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The photos that work best with our Cartoonizer tool are well-lit photos with clearly defined subjects and varied colors and textures. For instance, a portrait or nature photo taken on a sunny day would fare really well, and so would a picture of a pet using the flash on your camera.
Well lit portraits work well because the definition in facial features can be turned into the outline of the cartoon and provide a clear representation of the style. Also, making sure your portrait has a range of colors will help your subject stand out and add some really nice contrast to your cartoon. Along the same lines, photos of animals turn out wonderfully with the Cartoonizer because the texture of their fur or skin can give the edit a really neat look.
While colorful photos may give you more bang for your buck, a well-defined black and white photo can result in a really cool comic book-style edit to open a world of imagination. With black and white, you want to make sure that the photo you're using the Cartoonizer on has a variety of blacks, whites, and grays to help your subject stand out after being turned into a cartoon.
Because it's so unique and amazing, many of the Cartoonizer options are BeFunky Plus features, there is one Cartoonizer option available for Free. After upgrading to BeFunky Plus, you can start getting the most out of the Cartoonizer and let the real fun begin.
To get started with our Cartoonizer, first, you'll want to upload your photo into the Photo Editor and boost the Contrast, Sharpness and Saturation to make it pop. Next, head to the Artsy section, scroll through our unique photo-to-art effects and select Cartoonizer. Then try out all of the different options and play around with the controls until you get your photo to the point of perfection. The Cartoonizer's multiple filters guarantee a unique touch to make your edits truly one of a kind.
If you're feeling extra artistic, you can use the Underpainting tool to mimic a hand-painted look.
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Funding Support Homeless Into Private Rented Housing
Thousands of vulnerable people facing homelessness are set to benefit from the launch of a £20 million scheme to help them secure Private Rented Housing.
The Private Rented Sector Access Fund, launching today on World Homeless Day, 10th October 2018 by Communities Secretary, Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, is a dedicated fund designed to help up to 9,000 people who are or at risk of becoming homeless to secure private rented housing.
A key part of the government's expert-backed Rough Sleeping Strategy World Homeless Day, the fund will be used to either help set up locally-led schemes or expand those currently in use. These schemes will be tailored to match the needs of each local area's residents and landlords.
This could involve councils providing financial support to help those to access or maintain their private rented housing tenancies, such as paying deposits for the tenancy or rent payments. Alternatively, some schemes may involve the council managing the property on the landlord's behalf.
Communities Secretary, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire commented: "It is vital we give people facing homelessness a route out of it and a chance to rebuild their lives. The private rented sector has an important role in this."
This £20 million fund will allow councils to put in place vital new schemes so that those at risk will have the support to secure their own tenancy.
It is just one part of the wide-ranging work we are doing to help tackle all forms of homelessness, including our Rough Sleeping Strategy as we ensure more homes are made available for those in need.
The fund is modelled on evidence provided from the successful programme run by leading homelessness charity Crisis which supported schemes to help homeless people into thousands of private rental tenancies.
The new fund's launch comes as patients, prisoners and jobseekers at risk of homelessness must now be referred to their local housing authority under key legislation. The duty to refer, a core part of the Homelessness Reduction Act, came into force this month.
It places new responsibilities on key public bodies such as prisons, Job centres and NHS Trusts to ensure those at risk get the help they need.
The Rough Sleeping Strategy was launch in August this year and set out a number of schemes designed to support those sleeping on Britain's streets rapidly into accommodation.
The minimum tenancy or existing tenancy supported by the schemes will be a period of 12 months.
Bidding for the schemes is open to all local councils, who are permitted to submit separate bids.
The competition for bids runs for 6 weeks from 10th October.
Up to £5 million in funding is available for bids for the 2018 to 2019 financial year with £15 million available for the 2019 to 2020 financial year.
The Crisis Private Rented Sector Access Programme ran from 2010 until 2014, backed by £11 million in funding from the government. The programme supported over 153 schemes across the sector, creating 8,000 tenancies over 4 years. A total of 90% of these schemes created lasted beyond 6 months.
Responding to the announcement of that the Government is formally launching its fund to support councils to house those who are or are at risk of becoming homeless in private rented housing, David Smith, Policy Director for the Residential Landlords Association said:
"With over one million households waiting for a social rented home, increasing numbers of councils are now turning to the private rented sector to provide homes for the homeless.
"We strongly welcome the formal launch of the Government's access fund, as announced in the Budget last year and campaigned for by the RLA and Crisis. Homeless tenants face the most difficult financial pressures which this funding could play an important part in addressing, whether it's support to provide a deposit or ensure rent payments are made.
"Such funding however needs to be matched by an ambitious programme to see more homes of every tenure developed. This includes homes for private rent."
Blog Post from Landlord News

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CNC (Computer Numeric Control) is a method by which a steel fabricator sends information to specific semi-automated machinery to perform certain fabrication tasks. These tasks may include cutting members to length, drilling or punching of holes and cutting plates to size, beam copes, long slots, etc.
CNC is not new to the fabrication of structural steel. It has been provided by what is referred to as interactive methods. In the past shop drawings were sent to the fabrication shop and numeric information was entered into a computer by hand or interactively. The classical method can and does provide for the possibility of making mistakes.
The programmer /operator, typically someone in what is called the "template shop", would then provide tapes or some other means of transferring the information to the individual CNC pieces of equipment. With this digital information the machinery would, when the material is loaded, perform the indicated operation.
In today's world of electronically produced shop drawings CNC information can be provided automatically by the detailing software. If the detailing software being used is being capable of providing CNC information, the need for a programmer in the shop to transfer the required data from the shop drawings to the computer is eliminated. CNC also reduces the possibility of an error in data transfer.
This will, for the most part, eliminate the need for a programmer in the shop, but it also means that the shop drawings must be made accurately and to scale. Furthermore, all holes, cuts, lengths, and other fabrication criteria must be incorporated electronically for inclusion with the CNC information. If shop drawings are plotted and changes are made to these plotted/hard copies, then the automatic CNC information may be rendered useless.
In today's market these hand changes are rarely performed when accurate CNC information is required. If for some reason drawings are not made to scale, the CNC information is corrupted and cannot be sent to the shops for fabrication.
CNC is a great tool providing speed of fabrication and better quality control. If fabrication information is transferred digitally from the detailing computer directly to the CNC control computer, either through a network system or stored data on some sort of digital media, there is little room for error and quality control is greatly improved.
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The professional and personal lives of psychologists and therapists are exposed as they counsel a wide array of clients at some of the top private practices in Los Angeles. When it comes to delving into matters of the mind, the most brilliant practitioners are not always the most well-adjusted individuals. This reality series looks at a group of LA Shrinks, for whom helping others keep their sanity just might be driving them a little crazy...although we prefer you not use that term.
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24-year old, Zandra Amilhamja, went to Brunei in 1997. She worked as a spa attendant at Nur Berjaya Spa in Kuala Belait. She realized that her routine abroad was to go to work and then send money to the Philippines. She has no savings and even came to a point when she had to ask her employer for cash advances to defray her ailing parent's medical bills.
After 16 years of working overseas with no valid work permit on her last years of stay in Brunei, she finally went back to the Philippines in 2013.
While scrolling through her Facebook feed, she saw a friend's post regarding the program of the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) and asked her friend about it. She was referred to NRCO in 2016.
On April 07, 2017, she attended NRCO's Financial Awareness Seminar and Small Business Training and went on to join a Basic Cooking Course conducted by the same agency in partnership with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). In late June of 2017, Zandra received her starter kits composed of materials intended for commercial cooking.
Today, 44-year old Zandra has a "carenderia" (eatery) at Sangali Fish Port, Sangali, Zamboanga City. She shared that she has already bought the rights for the stall. She earns P8,000 a day and employs four relatives to help her run the eatery. She shared that through her business she was able to send her child to a private school, sustain her family's daily needs and afford to go on a vacation once in a while.
Zandra, who worked as a spa attendant in Brunei, has been passionate on beauty-related services. She will be opening her own salon in Sangali, Zamboanga City next year.
Zandra concluded that her success story is just a matter of perseverance.


Strange creatures are invading Earth and only you can save the planet in this action-packed skill game! Draw symbols on the screen that match the symbols on the monsters' bodies to destroy them with your magic scepter. Collect coins to improve your weapon and buy powerful spells and upgrades. Be quick and don't let the foes touch the ground before it's too late! Can you fight off the enemies and rescue the world?


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Renée FusilAge: 60 years1634–1694
Renée Fusil
Renée Gasnier
Note: Fusil, Furie ou Fourye....
Note: Naissance vers 1634
Marriage Claude Gasnier — View this family
Paroisse Saint Venant, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, FRANCE
Note: Le mois suivant de janvier mil six cent cinquante et un après avoir les publications par trois dimanches aux prônes des messes paroissiales de l'église de Saint Venant, Claude Gasnier, fils de Pierre Gasnier et de Gabrielle Simonneau d'une part et Renée Fuzy, fille de deffunt Jean Fuzy et de Marie Corneuse d'autre part, ont reçu la bénédiction nuptiale par nous curé soussigné pendant la messe.....
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#1 Gabrielle Gasnier
Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, FRANCE
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#2 Claude Gasnier
#4 Barthélémy Gasnier
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#5 Paul Gasnier
Marriage of a child Paul Gasnier — Claude Horange — View this family
Type: Religious marriage
Note: 1er mariage de Paul Gasnier
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Marriage of a child Claude Gasnier — Marie Madeleine Hoquet — View this family
Reugny, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
Marriage of a child Pierre Gasnier — Jeanne Ripembrai — View this family
Marriage of a child Barthélémy Gasnier — Marie Chotart — View this family
Marriage of a child Paul Gasnier — Charlotte Delaleu — View this family
Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
Note: 2ème mariage de Paul Gasnier.
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Death June 21, 1694 (Age 60 years)
Marie Cormier
Jean Fusil
Claude Gasnier
Gabrielle Gasnier
Barthélémy Gasnier
Death: June 21, 1694 — Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre
Family with Claude Gasnier - View this family
Marriage: January 9, 1651 — Paroisse Saint Venant, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, FRANCE
Birth: February 6, 1657 23 — Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre
Claude Horange
François Gasnier
Marie Madeleine Hoquet
Joseph Gasnier
René Gasnier
Jeanne Ripembrai
Charlotte Gasnier
Death: September 1, 1694 — Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre
Marie Chotart
Birth: April 16, 1664 30 — Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre
Le mois suivant de janvier mil six cent cinquante et un après avoir les publications par trois dimanches aux prônes des messes paroissiales de l'église de Saint Venant, Claude Gasnier, fils de Pierre Gasnier et de Gabrielle Simonneau d'une part et Renée Fuzy, fille de deffunt Jean Fuzy et de Marie Corneuse d'autre part, ont reçu la bénédiction nuptiale par nous curé soussigné pendant la messe.....
Fusil, Furie ou Fourye....
Renée Fusil, daughter of Jean Fusil and Marie Cormier, was born in 1634 and died on June 21, 1694 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 60. She married Claude Gasnier, son of Pierre Gasnier and Gabrielle Simonneau, on January 9, 1651 in Paroisse Saint Venant, Tours, Indre-et-Loire.
Children of Renée Fusil and Claude Gasnier:
Gabrielle Gasnier (1657–)
Claude Gasnier (1657–)
Pierre Gasnier (1664–1694)
Barthélémy Gasnier (1664–)
Gabrielle Gasnier, daughter of Claude Gasnier and Renée Fusil, was born on February 6, 1657 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Paul Gasnier, , son of Claude Gasnier and Renée Fusil. He married 2 times. The first time he married Claude Horange on November 20, 1674 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. The second time he married Charlotte Delaleu, daughter of Félix Delaleu and Marie Bonneau, on April 28, 1692 in Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. She was born on October 31, 1666 in Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on April 30, 1727 in Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 60.
Children of Paul Gasnier and Claude Horange:
Children of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu:
Anne Gasnier (1693–1694)
Jean Gasnier (1694–1775)
Jeanne Gasnier (1695–1755)
Marie Gasnier (1696–)
Renée Gasnier (1697–1741)
Claude Gasnier, marchand, son of Claude Gasnier and Renée Fusil, was born in 1657. He married Marie Madeleine Hoquet, daughter of Estienne Hoquet and … Boucher, on July 6, 1682 in Reugny, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Children of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet:
Jean Gasnier (1684–)
Joseph Gasnier (1686–)
René Gasnier (1689–)
François Gasnier (1690–)
Pierre Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Renée Fusil, was born in 1664 and died on September 1, 1694 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 30. He married Jeanne Ripembrai, daughter of Jacques Ripembrai, on July 8, 1686 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Children of Pierre Gasnier and Jeanne Ripembrai:
Charlotte Gasnier (1691–)
Barthélémy Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Renée Fusil, was born on April 16, 1664 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. He married Marie Chotart, daughter of Jacques Chotart and Marie Picot, on February 6, 1690 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Children of Barthélémy Gasnier and Marie Chotart:
François Gasnier (1692–1692)
Barthélémy Gasnier (1695–1695)
Jeanne Gasnier, daughter of Paul Gasnier and Claude Horange, was born in 1681 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Anne Gasnier, daughter of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu, was born on May 1, 1693 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on April 30, 1694 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 11 months.
Jean Gasnier, vigneron, son of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu, was born in 1694 and died on September 6, 1775 in Sainte-Radegonde, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 81. He married 3 times. The first time he married Marie Diet, daughter of Guillaume Diet and Marie Cunier, on February 1, 1723 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. She was born on October 10, 1701 in Sainte-Radegonde, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on July 30, 1739 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 37. The second time he married Anne Bertheau, daughter of Etienne Bertheau and Catherine Maurie, on September 28, 1739 in Rochecorbon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. She died on August 5, 1748 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. The third time he married Marie Godeau, daughter of Nicolas Godeau and Private, on February 8, 1751 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Children of Jean Gasnier and Marie Diet:
Paul Gasnier (1724–)
Marie Gasnier (1727–1731)
Anne Gasnier (1729–)
Madeleine Gasnier (1730–)
Marie-Anne Gasnier (1734–)
Jeanne Gasnier, daughter of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu, was born on February 16, 1695 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on February 8, 1755 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 59. She married René Aubert on July 5, 1728 in Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Marie Gasnier, daughter of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu, was born on April 28, 1696 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Renée Gasnier, daughter of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu, was born on May 9, 1697 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on May 28, 1741 in Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 44. She married René Fellion on November 4, 1726 in Sainte-Radegonde, Indre-et-Loire, Centre. He was born in 1697.
Children of Renée Gasnier and René Fellion:
Jacques Fellion
François Gasnier, son of Paul Gasnier and Charlotte Delaleu. He married Marie Besnard, daughter of Jacques Besnard and Guichard, on January 26, 1728 in Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Children of François Gasnier and Marie Besnard:
Jean-François Gasnier (1730–)
François-Joseph Gasnier (1732–)
Claude Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet, was born in April 1683 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Jean Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet, was born on August 1, 1684 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Joseph Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet, was born on December 17, 1686 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
René Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet, was born on September 6, 1689 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
François Gasnier, son of Claude Gasnier and Marie Madeleine Hoquet, was born on December 10, 1690 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Marie Gasnier, daughter of Pierre Gasnier and Jeanne Ripembrai, was born on June 21, 1689 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
Charlotte Gasnier, daughter of Pierre Gasnier and Jeanne Ripembrai, was born on August 1, 1691 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre.
François Gasnier, son of Barthélémy Gasnier and Marie Chotart, was born on September 31, 1692 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on October 3, 1692 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 2 days.
Barthélémy Gasnier, son of Barthélémy Gasnier and Marie Chotart, was born on November 21, 1695 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre and died on December 26, 1695 in Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, Centre at the age of 35 days.
Family with Claude Gasnier
Gabrielle Simonneau
Renée Fusil(1634–1694)
Claude Gasnier1651
Gabrielle Gasnier(1657–)
Paul Gasnier(–)
Claude Gasnier(1657–)
Pierre Gasnier(1664–1694)
Barthélémy Gasnier(1664–)


Similar product to the SPIGEN Ultra Hybrid Clear but I find that this particular product allows lint and specks of dust to get into the back of the phone which requires you to wipe them off once in a while.
Speedy delivery and product provides coverage for the buttons and openings for the ports, while nicely showing off the back of the iPhone. However, dust and dirt seems to get inside the case easily so make sure you get it clean up once every few days.


Job opportunities in Foreign countries after M.Sc in Zoology with B.Ed?
Job opportunities for MSc Zoology in Bangalore.
Government job fields in Electronics and communication in foreign countries?
Job opportunities after completing PG in M.Sc zoology? Are jobs available in government sector or Industries?
What are the job opportunities for PG in diploma in Environmental management in Central University and M.Sc in Zoology?
Can i job in foreign countries after doing B.Sc in Nursing? What further studies i can do?
Jobs in foreign countries after completing B.H.M.S, C.C.N.Y & C.C.H ?
Re: Job opportunities in Foreign countries after M.Sc in Zoology with B.Ed?
Part time job after 12th class?
Where can i apply for suitable government job after completing BCA and having 42% disability?
Is there any government job which doesn't require 12th marks?


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Welcome to the Alpbach Media Academy.
We provide in-depth coverage of the European Forum Alpbach 2018.
An artist in search of forbidden language
She holds a transparent, orange-tinted box with an open slot on top. Inside are bits of paper with scribbled "forbidden" words. Since the start of seminar week Maria-Magdalena Ianchis, a Romanian-Austrian artist, has confronted scholarship holders asking them to write down a word or euphemism that makes them feel uncomfortable or they believe is taboo and post them in the box.
She wants her poster-sized photograph, Pandora's Box of Forbidden Words, hanging outside the Erwin Schrödinger conference room, to bring the old myth of a box full of bad fortune into modern day society. Ms Ianchis says that many people today try to solve problems by changing the language that describes the issue rather than solving the actual problem.
"On the one hand we should think about language and, importantly, change it, but we must then confront problems and talk openly about them," says Ms Ianchis.
Her photograph is a self-portrait and part of the exhibition in the Congress Centre made by photography students from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The pieces are commissioned for Alpbach with the common theme Tools of Enlightenment.
People censor their conversations in order protect others or themselves or to avoid feeling uncomfortable, Ms Ianchis says. She gives the example of the German word "slumviertel", which means a slum quarter. A writer she knows was asked by one of her readers to change this word into "organically grown area" because "slum quarter" made the reader feel bad.
"Ok, I mean if someone would read this they wouldn't understand what it was about and how does this help the people that live there?"
The exhibition Tools of Enlightenment was initiated with an art walk, where the young artists presented the ideas behind their work to the audience.
People come to Alpbach from all over the world to exchange ideas and opinions, and Ms Ianchis believes that taboos must be addressed before people start communicating. "Otherwise we won't get very far."
"The problem is that we are trying to solve problems with language, and I mean yes, words can hurt, but you can hurt someone much more with poverty and with your actions."
Ms Ianchis hopes that her box and photograph can challenge the way people think about their language and encourage a more open debate. The project is part of an ongoing series about mythology in modern life and will eventually be published as a book in which all the words collected in Alpbach will be used.
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61: What Students Have to Say About Remote Learning [interviews with a 3rd and 12th grader]
Access the full blog post and show notes here.
This week I am interviewing two students who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and are experiencing remote learning first-hand. Getting the student perspective is so critical. Here's what students have to say about remote learning!
These unprecedented times have brought to light so many issues in education, but if we don't ask students about their experience, we will never understand the impact.
My cousin Charlotte is in the 3rd grade and has plenty to say about this situation. On the flip side, Elena is joining me to share her experience with remote learning as a graduating senior. Their insight is so powerful! Every educator needs to take the time to hear what students have to say about remote learning.
Thank you to Jennifer Green for her wonderful tweet about Shake Up Learning and how it has impacted her career.
Quick Tip of the Week: Customize the Google Classroom Stream
The Stream is your Google Classroom communication hub. This is where you post announcements and keep students informed.
By default, the Stream will also show notifications of new items posted on the classwork page. For some, this feels like duplication and can muddy up the Stream. (Ha! See what I did there.)
If you're using the Classwork page, you can choose a collapsed or expanded view for Classwork notifications on the Stream page. You can also hide them entirely from the Stream page.
Go to classroom.google.com.
Click the class.
On the Stream page, click Settings.
Under General, next to Classwork on the Stream, select an option:
You can learn more about all of the Class settings here.
All quick tips are here: https://shakeuplearning.com/quick-tip-of-the-week/
What Students Have to Say About Remote Learning
Over the last several weeks, I have talked to a variety of teachers and administrators about their experience with remote learning. We have all been experiencing this pandemic differently. This is why I wanted to chat with students to get their perspective. My cousin Charlotte is in the third grade and had a lot to say about missing school.
The Pandemic: From the Perspective of a Third Grader
First up, I'm chatting with Charlotte Dollins, my cousin, about how remote learning has affected her third-grade year. At this point, she definitely doesn't think learning at home is much fun. She misses art, recess, and seeing her friends.
She's been busy doing her school "work" online and only gets to communicate with one of her teachers a few times a week.
Charlotte also shared that her teacher just introduced Friendship Friday, where they join a Zoom meeting to connect and see their friends. These connections are not about schoolwork or learning. I love this idea! It's so important to give kids a way to make those social and emotional connections outside of the lesson or assignment.Charlotte has been spending more time with her dad, who is working from home while managing Charlotte and her little brother. She's missing her teachers and her friends as well as the school library. Gotta love a girl who misses the library! At this point, she thinks it should be a summer vacation already. (Me too, Charlotte!)
The Pandemic: From the Perspective of a High School Senior
Next, I welcome Elena Grande to the show to share her experience because this is her senior year in high school. She's missing out on the last semester and many senior milestones. Elena has such a mature attitude and is taking it all in stride.She equates this period to the five stages of grief. She keeps vacillating back and forth between acceptance and denial. In retrospect, life will continue, and everyone will be fine, but it's tough missing prom and graduation!
There have definitely been tears. She's been working on staying in touch with her friends, and they text frequently, but that has only helped Elena realize that she doesn't really like texting. When she gets to Facetime, it's so much better.
Remote Learning During Senior Year
Elena admits that the initial days of remote learning were a bit chaotic and tense. There were already tools in place, but to be fully remote was an entirely new world.
The worst part has been trying to keep to a schedule and making sure she gets all of her school work done when she doesn't want to.
Some classes have been giving more work than others, and more specifically, she feels she is often assigned busywork. She thinks that the grading system is unfair at times. As a top student enrolled in several AP courses, it's difficult when you aren't rewarded with a grade that reflects your learning.
Their grades are static and frozen from before the school closures, but if students do no schoolwork while at home, they could be assigned an incomplete and not be allowed to graduate.
Elena said it's crazy to think about how much work she has put in during the last couple of years that is now unnecessary. Even worse are the changes to her AP exams and requirements.
How Does it Feel to Miss Those Big Senior Moments?
Prom has been canceled. Elena said that it feels really surreal. She hasn't even really processed that completely because her prom wasn't scheduled until May. Once that date comes and goes, she knows she will have all the feelings.
She's planning to do a virtual prom because she has the dress--why not get dressed up and share it with her friends.
Graduation is still on the books for May, but an alternate date has been set for August. They're looking at venues they could use, but for Elena, it's hard to imagine never walking across the stage at her graduation.
It's All About the Little Things
All the little things like kids rushing off after the bell and settling into class… those are hard to miss. Elena also said that she misses her teachers and her classes. She recounts the last day before spring break, and she just walked out without a backward glance. It's odd to realize that all those little things are things to cherish rather than take for granted.
The worst thing about being stuck at home is not having options. It's one thing not to want to go out, but not to have the opportunity to go out, to be told that you can't, changes everything. The best thing that has come out of this time is the fact that she's been able to spend more time with her family. They already had good family relationships, but they were all busy and on different schedules, so this time together has been nice.
Elena's positivity was so refreshing. Her answers regarding grades, what school is about, and what she would love to tell teachers were spot on and definitely something we all need to hear.
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Posted on October 5, 2017, in Ask Lada, Books, Lada Ray and tagged #futuristrendcast, #LadaRayPredictions, announcements, Author Lada Ray, Books by Lada Ray, centennial of Russian revolution, chembusting MP3, chemtrails, consultations, Earth Shift Report, Earth Shift Webinars, freebies, gifts, holiday season 2017-18, knowledge, Lada Ray Multi-dimensional Theory, LadaRay.com, psychic, Russia the Great Balancer, truth, Vedism. Bookmark the permalink.	25 Comments.
Wow, congratulations on hitting this big milestone. I'm looking forward to your new material –and maybe a personal consultation soon — and, if I may make a suggestion, I would very much like to hear more about Antarctica and the things we can do at home to mitigate chemtrail damage. Thanks!
Hi John, thanks for the message and all the good words.
RE Chemtrails: go to CHEMBUSTING MP3 LINK at the end of this post and read up on Az's suggestions. MP3 is only $25 and it's a great start. Much more is coming soon!
Antarctica: that will be a perfect question to ask when I have my Patreon subscription set up.
Great, I will do exactly that. Thanks for all the work you do, and I hope, in the end, we survive the end of predatory capitalism as better people and a better species!
Sounds good, John. The more people educate themselves and live their lives consciously, the better the chance we will continue into the future along the best timeline possible — not the worst timeline, as it has often been in the past.
Thanks for all you do Lada, u've come a long way to reach the million mark, Congrats!!
Looking forward to your new multidimensional work on Patreon, FT and future Webinars!
PS Could you give us an outline of potential topics? Aloha!!
Thanks, Maddie. I'll be posting on FT the topics and announcements of new events, webinars, etc., as they come up. Please stay tuned.
Congratulations, Lada! This is fantastic news and proves that truth expands and spreads quickly. Thank you for helping so many of us continue to awaken. I'm looking forward to all of the new upcoming treats!
And I have to THANK YOU for mentioning the psychic and multidimensional attacks, and protection. It can be a tough topic to understand/believe but I do believe it's time for this conversation to happen. Not out of fear of course, but out of love and self-care.
I'll have some separate discussions on that, Jimmy. This is a very grave issue right now for some of us.
Lada, I try to share yous posts at VK, but it does not allow me, I don't know why.
I don't know what is happening there. For some reason it didn't work from the start. I'll ask Az to look into it one more time and I'll let you know.
Congratulations Lada! You have changed many many lives for the better 🙂 I look forward to what you have planned.
Congratulations! I very much appreciate all your writings and insights. Invaluable.
What Anthony said… you change lives for the better !! Congratulations on your great milestone of one million visitors. You worked so hard, now you promise to work even harder :). I know you will. Your new subscription announcement via Patreon is very exciting and I am eager to participate in that. I don't know where you get your energy! Well, I do but I can't say :). I followed the link to Russian Truth Code and Goddess Lada and re-read all of that… this time with deeper understanding. It turned into a synchronicity in that I have just finished some other material which places a heavy emphasis on the study of phonemes in order to better understand… just about all there is to understand. In Vietnamese, just for fun, there is the word "la" and it has six "official" meanings. One of the meanings is a kind of worm that lives in the hulls of wooden boats/sampans/junks. I digress. Thank you for all you do. You are a true Lady (hugs). Indeed, the best is yet to come and it is a total honor to walk with you.
Congratulations, Lada, and to you also, Az! Achieving this milestone, come whatever may is a HUGE victory for both of you, for all who follow your blog and for those upon our planet and in the Cosmos who receive your positive vibe. I would so love to actively participate more, feel more a part of everything you all are doing on this plane. Nevertheless, I know I do on other levels. I am thinking of you fondly, keeping you in my heart and prayers and always wishing you and your readers the very best of everything. May bright blessings and prosperity be showered upon you during this holiday season and upon all your future endeavors.
Congratulations Lada for more than one million visitors. I am very happy for it as your excellent and vibrant work is being appreciated and helps more and more people to make sense of things in a hopeful way from your multidimensional analysis. I look forward to more of it as always.


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It's just the start – Solskjaer expecting James' hot streak to continue
Daniel James has enjoyed a brilliant start to life at Manchester United and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes it is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ryan Benson
14 September, 2019 17:42 IST
Daniel James (in picture) has three goals in four Premier League appearances. - Getty Images
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has backed Daniel James to continue his flying start to life at Old Trafford.
Winger James, 21, joined United from Swansea City in June for a reported £15million in a deal that caught many by surprise given he had been close to signing for Championship side Leeds United a few months earlier.
Of United's three close-season signings – Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Harry Maguire being the others – James was the least heralded, but the rapid forward has arguably made the greatest impact, scoring three times in four Premier League appearances as well as being named the club's Player of the Month for August.
A goal against Leicester City on Saturday will make James – who also netted on international duty with Wales on Monday – only the second United player to score in his first three Premier League games at Old Trafford and Solskjaer has great expectations.
Read: De Gea finally signs Man United deal
"He's had a great start and transferring that into the Wales games is great for him and great for Giggsy [Wales boss Ryan Giggs]," Solskjaer told United's official app.
"I just hope he [James] feels that there's more to come. We feel there's more to come. He's had a great start, but it's just the start of his career."
Saturday's clash will see Maguire come up against his former club for the first time since leaving them to become the world's most expensive defender and Solskjaer is confident he will thrive despite the impressive form of Jamie Vardy and James Maddison.
"They're creative, they have pace, there's a good link-up between the two of them," Solskjaer said of Leicester's star duo.
"We know from last year that Maddison created loads of chances and to have Vardy's energy and penetration and running in behind all the time is great for any creative player.
"I know he [Maguire] will be fine, because he's a top character and a top player. I'm sure he'll look forward to playing against his old team-mates.
"He'll know them and they'll know him. I'm sure we'll see the best of Harry in that game."


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Q: Mongoose request for id field returns id and _id In my Mongoose schema I have an id field which has a unique ID for each document. This runs off the same system used by the default _id field like so:
var JobSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  id: { type:String, required:true, unique:true, index:true, default:mongoose.Types.ObjectId },
  title: { type: String },
  brief: { type: String }
});

module.exports = mongoose.model("Job", JobSchema);

Now, if I query the schema to get id and title I'd do it like this:
Job.find().select("id title").exec(function(err, jobs) {
  if (err) throw err;
  res.send(jobs);
});

However, I've found this returns id and title as expected, but it also return the default _id field. Why is that and how do I stop it?

A: Inside the find() function you can pass two parameters (criteria and projection). Projection are the fields that you want (or not). In your case you can change your code to
Job.find({}, {_id:0, id: 1, title: 1}, function(err, jobs) {
    if (err) throw err;
    res.send(jobs);
});

and it should do it.

A: There is an option to prevent the id on schema level.
For me this worked perfectly fine.
new Schema({ name: String }, { id: false });

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Actors and athletes have agents to help them find work. Now vets with PTSD can, too.
WASHINGTON — After Bob Simonovich's post-traumatic stress disorder left him anxious around large groups, loud noises and unpredictable environments, he was unsure what type of career he'd be able to handle in his post-military life.
So his therapists lined up a job for him with a baseball team.
WASHINGTON — After the first increase in annual homeless veterans estimates in seven years, the leaders of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development say they are confident in improvements made on the issue in recent months.
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials claimed improvements at 66 percent of their medical centers across the country last fiscal year, with 18 earning the highest level of excellence in the department's internal ratings system.
A study published in Family Practice indicates that healthcare providers outside of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department are uncertain how to address veterans' needs. The study says that this is due to limited knowledge of resources and coordination problems.
WASHINGTON—The rate of suicide among young military veterans has increased substantially despite efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs to curb the problem, though overall veteran suicides declined slightly, according to new data to be released Wednesday.
The VA's National Suicide Data Report paints a troubling picture for vets ages 18 to 34, for some troops who served in the National Guard or reserves, as well as female veterans.
Pentagon officials need to do more to make sure civilian health care providers are giving military families good care, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The report, released Sept. 17, found that while military health care officials have created a way to monitor whether families and troops are getting quality care from military treatment facilities, those same benchmarks aren't applied to community-based providers.
(Reuters Health) - A substantial percentage of U.S. military vets store guns loaded and ready to use, according to an American study that could have implications for suicide prevention.
"American veterans have a higher suicide risk than demographically matched U.S. adults and most of their suicides are actually related to firearm injury," said lead author Dr. Joseph Simonetti of the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Colorado.
"On average, about 20 veterans die every day by suicide and about two-thirds of those suicides are firearm-related," he told Reuters Health.


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using System;

namespace Validation_Data
{
    public class Person
    {
        private string firstName;
        private string lastName;
        private int age;
        private double salary;

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return $"{this.firstName} {this.lastName} is a {this.salary:f2} leva";
        }

        public Person(string firstName, string lastName, int age, double salary)
        {
            this.FirstName = firstName;
            this.LastName = lastName;
            this.Age = age;
            this.Salary = salary;
        }

        public string FirstName
        {
            get { return this.firstName; }
            set
            {
                if (value.Length < 3)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException("First name cannot be less than 3 symbols");
                }

                this.firstName = value;
            }
        }

        public string LastName
        {
            get { return this.lastName; }
            set
            {
                if (value.Length < 3)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException("Last name cannot be less than 3 symbols");
                }

                this.lastName = value;
            }
        }

        public int Age
        {
            get { return this.age; }
            set
            {
                if (value < 1)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException("Age cannot be zero or negative integer");
                }

                this.age = value;
            }
        }

        public double Salary
        {
            get { return this.salary; }
            set
            {
                if (value < 460)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException("Salary cannot be less than 460 leva");
                }

                this.salary = value;
            }
        }

        public void IncreaseSalary(double bonus)
        {
            if (this.age < 30)
            {
                this.salary += bonus * salary / 200;
            }
            else
            {
                this.salary += bonus * salary / 100;
            }
        }
    }
}


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State Roundup, November 2, 2017
by Cynthia Prairie | November 2, 2017 | State Roundup | 0 |
CSX PROMPTS STATE TO CANCEL FUNDING REQUEST: CSX Transportation withdrew its support for a long-awaited expansion of the aging Howard Street Tunnel under downtown, causing state officials to cancel a request for $155 million in federal money for a project they hoped would be a boon for the Port of Baltimore, Colin Campbell and Michael Dresser of the Sun report. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based railroad — successor to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad — did not explain why it was turning its back on the project, which would have expanded the century-old tunnel to accommodate trains with shipping containers stacked two-high.
BPW DELAYS CONTRACT DECISION: Bryan Sears of the Daily Record reports that the state's Board of Public Works has delayed a decision on a child support services contract for the city of Baltimore after the winning bid came in at nearly $14 million more than the lowest proposal. "How do you explain why these proposals are so vastly different?" asked Comptroller Peter Franchot, who along with Gov. Larry Hogan and Treasurer Nancy Kopp makes up the board. "Have you been unhappy with the incumbent, Maximus, to the extent that you're going to choose someone that is $13.7 million higher?"
CHOPTANK OYSTER PLANS CUT: Maryland has decided to reduce the large-scale oyster restoration project goal in the Little Choptank River after boaters ran aground at another sanctuary and some of the man-made reefs there had to be rebuilt, reports Alex Mann of Capital News Service.
THE GARRETT COLLEGE MODEL: As college students continue to worry about how to pay for a post-secondary education Garrett County, in the far reaches of Western Maryland, has created a mechanism to provide its students with a free, two-year community college education. It's the first and only county in the state to institute a scholarship program for the graduates of its two high schools who enroll at Garrett College in McHenry, And in the 11 years of the program, it has grown, writes Meghan Thompson for Maryland Matters.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HARMS SCHOOLS: In response to an op-ed published earlier this week by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Shea on the delays of education funding recommendations by the Kirwan Commission, Montgomery Republican Richard Jurgena writes in Maryland Matters that what Maryland students can't afford is another year of Maryland and, in particular, Montgomery County's political correctness.
MORE ON MAGLEV: A competition between two technologies vying to provide high-speed transportation between Baltimore and Washington could pit old-school organized labor against futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk. Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail and North America's Building Trade Unions held a ceremonial signing of a memorandum of understanding on Thursday at the B&O Railroad Museum in west Baltimore. The agreement mandates contractors building the organization's proposed superconducting magnetic levitation train line provide apprenticeship readiness programs to train local residents and hire union labor, Adam Bednar of the Daily Record reports. .
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education on Wednesday approved a position statement that opposes any Baltimore-Washington superconducting maglev route "that is disruptive to our schools and surrounding communities." Rachael Pacella of the Annapolis Capital writes that the $10 billion, high-speed train, proposed by Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail, would shorten the trip between the cities to 15 minutes.
GOP ELECTION PROBE RELEASED: Republican Charlene Cowan writes in Red Maryland that a final report on election integrity specifically focusing on election problems during the 2016 primary has been released by the 2016 Maryland Republican Election Integrity Adhoc Committee.
ALMOND RUNS FOR BA CO EXEC: Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond says she never pictured herself being where she is now: running to become the first woman to serve as Baltimore County executive, reports Pamela Wood in the Sun.
John Lee of WYPR-FM reports that an Almond campaign official said they want to raise $1.2 million for the primary contest. The other two Democrats in the race, state Sen. Jim Brochin and former Del. Johnny Olszewski Jr., each plans to raise as much as $1 million.
BROCHIN's CHANGE OF HEART: In a scathing op-ed for the Sun, former Democratic political aide Pat Murray writes that state Sen. Jim Brochin's calling for a special session to create health insurance subsidies for individuals who are losing federal aid. Brochin's a conservative Democrat who has spent 15 years standing with Republicans against working families. Why this jaw-dropping reversal? Murray asks. Well, he's running for county executive.
DEMOCRAT ENTERS DISTRICT 15 DELEGATE RACE: Montgomery County's Assistant Chief Administrative Officer for economic and workforce development will announce this Sunday that she is running for District 15 state delegate, becoming the first Democratic candidate to officially enter the race to replace outgoing Del. Aruna Miller, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Maryland's 6th Congressional District., Ryan Miner writes in his Miner Detail blog.
TRUMP TAPS ROSENSTEIN REPLACEMENT: President Trump on Wednesday tapped a high-level Justice Department official, Robert K. Hur, to lead the Maryland U.S. attorney's office where he was a longtime federal prosecutor, Lynh Bui and Ann Marimow report in the Post. If confirmed, Hur will take over one of the country's busiest U.S. attorney's offices, which has a reputation for handling sophisticated cases involving political corruption, white-collar fraud and vast gang conspiracies that drive violent crime.
Justin Fenton of the Sun writes that Hur, 44, has worked since June as principal associate deputy attorney general under Rosenstein, the top federal prosecutor in Maryland from 2005 until his appointment this year to the No. 2 post in the Justice Department.
RUSSIAN FACEBOOK AD TARGETED MARYLAND: John Fritze of the Sun reports that a Russian-linked Facebook ad that ran in Maryland in the months following the 2015 riots in Baltimore included a photograph of Freddie Gray and the words "never forget," part of what lawmakers described Wednesday as a campaign to stir tensions in the United States around race, police and politics.
Heavily Democratic Maryland was one of the three states most targeted by Russian ads during the 2016 presidential election, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday, according to a Capital News Service report by Changez Ali and J.F. Meils in MarylandReporter.com. Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, used the example in an apparent effort to diminish the perception that Russian ads may have had an impact on the election of fellow Republican Donald Trump to the presidency.
SUPPORTERS RALLY AROUND CROSS: Supporters of a towering cross-shaped monument at a busy intersection in Bladensburg asked an appeals court on Wednesday to revisit a ruling that said it was unconstitutional to have the memorial on public land, Ann Marimow of the Post is reporting.
CARROLL RESIDENT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT: AJ Wildman believes America needs new leadership from practical problem-solvers. That's why Wildman, of Westminster, plans to run for president of the United States as an independent candidate in 2020, writes Michel Elben for the Carroll County Times. "Because I solved problems professionally, I think I can solve America's problems," Wildman said during a recent interview at the Carroll County Public Library's Westminster branch. "We need a president and Congress that is working for us, and not big business and the wealthy."
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Technology firm and world renowned brand Siemens has registered keen interest in investing in the Kingdom of Eswatini's energy sector.
Hyundai Motor Company ventured to a joint assembly plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Marathon Motors Engineering company, which belong's to the greatest long distance athlete in history, Hailegebreselassie, is a business partner.
Zambia and Russia have agreed to explore investment opportunities in new areas as part of efforts to cement ties between the two countries, a senior government official said on Friday.
The business community in COMESA Member States is set to benefit from Euro 10 Million kitty provided by the European Union to support increased private sector participation in regional and global value chains.
The Rwanda Development Council (RDC) announced Tuesday that investments in Rwanda reached $ 2 billion in 2018, for the first time in Rwanda's history.
Uganda's minister of Science Technology and innovations, Elioda Tumwesigye said Uganda will have home-made solar powered buses plying the roads of Kampala and Entebbe before the end of 2019.
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This time it is Terraform.
In using Terraform we have moved up the food chain because it allows us to define the very infrastructure we need to run our applications on; e.g. Servers, Firewalls, SSL Certificates, Load Balancers, in our case DNS Managed Zones plus a whole lot more. It truly is powerful … if not quite at the level of having a version controlled breathable atmosphere for the Red Planet! We'll get there I'm sure … baby steps.
Terraform = Immutable infrastructure defined using an easy, declarative language.
Once defined an entire environment can be spun up from a standing start, run tests against it and then have it destroyed. That's convenience for you. And obviously saves a lot of money. Using this for side projects is especially economically efficient – I can make changes locally on laptop, test until happy, then spin up a cluster of machines for exploratory testing and once I'm happy ( or tired 😫 ) just destroy all the infra exactly at the moment I'm done. Even just writing that down makes somewhat giddy.
But more than anything there is a much higher level of confidence as the changes permeate each environment; dev => test => uat => prod; because configuration drift is much, MUCH, less likely.
For a proper introduction as to what Terraform can do, reading the official documentation will help for sure, but if you are looking for something a little more hands on then I would strongly recommend Yevgeniy Brikman's Terraform Up And Running book which actually has almost literally just been printed, previously having been in O'Reilly's Early Release program. The book adds more semantics and best practices over the dryer online documentation.
But today the focus is narrower. Specifically the assumption is that we own a domain, lets say example.com, and wish to create a dns sub-domain called dev.example.com which will be used for development purposes. This is desired because it makes us feel happy and content; if changes to any attributes are required then we simply go to the same version control system for that as we do for the background colour of our website or business logic for services – it's all there! For me this is a similar feeling that David Allen refers to when "closing open loops" in his Get Things Done book.
In a later article we'll add a DNS record set to point to our Kafka server as in previous posts and that particular circle will be complete.
Usual warning here. When using cloud infrastructure you may be charged depending on your provider, trial status etc. As ever we'll clean up after ourselves so typically should only cost a nominal amount but it is important to understand your service providers prices.
And again we'll be using Google Cloud for demonstrative purposes.
Download Terraform for your OS and setup.
The tiny amount of code is on the github repo.
As mentioned we're assuming Google Cloud usage here as per previous posts.
We want all our code for development to be under version control for all the good infrastructure-as-code reasons, but also in this case somewhat more pragmatically, if you have used Terraform to create a DNS Managed Zone then you can reuse those values in other Terraform projects. Specifically, in a later post, we will use the DNS Name ( dev.example.com ) output from today's work, to build a fully qualified server name within that sub-domain.
And done – well for this article at least.
Less than ideal here, this quick solution does mean that anytime we destroy and then recreate the Dev DNS Managed Zone we will have to manually update our root DNS Record Set. A few solutions we could do here. Either put root in version control ( not always ideal or possible ), or you could have an intermediate Managed Zone – e.g. infra.example.com so we would then have [dev|test|uat|prod].infra.example.com which would then mean dropping and recreating the env specific infrastructure would be entirely automatable – good times. This would leave the manual worry at the infra.example.com level which you would have to assume would be extremely rare.
To apply our Terraform file definitions to our infrastructure provider we use the terraform apply command, and we will specifically use the -state= flag as defined in the apply command.
When using terraform you need to specify your provider ( Google in this case ) and the credentials, we will use credentials file. See instructions on how to get this.
description = "Example Dev DNS Managed Zone"
Cool. This is pretty simple but lets break it down.
The main section is the resource one, which is followed by 3 output sections which are entirely informational. You can read the documentation for more detailed specifics, but basically the dns_name in the resource section is us defining the new DNS Managed Zone we want, in this case dev.example.com.
The output sections echo the values contained within. So the first 2 are just echoing the values we supplied, but the last is interesting because we have no control over which nameservers will be authoritative for our new managed zone, this provides a mechanism to find out any such calculated values.
And you see the outputs, specifically the dev_name_servers are Google's "c" nameservers in this instance.
… which shows the "b" name servers are now authoritative. The point is there is no control over the nameservers assigned, but need to use these values to join up our infrastructure.
At the moment although the authoritative DNS servers for dev.example.com have now been established – "authoritative" is a slight misnomer at this point since the whole infrastructure is not yet fully configured, or joined up. Specifically if a server was created at this point under this domain, someserver.dev.example.com say, then it will not be reachable yet via DNS. This is because root DNS Record Set is required to delegate responsibility for that specific sub-domain from itself; meaning that if I ping someserver.dev.example.com there is no route to it via DNS because the root Records would try to lookup such a server known by its own nameservers … which of course wouldn't exist. In short the ping would get to the root DNS Nameservers, but not to the sub-domain's nameservers which are the ones which know where someserver lives ( IP Address ). Our problem is that we need to tell the root DNS Record to pass any requests to dev.example.com onto the NameServers specifically assigned to our sub-domain.
So in Google Cloud we just navigate to Networking => Cloud DNS, i.e.
Once committed it will take some time for the DNS changes to permeate the internet, up to 24 hours perhaps.
It is this manual step above that we can fix by creating a infra.example.com domain as above. If the DNS entry for infra.example.com is in version control and dev.infra.example.com domain hangs off that, then any destroying and recreating of dev.infra.example.com can be done without manual intervention.
Just run destroyDnsZone.sh to clean up any surviving, unwanted zones. This assumes you don't want to play with your new sub-domain. Zones are not very expensive to leave lying around for a few days anyway. For Google Cloud can see pricing here but looks like around 20 cents per month per zone at the time of publishing.
We will link our trusty Kafka server from previous articles and give it a nice DNS name, thus joining up our learnings to create a nice building block for later adventures.


Our Miniature Dress Combat Infantry Badge is a silver and enamel badge 1 1/4 inches in width, consisting of an infantry musket on a light blue bar with a silver border, on and over an elliptical oak wreath. This is the same badge that is supplied to the U.S. Army and sold in the Army Post Exchanges.
The Combat Infantryman Badge is a U.S. Army Badge, it has a blue bar, the color that is associated with the Infantry. The musket is adapted from the Infantry Insignia of Army Branch of Service and represents the first official U.S. Army shoulder arm, the 1795 model Springfield Arsenal musket. It was adopted as the official Infantry branch insignia in 1924. The oak symbolizes steadfastness, strength and loyalty.
AWARD ELIGIBILITY: There are basically three requirements for award of the CIB. The soldier must be an infantryman satisfactorily performing infantry duties, must be assigned to an infantry unit during such time as the unit is engaged in active ground combat, and must actively participate in such ground combat.


This video traces the abdominal aorta to show where it branches to the celiac trunk, the superior mesenteric, renal arteries and inferior mesenteric. The inferior vena cava is also shown with the renal vein branches. Finally, the abdominal aorta splits to travel into the legs at the external and internal iliac arteries (and veins), then travels into the legs where it can be seen as the femoral artery.


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Mumbai Airport is all set to launch the COVID-19 testing facility after Delhi Airport. The testing facility is provided for all arriving passengers with an aim to help them opt out of institutional quarantine. However, it would obviously depend on the test result which will be available after eight hours. The RT-PCR testing facility would soon be available for departing passengers too.
The passengers need to register on www.suburbandiagnostics.com to avail of this facility. There is even a helpdesk at the arrival terminal for RT-PCR test enrollments.
The testing facility In Mumbai has come days after its launch in Delhi Airport. A similar mechanism took place at the Delhi Airport. Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said that arriving passengers will have to wait at the waiting lounge where they would be provided special food and beverage until the test reports come. With the permission of the state authorities, passengers can even book a room at the airport hotel. Passengers who will have a negative test result will be able to proceed further towards the destination. However, they will get a stamp related to home quarantine. In case of a positive report, passengers will be taken to the designated institution by the state officials.
The officials also said that the passengers who are departing from Mumbai will soon have to go through RT-CPR test at CSMIA. The reports will be provided to the passengers through email. All international passengers are advised to book their connecting flight in an interval of 8-12 hours.
According to the earlier guidelines, international arriving passengers could attain exemption from institutional quarantine by filling up a self-declaration form along with uploading the report of the RT-PCR test taken 96 hours prior to the take-off. International arriving passengers had to showcase the results of the RT-PCR test in order to skip institutional quarantine and instead, opt for home quarantine for a period of 14 days.
This new initiative taken by the government will definitely prove to be beneficial for the passengers. If you want to book an international flight to Mumbai, look no more than Superfares. We will make sure you get budget-friendly airfares.


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Microcaecilia – rodzaj płaza beznogiego z rodziny Siphonopidae.

Zasięg występowania
Rodzaj obejmuje gatunki występujące w północno-zachodniej Kolumbii, Ekwadorze przez południową Wenezuelę do Gujany, w stanie São Paulo w Brazylii.

Systematyka

Etymologia
 Microcaecilia:  mikros "mały"; rodzaj Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758.
 Parvicaecilia:  "mały"; rodzaj Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758. Gatunek typowy: Gymnophis nicefori Barbour, 1925.
 Caecilita: zdrobnienie nazwy rodzaju Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758. Gatunek typowy: Caecilita iwokramae Wake & Donnelly, 2010.

Podział systematyczny
Do rodzaju należą następujące gatunki:
 Microcaecilia albiceps
 Microcaecilia butantan
 Microcaecilia dermatophaga
 Microcaecilia grandis
 Microcaecilia iwokramae  – takson wyodrębniony ostatnio z Caecilita
 Microcaecilia iyob
 Microcaecilia marvaleewakeae
 Microcaecilia nicefori
 Microcaecilia pricei
 Microcaecilia rabei
 Microcaecilia rochai
 Microcaecilia savagei
 Microcaecilia supernumeraria
 Microcaecilia taylori
 Microcaecilia trombetas
 Microcaecilia unicolor

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Siphonopidae

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GOP Lawmakers Concerned Biden Defense Sec Pick Will Be Rammed Through Congress
Urge careful deliberation on Pentagon pick with sparse public record
Army (retired) General Lloyd Austin / Getty Images
Adam Kredo - January 8, 2021 1:50 PM
Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee are expressing concerns the incoming Biden administration will force through its selection of retired general Lloyd Austin to serve as the nation's next defense secretary, according to a letter sent Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) that raises questions about the nominee's sparse public record.
Austin, the head of U.S. Central Command during the Obama administration, retired in 2016 and requires a congressional waiver to serve as the Defense Department's top civilian official due to a law prohibiting military members from serving as defense secretary until they have been out of the service for seven years. Republican leaders on the Armed Services Committee urged Pelosi to grant "full deliberation for the waiver processes," citing concerns his vote "may be rushed to the House floor," according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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Despite his sterling military credentials, Austin does not have a lengthy public record, and lawmakers are likely to press him on matters ranging from the growing threat posed by China to his work in the Middle East as CENTCOM's top official. The House granted retired four-star general Jim Mattis a waiver in 2017 after the White House declined to permit his testimony before the Armed Services Committee. At that time, Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the waiver, citing concerns he would sideline the department's civilian leadership. Lawmakers are concerned Austin would do the same given his background.
"Civilian oversight of our armed forces is too important to expedite," the lawmakers wrote in a letter led by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.). The letter was signed by nine other GOP members of the House Armed Services Committee, including Reps. Mike Gallagher (Wis.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Jack Bergman (Mich.), Vicky Hartzler (Mo.), and Mo Brooks (Ala.).
Congress has only granted such a waiver twice in its history—once in 1950 and again in 2017, when President Donald Trump selected Mattis. The seven-year delay is in place to ensure a strict division between the Pentagon's military and civilian leadership.
"Civilian oversight of our military is one of the things that makes our country great. If Speaker Pelosi fast-tracks the waiver without allowing the Armed Services Committee to even discuss it, she will have unilaterally abandoned another longstanding principle of our Republic," Banks told the Free Beacon.
Biden's transition team has yet to publicly confirm recent claims by the Armed Services Committee's Democratic leader, Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), that Austin has agreed to appear before his committee prior to any vote on the waiver.
Biden press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted in early December that Austin would speak with committee members but did not agree to formal hearings in front of Congress.
"Secretary-designate Austin is looking forward to speaking with congressional leadership early on, including House leadership, and both Senate and House Armed Service Committee members," Psaki tweeted.
Smith expressed concerns last year, when Austin was first selected, "about again appointing a recently retired general to be secretary of defense." He urged Austin to "meet with the members of the House Armed Services Committee so they can ask questions about civilian control of the military, and to be assured that General Austin is committed to this important principle and understands what he will have to do to make sure it is upheld during his tenure as secretary of defense."
Joe Biden has enjoyed a close relationship with Austin since his time in the Obama administration, and said in a December op-ed explaining his pick that the military official "will do an outstanding job."
Austin led a push during the Obama administration to bring home some 150,000 American troops from Iraq. "Given the immense and urgent threats and challenges our nation faces, he should be confirmed swiftly," Biden wrote.
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El Monte Okmok es una Caldera volcánica en la parte noreste de la isla Umnak en las islas aleutianas orientales de Alaska. Esta caldera circular de 5,8 millas (9,3 km) de ancho trunca la parte superior de un gran volcán en escudo . Un lago de cráter una vez llenó gran parte de la caldera, pero finalmente el lago drenó a través de una muesca erosionada en el borde noreste. El lago prehistórico alcanzó una profundidad máxima de aproximadamente 150 metros y la superficie superior alcanzó una elevación de aproximadamente 475 metros, en cuyo punto se superó el punto bajo del borde de la caldera. Pequeños remanentes poco profundos del lago permanecieron al norte del cono D a una altura de unos 1075 pies: un pequeño lago poco profundo ubicado entre el borde de la caldera y el cono D; un lago más pequeño (llamado Lago Cone B) más al norte, cerca de la puerta de la caldera. Después de la erupción de 2008, la hidrogeología de la caldera se modificó enormemente con cinco lagos de tamaño considerable ahora emplazados. Además de los lagos de la caldera, Cono A, Cono E, Cono G y el nuevo respiradero de 2008 en Cono D contienen pequeños lagos de cráter. Las últimas erupciones importantes de Okmok, con una fuerza IEV de 6, ocurrieron 8,300 y 2,400 años antes del presente.

Después de la formación de la caldera, numerosos conos satelitales y domos de lava se han formado en los flancos del volcán. Incluyen Monte Tulik (1.253 metros), Monte Idak (585 metros) y Jag Peak. Monte Tulik entró en erupción en 1936.

Actualmente, el volcán está calificado por el Observatorio Volcánico de Alaska como Nivel de Alerta de Aviación Verde y Nivel de Alerta Volcánica Normal.

Erupción de 2008

El sábado 12 de julio de 2008, Okmok explotó sin previo aviso, enviando una nube de cenizas a 50,000 pies (15,000 m) al aire.

Durante los siguientes cinco días y medio de erupción casi continua, los residentes de Nikolski quedaron varados por períodos de hasta tres semanas; Unalaska fue espolvoreada repetidas veces con ceniza y los vuelos hacia y desde este importante centro pesquero fueron frecuentemente interrumpidos; balsas flotantes de escoria y baja visibilidad llevaron a la Guardia Costera a cerrar el paso de Umnak al tráfico marítimo; y el rancho ganadero de Bering Pacific en los flancos de Okmok fue periódicamente evacuado, una vez durante la oscuridad del mediodía causada por la fuerte caída de cenizas. La erupción terminó en agosto de 2008. Tenía un IEV de 4, lo que le dio una calificación de "cataclísmico". No se informó flujo de lava en esta erupción, aunque el volcán ha emitido flujos en el pasado.

La erupción tuvo lugar en un nuevo respiradero en la parte noreste de la caldera, creando un cono de aproximadamente 800 pies de alto, alterando drásticamente la hidrología de la caldera y descargando enormes lahares o flujos de lodo volcánico que van desde la caldera hasta la costa. En contraste, todas las erupciones del siglo XX fueron de un cono cerca del borde sur de la caldera. La erupción de 2008 fue con mucho la erupción más grande en Okmok desde al menos el comienzo del siglo XIII.

Referencias
 Global Volcanism Program: Okmok

Montañas de Alaska
Volcanes de Alaska


It's a sweep for Riley Stillman.
With a 5-3 win Saturday, his Bulldogs improved to 4-0 against the Wolves this season and the 19-year-old defenceman, who's the son of Sudbury coach Cory Stillman, remained undefeated in five career games against his pop.
Mackenzie Entwistle led the way with a goal and two assists in the win — the second in as many nights for the Bulldogs. And Matt Strome and Brandon Saigeon had two points apiece.
Blake Murray, meanwhile, had two of the three Wolves goals.
The Bulldogs finish up their weekend three-in-three with a matinee against North Bay Sunday. Game time is 2 p.m. at FirstOntario Centre.
There's something about Kingston for Brandon Saigeon.
For the second time in as many games, the Grimsby native scored the overtime winner to lift the Bulldogs over the Frontenacs Friday.
The score in this one was 2-1.
The tight result only reinforces how closely matched these two teams are again this campaign. Five of their six regular-season meetings were decided by one goal, including four in either three-on-three or a shootout.
With the win, the Bulldogs take the season series 4-2. They also give themselves a bit more breathing room at the top of the conference standings.
"We're getting close to playoff time, games get more important and Kingston's catching up and we're trying to hold that first place spot," said Robert Thomas, who assisted on Matt Strome's tying goal.
"These points are huge," he added in an interview with YourTV Kingston.
Several key players were missing Friday, including Will Bitten, who continues to nurse an ankle injury. The Frontenacs, meanwhile, were without three big trade deadline acquisitions in Max Jones, Cliff Pu and Sean Day.
The tilt was the first of three in less than 48 hours for the Bulldogs, who went into the weekend with an ugly 4-6 record in their past 10 games. They also host Sudbury Saturday at 7 p.m. and North Bay at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Over the past few weeks, any chatter around the Nurse family has been focused on Sarah — and for good reason.
She just won a silver medal with Canada's women's hockey team in Pyeongchang.
But the 23-year-old rookie isn't the only member of the local sporting clan turning heads these days.
Isaac, Sarah's little brother, is in the midst of a crazy good sophomore season with the Bulldogs. In fact, on any given night, the undrafted winger, 18, is the most reliable, most consistent and most hardworking player on the ice.
In the Spec this week, I wrote about the siblings, the similarities in their games and Isaac's breakthrough campaign. That's here. It's also worth mentioning that Isaac has been one of the best Bulldogs through the team's recent skid.
The Spec's Jeremy Kemeny, my guest on the Paw'dcast this week, talk about that, social media and more on the latest Paw'dcast, which is below. Scott will be back next week.
The Hamilton Bulldogs are supposed to be one of the best teams in the Ontario Hockey League.
So, why aren't they playing like it?
"It's tough to say," said Justin Lemcke.
"I don't know," added John Gruden.
Believe it or not, the captain and the coach aren't dodging. Over the past few weeks the club has oscillated between terrific and terrible and there really is no clear reason why.
Since the start of February, the Bulldogs are a disappointing 4-6 and have just a single win against teams in the top half of the league standings. They're still on top of the eastern conference, but their lead has evaporated to four points as a result.
The latest letdown was a 4-3 loss to Owen Sound Monday in a game the Bulldogs initially controlled. Then, early in the second period, they got sloppy and took some bad penalties. The Attack pounced.
It isn't the first time discipline has been an issue for the club — one exacerbated by a slumping penalty kill. In their 10 games this month, the Bulldogs have given up 15 power play goals on 39 chances for an alarmingly low kill rate of 61.5 per cent.
Jonah Gadjovich and Kevin Hancock each had two goals for the Attack, which tallied three times on the power play and once shorthanded. Matt Strome, Isaac Nurse and Arthur Kaliyev all scored for the Bulldogs, while Mackenzie Entwistle registered a pair of assists.
"They were better than we were and we got beat. We still had a chance but, again, it wasn't good enough," Gruden added.
The loss was the second of the weekend for the Bulldogs and an improvement over their first. On Friday, they suffered their most lopsided result ever at the hands of the CHL's top ranked Greyhounds — a 10-0 blowout in Sault Ste. Marie.
After a game like that you would think the Bulldogs would come out flying the following night in Sudbury, but that wasn't the case. Although they managed to win 8-4, the Bulldogs didn't pull away from the Wolves until midway through the third period when they scored three goals in a five-minute span with Darian Pilon in the box for fighting. To that point, it was one-goal game that could have gone either way.
Unlike the Greyhounds, who have six regulation losses all season, the Wolves are struggling. They're the last place team in the OHL and going into the tilt had one win in their last nine games.
Notes: An ankle injury sidelined Will Bitten for Monday's game against the Attack, while Owen Burnell was out with a concussion. Navrin Mutter and Jake Murray were healthy scratches.
The Bulldogs are breathing a little bit easier after downing the host Sudbury Wolves Saturday.
The 8-4 win was a much needed confidence boost for the club, which was embarrassed in Sault Ste. Marie only 24 hours earlier. The 10-0 loss was the most lopsided in Hamilton's three-year history.
The Bulldogs pulled away midway through the third period, notching three power play goals in a five-minute span with the Wolves serving a major. To that point, it was a one-goal game — even though it shouldn't have been.
Unlike the country's top-ranked Greyhounds, who have just six regulation losses all season, the Wolves are struggling. They're the last place team in the OHL and going into the tilt had just one win in their last nine games.
The Bulldogs, meanwhile, have been underperforming. In February, the eastern conference leaders are an even 0.500 with only one win against teams in the top half of the league standings.
They'll have an opportunity to change that Monday with Owen Sound in town for a Family Day matchup. Game time is 2 p.m.
For the Hamilton Bulldogs, the only good thing about Friday's game against the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds is that it's over.
Less than a week after beating them handily on home ice, the Bulldogs were blown out in the second half of their home-and-home series with the CHL's No. 1 ranked Hounds.
The 10-0 loss was the third in four games for the team and the most lopsided in its three-year history in Hamilton.
Hayden Verbeek led the way with three goals and an assist, while Matthew Villalta earned the shutout. The Bulldogs mustered just 17 shots, which tied their single-game season low.
The game was the first in two weeks for Robert Thomas, who was back after serving a five-game suspension for slashing. The star centre, who lined up between Matt Strome and Ryan Moore, struggled to contain his frustration — he took two unnecessary minor penalties, including one for unsportsmanlike conduct after the Soo scored goal No. 10 with two seconds left on the clock.
For better or worse, the Bulldogs are back at it in Sudbury Saturday. They came out on top 3-2 in both of their previous meetings with the Wolves this season.
In a couple of hours, the Bulldogs will hit the ice in the Soo for the second half of their home-and-home series with the CHL's No. 1 ranked Greyhounds.
And it's off to a pretty good start.
Last Sunday, the Bulldogs were good, even great at times in their first meeting with the Hounds — a 5-2 Hamilton win.
How did they do it? And can they do it again?
If you're wondering if the Bulldogs can compete with the best in the Ontario Hockey League, the answer is yes.
But they're not getting too excited about it.
"It's just one win," head coach John Gruden said Sunday after his team downed the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds — the top-ranked team in the country.
The 5-2 decision came on the heels of a pair of ugly losses to the Barrie Colts and the Kitchener Rangers. It was a dramatic departure from their first two matchups of the weekend — a blowout and a blown three-goal lead, respectively.
Against the Greyhounds, the Bulldogs were simultaneously smart, aggressive, careful and lucky (the Soo hit more than a couple of goalposts in the second period, which, given an inch or two, could have completely altered the course of the game). Most importantly, though, they were focused — not just for a period or two, for 60 minutes.
"We could not go the whole weekend on home ice not winning a hockey game and by winning this game tonight I think the way we wanted and pretty convincing shows we are capable when we do certain things of doing something good," said Gruden.
Every player on the ice played a part in the win, whether it was shutting down the Soo's top line, forcing turnovers, moving the puck or finding the back of the net. Kaden Fulcher was great between the posts and the trio of Matt Strome, Mackenzie Entwistle and Isaac Nurse did the heavy lifting, with a goal each and nine points combined.
Ben Gleason and Will Bitten also scored for the Bulldogs, while Boris Katchouk and Hayden Verbeek tallied for the Greyhounds in what was one of the team's most decisive defeats this season. In 53 games, the Soo has lost just nine times.
For the Greyhounds, who logged roughly 2,000 kilometers over the weekend, Sunday's game was the third in four days and the first of two straight between the conference leaders. They beat the Niagara IceDogs Thursday and the Erie Otters Saturday before having their eight-game win streak snapped in Hamilton.
The fact that the Bulldogs are able to topple the class of the league is crucial for the team's confidence heading into the final stretch of the campaign. Typically, they struggle to win against the OHL's best and going into Sunday's game were a concerning 7-14 against teams in the top half of the league standings.
After a few days of downtime, the Bulldogs head to the Soo for the second half of their season series Friday. Now that he knows what he's up against, Gruden said the game will be a good test.
"We're going to definitely have our work cut out for us," he added.
The Bulldogs allowed four unanswered goals in a 4-3 loss to the Kitchener Rangers Saturday, yet head coach John Gruden said it was exactly the bounce-back his team needed in the wake of its ugly weekend opener.
"Guys played really hard," he said — "10 times better" than they did on Thursday when they were blown out by the Barrie Colts. They took some bad penalties, ran into a hot goaltender and had a couple of mental breakdowns.
Otherwise, he hinted, the effort was good.
So why doesn't it feel that way?
The fact that the Bulldogs gave up a three-goal lead and were outplayed in the third period has something to do with it. But so does their recent history.
The Bulldogs, who were the top team in the Eastern Conference even before they loaded up on talent at the trade deadline, have as many losses as wins over the last three weeks. And with one exception, the wins have been narrow, despite matching up against some of the league's worst.
Against the best, meanwhile, they tend to struggle. In the wake of Saturday's game, they're 0-2 against the Rangers and 1-2 against the Colts — two of the league's top five. Collectively, they're 7-14 against teams in the upper half of the OHL standings.
The odds of the Bulldogs turning things around in their last game of the weekend aren't good, either. On Sunday they entertain the CHL's No. 1 ranked Soo Greyhounds, who lost just eight of their first 52 games of the season.
Jack Hanley, who scored the last of Hamilton's three goals against the Rangers, was optimistic in the wake of his team's loss to the Rangers. Just like his coach.
Notes: Kitchener was missing two of its top defencemen in Logan Stanley and Connor Hall, who are suspended and injured respectively. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, had to manage without star forward Robert Thomas, who is also suspended, along with Navrin Mutter, Owen Burnell and Jake Murray.
The Bulldogs had a rough start to the weekend with an embarrassing 5-1 loss to Barrie Thursday, and it only gets rougher from here on out.
In this week's episode, Scott and I talk about what went wrong in the school day game against the Colts (spoiler: it was pretty much everything) and preview a pair of difficult contests against Kitchener and The Soo.
The marquee matchup, up course, is Sunday's game against the CHL's No. 1 ranked Greyhounds — a team with a remarkable 44-5-2-1 record. I recently caught up with their associate coach, Hamilton native Joe Cirella, to find out what makes them so good. Scott and I talk about that, too.


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