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Brewing Innovation: Sierra Nevada Brewery
By MICHAEL J. RISER APRIL 14, 2021
Chico Beer Lover
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company may be known all over the world for their many delicious varieties of beer, but they're also one of the brightest jewels in Butte County's crown. Founded in 1979 by Ken Grossman and his partner Paul Camusi as a garage-to-warehouse operation in Chico, they sold nearly 1,000 31-gallon barrels of beer in their first year. That number has grown to over one million barrels today, and you can now find their brews in every state in the US, as well as the UK, Europe, Australia, and even Asia. Yet despite international success, Butte County remains at the heart of the company. When Sierra Nevada thinks about innovation, it strives to be both progressive and forward-thinking while always staying close to home. To this crew of beer-loving entrepreneurs, innovation means loving where you are, being loyal to your biggest fans, and always honoring your roots.
A Deep Love of Community
The Butte County Influence
Chico is nestled near the feet of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and as an avid cyclist and outdoorsman, Ken hiked there on a regular basis. His love of the mountains was ultimately so strong that he decided to name his company in their honor, and it's a love affair that continues to this day despite the company's rapid growth, as evidenced not only by their many earth-friendly business practices, but by the gorgeous landscapes of Butte County that adorn many of their products. Ken and his family still own the company, and still live in the area. Butte County runs in their blood. When the Camp Fire devastated Paradise and its surrounding areas, Sierra Nevada was quick to offer sweatshirts and other necessities to those who lost their homes, in addition to creating the Butte Strong Fund with several partners, and starting a brewing project that would encompass scores of other brewers all donating 100% of its funds to the cause. Ken and his wife Katie have also long supported the Butte Humane Society, to which they donated 10 acres for the building of a new facility that broke ground in June.
Resilience Butte County Proud IPA
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A Thoroughly Local Product
And Sierra Nevada has good reason to love their community, because to hear Brand Manager Terence Sullivan tell it, it's the community that gave the brewers the reach that they currently enjoy. Before the days of international renown, locals would travel and carry their favorite beer along with them, and road-tripping students from California State University, Chico would often bring brews to music festivals and social gatherings. Many long-time fans of the brand can attest to having first sampled it in a parking lot with friends at a concert, often a long way from Chico, and worldwide acclaim aside, Sierra Nevada remains a thoroughly local product that you can still find at farmer's markets in town. They've focused on investing in huge expansions to their core facilities rather than relocating, and they even run both a primary Instagram account and an account just for Chico locals (and curious visitors) that announces events, showcases unique small-run beers, and tips off its followers when new stocks of their favorites are freshly brewed.
Sierra Nevada Brewery's iconic brewing kettles
Local Flavor, Leading Edge
Better Business Through Innovation
That strong community heart and soul means that when the brewery looks at innovation, it isn't merely to expand production or create a new product, it's a determination to find better ways of doing business. Their commitment to that principle has led them to create an entire innovation department that looks at the whole of their business from top to bottom.
To be sure, there have been interesting ideas around new products. Their Chico Fermentation Project looked above and beyond beer, and came up with the certified organic Strainge Beast Hard Kombucha—the first non-beer beverage ever made by the company, created through a partnership with Oregon State University's Fermentation Science program and their bacterial cultures. But the department also looks at more mundane things, even down to their packaging, which has pushed the brewery complex into some pretty major changes, with the primary goal of making the brewery itself as self-sufficient as possible. Their solar array currently covers about 20% of the facility's power needs, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Their Waste Stream Initiative helps them recycle cardboard, stretch wrap, and rubber gloves used in the lab and bottling line, keeping 99% of their waste out of landfills. They work with hop and grain growers to avoid pesticides and use salmon-safe practices. Carbon dioxide is recovered from the fermentation process and is reused in pressurizing tanks, much like the biogas generated by their anaerobic digester (which pre-treats their wastewater before it flows back into the municipal systems) which gets used as fuel in their boilers.
Sierra Nevada Brewery's solar panels
If that weren't enough, the Chico Taproom, where visitors can grab a delicious meal to go with a fresh pint, features vegetables grown in Sierra Nevada's very own certified organic garden and greenhouse. What they don't grow themselves, they source so locally it often comes from within a 10-mile radius: Chico State's University Farm supplies produce, Rancho Llano Seco supplies pork, and Mary's Chickens supplies poultry. Vegans will also usually find a few options on the menu, including on the takeout menu currently available. Free charging stations for electric vehicles can also be found in the parking lot, open to public use, allowing environmentally conscious visitors making longer trips to recharge their cars while they get their own recharge from organic, gourmet food and a selection of Sierra Nevada's nearly 30 varieties of beer.
Come for the Beer, Stay for a Tour
Keeping It Local
With this perennial focus on the local, Sierra Nevada has also looked near to hand when deciding how best to move forward with new products. They only went as far as a neighboring state in creating their hard kombucha, but they've also crafted new beer using produce from Butte County partners, including the Baltic Joy porter which uses local almonds from Maisie Jane's, and the Sierra Oro Farm Trail Harvest Baltic Porter, which uses almonds, local Lundberg Family Farms rice, barley from Sierra Nevada's own fields, and some of the extremely popular peaches from Chico State's University Farm.
Farm Trail Harvest Baltic Porter
Local Tastings of Special Brews
But not every beer can be had nationally. The biggest fans will want to come to the taproom to experience beers that don't normally get a wider release, which include local-themed favorites like the Pale Bock and the Wildflower IPA, and will sometimes feature archived beers brought back from Sierra Nevada's long back catalog of past brews, where you might get lucky and find an old treasure like the Chico IPA.
The brewery is working hard to improve their small canning line to allow for more of these special brews to be available in their local shop and via their online store, and they're pushing toward a goal of monthly small-batch releases by early 2021, and potentially even bi-monthly small-batch releases by the middle of the year. This will include experimental beers and returning favorites long relegated to the archives.
Whether you're interested in the tastings or the tours, find innovation on tap at Sierra Nevada Brewery.
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Michael J. Riser is a working writer and editor from California who lives with his wife, a rescued pit bull, and a mischievous Halloween cat. He is a gaming features editor at Screen Rant whose work has formerly appeared at IGN, Popoptiq, and Goombastomp.com, in addition to journals and anthologies like Solarcide, Pantheon Magazine, and Coffin Bell.
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Week 4 Fantasy Waiver Wire Targets - 2021 NFL Season
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1. Panthers QB Sam Darnold had his best fantasy game of the year on Thursday night, and he didn't even throw a touchdown. Darnold threw for 304 yards, his second straight game with over 300 yards, and added 11 rushing yards on eight carries with two touchdowns. He now has three rushing touchdowns on the season and his four rushing attempts within six yards of the end zone is one less than McCaffrey (five). He has scored at least 18.9 fantasy points in every game this season. Next week, he faces a Cowboys defense that can be thrown on. He is a streamable option once again.
2. Giants QB Daniel Jones failed to take advantage of a good matchup in Week 3, scoring just 16.54 fantasy points against the Falcons. But if 16.54 is the floor, which it has been for Jones on the year, and the ceiling is around 30 fantasy points, that is a good fantasy asset. Jones had scored over 21 and 29 fantasy points in the first two games. He rushed eight more times in Week 3, for 39 yards. The rushing is why his fantasy stock is on the rise. He is worth taking a shot on the rushing upside as a second QB.
3. Washington QB Taylor Heinicke finished as a QB1 despite Washington getting blown out. He only threw for 212 yards but did have two passing touchdowns and two interceptions. But the reason he scored 21 fantasy points is because he ran for 21 yards and a touchdown. He won't give you that with his legs weekly, but it's in his repertoire. He has now topped 20 fantasy points in two straight games and gets the Falcons next week.
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1. Vikings RB Alexander Mattison had a great game in Week 4. The only reason he isn't the top add for Week 4 is because there is a chance Dalvin Cook could return for that one. If Mattison was not added before Sunday consider yourself lucky. Mattison played 67 percent of the snaps, carried the ball 26 times for 112 yards and saw eight targets, catching six for 59 yards. That is elite volume and if Cook was to miss Week 4 against the Browns, Mattison would be ranked as an RB1. Mattison should be stashed even if Cook returns, because we know the upside if Cook misses more time.
2. Colts RB Nyheim Hines outperformed Jonathan Taylor in Week 3. He played 54 percent of the snaps (Taylor, 49 percent) and had six carries for 25 yards and a touchdown, along with five catches on six targets for 54 yards. This is the second game this season Hines has seen at least six targets, after he had a team-high eight targets in Week 1. Hines had a down Week 2 but gave fantasy managers close to 15 points in Week 1 and over 18 in Week 3. He is available in nearly 70 percent of NFL.com leagues and it should be way less than that. He finished as an RB2 last year and will clearly remain a big part of the Colts offense.
3. Falcons RB Cordarrelle Patterson played 42 percent of the snaps, seeing seven carries and seven targets, going for 102 total yards. He led Atlanta with 82 receiving yards. Patterson was used out wide on 25 percent of his snaps in Week 2, but in Week 3 he saw 88 percent of his snaps from the backfield. Patterson has seen 14 opportunities (carry + target) in back-to-back games. He is at worst a flex option, but quickly working his way into the RB2 range. This is likely your last chance to add him.
4. Bills RB Zack Moss had himself a day in Week 3. After being a healthy scratch in Week 1 and used as a backup in Week 2, he saw 13 carries rushing for 60 yards. He also saw three targets, catching them all, for 31 yards and a touchdown. Moss also played 54 percent of the snaps to Devin Singletary's 44 percent. The Bills backfield is a difficult one to trust, especially since Josh Allen will steal goal line looks (he had a rushing TD in Week 4 and nearly on in Week 3). But, with the usage Moss saw in Week 3, he should be picked up. There is a chance he stole the starting job away in Week 3.
5. Panthers RB Royce Freeman is now the RB2 in Carolina with McCaffrey out for at least the next couple of weeks. While Hubbard is the top add of the week, Freeman should also be picked up. In Week 3, he played just 10 snaps but saw five carries and one target. He finished with 25 yards. Hubbard will get the first crack at replacing McCaffrey, but if he struggles Freeman could see a larger workload. There is value in being the lead back in this offense. That alone makes Freeman worth taking a flier on.
6. Buccaneers RB Giovani Bernard led the Bucs running backs by playing 45 percent of the snaps against the Rams in Week 4. Bernard did not see a carry in Week 3 in a game where Tom Brady leads the team with 14 rushing yards. But he was targeted a team-high 10 times, catching nine of them for 51 yards and a touchdown. His usage was a factor of the Bucs trailing for much of the game to the Rams. While the Bucs won't be down multiple scores each week, they have been searching for production from the RB position. Ronald Jones still has single-digit fantasy points through three games, while Leonard Fournette has looked like Jacksonville Leonard and not Lombardi Lenny. Bernard's performance should be enough to earn more playing time and we know Brady loves to throw to his backs. Bernard is worth a flier off the waiver wire this week.
6. Raiders RB Peyton Barber played great in Josh Jacobs' absence in Week 3. He carried the ball 23 times, going for 111 yards and a touchdown, while being targeted five times, catching three for 31 yards. He finished as a top-five fantasy RB on the week, pending the Monday Night game. His usage makes him worth picking up incase Jacobs is out again in Week 4. However, do not go crazy making him your top priority or spending a ton of your free-agent budget. Once Jacobs returns, Barber becomes waiver wire fodder again. Kenyan Drake playing the second fiddle with Jacobs out means he can be dropped in fantasy.
Deeper Options: Jaguars RB Carlos Hyde carried the ball eight times for 44 yards while playing a third of the snaps. His usage does not warrant picking him up in 12-team leagues or shallower, but for those in deeper leagues, he is involved weekly and is next in line for a big workload should anything happen to James Robinson. Larry Rountree III is another name for you deep league players. He carried the ball four times for 3 yards and did not catch his only target, so I get why you will not be impressed at all. But he did play multiple snaps from the 1-yard line and got a carry, even though he was stuffed. If he is getting those looks, he has a chance to find pay dirt. In deep leagues, that can be enough some weeks.
1. Raiders WR Henry Ruggs III had a career day in Week 2 and built on it in Week 3, going for four catches for 78 yards on seven targets. Ruggs has now seen seven targets in two straight games, after never seeing more than five in any game as a rookie. While his numbers may not jump off the screen at you, it could have been a much bigger day. Ruggs got open downfield for what would have been around a 40-yard touchdown, but Derek Carr overthrew him on the play. Ruggs is clearly the Raiders best downfield weapon. Do not wait for him to catch that long TD before you add him, because by that time it'll likely be too late. He has breakout upside, especially with how Carr has been playing, which is why he is the top receiver add of the week.
2. Bills WR Cole Beasley saw a team-high 13 targets in Week 4, catching 11 of them for 98 yards. That is enough to top 20 fantasy points. He has now topped 14 fantasy points in two of the first three games and has seen 13 targets in two games as well. That is big time volume and enough to warrant rostering him in PPR leagues. He does not have the highest ceiling in fantasy, but he does have one of the safer floors. The Bills have passed on 60 percent of their plays this season and Beasley is the second target behind Stefon Diggs, so his volume should be dependent most weeks. He will always be in play as a flex option, especially with the Bills having a favorable schedule the next few weeks.
3. Cardinals WR A.J. Green caught five balls for a team-high 112 yards in Week 3. He saw six targets and played the second-most snaps at the wide receiver position for a third straight game. Green is not the sexy name he once was in fantasy football, but while he is seeing consistent usage in a high-powered offense, he is a name worth taking a shot on off the waiver wire if you need receiver depth.
4. Bills WR Emmanuel Sanders saw the third most targets from Josh Allen in Week 3 and did plenty with them. He caught five of his six targets for 94 yards and two touchdowns. He also led the Bills receivers in snaps, playing 79 percent of them. While this was Sanders first big game with the Bills, he has been a consistent part of their three wide receiver sets and he has at least six targets in every game. The Bills' schedule really opens after facing some tough defenses to open the year. Sanders is an option you can grab now and flex in the right matchups, considering how much the Bills pass the ball.
5. Panthers WR Terrace Marshall Jr. is someone I just cannot quit. He saw 60 percent of the snaps and five targets in Week 3. Through three games he has out targeted Robby Anderson 14 to 11 and leads the Panthers with three red zone targets. There was chatter about getting Anderson more involved after Week 3, but Marshall has already carved out a role for himself in this passing attack and it could continue to grow if he plays well. He is not an option to start just yet, but he is a bench stash with a lot of upside.
6. Giants WR Kadarius Toney may suddenly see a lot more usage as Sterling Shepard and Darius Slayton are both dealing with a hamstring injury. That was after the Giants came into the game with concerns about Kenny Golladay, who has been nursing a hip injury. Toney ended up playing 66 percent of the snaps, the second-most among Giants receivers. He only had three targets, catching two for 16 yards, but this is more about the volume that could come for Toney, who is a raw receiver, but very explosive with the ball in his hands after the catch. Collin Johnson is another receiver worth taking a flier on in this passing attack. He saw seven targets in Week 3, tied for Saquon Barkley for the team lead, catching five of them for 51 yards. He ended up playing 47 percent of the snaps. If the injuries are series, these two could be two thirds of the Giants three-receiver sets.
6. Colts WR Zach Pascal did not score a touchdown for the first time this season. But he did see a season-high seven targets. His targets have increased in every game this season, with at least five in each. He also leads the NFL with six end zone targets, which is enough to keep him on the fantasy radar. Pascal has been more utilized than anticipated and its time for receiver needy teams to take a shot off the waiver wire.
7. Steelers WR James Washington is an option because all three of the Steelers receivers are currently banged up. Their status' each need to be monitored heading into Week 4, but if multiple were to miss time, Washington would then be inserted into the Steelers starting lineup. He played 81 percent of the snaps, the second-most among Pittsburgh receivers in Week 3, finishing with three catches for 20 yards on five targets. He is a downfield weapon, which may not be the best fit for Ben Roethlisberger at this stage of his career, but if the top three options are injured, someone must step up. Washington is in play in deeper leagues.
8. Patriots WR Jakobi Meyers saw 14 targets, catching nine for 94 yards. It was his best game of the season, but he has now seen nine-plus targets in two of the first three games of the season. His teammate, Kendrick Bourne, was targeted eight times catching six for 96 yards and a touchdown. He is much more boom or bust. Given the offense that they play in it will be hard to pick up and start either, but the volume cannot just be ignored. Meyers is the preferred add, but Bourne is in play in deeper leagues.
1. Browns TE Austin Hooper has not seen the volume we had hoped for this year, but he did find the end zone in Week 3 and has sat around 10 fantasy points in two straight games. Even with the Browns receivers banged up to start the season, Hooper has yet to top five targets in a game and has 11 targets through three games. But he has been more consistent as of late and given the state of tight end, anyone who can give around double-digit fantasy points is valuable, especially in deeper leagues.
2. Bills TE Dawson Knox is the upside play to Hooper's floor play. Knox has seen his fantasy points increase in every game this season, with at least eight in all three games. He has not seen more than five targets in a game, but could earn more work if he keeps playing well. He has now had four catches and over 40 yards in two games, with a touchdown in each of his last two as well. It's hard to trust him as anything more than a TE2, but as he has shown there is some upside for more there.
3. Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth scored a touchdown in Week 3 with all three of the Steelers starting receivers banged up and missing game time. He saw five targets in Week 3, catching three for 22 yards and the score. He out targeted fellow Steelers tight end Eric Ebron, who saw three and didn't catch any. Freiermuth is a big-bodied tight end who the Steelers clearly view as a weapon in the red zone. It's typically tough to trust any rookie tight end that isn't a unicorn, but if the Steelers receivers are out next week it should naturally lead to more volume for Freiermuth.
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Geographer's study should lead to smoother sailing through library stacks.
Geographer Rui Li in the stacks of Pattee Library.Image: Patrick Mansell
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Trying to find a book in the stacks of the Pattee-Paterno Libraries in University Park can make you feel like a mouse lost in a maze—but it's not all your fault! In fact, your confusion is mostly due to the complex layout of the environment combined with insufficient or inconsistent signage, says Rui Li, Ph.D. candidate in geography at Penn State.
Li and Klippel with colleagues at a 2011 meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Working with Alexander Klippel, assistant professor of geography and director of the Human Factors in GIScience Lab, Li recently completed a study that should benefit library patrons, and may have implications beyond Penn State.
Getting lost in the library—or any other large indoor space such as an airport, museum, or conference center—is the result of both personal and environmental factors, Li explains. Personal factors include one's familiarity with the location and general sense of direction. Environmental factors include a building's line-of-sight visibility, differences in architectural style, and spatial complexity, or the number of possible paths to or from any one location.
Finding a Way
Geographers call this confluence of factors wayfinding. "[It's] the interaction between a human and the physical environment," Li says.
Wayfinding, as he explains it, involves not only getting to a location successfully but also developing an awareness of the environment that contributes to more efficient planning and execution of future routes. With awareness comes an improvement of spatial literacy.
People develop spatial awareness in two steps, Li says. First they develop a mental representation of the space by acquiring an object-to-object relationship. (Maps are perfect aids for this purpose.) Second, they acquire a person-to-object relationship, orienting themselves by determining their current location and the direction they're heading. For designers, understanding these two steps is the key to creating wayfinding guides, such as signs and you-are-here maps, that actually work.
Spatial awareness, Li notes, can save lives. "In a fire or natural disaster, the most efficient wayfinding guides would help more people escape and survive."
The Libraries Study
Like many established research libraries, the Pattee-Paterno complex has grown in stages, presenting special challenges in terms of its indoor space. The original Pattee Library, completed in 1940, had three major additions by 1973 and a further major renovation in 2000, the same time the Paterno Library was added. With close to 6 million volumes, Pattee-Paterno is the ninth largest research library in North America.
Courtesy Rui Li
A diagram shows the complex structure of the Pattee-Paterno Libraries.
In late 2009, the University Libraries formed a committee to address wayfinding issues in the building. At the time, Li notes, librarians were logging over 600 wayfinding-related questions per week from patrons. After researching how other libraries were trying to solve this problem, Librarian Paige Andrew called in Klippel and Li for help. The geographers, in turn, sought input from professor of psychology Lynn Liben and others.
"From a patron's point of view, there are two major problems," Li explains. "First is the difficulty locating the correct library area. In particular, the central stacks [in the Pattee portion of the building] are notoriously hard to find. Second is the lack of information in the environment which would confirm a patron's location." Li translated these problems into research questions and designed a series of experiments, which were conducted in 2009 and 2010.
Users were divided into two groups: experienced library staff, and students who had never visited the library. Each participant met Li at the Lending Services desk on the first floor of Pattee Library, and was asked to locate two books on different floors in each of the libraries' three main wings, using any information available. When the books were located, participants were asked to estimate which direction led back to Lending Services. Li followed along with a camcorder.
Illustrated results of Rui's spatial analysis of visibility in three library areas. The colors orange/red indicate locations with good visibility, while the colors blue/purple indicate poor visibility. The Central Stacks clearly has worse visibility than West Pattee and Paterno.
Not surprisingly, he reports, the central stacks proved the most difficult area to negotiate for both groups. "[Our] quantitative measures showed many areas with low visibility—people cannot see very far—and high overall connection density, that is, multiple intersections and possible pathways; this makes the layout very complex."
Signs are also important. "Signs should help patrons confirm their location or a book's location, but inconsistencies can lead to wayfinding mistakes," Li explains. "In the experiments, once in the correct library area, most participants went to the wrong bookshelf due to inconsistency between the signs provided in the library and the information provided in the online catalog."
"The most surprising finding was that most new students had trouble finding the entrance to the central stacks even though they looked at maps or signs," Li says. "Due to the unique structure of the Libraries, the three main wings are connected only on the first floor. Many students thought they could go to the correct floor first and then look for the [specific] location. That strategy did not work in this environment."
Also surprising was that familiarity with the central stacks did not seem to help much. "That is to say, the environment has a dominant role in our development of spatial awareness," Li concludes.
His results were well-received by library staff, and translated into immediate improvements. "The library has already taken our suggestions of creating more schematic maps for patrons at major intersections in the stacks and has placed more signs at major entrances to the central stacks on each floor," Li notes. In addition, a previously planned renovation of much of the first floor of the Pattee and Paterno Libraries into the new Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons complex has improved sightlines and visibility.
The Libraries have also implemented an interactive wayfinding mechanism within the main online catalog based on floor maps in all levels of the building. Once a patron calls up a bibliographic record, a click on a compass image opens the needed floor map to show the item's shelf location.
The additional signs are helping already, according to Gary White, head of the Department of Reference, Collections and Research: "After the signage was installed, our average number of wayfinding-related questions per week went down by about 30 percent."
Li is confident that the other measures will help, too, and convinced that similar helps are warranted in any complex environment. Since humans spend 87 percent of their time indoors, he argues, improving wayfinding systems is of more than theoretical interest.
Rui Li received his Ph.D. in geography in June 2012. He can be reached at rui.li@psu.edu. Li's adviser, Alexander Klippel, Ph.D., is assistant professor of geography and director of the Human Factors Lab at the GeoVISTA Center. Li's paper, "The dominant factor: Impacts of environmental quality and familiarity on wayfinding behaviors in buildings," received The Saarinen Best Student Paper Award of the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Special Group at the 2012 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers. In August, Li will join the Spatial Intelligence Lab in the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster, Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher.
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Decision makers need contextual interactive guidance
Project explores how virtual reality can help students learn
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Alexander Klippel, alumni, geography, Rui Li, spatial awareness, wayfinding


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Django Debug Toolbar MongoDB Panel
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:Info: An extension panel for Rob Hudson's Django Debug Toolbar that adds
       MongoDB debugging information
:Author: Harry Marr (http://github.com/hmarr, http://twitter.com/harrymarr)

Setup
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Add the following lines to your ``settings.py``::

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'debug_toolbar_mongo',
       ...
   )

   DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS = (
       ...
       'debug_toolbar_mongo.panel.MongoDebugPanel',
       ...
   )

An extra panel titled "MongoDB" should appear in your debug toolbar.

Note that this should work with any Django application that uses PyMongo.

Obtaining stack traces can slow down queries significantly. To turn them off
add the following lines to your ``settings.py``::

    DEBUG_TOOLBAR_MONGO_STACKTRACES = False

Disclaimer: only tested in latest Chrome, may fall to pieces in other browers.
If you feel like fixing it, contributions are welcome!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


On October 28th, the United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution condemning the United States embargo against Cuba.
If past is prologue, it will pass resoundingly. The General Assembly has adopted similar measures in each of the last seventeen years; in 2008, by a margin of 185-3. But that was a condemnation of an embargo enforced, energetically and unapologetically, by the administration of George W. Bush. The vote this year takes place for the first time on President Obama's watch, and so has special significance.
The Secretary-General has prepared a public report that catalogues what UN members and UN organizations say about the embargo.
This document is a powerful reminder that the U.S. embargo is viewed internationally with great seriousness and in ways that are deeply damaging to U.S. interests and our image overseas.
Lest anyone think this policy is only provocative to nations in the non-aligned world, its opponents include Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, the European Union, India, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Russia.
They are plain-spoken in their opposition. Australia reminds us it votes "consistently" against the embargo. Brazil says it is the "Cuban people who suffer the most from the blockade." China says the embargo "serves no purpose other than to keep tensions high between two neighboring countries and inflict tremendous hardship and suffering on the people of Cuba, especially women and children." Egypt and India condemn the extra-territorial reach of our sanctions, which Japan says run "counter to the provisions of international law." Mexico calls these measures coercive. Russia "rejects" the embargo. Nations across the planet have enacted laws making it illegal for their companies to comply.
Our policy is especially controversial in our own hemisphere, where the U.S. alone is without diplomatic relations with Cuba, and where forum after forum -- including the Rio Group, the Ibero-American Summit, the Heads of State of Latin America and the Caribbean, and CARICOM -- has rejected the embargo and called for its repeal.
Beyond our diplomatic interests, the report forces us to move beyond the stale, political debate in which the embargo is most often framed (where every problem on the island is blamed on either Cuba's system or U.S. policy) and to confront the significant injuries this policy inflicts on ordinary Cubans.
•	The embargo stops Cuba from obtaining diagnostic equipment or replacement parts for equipment used in the detection of breast, colon, and prostate cancer.
•	The embargo stops Cuba from obtaining patented materials that are needed for pediatric cardiac surgery and the diagnosis of pediatric illnesses.
•	The embargo prevents Cuba from purchasing antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV-AIDS from U.S. sources of the medication.
•	The embargo stops Cuba from obtaining needed supplies for the diagnosis of Downs' Syndrome.
•	Under the embargo, Cuba cannot buy construction materials from the nearby U.S. market to assist in its hurricane recovery.
•	While food sales are legal, regulatory impediments drive up the costs of commodities that Cuba wants to buy from U.S. suppliers, and forces them in many cases to turn to other more expensive and distant sources of nutrition for their people.
•	Because our market is closed to their goods, Cuba cannot sell products like coffee, honey, tobacco, live lobsters and other items that would provide jobs and opportunities for average Cubans.
This list, abbreviated for space, is actually much longer, more vivid and troubling, as the report documents case after case of how our embargo affects daily life in Cuba. And for what reason? Because it will someday force the Cuban government to dismantle its system? As a bargaining chip? These arguments have proven false and futile over the decades and what the UN has been trying to tell us since 1992 is that they should be abandoned along with a policy that has so outlived its usefulness.
And yet, it is now the Obama administration supporting and enforcing the embargo -- still following Bush-era rules that thwart U.S. agriculture sales; still levying stiff penalties for violations of the regulations; still stopping prominent Cubans from visiting the United States; still refusing to use its executive authority to allow American artists, the faith community, academics, and other proponents of engagement and exchange to visit Cuba as representatives of our country and its ideals.
To his credit, President Obama has taken some useful steps to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. He repealed the cruel Bush administration rules on family travel that divided Cuban families. He joined efforts by the OAS to lift Cuba's suspension from that organization. He has opened a direct channel of negotiations with Cuba's government on matters that include migration, resuming direct mail service, and relaxing the restrictions that Cuban and U.S. diplomats face in doing their jobs in each of our nation's capitals.
This is a start, but more -- much more -- needs to be done. Not because the UN says so, but because our country needs to embrace the world not as we found it in 1959 -- or in 2008 -- but as it exists today. President Obama can do this. Our times demand that he do so.


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Review - Cross-Cultural Psychology
Contemporary Themes and Perspectives
by Kenneth D. Keith (Editor)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
Nov 23rd 2010 (Volume 14, Issue 47)
Like psychology in general, cross-cultural psychology began in Europe and then moved to America, where it greatly outgrew its original roots. Many generalizations in psychology are based on studies of college students, who are very far from representative of humanity at large. Cross-cultural approaches aim to correct this bias by demonstrating the importance of cultural variations . The hope, shared by the editor of this book , is that cross-cultural psychology will be absorbed by a culturally aware psychology at large, resulting in a single global psychology. Whether or not that is a realistic aim remains debatable.
When one glances at the table of contents it lists such topics as development, cognition, emotion, personality, and social psychology. So it would seem at first sight that a survey of cultural approaches to conventional categories was intended. Closer scrutiny reveals that the conventional labels often conceal rather idiosyncratic treatments, and one finds curious variations under one section heading. For instance, in the section called 'Development' one chapter covers 'child development across cultures', a vast topic. By contrast 'Cultural variations in perceptions of aging' is very narrow, being a report of the author's research. Much the same could be said about the section on 'Cognition'. The piece on 'Culture and cognition' by Cole and Packer provides an excellent overview, not surprisingly since Cole was one of the pioneers in the field of culture and psychology. The last chapter in this section is a brief description of mathematics learning in Japan. In between one finds an account of studies of visual perception which is well done, but clearly a piece of library research.
This introduces another distinction, namely between authors who have themselves had experience of cross-cultural research (beyond perhaps sending out questionnaires), and those who do not seem to have had any. Unfortunately the two contributors responsible for 'Approaches to cross-cultural research' appear to belong to the latter. Much of what they say is incoherent or trite, like the passage below :
. . . investigators must take care to insure that the methods chosen to research [a particular] variable are adequate, appropriate, and ethical. Failure to conduct cross-cultural . . . research with an eye to appropriate methodology may result in faulty results and erroneous conclusions.
One would hardly tolerate that in an undergraduate essay !
The content of some chapters is rather different from what one would have expected, though sometimes none the worse for that. So the chapters on 'Personality' offer interesting comparative accounts of Western, Buddhist, and Confucian conceptions of person and self.
As a final example of remarkable diversity I shall consider briefly the section on 'Emotion and well-being'. The first chapter on 'culture, emotion, and expression' presents a brilliant and innovative set of studies by Matsumoto, another name to conjure with. The second chapter, entitled 'Happiness around the world', ends unbelievably with the declaration that ' . . . we know . . . that most people around the world are happy'. The third chapter deals with the measurement of 'well-being' [as distinct from happiness ?] It arrives at the reasonable conclusion that comparisons between cultures are hazardous in this sphere.
In sum, this book contains an extraordinary mixture of the rich and stimulating and the pedestrian. The question arises for what kind of readership it is intended. The editorial introduction appears to assume that the prospective reader knows next to nothing about cross-cultural psychology, Moreover the editor, in both his preface and after-word, addresses 'the student reader', seeming to imply a text-book function. Yet a reviewer cited on the back of the volume writes that for the teacher 'this reader is a timely gem'. In this reviewer's judgement, the book would be inappropriate as a text. As a reader it has merit, since it contains a number of chapters that are helpful even for those who have some background in cross-cultural psychology.
© 2010 Gustav Jahoda
Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His main fields of interest are cross-cultural and social psychology, especially the development of social cognition. He is the author of A History of Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press).


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Manhattan Shorts Comes to Yavapai College
25 September 2018	Helen Stephenson
Manhattan Short Film Festival Brings Oscar-Worthy Shorts to Yavapai College Performing Arts Center October 6
Prescott film fans will get a unique chance to sample films from all over the world – and then cast a vote for their favorites when the 21st Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival screens, Saturday, October 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center.
Presented by the Yavapai College Film and Media Arts Program, the Manhattan Short Film Festival will feature nine finalist films. Each short film is pre-qualified for the Oscars. They were selected from a field of more than 1,500 short subject films, submitted from 73 countries.
After the screening, Prescott audience members will then act as part of a worldwide jury, casting their votes for the Best Film and Best Actor awards. The votes will be tabulated with those of other screening audiences – convened across the world the same week – to determine the winners.
The nine Manhattan Short finalists hail from eight countries with films from Austria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, New Zealand, USA, and two films from the United Kingdom. This year's films represent an extraordinary range of genres that includes intimate dramas; fast-paced animation; spine-tingling tales; a World War II epic; and a comedy shot entirely underwater.
The Manhattan Short Film Festival's nine finalists are:
Lacrimosa (Austria), Fauve (Canada), Someone (Germany), Chuchotage (Hungary), Her (Kosovo), Fire In Cardboard City (New Zealand), Baghead, (UK), Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times (UK), and Home Shopper (USA).
The winning film will be announced on Monday, Oct. 8, at 1 p.m. Arizona time, on Manhattanshort.com.
Tickets for the Manhattan Short Film Festival are $10 general admission, and $5 for YC students and staff. Tickets are available at the YCPAC Box Office, 1100 E. Sheldon Street, Prescott, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or call (928) 776.2000 (or 877-928-4253 toll free) or visit www.ycpac.com.
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Boeing Stock: Ignore the Hysteria and Buy the Dip
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Boeing stock launched the Dow into positive territory following a report that the 737 MAX could fly the friendly skies as soon as June. | Source: AP Photo / Richard Drew
By CCN: Boeing stock dropped 1.29% to $371.77 today, after falling as low as $366 when the Wall Street Journal reported that the company knew of the 737 MAX safety issues a year before reporting them to the FAA.
The decline, which comes on top of previous stumbles, simply gives buyers an opportunity to buy a quality stock at a discount.
Boeing Stock Flinches After Engineers Find Safety Problems
Boeing stock dropped 1.29% on Monday amid a broad market pullback. | Source: Yahoo Finance
The 737 MAX 8 aircraft, enduring scrutiny for its Lion Air crash last October, was delivered in May of 2017. Engineers knew by August 2017 that there were possible problems with the aircraft, although senior management was apparently not aware of their concerns.
The problem in question is related to the Angle of Attack Disagree Alert, or AOA. The AOA alert is triggered if sensor data that measures the angle at which an aircraft wing cuts through air indicates a danger. The software then forces the plane in a downward direction, which caused the Lion Air crash.
Boeing, however, insists that a thorough review showed the AOA alert was "not critical safety data." In a statement issued Sunday, the company said:
"Boeing discussed the status of the AOA Disagree alert with the FAA in the wake of the Lion Air accident. At that time, Boeing informed the FAA that Boeing engineers had identified the software issue in 2017 and had determined per Boeing's standard process that the issue did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation. In December 2018, Boeing convened a Safety Review Board (SRB) to consider again whether the absence of the AOA Disagree alert from certain 737 MAX flight displays presented a safety issue. That SRB confirmed Boeing's prior conclusion that it did not. Boeing shared this conclusion and the supporting SRB analysis with the FAA."
The question is whether the software designers are to blame, as the design didn't meet Boeing's standard, or the aerospace giant is to blame, for a faulty conclusion regarding the software problem.
Ryanair Seemingly Scrubs 'MAX' Name From Boeing 737 Fleet
Boeing Hasn't Sold a Single 737 Max in 3 Months
I updated our shareholders today on the progress we're making with the 737 MAX and the ongoing importance of safety, quality and integrity in all that we do. Watch my full remarks here: https://t.co/upYcTc4aJN
— Dennis A. Muilenburg (@BoeingCEO) April 30, 2019
Boeing Stock Doesn't Risk Another Brutal Crash
Given the controversy, and the subsequent Ethiopian Airlines crash, investors must wonder how badly this may hurt Boeing stock going forward.
Boeing holds a unique position in the stock market. Besides being part of an oligopoly in aerospace and defense, the stock is the only publicly traded domestic airplane manufacturing company in the U.S.
It's also the most recognized airplane manufacturing company in the world, with the possible exception of Airbus, which trades on foreign exchanges. Consequently, its position in institutional and retail portfolios is a formidable one.
While the 737 MAX issues have caused some disruption in air travel, the fact remains that much of the manufacturer's fleet remains operational. The 737 MAX is not the only product underlying Boeing stock, nor is the AOA issue one that cannot be fixed. This, too, shall pass as far as BA shares are concerned.
Even Warren Buffett isn't worried.
BA Shares Boast Strong Support Despite Recent PR Woes
Boeing stock is about 17% off its all-time high of $441, reached earlier this year. Thus, Boeing stock is arguably worth considering as a purchase because of the fall triggered by the 737 MAX issue.
Analysts project blockbuster 5-year annualized earnings growth of 19%. Boeing stock only trades at 23x 2019 expected earnings. The company has $9.7 billion in cash offset by only $10.9 billion in long-term debt, which means that even if the FAA should issue a hefty fine against the company, the stock will still be supported by a quality balance sheet.
Meanwhile, Boeing stock is even more supported by increasing free cash flow. $7 billion in free cash flow in 2015 almost doubled to $13.6 billion at the end of 2018.
The market does not seem terribly concerned about Boeing stock, and investors may want to take a closer look.
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Do you ever wonder how to do Thank You Cards the right way?
I am guessing the answer is YES!
Don't worry…we all do! Thank You cards can be super easy but there are some fun and creative ways to make them even better and help you stand out even more!
Writing Thank You cards is an easy way to show sincere appreciation and build a closer relationship with your customers. The crazy thing is that it is sooooo simple yet few business owners take the time to really show their customers they care.
Thank you cards are a GREAT way to help you stand out. It is hard to compete when others are selling the same thing you are or the prices of your competitors are about the same. You need something to make you stand apart!
Carving out your spot in the marketplace can be as simple as sending a Thank You card. In a time where over half of consumers don't feel appreciated by those they buy from, this one thing will put you leaps and bounds above your competitors.
So…how do you really do a proper Thank You Card? Well..for starters, you can make it fun. Check out the image of an actual card I bought at Target. It says Thank You but then has that fun little phrase underneath it.
Here is the kicker….are you ready for it??
Thank your customers without the expectation of anything in return!
They will be blown away when you don't ask for anything…no sales, no discounts, nothing. Just a Thank You.
If you can be personal in that same Thank you card, then even better!
So, I know that you are thinking right now…this can be overwhelming. How am I going to send a Thank You card to everyone? Let me help you by sorting your customers into buckets!
If you are just starting out, sending a Thank You card to every customer might be ok. But this is not sustainable or reasonable. So, creating groups of customers that you can thank will help.
Repeat customers – Sending a special Thank You card to repeat customers will help them to keep coming back for more and more!
High End Customers – These customers spend the most with you. Pick your top 10% and send them a Thank You card and maybe a sample of a product as well. Really work hard to surprise and delight them!
Send a Birthday card to customers on their birthday and if you can, on their 1/2 Birthday. Who does that??? You do…that's who!!!
Completely random acts of kindness. Pick 5 random customers a week or month to send a Thank You Card to. Keep track of who you send them to so you send them to 5 new random customers each time.
See how easy and friendly that verbiage is? Wouldn't you love to get a card that says that from someone you bought from? I know you would.
Go out there and send some amazing Thank You cards people!!!


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Remember Me gets a release date and memorable new trailer
By Phil Savage 2013-02-28T17:25:31.58Z
The writers of Remember Me are going to great lengths to let you know their game takes place in the future. For starters, it's set in Neo Paris. Also there's a character called Edge, the sort of name that could only come about in the dystopian vision of a world where celebrity baby naming gets extreme . I'm actually amazed that they haven't included a device that plugs into your head and overlays glitchy VR graphics throughout the world... OH NO WAIT, THEY HAVE.
And yet, despite the futurist world-building bullshit and aggressive Protagonist Amnesia plot device, Remember Me does look like a promising slice of sci-fi pulp gaming. I'm not entirely convinced it'll be great, but it seems like a silly enough concept that it just might work. Or maybe it'll prove (*drum-roll*) entirely forgettable.
As the trailer reveals, Remember Me is due out June 4th.


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Microsoft is the original & ultimate hyperconverged play
The In Tech We Trust Podcast has quickly became my favorite enterprise technology podcast since it debuted late last year. If you haven't tuned into it yet, I advise you to get the RSS feed on your favored podcast player of choice ASAP.
The five gents ((Nigel Poulton, Linux trainer at Pluralsight, Hans De Leenheer,datacenter/storage and one of my secret crushes, Gabe Chapman, Marc Farley and Rick Vanover)) putting on the podcast are among the sharpest guys in infrastructure technology, have great on-air chemistry with each other, and consistently deliver an organized & smart format that hits my player on-time as expected every week. Oh, and they've equalized the Skype audio feeds too!
And yet….I can't let the analysis in the two most recent shows slip by without comment. Indeed, it's time for some tough love for my favorite podcast.
Guys you totally missed the mark discussing hyperconvergence & Microsoft over the last two shows!
For my readers who haven't listened, here's the compressed & deduped rundown of 50+ minutes of good stimulating conversation on hyperconvergence:
There's little doubt in 2015 that hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a durable & real thing in enterprise technology, and that that thing is changing the industry. HCI is real and not a fad, and it's being adopted by customers.
But if HCI is a real, it's also different things to different people; for Hans, it's about scale-out node-based architecture, for others on the show, it's more or less the industry definition: unified compute & storage with automation & management APIs and a GUI framework over the top.
But that loose definition is also evolving, as Rick Vanover sharply pointed out that EMC's new offering, vSpex Blue, offers something more than what we'd traditionally (like two weeks ago) think of as hyperconvergence
Good stuff and good discussion.
And then the conversation turned to Microsoft. And it all went downhill. A summary of the guys' views:
Microsoft doesn't have a hyperconverged pony in the race, except perhaps Storage Spaces, which few like/adopt/bet on/understand
MS has ceded this battlefield to VMware
None of the cool & popular hyperconverged kids, save for Nutanix and Gridstore, want to play with Microsoft
Microsoft has totally blown this opportunity to remain relevant and Hyper-V is too hard. Marc Farley in particularly emphasized how badly Microsoft has blown hyperconvergence
I was, you might say, frustrated as I listened to this sentiment on the drive into my office today. My two cents below:
The appeal of Hyperconvergence is a two-sided coin. On the one side are all the familiar technical & operational benefits that are making it a successful and interesting part of the market.
It's an appliance: Technical complexity and (hopefully) dysfunction are ironed out by the vendor so that storage/compute/network just work
It's Easy: Simple to deploy, maintain, manage
It's software-based and it's evolving to offer more: As the guys on the show noted, newer HCI systems are offering more than ones released 6 months or a year ago.
The other side of that coin is less talked about, but no less powerful. HCI systems are rational cost centers, and the success of HCI marks a subtle but important shift in IT & in the market.
It's a predictable check cut to fewer vendors: Hyperconvergence is also about vendor consolidation in IT shops that are under pressure to make costs predictable and smoother (not just lower).
It's something other than best-of-breed: The success of HCI systems also suggests that IT shops may be shying away from best-of-breed purchasing habits and warming up to a more strategic one-throat-to-choke approach ((EMC & VMware, for instance, are titans in the industry, with best-in-class products in storage & virtualization, yet I can't help but feel there's more going on than the chattering classes realize. Step back and think of all the new stuff in vSphere 6, and couple it with all the old stuff that's been rebranded as new in the last year or so by VMware. Of all that 'stuff', how much is best of breed, and how much of it is decent enough that a VMware customer can plausibly buy it and offset spend elsewhere?))
It's some hybrid of all of the above: HCI in this scenario allows IT to have its cake and eat it too, maybe through vendor consolidation, or cost-offsets. Hard to gauge but the effect is real I think.
((As Vanover noted, EMC's value-adds on the vSpex Blue architecture are potentially huge: if you buy vSpex Blue architecture, you get backup & replication, which means you don't have to talk to or cut yearly checks to Commvault, Symantec or Veeam. I've scored touchdowns using that exact same play, embracing less-than-best Microsoft products that do the same thing as best-in-class SAN licenses))
And that's where Microsoft enters the picture as the original -and ultimate- Hyperconverged play.
Like any solid HCI offering, Microsoft makes your hardware less important by abstracting it, but where Microsoft is different is that they scope supported solutions to x86. VMware, in contrast only hands out EVO:RAIL stickers to hardware vendors who dress x86 up and call it an appliance, which is more or less the Barracuda Networks model. ((I'm sorry. I know that was a a cheapshot, but I couldn't resist))
With your vanilla, Plain Jane whitebox x86 hardware, you can then use Microsoft's Hyperconverged software system (or what I think of as Windows Server) to virtualize & abstract all the things from network (solid NFV & evolving overlay/SDN controller) to compute to storage, which features tiering, fault-tolerance, scale-out and other features usually found in traditional SAN systems.
But it doesn't stop there. That same software powers services in an enormous IaaS/PaaS cloud, which works hand-in-hand with a federated productivity cloud that handles identity, messaging, data-mining, mail and more. The IaaS cloud, by the way, offers DR capabilities today, and you can connect to it via routing & ipsec, or you can extend your datacenter's layer 2 broadcast domain to it if you like.
On the management/automation side, I understand/sympathize with ignorance of non-'softies. Microsoft fans enthuse about Powershell so much because it is -today- a unified management system across a big chunk of the MS stack, either masked by GUI systems like System Center & Azure Pack or exposed as naked cmdlets. Powershell alone isn't cool though, but Powershell & Windows Server aligned with truly open management frameworks like CIM, SMI-S and WBEM is very cool, especially in contrast to feature-packed but closed APIs.
On the cost side,there's even more to the MS hyperconverged story: Customers can buy what is in effect a single SKU (the Enterprise Agreement) and get access to most if not all of the MS stack.
Usually,organizations pay for the EA in small, easier-to-digest bites over a three year span, which the CFO likes because it's predictable & smooth. (( Now, of course, I'm drastically simplifying Microsoft's licensing regime and the process of buying an EA as you can't add an EA to your cart & checkout, it's a friggin negotiation. And yes I know everyone hates the true-up. And I grant that an EA just answers the software piece; organizations will still need the hardware, but I'd argue that de-coupling software from hardware makes purchasing the latter much, much easier, and how much hardware do you really need if you have Azure IaaS to fill in the gaps?))
Are all these Microsoft things you've bought best of breed? No, of course not. But you knew that ahead of time, if you did you homework.
Are they good enough in a lot of circumstances?
I'll let you judge that for yourself, but, speaking from experience here, IT shops that go down the MS/EA route strategically do end up in the same magical, end-of-the-rainbow fairy-tale place that buyers of HCI systems are seeking.
That place is pretty great, let me tell you. It's a place where the spend & costs are more predictable and bigger checks are cut to fewer vendors. It's a place where there are fewer debutante hardware systems fighting each other and demanding special attention & annual maintenance/support renewals in the datacenter. It's also a place where you can manage things by learning verb-noun pairs in Powershell.
If that's not the ultimate form of hyperconvergence, what is?
Author Jeff WilsonPosted on February 20, 2015 Categories MicrosoftTags Azure, hyperconvergence, Microsoft, VMware, Windows Server
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Marc Farley (@gofarley) says:
Thanks Jeff for being a regular listener and fan! Jeff, I agree with you about most of your points, but won't take back anything I said about Microsoft not being a player in the HCI world. They COULD be, if they wanted to by investing in automated solutions that made it much easier to deploy.
Take Storage Spaces. Interesting technology that really only works with a tiny number of shareable JBOD cabinets and a lot of detailed setup work that can be gleaned by reading Jose Barretto's excellent and incredibly intricate blog posts. Many of the technologies in MS Server are similar in that they need the customer to do the heavy lifting. The potential is there for them to "do amazing" but my opinion is that Microsoft Server is not as much a solution as it is a cauldron of technologies for highly skilled admins and SI engineers to wield.
Their lack of focus on the HCI space is easily measured by searching for "Microsoft hyperconverged" or "Microsoft HCI" (As Hans likes to say on the podcast, "crickets".) Is a company a player in a market if they don't identify themselves that way? I'd say no. FWIW, the best example of a Microsoft HCI solution is the PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) – a product that is practically invisible in the market even though it is powered by the very successful SQL Server.
There might not be a reason for Microsoft to label themselves as HCI. They might believe that most of the integration needs to be done by their hardware partners: Dell, HP and the rest. In the end, Microsoft might not differ much from VMware – who also depend on hardware partners to create the final products. Maybe there is no real place for a software vendor in the HCI business.
meh130 says:
I think the observation here is more about "software defined", and less about "hyperconverged". EVO:Rail, like Nutanix and Simplivity, is about hyperconvergence, with a tightly defined software stack running on a tightly defined hardware platform. Software defined is about a software stack which allows an open hardware definition. Sure, Microsoft, like VMware, has all of the software needed for a software defined solution. But they have not knitted it together with a hardware platform definition to provide an EVO:Rail like solution.
A pure Microsoft software defined hyperconverged platform could be cobbled together. Microsoft pushed this for the last 5+ years as a platform for Exchange, and Azure today (like Google and AWS) runs on some kind hyperconverged platform.
Which brings up the real question: Are cloud based services, offered by cloud service providers, operating professionally managed, true software defined, open hardware, hyperconverged platforms the real next platform step for IT, and will tenant owned, on premises or colo based, tightly defined hyperconverged platforms like EVO:Rail, Nutanix, and Simplivity simply be ephemeral platforms?
hansdeleenheer01 says:
Wait, let me restate my question: where is the Microsoft empowered SKU that lets me deploy VMs within 30 minutes after opening the box and allows me to add/remove nodes with a single click. This is the premise of HCI.
Nice write up Jeff and thanks for all the compliments.
You are still missing the point though and you kind of are repeating what we stated. We are pretty well aware of the whole system center stack. We are very well aware of all the components that Microsoft already has that could build up on HCI.
For an HCI solution there are a couple of things necessary:
* node based architecture – single building block
* automated install of all datacenter components
* sold as 1 unit (HW, SW & Orchestration)
My comment on the show was that with enough Powershell knowledge (and System Center power underneath probably) you can build a UI that makes a true HCI solution possible. If we missed something, I still don't see it in your blog response. Can you show me de packaged solutions?
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Q: jquery touch punch - draggable on ipad i am starting to work with the jquery touch punch extensions in order to allow draggability on ipad, but i am getting tripped up right away.  probably something terribly dumb on my part.  the draggable example from the developer works fine on my ipad:
http://furf.com/exp/touch-punch/draggable.html
this works fine in my desktop browser, but on the ipad it just focuses on the block and scrolls the entire page as i drag, as if it were just an image or other normal embedded object.  as this is what happens normally with jquery/ui on ipad, this makes me think it is not loading or otherwise ignoring the "punch" code from my site (though if i host the jquery files on my site via the same path, those load and function fine in desktop browser).  here's the entire code, very basic:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Touchpunchtest</title>

what am i missing?!

A: If the project is downloaded from GIT hub, it seems to be fine. Not sure where you got your jquery.ui.touch-punch.js file from, but it seems to error. Your browser probably compensates for it, but the iPad browser does not.

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Wendy F. Kuntz, 64, passed away Saturday, April 13, 2019 at Norton Audubon Hospital. She was retired from maintenance at Memorial Auditorium and worked at K-Mart and Flavor Kist. Wendy loved playing bingo, bunco, fishing and going to Patoka Lake. She was a native of Owensboro, KY.
She is survived by her husband Jerry W. Kuntz Sr. of Clarksville, IN.; son Jerry W. Kuntz Jr. (Amanda) of New Albany, IN.; sister Linda England of New Albany, IN.; many nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews.
Wendy was preceded in death by her parents Robert and Robbie Hunt; her sister Mona Maloney.
Funeral service will be held Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 11 a.m. at E.M. Coots' Sons Funeral Home with burial to follow in Walnut Ridge Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the American Cancer Society.
Wendy was such a sweet person, prayers for her family and friends.


New details have become available and they shed light on today's tragic events in Langley. Western European politicians who are demanding to stop the war in Ukraine, in negotiations with their American counterparts unwarily used an argument that the rebels of the South East of Ukraine are not terrorists but civilians fighting against the infringements of their legitimate civil rights. Those kind of things are not spoken publicly, but within closed-door talks the Europeans decided to demonstrate that Americans had failed to fool them.
In response, a series of operations was prepared. The task was to show Europe the "real beastly face of the pro-Russian separatists." The plans included bombing pre-school and medical facilities in Central and Western Ukraine, away from the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) area. The goal was set to achieve the maximum number of casualties.
The saboteur-mercenaries from an American PMC (private military company) were assigned to carry out the job while the CIA Ukrainian Department was supposed to provide the logistics and cover.
The superior's response wasn't good enough for the subordinate. The Ukrainian Department, in addition to the military section, includes several others – political, etc. The worried officer, in violation of all the rules, shared his fears with his colleagues of equal rank – the heads of two other sections. Between them, they decided to take measures to prevent this scandalous order from being carried out, by to contacting the U.S. Senate.
Those three were the first "suicides," but the information, it appeared, has been already leaked. So two more were eliminated as well.
In the middle of a business day, everybody was ordered to go home, but practically the whole staff of the Ukrainian Department, about 25 of them, fearing for their lives gathered in the hall. They told their passing by colleagues not to believe that they would allegedly commit suicide.
These are the facts. I will write my comments probably tomorrow. Or today, to be exact.


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Dropcam HD Review
By Michael A. Prospero - LAPTOP Reviews Editor 2012-04-25T04:00:00Z
The Dropcam HD is a relatively inexpensive way to monitor your home or business from your smartphone or PC.
Works in low light
Conspicuous
Must be plugged in
Can't schedule motion-detection times
When you can't afford a security guard, and your dog is too friendly to ward off intruders, then a security camera is often the way to go to make sure your valuables are safe at home. The $149 Dropcam HD is a fairly inexpensive camera that can catch the goings-on at home--even in pitch-black darkness--and save the recordings in the cloud.
Measuring 4.5 x 3.15 x 3.15 inches, the Dropcam HDis far more conspicuous, and looks more camera-y than the competing Stem camera, which looks like an oversize lipstick tube. The large black plastic lens fits into a gray metal ring and stand, which itself can be attached to a wall using the included anchor bolts.
The back of the camera has a microUSB port, and comes with a 10-foot USB cable and power plug. Note that the Dropcam HD needs to be plugged in to work; no battery option here.
Setup took all of 5 minutes. We plugged the camera into our computer via USB, whereupon it launched the Web browser to complete the setup. We created a free Dropcam account, and then connected the camera to our Wi-Fi network. We then unplugged the Dropcam HD from the laptop, plugged it into an outlet and were ready to go.
You can access the Dropcam HD's feed either through a Web browser, or through a free Android or iOS app. The Web interface shows the current view from the camera, plus a timeline below that lets you skip back and forth in time, as well as make clips. Here, you can also adjust settings such as microphone sensitivity. You can also invite others via email to view the camera feed, or even make it available to the public.
The iPhone app also lets you view the camera feed remotely and adjust settings, but not the timeline.
The Dropcam HD records 720p video at 30 frames per second. Image quality far exceeded that of the iZon camera. Even from 15 feet away, we were able to make out people clearly, even when they were moving. Using the Web interface, you can also zoom in on one of five zones, with no apparent loss in quality. However, we did notice a few seconds of lag in the stream.
Unlike the iZon camera, the Dropcam HD can also record low-light video. In our tests, there was a loss of detail, but enough to make out a person's features.
If, say, you see someone breaking into your room, you can talk to them via a small speaker on the back of the camera. They're not going to confuse your voice with that of the Almighty's, though; the speaker doesn't get very loud.
Like the iZon camera, the Dropcam HD can send you alerts via email should it detect motion or sound. While you can activate these features remotely, we wish you could program it to only send alerts during certain time periods. A monthly plan should offer at least that.
The basic Dropcam plan is free, lets you view the camera in real time and will notify you of alerts. However, it won't let you record or save video. The Plus plan, which costs $9.95 per month, or $100 per year for the first camera, lets you record up to 7 days of video, and save clips. Each additional camera costs $4.99 per month. All videos are stored in the cloud, on Dropcam's servers.
The Pro plan costs $30 per month, of $300 per year, and lets you store up to 30 days of video from one camera; each additional camera costs $14.99 per month.
In terms of video quality, the Dropcam HD is a marked improvement over the Stem iZon Remote Room Monitor. However, it's far more conspicuous, and having to pay a monthly fee to record intruders--something the iZon accomplishes for free--gives us pause. Still, home owners and small businesses who can foot the bill will appreciate the greater level of detail and versatility the DropCam affords.
Stem Innovations iZon Remote Room Monitor Review
Swann HD PenCam Review
Camera Use Declines in Favor of Smartphones, Study Says
Accessories Type Web Cams
Brand Dropcam
Company Website www.dropcam.com
Size 4.5 x 3.15 x 3.15 inches


A Jacksonville man has been accused of possessing more than 16 pounds of a leaf popular in the Middle East that works as an amphetamine, according to authorities.
Waddah Almawri, 30, of Derby Run Road, was charged Friday by Jacksonville Police Department with possession with intent to manufacture, sell or distribute Schedule I controlled substance and manufacture a Schedule I controlled substance.
Almawri is accused of possessing Khat, a leaf that is popular in the Middle East and is chewed to get an amphetamine type high. The active ingredient in the leaf is a Schedule I drug, according to information from JPD.
�More than sixteen pounds of illegal drugs were seized as a part of this investigation and kept off the streets of our community,� said Captain Jason Bettis, of JPD�s Investigate Services Division, via a Saturday evening news release.
He is held at the Onslow County Jail under $50,000 secured bond.


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Crosspost: On the Road Again: Encounters in American Religious History
This is a crosspost from the Religion in American History blog.
The first weekend in June I spent 14 hours in a car driving to Indianapolis for the Religion in American Culture Conference. Despite the long drive, it was well worth it as Emily's summary attests. Not getting my fill of road trips or summer conference season, I made another 14 hour drive ten days later. This time I headed straight up I-95 to Arlington, Virginia to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). A relative newcomer to the Society this was my first meeting and it will not be my last. In addition to the lovely mid-afternoon coffee and snacks between sessions (you had me at "complimentary coffee break") and the dinner and dance Friday night (yes, that's right. There was a dance. I promise it did not resemble a middle school wallflower stand-in nor was it a Miley twerk fest), there were a number of panels and papers of interest to RiAH readers.
In the final panel of RAAC, "The Future of the Study of Religion and American Culture," John McGreevy listed three directions for the future of the field: 1. the category of "nones" (those claiming no religious affiliation) and, correspondingly, secularism; 2. global and transnational studies that place the United States in a global context and/or explorations of points of contact, fluidity, and movement between America and the rest of the world; 3. religion and political history. In identifying these three areas, McGreevy noted scholarship that exemplifies or encourages research in these areas, but he also asserted the increased importance of these three areas in years to come. After three days at SHAFR, however, I am convinced that McGreevy's future is here and scholars of American religion, especially the historians among us, have important conversation partners outside the AAR and within SHAFR.
Diplomatic History is the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. More information about it can be found at http://history.colorado.edu/programs-publications/diplomatic-history
My interest in SHAFR started with Andrew Preston's seminal article "Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of American Foreign Relations" (Diplomatic History 30, no. 5 (2006): 783-812). This piece summoned many historians to take religion seriously in diplomatic history; so seriously, in fact, that Preston noted at the most recent AHA meeting that it probably could not be printed today. His recent book, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith (Knopf, 2012), makes it difficult to argue that religion doesn't "matter" to US foreign relations. (Blake Renfo's RiAH review can be read here) The panel devoted to "Evangelical Projections" at this year's SHAFR conference, chaired by Preston, made a strong case for religion as not just an "influence" in diplomatic history, but a "force" to be reckoned with. For example, Lauren Turek presented fascinating research on the way in which Pat Robertson served as a tacit spokesperson for Rios Montt's regime in Guatemala in the 1980s. Turek demonstrated how Montt's "Project David" campaign to ensure a "moral" government that exposed communist sympathizers received such strong support and coverage from Robertson and his followers that President Reagan could not ignore evangelicals' demands that the United States support the regime. Also bringing a global context to American religions, Melanie McAlister drew attention to the Southern Baptist Convention's response to apartheid, illustrating the power of Southern Christians outside the United States and an understudied area of global, social justice concern among this evangelical group. The final presentation was by Benjamin Brandenburg who explained Billy Graham's "global footprint" through his tour of the Soviet Union. Complicating the simple narrative of evangelicals despising "godless" communists, Brandenburg asserted a sort of Cold War conversion in Graham's position toward confronting communism.
While this session was clearly billed as the "religious" one, this was certainly not the only panel of interest to readers. Several papers along the way brought to mind scholarship discussed regularly here. For example, David Painter's presentation at the "Teaching New Topics in American Foreign Relations" panel centered on the argument that historians must integrate oil (not merely policies about oil) into the history of US foreign relations. Hewing closely to research by Darren Dochuk and Mike Pasquier, Panter discussed the seven sisters of big oil and dated the significance of oil back to the Anglo-American switch from coal to oil during the 1920s and 1930s (a period of recent interest to many American religions scholars). On the same panel, Nicole Phelps introduced the audience to a case study she uses to illustrate the complicated relationships between local, state, national, and international politics: a court case (and others related to it) in which 11 Sicilians were lynched in NOLA…a flashpoint of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and class that reminded me of the complex study Emily is working on. In more cases than I expected these historians included "religion" and were encouraging others to pursue a rigorous study of religion as the future for their field. In the panel on "Teaching America to the World," for instance, Sandra Scanlon explained that is often discussions of religion that draw her Irish students in and encouraged members to follow in Matt Sutton's footsteps and apply for the Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History. Finally, the Plenary Session on "America in the World in the Nineteenth Century" ended with the conclusion that there are two major themes primed to dominate the future of SHAFR: religion and empire.
What I was struck by most was not that these historians focused on religion, but that they focused on religion so much but did not consider themselves to be doing the work of religion/religious studies/religious history. Our colleagues at the Bulletin for the Study of Religion would have a rich data set to consider had I conducted a more formal ethnographic study, but, based on personal anecdotes, I was surprised at the number of folks examining the role of a missionary/mission and the way s/he/it influenced the State Department's position toward another country OR conducting archival research on a person or group who invested in or profited from a religious organization, but did not consider themselves–as scholars–to be seriously researching "religion." ["Personally, I'm a Christian, but that doesn't factor into my work"; "You study religion? I guess I kind of do too. I study a missionary group in…"] Forget the "nones" and their refusal to self-identify with a religious institution and let's consider for a moment the scholars who talk about "religion" and don't consider their work to be about religion. For that matter, let's think about the way in which I was/am convinced that these historians are doing religious studies work even though they do not self-identify as such.
Following up on McGreevy's provocative list for the future of scholarship on American religion, as we collectively ponder secularism–its formations, its contours, its relationship to the State, the existence of a secular metaphysics as distinct from church or state–we seem to be turning toward "politics," that is the set of actions conducted by the state, at various levels. This seems to be happening at the same time that historians of American foreign relations, at least, are acutely attuned to the importance of culture, "meaning-making," and the like in their own work. Scholars of American religions recent attention to secularism/secularization has much to offer historians of American foreign relations. Likewise, panelists at SHAFR demonstrate an impressive immersion in primary sources that speak to the the actors, organizations, places, and themes central to the study of American religions. I hope our paths continue to cross.
Perhaps this can be a conversation had in the comments and next year at SHAFR. The 2014 conference is chaired by Andrew Preston and will be held in Lexington, Kentucky next June. Information about this year's and next year's conferences can be found here. For those interested in American foreign relations broadly, there are many opportunities and resources available through SHAFR. Though highly competitive, SHAFR offers dissertation research grants and fellowships at $4,000 and $20,000, respectfully. They also have fellowships available for grad students conducting research with sources in languages other than English, for recent graduates working on their first monograph, and for women.
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Greg Rusedski defeated Karol Kučera 6–4, 7–5 in the final to secure the title.

Seeds

  Carlos Moyá (first round)
  Marcelo Ríos (first round)
  Gustavo Kuerten (first round)
  Tim Henman (semifinals)
  Jan Siemerink (second round)
  Jim Courier (second round)
  Todd Woodbridge (first round)
  Alex O'Brien (quarterfinals)

Draw

Finals

Section 1

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Adults and families and multigenerational groups who want a classic cruise vacation with modern amenities on mid-size ships. For those who want a deluxe experience, the high-end HAL suites provide concierge service and other luxuries associated with more expensive cruise lines. HAL has a broad appeal and offers programs and activities for all ages, from high-tech computer sessions to conventional Vegas-style entertainment.
For many years, HAL has been named "Best Overall Cruise Value" by the World Ocean & Cruise Line. The award recognizes the line's ongoing Signature of Excellence ships – the ms Maasdam, ms Statendam, ms Ryndam, ms Veendam and ms Rotterdam.
The fleet's Signature Class vessels have cabins on the upper decks, spa staterooms with special amenities and healthy room-service menus and adults-only sundeck areas called The Retreat, which feature tented (for rent) cabanas equipped with fruit trays, bottled water, iPods and other goodies.
Though some ships– notably the ms Rotterdam and the ms Amsterdam -- are "fancier" than others, with high-end artwork and ornate decor, all ships now feature the Mariner Dream Bed and high-end linens, flat screen TVs and bathroom enhancements. The new bar concept, Mix, encompasses three specialty lounges serving champagne, martinis and spirits and ales. The new Showroom at Sea features Broadway entertainers and the new resort pool, the Retreat, has an upscale pizzeria and a giant LED screen for evening movies.
An increasingly popular feature on all HAL ships is the Culinary Arts Center, presented by Food & Wine Magazine, which has been described as a "world class show kitchen at sea." In 2014, the center's enrichment program included a roster of celebrity chefs, epicures and authors, including New York Times columnist Mark Bittman and Food Network "Next Iron Chef" competitor, Jehangir Mehta.
The atmosphere on a HAL cruise is livelier and somewhat more relaxed than in the past. Though still wedded to fixed meal times, lunch hours have been extended when the ships are in port and alternative dining venues now offer more choices.
This premium line has traditionally been known for having an older clientele but has made a shift in recent years to appeal to a younger crowd by adding such features as alternative restaurants, concierge service for the higher-end accommodations, Internet cafes with Wi-Fi, spa cabins, indoor-outdoor pools and specialty bars and lounges;. With its upgraded children's programs, HAL is attracting multi-generational family groups, especially during its summer sailings to Alaska and its one-week Caribbean itineraries during school vacations.
Reservations will not be accepted for infants 6 months or younger for non-Transocean sailings or 12 months or younger for Transocean sailings at time of cruise. There are no programs for children under 3. HAL programs cover three age groups: 3 to 7; 8 to 12 and 13 to 17. Expanded children's facilities include teen lounges, gaming stations and parent-free zones with computers.There are babysitting services available on board.


PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE is a tense use for the actions that are happening now.
EXERCISEChoose the correct answer below!
1. What are they doing?
The babies .... clapping hands.
2. What is she doing?
She …… writing a letter.
7. Two men are …….
15. This frog is …….. the guitar.
19. The cat is ……..
Present continuous tense -Základní škola olomouc, heyrovského 33. present continuous tense. mgr. ludmila faltýnková eu opvk ict2-4/aj02. určeno pouze pro výuku. Žádná část ani celek nesmí být použit pro komerční účely.
Present Continuous Tense -Grammar. present continuous tense. [present tense continu]. the present continuous tense shows actions that are going on now. [ le present tense continu montre les actions qui se déroulent aujourd'hui ].
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE: VERB "sleep" -. bobby. bobby is sleeping!. what is bobby doing?. present continuous tense. subject + verb "to be"+ verb ing form. the present continuos. subject. verb "to be". -ing form. am. i.