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Marvel-ous Weddings and some upcoming nuptials
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By Jason Sansbury	 On Jan 24, 2018 Last updated Jan 23, 2018
In a storyline that would never get approved today, in the Chris Claremont era of the X-Men, a young Kitty Pryde became smitten with the hunky muscular Russian hero Colossus and over time that relationship has developed, with a series of ebbs and flows.
It first fell apart because Peter cheated on Kitty when all the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe were taken by the Beyonder to the Battleworld of the original Secret World series. (To be fair, Peter was healed by an alien whose powers seemed to heal the body and cast a spell of love over you at the same time.) Ultimately, Kitty left Peter when he kept being willing to sacrifice himself to save others. In fact, he was thought dead in just such a circumstance when he sacrificed himself to seed out the cure for the Legacy Virus that was killing many.
When Joss Whedon began the series Astonishing X-Men, we discovered that Colossus was not dead when Kitty finds him buried deep in a complex. Their reunion is a magical one, and you get a variety of great moments with them in the series. But because Whedon is Whedon, Kitty has to sacrifice herself to save everyone and drifts deep into space.
Since then, there have been a variety of changes and situations but last week, Marvel announced that Kitty Pryde and Peter Rasputin will be married in the pages of X-Men: Gold #30 in June, continuing a long list of amazing, Marvel-ous weddings.
Marvel Comics Weddings
First up, if you want to have a wedding that every Marvel character is going to attend, it had to take place in the pages of the comic that is, at its core, about family: the Fantastic Four. In Fantastic Four Annual #3, uber scientist Reed Richards marries the love of his life Sue Storm while Doctor Doom tries to ruin it. It created some fun dynamics for the early Marvel universe, as we got to see heroes fight villains that were normally someone else's foe. This one was the first of the Marvel titles and it set up some ideas that we definitely see revisited in the later weddings in the Marvel Universe.
So, this next one…it never happened. Allegedly. In the notorious storyline Spider-Man: One More Day, the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson is undone. But before that happened, Marvel threw one heck of a wedding in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, which also crossed over with the Spider-Man comic strip that was appearing in newspapers as well. At the time, it really did mark Marvel's willingness to allow characters to grow older, albeit slowly. Today, many fans are extremely disappointed with the outcome of the One More Day plot line and when Marvel announced a wedding for 2018, many of us were hoping to see this one revisited and one of the worse retcons of all time to be undone.
If you want a wedding that may have future implications in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you should look no further than Giant-Size Avengers #4. There we see the stunning wedding of the android Vision with the mutant Scarlet Witch. It came during a time of the Avengers that is just full of wacky plots and ideas and this one is included. This wedded duo will have LOTS of impact across the Marvel universe for literally decades to come, especially as Wanda's powers let some crazy things happen, like her having children and wiping out mutants from existence.
And, speaking of mutants, for the longest time the biggest "Will they or won't they?" of the Marvel Universe was Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Were Cyclops and Marvel Girl destined to be apart forever? Especially at the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga, it looked like they were. But with Grey's return, the launch of X-Factor and coming to terms with it all, we wind up with a spectacular wedding in X-Men #30. It is spectacular for its 1990s style but it also has a couple of touching moments, like Wolverine, who is thought to be absent but is really protecting the wedding from the approaching bad guys, which had become a Marvel wedding trope by this time, and Jean Grey telekinetically "dancing" with Professor Xavier for the final dance of the evening and Scott and Jean's dance to U2.
So, what will Kitty and Colossus' wedding hold? Who knows! But it will join a long running pantheon of mighty Marvel marriages. (At least until Mephisto shows up.)
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Jason moved to Atlanta to take a job to fund his nerd obsessions. Put best, he loves stories and the best genres that tell them, be it movies, comics, books or video games. It all started when his dad used to pick him up from daycare and take him to see "Star Wars" when he was only 4 years old. Proud owner of a Marvel No-Prize.
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Kopp helped Harvard total just 81 points in 17 races (photo courtesy Rob Migliaccio).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Harvard sailors placed in the top five of four regattas over the weekend. The Crimson finished second at the Dorchester Bay Invitational, fourth at the Old Guard regatta and Boston Dinghy Cup and fifth at the Duplin Trophy Women's Team Race.
Alan Palmer skippered the Crimson to a second-place finish in the A Division at the Old Guard, hosted by Tufts. Harvard sailors came won a pair of B divisions, Brendan Kopp and Alma Lafler at the Dinghy Cup and Jason Michas and Alex Bick in the Dorchester Bay Invitational.
The 16-team Old Guard, hosted by Brown, awards the Owen, Mosbacher and Knapp Trophies. Yale took the Owen Trophy as the overall winner and the Mosbacher as the Ivy League champion, while Kings Point earned the Knapp as the top-finishing service academy.
Harvard placed fourth overall 137 points, led by Palmer with 40 in the A division. With help from crews Meghan Wareham, Michelle Konstadt and Winston Yan, he won three times and had four runner-up finishes in 12 races, never finishing outside the top half of the field. The Crimson finished three points back of division-winner Yale.
Kopp and Lafler dominated the B division in the Dinghy Cup, hosted by Harvard, Boston University and MIT. Racing 17 times in an 18-school field, the Crimson duo won twice and finished outside the top five just three times. They won the division by 22 points.
Michas and Bick totaled 104 points in 15 races in the Dorchester Bay regatta, hosted by Boston College. With both pairs from all nine schools racing against one another, they finished second on three occasions and finished fifth among the 18 total boats. The A-division duo of Sam Millham and Jin Zang was just five points back, as Harvard trailed only BU in the overall standings.
In the Duplin Trophy at Tufts, the Harvard pairs of Liz Powers and Marie Appel and Emily Lambert and Alexandra Jumper teamed up with a BU duo for an 8-9 overall record.

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Q: Laravel Ajax delete record with button I do not understand why it does not work:
Route
Route::delete('/dashboard/booking/deletebooking/{id}','ResourceController@deletebooking')->name('works.deletebooking');

ResourceController
public function deletebooking($id){
    $booking = Booking::where('id','=',$id)->get();
    $booking->delete();

    return response()->json(['success' => true],200);
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        <button class="btn btn-danger btn-xs" id="destroy" data-id="{{$booking->id}}" data-token="{{ csrf_token() }}">

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$(".btn").click(function(){
    var id = $(this).data('id');

   // var $tr = $(this).closest('tr');
    $.ajax({
                url: "/dashboard/booking/deletebooking/"+id,
                dataType: "JSON",
                type: 'POST',
                data: {
                    '_token': $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr("content"),
                    '_method': 'DELETE',
                     "id": id
                },
                success: function ()
                {
                    console.log("it Work");
                }
            });

    console.log("It failed");
});

I have this error:

Request URL: http://pickbooking.local/dashboard/booking/deletebooking/1
  Request Method: POST
  Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error
  Remote Address: 192.168.10.10:80

A: The issue is in the method used for the ajax call post
// var $tr = $(this).closest('tr');
$.ajax(
        {
            url: "/dashboard/booking/deletebooking/"+id,
            dataType: "JSON",
            type: 'POST',
            data: {
                '_token': $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr("content"),
                '_method': 'DELETE',
                 "id": id
            },
            success: function ()
            {
                console.log("it Work");
            }
        });

the data will be sent in the body of the request, and in a DELETE request, there is no body. so laravel wont see the _method, or the _token. Either you send them in a GET request and let the _method do it's job (it will be in the url, not in the body), Or use the DELETE method in the ajax call
// var $tr = $(this).closest('tr');
$.ajax(
        {
            url: "/dashboard/booking/deletebooking/"+id,
            dataType: "JSON",
            type: 'DELETE',
            data: {
                '_token': $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr("content"),
            },
            success: function ()
            {
                console.log("it Work");
            }
        });

A: Because I think you have an error something like

Method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::delete does not exist.

Instead try something like this
$booking = Booking::where('id', '=', $id)->first();
$booking->delete();

so that $booking can have method delete()

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You are receiving frequent complaints about the state of the cleanliness of your office and you're stuck on deciding whether to replace your janitorial service or not!
Well, complaints regarding a service are usually raised by clients. However, as an employer you will need to verify them and in order to do that, you will have to determine if your commercial cleaning contractor is coming up short on keeping the office clean and tidy, or if it's because of the office staffs themselves.
Check If You are Receiving the Follow up Calls or Visits A good cleaning service will keep following up with you to ensure your needs and expectations are being met. If they aren't following up, it shows their lack of commitment to customer service. In that case, you can go one step further and call them about the ineffectiveness of their cleaning service and lack of follow-ups. If their response is not satisfactory, it's time to replace them for good.
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The Docklands Light Railway (the DLR) is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London. It reaches north to Stratford, south to Lewisham, west to Tower Gateway and Bank in the City of London financial district, and east to Beckton, London City Airport and Woolwich Arsenal. The system uses minimal staffing on trains and at major interchange stations; the four sub-surface stations are staffed to comply with underground station requirements.
The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Docklands, part of the Serco Group. The system is owned by Docklands Light Railway Ltd, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London. In 2011 the DLR carried over 86 million passengers. It has been extended several times and further extensions are planned.
The docks immediately east of London began to decline in the early 1960s as cargo became containerised. The opening of the Tilbury container terminal, further east in Essex, rendered them redundant and in 1980 the government gained control. The Jubilee line of the London Underground opened in 1979 from Stanmore to Charing Cross as the first stage of an intended cross-town line to south-east London. Land at Ludgate Circus and Lewisham had been reserved for the second stage, a station partly constructed in the City and buildings at Cannon Street modified, but rising costs and the low level of development in Docklands then envisaged not justifying the railway led to the project's indefinite postponement in the early 1980s.
The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at Stratford, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available for interchange with the Central Line and main line. Stratford was preferred to the Mile End alternative, which would have involved street running trams and was at variance with the concept of a fully automated railway.
The contract for the initial system was awarded to GEC Mowlem in 1984 and the initial system was constructed from 1985 to 1987 at a cost of £77 million. The line was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August 1987.
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The initial system comprised two routes, from Tower Gateway and Stratford to Island Gardens. Most was elevated on disused railway viaducts or new concrete viaducts, with use of disused surface railway formation between Poplar and Stratford. A disused platform was available at Stratford to allow connections to the Central line and main line services to East Anglia and Southend. Stratford also had a Low Level station for the North London Line from North Woolwich to Richmond. The section from Stratford (Low Level) to North Woolwich was closed and converted into a DLR route to Woolwich Arsenal across the Thames with a new extension north to Stratford International with connections to the High Speed line to Europe and Kent.
DLR sets 30 and 85 at Stratford (DLR High Level)
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Stratford (DLR High Level) seen from a departing train running onto the single line section running alongside the Great Eastern Main Lines
The route from Stratford ran as a single line alongside the Great Eastern Main Line to Pudding Mill Lane where there was a simple island platform and a loop. Pudding Mill Lane was the closest DLR station to the 2012 Olympic Park but it was closed for safety reasons during the Olympics due to its inadequate capacity, visitors having the use Stratford. A new two platform station had been built at Stratford allowing a more frequent service. In 2014 a new Pudding Mill Lane station was built on a new double-track viaduct slightly to the south of the current line. This was to allow room for the Crossrail line to surface there and connect with surface lines from Stratford. The new Pudding Mill Lane is a massive structure by DLR standards, presumably to cater for vast hordes of people once the original Olympic Park (now the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park) is fully reopened. The longer section of double track through Pudding Mill Lane also improves the number of train paths into Stratford.
The original minimalist Pudding Mill Lane station seen from a departing DLR train.
The new station is being built to the right and Crossrail will emerge in the area between the old and new DLR lines.
The new Pudding Mill Lane station and viaduct being built.
The new loop and viaduct at Pudding Mill Lane station looking towards Stratford
Great Eastern main Lines on left
The hideous tower built for the Stratford Olympic park - Please demolish it
The new Pudding Mill Lane station looking towards Poplar
The new Pudding Mill Lane station
Detail of the third rail power bars at a section break
DLR set 30 at Pudding Mill Lane
DLR set 130 leaving and arriving at Pudding Mill Lane from for/from Stratford
DLR set 136 arriving at Pudding Mill Lane from from Stratford
DLR set 97 leaving Pudding Mill Lane for Stratford
DLR set 119 leaving Pudding Mill Lane for Poplar
DLR set 146 at Pudding Mill Lane heading for Stratford
DLR 29 in new Pudding Mill Lane station seen from a train for Poplar
The new Pudding Mill Lane station looking towards Stratford seen from a train for Poplar
The single line splits approaching Bow Church station just beyond the bridge
DLR set 24 at Bow Church heading to Stratford where the single track begins
Bow Church station
DLR sets 29+67 at Bow Church
DLR set 119 arriving at Bow Church station heading to Stratford
Stratford International - Canning Town
Stratford (Low Level)
Stratford DLR (Low Level) seen from the entrance to Straford (High Level)
Stratford High Street
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Q: Ionic: Disqus embed loads locally, but not in production (or on an emulator) I've built a simple Android app, as a companion piece to a publication website, with the Ionic framework, and (after much head-banging), I managed to get the Disqus threads on the app to sync with those on the site. After trying a few different methods, I ended up going with this directive from Michael Bromley to implement the Disqus widget in the app, which is hiding behind a "Comments" button at the bottom of each article on the app's UI.
Running with Ionic Serve, everything works brilliantly. Outside of the local server: not so much. I don't get an error message from Disqus – it simply doesn't load the iframe at all. I'm refraining from posting code, because I'm wondering if this is simply a CORS issue, or maybe something simple that I'm overlooking.
One thing that might be of importance: I don't have the Crosswalk plugin installed on the app – I'm not sure if my thinking is correct, here, but could it be possible that Disqus is compatible with Chrome, which is why it runs fine when I'm testing it on my browser, but isn't compatible with Android's default browser? I'm not extremely well-read on Crosswalk, but I believe it tells the app to use a specific browser – if so, could installing it fix the problem? I'd go ahead and install it, and see if it helps, but I'd like to avoid tampering too much with an otherwise-working app if the issue is something completely unrelated to the plugins.
One weird caveat: The Disqus comments loaded on one article just fine when I tested the app on Genymotion. I deleted that article, and created a new Test article on my site (thus firing up a new Disqus thread), and that failed to render on Genymotion. It seems very... random, I guess, that it would work once. It would seem that it would either work all the time, or never work.
EDIT: While running on Genymotion, no errors appear in the console when debugging the app with WebView. The fact that I'm not getting a "Refused to load" error makes me think that Disqus is getting called and, for whatever reason, is refusing to answer the phone at all.

A: I can spend hours trying to figure something out, and then... well, as soon as I post a question, I end up figuring out the answer five minutes later.
I dug looked into the code for the directive I was using (which I highly recommend for anybody looking to easily implement Disqus into any AngularJS project), and I noticed that was calling for embed.js with the following string:
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if (!$window.DISQUS) {
                        var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
                        dsq.src = '//' + scope.config.disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
                        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
                    } else {

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Amending dsq.src = '//' + scope.config.disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';to add a protocol, making it dsq.src = 'http://' + scope.config.disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';fixed the issue on Genymotion. I'll ship the updated APK to the Play Store, and comment on this answer to confirm whether or not it holds up there, as well.


The response from Gladstone's first female-only defence class for domestic violence is evidence it's been a long time coming.
Held at Gladstone's PCYC, program organiser Bec Frost said it's advertised as a fun fitness program but was really designed to help build positive relationships and emotional strength.
"The program is called RUBY and it is an acronym for rise up and be yourself," Ms Frost said.
Ms Frost said the class was an opportunity for women who had been in a domestic violence relationship and for women who were currently in one to regain their self-esteem and confidence.
"The program originally started in 2012 but it was only at Beenleigh," she said.
Ms Frost said a police officer and fitness instructor also attend the class and get involved.
"Everyone gets engaged and it's a lot of fun," she said.
"It's the first time we've had something like this for Gladstone and it's incredibly important.
"We're also lucky enough o get some funding from Coordinated Community Response to Domestic and Family Violence so we can provide morning teas after the session.
To get involved, email Bec Frost at ruby.gladstone@pcyc .org.au.
Originally Published by The Gladstone Observer, continue reading here.


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Community Blog Yong Yang (Chairman of OpenAnolis Technical Committee): Outlook for the Next Generation Operating System
Yong Yang (Chairman of OpenAnolis Technical Committee): Outlook for the Next Generation Operating System
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This article is a transcript of Yong Yang's speech from the 2022 Apsara Conference Anolis Operating System session.
Watch the replay of the Apsara Conference 2022 at this link!
At the recent 2022 Apsara Conference Anolis Operating System session, Yong Yang (Chairman of OpenAnolis Technical Committee and Director of Alibaba Cloud Operating System Technology) delivered a keynote speech called Outlook for the Next Generation Operating System. The following article is a transcript of the speech.
Today, let me report on the future outlook of the Anolis Operating System (Anolis OS). The overall content will be divided into three parts: community development status, technical strategy and R&D progress, and next evolution/outlook.
Focusing on Systematic Investing:Upgrade the Native Community of the Next-Generation Operating System
First, let me introduce the recent development status of the community. At the beginning of the establishment of OpenAnolis, we insisted on developing a relatively systematic and complete layout. As shown in the figure, a systematic collaboration is formed in the upstream, midstream, and downstream of the international open-source ecosystem.
First of all, in international upstream projects, OpenAnolis has maintained its technical leadership in open-source innovation. For example, some of our recent work on cloud-native storage has formed a de facto standard in the Linux community. Based on the network interface protocol interfaces of DPU (RDMA and VIRTIO), we have made our own new protocol station (SMC-R) and new protocol specification (VIRTIO 1.2), some of which have been accepted by the international community as the next-generation standard.
Secondly, the community's 21 executive director units and nearly 250 partners are forming a collaborative division of labor in the operating system industry through the community and supporting the business models of various downstream manufacturers through the evolution and iteration of community products. The upstream and downstream cooperation is linked through creating product ecology. For example, Anolis OS currently has a community version, a commercial derivative version, and an enterprise-customized version. Anolis OS can meet diverse user demands through such a community product matrix.
When it comes to the community version, in addition to the current mainstream version of Anolis OS 8, we have released the public preview of Anolis OS 23. We plan to release the official version in 2023.
We have completed the transition from product-oriented R&D to native community-oriented collaboration over the past year because of the plan for the next-generation operating system. There are three perspectives of the transition:
Firstly, from the user perspective, we faced the impact of CentOS EOL on users. We seized this opportunity and rapidly expanded the number of community users. At the same time, we have found like-minded partners, and more manufacturers have joined the community. However, we didn't stop there. We ponder the future of the entire computing industry, clearly set out the community's long-term mission, and take solving the problem of enterprise cloud migration as an important driving force for community progress, helping enterprises migrate to the cloud and make good use of the cloud.
Secondly, from the product perspective, we are thinking about two questions. One question is – OpenAnolis has created a traditional classic Linux distribution. How can we further iterate into a better product form with cloud-native technology in the future? Another question is – How can we continue to lead the innovation in the industry? It is worth mentioning that the OpenAnolis Technical Committee recently announced the next-generation operating system roadmap and released the Anolis Cloud Native Suite (ACNS) for the first time. In addition, in terms of the capability of security vulnerability management for CVE, OpenAnolis adheres to policy compliance and has further cooperation and interaction internationally.
Finally, from the perspective of community developers, we are constantly thinking about how to do a good job in the selection of operating systems and the construction of the entire open-source supply chain through the hierarchical and classified technology roadmap. OpenAnolis is a developer platform and a product collaboration platform, which is a very large and complex system. As a result, we will upgrade community infrastructure capabilities around the next-generation operating system.
Based on this, the OpenAnolis Technical Committee released a blueprint for the community's product versions for the next three years.
First of all, Anolis OS will have a major community version every two years. Every four years, one of the major versions will be selected as the LTS version to support the upstream and downstream products of the community. In this release, around the three-year plan of the community version of the product, the derivative plan of the community downstream products is gradually being improved and disclosed. Let's take the community executive director unit, UnionTech Software Technology Co., Ltd., and Alibaba Cloud products as examples. Relying on the community's three-year plan, they have also released plans for downstream derivative versions, including the current major version and the next-generation version.
Secondly, we promote technology commercialization in a three-step strategy in technology governance.
First, relying on the community version, create a community innovation technology portal. Based on the hierarchical and classified technology roadmap, promote the realization of collaborative research and development by communities.
Second, promote the incubation and maturity of innovative technology features through the community and transplant these technologies to mainstream versions.
Third, innovative technologies can meet commercial standards and be merged into the commercial version of partners through the large-scale use of community products. For example, as mentioned earlier, we have standards for cloud-native storage features and cloud-native network-related features upstream but also apply them to scale in other Internet companies in China.
Technology Upgrade: Eight Technical Directions
Next, let's talk about the layout and development progress of the next-generation operating system of the community. The community today has 49 SIGs, hundreds of maintainers, and thousands of developers. How can the community achieve efficient innovation and integrated delivery of products at this scale? We have clearly focused on eight technical directions (as shown in the figure above) we call three horizontal and five vertical architectures.
The three horizontal architecture includes two north directions and one south direction. The northbound directions are the two scenarios of the classic operating system and cloud-native. Today, these two scenarios have a rich ecosystem. The southbound scenario focuses on the hardware ecosystem. We hope that in a multi-chipset, multi-data center future, there will be a very good product to accommodate this diversity that can give users a consistent experience on and off the cloud.
The five vertical architecture covers full-stack work, including security and credibility, programming language, software and hardware collaboration, O&M and performance, and community infrastructure. For example, the work of cloud-native DPU requires a system design of software and hardware collaboration. The protocol specifications followed by DPU, running the operating system software stack on DPU, and running the protocol application software are typical software and hardware collaboration innovations.
We believe the competitiveness of the future community will focus on these eight directions. Both the release of Anolis OS and the demand pool for community product demand management will be organized based on these eight technical directions. As a result, OpenAnolis will focus on the eight technical directions and gain more technical influence, richer open-source product matrix more external industry cooperation, and a richer hardware ecosystem.
Next, we move on to the next-generation operating system-Anolis OS 23. In terms of future technology trends, OpenAnolis mainly focuses on the technology trends of the next-generation data center, the requirements of the next-generation cloud-native software stack, and the technology development trend of software and hardware collaboration. In terms of product positioning, OpenAnolis should consider industry compliance and technological leadership. We can see that cloud computing head vendors have released next-generation operating systems, and new technologies for next-generation data centers in the industry are constantly emerging. The technical roadmap of the community must be forward-looking, with a future-oriented view of 3-5 years. Another important point is to do a good job in the compliance of the open-source software supply chain.
Next, let's introduce the main product features of Anolis OS 23. Firstly, Anolis OS 23 adopts a dual-kernel architecture: 5.10 default kernel and 6.x innovative kernel. Among them, the 5.10 kernel is the productional kenrel that supports the next-generation data center chips. The 6.x kernel, which is the focus of future research and development of the OpenAnolis Technical Committee and community executive director units, is in continuous rolling selection. Second, Anolis OS 23 adopts the toolchain for chipset optimization, which is the key to system performance improvement. Third, scenario-oriented optimization of peripheral solutions and features together form a peripheral product matrix around Anolis OS 23, such as the ACNS and SiliconFastOS released here. In addition, the main product features include security and credibility, software and hardware collaboration, read-only storage, and container storage.
Finally, focus on the Anolis Cloud Native Suite (ACNS). In future cloud-native scenarios, the design starting point of ACNS is still relatively high, considering what kind of software stack the user needs. For example, the ACK-D in the ACNS is a Kubernetes distribution. In addition, Kata 3.0 in the upstream became the de facto standard of the community and the best practice of OpenAnolis. As for the cloud-native storage, we have implemented the main feature of EROFS in the Linux 5.19 kernel, and the feature is supported in the community 5.10 and 4.19 kernel. With this main feature and the CNCF Nydus project, a complete cloud-native storage acceleration scheme is formed and applied in other Internet companies. In addition, the suite includes the image distribution operating system and LifseaOS for container optimization, reducing the cost of data centers. This technology has begun to benefit the downstream enterprise market and has formed a case of enterprise application.
Future Technology Evolution and Outlook
Let's imagine what the future technological evolution of OpenAnolis will look like if ACNS and Anolis OS 23 constitute an evolutionary starting point for the future software stack together.
Here, we briefly talk about the possible future direction of technological evolution. The industry is facing a fragmented hardware ecosystem where heterogeneous computing is diversified in the cloud-edge-terminal scenario. How the operating system can provide a consistent experience for application developers while providing diversified support in cloud scenarios is the goal of Anolis OS over the next three to five years. We also see that in Apsara or the computing industry, the Serverless cloud-native is the future trend. The Anolis OS must serve such scenarios well.
Today, the development of hardware has entered a so-called post-Moore era. Although the chipset manufacturing technology continues to develop (1 nanometer), the overall development speed is slowing down. This brings a big challenge to today's data centers and will promote the emergence of some relatively innovative technologies in the data center (such as the development of heterogeneous computing), especially the development of DPU technology or XPU and the development of intelligent hardware. A smaller operating system may run inside the hardware. Relying on the system data, the hardware uses resource management and scheduling technology to reduce the computing costs of the data center. In addition, technologies related to pooling physical resources can continuously improve computing density and reliability and break the boundaries of existing physical machines. In the post-Moore era, we stand on the operating system and need to fully consider multiple development directions and opportunities, such as intelligent hardware, resource pooling, data security and privacy computing, and full-stack collaborative design and optimization of software and hardware.
Finally, OpenAnolis will soon set up an accelerator SIG, and we will release the accelerator plan. We hope we will have more achievements in software and hardware collaboration over the next three years.
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Hey is trying a new take on email – but maker complains of 'outrageous' demands after Apple rejects iOS app
Downside of requiring a dedicated app rather than a standard email client?
Tim Anderson Wed 17 Jun 2020 // 12:30 UTC
A new email service called Hey aims to solve issues with one of the internet's oldest standards – but Apple will not allow the iOS client into its app store unless the maker pays Cupertino "15-30 per cent of our revenue."
Hey comes from Basecamp, the company (originally called 37signals) founded by Ruby on Rails inventor David Heinemeier Hansson. You can still see the "37 signals" here – opinions about how stuff should work, the first being "the web should empower, not frustrate." The concepts behind Hey are in tune with that philosophy and attempt to make dealing with email more pleasant and productive.
Frustration is the order of the day for now, though, as Hansson has run up against Apple's App Store policies. Hey requires a dedicated app, rather than working with any email client, and users pay a subscription of $99 per year. "That makes our business work without having to sell your data, advertise to you, or otherwise engage in unscrupulous marketing tactics," its makers claim.
Apple therefore wants its cut. The Hey app was originally accepted into the App Store, but Apple has now said that this was a mistake. This is doubly unfortunate because users who already have the app cannot update it to fix bugs. Hansson has taken to Twitter to complain – a common recourse for those who feel mistreated by the tech giants.
Wow. I'm literally stunned. Apple just doubled down on their rejection of HEY's ability to provide bug fixes and new features, unless we submit to their outrageous demand of 15-30% of our revenue. Even worse: We're told that unless we comply, they'll REMOVE THE APP.
— DHH (@dhh) June 16, 2020
Hansson claims Apple's App Store practices are "capricious, exploitive, and inconsistent." He said: "We did everything we were supposed to with the iOS app. Try downloading it (while you can?). You can't sign up, because Apple says no. We don't mention subscriptions. You can't upgrade. You can't access billing. We did all of it! Wasn't enough."
Not so nice, we investigated them twice: EU opens double whammy of inquiries into Apple's biz practices
Apple for its part has given detailed reasons for the rejection. The guidelines (or rules) for the App Store are here.
Normally Apple requires that subscriptions are offered through in-app purchase, which means Apple takes its share, normally 30 per cent. There is a clause 3.1.3(a) that allows "Reader Apps" for content subscriptions purchased elsewhere "provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase."
Apple has decided that Hey does not qualify as a Reader App, saying: "Since the email services offered in your app are not of the type listed under guideline 3.1.3(a) for 'Reader' apps, customers must be able to purchase access to features or functionality in your app using in-app purchase."
Hansson said that "we've been in the App Store with Basecamp for years" and that "it was always customer-hostile, deeply confusing, but the unstated lines were reasonably clear. Now Apple has altered the deal."
The reason given by Apple, he said, "is preposterously false and inconsistent. The Basecamp app has been in the App Store for years offering access to a subscription bought elsewhere. The store is full of apps doing just that. Even other emails apps!"
He cited instances of several apps that offer subscriptions without in-app payment options, including Slack, Microsoft Outlook, and Spark mail. Apple apparently told him: "We are not going to talk about other apps." Apple also told reporter David Pierce that "Apple allows these kinds of client apps for business services but not consumer products" – though there is no mention of this distinction in the published guidelines.
Apple is currently the subject of an EU investigation into its business practices.
How do you solve a problem like email
What of Hey itself, though? Email is a service that most cannot do without, especially in business, despite huge growth in non-email messaging services such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, or direct messages on services like Twitter.
Email is an ancient internet standard that is not owned by anyone that lets anyone send a message to anyone, armed only with an email address. But it's not without problems. There is too much of it, mostly either benign advertising and marketing junk, or malicious junk that tries to steal credentials or infect a device with malware. Flagging email as spam or ham is an inexact science, the result being that some always goes the wrong way.
Even if you are lucky enough to have most of the rubbish filtered out, dealing with the volume of legitimate business emails is a challenge. Another issue is that top-posting means many emails carry with them the entire thread (sometimes causing embarrassment as users do not check exactly what past messages they are sending to a new recipient). It is an archaic system, but it is the standard.
Hey claims to fix email, which according to Basecamp has seen little innovation since the launch of Google's Gmail in 2004. Hey describes itself as a "full email service provider" with a few key features. You have to approve senders, who until then are listed in a "first-time senders" section. If rejected, subsequent emails go directly into a spam box. You can enable a sender to bypass the quarantine by giving them a code; these can be regenerated to prevent leaked codes causing trouble. The inbox is renamed the "Imbox" on the basis that anything that makes it is "Im"portant. File attachments that you send are not included with the email, but sent as links to files stored on Basecamp's servers.
"Email's forever benefited the sender over the receiver," Hey's manifesto reads. You can rename or merge email threads; and email trackers, which tell the sender when you opened the message, are mostly blocked. "We bulk strip everything that even smells like a spy pixel," Basecamp explains on its website. In addition, all images are routed through the Hey servers so that the recipient's IP address is never revealed.
No automated signatures or footers are allowed. "The email already says it's from you. If someone needs your phone number, they can ask," says Basecamp.
The system does not show numbers of unread messages as this is an unnecessary distraction. Notifications are off, though you can enable notifications for specific senders or threads. Attachments are filed automatically in an attachment library.
A "Reply later" folder lets you store emails for attention at another time – better than the common technique of marking an email unread, according to Basecamp. There is also a "Set Aside" section for messages you might want for reference, and a "Paper Trail" section for receipts. Another feature is the ability to expand all unread emails in a single action so you can scroll through without opening each one individually. There is also a technique for managing frequent senders: you can bundle all their messages together so "they'll only take up a single row in your Imbox."
Hey has client apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, as well as Android and the troubled iOS version. You can forward email from other providers to Hey, but you cannot directly connect a Hey app to other email services. You cannot import existing emails into Hey, the stated reason being that this encourages bloat. Two-factor authentication is required for "all paying customers" and the database is encrypted at rest and in transit, though Hey holds the encryption keys so presumably could be forced to decrypt them in certain circumstances.
The company has some distinctive ideas, some of which will resonate with long-time email sufferers.
Can it succeed? There are a few caveats. The number of individuals willing to pay for a service when there are free and not-too-bad alternatives like Gmail and Outlook.com will be limited. There is also the question: if Hey does not support standard email clients, is it really email? It is a trade-off but nevertheless good to see attention paid to what is, for many, a troublesome messaging system. ®
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Through her practice and her podcast, Dr. Baker provides information and inspiration to help clients and listeners thrive. Needless to say, I was very excited to have her on the Therapy Spot to share her insights with all of you! If you've struggled with an especially vocal inner critic, or feelings of shame around Self-care, this podcast is for you.
Pop quiz! Pretend a coworker just told you, "Wow, you did a fantastic job today." How are you more likely to reply?
We all struggle to be kind to ourselves. But would you want to be friends with someone who spoke to you, the way you speak to yourself? Someone who nitpicks, puts you down, and breaks promises? Your critic might force you to be more productive, but it probably also makes you feel pretty low. Dr. Baker realized that criticism didn't motivate her — but kind words from her friends did. She decided it was time to be a better friend to herself.
Do you feel a certain fear about "letting yourself off the hook"? Do you worry that if you're kind and loving towards yourself, you'll never get anything done? The truth is, you don't need to be cruel to hold yourself accountable. With compassion, you can learn from your mistakes. Just think of how you would speak to a close friend who made a mistake.
Punishment can work in the short term, but it doesn't lead to long-lasting growth and change. Positive reinforcement and compassion, however, can help you learn from your mistakes and make better choices in the future.
Self-care should be the easiest thing in the world, really: of course we want to take care of ourselves. Nobody wants to suffer. Unfortunately, many of us neglect this crucial aspect of our wellbeing. Sometimes we get caught up in stress, hard work, or helping other people. Other times, we almost feel shame about self care. We often mistake putting ourselves first as being selfish rather than being self-focused.
It's almost a matter of survival: stay busy, please others, and focus outwards.
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These organizations regulate the operation of any businesses that serve alcohol, specifically, items like brewing and distilling operations, packaging and distribution, sales, and permitting requirements.
Do these Laws Apply to Craft Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries? Yes: these laws and regulations apply to craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries. However, they also apply to any business or establishment that serves alcoholic beverages.
What is the North Carolina ABC Commission?
The North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABC) is an independent agency housed within the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and which reports directly to the Governor's Office. The ABC controls the sale, purchase, transport, manufacture, consumption, and possession of any alcoholic beverage throughout North Carolina. The ABC meets monthly to hear and act upon issues like permit violations, requests for approval of new ABC stores, and other alcohol-related matters.
What other legal considerations should breweries, wineries and distilleries be aware of?
Distribution can cause sticky situations for businesses that serve craft beverages. For instance, generally, in-state manufacturers can sell directly to consumers. However, out-of-state breweries cannot sell directly to consumers. Rather, they must obtain a permit from the State, and register their products with both the ABC and the TTB. They must then work with a licensed North Carolina wholesaler, who will then sell the products to a retailer.
Another complexity is that once a brewery enters an agreement with a distributor, it is obligated to work with that distributor in perpetuity – with few exceptions (for instance, if the distributor goes bankrupt). These laws were crafted to protect the rights of wholesalers, who often substantially invest in warehouse space and transportation fleets only to be abandoned by the businesses. This arrangement carries far less financial risk for distributors, but can be limiting for retailers.
When it comes to distributing liquor (as opposed to beer or wine), the rules become even more complicated. North Carolina is one of a few "control" states, meaning the State controls the distribution and sale of liquor. To distill liquor, in-state distilleries need to obtain certain necessary federal and state permits. And to sell products in ABC stores, manufacturers must seek product approval before the ABC. Once liquor is approved for sale, it is subject to an 86% markup. Items that do not sell well are at the mercy of the State's discretion and can be removed from the market.
While in the past, the only place to purchase a bottle of liquor was at a State-run ABC store, now, distilleries can sell bottles of any products they distill to consumers on-site. Pricing is managed like it is at the ABC stores. Also, distilleries can now obtain retail permits to sell mixed drinks along with beer and wine. This is good for small businesses as well as tourism in the State.
In short, our State's regulatory schema is dated – but in recent years, legislation has loosened the strictures binding retailers. Still, the regulations can feel rigid, challenging, and unforgiving for many small businesses seeking to expand their product offerings and encourage growth.
How can an alcohol and beverage attorney help?
An attorney who is well-versed in alcohol and beverage law can help small businesses and retailers navigate the complex federal, state, and local regulations. In particular, they can help with:
Brewing and/or distilling operations;
Entity formation, operating agreements, and mergers and acquisitions;
Purchasing and leasing equipment;
Compliance with labeling and advertising;
Intellectual property protection
Local zoning, permitting, and licensing; and
Sales, packaging, and distribution.
The laws are complex and the penalties unforgiving, so it is highly useful to engage an experienced attorney to help you navigate the often unsettled waters of alcoholic beverage regulation. If you have questions about how the law specifically applies to your business, reach out to an attorney who is well-versed in the specifics of alcohol and beverage law to ensure you are in compliance.
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Guys, anxiety is so hot right now! It's the the kale smoothie of mental unrest. If the 90's was all depression, the 21st century is all anxiety. It is more common than a bearded bicyclist. In fact, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1997, anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem affecting Australians, with 9.7% or 1.3 million adult Australians (12% women and 7.1% men) reported to suffer some form of clinical anxiety during a 12 month period.
If you struggle at all with anxiety, like so many of the my most beloved people, I have a book for you.
My uncle Dr. Chris Mogan, a Melbourne-based anxiety specialist, has written Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, a fantastic resource which offers practical strategies for managing worry, changing your thinking, supporting your mental health with lifestyle and breaking down what different therapies might involve.
I have a copy of his book to give away, and for an honest and funny first person account of living with anxiety, I also suggest you check out The Little Mumma.
Secondly, I have a copy of the wonderful book The Post-Baby Conversation by Alison Osborne. This book was published in 2006, the year my first was born. It's such a helpful read for a family navigating the surging, wild seas of parenthood for the first time. This book is not about babies, or about parenting, but rather about how to be a Couple With Children - a vastly different kind of couple than you were before having a baby.
How do you share responsibility for the new jobs created in this crazy new baby economy you live in? What will happen after work and on weekends? What kind of expectations are you both silently holding about what the other should do?
Conversations about these things are incredibly helpful for couples figuring out how to do family life - it's an ever-evolving work in progress , after all.
I think every new parent should get a copy of this book in the maternity ward.But until then, I have realised I have two copies, so I'd love to give one away. If you have a new baby in your life, know somebody who has, or if you are just grappling with these questions, I hope this book might shine some light for you.
Leave a comment below telling me whether you would like Anxiety For Dummies, or The Post-Baby Conversation, and I will choose a winner at random.


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COVID-19 (Australia): ASX Class Waiver to Give Effect to ASIC Reporting Relief
By: Harry Kingsley, Kaveh Zegrati
On 16 June, ASX released a class waiver decision (Class Waiver) in order to give effect to ASIC Corporations (Extended Reporting and Lodgement Deadlines - Listed Entities) Instrument 2020/451 (ASIC Relief), providing additional time for ASX listed entities to comply with their reporting and lodgement obligations under the ASX Listing Rules (Listing Rules).
The Class Waiver is an amendment of ASX's earlier class waiver decision on 3 June which sought to harmonise the Listing Rules with the ASIC Relief.
Need for the Class Waiver
As part of a host of measures adopted in response to the enveloping COVID-19 crisis (which you can read about in K&L Gates' alerts of 26 March, 2 April and 7 May), ASIC enacted the ASIC Relief which extended the deadlines of both listed and unlisted entities to comply with their reporting obligations under Chapters 2M and 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Act).
For listed entities, the ASIC Relief applies to those entities with a financial year that ends between 21 February and 7 July 2020, or to those with a half-year that ends between 15 March and 7 July 2020. Public companies are also able to fulfil their reporting obligations to members under sections 314-315 of the Act by the earlier of (a) 21 days before the next AGM after the end of their financial year, or (b) 5 months after the end of their financial year.
The Class Waiver
The Class Waiver gives effect to the ASIC Relief under the Listing Rules by allowing:
annual financial reports, directors' reports and auditor's reports to be lodged 4 months after year-end (up from 3), and
half-year financial reports, directors' reports and audit/review reports to be lodged 106 days after half-year-end (up from 75),
in line with the ASIC Relief.
In addition, the Class Waiver also mirrors the ASIC Relief in extending the deadline for the entity to give to ASX its annual report and any concise report required to be sent to members (under section 314 of the Act), to the earlier of (a) the first day the entity sends the documents to members under section 315 of the Corporations Act, and (b) the date the annual report and any concise report must be sent to security holders under the ASIC Relief.
The relief granted by the ASX is only available to entities established in Australia. A listed entity seeking to rely on the Class Waiver must:
lodge their unaudited/unreviewed accounts and the information required by Appendix 4D or 4E (as applicable) by the usual ASX lodgement deadline, and
make an announcement to the market at the time it lodges its unaudited/unreviewed accounts stating:
that it is relying on the ASIC Relief; and
that it will immediately make a further announcement should it become aware that there will be a material difference between the unaudited/unreviewed accounts and the audited or reviewed accounts.
In respect of a listed entity's reporting obligations to members under section 314 of the Act, if an entity is intending to rely on the ASIC Relief, it must make an announcement to that effect before the normal lodgement deadline.
ASX considers that these conditions will ensure that the market has the benefit of "reasonably current financial information" on which to base its trading decisions. The ASX further encourages entities to (notwithstanding the Class Waiver), endeavour to lodge their audited or reviewed accounts with ASX within the normal listing rule deadlines.
Does the Class Waiver Actually Make a Difference?
Whilst the Class Waiver aligns the Listing Rule reporting deadlines with the ASIC Relief, it may not, in practice, provide listed entities with a full reporting reprieve. Although there is an effective extension of the deadline for entities to give ASX their annual reports and any concise reports, entities are still obliged to provide unaudited/unreviewed accounts in accordance with the unmodified Listing Rule deadlines.
Given a subsequent corrective market announcement may adversely affect an entity's trading price and market reputation, entities may ultimately avoid relying on the Class Waiver in order to avoid the potential risk of any discrepancy between their unaudited/unreviewed and final audited/reviewed accounts.
Harry Kingsley
Kaveh Zegrati
This publication/newsletter is for informational purposes and does not contain or convey legal advice. The information herein should not be used or relied upon in regard to any particular facts or circumstances without first consulting a lawyer. Any views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the law firm's clients.
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We are living in an age where knowledge is rapidly produced and consumed. In this period, the future of the individual and the society depends on accessing, using and producing information. This situation requires a qualified education and first literacy teaching which is the foundation of it. Primary school is the foundation of everything; likewise, the first literacy learning is the foundation of learning (Gunes, Uysal and Tac, 2016). First literacy is to create a new communication and interaction channel for the individual by teaching the symbols of humankind that it created in ten thousand years. Education performs a great miracle by making a seven-year old child comprehend this script that humankind developed in ten thousand years within a seven- or eight-month period (Guleryuz, 2001). It is desired for and expected of the children who start the first grade in primary school at the level of illiteracy to reach the level of basic literacy with qualified first literacy education under the supervision of an effective program, equipped teacher (Sagirli, 2015). Education in cursive handwriting in our country has started in Ataturk era. Ataturk demonstrated examples of the New Turkish Latin Letters on the blackboard with the cursive handwriting. Elderly and young people of the generation of Ataturk era have learned the cursive handwriting very well and used for many years. Many documents of that period such as diplomas, identity cards, registry of deeds etc. have been prepared with cursive handwriting in a clear, cursive and aesthetic form (Gunes, 2006). In our country, it has been decided to start the first literacy education with the cursive handwriting under the scope of the 2004 draft program. For nearly thirteen years, our students are becoming literate with cursive handwriting. There are many studies in literature that examine the opinions of teachers, students, and parents about the cursive handwriting. The aim of the concerned study is to express the view from the perspective of the parents of the gifted and talented students on the practice of cursive handwriting in first literacy education. Within the scope of the research, interviews were conducted with the parents of the gifted and talented students and their opinions were taken about starting the first literacy with the practice of the cursive handwriting. All of the parents are the parents of gifted and talented children who are attending primary school. The data collected during the 2016-2017 academic year have been obtained by face-to-face interviews. The answers of the parents are recorded and then reported. Screening model is used in the study that is designed by content analysis. The research is a qualitative study. Recommendations are brought at the end of the research.


Inside the Rainforest Art Center in Forks is the display of costumes and other props from the Twilight movies. Most of these items were purchased during the Twilight auctions and donated to the center for display. It was my first time to see this collection and it was really wonderful.


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On balance, UNCLOS is net positive for U.S. national security
From a national security standpoint, arguments against the United States becoming a party to UNCLOS are simply not compelling in the face of overwhelming military support for ratification.88 Becoming a party to UNCLOS will help build coalition partnerships in the Global War on Terrorism and the Proliferation Security Initiative.89 Moreover, the United States Navy's ability to respond to potential crises is critically linked to the freedom of navigation rights guaranteed by UNCLOS.90 Finally, neither large-scale military operations nor a single warship's inherent right to self- defense will be significantly impacted by becoming a party to UNCLOS.91 Indeed, the United States has declared that nothing in the UNCLOS impairs the inherent right to self-defense or rights during armed conflict, including any Convention provisions referring to "peaceful conflict" or "peaceful purposes."
Ivey, Matthew W. "National Security Implications in the Global War on Terrorism of the United States Accession to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea." Dartmouth Law Journal. Vol. 7, No. 2 (2009): 117-131. [ More (9 quotes) ]
Ratification of UNCLOS is in U.S. national security interests
Ratification of UNCLOS would bolster U.S. national security in numerous ways, including: protecting all six core freedom of navigation rights, protect maritime interdiction rights, and supporting efforts to combat piracy.
UNCLOS supports all six core competencies of the U.S. Navy
UNCLOS provisions directly support and improve ability of Coast Guard to complete its law enforcement and homeland security missions
Ratification of UNCLOS would further US national security interests in multiple ways
UNCLOS supports U.S. national security objectives by ensuring freedom of navigation rights and supporting maritime interdiction operations
The U.S. would benefit from ratification of UNCLOS
Supporting Arguments:
U.S. ratification of UNCLOS would bolster homeland security and counterterrorism efforts
Counter Argument:
U.S. ratification of UNCLOS would damage national security


January 12, 2015 will see the welcome release of 'Absent Fathers' the new album from Justin Townes Earle on the Loose label. The album was recorded alongside 'Single Mothers' his previous album from Sept, 2014 as a double album, but as Justin began to sequence it, he felt each half needed to make its own statement and they took on their own identities.
If you love vinyl then the good news is a specially packaged double vinyl LP containing both albums - Single Mothers and Absent Fathers will be available.
The albums were recorded live with his four-piece touring band with only days of rehearsal leading up to recording to keep the ideas fresh. No overdubs, no other singers, no additional players – just a real, heartfelt performance capturing the moment.
The first single from the album 'Call Ya Momma' is out December 15th.
Justin Townes Earle will be touring the UK and Europe in January and February 2015.


Represent a country in a fun United Nations simulation. See phenomenal keynote speakers, enjoy free snacks and food and win possible awards! IRHS and Loyola are co-hosting "Halton MUN" on March 31st. Pick up forms outside room 214 and go to www.haltonmun.com. Everyone welcome.


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