed, you want to have access to everything without leaving your bed or stepping out of the room. For this reason, it is important that it is arranged and furnished in a way that it meets your need. But the mistake we constantly make is that we tend to overcrowd our rooms in the name of satisfaction or convenience.
How do you furnish your room to your taste without overcrowding it?
Our bedrooms are our sanctuaries: a place of escape, relaxation, and rest. So shouldn't its décor reflect exactly what you wish? When you are redecorating a room that is in dire need of a new look, you don't need to splurge on all-new furniture — a few home accessories can instantly liven it up. Change up your bedroom design style with what you already have. Design your layout and always measure before you commit to buying any item, make sure that it will actually fit the space you have.
Unlike some other rooms in the house, a bedroom is an easy place for adding fun, quirky knickknacks. Take advantage of decorative accessories. There are a wide variety of home decor products to choose from. Decorative pillows at the head of the bed bring in layers and texture.
The artwork in the bedroom should be soothing and benign. Neutral colours in the bedroom provide a sense of calm and respite.
Carpeting is essential. You must have a warm, fluffy place for your feet to land when entering and exiting the bed.
Don't forget the drapes. Dress up your windows with elegant, bold or even light and airy treatments.
Add some extra special furniture. If you have room to spare, bring in a few more small pieces to really personalize the space.
Is buying home appliances online a good idea?
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Football Accumulator Betting Tips Saturday 23rd January – Red Devils To Brush Saints Aside
After securing back-to-back winners over the past two weekends, we're looking to complete a hat-trick of trebles this weekend with these tempting selections from Saturday's afternoon action.
At odds of just under 6/1, the victory would take an already successful January to another level. There's plenty of reason to fancy all three selections, let's just hope they deliver
Manchester United V Southampton
At Old Trafford, it's a battle between the two Dutch managers as Louis van Gaal's Red Devils look to follow up last weekend's win at Anfield with three home points against a spirited Southampton.
The hosts certainly have reason to be confident as they remain unbeaten in 2016 and also have captain Wayne Rooney back amongst the goals. Meanwhile, the heroics of David De Gea should give Van Gaal's men confidence in the defensive third too, especially as the visitors boast just two wins on the road this term.
Ronald Koeman's men are improving and enter this clash on the back of consecutive league wins. However, the trip to Old Trafford is a step up in quality. It's also unknown as to whether Charlie Austin will be settled into his new surroundings yet, which could play a significant role.
Manchester United will need to improve their performance, but they are more than capable of registering the three points. Home win.
Manchester United Win @ 10/11 with Betfred
Cardiff City V Rotherham United
In the Championship, Russell Slade's Cardiff are just five points off the play-offs and can close that gap even further as they take on Rotherham United. Given that the hosts tend to perform in Wales, they have to be fancied to grab the points.
The home side have lost just one game on home soil this year while the Millers boast just two wins on the road. Neil Redfearn's men also enter this clash having lost four of their last five matches. Meanwhile, the fact they've shipped 24 away goals is an equally worrying statistic.
Cardiff do concede quite regularly, but the firepower of Joe Mason and co should be more than enough to compensate. Meanwhile, confidence is on the home team's side too, and this could be another major factor.
Rotherham won the reverse clash 2-1, but they've not beaten Cardiff in Wales in three attempts this century. Expect the visitors to leave empty handed once more.
Cardiff City Win @ 10/11 with Betfred
Woking V Halifax Town
This week saw Woking manager Garry Hill celebrate his fifth anniversary at Kingfield, and the Cardinals will be hoping to cap that achievement with a vital three points this weekend. In truth, they should have more than enough quality to make that happen against a poorly travelled Halifax.
Woking are in good form having picked up 13 points from their last five matches. Meanwhile, the fact they could climb into the play-off zone should give them a huge incentive in front of their own supporters. With the goals of Dan Holman and John Goddard to spur them on, they should have a fantastic chance of securing a pleasing outcome.
The visitors are in good form too, winning three of their last five. However, an away record of nine defeats in 13 make for pretty poor reading and their leaky defence could be in for a difficult afternoon against a team that beat them 3-0 earlier in the campaign.
Halifax have improved since getting rid of former boss Darren Kelly. Unfortunately for the Shaymen, it could be a return to losing ways here.
Woking Win @ 10/11 with Betfred
A £10 treble returns £69.58 with Betfred
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Yellapur
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Town in Karnataka, India
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Coordinates: 14°58′N 74°43′E / 14.97°N 74.72°E / 14.97; 74.72Coordinates: 14°58′N 74°43′E / 14.97°N 74.72°E / 14.97; 74.72
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Yellapura is a town in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. It is a major trading centre for Arecanut, which is the primary crop grown in the villages surrounding the city. Approximately 90% of the population of Yellapura are farmers who grow Arecanut and paddy.
Geography[edit]
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Yellapur is located in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka.[2] It has an average elevation of 541 metres (1774 feet). Among many other hills and valleys, there are two well-known natural falls near Yellapur: Satoddi Falls, 25 km away from the town, and Magod Falls, 19 km away from Yellapur, in the village of Magodu. 17 km from Yellapur is Jenukallu Gudda (Honey-Stone Hill), a viewpoint with a panoramic view of the Western Ghats.
Demographics[edit]
According to the 2001 Indian census,[3] Yellapur had a population of 17,938, 51% male and 49% female. Yellapur has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 68%. 12% of the population of Yellapur is under six years of age. Kannada is the dominant language and Konkani is also spoken by significant population of the region. Members of an African tribe have lived in the town for several centuries.[citation needed]
Media[edit]
Karavali Munjavu is one of the major local newspapers in the region. The town of Yellapur has been featured on the MTV Sound Trippin show, hosted by Sneha Khanwalkar.[citation needed]
Transport[edit]
Regular buses run between Yellapur and many other locations in Karnataka. The town does not have its own rail station, but the nearest major station is Alnavar Junction, roughly 60 km away. The nearest airport is Hubli Airport, 80 km away.
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The Horrors of Saint Domingo: An Inevitable Revolution?
By Gary Oswald
Haiti at the beginning of the Haitian revolution. Image by Aldan-2, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
In August 1791 a number of plantation slaves met in the woods of Bois Caïman in North Haiti. That meeting was the starting signal for the world's most successful slave revolt. Within two months 4,000 white masters were dead, over a thousand plantations had been destroyed and tens of thousands of slaves had been freed. 13 years later a former slave was able to declare that the colony of Saint-Domingue was now the independent country of Haiti, with him as its leader.
This meeting therefore was one of the most important moments in New World history. But because we don't have very good sources on what exactly happened during it, as it was quite obviously kept secret from the white slave owners, it has become so mythologised that it is difficult to separate the truth from the legend.
We know that the meeting was a culmination of months of secret planning on the part of the slaves and we also suspect that the uprising came earlier than it had originally been intended. The original plan had probably been for the first blow to be struck in Cap-Français upon the meeting of a colonial assembly there, the idea was that if enough weapons could be smuggled to the slaves within the city, they could decapitate the Island's leadership by burning the city while all the major land owners were meeting there and then there'd be no organised resistance to the plantation slave's uprising. This plan was abandoned after a minor slave uprising had been put down and one of its leaders, after been tortured, had ratted out the larger conspiracy.
This put the rebellious slaves in a quandary, they didn't know how much of their plans had been spilled and how vigorous the response would be (in actual fact, there was no serious response, the slave owner in question seemed to assume that talk of a widespread uprising was merely wishful thinking and fantasy on the part of the slaves). As a result the decision was made to abandon the initial risky decapitation strategy and concentrate instead on freeing as many of the plantation slaves as possible, which would hopefully create an army large enough to storm the French defensive positions.
The meeting at Bois Caïman was the signal that the timetable had moved forward and the starting gun was about to fire. The man who called the meeting was Dutty Boukman, the first major figure of the Haitian revolution. He is however a figure we know very little about given his importance. Some historians speculate that he was an Islamic scholar from Africa prior to his enslavement, others that he had been sold to Haiti from Jamaica after the British had marked him as a troublemaker due to him attempting to teach other slaves to read and write. Both of these histories are impossible to prove, all we know for certain is that he was a slave in Haiti, that he attempted to run away at least once and was caught, that he later was sold to a plantation in North Haiti where he was given a trusted position and used that to run away again thus becoming a leader of a small band of maroons or escaped slaves. And he used his contacts with other maroons to send messages to the still enslaved men of the plantations. The guests at Bois Caïman included many who were still plantation slaves as well as Maroons.
We also know that while he never had any position of actual leadership over either the maroons or slaves, the rebellion was a coalition of independent bands working together without a strict hierarchal organisation, he claimed the religious position of Houngan that meant his opinions held great weight. At Bois Caïman, Boukman, even if he was indeed privately a Muslim, performed a voodoo ceremony for his guests. The voodoo religion was a useful tool for Boukman, it was largely based on West African vodun but it held enough different elements from other religions (including Christianity and Islam) that all of the slaves, from entirely different areas of Africa could recognise at least elements of it. The slaves had no language or culture in common, but the religion could act as a unifying force.
Georges Biassou
The speech Boukman supposedly gave emphasised the idea that the whites worshipped a god who asked them to commit atrocities, while the true god of the blacks only asked them to do good, but now even that God had lost patience and he was calling for vengeance, for the murderous whites to be repaid in blood. He then supposedly picked out three men at the meeting, the slaves Biassou and Jeannot and, the Maroon, Papillon, and prophesised that these men would lead the slaves into freedom and prosperity. These three men would indeed become, alongside Boukman, major leaders of the revolution which obviously makes you assume either the prophecy was made up after the fact or was arranged by Boukman to support his allies.
Then Boukman called forward a teenaged girl who, channelling the spirit of a voodoo loa, sacrificed a small black pig to the spirits and then Boukman daubed its blood over the members of the meeting, bonding them together in a blood oath for vengeance. The girl herself wasn't identified for another century, when it was claimed that she was the mixed race minor noblewomen Cécile Fatiman, wife of future President of Haiti, Jean-Louise Pierrot, elder sister of future Queen of Haiti, Marie Louise Coidavid, and granddaughter of the polish conman who claimed to be Prince Frederick of Corsica. If this was indeed the girl in question, she'd have been the last surviving witness to the meeting at Bois Caïman.
Regardless of the exact details, at Bois Caïman a spark was lit that would change the world. The whites of Haiti would either die or flee to other countries, in arguably the first American refugee crisis. The second country in the New World would be established from a revolt against European rule and this one would become an arsenal of liberty during the revolts of Spanish America. The French Empire would be humiliated and forced to abandon its New World ambitions, ultimately selling Louisiana to the USA. And slave owners and abolitionists alike would spend the next century debating the 'Horrors of Santo Domingo'.
The main questions asked in the aftermath of the slave revolt was 'why Haiti and why then?'. Slave revolts were inevitable when you had slaves, Haiti itself had a history of escapes and minor revolts that dated back centuries, but nothing on this scale had ever happened before or would again. Horrified slave owners across the New World tried to work out why this had happened and how they could avoid it repeating. This is precisely what this article is interested in, though with different motives. Was a successful slave revolt in Haiti inevitable?
The first reason for why Haiti was that Haiti simply had more slaves than most places. Slaves outnumbered the free citizens of Haiti by about 10-1. Most other slave states such as Cuba, Brazil or the Southern USA had more free citizens than slaves or at worse an equal number. However Haiti was not unique in this, the British colony of Jamaica had similar numbers and while there were slave revolts in Jamaica, and the UK's policy towards Haiti would largely be governed by their fears of a new revolt there, they were nowhere near as successful. If Boukman had indeed originally been a Jamaican slave, the question arises as to whether he could have pulled off a revolt there with the same success. It is likely he would have found it harder.
The difference is that Jamaica was stable. There was no invasion by foreign forces, no attempted rebellion against it's colonial masters and no civil war within the colony. Boukman was planning his rebellion at Bois Caïman because he knew that the slave masters were divided and unable to muster a coherent response against the slaves. This was because Haiti was, in August 1791, in a low-level civil war. The reason for this was that while the free citizens were outnumbered 10 to 1 by the slaves, only around 60% of the free citizens were white, the others were either freed slaves or the children of slaves. These free persons of colour were often slave owners themselves and had been generally treat as equals by the whites up until the aftermath of the Seven Years War when a racial code had been established that saw the free coloureds reduced firmly to second class citizens. Tensions over this would build until the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 saw France officially recognise that all men were equal. When word of this spread to the colony, the free coloureds demanded equal rights, the whites refused and when France went over their heads to enforce it, those tensions erupted in violence. This gave Boukman his opportunity.
Burning of the Plaine du Cap - Massacre of whites by the blacks". On August 22 1791, slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities and massacred the white population
So the existence of the free coloureds was seen as the second reason for the slave revolt by the other slave powers. They demanded their rights which led directly to a slave revolt and emancipation, without them the slaves would have been more docile. But the free coloureds were not initially friends of the Slaves, they were mostly opposed to emancipation. It is possible for the free coloureds to be bought entirely on board if different decisions had been made both in France and in Haiti, as the white leaders did at various points introduce full racial equality among freemen.
Moreover a civil war over the rights of the free coloured is not the only way you can have the instability that Boukman needed. The civil war was also partially a class revolt with the poor whites of the colony rebelling against their richer counterparts, the free coloureds being given full equality only makes this more likely. Also there was serious talk of Haitian independence by the Island's elite thanks to the French enforcing a trading monopoly that saw French traders buying goods cheaply from Haiti and selling it elsewhere for huge profits and also forcing the Haitians to serve in and fund a militia force to protect the island despite promising to send the regular army there instead. France was often worried that if racial equality between freemen had been established, Haiti would be united enough to declare independence. A white dominated independent slave state of Haiti would have been a basket case of a state, it was built entirely around producing and selling cash crops and so was not self sufficient in terms of food and products and had few schools or hospitals and no history of local democracy. The USA was practically already a country, Haiti was just a prison. But people have made worst decisions and any war between France and the Haitian elite over independence would have been a huge opportunity for the Island's slaves.
And unlike Jamaica, Haiti would be invaded by both the Spanish and the British during the 1790s. As France's largest and most profitable colony, there was interest from Foreign powers to take it away from them. An invasion seems inevitable even if France managed to solve its internal problems and such an invasion would once again open the door for Boukman.
Which brings us to the third reason, one the French in particular noted. They said that Haiti had always been a basket case ready for this revolt. But the slaves had previously lacked the leadership required to take advantage. Boukman would provide that leadership but without him it might have never happened. The main evidence for this is that in the South of Haiti, there was never anything as effective as Boukman's revolt in the North. Plenty of slaves rebelled and escaped and some achieved minor successes, capturing towns and forming their own maroon bands but there was no grand coalition that overturned the game board like in the North. It is hard to deny that Boukman's revolt was unusually well organised for a slave revolt, it achieved astounding successes in its opening weeks and didn't splinter like many revolts did when it encountered resistance. Slaves joined the rebellion or were killed, white doctors and craftsmen were captured and enlisted, other whites were killed, plantations were looted for weapons and then burned, trade was established with the Spanish for more weapons and farms for food were set up by former plantation slaves to feed the armies in the future. It was a ruthlessly efficient army albeit one that struggled to break the stone fortifications of the major cities.
But Boukman was killed in October 1791. His death was a huge blow to the rebellion, it took the heart out of a lot of the rebels and led to infighting between the other leaders with Papillon soon killing Jeannot. The whites mounted his head on a banner to prove that the slave army's greatest leader had died and his death marked the end of the initial successes of the revolt. But it didn't mark the end of those successes entirely and in later years other men in that army such as Touissant Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines would prove themselves at least his equal as a war leader. It is tempting to argue as the Marxists would that there would always a man like Boukman ready to take the opportunity if presented. African born slaves had often previously been chiefs or other men of high status who knew how to organise armies, and while many killed themselves or ran away to join the maroons, Boukman was not the first with grander aims. Francois Mackandal had attempted a large slave revolt in 1758 before being captured and executed while supposedly plotting to poison the slave owner's water supplies. The very existence of the Maroons and the presence of their leaders at Bois Caïman shows where other leaders could have come from.
But just because a slave revolt was likely to happen does not mean it was likely to succeed. It is possible that another leader could have been less successful and even Boukman got lucky. If the slave owners had acted faster upon the information they had they could have captured him and shut down his revolt prior to Bois Caïman. Moreover in the aftermath of Boukman's death, the heart went out of the rebels and in 1792 Papillon and Biassou were willing to surrender to the French and abandon their armies to slavery as long as 30 of the main slave leaders would be given amnesty and freedom. Amazingly, the French were confident enough to refuse this agreement. If they had agreed, they doubtless still would have had problems with the slaves who weren't happy to be sold out by their leaders but the old system of plantation slavery could have been restored.
On the other hand though, Boukman could have achieved more. Had he been able to pull off his initial plan and burn Cap-Français it is not impossible for him to have gained complete control of Northern Haiti within 1791. Under this scenario, it is actually possible for South Haiti to remain as a slave economy as everyone pulled together to protect what they had while fighting border wars with the free blacks of Northern Haiti. The Maroons had been tolerated as an escape valve for angry slaves to flee to and it is not impossible that, in the short term at least, Northern Haiti would go the same way.
Haiti was an unstable situation for all of the 18th century but had different decisions had been made it is not impossible for the status quo to remain. It is fascinating to imagine the political differences in a world where there is no Haitian white diaspora, where the Cuban slave society doesn't get a boost from Haitian exiles and where the American South doesn't develop a fresh paranoia about slave revolts. Abolitionism predated 1791 obviously as did the fears of black revolts among slave owners, but both were changed and influenced by it in profound ways.
To do this however, you'd need a pre-1793 POD, as by that date the idea of restoring the status quo was largely off the table. Civil war between the free citizens continued and French, Spanish and British armies were fighting over control of the colony. Under these conditions, the easiest source of soldiers at hand for everyone were the black ex slaves. From 1793 onwards it became a game of who could offer these men the best deal.
Which leads to a second question, if a slave revolt could not be either avoided or crushed, was independence still inevitable or could these men be kept as free citizens within a European empire? In my next article I will discuss that.
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A Kettering Fairmont High School substitute teacher is the latest area teacher to face questions of improper conduct.
Madeline Marx faces felony charges after an arrest Wednesday by Kettering police.
The 23-year-old is charged with two felony counts of sexual battery. She is accused of having a sexual relationship with at least two Fairmont High School students, police said.
The Brookville woman, who also served as substitute in Oakwood schools, has been released from jail on the charges, which date back to July.
Panzeca is on leave from her job. The fifth-grade teacher was arrested Aug. 14 at a relative's home on Sesame Street.
Court documents allege Panzeca allowed both the sale and use of drugs in her home. In August, she pleaded not guilty to charges.
Panzeca, 48, has taught in Springboro schools for more than 20 years.
Murphy was sentenced in October to five years of probation after being found guilty of five felonies – forgery, tampering with government records and three counts of sexual battery.
County Prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan has said there was one victim in the case, a female student who had already turned 18.
Dayton police records show a sexual assault complaint was filed May 5, 2016, at Ponitz Career Technology Center by an 18-year-old female student, citing incidents that occurred in February and on May 1 of that year.
Murphy served as head boys track coach at Ponitz from 2012 until March 2016. He was hired as a classroom aide in August 2014, five months after his arrest on a solicitation charge stemming from an incident on Wayne Avenue in Dayton.
Search warrants were executed in February at his Tippecanoe High School office, his home and his vehicle. The search was part of an investigation involving Tipp City police, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the State Auditor's Office and the Ohio Ethics Commission.
No charges have been filed and the case remains under investigation. The investigation began in September 2015, when Superintendent Gretta Kumpf reported to Tipp City police irregularities found by state auditors in the athletic department.
Shomper signed a separation agreement. He had been the athletic director since 2006.
He was given three years on a felonious assault charge to run concurrent with a previous drug conviction.
He was sentenced to two years for the drug conviction, and is expected to get credit for five-and-a-half months he spent in jail.
Testimony from the victim had gone on for two hours before Jutras changed his plea. He attempted to run down the woman, who he knew, in the parking lot of Walmart, 3465 York Commons Blvd., on Nov. 5, 2015, according to police.
Jutras was once named Teacher of the Year and a role model who was at the top of his profession and respected by his students. However, he let his guard down and let drugs into his life, his attorney Jose Lopez said after the sentencing.
The 26-year-old was placed on administrative leave Oct. 13, 2016, before being indicted in on sexual battery as well as the charges for which he was eventually convicted.
The investigation began when Fairfield police were contacted by Butler County Children Services about possible illegal activity between a Fairfield High School teacher and student. Police opened an investigation, advised school administrators of the allegations, and evidence was presented to a grand jury for consideration, according to police.
The alleged activity happened between Conrad and a 16-year-old female student between Aug. 16 and Oct. 9, according to the indictment.
Conrad was hired by Fairfield schools on Aug. 6, 2015.


Technology is getting smarter and, thanks to recent big advances in machine learning, it can now automate many of the functions that used to be performed by humans.
Self-healing automation is the next step in this revolution. It refers to applications, devices and systems that can discover system faults or security problems and, without human intervention, make the necessary changes to fix the problem. It's set to be a game-changer for IT departments that spend huge amounts of time resolving issues and dealing with security threats.
The idea that systems could be designed to diagnose and repair themselves can be traced back to the early 2000s, when IBM initiated the term 'autonomic computing'. Like the name suggests, it was inspired by the human body's ability to self-heal.
As such, this type of automation will become not just a benefit but a necessity when using business systems that are too big and complex for people to manage alone.
It's been said – accurately – that every company is now a technology company. Businesses of all sizes need their software, computers and office machines to run efficiently and securely. In today's increasingly connected world, they can't afford outages that will significantly disrupt customer service.
Power utilities are already using self-healing automation to help improve the reliability and stability of electricity services. There will be a growing need for this technology as the country moves towards implementing renewable energy sources, electric cars and the IoT.
In the office, self-healing automation is already beginning to play an important role in protecting businesses from malicious security breaches and attacks. Laptops, mobile phones and other networked devices are all potential targets for hackers who want to break into the company's network.
The risk even extends to previously overlooked devices such as multifunction printers, which are powerful computers in their own right. As a result, some of the latest printer models come with self-healing features built in, such as run-time intrusion detection and whitelisting to allow only the loading of approved firmware.
Self-healing is particularly suited to virtualized IT environments such as the cloud, where applications and resources can be quickly added and removed as needed. As distributed computing services become more popular, self-healing automation will be critical to making sure they remain reliable, stable and secure.
The biggest benefit of self-healing automation is its ability to 'look ahead' and shut down problems or attacks before they cause serious loss or disruption. This type of preventative action, however, may require an advanced system of predictive analytics that is able to recognize which problems are serious, and which are simply false alarms.
Before investing in self-healing automation, therefore, consider whether it might be enough to simply update your existing software, computers and/or network devices to newer versions. Also, will your self-healing technology have access to the real-time and historical data it needs to work effectively?
Over coming decades, there can be no doubt that self-healing automation will play a vital role in keeping business services running at optimum efficiency. As the technology continues to develop, it will become a must-have for companies that want to focus on growth and innovation – and not just keeping the lights on.


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The process of establishing a new enterprise is very difficult and is not a journey for the faint-hearted; there are many negative circumstances that you may encounter along the way as you try to build your brand but if your struggle enough, you might get the benefit of enjoying great results. It is the desire of each business person to have an effective endeavor, yet terrible things will undoubtedly occur as we don't exist in an impeccable business condition and it your duty to learn on the most proficient method to dispose of them. It is up to you to insert the necessary effort to make things even better since if you leave operations to run themselves without an overseer, they may go down for the worse. We are continually learning, and there is no conclusion to the activity; there are numerous roads that a business person can take in a lot of things like an entrepreneurship blog on the web. An entrepreneurship blog is an astonishing possibility of getting a great deal of information in regards to how individuals have been directing their organizations since the vast majority who are here are business visionaries. Remember that you create your path, and everything that comes in between is purely under your control. In spite of the fact that the way you take is dependent upon you, you can take a few hints on the best way to maintain a business from the details below.
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Jail term for operator of Surf the Channel offering links to pirated material
The operator of surfthechannel.com (STC), a website providing links to film and TV content, recently received a four-year prison sentence. Anton Vickerman became the first person in Britain to be jailed for running a site linking to pirate material.
The operator of surfthechannel.com (STC), a website providing links to film and TV content, recently received a four-year prison sentence. Anton Vickerman became the first person in Britain to be jailed for running a site linking to pirate material. The case is unusual in many ways, not least because it was a private prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).
In our digital age with online access available to all, fighting copyright infringement is a Herculean task. There will always be someone somewhere in the world looking to infringe an owner's copyright. However, there are various ways to fight the infringement. In the previous case of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation & others v Newzbin Limited [2010] (Newzbin 1), a claim for copyright infringement succeeded in bringing about an injunction and the site's closure, and in Newzbin 2 the successful path involved proceeding against the internet service provider, BT. In the STC case, FACT added another weapon to the armoury by successfully pursuing a criminal case for conspiracy to defraud, rather than a copyright infringement claim.
Following such cases as TV Links and Newzbin, the jail term marks a major step in the ongoing 'content wars' - between those who operate websites offering free links to unauthorized copyright material, and producers who want to set a price for their output.
Vickerman set up STC to make films, television programmes and popular music available to the public. The website enabled the public to watch or download mainstream films free of charge, often before or shortly after their release in the UK. The 'vast majority' of the material infringed copyright. STC did not host the video files itself, but pointed visitors to websites out of the jurisdiction, often in China.
Vickerman hired volunteer 'link hunters' to locate files for films on third party sites and post links to those sites on STC, or upload the film files to third party sites before posting links to those sites on STC. Others were hired to check that the links gave access to the films in English.
In March 2009, there were in excess of 5,500 links to movies where copyright was being infringed, and the site rose to be the 514th most popular website. Due to its immense popularity, STC was very attractive to advertisers and by 2009 the site was generating revenue of between £50,000 and £60,000 per month.
Vickerman was arrested and bailed in July 2008; within hours he had secured a new computer, and he carried on operating STC until the eve of his trial in May 2012.
The issues and decisions
The Crown Prosecution Service had declined to pursue a case against Vickerman, but FACT brought a private prosecution. Rather than relying on the criminal provisions concerning copyright infringement, FACT brought a criminal case for 'conspiracy to defraud'. This was far from being an easy option. FACT had to establish that the defendant had intent to financially harm the claimant; it also had to meet the criminal standard of proof, 'beyond reasonable doubt'.
The charge against Vickerman was that he had conspired with others to put the infringing content online and link to it, with the intention of financially harming film producers (as well as cinemas, high street shops and film rental companies) by denying them potential revenues. It alleged that at the same time he was collecting money from adverts placed on the site. FACT argued that revenues of between £52 million and £198 million had been lost by the industry as a result.
Vickerman was aware that a similar website operated by TV Links had been shut down following intervention by FACT, but claimed to believe his site to be lawful. The judge though found that communications between Vickerman and his assistants were contrary to that assertion, as were his attempts to keep his location and personal identity secret. The STC domain name was registered remotely, and there was deliberate off-shoring of servers, to make tracing difficult and try to avoid the reach of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). The use of links to websites outside of the jurisdiction was similarly held to be an attempt by Vickerman to remain immune from prosecution.
Although he found that the loss suffered by the industry was impossible to calculate, the judge accepted it would run into millions. He pointed to the huge impact of film piracy, with a likely decline in production if films fail to make a profit. This would also have a consequential impact on all those employed in film production, and on the general public and HM Customs and Revenue. As well as the loss to the industry, the judge took into account Vickerman's personal financial gain from STC.
Noting that the jury had found Vickerman to have engaged in deliberate dishonesty, the judge could not regard Vickerman's conduct as attracting only a minimal penalty. However, he considered that a very long sentence (the maximum being 10 years) was no more likely to impact on Vickerman than a short one.
In sentencing him to four years imprisonment, the judge referred to Vickerman's arrogance during the trial, absence of remorse and refusal to accept that he was doing anything improper. He remarked that "those who are inclined to conduct themselves as you have need to understand that in doing so they put themselves at risk of serving a lengthy prison sentence".
In Newzbin1, the studios successfully sued Newzbin for primary and secondary copyright infringement, where the website allowed members to upload and download a wide range of copyright material including film and TV. However, in cases where sites have only offered indexes of links to pirated material - for example, Oink and TV Links - claims based on conspiracy to defraud have previously been unsuccessful.
FACT has set the bar high with this successful criminal conviction and, as the judge intended, the lengthy prison sentence may serve as a strong deterrent to others thinking about setting up such sites. It will be interesting to see whether this marks a step change in the 'content wars'. It may also bring a new wave of litigation by copyright owners against online infringement, but only where there is clear intent to defraud and the criminal standard of proof can be met.
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GUESS WHO IS GOING TO MAGFEST 11(2013)?
Edit: My editor told me I need to elaborate more, because apparently one word doesn't make an article. Anyways, MAGfest is up for its eleventh get together in the general DC area. If you don't know what MAGfest is, it's a big festival for fans of video games and music. There's going to be shows, panels, concerts, tournaments and oodles of other neat events. Some notable people that you may know are going to be there: Yuzo Koshiro and Kinuyo Yamashita (composers for Shenmue and Castlevania respectively), James Rolfe (Anger Video Game Nerd), Brent Black (brentalfloss), Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson and Jon "Jontron" Jafari (Game Grumps) and so much more. You can see the whole list of guests here.
Also, along with the guest, there'll be bands and performers as well, which you can check out here. The band which I'm particularly excited for are the The Protomen, who have rock opera concept albums about Mega Man. 'Nuff said.
You can see more information about MAGfest at http://magfest.org/.
Edit: The editor just told me that people from NUReviews will be there as well. So, for whatever reason, you want to so hi to us, just look for the guy with the big head and a short guy. If there's anything you want us to do, like recording panels or concerts, or try to get an interview, we'll see what we can do.


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Water projects designed to extract fresh water for local urban, industrial and agricultural use throughout rivers and estuaries worldwide have contributed to the fragmentation and degradation of suitable habitat for native fishes. The number of water diversions located throughout the Sacramento–San Joaquin watershed in California's Central Valley exceeds 3300, and the majority of these are unscreened. Many anadromous fish species are susceptible to entrainment into these diversions, potentially impacting population numbers. In the laboratory, juvenile green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) have been shown to have high entrainment rates into unscreened diversions compared with those of other native California fish species, which may act as a significant source of mortality for this already-threatened species. Therefore, we tested the efficacy of a sensory deterrent (strobe light) and two structural pipe modifications (terminal pipe plate and upturned pipe configuration) in decreasing the entrainment of juvenile green sturgeon (mean mass ± SEM = 162.9 ± 4.0 g; mean fork length = 39.4 ± 0.3 cm) in a large (>500 kl) outdoor flume fitted with a water-diversion pipe 0.46 m in diameter. While the presence of the strobe light did not affect fish entrainment rates, the terminal pipe plate and upturned pipe modifications significantly decreased the proportion of fish entrained out of the total number tested relative to control conditions (0.13 ± 0.02 and 0.03 ± 0.02 vs. 0.44 ± 0.04, respectively). These data suggest that sensory deterrents using visual stimuli are not an effective means to reduce diversion pipe interactions for green sturgeon, but that structural alterations to diversions can successfully reduce entrainment for this species. Our results are informative for the development of effective management strategies to mitigate the impacts of water diversions on sturgeon populations and suggest that effective restoration strategies that balance agricultural needs with conservation programmes are possible.


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Q: MATLAB: How do I get 3D coordinates from a user-click? I'm using Matlab to create a small chess game for one of my courses this semester.  The thing I'm having trouble with is having the user be able to select one of the chess pieces.
To simplify things, I'm making it so that the user selects a piece by clicking on the square that the chess piece resides on rather than clicking the piece itself (which I assume would be much more difficult).  I know how to get the x and y coordinates of the view-port, but how do I transform these coordinates into 3-space coordinates?
I know that there are multiple x,y,z coordinates associated with each view-port coordinate, but I'm only interested in the x,y,z coordinate where z = 0 (since the board itself is in the x,y plane that intersects the z axis where z = 0).

A: You may want to have a look at select3d from the file exchange. It allows you to select patch objects in 3D (which is probably how you want to create your board, anyway).

A: Not MATLAB-specific, but this may help: Given the camera parameters and the click location, you could project a ray into the scene and test for intersections, but it would probably be a whole lot easier to just consider the inverse problem: Map your chess-grid squares onto screen coordinates, and then just compare in 2D against the click location. Note that this is already being done in rendering the scene.

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Tim Ryan calls for impeachment proceedings against Trump
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) on Sunday called for impeachment proceedings to be initiated against President Trump.
"We oversee Article II of the Constitution," the 2020 White House hopeful said during a CNN town hall.
"And when you think that the President has committed crimes – and I've read the Mueller report and think he obstructed (justice) on multiple occasions – we have a responsibility," he added.
Ryan had previously deferred to the Judiciary Committee on the issue of impeachment.
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The news is in on Washington tight ends Michael Gottlieb and Robert Lewis and it's not good.
UW coach Tyrone Willingham said Tuesday during the Pac-10 media conference that both players will be out this week against Oklahoma and that "their absences could be extended."
Gottlieb broke a bone in his hand and Lewis suffered a foot injury.
With both players out, sophomore Johnie Kirton will be the starting tight end with redshirt freshman Tim Williams serving as his backup. Williams has yet to play in any games.
Also in the mix is walk-on Tim Harris of Bellarmine High in Tacoma. Harris spent a year at Oregon, redshirting in 2003, before transferring to the College of the Redwoods and then walking-on at UW last spring.
Willingham said the Huskies will evaluate other options, as well, though he didn't elaborate.
The losses are critical as the Huskies like to use a lot of two tight end formations. Now, that means Williams would have to be used to do any two tight end formations.


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Mid-Century French Ceramic Flower Vase by Jacques Blin (circa 1950s)
An off-white / green glazed French ceramic flower vase (c. 1950s) by Jacques Blin. The vase is a muted white colour with verdigris highlights. The whimsical decorations present animals and plant life that are wonderfully naive or 'primitive'. On the top is a mouth-like spout surrounded by flower holes making this a very original piece in a much sought-after style. In good vintage condition commensurate with age. Please view the many accompanying photos to appreciate and assess the piece's aesthetics and condition. Signed on the underside: 'J. Blin'. Upon request a video clip can be provided.
About the Artist: Jacques Blin (1920 - 1995) gave up a career in engineering for his love of the visual arts. Blin has an immediately recognisable style characterised by a more or less misty appearance of the glaze and by decoration deeply marked in the raw clay, a method he used throughout his career. He frequently depicted fanciful birds, primitive animals, stylised figures and abstract motifs in his works which are always signed "J. Blin".
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When President Obama delivers his address on a new job-creation plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, he won't be speaking to a sold-out crowd. Several lawmakers are still determining whether it is worth their time to stay in Washington to hear the president, and some are already planning to skip it.
Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter is the latest to announce that he will not be there, choosing to attend a party to watch the New Orleans Saints' opening football game instead.
"As a fanatic, I have my priorities," Vitter told Fox News on Wednesday.
Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia will also skip the address but will watch it from his office across the street. During the speech, Broun will post his comments about Obama's remarks on Twitter, a tradition he keeps during State of the Union addresses.
"Dr. Broun will not be attending President Obama's joint address, but he looks forward to hearing the president's proposal for job creation," Broun spokeswoman Meredith Griffanti told The Ticket. "Dr. Broun will instead watch the speech from his office where he will host a live town hall via Twitter to interact with his constituents."
Broun remained in his office during Obama's State of the Union address in January, providing his own commentary on the social networking website throughout the speech.
"Mr. President, you don't believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism," one of Broun's tweets read.
Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh was the first to announce his intentional absence last week, saying he didn't want to act as a "prop" for Obama's speech.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, a member of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, told Jon Karl of ABC News that he "probably" won't show up either.
"If he sent a written proposal over first, I would go hear him explain it, but frankly right now I'm so frustrated I don't think I'm going to go," DeMint told ABC News. "I can't imagine too many Americans wanting to hear another speech with no real plan attached."
There's also a chance that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won't be there, but his absence would have nothing to do with politics: Rubio's mother has fallen ill after suffering a series of recent strokes. The freshman senator's schedule this week is "fluid" because of his mother's health, a spokesman from Rubio's office said.
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WEBVTT 3CHANCES ARE...AT SOME POINT A CHILD WILL STEAL SOMETHING ... QUESTION IS...WHAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR PARENTS TO DEAL WITH IT... DOCTOR LEWIS FIRST IS SHARING HIS ADVICE -- HERE'S THIIS MORNING'S "FIRST WITH KIDS".33"FIRST WITH KIDS" IS HEALTH SERIES WITH TOPICSFROM DR.LEWIS FIRST,PEDIATRICIAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL."FIRST WITH KIDS" AIRS EVERY MONDAY MORNING ON WJCL 22 MORNING NEWS.IT FIRST AIRS AT 5 A.M.IT THEN RE-AIRS AGAIN AT 6 A.YOU CAN THEN SEE A RE-AIRING EVERY MONDAY EVENINGTHAT AIRS ON WJCL 22 NEWS AT 5.YOU CAN ALSOSEE THE STORIES ONLINE ON WJCL.COM."FIRST WITH KIDS" IS A HEALTH SERIES WITH TOPICS FROM DR.LEWIS FIRST, PEDIATRICIAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'SCHILDRENS HOSPITAL."FIRST WITH KIDS" AIRSEVERY MONDAY MORNING ON WJCL 22 MORNING NEWSIT FIRST AIRS AT 5 A.M.IT THEN RE-AIRS AGAIN AT 6 A.MYOU CAN THEN SEE A RE-AIRING EVERY MONDAY EVENING.THAT AIRS ON WJCL 22 NEWS AT 5.YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE STORIES ONLINE ON WJCL.COM."FIRST WITH KIDS" IS A HEALTH SERIES WITH TOPICS FROM DR.LEWIS FIRSTPEDIATRICIAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'SCHILDRENS HOSPITAL."FIRST WITH KIDS" AIRSEVERY MONDAY MORNING ON WJCL 22 MORNING NEWSIT FIRST AIRS AT 5 A.M.IT THEN RE-AIRS AGAIN AT 6 A.M.YOU CAN THEN SEE A RE-AIRING EVERY MONDAY EVENING.THAT AIRS ON WJCL 22 NEWS AT 5.YOU CAN ALSO SEE THESTORIES ONLINE ON WJCL.COM."FIRST WITH KIDS" IS HEALTH SERIES WITH TOPICS FROM DR.LEWIS FIRST,PEDIATRICIAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'SCHILDRENS HOSPITAL."FIRST WITH KIDS" AIRS EVERY MONDAY MORNING ON WJCL 22 MORNING NEWS.IT FIRST AIRS AT 5 A.M.IT THEN RE-AIRS AGAIN AT 6 A.M.YOU CAN THEN SEE A RE-AIRING EVERY MONDAY EVENING.THAT AIRS ON WJCL 22 NEWS AT 5.YOU CAN ALSO SEE THESTORIES ONLINE ON WJCL.COM.3
It's not unusual or abnormal for children to test their boundaries and steal from a store, a playmate or even a stranger. Even so, Dr. Lewis First says it's an issue parents must deal with effectively before it becomes a bigger problem. WHY CHILDREN STEAL Dr. First says children under 4 lack self control and may not understand that stealing is wrong. But when children are 4 or older, he says it's important to make them understand that stealing is not only wrong but unacceptable. Many teens, Dr. First says, steal because of peer pressure or because they feel they're missing love and acceptance and do it to get attention. He says with teenagers it's especially important to drive home the point that stealing is wrong because the legal consequences of stealing become more severe as children get older. HOW TO DEAL WITH A CHILD WHO STEALS 1. Find out why they steal 2. Explain how stealing hurts someone else 3. Talk about the severe conditions for stealing as a juvenile and adult 4. Don't yell at or berate the child For teenagers, Dr. First recommends parents schedule a meeting with the owner of the business the teen stole from. That makes the infraction personal and may help deter the teen from stealing again.
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It's not unusual or abnormal for children to test their boundaries and steal from a store, a playmate or even a stranger. Even so, Dr. Lewis First says it's an issue parents must deal with effectively before it becomes a bigger problem.
WHY CHILDREN STEAL
Dr. First says children under 4 lack self control and may not understand that stealing is wrong. But when children are 4 or older, he says it's important to make them understand that stealing is not only wrong but unacceptable.
Many teens, Dr. First says, steal because of peer pressure or because they feel they're missing love and acceptance and do it to get attention.
He says with teenagers it's especially important to drive home the point that stealing is wrong because the legal consequences of stealing become more severe as children get older.
HOW TO DEAL WITH A CHILD WHO STEALS
1. Find out why they steal
2. Explain how stealing hurts someone else
3. Talk about the severe conditions for stealing as a juvenile and adult
4. Don't yell at or berate the child
For teenagers, Dr. First recommends parents schedule a meeting with the owner of the business the teen stole from. That makes the infraction personal and may help deter the teen from stealing again.


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Two bags of fragrant peaches sat on my counter last weekend. They were too good to refrigerate, and too many to eat. They needed to be consumed ASAP or they were destined to wind up like too many peaches do in our house: mush. Icky, brown mush.
This peach sorbet was wonderful way to end the peach season. We may have another week of peaches left in St. Louis, if I'm lucky. If not, I'll be at peace with it. It would be impossible to take a peach and top this, unless you simply take a bite of one, of course.
The explosion of peach, star anise and white wine is intense here. "Imagine the best white sangria you've ever had, and turn it into sorbet," says the introduction in Gourmet Today. These final sweltering days of summer call for something cold, sweet and fruity. I just finished the last bowl of sorbet. I'm chalking this up as one of my favorite finds this year.
Toss peaches with lemon juice in a 4-quart heavy pot. Stir in sugar, star anise, and 1 cup wine, bring to a simmer, and simmer, covered, until peaches are tender, about 5 minutes.
Discard star anise. Working in batches, transfer mixture to a blender and puree (use caution when blending hot liquids). Force puree through a medium-mesh sieve into a metal bowl, pressing hard on solids; discard solids. Stir in corn syrup and remaining 1/2 cup wine. Refrigerate, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until cold, about 1 hour, then cover and refrigerate until very cold, 6 to 8 hours.
Freeze sorbet in ice cream maker. Transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden for at least 1 hour.
Sorbet keeps for up to one week.
When this came out of the oven I wondered if anyone would want to try it. I wasn't thrilled by the fact that the crust was crumbly. Or that the port wine and plums had oozed onto the parchment paper. Or that it looked a little too much like stewed beets.
I let it cool while we had leftover Indian food. Then I sliced up a piece, put a dollop of ice cream beside it and tasted. Well? Yum. I loved the deep plum flavor. Port wine is reduced to a syrup and tossed with plums before they get piled onto the crust and into the oven. The result is a little rustic, and very sophisticated. And it uses these gorgeous plums.


Development of software shares a resemblance to the process of building a house. Since building a house is generally more relatable, we will use it as an analogy in order to explain what part the different developers play in our processes.
All buildings need a foundation on which to stand. It needs to be well thought out in order to support an entire house and everything it contains. It is the same for software, and it is commonly referred to as the Software Engine, or the Core . This is the main responsibility of the Core Software Developers. They continuously update, maintain, and adjust the foundation in order to support new additions or improve older ones.
If one wishes to build a tower – the foundation of the building needs to be able to bear the weight. The same goes for software. If we want certain features – they need to be supported by the software core.
Once there is a solid foundation, you may start building different rooms which would be our different modules (e.g. Neuro, Iliac, or BTK). Since not all rooms or modules are used exactly the same, each room is customized to fit the user's needs. For instance, a kitchen has different requirements than a living room; water lines for a sink, gas lines for a stove, etc. In our software this would be that devices used in the Aorta behave very differently from those used in the tiny brain vessels.
Creating a room that suits all the needs and wants of the end user is the responsibility of the Development teams. These developers both need a strong understanding of what the foundation can support, as well as know the features and functionalities of the module. They design the software to be customized specifically towards the intended use and equip it with all the desired utilities.
Aiding the Development teams is the third and last tier - the Content developers. They paint the walls, put up the furniture and assist in the finishing touches of a room. What this means for our software is that they create anatomies, visualize devices, and create case logics. Essentially they assist in adding substance, but rarely make drastic changes to a module.
Once a room or module is finished, the Content Developers can also create what is called branding projects. This is where they copy a finished room, repaint and refurnish it in order to better suit a different user. For instance, they can take one of our Generic modules and assist a customer in creating a tailored training course with custom made anatomies, varying training objectives, and interactive cases.
Once the house is built and all the paint is dried, development hands it over to our marketing and service teams. They show the house for sale or help you move back in to a renovation, because your uncle is too lazy to help you on his day off. Perhaps the analogy has gone too far, but we hope this gives you a slight insight to what our development process is like.


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All rep coaches need to read and acknowledge the GMHA coaches pledge. It is the intention of this pledge to promote fair play and respect for all participants within the Guelph Minor Hockey Association. When a coach applies for a position at GMHA he accepts this pledge and must follow these principles at all times during hockey activities and events.
I will demand a sports environment that is free from drugs and alcohol and will refrain from their use at all games and practices. I will never coach a game or conduct a practice if I am under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
I will have a positive attitude and will always praise my players for trying hard, playing fair and doing their best, regardless of the outcome of the game. I will not criticize or yell at any player for making a mistake or losing a game. I will not tolerate physical or verbal abuse in youth sports. I will remember that children need a coach they can respect. I will be generous with praise and set a good example. I shall refrain from comments or behaviours which are disrespectful, humiliating, demeaning, offensive, abusive, racist or sexist. Behaviour which constitutes bullying, harassment or abuse will not be tolerated.
I will ensure that our proposed team budget is presented to all parents on my team before a blind vote to accept it as a group. A 51 per cent majority of parent votes is required to accept our team budget, and it must be approved by the GMHA Rep Director before implementation.
Being appointed the head coach is the same as being appointed as the CEO. I am responsible for everything that happens with this team.
I will maintain an open line of communication with my players' parents. I will explain my goals and objectives for the team, as well as the rules of the game and the policies of the league, whenever requested or necessary, to the best of my ability.
I will never ridicule or yell at my athletes for making mistakes or for performing poorly. I will remember that children play to have fun and must be encouraged to have confidence in themselves. I acknowledge that emotional, negative outbursts are unacceptable at any time while coaching and leading young athletes.
I will attend and participate in the GMHA's Annual General Meeting if at all possible.
I will provide all parents and the Dir. of Rep with a copy of a team handbook. The handbook will include team rules including team discipline.
I will teach my athletes to play fairly and to respect the rules, officials, opponents and teammates. I will not challenge judgement calls by officials in an aggressive or threatening manner. I understand it is acceptable to challenge the interpretation of a rule, but only in a courteous and non-confrontational manner. I will not confront any official at the rink before, during or after a game. If necessary, I will take the time to calmly and rationally discuss any situation or call made during a game with a league official or by utilizing the GMHA Referee Complaint Form.
I shall carry a minimum of three skaters and one goalie as Affiliated Players. I will ask the AP players' coach for permission to utilize the player and realize that the rostered team has first right of refusal.
I will make sure that equipment and facilities are safe and match the athlete's ages and ability. I will ensure that all players and coaches, including myself, will wear the proper safety equipment at all times.
I will be reasonable when scheduling games, practices and tournaments, remembering that young athletes have other interests and obligations.
I will follow OMHA and Hockey Canada Rules and Regulations for dressing room supervision. I will ensure that coaches and staff must supervise players at all times. I understand that cell phones should be prohibited from dressing rooms, to avoid inappropriate use of cameras. Behaviour that is disrespectful, humiliating or offensive will not be tolerated in our dressing room.
I will ensure that our proposed team tournament schedule is presented to all parents on my team before a blind vote to accept it as a group. A majority of parent votes is required to accept our tournament schedule, and it must be approved by the GMHA Rep Director before implementation.
I will obtain proper training and continue to upgrade my coaching skills. Whenever possible I will participate in GMHA Development's coaching clinics throughout the year. I will ensure that GMHA Development's training methods (e.g., play-practice drills; small-area games) constitute a consistent and significant portion of all my team practices.
I will use the GMHA website for all scheduling, try outs, updating of my teams scores and any necessary forms.
I know that winning is a consideration, but not the only one, nor the most important one. I will be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.


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Pacquiao: There will be a rematch
Rematch over retirement.
Manny Pacquiao guaranteed a return bout with Jeff Horn Monday night, shelving calls to end a sterling ring career outright.
"There's a rematch," Pacquiao said after having late dinner at his mansion h
Beaten by Horn in their showdown for the World Boxing Organization welterweight crown Sunday in Brisbane,
Pacquiao wants to exact revenge on the Australian, who roughed him up to earn a disputable unanimous
On Monday, however, when Horn was being feted in his hometown, he announced that if ever there will be a rematch, it should be held again n Brisbane.
Owing to the tremendous success of "Battle in Brisbane," which reportedly enriched the city coffers by $25 million aside from gaining worldwide attention, Brisbane officials have endorsed Pacquiao-Horn II.
Informed of the development, Pacquiao said he won't mind returning to Suncorp Stadium to seek revenge on Horn.
"Even in Brisbane, no problem," said Pacquiao, who's out for revenge. "There will be talks."
One of the chief concerns is when will the bout be staged.
The original timetable is for Pacquiao to fight in November, but it still hinges on Pacquiao's work as a senator and how swift negotiations between the Pacquiao camp and Horn's handlers will be done.
Side issues include the fighters' purses and the event's coverage.
In the first fight, Pacquiao reportedly got $10 M and Horn $500,000. ESPN aired "Battle of Brisbane" on free television and posted viewership record.
Back at home with his children, Pacquiao said he would rest for a while the Senate is on break. "I'll relax first."
But once the rematch deal is signed, Pacquiao will get to work and put his aging body in the best shape possible.
With his legacy secured, 11-time world champion in an unprecedented eight divisions, Pacquiao said it would be easy for him to walk away.
Closing his career, with a loss however, is unacceptable for Pacquiao. If he retires, it should be on a winning note.
Horn said during the post-fight conference Sunday that he is willing to give Pacquiao a chance to regain the 147-pound crown anywhere, including the Philippines.
Olympic swimming medalists
Lilly King set an American record in the women's 50-meter breaststroke, three other swimmers had the fastest times in the world this season and two more broke national championship records at the U.S. titles on Thursday.
Each has even bigger plans for next month's world championships in Hungary.
"I'm always happy to get an American record, but I was hoping to go a little faster," King said after posting a time of 29.66 seconds. "I've think I've still got a little left in the tank for Budapest."
She'll have almost three weeks to prepare after breaking the record Jessica Hardy held for nearly eight years by 0.14. King also could be heading to Hungary with the No. 1 time in the event this year after passing her Russian rival Yulia Efimova, who started the day in the No. 1 spot with a time of 29.88.
Katie Meili, an Olympic gold medalist like King, finished in 30.11
King has qualified in two individual events and the Indiana University star will chase her third win in three nights when she competes in her specialty, the 100 back Friday.
She was only part of the speedy equation in Indianapolis, though.
The U.S. men produced world-best times in three of the night's four events and set a championship record in the other one.
Chase Kalisz started the impressive run in the men's 400 individual medley, finishing in 4:06.99 — the first sub 4:07 in the world in 2017. Second-place finisher Jay Litherland, Kalisz's teammate at Georgia, wound up second in 4:09.31, No. 4 in the world.
Event winners automatically qualify for the U.S. team. The runner-ups must wait for the selection process to end before finding out if they make the team.
Caeleb Dressel took the men's 100 butterfly, winning in 50.87 to become the first swimmer to crack the 51-second mark this year. Twenty-six-year old Tim Phillips was second in 51.30, the third-fastest time in the world.
Dressel has qualified in three individual events for the worlds — the 100 free and the 50 and 100 fly, where he's like to square off with rival Joseph Schooling of Singapore.
Kevin Cordes set a championship record by beating Andrew Wilson with a time of 26.88 in the men's 50 breast, No. 3 in the world, and 19-year-old Justin Ress closed it out with another world-best performance in the 50 backstroke. He beat two Olympic gold medalists, Ryan Murphy and Matt Grevers, with a time of 24.41 — and surpassed China's Xu Jiayu for the No. 1 spot.
Leah Smith, who finished second to Katie Ledecky in races each of the first two nights, finally won the women's 400 IM in 4:33.86. It was third on the international list. Elizabeth Beisel wound up taking second in 4:38.55 after Ella Eastin was disqualified for a bad turn coming out of the backstroke.
Soccer superstar of Cristiano Ronaldo
He has given no other information about the twins or their mother, but unconfirmed reports from Portuguese TV channel SIC say that they were born in the U.S. last Thursday through a surrogate and have been named Eva and Mateo.
Ronaldo posted on Facebook to say that he was "body and soul" in the service of his national team despite the birth of his sons. "I'm very happy, finally, to be with my children for the first time," he said.
The Portugal captain's firstborn child, Cristiano Ronaldo Jnr, was born to an anonymous American woman in 2010. A picture he added to Instagram in May also led to speculation that his long-term girlfriend, Georgina Rodríguez, is expecting.
The Real Madrid striker made the announcement hours after his Portugal team was kicked out of the Confederations Cup on penalties by Chile.
Golfer Michael Buttacavoli withdrew from chance at US Open after his clubs misplaced
To compete in the qualifying rounds for the US Open, you sort of need your golf clubs—which is why one pro golfer is fuming at American Airlines for his now-squashed chances to make the cut. USA Today reports Michael Buttacavoli withdrew Monday from his last chance to play in the Open's sectional qualifiers after the airline couldn't track down a bag containing his clubs with priority tags. The 29-year-old, who's on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica roster, had flown on a red-eye from Ecuador to Miami and was dismayed to find that even though he made it to his early-morning tee time at Florida's Jupiter Hills Club, his clubs had gone missing, per Golf.com. "Thank u @AmericanAir," a frustrated Buttacavoli sarcastically tweeted just before 6am local time Monday, letting the airline know he had to pull out of the competition.
AA offered to help track the bag down in a responding tweet, but Buttacavoli noted that ship had sailed. "It's too late," he retorted. "I already withdrew. You just needed to do your job in the first place." The airline tried to apologize, saying, "This wasn't the experience we had planned for you," but Buttacavoli was having none of it. "Stop apologizing. Don't need sympathy or u to be PC. Just do better," he tweeted. He added it was too late to rent a set by the time he realized his clubs weren't going to show up, though Golf Digest, which reports that Buttacavoli has made it to the sectional qualifying rounds three times before (but never to the Open itself), notes Buttacavoli could have asked his brother, who was caddying for him, to bring his own set. "It's a challenge enough to qualify with your own golf clubs," he says. American Airlines did eventually find his bag.
2 German Triumphs
Germany's players were still embracing on the field, some minutes away from lifting the Confederations Cup trophy, when the congratulatory messages started to pour in. They came from some of the country's most famous, most decorated players, winners of the World Cup and the Champions League: Mesut Özil, Toni Kroos, Jérôme Boateng and a host of others.
Some, like Kroos, expressed their delight at Germany's defeat of Chile in St. Petersburg — victory in the country's first appearance in what may yet be the last iteration of this tournament — without words, communicating their happiness instead exclusively through emojis.
Other players were only a little more garrulous. "How great is that?" asked Mats Hummels. "What a triumph, what a squad," said Ilkay Gundogan. Thomas Müller advised his countrymen, presumably based on his own experiences, to make sure they "have fun while celebrating."
None of those players were on the field in Russia, waiting to take to the podium. Like Manuel Neuer, Sami Khedira, Marco Reus, Julian Weigl, André Schürrle and many others, they had not been included in Joachim Löw's squad for the competition. They were all watching, from home or from holiday, as their country proved its soccer resources run so deep, so wide, that it can triumph without them.
As Löw was quick to point out as he reflected on Germany's victory, winning the Confederations Cup, even with "such a young side," does not mean that the Germans, the current World Cup champions, are certain to retain their crown when they return to Russia next summer. Nor does the European Championship won by its under-21 team last week in Poland mean that Germany can be assured of success in the senior continental tournaments in 2020 or 2024.
Major competitions do not subscribe to such straightforward logic. In the international game, more so even than at club level, tournament soccer is more complex, more chaotic than that.
In the concentrated, intense span of a World Cup or a continental championship, the fleeting and the unforeseen take on an outsize significance. One bad game, after all, is all it takes, and years of preparation can be wasted.
A raft of injuries, or poor form, might take hold. A referee — even one with a video monitor — might make a mistake. A rival — Brazil or Argentina, Italy or France — might build a momentum so impressive it takes on the air of destiny. The best team in the world does not always win the World Cup; the best team in the world that month ordinarily does.
Whether Germany wins twice on Russian soil in two years, though — and it is worth noting both that no winner of the Confederations Cup has ever won the subsequent World Cup, and that a World Cup winner has never repeated since Brazil in 1962 — should not detract from the broader pattern its latest gilded summer has brought to the surface.
Kevin Durant passes on about $4 million of his $28 million salary next season to have room to keep Andre Iguodala and others
Kevin Durant is set to make a new contract deal and stay with the Golden State Warriors, but the new NBA champions did lose a legendary player on Monday, June 19 (Tuesday in Manila time).
Multiple reports said Durant, the Most Valuable Player of this month's NBA Finals triumph over Cleveland, will opt out of his contract but re-sign with Golden State in a money-saving move under NBA salary cap rules.
But the Warriors lost Jerry West, a member of the team's executive board who on Monday was named a consultant to the Los Angeles Clippers.
The 79-year old Hall of Fame guard was an iconic star for the Los Angeles Lakers and the NBA's logo is designed around his silhouette.
Durant, who joined the Warriors last July after finishing his contract with Oklahoma City, plans to decline his player option for the 2017-18 campaign and become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, according to reports.
The 10-year NBA veteran would then re-sign with the Warriors, the move enabling the team to have more money for contracts with forward Andre Iguodala and other players.
Durant was to be paid about $28 million in salary next season, but he will take about $4 million less than the maximum deal he could have been paid.
That will better enable the Warriors to keep together the championship roster that includes Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, Georgian center Zaza Pachulia and reserves.
Durant won his first NBA crown and helped Golden State claim a second in 3 seasons by averaging 35.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 5.4 assists in the best-of-7 NBA Finals, which the Warriors won over Cleveland in 5 games.
Warriors guard Stephen Curry becomes a free agent, but has taken less than maximum money in recent years to set up an expected 5-year deal worth $205 million. Curry made $12.1 million last season.
West said his two-year deal to return to Los Angeles came down to being wooed by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, coach Doc Rivers and executive vice president Lawrence Frank.
"For them to want me to come here and maybe think I can help, I am really flattered," West said. "I think they want to establish their own identity in this town and that is what to me is most important, establish their own identity and ability to win at the very highest level."
West spent the past 6 seasons with the Warriors. The two-time NBA executive of the year was Lakers general manager/executive vice president of basketball operations for 18 years during which the team won four NBA crowns. He also served as the president of basketball operations for the Memphis Grizzlies from 2002-2007, the team making its first 3 playoff appearances during West's tenure.
As a player, West was a 14-time All-Star who went to the NBA Finals 9 times but won only once. He averaged 27 points, 6.7 assists and 5.8 rebounds for his career.
Support for Murray That's Loud
Wimbledon has always been a haven for fanatical supporters, from the hordes of young women who chased Bjorn Borg around the grounds in the 1970s to the Australians who dress in yellow every year to support their countrymen and women.
Faces will be painted with the Scottish and British flags for Andy Murray over the next two weeks. But fandom can take many forms. Take a look on Twitter during a big Murray match at Wimbledon, and the chances are you will come across the commentary of Irvine Welsh, the Scottish author most famous for writing "Trainspotting," the anarchic tale of a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh.
The text of his tweets is often provocative, and the language usually vulgar, but his admiration for the top-ranked Murray comes across loud and clear.
Welsh, who lives in Miami, first tweeted during a Murray match when Murray beat Novak Djokovic in the 2012 United States Open final for his first Grand Slam title.
"It was something my friend and fellow Scottish writer John Niven got into doing between us for laughs," Welsh said in an email. "Tennis commentary is generally pretty dull. Ours is grounded in the compelling perversity that the cuisine, climate and class structure of Scotland can produce a tennis champion like Murray."
Welsh's fandom is not just about Murray also coming from Scotland.
"I admire his incredible skills, control and pace around the court," Welsh said. "I love how he wears the game on his face. So many players are dull and deadpan; they never change expressions whether they hit a winner or miss an easy shot."
Many of Welsh's tweets are unprintable, but the vast majority feature the acerbic humor that would be familiar to his readers.
"Good hold Andy son," Welsh wrote during the 2012 U.S. Open final. "I'm going to eat a packet of McCain's oven chips for every point you win the day pal."
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Dynamic New Single, "If I Was A House," Released by New York Country Artist, Ken Wilber
I first heard the demo for this song, it was a very simple acoustic
guitar and vocal arrangement. I was completely blown away by the
imagery and knew immediately that I had to cut this song," said Ken
Wilber. "When we finished recording the tracks at Ocean Way Studios in
Nashville and started playing it back, I was amazed at how big the
production had become. Each instrument and voice really comes together
on this song to create something truly special that celebrates
everything that is great about the U.S.A."
"No other song in my professional songwriting career has ever excited
me as much, and frustrated me as much, at the same time! It took 10
years of writing, putting it away, coming back to it, to finish 'If I
Was A House.' When I finally wrote the last verse, shortly before going
in the studio, I felt I had something special, but what would Ken think
about it," said Sonny LeMaire. "When he heard my simple work demo he
immediately said he had to record it! The arrangement was simple but
powerful and Ken's passionate, heartfelt delivery proved that indeed it
was very special and that he had made 'If I Was A House,' his signature
song! I am extremely proud of the song and proud to have someone like
Ken be the voice of this tribute to an America we all love!"
"As a brand new Artist fresh to Nashville, this being his second release
Ken is quickly mastering his craft with strength, a wealth of talent
and 100% honest enthusiasm," said Producer Tony Cotrill. "Award Winning
Songwriter/Producer Sonny Lemaire beyond the shadow of a doubt brought
the production vision to this one. Ken is a pleasure to work with, a
true Entertainer and "If I Was A House" will quickly put Ken Wilber on
the map!"
Ken's music is available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and download on Google Play, Amazon Music and iTunes. Stay current with Ken Wilber on his website www.kenwilbercountry.com on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Ken Wilber:
Ken Wilber was born in Oneonta, NY on October 29th,
1980. His earliest musical influences were Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard,
George Jones and Johnny Cash. His family remembers him at a young age
staring at the records as they played, trying to understand the music he
heard. Ken learned to sing by trying to emulate the people he heard on
the recordings and would keep at it, until he could copy every little
inflection of the vocal performance. In high school Ken discovered his
second love, theater. He made his theatrical debut at the age of 14 in a
high school production of "Fame." The band Fly By Nite was formed with
Ken as lead singer where they played locally every weekend at a local
watering hole called "Babcocks." Fly by Nite played together for a
little over ten years, before dissolving in 2012. Ken Also sang with the
southern rock Group J.D. Mistress. Ken was brought in by guitar player
Rich Rogers. He played with them for about six months, where they played
several dates locally and had the opportunity to open for Molly Hatchet
and Blackfoot in Albany, NY. After Fly By Nite dissolved, Ken and Kerry
Fallot set out to begin writing and arranging music for Ken's first
album "Rollin' My Own," and the album was completed in 2017.Ken had the
opportunity to play country music Legend Hank Williams in a local
theatrical production of "Hank Williams: Lost Highway." Tony Cottrill
mastered the first project and shortly after the mastering was
completed, Tony contacted Ken to come to Nashville to record a demo
session for Sonny LeMaire of Exile fame. As a result of the demo
sessions, Ken decided to record his second album in Nashville in October
of 2018. New music to be released soon, recorded in Nashville, TN at
Ocean Way studio and produced by Tony Cottrill and Sonny LeMaire.