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Parker: Wing Kei continues growth with purchase of Centre Street Church site
David Parker • Calgary Herald
Jul 20, 2017 • July 20, 2017 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Vincent Leung, board chair of Wing Kei Association Photo by supplied
Donald Jung died last year, but his contributions to this city continue with the growth of the Wing Kei Nursing Home Association.
Jung came to Calgary in 1960, where he worked as a mechanic. He later owned eight gas stations, convenience stores and other commercial properties. Always involved in service to the Chinese Pentecostal Church, Jung and his friend, Vincent Leung, dreamed of building a home for Chinese seniors. By 1996, they had formed a society and their dream was realized with the building of Wing Kei Villa at Bethany Care.
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Almost a decade later, the Wing Kei Care Centre opened on the site of a former PetroCanada station on Centre Street North. By fall 2014, the first phase of a second project, Wing Kei Greenview, opened on 35th Avenue N.E. near Edmonton Trail.
On a recent tour with Leung, the association's chairman, and Kathy Tam, CEO of the Wing Kei association since 2007, Bird Construction crews were working on the second phase.
Wing Kei has acquired the three-acre west campus of Centre Street Church, its original building on Centre Street and 41st Avenue N.E. Leung said the site allows Wing Kei to live up to its five-year strategic plan for developing seniors' communities.
The site — comprised of three parcels of land — will be leased to Centre Street Church over the next three years while its main campus is expanded. Wing Kei plans to build its next seniors' facility on one acre, and is considering a market-driven building on the other two acres.
Wing Kei is a publicly funded, not-for-profit organization focused on providing holistic and culturally appropriate care. It welcomes seniors referred by Alberta Health Services regardless of religious or ethnic background.
By 2018, it's expected more than 320 seniors will call Wing Kei home prior to the construction of a new facility on the church lands.
A tour of the Greenview site found residents have use of a garden, greenhouse, chapel, craft and exercise rooms, and dining area where they linger to socialize.
Within the next 20 years, Calgary expects its population of seniors to double — including frail seniors and persons living with dementia — which will certainly be a challenge for those running facilities to care for them. Wing Kei is well prepared for the task in expanding its building programs, while broadening its expertise and scope of services beyond the Chinese community.
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What we should be writing about right now
Class Recap: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By Christina Katopodis
For today's English Composition 1 class, we read June Jordan's "Poem About My Rights," and two essays by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider, "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "The Master's Tools." We began by reading and responding to one another's posts to the Blackboard discussion question for the week, "What should we be writing about right now?" Then we moved on to read Jordan's poem, first to ourselves, and then reading along while listening to Jordan read it. We discussed the sound of her voice--students described her voice as "grounded," "frustrated," "authentic" and "calm"--and then how Jordan breaks away from typical traditions in poetry (meter, rhyming, and other limiting structures) to express herself in her own voice, effectively discarding the "master's tools" to write poetry that is "my own my own my own."
We then moved on to discuss Audre Lorde's essays, intersectionality, how patriarchy oppresses both men and women, and the sociopolitical importance of poetic expression, especially how poetry can be a bridge to new imaginaries and futures that are equitable and just. One thing I'm realizing (it was true when teaching in person and is even more true when teaching online) is it's better to pick shorter readings so we can go into more depth, and, if need be, we can read them together on the spot when folx don't have time to read them on their own.
Students picked sentences from Lorde's essays that stuck out to them and then shared and discussed their sentences in breakout rooms of 3-4 students. Students picked a spokesperson for each group to summarize what was discussed during group work. After 5 minutes, we all came back and those spokespersons shared what they talked about, generating a fruitful class-wide discussion. It was lovely and empowering.
Students chose these sentences:
"They [the master's tools] may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change" (112).
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change" (112).
"For Women the need and desire to nurture each other, is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered" (111).
"Difference must not be merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic" (111).
''Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives'' (37).
"they may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change" (112).
"...the women who clean your houses and attend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory, are and for the most part, poor and third world women? What is the theory behind racist feminism?" (112).
"The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black mother within each of us -the poet- whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free" (38).
"Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across upon the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs" (111).
"Possibility is neither forever nor instant.It is not easy sustain belief in its efficacy" (38).
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting" (113).
"Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our person power is forged" (2).
"For Women the need and desire to nurture each other, is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered" (111).
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change" (112).
Next week we will be discussing Ursula Le Guin's Introduction to her book, The Left Hand of Darkness. Then students will be introducing themselves here on our HASTAC Group with their "cover letter" assignments. Stay tuned!
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Artist's clever play on perception with giant Barbie and dead fly sculptures
Written by Laura Connelly
Scottish artist Michael John Hunter, who specialises in sculpture and photography, has released his most ambitious body of work to date, As I grow, as I lose, inspired not least in part by his experience of living with a condition affecting his vision.
A culmination of five years of self-funded work, Hunter's series centres around a 20-foot scale sculpture of a child's doll (which you will recognise as Barbie), made of polystyrene and fibreglass that took six months to create. The sculpture was then photographed in deserted locales using various traditional optics and lenses.
The resulting images challenge our perception. They play with perspective and scale between the doll and its surroundings as much as they evoke feelings of familiarity and unease. When the images are printed, the doll in the photographs is reproduced on a 1:1 scale, causing us to continually accept and reject what we see before us as a faithful depiction of reality.
Hunter, who studied at Edinburgh Art School, and now lives in London, said: "The series is about the loss of imagination we all experience as we grow older – and how confronting that loss opens us up to the understanding that our shared reality is subjective.
"Just as children alter their reality with imagination, with this doll as a symbol of childhood, I want to challenge the viewer's ideas of what is real and what is an illusion. I want them to open their minds and be more childlike again."
One of the major personal creative drives for Hunter was a diagnosis of a rare condition called VS Aeropsia, which affects his vision and general visual perception of the world around him. He added: "Having VS Aeropsia is something that really pushed me to make work. Because my own perception was changing all the time, I wanted to challenge an audience into seeing something different.
"I like the fact the people just assume they know what they are looking at. I like that people walk by it. But they always come back once they are informed, which for me it means I'm doing it right."
To find out more about the work of Michael John Hunter, visit www.michaeljohnhunter.com.
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Love: Jackie Pullinger
Written by MrsN
I love the summer, because when the summer comes I get the flip flops out! I love flip flops, I love not having to worry about socks, I have a variety of colours and will wear them every day. I always try to last until October half term but that doesn't always happen. My mum is actually still wearing her flip flops now – but that's a different story! I love the freedom my feet get, I have ridiculously big feet both in length but mostly in width, and it is quite difficult to find shoes that fit. I always feel like my feet aren't meant for shoes, where they are constrained, they are meant for flip flops.
As much as I love my flip flops there is one problem that comes from wearing them. The state of my feet. I'm not just talking about suntan marks, although that is annoying. The skin of my feet becomes hard and dry, quite often cracks will appear and it can become quite painful. I have to moisturise my feet regularly. My feet may be free, less constrained in flip flops, but it comes at a cost. Throughout the summer my feet get harder and it isn't so much of an issue, but then the next year we have to start again. What has this got to do with love?
Jackie Pullinger said:
"God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet"
I'm pretty certain that Jackie Pullinger wasn't talking about God wanting us all to wear flip flops – although I wouldn't have an issue with that commandment. But she is talking about God wanting us to put love in to action. Going out there, doing the dirty work.
For many people they think that Christianity is about going to Church on a Sunday, handing over money in the collection, putting in an appearance, but I'm not sure we're actually made to fit into a building.
Don't get me wrong, Church is important, vital as part of the journey, but as much as I love going to church on a Sunday, and enjoy meeting with others with a similar faith, Church is so much more than that. Those weekly meetings, or assembly times at school are the equivalent of the shoe time of the year, a time to recover and restore ourselves, to then go out and do Christianity. The rest of our life should be the flip flop part of life, having the freedom to go to anywhere or to anyone, to show Gods love to them, in that context. It's exciting, but it can also be painful. As I've so often said, Christianity isn't met to be easy!
Jackie Pullinger wanted to be a missionary, she approached numerous organisations but got turned away by all of them. Eventually her pastor suggested that she got a boat as far away as she could possibly afford to go. She ended up in Hong Kong. She was teaching in a school in an area where there was a gang culture, and a large amount of drugs. Eventually she started to work with the drug addicts and started up st Stephens society. St Stephens society provides homes for drug addicts, to help them come off the drugs, but then to help them to ensure that they will not go back to the drugs, and to create a life for themselves.
Jackie Pullinger does this work because of her calling from God to do so, to show his love to those who don't know it. Her heart was soft, although she was working in a school, she felt for those who were broken in society. Yes, she could pray for them, or give money to charity, but instead she chose to actually help them. This cannot have been easy, she didn't know anyone in Hong Kong, there wouldn't have been any government funding, she was working with people rejected by society. I imagine the most difficult part though, would have been listening to the stories of the people who she was helping, how had they got to that situation in the first place. She persevered, and her feet have become hard, that doesn't mean that she's immune to it, but just it has taken her toll on her. She cannot have helped but to have been affected by it. Her work continues today, those who she has helped have now gone to other parts of the world to share the message of Jesus Christ, and to share Gods love.
Jackie's primary aim was to show Gods love, not to preach God's love. A church has been developed in Hong Kong out of the work she has done, but the work she did was necessary first. People notice the actions, they don't necessarily hear the words! Let's go back to my mum and her flip flops, she has her own little theory for why she is still wearing flip flops now, it's something to do with the fact that because her toes are not constrained her toes are moving more and therefore she's actually got warmer feet than if she was wearing shoes. There are a lot of people now who know the reason my mum is wearing flip flops, because they ask her. She is standing out of the crowd by wearing flip flops when it's freezing cold. People want to know why she is doing it. Unfortunately we live in a society where showing love, living in a loving way, can make you stand out from the crowd. Are you willing to do that? By standing out, people may well ask why we are choosing to do what we do, that's when we can share the message.
Jackie went to Hong Kong but We have situations every day where We can show Gods love. Actions really do speak louder than words, but we have to be willing to step out of the comfort zone, and be willing to stand out in the crowd. Are you willing to wear flip flops when everyone else is wearing boots? (I would like to point out I'm not condoning the wearing of flip flops at school).
Challenge: is there an area of life in school, family or even the world that God has softened your heart for? How can you wear flip flops in that situation.
Prayer: Father God we thank you that have first loved us, so that we can go and love. We pray that you soften our hearts to see where we can show love to those that need it. We thank you that you got your feet dirty, but also that you washed the feet of your disciples. Give us the strength to wear flip flops when others are wearing boots. Amen.
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What is technology law?
Technology law is currently one of the most popular areas of the legal profession. It is what protects you and your data. It also provides a fair and competitive marketplace for vendors and buyers, and it could answer some of modern society's most pressing concerns, such as robotics and artificial intelligence in the near future.
It's a law that regulates how technology is used in both the public and private spheres. It is in charge of overseeing all the ways in which modern devices and communication methods affect society. It encompasses all types of law relating to the practical application of scientific knowledge. It is a branch of law concerned with what the government can do with the information obtained through technological means. It also covers the rights and responsibilities of private corporations, individuals, and government agencies when it comes to technology.
The advancement of technology has serious implications for businesses, consumers, entrepreneurs, and everyone who wants to convey a message to the rest of the world. However, it raises a slew of new concerns and ethical conundrums. With so much of our data online, we become increasingly vulnerable to hackers, potential fraudsters, and commercial irresponsibility. Technology law, despite its ever-expanding breadth, is principally concerned with setting the framework for the collection, storage, dissemination, and use of information in the digital world.
Technology law includes intellectual property rights which is a complicated area of the legal system that deals with conflicts over who 'possesses' intangible 'property' such as creative works, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. Technology law protects the creators who come up with innovative concepts and secures their rights to distribute their work.
The misuse of technology leads to data privacy breaches, which is a major source of concern. A breach of data privacy can expose a person's personal information to the wrong hands without their agreement, allowing it to be exploited. Consequently, it is critical that laws be enacted to address this issue.
Currently, India has no explicit data privacy regulations. Data privacy is governed by the existing IT Act of 2000 and IT Rules of 2011. Parliamentarians, on the other hand, have produced the Protection of Data Privacy Bill, 2019. The bill's drafting is the country's first step toward attempting to legislate data protection on a national level.
The Protection of Data Privacy Bill is based on the initial draft prepared by a committee chaired by retired Justice BN Srikrishna. However, the current bill deviates from those recommendations.
The Supreme Court of India declared privacy to be a fundamental right guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. It also advised that the Indian Central Government establish a data protection policy that balances the needs of individuals with the legitimate concerns of the state, all while encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation. In the same year, the government formed an expert group led by former Supreme Court Justice B.N. Srikrishna to prepare a Personal Data Protection Bill that would "enable expansion of the digital economy while keeping people's personal data secure and secure." The expert committee's report was submitted along with a draught data protection law.
Key committee recommendations
Timelines for implementation (Clause 1): The bill for 2019 did not include a deadline for implementing its provisions. According to the updated bill, "an estimated term of 24 months may be allocated for implementation of any and all aspects of the Act so that data fiduciaries and data processors have ample time to make the required modifications to their policies, infrastructure, processes, and so on." It is suggested that the data protection authority begin its work within six months, that data fiduciaries be registered within nine months, and that the appeal tribunal begin its work within 12 months after notification.
Scope (Clause 2): The scope of the Personal Data Protection Bill has been broadened to include both personal and non-personal information. The measure has been renamed "Data Protection Bill (Bill)" from "Personal Data Protection Bill." because "it is impossible to discern between personal data and non-personal data when mass data is collected or conveyed," the same regulator is required to control both types of data.
Processing of personal data without consent (Clauses 13 and 14): Non-sensitive personal data processing for employment reasons now includes instances in which "such processing is essential or might reasonably be expected by the data principal." If "the processing is essential for reasonable reasons as may be prescribed by regulations," legitimate interest is now clearly spelt out as a justification for processing personal data, balancing the interests of both the data principal and data fiduciary.
Processing of personal data of children (Clause 16): Exclusively dealing with children's data, data fiduciaries must register with the DPA. The data fiduciary must notify the child three months before the child reaches the age of majority so that the child can choose whether or not to offer consent again, and the data fiduciary must continue to provide services to the child unless the child withdraws consent. The fact that children's personal data will henceforth be used to defend their rights is a good improvement.
User rights (Clauses 17, 19, and 23): The data principal will now be able to nominate a legal heir or representative to decide how their data will be treated in the event of a casualty or death. Data portability can no longer be denied on the basis of trade secrets, and data portability can only be denied on the basis of technological feasibility, which must be strictly assessed by the legislation. The data fiduciary must also verify that algorithms and techniques for processing personal data are transparent and fair.[1]
Views on implementation
Setting up the DPA and other accompanying infrastructure, as proposed in the study, is one of the important operations that must be completed in stages. Companies must embrace and implement a successful compliance plan by focusing on investments and aligning people, processes, and technology within a set time frame. To train the workforce and assure timely compliance, both the government and private firms must establish specialised training and awareness initiatives.
The Data Protection Bill is a long-awaited and urgently required piece of legislation that would replace India's current archaic, obsolete, and inadequate data protection policy. It would assist, preserve individual privacy rights, and promote fair and transparent data use for innovation and growth, unlocking the digital economy, as compared to present standards. It has the potential to generate jobs, raise user knowledge of their privacy, and hold data fiduciaries and processors accountable.
India has forged its own path towards data protection, inspired in part by the EU General Data Protection Regulation, with several unique provisions such as combining personal and non-personal data under one umbrella, data localization, hardware device coverage, social media platform management, and more. Although it has certain flaws, when fully implemented, it will bring India's data protection rules up to pace with those of other countries. Companies should begin preparing for compliance with the various provisions as soon as possible.
Ritu Bavishi and Atharv Lama are second year students at Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai.
( ritubavishi@yahoo.in , Atharvlama@gmail.com)
[1] https://iapp.org/news/a/a-look-at-proposed-changes-to-indias-personal-data-protection-bill/
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End Hits è un album dei Fugazi, pubblicato nel 1998 dalla Dischord Records. Il titolo dell'album venne interpretato come l'annuncio dell'imminente scioglimento del gruppo, scioglimento che (anche se non ufficiale) avverrà nel 2002.

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Formazione
 Ian MacKaye - chitarra, voce
 Guy Picciotto - chitarra, voce
 Joe Lally - basso
 Brendan Canty - batteria

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Collegamenti esterni

Album pubblicati dalla Dischord Records


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John Stewart Reedy, Marathon Runner, Town Meeting Member
March 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 editor	Boston Marathon runner, John Stewart Reedy, Norton Funeral Home, Obituary, Siena College graduate, St. Anselm's Church, Town Meeting member, Vincentian Institute graduate
FRAMINGHAM – John Stewart Reedy, of Framingham, passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020.
Born in Albany, NY, he was the son of the late William and Elizabeth (Gillespie) Reedy.
John was the loving husband of 28 years to Ruth (Weltman) Reedy.
John was a graduate of Vincentian Institute, a Catholic high school in Albany, NY. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Siena College.
A career in sales took him first to Buffalo, NY and then to Massachusetts, where he spent the bulk of his career selling mortgages.
John was athletic and enjoyed racquetball at Waverly Oaks Athletic Club in Waltham for several years.
A friend got him to take up jogging, which led to his membership in the L Street Running Club of South Boston. He ran the Boston Marathon six times, including the 100th running. He learned to swim in his forties in order to participate in small triathlons. He also enjoyed fly fishing, kayaking, and playing Pitch with his buddies.
John was civic-minded and served as a Town Meeting member in Framingham for three years. His dedication to his community showed in his volunteer work for many different causes. He also enjoyed assisting coaches of his youngest daughter's youth sports teams, especially softball. He loved birds and his dog, Mickey.
Besides his wife Ruth, he is survived by his four daughters: Monica Brown and Michele Reedy, of Albany, NY; Stephanie Stuart and her husband, Walter, of Schenectady, NY; and Julia Reedy, of Cambridge, MA. He also leaves his sister and her husband, Anne and Al Chase, of Jupiter, FL, and Cape Neddick, ME. He was predeceased by his brothers, Bill and Patrick, and by his beloved Aunt Jane (Gillespie). John had five grandchildren whom he loved: Tyler, Megan, Brianna, Caitlin, and Eric.
A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m., at St. Anselm's Church in Sudbury All are welcome.
Funeral arrangements are under the care of the Norton Funeral Home, 53 Beech Street in Framingham. There will be no visiting hours.
To leave a message of condolence or sign the online guest book, please visit www.nortonfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, donations in John's memory may be made to The Audubon Society or the charity of your choice.
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"It is truly a lot of great engineering. It'll be positioned for very mobile users who value the latest technologies. It is a platform of innovation. There is a lot of new technology on this offering, including LED backlights, solid state drives, even GPS is available on select models. And not only is it thin and light, but it has a lot of great battery life. So we're able to get up to ten hours of battery life on the offering."
With extended life batteries. The X300 uses a solid state 64 gigabyte drive for storage...instead of a traditional hard drive. While the X300 is ultra thin and light....when it comes to the price... not so much. It starts at about 26 hundred dollars....and goes up from there. Pricing for Apple's MacBook Air, by the way, starts at about 18 hundred dollars. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.


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Benjamin Flint (12 January 1893 – 20 July 1959) was an English cricketer active from 1919 to 1924. He played for Nottinghamshire in thirteen first-class matches from 1920 to 1921. A right-arm fast bowler, he took 19 wickets at an average of 29.57. His son is Derrick Flint, who played a few times for Warwickshire in 1948 and 1949 and who later married Rachael Heyhoe Flint, England's successful woman cricketer of the 1960s and 1970s.

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1959 deaths
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Photos: The hats, fashion and scene at Day 2 of…
Photos: The hats, fashion and scene at Day 2 of the Breeders' Cup
Horse racing fans try on Christine A. Moore Millinery's , fascinators during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Moore sells around 200 pieces during the cup. "Part of the fun is to come and buy a hat and take it home," says Moore. "I call it the best souvenir from the races, a great hat." (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
By Sarah Reingewirtz | sreingewirtz@scng.com | Southern California News Group
PUBLISHED: November 2, 2019 at 11:07 p.m. | UPDATED: November 3, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.
The Breeders' Cup returns to Santa Anita Park. Around 100,000 people attended the two-day horse racing event. People who follow horse racing come from around the world. Christine A. Moore Millinery, the official milliner of the Breeders' Cup, sells handmade fascinators and hats made in New York. "Part of the fun is to come and buy a hat and take it home," says Moore. "I call it the best souvenir from the races, a great hat."
The Breeders' Cup Distaff Grade I race begins during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Blue Prize and Jockey Joe Bravo came from behind to win the race. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Jade, wearing a 1930s vintage hat, and Rick Ford, who has thoroughbreds in Kentucky and of Valley View, Texas, enter the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Jade won the Longines most elegant on Friday. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
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Horse fans watch the horses during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Kim Distefano, of Christine A. Moore Millinery, carries in fascinators and hats for the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Moore sells around 200 pieces during the cup. "Part of the fun is to come and buy a hat and take it home," says Moore. "I call it the best souvenir from the races, a great hat." (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Horse racing fans enter the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita Park during the National Anthem on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Grade I race begins during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Spun to Run with Jockey Irad Ortiz won the race. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Spun to Run with Jockey Irad Ortiz wins the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Grade I during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Horse racing fans during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Horse racing fans from Kentucky take a selfie during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
A woman walks over betting tickets during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Christine A. Moore Millinery's hats during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Moore sells around 200 pieces during the cup. "Part of the fun is to come and buy a hat and take it home," says Moore. "I call it the best souvenir from the races, a great hat." (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Horse racing fans watch a race during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Mitole with Jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. comes from behind to pass Shancelot to win the Breeders' Cup Sprint Grade I at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Mitole with Jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. wins the Breeders' Cup Sprint Grade I at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Heather Hyde, of Arcadia, an animal rights activist since she was 11, joins other protesters outside the gates at Santa Anita during the Breeders' Cup on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Nicolette Aubourg sings during a protest outside the gates at Santa Anita during the Breeders' Cup on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Animal rights activists join a protest sponsored by Horseracing Wrongs outside the gates at Santa Anita during the Breeders' Cup on Saturday, November 2, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
The Breeders' Cup Distaff Grade I round the last corner during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in Arcadia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Blue Prize and Jockey Joe Bravo came from behind to win the race. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
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Get Your Tickets to Whoniverse and Meet The Doctor!
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Andrew Day January 30, 2014 No Comments
Do you hear it? That sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning? That sound that brings hope wherever it goes? I can certainly hear it, and that is because tickets for Hub Productions: Whoniverse are now on sale! Whoinverse, like other Hub Productions events before it offers fans of the infamous Doctor Who a unique opportunity to meet and greet with some of the biggest stars of the hit tv show.
Oh boy is it a treat this time, as the 11th Doctor himself, Matt Smith will be sauntering onto stage alongside his companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill). This is incredibly exciting for anyone who has spent any amount of time watching the series, and is also the first opportunity Australians have ever had to see and talk to a modern doctor here in our sun baked country. Here are the dates for each of the stops that the group will be making across the tour:
Sat 1 Mar – Qantas Credit Union Arena (formerly: Sydney Entertainment Centre), NSW
Mon 3 Mar – Riverside Theatre, Perth
Sat 8 Mar – Adelaide Convention & Exhibition Centre, SA
Sun 9 Mar – Melbourne Park Function Centre, VIC
Matt, Karen and Arthur will be travelling the big cities in early March for a Live theatre-style production where they will be sharing stories and answering fan questions. If you have ever wanted to step into the TARDIS, or point a sonic screwdriver then you absolutely cannot miss this.
Tickets are available now through Ticketek at a variety of different prices and packages. The A, B, and C Reserve tickets include access to the event to see the stars live on stage, while the Gold and Silver packages also include professional photograph and autograph opportunities. For more information on the event, check out the Hub Productions Page, and as always stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Doctor Who news as it becomes available.
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Why Red Hat's $250M acquisition of CoreOS is cheap compared to failing in containers
by Matt Asay in Cloud on February 8, 2018, 5:11 AM PST
Red Hat recently paid a premium for CoreOS, a Kubernetes contributor. Given the stakes, that amount may actually be a steal.
Video: 3 big things every company needs to know about containers
Kubernetes is one of the industry's most important open source projects. It's odd, therefore, that we're not seeing much more participation from companies that have much to gain (and lose) from its rise.
True, a swelling population of enterprises are talking about contributing to Kubernetes, but when it comes to actually doing so? Not so much. Indeed, perusing the GitHub contribution data, you won't find a single contributor from IBM, Pivotal (or VMware, its kissing cousin), Docker, or Oracle in the top 20 list. Unsurprisingly, you do find a heck of a lot of Google and Red Hat employees, as both companies have staked their futures on it, albeit in very different ways.
Red Hat, in particular, has dramatically upped its Kubernetes game of late, not only increasing its organic contributions to the project, but also paying a premium to buy CoreOS to gain expertise and product that will help it extend its Kubernetes lead in the enterprise. It's the behavior of a company that understands just how high the stakes are for getting Kubernetes right.
Who made who?
So, who exactly are the top contributors to Kubernetes? While the list below doesn't show the trend of individual contributor activity (you can get that by clicking here), it does provide a useful barometer for the top corporate contributors to Kubernetes:
Clayton Coleman, Red Hat (1,155 commits)
Brendan Burns, Microsoft (1,017 - but not much in the last year)
Wojciech Tyczynski, Google (955)
David Eads, Red Hat (864)
Chao Xu, Google (831)
Tim Hockin, Google (818)
Stefan Schimanski, Red Hat (717)
Daniel Smith, Google (697)
Mike Danese, Google (666)
Jordan Liggitt, Red Hat (590)
Justin Santa Barbara, FathomDB (578)
Marek Grabowski, Google (565)
Derek Carr, Red Hat (556)
Yu-Ju Hong, Google (454)
Janet Kuo, Google (420)
Nikhil Jindal, Google (384)
Lantao Liu, Google (351)
Jeff Grafton, Google (348)
Zach Loafman, Google (331)
Dawn Chen, Google (315)
There are at least two interesting takeaways from this list (and the commit trends shown in the link above). First, while Google employees remain active in Kubernetes development, Red Hat's top contributors have been even more active over the past year (and, oddly, Microsoft's Brendan Burns has largely been MIA as measured by commit activity). Rather than a sign of Google's fading interest in the project, this is actually an indicator of effective community management by Google. A successful open source community can't revolve around a single corporate sponsor.
SEE: Quick glossary: DevOps (Tech Pro Research)
Second, despite Red Hat recently ponying up $250 million to buy CoreOS to extend its Kubernetes expertise, no CoreOS developer makes the top 20 list. If we pull a different view of contributions, CoreOS shows up in the top 10 list of corporate contributors, which is pretty impressive, given its size. After all, CoreOS is a comparatively tiny startup. The fact that it (and FathomDB) show up at all is significant.
Red Hat definitely thinks so. At $250 million, Red Hat paid a lofty premium for a company whose revenue was negligible (with one former employee complaining of significant layoffs in the sales force as the company cast about for a viable go-to-market strategy). Beyond some revenue, what Red Hat really got was a team whose open source mindset is a near-perfect pattern match for Red Hat, not to mention a company that has been doing some of the more interesting tooling around Kubernetes.
All of which is worth much more than $250 million for Red Hat.
Justifying $250 million
How much more? Well, Red Hat currently generates more than $2 billion annually in revenues, but the key to its future is to add a few billion through things like Ansible (automation) and, in particular, Kubernetes (read: OpenShift). Red Hat executives have regularly touted the benefits of OpenShift to its business, leading to larger deals that pull along other products (like Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
SEE: Kubernetes: The smart person's guide (TechRepublic)
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was clear on the company's December 2017 earnings call: Going forward, it's all Linux and Kubernetes for application development. Leading in both of these areas is critical to the company's long-term success:
We have had two main selling points.... [O]ne is Kubernetes...[which] people see ... as the ... Linux equivalent and [the winner for] orchestrating containers. So, that's obviously been helpful and as the second largest contributor to the Kubernetes project that's positioned us well to be able to help drive roadmaps and confidently support our customers there.
The other is just lifecycle in the operating system. I mean, I think a lot of people forget that we have only security vulnerabilities. The user space of the operating system is inside the container. People like to ... say, oh, the container is the source code for the application, but it's also all of the user space dependencies. Over, 90% of the security vulnerabilities that are patched in Linux happen in user space. Therefore, if you are going to deploy an application that you plan to run in a production context, you need to make sure you have a vendor who you feel confident can support and patch the operating system components that are inside the container.... [O]ur credibility in ... Linux [and] Kubernetes ... [drive] our momentum in OpenShift.
And so $250 million becomes "cheap" compared to failure in containers. Red Hat historically was parsimonious in its acquisitions, having to shepherd its profitability. While that remains a concern for the company, it now generates enough profit that it can afford to invest heavily in areas that will pay big dividends down the road. Hence the relatively high valuations for InkTank, Ansible, and now CoreOS, with the last one showing the biggest gap between purchase price and the revenues the company was generating.
It's the next RHEL for Red Hat, and that's worth heavy organic engineering commitment to Kubernetes, as well as outsized acquisitions.
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Tonight, Friday 1/27 is the last practice of the season for most of our swimmers. Only swimmers attending League (A) champs will have practice next week. I will send an email later today with those practice times to League (A) champ swimmers. Tonight's practice for the 11 & over age group will be 1 hours in duration--7:30pm-8:30pm. 10 &U practice 6:30-7:30.
Girls Division Champs at Upper Dublin HS and Boys Division Champs at CB South tomorrow, 1/28. The meet psych sheets are attached for both the boys and girls meets. So if you registered your swimmer to participate at Champs via the swimmers portal, they should appear on the psych sheet.
Volunteer Assignment were sent via the SWAC Sailfish email account on Wednesday and Thursday, please check these emails for your assignment.
If your swimmer qualified for A champs and your were notified by either Coach Gina or Coach Kristina they will not be on the psych sheet below for their A champs events. The psych sheets below are only for Division (B) champs.
Congrats to your swimmers on making A Champs. The practice schedule below is for SWAC swimmers who are going to A Champs and who do not practice with CBST or High School.
I will send an additional email regarding volunteer assignments early next week.
League Champs will take place at LaSalle University on Saturday 2/4 for girls and 2/5 for boys. Pool Deck opens at 2:15pm.
Volunteer Assignments are below for Boys Division (B) Champs taking place this Saturday, January 28th at CB South HS.
Swimmers please check in with Coach Kristina and Coach Julian upon your arrival. Volunteers please check-in with Karen Wallace upon your arrival, she will be in the hallway outside of the pool.
If you are a backup please report to the timers meeting at 1:45 in the hallway outside of the pool.
Thanks for all of the help. Good Luck to all our swimmers!!!
Volunteer Assignments are below for Girls Division (B) Champs taking place this Saturday, January 28th at Upper Dublin HS.
Swimmers please check in with Coach Gina upon your arrival. Volunteers please check-in with Nate Majewski upon your arrival, he will be in the lobby outside of the pool.
All timers and backup timers please attend the timers meeting, UDAC will provide watches.
Thanks for everyone's help throughout the season, it is greatly appreciated. Good Luck to all our swimmers!!!
Just a quick reminder there is NO SWAC SWIM PRACTICE TONIGHT due to the coaches attending the SAL seed meeting.
We will communicate volunteer assignments for both Boys and Girls Division Champs next week.
Division (B) Champs Saturday, January 28th: Girls Session Times have not yet been communicated once we receive that information we will send it to the team.
Flyers for division champs and league champs can be accessed on the champs page of the league website (we are the Central division). The girls division flyer for our division has not yet been posted.
The SWAC sign-up deadline is Tuesday, January 17th at 11:59pm. This deadline is 100% firm – you will not, under any circumstances, be able to sign-up late for champs. If you are not sure what events you should pick, contact the coaches now.
REMEMBER: each swimmer planning to participate in any champs meet must sign-up for the meet through the portal. If a swimmer qualifies for league champs but has not registered through the portal, the coach will give up that swimmer's league champs spot at the seed meeting and it is not possible to get it back.
On January 28th there are 8 division champs meets. One for boys for each division and one for girls for each division.
There is only one League (A) champs meet for all 24 teams in the league.