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Q: Service Fabric Cluster with Docker Containers with windowsservercore and iis server Am trying to create a service fabric cluster with 3 docker containers running a windowsservercore image and iis server installed on top.
I have enabled Remote Registry Service on all the containers and have exposed ports ranging from 135-20063 .
I am getting the following issue while creating the cluster:

System.IO.IOException: The network path was not found.
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32ErrorStatic(Int32 errorCode, String str)
     at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive hKey, String machineName, RegistryView view)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPathInner(String machineName)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPath(String machineName)
  System.IO.IOException: The network path was not found.
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32ErrorStatic(Int32 errorCode, String str)
     at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive hKey, String machineName, RegistryView view)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPathInner(String machineName)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPath(String machineName)
  Machine 172.24.186.140 could not be reached for RPC. Check network connectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
  Machine 172.28.166.142 could not be reached for RPC. Check network connectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
  System.IO.IOException: The network path was not found.
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32ErrorStatic(Int32 errorCode, String str)
     at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive hKey, String machineName, RegistryView view)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPathInner(String machineName)
     at System.Fabric.FabricDeployer.ConfigurationDeployer.GetTempPath(String machineName)
  Machine 172.25.205.155 could not be reached for RPC. Check network connectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
  Create Cluster failed. For more information please look at traces in FabricLogRoot.
  Create Cluster failed with exception: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.AggregateExcep
  tion: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.IO.IOException: Machine 172.24.186.140 could not be reached for RPC. Chec
  k network connectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.b__5f(String machine)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass17_01.<ForWorker>b__1()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvokeWithArg(Task childTask)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c__DisplayClass176_0.<ExecuteSelfReplicating>b__0(Object )
     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForWorker[TLocal](Int32 fromInclusive, Int32 toExclusive, ParallelOptions parallel
  Options, Action1 body, Action2 bodyWithState, Func4 bodyWithLocal, Func1 localInit, Action1 localFinally)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForEachWorker[TSource,TLocal](IEnumerable1 source, ParallelOptions parallelOption
  s, Action1 body, Action2 bodyWithState, Action3 bodyWithStateAndIndex, Func4 bodyWithStateAndLocal, Func5 bodyWithE
  verything, Func1 localInit, Action1 localFinally)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForEach[TSource](IEnumerable1 source, Action1 body)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.CheckRPCAccess(IEnumerable1 machineNames)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.<CreateClusterAsyncInternal>d__a.MoveNext()
  --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
     at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
     at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.<CreateClusterAsync>d__0.MoveNext()
     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     at Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Powershell.ClusterCmdletBase.NewCluster(String clusterConfigurationFilePath, String fabric
  PackageSourcePath, Boolean rollbackOnFailure)
  ---> (Inner Exception #0) System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.IO.IOException: Machine 17
  2.24.186.140 could not be reached for RPC. Check network connectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.<CheckRPCAccess>b__5f(String machine)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass17_01.b__1()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvokeWithArg(Task childTask)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c__DisplayClass176_0.b__0(Object )
     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForWorker[TLocal](Int32 fromInclusive, Int32 toExclusive, ParallelOptions parallel
  Options, Action1 body, Action2 bodyWithState, Func4 bodyWithLocal, Func1 localInit, Action1 localFinally)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForEachWorker[TSource,TLocal](IEnumerable1 source, ParallelOptions parallelOption
  s, Action1 body, Action2 bodyWithState, Action3 bodyWithStateAndIndex, Func4 bodyWithStateAndLocal, Func5 bodyWithE
  verything, Func1 localInit, Action1 localFinally)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForEach[TSource](IEnumerable1 source, Action1 body)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.CheckRPCAccess(IEnumerable1 machineNames)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.d__a.MoveNext()
  --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
     at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
     at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.d__0.MoveNext()
  ---> (Inner Exception #0) System.IO.IOException: Machine 172.24.186.140 could not be reached for RPC. Check network conn
  ectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.b__5f(String machine)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass17_0`1.b__1()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvokeWithArg(Task childTask)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c__DisplayClass176_0.b__0(Object )<---
---> (Inner Exception #1) System.IO.IOException: Machine 172.28.166.142 could not be reached for RPC. Check network conn
  ectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.b__5f(String machine)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass17_0`1.b__1()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvokeWithArg(Task childTask)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c__DisplayClass176_0.b__0(Object )<---
---> (Inner Exception #2) System.IO.IOException: Machine 172.25.205.155 could not be reached for RPC. Check network conn
  ectivity. HRESULT=53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH
     at System.Fabric.DeploymentManager.b__5f(String machine)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass17_0`1.b__1()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvokeWithArg(Task childTask)
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c__DisplayClass176_0.b__0(Object )<---
  <---

A: It's showing RPC is closed from your controller to  172.28.166.142. Try "test-netconnection  172.28.166.142 -port 135"


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Home » News » National » Politicians urged to find better ways to care for sick and aged and say no to euthanasia
Politicians urged to find better ways to care for sick and aged and say no to euthanasia
By Mark Bowling
Respect urged: "The reason we say 'no' (to euthanasia and assisted dying) is because we have a beautiful vision of health care, what we can do for someone to ensure they have an excellent end-of-life experience." Photo: Flickr/Alberto Biscalchin.
PRO-life advocates are preparing to challenge a "cheap" and "dirty-joke" campaign to legalise euthanasia in Queensland and Western Australia, similar to the campaign in Victoria which last year led to the passing of an assisted-dying law.
"What we witnessed in Victoria, and no doubt we will witness in the other jurisdictions too, is a cheapened form of ethical discussion in the public square," ethicist Dr Dan Fleming said.
Dr Fleming works for St Vincent's Health Care Services – with hospitals and aged-care facilities across the country – and is conducting a detailed study into what Victoria's hospital services will look like once the operation of the assisted-dying law in Victoria starts in 2019.
"The reason we say 'no' (to euthanasia and assisted dying) is because we have a beautiful vision of health care, what we can do for someone to ensure they have an excellent end-of-life experience," he said.
"And because of that vision we don't see this (Victorian legislation) as viable."
Brisbane-based voluntary euthanasia advocates who helped fund Victoria's assisted-dying legislation have already launched a campaign to drive similar law change in Queensland.
The Clem Jones Group is spearheading the campaign, using $5 million from the estate of the late Brisbane Lord Mayor Clem Jones, who wrote in his will about his devastation at watching his wife Sylvia suffer.
The group has labelled voluntary euthanasia as one of the most important social issues of our time, it claims 80 per cent of Australians want law reform, and it has urged all Queensland MPs to back a parliamentary inquiry by the end of the year.
However pro-life groups including Cherish Life Queensland want politicians to look at ways to care for its aging population rather than considering euthanasia.
"This is why the AMA (Australian Medical Association) is opposed to the legalisation of euthanasia and instead supports palliative care, which is the true form of assisted dying," Cherish Life's vice-president Alan Baker told The Catholic Leader recently.
"This focuses on relieving pain and keeping patients comfortable in order to allow a natural and dignified death at their appointed time."
Improving access to palliative care is vital, but in 2018 it remains out of reach to many Queenslanders, especially those living in the bush.
It's a similar case in rural Victoria.
Palliative Care Victoria estimates about 10,000 Victorian deaths – one in four – occur every year without access to palliative care.
Only one in six public hospitals have a hospice care unit, which can sometimes mean signing on to long waiting lists for patients who don't have time to wait.
Palliative Care Victoria chief executive officer Odette Waanders, said nine recommendations for improving palliative care – at a cost of $65 million a year – were rejected by the Victorian Government which was determined to push through assisted-dying legislation instead.
"To some extent I think it is about a government (in Victoria) that wants to be a socially progressive reforming government and wants to make its mark," she said.
"The problem is some of that is based on a very, very superficial understanding of the complexity of the issues involved.
"And it was driven by a lobby group and a very biased media not keen on engaging and fostering deep public debate on this issue."
Dr Fleming said given the high stakes involved in the debate – care for people who were suffering at the end of their lives and the possibilities of legalising suicide and euthanasia – it was reasonable to expect a "better" ethical public debate.
"Unfortunately in our current context people win debates in the public square with the ethical equivalent of a dirty joke – it's quick, its easy and it gets laughs – but it doesn't have the substance of something we have to work harder at," he said. "I think the way to enter into the debate is to avoid those cheap tricks.
"We have to debate respectfully and with good solid arguments.
"We are all scared of death, and we're especially scared we will suffer in pain as we die.
"It's how we respond to it that is the issue."
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İngilizce Roman Özetleri
Konusu 'İngilizce' forumundadır ve Nysa tarafından 18 Mayıs 2017 başlatılmıştır.
Alice in Wonderland - İngilizce Roman Özeti
Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. Fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole. She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors. There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door; through this door, she spies a beautiful garden. She longs to get there, but the door is too small. Soon, she finds a drink with a note that asks her to drink it. There is later a cake with a note that tells her to eat; Alice uses both, but she cannot seem to get a handle on things, and is always either too large to get through the door or too small to reach the key.
While she is tiny, she slips and falls into a pool of water. She realizes that this little sea is made of tears she cried while a giant. She swims to shore with a number of animals, most notably a sensitive mouse, but manages to offend everyone by talking about her cat's ability to catch birds and mice. Left alone, she goes on through the wood and runs into the White Rabbit. He mistakes her for his maid and sends her to fetch some things from his house. While in the White Rabbit's home, she drinks another potion and becomes too huge to get out through the door. She eventually finds a little cake which, when eaten, makes her small again.
In the wood again, she comes across a Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom. He gives her some valuable advice, as well as a valuable tool: the two sides of the mushroom, which can make Alice grow larger and smaller as she wishes. The first time she uses them, she stretches her body out tremendously. While stretched out, she pokes her head into the branches of a tree and meets a Pigeon. The Pigeon is convinced that Alice is a serpent, and though Alice tries to reason with her the Pigeon tells her to be off.
Alice gets herself down to normal proportions and continues her trek through the woods. In a clearing she comes across a little house and shrinks herself down enough to get inside. It is the house of the Duchess; the Duchess and the Cook are battling fiercely, and they seem unconcerned about the safety of the baby that the Duchess is nursing. Alice takes the baby with her, but the child turns into a pig and trots off into the woods. Alice next meets the Cheshire cat (who was sitting in the Duchess's house, but said nothing). The Cheshire cat helps her to find her way through the woods, but he warns her that everyone she meets will be mad.
Alice goes to the March Hare's house, where she is treated to a Mad Tea Party. Present are the March Hare, the Hatter, and the Dormouse. Ever since Time stopped working for the Hatter, it has always been six o'clock; it is therefore always teatime. The creatures of the Mad Tea Party are some of the must argumentative in all of Wonderland. Alice leaves them and finds a tree with a door in it: when she looks through the door, she spies the door-lined hallway from the beginning of her adventures. This time, she is prepared, and she manages to get to the lovely garden that she saw earlier. She walks on through, and finds herself in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. There, three gardeners (with bodies shaped like playing cards) are painting the roses red. If the Queen finds out that they planted white roses, she'll have them beheaded. The Queen herself soon arrives, and she does order their execution; Alice helps to hide them in a large flowerpot.
The Queen invites Alice to play croquet, which is a very difficult game in Wonderland, as the balls and mallets are live animals. The game is interrupted by the appearance of the Cheshire cat, whom the King of Hearts immediately dislikes.
The Queen takes Alice to the Gryphon, who in turn takes Alice to the Mock Turtle. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle tell Alice bizarre stories about their school under the sea. The Mock Turtles sings a melancholy song about turtle soup, and soon afterward the Gryphon drags Alice off to see the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
The Knave of Hearts has been accused of stealing the tarts of the Queen of Hearts, but the evidence against him is very bad. Alice is appalled by the ridiculous proceedings. She also begins to grow larger. She is soon called to the witness stand; by this time she has grown to giant size. She refuses to be intimidated by the bad logic of the court and the bluster of the King and Queen of Hearts. Suddenly, the cards all rise up and attack her, at which point she wakes up. Her adventures in Wonderland have all been a fantastic dream.
Nysa, 18 Mayıs 2017
The Plague by Albert Camus - İngilizce Roman Özeti
The book is divided into five sections, each of which tells of a distinct period in the plagues takeover of Oran, the port city in northern Algeria where the story is set. Part 1 describes Oran as it was before the plague and just after the disease has taken hold. Bernard Rieux, the town doctor, notices a dead rat in the hallway of his apartment building one ordinary morning, and thereafter, nothing in his or anyones life in Oran is normal. Thousands of the towns rats die, then cats and dogs, and finally the disease starts to infect people. Jean Tarrou, a visitor trapped in Oran, keeps a journal about the plagues effect on the people of Oran, and it includes stories about characters like Joseph Grand, an insignificant city worker, and Cottard, a man who is mysteriously happy about the outbreak of the plague. By the end of this section, the people of Oran are forced to realize their dull and habitual ways may be gone for good. The town gates are shut, and Oran is now a prison cell, where no one can go out or come in.
Part 2 of the book tells what happens when the plague becomes "the concern of all of us. (67). In this section, the townspeople struggle to fight their individual battles against the plague and the suffering and separation it forces them to endure. Characters like Raymond Rambert, who begins negotiating with smugglers, try to imagine ways to escape the city and meet up again with their loved ones. Father Paneloux, the town priest, preaches a fiery sermon that claims that God has sent the disease upon the people of Oran as a punishment for their sins. Tarrou starts voluntary sanitary squads in town, and many people, including Grand and Rambert, volunteer to help.
By the beginning of Part 3, "the plague had swallowed up everything and everyone. No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and the emotions shared by all. (167). In this short third section, the narrator tells us of the worst period of the disease, the brutally hot summer months when the plague kills so many people that theres no space left to bury them. The town crematorium is burning bodies at top-capacity and everyone in the city suffers terrible feelings of pain and exile.
In Part 4 there is more attention paid to the emotions of some of the main characters. Cottard is still strangely cheerful about the plague. Ramberts getaway plans seem ready to go through, but the journalist has a last-minute change of heart and decides to stay in Oran to help fight the disease. Many of the storys main characters, including Dr. Rieux, Joseph Grand, Jean Tarrou, and Father Paneloux, are affected profoundly when they witness the death of a young child. After this experience, Paneloux gives a second sermon, and it shows far more sympathy for the suffering people of Oran. One evening, Tarrou explains his life philosophy, which centers on a passionate opposition to the death penalty, to Dr. Rieux. Grand falls ill and seems certain to die of the plague, but makes a sudden and miraculous recovery. The same "resurrection happens to a woman in town, and by the end of this section, the rats, alive now, have begun to resurface in the city.
In the final section, the plague leaves just as suddenly as it came. After a public announcement that the epidemic seems to be over, a big celebration is held in the streets. Then the gates are opened, and families and lovers–including Rambert and his wife–are reunited. Cottard, despairing that the plague has gone and left him alone with his suffering again, has a crazy shooting fit, which ends with him being dragged away by the police. At this point, Dr. Rieux reveals that he is the storys narrator. Though he has suffered greatly, and now finds out that his own wife is dead, he says he hoped to retell the book without it being his story. He wanted to "take the victims side, sharing with them the feelings of love, exile, and suffering that all felt during the time of the plague. The book ends with the haunting observation that although the plague bacillus can go into hiding for years and years, it never dies or disappears for good.


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Q: Relationship between power and $p$-value As the title states, I wish to understand the relationship between $p$-value, of a correlation coefficient say, and the power of this hypothesis test.
Suppose I observe a Pearson correlation coefficient of $r = 0.3$ in a sample of $n=50$ pairs. I can then hop over to this calculator, and quickly compute a $p$-value of $.034$.
Is is then valid for me to use this $p$-value in G*Power as below, in order to conclude that the power of this test is $0.52$?
Addendum: If this calculation is false, what quantity can I compare with desired power $1 - \beta$, analogous to how the $p$-value is compared with the desired significance level $\alpha$?

A: In principle, yes, this is valid. There is a one-to-one relationship between any two of sample size, power, effect size and alpha level: if you fix two of them and vary a third, then the fourth will vary with the third one, monotonically.
Therefore, the insights you can derive from this kind of exercise are very limited indeed.
For an in-depth argument, see Hoenig & Heisey, "The Abuse of Power - The Pervasive Fallacy of Power Calculations for Data Analysis", The American Statistician, 2012.

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LifestyleHolidaysMemorial Day
Bethpage Air Show performers bring passion to skies above Long Island
Aerobatic pilots Sean D. Tucker and Jessy Panzer (foreground) will tango at the Bethpage Air Show after taking Manhattan on Wednesday. Credit: AFP / Getty Images / Timothy A. Clary
By Joan Gralla joan.gralla@newsday.com @JoanGralla Updated May 24, 2019 12:06 PM
Two stunt pilots will make their debuts at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach State Park this Memorial Day weekend, thanks to the veterans welcoming them to the skies.
One quality all these free spirits share is their recognition that the journey to the fun zone hinges on the utmost discipline.
Mastering everything from the science of aerodynamics to intricate control panels to preflight visualizations — plus the acrobatics — they stress that the door to their world can be pried open with enough determination, and a bit of luck. Though there might be a few detours along the way.
Three stunt pilots, one of whom will be in a helicopter, shared their stories on the eve of the air show:
Jessy Panzer, stunt pilot, Oracle Extra 300L
Sean D. Tucker and his "dance partner in the sky" Jessy Panzer Credit: Team Oracle/Scott Snorteland
Formation flying, it turns out, is rather like dancing the tango.
"We're doing a different kind of dance," said Jessy Panzer, 40, who for the first time will perform with Sean D. Tucker as the premier veteran soloist transitions to formation flying. "We're dancing and he's my dance partner in the sky."
Her role flying wing includes not only performing dazzling and daring acrobatics with the greatest of precision and in coordination with Tucker, but keeping the proper distance between their planes which at times are just 50 to 100 feet apart.
Get the scoop on events, nightlife, day trips, family fun and things to do on Long Island.
After learning country western couples dancing, Panzer gravitated to the tango, the Latin American dance that distills drama through the discipline of fast-paced yet intricate steps.
"It's a very complex and dynamic dance; it's the ultimate follow dance, there are so many subtle movements for the lead and the follower to follow," she said.
"I love it, again, it's one of the reasons I love flying acrobatics; I can't have anything else in my brain when I do that, all I can think about is holding my frame, holding my proper posture and listening with my body to what the leader is telling me to do."
Panzer's journey included some lean years as she worked her way up from flight instructor to air ambulance pilot to air racer and then acrobatic pilot.
And she initially hesitated, pondering a career in music before realizing she was much more enamored of physics and flying then practicing scales.
Working as an ambulance pilot, ferrying donated organs and medical staff under tight deadlines, helped Panzer, a certified flight instructor in airplanes, rotorcraft and seaplanes, hone her judgment.
"It's like you kind of disassociate your emotions; if we push too far, we are going to be the ones in need of rescue," she said. "You just have to really keep that in mind as well; I have to make good decisions. It's what you have got to do to keep everyone safe, even if you have to say 'no.' "
Aaron Fitzgerald, Red Bull helicopter
Aaron Fitzgerald began as a U.S. Army paratrooper Credit: Red Bull Content Pool/redrag Vuckovic
What could turning a helicopter into a flying crane to build power pylons in remote California mountains have in common with performing aerial acrobatics in a Red Bull whirlybird?
Both roles are immensely satisfying, partly because they are so difficult, said Aaron Fitzgerald, 49, who will be pulling off dizzying dives, upside down loops and flips and even pausing, momentarily weightless.
Fitzgerald started helicopter aerobatics in 2017, the same year he joined the team. He was invited by his predecessor after he had gotten to know Fitzgerald, whose aerial film production company was hired by Red Bull.
The maneuvers Fitzgerald will perform, while aiming to transfix and awe the crowd, also embody a bit of the American dream.
The audience should know, he said, "that I'm a regular guy and everyone one of them could do it if they so chose, that anyone could do it. I think we represent normal people who've chased after something extraordinary and get to do it."
Perhaps not quite an ordinary individual: Fitzgerald was awarded the Medal of Valor by California firefighters for pulling people out of the flames after their helicopter crashed.
For Fitzgerald, his career to becoming a Red Bull helicopter pilot began as a U.S. Army paratrooper, though he did not become a pilot until leaving the service.
For him the choice was clear: "I just always wanted to fly helicopters — that's really the only thing I ever wanted to do," Fitzgerald said.
Now he performs many of the same maneuvers that the stunt pilot's in airplanes will do.
One of the most spectacular was perhaps the hardest as initially it's rather intimidating — because it begins with a front flip.
"Once you kind of figure it out it isn't so hard to perform," he said.
Perhaps not for a pilot who polished his skills not only working with film and television productions but who can fly in all the workers and materials for new utility towers — and precisely set the beams — erected in mountain ranges.
And when he performs at an air show, he said "I think I'm sharing my love of action while they sit on the beach. It's impossible to describe how great it is, how much I love it."
Dell Coller, Jack Link's Screamin' Sasquatch biplane
Dell Coller Credit: - John Klatt Airshows/Adam Glowaski
For the first time ever, Dell Coller, 39, will fly the open cockpit biplane powered by a jet engine — dubbed Jack Link's Screamin' Sasquatch — that retired Lt. Col John Klatt usually flies.
Coller's path to air shows began as a teenager mowing lawns and pumping gas by a Pennsylvania airport, where he saw "all these cool airplanes flying around — and acrobatics looked amazing to me," he said.
That fascination with flight led to college, becoming a pilot, serving as a crew chief for a C-130 transport plane with the Air National Guard, flying in competitions and then a decade as a corporate jet pilot. But it was his logistical and mechanical expertise that led Klatt to hire him six years ago.
Klatt, a former F-16 fighter pilot who served three tours in Iraq before becoming famed for his heart-stopping acrobatics in the Sasquatch, is turning its controls over to Coller.
"He's been champing at the bit to operate that airplane," Klatt said.
Coller, who says he was hired "almost by accident" to handle the team's transportation, ended up taking on more responsibility, including helping figure out how to power the biplane with a modern jet engine.
Coller's qualifications include a decade of flying corporate jets around the world and years of competing in shows that judge pilots on the accuracy and precision of their maneuvers, much like the technical performances in figure skating.
At Jones Beach, those familiar with Klatt's astounding feats can look forward to more of the same. "It'll be a similar routine with a few changes and I hope I have a unique style. I want it to be exciting and I want it to be inspirational, " Coller said, especially for youngsters.
"The real exciting thing is to share it with everybody else — to share the passion —and that I can inspire somebody to chase their dreams. That is what makes it for me."
For Klatt, 52, transitions do come at a cost.
"It's going to be a little bit hard for me to look up when Dell takes to the skies," Klatt admitted.
However, "It's very important to me to mentor the next generation."
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By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab S. Ahmed said Nigeria will continue to deploy fiscal policies that protect it's industries and also encourage Investments in critical sectors of the economy.
The minister stated this on Friday at the opening session of the 4th Meeting of the ECOWAS Finance Ministers on the Consolidation of ECOWAS Customs Union held at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters Abuja.
"Nigeria will continue to deploy fiscal policies to support or protect emerging industries, encourage investment in critical sectors, and promote local production" she said.
The Minister noted that this is without prejudice to the spirit of regional integration and free trade protcols as Nigeria has been in forefront of supported trade trade policies.
Accordding to her, "like every developing economy, Nigeria's vision to industrialize is very strong. Accordingly, we believe ECOWAS Common External Tarrif (CET) should be designed to promote regional industrialization in a manner that on the long term reduces dependence on imports. We will continue to work within ECOWAS to achieve these laudable objectives".
"Nigeria believes fervently that ECOWAS regional policies such as the CET, the Customs Union and other fiscal policies should aim seriously at achieving economic growth and industrialization for member states, while reducing import dependency", she noted.
"The economies of scale that result from successful integration should serve as catalysts for economic development 'or the region.
"Nigeria therefore believes West Africa, while desiring integration into the global economy, should diversify its economy through manufacturing, processing of primary products and other forms of economic modernization" she added.
"Let me reiterate Nigeria's unflinching commitment to the success of the ECOWAS project, particularly in the areas of trade liberalization and economic integration. Nigeria's current economic policies, in several aspects, seek to identify with, and actively participate in the effort to achieve regional economic development through cooperation", stressed.
"In this regard, Nigeria effectively commenced the implementation of the ECOWAS CET in April 2015, with additional measures under the ECOWAS approved Supplementary Protection" she further explained.
Mrs Ahmed also used the occasion to advocate for more controls on tobacco in the subregion to minimise the health hazzards associated with it.
"In particular, we hold the belief that the establishment of a Track and Trace System for Manufactured and imported Tobacco Products represents ECOWAS' genuine desire to enthrone best practices in tobacco taxation and control the public health hazards of these products" she said.
The minister assured that Nigeria's commitment to a sustainable, functional regional economic integration project that will, in the long run, facilitate economic growth and social prosperity for the peoples of West Africa.


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In Christ, the Importance of Gender Equality Before the Lord ©
5/16/2018 - Uncategorized
Near the conclusion of the spring Council of Bishop's Meeting (May 4), the council received the ballots from all the United Methodist conferences for five constitutional amendments that had been approved by 2016 General Conference. You can see a summary of each of the amendments in the graphic below right - click on it to enlarge. While Amendments III, IV and V were adopted by the conferences, Amendments I and II, both of which focused on gender equality in the UMC, failed to reach the required two-thirds majority vote (66.67%). I wish to formally join my voice to the chorus of the Council of Bishops in expressing dismay at the failure of these two amendments to be adopted. I also want to strongly call out and commend to you that the Central Texas Conference overwhelmingly voted its enthusiastic support for both Amendment I and II. Following the report that these two amendments had failed to be adopted, the Council of Bishops put out a direct and strong statement in support of women's equality and full inclusion in the church. You can read the complete statement here, but I'd like to highlight the following as part of my own strong support for the COB statement. "The Council of Bishops notes with dismay the two amendments to the Constitution of The United Methodist Church regarding gender equality did not pass. While we are not completely clear concerning the motivation that caused them to miss the two-thirds required majority by slim margins, we want to be clear that we are unequivocal in our commitment to the equality of women and their full inclusion in our Church." – Council of Bishops statement in Support of Women's Equality and Full Inclusion, May 7, 2018 I also wish to share with you the pastoral letter to the people of The United Methodist Church from the female bishops of the United Methodist Church (available here). All of us must confess our complicity and failure to live with a full sense of an equality of genders in all manners before the Lord. Allow me to offer the following in a way of confession as contained in another section of the COB's statement. It reads, "We confess that we have a long way to go to fully live into our deep commitment to the equality of women in our many countries and in the life of The United Methodist Church." It does us well to remember the teachings of Paul in his letter to the church at Galatia, which states the need for gender equality in a manner that cannot be missed or dismissed. "There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28 CEB). It is to this full sense of inclusion to both genders in the work of the church that I wish to commend again our commitment as a conference to gender equality in the entire life of The United Methodist Church. Even though the Central Texas Conference voted its overwhelming endorsement of gender quality before the Lord, it still remains time for us all to double down and recommit ourselves to the full sense of what it means to ethically live under the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ with regard to all who are part of the family of God. My friends, we must acknowledge that these are difficult times – not just for United Methodists, but for Christians all over the world. Here and now, we need a clear commitment to the Gospel that lifts our confession that in Christ there is neither male nor female. It is to this Holy commitment that we must rededicate ourselves. May the peace of Christ and the presence of the Holy Spirit guide our highest commitment to living into the full implication of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with true gender equality for all.
Moderators Note: Bishop Lowry recorded and shared a video message on this subject earlier in the week. It is available below or at ctcumc.org/BishopLowry_Amendments-GenderEquality.
Bishop Mike Lowry on the Failure of UMC Amendments i & II and the CTC's Commitment to Gender Equality from Central Texas Conference UMC on Vimeo.


I recently launched https://report-uri.io, my new CSP and HPKP violation reporting service that is built on, amongst other things, Azure Table Storage. Using Table Storage required a little bit of a shift in thinking and works in slightly different ways compared to your traditional RDBMS. In this blog I'm going to look at some of those differences and how I came to leverage the full potential of the service.
Table Storage is a NoSQL key value store. You can simply insert data with a key to look it up on and return to fetch the data back out at a later time. In terms of features, it doesn't really get much more advanced than that and it does take a little getting used to. That said, once I'd adapted and learnt the best way to leverage Table Storage, you can do some pretty awesome things.
The fastest way to query an entity out of Table Storage is using the combination of its PartitionKey and RowKey. As the only indexed properties, the PartitionKey narrows down the query from the entire table to just the specific partition where the entity resides and the RowKey allows the query to identify the specific entity itself within the partition. Within a table, each PartitionKey and RowKey combination have to be unique and in the scenario above we could expect to lookup a user in mere milliseconds.
The getEntity() method takes the table name, PartitionKey and RowKey as parameters and returns the specified entity if it exists. If not, a ServiceException is thrown with the error code 404 and message 'ResourceNotFound'. The next step down is to lookup an entity without knowing the RowKey but using the PartitionKey and another property of the entity.
The queryEntities() method takes the table name and a filter string to search with and returns any entities that match the filter. If none are found it returns an empty set and does not throw an exception. This query is slightly slower as it has to scan the entire partition and check the email property of each entity. The worst case scenario is a query that doesn't use either the PartitionKey or the RowKey in the search as this requires a full table scan to find the entity you want.
This query will have to scan over every single entity in the user table and match it against the criteria for the email property. These types of queries are best avoided and if the results of the query are found in different partitions, the Table Storage service will issue you a continuation token and you will have to return to fetch the rest of the results from each partition. More on that later on.
Whilst there are less considerations for how fast we can bung data into the service compared to how fast we can pull data out, there is still something that we should consider. The Azure Storage Scalability and Performance Targets state that a standard storage account in a US region can handle up to 20,000 entity requests per second. If we dig a little deeper though, we can see that there is a 2,000 entities per second throughput limit on each table partition (and this applies to reads and writes). Now, that might not be such a big problem in the context of our user table example above, but if you're expecting a partition to be able to handle a large volume of transactions, an approach that breaks data down instead of say one large generic 'users' partition is much preferred.
This is to do with how Azure load balances requests against the table and partitions within that table. Because partitions are logical chunks of data, Azure will load balance a partition with high volumes of traffic by moving it to a different server. This allows the partition to serve the demands being placed upon it and not adversely affect other partitions that used to reside on the same box.
Another factor to bear in mind is how you can delete entities from Table Storage. You can either delete an entity by calling the deleteEntity() method and passing in the table name, PartitionKey and RowKey, or you can delete an entire table and all entities within it. That's it. For report-uri.io there was the potential for a huge amount of reports to be collected per user. Initially I was planning to use a reports table and have a unique partition for each user, but that didn't give me enough granularity for my queries. The other issue that presented me was how to delete a user's data should they wish to remove everything. If they had their own partition this would mean querying out every single entity in the partition to delete it. Not only would that take longer than I'd care to think and incur some cost, it's a really ineffective way of deleting that much data. This lead me to creating a unique table for each user and storing all of their data in that. Now, should a user wish to delete all of their data from the service, all I have to do is drop the table. Not only that, but it meant that I could free up my PartitionKey to be used to break data down with a time stamp value for more efficient querying later on.
Like a delete operation, an update operation requires you to identify an entity using its PartitionKey and RowKey. If you can't or don't know these 2 values then you will need to search for the entity using other criteria, hopefully with at least the PartitionKey to prevent a full table scan. Beyond this, the same performance targets apply as previously mentioned and the only way that you can further increase performance is using Entity Group Transactions.
EGTs are a great way of increasing the performance of queries when you are performing multiple operations within the same partition. Rather than performing several operations, including insert, delete, merge and update, as sequential calls to the Table Storage service, you can group up to 100 operations together to be executed as a batch. You can't make more than 1 change to the same entity within a batch operation, and other than the requirement that all entities are in the same partition, there are no further restrictions.
Just removing 99 of the 100 HTTP round trips to the Table Storage service is a significant performance saving in itself but there is also an added cost saving too. The single batch will be charged as 1 single transaction against the Table Storage service and in this particular example would reduce the transaction cost of these delete operations by 99%!
This is just the first post in what will probably be a series of blogs on using Azure Table Storage. There are a great many things I've learnt along the way and problems I've had to resolve. I'm going to open up some of my source on GitHub and hopefully I can get some feedback on my implementation too.


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Celebrating the New Year is a great time for families and friends to get together and celebrate the previous year and look forward to great things ahead. Across the country, that celebration includes fireworks, both at large event displays to people using them in their neighborhoods. If used improperly, though, they can cause eye injuries, burns, fires, and more.
This New Year's Eve, the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department wants you to celebrate safely, especially since fireworks have only been legal in Georgia a short period of time.
For a list of those tips, click here.


A Happy Song: Happy Heart Day!
This year, for Valentine's, Buddy wanted to make something special for his classmates at school. So, we pulled out the perler beads and got to work. We've been playing with the larger beads. I think they are way easier for small fingers to work with.
He designed the hearts himself and I ironed them and hot glued a pin to the back.
We mounted most of the pins inside some ready made cards that Buddy received in his Karate class. I'm torn about advertising with a valentine, but he really likes them and it was less work for me. He's really excited to give his friends something that he designed. He even has one special heart for his favorite friend in class. What do you think? Better than candy?
Have a Happy Day and a Great Heart Day.


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BRANDON ALLEN, HASLETT - Led the Vikings with 28 points in their 56-55 loss to Waverly.
JAMYRIN JACKSON, EVERETT - The senior guard had 27 points in Everett's 69-67 loss to Jackson.
SY BARNETT, CHARLOTTE - Scored 26 points to help the Orioles to a 73-57 win over Coldwater.
SAM MACDOWELL, FOWLERVILLE - Finished with 23 points in the Gladiators' 79-65 loss to Lansing Catholic.
CHAZ RICHARDSON, OKEMOS - The senior led Okemos with 23 points in a 71-50 loss to East Lansing
TONY POLJAN, LANSING CATHOLIC - The senior had 22 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cougars to a 79-65 win over Fowlerville.
DELBERT REDFIELD, OLIVET - Scored 22 points and added seven steals and five assists for the Eagles in their 62-41 victory over Maple Valley.
MALEK ADAMS, GRAND LEDGE - The senior had 21 points to help the Comets to a 53-40 win over Holt.
BRANDON JOHNS, EAST LANSING - The sophomore had 21 points and 12 rebounds to help the Trojans to a 71-50 win over Okemos.
ZAC LATTER, LESLIE - Had 21 points to lead the Blackhawks in a 46-34 win over Stockbridge.
BOBBY TADGERSON, BATH - Had 20 points to help the Bees to a 64-50 CMAC win over Potterville.
DYLAN PATTON, LESLIE - The senior had 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Blackhawks in their win over Stockbridge.
AUTUMN KISSMAN, MASON - The junior center had 29 points and 10 rebounds in a 57-47 loss to St. Johns.
RENEE STURM, WILLIAMSTON - The senior guard paced the Hornets with 25 points and 10 rebounds in their 70-45 win over Portland.
KAMRIN REED, HOLT - The senior scored 24 points in the Rams' 50-44 victory over Grand Ledge.
MADDIE WATTERS, WILLIAMSTON - The sophomore scored 23 in the Hornets' win.
TARYN MCCUTCHEON, EAST LANSING - The senior point guard had 21 points in the Trojans' 72-48 victory over Okemos.
MADDIE MALONEY, ST. JOHNS - The sophomore had 20 points for the Redwings in their win over Mason.
RACHEL SMITH, STOCKBRIDGE - Scored 20 points to help the Panthers to a 68-32 win over Leslie.
JESSI TAYLOR, STOCKBRIDGE - Had 20 points in Stockbridge's victory over Leslie.
JAYLYNN WILLIAMS, IONIA - The junior paced the Bulldogs with 20 points in their 49-47 win over Eaton Rapids.
LAYA HARTMAN, OKEMOS - The freshman guard had 19 points in a loss to East Lansing.
KELSEY FINCH, PERRY - The senior led Perry with 18 points in a 54-42 loss to Lakewood.
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Q: WPF: DataGrid Custom. ColumnDesign with my own classes I am looking for a datagrid which contains objects from my class.
class user
{
string name;
int ID;
...
}

i tried AutoGenerateColumns = true. this will add columns (name, ID, ... like the properties of my class)
but i want a different design. not all attributes from the object shold be shown and the columnheader shouldn't be generated from the variablenames...
if i build a custom. column-design, i cant add my objects / they will not be displayed.
is it possible to define my own columns according to my objects/class.
i read about databindings, but i have no idea how i can bind objects/classes in WPF.
(in Visual Studio i cant choose my class as datacontext)

A: Yes, you can define your own columns by using DataGridTemplateColumn and making AutoGenerateColumns = false.
Then you can hook in DataTemplate to this DatGridTemplatecolumn to display the object the way you want.

Please search in internet regarding DataGridTemplateColumn. You will find all the info you need.
Hope I am clear.


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Dondre Lewis Aquatic Scholarship Pilot Project a huge success!
by Robin | Aug 23, 2016 | News
Thirteen year old Dondre Lewis Drowned Saturday April 15, 2016 at Ft. McRae. There were many SEASTARS Swimmers who knew, went to school with, played football at The Salvation Army with, or played Basketball with Dondre. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children. The fatal drowning rate of African American Children ages 5-14 is almost three times that of white children in the same age range. Children from non-swimming households are eight times more likely to be at risk of drowning. The news coverage on this was very minimal and I wanted to share with The Pensacola Community the tragic loss and the importance of being a strong swimmer when we all live so close to the water.
SEASTARS had 9 swimmers donate 69 hours teaching 16 non-swimmers to swim through The Dondre Lewis Aquatic Scholarship Pilot Program which ran the month of July. So proud of The SEASTARS Swimmers for giving back to their peers! Hopefully we will be able to reach more children next year. The death of Dondre in April was tragic, we were so glad we got to help his fellow church members inside and outside of the pool!
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Rock Solid Foundation
It's more than Unix.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Figured they'd go back to Windows again
Watching the stream of complaints and horror stories about 10.5.2 gets one wondering. What went wrong? Did anything go wrong? Is there any way to set it right again?
It would seem the situation is out of control. You don't write or change code willy nilly and then go back and fix it. If you do you'll have a bug farm on your hands and you'll never get out of it. No: to produce a good system you have to proceed slowly and carefully and be prepared to roll back at any stage in the game. That's not being done with OS X.
Many people describe the 10.5.2 update as not so much an update as a 'rollback'. There isn't much that's moving forward; instead, say some, it's a PR move designed to show users the company actually listen to complaints and fix things.
But there's precious little fixed from any one POV. Naturally there are many POVs and in each POV a few things might be getting fixed; but this is in turn an indication of how comprehensive the issues are. If one goes back to Jaguar and Panther one sees nothing of the sort. At least those whose memories stretch back to Jaguar and Panther can't recall anything of the sort. And frankly few can remember anything similar happening on alternative platforms until recently either.
The sad fact of the matter is OS X 10.5.2 users are looking at and using a legacy system almost twenty years in its boots today. This system evolved over time and certainly by the time it came to Cupertino to save the exposed and vulnerable backsides of its present owners it was in pretty good shape indeed. Sun Microsystems were using it. And it looked fabulous and behaved fabulously as well.
Commercial software is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of computer science. It's promulgated by mostly two major players. Microsoft and Apple. And in many ways it turns everything topsy turvy. And odds are we're now seeing things finally coming full circle.
We're seeing change for the sake of change. We're seeing planned obsolescence. And both of these concepts fly right in the face of the rock solid foundation. Enhancements to essential Unix system modules aren't announced with a big fanfare - they're just quietly introduced, the code quietly worked on, honed and improved. Ping and traceroute remain largely as they were when they were first invented; the file system basics and security basics remain the same. And they're good too and they should remain the same.
The legacy 'MacOS' developers knew nothing of Unix. To them 'Unix' was probably a dirty four letter word. Apple had to cater to their fetishes and promise the Unix command line would be 'comfortably hidden' in the real release of OS X - whatever that means. And no: it means nothing at all. Which is precisely the point. It was just a bit of legerdemain intended to keep them at bay. Much like renaming File Viewer Finder so they stopped attacking on that front.
Jaguar and Panther users have a hard time remembering any bugs to speak of. Things took a steep turn for the worse in Tiger and they've never recovered. The tumult at One Infinite Loop seems to have brought about a situation of chaos in the system. Whether it was the crash programming for the iPhone or the need to port code to 64-bit or a panic Microsoft might be catching up or a combination of all three and more - whatever. For something's been happening and the effects are getting all too easy to see even for ordinary users.
From the POV of a system adept there are a lot of alarming things in 10.5.2 and with this company in general. Some of them boggle the mind; some are absolutely staggering. These tendencies have been noted before - as far back as Panther - and they're gaining momentum. Things are getting worse.
Considering Jaguar in August 2002 was the culmination of five and one half years of mucking about with a system initially market ready and falling through booby traps along the way - and still getting something viable out the door; considering all that it was quite a good stepping stone. It brought a lot of things together and things should have stayed right there until the rubble and dust cleared.
But they didn't. Work went on immediately - as in all commercial enterprises - to produce something people would be willing to pay for again. Another cat.
The most touted feature of Panther was Exposé. Exposé isn't an operating system feature - it's a hack. Beyond this everything was negligible. Mail swapped some adequate toolbar icons for some questionable ones; that's about it. Sysadmins liked Panther because it addressed some of their issues. Panther was basically one step forward and one step back so on the whole it wasn't anything.
Tiger was a disaster. In terms of screen appearance it made more of the gaffes Panther had made only it made them more frequent and more unforgivable. Distinction between inactive and active windows was again worsened.
What's even worse is that bugs started appearing out of nowhere where there hadn't been any before. Some of this was blamed on the reorganisation of the KPIs - kernel programming interfaces - but that excuse only holds water for a short time. Today nearly three years later there are still some serious bugs in the system and they show no sign of being fixed.
At which time you really do have to wonder if these people are going to collapse under their own weight. For say what you will about Microsoft and their world famous lack of security but they've never done things like this. If the system as a whole is wobbly and insecure then at least their APIs work.
And you can't use the excuse you're starting out and have to get things up to speed. This is code that worked and worked well - until someone came along and ruined it. And over the months and years after the onset of this corruption, as one realises the things one sees oneself are but a small part of a bigger picture, as one gets into banging one's head into the wall trying to get those responsible to roll things back to where they once worked without a hitch - as one sooner or later arrives at the realisation nothing is going to change, nothing is going to work, things are only going to continue to fall apart - over months and years of this one's forced to accept the inevitable.
Namely that the custodians of this once fine rock solid foundation don't really have a clue about it, have no appreciation or respect for it, and left to their own devices cannot but completely ruin it and bring it tumbling down.
There's no way to pick up the pieces again. At that point it's all a shambles. Reminiscent of a former system many of us have thankfully never had to use. A confused ultimately hopeless system that even used the word 'system' illegally. A system that - and this is no joke - couldn't even be kept idling overnight as it would crash, just crash, just plain crash.
And Microsoft Windows was never that bad.
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Q: Need to toggle div on button click I need to toggle a content div on right side browser window.
Something similar to this (i want to keep effects and close button) example - but with a difference, I want to open this panel from an a.class. I don´t want to open the panel based on id´s, i just want to open an area and then probably I will load ajaxed content.
Well I want to adapt the code on fiddle link to my situation but I don´t know how!
HTML Code:
Button to Open Panel

    X

A: Here - I removed the second div in the panel
DEMO
Button to open panel

$('a.teste').on('click', function() {
    $panels.trigger('togglePanel');
    return false;
});

A: something like this?
 $('a.teste').bind('click', function(e)
 {
    targetDiv = $('.teste .content');
    e.preventDefault();

    urlToLoad = $(this).attr('href');

    var request = $.ajax({
        url: urlToLoad,
        dataType: "html"
    });

    request.done(function(data) {
        targetDiv.html( data );
    });

    request.fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
        alert( "Could not load the page: " + textStatus );
    });

 });