I have changed the method name isExecutingWithInvokerPrivileges to isPrivilegeCollectionRequired.
Both these changes are based on Dan's feedback on the first review package.
The patch has 4 majors components to it.
descriptor and PROVIDERID has to be a unique id to identify permission descriptor's uniquely.
3)Privilege collection during trigger creation is handled in a similar fashion as item 1.
creator will need TRIGGER privilege on the table on which the trigger is getting defined.
The dependency of the trigger on this TRIGGER privilege will be saved in SYSDEPENDS too.
is one can define multiple foreign key constraints for a given table within a single sql statement.
get recorded for each foreign key constraint in SYSDEPENDS table.
node is being accessed by an object(view/trigger/constraint) running with definer's privileges.
This method also marks the result column list as running with definer privileges.
node is being accessed by an object (view/trigger/constraint) running with definer's privileges.
This method also marks the subquery underneath it as running with definer privileges.
This method also marks it's fromTableList as running with definer privileges.
on views along with the base tables.
This method also marks it's javaNode as running with definer privileges.
privileges. This will make sure that we do not collect privilege requirements for that query.
This method also marks all the result columns in it as running with definer privileges.
exists directly for user2 and one for column c12 which exists at PUBLIC level.
constraint. The logic for this went into executeConstantAction method.
in SYSDEPENDS table to keep track of view/triiger/constraint's dependency on table level constraints.
privilege type in String format.
on PermissionsDescriptor. Also, each of the 3 Permission Descriptors now have a unique uuid.
passed authorization id is same as the owner of the object on which the permission is defined.
on object privilege in SYSDEPENDS table.
the PermissionDescriptor for the passed authorization id for the StatementPermission object.
is created in that schema, there is no need to keep that schema permission in SYSDEPENDS.
to add method getPUBLIClevelColPermsDescriptor to StatementColumnPermission.
As always, any feedback highly appreciated.


Day 1: Nairobi- Mt Kenya Bandas (2,900m) 3hrs, 10km walk, 950m ascent.
Depart from Nairobi at 0800hrs, driving through agricultural country up to Chogoria town for lunch. After lunch, we take 4×4. Drive up to the edge of the bamboo forest, Where we start our trekking through the dense bamboo forest for distance of 10 km up to the Mt Kenya Bandas.
Dinner and overnight at the Mount Kenya Bandas.
After breakfast and sorting of porter loads we set off up the mountain at a nice and easy pace A slightly longer walk via Lake Ellis gives scenic views of Mugi, Ithanguni and the Giants Billiards Table, mount kenya climbing whilst if we follow the river near road head, upstream for about 3 km, the foreground scenery and flora is particularly beautiful.
Similar early start. Again well off the beaten track to follow a ridge up the mountain for about 3 hours to eventually join the tourist track on the normal Chogoria route at an altitude of about 4,100m mount kenya climbing . Breath taking views over the Gorges Valley and back over towards Ithanguni and the Northern Moorlands.
Afternoon is spent relaxing at camp, though a 10 minute walk to the "Temple" is well worth the effort. This is a 150 meters vertical cliff that gets its name from the position visitors often adopt when peering over the edge – they look as if they are praying.
Day 4: Minto`s – Austrian hut 4,700m(top hut) 4 hrs, 7km, 500m ascent.
From the top we`ll have an excellent view of Mt. Kenya. After ascending for a couple of hours you reach Tooth Col. From here you traverse until you reach the Austrian Hut for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Austrian camp – Pt Lenana – Old Moses. 6 hrs, 20km, 285m ascent – 1,400m descent.
Leave at 5.00am for predawn attempt, climbing for 1 hour across bare rock and scree slopes characteristic of the alpine region up to Pt Lenana – the hiker`s summit, arriving in time to catch the African sunrise.
Descend to Shipton's camp for breakfast and a short rest. After breakfast we begin a 5 hour descent via Mackinder`s valley mount kenya climbing sirimon route 6 days to the Old Moses camp (3,300m). The descent is gentle and it offers ample time to enjoy fascinating scenery which includes the moorlands before reaching the camp.


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Kaduna state is set to host the 2020 President Beach Volleyball Championship for the Senior and U19 Boys and Girls. The beach volleyball championship will hold from 19th to 23rd February, 2020.
According to a statement signed by the Secretary General of Nigeria Volleyball Federation, Alhaji Maikano Adamu, it enjoined all interested clubs, states, Military and Paramilitary to submit their entries on or before 14th February, 2020.
Maikano attributed the non organisation of the President Cup due to lack of sponsors.
He said the championship will also help to select player for the senior and underage beach volleyball national teams.
It read, "The tournament which has been on for sometimes now but could not be staged for years due to lack of sponsors is revived by the present Musa Nimrod led board and will be used to select player for the senior and underage beach volleyball national teams".
The President of NVBF, Engineer Musa Nimrod told sports journalists in Abuja that this year's edition will assist in discovering more talents for the national teams in all age categories.
He further said that the participating teams will be motivated and encouraged throughout the period of the championship.
"This year's edition will also help build teams that will be taking part in the national sports festival at Edo state", Nimrod emphasises.
The participating teams are expected to arrive Kaduna on 19th February, 2020.
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Most people associate animation with children's films and Disney. However, this does not do justice to a medium that has the potential to create far more captivating and engaging pieces of cinema than are generally offered by live-action films. It has the ability to explore themes and ideas in an artistic style that isn't bound by the constraints found in conventional filming.
Cult animation has generally been split into two categories: the bizarre and the adult, which for many will appear too queer to warrant any appreciation. However, there are a number of cult films which should be watched by anyone with an interest in this undervalued art form.
Almost all of the films that The Beatles produced during their career have gone on to achieve some form of cult status, none more so than Yellow Submarine (1968). The fantasy musical features animated versions of the band as they go on a surreal and psychedelic journey to save the people of Pepperland from the music hating blue meanies. With a stellar Beatles soundtrack and wildly, lush images, this is a delight for both young and old. La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet, 1973) by René Laloux is a similarly dreamlike venture into the world of science fiction. In a world where human beings are treated as pests by the giant Draags, one man, Terr, stands up to rebel against humanity's oppression. Full of vivid imagery, its combination of strong themes of intolerance and unconventional artistry makes it a powerful piece of cinema.
Within the more adult-centred cult animation, one of the stand-out films has to be Heavy Metal (1981). Based on the fantasy and science fiction stories published in Heavy Metal Magazine, it features a universe of graphic violence, passionate fantasies and terrifying evil. Often played at midnight screenings and providing the inspiration for the South Park episode "Major Boobage", its superb 80s soundtrack helped cement it as a firm cult favourite. Ralph Bakshi's animated comedy Fritz the Cat (1972) was the first animated film to receive an X rating in the US. Following the hedonistic outings of a free loving cat during the 70s, its satire on the America of the time is hilarious, yet undoubtedly controversial. With the ability to at some point offend just about anyone, when taken with a pinch of salt it serves as great entertainment.
Finally, Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo (1976) is a parody of Disney's Fantasia. A combination of live-action and different styles of animation, it sets classical music to stories ranging from the comic to the tragic. With an inventive use of animation and actor interaction, it remains an innovative example of the genre and a worthy alternative to the Disney equivalent.
This only scratches the surface of a genre that contains a plethora of fantastic films and covers a vast range of styles and techniques, but for the cult enthusiast, it is at least a decent place to start.
Taken from The Student, published Tue Mar 13th 2012.


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(1) Create a simple, clean design for your web site that is easily navigable .(2) And despite it being a navigable waterway, in the whole day we saw about eight boats.(3) With its action, the state's highest court has potentially granted exclusive fishing rights to anyone owning land traversed by a recognized navigable waterway.(4) The streets are ordered and navigable , but not to the point of becoming mundane.(5) Ice buoys in the U.S. are found in navigable waterways prone to freezing.(6) The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs.(7) On the other hand, screens on a Web site could be intuitive and navigable by anyone.(8) We have a statutory obligation to make sure that certain waterways are navigable .(9) The bridge's walkway is curved, so that when it swings up to make a navigable passage and the arch above it swings down level with it, the pair of them form a barrel vault, its surface defined by the horizontal cables joining them.(10) With thousands of miles of navigable waterways, the state leads the nation in waterborne cargo, handling some 500 million tons a year.(11) Such commerce on the national scale was made possible by China's system of navigable waterways, partly natural and partly man-made.(12) Although heavily pitted and badly repaired, the motorway was still navigable .(13) Nigerians rarely transported locally brewed alcohol outside the area of production except where navigable waterways allowed.(14) The navigable scenes were then saved to a CD that is now stored at the county courthouse.(15) A chain blocked the navigable channel, secured on one side by the city walls and on the other by a tower on an island close to the shore.(16) France alone has almost 4,200 miles of navigable waterways.
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Author:Edmund Crosby Quiggin
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E. C. Quiggin was the first instructor of Celtic languages at Cambridge University
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "E. C. Q."
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A Dialect of Donegal, 1906
"Celt (people)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Languages and Literature)
"Columba, Saint," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Cuchulinn," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Druidism," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Finn mac Cool," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Ireland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Early History)
"Patrick, St," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1924.
The author died in 1920, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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The seminar will focus on a critical history of domestic architecture from its origins to the present.
Why we live in houses? Why has this become the predominant way of living? Why has the history of housing always been a history of crisis? Why has domestic space always been a tyrannical place? Why has domestic space always been violent? Why is the real 'state of exception' the one that takes place within domestic space? Why does barbarism begins at home? Why within domestic space are we always in debt with something or someone? Why we will never been safe within our homes? The seminar will attempt to answer these questions.
The house as a specific mode of dwelling originates in part with a desire for stability. As many anthropologists have noted, if there is a fundamental character of the human being, it is his constant feeling of not being at home. For this reason, we can argue that the invention of the house as an architectural apparatus is motivated not only by the need for protection from a hostile territory but also by a desire to settle and to give ritual form to life. A ritual is a set of actions performed according to a prescribed order. Its function is to provide an orientation and continuity on which patterns of behavior can be established and preserved. If for early nomadic societies to live meant to confront extreme environmental conditions, the house offered a way to crystallize a routine against the chronic unpredictability of existence. For this reason, the first forms of housing were also temples where humans and gods were supposed to live together. The ritualization of life fused material existence and spiritual transcendence within the same place, making early forms of domestic space a fixed point within the open-ended space of the natural environment. Once the house became a fixed point, it also became a governmental space that defined specific gender and social roles. This practice demonstrated a desire for occupational rights and the reproduction of social relationships across generations.
As stable form the house inevitably becomes a way to occupy and claim ownership of a place, as well as a space for the care of its members. It is from these premises that the house became oikos and domus. Both words do not refers to house as building but as form of association. The house as oikos is the place of oikonomia, or household management. According to Aristotle the household is made of three kinds of relationships: the despotic relationship between master and slave, the conjugal relationship between husband and wife, and the parental relationship between parent and child. For Aristotle, the defining relationship of the oikos is the despotic relationship between master and slave, wherein the slave's purpose is to answer the master's command. What the oikos manages is the reproduction of its members by ensuring the laboring necessary laboring activities necessary to the maintenance of the family: cooking, cleaning, raising kids etc. The seminal paradox of the oikos is that although it is assumed a non-political space, clearly distinct from the political space of the polis, the polis can only exist only through the laboring of the oikos. This paradox is acknowledged by Aristotle himself who devoted the first two book of his Politics to the functioning of the oikos. Reproduction and the maintenance of biological life is thus the foundation of political life, and yet since antiquity domestic labor been hidden and downgraded in the silent and enclosed space of the oikos, excluded from the public visibility of political life. It is precisely the artificial separation between reproduction and politics that is at the origin of the modern distinction of public and private space. With the expulsion of the workspace from the modern dwelling, the latter is rendered as the space of 'intimate relationships' the temple of 'privacy' and thus as the exclusive domain of the family. In this way reproduction is made a 'private' unwaged activity clearly distinct from remunerated work and politics. This phenomenology of the household had a tremendous impact on the history of domestic space, which has been seldom studied systematically in terms of architecture. Following the feminist critique of the household, in the last decade there has been a renewed interest towards the relationship between issues of gender and the architecture of domestic space. Yet this interest has often taken the form of very specific case studies and almost never of a radical reconsideration of what is the very ontological foundation of the idea of home. With this seminar we intend to open a space of radical critique of the idea of domestic space in the form of a history of its making from ancient to contemporary times.
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Forest owners want the government to give a higher priority to upgrading dodgy bridges on highways and key district roads.
"Old under-spec bridges are costing a small fortune in lost productivity because of the limited loads they can carry. Replacing them now, even it means slowing the upgrade of roads of national significance, would allow key roads to handle heavier vehicles that are safer and more efficient," says Forest Owners transport chair Brian Pritchard.
Until 2009, trucks without special permits were limited to 20 metres and 44 tonnes. Since then heavy vehicle owners have been able to apply for permits to use high productivity vehicles on selected roads.
These vehicles, which can be up to 22 metres and 51 tonnes, are much more efficient. To cart a given amount of freight, fewer journeys are needed. Costs and carbon emissions are lower. Often they have a lower centre of gravity, reducing the risks of crashes.
Until bridges and culverts are assessed and in many cases replaced, permits for heavier weight vehicles can't be granted. Forest owners are disappointed by the time this is taking.
"A lot of permits have been issued for 22 metre vehicles, but few have been granted for the new maximum of 51 tonnes. Longer is useful and safer, but heavier will bring the real productivity benefits," Mr Pritchard says.
"High productivity vehicles were not mentioned in the government land transport funding statement issued earlier this week. We also note that it will be another year before all state highway bridges have been assessed.
"We have a good working relationship with NZ Transport Agency staff, but it is clear they are under-resourced.
"Logic suggests that upgrading bridges and fixing other choke points on our existing roading network should have at least equal priority with new motorways and expressways."
The flat-line budget for local roading is also of major concern, he says.
"We support efficient spending, but it is unlikely that the efficiencies the government is seeking will exceed the rapidly increasing costs of road building. Bitumen prices, after all, are linked to oil prices."
Mr Pritchard says the government wants to treble exports by 2030 and the sustainable harvest from plantation forests is expected to increase by more than 50% in the next decade. So forestry will play a big part in the government achieving its goal.
"This will require a big investment in rural roads and bridges. But at the moment, we can't see where this investment will come from."


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The Barry Boyce Band is a group based out of Omaha, Ne. and has been performing live dance engagements since their inception in the winter of 1989. Their performances include a variety of ethnic music featuring old-time German, Czech and Polish polkas and waltzes with English lyrics. The band also performs a variety of fox-trots at their engagements. The band features Barry Boyce on piano accordion, button accordion and vocals.
The group has performed in 17 different states including Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, & Wyoming. Also playing on a Cruise Ship in the Western Caribbean. They perform many dances in Omaha and surrounding areas, but don't let that fool you into thinking they don't like to travel. To travel with the band to different states for festivals and such have always been great adventures for them. Barry also sponsors tours to other states when possible.
Barry started taking lessons on accordion when he was 10 years old. In 1980, at 17 years old he dropped the lessons and started playing on an 8-piece dance band and played as a regular until 1990 when he started his own band. On September 8, 2013, Barry was inducted into the "Sokol Omaha Polka Hall of Fame."
Barry has always been able to fill out the band with talented musicians on bass horn, drums and other instrumentation. With the band being family oriented from the start, Barry watched his son play drums on the laps of many drummers since the age of two. The dream of playing drums became reality when Barry's son Chad became the full time drummer in the spring of 2003. He felt the beat at dances before he was born and now carries an excellent beat on stage for the band.
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AI Chipmaker Hailo opens Japan Subsidiary
Hailo's specialized Hailo-8™ Deep Learning Processor delivers up to 26 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS). Foxconn has combined the chip in its BOXiedge high-density, fan-less, edge computer
The AI chipmaker from Tel Aviv, Hailo, announced international expansion with the establishment of Hailo Japan located in Tokyo. Hiro Uchida, a former Sony executive, has been appointed President to lead the operation. The new company answers the growing demand from Japanese customers developing products requiring AI technology at the edge, in sgments such as automotive, smart cities, smart retail, smart homes, industry 4.0, and beyond.
The expansion comes in the wake of Hailo's $60 million Series B funding round, in which NEC joined as a strategic investor. Hailo also recently established key partnership with Foxconn and the Japanese Socionext, a provider of SoC solutions for video and imaging systems. Foxconn has combined its high-density, fan-less, edge computing solution, BOXiedge™, with Socionext's parallel processor "SynQuacer™" SC2A11, and the Hailo-8™ deep learning processor.
Hailo's specialized Hailo-8™ Deep Learning Processor delivers up to 26 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS). The chip is built with an innovative architecture that enables edge devices to run sophisticated deep learning applications that could previously only run on the cloud. "There is no doubt that deep learning at the edge will be embedded in almost all of the products and services we use on a daily basis," said Hiro Uchida.
Hiro Uchida brings 30+ years of experience, including helping build Sony's Corporate Venture Capital fund. Orr Danon, CEO of Hailo, said that the Asia-Pacific region continues to show significant growth in the AI secto. "Our new subsidiary in Japan will enable us to strengthen collaborations with our Japanese-based customers and partners. Many of the world's leading companies integrating Artificial Intelligence into their edge devices are based in Japan."
According to IDC, the Global Worldwide Artificial Intelligence market maintain a steady growth rate annually through 2023, approaching $98.4 billion in revenue at a CAGR of 28.5%.
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) November 10, 2020
CARPARTS.COM, INC.
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2050 W. 190th Street, Suite 400, Torrance, CA 90504
Registrant's telephone number, including area code (424) 702-1455
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ◻
Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Appointment of New Director
On November 10, 2020, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of CarParts.com, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Dr. Lisa Costa as a Class III director of the Company, effective immediately, to serve until the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or until her earlier death, disqualification, resignation or removal. The Board has determined that Dr. Costa is an independent director under the listing standards of the Nasdaq Global Market.
There are no family relationships between Dr. Costa and any director or executive officer of the Company and Dr. Costa does not have a direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
In connection with Dr. Costa's appointment to the Board, Dr. Costa will receive the standard compensation received by non-employee directors, which compensation was last described in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 27, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference. Dr. Costa will also enter the Company's standard form of indemnification agreement, which was previously filed by the Company as Exhibit 10.7 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 11, 2016.
Departure of Director
On November 12, 2020, Joshua L. Berman notified the Company's Board of his decision to resign, effective as of November 12, 2020, from the Board. Mr. Berman's resignation was to pursue other opportunities and did not result from any disagreements with management or the Board. Mr. Berman was a Class II director of the Company and had served as Chairman of the Company's Compensation Committee and as a member of the Board Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On November 12, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Dr. Costa to the Board and issued a separate press release announcing the resignation of Mr. Berman from the Board. Copies of those press releases are attached as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report and is incorporated herein by reference.
In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report and Exhibit 99.1 hereto are being furnished and shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section, nor shall such information or that Exhibit be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Press Release Announcing Board Appointment, dated November 12, 2020, by CarParts.com, Inc.
Press Release Announcing Board Resignation, dated November 12, 2020, by CarParts.com, Inc.
/s/ David Meniane
David Meniane
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer


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Standard Goods Featured Artist: Carolyn Hitt
by Maya Koplowitz April 10, 2017
Photo: Meagan Hall/Seattledaze
Carolyn Hitt, Artist and Founder of Blue Cone Studios will be joining us this Thursday evening for Capitol Hill Art Walk. She wlll be featuring "Many Eyes" sculpture series which indulges in the fantasy of vision and the ability for viewers to see beyond themselves. She is a multi-discipline, mixed media artist with a background in theater currently working between clay, canvas, and sculpture. Learn more about her in out interview below!
What drew you to working with clay?
Opportunity. I have loved clay since I was really young. My folks sent me to hang out with this old WWII pilot and his wife every now and then and he would take me to the clay studios to pick out cast molds to paint. It was my favorite part of art class in high school but I rarely had the opportunity after to explore it because kilns weren't on my radar as accessible or affordable. I made a whole series, years ago, that i never fired and gave away with the caveat that they would definitely break one day. When I took over the space that is now Blue Cone Studios, one of the major bonuses was that it already had a good sized electric kiln wired in. That's all I needed to pick it back up again.
Describe your style as an artist in 3 words?
Archeological, Abstract, Intuitive
Are there any recurring themes in your work?
I like to think my fascination with ancient civilizations known and unknown shows up pretty regularly. DNA and access to information programmed in our cells. Microcosms vs Macrocosms. Structure as thought, color as emotion, layers as time. UFOs and birds show up when I'm contemplating spiritual things like past lives, soul mates, and the multiverse. And then there are always faces and eyes. They've been around in my work as long as i can remember and likely hearken to the notion that we are all watching each other and trying desperately to figure out how to be human.
What is your most important artist tool? Is there something you absolutely can't live without in your studio?
My mind.
What figures in the art world influence or inspire you and why?
That's a really hard question because I love A LOT of artists for all kinds of reasons. Most significant recently, I am in love with Yayoi Kusama. I can only imagine how utterly satisfying it would be to have the time, money, and freedom to create on such an epic scale. But I also deeply feel the infinity in her work and comfort in her understanding of her own mind and how she has orchestrated a world to indulge it. I make art to exist and I feel we are kindred spirits on this. I also love a lot of what Andrew Salgado is doing in terms of color and texture. I am strongly influenced by graffiti writing and street art but never had the nuts to really get into it. I recently met a couple of guys whose work I've been tracking for years around the hill. That's pretty cool to me. I have a healthy respect for outsider art and have aometimes wondered if that's where I actually fit in. Who knows?
What do you enjoy most about what you do?
The meditation of creation. I have a hyper-active mind with obsessive tendencies. I don't want to be negatively bound by this but it's a part of how I was programmed. It's been the challenge of my life to endure and figure out how to use these seemingly adverse characteristics in a productive and healthy way. Art is the only activity I've ever found that engages these traits through a process that isn't detrimental to my mental health but actually allows me to work through the pulses and avoid the spin.
If you could choose to live anywhere in the world where would it be and describe your dream home?
I love Seattle. The only other place I can see myself is New York. My dream home is a warehouse that I can build everything I need in. A nice comfy loft up high with windows and tons of plants. Down below would be a fully stocked woodworking area, ceramics studio, a ventilated paint room, and a place to sew and design. I want to be able to jump out of bed at 3 am and indulge my imagination.
Blue Cone Studios


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The world thinks he's a great husband
This A list female television talk show host should really try and avoid going out to events alone. It turns out her "the world thinks he's a great husband" has a little someone he has been meeting a couple of times a week for a few hours each time. He thinks he's sneaking in unnoticed but the doorman has a very good idea who the man is and also a very good idea what the woman he is seeing does for a living.
They have been living in separate houses the past two weeks
This former A+ list celebrity/singer who is now a B+ because she just isn't front page any longer had heard tabloid rumors that her still A list celebrity/singer husband was hooking up with an A+ list celebrity/singer. Well, it turns out he wasn't but she did find out about the backup singer he is hooking up with and they have been living in separate houses the past two weeks.
PI delivered the news on Saturday
This A+ list celebrity found out over the weekend that all of the rumors about her A+ list celebrity husband and his cheating ways over the years was true. She had a private detective follow up on some of the accusations that have been made by him. He delivered the news on Saturday.
His wife is lucky isn't she?
This married A list mostly television actor who is foreign born on a hit network show refuses to make the first move on any woman. Yes, I know I said he is married so you would think that's why. Nope. He has just been famous for so long that if a woman wants to be with him they have to do all the work. He will make the phone call to set something up but they need to be able to just tell him a place and a time. If it fits into his schedule he will have sex with them. His wife is lucky isn't she?
She thinks people think of her as an actress
"If I keep doing reality shows and hosting no one will ever take me seriously as an actress." The crazy thing is that this former B list mostly television actress turned B list celebrity turned B list reality star turned mom was serious when she said it. I think it's sweet she thinks people think of her as an actress.
War between A list mostly movie actresses
This war between A list mostly movie actresses who are also Academy Award winners has reached epic proportions. #1 won the award but has way less nominations. She is the one who started the fight and has also threatened to expose #2's infidelities with her leading men. For her part, #2 has threatened to not only expose #1's infidelities but also release recordings of #1 having sex with a co-star when #1 got too loud and everyone could hear them outside #1's trailer.
She stopped working consistently when she stopped sleeping with her former boss
This former American Idol alum who worked a lot after the show ended says she stopped working consistently when she stopped sleeping with her former boss who is an A list celebrity.
Like mom like daughter I guess. This C+ list mostly television actress is the offspring of an Academy Award winner/nominee who cheated on her long term significant other. OK, most of her significant others. Her daughter has not been married that long but cheated on her then boyfriend multiple times with co-stars including a six month fling with a former A+ list mostly television actor who is now A- list on his still very hit cable show. Since then our actress has found a long term romance with an actor from a failing comedy in its second season on a network.
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The tenor of the zink family (also known as lysard or lysarden) has the peculiar curved shape of a flattened letter s. Besides giving the instrument its name, this shape helps the player cover the finger holes on this longer zink. The holes for each hand happen to be in the portion of the curves which are closest to the player. The lizard's tone is pleasing, yet rather foggy. It blends well with voices and plays on one of the inner voices of an ensemble. A Lyserden is listed in the waits' band of Exeter in 1575 and a lysarden appears in the inventory made in 1602 of the instruments at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, that belonged to Thomas Kytson. Refer to the serpent page to see the bass of the cornett family.


Invisalign is esthetically appealing and removable (great for big events, weddings, etc).
Patients do not have to modify the foods they eat because they eat with the aligners out, lips and cheeks adapt a lot faster to aligners than to traditional braces.
Each "adjustment" (new aligner) is a very subtle correction (we generally change aligners every 2 weeks, as opposed to changing wires at every 6-8 weeks) so there is less discomfort/pressure associated with each adjustment.
Brushing and flossing can be carried out as usual as aligners from Invisalign OKC can be removed for cleaning.
No true emergencies – no broken brackets or pokey wires. If aligners are lost or broken, they can easily be replaced.
Treatment outcome is EXTREMELY related to patient cooperation – if the aligners are not worn for 22 hours/day, we will not get the expected/desired outcome.
Patients MUST remember to replace aligners after food/drinks/brushing.
May affect speech more than braces (because the plastic also sits on the tongue-side of the teeth, where many sounds for speech are produced).
Must be removed before eating or drinking anything except water, so patients cannot be sipping/snacking all day.
Cannot perform certain tooth movements (for example, retrieving impacted teeth – teeth that are stuck in the gums/bone and are not erupting properly on their own).


Columbus police got federal assistance with the capture of Pyatt.
It was members of the U.S. Marshal's Service Southeast Regional Task Force that arrested Pyatt. He was found at an apartment complex in southwest Atlanta.
After the shooting, authorities learned that Pyatt had fled to Atlanta. Task force supervisor James Ergas said investigators immediately set up surveillance in the area where he was caught.
After indentifying the apartment he was in, investigators entered the apartment around 9:30 p.m. and arrested Pyatt after a brief struggle.
Pyatt has a criminal record that includes convictions for robbery, battery and obstruction of police according to Ergas.
In Columbus, Taylor came to the police department and was interviewed during the day by Columbus officers and was charged Tuesday night. Starling said it was "talk on the street" that first led Columbus police to suspect Pyatt and Taylor.
No possible motive has been given.
Rhodes , who had joined the force as a corrections officer in June 2003, was driving along Steam Mill Road around 2 a.m. Sunday when he was shot. No weapon was recovered.


Space is limited to 30, and filled up very quickly last year. sign up.
This three-hour intensive workshop, the students and faculty of SLA's Rough Cut Productions to learn the technical and artistic techniques of communicating through video. The skills you will learn will be valuable both in creating great video content to help your students learn, and mentoring your students to create compelling video projects for classes and clubs.
*This workshop was a huge success at ISTE 2015 Philly, and was accepted again as a full-day workshop at ISTE2016Denver.
This session was awesome and so interactive. I loved meeting and working with the students on our movie. I can't wait to see what the other groups came up with!
Any chance this session could be added to the live streaming options? Even a wide shot and the ability to hear the presenters would be valuable!


You can now find an interactive 'Where are we' link in the menu, featured above and on every page of the website. It links you to our own Bing Map and Instructions as to how you can use the map are displayed on that web page.
Crete is an island with a wide variety of tourist attractions to suite all visitors. Obviously we can only show a few of those here. We found some great places, from the modern and popular water parks to the remarkable ancient ruins of a 4000 year old civilisation at the palace of Knossos. We have listed a few suggested attractions that you might perhaps like to visit during your stay in Crete.
Click for weather details in Heraklion.
We named it such to represent its surroundings, 'Irinikos Villa' means 'Peaceful or Tranquil Villa'. The aim of our website is to provide you with as much information about the villa and how to rent it as we can, as well as to give you an insight into the culture, sights and the traditional Greek foods of this wonderful island in the sun.
Our traditionally built and modernly equipped villa provides all of the facilities that guests will need to enjoy 'a home away from home' holiday. All enhanced of course by the wonderfully warm, sunny Mediterranean climate and the fantastic views surrounding the villa. The village of Roumeli has, a large supermarket which sells just about everything you may need, a restaurant providing great meals with locally grown produce, 2 friendly cafenions, an internet cafe and a village public phone box for those who find it hard to turn off !! All are reasonably priced and all are just a few minutes walk away from the villa.
Click here to read some of our guest reviews.
We can recommend this car rental company, click HERE for redirection to their site.


A family run, British sustainable wood business, Certainly Wood supply kiln dried firewood to the UK. Working to develop the e-shop, this product-focused, responsive site required frequent updates to the interface during sale periods with careful attention to detail and brand consistency across email marketing and creative, content-driven pages.
Similarly, a responsive microsite for the cross-seasonal sale of firelighters as well as annual informative infographics were similar concepts which pushed this small wood company in rural England to become a leader in its field.


LAISSE PASSE has many recommend items that are elegant and fashionable! There are many items that are pastel colour and flower printed! Especially, my favorite is a blurred rose one-piece dress because it makes you balance up! I'm kind of nervous because people from Nikkei come here to do an interview for C CHANNEL's shooting!


After unveiling it globally last month, Samsung has launched the Galaxy Note 8 in India today. The phone is priced at INR 67,900 ($1,061) in the country and it will be available through select retail stores as well as Amazon.in and Samsung Shop starting September 21. The company will start accepting Galaxy Note 8 pre-orders today, and the phone will be available in Maple Gold and Midnight Black. Those who pre-order the phone will be eligible for one-time screen replacement and a free convertible wireless charger.
Samsung has also announced that its 'Samsung Upgrade' program will offer loyal customers in India a chance to get the best value when they trade in their old device for the Galaxy Note 8. The upgrade program, which is being offered in partnership with Cashify, will be accessible through the company's My Galaxy app. Those who purchase the Galaxy Note 8 using an HDFC credit card will get a cashback of INR 4,000 (about $62.55). Jio customers would be eligible to get up to 448GB of extra data over the next eight months as well as complimentary Jio Prime membership.
The South Korean smartphone brand has also announced that it will launch Bixby Voice in India in the next few weeks. The AI-powered digital voice assistant will be available for the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, and the Galaxy Note 8 in the country. The company said that it has optimized Bixby to understand English in Indian accents as a part of its 'Make for India' initiative. The Indian variant of the Galaxy Note 8 features an Exynos 8895 processor, 6GB RAM, 64GB internal storage, and a hybrid dual-SIM card slot. Unlike what was being rumored, Samsung won't bundle the DeX docking station with the phone.
The upgrade programme, powered by Cashify, is strange. The buyback quote for my S8+ is Rs 34,500 when done through the My Galaxy app. But when I do the same directly via the Cashify app, I am getting a quote of Rs 39.450! Why would there be such a big difference? Is Samsung taking a commission for buybacks done via their app?
Good news for them! Hope to have mine in the next week or two!


This permanent family medicine job (Federal Way) is from a hospital-owned practice.
Join us and use your expertise to help expand the boundaries of family medicine alongside professionals who share your passion.
United States citizenship or Permenant Residence (Reserve only).
Specialized Training Assistance: Monthly stipend while enrolled in an accredited residency program.
Time Off: 30 days paid vacation annually plus over 20 days for federal holidays and "Days of no Scheduled Activities.
Loan Repayment: Receive $120,udent loan repayment in $40,000 annual payments to qualifying federal student loans paid directly to the lending institution through the Active Duty Health Professions Loan Repayment Program (Adhplrp).
Low-cost healthcare and dental insurance for your family.
Additionally, you'll gain access to invaluable opportunities like supporting humanitarian missions, leadership training and a competitive benefit package.
Incentive Pay: $25,000 paid annually for 2, 3, or 4 years.
Recipients must be a United States citizen and will serve in the Army Reserve after completing residency.
When you join the Army Medical Corps, you'll be making a difference in the lives of our Soldiers and the country at large with a focus on patient care first.
Practice True Medicine: No malpractice insurance, no overhead costs, no dealing with insurance companies, no productivity goals.
Loan Repayment: Receive $250,udent loan repayment in $40,000 annual payments to qualifying federal student loans paid directly to the lending institution through the Health Professions Loan Repayment Program (Hplrp).
Insurance: No-cost healthcare and dental insurance for you.
As a Family Medicine Physician on the United States Army health care team, you'll help conserve the United States Army's fighting strength during humanitarian missions, contingency operations and peacetime by providing the highest-quality health care to Soldiers, family members and other eligible beneficiaries in both inpatient and outpatient environments and for both pre- and post-operative care.
Sign-on Bonus: $275,000 signing (accession) bonus.
Physician - Family Medicine Job in Federal Way, WA.
Foreign graduates may apply if they have a permanent certificate from the Educational Council of Foreign Medical Graduates.
Must have completed a residency program in your specialty.


Outsourcing become an attractive option for corporate to reduce their labor costs. However, many people not agree with this condition even suggested to the government for issued a policy prohibiting or severely restricting this activities. In reality, a number of studies show that employment policy that too rigid in the long time will disserve the economical aspect of a country. In other words, labor regulations are too protect the interests and rights of workers often would backfire for the economic progress of the nation. This training will discuss the outsourcing management about understanding, law, until the outsourcing performance management.
Can create an ethical and legal outsourcing process.


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Q: Why is the text in my menu shifted to the right? I'm currently setting up a sidebar menu for my Wordpress website. I'm running into 2 issues. The 1st one is that the text in the menu isn't lining up to the left side properly. I have tried to use the text-align attribute but it doesn't work.
The 2nd problem is that there is a bit of random space at the bottom of the menu that I don't know why is there.
Problem is happening here: http://dreamedbig.com/our-services/

My HTML/PHP:

    <?php dynamic_sidebar('services'); ?>

The CSS:
#services-menu {
    border: 1px solid black;
    align-items: left;
    float:left;
    height: auto;
    display: inline-block;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    background-color: #BCE6FB;
}

#services-menu li{
    list-style-type:none;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

#services-menu a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #08203D;
}

#services-menu ul {
}

#services-menu ul li a {
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    z-index: 1;
    margin: 5px;
    padding-left:   5px;
    padding-right: 5px;
}

#services-menu ul li a::after
{
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left: 0;
    background-color: #00A2DA;
    width: 0%;
    height: 100%;
    transition: all 1s;
    z-index: -1;
}

#services-menu ul li a:hover::after
{
    width: 100%;
}

#services-menu ul li:nth-child(odd) a::after
{
    background-color: #00A2DA;
}

#services-menu ul li:nth-child(even) a::after
{
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

A: It looks like you have some inherited styles from classes called .widget and there is margin and padding added to ul. This is common is your using something like WordPress or underscores that come with some stylesheets.
I think these styles will correct it
.widget, #services-menu ul{
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}

I found the unwanted margin and padding by using inspect in my chrome browser. I highly recommend it for frontend styling because it makes troubleshooting these kinds of issue easier to resolve.
Here is an article to better explain how it works

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Today, we will be exploring around the area of Westminster and Covent Garden.
Quick Fact:Big Ben is the nickname for the bell in this clock tower. This clock tower is called Elizabeth Tower.
Big Ben is the most iconic film location in London. It is also the world's largest four faced chiming clock.
This amazing gothic church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Quick Fact : Westminster Abbey was the venue for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The queue can be pretty long, just be patient and soon you will be able to reach the entrance of Westminster Abbey.
Till now, there are over 3,300 people that have been buried or commemorated here.
In fact, it has over 1Million visitors a year! So what are you waiting for?
In this palace, it has 775 rooms, 78 baths, 1,514 doors, and 40,000-plus light bulbs.
Changing of guards ceremony takes place outside buckingham palace every alternate days- Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday between 11.30am for 45 minutes. This is subject to weather condition. Time may change so do check before you go.
This free event is very popular, so be sure to arrive early to secure a spot with a good view.
Btw, if I never remember wrongly, this photo is taken by a little Japan boy that TowkayNew carry on his shoulder so that the little boy can have a unblocked view👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻.
There are also huge horses and also songs played by the Royal band.
The square is also linked to the National Gallery in the back view.
The centre of Trafalgar Square stands one of London's most famous monument -Nelson's Column It was built to commemorate and honour Admiral Nelson who died in the battle of Trafalgar which led the British to victory.
There are some sculpture and statues that occupy the square. The lions behind is designed by Sir Edwin Landseer which are said to protect Nelson's Column.
There are also many busker performances at in Trafalgar Square.
Covent garden is a cultural destination in London. It has a very cool interior design.
For these street performers in Covent garden, they will have to go through an audition by a group of judging panel made up of Musician association, street performers association, and Covent Garden Management team.
The North Hall and West Piazza pitch is for variety / circus acts with a structured show.
The Courtyard pitch is for classical vocalists and instrumentalists.
Beside Covent Garden is the London Transport Museum. London Transport Museum is in a Victoria iron and glass building on the east side of the market square.
And not forgetting the Iconic London Buses!!!
Do explore if you are near Covent Garden!


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"""
Implicit differentiation of ridge regression.
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"""

from absl import app
import jax
import jax.numpy as jnp
from jaxopt import implicit_diff
from jaxopt import linear_solve
from jaxopt import OptaxSolver
import optax
from sklearn import datasets
from sklearn import model_selection
from sklearn import preprocessing

def ridge_objective(params, l2reg, data):
  """Ridge objective function."""
  X_tr, y_tr = data
  residuals = jnp.dot(X_tr, params) - y_tr
  return 0.5 * jnp.mean(residuals ** 2) + 0.5 * l2reg * jnp.sum(params ** 2)

@implicit_diff.custom_root(jax.grad(ridge_objective))
def ridge_solver(init_params, l2reg, data):
  """Solve ridge regression by conjugate gradient."""
  X_tr, y_tr = data

  def matvec(u):
    return jnp.dot(X_tr.T, jnp.dot(X_tr, u))

  return linear_solve.solve_cg(matvec=matvec,
                               b=jnp.dot(X_tr.T, y_tr),
                               ridge=len(y_tr) * l2reg,
                               init=init_params,
                               maxiter=20)

# Perhaps confusingly, theta is a parameter of the outer objective,
# but l2reg = jnp.exp(theta) is an hyper-parameter of the inner objective.
def outer_objective(theta, init_inner, data):
  """Validation loss."""
  X_tr, X_val, y_tr, y_val = data
  # We use the bijective mapping l2reg = jnp.exp(theta)
  # both to optimize in log-space and to ensure positivity.
  l2reg = jnp.exp(theta)
  w_fit = ridge_solver(init_inner, l2reg, (X_tr, y_tr))
  y_pred = jnp.dot(X_val, w_fit)
  loss_value = jnp.mean((y_pred - y_val) ** 2)
  # We return w_fit as auxiliary data.
  # Auxiliary data is stored in the optimizer state (see below).
  return loss_value, w_fit

def main(argv):
  del argv

  # Prepare data.
  X, y = datasets.load_boston(return_X_y=True)
  X = preprocessing.normalize(X)
  # data = (X_tr, X_val, y_tr, y_val)
  data = model_selection.train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33, random_state=0)

  # Initialize solver.
  solver = OptaxSolver(opt=optax.adam(1e-2), fun=outer_objective, has_aux=True)
  theta = 1.0
  init_w = jnp.zeros(X.shape[1])
  state = solver.init_state(theta, init_inner=init_w, data=data)

  # Run outer loop.
  for _ in range(50):
    theta, state = solver.update(params=theta, state=state, init_inner=init_w,
                                 data=data)
    # The auxiliary data returned by the outer loss is stored in the state.
    init_w = state.aux
    print(f"[Step {state.iter_num}] Validation loss: {state.value:.3f}.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
  app.run(main)

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Nobody's Asking for Trump to Be a Genius
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Stephen Walt describes what a commonsense U.S. foreign policy would look like.
AP/ Evan Vucci
Policy Brief - Oxford Research Group
Neither MAD Nor Even: Looking Beyond Trump's Missile Defense Review
Read more about Neither MAD Nor Even: Looking Beyond Trump's Missile Defense Review
The author analyzes the policy implications of the U.S. January 2019 Missile Defense Review.
Julio Cortez/AP
Discussion Paper - Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center
The Long Arm
Aaron Arnold
Daniel Salisbury
| February 2019
Read more about The Long Arm
The networks of middlemen and intermediaries involved in the illicit procurement of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-related goods and technologies often operate outside of the United States, which presents several legal and political challenges regarding U.S. trade control enforcement activities. This report considers the extraterritorial efforts of U.S. law enforcement in counterproliferation-related activities and their implications. In other words, how does the United States contend with violations of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-related trade controls in overseas jurisdictions, and what are the implications for broader U.S. and international nonproliferation efforts, as well as wider international security and economic concerns?
Cha Song Ho/Associated Press
Analysis & Opinions - The Diplomat
Trump-Kim 2: Why Hanoi?
Viet Phuong Nguyen
Read more about Trump-Kim 2: Why Hanoi?
It was finally revealed by Trump via his usual communication channel – Twitter – that Hanoi was the venue for the much-anticipated meeting. It is most likely that the choice of venue was made with consent from Kim; thus the decision also gave clues as to North Korea's intentions in participating in, and plans for the upcoming Hanoi summit.
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Presidential Candidates Need a Plan for Reducing Nuclear Terrorism Risks
Read more about Presidential Candidates Need a Plan for Reducing Nuclear Terrorism Risks
As presidential candidates hit the campaign trail this year, voters should ask them: "What's your plan for keeping nuclear weapons and the materials to make them out of terrorist hands?" Every candidate who is serious about national security should have an answer to that question; every president for more than two decades, including Donald Trump, has described nuclear terrorism as one of the gravest dangers the United States faces. There should be no disagreement between Republicans and Democrats — or between the United States and other countries — when it comes to measures to prevent terrorists from ever getting and using a nuclear bomb or sabotaging a major nuclear facility.
Correspondence: New Era or New Error? Technology and the Future of Deterrence
Ryan Snyder
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An estimated 14,485 nuclear weapons exist on earth today — most are far more powerful than those that twisted railway ties, leveled buildings, and crushed, poisoned, and burned human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The majority of these weapons belong to the United States and Russia. For some in the U.S. government, including Chris Ford, assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, this number represents significant disarmament progress since Cold War highs of over 70,000 nuclear weapons. They argue the current security environment means that further reductions are not possible at this time. In contrast, for many disarmament advocates and officials from non-nuclear weapons states, this number is still far too high. They are now clamoring to ban all nuclear weapons. Because of this divide, according to Ford, we currently face a "disarmament crisis."


This came out of the blue!
Last edited by Massilia; December 29th, 2012 at 05:15 PM.
Having recently introduced their first luxury residential property in Doha, Kempinski is set to witness five new luxury hotels in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
Winner of Best Brands' 2011 Best Service award in Germany, Kempinski Hotels previewed their new properties at its annual regional road show in Doha on April 7. The five new properties are expected to set a new benchmark in luxurious hospitality in the GCC, and bring new green and intelligent technology to the region.
Kempinski will also manage a new Palace hotel on The Pearl Qatar, Doha that will be opened by the beginning of 2013.
Hotels are also set to open in Muscat, Chennai (India), Seychelles and Summerland in Beirut.
This year, representatives from 20 international Kempinski Hotels arrived in Qatar to showcase the luxury group's growing portfolio of properties from around the world.
Kempinski Hotel teams from Bangkok to Budapest are travelling across the GCC to strengthen business ties with travel trade partners in the region.
The team toured three major cities in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah on April 3, Riyadh (April 4) and Al Khobar (April 5), and rounded up the road show in Kuwait on April 9.
"Our travel trade partners play a key role in communicating our leading status among leisure and business travellers, and the good relationship we have built over the years are integral to our future success. This is the fifth edition of our annual road show and we once again embrace the opportunity it provides us to showcase our growing hotel portfolio to our regional travel trade partners, in order for them to continue to recommend us to their clients," said Avsar Koc, Kempinski's Regional Director of Sales, Middle East.
wow, nice find! i looove the idea of a palace!
the one in porto arabia is gonna be a marriot, right?
where in the pearl is it located exactly?
seems like a bad design !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fixed... it looks more rosy now!
Last edited by Massilia; December 29th, 2012 at 06:02 PM.
This project will give life to The Pearl, right now its dead. The Pearl should have some 4 star and 3 star hotels, shops and restaurants for their long-term survival. They should use JBR's strategy.
The pearl will have 6 hotels in the future, but now this is the only one U/C!
Nikki beach and the fourseason seem to be on hold.
Stable sand dunes at night, clear blue skies and a beduin singing in the desert knowing that the world is so small that he could be an astronaut flying all over the tiny skyline.
it is this one right ?


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Onward and upward with cloud native: Highlights from KubeCon EU 2022
Gibbs Cullen on May 26th 2022
Over 7,000 cloud native enthusiasts gathered in-person in Valencia, Spain last week for KubeCon EU (with 10,000+ joining virtually). Not only was this the first in-person KubeCon EU since 2019, but it was also the first KubeCon back at full capacity since the start of the pandemic. This year's conference theme was "Onward and Upward: Grow with Cloud Native," and the growth and excitement around the participating cloud native solutions was palpable – including 65% of all attendees being new to KubeCon!
Chronosphere did not sponsor this year, but had two employees – Gibbs Cullen, Product Marketing Manager, and Chris Ward, Technical Writer – on site to attend sessions and observe the latest in cloud native. Gibbs also co-led a FluentCon workshop with Anurag Gupta from Calyptia on "Getting started with Fluent Bit and Metrics with Prometheus."
The below highlights some of the events, as well as recaps the main themes seen by Gibbs and Chris throughout the week:
Kubernetes grows with the cloud
Focus on security
Observability everywhere
Service meshes on rise
New CNCF certification programs
Increased developer productivity
KubeCon was never soley about Kubernetes, and officially has the secondary name "Cloud Native Con." However, with Kubernetes now one of the largest ever community-led open source projects, there's a lot to talk about. The CNCF landscape has now become so large and hard to evaluate that a new Cartografos Working Group emerged to help newcomers and more experienced end-users navigate the maturity and usefulness of projects for their use case(s).
According to the CNCF's 2021 Cloud Native Survey, 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. This growth in adoption, however, has been coupled with increasing costs for many users. As a result, this year's event presented a variety of sessions on solutions for simplifying and/or automating Kubernetes in an effort to make the technology more accessible for the greater cloud native community.
There was a dedicated track to customizing and extending the use of Kubernetes with sessions including "Kubernetes is Your Platform: Design Patterns For Extensible Controllers" by SUSE and VMware, "Build Your Own Cluster API Provider the Easy Way" by VMware and Weaveworks, and "Implementing Anti-patterns: Kubernetes Cross-namespace Resource Ownership" by Red Hat.
Security continues to be a top priority for cloud native technologies and end-users, especially after a big year of outages. So naturally this was a theme across the sessions with a dedicated track and topics like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Pod Security" by Microsoft, "How Attackers Use Exposed Prometheus Server to Exploit Kubernetes Clusters" by Sysdig, and "Three Surprising K8s Networking "Features" and How to Defend Against Them" by ControlPlane.
A recurring theme within security was increasing peace of mind in automated developer workflows. With greater levels of abstraction, and relinquishing a lot of control and responsibility to third party CI/CD tools, developers can quickly lose sight of what is happening. This can lead to a variety of impacts from using improperly licensed dependencies to inadvertently introducing malicious code into an application.
Software supply chain issues are not unique to Kubernetes, but with many developers trusting container images they have little knowledge of, it can become problematic. KubeCon saw an increased call for large open source projects and proprietary software teams to produce "software bills of materials" so users can clearly audit third party dependencies. Kubernetes currently doesn't support container signing, but third parties are stepping in to fill those gaps.
In addition, many of this year's top sponsors, such as Synk, Teleport, and Sysdig, focused their messaging on providing container or cloud native security. The CNCF Security TAG also released a refreshed version of their Cloud Native Security Whitepaper during the event.
Standing room only for Prometheus
As published in the CNCF's 2021 Cloud Native Survey, the use of Prometheus in production has reached 65%, an increase of 43% year-over-year. This was evident at KubeCon EU with almost every Prometheus related session at full (and often over) capacity, including "Prometheus Intro and Deep Dive" by Prometheus maintainers and "Alerting in the Prometheus Ecosystem: The Past, Present and Future" by Grafana Labs.
Prometheus Day, a KubeCon co-located event, was hosted on Tuesday, May 17th by sponsors Promscale, Sysdig, and Red Hat. The day was well attended with a strong line up of sessions from vendors and end-users of the community. Sessions covered a range of topics from beginner to advanced levels – including "Prometheus instrumentation: the Practical Way" by Couchbase and "Fleeting Metrics: Monitoring Short-lived or Serverless Jobs with Prometheus" by Red Hat. All talk recordings can be found on the CNCF's Prometheus Day YoutTube playlist.
OpenTelemetry announces GA for metrics
OpenTelemtry (or OTel) has been quickly increasing in adoption, and is now the second most active CNCF project behind Kubernetes. There was even an OTel Day, a co-located event dedicated to OTel, leading up to the conference.
Dotan Horovits from Logz.io gave a talk titled, "OpenTelemetry: The Vision, Reality and How to Get Started," which provided a great overview of the project along with some exciting new updates. OTel for traces is already generally available (GA) and stable, but the release candidate for metrics was announced during KubeCon, with GA expected in a matter of weeks. Dotan also announced that OTel for logs is still in an experimental phase with GA expected by the end of 2022.
Service meshes gaining traction
The CNCF conducted a micro survey at the end of 2021 to learn how organizations are adopting service meshes. With more and more organizations migrating to cloud native architectures, the challenges with maintaining a highly performant and available technology stack have increased. As a result, many organizations have turned to service meshes to create a dedicated communication layer between applications or services. In fact, of the survey respondents, 70% run a service mesh in production or development, and 19% are in evaluation mode.
Service meshes had a decided talk track, including sessions on how to address the challenges around a lack of understanding and experience across engineering organizations. For example, "Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Flux and Flagger" from Google and Weaveworks and "Service Mesh at Scale: How Xbox Cloud Gaming Secures 22k Pods with Linkerd" from Microsoft.
The CNCF expanded their certification program to include two new programs and test suites for evaluating cloud native tools. First is a new program and test suite aimed at Telecommunication operators.
Second, and of most interest to Chronosphere and our users, is a new Prometheus Associate Program. This follows last year's announcement of the Prometheus Conformance Program. Both efforts were created in an effort to ensure more and more Prometheus users are knowledgeable of and using the solution in full compliance with CNCF standards.
As Kubernetes and cloud native computing become increasingly complex, productivity gains are becoming harder to find. The increasing number of components and moving parts also makes it harder for Kubernetes newcomers to get started. These complexities, coupled with companies working hard to retain developers, have led to increasing discussions on (internal) developer experience and productivity. This varies from large companies who create their own custom "platform" tools and teams to projects and companies such as Backstage, Humanitec, and Garden. The developer platform discussion has even grown to its own event, PlatformCon.
See you again soon at KubeCon NA!
Chronosphere is excited to be a gold level sponsor for KubeCon NA in Detroit this October. Make sure to follow up on LinkedIn and Twitter for updates closer to the event. We hope to see you there – either in-person or virtually!
Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity, delivering increased business confidence. Built from the ground-up for cloud-native scale and complexity, we provide our customers with industry leading reliability and SLAs. If interested in learning more, visit chronosphere.io or request a product demo.