It's that time of year again to go back to school and work on developing an ulcer. School started on Tuesday and hasn't been too terrible for the most part, other than finding out I'm probably not going to graduate on time, but that's a whole different blog all together.
Recently I have been driven nuts by my hair. It's been SOOO ungodly hot in Missouri this whole summer, and having mid-back length hair adds to the heat. I started getting tired of spending so much time blow-drying and styling it. I decided it was time for a change.
I got impulsive and cut off 10.5 inches to donate to Locks of Love today. This is my 2nd time donating (last time I donated 15.5 inches.) I'm not sold on my new look, but it's hair and it grows back. So, here's my new soccer-mom haircut.
Me with my donation. I decided that hair is instantly gross once it's no longer attached.


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SYTYCD Season 7 – Top 4 – AdéChiké Must Go!
by Jeff | Aug 5, 2010
I've had enough of the dancer who can't lay it all on the floor, get emotional about his pieces and show some kind of real growth. As part of the judging panel on So You Think You Can Dance this week, Tyce hit the nail on the head when he said that AdéChiké should be knocking this dances out of the part and he just isn't and he rarely has across these weeks of competition. He was outdanced by both of his All Star partners last night–Lauren in the Sean Cheesman Afro Jazz number and Kathryn in the Desmond Richardson & Dwight Rhoden piece (and that's one he really should've knocked out because Desmond is one of his inspirations). Lauren and Kathryn both fully committed to the pieces and you could tell the dance and the music was flowing through them. While AdéChiké is technically good, until he can figure out how to stop holding back in the performance area he will not be a dancer worthy of this show, especially in the final weeks. It's very disappointing that America keeps passing him through (and since I do vote, I feel completely justified in criticizing the other voters…last night Robert got 30 minutes of voting from me because I think he's the one in the most peril of AdéChiké moves on).
Now that I've said my piece on that, let's talk about some dancing joy… last night's top three:
Lauren (Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo Argentine tango): Partnered with Pasha Lauren delivered an exquisite Argentine tango full of passion and fire. The way she bent her body for the lifts was incredible and fluid and the footwork was dazzling.
Lauren (Sean Cheesman jazz): Another stunning performance. This time partnered with Ade, Lauren seemed like a James Bond villain (a compairson one of the judges made that I completely agree with). This was very strong and powerful for her and the connection with Ade was just perfect. Hopefully this number makes the tour.
Robert (Napoleon & Tabitha D'umo hip hop): Once again NappyTabs delivers! Robert absolutely nailed this piece with Dominic. I had no idea that Robert could keep up with this All Star and he did so and then some. Of course, Robert delivered on the performance aspect as well. This is another dance I hope makes the tour lineup.
Here are the rest of the numbers (minus AdéChiké's that I think I've said enough about):
Group number (Tyce Diorio Broadway): What a disappointing number for the dancers to be stuck with in a performance show. It didn't showcase anyone's talent well and was another classic example of Tyce's poor Broadway numbers (he does other things so well, let's leave the Broadway to someone else).
Robert (Jonathan Roberts Viennese waltz): Simply gorgeous. Robert has really embraced the ballroom dances. Jonathan, one of my favorite DWTS dancers, delivered beautiful choreography and Robert and Anya absolutely nailed it.
Kent (Doriana Sanchez disco): I disagreed with the judges here. Kent's bubbly take on this number was right on the money. This was fun and peppy and a delight to watch. Kent managed to strike just the right amount of Kent-face here without going overboard.
Kent (Travis Wall contemporary): Stunning. It's to bad that I only do a top three because this deserved top recognition as well (as did the majority of the dances last night). Not only did Travis deliver his usual incredible choreography but Kent left Kent-face totally behind and dug deep into this performance. Where I thought Neil outdanced him in their earlier baseball routine, they were perfectly matched here. This was a great way to end the night.
If there's justice out there, the top three revealed tonight will be Kent, Robert and Lauren.
Results Update: Yes, I admit, I let out a loud "YES!" when Robert was announced as the final member of the top 3 and finally sending AdéChiké packing. I like this top 3 a lot and look forward to seeing what they put on the stage for the finale. Each of them is deserving. I suspect Kent will win because of the following he seems to have, but any of them will be an excellent choice. I'm on vacation next week, so I probably will be a week behind commenting on the finale (as much as I love the show, I can't see spending a night in to watch it while away).

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Sam Croome trained in forest management in Scotland, working in timber harvesting and renewable energy before heading to Canada for a friends' wedding. He got distracted and never returned. Since coming to Canada, he has not worked a single day in forestry. Instead, as a climber and a tower rigger in the telecom industry, he has got to see most of British Columbia. Sam always knew he wanted to own his own parcel of land, and having married a like minded soul in 2012, the stage was set.
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Q: Batch Processing on Kubernetes Anyone here have experience about batch processing (e.g. spring batch) on kubernetes ? Is it good idea ? How to prevent batch processing process same data if we use kubernetes auto scaling feature ? Thank you.

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Anyone here have experience about batch processing (e.g. spring batch) on kubernetes ? Is it good idea ?

For Spring Batch, we (the Spring Batch team) do have some experience on the matter which we share in the following talks:

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*Cloud Native Batch Processing on Kubernetes, by Michael Minella

*Spring Batch on Kubernetes, by me.

Running batch jobs on kubernetes can be tricky:

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*pods may be re-scheduled by k8s on different nodes in the middle of processing

*cron jobs might be triggered twice

*etc

This requires additional non-trivial work on the developer's side to make sure the batch application is fault-tolerant (resilient to node failure, pod re-scheduling, etc) and safe against duplicate job execution in a clustered environment.
Spring Batch takes care of this additional work for you and can be a good choice to run batch workloads on k8s for several reasons:

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*Cost efficiency: Spring Batch jobs maintain their state in an external database, which makes it possible to restart them from the last save point in case of job/node failure or pod re-scheduling

*Robustness: Safe against duplicate job executions thanks to a centralized job repository

*Fault-tolerance: Retry/Skip failed items in case of transient errors like a call to a web service that might be temporarily down or being re-scheduled in a cloud environment

I wrote a blog post in which I explain all these aspects in details with code examples. You can find it here: Spring Batch on Kubernetes: Efficient batch processing at scale

How to prevent batch processing process same data if we use kubernetes auto scaling feature ?

Making each job process a different data set is the way to go (a job per file for example). But there are different patterns that you might be interested in, see Job Patterns from k8s docs.

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The beauty and elegant simplicity of the Uber Business Model deals with a problem that has plagued many business sectors for years. *Anne Nicole addresses this in her terrific piece recently published in LinkedIn. She uses a rather nicer term, The Rise of the Bad Guy Premium.
For those of you who know me the Uber reference is very close to my heart, hence my love of this article and my desire to share.
Technology's ability to track two-way feedback could allow companies to avoid or charge more for customers who behave badly.
Earlier this year, I was at Singapore's Changi Airport at a transfer desk checking in for a connection to Thailand. It was an ugly situation. In front of me was a belligerent Western woman, hurling insults at an airline employee (who was responding with admirable patience). She called the employee stupid and pathetic while a crew of airline employees tried to work together to rectify the situation as quickly as possible.
At the end of the transaction, the woman received free lounge passes. Good Lord! Rather than being punished for her terrible behavior, the customer was rewarded, and there was no recourse for the abuse the airline employee had suffered.
Surely this level of abuse would have an impact on employee happiness, which would impact retention, which would impact the bottom line of the airline.
This could help the airline either weed-out bad customers or make them compensate for the additional costs that bad customers can cause to a business. It could even allow the airline to lower prices for the rest of us that treat airline employees like they deserve to be treated.
An acquaintance of a friend, let's call him Adam, drank too much one night and took an Uber home. At the end of the ride, he vomited in the car and left the driver to clean up the mess. The next day, Adam tried to hail an Uber and had no luck. He could see the cars available on his app, however no one was taking his fare. He ended up hailing a cab. Weeks later, while traveling internationally, Adam still had trouble hailing Ubers.
When you take an Uber, you get to rate each driver. What I discovered from this story is that the driver also gets to rate you. Adam's theory? Getting sick in the car caused his rating to plummet, and drivers no longer find his fare worth it.
I call his suffering the "bad guy premium." This means that the Adams of the world will have to pay more, in either convenience or financially, to experience the level of service that good Uber customers have come to expect.
Just like slowly earning back someone's trust after letting them down, Adam can rehabilitate his rating, but it will take some time and some good behavior.
Banks have been charging higher interest rates to risky borrowers for hundreds of years. Many businesses choose not to do future work with customers that don't pay their bills or are difficult to work with. Why shouldn't more companies leverage today's technology to start penalizing customers that are bad for business?
Bad customers are on notice: if Uber can make this work for drivers, just think of what airlines, restaurants, call centers, and many other industries could do. Perhaps in the future the good guy will finish first.
Have you encountered a situation that made you wish there was a bad guy premium for your industry? Let me know in the comments section please.
*Anne Nicole is currently a Relationship Manager at LinkedIn, where she works with clients to develop a professional brand, engage with insights, find the right people, and build relationships. Follow her on LinkedIn or Twitter at @annenicolesays.


The five members of the editorial board include Paolo Patelli,Jacqueline Schoemaker, Jan Schevers, Ben van de Broek and Josh Plough.
Eindhoven Footnotes is a grassroots project that investigates the lived experiences of citizens in a technocratic city. Through the lens of design, writing, researching, archeology and artistic practice, the city will be dissected by an editorial board overseeing a group of participants of various backgrounds. There is a permanent, open source and public reference library and research space based at Onomatopee, which also serves as a base for our actions. It's from here that we expand out into the city.
The work carried out will result in five zines, with the project culminating in a publication with additional critical reflections on experiences and information gathered, from the editorial board, outside critics and commentators. Each zine has a theme that will be in line with, and overseen by, an editorial board member's particular quality; say the built environment, big data or challenging power structures.
We hope the results of this project will stimulate a critical community in our smart city of Eindhoven while widening the participation with and interrogation of technology. Onomatopee acts as a vehicle and platform for progressive ideals: come and visit, join the debate.
Stylesheets have been created by the designer Yorit Kluitman. The aim of this is to bring the project together under a cohesive graphic direction. These stylesheets will be added to, layered upon and cut up with each new subject and approach.
Printing will take place at Onomatopee on our Risogrpagh and will be distributed for free across the city.
Exhibition opening of Ideal City and talk with curator Łukasz Trzciński about his approach to urban emancipation.
In collaborative confrontation with Eindhoven Footnotes, Łukasz Trzciński's project Ideal City looks at what the city is today or may be in the future. The talk will explore different cultural approaches to grassroots participation. Co-organised with Fundacja Imago Mundi.
What will our future selves be able learn from the digital remnants of contemporary culture?
The case study of Marcus van Eindhoven (https://bit.ly/2Y9GjsQ), a reconstruction of a 780 year old child, will be used as a catalyst for thinking about how we can approach our hyperconnected yet atomised present.
We are looking for around five people to join the project and contribute to a zine that will be printed at Onomatopee and released into Eindhoven for free. The project demands engaged participation, so we would like to stress that those who apply are willing to work together with us to produce something with integrity.
Eindhoven Footnotes is a grassroots project that investigates the lived experiences of citizens in a technocratic city. Through the lens of design, writing, researching, archeology and artistic practice the city will be dissected by an editorial board overseeing a group of participants of various backgrounds. There is a permanent, open source and public reference library and research space based at Onomatopee, which also serves as a base for our actions. It's from here that we expand out into the city.
Made possible thanks to generous support of Province of Noord-Brabant, The Creative Industries fund NL and the Municipality of Eindhoven.
On Saturday 30th of March from 1-5pm there will be a selection of launches and workshops related to printed matter at Onomatopee.
This month's Super Book Saturday will feature the launch of Ted Hyunhak Yoon's book Decoding Dictatorial Statues. Ted will introduce the collection of images and texts that revolve around the different ways we can look at statues in public space. The launch will coincide with a performance.
Then during a 20 minute talk the artist Pedro Bakker will discuss his publication Innocent under the title: How innocent to draw 'China girls'? Bakker will be joined by the artist Mickey Yang who will interview him about the concept of 'China girl' used in his art while questioning if the title of David Bowie's song is an objectionable post-colonial concept.
Towards the end of the day, from 3-5pm, students from the Design Curating & Writing Masters at the Design Academy Eindhoven will be running flash fiction workshops. Inspired by ordinary muses, like Bic pens and callipers, you'll write 55 word stories that will be compiled into a small Riso-printed publication. If inspiration is lacking, the students will guide you on how to choose a muse that suits you.
Eindhoven Footnotes will also de distributing their zine Criticism in the City for free on the day. The permeant research space will also be open for those interested in exploring the relationship between technology and citizenship through objects and acts.
Ted Hyunhak Yoon (b.1987) is a graphic designer-researcher based in Seoul(KR)∙Maastricht(NL). He graduated from MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art in London, UK. From April 2017 onwards, he is a participant of a residency programme in Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Design Curating & Writing is masters course rooted in the practice and performance of research through, about, and alongside design. It pursues a high level of quality, criticality, rigour, and depth in the act of research.
Foundland critically reflect on what it means to produce politically engaged, decolonial storytelling from their position as non-Western practitioners working between Europe and the Middle East.
Presented at Onomatoopee in the Framework Of Eindhoven Footnotes, organised by Design Academy Eindhoven and curated by Paolo Patelli, SITUATED PRACTICES: FAUX–ETHNOGRAPHY/WEIRD ARCHAEOLOGY is a series of performative lectures featuring artists and researchers making effective work out of non-fiction data, engaging in (quasi) anthropological fieldwork, adopting methods from ethnography and archaeology, combining the empirical and the imaginative.
Made possible thanks to the generous support of Cultuur Eindhoven and Creative Industries Fund NL.
In this second edition Femke Herregraven will be talking about all things financial; in relation to geological instability, biological and technological self-organising systems.
Femke Herregraven has a research-based practice in which she maps out abstract financial processes and considers their implications. Her work concerns the physical infrastructure that financial processes need in order to operate, as well as their grave ecological consequences. These processes create images only built from code. These 'images' are not meant for human eyes, but are translated into representations that are visible to us and understandable to a certain extent. Herregraven focuses on the position of the human in these mechanisms and thus makes the immeasurable abstraction of data visible on a human scale.
Made possible thanks to the generous support of Cultuur Eindhoven.
We all know the exploitive realities of Facebook yet still use it.
Come to Onomatopee this Sunday, gather around the fire and discover how to delete your Facebook account.
The only way to seek change and reclaim everyday life is to meet communally, discuss and delete.
Gluhwein and other drinks are available.
Art in exchange for participation.
Presented at Onomatopee in the Framework Of Eindhoven Footnotes, organised by Design Academy Eindhoven and curated by Paolo Patelli, SITUATED PRACTICES: FAUX–ETHNOGRAPHY/WEIRD ARCHAEOLOGY is a series of performative lectures featuring artists and researchers making effective work out of non-fiction data, engaging in (quasi) anthropological fieldwork, adopting methods from ethnography and archaeology, combining the empirical and the imaginative.
Giuseppe Licari's work focuses on the cross-border of the natural world and the built environment, exploring the territories emerging from their encounters. His landscapes constitute places of memories, in which the emotions of single individuals become inevitably part of a collective experience.
Giulio Squillacciotti's work is oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re-shape in new contexts. His research merges together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, sound and performance, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, religion and popular culture.
Come and join the artist Jacqueline Schoemaker this Saturday, 24th, at 11am for a workshop that will dissect the city of Eindhoven.
Part of Eindhoven Footnotes, Not Knowing the City of Knowledge focusses on how you can experience and observe public space by walking a straight line through the city. Instead of following the pre-existing urban infrastructure, you walk like a 'stranger' and superimpose your own route onto the city. In this way, you add another layer to it, while at the same time your observations and experiences along the straight line provide material for pictures, maps and texts.
The workshops will be conducted in English but Dutch can and will be spoken too.
An open source tool that acts both critically and speculatively while tracking and tracing the presence of technology in our smart city.
Come to Onomatopee to discuss what a grassroots initiate can do to influence and analyse a designed technocratic city.
This is the first meeting tackling the topic of Criticism in the City and will see if any of our questions have been answered since our first outing into the great wide technological yonder.
The discussion is open to all members of the public who are concerned and interested in the lived experience of Eindhoven and the future of smart cities in general.
Part in the Smartness? Between Discourse and Practice conference.
Please engage with the five MA students present and discuss the project as well as their individual research topics. By joining the discussion you'll be broadening the debate and pushing for a sensitivity towards critical thinking that exposes the invisible nature of technology.
Question, engage, debate and touch.
Those involved are Helen Milne,Pete Fung,Alorah Harman,Robin Weidner and Colin Keays.
This is the second meeting tackling the topic of Criticism in the City and will see if any of our questions have been answered since our first outing into the great wide technological yonder.
This zine is the first of five publications exploring what it means to live in a city of the future. The topics covered, while local, tie into the wider global debate surrounding big data and citizenship.
From branding to surveillance, this zine analyses the rhetorics behind the people and companies shaping the urban environment of Eindhoven.
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Urgent: Biden Pushing America Into U.N. Small Arms Treaty!
Thursday September 16, 2021
Joe Biden is running into a wall of angry gun owners at every turn in his domestic gun control agenda, and is expected to formally pull David Chipman's nomination to run ATF very soon.
Last week we learned that national gun control organizations have been screaming at Biden's staff in closed door meetings in the White House, demanding action on federal gun control.
That's why the State Department just announced that the United States will be signing onto the UN Small Army Treaty, the first step in the process of surrendering our gun rights to an international tribunal led by Communist China!
This treaty would establish a global gun registry that tracks the 'end user' of every firearm in the world. It encourages America to adopt legislation from foreign powers regarding the possession and use of firearms.
And conflicts between America and others in this treaty are to be mediated by groups of nations. In other words, Communist China and some of the world's most oppressive regimes would have the ultimate say over the gun rights of the American people.
OPPOSE THE UN SMALL ARMS TREATY NOW!
These countries HATE America. They HATE our freedoms. And they HATE the fact that America has the nation's most well-armed civilian population in history!
So make sure Senators Crapo and Risch know that you expect them to fight back against this with everything they've got.
Then donate, to help us make sure that the Chinese or any other foreign power never has a say over the gun rights of the freest people on earth!
— Greg
Dear Friend —
If you thought that Joe Biden was no longer a threat — that his disastrous handling of Afghanistan would make him take a step back and question his sanity — I have some bad news for you.
Joe Biden's State Department just returned from a trip to Europe where they informed the international community that Biden is committed to resuming Barack Obama's push to subject proud American gun owners to the United Nations Small Arms Treaty!
President Trump removed America from this international treaty, putting Americans and our Second Amendment freedoms outside the whims of foreign powers like Communist China.
But 'China Joe,' assumed by many to be under the thumb of the Chinese government because of his business dealings there and the dirt they have on his son Hunter, is reversing Trump's policy.
The UN Small Arms Treaty is the ultimate goal of the international global elites who despise the idea of checks and balances on federal power and the idea of 'the consent of the governed.'
They want the power to do anything they damn well please. And in most of the world (think China,) they can do exactly that, as the civilian population is already effectively disarmed.
But standing between these globalists and their goal of complete power are 100 million proud gun owners in America, who possess an estimated 400 million privately owned firearms!
That's why the radical leftists — from the White House to the United Nations — want to force Americans into the UN Small Arms Treaty, so they can begin the process of disarming us!
You see, one of the main tenants of the UN Small Arms Treaty is the creation of a GLOBAL GUN REGISTY, which would require the American government to disclose the 'end user' of each and every rifle, pistol and shotgun in circulation to the United Nations!
And what happens if Americans decide that we don't want to surrender our independence and our right to keep and bear arms to an international tribunal run by the Chinese?
Good question. The answer is terrifying.
The UN Small Arms Treaty establishes a process for 'dispute settlement' involving all parties, which means that Communist China, the Russians, European socialists and 3rd world 'leaders' from places like Cameroon and Sierra Leone will get to place limits on your right to keep and bear arms!
This is madness, but this is exactly what Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer want: to destroy the Second Amendment and remove the only country standing up against globalism in the world.
That's because deep down these wicked people, our own government, hate this great country.
They hate the Christian faith it was built on. They hate the fact that our Founding Fathers gave us a Second Amendment in case our own government turned on us. And they hate the fact that gun owners have never bent our knee for them, and the certain knowledge that we NEVER WILL!
America is a special place, a unique nation, set apart.
We were founded in rebellion to tyranny, in violent rejection to the idea that 'we the people' were to be mere subjects to an all-powerful potentate, able to be squashed at whim.
Foreign powers have always hated us for this, have always wanted to crush freedom here, so it could not spread across the globe. But now, the enemies to these freedoms aren't just international, they are internal. And they want us disarmed!
But for them to pass the U.N. Small Arms Treaty, they need the United States Senate to vote to ratify it. That's why I hope you'll immediately sign your petition, demanding that Senators Crapo and Risch oppose this with everything they've got!
With President Trump not in the White House, many of our Republican 'allies' are getting soft by the day. We can't take anything for granted. Please contact them right away!
TELL CRAPO ABD RISCH: NO UN SMALL ARMS TREATY!
Once your petition has been officially received, you'll be taken to a completion page and given the opportunity to make a donation. And I hope you'll be generous.
These people hate the freedoms that you and I love.
And if Biden and the international gun-grabbers who are pushing the UN Small Arms Treaty can convince a few moderate Republicans to go along with this, our gun rights would be obliterated!
So if you can afford to donate $100, $250, or even $500, I hope that you'll do so immediately. Believe me, as the father of five children, I know what a sacrifice that is for most people.
If that's not possible, please consider $75, $50, $25 or some other amount to help us run an online and direct mail program, designed to flood our Senators with petitions opposing this threat to our freedom and way of life!
OPPOSE THE UN SMALL ARMS TREATY – DONATE NOW!
Thank you for taking action, whether you can afford to donate or not. I'm proud to live in a country where 'we the people' are in charge, not some dictator in Boise or in Washington, D.C.
I know these freedoms are being challenged by the President, Congress, Governors, state legislatures, and even our local school boards right now. But Americans won't accept this for long. And that goes double when a foreign power tries to put limits on our right to keep and bear arms!
So keep standing with us. We've beaten Biden in Congress, we've beaten his nominees like David Chipman, we're beating his Executive Orders with SAPA legislation.
We can beat this too!
P.S. Joe Biden has just instructed the State Department to begin the process of subjecting Americans to the UN Small Arms Treaty — which would establish an international firearms registry.
The Chinese and other foreign powers who are pushing this, with help from Joe Biden, hate gun owners because we are standing between them and their goals of reducing this great country to their puppet. They want to disarm all of us, via this treaty!
After you send your petition to Senators Crapo and Risch, telling them to 'VOTE NO' on the UN Small Arms Treaty, please make a donation to help us fight for you!
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This past Sunday I competed in my third Chicago Triathlon and finished with my third win! I set a goal, raced hard and happy to cross the tape first. More importantly, I am focused on winning my second Race to the Toyota Cup Series in October. Chicago was my fourth win in the series this year, and I have one race remaining in Dallas.
Chicago is a great city to visit and to race! Race logistics are easy; pre-race training along the paved running trails, and race start is just a couple blocks from the hotel. With Chicago being so close to my hometown; I always have lots of family members coming to cheer me on. This year was extra special, as not only did I have family members to cheer me on, but I had family members racing. My Dad finished 4th in his age group in the Super Sprint division, my cousin competed in the Kid's Triathlon and my brother finished 23rd in his first ever Olympic distance Tri (in his first season). It has been a blast coaching my family and getting to see them compete and fall in love with the sport I am so passionate about!
Chicago is a unique venue for the Pros, in that we start after all the age group waves, instead of going off first (which is normal). This allows the age groupers to watch us finish up and it was great to have so many spectators cheering us on during the start and finish of the run. The weather was absolutely gorgeous on race day; as long as you didn't mind a little NW wind!
My race nutrition: I had a little later breakfast than usual, my normal natural peanut butter/banana/honey/bagel with First Endurance EFS drink. Since the race started a little later in the morning, I had two gels before the race start (one 40 min prior and one 10 min prior). I also tried two First Endurance Pre Race tablets 30 min prior to the start. During the bike I drank 36 oz of EFS.
Twenty plus pro women were on the deep water starting line which made for a pretty good size field for the race. The wind made the swim very choppy with a 400 meter swim down the Lake Michigan boat harbor and a 1200 meter swim back to the exit. The first 400 meters were with the tailwind, which meant the next 1200 meters were straight into a choppy, grueling headwind. The swim times were not exactly speedy, but I was feeling good and strong on the swim despite the conditions. I swam with Sara McLarty during the length of the swim and exited the swim steps in second position. Due to the ½ mile run to the transition area, I decided to put on running flats so avoid the pain of running on chip seal barefoot!
Once out on the bike the first thought that crossed my mind was, WIND. We had a strong headwind going on the slight uphill north. I could see several men in front of me and kept them in sight during the first segment of the bike. After the turnaround, the men gained time on me on the slight downhill section of the race, but I focused on keeping a steady rhythm and focused on keeping my eyes on the road to avoid cracks, etc. I recently changed my position on the bike and also switched to shorter crank arms, so I was excited to see how I would feel with my slightly altered set up (like it!) Thanks Rotor for supplying me with the new cranks. At the half-way point on the bike, I noticed Alicia Kaye and Sara McLarty were close behind me, (20 seconds), I pushed the bike a little harder the second lap and opened up a 45 second gap heading into the transition.
` The first ½ mile of the run, my quads felt the challenging ride. As I got going, my legs started to feel good and I focused on a keeping a high cadence the first 3 ½ miles of the run. The first part of the run was relatively "easy", since we had a slight downhill with a tailwind the first 3.5 miles. I knew that last 2.5 miles of the race were going to be tough (slight uphill and headwind…not to mention fatigue as we are nearing the end of the race!). Once I made the turn, it was tough, but I felt good and just couldn't wait to get to the finish line. I knew that I had a gap, but stayed focused since you never know what can happen until you get to that line!
Post race, I got in my First Endurace Ultragen recovery drink, enjoyed time with friends and family and headed back home. I have just a few more days until I head to Iowa for the Hy-Vee Triathlon! I am excited to race such a strong field of competition! It will be a challenge, but I embrace it.
Also Thanks to Eric Wynn for the great Photos!!


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2/4 Marines honor Gold Star families
There is a terrific and moving post over at Battle Rattle, the Marine Corps Times blog that is, well, watch the video. If you aren't moved by this, then you aren't really affected by this war. I am not a Marine and it moved me. Oorah to the Magnificent Bastards, the 2/4's nickname. They prove why they are "second to none."
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Unmanned cargo helicopters? Could happen soon
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Or so says DefenseOne.com. The Webzine reports that there was a recent test of a UAV system that could allow the Marines to send a R/C copter to the front lines to refuel without putting lives at risk (or any more so than they were by having men at the front lines).
From the DefenseOne.com story:
Marines armed only with a tablet PC and 15 minutes of training was able to steer and land large helicopters, called the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (ACCUS), in driving snow. "I stood right next to the 20-year-old lance corporal. I touched the button. It is literally a one-touch app," Klunder told Defense One."Frankly, you don't even need the app." The app allows the user on the receiving end to change the flight path or the behavior of the craft on the basis of new conditions.
Fascinating and makes you wonder what is the future for manned flight in war situations. It has always been thought that, on some level, pilots will be needed as you want human eyes and minds on target and down range. Yet, we have UAV recon drones. Now possibly a cargo mission. There is talk of having CAS done by a drone as well.
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724th Transportation Memorial Ride
Once again, the guys from the Quiet Pride MC have organized their annual ride to honor the three soldiers who died on 9 April 2004 when their convoy was attacked just west of Baghdad. Here's the blog post from last year. Anyway, it's a great event and if you can go on the ride, go for it. Read the story in the first link to find out what you need to do. If you can't make it, then go to the memorial ceremony at 3 p.m. at Alpha Park in Bartonville.
I have been a few times and it's very respectful and a nice event.
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Veterans Court program
Today, I had stories in the paper on the county's veterans court program. In short, the program is for nonviolent offenders who get in trouble and that can be linked back to their service in the military. Whether it's TBI, PTSD, sexual assault, who knows what. It is a program understanding that while the vast majority of people who serve are no worse the wear, there are some who are and we need to do something for them.
Personally, I am all for diversion courts like this. Peoria County also has one for drug addiction and mental health. The programs aim to keep people out of jail, treat their problems and allow the defendants to avoid a criminal record. It works sometimes; other times, not so much.
I confess, I am for veterans court as a concept but worry that some people might think it is preferential treatment. One doesn't have to be a combat vet and while the state's attorneys' office holds the keys to the kingdom when it comes to who gets in and who doesn't, I can't help but notice that some people would never get a chance at this while others, who might have been a cook in Montana, in theory, but could.
The national group, Justice for Vets, has a lot on this worry and also on vet courts across the country. They would poo-poo my worry, saying there are plenty of safeguards and besides, we owe it to veterans who signed the dotted line and could have wound up in harm's way.
But I can't help but think about Kendal D. Robinson, a man I wrote about in 2011. He was an Iraqi war vet, suffered PTSD and wound up with a serious felony, aggravated discharge of a firearm, when he fired a weapon at someone who was beating up his buddy. From that story:
Kouri told Robinson it wasn't likely the 32-year-old former soldier would be in court but for his experiences in Iraq. Over the past six months, defense attorney Joel Brown has filed several motions to get Kouri to reconsider the prison sentence.
Robinson, he said, was a career soldier who earned a Bronze Star during his 2006 deployment to Iraq when a Humvee he was in struck an improvised explosive device. Three were killed. A badly injured Robinson was the sole survivor.
He would NOT have been eligible for this program and one might say good. If you shoot a gun, you shouldn't get a break. On the other hand, I would guess that violence and using weapons when in a high stress situation is probably closer to what a veteran who carries the scars of war is really going to do rather than steal a steak from a grocery store.
It's an interesting concept. I just like the program because it helps people. It saves lives and after 16 years covering the courthouse and more than a decade of covering the military, anything that saves lives is good by me.
Author Andy KravetzPosted on April 8, 2014 Categories Recovery, VeteransLeave a comment on Veterans Court program
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Q: In TSQL, I am having difficulty getting Decimal(38,15) value to show 15 points after the decimal In some calculations, I am expecting to receive a value out to 15 decimal places but I am only getting it out to 6 decimal places.
In the example below, For @ProRata I am getting the value 0.8871340000000 when I expect 0.887134492110339.
DECLARE @EligiblePurchase DECIMAL(38,15) = 0
   ,@ProRata DECIMAL(38,15) = 0                 --Percent of total purchase
   ,@Reduction DECIMAL(38,15) = 0
   ,@Denominator DECIMAL(38,15) = 355302907.06  --Total amount across all purchases
   ,@InitialValue DECIMAL(38,15) = 315201464.00 --Specific purchase

--Sometimes @Reduction will be a reduction % like 16.677777777777777, but in this case it's 0
SET @EligiblePurchase = @InitialValue * ((100.00 - @Reduction) / 100)
SET @ProRata = @EligiblePurchase / @Denominator
SELECT @ProRata

My google-fu is failing me. SqlServer is doing something I am not expecting.
Thanks in advance!!


SECURITY BANK Corp. expects the Philippine economy to grow 6-6.4% this year, flagging concerns about the 2019 national budget.
In a news conference on Thursday, Security Bank chief economist Robert Dan J. Roces said GDP will likely grow between 6% and 6.4% in 2019, although the estimate still represents a "wait and see" forecast.
"We have yet to really [see] where the Budget impasse issues are headed. But it can really go to as low as 6%. This is the forecast range we have right now assuming that the Budget gets passed around after April. Mr. Roces told reporters yesterday.
Mr. Roces added that GDP growth can fall to as low as 5-5.6% under a full-year reenacted budget, although he noted that it will not go down to 4-4.5%.
The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee last week slashed its 2019 GDP growth forecast to 6-7% from 7-8% originally as the government operates on a reenacted budget.
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia said a reenacted budget until April could drag full-year growth to 6.1-6.3%, far from the government's original target, likely matching 2018's 6.2% pace.
Mr. Roces also noted that the economy will slow down in the first half of the year "because there's no movement in terms of infrastructure spending" due to the election ban, although he said that this may have been factored in by the economic managers.
Last month, the Commission on Elections said it is reviewing the request of state economic managers to exempt 145 infrastructure projects from the 45-day ban on public works ahead of the May 13 mid-term polls.
Mr. Rocves remains optimistic about economic growth overall.
"We are still bullish about economic growth because there are factors at play now that are positive for us. For example, we have (more) rice imports. Rice was one of the biggest primary drivers of inflation last year," he said.
President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed on Feb. 14 the Rice Tariffication Law. The measure seeks to liberalize imports of the staple, while charging tariffs on the imports.
The relaxed rules for rice imports, which took effect on March 5, are expected to cut retail prices of the staple by up to P7 per kilogram and inflation by 0.7-0.8 percentage point.
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the Philippines is banking on infrastructure to support continued economic growth, which he said will offset any downside from a global slump.


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Q: Cannot convert from Object to IntWritable I am facing a problem when i try to run a wordcount example in Eclipse (for Hadoop). After including all the hadoop libraries I am still getting an error. If anyone has any idea it would be perfect. Thank you
Here is my Wordcount class:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.WordCount;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;

public class Wordcount {

    public static class TokenizerMapper extends Mapper {

        private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
        private Text word = new Text();

        public void map(Object key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            StringTokenizer itr = new StringTokenizer(value.toString());
            while (itr.hasMoreTokens()) {
                word.set(itr.nextToken());
                context.write(word, one);
            }
        }
    }

    public static class IntSumReducer extends Reducer {
        private IntWritable result = new IntWritable();

        public void reduce(Text key, Iterable values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            int sum = 0;
            for (IntWritable val : values) {
                sum += val.get();
            }
            result.set(sum);
            context.write(key, result);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "word count");
        job.setJarByClass(WordCount.class);
        job.setMapperClass(TokenizerMapper.class);
        job.setCombinerClass(IntSumReducer.class);
        job.setReducerClass(IntSumReducer.class);
        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);
        FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));
        System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);
    }
}

The error occurs here:

A: You need to specify generics types while implementing the Reducer
public static class IntSumReducer
       extends Reducer<Text,IntWritable,Text,IntWritable> {
    private IntWritable result = new IntWritable();

    public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values,
                       Context context
                       ) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
      int sum = 0;
      for (IntWritable val : values) {
        sum += val.get();
      }
      result.set(sum);
      context.write(key, result);
    }
  }


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use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

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 * ParametresRepository
 *
 * This class was generated by the Doctrine ORM. Add your own custom
 * repository methods below.
 */
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{
}

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Infrared Light May Be a New Way To Help Diagnose Rheumatoid Arthritis
Preliminary research suggests the noninvasive technique may also monitor progression of disease.
Beth Levine
Medically Reviewed by Alexa Meara, MD
In the future, infared light may be used to help with RA diagnosis.Getty Images
There's no single test to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis. Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the lining of the joints, is traditionally made via a variety of tests, such as blood and imaging. A University of Birmingham pilot study published June 20, 2019, in the Journal of Biomedical Optics showed promise in using infrared light as a quick, noninvasive method of diagnosing the disease and monitoring treatment effectiveness.
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Infrared Light May Make Earlier Diagnosis Possible
There's no cure for RA, so this tool could potentially lead to earlier diagnosis and disease management, which provides better long-term outcomes. "Infrared light is harmless and can be used routinely. Also, as it provides information about the state of the disease, it can be an objective technique to help better understand progression of disease and therefore prognosis. In our limited study, we have shown good accuracy as compared with clinical evaluation by an expert. This could in turn allow a faster and more quantitatively accurate diagnosis," says Hamid Dehghani, PhD, professor of medical imaging in the school of computer science at the University of Birmingham in England, who led the small study. More research is needed to validate the findings.
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"The potential of this technique is to allow the clinician to monitor treatment and disease progression. If a patient is not responding to a particular treatment, then this can be changed to improve outcome," says Dr. Dehgani, who was assisted in this study by Daniel Lighter, doctoral researcher, and Andrew Filer, PhD, consultant rheumatologist, both at the University of Birmingham.
How Does Infrared Light (Low-Level Light Therapy) Work?
This new technique, which was developed by the University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science team in partnership with Health Technologies Institute and Rheumatologists in the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, uses three-dimensional digital imaging with infrared spectroscopy to create a three-dimensional image of blood content.
Light is absorbed by human tissue differently depending on its biological and functional condition. Particularly the amount of blood and water alters how much light passes through tissue and the amount of oxygen determines what colors are more strongly absorbed. RA alters the condition of tissue, specifically the amount of blood (due to increased vasculature and flow), amount of oxygen (hypoxia, a decreased oxygen supply to tissues, is due to increased metabolism), and amount of water (due to swelling). Through the infrared light imaging, "we can detect these subtle changes by measuring how much light travels through the finger, and at what wavelengths," explains Dehghani.
A Step Toward Personalized Treatment for RA?
Dehghani believes this will be better for patient care, as they would not have to wait for an extensive period of time to be evaluated by a clinician during treatment. "This will reduce anxiety for the patient, potentially improving clinical outcome and overall reducing the cost of treatment," he says.
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A Word of Caution About 'The Light Touch'
Not all researchers are as optimistic about the future use of infrared light for a diagnostic tool. Howard B Cotler, MD, an orthopedic surgeon based in Houston, reports that "while we are always looking for a nonnarcotic and noninvasive care, the traditional blood study for early diagnosis is more accurate than infrared light, to my knowledge. You can't make a definitive diagnosis due to a low-level light evaluation because it is a nondescriptive positive. It can't differentiate between the different types of arthritis and antigens, as you can from other diagnostic tools. At this point, it is just not comparable with traditional care."
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He also points out that most insurance in the United States will not cover light therapy, so financially it doesn't make sense either.
Infrared Light May Be Useful in Controlling RA Symptoms
Dr. Cotler does agree that light therapy can be helpful in controlling RA symptoms. "Low level laser therapy is very effective symptomatic care, but it is not a curative. However, it does not involve injections, medication, or narcotics and is not painful, and is good at decreasing pain, inflammation, and swelling," he says.
He adds, "The point is symptomatic noninvasive care prior to definitive diagnosis is reasonable. But if symptoms don't respond and linger, then you need a diagnosis. See your doctor, because some arthritides are potentially life-threatening."
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A Woman in Berlin
Lyra Pramuk's Delta
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Oct 2021
Imagine that you are listening to the new Lyra Pramuk album Delta without knowing anything about it.
Lyra Pramuk. Barcelona, 2019.
You would surely be struck by the diversity of sounds.
Sometimes a track will veer so far away from the patterns its predecessors have established that you might wonder whether you were still hearing the same record.
But there are also moments in which Delta seems to be circling back on itself, revisiting soundscapes it has already visited.
From a structural standpoint, it can be deeply disconcerting, a repudiation of traditional notions of coherence that nonetheless resists attempts to tear it apart.
perhaps an unpopular opinion, but i think contrary to popular discourse, music theory can actually be really helpful for experimental musicians, as long as it's not taken as dogma.
understanding centuries of harmonic traditions of our species can only be an education right? 🙂
— Lyra Pramuk (@lyra_pramuk) October 21, 2021
The more time you spend with the record, the more you will come to believe that this paradoxical status is no accident. Delta wants to challenge your preconceptions.
That's what makes the album endlessly fascinating. Clocking in at nearly ninety minutes, it demonstrates how supple and expansive Pramuk's approach to music truly is.
Remixing material from her remarkable 2020 debut Fountain, her collaborators find ways to make it feel almost completely new.
Although the vocals that constitute Fountain's only building blocks are still discernible, by and large, they are now complemented by textures that did not originate with Pramuk's voice.
Sometimes this makes the music that results seem more conventional. More commonly, it demonstrates the pointlessness of thinking in terms of convention.
As its title suggests, the Eris Drew-modified "Sugarcube Revelations" will take you on a trip far away, if you can just break free of the expectations that are holding you back.
Both versions of "Tendril", the exuberant one remixed by Hudson Mohawke and the more ruminative version remixed by Caterina Barbieri can perform the same feat, but in markedly different ways.
At times, it's hard to believe that they are based on the same song.
The same goes for the two versions of Pramuk's "New Moon".
Nailah Hunter's "Distant Shores Rework" uses the vocal source material to create a kind of sonic wave machine. Tygepaw's "In Pisces Rework" pushes hard in the opposite direction, ratcheting up the BPMs to resituate the composition in the framework of 1990s rave culture.
One of the most impressive numbers on Delta, Vessel's "Fountain (ars armatoria)" appears to gloss the entire album, compressing and recombining it to powerful effect.
None of these tracks would be conceivable without the constant use of computer technology. Neither would Fountain itself.
Although Pramuk's naked singing voice is capable of remarkable accomplishments, what ends up on her records is frequently difficult to recognize as human. This is clearly meant to be music of and for the future.
The use of computers has had a paradoxical impact on music-making.
On the one hand, as technology has become less expensive and more compact, more artists have been able to make records all by themselves. Yet the ease of distribution that same technology makes possible has inspired a vast amount of collaboration.
Although insularity may seem like the antithesis of solidarity, it frequently serves as its foundation.
During the long months of isolation forced upon us by the pandemic, artists who could work together while working apart had a significant advantage.
As traditional bands struggled to find ways of even practising safely, their counterparts making electronic music were able to collaborate as before, only now with extra incentive to overcome the impediments to this process.
Delta demonstrates just how much can be achieved if the boundaries of selfhood are dissolved in the service of art. And that will surely please Pramuk, whose musical invention is inextricably bound up with her self-reinvention.
You don't need to know anything about her and her collaborators to perceive the record's appeal to transcendence. It communicates that loud and clear at a formal level
But knowing something about Pramuk's story helps, the way this boy who sang in a church choir in his rural Pennsylvania home eventually moved to Berlin and became a woman who is taking the field of electronic composition in a thrilling new direction.
let me be clear – when i AM in the mood to playfully disregard societal standards of womanhood, it is not me proclaiming "look i'm part boy" but rather "look, this is also womanhood"
Fountain radiated a joy of self-discovery – or perhaps self-recovery – expressed in music. Delta communicates what happens when that self opens itself to experiences that break the bonds of selfhood.
Both are beautiful testaments to what happens when artists follow their heart into lands where the mind fears to tread.
Photograph courtesy of MACBA. Published under a Creative Commons license.
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