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Home » HPC Hardware » Compute » Intel Brings Bigger Guns to AMD Server Chip War
Intel Brings Bigger Guns to AMD Server Chip War
January 30, 2012 by Rich Brueckner Leave a Comment
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author
Analysis If you want to get into the server processor racket, here's some advice: Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. And when you whip out your guns, you better have a piece stashed in each of your boots, maybe another high-caliber rifle on your back, and a few knives while you are at it for price-cutting when the bullets run out.
With Intel getting ready to launch its "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 processors in March and revving up its 22 nanometer processes to eventually field "Ivy bridge" kickers, Advanced Micro Devices is going to have to engineer some pretty impressive new Opteron server chips. It'll have to cook up those chips pretty sharpish, in conjunction with its wafer-baking partners, if it hopes to gain ground in the ongoing x86 server chip war – much less hold the hard-fought ground it has attained in high performance computing and server virtualization.
Everybody loves an underdog and most people like to see a bully take one on the chin and go down to his knees. So a lot of companies were rooting for AMD as it was designing the Opteron processors and trying to build an ecosystem of server vendors who would peddle machines based on them in the early and middle 2000s.
Back in the early 2000s, Intel was trying to protect its high-end 64-bit Itanium server business and push its Xeon processors down into the 32-bit volume server space, and AMD brilliantly shot the gap between the Xeon and Itanium to create the 64-bit Opterons, eventually pushing its server market share as high as 25 per cent.
But it has been a long time since x86 server chip juggernaut Intel was hammered – SledgeHammered, to be specific – by longtime rival AMD with its 64-bit, low-power, multicore Opteron processors. Intel shifted to the Core microarchitecture, added 64-bit memory addressing and processing, and a slew of key features such as the QuickPath Interconnect to its Xeon processors and hit back hard against the Opteron upstart. The "Nehalem" Xeon architecture announced in 2009 had everything that Opterons had, and when the Great Recession hit just in the wake of yet another Opteron delay, server makers put most of their effort into build Xeon war machines, not Opteron battlewagons, and AMD has been losing ground ever since.
Because server chip profits help pay the bills at Intel, AMD, IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu, the loss of market share by AMD is one of the key reasons why CEO Dirk Meyer resigned in January 2011. In hindsight, we can also see that Meyer and the bulk of the management team that handles chip development and manufacturing have been replaced since new CEO Rory Read came aboard last July. AMD has a new CTO – Mark Papermaster, formerly of IBM, Apple, and Cisco Systems – and has replaced its former marketing, products, and operations bosses, and has tapped ex-Intel engineer Rajan Naik as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
So, AMD is no doubt drawing up new war plans for the x86 server battlefield, but the company has not said much to date about its plans. Perhaps it will enlighten us during its Analyst Day this week. But we can conjecture about what AMD might do by looking at what Intel is about to do in the x86 racket.
A Sandy Bridge not too far
While Intel never publicly promised that the "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors would launch last fall for shipments in the fourth quarter, the circumstantial evidence – and comments from motherboard and server makers like Super Micro – indicate that this was indeed the plan. But with AMD having its own issues shipping its "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 processors for two-socket and four-socket servers and its "Valencia" Opteron 4200s for single-socket and dual-socket machines, Intel did not have to rush to market. (The speculation is that a SAS controller bug similar to the one in the C200 chipset that delayed the launch of "Sandy Bridge-DT" E3 processors and various PC chips of similar design has been found in the "Patsburg" C600 chipset for the Xeon E5s. Intel has not confirmed this.) Frankly, with Intel turning in the best fourth quarter and fiscal year in its history, in terms of profits and revenues, as 2011 came to a close, despite a PC slowdown and whatever issues stalled the Xeon E5s, it is hard to argue that Intel made the wrong call.
Chip happens
Intel is just starting to talk to press and analysts under embargo this week about the forthcoming Xeon E5s, and it is no coincidence that it is doing so just ahead of AMD's Analyst Day. (El Reg is reporting this to you from coach on a Delta flight to Portland, Oregon, ahead of a briefing by Intel from its Beaverton chip and server development labs.)
As El Reg exclusively disclosed last May, the plan with the Xeon E5s is to take what would have normally been a chip for general-purpose two-socket workhorses and bifurcate the line into multiple processor and chipset variants to address very precise market segments. This is, of course, what AMD did two years when it created two different two-socket server families: the Opteron 4100s – which could also scale down to single socket machines aimed at small, power-sensitive workloads – and the Opteron 6100s, which could scale up to four processor sockets.
Anything AMD can do, Intel can do. (The market decides if Intel can do it better, or at least well enough to allow IT managers to fall back on the "nobody ever got fired for buying Intel" insurance policy.)
Intel is actually cutting its server market into eight pieces with the Xeon E5 launch. That's Itanium 9300s and Xeon 7500s and E7s at the high-end (and eventually the "Sandy Bridge-EX" E8s). That's two segments of the market that share chipsets and memory cards, but that have different motherboards and sockets. At least until Intel finally delivers, as it is rumored to be in the works, the long-promised common Xeon-Itanium socket. That could happen with the E8s, but it is far more likely to happen with the "Ivy Bridge-EX" Xeon E9s years hence. At the low-end, there's the single-socket Xeon E3 and Atom processors, depending on how wimpy or brawny your workload is. That's four addressable server segments in total.
The Xeon E5s will also span four different server types and will cover the middle and overlap with the high and low ends. The Xeon E5-2600, as the first of the "Romley" server platforms are expected to be called, will use the "EP" variant of the Xeon E5 chip that plugs into the new "Socket R" CPU socket. This socket is not compatible with the current Xeon 5500 and 5600 processors, but has all sorts of goodies, including two QPI links between the processors, support for unregistered, registered, and load-reduced (LR) DDR3 main memory, and integrated PCI-Express 3.0 controllers on the processor. This is the chip that Intel has presumably been shipping under NDA to selected supercomputer and hyperscale data center customers since last fall. This chip is clearly aimed at two-socket Opteron 6200 machines.
For two-socket machines that don't need all of these capabilities, Intel is expected to roll out its "Sandy Bridge-EN" chips, rumored to be called the Xeon E5-2400s. These chips will plug into the new "Socket B2" socket and will sport only one QPI link between processors as well as fewer memory channels, fewer DIMMs per core, and fewer PCI-Express 3.0 slots. This chip is fired directly at two-socket Opteron 4200 iron.
If the rumors are right, then Intel will also ship a variant of the Sandy Bridge-EP chip that will be able to span four processor sockets in a single system image. This chip is expected to be called the Xeon E5-4600 and is obviously targeting the four-socket Opteron 6200.
And finally, Intel will field a Xeon E5-1600 chip, aimed at single-socket servers and workstations and based on the Sandy Bridge-EN chip that will zero in on single-socket Opteron 4200 servers and whatever plans AMD has to revive its single-socket server biz with the Opteron 3000 series, which it said it was working on back in November. The first Opteron 3000 chip, code-named "Zurich" and presumably to be named the Opteron 3200 to be consistent with the 2012 series of Opteron processors, is basically a cut-down Opteron 4200 with six or eight cores that will plug into an AM3+ socket instead of a C32 socket.
In any event, Intel appears to be looking to chase the microserver segment with the Xeon E5-1600 as AMD is looking to pursue with the Opteron 4200 and 3200 chips. The word on the street is that the Xeon E5-1600 will plug into the Socket R socket, but it would make more sense for it to use the lower-cost Socket B2 socket.
Should all of this come to pass in 2012, it is safe to say that Intel has a weapon to match everything that AMD can throw at it – and then some. AMD only has one flavor of four socket machine, and Intel has three if you count Itanium. AMD has only two kinds of single-socket boxes it can bring into the field, Intel has three if you count Atom. AMD has two two-socket boxes, but Intel has four if you count Itanium.
It's Hammer time, again
It must have been such fun to run AMD when Intel's server and PC chips were misaligned with the market needs. It must be daunting to come into work every day at AMD and see the lead in process technology, cash, clout, and chip and market coverage that Intel currently has not just over AMD, but over anyone who is making processors for anything larger than a smartphone or tablet.
AMD has been clever in a lot of ways to survive the Intel onslaught despite being behind in process technology. With the Opteron 4100s and 6100s, the company had to do its own full platforms – chipsets and processors – for the first time, which is a lot of change to manage all at once. Moreover, with the Opteron 6200s, AMD took its eight-way server architecture, beefed it up with more and faster HyperTransport links across the CPU sockets, and then double-stuffed six-core processors into a single socket and convinced the software vendors of the world that this was indeed a four-socket, rather than an eight-socket, machine. For systems and application software that is socket-based, this little maneuver cuts software feeds in half.
AMD has also been winning the core count skirmish against Intel and positioning its two-core "Bulldozer" module used in the Opteron 4200s and 6200s as two strong physical threads against Intel's weaker HyperThreaded cores. However, with a shared scheduler, on workloads that make heavy use of 256-bit floating point instructions, half of the 16 cores in an Opteron 6200 will often sit idle and the net effect is that the performance should be about the same as the forthcoming Xeon E5 with eight cores running 256-bit floating point. AMD has two stronger cores, but only if you want to do 128-bit math or integer work.
So what is AMD to do?
Go back to the drawing board and exploit whatever weaknesses it can find in Intel's armor, just as always. Or, start a fight on a new battlefield where Intel is not going to be so strong.
Back in November 2010, two months before the management shakeup at AMD, the company said that its plan for this year was to bring out replacements for the C32 socket used for Opteron 4100 and 4200 processors and the G34 socket used with Opteron 6100 and 6200 processors.
The plan calls for the high-end Opterons, code-named "Terramar" and presumably called the Opteron 6300, to have 20 Bulldozer cores based on a next-generation core, code-named "Piledriver". The low-end will get the "Sepang" Opteron 4300, a ten-core chip that is essentially what gets double-stuffed into a socket to make the Terramar chip package. Rumor has it that AMD will boost memory capacity with these forthcoming Opterons as well as support PCI-Express 3.0 peripherals. The Terrarmar and Sepang chips will be etched in the 32 nanometer processes used by GlobalFoundries, AMD's spun out former chip manufacturing operations.
Presumably there is a process shrink to 28 nanometers to boost clock speed and therefore single-threaded application performance of these Opteron 4300 and 6300 chips in the works, but AMD has not said yet and will no doubt lay out its plans at Analyst Day this week.
As was the case during the Great Recession, now would be a particularly bad time for AMD to force a socket transition onto its smaller band of server customers, and the new management at AMD must be looking pretty hard at that roadmap, wondering if they can change as little as possible now to buy time to do a lot more radical engineering for the future.
If I were running AMD, I would be looking very hard at that "Bobcat" core that is the alternative to Intel's Atom and start thinking about servers, and also go back and look at the"Trinity" low-power Fusion chip, which is based on the Bulldozer cores.
When AMD was kicking Intel in the chips in the mid-2000s, Chipzilla relatively quickly (okay, it took years) shifted over to the Core laptop chip architecture for its PCs and servers and not only saved its chip business, but blunted the AMD attack. Intel has copied most of the ideas that made the Opteron better or different and is now using its wafer-baking process technology and its ability to set market prices to force AMD to compete mostly on lower price for roughly equivalent performance and features.
This is not an enviable position to be in for AMD, obviously. But there's always the ARM option, and AMD could do something radical like buy Applied Micro or Calxeda and turn the x86 chip war into a two-front war for Intel to have to fight. ®
This article originally appeared in The Register. It appears here in its entirety as part of a cross-publishing agreement.
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A black Bayern Munich player who was born in Vienna and is a regular in the Austrian national team managed to keep his cool when a politician assumed he was not a German-speaker and spoke to him in English.
"How do you do?" asked clueless Günther Platter, head of the state of Tirol, in English when greeting David Alaba at a training camp. The assumption was that Alaba was not from Austria.
Alaba, 19, who has a Filipino mother and Nigerian father, was born in Vienna and raised in the Austrian capital – he is often to be seen playing for his national team, and was Austrian Footballer of the Year in 2011, the youngest player to receive that honour.
Platter's effort at English was all the more embarrassing because he used to be Austrian interior minister – and his former ministry oversees sports in the country.
"I am, as one can see, no football expert, and would like to apologise for this faux pas," Platter said in a statement for the website tirol.ORF.at.
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Q: express.use in firebase functions I have finished Nodejs express app and I want to deploy it to Firebase functions when I run firebase emulator.
I am not able to reach my app.use routes.
I am able to reach
    app.get('/', (req, res) => {
         res.send('Heloo ti Invest4You doslo je dop app.js');
     } )

This is my index.js in functions
import functions from 'firebase-functions';
import app from '../app.js';
// // Create and Deploy Your First Cloud Functions
// // https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/write-firebase-functions
//
export const invest = functions.https.onRequest(app);

my app.js
import express from 'express';
import cors from 'cors';
import morgan  from 'morgan';

import rateLimit  from 'express-rate-limit';
import helmet  from 'helmet';
import mongoSanitize  from 'express-mongo-sanitize';
import xss  from 'xss-clean';
import hpp from 'hpp';
import path  from 'path'

import AppError from './utils/appError.js';
import companyRouter from './routs/company.js'
import userRouter from './routs/user.js'

const app = express();
app.use(cors());

// 1) GLOBAL MIDDLEWARES
// Set security HTTP headers
app.use(helmet());

// Development logging
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
  app.use(morgan('dev'));
}
// app.use(bodyParser({
//   json: { limit: '50mb', extended: true },
//   urlencoded: { limit: '50mb', extended: true }
// }));
// Limit requests from same API
const limiter = rateLimit({
  max: 100,
  windowMs: 60 * 60 * 1000,
  message: 'Too many requests from this IP, please try again in an hour!'
});
app.use('/api', limiter);

// Body parser, reading data from body into req.body
app.use(express.json({ limit: '250kb' }));

// Data sanitization against NoSQL query injection
app.use(mongoSanitize());

// Data sanitization against XSS
app.use(xss());

// Prevent parameter pollution
app.use(
  hpp({
    whitelist: []
  })
);

// Serving static files
// app.use(express.static(`${__dirname}/public`));

// Test middleware
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  req.requestTime = new Date().toISOString();
  // console.log(req.headers);
  next();
});
// app.use(express.static(path.resolve('../client/build')));

// app.get('*', (req, res) => {
//   res.sendFile(path.resolve('../client/build', 'index.html'));
// });
// // 3) ROUTES
app.use('/api/v1/companies', companyRouter);
app.use('/api/v1/users', userRouter);
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Heloo ti Invest4You doslo je dop app.js');
} )
// app.use('/api/v1/reviews', reviewRouter);

app.all('*', (req, res, next) => {
  next(new AppError(`Can't find ${req.originalUrl} on this server!`, 404));
});

// app.use(globalErrorHandler);

export default app;

My router
company.js
import express from 'express';

import {getAllCompanies, getOneCompany, createCompany, updateCompany, deleteCompany, likeCompany, newPrice, GetAllPrices} from '../controllers/company.js'
import { protect } from '../controllers/auth.js'
import { createNews, getAllNews } from '../controllers/newsController.js';

const router = express.Router();

router.get('/', getAllCompanies);
router.get('/ir', getAllNews);
router.get('/myAccount', GetAllPrices);
router.get('/:id',  getOneCompany);
router.post('/', createCompany);
router.post('/myAccount',  newPrice);
router.post('/ir',  createNews);
router.patch('/:id/likeCompany',protect, likeCompany);
router.patch('/:id', updateCompany);
router.delete('/:id', deleteCompany)

export default router;

I get local address
http://localhost:5001/investfouyou/us-central1/invest

and that gets me
 app.get('/', (req, res) => {
             res.send('Heloo ti Invest4You doslo je dop app.js');
         } )

but I need to get
http://localhost:5001/investfouyou/us-central1/invest/api/v1/companies

to access my router
I want to get to these two lines
   app.use('/api/v1/companies', companyRouter);
   app.use('/api/v1/users', userRouter);

Please help

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Q: Adding Jquery click handler to dynamically-loaded content My Rails app loads links to a page dynamically. I want to append an onClick action to those links.
The links are appended to the page properly, but the JS for the page is not being applied to those newly added elements.
I've tried rendering new JS tags to the dynamically-added content. I've also tried including this block of code, which should target any link with .select-link added to the #links div.
        $("#links").on("click", ".select-link", function() {
          my code here...
        })

That code works when the links are not dynamically loaded. However, I cannot seem to apply ANY onClick handler to them when dynamically loaded, even in the console.
What could possibly cause this issue?
For more context, the problem I'm trying to solve is here: AJAX-loaded JS not rendering

A: You should bind your event to document like this
$(document).on("click", "#links .select-link", function() {
          my code here...
});

A: Try following code:
$(document).on("click", "#links .select-link", function() {
          /*my code here...*/
})

or
$("#links .select-link").live("click", function() {
         /*my code here...*/
})

A: The thing is, the code which you have in the question does work for dynamically inserted content.
The following snippet has one
 which is part of the HTML and inserts two
 elements via JavaScript.
jQuery is used to add two separate click handlers.  The first handler is added prior to any of the dynamic content being added to the DOM. The second handler is added after the second
 is added, but before the third one is inserted. Both handlers are called for all three
. This demonstrates that the code you have provided in the question does work for dynamically inserted content.  That means something else is going on.

$("#links").on("click", ".select-link"
    ,logEvent.bind(null,'#links on .select-link','jQuery'));

function logEvent(text,type,e){
  var curTarget = (e.currentTarget.id)?e.currentTarget.id:e.currentTarget.nodeName;
  var target = (e.target.id)?e.target.id:e.target.nodeName;
  console.log(text + ' ::' + type + ' ::curTarget=' + curTarget
              + ' ::target=' + target);
}

function appendLink(id,text) {
    document.querySelector('#links').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend'
        ,'
'
         + text + '
');
}

appendLink('sel-pre-ready','Selected Link 2 (added prior to document ready)');

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#links").on("click", ".select-link"
        ,logEvent.bind(null,'#links on .select-link','jQuery at doc ready'));
    appendLink('sel-post-ready','Selected Link 3 (added after document ready)');
});

Not Link

Links

Not Selected Link

Selected Link 1 (HTML)

Without more information, spending a lot of time speculating on what might be causing the problem is just wasting time.
One possibility of what is happening is that another event handler is being fired for these events and stopping propagation. One way to (mostly) check for that is to add an event handler to the window on the capture phase (i.e. not using jQuery).  You could do so with the following:
//The following will catch the event prior to almost all possible
//  interference by other event handlers.
window.addEventListener('click',function(e){
    if(!$(e.target).is("#links .select-link")){
        return; //Not one of the elements we are interested in
    }//else
    //e.stopPropagation();
    logEvent('on window','Capture',e);
},true);


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Jackson family displaced after house goes up in flames
Mandy Hrach,
JACKSON, Tenn. — A family is left without a home after their house goes up in flames early Thursday afternoon.
Fire officials say seven people were in the house when the fire started.
"They came in screaming, get out, get out, the house is on fire," Shawn Fahey, who lives in the house said. "We just try to get everybody out."
Air thick with smoke hangs over H.C. Walton Drive at Hollywood Drive as firefighters work to put out the mammoth blaze surrounding what's left of Shawn Fahey's home.
"My 4-month-old grandson was in there, my 79-year-old mother is in a wheelchair," she said. "It was hard to get everybody out but we made it, we're O.K."
Fahey says she along with six of her family members were in the house when she says a power line fell on her carport.
Luckily, she says everyone made it out safely.
"It was coming across the front of the house, across the front door," she said.
Shae Glenn was studying at the beauty school across the street when she saw the spark.
She says she and two other students rushed to the home, banging on the front door to alerting Fahey and her family to the blaze.
"We were scared because it started so little, and then it just went so big," she said.
Fire officials quickly responded to the scene.
Batallion Chief Gregory Pewitt says it took around two hours to contain the fire.
"Now we are in overhaul, trying to protect any evidence that might be there," Pewitt said.
With most of her belongings gone, and no place to call home, Shawn Fahey says she is still counting her blessings.
"I'm just happy my family is okay," she said.
The family said three of their dogs went missing after the house caught fire, but they have since been reunited with at least two of them.
The blaze shut down a section of Hollywood Drive as officials put out the fire.
The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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Did you ever attempt to do away with an unsafe habits, just to fall short? There is an extensive list of normal problem habits that individuals frequently try to alter or do away with using self-hypnosis or NLP. The most usual are: Overeating and fat burning; stop smoking cigarettes; stop chewing tobacco; stop nail biting; enhancing self-confidence; overcoming insomnia and sleeping better; enhancing memory; and handling stress.
WHAT THE MIND CAUSES, THE MIND CAN CURE:.
The motivation for our behaviors begins in our ideas. If you stop and think of it, all of these unconstructive behaviors are the result of negative thinking. In shorts, you think and motivate yourself into all of these behaviors. Or a minimum of you think yourself into feeling anxious, and that can be the beginning of these behaviors. And in view of the reality that you think and encourage yourself into these habits, you can think and encourage yourself out of them. In order to think and motivate yourself from them, you will need to understand especially the best ways to tackle doing this.
You are almost certainly reading this editorial because you desire the inspiration to make some personal modifications. Which is fitting for the reason that the first foundation in the "Motivation Formula For Your Success" is that you must desire or want to change. If you have actually reviewed this far, at least a little part of you wishes a change.
BELIEF IS REQUIRED FOR MOTIVATION:.
Prior to anyone can remove an unfavorable behavior, that person should be inspired to do so. Simply wanting a behavior to change is not ample.
Our inspiration originates from the things that we think. If we believe that something crucial to us will get better or "become superior" if we alter our habits, then we will feel a high level of motivation. However, if we think that something vital to us will be placed in jeopardy if we don't alter our habits, we will likewise experience motivation to change our habits.
Some simple instances of these motivational beliefs would be:.
If I take some weight off, then I'll have the ability to find a companion.
If I kick my smoking cigarettes routine, then I won't need to worry about cancer cells.
If I stop biting my nails, then my hands will look a lot more appealing.
INNOVATIONS THAT CAN CREATE THE BELIEFS THAT LEAD TO MOTIVATION:.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming – which is generally referred to as NLP, offers techniques that have the ability to quickly produce the element of belief. You can research more worrying this by checking out the short articles "How To Get Motivated To Exercise Using Hypnosis And NLP" and "Motivation Theory – How To Quit Smoking Using NLP And Hypnosis For Motivation." These write-ups are both offered in my free of cost hypnosis research collection.
The dictionary meaning of the word "Decision" is making up one's mind / a decision or judgment. When you think a concept that offers you a powerful feeling of inspiration to make a change, you will feel forced to decide to remove an unfavorable habits. Choice is the trick that unlocks the door to compelling activity.
The dictionary specifies the word "Action" as an act or deed / to do or execute. Taking action means that rather than just fantasizing about making personal changes, you will really take actions to bring about your preferred modifications.
One of the many reasons that many people are unsuccessful at getting rid of an adverse behavior is because of what they state to themselves. Self-talk is essential due to the fact that consistently it is an important part of what triggered the unfavorable habits to begin with.
I 'd like you to think about this for a moment: Let us say that you wish to kick a cigarette dependency. The first thing that you are likely to state or believe to yourself is: "I'm not going to smoke cigarettes anymore.".
It is universal for individuals to tell themselves what they aren't going to do. When we tell ourselves what we aren't going to do, we are actually setting ourselves to do it!
Say the following to yourself: I can't see blue. I can't see polka dots… I'll bet your mind revealed you the color blue, and then it showed you polka dots. That's because when we inform ourselves exactly what we aren't visiting do, in order to make sense of it our mind have to make a picture of us doing whatever it is that we would like to stop doing. And when we imagine ourselves in a behavior, our mind forces us to produce that behavior.
In order to get rid of an adverse behavior, we have to first want or DESIRE to eliminate it. BELIEF is the element that leads us to MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION is the drive that leads us to DECISION. DECISION is the catalyst to ACTION. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a technology that we can make use of to help with beliefs, motivation, choices, and activities.
When we inform ourselves what we aren't visiting do, we make a mental picture of ourselves making use of the habits that we wish to modify. Which mental image offers us a desire to participate in the adverse behavior. So if we wish to abolish a negative habits, rather than tell ourselves exactly what we won't do, we must always tell ourselves what we will do.
To stop smoking say: "I can live without them.".
To remove cravings for high calorie foods or to stop chewing smokeless tobacco say: "I can live without it.".
To lower stress say: "I'm unwinded and calm, both psychologically and physically.".
To conquer insomnia state: "I sleep quickly, and rest comfortably throughout the entire night.".


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Q: java.net.UnknownHostException: host.docker.internal : AWS EC2 instance I am trying to run a docker container for a dockerized Springboot application on an AWS EC2 Centos instance. But I keep getting the following error :
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The connection attempt failed.
    at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:331) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:49) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.<init>(PgConnection.java:223) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:402) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:261) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.util.DriverDataSource.getConnection(DriverDataSource.java:138) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newConnection(PoolBase.java:364) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newPoolEntry(PoolBase.java:206) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.createPoolEntry(HikariPool.java:476) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.checkFailFast(HikariPool.java:561) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.<init>(HikariPool.java:115) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]
    at com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource.getConnection(HikariDataSource.java:112) ~[HikariCP-4.0.3.jar!/:na]

Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: host.docker.internal
    at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:229) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:609) ~[na:na]
    at org.postgresql.core.PGStream.createSocket(PGStream.java:241) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.core.PGStream.<init>(PGStream.java:98) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.tryConnect(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:109) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:235) ~[postgresql-42.3.7.jar!/:42.3.7]
    ... 59 common frames omitted

This is what I have in application.properties file :
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://host.docker.internal:5432/dbname

This is the command I'm using to run my container :
docker run -p 8080:8888 49bf6d3bkd9d

I'm fairly new to Docker and while I know that the cause of the problem is that " host.docker.internal" is an unknown host, I don't know how to fix it.


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Q: MapStruct mapper not initialized with autowired when debug I use spring boot 2.3.2 with mapstruct.
In a service class I have a mapper who have an autowired annotation.
@Service
public BillingService{

    private BillingRepository billingRepository;

    @Autowired
    private  BillingMapper billingMapper;

    @Autowired
    public BillingService (BillingRepository billingRepository){
        this.billingRepository=billingRepository;
    }

    public void getBilling(Long billingId){
        ....
        billingMapper.convertTo(...);
    }

}

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class BillingServiceTest{
    @Mock
    BillingRepository billingRepository;

    private BillingService bilingService;

    @Spy
    private BillingMapper billingMapper = Mappers.getMapper(BillingMapper.class);

    @BeforeEach
    public void setup(){
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
        billingService = new BillingService();
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBilling(){

        List<Billing> billings = new ArrayList<>();
        ...

        List<BillingPayload> payloads = new ArrayList<>();

        when(billingMapper.convertTo(billings)).thenReturn(payloads);

        bilingService.getBilling(1l);
    }

}

@Mapper(componentModel="spring")
public interface BillingMapper{
    ...
}

When I debug and I'm stuck in  getBilling method in BillingService Class, billingMapper is alway null;

A: You are using very strange configuration. First of all you have method returning BillingService that doesn't specify any return value so this would not even compile. I suggest following way:
@Service
public BillingService{

    private final BillingRepository billingRepository;
    private final BillingMapper billingMapper;

    // constructor with bean injection
    public BillingService(final BillingRepository billingRepository,
                          final BillingMapper billingMapper) {
        this.billingRepository = billingRepository;
        this.billingMapper = billingMapper;
    }

    public void getBilling(Long billingId){
        ....
        billingMapper.convertTo(...);
    }

}

Then you can configure your test like following:
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class BillingServiceTest {

    @Spy private BillingMapper billingMapper = Mappers.getMapper(BillingMapper.class);
    @MockBean private BillingRepository billingRepository;
    @Autowired private BillingService billingService;

    @TestConfiguration
    static class BillingServiceTestContextConfiguration {
        @Bean public BillingService billingService() {
            return new BillingService(billingRepository, billingMapper);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBilling(){
        List<Billing> billings = new ArrayList<>();
        ...
        List<BillingPayload> payloads = new ArrayList<>();
        when(billingRepository.findById(1L)).thenReturn(); // someResult
        when(billingMapper.convertTo(billings)).thenReturn(payloads);
        bilingService.getBilling(1l);
    }
}

@Mapper(componentModel="spring")
public interface BillingMapper{
    ...
}

Similiar configuration should work. Main problem is that you are mixing @Autowired with setter/constructor injection (don't know since your weird method inside BillingService. Also dont know why you use @Spy annotation when you are tryning to Mock interface. @Spy is used to mock actual instance, while @Mock is mocking Class type. I would stick with @MockBean private BillingMapper billingMapper instead if BillingMapper is specified as Bean in your application.


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The DPW is also responsible for installing all municipal water meters and maintaining the municipal water and sewer system. Water meters are read on a quarterly basis by DPW staff.
The Community Center Park Gazebo and Broadway Avenue streetscape, along with the many parks throughout the City are maintained by the DPW. It is their responsibility to make sure that the parks and other City-owned property remains well-kept.
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Frank Howell Seay (born September 5, 1938) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

Education and career

Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Seay received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Oklahoma in 1961. He received a Bachelor of Laws from University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1963. He was in private practice of law in Seminole, Oklahoma from 1963 to 1966. He was the county attorney of Seminole County, Oklahoma from 1963 to 1966. He was the first assistant district attorney of 22nd Judicial District of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1968. He was an Associate judge of the District Court of Oklahoma in Seminole County from 1968 to 1974. He was a judge of the 22nd Judicial District Court of Oklahoma from 1974 to 1979.

Federal judicial service

Seay was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on September 28, 1979, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma vacated by Judge Joseph Wilson Morris. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 1979, and received his commission on November 2, 1979. He served as Chief Judge from 1980 to 1996. He assumed senior status on September 25, 2003. As of 2020, Seay is the last judge appointed by a Democratic president to the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

Ada affair

Seay was instrumental in reversing the miscarriages of justice that led to the convictions of Ronald Keith Williamson and Dennis Fritz for the murder of Debbie Carter in Ada, Oklahoma, events that were documented in John Grisham's non-fiction book The Innocent Man. He is quoted as attaching to an epilogue of his legal opinion: "God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case".

Personal

Seay's paternal grandfather was a full-blooded Native American. Seay did not discover his Native American heritage, likely Cherokee, until after he was appointed to the federal bench. Nevertheless, Seay was the first Native American appointed to a federal bench in the United States.

See also
List of Native American jurists

References

Sources

1938 births
Living people
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
Native American judges
Oklahoma state court judges
People from Shawnee, Oklahoma
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
University of Oklahoma alumni
University of Oklahoma College of Law alumni

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Published: 2021 June 22, 2021
This moderated, live webinar describes the features and management of delayed injection site reactions following administration of COVID-19 vaccines.
PHAC: COVID-19 Vaccines Emerging Issues: Allergies and LDV Syringe Discussion
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To describe the features and management of delayed injection site reactions following administration of COVID-19 vaccines
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Democratic Party officials pick Scott Bennett to replace Mike Frerichs in Illinois Senate
Scott Bennett, a Champaign County Assistant State's Attorney from Champaign, has been selected to replace Illinois State Treasurer Mike Frerichs in the 52nd Legislative District seat in the Illinois Senate, and Bennett will serve the final two years of Frerichs's current term and intends to run for a full four-year term in the state senate in the 2016 elections.
However, Bennett's remarks before and after accepting the appointment from Champaign County Democratic Party Chairman Al Kurtz (officially, there were two people who were on the 52nd Legislative District Democratic replacement committee, but Kurtz had a majority of the weighted vote, so, in effect, he single-handedly picked the replacement senator) have me very concerned about what his voting record would look like as a state senator.
In a public forum held in Champaign last week where Bennett and the 11 others who sought the appointment were publicly vetted, Bennett publicly bashed Champaign, Urbana, and Danville, the three largest cities in the district that have the vast majority of the district's population, and claimed that he was seeking the appointment to serve the smaller communities and rural areas of the district, something which Republicans normally do as a coded way of stirring up racial resentment among voters:
"I bring that up because the 52nd District is more than just Champaign, Urbana and Danville. It also includes a lot of farms, and includes over a dozen small communities that have concerns and needs very different from its urban neighbors," said Bennett. "And I believe I'm one of the only candidates on this slate that understands the concerns and the needs of those communities."
Apparently, Scott Bennett thinks that he's responsible for representing a small minority of the district's population and not the entire district. It's worth noting that the entire district has 217,468 residents according to the 2010 U.S. Census, and Champaign, Urbana, and Danville combined have a total of 155,332 people, or 71.43% of the district's total population. To put that another way, Bennett thinks he's responsible for representing 29.57% of the district's total population, when, in reality, he's responsible for representing 100% of the people who live in the district.
Bizarrely, Bennett claimed to be conservative and progressive at once:
His background, Bennett said "is conservative, but I have a long history of working with progressive candidates and their causes."
Bennett's background is certainly conservative: he comes from a conservative family that also includes a far-right Republican state representative-elect, Tom Bennett, although it's commonplace here in Illinois for family members, even close family members, to have completely different party affiliations and political views, in fact, I have relatives who I disagree with politically on many issues, so just because someone has conservative relatives means absolutely nothing about that person's political views. Regarding Bennett's claim of having a "long history of working with progressive candidates and their causes", I want to make two points about that: Bennett never cited any examples of his history of working with progressive candidates and causes that I am aware of, and just because someone supports a progressive candidate for public office doesn't make one a progressive.
Regarding issues that Bennett views as important, education, which is indeed a very important issue in this part of the state, appears to be the issue that Bennett regards as most important to him:
"We are failing our citizens in so many ways," he said. "You invest in education. You make sure that we all have a fair and equitable chance at technology and training so that it shouldn't matter, your opportunities shouldn't be dependent on what Zip Code you were lucky enough to be born into. It's also to make sure we reinvest in vocational training in our high schools so those students who are interested in a four-year degree can still get job training so they can support their families after they get out of school."
That kind of statement on education policy could be used by virtually any politician of any political party and ideological persuasion. Bennett's remarks on education could describe a very progressive pro-public education policy, such as increasing funding for public schools, establishing a fairer formula for allocating state funds to local school districts, and holding schools, administrators, and teachers accountable based on curriculum and academic standards, not standardized tests. However, Bennett's remarks on education could describe a very conservative anti-public education policy, such as privatizing public schools, establishing charter schools and school vouchers, implementing academic standards that emphasize standardized testing and overemphasize career preparation, giving big business interests more control over education, and shaming and cutting funding from poorly-performing schools.
While Scott Bennett will be my state senator for at least the next two years, what his voting record will look like two years from now is a huge mystery, given that his previous job involved prosecuting criminal cases, a job that generally doesn't involve making public policy decisions, and he's given no real indication of what his ideological leanings are. I would strongly encourage Senator Bennett to hold public listening sessions in every part of the district over the next two years in order to better know the voters, taxpayers, citizens, and people of the 52nd Legislative District. I think that he'll find that the people of this district have very progressive values.
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Your most pressing and perplexing questions about writing answered here by Gotham teacher Brandi Reissenweber.
Writing Habits
When I try to write a description or a scene with a strong mood, I usually resort to clichés. For example, I wrote a scene of a character leaving after an argument and it had a slammed door and gathering storm clouds. I know these are trite details. How do I get beyond them?
I'm writing from the perspective of a character who is reserved. She doesn't show a lot of emotion. My last round of feedback called—overwhelmingly—for more development of character. How do I do this and, at the same time, stay true to her character?
I'm writing a character whose first language isn't English. In using English, though, he uses a lot of common phrases. My readers are taking issue with this. After a number of years in a country, wouldn't he pick up phrases like "that takes the cake" and "you're pulling my leg"?
I'm writing a short story that relies on recent real-life events specifically, the rash of mass shootings and the demise of the Twinkie. I'm concerned that while these might be relevant to readers today, they might be less so even a few months from now, when the short might actually find its way into an editor's hands. How can a writer keep current events like these fresh and meaningful to later audiences?
My question concerns the use of a foreign language in a novel. I am writing a spy novel with a plot that begins in North Korea and has American characters, including the protagonist, a CIA hired assassin. When the Korean-speaking characters are talking to each other, should I write the dialogue in Korean or do I write it in English? I have been writing the dialogues only in English as the book is, after all, going to be sold in the west and perhaps South Korea.
I'm interested in stories that are set in unique locations. I'll pick a setting, but then I can't get the hang of mixing in all the other important things, like character and conflict. Do I have to start with character?
I'm writing a novel about a family of seven. The novel is about the whole family, but I keep wondering if I should focus on just one character as the main character. Can a novel have multiple characters as main characters?
I use a lot of idioms in my writing because it seems to me that is how my characters would talk. I use phrases like, "she's slower than molasses" and "that fits her like a glove." Are these considered clichés? Should I avoid them?
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If I'm writing a passage where a character is thinking something, should I put the thoughts in italics?
This is a good question because one of the nice things about fiction is its ability to dive into the minds of the characters. Including a character's thoughts‑-so long as you're not violating the point-of-view boundaries of your story‑-can often reveal complexities, deepen the conflict, or help the reader better understand the situation.
There is no one right way to indicate what a character is thinking. The most important thing is to make it absolutely clear that the narrative has shifted into a thought. Italics are one option, but I think they underline the thought a little too blatantly, like this:
Maria sat at her desk, twirling her pen. Should I make the call now or wait until Monday so I don't ruin his weekend?
There's also something inauthentic about thoughts conveyed in complete, direct sentences, since the thought process doesn't really work that way, and italics imply that's what's happening. It's easy enough, and a bit smoother, to indicate the thought without the italics, as seen in these two examples:
Maria sat at her desk, twirling her pen. Should she make the call now or wait until Monday so as not to ruin his weekend?
Maria sat at her desk, twirling her pen, wondering if she should make the call now or wait until Monday so she didn't ruin his weekend.
At least, that's what I think.
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The so called Jubiläumsgrat (Jubi) is a very popular alpine climb near Garmisch in Bavaria. It connects the Alpitze and the Zugspitze by an 8 km long, very exposed ridge. Some parts of the ridge are equipped with a ferrata, but many parts of the ridge have to be climbed without additional protection. Although the maximum difficulty is only III- (UIAA), the very exposed nature and the length of the ridge make the Jubi a serious adventure.
Last weekend Jakob and I decided to do the climb in the direction from the Alpspitze to the Zugspitze. The conditions were very good spring condition, with mostly well compacted hard snow. I already did the Jubiläumsgrat in summer and early winter conditions (November) and the spring conditions are in my opinion the most pleasant conditions (if the snow is hard, the temperature low enough, and you like to climb with crampons).


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2014 expectations for the new look Buccaneers
Posted on September 7, 2014 by Ralph Phillips
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With the past two coaches the Buccaneers started their seasons going 3-13 behind Raheem Morris and 7-9 behind Greg Schiano. There are greater expectations for Lovie Smith as both previous Bucs coaches were new to the NFL as a head coach. Lovie has 9 years experience so it goes without saying that he should do better to start than the two previous coaches with no experience. An 8-8 season is the minimum that should be expected out of coach Lovie and the Buccaneers this year seeing as how Schiano did 7-9 in his first year. I would even go so far as to say that a 10-6 season is not out of the question. But without doubt this team should go at least 8-8.
The offense has no where to go but up. After finishing last season ranked dead last for offense, it is going to be pretty difficult to not improve on that record. I would expect to see us approaching the top half. Say around 20th at minimum.
Our defense is another matter. The defense in 2013 ranked 3rd in the league with takeaways. Lovie preaches takeaways so he is going to have to give us a first or second place finish in that category. Anything less will be seen as a digression.
The Bucs were ranked 17th in defense for yards allowed and 21st in points allowed. I expect to see both of those rankings increase upwards to a top 10 position. The Bucs also ranked 23rd in the league in sacks with 35 last year. I also expect to see that number in the top 15 at the minimum with 40+ sacks. We paid a lot of big money to defensive lineman to increase our sack numbers. Anything less than 40+ sacks will be a failure.
Lovie is trying to make this into a defense first football team like he did with the Bears. Our division has teams in the Saints and Falcons that can put up a lot of numbers really fast so it is going to be a challenge. It is possible that Lovie will fail to achieve the desired numbers in all of these categories but that will have to be balanced out by increasing the rankings in other categories not mentioned or this season will be seen as a failure. I do not think the Bucs fanbase will take to kindly to another season of losing. We have only had one winning season in the past 6 years. Now is our time to shine. Go Bucs!
Summary of expectations for the 2014 season
8-8 record minimum
20th or better offensive ranking
1st or 2nd in defensive takeaways
40+ sacks
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Senior spotlight: Highlands' speedy Sarah Sawhook selects Seton Hill
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 | 6:01 AM
Louis Raggiunti | For the Tribune-Review
Highlands' Sarah Sawhook pulls down a rebound against Freeport on Dec. 16, 2019.
Editor's note: Each day, the Tribune-Review will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. For more athletes' stories, visit TribHSSN.triblive.com.
At a time like this, with their lives stuck in an awkward sort of limbo, high school seniors could use something to look forward to.
Last week, Highlands' Sarah Sawhook made sure there would be plenty of game nights to savor in her future.
Sawhook committed to play basketball at Seton Hill. She said she liked the school's natural and health sciences department, which could help her on the path toward becoming a physician's assistant, and the school's Catholic faith, which matches her own.
She also likes coach Mark Katarski's up-tempo style. As a 5-foot-2 guard, she is all about leading the fast break and scoring from behind the 3-point arc.
"I might be short, but speed is my game," Sawhook said. "That's how I compensate for my height."
Sawhook, a four-year starter, led Highlands with 11 points per game last season. She was playing her best basketball at the end of the year, scoring 17 points against WPIAL champion North Catholic, 25 against Apollo-Ridge and 22 against Burrell.
A standout center fielder, she was about to carry that momentum into the softball season when the coronavirus struck.
"It's very different," Sawhook said. "It's disappointing because we practiced all that time, and we have a great team this year. We were expected to do a lot. With the coronavirus, it feels like we lost a little bit of touch with reality."
Sawhook uses a regular workout regimen to stay upbeat.
With her dad's help, she works on her shot and ball-handling on an outdoor court and takes batting and fielding practice on a softball diamond. She runs hills and climbs bleachers and walks her Husky around the neighborhood.
"There's a lot of different things you can do despite the limitations of the coronavirus," Sawhook said.
What's your best sports memory at Highlands?
My best memory was definitely senior night. It was very emotional because it was my last high school game, and practically all of my family members and friends were there to support me. I knew it was something special. There was an extremely large crowd, so everyone could feel the energy and the passion in the gym. We (played) Burrell. It was a very close game, and the score kept fluctuating between us and them taking the lead. Unfortunately, we ended up losing. Only three points, but we lost. Despite that, it was an unforgettable game because my team gave our best effort and we were very enthusiastic and motivated and supportive. I ended up with 22 points. It was a good game.
What's your best memory as a sports fan?
My family and I, in 2013, we went to 20 Pirate games that year because they were on fire, and that was like the first time they made playoffs in a long time. Out of the games we went to, they won 19 out of 20, so we had a pretty good record.
Who would you say is your school's biggest rival?
Either Burrell or Freeport. Local teams always seem to be our rivals.
Have you always wanted to get into the medical field?
I always like to help people. I'm trying to be a physician's assistant, but that's not until graduate school. I'm trying to get a bachelor's degree in something similar. I'm looking at nutrition or nursing. I think nursing would be good, just in case I don't make the physician's assistant program. I could be a nurse or even a nurse practitioner, maybe get my master's in nursing in the future.
If you could pick anyone to give a commencement speech at your graduation, who would it be?
My dad. He's a great speaker. He's very outgoing, and he's a great motivator. He's very confident, and he believes in me, even when I'm down.
If you were asked to give a speech, what advice would you give to underclassmen?
No matter what you do, make sure you always give your full effort. Time goes by very quickly. Specifically in sports, don't take any practices or games for granted. Especially with the coronavirus. It teaches athletes that upcoming practices or games are never guaranteed.
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Seven were killed in the bombing at the cafeteria on the Hebrew University campus, two of them students from the Pardess Institute where I have led tours. I knew Ben from many of the outings as a dedicated Jew and Zionist who participated in the Pardess program to educate himself as much as possible and from what I understand he was then planning to pass on this knowledge to others. Marla's picture I recognized on TV, I apparently had met her a few years before. Add this to the fact that just over a month ago, Boaz Aluf who I know from 20 years ago was killed in the Gilo bus bombing.
The two Pardess participants had just finished taking a Hebrew exemption test at Hebrew University and were sitting with many foreign students having lunch when murdered by the Hamas. There were demonstrations of elation and joy in the Gaza Strip, but not in the West Bank where most are under curfew.
Simultaneously with the attack, the State Ombudsman's Office released an extremely critical report concerning the lack of development of the much discussed West Bank buffer zone. The government decision is barely being implemented. Terrorists are getting through despite the best efforts of the army and police and apparently support and morale for bombings and suicide/homicide missions remains high among the Palestinian population.
Establishing a buffer zone to ensure the maximum security possible should be at the head of the government's list of 'Things to Do' but unfortunately political dickering between Left and Right (as to how, what and where) and supposed funding problems are impeding the best efforts of the security forces.
A true defensive separation must be established between Israel and the Palestinians. This does not mean removing settlements, nor building a complete fence, nor marking a final boundary. It does mean stopping murderers during a 'no peace' terrorist onslaught interim situation. The security forces know what to do but they must be given the directives and the financing.
The implementation of such a separation must take place immediately.


By Karen M. Davis, For the Express-News Dec. 23, 2015 Updated: Sep. 4, 2016 4:55 p.m.
Moises Ortiz and Christopher Hoffman were living in a 4,200-square-foot house on the North Side three years ago when they decided they wanted to downsize. They knew they wanted to live in the cultural heart of the city.
They looked at a variety of offerings downtown before settling on the Vistana, a high-rise apartment building on Santa Rosa Street near El Mercado. Now, they have an 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom apartment with killer views of downtown. And their luxuriously decorated space makes downsizing look easy.
The apartment's design is sleek and modern, with exposed sprinkler pipes and air conditioning ducts, olive-colored walls, stained concrete floors and a wall of windows facing east toward downtown. But Ortiz and Hoffman didn't let that define their décor.
"We've taken a modern space and made it a home with traditional furnishings," Hoffman said.
Downsizing to an apartment less than half the size of their previous house was a challenge for Moises Ortiz and Christopher Hoffman, but careful planning helped them create the home they wanted. Here are their tips for moving to a smaller space.
"Come to terms with the fact that this is a paradigm shift, a life change," Ortiz said.
Be selective about the pieces you bring from your previous home. "They must have meaning for you," he said.
Don't rely only on your own taste. "Bring different sets of eyes — friends and loved ones — to look at the space and give you options," Ortiz said.
And don't be in a rush to finish decorating. "Don't put everything on the wall at once. Take your time and find the best place for each piece," Ortiz said.
The main area is open, with a living area, dining space and kitchen that flow into each other. While that's convenient for entertaining, the challenge was placing furniture to delineate the different areas, Ortiz said.
"It's all about learning to use spaces wisely," he said.
One example is a corner of the living area next to the kitchen, which Ortiz and Hoffman made a storage nook with a men's wardrobe chest that they use to store table linens, china and flatware. Another is a space under the windows next to the dining table where they placed two chairs and a round table to create a cozy reading area.
The dining table can extend to seat 10, and next to it is a display cabinet filled with glass objects that friends have given Ortiz and Hoffman over the years.
The living room is the largest space, with a comfortable, 7½-foot-long sofa in a tapestry design that faces the windows. A large, gold-framed mirror on the opposite wall reflects the living room and kitchen, and a wood bar with marble inlays in one corner offers plenty of space for serving drinks. An eye-catching chandelier was refitted with small silicone night light bulbs to look like candle flames.
The galley kitchen isn't large, but it has lots of cabinet space. The counters are black-and-brown granite, and in one corner is a ceramic cookie jar in the shape of a Chihuahua that holds biscuits for the couple's three Chihuahuas. The kitchen is separated from the living room by a raised counter — a great place to put food for serving, Ortiz said.
One of the three bedrooms is fitted up for guests, and another is an office/media room with two leather loveseats that were made to fit the space. The master bedroom features a king-size bed with carved posts, backed by a handmade Tuscan screen that was used to delineate a separate space in a previous home. Even though it's not serving that purpose now, "It goes everywhere we go," Ortiz said.
While they weren't able to use everything from their previous home, Ortiz and Hoffman kept the pieces they cared the most about, and used creativity to make them work in the new space.


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Actually, knowing Tim, shortening his username probably eliminated about three lines from his novel.
And I think it's beautiful that Ed is whining about "you young folk" when he's obviously much more immature than Fran.
Ed I can get a handle on – someone with a big front (hence his shades) and insecurities bigger than he is (yes, more than one insecurity going on with Ed). Cut down on the front and I see too much of myself in that person. Fran I've never liked, as she seems (to me) to act more like a device than a real person – she seems to do whatever the plot needs to have done too readily to hold a steady persona.
As for Victoria seeing stuff in Dave, remember that they're a year-round item. We just see them from October to the start of December, when Victoria enters NaNoWriMoWorld and Dave has to figure out how to last the month without her.
Tim is pretty much channeling how I feel about my novel right now D: Must. Write. All. Of. The. Days!
Good luck with your novel, firelord!
Glad you're enjoying the comic, Abbi!
I could never handle an overnight writing session. Errol is CRAZY.
Poor Tim!!!! He can do it!
I think he should definitely succeed. It's one of the hard parts about after NaNo. The post NaNo forum is usually buzzing about what should be done with the book when it's complete. Can Tim actually break the novel down into a trilogy? I'm sure Ed and Fran can help him with that part, especially since Fran is already done with her word count. I hope he does it!!! I'm rooting for him!
Have you gone on the forums for your region? There was someone from South London in my Camp Nano cabin this summer, and I know there are plenty of other people in England doing Nano.
Another Brit doing NaNo here (Milton Keynes), just go for it.
Potterhead — the others are right – go for it anyway! And there are always people in the forums to commiserate with….
Kate, so you think Tim should make it? Errol and I are taking votes.
Yes, I think he should.
Poor Tim! I guess shortening a pen name is a start.
Lol! Tim should try throwing his novel into the cage of dogs at Petsmart. All of the pages left after they chew on it, he keeps. 😀 I'm behind on NaNo (sadly) and am currently stuck for ideas. *sigh* I'll probably just throw in a dinosaur dream that I'll take out after November.


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Gabriel Fernández Arenas, més conegut com a Gabi, és un futbolista professional madrileny, que ocupa la posició de migcampista i juga a l'Al-Sadd SC Doha. Ha estat internacional amb les seleccions espanyoles inferiors.

Trajectòria
Format al planter de l'Atlètic de Madrid, a la campanya 03/04 debuta al primer equip, tot jugant sis partits. L'any següent és cedit al Getafe CF, on és titular. Retorna al conjunt matalasser, amb qui jugaria 52 partits durant les dues següents temporades.

L'estiu del 2007 fitxa pel Reial Saragossa, amb qui baixaria a Segona a final de la temporada. A la posterior, però, hi recuperen la categoria, sent el madrileny titular amb 35 partits i set gols.

El 31 d'agost de 2012 fou titular en el partit que decidia la Supercopa d'Europa 2012, contra el Chelsea FC a Mònaco, i que l'Atlético de Madrid guanyà per 4 a 1.

El 2014 fou escollit tercer millor volant defensiu d'Europa, segons un estudi de l'observatori del Centre Internacional d'Estudis de l'Esport.

Palmarès
Atlético de Madrid
 2 Lliga Europa de la UEFA: 2011–12 i 2017-18.
 1 Supercopa d'Europa: 2012.
 1 Copa del Rei de futbol: 2013.
 1 Lliga Espanyola: 2013-14.
 1 Supercopa d'Espanya: 2014.

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Futbolistes madrilenys
Futbolistes de l'Atlètic de Madrid B
Futbolistes de l'Atlètic de Madrid de la dècada de 2000
Futbolistes del Getafe CF
Futbolistes del Real Zaragoza
Futbolistes de l'Atlètic de Madrid de la dècada de 2010
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Went for Sunday lunch at this family-run tapas bar. The place is really Spanish looking with beautiful decor. We were greeted warmly by our friendly Andalusian host, who we chatted to for a while before placing our orders. We had tasty tapas starters of patatas bravas and salmorejo. We selected a good Spanish wine to go with the main event - a wonderful seafood paella that was really filling. Looking forward to our next visit to Viva!
We had a lovely family meal in Viva on Mother's Day.There was an immediate friendly atmosphere with the waiters establishing a rapport with the grumpiest 15 year old!The food was amazing value with the patatas bravas a particular hit.The cheese and meat board with quince was a meal in itself.Somehow we managed to squeeze in a pastel de chocolate- a perfect indulgence for Mother's Day while the accompanying hot chocolate brought a whole new dimension to this day of treats.I look forward to returning and trying the rest of the menu.
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Having never tried real tapas before, it's officially my new favourite food after trying Viva last night - our whole experience was just impeccable. The staff were incredibly accommodating, not minding one bit when two of our party cancelled last minute and allowing us use our voucher though it had expired two days previously. There was an amazing Spanish guitar duet playing all evening which really made it feel like you were sitting in a little tapas bar in Spain! The servers were all so friendly and good-natured as well as being really efficient. As for the food, everything we tried was absolutely gorgeous and the portions were very generous too. I would recommend trying Viva to anyone, and can't wait to go back myself.
Fab food was 3pm booking so not exactly buzzing service excellent. Deserts well worth indulgence!
Myself, husband and daughter came here in the new year. We loved the atmosphere and loved their menu choice for tapas - so authentic and really made us feel like we were back in Granada, Spain. Jugs of sangria were also delicious. Staff very hospitable especially since we were with our 6 year old daughter. Will definitely go back and have recommended it to friends!
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Researchers in Singapore develop a water-cooled air conditioner
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In order to further develop the education of international students, Jiangsu University provides scholarship for international students getting registered for English-taught degree programs.
● Only applicable to overseas students who take English-taught degree programs.
● The JSU Presidential Scholarship to graduate students will be renewed once a year after annual evaluation of the student's performance (awarded scholarship from second year may increase or decrease according to evaluation points). Refer to our website for more details on JSU presidential scholarship.
● Transferring of major by bachelor students who availed JSU Presidential Scholarship in the first year, shall be approved only after the student compensates the scholarship amount back to the university.
● Presidential scholarship graduate students who apply to quit JSU should compensates the scholarship amount back to the university before they receive the transcripts and other official documents.
● Age Requirement: Bachelor: under 25 years; Master Students: under 30 years; PhD Students: under 35 years.
● Not compatible to winners of other scholarships.