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NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK "KENNEBUNKPORT", 1980
Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) was an American abstract painter whose unique and recognizable style encompassed the movements of Pop Art, Op Art and even Minimalism.
Born in New York, Krushenick's art career began in the late 1950's alongside a generation of artists who were rejecting Abstract Expressionism as new movements emerged in art.
Around this time, Nicholas and his brother John Krushenick founded the artist cooperative 'Brata Gallery', which promoted artwork that was more optimistic, goofy, and even brash, often using pop-culture graphics.
Notable artist's who showed with the Brata Gallery include: Yayoi Kusama, Al Held and Ed Clark amongst others.
In the 1960's Krushenick began developing and ultimately refining his signature style which began with undulating forms outlined in black, often evoking semi-organic shapes. He would accent his works by using high-key and flat colors using liquitex paint.
By the mid-1960's, this style evolved to feature circus-tent bands of alternating colors and flesh-like folds overlapping into optically recessive layers or rigid stripes.
Although Krushenick's works were most closely associated with Pop, his style was considered too joyful and lacking irony to fit comfortably with Pop Art, which was also predominately figurative. Although his use of bolder colors, lines inspired by illustrations, and use of abstract figurative forms still mark him as one of the original practitioners of Pop Art. Today, many would consider his works to be Pop Abstraction.
In 1977 Krushenick became a Professor at the University of Maryland where he would remain until 1991. Krushenick's artworks have gained immense recognition during the last two decades of his life, and after, for his singular style which straddled many movements, but remained entirely unique to him. Today, we can see his influence on an array of contemporary artists ranging from Carroll Dunham to Julia Dault.
Krushenick's works have been exhibited globally and are in the permanent collections of many of the most prestigious art museums including MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Albright-Knox Gallery, Whitney Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and dozens of others.
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Dozens relocated after fire at east Indianapolis senior living facility
Indiana coronavirus updates: Record number of student cases reported for last week
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Indiana coronavirus updates for Friday, Jan. 14, 2022
The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic for Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.
Author: WTHR.com staff, TEGNA, The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Here are Friday's latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including the latest news on COVID-19 vaccinations and testing in Indiana.
Registrations for the vaccine are now open for Hoosiers 5 and older through the Indiana State Department of Health. This story will be updated over the course of the day with more news on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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IDOH update
The Indiana Department of Health reported nearly 16,000 new cases of the coronavirus Friday. Of the 15,926 positive cases reported Friday, 15,896 of them were confirmed Thursday. There were also 97 more deaths reported, bringing the total to 19,491.
The state set a new record for hospitalization. On Thursday, there were 3,519 patients being treated for COVID-19 in hospitals around the state. It's the first time that number has exceeded 3,500.
As of Friday, the state had 9.2% of its ICU beds available. Nearly 38% of all ICU beds in use around the state were by COVID-19 patients.
The state reported there were 4,557 newly fully vaccinated Hoosiers Friday, bringing the total to 3,599,575.
Federal testing website launches next week, 4 tests per home
The White House says the federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
The announcement on Friday comes as the administration looks to address nationwide shortages, but supplies will be limited to just four free tests per home.
RELATED: Free at-home COVID tests: Reimbursement details, monthly limits
Americans shouldn't expect a rapid turn-around on the orders, and Americans will have to plan ahead and request the tests well before they meet federal guidelines for when to use a test.
The White House said "tests will typically ship within 7-12 days of ordering" through the United States Postal Service, which reports shipping times of 1-3 days for its first class package service in the continental United States.
Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for US large businesses
The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.
At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S.
The court's orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration's efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
The court's conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.
In dissent, the court's three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgments for health experts. "Acting outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies," Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.
The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide covers virtually all health care workers in the country.
Eskenazi brings in refrigerated truck and mobile morgue to handle overflow
Supreme Court's vaccine mandate ruling has little impact in Indianapolis hospitals
Latest US, world numbers
There have been more than 64.08 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of 3:30 a.m. Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 846,400 deaths recorded in the U.S.
Worldwide, there have been more than 320.17 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 5.52 million deaths and more than 9.56 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness like pneumonia, or death.
Vincennes goes to remote learning after MLK weekend
Vincennes University announced remote learning plans Friday to take effect following MLK weekend.
"In response to changes in COVID metrics and trends for the Vincennes campus." the university announced, "there will be a temporary pause in face-to-face instruction for the four days following the extended Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday Weekend (January 18, 19, 20, and 21). All other sites will continue instruction as usual. Internships, clinicals, and related off-campus activities will not be impacted by this temporary shift in instruction."
Classes are scheduled to resume face-to-face instruction on Monday, Jan. 24. Students will receive instruction from faculty members regarding specific delivery instructions for their courses.
The school cited high COVID-19 presence around campus and in Knox County as the reason for the decision to go remote.
Ben Davis High School 10th-12th-grade students learning remotely through end of week
Students in grade 10-12 at Ben Davis High School in MSD of Wayne Township will be learning remotely through the end of the week, the district announced.
The change is due to staffing limitations at the high school, according to a statement posted on the district's website.
The Area 31 Career Center will continue to operate with in-person instruction and all extracurricular activities will continue in person, the district said.
Midday transportation for Ben Davis students attending Area 31 will not be provided and students will need to make alternative arrangements.
Fishers Health Dept. offering vaccines, tests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Fishers Health Department will offer vaccines and testing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The health department hopes that with many schools and businesses closed for the holiday, people will take advantage of this opportunity.
The Fishers Vaccination Clinic, located at 12520 E. 116th Street, will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17, for walk-ins and appointments. The clinic will also be open Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Appointments can be made at fishers.in.us/vaccine.
The Fishers Testing Site, located at 4 Municipal Drive, will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for drive-through testing and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. for priority testing for students and staff of K-12 Fishers-based schools. Tests can be scheduled at fishers.in.us/testing.
Hours for the ongoing school-based testing are as follows:
Monday: 7:30-9 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:30-9 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:30-9 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.
Thursday: 7:30-9 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday: 7:30-9 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.
Saturday: Noon-2 p.m.
Anderson Community Schools moves to e-learning
Anderson Community Schools became yet another Indiana school district to announce it was temporarily transitioning to e-learning on Wednesday.
The district's decision was made in response to a high number of COVID-19 related absences among bus drivers and staff.
Anderson Community Schools will have e-learning days on Thursday, Jan. 13 and Friday, Jan. 14. The district plans to resume with in-person instruction on Tuesday, Jan. 18, following the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Greenfield-Central H.S. moves to e-learning
Greenfield-Central Community Schools announced Wednesday they were moving high school students to virtual learning for the rest of the week due to a surge in COVID cases in recent days that has impacted both students and staff at the school.
The district announced the move would be for Thursday and Friday of this week and would only affect students at Greenfield-Central High School. The district said it is monitoring the impact of the virus at other schools, as well.
Some IPS middle, high schools move to remote learning through end of week
Indianapolis Public Schools moved to remote learning on Thursday, Jan. 13 and Friday, Jan. 14 at high schools and standalone middle schools.
IPS said the switch to remote learning is due to staffing limitations. The following schools moved to remote learning:
Arlington Middle School
Harshman Middle School
Henry W. Longfellow Medical/STEM Middle School 28
Northwest Middle School (including Newcomer)
Arsenal Technical High School
Crispus Attucks High School
George Washington High School
Shortridge High School
IPS said the decision was based on the number of staff absences, including COVID-19 isolations and quarantines at the middle and high school levels.
Heritage Christian canceling class Friday
Heritage Christian School is canceling class Friday as it deals with staffing shortages due to illness. It will not be an e-learning day for students.
The school had already planned for no class Monday to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In a note to parents, the school said the long weekend would allow "for additional preparation as we plan for a return to school next Tuesday."
Extracurricular activities will go on as scheduled Friday.
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurance starting Saturday
Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations.
Under the new policy, first detailed to the Associated Press, Americans will be able to either purchase home testing kits for free under their insurance or submit receipts for the tests for reimbursement, up to the monthly per-person limit. A family of four, for instance, could be reimbursed for up to 32 tests per month. PCR tests and rapid tests ordered or administered by a health provider will continue to be fully covered by insurance with no limit.
President Joe Biden faced criticism over the holiday season for a shortage of at-home rapid tests as Americans traveled to see family amid the surge in cases from the more transmissible omicron variant. Now, the administration is working to make COVID-19 home tests more accessible, both by increasing supply and bringing down costs.
Later this month, the federal government will launch a website to begin making 500 million at-home COVID-19 tests available via mail. The administration also is scaling up emergency rapid-testing sites in areas experiencing the greatest surges in cases.
Coronavirus in Indiana updates - January 17, 2022

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Home equity loans are growing in prominence in Canada and are one of several ways that Canadians have been taking advantage of low interest rates and rising house prices. But what are they doing with the money?
This post explores the most common uses for home equity loans. To that end, we will leverage our own experience, industry insights, and third-party data.
How Much Money Are We Taking Out?
Rising debt levels continue to be a point of concern for policy makers. A closer look at the data, however, reveals a much safer picture than newspaper headlines might elude to.
It's true that Canadians are taking money out of their homes, but that money is being used to improve their financial stability by reducing higher interest rate debt and stimulate the economy by funding renovations, investments and retail purchases.
Data from CAAMP is extremely useful in this scenario, but we would like throw our hat into the ring as well to highlight some common uses that can be overlooked.
Debt consolidation is certainly the most common use for home equity loans in Canada in our experience. Loans backed by residential equity carry significantly lower interest rates compared to other debt vehicles, allowing homeowners to pay down their debt significantly faster without increasing their monthly payments.
If you are curious how debt consolidation works, just click here.
Canadians are taking money out of their homes only to put it back in. That being said, the renovation industry is by no means dependent on borrowed funds. In fact, of the $68 billion spent on home renovation and home repair in Canada in the last 12 months, only about one-fifth was borrowed.
Carefully planned renovations can significantly raise the value of a home, improving your loan-to-value ratio (even after the renovation expense) and allowing the borrower to move their debt to an even lower interest rate.
Ever-tighter lending restrictions passed down by OSFI have made it increasingly difficult for self-employed persons, which make up more than one-seventh of Canada's workforce. Home equity loans are an increasingly common way for self-employed individuals to buy a home in Canada.
Equity takeouts for investment purposes account for a little over one-seventh of the total equity take-outs.
Home equity loans are a great way to finance a business investment or pay back a business loan and shore up your finances.
This is surprisingly common. Typically, banks (A-lenders such as BMO) will not lend mortgage funds (for a new purchase or a re-finance) while the borrower owes back taxes.
This is the case even if the borrower has the equity in their home to pay off the taxes. As such, a common use for home equity loans is a short term loan that essentially pulls equity out of the home, pays off CRA, then transfers the debt back to an A-lender.
Home equity loans help many Canadian complete their homes.
Even if you ignore the obvious emotional turmoil, these are always tricky situations.
Home equity loans are very common in Canada and their uses are myriad. Their flexible nature is their strength and there are solutions for most persons in most situations. If you have any questions about how home equity loans can help you, just give us a call or send us an email.


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Report: Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri to be named Executive of the Year
By Kurt HelinMay 9, 2013, 2:10 AM EDT
Masai Ujiri got a baptism by fire — he was named the Nuggets general manager and a few months later Carmelo Anthony was forcing his way out of town with a trade. It was a circus around the Nuggets.
But Ujiri stood calmly in the middle of that storm, patiently waiting to get a good deal (or waiting for James Dolan to cave, either way). He got it, and with that trade as the catalyst he rebuilt the Nuggets as one of the NBA's best teams this season. A team without a traditional star as the anchor, but one that plays fast, is entertaining and won 57 games, a franchise record.
For all of that, Ujiri will be named the NBA's executive of the year on Thursday, reports the Denver Post. Executives from the 30 NBA teams vote on this award.
It's well deserved.
Ujiri is groundbreaking as the first African-born GM not only in the NBA but also in any major American sport.
Nuggets coach George Karl was named NBA Coach of the Year on Wednesday.


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Montgomery County Council considers approving $1.5 million to settle dispute over COVID-19 hazard pay
by: Cheyenne Corin
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (WDVM) — Montgomery County Council recently discussed approving a $1.5 million settlement that County Executive Marc Elrich proposed, to settle a dispute over COVID-19 hazard payments.
83 county management employees filed grievances related to COVID-19 hazard pay. Those include police, fire, and sheriff's office managers who were left out of an earlier agreement.
"We negotiated at a lower rate because we didn't want to wind up in court and a judge rule your contract says double time and you're going to pay double time. that would have cost the county way more money," said County Executive Marc Elrich.
The county council has made clear that they believe these workers deserve the pay but have concerns about the county executive not running the agreement by the council first. The council also brought to question a letter Elrich sent to FEMA requesting reimbursements for hazard pay, although the county never declared a state of emergency. The letter also wasn't reviewed by the county attorney.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that even when those decisions have been made.. that there isn't what would be an appropriate level of communication to allow the council to do their oversight job, their fiscal appropriation job," said Councilmember Andrew Friedson.
A public hearing about the settlement is set for December 7th.
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Some Congressmen have recently expressed doubts about a nuclear-capable next-generation bomber is needed and whether something else couldn't act as a substitute. The purpose of this blogpost is to dispel such doubts.
Unmanned strike aircraft are no substitute because they don't have the sufficient range, payload capability, degree of stealthiness, or other attributes that bombers, especially B-2 bombers, provide. Drones can only deliver tiny payloads over short distances. By contrast, bombers can delivery huge payloads (the equivalent of the punch of hundreds of drones) over intercontinental distances, and B-2s can do so stealthily.
See? Cruise missiles are too expensive for any kind of sustained operations, and the 44 cruise missiles fired at Iraq in September 1996 cost 100 times more than the equivalent number of guided bombs delivered by a B-2 would've cost ($1 mn). In other words, using B-2s and their guided munitions would've saved a lot of money – 99% of that cost, i.e. $99 mn. So procuring and using bombers instead of cruise missiles saves money.
Moreover, today the cost of a SINGLE Tomahawk missile is $1 mn. That means the cost of one such missile is the same as would've been the cost of bombing all 44 of these targets by B-2s.
Similarly, procuring and using NGBs instead of cruise missiles would, in the long run, save a lot of money. Cruise missiles are unaffordable in large quantities, and using them on large groups of targets is a waste of missiles and money. It's much cheaper to have bombers drop precision ordnance on these targets. And in most plausible war scenarios, vis-a-vis most of its plausible enemies, the US military will have to eliminate large numbers of targets.
Moreover, the majority of the US military's cruise missiles are nonstealthy (and therefore easily detectible and easy to intercept) and old, meaning they will have to be retired in the next decade.
And yet, the cut was made – AFTER the Gulf War, in 1992 – and was confirmed by the Clinton Administration despite the pleas of several former Secretaries of Defense from both parties.
As for B-2s, although they are stealthy, their stealth technology is, as General Norton Schwartz has said, "80s vintage." It was developed decades ago. These aircraft will no longer be low-observable or undetectable for America's enemies, and will therefore lose their stealth penetration capability, within the next few decades. So if they are not complemented soon enough by NGBs, America will lose its long-range strike capability and its capability to enter enemy airspace undetected from large distances, thus making it impossible for the US to win some wars and therefore to achieve its political objectives, as well as gutting the bomber leg of the nuclear triad, which will lose its stealth penetration capability.
Let's listen to what General Schwartz says, shall we?
"While the 20 B-2s in service are capable aircraft, their stealth technology is " '80s vintage," Schwartz replied.
"The reality is that the B-2 over time will become less survivable in contested airspace," he said.
Schwartz went even further Feb. 29, saying the Air Force needs to improve its technology to meet potential threats from China and Iran.
"Do you think that the Chinese have established one of the world's best air defense environments in their eastern provinces just to invest their national treasure — or, for that matter, that the Iranians have established integrated air defenses around certain locations in their country?" he said.
And 20 stealthy bombers is a tiny fleet, totally inadequate to meet the US military's needs.
The NGB project's opponents also claim that the planned cost of one bomber – $550 mn – is unaffordable and excessive. But that is actually a low price for one stealthy long-range bomber which, as stated above, will actually save money in the long run. It's worth it. Opponents claim, however, that the USAF won't be able to achieve such a low price and that the bomber type's cost will balloon. They're wrong.
The Air Force WILL, despite critics' doomsday projections, deliver these aircraft on time and on budget, in accordance with its core value of Excellence In All We Do.
Meanwhile, the top Democrat on the HASC, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, doubts whether the NGB needs to be nuclear-capable, although he stresses that he hasn't made up his mind yet and wants to know if making it conventional-capable-only would bring about any significant savings. He's right to be cautious, because it wouldn't. He is wrong, however, to claim that the delay of the next-gen USAF cruise missile is not a huge problem. It is. This next-gen CM type is long overdue. It must not be delayed at all. The delay is purely budget-driven.
Gee, I thought nuclear bombers became obsolete 40 yeras ago with ICBMs, but maybe I was wrong. I am sure that the much slower bombers are so much better than fast ICBMs.


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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Jason Prowd 'Unpacking product metrics'
Adrienne: Hello, and welcome to Prod Pod. We're a part of This is HCD. We're bringing all human-centred practitioners real and honest conversations about product management. My name is Adrienne Tan and I'm the co-founder of Brainmates. Today, we're talking to Jason Prowd about establishing and measuring product successful in financial services. Jason is a product leader at Morning Star. Since 1984, Morning Star has been helping investors achieve their financial goals by developing powerful researcher data and investment management products.
Jason loves understanding and solving complex investor problems in simple, delightful ways. He currently leads two businesses for Morning Star, direct to consumer in Australia, and the global advisor experience for Morning Star investment management. Prior to his current role, he designed, built, and ran a direct customer wealth management product for Morning Star. Before that, he worked at an investment research and funds management business, both on the product and the investment research side. Hello, Jason.
Jason: Hello, it's great to be here.
Adrienne: You've been very fortunate to have been tasked with creating a new product from scratch at Morning Star, called: Morning Star Next. Tell us about that whole experience.
Jason: Sure. Inventing a new product is a great privilege, it's a lot of fun but it's a lot of work, too. I joined Morning Star about three years ago and put together a team to tackle the opportunity. Really, that was understanding what the business wanted to do, so the strategy, why it wanted to pursue a direct to consumer investment product. Traditionally, we distributed investment products via financial advisors. Then I had to work on taking a Power Point presentation essentially and turning that into a real product. Really interesting work.
Adrienne: Excellent. Because you're going direct to customer instead of direct to a business or investors, how is the business setup to allow you essentially to design and build a product?
Jason: That's a great question. I was fortunate to have really good support from both my local boss, the MD of Australia at the time and my divisional manager. Both of them were really keen on this idea, so they created the environment that allowed us to go and try new things, take a few risks. We want to as a business be trying to be trying new things. They really set that structure up for me and then let me get to work.
Adrienne: Excellent. What were some of the more poignant changes that they had to make? What was some of the key changes in the business to allow you to do that?
Jason: Leaving me alone.
Adrienne: Excellent. We love that.
Jason: A lot of it was trusting me enough to put together a strategy and a plan and then letting me get on with executing it. I think that a lot of new businesses, particularly in existing businesses can wither on the vine if they're not given space. My direct manager and the local MD really let me run with the idea. We had a direct team. They all worked for me, were working principally just on that product, so we could go and do different things that would be a bit more difficult if you had to work within the constraints of an existing business.
Adrienne: I love that. I love that one of the biggest things that you can allow product people to do is really give them the space, the time to do it. I think that's really great for lots of larger organisations who typically want to control the process.
Jason: I think it's super hard, right? The ideal way to run a business is, say, you've got a good idea, I trust you, go do it. Now, that doesn't actually work, as soon as you have a business with more than a couple of people, you need some processors around things. We're a listed business, so you need some structure, so you need to control the risk in certain ways. In our business, we can try out a new business in Australia with ten people and that's not a big risk. We can control it by the size of the investment. It makes sense that businesses want some structure before they let people go off and do things.
Adrienne: Yes, that's excellent. There's been a change. Now, this is probably very exciting. It's not very often that we hear organisations make this kind of change, I don't think, but you've put your product Morning Star Next on hold essentially. Tell me about that, how did that come about? How did you make that decision?
Jason: Sure, it wasn't easy at all. I think if you've poured a couple of years of your life into something, it's sad if you have to change direction. A good business has to sit there and weight up the opportunities in the market place. Really, the opportunity cost of pursuing one opportunity over another. When we're looking out a few years, end of last year, mid last year and thought, "Okay, where can we have our teams focused?
What are the biggest and brightest opportunities for our business?" We decided that direct-to-consumer on a wealth management product in Australia wasn't it. It made sense to pivot the team and have them focus on something else, which they're now focused on the advisor experience for our global investment management business.
Really tough. If you've worked on a product and you make that kind of change, I'd be really disappointed if you weren't sad. When we sat down with the team and discussed it with them, people looked upset. That makes sense. I want people on my team who buy into the vision and mission of what we're trying to do. At the same time, I think letting things drag on isn't a great strategic decision either. It was good that we were able to make a swift decision, pivot, and pursue a new opportunity.
Adrienne: I guess that goes around the whole concept about establishing some metrics before you build and then measuring them throughout the time the product is in market. Did you do that before you start? Did you hold yourself accountable to those numbers? I know numbers are really emotionally, you look at them, you go, hey, I meant to hit this, but I haven't and here are the reasons, I'll keep going. Talk to me about how you did that, before you made the product and how you landed where you are now with the product.
Jason: Metrics are super important I think for any business to build trust; you have to be really transparent about what you're trying to achieve and what's realistic. I think I'll share a story from my time as being a research analyst. When we covered SX companies, we were making forecasts about what we thought a company was going to do in the future. One thing I really like doing was what was called a premortem, so you'd write before the fact what you thought was going to happen.
You couldn't see a company's results and say, "Hey, I always thought that was going to happen." You had to put pen to paper and say, "Here's what I think. The balance and probabilities is the likely outcome for X, Y, Z company." I applied that same logic for thinking about our new product at Morning Star. We're an investment business, so there are lots of analytical people in the business. I knew it was going to be really important early on to establish credibility in the organisation, showing that we were going to be really transparent in how we measured things, and setting some ambitious, yet, realistic ways of measuring product success.
For an investment management product, that's not actually that complicated, it's really how many clients are you acquiring? How much are they choosing to invest? How much is it costing you to acquire those clients? Then once you've acquired them, how happy are they? We had basically four different metrics and we set out a range of outcomes when we set up the product. We tracked them the whole way through.
Adrienne: Right. At what point do you decide that enough is enough? It's really a very difficult question to answer, I guess, but…
Jason: Yes, I think it's very difficult. I think the difficult with metrics is, it's very easy to gravitate to one number. I think you need to think about measuring things quantitatively and qualitatively. Quant is easy in lots of ways, capturing data now is super easy. Strategy, though, is about blending that quantitative data and the qualitative insight and making a trade-off, right? If you think about it, strategy is simply just, what are we doing and why? I think for us with Next, the decision we made was, we looked at the potential upside if we kept pursuing it in its current form over the next three to five years.
We looked at the potential upside of pivoting and doing something else. It was less about Morning Star Next not working out exactly as we'd hoped. It was more about comparing it to another opportunity and seeing that that was orders of magnitude bigger. For us, a very successful outcome for Morning Star Next over a five to ten-year period was tens of millions of dollars of revenue. That would be a fantastic outcome from zero.
Our investment management business always generates over 100 million dollars of revenue U.S. a year. Making small changes there can have a much, much bigger impact on our overall business. For us, it was simply weight up the opportunity cost, I guess.
Adrienne: Got it. That leads to another point, though, it's when you've got these new product ideas, especially in really large organisations, they're never going to compare, it's always going to take longer to be able to catch up to your existing product. How then do you justify making these innovative products? How do you do that?
Jason: I think that's the tough work of strategy and one – it's a good question for any CEO of any business, the way we've decided to think about things is, we really classify our businesses in different categories, this allows us to make different types of investment decisions. Businesses where we're seeding them, so it might be something new that may or may not work out, and the time frame is going to be long. It's going to be super uncertain. Then we're going to have businesses that we say are in growth mode. Things that we know the customer proposition is working, it's all starting to come together and really what you need to do is just let them run and give them some more capital to let the business grow.
Then you have businesses that are more in harvest mode, so businesses that might have been really successful or products that have been really successful in the past, but you can see, over the next five/ten years, they're not going to be as successful in the future, maybe they're not where the market needs your company to be.
Those businesses can really help fund those two other categories. I think you need to get that right at the board/CEO level. Otherwise, no one has any incentive to try out new things that may or may not work. Most professional managers will pick projects that have very certain outcomes and don't take on a lot of career risk.
Adrienne: Yes, that's a really good point. It's the balancing of your portfolio really, of your investments across different kinds of products at different stages in their lifecycle. This leads me to discussing your current products, which I suspect is more established. Firstly, how do you go from working in something brand-new, to something more established? What are the kind of changes in your day-to-day work life as a product manager, going from fairly brand-new to established product?
Jason: Sure, I'll expand on the opportunities a bit. In our direct to consumer space, so how we help individual investors in Australia at the moment, we have an existing research data product, where you can go and get some free research, and then you can sign up for a subscription. That's being rebuilt at the moment. In a sense, the proposition is pretty clear, we know there's a market there for that type of product. What work we're focused on at the moment is really re-platforming what we have.
That is different but I think you can apply some of the same types of thinking you do to a new product. You want to be interactive you want it to be based on data, you want to listen to your customers, all of that good stuff, I think you can apply to an existing product. In the advisor space, while the business is established and over the last five/ten years, we've done a nice job building an investment management business that helps financial advisors.
The way we serve those advisors beyond given them great investment products is quite nascent at the moment. In a sense, I am working on something entirely new again, because that advisor experience for our core market, so that's the UK, the U.S., here and South Africa is only just getting started. The team and I are going to be using very, very similar ideas and even insights we got from working directly with consumers and applying it to how we build out that service experience for our advisor clients.
Adrienne: In terms of measurement and metrics, do you think it's any different to your initial foray into the B2C space? Or are they similar?
Jason: Yes, I think the things you want to measure are a little bit different. The first thing I'd say about metrics is, I like dividing goals and KPIs. Goals, as I see it, are what you want to get done. KPIs are things you measure along the way to see if you're tracking towards that goal. Within that context, you need both longer-term ambitions, things that will show you a product or business has been successful over time, but then you're going to need indicators along the way. Ideally, what you need are leading indicators.
What I see a lot of in business is lagging indicators. A good example of that, is tracking something like revenue. Revenue largely tells you about all growth in revenue sale fall. It tells you largely about what's happened in the past, right? It's likely driven by products that have been built in the past. It's been driven by customer relationships in the past. A business can have great revenue growth, but that might not tell you in any one year what's going to happen over five years. You need earlier indicators, you need to make sure you measure them, as well. Now, of course, you can't just measure qualitative things and say that leads to product success.
Ultimately, a business is a balance between commercial success and customer success. If the business wins too much, the customers get really angry and leave. If the customers win too much, the business goes under. I think you need to balance having metrics that measure both of those factors. We've spent a lot of time kicking around ideas for advisor experience, and that's sort of TBC exactly what we'll measure, but we've got ideas around what makes sense for investment management business to measure long-term. Then, also, some ideas around what are good leading indicators that are worth measuring.
I think the other thing to remember about metrics is to not be too obsessive about them. I think I see a lot of data where what people are forgetting is the analysis. I can pull up some spreadsheet and show you some numbers, what's important is what's driving those numbers. My take is, most businesses over metric themselves. They'll have 15/20/30 different things that they claim tell you how a business is working. Often, that's driven by managers wanting to have some kind of number that's got a green tick against it. The most complex businesses in the world only have a few metrics that indicate whether they're going well or not.
Financial services, people would hold up a bank and say, "Come off it, bank, it's super complicated." They do all of these different things, they've got tens of thousands of staff, how can you measure that business with a few simple metrics? It will be like, well, okay, what does come off bank actually do? It sells primarily two products, home loans and credit cards. How do they make money?
They make money by the spread between what they borrow money at and what they lend it to you at. Then the other important thing for a bank is, how likely is it that the people that have borrowed this money are going to pay it back? Even something as complex as a bank, like, if you don't get the analysis of those three metrics, it doesn't matter what the other fifty are. I think it's important to really focus in on metrics that tell you something useful and hopefully, tell you something leading, not lagging.
Adrienne: What might be – I mean, I love the whole leading/lagging indicators. I think that we don't actually pay enough attention to any of those indicators. What might be some leading indicators for financial services? Not necessarily Morning Star, but just financial services in general.
Jason: Yes, lots of normal ones that apply across product categories. Customer adoption, customer satisfaction, things that might not translate into lots of customers today, but the further you go towards how new people are using your product. The big issue any existing product has, right, is that they may look like they're very profitable and very successful, but actually are doing a really bad job at winning over new customers. What's important is, as a business grows, the marginal customer they acquire is les excited about what you do.
When you have a startup and it's the first 100, whatever, customers, they're the people who really love what you're doing. As you get bigger and bigger and bigger, each marginal customer is less likely to like what you're doing because you've done a really good job at winning over all the ones that love what you're doing. It's really important to understand, if the product is actually satisfying those people, and I think that can tell you a lot. I like to talk about thinking about your pre-customers, or those who are not yet your client.
Existing businesses spend a lot of time, and we're on a podcast, I'm going to pretend that I'm looking behind me, I think they spend a lot of time looking at their, internally, looking at their existing customer and saying, we have to keep them very delighted. I think that's true if you have a dominant market position and have most of the customers already signed up. That's not true of most businesses. Most businesses aren't Telstra. If you're Telstra, what you need to worry about is keeping all of your mobile phones.
Adrienne: Retention.
Jason: Retention. That matters. If you're at Maysim, you need to worry about signing up new people. It doesn't matter, it matters how happy your existing clients are, but you want to worry about those marginal ones. That would be one I'd focus on for sure.
Adrienne: Excellent. Thank you. You're a product leader, do your product managers pay attention to the numbers, as well, or is it more of a senior role to pay attention to numbers?
Jason: I'm not sure how any product person of any kind can do their job without having a sense of how they're going. That's really what metrics tell you, right? They tell you how I'm going? They're a way of quantifying something about what you're doing, so I think that's not about seniority. That's about the role itself. I do think it's incumbent on the more senior folk in the organisation to set clear goals and how to measure them for people.
I think it's very hard to expect someone super junior in an organisation who's new in an organisation to come up with every way to measure their product. That's absurd. The role of leadership is to connect up the mission and goals of the company with someone's specific role, but it's equally on that individual contributor to understand how they're going. That goes for beyond product.
Adrienne: Yes, absolutely. I completely agree. Part of the product manager role is to understand and be excited about how your product is performing. Once you do this reporting, from your point of view, who do you report these metrics, these numbers to, what do you do about them?
Jason: I'm a big believer in product transparency to the extent that that's possible within your organisation. My general view would be, be more open than closed. You need to report these metrics to lots of people. I think it is absolutely critical that the team themselves understand why metrics are being measured and what they are and how they're going. That's amongst the team. Then, often, really what metrics are about is reporting sideways and up. They're about keeping your stakeholders across what you're doing. I think open transparent and sensible metrics help drive trust. Trust lets you get your job done. We usually develop some kind of dashboard for any product that we have. Then we use that same dashboard for both reporting to stakeholders and the team, so it's all consistent. I think that's really helpful.
Adrienne: Excellent. A lot of our product managers that I come in contact with tell me that it's very hard to get the data to produce a dashboard, to produce a report. How do you go about it? Especially for new products? That's why people say they can't measure how their product is performing because they can't get access to the data, what are your opinions?
Jason: I think that's probably true. I think it's much easier to get the right kind of data if you think about it up front. I consider it a table-stakes part of building a product. If you think about a digital product, right, it's table stakes that a website loads in half a second or whatever it is. It's table stakes to me that a contemporary product has the ability to measure itself, built in from the start. I think the issue often occurs that people build things and then after the fact they're like, "It would be great if I could measure X." The problem is, often you need to have thought of that up front. I'd say it's in the inception stage.
I also just think that for any product out there, back to my earlier point about people trying to measure too many different things, you really need to distil down what are those couple of things that might swing the outcome of your product and go about measuring them. Often, it's a question of resources, it's a question of how do I go about measuring this? Start with the big metrics that matter. If I've looked at hundreds of financial models, typically, it's only a couple of things that swing the outcome. That's true of products. Narrow down the focus and then get it implemented. I sympathise.
Adrienne: Excellent. Well, thank you very much for your time.
Jason: Of course, it's been great.
Adrienne: I always enjoy talking to you.
Jason: Indeed.
Adrienne: Thank you for listening to Prod Pod. If you want to learn more about the wonderful shows on This is HCD, we've got others, such as the Power of Ten with Andy Polaine, Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion, and Ethno Pod with Dr. John Curran. Please visit: thisishcd.com, where you can sign up to our newsletter, join our Slack channel, connect with other human-centred practitioners around the world. Thank you for listening and speak to you next time.
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Poster Campaign for a political party
PLR GE
Enigma the communication agency created a poster campaign for an election campaign for a newly formed political party in Geneva.
At the time of the 2011 Swiss Federal elections, we were asked to create a poster campaign for our client. It had to be more than a call to vote for a candidate; the poster had to include the new political party that came out of a recent merge: the Geneva Liberal Radical Party (PLR).
We quickly decided to make two separate posters, one for the Parliament and one for the National Council.
The nine candidates to the Parliament were clearly members of the PLR; regardless of their prior affiliation, they were shuffled on the poster, so as to emphasize the merger between the Liberal and the Radical Parties.
They were presented in groups of three on small printed material, and all together in larger material.
Posters for the National Council
The poster for PLR candidate to the National Council, Christian Lüscher, was different. We showed him as a symbol of unity, and his party as a platform for the Right. We were inspired by a poster from Barack Obama's campaign to become U.S. president. There, he is shown alone in the foreground, but with his whole team in the background.
We took this idea for the PLR. Christian Lüscher is surrounded by his party, but also by Fulvio Pelli and the Christian-Democrat Luc Barthassat, his running mate to the National Council.
Multiple Media
The various versions of the poster were used in different media, such as cable cars, back of buses, small and large posters, or lit posters.
The poster with all the candidates was extensively seen and liked. The poster showing Christian Lüscher really stood out in comparison to the posters from other parties.
The results of the election for the National Council show an excellent progression for the PLR GE: indeed, with less than 2'000 votes, Christiant Lüscher would have been elected.
Find out an article about this poster campaign published in the Swiss newspaper.
STRATEGY Olivier Perez Kennedy
CAMPAIGN MANAGER Sophie Bolle
ART DIRECTOR Pascal Wicht
Strategy Olivier Kennedy
A Storify for Victorinox
A big online video contest


August | 2013 | Try No More – Go for it!
Very supportive quote. I will remember it in my soligare.
Yes. I need to hear this everyday. Read this everyday. Think this everyday. Do this everyday.
Why these superlatives you may wonder.
For many years I have been working as teacher in music with guitar as my specialty. Over the years I have developed new skills, added new fresh competencies in creative areas in theatre, music and drama. It´s a great job. Meeting young people, helping them to find their expression in the arts, is rewarding and sometimes I can miss it. But I have done that. Been there – done that.
So I changed. Six years ago I finished my teaching career to be one of two leaders for the artsschool where I have been working as teacher. For me, a big step and a big important one. Since then I haven´t touched my guitar. I have tried but stopped as I don´t find the pleasure.
After that I have been looking for new challenges within the arts, beeing creative is important for me, but what shall I do?
As I finished music I got a whole lottof time to do something else and this opening inside me has welcomed WRITING. THE WORDS. LE MOTS. Slowly, this new interrest, begins to occupy me. Occupy my time and space.
So. When I get this wonderful message – "You are accepted" – from the nearby university I understand that this comming year will be a year of writing for me. I have been accepted to attend a one year course in creative writing on university level. Good for me!
I need the change and when I open up myself to change, addresses my compass to change, my whole beeing goes in that direction and it works. It works so well. All I need to do is to open up, adress the direction, be open to what comes, accept what comes, follow the stream, avoid swimming against the stream, go with and I will come to a wonderful place. I am sure of this.
The reason for the beginning superlatives: I am happy for where I´m going. I look forward to the future. I don´t know what´s in there but I´m sure it´s something nice there.
There is more than I can imagine. What I imagine is just a small portion of the whole.
If you wish to follow me in this please do. I will tell you more as I keep swimming.


Although it is still cold outside, spring will be here before we know it and we will be transitioning into our spring wardrobe. If you are like most people, the thought of cleaning out your closet is a dreaded task. It needn't be a task that you procrastinate because it seems so overwhelming. Here are Ten Tips to help you prepare your closet for springtime.
Edit your clothing, shoes and accessories. If you haven't worn them in at least 2 years, get rid of them by selling, consigning or giving them to charity. Review your clothes that have missing buttons, stains and tears and set them aside to be repaired or to be discarded.
Organize your closet by categories. Group all blouses, skirts, dresses, jackets, pants, etc. together as a category and organize by color. It is much easier to pull together outfits if everything is in color order.
Fold heavy items that take up closet space such as jeans, sweaters and workout clothes and put them on shelves in your closet. Sweaters, especially wool, last longer if you store them in plastic bags which helps protect them from moths and other insects.
Take all dry cleaned items out of the bag and off the wire hangers and hang all of your clothes on the same type of hanger, such as wood or plastic. Return the wire hangers to your dry cleaner so they can be reused.
Store your accessories by category. Purses store best in hanging purse bags or on shelves while scarves work well on scarf hangers or in baskets. Hang hooks for items such as belts or larger totes.
Use garment bags for items not used often such as evening attire, furs, jackets or suits. Do not store leather in plastic garment bags as the plastic will dry out the leather and cause it to crack. Store fur in fabric bags to protect it.
Remove shoes from shoe boxes and store on slanted shoe racks or cubes designed for shoes. This keeps them in sight so that you will know what you have. Organize shoes by category as well and by season so that spring and summer are in one area, while fall and winter shoes are in another.
If you have limited space in your closet, store out of season clothing in another closet or space in your home, and rotate your closet each season.
Try to use your storage space in your closet for wearables and accessories and avoid storing photo albums, your children's artwork and other memorabilia in the closet.
Maintain your closet organization system daily, that way you won't fall back into a disorganized state and have to start the whole process over.
Jump in there, organize yourself and you may be surprised what items you find that you might have forgotten about. An organized closet will not only save you time, but also save you money!


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Malden Park methane gas leak may cost up to $2.6 million to fix
City council will be asked in coming weeks to spend up $2.6 million to address an troublesome methane gas leak at the former Malden landfill — now home to popular Malden Park and next to the John McGivney's Children Centre.
Dave Battagello, Windsor Star
In this photo from Nov. 7, 2015, the south parking lot at the John McGivney Children's Centre is closed by the Ministry of Environment due to a methane gas leak.	Dax Melmer / Windsor Star
City council will be asked next month to spend up to $2.6 million to address methane gas concerns at the former Malden landfill — now home to Malden Park and next to the John McGivney's Children Centre.
"It's a lot of money," said Paul Drca, the city's environmental quality manager. "It's a problem that needs to be addressed, but (is) expensive to fix.
"We are confident it may not be at the upper end (of the $2.6-million request), but we want to be prepared for the worst. Hopefully, if we can, it will be a lower cost."
Ontario's environment ministry first issued an order to the city Feb. 23, 2015 to address elevated methane gas readings that leaked off-site from the former landfill to a portion of the parking lot at the children's centre on Matchette Road.
The city finally closed off a section of the McGivney Centre's parking lot last November after detection of the gas in that location and hired Dillon Consulting to study the problem.
The lot was reopened in January, while discussions to fix the problem continued among the environment ministry, the city and Dillon Consulting.
City officials made plans to install a vapour barrier in the centre's parking lot and even closed a tender for the project. But followup discussions revealed the ministry was not satisfied with the plan.
Next month city council will instead be asked to spend between $1.3 million and $2.6 million to dig up and haul away decades-old garbage at the trouble spot adjacent to the children's centre parking lot.
The work, if approved, will take place next spring and should only take a couple of weeks to complete, Drca said.
Methane related to landfills can create an explosion hazard if the gas reaches sufficiently high concentrations — especially inside buildings.
The ministry last year ordered the city to conduct frequent readings inside the children's centre which have occurred every weekday. The city has "not detected any methane gas to date," according to an administration report on the issue.
City officials also said there have not been elevated methane gas readings anywhere else in Malden Park, aside from the levels in the trouble spot next to the centre's parking lot.
An report last week to city council's environment, transportation and public safety committee detailed the final price tag will vary depending on how much waste from the former landfill must be removed.
Clean fill will be used to cover the site, the report said.
The committee members approved a series of recommendations, including the expenditure, to address the methane gas problem.
"We evaluated different alternatives and came up with excavating as the ultimate solution," Drca said. "We will get rid of the garbage there generating gas and put the issue to rest."
The funds to pay for the unexpected project are being recommended by administration to come out of the city's capital budget stretched out over five years starting in 2017 to minimize the financial impact.
The environment ministry approves plans to address the methane gas problem and noted the city remains responsible for monitoring the children's centre and parking lot to ensure "continued protection of public health and safety," ministry spokesman Gary Wheeler said on Monday.
"We are supportive of the actions to be undertaken by the City of Windsor as outlined in their amended (agreement) and look forward to its implementation," Wheeler added.
"Ministry staff will continue to work with the City of Windsor to ensure human health and the environment remain protected and will continue to monitor the situation."
dbattagello@postmedia.com
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The User Consultation Platform (UCP) is a forum for interaction between users of position, navigation and time solutions and the organizations and institutions dealing, directly and indirectly, with Galileo and EGNOS. The attendants to this event are expected to be actual users of the systems, representatives of user associations (such as standardisation bodies and industry groups), regulatory bodies, and members of the value chain such as receiver and chipset manufacturers and application developers who with their developments influence the technologies used in the solutions. The main work of the UCP during day one of the event will be carried out in eight parallel panel sessions grouping users by market segment: Mass Market, Road Transport, Aviation, Rail, Maritime, Agriculture, Surveying & Mapping, and Timing & Synchronisation.
During the Plenary, in day two, each individual forum mentioned above will report their results to the Plenary via the co-chairperson elected from the user community representatives attending each panel to representatives from the EC and the GSA. The goal is to allow the decision-makers to take on board the inputs coming from users distributed across the individual fora, provide guidelines, and define objectives aiming at linking space to user needs.


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package org.apache.cloudstack.ha.provider.host;

import com.cloud.agent.AgentManager;
import com.cloud.alert.AlertManager;
import com.cloud.ha.HighAvailabilityManager;
import com.cloud.host.Host;
import com.cloud.host.HostVO;
import com.cloud.host.Status;
import com.cloud.host.Status.Event;
import com.cloud.resource.ResourceManager;
import com.cloud.resource.ResourceState;
import com.cloud.utils.component.AdapterBase;
import com.cloud.utils.fsm.NoTransitionException;
import org.apache.cloudstack.alert.AlertService;
import org.apache.cloudstack.ha.HAConfig;
import org.apache.cloudstack.ha.HAResource;
import org.apache.cloudstack.ha.provider.HAProvider;
import org.apache.cloudstack.utils.identity.ManagementServerNode;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import javax.inject.Inject;

public abstract class HAAbstractHostProvider extends AdapterBase implements HAProvider<Host> {

    private final static Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(HAAbstractHostProvider.class);

    @Inject
    private AlertManager alertManager;
    @Inject
    protected AgentManager agentManager;
    @Inject
    protected ResourceManager resourceManager;
    @Inject
    protected HighAvailabilityManager oldHighAvailabilityManager;

    @Override
    public HAResource.ResourceType resourceType() {
        return HAResource.ResourceType.Host;
    }

    public HAResource.ResourceSubType resourceSubType() {
        return HAResource.ResourceSubType.Unknown;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isDisabled(final Host host) {
        return host.isDisabled();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isInMaintenanceMode(final Host host) {
        return host.isInMaintenanceStates();
    }

    @Override
    public void fenceSubResources(final Host r) {
        if (r.getState() != Status.Down) {
            try {
                LOG.debug("Trying to disconnect the host without investigation and scheduling HA for the VMs on host id=" + r.getId());
                agentManager.disconnectWithoutInvestigation(r.getId(), Event.HostDown);
                oldHighAvailabilityManager.scheduleRestartForVmsOnHost((HostVO)r, true);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                LOG.error("Failed to disconnect host and schedule HA restart of VMs after fencing the host: ", e);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void enableMaintenance(final Host r) {
        try {
            resourceManager.resourceStateTransitTo(r, ResourceState.Event.InternalEnterMaintenance, ManagementServerNode.getManagementServerId());
        } catch (NoTransitionException e) {
            LOG.error("Failed to put host in maintenance mode after host-ha fencing and scheduling VM-HA: ", e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void sendAlert(final Host host, final HAConfig.HAState nextState) {
        String subject = "HA operation performed for host";
        String body = subject;
        if (HAConfig.HAState.Fencing.equals(nextState)) {
            subject = String.format("HA Fencing of host id=%d, in dc id=%d performed", host.getId(), host.getDataCenterId());
            body = String.format("HA Fencing has been performed for host id=%d, uuid=%s in datacenter id=%d", host.getId(), host.getUuid(), host.getDataCenterId());
        } else if (HAConfig.HAState.Recovering.equals(nextState)) {
            subject = String.format("HA Recovery of host id=%d, in dc id=%d performed", host.getId(), host.getDataCenterId());
            body = String.format("HA Recovery has been performed for host id=%d, uuid=%s in datacenter id=%d", host.getId(), host.getUuid(), host.getDataCenterId());
        }
        alertManager.sendAlert(AlertService.AlertType.ALERT_TYPE_HA_ACTION, host.getDataCenterId(), host.getPodId(), subject, body);
    }

}

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De Rooy runs its activities in the specialized market. This requires profound knowledge from our drivers. De Rooy willingly invests in this. That is why we established the Academy. Experienced employees take care of appropriate training and introducing new colleagues in work.
Before you start working for De Rooy as a truck driver, you will attend two-weeks training course. It always starts on Sunday. If you come from abroad, you will have a room within the area of De Rooy. On the first day, you will have a chat with the instructor to get to know each other. An employee of the Human Resources Department will make a brief introduction. The training begins with a driving test which should show what should be paid particular attention to during the training course. If you pass the test, you will carry on with the training, i.e. you will attend practical and theoretical classes. In the course of the practical training, you will learn how to load and unload the cargo, e.g. trucks.
Apart from this, you will attend theoretical classes. Many subjects will be discussed there. For example, you will learn topography, and we will tell you to what things you should pay particular attention while loading and unloading the truck. You will learn everything about the operation of our board computer, prevention of damages, filling out the transport documents. With relation to all this, you will use the handbook included in the 'welcome set' which you will be given.
The training will be held from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. From Monday to Friday, you will attend training in loading and unloading of trucks. On Saturday, you will accompany the load master. You will also have a chance to see how experienced drivers work, and learn some tricks from them. During the final days of the training, a planner will clarify some issues, and you will be told which mentor will be appointed to you for the coming weeks. Theoretical classes will be taught in the evening during one of the days of the training. You will be provided with meals during the whole training course.
After two weeks of the training and if you get a positive grade, you will set off for the road with an experienced driver, your mentor who will accompany you during loading and unloading cargo at the client's. This way, after about six weeks, you will be able to drive by yourself with a dominating feeling of self-confidence.
If you want to learn more about work for De Rooy or our Academy, contact us, please.


Tokyo residents had good reason to be scared Monday morning. Thousands were told a magnitude 9.1 earthquake was imminent. That's strong enough to level a city.
But apparently it was a false alarm. The Japan Meteorological Agency sent out the alert and then immediately took it back. But it wasn't fast enough to stop weather apps from sending scary notifications.
An agency official said lightning may have hit a seismograph, causing the false alarm.
It wouldn't be Japan's first magnitude 9.0 or higher quake. A magnitude 9.0 quake triggered a tsunami in 2011 that killed 18,000 people.
That included this disaster-warning app, Yurekuru, with at least 5 million downloads to date.
The Great East Japan #Earthquake False Alarm 2016. We shall rebuild.
Once the error was realized, some tried to respond with humor.


text:
java_import Java::java.util.UUID

java_import Java::ee.ria.xroad.common.conf.globalconf.privateparameters.v2.ObjectFactory
java_import Java::ee.ria.xroad.common.util.CryptoUtils
java_import Java::ee.ria.xroad.commonui.SignerProxy
java_import Java::ee.ria.xroad.signer.protocol.dto.KeyUsageInfo

class ConfigurationSource < ActiveRecord::Base
  SOURCE_TYPE_INTERNAL = "internal"
  SOURCE_TYPE_EXTERNAL = "external"

  ANCHOR_FILE_HASH_ALGORITHM = CryptoUtils::DEFAULT_ANCHOR_HASH_ALGORITHM_ID

  SIGNING_KEY_CERT_CN = "N/A"
  SIGNING_KEY_CERT_NOT_BEFORE = Time.utc(1970)
  SIGNING_KEY_CERT_NOT_AFTER = Time.utc(2038)

  has_many :configuration_signing_keys,
      :autosave => true,
      :dependent => :destroy

  belongs_to :active_key,
      :class_name => "ConfigurationSigningKey",
      :foreign_key => "active_key_id"

  validates :source_type, :presence => true

  # Return an existing or new record with the given source type, local to the
  # database node this instance is running on.
  # For new records, the node name will be set by a trigger function.
  def self.get_source_by_type(source_type)
    unless [SOURCE_TYPE_INTERNAL, SOURCE_TYPE_EXTERNAL].include?(source_type)
      raise "Invalid configuration source type"
    end

    if CommonSql.ha_configured?
      ha_node_name = CommonSql.ha_node_name
      return ConfigurationSource.where(
          :source_type => source_type, :ha_node_name => ha_node_name).first ||
        ConfigurationSource.create!({ :source_type => source_type })
    end
    return ConfigurationSource.where(:source_type => source_type).first ||
        ConfigurationSource.create!({ :source_type => source_type })
  end

  # Return all the records with the given source type, regardless of the
  # originating database node.
  def self.get_all_sources_by_type(source_type)
    return ConfigurationSource.where(:source_type=> source_type).all
  end

  def self.get_internal_signing_key
    get_source_by_type(SOURCE_TYPE_INTERNAL).active_key
  end

  def self.get_external_signing_key
    get_source_by_type(SOURCE_TYPE_EXTERNAL).active_key
  end

  def generate_anchor
    unless SystemParameter.instance_identifier
      raise "System parameter for instance identifier not set"
    end

    unless SystemParameter.central_server_address
      raise "System parameter for central server address not set"
    end

    if configuration_signing_keys.empty?
      raise "No configuration signing keys configured"
    end

    now = Time.now

    marshaller = ConfMarshaller.new(ObjectFactory,
        Proc.new do |factory|
          factory.createConfigurationAnchor(
              factory.createConfigurationAnchorType)
        end)

    marshaller.root.instanceIdentifier = SystemParameter.instance_identifier
    add_sources(marshaller)
    marshaller.root.generatedAt = ConfMarshaller::xml_time(now)

    anchor_file = marshaller.write_to_string
    anchor_file_hash = CryptoUtils::hexDigest(
      ANCHOR_FILE_HASH_ALGORITHM, anchor_file.to_java_bytes)

    # Although a single record is used as the base for generating the anchor,
    # all the records with the same type and an active key will be updated.
    # This is to propagate the new anchor to all the available nodes in HA
    # systems.
    # Assuming the clocks are kept in sync with NTP so the timestamp is valid
    # on each node.
    ConfigurationSource.where(:source_type => source_type).where(
      "configuration_sources.active_key_id IS NOT NULL").update_all(
        :anchor_file => anchor_file,
        :anchor_file_hash => anchor_file_hash.upcase.scan(/.{1,2}/).join(':'),
        :anchor_generated_at => now
      )
  end

  def generate_signing_key(token_id, label)
    key_info = SignerProxy::generateKey(token_id, label)

    begin
      cert = SignerProxy::generateSelfSignedCert(
        key_info.id,
        dummy_client_id,
        KeyUsageInfo::SIGNING,
        SIGNING_KEY_CERT_CN,
        SIGNING_KEY_CERT_NOT_BEFORE,
        SIGNING_KEY_CERT_NOT_AFTER)
    rescue
      begin
        SignerProxy::deleteKey(key_info.id, true)
      rescue
        logger.error("Error deleting generated signing key: #{$!.message}")
      end

      raise $!
    end

    key_record = ConfigurationSigningKey.new
    key_record.token_identifier = token_id
    key_record.key_identifier = key_info.id
    key_record.key_generated_at = Time.now
    key_record.cert = String.from_java_bytes(cert)

    update_attributes!({
      :active_key => key_record
    }) unless active_key

    configuration_signing_keys << key_record

    key_record
  end

  private

  def dummy_client_id
    Java::ee.ria.xroad.common.identifier.ClientId.create(
      SystemParameter.instance_identifier, "selfsigned", UUID.randomUUID.toString)
  end

  # Add all the configuration sources of the current type, representing
  # each available database node, to the XML of the anchor.
  def add_sources(marshaller)
    source_dir = (source_type == SOURCE_TYPE_INTERNAL) \
      ? SystemProperties::getCenterInternalDirectory \
      : SystemProperties::getCenterExternalDirectory

    ha_configured = CommonSql.ha_configured?

    ConfigurationSource.get_all_sources_by_type(source_type).each do |source|
      source_xml = marshaller.factory.createConfigurationSourceType
      central_server_address = nil
      if ha_configured
        central_server_address = SystemParameter.where(
          :key => SystemParameter::CENTRAL_SERVER_ADDRESS,
          :ha_node_name => source.ha_node_name).first.value
      else
        central_server_address = SystemParameter.where(
          :key => SystemParameter::CENTRAL_SERVER_ADDRESS).first.value
      end
      source_xml.downloadURL =
        "http://" + central_server_address + "/" + source_dir
      source.configuration_signing_keys.find_each do |key|
        source_xml.getVerificationCert.add(key.cert.to_java_bytes)
      end
      marshaller.root.source.add(source_xml)
    end
  end
end


Hi all! Today is the big Design Team announcement over at Amelia & Me Crafts and my mug is part of the lucky crafty talent. I am super excited to be on this team since it is a blog/online store that is dedicated for Silhouette Cameo and American Crafts product lovers obsessed. Yes, they are an authorized retailer for both Silhouette and American Crafts products! Does it get any better than that? Head over and meet this amazing group of talent and see what amazing products are available! Also be sure to LIKE them on FACEBOOK! You will not want to miss all the fun happening over there!
Since we are on the subject of my love for my Silhouette and being on a team that celebrates all that is wonderful about that amazing piece of crafty engineering, here is how I dressed up some homemade jam I made yesterday from strawberries we hand picked on Monday with my kiddos for my youngest birthday. I thought it would be a fun way to give thank you notes to those who have shared in celebrating with a very special little lady turning four with the strawberries she picked.
All I did was break down Lori Whitlock's Circle Banner (can be found via Silhouette store) and add color and a cute sentiment. I then used the pint and cut feature, added a button and some CTMH burlap twine and cute fabric and called it done! The hardest part to all of this was making the jam!
Thanks for sharing a piece of "berry good news" pie with me!
Posted in DIY, Silhouette, Silhouette Cameo, Uncategorized and tagged amelia & me crafts, American Crafts DIY, crafts, homemade jam, Lori Whitlock, Silhouette, thank you gifts. Bookmark the permalink.
Hi all and happy Friday! I am super excited to share a fun and VERY easy banner I recently made for a birthday party of a close family friend. The theme was what any six-year-old little girl would want, Rainbows and Unicorns! I wish I could say I came up with this idea on my own, but with time not being my friend, I pulled inspiration from this amazing banner I found on PINTEREST! Thank goodness for Pinterest!
I actually dusted off my Circut to make the banner bases and letters with the Storybook cart, but the star of the show came from Miss Kate Cuttables over at the Silhouette Store. I ended up un-grouping and filling each layer with color and then grouping the colored layers back together. I set the cut to OUTLINE only and then ran through the printer and cut.
I punched holes at the top and secured with some American Craft ribbon, added some stickles, gems and a couple rainbow stickers and called it done in about an hour.
I love when time-pressed projects come together like this one did. I happened to be over at my friend's house this week and saw the banner hanging in her little girls room… now that made me smile and made me love my hobby passion more!
Thanks for sharing a piece of "girls are made of rainbow and unicorn magic" pie with me.
Posted in Cricut Cartridge: Storybook Cricut Cartridge, Silhouette, Silhouette Cameo, Uncategorized and tagged crafts, Criuct, DIY, Little Girl Birthday ideas, Miss Kate's Cuttables, papercrafting, rainbow banners, Silhouette, unicorn and rainbow banners, unicorn and rainbow birthday banners, unicorn banners. Bookmark the permalink.
Wrangling Up Some Father's Day Fun!
Yay it is FCCB Monday! Today we are having a great challenge full of Father's Day inspirations! Head over and check out what the team has cooked up and LINK up a fun Father's Day Project using at least ONE Cricut cut. Here is what I came up with for my own dad using a 7 inch jar cut from Doodlecharms and the AMAZING paper line from Carta Bella designed by Samantha Walker – Giddy Up on a wooden plaque.
I cut the picture via print and cut feature on my Silhouette and inked the edges. Using CTMH Slate and Chocolate ink, I inked the jar, wooden edges, and paper. I wrapped the jar with Hemptique Hemp Cord and added button. I also added a brad I found via Pick Your Plum and additional buttons.
Layering this paper was so fun and the sticker sentiments are just a kick in the pants! I added some push pin embellishments I got from Pick Your Plum.
This was a fun project to make and I know that my Daddio will love this! Now be sure to head over to FCCB and join the party!
Thanks for sharing a piece of "getting my giddy up on" pie with me.
Posted in Cricut Cartridge: Doodlecharms, FCCB(Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog) Design Team Projects, Samantha Walker Designs, Silhouette and tagged Carta Bella, crafts, Cricut, DIY, father's day crafts, Father's Day Ideas, Pick your Plum crafts, Samantha Walker Giddy Up Designer paper, Silhouette. Bookmark the permalink.
Happy Wednesday! Today over at Decorate to Celebrate do you have a fun challenge that will help bring smiles to educators! It is a teacher gifts or classroom party challenge. How perfect is that? It is getting to the end of the year and many of you all will have to start coming up with ideas for your kiddo's teacher and class room celebrations! The design team has a ton of amazing inspirations to glean ideas from!
Here is what I cooked up. I am a 100% germ-a-phobe. I think being so sick for all nine months during both of my pregnancies made it worse, so the thought of the stomach flu hitting our house just sends me into the fetal position. Having teacher friends that teach in elementary school settings, they are about as bad as me, so I decided that any teacher of small children would love to receive this instead of the traditional apple.
This was actually so easy to make! I cut down some designer paper from Stampin' Up and used my ATG to adhere it to the bottle of hand sanitizer. I then took some ribbon and wrapped it around the bottle and used a Glue Dot to fasten it to the front of the bottle. Now for the fun part! Heading over the the Silhouette Store, I found this Lori Whitlock tag (Circle Banner) with the pennants on it. I changed up the size to be around 3 inches around and changed up the colors of the tag layers and pennants. I then added the little saying I made up using a font I found at the Silhouette Store. I grouped together everything and printed out on my color printer and then cut out on my Silhouette!
How easy was that? You could whip out a ton of these babies in no time flat! Head over to DTC and check out the inspirations and LINK up your own teacher gift/class room party idea! I can't wait to see what you have cooked up!
Thanks for sharing a piece of "keeping the cootie monsters at bay" pie with me!
Gotta Create – Wildly Original Linking Party!
Posted in Decorate to Celebrate, Silhouette, Silhouette Cameo and tagged crafts, DIY, end of year gifts for teachers., Lori Whitlock, paper crafting, Silhouette, Stampin' Up projects, tags, teacher gift ideas. Bookmark the permalink.
I made this for a dear friend who just celebrated the "birth day" of her #5 ! I am hoping I can trade this and a meal for a sweet babe snuggle time party!
Thanks to my Silhouette Cameo, this was a snap to make. I created the subway art using various fonts and positions and then made sure all were outside cuts and grouped together. I then cut it out on vinyl I scored from Pick Your Plum! I burnished it on transfer tape and then burnished on to the finished canvas.
For the canvas, I wanted to do some bright colors that did not scream B-A-B-Y! I painted the canvas bright yellow and then found a Silhouette chevron cut file! I cut that on standard white 12×12 card stock and then using a sponge, I sponged the red paint on the canvas using the chevron cut as a stencil. Once that was finished and dried, I headed down to the hubs workshop and hit canvas with a power sander to dull and distress. Once that was done, I added the vinyl.
Now be sure to head over to Decorate to Celebrate and check out the fun inspirations the design team has cooked up (word has it, we have some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G guest designers this challenge) and LINK up your fun Baby Shower project!
Thanks for sharing a piece of "babies make you want to decorate to celebrate" pie with me!
Posted in Decorate to Celebrate, Silhouette, Silhouette Cameo and tagged Baby gift ideas, baby room decor, baby shower gift ideas, canvas projects, chevron projects, crafting, crafts, DIY, Pick Your Plum, Silhouette, spinkle shower ideas, subway art, vinyl, word collages. Bookmark the permalink.


Got your tickets yet for the UK premiere of Rothschild & Sons, a musical by Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway legends Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick? After success in New York, the show gets its UK premiere tonight (29 January 2018). Check out our first-look photos of Broadway stars Robert Cuccioli, Glory Crampton and the London cast in action – and get booking!
Rothschild & Sons is the uplifting, universal story of Mayer Rothschild, his wife and sons, who despite being trapped behind ghetto walls, dream of a day when they are no longer locked in or anyone like them locked out. This re-imagined musical was inspired by the book The Rothschilds by Frederic Morton and includes several never-before-heard songs in its UK premiere.
Mayer Rothschild is an ambitious young merchant in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, Germany, anxious to make something of himself in a world that openly despises Jews. He marries, has five sons, and ultimately, by use of his quick wit and perseverance, transforms his family into an international banking empire serving the royal courts of Europe. But Mayer's main objective is to see the ghetto walls torn down before he dies, and for this, he, his wife and his sons, are prepared to risk everything.
The cast of Broadway and West End actors is led by Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli as Mayer and Glory Crampton as Gutele, roles they created in the 2015 New York premiere of Rothschild & Sons, and School of Rock's Gary Trainor as Nathan Rothschild. They're joined in the cast by David Delve, Richard Dempsey, Tom Giles, Tom Lloyd, Kris-Marc Joseph, Joanna Strand, Tony Timberlake and Stephen Webb.
Rothschild & Sons is written by Broadway songwriting legends Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me) and Tony-nominated writer Sherman Yellen. It's directed by Jeffrey B Moss, with musical direction by Ben van Tienan, choreography by Denis Jones, costumes by Pam Tait, lighting by Jack Weir, video and projection by Louise Rhoades-Brown. It's produced by Arnold Mittelman.
Rothschild & Sons runs at London's Park Theatre from 24 January to 17 February 2018, with performances Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday matinees at 3pm. Mates co-founder Terri Paddock hosts a post-show Q&A with lyricist Sheldon Harnick and the cast on Tuesday 30 January. Tickets are priced £18.50-£29.50. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!


That's only the first of three surprises, though. Next, was the difference between the expected level of interest in one topic relative to the other was just as great. My answer pertained to a man who rescued a dog from apparent cruelty, and this blog is about the source of the world's most pressing problems (old and dusty as it may be).
Sorry if the heading reads a little funny; I haven't been the same since being knocked out cold by the group of belligerent demons that invaded my home to hurt Scratchen, Fish and the Other Fish a couple of nights ago during the latest period of demonic activity (I'm confident everyone on earth knows of which I speak).
The source code repository is available at GitHub.
Partners are selected according to the number of users who read their answers and on the rating given by users' based on their perceived quality or usefulness.
...but, I doubt it helped.
Around 7:55 AM EST, Scratchen arrived at the same emergency clinic that treated her for congestive heart failure [seeThe Door, The Cross and The Cat]; less than an hour later, she was transported to another clinic, IndyVet, for a neurological examination.
Presently, the clinic is pressuring me to spend more and more money, and is delaying the treatment I've already paid for pending my acquiescence to more expenditures.
Cloaked molecules relative to surrounding molecules not only differ in translucency, but also in their comparative rate of time flow. They are no different fundamentally, but they form a group that limits their interaction with non-cloaked molecules.
The following post is about Scratchen, my cat. Before you ask something stupid like, WTF does this have to do with demons?!—like one person in a Facebook group to which I post links to this blog, in fact, did—consider how you'll look to those who made a remedial effort to know WTF where you made none: lazy, pointless, hate-filled and uncompelled by a world-sized factory of motivation.
Point being is, read all the posts about Scratchen, and figure it the F out before you open your F mouth, MF.
Third point, while I'm on a roll: until your cat traverses time and space for you, I'll decide WTF is and WTF isn't.


SOLE opened its doors to prospective students, parents, and interested community members with an open house featuring tours, food, and a chance to talk to teachers and students about our program. Despite the inclement weather, we had a lively event. A huge thanks to our amazing student and parent volunteers for their hard work representing our school with spirit and enthusiasm.
If you're interested in attending SOLE next semester, sign up for one of our registration dates!


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M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion
Currier Museum of Art
Manchester NH, USA
M.C. Escher created intricate geometric drawings and prints of spaces that can only exist on paper and in the viewer's mind. His images continue to boggle the eye and the brain, captivating viewers more than 40 years after his death. In Escher's world, stairways are built upside-down, water runs uphill and every object is reproduced with mathematical precision.
This Escher retrospective is one of the largest and most comprehensive ever offered in the United States. Its exclusive New England showing at the Currier Museum of Art contains his best-known works of art, early family portraits, original preparatory sketches and mezzotints he created, and one of the of lithographic stones he used to print a later work.
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